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ABLD BUILDING AND GROUNDS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The acquisition, management, and operation of U.S.-owned or-leased facilities and sites both domestic and foreign. (Replaces RCHB file categories: BG, ES)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acquisition
* AIEP
* Allotment
* Antenna
* Antiques
* Appraisals
* Architecture
* Asbestos
* Audit
* Bid Results
* Breathing Device
* Building
* Building Design
* Building Management
* Carpet
* Chancellery
* Construction Management
* Construction Security
* Consulate
* Contract Amendment Contract Award Contract Renewal Contract Termination Contractor
* Core Area
* DCR
* Deed
* Descent Device
* Electrical System
* Elevator
* Embassy
* EMR
* Energy Conservation
* EURMAC
* Fire Alarm
* Fire Detection System
* Fire Prevention
* Fire Safety
* Furnishings
* Generator
* Geotechnical
* Gift
* Hazardous Material
* Housing
* HVAC
* Improvement
* Inventory
* Lease
* Legation
* Maintenance
* Mechanical System
* NOB
* Parking
* PCC
* Post Opening
* Property Exchange
* Property Sales
* Public Access Control
* Real Property
* Reciprocity
* REMS
* Renovation
* Safety & Health Designee
* Safety Program
* Security Enhancement
* Seismology
* SHEMC
* Shielded Enclosure
* Site
* Space Management
* Survey
* WASHMAC
* Water Analysis
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AEMR EMERGENCY PLANNING AND EVACUATION
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Measures and actions implemented to protect U.S. personnel, citizens, property and information; especially related to crisis situations. (Replaces RCHB file category: EP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Citizen Protection
* Contingency Plan EAP
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Property
* Protection
* Records Destruction
* Rescue
* Safehaven
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AFIN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

The fiscal operations of the Department, Foreign Service posts, and other Federal agencies. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, FMGT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accounting
* Allowance
* Annuity Check
* Antideficiency
* Appropriation
* Audit
* Authentication Bank
* Account Bonding
* CAPPS
* Cash
* Cash Management
* Cashier
* Central Claim
* Commercial Claim
* Compensation
* Debt Collection
* Deficit
* Disallowances
* Disbursement
* Employee Claim
* ESF
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Management System
* Fiscal
* Fiscal Irregularities
* Foreign Currency
* FSCADP
* Fund Allotment
* Funding
* GBL
* General Ledger
* GTR
* Home Leave
* ICASS
* Leave
* Liquidation
* Local Currency
* Nonreceipt
* Over Obligation
* Pay Advance
* Pay Record
* Payment
* Payroll
* Payroll Deduction
* PCS
* Per Diem
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Post MGT
* Premium Pay
* Prompt Payment
* Reimbursement
* Relocation
* Reprogramming
* Retirement
* Security Enhancement
* Taxes
* TDY
* Time & Attendance
* Transportation Request
* Travel Advance
* Travelers Checks
* Treasury Check
* Vendor
* Vouchers
* Vulnerability Assessment
* Wages
* Working Capital Fund
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AMGT MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The management and organization of the Department and posts abroad and other U.S. agencies. (Replaces RCHB file category: ORG)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Administration
* Audit
* Authorities
* Background Information
* Bureau Organization
* Commissary
* Congressional Report
* Delegation of Authority
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Employee Association
* FCS
* FTE
* Geneva Group
* GORI
* Information System
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* Internal Control
* JAO
* Management Initiative
* Management Issues
* Mission Closure
* Mission Opening
* Occupational Safety
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Office Procedures
* Organization
* Overseas Post
* PCS
* Post Closing
* Post MGT
* Post Opening
* Post Operating Plan
* Reciprocity
* Recreation
* Reorganization
* Scheduling
* Staffing
* Support Services
* Survey
* Task Force
* Workload
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AORC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES
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Effective from January 1983

The structure and management of international or regional organizations and conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL and Organization Name)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Administration
* Application
* Budget
* Candidate
* Chairman
* Charter
* Congressional Reports
* Constitution
* Donor
* Election Results
* Financial Contribution
* Geneva Group
* Host Government
* Information System
* Infrastructure
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* International Organization
* International Organization Official
* Meeting Agenda
* Meeting Delegation
* Meeting Observer
* Meeting Venue
* Membership
* NGO
* Nomination
* Nonparticipation
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Participation
* PERMREP
* Referendum
* Reform
* Regional Organization
* Regional Organization Official Reorganization
* Resignation from Office Seating
* Secession Secretary General Specialized Agency
* Sponsorship
* Staffing
* Vacancy Announcement
* Veto
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
* Voting
* Wages
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APER PERSONNEL
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administration and support of the Department's Civil and Foreign

Service personnel. (Replaces RCHB file category: PER)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Adoption
* Affirmative
* Action
* Ambassador
* Appeal
* Award
* Backpay
* Benefit Plan
* Bilateral Work Agreements
* Blood Donor
* Boarding School Career Development Career Mobility
* CFC
* Civil Service
* Civil Service Reform Act
* Class Action Suit
* CLO Program
* Community Liaison Office
* Coordinators
* Compensation
* Complaint
* Complement
* Consultation
* Continuing Education
* Contract Employee
* Conversion
* CSR
* Death
* Demotion
* Dependent
* Dependent Education
* Dependent Employment
* Discipline
* Divorce
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Employee Association
* Employee Benefit
* Employee Relations
* Employee Service
* Employee Status
* Employee Training
* Employment
* Equal Employment Opportunity
* Family Life
* Family Separation
* Family Support Services
* Fellowship
* FERS
* Foreign Born Spouses
* Foreign Service
* Foreign Service Act
* FSPS
* FTE
* Functional Training
* Grade Retention
* Grievance
* Health
* Injury
* Insurance
* International School
* Interns
* Interview
* Job Title
* Leave
* Library
* Merit Pay
* Merit Promotion
* Military Furlough
* Military Reserve
* Nomination
* Nonsensitive Critical Position
* Open Assignments
* Orientation
* Overcomplement
* Pay Record
* Performance Evaluation
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Personnel
* Personnel Action
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Assignment
* Personnel Classification
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Promotion
* Personnel Reassignment
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Photographer
* PIT
* Position Classification
* Position Description
* Premium Pay
* Presidential Executive Exchange Program
* Private School
* Probation
* Promotion Panel
* PSC
* Public School
* Recall
* Recruitment
* Reentry
* Relocation
* Remains Disposition
* Reprogramming
* Retired Annuitant
* Retirement
* RIF
* Sabbatical
* Savings Bond
* School Admissions
* SEF
* Selection Board
* Selection Out
* Senior Foreign Service
* SES
* Severance Pay
* Sexual Harassment
* Skill Codes
* Spouse
* Staffing
* Staffing Pattern
* Survey
* Tandem Couple
* TDY
* Tenure Board
* Termination
* Time & Attendance
* Upward Mobility
* U.S. Family Member
* Vacancy Announcement
* Wages
* Work Requirements
* Workload
* Workmen Compensation
* Workweek
* Youth Programs
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ASEC SECURITY
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The development, coordination, or administration of security policies and programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SY)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AIASA
* Airport Access Procedures
* Antifraud
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Armored Vehicle
* Assault
* Bugging
* Building
* Contract Guard Program
* Counterintelligence
* Debriefing
* Debugging
* Demolition
* Detection Equipment
* Dismantling
* Electronic Security Device
* Emergency Response Team
* Explosives
* Fraud
* Host Country Guards
* Host Country Police
* Identification Systems
* Information Security
* Local Guard Program
* Maps
* Mission Takeover
* Monitoring
* MSG
* Name Check
* NSU
* Personnel Protection
* Physical Security
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Property Protection
* Protective Security
* Public Access Control
* Regional Security
* Riot Control
* RSO
* Scheduled Reporting
* Security Assessment
* Security Clearance
* Security Crisis
* Security Enhancement
* Security Survey
* Security Violation
* Special Support Program
* Suitability
* Technical Security
* Telephone
* Tempest
* Terrorism
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Unit Security Procedures
* Warning System
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BEXP TRADE EXPANSION AND PROMOTION
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts to promote trade and other commercial activities, including specific proposals and inquiries to establish trade relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: TP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Best Prospect
* Bid
* Business Firm
* Businessmen
* CMP
* Commercial Action
* Commercial Association
* Consultation
* Cooperatives
* Country Commercial
* Exhibit
* Exposition
* Foreign Agent
* Foreign Market
* Target Industry
* Targeting
* Trade Fair
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Visit
* WITS
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BTIO TRADE AND INVESTMENT
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OPPORTUNITIES

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Administrative and operational reporting on opportunities for U.S. businesses. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, TP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agribusiness
* Bid
* Business Firm
* FGT
* Foreign Markets
* GPC Implementation
* Joint Venture
* Patent
* PTO
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CASC ASSISTANCE TO CITIZENS
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Effective from May 1977 (Revised January 1983)

Consular services provided by the United States to citizens of the United States or any other country. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CON, PS)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Adoption
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Alien
* AMCIT
* Arrest Assault
* Attorney List
* Authorities
* Automation
* Child Custody
* Children Compensation
* Complaint
* Consular Assistance
* Consular Package
* Cult
* Custody
* Death Report
* Deportation
* Detention
* Direct Relay
* Drivers License
* Emergency Evacuation
* Estate
* Family
* FIMED
* Fraud Identification
* Lawyer
* Legal
* Medical Care
* Missing Person
* Murder Offenses
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Property
* Property Protection
* Release
* Remains Disposition
* Repatriation
* Seamen
* Ship Detention
* Ship Registry
* Spouse
* Third Country Representation
* Travel Advisory
* Trial
* Trust Account
* Trust Account Refund
* Welfare & Whereabouts
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CJAN JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE AND NOTARIAL SERVICES
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Effective from May 1983

Matters pertaining to Notarial Services and International Judicial Assistance, including the service of judicial and extra-judicial documents and obtaining evidence. (Replaces RCHB file categories: LEG, PS)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acknowledgment
* Affidavit
* Attorney List
* Authentication
* Automation
* Deed
* Deposition
* Documentation
* Evidence
* Extradition
* Fraud
* FSIA
* Judicial Assistance
* Letters Rogatory
* Notarial
* Oath
* Official Travel
* Prisoner Transfer
* Process Serving
* Subpoena
* Testimony
* Tort Claim
* Witness
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CMGT CONSULAR ADMINSTRATION AND MANAGEMENT
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Effective from August 1983

The administrative and operational management of Consular Affairs activities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, CON, FMGT,ORG, PER)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antifraud
* Automation
* CAS
* Consular Agent
* Consular Agreement
* Consular Conference
* Consular Equipment
* Consular Package
* Consular Service
* Consular Supplies
* Consular Treaty
* CSS
* ECR
* Fee
* Fraud
* ICARS
* IVACS
* Legislation
* MRP
* NIVCAPS
* Office Procedures
* Personnel
* PFM
* PIT
* Publication
* Space Management
* Supplies
* Support Services
* TDIS
* Third Country Representation
* Word Processor
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CVIS VISAS
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Effective from May 1973 (Revised January 1993)

Operational, procedural, and administrative functions of visa operations. (Replaces RCHB file category: V)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AA 1 Adoption
* Advisory Opinion AIDS
* Alien
* Alien Previously Deported
* Alien Smuggler
* Allocation
* Application
* Appointment
* Arrival Notice
* Athlete Automation
* Bearer Insert
* BUSVIS
* Centralized Visa Processing
* Chargeability
* CHINEX
* CLASS
* Clearance
* CONGRINT
* Consular Package
* Crew List
* Crewman
* Crime
* Data
* Defector
* Denial
* Departure Notice
* Dependent
* Deportation
* Derivatives
* Diversity Immigrant
* DNC
* Documentation
* DV 1DVACS
* Employment Based Preference
* Employment Creation
* Entertainer
* Entitlement
* Exchange Visitor
* Exclusion
* Extraordinary Ability
* Family Preference
* Fiance
* Fiancee
* Files
* Foreign Policy Exclusion
* Forms
* Fraud
* Health Related Grounds
* ICARS
* Immediate Relative
* Immigrant
* Intercompany Transferee
* International Child Abduction
* Interview
* Issuance
* IVACS
* Labor Certification
* LB 1
* Legislation
* Medical Examination
* Moral Turpitude
* MRV
* Name Check
* Narcotics Traffic
* News Media Representative
* NIV
* NIVCAPS
* Nonimmigrant
* Numerical Control
* NVC
* Operations
* Other Worker
* Out of District Applicant
* Parole
* Permanent Resident
* Polygamist
* Portsmouth Consular Center
* Priority Date
* Private Bill
* Procedures
* Public Charge
* Reciprocity
* Refugee
* Refusal
* Religious Worker
* Renewal
* Revocation
* SAO
* Skilled Worker
* SPLEX
* Student
* Supplies Temporary Worker
* Terrorist
* 30 60 Rule
* TIVPC
* Totalitarian Party Membership
* Transfer
* Transit
* Travel Agents
* Treaty Investor
* Treaty Trader
* TTYREP
* Validity Visa
* Visa Clearance
* Visa Photograph
* Visitor for Business
* VLOB
* Waiver
* Waiver of Ineligibility
* Walk Ins
* Workload
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EAGR AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Cultivating the soil and forest, raising livestock, and producing crops. (Replaces RCHB file category: AGR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Production
* Agricultural Program
* Agricultural Worker
* Agriculture
* Animal Disease
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Corn
* Cotton
* Crop Destruction
* Crops
* Dairy Products
* Desalinization
* Disease Control
* Drought
* Erosion
* Famine
* Farm Equipment
* Farming
* Fertilizer
* Food Shortages
* Forestry
* Fruit
* Fungicide
* Grain
* Harvest
* Herbicide
* Husbandry
* Insect
* Irrigation
* Jute
* Land Conservation
* Land Management
* Land Reform
* Livestock
* Natural Fiber
* Nuts
* Oilseeds
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Plant Disease
* Poultry
* Preservation
* Quarantine
* Rainfall
* Rice
* Rubber
* Seeds
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soybean
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Timber
* Tobacco
* Tropical Forest
* Vegetable
* Water Analysis
* Weather
* Wheat
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EAID FOREIGN ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Foreign economic and technical assistance provided by governments, international organizations, institutions, or private individuals. (Replaces RCHB file category: AID)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Agreement
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Program Airlift
* Bank
* Congressional Presentation
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Credit
* Debt
* Development Loan
* Development Program
* Disaster Relief
* Donor
* Economic Adviser
* Economic Assistance
* Economic Development
* Economic Support Fund
* Farm Equipment
* Financial Contribution
* Food
* Foreign Assistance Agreement
* Funding
* Grant
* Industrial Development
* Industrialized Nation
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* LLDC
* Loan
* Medical Care
* Medical Equipment
* North South Dialogue
* Paris Club
* PL 480
* PL 480 Title I
* PL 480 Title II
* PL 480 Title III
* Relief Effort
* Self Help
* Technical Assistance
* Water Analysis
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EAIR CIVIL AVIATION
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

Commercial and private aircraft and air operations, domestic as well as international. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AV, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Access
* Air Cargo
* Air Fare
* Air Safety
* Air Traffic
* Air Transportation
* Aircraft
* Aircraft Accident
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Airline
* Airport
* Airport Fee
* Airport Security
* Airspace
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Aviation Agreement
* Cargo Handling
* Charter Flight
* CIVAIR
* Commercial Aircraft
* Emergency Landing
* Flight Clearance
* Flight Manual
* Hazardous Cargo
* Helicopter
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Landing Rights
* Maintenance
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Manifest
* Pilot Training
* Private Aircraft
* Refueling
* Rescue
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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ECON ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The status of a nation's economy. (Replaces RCHB file category: E)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Development
* Antiinflationary Program
* Black Market
* Capital Investment
* Cost of Living
* Depression
* Economic Agreement
* Economic Assessment
* Economic Conditions
* Economic Crisis
* Economic Development
* Economic Forecast
* Economic Growth
* Economic Indicators
* Economic Program
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Reform
* Economic Report
* Economic Stability
* Economic Trend
* EEC 1992
* Employment
* Financial Profits
* GDP
* GNP
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Reform
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* National Debt
* NIEO
* Price Index
* Recession
* Stock Market
* Tax Law
* Unemployment
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ECPS COMMUNICATIONS AND POSTAL SYSTEMS
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Effective from March 1983

The efforts of governments, the private sector, or international organizations to manage, regulate, develop, apply, or monitor the methods and means of telecommunication, international communication policy, and the informational aspects of communication. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INF, MP, PO, PPB, PR, RAD, SP, TEL, TV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Broadcasting
* Cable TV
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* Fiber Optics
* Frequency Allocation
* Frequency Interference
* Frequency Spectrum
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Frequency
* lnformatics Information Access
* Information Center
* Information Flow
* Information Media
* Jamming
* Light Communication
* Networking
* NWICO
* Orbit
* Postal System
* Prior Consent
* Radio
* Satellite
* Telecommunication
* Telecommunication Agreement
* Telegraph
* Telephone
* Television
* Transborder Data Flow
* Transmitters
* Undersea Cable
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EFIN FINANCIAL AND MONETARY AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Domestic and international financial affairs of governments and private institutions. (Replaces RCHB file category: FN)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accounting
* Audit
* Bank
* Bank Account
* Bankruptcy
* Blocked Assets
* BOP
* Budget
* Buffer Stock
* Capital Flow
* CFF
* Commodities Exchange
* Credit
* Currency Shortage
* Debt
* Debt Equity Swap
* Debt Relief
* Debt Repayment
* Debt Repudiation
* Debt Rescheduling
* Deficit
* Devaluation
* Donor
* Drawing Rights
* Economic Growth
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Trend
* EFF
* EMS
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Agreement
* Financial Contribution
* Financial Control
* Financial Crisis
* Financial Market
* Financial Profits
* Financial Program
* Financial Reform
* Financial Reserve
* Financial Stability
* Foreign Currency
* Foreign Currency Control
* Foreign Currency Exchange
* Foreign Market
* Gold
* Grant
* IMF Standbys
* Income Tax
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* Loan Default
* Local Currency
* London Club
* National Income
* Overpayment
* Paris Club
* Payment
* Revaluation
* Sales Tax
* SDR
* Securities
* Securities Exchange
* Stock Shares
* Tax Haven
* Tax Law
* Taxation Treaties
* Treasury
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EFIS COMMERCIAL FISHING AND FISH PROCESSING
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The breeding and catching of fish and other marine life for commercial purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aquaculture
* Catch
* Quota Cod
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive Economic
* Zone Fish
* Fisheries
* Aid Fishery
* Fishing Agreement
* Fishing Concession
* Fishing Dispute
* Fishing Ground
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Fishing Vessel
* Fishing Vessel
* Detention Halibut
* Herring Joint
* Venture
* Quota Salmon
* Shellfish
* Shrimp
* TEDS
* Tuna
* Whaling Industry
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EIND INDUSTRY AND MANUFACTURING
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The commercial production of goods and services, including the processing of raw materials into manufactured goods. (Replaces RCHB file category: TEL, INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aerospace Industry
* Alloy
* Aluminum
* Antitrust
* Automotive Industry
* Bankruptcy
* Business Firm
* Capital Investment
* Chemical Industry
* Clothing Industry
* Commercial Association
* Communications Industry
* Complaint
* Construction Industry
* Consumer Goods
* Cooperatives
* Copyright Agreement
* Copyright Claim
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Dairy Industry
* Data Processing Industry
* Defense Industry
* Development Program
* Drug Industry
* Dyeing Industry
* Economic Growth
* Electronic Industry
* Espionage
* Factory
* Fertilizer Industry
* Finishing Industry
* Fishing Industry
* Food Contamination
* Food Industry
* Foreign Agent
* Fraud
* Garment Industry
* Garment Production
* Garment Workers
* Industrial Accident
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Production
* Industrial Reform
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insurance
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber Industry
* Machine Tool Industry
* Manmade Fiber
* Manufactured Product
* Merger
* Metal Industry
* Monopoly
* Nationalization
* Paper Industry
* Parastatal
* Patent
* Petroleum Industry
* Piracy
* Plastic Industry
* Power Looms
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Processing
* Product Safety
* Product Standards
* Product Testing
* Production
* Production Control
* Public Sector
* Railroad Industry
* Ramie
* Raw Materials
* Recall
* Registration
* Rubber Industry
* Sabotage
* Salvage
* Service Industry
* Shipbuilding Industry
* Silk
* Spinning Machinery
* Steel Industry
* Stockpile
* Subsidiary
* Subsidy
* Textile Industry
* Textile Production
* Tobacco Industry
* Tourism
* Trademark
* Vegetable Fiber
* Weaving Industry
* Wood Products Industry
* Wool
* Yarns
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EINT ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL INTERNET
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Effective from October 1997

Economic and commercial programs, policies, and issues relating to the Internet.

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agreement
* Censorship
* Competition
* Connectivity
* Content
* Copyright
* Data
* Democracy
* Economic Conditions
* Domain Names
* Electronic Commerce
* Encryption
* Free Flow of Information
* Information Availability
* Interconnectivity
* Internet
* Meeting
* Monopoly
* Piracy
* Policy
* Pornography
* Privacy
* Private Sector
* Reporting
* Trademark
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EINV FOREIGN INVESTMENTS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

Foreign investments made by governments or private enterprises for commercial gain. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bank
* Bid
* BIT
* Business Firm
* Business Loss
* Business Merger
* Capital Flow
* Capital Investment
* Compensation
* Credit
* Credit Guarantee
* Disinvestment
* Economic Growth
* Foreign Investment
* Fraud
* Garment Investment
* Insurance Risk
* Investment Climate
* Investment Control
* Investment Disputes
* Investment Guarantee
* Investment Incentive
* Investment Law
* Investment Opportunity
* Joint Venture
* Loan
* Multinational Corporation
* Nationalization
* Parastatal
* Private Investment
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Public Sector
* Subsidiary
* Textile Investment
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ELAB LABOR SECTOR AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised May 1995)

The labor sector, labor actors, and national labor policies and their effect on domestic and international systems and relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LAB)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Arbitration
* Benefits
* Bonded Labor
* Child Labor
* Collective Bargaining
* Compulsory Labor
* Dock Workers
* Employee Ownership
* Employee Rights
* Employer Organization
* Employment
* Equal Pay for Equal Work
* Forced Labor
* Foreign Worker
* GSP (Worker Rights)
* Illegal Worker
* International Labor Secretariat
* Job Creation
* Job Discrimination
* Job Security
* Job Training
* Labor Agreement
* Labor Code
* Labor Competition
* Labor Confederation
* Labor Cooperative
* Labor Costs
* Labor Courts
* Labor Disputes
* Labor Federation
* Labor Law
* Labor Leader
* Labor Market
* Labor Migration
* Labor Movement
* Labor Organization
* Labor Relations
* Labor Rights
* Labor Sector
* Labor Settlement
* Labor Standards
* Labor Union
* Layoffs
* Lockout
* Manpower
* Mediation
* NAFTA Labor Cooperation
* Occupational Health
* Occupational Safety
* Pension
* Prison Labor
* Privatization
* Right of Association
* Right to Organize Slave Labor
* Social Clause (WTO)
* Social Net
* Social Security
* Strike
* Trade
* Union
* Underemployment
* Unemployment
* Unemployment Insurance
* Vocational Training
* Wages
* Work Force
* Work Permit
* Worker Rights Workers
* Working Conditions
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ELTN LAND TRANSPORTATION
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

All aspects of land transportation. (Replaces RCHB file categories: IT, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antiterrorism Measures
* Automobile
* Bridge
* Bus
* Cargo Handling
* Detention
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Highway
* Highway Access
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Land Transportation
* Maintenance
* Overland Cargo
* Public Transportation
* Railroad
* Railroad Accident
* Railway Access
* Rescue
* Schedule
* Traffic Accident
* Traffic Safety
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
* Truck
* Tunnel
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EMIN MINERALS AND METALS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The exploration, discovery, and extraction of minerals and metals. (Replaces RCHB file category: INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bauxite
* Bid
* Chromite
* Coal
* Cobalt
* Copper
* Drilling
* Excavation
* Exclusive Economic Zone
* Exploration
* Factory
* Gems
* Gold
* Iron
* Magnesium
* Manganese
* Metal
* Mine
* Mineral
* Mineral Reserve
* Mining
* Mining Accident
* Mining Concession
* Nickel
* Offshore Mining
* Ore
* Quarry
* Silver
* Tin
* Tungsten
* Uranium
* Uranium Enrichment
* Zinc

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ENRG ENERGY AND POWER
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Government and private commercial activities in acquiring and providing energy services from all types of sources. For petroleum and natural gas, see EPET. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, FSE)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Coal
* Dam
* Decontamination
* Electric Energy
* Electric Power Plant
* Energy Conservation
* Energy Consumption
* Energy Reserve
* Energy Shortage
* Factory
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Fuel Shortage
* Generator
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Hydroelectric Power Plant
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
* Nuclear Power Plant
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Power Line
* Public Utility
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Reexport
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* Stockpile
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Thermal Power Plant
* Transformer
* Uranium Enrichment
* Wind Energy
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EPET PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
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Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)

Government and private sector activities in the exploration and extraction of petroleum and natural gas. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FSE, PET)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bid
* Drilling
* Exploitation
* Exploration
* LPG
* Natural Gas
* Natural Gas Pipeline
* Natural Gas Production
* Natural Gas Reserve
* Offshore Drilling
* Offshore Drilling Platform
* Offshore Oil
* Oil Field
* Petroleum
* Petroleum Concession
* Petroleum Pipeline
* Petroleum Production
* Petroleum Reserve
* Petroleum Shortage
* Refinery
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ETRD FOREIGN TRADE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Exchange of goods between nations. (Replaces RCHB file category: FT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alcoholic Beverage
* Aluminum
* Animal Hides
* Antidumping
* Antitrust
* Apparel Trade
* Arms
* Arms Traffic
* Barter
* BOP
* Boycott
* Buffer Stock
* Chemical
* Clothing
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Commercial Aircraft
* Commodity
* Commodity Market
* Communications Equipment
* Computer
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Countertrade
* Countervailing Duty
* Cross Border Trade
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Clearance
* Customs Court
* Customs Fine
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Official
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Dairy Products
* Debt
* Development Program
* Dispute Settlement
* Diversion
* Duty Free Entry
* East West Trade
* Economic Cooperation
* EEC 1992
* EEP
* Electronic Equipment
* Exhibit
* Export
* Fair Trade
* Farm Equipment
* FCN
* Fertilizer
* Fish
* Food
* Food Contamination
* Food Inspection
* Footwear
* Foreign Market
* Free Trade Zone
* Garment Exports
* Garment Imports
* Government Procurement
* GSP
* Harmonized System
* Helicopter
* Import
* Industrialized Nation
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Intervention
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* Leather
* License
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber
* Machine Tool
* Manmade Fiber
* Market Access
* Meat
* Meat Inspection
* Medical Equipment
* Merger
* Metal
* MFN
* MIC
* Monopoly
* Multifiber Arrangement
* NAFTA
* Natural Fiber
* Newly Industrialized Countries
* Nonalcoholic Beverage
* Nontariff Barriers
* North South Dialogue
* Oils
* Oilseeds
* Perishable Commodities
* Petroleum Products
* Pharmaceuticals
* Plastics
* Poultry
* Private Sector
* Product Standards
* Public Sector
* Quota
* Railroad Equipment
* Ramie
* Reexport
* Rice
* Rubber
* Sanction
* Shellfish
* Silk
* Smuggling
* Soybean
* Steel
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Synthetic Fiber
* Synthetic Rubber
* Tariff
* Tariff Barriers
* Tariff Relief
* Television
* Textile Exports
* Textile Imports
* Textiles
* Tin
* Tobacco
* Trade Agreement
* Trade Balance
* Trade Complaint
* Trade Control
* Trade Concession
* Trade Discrimination
* Trade Dumping
* Trade Fair
* Trade Law
* Trade Liberalization
* Trade Opportunity
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Protectionism
* Trade Relations
* Trade Visit
* Tuna
* VAT
* Vegetable
* Vegetable Fiber
* Vegetable Oil
* Wheat
* Wine
* Wood Products
* Wool
* Yarns
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ETTC TRADE AND TECHNOLOGY CONTROLS
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Effective from April 1984

Government efforts to control the transfer of goods (i.e., equipment),services, or technologies. This includes foreign policy trade controls, strategic (National Security) trade controls, munitions controls, general West to East technology transfer issues, and efforts to circumvent U.S. or COCOM controls. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FT, STR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Arms Traffic
* Blocked Assets
* Boycott
* COCOM Case
* COCOM List Review
* Computer
* Data Bases
* Data Processing Equipment
* Digital Switching
* Diversion
* EAA
* East West Trade
* Economic Warfare
* Electronic Equipment
* Embargo
* End Use Check
* End User
* Enforcement
* Espionage
* Exception List
* EXCON
* Export
* Export Control
* GSOIA
* GSOMIA
* High Technology Equipment
* IEEPA
* Illegal Trade
* Import Control
* ITAR
* Laboratory Equipment
* License
* Manufacturing Agreement
* Military Applications
* Military Critical Technologies
* Military Equipment
* Military Services
* Munitions Control
* NDPC
* Nonmarket Economy
* Origin Certificate
* Reexport
* Research & Development
* Sanction
* Security Survey
* Semiconductors
* SNEC
* Software
* Stockpile
* Strategic Material
* Strategic Trade Control
* Superconductor
* TCDC
* Technical Assistance Agreement
* Technology Acquisition Efforts
* Technology Gap
* Technology Transfer
* Transaction Check
* Turnkey Plant
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EWWT WATERBORNE TRANSPORTATION
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Movement of commercial and private vessels over high seas and inland waterways. (Replaces RCHB file categories: OS, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antiterrorism
* Measures Canal
* Cargo Handling
* Coast Guard
* Containerization
* Dock Workers
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Insurance
* Load Line
* Maintenance
* Marine Cargo
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Maritime Flag
* Maritime Law
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Ship
* Patrol Boat
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Port Congestion
* Private Ship
* Refueling
* Registration
* Rescue
* River
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule Ship Accident
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Detention
* Ship Harassment
* Ship Movement
* Ship Registry
* Shipyard
* SOLAS
* Strait
* Tonnage Measurement
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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KACT: Strategic Arms Control (ACS) Treaties
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Effective from August 2000 (Revised August 2004)

Use for all documents relating to specific, interrelated strategic (nuclear) arms control treaties and their implementation:

* ABM (i.e., anti-ballistic missile) treaty and its implementation body the SCC (Standing Consultative Commission);
* INF (i.e., Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) Treaty and its implementation body, the SVC (Special Verification Commission);
* START (i.e., Strategic Reductions Treaty) and its implementation body, the JCIC (Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission); and the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT) or the Moscow Treaty and its implementing body, the BIC (Bilateral Implementation Commission).

Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NP/EX)
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KAWC: Atrocities and War Crimes
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Effective from July 2001

Use for all documents relating to atrocities, massacres, and war crimes, including allegations, reports, investigations, and prosecutions of genocide, crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, and violations of the laws or customs for war. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau, Info: S/WCI)
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KCFE: Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
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Effective from August 1989

Use on all documents between U.S. Vienna and the Department pertaining to CFE negotiations; documents pertaining to conventional forces in Europe including both Eastern and Western forces, their structure, posture, changes, etc.; documents pertaining to allied and Warsaw Pact conventional arms control positions, plans and related internal political situations, documents referring to the High Level Task Force (HLTF) or its subgroups; and all documents discussing congressional delegation visits to Europe that will address conventional arms control issues. (Action: EUR/RPM)
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KCIP: Critical Infrastructure Protection
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Effective from August 2001

Use for all documents reporting on critical infrastructure protection (CIP) issues, which are defined as vulnerabilities and threats, both physical and cyber, to systems and assets (particularly interconnected information systems and networks) so vital to a nation that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on national security, national economic security, and/or national public health and safety. Use for reporting of CIP issues both as they affect host country and as they impact the United States. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)

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KCOM: Chief of Mission
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Effective from March 2004

Use for all documents addressed for action to the chief of a U.S. mission in a foreign location (e.g., ambassadors, chargés d’affaires, consuls general, or principal officers). Use KCOM in conjunction with generic PASS instructions to chiefs of mission in Department telegrams. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOR: Corruption and Anti-Corruption
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Effective from August 2001

Use for all documents relating to corruption and anti-corruption, dishonesty, and unethical behavior among public officials representing local, provincial, and national governments. This would include linkages with justice, economic, social and political entities. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)

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KCRM: Criminal Activity
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Effective from April 1994 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to criminal organizations and activities, the threat they pose to U.S. interests and/or friendly governments, and host country and U.S. Government programs to combat them. This includes international criminal organizations; money laundering and other financial crimes; illicit trafficking including alien smuggling and gun running; international stolen property theft and fencing rings; international frauds and commercial crimes; UN crime meetings and anti-crime programs; and interaction with international and regional organizations on these issues. U.S. assistance covers training of host country judicial and law enforcement agencies. Use this K TAGS with the Subject TAGS SOCI. Distinguish the use of this TAGS from AID-funded administration of justice programs in Latin America (KJUS),anti-narcotics issues and programs (SNAR),and anti-terrorism issues and programs (PTER). (Action: INL/ENT)
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KDEM: Democratization
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Effective from May 1991

Use on all documents dealing with democratization in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Encouraging democratization constitutes an essential component of U.S. policy. The U.S. Government is devoting significant resources to monitor and promote regional trends away from autocratic rule and toward political pluralism. Programs designed to encourage democratization are diverse, and often are cross-discipline in nature, requiring the involvement of several U.S. Government agencies. Also use the appropriate Subject and Geo-Political TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KDRG: Detainee Repatriation from Guantanamo Bay
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Effective from December 2007

Use for all documents addressing issues connected to the repatriation and transfer of detainees in U.S. Government custody at the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to their countries of origin or to third countries. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/WCI)
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KFRD: Fraud Prevention Programs
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Effective from August 1986

Use on all reporting that refers to efforts and activities pertaining to the prevention of fraud and deceptive practices in the issuance of visas, passports, the issuance of Federal benefits to U.S. citizens and others, and to active measures developed by the Department to oversee their legality and for reporting upon the results of antifraud and prevention measures in consular matters. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: CA/FPP)
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KGHG: Global Climate Change
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Effective from May 2007

Use for all documents addressing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and global climate change (also referred to as global warming). This includes, but is not limited to, the economic, energy, environmental, geographic, health, scientific, social, and political linkages of global climate change. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: OES/EGC)
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KGIC: Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism
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Effective from September 2006

Use for all documents relating to the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. The Global Initiative works toward the prevention, detection, and response to acts of nuclear terrorism. Also use appropriate Subject Tags. (Action: ISM/WMDT)
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KHIV: Emerging Infectious Diseases and HIV/AIDS Program
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Effective from June 2000

Use for all documents relating to actual and prospective activities by the U.S. Government, alone or in conjunction with or through other entities, to combat HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. Also use Appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: S/GAC)
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KHLS: Homeland Security
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Effective from August 2006

Use for all documents relating to all aspects of homeland security issues, including acts of terrorism directed at the U.S. homeland, its citizens, or interests; planning and support for such acts of terrorism; capabilities of terrorist groups; activities of institutions, groups, or individuals that support such terrorism; acts of terrorism that transcend national boundaries due to the support network or nationality of the perpetrator, victim, or facility or conventional, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) terrorism; terrorist travel; actions of the host government, institutions, or individuals related to support for or opposition to U.S. Government homeland security or counter-terrorism initiatives; actions of the host government or multilateral organizations related to the establishment of host country or regional security, bureaucratic, physical, or cyber infrastructure; homeland security implications and effects of border protection, immigration, and customs policies; transportation (e.g., seaports, civil air) security; host government travel document control and standards; emergency, preparedness, and response; biodefense, science and technology development related to the above areas; reactions of host government, media, etc., to homeland security-related programs and activities in the United States, or of the U.S. Government. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/CT, CA, OES, A/OEM)

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KIPR: Intellectual Property Rights
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Effective from December 1988 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to intellectual property rights which include patents, trademarks, copyrights, semiconductor designs (mask works),industrial designs, trade secrets, appellations of origin and other forms of protection to reward and encourage innovation and creativity. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/TPP/MTA/IPC)
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KIRF: International Religious Freedom
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Effective from January 1999

Use on all documents relating to all issues of religious freedom and persecution, including civil unrest where religion is a precipitating factor; changes to or enforcement of laws affecting freedom of religion; religious aspects of movements, parties or persons seeking governmental change; governmental repression of religious minorities, movements or leaders; religion playing a role in reconciling conflicts; and changes in religious demographics that may produce societal changes. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: DRL/IRF)
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KISL: Islamic Issues
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Effective from November 1988 (Revised April 2000)

Use on documents treating government involvement in recognition of or approaches to Islam; political and economic activities undertaken by private Islamic organizations or prominent individuals; and fundamentalism. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS.

(Action: NEA/PPR, AF/RA, EAP/RA)
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KJUS: Administration of Justice
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Effective from May 1986 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with the administration of justice in host countries, particularly as it relates to U.S. objectives of promoting democracy and just economic and social development. This includes judicial reforms, political reporting on personalities and institutions involved in the administration of justice, judicial infrastructure development, criminal investigation capabilities, penal systems, legal training, and assistance and exchange programs in this field. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: WHA/PPC)
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KMCA: Millennium Challenge Account
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Effective from August 2004

Use for documents relating to all aspects of the Millennium Challenge Account, a U.S. new foreign assistance account, or the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the independent government corporation recently established to manage and oversee this assistance. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: MCC/IT)
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KMDR: Media Reaction Reporting
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Effective From October 1999

Use on all documents dealing with setting post ―Watching Briefs and on all post reporting concerning editorial content and media reaction. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: INR/R)
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KNNP: Nuclear Non-Proliferation
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Effective from April 1984

Use on all documents on U.S. policy for preventing the spread of nuclear weapons to other countries, the transfer of nuclear material, equipment of technology, agreements for cooperation on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, matters concerning multilateral discussions on the uses of nuclear energy including the activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and activities in other countries related to the acquisition of nuclear explosives. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KOLY: Olympic Games Reporting
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Effective from February 1984

Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. Note: KOLY will be used in the above prescribed manner for all subsequent winter and summer Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KPAL: Palestinian Affairs
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Effective from August 1983 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with the Palestinian people, as a group or in part, or the area known as Palestine. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. (Action: NEA/PA)
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KPAO: Public Affairs Office
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Effective from May 2000

Use on all documents intended for Public Affairs sections abroad, and should be used by field Public Affairs sections abroad on all documents coming into the Department which relate to Public Diplomacy Programs. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: ECA/EX/PR)
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KPIN: Political Internationals
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Effective from November 1984

Use on all documents relating to the activities and policies of the four major Political Internationals: Socialist International, Christian Democratic International, Liberal International, and the International Democratic Union. This includes reporting on the attitudes of member parties towards the Internationals, the interaction between member parties of the Internationals, and the activities of the Internationals themselves. In addition, this TAGS should be used on all documents relating to the policies of the German (FRG) political foundations: Friederich Ebert, Konrad Adenauer, Hanns Seidel, and Friederich Naumann. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: P)
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KPKO: United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
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Effective from August 1996

Use on all documents relating to existing or potential United Nations peacekeeping activities, including proposals for and negotiations with other countries on peacekeeping activities, military support, sanctions monitoring, elections and humanitarian activities, as well as interaction with international and regional organizations on peacekeeping. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KPWR: Power Support Program
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Effective from March 1993

Use on all documents dealing with the Department’s electrical power support requirements. The program provides consolidated funding for generators, central uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, and PCB transformer abatement projects. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OBO/PE/DE)
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KRAD: Radioactive Contamination of the Environment
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Effective from May 1997 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with radioactive contamination of the environment from whatever source—military or civilian use, transportation, storage, or disposal of nuclear material Appropriate Subject Terms to use with this TAGS would include nuclear contamination, radiation, radioactive material and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) emergency notification. In connection with accidental or deliberate contamination, appropriate Terms to use with this TAGS include radioactive material transfer, radioactive waste disposal, radioactive waste management, industrial/medical radiography, medical isotope, and transfer of fissile material. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES/OA)

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KSCA: Science Counselors and Attachés
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Effective from February 1983

Use on all documents drafted by or sent to Science Counselors and Science Attachés. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES). Note: KSCA replaces the Organization SCSA.
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KSPR: Strategic, Performance and Resource Planning
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Effective from October 1997

Use on all documents dealing with the strategic planning process for all foreign affairs agencies or agencies with operations and programs abroad as well as the Department’s own strategic planning activities. This includes all resource allocation processes when associated with the Mission Performance Plan (MPP),namely: budget formulation, the Financial Plan (FINPLAN),and the field budget plan. Technical and operational messages that are purely budget-focused should only use ABUD. Use KSPR on messages regarding personnel planning in connection with the annual MPP exercises, and subjects relating to the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993. Operational personnel requests (e.g., new positions, classification actions, conversions of positions from FSN to PIT, etc.) should still only use APER. Suggested terms to use with KSPR are program planning, Mission Performance Plan (MPP),Resource Allocations and Budget Integration Tool (RABIT) and Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: M/P)
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KSUM: Summit Meetings
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Effective from January 1983 (Revised November 1987)

Use on all documents concerning Summit Meetings. This includes substantive and administrative arrangements for meetings, records of meetings and reports on actions by participants as a result of meetings, including preparatory meetings. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KTFN: Terrorism Finance Traffic
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Effective from July 2004

Use for documents relating to all aspects of terrorism financing; sanctions; designations of individuals under Executive Orders (E.O.) dealing with terrorism finance such as E.O. 13224; related UN resolutions; denial of funds to terrorists; and other related aspects of terrorism financing. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/ESC)
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KTIA: Treaties and International Agreements
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Effective from June 1984

Use on all documents concerning treaties, including conventions, protocols, or other International Agreements, such as exchange of notes, exchange of letters and memoranda of understanding, as well as requirements of the Case Act (11 FAM 724; 1 U.S.C. 112B). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: L/T)
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KTIP: Trafficking in Persons
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Effective from September 2008

Use for all cables related to the topics of trafficking in persons, human trafficking, slavery, involuntary servitude, forced labor, labor migration, illegal migration, commercial sexual exploitation, prostitution, sex tourism, forced marriage, child labor, debt bondage, peonage, and child soldiering. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: G/TIP)
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KUNR: UN Reform
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Effective from November 1995

Use on all documents dealing with all efforts to reform and restructure the United Nations. Some of the reforms are: the UN budget and/or ceiling, security council expansion, managerial improvements, and strengthening the role of the UN. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KWBG: West Bank and Gaza
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Effective from December 1993 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with the implementation of the Israeli-PLO Declaration of Principles, including Palestinian interim self-rule, economic development and development assistance to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Also, use for Israeli-PLO negotiations on implementing the agreement and political developments in the West Bank and Gaza including elections for a Palestinian Council. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NEA/IPA)
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KWMN: Women Issues
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Effective from June 1995

Use on all documents relating to the Fourth World Conference on Women and any future World Conferences on Women. Also use this TAGS on issues concerning women’s human rights, women’s political participation, women-in-development, and any discussions of women in the United Nations or any other international organizations. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: G/CS, IO, and DRL)
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MARR MILITARY AND DEFENSE ARRANGEMENTS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts to establish and maintain collective security or other international military cooperation. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Alliance
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* CFE
* Collective Security
* DECA
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Ground Forces
* Home Porting
* Host Government
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Lease
* Military Advisor
* Military Agreement
* Military Base
* Military Cooperation
* Military Exercise
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Visit
* Minesweeping
* Monitoring
* National Security
* Naval Forces
* Overflight Clearance
* Peace Plan
* Peacekeeping Forces
* Refueling
* Security Assessment
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Movement
* SOFA
* Tracking Station
* Troop Contribution
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Truce Observer
* Weapons Deployment
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MASS MILITARY ASSISTANCE AND SALES
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The Govemment to Govemment transfer, sale, or loan of military equipment, advisers, or services. (Replaces RCHB file categories DEF, FT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Airlift
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Bomber Aircraft
* CAT
* Congressional Presentation
* Credit
* Debt
* Debt Repayment
* Diversion
* Donor
* Economic Support Fund
* Fighter Aircraft
* FMS
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* IMET
* Loan
* Maintenance
* MAP
* Military Adviser
* Military Agreement
* Military Aircraft
* Military Assistance
* Military Procurement
* Military Training
* Military Vehicle
* Missile
* Reexport
* Salvage
* Spare Parts
* Surplus Weapons Disposal
* Technical Assistance
* Technology Transfer
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MCAP MILITARY CAPABILITIES
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Effective from March 1973 to June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The nonnuclear offensive and defensive ability of the military establishment of a nation or international organization. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Bomber Aircraft
* Burden sharing
* Cargo Aircraft
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon
* Control Civil Defense
* Coast Guard
* Conscription
* Contingency Plan
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon
* Control Court Martial
* Defense Industry
* Demobilization
* Fighter Aircraft
* Ground Forces
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* Infrastructure
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Logistics
* Military Aircraft
* Military Balance
* Military Budget
* Military Buildup
* Military Capability
* Military Communication
* Military Equipment
* Military Exercise
* Military Leader
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Reserve
* Missile
* Mobilization
* National Guard
* Naval Forces
* Naval Ship
* Ordnance
* Radar
* RDF
* Security Assessment
* Strategic Plan
* Submarine
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
* Warning System
* Weapons Deployment
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MNUC MILITARY NUCLEAR APPLICATIONS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The development and use of nuclear technology for military purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Artillery
* Counterforce
* Decontamination
* Delivery Vehicle
* Fissionable Material
* Guidance System
* INF
* LRTNF
* Military Capability
* Missile
* Missile Site
* Monitoring
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Powered Ship
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Winter
* Plutonium
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Radioactive Waste Management
* Spent Fuel
* Strategic Plan
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
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MOPS MILITARY OPERATIONS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Declared or undeclared war involving two or more nations. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Aggression
* Air Alert
* Air Forces
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Blockade
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Ceasefire
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* Combat
* Concentration Camp
* CONTRA
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Escalation
* Explosives
* Ground Forces
* Guerrilla
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intervention
* Invasion
* KIA
* Landing Rights
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* MIA
* Military Balance
* Military Buildup
* Military Plan
* Minesweeping
* Naval Forces
* No Fly Zone
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Occupied Area
* Peace Plan
* POW
* Repatriation
* Reprisal
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Ship Movement
* Surrender
* Threat
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* War
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ODIP U.S. DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATION
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Effective from January 1983

Official representational and ceremonial activities of U.S. diplomats and U.S. Government officials; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by U.S. officials. (Replaces RCHB file categories: PER, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Agrement
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Anniversary
* Assault
* Attache
* Ceremonial Representation
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* Personnel Conduct
* Real Property
* Social Reception
* Tax Exemption
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OEXC EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL
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EXCHANGE OPERATIONS

Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

The administration and operation of educational and cultural exchange programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: EDX)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* American Studies
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Community
* Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Exchange Program
* Designation Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* FLEX Program
* Foreign Leader Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange Grant
* Humphrey Program
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Nomination
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* Scientist
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* U.S. Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Youth Exchanges
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OFDP FOREIGN DIPLOMATS AND FOREIGN MISSIONS
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Effective from January 1983

Administrative, representational, and ceremonial matters related to non-U.S. diplomatic personnel and foreign missions; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by non-U.S. diplomats. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Assault
* Attache
* Building Design
* Ceremonial Representation
* Consul
* Consulate
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Embassy
* Envoy
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* NOB
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Post Closing
* Post Opening
* Real Property
* Recall
* Social Reception
* Staffing
* Tax Exemption
* Third Country Counterparts
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OIIP INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION PROGRAMS
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Effective from October 1999

Administrative and operational aspects of international information programs, products, and services that increase international support for U.S. policies and understanding of U.S. society.

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advance Documents Service
* Article Alert
* Book Donations
* Book Fairs
* Book Reprints
* Book Translations
* Books and Documents List
* Computer
* Cooperative Agreements
* Copyright
* Design Services
* DVC
* Electronic Journal
* Grant
* Graphic Design
* I-Bucks
* IRC
* IRO
* Listserv
* Paper Shows
* PDQ
* Photo Coverage
* Photo Rights
* Photo Requests
* Public Diplomacy
* Publication
* Reference Requests
* Speaker
* Technology Partnerships
* Teleconference
* Translation Requests
* Washington File
* Websites
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OPDC DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE
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Effective from January 1983

Correspondence and ceremonial messages between prominent leaders and principal officers. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acknowledgment
* Anniversary
* Appreciation Message
* Commemorative Message
* Condolence Message
* Congratulatory Message
* Invitation
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OPRC PUBLIC RELATIONS AND CORRESPONDENCE
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Effective from January 1983

Correspondence to and from the public commenting on U.S. policy and foreign incidents, requesting information and speaking engagements, and any other public relations activities. This TAGS includes routine constituent's correspondence such as employment opportunities, requests for photographs, autographs, etc. Also includes press summaries and press conferences, public opinion polls, and the administrative arrangements for press conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: PR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Authentication
* Autograph
* Constituents Mail
* Employment
* Interview
* Invitation
* Journalist
* Photo Request
* Photograph
* Poll
* Press Relations
* Public Diplomacy
* Public Information Publication
* Speaker
* Translation
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OREP U.S. CONGRESSIONAL TRAVEL
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Administrative and operational aspects of travel by Congressmen, congressional staffers, and delegations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LEG)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* CODEL
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protective Security
* Staffdel
* Support Services
* Travel Advisory
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OSCI SCIENCE GRANTS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administration of grants and disbursal of funds of U.S. Government sponsored research programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Foreign Currency
* Grant
* Science Grant
* Scientific Exchange
* Scientist
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OTRA TRAVEL
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Routine and operational aspects of travel and visits by other than prominent individuals and Congressmen. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL, TP, TRV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Businessmen
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Dependent
* Itinerary
* Journalist
* Official Travel
* Scientific Visit
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
* Travel Locator Messages
* Travel Orders
* Travel Report
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OVIP VISITS AND TRAVEL OF PROMINENT INDIVIDUALS AND LEADERS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administrative and operational aspects of visits or travel of U.S. and foreign leaders and prominent individuals. Use for assistant secretary level and above or foreign equivalent. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Envoy
* Hotel
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protection Technical Services
* Protective Security
* Secretarys Detail
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
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PARM ARMS CONTROLS AND DISARMAMENT
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts by governments to control the acquisition, development, and production of nuclear, biological, chemical, and other advanced weaponry. Also includes the control of efforts by countries to develop nuclear capabilities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, FT, POL, STR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* ABM Treaty
* Advance Notification
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aerial Inspection
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Arms Buildup
* Arms Control
* Arms Control Agreement
* Arms Control Impact Statement
* Arms Talks
* Arms Traffic
* Associated Measures
* Biological Warfare Convention
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* CDE
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* CNEA
* Compliance
* Confidence Building Measures
* Constraints
* Consultation
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* Conventional Weapon Freeze
* Cooperative Measures
* Counterforce
* Counting Rule
* CST
* CTB
* Deterrence
* Disarmament
* Diversion
* East West Relations
* Electronic Weapons Systems
* Emerging Technologies
* ENMOD
* Entry Exit Points
* Fissionable Material
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hotline
* Implementation
* INF
* IOZP
* Laser Fusion
* Launchers
* Limited Test Ban Treaty
* LRTNF
* Military Budget Reduction
* Military Expenditures
* Missile
* Monitoring
* Moratorium
* Napalm
* National Guidelines Area
* No First Use
* Nonproliferation
* Nonuse of Force
* NPT
* NRR
* NTEM
* NTM
* Nuclear Agreements
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Enrichment Process
* Nuclear Equipment
* Nuclear Free Zone
* Nuclear Material
* Nuclear Proliferation
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Technical Assistance
* Nuclear Technology
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Weapon Free Zone
* Nuclear Weapon Freeze
* Particle Beam
* Peace Movement
* Plutonium
* Political Concession
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* SCC
* SDI
* Simulations
* SNEC
* Spent Fuel
* START
* Stockpile
* Strategic Policy
* Technology Transfer
* Telemetry
* Tlatelolco Treaty
* Troop Level
* TTBT
* Unconventional Weapon
* Verification
* Warhead
* Weapon Destruction
* Weapon Systems Deactivation
* Weapons Deployment
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PBTS NATIONAL BOUNDARIES, TERRITORIES, AND SOVEREIGNTY
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Effective from January 1983

A territory over which dominion is exercised. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Alert
* Airspace
* Annexation
* Arbitration
* Archipelago
* Border Control
* Border Crossing
* Border Dispute
* Border Incident
* Boundary
* Boundary Claim
* Boundary Determination
* Canal
* Cession
* Coast Guard
* Continental Shelf
* Court Decision
* Dependency
* Dispute Settlement
* Island
* Island Claim
* Land Settlement
* Landlocked Country
* Maritime Boundary
* Mediation
* Occupied Area
* Overflight
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Province
* River
* Seabed
* Ship Detention
* Sovereignty
* Strait
* Survey
* Territorial Claim
* Territorial Reversion
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Unification
* Territorial Waters
* Trust Territory
* Water Boundary Agreement
* Water Boundary Claim
* West Bank
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PGOV INTERNAL GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised June 1983)

The form, structure, and organization of local, provincial, and national governments. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Absentee Ballot
* Administration of Justice
* Alliance
* Antigovernment
* Arbitration
* Berlin Access
* Berlin Wall
* Cabinet
* Cabinet Meeting
* Campaign
* Candidacy Support
* Candidate
* Charter
* Church State Relations
* Coalition Government
* Colonialism
* Communism
* Confederation
* Constitution
* Constitutional Law
* Corruption
* Court
* Court Decision
* Death
* Democracy
* Dictatorship
* Election
* Election Forecast
* Election Irregularities
* Election Law
* Election Observer
* Election Reform
* Election Results
* Extremist
* Federation
* First Lady
* Glasnost
* Government Agency
* Government Budget
* Government Media Relations
* Government Official
* Government Reform
* Governor
* Impeachment
* Inauguration
* Influence
* Infrastructure
* Interim Government
* Judicial Reform
* Judiciary
* Junta
* King
* Legislation
* Legislator
* Legislature
* Martial Law
* Mayor
* Minister
* Minority
* Municipal
* Nationalism
* Opposition
* Opposition Party
* Party Faction
* Party Leader
* Party Line
* Party Meeting
* Party Stability
* Party Strength
* Party Unity
* Patronage
* Perestroyka
* Political Adviser
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Crisis
* Political Leader
* Political Military Relations
* Political Party
* Political Trend
* Poll
* President
* Prime Minister
* Progovernment
* Province
* Queen
* Reconciliation
* Referendum
* Reorganization
* Resignation from Office
* Reunification
* Royal Family
* Ruling Party
* Self Government
* Socialism
* Special Interest Group
* State of the Union Message
* Succession
* Tenure of Office
* Totalitarian
* Trial
* Trust
* Territory
* Veto
* Vice President
* Voting
* Voting Rights
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PHSA HIGH SEAS AFFAIRS
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Effective from January 1983

Activities on the high seas, outside a country's national jurisdiction. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Continental Shelf
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive
* Economic Zone
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Freedom of Navigation
* Hazardous Cargo
* Innocent Passage
* International Waters
* LOS
* Marine Mammal
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Natural Resources
* Ocean Dumping
* Piracy
* Seabed
* Seabed Mining
* Ship Accident
* Ship Detention
* Ship Movement
* Strait
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Waters
* Transit Passage
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PHUM HUMAN RIGHTS
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Effective from January 1985

The violation of rights attributable to human beings. (Replaces RCHB file categories: POL, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Abuse
* Amnesty
* Antisemitic
* Apartheid
* Asylum
* Asylum Request
* Capital Punishment
* Childrens Rights
* Civil Rights
* Concentration Camp
* Court Decision
* Death Squad
* Deportation
* Detainee
* Detection Equipment
* Detention Development Rights
* Discrimination
* Economic Rights
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Ethnic Group
* EVD
* Execution
* Exile
* Family
* Forced Labor
* Harassment
* Human Rights
* Humane
* Imprisonment
* Indigenous Peoples
* Individual Rights
* Internal Exile
* Internee
* Mass Migration
* Massacre
* Minority
* Minority Rights
* Missing Person
* Mistreatment
* Murder
* Persecution
* Police Equipment
* Political Disappearance
* Political Prisoner
* Political Repression
* Political Rights
* Poverty
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Welfare
* Proselytize
* Psychiatric Abuse
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Returnees
* Rights of Peoples
* Security Forces
* Sponsorship
* Torture
* Walk In Procedures
* Women
* Womens Rights
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PINR INTELLIGENCE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The gathering and reporting of intelligence information, including biographic and background data. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INT, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aerial Reconnaissance
* Biographic Information
* Contacts
* Counterintelligence
* Covert Operations
* Disinformation
* Espionage
* Film
* Humint Collection Plan
* Information Security
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intelligence Collection
* Intelligence Services
* Maps
* Monitoring
* Olive Harvest
* PLPPR
* Remote Sensing
* Satellite
* Ship Movement
* Surveillance Aircraft
* Tracking Station
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PINS NATIONAL SECURITY
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

A regime's stability, control, or efforts to maintain itself in power, as well as activities and efforts to disrupt or overthrow the established regime by other than normal political activity. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Assassination
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Censorship
* Church State Relations
* Civil War
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Contingency Plan
* CONTRA
* Counterinsurgency
* Coup
* Court Decision
* Court Martial
* Death Squad
* Defector
* Demobilization
* Detention
* Dissident
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Escalation
* Ethnic Group
* Execution
* Exile
* Exiled Government
* Exit Permit
* Expulsion
* Extremist
* General Strike
* Guerrilla
* Harassment
* Hostility
* Hunger Strike
* Impeachment
* Infiltration
* Insurgency
* Intelligence Assessment
* Internal Control
* Intervention
* Land Reform
* Law Enforcement
* Liberation Front
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* Mercenary
* Minority
* Missing Person
* National Security
* Occupied Area
* Persona Non Grata
* Plot
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Political Assessment
* Political Crisis
* Political Military Relations
* Political Prisoner
* Political Settlement
* Political Stability
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Release
* Propaganda
* Property Protection
* Religious Group
* Repression
* Reprisal
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Sabotage
* Seizure
* Surrender
* Threat
* Travel Document
* Travel Restriction
* Treason
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Violence
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PREF REFUGEES
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Effective from January 1985 (Revised March 1995)

People who move across borders because of danger to life or fear of persecution. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Admissions
* Allocation
* Asylum Policy
* Early Warning
* Emergency Response
* ESLCO
* Family Reunification
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Internally Displaced Persons
* Letter of Introduction
* ODP
* Prevention
* Refugee Camp
* Refugee Protection
* Refugee Relief
* Refugee Resettlement
* Refugee Settlement
* Refugee Status
* Repatriation
* Safe Country of Origin and Transit
* Safe Haven
* Sponsorship
* Temporary Protection
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
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PREL EXTERNAL POLITICAL RELATIONS
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Effective from January 1983

The political relations between countries, international or regional organizations both bilateral and multilateral, that assess intentions, objectives, plans, or possible courses of interaction. (Replaces RCHB file category: CSM, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alliance
* Ambassador
* Amity
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antisoviet
* Bilateral Cooperation
* CBI
* Cold War
* Commitment
* Condemnation
* Consular Service
* Demarche
* Detente
* Deterrence
* Diplomatic Protest
* East West Relations
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Expulsion
* Extradition Treaty
* Foreign Commitment
* Foreign Relations
* Front Line States
* Government Reaction
* Hegemony
* Industrialized Nation
* Influence
* International Organization
* Intervention
* LDC
* Lobbying
* NAM
* National Security
* Neutrality
* No Fly Zone
* Nonaggression
* Nonaligned Nations
* Nonparticipation
* North South Dialogue
* Open Skies Treaty
* Opposition
* Participation
* Peace
* Peace Plan
* Persona Non Grata
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Initiative
* Political Settlement
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Exchange
* Prisoner Transfer
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Relations
* Reciprocity
* Recognition
* Reconciliation
* Regional Organization
* Relations Establishment
* Relations Interruption
* Reprisal
* Sanction
* Secession
* Signatory
* Sister City
* Third Country Representation
* Third World
* Threat
* War Claims
* West Bank
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PROP PROPAGANDA AND PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The spreading of ideology, information, or rumor for the purpose of supporting or defaming nations, institutions, causes, peoples, or persons. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CSM, CUL, INF, MP, POL, PPB, RAD, TV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Active Measures
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antinuclear
* Antisoviet
* Brain Drain
* Brainwashing
* Broadcasting
* Campaign
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Disinformation
* Frequency Interference
* Harassment
* Influence
* Jamming
* Lobbying
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Propaganda
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Disclosure
* Public Information
* Public Relations
* Publication
* Repression
* Slander
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PTER TERRORISTS AND TERRORISM
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Effective from March 1981 (Revised January 1983)

All aspects of terrorism which transcend national boundaries due to the nationality of the perpetrator, victim, place, or the incident. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acts of Terrorists
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Antiterrorist Forces
* Assassination
* Assault
* Bomb Threat
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Hijacking
* Hostage
* Hostility
* Infiltration
* Kidnapping
* Kidnapping Threat
* Mission Takeover
* Piracy
* Plot
* Proterrorism
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Small Arms
* Surrender
* Terrorism
* Terrorist Activities
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Violence
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SCUL CULTURAL AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

Any part or totality of a nation's behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, or sociology. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CUL, EDU, MP, PPB, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* American Studies
* Anthropology
* Archaeology
* Artifact
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Commemorative Celebration
* Community Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Presentation
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Education
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Ethnic Group
* Excavation
* Exchange Program Designation
* Exhibit
* Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* Fine Arts
* FLEX Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange
* History
* Holiday
* Humphrey Program
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Language
* Library
* Magazine
* Memorial
* Missionary
* Museum
* National Flag
* Newspaper
* Olympics
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Piracy
* Place of Worship
* Pope
* Publication
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Religious Leader
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* School
* Social Custom
* Social Reform
* Sports
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* University
* US Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Women
* Youth
* Youth Exchanges
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SENV ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The preservation, deterioration, and conservation of natural and animal resources, the air, water, land, and space environments. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AGR, CUL, E, HLTH, INCO, OS, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acid Rain
* Air Pollution
* Animal Conservation
* Animal Hides
* Atmosphere
* Biodiversity
* CITES
* Crop
* Destruction
* Dam
* Desertification
* Drought
* Earthquake
* Ecology
* Endangered Species
* Environment
* Erosion
* Exploitation
* Famine
* Fire
* Fish
* Flood
* Flora
* Forestry
* Fungicide
* Habitat
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Herbicide
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insect
* Land Conservation
* Marine
* Mammal
* Migratory Animals
* Monsoon
* National Park
* Natural Disaster
* Natural Resources
* Noise Pollution
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Winter
* Ocean Dumping
* Oil Spill
* Ozone
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Pollution Control
* Preservation
* Rainfall
* Seabed
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sludge
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soil Pollution
* Species Protection
* Storm
* Tidal Wave
* Transboundary Pollution
* Tropical Forest
* Volcanic Eruption
* Waste
* Waste Disposal
* Water
* Water Analysis
* Water Conservation
* Water Pollution
* Water Supply System
* Weather
* Whales
* Wildlife
* Yellow Rain
* Zoo
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SMIG MIGRATION
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Effective from March 1995

The legal or illegal movement of people across borders, border control, and the treatment of aliens by receiving states. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alien Interdiction
* Border Control
* Cross Border Migration
* Economic Migration
* Emigration
* Environmental Migration
* Family Reunification
* Illegal Migration
* Immigration
* Labor Migration
* Migration
* Migration and Development Policy
* Nationality and Citizenship
* Readmission Agreements
* Remittances
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SNAR NARCOTICS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 2008)

The illegal production, distribution, and use of narcotic drugs. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aircraft Registry
* Cocaine
* Crop Destruction
* Crop Substitution
* Crops
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Demand Reduction
* Detection
* Equipment
* Eradication
* Exhibit
* Foreigners
* Hashish
* Herbicide
* Heroin
* Illicit
* Immigration
* Interdiction
* Law Enforcement
* Legal
* Marijuana
* Money Laundering
* Morphine
* Narcotics
* Narcotics Abuse
* Narcotics Control
* Narcotics Detection
* Narcotics Seizure
* Narcotics Traffic
* Opium
* Patrol Boat
* Psychotropic Drugs
* Seizure
* Ship Registry
* Smuggling
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SOCI SOCIAL CONDITIONS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The conditions and factors that affect the social welfare of a community. (Replaces RCHB file category: HLTH, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Abortion
* Administration of Justice
* Adoption
* AIDS
* Birth Rate
* Black Market
* Census
* Child
* Custody
* Children
* Civil Disobedience
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Consumer Protection
* Crime
* Crime Control
* Cult
* Demography
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Divorce
* Educational Reform
* Elderly
* Epidemic
* Family
* Family Planning
* Food
* Fugitive
* Genocide
* Glasnost
* Health
* Housing
* Housing Shortage
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Hunger Strike
* Illegal Alien
* Immigrant
* Immigration Control
* Infant
* Infrastructure
* Inoculation
* Insurance
* Law Enforcement
* Life Expectancy
* Marriage
* Medical Care
* Medical Facility
* Mental Health
* Minority
* Modernization
* Mortality Rate
* Murder
* Penal System
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Population
* Population Growth
* Pornography
* Prison
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Prostitution
* Public Safety
* Public Transportation
* Public Welfare
* Quarantine
* Recall
* Reform
* Rehabilitation
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Rural Area
* Sanitation
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sex Ratio
* Sexual Crime
* Sexual Harassment
* Social Development
* Social Reform
* Social Security
* Social Service
* Social Trend
* Special Interest Group
* Standard of Living
* Sterilization
* Theft
* Urban Area
* Violence
* Volunteers
* Water Supply System
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TBIO BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL SCIENCE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The anatomy, physiology, chemistry, and psychology that affect living organisms and the mechanisms of their expression. (Replaces RCHB file categories: HLTH, SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AIDS
* Animals
* Biology
* Biotechnology
* Chemistry
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Eradication
* Food
* Genetic Engineering
* Hormones
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Medical Science
* Nuclear Contamination
* Parapsychology
* Pest Control
* Pharmaceuticals
* Quarantine
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* STRIDE Technology
* Technology
* Transfer
* Vaccine
* Zoology
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TPHY PHYSICAL SCIENCES
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development in any of the physical sciences. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Atmosphere
* Chemistry
* Geodesy
* Geology
* Hydrology
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Maps
* Materials Science
* Meteorology
* Metrology
* Microwave
* Minerology
* Ocean Drilling
* Oceanography
* Physics
* Research & Development
* Research Vessel
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Scientific Visit
* Seismology
* STRIDE
* Survey
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Volcanology
* Weather
* Weather Station
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TRGY ENERGY TECHNOLOGY
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Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development of energy sources. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF, FSE, PET, SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Electric Energy
* Energy Conservation
* Exploration
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Magnetic
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Petroleum
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* SSC
* STRIDE
* Synthetic Fuel
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Transmitters
* Wind Energy
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TSPA SPACE ACTIVITIES
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development leading to and resulting in the exploration and utilization of outer space. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, SP, TEL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Astronaut
* Astronomy
* Communications Satellite
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* ELV
* Exploration
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Technology Equipment
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Landing Rights
* Navigational Aid
* Orbit
* Outer Space
* Outer Space Commercialization
* Peaceful Use of Outer Space
* Reentry
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Salvage
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Space Agreement
* Space Fragment
* Space Law
* Space Liability
* Space Program
* Space Station
* Spacecraft
* Spacecraft Recovery
* Spaceflight
* STRIDE
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Telecommunication
* Tracking Station
* UFO
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09NOUAKCHOTT246INCONSISTENT FRENCH TRANSLATION OF NATO STATEMENT
[...] (SBU) Summary: Mauritanians, who are prone to glom onto the slightest international statement as a sign of policy signals, are now focused on NATO's Strasbourg/Kehl Summit Declaration released April 4 The official French translation of the Declaration has caused consternation/excitement be [...]
2009-04-05 18:01:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV NATO MR
09NOUAKCHOTT247SENEGALESE STILL PUSHING FOR MEDIATION ROLE
[...] (C) President Abdallahi's "Foreign Minister" Mohammed Ould Maouloud told Charge April 5 that Senegalese Foreign Minister Cheikh Tidiane Gadio has returned to Mauritania intent on getting President Abdallahi and opposition leader Ahmed Ould Daddah to accept a bilateral Senegalese political med [...]
2009-04-05 18:17:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SG MR
09NOUAKCHOTT250ANTI-COUP PROTESTS IN NOUAKCHOTT VIOLENTLY
[...] (C) Summary: Two anti-coup protests in Nouakchott were violently dispersed by police on April 2 and April 3. In both cases, police used tear gas and batons to break up the protests, injuring several people in the process. EmbOffs obtained first-hand accounts from some prominent figures who [...]
2009-04-07 16:42:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPHUM KPAO KDEM ASEC MR
09NOUAKCHOTT251JUNTA UNILATERALLY APPOINTS ELECTORAL COMMISSION
[...] (C) The junta took another step towards elections with the April 6 designation of the National Independent Electoral Commission (CENI) president and members. Professor Cheikh Saad Bouh Camara, reputed Afro-Mauritanian sociologist, was appointed president while Hamdy Ould Mahjoub, former depu [...]
2009-04-07 17:18:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM MR
09NOUAKCHOTT253WHILE PM WAGHEF AND OTHERS LANGUISH IN PRISON,
[...] (C) Summary: Despite General Aziz's repeated claims that there are no political prisoners in Mauritania, the selective targeting of prominent anti-coup individuals indicates otherwise. Four people, Prime Minister Waghef among them, remain in prison charged with corruption and mismanagement [...]
2009-04-08 13:54:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM MR
09NOUAKCHOTT255FROM CHILD BRIDE TO SEX SLAVE: HOW MAURITANIAN
[...] (C) Summary: Reports of trafficking of Mauritanian child brides to Saudi Arabia are on the rise. The girls, usually between 5 and 12 years of age, are married off to wealthy Saudi men in exchange for hefty bride prices. Once they arrive in Saudi Arabia, they become sex slaves to their hus [...]
2009-04-08 15:11:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALKDEM MR PGOV PHUM
09NOUAKCHOTT257MAURITANIA'S NEIGHBORS -- ABDALLAHI LOSING MALIAN
[...] (C) Summary: Charge did the rounds April 5 of neighboring country embassies to check on evolving views following the failed Qadhafi mediation. Morocco and Algeria remain fixed on two sides of the fence -- Morocco urging acceptance of the status quo based on stability concerns (and discounti [...]
2009-04-08 16:53:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV USAU AG ML MO SG MR
09NOUAKCHOTT260MAURITANIAN ECONOMY DETERIORATING AND LIKELY TO
[...] (C) Summary: The foreign exchange market in Mauritania has stopped functioning and the Central Bank has been rationing foreign currency since November 2008. The difference between the parallel and official exchange rates has grown from zero to 10%. While large companies with connections abroa [...]
2009-04-12 09:31:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN EMIN PGOV MR
09NOUAKCHOTT261MAURITANIA: POLITICAL ROUNDUP FOR THE WEEK OF
[...] (SBU) Summary: For the week of April 5-9, anti-coup sentiment was visible in several venues. The EU suspended cooperation with Mauritania for two years, while an unfortunate translation of a NATO statement sowed confusion. The national electoral commission was finally appointed, while forme [...]
2009-04-12 09:31:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KPAO KDEM MR
09NOUAKCHOTT266CONSTITUTIONAL CONSIDERATIONS IN AZIZ'
[...] (C) Summary: Efforts to mediate a solution to the Mauritanian crisis continue. AU Commissioner for Security and Peace Ramdane Lamamra and Libyan Secretary of African Affairs Abdessalam Triky arrived in Nouakchott April 11 to discreetly continue the negotiations started by Senegalese Foreig [...]
2009-04-13 12:26:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MR
09NOUAKCHOTT268RENEWED AU-LIBYAN MEDIATION EFFORTS
[...] (C) Summary: The African Union and Libya have started a renewed mediation effort aimed at avoiding the need to apply sanctions. The African Union questions whether the three main Mauritanian protagonists can ever come up with a consensual plan if left to their own devices, and suggests the [...]
2009-04-14 11:12:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV USAU MR
09NOUAKCHOTT271THE CONTRADICTIONS OF PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE
[...] (C) Summary: The first person to officially announce his candidacy in the upcoming June 6 elections, Ibrahima Sarr is a study in contradictions. A long-time advocate for Afro-Mauritanians, many of his own supporters and peers now accuse him of selling out by working with the military. Recog [...]
2009-04-15 13:21:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM PHUM PINR MR
09NOUAKCHOTT276MEETING WITH NATIONAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT OULD
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-16 10:41:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MR
09NOUAKCHOTT277THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM: ETHNIC RELATIONS AFTER
[...] (C) Summary: Mauritania's political crisis keeps stirring longstanding ethnic rivalries. The media talks about a "war" between junta leader General Abdel Aziz and anti-coup Haratine political leaders. Some of the leaders themselves describe it as the regime's "permanent" war with anyone re [...]
2009-04-16 13:12:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KDEM
09NOUAKCHOTT278MAURITANIA: POLITICAL ROUNDUP FOR THE WEEK OF
[...] (SBU) Summary: For the week of April 12-16, the RFD party was on the verge of collapse, and Ahmed Ould Daddah had his strongest words yet for General Aziz. Ibrahima Sarr announced his candidacy for president, and renewed AU-Libyan and Senegalese mediation efforts failed to generate enthusia [...]
2009-04-16 13:47:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM KPAO MR
09NOUAKCHOTT28ANTI-ISRAELI DEMONSTRATIONS REACH NEW LEVEL OF
[...] (SBU) Friday prayers in Nouakchott January 9 ended with people taking to the streets to protest continuing Israeli military action in the Gaza Strip. Accurate crowd numbers are hard to obtain -- some press reports placed the crowd at 10,000 or even 13,000 people. A more realistic number may [...]
2009-01-12 10:32:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALASEC PGOV PREL MR
09NOUAKCHOTT282DADDAH STILL IN THE ANTI-COUP CAMP; WANTS MORE US
[...] (C) Summary: In an April 19 meeting RFD President Ahmed Ould Daddah maintained his anti-coup stance, suggested the Senegalese mediation effort might be acceptable, and called for increased USG involvement. He tried to brush off the recent divisions within his party, and he still maintains t [...]
2009-04-20 10:45:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM MR
09NOUAKCHOTT284CONSTITUTIONAL COUNCIL DODGES JUDICIAL
[...] Summary: In a speedy and little published decision, Mauritania's Constitutional Council declared April 15 -- the same day General Aziz resigned -- a "de facto" presidential vacancy which, in keeping with the constitution, opened the way for a transitional period led by President of the Senate [...]
2009-04-21 11:13:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALKDEM PGOV
09NOUAKCHOTT287ELECTORAL COMMISSION MEMBER RESIGNS FROM "MAFIA
[...] (C) Summary: Sid'Ahmed Ould Habott, a prestigious member of the National Independent Electoral Commission (CENI),resigned April 20 as he believes the CENI's objective is not to organize free and fair elections but to certify Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz's electoral victory. For Ould Habott, or [...]
2009-04-22 17:31:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MR
09NOUAKCHOTT288ACCORDING TO VALL, PRO AND ANTI-COUP PARTIES WANT
[...] (C) Summary: According to Colonel Ely Ould Mohamed Vall, political actors are ready for a consensual solution but Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz remains the main obstacle to an agreement. Vall believes the time before the election is crucial to finding a solution. Once the election takes place, [...]
2009-04-23 12:50:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM MR
09NOUAKCHOTT289MAURITANIA: POLITICAL ROUNDUP FOR THE WEEK OF
[...] (SBU) Summary: For the week of April 19-23, women protesting against the junta were dispersed by the police. Election planning continued apace, while the number of declared presidential candidates grew to six. Anti-coup parliamentarians staged a sit-in at the National Assembly, while the n [...]
2009-04-23 14:05:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM PHUM KPAO
09NOUAKCHOTT290CONSIDERING THE SENEGALESE MEDIATION
[...] (C) Summary: Democratically elected president Abdallahi intends to travel to Senegal on Sunday, April 26, accepting an invitation from President Wade. The FNDD and RFD remain open to participation in a Senegalese/African Union mediation subject to several large reservations. They believe (p [...]
2009-04-23 16:32:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV USAU MR
09NOUAKCHOTT306FNDD LOSES FAITH IN SENEGALESE MEDIATION AS IT
[...] (C) Summary: The FNDD sees less and less utility in a Senegalese mediation. Despite initial positive signs from Senegalese Foreign Minister Cheikh Tidiane Gadio, the FNDD thinks President Wade was steered away by Aziz. The FNDD was upset that Wade accepted the regime Ambassador's credentia [...]
2009-04-29 15:38:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM MR
09NOUAKCHOTT31"NATIONAL DIALOGUE ON DEMOCRACY" RESULTS APPROVED
[...] (SBU) On January 9 the junta-designated "Prime Minister" Moulaye Ould Mohamed Laghdaf presided over a special session at the National Assembly where the final report of the "National Dialogue on Democracy" was officially approved. Seventy of the 95 parliamentarians were present, with 63 membe [...]
2009-01-12 17:19:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MR
09NOUAKCHOTT312MAURITANIA: POLITICAL ROUNDUP FOR THE WEEK OF
[...] (SBU) Summary: This week in Nouakchott, anti-coup protests multiplied and the FNDD, labor unions, and civil society joined forces through the signature of NDI's CFD Charter, which earned them criticism from Ould Daddah for accepting foreign money and interference. Deputy Sid'Ahmed Ould Ahme [...]
2009-04-30 14:26:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM KPAO PHUM MR
09NOUAKCHOTT313MAURITANIANS REPATRIATED FROM SENEGAL SURPASS
[...] (U) Summary: The cumulative number of Mauritanian refugees repatriated from Senegal surpassed 10,000 people in April. There are approximately 10,000 more refugees that remain in Senegal that have expressed their intent to return to Mauritania. To date, all of the refugees have returned to the [...]
2009-04-30 16:26:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREF SOCI ECON MR
09NOUAKCHOTT315SENEGALESE STILL WANT TO PURSUE MEDIATION
[...] (C) During an April 30 meeting, Senegalese Ambassador to Mauritania Mahmoudou Kane downplayed President Abdallahi's decision to "delay" a visit to Senegal indicating that Senegalese Foreign Minister Gadio would return to Mauritania the week of May 3 to revive the mediation initiative. 2. [...]
2009-05-03 09:33:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SG MR
09NOUAKCHOTT32PRESIDENT ABDALLAHI TO TRAVEL ABROAD, NAME SPECIAL
[...] (C) President Abdallahi's Chief of Staff, Mohamed Kaber Ould Hammoudi, told Charge that President Abdallahi would be returning to Nouakchott "in a few days" and plans to take a trip abroad after a few days of political and diplomatic consultations in the capital. The President has asked the [...]
2009-01-12 17:21:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV OVIP MR
09NOUAKCHOTT321MAURITANIA: POLITICAL ROUNDUP FOR THE WEEK OF MAY
[...] (C) Summary: This week in Nouakchott the authorities surprised everybody by authorizing protests. Demonstrations were overall peaceful except for two incidents of violence by FNDD and RFD supporters against the journalist who published the Ould Daddah interview and an Aziz supporter. Mauri [...]
2009-05-10 07:52:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KDEM
09NOUAKCHOTT323AMBASSADOR'S LUNCHEON WITH ANTI-COUP POLITICAL
[...] (C) Summary: During a lunch with the Ambassador, RFD and FNDD political leaders talked about repression of demonstrations, President of the Senate Ba M'Bare's "presidency," and the role played in the political crisis by Mauritania's neighbors. The FNDD and RFD asked the U.S. to pressure Fra [...]
2009-05-11 16:12:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM KHUM MR
09NOUAKCHOTT327THE FNDD'S EVER-CHANGING ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE
[...] (C) Summary: The FNDD, while suspicious of Senegalese President Wade's intentions, is again looking at the Senegalese mediation as a method to derail the regime's election agenda. The FNDD has multiple conditions, but sees the Senegalese proposal as the basis to start talking about talking [...]
2009-05-12 17:18:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL USAU SG MR
09NOUAKCHOTT328AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH PRESIDENT ABDALLAHI IN LEMDEN
[...] (C) Summary: President Abdallahi, still determined to fight the coup and very much active in the opposition, declared himself open to concessions as long as proposed solutions respected the constitution. The president thinks the Senegalese, rather than coming to the negotiation table with [...]
2009-05-13 17:01:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM MR
09NOUAKCHOTT330MAURITANIA: POLITICAL ROUNDUP FOR THE WEEK OF MAY
[...] (C) Summary: For the week of May 10-14, there were rumors of possible arms from Iran. An embassy travel notification to the MFA was rejected, and Taqadoumy touched off another sensation in the media. There was a sit-in at the National Assembly, and the Ambassador traveled to Lemden to visi [...]
2009-05-14 12:23:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KPAO KDEM PHUM CVIS ASEC PTER MR
09NOUAKCHOTT332MEETINGS WITH NEW PRO-COUP POLITICAL PARTIES
[...] (C) Summary: PolOff and PolAsst met with two different breeds of new pro-coup political parties. Union Pour la Republique (UPR),intimately connected with coup leader and now presidential candidate Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, sees the June 6 election as an opportunity to return to constitution [...]
2009-05-17 08:26:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM MR
09NOUAKCHOTT336SENEGALESE MEDIATION: FNDD AND RFD STILL COMMITTED
[...] (C) Summary: FNDD and RFD emissaries told Ambassador that they remain committed to the Senegalese mediation, which they described as the "last opportunity" to reach a consensual agreement. Nevertheless, Aziz has sent discouraging signs by not responding to their calls to suspend the electi [...]
2009-05-18 09:25:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM MR
09NOUAKCHOTT342CONTRARY TO SENEGALESE CLAIMS, FNDD AND AZIZ HAVE
[...] (C) Summary: Contrary to what Senegalese Foreign Minister Cheikh Tidiane Gadio apparently implied to U.S. Ambassador to Senegal Marcia S. Bernicat, the FNDD has not struck a deal with Aziz. According to the Senegalese, all the elements are in place for an agreement but RFD President Ahmed [...]
2009-05-20 13:00:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV MR KDEM
09NOUAKCHOTT343THE FIRST LADY: NOT THE PRIMA DONNA DETRACTORS
[...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Boulware's wife and EconOff spent the day with First Lady Khatou Mint El Boukhary while Ambassador met with President Abdallahi. Boukhary, portrayed by many as controlling and demanding, was warm and down to earth and clearly pleased by Mrs. Boulware's visit. She than [...]
2009-05-21 09:02:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR MR
09NOUAKCHOTT344MAURITANIA: POLITICAL ROUNDUP FOR THE WEEK OF MAY
[...] (C) Summary: Senegalese mediation efforts dominated the political scene for the week of May 17-21. The anti-US media campaign continued, while the FNDD and RFD held a large march to protest General Aziz's election plans. Despite rumors of the imminent release of the "FNDD four" (arrested fo [...]
2009-05-21 17:09:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM MR PHUM KPAO
09NOUAKCHOTT345OULD DADDAH'S RESERVATIONS: THE SENEGALESE WANT A
[...] (C) Summary: According to RFD President Ahmed Ould Daddah, anti-coup forces are currently on standby following a May 20 meeting with Senegalese mediators. The opposition has still not received a firm response regarding pre-conditions for continued negotiations. If the response to their dem [...]
2009-05-22 14:57:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM MR
09NOUAKCHOTT346SENEGALESE OPEN THE DOOR
[...] (C) Summary. Senegalese Foreign Minister Gadio and fellow mediators convoked on May 21 representatives of members of the International Contact Group on Mauritania to announce agreement in principle between major protagonists to end Mauritania,s political crisis. The deal, to be announced a [...]
2009-05-22 14:59:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALKDEM MR PGOV
09NOUAKCHOTT352ABDALLAHI'S EMISSARIES' CONCERNS ABOUT MEDIATION
[...] (C) Summary: Sidney Sokhna, Diplomatic Advisor to President Abdallahi, called on Ambassador to provide background on the Senegalese mediation and seek clarification of the USG position. Sokhna said that pro-democracy forces in the FNDD and RFD suspected the impartiality of mediators and we [...]
2009-05-26 12:21:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MR
09NOUAKCHOTT354FNDD AND RFD FEEL THEY ARE NEGOTIATING "UNDER THE
[...] (C) Summary: The FNDD and RFD have accepted Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade's invitation to travel to Dakar on May 28 for a last negotiation. They stated they are accepting "in good faith" but reiterated their distrust of the Senegalese and the Libyans. According to FNDD and RFD emiss [...]
2009-05-26 18:40:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV MR KDEM PHUM
09NOUAKCHOTT356ROSSO'S TOWN HALL: AGREEING TO DISAGREE
[...] (C) Summary: During a meeting at the town hall in Rosso, EmbOffs witnessed spirited but respectful political debates between the Secretary General, who expressed support for General Aziz, and a Deputy Mayor, who advocated constitutional order. Such free debate indicates a willingness to coe [...]
2009-05-28 09:42:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM MR
09NOUAKCHOTT357THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION: AN EMPTY SHELL
[...] (C) Summary: PolOff and PolAsst visited Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) representatives in the Trarza, Mauritania's second largest administrative and electoral region after Nouakchott. The visit took EmbOffs to two contrasting places: the regional capital of Rosso and the [...]
2009-05-28 13:33:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV MR KDEM PHUM
09NOUAKCHOTT358PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE SGHAIR OULD M'BARECK: "I
[...] (C) Summary: Sghair Ould M'Bareck is a Haratine (Black Moor) with extensive experience in Mauritanian government, and says he will strengthen democracy in Mauritania if elected. He accused the United States of encouraging a "radical" opposition, and maintains the June 6 elections are the so [...]
2009-05-28 15:29:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM PINR MR
09NOUAKCHOTT360PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE HAMIDOU BABA KANE: "YES WE
[...] (C) Summary: Hamidou Baba Kane is one of two Afro-Mauritanian candidates in the upcoming June 6 presidential elections. The Vice President of the National Assembly (and former Vice President in Ahmed Ould Daddah's RFD party),Kane claims he is still a member of RFD, even though Daddah expel [...]
2009-05-28 16:53:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM PINR MR
09NOUAKCHOTT361MAURITANIA: POLITICAL ROUNDUP FOR THE WEEK OF MAY
[...] (C) Summary: The electoral campaign has started without much participation or enthusiasm. General Aziz's campaigning has taken over Nouakchott, giving the not-so-mistaken impression that there is only one candidate in this presidential race. Nevertheless, the campaign's empty tents make it [...]
2009-05-28 16:57:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KPAO KDEM MR PHUM
09NOUAKCHOTT363ELECTORAL COMMISSION PRESIDENT: CARTE BLANCHE AND
[...] (C) Summary: Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) President Cheikh Saad Bouh Camara believes that the June 6 elections are the only way out of the crisis. Camara, not a friend of the FNDD or President Abdallahi's, is convinced that moving forward with the June 6 election has ma [...]
2009-05-31 12:19:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV MR KDEM PHUM
09NOUAKCHOTT364TFFLU01: MAURITANIA NOT PREPARED FOR H1N1 INFLUENZA
[...] (SBU) Summary: Although there have been no reported cases of H1N1 influenza in Mauritania, authorities are not prepared for an outbreak should one occur. The Government of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania (GIRM) had no Tamiflu on hand until the World Health Organization recently provided it [...]
2009-05-31 17:08:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALAEMR ASEC AMED CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT
09NOUAKCHOTT366JUNTA GIVING AWAY FOOD IN FINAL EFFORT TO GAIN
[...] (C) Summary: In a thinly veiled attempt to gain public support, the junta is once again giving away food and land. Local mayors are distributing free fish to their constitutents, likely on behalf of the junta. The "Prime Minister" and "Food Security Commissioner" oversaw the distribution of 2 [...]
2009-06-02 13:50:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALECON EFIS PGOV PREL SOCI MR
09NOUAKCHOTT368NOUADHIBOU CENI: FINGERS CROSSED FOR CONSENSUS BUT
[...] (C) Summary: In a visit to Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) headquarters in Nouadhibou, EmbOffs saw comparable conditions to those found in the Trarza CENI (Ref A). Like their Trarza colleagues, Nouadhibou CENI representatives wished there would be a consensus but keep prep [...]
2009-06-03 09:30:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM MR
09NOUAKCHOTT369TENTATIVE AGREEMENT REACHED IN DAKAR, BUT NO
[...] (SBU) The agreement: Representatives of the three main parties to the Mauritanian crisis -- General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, Ahmed Ould Daddah and his RFD party, and the anti-coup FNDD group -- tentatively reached an agreement the evening of June 2 in Dakar, after six days of intense negotia [...]
2009-06-03 12:19:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM KPAO MR
09NOUAKCHOTT37EUROPEANS ON NEXT STEPS IN MAURITANIA
[...] (C) Summary: The EC Representative in Nouakchott says no position has yet been taken on the significance of the National Dialogue on Democracy but does not believe the regime's actions will be sufficient to avoid negative European actions under Article 96 proceedings. European ambassadors a [...]
2009-01-13 16:59:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MR
09NOUAKCHOTT370ON THE EVE OF AN AGREEMENT, NOUADHIBOU "MOROSE AND
[...] (C) Summary: A day before a tentative agreement to the ongoing political crisis was reached in Dakar (Ref A),EmbOffs traveled to the economic capital of Nouadhibou to assess the mood and political situation ahead of elections. In meetings with both anti-coup and pro-coup political actors, t [...]
2009-06-03 17:22:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM PHUM MR
09NOUAKCHOTT374MAURITANIA: POLITICAL ROUNDUP FOR THE WEEK OF MAY
[...] (C) Summary: Once again, the Senegalese mediation dominated the political scene in Mauritania for the week of May 31 to June 4. To the surprise of many, a tentative agreement was reached in Dakar June 2. President Wade and the parties to the crisis are scheduled to officially sign the agr [...]
2009-06-04 15:20:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM KPAO MR
09NOUAKCHOTT378HERDING CATS: IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DAKAR
[...] (C) Summary: The tentative agreement reached in Dakar was signed June 4 in Nouakchott by the three major sides to the crisis in a sometimes raucous ceremony. After a meeting with President Abdallahi in Lemden on June 6, International Contact Group members and representatives of the three po [...]
2009-06-08 16:13:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM MR
09NOUAKCHOTT379LONG DETENTION PERIODS AND POOR CONDITIONS AT THE
[...] (C) Summary: Much has been said about the Nouadhibou illegal migrant detention center, also known popularly as "little Guantanamo" or "Guantanamito." The detention center -- or "welcome center" as Mauritanian authorities refer to it -- houses illegal migrants intercepted at sea on their way [...]
2009-06-08 16:41:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV MR PHUM SMIG
09NOUAKCHOTT385MAURITANIA: POLITICAL ROUNDUP FOR THE WEEK OF JUNE
[...] (C) Summary: In Nouakchott for the week of June 7-11, the horse trading for ministerial posts according to the Dakar agreement took center stage. As of June 11, though, a national unity government had not yet been finalized. Prime Minister Waghef and other detainees deemed political prison [...]
2009-06-11 11:55:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM PHUM KPAO MR
09NOUAKCHOTT386MAURITANIA: A NEW DRUG-TRAFFICKING HUB IN THE
[...] (C) Summary: Drug-trafficking in Mauritania is on the rise and becoming a concern not only for the country but also the region. Mauritania is a transit country for hashish resin and cocaine, two highly profitable drugs. Hashish resin is trafficked from Morocco to the Gulf States through t [...]
2009-06-11 12:20:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV MR SNAR PTER
09NOUAKCHOTT411FNDD REMAINS IN SOLIDARITY WITH ABDALLAHI
[...] (C) Summary: FNDD co-President Mohamed Ould Maouloud denied Senegalese and European statements that the Front National pour la Defense de la Democratie (FNDD) and the Rassemblement des Forces Democratiques (RFD) were ready to accept implementation of the Dakar Accord without President Abdal [...]
2009-06-24 18:21:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM MR
09NOUAKCHOTT414MAURITANIA: POLITICAL ROUNDUP FOR THE WEEK OF JUNE
[...] (C) Summary: This week, the parties to the crisis traveled to Dakar to negotiate the future of the High State Council (HSC),an issue that has been blocking the implementation of the Accord for the past two weeks. The parties were unable to reach a consensus, obliging President Wade to rus [...]
2009-06-25 10:51:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM MR
09NOUAKCHOTT420MAURITANIAN ELECTION CHRONICLES FOR JUNE 28 -- A
[...] (C) One day into the new and internationally recognized transitional Government of National Unity, the inherent distrust of all the parties are already threatening collapse. The International Contact Group, that has agreed to meet twice daily into the foreseeable future, has its own division [...]
2009-06-28 23:34:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM MR
09NOUAKCHOTT423MAURITANIAN ELECTION CHRONICLES FOR JUNE 29 --
[...] (SBU) June 29 saw the opposition parties' protest to the Constitutional Council dismissed, with the Council's decision to uphold the election schedule decreed by Prime Minister Laghdaf on June 28 despite the lack of consensus. The Constitutional Council's decision clears the way for the mult [...]
2009-06-29 15:48:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM MR
09NOUAKCHOTT428MAURITANIAN ELECTION CHRONICLES FOR JUNE 30:
[...] (C) The Contact Group met the afternoon of June 29. AU Ambassador Annadif said that, despite previous confidence expressed by Prime Minister Laghdaf, the three parties had not yet been able to reach agreement concerning the civil society members of the National Independent Electoral Commiss [...]
2009-07-01 09:56:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM MR
09NOUAKCHOTT431MAURITANIA: POLITICAL ROUNDUP FOR THE WEEK OF JUNE
[...] (SBU) Summary: This week in Nouakchott, the August 6 coup d'etat came to an official end with the formation of a Transitional Government of National Unity and President Abdallahi's resignation, in accordance with the Dakar Accord. The new government is up and running but maintaining consens [...]
2009-07-02 14:24:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PREL SNAR PHUM MR
09NOUAKCHOTT433MAURITANIAN ELECTION CHRONICLES FOR JULY 2 -- ON
[...] (C) Maouloud complains about electoral list revision timeframe: On June 30, Maouloud complained to Annadif and the ICG that the original ten-day extraordinary electoral list revision had been shortened to four days. The revision, a crucial step towards transparency and confidence building, [...]
2009-07-02 15:53:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM MR
09NOUAKCHOTT436MAURITANIAN ELECTION CHRONICLES FOR JULY 5 -- THE
[...] (SBU) Minister of the Interior satisfied: The International Contact Group (ICG) met with the Transitional Government of National Unity's Minister of the Interior Mohamed Ould Rzeizime (from the anti-coup FNDD political alliance) on July 2. Rzeizime stated election planning was on track and [...]
2009-07-06 16:52:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM MR
09NOUAKCHOTT440MAURITANIAN ELECTION CHRONICLES FOR JULY 6-7 --
[...] (C) Electoral campaign kicks off (again): Almost overnight, Nouakchott has become a tent city with hundreds of "khaimas" erected one next to the other in honor of the main presidential candidates. Compared to the dull, one-man campaign leading to the canceled June 6 elections, this preside [...]
2009-07-07 17:25:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM MR
09NOUAKCHOTT443MAURITANIAN ELECTION CHRONICLES FOR JULY 8 --
[...] (U) The OIF will send observers: The Organisation internationale de la francophonie (OIF) confirmed on July 8 it will send an observer mission headed by former President of Burundi Pierre Buyoya. 2. (U) Aziz comes forward as the real author of the 2005 coup: During a political rally i [...]
2009-07-08 15:22:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM MR
09NOUAKCHOTT45A BEATEN SENATE PRESIDENT
[...] (C) Charge visited a dejected President of the Senate Ba M'Bare on January 14. During Charge's previous meeting in November (REFTEL),M'Bare opposed the regime despite extreme pressure from the new Central Bank Governor who had cut his check signing privileges and a commission of inquiry set [...]
2009-01-14 14:44:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MR
09NOUAKCHOTT451MAURITANIA ELECTION CHRONICLES FOR JULY 12 --
[...] (SBU) Aziz organizes massive political rally: As promised last week on the campaign trail, presidential candidate Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz held a political rally in the Nouakchott neighborhood of Arafat on July 11. The event was widely publicized and Mattel cell phone users received an unso [...]
2009-07-12 17:21:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM MR PHUM
09NOUAKCHOTT453ARAB MAGHREB DIRECTOR TIGHT LIPPED ABOUT WESTERN
[...] (C) PolOff paid a courtesy visit on July 12 to Arab Maghreb Director Mohamed Ould Mekhale to inquire after UN SRSG for Western Sahara Chris Ross's visit to Mauritania on June 27. PolOff wanted to ask if the Secretary of State in charge of the Arab Maghreb had met with Ross, how the Mauritan [...]
2009-07-13 15:30:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV WI MR
09NOUAKCHOTT455MAURITANIAN ELECTION CHRONICLES FOR JULY 13 -- THE
[...] (C) AU pressures Prime Minister to address complaints: The Ambassador attended an International Contact Group (ICG) meeting July 12 which discussed persistent complaints by the main three opposition candidates about Aziz's disregard for main Dakar Accord points (Ref A and B),African Union r [...]
2009-07-13 16:42:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM MR
09NOUAKCHOTT46IRAN URGES/ENTICES MAURITANIA TO CUT TIES WITH
[...] (SBU) Iranian Vice President Mohamed Ridha Rahimi came to Nouakchott January 13 and met with military junta leader General Aziz to discuss primarily Gaza. Press reports in the official media said the Iranian welcomed the Mauritanian decision to recall their ambassador. Independent press and [...]
2009-01-15 13:37:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KPAL IR MR
09NOUAKCHOTT460MAURITANIAN ELECTION CHRONICLES FOR JULY 15 - 16
[...] (C) Ministry of Foreign Affairs declines US help: The US Embassy offer of aircraft support for the transportation of AU/OIF observer missions to the faraway cities of Zouerate, Selibaby and Nema was declined by the Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on July 16. In a telep [...]
2009-07-16 14:09:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM MR
09NOUAKCHOTT461THE RISE OF THE OULED BISBAA
[...] (SBU) Summary: It is extremely difficult for Westerners to gain an understanding of the complex and opaque world of Mauritanian tribes. Mauritanians tend to be tight lipped about tribal issues and rarely unveil tribal details or the dynamics of tribal politics. The Ouled Bisbaa, a traditi [...]
2009-07-16 14:14:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR KDEM MR
09NOUAKCHOTT462MAURITANIA: DEFINING -- BUT UNPREDICTABLE --
[...] (C) Summary: As we approach the July 18 Presidential elections in Mauritania, there are too many unknowns to make any credible prediction about the outcome. Although Mauritania's elites have been enmeshed by over ten months of intense political struggle since the August 6, 2008, coup, the [...]
2009-07-16 16:41:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM MR
09NOUAKCHOTT47FREEZING OF MAURITANIAN - ISRAELI RELATIONS
[...] (C) The Mauritanian regime's decision, as announced by General Aziz at the Doha Summit on January 16, to "freeze relations" with Israel has little practical effect for the time being. The Israeli Ambassador received a diplomatic note January 17 announcing that Mauritania had decided to freez [...]
2009-01-18 15:28:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KPAL IS MR
09NOUAKCHOTT480THE MAURITANIANS DISAPPOINT -- AZIZ ELECTED
[...] (C) Summary: The Mauritanian people appear to have selected General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz as their next duly elected president. Although there are isolated reports of inappropriate efforts to influence voters, the election itself proceeded reasonably well offering the population a chance [...]
2009-07-20 11:29:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM MR
09NOUAKCHOTT486MINISTRY OF JUSTICE WOULD WELCOME USG HELP IN
[...] Summary: The Ministry of Justice has been informed of Mauritania's reclassification to Tier 3 in the annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report and has been briefed about the process and potential consequences for future USG- Government of Mauritania engagement. Dr. Haimoud Ould Ramadhane, [...]
2009-07-22 13:53:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MR ELAB KTIP PHUM
09NOUAKCHOTT490MAURITANIA: POLITICAL ROUNDUP FOR THE WEEK OF JULY
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-23 15:32:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM MR PHUM PTER
09NOUAKCHOTT491IT'S OFFICIAL -- CONSTITUTIONAL COUNCIL CONFIRMS
[...] (U) The Mauritanian Constitutional Council on July 23 issued its ruling ratifying the results of Mauritania's July 18 presidential elections definitively establishing General Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz as president elect. Prior to ratifying the election, the Constitutional Council addressed the [...]
2009-07-24 12:08:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM MR
09NOUAKCHOTT492MAURITANIA -- ENDING U.S. SANCTIONS
[...] (C) In light of the certification of Mauritania's July 18 presidential elections, Post recommends the discontinuation of the legislative and policy-driven sanctions imposed on Mauritania following the August 6, 2008, coup d'etat. Post believes that Mauritania has returned to constitutional [...]
2009-07-26 16:37:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEC MASS EAID CVIS MR
09NOUAKCHOTT493NOUAKCHOTT WARDEN MEETING DISCUSSES GENERAL
[...] (SBU) Following up on the last Mission EAC (REFTEL),the Ambassador hosted a July 23 Consular Wardens Meeting to discuss general security concerns shared by Nouakchott's American citizen (AmCit) community. The invitation was extended to official and unofficial AmCits, as well as those associa [...]
2009-07-27 23:30:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL CASC ASEC MR
09NOUAKCHOTT496AMBASSADOR'S CALL ON PRESIDENT-ELECT AZIZ
[...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Boulware called on President-elect Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz to say that the USG accepted the Constitutional Council,s determination that Aziz had been elected and was not persuaded that opposition complaints of major electoral irregularities were convincingly supported [...]
2009-07-29 09:19:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MR
09NOUAKCHOTT5AGGRESSIVE EVOLUTION OF NOUAKCHOTT ANTI-ISRAELI
[...] (U) Summary: Sporadic Anti-Israeli demonstrations have grown in size and aggressiveness. Pre and post prayer marches on Friday, January 2, numbered several hundred; active but handily turned back from Israeli, Egyptian, and other Mission precincts by riot police. The January 4th return of [...]
2009-01-05 15:16:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALASEC KPAL KPAO MR PREL
09NOUAKCHOTT500MAURITANIA -- ENGAGEMENT STRATEGY WITH THE AZIZ
[...] (C) New Environment Needs New Strategy: Mission Country Team (including visiting Rabat-based LEGAT) held an off-site July 27 to consider revisions of the Mission Strategic Plan in light of the July 18 election of President-elect Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz and the June 23 killing of Christopher [...]
2009-08-02 23:28:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID MASS ASEC PTER AMGT MR
09NOUAKCHOTT503MAURITANIA -- ENGAGEMENT STRATEGY WITH THE AZIZ
[...] (C) New Environment Needs New Strategy: Mission Country Team (including visiting Rabat-based LEGAT) held an off-site July 27 to consider revisions of the Mission Strategic Plan in light of the July 18 election of President-elect Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz and the June 23 killing of Christopher [...]
2009-08-03 08:17:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID MASS ASEC PTER AMGT MR
09NOUAKCHOTT504ON IRAN, ISRAEL AND US-MAURITANIA RELATIONS: HEADS
[...] (C) Summary: According to Mohamed Aly Cherif, Parliamentarian Majority President and leader of President-elect Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz's party Union Pour la Republique (UPR),the new government is willing to work with the opposition but the ball is now on the opposition's court. Cherif doe [...]
2009-08-03 09:10:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM MR
09NOUAKCHOTT505MODERATE ISLAMIST JEMIL MANSOUR ON THE ELECTIONS
[...] (C) Summary: Tawassoul president and presidential candidate Jemil Ould Mansour -- who was among the first to accept President-elect Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz's victory -- believes the election was fair despite a number of irregularities. For Mansour, Tawassoul comes out of the crisis in a wi [...]
2009-08-03 17:11:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM MR
09NOUAKCHOTT506OPPOSITION LEADERS ON THE FUTURE OF THE FNDD
[...] (C) Summary: The Front National pour la Defense de la Democratie (FNDD) is still active despite its electoral defeat and the defection of founding party Tawassoul. Leaders Mohamed Ould Maouloud and Abdel Koudouss Abeidna believe the FNDD has a future as an umbrella organization for oppositi [...]
2009-08-04 15:04:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM MR
09NOUAKCHOTT510MAURITANIA: LEADER OF OPPOSITION OULD DADDAH SEES
[...] (C) Summary: Opposition leader Ahmed Ould Daddah continues to see fraud in the July 18 presidential elections even as he remains at a loss to explain how. He regrets that the U.S. -- "the last hope for Mauritania" -- has accepted a mechanical definition of democracy and opted for security o [...]
2009-08-11 15:21:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER MR
09NOUAKCHOTT512MAURITANIA: TIER 3 REASSESSMENT
[...] (C) Summary: In response to Ref A, please note that due to a prolonged political crisis, Mauritania has made limited progress in addressing the recommendations outlined in the 2009 Trafficking in Persons Report (TIP). The Transitional Government of National Unity stemming from the Dakar Acc [...]
2009-08-12 16:28:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALKTIP PGOV PHUM MR
09NOUAKCHOTT513JAPAN TO MOVE FORWARD ON ESTABLISHING EMBASSY IN
[...] (C) The head of the "Japanese Preparatory Office" in Nouakchott, Miyamoto Musayuk, told DCM August 12 that Tokyo was moving forward on the establishment of an embassy in Mauritania. As discussed in REFTELs, the Japanese had been well advanced in their planning for an embassy but had to put e [...]
2009-08-12 17:14:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV JA MR
09NOUAKCHOTT514AZIZ' NEW GOVERNMENT "NOT BAD"
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-13 12:58:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM MR
09NOUAKCHOTT515THE "FIRST" FEMALE ARAB MUSLIM FOREIGN MINISTER
[...] (C) Summary: Newly appointed Foreign Minister Naha Mint Mouknass emphasized the importance for women in the Arab world that she not fail as the "first Arab Muslim" foreign minister. She welcomed renewed cooperation with the United States in all areas of counter-terrorism but emphasized devel [...]
2009-08-17 17:36:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM EAID KWMN MR IS
09NOUAKCHOTT538BIO INFO FOR MAURITANIA'S NEW GOVERNMENT
[...] (SBU) On August 11, President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz named his cabinet, composed of 29 positions (24 ministers, 3 deputy ministers, 2 minister secretary generals and one minister counselor) (Ref A). 2. (SBU) Prime Minister Moulaye Ould Mohamed Laghdaf: Laghdaf was first appointed prime [...]
2009-08-20 11:33:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL KDEM MR PINR
09NOUAKCHOTT546AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH PRIME MINISTER LAGHDAF -
[...] (C) Summary: The Mauritanian relationship with the U.S. has "turned a page," and the newly (re)appointed Prime Minister looks forward to a broad and strong revitalized relationship. Counter-terrorism is of extreme importance -- the withdrawal of Peace Corps following the killing of an Ameri [...]
2009-08-25 15:09:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER PHUM MR
09NOUAKCHOTT549JOURNALIST SENTENCED TO SIX MONTHS' IMPRISONMENT
[...] (C) Summary: Journalist and Taqadoumy Website Director Hanevy Ould Deha, detained on June 18 on charges of defamation against presidential candidate Ibrahima Moktar Sarr, was sentenced on August 19 to six months in prison, a 30,000 UM ($111 USD) fine and 230,000 UM ($851 USD) in legal fees [...]
2009-08-26 16:09:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM PHUM MR
09NOUAKCHOTT568MAURITANIA - POTUS LUNCH WITH SUB-SAHARAN AFRICAN
[...] (C) Ambassador conveyed to Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz on September 8 President Obama's invitation to participate in a September 22 lunch of sub-Saharan African Heads of State. While the Ambassador noted we had been notified he was not planning on going to UNGA, President Az [...]
2009-09-08 15:27:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL GA MR
09NOUAKCHOTT569PRESIDENT AZIZ ON MAURITANIAN RELATIONS WITH ISRAEL
[...] (C) Ambassador met with President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz on September 8 ostensibly to deliver President Obama's invitation for a luncheon with sub-Saharan Heads of State on the margins of UNGA (SEPTEL) and to deliver REFTEL demarche on the eve of the Arab League summit. Ambassador expanded [...]
2009-09-08 16:32:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV IS MR
09NOUAKCHOTT575MAURITANIA: LAYERED SECURITY STRATEGY
[...] (C) The Way Forward: On September 2-3, Post hosted a Trans-Sahara Counter-terrorism Partnership (TSCTP) country-specific conference to develop a coordinated "hard" and "soft" counter-terrorism re-engagement strategy for FY09 and FY10. Conference participants included Country Team members, [...]
2009-09-09 16:34:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALMARR PGOV PREL PTER EAID MR
09NOUAKCHOTT577GLOBAL FUND INVESTIGATION IN MAURITANIA: FUNDS GO
[...] (C) Summary: After widespread reports of mismanagement of aid granted to Mauritania through the Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, a Global Fund financial investigation uncovered that nearly 74% of all aid funds to Mauritania were either spent improperly, or were not sufficie [...]
2009-09-14 09:09:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV EAID TBIO SOCI MR
09NOUAKCHOTT578RESUMPTION OF PEACE CORPS OPERATIONS IN MAURITANIA
[...] (C) Summary: Mission recommends the return of Peace Corps volunteers in areas of lesser terrorist risk defined as locations west of the Mission-designated "frontier zone." Peace Corps volunteers in Nouakchott, if any, would have to be placed in housing that meets USG standards for direct hi [...]
2009-09-14 09:19:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEC AMGT MR
09NOUAKCHOTT580MAURITANIA: POLITICAL ROUNDUP FOR AUGUST 2009
[...] (U) Summary: The month of August saw Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz, author of the August 6, 2008 coup d'etat, become the legitimately elected President of Mauritania. Aziz also received a visit from the Iranian Minister of Foreign Affairs and traveled to Libya on his first official visit. Taqado [...]
2009-09-14 13:39:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KDEM PREL MR SNAR
09NOUAKCHOTT593MAURITANIA: PRESIDENT AZIZ ON TERRORISM AND
[...] (C) During the Ambassador's August 8 call on President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz on other matters, Aziz spoke about the terrorist and extremist threats facing Mauritania. Aziz focused first on the internal drivers of extremism, telling the Ambassador that disgruntled youth were driven to extre [...]
2009-09-15 12:40:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MASS EAID PTER MR
09NOUAKCHOTT607MAURITANIA: INTERNATIONAL CONTACT GROUP DOES A
[...] (U) The International Contact Group on Mauritania convened on September 10, 2009 in Nouakchott to consider developments in Mauritania since the finalization of the Dakar Accord's laying out the steps for a consensual return to constitutional order leading to new elections to resolve Mauritan [...]
2009-09-17 17:22:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM MR
09NOUAKCHOTT611IMF AGREES TO A NEW THREE YEAR PROGRAM WITH
[...] (C) Summary. A delegation of IMF advisors visited Mauritania to mark the resumption of GIRM and IMF relations following the 2008 coup d'etat. The IMF announced a Special Drawing Right loan valued at USD 80 million for Mauritania, as well as plans for a three-year IMF aid plan to begin in 201 [...]
2009-09-22 16:19:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN IMF MR
09NOUAKCHOTT613C-CI9-01825 RUSSIAN BUSINESS PRESENCE IN MAURITANIA
[...] (C). As requested in REFTEL, Embassy Nouakchott reviewed current Russian business interests in Mauritania: A. Russia does not have a trade representative or office in Mauritania, and has no plans to establish such an office in the near future. There is an agreement between the Russian agen [...]
2009-09-27 11:41:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALBBSR ECON EINV MR PINR
09NOUAKCHOTT623FORMER PRESIDENT ABDALLAHI - "I UNDERESTIMATED THE
[...] (C) A Man Content With Himself: Charge met with former President Abdallahi on September 24 at his simple home in the village of Lemden (three hours southeast of Nouakchott). This was the first meeting with Abdallahi since he resigned his office on June 24 as his part of the Dakar Accords. Ab [...]
2009-09-29 13:41:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM PINR MR
09NOUAKCHOTT635MAURITANIA: POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC ROUNDUP FOR
[...] (C) Summary: In the month of September, the International Contact Group visited Mauritania to take stock of the post-election political situation. Delegations from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank also visited and renewed programs with Mauritania. President Aziz travel [...]
2009-10-01 12:22:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM PTER MR KDEM
09NOUAKCHOTT639TURKEY TO OPEN EMBASSY IN MAURITANIA
[...] (U) According to press reports published on October 1, Turkish Foreign Affairs Minister Ahmed Davat Ogloo announced his country's intention to open an embassy in Nouakchott to strengthen Turkish-Mauritanian cooperation. This declaration followed Ogloo's meeting with Mauritanian Foreign Affai [...]
2009-10-06 13:08:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MR TU
09NOUAKCHOTT655OFFICIAL AND UNOFFICIAL MAURITANIAN VIEWS ON GUINEA
[...] (C) Summary: On October 8, African Affairs Director for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Ambassador Mohamed Habib Ball shared with PolOff Mauritania's official position on the Guinean crisis as well as his personal insights. According to Ball, Mauritanians, who have not yet issued an officia [...]
2009-10-12 14:56:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV MR GV
09NOUAKCHOTT657A PESSIMISTIC ALGERIAN OUTLOOK ON MAURITANIA
[...] (C) Departing Algerian Ambassador Rachid Chakib Kaid (protect throughout) provided Charge a pessimistic outlook on Mauritania's political prospects in the coming year. Kaid, who has served in Mauritania for five years, said he had witnessed the roller-coaster of recurring coups. He had hope [...]
2009-10-12 15:12:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER MR AG
09NOUAKCHOTT659MAURITANIA: OPPOSITION SLOWLY ADJUSTING TO NEW
[...] (C) Summary: Opposition leaders continue to absorb the results of the July presidential elections with a mix of disillusionment and anger. While they struggle to maintain some of the political unity that marked opposition resistance to the coup, they are preparing to assume the role of a peac [...]
2009-10-13 15:53:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MR
09NOUAKCHOTT663GUINEA: MAURITANIA SUPPORTS A UN INVESTIGATION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-19 08:08:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MR GV
09NOUAKCHOTT676POSSIBLE APPROACH BY PRESIDENT AZIZ TO CAPTAIN
[...] (C) In a call on President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz on October 21, Ambassador Boulware explained that the U.S. was extremely preoccupied with the situation in Guinea. He noted that during recent consultations in Washington he had been asked to explore with Aziz the possibility of his approachin [...]
2009-10-22 07:24:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL GV MR
09NOUAKCHOTT697MAURITANIAN MINISTERS ON COUNTER-EXTREMISM
[...] (SBU) DCM met October 21 in separate meetings with the Minister of Islamic Affairs, The Minister of Communication, and the Minister of Culture, Youth and Sports to discuss the efforts of these ministries to combat extremism and to discuss how the DOD Media Information Support Team (MIST),USA [...]
2009-10-28 14:24:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER EAID MR
09NOUAKCHOTT698TAWASSOUL: PUSH TO STRENGTHEN POLITICAL PRESENCE
[...] (C) Moderate Islamist party Tawassoul has been one of the few winners in the past year of political crisis -- successfully establishing itself as a credible political movement and poised to expand its influence. This political party, affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, which Taya's gove [...]
2009-10-29 13:54:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM MR
09NOUAKCHOTT7GAZA: MAURITANIANS INDIRECTLY LINK RECALL OF
[...] (C) Israeli Ambassador Michael Arbel confirmed with junta Foreign Minister Mohamed Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou the Mauritanian authorities have recalled their Ambassador in Israel "for consultations" in response to tremendous domestic and foreign pressure. Ould Mohamedou told the Ambassador that [...]
2009-01-05 19:00:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KPAL ASEC IS MR
09NOUAKCHOTT705MAURITANIA: POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC ROUNDUP FOR THE
[...] (U) Summary: This month in Mauritania, President Aziz's government took important first steps towards fighting corruption while a poll financed by the World Bank found that 82.9 percent of Mauritanians think the government is corrupt. The Spanish and the French sent high level emissaries to [...]
2009-11-02 07:45:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF EMIN EAIR EAID MR
09NOUAKCHOTT707MAURITANIA TO SUPPORT U.S. CANDIDACY TO
[...] In response to reftel please note that on November 3, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs informed PolOff that Mauritania will instruct its delegation to support Lucretia Myers' candidacy to the International Service Commission. BOULWARE [...]
2009-11-03 09:22:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALUNGA PREL MR KAWC KUNR
09NOUAKCHOTT708MAURITANIA: AZIZ' 1ST QUARTER REPORT CARD -- A LOW
[...] (C) Summary -- Three months into the democratically elected Aziz government, the new President has begun to change opinions of some of his critics with very strong performance in addressing corruption and terrorism and a good effort in addressing humanitarian/social emergencies. Foreign polic [...]
2009-11-03 11:35:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON PHUM MR
09NOUAKCHOTT711SLAVERY IN MAURITANIA: AN OVERVIEW AND ACTION PLAN
[...] (C) Summary: A deeply entrenched social, cultural and economic phenomenon, slavery is present in both the Moor and Afro-Mauritanian communities and is linked to a caste system rather than exclusively racial considerations. Slavery practices still exist in many forms -- from the most tradit [...]
2009-11-03 16:10:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPHUM TIP PGOV KDEM MR
09NOUAKCHOTT718SOMEBODY'S PROPERTY: SLAVE VICTIMS TALK ABOUT
[...] (C) On November 5, PolOff had the rare opportunity to meet with nine "runaway slaves" from the Eastern city of Bassikounou in the Hodh Echargui region. These slavery victims traveled to Nouakchott at SOS Esclaves' invitation to tell their stories to UN Special Rapporteur for Contemporary Fo [...]
2009-11-05 15:37:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM MR KDEM TIP
09NOUAKCHOTT72EAC MEETS TO DISCUSS PRESIDENT ABDALLAHI'S
[...] (SBU) President Abdallahi, who was "released without condition" by General Aziz on December 21, is being prevented today from returning to Nouakchott with his supporters. Abdallahi's spokesmen have announced that the President intends to make a policy announcement laying out an alternative ex [...]
2009-01-22 13:11:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ASEC CASC MR
09NOUAKCHOTT728OPPOSITION DENOUNCES CORRUPT ELECTORAL SYSTEM
[...] (C) Summary: For opposition leaders Ahmed Ould Daddah and Mohamed Ould Maouloud, the outcome of the November 8 senatorial elections is the living proof that Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz intends to squash all dissenting voices through widespread electoral fraud and intimidation. According to the [...]
2009-11-13 03:57:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM SNAR MR
09NOUAKCHOTT73ABDALLAHI'S POLITICAL STRATEGY
[...] (C) Summary: President Abdallahi's political base see the blockage of the President's return to Nouakchott on January 22 as evidence he is still under effective house arrest and prohibited from engaging in the political process. There are fears for his physical security if he tries to leave [...]
2009-01-23 16:52:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MR
09NOUAKCHOTT798MAURITANIA: 2009 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM
[...] (U) Al-Qa'ida in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) represented the primary terrorist threat to Mauritania. After two attacks in late December 2007 and two others in 2008, including the February attack against the Israeli embassy and the September Tourine attack that cost the lives of 11 soldiers a [...]
2009-12-14 07:44:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPTER ASEC MR
09NOUAKCHOTT818MAURITANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER SEES ALGERIA AS
[...] (C) Summary: The Mauritanian Foreign Minister sees Algeria as hindering a regional response to the AQIM threat -- both by seeking to exclude some regional countries (presumably Morocco) from the conversation and dissuading neighbors from cooperating with external partners like AFRICOM. The [...]
2009-12-28 14:17:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER EPET MR AG
09NOUAKCHOTT823AMBASSADOR RAISES HUMAN RIGHTS CONCERNS WITH
[...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador conveyed concerns that lack of respect for due process in the prosecution of corruption and slander cases -- regardless of the merits of the case -- will negatively affect Mauritania's human rights image which, in turn, may inhibit the expansion of partnerships wit [...]
2009-12-30 08:26:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV MR
09NOUAKCHOTT83MAYOR OF NEMA FIGHTS ON WHILE PRO-COUP PARTISANS
[...] (C) Summary: The mayor of the remote southeastern town of Nema continues to try to improve the living conditions of his residents, despite ongoing attempts by pro-coup politicians to unseat him from his post. The economic situation remains as precarious as ever, exacerbated by the pullout o [...]
2009-01-28 09:14:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD KDEM MR PGOV PREL PTER
09NOUAKCHOTT9ALLEGED MAURITANIAN SUPPORT TO MALIAN TUAREG REBELS
[...] (C) During a January 6 meeting with President Abdallahi's effective Foreign Minister and FNDD leader Mohamed Ould Maouloud on internal political issues (SEPTEL),Maouloud raised the FNDD's concern about increasing Mauritanian military support to Malian Tuareg rebels. Maouloud alleged that abo [...]
2009-01-06 17:07:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MOPS ML MR
09NOUAKCHOTT94SENATORS PRESS FOR CLEAR EUROPEAN STANCE AGAINST
[...] (C) Summary: In separate discussions with two senators representing different factions, both underlined concerns that European ambiguity and concessions to the Junta allow General Aziz to consolidate power. This is, they intimated, an economic, human rights and political disaster. Senator Mo [...]
2009-01-30 03:42:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MR
09NOUKKCHOTT514AZIZ' EW GOVERNMENT "NOT BAD"
[...] (C) Summary: President elect Mohamed Ould AbdelAAziz appointed a new cabinet on August 11. Led by former Prime Minister Moulaye Ould Mohamed Lagha f, the cabinet has 29 positions (24 ministers, deputy ministers, 2 minister secretary generalsa nd one minister counselor). Aziz set a posit [...]
2009-08-13 12:58:00Embassy NouakchottCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM MR
09OSLO10NORWAY PLEASED WITH ARCTIC POLICY BRIEFING
[...] (C) In a January 7 meeting with MFA North American Coordinator Morten Aasland, High North Coordinator Jostein Mickleton, and officers from the Arctic Council and High North sections, P/E Counselor delivered reftel points. The MFA officials were pleased to receive the information, and also ve [...]
2009-01-07 14:41:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALECON KGCC PBTS PHSA PREL SENV EWWT
09OSLO113NORWEGIANS UNHELPFUL ON CARTAGENA PROTOCOL
[...] (C) Poloff had a friendly discussion with the GON official, Birthe Ivars, who will represent Norway in Mexico City on 23-27 February to negotiate the text of proposed rules on liability and redress for damage resulting from cross-border movement of living modified organisms. The Norwegian pos [...]
2009-02-13 14:46:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALEAGR ECON ETRD TBIO KPAO
09OSLO114PART II: RISING NORWEGIAN ANTI-SEMITISM AFFECTING
[...] (C) Summary: Anti-Semitism in Norway, and the expression of anti-Semitic comments, has increased since the Gaza war. The small Norwegian Jewish community is wary of being targeted, and "Jew" has become more popular as an epithet. While the issue of anti-Semitism is frequently debated in the me [...]
2009-02-13 14:48:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPHUM KIRF KWBG SOCI PREL PGOV PINR IS NO
09OSLO115PART I: CONSTRAINTS ON NORWAY'S MIDDLE EAST ROLE?
[...] (C) Summary: Norway aspires to be a leader in Middle East peace negotiations and could be a genuine asset in bringing peace to the region. Norway's diplomatic principles, focus on dialogue, and mediation history have helped raise Norway's profile as a peacemaker. Its tense relationship with I [...]
2009-02-13 14:48:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL PGOV PINR IS NO
09OSLO116PART III: NORWEGIAN FM STOERE: THE WORLD AT HIS
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-13 14:49:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL KPAL IS NO
09OSLO123NORWAY LOOKING TO ACCELERATE AFGHANIZATION
[...] (SBU) Summary: The GON told visiting SCA DAS for Afghanistan Patrick Moon on February 13 that Norway's main priorities for Afghanistan are: -- a greater UN role, -- an increased role for the Afghans (even at the cost of increases in corruption),-- regional dialogue, -- a gradual move to a [...]
2009-02-19 13:51:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM EAID NATO AF PK NO
09OSLO128NORWAY: BLADERUNNER DEMARCHE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-26 06:09:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALISN AF EUR NEA NO
09OSLO132ENGAGING NORWAY ON AFGHANISTAN
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-27 13:16:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALNATO PREL MOPS MARR NO
09OSLO133NORWEGIANS SAY SECURITY AID TO SOMALIA CRUCIAL,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: While agreeing with all our views of the security situation in Somalia, the GON feels its hands are tied when it comes to direct support of security forces in Somalia. Despite being the third largest humanitarian aid donor in the country, Norway will have to seek to contribute to [...]
2009-02-27 13:16:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KPKO SO NO
09OSLO139NORWEGIAN NGOS WANT ANSWERS ON GUANTANAMO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Amnesty International and the Norwegian Helsinki Committee want to meet with US embassy officers to clarify when they can expect the USG to ask Norway for help in resettling Guantanamo detainees who cannot be sent back to their home countries. Post requests guidance for what to [...]
2009-03-04 06:48:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPINS PTER PHUM
09OSLO140FAMILY OF TURKMEN POLITICAL PRISONER REQUESTS USG
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The family of jailed Turkmen civil rights activist Gulgeldy Annaniyazov, living in Norway, has contacted the Norwegian Helsinki Committee and requested that the US Embassy in Turkmenistan do what it can to determine his welfare and lobby for his release. Actions by the Norwegian M [...]
2009-03-04 07:55:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREF TX NO
09OSLO143NORWAY COMMITTED TO DURBAN II ENGAGEMENT
[...] (C) Summary: Despite discussion of the issue in the Norwegian press, the GON refuses to disclose its "red lines"--what would be completely unacceptable for Norway--in the context of the Durban II conference in Geneva. While Norway can be counted on to support freedom of expression, its prefer [...]
2009-03-05 13:12:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL UNHRC
09OSLO146DREAMS IN POLAR FOG: PROPOSED NORDIC EFENSE AND
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-06 11:29:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPNR PGOV PREL MARR MCAP MOPS DA IC FI SW
09OSLO148AFGHAN IMMIGRANTS IN NORWAY
[...] (U) SUMMARY. Afghans represent one of Norway,s newest immigrant communities with 72% having been in Norway less than five years. The 8,000 registered Afghans currently living in Norway (including Norwegian-born to immigrant parents),are comprised primarily of refugees and asylum seekers. T [...]
2009-03-09 07:30:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALASEC PTER PGOV PINR KCRM AF NO
09OSLO159NORWAY RELUCTANT TO APPROVE GAZA SMUGGLING
[...] (C) The GON has not yet decided if they can accept the program of action or even if they will attend the March 13 London meeting. The GON's stated concern is the need under Norwegian law for a legal basis for the actions outlined in the program of action. This may be a uniquely Norwegian con [...]
2009-03-10 13:44:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALEG KPAL MARR PREL NO
09OSLO169NORWAY GIVES $2.3M FOR PAKISTAN IDPS, HAPPY TO
[...] (C) Summary: Last week Norway announced $2.3 million of aid that will go to UNICEF and the ICRC to help the northwest frontier provinces. While thrilled to be included in the Friends of Pakistan (FOP) group, as well as being asked to join the upcoming Tokyo Donor's conference, the GON sees it [...]
2009-03-16 14:51:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALEAID PHUM PREF EFIN IBRD IMF PK NO
09OSLO171(C) NORWAY'S MORE POSITIVE IRAQ POLICY
[...] (C) Summary. Recognizing the improved situation in Iraq and wishing to support President Obama, Norway decided to "even further normalize relations" with Iraq and to consider a possible political level visit. Despite this positive direction, the GON continues to be skeptical to engagement w [...]
2009-03-17 08:34:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALEPET PREL PGOV IZ NO
09OSLO174HOLD THE LINE: NORWAY'S SPECIAL 301 DESIGNATION
[...] (C) Summary. As Washington agencies consider the Special 301 Watchlist, Post wishes to strongly emphasize its earlier recommendation (Reftel B) that the GON should remain on the list. Norway was first listed in 2008 (Reftels C,D). Per Ref B, Post is aware that there is an internal USG discus [...]
2009-03-17 13:34:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALETRD ECON KIPR NO
09OSLO179NORWEGIANS HAPPY WITH SHARM EL-SHEIK INROADS,
[...] (C) Summary: The GON found the conference in Sharm el-Sheik both constructive and surprisingly positive in tone, and hopes it will help bring Arab and Gulf donors deeper into the AHLC framework. Norway continues to emphasize the structural importance of the Palestinian Authority (PA) in Gaza, [...]
2009-03-19 10:48:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALEFIN EUN KPAL KWBG PGOV PHUM PTER NO
09OSLO187NORWAY SUPPORTS U.S. POSITION ON KFOR
[...] (C) Norway shares U.S. concerns over possible changes in KFOR's force structure. Norway plans to continue its minimal contribution to KFOR (six to seven officers assigned to KFOR HQ in Pristina) although it did withdraw approximately fifteen intelligence specialists during the last half of 2 [...]
2009-03-23 13:32:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR NATO KPKO KV NO
09OSLO199JAGLAND'S CANDIDACY FOR NEXT COE SECRETARY GENERAL
[...] (C) Summary. Thorbjorn Jagland is a leading Norwegian politician whose thoughtful comments often crystallize debates and support US positions. While he was the subject of some controversy while he was Prime Minister, he is now a seasoned elder statesman who would be a strong candidate to hea [...]
2009-03-26 12:17:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM COE NO
09OSLO216LAVROV AND STOERE TRADE TOUGH WORDS OVER NATO, BUSINESS DISPUTE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-31 14:43:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPINR PREL EINV RU NO
09OSLO220NORWAY SUPPORTIVE OF AFGHAN POLICY IN PRINCIPLE,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Norway's special envoy for Afghanistan, Janis Kanavin, welcomed the conclusions of the U.S. Afghanistan Pakistan Strategic Review and stated that Norway was in broad agreement with the U.S. approach, particularly the need for increased civilian assistance and the implementation of [...]
2009-04-01 09:39:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPREL NATO MARR MOPS AF NO
09OSLO225DINNER WITH MUGABE--THE NORWEGIAN REPORT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Following Minister Solheim's visit to Harare, the Norwegians believe that President Mugabe is looking for a graceful exit, and that ZANU-PF forces are plotting to derail the unity government. The Norwegians believe, however, that the March 30 SADC meeting's strong stand on Madagas [...]
2009-04-02 13:37:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALEAID PHUM PREF PGOV PREL ZI NO
09OSLO230NORWEGIANS HAPPY WITH OBAMA'S DISARMAMENT SPEECH,
[...] (C) GON Ambassador for Disarmament Affairs, Knut Langeland, told poloff that the contents of Obama's Prague speech were "in line what Norway has argued for," including a follow up to START, and helpful reinforcing language on the CTBT, the NPT, and a verifiable FMCT. He noted that Norway has [...]
2009-04-06 11:33:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM NO
09OSLO233PAKISTAN DONOR CONFERENCE: NO NEW MONEY FROM NORWAY
[...] (C) Summary. Although Norway considers itself a strategic donor to Pakistan, it will not be able to pledge new monies at the upcoming donor conference. Norway will be represented by its Deputy Development Minister and welcomes the conference discussions, especially if they promote coordinatio [...]
2009-04-07 14:25:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON EFIN IBRD IMF PK NO
09OSLO262ESTA APPROVED FOR APPLICANT WITH TERRORIST CLASS
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-08 13:36:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALCVIS PTER KVPR ASEC NO
09OSLO268NORWAY CONTINUES MADAGASCAR AID SUSPENSION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-15 09:36:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALAORC EAID PGOV SZ MA NO
09OSLO270NORWAY SHOULD SUPPORT KOSOVO IMF/WORLD BANK
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-15 13:53:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN PREL NO
09OSLO3NORWEGIANS PLEDGE AID FOR GAZA, BUT STRESS ACCESS
[...] (C) Poloff met with Ingrid Schoyen, Assistant Director General of the Middle East Section of the MFA to deliver reftel demarche on aid to Gaza. Norway pledged 30 million kroner (approx $4.3 million) of aid to Gaza on December 30, actually taking the decision prior to the flash appeal by the U [...]
2009-01-05 14:27:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALEAID PGOV PREL PHUM LE UNRWA NO
09OSLO315NORWEGIAN LAWYERS SUE ISRAEL FOR WAR CRIMES ABUSES
[...] (U) As widely reported in the international press, a group of Norwegian attorneys filed with the Public Prosecutor's Office a request for the Government of Norway to pursue a war crimes case against Israeli officials for actions in Gaza. The lead attorney pressing the matter is a well know huma [...]
2009-04-27 12:55:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPREL PINR PHUM IS NO
09OSLO341NORWEGIANS LIKELY TO FOLLOW EU ON SUU KYI ISSUE
[...] (C) Poloff spoke with Senior Advisor Vegard Wennesland in the MFA East Asia section and discussed reftel points. Wennesland, after consulting within the MFA, said that no final decision had been taken on how to react to the May 30 milestone in Aung San Suu Kyi's house arrest. Wennesland said [...]
2009-05-11 14:09:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL BM NO
09OSLO352NORWAY'S LIBERTAD ACT REVIEW, MAY 2009
[...] (C) The paragraphs in this cable are keyed to questions in reftel (A),paragraph 5. Poloff met with Kjersti Rodsmoen, MFA Latin America section director, to discuss Cuba policy. Norway continues to pursue a strategy of limited engagement toward Cuba in order to advance human rights, and, indi [...]
2009-05-18 16:01:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALETRD ETTC PREL CU NO
09OSLO381NORWAY'S INPUT ON INTERNATIONAL WHALING COMMISSION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-08 12:42:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALKSCA EFIS PREL SENV NO
09OSLO383NORWAY'S FM REQUESTS HELP TO FACILIATE BAGHDAD
[...] (C) SUMMARY After four years of only minimal contact with the Iraqi government, Norway's Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere is planning a day-long visit to Baghdad on June 17. This visit comes in response to a direct request from Secretary Clinton to FM Stoere during their bilateral meeting in [...]
2009-06-09 14:07:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALASEC PREL IZ NO
09OSLO386NORWAY IS GOOD: NORWEGIAN EXCEPTIONALISM
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Norway's sense of exceptionalism, while under some pressure due to some significant policy failures, still is a central part of the national culture and has an outsized impact on Norwegian foreign policy. Norwegians truly believe that there is something inherently good about being [...]
2009-06-10 13:07:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL NO
09OSLO387NORWEGIANS HAVE NO POSITION YET ON ICSC CANDIDATE
[...] (C) Poloff spoke with Assistant Director General Lars Henie of the MFA UN section regarding reftel demarche, and provided Henie with the included biographical information. Henie said that he had forwarded the information to the Norwegian UN mission in New York, and received a response that th [...]
2009-06-10 14:19:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALAORC APER KAWC KJUS KUNR PREL UNGA NO
09OSLO388NORWEGIAN CONTRIBUTIONS TO COUNTER-PIRACY
[...] (C) Poloff met with Deputy Director General Anita Nergard of the Global Security section of the MFA to discuss reftel demarche. Nergard said that current Norwegian military contributions to counter-piracy operations in the horn of Africa consist of a single frigate that will be deployed start [...]
2009-06-10 14:20:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALMARR NATO PGOV PREL NO
09OSLO389NORWAY AGREES PIRACY COURT A BAD IDEA
[...] (C) Poloff discussed reftel demarche with Deputy Director Anita Nergard of the MFA Section for Global Security on June 10. Nergard said that Norway agreed with the US that the idea of an international tribunal to prosecute piracy suspects was a bad idea for the reasons we listed in reftel no [...]
2009-06-10 14:21:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALEWWT MARR PGOV PHSA PHUM PREL
09OSLO391NORWAY WILLING TO CONSIDER EXPORT LICENSING
[...] (C) Poloff spoke with Kristine Hansen, senior advisor in the MFA WTO section on June 10. Hansen said that Norway was well aware of the proposal, and does not have a problem with its content, but must engage in a consultative process with ministries and industry, and is not fully aware of the [...]
2009-06-11 14:34:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN ETRD
09OSLO392NORWAY AND IRENA
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-15 14:28:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALENRG KGHG SENV NO
09OSLO399NORWAY'S RUSSIA POLICY: WISHFUL THINKING
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-18 07:44:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPBTS PINS PREL RS NO
09OSLO403BHATTI RELEASED FROM PRISON
[...] (SBU) Summary. Norway's Appeals Court ruled June 19 to release Arfan Bhatti, ringleader of an alleged plot to attack the US Embassy in Oslo, pending his re-trial in August, 2009. Bhatti had been convicted of vandalism and attempted murder in February 2009 but Norway's Supreme Court June 12 [...]
2009-06-22 06:57:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALASEC KCRM PREL PTER NO
09OSLO407NORWEGIAN ENERGY: AND A-ROUND WE GO!
[...] (C) Summary. US hydrocarbon giants were largely pleased with the GON's 20th licensing round results. These rounds involve opportunities on the Norwegian Continental Shelf (NCS). The 20th round drew record numbers of participants. Critics assert that an increased number of small to mid-sized [...]
2009-06-22 13:36:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALECON ENRG EPET PGOV SENV NO
09OSLO412SUPPORT FOR PAROLE OF SHARPUDI ELFIROVICH ISRAILOV
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-24 12:13:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALNO PHUM RU
09OSLO416NORWEGIANS WILL IMPLEMENT NORTH KOREA RESOLUTIONS
[...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarches to Jo Hovik, Senior Advisor in the MFA Legal Section. Hovik said that UNSCR 1718 was already fully implemented into Norwegian law, and UNSCR 1874 is being worked on by the MFA in concert with other ministries. Norway has a law which automatically incorpo [...]
2009-06-26 14:06:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL MNUC MTCRE KN ECON EFIN KNNP
09OSLO424NORWEGIANS MUSE ON CGPCS AND ASPIRANT COUNTRIES
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a wide ranging discussion, Norway's representative to the Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia (CGPCS),Carl Salicath, expressed reticence about admitting flag-of-convenience states to membership. He also discussed Cyprus's membership, Egypt's "odd" behavior with r [...]
2009-06-30 11:13:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALEWWT MARR PGOV PHSA PHUM PREL
09OSLO433NORWAY WILL SUPPORT US NGOS AT ECOSOC, AND
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a surprisingly frank interview, the Assistant Director General of UN Affairs at the Norwegian MFA stated his support for our NGO initiatives at the ECOSOC meeting, and mused on perceptions of the Obama administration's operations at the UN, and our differing definitions of "UN [...]
2009-07-07 06:17:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KUNR NO
09OSLO456US-NORWAY PARTNERSHIP ON SUDAN ADVANCED BY SE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In two days of meetings on July 11 and 13, Special Envoy Gration had productive and informative bilateral and trilateral meetings with high-level Norwegian and British counterparts, as well as a session with Foreign Minister Stoere. Post expects that the visit will result in in [...]
2009-07-21 13:06:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ASEC AU SU NO
09OSLO459NORWAY'S RESPONSE: ASSISTING AFGHANISTAN BEYOND
[...] (C) Summary: In meetings with A/DCM and PolOff July 21, MOD and MFA Officials described on-going military and civilian contributions and outlined previously announced 2010 pledges to the UN's Law and Order Trust Fund and the expanded NATO ANA Trust Fund. The MFA is reviewing an option to co- [...]
2009-07-24 06:08:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALNATO PREL MOPS MARR
09OSLO465HISTORIC MEETING BETWEEN CHECHEN ADVERSARIES IN
[...] (SBU) Summary: On July 23 and 24, the London-based "Chechnya Peace Forum" convened a meeting in Oslo between Dukhvakha Abdurakhmanov (Chairman of the Chechen parliament and representative of the Kadyrov government) and Akhmed Zakaev (representative of the Maskhadov continuation government). [...]
2009-07-29 11:51:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPHUM PINR PGOV PREL PTER NO RU
09OSLO486(C) NORWAY FRUSTRATED WITH OTHER SOMALIA DONORS'
[...] (C) In response to reftel, poloff discussed Somalia with the Chief of the East Africa section of the Norwegian MFA, Hans Jacob Frydenlund. Frydenlund excused his reticence to fully evaluate the situation on the ground in Somalia because his deputy, Kjell Harald Dalen, who manages the Somalia [...]
2009-08-05 15:20:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER SO EAID KPKO NO
09OSLO494THE NORWAY HAMSUN YEAR CONTROVERSY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: August 5 marked the official opening of the Hamsun Center in Hamaroy, Norway, and the continued celebration of the "Hamsun Year," a commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Nobel Prize winning author and Nazi sympathizer Knut Hamsun. The "Hamsun Year" has brought co [...]
2009-08-07 14:58:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV SCUL KIRF NO
09OSLO504NORWEGIAN OPINIONS ON THE SUU KYI VERDICT AND BURMA
[...] (C) Summary: The GON shares our reaction to the Suu Kyi verdict, and Foreign Minister Stoere has made forceful statements condemning the trial as "political" and "a farce," while also stating that an international boycott of Burma is of limited effectiveness without India and China on board. T [...]
2009-08-14 07:01:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL BM NO EAID
09OSLO511NORWAY'S NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION NARRATIVE
[...] (SBU) Summary: In response to reftel A, poloff held extensive discussions on August 14 with Knut Langeland, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Ambassador for Disarmament Affairs. Langeland spelled out Norway's position on nonproliferation and disarmament issues in response to our pro [...]
2009-08-17 16:01:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALAORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA
09OSLO513NORWAY COUNSELS THE NEED TO PROMOTE THE IAEA
[...] (C) Summary: In discussions about the Nuclear Fuel Bank with Norway's Ambassador for Disarmament Affairs, the official emphasized the hesitance of Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) countries and offered his counsel that Fuel Bank supporters such as the U.S. and Norway must present the proposal "attra [...]
2009-08-18 14:30:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALENRG UEU KNNP IAEA KU NO AE SW
09OSLO526USNATO AMBASSADOR DAALDER'S DISCUSSION WITH
[...] (C) Summary: In discussions with visiting USNATO Ambassador Ivo Daalder in Oslo August 17, Norwegian Deputy Minister of Defense Espen Barth-Eide and Director for Security Policy Svein Efjestad said they looked forward to reviewing the new COMISAF Strategic requirements this fall; suggested tha [...]
2009-08-26 13:44:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER PBTS MCAP MOPS AF RU NO
09OSLO527USNATO AMBASSADOR DAALDER'S MEETING WITH NORWEGIAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In discussions August 17 with visiting USNATO Ambassador Ivo Daalder, Norway's Minister of Foreign Affairs Jonas Gahr Stoere and MFA DG for North America and Security Policy Steffen Kongstad said the GON would welcome a new U.S. Missile Defense strategy that emphasized a multilat [...]
2009-08-26 13:45:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR MOPS PARM RU NO
09OSLO533AMBASSADOR WILLIAMSON MEETS WITH GON AND NGOS ON
[...] (C) Summary: In a productive series of meetings on August 24 in Oslo, S/WCI Ambassador Clint Williamson met with Minister for International Development Erik Solheim, a variety of high level Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) officials, and two NGOs to discuss the recent conflict in Sri Lanka, s [...]
2009-08-31 08:35:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM SL NO
09OSLO534NORWEGIANS WON'T COMMIT NOW TO INCREASED FOOD
[...] (C) Summary: In line with expectations based on reftel conversations with the Norwegian Embassy in Washington, Norway is at this time unwilling to commit to an increase in its aid budget devoted to agricultural development and food security, due to the upcoming Norwegian election. The Minist [...]
2009-09-01 12:57:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALEAGR EAID ETRD NO
09OSLO536NORWEGIANS COMBATIVE ON ISRAEL UNRWA SPEAKING ROLE
[...] (C) Summary: The Head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Middle-East Section, Jorn Gjelstad, was surprisingly engaged, sensitized, and generally combative upon presentation of reftel demarche concerning a speaking role for Israel at the upcoming "UNRWA at 60" event (UNRWA is the UN Relie [...]
2009-09-01 15:32:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL UNGA IS KPAL NO
09OSLO537NORWAY WILL NOT OPPOSE ISRAEL JUSCANZ MEMBERSHIP
[...] (C) On September 2, Poloff delivered reftel points to Vebjorn Heines, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Coordinator for Human Rights Council (HRC) issues in the MFA Humanitarian Issues section. Heines was the person referred to in reftel paragraph 10 as the former "Norwegian PolCouns in Geneva [...]
2009-09-03 12:11:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPREL IS PHUM NO
09OSLO538NORWAY'S RESPONSE: SEEKING ORAL STATEMENTS FOR
[...] (C) Norwegian MFA Legal Advisor Rolf Fife told PolOff September 2 that Norway submitted its request on July 13 to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to make an oral statement on Kosovo in December 2009. He added that representatives from the legal offices of the UK, Germany, France, an [...]
2009-09-03 12:38:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALAORC ICJ KV PREL NO
09OSLO540NORWEGIAN MFA AF/PAK DIRECTOR VIEW'S ON
[...] Summary: (C) CDA James Heg, PolCouns, and PolOff held wide-ranging discussions August 31 with Ambassador Bjorn Janis Kanavin, the MFA's Af/Pak Director and previously Ambassador to Pakistan and Afghanistan. Kanavin said the GON's contribution to Afghanistan would likely be strengthened after [...]
2009-09-04 07:10:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALNATO PREL MOPS MARR AF NO
09OSLO543NORWAY'S RESPONSE ON CFE: GON WILL ADVOCATE FOR
[...] (C) PolOff delivered reftel points September 9 to Norwegian MFA Director for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Affairs Inga Nyhamar and Senior Advisor Lars Loken. Nyhamar said that Norway would like to join what she referred to as the Supporting Group of NATO Allies, the proposed small group [...]
2009-09-09 12:07:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALKCFE PARM PREL NATO
09OSLO547NORWAY (ALMOST) FULLY ON BOARD WITH USG HRC
[...] (C) Summary: The Norwegian Coordinator for Human Rights Council (HRC) issues at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),Vebjorn Heines, pronounced reftel demache's talking points "more or less completely consistent with Norway's priorities." Heines put special emphasis on Norway's "procedural [...]
2009-09-10 13:40:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL UN UNHRC
09OSLO552NORWAY AGREES WITH USG APPROACH ON SRI LANKA IDP
[...] (C) Norway's response to reftel demarche was uniformly positive. Poloff met with Tone Allers, Sri Lanka Desk officer at the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). Allers, after having two days to digest the information in the demarche and share it with the Norwegian embassy in Colombo, [...]
2009-09-11 12:33:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PREF PTER MASS SOCI EAID EUN
09OSLO560NORWAY SHARES USG GOALS ON IAEA MIDDLE EAST ISSUES
[...] (C) Political/Economic Counselor Cherrie Daniels met with Inga Nyhamar, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Section Chief for Disaramament and Nonproliferation, September 14 to deliver ref A points. Nyhamar stated that Norway was "not difficult to convince on this issue," as Norway shares our g [...]
2009-09-14 14:43:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALAORC PARM PREL KNNP IAEA EG IS NO
09OSLO561PM STOLTENBERG COMES OUT STRENGTHENED: FOUR MORE
[...] (SBU) Norway's Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg (Labor Party - AP) and his two coalition partners, the Socialist Left (SV) and Center Party (SP) held on to their parliamentary majority in nationwide elections September 14, winning 86 of 169 seats in Parliament. Stoltenberg himself, as well as [...]
2009-09-15 10:45:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALNO PGOV PINR PREL
09OSLO568NORWAY'S MESSAGE FOR THE AHLC SEPT 22 MEETING:
[...] (C) Poloff met with Signe Gilen Guro, Senior Advisor in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Middle East Section September 17 on receipt of reftel to deliver reftel points and solicit Norway's intentions for the September 22 AHLC meeting. Guro said that Norway's priority for the AHLC meeting [...]
2009-09-17 11:53:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALEAID KPAL PGOV WBG IS NO
09OSLO569DEMARCHES TO NORWAY ON MISSING/DETAINED AMCIT
[...] (C) Summary: In a September 16 meeting, Deputy Polecon Counselor delivered demarches on missing/detained Amcit cases (Ref A) and Iran's nuclear program (Ref B) to Deputy Director Torunn Viste and Iran Desk Officer Mai Tonheim in the Norwegian MFA's Middle East section. Tonheim outlined Norwa [...]
2009-09-17 12:42:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALKNNP MNUC PARM IAEA IR PREL AORC PGOV PHUM
09OSLO572SE WOLPE HAS PRODUCTIVE TALKS WITH GON AND NGOS IN
[...] (C) Summary: Special Envoy Howard Wolpe had a day of productive meetings on September 4 in Oslo with representatives of the Norwegian government (GON),the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC),Norwegian Church Aid (NCA),and the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI). The GON agreed t [...]
2009-09-18 08:52:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREF PREL KPKO KWMN SOCI NO
09OSLO576FRANK NORWEGIAN OPINIONS ON OUR UNGA PRIORITIES
[...] (C) Summary: Poloff met on September 18 with Lars Petter Henie, Deputy Chief of the UN Section of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) to discuss reftel A on our UNGA priorities and reftel B on FAO zero nominal growth. Henie was very frank in the discussion. He found the food security confe [...]
2009-09-18 14:00:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPREL UNGA FAO EFIN AORC EAGR EAID KUNR KPKO
09OSLO578NORWAY'S MIXED RESPONSE ON UNGA WALKOUT REDLINES;
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-21 14:41:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALNO PREL UNGA
09OSLO592NORWAY RESPONDS CONSTRUCTIVELY TO GOLDSTONE
[...] (C) Summary: The Norwegian MFA responded positively September 24 to our demarche on engaging the Human Rights Council (HRC) in a constructive manner on the Goldstone report. The officials we met said Norway would want to "welcome" the Goldstone report in any HRC resolution on the matter, but c [...]
2009-09-25 07:14:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PTER KISL KPAL IS NO
09OSLO593NORWEGIAN HORN OF AFRICA EMERGENCY AID: HOLDING
[...] (C) Summary: Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA officials on September 24. After the Government of Norway (GON)'s announcement September 9 that it would dedicate about $8.7 million to emergency food aid for the Horn of Africa region, the MFA emphasized that Norway has only about that amo [...]
2009-09-25 12:08:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALEAID PREF EAGR ET KE SO EUN
09OSLO598NORWEGIAN REACTION TO IRAN ENRICHMENT FACILITY NEWS
[...] (C) Poloff delivered points in reftel demarche to Mai Tonheim, Iran Desk Officer in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),on the afternoon of September 25 upon receipt of reftel. Tonheim said that the MFA would have to "digest" the information contained in the demarche, but said that the No [...]
2009-09-29 13:14:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALIR KNNP MNUC PARM
09OSLO601NORWAY PESSIMISTIC ON HRC GOLDSTONE RESOLUTION
[...] (C) Summary: Charge d'affaires, a.i., met with Anne Merchant, Senior Advisor and coordinator ad interim for UN Human Rights Council (HRC) issues for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),on October 1 to discuss emailed points both on the Goldstone Report and Freedom of Expression resolutions [...]
2009-10-01 14:34:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL KPAL IS NO
09OSLO609IRAN NUCLEAR FACILITY DEMARCHE REDUX, THIS TIME
[...] (C) Summary: Then-Charge d'affaires Daniels (now A/DCM upon the return of Post's charge later on October 2) followed up post's initial Iran nuclear facility demarche of September 25 with an additional demarche October 2 to the acting head of the Norwegian MFA's Disarmament and Non-Proliferation [...]
2009-10-05 10:03:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALIR MNUC NO PARM PREL
09OSLO623P5+1 DEBRIEF: "TOTAL CONVERGENCE" OF NORWEGIAN,
[...] (C) Charge Heg met on October 7 with the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Middle East Section, Jorn Gjelstad, as well as with the Norwegian Special Representative to the Middle East, Jon Hanssen-Bauer. The discussion covered reftel demarche points on Iran, as well as the Israel- [...]
2009-10-08 15:03:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALKNNP MNUC PARM IR NO
09OSLO624NORWAY'S TUNE ON ISRAEL, THE PEACE PROCESS, AND
[...] (C) Summary: On October 7, Charge Heg had a constructive discussion about overall U.S. Norway cooperation in the Middle East with senior Norwegian diplomats Jorn Gjelstad, the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Middle East Section, and Special Envoy to the Middle East Jon Hanssen-Bauer. [...]
2009-10-08 15:09:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPREL PINR PTER KPAL IS IQ NO
09OSLO634NORWAY: "EVEN WE MIGHT HAVE TO VOTE AGAINST NEW
[...] (C) A/DCM (PolEconcouns) delivered Ref A demarche to head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Middle East Section, Jorn Gjelstad, on October 14 prior to the open UNSC meeting on the Middle East in New York. Generally, Gjelstad was very positive and emphasized the congruencies between U.S. and [...]
2009-10-15 11:48:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PTER IS KPAL NO
09OSLO637NORWAY DEPUTY FM ON HIGH NORTH DIALOGUE,
[...] (C) Charge d'Affaires a.i. James Heg, Acting DCM Cherrie Daniels, and Norway/Sweden Desk Officer Thomas Selinger met on October 16 with MFA State Secretary (Deputy Foreign Minister-equivalent) Elisabeth Walaas to discuss U.S.-Norway cooperation on a range of foreign policy issues. Walaas' port [...]
2009-10-19 12:00:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MOPS AF NO
09OSLO644NORWAY: AGREEMENT REACHED ON HSPD-6 TEXT
[...] (SBU) In a meeting October 21, 2009 at the Norwegian Police Security Service Headquarters (PST) in Oslo, a team from the Terrorist Screening Center (TSC),the Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism (S/CT),and the US Embassy reached an agreement with the PST on the text of a HSPD-6 ter [...]
2009-10-22 12:42:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALCVIS CMGT PTER PBTS PREL NO
09OSLO646NORWAY: FOOD SECURITY MOVED UP AGENDA DUE TO U.S.
[...] (C) Summary: The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) responded positively to our initiative on food security, while being wary about potentially developing new institutions or trust funds to address the issue, and expressing curiosity about how we would address challenges of "country-l [...]
2009-10-22 13:08:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALEAGR EAID ETRD PREL NO
09OSLO647NORWAY'S VIEWS ON UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE ISSUES
[...] (C) Summary: Poloff discussed reftel priorities with Anne Merchant, the coordinator of Norway's UNGA Third Committee matters in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). While the meeting contained no surprises, Merchant shared her views on how to diminish bloc-voting in the Third Committee. In [...]
2009-10-26 10:26:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PREF NO UN
09OSLO65NORWAY REFUSES TO OPPOSE IRANIAN PRESIDENCY OF
[...] (C) Poloff spoke re reftel with Lars Henie, Deputy Section Head of the UN section of the MFA. Henie had been "expecting" poloff's call on this, and had been "coordinating and clarifying" a response to our expected request for cooperation. Henie had the following to say: --The GON "does not [...]
2009-01-08 15:19:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPREF IR UN EAID NO
09OSLO654NORWAY WILL SUPPORT MYERS FOR UN ICSC BOARD
[...] (C) Poloff met October 28 with Per Selvaag, acting head of the the UN section at Norway's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Selvaag had checked with Norway's UN delegation and they reported that Norway had promised to support one of the three other candidates, but supporting Ms. Myers candidacy for [...]
2009-10-29 11:57:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALAORC APER KAWC KJUS KUNR PREL UNGA NO
09OSLO658NORWAY WELCOMES SUDAN STRATEGY, GIVES PROGNOSIS
[...] (C) Summary: Norway welcomes our Sudan strategy rollout, and, given Norway's already close cooperation with us within the U.S.-U.K.-Norway Troika, the MFA was not surprised at all by its content. Commenting on the situation in Sudan, GON officials said that although there seems to be forward [...]
2009-10-30 13:27:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SU NO
09OSLO679NORWAY GENERALLY RECEPTIVE TO U.S. REDLINES FOR
[...] (C) Summary: Polcouns delivered reftel points to Jorn Gjelstad, head of the Middle East Section of the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) on November 3. Gjelstad commented favorably on our position opposing the various unacceptable elements currently under discussion for inclusion in [...]
2009-11-03 16:17:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PTER IS KPAL NO
09OSLO692NORWEGIANS RECEPTIVE ON BHUTAN REFUGEES AND CORE
[...] (C) Poloff met on November 6 with Lasse Bjorn Johannessen, Senior Advisor in the Asia Section of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),to deliver reftel points. Johannessen recently returned from a tour as the Deputy Chief of Mission for the Norwegian Embassy in New Delhi. Johannessen said th [...]
2009-11-06 15:31:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALBT IN NP PGOV PREF PREL NO
09OSLO720NORWEGIAN DEFENSE MINISTRY ON NATO, RUSSIA,
[...] (C) Summary: MoD Security Policy Director Svein Efjestad told EUR/NB Director, DCM, PolCouns, A/DATT and PolMil Officer November 12 that the recent NATO-Russia Council meeting held in Oslo on nuclear policy was a useful discussion, particularly as it addressed sub-strategic weapons, which re [...]
2009-11-18 13:47:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR OVIP NO
09OSLO722NORWAY STILL DECIDING HOW TO VOTE ON ISRAEL -
[...] (C) Summary: As of the morning of November 19, the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) was still undecided as to how to vote on the three UNGA resolutions into which Goldstone report language has been inserted; the Middle East section was consulting with the MFA legal department to con [...]
2009-11-19 10:30:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPREL UNGA KPAL IS SY LE NO
09OSLO725NORWAY'S MFA ON POTUS VISIT, IRAN, HIGH NORTH
[...] (C) Summary: In separate meetings November 12, MFA Political Director Vegard Ellefsen and MFA Security Policy Director Rune Resaland and senior members of his staff outlined their views on topics of current interest, including their thoughts on deliverables during the upcoming POTUS visit, to [...]
2009-11-20 15:49:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALOVIP PREL NATO PARM NO
09OSLO732NORWEGIAN VIEWS ON IRAN NEXT STEPS
[...] (C) Summary: In response to reftel demarche points, the senior Norwegian MFA official we spoke to said Norway is distressed at Iran's recent spurning of the P5 1 proposal. The Norwegian government recommends that new sanctions be fine tuned so as not to exhaust the political option all at once [...]
2009-11-25 08:06:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALIAEA IR NO PREL
09OSLO733NORWEGIANS REPORT ON AID TO PA, RESPOND TO
[...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche November 24, along with S's letter for Foreign Minister Stoere, to Signe Guro, Senior Advisor in the Middle East Section of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The letter was received appreciatively, and Guro discussed Norway's efforts to secure additional fun [...]
2009-11-25 08:12:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALOPDC PREL EAID PGOV WBG EU IS NO
09OSLO764NORWAY'S MOD ON AFGHANISTAN DEVELOPMENTS
[...] (C) Summary: During a December 3 Bilateral Study Group meeting, Ministry of Defense Director of Security Policy Svein Efjestad focused on civilian coordination in Afghanistan, in particular UNAMA's key role, and said Norway's Minister of Defense would have to manage public expectations follo [...]
2009-12-09 10:26:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS MARR AF NO
09OSLO77TERRORISM FINANCE: NORWAY'S RESPONSE TO UPCOMING
[...] (C) Embassy Oslo delivered points in reftels to Norway's Foreign Ministry. The Foreign Ministry will ensure that the names in both reftels will be forwarded to their financial enforcement agency, immigration and welfare authorities and to the Finance Ministry. WHITNEY [...]
2009-01-16 09:34:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALEFIN KTFN PTER PINR PREL NO
09OSLO773NORWAY ON MULLAH KREKAR EXTRADITION: IRAQ ON HOLD,
[...] (C) Summary: In discussions on December 7, our interlocutor at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) legal section stated that Norway is not/not actively pursuing obtaining a guarantee of humane treatment for Ansar al-Islam figure Mullah Krekar (aka Najmuddin Faraj Ahmad) from the Government o [...]
2009-12-15 09:37:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PHUM IQ NO
09OSLO776NORWAY FULLY SUPPORTS U.S. POSITION ON DJIBOUTI
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-16 14:37:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SO NO
09OSLO782NORWAY WANTS TO WORK WITH U.S. ON DEFEATING
[...] (C) In response to Ref A, which was primarily directed to posts in countries which support the "Defamation of Religion" resolutions problematic to the USG, poloff contacted Colleen Neville in IO/HR to determine next steps specific to the Government of Norway. Neville informed poloff (Ref B) t [...]
2009-12-21 14:14:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL KISL KDEM PGOV OPDC
09OSLO794NORWAY RESPONDS TO AMCIT DEMARCHE; ASSESSES IRAN
[...] (C) On December 29, Deputy Chief of Mission James T. Heg, accompanied by Poleconoff, met with Aud-Marit Wiig, Director General of Geographic Bureaus and International Development, as well as Torunn Viste, Assistant Director General in charge of Mid-East Affairs, both at the Norwegian Ministry o [...]
2009-12-30 12:25:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALCASC IR PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PROP PTER NO
09OSLO8NORWAY PROMISES BUDGET SUPPORT FOR PA WITHIN THE
[...] (C) Ingrid Schoyen, Assistant Director General of the Mid-East Section of the MFA told poloff, in response to reftel demarche, that Norway would, within this week, release the 228 million kroner (approx $33 million) Norway pledged to the Palestinian Authority at the Paris donors' conference. S [...]
2009-01-06 14:46:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALKPAL KWBG EFIN PGOV PTER PHUM NO
09OSLO83NORWAY HESITATING TO COMMIT TO GAZA INTERDICTION
[...] (C) The GON is struggling to make up its mind regarding the request to participate in the Gaza Interdiction Effort. The MFA is aware of the January 23 deadline in responding and promised to send their embassy in Washington their final decision today, but the hesitation and uncertainty is tell [...]
2009-01-26 06:25:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALEG KPAL MARR MOPS PREL XG NO
09OSLO9NORWAY REACTS TO GEORGIA AND GAZA
[...] (C) Summary. Shari... C O N F I D E N T I A L OSLO 000009 SIPDIS E.O. 12958: DECL: 01/07/2019 TAGS: PREL GG [...]
2009-01-07 13:43:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPREL GG
09OSLO90MINORITY ANGER IN NORWAY RISES
[...] (SBU) Summary: A series of anti-Israel demonstrations on January 8 and January 10 erupted into violence in central Oslo as some demonstrators, primarily young Muslim-background youth, clashed with police. The damages, police action and extent of the violence were the worst in Norway since the [...]
2009-02-03 06:02:00Embassy OsloCONFIDENTIALPREL KIRF PTER ASEC KPAO KCRM KISL NO
09OTTAWA1"NEVER APOLOGIZE": PM HARPER'S GOVERNING STYLE
[...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Stephen Harper's reputation as a master political strategist is somewhat tattered in the wake of November's stunning near-fatal mis-step to abolish public financing for all political parties. However, at least on the surface, he remains unbowed and unapologetic. Relyin [...]
2009-01-02 13:20:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR CA
09OTTAWA109CANADA'S "NEW" CHINA STRATEGY EMPHASIZES INCREASED
[...] (C) Summary: The Canadian government recently rolled out a "new" China strategy that will emphasize more high level ministerial visits and dialogue. Prime Minister Harper has yet to visit Beijing during his three year tenure, but may later in 2009. Canada's engagement with China seeks first [...]
2009-02-11 13:58:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM ETRD CH CA
09OTTAWA126INITIAL CANADIAN RESPONSE TO U.S.
[...] (C) Summary and comment: Canada welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the U.S. Afghanistan/Pakistan policy review and has provided initial thinking in a non-paper (see para 5). Canada believes strongly that the reconstruction and development process must be Afghan-led and that strong and [...]
2009-02-20 21:13:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM NATO EAID AF PK CA
09OTTAWA132CANADIAN FM LIKELY AT SHARM AL-SHEIKH CONFERENCE
[...] (C) According to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Director General for the Middle East and Magreb Kerry Buck, Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon is likely to participate in the March 2 conference in Sharm al-Sheik but has not made a final decision. She indicated t [...]
2009-02-23 19:16:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID KPAL KWBG CA EG
09OTTAWA139CANADA TO MAKE FIRM NATIONAL STATEMENTS, SUPPORT
[...] (C) In response to reftel points, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Senior Nuclear Policy Officer Ryan Hewer confirmed to pol/miloff on February 25 that the Canadian delegation will "be prepared to make suitably firm" national statements on Iran and Syria, as well [...]
2009-02-26 13:10:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPARM IAEA KNNP MNUC IR SY CA KN
09OTTAWA147CANADIAN NPT PRIORITIES
[...] (C) Summary: Canada wants the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) 2009 PrepCom and 2010 RevCon to advance NPT legitimacy by making concrete progress towards a consensus document that confirms the treaty's three pillars -- disarmament, non-proliferation, and peaceful uses -- and acknowledge [...]
2009-02-27 13:23:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM MNUC ENRG UNGA IAEA CA
09OTTAWA152CANADA WELCOMES U.S. DURBAN WITHDRAWAL AND UN HRC
[...] (C) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Deputy Director for Human Rights Policy Chantale Walker on February 27 welcomed the U.S. decision to discontinue negotiations on the current text of the Durban Review Conference (reftel). Walker noted that Canada shares the U.S [...]
2009-02-27 22:01:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV UNHRC CA
09OTTAWA153CANADA WELCOMES U.S. DURBAN WITHDRAWAL AND UN HRC
[...] (C) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Deputy Director for Human Rights Policy Chantale Walker on February 27 welcomed the U.S. decision to discontinue negotiations on the current text of the Durban Review Conference (reftel). Walker noted that Canada shares the U.S [...]
2009-02-27 22:01:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV UNHRC CA
09OTTAWA16CANADA TO DOWNPLAY ROLE OF UNDP CHAIR IF IRAN WINS
[...] (C) Canada will not openly oppose Iran's candidacy for the chair of the UNDP executive board, according to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) International Organization Deputy Director Shannon-Marie Soni. Instead, Canada will seek to downplay the importance of the ro [...]
2009-01-08 21:19:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID IR UN CA
09OTTAWA167CANADA UPHOLDS NEED FOR TOUGH ZIMBABWE BENCHMARKS
[...] (C) Ahead of the March 20 informal meeting in Washington of like-minded countries on Zimbabwe, Canada believes the previously agreed benchmarks on political reconciliation and reform remain valid. Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Director for Eastern and Southern [...]
2009-03-05 20:19:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KDEM EAID ZI CA
09OTTAWA177CANADIANS POSITIVE ABOUT AFGHANISTAN CONFERENCE,
[...] This is an action request -- see para seven. 2. (C) Summary: Canadian officials hope to coordinate with U.S. counterparts in advance of the upcoming Dutch-hosted Conference on Afghanistan. They are concerned about both the need to manage disruptive delegations and the risk that some tra [...]
2009-03-09 13:58:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS NATO PK AF CA
09OTTAWA179PARLIAMENTARY REPORT ON KANDAHAR SHOWS FEW GAINS,
[...] (C) Summary: As required under a March 2008 House of Commons motion, the government has issued its third report to Parliament tracking progress on key benchmarks. The report cited modest continued progress in training of the Afghan National Security Forces, improvements to Sarpoza prison, [...]
2009-03-09 18:27:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS EAID AF CA
09OTTAWA180CANADA SUPPORTS GAZA ACTION PROGRAM
[...] (C) Canada supports the program of action (ref a) to combat Gaza arms smuggling and is identifying resources and confirming legal authority to assist the effort, according to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Israel/Gaza/West Bank Deputy Director Gregory Lemermeyer. [...]
2009-03-09 18:38:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS NATO EUN CA
09OTTAWA194CANADIAN SUPPORT FOR MEXICAN POLICE AND JUDICIAL
[...] (C) Summary: An inter-agency Canadian team will meet with counterparts in Mexico City on March 12 and 13 to see how Canada might better support President Calderon's efforts to reform the police, corrections, and judicial sectors. The mission, which National Security Advisor Marie-Lucie Morin [...]
2009-03-11 20:15:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KCRM KJUS KCOR SNAR MX CA
09OTTAWA196CHALLENGES TO THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE CANADIAN
[...] (C) Summary: Despite the recurrent pledges by PM Harper's government to re-build the capabilities of the Canadian Forces, the Canadian Army still faces serious funding, recruitment, and procurement challenges as it seeks to meet pressing requirements in Afghanistan while also transforming itself in [...]
2009-03-12 15:14:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MOPS NATO AF CA
09OTTAWA217(C) CANADA TO MINIMIZE PUBLIC DISCUSSION OF MANAS
[...] (C) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Defence and Security Senior Policy Advisor Amy Galigan on March 16 characterized the U.S. approach regarding Manas Air Base in Kyrgyzstan (reftel) as "eminently reasonable." Galigan assured polmiloff that she would advise senior Canadi [...]
2009-03-17 16:01:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL NATO MOPS AF CA
09OTTAWA22WHAT ABOUT US? CANADA SEEKS INVITATION TO CONTACT
[...] (U) This is an action request -- see para 4. 2. (C) On January 9, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Senior Advisor for defense and security relations Sarah Robertson called in pol/mil officer to emphasize Canada's extensive, positive engagement on anti-piracy i [...]
2009-01-09 20:54:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS KCRM EWWT XW SO CA
09OTTAWA220ABOUSFIAN ABDELRAZIK IS WELCOME TO RETURN TO
[...] (C) On March 17, Katherine Burke, Senior Policy Advisor, International Crime and Terrorism, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade told Econoff that Abousfian Abdelrazik, a Canadian and Sudanese dual citizen currently living in the Canadian Embassy in Khartoum, has not run afoul [...]
2009-03-17 21:04:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC CA SU
09OTTAWA228CANADIAN INTERIM REPLY ON KFOR TROOP REDUCTIONS
[...] (C) According to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade NATO Deputy Director Anne Burgess, Canada is not likely to have a strong policy stance on the recent controversy over a possible drawdown in NATO's Kosovo Force (KFOR). She noted that Canada has only five Canadian Forces p [...]
2009-03-19 21:57:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR NATO KPKO KV CA
09OTTAWA231LITTLE LOVE LEFT - THE CONSERVATIVES AND QUEBEC
[...] (C) Summary: The 2008 federal election damaged Prime Minister Harper's political standing in Quebec. Rather than heal campaign rifts over Conservative juvenile crime proposals and cuts to arts funding, PM Harper's subsequent attacks in December against the "separatist" Bloc Quebec's support [...]
2009-03-23 17:15:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON CA
09OTTAWA234CANADA ON AFGHAN RECONCILIATION: PERHAPS A MEETING
[...] (U) This is an action request for SCA/A -- see para 4. 2. (C) As promised in reftel, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Afghanistan Task Force (FTAG) Desk Officer Samantha Pass gave pol/miloff a copy of the reconciliation non-paper that FTAG Assistant Deputy Minister Y [...]
2009-03-24 18:49:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS NATO AF CA
09OTTAWA249TOWARD A CANADIAN DEMOCRACY PROMOTION AGENCY
[...] (C) Summary. The Conservative Party and the Harper government have championed the creation of a non-partisan Canadian democracy promotion agency. Details are still few and may not emerge with any clarity until fall 2009. So far, the government appears not to have included any new funding i [...]
2009-03-27 21:03:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KDEM CA
09OTTAWA256NO ICJ BRIEF FROM CANADA ON KOSOVO
[...] (C) The Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade's Director General for Europe Robert Hage confirmed to PolMinCouns on March 31 that Canada had decided against filing a brief with the International Court of Justice in support of Kosovo (reftel). He commented that lingering sens [...]
2009-03-31 19:09:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL ICJ KV CA
09OTTAWA257CANADA TO PARTICIPATE IN GICNT EVENT, SEEKS ADVICE
[...] (U) This is an action request -- see para 5. 2. (C) In response to reftel, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Senior Policy Officer David MacDuff said he, or perhaps one of his Seoul-based colleagues, would represent Canada at the Global Initiative to Combat N [...]
2009-03-31 21:08:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPTER PINS KGIC PARM PREL CA
09OTTAWA262CANADA SUPPORTS U.S. CANDIDACY FOR UN HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (C) In response to reftel demarche, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Human Rights Policy Director Gwyn Kutz confirmed to poloff on April 1 that Canada will support the U.S. candidacy for the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC). Separately, DFAIT Deputy Director for Hu [...]
2009-04-02 17:10:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL CA
09OTTAWA263CANADIAN CAPACITY ISSUES SHAPE MEXICAN SECURITY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Following a successful visit to Mexico (reftel),Canadian officials are now analyzing how best to help Mexico reform its police and corrections sectors. Canada will likely focus its assistance on revamping police recruit education, strengthening witness security programs, and buil [...]
2009-04-02 17:39:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KCRM KJUS KCOR SNAR MX CA
09OTTAWA265CANADA-MEXICO SECURITY DIALOGUE SHARES BEST
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Canada's and Mexico's bilateral security working group, established in February 2007, focuses on increasing cooperation and information exchange in the areas of migration, emergency management, marine security, and law enforcement. Public Safety Canada and Mexico's Center for Inv [...]
2009-04-02 21:50:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KCRM KJUS KCOR SNAR MX CA
09OTTAWA266CANADA'S INITIAL REACTION TO SPECIFIC REQUESTS TO
[...] (C) Summary: The Prime Minister will have personally to decide whether to extend Canada's politically fraught combat mission in southern Afghanistan beyond its scheduled 2011 end of operations and subsequent troop withdrawal. The European response to the President's engagement on ISAF at the [...]
2009-04-03 13:34:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS NATO AF CA
09OTTAWA267UPDATE ON DUBAI PROCESS ACTION PLAN FOR
[...] (C) Summary and comment. The Dubai process for enhancing Pakistan-Afghanistan cooperation, under Canada's facilitation, continues to move forward, as a March 27-29 workshop in Dubai underscored. There will be four new working groups -- on counternarcotics, managing the movement of people, [...]
2009-04-03 13:40:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID SNAR ETRD PK AF CA
09OTTAWA268CANADA SEEKS U.S. ADVICE TO REINVIGORATE ITS
[...] (U) This is an action request -- see para 4. 2. (C) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Senior Policy Officer David MacDuff noted on April 1 that the government had extended the deadline from mid-December 2008 to early June 2009 for senior officials to brief the [...]
2009-04-03 13:57:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM KNNP PINR CA
09OTTAWA281SEARCHING A MODEL FOR A NEW CANADIAN DEMOCRACY
[...] (SBU) Summary: Minister of State for Democratic Reform Steven Fletcher is examining other models for a new Canadian democracy promotion agency (reftel),with an intended focus on aiding like-minded political parties worldwide to help fill a gap in Canadian International Development Agency ( [...]
2009-04-08 12:16:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV KDEM CA
09OTTAWA291CANADA AND THE AMERICAS
[...] (C) Summary: Under Prime Minister Harper, Canada has devoted more of its diplomatic and aid attention to the Americas, notably a 2007 high-profile Latin America trip by the PM, as well as other high level visits. The government has apparently abandoned an initial effort to develop a strategic [...]
2009-04-15 20:23:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD EAID XM BR CA
09OTTAWA305CANADA SEEKING U.S. VIEWS ON RENEWED
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. 2. (C) Prime Minister Harper and his cabinet will decide at the end of April whether to explore some form of renewed air link between Montreal and Beirut, according to a Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) cont [...]
2009-04-20 20:28:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER EAIR ASEC CA
09OTTAWA309CANADA IP UPDATE: GOC OFFICIAL REPORTS NO PROGRESS
[...] (SBU) Summary. Senior Canadian officials have privately told the Embassy that the federal government plans to hold public consultations on potential copyright legislation this summer. The government hopes to introduce a new copyright bill in the fall of 2009. Industry representatives are co [...]
2009-04-22 15:49:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD KIPR CA
09OTTAWA311TOUJOURS EN PLACE: THE BLOC QUEBECOIS
[...] (C) Summary. The Bloc Quebecois, a federal political party exclusively devoted to promoting Quebec's interests in Parliament, emphasizes that Quebec's values -- including the primacy of French, the "crucial" role of culture, and Quebec's immigration policy -- differ from the rest of Canada. [...]
2009-04-22 21:28:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL CA
09OTTAWA33CONVENTION ON CLUSTER MUNITIONS COULD LIMIT CANUS
[...] (U) This is an action request -- see para 6. 2. (C) Summary: Canada's decision to sign the (Oslo) Convention on Cluster Munitions (CCM) could limit the interoperability of Canadian Forces (CF) exchange pilots and artillery officers embedded in the U.S. armed forces. Embassy recommends Sta [...]
2009-01-13 20:37:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM MOPS MARR CA
09OTTAWA348PERSISTENT ABUSES IN REFUGEE SYSTEM PROVOKE
[...] (C) Summary. Canada is increasingly concerned about "wide-scale and almost systematic abuse" of its generous immigration, citizenship, and refugee policies. According to a recent report by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR),the number of asylum seekers to Canada in 2008 increa [...]
2009-05-12 20:39:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREF PGOV PREL SMIG CVIS KFRD MX EZ CA
09OTTAWA358CANADA STRONGLY BACKS AMANO FOR IAEA DG
[...] (C) Acting Pol/C delivered ref points to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Deputy Director for Non-Proliferation Shawn Caza on May 8. Caza confirmed that Canada "stands strongly behind" Ambassador Amano in the upcoming election for Director General of the International Ato [...]
2009-05-14 19:59:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL KNNP IAEA AORC
09OTTAWA379CANADA AND SABERI
[...] (SBU) This is an action request -- see para 4. 2. (C) In response to reftel demarche points, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Iran desk officer Alistair Wallbaum said that Canada was pleased to be of assistance in the Saberi case. He added that Foreign Ministe [...]
2009-05-21 19:53:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM CASC IR CA
09OTTAWA384CANADA TO ATTEND MAY 29 SOMALIA PIRACY CONTACT
[...] (C) Canada will attend the May 29 meeting of the Somali Piracy Contact Group (reftel),according to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) senior policy advisor Sarah Robertson, who expressed Canada's appreciation to USG for its efforts to include Canada in the contact g [...]
2009-05-22 20:38:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KCRM MARR CA
09OTTAWA394SCENESETTER FOR DEPUTY SECRETARY LEW'S VISIT
[...] (SBU) Mr. Secretary, Mission Canada warmly welcomes you to Toronto and hopes that you will soon be able to visit Ottawa and our other six constituent posts as well. Canada remains one of if not the closest partners we have around the world, and there are few foreign policy priorities and pr [...]
2009-05-27 19:17:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON CA
09OTTAWA398COULD THERE BE A SUMMER ELECTION IN CANADA?
[...] (C) Summary. The Conservatives appear increasingly to favor a summer election, but so far the other opposition parties -- all of whom must vote together to bring down the government -- may not be willing to play along. Usually, summer elections are anathema to Canadian electors, but the Co [...]
2009-05-28 21:37:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPGOV CA
09OTTAWA413CANADA APPRECIATES COUNTER-PROLIFERATION FEEDBACK,
[...] (C) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Senior Policy Officer Che van Haastrcht expressed appreciation on June 2 for ref a, noting that it had "significantly influenced" the interagency effort underway to reinvigorate Canada's counter-proliferation regime. In part due to ne [...]
2009-06-03 11:45:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL KNNP PINR CA
09OTTAWA430CANADA DECLINES UIGHUR DETAINEES
[...] (U) Prime Minister Stephen Harper's spokesman Kory Teneycke on June 4 confirmed to the media that Canada had declined requests from the Obama and Bush Administrations to take any Uighur detainees from Guantanamo Bay, noting "given that these detainees have no link with Canada...I do not see [...]
2009-06-05 16:34:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PHUM CA
09OTTAWA443CANADIAN AND U.S. ANTI-PIRACY PRESCRIPTIONS ALIGN
[...] (C) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Policy Advisor for Defence and Security Sarah Robertson confirmed to polmiloff on June 9 that Canadian and U.S. policy prescriptions on the best way to prosecute suspected pirates off the Horn of Africa (ref a),and elsewhere, [...]
2009-06-09 18:38:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL EWWT KCRM PTER MARR CA
09OTTAWA448SCENESETTER FOR THE SECRETARY'S MEETING WITH
[...] (SBU) Mission Canada warmly welcomes the Secretary to the International Joint Commission centennial celebration on June 13 and to the bilateral meeting with Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon. I along with Consul General John Nay and his staff from Toronto will be on hand to welcome you. 2 [...]
2009-06-09 20:45:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON ETRD CA
09OTTAWA455CANADA IN STEP WITH U.S. IN ADVANCE OF OSCE CORFU
[...] (C) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade OSCE Senior Policy Advisor Jude Pecora expressed appreciation for reftel demarche on June 10 and noted that it "looks like the points (he) prepared for senior officials and the foreign minister." Pecora specified that Canadian and U.S. [...]
2009-06-11 17:59:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL NATO OSCE PGOV MARR CA
09OTTAWA466LIBERAL BRINKSMANSHIP MAY FORCE SUMMER ELECTION
[...] (C) Summary. The Liberals have demanded greater accountability in the government's June budget update and on its handling of a growing medical isotope shortage in exchange for their votes in favor of the June budget estimates, a confidence vote. The 77-person Liberal caucus appears united [...]
2009-06-15 18:49:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON CA
09OTTAWA470LIBERALS BEGIN TO BLINK?
[...] (C) Summary. Chances for a snap election over the summer dimmed on June 16 in the wake of unusual meetings between the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Official Opposition. The public appears overwhelmingly against a summer election. Some Liberals privately question the wisdom of thei [...]
2009-06-16 20:12:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPGOV CA
09OTTAWA486CANADA ON RECONCILIATION OF AFGHAN INSURGENTS
[...] (C) Summary: Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) officials want to coordinate with State Department counterparts on the development of a plan for the reconciliation of Afghan insurgents. In particular, the Canadians would like to hear current U.S. thinking on secu [...]
2009-06-23 15:25:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS NATO AF CA
09OTTAWA488CANADA: DUTY OF CARE, ROE'S FOR CIVILIANS ASSIGNED
[...] (U) This is an action request -- see para 5. 2. (C) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Afghanistan Task Force Deputy Director for Counterinsurgency and Security Niall Cronin made an urgent request to pol/mil officer on June 23 for information on U.S. "duty of c [...]
2009-06-24 15:55:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS NATO AF CA
09OTTAWA492CANADA REACTS OVERWHELMINGLY POSITIVE TO
[...] (U) Summary: Across Canada the reaction to President Obama,s June 4 speech in Cairo was overwhelmingly positive. Canadian Muslim leaders, national and local politicians and journalists described the speech as inspirational, respectful, and empowering. Many remarked it was a turning point in U [...]
2009-06-25 14:57:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV PINR PTER SCUL KPAO CA
09OTTAWA501CANADA PROTESTS IRAN ELECTION IRREGULARITIES AND
[...] (SBU) Summary: Across Canada government officials and the public continue to express condemnation for the Iranian regime's use of violence against dissent following the disputed June 12 presidential election. A day after President Obama rescinded July Fourth invitations to Iranian officials, [...]
2009-06-26 20:04:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM IR CA
09OTTAWA540CANADA EMBRACES ENHANCED MEASURES TO DETER URANIUM
[...] (C) Senior Canadian leaders are seeking enhanced measures to block Iran's nuclear proliferation ambitions, according to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Senior Policy Officer Ryan Hewer. He called the U.S. initiative (ref a) "very [...]
2009-07-14 20:39:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPARM MNUC KNNP IR CA
09OTTAWA569SLEEPY SUMMER FOR CANADIAN POLITICS
[...] (C) Summary. Even by Canadian standards, political life in Canada in summer 2009 is remarkably comatose, at least on the surface. Neither the Prime Minister nor the Liberal Party leader has even been in the public eye for over ten days. They may both genuinely be on vacation or, like boxe [...]
2009-07-22 19:40:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON CA
09OTTAWA575CANADA IN SYNC WITH U.S. ON AFGHAN ASSISTANCE
[...] (U) This is an action request -- see para 8. 2. (C) Summary: Canadian policy in Afghanistan is "very much on the same page" as that of the U.S. Canada has tripled its civilian presence in Afghanistan in the last 15 months and will have 50 civilian police advisors by December 2009. In Jun [...]
2009-07-23 15:51:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS MARR NATO AF CA
09OTTAWA596DETERMINED PRO-MEK DEMONSTRATORS PROTEST OUTSIDE
[...] (SBU) Approximately 95 supporters of the Mujahadeen-e-Khalq (Mek) gathered again across the street from the chancery on July 30 to condemn the recent attack on the Ashraf camp in Iraq by Iraqi military and police forces (reftel). The protest began on July 29 at 09:14 with approximately 80 pro [...]
2009-07-30 21:26:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL PHUM IZ IR CA
09OTTAWA610CANADA IN THE UNHRC: A CHAMPION FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (C) Summary. Canada closed its three year term on the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) with an enhanced reputation as a strong advocate for human rights protection and democracy promotion worldwide. During its term, Canada was a spirited advocate -- condemning human rights abuses, standing alon [...]
2009-08-06 20:43:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV KDEM UNHCR CA
09OTTAWA615CANADA UNABLE TO OFFER ADDITIONAL SUPPORT TO
[...] (C) Canada concurs that "now is the right time" for U.S. and other like-minded countries to marshal support for the Somalia Transitional Federal Government (TFG),according to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Director for Eastern and Southern Africa Lisa Stadelbauer [...]
2009-08-07 20:08:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER EAID KPKO SO CA
09OTTAWA616MTCR: CANADA ON-BOARD FOR ONE OR MORE
[...] (C) Canada will pleased to offer "at least one but perhaps more presentations" at the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) Rio Plenary Information Exchange in November, according to Phillip Baines, Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Deputy Director for Missiles, Space Se [...]
2009-08-07 21:01:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM MNUC MTCRE ETTC KSCA TSPA CA
09OTTAWA622FURTHER PROGRESS ON DUBAI PROCESS
[...] (C) Summary: According to Canadian officials, there was some -- but not much -- "concrete progress" at the most recent Dubai Process meetings, notably in that Afghanistan and Pakistan had agreed to call on international experts to assist them in drafting action plans, MOUs, and assessments for [...]
2009-08-11 21:27:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID SNAR ETRD PK AF CA
09OTTAWA636CANADIAN-SOMALIS FEAR AL-SHABAB STRENGTHENING
[...] (C) Rumors continue to circulate within the Somali Diaspora in Canada of increasing Ethiopian and Kenyan meddling in Somalia, according to Farah Aw-Osman, Executive Director of the Canadian Friends of Somalia. Aw-Osman expressed worry that these rumors might fuel Somali-Canadian youth to retu [...]
2009-08-19 17:26:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER EAID SO CA
09OTTAWA639CANADA IMPOSES 45-DAY HOLD ON FORSYS URANIUM SALE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-19 20:56:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM MNUC KNNP EINV IR NA CA
09OTTAWA64SCENESETTER FOR THE PRESIDENT'S TRIP TO OTTAWA
[...] (C) Mr. President, Mission Canada warmly welcomes you and the First Lady to Ottawa. We and Canadians alike are thrilled that your first foreign trip as President will be to Canada, which Canadians claim as a long-standing tradition reflecting the vital importance of this bilateral relationship b [...]
2009-01-22 16:35:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD ECON MARR SENV AF CA
09OTTAWA649GOVERNMENT TO APPEAL COURT DECISION ON KHADR
[...] (C) On August 24, Christian Rousseau, Director of Operations for Defence and International Security Policy at the Privy Council Office, informed PolMinCouns that the Canadian government would appeal to the Supreme Court the August 14 decision (ref a) of the Federal Court of Appeals upholding [...]
2009-08-24 17:02:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPTER PHUM PREL CU CA
09OTTAWA65CANADA: DELIVERY OF DEMARCHE ON REMOTE SENSING
[...] (C) Pol/miloff delivered reftel text to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Director for Non-Proliferation and Disarmament James Junke on January 22. Junke expressed appreciation for the U.S. responses to the Canadian demarche of July 9 and inquiries raised at the De [...]
2009-01-22 16:44:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL ISN CA
09OTTAWA67ITALIAN AMBASSADOR SEEKS UNESCO DIRECTOR GENERAL
[...] (C) Italian Ambassador to Canada Gabriele Sardo met with Charge d'Affaires on January 21 to sound out the U.S. response to himself as a candidate for Director-General of UNESCO. Ambassador Sardo, who noted he had served as Italy's Ambassador to UNESCO from 1998 to 2002 and as First Counselor [...]
2009-01-23 16:25:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL SCUL UNESCO CA IT
09OTTAWA68NEW LIBERAL LEADER MICHAEL IGNATIEFF
[...] (C) Summary: An intellectual, historian, and award-winning author and journalist, Michael Ignatieff is the new interim leader of the Liberal Party of Canada (pending formal confirmation at a party conference in May). Harvard-educated and a former U.S. resident, the would-be prime minister is [...]
2009-01-23 19:54:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR CA
09OTTAWA689JOHN WILLIAMSON: NEW DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS
[...] (C) Summary: In an August 27 shake-up of the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) senior political staff, Prime Minister Stephen Harper named John Williamson as the new Director of Communications, the fourth in as many years. A strong fiscal conservative, Williamson does not have a high public profi [...]
2009-09-04 17:29:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR KPAO CA
09OTTAWA695TIP: BC PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS A SUCCESSFUL
[...] (C) Summary: Increased collaboration among the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP),British Colombia (BC) government officials, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) has strengthened the province's capacity to combat trafficking in persons (TIP). Advocacy groups and police continue to d [...]
2009-09-08 19:32:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV KTIP KCRM CA
09OTTAWA700CANADA WELCOMES U.S. OUTREACH ON MISSILE TECHNOLOGY
[...] (C) Summary: Canadian nonproliferation and enforcement officers told visiting U.S. officials that Canada is in broad agreement with U.S. goals for the upcoming plenary session of the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR). Canadian political leaders are likely to support U.S. efforts to sin [...]
2009-09-09 20:19:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM MNUC MTCRE ETTC KSCA TSPA CA
09OTTAWA708CANADA SUPPORTIVE OF SRI LANKA FREEDOM OF MOVEMENT
[...] (C) Canada is supportive of the U.S. strategy to promote freedom of movement in Sri Lanka (reftel),according to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) South Asia Deputy Director Jonathan Yendall. He cautioned that he was still seeking to coordinate a "whole of governme [...]
2009-09-11 19:34:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PREF PTER MASS SOCI EAID EUN
09OTTAWA716CANADA: RESPONSE TO AUSTRALIA GROUP NON-PAPERS
[...] (C) Summary: Canada sees no immediate problem with the proposals contained in the non-papers drawn from reftel, but is concerned about the system for classification of AG documents, given that there are now 41 members. Canada sees no advantage in inviting Russia to join the AG, but foresees [...]
2009-09-15 15:02:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL ETTC CA
09OTTAWA717CANADA READY TO HELP ON MISSING/DETAINED AMCITS IN
[...] (C) Canadian Foreign Minister Cannon and other senior officials will be seeking meetings with Iranian counterparts on the margins of the upcoming UN General Assembly in New York to raise the issue of detained Canadians in Iran, according to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade [...]
2009-09-15 15:13:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PINR PROP PTER CASC IR CA
09OTTAWA732CANADA SHARES OUR CONCERNS ON IRAN
[...] (C) CDA, accompanied by PolMinCouns, delivered ref a Iran demarche on September 17 to Assistant Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Political Director Yves Brodeur. CDA highlighted the need to use all public and private avenues, including bilaterally and with other nations, to try to inf [...]
2009-09-17 20:07:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM KNNP MNUC IAEA CASC IR CA
09OTTAWA736CANADA; WEIGHING IN ON VIKTOR BOUT
[...] (C) Charge on September 18 discussed Victor Bout case (reftel) with Yves Brodeur, Assistant Deputy Minister for International Security Affairs and Political Director of Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT). Brodeur was already familiar with the case. Charge [...]
2009-09-18 19:51:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL KCRM PETER CO RS TH CA
09OTTAWA739CANADA EAGER TO JOIN INFORMAL MEETING OF CTBT
[...] (SBU) Summary: Canada is enthusiastic about participating in the informal meeting on the margins of the Article XIV Conference. Foreign Minister Cannon will deliver Canada's national statement at the conference, and the Assistant Deputy Minister for International Security is expected to att [...]
2009-09-21 17:34:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL CA
09OTTAWA743CANADA TO SKIP IRAN SPEECH AT UNGA, NO FORMAL
[...] (C) According to the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade's United Nations and Commonwealth Affairs Division Director Patrick Wittmann, Foreign Minister Lawrence Cannon has instructed the Canadian delegation not to send a representative to the speech by Iran at the UN General [...]
2009-09-22 20:47:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL UNGA IR CA
09OTTAWA769CANADA CONFIRMS LIKE-MINDED MEETING DELEGATES
[...] (C) Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Middle East and Maghreb Director General John Holmes will lead the Canadian delegation to the October 7 Like-Minded Meeting in Washington, DC (ref b),according to DFAIT's Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, and Qatar Deputy Director Gallit Dob [...]
2009-10-02 20:36:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM KNNP MNUC UNSC ETTC IR CA
09OTTAWA772CANADA TO DEMARCHE RTG ON VIKTOR BOUT
[...] (C) Director General for South, Southeast Asia & Oceania Kenneth Macartney of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade confirmed to PolMinCouns on October 3 that the Canadian Embassy in Bangkok would demarche the Royal Thai Government on the extradition of Viktor Bout, as Emb [...]
2009-10-05 11:59:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER KCRM TH CA RS CO
09OTTAWA778CANADA: BRIEFING ON P5+1 IRAN TALKS IN GENEVA
[...] (C) Canada has "done its homework" for the upcoming Like-Minded Meeting in Washington on October 7 (ref b),according to Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (DFAIT) Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, and Qatar Deputy Director Gallit Dobner, and looks forward to participating in the discussi [...]
2009-10-05 21:10:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPARM KNNP MNUC IR CA
09OTTAWA791CANADA DEMARCHES RTG ON VIKTOR BOUT
[...] (C) Assistant Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Political Director Yves Brodeur confirmed to DCM on October 14 that the Canadian Ambassador in Bangkok had on October 6 made a demarche supporting the extradition of Viktor Bout to the Thai Ministry of Justice's Permanent Secretary. The A [...]
2009-10-14 20:02:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL KRCM PTER TH CA RS CO
09OTTAWA795BLUE DAYS FOR LIBERAL LEADER MICHAEL IGNATIEFF
[...] (C) Summary. Liberal Party poll numbers continue to decline, while the Conservatives appear in their strongest position in at least a year. Fundraising has also slowed down noticeably. Leader Michael Ignatieff is clearly on the defensive, but has vowed to do a better job in shaping the po [...]
2009-10-15 21:24:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR CA
09OTTAWA8CANADA ON SEPARATIST REGIONS OF GEORGIA
[...] (C) In a meeting with PolMinCouns on January 7 to discuss our way forward on the separatist regions of Georgia (reftel),Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Director General for Europe Robert Hage confirmed that Canada remains concerned about Abkhazia and South Ossetia and [...]
2009-01-07 20:07:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID GG RS CA
09OTTAWA811Ambassador meets with Liberal Party leadership
[...] (C) Summary. In a luncheon on October 23, Ambassador discussed key bilateral issues, notably ""Buy America"" and climate change policies, with Liberal Party leader Michael Ignatieff and key staff. Ignatieff reiterated that Canadians do not want an election now, but said that he could not be [...]
2009-10-23 20:23:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD SENV PGOV CA
09OTTAWA821Canada to vote against UNGA Goldstone Report motion
[...] (C) Canada "will vote against" the Goldstone Report resolution during the November 4 UN General Assembly discussion and shares U.S. concerns against transmitting the matter to the Security Council or to the International Criminal Court, according to Greg Lemermeyer, Deputy Director of the Isr [...]
2009-11-03 21:11:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PTER KPAL UN IS CA
09OTTAWA827Canada Broadly Support U.S. Strategy for NATO Enlargement
[...] (C) Summary. Canada broadly supports U.S. goals with respect to NATO enlargement, including strong support for Ukraine's NATO aspirations, although Canada wants to see more evidence of reform. Bosnia represents the one area of divergence, as Canada supports the Membership Action Plan (MAP) p [...]
2009-11-06 16:24:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL NATO PARM MARR KTIA BK GG MK MW UP CA
09OTTAWA829Canada Supports U.S. Sudan Strategy, See Little New
[...] (C) Canada sees the new Sudan strategy as "basically a continuation of General Gration's strategy for the past year" and praises it as a "flexible, pragmatic step forward," according to Jeremy Bryan, Multilateral Affairs Officer, Sudan Task Force in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Interna [...]
2009-11-06 17:33:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SU CA
09OTTAWA835Canadian Response to UK Decision to Ban the Provision of
[...] (C) ECONOFF demarched Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada (DFAIT) Iran Deputy Director Gallit Dobner regarding referenced cable. She expressed surprise that the UK was moving forward with this action given that it is one of a suite of actions the Like-Minded Countries have considere [...]
2009-11-13 22:12:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALEFIN ETTC KNNP XF ZP ZR IR UK CA
09OTTAWA837CANADA: ENGAGING AFGHAN GOVERNMENT ON APPOINTMENTS AND
[...] (SBU) Summary: Canada strongly supports U.S. efforts to ensure the new Afghan administration is committed to the fight against corruption. The Prime Minister and Foreign Minister have both made statements calling on President Karzai to address corruption, and the announcement of future aid [...]
2009-11-13 22:55:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL NATO AF CA
09OTTAWA839SEARCH FOR NEXT HEAD OF UN OFFICE OF INTERNAL OVERSIGHT
[...] (C) Sheila Frazer has been a very high profile and well respected Auditor General of Canada since 2001. She has assumed a much more activist stance in this office than her predecessors, sometimes to the discomfort of the government, which she has not been shy to criticize when she has encou [...]
2009-11-16 21:05:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL AORC AMGT UN CA
09OTTAWA841Deputy Secretary Steinberg's Meeting with Canadian Foreign
[...] (U) October 22, 2009, 11:15 a.m., Ottawa, Canada. 2. (U) Participants: United States James Steinberg, Deputy Secretary David Jacobson, U.S. Ambassador to Canada Lourdes Cue, Special Assistant to the Deputy Secretary Kurt van der Walde, notetaker Canada Claude C [...]
2009-11-17 21:36:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS KGHG UNRWA IR AF PK CU CA
09OTTAWA843WHA Assistant Secretary's Meeting with Canadian Trade
[...] (U) October 22, 2009, 8:45 a.m., Ottawa, Canada. 2. (U) Participants: United States Arturo Valenzuela, Assistant Secretary for Western Hemispheric Affairs David Jacobson, U.S. Ambassador to Canada Eric Benjaminson, Economic Minister-Counselor, notetaker Kurt van der Wal [...]
2009-11-23 20:51:00Embassy OttawaCONFIDENTIALETRD PREL ECON CA
09OUAGADOUGOU1022BURKINA FASO: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON UNGA COUNTRY
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-13 09:33:00Embassy OuagadougouCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM UNGA UV
09OUAGADOUGOU1038BURKINABE STILL CONFIDENT OF PROGRESS ON GUINEA - BUT NOT TOO QUICKLY
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-18 12:43:00Embassy OuagadougouCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV GV UV
09OUAGADOUGOU1045BURKINA FASO - OPPOSING UNGA RESOLUTIONS WITH ANTI-ISRAEL BIAS
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-19 16:10:00Embassy OuagadougouCONFIDENTIALPREL UNGA KPAL IS SY LE UV
09OUAGADOUGOU1048GUINEA - A NEGOTIATING DEBACLE IN OUAGADOUGOU
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-21 10:16:00Embassy OuagadougouCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV GV UV
09OUAGADOUGOU1052GUINEA - BURKINABE MEDIATION TO CONTINUE NEGOTIATING PROCESS
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-23 16:22:00Embassy OuagadougouCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV GV UV
09OUAGADOUGOU1078BURKINA FASO: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON DECEMBER
[...] (C) On December 1, Pol/Mil Officer delivered reftel demarche to Mr. Der Kogda, Director of Multilateral Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Pol/Mil explained that the USG is concerned about the deeply problematic "combating defamation of religions" resolution, which seeks to undermine [...]
2009-12-02 08:11:00Embassy OuagadougouCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM UNGA UV
09OUAGADOUGOU1136BURKINA FASO: MOD DISCUSSES WIDE RANGE OF REGIONAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Charge d'Affaires met with Minister of Defense (MOD) on December 3 to officially handover the Letter of Agreement (LOA) pertaining to the training and equipping of a Burkinabe Gendarmerie Battalion (COESPU) scheduled to deploy to Darfur under UNAMID leadership. Engaging in a wide [...]
2009-12-08 12:45:00Embassy OuagadougouCONFIDENTIALPREL KPKO MASS PTER SNAR UV
09OUAGADOUGOU1141BURKINABE MEDIATION EFFORTS IN GUINEA, COTE D'IVOIRE, AND TOGO
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-08 13:04:00Embassy OuagadougouCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV GV UV GO IV
09OUAGADOUGOU1158GUINEA - U.S./FRENCH MEETING WITH PRESIDENT COMPAORE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-14 16:19:00Embassy OuagadougouCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV GV UV
09OUAGADOUGOU1159GUINEA TALKS - 9th ICG-G IN OUAGADOUGOU
[...] SUMMARY: The 9th meeting of the International Contact Group on Guinea (ICG-G) held December 13 in Ouagadougou was marked by a unified international community and capable leadership from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS),the African Union (AU),and the UN Representative for [...]
2009-12-15 07:12:00Embassy OuagadougouCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM GV UV
09OUAGADOUGOU1173BURKINA FASO: STRATEGY TO COUNTER THE "DEFAMATION
[...] (C) Burkina Faso has regularly abstained on "Defamation of Religion" votes. It will be a challenge to get Burkina Faso to change its position to align more closely with ours and will require direct interventions with President Compaore. Burkina Faso's membership in the OIC and the fact that [...]
2009-12-18 11:34:00Embassy OuagadougouCONFIDENTIALKISL KDEM PHUM PREL PGOV OPDC UV
09OUAGADOUGOU138BURKINA FASO's MANDATE ON THE UNSC
[...] (C) Summary: During the first year of its mandate on the UN Security Council (UNSC),Burkina Faso has produced a voting record that has been a balancing act between support for U.S. initiatives, tempered by respect for the country's traditional friends and allies. On several occasions, such a [...]
2009-03-05 08:25:00Embassy OuagadougouCONFIDENTIALPREL UNSC AF UV
09OUAGADOUGOU145AMBASSADOR'S REFLECTIONS ON BURKINA FASO'S
[...] (C) The future of Burkina Faso is firmly in the hands of two men: President Blaise Compaore and Prime Minister Tertius Zongo. As I prepare to leave post after three years, it is my assessment that this leadership team is generally moving the country in the right direction, but we will need t [...]
2009-03-06 10:46:00Embassy OuagadougouCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV UV
09OUAGADOUGOU187DEMOCRATIC PROGRESS IN BURKINA FASO IN 2010 AND BEYOND
[...] (C) Summary: In the next three to five years, Burkina Faso's fledgling democracy has the potential to make significant progress. Priority areas include: merging and strengthening the numerous weak and fragmented opposition parties; increasing the capacity of political parties to conduct campaig [...]
2009-03-18 17:03:00Embassy OuagadougouCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM UV
09OUAGADOUGOU200DEMARCHE DELIVERED: POST-QADHAFI NEGOTIATIONS IN
[...] (C) On March 18, Charge delivered reftel demarche to Mr. Vincent Zakane, Chief of Staff at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Zakane said he completely agreed with the USG position and analysis of the situation. He offered that, from the start, Burkina Faso had supported and continues to suppo [...]
2009-03-19 17:02:00Embassy OuagadougouCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM UV
09OUAGADOUGOU202DEMARCHE DELIVERED: HCOC "INREACH" - ENCOURAGING SUBSCRIBING STATES TO SUBMIT THEIR ANNUAL DECLARATIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-19 17:03:00Embassy OuagadougouCONFIDENTIALKSCA PREL MNUC ETTC UG TSPA
09OUAGADOUGOU227POVERTY AMONG BURKINABE TUAREGS COULD LEAD TO INSECURITY
[...] (SBU) Summary: Minority Tuareg communities in northern Burkina Faso are racked by extreme poverty, which is exacerbated by often refusing to send their children to school, a lack of consistent access to water, and decreasing reserves of livestock, which are their main source of income. Burkina [...]
2009-03-24 16:27:00Embassy OuagadougouCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREF PREL PHUM ML NG UV
09OUAGADOUGOU259DEMARCHE TO BURKINA FASO ON NORTH KOREAN
[...] (C) On April 13, Pol/Mil Officer delivered reftel demarche to Mr. Der Kogda, Director of Multilateral Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Pol/Mil officer explained that the USG was seeking the support of Burkina Faso and of its UN Mission for a draft presidential statement (PRST) abo [...]
2009-04-13 09:33:00Embassy OuagadougouCONFIDENTIALPARM NK PREL KNNP UNSC UV
09OUAGADOUGOU305CODEL SMITH MEETS WITH BURKINA FASO PRESIDENT
[...] (C) Summary: A Congressional delegation led by Congressman Adam Smith (D-WA) met separately on April 15th with Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaore and Prime Minister Tertius Zongo. Meetings were friendly, open, and frank and focused mainly on development issues rather than on security or [...]
2009-04-28 15:30:00Embassy OuagadougouCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER EAID OVIP OREP EIND ETRD ECON UV
09OUAGADOUGOU394DEMARCHE DELIVERED UN SECURITY COUNCIL ACTION ON
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-18 15:02:00Embassy OuagadougouCONFIDENTIALPREL UNSC BM UV
09OUAGADOUGOU45BURKINA FASO: RESPONSE TO U.S. PRIORITIES AT THE AU SUMMIT
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-30 12:21:00Embassy OuagadougouCONFIDENTIALPREL AF UV
09OUAGADOUGOU451BURKINA FASO WILL SUPPORT AU CONSENSUS ON SUDAN SPECIAL
[...] (C) Summary: Burkina Faso looks to play a "positive" role in the debate on the renewal of the Sudan Special Rapporteur at the Human Rights Council. However, the GOBF feels strongly that compromise is the best course of action and will support a joint AU position. As of today, the AU has not [...]
2009-06-05 12:06:00Embassy OuagadougouCONFIDENTIALAORC PHUM PREL SU UV
09OUAGADOUGOU465DEMARCHE DELIVERED: RENEWING THE SUDAN SPECIAL
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-11 11:12:00Embassy OuagadougouCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL UV
09OUAGADOUGOU475DEMARCHE DELIVERED: RENEWING THE SUDAN SPECIAL
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-15 11:29:00Embassy OuagadougouCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL UV
09OUAGADOUGOU544BURKINA FASO - TWO IMET GRADUATES PROMOTED TO CHOD AND ARMY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The President of Burkina Faso announced on July 8 that he was reshuffling his Joint Chiefs of Staff. The Chief of Defense (CHOD),Brigadier General Ali Traore was promoted to Major General and rotated out of his CHOD responsibilities, while the Chief of Staff of the Army was n [...]
2009-07-10 11:25:00Embassy OuagadougouCONFIDENTIALMASS MCAPS PREL UV
09OUAGADOUGOU601BURKINA FASO: WHY DID COMPAORE SKIP THE AFRICAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Neither the President nor the Prime Minister of Burkina Faso attended the recent African (AU) Summit in Libya, sending instead the relatively insignificant Minister of Foreign Affairs (MFA). While scheduling conflicts were given as the official justification for their absence, [...]
2009-07-28 10:47:00Embassy OuagadougouCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV LY UV
09OUAGADOUGOU605BURKINA FASO: BASIC TRAINING ACADEMY GRADUATES
[...] (U) On July 24, the instruction Group for Armed Forces (GIFA) graduated a class of 890 soldiers. Originally 900 recruits enlisted in late 2008, and an additional 30 were added to the class roster in early 2009. Only 40 recruits dropped out or were dismissed, bringing the total to 890 gradu [...]
2009-07-29 20:03:00Embassy OuagadougouCONFIDENTIALPREL MCAP MASS UV
09OUAGADOUGOU645BURKINA FASO: DISSENTION IN THE RULING PARTY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On July 17th, a key powerbroker in the ruling political party was suspended indefinitely. Salif Diallo, an important player on the Burkinabe political scene and formerly a close ally of President Compaore, was disciplined by the party after he publicly criticized the State inst [...]
2009-08-14 08:56:00Embassy OuagadougouCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV UV
09OUAGADOUGOU665COMPAORE: ARBITRATOR OF REGIONAL CONFLICTS.
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-21 10:26:00Embassy OuagadougouCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UV
09OUAGADOUGOU683REFURBISHMENT OF BURKINA FASO'S MI-17 HELICOPTERS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Burkina Faso's two MI-17 helicopters which were sent to the Republic of Georgia the Ukraine for refurbishment in November 2008, have been returned. These helicopters will be available for future missions once they are reassembled and tested. END SUMMARY. 2.(C) The Government of [...]
2009-08-27 15:19:00Embassy OuagadougouCONFIDENTIALKPKO MCAP PREL UV
09OUAGADOUGOU706RUSSIAN BUSINESS PRESENCE - BURKINA FASO RESPONSE
[...] (C) The Embassy sees little evidence of Russian economic interest in Burkina Faso. To the best of our knowledge, there is no large-scale Russian business presence, no significant Russian investment, and very few Russian citizens currently residing in Burkina Faso. Responses to Washington's [...]
2009-09-04 11:23:00Embassy OuagadougouCONFIDENTIALPINR UV RS ECON EINV
09OUAGADOUGOU816BURKINA FASO: DAS FITZGERALD MEETS WITH PRIME
[...] (C) Summary. In separate meetings with AF DAS Fitzgerald, Burkina Faso's Prime Minister and Minister of Defense asked for assistance in coping with the aftermath of the September 1st flooding. They also highlighted President Compaore's regional mediation efforts and elaborated on the GOBF's vi [...]
2009-09-25 10:08:00Embassy OuagadougouCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM PINR PGOV MASS UV
09OUAGADOUGOU869BURKINA FASO: URGENT HOSPITAL RELOCATION
[...] Summary. (U) The Government of Burkina Faso has requested U.S. assistance in providing temporary relocation facilities for the country's primary hospital. Post recommends the Department, USAID and the U.S. Africa Command give serious consideration to the request. End Summary. 2. (C) Durin [...]
2009-10-01 14:29:00Embassy OuagadougouCONFIDENTIALEAID EAGR PGOV MASS PHUM MCAP PREL UV
09OUAGADOUGOU938BURKINA FASO: PKO TROOP DEPLOYMENT TO DARFUR RUNS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Burkina Faso's initial peacekeeping detachment in Darfur has run into several obstacles and thus is behind schedule on further troop deployment. The first troops departed Ouagadougou in August 2009, but since then meteorological conditions, issues with the transportation contract [...]
2009-10-22 08:25:00Embassy OuagadougouCONFIDENTIALMCAP KPKO MASS PREL UV
09PANAMA115PANAMA: BALBINA'S PLATFORM UNDERSCORES CONTINUITY
[...] (C) Governing Revolutionary Democratic Party (PRD) presidential candidate Balbina Herrera and her party in January released their electoral platform that stresses continuity, particularly with respect to current president Martin Torrijos's economic and social welfare policies. Interestingly th [...]
2009-02-06 20:37:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PM ECON PREL
09PANAMA119PANAMA: SENAN SEIZES 2.5 TONS OF COCAINE IN GAME
[...] (C) Panama's National Aero-Naval Service (SENAN) police seized 2.46 tons of cocaine in a mangrove swamp February 1 that had been off-loaded from a go-fast vessel. The vessel had been hiding in the Lavaina river since January 28 after being trapped by SENAN vessels acting on information gener [...]
2009-02-10 13:45:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SNAR PM
09PANAMA122PANAMA: REFINERY ON HOLD DUE TO WORLD ECONOMIC
[...] (U) This cable contains sensitive proprietary business information concerning on-going negotiations. Please handle accordingly. SUMMARY 2. (C) Occidental Petroleum (OXY) and Qatar Petroleum (QP) representatives privately informed the Ambassador their firms are putting on hold (not cance [...]
2009-02-10 18:33:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALENRG EINV ECON EIND EPET PM
09PANAMA149PANAMA: GLOBAL INITIATIVE FOLLOW-ON WORKSHOP
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-18 21:48:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PM
09PANAMA153PANAMA: NEW THINK TANK AIMING HIGH
[...] (C) Panama's newest think tank, the Foundation for the Economic and Social Development of Panama (FUDESPA) on January 15 presented its brain-child, a document entitled "Public Policy Proposals: Popular Elections, May 2009" that is designed to influence the government plans of candidates runnin [...]
2009-02-23 15:31:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALECON PGOV PM PREL
09PANAMA182PANAMA: NEW THINK TANK AIMING HIGH
[...] (C) Panama's newest think tank, the Foundation for the Economic and Social Development of Panama (FUDESPA) on January 15 presented its brain-child, a document entitled "Public Policy Proposals: Popular Elections, May 2009" that is designed to influence the government plans of candidates runnin [...]
2009-03-04 21:46:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALECON PGOV PM PREL
09PANAMA184PANAMA: MARTINELLI'S "GOVERNMENT PLAN FOR CHANGE"
[...] (C) Leading presidential candidate Ricardo Martinelli of the Alliance for Change on February 11 released his "Government Plan for Change," that lays out 179 proposals designed to "make a better Panama reach everyone" (que un mejor Panama llegue a todos). The document is flashy, includes big c [...]
2009-03-06 15:38:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALECON PGOV PM PREL
09PANAMA194PANAMA: TORRIJOS TRUMPETS ACHIEVEMENTS IN FINAL
[...] (C) In his final address to the National Assembly before the end of his term, President Martin Torrijos touted his administration's greatest achievements, acknowledged the cooperation of the Assembly, and called on the next government to build upon these successes. (Note: Constitutionally, Pa [...]
2009-03-10 13:43:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALECON PGOV PM PREL
09PANAMA195PANAMA CANAL EXPANSION BIDS SUBMITTED
[...] (U) Under the lights of TV cameras in a packed auditorium, three consortia, including one led by American firm Bechtel, submitted bids to the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) on March 3 to build the 3.3 billion USD set of locks for the already under-construction third lane of the Panama Canal. The bid [...]
2009-03-10 15:14:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALECON EINV ETRD MARR PM EWWT
09PANAMA196PANAMA: PLANS FOR NORMALIZATION FOR COLOMBIANS
[...] (C) The GOP planned to offer legal immigrant status to individuals living in the Darien region under Temporary Humanitarian Protection (THP) status, said MFA DG of Exterior Policy Javier Bonagas told POLOFF on February 20. The official census of THP persons taken in 2004 counted 542 Colombia [...]
2009-03-10 15:52:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PREF PHUM PTBS SOCI PM
09PANAMA21EMBASSY ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING OUTREACH
[...] (C) Summary: Spearheading Mission Panama's anti-money laundering outreach, Ambassador Stephenson met with Colon Free Zone (CFZ) General Manager Nilda Quijano during a December 17 visit to Colon. Quijano described the competitive advantages of the CFZ for legitimate businesses and the steps be [...]
2009-01-08 21:03:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN SNAR KTFN PM
09PANAMA216VP/FM LEWIS TRAVEL TO CUBA FOR TRADE AGREEMENT
[...] (C) Ambassador met with Vice President/Foreign Minister Samuel Lewis on March 13 and inquired about Lewis' upcoming trip to Havana on March 16. Lewis said that he and Vice Minister of Trade Severo Sousa will sign a trade agreement entitled "acuerdo de alcance parcial." Lewis said that Panama [...]
2009-03-13 22:27:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PM
09PANAMA227PANAMA TO SIGN FTA WITH CANADA; SIGNING AT SOTA
[...] (C) Panama will conclude negotiations on a free trade treaty with Canada this week, Minister of Commerce and Industry Gisela Alvarez de Porras told the Ambassador on March 17. The GOP hopes to sign the treaty with Canada during the Summit of the Americas, continued Porras. 2. (U) Panama [...]
2009-03-18 17:03:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD PM PREL
09PANAMA237PANAMA: AMBASSADOR VISITS THE DARIEN
[...] (SBU) The Ambassador and several members of her Country Team visited the Darien province March 10-11. During the first day of her visit she received a briefing on the security situation from Director of the National Frontier Service (SENAFRONT) Frank Abrego and met with Darien Governor Juan [...]
2009-03-20 19:28:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KPAO PM
09PANAMA242PANAMA: MURCIA ACCUSATIONS UNLEASH POLITICAL
[...] (C) The Panamanian Electoral Tribunal (TE) suspended the legal immunity of the leading presidential candidates Ricardo Martinelli and Balbina Herrera March 19, in addition to the front-running candidate for Mayor of Panama City, Roberto "Bobby" Velasquez and Martinelli's attorney, Alma Cortez [...]
2009-03-20 20:29:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SNAR PM
09PANAMA255LAWYERS VS. EVERYONE ELSE - GOP STRIVES TO PREEMPT
[...] (C) Summary. The Government of Panama intends to announce financial transparency measures before the April 2 G20 Meeting to ensure that Panama is not placed on the OECD Blacklist of "tax havens." In a March 25 letter to the OECD, the GOP acknowledged that it does not want its financial center [...]
2009-03-26 20:14:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN ETRD PM PREL SNAR
09PANAMA290PANAMA: AMP SUB-ADMINISTRATOR RESIGNS, CRITICIZES
[...] (C) The Maritime Authority of Panama (AMP) is in the headlines following the resignation of sub-administrator Carlos Raul Moreno, who, as he headed out the door, denounced "questionable" practices designed to generate extra revenue from maritime flagging procedures at some Panamanian consulate [...]
2009-04-06 21:21:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALECON PGOV PM PREL EWWT
09PANAMA316PANAMA: MARTINELLI PLAYS PRESIDENT TO FRIENDLY
[...] (C) The Foundation for the Development of Citizen Liberty, Panama's Transparency International (TI) chapter, hosted an untelevised "Presidential Candidates Forum" on April 14. Though dubbed as a forum for both leading candidates, only Alliance for Change presidential candidate Ricardo Martinell [...]
2009-04-20 15:36:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALECON PGOV PM PREL
09PANAMA322PANAMA: DEMARCHE ON KOSOVO'S IMF AND WORLD BANK
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-21 21:32:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN PREL KV
09PANAMA332PANAMA: THREE FARC MEMBERS HANDED OVER ON MATERIAL
[...] (C) The GOP handed over three alleged FARC members to the U.S. April 17 for prosecution on charges of providing material support to a terrorist organization, the first time the GOP has ever agreed to material support charges as grounds for a hand-over. This precedent setting step is part of [...]
2009-04-24 22:51:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER SNAR PM
09PANAMA338PANAMA: FINAL POLL RESULTS: MARTINELLI HOLDING
[...] (U) With Panama's May 3 elections just nine days away, Alliance for Change opposition presidential candidate Ricardo Martinelli holds a twelve to sixteen point lead over Revolutionary Democratic Party (PRD) candidate Balbina Herrera, according to the final presidential polling data from Dich [...]
2009-04-27 19:42:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PM
09PANAMA339PANAMA: TORRIJOS SOCIAL PROGRAMS TO CONTINUE UNDER
[...] (C) Both leading presidential candidates have acknowledged the success of some social programs initiated during President Martin Torrijos' term, and have agreed to continue certain programs after the next administration is sworn in on July 1. Programs earmarked for continuity by ruling Revolu [...]
2009-04-27 20:32:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALECON PGOV SOCI PM
09PANAMA347PANAMA: POLITICAL COMMENTATOR PROVIDES INSIGHT ON
[...] (C) Ricardo Martinelli's Alliance for Change movement will perform well in next weekend's elections, and the PRD will be weakened but will regain strength and prepare for 2014, political commentator Alfredo Castillero told POLOFFS during lunch on April 23. Castillero noted that a Martinelli [...]
2009-04-29 21:51:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PM PREL
09PANAMA348PANAMA: MARTINELLI ADVISER WEIGHS IN ON ELECTION
[...] (C) Dennis Allen, former Electoral Tribune (TE) magistrate and current "electoral process adviser" to Alliance for Change presidential candidate Ricardo Martinelli ran down for the Political Section his vision of how Panama's May 3 elections will play out. Although the election would probably [...]
2009-04-30 15:10:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PM PREL
09PANAMA349PANAMA: POLITICAL COMMENTATOR PROVIDES INSIGHT ON
[...] (C) Ricardo Martinelli's Alliance for Change movement will perform well in next weekend's elections, and the PRD will be weakened but will regain strength and prepare for 2014, political commentator Alfredo Castillero told POLOFFS during lunch on April 23. Castillero noted that a Martinelli [...]
2009-04-30 15:10:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PM PREL
09PANAMA357PANAMA: MARTINELLI WINS BIG
[...] (SBU) The opposition's Alliance for Change presidential candidate Ricardo Martinelli defeated governing Revolutionary Democratic Party (PRD) candidate by over twenty points and more than 300,000 votes on May 3. Martinelli also appears to have wrested gained control of the 71-seat National Asse [...]
2009-05-05 13:16:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PM
09PANAMA366PANAMA: FARC MEMBER DEMOBILIZES IN DARIEN: SIXTH
[...] (U) Reports indicate that a member of the FARC's 57th FRONT surrendered to members of Panama's National Frontier Service (SENAFRONT) on May 2. The event took place at the newly established SENAFRONT position in the village of Sobia Quiro, near the Colombian boarder. The temporary position was [...]
2009-05-06 22:44:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PM
09PANAMA37PANAMA HOSTS QUADRILATERAL SECURITY TALKS WITH
[...] (C) "We are trying to put in place information sharing and coordination mechanisms to expedite quick deportations, expulsions, and extradition of organized crime figures," First VP and FM Samuel Lewis told Ambassador on January 15 in laying out his vision for the quadrilateral Panama-Colombia- [...]
2009-01-15 19:37:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KJUS SNAR PM
09PANAMA372PANAMA: MARTINELLI MAKING PROGRESS ON CABINET
[...] (C) Four days after his May 3 landslide electoral victory, Panamanian President-elect Ricardo Martinelli has made significant progress naming his cabinet. On the evening of May 6, Panama's Electoral Tribunal (TE) formally declared Martinelli the victor in the May 3 after analyzing every vote [...]
2009-05-07 22:30:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON ETRD PM
09PANAMA381PANAMA: PRD SCRAMBLING AFTER SWEEPING ELECTORAL
[...] (SBU) The Revolutionary Democratic Party (PRD) - Panama's largest and traditionally best organized political party - is suffering immensely from its resounding May 3 electoral defeat. "Alliance for Change" candidate Ricardo Martinelli's overwhelming victory over the PRD has caused the ruling p [...]
2009-05-12 20:34:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PM PREL
09PANAMA417PANAMA: GOP SAYS USCG DID NOT FOLLOW SALAS-BECKER
[...] (C) The GOP protested in a diplomatic note from the MFA on May 20, 2009 that the U.S. Coast Guard did not follow agreed upon procedures during the search of Panamanian flagged vessel, M/V Pollux A on April 27. Specifically, the note protested that the USCG did not share information with the [...]
2009-05-22 22:19:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PM
09PANAMA435PANAMA LAUNCHES CONTROVERSIAL FTA MEASURES AMID
[...] (C) Encouraged by front-page coverage of U.S. officials noting progress on the U.S.-Panama Free Trade Agreement (FTA) early in the week of May 18, the current (Torrijos) and in-coming (Martinelli) governments of Panama took actions on May 20 designed to pave the way for U.S. Congressional appr [...]
2009-06-01 17:37:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN EFTA ELAB ETRD PGOV PM PREL SNAR
09PANAMA454PANAMA LAUNCHES CONTROVERSIAL FTA MEASURES AMID
[...] (C) Encouraged by front-page coverage of U.S. officials noting progress on the U.S.-Panama Free Trade Agreement (FTA) early in the week of May 18, the current (Torrijos) and in-coming (Martinelli) governments of Panama took actions on May 20 designed to pave the way for U.S. Congressional appr [...]
2009-06-05 18:45:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN EFTA ELAB ETRD PGOV PM PREL SNAR
09PANAMA490PANAMA FTA LABOR REFORMS: TIME IS TICKING AWAY.
[...] (C) President Torrijos issued four executive decrees on June 5 to bring the Panamanian labor code into alignment with International Labor Organization (ILO) standards, as he continues his attempt to fulfill his Free Trade Agreement (FTA)-related promises to the Obama Administration. However, [...]
2009-06-18 18:24:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN EFTA ELAB ETRD PGOV PM PREL
09PANAMA518--CORRECTED COPY--DIPLOMATIC CLEARANCE REQUESTS DURING
[...] (C) Panama's next President, Ricardo Martinelli, and his cabinet will be sworn in on 01 July 2009. The current government is not approving any diplomatic clearance requests for ships or aircraft that occur on or after 01 July. Beginning on 01 July a new group of officials will be sworn in a [...]
2009-06-29 17:13:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PM
09PANAMA519PRIMARY PANAMA CANAL CONTRACT TO BE AWARDED
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-30 17:05:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALECON EINV ETRD MARR PM EWWT
09PANAMA527CORRECTED COPY DIPLOMATIC CLEARANCE REQUESTS
[...] (C) Panama's next President, Ricardo Martinelli, and his cabinet will be sworn in on 01 July 2009. The current government is not approving any diplomatic clearance requests for ships or aircraft that occur on or after 01 July. Beginning on 01 July a new group of officials will be sworn in a [...]
2009-07-02 15:20:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PM
09PANAMA539SACYR WINS CANAL CONTRACT, SIGNALING BROADER
[...] (C) In an elaborate ceremony attended by President Martinelli and most of the Cabinet, the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) announced that the consortium led by Spanish firm Sacyr had won the $3.2 billion contract to build the third set of locks, centerpiece of the once-in-a-century Canal Expansion pro [...]
2009-07-08 19:20:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD EWWT PGOV PM PREL
09PANAMA568PANAMA: GREATER COORDINATION NEEDED ON TDN NOTES
[...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 4. ------------------------------ Late Dipnotes Causing Problems ------------------------------ 2. (C) The process of obtaining privileges for U.S. military forces operating on training or high value transit (HVT) missions in Panama is not f [...]
2009-07-16 21:45:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PM
09PANAMA571PANAMA: EMBASSY BRIEFS INCOMING GOVERNMENT ON
[...] (C) "You have saved us six months time getting started," Panama's Vice President and Foreign Minister Juan Carlos Varela told the Ambassador June 23, following a security briefing by the Embassy Law Enforcement and Security Working Group (LESWG) for the incoming GOP security leadership. Vare [...]
2009-07-17 20:25:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PM
09PANAMA58PANAMA: LEFT WING DON QUIJOTE TILTS AT CLOSED
[...] (C) A "symbolic" effort to open the Panamanian Political system is how Juan Jovane described his independent campaign for president. Jovane told POLOFF on November 25 that while he did not expect to be allowed to run, he wanted to open the system up to independent candidates who could mount p [...]
2009-01-21 14:02:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PM
09PANAMA61PANAMA POST: THE SHAKE-UP EDITION
[...] (SBU) Welcome to the third edition of the Panama Post, a collaborative effort between Embassy Panama's Political Section and the Open Source Center (OSC). Having last left our readers before the holiday season lull, the Panama Post is happy to report that the politicians and those who care [...]
2009-01-21 15:39:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PM
09PANAMA68MARTINELLI SECURES 12 POINT LEAD OVER RULING PARTY
[...] (C) Opposition candidate Ricardo Martinelli of Democratic Change (CD) has been declared the "absolute favorite" by the Panamanian media after gaining a 12 point lead over ruling Revolutionary Democratic Party (PRD) candidate Balbina Herrera, according to a recent Dichter and Neira presidential [...]
2009-01-22 19:40:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PM
09PANAMA680PRD IN CRISIS
[...] (C) After suffering a humiliating electoral defeat in the May presidential elections, leaders of the Revolutionary Democratic Party (PRD) have been publicly lambasting one another and fighting for control of the party amidst serious corruption allegations. President Martinelli, like a shark s [...]
2009-09-11 13:32:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR PM
09PANAMA702PANAMA'S LONG FAREWELL TO PARLACEN
[...] (SBU) The Government of Panama (GOP) is attempting to withdraw from the Central American Parliament (PARLACEN),a decision based exclusively on domestic politics. The departure is an easy way for President Ricardo Martinelli to make good on his campaign promise to reform Panamanian institutio [...]
2009-09-21 11:47:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PM
09PANAMA710VENEZUELA DETAINS COPA AIRLINES PLANE
[...] (C) Vice President and Foreign Minister Juan Carlos Varela told Ambassador September 21 that Venezuela had recently detained a COPA Airlines 737 in Maracaibo for two days, evidently in retaliation for the GOP having permitted anti-Chavez protests in Panama earlier this month. 2. (C) Varela [...]
2009-09-22 22:41:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EAIR PM VE
09PANAMA756MOUNTING OPPOSITION TO MARTINELLI'S LIKELY SUPREME
[...] (C) Rumors that President Martinelli intends to nominate Electoral Tribunal Magistrate Gerardo Solis and former drug prosecutor Jose Almengor to the Supreme Court this fall have been poorly received by Panamanian opinion makers. Several leading newspaper editors told the Ambassador and DCM th [...]
2009-10-07 17:31:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PM
09PANAMA757MARTINELLI NOT MEETING PRO-BUSINESS RHETORIC OR
[...] (C) Summary: The distinguishing feature of the Martinelli Administration's economic policy has been that there does not appear to be a coherent or consistent policy. It has made one major positive decision, which is to maintain sound macro economic policies. It has made one major negative de [...]
2009-10-07 20:21:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALECON PREL PGOV PM
09PANAMA776ATTORNEY GENERAL UNDER PRESSURE
[...] (C) Summary: Attorney General Ana Matilde Gomez has reported both publicly and privately that she is receiving pressure from the GOP to prosecute former government officials, and she vows to resist the pressure and defend the independence of the AG's office. President Martinelli, frustrated b [...]
2009-10-19 21:14:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS PHUM PINR PM
09PANAMA829PLANS TO ESTABLISH FOUR MARITIME OPERATIONS CENTERS
[...] (C) Summary: Minister of Government and Justice Jose Raul Mulino announced in late October that the GOP intended to establish four maritime operating centers to interdict narcotics and other illegal items transiting Panamanian waters. The operation centers would be jointly manned by security f [...]
2009-11-09 23:28:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MASS PINR ASEC SNAR PM
09PANAMA837Demarche Delivered, Panama Thanked for UNGA Votes on No
[...] (C) Poloff delivered a message of thanks to the Office Director of International Organization and Conferences in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ms. Delia Villamonte, for Panama's recent vote against no action motions and "yes" vote on country-specific human rights motions in the UN Gene [...]
2009-11-16 16:58:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALPREL UN PM
09PANAMA839PANAMA RELUCTANT TO PROSECUTE PIRATES
[...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA Director General for Treaty and Legal Affairs Vladimir Franco October 29, following up on an informal approach on September 22, which in turn followed up on a discussion between USCG lawyers and MFA officials in September 2008. Franco said that he u [...]
2009-11-16 19:06:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PM KPIR EWWT
09PANAMA859PANAMA CONSIDERING HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL CANDIDACY
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-07 21:10:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALUNGA PGOV PREL
09PANAMA861THANKS DELIVERED TO PANAMA FOR UNGA VOTE ON DEFAMATION OF
[...] (C) Per reftel, on November 30, POLOFF delivered a message of thanks to Jonattan Del Rosario, Assistant Director General of Foreign Policy at the Ministry of Foreign Relations. POLOFF expressed gratitude for Panama's vote at the UN General Assembly against the resolution on defamation of reli [...]
2009-12-07 21:11:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALUNGA PGOV PREL PM
09PANAMA873ILLEGAL AFRICAN MIGRATION POSES CHALLENGE TO PANAMA
[...] (U) The number of illegal African migrants smuggled through Panama has grown six-fold in 2009. Somali and other Horn of Africa migrants are a particular concern for Panama, which has shown no inclination to accept them as refugees, yet is struggling to find a humane response to the increase. [...]
2009-12-10 20:17:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PM SO SMIG PREF
09PANAMA879Ambassador's November 25 Meetings with President, Vice
[...] (C) Summary/Introduction: The Ambassador and DCM spent six hours in meetings with top government officials on November 25 to persuade them that neglecting to focus attention and resources on Panama's burgeoning crime and gang problems would be disastrous. The Martinelli Administration has taken [...]
2009-12-15 14:48:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID MASS ECON SNAR ASEC PINR PM
09PANAMA88PANAMA TO REQUIRE NO DEATH PENALTY/LIFE
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Embassy received a dip note from the Panamanian MFA on January 7 stating that the Attorney General's Office had decided to require a declaration of certificate in extradition cases on charges that might lead to a sentence of death or life imprisonment that these penalties [...]
2009-01-29 21:37:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PM
09PANAMA89PANAMA: COMMENT ON DOL DRAFT LIST FOR TVPRA
[...] (SBU) This is an action request; see para 3. ------- Summary ------- 2. (C) Regarding REFTEL A, Embassy Panama concurs with DOL's assessment that coffee is a good for which there is reason to believe is produced by child labor in violation of international standards. Indeed, there is [...]
2009-01-29 21:39:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALEIND ELAB ETRD PHUM SOCI KTIP
09PANAMA891Ambassador's November 25 Meetings with President, Vice
[...] (C) Summary/Introduction: The Ambassador and DCM spent six hours in meetings with top government officials on November 25 to work through a number of specific security issues, as well as to agree on a structure for better coordination on security issues. End summary/ introduction. The U [...]
2009-12-17 18:43:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID MASS SNAR ASEC PINR PM
09PANAMA97PANAMA: MEXICAN TAKE ON QUADRILATERAL MEETING
[...] (C) While Mexico was pleased with the results of the January 16 Colombia-Guatemala-Mexico-Panama quadrilateral security talks, the Mexican delegation had also been very frustrated with the GOP's simplistic tendency to blame all its internal criminal problems on the presence of Colombians and [...]
2009-02-03 15:05:00Embassy PanamaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PM
09PARAMARIBO145SURINAME: CUBA, COUNTRY BY COUNTRY REVIEW FOR
[...] (C) Embassy Paramaribo recommends the continued suspension of Title III for Suriname. The Government of Suriname has made no significant effort to promote the advancement of democracy, human rights, and fundamental freedoms in Cuba. In December 2008, Suriname opened a diplomatic mission in Cub [...]
2009-05-18 18:49:00Embassy ParamariboCONFIDENTIALETRD ETTC PREL CU NS
09PARAMARIBO327Suriname: Cuba, Country by Country Review for Suspension of
[...] C) Embassy Paramaribo recommends continued suspension of Title III for Suriname. The Government of Suriname has made no significant effort to promote the advancement of democracy, human rights, and fundamental freedoms in Cuba. In December 2008, Suriname opened a diplomatic mission in Cuba; t [...]
2009-11-12 20:20:00Embassy ParamariboCONFIDENTIALETRD ETTC CU NS
09PARIS1007MIDDLE EAST: SARKOZY AND MUBARAK CONFER ON NEXT
[...] (C) Summary: Mubarak and Sarkozy reportedly are in agreement on the need to move quickly on the Israel-Palestinian front, following their meeting in Paris July 21. According to one of Sarkozy,s key advisors, Mubarak shares Sarkozy,s interest in convening an international conference as a mea [...]
2009-07-24 15:55:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL FR
09PARIS102RECENT FRENCH THINKING ABOUT RUSSIA, GEORGIA, AND
[...] (C) Summary: French presidency and MFA officials shared a unified view that amplified current French thinking on dealing with Russia, whether with respect to Georgia or in terms of the ongoing gas crisis involving the Ukraine. Bottom line: Sustaining the Geneva process on Georgia will be a [...]
2009-01-22 16:39:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EPET FR RS UP GG
09PARIS1040WEST AFRICA: FRENCH MFA OFFICIAL'S JULY 30
[...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA AF Deputy DAS-equivalent Laurent Bigot on July 30 commented on a range of West Africa issues: -- Cote d'Ivoire: Bigot thought elections were still possible, if not likely, on November 29. -- Niger: He feared that President Tandja's quest for a third term not only re [...]
2009-07-31 09:04:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL XY IV NG GV CM MR FR
09PARIS1051SOMALIA: FRANCE UNABLE TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-03 12:19:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER SO EAID KPKO FR
09PARIS107FRENCH OVERVIEW OF GAERC TALKS ON GAZA, GUANTANAMO
[...] (C) Summary. On January 23, MFA Chief of EU Common Foreign and Security Policy Patrick Maisonnave provided an overview of the two primary topics for discussion at the January 26-27 GAERC. Foremost, the Foreign Ministers will discuss a way ahead on the Gaza crisis, starting with a non-paper [...]
2009-01-23 17:38:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL EUN PGOV PHUM KPAL IS FR
09PARIS1084UNSC SOMALIA SANCTIONS: GOF SAYS IT WILL SEARCH
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-10 12:16:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALEFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER XW UNSC FR
09PARIS1102GULF COUNTRIES A GROWING PRIORITY FOR FRANCE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Taking a cue from President Sarkozy's personal interest in the region, the French MFA has devoted increasing attention and staff to their bilateral relations with Gulf countries since 2007, according to the MFA's three Gulf Country Desk Officers. Qatar still maintains a privilege [...]
2009-08-13 13:33:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL FR
09PARIS1154FRENCH FRUSTRATION WITH SLOW PACE OF EUROPEAN
[...] (C) Summary. In recent meetings, French officials have expressed significant frustration with the delays in launching the European Gendarmerie Force (EGF) police training mission to Afghanistan, attributing much of the problem to Italian intransigence. While the August meetings at NATO to s [...]
2009-08-21 15:17:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS NATO AF FR IT
09PARIS1155BMENA: FRANCE UNDECIDED ON LEVEL OF PARTICATION
[...] (C) Poloffs delivered reftel demarche August 18 to MFA North Africa DAS Cyrille Rogeau, Special Assistant to the MFA Middle East Director Michel Roche, and MFA Morocco Desk Officer Marie Buscail. Rogeau said the MFA strongly supports the aims and ideals of the November BMENA Forum for the Fu [...]
2009-08-21 16:10:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL FR
09PARIS1170FRANCE SUPPORTS MIDDLE EAST CONSENSUS RESOLUTION
[...] (C) During an August 25 meeting, IAEA desk officer in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Disarmament and Non-proliferation Department Francois Revardeaux said France was in full agreement on the need to return to consensus on Middle East issues at the IAEA, both for the sake of the important wor [...]
2009-08-26 15:31:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALAORC PREL PARM KNNP IAEA EG IS UK FR
09PARIS1193FRANCE-IRAN: MAGAZINE ARTICLE RE-IGNITES POLITICAL
[...] (C) Summary. A series of Iranian and French actions in Paris seem to have decreased the likelihood that accused French citizen Clotilde Reiss will be acquitted in the immediate future. After Iranian authorities conditionally released Reiss from prison on August 16, it appeared that she coul [...]
2009-09-01 10:32:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM IR FR
09PARIS1195UNRWA AT 60 DEMARCHE
[...] (C) On August 31, poloff delivered talking points to MFA Deputy Middle East DAS Frederic Bereyziat, per reftel. Bereyziat was confident France would approve the Government of Israel's (GOI) request to speak at the UNRWA meeting on September 24. He was adamant that Israel needed to re-engage [...]
2009-09-01 13:05:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL UNGA KPAL FR
09PARIS1198GREAT LAKES; SE WOLPE'S AUGUST 28 CONSULTATIONS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: French officials at the Presidency and MFA were in general agreement with Great Lakes Special Envoy Howard Wolpe during his August 28 meetings in Paris. The French agreed on the need to encourage continued cooperation between the DRC and Rwanda, and between Presidents Kabila an [...]
2009-09-02 08:37:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PINS PINR PHUM ZF RW CG FR
09PARIS1206AMBASSADOR PRESSES FM KOUCHNER ON UNESCO DG RACE
[...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: Embassy Paris continued its on-going engagement with France on the UNESCO Director General race. The Ambassador raised it forcefully in a September 2 meeting with FM Kouchner, in which he urged the French to actively engage on preventing the election of Hosni and to help build [...]
2009-09-03 15:31:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL KUNR AORC APER KAWC UNGA FR
09PARIS1207FRENCH EXPECTATIONS FOR SEPTEMBER GYMNICH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA Acting Chief of EU Common Foreign and Security Policy Mathieu Carmona previewed on September 3 French expectations and priorities for the September 4-5 Gymnich. Discussions of all subjects, which will include Middle East peace, Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan, and Turkey and A [...]
2009-09-03 15:31:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL EUN IS GZ WE SY IR AF PK TU EG FR
09PARIS1213NEW CONCERNS ABOUT COTE D'IVOIRE ELECTIONS FROM
[...] (C) Summary: Africa Advisor at the Elysee, Romain Serman, told Poloffs he believed Cote d'Ivoire President Laurent Gbagbo was taking new steps to further delay elections, including asking France to help in making "disarmament of rebels" a precondition. Serman asserted he told Gbagbo's repre [...]
2009-09-04 08:58:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PINR PGOV IV FR
09PARIS1218FRANCE-IAEA: TOTAL SUPPORT ON IRAN, MORE NUANCED ON SYRIA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: GOF contacts at the MFA and the Elysee all expressed strong agreement with U.S. views of the IAEA report on Iran (reftel),but gave a slightly more nuanced reaction to the Syria report. The French view on the Syria report tracks with ours and our interlocutors expressed serious c [...]
2009-09-04 16:08:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALKNNP PARM IAEA MNUC IR SY TRGY PREL FR
09PARIS1222FRANCE'S APPROACH TO SOMALILAND AND PUNTLAND
[...] (C) Summary: France has diplomatic engagements with Somaliland at a number of levels, including visits to Hargeisa by the French Ambassador and others based in Djibouti. France is helping Somaliland establish a representational "bureau" in Paris. France provides some developmental and huma [...]
2009-09-08 15:14:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PINR PHUM EAID PGOV SO FR
09PARIS1228FRANCE-IRAN: JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE AT THE ROOT OF
[...] (C) We met with Elysee strategic affairs advisor Richier September 4 to follow up on reports that a French judge had released Iranian national Majid Kakavand on bail and subject to determination of a pending U.S. extradition request. In previous conversations about the fate of French citizen C [...]
2009-09-09 10:27:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL IR FR
09PARIS1242SIGNIFICANT HURDLES FACE THE FRENCH SOCIALIST
[...] (C) Summary: A Socialist Party (PS) identity crisis continues. Efforts to unify the party have failed so far to stem the feud between those who want to move the PS toward the center and those who cling to hard left views. Perhaps too comfortable in their control over the majority of regiona [...]
2009-09-11 15:15:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV FR
09PARIS1266AMBASSADOR URGES FRANCE TO SUPPORT CONSENSUS ON
[...] (C) SUMMARY: As negotiations on the draft resolution for the UN Security Council Summit on Nonproliferation and Disarmament continue in New York, Post is strongly emphasizing to the French the importance of reaching P5 consensus. So far, the GOF message remains one of concern that a resolutio [...]
2009-09-16 15:43:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL FR
09PARIS1275FRENCH RESPONSE TO THE PRESIDENT'S ANNOUNCEMENT ON
[...] (C) On September 17, Post forwarded the points provided in reftel A as instructed to select French contacts in the MFA and Elysee, just prior to President Obama's announcement on missile defense. We then followed up with Patrick Maisonnave, the new Director of Strategic Affairs at the MFA (A/ [...]
2009-09-18 12:16:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALMARR PREL NATO FR
09PARIS1277URGING IRAN TO RESOLVE MISSING/DETAINED AMCIT CASES
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-18 14:56:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PINR PREL PROP PTER CASC IR FR
09PARIS128DRC/RWANDA: ENTERING A POSITIVE NEW PHASE?
[...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA Great Lakes desk officer Laurent Chevallier on January 26 said that recent developments in the DRC and Rwanda (Nkunda's arrest, GOR pursuit of the FDLR in the DRC, Uganda's operations in the DRC against the Lord's Resistance Army/LRA) were very positive signs that the broad [...]
2009-01-28 15:58:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PINS PHUM MOPS CG RW FR
09PARIS1290DEMARCHE: EXPANDING THE CHORUS ON IRAN
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-22 15:13:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALAORC KNNP MNUC PARM PREL IAEA IR FR
09PARIS1292FRENCH RESPONSE TO U.S. MTCR PLENARY PROPOSALS
[...] (C) French Missile Technology Control Regime Point of Contact (MTCR POC) Florent Aydalot responded on September 22 to the proposals contained in reftel, as follows: - Information Exchange and Technical Experts Meeting (IE-TEM) Working Group: Aydalot said he wondered whether introducing a new [...]
2009-09-22 15:17:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALMTCRE ETTC KSCA PARM PREL FR
09PARIS1293FRANCE LOOKS FORWARD TO P3 CONSULTATIONS ON NPT
[...] (SBU) France looks forward to the P3 consultations on the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) and the Fissile Materials Cutoff Treaty (FMCT) on October 9, confirmed MFA NPT officer Celine Jurgensen September 22. Jurgensen said the French delegation was yet to be confirmed, but would probably [...]
2009-09-23 11:17:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALAORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA
09PARIS1294FRENCH OFFICIALS DISCUSS WEST AFRICA WITH DAS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: French officials at the MFA, Presidency, and MOD on September 17 expressed general agreement with AF DAS William Fitzgerald on a range of West African issues, including Togo (need to keep pressing for proper presidential elections),Benin (a success story but with serious corru [...]
2009-09-23 11:17:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM PINR PGOV KCOR SNAR XY FR
09PARIS1296FRANCE APPOINTS SPECIAL ENVOY TO NORTH KOREA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On September 22, the French MFA hosted a hastily arranged briefing for the Ambassadors of China, South Korea, Japan, and the U.S. on a mission President Sarkozy has asked former French Culture Minister Jack Lang to undertake regarding North Korea. The French explained Sarkozy took [...]
2009-09-23 15:48:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL KNNP KN KS XB FR
09PARIS1300CONSTRUCTIVE OUTCOME FROM THE GOLDSTONE REPORT
[...] (C) On September 23, poloff met with French MFA Deputy Middle East DAS Frederick Bereyziat to deliver talking points per reftel. Bereyziat said the Government of France (GOF) had been debating the findings of the Goldstone Report for the past three days to finalize its position. Although a [...]
2009-09-23 17:01:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALKISL KPAL PHUM PREL PTER IS FR
09PARIS1309FRANCE SUPPORTS UNSC CONFLICT-RELATED SEXUAL VIOLENCE RESOLUTION
[...] (C) On September 16, poloff delivered reftel talking points on the Security Council resolution on conflict-related sexual violence to MFA Assistant Director for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs Cecile Vigneau. The French requested additional time to review the demarche and responded on Se [...]
2009-09-24 16:32:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALKPKO PHUM PREL CG FR KWMN
09PARIS1311FRANCE/AFRICA - PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR ON NIGER,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Foremost among the issues keeping Presidential Africa Advisor Remi Marechaux occupied is the AQIM threat, particularly to Niger, which will not allow France to suspend military cooperation despite unhappiness with Tandja's political maneuverings -- he hopes the U.S. will act lik [...]
2009-09-25 09:44:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER KDEM PGOV KCOR PINR AU NG MA SF
09PARIS1335FRENCH MFA ON YEMEN, SYRIA, IRAQ AND QATAR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: French MFA Middle East Director (A/S equivalent) Patrice Paoli told DAS Janet Sanderson September 11 that the French have grown very concerned about the increasingly precarious political and security situation in Yemen. As part of a bid to help re-stabilize Yemen, they plan to boost th [...]
2009-09-29 15:35:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SY QA YM LE IZ FR
09PARIS134LONG-TERM IMPLICATIONS OF THE FRENCH EU PRESIDENCY
[...] (SBU) Summary. France's EU presidency ended amidst much French acclaim and a boost for President Sarkozy, who is widely viewed to have maximized the opportunities and reaped the domestic benefits presented by the EU leadership role. To many observers, the French EU presidency confirmed what [...]
2009-01-29 18:07:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EUN FR
09PARIS1340HORN OF AFRICA/PIRACY: FRENCH OFFICIAL DISCUSSES
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The French will attend the October 6-8 Maritime Security Sector Reform (MSSR) meeting in Brussels but may also want a USG team to visit Paris to discuss Horn of Africa piracy on a broad inter-agency basis. France favors taking action to block ports used by pirates and against [...]
2009-09-30 10:04:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALEWWT KCRM PHSA PHUM PREL SO XA XW FR
09PARIS1341FRENCH CLAIM FRANCE-ALGERIA RELATIONS "NOT
[...] (C) French-Algerian relations are "not strained," despite recent press reports to the contrary and despite repeated delays of the state visit of Algerian President Bouteflika, insisted MFA Algeria Desk Officer Anne-Claire Legendre on September 29. Legendre told poloff that internal political [...]
2009-09-30 11:04:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL AG FR
09PARIS1349RWANDA: FRENCH JUDGE ENDS QUESTIONING OF ROSE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The French judge investigating events concerning the 1994 Rwandan genocide has dismissed the first Rwandan official questioned in the case. Rose Kabuye was granted freedom of movement when the judge on September 25 lifted the international arrest warrant that was used to compel he [...]
2009-10-01 14:43:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PINR KCRM KJUS RW FR
09PARIS1357TOGO: AMBASSADOR HAWKINS'S PARIS CONSULTATIONS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: French officials at the MFA, Presidency, and MOD generally agreed with U.S. Ambassador to Togo Patricia Hawkins's assessment of the situation in Togo concerning the importance of the presidential election in 2010, the weakness of the opposition, and the tensions that might arise [...]
2009-10-02 17:42:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM PHUM SNAR PINR TO FR
09PARIS1369GUINEA: MFA PROVIDES OVERVIEW TO DIPLOMATIC
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The MFA provided on October 8 a briefing on Guinea to Paris diplomats, stressing the need for Dadis Camara to step down or otherwise be replaced as Guinea's leader, with elections to follow. French officials said that any military intervention force would have to be led by Afr [...]
2009-10-08 15:08:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KDEM PINS GV FR
09PARIS1389FRENCH ENVOY ON INFORMATIONAL MISSION TO NORTH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: French officials, including senior presidency staff, confirmed that newly appointed Special Envoy to North Korea Jack Lang is going on an information gathering mission to Six-Party capitals to provide President Sarkozy a more comprehensive "snapshot" of the DPRK denuclearization is [...]
2009-10-14 15:14:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR PHUM MNUC KN KS CH JA RU FR
09PARIS1393FRENCH MFA ON RUSSIA, BOSNIA, KARABAKH, KAZAKHSTAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: The Government of France is "reflecting" on ways to improve the strategic relationship between Russia and the West, and may consider the potential value of entering into new negotiations on the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty, according to Roland Galharague [...]
2009-10-14 16:35:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV RS BK KZ AM AJ FR
09PARIS1394FRENCH RESPONSE TO GOLDSTONE REPORT DEMARCHE
[...] (C) Poloffs discussed Ref A demarche on October 14 with MFA UN/IO officers Jean-Luc Delvert (human rights) and Frederic Jung (UNSC Middle East issues) who confirmed that France shares most of the U.S. perspective on the handling of the Goldstone report. Jung confirmed that France would likel [...]
2009-10-14 16:41:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PTER KPAL IS FR
09PARIS1396FRANCE AGREES KENYA SHOULD INCREASE ASSISTANCE TO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOF agrees with the U.S. that Kenya should do more to assist refugees from Somalia in Kenya. MFA staff is considering how to approach Kenya; one possibility would be for FM Kouchner to raise the issue with Kenya's Prime Minister Raila Odinga during the latter's October 20-2 [...]
2009-10-15 08:27:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL UNHCR KE FR
09PARIS1405SYRIAN AMBASSADOR TOUTS BETTER RELATIONS WITH U.S,
[...] (C) Summary. The Syrian Ambassador to France Lamia Chakkour discussed a wide variety of topics with PolMinCouns and poloffs October 13. The Ambassador praised France's rapprochement with Syria and said her country had been helpful in educating the Government of France (GOF) about regional is [...]
2009-10-16 16:02:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SY FR
09PARIS1415CHAD: PRESIDENT DEBY'S OCTOBER 16 MEETING WITH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Chad's President Deby told France's President Sarkozy on October 16 that he would continue to build political dialogue and reconciliation in Chad, that Chad's relations with Sudan were improving after the recent high-level Sudanese delegation's visit to N'Djamena, that Chad nee [...]
2009-10-21 14:40:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PINR MOPS CD SU FR
09PARIS1416MARCH 2010 REGIONAL ELECTIONS PREVIEW SARKOZY'S
[...] (C) Summary: French regional elections scheduled for March 2010 are shaping up as a measurement of President Nicolas Sarkozy's strength at the mid-point of his term. Despite rumors of malaise and dogged by a series of internal political tempests including the Clearstream trial, rumors of his Cultu [...]
2009-10-21 15:09:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL FR
09PARIS1426FRANCE: SCENESETTER FOR FBI DIRECTOR MUELLER,S
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Embassy Paris welcomes the visit of FBI Director Mueller. The timing of this first trip is ideal, with our bilateral relationship at its highest point in fifty years. You will find your interlocutors energized by the President,s visits to Paris and Normandy and they look forward t [...]
2009-10-22 15:58:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV FR
09PARIS1427FRENCH EXPECTATIONS FOR OCTOBER 26-27 GAERC
[...] (SBU) On October 23, Mathieu Carmona, Deputy Director for EU Common Foreign and Security Policy, provided the following preview for the October 26-27 GAERC meeting of EU foreign ministers: ---- IRAN ---- 2. (C) Carmona said much of an October 26 dinner would be devoted to a discussion [...]
2009-10-23 12:57:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL EUN IR BK AL MK GR AF PK GV CE MD UZ
09PARIS1438FRENCH ACTIVITIES IN THE GULF
[...] (C) The French Presidency's Counselor for North Africa and the Middle East, Nicolas Galey, discussed French activities in the Arabian Gulf with PolMinCouns and poloff on October 22. Galey said President Sarkozy will visit Saudi Arabia November 17 to 19 to highlight the importance of this bil [...]
2009-10-26 17:13:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALENRG PGOV PINS PREL SA KU AEC FR
09PARIS1442MUSLIM-JEWISH RELATIONS IN FRANCE FOLLOWING GAZA
[...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: During a series of recent meetings, French officials responsible for developing and implementing GOF policy toward organized religion told poloff that the January 2009 conflict in Gaza continues to strain institutional and communal relations between France's two large [...]
2009-10-28 09:23:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL FR
09PARIS1459AMBASSADOR KNIGHT'S DISCUSSIONS WITH FRENCH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: New U.S. Ambassador to Benin, James Knight, on October 23 received from French officials a mixed assessment of the current social, political, and economic situation in the country. France hopes that President Yayi can display a more results-oriented leadership style but are con [...]
2009-10-29 15:38:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM PGOV KCOR PINR BN FR
09PARIS1464FRANCE WELCOMES NEW U.S. SUDAN STRATEGY, WANTS TO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: France's assessment of the new U.S. Sudan strategy is positive, viewing it as a more "holistic" approach to Sudan's many challenges, according to the MFA's Desk Officer for Sudan. France appreciates the U.S. willingness to engage with a broad range of interlocutors and partners [...]
2009-10-30 14:24:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SU FR
09PARIS1465GUINEA: AMBASSADOR MOLLER'S CONSULTATIONS IN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: French officials generally agreed with U.S. Ambassador to Guinea Patricia Moller on the need for the international community to develop a visible process or framework on Guinea that could lead to a transition to a democratic government, with Burkina Faso President Campaore's inter [...]
2009-10-30 17:21:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PINS PINR KDEM GV FR
09PARIS1471TOGO'S UFC LEADER GILCHRIST OLYMPIO CONTINUES HIS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Meeting with us on October 26, Togolese opposition leader Gilchrist Olympio was relaxed and at ease as he discussed his electoral prospects. He said he had overcome several procedural obstacles and was ready to campaign actively for the presidency. He asked that the U.S., alon [...]
2009-11-02 17:39:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KCOR EINV TO CH GH FR
09PARIS1479FRANCE/GOLDSTONE: FRANCE SHARES MANY U.S. REDLINES
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Poloff discussed Ref. A demarche on November 3 with MFA UN/IO officer Frederic Jung, who covers UNSC Middle East issues, and who found nothing unexpected in the U.S. position. France is working with other EU members to secure agreement on significant changes to the current draf [...]
2009-11-04 16:07:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PTER KPAL EUN IS FR
09PARIS1494FRANCE SUPPORTIVE BUT FLEXIBLE ON BELARUS SANCTIONS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: France supports the EU rolling over both sanctions and their suspension at the November GAERC meeting, but remains flexible as to the exact form of the rollover. Although the GOF does not believe that the Belarusian government has earned the reward of lifted sanctions, the French [...]
2009-11-06 14:44:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL EUN BO FR
09PARIS1495FRENCH RESPONSE TO THE 2009 IRF REPORT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Press and public reaction to the 2009 International Religious Freedom (IRF) report in France has been largely muted since its public release on October 26. However, in a follow up meeting, the MFA offered a more critical response to the report, characterizing the Scientology case [...]
2009-11-06 15:03:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL KDEM PGOV KIRF KISL FR
09PARIS1508(S) REACTION TO IRANIAN BANK SUBSIDIARY DESIGNATION
[...] (C) On November 12, Embassy delivered demarche on subject designation to MFA DAS-equivalent for non-proliferation Martin Briens. He said he expects more Iranian banks to try to open foreign subsidiaries to ease some of the pressure of UN sanctions, including in countries at Europe's doorstep s [...]
2009-11-13 11:05:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALKNNP EFIN IR MY FR
09PARIS1510(C) REACTION TO IRANIAN BANK SUBSIDIARY DESIGNATION
[...] (C) On November 12, Embassy delivered demarche on subject designation to MFA DAS-equivalent for non-proliferation Martin Briens. He said he expects more Iranian banks to try to open foreign subsidiaries to ease some of the pressure of UN sanctions, including in countries at Europe's doorstep s [...]
2009-11-13 17:13:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALKNNP EFIN IR MY FR
09PARIS1511FRENCH EXPECTATIONS FOR NOVEMBER 16-17 GAERC
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On November 13, Deputy Chief of the MFA's Common Foreign and Security Policy office Mathieu Carmona previewed French expectations for the November 16-17 GAERC. Foreign ministers will prepare for the upcoming EU-Russia summit by reviewing the Corfu process, the situation in the N [...]
2009-11-13 17:33:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL EUN RS UP SO BK AF BO FR
09PARIS1512SRAP HOLBROOKE CONSULTATIONS WITH DIPLOMATIC
[...] (C) Summary. During a visit to Paris on November 13, Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan (SRAP) Richard Holbrooke consulted with Jean-David Levitte, Diplomatic Advisor to President Sarkozy, on proposals to improve the coordination of the SRAP collective and to improve overal [...]
2009-11-14 10:33:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL NATO FR AF GM
09PARIS1521FRENCH-GERMAN RELATIONS SOLID, DESPITE GERMAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Since the formation of the new German coalition and final ratification of the Lisbon Treaty, the French government has made a series of proposals designed to promote French-German unity and further strengthen bilateral ties. In large part, this is a means to emphasize shared pri [...]
2009-11-17 09:08:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL GM FR
09PARIS1526FRANCE AND BRAZIL: THE START OF A LOVE AFFAIR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Considered "a love fest" by the MFA, the growing Franco-Brazilian relationship under Presidents Sarkozy and Lula is likely to result in more political, diplomatic, economic, and military engagement in the next three years and throughout Sarkozy's time in office. Committed to exp [...]
2009-11-17 15:21:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MASS BR FR
09PARIS1532GUINEA: DAS FITZGERALD'S CONSULTATIONS IN PARIS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: French officials at the MFA and Presidency were in general agreement with AF DAS William Fitzgerald November 16 on the need for a change in leadership in Guinea, but they also agreed that effecting change, making sure Dadis steps down, and identifying a suitable replacement gover [...]
2009-11-19 08:39:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV GV FR
09PARIS1533FRENCH RESPONSE TO U.S. PRIORITIES ON AFGHANISTAN
[...] (C) Post delivered reftel demarche outlining U.S. priorities for Afghanistan on November 17 to Francois Delmas, a specialist assigned to the French MFA's Af-Pak cell. Delmas responded that most of the priorities outlined in the demarche were similar to French objectives, particularly the focu [...]
2009-11-19 09:08:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV AF FR
09PARIS1534"FRANCAFRIQUE" -- MFA DISPUTES REPORTS ON A RETURN
[...] (C) Summary: MFA's AF Assistant Secretary-equivalent Stephan Gompertz denied that France's approach to Africa is backsliding into the patterns of previous administrations' "francafrique." He insisted that France is not interfering in African countries' internal politics. He said that in the re [...]
2009-11-19 09:37:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM PGOV KCOR PTER PINR FR
09PARIS1540FRANCE'S APPROACH TO UNGA RESOLUTIONS WITH
[...] (C) Poloff discussed Reftel demarche on November 19 with MFA UN/IO officer Frederic Jung, who covers UNSC and UNGA Middle East issues. Jung noted that France's approach on these types of country-specific resolutions follows EU policy in that the 27 members consult internally for a consensus [...]
2009-11-19 15:34:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PTER KPAL EUN IS FR
09PARIS1541FRANCE CONCERNED ABOUT LACK OF SUBSTANCE FOR
[...] (U) This is an action request - please see paragraph 5. 2. (C) Summary. During a November 19 meeting with the Political Counselor, Patrick Maisonnave, Director for Strategic Affairs at the MFA, expressed concern that preparations for the December OSCE ministerial in Athens were not going [...]
2009-11-19 15:36:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL OSCE FR
09PARIS1542MARITIME SECURITY SECTOR REFORM AND HORN OF AFRICA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A French inter-agency team expressed keen interest in USG ideas on piracy and Maritime Security Sector Reform (MSSR) during PM/PPA Donna Hopkins's November 13 consultations in Paris. The French agreed to provide constructive feedback on the MSSR matrix under development by Sta [...]
2009-11-19 15:37:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALMARR ETTC PREL PGOV KPIR XO SO FR
09PARIS1544FRENCH VIEWS IN ADVANCE OF THE NATO MINISTERIAL
[...] (C) Summary. Two weeks out from the NATO summit, post met with French officials to discuss leading issues in advance of the December 3-4 NATO ministerial meeting. Our French interlocutors included Patrick Maisonnave, Strategic Affairs Director at the MFA; Muriel Domenech, MFA DAS-equivalen [...]
2009-11-20 11:25:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL NATO MOPS FR AF
09PARIS1548FRANCO-CUBAN RELATIONS: RESPONSE TO REVIEW FOR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: France advocates democratic advancement and the protection of fundamental human rights in conjunction with the joint EU position on Cuba. Although diplomatic ties have been frayed since 2003, the GOF supports continued dialogue with Havana on democratization and the release of p [...]
2009-11-23 12:47:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALETRD ETTC EFIN EINV PREL PHUM FR CU
09PARIS1552SOMALIA SANCTIONS: FRENCH IN GENERAL AGREEMENT
[...] (C) MFA IO desk officer Teymouraz Gorjestani on November 20 said that the GOF was in general agreement with the USG approach to Somalia sanctions outlined in reftel. He said that France supported sanctions Against those individuals listed by the UN Sanctions Committee's Monitoring Group. ( [...]
2009-11-23 16:36:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALMARR MOPS PGOV PHUM PREL PTER XW UNSC FR
09PARIS1553FRANCE/BRAZIL: THE ECONOMIC AGENDA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Behind the cultural exchanges and warm diplomatic relations with Brazil (Ref A),France is embarking on a long-term strategy to court a country it sees as a resource-rich future global powerhouse and foothold in Latin America. Since the 2005 "Year of Brazil in France," commercial tie [...]
2009-11-23 16:52:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALECON PREL EINV BEXP ETRD EAID SENV FR BR
09PARIS1554SUDAN: RECENT SUDANESE VISITS AND CONSULTATIONS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Ghazi Salaheddin's recent consultations in Paris went well, according to MFA Sudan desk officer Thierry Caboche. Both sides "agreed to disagree" on ICC issues and focused on promoting Sudan-Chad reconciliation by trying to reduce Chadian and Sudanese support for their respectiv [...]
2009-11-23 16:53:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINS SU FR
09PARIS1565FRANCE: TOTAL SA LEADS THE NORTH CASPIAN OPERATING COMPANY
[...] (C) Summary. The North Caspian Operating Company (NCOC) will oversee planning and development of Kazakhstan's rich North Caspian petroleum resources, but the seven NCOC partner companies are on their own to get the crude to the market. NCOC faces numerous challenges: a harsh climate, sensit [...]
2009-11-24 16:55:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALEPET EINV ENRG BEXP FR KZ ETRD PREL
09PARIS1566FRANCE FULLY SUPPORTS U.S. POSITION ON SUBSIDIARY
[...] (C) MFA NPT Officer Celine Jurgensen said November 24 that France entirely shares the U.S. position detailed in reftel on subsidiary bodies at the 2Q0 NPT Review Conference (RevCon). Stressing the need to ensure states withdrawing from the NPT remain accountable for any violations committed w [...]
2009-11-25 11:25:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALAORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA
09PARIS1588PRELIMINARY FRENCH RESPONSE TO AFGHANISTAN
[...] (C) During November 25 meetings with Patrick Maisonnave, Strategic Affairs Director at the MFA, and Francois Richier, Strategic Affairs Advisor to President Sarkozy, the Political Minister-Counselor delivered reftel points while stressing the importance of strong Allied support for our strateg [...]
2009-11-25 17:05:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALNATO PREL MOPS MARR AF FR
09PARIS1589CJCS MULLEN OUTLINES STRATEGIC FRAMEWORK FOR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: CJCS Admiral Mike Mullen met with French Chief of Defense(CHOD)General Jean-Louis Georgelin to discuss the possibility of increasing the number of French troops committed to Afghanistan, in advance of the December 3-4 NATO Ministerial meetings. This discussion was precipitated by [...]
2009-11-25 18:37:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR MASS AF FR
09PARIS1592CHAD/C.A.R.: FRENCH BELIEVE INSECURITY RISING IN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA Chad/C.A.R. desk officer Vincent Alexandre, just returned from a week in Chad, told us on November 25 that insecurity seemed to be rising in eastern Chad and eastern C.A.R. He said that MINURCAT was much less effective than it could be and was operating with serious manpow [...]
2009-11-27 11:41:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PINS PINR KDEM CD CT FR
09PARIS1600CONGO-B'S PARIS-BASED "GOVERNMENT IN EXILE"
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Self-styled Prime Minister of the Government in Exile of the Republic of Congo, Tony Gilbert Moudilou, insisted that President Sassou Nguesso Nguesso "has to go." Moudilou asserted that Sassou Nguesso is physically and mentally ill, and that the President's goal is to pave the [...]
2009-11-30 16:56:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KCOR CF FR
09PARIS1609FRANCE-RUSSIA MISTRAL CLASS SHIP SALE: VIEW FROM THE SHIPYARD
[...] (SBU) This message is based on reporting by American Presence Post Rennes. 2. (C) Summary. Observers in the French shipbuilding industry (strictly protect) provided background information on prospects for the sale of Mistral-class helicopter carrier/amphibious assault ships to Russia. They [...]
2009-12-01 17:32:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALECON EIND ETRD RU MASS PARM PREL FR GG
09PARIS1610GABON: PRESIDENT ALI BONGO'S VISIT TO FRANCE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: President Ali Bongo of Gabon enjoyed a successful visit to France November 18-20, according to MFA DAS-equivalent Stephane Gruenberg. The visit marked for both sides Bongo's assumption of the presidency and his initial steps to develop his own identity as national leader apart [...]
2009-12-02 08:24:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SENV GB FR
09PARIS1653FRENCH PREVIEW OF DECEMBER FOREIGN AFFAIRS COUNCIL
[...] (SBU) On December 7, Mathieu Carmona, MFA Deputy Director for EU Common Foreign and Security Policy, provided the following preview for the December 7-8 Foreign Affairs Council meeting of EU foreign ministers: ----------------------- DINNER WITH LADY ASHTON ----------------------- 2. (S [...]
2009-12-07 14:41:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL EUN SO BK MK IS WE IR UP BO MD GG AM
09PARIS1669MONUC RENEWAL: FRENCH STILL PREFER 6-MONTH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The French continue to prefer a 6-month extension of the MONUC mandate and do not think either a 12-month mandate with an initial 4-month review process or a 4-month mandate to be followed by a 12-month mandate are practical. The French are willing to continue discussion of th [...]
2009-12-09 16:14:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALKPKP KPKO UNSC PREL CG FR
09PARIS1671FRANCE: TOTAL'S INVESTMENTS IN IRAN
[...] (C) Summary. Total SA stresses that its activities in Iran consist of safeguarding the company's remaining property interests. Total is recouping funds, in the form of reimbursements, from years-old investments in the development of Iran's oil and gas blocks. During a November 16 conversatio [...]
2009-12-10 12:03:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALECON ENRG EPET ETTC IR FR
09PARIS1686FRENCH SUPPORT UN SANCTIONS ON ERITREA
[...] (C) MFA IO desk officer Teymouraz Gorjestani on December 11 told us that the GOF had agreed to support the Ugandan draft UNSC resolution that contained provisions for imposing targeted sanctions on Eritrea (reftel). He mentioned that the GOF preferred that one individual, whom he described as [...]
2009-12-14 15:04:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL UNSC PGOV ER FR
09PARIS1687MICHEL BARNIER: WHO IS THE NEW EU COMMISSIONER FOR INTERNAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Michel Barnier's selection as European Commissioner for the Internal Markets is the culmination of years of maneuvering for a senior EC post. As Foreign Minister, Barnier called for a strong Europe based on a "Franco-German" rather than "Anglo-Saxon" model, and as Agriculture Mi [...]
2009-12-15 09:58:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV EFIN ECON PREL PINR FR EU
09PARIS1706FRANCE FULLY SUPPORTS U.S. POLICY ON BURMA
[...] (C) France fully supports current U.S. policy on Burma and wants to work closely with the U.S. to insure a coordinated approach, according to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Southeast Asia DAS-equivalent Charles-Henri Brosseau, who spoke to POLCOUNS on December 10, 2009. Brosseau noted that the F [...]
2009-12-16 16:39:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV BM FR
09PARIS1709SOMALIA/DJIBOUTI PEACE PROCESS: FRANCE FULLY
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-17 10:35:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SO FR
09PARIS1714FRENCH MINORITIES AND NATIONAL IDENTITY -- AN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In early November 2009, President Sarkozy launched a national debate on what it means to be French -- that is, the French "national identity." Confronting an increasingly globalized world and struggling with self-identity issues, including whether Muslim "burqas" should be bann [...]
2009-12-17 12:46:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV KIRF FR
09PARIS1716FRANCE QUERIES ON IRANIAN INVESTMENTS
[...] (C) Summary. French MFA official note increased activity in Iran's energy sector by Chinese and Indian companies but no new investments by French industrial firms. The MFA confirms that it has contacted Sofregaz, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Italian company Maire Technimont, to discourage [...]
2009-12-17 13:37:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALEPET ETTC ECON ENRG IR FR
09PARIS1720 FRANCE'S "YEAR OF" PROGRAM FINDS CULTURAL AND COMMERCIAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY Cultural exchanges serve as a vehicle for French commercial diplomacy and a key feature in its foreign affairs strategy. Through the semi-public agency CulturesFrance, France dedicates a calendar year or a shorter "season" to cultural cooperation with a chosen country in order to b [...]
2009-12-17 16:26:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALECON PREL EINV ETRD SCUL FR
09PARIS1731S/WCI RAPP'S CONSULTATIONS IN FRANCE (DECEMBER 14)
[...] (C) SUBJECT: French officials on December 14 told S/WCI Ambassador Stephen J. Rapp that they would advise consideration of a French contribution to support the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL) but cautioned that GOF budgetary resources were quite limited and that a contribution might n [...]
2009-12-21 09:38:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALKJUS KCRM PHUM YI RW SL FR
09PARIS1744FRANCE: SPECIAL ENVOY MORNINGSTAR'S ENERGY CONSULTATIONS
[...] (C/NF) Summary. French officials and industry leaders support diversifying energy supply/routes in Central Asia, market competition, an Azerbaijan-Turkey agreement for gas supply and transit issues. GDF-Suez joined Nord Stream and is interested in Nabucco and the Shtokman project. Total SA e [...]
2009-12-23 10:10:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALEPET ENRG ZK ZJ RS FR ECON
09PARIS1750DEMARCHE: URGING IRAN TO RESOLVE AMCIT CASES
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-23 16:26:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALCASC PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PROP PTER IR FR
09PARIS1754SARKOZY'S AF ADVISOR FRUSTRATED BY GUINEA,
[...] (C) Summary: During a December 22 meeting with Pol Minister Counselor, Deputy Diplomatic Counselor and Chief Africa Advisor to President Sarkozy, Andre Parant, was worried that Guinea junta leader Dadis Camara could return to Conakry very soon. Parant expressed frustration with "all the par [...]
2009-12-24 12:39:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM PGREV ETRD PHUM PINR GV MA NG MO
09PARIS177FRENCH TRADE POLICY - PROTECTIONISM REDUX?
[...] (C) Summary: The February 9 visit to Washington of French Agriculture Minister Michel Barnier comes just before he leaves his post to head-up President Sarkozy's UMP slate of candidates for the European Parliament. His departure may provide an opening to re-engage with the French, who are in [...]
2009-02-05 10:58:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD EAGR PREL EU FR
09PARIS193FRENCH DOMESTIC CONCERNS DRIVE TIMELINE ON NATO
[...] (C) Summary. Elysee Strategic Affairs Advisor Francois Richier outlined on February 3 some of the French domestic hurdles that will drive developments in the next couple of months on the announcement of French reintegration into NATO, possible authorization of troop reinforcements in Afghanis [...]
2009-02-06 08:25:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALNATO MOPS PREL FR AF
09PARIS204P-3 SHARE UNSC, UNESCO, HRC AND DURBAN CONCERNS
[...] (C) Summary: Acting IO A/S Jim Warlick joined French IO A/S-Equivalent Sylvie Bermann and UK IO Director Paul Johnston, along with MFA IO PDAS-Equivalent Marc Giacomini, IO DAS-Equivalent Fabien Penone, and Pol M/C for a P-3 exchange of views on February 6. Among topics of note, France led t [...]
2009-02-10 15:23:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL KPKO UNSC SO FR
09PARIS217FRENCH FEEDBACK ON KOSOVO RECOGNITION STRATEGY
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-12 12:07:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL AORC ICJ KV FR
09PARIS223A/DAS WYCOFF'S FEBRUARY 5 CONSULTATIONS IN PARIS:
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During February 5 meetings with AF Acting DAS Karl Wycoff, French officials: -- (on Chad) expressed skepticism about a role for the Francophonie organization in Chad; wanted "free and fair" elections yet seemed ready to welcome Deby's remaining in power as the best alternativ [...]
2009-02-12 15:53:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR PHUM PINS CD CG RW SO FR
09PARIS236IS THE FRENCH MODEL REALLY BACK?
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-13 17:12:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD PGOV FR
09PARIS238PRUDENCE RULES IN ADVANCE OF ICC ACTION ON BASHIR
[...] (C) Summary: Impending ICC action against Sudanese President Bashir dominated U.S., UK, and French consultations on February 11 as well as consultations with a broader informal group including Presidential Envoy for Sudan Mikhail V. Margelov. In a pre-meeting, U.S., UK and French officials [...]
2009-02-17 11:47:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL UNSC RU SU FR
09PARIS242MAURITANIA: FRENCH IN AGREEMENT WITH USG POSITION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-18 14:52:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV EUN MR PHUM PREL FR
09PARIS260FRENCH FEEDBACK ON NPT GOALS
[...] (C) Summary. On February 18, MFA desk officer for nuclear nonproliferation Celine Jurgensen said France's goal for the third Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) PrepCom is concrete progress in all three pillars of the nonproliferation regime, looking ahead to the 2010 Review Conference. A [...]
2009-02-20 13:19:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALAORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA
09PARIS265FRENCH PREVIEW OF GAERC: AFGHANISTAN, MIDDLE
[...] (C) Summary. On February 20, French MFA Deputy Chief for EU Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) Mathieu Carmona previewed four agenda items for the February General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) meeting: Afghanistan, the Middle East peace process, the Western Balkans, [...]
2009-02-20 16:55:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL EUN KPAL KWBG IS BK MW SR AF KV FR
09PARIS275MAURITANIA: INTERNATIONAL CONTACT GROUP MEETING
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The International Contact Group on Mauritania (ICG-M) met in Paris February 20. The European Union, France, and the United Nations joined the United States in expressing continued strong support for the African Union's opposition to the August 6 coup, but the Arab delegations [...]
2009-02-26 07:58:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM MR FR
09PARIS276GENERAL PETRAEUS DISCUSSES AFGHANISTAN, PAKISTAN
[...] (C) Summary: In meetings with PM Fillon, NSA Levitte, FM Kouchner, MinDef Morin and military chief Georgelin February 9 and 10, CENTCOM Commander General Petraeus discussed the situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan, noting the administration's strategic review now underway and emphasizing t [...]
2009-02-26 07:59:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALMOPS PREL PGOV NATO KPAL AF IR IS IZ PK FR
09PARIS298INDIA/MONUC: FRANCE STUDYING WAYS TO TAKE ACTION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-02 12:26:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALKPKO PREL PHUM UNSC CG IN FR
09PARIS301SOMALIA: FRANCE INTENDS TO CONTRIBUTE TO SSR
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-02 14:54:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KPKO SO FR
09PARIS303MADAGASCAR/COMOROS/ZIMBABWE: FRANCE TAKING
[...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA AF DAS-equivalent Francois Barateau on February 27 said that France was taking a low-profile with respect to Madagascar, Comoros, and Zimbabwe. On Madagascar, the French are supporting the UN and the international community's efforts to promote dialogue between President R [...]
2009-03-02 15:30:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PINS PHUM MA CN ZI FR
09PARIS324GUINEA-BISSAU: FRANCE THINKS ELECTIONS ARE THE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: France believes that it is imperative that presidential elections be held in Guinea-Bissau within the 60-day time-frame specified in the Guinea-Bissau constitution, MFA deskoff Ann'laure Hare said on March 4. The GOF is considering ways France can assist with elections but the [...]
2009-03-05 12:07:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL SNAR PU FR
09PARIS339FOR FRANCE, TAC ACCESSION A POSITIVE SYMBOL FOR ASEAN TIES, NOT A POLICY TOOL
[...] (C) France's January 2007 accession to the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation (TAC) with ASEAN has had positive symbolic value but little policy impact, Florent Aydalot, the MFA's Special Advisor on ASEAN affairs, told us March 9. Signing on to the treaty sent a clear signal that France has a [...]
2009-03-10 09:48:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL KTIA ASEAN FR
09PARIS343SUDAN/DARFUR: FRANCE REBUFFED IN LOBBYING FOR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A range of countries rebuffed a French attempt to lobby support for new humanitarian assistance programs in Sudan/Darfur following Khartoum's recent expulsion of NGOs, MFA Sudan deskoff Frederic Bouvier said on March 9. These included Libya, Russia, China, Ethiopia, Egypt, Ken [...]
2009-03-10 16:00:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM EAID KJUS SU FR
09PARIS362EUFOR/MINURCAT: FRENCH PLEASED WITH TRANSITION TO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: France is pleased with the transition from EUFOR/MINURCAT to the UN's MINURCAT successor operation in Chad and C.A.R., MFA Chad/C.A.R. deskoff Vincent Alexandre reported on March 11. The transition was going smoothly mainly because force generation problems had been overcome. [...]
2009-03-12 13:56:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR PHUM PREF CD CT FR
09PARIS367SARKOZY SUPPORTS NATO INTEGRATION; FORMAL
[...] (SBU) Summary and comment: A think tank seminar held March 11 on "France, European Defense and NATO in the 21st Century" was the setting for an all-star line-up of French Ministers and political elite to promote France,s reintegration into the military command of NATO. President Sarkozy ca [...]
2009-03-12 16:35:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL NATO MARR PGOV FR
09PARIS373BW/CW ALLIED CONSULTATIONS, PARIS, MARCH 4-5,
[...] (SBU) The Close Allies (U.S., UK, France, Germany) met in Paris on March 4-5 to discuss issues related to chemical and biological weapons nonproliferation/arms control. The meeting focused on priorities, strategy and tactics on near-term issues, longer-term goals for the BWC and CWC, includin [...]
2009-03-13 14:21:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL CWC OPCW CBW
09PARIS374MADAGASCAR: FRENCH UNCERTAIN HOW EVENTS WILL
[...] (C) French MFA Madagascar desk officer Beatrice Lederle on March 13 said that the GOF was having trouble evaluating events in Madagascar and developing a clear notion of where the crisis was heading. She said that the involvement of the military surprised the French. The situation on one le [...]
2009-03-13 15:17:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PINS PGOV CASC FR MA
09PARIS375FRENCH PREVIEW OF GAERC: BALKANS, BELARUS, SUDAN
[...] (C) Summary: The EU's March 16-17 General Affairs Council will focus on economic stimulus measures and preparation for the March 19-20 European Council rather than external relations, according to Mathieu Carmona, Deputy Head of the MFA's Common Foreign and Security Policy Office. In a Marc [...]
2009-03-13 15:30:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KPAL KWBG EUN FR BK MW BO SU IS
09PARIS399DRC/ROC/NIGER: PRESIDENCY PREVIEWS SARKOZY'S
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The centerpiece of French President Nicolas Sarkozy's March 26-27 visit to the DRC, the ROC, and Niger will be a speech in Kinshasa urging the DRC to take charge of its destiny and fulfill its potential as a key African player, according Presidential AF advisor Romain Serman's [...]
2009-03-18 17:01:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PTER ECON EAID CG CF NG FR
09PARIS400YOUR MEETING WITH FRENCH PRIME MINISTER
[...] (C) Mr. Vice President: Prime Minister Fillon will focus on the economy, the financial crisis, and the G20 Summit during his March 22-23 visit to New York and Washington. The French are looking for assurance that the U.S. will continue to seek common ground in the G20 and avoid scoring dome [...]
2009-03-18 17:08:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON OVIP FR
09PARIS403FRANCE PLEDGES CAUTION ON CUBA, LAMENTS MISFIRE ON
[...] (C) SUMMARY: President Sarkozy appointed former Socialist Minister Jack Lang to be Special Envoy on Cuba in order to drive forward French and EU dialogue with Cuba but also, on the domestic front, as outreach to a prominent French opposition party member, according to French Presidential Advis [...]
2009-03-19 13:30:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER PHUM CU MX BR FR
09PARIS406FRENCH RESPONSE ON DOWNSIZING KFOR
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-19 17:50:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS MARR NATO FR
09PARIS407FRENCH OUTREACH TO TURKS ON NATO REINTEGRATION
[...] (C) Senior French officials have contacted their Turkish counterparts to assuage possible concerns about the modalities of French reintegration back into the military command of NATO (reftel). Following General Jones' recent request to initiate outreach, both Jean-David Levitte, NSA-equivale [...]
2009-03-20 13:17:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR NATO FR TU
09PARIS408AMISOM/SOMALIA: FRANCE TRAINING UGANDAN MILITARY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: France is in the process of training a Ugandan military unit in Uganda for eventual deployment to AMISOM in Somalia. This is the fifth training operation of this nature the French have conducted; the four previous ones involved Uganda (three units) and Burundi (one unit). The [...]
2009-03-20 15:27:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KPKO MARR FR SO UG BY
09PARIS415FRENCH UNLIKELY TO OFFER MUCH AT PAKISTAN TOKYO
[...] (C) Embassy delivered points in reftel to French MFA officer Jasmine Zerinini deputy director of the newly created office of France's special envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan on March 16. She had no information when we spoke to her about French intentions with respect to new financial pled [...]
2009-03-20 17:55:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID ECON EFIN IBRD IMF PK FR
09PARIS424DJIBOUTI: REVELATIONS IN THE BORREL CASE SPARK
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The French daily "Liberation" on March 18 published an extensive article on the Borrel Case (Djibouti) that could prove damaging to the GOF. Djibouti has lost its suit at the ICJ where it sought French investigative files on Borrel and the circumstances of his death. Mrs. Borr [...]
2009-03-23 14:07:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PINR PHUM DJ FR
09PARIS454FRENCH ENGAGEMENT WITH IRAQ
[...] (C) Summary: Amid a flurry of high level visits, relations between France and Iraq continue to improve. Although the GOF is eager to see French companies participate in the reconstruction of Iraq's infrastructure, French enterprises have been cautious due to their lingering security concerns. [...]
2009-03-27 11:28:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL FR IZ
09PARIS463THE FRENCH ON PALESTINIAN RECONCILIATION:
[...] (C) Key points: -- President Sarkozy and FM Kouchner see no alternative to Palestinian reconciliation. France will likely find a way to engage with a Palestinian unity government even if that means breaking consensus within the EU; -- In the French view, demanding that Hamas formally acc [...]
2009-03-27 16:51:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER KPAL KWBG EUN FR IS
09PARIS465FRENCH RESPOND POSITIVELY TO ANNOUNCEMENT OF U.S.
[...] (C) SUMMARY: France welcomes the announcement of the report on U.S. policy toward Afghanistan and Pakistan in Ref A, MFA A/S-equivalent for Strategic, Security, and Disarmament Affairs Jacques Audibert told Pol M/C on March 27. In doing its part, France is working with Europeans engaged in [...]
2009-03-27 18:26:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS PINS EAID NATO FR AF PK
09PARIS475FRENCH MFA ON AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN
[...] (C) For the record, the French have responded positively to the outline of U.S. policy on Afghanistan and Pakistan presented by President Obama. We have shared the information in reftels requesting additional assistance on a number of fronts in Afghanistan and Pakistan with senior MFA and Ely [...]
2009-03-31 10:12:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS PINS EAID NATO FR AF PK
09PARIS483MAURITANIA/FRANCE: WORRIES OVER AQIM TRUMP SEARCH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA DAS-equivalent Christine Fages on April 1 said that options had dwindled with respect to Mauritania and that the best course would be to ensure free and fair elections in June within a framework that would allow participation by RFD opposition leader Ahmed Ould Daddah. Str [...]
2009-04-02 12:24:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV PINS KDEM FR MR
09PARIS490FRANCE SUPPORTS USG CANDIDACY FOR UN HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (C) France supports the U.S. candidacy for a seat on the UN Human Rights Council (HRC),as announced in Ref A, French MFA IO DAS-equivalent for Human Rights Jacques Pellet told Poloff on April 2. The GOF is "very pleased" by the USG candidacy and pledges its support "without conditions." Pel [...]
2009-04-02 16:35:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL FR
09PARIS50THE AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL CALL ON PM FILLON
[...] (C) The U.S.-France relationship has enjoyed positive progress over the past four years, PM Francois Fillon judged during the Ambassador's January 12 farewell call; the Ambassador also presented a positive assessment. Substantive planning for the April 2-3 NATO summit in Strasbourg and Kehl [...]
2009-01-15 08:01:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON FR
09PARIS504DRC/ROC/NIGER: FRENCH PRESIDENCY'S READOUT OF
[...] (C) SUMMARY: President Sarkozy's March 26-27 visits to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC),Republic of Congo (ROC),and Niger were intended to promote democratic principles, shared business interests, and, more generally, Sarkozy's policy of moving away from the "France-Afrique" model of m [...]
2009-04-07 10:11:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL FR CG CF NG XA
09PARIS505MAURITANIA/MADAGASCAR: FRENCH VIEW ELECTIONS AS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Elections in Mauritania and Madagascar could be the way to end the political impasses in both countries, Presidential Deputy Diplomatic Advisor Bruno Joubert said on April 3. He added that in both places, those who organize the elections should not be candidates and those who [...]
2009-04-07 10:21:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM PHUM FR MR MA
09PARIS512FRANCE FOCUSED ON BURMA PRISONER RELEASE,
[...] (C) France remains focused on prisoner release and launching a legitimate political dialogue in Burma and sees no reason to ease sanctions against the Junta at this time, Burma desk officer Jeremie Petit told us April 8. Responding to ref A points, Petit said the EU decided to keep the Commo [...]
2009-04-08 14:24:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ETRD FR BM
09PARIS518EXPECTED FRENCH CONTRIBUTIONS IN AFGHANISTAN
[...] (C) Summary. On April 10, Francois Richier, President Sarkozy's strategic affairs advisor, provided a review of expected French contributions to Afghanistan for 2009. Due to economic difficulties, the GOF expects to provide relatively modest French civilian assistance of approximately USD 4 [...]
2009-04-10 15:35:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS NATO FR AF
09PARIS530MADAGASCAR: FRANCE SEES NEED TO MOVE FORWARD
[...] (C) SUMMARY: France's priority in Madagascar is to encourage a consensus among the Malagasy parties on a political solution, involving early and credible elections, that will permit the country to end the current crisis and enable a return to constitutional governance, MFA DAS-equivalent Fr [...]
2009-04-16 13:29:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALAORC EAID PGOV SZ NO MA FR
09PARIS543HIGH-LEVEL SUDANESE DELEGATION IN PARIS FOR
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-20 15:56:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL UK SU FR
09PARIS553TOGO: FRENCH LACK INFORMATION ON POSSIBLE COUP
[...] (C) SUMMARY: France shares the USG's uncertainty about the nature of the action Togo President Faure Gnassingbe took on April 12 against his half-brother Kpatcha Gnassingbe, MFA Togo desk officer Daniel Westerink said on April 22. The Faure-Kpatcha face-off has not changed GOF policy toward [...]
2009-04-23 14:59:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINS PINR KDEM TO FR
09PARIS563FRANCE LIKES TURKEY... JUST WHERE IT IS
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-24 11:54:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL EUN TU FR
09PARIS57DRC/RWANDA: FRANCE SUPPORTS USG APPROACH ON UNSC
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-15 14:49:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALEFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER ZF UNSC FR
09PARIS585CORRECTED COPY: FRANCE LIKES TURKEY... JUST WHERE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In the leadup to June European Parliamentary elections, French-Turkish relations are in the media spotlight. Several senior French government officials have vocally underscored their opposition to the Turkish bid for European Union (EU) membership (amid grumbling -- in high pla [...]
2009-04-24 15:52:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL EUN TU FR
09PARIS586FRENCH PREVIEW OF GAERC: CROATIA, BURMA, MIDDLE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 24, French MFA Deputy Chief for EU Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) Mathieu Carmona previewed the April General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) meeting's discussions on Croatia, Burma, the Middle East, Sri Lanka, follow-up from the U.S.-EU Summit [...]
2009-04-24 16:07:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL EUN KPAL KWBG HR BM IS GZ WE CE UP MD
09PARIS623SRI LANKA IMF ARRANGEMENT: RESERVATIONS BUT NO FINAL
[...] (C) In response to USG concerns regarding an IMF Stand-By Arrangement to stabilize the Sri Lankan economy (reftel),the French Economics Ministry and Ministry of Foreign Affairs told us on April 30 and May 5, respectively, that the GOF has not yet taken a final position. Economics Ministry Off [...]
2009-05-05 14:58:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL EFIN ECON KDEM PHUM CE FR
09PARIS63MFA REGREST GABON'S OVERREACTION TO CRITICISM
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Gabonese are overreacting to criticism expressed by dissidents and centered on alleged corruption on the part of GOG officials, MFA desk officer Claude Blevin said on January 14. The Gabonese have been quick to see a French hand in support of the dissidents but this was not [...]
2009-01-16 17:13:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL GB FR
09PARIS657SAHEL AND GREAT LAKES: FRENCH OFFICIALS DISCUSS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: French officials at the MFA and Presidency stressed the importance France is placing on the Sahel and the GOF's efforts to promote stability in the region, during meetings on May 7 with INR/AF Director Don Koran and analyst Rick Ehrenreich. The MFA is leading a GOF-wide effort [...]
2009-05-15 07:38:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PINR PGOV PTER EAID XY ZF ML MR NG CG
09PARIS664FRENCH GAERC PREVIEW: GEORGIA, BOSNIA, SOMALIA,
[...] (C) SUMMARY. On May 15, French MFA Deputy Chief for EU Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) Mathieu Carmona previewed the May General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC). Overall, this General Affairs Council will be largely devoted to preparation of the June European Counc [...]
2009-05-15 15:29:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL EUN BK BM MD SO CE IR RS GG FR
09PARIS67GRANDE COMORE PRESIDENT CRITICIZES UNION PRESIDENT
[...] (U) This is an action message -- see para 9. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Grande Comore President Mohamed Abdouloihabi strongly criticized Union of the Comoros President Sambi during a January 15 meeting with AF-assistant, stating that Sambi was trying to weaken the political power of the islands f [...]
2009-01-16 17:26:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM PHUM PINR PTER CN IR FR
09PARIS679FRANCE AND CUBA: RESPONSE TO REVIEW FOR SUSPENSION
[...] (C) The following paragraphs are responses to the request for information on the relationship between France and the Cuban government and the implementation of Title III of the LIBERTAD Act (ref a): 2. (C) Has the host country, in Post's opinion, worked to promote the advancement of democr [...]
2009-05-19 16:40:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALETRD ETTC PREL CU FR
09PARIS68GUINEA: FRANCE BELIEVES JOYANDET MISSION SECURED
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOF believes that it obtained firm commitments on key issues from coup leader Camara during Secretary of State (Cooperation and Francophonie) Joyandet's January 3-4 visit to Conakry. These commitments include holding elections before the end of 2009, no running for office [...]
2009-01-16 17:31:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR KDEM GV FR
09PARIS681NO NEW BIO-INFO ON PIRATES, BUT FRANCE WANTS TO
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-20 09:06:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALEFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER XW UNSC FR
09PARIS696FRANCE BACKS AMANO FOR IAEA POST
[...] (C) France squarely backs Yukiya Amano of Japan to be the next IAEA Director-General (DG),post heard May 20 from MFA IO PDAS-Equivalent Marc Giacomini and again on May 26 from MFA Strategic Affairs PDAS-Equivalent Jean-Hugue Simon-Michel. 2. (C/NF) Simon-Michel, surprised at the repeat d [...]
2009-05-26 17:18:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALAORC KNNP IAEA PREL FR
09PARIS722INPUT ON PROPOSED IRAN RELATED NSG PRESENTATIONS
[...] (C) Poloffs delivered reftel demarche May 28 to Arnaud Mentre, action officer for Iran in the MFA's Directorate of Strategic Affairs, and his replacement, Florent Aydalot. (Mentre is transitioning this summer to a new assignment at the French embassy in Moscow.) Mentre noted that the E3 woul [...]
2009-05-29 14:12:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL FR
09PARIS726IO/RHS KESHAP DISCUSSES UNHRC, SECURITY COUNCIL,
[...] (C) Summary: IO/RHS Director Atul Keshap met on May 14 with French MFA IO DAS-equivalent for Human Rights Jacques Pellet and desk officers Cecile Vigneau and Emanuel Pineda to discuss several issues affecting UN agencies and regional issues in Sri Lanka and Sudan, in advance of a May 15 MFA-led [...]
2009-06-02 10:27:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KAWC UN FR
09PARIS738SE GRATION AND FRENCH REVIEW SUDAN STATE OF PLAY
[...] (C) Summary: Special Envoy Gration's exchanges with senior French officials on May 30 focused on next steps on the Doha peace process, principally whether Paris-based SLM leader Abdulwahid el-Nur (AW) would relax his opposition and take part. Gration and the French agreed on the possible val [...]
2009-06-04 13:09:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL SU FR
09PARIS742SUDAN PRESIDENT AT UNGA -- WOULD USG ENFORCE ICC
[...] (C) Romain Serman, AF-advisor at the French Presidency, asked us on June 5 how the USG would react if Sudan President Bashir tried to attend the UNGA in New York later this year. Serman wondered whether the U.S. would be compelled to take action, i.e. arrest Bashir pursuant to the ICC warrant [...]
2009-06-05 14:02:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALKJUS PHUM PREL UNGA SU FR
09PARIS785MAURITANIA/NIGER/COTE D'IVOIRE/TOGO: MFA DAS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA DAS Christine Fages on June 12 urged the U.S. to pressure deposed Mauritanian President Abdallahi to sign and work to implement the recently brokered political accord, an issue that Senegal's FM Gadio would likely raise during his June 12 meetings in Washington. Fages respo [...]
2009-06-12 14:08:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM PINS XY MR NG IV TO FR
09PARIS786FRENCH GAERC PREVIEW: MIDDLE EAST, BALKANS, CUBA,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 12, French MFA Deputy Chief for EU Common Foreign and Security Policy Mathieu Carmona previewed the June General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC). Themes to be discussed at next week's GAERC include Cuba, Israel/Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, and the Western Bal [...]
2009-06-12 14:50:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL EUN CU WE GZ IS LE SY YI BK HR SI GG
09PARIS814PIRACY: FRANCE SHARES OPPOSITION TO INTERNATIONAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador Chantal Poiret, MFA Coordinator for Anti-Piracy Policy, said on June 17 that France was opposed to the creation of an international tribunal that would try suspected pirates. France plans to send a representative to the expert-level meeting that the Dutch have propo [...]
2009-06-18 13:37:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALEWWT MARR PGOV PHSA PHUM PREL NATO SO FR
09PARIS821FRANCE MFA MID-EAST DIRECTOR ON IRAN: WATCHING AND
[...] (C) MFA Middle East Director (Assistant Secretary-equivalent) Patrice Paoli told Political Minister Counselor June 18 that despite initial worries over the weekend about the election results in Iran, the GOF has now committed to watching events unfold before deciding their policy approach tow [...]
2009-06-19 16:18:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL FR
09PARIS846TURKISH CULTURAL SEASON STILL ON IN FRANCE DESPITE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Turkish Embassy Counselor Engin Solakoglu said June 19 that the "Turkish Cultural Season" in France - a series of events throughout France highlighting Turkish culture - is still on, despite Prime Minister Erdogan's recent threats during a television interview to cancel the events [...]
2009-06-23 14:03:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SCUL TU FR
09PARIS864DARFUR: JUNE 23/25 MEETINGS WITH JEM AND
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Darfur Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) representatives said on June 23 that JEM was absorbing other Darfur rebel elements and was becoming the strongest Darfur group best able to represent Darfur's interests. JEM was continuing to seek Khartoum's implementation of the Febru [...]
2009-06-26 06:59:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PINS PINR SU FR
09PARIS909MAURITANIA: FRENCH OFFICIALS RELIEVED POLITICAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Meeting with U.S. Ambassador to Mauritania Mark Boulware on June 30, French officials at the Presidency (Romain Serman) and MFA (Christine Fages) supported the political deal brokered over the June 26-28 weekend and underscored the need for elections to take place on July 18. T [...]
2009-07-06 09:18:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM PGOV MR FR
09PARIS911PRE G8 MEETING: FRANCE HARDENS POSITION ON IRAN
[...] (C) President Sarkozy's Middle East Advisor Boris Boillon told Political Minister Counselor July 3 that the French believe there is "no longer any possibility of dialogue" with the government of Iran. "Sanctions are the only weapon now," Boillon insisted. He said that the current sanctions r [...]
2009-07-06 14:41:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL FR
09PARIS946FRENCH SENATE LEADERS ON MIDDLE EAST: YEMEN, PEACE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After visiting over 250 dignitaries in every country in the Middle East (except Oman),two French Senate Foreign Affairs Committee members stated July 9 that French foreign policy in the Middle East should set three priorities: 1) advance the Israeli-Palestinian peace process; 2) pre [...]
2009-07-13 08:43:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL FR
09PARIS956GOF HAS LIMITED INFORMATION ON ALLEGATIONS OF WAR
[...] (C) Summary: In July 10 discussions with Ambassador Williamson, GOF officials highlighted FM Kouchner's efforts to secure a ceasefire in Sri Lanka and his personal concern over the status of IDPs there. While the GOF is concerned by allegations of violations of international humanitarian law [...]
2009-07-16 09:16:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALBG CB CE IN JA PGOV PREL KAWC FR
09PARIS961IO A/S BRIMMER REVIEWS UN AGENDA WITH FRANCE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: IO Assistant Secretary Dr. Esther Brimmer discussed the campaign to select a new UNESCO Director General, the Human Rights Council (HRC),UNSC Reform, and Peacekeeping/Peacebuilding operations with her MFA counterpart Sylvie Bermann and separately with MFA Special Advisor Eric Ch [...]
2009-07-17 06:56:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS PHUM UNESCO FR
09PARIS963HORN OF AFRICA PIRACY: FRENCH FAVOR INCLUSIVE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: France favors broad participation in anti-piracy activities off the Horn of Africa as outlined reftel, but would prefer that a mechanism, "based on objective criteria," be established that would allow current participants to reject "problem states" such as Iran from participati [...]
2009-07-17 13:00:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALEWWT MARR PGOV PHSA PHUM PREL SO IR FR
09PARIS969FRENCH MFA EXPECTS EU-SYRIA ASSOCIATION AGREEMENT
[...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: MFA Middle East Director (Assistant Secretary equivalent) Patrice Paoli confidently predicted to WE Office Director Maureen Cormack July 16 that the EU will approve an Association Agreement with Syria at the September 14-15 meeting of EU foreign ministers (GAERC). Whil [...]
2009-07-17 13:53:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL FR
09PARIS971EUMM: FRANCE SUPPORTS U.S. INVOLVEMENT, SPECIFICS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Patrick Maisonnave, office director-equivalent for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' European Community External Relations, said France is strongly in favor of U.S. involvement in the EU Monitoring Mission (EUMM) in Georgia, but he did not specify how the United States could best p [...]
2009-07-17 16:13:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALMARR PREL GG RS EU FR
09PARIS982UNSC LIBERIA AND DRC SANCTIONS: FRENCH HAVE NO
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-21 14:18:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALEFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER UNSC CG LI FR
09PARIS993MFA AFRICA DIRECTOR'S JULY 21 DISCUSSION OF
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-23 09:26:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PINS PGOV KDEM NG MA MR IV FR
09PARIS996FRANCE WANTS REVIEW OF IAEA PRIORITIES BEFORE
[...] (C) Summary. On July 21, during a meeting with Martin Briens, DAS-equivalent for Disarmament and Nuclear Non-Proliferation, Special Advisor for Non-Proliferation and Arms Control, Robert Einhorn advocated strongly for a "significant" increase in the IAEA budget for 2010 to strengthen safeg [...]
2009-07-23 15:40:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM UN FR
09PARIS997MFA AFRICA DIRECTOR'S JULY 21 DISCUSSION OF
[...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA AF A/S-equivalent Stephane Gompertz on July 21 expressed frustration with the political impasse in Madagascar; relief that elections had transpired relatively well in Mauritania, offering a possible conclusion to the long political crisis there; exasperation with Niger Pres [...]
2009-07-23 15:44:00Embassy ParisCONFIDENTIALPREL PINS PGOV KDEM NG MA MR IV FR
09PARISFR211MUGHRABI GATE UPDATE
[...] (C) Summary: Tension over Middle East issues is high at UNESCO, due in part to the emotions aroused by the Gaza conflict. Deputy Director General Barbosa feels this will make it all the harder to manage the Mughrabi Gate issue (reftel). There has been no change in the situation since the is [...]
2009-02-11 14:55:00Mission UNESCOCONFIDENTIALPREL UNESCO KWBG JO IS
09PARISFR319JERUSALEM TAKES DECISION ON MUGHRABI GATE
[...] (C) Summary: The Jerusalem Planning Commission has taken a decision approving design plans for the reconstruction of the Mughrabi Gate, according to Israel's Ambassador to UNESCO. While appeals to the High Court in Israel are possible, the decision, once made public, will guarantee the start [...]
2009-03-04 17:09:00Mission UNESCOCONFIDENTIALPREL UNESCO KWBG JO IS
09PARISFR766MUGHRABI GATE: FROM UNESCO'S EXECUTIVE BOARD TO THE SEVILLE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: ARAB STATES ARE LIKELY TO RAISE ONCE AGAIN AT THE JUNE 22-30 WORLD HERITAGE COMMITTEE MEETING IN SEVILLE ISRAEL'S PLAN TO RECONSTRUCT THE ASCENT TO THE MUGHRABI GATE ON JERUSLAEM'S TEMPLE MOUNT. THE DECISION ADOPTED AT UNESCO'S APRIL 2009 EXECUTIVE BOARD REQUESTS THAT THE DESIGN [...]
2009-06-09 13:06:00Mission UNESCOCONFIDENTIALPREL UNESCO KWBG JO IS
09PARTO112705(U) Secretary Clinton's November 9, 2009,
[...] (U) Classified by: Kin Moy, Deputy Executive Secretary, S/ES, Department of State. Reason 1.4.(d). 2. (SBU) November 9, 2009; 12:30 - 14:00; Berlin, Germany. 3. (SBU) Participants: U.S. The Secretary Ambassador Philip D. Murphy Assistant Secretary Philip Gordon, EUR Jeff Hov [...]
2009-11-27 22:03:00US Delegation, SecretaryCONFIDENTIALOVIP CLINTON HILLARY
09PARTO112706(C) Secretary Clinton's November 14, 2009,
[...] (U) Classified by: Kin Moy, Deputy Executive Secretary, S/ES, Department of State. Reason 1.4.(d). 2. (U) November 14, 2009; 10:15 a.m.; Singapore. 3. (U) Participants: U.S. The Secretary Charge Dan Shields Lieutenant General Paul Selva DAS Scot Marciel Deputy Chief of Staff [...]
2009-11-27 22:16:00US Delegation, SecretaryCONFIDENTIALOVIP CLINTON HILLARY PREL PGOV PARM KNNP
09PARTO113007(U) Secretary Clinton's November 12, 2009,
[...] (U) Classified by: Kin W. Moy, Deputy Executive Secretary, S/ES, Department of State. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (U) November 12, 2009; 1:30 p.m.; Manila, Philippines. 3. (U) Participants: U.S. The Secretary Ambassador Kristie A. Kenney Ambassador Scot Marciel, EAP DAS Deputy Chief of [...]
2009-11-30 16:51:00US Delegation, SecretaryCONFIDENTIALOVIP CLINTON HILLARY PREL PGOV PTER PHUM
09PARTO12(U) Secretary Clinton's July 22, 2009
[...] (U) Classified by: Paul Wohlers, Deputy Executive Secretary, S/ES, Department of State. Reason 1.4.(d) 2. (U) July 22, 2009; 3:10 PM Phuket, Thailand 3. (U) Participants: U.S. The Secretary EAP Assistant Secretary Kurt Campbell NSC Senior Director Jeff Bader Deputy Chief of St [...]
2009-08-03 14:53:00US Delegation, SecretaryCONFIDENTIALOVIP CLINTON HILLARY PREL JA KN CH
09PARTO13(U) Secretary Clinton's July 23, 2009 Meeting
[...] (U) Classified by: Paul Wohlers, Deputy Executive Secretary, S/ES, Department of State. Reason 1.4.(d) 2. (U) July 23, 2009; Phuket, Thailand 3. (U) Participants: U.S. The Secretary Deputy Chief of Staff Jacob Sullivan Deputy Chief of Staff Huma Abedin Lt. Gen. Paul Selva DA [...]
2009-08-04 14:57:00US Delegation, SecretaryCONFIDENTIALOVIP CLINTON HILLARY PREL PK
09PARTO22610(U) Secretary Clinton's February 18, 2009
[...] (U) Classified by: Paul Wohlers, Deputy Executive Secretary, S/ES, Department of State. Reason 1.4.(d). 2. (U) Thursday, February 18, 2009; 4:15 p.m.; Jakarta, Indonesia. 3. (U) Participants: U.S. The Secretary Ambassador Cameron R. Hume A/S Christopher R. Hill, EAP Lt. Gen. Paul J [...]
2009-02-26 19:16:00US Delegation, SecretaryCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV OVIP CLINTON HILLARY KGHG ID
09PARTO32028(C) SECRETARY CLINTON'S MARCH 5, 2009, MEETING
[...] (U) Classified by: Kenneth Merten, Deputy Executive Secretary, S/ES, Department of State. Reason 1.4.(d) 2. (U) March 5, 2009; 9:00 a.m.; Brussels, Belgium. 3. (U) Participants: U.S. The Secretary Ambassador Kurt Volker EUR A/S Dan Fried NSC Senior Director Liz Sherwood-Randall Lie [...]
2009-03-20 23:54:00US Delegation, SecretaryCONFIDENTIALOVIP CLINTON HILLARY MOPS NATO PGOV PREL
09PARTO40301(U) Secretary Clinton's March 25 Conversation
[...] (U) Classified by Uzra Zeya, Deputy Executive Secretary, S/ES, Department of State. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (U) 03/25/09, 1 p.m., Mexico City, Mexico 3. (U) Participants U.S. The Secretary Charge Bassett A/S Shannon Laura Pena, Senior Advisor to the Secretary Dan Restrepo, Senior [...]
2009-04-03 17:28:00US Delegation, SecretaryCONFIDENTIALOVIP CLINTON HILLARY PREL SNAR MX
09PARTO41304Secretary Clinton's March 31, 2009 conversation
[...] (U) Classified by: Paul Wohlers, Deputy Executive Secretary, S/ES, Department of State. Reason 1.4(b,d). 2. (U) March 31, 2009; 10:25 a.m.; The Hague, Netherlands. 3. (U) Participants: U.S. The Secretary Deputy Secretary Lew SRAP Holbrooke A/S Fried Ms. Abedin, Deputy Chief of Sta [...]
2009-04-13 19:31:00US Delegation, SecretaryCONFIDENTIALOVIP PREL PHUM NL AF
09PARTO42301(U) Secretary Clinton's April 17, 2009 Meeting
[...] (U) Classified by: Paul Wohlers, Deputy Executive Secretary, S/ES, Department of State. Reason 1.4 (d) 2. (U) April 17, 2009; 9:45 a.m.; Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. 3. (U) Participants: U.S. The Secretary Charge d'Affaires Roland Bullen A/S Thomas Shannon, WHA Cheryl Mills, [...]
2009-04-23 02:36:00US Delegation, SecretaryCONFIDENTIALOVIP CLINTON HILLARY PREL SNAR ETRD EAID
09PARTO42805(C) Secretary Clinton's April 18, 2009,
[...] (C) Classified by: Paul D. Wohlers, Deputy Executive Secretary, S/ES, Department of State. Reason 1.4.(d) 2. (C) April 18, 2009; 3:00 p.m.; Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. 3. (C) Participants: U.S. The Secretary A/S Thomas A. Shannon, WHA Amb. Hector Morales, USOAS Deput [...]
2009-04-28 22:51:00US Delegation, SecretaryCONFIDENTIALOVIP CLINTON HILLARY PGOV PREL ECON EAID
09PARTO6SECRETARY AND IRISH FM MEETING
[...] (U) October 11, 2009, Dublin, Ireland 2. (U) Participants United States The Secretary Ambassador Daniel Rooney A/S Philip Gordon NSC Elisabeth Sherwood-Randall DCOS Jake Sullivan Spokesman Ian Kelly Lt. Gen. Paul Selva Ireland Foreign Minister Michael Martin David Cooney, Secre [...]
2009-10-27 02:29:00US Delegation, SecretaryCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON EUN EI
09PERTH19WA MINERS WELCOME STEPPED-UP CHINESE INVESTMENT
[...] (C) Summary: The proposed acquisition by Chinese company Chinalco of a significant stake in Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto (ref A) has sparked widespread debate in the Western Australia (WA) mining sector over the prospects for increased Chinese investment in the state's iron ore and [...]
2009-03-19 07:43:00Consulate PerthCONFIDENTIALEMIN EINV ECON PREL CH AS
09PERTH24WA PINS IRON ORE HOPES ON CHINA
[...] (SBU) Summary: Iron ore miners in Western Australia (WA) are expecting to take a big hit on prices in this year's annual contract negotiations, but they remain optimistic about economic recovery in the state's key export market, China. Miners' representatives told the Consul General they expe [...]
2009-04-08 09:03:00Consulate PerthCONFIDENTIALEMIN EINV ECON PREL CH AS
09PERTH30WESTERN AUSTRALIA POLITICS: THE RUDD-BARNETT DUET
[...] (C) Summary: Western Australia (WA) looms large on the federal radar as talk escalates about the state's importance in the next federal election. With Labor currently holding only four of 15 WA federal seats, analysts view WA as a potential pivot for federal Labor to retain power by offering [...]
2009-05-13 08:42:00Consulate PerthCONFIDENTIALPGOV AS
09PERTH36WA PREMIER SOOTHES CHINA, COURTS INVESTMENT
[...] (C) Summary: Western Australia (WA) State Premier Barnett used a previously-scheduled eight-day China visit to turn down the heat after the collapse of a bid by the state-owned Chinese Chinalco firm to boost its share in Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto and the subsequent arrest of Rio [...]
2009-08-05 09:46:00Consulate PerthCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON EINV EMIN CH AS
09PESHAWAR1SECURITY OPERATIONS IN KHYBER IMPOSE SHORT TERM CURFEW ON
[...] (C) On January 2, the Torkham Highway crossing point into Afghanistan reopened to truck traffic, including trucks supplying NATO/ISAF, after being closed December 30 due to military security operations. Operation "Daralam" or "Here I Come" was launched to increase security for convoys and to r [...]
2009-01-03 09:01:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALMARR PGOV PREL PTER PK
09PESHAWAR10FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, JANUARY
[...] (SBU) Fighting continued at a slow pace in Bajaur during the first week of the year, with three militants reported killed and a local militant leader claiming that his supporters would not resist if government forces entered Mamond area. 2. (SBU) In Swat, at least 32 people were r [...]
2009-01-14 10:47:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR100MALAKAND DIVISION: SWAT OPERATION CONTINUES
[...] (C) Summary. From May 8, the Pakistani army has stepped up its operations in Swat, concentrating its efforts on the areas south of the central Khwazakhela region. A relaxation of the curfew in Swat on May 10 allowed large numbers of residents to flee lower Swat. According to initial estimate [...]
2009-05-11 11:55:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALMOPS PREF PTER PGOV EAID PK
09PESHAWAR101MALAKAND DIVISION: SWAT OPERATION UNDERWAY
[...] (C) Summary. From May 12-14, the Pakistani army continued intensified operations in Swat. There appeared to be an increase of forces on the ground, and a helicopter-borne commando raid into the militant headquarters in central Swat's Peochar valley dominated headlines. Militants in Swat cont [...]
2009-05-14 12:30:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALMOPS PREF PTER EAID PK
09PESHAWAR103IDP CRISIS UPDATE: UN AGENCIES AND ICRC CONVEY IDP NEEDS IN
[...] (C) Summary: A group of four Peshawar-based representatives from United Nations agencies and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) told the Ambassador the rising number of internally displaced people (IDPs) is swamping the capacity of the Pakistani government. The group agr [...]
2009-05-21 10:43:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF PHUM EAID PGOV PTER PK
09PESHAWAR105INDIGENOUS FUNDING FOR SWAT MILITANTS
[...] (C) As major operations against militants once again commence in Swat district in the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP),press reports and Consulate contacts provide insight into the methods of funding that Swat militants have realized from their effective control over large parts of the distr [...]
2009-05-22 11:36:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV ECON PK
09PESHAWAR106FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, APRIL 25
[...] (C) Military operations in the Lower Dir and Buner districts of the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) dominated headlines during the final week of April. By April 30, GOP officials declared both operations successful, but stated that cleanup operations could last days or weeks. (Refs. A, B) [...]
2009-05-22 11:47:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR107FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, MAY 1 -
[...] (C) Events in northwest Pakistan made international headlines throughout the first week in May, coinciding with President Zardari's visit to the United States, while Prime Minister Gilani appeared on national television the evening of May 7 to declare "all out war" against the Taliban. (Ref. A [...]
2009-05-22 11:55:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR108FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, MAY 8 -
[...] (C) Heavy fighting in Swat, Buner and Dir characterized the second week in May, underscored by a May 12 airborne assault on Maulana Fazlullah's stronghold in Peochar valley in Swat. The government claimed to have killed over 750 militants in the course of its operation in the three districts. [...]
2009-05-22 12:04:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR109AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH FRONTIER CORPS COMMANDER
[...] (C) Frontier Corps Commander General Tariq Khan sees operations in Dir and Buner winding down although Sultanwas in northern Buner is targeted for an operation o/a May 20. People are returning, particularly to lower Buner, and Khan cautioned that the IDP emergency should not obscure the need t [...]
2009-05-23 07:54:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALMOPS PTER PGOV PREF EAID PK
09PESHAWAR11CEASEFIRE ENDS 2-DAY SECTARIAN BATTLE IN HANGU
[...] (C) The district administration of Hangu, along with rival Sunni and Shi'a groups, signed a ceasefire agreement on January 11, putting a tenuous end to two days of sectarian fighting that killed 40 and injured more than 60 according to Ghulam Qadir, the FATA Secretary for Law and Order. The fi [...]
2009-01-14 10:48:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK PHUM
09PESHAWAR110MALAKAND UPDATE AND WAZIRISTAN PLANNING
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-25 06:50:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALEAID MOPS PK PREF PTER
09PESHAWAR111FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, MAY 15 -
[...] (C) Pakistan's security forces appeared to seize the initiative in Malakand during the third week of May, but militants responded by launching mass-casualty bombing attacks inside Peshawar for the first time since March. In Swat, government troops encircled Mingora and appeared to achieve dom [...]
2009-05-25 10:29:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR116PESHAWAR UNHCR CHIEF ON UNHCR ACTIVITIES IN NWFP
[...] (C) UNHCR Peshawar told Peshawar PO on May 28 that the IDP population stands at 2.5 million with many in "transit" and "spontaneous" camps still not registered. UNHCR Peshawar is increasingly focusing on assisting IDP populations in these unofficial camps and schools. Most outflows from South [...]
2009-05-29 13:08:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPREF EAID PGOV PK PREL
09PESHAWAR119FATA: ABDUCTED NORTH WAZIRISTAN PREP SCHOOL STUDENTS
[...] (C) A kidnapping attempt on June 1 against students evacuating a prestigious preparatory school in North Waziristan Agency (NWA) appears to have been resolved without casualties among the captives. The Pakistani government claims that all have been recovered. According to the government, the [...]
2009-06-02 11:14:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV ASEC PK
09PESHAWAR120FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, MAY 22 -
[...] (C) Pakistan's security forces continued to capture key locations in Swat during the fourth week of May. However, continuing last week's trend, the Taliban struck back by targeting security forces and civilians in four mass-casualty bombing attacks in Peshawar and one in Dera Ismail Khan, bes [...]
2009-06-04 04:12:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR124UPPER DIR BOMBING RESPONSE SHOWS EFFECTIVENESS AND
[...] (C) Summary: The June 5 mass-casualty bombing of a mosque in Upper Dir and resulting June 7-9 punitive action by a tribal lashkar have highlighted the long-standing tension in Upper Dir district over militant activity there and its recent exacerbation by the military operations in neighboring S [...]
2009-06-09 14:31:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALMOPS PTER PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR127THREE COMPLEX ATTACKS IN NINE HOURS IN PESHAWAR ENVIRONS
[...] (C) Summary: Three complex attacks in and near Peshawar, occurring between 16:30 PM on June 11 and 01:00 AM on June 12, killed approximately six and wounded dozens more, including the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) Minister for Prisons. The attacks included the ambush of an armed convoy, [...]
2009-06-12 11:12:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER ASEC PGOV MOPS PK
09PESHAWAR130BOLD TTP-CLAIMED ATTACKS SIGNAL A TEST OF WILLS WITH THE
[...] (C) Summary: Baitullah Mehsud's Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has claimed a series of bold attacks undertaken over June 9-12. These attacks highlight the TTP's increasing willingness to attack and claim credit for violence within military cantonments, in the Punjab, and against politica [...]
2009-06-16 10:25:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV KISL PK
09PESHAWAR131MILITARY ACTION IN FR BANNU: OPENING MOVE FOR WAZIRISTAN?
[...] (C) Summary: A Pakistani military operation in Frontier Region Bannu, on the border of North Waziristan Agency (NWA),has resulted in over two hundred deaths and significant displacement. The operation, launched two weeks after the kidnapping of 120 students and staff from Razmak Cadet [...]
2009-06-16 12:52:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALMOPS PTER PGOV PREF PK
09PESHAWAR135FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, MAY 29
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-22 08:27:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR138FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, JUNE 5 -
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-29 16:00:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR142FRONTIER CORPS COMMANDER'S CONCERNS FOR COUNTER-INSURGENCY
[...] (C) Frontier Corps (FC) Commander General Tariq Khan expressed concerns in a July 1 conversation with Peshawar Principal Officer (PO) about the competing and inefficient authorities between the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) and Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) that hampers prompt [...]
2009-07-07 11:44:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALMOPS PGOV EAID PTER PK
09PESHAWAR143FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, JUNE 19
[...] (C) The intensity of Pakistani military operations accelerated in South Waziristan during the fourth week in June, with the government conducting intensive airstrikes into Mehsud territory and sending ground troops to secure key locations along the critical Wana-Jandola road in preparation [...]
2009-07-08 04:18:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR146FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, JUNE 26
[...] (C) In North Waziristan agency (NWA),a series of escalating militant ambushes of Pakistan military convoys foreshadowed a declaration by NWA's principal indigenous militant commander that the February 2008 NWA peace agreement was no longer in effect (reftel). Fighting in South Waziristan Agen [...]
2009-07-09 13:06:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR157FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, JULY 17
[...] (C) Over this reporting period, fighting in the on-going Pakistani military operation in Swat continued at levels similar to those of the previous week. Revenge killings against militants, the first of which occurred during the previous reporting period, became a definite trend, with four furt [...]
2009-08-03 14:34:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS ASEC PK
09PESHAWAR158NWFP: TWO WEEKS AFTER SWAT'S OPERATION DECLARED OVER,
[...] (C) Summary: Two weeks after the government of Pakistan declared the end of its military operation in Swat and invited the return of internally displaced Swatis, the picture of security in Swat is mixed. Around half of Swat's IDPs have returned, but the distribution of the returns is skew [...]
2009-08-03 14:45:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPREF EAID MOPS PTER PK
09PESHAWAR161NWFP: CENTRAL SWAT KHANS HAVE LOST AUTHORITY, COMPLICATING
[...] (C) Summary: Central Swat's prominent landowning "khan" families, who have long formed the backbone of Swat's political leadership, have seen their position seriously undermined by the rise of militancy in Swat and their flight from the district. Now, they are attempting to rebuild their p [...]
2009-08-04 11:54:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER MOPS EAID PK
09PESHAWAR168FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, JULY 24
[...] (C) Over this reporting period, fighting in the on-going Pakistani military operation in Swat continued at levels similar to those of the previous week, with a few notable events. The militants decapitated a policeman in Mingora and left his body to be found as a sign that the militants were [...]
2009-08-13 08:49:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS ASEC PK
09PESHAWAR169FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, JULY 31
[...] (C) Conflict continued in the Malakand division - particularly in Swat, where the number of apparent revenge killings of militants doubled in relation to the previous reporting period. The Pakistani government obtained considerable favorable publicity for the activities of two small lashkars [...]
2009-08-13 09:05:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS ASEC PK
09PESHAWAR17FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, JANUARY
[...] (C) Fighting subsided in Bajaur during the third week of January, but militants switched to "patrolling" Khar at night and launching targeted killings. With military operations now moving south to Mohmand Agency, an additional challenge for the Pakistani military is balancing operations in Moh [...]
2009-01-30 10:48:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR176TTP SUCCESSION: CONTINUED CONFUSION AND FRAGMENTATION
[...] (C) Summary: Almost three weeks after the death of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Baitullah Mehsud, an apparent joint media statement August 25 by Hakimullah Mehsud and Waliur Rehman Mehsud may mark a truce in the battle for succession. However, Pakistani military officials believe t [...]
2009-08-26 12:45:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR18FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, JANUARY
[...] (C) Security forces continued their operations in Bajaur during the fourth week of January, targeting militant hideouts in various areas of the agency. In Bajaur, militants blew up a girls' school on January 27. Consulate contacts report that residents of Bajaur complain of shortages in [...]
2009-02-02 11:40:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR183AS KHYBER FIGHTING MOVES INTO PESHAWAR, FC LAUNCHES
[...] (C) Summary: Two months of fighting in Khyber Agency, FATA, between two rival militias--Lashkar-i-Islam and Ansarul Islam--spilled over into the outskirts of Peshawar, culminating in bombings on August 22 and 23. The fighting has more to do with control over lucrative criminal activity t [...]
2009-09-03 10:55:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR184NWFP PLANS TO FINANCE SECURITY AND RECONSTRUCTION
[...] (C) Summary: The Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) government finally has received the first tranche of a 24 billion rupees (USD 291 million) revenue transfer from the Pakistani federal government; it will spend half of this to support the planned 2,500 Elite NWFP Police force and doubl [...]
2009-09-03 11:09:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALECON PGOV PTER EAID PK
09PESHAWAR197FATA MNAS CLOSE TO AGREEMENT WITH GOVERNMENT
[...] (C) Summary. FATA Caucus leader Munir Orakzai told PO October 4 that Prime Minister Gilani had agreed to satisfy key grievances that had prompted the FATA ministers' resignation from the government (ref A). The government, which Orakzai said had reneged on promises of increased development f [...]
2009-10-07 03:54:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER PK
09PESHAWAR20AMBASSADOR VISITS IDP CAMP
[...] (C) During a meeting with Vice President Elect Biden during a recent visit, Chief of Army Staff General Kayani raised his concern about the effect of poor treatment of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) on his counter-insurgency campaign in Pakistan's tribal areas. As part of the continuing M [...]
2009-02-04 12:29:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PINR PK
09PESHAWAR203ADMINISTRATIVE NORMALIZATION OF THE MALAKAND DIVISION MOVES
[...] (C) Summary: Over the past week, Pakistan's government took several significant steps to normalize administration in the Malakand division after the April-August military operations against militants there. On October 3, the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) government appointed executive mag [...]
2009-10-12 11:22:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER ECON MOPS PK
09PESHAWAR208RC-EAST MG SCAPPAROTTI DISCUSSES BORDER COORDINATION WITH PAKISTANI ARMY/FRONTIER CORPS
[...] (C) Summary. In an October 13 meeting with RC-East Commander MG Scapparotti, Pakistan' 11th Corps Commander Masood and Frontier Corps commander Tariq Khan discussed ongoing operations and venues for cross-border cooperation. The Pakistanis requested U.S./ISAF assistance in blocking militant [...]
2009-10-14 14:18:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALMOPS PREL PTER PK
09PESHAWAR21MILITARY RENEWS OPERATIONS AS SWAT GOES FROM BAD TO WORSE
[...] (C) Army units led by 11th Corps and supported by Frontier Corps restarted operations in Swat on February 1 with the Northwest Frontier government's acknowledgment that it has lost effective control of the district to local taliban. As many as 70 militants have reportedly been killed in clashe [...]
2009-02-06 16:27:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALMOPS PTER EAID PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR211ANP LIKELY TO ABSTAIN ON NATIONAL RECONCILIATION ORDINANCE
[...] (C) Summary. Awami National Party leader Asfundyar Wali Khan indicated to PO October 22 that his party likely will abstain in the upcoming parliamentary vote on the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) that provides President Zardari and other politicians immunity from prosecution on corru [...]
2009-10-23 03:28:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPGOV MOPS PTER PREL
09PESHAWAR216GOVERNMENT HOLDS JIRGAS AROUND WAZIRISTAN TO ISOLATE TTP
[...] (C) Summary. As fighting continues in South Waziristan, the Pakistani government has expanded its historic divide and conquer strategy with the Wazir and Mehsud tribes of the North and South Waziristan Agencies (NWA and SWA) to include military and civilian leaders and public relations initia [...]
2009-11-05 12:03:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALMOPS PTER PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR22AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH 11TH CORPS COMMANDER
[...] (C) On January 26, Ambassador met with 11th Corps Commander, Lieutenant General Masood Aslam and Chief of Staff Brigadier Aamer to discuss internally displaced persons (IDPs) and the situation in Swat. General Masood advocated a mixed approach to IDP assistance -- encourage some to go home whe [...]
2009-02-07 15:03:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALMOPS PTER EAID PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR23AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH INSPECTOR GENERAL OF FRONTIER CORPS
[...] (U) Ambassador and Peshawar Principal Officer met with Inspector General Frontier Corps Tariq Khan during a January 26 visit to the Warsak Training Center to formally hand over the latest U.S. assistance of security and communications equipment valued at one and a half million dollars. 2. ( [...]
2009-02-09 09:01:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALMOPS PTER EAID PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR24AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH NORTHWEST FRONTIER PROVINCE GOVERNOR
[...] (C) Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) Governor Owais Ghani met with Ambassador and Peshawar Principal Officer on January 27. Ghani said that "while major military operations are over in Bajaur and Mohmand, the problems are not." Each agency would have one to three Quick Reaction Forces (QRF [...]
2009-02-09 09:05:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALMOPS PTER EAID PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR25ANNUAL CRIME EVALUATION QUESTIONNAIRE (ACEQ) PESHAWAR
[...] (SBU) Crime Mobility (Into Consulate Neighborhoods): Criminal elements operate throughout Peshawar and consistently enter the Consulate's residential neighborhoods, as these are affluent areas. U.S. Consulate Peshawar personnel living among the local population have experienced no burglaries [...]
2009-02-10 09:49:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALASEC
09PESHAWAR28NFWP GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCES IMPLEMENTATION PLAN OF SHARI'A LAW
[...] (C) On February 16, the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) government announced a commitment to implement Shari'a law in Swat following negotiations with the banned terrorist group Tehrik Nifaz-i-Shariat Muhammadi (TNSM). The provincial government is forwarding proposed amendments to the "Shar [...]
2009-02-17 13:20:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER MOPS EAID PK
09PESHAWAR29IMPROVING RESPONSES TO MILITANT ATTACKS NEAR PESHAWAR
[...] (C) Recent attacks in Khyber Agency and Peshawar, including the destruction of a bridge, indicate that militants are still trying to disrupt U.S./NATO supply routes through Pakistn to Afghanistan. In contrast to late last year, when security forces were slow or failed to respond to attac [...]
2009-02-18 12:13:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR3SECTARIAN VIOLENCE INCREASES IN PAKISTAN'S NORTHWEST IN RUN
[...] (C) Pakistan's northwest has been hit with a string of attacks targeting Shi'a Muslims in the November and December run up to Muharram, (January 7-8),the Shi'a holiday mourning the martyrdom of Imam Hussain Ali. Militants have launched suicide bomb attacks on Shi'a processions in Peshawar for [...]
2009-01-03 09:05:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS ASEC PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR31MILITANTS KILL PESHAWAR MPA
[...] (C) In the first attack on a Member of the Provincial Assembly (MPA) in Peshawar, Alam Zeb Khan was killed on February 11 when militants detonated a remote-controlled improvised explosive devise (IED) as his car passed a market area. Khan's murder continues a trend of militant attacks on [...]
2009-02-19 11:51:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR33NWFP: LOCAL PERCEPTIONS OF THE SWAT DEAL
[...] (C) According to Swat-based contacts, the ceasefire and the agreement to implement Shari'a law are welcomed by most residents but not expected to last. The army caused a great deal of damage, failed to take advantage of the intelligence provided by the local population who they did not trust a [...]
2009-02-21 14:39:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER MOPS EAID PK
09PESHAWAR35MILITANT BOMBING OF BRIDGE IN KHYBER FAILS
[...] (C) Militants placed three bombs at a bridge on the Peshawar-Torkham Highway on February 20, one of which exploded at approximately 6:30 am local time, causing no death or significant damage. Traffic flow resumed by 8:30 am. Militants also fired a rocket at a fuel tanker 11 km from the T [...]
2009-02-24 15:06:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR36FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, JANUARY
[...] (SBU) No fighting was reported in Bajaur during the first week of February, but militants blew up two government schools in the Pashat area on February 2, following the destruction of schools in Bajaur on January 27-28 (Ref B). Members of the Salarzai tribe vowed to continue fighting militants [...]
2009-02-25 11:45:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR37FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, FEBRUARY
[...] (C) The pace of fighting increased in Bajaur during the second week of February, with government forces reportedly killing over 44 militants in fighting around Mahmoond tehsil and militants firing rockets on Khar, the agency capital. Tehrik-i-Taliban (TTP) threatened on February 11 to destroy a [...]
2009-02-25 11:46:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR38NWFP: MULLAH FAZLULLAH'S UNILATERAL CEASEFIRE
[...] (C) Tehrik-i Taliban (TTP) leader Mullah Fazlullah announced a unilateral, indefinite ceasefire on February 24 with conditions that Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) officials tell us have not been accepted. Fazlullah's demands include release of TTP supporters in custody, observance of stric [...]
2009-02-25 14:54:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR4FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, DECEMBER
[...] (U) Fighting continued in Bajaur through the end of December, with around 15 militants reported killed. 2. (SBU) Pakistani security forces, backed by helicopter gunships, tanks and heavy artillery, launched an attack on December 30, targeting criminals and militants in the Jamrud are [...]
2009-01-05 03:27:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR42NWFP: SWAT'S CEASEFIRE FRACTURING?
[...] (C) While Swat's principal city Mingora appears to be "calm," the fragile ceasefire is showing further cracks with an attack on a military convoy, the kidnapping of six Frontier Corps personnel north of Mingora, and militant interference with humanitarian relief. Tehrik-i Nifaz-i Shariat-i Muh [...]
2009-03-02 10:24:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER MOPS EAID PK
09PESHAWAR43FATA: "VICTORY" IN BAJAUR?
[...] (C) Frontier Corps Commander General Tariq Khan announced that FC forces had "secured" the Bajaur agency on February 28. While Frontier Corps certainly appears to have made important progress, Tariq's reference to "secured" likely refers primarily to the lines of communications, particularly ro [...]
2009-03-04 04:13:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALMOPS PTER PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR44FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, FEBRUARY
[...] (C) Tehrik-i Taliban (TTP) deputy Faqir Mohammad announced a unilateral ceasefire in Bajaur on February 23. Inspector General Frontier Corps Tariq Khan told consulate on February 25 that no ceasefire had been agreed to and that Bajaur operations would continue (Ref A). 2. (C) Tehrik-i [...]
2009-03-04 04:33:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR48FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, FEBRUARY
[...] (C) In Bajaur, Frontier Corps appears to be shifting its focus to post-kinetic operations in the agency. We remain concerned, however, about the ability of Bajaur's militants to stage attacks. In Swat, although President Zadari has yet to sign the order, the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) [...]
2009-03-12 05:27:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER MOPS PK
09PESHAWAR5FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, DECEMBER
[...] (C) The third week of December brought more fighting in Bajaur. But with fewer than ten militants reported killed, the tempo of fighting seems to have slowed considerably compared with the magnitude of fighting over the past several months. 2. (C) The situation in Swat continued to d [...]
2009-01-06 11:21:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR51PROPOSED NIZAM-E-ADL (SHARI'A) REGULATION 2009
[...] (C) The proposed Nizam-e-Adl (literally, "system of justice" but widely viewed as Shari'a) Regulation 2009 if signed by President Zardari will replace two regulations in hopes of providing speedy justice in accordance with Shari'a law. One of the most visible changes will be the re-establishme [...]
2009-03-16 12:32:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR52SEVEN QAZI (SHARIA) JUDGES INSTALLED IN SWAT
[...] (C) In the latest step towards implementing shari'a in Swat the first seven Qazis (judges) were installed in their new offices on March 12. The Qazis arrived in a procession led by Tehrik Nifaz-i-Shariat Mohammadi (TNSM) chief, Sufi Mohammad, Malakand division commissioner, Mohammad Javed and [...]
2009-03-16 12:41:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR55SWAT UPDATE: SUFI MUHAMMAD'S PRESS CONFERENCE - QAZI JUDGES
[...] (C) Tehrik Nifaz-i-Shariat Mohammadi (TNSM) chief, Sufi Mohammad announced in a press conference March 16, the (previous) judges should stop going to their offices as their continued presence would be considered a violation of the peace accord. Provincial authorities have stated the new Qazis [...]
2009-03-18 14:24:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER MOPS PK
09PESHAWAR59FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, MARCH 7
[...] (C) The release of 12 militant prisoners March 7, the appointment of Qazi judges in Swat March 12 and the repositioning of army forces were some of the first tangible steps taken by the government to implement the peace agreement and the Nizam-e-Adl "system of justice" widely viewed as Shari'a [...]
2009-03-23 10:34:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR61SWAT UPDATE: ADDITIONAL MILITANTS RELEASED - ARMY RETURNING
[...] (C) The release of three militants by the government March 21, brings the total set free since March 6 to 30. According to one post contact a closed factory on the edge of Mingora that until March 19 had been guarded by the army was occupied by militants when the soldiers returned to their bar [...]
2009-03-25 11:26:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR63INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS DEMONSTRATE FOR COMPENSATION
[...] (C) Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) of Jalozai Camp near Nowshera led by Sahibzada Haroon Rashid, deputy chief of Jamaat-e-Islami (JI),conducted a demonstration that left at least one person dead, 10 more injured, including four police officers, shops and vehicles burned and 22 arrested Mar [...]
2009-03-28 12:01:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR64SUICIDE BOMBER ATTACK AT A MOSQUE FREQUENTED BY SECURITY
[...] (C) A Suicide bomber attack killed at least 40, including security forces personnel and injured more than 100 at a mosque during Friday prayers March 27. While no claim of responsibility for the attack has been made, the mosque is near a security check post in Khyber Agency, along the coalitio [...]
2009-03-30 11:33:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR65FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, MARCH 14
[...] (SBU) In accordance with the Nizam-e-Adl "system of justice," widely viewed as Shari'a law, Qazi judges began presiding over cases in Swat March 17, displacing the role of civil judges. Tehrik Nefaz-i-Shariat Muhammadi (TNSM) Chief Sufi Mohammad asked civil judges to stop coming to court on Mar [...]
2009-03-30 11:34:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR67FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, MARCH 21
[...] (U) A suicide bomber killed at least 40 people at a mosque in Khyber Agency on March 27 in one of the bloodiest attacks of the year. (Ref. A) 2. (C) Consulate contacts report that the implementation of Nizam-i-Adl Regulation in Swat has had two residual impacts, first, permitting militants [...]
2009-04-01 11:01:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR69NWFP: MILITANT ATTACK ON CARGO TERMINAL CAUSES MINIMAL
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-07 08:57:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR71NWFP: SWAT DEAL GOING OFF THE RAILS?
[...] (C) Tehrik Nifaz-e-Shariat Muhammadi (TNSM) leader Sufi Mohammad closed down his "peace camp" in Swat on April 9 to protest President Zardari's delay in signing the Nizam-e-Adl (Shari'a) Regulation. Sufi also announced, however, that "the peace deal with the government is intact." Northwest F [...]
2009-04-10 13:57:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER PGOV MOPS PHUM PK
09PESHAWAR73FATA: BAJAUR CONDITIONS UPDATE
[...] (C) Bajaur-based officials are reporting significant numbers of returnees within the past two months (approximately 211,000). While at odds with numbers reported by UN agencies, fraud (double dipping on benefits, people from areas other than Bajaur seeking benefits, etc.) may be contributing t [...]
2009-04-20 13:29:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPREF PGOV PTER MOPS EAID PK
09PESHAWAR76NWFP: SWAT UPDATE - MILITANTS GAINING GROUND WITH NEW
[...] (C) Summary and Comment. Following the signing of the Nizam-e-Adl regulation by President Asif Zardari on April 13, the residents of Swat District in the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) expected to experience a new sense of peace in their region. While targeted, high profile violence has co [...]
2009-04-22 10:40:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV EAID PK
09PESHAWAR79NWFP: HANGU TENSIONS INCREASING
[...] (C) Summary. Following the April 18 suicide attack on a military checkpoint in Hangu District (Kohat Division, Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP)) and in the wake of the military operations in neighboring Orakzai Agency (Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA)),Post contacts report the situ [...]
2009-04-25 13:42:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV EAID PK
09PESHAWAR8ENERGY CRISIS IN NWFP; REGIONAL ECONOMY AT A "STAND-STILL
[...] (C) The economy of Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) is at a "stand-still," according to Sharafat Ali Mubarak, president of the Sarhad Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI). Citing up to 20 hours per day of electrical loadshedding and drastic shortages of natural gas, Mubara [...]
2009-01-13 12:22:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS ASEC PGOV PK ECON ENRG
09PESHAWAR80ICRC COMMENTS ON NWFP AND FATA
[...] (C) Principal Officer met on April 23 with Benno Kocher, International Committee of the Red Cross's (ICRC) Head of Sub-Delegation. In Swat, Kocher said that IDP camps are "empty," and ICRC is re-orienting its focus to basic services such as health. Numbers in the IDP camps in lower Dir are h [...]
2009-04-25 14:10:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPGOV EAID PTER MOPS PK
09PESHAWAR85FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, APRIL 18
[...] (C) Pakistanis from political and military quarters expressed alarm when taliban fighters advanced from Swat into neighboring Shangla and Buner Districts of Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) without resistance during the third week of April. The government began to deploy some troops to Buner [...]
2009-04-27 08:41:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR87POST CONVENES EAC MEETING ON MOTORWAY ATTACK
[...] (C) PO convened an Emergency Action Committee (EAC) meeting on April 29 to review an attack on a Pakistani security forces convoy on the Peshawar-Islamabad motorway. RSO, RAO, MGT, CONS, PD, USAID, and ODRP attended the meeting. 2. (C) On April 29 at approximately 0400 (local) hours a Fron [...]
2009-04-29 13:22:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALASEC PTER CASC PGOV MOPS PK
09PESHAWAR89CODEL KERRY DISCUSSES "LAW AND ORDER" AND SWAT SHARI'A LAW WITH NWFP CHIEF MINISTER
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-30 14:44:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALEAID MOPS PGOV PK PTER
09PESHAWAR9NWFP: ATTACK ON PAKISTAN SECURITY FORCES IN MOHMAND BY
[...] (C) In an unprecedented move by militants, at least 200 fighters crossed the border from Afghanistan into Mohmand Agency of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and attacked a paramilitary base of the Frontier Corps the evening of January 10. Government forces responded to the assau [...]
2009-01-13 12:24:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS SNAR PGOV PK
09PESHAWAR97MALAKAND DIVISION: FIGHTING IN SWAT BUT "NO OPERATION" YET
[...] (C) During May 4-6, militants in Swat acting on the previously announced withdrawal (Ref A) from the Swat peace accord, attacked security forces throughout Swat and seized government buildings before apparently being evicted from at least some of these by security forces. Despite this action, [...]
2009-05-07 12:28:00Consulate PeshawarCONFIDENTIALMOPS PREF PTER PGOV EAID PK
09PHNOMPENH101DPM SOK AN IS FIRM BUT PATIENT ON THAI BORDER
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In an initial courtesy call on Deputy Prime Minister Sok An February 12, the Ambassador emphasized the U.S. commitment to a re-invigorated and growing relationship with Cambodia and support for the Khmer Rouge Tribunal. Sok An outlined mixed developments in negotiations with the [...]
2009-02-13 07:34:00Embassy Phnom PenhCONFIDENTIALPREL ENRG KJUS KTIA EPET PINR SCUL TH CB
09PHNOMPENH143AMBASSADOR MARCIEL URGES CONTINUED DIALOGUE ON
[...] (C) Summary: During a March 3 discussion with Deputy Prime Minister Sok An, EAP Deputy Assistant Secretary and Ambassador for ASEAN Affairs Scot Marciel praised the Cambodian government for working bilaterally with the Thais to find a long-term solution to the Preah Vihear area border disput [...]
2009-03-04 10:26:00Embassy Phnom PenhCONFIDENTIALPREL KJUS KTIA SCUL TH CB
09PHNOMPENH168DONORS URGE RESUMED FUNDING, MORE NEGOTIATION ON
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Nearly on the eve of the opening of the first Khmer Rouge trial on March 30, ambassadors from seven major donor nations to the hybrid Khmer Rouge Tribunal (KRT) reviewed March 17 a looming crisis in the funding of the court and a March 23 deadline for resolution by a joint UN-Ca [...]
2009-03-17 10:15:00Embassy Phnom PenhCONFIDENTIALPREL KJUS EAID PGOV KTIA CB
09PHNOMPENH221APRIL 3 MORNING CLASH ON THAI-CAMBODIAN BORDER AT
[...] (C) A clash between Thai and Cambodian infantry erupted at 7:20 a.m. April 3 inside the disputed border area near the Cambodian Preah Vihear UNESCO World Heritage Site according to Council of Ministers Secretary of State Phay Siphan. Fighting erupted in an area called the Field of Eagles, the [...]
2009-04-03 02:07:00Embassy Phnom PenhCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS PGOV TH CB
09PHNOMPENH224CAMBODIA HOLDS ITS POSITION IN PREAH VIHEAR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Late-morning negotiations between Thai and Cambodian military field commanders broke down and resulted in resumed fighting at about 1:55 p.m. on April 3, according to multiple Cambodian sources. Council of Ministers Secretary of State Phay Siphan stated that Thai artillery ope [...]
2009-04-03 12:07:00Embassy Phnom PenhCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS PGOV TH CB
09PHNOMPENH297DEFAMATION SUITS CONTINUE; GOVERNMENT ADHERES TO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The government and Hun Sen's lawyer are taking a low-key approach to the case against opposition parliamentarian Mu Sochua. Deputy Prime Minister Sok An told Charge May 6 that the case against Mu would be carried out within Cambodia's legal framework and according to the rule of [...]
2009-05-07 11:34:00Embassy Phnom PenhCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL KJUS CB
09PHNOMPENH316KHMER ROUGE TRIBUNAL "FRIENDS GROUP" MEETS FOR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In its first meeting in a year, the "Friends Group" of donors at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) focused May 6 on the substantive work of the court and the array of administrative challenges the court faces to meet external problems. The judicial pro [...]
2009-05-14 14:07:00Embassy Phnom PenhCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KJUS PHUM CB
09PHNOMPENH333KHMER ROUGE TRIBUNAL: S/WCI AMBASSADOR WILLIAMSON
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Prime Minister Sok An May 20 warmly welcomed Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues Clint Williamson's proposal to mediate differences between Sok An and UN Office of Legal Affairs (UN/OLA) Assistant Secretary General Peter Taksoe-Jensen over an anti-corruption mechanism [...]
2009-05-22 09:43:00Embassy Phnom PenhCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KJUS PHUM CB
09PHNOMPENH343KHMER ROUGE TRIBUNAL: SOK AN ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a palpably relaxed meeting May 22 with Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues Clint Williamson, Deputy Prime Minister Sok An reiterated his strong support for a proposed new anti-corruption mechanism at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal (Ref A). Within minutes of reviewing desired [...]
2009-05-28 15:29:00Embassy Phnom PenhCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KJUS EAID PHUM CB
09PHNOMPENH394AMBASSADOR REAFFIRMS CONCERNS ABOUT CORRUPTION,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador June 11 called on Senior Minister and National Counter Terrorism Center (NCTC) Deputy Director Om Yentieng to restate her concern about corruption in Cambodia and to express regret for any misunderstanding about her intentions or the content of remarks at a May 30 [...]
2009-06-12 10:33:00Embassy Phnom PenhCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON EAID KJUS CB
09PHNOMPENH406CAMBODIA PREPARES PREAH VIHEAR PLAN FOR UNESCO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In advance of his participation in the 33rd session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee in Seville, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Council of Ministers Sok An asked to see the Ambassador June 16 to outline progress by the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) in develo [...]
2009-06-17 10:53:00Embassy Phnom PenhCONFIDENTIALPREL SCUL KTIA KJUS UNESCO EAID TH CB
09PHNOMPENH410SOK AN ON FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AND RULE OF LAW
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a June 12 meeting to deliver a UN proposal on an anti-corruption mechanism at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal to Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Council of Ministers Sok An (Ref B),the Ambassador repeated earlier remarks on her duty to speak out against corruption on behalf [...]
2009-06-19 10:15:00Embassy Phnom PenhCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL KJUS PTER CB
09PHNOMPENH416CAMBODIA SUPPORTIVE OF STRONG ASEAN STATEMENT ON
[...] (C) Ministry of Foreign Affairs Secretary of State for ASEAN Affairs Kao Kim Hourn told Pol/Ec Chief June 23 that Cambodia was supportive of a strong ASEAN statement on UNSCR 1874 and North Korea, and would lean toward supporting even stronger language than the ASEAN's joint press statement wi [...]
2009-06-23 11:39:00Embassy Phnom PenhCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL MNUC MTCRE KN CB
09PHNOMPENH438CAMBODIA RESPONSE: KANG NAM 1 DEMARCHE
[...] (C) Acting Pol/Econ Chief delivered reftel demarch and talking points June 30 to Hos Sereythong, Director, Asia 1 Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs an International Cooperation. He noted that while he was familiar with press reports regarding the vessel in question, he had not yet recei [...]
2009-07-02 04:06:00Embassy Phnom PenhCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM CB BM NK
09PHNOMPENH469WHIRLWIND DEFAMATION CASE DISMISSAL SHOWS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A new defamation/incitement case filed July 8 against leading opposition party newspaper publisher Dam Sith was quickly negotiated into the withdrawal of the complaint when Dam Sith publicly apologized to Prime Minister Hun Sen. Parliamentarian and Sam Rainsy Party (SRP) leader [...]
2009-07-09 12:17:00Embassy Phnom PenhCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KJUS PREL CB
09PHNOMPENH489WHAT IS HAPPENING TO THE HARD-EARNED POLITICAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The wider political space seen in Cambodia during the run-up to the 2008 National Assembly elections last July is undergoing an autocratic nip-and-tuck as the ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) exerts one of its periodic reining-in exercises in the name of greater social orde [...]
2009-07-14 11:44:00Embassy Phnom PenhCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KDEM KJUS PREL EAID CB
09PHNOMPENH492MU SOCHUA TO DEFEND HERSELF AT DEFAMATION HEARING
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a June 14 meeting with the Ambassador, Mu Sochua discussed the impending defamation trial, her long term goals should her immunity be reinstated, and a potential U.S. Congressional hearing on human rights in Cambodia. Claiming that she does not want to put another lawyer at ris [...]
2009-07-15 10:24:00Embassy Phnom PenhCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL KJUS CB
09PHNOMPENH555MINISTER OF COMMERCE DENIES DEFAMATION SUITS ARE
[...] SUMMARY: During an August 4 meeting with Senior Minister and Minister of Commerce Cham Prasidh, the Ambassador expressed serious USG concerns about the recent attacks on freedom of speech and the constricting of political space in Cambodia, highlighting the resulting damage to Cambodia's int [...]
2009-08-05 10:57:00Embassy Phnom PenhCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL KDEM CB
09PHNOMPENH564KHMER ROUGE TRIBUNAL: SOK AN SIGNS AGREEMENT ON
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Using modern-day electronic shuttle diplomacy along with the classic variety, Ambassador at Large for War Crimes Issues Clint Williamson persuaded Deputy Prime Minister Sok An to sign an agreement with the United Nations on an anti-corruption mechanism at the Extraordinary Chambe [...]
2009-08-07 11:16:00Embassy Phnom PenhCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KJUS PHUM CB
09PHNOMPENH578AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES CLINTON NORTH KOREA VISIT WITH FM HOR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During an August 10 meeting with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Hor Namhong, the Ambassador conveyed reftel demarche on former President Clinton's visit to North Korea. Ambassador relayed that Clinton's visit was strictly a private mission and that U.S. pol [...]
2009-08-12 09:04:00Embassy Phnom PenhCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL CB
09PHNOMPENH579AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH DPM AND FM HOR NAMHONG
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During an August 10 meeting, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Hor Namhong expressed to the Ambassador Cambodia's deep appreciation for recent initiatives with the USG such as the Lower Mekong Ministerial, concurred that an anti-corruption mechanism for the Khm [...]
2009-08-12 09:09:00Embassy Phnom PenhCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL CB
09PHNOMPENH602SENATOR WEBB MEETING WITH PRIME MINISTER HUN SEN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Senator Jim Webb concluded a successful one-day visit to Cambodia August 18 on a positive note during a meeting with Prime Minister Hun Sen in which there was general agreement on new ways to approach Burma. Webb detailed his interest in the region and in stronger relations with [...]
2009-08-19 11:23:00Embassy Phnom PenhCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ETRD EAID PTER MASS KJUS PHUM BM CB
09PHNOMPENH648KHMER ROUGE TRIBUNAL: FIVE MORE FOR PROSECUTION
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Pre-Trial Chamber at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal (KRT) will announce this week that five more high-level Khmer Rouge cadres will be prosecuted, although a small number of the proposed charges against some of the accused may be set aside for lack of evidence. The decision on an [...]
2009-09-01 10:44:00Embassy Phnom PenhCONFIDENTIALPREL KJUS PHUM KTIA PINR PGOV CB
09PHNOMPENH765FRIENDS OF THE ECCC DISCUSS STAFFING CHALLENGES,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The "Friends of the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC)" met October 7 to discuss the judicial and administrative progress and challenges of the court. The judicial proceedings were reported to be running smoothly, with the substantive portion of the first tria [...]
2009-10-16 08:17:00Embassy Phnom PenhCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KJUS PHUM CB
09PHNOMPENH79AMBASSADOR'S INITIAL MEETING WITH CAMBODIAN PRIME
[...] (C) Summary: In the Ambassador's first call on Prime Minister Hun Sen since presenting credentials, the PM took the opportunity to renew his personal relationship with the Ambassador and review the evolution of U.S.-Cambodian relations over the past several years, highlighting several areas [...]
2009-01-30 10:07:00Embassy Phnom PenhCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PTER KDEM ECON EAID CB
09PHNOMPENH80OHCHR CAMBODIA OFFICE BLAZES COOPERATIVE TRAIL ON
[...] (C) Summary: In a country where the government's human rights record has remained "poor," as assessed by Department Human Rights Reports, the UNOHCHR Cambodia Office has a positive impact on the Cambodian government adherence to human rights standards. The Office can claim concrete successe [...]
2009-01-30 11:42:00Embassy Phnom PenhCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL
09PHNOMPENH811EAP/MLS DEPUTY DIRECTOR PALMER SEES UP CLOSE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: EAP/MLS Deputy Director Matthew Palmer visited Cambodia October 20-26 to take part in a Conference on the Lower Mekong Initiative (septel),meet key counterparts in the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC),address human rights issues, visit bilateral assistance program sites, a [...]
2009-10-30 05:59:00Embassy Phnom PenhCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KJUS PHUM EAID CB
09PHNOMPENH815HUN SEN MANEUVERS OVER POSSIBLE THAKSIN VISIT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Cambodian officials cite personal relations as justification for a possible visit by former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra in November. Some also cite the Preah Vihear situation, which has seen no diplomatic movement since April. Prime Minister Hun Sen appears to be taki [...]
2009-10-30 09:09:00Embassy Phnom PenhCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MOPS CB
09PHNOMPENH831CAMBODIA RECALLS AMBASSADOR TO THAILAND BUT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) recalled its Ambassador to Thailand You Ay on November 5, emphasizing reciprocity in response to Thailand's earlier removal of the Thai Ambassador to Cambodia -- noting specifically that Cambodia was willing to restore full relations as soo [...]
2009-11-06 10:57:00Embassy Phnom PenhCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM KTIA MOPS ELAB CB
09PHNOMPENH832PRIME MINISTER HUN SEN PREVIEWS THAKSIN VISIT
[...] (C) Summary: The diplomatic spat between Cambodia and Thailand took center stage during the Ambassador's meeting with Prime Minister Hun Sen November 8. Hun Sen confirmed that former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra would arrive in Cambodia on November 10 and would deliver a speech to [...]
2009-11-10 11:42:00Embassy Phnom PenhCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR MOPS TH CB
09PHNOMPENH847NATIONAL ASSEMBLY LIFTS SAM RAINSY'S IMMUNITY IN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The National Assembly voted November 16 to lift opposition party leader Sam Rainsy's immunity to pursue allegations that he destroyed state property and incited national/racial hatred against the Vietnamese during an October 25 incident on the Cambodia-Vietnam border. To respond [...]
2009-11-16 11:14:00Embassy Phnom PenhCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KTIA KJUS CB
09PHNOMPENH890CAMBODIA AGREES TO PRESS FOR DIALOGUE IN BURMA;
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador demarched the RGC on the need for the Government of Burma (GOB) to engage Burma's democratic opposition and to move forward with democratic reform and out of isolation. RGC officials agreed that the 2010 elections indeed represented an "open door" for Burma and wer [...]
2009-12-04 10:51:00Embassy Phnom PenhCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KIRF BM CB
09PHNOMPENH913(C) AMBASSADOR MEETS UNHCR TO DISCUSS UIGHURS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During a meeting December 14 with Ambassador Rodley, United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) officials recounted a "very positive" discussion with Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) officials regarding the 22 Uighur asylum-seekers in Cambodia. According to UNHCR, the [...]
2009-12-14 10:53:00Embassy Phnom PenhCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL PGOV PHUM CB
09PHNOMPENH925(C) UPDATE ON UIGHUR ASYLUM-SEEKERS IN CAMBODIA
[...] (C) Representatives of the United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR) and the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) are close to finding a new location for the Uighur asylum-seekers in Phnom Penh that would offer improved protection. According to UNHCR, the goal is to house the Uighurs [...]
2009-12-16 09:18:00Embassy Phnom PenhCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL PGOV PHUM CB
09PHNOMPENH926AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES UIGHURS AND DRUG
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador Rodley met December 17 with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior (DPM) Sar Kheng to discuss the Uighur asylum seekers in Phnom Penh. The DPM expressed disappointment at an initial lack of cooperation by the local United Nations High Commission for Refugees ( [...]
2009-12-17 07:24:00Embassy Phnom PenhCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL PGOV PHUM SNAR CB
09PHNOMPENH934(C) UIGHURS MOVE AGAIN; UPDATES ON SITUATION
[...] (C) Officials from UNHCR confirmed that the group of 20 Uighurs relocated for a second time the evening of December 17, to a single-family dwelling rented by UNHCR. Cambodian police officers are assisting in providing security at the site; UNHCR said the officers have received explicit prote [...]
2009-12-18 07:39:00Embassy Phnom PenhCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL PGOV PHUM
09PHNOMPENH954CORRECTED COPY - DEPORTATION SCENARIO FOR 20 UIGHUR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On December 19 at 9:15 p.m., the Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) deported 20 Uighur asylum-seekers back to China. Police removed the Uighurs from their safe house on December 18 around 6:00 p.m., and held them in a detention facility inside the Ministry of Interior compound [...]
2009-12-21 11:23:00Embassy Phnom PenhCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL PGOV PHUM CB
09PHNOMPENH956A GRATEFUL CHINA REWARDS CAMBODIA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Just forty-eight hours after the Royal Government of Cambodia's (RGC) December 19 forced deportation of 20 Uighur asylum seekers to China (reftel),Cambodia is already benefiting from Chinese gratitude and generosity. During the official visit of Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping [...]
2009-12-22 10:11:00Embassy Phnom PenhCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EAID CB
09PHNOMPENH957CAMBODIA, UNHCR, AND THE UIGHURS: THE MADNESS OF
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a joint demarche on Deputy Foreign Minister Long Visalo December 21, Ambassadors and Charge strongly protested the deportation of 20 Uighur asylum seekers on December 19, noted that the deportation had occurred despite repeated assurances by senior Cambodian officials that it [...]
2009-12-22 10:20:00Embassy Phnom PenhCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL PGOV PHUM CB
09PHNOMPENH960CAMBODIA, UNHCR, AND THE UIGHURS: THE MADNESS OF
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During a December 21 meeting with Charge and other diplomatic representatives to discuss the Royal Government of Cambodia's (RGC) refoulement of 20 Uighur asylum seekers December 19 (Ref A),UNHCR Regional Representative Raymond Hall stated that although Cambodia had tried hard o [...]
2009-12-22 10:47:00Embassy Phnom PenhCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL PHUM PGOV CB
09PORTAUPRINCE103HAITIAN AUTHORITIES ACCUSED OF MISAPPROPRIATING
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-30 18:45:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV HA SNAR KCRM
09PORTAUPRINCE104HAITI: ARISTIDE'S PARTY, STILL IN DISARRAY,
[...] (C) Summary: Hard line and moderate factions of the Fanmi Lavalas (FL) political party have registered competing lists of candidates for the partial senatorial elections scheduled for April 19. The hard liners' list included a number of close associates of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, some probabl [...]
2009-01-30 19:00:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM HA
09PORTAUPRINCE109PRESIDENT PREVAL'S TRIP TO WASHINGTON
[...] (C) Rene Preval's hasty decision to attend the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington February 5 is an effort to keep Haiti high on the new Administration's international agenda as it takes office. Although no encounters with USG principals have been confirmed, he hopes that his presence in W [...]
2009-02-02 15:51:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV EAID HA OVIP RENE PREVAL
09PORTAUPRINCE117HAITI'S ELECTORAL AUTHORITY TO EXCLUDE LAVALAS
[...] (C) Summary: Haiti's Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) has decided to exclude all Fanmis Lavalas candidates from the upcoming Senate elections, based on a what Embassy and others believe is a strained reading of the electoral law, and the fact that two FL factions submitted competing candida [...]
2009-02-04 20:14:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM HA
09PORTAUPRINCE119RISING TENSIONS OVER LOOMING EXCLUSION OF LAVALAS
[...] Summary: (SBU) The publication of the list of approved candidates for the April Senate elections is imminent. In anticipation that the list will exclude all Fanmi Lavalas (FL) candidates, MINUSTAH is taking security precautions, Fanmi Lavalas leaders are beginning to protest, and the electio [...]
2009-02-05 18:11:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM ASEC HA
09PORTAUPRINCE122HAITI: ELECTORAL COUNCIL BARS LAVALAS, GUY
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) announced late February 5 the exclusion of 40 of the 105 prospective candidates that had registered to compete in the April senatorial elections, including all 16 candidates representing Fanmi Lavalas. Leaders of Lavalas, the party of ou [...]
2009-02-06 18:31:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM ASEC SNAR HA
09PORTAUPRINCE14NAS HAITIAN NATIONAL POLICE AND COAST GUARD
[...] (SBU) Summary: With a new Minister of Justice in place, there is new attention to corrections issues and control of the Haitian National Police (HNP). NAS infrastructure projects continue to encounter delays but are slowly progressing. Many of the delays result from slow action by the Gove [...]
2009-01-07 17:15:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALSNAR PGOV PHUM HA
09PORTAUPRINCE157HAITI: PRESSURE MOUNTS ON ELECTORAL COUNCIL TO RECONSIDER LAVALAS EXCLUSION
[...] (C) Summary: The U.S., Canadians, French, the European Commission and the OAS have issued statements in the last few days regarding the exclusion of Fanmi Lavalas from the upcoming Senate elections (reftel),stating that credible elections must be inclusive. A milder statement by MINUSTAH un [...]
2009-02-11 13:51:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM HA
09PORTAUPRINCE159HAITIAN HUMAN RIGHTS ORGANIZATION URGES CEP TO
[...] (C) Summary: Haiti's leading human rights organization criticized the electoral authority's decision to exclude Fanmi Lavalas from competing in partial Senate elections planned for April as politically motivated. The National Human Rights Defense Network (RNDDH) fears the decision, if not re [...]
2009-02-11 19:51:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM EAID HA
09PORTAUPRINCE166HAITIAN ELECTORAL COUNCIL DEFENDS EXCLUSION OF
[...] (C) Summary: Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) President Frantz-Gerard Verret told the Ambassador on February 11 that the CEP had never considered accepting any Lavalas (FL) candidates for the Senate elections because no Lavalas leader in Haiti had a documented mandate from party leader and [...]
2009-02-13 19:46:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM HA
09PORTAUPRINCE169CORE GROUP REPS MEET WITH PREVAL ON SENATE
[...] (C) Summary. Representing the Core Group, the UNSRSG and the ambassadors of Brazil, Canada, Germany (as EU president),and the United States met with President Preval February 13 for 90 minutes to discuss the current Senatorial election issue. The group urged Preval to ensure that the election [...]
2009-02-16 18:18:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV HA
09PORTAUPRINCE172CORE GROUP REPS MEET WITH PREVAL ON SENATE
[...] (C) Summary. Representing the Core Group, the UNSRSG and the ambassadors of Brazil, Canada, Germany (as EU president),and the United States met with President Preval February 13 for 90 minutes to discuss the current Senatorial election issue. The group urged Preval to ensure that the election [...]
2009-02-17 13:25:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV HA
09PORTAUPRINCE177HAITIAN ELECTORAL AUTHORITY REAFFIRMS EXCLUSION OF
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) released February 16 the definitive list of candidates for the April senatorial elections, reaffirming the exclusion of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's Fanmi Lavalas (FL) party. The CEP list included thirteen previously excluded [...]
2009-02-17 18:19:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM ASEC HA
09PORTAUPRINCE202REJECTED HAITIAN SENATE CANDIDATES PROTEST THEIR
[...] (C) Summary: Supporters of Fanmi Lavalas continue to protest their exclusion from the upcoming Senate elections. Several dozen people gathered in Les Cayes February 18 to demand the return of party leader Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and two of the party's lawmakers called for ''peaceful resistance [...]
2009-02-20 19:04:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM ASEC HA
09PORTAUPRINCE233HAITI: FIFTH ANNIVERSARY OF ARISTIDE'S DEPARTURE
[...] (C) Summary: The fifth anniversary of then-President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's departure from Haiti passed with minimal comment and one small demonstration. Several hundred Fanmi Lavalas activists marched on February 28 to protest the exclusion of their party from the April Senate elections, to [...]
2009-03-03 15:55:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM ASEC HA
09PORTAUPRINCE270HAITI: ELECTORAL COUNCIL MAY DISREGARD COURT
[...] (C) Summary: The Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) has rejected a March 9 court ruling enjoining electoral authorities to include representatives of former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's Fanmi Lavalas party in the upcoming senatorial elections. The CEP and its supporters say that the co [...]
2009-03-11 19:42:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM ASEC HA
09PORTAUPRINCE317HAITI: LEGISLATORS STEP UP CRITICISM OF PRIME
[...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Michele Pierre-Louis defended her government's response to the devastating 2008 hurricanes in a noisy session of parliament March 17. Sensing political opportunity, a number of Haiti's legislators have criticized PM Pierre-Louis over her government's handling of hur [...]
2009-03-20 19:27:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM ASEC HA
09PORTAUPRINCE318LEAKING LIKE A SIEVE: HAITI'S NORTHERN COASTLINE
[...] Summary (C) A UN Police technical advisor working in Cap Haitien believes that clandestine boat migration is a highly-organized business and that intercepted passengers almost always try to shield captains and trip organizers from detection and capture by maritime authorities. He also repor [...]
2009-03-20 19:35:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SNAR HA
09PORTAUPRINCE320HAITI: U.S. UN PERMREP AMBASSADOR RICE'S MEETING
[...] (C) Summary: President Preval emphasized to visiting U.S. Permanent Representative to the UN, Ambassador Susan Rice his government's commitment to reform. Reduced tax revenues caused by last year's storm damage had forced Haiti to cut its budget, but it was still left with a large gap that Ha [...]
2009-03-23 15:45:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UNSC HA
09PORTAUPRINCE346HAITIAN CRIMINAL DEPORTEES (PART ONE): THE NUTS
[...] (C) Summary: Embassy inquiries about criminals the U.S. deports to Haiti reveal that: 1.) Haitian officials and media periodically blame criminal deportees for increases in crime, 2.) deportees face a degree of social discrimination and prejudice, and 3.) deportees who resume a life of crime i [...]
2009-03-31 16:12:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM HA ORA INL IOM PRM
09PORTAUPRINCE348HAITIAN CRIMINAL DEPORTEES (PART TWO):
[...] (SBU) Summary. The International Office for Migration (IOM) administers the only reintegration program for deportees in Haiti, a program partially funded by the USG. Current funding levels cover only one-quarter of the total number of annual Haitian deportees. Criminal deportees claim that I [...]
2009-03-31 16:13:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM HA
09PORTAUPRINCE386AMBASSADOR VISITS LES CAYES
[...] (SBU) The Ambassador visited Les Cayes March 26. The mayor portrayed his city as calm and relatively free of drug trafficking but lacking sufficient funding from the central government. The head of MINUSTAH's regional office emphasized that political instability and drug trafficking were con [...]
2009-04-08 15:34:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SNAR ECON USAID HA
09PORTAUPRINCE399HAITI: LUKEWARM INTEREST IN SENATE ELECTION
[...] (C) Summary: Campaigning is relatively low-key as Haiti moves toward the first round of partial Senate elections April 19. Although campaign posters and radio commercials have begun to appear, most parties -- with the exception of the ruling Lespwa coalition -- seem to lack the financing to p [...]
2009-04-13 15:08:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM ASEC HA
09PORTAUPRINCE404THE SECRETARY'S VISIT TO HAITI
[...] (C) Summary. As the first Secretary of State to travel to Port-au-Prince since 2005, your visit on Thursday sends Haitians a clear signal of continued, indeed intensified, U.S. support for a neighbor and friend in need. Haitians, both within the government and without, will respond positively [...]
2009-04-14 20:41:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALEAID PGOV PREL OVIP CLINTON HILLARY HA
09PORTAUPRINCE411HAITI: CAMPAIGNING CONCLUDES FOR FIRST ROUND OF
[...] (SBU) Summary: Field observations and a local poll suggest that the April 19 elections for 12 vacant Senate seats (reftels) will likely send only a modest number of Lespwa candidates to the second round of voting. This result comes despite the fact that candidates representing Lespwa, the coa [...]
2009-04-17 18:18:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM ASEC HA
09PORTAUPRINCE419FIRST ROUND OF HAITI'S PARTIAL SENATE ELECTIONS
[...] (C) Voting in the first round of partial Senate elections (reftel) took place April 19 in Haiti's ten departments with only one major incident. The Embassy's 29 observers saw that voting materials had generally been delivered to polling stations on time, trained poll workers effectively oversa [...]
2009-04-20 18:27:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM ASEC HA
09PORTAUPRINCE431HAITI ELECTIONS: CANDIDATES POSTURE AS RESULTS
[...] (SBU) Summary. Haiti's April 19 partial senate elections were generally well-organized. Isolated incidents of violence, intimidation and theft of voting materials, which led to cancellation of the vote in one department and demands to annul the vote in parts of another were reported. Voter [...]
2009-04-24 19:06:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM ASEC HA
09PORTAUPRINCE463HAITIAN LYNCHING IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC STOKES
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The murder-decapitation of a young Haitian national in the Dominican Republic (DR) has stoked anger toward Dominicans and criticism from Haitians against their government, perceived as lackadaisical in responding appropriately to human rights violations against Haitians in the DR. [...]
2009-05-07 17:22:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV HA PREL PHUM
09PORTAUPRINCE47HAITIAN PRESIDENT ADDRESSES OPENING SESSION OF
[...] (SBU) Summary: Haitian President Rene Preval addressed Parliament January 12 in the opening ceremony of the first National Assembly session of the new year. Preval reiterated his administration's central theme of reinforcing domestic peace and security as the precondition of sustained develop [...]
2009-01-14 17:19:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL HA
09PORTAUPRINCE475HAITI: PRESIDENT PREVAL ON ELECTIONS, CONSTITUTIONAL CHANGE
[...] (C) President Preval says that the April 19 Senate elections were well organized. He claims to have expected the low turnout, but admitted that the Fanmis Lavalas boycott, associated threats, and the ban on public transportation deterred many voters. The President was pleased at the strong s [...]
2009-05-12 17:39:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KCRM SNAR HA
09PORTAUPRINCE493HAITI: REVIEW FOR SUSPENSION OF TITLE III OF
[...] (C) Summary: The Government of Haiti values the assistance it receives from Cuba and never criticizes Cuba's democracy or human rights record. Haiti and Cuba, along with Venezuela, are parties to a tripartite agreement that facilitates technical assistance to Haiti in the areas of electricit [...]
2009-05-20 18:08:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALETRD ETIC PREL PGOV HA CU
09PORTAUPRINCE506EMBASSY OBTAINS RESUMPTION OF CRIMINAL DEPORTEE
[...] (C) Summary: Following determined Embassy intervention, the Government of Haiti has resumed accepting criminal deportee flights from the U.S. that Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had suspended for several months. Once DHS decided to resume the flights, the GOH resisted accepting them, [...]
2009-05-27 17:00:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV HA PREL PHUM
09PORTAUPRINCE511HAITI: ELECTORAL COUNCIL ANNOUNCES APPEAL
[...] (SBU) Summary: Haiti's electoral authority announced May 22 the results of ten appeals filed by candidates disputing the provisional results of the April 19 partial Senate elections (reftels). Appeals panels threw out several thousand votes in the Artibonite, West, and North departments based [...]
2009-05-29 17:29:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM HA
09PORTAUPRINCE512HAITI: FISSURES IN ARISTIDE'S LAVALAS PARTY LIKELY
[...] (C) Summary: Two dueling factions of Jean-Bertrand Aristide's Fanmi Lavalas party are pushing competing plans to reform the FL charter as they jockey for a claim to leadership of the party in advance of the late 2010 presidential elections. Neither group looks likely to win over the other sid [...]
2009-05-29 17:39:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM ASEC HA
09PORTAUPRINCE517HAITI'S ELECTORAL COUNCIL DETAILS INQUIRIES INTO
[...] (C) Summary: Leaders of Haiti's Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) told the Ambassador and other international community representatives May 28 that results of an inquiry into election-day fraud and irregularities in the Center Department April 19 would soon be published. A similar inquiry i [...]
2009-06-01 13:26:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM ASEC HA
09PORTAUPRINCE53HAITI: MAJORITY COALITION OUSTS CHAMBER OF
[...] (U) Summary: The informal grouping called the "Coalition of Progressive Parliamentarians" (CPP) swept all five positions in the annual Chamber of Deputies leadership elections January 14, dealing a decisive defeat to former Chamber President Eric Jean-Jacques and his allies. Levaillant Louis- [...]
2009-01-16 20:03:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR HA
09PORTAUPRINCE530HAITI: STUDENTS AND POLICE FACE-OFF OVER MINIMUM
[...] (SBU) Summary: Students from two faculties of the State University of Haiti (Universite d'Etat Haiti/UEH) faced off with police the afternoon of June 3 during a student-led protest to pressure the government to increase the minimum wage. Students pelted vehicles and businesses with rocks and [...]
2009-06-04 18:22:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM HA
09PORTAUPRINCE538STUDENT DEMONSTRATIONS CONTINUE IN PORT-AU-PRINCE
[...] (U) This message covers incidents reported on June 4 to 1300 local time on June 5. 2. (C) An unconfirmed number of students from several State University faculties violently protested in downtown Port-au-Prince reportedly to pressure President Preval to sign the minimum wage law. Students assaul [...]
2009-06-05 19:27:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM HA
09PORTAUPRINCE553HAITI ANXIOUSLY AWAITS DECISION ON MINIMUM WAGE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Parliament's decision to raise daily minimum wages in the commercial and industrial sectors continues to strain relations between President Preval and members of Parliament. Since mid-May, President Preval has encouraged dialogue between members of Parliament and the private sector [...]
2009-06-10 20:15:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON EAID ETRD EINV HA
09PORTAUPRINCE575DECONSTRUCTING PREVAL
[...] (C) Haitian President Rene Preval has now completed three years of his five year presidential mandate. Widely touted as the "transitional president" poised to lead Haiti into a new era of democracy and economic prosperity, he has had only modest success thus far. Haiti's problems are indeed dauntin [...]
2009-06-16 18:02:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV HA KBIO
09PORTAUPRINCE583HAITIAN PRESIDENT'S DECISION ON MINIMUM WAGE LAW
[...] (SBU) Summary: Haitian President Rene Preval, after intensive discussion with private sector and parliamentary representatives, plans to return the minimum wage law to Parliament with a proposal to modify the bill with a phased-in wage increase for the assembly sector. A 200 Haitian gourde (HTG) [...]
2009-06-17 19:26:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON EAID ETRD EINV HA
09PORTAUPRINCE589HAITI SENATE ELECTIONS: TEPID CAMPAIGNING, SOME
[...] (SBU) Campaigning in the lead-up to the June 21 second round of voting in Haiti's partial Senate elections has been lukewarm, as candidates lack money and voters remain apathetic. Four days before the vote, the government announced state campaign financing for candidates -- too late to revive [...]
2009-06-19 18:32:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM HA
09PORTAUPRINCE591HAITI PLEASED WITH PETROCARIBE AND SUMMIT
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Sixth PetroCaribe Summit in St. Kitts on June 12 congratulated Haiti as the ''best payer'' out of 13 countries, having paid approximately USD 220 million to Venezuela. GOH sources confirm that Venezuela announced plans to finance and construct an oil refinery in Haiti proje [...]
2009-06-19 19:21:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ENRG EPET ECON POL EAID HA
09PORTAUPRINCE592MINIMUM WAGE DEMONSTRATIONS BECOME VIOLENT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Demonstrators confronting Haitian National Police and MINUSTAH units that began June 3 have become violent and taken on an anti-government and anti-MINUSTAH character. Initial demands by university students for changes in the curriculum and improvement of conditions at the State Uni [...]
2009-06-19 19:24:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV HA PREL
09PORTAUPRINCE601HAITI: FEW IRREGULARITIES, LOW TURNOUT IN SECOND
[...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy observers noted low turnout but few irregularities, better organization, and greater security in the second round of voting in Haiti's partial Senate elections June 21. UN peacekeepers and Haitian police deployed more effectively than in the first round, acting quickly to qu [...]
2009-06-23 19:19:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM ASEC HA
09PORTAUPRINCE607CODEL MEEK DISCUSSES MINIMUM WAGE, JUDICIAL REFORM AND CUBA WITH PRESIDENT RENE PREVAL
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-25 17:39:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALCU ECON HA PGOV PREL
09PORTAUPRINCE623HAITI: PREVAL'S ALLIES FARE WELL IN SENATE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Candidates of the pro-government Lespwa coalition and other allies of President Rene Preval won seven of the eleven vacant Senate seats in play during the June 21 second round of elections, according to preliminary results. Only eleven percent of eligible voters participated in t [...]
2009-07-01 18:26:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM ASEC HA
09PORTAUPRINCE643HNP DIRECTOR GENERAL'S MANDATE RENEWED BY
[...] (U) On July 14, President Preval forwarded to the Haitian Senate the letter to renew the mandate of the Haitian National Police (HNP) Director General Mario Andresol for an additional three years. Andresol has already tasked his advisors (two of whom are funded by NAS) to begin preparing a t [...]
2009-07-15 16:46:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALSNAR PGOV PHUM KPKO HA
09PORTAUPRINCE65HAITI: ANTI-CORRUPTION CAMPAIGN BEARS LITTLE FRUIT
[...] (SBU) Government of Haiti investigation and prosecution of corruption under President Preval is haphazard and has failed to bring a single major case to trial. President Preval announced in mid 2007 a major effort against corruption. Suspects in several cases, in the public and private sector, [...]
2009-01-21 17:21:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV KCRM PHUM HA
09PORTAUPRINCE659LAVALAS MARCH FOR ARISTIDE'S BIRTHDAY DRAWS MODEST
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A July 15 Fanmi Lavalas Demonstration to mark Jean Bertrand Aristide's birthday was peaceful and attended by at most a few thousand supporters. Fanmi Lavalas ability to bring people into the streets is declining. END SUMMARY. 2. (SBU) Fanmi Lavalas (FL) supporters marched p [...]
2009-07-21 11:59:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM ASEC HA SA
09PORTAUPRINCE667HAITI: PARTIAL SENATE ELECTIONS NOW OVER, LESPWA
[...] (SBU) Summary: With the results of Haiti's partial Senate elections now final, the pro-government party Lespwa won six of the eleven seats being contested, which will give them 13 out of 29 Senate seats. A controversial appeals decision to reverse the initial result in the South Department in [...]
2009-07-24 14:01:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM ASEC EAID HA
09PORTAUPRINCE73YOU CAN GO HOME AGAIN: CANADIAN GOVERNOR GENERAL SHINES IN HAITI
[...] (U) During her four day working visit to Haiti January 15-19, Canadian Governor General Michaelle Jean once again charmed her former countrymen. The Governor General, accompanied by her husband, met with senior government officials, including president Rene Preval and Prime Minister Michele P [...]
2009-01-23 18:36:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPREL HA CA
09PORTAUPRINCE731HAITIAN NATIONAL POLICE - PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
[...] (U) Summary: The following is a brief overview of progress made by the Haitian National Police in the past two years and a summary of various perspectives on where the HNP should go in the future. This report represents the recommendations and analysis of the first full-time NAS Director, at [...]
2009-08-13 17:44:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALSNAR ASEC PGOV PREL KCRM HA
09PORTAUPRINCE767HAITIAN JUSTICE MINISTER CONCERNED ABOUT DRUGS AND
[...] (C) Summary. The Haitian Justice Minister echoed the President's and PM's pleas for increased U.S. counter-narcotics measures in Haiti as well as increased flow of information back to Haiti gleaned from trials of Haitians in the U.S. He also requested assistance to resolve an acute shortage [...]
2009-09-01 17:34:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPREL SNAR HA
09PORTAUPRINCE768HAITI: VALIDATION OF NEWLY-ELECTED SENATORS STILL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Senate President Kely Bastien publicly announced that the validation of 11 newly-elected Senators will happen on Friday September 4. There is still confusion as to whether a quorum of the Senate will be needed for the validation session. Bastien has claimed that a quorum of the Se [...]
2009-09-01 19:00:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM ASEC HA
09PORTAUPRINCE788HAITI: ELECTED SENATORS TAKE OFFICE
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Senate leadership validated the 11 newly-elected Senators on September 4 through a coup de force. Senate President Kely Bastien resigned to allow the Bureau d'Age to validate the Senators, and he was re-elected unanimously on September 9. New officers at the Senate were also el [...]
2009-09-11 17:32:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM ASEC HA KBIO
09PORTAUPRINCE837HAITIAN CRIMINAL ALIEN BACKLOG ELIMINATED: RESULTS
[...] (SBU) Summary: The arrival of twenty-eight Haitian criminal aliens via flight(JPAT) to Port-au-Prince on September signaled the successful elimination of the ''backlog'' of individuals with criminal convictions awaiting deportation to Haiti. Inadequate technological capacity, unreliable acce [...]
2009-09-28 12:44:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALKCRM PGOV PHUM HA
09PORTAUPRINCE841HAITI APPROVES NEW PARLIAMENTARY POLICE UNIT
[...] (SBU) Summary: On September 11, the Haitian Legislature approved a law which proposes to establish an additional security unit within the Haitian National Police (PNH). This initiative was not consulted with PNH leadership or MINUSTAH. At best, this is an effort to formalize existing police [...]
2009-09-28 15:28:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALKCRM PGOV PHUM HA
09PORTAUPRINCE888SUSPECTED TRAFFICKER AND NOTED JUDICIAL REFORMER LOSES SENATE LEADERSHIP POSITION
[...] (C) SUMMARY. The Haitian Senate's Justice and Security Commission elected a new president and vice-president on October 19, tossing out the controversial chairman Youri Latortue. Although an opposition member was selected as the new president of the commission, the new vice-president is likely to [...]
2009-10-23 12:48:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR EAID HA
09PORTAUPRINCE895PREVAL CONSOLIDATING POWER
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Senate convocation of Prime Minister Pierre-Louis and her government for a probable vote of no confidence is the latest of a series of moves (reported in reftels) by the Senate with the suspected approval - tacit or active - of President Preval. This will consolidate his powe [...]
2009-10-26 20:57:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL HA
09PORTAUPRINCE903DEMARCHE UN INTERNATIONAL CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION
[...] (U) Post delivered the International Civil Service Commission Demarche to Azad Belfort, Director of International Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on October 23. Belfort indicated that Haiti was inclined to vote for the US candidate, Ms. Myers, but would not confirm. He noted that U [...]
2009-10-27 15:15:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALAPER KAWC KJUS KUNR PREL UNGA HA AORC
09PORTAUPRINCE936PROSPECTS FOR FANMI LAVALAS IN THE 2010 ELECTIONS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The two main factions of Fanmi Lavalas, the political party of ousted former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide, are collaborating to mitigate the risk of their exclusion from legislative and presidential elections in 2010. Although a united Lavalas would be the largest party in H [...]
2009-11-10 10:42:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM ASEC KINR HA
09PORTAUPRINCE96HAITI'S INTERIOR MINISTER WORRIED ABOUT ELECTIONS,
[...] (C) During the Ambassador's January 21 call, Minister of Interior Paul-Antoine Bien-Aime informed that Haiti is creating an intelligence coordination body. He admitted that Haiti is vulnerable to movements of nationals from countries of concern. The country needs not an army but a national s [...]
2009-01-29 17:26:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM PINR HA
09PORTAUPRINCE975President Preval Defends Election Antics Before Diplomatic
[...] (C) Summary: At a 10 December meeting with the diplomatic corps, President Preval outlined his priorities for his last year in office and responded to criticisms about manipulation of the electoral process. Preval said that in his remaining 14 months he will dedicate his energies to consolid [...]
2009-12-14 18:34:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR EAID HA
09PORTAUPRINCE977Preval Seeks International Donor Support for Elections
[...] (SBU) Summary: President Preval convoked the diplomatic corps, the board of the Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) and several members of his Cabinet to a 16 December meeting at the Palace to discuss arrangements for the upcoming parliamentary elections. He asked potential donors to confirm [...]
2009-12-17 17:49:00Embassy Port Au PrinceCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR EAID HA
09PORTLOUIS101GOS REQUEST FOR U.S. ASSISTANCE AGAINST PIRATES
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 30, Post received a GOS diplomatic note requesting more frequent surveillance patrols by U.S. forces in Seychellois waters to help deter piracy. The diplomatic note was a follow-up to an earlier telephone call between the Acting Foreign Minister (A/FM) and the Charge. Cha [...]
2009-04-02 06:01:00Embassy Port LouisCONFIDENTIALMARR PREL MASS MOPS SE
09PORTLOUIS109DEMARCHE: COUNTER-PIRACY COOPERATION WITH MAURITIUS
[...] (SBU) On April 13, CDA met with Mauritian Foreign Minister (FM) Arvin Boolell to discuss ref A points regarding Mauritian willingness in the future to prosecute piracy suspects. In order to obtain a legal opinion of Mauritian laws on piracy, the FM said he would to send the technical points t [...]
2009-04-13 11:32:00Embassy Port LouisCONFIDENTIALEWWT MOPS PHSA PREL KJUS XW MP
09PORTLOUIS118MAURITIUS ON RETURN TO CONSTITUTIONAL RULE IN MADAGASCAR
[...] (C) On April 13, CDA met with Mauritian Foreign Minister (FM),Arvin Boollel, to discuss reftel points. The FM commented that while Mauritius concurs with the need to push for new elections in Madagascar, the GOM prefers working under the IOC model and plan, even while noting that it is "known [...]
2009-04-15 13:30:00Embassy Port LouisCONFIDENTIALAORC EAID PGOV PREL MA MP
09PORTLOUIS132SEYCHELLES ARRESTS NINE SUSPECTED PIRATES, BUT
[...] (C) Summary. As reported in the press, the Seychelles Coast Guard recently brought into the country for prosecution nine suspected pirates captured by a Spanish warship in Seychelles waters. The suspects are thought to have attacked an Italian cruise ship, the MSC Melody, before the Melody r [...]
2009-04-30 10:34:00Embassy Port LouisCONFIDENTIALMARR PREL MASS MOPPS SE
09PORTLOUIS14AMBASSADOR'S DEPARTURE CALL ON MAURITIAN PRIME
[...] (C) Summary: On January 12, Ambassador Cabrera (with DCM as note taker) conducted his final official meeting with Mauritian Prime Minister Ramgoolam. The 90-minute meeting reinforced the close US-Mauritian ties, and provided Ramgoolam an opportunity to thank the Ambassador for his service to b [...]
2009-01-13 11:07:00Embassy Port LouisCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ABLD KREC ZI MP
09PORTLOUIS143PROBLEMS WITH PIRACY TRIALS IN SEYCHELLES - LACK
[...] (C) As of 7 May, the Seychelles had 23 suspected Somali pirates in detention on the main island of Mahe. These arrests were largely a result of international partners providing surveillance and pursuit capabilities. GOS legal and political leaders voice no consistent analysis on how to succe [...]
2009-05-12 09:20:00Embassy Port LouisCONFIDENTIALMARR PREL MASS MOPPS SE
09PORTLOUIS144WILL SEYCHELLES SWAP PIRATES FOR HOSTAGES?
[...] (C) Pressure is mounting on the President of Seychelles to take measures to secure the release of the ten Seychellois being held hostage in Somalia by pirates. The leader of the opposition in the Seychelles claims to be in direct contact with both of the two Somali groups holding the Seychelloi [...]
2009-05-12 12:11:00Embassy Port LouisCONFIDENTIALMARR PREL MASS MOPPS SE
09PORTLOUIS147TIFA DELEGATION MEETS MAURITIAN PRIME MINISTER
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Africa Florizelle Liser, accompanied by CDA and other USG officials, called on Prime Minister Navin Ramgoolam April 20. Ramgoolam claimed some credit for efforts to diversify Mauritius exports and the resulting resiliency of his country in [...]
2009-05-13 07:43:00Embassy Port LouisCONFIDENTIALETRD EINV ECON PGOV USTR MP
09PORTLOUIS168MAURITIUS TO RECOGNIZE KOSOVO, PRIME MINISTER SAYS
[...] (C) On 4 June, Prime Minister Ramgoolam called CDA to report that he had decided Mauritius would recognize Kosovo on or soon after 17 July. When asked the reason for the complete shift of GOM position (see refs),the PM said that he had been swayed by the series of talking points delivered o [...]
2009-06-05 08:02:00Embassy Port LouisCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN PREL KV MP
09PORTLOUIS169SEYCHELLES PRISON SYSTEM: BAD ENOUGH WITHOUT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Incidents of piracy have threatened the economic livelihood of the Seychelles, yet the small and troubled island nation lacks the infrastructure to house a potential influx of pirates, and is barely capable of detaining the alleged pirates in custody now. A recent preliminary re [...]
2009-06-05 08:27:00Embassy Port LouisCONFIDENTIALPHUM MARR PREL MASS MOPPS KCRM SE
09PORTLOUIS181MAURITIUS' EMERGENCY PIRACY MEETING: A TENTATIVE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A public outcry from the fisheries and shipping sector, coupled with fishing ships fleeing the Indian Ocean for safer waters and a 20 percent drop in fish suppliers for Mauritius since January, prompted Foreign Minister (FORMIN) Arvin Boolell and Attorney General (AG) Rama Valayde [...]
2009-06-17 08:30:00Embassy Port LouisCONFIDENTIALPHSA PBTS EWWT MARR MOPS MP
09PORTLOUIS183MAURITIUS CONSIDERS NEW EU PROPOSED INDEPENDENT
[...] (C) On June 17, CDA, accompanied by POLOFF as notetaker, used reftel demarche to push the GOM for a decision on the UN Special Rapporteur mandate renewal. The MFA delegation, which included First Secretary Nivedita Sohawon and First Secretary Martine Young Kim Fat, confirmed that despite rece [...]
2009-06-17 12:55:00Embassy Port LouisCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL SU MP
09PORTLOUIS205SEYCHELLES SOFA IN THE FINAL STRETCH
[...] (C) A U.S. inter-agency delegation met with Government of Seychelles (GoS) stakeholders in early July to discuss issues associated with the proposed Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA). The discussions, which were built on multi-level country team lobbying efforts over the past two years, led to [...]
2009-07-07 09:43:00Embassy Port LouisCONFIDENTIALMARR PREL MASS MOPS SE
09PORTLOUIS218SEYCHELLES SEEKS GREATER US TIES IN CDA MEETING
[...] (SBU) Charge D'Affaires Virginia Blaser's June 30 courtesy call on President James Michel celebrated the U.S. - Seychelles bilateral relationship and addressed cooperative efforts to combat piracy and secure the seas. Set against the festive backdrop of the first July 4th celebration the Embas [...]
2009-07-14 06:06:00Embassy Port LouisCONFIDENTIALPHSA PBTS MARR MOPS EWWT SE
09PORTLOUIS22AMBASSADOR'S DEPARTURE CALL ON MAURITIAN FOREIGN
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Ambassador Cabrera's departure call on Mauritian Foreign Minister Arvind Boolell ran the gambit of Economic and Political issues. From Bilateral Investment Treaty remarks to questions about trafficking in persons, the friendly, one-hour meeting brought key issues forward. END SU [...]
2009-01-20 10:54:00Embassy Port LouisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM ETRD EAIR SOCI MP
09PORTLOUIS265MAURITIUS: GENERAL WARD/U.S. AFRICA COMMAND VISIT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: General William Ward, Commander, United States Africa Command, visited Mauritius from 17 to 18 August 2009. During his visit to Mauritius, he met with Prime Minister Navinchandra Ramgoolam, Minister of Foreign Affairs Arvin Boolell, and Police Commissioner Dhun Iswar Rampersad. [...]
2009-09-04 06:50:00Embassy Port LouisCONFIDENTIALASEC PGOV PREL MASS MP
09PORTLOUIS280MAURITIAN IDEAS CONCERNING THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (U) A/DCM delivered reftel demarche to Ambassador Patrice Cure, Head of the Multilateral Division at the Mauritian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Cure noted that the Mauritian mission to the Human Rights Council had sent him some suggestions and proposals, which he was considering. The reelect [...]
2009-09-11 04:30:00Embassy Port LouisCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL MP
09PORTLOUIS290MAURITIUS DIFFIDENT ON EXPANDING THE CHORUS ON IRAN
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-17 05:53:00Embassy Port LouisCONFIDENTIALKNNP MNUC PARM IAEA PREL AORC MP
09PORTLOUIS313MAURITIUS SENDS MIXED SIGNALS ON SOFA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Since receiving ref A Status of Forces boilerplate to present to the GOM in July 2008, Emboffs of all levels have engaged the Mauritians repeatedly for comments or reactions. Over the past year, the issue has been raised with the Prime Minister, the Foreign Minister, the Minister [...]
2009-10-08 11:36:00Embassy Port LouisCONFIDENTIALMARR PREL MASS MOPS MP
09PORTLOUIS327MAURITIUS DOWNBEAT ON PROGRESS IN AFGHANISTAN
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-22 11:59:00Embassy Port LouisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KPAO MP AF IR
09PORTLOUIS334MAURITIUS DISTANT FROM U.S. POSITION ON THE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-22 12:22:00Embassy Port LouisCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PTER KISL KPAL IS MP
09PORTLOUIS335MAURITIUS: A COOL RESPONSE TO U.S. BRIEFING ON
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-22 12:34:00Embassy Port LouisCONFIDENTIALKNNP MNUC PARM IR MP
09PORTLOUIS349SEYCHELLES: REQUEST FOR CLARIFICATION OF SOFA'S
[...] (C) The Seychelles' SOFA negotiations were successfully completed in July of 2009. The GOS sent a diplomatic note to the U.S. Embassy in Port Louis on July 22, 2009, confirming that the SOFA was approved by the GOS and was active as soon as receipt was confirmed by the Embassy. The Embassy [...]
2009-10-26 10:22:00Embassy Port LouisCONFIDENTIALOPDC MARR PREL SE
09PORTLOUIS350SEYCHELLES: REQUEST FOR CLARIFICATION OF SOFA'S
[...] (C) The Seychelles' SOFA negotiations were successfully completed in July of 2009. The GOS sent a diplomatic note to the U.S. Embassy in Port Louis on July 22, 2009, confirming that the SOFA was approved by the GOS and was active as soon as receipt was confirmed by the Embassy. The Embassy [...]
2009-10-26 10:48:00Embassy Port LouisCONFIDENTIALOPDC MARR PREL SE
09PORTLOUIS366CHARGE'S QUARTERLY CALL ON MAURITIAN PRIME
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 11, Charge d'Affaires (CDA) enjoyed a cordial one and a half hour meeting with Mauritian Prime Minister Ramgoolam to discuss a variety of issues, including the PM's position on counter-piracy cooperation, peacekeeping deployments, the pending Status of Forces Agreement [...]
2009-11-16 11:42:00Embassy Port LouisCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MP
09PORTLOUIS378MAURITIUS SOFA DISCUSSION: SMALL STEPS
[...] (C) This is an action message. Please see para 10 below. 2. SUMMARY: On November 17, in a meeting arranged at the Prime Minister's request, Embassy officials met with the Mauritian Foreign Minister and officials from his ministry, the Prime Minister's office, and the State Law Office. The [...]
2009-11-24 06:52:00Embassy Port LouisCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR PGOV MP SE
09PORTLOUIS384MAURITIUS UNAWARE OF IAEA REPORT ON SYRIA
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-25 12:17:00Embassy Port LouisCONFIDENTIALPARM IAEA KKNP SYR MP
09PORTLOUIS394SEYCHELLES PRESIDENT VISITS CUBA, DISCUSSES
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Seychelles President James Michel visited Cuba November 29-30 to discuss additional Cuban medical assistance. At the request of the Cubans, Michel provided a briefing on ways his country has pursued economic reform. Michel believes that Raul Castro recognizes that economic chang [...]
2009-12-04 07:49:00Embassy Port LouisCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON CU SE
09PORTLOUIS397SEYCHELLES REQUESTS CONTINUED DEPLOYMENT OF US AIR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a December 02 meeting with the Charge, Seychelles President James Michel praised US assistance in combating Somali piracy, supported the presence of US UAVs and requested the continued deployment of P-3s (currently scheduled to conclude December 22). Secretary-of-State Jean P [...]
2009-12-07 11:22:00Embassy Port LouisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHSA PBTS MARR SO SE
09PORTLOUIS403SEYCHELLES OPPOSITION BOYCOTTS OPENING OF
[...] (SBU) On December 4, The Seychelles National Party (SNP),the main opposition party in the Seychelles, boycotted the inauguration of the new Chinese-built Seychelles National Assembly building. The official inauguration ceremony was attended by President Michel, former President James Mancham [...]
2009-12-09 10:50:00Embassy Port LouisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID CH SE
09PORTLOUIS404PRIME MINISTER BRIEFED ON PIRATE TRANSFER AND
[...] (C) SUMMARY: UNODC representative Alan Cole briefed Mauritian Prime Minister Ramgoolam December 8 on the UN program to assist the transfer and prosecution of suspected pirates captured in the Indian Ocean region. Ramgoolam was receptive to the programs and ideas but raised concerns regarding [...]
2009-12-10 12:18:00Embassy Port LouisCONFIDENTIALKPIR PREL MARR PHSA EWWT PBTS MP
09PORTLOUIS410MAURITIUS AND PIRATE TRANSFERS/PROSECUTIONS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: To contribute to the international anti-piracy effort, Prime Minister Rangoolam seeks a formal "understanding" with UNODC which would authorize the transfer to Mauritius and prosecution in Mauritius courts of a number (unspecified) of suspected pirates seized by international forc [...]
2009-12-21 12:33:00Embassy Port LouisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EWWT PHSA PBTS KPIR MARR MP
09PORTLOUIS411SEYCHELLES SERIOUS ABOUT PIRACY PROSECUTIONS;
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Seychelles will charge the eleven recently-captured Somalis with piracy, but arraignment has been delayed for two weeks. Seychelles has accepted an offer from UNODC and the EU to construct a 40-bed maximum-security wing at the country's only prison to house pirates and other high [...]
2009-12-22 12:07:00Embassy Port LouisCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KPIR MARR PHSA EWWT PBTS SE
09PORTLOUIS412SEYCHELLES TO DROP CASE AGAINST LXE SOLAR AND JIE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a U.S. District Court, LXE Solar and Jie (George) Xiao have charged Seychelles with seizing an 8.5 million dollar bank account; the suit seeks the return of the funds plus 30 million dollars in damages. Seychelles has denied the allegations, stating that the account was legally [...]
2009-12-23 11:00:00Embassy Port LouisCONFIDENTIALEINV EFIN SE
09PORTLOUIS413SEYCHELLES APATHETIC ON "DEFAMATION OF RELIGION"
[...] (C) The Permanent Representative of Seychelles to the UN, Ambassador Ronald (Ronny)Jumeau, was present for only one of the 88 votes at the 63rd UN General Assembly in 2008, and Jumeau was also absent at the 64th 3rd Committee vote on the resolution on "defamation of religion." Given, that the [...]
2009-12-24 07:50:00Embassy Port LouisCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL KISL KDEM PGOV OPDC SE
09PORTLOUIS414MAURITIUS AND THE "DEFAMATION OF RELIGION" ISSUE
[...] (C) After initially voting in favor of a resolution on defamation of religions, Mauritius -- thanks in part to U.S. initiatives -- has since 2008 changed its vote to an abstention. Post believes that it will be extremely difficult at this point to convince Mauritius to be more active on the [...]
2009-12-24 08:32:00Embassy Port LouisCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL KISL KDEM PGOV OPDC MP
09PORTLOUIS5AIR MAURITIUS CAN'T FLY OVER THIS HEDGE,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Air Mauritius made a very bad bet. After increasing its hedge ratio to 80 percent of its projected fuel requirements until mid-2010 at an average price of USD 105 per barrel, the airline is losing about USD 8.4 million per month. These severe self-inflicted losses have led to st [...]
2009-01-07 12:41:00Embassy Port LouisCONFIDENTIALEAIR EFIN ECON ETRD OPIC USTR MP
09PORTLOUIS55MAURITIUS NO ON KOSOVO REMAINS LINKED TO CHAGOS
[...] (U) On February 12, POLOFF made ref A points to Brinda Trilok, U.S. Desk Officer at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Interestingly enough, Ms. Trilok was just rotated back into the position after working on Eastern European issues, including Kosovo, for several months. While acknowledging the [...]
2009-02-17 04:30:00Embassy Port LouisCONFIDENTIALPREL AORC ICJ UNGA MP
09PORTLOUIS63NO CRITICAL FOREIGN DEPENDENCIES IN MAURITIUS
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-19 12:32:00Embassy Port LouisCONFIDENTIALPTER PGOV ASEC EFIN ENRG MP
09PORTLOUIS64CHINESE PRESIDENT SPREADS LARGESSE AND BRUISES
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Although diplomatic relations between China and Mauritius date back to 1972, the first visit to Mauritius of a Chinese President took place this week from February 16- 17. President Hu Jintao visited Mauritius as part of a four- leg African tour that also included Senegal, Mali, [...]
2009-02-20 08:51:00Embassy Port LouisCONFIDENTIALPGOV EAGR EFIN MARR PREL SENV TRGY CH MP
09PORTLOUIS66CHARGE'S QUARTERLY CALL ON MAURITIAN PRIME
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-24 07:00:00Embassy Port LouisCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ZI MP
09PORTLOUIS67NO CRITICAL FOREIGN DEPENDENCIES IN SEYCHELLES
[...] (C) Seychelles is a small, developing island nation without significant mineral or other natural wealth. Post does not believe Seychelles possesses critical infrastructure or key resources the loss of which would have a critical impact on the public health, economic security, or national secur [...]
2009-02-24 09:44:00Embassy Port LouisCONFIDENTIALPTER PGOV ASEC EFIN ENRG SY
09PORTLOUIS93PRIME MINISTER OFFICIAL REQUEST TO MEET WITH
[...] (SBU) On March 17, Post received a courtesy copy of a letter dated March 13 addressed to President Barack Obama from Mauritian Prime Minister, Navinchandra Ramgoolam. Post was informed by the Prime Minister's Private Secretary that the letter already had been provided to the Department by Kai [...]
2009-03-24 11:22:00Embassy Port LouisCONFIDENTIALOPDC PREL OVIP MP
09PORTMORESBY13PACIFIC ISLAND FORUM LEADERS TAKE STRONG ACTION ON FIJI
[...] (C) Summary: Despite early indications that Forum leaders would adhere to the conciliatory "Pacific Way" of dealing with Bainimarama, they instead issued a strong statement (Reftel A) on January 27 calling on the Interim Government to take action to hold elections and restore democracy in Fiji [...]
2009-01-28 07:44:00Embassy Port MoresbyCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PP FJ
09PORTMORESBY180PAPUA NEW GUINEA: FORMER PM FEARS 'SOCIAL IMPLOSION' IF LNG
[...] Summary. Leader of the Opposition and former Prime Minister Sir Mekere Morauta told us he fears a `social implosion' if Government proceeds from Exxon Mobil's LNG project flowing into Government-supervised trust accounts is misspent. He said current PM Somare, who served briefly as Foreign Mi [...]
2009-09-21 07:56:00Embassy Port MoresbyCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID PP
09PORTMORESBY30SOLOMON ISLANDS FEELING THE ECONOMIC CRISIS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Solomon Islands (SI) is beginning to feel the effects of the current global economic crisis. Donors view the situation as serious. SI leaders are looking for options to replace logging revenues that are quickly disappearing due to a drop in demand caused by the current economic c [...]
2009-03-06 08:06:00Embassy Port MoresbyCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL BP
09PORTMORESBY60PNG DEFENSE FORCE COMMANDER PREDICTS PASSAGE OF PEACEKEEPING
[...] (C) Summary: Papua New Guinea (PNG) Defence Force Commander Ilau told Ambassador April 15 there is now agreement within the Government on introduction and passage of the International Obligations Bill allowing PNG armed forces to participate in international peacekeeping operations. Secretary [...]
2009-04-15 07:49:00Embassy Port MoresbyCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR KPKO MARR MCAP MOPS PP FJ
09PORTOFSPAIN119SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS: PRIME MINISTER MANNING
[...] (C) Prime Minister Patrick Manning met CDA Charles Shapiro March 16 to discuss Summit of the Americas issues. Manning envisions a major role for the President, including an event in Port of Spain's main park (the Savannah) for 100,000s. The PM will make a quick March 18-21 trip to six natio [...]
2009-03-17 10:33:00Embassy Port Of SpainCONFIDENTIALPREL KSUM MASS TD
09PORTOFSPAIN121RESPONSE FOR INFORMATION ON ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING
[...] (C) Summary: Trinidad and Tobago's lack of compliance with the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF) anti-money laundering and counter terrorism finance (AML/CTF) recommendations jeopardizes its role as a regional financial leader. CFATF's executive director is calling on the GOTT to [...]
2009-03-17 17:09:00Embassy Port Of SpainCONFIDENTIALEFIN PINR KTFN TD
09PORTOFSPAIN175MANNING HIGH ON OBAMA, WANTS TO DEEPEN
[...] (C) I met with Prime Minister Patrick Manning the morning of April 21 to discuss the Summit and to take my leave of him. Also participating were the PM's Special Assistant Kirt St. Bernard and two aides; DCM Kusnitz was with me. I thanked Manning, on behalf of the President, for hosting a succe [...]
2009-04-21 19:42:00Embassy Port Of SpainCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ETRD ECON KSUM TD
09PORTOFSPAIN230TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO - LIBERTAD ACT REVIEW
[...] (C) QUESTION: Has the host country, in Post's opinion, worked to promote the advancement of democracy and human rights in Cuba? ANSWER: Post is not aware of any GOTT initiatives promoting democracy and human rights in Cuba. 2. (C) QUESTION: Has the host country made public statements or [...]
2009-05-22 23:04:00Embassy Port Of SpainCONFIDENTIALETRD ETTC PREL
09PORTOFSPAIN423Libertad Act Review: Trinidad and Tobago
[...] (U) This message responds to reftel questions. 2. (C) QUESTION: Has the host country, in Post's opinion, worked to promote the advancement of democracy and human rights in Cuba? ANSWER: Post is not aware of any GOTT initiatives promoting democracy and human rights in Cuba. [...]
2009-11-23 19:34:00Embassy Port Of SpainCONFIDENTIALETRD ETTC PREL CU TD
09PRAGUE103CZECH EU PRESIDENCY: COMMENTS ON UPCOMING FEBRUARY
[...] (SBU) Summary: On February 20 emboff spoke with Magdalena Janesova of the Czech MFA Department of Common Foreign and Security Policy in advance of the February 23-24 EU General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC). Of note were her comments on: Gaza, Afghanistan, the Western Balkans, [...]
2009-02-20 18:45:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALEUN EZ PGOV PREL IS SU HR XG
09PRAGUE109CZECH FINANCE MINISTER KALOUSEK ON EU, G-20
[...] (C) Finance Minister Miroslav Kalousek stressed to Charge February 25 the importance of global coordination of financial market regulatory reform and noted the Czech Republic favored evolutionary rather than revolutionary changes. The February 22 informal G-5 meeting in Berlin had discussed s [...]
2009-02-27 06:11:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON ETRD PREL EUN EZ
09PRAGUE112EUR PDAS RIES MEETINGS WITH CZECH OFFICIALS
[...] (SBU) Summary: On February 25 PDAS Marcie Ries met with Czech officials at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister Alexandr Vondra's Department for European Policy Coordination. The Czechs welcomed our "consultative approach," particularly with respect to Afghanistan. They a [...]
2009-03-02 06:36:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALEUN EZ EG PGOV PREL AF PK NATO
09PRAGUE120CZECH REPUBLIC: INFORMATION REQUEST IN ADVANCE OF
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Czech Government (GoCR) views the EU response to the financial crisis as an important test of its EU presidency. Within EU fora, the GoCR has consistently warned against protectionism and beggar-thy-neighbor policies, as well as revolutionary changes to regulation and overs [...]
2009-03-04 15:42:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN PGOV EUN EZ
09PRAGUE121CZECH DPM VONDRA ON UPCOMING VISIT OF PRESIDENT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a March 3 meeting which included DFM Tomas Pojar and other key Czech officials, Czech DPM Alexandr Vondra reiterated the Czech government's appreciation for and excitement over the April 4-5 visit to Prague by President Obama. He expressed the Czech government's full commitme [...]
2009-03-04 16:27:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALEZ OVIP PGOV PREL
09PRAGUE128CZECH REPUBLIC: RESPONSE TO DEMARCHES ON IRAQ
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-06 15:22:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALMARR MOPS NATO PREL IZ EZ
09PRAGUE134CZECH SOCIAL DEMOCRATS SEEK TO MAINTAIN MOMENTUM
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In less than two weeks, the Czech Social Democrats (CSSD) will hold their national party congress, which comes at a time when the party has much to celebrate, but also faces several challenges. Following their sweeping victories in the October 2008 regional and senate elections, [...]
2009-03-10 15:02:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EZ
09PRAGUE138CZECH EU PRESIDENCY: VISIT BY INTERIOR MINISTER
[...] (SBU) Summary: On March 6 Acting DCM Stuart Hatcher and emboffs met with Czech Ministry of Interior officials at the request of the Czechs to discuss the upcoming visit of Minister of Interior Ivan Langer to the United States March 15-17. While the EU Justice and Interior Ministers, like the [...]
2009-03-11 15:32:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALEUN EZ EG PGOV PREL PHUM
09PRAGUE147DEFENSE PROCUREMENT IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC: SHADY
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-16 15:04:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPREL PARR EZ KCOR MARR MCAPP
09PRAGUE15CZECH GOVERNMENT'S DOMESTIC CHALLENGES WEIGH ON
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Czech government's January 1 assumption of the EU Presidency comes at a time when the Topolanek coalition is at the most precarious position in its two years of existence. The coalition government, which has always been shaky at best, never fully recovered from the sweeping [...]
2009-01-09 14:32:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EZ
09PRAGUE153SCENESETTER FOR THE PRESIDENT'S PRAGUE VISIT
[...] (C) Summary/overview: We warmly welcome your visit to Prague. Twenty years after the Velvet Revolution, ten years after joining NATO, and five years after joining the European Union, your visit during the Czech Republic,s EU presidency symbolizes this country's remarkable journey from communis [...]
2009-03-19 12:02:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALOVIP OBAMA PREL PGOV ECON ENRG EUN MARR SENV
09PRAGUE155SCENESETTER FOR DPM VONDRA'S VISIT TO DC TO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Prime Minister Alexandr Vondra will visit Washington on March 23-24, at the same time that his government faces a critical March 24 no-confidence vote, the result of which is unclear. Despite this uncertainty, Vondra's chief goal is to set the agenda and settle outstandin [...]
2009-03-19 17:39:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALEUN EZ OVIP PGOV PREL
09PRAGUE159CZECH GOVERNMENT FACES A CRITICAL VOTE OF
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 24, the embattled government of PM Mirek Topolanek will likely face a critical vote of no-confidence. PM Topolanek has faced down four previous attempts to unseat him. However, the current situation is probably the most significant threat to his government, in a large [...]
2009-03-23 06:08:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EZ
09PRAGUE160CZECH SOCIAL DEMOCRATS OFFER FEW SURPRISES AT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The March 20-22 congress of the Czech Social Democrats (CSSD) was relatively uneventful, despite the charged political atmosphere before the planned March 24 vote of no confidence. All but one candidate for the party's top posts ran unopposed and were elected, although CSSD cha [...]
2009-03-24 09:55:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EZ
09PRAGUE165CZECH GOVERNMENT FALLS, UNCERTAINTY AHEAD
[...] (C) SUMMARY: After 26 months in power, the embattled Topolanek government lost a vote of no-confidence in the Lower Chamber of the parliament on March 24. The vote's result was uncertain until the very end, but 101 lawmakers, the minimum required by the Czech constitution, finally voted aft [...]
2009-03-25 10:32:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EZ
09PRAGUE166CZECH REPUBLIC: REPLY TO DEMARCHE ON NATO MISSION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-26 12:08:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALEZ PREL MARR NATO KPKO KV
09PRAGUE167CZECH REPUBLIC: REPLY TO DEMARCHE ON NATO MISSION
[...] (C) Embassy Officer delivered the reftel a demarche to Veronika Kuchynova-Smigolova, the Czech MFA's Director of Security Policy, and her deputy, Petr Chalupecky on March 25. They appreciated receiving our points, agreed with our position and said that the Czech Republic is fully committed to [...]
2009-03-26 12:09:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALEZ PREL MARR NATO KPKO KV
09PRAGUE168CZECH REPUBLIC: RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON INFORMING
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-26 13:12:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPREL EZ MOPS MARR
09PRAGUE169CZECH REPUBLIC: DEMARCHE RESPONSE ON RUSSIAN
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-26 13:12:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS PBTS EZ
09PRAGUE170CZECH REPUBLIC TO ATTEND AFGHANISTAN CONFERENCE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-26 13:13:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPREL EZ AF IR PK UN
09PRAGUE171CZECH REPUBLIC: DEMARCHE RESPONSE -- U.S.
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-26 13:13:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALEZ PREL EU SY
09PRAGUE174CZECH EU PRESIDENCY: HALFWAY POINT, BUT TO WHERE?
[...] (SBU) Summary: As noted in Reftels, the March 24 no-confidence vote in the Czech Parliament has placed the Czech government in the awkward position of leading the EU, while in a state of flux on the domestic political front. Czech MFA officials nonetheless recognize that they are still respons [...]
2009-03-26 16:19:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALEUN EZ EG PGOV PREL
09PRAGUE175SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY CLINTON'S VISIT WITH THE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Embassy Prague warmly welcomes the President's and your April 4-5 visit and participation in the U.S.-EU Summit. You will arrive at an extremely tense time in Czech domestic politics. The government of Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek was toppled on March 24, but he continues to [...]
2009-03-26 18:24:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALEG EUN EZ OVIP PGOV PREL
09PRAGUE176CZECH REPUBLIC: RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-27 08:33:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALNATO PREL MOPS MARR PK AF EZ
09PRAGUE179CZECH REPUBLIC: RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON HCOC
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-31 13:10:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALKSCA PREL MNUC ETTC TSPA EZ
09PRAGUE180CZECH REPUBLIC WILL NOT ATTEND APRIL KOREAN GLOBAL
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-31 13:13:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALMNUC PARM PREL PTER EZ
09PRAGUE204CZECH REPUBLIC: CONCLUSIONS OF
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-10 13:44:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPREL NATO MARR MOPS EZ AF PK
09PRAGUE222CZECH REPUBLIC: FOREIGN POLICY DRIFT EXPECTED
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The March 24 downfall of the Czech Government and the subsequent political upheaval, as well as the planned Czech parliamentary elections in the fall, will affect a range of Czech foreign and security policy priorities. In this cable we focus on three of the most visible and sign [...]
2009-04-24 15:25:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALEZ MARR NATO PGOV PREL
09PRAGUE239A/S FRIED MEETS WITH CZECH POLDIR ON U.S.-EU
[...] (C) Summary: In an April 28 meeting, A/S Fried and Czech MFA Political Director Martin Povejsil agreed that we explore developing a non-binding joint U.S.-EU statement on accepting Guantanamo detainees cleared for release to complement an internal EU framework document on the subject. Both ag [...]
2009-04-30 14:32:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALEUN EZ EG PGOV PREL PHUM
09PRAGUE24ASSISTANT SECRETARY FRIED DISCUSSES GAS CRISIS AND
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The ongoing Russian-Ukrainian gas crisis dominated Assistant Secretary Fried's meetings with EU and Czech officials during his visit to Prague January 8-10. The Czechs agreed with A/S Fried on the need to diversify both routes and sources of Europe's energy imports, as well as o [...]
2009-01-13 11:13:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EZ
09PRAGUE258CZECH REPUBLIC: REVIEW FOR WAIVER OF TITLE III OF
[...] (U) The Czech Republic has a strong record of active engagement and support for democracy, human rights and fundamental freedoms in Cuba. Former Czech President Vaclav Havel established the Czech government's principled position on Cuba during his administration, following the Czech Republic' [...]
2009-05-15 10:20:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALCU ETRD ETTC EZ PREL XG
09PRAGUE263CZECH EU PRESIDENCY: COMMENTS ON UPCOMING MAY GAERC
[...] (SBU) Summary: On May 14 emboff spoke with Magdalena Janesova of the Czech MFA Department of Common Foreign and Security Policy in advance of the May 18-19 EU General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC). Of note were her comments on: the EU's Anti-Piracy efforts, Georgia, the EU-Ru [...]
2009-05-15 15:46:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALEUN EZ EG PGOV PREL CE XF ZJ XA
09PRAGUE269SCENESETTER FOR GENERAL PETRAEUS MAY 23-25 VISIT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Embassy Prague warmly welcomes you to the Czech Republic May 23-25. Nearly 20 years after the 1989 "Velvet Revolution," the Czech Republic today boasts a relatively strong market economy, a lively democratic tradition, and close links with the United States. The Czech Republic h [...]
2009-05-19 15:24:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALEUN EZ OVIP PGOV PREL
09PRAGUE27A/S FRIED AND EU POLITICAL DIRECTORS' TROIKA
[...] (SBU) Summary: On January 9 Assistant Secretary Daniel Fried met in troika format (Czech EU Presidency and following Swedish Presidency, European Commission, and European Council Secretariat) at the Political Director level. The discussion primarily focused on the Middle East and the Western B [...]
2009-01-14 16:12:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALEUN EZ EG PGOV PREL ZI SO SU CD
09PRAGUE271MAY 8 EU SOUTHERN CORRIDOR -- NEW SILK ROAD SUMMIT
[...] (SBU) Summary: At the May 8 EU Southern Corridor ) New Silk Road Summit in Prague, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Egypt, and the EU signed a political declaration that, among other things, underscores the EU and Turkey's intent to sign the Nabucco Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) "in Turkey by [...]
2009-05-20 09:26:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALENRG EPET EINV ECON PREL PGOV EUN EZ
09PRAGUE276INTERIM GOVERNMENT WITH A WEAK MANDATE TAKES POWER
[...] (C) Summary: On May 8, President Vaclav Klaus appointed the interim technocratic government of Prime Minister Jan Fischer, after Prime Minister Topolanek,s government fell in a vote of no confidence on March 24. The Fischer government is the result of a compromise among the Civic Democratic [...]
2009-05-22 11:27:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON EZ
09PRAGUE281EU-CHINA SUMMIT - A RELATIONSHIP BACK ON TRACK?
[...] (U) Summary: Emboffs called on MFA Asia Pacific Director Jiri Sitler and Human Rights and Transformation Policy Director Gabriela Dlouha for debriefs of the May 20 EU)China summit and the 27th EU-China human rights dialogue. Sitler said that there were few surprises during the summit discuss [...]
2009-05-22 15:20:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EZ EUN CH
09PRAGUE292GENERAL PETRAEUS MAY 22-24 VISIT TO THEQCZECH
[...] (C) Summary: USCENTCOM Commander General David Petraeus visited the Czech Republic May 22-24 May 2009 at the invitation of the Czech Ministry of Defense. General Petraeus met with senior Ministry of Defense, General Staff, and Foreign Ministry officials, conducted several press interviews, [...]
2009-05-28 14:57:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALAF EZ MARR OVIP PGOV PREL
09PRAGUE300CZECH RESPONSE: U.S. POSITION ON IRAN AS A SOURCE
[...] (C) We delivered reftel demarche May 28 to MFA Energy Envoy Vaclav Bartuska and MFA North and East Europe Director Daniel Kostoval. Kostoval reported that since the Nabucco pipeline would not flow through the Czech Republic, the Czechs were not directly involved in negotiating the Nabucco In [...]
2009-06-01 15:24:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALEPET ENRG ECON PREL EUN EZ
09PRAGUE306CZECH EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ELECTIONS CAMPAIGN MIRED
[...] (C) Summary. The Czech Republic,s two dominant parties, former PM Topolanek,s right-of-center Civic Democratic Party (ODS) and Jiri Paroubek,s left-of-center Social Democratic Party (CSSD),have turned the European Parliamentary (EP) election into a bare-knuckled mudslinging campaign dominated [...]
2009-06-02 15:23:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALEUN EZ PGOV PREL
09PRAGUE313CZECH CHRISTIAN DEMOCRAT PARTY CONGRESS ELECTS NEW
[...] (C) Summary: On May 30, the Czech Christian Democrats (KDU-CSL) held their party congress and elected a new chairman, Cyril Svoboda, a seasoned, pro-U.S. KDU leader. Svoboda,s chairmanship represents a shift to the left for the party and his major task is party unification, fundraising and p [...]
2009-06-04 14:26:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPGOV EZ
09PRAGUE314CZECH CHRISTIAN DEMOCRAT PARTY CONGRESS ELECTS NEW
[...] (C) Summary: On May 30, the Czech Christian Democrats (KDU-CSL) held their party congress and elected a new chairman, Cyril Svoboda, a seasoned, pro-U.S. KDU leader. Svoboda,s chairmanship represents a shift to the left for the party and his major task is party unification, fundraising and p [...]
2009-06-04 15:31:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPGOV EZ
09PRAGUE316CZECH REPUBLIC: POSITIVE SIGNALS ON MI-17S FOR
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-05 12:22:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPREL SMIG PARM PK EZ
09PRAGUE318CZECHS TO SUPPORT PAKISTAN IDPS
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-10 15:33:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALEAID EC PGOV PHUM PK EZ EUN PREF
09PRAGUE321ODS WINS CZECH EP ELECTIONS DUE TO LOW VOTER
[...] (C) Summary: Four of the Czech Republic's parliamentary parties: the right-of-center Civic Democratic Party (ODS),the left-of-center Social Democratic Party (CSSD),the Communist Party (KSCM) and the Christian Democratic Party (KDU-CSL) obtained seats in the June 5-6 European Parliamentary [...]
2009-06-11 08:20:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EUN EZ
09PRAGUE324CZECH EU PRESIDENCY: COMMENTS ON UPCOMING JUNE
[...] (SBU) Summary: On June 11 emboff spoke with Magdalena Janesova of the Czech MFA Department of Common Foreign and Security Policy in advance of the June 15-16 EU General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC). Of note were her comments on: the Middle East, Lebanon, the Western Balkans, [...]
2009-06-11 15:59:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALEUN EZ EG PGOV PREL SU LE CU BM
09PRAGUE332CZECH DEPUTY MINISTER OF INTERIOR LAYS OUT PLAN TO
[...] (C) Summary: One of the few issues the interim technocratic government of Prime Minister Jan Fischer will address is extremism. Interior Minister Martin Pecina named former police official Jiri Komorous as his First Deputy Minister and assigned him to lead the Interior Ministry's new anti-ex [...]
2009-06-15 13:09:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM EZ
09PRAGUE340FOREIGN DEPLOYMENTS PROPOSAL PASSES CZECH LOWER
[...] (C) Summary: On June 16, the Czech parliament's lower house approved a 2010 troop deployment proposal that, among other deployments, includes 535 Czech troops for Afghanistan. Senate approval should follow. This smooth approval is a stark contrast to the contentiousness of the 2009 deployme [...]
2009-06-17 14:47:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MARR EZ AF
09PRAGUE383CHARGE'S JULY 1 MEETING WITH CZECH FM KOHOUT
[...] (C) Summary: In a July 1 meeting, Charge congratulated Czech FM Kohout on the just-completed Czech EU presidency and thanked him for Czech support in various areas, including for the Holocaust Assets Conference. Kohout thought the presidency had made the Czech Republic more "EU-involved" and [...]
2009-07-01 16:38:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPREL EZ
09PRAGUE41MISSILE DEFENSE: CZECHS LOOKING FOR A POSITIVE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Since the November 27 Czech Senate approval of the two missile defense (MD) agreements, the Czechs have been unable to advance the MD agreements in the Lower Chamber, where ratification has been temporarily put on hold due to domestic political problems and questions about the f [...]
2009-01-22 09:27:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EZ
09PRAGUE418CZECHS POSITIVE ON U.S. EUMM PARTICIPATION
[...] (C) Embassy Prague Political-Economic Counselor delivered ref e-mail points on the Georgia EU Monitoring Mission (EUMM) to Czech MFA Security Policy Department Director Veronika Kuchynova-Simgolova and Deputy Director Petr Chalupecky on July 17. They said the Czech Republic would welcome and [...]
2009-07-17 12:10:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALMOPS PREL EU GG EZ
09PRAGUE432RELEASE OF MISSILE DEFENSE POLICY REVIEW: TIMING
[...] (SBU) Summary: Senior Czech officials have consistently raised their concerns that any announcement of the results of the U.S. strategic policy review before the October 9-10 national elections could make this a campaign issue and might even affect the outcome of the elections themselves. Defe [...]
2009-07-24 15:31:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EZ EUN
09PRAGUE44CZECH CABINET RESHUFFLE COMPLETED
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 23, the Czech President swore in new ministers who will be taking over the health, transportation, regional development, human rights, and legislative affairs portfolios. The Prague castle ceremony completed a protracted and mismanaged cabinet reshuffle, which began [...]
2009-01-23 16:22:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EZ
09PRAGUE453TOP 09: THE CZECH REPUBLIC'S NEWEST POLITICAL PARTY
[...] (C) Summary: Former Czech Finance Minister Miroslav Kalousek split from the Christian Democratic Party (KDU-CSL) shortly after the fall of PM Topolanek's government in March, ostensibly because of its shift to the left. After the European Parliament elections in early June, Kalousek launche [...]
2009-08-04 14:32:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPGOV EZ
09PRAGUE463CZECHS PLAN TO ATTEND MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-12 12:41:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPREL MTCR PARM MNUC ETTC KSCA TSPA EZ EUN
09PRAGUE465CZECH CARDINAL DISCUSSES POPE'S VISIT AND
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-12 14:12:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL EZ
09PRAGUE475OPEN LETTER REACTION PART II: CZECH POLITICAL AND
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Czechs have a multi-faceted relationship with Russia which varies according to the issue, as well as the fora involved (whether NATO, the EU, or on a bilateral basis). As the July 16 open letter to President Obama from Central European leaders illustrates, many in this reg [...]
2009-08-14 13:38:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON PREL ENRG EPET EUN EZ RU
09PRAGUE495TURBULENCE AHEAD FOR CSA PRIVATIZATION
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Conditions for Czech Airlines (CSA) privatization worsen by the day. The Unimex-Travel Service consortium is the only remaining bidder in the tender and CSA's reported losses soar. Czech officials say they are past the point of no return in the privatization process, but at the [...]
2009-08-25 12:27:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALEAIR PGOV EZ
09PRAGUE496CZECH SPECIAL OPERATIONS GROUP IN AFGHANISTAN
[...] (C) Summary: The Czech Special Operations Group (SOG),composed of 50-100 military police, was investigated by Czech authorities for alleged wrongdoing in Afghanistan, including wrongful deaths of Afghan civilians during its deployment, and irregularities in operations, procurement and chain [...]
2009-08-25 14:25:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM MOPS EZ AF
09PRAGUE5SCENESETTER FOR ASSISTANT SECRETARY FRIED'S VISIT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Assistant Secretary Fried, Embassy Prague looks forward to welcoming you to the Czech Republic. Your visit will underscore the importance of our strong transatlantic partnership, which received a boost from the Czech Republic's entry into the Visa Waiver Program, but which also [...]
2009-01-05 17:14:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALNATO PREL PGOV EZ EUN
09PRAGUE503UNREFORMED COMMUNISTS COURT SOCIAL DEMOCRATS
[...] (C) Summary. Despite declining membership, the unreformed Communist Party of Bohemia and Moravia (KSCM) has a stable and loyal voter base that consistently garners 12 to 15 percent of the vote and makes them the Czech Republic's third largest party. KSCM currently has 26 seats in the Chamber [...]
2009-08-27 09:19:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPGOV EZ
09PRAGUE518UNRWA AT 60: SPEAKING ROLE FOR ISRAEL: CZECH
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-01 13:58:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL UNGA IS KPAL EZ
09PRAGUE523SURPRISE CZECH COURT RULING CASTS DOUBT ON EARLY
[...] (C) Summary: In a surprise ruling, the Czech Republic's Constitutional Court announced September 1 it will consider a challenge to a law passed in May and signed by President Klaus in June shortening the current term of the Chamber of Deputies, Parliament's lower house. The court ruling ind [...]
2009-09-02 14:01:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPGOV EZ
09PRAGUE526CZECH COMMENTS IN ADVANCE OF EU FOREIGN MINISTERS'
[...] (SBU) Summary: On September 2 emboff spoke with Czech MFA Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) Department Deputy Director Magdalena Janesova in advance of the September 4 EU Foreign Ministers' informal meeting (Gymnich). She offered comments on Afghanistan, Iran sanctions, and the non-pap [...]
2009-09-03 15:19:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALEUN EZ EG PGOV PREL
09PRAGUE527TWO TRACKS UNDERWAY TO RESOLVE CZECH ELECTION
[...] (C) Summary: The fallout from the Czech Constitutional Court's decision to review the law setting early parliamentary elections is branching in two directions. The Court will convene on September 10, and could dismiss the complaint filed by MP Milos Melcak, invalidate the law, or defer a dec [...]
2009-09-03 15:34:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPGOV EZ
09PRAGUE532CZECH ELECTION TURMOIL: WHAT CAUSED THIS MESS?
[...] (C) Summary: The turmoil surrounding the date of Czech elections was generated by a legal complaint alleging that the law Parliament passed to call early elections is unconstitutional. The Czech Constitution provides four procedures for dissolving the Chamber of Deputies and calling early el [...]
2009-09-09 15:23:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPGOV EZ
09PRAGUE553NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY REVIEW CONFERENCE
[...] (C) Summary: The Czech government and Czech political parties have historically backed strong non-proliferation measures and their universal application. As an EU member, the Czech government's public position is consistent with the EU position. The Czech government and public support U.S. [...]
2009-09-15 14:58:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALAORC KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA IAEA NPT
09PRAGUE560EARLY ELECTIONS SCRAPPED, INTERIM GOVERNMENT FOR
[...] (C) Summary. Early parliamentary elections have been halted and it appears the interim government of Prime Minister Jan Fischer will continue to govern until the regular parliamentary elections in May 2010, although early elections are still possible. Fischer is focused on the economic cris [...]
2009-09-21 07:32:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EZ
09PRAGUE563CORRECTED COPY: EARLY ELECTIONS SCRAPPED, INTERIM
[...] (C) Summary. Early parliamentary elections have been halted and it appears the interim government of Prime Minister Jan Fischer will continue to govern until the regular parliamentary elections in May 2010, although early elections are still possible. Fischer is focused on the economic cris [...]
2009-09-21 15:19:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EZ
09PRAGUE564CZECH GOVERNMENT DELEGATION REACTS CONSTRUCTIVELY
[...] (C) Summary: In a September 17 meeting with Czech officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Defense, and Prime Minister's Office, a USG delegation headed by USD/P Flournoy briefed on President Obama's decision regarding missile defense (MD) in Europe. Overall the Czech off [...]
2009-09-22 10:30:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALMARR PREL EZ PL RS
09PRAGUE57CZECH COMMENTS ON GAZA AND ARMS INTERDICTION EFFORT
[...] (SBU) Summary: Emboffs met with Czech MFA Middle East and North Africa Department Director Josef Rychtar on January 28. Noting that Palestinian President Abbas would be in Prague on February 2, he stated that getting things right on humanitarian assistance to the Palestinians would be a key el [...]
2009-01-28 17:29:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALEG IR IS KPAL MARR MOPS PREL EZ XG PHSA
09PRAGUE589CZECH COMMENTS ON U.S.-CZECH STRATEGIC COOPERATION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-02 14:44:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL EZ EUN
09PRAGUE591SCENESETTER: THE VICE PRESIDENT'S VISIT TO THE
[...] (C) Mr. Vice President: Your visit to the Czech Republic comes at a key moment to shape a vision for the future of our partnership. While Czech transatlanticists have expressed disappointment about the results of our missile defense policy review, they have constructively engaged with us and [...]
2009-10-05 14:27:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALOVIP PGOV PREL EUN EZ
09PRAGUE601PART II: CZECH COMMENTS ON FURTHERING U.S.-CZECH
[...] (SBU) Summary: Czech MFA Political Director Ivo Sramek, accompanied by MFA Security Policy Director Ivan Pocuch and MOD Director of Strategic and Defense Planning Division Ivan Dvorak provided emboffs on October 9 with two papers: "Specific Ideas for Further Strategic Cooperation between the [...]
2009-10-09 15:24:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL EZ EUN
09PRAGUE605CZECHING RATIFICATION OF LISBON TREATY?
[...] (SBU) Summary: With the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty in Poland on October 10, European eyes now have turned to the Czech Republic - the last country remaining to ratify. While the treaty has been approved by both chambers of Czech Parliament, it is now before the Czech Constitutional Cour [...]
2009-10-14 11:26:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EZ EUN
09PRAGUE622CZECH MOD ASKS ABOUT SUPERSONICS, C-130, AND L-159
[...] (SBU) On October 20, 2009, Deputy Minister of Defense for Foreign Affairs Jan Fulik requested a meeting with the Charge d'Affaires. Fulik will represent the MoD during Prime Minister Fischer's meeting with Vice President Biden on October 23, because Minister Bartak will be in Bratislava for [...]
2009-10-20 15:59:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALMASS PGOV PREL EZ
09PRAGUE649SCENESETTER FOR THE PRAGUE HIGH-LEVEL DEFENSE
[...] (C) Assistant Secretary Vershbow: Your visit to the Czech Republic comes as we move forward from Vice President Biden's October 23 visit and Secretary Gates participation at the NATO Ministerial toward shaping a vision for the future of our partnership. While Czech transatlanticists expresse [...]
2009-11-02 16:26:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MASS AF EZ
09PRAGUE657HOW TO SUCCEED IN LAW SCHOOL WITHOUT REALLY TRYING
[...] (SBU) Summary: A scandal at the Plzen-based University of West Bohemia law school, where a number of graduates allegedly received degrees on a fast-track basis, has several elements of a classic corruption story: potentially undue influence on state tenders, lack of transparency in school pro [...]
2009-11-06 17:27:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPGOV EZ
09PRAGUE661SCENESETTER FOR VISIT TO PRAGUE OF UNDER SECRETARY
[...] (C) Under Secretary Tauscher: Your visit to the Czech Republic comes as we move forward from Vice President Biden's October 23 visit and the November 6 High Level Defense Group (HLDG) meeting toward shaping a vision for the future of our partnership. While Czech transatlanticists expressed i [...]
2009-11-09 16:59:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALEUN EZ OVIP PGOV PREL
09PRAGUE664CZECHS SHARE USG GOALS REGARDING NATO ENLARGEMENT
[...] (C) On November 6 Emboff provided USG perspective on NATO Enlargement to MFA Security Policy Deputy Director Petr Chalupecky contained in Ref B. Chalupecky thanked emboff for points and noted that the Czechs think very similarly to the USG on Montenegro and Bosnia, while noting that Montenegro [...]
2009-11-12 15:31:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPREL NATO PARM MARR KTIA EZ EG
09PRAGUE666CZECH COMMENTS ON UPCOMING NOVEMBER GAERC
[...] (SBU) Summary: On November 12 emboff spoke with Czech MFA Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) Department Deputy Director Magdalena Janesova in advance of the November 15-16 EU Foreign Ministers' meeting (GAERC). She noted that this is the "jumbo" GAERC as the Defense and Development Mini [...]
2009-11-12 18:03:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALEUN EZ EG PGOV PREL AF SO
09PRAGUE668FIRST U.S.-CZECH HIGH LEVEL DEFENSE GROUP: CZECHS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The first-ever U.S.-Czech High Level Defense Group (HLDG) meeting on November 6 in Prague, led by Assistant Secretary of Defense (ASD) for International Security Affairs Alexander Vershbow, was productive and cordial, covering: NATO issues, U.S.-Russia relations, the new Phased [...]
2009-11-13 12:50:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR MASS MOPS EZ
09PRAGUE670CZECH REPUBLIC: REVIEW FOR WAIVER OF TITLE III OF
[...] (U) The Czech Republic has a strong record of active engagement and support for democracy, human rights and fundamental freedoms in Cuba. Former Czech President Vaclav Havel established the Czech government's principled position on Cuba during his administration, following the Czech Republic' [...]
2009-11-13 15:27:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALCU ETRD ETTC EZ PREF XG
09PRAGUE672WHAT LISBON REMINDS US ABOUT PRESIDENT KLAUS
[...] (C) SUMMARY. With no more excuses or options for delay, euroskeptic Czech President Klaus signed the Lisbon Treaty on November 3, the same day as the Czech Constitutional Court ruling. His signature eliminated a major distraction within the EU, allowing the U.S. and EU to refocus on important [...]
2009-11-13 15:42:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EZ
09PRAGUE67620 YEARS AFTER THE VELVET REVOLUTION: POLITICS NOT
[...] (C) Summary: On the evening of November 17, 1989, an officially sanctioned student commemoration on the fiftieth anniversary of Jan Opletal's burial (he was killed by the Nazis during a student demonstration in 1939),sparked a violent confrontation with the Czechoslovak state security serv [...]
2009-11-19 13:02:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EZ
09PRAGUE67720 YEARS AFTER THE VELVET REVOLUTION: POLITICS NOT
[...] (C) Summary: On the evening of November 17, 1989, an officially sanctioned student commemoration on the fiftieth anniversary of Jan Opletal's burial (he was killed by the Nazis during a student demonstration in 1939),sparked a violent confrontation with the Czechoslovak state security serv [...]
2009-11-19 13:02:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EZ
09PRAGUE681CZECH INTERIM GOVERNMENT EXCEEDING EXPECTATIONS
[...] (C) Summary: The interim, technocratic government of Jan Fischer was appointed on May 8, 2009 by President Klaus, after Mirek Topolanek's ODS-led coalition government lost a vote of confidence on March 24. Topolanek and CSSD leader Jiri Paroubek agreed on Fischer, a previous unknown who he [...]
2009-11-20 13:43:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EZ
09PRAGUE687TOPOLANEK SURVIVES ODS CONGRESS
[...] (C) Summary. Despite calls from some party leaders for the center-right Civic Democrat Party (ODS) platform congress to also include a vote on Mirek Topolanek's (age 53) leadership of the party, Topolanek was able to vanquish his detractors (for now) and retain the party chairmanship. There [...]
2009-11-23 16:05:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EZ
09PRAGUE69SCENESETTER FOR CZECH FOREIGN MINISTER'S VISIT TO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a year when the Czech Republic will celebrate the 20th anniversary of its Velvet Revolution, nothing symbolizes better the truly remarkable journey this country has traveled since 1989 than the Czech Foreign Minister's arrival in Washington as the representative of the Europea [...]
2009-02-04 15:47:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EZ
09PRAGUE695CZECH REACTION TO ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS IN
[...] (C) We presented reftel points to Czech MFA Security Policy Department Director Ivan Pocuch on November 25. Pocuch was already working on a response to the President's expected announcement and said that the Czech government would give its full political support to the President's decision. [...]
2009-11-25 15:34:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALNATO PREL MOPS MARR AF EZ
09PRAGUE696CZECHS HOST NATIONAL SEMINAR ON NATO STRATEGIC
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On November 24, the Czech MFA hosted a seminar, "Seeking a New NATO Strategic Concept: The Czech Perspective", attended by Group of Experts member Ambassador Hans-Friedrich von Ploetz, NATO Assistant Secretary General Jiri Sedivy, parliamentarians, MFA and MOD representatives, [...]
2009-11-25 16:18:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALNATO PREL MARR MOPS MCAP EZ RU
09PRAGUE700CZECHS PLANNING TO ANNOUNCE MODEST CONTRIBUTION
[...] (SBU) We presented reftel points to Czech MFA Security Policy Department Deputy Director Petr Chalupecky on December  [...]
2009-12-01 16:13:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR PK AF NATO EZ EUN
09PRAGUE708CZECH REPUBLIC PLANNING TO RUN IN 2011 FOR UN
[...] (SBU) In a conversation covering several Human Rights Council matters, such as the upcoming DPRK Universal Periodic Review (Ref A),Czech MFA Human Rights and Transition Policy officer Jan Kaminek commented in depth on the Spring 2010 Human Rights Council elections. Kaminek indicated that the [...]
2009-12-04 15:45:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPHUM KDEM EZ EUN PREL
09PRAGUE711NO SURPRISES AS TWO SMALLER PARTIES ELECT LEADERS
[...] (C) There were no surprises during the recent TOP 09 and the Green Party congresses. TOP 09 delegates unanimously chose Karel Schwarzenberg as their party chairman, and the Green Party elected Ondrej Liska as its leader. Polls have consistently shown TOP 09 gaining votes (at the expense of [...]
2009-12-07 14:55:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EZ
09PRAGUE722CZECH VIEWS ON THE VISEGRAD FOUR (C-RE9-02125)
[...] (SBU) In response to reftel, Poloff met on December 14 with Jiri Cistecky, Director of the Czech MFA's Central European Department, and Petr Maryska, a member of the Central European Department's Visegrad 4 (V-4) working group, to discuss Czech perceptions of the current state of V-4 cooperat [...]
2009-12-15 12:58:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALPINR PGOV PREL EZ PL HU LO
09PRAGUE82CZECHS TO ENCOURAGE DG AGRI ON INTERIM BEEF
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 5. 2. (C) Summary: A key Czech EU Presidency staffer told us February 6 that Agriculture Minister Gandalovic will encourage Agriculture Commissioner Fischer Boel to take immediate steps to resolve the U.S.-EU beef hormone conflict during [...]
2009-02-10 15:59:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALEAGR ETRD ECON PREL EZ EUN
09PRAGUE88CZECH REPUBLIC: RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON DISCUSSION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-12 13:04:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALMARR PINS PREL EZ NATO OSCE
09PRAGUE91CZECH EU PRESIDENCY: COMMENTS ON GUANTANAMO
[...] (SBU) Summary: On February 12 S/WCI Ambassador Clint Williamson met with Czech Minister of Interior Ivan Langer, MFA Political Director Martin Povejsil and MFA Common Foreign and Security Policy Department Director (European Correspondent) Vaclav Balek. They discussed Guantanamo detainees and [...]
2009-02-13 18:00:00Embassy PragueCONFIDENTIALEUN EZ EG PGOV PREL PTER
09PRAIA25CAPE VERDE: LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAINING NEEDS
[...] (U) Responses are keyed to questions contained reftel. 2. (C) Cape Verde's greatest law enforcement challenge is the broad territorial waters under its jurisdiction and its very limited capacity to exert rule of law over those waters. Sitting astride major smuggling routes from South Americ [...]
2009-02-18 13:42:00Embassy PraiaCONFIDENTIALSNAR MASS MARR PREL KJUS CV
09PRAIA39(C) HELPING CAPE VERDE MOVE FROM DATA TO INTELLIGENCE IN THE
[...] (C) Summary: Post has engaged the GOCV in a sweeping dialogue on the future of GOCV interagency collaboration in interdicting drug smuggling, combating illegal fishing, and countering arms smuggling and related terrorist activities. At the heart of this dialogue is a two phase USG proposal to [...]
2009-03-03 11:45:00Embassy PraiaCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS SNAR PREL ETRD KJUS CV
09PRAIA63CAPE VERDE TO HOST ECOWAS GUINEA BISSAU ROUND TABLE; INVITES
[...] (C) Summary. Cape Verde Foreign Minister Jose Brito convoked Ambassador on 27 March for a briefing on the results of the meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP) that took place in Praia on Wednesday 25 March. According to Brito, the CPLP count [...]
2009-04-02 18:48:00Embassy PraiaCONFIDENTIALPREL KPKO SNAR PU CV
09PRETORIA1004GOSS REPRESENTATIVES TALK POLITICS AND SOUTH
[...] (C) Summary: Government of Southern Sudan (GOSS) Southern Africa Liaison Office representatives delivered a message to Poloff intended to "counteract Khartoum's propaganda." They discussed the political situation in Sudan and South Africa's role. They are optimistic about South Africa's engag [...]
2009-05-18 15:57:00Embassy PretoriaCONFIDENTIALPREL SF SU
09PRETORIA1005A/S CARSON DISCUSSES ZIMBABWE WITH TSVANGIRAI AND
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-18 17:19:00Embassy PretoriaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SF
09PRETORIA1018CUBA: SOUTH AFRICA REVIEW FOR SUSPENSION OF TITLE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-20 08:31:00Embassy PretoriaCONFIDENTIALETRD ETTC PREL CU SF
09PRETORIA1031DEMARCHE DELIVERED: URGENT NEED TO PROMOTE SOMALIA
[...] (C) Summary: Poloff delivered reftel points on Somalia and Eritrea to Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRC) Deputy Director Phindile Xaba on May 20, 2009. Xaba acknowledged that Eritrea's public actions, including not recognizing Somalia's Transitional Federal Governme [...]
2009-05-20 15:52:00Embassy PretoriaCONFIDENTIALMOPS PREL PTER EAID ER SO SF
09PRETORIA1129ZUMA'S CABINET IS BRILLIANT POLITICALLY, BUT WILL
[...] (C) Newly elected President Jacob Zuma's Cabinet is settling in following the swearing in ceremony on May 11. Most political analysts and pundits have praised Zuma's selections -- lauding some for their managerial skills, some for their willingness to bring new ideas to government, and some f [...]
2009-06-04 15:20:00Embassy PretoriaCONFIDENTIALKDEM ASEC SF PGOV
09PRETORIA1190SOUTH AFRICA LIKELY TO RAISE SOME TARIFFS IN
[...] (C) Summary: South Africa is likely to raise "a few" tariffs to WTO-bound levels in response to the global economic crisis, according to an official at the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI). Industrial policy will have greater prominence under President Jacob Zuma, as Trade and Industr [...]
2009-06-12 14:26:00Embassy PretoriaCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD PGOV SF
09PRETORIA1246SOUTH AFRICA'S RESPONSE TO 2009 TIP REPORT
[...] (C) Summary: PolCouns and Poloffs met with the Department of International Cooperation's (DICO) Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs Chief Director Pitso Montwedi and Deputy Director Raymond Sithole on June 15 to deliver the final text of the 2009 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report on South [...]
2009-06-19 14:49:00Embassy PretoriaCONFIDENTIALKTIP ELAB KCRM KPAO KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG
09PRETORIA1330HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH CRITICIZES SOUTH AFRICA'S
[...] (C) SUMMARY. On 24 June, the Institute for Security Studies hosted a debate on the role of human rights in South Africa's foreign policy under newly elected President Jacob Zuma. Keynote speakers included Ken Roth, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch in New York, who described South Afr [...]
2009-07-02 11:45:00Embassy PretoriaCONFIDENTIALPREL ZIM NI SF
09PRETORIA1392HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH CRITICIZES SOUTH AFRICA'S
[...] (C) SUMMARY. On 24 June, the Institute for Security Studies hosted a debate on the role of human rights in South Africa's foreign policy under newly elected President Jacob Zuma. Keynote speakers included Ken Roth, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch in New York, who described South Afr [...]
2009-07-09 14:00:00Embassy PretoriaCONFIDENTIALPREL ZIM NI SF
09PRETORIA1450A DIASPORA PERSPECTIVE ON ZIMBABWE POLITICAL
[...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with Poloff on July 15, 2009, George Sibotshiwe, former spokesman for Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) President Morgan Tsvangirai and a Zimbabwean national residing in South Africa, provided his analysis of changing political dynamics in Zimbabwe. He said Tsvang [...]
2009-07-17 15:36:00Embassy PretoriaCONFIDENTIALKDEM PGOV PREL ZANU SF ZM
09PRETORIA1613ZUMA HANDLING SOME ISSUES BETTER THAN OTHERS AFTER
[...] (SBU) President Jacob Zuma, barely in office 90 days, has faced a multitude of challenges so far in his tenure. He so far has been confronted with making tricky Cabinet and diplomatic appointments, dealing with striking doctors and municipal workers, and settling protests across the country [...]
2009-08-07 13:14:00Embassy PretoriaCONFIDENTIALKJUS PGOV KDEM SF
09PRETORIA173NRC DISCUSSES 2007 PELINDABA SECURITY INCIDENT
[...] (C) Summary: South African officials attribute the November 2007 Pelindaba break-in to criminal - rather than terrorist - intent. The police have not arrested the culprits. Officials stress that facilities containing nuclear materials were not threatened or impacted by the attack. Official [...]
2009-01-29 13:23:00Embassy PretoriaCONFIDENTIALENRG TRGY KNNP PREL BEXP IAEA SF
09PRETORIA1737ZUMA'S FIRST STATE VISIT INTENDS TO IMPROVE
[...] (C) Summary: South African President Jacob Zuma made a strategic choice to go to Angola for his first state visit August 19-21. At the top of Zuma's agenda were economics and cooperation on regional issues. The bilateral relationship suffered due to personal conflicts between former South Af [...]
2009-08-26 16:02:00Embassy PretoriaCONFIDENTIALPREL SF AO
09PRETORIA1739BIG BUSINESS PLEASED WITH ZUMA BUT UNCERTAIN OF
[...] (C) Summary: South Africa's business community believes that Jacob Zuma has put together a good team of economic ministers, according to Business Unity South Africa (BUSA). Business is also gratified that the new government is accessible and eager to get input from business. However, BUSA s [...]
2009-08-27 07:27:00Embassy PretoriaCONFIDENTIALECON PGOV SF
09PRETORIA1760THREE YEARS UNTIL PARTY CONGRESS, BUT ANC
[...] (C) Barely five months into the Jacob Zuma administration, the race to replace him -- or retain him -- at the 2012 African National Congress (ANC) party congress is heating up. With so much time to go, and so much work to accomplish even before the 2011 municipal elections, it seems prematur [...]
2009-09-01 08:56:00Embassy PretoriaCONFIDENTIALKDEM ASEC SF PGOV
09PRETORIA177MOTOROLA CONCERNED ABOUT LACK OF DUE PROCESS IN
[...] (C) Summary. Motorola is concerned that a South African Police Service (SAPS) tender for the acquisition of a provincial radio network system did not follow due process. The company has solicited USG support to seek clarification of the process to ensure transparency in future tenders. End S [...]
2009-01-30 07:03:00Embassy PretoriaCONFIDENTIALECPS EIND EINT SF
09PRETORIA1823NUCLEAR FUEL BANKS -- LAUNCHING A LISTENING
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-08 15:12:00Embassy PretoriaCONFIDENTIALAORC KNNP IAEA ENRG TRGY SF
09PRETORIA1824SOUTH AFRICA PLANNING NEW ASSISTANCE TO ZIMBABWE
[...] (C) Summary: South Africa has given R300 million ($40 million) of budget support to Zimbabwe's Finance Ministry since the formation of the Government of National Unity in Harare. Pretoria is now weighing a Finance Ministry request for additional support of R1,000 million ($134 million). The [...]
2009-09-08 15:20:00Embassy PretoriaCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON EFIN PGOV SF
09PRETORIA1859DIPLOMATS STILL WAITING TO SEE CHANGE IN SAG'S
[...] (C) SUMMARY. On 8 September, Institute for Security Studies (ISS) Senior Researcher Takawira Musavengana spoke at a roundtable with western diplomats, admonishing diplomats for believing that Zimbabwe would be discussed during the 7-8 September SADC summit, downplayed Zuma's willingness to tak [...]
2009-09-11 12:27:00Embassy PretoriaCONFIDENTIALPREL SF ZI
09PRETORIA1928SOUTH AFRICAN VIEWS ON G-20 SUMMIT
[...] (C) Reftel talking points on the Pittsburgh G-20 Summit were delivered to Director Pebetsa Maleka and Senior Economist Mukondi Mpeiwa of National Treasury's International Finance and Development division on September 21. Maleka and Mpeiwa made the following points in response: -- Reforming [...]
2009-09-21 12:52:00Embassy PretoriaCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN SF
09PRETORIA1944SOUTH AFRICA TOUGHENS ANTITRUST LAW
[...] (SBU) Summary: South Africa has enacted a law to criminalize cartel activity and regulate abusive oligopolies. The law is largely a reaction to the disclosure of pervasive cartel activity in South Africa. However, the law could complicate the work of the Competition Commission. The Commis [...]
2009-09-25 06:43:00Embassy PretoriaCONFIDENTIALECON EIND AID SF
09PRETORIA1949TOUR D'HORIZON OF PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS IN AFRICA
[...] (C) SUMMARY. On 18 September, EmbOff met with members of the Institute for Security Studies' (ISS) Security Sector Governance Programme to discuss the state of peacekeeping operations on the African continent. The ISS team lamented the AU's lack of capacity, the international community's pie [...]
2009-09-25 10:05:00Embassy PretoriaCONFIDENTIALPREL PKO MCAP AU AO NI RW SF SU
09PRETORIA1977SOUTH AFRICA - EU SUMMIT AIMS TO STRENGTHEN
[...] (C) Summary: On September 11, President Jacob Zuma met with European Union (EU) head of delegation Swedish Prime Minister Frederick Reinfeldt, EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy Javier Solana and other EU leaders at the second South Africa - EU Summit in Kleinmond [...]
2009-09-30 16:14:00Embassy PretoriaCONFIDENTIALPREL SF EU
09PRETORIA2018SOUTH AFRICA: EXPANDING THE CHORUS ON IRAN;
[...] (C) Summary: Embassy delivered REF A message on Iran's covert uranium enrichment facility at Qom jointly with the UK High Commission and the Embassy of France to the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO). In light of the September 27 - October 1 visit of South African [...]
2009-10-06 12:31:00Embassy PretoriaCONFIDENTIALKNNP MNUC PARM IAEA PREL AORC IR SF
09PRETORIA2020ANC OFFICIAL RAISES CONCERNS ABOUT STATE OF THE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-06 13:11:00Embassy PretoriaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AU GV
09PRETORIA2030TREVOR MANUEL OFFERS NEW APPROACH TO GOVERNMENT
[...] (C) Minister in the Presidency for National Planning Trevor Manuel's "National Strategic Planning" paper (often referred to here as the "Green Paper") offers a new approach to the way South Africa does government business. The paper suggests that greater planning and coordination will lead to [...]
2009-10-07 14:43:00Embassy PretoriaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AU GV
09PRETORIA21MONTHS SINCE PIETERMARITZBURG COURT DECISION TEST
[...] (C) The months since Pietermaritzburg High Court Judge Chris Nicholson handed down his verdict declaring the state's case against African National Congress (ANC) President Jacob Zuma invalid have been among the toughest times in the ruling party's history. The split between rival ANC factions [...]
2009-01-07 15:33:00Embassy PretoriaCONFIDENTIALKJUS PGOV KDEM SF
09PRETORIA2141COURT SELECTIONS SHOW HOW CONCERNS ABOUT JUDICIAL
[...] (C) President Jacob Zuma finalized his appointment of five new justices to the Constitutional Court, the nation's highest legal body, on October 11. For most of the past year, and particularly during the election campaign period ahead of the national election in April, opposition leaders and [...]
2009-10-21 16:25:00Embassy PretoriaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM PINR SF
09PRETORIA2142LEADING POLICY STRATEGIST WALKS AWAY FROM
[...] (SBU) Joel Netshitenzhe, Director-General of Policy and Coordination Services (PCAS) in the South African Presidency, and the government's chief policy strategist, announced his resignation on October 19. Netshittenzhe had served in the post since 1994. There is speculation that he resigned [...]
2009-10-21 16:49:00Embassy PretoriaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM SF
09PRETORIA2169RECONFIGURED MINISTERIAL CLUSTERS LEAD TO
[...] (C) The South African Government on October 19 announced plans to reconfigure ministerial clusters (committees within the Cabinet intended to improve coordination within government). The announcement set off immediate speculation by political analysts and economists over whether the reconfig [...]
2009-10-23 17:45:00Embassy PretoriaCONFIDENTIALPGOV SF ECON EFIN EINV
09PRETORIA22SOUTHERN AFRICAN COUNTRIES EXPECTED TO SIGN
[...] (SBU) Summary: Several members of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) (Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, Swaziland, Mozambique and Angola) are expected to sign the interim EU-SADC Economic Partnership Agreement when the EU Trade Commissioner visits Southern Africa in February. Tariff [...]
2009-01-07 15:36:00Embassy PretoriaCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD SF
09PRETORIA2207POSSIBLE UN CONVENTION ENDANGERING FREEDOM OF
[...] (C) SUMMARY. On October 29 Poloffs met with Pitso Montwedi, Chief Director for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs at the South African Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO),to deliver the demarche (ref A) urging support for a U.S. "draft action plan" of proposals ( [...]
2009-10-29 16:57:00Embassy PretoriaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL SF
09PRETORIA2245AMBASSADOR’S COURTESY CALL ON FOREIGN MINISTER
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador's first official call with Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Maite Nkoana-Mashabane was warm and frank. Mashabane thanked the USG for its partnership and support through PEPFAR and acknowledged past mistakes in HIV/AIDS policies. The Ambassador thanked [...]
2009-11-03 15:52:00Embassy PretoriaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM ECON ASEC KHIV SF ZI
09PRETORIA2251MBEKI SHYS AWAY FROM IDEA OF POLITICAL LEGACY
[...] (SBU) Summary: Former President Thabo Mbeki gave his first extended press interview since being removed from the presidency in September 2008 by the African National Congress (ANC). In the interview with the "Sunday Independent," Mbeki sought to distance himself from some of the more contro [...]
2009-11-04 10:02:00Embassy PretoriaCONFIDENTIALPGOV SF
09PRETORIA2254COMMENTS FROM COPE SENIOR LEADERS SHOW DIVISIONS
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Congress of the People (COPE),which marked its first anniversary on November 1, remains divided between competing factions who support either Mosiuoa Lekota or Mbhazima Shilowa. Competing newspaper stories in "City Press" and the "Sunday Independent" recently underscored [...]
2009-11-04 11:49:00Embassy PretoriaCONFIDENTIALPGOV SF
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