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Identifier	Subject	Date	Office	Classification	Tags
07ROME1105	ITALIANS OPPOSE RUSSIAN DRAFT OF OSCE CHARTER [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-23 14:40:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	OSCE PREL KTIA PGOV IT

07ROME1106	OIE CHINA/TAIWAN: ITALY SUPPORTS EU POSITION TO [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel points to MFA Office Director for East Asia Giuseppe Mistretta May 21, emphasizing the need to work for consensus and delay a vote on the PRC resolution in the absence of consensus. May 22, Mistretta responded that Italy fully supported the EU position: --The World [...]	2007-05-23 14:40:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAGR AORG TW CH IT
07ROME1109	DEMARCHE ON SUPPORT FOR LEBANON SPECIAL TRIBUNAL [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador May 23 made the points on the Special Lebanon Tribunal to FM Massimo D'Alema. D'Alema said he had spoken to both the Lebanese PM and French FM. The French were pushing hard for immediate action. However, while the GOI favored the resolution, it advocated waiting fo [...]	2007-05-23 15:26:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	UNSC PREL PTER LE IT
07ROME1110	ITALIANS OPPOSED TO OSCE BELARUS TRIP, WILL NOT [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-24 07:06:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM OSCE BO IT
07ROME1112	ITALY MONITORING IRAN-VENEZUELA RELATIONSHIP [...] (C) Poloffs conveyed Ref A points to MFA Gulf Countries Acting Office Director Lorenzo Klutzer May 10 and MFA South Africa Acting Office Director Paolo Campanini May 23, emphasizing U.S. concerns about implications of the growing Iran-Venezuela alliance for terrorism and proliferation activiti [...]	2007-05-24 10:51:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PHUM MASS ECON PTER KNNP PARM VE
07ROME1122	ITALY ON SYRIA'S SHAM PRESIDENTIAL "REFERENDUM" [...] (C) PolMinCouns delivered reftel points to Luciano Pezzotti, Director of the MFA Office for Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Israel and the Palestinian territories. PMC urged an Italian and/or EU statement addressing Syria's pending presidential referendum. He said the Syrian Government should [...]	2007-05-24 14:59:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PREL PHUM SY EUN IT
07ROME1168	DEMARCHE: AGILE LAUNCH; PROTEST OF USML TRANSFER TO INDIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: On May 29, ECMIN delivered points regarding the launch from India of the Italian AGILE satellite, and the related, unlicensed re-export from Italy to India of USML-listed items (ref A),to the MFA official responsible for Space and Science and Technology Cooperation. The latter resp [...]	2007-05-29 16:16:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC KOMC PARM TSPA IT IN
07ROME1187	KOSOVO: TADIC CLAIMS RUSSIANS HAVE PROMISED TO [...] (C) Serbian President Boris Tadic and Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic told PM Prodi and FM D'Alema on May 29 that Russia had promised Serbia a veto of any UNSC resolution that would separate Kosovo from Serbia, according to MFA Balkans Office Director Raimondo De Cardona. Tadic told Prodi and D'A [...]	2007-05-31 14:33:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNSC YI SR IT
07ROME1216	ITALIAN SPACE AGENCY'S AGILE LAUNCH: RATIONALE FOR [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 13. 2. (C) Summary. Separate discussions at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Universities and Research, and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) indicate that the decision to proceed with the launch of ASI's AGILE satellite from I [...]	2007-06-04 14:18:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC KOMC PARM IT
07ROME1233	ITALIANS HESITANT ON TOUGHER SUDAN SANCTIONS [...] (C) Poloff met June 1 with Fabrizio Pignatelli, MFA Horn of Africa Office Director, to discuss ref A points and press the GOI to support, within the UNSC, a strong sanctions resolution against Sudan. (Note: Ref A points were also delivered to MFA UN Office Director Leonardo Bencini, who of [...]	2007-06-05 16:53:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD ETTC UN SU EU IT
07ROME1265	ITALIAN REACTION TO PRESIDENT BUSH'S NEW CLIMATE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Despite the Italian Minister of Environment's categorical public call for binding CO2 emission reduction targets for all countries, the Chief Climate Change Negotiator said that the GOI has not yet formulated an official reaction to President Bush's May 31 climate change framew [...]	2007-06-07 15:19:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	SENV KGHG ENRG IT
07ROME129	FM D'ALEMA LOOKING FOR SOMETHING NEW TO BRING TO [...] (C) Italian MFA Lebanon Desk Officer De Parolis confirmed to Poloff on January 18 that FM Massimo D'Alema would lead Italy's delegation to the January 25 Paris III Donor Conference on Lebanon. He will be accompanied by MFA DG for Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Affairs Cesare Ragaglini; the [...]	2007-01-22 10:58:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	XF LE IT
07ROME1310	UNSCR 1747/OECD: ITALY WOULD LIKELY SUPPORT UNSCR [...] (C) Econoff met June 14 with Filippo Giansante, Ministry of Finance Chief of the Paris Club Division, to discuss options to restrict export credit flows to Iran through the OECD (refs A and B). (Note: Giansante is also an advisor to Ignazio Angeloni, President of Italy's export credit agenc [...]	2007-06-14 11:45:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EFIN ETRD EXIM OECD UN EU IR IT
07ROME1315	BOSNIA: NEW HIGH REPRESENTATIVE LAJCAK TELLS [...] (C) Miroslav Lajcak, the next High Representative for Bosnia, visited Rome on May 28 to meet with the PM's senior diplomatic advisor Stefano Sannino, MFA Director General for Political Affairs Giulio Terzi, MFA DG for European Affairs Laura Mirachian and MFA Balkans Office Director Raimondo De [...]	2007-06-14 15:05:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BK IT
07ROME1332	ITALIANS SUPPORTIVE OF KEEPING COUNTRY SPECIFIC [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-16 11:54:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM UNHRC PREL IT
07ROME1369	CENTER-LEFT ELEMENTS SOFT-PEDALING ON DRUGS [...] (C) Summary: During last year's electoral campaign, the center-left coalition consistently made clear that a top priority would be to abolish a relatively tough anti-drug law passed by the previous Berlusconi government. However, it is not clear that coalition members who advocate overhauling [...]	2007-06-21 15:01:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	SNAR UNCDN EU AF IT
07ROME1388	ITALY AGREES HYBRID AU/UN FORCE IN DARFUR A [...] (C) Summary: During June 21 meetings with Italian officials, IO/PSC Office Director Douglas Wake discussed Sudan, Lebanon, Chad, and peacekeeping operations. On Darfur, Wake stressed the need to move forward quickly with the hybrid force while remaining willing to consider sanctions if Khart [...]	2007-06-25 13:57:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	KPKO PREL LE XF SU CD UN IT
07ROME1472	ITALY HAS MIXED VIEWS ON HRC SESSION [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA Office Director for Human Rights Laura Carpini July 5. Carpini said Italy was "not overwhelmingly happy" with the results of the Council's fifth session, but suggested that the compromise was necessary to move the Council forward. Considering the [...]	2007-07-06 10:01:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM EUN UNHRC IT
07ROME1487	ITALIAN REACTIONS TO USG PROPOSALS AT NUCLEAR [...] (C) After a lengthy delay occasioned by the travel of the Italian official responsible for nonproliferation and export control issues and other postponements on the Italian side, Econoff recently succeeded in exchanging views on USG proposals for information sharing at the Nuclear Suppliers Gr [...]	2007-07-06 15:24:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL CBW ETTC MNUC KNNP IAEA IR IT
07ROME1489	ITALY MULLING ASSISTANCE FOR LAF [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA Deputy Director for Levant, Danielle Bosio and MOD Office of the Diplomatic Advisor Antonella Remia July 5. ODC also delivered the points to the Italian Defense General Staff. MOD Diplomatic Advisor Achille Amerio told poloff July 6 that senior Leb [...]	2007-07-06 16:13:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MASS MOPS PGOV PREL LE IT
07ROME1493	CUBA AND INTERNET FREEDOM [...] (C) Poloff raised reftel points with MFA Caribbean and Central America Office Director Michele Pala on July 9. He also provided detailed background information and urged that the GOI look for opportunities to help expand internet access for Cuban civil society. 2. (C) Pala said that Ital [...]	2007-07-09 11:51:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	CU ECON EINT PREL TINT XG XL IT
07ROME1497	ITALIANS CAUTIOUS ON UN ENVOY FOR AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) In bilateral meetings on the fringes of the Rome Afghan conference, Italy's prime minister and foreign minister guardedly welcomed the prospect of a new, high-level UN envoy for Afghanistan. But PM Prodi told USUN Amb Khalilzad it would be important for such an envoy to have adequate res [...]	2007-07-09 17:12:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC IT
07ROME1511	GOI SHARES ITS THOUGHTS ON ENI-GAZPROM "SOUTH [...] (C) Summary. In meetings with Econoff to discuss the agreement between Eni and Gazprom to build the "South Stream" natural gas pipeline connecting Russia and Bulgaria, GOI officials emphasized their continued commitment to the Turkey-Greece-Italy pipeline, which will carry Azeri natural gas [...]	2007-07-11 15:38:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET IT
07ROME1542	ITALY CONFIRMS IT HAS ITS OWN IOM DG CANDIDATE [...] (C) Poloff met July 17, 2007 with MFA Office Director for Migration and Asylum Marco Matacotta Cordella and urged Italy to support the candidacy of Ambassador William Lacy Swing for Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM). Matacotta Cordella said he appreciated [...]	2007-07-17 15:56:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC EUN PREF PREL SMIG IT
07ROME1559	ITALY WILL MAINTAIN CONSENSUS FOR COMMUNITY OF [...] (C) Poloff discussed reftel points with MFA Office Director for OSCE Brunella Borzi Cornacchia July 20 and urged Italy to help maintain the consensus achieved in the June Community of Democracies Convening Group meeting. He also raised the possibility of extending an invitation to Taiwan to [...]	2007-07-20 16:57:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PREL PHUM UNGA IT
07ROME1584	ITALY WILL CONSIDER UNESCO HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-25 16:43:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	UNESCO IT
07ROME1588	D'ALEMA/KOSOVO: CAN'T LET RUSSIA IMPOSE WILL ON [...] (C) The Ambassador probed FM D'Alema on Kosovo in a meeting on July 23, shortly after the minister returned from the GAERC. Ambassador noted that the situation was dangerous, and could blow up in Europe's face if there were no independence. FM D'Alema said recognition of Kosovo independen [...]	2007-07-26 11:08:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IT
07ROME1589	ITALY CONCURS ON ATTENDANCE FOR GEORGIA/UNOMIG [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-26 11:50:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC GG RS IT
07ROME1598	ITALY SHARES CONCERN ABOUT MEDIA FREEDOM IN [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA Office Director for Eastern Europe, the Caucasus and Central Europe Marco Clemente July 25 and discussed recent troubling developments in regard to media freedom, freedom of assembly and due process in Azerbaijan. Poloff urged Italy to maintain its [...]	2007-07-26 14:57:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV OSCE KDEM EUN AJ IT
07ROME1629	ITALY SUPPORTS AMIS-UNAMID TRANSITION LANGUAGE IF [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA Office Director for East Africa Fabrizio Pignatelli July 30 and pressed him to instruct the Italian mission in New York to support draft language on transition timing from AMIS to UNAMID. 2. (C) Pignatelli said Italy understands the need to move [...]	2007-07-30 16:13:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPKO SU IT
07ROME1703	ITALY RECEPTIVE TO GAER REELECTION TO COMMITTEE [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-08 10:43:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UNGA IT
07ROME1710	ITALY AWAITS DETAILS ON BURUNDIAN NEEDS FOR AMISOM [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-08 15:51:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	KPKO MOPS PHUM PREL EUN SO IT
07ROME1722	RED CROSS: ITALY NONCOMMITTAL ON STANDING [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-09 14:35:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL PHUM ICRC IT
07ROME1730	ITALY: NO TO UNIFIL MANDATE CHANGE; SEEKS EARLY [...] (C) Summary. MFA Near East Office Director Luciano Pezzotti said August 7 that Italy did not want changes to the UNIFIL mandate. He asked for early inclusion in UNSC talks on mandate renewal. PM diplomatic adviser Marco Carnelos echoed this. Both GOI officials stressed to poloff the GOI's [...]	2007-08-10 12:21:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL UN XF LE IT
07ROME1783	ITALY'S NATO OFFICE DIRECTOR CALLS U.S. CFE [...] (C) Acting Political Minister Counselor delivered reftel points and non-paper August 20 to MFA NATO Office Director Gianni Bardini who called the approach an extremely constructive breakthrough. He said he was encouraged to see such a positive move forward, and appreciated the USG's efforts [...]	2007-08-21 10:41:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL NATO OSCE KCFE PARM IT
07ROME1784	ITALY CONSIDERING IGAD PARTNERS' FORUM MEETING IN [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA Acting Office Director for East Africa Domenico Polloni August 21. Polloni said Italy agreed with the U.S. on the importance of full implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement in Sudan, and said the question of an IGAD Partners' Forum (IPF) [...]	2007-08-21 11:09:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL SU IT
07ROME1789	ITALY AGREES IN PRINCIPLE ON UNSCR 1540 COMMITTEE [...] (C) Acting PolMinCouns delivered reftel demarche to MFA Arms Control and Nonproliferation Office Director Filippo Formica and Acting UN Office Director Leonardo Bencini August 22. A/PolMinCouns explained that South African and Indonesian efforts to prevent the internet posting of country ma [...]	2007-08-22 11:51:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AORC KPAO PTER UNSC KNNP ID SF IT
07ROME1800	ITALY CONFIRMS SUPPORT FOR U.S. POSITION ON UNSCR [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-23 10:41:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AORC KPAO PTER UNSC KNNP ID SF IT
07ROME1801	PROSPECTS FOR ITALIAN A/CFE RATIFICATION TIMING - [...] (C) Following up REF B conversation on A/CFE, MFA NATO Office Director Gianni Bardini called Acting Political Minister-Counselor August 23 to inform that he had made a formal request to the MFA's Legal Advisor for an estimate of how long it would take Italy to ratify the Adapted CFE Treaty. B [...]	2007-08-23 11:22:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL NATO OSCE KCFE PARM IT
07ROME1841	ICG ON SOMALIA: ITALY AGREES ON INVITATIONS TO [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel points to MFA Acting East Africa Office Director Domenico Polloni August 10, requesting Italian support for permanent observer status for Canada and Yemen in the International Contact Group on Somalia in anticipation of the upcoming ICG meeting in Rome September 10. [...]	2007-08-29 14:23:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SO IT
07ROME1844	SYRIA: ITALY SUPPORTS EU ACTION ON SEIF; WILL [...] (C) Poloff delivered ref A points to the Prime Minister's Diplomatic Advisor on the Middle East, Marco Carnelos, and to the MFA's Acting Office Director for Near East Affairs, Michele Tommasi August 29. Tommasi said the GOI was well aware of the Seif case and supported the EU's plan to appr [...]	2007-08-30 08:31:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM EUN SY IT
07ROME188	PUTIN-PRODI MEETING FOCUSES ON BILATERAL ISSUES [...] (C) Italian PM Prodi's January 23 dinner with Russian President Putin focused largely on bilateral trade issues. According to the MFA Russian Desk, Putin will visit Italy in mid-March for a bilateral visit to Rome and the Vatican and then to Bari for an summit focused primarily on trade, telec [...]	2007-01-26 16:11:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON PGOV RU SR YI IT
07ROME1900	ITALIAN MFA: KAZAKHS USING ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES TO [...] (C) Summary. An Italian MFA official told us the Government of Kazakhstan (GOK) is using alleged environmental violations as part of a negotiating strategy aimed at squeezing more money out of the international consortium developing the Kashagan oilfield. Italian oil and gas parastatal Eni [...]	2007-09-07 14:52:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD ENRG EINV EPET SENV KZ IT
07ROME1906	UNGA: ITALY ON HUMAN RIGHTS THEMATIC RESOLUTIONS [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA Office Director for Human Rights Laura Carpini August 31. Poloff pressed for Italian support for transmission of the Human Rights Council report to the UN General Assembly Plenary via the Third Committee and communicated USG concerns about the EU-s [...]	2007-09-07 16:55:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	EUN PREL UNGA IT
07ROME1917	ITALY: IAEA GENERAL CONFERENCE/MIDDLE EAST [...] (C) On September 7, SciCouns met with Alessandra Molina, Head of Office VII of the MFA's Directorate General for Multilateral Political Affairs and Human Rights to deliver points in para 9 of reftel. Counselor Molina is the "IAEA Desk Officer" (among other responsibilities) and as such will [...]	2007-09-10 14:03:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL IAEA IT
07ROME1919	ITALY: IAEA/IRAN PLAN OF ACTION NO SUBSTITUTE FOR [...] (C) On September 6 the Ambassador spoke with FM D'Alema to convey reftel points highlighting continued USG concerns over the Iranian nuclear program. D'Alema, who was on his way to the Gymnich ministerial requested an immediate copy of the points to review on his way to Portugal, which we prov [...]	2007-09-10 14:26:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC IAEA IR IT KNNP MNUC
07ROME1930	ITALY SUPPORTS LAJCAK'S USE OF BONN POWERS [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel points to Raimondo De Cardona, Head of the MFA Balkans Office, on September 10. De Cardona agreed with the USG assessment that the international community needed to reassert its authority in Bosnia in order to maintain stability and move forward on Dayton implement [...]	2007-09-11 10:32:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BK EU IT
07ROME194	ITALY TO PUSH FOR CCW AGREEMENT ON CLUSTER [...] (C) Summary: The GOI generally supports finding ways to limit the use of cluster munitions but does not believe the Oslo Conference is the appropriate venue for the discussion. Italy's center-left coalition government is sympathetic to multilateral efforts that appear to defend humanitarian p [...]	2007-01-29 15:38:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PARM PREL NATO IT
07ROME1947	ITALY ON UNSC BURMA MEETING [...] (C) Poloff met September 12 with MFA Office Director for Southeast Asia Alberto Vecchi to deliver reftel demarche seeking support for travel by UN Special Envoy Ibrahim Gambari to Burma followed by a formal Security Council meeting on Burma. 2. (C) Vecchi agreed that the situation in Burm [...]	2007-09-12 13:46:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UNSC BU IT
07ROME1948	(C) ITALIANS CONCERNED ABOUT SHARING IRAN-RELATED [...] (C) On September 10, Econoff delivered to the Italian Trade Ministry ref A demarche regarding the USG proposal to release to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Iran-related Nuclear Suppliers' Group (NSG) export denial information. Salvatore Pistorio, the Trade Ministry official r [...]	2007-09-12 14:47:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PARM IR IT
07ROME1949	D'ALEMA/IRAN: OPEN TO FURTHER UNSC SANCTIONS, [...] (C) The Ambassador engaged FM Massimo D'Alema on Iran and Syria in a meeting on September 12, shortly after the minister returned from trips to the EU GYMNICH, Cairo, Jerusalem, and Ramallah. The conversation also followed recent visits to Italy of Syrian VP al-Shara, Iranian DFM Jalili, Isr [...]	2007-09-12 16:25:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IR AF LE XF UN KNNP IT
07ROME1984	IRAN: FOLLOW-UP ON SEPTEMBER IAEA BOG MEETING [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-17 13:35:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP IR IAEA MNUC PARM EUN IT
07ROME1994	LEBANON: ITALIAN CONTRIBUTION TO SPECIAL TRIBUNAL [...] (C) Poloffs delivered reftel demarche to MFA UN Desk Officer Gabriella Biondi and Lebanon Desk Officer Michele Tommasi September 17 and urged Italy to contribute to the Special Tribunal for Lebanon. Poloffs emphasized that given Italy's significant presence on the ground in UNIFIL, Italy had [...]	2007-09-18 10:13:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	UNSC LE PTER IT
07ROME2014	SOMALIA: MEETING OF THE INTERNATIONAL CONTACT [...] (C) SUMMARY: A/S Frazer led the U.S. delegation to the September 10 meeting of the International Contact Group (ICG) on Somalia in Rome. ICG members discussed next steps following the conclusion of the National Reconciliation Congress (NRC) in Mogadishu and stressed the need for a roadmap for [...]	2007-09-19 15:19:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SO IT
07ROME2071	ITALIAN EDISON DENIES ROLE IN SWISS FIRMS PURCHASE [...] (C) Summary. Econoff delivered to Edison Italia Ref A demarche regarding Swiss firm EGL's plans to purchase Iranian natural gas for export to Switzerland using the Turkey-Greece-Italy (TGI) natural gas pipeline. Edison's Director for Institutional and Regulatory Affairs, Giampaolo Russo, d [...]	2007-09-25 16:16:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET ENRG ETTC PREL IR SZ GR TU IT
07ROME2088	ITALY PLANS TO PARTICIPATE IN UPCOMING [...] (C) Poloff spoke with Marco Midolo, the MFA Middle-East Directorate's Deputy Chief of Staff, who confirmed that Italy plans to participate in the October 22-23 G8-BMENA Forum for the Future Subministerial. He said the GOI would send Sergio Scarantino, PDAS-equivalent in the Italian MFA's Midd [...]	2007-09-28 10:33:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KMPI KDEM GM EUN IT
07ROME210	ITALY UNABLE TO FILL MTCR CHAIRMANSHIP FOR 2007-08 [...] (C) Acting Ecmin spoke February 1 with Carlo Tripepi, Director of the MFA office responsible for Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) issues, regarding GOI willingness to serve as MTCR Chair for 2007-08. According to Tripepi, Italy is not in a position to serve as MTCR Chair because budge [...]	2007-02-01 16:23:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	MTCRE PARM PREL MNUC KSCA TSPA ETTC IT
07ROME2113	BURMA: ITALY WELCOMES UNSC MEETING [...] (C) Summary: S/P Gordon raised the violent crackdown in Burma with Italian PolDir Terzi October 1. Terzi said Italy's position was in perfect alignment with that of the U.S., that Italy supported UNSC action on Burma and that he would instruct Italy's PermRep in New York to be in touch with A [...]	2007-10-03 10:04:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM BM IT
07ROME2115	ITALY AWAITING COMMON EU POSITION ON RAPE [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-03 11:08:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC UNAUS PHUM KWMN SOCI IT
07ROME2116	ITALY: RESPONSE ON COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-03 11:11:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UNGA IT
07ROME2130	BURMA: ITALY CONFIRMS SUPPORT FOR FORMAL UNSC [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche October 4 to MFA Office Director for Southeast Asia Alberto Vecchi and Office Director for UN Affairs Leonardo Bencini. Poloff requested Italian support for a formal UN Security Council meeting on Burma with Special Envoy Ibrahim Gambari and for a Presiden [...]	2007-10-04 15:27:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UNSC BM IT
07ROME2131	S/P GORDON ENGAGES GOI ON KOSOVO, IRAN, [...] (C) S/P Director David Gordon engaged senior GOI officials on Kosovo, Russia, MEPP, Iran, Lebanon, UNSC reform, Darfur, Afghanistan and climate change during October 1 consultations. On Kosovo the Italians said the goal should be a UNSCR, and that the Kosovars should be persuaded to postpone [...]	2007-10-04 16:46:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL XF AF IR LE UNAUS KNNP IT
07ROME2147	U.S. AIR CARRIERS BALK AT PROPOSED TERMINAL [...] THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. SEE PARA 10. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Italian civil aviation authorities at Rome's Fiumicino airport are mandating that U.S. air carriers transfer their check-in operations from their current location to a more distant and inconvenient terminal at t [...]	2007-10-10 09:12:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	EAIR ETRD IT
07ROME2148	ITALY UNLIKELY TO SUPPORT NEW ZEALAND DRAFT [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Emanuele Farruggia, Italian MFA Director for Disarmament, Arms Control and Nonproliferation on October 5. Farruggia said that the GOI had not yet had an opportunity to study New Zealand's draft resolution but that the EU as a whole was unlikely to suppo [...]	2007-10-10 09:48:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM MNUC UNGA IT
07ROME2153	UNAMID: ITALY CONTRIBUTING C-130 TRANSPORT, [...] (C) S/P David Gordon pressed MFA PolDir Giulio Terzi October 1 to have Italy consider contributing helicopters to UNAMID, per reftel demarche request. Terzi said he thought it was unlikely, but said he would raise the matter at a higher level. Terzi pointed out that Italy had already agreed to [...]	2007-10-10 15:20:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC KPKO SU IT
07ROME2167	A/S DESUTTER'S MEETINGS WITH ITALIAN POLITICAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Assistant Secretary for Verification, Compliance, and Implementation Paula A. DeSutter (in Rome for meetings from September 10-12 with Russian MFA Director Antonov on a post-START arrangement, see Ref A) met September 12-15 with Italian officials including MFA Political Director [...]	2007-10-11 16:40:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL START MNUC MCAP MARR US RS IT NATO
07ROME2188	ITALIAN SUPPORT FOR USG PROPOSALS AT THE 2007 MTCR [...] (C) Econoff delivered ref A-C papers detailing USG proposals for the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Technical Experts Meeting (TEM) to Roberto Liotto, the new MFA office Director responsible for MTCR issues on September 24. Liotto was unable to respond to the substance of ref A-C [...]	2007-10-15 13:05:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	MTCRE PARM PREL ETTC KSCA IT
07ROME2204	ITALY: ASSISTANCE TO BURMA FOCUSED ON HUMANITARIAN [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-18 11:04:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID PHUM BM IT
07ROME2207	RESOLUTION ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS DEALERTING: ITALY [...] (C) Emanuele Farruggia, Italian MFA Director for Disarmament, Arms Control and Nonproliferation contacted Poloff to follow up on our October 5 demarche opposing the New Zealand Draft Resolution on the De-Alerting of Nuclear Forces (Ref B). He said that he had been informed by the Italian Miss [...]	2007-10-18 14:54:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM MNUC UNGA IT
07ROME2218	EU FMS TRIP: ITALY PROMOTING "CONSENSUS" [...] (C/NF) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA Deputy Levant Office Director Danielle Bosio October 18. Bosio said Italy agreed with reftel points on non-interference in Lebanese politics with one exception. Bosio agreed on the need for the three FMs to remain impartial, but explained that I [...]	2007-10-19 16:16:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	FR IR IT KDEM LE PGOV PREL SP SY
07ROME2228	D'ALEMA WILL PRESS BELGRADE NOT TO BLOCK SERB [...] (C) On October 22, Poloff spoke with Raimondo De Cardona, Director of the MFA Balkans Office, to deliver reftel points. De Cardona noted that FM D'Alema would travel to Belgrade on October 23 to press Serbian leaders to use the period before December 10 constructively to either find a mutually [...]	2007-10-23 11:45:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SR YI KO IT
07ROME2236	ITALY: NO DECISION YET ON UN IAAC ELECTION [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-24 09:38:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AORC UN UNGA IT
07ROME2241	UN THIRD COMMITTEE: ITALY SUPPORTIVE OF USG [...] (C) Poloff met October 22 with MFA Office Director for Human Rights Laura Carpini to discuss USG priorities in the UN Third Committee as outlined reftel. 2. (C) Carpini said the EU position on "no-action" motions remained unchanged, and Italy supported open debate in the UN as a matter of p [...]	2007-10-24 17:18:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UNGA UN KTIA IT
07ROME2243	D'ALEMA TELLS KOSTUNICA INDEPENDENCE FOR KOSOVO [...] (C) According to Raimondo De Cardona, Head of the MFA Balkans Office, FM D'Alema told Serbian PM Kostunica October 23 that Serbia should use the period before December 10 to narrow differences with Pristina over Kosovo's final status. De Cardona told Poloff October 24 that D'Alema had stated t [...]	2007-10-25 11:46:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PROG SR YI KO IT
07ROME2246	BOLIVIA: ITALY WILL CONSIDER DEMARCHE ON SUPPORT [...] (C) Poloff met with MFA Office Director for South America Michele Giacomelli October 23 to discuss reftel points and request that Italy demarche the Government of Bolivia on its unhelpful support of Iran's nuclear program. Poloff explained USG concerns over inaccurate and troubling statements [...]	2007-10-25 16:49:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	BO IR KNNP PGOV PREL IAEA USUN IT
07ROME2247	ITALY: AMBASSADOR DELIVERS IRAN DESIGNATIONS [...] (C) Ambassador spoke with FM Massimo D'Alema October 25 to inform him of the designations of Iranian entities and individuals under U.S. Executive Orders (reftel). He told the FM that the U.S. expected Italy to take these actions seriously and do all Italy could to make their impact felt, an [...]	2007-10-26 06:14:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP IR PARM EFIN
07ROME2249	CUBA: ITALY SUPPORTS EMBARGO RESOLUTION, [...] (C) Poloff delivered Ref A and B demarches to MFA Office Director for Central America and the Caribbean Michele Pala and Office Director for Human Rights Laura Carpini on October 26. Poloff urged Italy to vote against, or at least abstain on, the UNGA Cuba embargo resolution, and sought agree [...]	2007-10-26 13:17:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	UNGA ETRD PHUM UN CU IT
07ROME2250	BURMA: ITALY AGREES EU-ASEAN SUMMIT IS AN [...] (C) Poloff delivered Ref A and B demarches to MFA Coordinator for Multilateral Affairs in Southeast Asia Anacleto Felicani October 26. Poloff shared information on U.S. sanctions against Burma and urged Italy to use the November 22 EU-ASEAN Summit to continue to put pressure on Burma, and to [...]	2007-10-26 15:10:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM CVIS ETRD BM IT
07ROME2279	AMIA CASE: ARGENTINA REQUESTS NO ASSISTANCE IN [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-31 16:33:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER ASEC KJUS PREL PGOV IR AR AL MT SM IT
07ROME2282	ITALY TO VOTE FOR SPANISH CANDIDATE IN IAAC [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-31 16:59:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AORC UN UNGA IT
07ROME2285	CPA IMPLEMENTATION: ITALY PREFERS LATER, [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA East Africa Office Director Fabrizio Pignatelli October 31 to encourage Italy to host a working-level meeting next week in preparation for a high-level meeting on CPA implementation. Pignatelli said Italy believes that pushing for the high-level meet [...]	2007-10-31 17:35:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IGAD SU UK NT NW CA IT
07ROME2287	IRAQ-ITALY: S/I STEPHENSON IN ROME: GOI PUSHING [...] (C) Summary. S/I Barbara Stephenson visited Rome on October 30 after the IRRFI conference in Bari to discuss Iraqi political and security developments with GOI officials. Stephenson told the Italians that the international community needed to take advantage of a dramatic decrease in violence [...]	2007-11-02 09:30:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NATO IZ SA IR IT
07ROME2293	LEBANON: ITALIAN RESPONSE TO USG POSITION ON [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-05 11:20:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER IT LE SY
07ROME2296	ITALY: WORKING TO IMPLEMENT FATF RECOMMENDATIONS [...] (C) Summary: At the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) plenary in October, Italian officials helped build consensus around the FATF public statement of concern regarding deficiencies in Iran's anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing regime (ref A). Prior to receiving reftel B dem [...]	2007-11-05 16:34:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL MNUC ECON
07ROME2302	ITALY PREPARING FOR COMMUNITY OF DEMOCRACIES [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-06 17:15:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PHUM PREL UNGA IT
07ROME2305	ITALY: MURDER BY ROMANIAN SPARKS EXPULSION ORDER, [...] (C/NF) The mugging and murder of an Italian woman by a Romanian immigrant last week in Rome has set off a political firestorm and prompted the government to issue an expulsion decree for EU citizens residing in Italy who present a threat to public safety. The victim's funeral was attended by a [...]	2007-11-06 18:08:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCRM PREL IT RO PHUM
07ROME2321	ITALY SUPPORTIVE OF RESOLUTION AGAINST [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-14 15:03:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC KWMN SOCI UNGA PHUM IT
07ROME2332	ITALY: TOO SOON TO EXPAND EU SANCTIONS ON BURMA [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA Southeast Asia Office Director Alberto Vecchi November 14 and urged Italy to press for expanded EU sanctions against Burma. Poloff discussed USG efforts to promote dialogue between the regime and democratic and ethnic minority groups, stressed that t [...]	2007-11-15 13:54:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ETRD EFIN BM IT
07ROME2337	ITALY ON IRAN IAEA REPORT: NO ABSOLUTION FOR [...] (C) Poloff delivered Iran IAEA points (State 157039) to MFA Non-Proliferation Office Director Emanuele Farruggia and Iran Desk Officer Lorenzo Kluzer. Farruggia said the preliminary Italian reactions to El Baradei,s report are that &much remains to be clarified,8 and that the IAEA,s inabilit [...]	2007-11-16 16:59:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP MNUC IAEA IR PARM AORC IT
07ROME2339	EEBC: ITALY IN AGREEMENT WITH U.S. ON APPROACH [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA East Africa Office Director Fabrizio Pignatelli November 15. Poloff sought Italian agreement on a unified approach to avoid pressure on Ethiopia and Eritrea to implement the Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission (EEBC) "virtual demarcation" of the bo [...]	2007-11-16 17:22:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	UNSC PREL ET ER IT
07ROME2343	ITALY ON VENEZUELAN CONSTITUTIONAL REFORMS [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA South America Office Director Michele Giacomelli November 16. Poloff shared USG concerns about democracy in Venezuela posed by President Chavez's proposed constitutional reforms, and requested that Italy speak out on behalf of democratic rights in V [...]	2007-11-19 12:28:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM WHA EU VE IT
07ROME2362	ITALY-MIDDLE EAST: DAS GRAY DISCUSSES IRAN, [...] (C) NEA DAS Gordon Gray exchanged views on Iran and discussed the Annapolis conference with PM Diplomatic Advisor on the Middle East Marco Carnelos on November 15 in Rome. Gray emphasized the unwavering U.S. commitment to prevent a nuclear Iran. Carnelos said Italy was committed to encouragi [...]	2007-11-21 16:39:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV XF IR ZR XI IT
07ROME2384	ITALY TO ABSTAIN ON ANTI-ISRAEL UNGA RESOLUTIONS [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel points to MFA UN Affairs Deputy Director Leonardo Bencini November 26, and urged Italy to change its abstentions on anti-Israel UNGA resolutions to "no" votes, especially in this season of renewed peace efforts. Bencini said Italy sought to maintain an even-handed [...]	2007-11-27 14:21:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNGA IS IT
07ROME2394	ITALY "OPEN" TO ADDITIONAL EU DESIGNATIONS OF [...] (C) Taking advantage of Undersecretary of the Treasury Stuart Levey's 11/28 visit to Rome, Post asked U/S Levey to include reftel points with senior Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Finance officials. (U/S Levey's visit will be reported septel.) 2. (C) MFA Political Guilio Terzi [...]	2007-11-29 18:48:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP MNUC PARM
07ROME2397	ITALY: NO DECISION YET ON PROSPER CANDIDACY FOR [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-30 09:10:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UNGA IT
07ROME2398	ITALY AND CUBA: NSC-DIRECTED REVIEW FOR LIBERTAD [...] (U) This is post's response to reftel request for updated information necessary for the President's consideration of continued suspension of Title III of the LIBERTAD Act. 2. (C) There has been little change in Italian relations with Cuba over the past six months. The most significant event [...]	2007-11-30 09:12:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ETTC PREL CU IT
07ROME2445	ITALY SUPPORTS RAPID LEBANESE PRESIDENTIAL [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-07 17:21:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM LE SY IT
07ROME2452	ITALY: RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON HOST [...] (SBU) The following are Embassy Rome's answers to the questionnaire on host government information collection, screening and sharing practices contained in Reftel. 2. (SBU) Section A: Watchlisting -------------------------------- Question: If host government maintains a "watchlist," how [...]	2007-12-10 16:30:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	KVPR PTER PREL PGOV PINR CVIS ASEC KHLS IT
07ROME2453	ITALY: RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON HOST [...] (SBU) The following are Embassy Rome's answers to the questionnaire on host government information collection, screening and sharing practices contained in Reftel. 2. (SBU) Section A: Watchlisting. --------------------------------- Question: If host government maintains a "watchlist," how [...]	2007-12-10 16:30:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	KVPR PTER PREL PGOV PINR CVIS ASEC KHLS IT

07ROME2467	ITALY TO ANNOUNCE 60 MILLION EURO DONATION AT [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-13 08:13:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	KWBG KPAL AMGT PREL PGOV
07ROME2487	ITALIAN EMBASSY IN TEHRAN TO INQUIRE ABOUT MISSING [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-18 17:49:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	AS CA CASC CH EU EZ PHUM PREL IR IT
07ROME2498	UN FIFTH COMMITTEE: ITALY DOES NOT SUPPORT U.S. [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-20 17:22:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC UNGA XA XD IT
07ROME2515	ITALY REQUESTS INFORMATION ON 1267 TERROR FINANCE [...] (U) This is an action request, please see para 11. 2. (C) Summary: On December 21, Stefania Fancello at the MFA's Office of International Cooperation Against Terrorism conveyed to Econoff a request for more information on the 1267 (al-Qaida/Taliban Sanctions) delisting cases of Nasreddin, N [...]	2007-12-28 17:03:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN KFIN ECON IT
07ROME2520	ITALY: CENTRAL BANK EXPANDS OVERSIGHT OVER [...] (C) Summary: On January 1, the Central Bank of Italy will expand its oversight over financial transactions by creating a formal Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) and abolishing the out-dated Foreign Exchange Office, which had, until now, served as Italy's FIU. A new law, based on EU regulation [...]	2007-12-28 17:04:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN KFIN IT
07ROME256	IRAN: REPORTS OF LEGAL ACTION AGAINST ITALY [...] (C) Iran Daily reported online (in English) January 30 and 31 that the Government of Iran will "take legal action against Italy,s decision to suspend its banking cooperation with Iran." Government of Italy contacts believe the proposed legal action by Iran is not linked to UNSCR 1737 or rec [...]	2007-02-08 09:24:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER ECON EFIN IR IT
07ROME261	ITALY: ONLY MULTILATERAL DEMOCRACY ASSISTANCE [...] (C) MFA Office Director for Persian Gulf, Bruno Campria, told poloff Italy no longer has a bilateral program for promoting democracy, human rights or civil society in Iran. He said Iran froze all dialogue with Italy on human rights issues after Italy co-sponsored a Canadian UN Resolution in 2 [...]	2007-02-08 13:29:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IR IT
07ROME384	TERRORIST FINANCE: CASH COURIERS IN ITALY [...] (C) Summary: GOI officials have demonstrated a commitment to combating bulk cash smuggling by putting into place effective controls to monitor financial activity. However, challenges remain. Limited resources hamper Italian law enforcement's ability to investigate illicit cash courier acti [...]	2007-02-26 15:57:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER IT
07ROME393	ITALY SUGGESTS IDEA OF LEBANON CONTACT GROUP WITH [...] (C) During February 22 and 23 meetings with senior Italian MFA officials, NEA DAS Robert Danin discussed the idea of an informal contact group on Lebanon to discuss implementation of UNSCR 1701's arms embargo. Danin suggested the informal group's members could include France, Germany, Italy, [...]	2007-02-28 11:10:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV XF UN LE IT
07ROME400	ITALIAN MOD SAY LEBANESE ARMY STILL HAS A LONG WAY [...] (C) NEA DAS Danin met with senior Italian MFA and MOD officials to discuss developments in the Middle East Peace Process (MEPP) and Lebanon during February 22 and 23 meetings in Rome. The Italians were receptive to the idea of establishing an informal working group (see reftel),but suggeste [...]	2007-03-01 09:36:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV XF UN LE IT
07ROME409	IRAN: BANK SEPAH ROME STILL OPEN [...] (C) Summary: EcMin discussed the status of Iranian Bank Sepah's Rome branch with Bank of Italy (BOI) officials March Â [...]	2007-03-01 16:58:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN PGOV IR IT
07ROME46	ITALY FULLY SUPPORTS AHTISAARI, CONTACT GROUP ON [...] (C) MFA DG for European Affairs Laura Mirachian says Italy is fully onboard with the Contact Group's support of UNOSEK Ahtisaari. She stated that there is broad bipartisan and expert consensus in supporting Kosovar "delinkage" from Serbia and a NATO and EU future for all the countries of the [...]	2007-01-09 16:55:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NATO SR YI IT
07ROME47	ITALY NOTIFIED OF ADDITIONAL IRAN DESIGNATIONS [...] (C) The Embassy delivered ref points on Bank Sepah designation to the MFA, Bank of Italy, and Ministry of Finance January 9. Pol M/C then spoke to Filippo Formica, MFA Nuclear Non-Proliferation Office Director, noting US interest in possible Italian follow-up action on Bank Sepah and our own [...]	2007-01-09 17:06:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP KN PARM IR IT
07ROME472	ITALIANS PROBE IRAQ, IRAN ON BAGHDAD CONFERENCE [...] (C) PolMinCouns delivered reftel points to MFA Director General for Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Affairs Cesare Ragaglini on March 7. Ragaglini said Italy believed the conferences were a step in the right direction and would support the outcome whether or not Italy received an invitation. [...]	2007-03-08 15:32:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL OIC UN IZ
07ROME478	ITALY SYMPATHETIC TO ARGENTINA'S INTERPOL PROPOSAL [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-11 15:26:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	IR PGOV PREL FBI PTER KJUS ASEC PRT KFTFN
07ROME534	ITALY: GENERALLY SUPPORTIVE OF IRAN UNSCR; BUT [...] (C) DCM raised points on UNSCR on Iran (ref A) March 16 with FM D'Alema's Chief of Staff, Ambassador Nelli Feroci, who said he thought Italy would support the resolution as a balanced document. However, he said he would have to check with FM D'Alema personally on how strongly he felt about l [...]	2007-03-16 17:05:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC IR IT
07ROME535	PRODI/PUTIN - ITALIANS CLAIM "FULL HARMONY" WITH [...] (C) Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Italy on March 13 and 14 for his fourth bilateral with PM Prodi in ten months. Putin and Prodi met for three-hours over dinner March 13, and traveled to the Adriatic port city of Bari along with several ministers for a largely economic summit March [...]	2007-03-16 17:22:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NATO EUN UNSC RU IT
07ROME571	ITALY IN FAVOR OF LEBANON CONTACT GROUP [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel points to MFA Near East Office Director Luciano Pezzotti March 22. Pezzotti appreciated the follow-up to NEA DAS Danin's February 23 visit and his suggestion to increase intelligence sharing through diplomatic channels and agreed that evidence of continued weapons [...]	2007-03-22 15:43:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL PTER UNSC LBAR IR IT
07ROME572	ITALY FAVORS USING EU TO PRESSURE SYRIA ON HUMAN [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel points to MFA Near East office director, Luciano Pezzotti March 22. Pezzotti said Italy shared our concern over the human rights situation in Syria; however, Italy was not planning on issuing any statements concerning the election. He said Italy would support a [...]	2007-03-22 15:46:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PREL PHUM SY IT
07ROME711	ITALIANS SEE SIGNS OF PROGRESS IN IRAQ [...] (C) DFM Ugo Intini and MFA Iraq Task Force Director Amb. Gianludovico Martino traveled to Baghdad, Abu Dhabi and Riyadh April 2-3 to discuss political developments in Iraq. In Baghdad, the Italians noted that the majority of Iraqi interlocutors, while concerned about the continuing violence, b [...]	2007-04-06 10:15:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS IZ IT
07ROME912	LEBANON: ITALY OPEN-MINDED ON SPECIAL TRIBUNAL [...] (C) A/S Welch urged his GOI interlocutors to support establishment of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon under UNSC chapter VII authority, asked for Italian engagement in pushing Maronite Leader Sfeir (who was scheduled to visit Rome at end of April) to unite Christians in Lebanon, and stressed [...]	2007-05-02 14:33:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV XF LE IT
07ROME918	ITALY: NO TO ZIMBABWE CSD CHAIR, EU PRESSING FOR [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-03 12:32:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SENV UNCSD AORC ZI IT
07RUSSELS1548	BOUCHER DISCUSSES CENTRAL ASIA WITH EU [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-10 05:17:00	USEU Brussels	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ZK
07SANAA1022	SAADA: CALLS FOR DIALOGUE ABOUND, BUT FIGHTING [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Saleh used his May 22 Unity Day speech to announce a unilateral ceasefire for the day and once again call upon rebels in Saada to lay down their weapons in exchange for a dialogue. Meanwhile, Saleh dispatched the Minister of Religious Affairs and other clerics to Saad [...]	2007-05-29 14:51:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS PINR PINS PHUM YM
07SANAA1099	DAS CARPENTER AND SALEH FOCUS ON FORUM FOR FUTURE [...] This is an action request; see paragraph five. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Assistant Secretary Scott Carpenter met with President Saleh on June 2 to discuss the Forum for the Future, which Sanaa will host this December, and U.S.-Yemeni relations, with a focus on assistance. The President also r [...]	2007-06-12 09:21:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM MOPS PGOV LY IR YM
07SANAA1117	SAADA: MEDIA COVERAGE SUGGESTS HEAVY FIGHTING, [...] (C) SUMMARY: As the Saada conflict enters its fifth month, and even though journalists have been barred from traveling to Saada since late January, government, independent and opposition Yemeni media outlets continue to report on daily fighting throughout the governorate between Houthi supporte [...]	2007-06-13 14:02:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS YM
07SANAA1133	SAADA: WAR IS OVER, BUT CAN ROYG NOW WIN THE PEACE? [...] (C) SUMMARY: Post contacts have confirmed media reporting of a peace deal brokered by the Government of Qatar to bring an end to almost five months of intensive fighting in the northern governorate of Saada. The deal reportedly provides safe haven for the al-Houthi rebel leadership in Doha [...]	2007-06-18 13:57:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS MARR QA YM
07SANAA1138	YEMEN SEEKS TO JUMPSTART EITI [...] (U) This cable addresses questions raised in reftel regarding Yemen's accession to the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI). 2. (C) SUMMARY: To date, Yemen has fulfilled only one of four criteria for EITI membership: a high-level commitment to join. According to the RO [...]	2007-06-19 11:28:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ECON EMIN ENRG EPET YM
07SANAA1142	DEMARCHE DELIVERED REGARDING ARABSAT BROADCAST OF [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-20 11:39:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAL KPAO ETTC PREL PTER YM
07SANAA1186	BMENA FORUM FOR THE FUTURE PLANNING MEETING, [...] (C) Summary. At the Broader Middle East and North Africa (BMENA) Forum for the Future planning meeting on June 3 in Sanaa, participants tentatively agreed on December 4 or 5 as the date of the Forum, pending confirmation of Foreign Ministers, schedules. U.S. delegation leader, NEA DAS Scott [...]	2007-06-28 13:13:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM YM
07SANAA1210	OIL: ROYG MORE TRANSPARENT, BUT CHALLENGES REMAIN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Yemen's oil production, which constitutes 75 percent of the national budget, continues to decline in 2007, with high prices masking the effects of lower production. In order to increase production, the ROYG has decided to double the number of exploration blocks, will launch a [...]	2007-07-02 12:05:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV ENRG EPET PGOV YM
07SANAA1343	HIGH PRICES CAUSE CONCERN IN YEMEN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Prices of basic consumer goods in Yemen have risen in real terms by at least 100 percent since the September 2006 Presidential Election. Inflation has worsened the already abysmal poverty rate and has led to the bankruptcy of at least 2,400 businesses. The Republic of Yemen Go [...]	2007-07-16 06:26:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR EAID ECON ETRD YM
07SANAA1414	SAADA: CEASEFIRE FRAGILE, BUT HOLDING [...] (C) SUMMARY: The security environment in Saada remains tense with continuing minor clashes, but the tenuous ceasefire is holding and there have been no reports of major fighting. Qatar's recall of its delegation from the Saada ceasefire implementation committee is a major step backwards. I [...]	2007-07-23 13:45:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PREL PGOV YM
07SANAA1528	YEMEN LAUNCHES NEW ANTI-CORRUPTION BOARD [...] (C) SUMMARY: Yemen's Parliament finally elected eleven members to the the first Supreme National Anti-Corruption Commission (SNACC) on June 25. The Commission, which will be responsible for implementing the new Anti-Corruption Law, has committed itself to developing a national anti-corruption [...]	2007-08-06 10:03:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	EIND ETRD PGOV EAID ECON EFIN KCRM PINR YM
07SANAA1549	HUMAN RIGHTS MINISTER SUPPORTS FORUM FOR THE [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-07 13:38:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PTER YM
07SANAA1563	YEMEN READY TO MOVE FORWARD ON WTO ACCESSION [...] (C) SUMMARY: The new ROYG Minister of Industry and Trade requests increased USG political and technical support for Yemen's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) and renewed bilateral discussions under the US Yemen Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA). CDA reiterated earlie [...]	2007-08-11 10:46:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV ETRD AID YM
07SANAA1586	YEMEN: GOVERNMENT INTIMIDATING JOURNALISTS TO CURB [...] (C) In two separate incidents ROYG forces harassed journalists of an independent Yemeni weekly, "al-Shar'e" (The Street). On July 20 security forces arrested and detained an al-Shar'e reporter, and ten days later security forces entered the paper's offices, damaged property, and brought charg [...]	2007-08-18 14:08:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL YM PTER
07SANAA1693	DETAINED PROTEST LEADER TRANSFERRED TO SANAA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Unconfirmed media reports claim that retired Brigadier General Nasir al-Nawba has been transferred from Aden to Sanaa for prosecution by the ROYG on charges of high treason. Al-Nawba, head of the United Retired Military Officers Coordination Council, lead the 1 September Southern [...]	2007-09-10 12:53:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PTER PGOV PINS PNAT YM
07SANAA175	REAR ADMIRAL HUNT DISCUSSES SOMALIA AND SECURITY [...] (C) Summary: On January 22, visiting Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA) Commander Admiral Richard Hunt traveled to Aden to meet with the governor and local security officials. Governor Ahmed al-Kohlani expressed appreciation for USG support to the Yemeni Coast Guard, sayin [...]	2007-01-31 13:13:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS PTER PARM SO YM
07SANAA1826	SALAH AL-ATTAR, KINGPIN OR KING PAWN? [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador's first meeting with new General Investment Authority (GIA) Chairman Salah Al-Attar revealed a western educated, energetic young man eager to address Yemen's problems by narrowing the rich-poor gap, thereby reducing the lure of extremism and making Yemen more attrac [...]	2007-09-25 06:42:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV PGOV PREL PINR YM
07SANAA1839	CONTROVERSIAL UNITY LAW LIKELY TO BE WITHDRAWN [...] (C) At an informal iftar (breaking of the fast during Ramadan) at PolOff's residence on 23 September and during a telephone conversation with Poloff on 25 September, Deputy Finance Minister Jalal Yacoub said that the controversial draft National Unity Law, which produced a public outcry when [...]	2007-09-29 12:08:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	YM PHUM PGOV
07SANAA1860	YEMEN'S TEXTILE INDUSTRY IS HANGING BY A THREAD [...] (C) SUMMARY: Yemen's textile and apparels industry is small, comprising 5,000 employees. Exports are virtually non-existent. Foreign imports account for almost all textiles sold inside the country. No protections exist for Yemeni textile manufacturers, the textile industry has received o [...]	2007-10-01 13:00:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD KTEX YM
07SANAA1905	YEMEN DEBATES NUCLEAR POWER [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-10 14:14:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV ENRG YM
07SANAA1906	FOUR GTMO DETAINEES RELEASED [...] (C) Yemeni online news outlets reported on October 9 and 10 that four prisoners who had previously been detained at Guantanamo Bay had been released. According to the pro-government website 26 September.net, the four, Fawaz Noman Hamoud, Ali Muhsen Nasser, Sadiq Mohamed Saeed Ismael and Han [...]	2007-10-15 09:54:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER KAWC YM
07SANAA1950	EMBASSY FOLLOW-UP TO MCC SIGNING CEREMONY [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an October 27 meeting with the Deputy Foreign Minister, the Ambassador emphasized that the ROYG's release of convicted terrorist Jamal al-Badawi had led the Millennium Challenge Corporation to postpone indefinitely the signing of the Threshold Country Plan (TCP) signing cerem [...]	2007-10-27 18:05:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	AID EAID ECON EFIN KMCA PREL YM
07SANAA1954	ROYG INNER CIRCLE CONSIDERING STRAWMAN [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-28 13:46:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PTER YM
07SANAA2028	YEMENI DELEGATION HEAD SAYS YEMEN WILL SUPPORT [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-31 12:47:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER ASEC KJUS PREL PGOV IR YM
07SANAA2045	FATF STATEMENT ON IRAN DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (C) Emboffs delivered reftel demarche on October 31 to the ROYG National Anti-Money Launderng Committee (NAMLC) Chairman Ahmed Ghaleb. Also attending the meeting were Mohammed Al-Wareeth of the Yemen Bankers Association, Said Al-Khamery of the Ministry of Interior, Omer Ibrahim of the Minist [...]	2007-11-04 09:23:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL MNUC ECON EFIN KTFN PTER YM
07SANAA2052	ROYG TRIES NEW PRESS CONTROL TECHNIQUE -- BEGGING [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-05 13:12:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM YM
07SANAA2055	EXPLOSION OF OIL PIPELINE NEAR MARIB [...] (C) An oil pipeline explosion occurred at approximately 0500 AM on November 5 in the Watada area, southwest of Sirwah Disrict in the area bordering al-Kholan and al-Bida tribal areas in the Ma'rib Governorate (ref A). According to media reports, there were no casualties. The explosion shut [...]	2007-11-06 12:44:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV ENRG EPET PGOV PREL PTER YM
07SANAA2082	FM AL-QIRBI HOPES COURT WILL "CORRECT" MOA'YAD [...] (U) On November 9, several mainstream Yemeni press outlets ran stories on the announcement by Deputy Director of the National Organization for Rights and Freedoms (HOOD) Khaled al-Anesi, that attorneys for imprisoned terrorist financier Sheikh Mohamed Ali al-Moa'yad and his companion Zayed in [...]	2007-11-12 14:59:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL PGOV YM
07SANAA212	SOMALIA: YEMEN READY TO RECEIVE SHEIKH SHARIF, BUT [...] (C) Ambassador called on Yemeni FM Abu Bakr al-Qirbi on February 4 in order to deliver reftel demarche points, to which Qirbi replied that the Republic of Yemen Government (ROYG) continues to urge the Somali Transitional Federal Government (TFG) to conduct an inclusive political dialogue. He [...]	2007-02-05 04:57:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS PHUM SO YE
07SANAA2126	REPORTS OF SALEH MEETING WITH EXILED OPPOSITION [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-19 11:21:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM YM
07SANAA2138	AL-QIRBI PUSHES FOR HIGH-LEVEL US PARTICIPATION IN [...] (U) In their November 20 meeting, the Ambassador reiterated his understanding to Foreign Minister al-Qirbi that the Secretary of State would not attend the Forum for the Future, while al-Qirbi continued to push for high-level U.S. participation. Al-Qirbi was optimistic but non-committal about [...]	2007-11-20 15:01:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL YM
07SANAA2179	A CHANGE OF GOVERNOR IN ADEN UNLIKELY [...] (C) Responding to rumors that the Governor of Aden is in danger of being replaced, Assistant Deputy Foreign Minister Khalid al-Akwa told poloff on November 26 that rumors about leadership are rare in Yemen and a leak of this kind would usually quickly be followed by a decision. As no decision h [...]	2007-12-02 08:41:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR YM
07SANAA2180	DEMONSTRATIONS IN SOUTHERN YEMEN: BUSINESS AS USUAL [...] (C) Tough ROYG measures appear to have been broadly successful at containing rallies in Yemen's south marking the 40th anniversary of Southern Yemen's independence from British rule. Although demonstrations/celebrations took place in Aden, Makulla and other areas, the only incident of note o [...]	2007-12-02 11:00:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL YM
07SANAA2193	NO RELIEF IN SIGHT FOR PRICE INFLATION IN YEMEN [...] (C) SUMMARY: High price inflation and increasing poverty sparked numerous demonstrations throughout Yemen between August-November 2007. The ROYG has taken only small steps to curb inflation, many of which treat symptoms rather than causes. The only long-term solutions may be greater compet [...]	2007-12-03 11:44:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR EAID ECON ETRD YM
07SANAA2196	WHO HAS THE EAR OF THE PRESIDENT? PART 1: [...] (C) Summary: President Ali Abdullah Saleh holds all decision-making authority within his country. Nonetheless, he relies on an established network of advisors drawn from his family, his tribe, and others, who have one way or another obtained the President's trust and respect. While his fa [...]	2007-12-03 14:14:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR YM
07SANAA221	SAADA: CASUALTIES MOUNT, SALEH PREPARES FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Casualties continue to mount since the third round of fighting in Saada erupted on January 27. Government sources report that at least 42 soldiers have been killed and another 81 wounded, while casualties among the al-Houthi rebels are unknown. Military officials have confirmed [...]	2007-02-06 13:03:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS PINR YM
07SANAA223	ROYG CLARIFIES REFUGEE POLICY: UNHCR WILL NO [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with visiting Refcoord, Poloff, and Conoff, Deputy Foreign Minister Mohy al-Din Al-Thibbi confirmed a de facto change in the Republic of Yemen Government's (ROYG) refugee policy concerning non-Somalis: UNHCR would no longer be granted access to newly arriving non-So [...]	2007-02-06 13:28:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF PHUM YM
07SANAA226	ZAYDI SHI'IS, THE AL HOUTHIS, AND SUNNIS: WHAT IT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The third outbreak of major clashes between al-Houthi insurgents and the Yemeni regime has once again brought international attention to Yemen's Zaydi (Shia) population. Misunderstanding about Yemeni Zaydi practices and beliefs have led some in the regional and international com [...]	2007-02-07 11:22:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PINR PREL YM
07SANAA2296	PARIS DONORS CONFERENCE DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-11 14:17:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	AMGT PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL YM
07SANAA2297	PARIS DONORS CONFERENCE DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-11 14:17:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	AMGT PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL YM
07SANAA2298	USG DELEGATION REQUESTED TO PUSH BADAWI ISSUE [...] (C) Summary. Reftel included Post recommendation for a senior-level ROYG delegation to travel to Washington for discussions on options for - and obstacles to - resolving the Badawi case. On reflection, we have concluded that it would be far more valuable for a USG delegation to travel to Yeme [...]	2007-12-11 14:17:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV OTRA YM
07SANAA2299	DFM COMMITS TO WORK FOR BADAWI MONITORING AND [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-11 14:17:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV YM
07SANAA2335	PARLIAMENT INACTIVE BUT UPCOMING SPECIAL SESSION [...] (U) The current session of Parliament accomplished almost nothing before its holiday recess. The most exciting moment was when opposition members walked out in protest of draft amendments to the country's electoral law. An expected joint session in January to discuss the President's reform [...]	2007-12-18 14:55:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV YM
07SANAA2361	ROYG READY TO CANCEL THE FORUM FOR THE FUTURE [...] (C) Discouraged by a lack of enthusiasm from possible G8 co-hosts, and increasingly aware that the Badawi case will make the attendance of the Secretary of State unlikely, Foreign Minister AbuBakr al-Qirbi appears prepared to abort the Forum for the Future. On December 30, he asked the Ambass [...]	2007-12-30 14:24:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV YM
07SANAA2362	AMBASSADOR PUSHES AGAIN ON BADAWI BUT FM DOESN'T [...] (C) On December 30, the Ambassador reiterated to Foreign Minister al-Qirbi that US custody of Jamal al-Badawi is non-negotiable. Al-Qirbi responded again that such a resolution is "politically and legally impossible" and stated that the ROYG would await what it understood would be a POTUS de [...]	2007-12-30 14:43:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV YM
07SANAA2364	YEMENIS CONTINUE TO HOPE FOR THE RETURN OF SHEIKH [...] (C) Sheikh al-Moayed recently sent a letter to President Saleh asking him to sign an "extradition treaty" with the United States. A ROYG source clarified that, if al-Moayed understood the meaning of extradition and its illegality under the Yemeni constitution, he would not have requested it. [...]	2007-12-31 10:24:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER YM
07SANAA243	SAADA: PARLIAMENT VOTES FOR WAR, BUT OVER WHAT? [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a closed session on February 10, Parliament voted to authorize President Saleh to use military force against al-Houthi insurrectionists in Saada. Opposition party leaders have kept a low-profile in public, but indicated privately that their parties voted overwhelmingly agains [...]	2007-02-12 10:41:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS PINR PINS PHUM YM
07SANAA285	SAADA: FIGHTING INTENSIFIES WITH TROOP SURGE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Fighting in Saada intensified over the past week as ROYG troop deployments in Saada doubled to nearly 15,000. Estimates of troops killed in ambushes and direct attacks on military installations are between 50 and 100, with at least 200 injured. Casualties among the al-Houthis [...]	2007-02-21 12:42:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PINR PREL YM
07SANAA296	YEMENIS REVIEW REGIONAL ISSUES WITH CODEL REYES [...] (C) SUMMARY: During meetings on February 19, President Saleh and Foreign Minister Abu Bakr al-Qirbi reviewed for visiting CODEL Reyes Yemen's views on Somalia, Iraq, Syria, Iran and Afghanistan. The Yemenis expressed support for the USG's approach in Somalia, voiced grave concern over Iran's [...]	2007-02-26 06:41:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS SO YE
07SANAA297	(C) YEMENIS ASK CODEL FOR HELP IN SAADA; PRESENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Saleh asked CODEL Reyes on February 19 to support on an urgent basis the Yemeni Government's military campaign against insurrectionists in Saada with intelligence, equipment and armored vehicles. Interior Minister Rashad al-Alimi warned that anti-government fighters in [...]	2007-02-26 06:51:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MOPS MASS SO YE
07SANAA414	(C) LETTER FROM PRESIDENT ALI ABDULLAH SALEH TO [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (C) Charg received a letter from President Ali Abdullah Saleh during a meeting held on March 17, 2007 (reftel). The letter is addressed to President Bush. The signed Arabic original will follow. Please forward the following infor [...]	2007-03-19 13:38:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	OPDC PREL YM
07SANAA451	SOMALIA'S SHEIKH SHARIF READY FOR DIALOGUE, BUT ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Charge met with former Somali Council of Islamic Courts (CIC) Chairman Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed on March 26, under the auspices of the Yemeni Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Sharif and former CIC foreign minister Ibrahim Adou, who joined him in the meeting, stated that the CIC h [...]	2007-03-27 08:55:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS SO YM
07SANAA454	SUPPORTING YEMEN'S REQUEST FOR ARMORED VEHICLES [...] (U) This is an action request for the Department. Please see paragraph seven. 2. (C) As reflected in reftels, the Republic of Yemen Government (ROYG) has formally requested from the Governments of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates the expeditious transfer of several hundr [...]	2007-03-27 15:22:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS MARR MASS YM
07SANAA553	SALEH RE-SHUFFLES: WILL REFORM GET A BOOST WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Finally making a move that has been a hot topic of Sanaa's political class since the last cabinet re-shuffle in February 2006, President Saleh decreed the formation of a new government on March 31 under the leadership of Prime Minister-designate Dr. Ali Mohammed Mujawar. Yemeni [...]	2007-04-02 11:14:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV YM
07SANAA649	NEW RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS MINISTER FOCUSES ON DIALOGUE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Newly appointed Minister of Awqaf (Endowment) and Religious Guidance, Judge Hamoud al-Hitar, told Ambassador on April 11 that he wants to institute a "national strategy" for religious dialogue. Hitar offered suggestions for further cooperation between post and the ministry, inclu [...]	2007-04-16 12:26:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV YM
07SANAA852	JEWISH COMMUNITY'S SECURITY PERCEPTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 30 - May 1 Damon Stevens, from the Office of the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, conducted separate meetings with members of the Jewish communities from Saada and Reyda, who expressed serious concern about the deteriorating security situation in norther [...]	2007-05-08 09:08:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PREF IS YM
07SANAA884	AMBASSADOR'S ASSESSMENT ON UNHRC ELECTION [...] (C) Ambassador urged Deputy Forein Minister Mohy al-Din al-Dhabbi on May 13 to opose Belarus' candidacy to the UNHRC in favor of lovenia or Bosnia. Al-Dhabbi promised to conveythe message to the internal Yemeni Government commitee that decides on multilateral votes. 2. (C Information we [...]	2007-05-14 08:52:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM YM
07SANAA905	MINISTER PREACHES RELIGIOUS TOLERANCE, SHEIKH [...] (U) This is an action request, please see paragraph 7. 2. (C) SUMMARY: On May 1, the CDA, accompanied by poloff and Damon Stevens from the Office to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, met with Minister of Religious Affairs Judge Hamoud al-Hitar to discuss tolerance and dialogue between faith [...]	2007-05-16 14:33:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PTER YM
07SANAA907	SAADA HISTORY: HUSSEIN AL-HOUTHI - PARLIAMENTARIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Since 2004, the ROYG has fought three wars in the Saada governorate with the al-Houthis, with each round more intense and prolonged than the last. History is key to understanding why this conflict began and continues to reemerge. The roots of the conflict lie with the late Hussein [...]	2007-05-19 05:16:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PTER
07SANAA96	ADMIRAL HUNT DISCUSSES SOMALIA AND MILITARY [...] (C) Summary: On January 21, visiting Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa (CJTF-HOA) Commander Rear Admiral Richard Hunt and Ambassador met with Defense Minister Mohammad Nasser Ahmed Ali to discuss Somalia and military-military cooperation. Ali expressed concern that violence in Somal [...]	2007-01-27 13:33:00	Embassy Sanaa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MASS PTER PARM SO YM
07SANJOSE1053	COSTA RICA: DEMARCHE ON IRAN-VENEZUELA RELATIONSHIP [...] (C) On May 31st, PolCoun and PolOff met with Alejandro Solano, sub-director of the Foreign Policy Section of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) to discuss the growing Iranian-Venezuelan relationship (Ref a). Solano was receptive and expressed concerns, particularly in the area of the loose [...]	2007-06-04 16:08:00	Embassy San Jose	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM MASS MARR PTER IR ECON VE CS
07SANJOSE1106	COSTA RICA RECOGNIZES CHINA [...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 6, Costa Rica announced normalized relations with China, ending ties with Taiwan dating back to 1944. President Arias said the decision was based on "fundamental realism," and he expressed hope that informal relations could be retained with Taipei. The announcement ca [...]	2007-06-08 22:38:00	Embassy San Jose	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TW XK CS
07SANJOSE1173	COSTA RICA: NORMALIZED RELATIONS WITH CHINA BRING [...] SUMMARY (U) Costa Rica's June 1 recognition of the PRC and consequent break in diplomatic relations with Taiwan (Ref A) have brought worries about the financing of ongoing assistance projects (previously funded by Taiwan) as well as immigration concerns at a time when illegal Chinese traffic i [...]	2007-06-18 22:39:00	Embassy San Jose	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR SNAR CVIS XK CS
07SANJOSE1571	MOVEMENT ON IMPLEMENTATION LEGISLATION UNLIKELY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Arias Administration expects little or no action on CAFTA implementing legislation before the October 7 referendum. Pro-CAFTA coalition in-fighting, coupled with stubborn stalling tactics by the PAC-led opposition, have blocked quorums and buried the GOCR,s legislative ag [...]	2007-08-22 21:31:00	Embassy San Jose	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD PGOV PINR PREL CS
07SANJOSE1618	ASSESSMENT OF COSTA RICAN SECURITY REQUIREMENTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Costa Rica remains a significant transshipment point for drugs, people, currency and weapons. A successful comprehensive regional security strategy for Central America must include appropriately trained and equipped Costa Rican forces, willing and able to cooperate with counterpa [...]	2007-08-30 12:11:00	Embassy San Jose	CONFIDENTIAL	CS KJUS PGOV PINS PREF PREL PTER SNAR
07SANJOSE1682	US-COSTA RICA PARTNERSHIP AGAINST NARCOTRAFFICKERS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Close bilateral cooperation and improved intra-GOCR coordination yielded impressive counter narcotics successes since early July. Joint USG-GOCR efforts intercepted four go-fast boats and forced a fifth to turn back towards Panama. Ashore, a probable fuel depot for go-fasts an [...]	2007-09-10 16:56:00	Embassy San Jose	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PREL PTER SNAR XK CS
07SANJOSE1691	US-COSTA RICA PARTNERSHIP AGAINST NARCOTRAFFICKERS [...] This is a corrected version of San Jose 01682. See paragraphs 2, 3 and 12 2. (C) SUMMARY: Close bilateral cooperation and improved intra-GOCR coordination yielded impressive counter narcotics successes since early July. Joint USG-GOCR efforts intercepted four go-fast boats and forced a [...]	2007-09-11 20:55:00	Embassy San Jose	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PREL PTER SNAR XK CS
07SANJOSE1768	COSTA RICA AND NICARAGUA: UNEASTY NEIGHBORS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Costa Rican-Nicaraguan relations remain strained from a GOCR perspective. This was only slightly improved by Presidents Arias and Ortega meeting in Managua on August 21, although Arias reportedly returned with a written commitment from Ortega to support Costa Rica,s UNSC election [...]	2007-09-24 22:38:00	Embassy San Jose	CONFIDENTIAL	CS NU PGOV PREF PREL XK
07SANJOSE1783	COSTA RICA AND CHINA: IS TRADE THE TIE THAT BINDS? [...] (C) SUMMARY: Sino-Costa Rican relations have gotten off to a splashy start, with trade as the centerpiece. The new Chinese Embassy in San Jose opened on August 24, in conjunction with a trade fair which reportedly netted USD 12 million in sales or commitments for the Chinese and USD 140 mil [...]	2007-09-27 17:33:00	Embassy San Jose	CONFIDENTIAL	CS CVIS ETRD PGOV PINR PREL XK
07SANJOSE1995	DEMARCHE ON DEMOCRACY IN VENEZUELA [...] (U) On November 16, we discussed Ref A concerns with Alejandro Solano Ortiz, Sub-director of the Foreign Policy Directorate of the MFA. 2. (C) Although sympathetic to these concerns, Solano indicated that the GOCR worried about the implications of the constitutional reform now under way in [...]	2007-11-16 21:44:00	Embassy San Jose	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV VE PHUM WHA
07SANJOSE1999	COSTA RICA: THE WHINSEC SOLUTION? [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOCR appears poised to release its restrictions on students attending the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHINSEC),reversing a May 2007 decision by President Oscar Arias. Minister of Public Security Fernando Berrocal and Vice Minister of the Presidenc [...]	2007-11-19 16:44:00	Embassy San Jose	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MASS PINR CS
07SANJOSE2073	COSTA RICA: RETURN TO WHINSEC [...] (SBU) On December 13, Public Security Minister Fernando Berrocal wrote President Oscar Arias a letter recommending that Costa Rican law enforcement personnel "could maintain a training scheme" at WHINSEC to receive counternarcotics, counterterrorism and other "strictly police" training. (Full [...]	2007-12-20 17:42:00	Embassy San Jose	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MASS PINR CS
07SANJOSE2074	COSTA RICA: UPDATED SECURITY REQUIREMENTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOCR's most pressing, non-lethal police equipment needs center on communications, transportation, technology, K-9 support, and surveillance equipment (in that order, see para 5). Coast Guard modernization remains on top of the list of other initiatives to be funded by the pend [...]	2007-12-20 23:03:00	Embassy San Jose	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINS PTER SNAR CS KJUS PREF
07SANJOSE361	COSTA RICA: NEXT ANTI-CAFTA PROTEST ON 26 FEB [...] (C) 1. (C) The next anti-CAFTA protest is scheduled for Monday, February 26, with the locus of action likely to be San Jose. Organizers promise a larger event than last October's protest, but predicting turnout is impossible in advance. The GOCR has vowed to prevent disruption of essential [...]	2007-02-23 19:28:00	Embassy San Jose	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ELAB ASEC PINR CS
07SANJOSE427	EXCESS DEFENSE ARTICLES WAIVER FOR COSTA RICA [...] (U) SUMMARY: Embassy San Jose strongly recommends a national interest waiver of ASPA restrictions against Excess Defense Articles (EDA) for Costa Rica. The waiver will significantly enhance Costa Rica's maritime patrol capability and build on record seizures in Costa Rican waters during 20 [...]	2007-03-05 20:30:00	Embassy San Jose	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS SNAR CS
07SANJOSE655	CAFTA: REFERENDUM CONCERNS, BUT COALITION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Although optimistic that CAFTA can be ratified by August-September, the Arias administration is now concerned about the prospect of a CAFTA referendum. Responding to a petition filed by CAFTA opponent, renegade PLN member, former legislator and presidential candidate Jose Miguel [...]	2007-04-04 20:36:00	Embassy San Jose	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ETRD PREL PINR CS
07SANJOSE69	THE COLOMBIAN CONNECTION: FORMER GUERRILLAS TURNED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Costa Rican authorities are increasingly worried about the criminal activities of former Colombian guerrillas operating in Costa Rica and, as a result, have stepped up efforts to extradite/deport them. On December 21, FARC member Hector Orlando Martinez Quinto was delivered to [...]	2007-01-12 22:43:00	Embassy San Jose	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER PINR PREF PHUM SNAR CS XK

07SANSALVADOR1006	EL SALVADOR UPDATE ON REGIONAL SECURITY PLAN [...] (C) SUMMARY. On May 21 emboffs met with Acting Minister of Public Security and Justice Astor Escalante to review progress on the GOES Regional Security plan raised in reftel. Escalante assured emboffs that the GOES team is working on the project to more fully develop the plan, but that the [...]	2007-05-24 14:44:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KCRM KHLS ES GT HO MX
07SANSALVADOR1070	EL SALVADOR: DAS COULTER VISIT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Political Military Bureau's Deputy Assistant Secretary Michael Coulter visited El Salvador May 7-8 to hold bilateral discussions with the Ministries of Defense and Foreign Affairs. He also made a speech to the Salvadoran Armed Forces' equivalent to the War College, had dinn [...]	2007-05-31 20:48:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MASS MOPS PREL PGOV PTER ES
07SANSALVADOR1071	EL SALVADOR ON VENEZUELA/IRAN RELATIONSHIP [...] (C) On May 31, poloff raised reftel C points with MFA Multilateral Affairs Chief Mario Rivera. (Note: The GOES has repeatedly raised with Post their misgivings about the growing Iran-Venezuela relationship, as well as potential Iran-Nicaragua ties; see reftels A and B. End note.) Rivera s [...]	2007-05-31 20:48:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PHUM MASS ECON PTER VE IR ES
07SANSALVADOR1248	EL SALVADOR: SALGADO'S EXPULSION FROM THE PCN AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Following his expulsion from the National Conciliation Party (PCN),populist San Miguel Mayor Will Salgado is considering whether he will seek to rejoin the Christian Democratic Party (PDC) under whose banner he first sought office, or instead move to the relatively new splinter [...]	2007-06-29 17:21:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	ES PGOV PREL
07SANSALVADOR1249	SALVADORANS WILL GO TO THE POLLS TWICE IN 2009 [...] (U) The Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) announced June 15 that the 2009 elections will be held on two separate dates, with Salvadorans going to the polls first on January 18, 2009 for municipal/legislative elections and then again on March 15, 2009 to elect the next president. By TSE estima [...]	2007-06-29 17:21:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ES
07SANSALVADOR1258	YOUR VISIT TO EL SALVADOR [...] (SBU) I,m delighted that you,ll be visiting El Salvador. Your presence here will underline the importance of El Salvador,s contribution to coalition efforts in Iraq, and offer a boost to our efforts to address the nation,s most pressing problem: a public security crisis that has spiraled out [...]	2007-06-29 22:21:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR OVIP ES
07SANSALVADOR1264	EL SALVADOR: NEW HUMAN RIGHTS OMBUDSMAN REPLACES [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Political Commission of the Legislative Assembly voted June 27 to tap Oscar Humberto Luna as the country's new Human Rights Ombudsman (PDDH),replacing two-term incumbent Beatrice Carrillo. Luna's selection marked a rare show of cooperation across the aisles in a Legislativ [...]	2007-07-02 17:38:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	ES PGOV PHUM PREL
07SANSALVADOR1286	EL SALVADOR: POLICE CAPTURE JULY 5 POLICE ASSASSIN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Jose Mario Belloso Castillo, the sniper identified in press photographs as the assassin of riot police (PNC/UMO) during July 5, 2006 disturbances at the National University (UES),was apprehended by police early July 2 after an all-night dragnet that led through the city's sto [...]	2007-07-03 19:23:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	ES PGOV PREL PTER
07SANSALVADOR1287	SALVADORAN READOUT OF BELIZE SICA SUMMIT [...] (SBU) Meeting on Belize's San Pedro Island, leaders of member states of the Central American Integration System (SICA) discussed and approved a GOES proposal to enhance cooperation and coordination among the Central American countries regarding regional security and crime. The proposal was d [...]	2007-07-03 22:30:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC EFIN PGOV PINR PINS PREL PTER SNAR KCRM
07SANSALVADOR1375	EL SALVADOR: CONCURRENCE WITH 1206 FUNDING [...] (C) I am writing in support of the following three 1206 funding proposals that relate to El Salvador. The three proposals for 1206 funding include: 2. (C) Four High Speed Interceptor Patrol Craft: Providing four high speed Interceptor Patrol Craft (along with trailer and vehicle to move [...]	2007-07-13 22:23:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MASS MCAP MOPS PREL PTER PINS ES
07SANSALVADOR1458	SALVADORAN RESPONSE TO UIGHUR RESETTLEMENT REQUEST [...] No summary [...]	2007-07-30 22:55:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PTER ES
07SANSALVADOR1459	VEHICLES FOR REVISITING EXTRADITION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Embassy has been advised that there are currently two potential cases to test the Salvadoran judiciary's willingness to extradite Salvadoran nationals to the US. The simplest of these concerns a dual national convicted of child sexual assault who fled the US prior to sentencing. [...]	2007-07-31 16:03:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KJUS KHLS KCRM ES
07SANSALVADOR1526	EL SALVADOR: DEMARCHE ON ADOPTION OF NUCLEAR [...] (U) Poloffs raised reftel A points during a July 23 meeting with Mario Rivera, Director of Multilateral Affairs for the Salvadoran Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and Felix Ulloa, MFA advisor. Rivera pointed out that El Salvador was a signatory to twelve of the thirteen counter-terrorism co [...]	2007-08-08 23:09:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER KNNP MCAP PINR PINS PARM PREL ES
07SANSALVADOR1542	EL SALVADOR: POSITION ON UNSC IRAN RESOLUTIONS [...] (U) Poloff held follow-up discussions on August 9 with Mario Rivera, Director of Multilateral Affairs for the Salvadoran Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) regarding reftel demarche. Rivera's response was unchanged from initial meeting on the topic held July 23 with Rivera and Felix Ulloa, MFA [...]	2007-08-10 17:00:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PARM IR ES
07SANSALVADOR1555	ACTION REQUEST: SAN SALVADOR ASSESSMENT OF CENTRAL [...] (U) Introduction: There are numerous policy actions and USG-funded assistance that the government of El Salvador (GOES) could effectively use as part of a comprehensive regional security strategy for Central America. The proposed GOES policy actions discussed below, some of which could prove [...]	2007-08-10 23:41:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	ES PINS PREL PTER
07SANSALVADOR172	ICITAP PRISON EVALUATION: NO-COST METHODS TO [...] (U) SUMMARY: From January 8 to 12, 2006, Mike Cooksey from ICITAP visited El Salvador to evaluate the Salvadoran penal system. Based upon his visit, he made the following recommendations: (1) eliminate packages for gang members; (2) require prisoners to work; (3) isolate gang leaders; (4) i [...]	2007-01-31 21:08:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV SNAR KCRM KJUS ES
07SANSALVADOR1783	SAN MIGUEL POLICE CORRUPTION PROBE CASTS WIDER NET [...] (C) Summary: The ongoing investigation into police corruption in San Miguel has so far resulted in the arrest of a total of eight National Civilian Police (PNC) officers, as well as indictments ranging from murder to obstruction of justice to dereliction of duty. While the cases point to ser [...]	2007-09-06 16:37:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KCRM PHUM ES
07SANSALVADOR179	EL SALVADOR: EXTENSION OF TPS FOR EL SALVADOR [...] (C) Temporary Protected Status should be extended again for the nearly 250,000 Salvadoran beneficiaries living and working in the United States. El Salvador's ongoing reconstruction from two devastating earthquakes in 2001 is incomplete, and a series of moderate local earthquakes during lat [...]	2007-02-01 20:02:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ES HO NU PGOV PHUM PREF PREL SMIG
07SANSALVADOR1906	GOES CONCERNED ROMERO CASE AT IACHR WOULD [...] (C) Summary: Contacts both within and outside the GOES have expressed concern that the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) is hearing a case that involves a complaint related to El Salvador,s civil war. Thus, the case falls under the reservation with which El Salvador joined the [...]	2007-09-21 18:10:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ES
07SANSALVADOR1939	YOUR VISIT TO EL SALVADOR [...] (SBU) I'm delighted that you'll be visiting El Salvador. Your presence here will underline the importance of El Salvador's contribution to coalition efforts in Iraq, and offer a boost to our efforts to address the nation's most pressing problem: a public security crisis that has spiraled out [...]	2007-09-26 22:10:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR OVIP ES
07SANSALVADOR1943	POTENTIAL THIRD FORCE IN THE SALVADORAN ELECTORAL [...] (U) Former ARENA party Economy Minister Arturo Zablah is heading up a center-left alliance which may serve as a launching pad for a run at El Salvador's presidency in 2009. Following nearly a year of meetings and alliance building with politicians, academics and civil society representatives, [...]	2007-09-27 22:22:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ES
07SANSALVADOR1953	YOUR VISIT TO EL SALVADOR [...] (SBU) I'm delighted that you'll be visiting El Salvador. Your presence here will underline the importance of El Salvador's contribution to coalition efforts in Iraq, and offer a boost to our efforts to address the nation's most pressing problem: a public security crisis that has spiraled out [...]	2007-09-28 21:03:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR OVIP ES
07SANSALVADOR2000	MINISTER OF PUBLIC SECURITY BECOMES THIRD DECLARED [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-04 22:47:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ES
07SANSALVADOR210	EL SALVADOR: KEEN TO RUN FOR HRC SEAT [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-07 20:31:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL ES UNHRC
07SANSALVADOR2169	(C) ARTURO ZABLAH LIKELY TO RUN; WAITING TO [...] (C) Summary: Arturo Zablah told us October 24 he would know by the end of the month which parties (FDR, PDC, and CD) would support his presidential campaign in coalition, at which point he would make a decision and announce his candidacy. At this point, Zablah believes only CD's support is st [...]	2007-10-26 21:09:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ES
07SANSALVADOR2206	POPULIST SAN MIGUEL MAYOR LOOKS TO LARGER [...] (U) Summary: Will Salgado, the populist mayor of the city of San Miguel, plays a dominant role in the regional politics of eastern El Salvador. A political maverick known for his brash public persona, frequent party changes, and allegations of involvement in extrajudicial vigilante groups, [...]	2007-11-01 16:44:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	ES PGOV PREL
07SANSALVADOR2249	EL SALVADOR: SURVEY OF IRAQ DEPLOYMENT REQUIREMENTS [...] (C) As requested reftel, we provide the following assessment of the political and legal challenges El Salvador would face in order to deploy troops to Iraq in 2009 without the umbrella of a United Nations (UN) Chapter VII mandate. 2. (C) The government of El Salvador (GOES) has maintained a [...]	2007-11-07 18:14:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	ES MARR MOPS PREL
07SANSALVADOR2255	FMLN SEEKS TO IMPROVE RELATIONS WITH U.S., [...] (C) Summary: Moderate FMLN Deputy Hugo Martinez told us November 1 that FMLN leadership had decided improving relations with the U.S. was important and that he had been tapped to coordinate U.S.-FMLN relations. He commented on the difficulties presented by the FMLN's presidential ticket, but [...]	2007-11-08 17:09:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	ES PGOV PREL
07SANSALVADOR2269	FMLN APPROVES FUNES-SANCHEZ CEREN PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) Summary: The FMLN approved unanimously November 11 its presidential ticket of journalist Mauricio Funes and Salvador Sanchez Ceren, head of the FMLN's bloc in the National Assembly. As expected, Sanchez Ceren's acceptance speech played to the FMLN's core supporters, while Funes' message w [...]	2007-11-13 19:26:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ES
07SANSALVADOR2301	DEMARCHE ON DEMOCRACY IN VENEZUELA DELIVERED TO EL [...] (C) Summary: MFA Director General for Political Affairs Guillermo Melendez told us November 15 that the GOES shared our concerns about anti-democratic reforms in Venezuela and would continue to raise the issue publicly. End Summary. 2. (C) On November 13, PolCouns delivered reftel demarche [...]	2007-11-20 21:32:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL VE EU WHA PHUM ES
07SANSALVADOR2341	WHA/CEN OFFICE DIRECTOR VISIT TO EL SALVADOR [...] (U) Summary: WHA/CEN Office Director John Feeley and El Salvador Desk Officer Hillary Thompson visited San Salvador November 15-16. Feeley explained to Salvadoran interlocutors the way ahead on the Central American component of the Merida Initiative and stressed the key role that SICA must pl [...]	2007-12-04 16:33:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	ES PREL PGOV
07SANSALVADOR2358	EL SALVADOR: CAUTIOUS APPROACH TO IRAN/NUCLEAR [...] (C) Summary: MFA officials told us December 5 they would study the NIE summary and our non-paper, but that El Salvador's basic approach to the Iran/nuclear issue would continue to be cautious. Our interlocutors were especially receptive to the argument that Iran must comply with existing UNSC [...]	2007-12-06 19:50:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP MNUC PARM IR ES
07SANSALVADOR2401	YOUR VISIT TO EL SALVADOR [...] (SBU) I'm delighted that you'll be visiting El Salvador. Your visit comes in a string of recent high-level visits, and your presence here will underline the importance of El SalvadorQs contribution to coalition efforts in Iraq. Also, it will offer a boost to our efforts to address the nationQ [...]	2007-12-13 20:05:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR OVIP ES
07SANSALVADOR2403	GOES WELCOMES MNF-I UNSCR DRAFT; HOPES FOR QUICK [...] (C) PolCouns delivered ref (A) demarche to Nelson Amaya, MFA Deputy Director General for Foreign Policy. Amaya, accompanied by Gustavo Argueta, MFA Multilateral Affairs Officer, and Milton Magana, MFA Director for Asia, Africa, and Oceania, welcomed the draft resolution and said MFA would be [...]	2007-12-13 22:23:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	ES IZ MARR PARM PREL UNSC
07SANSALVADOR2406	FUNES OFFERS PRAGMATIC, LEFT-OF-CENTER APPROACH [...] (C) Summary: Mauricio Funes, FMLN Presidential Candidate, asserted to the Ambassador that he wanted to maintain close U.S.-Salvadoran ties, though characterized by mutual respect. He rejected foreign (Venezuelan) financing of his campaign and said he expected to find significant support from [...]	2007-12-14 21:49:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ES VE
07SANSALVADOR2423	ZABLAH BOWS OUT OF SALVADORAN PRESIDENTIAL RACE [...] (U) Summary: On Saturday, Arturo Zablah ended his pre-candidacy for the Salvadoran Presidency. The centrist politician had hoped, through his Alliance for Change platform, to mount a strong third-party challenge to ARENA and the FMLN, but his candidacy was unable to pick up sufficient momentu [...]	2007-12-18 21:51:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ES
07SANSALVADOR2437	GOES WELCOMES DEMARCHE ON CHARGES AGAINST [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-21 22:06:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL CJAN ASEC KJUS VE AR AA ES
07SANSALVADOR273	MEETING OF ATTORNEY GENERALS OF U.S., EL SALVADOR, [...] (C) Summary. During Attorney General Gonzales' visit to El Salvador on February 5, Salvadoran AG Felix Safie hosted a private dinner for Attorney General Gonzales and their counterparts from Honduras and Guatemala, Leonidas Bautista and Juan Luis Florido. The topic of the dinner was regiona [...]	2007-02-16 19:03:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KCRM KHLS ES GT HO
07SANSALVADOR274	EL SALVADOR WILL RUN FOR HRC [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-16 19:03:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL ES UNHRC
07SANSALVADOR276	EL SALVADOR ON PALESTINIAN NATIONAL UNITY [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-16 19:04:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	KISL KPAL KWBG PREL IS XX ES
07SANSALVADOR299	EL SALVADOR: SACA AT THE HALFWAY MARK [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Elias Antonio "Tony" Saca remains one of his country's most popular political figures, and has continued to consolidate the nation's democratic institutions while making significant progress in facilitating sustainable economic growth. His administration remains one of [...]	2007-02-20 16:40:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	ES PGOV PREL
07SANSALVADOR321	LETTER FROM PRESIDENT SACA TO PRESIDENT BUSH [...] (C) On February 17, Embassy received a cover letter (dated February 10) from President Saca to President Bush, thanking the President for the opportunity to meet with him in Washington to discuss issues "relating to the security and stability of both our countries." The letter was accompan [...]	2007-02-22 17:08:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ES KHLS PINR PGOV OVIP KCRM
07SANSALVADOR360	EL SALVADOR: LEADERS FOR CHANGE, THIRD-PARTY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Populist San Miguel Mayor Wil Salgado (reftel),worried that his National Conciliation Party (PCN) will cut a deal with the ruling ARENA party not to run a presidential candidate in 2009, is exploring other options, including an alliance with moderate FMLN and former FMLN mayor [...]	2007-02-27 22:40:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ES KCOR PHUM PINR
07SANSALVADOR381	AMBASSADOR GLAZER MEETING WITH MINISTER OF ECONOMY [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-01 19:03:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV ENRG EPET PGOV ES
07SANSALVADOR394	EL SALVADOR AGREES TO SOFA [...] (SBU) The Saca administration communicated to the Embassy late February 28 that the GOES would agree to the proposed Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) text without further changes. On March 1, the administration presented the Agreement in the Legislative Assembly, where it passed by a vote o [...]	2007-03-01 22:29:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	KTIA MARR MASS MOPS PGOV PREL ES
07SANSALVADOR402	EL SALVADOR: PARLACEN MURDERS CONTINUE TO RESONATE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In the wake of the February 19 murders of three Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) Central American Parliament (PARLACEN) deputies, and the subsequent apparent extrajudicial executions of four policemen implicated in the killings (per reftels),relations remain strained bet [...]	2007-03-02 22:39:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	ES PGOV PREL
07SANSALVADOR41	THE CENTRAL AMERICAN INTEGRATION SYSTEM [...] (C) SUMMARY. Although established in 1992, the Central American Integration System (SICA) remains an incipient attempt by the countries of Central America to achieve regional integration and cooperation. The organization includes the member nations of Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guate [...]	2007-01-10 19:07:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KCRM XK ES ETRD EU
07SANSALVADOR49	EL SALVADOR'S PROPOSED CHANGES FOR SOFA [...] (C) Presidential Legal Adviser Luis Mario Rodriguez sent the Embassy a formal request for proposed changes to the Status of Forces Agreement (ref A) on January 11, 2006. The proposed changes are as follows: --Suggests (though does formally propose) striking the paragraph that reads, "The [...]	2007-01-11 21:04:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	KTIA MARR MASS MOPS PGOV PREL ES
07SANSALVADOR588	INTERVIEW WITH IRANIAN AMBASSADOR TO MEXICO AND [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: On March 11, leading El Salvador daily La Prensa Grafica published an interview in its Sunday magazine with Mohammed Roohi Sefat, Iranian Ambassador to Mexico (also accredited to Nicaragua),about his opinions of the Salvadoran Armed Forces presence in Iraq. The int [...]	2007-03-29 21:26:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR ES IZ MX NU VE IR KNNP
07SANSALVADOR765	EARLY SPECULATION OVER 2009 FMLN PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY and Comment: Notwithstanding ongoing media speculation regarding possible FMLN presidential candidates for the 2009 elections, moderate FMLN Legislative Assembly Deputy Hugo Martinez recently outlined to poloff that his party has settled on television commentator Mauricio Funes as [...]	2007-04-23 17:13:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	ES PGOV PREL
07SANSALVADOR814	EL SALVADOR HOSTS THIRD ANNUAL ANTI-GANG CONFERENCE [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Government of El Salvador hosted the Third Annual Anti-Gang Conference at the Decameron Resort in Sonsonate, El Salvador from April 23-27. Nearly 200 people were in attendance including law enforcement and government representatives from the U.S., El Salvador, Honduras, G [...]	2007-04-27 22:46:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KCRM KHLS ES GT HO MX
07SANSALVADOR822	EL SALVADOR TO STAY IN IRAQ [...] (C) In recent months post has raised points similar to those contained in reftel A, encouraging the GOES to maintain its presence in Iraq with at least the continued deployment of the current composition of the Cuscatlan Battalion. Though the negotiations with the Legislative Assembly in late [...]	2007-04-30 22:19:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MASS MOPS PREL PTER IZ ES
07SANSALVADOR837	EL SALVADOR'S REGIONAL SECURITY PLAN [...] (C) On April 30, Polcouns met with Director of the National Civil Police (PCN) Rodrigo Avila to review progress on El Salvador's draft Regional Security Strategy. Avila, who is leading the GOES efforts to draft this strategy, reported that the GOES hosted a technical meeting on April 23 as a [...]	2007-05-03 20:18:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KCRM KHLS ES GT HO MX
07SANSALVADOR904	EL SALVADOR WILL VOTE FOR SLOVENIA AND BOSNIA [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-11 20:42:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UNHRC ES
07SANSALVADOR905	ECUADORIAN AMBASSADOR TO EL SALVADOR'S COMMENTS ON [...] (C) After encountering each other at two recent social events, the newly arrived Ecuadorian Ambassador to El Salvador Galo Larenas Serrano asked to meet privately with the Ambassador for a courtesy call. During the visit Dr. Larenas told the Ambassador that had asked for the meeting because [...]	2007-05-11 20:52:00	Embassy San Salvador	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ES
07SANTIAGO1164	CHILEAN LEADERSHIP TO DEPARTING AMBASSADOR: [...] (C) President Bachelet, FM Foxley and Interior Minister Velasco, in farewell meetings with the Ambassador, expressed enthusiasm about our bilateral partnership on the ""themes of the future,"" like science, technology, innovation, energy and education. Bachelet acknowledged that Chile is doing mor [...]	2007-07-24 13:46:00	Embassy Santiago	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD PGOV PREL CI
07SANTIAGO1244	AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL CALLS: A POTPOURRI OF [...] (C) Chilean leaders, in government and out, acknowledge that Chile must do more to counter the threat posed by Chavez and look to continued close engagement with the USG, as Chile quietly promotes its model of development. Internal politics - and the 2009 race to succeed President Bachelet - also [...]	2007-08-01 21:34:00	Embassy Santiago	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD PGOV PREL CI
07SANTIAGO1266	THE ONCE AND FUTURE CHILE: OBSERVATIONS BY [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-03 15:34:00	Embassy Santiago	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD PGOV PINR PREL CI
07SANTIAGO131	CHILEANS PERCEIVE THEIR BEST ALLY AS - DRUM ROLL [...] (U) In a telephone poll taken by the influential "La Tercera" newspaper January 17-18, 2007, the U.S. was named by 38% percent of contestants as Chile's "principal ally," far and away ahead of Brazil (14%),Chile's traditionally perceived regional best friend. Ninety-five percent described U. [...]	2007-01-23 12:05:00	Embassy Santiago	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL CI
07SANTIAGO143	DEPUSTR VERONEAU TELLS FONMIN FOXLEY MORE NEEDED [...] (C) After first discussing common interests in Doha and regional FTAs, Deputy USTR Veroneau told FonMin Foxley January 24 that while just concluded U.S.-Chile Trade Commission talks had overall been very good, the issue of Chile's performance on IPR remained problematic. Placing Chile on the [...]	2007-01-25 12:33:00	Embassy Santiago	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD PGOV CI
07SANTIAGO1564	IRAN AND IAEA: CHILE TO REMAIN ACTIVE AND [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-25 18:02:00	Embassy Santiago	CONFIDENTIAL	MNUC PARM KNNP EUN IR CI IAEA
07SANTIAGO1574	CHARGE PREVIEWS SECDEF VISIT WITH MINISTER OF [...] (C) Defense Minister Goni expects to review the "excellent state of bilateral U.S.-Chile mil-mil relations" and hear the USG perspective on international affairs during next week's visit by the Secretary of Defense. MoD will also carefully review the USG counter-proposal on updating the 1996 [...]	2007-09-27 15:49:00	Embassy Santiago	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL CI
07SANTIAGO1604	IT'S A "VISION THING": CONCERTACION NEEDS A LITTLE [...] (C) The president of one of the four parties making up the Concertacion, Chile's governing center-left coalition, is confident Concertacion can maintain its nearly twenty year hold on power, despite discontent over how the Bachelet administration has handled issues such as the Transantiago mas [...]	2007-10-01 21:33:00	Embassy Santiago	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV CI
07SANTIAGO1828	DEMARCHE ON DEMOCRACY IN VENEZUELA - CHILE [...] (C) E/Pol Counselor November 13 delivered ref A demarche to Jamie Bascunan, the MFA's desk officer for Venezuela, Colombia, and Ecuador, stressing that the proposed Venezulan referendum ran contrary to Caracas's obligations under the Inter-American Democratic Charter. As such, it is incumbent [...]	2007-11-14 20:56:00	Embassy Santiago	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM VE EU CI WHA
07SANTIAGO228	STILL DEAD: AUGUSTO PINOCHET, TWO MONTHS AFTER [...] (C) The December 2006 death of Augusto Pinochet - seemingly a watershed moment in Chile's recent history - has faded remarkably quickly from public discourse. Feverish media commentary at the time - fed by juxtaposed images of still loyal supporters weeping while opponents popped champagne bottles [...]	2007-02-09 14:44:00	Embassy Santiago	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR SOCI CI
07SANTIAGO238	CHILE: SUPPORT FOR ONE-YEAR MINUSTAH MANDATE [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-12 20:03:00	Embassy Santiago	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID EFIN HA PGOV PREL UN CI
07SANTIAGO425	GOC'S AMBASSADOR TO VENEZUELA OPENS MOUTH, INSERTS FOOT PRESIDENT BACHELET UNHAPPY HE REVEALS SHE FAVORED CARACAS IN UNSC VOTE [...] (C) Chile's Ambassador to Venezuela, Claudio Huepe, in a March 12 Caracas television interview, said President Bachelet had privately told him she had favored voting for Venezuela in last year's UNSC vote. But a ""confluence of circumstances"" barred such a vote, leading her to abstain. Huepe cla [...]	2007-03-14 19:25:00	Embassy Santiago	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL VE CI
07SANTIAGO443	GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT NUCLEAR TERRORISM: [...] (U) Ambassador Kelly, joined by Yuriy Filatov, his Russian counterpart, delivered reftel demarche on March 16, to Ambassador Luis Winter, Director of the MFA's Office for Special Projects (DIPESP). Also present were Rodrigo Hume of DIPESP, E/POL Counselor, and the Russian embassy's political [...]	2007-03-16 20:23:00	Embassy Santiago	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP MCAP PARM PINR PINS PREL PTER CI
07SANTIAGO446	FUJIMORI EXTRADITION RULING MAY BE IMMINENT, [...] (C) Summary: At a dinner with FM Alejandro Foxley March on 16, Constitutional Tribunal President Jose Luis Cea told the Ambassador an initial ruling on Peru's extradition of former President Alberto Fujimori could come within the next two weeks. Despite efforts by Foxley to draw Cea out on the r [...]	2007-03-16 20:40:00	Embassy Santiago	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KJUS PHUM PE CI
07SANTIAGO447	MY BAD: CHILE'S AMBASSADOR TO VENEZUELA OFFERS [...] (U) Chile's ambassador to Venezuela, Claudio Huepe, returned to Santiago early the morning of March 15 and, after a 11:00 a.m. meeting with Foreign Minister Foxley, offered his "irrevocable resignation." President Bachelet accepted it. Huepe's exit was expected, coming only days after his rem [...]	2007-03-16 20:59:00	Embassy Santiago	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL VE CI
07SANTIAGO452	AMBASSADOR ASKS CHILE TO TUNE IN ON U.S. HDTV, [...] (U) On March 19, the Ambassador called on Minister Ricardo Lagos Weber, the presidential spokesman and member of the Bachelet administration's small political policy-making group, to advocate on behalf of ATSC, the U.S.-developed version of High Definition TV (HDTV). The Ambasssador was accom [...]	2007-03-19 21:24:00	Embassy Santiago	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV ETRD PGOV PREL
07SANTIAGO46	CHILEANS TAKE UMBRAGE AFTER LATEST CHAVEZ DIATRIBE [...] (C) Hugo Chavez' January 8 attack on OAS SecGen Insulza, who is Chilean, was front page news in leading Chilean newspapers January 9. FonMin Foxley and various political leaders all issued condemnations of Chavez' beyond-the-pale criticisms of Insulza, although Foxley added that the affair wo [...]	2007-01-09 20:07:00	Embassy Santiago	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL VE CI
07SANTIAGO473	DEMARCHE TO CHILE RE BUILDING INTERNATIONAL [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-22 20:32:00	Embassy Santiago	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL ZI CI
07SANTIAGO476	ON THE SAME PAGE: INFLUENTIAL CHILEANS SEEKING [...] (C) Foreign Minister Foxley told the Ambassador Chile wants to increase cooperation with the USG on counter-terrorism and will advocate for Peru and Colombia as they negotiate FTA's with the U.S. A Foxley confidante expanded on the theme, arguing that Chile, feeling itself somewhat isolated i [...]	2007-03-23 15:49:00	Embassy Santiago	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD PGOV PREL PTER CI
07SANTIAGO576	CHILEAN AMBASSADOR PREVIEWS FM FOXLEY'S CALL ON SECRETARY [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-09 19:12:00	Embassy Santiago	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL CI
07SANTIAGO618	NEW CHILEAN DEFENSE MINISTER TAKES THE HELM [...] (C) New Minister of Defense Goni told the Ambassador his initial focus would be on strengthening Chile's regional military-to-military ties, including with Mexico and Chile's more immediate neighbors. Exchange and training programs, along with enhanced cooperation in joint peacekeeeping activiti [...]	2007-04-16 23:02:00	Embassy Santiago	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL CI
07SANTIAGO698	FONMIN FOXLEY TO A/S SHANNON: CHILE TAKES THE [...] (C) Foreign Minister Foxley told visiting A/S Shannon April 26 that Chavez must not be underestimated as he pursues an aggressive agenda. President Bachelet had met opposition leaders while in Venezuela, who had urged her to keep asserting Chilean principles and values but to steer clear of t [...]	2007-04-30 12:34:00	Embassy Santiago	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL CI
07SANTIAGO768	CHILE LIKELY TO SUPPORT BOSNIA (IF IT RUNS) AND [...] (C) It is highly likely that Chile would support Slovenia and Bosnia for the United Nations Human Right Council (UNHRC),if Bosnia runs. Foreign Ministry Deputy Director for Human Rights Jorge Tagle told Poloff May 10 that Chile currently plans to support the two declared candidates, Solvenia [...]	2007-05-10 21:14:00	Embassy Santiago	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UNHRC CI
07SANTIAGO790	NEWLY-APPOINTED UN SPECIAL ENVOY ON CLIMATE CHANGE [...] (C) Ricardo Lagos, one of three newly-appointed UN Special Representatives on Climate Change, told visiting OES A/S Claudia McMurray May 11 that it would be imperative for all nations -- including developing ones -- to agree on an agenda for addressing climate change. But it would also be imp [...]	2007-05-15 16:05:00	Embassy Santiago	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG IO PINR PREL SENV UNGA
07SANTIAGO827	CHILE ON THE CONTINENT: LOTS OF COMMON INTERESTS [...] (C) On May 15 E/Pol Counselor called on Ambassador Juan Pablo Lira, head of the MFA's Division for South America, to deliver demarche points on Venezuela-Iran relations (reftel),a conversation which then turned to Chile's relations with its fellow South Americans. Chile, Lira said, "often fee [...]	2007-05-18 16:31:00	Embassy Santiago	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL CI
07SANTIAGO89	RECONSIDERING NUCLEAR ENERGY IN CHILE [...] (C) Summary: Chile's increasing reliance on foreign regarding the viability of nuclear power and the long term prospects for the construction of a nuclear power plant (NPP). End summary. 2. (C) President Michelle Bachelet has publicly and privately maintained that Chile will ""not go nuclear" [...]	2007-01-17 20:06:00	Embassy Santiago	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG KNNP PARM UNSC CI
07SANTODOMINGO100	DOMINICAN POLITICS III #14: POLITICAL PRIMARY [...] This is the fourteenth cable in our series on Dominican politics in the third year of the administration of President Leonel Fernandez. THE DOMINICAN POLITICAL PRIMARY SEASON AND PROSPECTS - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - (SBU) Primaries of the three major Dominican poli [...]	2007-01-17 18:40:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	DR PGOV
07SANTODOMINGO1078	DOMINICAN POLITICS III #25: FERNANDEZ WINS [...] (U) This is the 25th cable in our series on Dominican politics in the third year of the administration of President Leonel Fernandez. FERNANDEZ WINS PRIMARY; FACES UNITY CHALLENGE --------------------------------------------- (U) On May 6, President Leonel Fernandez won the presidential p [...]	2007-05-07 18:52:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL DR
07SANTODOMINGO1130	HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC UNDECIDED [...] (SBU) Charge delivered reftel demarche regarding the Human Rights Council (HRC) to Acting Foreign Minister Alejandra Liriano, emphasizing (i) our view that for UN Member States should vote for countries with a strong human rights record, such as Slovenia, and not vote for those that do not resp [...]	2007-05-11 20:45:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UNHRC DR
07SANTODOMINGO1177	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - HIGH HURDLES FOR 7TH IMF [...] (SBU) The Dominican government needs obtain passage of two pending pieces of legislation in order for the current IMF review to go forward, IMF Resident Representative Erik Offerdal told economic officer on May 17. One is a law that requires recapitalization of the Central Bank and the other [...]	2007-05-17 17:58:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN DR
07SANTODOMINGO1205	CUBA COUNTRY REVIEW FOR LIBERTAD ACT: DOMINICAN [...] (C) Summary. In response to ref A, Embassy finds here has been no marked change in the Dominican Republic's situation with regard to Cuba since our last report (ref B). The Dominican Republic has very few investments in Cuba. No bilateral trade agreement exists between the Dominican Republi [...]	2007-05-22 12:40:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ETTC PREL DR CU
07SANTODOMINGO1207	IRAN-VENEZUELA TIES: MEASURED DOMINICAN RESPONSE [...] (SBU) POLOFF delivered reftel demarche to Dominican Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Alejandra Liriano, emphasizing the talking points on nuclear ties, weapons technology cooperation, and terrorism concerns. 2. (C) In her reply, Liriano commented that Venezuela has close bilateral relatio [...]	2007-05-22 19:34:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MARR VE IR DR
07SANTODOMINGO1246	DOMINICAN SUPREME COURT JUSTICES FREE NARCO [...] (C) Summary. In yet another bizarre turn in the Juan Flete - Lourdes Machuca extradition saga (reftel),the five justices of the Penal Chamber of the Dominican Supreme Court have rejected the use of confidential witnesses in establishing probable cause in extradition proceedings - freeing bot [...]	2007-05-25 15:08:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	CJAN CVIS KCRM SNAR PGOV DR
07SANTODOMINGO128	DOMINICAN COMMERCE MINISTRY INTERVENES IN [...] (SBU) On January 18 the Dominican Ministry of Industry and Commerce (SEIC) published Resolution 23, not yet available on its website, which freezes current fuel transportation arrangements, further defines relevant terms, and creates a regime of stiff sanctions for failure to observe its inst [...]	2007-01-19 20:07:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PREL DR ETRD ENRG
07SANTODOMINGO13	DOMINICANS EMBARRASSED, ANGRY ABOUT FAILURE TO [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-03 20:56:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	DR PHUM OAS KTIA HA
07SANTODOMINGO1623	ACTIONS OF DOMINICAN CONSUL-GENERAL IN MIAMI [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para. 6. 2. (C) Embassy Santo Domingo is concerned about the apparent inappropriate behavior of Dominican Consul-General Manuel Almanzar Castillo at a June 27 public screening of the film "Sugar Babies," a production which is critical of the working [...]	2007-07-06 20:36:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM ELAB DR
07SANTODOMINGO164	DOMINICAN COMMERCE MINISTER DISMISSES USG [...] (SBU) On January 23 the Dominican commerce minister insisted to the Ambassador that he has full justification to alter the terms of contracts between petroleum companies and local fuel haulers. He dismissed any suggestion that his two recent resolutions contravened either the spirit or the [...]	2007-01-24 16:48:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	BEXP ELAB ENRG ETRD DR
07SANTODOMINGO1691	DOMINICAN POLITICS III #30: PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN [...] (U) This is the 30th cable in our series on Dominican politics in the third year of the administration of President Leonel Fernandez. (SBU) The presidential campaigns of incumbent Leonel Fernandez, of the Dominican Liberation Party (PLD),and Miguel Vargas Maldonado, of the Dominican Revolut [...]	2007-07-12 20:39:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON DR
07SANTODOMINGO1710	DOMINICAN POLITICS III #31: ESTRELLA LEAVES PRSC, [...] (U) This is the 31st cable in our series on Dominican politics in the 3rd year of the administration of President Leonel Fernandez. ESTRELLA LEAVES PRSC, PARTY DOESN'T CARE - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 2. (SBU) Eduardo Estrella, 2004 presidential candidate for the third-ranked [...]	2007-07-17 17:29:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KCOR DR
07SANTODOMINGO1744	SENATE RESOLUTION ON HAITIAN ISSUES [...] (SBU) On July 11, the Dominican Senate unanimously passed a resolution on Haitian issues. The resolution comes on the heels of increased civil society criticism of the working conditions of (mostly Haitian and Haitian-Dominican) sugarcane cutters in the Dominican Republic (Ref A). Responding [...]	2007-07-20 12:16:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ECON ELAB HA DR
07SANTODOMINGO1748	ENERGY SECTOR POWER PLAY THREATENS INVESTMENT [...] (C) Summary: The Dominican corporation of state electricity enterprises (CDEEE) is currently engaged in a political power play to recapture greater control of the electricity sector. CDEEE, which is the most powerful player in a fractured energy bureaucracy, has focused on both increasing the [...]	2007-07-20 13:28:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	ENIV ENRG DR
07SANTODOMINGO1752	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC TO OFFER TOURISM EXCURSIONS FOR [...] (C) The Minister of Finance, Mr. Vicente Bengoa, told embassy officers on July 19 that the Dominican Republic intends to engage in barter trade, by offering goods and services in exchange for oil debt, in a meeting with the Venezuelan government next month. In an meeting with EXIM Bank offici [...]	2007-07-20 18:05:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG ETRD OTRA PREL VE DR
07SANTODOMINGO1781	DOMINICAN OIL INDEPENDENCE AT RISK THROUGH SALE OF [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with the Charge d'Affaires on July 24, former WHA Assistant Secretary Otto Reich and Mustafa Abu Naba'a of Sargeant Petroleum, Ltd warned that the sale of Shell Oil's 50 percent stake in the Dominican Republic's sole oil refinery (Refidomsa) threatens to create a virt [...]	2007-07-25 19:16:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ETRD VE DR
07SANTODOMINGO1782	DOMINICAN REPLY ON RESETTLEMENT OF CHINESE UIGHUR [...] (C) Political Unit Chief delivered Reftel talking points on the resettlement of Uighur detainees to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Undersecretary for Judicial Affairs Miguel Pichardo Olivier expressed concern regarding the possible security threat posed by the detainees. He also commented [...]	2007-07-25 21:22:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PTER PINR DR
07SANTODOMINGO2046	FERNANDEZ SHUFFLES CABINET: ALL ARE WELCOME UNDER [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a series of decrees issued August 17-20, President Fernandez shuffled his cabinet and other key government positions. New Ministers were named for Industry and Commerce, Environment, and Public Works and Communications, as well as new heads of the National Police and Navy. Th [...]	2007-08-30 13:28:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR SENV MARR KCRM ETRD DR

07SANTODOMINGO215	DR-CAFTA - DOMINICAN PRESIDENT'S QUANDRY ON [...] (SBU) At a January 26 meeting with the Ambassador arranged at short notice by Customs Director General Miguel Cocco, President Leonel Fernandez said that his administration had arrived at an interim agreement with the passenger transportation sector to avoid general strike of buses and "publi [...]	2007-01-31 20:19:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	ECIN ECON ETRD PGOV PREL DR ELAB
07SANTODOMINGO2152	SCENESETTER FOR THE DEPUTY SECRETARY'S MEETING [...] (SBU) The Dominican Republic has become a reliable supporter of democracy in the sometimes difficult and always strategic Caribbean. Our close relationship is exemplified by Dominican ratification of the CAFTA-DR free trade agreement, and our friendship is cemented by a history of strong econ [...]	2007-09-14 19:42:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON ETRD SNAR UNGA DR
07SANTODOMINGO2176	DOMINICANS PAUSE DISCUSSION OF GTMO MEDEVAC [...] (C) Per REFTEL, Embassy demarched Under Secretary for Consular and Migratory Affairs Rosario Graciano de los Santos on September 19 regarding the possibility of establishing an emergency medevac standby arrangement. Graciano personally supported further, coordinated discussion of this initiati [...]	2007-09-19 20:36:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PHUM PINS PREL MARR DO
07SANTODOMINGO2180	MINUSTAH RENEWAL: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC STRONGLY [...] (SBU) Economic-Political Counselor delivered Ref A talking points on renewal of the MINUSTAH peacekeeping mission to Deputy Foreign Minister Trullols. Trullols replied that, "We support you 100 percent. The better Haiti gets, the better for us." The Deputy FM explained Dominican reasoning as [...]	2007-09-20 12:49:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPKO HA DR
07SANTODOMINGO2245	DOMINICAN ORIENTATION VISIT OF WHA/CAR DIRECTOR DE [...] (SBU) Summary: On September 6 and 7, WHA/CAR Office Director Velia De Pirro traveled to the Dominican Republic for a series of orientation meetings with both Embassy staff and leading Dominican figures, including the Chief of the National Police, the President of the DEA-equivalent National D [...]	2007-10-03 18:45:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SMIG PHUM PINR KCRM SNAR HA VE DR
07SANTODOMINGO233	DOMINICAN POLITICS III #15: PRD'S VARGAS MALDONADO [...] This is the fifteenth cable in our series on Dominican politics in the third year of the administration of President Leonel Fernandez. PRD'S VARGAS MALDONADO WINS PARTY'S PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 2. (SBU) As expected, on January 28 [...]	2007-02-02 20:05:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	DR PGOV PREL
07SANTODOMINGO2365	SANTO DOMINGO POLITICAL ROUNDUP, OCTOBER 19, 2007 [...] (SBU) During the October 15-16 visit of Country Officer Christopher Ward, WHA/CAR and Post engaged Dominican contacts on Haiti, election rules, human rights, Venezuela, and other issues. Alejandra Liriano, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, said that the bilateral relationship had been st [...]	2007-10-19 13:23:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM EAID VE HA DR
07SANTODOMINGO2369	DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER DISCUSSES ARCHIPELAGIC [...] (C) Summary: On October 18, the CDA and UK Ambassador delivered a joint demarche to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) to protest the Dominican Republic's unilateral declaration as an archipelagic State claiming expansive new territorial sea rights. The U.S. and UK contested the definitio [...]	2007-10-22 18:36:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	SENV ECON EFTA ETRD PREL DR
07SANTODOMINGO2495	UN OFFICIALS CITE 'PROFOUND AND ENTRENCHED RACISM' [...] (SBU) Summary: The United Nations' Special Rapporteur on racism and Independent Expert on minority issues have concluded a week-long visit to the Dominican Republic, noting that, there is "a profound and entrenched problem of racism and discrimination against such groups as Haitians, Dominican [...]	2007-11-02 17:33:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM ELAB DR
07SANTODOMINGO2568	BREAKFAST WITH VARGAS MALDONADO [...] (U) On November 6, Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD) presidential candidate Miguel Vargas Maldonado hosted ECOPOLCOUNS and POLOFF for breakfast. Vargas was accompanied by PRD Secretary-General Orlando Jorge Mera, International Affairs Vice President Peggy Cabral de Pena, and International A [...]	2007-11-16 14:22:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON DR
07SANTODOMINGO2570	SANTO DOMINGO ECONOMIC-POLITICAL ROUNDUP, NOVEMBER [...] Leftist Summit Postponed; Chavez May Still Visit 2. New Poll Gives Fernandez 12-Point Lead in Presidential Race 3. JCE on Haitian Community's Allegations Regarding Identity Documents 4. Electricity Sector Reorganization: Administrative or Substantive Change? 5. Government Debts to Power G [...]	2007-11-16 20:20:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ECON VE DR
07SANTODOMINGO2648	POLITICS AND POPULISM DRIVE GOVERNMENT DECISION TO [...] (C) Summary. Facing growing public displeasure with the rise in international fuel prices, President Fernandez announced on November 15 that the government intends to purchase the country's sole oil refinery from Shell Oil in order to increase the country's imports of oil under the PetroCari [...]	2007-11-29 19:24:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET ECON BEXP DR
07SANTODOMINGO2692	CUBA COUNTRY REVIEW FOR LIBERTAD ACT: DOMINICAN [...] (C) Summary. In response to Ref A request, Embassy finds here has been no marked change in the Dominican Republic's situation with regard to Cuba since our last report (ref B). The Dominican Republic has very few investments in Cuba. No bilateral trade agreement exists between the Dominican [...]	2007-12-06 19:02:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ETTC PREL CU DR
07SANTODOMINGO2719	UNGA COUNTRY-SPECIFIC RESOLUTIONS: DOMINICAN [...] (U) On December 11, ECOPOLCOUNS and POLOFF delivered Ref A demarche on the "UNGA Plenary Votes on Country-Specific Resolutions" to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Ambassador Ciro Amaury Dargam, Assistant Secretary for International Organizations, replied that it was "nearly certain" that the [...]	2007-12-11 19:59:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV UNGA DR
07SANTODOMINGO2722	CESFRONT - TOWARDS MORE EFFECTIVE CONTROL OF THE [...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy MilOff and PolOff visited the border towns of Dajabon and Comendador to investigate the recent deployment of the special unit for border control - (Cuerpo Especializado Fronterizo or CESFRONT). CESFRONT was deployed at the end of September to the four official border cro [...]	2007-12-11 20:01:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV SMIG MCAP HA DR
07SANTODOMINGO2748	AMBASSADOR'S CALL ON FOREIGN MINISTER: CAFTA, [...] (U) On December 13, the Ambassador paid his introductory call on Foreign Minister Morales Troncoso. The Ambassador was joined by the DCM and POLOFF. CAFTA ----- 2. (SBU) After an exchange of personal greetings, Morales spoke about the negotiations for the Dominican Republic's Economic [...]	2007-12-14 19:42:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON ETRD SNAR HA DR
07SANTODOMINGO2758	IRAN NIE DEMARCHES DELIVERED [...] (C) ECOPOLCOUNS delivered talking points/non-papers contained reftels to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on December 17 to Deputy Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Trullols, who had just returned after two weeks out of the country. Trullols said that Iranian activities were "a matter of worry and s [...]	2007-12-19 12:32:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MNUC PARM KNPP IR DR
07SANTODOMINGO2790	AMBASSADOR FANNIN PRESENTS CREDENTIALS, MAKES [...] (U) Since arriving at Post on December 13, Ambassador Fannin has presented his credentials to President Fernandez and paid courtesy calls on all three branches of the Dominican Government, including the Attorney General, the Dean of the Diplomatic Corps, the President of the Central Elections [...]	2007-12-26 19:16:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ETRD SNAR ECON PHUM DR
07SANTODOMINGO28	DOMINICANS FIGHT CORRUPTION - MUCH BARK, LITTLE BITE, SHOOTING SNAFU WITH JUSTICE OFFICIALS [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-08 11:16:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR KCRM KJUS DR
07SANTODOMINGO301	DOMINICAN COMMERCE MINISTER EXPOSTULATES ABOUT [...] (C) Summary. On February 6 Dominican Minister of Industry and Commerce Francisco Javier Garcia delivered to the Ambassador and Embassy officers a lengthy diatribe asserting that the USG is imagining contradictions between CAFTA-DR and Hydrocarbons resolutions 148 and 23 clamping down on cont [...]	2007-02-12 11:44:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	BEXP ELAB ENRG ETRD DR
07SANTODOMINGO329	DOMINICAN POLITICS III #16: VARGAS MALDONADO [...] (U) This is the 16th cable in our series on Dominican politics in the third year of the administration of President Leonel Fernandez. VARGAS MALDONADO CAMPAIGN - POLITICAL DIRECTOR DISCUSSES PRIMARY AND UPCOMING PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION (SBU) Alfredo Pacheco, the Political Director for Domini [...]	2007-02-14 14:57:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	DR
07SANTODOMINGO347	DOMINICAN POLITICS III #17: A SKETCH OF [...] (U) This is the 17th cable in our series on political events the third year of the presidency of Leonel Fernandez. A SKETCH OF PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARIES - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - (U) The Dominican presidential election is set for May 16, 2008 -- [...]	2007-02-15 21:13:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	DR PGOV PREL
07SANTODOMINGO348	DOMINICAN POLITICS III #18: VARGAS MALDONADO [...] (U) This is the 18th cable in our series on Dominican politics in the third year of the administration of President Leonel Fernandez. (U) Summary: In a speech to the diplomatic corps, presidential candidate Miguel Vargas Maldonado said that the foreign policy of a Dominican government led b [...]	2007-02-16 13:09:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	DR PGOV PREL
07SANTODOMINGO355	U/S EDELMAN ON COUNTER-NARCOTICS COOPERATION AND [...] (C) Summary. On February 2, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Eric Edelman, DEA Chief of Operations Michael Braun, Commander of U.S. Southern Command's Joint Interagency Task Force South (JIATF-South) Rear Admiral Jeffrey Hathaway, Ambassador Hans Hertell and other U.S. civilian and militar [...]	2007-02-20 14:30:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	MASS MOPS PREL KCRM SNAR HA VE DR
07SANTODOMINGO451	DOMINICAN POLITICS III, #19: FERNANDEZ'S NATIONAL [...] (U) This is the 19th cable in our series on Dominican politics in the third year of the administration of President Leonel Fernandez. SUMMARY (U) President Leonel Fernandez used the occasion of his February 27 Independence Day speech to announce that DR-CAFTA was expected to enter into fo [...]	2007-03-02 17:04:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	DR PGOV PREL ECON
07SANTODOMINGO590	DOMINICAN POLITICS III #20: ANECDOTES FROM "THE [...] (U) This is the 20th cable in our series on Dominican politics in the third year of the administration of President Leonel Fernandez. (U) The presidential election in the Dominican Republic will not take place until May 2008; however, the Dominican Liberation Party's internal primary race is [...]	2007-03-19 18:26:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL DR
07SANTODOMINGO733	SENIOR DOMINICAN OFFICIALS IMPLICATED IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: High-level officials in the Dominican Ministries of Foreign Relations and Migration use their positions to facilitate human trafficking and alien smuggling schemes, according to media reports, DHS investigations and Embassy contacts. Those implicated include the Assistant Secreta [...]	2007-03-30 23:06:00	Embassy Santo Domingo	CONFIDENTIAL	CVIS PGOV PHUM SMIG KCOR KCRM CH DR HA HK
07SAOPAULO1001	MICROSOFT SEES GOB ATTACKS AGAINST IPR [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a December 20 meeting in Sao Paulo with Ambassador Sobel, Microsoft Brazil President Michel Levy stated that current GOB policies are antagonistic towards Intellectual Property Rights (IPR). According to Levy, the GOB through the Foreign Ministry (Itamaraty) has mounted an i [...]	2007-12-21 13:59:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD ECIN PREL
07SAOPAULO601	CONVERSATION WITH AN OLD FRIEND OF LULA [...] (C) At a June 26 lunch with poloff and econoff, businessman and lobbyist Mohamad Ali Laila (protect) shared his views on President Lula, the PT, Brazil,s relations with Venezuela, and the Lebanese and Muslim communities in Sao Paulo. Laila, who is President Lula,s neighbor in Sao Bernardo [...]	2007-07-12 14:12:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KISL SCUL BR LE
07SAOPAULO701	FHC PREDICTS NO REFORMS ON LULA'S WATCH, PSDB/DEM [...] (C) During an August 14 meeting with the Consul General (CG),former President Fernando Henrique Cardoso (FHC) proffered his views on Lula,s inability to pass economic reforms, whether or not sub-prime lending in the U.S. and Europe could have an impact on the Brazilian economy, the state of [...]	2007-08-16 11:06:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR ECON EFIN BR
07SAOPAULO718	DESPITE CHALLENGES, PRC,S INTEREST AND INFLUENCE [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-22 18:29:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SENV ETRD EINV ECON PGOV EMIN KNNP BR CH
07SAOPAULO780	DELFIM NETTO: NOT BULLISH ON BRAZIL"S ECONOMY OR [...] (C) Former Finance Minister Antonio Delfim Netto told CG September 17 that the Brazilian economy is all right for now despite recent market turbulence, but he has "serious doubts" about the next 5-10 years, especially if the global economy enters a down cycle. He characterized Brazil's focus [...]	2007-09-20 17:34:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PINR ELAB EAGR BR
07SAOPAULO991	JUDGES WARN THAT BRAZIL MUST DO MORE TO BATTLE [...] (C) Sao Paulo Supreme Court justices are concerned about the possibility of growing ties between organized crime and terrorism in Brazil. During a December 5-7 visit to Sao Paulo by Greg West, Assistant United States Attorney and Organized Crime and Terrorism Section Chief for the Northern D [...]	2007-12-19 18:07:00	Consulate Sao Paulo	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL PGOV OEXC OIIP KCRM BR
07SARAJEVO100	BOSNIA - OBSTACLES AND OPENINGS FOR TRANSNATIONAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 11, the Charge and State Court President Meddzida Kreso discussed the possibility of Bosnia making judicial cooperation agreements with neighboring countries. The discussion was a continuation of the dialogue USG officials are encouraging among the Balkan countries ab [...]	2007-01-16 17:48:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	KAWC PREL PGOV BK
07SARAJEVO1028	ALLEGATIONS OF VIOLENCE STOKE BOSNIAK FEARS [...] (C) Allegations of a violent attack by "masked gunmen" on Esad Buljubasic, a Bosniak resident of Srebrenica municipality, have been widely circulated in the Federation-based press along with inflammatory graphics and commentary rasing links to the events of 1995. According to press reports, [...]	2007-05-11 17:10:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BK
07SARAJEVO1042	BOSNIA: SILAJDZIC SIGNALS WILLINGNESS TO MAKE [...] (C) President Haris Silajdzic says that he views his trip to Washington the week of May 21 as a good opportunity to reach basic agreements on police and constitutional reform. Silajdzic said that the concurrent visit of Republika Srpska (RS) Prime Minister Milorad Dodik to Washington would allo [...]	2007-05-14 15:53:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KAWC KJUS BK
07SARAJEVO1058	BOSNIA: DODIK CHALLENGES STATE COMPETENCIES [...] (C) On May 4, Republika Srpska (RS) PM Milorad Dodik publicly announced his intention to reverse past transfers of RS competencies to the Bosnian state. Dodik's announcement was followed closely by a lawsuit, filed by SNSD parliamentarian Milorad Zivkovic, challenging the constitutionality of [...]	2007-05-15 10:35:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	BK PGOV PREL
07SARAJEVO1059	BOSNIA - DODIK INDICATES WILLINGNESS TO TALK WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: On May 14, we met with Republika Srpska PM and President of the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD) Milorad Dodik to discuss making progress on constitutional and police reform before he and Bosniak member of the Tri-Presidency Haris Silajdzic visit Washington next wee [...]	2007-05-15 13:33:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR BK
07SARAJEVO1068	BOSNIA - THE STATE PROSECUTOR AND STATE COURT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The February 26 International Court of Justice (ICJ) decision that genocide was committed in and around Srebrenica from July 11, 1995 has placed the issue of war crimes prsecutions near the top of the Bosnian political genda. The current political environment has highlghted criti [...]	2007-05-16 14:32:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KAWC KCRM KJUS PGOV PINR PREL BK
07SARAJEVO1071	BOSNIA: SADOVIC POLITICIZES MINISTRY OF SECURITY [...] (C) Summary: Since his January appointment, Tarik Sadovic has adopted a highly political approach to his role as Minister of Security and worked almost exclusively to advance Bosniak ethnic interests. Sadovic has excluded non-Bosniak Ministry officials, including the Deputy Minister, from pol [...]	2007-05-17 11:37:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KCRM PTER BK
07SARAJEVO109	BOSNIA: EUFOR MOVING AHEAD WITH DRAWDOWN PLANS [...] (C) The European Union Force in Bosnia and Herzegovina (EUFOR Operation Althea) continues planning to approximately halve its forces in Bosnia this spring. A decision to drawdown was taken "in principle" in December, and is expected to be confirmed in Brussels by the PSC on February 27 or 28, [...]	2007-01-17 15:04:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR BK
07SARAJEVO1127	BOSNIA: MILETIC IN JEOPARDY AGAIN [...] (C) Summary: Attempts to oust Federation Police Chief Zlatko Miletic continue. On May 29 the Federation Parliament plans to vote on the legality of the last-minute mandate extension of the current Independent Supervisory Review Board (ISRB) and its decision to re-appoint Federation Police Dir [...]	2007-05-24 11:45:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER KJUS PINR KCRM BK
07SARAJEVO1157	NEW SERBIAN FOREIGN MINISTER MAKES EARLY OFFICIAL [...] (C) Summary: During his first official visit to Bosnia May 28, new Serbian Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic stressed his government's commitment to improving relations with Bosnia and Herzegovina and ICTY cooperation. Alkalaj provided post a generally positive readout of his meeting with Jeremic. [...]	2007-05-29 12:09:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR KJUS SR BK
07SARAJEVO1177	BOSNIA - INSIDE THE MIND OF KOMSIC'S CHIEF OF STAFF [...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 6, Zeljko Komsic, the Croat member of Bosnia's Tri-Presidency, will take over the rotating chairmanship of the Presidency from the Serb member, Nebojsa Radmanovic. Radmanovic has, in our estimation, turned in a solid performance. Komsic's chairmanship comes at a particul [...]	2007-05-30 11:38:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR MARR BK
07SARAJEVO1191	BOSNIA - HIGHREP SET TO BEGIN CONSTITUTIONAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: On May 30, High Representative Christian Schwarz-Schilling met with the Ambassador as well as the German and EC Delegation Ambassadors to discuss plans for consulting with Bosnian political leaders about the proposal to create a Constitutional Reform Commission (CRC). Schilling ex [...]	2007-05-31 16:46:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR EU BK
07SARAJEVO12	BOSNIA - NUDGING PARTIES TOWARD RESPONSIBILITY ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Three months after Bosnia's October 1 election, negotiations to form a coalition government remain stalled. In an effort to facilitate conversation among the key political players, the Ambassador hosted a series of meetings over the last ten days. The aim was to provide forum wh [...]	2007-01-04 16:33:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR PGOV BK
07SARAJEVO1209	BOSNIA: DEFENSE PROPERTY RESOLUTION LAGS, SETS [...] (C) Summary. Over a year behind schedule, the Bosnian Ministry of Defense (MOD) submitted a plan to the Council of Ministers for the resolution of defense property issues between the entities and the state. The plan, required by the 2005 Law on Defense, loosely dictates a transfer arrangement [...]	2007-06-01 14:05:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR BK
07SARAJEVO1211	BOSNIA - SILAJDZIC SUGGESTS RAISING SREBRENICA AT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Srebrenica Initiative Board announced plans to hold a public demonstration in front of parliament on June 11 in support if its demand for secession from Republika Srpska. Spokesmen for all three major Bosniak parties endorsed the demonstration. Earlier in the week, the Party [...]	2007-06-01 15:16:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR PGOV KAWC KJUS UN BK
07SARAJEVO13	PARTIES REACH COALITION AGREEMENT [...] (C) On January 3 seven Bosnian political parties reached a coalition agreement breaking the deadlock on government formation and the seating of Parliament that has existed since the October 1, 2006 national elections. Coalition parties endorsed an agreement confirming Nikola Spiric (SNSD) as [...]	2007-01-04 17:05:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BK
07SARAJEVO1317	YOUR JUNE 13-14 VISIT TO SARAJEVO [...] (C) Your visit comes at a particularly troubled time in Bosnia and Herzegovina as a reemergence of nationalism and inflammatory rhetoric has elevated the political temperature to levels some say has not been seen since before the war. With Radovan Karadzic, Ratko Mladic and Stojan Zupljanin re [...]	2007-06-12 05:50:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KAWC KJUS PREL ICTY BK
07SARAJEVO1352	BOSNIA: SCENESETTER FOR THE JUNE 18-19 PIC [...] (C) The June 18-19 PIC will take place against a political climate that has not been as difficult in many years, possibly since the outbreak of the war. The February 26 verdict of the International Court of Justice, ruling that genocide occurred in Bosnia during the war, has refocused Bosniak [...]	2007-06-15 16:05:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	BK PGOV PREL
07SARAJEVO136	GUIDANCE REQUEST - BOSNIA'S MULTINATIONAL FORCE IN [...] (U) This is an action request, please see paragraph 7. SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) Following our initial presentation of the President's Iraq strategy last week (Ref A),the Ambassador met with the all three members of Bosnia's Tri-Presidency to discuss the deployment in Iraq of Bosnia's Expl [...]	2007-01-22 13:59:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR BK
07SARAJEVO1375	SILAJDZIC AND THE "LEGAL OPTION" [...] (C) For several months, Bosniak Presidency member Haris Silajdzic has alluded to legal avenues by which to "annul the legacy of genocide in Bosnia" and compel the international community to "implement" the February 26 verdict of the International Court of Justice (ICJ). Silajdzic's legal visi [...]	2007-06-20 10:42:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	BK PGOV PHUM PREL
07SARAJEVO1403	AMB. WILLIAMSON DELIVERS STRONG MESSAGE ON PIFWCS, [...] (C) Summary: During a two-day visit to Sarajevo, Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues J. Clint Williamson met with top Bosnian politicians, justice officials and members of international organizations to discuss improving Bosnia's justice system in advance of the ICTY's planned 2009 clos [...]	2007-06-25 05:39:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KAWC ICTY KJUS PGOV BK
07SARAJEVO1405	TERRORISM CONVICTIONS UPHELD BUT SENTENCES [...] (U) On June 15, the State Court appellate panel affirmed the terrorism convictions of Mirsad Bektasevic and three others (REF A). While rejecting all of the defense's claims for acquittal, the court significantly reduced the sentences, ruling that the original sentences were disproportionate t [...]	2007-06-25 08:05:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER KJUS PGOV BK
07SARAJEVO1429	OHR IMPOSED LEGISLATION ROILS RSNA [...] (C) On June 25, High Representative Christian Schwarz-Schilling invoked the Bonn Powers to impose legislation placing the Potocari Memorial Foundation and its property under state government control. The legislation had been introduced on June 13 in parliament and had been rejected by the Ser [...]	2007-06-27 17:02:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	BK PGOV PHUM PREL
07SARAJEVO1437	BOSNIA: COVIC ON CROAT POLITICS [...] (C) Summary: Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) President Dragan Covic recently discussed Croat party politics and the chances for a renewed round of talks on constitutional reform. Covic highlighted that recent rumors of a merger between HDZ and the breakaway HDZ-1990 were unfounded because of [...]	2007-06-28 13:01:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BK
07SARAJEVO1461	BOSNIA: PIC CONFRONTS DETERIORATING POLITICAL [...] (C) During the June 18-19 meeting of the Peace Implementation Council (PIC) in Sarajevo, Bosnian political leaders demonstrated little willingness toabandon the nationalist rhetoric and confrontatinal positions that have stalled the reform proces and resulted in government paralysis. PM Spiri [...]	2007-07-02 14:58:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	BK PGOV PREL EUN
07SARAJEVO1503	BOSNIA - HIGHREP USES BONN POWERS TO STRENGTHEN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Only the second week into his tenure as High Representative, Miroslav Lajcak will use the Bonn Powers on July 10 to amend state-level legislation in order to strengthen Bosnia,s ability to cooperate with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY). Lajca [...]	2007-07-09 18:10:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ICTY KAWC KCRM KJUS PREL BK
07SARAJEVO1519	BOSNIA CANTON 7 GOVERNMENT REMAINS IN LIMBO [...] SUMMARY: (C) During a July 6 meeting Canton 7/Herzegovina Neretva Canton (HNK) Prime Minister designate Marin Raspudic, of the Croatian Democratic Union of Bosnia and Herzegovina (HDZ-BH),claimed that near-term prospects for forming a government in the canton are bleak. The cantonal governmen [...]	2007-07-11 13:02:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BK
07SARAJEVO1529	VISA INELIGIBILITY ON FOREIGN POLICY GROUNDS - [...] (U) Action request: see paragraph 4. 2. (U) On July 10, the High Representative Miroslav Lajcak dismissed Mr. Dragomir Andan from office for activities deemed to obstruct implementation of the Dayton Agreement. Andan is a citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and the former Director of th [...]	2007-07-13 05:48:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	CIVS KAWC ICTY PREL BK
07SARAJEVO1547	BOSNIA - SREBRENICA: AN ISSUE DEFLATED, BUT NOT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador and representatives from the international community July 11 participated in events to commemorate the 12th anniversary of the 1995 genocide that took place in Srebrenica. The commemoration followed a politically tense four months in Bosnia after the International Cour [...]	2007-07-16 13:15:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL KAWC KJUS BK
07SARAJEVO1563	BOSNIA - A GLIMMER OF HOPE ON DEFENSE PROPERTY [...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 12, the State and two Entity Prime Ministers reached an "Agreement on Basic Principles" on defense property, which holds out the prospect of finally resolving a vexing issue that has hampered Bosnia's defense reform efforts over the last several months. The principles pro [...]	2007-07-17 15:33:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR PARM MARR BK
07SARAJEVO1570	STATE COURT ACQUITS SERB WARTIME MINISTER OF WAR [...] (U) On July 18 the BiH State Court acquitted Momcilo Mandic on charges of committing crimes against humanity and war crimes against civilians during the 1992-95 conflict. The war crimes case against Mandic cited his role as Assistant Minister of Interior in the "Serb Republic of Bosnia" in 199 [...]	2007-07-19 16:21:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KAWC KCRM KJUS BK
07SARAJEVO158	BOSNIA: SERBIAN PM KOSTUNICA IN BANJA LUKA; [...] (SBU) Serbian Premier Vojislav Kostunica visited Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina January 19 to attend the signing of a 646 million EUR contract to sell Republika Srpska,s (RS) telecommunications operator to Telekom Srbija. In addition to the Telekom deal, Serbian and RS officials also sign [...]	2007-01-23 12:55:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	BK PREL YI SR
07SARAJEVO1584	EXPANDING BOSNIA,S IRAQ MISSION [...] Summary: (C) On 18 July, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Iraq Lawrence Butler and OSD Director of Coalition Operations Peter McVety had constructive meetings with Minister of Defense Selmo Cikotic, Chief of Defense LTG Sifet Podzic, and Council of Ministers Chairman Nikola Spiric to d [...]	2007-07-23 16:15:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BK
07SARAJEVO161	BOSNIA - CONTINGENCY PLANNING FOR REACTION TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Over recent months RS Prime Minister Milorad Dodik has adopted an increasingly confrontational stance with the international community. Although he has steered clear of redlines, Dodik has repeatedly linked Kosovo independence with the status of the Republika Srpska (RS). In this [...]	2007-01-23 14:45:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL YI SR BK
07SARAJEVO1624	VISA INELIGIBILITY ON FOREIGN POLICY [...] (U) Action request: see paragraph 3. 2. (C) On July 16 the Office of the High Representative supplied Embassy with a list of 90 individuals who are currently under investigation by the Office of the Prosecutor for Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) for suspected involvement in war crimes in conne [...]	2007-07-27 08:15:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	CIVS KAWC ICTY PREL BK
07SARAJEVO1625	BOSNIA: DONOR CONSENSUS GROWS FOR BUILDING A STATE [...] (C) Summary: Radovan Stankovic's escape from Foca Prison in the Republika Srpska dramatically demonstrated the legal and physical shortcomings of housing convicted war criminals and other dangerous convicts in entity prisons. Stankovic's case has galvanized the international community to reex [...]	2007-07-27 09:32:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ICTY KAWC KCRM KJUS PREL BK
07SARAJEVO163	BOSNIA - HIGHREP CONTEMPLATES ACTION AGAINST [...] (C) SUMMARY: At a January 22 meeting with the Ambassador, High Representative Christian Schwarz-Schilling said he could no longer allow Dodik's irresponsible rhetoric to go unpunished. With this in mind, he planned to summon Dodik to Sarajevo and implement one "targeted measure" against Repub [...]	2007-01-23 15:58:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR BK
07SARAJEVO1663	BOSNIA - THE NEW HIGHREP: A NEW STYLE, NEW HOPE [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: In his first few weeks on the job, new High Representative Miroslav Lajcak has moved quickly to take charge of OHR and improve its operations. He has also sent a clear signal to Bosnian political leaders and the Bosnian public that he will be a different kind of HighRep than hi [...]	2007-08-01 14:41:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KAWC KJUS MARR BK
07SARAJEVO1671	BOSNIA - CROATS REVIVE THIRD ENTITY CONCEPT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Croat political leaders have become increasingly open in their search for a politically palatable way to repackage old demands for a third Croat entity. The nationalist rhetoric of Haris Silajdzic and Milorad Dodik, which has included statements about abolishing entities and "fe [...]	2007-08-03 07:18:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR BK
07SARAJEVO1672	BOSNIA - CROATS REVIVE THIRD ENTITY CONCEPT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Croat political leaders have become increasingly open in their search for a politically palatable way to repackage old demands for a third Croat entity. The nationalist rhetoric of Haris Silajdzic and Milorad Dodik, which has included statements about abolishing entities and "fe [...]	2007-08-03 07:18:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR BK
07SARAJEVO1678	BOSNIA-CROATS MAKE RUCKUS IN THE CALM OF SUMMER [...] Summary: (C) Croat issues have taken center stage in an otherwise calm political environment, as most other politicians appear to be gearing up for a lazy August. Croats finally managed to resolve the nagging issue of forming a government in the Herzegovina Neretva Canton (HNK),but the ideol [...]	2007-08-03 11:57:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BK
07SARAJEVO1700	BOSNIA: ADMIRAL ULRICH URGES OFFICIALS TO MEET PFP [...] (C) During a July 19-20 visit to Sarajevo, Admiral Harry Ulrich, Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe and NATO Forces South, met separately with Presidency members Zeljko Komsic and Haris Silajdzic, Defense Minister Selmo Cikotic, Chief of the General Staff Lieutenant General Sifet Podzic and Hi [...]	2007-08-06 13:41:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	BK MARR PGOV PREL
07SARAJEVO1766	BOSNIA-THE TREBINJE WILDFIRES, A STUDY IN BAD [...] (SBU) Ambassador discussed the recent series of fires with local officials in Trebinje where a large number of blazes and outdated equipment had hindered firefighting. The problem was compounded by the failure of State-level institutions, including the Presidency, to provide guidance and addr [...]	2007-08-13 14:59:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SENV HR BK
07SARAJEVO1806	CARDINAL MCCARRICK VISITS BOSNIA [...] (C) Washington Archbishop Emeritus Cardinal Theodore McCarrick visited Bosnia August 14 to 16. While in Sarajevo Cardinal McCarrick met with Croat member and Chairman of the Tri-Presidency Zeljko Komsic, Islamic Community leader Reisu-l-Ulema Mustafa effendi Ceric and Jewish Community Preside [...]	2007-08-21 05:40:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	BK PGOV PHUM PREL
07SARAJEVO1815	BOSNIA - BOSNIAN CROATS PARTIES AND THE CROATIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: When Zagreb holds national elections in November, Bosnian Croat voters will also go to the polls to select representatives for the "Croat Diaspora" electoral unit in the Croatian Sabor. In the past, HDZ-BiH, Bosnia's largest Croat political party, has backed the candidate list pu [...]	2007-08-23 08:58:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR BK
07SARAJEVO1822	BOSNIA - AMBASSADOR PRESSES USG LAW ENFORCEMENT [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador August 22 raised the issues of civil protection, our upcoming law enforcement agenda, defense reform, and the increase in nationalist rhetoric during an August 22 meeting with Council of Ministers (CoM) Chair Nikola Spiric. Using recent fires as an example, Ambassador [...]	2007-08-24 11:27:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER SENV HR BK
07SARAJEVO1849	BOSNIA: PROMOTING DISCUSSIONS OF THE COMPLEMENTARY [...] (C) Per reftel, post recommends the following individuals as possible Bosnian interlocutors on the complementary nature of Islam and Democracy: Government Officials and Political Leaders: - Sulejman Tihic, former Bosniak member of the Presidency and current president of the Party for Democ [...]	2007-08-30 05:41:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM BK
07SARAJEVO186	BOSNIA - DODIK RECEIVES CLEAR U.S. WARNING ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador met with Republika Srpska (RS) Premier Milorad Dodik January 25 and delivered a stern warning that the USG had lost patience with his destabilizing rhetoric, especially on Kosovo status. He told Dodik that if such rhetoric did not cease, the USG would be forced to [...]	2007-01-25 19:15:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR BK
07SARAJEVO1862	BOSNIA - AMBASSADOR DELIVERS STERN MESSAGE TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador met with Bosnian Serb member of the Presidency Nebojsa Radmanovic August 29 to deliver a strong message that the USG was growing increasingly concerned by recent comments from Republika Srpska Prime Minister Milorad Dodik, radmanovic himself, and other senior Allian [...]	2007-08-30 14:53:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR BK
07SARAJEVO1872	BOSNIA - BOSNIAKS TORPEDO PROSPECTS FOR POLICE [...] (C) Since assuming office in July, High Representative Miroslav Lajcak has stated publicly that his first major task would be concluding an agreement on Police Reform in September, allowing Bosnia to initial an SAA with the EU. Lajcak circulated a draft of the proposal in private talks this we [...]	2007-08-31 15:46:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KCRM KJUS PINR EUN BK
07SARAJEVO1914	BOSNIA: DODIK AND SILAJDZIC [...] (C) During separate meetings with Milorad Dodik and Haris Silajdzic, Ambassador urged both leaders to consider the consequences of a police reform collapse on Bosnia's Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) prospects. Ambassador warned Dodik that his rhetoric over recent weeks has cros [...]	2007-09-06 15:59:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KCRM KJUS PINR EUN BK
07SARAJEVO1915	BOSNIA: DODIK AND SILAJDZIC REBUFF HIGH [...] (C) High Representative Lajcak delivered his first major policy address to a joint session of Parliament and the state and entity governments. Lajcak warned that there will be "certain consequences" for continued provocation and the stalemate could soon prompt the international community to c [...]	2007-09-06 16:24:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	BK PGOV PREL
07SARAJEVO1929	BOSNIA: DEFENSE MINISTER DISCUSSES COALITION [...] (C) Ambassador paid a farewell call on Bosnian Minister of Defense Selmo Cikotic September 5, highlighting the importance of Bosnia's continued support for coalition operations, and the necessity to finish the defense reform agenda in order to make the country a credible candidate for NATO mem [...]	2007-09-07 15:00:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR MARR BK
07SARAJEVO1980	CONTINUED NECESSITY TO MAINTAIN US MILITARY [...] (C) Summary. Replacing the US military commander of NATO HQ Sarajevo with a European is premature and would adversely affect US interests in Bosnia. Turning over NATO HQ to the Europeans would make the organization virtually indistinguishable from EUFOR, and undermine its standing and influe [...]	2007-09-14 14:44:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR BK
07SARAJEVO1986	BOSNIAN SECURITY AGENCY HEADS PLEDGE COOPERATION [...] (C) DCM, September 10, hosted heads of security and law enforcement agencies to lunch to discuss maximizing interagency cooperation. Agency heads stressed their commitment to interagency cooperation but complained that political leaders make effective police and intelligence work difficult. [...]	2007-09-19 06:38:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	BK KCRM PGOV PINR PREL PTER
07SARAJEVO1987	BOSNIA - LAJCAK DELIVERS POLICE REFORM STRATEGY TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: High Representative Miroslav Lajcak presented to Quint Ambassadors on September 18 his strategy for securing a deal on police reform. OHR will continue with technical talks on police reform while maintaining political pressure on party leaders to compromise. After a two-hour mee [...]	2007-09-19 08:29:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KCRM PINR EUN UN RS BK
07SARAJEVO1990	BOSNIA - YOUTUBE, FORMER BOSNIAN COMMANDER DELIC, [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 14, a video clip of Rasim Delic, the highest ranking Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim) indicted by the International War Crimes Tribunal (ICTY),addressing mujahedeen surfaced. Delic is accused of not preventing war crimes committed by mujahedeen during the 1992-1995 war. [...]	2007-09-19 10:56:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PHUM PINR PREL KAWC KCRM BK
07SARAJEVO1999	BOSNIA - DEFENSE REFORM PROGRESSES BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: During the past six months, Bosnia has made important progress in defense reform. Defense Minister Selmo Cikotic and his senior deputies have demonstrated that they are committed to reforms and moved quickly to fill the leadership vacuum that existed at the Ministry of Defense (Mo [...]	2007-09-20 08:51:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR BK
07SARAJEVO2018	BOSNIA: EMBASSY TO PROVIDE A MILLION EUROS FOR [...] (U) After carefully reviewing our priorities and SEED funding plans, we have decided to allocate the USD equivalent of one (approximately 1.394) million euros in 2007 bilateral SEED funding to support the Bosnian government,s planned construction of a state prison. The entire project is expec [...]	2007-09-21 07:42:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KCRM KJUS BK
07SARAJEVO2031	BOSNIA - ADMONISHING TIHIC TO SPLIT WITH SILAJDZIC [...] (C) Summary: Charge delivered a strong message to SDA President Sulejman Tihic to compromise on police reform so that Bosnia-Herzegovina could initial a Stabilization and Association Agreement with the EU. Tihic related his negative views of the current OHR police reform protocol (reftel) an [...]	2007-09-21 15:18:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KCRM PINR EUN BK
07SARAJEVO2046	BOSNIA - BUGOJNO WAR CRIMES AND DEFENSE MINISTER [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 19, the State Prosecutor,s Office confirmed indictments of two individuals in its ongoing investigation of war crimes committed by the Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ABiH) in and around Bugojno during the 1992-1995 war. Bugojno was the scene of heavy fighting betwee [...]	2007-09-25 17:38:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KAWC KJUS KCRM MARR BK
07SARAJEVO2057	BOSNIA - CROATS SIGN CONSTITUTIONAL DECLARATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 21, the leaders of six Croat political parties finally signed the Croat &Declaration on Principles of Constitutional Reform.8 The final text is notably more nationalistic than previous drafts we had seen. Most notably, the final document includes language on &territo [...]	2007-09-26 18:20:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR BK
07SARAJEVO2062	BOSNIA: COVIC CASE GOES TO RETRIAL [...] (C) Summary. A State Court appeals panel on September 26 invalidated on a technicality the corruption conviction of Dragan Covic, president of Bosnia,s Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ),and directed that the case be retried. In November 2006, Covic was convicted of abuse of office while ser [...]	2007-09-27 18:29:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCRM KJUS BK
07SARAJEVO2073	BOSNIA - INITIAL MEETING OF WAR CRIMES RECOVERY [...] (C) SUMMARY: The National Strategy for War Crimes Recovery Working Group met for the first time on September 19. The Working Group was established by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) in the wake of the February International Court Justice (ICJ) verdict that genocide took place in and around Sreb [...]	2007-09-28 16:43:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR PHUM ICTY KAWC KJUS MCRM BK
07SARAJEVO2080	BOSNIA - DODIK-SILAJDZIC PROTOCOL ON POLICE REFORM [...] (C) SUMMARY: Late on Friday, September 28, Republika Srpska (RS) PM Milorad Dodik and Bosniak Member of the Tri-Presidency Haris Silajdzic signed a 3-page "Protocol on Police Reform." The consensus among Bosnian political leaders, OHR and other international community representatives is that [...]	2007-10-01 16:14:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL KCRM EU BK
07SARAJEVO2082	YOUTUBE THREATS TO BOSNIAK LEADERS [...] (U) On September 29, a user identified as Hattab 72 posted a nine-minute video clip on YouTube threatening President Haris Silajdzic, Islamic Community President Reis Ceric, and SDA President Sulejman Tihic with &political, moral, and religious assassination8 if they continue to support the [...]	2007-10-01 18:25:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER KAWC KCRM BK
07SARAJEVO211	BOSNIA - DODIK HEARS CLEAR U.S. MESSAGE TO DESIST [...] (C) SUMMARY: We met with Republika Srpska (RS) Premier Milorad Dodik January 25 to deliver a stern warning that the USG had lost patience with his destabilizing rhetoric, especially on Kosovo status, as well as with press statements like the recent article in Croatia,s &Globus8 which strike at [...]	2007-01-30 06:33:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	BK PGOV PINR PREL

07SARAJEVO2143	BOSNIA - HIREP REJECTS SILAJDZIC-DODIK PROTOCOL [...] (C) High Representative Miroslav Lajcak issued a statement October 4 formally rejecting the Police Reform Protocol signed by Party for BiH (SBiH) President Haris Silajdzic and Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD) President Milorad Dodik (Ref A). The HighRep made the announcement af [...]	2007-10-05 06:47:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL KCRM EU BK
07SARAJEVO2174	BOSNIA--HIREP ON MOSCOW TRIP, POLICE REFORM, AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: During an October 8 dinner for Quint Ambassadors and previewed in an earlier courtesy call with the Ambassador that day, OHR High Representative Miroslav Lajcak shared a read-out from his visit to Moscow, his plans for police reform, and ideas to promote Dayton-implementation . L [...]	2007-10-09 15:56:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR BK
07SARAJEVO2179	BOSNIA: AMBASSADOR FOCUSES ON POLITICAL SITUATION, [...] (C) Ambassador made his initial call on the Bosnian Tri-Presidency October 9, stressing US support for Bosnia's Euro-Atlantic integration, the need for constructive leadership from the Presidency, and the importance of consensus in moving the reform agenda forward. All three Presidents affirme [...]	2007-10-10 12:48:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR BK
07SARAJEVO2180	AMBASSADOR'S INTRODUCTORY CALL ON PM SPIRIC [...] (C) Ambassador English paid an introductory call on Prime Minister Nikola Spiric on October 9. Ambassador emphasized abiding U.S. interests in developments in Bosnia and a commitment to work with forward-looking Bosnian leaders who are focused on the future to realize the goal of Euro-Atlanti [...]	2007-10-10 12:57:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	BK PGOV PREL
07SARAJEVO2195	BOSNIA - POLICE REFORM TALKS FINALLY COLLAPSE [...] (C) SUMMARY: High Representative Lajcak conducted a series of bilateral meetings with political party leaders warning them that they had one "last chance" to reach a deal on police reform; Croat party leaders distributed an alternative protocol that met the three EU principles and was designed [...]	2007-10-11 18:44:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR BK
07SARAJEVO22	RS ORGANIZED CRIME PROSECUTIONS CHALLENGE STATE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Since returning to office in February 2006, RS Prime Minister Milorad Dodik has taken concrete steps to fulfill specific campaign promises, including his pledge to combat crimes that impair the local investment climate. As part of this effort, in April Dodik created the RS Special [...]	2007-01-05 16:39:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	KCRM KJUS EINV PGOV BK
07SARAJEVO2201	BOSNIA - WAR CRIMES AND JURISPRUDENCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The International Court of Justice (ICJ) verdict earlier this year and the deteriorating political situation have stirred renewed interest in the country,s fragmented judicial system and its ability to manage war crimes cases. The State Court,s potential war crimes workload has e [...]	2007-10-16 08:30:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ICTY KAWC PGOV PHUM PINR KJUS MCRM BK
07SARAJEVO2236	BOSNIA - HIGHREP IMPOSES FIRST MEASURES; DODIK [...] (C) SUMMARY: On October 19, High Representative Lajcak publicly announced three measures designed to improve decision-making in and the functionality of state-level government. After Republika Srpska (RS) PM Milorad Dodik was briefed by OHR in advance of the actions, he called the Ambassador [...]	2007-10-19 17:23:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR EU BK
07SARAJEVO2237	BOSNIA - SERBS CONTINUE PLANS TO CONFRONT HIGHREP [...] (C) SUMMARY: Despite intensive public and private diplomacy over the October 19-21 period, Republika Srpska (RS) PM Milorad Dodik and other leaders of the Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD) still appear determined to force a confrontation over the HighRep,s October 19 use of the B [...]	2007-10-22 11:30:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR EU BK
07SARAJEVO2252	BOSNIA - DODIK DECIDES ON CONFRONTATION [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph seven. 2. (C) SUMMARY: It appears that Republika Srpska PM Milorad Dodik has again reversed course and decided to confront head on the authority of the High Representative. Despite a three hour meeting with the HighRep on October 22, at which Do [...]	2007-10-23 19:40:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR EU BK
07SARAJEVO2253	BOSNIA-BOSNIAK PARTIES VIE FOR CONTROL OF PUBLIC [...] (C) Summary. Since taking office in April in the Federation, the leadership of the Party of Democratic Action (SDA) and Party for BiH (SBiH),the two largest Bosniak affiliated parties, have jockeyed for control of two large Federation-run enterprises, BiH Telecom and Elektropriveda BiH. Both [...]	2007-10-24 09:23:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON BK
07SARAJEVO2261	BOSNIA- AMBASSADOR REACHES OUT TO RADMANOVIC ON [...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador spoke with Bosnian Serb member of the Tri-Presidency Nebosja Radmanovic October 24 to make clear that recent rhetoric and actions by RS Prime Minister Milorad Dodik were leading the RS into a direct and serious confrontation with the international community and the U [...]	2007-10-24 13:20:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR EU BK
07SARAJEVO2266	BOSNIA - DODIK SEEKS AMBASSADOR'S HELP WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Republika Srpska (RS) PM Milorad Dodik called the Ambassador on October 24 to ask for help finding a positive resolution to the confrontation between the RS and the international community over the measures announced by the HighRep on October 19. Dodik outlined his concerns about [...]	2007-10-24 15:22:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR EU BK
07SARAJEVO2270	BOSNIA - STALEMATE OVER CATHOLIC CHURCH PERMIT [...] (C) SUMMARY: During recent visits to Sarajevo, prominent Catholic Church (hereinafter "Church") officials have highlighted their concerns over a seven-year wait for permission to build a new church in the Sarajevo neighborhood of Grbavica. Although the Church has made several requests for a b [...]	2007-10-25 08:29:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KIRF BK
07SARAJEVO2277	BOSNIA- RS LEADERSHIP QUESTIONS HIGH REP'S LEGAL [...] (C) Summary. On October 25, Bosnian Serb Member of the Tri-Presidency Nebojsa Radmanovic told the Ambassador that the RS leadership still had reservations about the constitutionality of the recent High Representative measures to facilitate decision-making in state-level institutions. Radmano [...]	2007-10-25 16:30:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR BK
07SARAJEVO2278	BOSINA POLITICAL UPDATE - OCTOBER 25, 2007 [...] (C) In a telephone call with the Ambassador, SDA President Sulejman Tihic expressed concern over situation in the RS and asserted Dodik,s behavior was part of coordinated plot with Belgrade to destabilize Bosnia and link Kosovo to the RS. Tihic explained he had met today with SDA RSNA delega [...]	2007-10-25 17:06:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	BK PGOV PREL
07SARAJEVO2279	BOSNIA: RS PUBLIC OPINION SOLIDLY BEHIND DODIK [...] (C) RS media outlets overwhelmingly support PM Milorad Dodik and echo his opposition to the announced OHR Bonn Powers impositions. Predictably, under these circumstances, RS public opinion increasingly echoes now familiar SNSD assertions that the High Representative has put Serbs at risk and [...]	2007-10-25 19:20:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	BK PGOV PREL
07SARAJEVO2293	BOSNIA - SCENESETTER FOR THE OCTOBER 30-31 PIC [...] (C) SUMMARY: Republika Srpska Premier Milorad Dodik's ongoing challenge to the authority of the High Representative represents a serious challenge to U.S. interests and is the most fundamental challenge to the integrity of the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina since the signing of Dayton. Kosov [...]	2007-10-26 16:14:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR BK
07SARAJEVO2309	BOSNIA - EUR/SCE DIRECTOR CHRIS HOH'S OCTOBER [...] (C) SUMMARY. During his October 16-20 visit to the Brcko District, Banja Luka, and Sarajevo, visiting EUR/SCE Director Christopher Hoh expressed concern about the current political stalemate, but pledged continued US support to help Bosnia move forward. While the economy has visibly improved [...]	2007-10-29 14:41:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR EU BK
07SARAJEVO2313	BOSNIA POLITICAL UPDATE - OCTOBER 29, 2007 [...] (U) The RS government met before today's session of the RS National Assembly Speaker (RSNA) and concluded that the High Representative's measures are anti-Dayton and endorsed PM Milorad Dodik's view that they must be overturned. The RS government decision was passed to the RSNA as the basis fo [...]	2007-10-29 18:01:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	BK PGOV PREL
07SARAJEVO2315	BOSNIA POLITICAL UPDATE - OCTOBER 30, 2007 [...] (C) Yesterday's special session of the RS National Assembly resumed this morning in order to approve the text of a resolution negotiated over the evening. The resolution which consisted of language agreed by SNSD, SDS, the Serb Radical Party and PDP passed with 71 votes in favor and 6 votes, [...]	2007-10-30 16:59:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	BK PGOV PREL
07SARAJEVO2316	BOSNIA - RS MEDIA FOCUSING ON WARTIME PAST, NOT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Over the last year, there has been a steady stream of reporting from Republika Srpska (RS) media about the 1992-1995 war. Almost all of it has focused on alleged crimes and perceived injustices committed against the Serbs, including the post-war "failure" of international and stat [...]	2007-10-31 07:18:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR BK
07SARAJEVO2369	BOSNIA: SURVEY OF IRAQ DEPLOYMENT REQUIREMENTS [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-02 17:35:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	BK IZ MARR MOPS PREL
07SARAJEVO2371	PIC EXPRESSES PROFOUND CONCERN; RUSSIA BREAKS [...] (C) During the October 30-31 meeting of the Peace Implementation Council, representatives expressed deep concerns over the increased political tensions precipitated by Republika Srpska Prime Minister Milorad Dodik's moves to challenge the authority of the High Representative. With the notabl [...]	2007-11-02 18:47:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR EU BK
07SARAJEVO2372	BOSNIA: DAS DICARLO'S MEETINGS WITH POLITICAL [...] (C) EUR DAS DiCarlo held bilateral meetings with political leaders on the margins of the October 30-31 PIC to discuss the current political crisis in Bosnia. She reviewed USG concerns with Haris Silajdzic (SBiH),Dragan Covic (HDZ),and Sulejman Tihic. Silajdzic complained about the high bar [...]	2007-11-02 19:04:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR EU BK
07SARAJEVO2373	BOSNIA: DODIK MEETS DAS DICARLO; REJECTS LAJCAK [...] (C) On the margins of the October 31 session of the Peace Implementation Council (PIC),the Ambassador and EUR DAS Rosemary DiCarlo met with Republika Srpska (RS) Prime Minister Milorad Dodik to register U.S. concerns with his reactions to High Representative Lajcak's October 19 measures and [...]	2007-11-02 19:05:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR BK
07SARAJEVO2406	LEGAL TALKS CONCLUDE - DODIK LOOKS HEADED FOR [...] (C) On November 6, talks between OHR lawyers and RS government experts, with the goal of resolving RS concerns over the High Representative's October 19 measures, concluded without agreement. The same day, the OHR Legal Advisor, on instructions from the High Representative, informed Steering [...]	2007-11-08 15:27:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	BK PGOV PREL
07SARAJEVO2409	BOSNIA: AMBASSADOR'S INTRODUCTORY CALL ON JEWISH [...] (U) Ambassador held an introductory meeting with Jewish Community leader Jacob Finci on November 5 to discuss the community's state of affairs. Finci noted that the Bosnian Jewish community, which currently numbers around 1000 members but faces a declining birth rate, is heavily focused on [...]	2007-11-08 17:38:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PINR SOCI BK
07SARAJEVO2425	BOSNIA - HIGHREP'S NOVEMBER 15 REPORT TO THE UN [...] (U) This is an action message. See paragraph six. 2. (C) SUMMARY: High Representative Miroslav Lajcak will make his semi-annual report to the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) against the backdrop Bosnia's most serious political crisis since Dayton. Bosnian Serb Chairman of the Counci [...]	2007-11-13 16:54:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR EU UN BK
07SARAJEVO2487	BOSNIA--SECURITY MINISTER ON SPIRIC RESIGNATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a November 13 meeting, the Ambassador and Minister of Security Tarik Sadovic discussed the work of the Council of Ministers (CoM) in technical mandate and the selection process for the director of the State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA). Sadovic blames Serbian [...]	2007-11-16 13:46:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KJUS KCRM BK
07SARAJEVO2516	BOSNIA - SILAJDZIC USES STATEHOOD COMMEMORATION TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Presidency's commemoration of Bosnia's Statehood Day November 20, which marks the 64th anniversary of the declaration of the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina by the Anti-Fascist Council of Bosnia and Herzegovina (ZAVNOBiH) during World War II, took a particularly political and [...]	2007-11-21 18:24:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR BK
07SARAJEVO2517	BOSNIA - FM ALKALAJ SEEKS CONTROL OF NATO [...] (C) Summary: Given the current political environment, keeping Bosnia on the NATO track is even more critical to U.S. objectives here. Therefore, we are concerned by a recent move by Minister of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Sven Alkalaj to politicize this issue by challenging Minister of Defense (MOD [...]	2007-11-21 18:41:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR BK
07SARAJEVO2518	BOSNIA - LAJCAK BRIEFS QUINT AMBASSADORS ON NEXT [...] (C) SUMMARY: High Representative Lajcak briefed Quint Ambassadors on November 21 about the current political crisis and his plans for managing it. Lajcak told the Quint that he plans to attend the November 22 meeting of governing-coalition political party leaders hosted by Bosniak member of t [...]	2007-11-21 18:46:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR EU BK
07SARAJEVO2519	BOSNIA - MEDIA REPORT U.S. PLANS TO REMOVE DODIK [...] (C) SUMMARY: The week of November 12, Bosnian media outlets reported that the U.S. hatched a plan to enable High Representative Lajcak to remove Republika Srpska (RS) Prime Minister Milorad Dodik by exposing his links to corruption and criminal activities. The story, which first surfaced on t [...]	2007-11-21 18:55:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KCRM BK
07SARAJEVO2535	BOSNIA: POLICE REFORM AGREEMENT GIVES DODIK MORE [...] (SBU) Summary: Leaders of the six governing political parties adopted an Action Plan on Police Reform during a meeting in Sarajevo on November 22 (see paragraph six below). The Action Plan lays out a timetable for implementing the October 28 Mostar Declaration, which had reaffirmed the three [...]	2007-11-23 17:26:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KCRM EUN BK
07SARAJEVO2536	BOSNIA - RADMANOVIC "OPTIMISTIC" THAT RESOLUTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 23, Ambassador met with Bosnian-Serb member of the Tri-Presidency Nebojsa Radmanovic to discuss the ongoing political crisis and the outcome of the November 22 meeting of coalition political party leaders. The Ambassador also asked Radmanovic whether recent statements [...]	2007-11-23 17:28:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR BK
07SARAJEVO2537	BOSNIA - HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES COLLEGIUM [...] (C) SUMMARY: In separate meetings with the Ambassador on November 22, the three Speakers of the House of Representatives (HoR),known as the Collegium, each stated they were committed to amending HoR rules of procedure by December 1 in order to comply with the High Representatives October 19 m [...]	2007-11-26 21:58:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR BK
07SARAJEVO2555	BOSNIA- CHALLENGES FOR THE STATE COURT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Over the past four years, the State Prosecutor,s Office and State Court have made important strides building Bosnia,s capacity to try war crimes cases. Preliminary information on likely future war crimes cases suggests a demanding workload and challenges for both the prosecutor an [...]	2007-11-27 16:56:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM ICTY KAWC KJUS KCRM BK
07SARAJEVO2556	BOSNIA - QUINT AMBASSADORS URGE BOSNIAKS TO ENGAGE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Quint Ambassadors met separately with Sulejman Tihic, President of the Party for Democratic Action (SDA),and Haris Silajdzic, President of the Party for Bosnia (SBiH),to urge them to engage constructively in negotiations over the High Representative's proposed changes to the Par [...]	2007-11-27 17:34:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR BK
07SARAJEVO2570	BOSNIA - OIC AMBASSADORS SUPPORT HIGH [...] (C) The Ambassador hosted a November 27 lunch for key Organization of Islamic Council (OIC) Ambassadors and Charges in Sarajevo. The OIC Ambassadors expressed support for High Representative Lajcak and his October 19 measures. They also endorsed the Ambassador's Dayton anniversary message th [...]	2007-11-30 15:27:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR BK
07SARAJEVO2573	BOSNIA - HDZ 1990 WEIGHS IN ON CURRENT POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: On November 28, Ambassador met with Bozo Ljubic, Minister of Transport and Communication, and Chairman of the Croatian Democratic Union 1990 (HDZ-1990) (one of the six parties in coalition in state-level government) to discuss the ongoing political crisis in Bosnia and Herzegovin [...]	2007-11-30 17:36:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR BK
07SARAJEVO2574	BOSNIA - POSSIBLE DEAL OPENS WINDOW FOR INITIALING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Developments over the course of November 29-30 have brought us very close to resolution of the political crisis over High Representative Lajcak,s October 19 measures designed to facilitate decision-making in the Parliamentary Assembly (PA) and the Council of Ministers (CoM). This [...]	2007-11-30 20:12:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR BK EU
07SARAJEVO2575	BOSNIA - SCENESETTER FOR A/S FRIED'S DECEMBER 4-5 [...] (C) SUMMARY: After six weeks of an eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation between the High Representative, backed by the international community, and Republika Srpska (RS) PM Milorad Dodik, backed by the RS political establishment, both sides have blinked a bit. It now appears that we may have a dea [...]	2007-11-30 20:19:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL BK
07SARAJEVO2586	BOSNIA- RS GOVERNMENT STYMIES DEFENSE PROPERTY [...] (C) Summary. NATO HQ,s efforts to finalize a comprehensive transfer agreement on movable defense property were dealt a serious setback on November 29. At a meeting in Banja Luka, Republika Srpska (RS) government representatives back-tracked on initial commitments made to NATO HQ and declined [...]	2007-12-03 16:10:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR MARR BK
07SARAJEVO2629	BOSNIA - HIGHREP LAJCAK AND QUINT AMBASSADORS LOOK [...] (C) SUMMARY: High Representative Lajcak met with Quint Ambassadors on December 6 to take stock of the situation in Bosnia and discuss how best to manage key issues over the next several weeks. Lajcak reported that Prime Minister Spiric (still in a technical mandate) planning to establish a wo [...]	2007-12-10 13:22:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL BK
07SARAJEVO2632	BOSNIA - RS PLANS TO KEEP SURPLUS ARMS, AMMUNITION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Following up Assistant Secretary Fried's December 5 exchange with Republika Srpska (RS) PM Milorad Dodik, we met with RS "Military Advisor" Dusko Cetkovic on December 6 to discuss defense property issues. We expressed our concern about statements by RS negotiators that the RS wan [...]	2007-12-10 17:41:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR MARR BK
07SARAJEVO2636	A/S FRIED'S VISIT TO BOSNIA [...] (C) During a December 4-5 visit to Sarajevo, EUR Assistant Secretary Daniel Fried met with Republika Srpska Prime Minister Milorad Dodik, Bosniak Presidency member Haris Silajdzic, Party for Democratic Action president Sulejman Tihic, Social Democratic Party president Zlatko Lagumdzija and Hig [...]	2007-12-11 12:57:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	BK PGOV PREL
07SARAJEVO2647	BOSNIA- FOREIGN MINISTRY UPDATED ON MNF-I UNSC [...] (C) We presented points, draft UNSC resolutions, and letters per reftel to Acting Assistant Foreign Minister Davorka Istuk, MFA America's Desk Officer Asim Karahasanovic, and Foreign Minister's Advisor Asim Dorovic. Istuk thanked us for the information, and requested further updates as availa [...]	2007-12-11 17:03:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL UNSC EFIN MARR IZ BK
07SARAJEVO2648	BOSNIA - SCENESETTER FOR DEFENSE MINISTER [...] (C) Summary. Defense Minister Selmo Cikotic comes to Washington December 17-21 for Bilateral Defense Consultations (BDCs) and other meetings ready to present his vision completing Bosnia's defense reform, expanding Bosnia's participation in coalition support operations, and expediting NATO ac [...]	2007-12-11 18:04:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR MARR BK
07SARAJEVO2655	BOSNIA- PRESIDENT KOMSIC SUPPORTS US POSITION ON [...] (C) On December 12, Ambassador reviewed reftel points on next steps on Kosovo status with Chairman of the Presidency Zeljko Komsic. Ambassador highlighted the points recently raised by A/S Fried during his visit to Sarajevo that the United States understands the particularly delicate position [...]	2007-12-12 16:33:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BK YI
07SARAJEVO2663	BOSNIA - FIRST DEPORTATION OF AN INDIVIDUAL [...] (C) On December 9, Bosnian authorities deported Algerian native Atau Mimun, who was stripped of Bosnian citizenship by the Citizen Review Commission (CRC). The CRC was established in 2006 to review the status of individuals who had fraudently obtained Bosnian citizenship between 1992 and ear [...]	2007-12-14 11:30:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER KCRM BK
07SARAJEVO2670	BOSNIA - EU RETREAT ON POLICE REFORM MAY HERALD AN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Meeting in Laktasi, Republika Srpska PM Milorad Dodik's hometown, leaders from the six governing parties agreed on December 11 to the terms of reference for a working group that would draft legislation creating the seven state-level police support bodies called for in the Sarajevo [...]	2007-12-17 08:15:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KCRM EUN BK
07SARAJEVO2682	BOSNIA - STATE PRSECUTOR'S OFFICE BEGINS TO TACKLE [...] (C) Although it was established four years ago, the Special Department for Organized Crimes (SDOC) at the State Prosecutor,s Office is only now starting to prosecute the most complex corruption, organized and financial crimes in Bosnia. With our strong support, Drew Engel, the Deputy Chief Pr [...]	2007-12-17 17:32:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EAID ECON PREL KCRM BK
07SARAJEVO288	SCENESETTER - AMBASSADOR ROONEY'S FEBRUARY 13 [...] (C) SUMMARY: We are pleased to welcome you and your delegation to Sarajevo on February 13. Your visit, which includes a roundtable at the Inter-Religious Council (IRC),a lunch hosted by Cardinal Puljic (the head of the Catholic Church in Bosnia),and a tour of major religious sites in Saraje [...]	2007-02-08 09:07:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR PHUM BK
07SARAJEVO292	BOSNIA: USG MESSAGE ON KOSOVO DELIVERED TO KEY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador met with all three members of the Bosnian Tri-Presidency and the DCM with Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs February 5 and 6 to discuss the Ahtisaari Kosovo plan. All of the Embassy's interlocutors expressed cautious support for the proposal, and none said they were [...]	2007-02-08 14:39:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BK YI
07SARAJEVO310	PRESIDENCY EXTENDS MANDATE OF IRAQ DEPLOYMENT [...] (C) Summary. The Presidency extended the mandate of the Bosnian Explosive Ordinance Disposal (EOD) unit in Iraq through the end of the year. If confirmed by the parliament, the decision will permit a fifth rotation of the unit to deploy to Iraq in May as we requested. The provision requirin [...]	2007-02-12 06:43:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR BK IZ
07SARAJEVO348	BOSNIA - BIH HELSINKI ERRONEOUSLY ATTACKS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The BiH Helsinki Committee released its "Report on the Status of Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina" on February 12. The report raises the traditional range of human rights concerns, but also makes several erroneous accusations about the work of the Citizenship Review Commiss [...]	2007-02-13 14:38:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PTER BK
07SARAJEVO357	BOSNIAN PARLIAMENT CONFIRMS NEW GOVERNMENT [...] (C) At the end of an often heated six-hour debate, the BiH House of Representatives (HoR) on February 9 confirmed the slate of ministers and deputy ministers proposed by Prime Minister Nikola Spiric by a vote of 31-9 with one abstention. Political side deals allowed the government's confimati [...]	2007-02-13 17:59:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV BK
07SARAJEVO36	BOSNIA: SILAJDZIC AND TIHIC AGREE DEFENSE REFORM [...] (C) SUMMARY: In meetings with Charge January 5 and 8, Bosniak member of the Tri-Presidency Haris Silajdzic of the Party for BiH (SBiH) and Party of Democratic Action (SDA) President Sulejman Tihic both made clear that defense reform will continue to be a high priority for the new governing co [...]	2007-01-09 11:21:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR BK
07SARAJEVO362	BOSNIA - ICJ RULING ON GENOCIDE WILL SHAKE BOSNIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: On February 12, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) announced that on February 26 it would rule on the case concerning the "Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Bosnia and Herzegovina v. Serbia and Montenegro)." Whatever th [...]	2007-02-14 12:00:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KJUS BK
07SARAJEVO373	BOSNIA: OSD DASD FATA VISIT TO SARAJEVO [...] (C) Summary. Your visit comes after two years of nearly uninterrupted progress in the defense sphere in Bosnia. Bosnia has successfully created a unified, single Armed Forces and maintains a robust and continuously straightening security relationship with the United States. Leaders and the pub [...]	2007-02-15 13:30:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR BK
07SARAJEVO41	BOSNIA - THE HIGHREP'S PROPOSAL FOR PHASE II [...] (C) SUMMARY: The High Representative (High Rep) shared with us his draft proposal for conducting phase II of constitutional reform (A copy of the 21-page paper was e-mailed to EUR/SCE) and asked for official U.S. comments on it. The HighRep proposes establishing a Commission on Constitutional [...]	2007-01-10 09:55:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR BK EU
07SARAJEVO433	BOSNIA: CONSTITUTIONAL COURT RULING CLAIMS OHR [...] (C) Over Presidents' Day weekend, the Bosnian Constitutional Court released a July 2006 decision calling on the Bosnian government to address human rights violations stemming from OHR's 2004 removal from office of two Republika Srpska (RS) officials who had abetted war criminals. The Court ru [...]	2007-02-23 15:19:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KJUS EUN UNSC BK
07SARAJEVO443	BOSNIA: FEDERATION PRESIDENCY CONFIRMED; STATE [...] (SBU) At its February 21 session, the Federation House of Representatives confirmed the appointment of Borjana Kristo of the Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ-BiH) as Federation President and Spomenka Micic of the Party for BiH (SBiH) and Mirsad Kebo of the Party of Democratic Action (SDA) as Vic [...]	2007-02-23 16:01:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV BK
07SARAJEVO444	BOSNIA: POLITICIANS BLAME INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Taking diametrically opposed positions, Federation-based and Republika Srpska-based political leaders reached an impasse following a week of increasingly confrontational negotiations over adopting a Draft Implementation Plan for Police Reform (the "Implementation Plan") (REF. B). [...]	2007-02-26 06:25:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	KCRM KJUS EUN PREL PGOV BK
07SARAJEVO456	BOSNIAN REACTIONS TO ICJ VERDICT: FROM [...] (U) Following weeks of speculation and building up of expectations, the announcement by the International Court of Justice that Serbia and Montenegro were not guilty of genocide during the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina provoked immediate reactions across the political spectrum here. [...]	2007-02-26 16:30:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPAO KJUS BK
07SARAJEVO467	BOSNIA: OSD DAS FATA'S VISIT HIGHLIGHTS SECURITY [...] (C) Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO Policy Daniel Fata visited Sarajevo February 21 for discussions with senior Bosnian leaders on Bosnia's NATO integration process and continued U.S. support for defense reform and Bosnia's Euro-Atlantic integration. DASD Fata made [...]	2007-02-27 15:35:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR BK
07SARAJEVO509	BOSNIA - HIGHREP'S OFFICE WILL STAY UNTIL JUNE 2008 [...] (C) SUMMARY: At their February 26-27 meeting, the Peace Implementation Council (PIC) Political Directors agreed to continue the OHR's mandate with the aim of closing it down by June 30, 2008. Russia refused to join the consensus, however, insisting on a footnote in the communique highlighting [...]	2007-03-06 14:53:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR KJUS KAWC BK
07SARAJEVO510	BOSNIA - NEW BATTLE BEGINS OVER CITIZENSHIP LAW [...] (C) SUMMARY: The opening salvo in what could prove to be an ugly political battle over amendments to the Bosnian Law on Citizenship came on February 27, when FM Sven Alkalaj (Party for BiH (SBiH)) sent a diplomatic note to the Serbian MFA informing it that the bilateral agreement on dual cit [...]	2007-03-06 15:01:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM PREF PTER BK
07SARAJEVO526	BOSNIA - HIGHREP BALKS AT ANNULLING CONSTITUTIONAL [...] (U) This is an action message. See paragraph six below. 2. (C) High Representative Christian Schwarz-Schilling convened a special session of the Steering Board Ambassadors (SBA) on March 7 to discuss the recently released decision by the Bosnian Constitutional Court calling on the Bosnian [...]	2007-03-07 16:36:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KAWC BK UN
07SARAJEVO528	BOSNIA SEEKS GUIDANCE ON PURSUING UNHRC CANDIDACY [...] (U) This is an action message. Please see action request, paragraph 4. 2. (C) On March 7, the DCM and BiH Foreign Minister Sven Alkalaj discussed Bosnia's potential bid for one of the two Eastern European Group (EEG) seats on the UN Human Rights Council (REF. B and C). Alkalaj said Sloven [...]	2007-03-08 16:22:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UNHRC SI BK
07SARAJEVO552	BOSNIA: POLICE REFORM TALKS FALTER AS EC [...] (SBU) Summary: The German Embassy March 6 hosted police reform negotiations with the leaders of eight major political parties in the hopes of facilitating agreement on police reform in anticipation of the March 16 visit of EU Commissioner for Enlargement Oli Rehn. Ambassadors from the US, Ger [...]	2007-03-12 11:56:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KCRM KJUS PINR EUN BK
07SARAJEVO556	BOSNIA - TENSIONS RISE AS BOSNIAKS CALL FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Since the February 26 International Court of Justice Verdict (ICJ) that genocide was committed in Srebrenica, there have been growing calls for giving the municipality special status within Bosnia. This campaign has been stoked by Bosniak politicians, particularly Bosniak member [...]	2007-03-12 16:25:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KAWC KJUS MARR BK
07SARAJEVO579	BOSNIA: SREBRENICA "SPECIAL STATUS" SESSION ISSUES [...] (C) SUMMARY: As a response to the International Court of Justice's (ICJ) finding of genocide in Srebrenica, Srebrenica Municipality Mayor Abdurahman Malkic hosted a meeting on March 12 to discuss proposals that his municipality seceed from the Republika Srpska (RS) and receive "special status" [...]	2007-03-13 18:49:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL KAWC KJUS MARR BK
07SARAJEVO595	BOSNIA - SILAJDZIC BLOCKS POLICE REFORM DEAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: March 12 police reform talks organized by High Representative Schwarz-Schilling collapsed after Bosniak member of the Tri-Presidency Haris Silajdzic refused an offer from Republika Srpska PM Milorad Dodik to transfer competency and authority for the RS police to the state, provided [...]	2007-03-15 19:01:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KJUS KCRM EU BK
07SARAJEVO596	BOSNIA - REQUEST FOR GUIDANCE ON FINDING OF [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph four. U.S. Must Vote on Whether to Acknowledge Geneocide --------------------------------------------- ----- 2. (C) At the March 12 Foundation of Srebrenica-Potocari Memorial and Cemetery Executive Board Meeting, ("Foundation") Amor Ma [...]	2007-03-15 19:03:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KAWC BK
07SARAJEVO60	BOSNIA: TIHIC LOOKS TO CIKOTIC AS NEXT DEFENSE [...] (C) Party of Democratic Action (SDA) Chairman Suljeman Tihic confirmed to CDA and NATO POLAD that he would nominate former general Selmo Cikotic to be Bosnia's next minister of defense, considering that the USG and NATO had no objection to his appointment. Tihic said he may be able to submit t [...]	2007-01-11 16:37:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR BK
07SARAJEVO607	BOSNIA: SILAJDZIC CALLS FOR RADICAL SURGERY ON [...] (SBU) Summary: Following the March 12 ad hoc meeting (ref A) on the status of Srebrenica, the Ambassador met with Bosniak (Muslim) leaders March 14 to urge calm and solicit their plans for Srebrenica in light of the February 26 International Court of Justice verdict on genocide in Srebrenica. [...]	2007-03-16 14:18:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL KAWC KJUS BK
07SARAJEVO62	DECERTIFIED POLICE: SOLUTION REMAINS ELUSIVE [...] (U) This is an Action Request for the Department. Please see Para 8. 2. (C) Summary: After a December 21-22 visit to Sarajevo, Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg assessed that the International Police Task Force (IPTF) police decertification process had flaws [...]	2007-01-11 17:17:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	BK KJUS PGOV PINR PREL EUN UNSC
07SARAJEVO650	BOSNIA - WAHHABISM THREATENS TRADITIONAL BOSNIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Islamic Community (IC) is on the defensive as Bosnian Islam undergoes an identity crisis. While the scope of the problem remains unclear, there is a general recognition that more extreme believers (foreigners and nationals) are deliberately disrupting Bosnian Muslim communiti [...]	2007-03-23 16:13:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER KISL SCUL BK
07SARAJEVO651	BOSNIA - NOT WHERE WE WANT IT TO BE [...] (C) SUMMARY: One year ago, Bosnia's prospects looked brighter than they had at any moment since Dayton. Today, the accomplishments of post-war reconstruction have been placed in question. Externally, the drawdown of the international presence here, coupled with Europe's stupor over future en [...]	2007-03-23 16:41:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KAWC KJUS BK
07SARAJEVO674	BOSNIA - THE PRESIDENCY DEVELOPS A STAFF-LEVEL [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Bosnian Tri-Presidency has begun to develop a staff that can serve their respective bosses. On a day-to-day basis the vast majority of our contact with the Presidency takes place at the staff level, which has provided an important avenue for influencing their bosses' thinking [...]	2007-03-27 14:52:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR BK
07SARAJEVO677	BOSNIA - THE CHALLENGE OF WAR CRIMES PROSECUTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Prior to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) verdict, Srebrenica victims associations had often appealed for U.S. help in bringing to justice local police or other officials they "knew" to be war criminals. Last week the Srebrenica Municipal Council identified the Republika [...]	2007-03-27 17:39:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KCRM KJUS PGOV PINR PREL BK
07SARAJEVO686	BOSNIA - SREBRENICA'S CITIZENS LIKELIEST LOSERS IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Long ignored by state and entity politicians, Srebrenica Municipality is now the subject of a tug-of-war pitting political interests of the country's leading Bosniak politicians against those of Srebrenica's local community. In the wake of the ICJ verdict, calls for Srebrenica's s [...]	2007-03-29 08:59:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL KAWC KJUS MARR BK
07SARAJEVO706	BOSNIA - BOSNIAK LEADERSHIP DISMISSES WARNINGS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 29, the Ambassador and High Representative Schwarz Schilling met with the Bosniak political leadership to express their concern about growing political tensions over Srebrenica. They stressed the international community's commitment to helping Srebrenica residents and ur [...]	2007-03-30 12:32:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KAWC KJUS BK
07SARAJEVO728	BOSNIA: PARLIAMENT CONFIRMS EXTENDED IRAQ [...] (C) Summary. The Bosnian Parliament voted March 30 to confirm the Presidency's decision to extend the mandate of the Explosive Ordinance Disposal (EOD) unit in Iraq through the end of 2007. The move clears the final legal hurdle to the deployment of a fifth EOD rotation in May. Securing the ex [...]	2007-04-02 11:51:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR BK IZ
07SARAJEVO752	BOSNIA - OHR URGES SPEEDY RESOLUTION TO [...] (SBU) On April 5, the Office of the High Representative (OHR) convened a meeting of representatives from the U.S. and current European members of the Security Council and urged them to support a UK proposal that would end the current standoff between the Bosnian government and the UN over the [...]	2007-04-05 16:35:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR UN BK
07SARAJEVO753	BOSNIA - BOSNIAK POLITICAL LEADERS WARY OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 29 and April 2, we met separately with Bosniak member of the Tri-Presidency Haris Silajdzic, President of the Party for Democratic Action (SDA) Sulejman Tihic, and President of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) Zlatko Lagumdzija to discuss the situation in Srebrenica and [...]	2007-04-06 07:52:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KAWC KJUS BK
07SARAJEVO754	BOSNIA - AMBASSADOR TRAVELS TO SREBRENICA TO CALM [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador and embassy staff traveled to Srebrenica April 3 to meet with local citizens and to discuss possible improvements to living conditions for municipality residents. Srebrenica has been the subject of a Bosniak political movement for secession since the February ICJ verdi [...]	2007-04-06 08:58:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL KAWC KJUS MARR BK
07SARAJEVO757	BOSNIA: SANADER VISIT ADVANCES BILATERAL [...] (U) SUMMARY: Bosnian government officials and the Croatian DCM described Croatian Prime Minister Ivo Sanader's March 28-30 visit to Bosnia as positive and constructive. His impact on internal Bosnian Croat politics was less clear. Croatia and Bosnia concluded agreements on dual citizenship an [...]	2007-04-06 09:35:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON HR BK
07SARAJEVO791	A/S FRIED'S VISIT TO BOSNIA [...] (C) During his April 3-5 visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina, EUR Assistant Secretary Daniel Fried conveyed a message of strong U.S. support for Bosnia's path to Europe. He urged political leaders to seize current opportunities to finalize constitutional and police reforms, thereby cementing Bosni [...]	2007-04-12 16:10:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL BK
07SARAJEVO807	BOSNIA - BRATUNAC THE NEXT SREBRENICA? [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On May 12, 2007, the Bosniak Association "Women of Podrinje" intends to bury 108 identified victims of the May 1992 Bratunac massacre in land owned by the Islamic Community. However, Bratunac Mayor Nedeljko Mladjenovic (SDS) and Serb delegates in the Bratunac Municipal Council [...]	2007-04-13 15:56:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL KAWC KJUS MARR BK
07SARAJEVO808	RSNA VOTES TO SCRAP POLICE REFORM DIRECTORATE [...] (SBU) Summary: This week the Republika Srpska (RS) government and RS National Assembly both took separate decisions rejecting the Police Reform Directorate (PRD) final report and calling for new police reform talks. At its April 11 session the RSNA approved a conclusion calling for a referend [...]	2007-04-13 16:09:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KJUS KCRM BK
07SARAJEVO832	BOSNIA: BUGOJNO INDICTMENTS TIMED TO DERAIL [...] (C) On April 16, the State Investigation and Protection Agency (SIPA) arrested two individuals on orders from the State Prosecutor over their alleged involvement in the disappearance of Bosnian-Croats in the Central Bosnian town of Bugojno in 1993. The arrests of the two individuals, former B [...]	2007-04-17 13:31:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR BK
07SARAJEVO84	BOSNIA SUPPORTIVE OF IRAQ STRATEGY, SEEKS [...] (C) Chairman of the Tri-Presidency Nebojsha Radmanovic told CDA that Bosnia was supportive of the new Iraq strategy, and noted Bosnia's continued support for Global War on Terror (GWOT) activities. Radmanovic cited the deployment of Bosnia's explosive ordinance disposal (EOD) units to Iraq as [...]	2007-01-12 16:48:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS PGOV PREL BK IZ
07SARAJEVO863	BOSNIA - SILAJDZIC CONTINUES TO PROVOKE POLITICAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Since he returned to Bosnian politics during last year's elections, Bosniak member of the Tri-Presidency Haris Siladjic has actively worked toward creating a Bosniak Muslim rejectionist front that, in his words to the Ambassador, "will stand up to the Serbs and be as obstructionis [...]	2007-04-20 17:06:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR KAWC KJUS MARR BK
07SARAJEVO87	PM SPIRIC PRESENTS PLAN FOR GOVERNING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Prior to the vote on his confirmation January 11 to become Bosnia's new Chairman of the Council of Ministers (Prime Minister),Nikola Spiric of the Serb Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD) presented a detailed work plan for the new government. In a 40-minute speech [...]	2007-01-12 17:12:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR ECON KCRM KJUS EUN BK
07SARAJEVO931	BOSNIA BEHIND CONTINUED COALITION PARTICIPATION [...] No summary [...]	2007-04-27 12:40:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MASS MOPS PREL PTER BK IZ
07SARAJEVO935	BOSNIA: FOREIGN MINISTER ALKALAJ SHOULD HEAR A [...] (C) Summary. Bosnian Foreign Minister Sven Alkalaj arrives in Washington April 30 for a week-long visit. Having served as the Bosnian Ambassador to the U.S (1994- 2000),Alkalaj is no stranger to Washington, but this will be his first U.S. visit as Foreign Minister. Although he assumed his [...]	2007-04-27 13:31:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	BK PGOV PREL
07SARAJEVO937	BOSNIA - TAKING ON RADICAL BOSNIAK MUSLIM POLITICS [...] (C) SUMMARY: We stepped up our efforts during the week of April 23 to undercut efforts, particularly of Bosniak member of the Tri-Presidency Haris Silajdzic, to further radicalize the political situation in Bosnia. We met with the Bosniak Party for Democratic Action (SDA) leadership to deliver [...]	2007-04-30 05:35:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	KJUS PGOV PINR PREL UN KJWC BK PK

07SARAJEVO946	AMBASSADOR'S APRIL 27 MEETING WITH HARIS SILAJDZIC [...] (C) The Ambassador met with Bosniak Presidency member Haris Silajdzic on April 27. Silajdzic who had recently returned from a visit to Doha briefed on a USD 100 million Qatari fund for investment in Bosnia and asserted he was attempting to refocus the Presidency on economic development issues [...]	2007-04-30 16:28:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	BK PGOV PREL
07SARAJEVO950	BOSNIA: ASSISTANCE FOR PRESIDENCY VISIT TO IRAQ [...] (SBU) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. 2. (C) The three-member Bosnian Presidency accompanied by Defense Minister will travel to Iraq on May 15 to visit Bosnia's Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) unit at Camp Echo. The delegation also seeks bilateral meetings in Baghdad. [...]	2007-05-03 15:41:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR BK IZ
07SARAJEVO955	BOSNIA: ASSISTANCE FOR PRESIDENCY VISIT TO IRAQ [...] (SBU) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. 2. (C) The three-member Bosnian Presidency accompanied by Defense Minister will travel to Iraq on May 15 to visit Bosnia's Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) unit at Camp Echo. The delegation also seeks bilateral meetings in Baghdad. [...]	2007-05-04 05:29:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR BK IZ
07SARAJEVO970	PRESIDENT MUSHARRAF'S VISIT TO BOSNIA [...] (C) During his April 27-29 state visit to Bosnia, Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf emphasized a consistent message of interfaith harmony and tolerance and the need for Bosnia to complete the process of postwar reconstruction. Musharraf repeated this constructive message throughout [...]	2007-05-04 17:01:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	BK PREL PGOV PK
07SARAJEVO971	OHR PUTS FORWARD LAJCAK AS NEXT HIGH [...] (C) At the May 4 session of the weekly Peace Implementation Council (PIC) meeting of Steering Board Ambassadors (SBA),Principal Deputy High Representative Raffi Gregorian announced that the EU had named Slovakian diplomat Ambassador Miroslav Lajcak as the candidate to succeed Christian Shwart [...]	2007-05-04 17:13:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EUN BK UNSC
07SARAJEVO995	BOSNIA - CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM AND THE EUROPEANS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Christian Schwarz-Schilling, in his capacity as European Union Special Representative (EUSR),briefed Quint Ambassadors (plus the European Commission Ambassador) on the proposal to create a Constitutional Reform Commission (CRC),which would be responsible for guiding a longer-term [...]	2007-05-09 09:14:00	Embassy Sarajevo	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL EU BK
07SEOUL1011	KORUS FTA IN THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY - RATIFICATION, [...] (C) SUMMARY: The KORUS FTA, after the signing, will be sent to the National Assembly for ratification. Pundits consider this most likely in September. The ratification process could be intense, involving protests and blockages. Still, according to Assembly contacts, the KORUS FTA will pass, [...]	2007-04-06 08:34:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON KS PGOV PINR PREL
07SEOUL1012	ELECTION EXPERTS SHARE VIEWS ON FTA AND ELECTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a luncheon meeting with the Ambassador, a pollster, an ex-spokesperson for presidential candidate Chung Mong-joon, a political consultant and a professor shared their views of the current political landscape in Korea and on the factors that would determine the outcome of Dece [...]	2007-04-06 08:38:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KS
07SEOUL1052	FM SONG ON FTA, 6PT, U.S.-ROK ALLIANCE, AND IRAQ [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 10, Foreign Minister Song Min-soon told the Ambassador that the ROKG and USG should stay coordinated on the KORUS FTA to avoid any perception that different interpretations existed on what was negotiated. Some in the ROK were concerned that the U.S. Congress might push f [...]	2007-04-10 10:46:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID EFIN KS KN IZ
07SEOUL1078	PRESIDENT ROH'S MEETING WITH RICHARDSON-PRINCIPI [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an April 12 meeting with President Roh Moo-hyun, New Mexico Governor Richardson and former Secretary of Veteran's Affairs Anthony Principi said that the DPRK had been cooperative in assisting the transfer of the remains of servicemen thought to have died during the Korean War. [...]	2007-04-13 04:42:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MNUC KS KN
07SEOUL1091	SOUTH KOREA FACES PENSION REFORM [...] (SBU) Korea is on the verge of a gray transformation, with its elderly moving from 9 percent to 38 percent of its total population by 2050. This aging trend threatens to explode the cost of Korea's National Pension System (NPS) from 0.4 percent of GDP in 2005 to 7.3 percent of GDP by 2050 ) [...]	2007-04-16 05:46:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN ELAB KS PGOV SOCI
07SEOUL1119	MOFAT FORECASTS ROUGH SEAS FOR LIANCOURT ROCKS [...] (C) SUMMARY: MOFAT Director-General for Treaties Im Han-taek on April 17 told A/DCM that Seoul and Tokyo were in consultation on how to conduct surveys for radioactive materials located in disputed waters in the East Sea (Sea of Japan). Japan's position is that Tokyo does not want a joint so [...]	2007-04-17 09:11:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KS JA
07SEOUL112	2007 ROK PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES [...] (C) SUMMARY: If the vote for president of South Korea were today, Grand National Party (GNP) candidate Seoul Mayor Lee Myung-bak, with between 40 and 50 percent support in all leading polls, would be the runaway winner with second place going to GNP's Park Geun-hye. The bronze medal would go [...]	2007-01-12 08:01:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PIRN KS
07SEOUL1120	MOFAT DISCUSSES IRAQI PM MALIKI'S VISIT TO ROK AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 17, A/DCM met with Ma Young-sam, MOFAT'S Director-General for Middle Eastern and African Affairs, to discuss the April 11-13 visit of Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki to South Korea. Ma said that the main purpose of Maliki's visit was improving bilateral economic cooperation [...]	2007-04-17 09:28:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID EFIN KS IZ
07SEOUL1126	NSC DIRECTOR CHA'S 4/12 MEETING WITH PARK SUN-WON [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 12, NSC Director for Asian Affairs Victor Cha met with Park Sun-won, Secretary to the President for National Security Strategy, to provide a readout of the April 8-11 visit to North Korea by New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson and Former Secretary of Veteran's Affairs Ant [...]	2007-04-18 06:32:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MNUC KS KN
07SEOUL1151	ROH CONFIDANTE AHN HEE-JONG MEETS NORTH KOREANS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Roh Moo-hyun longtime confidante Ahn Hee-jung contacted North Korean officials in Beijing on October, 20 2006 in an unofficial attempt to start a communication channel with the North. Ahn's contact was a violation of the Inter-Korean cooperation and exchange law, but Roh has pub [...]	2007-04-20 05:21:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL KS
07SEOUL1175	KOREAS AGREE TO RICE AID AND TEST RUNS OF RAILWAYS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an April 23 briefing on the April 18-22 Inter-Korean Economic Cooperation Promotion Committee talks in Pyongyang, Director-General for Unification Policy Planning Um Jong-sik told A/DCM that the ROKG used the meetings to emphasize the need for the DPRK to implement the Februar [...]	2007-04-23 09:58:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MNUC EAID KS KN
07SEOUL1189	MOFAT DELIVERS NONPAPER ON KIC EXPANSION [...] (C) In an April 23 meeting with A/DCM, MOFAT Director-General for North American Affairs Cho Byung-jae passed a nonpaper that says, given the February 13 "Initial Actions" agreement, the ROKG intends to resume efforts to expand development of the Kaesong Industrial Complex (KIC),which had be [...]	2007-04-24 07:37:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MNUC EAID KS KN
07SEOUL1203	HOW PRESIDENTIAL CAMPS ARE APPEALING TO KOREAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: South Korean youth today are generally less interested in politics, do not have a particular attachment to a candidate or political party, and are most concerned with the economy and finding a job. Unlike in the past, where the majority of the youth held progressive views on pol [...]	2007-04-25 08:48:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL KS
07SEOUL1211	THE POLITICS OF ALLIANCE RELATIONS (1 OF 3) [...] (C) SUMMARY OF CABLE SERIES: This report, the first in a series of three on the U.S.-Republic of Korea (ROK) Alliance, examines South Korean perceptions of their security environment. The second looks at what role the ROK sees for the Alliance in its security. The final report addresses how [...]	2007-04-26 07:20:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM PGOV PINS MARR MCAP KS KN CH JA
07SEOUL1213	ROK BY-ELECTIONS: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING? [...] (SBU) In by-elections held on Wednesday April 25, Korean voters elected three National Assembly members, one from the main opposition Grand National Party (GNP) and none from the ruling Uri Party. Still, as this election ended GNP's streak of dominating by-elections that started in summer 200 [...]	2007-04-26 07:46:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KS
07SEOUL1215	THE POLITICS OF ALLIANCE RELATIONS (2 OF 3) [...] (C) SUMMARY: This is the second in a series of cables on the politics of U.S.-ROK Alliance relations. Reftel A explored how the ROK perceives its security environment, concluding that the Korean public and their policy makers are heavily conflicted when it comes to relations with their neig [...]	2007-04-26 07:54:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM PGOV PINS MARR MCAP KS KN CH JA
07SEOUL1216	THE POLITICS OF ALLIANCE RELATIONS (3 OF 3) [...] (C) SUMMARY: This is the third and final cable in a series reporting on the politics of U.S.-ROK Alliance relations. Reftel A explored how the Republic of Korea views its security environment. Reftel B looked at how the U.S.-ROK Alliance fits with ROK security perspectives. This final rep [...]	2007-04-26 08:19:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM PGOV PINS MARR MCAP KS KN CH JA
07SEOUL1286	ROK OPPOSES BELARUS, SUPPORTS SLOVENIA FOR UNHRC [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-02 08:05:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UNHRC KS
07SEOUL1327	TREASURY SECRETARY PAULSON'S MARCH VISIT TO SEOUL [...] (C) SUMMARY. On the eve of the 8th KORUS-FTA round, Treasury Secretary Paulson visited Seoul March 6-7 to meet President Roh Moo-hyun, Deputy Prime Minister Kwon O-kyu, and Trade Minister Kim Hyun-chong. His discussions reaffirmed: (1) high-level support on both sides for keeping the KORUS- [...]	2007-05-07 01:22:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN ETRD KN KS PREL EINV PGOV
07SEOUL1329	ROKG SUPPORTS USG CLUSTER MUNITIONS POLICY [...] (C) On April 26 Acting DAS Frank J. Ruggiero met with Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT) Senior Coordinator for International Organizations Hwang Joon-kook and Kim Jong-hoon, Deputy Director of the International Disarmament Division of the Ministry of National Defense (MND) to seek [...]	2007-05-07 03:46:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM MARR MCAP PREL KS
07SEOUL136	AMBASSADOR'S LUNCH WITH FORMER PRESIDENT KIM [...] (C) Summary: On January 16, Ambassador and Mrs. Vershbow hosted former President Kim Dae-jung and his wife Lee Hee-Ho to lunch at the Ambassador's Residence. While professing to avoid interfering in politics, the 83-year old Kim -- who said his health had improved recently -- offered his vie [...]	2007-01-17 07:04:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MNUC ETRD ECON KS KN CH
07SEOUL1361	SOHN HAK-KYU PLANS TRIP NORTH TO BOOST RATINGS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Former Gyeonggi Governor and presidential candidate Sohn Hak-kyu met with the Ambassador on May 7 to discuss his planned May 9-12 trip to North Korea, where he hopes to discuss his proposed 10-year reconstruction plan for the North. He hoped his visit would contribute to the dev [...]	2007-05-08 07:50:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KN KS PGOV PINR PREL
07SEOUL1364	ROKG ON IRANIAN INVITATION FOR REACTOR BIDS [...] (C) A/POL delivered reftel demarche to Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade Director for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Park Chul-min on May 8. Park indicated that his office was aware of the Iranian invitation to bid and agreed with reftel points that the nuclear power plants were an eff [...]	2007-05-08 08:08:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG IR KNNP MNUC PARM KS
07SEOUL1365	PROMINENT NK DEFECTORS FORM RADICAL NGO [...] (C) "Aquariums of Pyongyang" author Kang Cheol-hwan, former DPRK inner-circle member Hwang Jang-yop and other prominent North Korean defectors have formed a new organization, the Committee for Democratization of North Korea (CDNK). Its main goals are to topple the DPRK regime and organize def [...]	2007-05-08 08:16:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF PGOV PINR KS KN
07SEOUL1384	LEE AND PARK SHOWDOWN HEATS UP [...] (C) SUMMARY: The two leading candidates for president face a decision point: whether to remain within the Grand National Party (GNP),agreeing to abide by the results of the party's August primary, or whether to leave the party and pursue the presidency independently. The two leading candida [...]	2007-05-09 08:00:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KS
07SEOUL1385	ROKG "VERY SATISFIED" WITH INTERNATIONAL COMPACT [...] (C) On May 9, Do Bong-kae, Deputy Director of Development Cooperation Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT) told poloff that ROK Foreign Minister Song Min-soon was "very satisfied" with the results of the International Compact with Iraq (ICI) conference in Egypt. Do said tha [...]	2007-05-09 08:40:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID EFIN KS IZ
07SEOUL1387	MEDIA REPORTS NORTH SOUGHT TALKS WITH SOUTH BEFORE [...] (C) Secret contacts between Seoul and Pyongyang are nothing new. Many previous ROK presidents, including Kim Dae-jung, Roh Tae-woo and Park Chung-hee, relied on their secret negotiations to harvest significant results. A flurry SIPDIS of press revelations indicate that President Roh Moo-h [...]	2007-05-09 22:34:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF PGOV KS KN
07SEOUL1404	ROK VIEWS ON UNHRC ELECTION--AGAINST BELARUS, FOR [...] (C) Nick: We enjoy good cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade on UN Human Rights Council (HRC) issues and have been told that the ROK will oppose the Belarus bid for a seat on the HRC. MOFAT told us on two occasions on May 2 (Ref B) and again on May 10, that Seoul would [...]	2007-05-10 09:09:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UNHRC KS
07SEOUL1405	NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR BAEK ON FTA, ALLIANCE, [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a May 10 lunch meeting with the Ambassador, National Security Advisor Baek Jong-chun said his responsibilities were defined: work closely to support the KORUS FTA, USFK relocation agreements, and progress in the Six-Party Talks (6PT). Baek expressed optimism that the Banco De [...]	2007-05-10 09:32:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MNUC KS KN
07SEOUL1412	NATIONAL SECURITY SECRETARY PARK SEES LITTLE [...] (C) Dr. Park Sun-won, Secretary to the President for National Security Strategy, offered a rather trouble-free assessment of the USFK camp return and relocation funding issues when he met with the A/DCM on May 10 at the Blue House. Dr. Park said he had met with ROK Minister of National Defen [...]	2007-05-11 05:51:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR KS
07SEOUL1418	LEE MYUNG-BAK ADVISOR ON ECONOMIC ISSUES AND DPRK [...] (C) Nam Sung-wook, Korea University economics professor and top North Korea policy advisor to leading presidential contender Lee Myung-bak, told Poloffs during a May 9 meeting that the 2007 presidential election was essentially about the economy, with North Korea a secondary issue. He said fo [...]	2007-05-11 08:02:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KS PINR
07SEOUL1439	URI PARTY VISIT TO PYONGYANG: DPRK SAID IT IS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Five Uri Party parliamentarians, led by potential presidential candidate Rep. Kim Hyuk-kyu, met with the Ambassador on May 9 to brief him on their May 2-5 trip to Pyongyang. Kim said that the North Korean side had stressed: (a) its commitment to implementing the February 13 "Initi [...]	2007-05-14 06:58:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KS KN
07SEOUL1444	FORMER PM HAN MYEONG-SOOK SEEKS TO UNDERSTAND U.S. [...] (C) Former Prime Minister and current presidential contender Han Myeong-sook met with the Ambassador over lunch on May 11. Han expressed optimism that the KORUS FTA maintained strong support in the National Assembly and may be ratified in the fall; legislators opposed to the FTA were in the [...]	2007-05-14 08:55:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KS
07SEOUL1448	S/CRS AMBASSADOR HERBST'S CONSULTATIONS IN SEOUL [...] (SBU) The U.S. and ROKG held a second round of consultations on reconstruction and stabilization (R&S) issues on April 26. The U.S. delegation led by Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization (S/CRS) John Herbst obtained Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT) Vice Minister Ch [...]	2007-05-15 01:07:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KCRS KS
07SEOUL1463	ROK-JAPAN-CHINA TO HOLD DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) SUMMARY: On May 15, MOFAT's Asian and Pacific Affairs Deputy Director-General, Cho Yong-chun, told POL M/C that China will host a Deputy Foreign Minister trilateral with ROK and Japanese counterparts on May 19 in Beijing. Cho said this meeting, the first Foreign Ministry senior officials [...]	2007-05-15 09:02:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KS CH JA
07SEOUL1479	PROGRESSIVES STILL FAR FROM UNITED [...] (C) SUMMARY: The GNP candidates have, for now, patched up their differences and are headed toward an August primary showdown. (See Reftel) However, on the progressive side of the political spectrum, the disparate groups and their leaders are far from united. Pro-Roh politicians as well as Pr [...]	2007-05-16 08:29:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KS
07SEOUL1480	UNIFICATION MINISTER CLAIMS RICE AID TO DPRK CAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a May 16 meeting with the Ambassador, Unification Minister Lee Jae-joung expressed enthusiasm about the planned May 17 inter-Korean railways tests calling them a first step toward restoring peace to the Korean Peninsula. Lee said that inter-Korean dialogue and Six-Party Talks ( [...]	2007-05-16 09:09:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MNUC KS KN
07SEOUL1491	ROKG: NO LINKAGE FOR SMA FUNDS AND USFK RELOCATION [...] (C) Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs Shim Yoon-joe requested a meeting with the Ambassador to convey the ROKG response to the issues raised by Deputy Undersecretary of Defense Richard Lawless with ROK Ambassador Lee Tae-shik on May 8. Shim said that the ROKG appreciated Lawless's explanat [...]	2007-05-17 01:47:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MCAP PARM PREL KS
07SEOUL1532	ROKG SUPPORTS USG ARF PROPOSALS [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 4. 2. (C) On May 18, Kim Jong-min of the Security Policy Division and Kim Jae-woo, Deputy Director of the Disarmament and Nonproliferation Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT),delivered the ROKG official response to [...]	2007-05-18 06:41:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ARF KNNP PTER KS
07SEOUL1551	ROKG WILL NOT ATTEND LIMA MEETING ON CLUSTER [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel A demarche to Kim Hye-jin of the Disarmament and Nonproliferation Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Kim said that the ROKG position on cluster munitions (CM) had not changed since the April 24 bilateral discussions with Acting DAS Frank Ruggier [...]	2007-05-21 06:54:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PARM PREL MOPS KS
07SEOUL1557	BILATERAL RICE AID TO START IN LATE MAY BUT 6PT [...] (C) Rice assistance: MOFAT North America DG Cho Byung-jae said that the ROKG would provide some bilateral rice aid by the end of May, given political and interagency pressure to do so; ideally, the Banco Delta Asia (BDA) issue would be resolved by then and the DPRK would start Yongbyon shutd [...]	2007-05-21 09:11:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID ECON KS KN
07SEOUL1576	XXXXXXXXXXXX SHARES IDEAS ON DPRK [...] (C)XXXXXXXXXXXX Arranging an Eric Clapton concert in Pyongyang could also be useful, he said, given Kim Jong-il's second son's devotion to the rock legend. END SUMMARY. XXXXXXXXXXXX ---------------------------------- 2. (C) XXXXXXXXXXXX DOING BUSINESS IN THE DPRK -------------------------- [...]	2007-05-23 02:45:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF PGOV KS KN
07SEOUL1585	ROKG RECONSTRUCTION ASSISTANCE IN AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) Summary. Officials of the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) provided Poloff with an overview of the Republic of Korea (ROK)'s official assistance to Afghanistan since 2002. KOICA provided USD 45 million of assistance from 2002-2004 and has pledged an additional USD 10 milli [...]	2007-05-23 07:03:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC EAID MARR PREL KS AF
07SEOUL160	CONSTITUTIONAL REVISION TAKES SPOTLIGHT [...] (C) Summary: In a surprise statement last week President Roh proposed a constitutional revision to change the current single five-year presidential term to a renewable four-year term to synchronize the presidential and general elections. Roh said he would soon initiate a bill to revise the con [...]	2007-01-19 02:25:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PIRN KS
07SEOUL166	GNP: IN THE LEAD, BUT NOT IN THE BAG? [...] (C) SUMMARY: Goh Kun's withdrawal from the presidential elections in South Korea means that the top three most popular candidates are all from the conservative Grand National Party (GNP). With combined approval ratings for the three GNP candidates according to a January 16 SBS-Hankook Resear [...]	2007-01-19 07:05:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KS
07SEOUL167	WHITHER URI PARTY? [...] (C) Summary: The progressive Uri Party, facing rock bottom popularity with only single-digit support, suffered another major setback with the departure of Goh Kun from the presidential race on January 16. First and foremost challenge for Uri leaders is to decide what form the party should ta [...]	2007-01-19 07:16:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KS
07SEOUL1670	LEE MYUNG-BAK FOREIGN POLICY ADVISORS ON U.S.-ROK [...] (C) Members of presidential contender Lee Myung-bak's foreign policy team told poloffs on May 30 that Lee would likely advocate a "pragmatic" approach to the U.S.-ROK alliance, aimed principally to preserve room to strengthen the relationship after the election without alienating progressives [...]	2007-06-01 08:08:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KS KN
07SEOUL1687	NORTH-SOUTH MINISTERIAL HITS RICE HEADWIND [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a June 4 briefing for the diplomatic community, Um Jong-sik, Director-General for Unification Policy Planning at the Ministry of Unification (MOU),described the May 29 - June 1 inter-Korean ministerial talks as helpful in that the North Koreans showed up and did not walk out [...]	2007-06-04 09:12:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MNUC EAID KS KN
07SEOUL169	ROKG DEMARCHES CHINESE EMBASSY ON ASAT TEST [...] (U) This is an Action Request. Please see para 4. 2. (C) On January 19, Park Chul-min, Director of Disarmament and Non-Proliferation, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT) provided poloff with the ROKG response to the Ambassador's January 14 demarche regarding China's anti-satelli [...]	2007-01-19 08:17:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KS MARR MNUC PARM PREL CH
07SEOUL170	ROKG STILL PLANS TO ALLOW MACHINE TOOL EXPORT TO [...] (U) This is an Action Request. Please see para 4. 2. (C) On January 19, poloff delivered reftel A points to Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT),Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Deputy Kim Jae-woo. Kim informed poloff that the primary factor in the ROKG decision was the lack of [...]	2007-01-19 08:17:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM MTCR PREL ETTC KS PK
07SEOUL1711	LEE MYUNG-BAK: SMOOTH SAILING TILL DECEMBER? [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a June 4 meeting, the Ambassador and GNP presidential front-runner Lee Myung-bak discussed North Korea, the December elections, and the FTA. Lee also asked the Ambassador to help set up a meeting with Secretary Rice during his scheduled June 11-14 trip to Washington D.C. Le [...]	2007-06-05 09:40:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KS ECON KN
07SEOUL1712	PARK GEUN-HYE REMAINS CONFIDENT IN HER PRINCIPLES [...] (C) In a June 4 meeting with the Ambassador, ROK presidential candidate Park Geun-hye said that she was optimistic that the public would increasingly support her campaign as she got her policy messages out. Park said that the public responded well to the first nationally televised debate am [...]	2007-06-05 09:50:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KS
07SEOUL1727	FINANCE AUTHORITIES SEEK WON STABILITY [...] (C) The Korean won hit a nine-year high versus the Japanese yen on June 1, prompting the Ministry of Commerce, Industry, and Energy publicly to ask the Ministry of Finance and Economy (MOFE) "to pursue currency stability and strengthen export supports." Earlier in May, the won's appreciatio [...]	2007-06-07 05:24:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EINV ETRD KS
07SEOUL173	MOFAT PROTESTS GENERAL BELL'S PUBLIC REMARKS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a January 18 meeting with the acting DCM, MOFAT Director General for North American Affairs Cho Byong-jae expressed a strong protest about two aspects of the public remarks General Bell had delivered at the Seoul Foreign Correspondent's Club earlier in the day. The first prob [...]	2007-01-19 08:20:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS MARR PREL PGOV KN KS
07SEOUL1740	ROK-JAPAN-PRC TRILATERAL BARELY MENTIONS DPRK [...] (C) SUMMARY: The June 3 trilateral foreign ministers' meeting focused on efforts to increase trilateral economic and civic cooperation, but glossed over security issues in Northeast Asia (including North Korea) and other regions, MOFAT contacts told poloffs on June 5. The host-ROK agenda had [...]	2007-06-07 08:54:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON ENRG KS JA CH
07SEOUL175	NEXT STEPS ON NORTH KOREANS IN PHNOM PENH [...] (C) On January 19, poloff delivered ref a points, on the four North Korean asylum seekers in Cambodia, to Yu Joon-ha, Director of MOFAT's Inter-Korean Policy Division. Yu said that the ROKG's position remained the same since it was asked in October 2006 (ref b),which was that Seoul had no o [...]	2007-01-19 09:03:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL KS CB
07SEOUL1755	ROKG RELUCTANT TO CONTRIBUTE TO WFP PROGRAM IN DPRK [...] (U) Action Request: See paragraph 4. 2. (C) On June 8, A/POL delivered ref A points recommending that the ROKG contribute to the WFP's DPRK program as soon as possible despite the lack of DPRK enthusiasm for the idea, to Cho Byung-jae, Director-General for North American Affairs at the Mi [...]	2007-06-08 08:02:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID EAGR WFP KS KN
07SEOUL1774	ROKG SUPPORTS HRC COUNTRY-SPECIFIC MANDATES, [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-11 07:47:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KS
07SEOUL1816	ROKG PREFERS SEPARATE DEMARCHES TO THAILAND ON [...] (C) On May 12, Park Ji-hyun, Deputy Director of MOFAT's Inter-Korean Policy Division, expressed appreciation that the USG supported the ROKG's efforts to resist the Royal Thailand Government's proposal that all North Korean asylum seekers travel from Thailand to South Korea before being proces [...]	2007-06-14 07:48:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL KS KN TH
07SEOUL1826	MOFAT EQUIVOCAL ABOUT CONTINUING THE ROK PRESENCE [...] (C) Summary. In a June 7 meeting, DoS and OSD representatives presented the ROKG with a proposed course of action for the ROK's continued presence in Afghanistan beyond 2007. In response, Ministry of Trade and Foreign Affairs (MOFAT) North America III Division Director Lee Jeong-kyu acknowl [...]	2007-06-15 04:36:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL MOPS MARR PBTS KS
07SEOUL1841	PROGRESSIVE COALTION: CLEAR AS MUD? [...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 11, the Ambassador met with Park Sang-cheon and Kim Han-gill, the co-chairs of the newly formed Moderate Unified Democrats (MUD) and discussed FTA, North Korea, Kaesong Industrial Complex (KIC),SOFA and the future of the MUD party. The MUD co-chairs said their goal was [...]	2007-06-18 08:03:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KN KS PGOV PREL
07SEOUL185	GENERAL BELL MEETS KOREAN NSC POLICY CHIEF BAEK [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 17, 2007, General Burwell B. Bell, Commander UNC/CFC/USFK, paid an introductory call on Dr. Baek Jong-chon, the recently appointed Unification, Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Chief of the Presidential Secretariat and head of South Korea's National Security SIPD [...]	2007-01-22 05:27:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS PREL PGOV KS
07SEOUL1852	SPI 13: U.S.-ROK SECURITY POLICY INITIATIVE TALKS [...] (C) Summary. The thirteenth U.S.-ROK Security Policy Initiative talks (SPI 13) took place June 8, 2007 in Seoul. Topics addressed included the transition of wartime operational command (OPCON),UNC Armistice maintenance responsibilities, airspace management, security cooperation in Afghanista [...]	2007-06-19 08:22:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KS MARR MNUC PARM PREL KN
07SEOUL1893	DUSD LAWLESS' ALLIANCE MEETINGS WITH MOFAT, BLUE [...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 7, visiting Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (DUSD) Richard Lawless met with the following senior South Korean officials at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT) and the Blue House: Senior Secretary to the President for National Security Yun Byung-se, MOFAT No [...]	2007-06-22 04:49:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MCAP PARM PREL KS
07SEOUL1894	(S) ROKG DENIES PENDING LICENSE FOR EXPORT OF [...] (S) On June 22, Kim Jae-woo, Deputy Director of the Disarmament and Nonproliferation Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT) informed poloff that the ROK Ministry of Commerce, Industry, and Energy (MOCIE) had completed its investigation of Insung International Corporation [...]	2007-06-22 04:49:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	MTCRE PARM PREL ETTC KS IR
07SEOUL1908	NEW ROK SMA FORMULA HIGHLY PROBLEMATIC [...] (C) Summary. On June 5, 2007, Ambassador Robert Loftis, Senior Advisor for Security Negotiations and Agreements, held a two-hour discussion and working lunch with Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT) Director General for North American Affairs Cho Byung-jae to discuss the ROK's "Propo [...]	2007-06-25 08:23:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MCAP PARM PREL KS
07SEOUL194	DEFECTORS SEEK NK REGIME CHANGE THROUGH CIVIL [...] (C) People for Successful Corean Reunification (PSCORE) is an organization newly founded by resettled North Koreans. While its short-term goal is to increase awareness of North Korea's human rights issues, the organization hopes ultimately to establish a network in the ROK, China and North Ko [...]	2007-01-22 08:33:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF PGOV PINR KS KN
07SEOUL1964	FORMER PRESIDENT KIM YOUNG-SAM: LOOKING FORWARD TO [...] (C) Summary: In a June 26 luncheon meeting with the Ambassador, former President Kim Young-sam (KYS) said that the next ROK president would be a conservative from the Grand National Party, either former Seoul Mayor Lee Myung-bak or former GNP Chairperson Park Geun-hye. Kim believed that Lee, [...]	2007-06-29 06:33:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KS KN
07SEOUL1965	ROKG TO CONSIDER CONTRIBUTION FOR HYBRID [...] (C) On June 28, the DCM conveyed reftel objectives encouraging capitals to contribute to expected UN/AU Hybrid Operations in Darfur to Park In-kook, Deputy Minister for Policy Planning and International Operations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. The DCM expressed USG appreciati [...]	2007-07-01 23:03:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID KPKO UNSC MASS KS SU
07SEOUL2017	ROK JOURNALIST'S OBSERVATIONS ON DPRK TRIP: SHAME [...] (C) A former JoongAng Ilbo journalist who had covered North Korea for two decades got his first chance to travel to Pyongyang and other parts of North Korea in late June. He observed budding capitalism, including a tailor shop, massage parlor, and Chinese casino in his hotel, but was surprised [...]	2007-07-06 05:08:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON KN KS
07SEOUL2081	NATIONAL ASSEMBLY CRITICIZES ROKG FOR MISHANDLING [...] (U) Summary. On June 25-26, the ROK National Assembly's Committee on Environment and Labor held a hearing on the clean up of returned USFK bases, expressing strongly critical views on the environmental conditions of those bases. Current and former top officials from the ROKG, including Forei [...]	2007-07-11 08:10:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	MCAP MARR PREL PARM KS
07SEOUL210	ASAT: CHINESE RESPONSE TO ROK DEMARCHE [...] (C) In response to the ROKG's demarche objecting to China's anti-satellite test (Ref A),the Chinese Foreign Ministry contacted the ROK Embassy in Beijing to convey the following points: -- China confirms that it had conducted a test in space on January 11; -- The test was not aimed at [...]	2007-01-23 05:41:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM MNUC MARR KS CH
07SEOUL2144	KAESONG INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX: THE INTER-KOREAN [...] (C) The Kaesong Industrial Complex (KIC),a tidy enclave where 24 South Korean companies employ almost 16,000 North Korean workers on DPRK soil, is the most tangible and significant aspect of North-South relations. By our calculation using parallel market exchange rates, the North Korean gov [...]	2007-07-18 06:15:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON KS KN
07SEOUL2146	AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ: WHAT THE ROK WILL/WON'T DO [...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 16, MOFAT North America DG Cho Byung-jae conveyed the following ROKG decisions to POLMC regarding South Korea's planned 2008 role in Iraq and Afghanistan. -- The ROK will withdraw all of its troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2007. -- In place of those troops, the R [...]	2007-07-18 07:20:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MASS MOPS PGOV PTER PREL AF IZ KS
07SEOUL2157	AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ: WHAT THE ROK WILL/WON'T DO [...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 16, MOFAT North America DG Cho Byung-jae conveyed the following ROKG decisions to POLMC regarding South Korea's planned 2008 role in Iraq and Afghanistan. -- The ROK will withdraw all of its troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2007. -- In place of those troops, the R [...]	2007-07-18 08:16:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MASS MOPS PGOV PTER PREL AF IZ KS
07SEOUL217	POLICY PLANNING TRILATERAL, SESSION 2: ENERGY [...] (C) S/P Director Dr. Stephen Krasner and his delegation met with Korean and Japanese counterparts January 10-11 for a trilateral policy planning dialogue (ref a). Over lunch on January 11, the three delegations discussed energy security, peacebuilding, and UN reform. Both Korea and Japan, [...]	2007-01-23 07:54:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG PREL AORC KUNR KPKO KS JA US
07SEOUL2178	ROK PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: STILL THE POLITICS OF [...] (C) The late Gregory Henderson, an FSO who had served several tours in Korea in the 1940s and 1960s, is well remembered as the author of "Korea: The Politics of the Vortex." The title remains an accurate description of Korean politics today: a spiraling whirlpool that sucks everything toward [...]	2007-07-20 05:13:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KS
07SEOUL219	ROKG SUPPORTIVE OF US POSITION ON CLUSTER MUNITIONS [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 4. 2. (C) On January 23, Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Kim Hye-jin of the Disarmament and Nonproliferation Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT). Kim said that the Republic of Korea (ROK) agreed that any discus [...]	2007-01-23 08:28:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PARM PREL KS
07SEOUL22	ROK DEFENSE WHITE PAPER LABELS DPRK A 'SERIOUS [...] (C) Summary. The Ministry of National Defense (MND) released its biennial Defense White Paper on December 29. The White Paper upgraded its characterization of the DPRK from a "direct military threat" to a "serious threat" to national security. The White Paper's focus remains on the threat po [...]	2007-01-04 04:22:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL MARR MNUC KS KN
07SEOUL220	POLICY PLANNING TRILATERAL, SESSION 1: THE KOREAN [...] (C) During Session 1 of the January 11 U.S.-ROK-Japan Policy Planning Talks, ROK Deputy Foreign Minister Park In-kook, Japanese Deputy Vice Minister Masaharu Kono, and S/P Director Stephen R. Krasner outlined their respective countries' foreign policy priorities and strategies toward North Ko [...]	2007-01-23 08:30:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KS
07SEOUL2209	ROK DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER DISCUSSES HOSTAGE [...] (C) In a July 23 meeting with the CDA, ROK Deputy Foreign Minister Shim Yoon-joe expressed ROKG appreciation for USG cooperation and information sharing in handling the Taliban kidnapping of Korean civilians in Afghanistan. In particular, Shim said that the ROKG appreciated USG assurances th [...]	2007-07-23 09:34:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV MARR AF KS
07SEOUL221	POLICY PLANNING TRILATERAL, SESSION 3: CHINA AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: S/P Krasner discussed China, India and East Asian architecture with ROK Deputy Minister for Policy Planning and International Organizations Park In-kook and Japanese Deputy Vice Minister for Foreign Policy Masaharu Kono during U.S.-Japan-ROK Trilateral Policy Planning Talks on J [...]	2007-01-23 08:30:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	MNUC PREL PARM CH IN
07SEOUL2253	TIMING OF ROKG DELEGATION TO UNGA UNDETERMINED [...] (C) On July 25, Lee Kyung-chul, Deputy Director of the UN Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade told poloff that President Roh Moo-hyun intended to participate in the UNGA General Debate, with an address tentatively set for September 25. However, the timing of his trip was expe [...]	2007-07-26 22:51:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL OVIP ITRA KSEP UNGA KS
07SEOUL2283	ROKG INFORMED ABOUT UNGA EVENT ON LITERACY AND [...] (C) On July 30, poloff conveyed ref A information, regarding the September 24 heads of state spouse event on literacy and health that will be hosted by Mrs. Bush, to Lee Kyung-chul, Deputy Director of the UN Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Lee expressed appreciation for [...]	2007-07-30 08:12:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SOCI TSPL UNGA OVIP KS
07SEOUL23	ROK DEFENSE REFORM AND THE 2007 NATIONAL DEFENSE [...] (C) Summary. The ROK National Assembly (NA) has approved the Bill on Defense Reform designed to modernize the ROK military by the year 2020 at the cost of Won 621 trillion (USD 667.7 billion). Motivating factors behind the military modernization plan include deterring the North Korean threat, [...]	2007-01-04 04:22:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL KS KN
07SEOUL230	ROH'S NEW YEAR ADDRESS FOCUSES ON DOMESTIC ISSUES [...] (SBU) Although he made brief mention of the importance of co-existence and engagement with the DPRK, President Roh Moo-hyun focused almost entirely on domestic and economic issues in his annual New Year's address delivered on January 23. Roh omitted references to the U.S.-ROK alliance and a [...]	2007-01-24 23:07:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KS
07SEOUL2336	AFGHAN HOSTAGE SITUATION: MISSION'S ASSESSMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Fifteen days after 23 Korean hostages were kidnapped by the Taliban in Afghanistan, emotions are running high in Korea. Especially after two hostages were killed, pressure is mounting on the ROKG to ensure the remaining hostages are saved. Some politicians and leftist groups are [...]	2007-08-03 08:43:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR NATO PGOV PREL PTER AF KN KS
07SEOUL2337	ROK EMPHASIZES AFGHANISTAN HOSTAGE CRISIS DURING [...] (C) SUMMARY: The current hostage crisis in Afghanistan dominated the agenda of meetings with Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (DASD) David S. Sedney during his SIPDIS orientation trip to the ROK on August 2. ROKG officials in the Ministry fo Froiegn Affairs and Trade (MOFAT),Ministry [...]	2007-08-04 06:40:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL MOPS KS AF
07SEOUL2368	ROK EMPHASIZES AFGHANISTAN HOSTAGE CRISIS DURING [...] (C) SUMMARY: The current hostage crisis in Afghanistan dominated the agenda at meetings Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (DASD) David Sedney had with several ROK officials on August 2. Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT),Ministry of National Defense (MND),and Blue House's Nati [...]	2007-08-07 08:45:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL MOPS KS AF
07SEOUL2369	DASD SEDNEY MEETINGS IN SEOUL: UNRESOLVED SMA AND [...] (C) SUMMARY. The ongoing ROK hostage crisis in Afghanistan (reported reftel) and unresolved issues surrounding the relocation of U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) and the use of Special Measures Agreement (SMA) funds for relocation were key ROK agenda items in meetings with Deputy Assistant Secretary [...]	2007-08-07 08:50:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PARM PREL KS
07SEOUL2383	ROH ANNOUNCES AUGUST 28-30 NORTH-SOUTH SUMMIT [...] (C) Summary: With the ROK presidential election only four months away and his favored candidates registering only single-digit support, President Roh Moo-hyun has played his ace in the hole, the North Korea card. The announcement today, August 8 that Roh would go to Pyongyang to meet with K [...]	2007-08-08 22:15:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KN KS PGOV PINR PREL
07SEOUL2410	ROK-DPRK SUMMIT LIKELY TO BROADEN ECONOMIC [...] (C) During the two days since the surprise announcement of an August 28-30 North-South summit to be held in Pyongyang (reftel),hints have emerged that the ROKG will offer to considerably broaden economic cooperation with the North under the heading of "social overhead capital," possibly inclu [...]	2007-08-10 09:04:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KN KS PGOV PINR PREL
07SEOUL2444	MOFAT DEPUTY MINISTER PARK TO TAKE LEAD ON [...] (C) On August 14, Park In-kook, Deputy Minister for Policy Planning and International Organizations at MOFAT, met with the Charge d'Affaires to inform him he would be leaving the next day for Afghanistan where he would take over as lead official for the South Korean government's handling of th [...]	2007-08-14 10:10:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV MARR MOPS KS AF
07SEOUL2445	MOFAT DEPUTY MINISTER PARK TO TAKE LEAD ON [...] (C) On August 14, Park In-kook, Deputy Minister for Policy Planning and International Organizations at MOFAT, met with the Charge d'Affaires to inform him he would be leaving the next day for Afghanistan where he would take over as lead official for the South Korean government's handling of th [...]	2007-08-14 10:11:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PGOV MARR MOPS KS AF

07SEOUL2457	ROK-DPRK SUMMIT: PROGRESSIVE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY [...] (C) Progressive National Assembly members Lee Hwa-young and Kim Chong-ryul told poloffs on August 16 that President Roh Moo-hyun will emphasize strengthening economic ties during the August 28-30 summit with Kim Jong-il because he sees denuclearization as best handled through the Six-Party Ta [...]	2007-08-16 08:33:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KN KS PGOV PREL ECON EINV
07SEOUL2471	GNP DECISION TIME APPROACHES: LEE MYUNG-BAK IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: On August 19, the opposition Grand National Party (GNP) will hold its primary in polling booths throughout the country. Polls show a significant lead for front-runner Lee Myung-bak -- anywhere from 5 to 12 percent -- and while the number of undecided voters is still high and the [...]	2007-08-17 06:13:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KN KS PGOV PREL
07SEOUL2529	ROK-DPRK SUMMIT: FOREIGN AND UNIFICATION MINISTERS [...] (C) Expanded North-South economic cooperation is only possible if the DPRK continues to make progress on denuclearization, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade Song Min-soon told the Ambassador at an August 20 meeting. -- Song also said the summit would be about implementing existing agreem [...]	2007-08-21 09:19:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KN KS PGOV PREL ECON EINV
07SEOUL2531	NORTH/SOUTH AGREE TO WAGE HIKE AT KAESONG [...] (C) On August 3, North and South Korean authorities agreed to give North Korean workers at the Kaesong Industrial Complex (KIC) a 5-percent pay raise, effective September 10. DPRK authorities had sought two earlier pay raises since the KIC broke ground in 2003, but this pay hike is the first [...]	2007-08-21 22:31:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ELAB PGOV PREL KS KN
07SEOUL2539	GNP CANDIDATE LEE MYUNG-BAK TAKES AIM TOWARD [...] (C) SUMMARY: Former Seoul Mayor Lee Myung-bak won a narrow victory in the Grand National Party (GNP) primary and is well positioned to become the next ROK President. Based on his public statements and on conversations with his key advisors, important elements of Lee's campaign for the Dece [...]	2007-08-22 08:11:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KN KS PGOV PREL PINR
07SEOUL2560	SOUTH KOREAN MILITARY VEHICLES SALE TO IRAN [...] (C) During a meeting on August 23 with Park Chul-min, Director of the Disarmament and Non-proliferation Division at the South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT),Park inquired whether the U.S. Government would have any objection to the following sale of Kia Motors vehicles to [...]	2007-08-24 06:54:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM PINS PTER MASS KS IR AF IZ
07SEOUL2573	LEE MYUNG-BAK COMES OUT AGAINST OCTOBER SUMMIT [...] (C) Summary: GNP Presidential Candidate Lee Myung-bak advisor Nam Sung-wook told poloffs on August 23 that newly-crowned GNP candidate Lee was opposed to the proposed October 2-4 North-South Summit because of the effect it could have on the December elections, and because the summit aftermat [...]	2007-08-27 08:33:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KN KS PGOV PREL PINR
07SEOUL2611	NORTH KOREANS ARE FENDING FOR THEMSELVES [...] (C) ROK Ministry of Unification (MOU) officials estimate that most of the DPRK's current economic activity is informal, while its formal economy and industrial base has severely eroded since the 1990s. As a result, the average household in North Korea earns the bulk of its income through the [...]	2007-08-30 02:01:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KN KS ECON PGOV
07SEOUL2674	BLUE HOUSE PREVIEWS U.S.-ROK SUMMIT MEETING: FTA [...] (C) SUMMARY: At the September 7 APEC bilateral summit meeting in Sydney, President Roh will inform President Bush that Korea has presented the U.S.-Korea FTA (KORUS FTA) to the National Assembly for ratification just prior to the meeting, a key Blue House economic adviser told us September [...]	2007-09-04 08:02:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	AS EAGR ETRD IN KS PREL
07SEOUL2694	SUBJECT: NORTH-SOUTH SUMMIT: HOW IT CAME ABOUT [...] (C) Summary: According to a senior Blue House staffer, the Roh Administration had been pursuing a North-South summit for several years, but to no avail until two months ago. The negotiations were conducted by NIS (National Intelligence Service) and NSC staff. Cabinet members, including Fore [...]	2007-09-05 08:24:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL MNUC KS KN
07SEOUL2695	THE LONE STAR SAGA CONTINUES: HONG KONG SHANGHAI [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 3, Lone Star Funds (LS),a Dallas-based private equity firm, agreed to sell its 51-percent management stake in Korea Exchange Bank (KEB) to Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) for USD 6.3 billion, pending regulatory approval. The sale would permit LS to c [...]	2007-09-05 08:24:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN EINV ECON PGOV PREL KS
07SEOUL2696	NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR ON ROK-DPRK SUMMIT AND [...] (C) During a September 3 meeting with the Ambassador, National Security Advisor Baek Jong-chun, who will accompany President Roh Moo-hyun to the APEC meetings, said that the October 2-4 North-South summit would support the Six-Party Talks and denuclearization, but he was not confident that Kim [...]	2007-09-05 08:28:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KN KS PGOV PREL
07SEOUL2713	UNDP PRE-PRIMARY: WORKING FROM NINE TO FIVE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an attempt to generate interest in the fledgling liberal United New Democratic Party (UNDP) and to reduce the number of candidates, the successor to the Uri Party conducted a pre-primary to pare down the number of candidates from nine to five over September 3-5. The five winne [...]	2007-09-06 08:28:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KN KS PGOV PREL PINR
07SEOUL2728	AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH PROF. MOON CHUNG-IN, GNP [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador discussed the latest developments in the Six-Party Talks, the upcoming North-South summit and ROK's December presidential elections with Yonsei Political Science Professor Moon Chung-in and GNP Lawmaker Won Hee-ryong. Over a relaxed lunch, Moon explained that Pres [...]	2007-09-07 08:01:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KN KS PGOV PREL PINR
07SEOUL276	PDAS STEPHENS' MEETING WITH DEPUTY UNIFICATION [...] (C) Deputy Minister of Unification for Unification Policy and Public Relations Lee Kwan-sei told EAP Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Kathy Stephens that the ROKG was cautiously optimistic about progress at the next round of Six Party Talks (6PT),would continue the suspension of rice-and- [...]	2007-01-29 07:33:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KN KS PREL OVIP
07SEOUL2761	JAPAN-DPRK WORKING GROUP MEETING [...] (C) Summary: A Japanese Embassy contact told us that the September 5-6 Japan-North Korea bilateral meeting in Ulaanbaatar was "better" than the previous meeting in Hanoi, especially the overall atmosphere. One concrete result was that North Korea agreed to have further meetings. Substantive [...]	2007-09-11 08:21:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KS KN JP
07SEOUL2800	TOP POLITICAL ANALYST SAYS "LUCKY LEE" WILL WIN IN [...] (C) Summary: With just over three months until the presidential election, GNP candidate Lee Myung-bak leads all polls and most political observers predict he will celebrate his birthday, December 19, with a victory. Park Song-min, head of MIN political consultants, a leading political analyst [...]	2007-09-14 02:06:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KN KS PGOV PREL PINR
07SEOUL2842	AFGHANISTAN: HOSTAGE CRISIS DOES NOT AFFECT ROKG [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 7. SUMMARY ------- 2. (C) On September 17, Cho Byung-Jae, Director General for North American Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT),told Pol M/C that the ROKG had decided to move forward with its pre-ROK hostage crisis pla [...]	2007-09-17 08:11:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PREL PTER PGOV MASS KS AF IZ
07SEOUL2845	THREE-MAN RACE EMERGES AFTER FIRST ROUND IN UNDP [...] (C) Summary: Former Unification Minister Chung Dong-young was the big winner in the United New Democratic Party's four primary elections held over the weekend, placing first in three out of the four races. Former Gyeonggi Province Governor Sohn Hak-kyu came in second, despite his higher poll [...]	2007-09-17 09:11:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KN KS PGOV PREL PINR
07SEOUL2861	LEE WINS PRIMARY, WHAT NEXT? [...] (C) Summary: Conservative Grand National Party (GNP) presidential candidate Lee Myung-bak has started to revamp the party just three months ahead of the presidential election. After emerging as the GNP candidate on August 20, Lee stated that he would embrace Park Geun-hye's supporters. Howeve [...]	2007-09-18 06:43:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KN KS PGOV PREL PINR
07SEOUL287	URI PARTY: RATS JUMP SHIP; CAN THEY SWIM? [...] (C) Summary: Between January 23 and 28, four members of the Uri Party withdrew from the ruling Uri Party. Before the February 14 party convention, many others are expected to follow suit and abandon President Roh's party. With the withdrawal of National Assemblyman Im Jong-in on January 23, [...]	2007-01-30 07:50:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KS
07SEOUL2876	SENIOR KBS CORRESPONDENTS SEE GNP'S VICTORY [...] (C) Summary: According to two senior Korean Broadcasting System (KBS) correspondents, Lee Myung-bak would be victorious in December, not because of Lee's qualities or performance, but because of three big macro trends in Korean society: less nationalism, more suspicion of North Korea, and m [...]	2007-09-19 05:14:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KN KS PGOV PREL PINR
07SEOUL2885	IAEA BOG FOLLOWUP: ROKG SUPPORTS CONTINUED PRESSURE ON IRAN TO COOPERATE WITH IAEA [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Park Chul-min, Director, Disarmament and Nonproliferation Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Park, who had attended the September 10-14 IAEA Board of Governors' (BOG) meetings in Vienna, said the ROKG continued to share USG concerns about [...]	2007-09-19 08:15:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	IR IAEA MNUC PARM EUN KS KNNP
07SEOUL2886	CHUNG OVERTAKES SOHN IN POLLS [...] (C) Summary: Chung Dong-young's early victories in the first rounds of the liberal United New Democratic Party's (UNDP) primaries (See reftel) boosted his poll ratings into the double digits for the first time. A September 18 Donga Ilbo newspaper poll also showed a six percent drop for conser [...]	2007-09-19 08:17:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KN KS PGOV PREL PINR
07SEOUL2906	NSA BAEK: EXPECT NO SURPRISES FROM N-S SUMMIT [...] (C) National Security Advisor Baek Jong-chun told the Ambassador during a September 19 meeting that all potential agenda items for the North-South Summit were now public knowledge. As a result, there would be no surprises at the summit. Baek thought that a joint summit statement would be 1/3 [...]	2007-09-20 08:18:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KS KN
07SEOUL2940	FORMER UNIFICATION MINISTER JUNG SE-HYUN ON [...] (C) Summary: In a September 14 meeting with poloff, former Unification Minister (Jan. 2002-Jun. 2004) Jung Se-hyun said that the upcoming October 2-4 North-South summit would focus on the economy. Jung said that a commitment by one of the major ROK chaebols (Samsung, LG, Hyundai, etc.) to in [...]	2007-09-27 06:20:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KN KS PGOV PREL PINR
07SEOUL2960	ADVISOR SAYS GNP CANDIDATE LEE LACKS CLEAR FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary: Former Foreign Minister Yoo Chong-ha, a senior advisor to Lee Myung-bak, told poloffs on September 26 that Lee's lack of overall foreign policy vision worried him. Since Lee did not have a fixed idea about how Korea should relate to its neighbors, Lee was flexible and open to ide [...]	2007-09-28 08:04:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KN KS PGOV PREL PINR
07SEOUL2974	SUBJECT: ISSUES TO WATCH AT THE ROK-DPRK SUMMIT, [...] (C) President Roh Moo-hyun and his 300-person entourage of businesspeople, journalists and support staff will drive from Seoul to Pyongyang on the morning of October 2 for the second ROK-DPRK summit meeting with Kim Jong-il. This is the first chance for Roh and Kim Jong-il to meet face to face [...]	2007-10-01 10:31:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KN KS PGOV PREL
07SEOUL3006	ROH SURPRISED BY DPRK ATTITUDE, BUT NO SURPRISES [...] (C) While the joint declaration from the North-South Summit contained no major surprises, President Roh was reported as being surprised by the level of suspicion in his meetings with the DPRK. The joint declaration included a DPRK commitment to denuclearization but made no overt mention of th [...]	2007-10-04 08:10:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KS KN
07SEOUL3007	ROH SURPRISED BY DPRK ATTITUDE, BUT NO SURPRISES [...] (C) While the joint declaration from the North-South Summit contained no major surprises, President Roh was reported as being surprised by the level of suspicion in his meetings with the DPRK. The joint declaration included a DPRK commitment to denuclearization and a peace regime to replace t [...]	2007-10-04 09:39:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KS KN ECON
07SEOUL3017	CONSERVATIVE CANDIDATE MAKES ONLINE GAINS [...] (C) Summary. In the 2002 presidential election the conservative Grand National Party (GNP) lost the battle for internet supremacy. In an effort to right that wrong, GNP candidate Lee Myung-bak is using the internet to boost visibility among young voters, already a bastion of his political s [...]	2007-10-05 05:36:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KN KS PGOV PREL PINR
07SEOUL3018	UNDP CHANGES PRIMARY RULES AMID FRAUD ALLEGATIONS [...] (C) Summary: The United New Democratic Party (UNDP) announced October 3 it would combine the remaining eight primary races into a "one-shot" one-day primary event on October 14. The party hopes to address allegations of voter fraud and generate more voter interest with the change. The singl [...]	2007-10-05 05:52:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KN KS PGOV PREL PINR
07SEOUL3024	MOFAT READOUT OF NORTH-SOUTH SUMMIT: ROH "WENT TO [...] (C) In an October 5 meeting with the Ambassador, Vice Foreign Minister Cho Jung-pyo said that the ROK had reached a comprehensive agreement on the future direction of inter-Korean relations during the North-South Summit. Peace, inter-Korean economic cooperation, and reconciliation were the ma [...]	2007-10-05 08:44:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PROG PREL PGOV KS KN
07SEOUL3026	ROK-DPRK SUMMIT DECLARATION: AMBITIOUS PLAN WILL [...] (C) The "Declaration on the Advancement of South-North Korean Relations, Peace and Prosperity" that emerged from the October 2-4 summit between President Roh Moo-hyun and the DPRK's Kim Jong-il is a "Sunshine Policy" manifesto: an action plan for peace-building and engagement that progressi [...]	2007-10-05 10:26:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KN KS ECON PGOV PREL
07SEOUL3043	MOU MINISTER DOWNPLAYS SUMMIT TENSIONS, HIGHLIGHTS [...] (C) In an October 8 meeting with the Ambassador, Unification Minister Lee Jae-jung went into detail about the personal dynamics between President Roh Moo-hyun and Kim Jong-il at the October 2-4 Summit, and downplayed the awkward moments between the two. Lee's overall impression of the summit [...]	2007-10-09 06:49:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PROG KS KN
07SEOUL3058	DARK HORSE CANDIDATE MOON KUK-HYUN - DOES HE HAVE [...] (C) Summary: Dark horse independent candidate Moon Kuk-hyun presented himself as a liberal, pro-business alternative to conservative Grand National Party (GNP) candidate Lee Myung-bak. Speaking comfortably in English and Korean before a packed audience at the Seoul Foreign Correspondents Clu [...]	2007-10-11 02:51:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KN KS PGOV PREL PINR
07SEOUL3080	UNDP PRIMARY PREVIEW [...] (C) Summary: Though the race for the United New Democratic Party (UNDP) candidacy is tightening and allegations of voter fraud persist, former Unification Minister Chung Dong-young is in the lead and could be the UNDP candidate if his strong national organization can get out the vote and hold [...]	2007-10-12 05:38:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KN KS PGOV PREL PINR
07SEOUL3086	ALL KEY POLITICAL FACTORS FAVOR GNP CANDIDATE LEE [...] (C) Summary: With just 68 days until the presidential election, there is no indication that the liberal camp will be able to overcome Grand National Party (GNP) candidate Lee Myung-bak's lead. (In an October 5 SBS-Hankook Ilbo poll, Lee received 47.6 percent support to 11.3 percent for his cl [...]	2007-10-12 06:44:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL KN KS
07SEOUL3088	SOUTH KOREAN VIEWS ON MAJOR ECONOMIES' MEETING AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: A member of the South Korean delegation to the September 27-28 Major Economies' Meeting (MEM) opined that a successful outcome for the MEM process depends, in large part, on 1) limiting the scope and ambition of the process, and 2) bypassing France's offer to host the second mee [...]	2007-10-12 07:22:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	SENV ENRG TRGY KGHG KSCA KS
07SEOUL3104	EAST ASIA DASD SEDNEY'S MEETINGS IN SEOUL ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: During meetings in Seoul on October 9-10, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense David Sedney met with U.S.-ROK Alliance counterparts in MOFAT and MND to discuss preparations for the visit of Secretary Gates for the November 6-7 Security Consultative Meeting. They also discussed [...]	2007-10-16 06:13:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL AF KS
07SEOUL3110	SEOUL EXAMINING ADHERENCE TO GLOBAL NUCLEAR ENERGY [...] (C) Despite numerous professions of interest in the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) since its launch in 2006, South Korea surprised U.S. observers by deciding only a few days before the GNEP Ministerial in Vienna on September 16 not to sign the GNEP Statement of Principles. An offici [...]	2007-10-17 02:12:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	TRGY KNNP KS
07SEOUL3117	MT. KUMGANG SHOWS GROWING ROK FOOTPRINT IN DPRK [...] (C) Summary. Mount Kumgang is sometimes regarded as a one-sided transfer of ROK tourist funds to DPRK coffers without much prospect of influencing the DPRK. The Kaesong Industrial Complex (KIC),in contrast, is seen as more beneficial because 16,000 North Korean workers are exposed to South [...]	2007-10-17 06:17:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KS KN ECON PREL
07SEOUL3122	NEW UNDP CANDIDATE CHUNG BANKS ON NORTH KOREA [...] (C) Summary: On October 15, the progressive United New Democratic Party (UNDP) announced that former Unification Minister Chung Dong-young is the party's candidate for the December 19 presidential election. Chung won with a comfortable 43.8 percent of all physical, mobile phone, and opinion [...]	2007-10-17 07:33:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KN KS PGOV PREL PINR
07SEOUL3159	ROK TROOPS IN IRAQ: UNDP PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE [...] (C) Summary: On the same day President Roh formally proposed to extend the stay of the Zaytun unit in Iraq for one more year (see septel),United New Democratic Party (UNDP) Candidate Chung Dong-young formally announced that he would oppose the proposal. Chung and the leaders of the UNDP cit [...]	2007-10-23 07:50:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KS PINR
07SEOUL3177	ROK-DPRK SUMMIT FOLLOW-UP: ROK CEOS NOT BULLISH ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Chief Executives of four of South Korea's largest business groups, all of whom joined President Roh Moo-hyun's delegation to the October 2-4 summit with Kim Jong-il, told the Ambassador at an October 23 meeting that the summit experience reinforced their view that North Korea's s [...]	2007-10-25 05:44:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV KN KS PGOV
07SEOUL3186	TIMELINE AND PROSPECTS FOR ROK'S IRAQ TROOP [...] (C) The ROKG officially kicked off proceedings to decide on extending the deployment of South Korean troops to Irbil, Iraq. On October 23, President Roh made a televised announcement asking for understanding and cooperation to extend the deployment for another year. The extension bill faces [...]	2007-10-26 06:25:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KS PINR
07SEOUL3191	COURT RULINGS UNDERMINE LEGAL PROGRESS IN FIGHTING [...] (C) Summary: The ROKG has made some progress in addressing sexual harassment, but recent court rulings overturning convictions point to an underlying cultural tolerance for demeaning behavior toward women in the workplace. Ironically, a number of convictions were reversed after the complaina [...]	2007-10-26 06:59:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KN KS PGOV PREL PINR
07SEOUL3214	SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF SECRETARY OF DEFENSE [...] (C) Defense Minister Kim Jang-soo, your host for the 39th Security Consultative Meeting (SCM) November 6-7, has done a tremendous job in stabilizing the ROK-U.S. Alliance in his 12 months as Defense Minister. By helping to resolve the most contentious issues (OPCON transfer, camp returns),he [...]	2007-10-30 07:52:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM MARR KS
07SEOUL3224	BLUE HOUSE ADVISORS: WE WILL LOSE IN DECEMBER BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: On October 30, Poloffs met with two working-level Blue House policy advisers. The two, both typical "Roh-sa-mo" supporters who owe their Blue House jobs to their work on the Roh campaign in 2002, were pessimistic about United New Democratic Party (UNDP) Candidate Chung Dong-you [...]	2007-10-31 07:26:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL KN KS
07SEOUL3225	KIM KYUNG-JOON'S EXTRADITION CASE [...] (C) Summary: On October 31, the Ambassador met with former Foreign Minister Yoo Chong-ha, co-chairman of Grand National Party (GNP) candidate Lee Myung-bak's election campaign and one of his main foreign policy advisers. Responding to Yoo's earlier request concerning the BBK extradition case, [...]	2007-10-31 08:11:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL KN KS
07SEOUL3236	ROKG SOLICITS U.S. VIEWS ON COMMERCIAL SALE OF [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 3. 2. (C) On October 31, Park Chul-min, Director of the Disarmament and Nonproliferation Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT) shared information regarding the pending sale of up to 3000 vehicles to the Venezuelan milit [...]	2007-11-01 06:24:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KS MARR PARM PREL VE
07SEOUL3256	PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE MOON KUK-HYUN FOCUSES ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 1 independent presidential candidate Moon Kuk-hyun outlined his platform during breakfast with the Ambassador. Moon's support rate has been hovering just below 10 percent, but he is still optimistic these rates will reach 20 percent by the end of November. Moon's ove [...]	2007-11-05 01:39:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	CH KN KS PGOV PINR PREL RS
07SEOUL3266	ROK WILLING TO PROSECUTE PIRATES, SEEKS [...] (C) In response to reftel demarche and non-paper, Park In-kook, Deputy Foreign Minister for International Organizations and Global Issues, agreed on the need for stronger multilateral enforcement mechanisms against piracy. In a November 6 meeting with the DCM, Park asked in particular about th [...]	2007-11-06 06:26:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KCRM KCSY PHSA PTER PREL EWWT UN UNSC IMO PM
07SEOUL3268	CANDIDATE LEE HOI-CHANG: THIRD TIME'S THE CHARM? [...] (C) SUMMARY: Sensing an opportunity that the imminent return of a financial swindle figure could destroy Lee Myung-bak's candidacy, two-time presidential runner-up and former Grand National Party (GNP) Chairman Lee Hoi-chang, 72, is expected to announce a third bid for the presidency in the [...]	2007-11-06 06:49:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL KN KS
07SEOUL3269	CANDIDATE RHEE IN-JAE: STILL RUNNING [...] (C) Summary: Over a November 2 lunch with the Ambassador, Democratic Party (DP) presidential candidate Rhee In-jae explained that if he were elected president, U.S.-ROK relations would improve, he would institute policies that encouraged reform in North Korea, and he would create many quality [...]	2007-11-06 07:43:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	CH KN KS PGOV PINR PREL RS
07SEOUL3285	THE LEE HOI-CHANG EFFECT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Conservative Lee Hoi-chang's November 7 entry into the 2007 presidential race changes the election dynamics. What many clearly saw as the inevitable landslide win of Grand National Party (GNP) candidate Lee Myung-bak has been cast into doubt. Simply put, the majority of votes for [...]	2007-11-08 06:29:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL RS CH KN KS
07SEOUL3287	ROH MOO-HYUN: NOT SO LAME DUCK? [...] (C) Summary: President Roh is entering the last 100 days of his presidency determined to avoid the lame duck fate of his predecessors; so far, he has done a credible job. Former Presidents Kim Young-sam and Kim Dae-jung limped through the last months of their presidencies with single-digit a [...]	2007-11-08 06:55:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KN KS PGOV PREL PINR
07SEOUL3297	ROH PUSHING NORTH KOREAN AGENDA TO BITTER END [...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 8, poloffs met with Professor Kim Keun-sik, professor of North Korea studies at Kyungnam University and Blue House advisor on North Korean policy. Kim accompanied Roh to Pyongyang for the October 2-4 summit and is a reliable source on Roh's DPRK policy. While acknow [...]	2007-11-09 07:43:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KN KS PGOV PREL PINR
07SEOUL3312	UNDP-DP MERGER: DOES 13 PLUS 1.2 EQUAL VICTORY? [...] (C) Summary: On November 12, United New Democratic Party (UNDP) candidate Chung Dong-young and Democratic Party (DP) candidate Rhee In-je announced they would merge their two parties and that a unified presidential candidate would be chosen based on two debates and the results of two rounds of [...]	2007-11-14 07:12:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KN KS PGOV PREL PINR
07SEOUL3323	ROK OPINION OF CHINA DRIVEN BY GOGURYEO ANXIETY [...] (C) Mt. Baekdu, known in China as Mt. Changbai, is considered in Korea to be a sacred mountain, containing the legendary foundation of the nation. This highest mountain in Korea (and Manchuria) has come to the fore for many South Koreans because they perceive Chinese economic, cultural, and [...]	2007-11-15 08:16:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KS KN PROG PREL
07SEOUL3326	ROK WILL VOTE AGAINST NO-ACTION MOTIONS IN UN 3RD [...] (C) Jang Hyun-cheol, MOFAT Deputy Director for Human Rights and Social Affairs, said that the ROKG would take a principled stand against all no-action votes on human rights issues in the Third Committee. The ROK mission at the UN has already been alerted to this instruction. Jang stated that [...]	2007-11-16 04:02:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UNGA KS
07SEOUL3331	CANDIDATES OFFER NO GOOD SOLUTION TO EDUCATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Education, more specifically the need to get one's child into college, is of great concern to South Korean parents, who spend more than four times the OECD average on education, most of which goes toward private tutoring. The cost and stress of this system make educational reform [...]	2007-11-16 06:46:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL CH KN KS RS
07SEOUL3361	WEEK OF DESTINY: ONE MONTH TILL PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) Summary: In the next ten days the outcome of the December 19 election will become clearer since after the official candidate registration period November 25-6 the candidates will be confirmed. Grand National Party (GNP) candidate Lee Myung-bak still holds some hope that former GNP Chairm [...]	2007-11-21 04:33:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KN KS PGOV PREL PINR
07SEOUL3366	UNDP CANDIDATE CHUNG TO JEOLLA: WHERE'S THE LOVE? [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Jeolla region has historically supported liberal politics and progressive candidates. Overwhelming (over 90 percent) support in the Jeolla provinces helped Kim Dae-jung and Roh Moo-hyun gain office in otherwise closely contested elections in 1997 and 2002, respectively. Des [...]	2007-11-23 04:58:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL KN KS
07SEOUL3367	ROK UNLIKELY TO CHANGE POSITION ON ANTI-ISRAEL [...] (C) Kim Eun-jeong, MOFAT Deputy Director of the United Nations Division, said that the ROK was unlikely to change its stance of abstaining on the three anti-Israel resolutions mentioned in reftel. The ROKG's position has been consistent over the years, Kim explained, and there was "not a high [...]	2007-11-23 06:32:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNGA IS KS
07SEOUL3368	ROKG FAVORABLE ON PROSPER NOMINATION TO UN [...] (C) Jang Hyun-cheol, MOFAT Deputy Director for Human Rights and Social Affairs, said that the ROKG would favorably consider Ambassador Pierre-Richard Prosper's re-election campaign for the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. As the election would not be held [...]	2007-11-23 06:32:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UNGA KS
07SEOUL3385	ROKG BRIEFS U.S. OFFICIALS IN ADVANCE OF N-S [...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 26 the U.S.- ROK Senior Working Group, consisting of representatives from MOFAT, MND, UNC/CFC/USFK and the Embassy, met for a briefing on the ROK strategy for the November 27-29 North-South Defense Ministerial. The briefing conducted by BG Moon Sung-mook of MND's No [...]	2007-11-26 07:57:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS PARM PREL MNUC KN KS
07SEOUL3408	NATIONAL ASSEMBLY SAVES TOUGH ISSUES FOR FUTURE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In the National Assembly (NA) session, which ended on November 23, Korea's parliament approved several controversial bills, but left the KORUS FTA and the Iraq troop deployment extension for later sessions. Possibly the most controversial of the bills passed was a proposal -- ve [...]	2007-11-28 05:50:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	CH KN KS PGOV PINR PREL RS
07SEOUL3410	UNDP CHUNG DONG-YOUNG'S CAMP FACING UPHILL BATTLE [...] (C) Summary: In designing his campaign leadership team and strategies, United New Democratic Party (UNDP) candidate Chung Dong-young has tried to integrate creative new outreach programs to directly involve the public. Chung's advisors are mainly former staff members from Chung's days in th [...]	2007-11-28 06:38:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	CH KN KS PGOV PINR PREL RS
07SEOUL3414	SUBJECT: INTER-KOREAN PRIME MINISTERS' AGREEMENT: [...] (C) Summary: The November 14-16 South-North Prime Ministerial talks between the ROK's Han Duck-soo and the DPRK's Kim Yong-il ended with a detailed agreement -- eight pages, eight articles and 48 subsidiary points -- to implement many of the economic engagement projects that President Roh Moo [...]	2007-11-28 07:40:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON KS KN PGOV PREL
07SEOUL3424	THE HEAT IS ON: OFFICIAL PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN [...] (C) Summary: The 23-day official presidential campaign period kicked off November 27 with large rallies consisting mostly of yelling, dancing and hugging of voters. Despite the compact campaign period, bubbling scandals, late entries of candidates and intrigue surrounding North Korea, Park Ge [...]	2007-11-30 06:00:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KN KS PGOV PREL PINR
07SEOUL3426	UNCOVERING THE DJ KIDNAPPING: CLOSING THE DOOR ON [...] (C) Summary: The life of former President Kim Dae-jung, often referred to as Asia's Nelson Mandela, is a microcosm of the turbulent course of post-war Korean politics. Beginning in the 1960s, Kim, a native of the historically repressed Jeolla region, became a vocal pro-democracy activist and [...]	2007-11-30 07:24:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KN KS PGOV PREL PINR
07SEOUL3427	SCENESETTER FOR NSA BAEK'S TRIP TO WASHINGTON [...] (C) SUMMARY: ROK National Security Advisor Baek Jong-chun will make what he sees as his final visit to Washington in his current position on December 3-4. In a November 28 meeting with the Ambassador, he said that the main reason for the trip was to coordinate on relevant U.S.-ROK issues fo [...]	2007-11-30 08:19:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KS KN PGOV PREL
07SEOUL3428	DPRK ECONOMY: THE CHINESE "GRAB" FOR MINERAL [...] (C) Generating significant press 'buzz' between the North/South Prime Ministerial and Defense Ministers meetings this November, the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) recently issued a report urging the ROKG to adopt new policies promoting natural resource development in the DPRK. [...]	2007-11-30 08:39:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EMIN ETRD PREL PGOV KN KS CH
07SEOUL3438	SUPPORT FOR GLOBAL HAWK SALE TO SOUTH KOREA [...] (C) SUMMARY. It is Post's assessment that the Republic of Korea's acquisition of the Global Hawk system is essential to U.S. interests and to the maintenance of the ROK-U.S. Alliance in the years ahead. Key to the success of the Alliance for more than five decades has been our ability to ma [...]	2007-12-03 09:33:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM MARR MOPS KS KN
07SEOUL3464	LEE MYUNG-BAK CLEARED IN BBK SCANDAL [...] (C) Summary: On December 5, the Prosecutor's Office announced that Lee Myung-bak was clear of suspicion in the BBK stock manipulation scandal. While the United New Democratic Party (UNDP) and others have vowed to continue to fight to unearth Lee Myung-bak's connection to the scandal, the off [...]	2007-12-05 07:27:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KN KS PGOV PREL PINR
07SEOUL3465	REGIONALISM ALIVE AND KICKING IN SWING PROVINCE OF [...] (C) Summary: Insistence among pundits in Seoul that regionalism is declining falls on deaf ears in the swing provinces of the Chungcheong region. The region is divided into two provinces, North and South Chungcheong, in which Daejeon, with its population of about 1.5 million people, is the l [...]	2007-12-05 07:28:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL RS CH KN KS
07SEOUL3484	GYEONGSANG: ANTICIPATING THE CONSERVATIVE REVIVAL [...] (C) Summary: The Gyeongsang province has long been associated with strong ties to political conservatism. The area's largest city, Busan, is a shipping hub and its economy is dependent upon industrial and trade-related activities centered around its marine ports. Its profile continues to [...]	2007-12-09 22:33:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KN KS PGOV PREL PINR
07SEOUL3485	LEE MYUNG-BAK STRETCHES HIS LEAD: KEY CONTACTS SAY [...] (C) Summary: On December 7 poloffs met with several key Assembly contacts to gauge the mood in the National Assembly one day after the first televised presidential debate. All interlocutors from both the GNP and UNDP agreed that the "game was over" and Grand National Party (GNP) candidate Lee [...]	2007-12-09 22:34:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KN KS PGOV PREL PINR
07SEOUL3510	LEE MYUNG-BAK AND MONK MYOCHUNG: TWO PEAS FROM A [...] (C) Grand National Party (GNP) candidate Lee Myung-bak is virtually assured of a victory December 19, but according to a contact who has been covering the Lee camp since summer 2006, a victory December 19 is just the first in a series of goals Lee and his top advisors have laid out. In the Ap [...]	2007-12-11 07:29:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KN KS PGOV PREL PINR
07SEOUL3511	CHUNG DONG-YOUNG CAMPAIGN MANAGER: CHUNG AND [...] (C) Summary: Over coffee on December 10, former lawmaker and current head of UNDP candidate Chung Dong-young's campaign, Chyung Dai-chul, told the Ambassador that he had no confidence that candidate Chung could mount a serious challenge to frontrunner Lee Myung-bak. If the liberals unified b [...]	2007-12-11 07:29:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KN KS PGOV PREL PINR
07SEOUL3515	SEOUL 2007 CABLES REGARDING DECEMBER 19 [...] (U) Provided below is a list of post's cables pertaining to the December 17 Presidential election. This list may be useful in answering questions related to the candidates and the election. Paragraph 2 highlights key cables by category (Bio Sketches, Ambassador/Embassy Visitors - Candidate [...]	2007-12-12 06:38:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KS KN
07SEOUL3525	BLUE HOUSE AIDES SOMBER, READY FOR THE WORST [...] (C) Summary: Poloffs recently met with working level Blue House policy advisors Jo Su-jeong and Kim Tae-hwan who said that morale in the Blue House was low since the Prosecutor's Office cleared Lee Myung-bak of all charges related to the BBK stock-manipulation scandal December 5, but that ther [...]	2007-12-13 05:06:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KN KS PGOV PREL PINR
07SEOUL3527	LOOKING IN THE CRYSTAL BALL: LEE MYUNG-BAK'S [...] (C) Summary: Past presidents have traditionally started their tenure by choosing academics or National Assembly members as their first foreign ministers, later replaced by career diplomats. The current bet among our MOFAT and campaign contacts is that Lee Myung-bak might decide to stick wit [...]	2007-12-13 21:31:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KN KS PGOV PREL PINR
07SEOUL353	DM PARK IN-KOOK ON CONCERNS ABOUT NORTH KOREA AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a February 5 lunch hosted by Park In-kook, MOFAT Deputy Minister for Policy Planning and International Organizations, Park updated the DCM on recent actions the ROK had taken to implement UNSCR 1718 and tighten inspections at the Western Transportation Corridor (TC West) t [...]	2007-02-06 05:12:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD MNUC PARM PREL KN KS
07SEOUL3535	SOUTH-NORTH RELATIONS SINCE OCTOBER SUMMIT: HAIL [...] (C) President Roh Moo-hyun's October summit with Kim Jong-il was not the fourth-quarter touchdown that progressives were hoping for. Compared to the euphoria of the first South-North summit in June 2000, the public reaction was tepid, with no discernible effect on the presidential campaign. [...]	2007-12-14 06:19:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KS KN PGOV PREL ECON EINV
07SEOUL3539	FOREIGN MINISTER AND AMBASSADOR DISCUSS HANDLING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Foreign Minister Song Min-soon told the Ambassador during a December 13 meeting that he wanted to continue close coordination with the USG during the remainder of President Roh Moo-hyun's term, and that he understood the Embassy's need to engage with the president-elect's transiti [...]	2007-12-14 07:24:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KS KN PGOV PREL ABLD
07SEOUL3540	GNP LAWMAKER PARK JIN ON LEE MYUNG-BAK FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary: In a December 14 meeting with POL M/C and POL Internal Chief, Grand National Party (GNP) lawmaker Park Jin explained that no one in the Lee Myung-bak campaign team was publicly planning for the transition despite the GNP candidate's commanding lead in all polls. However, he allo [...]	2007-12-14 07:25:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KN KS PGOV PREL PINR
07SEOUL3550	KBS REPORTER: LEE MYUNG-BAK PRAGMATIC, SHY [...] (C) Summary: KBS reporter Min Kyung-wook, Washington correspondent until June 2007, is currently producing a 30-minute documentary on Lee Myung-bak to air December 20 on the national TV station. Recently, Min shared his impressions after a full month researching Lee's life, meeting his old a [...]	2007-12-17 05:56:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KN KS PGOV PREL PINR
07SEOUL3552	POLLSTERS SAY LEE MYUNG-BAK WILL WIN BIG DESPITE [...] (C) Summary: Two days before the Korean presidential election and five days since the prohibition on political polling went into place, two representatives from leading polling firms told POL M/C and POL INT that Lee Myung-bak would convincingly win the December 19 presidential election but m [...]	2007-12-17 06:56:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KN KS PGOV PREL PINR
07SEOUL3555	BBK TO HAUNT PRESIDENT-ELECT LEE? [...] (C) Summary: It does not look like Lee Myung-bak's political problems will be over with his presidential election victory in two days. On December 17, the National Assembly convened to approve the appointment of a special prosecutor to look into allegations that Lee was involved in BBK's [...]	2007-12-17 21:16:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KN KS PGOV PREL PINR
07SEOUL3561	"BULLDOZER" LEE MUST LEARN TO PLAY NICE IN [...] (C) Summary: At an open forum discussion on December 13, Professor Hahm Sung-deuk of Korea University talked about how challenges facing the next Korean President differ from those facing past presidents. ROKG decision-making has evolved from an executive-military nexus that prevailed from t [...]	2007-12-18 03:52:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KN KS PGOV PREL PINR
07SEOUL357	THE AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH GNP PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador met with GNP Presidential candidate Park Geun-hye on February 5. Park reiterated her commitment to follow her principles and run a clean campaign against her GNP rival, Lee Myung-bak, and dispelled any notions that she might leave the party to run as an independen [...]	2007-02-06 09:00:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KS
07SEOUL3573	ROKG REMAINS SUPPORTIVE OF USG POLICY ON CLUSTER [...] (C) On December 17, poloff delivered reftel A demarche to Park Jee-won of the Disarmament and Nonproliferation Division of the ROK Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT). Park confirmed that the ROKG considers cluster munitions to be of significant continued military utility and is conce [...]	2007-12-19 06:37:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PARM PREL MARR KS
07SEOUL3575	WHO IS PRESIDENT-ELECT LEE MYUNG-BAK? [...] (C) SUMMARY: President-elect Lee Myung-bak is a self-made businessman and politician and his successful experience as CEO of Hyundai Construction and Seoul Mayor lead many to believe he will accomplish great things as the seventh President of Korea. The most thoroughly investigated president [...]	2007-12-19 09:21:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KN KS PGOV PREL PINR
07SEOUL3578	LEE SWEEPS ALL REGIONS EXCEPT JEOLLA [...] (SBU) Summary: December 19, Lee Myung-bak was elected President of Korea with 48.6 percent of the vote. Second place went to Chung Dong-young with 26.3 percent while Lee Hoi-chang came in third with 15.1 percent. Lee Myung-bak was the first conservative candidate since direct elections were [...]	2007-12-20 06:37:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KN KS PGOV PREL PINR
07SEOUL3579	"ANYTHING BUT ROH" CARRIES THE DAY FOR [...] (C) Summary: GNP candidate Lee Myung-bak won a landslide victory in the December 19 presidential election, winning 49 percent of the votes in a field of ten candiates and carrying all regions except Jeolla Provinces. Among pundits a strong consensus is emerging that Lee's was able to sweep to [...]	2007-12-20 07:01:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KN KS PGOV PREL PINR
07SEOUL3581	AMBASSADOR'S CALL ON PRESIDENT-ELECT LEE MYUNG-BAK [...] (C) During a December 20 call on President-elect Lee Myung-bak, the Ambassador congratulated Lee on his decisive election victory, noting that President Bush planned on calling him later in the day. The Ambassador said the USG looked forward to working with Lee and his administration to stre [...]	2007-12-20 07:44:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KS KN ECON PINR
07SEOUL359	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES 6PT, AID, KIC WITH [...] (C) In a February 5 meeting with Unification Minister Lee Jae-joung, the Ambassador noted that if progress were made at the Six Party Talks (6PT),it would be important to coordinate international approaches to synchronize assistance with DPRK actions ondenuclearization and to maintain our le [...]	2007-02-06 09:15:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PARM KS KN
07SEOUL3595	LEE MYUNG-BAK'S FOREIGN POLICY TEAM: PRESIDENT LEE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a December 24 meeting with President-elect Lee Myung-bak's foreign policy advisors, the Ambassador discussed the alliance, North Korea, Iraq troop extension, the KORUS FTA, Lee's first trip to the U.S., and the Visa Waiver Program (VWP). The team was optimistic that, under Pr [...]	2007-12-26 06:36:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KN KS PGOV PREL PINR

07SEOUL3596	PARTISAN DIVIDE PRESENTS PROBLEMS FOR KEY [...] (C) SUMMARY: The National Assembly (NA) on December 10 convened an extraordinary session to deal with outstanding legislation for 2007. Among issues likely to be discussed before the end of the year are legislation extending the deployment of troops to Iraq as well as the 2008 budget. Altho [...]	2007-12-26 06:40:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KN KS PGOV PREL PINR
07SEOUL371	ROK PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES: HOW THEY DEFINE [...] (C) SUMMARY: With less than 11 months until South Korea's presidential election, the candidates continue to focus their public comments on building personal popularity rather than tackling policy issues. In various meetings with Embassy officers, the four frontrunners for the presidency pro [...]	2007-02-07 07:07:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KS
07SEOUL374	ROKG WILL NOT ATTEND OSLO CM CONFERENCE [...] (C) In a follow-up conversation regarding reftel demarche, Kim Hye-jin of the Disarmament and Nonproliferation Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade told poloff that the ROKG had decided against attending the Norwegian-sponsored Oslo Conference on Cluster Munitions February 22-23. [...]	2007-02-07 08:13:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KS PARM PREL
07SEOUL382	EAP DAS CHRISTENSEN'S CONSULTATIONS ON CHINA [...] (C) SUMMARY: EAP Deputy Assistant Secretary Thomas Christensen met with ROKG officials and academics January 26-27 to discuss North Korean asylum seekers, Six Party Talks (6PT),and China. The DAS told his ROKG interlocutors that the USG appreciated Seoul's cooperation with efforts to resett [...]	2007-02-08 04:56:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MNUC PREF KS KN CH
07SEOUL401	DEFECTOR RECOUNTS DPRK TORTURE AND "REEDUCATION" [...] (C) North Korean defector Lee Myeong-bok escaped from the DPRK in 1998 was repatriated from China in 2002. He escaped again in 2004 to come to the ROK via Mongolia. In persuading DPRK interrogators that he had contact with neither South Koreans nor missionaries in China -- although he was cl [...]	2007-02-09 07:01:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF PGOV PINR KS KN
07SEOUL421	ROKG WELCOMES HAMAS AND FATAH AGREEMENT [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-12 07:13:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KISL KPAL KWBG KS IS
07SEOUL450	MND VM KIM BOASTS PROGRESS ON YONGSAN RELOCATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: On February 13, ROK Vice Minister of National Defense, Kim Young-lyong, told the Ambassador that forward progress was being made on implementation of the Yongsan Relocation Plan (YRP). He said Minister of National Defense Kim Jang-soo had made implementation of YRP a priority, [...]	2007-02-14 07:55:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS KS
07SEOUL456	ROK-JAPAN TIES STUCK BETWEEN STAGNATION AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a February 9 luncheon with poloffs, Japanese Embassy Political Counselor Yamamoto Yasushi characterized ROK-Japanese relations as stagnant and opined that significant improvement in bilateral relations was unlikely until after the Roh Moo-hyun administration left office be [...]	2007-02-14 09:11:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KS JA
07SEOUL457	KOREAS TO HOLD WORKING-LEVEL TALKS ON FEBRUARY 15 [...] (C) SUMMARY: On February 14, MOU Director-General for Unification Policy Planning Um Jong-sik told A/DCM that North and South Korea had agreed to hold working-level talks on February 15 at the Kaesong Industrial Complex (KIC). The main objective was to set a date to resume North-South minist [...]	2007-02-14 09:18:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KS KN
07SEOUL472	LEE MYUNG-BAK: QUALIFIED, READY AND IN FIRST PLACE [...] (C) Summary: Over a one-on-one lunch with the Ambassador on February 13, former Seoul Mayor and leading presidential contender Lee Myung-bak explained that voters in Korea wanted their next president to be, first and foremost, an effective leader, not focusing on regionalism, but on policies, [...]	2007-02-15 09:32:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL ABLD KS KN
07SEOUL487	SOUTH KOREA GRADUALLY EXPANDING RELATIONS WITH NATO [...] (C) In a February 9 meeting with visiting EAP/K Andrew Hyde, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade,s (MOFAT) Director of the Security Policy Division, Kim Chang-sik, emphasized that the ROKG sought increased cooperation with NATO but that it would take time to establish the proper internal pr [...]	2007-02-16 08:22:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR AORC NATO KS
07SEOUL498	UNIFICATION MINISTER PREVIEWS NORTH-SOUTH [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a one-on-one breakfast meeting on February 20 with the Ambassador, Unification Minister Lee Jae-joung stressed that the February 13 Beijing agreement on "initial actions" was a good first step, but implementation was now the key. He said that the ROKG at inter-Korean minister [...]	2007-02-20 08:50:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PARM KS KN
07SEOUL568	IAEA REPORT ON IRANIAN COMPLIANCE WITH UNSCR 1737 [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-27 08:48:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP KS IR
07SEOUL570	LAWMAKERS PROPOSE DENUCLEARIZED DPRK BEFORE [...] (C) SUMMARY: A resolution introduced by a group of lawmakers opposing wartime OPCON transfer passed the Defense Committee on February 21 and is scheduled for a National Assembly plenary vote in the coming weeks. The leaders of the anti-OPCON coalition, including a former Defense Minister, me [...]	2007-02-27 08:57:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL ABLD KS KN
07SEOUL592	PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE CHUNG DONG-YOUNG DISCUSSES [...] (C) During a February 26 luncheon meeting with the Ambassador, former Unification Minister and presidential hopeful Chung Dong-young and National Assembly members Chae Su-chan and Chung Eui-young discussed Korean politics, the Six Party process and resumption of aid to North Korea and the inc [...]	2007-03-02 00:42:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KS
07SEOUL615	OPTIMISTIC KINGMAKER CHUN JUNG-BAE'S GREAT [...] (C) Summary: In a February 27 luncheon meeting with the Ambassador, former Justice Minister Chun Jung-bae said that he left the Uri Party in January in order to spearhead efforts to create a new political party to revitalize progressive voters and renew support for a reform-minded party. Thr [...]	2007-03-05 02:21:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KS
07SEOUL634	NORTH-SOUTH MINISTERIAL TIES HUMANITARIAN AID TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a March 5 briefing on the February 27-March 2 inter-Korean ministerial in Pyongyang, Assistant Minister for Unification Policy and Public Affairs Lee Kwan-sei told POL M/C that Seoul had three objectives for the talks: (1) to "normalize" inter-Korean relations stalled followin [...]	2007-03-06 02:27:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MNUC EAID KS KN
07SEOUL657	MTCR: ROK SUPPORT FOR THE U.S. UAV/CRUISE MISSILE [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-06 07:39:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	MTCRE PARM PREL ETTC KSCA MNUC TSPA KS
07SEOUL659	SPI 11: U.S.-ROK SECURITY POLICY INITIATIVE TALKS [...] (C) The eleventh U.S.-ROK Security Policy Initiative talks (SPI 11) took place February 7-8, 2007 in Seoul. Topics addressed included the transfer of wartime operational command (OPCON),the transition of Armistice Maintenance Responsibilities (AMRs),USFK camp returns, the status of the Yong [...]	2007-03-06 08:34:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KS MARR MNUC PARM PREL KN
07SEOUL662	MEDICAL ASSISTANCE TO NORTH KOREA: NGO [...] (C) Chairman of the EugeneBell Foundation Stephen Linton, whose Seoul-based organization has provided over USD 25 million worth of medical and other assistance to North Korea since 1995, said that: -- experience had taught him that the best way to provide such aid was in the form of integrat [...]	2007-03-07 02:37:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAID KN
07SEOUL673	ROKG COMMENTS ON U.S. GOALS FOR FOURTH HRC SESSION [...] (C) On March 5, poloff delivered reftel points on U.S. priorities at the Human Right Council fourth session to Kim Pil-woo, Deputy Director of MOFAT Human Rights and Social Affairs Division and requested ROKG views. On March 7, Kim responded with an initial assessment, adding that MOFAT was [...]	2007-03-07 07:51:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UNHRC KS
07SEOUL695	URI PARTY CHAIRMAN, JAPAN, RUSSIA, CHINA [...] (C) Summary: With over 20 reporters present at a March 2 lunch, Uri Party Chairman Chung Se-kyun, the Ambassador, Ambassador Ning Fukui of China, Ambassador Shotaro Oshima of Japan, Ambassador Gleb Ivanshentsov of Russia, along with Uri Party leaders lauded the Six Party February 13 "Initial [...]	2007-03-08 07:45:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KS
07SEOUL705	HAN DUCK-SOO NEW ROK PM-DESIGNATE [...] (C) Summary: President Roh appointed esteemed bureaucrat Han Duck-soo as Prime Minister on March 9. Han is currently Chairman of the Presidential Committee on Facilitating KORUS FTA and his nomination will be helpful for a successful conclusion of a KORUS FTA agreement. Han has few enemies a [...]	2007-03-09 08:14:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KS PINR
07SEOUL734	ROK PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES: WHO IS SEEING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Korean voters are adamant that economic growth should be the top priority for the next ROK president. In response to this clear mandate from the people, top presidential contenders are offering some unique proposals aimed at stimulating the economy and spurring job creation. [...]	2007-03-12 08:40:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON KS
07SEOUL763	EAP/MLS DIRECTOR RAPSON'S CONSULTATIONS ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Visiting EAP/MLS Director Robert Rapson on March 9 met with ROK officials to exchange views and discuss USG objectives on Mainland Southeast Asia, particularly Burma and DPRK refugees. ROK officials conveyed general support for greater political freedoms and participation in Burm [...]	2007-03-15 02:54:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF KS BM CB TH
07SEOUL770	FORMER PM LEE HAE-CHAN'S VIST TO PYONGYANG: NORTH [...] (C) SUMMARY: Over a March 14 breakfast with the Ambassador, former PM and current Uri lawmaker Lee Hae-chan said that, during his recent four-day trip to Pyongyang, he had told North Korea's number two, Kim Young-nam, that a North-South summit should occur only after concrete progress was mad [...]	2007-03-15 09:39:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KS
07SEOUL793	ROK INQUIRIES ON PRT LEADERSHIP IN AFGHANISTAN [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 2. 2. (C) In a March 16 meeting with Director General for North American Affairs Bureau of Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade Cho Byung-jae, POL M/C raised the issue of ROKG plans to lead a Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Afghanistan. C [...]	2007-03-19 09:05:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL MOPS MARR PBTS KS
07SEOUL794	KIM GEUN-TAE SILENT ON ELECTIONS, VOCAL ON FTA AND [...] (C) While deflecting direct questions about his presidential aspirations, former Uri Party Chairman Kim Geun-tae spoke candidly over lunch with the Ambassador on March 15 about a number of issues including the KORUS FTA, Comfort Women, an inter-Korean Summit, and the Six-Party Talks. On the [...]	2007-03-19 09:06:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KS
07SEOUL795	CHARTING OUT INTER-KOREAN COOPERATION [...] (C) SUMMARY: At February 27 - March 2 inter-Korean ministerial talks, the Koreas agreed to resume several stalled North-South projects, including: construction of a family reunion center at Mt. Kumgang; video and direct family reunions; Economic Cooperation Promotion Committee and Red Cross t [...]	2007-03-19 09:12:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON MNUC KS KN
07SEOUL799	ROK ATTITUDES ON UNIFICATION: LONG-TERM PLANS VS. [...] (C) SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION: The February 13 "Initial Actions" agreement has once again brought to the fore the resumption of inter-Korean engagement and the overall relationship between the two Koreas, including reunification. The ROK's constitution and presidential oath call for Korean un [...]	2007-03-20 02:10:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MNUC ECON KS KN
07SEOUL808	ROKG MULLING EVENTS IN ZIMBABWE [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-20 07:52:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UNHCR KS ZI
07SEOUL809	ROKG SUPPORTS GLOBAL FORUM [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-20 07:53:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL OVIP OTRA AORC ECON KCOR KCRM KJUS KS
07SEOUL811	SOHN HAK-KYU LEAVES THE GNP: POLITICAL FUTURE OVER? [...] (C) SUMMARY: Sohn Hak-kyu announced March 19 that he was leaving the GNP to create a "new political order." While at it, he took a swipe at the GNP, calling the opposition party full of "obsolete conservatives" with "incapable warriors from the Cold War." The announcement came after several [...]	2007-03-20 07:57:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KS PGOV PINR PREL
07SEOUL82	NEW MINISTER OF UNIFICATION VOCAL ON NORTH KOREAN [...] (C) When he replaced Lee Jong-seok as Minister of Unification in mid-December, President Roh Moo-hyun's confidant Lee Jae-joung said that Seoul's engagement policy with the North -- essentially on hold since the July missile launches -- would not change. But since then he has irked conservati [...]	2007-01-10 23:02:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KS KN EAID
07SEOUL83	POLITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON ROK'S 2007 BUDGET [...] (SBU) In a marathon session that lasted through the night and concluded at 5 a.m. on 27 December, the National Assembly came to an agreement on the 2007 budget. The approved budget will allow local governments to spend more on infrastructure projects and social welfare while some funding fo [...]	2007-01-11 00:33:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON KS
07SEOUL849	ROKG TO RESUME SUSPENDED FLOOD AID [...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 22, ROK Vice Unification Minister Shin Eon-sang announced that the ROKG on March 28 would resume shipments of "emergency" aid to North Korea that was pledged following mid-July 2006 floods, but halted after the DPRK's nuclear test in October 2006. The remaining flood re [...]	2007-03-22 08:40:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON KS KN
07SEOUL851	FORMER PRESIDENT KIM YOUNG-SAM ON NORTH KOREA AND [...] (C) Summary: In a March 21 luncheon meeting with the Ambassador, former President Kim Young-sam (KYS) was his usual self: energetic, warm, and, above all, generous with his opinions. Warning that "communists could never be trusted," KYS expressed the concern that Washington was getting to [...]	2007-03-23 01:06:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KS
07SEOUL897	GNP OVER A BARREL ON NORTH KOREA POLICY [...] (C) SUMMARY: In the wake of initial progress in the Six-Party Talks, the conservative opposition Grand National Party (GNP) has recently started to moderate its criticism of engagement with North Korea. One GNP lawmaker justified possibly adjusting GNP policy to the new political climate, sa [...]	2007-03-27 08:50:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL KS
07SEOUL912	VICTIMS' ORGANIZATION REQUESTS U.S. JOIN EFFORT TO [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 5. 2. (SBU) Shin Sung-won, Director of North America Division II of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT) informed Embassy that the Republic of Korea (ROK) will finance a USD 200,000 task force under the Special Law to Restore the Reputat [...]	2007-03-29 05:42:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KS PREL MOPS
07SEOUL914	POLITICIANS GO HUNGRY TO OPPOSE FTA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Two progressive presidential contenders started a hunger strike this week demanding the KORUS FTA talks be halted. Coupled with recent controversial statements out of the Blue House - Roh said he was, "the one to make the final decision on the FTA" - political debate about the F [...]	2007-03-29 09:05:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD KS PGOV PREL
07SEOUL931	SOHN HAK-KYU STICKS TO HIS PRINCIPLES [...] (C) In his first meeting with the Ambassador since leaving the GNP Party on March 19, Presidential aspirant (and former Gyeonggi Governor) Sohn Hak-kyu said that he had to leave because he was not willing to compromise his principles to stay in line with the inflexible GNP platform. Sohn exp [...]	2007-03-30 05:48:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KS
07SEOUL934	UK EMBASSY PYONGYANG PERSPECTIVE: CHANCE MEETINGS [...] (C) Richard Vowles, DCM at the British Embassy in Pyongyang, told a group of diplomats at a March 28 dinner in Seoul that his Embassy operates largely in an information-free "bubble" in Pyongyang, gaining little from frequent meetings with MFA officials. The four UK officers have almost compl [...]	2007-03-30 06:26:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KN KS PREL
07SEOUL935	ADVISERS TO GNP CANDIDATE PARK GEUN-HYE STRESS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 29 foreign policy advisers to opposition GNP presidential candidate Park Geun-hye told us that a Park administration would restore the U.S.-ROK alliance as the central pillar of ROK foreign policy. They stated that Park's priorities would be made explicit during an Apri [...]	2007-03-30 06:47:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KS
07SEOUL955	ROK CONTRIBUTION TO USFK RELOCATION: A GLASS MORE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a recent Ministry of Defense (MND) press release, the ROKG estimated that it would pay about half of the total cost of about USD 10 billion to relocate U.S. Forces Korea (USFK) to Pyungtaek/ Camp Humphreys. However, USFK estimates that the ROK share will be far more than half. [...]	2007-04-02 06:23:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KS PARM PREL MARR
07SEOUL971	ROK-JAPAN MINISTERIAL TALKS DOGGED BY HISTORY [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 2, MOFAT Northeast Asia Division I Director Lee Hee-sup told poloff that the March 31 - April 1 talks between ROK Foreign Minister Song Min-soon and visiting Japanese Foreign Minister Taro Aso focused on history issues (comfort women, textbooks, Yasukuni) and included dis [...]	2007-04-03 06:33:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON KS JA
07SEOUL972	SMA RATIFIED, BUT NEW SMA FORMULA NOT YET READY [...] (U) In a April 2 plenary session, the National Assembly ratified the 2007-2008 Special Measures Agreement (SMA). Of the 245 representatives present, 192 (78.3 percent) voted in favor of the agreement, 28 (11.43 percent) against, and 25 (10.2 percent) abstained. 2. (SBU) The Joint U.S.-RO [...]	2007-04-03 07:15:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KS PARM PREL
07SEOUL973	ROKG REQUESTS ASSISTANCE WITH NATO TRANSITION IN [...] (C) On April 2, POL-MIL Chief met with Lee Jeong-kyu, Director of North America Division III of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT) to discuss ROKG concerns over additional NATO requirements for the transition of ROK troops to NATO/ International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) [...]	2007-04-03 07:22:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	KS PARM PREL MARR MOPS
07SEOUL974	HAN DUCK-SOO SWORN IN AS ROK PM [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Roh swore in Han Duck-soo as Prime Minister on April 3 after Han's confirmation sailed through the National Assembly on April 2, just hours after the conclusion of the historic KORUS FTA. Han played a central role in the successful conclusion of the KORUS FTA agreement, [...]	2007-04-03 09:07:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KS PINR
07SEOUL975	GNP PRIMARY SCHEDULE - WORKING OUT THE DETAILS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 19, the opposition Grand National Party (GNP) agreed to hold its presidential primary before August 21 (most likely August 19) and the number of eligible participants will be 200,000 split between senior GNP members (40,000),party members (60,000),public voters (60,000) [...]	2007-04-03 09:18:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL KS
07SEOUL987	PRESIDENT ROH: RIDING THE FTA'S WAVE OF SUPPORT [...] (SBU) In the two days following the announcement that the U.S. and Korea had reached an agreement on the KORUS FTA, support for President Roh Moo-hyun has seen a sizable jump in polls. Although the current jump in support may give Roh more room to arrange the much desired inter-Korean summit, [...]	2007-04-04 08:54:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KS
07SEOUL988	NGO URGES RECOGNITION OF KOREAN WAR ABDUCTEES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Meeting with the Ambassador on April 3, the president of the Korean War Abductees' Family Union asked that the DPRK Human Rights Report and the Report on Terrorism both be expanded to include the issue of Korean War abductees. KWAFU alleges that the DPRK abducted over 80,000 So [...]	2007-04-04 09:13:00	Embassy Seoul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF PGOV PINR KS KN
07SHANGHAI102	KUNSHAN'S TAIWAN BUSINESS COMMUNITY [...] (C) Summary: Taiwan business people (Taishang) appeared to be thriving during a February 6 visit by Congenoffs to the Taiwan enclave of Kunshan, located 50 kilometers west of Shanghai. Although some local governments in China were corrupt, the Kunshan government had been very supportive of T [...]	2007-02-14 08:22:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV PGOV ELAB ECON EFIN CH TW
07SHANGHAI105	CAN 300 MILLION CHINESE BELIEVERS BE WRONG? [...] (C) Summary: One of the authors of a new government-sponsored survey on spirituality in China downplayed the reported findings that the number of religious believers in China could be as high as 300 million. Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (SASS) Vice President Tong Shijun told Poloff in [...]	2007-02-15 04:13:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KIRF CH
07SHANGHAI110	POLICY PLANNING STAFFER GREEN SHANGHAI MEETINGS [...] (C) Summary: During his meetings with Shanghai Academics on January 17, Policy Planning Staffer James Green engaged academics on East Asian security issues, including North Korea and Taiwan. Academics were pessimistic that there would be any progress on North Korea in the near future. Academ [...]	2007-02-16 05:23:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CH KN TW
07SHANGHAI141	CONTACTS DISCUSS RECENT SHANGHAI PERSONNEL MOVES [...] (C) Summary: According to one contact, more than half of Shanghai's vice mayors have been or are rumored to soon be removed and several high-level officials have been reshuffled in a bid to pave the way for an outsider to come to Shanghai in one of the top leadership positions. At least one [...]	2007-03-07 08:43:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR EINV ECON CH
07SHANGHAI142	CORRECTED COPY--CONTACTS DISCUSS RECENT SHANGHAI PERSONNEL [...] (C) Summary: According to one contact, more than half of Shanghai's vice mayors have been or are rumored to soon be removed and several high-level officials have been reshuffled in a bid to pave the way for an outsider to come to Shanghai in one of the top leadership positions. At least one [...]	2007-03-07 09:57:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR EINV ECON CH
07SHANGHAI155	SHANGHAI LEGAL EXPERTS ON LUO GAN SPEECH [...] (C) Summary: Three of Shanghai legal experts said they were not surprised by Politburo Standing Committee member Luo Gan's abrasive rule of law speech published in a Party journal on February 2 (reftel). In the speech, Luo talked about the need to guard against "unfavorable" Western influence [...]	2007-03-16 05:44:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PINR KJUS CH
07SHANGHAI158	SHANGHAI THINK TANK ON CROSS-STRAITS RELATIONS [...] (C) Summary. During a March 21 lunch with DPO, Pol/Econ Chief and Poloff, Shanghai Institute for East Asian Studies (SIEAS) Director Zhang Nianchi said Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian now frequently crossed the Mainland's "red lines" without penalty, making cross-strait relations more dangerou [...]	2007-03-22 09:00:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV CH TW
07SHANGHAI163	XI JINPING TAKES THE REINS IN SHANGHAI [...] (C) Summary. After months of speculation and waiting, Xi Jinping was named the new Shanghai Party Secretary on March 24. One contact assessed that Xi's transfer would also likely entail a position on the Politburo at the upcoming 17th Party Congress. Xi, a princeling with broad connections, [...]	2007-03-25 09:44:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR ECON EINV CH
07SHANGHAI166	SHANGHAI RELIGIOUS CONTACTS DISCUSS NGOS, THEOLOGICAL [...] (C) Summary: During her February 26-27 visit to Shanghai, DRL/IRF Officer Emilie Kao explored ways to expand religious freedom in China with academics, officials from the Communist Party-approved China Christian Council/Three Self Patriotic Movement (CCC/TSPM),Shanghai YMCA leaders, a represe [...]	2007-03-26 03:31:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KIRF CH
07SHANGHAI177	LOCAL REACTIONS TO XI JINPING'S APPOINTMENT AS SHANGHAI [...] (C) Summary. The appointment of Xi Jingping as Party Secretary has been heralded in the Shanghai official media, but SIPDIS business and academic contacts are taking a "wait and see" attitude. Official newspapers and internet postings have emphasized Xi's coastal experience and "rich socia [...]	2007-03-29 02:58:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR EINV ECON CH
07SHANGHAI211	SHANGHAI'S FUTURE AS LEADING FINANCIAL CENTER [...] (C) Summary: During a March 23 meeting with the Consul General and Econoff, Shanghai Futures Exchange (SHFE) CEO Yang Maijun and Shanghai Office for Financial Services Deputy Director-General Fang Xinghai said Shanghai's role as China's leading financial center was secure; Hong Kong and Tianjin [...]	2007-04-11 08:28:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON CH
07SHANGHAI213	EAST CHINA CONTACTS ON LEADERSHIP GOSSIP [...] (C) Summary. Shanghai Party Secretary Xi Jinping, Jiangsu Party Secretary Li Yuanchao, Liaoning Party Secretary Li Keiqang, and Trade Minister Bo Xilai are emerging as the public face of the Fifth Generation of the Chinese leadership. Two East China contacts believed that of the four, Li Yua [...]	2007-04-16 07:45:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR EINV ECON CH
07SHANGHAI214	SHANGHAI BISHOP JIN ON CHINA-VATICAN TIES [...] (C) Summary: During a Consul General hosted lunch on April 13, Shanghai Bishop Jin said that Catholics in China were anxiously awaiting the Pope's letter (ref A). He hoped that the letter would not be too strident as this would lead to a strong reaction from Beijing and push the Vatican-China [...]	2007-04-16 07:48:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KIRF CH VT
07SHANGHAI22	HANGZHOU HOUSE CHURCH CHRISTIANS [...] (C) Poloff met with Hangzhou-based human rights activist Zan Aizong and house church member Lin Tongqiang on January 8 to discuss the situation of house churches in Hangzhou. Zan confirmed reports that eight house church Christians were convicted for inciting protests against the government o [...]	2007-01-10 08:29:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF PGOV CH
07SHANGHAI225	EAST CHINA CONTACTS ON CHINA'S SUPERVISION SYSTEM [...] (C) Summary. East China contacts described a multilayered but relatively ineffective supervision system that did little to end rampant corruption among Chinese officials. One contact with the Shanghai People's Congress claimed the problem was systemic and due to lack of rule of law. Another [...]	2007-04-19 07:00:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR EINV ECON CH
07SHANGHAI229	CHINA CHRISTIAN COUNCIL PRESIDENT CAO MEETING [...] (C) Summary: In an April 18 luncheon hosted by the Consul General, China Christian Council (CCC) President Cao Shengjie confirmed that all Protestant churches must go through the China Christian Council/Three-Self Patriotic Movement (CCC/TSPM) in order to register, although these churches did n [...]	2007-04-19 08:16:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KIRF PINR CH
07SHANGHAI24	HANGZHOU HOUSE CHURCH CHRISTIANS [...] (C) Poloff met with Hangzhou-based human rights activist Zan Aizong and house church member Lin Tongqiang on January 8 to discuss the situation of house churches in Hangzhou. Zan confirmed reports that eight house church Christians were convicted for inciting protests against the government o [...]	2007-01-11 03:37:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF PGOV CH
07SHANGHAI260	WITH "SURVEY OF CHINESE PEASANTS" AUTHORS [...] (C) Summary. In a conversation with Poloff on April 20, "Survey of Chinese Peasants" (Zhongguo Nongmin Diaocha) authors said conditions in the countryside had improved in recent years as a result of increased central government attention. However, conditions for peasants were still difficult [...]	2007-04-30 08:54:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM EINV ECON CH
07SHANGHAI269	DOD GENERAL COUNSEL'S RULE OF LAW MEETINGS [...] (C) Summary: During DOD General Counsel William J. Haynes April 20-22 visit to Shanghai, he discussed rule of law issues with Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (SASS) Institute of Law Academics, expatriate and Chinese legal experts at a Consul General-hosted dinner, and at the New York Unive [...]	2007-05-07 08:38:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS ETRD EINV PHUM PINR CH
07SHANGHAI277	SHANGHAI PEACE MUSEUM [...] (C) Summary. During an April 24 visit to the Shanghai Peace Museum, Poloff received a glimpse of some of the limitations faced by private citizens interested in politics. The museum houses a collection of letters and autographs from world leaders supporting peace and has been treated with sus [...]	2007-05-10 02:46:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR EINV ECON CH
07SHANGHAI288	SHANGHAI ACADEMIC ON BEIJING'S TAIWAN POLICY [...] (C) During a discussion with Deputy Principal Officer (DPO) and Poloff on May 15, Shanghai Center for RimPac Strategic and International Studies Vice Director Zhuang Jianzhong said that there had been a slight shift in Beijing's policy towards Taiwan that supported opening unofficial channels o [...]	2007-05-15 08:57:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV CH TW
07SHANGHAI291	CHINA HOSTS AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK MEETING [...] (C) Summary. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao opened the African Development Bank (AFDB) 2007 Annual Meetings in Shanghai on May 16 with a speech that stressed China's sincere commitment to helping Africa develop and acknowledged that China needed to further implement its own financial sector reforms [...]	2007-05-16 09:14:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON CH XA
07SHANGHAI306	EAST CHINA VIEWS ON FOREIGN MINISTER APPOINTMENT [...] (C) Summary. XXXXXXXXXXXX, a well-known U.S.-China specialist at XXXXXXXXXXXX, claimed the sudden removal of former Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing was due to President HuÂ´s increasing dissatisfaction with the MFA. XXXXXXXXXXXX linked this to HuÂ´s lingering anger about the handling of his visit [...]	2007-05-24 07:01:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR EINV ECON CH
07SHANGHAI314	SHANGHAI ACADEMIC HUANG RENWEI ON POLITICS, FOREIGN AND [...] (C) Summary. On May 25, Consul General met with Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences Vice President Huang Renwei, one of Shanghai's leading Americanologists. Huang had a positive appraisal of Shanghai Party Secretary Xi Jinping thus far; in another six months, he will have mastered his brief s [...]	2007-05-25 09:42:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR CH TW
07SHANGHAI319	INFIGHTING AT FUDAN UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR AMERICAN STUDIES [...] (C) Summary. During a May 21 discussion with Consul General, Fudan Center for American Studies (CAS) Director Shen Dingli in addition to sharing his views on Chinese leadership issues (reftels),spent a great deal of time discussing infighting at the Center. We share a summary of Shen's lam [...]	2007-05-29 07:52:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR CH
07SHANGHAI326	GAY SHANGHAI: AMBIGUOUS STATUS CREATES VULNERABILITY [...] (C) Summary: According to contacts in Shanghai's gay community, sexual discrimination in Shanghai was rife, but because few Shanghainese were openly gay and lesbian in a way that countered social expectations to fulfill family duties, such as to marry and reproduce, discrimination was less di [...]	2007-05-31 01:29:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM TBIO KCRM CH
07SHANGHAI335	SHANGHAI INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL STUDIES VIEWS ON [...] (C) Summary. During a May 29 luncheon with the Consul General, Shanghai Institute For International Studies (SIIS) Vice President Yang Jiemian said China would be responsive to U.S. requests conveyed via the Strategic Economic Dialogue (SED) process. He predicted that China would gradually ta [...]	2007-06-01 03:09:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON CH TW XA XK XR XD
07SHANGHAI35	SHANGHAI STRIVING FOR TRANSPARENCY THROUGH OPENING [...] (SBU) Summary: Two years into the implementation of Shanghai's Open Government Information Act (OGIA)--one of the few in China--local officials claimed that the act had had broadened residents' access to government information and improved overall government transparency. They said that a fo [...]	2007-01-17 08:31:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR KJUS CH
07SHANGHAI36	TOP SHANGHAI JOB UP IN THE AIR, PROBABLY NOT LIU YANDONG [...] (C) Summary: The husband of United Front Work Department head and Hu Jintao protigi Liu Yandong said that Liu was not under consideration for the job of Shanghai Party Secretary. He said that people currently rumored to be under consideration for the position included the current Shanghai May [...]	2007-01-17 08:48:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR EINV ECON CH
07SHANGHAI374	THE SCIENCE OF HARMONY--VIEWS FROM EAST CHINA [...] (C) Summary. According to several East China contacts, the "Scientific Development Concept" [kexue fazhan guan] (SDC) now is the core guiding ideology for the Communist Party, building on and supplanting the "Three Represents." The SDC takes as its goal the building of a Harmonious Society w [...]	2007-06-19 09:30:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR EINV ECON CH
07SHANGHAI380	CARLYLE, XUGONG, AND BUREAUCRATIC POLITICS [...] (C) Summary: Central government officials promised a resolution to Carlyle Group's effort to purchase a 45 percent stake--down from its initial 85 percent bid--in Xugong Machine Group by the end of July. The current hang-up was the result of bureaucratic infighting between the Ministry of Com [...]	2007-06-21 10:12:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR EINV ECON CH
07SHANGHAI412	SHANGHAI BISHOP JIN ON PAPAL LETTER [...] (C) During a conversation with Poloff during Consulate's Independence Day reception on July 3, Shanghai Bishop Aloysius Jin Luxian said he was pleased by Pope Benedict XVI's June 30 letter to Chinese Catholics, which he said was the Pope's way of "extending his hand" to the Chinese government. [...]	2007-07-05 04:47:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KIRF PGOV CH VT
07SHANGHAI414	ZHENG ENCHONG UPDATE [...] (C) Summary. During a conversation with Poloff on June 10, Shanghai Lawyer Zheng Enchong, who was jailed for three years after he advised more than 500 families involved in housing disputes, said that police continued to closely monitor his movements and had made it impossible for him to find [...]	2007-07-05 07:49:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV CH
07SHANGHAI415	GETTING TOUGH ON THE ENVIRONMENT [...] (C) Summary: During a June 28 luncheon with the Consul General and the Pol/Econ Section Chief, three of our more astute business contacts assessed that Beijing was starting to get serious about environmental protection. Beijing had begun to tell local leaders to accept lower growth for a clea [...]	2007-07-05 08:20:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR SENV EINV ECON CH
07SHANGHAI416	SHANGHAI ACADEMIC VIEWS ON NORTH KOREA, SOUTH KOREA [...] (C) Summary: In meetings with Poloffs in mid-June and early July, four Shanghai academics specializing in Korea studies predicted that there would be a long and difficult path of negotiations ahead for the Six-Party talks. Two other academics said, however, that North Korea would react positi [...]	2007-07-05 08:39:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KS KN CH
07SHANGHAI43	SHANGHAI SCHOLARS PESSIMISTIC ABOUT NORTH KOREA [...] (C) Summary: During a January 19 lunch with PDAS Stephens, Shanghai scholars were pessimistic that there would be progress on North Korea in the near term. One scholar said that while North Korea would continue to participate in the Six-Party Talks, it would never give up its nuclear program. [...]	2007-01-23 02:53:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CH TW JA KN
07SHANGHAI450	VANUATU OPENS A CONSULATE IN SHANGHAI [...] (C) Summary: During the opening of the Vanuatu Consulate in Shanghai on July 17, Vanuatu officials emphasized their strong commitment to the One China Policy and encouraged more Chinese investment, trade and tourism to the pacific island country. The opening of the consulate comes on the heels [...]	2007-07-18 05:00:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL CH XV
07SHANGHAI452	TREASURY DAN WRIGHT'S SHANGHAI ACADEMIC MEETINGS [...] (SBU) Summary. During Treasury Managing Director for China and the Strategic Economic Dialogue (SED) Dan Wright's June 26-27 visit to Shanghai, Shanghai academics agreed with Wright that the talks needed to be focused and institutionalized to be sustainable. Two academics urged more low-leve [...]	2007-07-18 06:52:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON EFIN ETRD CH
07SHANGHAI457	BIOGRAPHICAL OBSERVATIONS ON ZHAO HONGZHU [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador's July 9 call on newly-appointed Zhejiang Party Secretary Zhao Hongzhu and a subsequent July 13 dinner hosted by Zhao (see Septel) provided post with an opportunity to collect biographical information on Zhao. Zhao came across as friendly and was described by subor [...]	2007-07-20 08:15:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR CH
07SHANGHAI458	AMBASSADOR'S VISIT TO CHINA'S FIRST MEGACHURCH [...] (SBU) Summary: During a July 9-13 visit to Hangzhou, Ambassador Randt discussed religion and religious freedom with the leadership of China's only Protestant "megachurch". During the church visit, church leaders discussed the growth of Protestantism in China and Zhejiang, noting that there ar [...]	2007-07-20 08:20:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR EINV ECON KIRF CH
07SHANGHAI459	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH ZHEJIANG PARTY SECRETARY ZHAO [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Randt met with Zhejiang's new Party Secretary, Zhao Hongzhu, in Hangzhou on July 9 and was hosted by SIPDIS Zhao for dinner on July 13. Zhao noted that, while relatively small in size and population, Zhejiang contributes more than its fair share to national GDP grow [...]	2007-07-20 08:27:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR EINV ECON KIRF CH
07SHANGHAI464	SHANGHAI MUNICIPAL TRADE UNION COUNCIL: PROTECTING ECONOMIC [...] (SBU) Summary. In a July 16 meeting, Shanghai Municipal Trade Union Council (SMTUC) Deputy Director Huang Qi called the new Labor Contract Law (LCL) a positive development because of its emphasis on the role of the trade union in labor contracts. Although SMTUC's primary responsibility was to [...]	2007-07-24 03:42:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PGOV PHUM CH
07SHANGHAI47	WENZHOU: CHINA'S "JERUSALEUM" [...] (C) Summary: During a December 14-15 visit to the coastal city of Wenzhou in Zhejiang Province, Congenoffs visited three official churches in the city and discussed religious issues with a few local citizens. Congenoff also discussed Wenzhou's religious situation with a researcher in Shanghai [...]	2007-01-23 08:57:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KIRF CH
07SHANGHAI518	ACADEMICS, LEGAL PROFESSIONALS AND OFFICIALS DEBATE PROPERTY [...] (C) Summary: During the August 6-8 National Administrative Law Society Annual Conference in Nanjing, Chinese legal experts and officials had lively exchanges on the role of the government in property disputes. Academics argued for less government intervention in property dispute cases and mor [...]	2007-08-17 06:10:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR KJUS ECON CH
07SHANGHAI527	BEIDAIHE CONCLUDES, JIANG ON THE ROPES [...] (C) Summary: In another of our ongoing discussions about the upcoming Party Congress, a long-time Consulate contact said that the Work Conference at Beidaihe recently concluded and a new Poliburo Standing Committee (PBSC) line-up had all but been finalized. Only President Hu Jintao and Premie [...]	2007-08-21 09:24:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR EINV ECON CH
07SHANGHAI529	SHANGHAI ACADEMIC ON SCO, RUSSIA, IRAN AND NORTH KOREA [...] (C) Summary: In a lunch discussion with DPO on August 20, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (SASS) Academic Pan Guang noted Russia's increased interest in energy coordination at the recent SCO Summit in Bishkek and asserted that this represented a slight shift in Russian policy towards the SC [...]	2007-08-22 07:13:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ENRG CH RS TI TX UZ KZ IR KN
07SHANGHAI530	DINNER WITH JIANGSU PARTY SECRETARY LI YUANCHAO [...] (C) Summary: During an August 9 dinner, Jiangsu Party Secretary Li Yuanchao said that he had been ordered by Vice SIPDIS Premier Wu Yi to increase his province's imports. He also discussed his views on democracy, noting significant pressure on the party from the people to move forward with [...]	2007-08-23 08:43:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR EINV ETRD ECON CH
07SHANGHAI531	DPO CALLS ON SHANGHAI AGRICULTURAL COMMISSION CHAIRMAN [...] (SBU) Summary: On August 8, DPO and Poloff met with Shanghai Agricultural Commission Chairman Xu Lin. According to Xu, although agriculture only occupied a small percentage of Shanghai's overall GDP, it remained a critical segment. Local residents were especially concerned about this segment [...]	2007-08-23 08:48:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR EAGR ECON CH
07SHANGHAI532	SHANGHAI TAIWAN SCHOLARS WARN NEXT TWELVE MONTHS CRITICAL, [...] (C) Summary. Shanghai Institute for Taiwan Studies researchers expressed strong concerns about political developments in Taiwan through May 2008 and about potential United States actions or reactions in response to Taiwan President Chen Shui-bian's plans for a Taiwan referendum on United Na [...]	2007-08-23 09:28:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CH TW

07SHANGHAI546	CNO ADMIRAL MULLEN'S AUGUST 22 BREAKFAST WITH SHANGHAI [...] (C) Summary. Shanghai scholars of strategic and American studies urged the United States to suspend arms sales to Taiwan through the May 2008 Presidential election in an August 22 meeting with United States Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Michael Mullen. Chen Shui-bian was described as a [...]	2007-08-29 02:39:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MCAP MARR OVIP CNO ADMIRAL MULLEN CH TW
07SHANGHAI55	SHANGHAI ACTIVIST MAO HENGFENG SENTENCED [...] (C) In a meeting with Poloff on January 25, Shanghai civil activist Wu Xuewei confirmed that his wife and civil activist, Mao Hengfeng, was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison on charges of destroying property. The Yangpu People's court convicted Mao of damaging two lamps valued at 6, [...]	2007-01-25 07:32:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV CH
07SHANGHAI550	BIO REPORTING ON JIANGSU GOVERNOR LIANG AND AUDITOR LI [...] (C) Summary: During an August 26 dinner in honor of Comptroller General of the United States David Walker, head of the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO),Walker met with Jiangsu Governor Liang Baohua, accompanied by Auditor General of the National Auditing Administration Li Jinhua. [...]	2007-08-30 01:29:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PGOV CH
07SHANGHAI570	FUDAN UNIVERSITY ACADEMICS ON TAIWAN AND NORTH KOREA [...] (C) Summary: During an August 30 lunch discussion with Fudan Center for American Studies Director Shen Dingli and Deputy Director Xin Qiang, the academics predicted that Beijing would not take any military measures in reaction to the referendum on UN membership in Taiwan. However, anger was bu [...]	2007-09-05 09:19:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR CH TW KN
07SHANGHAI573	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS WITH SHANGHAI [...] (C) Summary: During a September 3 breakfast hosted by the Ambassador, five leading Shanghai academics spoke positively about U.S.-China relations, which one described as stable and predictable. Shanghai Institute for International Studies Vice President Yang Jiemian expressed concern, however, [...]	2007-09-06 06:42:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ETRD CH TW KN
07SHANGHAI575	AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH SHANGHAI BISHOP JIN [...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with the Ambassador on September 5, Shanghai Bishop Aloysius Luxian Jin was pessimistic about the prospects of reconciliation between the Vatican and Beijing. Talks were moving at a "marathon" pace and reconciliation would likely not occur in time for the 2008 Olympics [...]	2007-09-06 06:55:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KIRF CH VT
07SHANGHAI580	COMMENTS ON FORMER SHANGHAI PARTY SECRETARY CHEN LIANGYU'S [...] (C) Summary: A Shanghai legal expert told us that Chen Liangyu's corruption case represented a serious loss of face for Shanghai. Politically, Shanghai was too important to be allowed to differ from Beijing. Our interlocutor predicted that Chen would be sentenced to 20 years imprisonment, and [...]	2007-09-07 04:59:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR CH
07SHANGHAI586	BUILDING VALUES IN BACKWATER SCHOOLS--ONE NGO'S APPROACH [...] (C) Summary: The Changjiang Civilian Education Foundation (CCEF) is a homegrown NGO that is trying to build values and teach self-sufficiency to poor students in backwater towns in Anhui Province. CCEF runs two schools aimed at poor deserving students. The first is an elementary school and th [...]	2007-09-10 03:28:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PGOV KIRF CH
07SHANGHAI601	SHANGHAI ACADEMICS ON TAIWAN [...] (C) Summary: In a series of meetings in late August, Shanghai cross-Strait experts expressed concerns about Taiwan's referendum on UN membership, which they believed touched on the redline of the Anti-Secession Law and created a basis for Taiwan independence. While there were many voices in Ch [...]	2007-09-11 03:25:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CH TW
07SHANGHAI615	INTRA-PARTY DEMOCRACY AT THE PARTY CONGRESS? [...] (C) Summary: According to a long-time Consulate contact, there would be more candidates for the Politburo Standing Committee (PBSC) than there were slots, reflecting a greater focus on intra-party democracy. Meanwhile, separate contacts reported differing accounts of the party's commitment to [...]	2007-09-14 11:04:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR SOCI ECON CH
07SHANGHAI636	UPDATE ON ZHEJIANG DISSIDENT LU GENGSONG [...] (C) On September 26, Poloff received an update on detained Zhejiang dissident Lu Gengsong's case from Lu's wife, Wang Xue'e, and Hangzhou activist and freelance journalist Wink Ho. Ho is one of the organizers of a letter signed by more than 1,000 Chinese intellectuals and activists calling for [...]	2007-09-27 10:26:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV CH
07SHANGHAI637	SHANGHAI GOVERNMENT PROMISES TO PUBLISH ALL DRAFT LAWS FOR [...] (C) Summary: In a September 19 lunch discussion, Shanghai Municipal People's Congress officials confirmed news reports that the Shanghai Government will publish all of its draft laws on the Internet for public comment and hold public hearings on drafts that it considered affected people's dail [...]	2007-09-27 10:38:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PHSA PHUM KJUS SOCI ETRD CH
07SHANGHAI644	ZHEJIANG DISSIDENT LU GENGSONG OFFICIALLY ARRESTED [...] (C) On September 30, Poloff received a phonecall from a woman claiming to be a relative of Lu Gengsong. She reported that local authorities had notified the family that day that Lu was officially charged with "inciting subversion." The charge of "illegally obtaining state secrets" was droppe [...]	2007-10-04 01:14:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV CH
07SHANGHAI647	EDUCATION SECRETARY SPELLINGS' MEETING WITH FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) Summary. On October 2, the U.S. Special Olympics Delegation, headed by Education Secretary Margaret Spellings, met with Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi. Secretary Spellings expressed appreciation for China's support for the Special Olympics and delivered a letter from President Bush to Presid [...]	2007-10-04 07:02:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SOCI PREL CH
07SHANGHAI65	2007 SHANGHAI MUNICIPAL PEOPLE'S CONGRESS MEETING [...] (SBU) Summary: The work reports delivered at the opening sessions of 2007 Shanghai Municipal People's Congress (SMPC) and Shanghai Municipal Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) on January 28 and 27, respectively, emphasized the need to fight corruption and improve trans [...]	2007-01-29 08:56:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR ECON CH
07SHANGHAI759	SFRC STAFFER JANUZZI READ-OUT OF NORTH KOREA [...] (C) Summary: Chinese, South Korean and United States academics and officials agreed that North Korea (DPRK) has not yet decided if it will give up its nuclear weapons according to a read-out provided by Senate Foreign Relations Committee Professional Staff Member Frank Januzzi on a November 27 [...]	2007-11-28 06:00:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MNUC KNNP KS KN CH
07SHANGHAI769	SHANGHAI ACADEMICS, BUSINESSMEN TO AMBASSADOR HOLMER: KEEP [...] (C) Summary: Shanghai-based academics and businessmen stressed the importance of having the Strategic Economic Dialogue (SED) focus on long-term policy issues between the two countries in order to insure its relevance and sustainability beyond 2009 in meetings with Treasury Department SED Speci [...]	2007-12-04 06:49:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON PREL CH
07SHANGHAI77	CG VISITS YANGZHOU; DISCUSSES NEW SOCIALIST COUNTRYSIDE AND [...] (C) Summary. The Consul General visited Yangzhou City in the northern section of Jiangsu Province from January 29-30. During a visit to a model "new socialist countryside" village, local officials showcased the progress being made in the municipality's rural areas and successes in moving labo [...]	2007-02-05 09:46:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR KJUS CH
07SHANGHAI770	EAST CHINA LEGAL CONTACTS ON NEW LAWYER LAW [...] (C) Summary: East China legal contacts are cautiously optimistic that the new Lawyer Law passed on October 28 and scheduled to be implemented on June 1, 2008 will increase legal protections for Chinese lawyers. The law expands the rights of lawyers to meet clients in criminal cases without su [...]	2007-12-04 08:20:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KJUS PGOV PINR CH
07SHANGHAI773	SHANGHAI PETITIONERS UPDATE [...] (C) Shanghai petitioner leaders Chen Enquan, Fu Yuxia, and Wu Xuewei provided Poloff with an update on the political atmosphere for petitioners in Shanghai during a meeting on December 4. According to Chen, Fu, and Wu, local authorities continue to harass and closely monitor petitioners in Sh [...]	2007-12-05 03:33:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV CH
07SHANGHAI784	CITI'S STANLEY ON BANKING, ECONOMY, REFORMS, POLITICIANS IN [...] (C) Summary: Chinese banks are afraid of Citibank becoming too strong. This has led the Chinese Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) to conduct an extraordinarily hostile and intrusive audit of Citi's six-month-old locally incorporated subsidiary. The CBRC's goal appears to be forcing Citi t [...]	2007-12-11 07:55:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ECON PGOV CH
07SHANGHAI787	NASDAQ MIGHT HAVE LOOPHOLE TO RESTRICTIONS ON OVERSEAS [...] (C) Summary: NASDAQ China's Chief Representative believes that there might be a legal loophole to the restrictions on Chinese companies listing overseas that have been in place since September 2006. The first test of this "back door" will be in March 2008. The Ministry of Commerce is very opp [...]	2007-12-12 04:35:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN EINV PGOV CH
07SHANGHAI789	SHANGHAI ACADEMICS ON CHINA-INDIA RELATIONS [...] (C) Summary: In a series of meetings in mid-November to discuss China-India relations, Shanghai's leading South Asia academic experts provided differing views on a variety of issues including border disputes, United Nations Security Council reform, energy competition, and regional dynamics. T [...]	2007-12-13 01:06:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD ENRG PARM CH IN RS
07SHANGHAI790	CHINA-RUSSIA RELATIONS: VIEWS FROM SHANGHAI ACADEMICS [...] (C) Summary: In a series of meetings in early December on China-Russia relations, Shanghai's leading academic experts on Russia characterized the bilateral relationship as "very good." They noted the excellent personal relationship between the two countries' leaders, which, they claim, ensures [...]	2007-12-13 08:44:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD ENRG PARM MCAP CH RS
07SHANGHAI791	SHANGHAI ACADEMIC ZHANG NIANCHI ON TAIWAN [...] (C) Summary. During a December 11 lunch, Shanghai Institute for East Asian Studies (SIEAS) President Zhang Nianchi warned that the 2008 referendum on Taiwan's UN membership would have serious consequences for cross-Straits relations. The referendum has a good chance of passing, especially if [...]	2007-12-13 09:00:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL CH TW
07SHANGHAI804	NANJING: 70 YEARS AFTER THE MASSACRE [...] (C) Summary: A day after Nanjing commemorated the 70th Anniversary of the Nanjing Massacre, Poloff met with students, an academic, an official from the local Foreign Affairs Office (FAO) and visited the Nanjing Massacre Museum to discuss Japan and Sino-Japanese relations. Although the FAO off [...]	2007-12-21 07:29:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SOCI CH JA
07SHANGHAI83	NYSE SAYS REP OFFICES NOT LIKELY SOON [...] (C) Summary: New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) Executive Director for Asia Pacific Yeeli Zheng updated Econoff on NYSE's efforts to open a representational office on February 8. China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC) Chairman Shang Fulin appeared resistant to timely progress on this issue [...]	2007-02-08 03:58:00	Consulate Shanghai	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN EINV PREL CH
07SHENYANG101	PRC/DPRK: BORDER TRADE AND SOME NEW FRICTIONS (MAY [...] (C) SUMMARY: There continue to be differences between Jilin and Liaoning Provinces in the volume and scrutiny of their trade with North Korea. PRC-DPRK frictions have recently emerged in Ji'an, where Chinese officials have taken the unusual step of publicly criticizing neighboring North Korea [...]	2007-05-31 02:33:00	Consulate Shenyang	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR ECON KN KS CH
07SHENYANG102	PRC/DPRK: SCARLET FEVER, SMUGGLING, BORDER- [...] (C) SUMMARY: PRC authorities in Jilin recently claimed they have taken measures to prevent a scarlet fever outbreak in the DPRK from making its way into China. Though officials would not confirm the outbreak, they privately stressed that they are prepared. South Koreans appear to be playing b [...]	2007-05-31 02:34:00	Consulate Shenyang	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PREF PINR KN KS CH
07SHENYANG108	DPRK NUKE AFTERMATH, UNSCR 1718 ENFORCEMENT IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Hours after Pyongyang's October 9, 2006 nuclear test, the PLA dispatched a team to Changbai--the PRC border locality closest to the site of the explosion-- to test for contamination, according to Changbai County Communist Party Secretary Miao Chunxiu. Miao said he learned about [...]	2007-06-05 04:31:00	Consulate Shenyang	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR ECON KN KS CH
07SHENYANG115	DPRK-INTERNAL: RASON TURBINES, MORE PUST DELAYS, [...] (C) SUMMARY: DPRK and ROK officials are expected to meet soon in Shenyang to discuss a humanitarian group's proposal to privately finance and install a 750 KW wind turbine in Rason. The opening of Pyongyang's first private university has been pushed back until 2008 as a result of export licen [...]	2007-06-25 08:32:00	Consulate Shenyang	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR PGOV KN KS CH
07SHENYANG126	PRC-DPRK: BORDER INSPECTIONS AND TRADE ISSUES IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Official Chinese scrutiny of land-based PRC-DPRK cargo/passenger traffic continues to range along the border into mid-2007. Land ports in Nanping (conduit for the many tons of iron ore extracted from North Korea's Musan mine) and Dandong are sites of significant levels of activit [...]	2007-07-09 02:21:00	Consulate Shenyang	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR PGOV ECON KN KS CH
07SHENYANG127	PRC-ROK KOGURYO SPARRING CONTINUES, QUIETLY, IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Nearly two years after an August 2005 agreement aimed at shelving their neuralgic political dispute over Koguryo--the kingdom that at various points between 37 BC and 668 AD subsumed parts of modern-day northeast China, North Korea and South Korea--PRC-ROK dueling over ancient hi [...]	2007-07-09 03:24:00	Consulate Shenyang	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR CH KN KS
07SHENYANG128	PRC-DPRK: NORTH KOREAN BORDER-CROSSERS; DRUGS; NEW [...] (C) SUMMARY: Post contacts report that, at least anecdotally, the numbers of North Korean border-crossers encountered this year are fewer than last, though the overall numbers and reasons for the decline are unclear. Jilin Province's ongoing anti-drug campaign is netting more seizures of illeg [...]	2007-07-09 03:25:00	Consulate Shenyang	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL PINR PGOV KWMN KN KS CH
07SHENYANG133	NORTH KOREAN "NEOVIAGRA," MINERALS AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: A visit to Dandong's second DPRK Import- Export Commodity Fair in late June highlighted China's interest in North Korean natural resources and the comparatively low wage rates on the North Korean side of the border. But contacts point out that further down the proverbial line, th [...]	2007-07-13 03:24:00	Consulate Shenyang	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR PGOV ECON KN KS CH
07SHENYANG145	PRC-DPRK: BORDER OFFICIALS ON MUSAN MINE, RAJIN [...] (C) SUMMARY: PRC imports of North Korean iron ore from Musan are fueling a surge in activity at China's Nanping Land Port; Chinese truckers collecting the ore comprised over ninety percent of the 50,000 passengers that transited the port last year, local Chinese officials say. Plans to link n [...]	2007-07-27 07:26:00	Consulate Shenyang	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PGOV ECON PREL KN KS CH
07SHENYANG147	HIV/AIDS AND AVIAN FLU IN NORTHEAST CHINA: STATUS, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Health officials in Liaoning Province claim remarkably few official HIV/AIDS cases, though they acknowledge a nexus between the virus, the province's growing drug problem and its seedy sex industry. Liaoning's Center for Disease Control (CDC) is "not worried" about an imminent avi [...]	2007-08-01 06:04:00	Consulate Shenyang	CONFIDENTIAL	KFLU KHIV TBIO PGOV SOCI EAGR CH
07SHENYANG153	THEY "WON'T LET THE PEOPLE SPEAK": PRESS CONTROL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Conservative propaganda officials in northeast China continue to gag, muffle or otherwise "manage" perceived negative news, according to Liaoning journalists and Party sources, who note that media freedom generally tends to be more restricted here than in other parts of China. Pr [...]	2007-08-06 08:46:00	Consulate Shenyang	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV SOCI KCUL CH
07SHENYANG171	SHENYANG'S AVIATION ECONOMIC ZONE BRING'S MAJOR [...] (C) Summary: City officials and business representatives confirmed that Shenyang will establish an aviation economic zone in the area south of the Hunnan Development Zone and north of Taoxian International Airport and that Shenyang Aircraft Corporation (SAC) will establish a new company made u [...]	2007-09-07 10:06:00	Consulate Shenyang	CONFIDENTIAL	CH EAIR ECON EIND ETRD PGOV PREL
07SHENYANG175	LATE AUGUST TRIP TO THE DPRK/CHINA/RUSSIA BORDER [...] No summary [...]	2007-09-12 10:07:00	Consulate Shenyang	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL PINR PGOV KS KN CH
07SHENYANG178	PRC/DPRK: NEW NK BORDER FENCING; INSPECTIONS AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Recent PRC inspections of cross-border PRC- DPRK traffic through Dandong show no change. One Western NGO recently shipping flood-related medical aid to North Korea encountered rather "strict" PRC customs requirements that slowed the shipment by several days. North Korea has star [...]	2007-09-14 11:06:00	Consulate Shenyang	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR ECON PREF KN KS CH
07SHENYANG184	AIDING NORTH KOREAN PATIENTS (AND BORDER- [...] (C) SUMMARY: A Dandong-based, Korean-American NGO focused on North Korea continues to ship medical aid into the DPRK, but headaches abound as the group seeks to refine its aid strategy. In a modest hospital near the PRC-DPRK border, the group also discreetly tends to North Korean border-cross [...]	2007-09-28 08:35:00	Consulate Shenyang	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PINR KWMN KN KS CH
07SHENYANG205	PRC-DPRK: NK BORDER-CROSSERS, HUMAN SMUGGLING, [...] (C) SUMMARY: The number of North Korean border-crossers entering China in 2007 thus far looks to be roughly on par with 2005/2006 levels despite the DPRK's agricultural difficulties and natural disasters earlier this year, according to a Liaoning scholar engaged in internal, state- sponsored r [...]	2007-10-29 05:46:00	Consulate Shenyang	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL PINR KWMN KN KS CH
07SHENYANG216	PYONGYANG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY [...] (C) Summary: Yanbian University of Science and Technology (YUST) President and Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST) founding President Dr. Kim Chin Kyong, PUST Executive Vice President David Kim, and YUST Director Norma Nichols provided updates on PUST construction progress and [...]	2007-11-19 07:58:00	Consulate Shenyang	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL PINR KWMN KN KS CH SPILL
07SHENYANG220	INVESTOR PROTESTS ROCK SHENYANG [...] (C) SUMMARY: A relatively small group of protestors assembled outside Consulate General Shenyang early in the afternoon of 21 November to protest the failure of ant-farming health-product company Yilishen to pay dividends. The protests were not directed at the United States, but rather at the [...]	2007-11-21 10:05:00	Consulate Shenyang	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PINR PINS SOCI CH
07SHENYANG244	PRC-DPRK: UPDATE ON NK REPATRIATIONS/ASYLUM- [...] (C) SUMMARY: PRC border officials in Baishan tell us that they continue to apprehend and repatriate North Korean border-crossers in their jurisdiction. Japan's Shenyang Consulate is now home to seven North Korean asylum-seekers, including two young children. North Korean authorities near Si [...]	2007-12-13 03:56:00	Consulate Shenyang	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF PINR KN KS CH
07SHENYANG245	"ANT POWER" PROTESTS LEAVE LIAONING SIMMERING IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The political fallout from days of protests over a collapsed pyramid scheme involving hundreds of thousands of northeastern Chinese has put authorities in conservative Liaoning Province, and perhaps some in Beijing, in an uncomfortable political corner. Underreported in the Wester [...]	2007-12-18 05:36:00	Consulate Shenyang	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PINR PINS SOCI ECON CH
07SHENYANG250	CESSNA HOPES TO OPEN CHINA TO PRIVATE AVIATION [...] (U) Cessna Aircraft Corporation, as part of successful negotiations to contract with Shenyang Aircraft Corporation (SAC) to manufacture Cessna's new 162 Skycatcher Light Sport Aircraft (LSA),received assurances from Chinese officials that, by the time the aircraft rolls off the production lin [...]	2007-12-20 07:39:00	Consulate Shenyang	CONFIDENTIAL	CH EAIR ECON PREL
07SHENYANG251	EXCESS DOMESTIC DEMAND DRIVES CHINA'S GRAIN MARKET [...] (C) Summary. China will not allow any exports of corn or soybeans during 2008 and will radically curtail wheat exports, according to Wang Haisheng, Director of state-owned Jilin Grain Group and General Manager of Jilin Grain Group Export and Import Company. Wang,s company, which accounts for [...]	2007-12-26 07:37:00	Consulate Shenyang	CONFIDENTIAL	CH EAGR ECON EIND EINT ELAB ENRG ETRD PGOV
07SHENYANG78	NORTH KOREA/CHINA: SMALLER-SCALE SMUGGLING ACROSS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Despite a recent crackdown by PRC and DPRK authorities, Chinese smugglers--often partnering with local North Korean military contacts--reportedly continue to operate near Dandong. A fair amount of smuggling in the area appears to be smaller-scale in nature, though profits can nev [...]	2007-04-30 10:27:00	Consulate Shenyang	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL KN KS CH
07SHENYANG79	NORTH KOREA ROUNDUP: PROPAGANDA, REMITTANCES, [...] (C) SUMMARY: This is a roundup of North Korea-related information collected by Post in recent weeks. Contacts report that nuclear propaganda has recently started disappearing in North Korea's major cities, including Pyongyang. Pyongyang's private university, PUST, appears to be back on track [...]	2007-04-30 10:29:00	Consulate Shenyang	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PREL PINR PGOV KN KS CH
07SHENYANG95	PRC HUMAN RIGHTS--YAO FUXIN UPDATE: HEALTH [...] (C) SUMMARY: The health of Yao Fuxin, the imprisoned Liaoning labor leader whose case gained international and high-level USG attention in 2003, has declined considerably since 2005, according to his family. Yao's daughter is surveilled by PRC security services, some authorities refuse to acc [...]	2007-05-22 09:37:00	Consulate Shenyang	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PINR PINS SOCI CH
07SINGAPORE108	AN UNCARING ELITE IN SINGAPORE? [...] (SBU) Summary: A vituperative internet posting by the daughter of a ruling party MP helped spark a recent public discussion on the role of Singapore's bureaucratic elite and its relations with the rest of society. There is a growing concern among average Singaporeans and even within the elite [...]	2007-01-16 09:44:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ELAB SOCI PGOV SN
07SINGAPORE1304	SINGAPORE URGES GREATER U.S. ENGAGEMENT WITH ASEAN [...] (C) Summary: Singapore officials and academics urged greater and more sophisticated U.S. regional engagement during meetings with Policy Planning (S/P) Principal Deputy Director Matthew Waxman June 25-27. GOS leaders argued that a USG failure to understand the importance of "process" in Asia [...]	2007-07-06 09:09:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD IN PGOV PREL SN
07SINGAPORE1404	PM LEE HSIEN LOONG: ME AND MY (DAD'S) SHADOW [...] (C) Summary: After almost three years as Prime Minister, Lee Hsien Loong still has not come out of the shadow of his father, modern Singapore's founding father Lee Kuan Yew (LKY). Long seen as arrogant and preordained to take over the reins of government, PM Lee has been successful in softeni [...]	2007-07-30 07:29:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EFIN SN
07SINGAPORE1455	(C) SINGAPORE'S VIEWS ON APEC AND SOVEREIGN WEALTH [...] (C) Summary: Singapore officials told Treasury Deputy Assistant Secretary for Asia Robert Dohner that they generally supported Treasury's proposed APEC Capital Market Technical Assistance program as well as Treasury's key priorities for the APEC Finance Ministerial in August 2-3 in Australia. [...]	2007-08-07 06:11:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN EINV ECON PGOV SN CH
07SINGAPORE1591	AFGHANISTAN PRT: NO SINGAPORE COMBAT FORCES, BUT [...] (C) Singapore will not send combat personnel to Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs) in Afghanistan, MFA Second Permanent Secretary Bilahari Kausikan told EAP DAS Scot Marciel and the Ambassador during an August 24 meeting. It would be "politically impossible" to do so, Kausikan asserted. [...]	2007-08-29 06:31:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS PGOV PREL AF SN
07SINGAPORE1611	SINGAPORE SUGGESTS CHANGES TO CHEMICAL WEAPONS [...] No summary [...]	2007-08-30 10:01:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL KTIA ETRD CWC
07SINGAPORE1637	ASEAN CHARTER ON TRACK, SINGAPORE MFA TELLS EAP [...] (C) Summary: The ASEAN Charter should be ready for leaders to sign at the group's November Summit in Singapore, MFA Second Permanent Secretary Bilahari Kausikan told EAP DAS Scot Marciel and the Ambassador August 25. Kausikan offered a downbeat assessment of developments in Indonesia, Malaysi [...]	2007-09-04 08:36:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON PTER ETRD EFIN SN
07SINGAPORE1638	SINGAPORE CONFIDENT ASEAN CHARTER WILL ADDRESS [...] (C) Summary: The ASEAN Charter is close to completion and should be ready for ASEAN leaders to sign at the November Summit in Singapore, MFA told us August 31. After the November Summit, Singapore will use its position as ASEAN Chairman to push for "transitional arrangements" to move ASEAN fr [...]	2007-09-04 08:38:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM ECON PGOV SN
07SINGAPORE1679	SOME CYCLISTS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS - [...] (C) Summary: An internet blogger has revealed a double standard by the GOS on outdoor political events. In August, the opposition Workers' Party was denied a police permit to hold a mass cycling event and the GOS defended the decision in Parliament saying that no political party was allowed to [...]	2007-09-10 09:49:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SN
07SINGAPORE1811	SINGAPORE PESSIMISTIC ON DEFENSE PACT WITH [...] (C) Summary: Singapore is pessimistic over prospects for Indonesian ratification of the Defence Cooperation Agreement and the Extradition Treaty the two nations signed in April, MFA Southeast Asia Directorate Director Peter Tan told us during a September 27 meeting with the DCM. Tan charact [...]	2007-09-28 11:04:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL PGOV ID SN
07SINGAPORE1812	SINGAPORE MEDIA COMES DOWN HARD ON BURMESE JUNTA; [...] Summary: Singapore's government-controlled press has been uncharacteristically critical of the Burmese regime, with a Straits Times editorial calling on it to "manage -- with as much decency and dispatch as it can muster -- its own demise." Meanwhile, the MFA issued another press statement, [...]	2007-09-28 12:24:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL ASEAN BM SN
07SINGAPORE1822	BURMA: SINGAPORE TOLERATES AN "ILLEGAL" [...] (C) Summary: A crowd of 150 Burmese nationals gathered outside the Embassy of Burma on September 30 to protest the regime's crackdown in Rangoon, according to local press reports. The Singapore police advised the protesters that it was an illegal public assembly and told them to disperse, but [...]	2007-10-01 09:45:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV BM SN
07SINGAPORE1832	URGING SINGAPORE TO KEEP THE PRESSURE ON THE [...] (C) Summary: The CDA met with Singapore MFA Permanent Secretary Peter Ho to urge Singapore to keep up the pressure SIPDIS on the Burmese regime to end the violence and begin a genuine transition to a civilian, democratic, government in Burma. Ho said Singapore and ASEAN could not remain sile [...]	2007-10-02 11:02:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BM SN
07SINGAPORE1851	BURMA: LEADING ACADEMIC CALLS FOR ASEAN TO SUSPEND [...] (C) Summary: ASEAN should suspend Burma's membership in the organization, one of Singapore's leading academic and establishment figures argued in an October 4 op-ed piece in the government-linked Straits Times Newspaper. Think tank director and former Ambassador Barry Desker said Burma has be [...]	2007-10-04 09:52:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL BM SN
07SINGAPORE1852	BURMA: PM'S AIDE PROVIDES GAMBARI READOUT, VIEWS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Lee's Principal Private Secretary Lawrence Wong provided Charge a readout October 4 SIPDIS of UN Special Advisor Gambari's Burma mission that tracked closely with what our UK colleagues heard from Gambari October 3: Gambari had delivered the international commu [...]	2007-10-04 11:15:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL ASEAN BU SN
07SINGAPORE1870	BURMA: SINGAPORE RULING PARTY MP WANTS TOUGHER [...] (C) ASEAN needs to move beyond statements and take action against the regime in Burma, Singapore ruling party MP Charles Chong told us October 5. Chong, who is a leader of the ASEAN Inter Parliamentary Myanmar Caucus (AIPMC),said ASEAN should consider either suspending Burma from the organiz [...]	2007-10-09 09:36:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL BM SN
07SINGAPORE1890	BURMA-SINGAPORE TRADE AND INVESTMENT -- MORE THAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: For Burma, Singapore is a major trading partner and source of investment and foreign exchange. Two-way trade in goods is declining, but Singapore remains an important investor in Burma for tourism, airlines, food processing, and infrastructure. Asia World, one of Burma's larges [...]	2007-10-11 10:56:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD EINV ETTC PREL ASEAN EFIN BU SN
07SINGAPORE1893	DEMARCHE: URGING ASEAN LEADERSHIP ON BURMA [...] (C) SUMMARY: CDA met with MFA Permanent Secretary Bilahari Kausikan and delivered reftel message urging ASEAN leadership on Burma and suggesting that ASEAN consider appointing a high-level envoy to Burma. Kausikan agreed that ASEAN should continue to press Burma for meaningful change and suppo [...]	2007-10-12 11:09:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM SN BU ASEAN
07SINGAPORE1911	ASEAN ENVOY CONCEPT -- SINGAPORE PREFERS TO KEEP [...] (C) MFA Permanent Secretary Bilahari Kausikan called DCM in to the MFA October 18 to provide a formal response to Ref A request for views on the possibility of ASEAN's designating a high-level envoy to Burma. Kausikan said that, as promised, Singapore had carefully considered the idea. The [...]	2007-10-18 11:02:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM SN BU ASEAN
07SINGAPORE1930	FOREIGN MEDIA CAVES TO LEE FAMILY INC. DEFAMATION [...] (C) The Lee family has once again wielded its defamation club to deal with criticism, real or inferred. On October 18, local media reported that the Financial Times (FT) newspaper had apologized and paid damages to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew, and Temasek CEO [...]	2007-10-19 08:37:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM EFIN SN
07SINGAPORE1931	MFA ON SUSPENDING BURMA AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENTS [...] (C) Summary: It would be surprising if ASEAN leaders decided to suspend Burma, MFA Second Permanent Secretary Bilahari Kausikan told EAP DAS Christensen and the Ambassador on October 15, given that "some of their hands are not too clean." Kausikan characterized China's "charm offensive" in So [...]	2007-10-19 08:39:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON SENV BM SN
07SINGAPORE1932	LEE KUAN YEW ON BURMA'S "STUPID" GENERALS AND THE [...] (C) Summary: ASEAN should not have admitted Burma, Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam into the organization in the 1990's, Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew told visiting EAP DAS Christensen and the Ambassador October 16. Expressing his scorn for Burma's leaders, MM Lee called them "dense" and "stupid." A [...]	2007-10-19 08:41:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON CH TW BM SN
07SINGAPORE1941	U.S. SANCTIONS AGAINST BURMA - DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (C) Summary: Singapore is looking carefully at the Burmese individuals and Burma-linked entities recently designated by the U.S. Government, MFA Permanent Secretary Bilahari Kausikan told the DCM during an October 22 meeting. Kausikan was responding to Ref A message providing information on [...]	2007-10-22 10:46:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM CVIS ETRD ETTC EFIN BM SN
07SINGAPORE1980	PRESSING GOS ON BURMA'S PARTICIPATION AT ASEAN AND [...] (C) Summary: The DCM met with MFA Permanent Secretary Peter Ho to express serious concern over Singapore's invitation to new Burmese Prime Minister Thein Sein to attend the ASEAN Summit in Singapore in November and to urge Singapore not to go back to business as usual with the Burmese regime. [...]	2007-10-30 07:01:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL BM SN
07SINGAPORE1983	GAMBARI READY TO GO TO BURMA; SEEKS U.S. [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador sought a detailed readout of UN Special Advisor Gambari's regional consultations on Burma on October 30 and pressed him to work for specific modalities and outcomes during his early November visit to Burma. Gambari said his consultations had helped "bridge the gap" [...]	2007-10-30 10:12:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM SN BU ASEAN
07SINGAPORE1996	GOS VIEWS ON CHINA'S POLICY GOALS AND ROLE IN [...] (C) Summary: Singapore expects a high degree of continuity in China's domestic and foreign policy, Security and Intelligence Division (SID) Director BG Chee Wee Kiong told visiting EAP DAS Thomas Christensen October 15. China's main priority is ensuring a stable international environment so it [...]	2007-11-01 09:18:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SN
07SINGAPORE2011	BURMA: S LETTER DELIVERED; GOS DISAPPOINTED BY UN [...] (SBU) E/P Chief delivered the Secretary's letter to Foreign Minister Yeo (Ref A) to MFA Southeast Asia Directorate Deputy Director Pong Kok Tian November 5. Pong noted that FM Yeo is currently in Jakarta, that Thursday, November 8, is a local holiday, and that FM Yeo plans to travel to New De [...]	2007-11-05 10:06:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM BM SN
07SINGAPORE2052	ASEAN SUMMITS: KEEP YOUR EXPECTATIONS LOW [...] (C) Summary: Singapore-based ASEAN watchers predicted a disappointed public reaction to the ASEAN Summit to be held here November 18-21. Government sources and a leaked draft indicate that the new ASEAN Charter will not include significant compliance or disciplinary measures as many had hop [...]	2007-11-16 01:23:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM SN BU ASEAN
07SINGAPORE2073	SINGAPORE LIKELY TO ABSTAIN ON UNGA THIRD [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-19 08:33:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL UNGA SN
07SINGAPORE2081	SINGAPORE NOT LOOKING TO UNDERMINE UN PROCUREMENT [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-20 06:03:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AORC UN UNGA SN
07SINGAPORE2084	SCENESETTER FOR PM A-A/S MULL'S VISIT TO SINGAPORE [...] (C) Embassy Singapore looks forward to your December 3 visit. Your meetings with senior Singapore government officials offer an excellent opportunity to: -- express thanks for GOS support in Iraq and Afghanistan; -- highlight our close security relationship and the importance of interoperab [...]	2007-11-20 09:37:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM ECON ETRD ETTC BM SN
07SINGAPORE2086	BURMA: DIVIDED ASEAN CANCELS GAMBARI SUMMIT [...] (C) Summary: ASEAN leaders canceled a planned briefing of the East Asia Summit (EAS) by UN Special Advisor Gambari after Burma strenuously objected during a contentious working dinner involving the leaders at the ASEAN Summit November 19. An MFA source told us Burma's representatives had earl [...]	2007-11-20 11:48:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM SN BU ASEAN
07SINGAPORE2112	SCENESETTER FOR UNDER SECRETARY BURNS' DECEMBER [...] (C) My team at Embassy Singapore and I greatly look forward to your December 2-3 visit. While the United States and Singapore are not allies, we enjoy a close military and economic relationship based on overlapping strategic views and substantial trade and investment ties. Singapore is a kee [...]	2007-11-27 09:47:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM ECON BM SN
07SINGAPORE2115	BURMESE REGIME'S MANEUVERS AT ASEAN SUMMIT REMOVED [...] (C) Summary: The Burmese regime's maneuvers at the ASEAN-related meetings in Singapore, especially the regime's reversing course and preventing UN Special Advisor Gambari from briefing the East Asia Summit, removed Burma's "ASEAN cover," Singapore Prime Minister Lee's Principal Private Secre [...]	2007-11-28 07:07:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM SN BM ASEAN
07SINGAPORE2147	U.S. NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE ESTIMATE ON IRAN'S [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-05 00:23:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP MNUC IR PARM SN
07SINGAPORE2170	A-A/S MULL DISCUSSES REGIONAL POL-MIL DEVELOPMENTS [...] (C) Summary: ASEAN is pushing forward with regional integration and becoming a more rules-based organization, MFA Permanent Secretary Peter Ho told Acting Assistant Secretary for Political-Military Affairs Stephen Mull on December 3. Ho expressed optimism about Vietnam's rapidly growing economy [...]	2007-12-10 07:21:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM MARR PHUM PGOV SN
07SINGAPORE2184	U/S BURNS' 12/3 MEETING WITH SINGAPORE PM LEE [...] (C) Summary: Under Secretary Burns urged in a December 3 meeting with Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong that Singapore and ASEAN do more to put pressure on the Burmese regime to engage in genuine dialogue. PM Lee said ASEAN would do its part, but claimed the real leverage lay with Ch [...]	2007-12-12 05:21:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SN BM CH IN AF JA
07SINGAPORE2190	U/S BURNS' DEC. 3 MEETING WITH SINGAPORE FM YEO [...] (C) Summary: Singapore and ASEAN should step up the pressure on the Burmese regime, U/S Burns told Singapore Foreign Minister George Yeo on December 3. FM Yeo said ASEAN would stand aside on the Burma issue now that Burma had made it clear through its actions at the ASEAN Summit that it woul [...]	2007-12-12 10:19:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	BM PREL ASEAN SN XF
07SINGAPORE2191	BURMA: U/S BURNS STRESSES NEED FOR CONTINUED ASEAN [...] (C) Summary: Under Secretary Nicholas Burns, accompanied by the Ambassador, urged ASEAN to find a way to step up pressure on Burma during a meeting with MFA Permanent Secretary Peter Ho December 3. Ho said that Burma had SIPDIS rejected an ASEAN role during the November 19-22 summits in S [...]	2007-12-13 04:36:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	BM PGOV PHUM PREL ASEAN SN
07SINGAPORE2194	AMBASSADOR'S CHINA-FOCUSED ROUNDTABLE WITH [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador joined academics from the East Asian Institute (EAI) in a roundtable discussion of China's relationship with Singapore and ASEAN. EAI researchers noted that a Singapore-China Free Trade Agreement (FTA) would be particularly helpful for Singapore's services sector, [...]	2007-12-13 07:34:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD MARR PHUM PGOV SOCI ECON ASEAN CH
07SINGAPORE2244	SINGAPORE "POSTPONES" GAY RIGHTS AFTER LIVELY [...] No summary [...]	2007-12-27 04:15:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SOCI SN
07SINGAPORE2254	NO BREAKTHROUGH IN 2007 FOR GAY RIGHTS IN [...] (C) Summary: 2007 turned out not to be the breakthrough year for gay rights in Singapore that advocates had hoped it would be. After an extended and spirited public debate fueled by founding father Lee Kuan Yew (LKY),Singapore retained a statute (Section 377A) banning sex between men. A se [...]	2007-12-28 01:49:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SOCI SN
07SINGAPORE285	TEMASEK CEO HO CHING SURVEYS THE REGION [...] (C) Summary. Temasek Holdings CEO Ho Ching (also wife of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong) told Ambassador David Gross that she was pessimistic about ASEAN's future. Thailand's interim government was obsessed with "everything Thaksin" and, having come up short on evidence to implicate the for [...]	2007-02-09 09:18:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD ECPS EINV EFIN PREL SN
07SINGAPORE302	SINGAPORE STILL LOOKING FOR A MORE EFFECTIVE JAPAN [...] (C) Summary: Singapore officials have long believed that Japan should do more to capitalize on its significant aid, trade and investment in the countries of Southeast Asia, noting that China garners more attention with much less effort. Singapore and Japan enjoy close economic and political t [...]	2007-02-13 03:35:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON JA PGOV PREL SN ETRD MARR
07SINGAPORE394	BURLESQUE AND BILLIONS OF DOLLARS LATER, SINGAPORE [...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Singapore (GOS) is attempting to steer the economy to become more knowledge-based and entrepreneurial to counter the competitive challenges China, India and other lower-cost exporters pose. Characteristically, the GOS is taking the lead, putting schemes in pla [...]	2007-02-27 09:53:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON PGOV PREL ETRD SN
07SINGAPORE480	DEMARCHE ON INTERPOL'S AMIA PROPOSAL DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-09 06:33:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	IR AR PGOV PREL FBI PTER KJUS ASEC KTFN KISL
07SINGAPORE585	DPM WONG RESPONDS TO LAW ENFORCEMENT COOPERATION [...] (C) Summary: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs WONG Kan Seng told the Ambassador on March 23 that he planned to discuss recent law enforcement cooperation developments during his upcoming visit to Washington. He acknowledged that much effort was required to conclude a Mutu [...]	2007-03-23 08:46:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC SNAR KTFN KCRM PREL PTER ECON SN
07SINGAPORE587	SM GOH'S VISIT TO IRAN AND SINGAPORE'S COOL [...] (C) Summary: Singapore's relations with Iran remain cool, despite Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong's visit to Iran this month and the city-state's broader effort over the last three years to expand its links with the Middle East. In 2004, Singapore had Iran in its sights as a potential economic [...]	2007-03-23 10:12:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD ECON PGOV EPET SN IR

07SINGAPORE70	GENERAL THAN SHWE STILL IN SINGAPORE FOR "PRIVATE [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-10 09:32:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SN BM
07SINGAPORE703	SINGAPORE ANTICIPATES FAVORABLE FATF REVIEW [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 11. 2. (C) Summary: GOS officials claim they are well prepared for an upcoming Financial Action Task Force (FATF) peer review to assess Singapore's anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) regime. Recent ste [...]	2007-04-09 07:13:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC KTFN EFIN KCRM ECON ETRD EINV SN
07SINGAPORE785	SINGAPORE'S MADRASAHS STRUGGLE TO STAY RELEVANT [...] (SBU) Summary: Singapore's full-time private Islamic schools, or madrasahs, are facing an existential crisis. Within the Malay/Muslim community, many question the quality, purpose, and continuing relevance of the full-time madrasahs in Singapore's highly competitive, secular society. The madr [...]	2007-04-20 09:09:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SN KISL SOCI SCUL
07SINGAPORE933	FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE COOPERATION BETTER, ALBEIT [...] (C) Summary: GOS officials told Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) Regional Specialist Rena Miller April 18 that they expected to process 4,000 to 5,000 Suspicious Transaction Reports (STRs) in 2007, up from about 1,760 in 2004. Miller noted that information sharing had improved [...]	2007-05-14 09:16:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC KTFN KCRM EFIN PTER SNAR ECON EINV SN
07SINGAPORE995	GOS PROVIDES SOKKIA, EPNO/DAINAN, NAVID'S [...] (U) A Senior Assistant Director of MFA's International Organizations Directorate presented us with the following non-paper on May 23. The non-paper provides GOS follow-up to export control cases involving three Singapore companies: Sokkia Singapore, Epno Far East/Dainan Tech, and Navid's Com [...]	2007-05-24 01:54:00	Embassy Singapore	CONFIDENTIAL	MTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC SN IR
07SKOPJE102	MACEDONIA'S OPPOSITION: DISENGAGEMENT AND DISARRAY [...] (C) Frustrated over the lack of a genuine political dialogue with the government, Macedonia's main eAlbanian opposition party DUI is boycotting the Parliament and considering cutting ties between the municipalities it controls and the central government. DUI leaders cite a list of demands, inc [...]	2007-02-02 16:55:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MK
07SKOPJE106	MACEDONIA: POSITIVE REACTION TO KOSOVO STATUS [...] (C) The GOM, public, and media response to UN Special Envoy Ahtisaari's Kosovo status proposal has been uniformly positive. Government leaders are especially pleased with the proposal's language addressing the issue of demarcation of the Kosovo-Macedonia border. They are concerned, however, n [...]	2007-02-05 15:23:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MK KS
07SKOPJE120	MACEDONIA: DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER ON ICTY RETURN OF [...] (C) Deputy PM Konevska agreed with the Ambassador during a February 7 meeting that the Macedonian judicial and political system is not yet ready to accept the return of four unindicted ICTY cases involving eAlbanians linked to the two main eAlbanian political parties here. Reminded that time i [...]	2007-02-09 15:13:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM ICTY MK
07SKOPJE134	MACEDONIA: DPA LEADERS ON DIALOGUE, KOSOVO STATUS, [...] (C) In a February 9 meeting with leaders of eAlbanian governing coalition member DPA, the Ambassador pressed for a revitalized government-opposition dialogue, warned DPA against attempts to destroy eAlbanian opposition party DUI, and asked for full support for the Kosovo status process. She wa [...]	2007-02-15 15:51:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KS MK
07SKOPJE137	MACEDONIA: NEW PUBLIC PROSECUTOR FOCUSED ON [...] (SBU) During a February 9 courtesy call with the Ambassador, newly appointed Chief Public Prosecutor Shvrgovski said his number one priority is combating organized crime in Macedonia. Shvrgovski, a former Deputy Public Prosecutor, was appointed by the Macedonian parliament on January 24. He [...]	2007-02-16 12:30:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR MK
07SKOPJE190	MACEDONIA: SCENESETTER FOR EUR A/S FRIED'S MARCH [...] (U) This message supplements, and is complementary to, the briefing materials already provided to EUR/SCE for your visit to Skopje. NATO MESSAGE SINKING IN, DIALOGUE MOVES AHEAD 2. (C) With your visit an action-forcing event, GOM officials this week are taking some of the steps we have be [...]	2007-03-05 15:23:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MK
07SKOPJE203	MACEDONIA: GOVERNMENT & OPPOSITION REVIVE [...] (C) PM Gruevski and eAlbanian opposition leader Ali Ahmeti and their negotiating teams met March 7 to revive long-dormant political talks on moving ahead on key NATO and EU membership-related reforms, including implementation of the Ohrid Framework Agreement. The two sides reached agreement o [...]	2007-03-09 09:47:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NATO MK
07SKOPJE209	MACEDONIA: EUR A/S FRIED'S TALKS WITH GOM & [...] (C) During March 8 meetings with GOM and opposition leaders in Skopje, A/S Fried urged (and easily obtained) continued support for the Ahtisaari status proposal and asked his interlocutors to consider publicly supporting a Kosovo UNSCR as a means to bolster security in Macedonia and the region [...]	2007-03-13 08:31:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NATO MK
07SKOPJE21	MACEDONIA: DRUG BUST NETS NEARLY 500 KGS OF [...] (SBU) Macedonia's biggest-ever drug bust, on January 7 at the Kosovo-Macedonia border, which netted more than 486 kilos of cocaine reportedly headed for Greece, is a good example of effective regional cooperation in a counter-narcotics operation. Separately, a counter-narcotics trial in Skopj [...]	2007-01-12 06:09:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SNAR PREL MK KS
07SKOPJE22	MACEDONIA: KONDOVO GANG LEADER CONVICTED, REMAINS [...] (SBU) Gang leader Agim Krasniqi and two of his associates have been sentenced to prison terms for their involvement in the attempted kidnapping and wounding of a rival ethnic Albanian gang member in October 2003. Krasniqi and one associate were tried, convicted and sentenced in absentia and r [...]	2007-01-12 09:09:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL MK
07SKOPJE27	BUNGLED MACEDONIAN ARMS SHIPMENT TO BULGARIA: [...] (C) Macedonian police intercepted and halted a shipment of military weapons bound for Bulgaria on December 14, claiming that the trucks lacked the proper paperwork and the required police escort. The shipment of machine guns and mortars was the last of four shipments of excess weapons the M [...]	2007-01-12 16:12:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR KOMC MASS PREL MK
07SKOPJE270	MACEDONIA: POLITICAL DIALOGUE CONTINUES -- HARD [...] (C) Since the revival of political talks between the government and eAlbanian opposition party DUI on March 7, several working-level meetings between the two sides, monitored by the U.S. and EUSR, have produced an agreed list of some 38 laws that will be subject to the Badinter principle (doub [...]	2007-04-06 10:25:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MK
07SKOPJE283	MACEDONIA: AMBASSADOR PRESSES PRIME MINISTER FOR [...] (C) The Ambassador met with PM Gruevski April 11 to press him for greater flexibility in meeting eAlbanian opposition DUI's demands in exchange for DUI's commitment to end its boycott of Parliament. Gruevski asserted he had already conceded much of what DUI wanted in terms of a list of laws r [...]	2007-04-16 06:48:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR MK SY
07SKOPJE296	MACEDONIA: GLASS HALF FULL -- FORGING AHEAD ON [...] (C) Following high-level leadership discussions April 13 and 16, PM Gruevski and eAlbanian opposition DUI leader Ahmeti reached a compromise on a key DUI demand to reconstitute the Parliamentary Inter-ethnic Relations Committee. They did not reach agreement on a list of laws that would requir [...]	2007-04-18 16:00:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MK
07SKOPJE321	MACEDONIA: AMBASSADOR PRESSES DUI'S AHMETI TO MOVE [...] (C) During an April 20 meeting at the Embassy, the Ambassador pressed DUI (eAlbanian opposition) leader Ahmeti to demonstrate greater flexibility in hammering out a compromise with the government on key DUI concerns that would end that party's parliamentary boycott. She warned Ahmeti that, if [...]	2007-04-25 16:08:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MK
07SKOPJE336	MACEDONIA: DAS DICARLO MEETINGS WITH GOM AND [...] (C) During April 23 meetings with GOM and opposition leaders in Skopje, DAS DiCarlo emphasized the need for the GOM to move forward on NATO-related reforms as time is running out for Macedonia to make its case for NATO membership in 2008. Of utmost importance is resolving the ongoing politica [...]	2007-04-27 14:42:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL NATO MK
07SKOPJE351	MACEDONIA WILL SUPPORT SLOVENIA AND BOSNIA FOR THE [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-10 11:04:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM UNHRC MK
07SKOPJE39	MACEDONIA: MANAGING POLITICAL FALLOUT FROM THE [...] (C) The ICTY's impending return to Macedonian jurisdiction of four unindicted cases which deal with acts allegedly committed by ethnic Albanians (eAlbanians) during the 2001 conflict will raise political tensions here. The ethnic Albanian opposition party DUI will argue, possibly with some ju [...]	2007-01-17 14:51:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM ICTY MK
07SKOPJE412	MACEDONIAN ISLAMIC LEADERS ON WAHHABISM, [...] (SBU) Key Islamic leaders in Macedonia report a slight decline in the influence of Wahhabists in their muftiates. The leaders are focused on denationalization of land that formerly belonged to them, and blame their current financial challenges on the slow pace of denationalization. Sustained [...]	2007-05-23 17:08:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KIRF MK
07SKOPJE416	MACEDONIA: SCENESETTER FOR POTUS LUNCH WITH A-3 [...] (C) Now in his ninth month in office, Prime Minister Gruevski will arrive in Tirana hoping for an encouraging message on NATO membership and looking for U.S. recognition of Macedonia's GWOT efforts and its constructive stance on Kosovo. It would be useful for him to hear a strong message on t [...]	2007-05-25 15:33:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MK
07SKOPJE418	MACEDONIA: GOVERNMENT AND OPPOSITION CONCLUDE [...] (C) Governing VMRO-DPMNE and eAlbanian main opposition party DUI concluded a U.S.-EU-brokered political agreement on May 29 that addresses DUI's key policy concerns and paves the way for that party's return to Parliament May 30. Governing coalition partner DPA, angered over DUI's inflated clai [...]	2007-05-29 14:57:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MK
07SKOPJE449	MACEDONIA: THE NAME ISSUE AND NATO MEMBERSHIP [...] (C) Strict adherence to the 1995 Interim Agreement (IA) between Greece and Macedonia should remain central to preventing the name dispute from blocking Macedonia's membership in NATO, once it has met membership standards. A Greek threat to veto Macedonia's membership in NATO, or to withhold p [...]	2007-06-06 13:35:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NATO MK GR
07SKOPJE456	MACEDONIA: PM GRUEVSKI SURVIVES NO CONFIDENCE [...] (C) The government survived a no-confidence vote June 7 tabled by the opposition SDSM party to protest PM Gruevski's alleged feuding with coalition partners and "failure to advance judicial reforms." While the high-stakes no-confidence gamble was playing out, Gruevski also faced the threat of [...]	2007-06-08 12:56:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MK
07SKOPJE483	MACEDONIA: GOM PLEDGES CONTINUED FOCUS ON NATO [...] (C) The Ambassador delivered ref A points on NATO enlargement and required reform steps to Deputy FM Petrov and National NATO Coordinator Dimitrov on June 19. In response, Petrov reiterated the GOM's commitment to focusing on NATO reforms, but noted challenges the government faces in passing [...]	2007-06-20 17:25:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR NATO MK
07SKOPJE498	MACEDONIA: SCENESETTER FOR EAPC SECURITY SUMMIT [...] (SBU) Macedonia's leaders are hoping to showcase the country's organizational and logistics capabilities in hosting the EAPC summit, which will be set amidst the impressive natural beauty of Lake Ohrid. They have heard and understood our message on the steps they need to take to strengthen th [...]	2007-06-25 13:46:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NATO MK
07SKOPJE533	MACEDONIA: AMBASSADOR NULAND URGES PRESIDENT AND [...] (U) During separate meetings with President Crvenkovski and PM Gruevski on the margins of the NATO EAPC Security Forum in Ohrid June 29, Ambassador Nuland urged the GOM to maintain steady progress toward meeting NATO standards in the crucial months leading up to NATO's Bucharest Summit in April [...]	2007-07-03 16:02:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NATO MK
07SKOPJE629	MACEDONIA: PRIME MINISTER ON WAY AHEAD FOR NATO [...] (C) During a July 31 tete-a-tete lunch, PM Gruevski outlined what he considers to be the remaining tasks for Macedonia to make its case for NATO membership: implement the May 29 VMRO-DUI agreement, fully constitute the State Judicial Council, and pass a liberal religious freedom law. He also s [...]	2007-08-01 16:02:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR MK
07SKOPJE709	MACEDONIA: MOVING TOWARD EARLY ELECTIONS? [...] (C) According to a high-ranking MFA contact, PM Gruevski increasingly favors calling early general elections to capitalize on his high poll ratings and to end intra-coalition squabbling he believes is hobbling his economic development agenda. Gruevski believes he could work more efficiently w [...]	2007-08-30 16:44:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MK
07SKOPJE712	MACEDONIA: MOI CONSIDERS PEACEFUL RESOLUTION OF [...] (C) The GOM is actively considering a non-violent approach to resolving the current standoff with former ethnic Albanian MP Xhezair Shaqiri, who is holed up in the village of Tanusevci on the Macedonia-Kosovo border (reftel) to avoid arrest on kidnapping charges. The approach includes offering [...]	2007-08-31 15:36:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MK KV
07SKOPJE719	MACEDONIA: EARLY ELECTIONS NIPPED IN THE BUD? [...] (C) The prospect of early elections in Macedonia probably has receded following a joint U.S.-EU demarche September 4 to relay points to Prime Minister Gruevski's cabinet on the potential risks to the country's Euro-Atlantic aspirations of such action. However, the early elections option could [...]	2007-09-05 16:00:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MK
07SKOPJE730	MACEDONIAN: ELECTORAL CODE CHANGES WOULD ALLOW [...] (SBU) Following more than six months of talks between Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski and a group of MPs from the smaller ethnic minority communities (Turks, Serbs, Bosniacs, Roma, Vlachs),the government announced on August 27 that it would seek to amend the electoral code to guarantee ten new [...]	2007-09-07 12:34:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MK
07SKOPJE753	MACEDONIA: NEW DIRECTOR OF INTELLIGENCE AGENCY, [...] (SBU) On September 11, President Crvenkovski appointed Viktor Dimovski, who had been serving until then as Macedonia's Ambassador in Belgrade, to be the director of the Macedonian Intelligence Agency (MIA). Dimovski replaced Kire Naumov, who resigned, "due to personal reasons," at the end o [...]	2007-09-14 12:07:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR MK
07SKOPJE758	MACEDONIA: KICK-STARTING MAY 29 AGREEMENT [...] (C) Governing VMRO and ethnic opposition DUI have made slight progress toward implementing their five-point May 29 agreement (ref A),with tentative steps toward codifying a list of 46 laws that would require a qualified (Badinter) majority, and the government having approved a draft law on co [...]	2007-09-17 15:50:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MK
07SKOPJE760	MACEDONIA: PROPOSED ELECTORAL CODE CHANGES STUCK [...] (C) The GOM faces determined political resistance to its proposed electoral code amendments, which would guarantee an additional 10 seats for smaller ethnic minorities and three seats for the diaspora (ref A). The government proposal also has come under critical international scrutiny over the [...]	2007-09-18 07:15:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MK
07SKOPJE766	MACEDONIA: PRESIDENT ON COHABITATION CHALLENGES [...] (C) President Crvenkovski outlined for the Ambassador on September 19 his proposal for working with Prime Minister Gruevski to improve cohabitation and to resolve the issue of composing the State Judicial Council (SJC),a key NATO membership-related task. Gruevski's initial crude rebuff of th [...]	2007-09-20 07:46:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MK KV
07SKOPJE767	MACEDONIA: PRESIDENT ON NAME ISSUE, KOSOVO, [...] (C) During a September 19 meeting with the Ambassador to discuss cohabitation challenges (ref A),President Crvenkovski expressed concern that Macedonia might be pushed to the wall in its name dispute with Greece before the 2008 NATO Summit, underscored that there is no difference between Skop [...]	2007-09-20 15:11:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MASS MARR MK KV
07SKOPJE792	MACEDONIA: PARLIAMENT BRAWL MARS RESOLUTION OF [...] (SBU) A brawl in parliament between MPs of ethnic Albanian DPA (governing coalition partner) and DUI (opposition) on September 25 overshadowed DUI's agreement to support a proposal (reftel) to break a long-standing deadlock on composition of the State Judicial Council (SJC),a key Macedonian j [...]	2007-09-27 12:58:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MK
07SKOPJE797	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES INVESTMENT BARRIERS AND [...] (SBU) During a September 25 meeting with Deputy PM for Economic Affairs Zoran Stavreski, the Ambassador raised U.S. concerns regarding three outstanding investment issues: questions surrounding the GOM's decision on a recent power plant privatization, steps the GOM should take to ensure the p [...]	2007-09-28 12:18:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV ECON ENRG PGOV PREL MK
07SKOPJE841	MACEDONIA: DAS DICARLO FOCUSES ON NATO REFORMS, [...] (C) In meetings with government leaders in Skopje October 9-10, DAS DiCarlo told her interlocutors that time is running out for Macedonia to show more concrete progress on reforms required for NATO membership, including enhanced political dialogue, improved President-PM cohabitation, and imple [...]	2007-10-18 16:28:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NATO MK GR
07SKOPJE842	MACEDONIA: DAS DICARLO'S OCTOBER 10 MEETINGS WITH [...] (SBU) During a meeting with DAS DiCarlo in Skopje on October 10, opposition DUI President Ahmeti said implementation of the May 29 Agreement was moving too slowly, and that he would ask governing VMRO for a deadline for concrete results from ongoing working group discussions. He was non-commi [...]	2007-10-18 16:30:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MK
07SKOPJE853	MACEDONIA: MANAGING THE NAME ISSUE AND A NATO [...] (C) Embassy Athens presents a clear assessment of the name issue and Macedonia's NATO membership prospects (ref A). We share Athens, preference for preparing joint recommendations to Washington, but in this case our two Missions differ substantially in their assumptions, analysis, recommendati [...]	2007-10-22 16:56:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MK GR
07SKOPJE867	MACEDONIA AIMS TO BE CONSTRUCTIVE IN NAME TALKS AT [...] (C) The GOM will propose, at the November 1 meeting in New York to discuss the name issue with Greek counterparts and with UN Special Envoy Nimetz, four steps that it believes would help reduce bilateral tensions and help prepare the ground for more fruitful efforts to resolve the name dispute. [...]	2007-10-30 16:08:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MK
07SKOPJE880	MACEDONIA: UNANIMOUS "NO" TO NIMETZ PROPOSAL ON [...] (C) The GOM, with opposition support, has unanimously rejected the point in the November 1 Nimetz proposal on the name that would allow Macedonia to keep its constitutional name but would require it to agree to a modified name for international usage. There is consensus as well between the Pr [...]	2007-11-06 11:18:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MK GR
07SKOPJE886	MACEDONIA SCRAPS ELECTRICITY PRIVATIZATION AND [...] (C) The GOM announced on October 31 that it had canceled the "Negotino" power plant privatization, and would instead keep the plant state owned. This decision ended any possibility that the GOM would award the privatization and investment contract to the U.S. - Greek joint venture, SENCAP, t [...]	2007-11-07 15:21:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EINV ENRG PREL PGOV MK
07SKOPJE896	MACEDONIA'S NATO BID: "SPRINT TO THE FINISH LINE" [...] (SBU) On November 8, USNATO Ambassador Nuland and a U.S. interagency team told Macedonia's top officials, MPs, and opposition leaders that Macedonia must accelerate reform efforts in the next three months or risk not receiving a membership invitation at the 2008 NATO summit. In addition to co [...]	2007-11-14 17:51:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NATO MK
07SKOPJE899	MACEDONIA: POLICE ACADEMY DIRECTOR RESIGNS - [...] (C) Macedonian Police Academy Director Slagana Taseva resigned from her position on November 2, citing a disagreement with the government over its recent move to bring the academy under the oversight of the Ministry of Interior (a government move the international community unanimously support [...]	2007-11-15 16:04:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ASEC MK
07SKOPJE919	MACEDONIA'S NATO BID: KEEPING SKOPJE FOCUSED ON [...] (C) During a round of meetings November 19-20, the Ambassador pressed all major political party leaders to take real action to quickly implement reforms needed to strengthen Macedonia's NATO bid. Opposition leaders cited the negative atmosphere in parliament as a hindrance to political consen [...]	2007-11-27 07:53:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NATO MK
07SKOPJE946	MACEDONIA: GOVERNMENT COMMITTED TO NIMETZ PROCESS [...] (C) The GOM's meeting with UN Special Envoy Nimetz on December 3 was positive, with the Macedonian team proposing substantive changes to the latter's framework proposal (ref A) and underscoring its commitment to remaining engaged in the Nimetz process. The GOM made it clear to Nimetz, and in [...]	2007-12-05 12:27:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MK GR
07SKOPJE953	MACEDONIA-KOSOVO BORDER DEMARCATION: GOOD FENCES [...] (C) Macedonia will recognize and support Kosovo independence provided two critical conditions are met in any final status arrangement: 1.) demarcation of the Macedonia-Kosovo border proceeds as set forth in the 2001 Belgrade-Skopje agreement and reaffirmed by the UNSC, and 2.) no division, add [...]	2007-12-07 13:19:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MK KV
07SKOPJE960	MACEDONIA: FM MILOSOSKI'S DECEMBER 12-13 VISIT TO [...] (SBU) FM Milososoki's visit is a timely opportunity to reinforce the need for continued progress on meeting NATO membership criteria, including government-opposition dialogue, combating corruption, and strengthening rule of law. It is also the right time to tell Milososki that Macedonia needs [...]	2007-12-10 15:20:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NATO MK KV
07SKOPJE986	MACEDONIA: PRESIDENT CRVENKOVSKI ON THE NAME ISSUE [...] (C) President Crvenkovski is firm in preferring the October 2005 Nimetz proposal over Nimetz's November 2007 framework as a foundation for resolving the name dispute with Athens. He believes Macedonia will meet NATO membership criteria, and that the strategic imperative of shoring up regional [...]	2007-12-19 14:52:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MK KV GR
07SKOPJE987	MACEDONIA: PM GRUEVSKI ON THE NAME ISSUE AND [...] (C) PM Gruevski is interested in reaching out to Athens for direct talks on the name dispute. He is under pressure from the German Chancellor to find a solution to the dispute before the NATO summit in April. The Ambassador has reiterated to Gruevski our support for the 1995 Interim Accord, [...]	2007-12-20 13:22:00	Embassy Skopje	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MK GR
07SOFIA1007	PM STRUGGLES TO CLOSE SOCIALIST RANKS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The ruling Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP),hurt by a surprisingly poor showing in May's European Parliament elections and a high-profile corruption scandal, is struggling to close ranks ahead of October municipal elections. PM Stanishev has a two fold party mission: assert his l [...]	2007-08-17 12:53:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	BU PGOV
07SOFIA1023	LEGAL ADVISOR TO BULGARIA SEES DISORGANIZATION IN [...] (C) Summary: Negotiations on the Burgas-Alexandroupolis pipeline are disorganized and behind schedule, according to the U.S. attorneys advising the Bulgarian state-owned companies involved in the project. The sides are still dealing with basic issues such as the official language and incor [...]	2007-08-22 11:00:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG BU
07SOFIA1029	BULGARIA: SUBTLE SHIFT IN STANCE ON MACEDONIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Bulgaria has subtly shifted policy toward Macedonia, tacitly linking Sofia's support for Skopje's Euro-Atlantic integration with Macedonia's conduct of "good neighborly relations." Both government officials and NGO experts recognize that Macedonia's EU and NATO accession is stro [...]	2007-08-23 13:04:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM BU
07SOFIA105	BULGARIA: DEMARCHE ON CLUSTER MUNITIONS DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-23 13:33:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PARM PREL NATO BU
07SOFIA1073	BULGARIANS CHAFE AT RUSSIAN HARD LINE IN B-A [...] (C) Summary: Bulgarian government officials are expressing public and private disdain for two Russian proposals tabled during August 27-28 negotiations for the Burgas-Alexandropolous Pipeline (B-A) in Athens. The proposals would require Bulgaria and Greece, as minority shareholders in B-A, [...]	2007-09-05 15:01:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG PGOV BU
07SOFIA1100	BULGARIANS SEEKING PARTNERS FOR B-A PIPELINE; [...] (C) Summary: Minister of Regional Development Asen Gagauzov told Ambassador September 12 that Bulgaria is seeking proposals from oil suppliers, specifically Kazmunaigaz and Chevron, to allow Bulgaria to fill its 24.5 percent of the Burgas-Alexandropolous pipeline (B-A). Bulgaria is doing th [...]	2007-09-13 14:34:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG PGOV BU
07SOFIA1119	FM KALFIN ON ENERGY ISSUES, KOSOVO [...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 13 Foreign Minister Kalfin discussed energy issues with Amb Beyrle on the heels of his recent trip to Central Asia. On the Burgas-Alexandropolous pipeline (BAP),Kalfin said a coordinated effort by the other players, and inclusion of additional shareholders such as [...]	2007-09-17 16:12:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	BU ECON ENRG KZ LY PGOV PREL RS TX AZ
07SOFIA114	BULGARIA LEANS FORWARD ON AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ, [...] (C) SUMMARY. Foreign Minister Kalfin told the Ambassador January 25 that Bulgaria had lifted its caveat regarding night operations in Afghanistan, and that there was political will to lift at least some caveats pending receipt of additional training and equipment. The government expects parl [...]	2007-01-25 14:42:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS NATO MARR CVIS IZ AF SR BU
07SOFIA1155	BULGARIA NAMES DEPUTY INTERIOR MINISTER ENVOY TO EU [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Parvanov has appointed Deputy Minister of Interior Boyko Kotzev as Bulgaria's new permanent representative to the EU, a position viewed as one of the country's most important diplomatic post abroad. Kotzev, 51, is a career diplomat with twenty years of experience who ha [...]	2007-09-24 14:31:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	BU EUN PGOV PREL
07SOFIA1181	DEMARCHE ON BLACK SEA STRAGEGY [...] No summary [...]	2007-10-02 13:28:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PARM PBTS PHSA SENC ECON EWWT BU
07SOFIA1183	BULGARIANS NERVOUS OVER KOSOVO UDI [...] (C) Summary: Our recent high-level contacts with Bulgarian leaders on Kosovo reveal increased nervousness over a likely UDI in December, some softening of opposition to partition, and a clear reluctance to be in the early group of European states that would recognize Kosovo post-UDI. Bulgar [...]	2007-10-02 15:23:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KV SR BG
07SOFIA12	BULGARIA READY TO EXTEND IN IRAQ [...] (U) This is an action request -- please see paragraph 3. 2. (C) In a January 5 meeting, Ministry of Defense International Cooperation Director Yordan Bozhilov officially informed Charge and Defense Attache of Bulgaria's readiness to extend for an additional year its mission at Camp Ashraf - [...]	2007-01-05 09:52:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MARR MOPS IZ BU
07SOFIA1240	BULGARIANS UNDER PRESSURE ON SOUTH STREAM PIPELINE [...] (C) Summary: Bulgaria is under intense pressure from Russia to sign a joint message on the South Stream pipeline, according to our Ministry of Economy and Energy (MOEE) contacts. The Bulgarians disagree with proposed Russian text that would allow the South Stream project to use existing Bu [...]	2007-10-17 11:04:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG PGOV BG
07SOFIA125	BULGARIA: PRESIDENT PARVANOV IN STRONG POSITION AS [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Parvanov, Bulgaria's first post-communist president to win re-election, begins his second term in office as the dominant actor on the Bulgarian political stage, despite his relatively limited constitutional powers. His behind-the-scenes influence over the current govern [...]	2007-01-26 14:55:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ BU
07SOFIA1288	AMBASSADOR DELIVERS SOUTH STREAM POINTS [...] (C) Summary. In response to ref A points on South Stream, Bulgarian Minister of Economy and Energy Petar Dimitrov told Ambassador October 31 that he welcomed and valued the U.S. appraisal of the project. He expressed concern that if Bulgaria did not go forward with South Stream, Romania, T [...]	2007-11-02 09:47:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG EU PGOV RU BG
07SOFIA1301	FATF/IRAN STATEMENT: FULL BULGARIAN SUPPORT ON [...] (C) Econoff delivered ref A and B demarches to Dr. Vasil Kirov, Director of the Bulgarian Financial Intelligence Agency (FIA) on 02 November. Appropriately, Dr. Kirov, is also the current Chairman of MONEYVAL, one of the leading "FATF-style" Regional Bodies (FSRB). Dr. Kirov was fully suppo [...]	2007-11-09 15:03:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL MNUC ECON EFIN KNNP IR BU
07SOFIA1322	BULGARIA TO FOLLOW EU COMMON DECISION ON BURMA [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-20 13:25:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ERTD EFIN BM
07SOFIA1323	BULGARIA TO CONSIDER U.S. CONCERNS ABOUT VENEZUELA [...] No summary [...]	2007-11-20 13:25:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV VE PHUM WHA EU
07SOFIA1325	BULGARIA MOVES FORWARD ON SOUTH STREAM AND [...] (C) Summary: The Government of Bulgaria signed a declaration with Russia on the proposed South Stream gas pipeline in Moscow November 8. As expected, the document is a general one-page political statement that leaves details about ownership of the pipeline to a later intergovernmental agree [...]	2007-11-21 13:47:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG EU PGOV RU BG
07SOFIA1339	SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF EUR DAS BRYZA TO BULGARIA [...] (C) Summary: Your visit to Sofia comes at a time when Bulgaria is rapidly signing deals to position itself as a future energy transit hub. Eager to produce deliverables for a January 2008 Putin visit and develop new revenue sources, Bulgaria is rushing into South Stream, in particular, with [...]	2007-11-30 14:34:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG PGOV BG
07SOFIA1364	RESULTS OF SOFIA REGIONAL ENERGY OFFICERS TRAINING [...] (SBU) Summary: On December 6-7, 37 USG energy officers from more than 30 posts and agencies gathered in Sofia for a training session on midstream economics and pipeline projects. On December 6 outside speakers from industry, thank tanks and the European Commission briefed on pipeline projec [...]	2007-12-11 15:17:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET BU
07SOFIA1371	BULGARIA EXTENDS IRAQ MISSION; 20 MORE TROOPS FOR [...] (C) Summary. The Bulgarian Council of Ministers voted December 12 to extend the Bulgarian mission in Iraq until April 1, 2009 and to send an additional 20 soldiers to Afghanistan to strengthen its contingent currently guarding the perimeter at Kandahar Airfield. The deployment of two milit [...]	2007-12-13 14:28:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR BU
07SOFIA1382	AMBASSADOR WISNER'S MEETINGS IN SOFIA ON KOSOVO [...] (C) Summary: On December 6 Special Representative to the Kosovo Status Talks Frank Wisner briefed Foreign Minister Kalfin and, in a separate meeting, members of parliament on the outcome of the Troika negotiations and next steps on Kosovo. Wisner told the Bulgarians that although the Troik [...]	2007-12-18 05:11:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KV UN EU RU BU
07SOFIA1384	BULGARIA ON KOSOVO: CONCERNED, ACTIVELY ENGAGING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Bulgaria, concerned about the fallout from Kosovo independence, is working actively in the region to maintain (or build) EU unity on Kosovo and advocating the Ahtisaari plan with the Serbs. Following his visit to Belgrade December 17-18, FM Kalfin will attend a trilateral meet [...]	2007-12-18 15:52:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BU
07SOFIA1397	YOUR MEETING WITH BULGARIAN FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) SUMMARY: FM Kalfin comes to Washington as Bulgaria's coalition government faces some key foreign and security policy decisions, including Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan deployments, and Russian energy deals. President Putin will visit Sofia on January 17-18 to kick off the "Year of Russi [...]	2007-12-21 13:46:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG MOPS MARR RU KV AF IZ BU
07SOFIA1398	CORRECTED COPY: SERBS TO BULGARIA: "DON'T [...] (C) On December 21 MFA West Balkans Director Tulechki briefed us on Bulgaria's recent Kosovo moves, starting with FM Kalfin's visit to Belgrade early the week of December 17. Kalfin met Tadic, Jeremic, Vice PM Jelic, but not any hardliners. The Serbs at first asked Bulgaria not to recognize [...]	2007-12-21 15:28:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG KV SR BU
07SOFIA150	B-A PIPELINE CLOSE TO FIRST DOWN; INDECISION ON [...] (C) SUMMARY Bulgaria, Russia and Greece plan to sign a broad intergovernmental agreement (IGA) giving the go ahead to the Burgas-Alexandropoulis (B-A) oil pipeline on February 7 or 8 in Burgas. Several key issues -- equity stakes, operation of the pipeline, and a final decision on control of [...]	2007-02-02 15:21:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON GR RU BU
07SOFIA160	BULGARIA: NEXT STEPS WITH ALLIES ON AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) We delivered reftel A demarche on February 7 to Zlatin Krystev of the MFA NATO Directorate and Anri Georgiev of the MoD International Cooperation directorate. As reported in reftel B, Bulgaria has announced deployment of an additional mechanized infantry company to Afghanistan and has lift [...]	2007-02-07 11:51:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS MARR NATO AF BU
07SOFIA172	BULGARIA READY TO HELP AHTISAARI [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ahtisaari deputy Albert Rohan asked Bulgarian Foreign Minister Kalfin February 7 to try to convince Bucharest to be more supportive of Ahtisaari's plan. In a subsequent conversation, Prime Minister Stanishev's Foreign Policy Advisor flagged for us the issue of the Kosovo-Macedoni [...]	2007-02-09 14:48:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UN UNMIK YI BG
07SOFIA185	BULGARIA: NO PROGRAMS IN IRAN [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-13 13:43:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	EUN KDEM KPAO PGOV PREL IR BU
07SOFIA204	BULGARIA: MOD CONSIDERS ADDITIONAL AFGHAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a February 15 meeting, MoD Defense Policy Director Col. Ivan Milanov gave a readout of Bulgaria's discussions at the Seville Ministerial and outlined Bulgaria's plans for future deployments to Afghanistan. In addition to Bulgaria's previously announced commitment to deploy a m [...]	2007-02-15 13:37:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NATO MOPS MARR AF BU
07SOFIA214	ENGAGING THE BULGARIAN GOVERNMENT ON IRAN AND [...] (SBU) Post has actively engaged a variety of Bulgarian Government officials on Iran and the impact of UNSCR 1737. On 13 February, the Bulgarian MFA's expert on Iran, Oleg Doychinov, told us that in December 2006 the MFA alerted all relevant agencies about the provisions associated with UNSCR 1 [...]	2007-02-16 13:07:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EFIN ETTC KNNP IR BU PARM
07SOFIA218	BULGARIA SEEKS GUIDANCE ON HOSTING NEXT V-10 [...] (U) This is a guidance request. Please see paragraph 6. 2. (C) Foreign Minister Kalfin informally offered on January 25 to host a meeting of Vilnius-10 countries in Sofia (reftel). The MFA remains interested in hosting the event, but is reluctant formally to accept or discuss dates while [...]	2007-02-16 14:15:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EUN NATO XH BU
07SOFIA232	BULGARIAN NURSES: GETTING BACK TO EFFECTIVE [...] (C) WE APPRECIATE REFTEL UPDATE ON THE QADHAFI FOUNDATION LETTER AND THE STATE OF PLAY IN TRIPOLI. IT COMES AS THE GOB CONCLUDES TWO DAYS OF HIGH-LEVEL IN-HOUSE DISCUSSIONS ON THE NURSES ISSUE, IN ADVANCE OF THE EU WORKING GROUP ON FEBRUARY 22 AND AMBASSADOR BEYRLE'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENT PARVANOV [...]	2007-02-21 12:14:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM LY BU
07SOFIA251	BULGARIA: RESPONDING TO RUSSIAN THREATS AGAINST [...] No summary [...]	2007-02-26 12:49:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR BU
07SOFIA255	KOSOVO: BULGARIANS ENCOURAGED BY MODERATE RHETORIC [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Parvanov told the Ambassador that on his one-day visit to Serbia February 21 he found the Serbs to be much less hardline in their rhetoric in private. His overarching message to Belgrade's leaders was that the Ahtisaari plan is a good proposal and a "necessary basis for [...]	2007-02-27 13:25:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SR BU
07SOFIA268	BULGARIA: VIEWS ON MARITIME SECURITY IN WAKE OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: Admiral Harry Ulrich (Commander of US Naval Forces Europe and Allied Joint Forces Command Naples) visited Bulgaria 21-23 February 2007, meeting with President Georgi Parvanov, Defense Minister Veselin Bliznakov, Deputy PM and Minister for Foreign Affairs Ivaylo Kalfin, as well as [...]	2007-02-28 11:45:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NATO MARR MOPS TU BU
07SOFIA303	NARCOTICS REPORT GRABS BULGARIA'S ATTENTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: The 2007 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR) received unprecedented media coverage in Bulgaria. Overall coverage was factual and positive, concentrating on links between the OC-controlled drug trade and government corruption, and quoting Ambassador Beyrle e [...]	2007-03-07 12:09:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	SNAR OPRC PGOV PREL BU
07SOFIA324	BULGARIAN NURSES IN LIBYA: GOB UNSURE WHO IS IN [...] (C) MFA MIDDLE EAST DIRECTOR PETKO DOYKOV TOLD US MARCH 7 THAT THE GOB BELIEVES LIBYAN MFA UNDER SECRETARY FOR EUROPEAN AFFAIRS ABDELATI OBIDI HAS BEEN AT LEAST TEMPORARILY SIDELINED IN DISCUSSIONS OVER THE FATE OF THE FIVE BULGARIAN NURSES IMPRISONED SINCE 1999. THIS, COMBINED WITH THE PERCE [...]	2007-03-09 15:03:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM EUN LY BU
07SOFIA345	BULGARIA: HAJIEV'S EXTRADITION BACK IN THE COURTS [...] Summary: Annadurdy Hajiev, an accused embezzler and critic of Turkmenistan's human rights record, was re-arrested on February 20 on what seems to be an old Turkmenistan INTERPOL notice. A Bulgarian court denied the same request for extradition in 2003 because it judged the charge to be politi [...]	2007-03-14 13:22:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV TX BU
07SOFIA364	BULGARIA'S PROSECUTOR GENERAL: WHAT A DIFFERENCE A [...] (C) SUMMARY: A year into his term, Bulgaria's Prosecutor General Boris Velchev is staying true to his goal to reform the dysfunctional Prosecution Service and make it an effective law enforcement and judicial tool. He has improved the country's image abroad by candidly speaking out against c [...]	2007-03-19 10:25:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS KCRM EU BU
07SOFIA372	BULGARIA ON CFE TRANSFERS - CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM [...] No summary [...]	2007-03-20 13:47:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM NATO KCFE BU
07SOFIA377	BULGARIA: MISSILE DEFENSE PD STRATEGY [...] (U) Per Ref A request, Post has designated DCM Alexander Karagiannis as the POC for public diplomacy and outreach efforts on missile defense. 2. (U) During the Sofia visit of Admiral Harry Ulrich, CINCUSNAVEUR, the Admiral briefed the Sofia and Varna press corps in appearances on February 2 [...]	2007-03-21 13:25:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MARR KPAO PL EZ RU BU

07SOFIA400	BULGARIA CONTINUES TO BACK AHTISAARI, URGES [...] (C) SUMMARY. FM Kalfin told the Ambassador March 26 that "independence is the only option" for Kosovo and undertook to work toward an EU consensus in support of Ahtisaari's proposals. In meetings with Serb and Kosovar leaders the week of March 19, PM Stanishev preached realism and patience, [...]	2007-03-27 15:03:00	Embassy Sofia	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNMIK YI SR BU

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