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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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05VILNIUS778PHOTO-SUBSTITUTED LITHUANIAN PASSPORTS: PROOF IS
[...] Summary: Good-quality photo-substituted new-generation Lithuanian passports, which have become increasingly popular with citizens of other FSU countries seeking to benefit from Lithuania's membership in the EU, are difficult to detect. Fraudulent documents are generally only distinguishable f [...]
2005-07-27 13:42:00Embassy VilniusUNCLASSIFIEDKFRD CVIS LH
05VILNIUS8OUTPOURING OF LITHUANIAN SUPPORT FOR TSUNAMI
[...] We delivered reftel points encouraging assistance for the victims of the December 26 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami to Diana Mickeviciene of MFA's Asia and Pacific SIPDIS Division on January 4. Mickeviciene said that the GOL will likely announce on January 5 plans to contribute 150,00 [...]
2005-01-04 14:46:00Embassy VilniusUNCLASSIFIEDAEMR EAID PGOV LH
05VILNIUS80COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR CHRISTIAN YARNELL
[...] Embassy Vilnius requests country clearance for POL/ECON Officer Christian Yarnell to travel to Warsaw to attend the January 31-February 1 Warsaw Regional Consular Conference. Mr. Yarnell will arrive on January 29 at 15:15 onboard Flight LO 772, and depart February 1 at 19:55. He holds a Top S [...]
2005-01-25 15:50:00Embassy VilniusUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA LH
05VILNIUS911TFUS01: PRESIDENT ADAMKUS EXPRESSES CONDOLENCES,
[...] No summary [...]
2005-09-02 16:13:00Embassy VilniusUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON AEMR ASEC CASC MARR AMGT US LH
05VILNIUS932GOL TO CONSIDER CONGRATULATING IRAQ; DISCUSSING
[...] No summary [...]
2005-09-07 13:53:00Embassy VilniusUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL IZ LH
05VILNIUS946LITHUANIA: INTERESTED IN COMBATING AVIAN
[...] Summary. The Government of Lithuania is fully engaged on the Avian Influenza issue. The Ministry of Health is in the process of drafting the Government's national action plan, and Health Minister Zilvinas Padaiga told the Ambassador that the GOL would "be very supportive" of the USG's initiat [...]
2005-09-09 10:06:00Embassy VilniusUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR EAID ECON PREL SOCI TBIO KSCA LH
05VILNIUS950 TFUS01: LITHUANIA: KATRINA MEDIA REACTION REPORT
[...] Summary: Lithuanian print media is actively covering hurricane "Katrina", echoing official U.S. statements in news reports and reprinting information provided by both international and national news services in all Lithuanian daily newspapers. Recent attention has shifted to Lithuania's possi [...]
2005-09-12 04:17:00Embassy VilniusUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO PREL PGOV LH
05VILNIUS959PRESIDENT ATTENDS 9/11 INTERFAITH COMMEMORATION
[...] The Embassy helped to organize an interfaith commemoration for the victims of terrorism at a Lutheran church in Vilnius on September 11. The event represented the first large-scale interfaith service ever held in Lithuania, and was covered by all major national media. Leaders from five fait [...]
2005-09-13 08:11:00Embassy VilniusUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO PREL LH
05VILNIUS986 VILNIUS BEGINS YEAR-LONG B1/B2 VALIDATION STUDY
[...] SUMMARY: We have begun a year-long validation study of Lithuanian B1/B2 visa applicants to determine the overstay rate for the period November 2004 to November 2005. We have consulted with CA/FPP to ensure that our study will be statistically valid and produce comprehensive information to hel [...]
2005-09-19 12:58:00Embassy VilniusUNCLASSIFIEDCVIS KFRD LH
05VILNIUS989COORDINATING ASSISTANCE TO PROMOTE DEMOCRACY IN
[...] The Ambassador delivered reftel points regarding coordination of assistance to promote democracy in Belarus to MFA Political Director Zygimantas Pavilionis and Renatas Juska of the MFA Political Planning Department, among others, at a gathering of high-level representative of Europe's donor co [...]
2005-09-20 11:49:00Embassy VilniusUNCLASSIFIEDKDEM EAID PREL BO LH
05VILNIUS996 MARIJAMPOLE COUNTY: LITHUANIA'S GOOD COUNTRY
[...] SUMMARY: Top officials in one of Lithuania's most sparsely populated counties told the Ambassador that the local economy in Marijampole is doing well. Unemployment is low and skilled labor talented, but a U.S. employer finds it hard to fill jobs. The students in this rural region study Engl [...]
2005-09-22 05:23:00Embassy VilniusUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON PGOV LH
05WARSAW1117 Poland: 2005 Special 301 Submission - Gradual
[...] (SBU) Poland's efforts to improve its IPR protection continued through the fourth quarter of 2004, with increased activities by customs and police authorities to curb IPR violations in the optical disc area. It is clear that copyright and trademark protection is significantly better than se [...]
2005-03-02 08:37:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDETRD KIPR PL
05WARSAW1122 Poland: 2005 Special 301 Submission - Gradual
[...] (SBU) Poland's efforts to improve its IPR protection continued through the fourth quarter of 2004, with increased activities by customs and police authorities to curb IPR violations in the optical disc area. It is clear that copyright and trademark protection is significantly better than sev [...]
2005-03-02 09:08:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDETRD KIPR PL
05WARSAW1273POLISH FISHING INDUSTRY: THE HAPPY UNEMPLOYED
[...] Per EU requirements, Poland is in the middle of restructuring its Baltic fishing fleet to meet EU requirements. Part of that process includes the reduction of the fleet by scrapping vessels and compensating the vessel owners and operators. The Restructuring Agency responsible for implementin [...]
2005-03-07 14:21:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDEFIS ECON PL EU
05WARSAW1371 Poland: Debate on Film Act Heating Up
[...] (SBU) Legislation being drafted by the Polish Parliament (Sejm) to impose a tax on foreign broadcasts into Poland is being hotly debated in the government. Sejm deputies want to use the collected revenue to subsidize the domestic film industry. Although the Ministry of Culture sees no prob [...]
2005-03-11 10:58:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDETRD EFIN KIPR PL
05WARSAW3151 Economic Impact of EU Accession on Poland
[...] (SUB) Sixteen months after Poland's EU accession, post surveyed a number of government officials and economic experts on the impact of accession. Despite some caveats, there appears to be consensus that Poland has adapted smoothly to the EU's common market. Dramatic export growth has fuele [...]
2005-08-19 09:10:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN PL EUN
05WARSAW3161RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON PRESIDENT BUSH'S DEMOCRACY
[...] Polcouns delivered reftel demarche August 19 to Katarzyna Katsperczyk, who handles Community of Democracy issues in the MFA's Department of Policy Planning. Katsperczyk said that Poland, as a convener and strong supporter of the Community of Democracies and the UN Democracy Fund, will be makin [...]
2005-08-22 10:20:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL PL UNGA
05WARSAW3178 POLAND: U.S. PROVIDER SEEKS TO OFFER VOICE
[...] (SBU) California TOK, a Delaware-registered firm, is making ambitious plans to enter the Polish telecoms market with inexpensive international voice services. Although the service will rely on an individual customer's existing broadband connection, the company eschews labeling its service v [...]
2005-08-23 11:47:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDETRD PL ECCP
05WARSAW3249Poland: Economic Relations with Ukraine
[...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Not for Internet Distribution. 2. (U) Ukraine is Poland's second largest CIS trade partner, after the Russian Federation (due mainly to energy imports). Improving trade statistics demonstrate the increasing significance of Ukraine to the Polish economy, with [...]
2005-08-31 13:48:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDETRD PREL EINV PL
05WARSAW3286POLAND: FRENCH WANT MORE TELECOMS STOCK
[...] No summary [...]
2005-09-06 09:12:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDETRD EINV PL ECCP
05WARSAW3361POLAND: Government Announces Antipiracy Strategy
[...] (U) During the September 13, Council of Ministers meeting in Warsaw, the interagency group approved a strategy for combating intellectual property rights (IPR) piracy. The report focuses several strategic goals and emphasizes the importance of the "public-private sector partnership" to achiev [...]
2005-09-14 15:36:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDETRD KIPR PL
05WARSAW3447 OSCE: HDIM OPENING FOCUSES ON OSCE REFORM
[...] Summary: The opening session of the 2005 Human Dimension Implementation Meeting gave participants a chance to set out their views of the OSCE, against the backdrop of reform discussions ongoing in Vienna. Poland, the U.S., and Kyrgyzstan voiced strong support for OSCE's human rights work and [...]
2005-09-23 09:45:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL PL OSCE
05WARSAW3465POLISH RIGHT VICTORIOUS IN PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION
[...] (SBU) Summary. Preliminary results and exit polling from Poland's September 25 parliamentary elections indicate a convincing victory for the center-right Law and Justice (PiS) and Civic Platform (PO),who are expected to begin formal coalition negotiations as early as September 27. PiS's nar [...]
2005-09-26 10:13:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PL
05WARSAW3473OSCE: HDIM ELECTION ISSUES
[...] (U) Summary. Election issues were the focus of three early events at this year's Human Dimension Implementation Meeting (HDIM)in Warsaw. During the first HDIM Working Session, the clear fault line that separates most NGOs and participating States, including the United States, from Russia and [...]
2005-09-27 12:26:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL PL OSCE
05WARSAW3477FINAL ELECTION RESULTS ANNOUNCED IN POLAND
[...] (SBU) Summary: The final results of Polish parliamentary elections confirmed a narrow first-place finish for the center-right Law and Justice (PiS),followed by its anticipated coalition partner, the Civic Platform (PO). The latest forecasts for parliamentary seat distribution indicate that P [...]
2005-09-27 14:04:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PL
05WARSAW3575PRESIDENTIAL PRE-ELECTION SNAPSHOT
[...] Summary: Civic Platform's (PO's) Donald Tusk remains in the lead for the October 9 first round of the Polish presidential race, with today's final pre-election polls showing his edge over Law and Justice (PiS) challenger, Lech Kaczynski varying from just one to eight points. Other candidate [...]
2005-10-07 13:32:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PL
05WARSAW3627POLISH MFA STATEMENT ON IRAQ REFERENDUM
[...] In response to reftel demarche, the Polish MFA released October 18 the following public statement in support of the Iraqi constitutional referendum. 2. Begin text of embassy translation of statement. "Poland has welcomed a nationwide referendum on the new constitution that was conducted o [...]
2005-10-18 15:18:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV KDEM IZ PL
05WARSAW3632POLAND RESPONDS TO AVIAN FLU OUTBREAKS
[...] Summary. In response to the confirmed outbreak of H5N1 avian influenza in Romania and Turkey, the GOP has taken several steps to prepare for a potential outbreak on Polish soil. An emergency anti-epidemic committee has been formed that cuts across key ministries and agencies, including Heal [...]
2005-10-19 12:21:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO ECON PREL PL KSTH WHO
05WARSAW3661LECH KACZYNSKI ELECTED PRESIDENT OF POLAND
[...] Summary: Lech Kaczynski snatched victory in Poland's presidential election on October 23, in a surprising come from behind win against Donald Tusk. Elections results will be announced officially this afternoon, but with well over 90 percent of the votes tallied, Kaczynski secured his election [...]
2005-10-24 10:45:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL MARR ECON PL
05WARSAW3734MARCINKIEWICZ NAMES POLISH GOVERNMENT
[...] Summary: Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz named his new cabinet on October 31, with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs going to career diplomat Stefan Meller and Defense to Radek Sikorski. Reaching out to moderates like Zbigniew Religa as Minister of Health and Teresa Lubinska at Finance suggests that de [...]
2005-10-31 14:07:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PL
05WARSAW3903POLAND: UPDATED INFORMATION ON AVIAN AND PANDEMIC
[...] Summary. Post has reported extensively on our positive relationship with the GOP in its effort to prepare for a potential avian influenza outbreak (see refs b - e). Polish officials are actively preparing for the appearance of the disease, which they expect will occur in the Spring. Rather [...]
2005-11-23 14:50:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO SENV ECON EAGR EAID PREL PL
05WARSAW3914DEPUTY PM STRESSES LAW, VISAS IN MEETING WITH
[...] (U) SUMMARY: In Ambassador Ashe's November 23 introductory call on Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister, Ludwik Dorn, discussion focused on law and order issues but also included visas as well as next-generation national leadership. The Ambassador underscored his desire to host a lunch [...]
2005-11-25 16:06:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KCRM CVIS PL
05WARSAW4025 POLAND'S 2005-2006 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS
[...] No summary [...]
2005-12-12 15:07:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR PL EUN
05WARSAW4065POLAND: AMBASSADOR'S COURTESY CALL ON NEW
[...] (U) Ambassador called on new Minister of Transport and Construction, Jerzy Polaczek, on December 9 to discuss the new government's plans for speeding up infrastructure development. Minister Polaczek commenting that his first priority was to ensure that he spent the government's resources wi [...]
2005-12-16 15:31:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN EAIR ECPS ELTN PREL PL
05WARSAW4067POLAND 2005-2006 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL
[...] Poland's geographic location places it directly along one of the main routes between the former Soviet Union republics and Western Europe used by narcotics-traffickers and organized crime groups. According to Polish government estimates, narcotics-trafficking, organized crime activity, auto th [...]
2005-12-16 16:18:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR KTFN PL
05WARSAW4079PIS MAKES PLAY FOR PUBLIC MEDIA
[...] (U) On December 16th Law and Justice (PIS) moved to change the National Broadcasting law and effectively seize political and, consequently, editorial control of Polish Public Television (TVP) and Radio (PR). The amendment was fast-tracked through Parliament (same day reading and voting with n [...]
2005-12-20 14:50:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDECPS KPAO PGOV PREL PL
05WARSAW4113Update on GOP's Anti-Trafficking Policies
[...] Our discussions with Polish government officials, NGOs, and academic institutions reveal that the GOP has taken significant steps to combat trafficking in persons (TIP) in Poland. For the first time ever, the GOP has allocated funds from the state budget for the implementation of the Nationa [...]
2005-12-23 08:28:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM PREF KCRM KJUS PL
05WARSAW4124DRAFT POLISH DEFENSE BUDGET, MORE FOR
[...] SUMMARY: Poland's Parliamentary Defense Committee offered a glimpse of future defense spending when it approved the $5.6 billion draft defense budget for 2006 on December 15. This represents a 3.3% increase (adjusted for inflation) over 2005. Significant elements of the draft include $1 billi [...]
2005-12-28 15:53:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV ECON PREL PTER PARM PL
05WELLINGTON102 COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR KEVIN HENNESSY
[...] No summary [...]
2005-02-03 18:13:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA TBIO NZ
05WELLINGTON125NEW ZEALAND RESPONSE ON MERCURY ISSUE AT UNEP
[...] Poloff provided reftel demarche points to Lesley Woudberg, Environment Division, NZ Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT.) Woudberg stated that the GONZ would support the partnership concept advocated in the US draft resolution. She noted that the GONZ advocates a bilateral or national [...]
2005-02-14 01:23:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDSENV AORC ETRD PREL NZ
05WELLINGTON126COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST - DOROTHY ROGERS TO APIA
[...] Embassy requests country clearance for Political Officer Dorothy Rogers to travel to Apia, Samoa from February 26 - March 14, 2005. The purpose of Ms. Rogers' visit is to act as principal officer during the absence of Charge Tim Harley. 2. Ms. Rogers will arrive at Faleolo Airport in Api [...]
2005-02-14 01:49:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA NZ
05WELLINGTON130NEW ZEALAND UPDATE ON E-PASSPORT AND VWP QUESTIONS
[...] (U) Post passed information contained reftel to David Philp, Manager, Passports, New Zealand Department of Internal Affairs (DIA.) Philp reported that while he is the Project Sponsor, the e-Passport Project Manager is Brian Greenough, DIA. He added that the project steering committee is in pl [...]
2005-02-15 02:34:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDCMGT PREL NZ
05WELLINGTON135 COUNTRY CLEARANCE TO THE COOK ISLANDS FOR IRS
[...] Embassy grants country clearance to IRS Officials Jay Van Kirk, Reginald Brown, Monte J. Myers, and Tonya Martin to travel to The Cook Islands, February 24 - March 12, 2005. The purpose of travel is to provide a 2-week Financial Investigative Techniques (FIT) class to Cook Island Law Enforcem [...]
2005-02-15 23:23:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA ECON ASEC HK NZ IRS
05WELLINGTON163 NEW ZEALAND CLEARANCE FOR R/V KAIMIKAI-O-KANALOA
[...] Embassy is in receipt of a letter from the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) with copies of clearances for the research vessel Kaimikai-o-Kanaloa from the NZ Ministry of Fisheries, NZ Ministry of Research, Science, and Technology, Land Information New Zealand, NZ Minist [...]
2005-02-23 17:54:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDKRVC TPHY EWWT NZ
05WELLINGTON168NEW ZEALAND VIEWS ON THE FUTURE OF UNMISET
[...] According to an official at New Zealand's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT),New Zealand agrees that the time has come to wrap up peacekeeping operations in East Timor. New Zealand believes UNMISET should be replaced by a scaled-down, time-bound political mission under UN auspices, [...]
2005-02-24 02:13:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDKPKO PREL TL NZ UNSC
05WELLINGTON199 FISCAL RESTRAINT ON ILO PROPOSED BUDGET
[...] No summary [...]
2005-03-09 17:46:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDAORC ELAB NZ ILO
05WELLINGTON20SENTENCING IN NEW ZEALAND'S LARGEST PASSPORT FRAUD
[...] (U) Following their conviction for conspiring to commit forgery in October (reftel),refugees to New Zealand Iraqi Fahad Jaber AJEIL and his brother-in-law, Kuwaiti Riyad Hamied SULTAN, were sentenced December 20 in the Auckland District Court. Ajeil, who had been found guilty on 14 forgery-r [...]
2005-01-11 01:56:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDASEC PGOV PINS TSPL NZ
05WELLINGTON224 NIUE COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR EDWARD H. YOUNG, JR.
[...] Embassy grants country clearance to NOAA National Weather Service officials Edward H. Young, Jr. and James C. Weyman to travel to Niue, April 11-18, 2005. The purpose of travel is to attend the Pacific Islands Global Climate Observing System meeting and the Regional Meteorological Services [...]
2005-03-17 01:50:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA TPHY KSCA WS NE NZ
05WELLINGTON225NEW ZEALAND: RESPONSE ON CHILD MARRIAGE FOR NZ,
[...] The following are responses to the request for information on child marriage in New Zealand, the Cook Islands, Niue and Tokelau, keyed to the questions in paragraph 7 of reftel. A. The legal age of marriage in New Zealand is 16. Children (both male and female) can marry at age 16 if they ha [...]
2005-03-17 02:11:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDKWMN ECON ELAB PHUM PGOV SCUL SOCI NZ
05WELLINGTON227 NOAA KA'IMIMOANA MARINE RESEARCH CLEARANCE
[...] No summary [...]
2005-03-17 17:55:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDKRVC TPHY EWWT NZ
05WELLINGTON241 NIUE COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR AKAPO K. AKAPO, APRIL
[...] Embassy grants country clearance to NOAA National Weather Service official Akapo K. Akapo to travel to Niue, April 11-18, 2005. The purpose of travel is to attend the Pacific Islands Global Climate Observing System Meeting and the Regional Meteorological Services Directors Meeting. 2. E [...]
2005-03-22 18:44:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA TPHY KSCA WS NE NZ
05WELLINGTON243NEW ZEALAND: INTERNATIONAL COORDINATION AND
[...] In response to reftel, following are details and a few observations on how post handles maritime security issues in New Zealand. 2. Post and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) attach, based in Singapore, work closely to coordinate our approaches to the New Zealand government [...]
2005-03-23 04:07:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDEWWT ASEC ECON ETRD KSTC PARM PHSA PREL PTER NZ ADM
05WELLINGTON261 RESPONSE TO CONGRESSIONAL REQUEST FOR STATE
[...] No summary [...]
2005-03-30 01:43:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON KPAO NZ
05WELLINGTON279 NIUE COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR EDWARD CORMIER, APRIL
[...] Embassy grants country clearance to NOAA National Weather Service official Edward Cormier to travel to Niue, April 8-18, 2005. The purpose of travel is to attend the Regional Meteorological Services Directors Meeting. 2. Embassy understands that country clearance is the only assistance r [...]
2005-04-04 02:42:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA TPHY KSCA NE NZ
05WELLINGTON318COMMUNITY OF DEMOCRACIES: NEW ZEALAND ATTENDANCE
[...] No summary [...]
2005-04-19 00:07:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDKDEM PREL NZ
05WELLINGTON328NEW ZEALAND ON WHO INTERNATIONAL HEALTH
[...] Post delivered reftel points April 21 to New Zealand's Ministry of Health. On April 22, Andrew Forsyth, team leader of the Ministry's Public Health Legislation Review, reported that he was still working with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade to formulate New Zealand's positions for th [...]
2005-04-21 22:52:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO PREL PTER NZ WHO
05WELLINGTON334NEW ZEALAND: PROPOSAL FOR 2005 IPR TRAINING
[...] No summary [...]
2005-04-26 03:55:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDKIPR ECON EFIN ETRD PREL NZ
05WELLINGTON340NEW ZEALAND: FUNDING AFGHANISTAN'S
[...] No summary [...]
2005-04-28 00:30:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDPREL EAID AF NZ UNSC
05WELLINGTON356 NOAA KA'IMIMOANA MARINE RESEARCH CLEARANCE
[...] No summary [...]
2005-05-04 04:40:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDKRVC TPHY EWWT NZ
05WELLINGTON384 SUBMISSION OF EMPLOYEE EVALUATION REPORTS - NEW
[...] No summary [...]
2005-05-13 04:12:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDAPER NZ
05WELLINGTON386CHANGE IN EMBASSY WELLINGTON ENVIRONMENT, SCIENCE,
[...] No summary [...]
2005-05-16 23:33:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA EFIS TBIO SENV TSPA TSPL
05WELLINGTON397 NEW ZEALAND RESPONSE ON NEGOTIATIONS AT UNESCO
[...] Poloff provided reftel demarche points to James Hartley, Legal Advisor, NZ Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT),who, along with Jane Kominik from the Ministry for Culture and Heritage, will attend the negotiations in Paris on the UNESCO convention on cultural diversity. In Hartley's [...]
2005-05-19 03:31:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDETRD SCUL NZ UNESCO
05WELLINGTON404NEW ZEALAND'S RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR MIGRANT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-05-23 02:56:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PREL SMIG NZ
05WELLINGTON411 COUNTRY CLEARANCE TO THE COOK ISLANDS FOR IRS
[...] Embassy grants country clearance to Lane Timm, Director of IRS-CID National Criminal Investigation Training Academy, to travel to the Cook Islands, May 30 - June 4, 2005. The purpose of travel is to attend the Financial Investigative Techniques (FIT) class and participate in the graduation c [...]
2005-05-24 02:11:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA ECON ASEC HK NZ IRS
05WELLINGTON428INVITATION TO THE US-EU INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
[...] On May 27, Ambassador Swindells presented reftel background information about the U.S.-EU Iraq conference to Simon Murdoch, Chief Executive at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Minister Goff is on official travel in North America.) The Ambassador made the presentation together with Dutch Amba [...]
2005-06-01 02:45:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDASEC PREL
05WELLINGTON435LUIS POSADA CARRILES - MESSAGE PASSED TO NEW
[...] No summary [...]
2005-06-02 02:33:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDEAIR IT KJUS PHUM PREL PTER CU US VE NZ EUN
05WELLINGTON441DEMARCHE DELIVERED FOR UNESCO CULTURAL DIVERSITY
[...] No summary [...]
2005-06-03 05:09:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDSCUL ETRD NZ UNESCO
05WELLINGTON445 R/V ROGER REVELLE, FILE NO. 2004-097
[...] No summary [...]
2005-06-07 04:18:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDKRVC TPHY EWWT NZ
05WELLINGTON448UN DEMOCRACY FUND: NEW ZEALAND'S RESPONSE
[...] Poloff on June 2 delivered ref B demarche points, proposed letter and UN terms of reference to Valerie Meyer, Deputy Director of New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade's United Nations, Human Rights and Commonwealth Division. Meyer responded on June 3, noting three key areas of co [...]
2005-06-08 03:00:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM NZ
05WELLINGTON45NEW ZEALAND: INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT 2005
[...] No summary [...]
2005-01-14 04:22:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDEINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV NZ OPIC USTR
05WELLINGTON461NEW ZEALAND MOVES CLOSER TO CUTTING MOBILE
[...] Summary: New Zealand's two mobile-phone service providers are a step closer to being ordered to lower the fees they charge to complete calls into the country on their networks -- fees that are among the highest of OECD nations. The Commerce Commission on June 9 issued its final report on its [...]
2005-06-12 18:59:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDECPS ECON ETRD NZ
05WELLINGTON472DEMARCHE DELIVERED FOR MDA: CONFERENCE FOR THIRD
[...] No summary [...]
2005-06-16 03:52:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDAORC PHUM PREF PREL IS SZ NZ ICRC
05WELLINGTON473DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UNESCO BIOETHICS DECLARATION
[...] No summary [...]
2005-06-16 04:16:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO NZ UNESCO KSCI
05WELLINGTON480 COUNTRY CLEARANCE TO THE COOK ISLANDS FOR NOAA
[...] Embassy grants country clearance to Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service Official Kevin Painter to travel to The Cook Islands, June 19 - July 2, 2005. The purpose of travel is to teach a fisheries prosecution workshop to a [...]
2005-06-20 02:39:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA TPHY KSCA EFIS CW NZ
05WELLINGTON489NEW ZEALAND POSITION AT CODEX COMMISSION MEETING
[...] New Zealand will participate in the 28TH session of the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) in Rome, July 4- 9. The New Zealand delegation will be headed by Andrew Mckenzie,Executive Director of the New Zealand Food Safety Authority(NZFSA). The delegation will also include Steve Hathaway, D [...]
2005-06-22 04:50:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDETRD TBIO EAGR ECON NZ
05WELLINGTON5NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CODEL KOLBE (JAN
[...] (SBU) Embassy warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Codel Kolbe, to travel to New Zealand from January 7 - 15, 2005. 2. (SBU) Embassy Control Officer is Political-Economic Counselor Katherine Hadda. Contact details are as follows: Office: 644-462-6063 Fax: 644-472-3537 [...]
2005-01-05 04:38:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDOREP AMGT ASEC AFIN NZ
05WELLINGTON502NEW ZEALAND CONTRIBUTES TO POLIO ERADICATION
[...] Post delivered ref B demarche points to to Vicki Poole, Global Group Program Manager at the NZ Agency for International Development (NZAID); Dr. Mark Jacobs, Director of Public Health in the Ministry of Health; and the Americas Division of the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. [...]
2005-06-29 02:16:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA TBIO NZ WHO
05WELLINGTON504NEW ZEALAND TIGHTENS TERRORISM FINANCE LAW
[...] New Zealand's Parliament has passed legislation strengthening the country's terrorism finance law. The legislation extends until 2007 the country's UN Security Council-related designations of terrorist organizations. It also makes illegal the intentional financing of non- designated organiza [...]
2005-06-29 03:30:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN EFIN PTER PREL NZ
05WELLINGTON538LAWSUIT MAY DELAY DECISION ON MOBILE TERMINATION
[...] New Zealand's two mobile-phone service providers have gone to court to challenge the Commerce Commission's recommendation that the government begin regulating land-to- mobile phone charges. The court case throws into uncertainty what had been an expected decision by the Minister of Communica [...]
2005-07-12 01:48:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDECPS ECON ETRD NZ
05WELLINGTON549 NEW ZEALAND NOMINATION FOR FSN POLITICAL
[...] Embassy Wellington submits the following nomination for the FSN Staff Political Training Course to be held in Washington from September 26 - October 7, 2005. 2. Name: Craig Brian Greaves Grade: 9 Step 2. Length of Service: Start date - May 16, 2005. English language ability: level 4 (n [...]
2005-07-14 22:28:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDAFSI AFSN PGOV PREL NZ
05WELLINGTON601 NEW ZEALAND PARTICIPATION IN EXERCISE CYBER
[...] Pol-Econ Counselor delivered reftel invitation to participate in the U.S. National Cyber Exercise CYBER STORM to New Zealand official Chris Roberts at the Center for Critical Infrastructure Protection (CCIP) in Wellington. Invitation was sent on April 11, 2005. 2. The following response [...]
2005-08-04 22:18:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDKCIP NZ
05WELLINGTON613USDA COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR U.S. SECRETARY OF
[...] Embassy grants country clearance for U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Michael O. Johanns; Press Secretary Edgar Loyd; Under Secretary J.B. Penn; Foreign Agricultural Service Administrator A. Ellen Terpstra; FFAS Special Assistant Jennifer Ehn, OIG Special Agent James Holst; and OIG Special Agent [...]
2005-08-12 01:42:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR NZ
05WELLINGTON618NEW ZEALAND POSITION AT CODEX AD HOC TASK FORCE
[...] Summary: New Zealand will participate in the fifth Session of the Codex Ad-Hoc Intergovernmental Task Force on Foods Derived from Biotechnology (Task Force) in Chiba, Japan September 19-23, 2005. New Zealand will be generally supportive of U.S. positions. New Zealand agrees with the United S [...]
2005-08-15 03:27:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDETRD TBIO EAGR ECON NZ
05WELLINGTON619TERRORISM FINANCE: UNSCR 1617 IMPLEMENTATION
[...] Summary: The New Zealand government announced August 12 that a FATF evaluation confirmed the need for more regulation of the country's financial sector to safeguard against money laundering and terrorist financing. Post issued a news release welcoming that announcement, as part of our action [...]
2005-08-15 03:42:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN ETTC EFIN PTER KSEP CVIS KVPR KPAO OIIP NZ
05WELLINGTON637 New Zealand on U.S. APEC Radioactive Sources
[...] No summary [...]
2005-08-22 01:24:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP PARM ETTC KSTC EAID ETRD ECIN APEC IAEA
05WELLINGTON647NEW ZEALAND ON UNESCO CULTURAL DIVERSITY CONVENTION
[...] No summary [...]
2005-08-23 23:19:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDETRD NZ UNESCO WTO
05WELLINGTON65 R/V KAIMIKAI-O-KANALOA CLEARANCE REQUEST
[...] Embassy forwarded documents received January 20, 2005 to the Americas Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) of the Government of New Zealand and requested clearance for the R/V Kaimikai-o-Kanaloa for the following cruise dates: April 7 - 23, 2005 (Embley - File No. 20 [...]
2005-01-26 17:57:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDKRVC TPHY EWWT NZ
05WELLINGTON659BOLSTAD-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE
[...] Embassy grants country clearance to USDA official, Dr. Gary Bolstad, Senior Program Auditor, USDA/FSIS/OPEER/Omaha to visit New Zealand from September 03-19, 2005 to conduct a routine inspection system equivalence audit of New Zealand's meat inspection system. 2. Embassy will assist with [...]
2005-08-29 04:00:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR NZ
05WELLINGTON660STERN-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE
[...] Embassy grants country clearance to USDA official, Norman Stern, Microbiologist, USDA/ARS/SAA to visit Auckland, New Zealand from September 11-16, 2005 to attend seminar at New Zealand World Poultry Science Association on campylobacter problem. 2. Embassy understands that country clearance [...]
2005-08-29 04:01:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR NZ
05WELLINGTON662ARMSTRONG-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE
[...] Embassy grants country clearance to USDA official, John Armstrong, Research Entomologist, USDA/ARS/PWA, Hilo, Hawaii to visit New Zealand from September 25 to October 09, 2005 to attend and present a paper at the Australasian Postharvest Horticulture Conference in Rotorua and visit scientists [...]
2005-08-30 00:35:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR NZ
05WELLINGTON667VISIT TO NEW ZEALAND OF USDA SECRETARY JOHANNS
[...] Summary: During his visit to New Zealand, Secretary of Agriculture Johanns emphasized the U.S. commitment to an ambitious outcome to the WTO, including the reduction of global trade distortions in agriculture. The Secretary told Prime Minister Clark, Agriculture Minister Sutton, and others th [...]
2005-08-31 08:22:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDETRD TBIO EAGR ECON NZ
05WELLINGTON668HURRICANE KATRINA: NZ CONDOLENCES, OFFERS OF
[...] Roy Ferguson, Americas Desk Director at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT),called post today to convey GNZ condolences at the loss of life and devastation caused by Hurricane Katrina. He said GNZ stands ready to help in any way as needed, noting that in the past NZ firefighters [...]
2005-09-01 00:11:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV EAID NZ
05WELLINGTON671AMENDED NOMINATION REQUEST FOR VOLUNTARY VISITOR
[...] POST AMENDS ORIGINAL CABLE AND NOW REQUESTS AN EIGHT-DAY VOLUNTARY VISITOR PROGRAM FOR DEBORAH MCCORMICK (DIRECTOR) AND A SIX-DAY PROGRAM FOR ADRIENNE STEWART (TRUSTEE) OF THE ART AND INDUSTRY BIENNIAL TRUST. 2. POST REQUESTS FUNDING FOR ACCOMMODATIONS AND DAILY PER DIEM AND DOMESTIC TRAVEL [...]
2005-09-01 06:19:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDOEXC SCUL KPAO NZ
05WELLINGTON675TFUS01: NEW ZEALAND OFFERS ASSISTANCE
[...] The Government of New Zealand has made a general offer of assistance to the United States in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In addition, the government has approved specific areas of assistance, and the New Zealand Embassy has been instructed to convey those offers to USG officials on Se [...]
2005-09-02 05:58:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ECON AEMR ASEC CASC MARR AMGT US NZ
05WELLINGTON679TFUS01: NEW ZEALAND TO CONTRIBUTE CASH FOR
[...] New Zealand Prime Minister Clark announced September 6 that her government would contribute NZ $2 million (US $1.4 million) through the Red Cross for hurricane relief. The contribution is in addition to the government's previously announced offers of a search and rescue team, disaster victim [...]
2005-09-06 20:02:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDAEMR EAID PREL US NZ
05WELLINGTON683TFUS01: ADDITIONAL DETAILS ON NEW ZEALAND'S OFFER
[...] In response to ref B, post provided in ref A the names and contact information for the New Zealand disaster assistance teams that the New Zealand government has offered for assisting in the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. 2. In further response to ref B, following are additional details on [...]
2005-09-07 20:14:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDAEMR EAID PREL US NZ
05WELLINGTON688TFUS01: MORE DETAILS ON NEW ZEALAND'S OFFER OF
[...] No summary [...]
2005-09-08 19:48:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDAEMR EAID PREL US NZ
05WELLINGTON7NEW ZEALAND SUPPORT TO TSUNAMI RELIEF VICTIMS
[...] (U) NZAid has confirmed to post the break down of the NZD 10 million (about USD 7.2 million) that the New Zealand Government has committed so far to the relief effort: -- Up to NZD 5 million will be given in dollar-for-dollar matching funds for private charitable donations (FYI: The Red Cr [...]
2005-01-06 04:45:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDAEMR EAID PGOV NZ
05WELLINGTON700 NEW ZEALAND AVIATION AND MARITIME OFFICER
[...] No summary [...]
2005-09-12 21:18:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDEAIR ECON NZ
05WELLINGTON705NEW ZEALAND TO JOIN INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP ON
[...] Charge shared reftel information with Simon Murdoch, CEO of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT). Murdoch is the most senior career official at the Ministry. Murdoch agreed to review the information and forward it to appropriate ministry officials. 2. On September 12, Rosemar [...]
2005-09-13 05:40:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA EAGR EAID ECON PREL SOCI TBIO NZ
05WELLINGTON707NEW ZEALAND WILL NOT ATTEND ARF CBM SEMINAR ON
[...] No summary [...]
2005-09-14 02:13:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PARM MARR XB NZ
05WELLINGTON717NOMINATION REQUEST FOR VOLUNTARY VISITOR PROGRAM
[...] POST REQUESTS A SEVEN-DAY VOLUNTARY VISITOR PROGRAM TO ASSIST VICE CHANCELLOR STUART MCCUTCHEON OF AUCKLAND UNIVERSITY (PLUS A FOUR-MEMBER DELEGATION) FOR MEETINGS WITH LEADING UNIVERSITY RESEARCH INSTITUTIONS AND POLICY AND FUNDING AGENCIES. 2. POST REQUESTS A PROGRAM OF MEETINGS AND ADVIC [...]
2005-09-18 23:50:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDOEXC SCUL KPAO NZ
05WELLINGTON718NEW ZEALAND OFFERS INFORMATION ON PASSENGER-
[...] This is an action request; please see Paragraph 3. 2. In response to the Department of Homeland Security's intent to expand the Advanced Passenger Information System (APIS),the New Zealand government has offered to provide the U.S. government with information and a demonstration on the Aus [...]
2005-09-19 03:24:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDEAIR PTER NZ
05WELLINGTON722HOLLINGSWORTH-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE
[...] Embassy grants country clearance to USDA official, Robert Hollingsworth, USDA/ARS/PWA/HAWAII to visit Auckland and Rotorua, New Zealand from September 22 to October 10, 2005 to attend and present a paper at the Australasian Postharvest Horticulture Conference in Rotorua and attend a pre-confer [...]
2005-09-19 21:49:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR NZ
05WELLINGTON736NEW ZEALAND UNABLE TO RESPOND TO UNESCO CONVENTION
[...] No summary [...]
2005-09-22 05:24:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDSCUL ETRD NZ UNESCO
05WELLINGTON740NEW ZEALAND: COMMERCIAL SOURCES OF MRES
[...] Per reftel, following is information on three companies in New Zealand that supply ration packs or "retort meals." The packs are similar to MREs, but do not include a heating source. The pouched meals can be eaten cold, but normally would be heated in boiling water or opened and heated over a [...]
2005-09-23 03:44:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDPREL AMGT EAID ECON ETRD NZ
05WELLINGTON741NEW ZEALAND WILL TRY TO ATTEND ARF ISG IN
[...] No summary [...]
2005-09-23 04:24:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDPREL MARR NZ
05WELLINGTON748NEW ZEALAND: CONFIRMING SUA DEMARCHE DELIVERY
[...] No summary [...]
2005-09-28 02:26:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP KTIA MNUC PARM PREL PGOV EWWT PHSA NZ
05WELLINGTON751LEWANDROWSKI-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE
[...] Embassy grants country clearance to USDA official Jan Lewandrowski, Senior Economist, Office of Chief Economist, USDA to visit Auckland New Zealand from October 15-23, 2005 to participate in informal dialogue on the role of land use, land use exchange, and forestry in the climate change respo [...]
2005-09-29 00:50:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR NZ
05WELLINGTON752ANDREWS, SHARKEY AND REAVES-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY
[...] Embassy grants country clearance to USDA officials Patricia Andrews, Brian Sharkey and Jimmy Reaves USDA/Forest Service to visit Auckland New Zealand from October 03-18, 2005 to attend Autralasian Fire Authority Conference-2005 Innovative Technology Meeting. 2. Embassy understands that cou [...]
2005-09-29 00:51:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR NZ
05WELLINGTON753COLE-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE
[...] Embassy grants country clearance to USDA official, Ronald Cole, National Wool Reporter, Livestock and Grain Market News, Livestock and Marketing Program, Agriculture Marketing Service/USDA to visit New Zealand from October 28 to November 4, 2005 to visit wool testing facilities, wool auctions [...]
2005-09-29 00:52:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR NZ
05WELLINGTON759NEW ZEALAND ENDORSES JOINT STATEMENT BY
[...] The New Zealand government supports the International Partnership on Avian and Pandemic Influenza and would welcome being included in the Joint Statement to be issued by the partnership (ref B). 2. Post on September 26 delivered ref A talking points and Joint Statement to the New Zealand Mi [...]
2005-09-30 03:50:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO EAGR ECON KSCA PREL SOCI NZ WHO
05WELLINGTON772NOMINATION: FY-06 STUDY OF THE UNITED STATES
[...] No summary [...]
2005-10-06 04:11:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO OEXC SCUL
05WELLINGTON785FARLEY-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE
[...] Embassy grants country clearance to USDA official Christopher Farley, Biological Scientist, USDA/Forest Service to visit Rotorua, New Zealand from October 14-25, 2005 to participate in informal dialogue on the role of land use, land use exchange, and forestry in the climate change response. [...]
2005-10-12 22:30:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR NZ
05WELLINGTON786GUERRO/PRUETT-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE
[...] Embassy grants country clearance to USDA official, Felix Guerrero, Physiologist and John Pruett, Microbiologist to visit Christchurch, New Zealand from October 13-21, 2005 to attend World Association for Advancement of Veterinary Parasitology 20th International Meeting. 2. Embassy underst [...]
2005-10-12 22:42:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR NZ
05WELLINGTON787ANDERSON-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE
[...] Embassy grants country clearance to USDA official, Dean Anderson, Animal Scientist, USDA/ARS/SPA to visit Hamilton, New Zealand from October 10-15, 2005 to visit Gallagher Animal Management Systems to discuss commercialized cirtual fencing and present seminar. 2. Embassy understands that c [...]
2005-10-12 22:44:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR NZ
05WELLINGTON788HOFFMAN-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE
[...] Embassy grants country clearance to USDA official, Wesley Hoffman, USDA/ARS/SPA, Texas to visit Rotorua and Invercargill, New Zealand from October 10-14, 2005 to attend seminars on Forest Bio-Security & Protection Facility and New Zealand Aerial Application Association Meeting and present pro [...]
2005-10-12 22:45:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR NZ
05WELLINGTON790DVC Request - "The New Regionalism"
[...] Program Description: In Support of MPP Goal 07-04 Economic Growth and Development, Post requests a video conference with Dr. Jing Huang, Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution, who is an expert in Chinese policy and Asian security issues. 2. Justification and O [...]
2005-10-13 00:44:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP SCUL
05WELLINGTON791HERRICK-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE
[...] Embassy grants country clearance to USDA official Jeffrey Herrick, Soil Scientist, USDA/ARS/SPA/NM to visit Christchurch, New Zealand from November 11- December 02, 2005 to attend the Dahlem Desertification Protocol workshop to serve as co-organizer to discuss soil degradation. 2. Embassy [...]
2005-10-13 00:59:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR NZ
05WELLINGTON793Proposal for U.S. Speaker at 2006 Otago
[...] Post requests U.S. speaker Professor Susan Brownell, Chair, Dept. of Anthropology at St. Louis University, Missouri, in support of MPP Goal 07-03, Mutual Understanding. We would ideally like this visit to be for seven program days, Wednesday, June 21 - Tuesday, June [...]
2005-10-13 02:17:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP OEXC SCUL
05WELLINGTON811 MEDIA PLAY: NEW NZ FOREIGN MINISTER PLACES HIGH
[...] SUMMARY: For the second day in a row newly-appointed Foreign Minister Winston Peters has publicly indicated that he places high priority on "rebuilding New Zealand's relationships with the United States." END SUMMARY 2. On the second day of the new Foreign Minister's term, the front-page o [...]
2005-10-18 22:13:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO NZ
05WELLINGTON812DVC Request with Gail Blanke
[...] PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: Post requests a DVC with Gail Blanke, President and CEO of Lifedesigns, LLC, in New York. 2. Preferred Activity Date, Fiscal Year, and Quarter: This is an FY06 program, which is requested for week starting December 6; first quarter. 3. JUSTIFICATION OF PROGRAM: Pos [...]
2005-10-19 02:25:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP SCUL
05WELLINGTON816NEW ZEALAND SUPPORTS U.S. POSITION ON GEOGRAPHIC
[...] Summary: New Zealand shares the concern of the United States that the EU and others may attempt to hold up negotiations at the WTO Hong Kong Ministerial unless their demands on geographical indications (GIs) are met. New Zealand will work closely with the United States to prevent this from oc [...]
2005-10-20 02:00:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDETRD EAGR ECON NU KIPR NZ WTRO
05WELLINGTON821EXPLAINING NEW ZEALAND'S PARLIAMENTARY GOVERNANCE
[...] New Zealand,s new government, announced October 17, was formed through an awkward arrangement that includes a coalition between the leading Labour Party and the Progressive Party and the &confidence and supply8 support of New Zealand First and United Future. In addition, the Green Party has a [...]
2005-10-20 06:51:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL NZ
05WELLINGTON826COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST - TOD DURAN TO APIA
[...] Embassy requests country clearance for Political Officer Tod Duran to travel to Apia, Samoa from October 24 - November 7, 2005. The purpose of Mr. Duran's visit is to act as principal officer during the absence of Charge Tim Harley. 2. Mr. Duran will arrive at Faleolo Airport in Apia on [...]
2005-10-21 00:43:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA NZ
05WELLINGTON827FY2006 U.S. Speaker Request -- Ambassador
[...] Program Description: In Support of MPP Goal 06-01, Active Anti-Terrorist Coalitions and Security, Post requests a U.S. speaker visit by Ambassador Charles Salmon (ret.),Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies, Honolulu, Hawaii. We have received a request from one of New Zealand's leading un [...]
2005-10-21 04:10:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP SCUL
05WELLINGTON833BLUE LANTERN CASE AG-1003-97: CHECK ON BOEING A-4
[...] Safe Air Limited of Marlborough, New Zealand, reported October 26 that it has no record of being informed by Boeing/McDonnell-Douglas that it should cease servicing Indonesian Air Force A-4s in 1999. However, the company says it was well aware of the arms embargo against Indonesia and complie [...]
2005-10-25 21:53:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDETTC KOMC NZ ID US
05WELLINGTON837FORMER NEW ZEALAND IV TO LEAD US - NZ BUSINESS
[...] Former participant on the IVLP program Mr. Stephen Jacobi (grantee from June 2003) has been appointed Executive Director of the New Zealand United States Council. The Council is an influential lobby group that enjoys the ear of NZ officals. Within days of his appointment, Jacobi wrote a news [...]
2005-10-26 18:34:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDOEXC SCUL KPAO NZ
05WELLINGTON84 NEW ZEALAND FOREIGN MINISTER SUPPORTS IRAQ
[...] The following text is a statement from Foreign Minister Goff's office, released January 31, 2005. 2. Begin text: ELECTION RESULT REPRESENTS PROGRESS TOWARDS DEMOCRATIC AND PEACEFUL IRAQ Foreign Minister Phil Goff has welcomed the holding of the election in Iraq, and says that the lev [...]
2005-01-31 03:02:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV NZ
05WELLINGTON855NEW ZEALAND SAYS G-4 AMBASSADORS DECLINE TO
[...] (SBU) On October 28, Acting DCM conveyed Ref A points to Chris Anderson, Deputy Director of the South-South East Asia Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. She urged that the G-4 Ambassadors visit with returned refugees during their upcoming trip to the Central Highlands, and [...]
2005-11-02 03:57:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREF PREL NZ
05WELLINGTON859IN DECISIONS ON ENERGY, NEW ZEALAND IS AT A
[...] (SBU) With the days of abundant and cheap electric power over, New Zealand faces critical decisions on how to ensure its energy supplies keep pace with future demand. The task is complicated by years of under-investment, regulatory uncertainties and uneven government policies. New Zealand's [...]
2005-11-03 04:52:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDECON PREL NZ ENGR ETRC
05WELLINGTON860NEW ZEALAND'S POSITION ON INFANT FORMULA STANDARDS
[...] No summary [...]
2005-11-03 22:48:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD NZ FDA
05WELLINGTON861NEW ZEALAND TRADE MINISTER TOUTS FTA TO AMERICAN
[...] Summary: In a meeting with visiting American Farm Bureau Federation representatives, New Zealand Minister of Trade Phil Goff pitched his country's case for free-trade negotiations with the United States. Goff asserted that a free-trade agreement would benefit both countries and that U.S. agri [...]
2005-11-04 03:56:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDETRD EAGR ECON NZ
05WELLINGTON883NEW ZEALAND'S POSITION ON U.S. CANDIDACY FOR IMO
[...] No summary [...]
2005-11-14 03:10:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDKTIA AORC EWWT PHSA US NZ IMO
05WELLINGTON898PSI: NEW ZEALAND WILL ATTEND HAMBURG REGIONAL
[...] No summary [...]
2005-11-18 02:42:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP MNUC PARM PREL NZ
05WELLINGTON913 NEW ZEALAND TERRORISM REPORTING OFFICER
[...] No summary [...]
2005-11-28 22:47:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDPTER ASEC EFIN KCRM NZ
05WELLINGTON916 R/V ROGER REVELLE MARINE RESEARCH CLEARANCE
[...] No summary [...]
2005-11-30 04:55:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDKRVC TPHY EWWT CW NZ
05WELLINGTON932 R/V KA'IMIMOANA MARINE RESEARCH CLEARANCE REQUEST,
[...] No summary [...]
2005-12-06 02:29:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDKRVC TPHY EWWT BP FM KR NR RM TL TV NZ
05WELLINGTON9502005-2006 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY
[...] Below is post's input on New Zealand for the money laundering section of the 2005-2006 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR). This input also will be sent via unclassified e-mail to Ed Rindler, INL/C/CP. 2. Begin submission: New Zealand is not a major regional or offsh [...]
2005-12-12 01:41:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KCRM KTFN PTER SNAR NZ
05WELLINGTON952SEYBOLD-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE
[...] Embassy grants country clearance to Cathy Seybold, Soil Scientist to visit Willington from December 30, 2005 to January 15, 2006, to collect data from maintenance on soil climate stations in New Zealand. 2. Embassy understands that country clearance is the only assistance required. 3. [...]
2005-12-12 01:59:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR NZ
05WELLINGTON955 R/V NATHANIEL B. PALMER, FILE NO. 2004-044
[...] No summary [...]
2005-12-12 04:20:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDKRVC TPHY EWWT NZ
05WELLINGTON957NEW ZEALAND: COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM
[...] The following is Embassy Wellington's submission for the 2005 Country Terrorism Report on New Zealand: New Zealand New Zealand has a strong capacity to develop and implement counter-terrorism policies, and further strengthened its role in the global war on terror in 2005 through domestic [...]
2005-12-13 00:16:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDPTER ASEC KCRM EFIN KHLS KPAO NZ
05WELLINGTON962 NEW ZEALAND POC FOR MULTILATERAL DEVELOPMENT
[...] No summary [...]
2005-12-14 04:00:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN EAID ECON EINV PREL NZ
05WELLINGTON964 R/V ROGER REVELLE MARINE RESEARCH CLEARANCE
[...] No summary [...]
2005-12-15 01:16:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDKRVC TPHY EWWT CW NZ
05WELLINGTON966 R/V NATHANIEL B. PALMER, FILE NO. 2004-139
[...] No summary [...]
2005-12-15 02:58:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDKRVC TPHY EWWT NZ
05WELLINGTON967NEW ZEALAND RESPONSE FOR SUPPORT OF PARTNERSHIPS
[...] Poloff on December 6 provided reftel demarche points to Lesley Woudberg, Senior Advisor, Environment Division, NZ Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT). On December 13, Woudberg responded that GNZ is following the UN Environment Program (UNEP) 2005 decision on mercury closely and is i [...]
2005-12-15 03:58:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDSENV EMIN UNEP NZ
05WELLINGTON985NEW ZEALAND: INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2005-12-21 02:05:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDEINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB OPIC PGOV USTR NZ
05WELLINGTON986CLOSURE OF EMBASSY WELLINGTON AND
[...] No summary [...]
2005-12-21 03:48:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT
05WELLINGTON9872006 NATIONAL TRADE ESTIMATE REPORT: NEW ZEALAND
[...] Following is post's input for the 2006 National Trade Estimate Report on New Zealand. We assume that Washington agencies will provide updated trade and investment data. 2. We also note that the section on "Biotechnology Food Approval" should be consistent with the NTE on Australia. 3 [...]
2005-12-21 04:22:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECON EFIN NZ
05WELLINGTON988STAUB-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE
[...] Embassy grants country clearance to Jack Staub, Horticulturist, UDA/ARS/MWA/Madison to visit Christchurch from January 18 to July 31, 2006 to visit Lincoln University to acquire education in area of bio-chemical genetics of carotenoids and aroma; assist with student research on aromatic volat [...]
2005-12-21 21:10:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR NZ
05WELLINGTON992NEW ZEALAND ON ADDITIONAL FUNDING FOR POLIO
[...] Post delivered ref A demarche points on December 20 to Vicki Poole, Global Group Program Manager at the New Zealand Agency for International Development (NZAID); Dr. Mark Jacobs, Director of Public Health in the Ministry of Health; and Rebecca Lineham, Americas Division of the New Zealand Mini [...]
2005-12-22 22:31:00Embassy WellingtonUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA TBIO NZ
05YEREVAN1091ARMENIA: MEDIA REACTION TO DVC WITH AMBASSADOR
[...] SUMMARY: On June 17, 2005 U.S. Embassy Yerevan held a digital video conference (DVC) on the 2005 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report with Ambassador John Miller, director of the State Department's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons. Media coverage of the conference was widespr [...]
2005-06-23 02:07:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR OPRC KPAO AM KTIP
05YEREVAN111 NEW REGIONAL ANTI-TIP NGO NETWORK
[...] The United Nations Development Program (UNDP),which implements a project on combating Trafficking in Persons (TIP) in partnership with the GOAM, has launched a local and regional (Caucasus) NGO network on fighting organized crime, particularly TIP and illegal migration. Members of the netwo [...]
2005-01-21 13:35:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM KWMN SMIG KCRM AM KTIP
05YEREVAN1169ARMENIAN IMPORTER SPELLS OUT THE CASE AGAINST
[...] (SBU) In a rare kiss-and-tell affront to Armenia's powerful Customs Service, a major Armenian coffee importer has gone to press and publicly described corruption in the service, alleging that Customs is trying to push them out of business because they refuse to continue paying bribes to govern [...]
2005-07-01 11:45:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD EAID AM
05YEREVAN127(IMI) ARMENIA, COMMERCIAL NEWS SUMMARY:
[...] This cable summarizes press reporting on commercial developments in Armenia for January 2005. Major headlines include: -- EBRD invests in private Armenian construction company; -- French company takes over Armenia's water supply system under the World Bank credit program; -- Kazakh b [...]
2005-01-26 09:28:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIEDKTDB BBSR BEXP BTIO AM
05YEREVAN1322 LETTER OF REQUEST (LOR) FOR PEACEKEEPING UNIT
[...] On July 18, the Armenian MoD delivered a letter of request for equipment to be funded by FMF. This request, which is for deployable medical support equipment, has the support of the country team. It is part of Armenia's overall effort to establish a deployable peacekeeping brigade, in suppo [...]
2005-07-22 12:43:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIEDMCAP AM
05YEREVAN1342(IMI) ARMENIA, COMMERCIAL NEWS SUMMARY:
[...] This cable summarizes press reporting on commercial developments in Armenia for July 2005. Major headlines include: -- World Bank to provide USD 20 million agricultural loan to the Armenian government; -- World Bank supports an Urban Heating Project for Armenia; -- The Lincy Foundati [...]
2005-07-26 12:31:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIEDKTDB BBSR BEXP BTIO AM
05YEREVAN1628FORMER NKR REP NOW APPLYING FOR A2 VISA AS
[...] Post has received two diplomatic notes from the Government of Armenia in as many days requesting that two-year validity A2 visas be issued to former "Nagorno Karabakh Republic"(NKR) Representative Vardan Barseghyan and his wife. In the second note Barseghyan is described as an Armenian MFA em [...]
2005-09-08 11:47:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIEDCVIS PREL AM
05YEREVAN1711DEMARCHE DELIVERED: RESPONDING TO ENERGY SUPPLY
[...] No summary [...]
2005-09-22 12:06:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIEDECON ENRG AM
05YEREVAN1729DEMARCHE DELIVERED: 11TH ANNUAL CENTRAL AND
[...] No summary [...]
2005-09-27 11:55:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP BMGT EAIR AM
05YEREVAN1730ARMENIA JOINS INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP ON AVIAN
[...] (U) On September 27, CDA Godfrey met with Armenian Minister of Health Norayr Davidian to discuss the International Partnership on Avian and Pandemic Influenza, invite Armenia to participate in the Senior Officials Meeting and pass reftel A points. Prof. Vladimir Davidyants, the GOAM point of [...]
2005-09-27 12:09:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO KSCA EAGR ECON PREL SOCI AM WHO
05YEREVAN1747 STRONG INTERNATIONAL PARTICIPATION AT ARMENIAN
[...] (U) More than 180 businesses participated in the 5th annual Armenian Expo in Yerevan on September 14-17. The conference organizer, LOGOS EXPO, designed the event to identify new markets for Armenian products, encourage foreign investment in Armenia, demonstrate the strength of the Armenian ec [...]
2005-09-29 11:07:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN KTDB BBSR BEXP AM
05YEREVAN1758DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UNFC RESOLUTION ON COMPLIANCE
[...] No summary [...]
2005-09-30 11:18:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIEDPARM PREL AM CDG UNGA
05YEREVAN1759DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ICJ ELECTIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2005-09-30 11:26:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIEDAM UNSC UNGA
05YEREVAN1764PRESIDENT KOCHARYAN TAKES OWNERSHIP OF NEW
[...] On September 30, at a conference to mark the 10th Anniversary of the Adoption of the Armenian Constitution and the Formation of the Constitutional Court, President Kocharian emphasized the importance of upcoming Constitutional Reforms to the establishment of rule of law in Armenia. In his re [...]
2005-09-30 12:38:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM AM
05YEREVAN1790CONSTITUTIONAL REFERENDUM SET FOR NOVEMBER 27
[...] No summary [...]
2005-10-04 12:14:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PGOV AM
05YEREVAN1795ARMENIA: PARLIAMENT RATIFIES INTERNATIONAL LABOR
[...] Per reftels, Post provides the following update regarding exploitive child labor: -- On October 3, the Armenian National Assembly ratified International Labor Organization (ILO) Minimum Age Convention 138. Armenpress News Agency quoted Labor and Social Affairs Minister Aghvan Vardanyan, w [...]
2005-10-05 08:03:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIEDELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI AM USAID GTIP ILO
05YEREVAN1886ARMENIA: MEDIA REACTION TO A/S FRIED'S VISIT
[...] SUMMARY: Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Daniel Fried, accompanied by U.S. Special Negotiator for Nagorno-Karabakh and Eurasian Conflicts Steven Mann, visited Armenia on October 18. The visit, which included a short press availability, highlighted A/S Fried's st [...]
2005-10-24 03:15:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR OPRC KPAO AM
05YEREVAN189IMI (ARMENIA): HOW TO ESTABLISH AN OFFICE IN
[...] This cable explains the process of opening a business in Armenia. It describes the varieties of corporate structures under Armenian law, the process of establishing and registering companies with foreign participation, and the practical aspects of renting office space, hiring personnel, and [...]
2005-02-02 12:58:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIEDKTDB BBSR BEXP BTIO AM
05YEREVAN1890GOAM TO SUPPORT BUERGENTHAL FOR INTERNATIONAL
[...] No summary [...]
2005-10-24 12:28:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIEDAM UNSC UNGA
05YEREVAN1907GOAM REQUESTS USG ASSISTANCE TO IDENTIFY ABANDONED
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) This is an action request. In a dipnote dated October 21 and received October 26, Deputy Foreign Minister Arman Kirakossian officially requested USG assistance -- both financial and technical [...]
2005-10-26 12:24:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIEDASEC EAID ENRG KNNP PGOV PHUM PREL AM
05YEREVAN1920GOAM TO SUPPORT BUERGENTHAL FOR ICJ
[...] No summary [...]
2005-10-31 07:24:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIEDAM UNGA UNSC
05YEREVAN1939ARMENIA: MEDIA REACTION TO PRESS CONFERENCE ON
[...] SUMMARY: On October 27, Ambassador Evans and USAID Mission Director Robin Phillips held a press conference on U.S. democracy assistance programs. The press conference focused on planned U.S. assistance to help Armenia hold free and fair parliamentary elections in 2007 and presidential electio [...]
2005-11-02 13:33:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR OPRC KPAO AM
05YEREVAN1968 ARMENIA COMMERCIAL NEWS SUMMARY:
[...] This cable summarizes press reporting on commercial developments in Armenia for October 2005. Major headlines include: -- Synopsys Inc. signs agreement to acquire HPL Technologies Inc.; -- Vanadzor Chemical Factory reopens; -- Armenia becomes 64th member of the Asian Development Bank; [...]
2005-11-07 13:01:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD KTDB BBSR BEXP BTIO AM
05YEREVAN2094ARMENIA: MEDIA REACTION TO U.S. RESPONSE TO
[...] U.S. Embassy Yerevan posted a response to Armenia's November 27 constitutional referendum on its website based upon cleared press guidance from the Department. The response received extensive coverage in the Armenian press. Reports varied, with some outlets presenting the response as question [...]
2005-12-01 09:07:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR OPRC KPAO AM
05YEREVAN2095 ARMENIA COMMERCIAL NEWS SUMMARY:
[...] This cable summarizes press reporting on commercial developments in Armenia for November 2005. Major headlines include: -- Alcatel agrees to support the Armenian Enterprise Incubator Foundation; -- EBRD to expand financing program for Armenian banks; -- IMF approves USD 4.7 mln disbur [...]
2005-12-01 10:19:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD KTDB BBSR BEXP BTIO AM
05YEREVAN2113ARMENIAN DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL ADOPTIONS:
[...] "It is better for a child to die in Armenia than to be adopted abroad." While international adoptions are legal in Armenia, this pervasive negative attitude makes legislators and government officials nervous, giving rise to a lack of transparency in the process which in turn creates an enviro [...]
2005-12-06 09:43:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIEDKOCI OIIP SCUL KPAO AM PHUM
05YEREVAN216 ARMENIAN FOREIGN MINISTER CONGRATULATES
[...] On February 2, the embassy received text of a congratulatory letter for Secretary Rice from Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian. The original was forwarded via pouch to EUR/CACEN. 2. Begin text: January 31, 2005 Dear Dr. Rice, Allow me to extend my warmest congratulations on your a [...]
2005-02-07 12:00:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIEDOPDC AM
05YEREVAN2201ARMENIA: MEDIA REACTION TO MCC ANNOUNCEMENT
[...] On December 19, the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Board announced that it had approved a five-year, USD 235.65 million compact with Armenia. Media coverage of the announcement was extensive, with all major television stations and newspapers reporting on it. Some outlets focused on t [...]
2005-12-21 14:00:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR OPRC KPAO AM
05YEREVAN2217 ARMENIA COMMERCIAL NEWS SUMMARY:
[...] This cable summarizes press reporting on commercial developments in Armenia for December 2005. Major headlines include: -- Japanese Bank for International Cooperation approves extension of loan for electrical transmission station upgrade; -- Russian Prime Minister Fradkov inaugurates th [...]
2005-12-23 08:28:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD KTDB BBSR BEXP BTIO AM
05YEREVAN235ARMENIA'S INFLATIONARY START TO 2005
[...] Armenia's Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose 5.4 percent in the month of January, exceeding in one month the government's target for the entire year. Press reports cite a senior National Statistics Service official who claims that the rise in the CPI is due to an 8.4 percent rise in the prices [...]
2005-02-09 13:08:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN AM
05YEREVAN267ARMENIA: KURDS DEMONSTRATE FOR OCALAN
[...] (SBU) Marking the sixth anniversary of the capture of Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan, about 250 ethnic Kurds came to Yerevan in buses February 15 to stage a peaceful march across downtown Yerevan and demonstrate in front of Armenian Government buildings and the United Nations Development Progr [...]
2005-02-15 14:00:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PTER ASEC PHUM AM
05YEREVAN279ARMENIA FRETS IN PRESS OVER POSSIBLE U.S.
[...] Armed conflict between Iran and the U.S. is seen as a very real possibility in Armenia, Iran's northern neighbor. While GOAM officials cite Secretary Rice's statements and are not claiming that a military strike is imminent, they have been publicly voicing concern about what would happen if [...]
2005-02-17 12:11:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO IR AM
05YEREVAN300 ARMENIANS AUTHORIZE USGS MOU EXTENSION
[...] The GOAM has authorized the extension of the USGS MOU for five years from November 2, 2003. The text of the authorizing diplomatic note number 16/01878, dated February 21, 2005, follows. 2. Begin text: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia presents its compliments [...]
2005-02-22 12:53:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIEDPREL TPHY TSPL AM
05YEREVAN329(IMI) ARMENIA, COMMERCIAL NEWS SUMMARY:
[...] This cable summarizes press reporting on commercial developments in Armenia for February 2005. Major headlines include: -- Austrian bank to finance Armenian metals company; -- Armenia to start negotiations on new IMF program; -- Central Bank of Armenia licenses new foreign bank; -- [...]
2005-02-25 13:28:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIEDKTDB BBSR BEXP BTIO AM
05YEREVAN337ARMENIA RATIFIES ARTICLE 98
[...] No summary [...]
2005-02-28 11:58:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PARM AM
05YEREVAN348ARMENIA PRESS REACTION: VISIT OF RUSSIAN
[...] Although Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov's 22-hour visit to Yerevan February 16-17 was standard fare, it generated intense press interest. Oppositionist media used the FM's presence to decry Armenia's dependence on Russia, while official and pro-government press praised Armenia's close ties w [...]
2005-03-01 09:44:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO AM KMDR OPRC PREL RU
05YEREVAN420ARMENIA PRESS REACTION: RELEASE OF HUMAN
[...] Public reaction to the release of the 2004 Human Rights Report was muted. According to most Armenian press, the report was "as expected," which explains the limited editorial response. Oppositionist press anticipated a Human Rights Report that would let the GOAM off easy, and characterized t [...]
2005-03-09 11:44:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO AM KMDR OPRC PREL
05YEREVAN483(IMI) BRIEF OVERVIEW OF ARMENIA'S ENERGY
[...] This cable gives an overview of Armenia's energy sector. It describes recent industry developments as well as provides key contacts. End Summary. 2. Armenia has no natural fossil fuel energy resources, although some small foreign firms have exploration licenses. Nevertheless, Armenia h [...]
2005-03-17 12:43:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIEDKTDB BBSR BEXP BTIO AM
05YEREVAN520(IMI) ARMENIA, COMMERCIAL NEWS SUMMARY:
[...] This cable summarizes press reporting on commercial developments in Armenia for March 2005. Major headlines include: -- Germany's Commerzbank to support SME lending program in Armenia; -- Armentel reports earnings up 70 percent in 2004; -- German development bank KFW continues financi [...]
2005-03-24 08:59:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIEDKTDB BBSR BEXP BTIO AM
05YEREVAN553LETTER TO SECRETARY RICE FROM ARMENIAN FM OSKANIAN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On the margins of hearings today in the Armenian National Assembly on Nagorno-Karabagh (SEPTEL),Foreign Minister Oskanian passed the following letter to embassy representatives of Minsk Group co-Chairs, addressed to Ministers. The letter raises concerns about the possibility o [...]
2005-03-29 12:22:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIEDAJ AM PARM PBTS PREL
05YEREVAN555IMI (ARMENIA): U.S. COMPANIES IN ARMENIA
[...] No summary [...]
2005-03-29 12:38:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIEDKTDB BBSR BEXP BTIO AM
05YEREVAN585ARMENIA PRESS REACTION: KYRGYZSTAN
[...] Colored by Russian President Putin's concurrent visit (March 24-25),public comments in Armenia about the situation in Kyrgyzstan reject speculation that a similar situation exists in Armenia. Some politicians chalked up the change in Bishkek to "Western interference." Even the opposition, [...]
2005-04-04 12:11:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO KMDR OPRC PREL KG AM RU
05YEREVAN67 ARMENIA DRAFT LOA AMENDMENT NO.3
[...] This is an Action Request for INL/AAE. 2. Post presents our draft of Amendment No. 3 to the Letter of Agreement on Narcotics Control and Law Enforcement Assistance between the Government of the United States and the Government of the Republic of Armenia in para 3 and requests that the Bur [...]
2005-01-14 13:12:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR AFIN KJUS KCRM AM
05YEREVAN692ARMENIA RATIFIES INTERNATIONAL CONVENTIONS ON
[...] Armenia has ratified three international instruments on the protection and promotion of children's rights this year. On February 28 the National Assembly ratified the Optional Protocol to the Convention of the Rights of the Child on Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Pornography. On M [...]
2005-04-19 12:30:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIEDELAB SOCI PREL PGOV AM KTIP
05YEREVAN728(IMI) ARMENIA, COMMERCIAL NEWS SUMMARY:
[...] This cable outlines press reporting on commercial developments in Armenia for April 2005. Major headlines include: -- EBRD to double its project-financing program in Armenia during 2005; -- Japan finances modernization of the Yerevan Thermal Power Plant; -- Germany to lend 7.5 millio [...]
2005-04-22 12:59:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIEDKTDB BBSR BEXP BTIO AM
05YEREVAN761ARMENIA PRESS REACTION: WHITE HOUSE STATEMENT
[...] As they did last year, the Armenian media expressed disappointment that President Bush did not use the term "genocide" in his April 24 "Armenian Remembrance Day" statement. Several newspapers focused on the President's "failure, once again" to honor an alleged promise made while campaigning [...]
2005-04-27 13:01:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO KMDR OPRC PREL TU AM
05YEREVAN859(IMI) REPORT ON VAYOTS DZOR PROVINCE
[...] On April 14-15, 2005, Embassy's BISNIS representative visited the Vayots Dzor region of Armenia to explore investment and trade opportunities for U.S. companies and to expand U.S.-Armenian commercial ties. He met with the province's business leaders and government officials. This is the lat [...]
2005-05-16 05:49:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIEDKTDB BBSR BEXP BTIO AM
05YEREVAN86 ARMENIAN CONTINGENT DEPARTS FOR IRAQ
[...] On January 18, a 46-man contingent departed Armenia to serve with coalition forces in Iraq. The Armenian troops, consisting mostly of truck drivers, will work with Polish forces currently stationed in Iraq. The Armenian media covered the departure in a mostly positive light (septel),and th [...]
2005-01-19 13:13:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIEDPREL MARR MOPS IZ AM
05YEREVAN880(IMI) ARMENIA EXPO 2005 TRADE SHOW IN YEREVAN
[...] This cable reports about the upcoming Armenia Expo 2005 trade show in September 2005. End Summary. 2. Logos Expo Center, one of the largest exhibition companies in Armenia, announced the fourth annual regional trade forum, Armenia Expo 2005, to be held in Yerevan September 14-17, 2005. [...]
2005-05-18 03:58:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIEDKTDB BBSR BEXP BTIO AM
05YEREVAN93(IMI) ARMENIA: MINING SECTOR
[...] This cable reviews the current condition of Armenia's growing mining and minerals sector. It describes recent sector developments and provides key contacts. End Summary. 2. Armenia has significant deposits of copper, molybdenum and gold as well as smaller deposits of zinc, lead and sil [...]
2005-01-20 09:48:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIEDKTDB BBSR BEXP BTIO AM
05YEREVAN973(IMI) ARMENIA, COMMERCIAL NEWS SUMMARY:
[...] This cable summarizes press reporting on commercial developments in Armenia for May 2005. Major headlines include: -- Germany to finance mortgage loan development program in Armenia; -- "Dun and Bradstreet" takes share of Armenian credit bureau; -- OPEC fund to invest in Armenia's pri [...]
2005-06-03 13:03:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIEDKTDB BBSR BEXP BTIO AM
05YEREVAN989ARMENIA: MEDIA REACTION TO CODEL HAGEL
[...] SUMMARY: On June 3, Senator Hagel led a delegation to Armenia which met with President Robert Kocharian and Minister of Defense Serzh Sargsyan, and which reviewed Armenia's peacekeeping battalion. Following these meetings, Senator Hagel held a press conference with more than 20 media outlets. [...]
2005-06-07 08:53:00Embassy YerevanUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KCFE OPRC PREL KPAO ZJ AM RU
05ZAGREB1142Addendum Nomination for Ambassador's Refugee Fund 2005
[...] Post appreciates allocation of funds for two projects under PRM's DONJI LAPAC PLAYROOM (USD 5000) 2. Background: The entire municipality of Lapac (354 square km, 2,300 inhabitants) previously had no functioning kindergartens until the Re Red Crescent established a playroom in 2003. The pl [...]
2005-07-12 12:12:00Embassy ZagrebUNCLASSIFIEDPREF HR
05ZAGREB1181Addendum Nomination for Ambassador's Refugee Fund 2005
[...] Post appreciates allocation of funds for two projects under PRM's Ambassador Refugee Fund. As per ref C, the refugee collective center in which an approved project was to be held will be closed by the GOC. Post is re-sending an alternative proposal and requests funding instead be allocated to [...]
2005-07-18 08:30:00Embassy ZagrebUNCLASSIFIEDPREF HR
05ZAGREB1199PATENT LINKAGE IN CROATIA -- TOUGH BUT
[...] WE APPROACHED THE HEADS OF THE CROATIAN DRUG AGENCY AND THE STATE INSTITUTE FOR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY TO HIGHLIGHT THE ROLE THAT LACK OF PATENT LINKAGE IN THE DRUG REGISTRATION PROCESS PLAYED IN CROATIA'S REMAINING ON THE SPECIAL 301 WATCH LIST. WE SHARED THE DOCUMENT DRAFTED BY USPTO (REF A) [...]
2005-07-19 15:25:00Embassy ZagrebUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECON KIPR HR
05ZAGREB1218CROATIA PROJECT ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN LAW ENFORCEMENT AND
[...] In response to reftel, below are accomplishments in the past 18 months in Post's SEED-funded, INL-administered law enforcement and criminal justice programs. Post programs are divided into general police reform and war crimes. Post requests INL support in securing USD 2.7 million in new, FY-0 [...]
2005-07-22 07:45:00Embassy ZagrebUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV HR
05ZAGREB1304STORM ANNIVERSARY: DEFENDING OPERATION,
[...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT: GoC officials, members of parliament, military leaders, war veterans, and the Croatian public marked the tenth anniversary of Operation Storm, the military action that liberated Serb-held territory in the so-called "Republika Srbska Krajina" (RSK),in ceremonies across the [...]
2005-08-09 10:09:00Embassy ZagrebUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL HR
05ZAGREB1339Croatia Not Expected to Send Representative
[...] No summary [...]
2005-08-12 17:53:00Embassy ZagrebUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO EAGR ECON HR
05ZAGREB1342IRAQ APPROVES CROATIAN SPECIAL MISSION IN BAGHDAD
[...] Vesna Klaic, director of the MFA's Eurasia Office, confirmed on August 12 that the Government of Iraq has approved the GoC's request to open a special mission in Baghdad. This will be the first time Croatia has established a special mission, she told PolOff, so it is unclear how long it will [...]
2005-08-12 17:53:00Embassy ZagrebUNCLASSIFIEDPREL IZ HR
05ZAGREB1413CROATIAN BAR ATTEMPTS TO BROADEN
[...] SUMMARY: An attempt to restrict access to the Croatian market for legal services was brought to post's attention by a multinational (including U.S.) law firm. The law firm registered a branch in Croatia in October 2004. In January 2005, the Croatian Bar Association (HOK) published a circula [...]
2005-08-29 13:22:00Embassy ZagrebUNCLASSIFIEDECON ECIN ETRD HR
05ZAGREB1436CROATIA ADDRESSING THREAT OF AVIAN
[...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT Post has delivered reftel talking points to both the Ministries of Health and Agriculture. The GOC's strategy includes the establishment of an inter-agency committee; an awareness outreach to veterinarians and producers; a ban on imports from affected countries; and coo [...]
2005-09-01 10:16:00Embassy ZagrebUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO ECON PREL SOCI HR
05ZAGREB1458TFUS01: CROATIA OFFERS HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE
[...] Croatian MFA State Secretary Gordon Bakota called in Charge on September 5 to inquire about ways in which Croatia could provide assistance for the relief effort following Hurricane Katrina. Charge gave him the list of priority items in ref 1, noting that private individuals could best help b [...]
2005-09-07 06:46:00Embassy ZagrebUNCLASSIFIEDAEMR EAID PREL HR
05ZAGREB1729H5 SUBTYPE AVIAN FLU VIRUS FOUND IN CROATIA
[...] On Friday, October 21, the GOC confirmed that the H5 subtype of the avian influenza (AI) virus had been found in samples taken from dead swans in Slavonia, in eastern Croatia. The samples were forwarded to the European Union reference laboratory in the UK to determine if the swans were carry [...]
2005-10-24 14:42:00Embassy ZagrebUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO PREL EAID WHO HR
05ZAGREB1741H5N1 CONFIRMED IN CROATIA: OVERVIEW OF
[...] SUMMARY: Croatian Veterinary authorities confirmed on October 26 the presence of the H5N1 virus in dead swans found in the eastern part of the country last week. The GOC has been rapid and transparent in its handling of the situation thus far. This message summarizes the situation to date, [...]
2005-10-26 15:00:00Embassy ZagrebUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO PREL EAID WHO HR
05ZAGREB180Evaluation: U.S. Speakers on Collaborative Research
[...] Name, date of program: Collaborative Research Techniques, January 9-13, 2005. 2. Description of the Activity, including topic, venues, audiences: Three U.S. Speakers, Dr. Dennis Glanzman and Dr. Yuan Liu from the National Institutes of Health and Dr. Jorn Larsen- Basse from the National Sci [...]
2005-02-04 12:00:00Embassy ZagrebUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP HR
05ZAGREB1810AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE: 9 NOVEMBER 2005
[...] SUMMARY: As of November 9, 2005, no additional cases of H5N1 have been confirmed in Croatia. The GOC has begun to relax some of the biosafety measures outside of the initial sites. Public awareness efforts are continuing and poultry sales are rebounding. END SUMMARY 2. The Croatian Ve [...]
2005-11-09 13:41:00Embassy ZagrebUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO PREL EAID WHO CASC HR
05ZAGREB1818GOC LIKELY TO SUPPORT U.S. ICCAT
[...] (SBU) Croatian Assistant Minister for Fisheries Ivan Katavic, Ministry of Agriculture, told Econoff on November 9 that the GOC supported Dr. Gerald Scott for chair of the Standing Committee on Research and Statistics (SCRS) and that he expects Croatia to support Dr. Hogarth as well. Katavic [...]
2005-11-14 11:34:00Embassy ZagrebUNCLASSIFIEDEFIS PHSA SENV AORC ICCAT
05ZAGREB1819WSIS: CROATIA OF ITS OWN MIND, BUT WILL
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Although the GOC supports evolutionary change in internet management and the use of existing institutions to continue the dialogue about internet governance, Croatia will most likely support the eventual EU position at the WSIS. END SUMMARY. 2. (SBU) Deputy State Secreta [...]
2005-11-14 11:34:00Embassy ZagrebUNCLASSIFIEDECPS ETRD ECON EINT ETTC
05ZAGREB1836AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE: 17 NOVEMBER 2005
[...] SUMMARY: As of November 17, 2005, no additional cases of H5N1 have been confirmed in Croatia. The GOC is continuing its surveillance efforts and Post hopes to receive an English version of the Croatian national pandemic influenza preparedness plan by the end of November. Media interest in a [...]
2005-11-17 09:54:00Embassy ZagrebUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO PREL EAID WHO CASC HR
05ZAGREB1868CROATIA: AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE: NOVEMBER
[...] No summary [...]
2005-11-23 14:42:00Embassy ZagrebUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO SENV ECON EAGR PREL HR
05ZAGREB1894CROATIA: AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE: NOVEMBER
[...] No summary [...]
2005-12-01 08:30:00Embassy ZagrebUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO SENV ECON EAGR PREL HR
05ZAGREB1926CROATIA: AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE: DECEMBER 7
[...] No summary [...]
2005-12-08 09:29:00Embassy ZagrebUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO SENV ECON EAGR PREL HR
05ZAGREB1927CROATIA: AVIAN INFLUENZA-RELATED TRADE
[...] No summary [...]
2005-12-08 09:29:00Embassy ZagrebUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO SENV ECON EAGR PREL HR
05ZAGREB1946CROATIA: AVIAN INFLUENZA WEEKLY UPDATE:
[...] No summary [...]
2005-12-14 15:07:00Embassy ZagrebUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO SENV ECON EAGR PREL HR
05ZAGREB1963DEMARCHES DELIVERED - MARITIME SECURITY AND
[...] POLOFF and EXBS Advisor delivered reftel points to Capt Tomislav Miletic, Assistant Minister, Ministry of Trade, Tourism, Sea and Transport. Miletic welcomed the briefing on U.S. initiatives and looked forward to continuing dialogue on the whole range of maritime security issues. Miletic al [...]
2005-12-19 12:04:00Embassy ZagrebUNCLASSIFIEDEWWT PREL ECON ETRD ELTN ATRN KCIP PTER
05ZAGREB1985CROATIA: AVIAN INFLUENZA POST CONTINGENCEY
[...] No summary [...]
2005-12-22 10:39:00Embassy ZagrebUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO PREL AMGT ASEC AMED AEMR HR
05ZAGREB204MOD REPLACES ASSISTANT MINISTER WHO SIGNED EUCOM
[...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT: The Ministry of Defense (MOD) has relieved Dr. Jelena Grcic-Polic from her duties as Assistant Minister of Defense for Defense Policy. She has been replaced by Igor Pokaz, the head of international defense cooperation under Grcic-Polic. While the MOD has reported the mo [...]
2005-02-10 06:34:00Embassy ZagrebUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL MARR MASS MOPS HR NATO
05ZAGREB215CROATIA: BACKGROUND ON NEGOTIATIONS ON ACCESS TO
[...] Croatia has yet to establish clear rules and procedures governing Access and Benefit Sharing (ABS) of genetic resources apart from permits required to conduct research on protected land or endangered species. Authority for implementing CBD (Convention on Biological Diversity) MAT (Mutually A [...]
2005-02-11 10:19:00Embassy ZagrebUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR EAID SENV TBIO HR
05ZAGREB262 PRESIDENT MESIC'S SECOND INAUGURAL ADDRESS
[...] Below is the text of President Mesic's inaugural address, delivered February 18, 2005. At its best, the speech demonstrates Mesic's strengths -- his ability to unite, to heal, to reach out to minorities, and to face up to Croatia's past errors. At times, the speech also echoed earlier statem [...]
2005-02-18 14:38:00Embassy ZagrebUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV HR
05ZAGREB356CROATIAN MINISTRY OF FINANCE SKEPTICAL OF BOTH
[...] Econoff passed reftel Fact Sheet to A/M of Finance, Ana Hrastovic, on February 28, and met to discuss the U.S. initiative March 3. Hrastovic expressed concerns about aspects of the U.S. proposal, saying that she believed that poor countries would ultimately get less money. They would also g [...]
2005-03-07 09:23:00Embassy ZagrebUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN EAID HR
05ZAGREB36HIV/AIDS IN CROATIA -- GLOBAL FUND FILLING A VOID
[...] With a three-year, $5 million commitment in Croatia, the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Malaria, and Tuberculosis has made possible free and anonymous HIV testing in three urban centers of Croatia and supported NGO education and outreach to vulnerable populations. Given Croatia's low prevalence [...]
2005-01-07 10:56:00Embassy ZagrebUNCLASSIFIEDKHIV PHUM PGOV HR
05ZAGREB525HIV/AIDS IN CROATIA: GOC FULLY FUNDS DRUG THERAPY
[...] The GoC currently spends approximately $2 million per year to provide anti-retroviral drug (ARV) therapy to 218 individuals known to be living with AIDS in Croatia. Funding drug therapy is the GoC's primary contribution to the fight against HIV/AIDS; fortunately, the Global Fund has covered [...]
2005-04-01 07:19:00Embassy ZagrebUNCLASSIFIEDKHIV PHUM PGOV HR
05ZAGREB6MESIC AND KOSOR HEADING FOR SECOND ROUND IN
[...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT: President Stjepan Mesic fell one percent short of the simple majority he needed for a first round re-election on January 2, finishing the day at 49 percent of the 2.2 million votes cast. He will face Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) nominee Jadranka Kosor, who received 20 [...]
2005-01-03 15:46:00Embassy ZagrebUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL HR
05ZAGREB646Nominations for Ambassador's Refugee Fund 2005
[...] Post is pleased to submit project proposals for PRM's Ambassador Refugee Fund. Projects were identified in consultation with UNHCR and others. Post is submitting a third project in the event that additional funding is available. GRADAC COLLECTIVE CENTER KINDERGARTEN (USD 5000) 2. Backgr [...]
2005-04-26 11:23:00Embassy ZagrebUNCLASSIFIEDPREF HR
05ZAGREB679CROATIA WELCOMES NEW IRAQ GOVERNMENT
[...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA USA Desk Director Andrea Bekic on April 29. The same day, the MFA Spokesperson issued the statement in para 2. 2. (U) Begin informal translation of MFA Statement: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration welcomes the naming of t [...]
2005-04-29 15:11:00Embassy ZagrebUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL IZ HR
05ZAGREB76CROATIAN POLITICIANS DERIDE LATEST GOTOVINA LEGAL
[...] (U) Croatian political leaders from President Mesic to HDZ presidential candidate Jadranka Kosor and Minister of Justice Skare-Ozbolt roundly condemned a January 5 letter sent by ICTY Fugitive Ante Gotovina's lawyer, Luka Misetic, to the Luxemburg EU Chair and recently leaked to the press. In [...]
2005-01-14 15:04:00Embassy ZagrebUNCLASSIFIEDKJUS KAWC PREL HR
05ZAGREB916PROJECT PROPOSAL - 2005 HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY
[...] SUMMARY: Post proposes to fund a project aimed at encouraging first-time voters by educating secondary-school students throughout Croatia about the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. This project, called "I'm Voting for the First Time," would be carried out by local non-partisan NGO [...]
2005-06-01 14:11:00Embassy ZagrebUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM KDEM HR
05ZAGREB986BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END USE CHECK
[...] POL and FCS officers visited Lovac Trgovina on June 8, 2005. Post recommends the approval of the application for export of Smith and Wesson revolvers to the firm. 2. Lovac Trgovina D.O.O. is a bona fide retail distribution firm of handguns and rifles in Croatia. The firm was founded in 1 [...]
2005-06-10 14:17:00Embassy ZagrebUNCLASSIFIEDETTC KOMC HR
06ABIDJAN1069USITC STUDY ON SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: FACTORS
[...] Per reftel instructions, post is making inquiries with the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Animal Husbandry, the Ministry of the Environment, and industry sources for available publications and will advise when we have a response, probably by early October. Please refer to ABIDJAN 3 [...]
2006-09-22 16:51:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDETRD IV
06ABIDJAN1083IVOIRIAN AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS LAUNCH SURPRISE
[...] All air traffic at Abidjan airport was halted September 26 when Cote d'Ivoire's national air traffic controllers, the local branch of ASECNA, launched a strike. Union contacts told us the strike was called to protest "inappropriate working conditions", which included outdated radar equipment [...]
2006-09-26 16:25:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDCI EAIR ECON ELAB FAA PREL
06ABIDJAN1084COTE D'IVOIRE: BANK EMPLOYEES GO ON STRIKE
[...] On September 27, the National Union of Employees of the Banking and Financial Establishments in Cote d'Ivoire (SYNABEFA-CI) went on strike for 72 hours, making good on a threat issued on July 25 (reftel A). To maximize the impact, the strike was evidently timed to coincide with the monthly d [...]
2006-09-27 13:39:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDELAB EFIN PGOV IV
06ABIDJAN1088COTE D'IVOIRE: UPDATE ON AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS',
[...] Air Traffic Controllers: As of 1500 GMT September 27th, the strike of the 27 Ivorian employees of the Agency for Aeronautical Security in Africa (ASECNA),which operates air traffic control at Abidjan's airport, was suspended for one month, allowing a full resumption of both domestic and inte [...]
2006-09-28 14:03:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDEAIR ELAB PREL ASEC IV ECON
06ABIDJAN1093COTE D'IVOIRE'S PALM OIL SECTOR
[...] Summary. Cote d'Ivoire's palm oil production has increased steadily in recent years, and its exports have nearly doubled. However, it still accounts for only one percent of world production and half of one percent of world exports. Palm oil also directly accounted for less than 1 percent o [...]
2006-09-29 16:39:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ETRD ECON IV
06ABIDJAN1094COTE D'IVOIRE'S PALM OIL SECTOR
[...] Summary. Cote d'Ivoire's palm oil production has increased steadily in recent years, and its exports have nearly doubled. However, it still accounts for only one percent of world production and half of one percent of world exports. Palm oil also directly accounted for less than 1 percent o [...]
2006-09-29 16:39:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ETRD ECON IV
06ABIDJAN1108COTE D'IVOIRE: CUSTOMS AGENTS RELEASED
[...] (SBU) In the afternoon of October 3, 2006, three Customs Agents who were arrested in connection with the toxic waste pollution scandal on September 7 (reftel A) were released on bail after a strike, threatened since September 26, commenced on the morning of October 3. 2. (SBU) The strike [...]
2006-10-04 10:31:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDELAB EAIR PREL IV ECON ASEC
06ABIDJAN1113COTE D'IVOIRE: ABIDJAN-BASED REGIONAL
[...] (U) Summary. The Abidjan-based regional stock market (BRVM) recently hosted the EconChief to discuss the current expansion of the bourse, its potential, limitations, and its place in the evolution of the market economy in Francophone West Africa. Reflecting the regional understanding that Co [...]
2006-10-04 17:28:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN IV
06ABIDJAN1114ABIDJAN-BASED REGIONAL STOCK MARKET
[...] (U) Summary. The Abidjan-based regional stock market (BRVM) recently hosted the EconChief to discuss the current expansion of the bourse, its potential, limitations, and its place in the evolution of the market economy in Francophone West Africa. Reflecting the regional understanding that Co [...]
2006-10-05 08:57:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN IV
06ABIDJAN1134COTE D'IVOIRE: USITC STUDY ON SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
[...] Per reftel B instructions, post has compiled information on the below industries. Please refer to Ref C for information on the Stock Market Exchange with regard to the request for information on financial services. Included in this cable is information on the banking sector. 2. Banking: [...]
2006-10-06 18:26:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDETRD IV
06ABIDJAN1190TRADE AGREEMENT COMPLIANCE AND MONITORING
[...] The Economic Section and the Foreign Commercial Section at Post jointly monitor trade agreements and respond to foreign trade barrier complaints. The Section's two Economic Officers determine responsibilities for specific cases as they emerge, working in concert with the regional FCS Officer [...]
2006-10-25 09:45:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD
06ABIDJAN1206PREPARATION OF 2007 NATIONAL TRADE ESTIMATE REPORT
[...] TRADE SUMMARY: The U.S. trade deficit with Cote d,Ivoire was $1.1 billion in 2005, an increase of $477 million from $597 million in 2004. U.S. goods exports in 2005 were $124 million, up 4.9 percent from the previous year. Corresponding U.S. imports from Cote d,Ivoire were $1.2 billion, up 6 [...]
2006-10-30 12:50:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECON EFIN IV
06ABIDJAN1242APPRECIATION AND GRATITUDE FROM PRESIDENT GBAGBO
[...] Following is the unofficial translation of a letter dated November 2, 2006 addressed to President Bush from President Laurent Gbagbo. A copy of the letter was sent by fax to Embassy Abidjan from the office of the Secretary General of Cote d'Ivoire. Begin translation: From the President of t [...]
2006-11-08 08:20:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDOPDC IV
06ABIDJAN1263IVORIAN POULTRY INDUSTRY CRIES FOWL AS GOVERNMENT
[...] On November 2, 2006, the Ministry of Animal Husbandry and Fisheries announced a plan to slash the tariff on poultry imports by 50% (from 22.5% to 11.5%). The announcement followed the October 31 Council of Ministers, which recommended taking &all necessary measures to supply the poultry mark [...]
2006-11-13 16:19:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDETRD EIND ELAB EAGR IV
06ABIDJAN1300 COTE D'IVOIRE: AMBASSADOR'S DECLARATION FOR
[...] During the last year, both disarmament of former combatants from the 2002 rebellion and the identification and registration of voters failed to materialize. As such, Cote d'Ivoire remains divided into three parts: the government-held south, the rebel- held north, and the UN controlled Zone o [...]
2006-11-24 10:37:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PHUM PREF IV
06ABIDJAN1306NINE TURKEYS DIE OF H5N1 AVIAN INFLUENZA JUST IN
[...] On November 20, the National Institute for Public Hygiene in Cote d'Ivoire (INHP) confirmed results by the National Laboratory for Agricultural Development (LANADA) on November 17 of another instance of H5N1 Avian Influenza (AI) in Cote d'Ivoire. Culling began November 21, as 76 birds were s [...]
2006-11-24 17:07:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO EAGR EMED CONS IV
06ABIDJAN1314STATE PRIMARY SCHOOLS SHUT DUE TO TEACHERS' STRIKE
[...] On November 9, 2006, the Primary School Teachers, Movement for the Defense of their Rights, known as Mouvement des Instituteurs pour la Defense de leurs Droits (MIDD),launched a strike to protest the government's failure to grant USD 80 (CFAF 40,000) per month in housing allowances for prima [...]
2006-11-28 11:45:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDELAB PREL KPKO IV
06ABIDJAN1349GBAGBO ROCKING THE BOAT; OPPOSITION STICKS TOE IN
[...] (U) After a tumultuous week in the political landscape with Gbagbo's takeover of both the State-owned newspaper Fraternite Matin and state Radio and Television (RTI),and his reinstatement of three senior offials who were implicated in the toxic waste disaster but are Gbagbo cronies, this week [...]
2006-12-07 16:52:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL IV UN
06ABIDJAN1360TERRORIST LISTS
[...] No summary [...]
2006-12-11 09:18:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC KTFN KVPR PREL PTER
06ABIDJAN1393COTE D'IVOIRE: 2006 COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM
[...] General Assessment: Cote d'Ivoire does not engage in any major counterterrorism efforts as terrorist groups are not known to be present and thus terrorist activity is not a percieved threat in this country. Cote d'Ivoire has been in the throes of a political-military crisis since 2002 which [...]
2006-12-19 16:53:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PTER ASEC PGOV IV
06ABIDJAN1400COTE D'IVOIRE - UPDATE ON THE WORST FORMS OF CHILD
[...] No summary [...]
2006-12-20 11:20:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI USAID IV
06ABIDJAN1404EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK, SOLENTA DHL
[...] Econ Chief visited Solenta DHL at Abidjan airport as requested in reftel to inquire into application number D366138 registered on 10/26/2006 (OEA/532 M.Hames/Doris Johnson) for a attitude inertial sensor, model 7003360-946. 2. Econ Chief spoke to Business Development Manager Helen Bergoun [...]
2006-12-21 10:22:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC IV
06ABIDJAN1417IRAN --INFORMATION REGARDING UNSCR 1737
[...] No summary [...]
2006-12-27 11:02:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDMNUC KNNP IV
06ABIDJAN395COTE D'IVOIRE: AVIAN INFLUENZA FALSE ALARM
[...] Several animals were found dead with symptoms similar to Avian flu in the north of Cote d'Ivoire the week of April 6; sixteen chickens, two ducks, and two dogs that apparently ate the carcasses of the dead poultry. A World Health Organization (WHO) satellite office in Bouake, the northern ca [...]
2006-04-19 07:56:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO ECON IV
06ABIDJAN433COTE D'IVOIRE: SUSPECTED CASES OF AVIAN FLU
[...] Several birds found dead in Abidjan have been tested at the state-owned Institute Pasteur in Abidjan for H5N1 Avian Flu. However, officials have not yet confirmed the presence of the virus in Cote d'Ivoire. Additional samples were sent for testing to a lab in Italy on April 24. The cases were [...]
2006-04-27 11:54:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDAMED EAGR IV TBIO
06ABIDJAN442COTE D'IVOIRE: PRESENCE OF AVIAN FLU ALL BUT
[...] Initial results from several birds found dead in Abidjan have tested positive for H5N1 Avian Influenza (AI). Screening for the virus was performed by two labs, the Insitut Pasteur in Abidjan and in Paris. Ministry officials are waiting for final confirmation from the United Nations Food and [...]
2006-04-28 16:58:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO EAGR EMED IV
06ABIDJAN532COTE D'IVOIRE: STATUS OF PILOT ID PROGRAM
[...] Summary: The second and third day of the pilot identification program ran smoothly in all seven sites both north and south. After the first day, pro-Gbagbo militias ceased their disruptive activities against the program in the south and the population appears to be gaining confidence in the [...]
2006-05-23 10:49:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL ASEC KPKO IV
06ABIDJAN589COTE D'IVOIRE: UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS CALL
[...] (U) The coordination of university professors known as Coordination Nationale des Enseignants du Superieur et des Chercheurs (CNEC),has called a two-week truce after meeting with Prime Minister Banny on May 29. While the Prime Minister was not able to promise a salary increase, which is CNE [...]
2006-06-02 16:35:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDELAB PGOV ECON EFIN IV
06ABIDJAN590COTE D'IVOIRE: UNION OF PUBLIC SECTOR HEALTH
[...] (U) On May 31, the union of senior public sector health personnel, Syndicat National des Cadres Superieurs de la Sante de Cote d,Ivoire (SYNACASS-CI),threatened to go on strike on June 15 if their demands regarding salary and rank within the civil service are not met. The SYNACASS-CI consis [...]
2006-06-02 16:37:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDELAB PGOV ECON EFIN IV
06ABIDJAN649COTE D'IVOIRE WILL SUPPORT NEW RED DIAMOND EMBLEM
[...] No summary [...]
2006-06-16 14:58:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PREL PHUM ICRC IV
06ABIDJAN723UNHCR CLOSES TABOU TRANSIT CENTER
[...] SUMMARY: RefCoord traveled to Tabou, Cote d'Ivoire, on June 27-30 to meet with UNHCR officials regarding their repatriation efforts and the pending closure of the Tabou Transit Center (TC). RefCoord also traveled to several surrounding villages and met with refugee representatives. Although [...]
2006-07-07 12:49:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PHUM PREL IV
06ABIDJAN883COTE D'IVOIRE: AVIAN INFLUENZA IN SAN PEDRO
[...] On June 10, five chickens and a wild bird were discovered dead in an industrial rubber plantation near the port city of San Pedro, 500 km southwest of Abidjan. According to a July 20 report published by the Ministry of Animal Husbandry, the specimens tested on June 28 by the National Agricult [...]
2006-08-07 15:06:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO EAGR EMED IV
06ABIDJAN955COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR MS. CILIA DE COCK
[...] Post warmly welcomes the visit of Ms. Cilia De Cock and grants country clearance for travel to Abidjan from AUGUST 29, 2006 TO SEPTEMBER 02, 2006. 2. The purpose of the trip is to visit cashew processors in the southern parts of Cote d'Ivoire (OLAM in Dimbokro) and to participate in the Ca [...]
2006-08-25 09:14:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDIV
06ABIDJAN964COTE D'IVOIRE: EXAM RESULTS ANNOUNCED, STRIKING
[...] On August 22, 2006, the Ministry of Education announced the results of the baccalaureate exam (required for entry from secondary school to university) held July 25-28 in the government-controlled zones. Out of 119,256 students who took the exam, 48,168 students passed. The Ministry was only [...]
2006-08-25 16:13:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDELAB PGOV IV
06ABUDHABI1001 MEDIA REACTION: P&O PORTS DEAL; HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT;
[...] SUMMARY: A UAE COLUMNIST IN "AL-ITTIHAD" WRITES THAT US REJECTION OF THE P&O DEAL CONVEYED A NEGATIVE MESSAGE TO ALL ARABS AS WELL AS TO THE UAE. A COLUMNIST IN "AL-KHALEEJ" COMMENTED ON THE DOS HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT BY STATING THAT IT ACCUSES MANY COUNTRIES, INCLUDING THOSE WHO ARE CONSIDERED [...]
2006-03-15 12:54:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR AE TC
06ABUDHABI1044 SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY
[...] SUMMARY: A COLUMNIST IN "AL-KHALEEJ" DESCRIBED THE NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGIES REPORT AS A REPORT THAT CONSISTS OF EVERYTHING EXCEPT A STRATEGY. AN "AL-KHALEEJ" EDITORIAL NOTED THE U.S. NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGIES REPORT FOLLOWS THE NEW CONSERVATIVES' DISASTROUS IDEOLOGIES AND WONDERED WHY [...]
2006-03-18 13:38:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR AE KPAO TC
06ABUDHABI1119 MEDIA REACTION: TEHRAN AND WASHINGTON
[...] SUMMARY: A SAUDI COLUMNIST IN "AL-ITTIHAD" WONDERS WHY WASHINGTON HAD TO RESORT TO ITS ENEMY IRAN AND NOT TO ITS ARAB ALLIES TO RESOLVE IRAQ'S ISSUES. AN EDITORIAL IN "AL- ITTIHAD" CLAIMS PRESIDENT BUSH'S RECENT SPEECH SHOWS THAT ZIONIST INFLUENCE CONTROLS THE WHITE HOUSE. A UAE COLUMNIST I [...]
2006-03-22 12:34:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR KPAO AE TC
06ABUDHABI1214PROMOTION OF EMPOWERMENT PROJECTS FOR UAE WOMEN
[...] DURING THE PAST TWO WEEKS, THE UAE HAS ANNOUNCED SEVERAL PROJECTS TO EMPOWER UAE WOMEN IN THE POLITICAL, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL FIELDS. THESE INITIATIVES ARE AIMED AT CREATING BETTER OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN TO OCCUPY LEADERSHIP POSITIONS IN ALL SECTORS OF THE SOCIETY, ESPECIALLY IN THE POLITICAL [...]
2006-03-28 08:54:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KDEM KWMN KMPI AE
06ABUDHABI1232 SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: VISIT OF NEA A/S DAVID
[...] SUMMARY: The March 27-29 visit of David Welch, US Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs, to the UAE received prominent coverage in all UAE Arabic and English dailies. Abu Dhabi TV carried a 7-minute interview on the daily program News of the Day with A/S Welch commenting on S [...]
2006-03-30 16:35:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR AE KPAO OVIP
06ABUDHABI1340HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH CRITICIZES THE UAE'S TREATMENT
[...] (U) Summary: On March 30, Human Rights Watch (HRW) published a report urging the UAEG to take immediate steps to end abusive labor practices. The report focuses heavily on the plight of foreign construction workers who often end up in &debt bondage.8 HRW also urged the UAEG to expand its staff [...]
2006-04-05 12:52:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDELAB ECON ETRD PHUM AE
06ABUDHABI135 UAE: INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-01-18 12:41:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDECON EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV AE USTR OPIC
06ABUDHABI1406 MEDIA REACTION: U.S. IMAGE; IRAN AND THE REGION;
[...] Summary: A columnist in "Al-Ittihad" explains why America is deeply hated by Arabs and Muslims stating that respecting human's humanity is the only way for America to resolve these issues. "Al-Khaleej" expressed concerns for Gulf security. "Al-Khaleej" asserted that freedom and democracy ne [...]
2006-04-11 11:57:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR AE TC
06ABUDHABI1416 SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH
[...] SUMMARY: A UAE columnist in "Al-Khaleej" calls a recent report on labor rights in the UAE from Human Rights Watch a credible report that should not be ignored or misinterpreted. He calls on the UAE authorities to open a dialogue with the organization and tackle problems related to labor issu [...]
2006-04-11 13:37:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR KPAO AE TC
06ABUDHABI1538 MEDIA REACTION: US, ISRAEL AND PALESTINE/IRAN
[...] Summary: A columnist in "Al-Khaleej" states that the support and patronage of the United States supports Israel's campaigns against the Palestinians. "Al-Bayan" complains about the biased support the U.S. gives to Israel. An op-ed in "Al-Bayan" renounces the double-standard of U.S. nuclear [...]
2006-04-18 06:35:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR AE KPAO TC
06ABUDHABI1573 MEDIA REACTION: ARABS AND HUMAN RIGHTS/
[...] Summary: A columnist in "Al-Ittihad" explains why Arabs usually fail human right's assessments stating that their culture does not carry such values. A female columnist in Al-Bayan comments on Iran's nuclear capabilities stating that Iran, instead of focusing on nuclear technology, should wo [...]
2006-04-19 10:26:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR KPAO AE TC
06ABUDHABI1637 MEDIA REACTION: DUBAI PORTS/IRAQ
[...] Summary: A UAE columnist in "Al-Khaleej" comments on the oppressive way the Dubai Ports deal was handled by the American media and politicians. He concludes that despite of all these failures, globalization will continue. "Al- Khaleej" asserts that the American occupation of Iraq is the pro [...]
2006-04-23 14:08:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR AE KPAO TC
06ABUDHABI1718UAE CONDEMNS DAHAB BOMBING
[...] (U) UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahyan has sent a cable of condolence to Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak condemning the bomb attack in Dahab on April 24. The state news agency, WAM, reported that in his cable President Khalifa reiterated the UAE's solidarity with Egypt in confr [...]
2006-04-26 11:47:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PTER EG AE
06ABUDHABI1742 SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: "AL BAYAN" EXCLUSIVE WITH
[...] Summary: Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul claims that Ankara refused an American nuclear reactor in exchange for providing facilitative assistance to the U.S. in its confrontation with Iran. Gul noted that a military option to end the impasse is very unlikely simply because Iran possess [...]
2006-04-30 14:14:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR TC
06ABUDHABI1790 MEDIA REACTION: IRAN/IRAQ
[...] Summary: A columnist in "Al-Bayan" explains why the U.S. will not strike Iran. "Al-Khaleej" blames the occupation for Iraq's growing problems and feels the end of the occupation will bring an end to the militias. A columnist in "Al-Bayan" described the Gulf countries' rising concern with t [...]
2006-05-02 12:37:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR AE KPAO TC
06ABUDHABI19 MEDIA REACTION: U.S. PUBLIC DIPLOMACY EFFORTS/PALESTINE
[...] SUMMARY: Arab columnists are critical of U.S. public diplomacy efforts. Al-Khaleej urges Palestinian authorities to take stronger control of the resistance and not just make statements condemning resistance groups. End Summary. 2. Under the headline "Brainwash", Jafar Mohamed Ahmed, a col [...]
2006-01-02 14:24:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR AE KPAO TC
06ABUDHABI1927UAE STOCK MARKET DOWN
[...] (U) Summary: The UAE's two stock markets, like others in the region, are experiencing a sharp drop from the high prices of 2005. GCC investors, especially Saudis, are reportedly withdrawing from the UAE market and investors are nervous about increasing Iranian-U.S. tensions. The U.S. stock [...]
2006-05-10 11:33:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ECON AE EINF
06ABUDHABI1993UAE SUPPORTS U.S. CANDIDATE FOR INCB ELECTION
[...] (U) On May 13, the Embassy received a diplomatic note supporting U.S. candidate Melvin Levitsky's re-election to the International Narcotic Control Board elections. 2. (U) Begin diplomatic note: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs presents its compliments to the Embassy of the United States o [...]
2006-05-14 13:30:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR AORC PREL AE
06ABUDHABI1994 MEDIA REACTION: IRAN/PALESTINE/UAE FTA/REFORM IN THE
[...] SUMMARY: A columnist in "Al-Bayan" cautions the use of military force against Iran. An editorial in "Al-Khaleej" says it is disgraceful for the U.S. to provide Israel with Weapons of Mass Destruction while preventing the Arabs from providing the Palestinians with basic support. A UAE colum [...]
2006-05-15 09:41:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR AE KPAO TC
06ABUDHABI2077 SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: KIDNAPPING OF UAE DIPLOMAT
[...] Summary: The kidnapping of the UAE diplomat in Baghdad generated extensive coverage in the UAE print and electronic media. Regional media "Al-Arabiya" satellite channel, and the London-based "Al-Sharq Al-Awsat" and "Al-Hayat" dailies also featured the story. Editorials urged the perpetrator [...]
2006-05-18 11:07:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR AE KPAO TC
06ABUDHABI2119 MEDIA REACTION: APPEAL FOR THE RELEASE OF UAE
[...] SUMMARY: Three daily Arab newspapers appealed for the release of the kidnapped UAE diplomat. A columnist in "Al-Bayan" warns Arabs against counting on America because its policies have always served Israeli interests. An editorial in English daily "Gulf News" rejects the concept of a regio [...]
2006-05-22 10:51:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR AE KPAO TC
06ABUDHABI2199 MEDIA REACTION: OMLMERT VISIT/PALESTINE/ISLAM AND THE
[...] SUMMARY: A columnist in "Al-Ittihad" describes the warm welcome Olmert received from members of Congress as hypocritical. "Al-Khaleej" advises the Hamas-led government to translate their words into actions by starting a plan based on the roadmap in order to give the Palestinian people some h [...]
2006-05-29 13:25:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR AE KPAO TC
06ABUDHABI2240 MEDIA REACTION: ARABS AND U.S. PUBLIC DIPLOMACY
[...] SUMMARY: An Egyptian columnist in "Akhbar Al-Arab" concludes that America's efforts to win the minds and hearts of the Arabs has failed. A UAE female professor in "Al-Bayan" wonders whether U.S. public diplomacy efforts will succeed in light of the decades of hostile policies, misery and ba [...]
2006-05-31 13:19:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR AE KPAO TC
06ABUDHABI2253 SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: RICE SPEECH ON IRAN
[...] Summary: UAE's Arabic dailies all featured Secretary Rice's remarks on Iran. UAE Minister of Foreign Affairs, Abdullah Bin Zayed, told the UAE official News Agency (WAM) that the UAEG welcomes the American proposal to hold direct talks with Iran over Tehran's nuclear program, describing it as [...]
2006-06-03 12:47:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR AE KPAO TC
06ABUDHABI2374 SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: DEATH OF ZARQAWI
[...] Summary: All UAE Arabic and English dailies featured Al- Zarqawi's death. An unsigned editorial in Abu Dhabi-based Arabic daily "Al-Ittihad" 6/10 described Zarqawi's death as the beginning of the end if Iraqis would all unite together against those targeting their security. "Al-Khaleej" laid [...]
2006-06-10 13:35:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR AE KPAO TC
06ABUDHABI2423 MEDIA REACTION: ZARQAWI'S DEATH
[...] Summary: An unsigned editorial in Abu Dhabi-based Arabic daily "Al-Ittihad" strongly criticizes Arab Muslims for not condemning the Muslim Brotherhood for presenting their condolences on Zarqawi's death. A columnist in "Al-Bayan" wonders how the official reaction to Zarqawi's death is happine [...]
2006-06-12 12:00:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR AE KPAO TC
06ABUDHABI2464 MEDIA REACTION: ZARQAWI'S DEATH/GUANTANAMO
[...] Summary: A female columnist in "Al-Bayan" describes Iraq as another faction-divided Lebanon under UK-US custody. A UAE columnist in "Al-Ittihad" criticizes those who sympathize with Al- Zarqawi's death. Another columnist in "Al-Ittihad" criticizes Hamas for considering Al-Zarqawi a symbol of [...]
2006-06-14 12:27:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR AE KPAO TC
06ABUDHABI251MENA - OECD INVESTMENT MINISTERIAL FEB 13-14, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-01-25 14:26:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDEINV AE
06ABUDHABI2563TEXTILES INDUSTRY: PESSIMISTIC DESPITE RISING TRADE
[...] SUMMARY: Officials from the UAE Ministry of Economy, two textile factories in the UAE's Jebel Ali Free Zone (ATRACO Industrial and Carolina Fabric LTD) and one garment factory in Abu Dhabi (Abu Dhabi Garment Factory (ADGF) are pessimistic about current and future prospects of the UAE textile an [...]
2006-06-21 11:35:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDKTEX ECON ETRD TC
06ABUDHABI2572 MEDIA REACTION: BUSH'S POLICIES; ISLAMOPHOBIA; NATIONAL
[...] Summary: Al-Bayan criticizes Bush administration policies, and describes the decline of the President's popularity both at home and abroad. A UAE columnist in Al-Khaleej is skeptical of the UAEG's intention to engage in political reform, due to continued delays in scheduling the dates for ele [...]
2006-06-21 14:51:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR AE KPAO TC
06ABUDHABI2680DEMARCHE REQUEST: WTO DOHA ROUND NEGOTIATIONS
[...] Econchief delivered demarche to MinEcon WTO Legal Advisor Issa Baddour on June 26. Baddour said that believed that MinEcon Undersecretary Abdulla Al-Saleh (the ministry's number two) would be attending the meeting rather than MinEcon Sheikha Lubna Al-Qasimi. Baddour concurred that Ministers [...]
2006-06-27 12:58:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECON
06ABUDHABI2744 MEDIA REACTION: INDIAN-US COALITION; CIVIL WAR IN IRAQ;
[...] Summary: A columnist in "Al-Khaleej" comments on the potential impact of an Indo-American alliance on Pakistan and China. Another asserts that Iran has been the sole benefactor of the US's arrogant policies in the region. Also in "Al-Khaleej" an unsigned editorial criticizes US Ambassador Jo [...]
2006-07-03 12:12:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR TC
06ABUDHABI2773 MEDIA REACTION: RAPE AND KILLING OF IRAQI GIRL
[...] Summary: A columnist in "Akhbar Al Arab" strongly attacked the US occupation of Iraq after the rape and killing of an Iraqi girl by a US soldier and suggested that this kind of incident will last forever in Iraq's memory. Gulf News published an editorial commenting on a poll which suggests tha [...]
2006-07-05 11:39:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDNOTAG
06ABUDHABI2786 MEDIA REACTION: ARABS AND ISRAELI AGGRESSION; GULF WOMEN
[...] Summary: A front-page editorial by the Editor in Chief of "Al-Khaleej" criticizes the silence with which most Arabs have reacted to recent Israeli actions. Another unsigned editorial in "Al-Khaleej" calls for an emergency Arab summit to respond to recent developments in Gaza. A female Emirat [...]
2006-07-09 03:46:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR TC
06ABUDHABI2810 MEDIA REACTION: US AGGRESSION IN IRAQ; ISRAELI AGGRESSION
[...] Summary: A columnist in "Al-Bayan" criticized the United States' continued role in atrocities against Iraqi civilians under the guise of counter-terrorism, and urged resistance to US occupation. "Al-Khaleej" carried an editorial that questioned the motivations behind Israel's recent actions in [...]
2006-07-09 13:53:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR TC
06ABUDHABI2874 MEDIA REACTION: IRAQ'S SECTARIAN VIOLENCE
[...] Summary: An Emirati columnist in "Al-Ittihad" stressed the importance of having the Arab League involved in efforts to resolve the sectarian violence in Iraq. Another editorial in "Al-Khaleej" warned against the division of Iraq in light of the current sectarian and ethnic violence. End Sum [...]
2006-07-12 12:18:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR TC
06ABUDHABI2887 SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: Israeli attack on Lebanon
[...] Summary. Israeli air, sea and land strikes against Lebanon received first page coverage in the UAE and other UAE-based print and electronic media. Arabic and English dailies highlighted the killing of Lebanese civilians as a result of the Israeli raids. AP photo of a man carrying the body o [...]
2006-07-14 13:51:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR TC
06ABUDHABI2907 MEDIA REACTION: CRISIS IN LEBANON
[...] Summary: An editor of "Emarat al youm" predicts that those Arab countries that condemned Hezbollah would be condemned by the end of the present conflict, because Israel would not only destroy Hezbollah's military capacity but also the charitable and public services it provides. Two female Em [...]
2006-07-16 13:34:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR TC
06ABUDHABI2954 MEDIA REACTION: CRISIS IN LEBANON
[...] Summary: The Israeli invasion of Lebanon continues to generate extensive coverage in the UAE's print and electronic media. One writer in "Al-Bayan" criticized the G8 member states for mimicking the United States in condoning Israel's aggression. Another writer in "Akhbar Al-Arab" questioned [...]
2006-07-18 11:49:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR TC
06ABUDHABI2955 Another Great Year: 2005-2006 UAE ACCESS MicroScholarship
[...] Summary: The UAE ACCESS MicroScholarship Program provided 300 non-urban, non-elite Emirati high school students with conversational American English skills and exposure to American culture. From September 2005 to April 2006, extra-curricular activities and field trips gave added value to the [...]
2006-07-18 13:43:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR KDEM TC
06ABUDHABI2972 MEDIA REACTION: CRISIS IN LEBANON
[...] Summary: An article in "Al-Bayan" accused the U.S. of supporting Israel against its own interests, while another criticized President Bush's hypocrisy in calling for Israel to preserve the Lebanese government while demolishing the state. An article in "Al-Khaleej" draws comparisons between c [...]
2006-07-19 13:00:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR TC
06ABUDHABI2997 MEDIA REACTION: CRISIS IN LEBANON
[...] Summary: One editorial in "Al-Bayan" accused the United States of betraying Lebanon after it promised to support its new democracy. In "Al-Khaleej," one writer questioned how anyone could believe that Arabs would accept Israeli aggression given their own experiences with Israeli attacks, whi [...]
2006-07-23 12:32:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR TC
06ABUDHABI3000 SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: CRISIS IN LEBANON
[...] Summary: Reactions to the crisis in Lebanon continue to be negative. In the print media, editorials have heavily criticized references to building a new Middle East as well as the United States for facilitating Israel's offensive. One editorial entitled "Go home Condoleezza" appeared on the [...]
2006-07-24 12:28:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR TC
06ABUDHABI3024 SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: CRISIS IN LEBANON
[...] Summary: The Arabic-language media remained critical of the U.S. position on the current conflict in Lebanon. In "Al-Khaleej," three editorials criticize Rice's visit and question U.S. motives in the ongoing crisis. An article in "Akhbar Al-Arab" describes Rice's visit to Lebanon as a conso [...]
2006-07-25 08:53:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR TC
06ABUDHABI303 MEDIA REACTION: PALESTINIANS AND DEMOCRACY
[...] SUMMARY: "AL-KHALEEJ" WONDERED WHY THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPE INSIST ON PUNISHING ALL THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE WHEN ALL THEY DID WAS PRACTICING DEMOCRACY. AN EDITORIAL IN "AL-BAYAN" CALLED ON PALESTINIANS TO LOOK FORWARD TOWARD A BETTER FUTURE AND FORGET THEIR POLITICAL DIFFERENCES. END SUM [...]
2006-01-30 14:50:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR AE KPAO TC
06ABUDHABI3055 SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: CRISIS IN LEBANON
[...] Summary: A columnist in "Al-Ittihad" described the war against Lebanon as international hooliganism, stressing that peace can not be achieved through violence. "Al-Khaleej" carried an editorial describing the plans for democracy which Rice presented to Lebanon as a "poisoned stew" whose aim [...]
2006-07-26 13:22:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR TC
06ABUDHABI306UAE REQUESTS SUPPORT IN ITS CANDIDACY FOR ECOSOC
[...] (U) ACTION REQUEST: Please see paragraph 3. 2. (U) The Embassy received via diplomatic note a request from the UAE to support its candidacy in the UN Economic and Social Council elections. Begin Embassy translation of diplomatic note. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the United Arab Em [...]
2006-01-31 07:16:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL AE UN
06ABUDHABI3069 SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: CRISIS IN LEBANON
[...] Summary: The Arabic-language media continues to support Hezbollah's struggle against Israel. In "Al-Khaleej" one editorial hailed the Lebanese peoples' remarkable endurance over the past seventeen days. Another in "Al-Bayan" criticized the United Nations for responding so weakly to the murd [...]
2006-07-29 12:23:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR TC
06ABUDHABI3089 SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: CRISIS IN LEBANON
[...] Summary: Editorials remained critical of the Secretary's approach to the Lebanon conflict and most recent visit to the region. One editorial in "Akhbar Al-Arab" provided the outlines of a possible resolution to the conflict. Meanwhile two writers in "Al-Bayan" questioned her motives, with o [...]
2006-07-30 11:38:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR TC
06ABUDHABI3110 SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: CRISIS IN LEBANON
[...] Summary: Editorials continued to portray the United States as responsible for the ongoing conflict in Lebanon. One columnist in "Al-Khaleej" attributed recent comments by a fringe Israeli group as attempts to assuage the American conscience. Another in "Emarat Al-Youm" urged Arabs to take a [...]
2006-08-01 11:41:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR TC
06ABUDHABI3132 SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: CRISIS IN LEBANON
[...] Summary: Editorials continued to tie the ongoing conflict in Lebanon to broader ideological and political struggles in the region. One Emirati columnist in "Al-Ittihad" dwelled upon the contrasting interests both Iran and the United States have in the ongoing conflict, while another in "Al-B [...]
2006-08-02 10:54:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR TC
06ABUDHABI3165 SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: CRISIS IN LEBANON
[...] Summary: The bombing in Al Qaa dominated UAE media coverage. Headlines emphasized the human cost and moral implications of the tragedy, while several papers featured graphic multi-page photo spreads of the aftermath of the attack. One editorial in "Akhbar Al-Arab" applauded Venezuelan Presid [...]
2006-08-05 10:50:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR TC
06ABUDHABI319 SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: ANGER AT DANISH CARTOON
[...] SUMMARY: "AL-KHALEEJ" CALLED UPON MUSLIMS AND ARABS TO REACT AGAINST ENTITIES TARGETING THEIR SACRED SYMBOLS. A UAE COLUMNIST SAYS THE DANISH MOCKERY OF THE PROPHET MOHAMMED HAS AWAKENED THE MUSLIMS' SENSE OF IDENTITY AND UNIFIED THEM TOGETHER. END SUMMARY. 2. Under the headline "Attac [...]
2006-01-31 13:07:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR KPAO AE TC
06ABUDHABI3253 MEDIA REACTION: LEBANON/FASCIST MUSLIMS
[...] Summary: Editorial comments focused on the recent thwarted terrorist attack in the United Kingdom, and the ongoing conflict in Lebanon. One Emirati columnist in "Al-Ittihad" commented on how religion is used by some individuals to advance political agendas. Another columnist in "Akhbar Al-Ara [...]
2006-08-12 11:11:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR TC
06ABUDHABI3297 MEDIA REACTION: CRISIS IN LEBANON
[...] Summary: Editorials continued to consider the possible motivations of different foreign powers in the most recent conflict in Lebanon. A Saudi columnist in "Al-Ittihad" identified Hezbollah as part of an Iranian effort to gain more regional power. An Emirati columnist in "Al-Bayan" criticiz [...]
2006-08-14 13:13:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR TC
06ABUDHABI3305 MEDIA REACTION: WHO WON THE WAR?
[...] Summary: One Emirati columnist in "Al-Ittihad" ridiculed declarations that the cease-fire marked a Lebanese victory, and highlighted the heavy losses incurred by Lebanon because of Hezbollah's intransigence. Another columnist in "Al-Khaleej" warned the Lebanese against holding Hezbollah acco [...]
2006-08-15 10:58:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR TC
06ABUDHABI3342 MEDIA REACTION: LEBANON
[...] Summary: One UAE columnist in "Al-Ittihad" wondered why some Arab TV channels during war in Lebanon accused Gulf governments of being traitors and agents to the West and concluded that this will not help restore any occupied land. Al-Khaleej" wondered when Arabs will ever live with dignity a [...]
2006-08-16 13:47:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR TC
06ABUDHABI3400 MEDIA REACTION: LEBANON
[...] Summary: The unsigned editorial in "Al-Bayan" considers UNSCR 1701 doomed to failure. A UAE columnist in "Al-Ittihad" examines the impact of Iranian aid to Lebanon through Hezbullah. A UAE businessman wondered in "Al-Bayan" when the Americans will realize that they were not Arabs' friends a [...]
2006-08-23 12:39:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR TC
06ABUDHABI3434 US BLASTED IN MEDIA OVER UAE PHD STUDENT'S DETENTION AT
[...] The detention of UAE PhD student Saif Al Sha'ali at Los Angeles Airport on August 21, 2006, has been extensively covered in daily, mostly front page articles in English and Arabic UAE print media August 24-28 which have frequently characterized the incident as one of racial/ethnic "profiling." [...]
2006-08-28 12:34:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR TC
06ABUDHABI3535 MEDIA REACTION: DEMOCRACY IN IRAQ/LEBANON/AFGHANISTAN
[...] Summary: A Lebanese columnist in "Al-Khaleej" highlighted the fact that neoconservatives might abandon their objective to spread democracy in Iraq and the Middle East, but will never abandon their oil there. An Unsigned editorial in "Al-Khaleej" comments that Arabs are being besieged by Isra [...]
2006-09-06 14:33:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR TC
06ABUDHABI3536 MEDIA REACTION: UAE-US BILATERAL FRIENDSHIP
[...] Summary: A UAE columnist in "Al-Bayan" is critical of the UAE's relationship with the U.S. He opines that the UAE's devotion to bilateral relations with the U.S. has not prevented poor treatment from the U.S., citing DP World and the detention of an Emirati student. End Summary. 2. On [...]
2006-09-06 14:33:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR TC
06ABUDHABI3555 MEDIA REACTION: US POLICIES/RACISM AT AIRPORTS
[...] Summary: An unsigned editorial in "Al-Khaleej" asks the U.S. to return to the right path, to the principles of justice, freedom, and human rights. A Qatari columnist in "Al-Ittihad" writes that Arabs are treated with institutional racism in Western airports. An Egyptian columnist wondered w [...]
2006-09-07 15:46:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR TC
06ABUDHABI3620 MEDIA REACTION: ANNIVERSARY OF SEPT 11
[...] Summary: A UAE female columnist in "Al-Ittihad" highlights that America, instead of eradicating the reasons for hate and terror, have created new reasons for hate, anger and terror in the region. A UAE columnist in "Al-Ittihad" commented on the moment of silence which Bush and the world took [...]
2006-09-13 09:46:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR TC
06ABUDHABI3702 MEDIA REACTION: POPE'S COMMENTS FUEL ANGER AGAINST THE
[...] Summary: A UAE columnist in "Emaratalyoum" is not satisfied with the Pope's apology. A columnist in "Al-Ittihad" considers the Pope's statements as a gift to Al-Qaeda. A columnist in "Al-Khaleej" suggests that the Pope's "offense" is done on purpose and was timed with other attacks against [...]
2006-09-19 12:50:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR TC
06ABUDHABI374 MEDIA REACTION: US PUBLIC DIPLOMACY; IRAN'S NUCLEAR
[...] SUMMARY: A columnist in "Al-Bayan" advised the State Department's Public Diplomacy Bureau not to waste its time enhancing their country's image, as US policies make their mission doomed to failure. "Akhbar Al-Khaleej" warned of confrontations between Iran and the United Nations following Ira [...]
2006-02-06 12:30:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR AE KPAO TC
06ABUDHABI3783 MEDIA REACTION: IRAN/UAE CAMEL JOCKEYS
[...] Summary: A UAE columnist in "Al-Khaleej" warns of Iran's active intervention in Arab issues, especially in Iraq and Lebanon. An editorial in "Al-Ittihad" lauded the way the UAEG handled the issue of camel jockeys. End Summary. 2. Under the headline "The Iranian expansion in Arab affairs [...]
2006-09-26 13:43:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR TC
06ABUDHABI3820UAE TEXTILES AND APPAREL SECTOR: SLOWDOWN DUE TO INCREASED
[...] (SBU) Summary: The UAE textile industry continues to decline due to increased international competition brought on by the elimination of the worldwide textile quotas. Two textile factories in the Jebel Ali Free Zone (Emirates Textiles LTD. and Carolina Fabrics LTD.) and one garment factory in A [...]
2006-10-01 05:43:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDKTEX ECON ETRD AE
06ABUDHABI3877 MEDIA REACTION: UAE FNC ELECTIONS/RICE VISIT
[...] Summary: An article in "Al-Khaleej" is sarcastic about Rice's visit stating that the US only serves Israel and thus will never ever be any good to the Arabs. "Al-Bayan" states that the US puts other priorities which do not serve peace in the region. Several articles in "Al-Ittihad" and "Al- [...]
2006-10-04 12:15:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR TC
06ABUDHABI3947 MEDIA REACTION: NORTH KOREA/UAE ELECTIONS/IRAQ
[...] Summary: A columnist in "Al-Bayan" opines that the main reason why the U.S. is concerned with North Korea's nuclear experiment is the fear of it leaking this technology to the Middle East like Syria or Iran. Al Khaleej editorialized that what the U.S. fears most is the emergence of a nuclear [...]
2006-10-12 12:20:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR TC
06ABUDHABI3955UN DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES
[...] PolChief delivered reftel demarche concerning the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples to MFA Director of International Organizations Yacub Al-Hosani on October 10 and discussed both the substance and logistics of UN deliberations on the topic. Al-Hosani was unfamiliar with the [...]
2006-10-12 14:21:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL KTIA UN AE
06ABUDHABI4071FNC ELECTIONS: EXTENSIVE UAE PUBLIC EDUCATION
[...] Summary: In an effort to engage citizens in the upcoming Federal National Council (FNC) elections, the UAE government has extensively utilized the media to spread awareness, answer queries, and encourage public interest in the process. Local print and broadcast media have reported heavily on [...]
2006-10-23 10:22:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KDEM PHUM KMDR AE
06ABUDHABI4094UAE IDENTIFIES OBSERVERS FOR EXERCISE LEADING EDGE
[...] No summary [...]
2006-10-26 13:08:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP MNUC PARM PREL AE
06ABUDHABI4220INTERNATIONAL LAW COMMISSION ELECTION
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-07 14:01:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDODIP ILC UNGA AE
06ABUDHABI4221IMO DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO UAEG
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-07 14:10:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDKTIA EWWT ANET AORC PREL ECPS IMO AE
06ABUDHABI4222COUNTRY-SPECIFIC HUMAN RIGHTS RESOLUTIONS AT UNGA
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-07 14:21:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL KTIA UN AE
06ABUDHABI4262UAE SUPPORTS U.S. CANDIDATE TO INTERNATIONAL LAW
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-09 14:08:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDODIP ILC UNGA AE
06ABUDHABI4290US BUSINESS IN UAE HURT BY HIGH HOUSING COST AND U.S. TAX
[...] U.S. businesses in Abu Dhabi and Dubai have approached both the Embassy and Consulate General to express concern about the negative impact of recent changes in the U.S. tax code on the amount of housing assistance that can be excluded from taxable income. Under the revised regulations, U.S. re [...]
2006-11-15 12:01:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETRD AE
06ABUDHABI4318 MEDIA REACTION: US VETO/ABIZAID'S COMMENTS
[...] Summary: A UAE columnist in "Al-Ittihad" wonders how credible the U.S. is as it stands alone using its veto to defend Israeli crimes. "Al-Khaleej" comments on Abizaid's warnings on a third world war by saying that "stupid" U.S. polices are the biggest threat to world peace and security. "Al- [...]
2006-11-20 13:24:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR TC
06ABUDHABI4356 MEDIA REACTION: IRAQ/IRAN AND UAE
[...] Summary: A UAE female columnist in "Al-Bayan" confirms that it is time for the Bush administration to hear from Arabs that the chaos which is part of Bush's policies is stupid and foolish, turning the region into bloody fields. "Al-Khaleej" ran a front-page editorial denouncing the Iranian [...]
2006-11-27 13:00:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR TC
06ABUDHABI4359Candidates Nominated as UAE Prepares for First Election
[...] (U) Summary: The period during which the 6,000 plus members of the Federal National Council (FNC) "Electoral College" can be nominated to compete for one of 20 vacant seats has closed. Although nominations began slowly, the final list exceeded 450 candidates and included 65 women. UAE Presiden [...]
2006-11-27 15:13:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KDEM AE
06ABUDHABI4412 2006 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report,
[...] (U) Summary: Although not a narcotics-producing country, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is believed to be a transshipment point for traffickers moving illegal drugs from the major drug producing countries, including Afghanistan and Pakistan. Frequent reports of seizures of illegal drugs in the [...]
2006-12-05 10:03:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR KCRM AE
06ABUDHABI4472 MEDIA REACTION: LEBANON/ISRAEL NUCLEAR PROGRAM
[...] Summary: An editorial in "Al-Bayan" noted that it is time to uncover the Israeli nuclear program and urged the U.S. to stop its double standard and force Israeli to sign the Non-Proliferation Treaty. "Al-Khaleej" called on the Lebanese factions to sit together and work out their difference fo [...]
2006-12-14 10:35:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR TC
06ABUDHABI4476UAE SEEKING US PARTICIPATION FOR THE 4TH
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paras 5-6 2. (U) The UAE Central Bank informed Post that they are planning to hold their 4th international Conference on Hawalas in Abu Dhabi on March 18-20, 2007. Abdulrahim Al Awadi, head of the Anti-Money Laundering and Suspicious Cases Unit ( [...]
2006-12-14 13:29:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDPTER PREL KTFN AE
06ABUDHABI44792006 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY REPORT,
[...] (U) The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is an important financial center in the Persian Gulf region. The UAE is still a largely cash-based society. However, the financial sector is modern and progressive. Dubai, in particular is a major international banking center. There is also a growing offshore [...]
2006-12-14 14:58:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM EFIN KTFN AE
06ABUDHABI4499 MEDIA REACTION: INTER-PALESTINIAN DIFFERENCES
[...] Summary: Editorials describe the current stalemate between Hamas and Fatah as very dangerous. The editorials urged the conflicting Palestinian factions to work together and solve their own differences, because any further deterioration in relations will only be to the benefit of Israel. End [...]
2006-12-18 12:37:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR TC
06ABUDHABI58 MEDIA REACTION: SYRIA-LEBANON/THE ROADMAP
[...] SUMMARY: "Al-Khaleej" advised the Arab nation to take decisive and collaborative actions to contain the worsening situation in Syria and Lebanon. "Al-Bayan" cites some of the problems in the Middle East and stresses that such issues must be resolved before it becomes too late. "Al-Khaleej" c [...]
2006-01-04 13:49:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR KPAO AE TC
06ABUDHABI666US-GCC JOINT STATEMENT
[...] (U) On February 23, the Secretary met with the Foreign Ministers of the GCC in Abu Dhabi. At the conclusion of the meeting, the US and GCC released the following joint statement. The UAE official news agency, WAM, published the text in both Arabic and English on its website; text was subsequ [...]
2006-02-25 14:04:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV AE
06ABUDHABI74 MEDIA REACTION: IRAQ VIOLENCE/SHARON
[...] Summary: An editorial in "Al-Khaleej" states that those responsible for the killings in Iraq do not represent a legitimate reistance. An editorial in "Gulf News" says the insurgency in Iraq is a exercise in futility. "Al-Ittihad" called on Palestinians and Arab to prepare themselves for a ne [...]
2006-01-08 10:07:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR AE KPAO TC
06ABUDHABI783 SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: FTA; P&O DUBAI PORTS
[...] Summary: A UAE columnist in "Al-Khaleej" expresses that the UAE people never expected the P&O business deal to create a political storm, and examines some lessons to learn about this. He urged the UAE authorities to slow down in their efforts to reach an FTA agreement with the U.S. Another [...]
2006-03-01 14:39:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR AE KPAO TC
06ABUDHABI862 MEDIA REACTION: US PRESSURE/DUBAI PORTS
[...] SUMMARY: AN EDITORIAL IN "AL-KHALEEJ" URGED ARAB COUNTRIES TO STAND THIER GROUND DURING THE COMING ARAB SUMMIT TO FOIL ANY AMERICAN PRESSURE AIMED AT STOPPING ARAB SUPPORT FOR HAMAS. AN OP-ED IN "AL-KHALEEJ" CONTRASTS OPPOSITION TO THE DUBAI PORTS DEAL WITH U.S. SUPPORT FOR FREE TRADE. AN END [...]
2006-03-07 12:26:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR AE KPAO TC
06ABUDHABI942 SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: P&O PORTS DEAL
[...] SUMMARY: A COLUMNIST IN "AL-ITTIHAD" IS SKEPTICAL OF U.S. OFFICIALS' NEGATIVE STANDPOINT AGAINST P&O DEAL AND WONDERS WHY THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION DID NOT EXPLAIN WHY IT WAS IN FAVOR OF THE DEAL. "AL-KHALEEJ" RAN AN UNSIGNED FRONT-PAGE EDITORIAL IN WHICH IT CONVEYED A MESSAGE TO THE PEOPLE OF [...]
2006-03-12 13:34:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR AE KPAO
06ABUDHABI955 MEDIA REACTION: HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT
[...] SUMMARY: AN EDITORIAL IN "AL-KHALEEJ" STRONGLY CRITICIZED THE LATEST STATE DEPARTMENT'S ANNUAL HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT AND ACCUSES THE U.S. USING A DOUBLE-STANDARD WHEN IT COMES TO HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS. TWO UAE COLUMNISTS IN DUBAI-BASED ARABIC DAILY "EMIRATES TODAY" WERE SKEPTICAL OF THE US [...]
2006-03-13 14:41:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KMDR AE KPAO TC
06ABUDHABI956FORMER SECDEF COHEN URGES REFORM, BACKS POTUS ON
[...] (U) Speaking at a conference on reform in the Arab world March 12 in Abu Dhabi, former U.S. Secretary of Defense William S. Cohen called on Arabs to be "loving critics" of their countries and region as this approach would help transform the Middle East in a positive way. Cohen urged Arab lead [...]
2006-03-13 15:44:00Embassy Abu DhabiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KMPI KDEM ETRD AE
06ABUJA1025MAY 5 NIGERIA AVIAN FLU UPDATE
[...] Summary. Nigeria's human- and animal-surveillance systems for AI remain deficient. No human cases of H5N1 infection have been confirmed in Nigeria. Villagers in Dong Village, Plateau State ate in early April culled or AI- infected birds but don't exhibit symptoms of AI. Plateau State has e [...]
2006-05-05 14:30:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO KFLU EAID AMED EAGR NI AVIANFLU
06ABUJA1038 ILEA GABORONE - INTERNATIONAL BANKING AND MONEY
[...] The following are selected for the above referenced ILEA Course. Ayeni Toyin Independent Corrupt Practices Commission, Abuja Head of Department finance DOB - 31 March 1969 Gender - Female Passport Number - Nigeria A2114519 Telephone - (234)-9-523-6691 [...]
2006-05-08 10:42:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR KCRM ASEC EAID ECON KJUS
06ABUJA1083A BUMPY RIDE: ON THE ROAD FROM ABUJA TO LAGOS
[...] Summary. Embassy officers drove on February 1 from Abuja to Lagos on a combination of good, bad, and dangerous roads. They averaged barely 45 m.p.h. despite two-lane highways' comprising nearly 35% of the distance traveled, and encountered or observed at least 42 checkpoints and roadblocks -- [...]
2006-05-10 15:11:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDELTN ECON NI
06ABUJA1092RELEASE OF NEITI FINAL AUDIT REPORT
[...] SUMMARY. On April 11-12, the Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) released it's final audit report on the Nigerian oil and gas industry. It found that the record keeping has a lot to be desired, with a wide disparity (over (US$224 million in 2002) between what compan [...]
2006-05-11 09:09:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ECON NI OIL
06ABUJA1138GREAT APES, ECOTOURISM IN CROSS RIVER, NIGERIA
[...] Summary. Economic officer and regional environmental officer visited Cross River State, on Nigeria's eastern border with Cameroon, on Feb. 13-17 to see its economic infrastructure and potential for ecotourism. Cross River contains Nigeria's last remaining rain forest, as well as the rare Cr [...]
2006-05-15 14:36:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV ECON EAID NI CM
06ABUJA1145NIGERIA: MDA DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-16 11:49:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDAORC PHUM PREL PREF ICRC NI
06ABUJA1252POLIO CONTINUES NIGERIA ADVANCE; WHAT TO DO NOW?
[...] Summary. Polio in Nigeria by most measures continues to worsen -- and Nigerian travelers are carrying the virus abroad. In five Nigerian states there are four times as many cases of polio as in the same period in 2004. More than 40% of the children in those states have not received one dose [...]
2006-05-26 14:44:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV EAID SOCI NI
06ABUJA1255NIGERIA'S RESPONSE TO GLOBAL FUND CUTS
[...] Summary. The Global Fund To Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria canceled on April 28 the funding of two five- year Nigeria HIV grants totaling $81 million. The Fund did so because of "inadequate performance" by the Fund's principal recipient in Nigeria, the National Action Committee on AID [...]
2006-05-30 06:24:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID KHIV ELAB SOCI NI
06ABUJA1265AVIATION SECURITY OFFICIALS SACKED OVER DRUG
[...] UNCLASSIFIED - ENTIRE TEXT. 2. The Nigerian press reported May 26 that two top aviation security officials were sacked "over drug trafficking." According to the reports, Captain Alhaji Balarabe Usman, Director of Aviation Security at the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria (FAAN) and Be [...]
2006-05-30 14:05:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR KCRM EAIR PREL PINR NI
06ABUJA1314 ILEA GABORONE - LAND BORDER INTERDICTION TRAINING
[...] The following are selected for the above referenced ILEA Course. Okunade Taopheeq Lasisi Nigeria Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Lagos Deputy Superintendent of Police Gender - Male DOB - 10 July 1968 Passport number - Nigeria, A3045031A Telephone - [...]
2006-06-01 14:54:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR KCRM ASEC EAID ECON KJUS
06ABUJA1353 ILEA GABORONE - CYBER CRIME AND CAPACITY BUILDING
[...] The following are selected for the above referenced ILEA Workshop. Dansadau Saidu Mohammed Senator Federal Republic of Nigeria DOB - 20 June, 1953 Gender - Male Passport Number - A3038935A Expiry Date - 18 August 2010 Edet Emmanuel Osong Prosecu [...]
2006-06-05 12:03:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR KCRM ASEC EAID ECON KJUS
06ABUJA1366RENOVATION AND UPGRADE OF NDLEA FACILITIES AT
[...] UNCLASSIFIED - ENTIRE TEXT. 2. SUMMARY: Renovations to NDLEA facilities at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA),Abuja, recommended by INL LEA, have been completed. NDLEA Airport Commander and other officers now have adequate, air conditioned offices. New holding cells for both m [...]
2006-06-06 14:56:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR KCRM EAIR PREL PINR ABUD NI
06ABUJA1428TELECOMMUNICATIONS STRIKE IMPACT
[...] Summary. The strike at state-owned NITEL continued on June 9 to have significant effects on communications and business in Nigeria. The workers went on strike June 4 over salaries overdue since February. A union official said the strike would continue until all outstanding wages, totaling 4 [...]
2006-06-09 14:37:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDECPS ELAB ECON ETRD EINV PGOV NI
06ABUJA1436GON REPORTS SEIZURE OF 14.2 TONS OF COCAINE,
[...] UNCLASSIFIED - ENTIRE TEXT. 2. The Nigerian press reported June 10 that the NDELA had seized 14.2 tons of cocaine at Lagos' Tin Can Island Port; the largest such seizure in Africa. However, according to DEA CA Lagos, only a few samples of the shipment, marked "white cement," have been fi [...]
2006-06-12 09:55:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR KCRM PREL NI NARCOTICS
06ABUJA1447NIGERIA TELECOM STRIKE CONTINUES JUNE 12
[...] Summary. The strike at state-owned NITEL over unpaid wages continued on June 12, with no sign of an imminent resolution. The labor action also continued to have significant effects on communications and business in Nigeria. Internet access remained almost impossible, and many local and inte [...]
2006-06-13 06:14:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDECPS ELAB ECON ETRD EINV PGOV NI
06ABUJA1462IMPACT OF NIGERIAN PHONE OUTAGES
[...] Nigeria is experiencing severe telecommunications problems due to a strike at the national telephone company, NITEL (reftels). As of June 13, the problem has been compounded by lack of service in Abuja on the MTN cellular phone network. (MTN is the cell phone provider used by Embassy Abuja [...]
2006-06-13 14:36:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT ELAB ETRD ECON PGOV CASC NI
06ABUJA1505THE CHARGE MAKES COURTESY CALL ON MINISTER OF
[...] On June 7, 2006, The Charge' called on Minister of Environment Chief Helen Esuene in response to her April 6 letter to the Ambassador requesting U.S. collaboration on proposed agricultural anti-desertification projects in 11 northern states. AgAttache accompanied the Charge'. Permanent Secreta [...]
2006-06-15 06:35:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ECON PARM TBIO ETRD NI
06ABUJA1517NIGERIA TELECOM STRIKE ENDS BRIEFLY, RESUMES
[...] Summary. The strike shutting down NITEL ended the evening of June 13, then resumed the afternoon of June 14 as NITEL workers again walked off the job. A new union, the National Association of Telecommunications Employees, termed as inadequate the GON's offer of 1.7 billion naira (about $13.3 [...]
2006-06-16 06:17:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDECPS ELAB ECON ETRD EINV PGOV NI
06ABUJA1518DEMARCHE DELIVERED: NIGERIAN RESPONSE TO THE TIP
[...] Poloffs delivered the TIP demarche (reftel) to Nigeria's National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic in Persons (NAPTIP). Participants included the agency directors for legal and prosecution, counseling and rehabilitation, and public enlightenment. NAPTIP accepted the report in "good fai [...]
2006-06-16 08:23:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM PREL SMIG KCRM KWMN NI
06ABUJA1591 ILEA GABORONE - LAND BORDER INTERDICTION COURSE,
[...] The following are 5 nominees selected for the above referenced ILEA Training. Okunade Taopheeq Lasisi Nigeria Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Lagos Deputy Superintendent of Police Gender - Male DOB - 10 July 1968 Passport number - Nigeria, A304503 [...]
2006-06-26 08:50:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR KCRM ASEC EAID ECON KJUS
06ABUJA1593ECONOMIC LIFE BUDS IN NIGERIA'S CROSS RIVER STATE
[...] Summary: Economic officer and REO visited Cross River State to examine its economic infrastructure and potential for ecotourism. Officers had a wide range of meetings with local figures, including Cross River Governor Donald Duke. Duke emphasized his plans to develop the state's agricultural [...]
2006-06-26 10:49:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDECON SENV EAID EIND PGOV NI CM
06ABUJA1598DEMARCHE DELIVERED: DRAFT DECLARATION ON RIGHTS OF
[...] Poloff and Mr. Richard Levy, Second Secretary of the Australian High Commission, delivered reftel demarche on June 23 to Mr. Edward Ogbonna, Acting Director of Second United Nations Division of the Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Mr. Ogbonna had little knowledge of the draft Declaration [...]
2006-06-26 15:50:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL NI
06ABUJA1605ABUJA APPROVES RESEARCH PROJECT NO. AI069919 01
[...] The U.S. Mission Abuja appreciates the National Institutes of Health's (NIH) patience concerning the Mission's reply to ref proposed research project. 2. The U.S. Mission Abuja has reviewed ref proposed NIH Research Project No. AI069919 01 -- to be carried out in part in Nigeria. The Missi [...]
2006-06-26 16:27:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO OSCI KSCA BN IV GA ML NI SG
06ABUJA1608NIGERIA AVIAN FLU LABORATORY ASSESSMENT
[...] (SBU) Summary. Two veterinarians from the U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit in Cairo assessed in May five Nigerian laboratories' capabilities for detecting AI. The laboratories generally were deficient in infrastructure, equipment, and technicians' level of training. The capability of the As [...]
2006-06-27 07:11:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO KFLU EAID AMED EAGR NI AVIANFLU
06ABUJA1624 ILEA GABORONE -LAW ENFORCMENT EXECUTIVE
[...] The following are 8 nominees selected for the above referenced ILEA Training. Dalyop Gyang Dudu DOB-23 October, 1958 Gender - Male Superintendent of Customs Nigeria Customs Service Telephone Number-(234)-803-835-3477 Passport No - A3447395A Expiry Date-15 June 2011 Nn [...]
2006-06-27 15:07:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR KCRM ASEC EAID ECON KJUS
06ABUJA1626 ILEA GABORONE -SMALL ARMS TRAFFICKING, AUGUST 14-
[...] The following are 5 nominees selected for the above referenced ILEA Training. Samuel Etaifo Erale DOB-03 February, 1968 Gender - Male Superintendent of Police Nigeria Police Force Telephone Number-(234)-9-234042 Passport No - A1171002 Expiry Date-25 September, 2006 [...]
2006-06-27 15:07:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR KCRM ASEC EAID ECON KJUS
06ABUJA163212TH NIGERIAN ECONOMIC SUMMIT
[...] SUMMARY. On June 7-9 2006, the NESG and NPC sponsored the 12th Nigerian Economic Summit, "Sustaining Reform and Unlocking Nigeria's Potential". President Obasanjo delivered the opening address and closing remarks. Nigeria has to improve on its ranking from the lowest quarter (88 out of 117) [...]
2006-06-27 15:24:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ECON EINV EPET NI
06ABUJA1680NIGERIA AVIAN FLU UPDATE FOR JUNE 30
[...] Summary. Economic officer attended on June 27 the foreign donors meeting on AI in Nigeria. The FAO reported new outbreaks in Taraba State and Lagos State. Recent outbreaks of African swine fever occurred in Benue State. The concern is that pigs could act as a vector for humans for highly pa [...]
2006-06-30 14:34:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO KFLU EAID AMED EAGR NI AVIANFLU
06ABUJA1791AVIAN FLU: NIGERIAN POULTRY INDUSTRY OVERVIEW
[...] Summary. Information is fragmentary on Nigeria's poultry sector. Chickens constitute more than 95% of Nigeria's poultry. Nigeria has an estimated 150 million birds -- 70 million on commercial farms and 80 million belonging to "informal" or backyard farmers. The decentralized nature of Niger [...]
2006-07-12 17:22:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO KFLU EAGR EAID NI AVIANFLU
06ABUJA1826NIGERIA PLANS NORTHERN ANTIDESERTIFICATION PROJECT
[...] Summary. Nigerian and Israeli companies are proposing an anti-desertification agricultural project for 11 states in northern Nigeria, to be expanded to eight additional states. After a tree belt stabilizes an area environmentally, the GON would bring back the people driven out by desertific [...]
2006-07-14 14:49:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV EAID EAGR EIND NI
06ABUJA1838NIGERIA HUMAN RIGHTS ROUNDUP FOR JUNE 2006
[...] SUMMARY. To augment the required annual reporting, Embassy Abuja will be sending regular round-up cables detailing human rights incidents in Nigeria. This cable mimics the format of the Annual Report on Human Rights and a section at the end will discuss issues to which we will be paying par [...]
2006-07-17 16:04:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PGOV PREL NI
06ABUJA1843NIGERIA TRANSCORP'S PURCHASE OF NITEL IN JEOPARDY
[...] Summary. Nigeria's Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) sold on July 3 a 75% stake in the state-owned Nigerian Telecommunications (NITEL) Limited and its M-Tel subsidiary to Nigeria's Transcorp for $750 million in a negotiated sales process. Transcorp failed to meets its terms of purchase, inc [...]
2006-07-18 13:12:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDECPS EINV EIND PGOV NI
06ABUJA1892NIGERIA CONCLUDES FIVE DAYS OF POLIO IMMUNIZATIONS
[...] Summary. As of July 14, Nigeria had 542 cases of wild poliovirus in 15 states, compared to 302 cases in 18 states for the same period in 2005. Nigeria accounted for 82% of the world's wild poliovirus cases and for 95% of the cases in Africa. While polio has been concentrated in fewer Niger [...]
2006-07-24 08:56:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV EAID SOCI NI
06ABUJA1924CALABAR: NIGERIA'S MODEL CITY
[...] Summary. Emboffs in mid-July visited Calabar in Cross Rivers State and were pleasantly surprised to find a Nigerian city that was clean, functional, and bustling with new business ventures. Unlike its underdeveloped and poorly-governed neighbors in the Niger Delta and elsewhere, Calabar sta [...]
2006-07-25 14:28:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDECON PGOV NI
06ABUJA1934INFORMAL PRESIDENTIAL POLL: ATIKU DOESN'T MAKE THE
[...] On July 24, the Daily Champion newspaper published an informal poll of possible presidential candidates in Nigeria. The poll question was "Who do you want to be the next president?" The poll ran from May 29 to July 22 and was widely publicized on popular radio stations. To participate, Nig [...]
2006-07-26 12:18:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KDEM NI ELECTIONS
06ABUJA1956NIGERIA: AVIAN FLU UPDATE
[...] Summary: Results are awaited from several recent suspected outbreaks in the commercial poultry producing Southwest states of Ogun and Lagos. Field teams are visiting the affected areas. UNICEF has placed four consultants at in state capitals to work on state level communications plans, and PAC [...]
2006-07-28 10:51:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO KFLU EAID EAGR NI
06ABUJA1959THE ROAD TO CALABAR
[...] Summary. Emboffs recently took an overland trip from Abuja to Enugu, and then onward to Calabar, traveling on 2 of Nigeria's 3 "national roads." Poor road and vehicle conditions, appalling standards of driver conduct, and a lack of signage all provided challenges throughout the journey. Thi [...]
2006-07-28 14:02:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDELTN PHUM KCOR ASEC NI
06ABUJA1971GON ATTENDANCE AT UNGA
[...] GON plans for attendance at UNGA are not yet firm. According to Ambassador Abdukadir Bin Rimdap, Director of International Organizations Department in the foreign ministry. A) President Olusegun Obasanjo will attend to deliver an address on September 20th. While his travel plans are not y [...]
2006-07-31 11:17:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL OTRA OVIP KSEP UNGA
06ABUJA2065NIGERIAN MUSLIM REACTION TO ISRAEL-LEBANON CONFLICT
[...] Approximately 25,000 Lebanese citizens reside in Nigeria, according to recent estimates. Since July 31, members of the Nigerian Lebanese community have staged peaceful demonstrations in major Nigerian cities, including Abuja, Lagos, Kano, and Gusau. Participants gathered to highlight the pli [...]
2006-08-11 08:46:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL ASEC LE NI
06ABUJA2087INTERNATIONAL COORDINATION ON KIDNAPPINGS IN NIGER
[...] In response to the hostage takings of August 13, at our invitation the Chiefs of Mission in paragraph 2 met on August 14 to share information and talk about a common approach to the Nigerian government to express concern about hostage taking and its acceleration in the Delta. They agreed to [...]
2006-08-14 14:48:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL NI HOSTAGES MILITANTS OIL
06ABUJA2100DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UN SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION
[...] No summary [...]
2006-08-15 10:39:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDMOPS PREL PTER SG UNSC IS LE
06ABUJA2136COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOJ SPECIAL COUNSEL RUSCH
[...] No summary [...]
2006-08-18 06:34:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KCRM KJUS SNAR NI
06ABUJA2172COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DOT ADVISOR SUSAN STRAWN
[...] No summary [...]
2006-08-22 09:58:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN OTRA KJUS SNAR NI
06ABUJA2238AVIAN FLU IN NIGERIA: POULTRY SECTOR IN KANO STATE
[...] Summary. Kano State is one of the leading markets for poultry in northern Nigeria. In Kano, most poultry farms are small -- about two thirds have no more than 5,000 birds, and only about 5% of poultry farms in Kano State stock more than 50,000 birds. Kano formerly could not meet locally the [...]
2006-08-28 07:24:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO KFLU AMED EAGR EAID NI AVIANFLU
06ABUJA2262BLUE LANTERN PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECK ON
[...] Following ref A tasking, Mission has made repeated attempts to contact Bionica Technologies in Lagos without success. On 17 March, a Lagos-based FCS specialist attempted to visit the address listed in the application and reported the only business enterprise at that location to be Five Five [...]
2006-08-28 16:25:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDETTC KOMC NI
06ABUJA2315NIGERIA:ACOTA HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
[...] Post human rights vetting for the ECOWAS Task Force Headquarters (TFHQ) and its commander, BG Hassan Lai, and for the below listed Nigerian military personnel identified to participate in the ACOTA ESF Headquarters staff training exercise to be held 2-15 September 2006 in Ghana found no evide [...]
2006-09-05 15:54:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDMASS PHUM NI XY
06ABUJA2318EMBASSY ABUJA APPROVES NIH STUDY AI042853 09
[...] The U.S. Mission Nigeria has reviewed the National Institutes of Health's award of a research project entitled "Lifespan/Tufts/Brown Center for AIDS Research" (NIH study AI042853 09) and involving a Nigerian institution, Abia State University, Abia State. 2. The U.S. Mission Nigeria has no f [...]
2006-09-06 09:27:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO OSCI KSCA NI
06ABUJA236TV CO-OP PROPOSAL FOR NIGERIA
[...] SUMMARY: The U.S. Mission to Nigeria would like to propose a TV co-op on "Democratic Elections: Lessons from 2006 US Mid-Term Elections." This co-op will be done by four persons Independent Radio and Television crew of Lagos- based Africa Independent Television (AIT),and Kano-based Freedom R [...]
2006-02-01 15:42:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO OPRC OIIP CVIS
06ABUJA2434NIGERIA'S ROAD NETWORK IS CRUMBLING AND DANGEROUS
[...] Summary. Road travel in Nigeria is challenging for private citizens and commercial drivers. In 2004, at least 34,000 persons were killed on Nigeria's roads. The cost of failing to improve road safety is about 2% to 3% of GDP annually. Many drivers are not licensed and many vehicles are poor [...]
2006-09-15 14:18:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDELTN ECON NI
06ABUJA2466ADVANCING SAHARA BOOSTS NIGERIA'S DESERTIFICATION
[...] Summary. Desertification and drought are the most serious environmental problems facing northern Nigeria and now affect 15 states. Nigeria loses about 865,000 acres of farmland or grazing land to desert conditions every year, with the Sahara Desert advancing south an average of 0.6 km annual [...]
2006-09-20 12:46:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV EAID EAGR EIND NI
06ABUJA2485ECOWAS MINISTERIAL MEETINGS
[...] SUMMARY. On August 28, 2006, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) held ministerial consultations to focus on four issues, restructuring the Secretariat into a Commission, regionalization, the West Africa/European Union (WA/EU) negotiations for an Economic Partnership Agreement [...]
2006-09-21 10:39:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDECIN ECON EFIN PREL ECOWAS NI
06ABUJA2509SURVEY VIEWS AVIAN FLU'S NIGERIA ECONOMIC IMPACT
[...] Summary. A team from the USG's Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) visited six Nigerian states in August to assess the avian influenza socioeconomic impact on Nigeria's poultry sector. Nigeria has about 36% of West Africa's poultry and the sub-region's most modern poultry sector. [...]
2006-09-25 08:35:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO KFLU EAGR EAID NI AVIANFLU
06ABUJA260LEA TRIP TO LAGOS CONFIRMS FAILURES, REVEALS
[...] SBU - Entire Text 2. SUMMARY: LEA Downey's Jan 20-28 trip to Lagos confirmed the failures of several INL-sponsored law enforcement projects but also revealed possibilities and opportunities for future programs. Joint and integrated projects, incorporating NGOs and private sector elemen [...]
2006-02-03 10:00:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR KCRM PREL PGOV EFIN PINR NI
06ABUJA2637MINISTER OF EDUCATION OUTLINES REFORM AGENDA
[...] SUMMARY: On September 11, Ambassador John Campbell met with Minister of Education, Obiageli Ezekwesili, to discuss sweeping reforms to the education sector. Though funding remains its principal obstacle, Ezekwesili,s reform agenda includes replacement of all department heads of the Ministry o [...]
2006-10-06 12:15:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDNI SCUL
06ABUJA2644NIGERIA 2007 BUDGET FRAMEWORK
[...] Summary: The GON plans to propose a budget of USD 17.79 billion (Naira 2.26 trillion) for 2007, an increase of 18.95 % over 2006. The budget will be presented to the National Assembly by President Obasanjo on Wednesday, October 11, 2006. The budget makes preliminary forecasts for 2008 and 200 [...]
2006-10-10 13:02:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ECON NI
06ABUJA2694DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UN DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS
[...] Poloff and Mr. Richard Levy, Second Secretary of the Australian High Commission, delivered reftel demarche on October 12 to Mr. Edward Ogbonna, Assistant Director of Second United Nations Division of the Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. We previously demarched Mr. Ogbonna in June on the [...]
2006-10-12 11:49:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL KTIA UN
06ABUJA2772ABUJA DELIVERS DIPLOMATIC NOTES ON ITU CONFERENCE
[...] Embassy Abuja delivered on October 17 reftel diplomatic notes to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),with a courtesy copy to the Ministry of Communications. The MFA had no immediate response. FUREY [...]
2006-10-18 15:39:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDAORC ECPS ITU NI
06ABUJA2791NIGERIA HUMAN RIGHTS ROUNDUP FOR THIRD QUARTER OF
[...] SUMMARY. To augment the required annual reporting, Embassy Abuja will be sending regular round-up cables detailing human rights incidents in Nigeria. This cable mimics the format of the Annual Report on Human Rights and a section at the end will discuss issues to which we will be paying par [...]
2006-10-25 06:44:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PGOV NI
06ABUJA2803NIGERIA: 2007 NATIONAL TRADE ESTIMATE
[...] (U) The following information is Nigeria's 2007 National Trade Estimate. Trade Summary ------------- 2. (U) The U.S. goods trade deficit with Nigeria was $22.6 billion in 2005, an increase of $7.9 billion from $14.7 billion in 2004. U.S. goods exports in 2005 were $1.6 billion, up 3.9 pe [...]
2006-10-26 14:36:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECON EFIN NI
06ABUJA2805NIGERIA AVIATION TERRORISM DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] On October 26, Embassy Abuja delivered ref talking points to Imoro Kubor, Director of Air Transportation Management at the Nigerian Ministry of Aviation. 2. Kubor had no reaction at the time to the talking points. Post will report any such reaction once received. CAMPBELL [...]
2006-10-26 15:36:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDEAIR KTIA ICAO NI
06ABUJA2927REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR COMMAND POST
[...] Post requests the Department's assistance pursuant to the Leahy Act and the Foreign Assistance Act in screening the following candidates who have been nominated to attend the ECOWAS Command Post Exercise under the auspices of ACOTA. Candidates listed below are from the Nigerian armed forces. [...]
2006-11-08 16:09:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM AF NI
06ABUJA3061NIGERIA: ELECTIONS SNAPSHOTS #2
[...] (SBU) This cable is the second in a series of elections snapshots intended to provide a sense of the local environment in the lead up to the 2007 elections. More in-depth information and analysis will be reported in septels, with the snapshot format being used to convey interesting and pertin [...]
2006-11-28 14:31:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KDEM NI ELECTIONS
06ABUJA3071NIGERIA PLAGUED BY FAILING ROAD NETWORK
[...] Summary. Nigeria's road-transportation network has deteriorated badly following decades of neglect, almost no maintenance, and severely deficient funding. Nigeria has recognized for decades the need to improve its roads but so far has failed to do so. A Central Bank survey found that most r [...]
2006-11-29 08:26:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDECON ELTN NI
06ABUJA3172PROGRESS IN THE NIGERIAN HOUSING SECTOR
[...] Summary: During a recent visit of an Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) team to Nigeria, government officials (GON) estimated that the housing deficit is between 14-16 million housing units, with an even larger financing gap of approximately 44 trillion naira. Nigeria's housing n [...]
2006-12-11 16:07:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN EINV PGOV NI
06ABUJA3200THE WEST AFRICAN PEER EXCHANGE ON AFFORDABLE HOUSING
[...] Summary. At the West African Peer Exchange conference on Affordable Housing, Nigerian representatives discussed plans for increasing the number of affordable homes in Nigeria and presented an action plan. Most of the West African countries in attendance face similar problems on land tenure ti [...]
2006-12-14 17:39:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN EINV EAID SOCI NI
06ABUJA321FITCH RATINGS ASSIGNS NIGERIA BB MINUS RATING:
[...] SUMMARY. The Government of Nigeria (GON) received a BB Minus rating, which is just below investment grade from the highly respected Fitch Ratings. The rating was in part based on the recent agreements reached with the Paris Club (PC),but at this time the GON has no intentions of seeking acce [...]
2006-02-10 08:42:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ECON NI
06ABUJA3216NIGERIA ELECTIONS SNAPSHOTS #3
[...] (SBU) This cable is the third in a series of elections snapshots designed to provide a sense of the local environment in the run up to the elections planned for 2007. In-depth information will continue to be reported in septels, with the snapshot format being used to convey interesting and pe [...]
2006-12-15 11:56:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KDEM PHUM NI ELECTIONS
06ABUJA3218NIGERIA: RESTRUCTURING OF FEDERAL MINISTRIES
[...] (SBU) The Nigerian Federal Executive Council announced a reorganization of federal ministries and parastatals on December 13. Some ministries were eliminated, some merged, and responsibilities moved. The number of ministries will be reduced from 28 to 19; however, some offices, agencies a [...]
2006-12-15 13:07:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KDEM NI
06ABUJA3274NIGERIA: UN SCALE OF ASSESSMENTS DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] (U) Post delivered reftel demarche on the U.N. scale of assessments to the office of Ambassador Abdul bin Rimdap, Chief of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs First UN Division on December 20. Ambassador Rimdap was not immediately available for comment. Any comments will be reported septel. FURE [...]
2006-12-22 11:27:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL AMGT AORC UNGA NI
06ABUJA435THE STATE OF HIV/AIDS IN NIGERIA AS OF DEC 2005
[...] Summary: This cable evaluates broadly HIV/AIDS' impact on Nigerians and their institutions. Roughly 4 million (UNAIDS, 2003) of the nation's 130 million people (PRB, 2002) are infected with HIV/AIDS, reflecting a national HIV/AIDS infection rate of 5% (NPS, 2003). Nigeria had at least 2.4 m [...]
2006-02-22 11:50:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDKHIV SOCI TBIO ECON PREL PGOV NI
06ABUJA436THE STATE OF HIV/AIDS IN NIGERIA AS OF DEC. 2005
[...] Summary: This cable evaluates broadly HIV/AIDS' impact on Nigerians and their institutions. Roughly 4 million (UNAIDS, 2003) of the nation's 130 million people (PRB, 2002) are infected with HIV/AIDS, reflecting a national HIV/AIDS infection rate of 5% (NPS, 2003). Nigeria had at least 2.4 m [...]
2006-02-22 11:51:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDKHIV SOCI TBIO ECON PREL PGOV NI
06ABUJA449FEB 22 NIGERIA AVIAN FLU FIELD TEAM REPORTS
[...] Summary. Experts from the CDC, the Nigerian Ministry of Health, and the WHO visited Kano, Kaduna, Plateau, and Katsina States, starting on Feb. 18, to ascertain the extent of AI there. On Feb. 22, they presented their findings. The team found Kaduna's logistical support to combat AI extremel [...]
2006-02-23 13:29:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO KFLU EAID AMED EAGR NI
06ABUJA451Nigeria: Budget 2006 Is Passed Into Law
[...] Summary: On February 22, President Obasanjo signed the 2006 Appropriation Act (the Budget) into law. The National Assembly (federal legislature) passed a U.S. dollar 14.72 billion (Naira 1.899 trillion) budget for 2006, a 1.23% increase over President Obasanjo's earlier budget submission of U. [...]
2006-02-23 16:18:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ECON NI
06ABUJA479FEB 23 NIGERIA AVIAN FLU UPDATE
[...] Summary. A GON official said Nigeria did not have surveillance information on free-range chickens, which may be a greater threat to unaffected zones than commercial chicken farms. He cautioned implicitly against the GON's taking stern action against these farmers, saying, "This is the liveli [...]
2006-02-27 17:00:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO KFLU EAID AMED EAGR NI
06ABUJA517MARCH 2 NIGERIA AVIAN FLU UPDATE
[...] Summary. Bird-culling operations were carried out in Bauchi and Nasarawa States on Feb. 28. A GON official said the government hoped to begin paying compensation for birds by March 3, or by March 5 at the latest, and that Nigeria would concentrate on compensation to commercial chicken farmer [...]
2006-03-02 15:25:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO KFLU EAID AMED EAGR NI
06ABUJA519 THE FIRST IMF FINDINGS REVIEW OF NIGERIA PSI
[...] Summary: On February 28, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) review team debriefed the international community on their six-month assessment of Nigeria's Policy Support Instrument (PSI). They said the PSI was "on track", and that all benchmarks have been met, except for the late submission [...]
2006-03-03 06:17:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ECON NI
06ABUJA524ECOWAS SAYS PREPARING TO MEET AVIAN-FLU CHALLENGE
[...] Summary. Ambassador met March 2 with ECOWAS Executive Secretary Mohamed Ibn Chambas, who noted with concern AI's SIPDIS advance in Nigeria. Chambas said ECOWAS countries needed to have national strategies, after which regional ones could be created. He said Nigeria's "lessons learned" wou [...]
2006-03-03 15:41:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO KFLU EAID AMED EAGR NI
06ABUJA532UNICEF COMMUNICATION MEETING
[...] SUMMARY: THE AVIAN INFLUENZA COMMUNICATION COMPONENT IS FINALLY COMING TOGETHER AFTER WEEKS OF DELAY AND CONFUSION. THE GON HAS APPROVED A COMMUNICATION STRATEGY, AND HAS SCHEDULED WEEKLY MEETINGS FOR DONORS AT THE MINISTRY OF INFORMATION AND NATIONAL REORIENTATION. FOUR PROPOSALS APPROVED [...]
2006-03-06 11:57:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO KFLU EAID AMED EAGR NI
06ABUJA558MARCH 9 NIGERIA AVIAN FLU UPDATE
[...] (SBU) Summary. The GON announced March 9 that an additional state, Ogun State, was confirmed positive for the H5 virus. This result was confirmed by the Vom National Veterinary Research Institute, near Jos. Officials said the government had paid no additional compensation to poultry farmers [...]
2006-03-10 06:06:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO KFLU EAID AMED EAGR NI
06ABUJA593MARCH 15 NIGERIA AVIAN FLU UPDATE
[...] Summary. The Vom laboratory confirmed an outbreak of H5N1 in Anambra State, but the state agriculture commissioner rejected this finding. The AI outbreak in Ogun State continues, but the GON has not heard from its Ogun field team. An Ogun official said containing the outbreak would be a "to [...]
2006-03-16 06:24:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO KFLU EAID AMED EAGR NI AVIANFLU
06ABUJA677DARFUR NEGOTIATIONS: MAIN ISSUES IN SECURITY
[...] (SBU) Summary: Many hours of discussion with the mediation team and with the parties have identified five key issues that will have to be resolved: how the ceasefire commission will make decisions; how different geographic areas will be defined and managed; provisions for the exercise of the [...]
2006-03-27 12:03:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PROV NI SU
06ABUJA689AMBASSADOR CALLS ON NEW DES-PADS
[...] Ambassador called on the Colonel Mahamane Toure, the new Deputy Executive Secretary for Political Affairs, Defense, and Security at ECOWAS. Also in attendance were the DATT, PolMilOff, and a EUCOM J5 officer. 2. The cordial meeting offered the Ambassador an opportunity to express the imp [...]
2006-03-28 10:09:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL MASS KPKO NI XY ECOWAS
06ABUJA820PLATEAU STATE BOILS AGAIN
[...] Summary: The creation of a new development zone enflamed a long-standing rivalry between two communities in Plateau State, leading to bloody ethnic attacks and counter attacks on April 11-12. Reported casualty figures range from 30 to 100 people. Governor Joshua Dariye imposed a dusk to dawn [...]
2006-04-19 13:35:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM NI
06ABUJA854NIGERIA'S IMPORT BAN ON TEXTILES: DEMARCHE
[...] Summary. As requested reftel, Embassy Abuja presented demarche on textile bans and Milliken's potential order to the Ministries of Finance and Commerce. The ministry officials informed Embassy officials that it would be difficult to grant an exception for Milliken because the GON has just star [...]
2006-04-20 08:49:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD KTEX NI
06ABUJA878SSS EJECTS POLCOUNS FROM HILTON HOTEL
[...] Summary: On Thursday April 20, agents of Nigeria's State Security Service harassed the Political Counselor as he attempted to enter Abuja's Hilton hotel to meet with a contact. They pushed PolCouns and forcibly removed him from the hotel, but refused to identify themselves. Several local j [...]
2006-04-21 13:56:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDASEC PGOV PHUM NI
06ABUJA962ECOWAS: STUMBLING TOWARD CONVERGENCE
[...] Summary. After years of false starts, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is taking concrete steps toward a customs and monetary union. The former French colonies minus Guinea already have both, and the others are trying to follow suit. The customs union and common extern [...]
2006-04-27 17:03:00Embassy AbujaUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECIN EFIN NI
06ACCRA1291GHANA POLICE SERVICE GRADUATES INSTRUCTORS AND
[...] Speaking at two recent graduation ceremonies for ICITAP-funded instructor development courses and the Ghana Police Service's 39th Cadet Officers' Course, GOG officials confirmed Ghana's commitment to ongoing training and lauded advances in the police training program, but admitted that shortfa [...]
2006-06-07 07:44:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM PINS ASEC SOCI GH
06ACCRA143FIRST LADY VISITS GHANA
[...] Summary: First Lady Laura Bush visited Ghana on January 15-17 in what will be remembered as a highlight in U.S.-Ghana relations. Accompanied by daughter Barbara, she launched the Africa Education Initiative Textbooks and Learning Materials Program in Africa, visited an HIV/AIDS clinic in a l [...]
2006-01-18 17:53:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIEDEAID GH KPAO OVIP PGOV PREL SCUL SOCI
06ACCRA163DEMARCHE ON UN REFORM: GHANA
[...] No summary [...]
2006-01-20 11:17:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIEDADCO AORC GH KUNR PHUM PREL
06ACCRA1836COMBATING CHILD TRAFFICKING IN GHANA: THE YEJI
[...] Summary: A February 2006 trip by Pol FSN and International Organization for Migration (IOM) staff revealed that IOM's project to combat child trafficking in central Ghana, funded by the PRM Bureau, has had some successes. However, the project has also highlighted many challenges in combating [...]
2006-08-09 11:24:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIEDGH KOCI KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL
06ACCRA1898NEW ENERGY INVESTMENT PROSPECTS IN GHANA
[...] On August 11, A/Econ Chief and the Commercial Officer met with Ghanaian Minister of Energy Joseph Kofi Adda, at his request. The Cabinet had approved a new energy policy which identified the need to double the country's power generation in the next 5-7 years, he said. He hoped to expand acce [...]
2006-08-18 11:43:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIEDENRG GH EINV
06ACCRA1899GHANA: TRADE AND INVESTMENT FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT
[...] During a July 19-23 visit to Ghana, Assistant U.S. Trade Representative Florie Liser, Commerce Deputy Assistant Secretary for Market Access and Compliance Holly Vineyard and SIPDIS accompanying USG officials engaged with GOG officials and members of Ghana's private sector to discuss strategi [...]
2006-08-18 12:04:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EINV ETRD KMCA PGOV PREL GH
06ACCRA1951NEW ENERGY INVESTMENT PROSPECTS IN GHANA
[...] On August 11, A/Econ Chief and the Commercial Officer met with Ghanaian Minister of Energy Joseph Kofi Adda, at his request. The Cabinet had approved a new energy policy which identified the need to double the country's power generation in the next 5-7 years, he said. He hoped to expand acce [...]
2006-08-24 11:06:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIEDENRG GH EINV
06ACCRA2087 POLITICAL-ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS IN GHANA:
[...] This cable covers noteworthy political and economic highlights in July-August, 2006. Topics covered in this cable are: - West African Political Parties Meet - Whistleblower Bill Passed - Renewed Violence in Yendi - Human Rights Roundtable - DHRF Signing Ceremony - [...]
2006-09-06 16:01:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIEDECON EPET GH PGOV PHUM
06ACCRA2212GLOBAL INTERNET FREEDOM INITIATIVE: RESPONSE TO
[...] Summary. In response to reftel, Post has identified ten USAID projects and one Public Affairs Section (PAS) projects that directly promote access to, and use of, the internet in Ghana. All of the programs mentioned have been completed, except the Last Mile Initiative and the PAS program. Most [...]
2006-09-20 09:42:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECPS GH PHUM
06ACCRA26932007 NATIONAL TRADE ESTIMATE REPORT: GHANA
[...] Ghana is a market-based economy with relatively few barriers to trade and investment. The U.S. goods trade surplus with Ghana was $179 million in 2005, an increase of $15 million from $164 million in 2004. U.S. goods exports in 2005 were $338 million, up 9.0 percent from the previous year. [...]
2006-11-08 10:06:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECON EFIN
06ACCRA2763Ghana Pol/Econ Highlights, Fall 2006
[...] (U) This report covers noteworthy economic and political events and activities in Ghana for the period of August - October 2007. The issues covered are: -- Macro-economic performance -- 2007 Draft Budget To Be Published November 16 -- Halting Progress on Ghana Telecom Privatization -- Tema [...]
2006-11-15 16:25:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIEDECIN EFIN GH
06ACCRA2824CODEX ALIMENTARIUS: DEMARCHE ON EFFORTS TO
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-25 14:46:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ECON ETRD
06ACCRA2905GMO RICE: GOG WOULD WELCOME PUBLIC FORUM TO
[...] SUMMARY: Ambassador Bridgewater met with GoG Minister of Food and Agriculture Ernest Debrah on November 28, 2006 to address GoG concerns about American rice imports to Ghana. The Minister indicated many of the explanations he had received about the August shipment, which contained trace amount [...]
2006-12-06 09:55:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ECON EAID ETRD NI GH
06ACCRA2985SINGAPORE'S ASSISTANCE IN GHANA
[...] No summary [...]
2006-12-14 16:41:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL SI GH
06ACCRA3001Visit of HUD Secretary Jackson
[...] Summary: Alphonso Jackson, U.S. Secretary for Housing and Urban Development (HUD),exchanged views on addressing Ghana's housing needs with President Kufuor and a range of government and private sector representatives while visiting Accra November 26-29. The Secretary highlighted the lack of s [...]
2006-12-18 13:42:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ECON GH
06ACCRA3005GHANA HOSTS REGIONAL SEMINAR ON UNSCR 1540
[...] SUMMARY: Ghana hosted Africa's first outreach activity on United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1540, the UN Regional Seminar on Implementing UN Security Council Resolution 1540 (2004) in Africa, in Accra on November 9-10, 2006. Representatives from 23 African countries attended [...]
2006-12-18 17:35:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP ETTC PARM PREL PTER AORC XA GH
06ACCRA3064CHIEF JUSTICE AND ATTORNEY GENERAL ON BUSINESS
[...] No summary [...]
2006-12-29 12:01:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ECON ETRD EINV GH
06ACCRA357NECESSITY FOR RETAINING ECONOMIC POSITION
[...] Post provides the following justification for retaining the "one-time fill" FO-04 Economic Section Entry Level Officer position (Position No. 20004008). This position is essential to meeting the increasing demands on this Embassy for economic analysis and reporting, investor-advocacy, support [...]
2006-02-09 12:27:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIEDECON AMGT APER GH
06ACCRA411Assessment of Special Self-Help (SSH) Funding Needs
[...] Post requests SSH funding in the amount of $120,000 for FY2006. The request is based on a number of factors that have made post's Self-Help program a success and on Post's desire to maintain this strong grassroots program. 2. The SSH coordinator reviewed 400 formal applications in FY05. T [...]
2006-02-15 10:47:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIEDEAID GH
06ACCRA413GHANA: SECGEN SELECTION AND UNESCO CONVENTION
[...] (SBU) Summary: Per reftel A, on February 14, MFA Acting Director of International Organizations Edwin Adjei told PolOff that the Government of Ghana (GOG) has not seen any African candidate emerge for UN Secretary General and has no favorite at this time. Also, the GOG is not poised to ratify [...]
2006-02-15 11:27:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIEDETRD SCUL GH UNESCO
06ACCRA419GHANA'S 2005 INL END USE MONITORING REPORT
[...] (U) At the end of calendar year 2005, INL rolled over a total of $11,388.45 in funds subobligated to Ghana's Narcotics Control Board (NCB) under the FY00 LOA and subsequent amendments between the GOG and USG. Unliquidated balances of $37 for a Customs, Excise & Preventive Service project; $51, [...]
2006-02-15 15:23:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIEDAFIN SNAR GH
06ACCRA75AMBASSADOR HOSTS HUMAN RIGHTS DAY EVENT IN GHANA
[...] Summary: On December 9 the Ambassador hosted a Human Rights Day celebration at her residence for 80 human rights activists, journalists and Government of Ghana officials. As part of the ceremony, the Ambassador awarded six Democracy and Human Rights Fund (DHRF) grants totaling $55,000 to local [...]
2006-01-11 08:03:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIEDGH KDEM PHUM PREL
06ACCRA829USAID CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS OPPORTUNITIES FOR
[...] USAID sponsored a conference and technology fair in Accra, March 30-31, 2006, to disseminate research highlighting the opportunities and issues for increased remittances and trade into and within West Africa. The conference goal was to discuss ways for the private sector to access more of the [...]
2006-04-11 08:47:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIEDEINV ECON ETRD EFIN GH
06ACCRA830GHANA GOVERNMENT FORMALLY REQUESTS TO HOST 2007
[...] Minister for Private Sector Development Kwamena Bartels recently asked Ambassador Bridgewater to transmit to USTR the Ghana government's formal request to host the 2007 AGOA Forum in Accra. Please direct questions/comments to EconOffs Chris Landberg (233-21-775-348, ext. 4253; landbergca@state [...]
2006-04-11 08:47:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIEDETRD AGOA GH
06ACCRA836GHANA ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS FEBRUARY - MARCH 2006
[...] (U) This report covers noteworthy economic events and activities in Ghana for February and March 2006. The issues covered are: -- Dole subsidiary inaugurates one million tree banana farm -- Communications Minister's comments on future of Westel -- ADM plans construction of a cocoa processin [...]
2006-04-11 11:36:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIEDECON EINV EAGR ECPS EAID ETRD GH
06ACCRA96GHANA 2006 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT
[...] Per Ref A, Post is pleased to provide below the 2006 Investment Climate Statement (ICS) for Ghana. This report revises and updates the ICS submitted December 22, 2004 (Ref B). P Table of Contents ----------------- A.1. Openness to Foreign Investment 2. Conversion and Transfer Polic [...]
2006-01-13 11:27:00Embassy AccraUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN ENRG BEXP ETRD EINV PREL PGOV GH
06ADANA1SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR DECEMBER 23, 2005
[...] No summary [...]
2006-01-04 08:17:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
06ADANA101SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR MAY 05, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-08 08:54:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA102SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR MAY 08, 2006
[...] One of the attorneys told the daily that the pressure on the court could be intensified in the coming days, since the court did not release the defendants. EVRENSEL / OZGUR GUNDEM: The dailies criticized PM Erdogan for saying nothing about resolving the Kurdish issue during his visi [...]
2006-05-09 05:24:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA105SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR MAY 09, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-10 05:40:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA106SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR MAY 10, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-11 05:47:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA107SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR MAY 11, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-12 05:08:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA109SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR MAY 15, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-16 05:10:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA110SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR MAY 17, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-17 11:16:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA114SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR MAY 22, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-23 06:22:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA118SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR MAY 23, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-24 06:34:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA124SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR 24 MAY 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-30 11:31:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA125SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FORMAY 25, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-30 11:31:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA126SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR 28-29-30, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-30 11:32:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA127SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR MAY 26, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-30 11:43:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA129SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR MAY 31, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-06-01 05:28:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA13SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JANUARY 24, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-01-30 07:07:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
06ADANA130SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JUNE 01, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-06-02 05:02:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA131TURKEY: SOUTHEAST TURKEY POLITICAL FIGURE BIOGRAPHIES
[...] (U) EFKAN ALA, DIYARBAKIR GOVERNOR Efkan Ala was born in Erzurum in 1965, graduated from the Political Science Faculty of Istanbul University, and did his bachelor's degree in Economics. Ala lived in England in order to develop his language skills and carry out studies on Governing Systems. [...]
2006-06-05 13:49:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM CASC TU
06ADANA132SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR 5 JUNE 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-06-06 05:11:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA133TURKEY: SATURDAY BOMBING IN MERSIN
[...] (U) One police officer and twelve civilians were wounded by a bomb which exploded at 11:40 am on Saturday, June 3, 2006, in downtown Mersin. The bomb reportedly was planted in a black plastic bag. Some press accounts attribute the detonation to a remote control device. No American citizens w [...]
2006-06-06 06:59:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPTER ASEC TU
06ADANA134SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JUNE 06, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-06-07 05:38:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA135SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JUNE 07, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-06-08 10:31:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA136SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JUNE 09, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-06-12 06:19:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA137SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JUNE 08, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-06-12 06:19:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA138SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JUNE 12, 2006
[...] This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for June 12, 2006. Please note that Turkish press reports often contain errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for the accuracy of the reports summarized here. POLITICAL, SECURITY, HUMAN RIGHTS 2. RADIKAL / EVREN [...]
2006-06-13 10:28:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA139SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JUNE 13, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-06-13 13:28:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA14SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JANUARY 26, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-01-30 07:08:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
06ADANA140SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JUNE 14, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-06-14 11:59:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA143TURKEY: W/W VISIT OZEL, CENGIZ; MELISSA
[...] (SBU) Information for CA Only: Mr. Ozel spent considerable time during the welfare and where abouts visit talking about his family situation. He volunteered that he receives disability checks form the U.S. and that previously his wife helped to support the family with various jobs, which incl [...]
2006-06-16 11:53:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDCASC KOCI TU
06ADANA144TURKEY: ATTEMPTED BOMING IN TARSUS
[...] (SBU) The Anti-Terror Branch of the Turkish National Police reported, to Consulate Adana's SD Supervisor, that the police had a tip regarding Turkish citizen Fahrettin Kocakaya (born in Diyarbakir in 1987). They were following him when he came to Tarsus and attempted to enter the Sub-Governo [...]
2006-06-16 12:15:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPTER ASEC TU
06ADANA146SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JUNE 15, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-06-19 12:07:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA147SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JUNE 19, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-06-19 12:07:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA148COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CODEL DEAL
[...] U.S. Consulate Adana grants country clearance to Representatives Nathan Deal, Charlie Norwood, Michael Burgess, Gene Greene; Staffers Chris Riley, Todd Smith, Lodriguez Murray, Brandon Clark; as well as U.S. Army Escort Major Patrick Lewis and Attending Physician Dr. Mark Corrairie who will vi [...]
2006-06-21 13:15:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDOREP AMGT ASEC AFIN TU
06ADANA149SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JUNE 21, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-06-22 05:06:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA15SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JANUARY 23, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-01-30 07:09:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
06ADANA150SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JUNE 23, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-06-23 12:32:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA151SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JUNE 26, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-06-26 12:54:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA153SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JUNE 28, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-06-29 05:47:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA156SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JULY 3, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-07-05 05:02:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA157SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JULY 06, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-07-06 12:55:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA159SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JULY 07, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-07-10 09:20:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA16SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JANUARY 20, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-01-30 07:09:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
06ADANA160SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JULY 10, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-07-10 13:40:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA161SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JULY 11, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-07-13 09:07:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA162SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JULY 12, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-07-13 09:07:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA163SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JULY 13, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-07-13 11:02:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA164SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JULY 14, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-07-14 13:27:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA165SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JULY 15, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-07-18 08:45:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA166SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JULY 16, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-07-18 08:48:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA167SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JULY 17, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-07-18 08:48:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA168SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JULY 16, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-07-18 12:10:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA169SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JULY 17, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-07-18 12:10:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA17SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JANUARY 19, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-01-30 07:10:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
06ADANA170SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JULY 15, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-07-18 12:10:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA171SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JULY 18, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-07-19 09:29:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA172SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JULY 19, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-07-20 12:05:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA174SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR AUGUST 2, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-08-02 12:43:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA176SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR AUGUST 03, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-08-07 09:38:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA177SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR AUGUST 7, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-08-08 10:03:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA178SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR AUGUST 08, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-08-09 09:36:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA179SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR AUGUST 9, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-08-10 06:38:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA180SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR AUGUST 09, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-08-10 09:27:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA182SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR AUGUST 10, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-08-11 05:25:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA184SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR AUGUST 14, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-08-15 06:44:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA187SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR AUGUST 20, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-08-21 09:42:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA188SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR AUGUST 21, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-08-22 06:44:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA189SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR AUGUST 22, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-08-22 12:52:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA190SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR AUGUST 24, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-08-25 06:29:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA191SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR AUGUST 29, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-09-05 11:14:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA192SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR SEPTEMBER 01, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-09-05 11:23:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA193SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR AUGUST 31, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-09-05 11:23:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA194SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR SEPTEMBER 05, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-09-06 09:19:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA196SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR SEPTEMBER 06, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-09-07 09:47:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA198SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR SEPTEMBER 07, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-09-08 11:04:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA199SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR SEPTEMBER 11, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-09-12 07:01:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA2SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR DECEMBER 27, 2005
[...] No summary [...]
2006-01-04 08:18:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
06ADANA20SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JANUARY 30,2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-01-31 10:20:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
06ADANA200SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR SEPTEMBER 12, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-09-13 05:03:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA201SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR SEPTEMBER 13, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-09-13 12:55:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA202SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR SEPTEMBER 15, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-09-15 09:50:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA203SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR SEPTEMBER 17, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-09-18 09:02:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA204SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR 18 SEPTEMBER, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-09-19 05:24:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA205SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR SEPTEMBER 19, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-09-19 12:19:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA206SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR SEPTEMBER 22, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-09-25 05:46:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA208SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR SEPTEMBER 23-24-25, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-09-27 07:45:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA209SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR SEPTEMBER 26, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-09-27 07:45:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA211SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR OCTOBER 02, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-10-02 13:14:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA212SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR OCTOBER 03, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-10-03 08:37:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA214SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR OCTOBER 4, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-10-05 08:50:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA215SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR OCTOBER 05, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-10-05 11:59:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA217SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR OCTOBER 09, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-10-11 09:32:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA218SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR OCTOBER 11, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-10-11 10:31:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA225SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR OCTOBER 17, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-10-18 05:28:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA226SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR OCTOBER 17, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-10-18 06:31:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA227SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR OCTOBER 16, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-10-18 07:13:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA228SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR OCTOBER 18, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-10-19 05:20:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA229SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR OCTOBER 19, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-10-20 06:16:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA23SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JANUARY 31, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-02-02 06:36:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
06ADANA230SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR OCTOBER 20, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-10-20 10:56:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA233SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR NOVEMBER 01, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-01 14:35:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA235SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR OCTOBER 31, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-01 16:34:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA236SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR NOVEBMER 01, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-02 06:19:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA237SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR OCTOBER 31, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-02 06:25:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA238SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR NOVEMBER 07, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-08 08:25:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA239SE TURKEY FLOODING PUTS PM ERDOGAN IN HOT WATER
[...] (SBU) Summary: The worst flooding in Turkey since 1937 has caused serious damage in the underdeveloped Southeast, killing at least 40 people and leaving tens of thousands homeless. While the GOT has mobilized local military assets and promised assistance to the victims, PM Erdogan's hands-off [...]
2006-11-08 08:36:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM ECON TU
06ADANA24SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR FEBRUARY 03, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-02-06 12:11:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
06ADANA240SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR NOVEMBER 08, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-09 10:35:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA243SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR NOVEMBER 19, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-20 09:24:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA245SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR NOVEMBER 20, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-21 06:43:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA246SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR NOVEMBER 27, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-28 06:48:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA247SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR NOVEMBER 26, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-28 06:48:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA248SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR NOVEMBER 22, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-28 06:48:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA249SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR NOVEMBER 28, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-29 11:04:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA25SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR FEBRUARY 02, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-02-06 12:15:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
06ADANA250SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR NOVEMBER 29, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-29 13:22:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA253SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR DECEMBER 04, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-12-05 09:21:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA258SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR DECEMBER 11, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-12-12 06:23:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA259SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR DECEMBER 12, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-12-13 06:23:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA26SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR FEBRUARY 07, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-02-08 07:43:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
06ADANA260SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR DECEMBER 13, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-12-13 12:02:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA261SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR DECEMBER 18, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-12-19 12:46:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA262SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR DECEMBER 19, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-12-19 13:29:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA266SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR DECEMBER 25, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-12-26 11:58:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA267SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR DECEMBER 26, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-12-27 11:52:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA268ADANA COMPANY BLAZES TRAIL FOR TURKISH ORGANIC FOOD
[...] (U) Despite reduced demand this year for Turkish citrus, one Adana-based company has successfully entered the European organic foods market with produce from farms in the region. Pan Tarim's director, Zeynep Oztekin, cited two main challenges: convincing local growers to endure the difficultie [...]
2006-12-28 09:52:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD
06ADANA3SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR DECEMBER 28, 2005
[...] No summary [...]
2006-01-04 08:18:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
06ADANA30SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR FEBRUARY 08, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-02-10 06:48:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
06ADANA31SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR FEBRUARY 09, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-02-10 06:48:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
06ADANA34SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR FEBRUARY 10, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-02-15 06:18:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
06ADANA35SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR FEBRUARY 14, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-02-15 06:19:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
06ADANA36SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR FOR FEBRUARY 13, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-02-15 07:56:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
06ADANA37SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR FEBRUARY 15, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-02-16 12:05:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
06ADANA38SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR FEBRUARY 16, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-02-22 10:09:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
06ADANA39SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR FEBRUARY 17, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-02-22 10:09:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
06ADANA4SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR DECEMBER 29, 2005
[...] No summary [...]
2006-01-04 08:19:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
06ADANA43SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR FEBRUARY 27, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-02-28 10:43:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
06ADANA44SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR FEBRUARY 28- MARCH 1,
[...] No summary [...]
2006-03-02 12:37:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
06ADANA46SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR MARCH 13, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-03-14 09:57:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
06ADANA5SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR DECEMBER 30, 2005
[...] No summary [...]
2006-01-04 08:19:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
06ADANA50SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR MARCH 15, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-03-20 09:58:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
06ADANA51SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR 20 MARCH, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-03-21 07:03:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
06ADANA53SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR MARCH 17, 2006
[...] This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for March 17, 2006. Please note that Turkish press reports often contain errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for the accuracy of the reports summarized here. POLITICAL, SECURITY, HUMAN RIGHTS 2. ZAMAN: A bomb [...]
2006-03-21 07:50:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
06ADANA54SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR MARCH 21, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-03-22 11:08:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
06ADANA55SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR MARCH 23, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-03-24 07:32:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
06ADANA58SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR MARCH 27, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-03-28 05:32:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
06ADANA59SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR MARCH 28, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-03-28 14:23:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
06ADANA6SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR JANUARY 03, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-01-04 08:19:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
06ADANA63SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR 29 MARCH, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-03-30 09:43:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA65SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR MARCH 30, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-03-31 09:28:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA71TURKEY: DIYARBAKIR MAYOR OSMAN BAYDEMIR'S MARCH 30 STATEMENT
[...] (U) Post's iniformal translation of Diyarbakir Mayor Osman Baydemir's March 30 statement before protestors follows. 2. (U) Begin translation: Dear Press Members, Respectable People of Diyarbakir, The events that have occurred in the past one week in the region and in the past two days [...]
2006-04-04 09:55:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM CASC TU
06ADANA73SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR APRIL 3, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-04-05 08:56:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA74SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR APRIL 4, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-04-05 08:56:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA75SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR APRIL 7, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-04-10 09:35:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA78SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR APRIL 10, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-04-12 06:36:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA79SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR APRIL 11, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-04-12 07:07:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA81SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR APRIL 12, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-04-13 06:41:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA84SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR APRIL 13, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-04-20 10:24:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA85SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR APRIL 14, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-04-20 10:47:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA86SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR APRIL 17, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-04-20 10:47:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA87SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR APRIL 24, 2006
[...] This is the Southeastern Turkey press summary for April 24, 2006. Please note that Turkish press reports often contain errors or exaggerations; AmConsulate Adana does not vouch for the accuracy of the reports summarized here. POLITICAL, SECURITY, HUMAN RIGHTS 2. BOLGE / OZGUR G [...]
2006-04-25 06:40:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA88SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR APRIL 20, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-04-26 05:05:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA89SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR APRIL 21, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-04-26 05:05:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA9OCALAN APPEAL STILL STRONG IN SE
[...] (SBU) On January 18 a Turkish court confined imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan to his cell on Imrali Island for 20 days, and stipulated that his lawyers would not be able to see him during that period, according to our contacts and press reports. The government charged that, during Decembe [...]
2006-01-20 11:14:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM PREL TU ADANA PKK
06ADANA90SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR APRIL 19, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-04-26 05:08:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA91SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR APRIL 25, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-04-26 05:18:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA92SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR APRIL 26, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-04-27 10:28:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA96SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR APRIL 28, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-04-28 13:40:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA97SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR MAY 01, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-03 06:59:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA98SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR MAY 03, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-04 05:55:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU
06ADANA99SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR MAY 4, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-05 05:45:00Consulate AdanaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU ADANA
06ADDISABABA1022ETHIOPIA: CUD SECRETARY GENERAL MYSTERIOUSLY
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. According to family members and media reports, former secretary-general of the Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD) Muluneh Eyoule was moved from Kaliti prison April 8 to an undisclosed location. While government officials declined to acknowledge the current whereabouts of [...]
2006-04-17 06:56:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM KJUS PREL ET
06ADDISABABA1313ETHIOPIA: COMMISSION INVESTIGATING ETHIOPIAN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Ambassador Huddleston and poloff met May 9 with Frehiwot Samuel, chair of the commission of inquiry established by Parliament to investigate anti-government demonstrations that occurred in June and November 2005. According to Frehiwot, a career judge, the commission got off to [...]
2006-05-11 11:12:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM KJUS PREL ET
06ADDISABABA1319ETHIOPIA: PM APPOINTS ADDIS ABABA CARETAKER
[...] SUMMARY: In a May 10 address to parliament, Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi commended the efforts of some CUDP electees to take over administration of the city of Addis Ababa. Citing the inability of the electees to achieve the required quorum, however, Meles spoke of the need to appoi [...]
2006-05-11 14:26:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL SOCI KDEM PHUM ET
06ADDISABABA1348ETHIOPIA: OPPOSITION LEADERS SEEK DIALOGUE,
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During a meeting with the Charge May 10, opposition leaders and the moderate diaspora organization Voice of Reason discussed the need to continue dialogue with the EPRDF-led government. Voice of Reason representatives claimed that only a small (but vocal) portion of the diaspora [...]
2006-05-15 13:31:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM ET
06ADDISABABA141AU SEEKS HELP FOR CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC
[...] This is an action request. Please see paragraph 5. 2. Summary: The African Union (AU) is soliciting partner assistance to support the Multinational Force of the Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa (FOMUC) and the Central African Republic (CAR) government. This request fol [...]
2006-01-17 12:34:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KPKO CT AU
06ADDISABABA1464SCENESETTER FOR CODEL INHOFE VISIT TO ETHIOPIA
[...] Welcome to Addis Ababa! Your visit comes at a critical time for Ethiopia as the country works to strengthen democracy, promote economic reforms, and reduce poverty. Ethiopia is a strong partner in the global war on terrorism. The USG is currently leading diplomatic efforts to implement the lon [...]
2006-05-25 05:58:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD EFIN PREL PGOV ET
06ADDISABABA1566ETHIOPIA: UN U/S GENERAL GUEHENNO LAYS OUT NEXT
[...] (SBU) Summary: United Nations Undersecretary General Jean-Marie Guehenno met with the Charge and Admiral Hunt June 7 to review the AMIS to UN transition efforts and his views of next steps. By the time he returned to Khartoum, he hoped that he would be able to gain greater clarity on the mand [...]
2006-06-08 14:12:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KPKO MARR SU AU
06ADDISABABA1690AU ADOPTS SEVEN-POINT DECISION ON SOMALIA
[...] Summary. The African Union's Peace and Security Council (PSC) at its 55th meeting held on June 17 adopted the following decision on the situation in Somalia. End Summary. 2. Begin text: Communique of the 55th Peace and Security Council Council, Â [...]
2006-06-20 13:28:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDKPKO PREL IGAD SO
06ADDISABABA1925AU REP TO WASHINGTON DC
[...] Post received written notification (dated June 8, 2006) from the Commission of the African Union wishing to appoint the Honorable Ms. Amina Salum Ali as the African Union Representative in its office in Washington. 2. The text of the letter (dated June 8, 2006) addressed to the Embass [...]
2006-07-14 07:00:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL AU
06ADDISABABA1987ETHIOPIA: PROSECUTION STEPS UP EVIDENCE IN CUD
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The prosecution has completed the presentation of audiocassettes and most written evidence in the case against detained opposition Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD) leaders, independent journalists and civil society representatives. In contrast to the previously presented [...]
2006-07-20 12:12:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM KJUS KDEM PGOV ET
06ADDISABABA2002ETHIOPIA: BI-WEEKLY REPORT JULY 17 2006
[...] The following reports compiled over the last two weeks illustrate the variety of economic, political and social developments occurring in Ethiopia. World Bank Writes off Ethiopia's 3.61bn Debt -------------------------------------------- 2. The International Development Association (IDA) [...]
2006-07-21 05:31:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM ETRD ECON ET
06ADDISABABA2009AFRICAN UNION SUMMIT: HUMAN RIGHTS OUTCOMES
[...] SUMMARY: The African Union Summit met June 21-July 2 in Banjul, The Gambia, with the nominal theme of "Regional Integration and Harmonization of Regional Economic Communities (RECs)." For the United States, as an AU partner (i.e. non-member),most sessions were closed; however, these are the [...]
2006-07-21 08:54:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL PGOV AU XA
06ADDISABABA2032ETHIOPIA: PARLIAMENTARY REFORMS DEMONSTRATE A STEP
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In early 2006, the Ethiopian government, in conjunction with donors, commissioned international experts from four parliamentary democracies (United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, and India) to develop a set of parliamentary procedure reform recommendations for the Ethiopian House of [...]
2006-07-25 06:07:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV ET KDEM
06ADDISABABA2059 SECOND REQUEST FOR SELF-HELP OBLIGATION REPORTS -
[...] SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION. Per reftels, Post is providing a preliminary obligation report for FY06 projects. Post expects to fully obligate its 80,000.00 USD allocation by August 15. END SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION. PRELIMINARY OBLIGATIONS FOR FY06 SPECIAL SELF-HELP PROJECTS: 2.Project [...]
2006-07-26 05:19:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON AFIN ET
06ADDISABABA209ETHIOPIA: WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR UPDATE
[...] Requested information about the worst forms of child labor in Ethiopia follows and is organized per reftel instructions. 2. A. LAWS AND REGULATIONS PROSCRIBING THE WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR Ethiopia's Labor Proclamation (42/93) prohibits children below the age of 14 from working. [...]
2006-01-24 14:02:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI USAID
06ADDISABABA2133ETHIOPIA: BI-WEEKLY REPORT AUGUST 07 2006
[...] On July 21, Ambassador Huddleston hosted a meeting of the Women Entrepreneurs Group, a newly formed group of leading local women entrepreneurs, government officials, members of parliament, and representatives from civil society, international organizations, and diplomatic missions. The group, [...]
2006-08-07 06:57:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM ETRD ECON ET
06ADDISABABA2179ETHIOPIA: COURT GOES ON RECESS IN CUD TRIAL,
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In the case against detained opposition Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD) leaders, independent journalists and civil society representatives, the court has been hearing arguments regarding admissibility of additional documentary evidence presented by the prosecution. Once [...]
2006-08-09 15:55:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM KJUS KDEM PGOV ET
06ADDISABABA2273MOZAMBIQUE NOMINATES PASCOAL MOCUMBI FOR WHO
[...] Post received a note verbale August 16 from the Embassy of Mozambique located in Addis Ababa indicating Mozambique's intention to nominate Dr. Pascoal Mocumbi for World Health Organization Director General. Note verbale requests USG support of the nomination. 2. Begin text: Ref. No. 8 [...]
2006-08-17 11:14:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL WHO MZ
06ADDISABABA2280ETHIOPIA: BI-WEEKLY REPORT AUGUST 15 2006
[...] The following reports compiled over the last two weeks illustrate the variety of economic, political, and social developments occurring in Ethiopia. POLITICAL --------- TIP Officer Visits Addis 2. INL/G/TIP officer Rachel Yousey visited Ethiopia August 9-15 to meet with the GOE, NGOs [...]
2006-08-17 13:15:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM ETRD ECON ET
06ADDISABABA2305ETHIOPIA: HEALTH MINISTRY REQUESTS SUPPORT TO
[...] Summary. Ethiopia's Federal Ministry of Health issued a letter (text below) to USAID, UNICEF, WHO and UNOCHA August 17 requesting preparedness and response support for an outbreak of Acute Watery Diarrhea (AWD). In a conversation August 18 with USAID's Chief Health Officer, State Minister o [...]
2006-08-18 10:48:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID CASC WHO ET
06ADDISABABA2321MOZAMBIQUE NOMINATES CHISSANO FOR INTERNATIONAL
[...] Post received a note verbale August 21 from the Embassy of Mozambique located in Addis Ababa indicating Mozambique's intention to nominate Miguel Alberto Chissano for a position on the Legal and Technical Commission of the International Authority of Ocean Floors. Note verbale requests USG sup [...]
2006-08-22 07:51:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHSA SENV MZ
06ADDISABABA2479ETHIOPIA: SECSTATE HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING APPROVAL
[...] (SBU) Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following Ethiopian civilian candidates who have been nominated for USG-sponsored training, pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act. Post has no derogatory information. 2. (SBU) The training is on civil-military [...]
2006-09-13 10:27:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDPMIL PGOV ET
06ADDISABABA2591ETHIOPIA: LEAHY VETTING: CIVIL MILITARY AFFAIRS
[...] Post has learned that the Civil/Military affairs training on counter-terrorism issues, scheduled for September 25 - 29, 2006, has been canceled. 2. Post appreciates Department's help in vetting the nominated candidates. HUDDLESTON [...]
2006-09-23 12:03:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDPMIL PGOV ET
06ADDISABABA2594TRADE AGREEMENT COMPLIANCE AND MONITORING
[...] TRADE AGREEMENT COMPLIANCE IS NOT CURRENTLY AN ISSUE WITH ETHIOPIA, SINCE IT IS NEITHER A MEMBER OF THE WTO NOR A PARTY TO ANY OTHER TRADE AGREEMENT WITH THE UNITED STATES. POST IS ACTIVE,HOWEVER, IN PROMOTING ETHIOPIA'S USE OF AGOA OPPORTUNITIES TO INCREASE ITS EXPORTS, AS WELL AS MONITORING [...]
2006-09-25 06:09:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON ETRD
06ADDISABABA2650ETHIOPIA: BI-WEEKLY REPORT SEPTEMBER 29 2006
[...] The following reports compiled over the last two weeks illustrate the variety of economic, political, and social developments occurring in Ethiopia. POLITICAL --------- Kidnapped Red Cross Workers Released  [...]
2006-10-02 05:02:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM ETRD ECON KFLU ET
06ADDISABABA2683LETTER TO PRESIDENT BUSH FROM AU CHAIRMAN NGUESSO
[...] No summary [...]
2006-10-05 07:02:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDOPDC PREL PGOV ETRD ET
06ADDISABABA2739ETHIOPIA TO SUPPORT GUATEMALA FOR UNSC
[...] (SBU) In an October 10 meeting with Charge, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi confirmed that Ethiopia will support Guatemala, rather than Venezuela, in its bid for a UNSC non-permanent member seat. HUDDLESTON [...]
2006-10-11 11:50:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL UNSC UNGA GT VE ET
06ADDISABABA2811ETHIOPIA REAFFIRMS COMMITMENT TO GUATEMALA FOR
[...] (SBU) In an October 17 call with Charge, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director of Europe and North America Almaz Amha confirmed Prime Minister Meles Zenawi's commitment to support Guatemala, rather than Venezuela, in its bid for a UNSC non-permanent member seat. Almaz assured the Charge that E [...]
2006-10-17 15:58:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL UNSC UNGA GT VE ET
06ADDISABABA2812ETHIOPIA: BI-WEEKLY REPORT OCTOBER 13 2006
[...] The following reports compiled over the last two weeks illustrate the variety of economic, political, and social developments occurring in Ethiopia. POLITICAL --------- President Girma Outlines Commitment to Good Governance at Opening of Parliament 2. President Girma Wolde-Giorgis ad [...]
2006-10-17 16:04:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM ETRD ECON PREF KHIV ET
06ADDISABABA3206ETHIOPIA: PM MELES MEETS WITH FMR SECSTATE
[...] (SBU) Summary. While visiting Addis Ababa to promote the UNDP's Commission for the Legal Empowerment of the Poor, former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright met with Prime Minister Meles Zenawi December 1 to discuss Ethiopia's support of the Commission and her concern about the deterioratin [...]
2006-12-06 06:17:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDMOPS PREL PTER SO SU DJ ER ET
06ADDISABABA3225ETHIOPIA'S BFIF PROJECT PROPOSALS: ADDIS CHAMBER
[...] The Addis Ababa Chamber of Commerce will hold its 11th Addis Chamber International Trade Fair (ACITF) February 22-28, 2007. ACITF is the largest, most important trade fair in Ethiopia attracting over 260 local and foreign exhibitors. In 2006, post displayed a new, modern, and professionally- [...]
2006-12-07 12:45:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDECON BEXP ETRD EIND ET
06ADDISABABA3248ETHIOPIA'S BIENNIEL SURVEY OF COMMERCIAL DIPLOMACY
[...] Per reftel, post has completed and submitted the Bienniel Survey of the State Department's Commercial Diplomacy Program by email to EB/CBA'S Denae Goelitz and Dennis Winstead. WILGUS [...]
2006-12-11 08:12:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDECON BEXP ETRD EIND ET
06ADDISABABA3293ETHIOPIA: WTO ACCESSION LEAPS FORWARD WITH MFTR
[...] Summary. Ethiopia reached a significant milestone in its bid to join the World Trade Organization (WTO) when the GOE submitted the Memorandum of Foreign Trade Regime (MFTR) to the WTO Secretariat on (date). From application to membership, WTO Accession comprises three major phases: fact fin [...]
2006-12-14 12:39:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD EINV PGOV ET
06ADDISABABA3313ETHIOPIA: NOMINATIONS FOR USPTO GIPA PROGRAM
[...] The Ethiopian Intellectual Property Office nominates two candidates for participation in USPTO's February 2007 Global Intellectual Property Academy for Advanced Patent Law and Procedure: -- Temesgen Maru, Patent Search and Examination Expert, and -- Mekonnen Haile Woldemariam, Patent Admini [...]
2006-12-18 12:10:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD KIPR AORC EFIN OTRA ET
06ADDISABABA3387ETHIOPIA: GOE REVISES GDP GROWTH RATES UP
[...] Summary. The Ministry of Finance and Economic Development (MOFED) significantly revised real GDP growth rates to nearly double the IMF estimate: 11.9 percent (vice 11.6),10.5 percent (vice 9.5),and 9.6 percent (vice 7.1) in fiscal years 2003/04, 2004/05 and 2005/06, respectively. In addit [...]
2006-12-26 11:25:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD EINV EAGR ET
06ADDISABABA3404USAU AMB COURVILLE HEARS ETHIOPIAN FOREIGN
[...] (C) In the course of a December 20 meeting with U.S. Ambassador to the African Union, Ethiopian Minister of State Dr. Tekeda Alemu stressed that Ethiopia looked for dialogue in good faith with the Islamic Courts in Somalia, but would not be committed to dialogue in the abstract. Ethiopia's [...]
2006-12-27 16:07:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV SO ET AU
06ADDISABABA3418RESPONSE FROM ADDIS ABABA REGARDING SADDAM HUSSEIN VERDICT.
[...] (SBU) On December 26, the Emergency Action Committee (EAC) met to review the general security situation in Ethiopia as well as post's general security posture. The following offices were represented at the EAC: Charge, A/DCM, PE, DATT, USAID, USAU, CONS, RMO, ORA, CDC, MGT, GSO, A/PAO, MSG an [...]
2006-12-29 10:16:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDASEC ET SO PTER PGOV PHUM CASC KAWC KJUS IZ
06ADDISABABA3419RESPONSE FROM ADDIS ABABA REGARDING SADDAM HUSSEIN VERDICT.
[...] (SBU) On December 26, the Emergency Action Committee (EAC) met to review the general security situation in Ethiopia as well as post's general security posture. The following offices were represented at the EAC: Charge, A/DCM, PE, DATT, USAID, USAU, CONS, RMO, ORA, CDC, MGT, GSO, A/PAO, MSG an [...]
2006-12-29 11:04:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDASEC ET SO PTER PGOV PHUM CASC KAWC KJUS IZ
06ADDISABABA38ETHIOPIA: WIDESPREAD STUDENT PROTESTS DRAW HARSH
[...] (U) Summary. Last week was marked by a series of small, but widespread student disturbances throughout Ethiopia, but predominantly in Addis Ababa and Oromiya. While the majority of student demonstrators called peacefully for the release of detained CUD leaders and the resignation of Prime Mi [...]
2006-01-05 13:48:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM KDEM KJUS ET
06ADDISABABA402ETHIOPIA: FY2006 FUNDING REQUESTS FOR ESF
[...] Embassy Addis Ababa submits two proposals for FY2006 ESF anti-trafficking in persons projects. As requested, the proposal information has been formatted per reftel guidelines and listed in priority order. Due to space constraints, the entire text of the project proposals could not be include [...]
2006-02-09 16:10:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDKWMN KCRM PHUM ASEC ELAB SMIG USAID
06ADDISABABA839ETHIOPIAN PM ADDRESSES PARLIAMENT ON INSTITUTIONAL
[...] SUMMARY: In a March 28 address to Parliament, Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi emphasized the government's efforts to build and strengthen the parliament, the National Electoral Board (NEB) and the media; extended the deadline for opposition parties to take over the Addis Ababa city gov [...]
2006-03-29 04:52:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL SOCI ET
06ADDISABABA998ETHIOPIA: FEDERAL POLICE QUELL STUDENT ETHNIC
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Alemaya University officials called in federal police to quell ethnically-charged student violence April 11 at Ethiopia's second largest institution of higher education. While shots were reportedly fired into the air for crowd control purposes, police were able to peacefully s [...]
2006-04-14 04:43:00Embassy Addis AbabaUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM KJUS PREL ET
06AITTAIPEI1012TAIWAN WILL PARTICIPATE IN INTERNATIONAL PORT SECURITY
[...] U.S. Coast Guard LCDR Scott Kim and LT Richard Kavanaugh visited Taiwan March 20 and 21 to brief Taiwan officials on the Coast Guard's International Port Security (IPS) Program. Kim and Kavanaugh met with officials from the Ministry of Transportation and Communications (MOTC),the Executive Y [...]
2006-03-27 00:08:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDEWWT TW
06AITTAIPEI1016Officials Assert Kaohsiung's MRT Subway to Start Operation
[...] Summary. Besieged with scandals involving shady financing and a standstill of repeated cave-in incidents, officials responsible for the construction of Kaohsiung's mass rapid transit system (KMRT) remain optimistic, asserting that from a technical standpoint the construction of the subway can [...]
2006-03-27 08:15:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDEWWT ETRD ECON TW
06AITTAIPEI1026MEDIA REACTION: KMT CHAIRMAN MA YING-JEOU'S U.S. TRIP
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their coverage March 25-27 on KMT Chairman Ma Ying-jeou's U.S. trip; the DPP's decision to cancel its proposed "Grand Debate" on the party's policy toward China; the Ministry of Transportation and Communications' announcement Saturday reg [...]
2006-03-27 22:38:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI1039MEDIA REACTION: KMT CHAIRMAN MA YING-JEOU'S U.S. TRIP
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their coverage March 28 on a controversial civil lawsuit filed by a local manpower company against Thai laborers for causing a riot at a Kaohsiung mass rapid transit construction site; KMT Chairman Ma Ying-jeou's U.S. trip; and other poli [...]
2006-03-28 09:24:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI1090Port of Kaohsiung Resumes Work on Tender for the
[...] Kaohsiung Harbor Bureau (KHB) recently resumed preparing a tender for construction of Kaohsiung's Sixth Container Terminal project, which had been suspended for nearly four months. KHB had originally planned to begin tendering invitations to prospective investors in October 2005 (Ref B),but [...]
2006-03-30 08:23:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDEWWT ETRD ECON TW
06AITTAIPEI1120MEDIA REACTION: DPP PARTY REFORM CONFERENCE
[...] Summary: Taiwan dailies March 31 focused on KMT Chairman Ma Ying-jeou's meeting with President Chen Shui-bian slated for April 3, and junior DPP legislators' plan to hold a conference to discuss party reforms. 2. The editorials March 31 all commented on DPP legislators' call for a party ref [...]
2006-03-31 08:42:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI1122TAIWAN PUBLIC OPINION AFTER KMT CHAIRMAN MA YING-JEOU'S
[...] Summary: KMT Chairman Ma Ying-jeou just concluded a ten-day, five-city whirlwind tour to the United States, which has garnered extensive media coverage in Taiwan. A horde of Taiwan media accompanied Ma on the trip and glamorized Washington's views of him as a promising candidate for Taiwan's p [...]
2006-03-31 08:43:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL TA KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI1152Boeing-CAL Sale Awaits Presidential Office Signal
[...] (SBU) Summary: Boeing continues to discuss the sale of ten 747-8 aircraft with China Airlines (CAL). CAL recently suggested that Boeing should get the State Department or National Security Council to express support for the sale. Boeing representatives explained to CAL that nine U.S. Senators [...]
2006-04-03 08:13:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDEAIR ETRD TW
06AITTAIPEI1154 Economic Briefing for March 2006
[...] This cable summarizes selected recent economic events in Taiwan in March 2006: --Economy clouded by card debt, fuel costs --Capital outflows continue --Credit/cash card debt hurts banks profits --Tightened control of cross-Strait trade --Corning locates largest R&D center in Taiwan --DuPo [...]
2006-04-03 08:13:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDEINV EFIN ECON PINR TW
06AITTAIPEI1156MEDIA REACTION: CHINA'S PANDA OFFER
[...] Summary: Taiwan dailies April 1-3 focused much of their coverage on the construction of Taiwan's fourth nuclear-power plant, and reports that its budget will be exhausted this May because of lack of further action by Taiwan's Executive Yuan; Taiwan's Council of Agriculture's announcement that [...]
2006-04-03 08:32:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI1165MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENT CHEN SHUI-BIAN'S MEETING WITH KMT
[...] Summary: Taiwan dailies April 4 focused much of their coverage on the Monday meeting between President Chen Shui-bian and KMT Chairman Ma Ying-jeou. Nearly all Taiwan dailies ran a banner headline along the lines of: "President Chen Shui-bian said if China's President Hu Jintao announces tha [...]
2006-04-04 08:56:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI1251MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their coverage April 8-10 on the upcoming economic forum between the KMT and the Chinese Communist Party, in which former KMT Chairman Lien Chan will meet with Chinese President Hu Jintao again; the corruption scandal surrounding former P [...]
2006-04-10 08:23:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI1303MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their coverage April 13 on the corruption scandals surrounding former Presidential Office Deputy Secretary-General Chen Che-nan; the opposition parties' veto of President Chen Shui-bian's nomination of Hsieh Wen-ting as the state public p [...]
2006-04-13 08:03:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI1311MEDIA REACTION: KMT-CCP ECONOMIC FORUM
[...] Summary: Taiwan's papers gave significant coverage April 14 of President Chen Shui-bian's remarks Thursday that he would step down if any of the first family had improperly accepted gift vouchers to the SOGO Department Store. Coverage also focused on the KMT-Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Econo [...]
2006-04-14 08:00:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI1333MEDIA REACTION: KMT-CCP ECONOMIC FORUM
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies gave significant coverage April 15-17 to the KMT-Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Economic Forum held in Beijing over the weekend, and the meeting between KMT Honorary Chairman Lien Chan and Chinese President Hu Jintao Sunday. Coverage also focused [...]
2006-04-17 08:26:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI1346MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA SUMMIT, KMT-CCP ECONOMIC FORUM
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies continued to focus their coverage April 18 on the controversial battle over the ownership of the Sogo Department Store, in which First Lady Wu Shu-chen was allegedly involved; the aftermath of last weekend's KMT-Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Econ [...]
2006-04-18 07:55:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI1371MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA SUMMIT
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies continued to give extensive coverage April 19 on the controversial battle over the ownership of the Sogo Department Store, in which First Lady Wu Shu-chen was allegedly involved; the local oil price hike; and the aftermaths of last weekend's KMT- [...]
2006-04-19 08:01:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI1383MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA SUMMIT
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies continued to give significant coverage April 20 to the alleged bribery scandal involving former Presidential Office deputy secretary-general Chen Che-nan, while Chinese President Hu Jintao's U.S. trip and his scheduled meeting with U.S. President [...]
2006-04-20 08:39:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI1406MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA SUMMIT
[...] Summary: While Taiwan's dailies gave significant coverage April 21 to the meeting between U.S. President George W. Bush and Chinese President Hu Jintao Thursday, coverage also focused on the controversial battle over the ownership of the Sogo Department Store, which First Lady Wu Shu-chen is al [...]
2006-04-21 08:55:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI1413MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA SUMMIT
[...] Summary: Taiwan's leading Chinese-language dailies focused their coverage April 22-24 on Chinese President Hu Jintao's U.S. trip and his meeting with U.S. President George W. Bush last Thursday; the controversial battle over the ownership of the Sogo Department Store, in which First Lady Wu Shu [...]
2006-04-24 08:13:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI1452MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies continued to center their reporting April 27 on four main stories: the corruption scandal surrounding former Presidential Office Deputy Secretary-General Chen Che-nan, the scandal concerning the SIPDIS construction of Taiwan's high-speed railw [...]
2006-04-27 08:17:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI1510MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENT CHEN SHUI-BIAN'S TRANSITS IN THE
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their coverage May 2 on the details of President Chen Shui-bian's transit in the U.S., legislators' proposed constitutional amendments, the corruption scandals involving First Lady Wu Shu-chen, and the year-end Taipei and Kaohsiung mayora [...]
2006-05-02 08:52:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI1525MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENT CHEN SHUI-BIAN'S TRANSITS IN THE
[...] Summary: Taiwan's dailies gave significant reporting and editorial coverage May 3 to the details of President Chen Shui-bian's transits in the United States. With the exception of the mass-circulation "Apple Daily," all papers reported on their front page that Chen may postpone his departure f [...]
2006-05-03 08:43:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI1528TAIWAN CONSIDERS ANTI-DUMPING MEASURES ON CHINESE
[...] Summary: Taiwan is simultaneously pursuing anti-dumping and safeguard investigations on towel imports from China. The Ministry of Finance must announce its decision on preliminary anti-dumping measures by May 29. Taiwan's ITC has recommended a 65% tariff on Chinese towel imports, the Minister [...]
2006-05-03 10:53:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD TW
06AITTAIPEI1545MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENT CHEN SHUI-BIAN'S TRANSITS IN THE
[...] Summary: Taiwan's dailies continued significant coverage May 4 of transit plans for President Chen Shui-bian, who planned to depart on a trip to Paraguay and Costa Rica Thursday morning. Two prominent Taiwan papers, the pro-unification "United Daily News" and Taiwan's biggest daily, the pro-in [...]
2006-05-04 12:28:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI1552MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENT CHEN SHUI-BIAN'S OVERSEAS TRIP
[...] Summary: Taiwan's dailies gave significant coverage May 5 to President Chen Shui-bian turning down Washington's stopover offer and making instead a transit of Abu Dhabi Thursday. The pro-unification "United Daily News" front-page banner-headlined: "[Taiwan Foreign Minster] James Huang Strongl [...]
2006-05-05 08:33:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI1554TAIWAN AIRPORT AI EXERCISE
[...] SUMMARY. Taiwan conducted an avian influenza (AI) simulation exercise at the main international airport on April 6. The exercise sought to test Taiwan's ability to detect, isolate and treat an inbound passenger infected with AI. The event was broadcast over live TV [...]
2006-05-05 08:40:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDAMED ECON SENV TBIO TW
06AITTAIPEI1560MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS
[...] Summary: President Chen Shui-bian's transits en route to and from Paraguay and Costa Rica stayed in Taiwan's media spotlight May 6-8, while newspaper coverage alsofocused on the year-end Taipei and Kaohsiung mayoral races and other local issues. The pro-status quo "China Times" ran a banner he [...]
2006-05-08 08:19:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI1580MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS
[...] Summary: As President Chen Shui-bian's visit in Paraguay and his transit plan continued to stay in Taiwan's media spotlight May 9, newspaper coverage also focused on the Legislative Yuan's vote on a cross-Strait direct transportation bill, scheduled for May 12; the Taiwan government's policy r [...]
2006-05-09 08:02:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI1595PERMISSION TO BE ABSENT FROM AIT
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-10 08:35:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT APER OTRA TW
06AITTAIPEI1606MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS
[...] Summary: Amid extensive reporting May 10 that a KMT hopeful will drop out of the party primary for the year-end Taipei mayoral race, Taiwan newspaper coverage also focused on President Chen Shui-bian's press briefing in Costa Rica Tuesday, his transit plans, exchanges of greeting with U.S. Fir [...]
2006-05-10 08:45:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI1624MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS
[...] Summary: As Taiwan dailies continued to center their reporting May 11 on President Chen Shui-bian's surprise stopover in Libya, coverage also focused on an ammunition depot blast in Taipei County Wednesday and local political issues. All major Chinese-language papers, with the exception of th [...]
2006-05-11 09:02:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI1636MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS
[...] Summary: Taiwan dailies focused their coverage May 12 on U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick's remarks at a congressional hearing Wednesday, President Chen Shui-bian's return trip, AIT Taipei Director Stephen Young's speech at an American Chamber of Commerce luncheon Thursday, and th [...]
2006-05-12 08:44:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI1662MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their coverage May 13-15 on the conclusion of President Chen Shui-bian's nine-day overseas trip; Premier Su Tseng-chang's decision to suspend the chairman of the Financial Supervisory Commission, who was released on bail after questioning [...]
2006-05-15 22:23:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI1671 MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their coverage May 16 on alleged involvement by President Chen Shui-bian's son-in-law in insider trading, a press conference called by the suspended chairman of the Financial Supervisory Commission in an attempt to clear his name, and ot [...]
2006-05-16 07:44:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI1681PERMISSION TO BE ABSENT FROM AIT
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-16 07:51:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT APER OTRA TW
06AITTAIPEI1682PERMISSION TO BE ABSENT FROM AIT
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-16 07:51:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT APER OTRA TW
06AITTAIPEI1691MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENT CHEN'S OVERSEAS TRIP, U.S.-TAIWAN
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their coverage May 17 on alleged involvement by President Chen's son-in-law in insider trading, the pan-Green camp's successful attempt to block passage of the cross-Strait direct transportation amendments by the Legislative Yuan; the ye [...]
2006-05-17 07:35:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI1730 BNHI DECLINES TO DELAY PHARMACEUTICAL PRICE CUTS
[...] Summary. AmCham Pharmaceutical Committee members and AIT/T met with Bureau of National Health Insurance (BNHI) officials on May 15, 2006 as part of regular bimonthly consultations between U.S. industry and BNHI. AmCham members shared points that will be raised in its soon to be released Whit [...]
2006-05-19 10:55:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECON TW
06AITTAIPEI1733MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S NATIONAL SECURITY REPORT,
[...] Summary: As Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies continued to center their reporting May 19 on alleged involvement in insider trading by President Chen Shui-bian's son-in-law, who withdrew from the DPP Thursday, coverage also focused on Chen's approval of the island's first-ever National Se [...]
2006-05-19 10:55:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI1743MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S NATIONAL SECURITY REPORT,
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their coverage May 20-22 on President Chen Shui-bian's apology for the First Family's involvement in the recent insider trading scandal; alleged involvement by Chen's son-in-law in the snowballing insider trading scandal; Taiwan's first [...]
2006-05-22 09:04:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI1754MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS
[...] Summary: As the insider trading scandal allegedly involving President Chen Shui-bian's son-in-law continued in Taiwan's media spotlight May 23, newspaper coverage also focused on Taiwan's failure to obtain observer status at the World Health Assembly and on the year-end Kaohsiung mayoral race. [...]
2006-05-23 08:55:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI1776MEDIA REACTION: U.S. AND CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS
[...] Summary: Taiwan dailies all gave significant reporting and editorial coverage May 24 to alleged involvement by President Chen Shui-bian's in-laws in the snowballing insider trading and lobbying scandals. Coverage also focused on other local corruption scandals and the DPP's disputed nomination [...]
2006-05-24 08:55:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI1786AIT CLEARANCE FOR STAFFDEL GROVE
[...] AIT Taipei welcomes and grants travel clearance to STAFFDEL Grove, consisting of Senate Appropriations Committee (SAC) Professional Staff Member Paul Grove and DOS Cindy Chang, Senior Advisor for Appropriations, Legislative Affairs visit to Taipei 06/01-04/06. Visitors to Taiwan are reminde [...]
2006-05-25 03:38:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOREP AMGT ASEC AFIN BM JA TH TW OTRA PREL
06AITTAIPEI1791 MEDIA REACTION: PENTAGON REPORT ON CHINA'S MILITARY POWER
[...] Summary: Taiwan's dailies all gave front-page coverage May 25 to the prosecutors' questioning of President Chen Shui-bian's in-laws Wednesday and the detention of Chen's son-in-law Thursday morning for his alleged role in a snowballing insider trading scandal. Coverage also focused on the U.S. [...]
2006-05-25 08:10:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI1842MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS
[...] Summary: Taiwan's dailies gave significant news and editorial coverage May 27-30 to alleged involvement in the snowballing insider trading scandal by President Chen Shui-bian's son-in-law, who was detained last Thursday, and to the pan-Blue and pan-Green camps' reactions to these developments. [...]
2006-05-31 16:04:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI1857MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENT CHEN SHUI-BIAN ANNOUNCES HE WILL
[...] Summary: All Taiwan dailies front-paged June 1 President Chen Shui-bian's announcement late Wednesday night that he would relinquish all of his governmental and party authority, other than that which is granted to the president by the Constitution, and delegate his powers to Premier Su Tseng-c [...]
2006-06-01 22:23:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI1898MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENT CHEN CEDING POWERS
[...] Summary: All Taiwan dailies June 2 front-paged President Chen Shui-bian's approval of the resignation of two close aides Thursday, following Chen's relinquishing some of his responsibilities. News coverage also focused on Premier Su Tseng-chang's becoming the virtual chief of the administrati [...]
2006-06-02 08:58:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI1905 2006 Report on Investment Disputes and Expropriation
[...] AIT/Taipei is not aware of any claims or disputes that would be candidates for inclusion in the 2006 report on investment disputes and expropriation claims. KEEGAN [...]
2006-06-05 05:57:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDEINV CASC KIDE OPIC PGOV TW
06AITTAIPEI1916MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENT CHEN CEDING POWERS
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their coverage June 3-5 on KMT Chairman Ma Ying-jeou's last-minute decision to show up at a PFP-held demonstration Saturday, calling on President Chen Shui-bian to step down; the aftermath of Chen's announcement he will relinquish some p [...]
2006-06-05 22:28:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI1929MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENT CHEN CEDING POWERS
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their coverage June 6 on the pan-Blue and pan-Green camps' moves in the wake of President Chen Shui-bian's announcement last Wednesday to relinquish some of his powers; the plunge of Taiwan's stock market Monday; and the investigations i [...]
2006-06-06 08:56:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI1943MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENT CHEN CEDING POWERS
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their coverage June 7 on the former Financial Supervisory Commission Examination Bureau Director, Lee Chin-cheng, who was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in jail for graft and insider trading; the indictment of Straits Exchange Foundation [...]
2006-06-07 22:11:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI1959MEDIA REACTION: AFTERMATH OF PRESIDENT CHEN'S CESSION OF
[...] Summary: As the pan-Blue and pan-Green camps' moves in the wake of President Chen Shui-bian's decision to relinquish some of his powers continued in Taiwan's media spotlight June 8, news coverage also focused on the investigations into President Chen's son-in-law's insider trading scandal and [...]
2006-06-08 22:12:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI1986MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their coverage June 9 on the pan-Blue and pan-Green camps' moves in the wake of President Chen Shui-bian's decision to relinquish some of his powers; AIT Chairman Raymond Burghardt's visit to Taiwan; the Taiwan stock market's dive on Thu [...]
2006-06-10 04:39:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI2005MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused coverage June 10-12 on the pan-Blue and pan-Green camps' discussion Monday of the agenda for an extra legislative session; the pan-Blue camp's rally in Taipei Saturday calling for President Chen Shui-bian to step down; AIT Chairman Raymo [...]
2006-06-12 22:05:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI2014MEDIA REACTION: RECALL OF PRESIDENT CHEN SHUI-BIAN
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their coverage June 13 on the Legislative Yuan's efforts to recall President Chen Shui-bian Tuesday; further investigations into the kickback and murder scandal involving Taiwan's purchase of Lafayette-class frigates; and investigations [...]
2006-06-13 08:35:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI2037RAW SUGAR TARIFF QUOTA: TAIWAN
[...] REFTEL TALING POINTS DELIVERED TO TAIWAN AUTHORITIES ON JUNE 12. TAIWAN SUGAR CORPORATION'S RESPONSE, RECEIVED TODAY (JUNE 14),IS COPIED BELOW AND EMAILED SEPARATELY TO USDA. 2. TAIWAN SUGAR CORPORATION'S RESPONSE: "WE CAN SHIP 13,647 METRIC TONS OF CANE RAW UNDER OUR FY 2006 ALLOCATION A [...]
2006-06-14 08:50:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ETRD TW
06AITTAIPEI2038MEDIA REACTION: RECALL OF PRESIDENT CHEN SHUI-BIAN
[...] Summary: As the Legislative Yuan's efforts to recall President Chen Shui-bian stayed in the Taiwan media's spotlight June 14, news coverage also focused on further investigations into the kickback and murder scandal involving Taiwan's purchase of Lafayette-class frigates; investigations into P [...]
2006-06-14 08:50:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI2052MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT CHARTER FLIGHTS, RECALL OF
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their coverage June 15 on the new arrangements for cross-Strait charter flights; President Chen Shui-bian's remarks in response to the recall motion; investigations into President Chen's son-in-law's insider trading scandal and First Lad [...]
2006-06-16 00:27:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI2079 MEDIA REACTION: RECALL OF PRESIDENT CHEN SHUI-BIAN
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their coverage June 16 on further investigations into President Chen Shui-bian's son-in-law's role in an insider trading scandal and the roles of First Lady Wu Shu-chen and President Chen Shui-bian's close aides in the Sogo Department St [...]
2006-06-16 08:30:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI2099MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT CHARTER FLIGHTS
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their coverage June 17-19 on the rallies held by the pan-Green and pan-Blue camps over the weekend to show their support for and opposition to President Chen Shui-bian; inauguration of the Taipei-Ilan Hseuhshan Tunnel; the crash of an F5 [...]
2006-06-19 22:04:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI2110MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS, RECALL OF
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their coverage June 20 on President Chen Shui-bian's decision to deliver a televised speech Tuesday evening in response to the recall motion; the pan-Blue camp's moves to bring Chen down; further investigations into the alleged role of F [...]
2006-06-20 07:57:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI2127MEDIA REACTION: RECALL OF PRESIDENT CHEN SHUI-BIAN
[...] Summary: President Chen Shui-bian's two-hour televised "report to the people" Tuesday evening was the front-page headline story of all major Chinese-language Taiwan dailies June 21. All papers also devoted their first few pages to detailing Chen's refutations of the accusations that led to th [...]
2006-06-21 08:59:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI2162AIT TRAVEL CLEARANCE FOR USCC: HOUSTON, MULLOY,
[...] AIT welcomes and grants travel clearance to U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) officials, Caren (Kerri) Houston, Patrick A. Mulloy and Executive Director T. Scott Bunton for their visit to Taipei from 6/27-30/2006, per reftel. We understand that the delegation wishes t [...]
2006-06-22 08:33:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOTRA TW USCC
06AITTAIPEI2164MEDIA REACTION: RECALL OF PRESIDENT CHEN SHUI-BIAN
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused coverage June 22 on KMT Chairman Ma Ying-jeou's speech Wednesday evening in response to President Chen Shui-bian's "report to the people" the previous day; the KMT's and PFP's plans to bring Chen down; further investigations into the alle [...]
2006-06-22 08:34:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI2178MEDIA REACTION: RECALL OF PRESIDENT CHEN SHUI-BIAN
[...] Summary: Major Chinese-language Taiwan dailies continued to center their reporting June 23 on the KMT's and PFP's plans to oust President Chen Shui-bian, and further investigations into the alleged role of First Lady Wu Shu-chen in the Sogo Department Store ownership case and an earlier politi [...]
2006-06-23 08:28:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI2203MEDIA REACTION: U.S. MILITARY EXERCISES IN GUAM, RECALL OF
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their coverage June 24-26 on the pan-Blue and pan-Green camps' continued wrestling prior to the Legislative Yuan's scheduled vote July 27 on the presidential recall motion; Academia Sinica President Lee Yuan-tseh's statement Sunday blast [...]
2006-06-26 22:02:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI2210RESEARCH PROJECT CA123628 ASSESSMENT
[...] No summary [...]
2006-06-27 04:59:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO OSCI KSCA TW
06AITTAIPEI2216MEDIA REACTION: RECALL OF PRESIDENT CHEN SHUI-BIAN
[...] Summary: All major Chinese-language Taiwan dailies gave significant reporting and editorial coverage to the Legislative Yuan's (LY) vote on the presidential recall motion June 27, and on possible conflicts between pan-Blue and pan-Green supporters outside the Legislative Yuan. All papers fron [...]
2006-06-27 21:54:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI2224MEDIA REACTION: RECALL OF PRESIDENT CHEN SHUI-BIAN
[...] Summary: President Chen Shui-bian's survived the recall motion in the Legislative Yuan Tuesday and stayed in the Taiwan media spotlight June 28. Almost all papers front-paged the failure of the recall motion and Chen's apology to the public. The pro-independence "Liberty Times," Taiwan's big [...]
2006-06-28 08:40:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI2245MEDIA REACTION: AFTAERMATH OF THE PRESIDENTIAL RECALL
[...] Summary: As the presidential recall attempt came to an end, Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies began to shift their focus June 29 to possible discord between President Chen Shui-bian (DPP) and former President Lee Teng-hui (Taiwan Solidarity Union) and between the KMT and the PFP, as well [...]
2006-06-30 00:42:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI2264MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS, AFTERMATH OF THE
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their coverage June 30 on the Cabinet's unexpected announcement Thursday night that incumbent Finance Minister Joseph Lyu had been replaced by National Taiwan University professor Ho Chih-chin; the predicted indictment of President Chen S [...]
2006-06-30 08:22:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI2278MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-JAPAN ALLIANCE, U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS,
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their coverage July 1 -3 on the investigation into the alleged role of the First Family's personal physician in First Lady Wu Shu-chen's involvement in the Sogo Department Store gift certificates scandal; the rumored discord between Presi [...]
2006-07-04 21:51:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI2290MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S POLITICAL SITUATION, U.S.-JAPAN
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their coverage July 4-5 on the Academia Sinica Biennial Convocation, which kicked off Monday; investigation into the alleged role of First Lady Wu Shu-chen in the Sogo Department Store gift certificates scandal; and the rumored rift betw [...]
2006-07-05 08:11:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI2294MEDIA REACTION: NORTH KOREAN MISSILE TEST
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their coverage July 6 on North Korea's test-firing of seven missiles, including a long-range Taepodong-2, toward Japan on Tuesday morning. 2. In terms of editorials and commentaries, editorials in both the pro-independence "Liberty [...]
2006-07-06 03:35:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI2338MEDIA REACTION: FIRST FAMILY'S ALLEGED INVOLVEMENT IN
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their coverage July 8-10 on various issues, such as the recommendation by the Taipei District Prosecutor's Office of 12 years in prison for former Presidential Office Deputy Secretary-General Chen Che-nan for insider trading and influen [...]
2006-07-10 07:19:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI2353MEDIA REACTION: NORTH KOREA, MA YING-JEOU'S TRIP TO JAPAN
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies gave significant coverage July 12 to Taipei prosecutors' secret questioning of First Lady Wu Shu-chen Sunday concerning her alleged role in the fight over the ownership of the Sogo Department Store; and the release on bail of President Chen Shui [...]
2006-07-12 08:34:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI2363Taiwan Adopts FATF Recommendations
[...] On July 11, Taiwan's Financial Supervisory Commission Banking Bureau issued a regulation effective August 1 that requires all banking institutions to collect, verify and store information about any banking customer that makes any single cash or electronic remittance above NT$30,000 (US$923). [...]
2006-07-12 21:47:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KCRM PTER KSEP TW
06AITTAIPEI2375MEDIA REACTION: KMT CHAIRMAN MA YING-JEOU'S TRIP TO JAPAN
[...] Summary: The investigation into First Lady Wu Shu-chen's alleged role in the ownership fight for the Sogo Department Store and the release on bail of President Chen Shui-bian's son-in-law remained in the Taiwan media spotlight July 13. News coverage also focused on a plan by some pro-Green sc [...]
2006-07-13 08:15:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI2401MEDIA REACTION: AFTERMATH OF THE PRESIDENTIAL RECALL
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their coverage June 14 on the confiscation of a record number of state-of-the-art illegal weapons in Pingtung Thursday morning; a planned declaration by pro-Green scholars calling for President Chen Shui-bian's resignation; Tropical Storm [...]
2006-07-14 08:33:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI2413MEDIA REACTION: AFTERMATH OF THE PRESIDENTIAL RECALL
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies continued to focus their coverage July 15-17 on a declaration by some pro-Green scholars on Saturday, calling for President Chen Shui-bian's resignation, and Chen's vow to stay on. News coverage also focused on the damage Tropical Storm Bilis d [...]
2006-07-17 08:33:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI2424MEDIA REACTION: KMT CHAIRMAN MA YING-JEOU'S TRIP TO JAPAN,
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their coverage July 18 on President Chen Shui-bian's meeting with high-ranking DPP officials Monday regarding whether he should step down, and the cancellation of his planned meeting that evening with legislators; the Taiwan High Court's [...]
2006-07-18 08:22:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI2439MEDIA REACTION: MIDDLE EAST, TAIWAN'S POLITICAL SITUATION,
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their coverage July 19 on the new "collective leadership" decision-making style proposed by the DPP; First Lady Wu Shu-chen's alleged involvement in the Presidential Office's allowance for state affairs; and investigation into the Lafaye [...]
2006-07-19 09:10:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI2448MEDIA REACTION: KMT CHAIRMAN MA'S JAPAN TRIP, MIDDLE EAST
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their coverage July 20 on Vice Minister of Interior Yen Wan-chin, who with five other officials was taken into custody Wednesday on suspicion that of taking kickbacks in a cable car construction project; First Lady Wu Shu-chen's alleged [...]
2006-07-20 07:50:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI2469MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S POLITICAL SITUATION
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their coverage July 21 on the decision by the Taipei District Court Thursday to continue President Chen Shui-bian's son-in-law's release on a higher bail of NT$17 million; the detention of Vice Minister of Interior Yen Wan-chin for alleg [...]
2006-07-21 09:05:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI2481MEDIA REACTION: DPP PARTY CONGRESS, MIDDLE EAST
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their coverage July 22-24 on the DPP party congress, in which the DPP decided to return to collective leadership and to dissolve party factions; and the Grand Justices' ruling last Friday on the constitutionality of the National Communic [...]
2006-07-24 09:08:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI2492MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S POLITICAL SITUATION
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies gave extensive coverage July 25 to a decision by National Communications Commission (NCC) members Monday to remain in their positions until January 2008, following the Grand Justices' ruling that the way the commissioners are selected is unconst [...]
2006-07-25 07:27:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI2512MEDIA REACTION: U.S.- TAIWAN RELATIONS
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their coverage July 26 on the Cabinet-sponsored Sustainable Economic Development Conference; follow-up moves to oust President Chen Shui-bian; Typhoon Kaemi, which swept over Taiwan Tuesday; and investigations into the Taipei City Governm [...]
2006-07-26 09:24:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI2530MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies continued to focus their coverage July 27 on the Cabinet-sponsored Taiwan Sustainable Economic Development Conference, which kicked off today; pro-Green scholars' follow-up moves to call for President Chen Shui-bian's resignation; Taiwan's decli [...]
2006-07-27 08:12:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI2554MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies gave significant coverage July 28 to a Ministry of Audit report Thursday concerning "possible irregularities" in the Presidential Office's allowance for state affairs. News coverage also focused on the Taiwan Sustainable Economic Development Co [...]
2006-07-31 01:26:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI2561MEDIA REACTION: MIDDLE EAST, NORTH KOREA
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their coverage July 29-31 on the investigation into "possible irregularities" in the Presidential Office's special state affairs expenditures account; the conclusion of the Taiwan Sustainable Economic Development Conference last Friday a [...]
2006-07-31 09:22:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI2570 TAIWAN PHARMACEUTICALS: MIXED PROGRESS
[...] Summary. On July 27, AIT and International Research-based Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association (IRPMA) met with Taiwan's Bureau of National Health Insurance (BNHI) officials for the third time since the May 25-26 TIFA talks to discuss main issues related to the Price Volume Survey (PVS): g [...]
2006-08-01 08:45:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECON TW
06AITTAIPEI2572MEDIA REACTION: MIDDLE EAST, U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS, NORTH
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies continued to focus their coverage August 1 on the investigations into "possible irregularities" in the Presidential Office's special state affairs expensure account and the Sogo Department Store gift certificate case; the salary of a housekeeper [...]
2006-08-01 08:46:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI2585MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS, MIDDLE EAST
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies gave significant coverage August 2 to a Presidential Office press release Tuesday which said that President Chen Shui-bian has accepted the resignation of a housekeeper who works for his daughter but has been paid out of public funds, adding that [...]
2006-08-02 07:20:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI2615MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS, U.S.-TAIWAN FTA,
[...] Summary: As Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies continued to focus their reporting August 3 on President Chen Shui-bian's efforts to clarify the details of the Presidential Office's special state affairs expense account and his alleged improper use of taxpayers' money to pay for domestic he [...]
2006-08-03 09:27:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI2626MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT TRADE
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies gave significant coverage August 4 to a Supreme Administrative Court ruling Thursday, which voided a controversial partnership between the Ministry of Transportation and Communications and a local company on the operation of the highway electroni [...]
2006-08-04 07:49:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI2642MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS, U.S.-TAIWAN
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their coverage August 5-7 on the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' sudden announcement Saturday night, just before Premier Su Tseng-chang was to leave on his planned trip to Chad, that Taiwan had severed ties with that country after learning [...]
2006-08-07 08:39:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI2674MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS, CROSS-STRAIT
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their coverage August 8 on the sudden announcement by the Minister of Transportation and Communications Monday afternoon of her resignation over the controversial highway electronic toll collection system; President Chen Shui-bian's alle [...]
2006-08-08 08:45:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI2696MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS, NORTH KOREA
[...] Summary: On August 9, Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their coverage on the sudden resignation Monday of the Minister of Transportation and Communications, and on the controversial highway electronic toll collection system; the aftermath of Taiwan's break in diplomatic ties with [...]
2006-08-09 08:56:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI2729MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies continued to focus their coverage August 10 on former DPP Chairman Shih Ming-teh's efforts to oust President Chen Shui-bian; investigations into the details of the Presidential Office's special state affairs expense account; the resignation of t [...]
2006-08-10 09:00:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI2778MEDIA REACTION: ISRAEL-/HEZBOLLAH COMBAT, GWOT
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies gave extensive coverage August 15 to the investigations into the Presidential Office's special state affairs expense account; former DPP Chairman Shih Ming-teh's campaign to oust President Chen Shui-bian; and the KMT's plan to detail its handlin [...]
2006-08-15 22:47:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI2785MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS
[...] Summary: Former DPP Chairman Shih Ming-teh's efforts to oust President Chen Shui-bian and investigations into the Presidential Office's special state affairs expense account stayed in the Taiwan media's spotlight today. News coverage also focused on a scandal allegedly involving the director- [...]
2006-08-16 08:18:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI2845MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN FTA, TAIWAN POLITICAL
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies continued to focus their coverage August 17 on former DPP Chairman Shih Ming-teh's efforts to oust President Chen Shui-bian, and investigations into the Presidential Office's special state affairs expense account. The mass-circulation "Apple Dai [...]
2006-08-17 08:54:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI2870MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S POLITICAL SITUATION
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies continued to focus their coverage August 18 on former DPP Chairman Shih Ming-teh's efforts to oust President Chen Shui-bian, and investigations into the Presidential Office's special state affairs expense account. The pro-status quo "China Time [...]
2006-08-18 09:01:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI2889MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S POLITICAL SITUATION, GWOT,
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their coverage August 19-21 on the multiple efforts to oust President Chen Shui-bian, investigations into the Presidential Office's special state affairs expense account, and the KMT's plan to release a party assets report on Wednesday. [...]
2006-08-21 09:12:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI2895MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S POLITICAL SITUATION, ASEAN
[...] Summary: As the multiple efforts to oust President Chen Shui-bian and investigations into the Presidential Office's special state affairs expense account stayed in the Taiwan media's spotlight August 22, news coverage also focused on President Chen's planned trip to Palau in early September, a [...]
2006-08-22 08:24:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI2914MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS, TAIWAN'S
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies gave considerable coverage August 23 to an announcement by former DPP Chairman Shih Ming-teh Tuesday that he has reached his target of collecting NT$100 million [approximately US$3.1 million] in donations in support of his campaign to oust Presid [...]
2006-08-23 08:53:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI2946MEDIA REACTION: MOVEMENTS TO OUST PRESIDENT CHEN
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their coverage August 24 on former DPP Chairman Shih Ming-teh's campaign to oust President Chen Shui-bian; the many attacks against Shih's planned movement and against him personally; and the KMT's first-ever party assets report, which w [...]
2006-08-24 09:00:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI2947TAIWAN TIFA FOLLOW UP - DRUGS - SHORT TERM
[...] As part of TIFA follow-up meetings, Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative Eric Altbach and delegation discussed pharmaceutical issues with the Department of Health (DOH) and the Bureau of National Health Insurance (BNHI) as well as local representatives of U.S. pharmaceutical firms. Thes [...]
2006-08-24 09:15:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD EIND TW
06AITTAIPEI2957MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S POLITICAL SITUATION
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies continued to focus their coverage August 25 on the DPP's personal attacks against former DPP Chairman Shih Ming-teh; the investigations into the Presidential Office's special state affairs expense account; a scuffle on a live TV talk show Thursd [...]
2006-08-25 08:47:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI2962TAIWAN TIFA FOLLOW-UP: PROGRESS AND HIGH LEVEL
[...] Taiwan rolled out the red carpet for Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative Eric Altbach and the U.S. trade delegation visit to Taipei August 17-21 to follow-up the May TIFA talks. Taiwan was eager to reaffirm its commitment to the TIFA process and report on actions taken since the May T [...]
2006-08-25 09:04:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ECON EIND EINT ETRD KTEX TW
06AITTAIPEI2973RICH GAS HYDRATE FOUND OFF TAIWAN
[...] SUMMARY. Taiwan confirmed the discovery of rich reserves of gas hydrate deposits off its southwestern waters. The current technology for gas hydrate extraction is not yet fully developed, but the new energy source could meet domestic consumption of natural gas for more than 60 years. Experts fr [...]
2006-08-28 08:47:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN EMIN ENRG TW
06AITTAIPEI2974MEDIA REACTION: CAMPAIGN TO OUST PRESIDENT CHEN SHUI-BIAN
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their coverage August 26-28 on the multiple efforts to oust President Chen Shui-bian; the rally held by pro-Chen supporters in Taipei Saturday; and the Mainland Affairs Council's announcement Friday of the "Taiwan Strait Tourism and Trav [...]
2006-08-28 08:48:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI2982MEDIA REACTION: CAMPAIGN TO OUST PRESIDENT CHEN SHUI-BIAN
[...] Summary: Former DPP Chairman Shih Ming-teh's formal announcement Monday that the sit-in rally to oust President Chen Shui-bian will kick off September 9 stayed in the Taiwan's media spotlight August 29. News coverage also focused on the possibility of a visit by China's Taiwan Affairs Office [...]
2006-08-29 23:44:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI2993MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their coverage August 30 on former DPP Chairman Shih Ming-teh's campaign to oust President Chen Shui-bian, President Chen's planned overseas trip in early September, the 2006 National Defense Report released by the Ministry of National D [...]
2006-08-30 22:45:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI3011MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S POLITICAL SITUATION
[...] Summary: Amid the extensive reporting on former DPP Chairman Shih Ming-teh's campaign to oust President Chen Shui-bian, Taiwan's news coverage August 31 also focused on President Chen's planned overseas trip. The pro-status quo "China Times" ran a banner headline on page four that read "U.S. [...]
2006-08-31 22:03:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI3016TAIWAN TIFA FOLLOW UP - AGRICULTURE
[...] Summary. Official reaction to both the discovery of trace levels of biotech rice in the U.S. and our response to Taiwan's audit of U.S. beef packing plants has been as good as could have been expected. In TIFA follow-up talks, however, the Council of Agriculture (COA) sought to downgrade the [...]
2006-09-01 03:38:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ETRD TW
06AITTAIPEI3028MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENT CHEN SHUI-BIAN'S UPCOMING TRIP TO
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies gave extensive coverage September 1 to President Chen Shui-bian's upcoming overseas trip, which is slated for September 3; former DPP Chairman Shih Ming-teh's campaign to oust President Chen, of which some warm-up activities will kick off this e [...]
2006-09-02 05:59:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI3037TAIWAN REP TO APEC CONFERENCE ON WORKFORCE
[...] No summary [...]
2006-09-05 09:46:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDELAB APECO CH TW
06AITTAIPEI3041MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENT CHEN'S OVERSEAS TRIP, CAMPAIGN TO
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their coverage September 2-5 on moves to oust President Chen Shui-bian; Chen's trip to the South Pacific aboard Air Force One; and the renaming of Chiang Kai-shek International Airport. The pro-independence "Liberty Times," Taiwan's big [...]
2006-09-05 21:59:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI3057CIVAIR: VIOLATION OF FAA REGULATIONS (CHEN HSIAO MING) -
[...] Summary: Taiwan Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) informed AIT/T that it had fined Chen Hsiao Ming (Docket Number 3157797) NT$80,000 (US$2,500). End summary 2. In a letter dated September 4, 2006, CAA Flight Standards Division Director Lee Wan-lee informed AIT/T of the final dispositi [...]
2006-09-06 08:46:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDEAIR TW
06AITTAIPEI3061MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies gave significant coverage September 6 to a press conference hosted by President Chen Shui-bian in Palau Tuesday, in which he talked about former DPP Chairman Shih Ming-teh's campaign to oust him, the controversial special state affairs expense a [...]
2006-09-06 08:47:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI3098MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S POLITICAL SITUATION, CROSS-STRAIT
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their coverage September 7 on President Chen Shui-bian's transit of Guam and return to Taiwan Wednesday; former DPP Chairman Shih Ming-teh's campaign to unseat President Chen; the KMT's plan to push legislation of anti-graft laws; a loca [...]
2006-09-07 07:34:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI3120MEDIA REACTION: CAMPAIGN TO OUST PRESIDENT CHEN, U.S. ARMS
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies gave significant coverage September 8 to the prosecutors' secret questioning of President Chen Shui-bian and First Lady Wu Shu-chen in August, and former DPP Chairman Shih Ming-teh's campaign to oust President Chen, which will kick off tomorrow. [...]
2006-09-08 23:13:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI3140MEDIA REACTION: CAMPAIGN TO OUST PRESIDENT CHEN SHUI-BIAN,
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies gave significant reporting and editorial coverage September 9-11 to former DPP Chairman Shih Ming-teh's sit-in rally to oust President Chen Shui-bian, which kicked off Saturday. All the major Chinese-language papers carried a half-page paid ann [...]
2006-09-11 09:30:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI3141 AIT DIRECTOR EXCHANGES VIEWS ON DEMOCRACY, DEFENSE WITH
[...] Summary: AIT Director Stephen M. Young hosted a luncheon Sept. 7 at his residence arranged by PAS for senior news executives of Taiwan's six leading cable television news channels. The luncheon was held to introduce Deputy Director Robert S. Wang and to exchange views on major issues. The dis [...]
2006-09-11 09:30:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI3158MEDIA REACTION: CAMPAIGN TO OUST PRESIDENT CHEN SHUI-BIAN
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies continued to give significant coverage September 12 to former DPP Chairman Shih Ming-teh's sit-in rally to oust President Chen Shui-bian, and to a possible general strike to try to force Chen to step down. The pro-independence "Liberty Times," [...]
2006-09-12 10:39:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI3178MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS, CAMPAIGN TO OUST
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies continued to give significant coverage September 13 to former DPP Chairman Shih Ming-tech's sit-in rally to oust President Chen Shui-bian -- in some cases, nearly half of their front sections were devoted to the "Oust Chen" campaign. The pro-in [...]
2006-09-13 09:22:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI3187MEDIA REACTION: CAMPAIGN TO OUST PRESIDENT CHEN SHUI-BIAN,
[...] Summary: As former DPP Chairman Shih Ming-teh's sit-in to oust President Chen Shui-bian continued to stay in the Taiwan media's spotlight September 14, news coverage also focused on a mass "Formosa Sunrise" rally planned by the Taiwan Society on September 16 on Ketagalan Boulevard; President C [...]
2006-09-14 09:07:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI3198MEDIA REACTION: CAMPAIGN TO OUST PRESIDENT CHEN SHUI-BIAN,
[...] Summary: Taiwan major Chinese-language dailies gave significant coverage September 15 to the planned high-profile parade launched by the "Oust Bian" campaign to "besiege" the Presidential Office and Residence Friday evening; and a mass "Formosa Sunrise" rally planned by the Taiwan Society on S [...]
2006-09-15 08:41:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI3199 Taiwan 2007 Budget Proposal
[...] Taiwan's executive branch has proposed a 2007 central government budget with expenditure growth at an eight-year high, but with increased tax revenues reducing the deficit. While education, science and culture continue to occupy the largest share of the proposed budget, defense spending will [...]
2006-09-15 08:42:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDEINV EFIN ECON PINR TW
06AITTAIPEI3231MEDIA REACTION: CAMPAIGN TO OUST PRESIDENT CHEN SHUI-BIAN
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies gave significant coverage September 16-18 to a peaceful high-profile parade launched by the "Oust Bian" campaign to "besiege" the Presidential Office and Residence last Friday evening; and to a mass "Formosa Sunrise" rally initiated by the Taiwa [...]
2006-09-18 09:03:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI3242MEDIA REACTION: CAMPAIGN TO OUST PRESIDENT CHEN SHUI-BIAN,
[...] Summary: As the campaign to oust President Chen Shui-bian stayed in the Taiwan media's spotlight September 19, news coverage also focused on the new legislative session, which began today; clashes that broke out between pro-Chen and anti-Chen protesters in Kaohsiung Monday; and the imported fre [...]
2006-09-19 09:34:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI3259MEDIA REACTION: CAMPAIGN TO OUST PRESIDENT CHEN SHUI-BIAN
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their coverage September 20 on the ongoing and follow-on movements to former DPP Chairman Shih Ming-teh's campaign to oust President Chen Shui-bian; on the violent clashes that erupted between the pro-Chen and anti-Chen protesters in Tai [...]
2006-09-20 08:33:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI3274MEDIA REACTION: CAMPAIGN TO OUST PRESIDENT CHEN SHUI-BIAN
[...] Summary: Taiwan major Chinese-language dailies continued to focus their coverage September 21 on former DPP Chairman Shih Ming-teh's campaign to oust President Chen Shui-bian; on the violent clashes that erupted between the pro-Chen and anti-Chen protesters in southern Taiwan Wednesday; and on [...]
2006-09-21 21:59:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI3276 Taiwan to Set up Trade Representative Office
[...] Taiwan's Executive Yuan (EY) will set up a Taiwan Trade Representative (TTR) Office, likely in December 2006. The TTR will be responsible for all trade negotiations and is modeled on USTR, according to Connie Chang, a special aide to former Economic Minister Morgan Huang. 2. The TTR will [...]
2006-09-22 05:34:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDEINV EFIN ECON ETRD TW
06AITTAIPEI3289MEDIA REACTION: CAMPAIGN TO OUST PRESIDENT CHEN SHUI-BIAN,
[...] Summary: Taiwan major Chinese-language dailies focused their coverage September 22 on former DPP Chairman Shih Ming-teh's campaign to oust President Chen Shui-bian; on the violent clashes that erupted between the pro-Chen and anti-Chen protesters in southern Taiwan Thursday; on the possible so [...]
2006-09-22 23:52:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI3309MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENT CHEN SHUI-BIAN'S CONSTITUTIONAL
[...] Summary: Taiwan major Chinese-language dailies focused their coverage September 23-25 on the ongoing and follow-on movements of former DPP Chairman Shih Ming-teh's campaign to oust President Chen Shui-bian; on possible solutions to the current political stand-off in Taiwan; and on President Ch [...]
2006-09-25 10:22:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI3322MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENT CHEN SHUI-BIAN'S CONSTITUTIONAL
[...] Summary: Taiwan major Chinese-language dailies focused their coverage September 26 on Premier Su Tseng-chang's plan to confer with major political party leaders for a settlement of the current political stand-off; on the follow-on movements of former DPP Chairman Shih Ming-teh's campaign to ou [...]
2006-09-26 09:58:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI3337MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENT CHEN SHUI-BIAN'S CONSTITUTIONAL
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies continued to center their September 27 reporting on Premier Su Tseng-chang's plan to confer with major political party leaders for a settlement of the current political stand-off; and on the follow-on movements of former DPP Chairman Shih Ming-t [...]
2006-09-27 09:02:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI3361MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENT CHEN'S CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their coverage September 28 on the planned meeting between Premier Su Tseng-chang and KMT Chairman Ma Ying-jeou; on the DPP's twentieth SIPDIS anniversary; on the follow-on movements of former DPP Chairman Shih Ming-teh's campaign to [...]
2006-09-28 09:16:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI3379MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENT CHEN'S COMMENTS ON CONSTITUTIONAL
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies gave significant coverage September 29 to New York Yankees pitcher Chien-ming Wang who broke the Major League "Asian" record by with his 19th win in New York's Yankee Stadium Thursday. News coverage also focused on the twentieth anniversary of [...]
2006-09-29 09:00:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI3391MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENT CHEN SHUI-BIAN'S COMMENT ON
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their coverage September 30 - October 2 on the ongoing and follow-on movements of former DPP Chairman Shih Ming-teh's campaign to oust President Chen Shui-bian; on a big rally held in Kaohsiung Saturday celebrating the DPP's twentieth bi [...]
2006-10-02 09:50:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI3395MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS, PRESIDENT CHEN
[...] Summary: Taiwan dailies (October 3) focused on the Taipei District Prosecutor's Office decision to close the Sogo Department Store Ownership case on Monday without indicting First Lady Wu Shu-chen. Taiwan dailies also focused on the casualties suffered by mainland Chinese tourists when their [...]
2006-10-03 06:52:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI3431MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S CONSITUTIONAL REFORM AND
[...] Summary: Taiwan dailies (October 4) focused on U.S. worries about Taiwan's constitutional reform. The pro-status quo "China Times" front-paged that "The United States has urged President Chen Shui-bian through three channels not to touch the 'red line' in constitutional reform." 2. In ter [...]
2006-10-04 05:29:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI3453MEDIA REACTION: DPP'S DRAFT CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies on October 5 printed special cover pages or reported on the front page the victory of Taiwan-born New York Yankees pitcher Wang Chien-ming in a major league playoff opening game. On the political side, most major dailies highlighted criticism b [...]
2006-10-05 08:52:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI3474MEDIA REACTION: DPRK NUCLEAR TEST
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their coverage October 6-11 on the high-profile parade and siege of the Presidential Office launched by former DPP Chairman Shih Ming-teh's "Oust Bian" campaign on the Double Ten National Day; on North Korea's nuclear test Monday; and on [...]
2006-10-11 08:41:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI3487TAIWAN FUEL PRICES TO REFLECT MARKET
[...] SUMMARY. Taiwan's China Petroleum Corporation (CPC),announced September 27 a NT$0.9 per liter reduction in wholesale prices of gasoline and diesel fuel and implemented a system to base its wholesale prices on fluctuations in international crude oil markets. This move follows years of direct [...]
2006-10-12 07:47:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDENRG SENV ECON TW
06AITTAIPEI3488MEDIA REACTION: DPRK NUCLEAR TEST
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies continued to focus on October 12 on the role of Taipei Mayor Ma Ying-jeou in dealing with the high-profile parade and siege of the Presidential Office on Double Ten National Day, which was launched by former DPP Chairman Shih Ming-teh's "Oust Bi [...]
2006-10-12 08:16:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI3509MEDIA REACTION: DPRK NUCLEAR TEST, CAMPAIGN TO OUST
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their coverage October 13 on a Taipei City Police Department decision Thursday to revoke permission for the "Oust Bian" campaign to assemble in front of the Presidential Office starting this coming Saturday; on the vote in the Legislativ [...]
2006-10-13 09:23:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI3536MEDIA REACTION: DPRK NUCLEAR TEST, U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their coverage October 14-16 on President Chen Shui-bian's call to consider writing a constitution for a "Second Republic" Sunday; and on the UN Security Council's decision to impose sanctions on North Korea. News also focused on Presid [...]
2006-10-16 09:06:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI3549MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENT CHEN SHUI-BIAN'S "SECOND
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies put their focus October 17 on President Chen Shui-bian's idea of writing a constitution for a "Second Republic;" on the KMT's decision Monday to pull back its support for a People First Party proposal on a no-confidence vote against Premier Su T [...]
2006-10-17 08:56:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI3550 New Taiwan Foreign Currency Bond Market
[...] (SBU) Taiwan has established a foreign currency bond market and expects the first bond listings in October. The move is another in a series of measures designed to better utilize Taiwan's surplus capital. However, restrictions such as limits on PRC investment and the lack of incentives will [...]
2006-10-17 08:59:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDEINV EFIN ECON PINR TW
06AITTAIPEI3564MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies shifted their focus October 18 from covering all political issues to a business scandal involving a major holding company; the KMT-CCP Cross-Strait Agricultural Forum held in Boao October 17-18; and the year-end Taipei and Kaohsiung mayoral race [...]
2006-10-18 09:08:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI3585MEDIA REACTION: DPRK NUCLEAR TEST, PRESIDENT CHEN
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies gave significant coverage October 19 to Taipei prosecutors' raid of the Chinatrust Financial Holding Company on Wednesday and the detention of two senior officers in charge of financial and legal affairs. News coverage also focused on the year-e [...]
2006-10-19 09:22:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI3595 M&A by Foreign Financial Institutions
[...] London-based Standard Chartered Bank (SCB) recently announced it will totally acquire Taiwan's Hsinchu International Bank (HIB) in October 2006 by purchasing equity shares in Taiwan's stock market. A dozen foreign investors have acquired significant equity in six Taiwan banking institutions th [...]
2006-10-20 07:32:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDEINV EFIN ECON PINR TW
06AITTAIPEI3602MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS, U.S.-TAIWAN
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused coverage October 20 on the year-end Taipei and Kaohsiung mayoral races; and on National Taiwan University Hospital's decision Thursday to turn down a request from President Chen Shui-bian's son-in-law to resume his duties as a physician [...]
2006-10-20 08:55:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI3614MEDIA REACTION: DPRK NUCLEAR TEST, TAIWAN'S "SECOND
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their coverage October 21-23 on the year-end Taipei and Kaohsiung mayoral races; on the split between the KMT and the People First Party (PFP) leadership over December's Taipei mayoral election; on the follow-on movements of the "Oust Bi [...]
2006-10-23 10:03:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI3628MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS, U.S.-TAIWAN
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies put their focus October 24 on the follow-on movements of the "Oust Bian" campaign; on the year-end Taipei and Kaohsiung mayoral races; on the Center for Disease Control's decision Monday to suspend the use of flu vaccines from a French company f [...]
2006-10-24 10:48:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI3636MEDIA REACTION: DPRK NUCLEAR TEST, KMT CHAIRMAN MA
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies gave significant coverage October 25 to the Legislative Yuan session Tuesday, in which the U.S. arms procurement bill was blocked again, but a long-stalled bill to liquidate ill-gotten assets obtained by political parties was successfully placed [...]
2006-10-25 09:33:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI3656MEDIA REACTION: SOUTH KOREA
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their coverage October 26 on the year-end Taipei and Kaohsiung mayoral races; on the controversial party assets bill, which will be discussed in the Legislative Yuan on Friday; and on the decision by Chinatrust Financial Holding Company [...]
2006-10-26 22:41:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI3669MEDIA REACTION: U.S. ARMS SALES TO TAIWAN
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies gave significant news coverage to AIT Taipei Director Stephen Young's press conference Thursday, which focused on U.S. arms sales to Taiwan. Coverage also focused on the investigation results of the Presidential allowance for state affairs case [...]
2006-10-27 09:21:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI3682MEDIA REACTION: U.S. ARMS SALES TO TAIWAN
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies continued to give significant reporting and editorial coverage October 28-30 to AIT Taipei Director Stephen Young's press conference last Thursday; to the reactions by Taiwan's ruling and opposition parties to Young's remarks on arms procurement [...]
2006-10-30 09:49:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI3706MEDIA REACTION: U.S. ARMS SALES TO TAIWAN
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies gave front-page coverage October 31 to a Financial Supervisory Commission member who was taken to a marathon questioning session Monday on suspicion of corruption. Coverage also focused on the review of the National Defense Budget for fiscal 20 [...]
2006-10-31 09:38:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI3709MEDIA REACTION: U.S. ARMS SALES TO TAIWAN
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies gave front-page coverage October 31 to a Financial Supervisory Commission member who was taken to a marathon questioning session Monday on suspicion of corruption. Coverage also focused on the review of the National Defense Budget for fiscal 20 [...]
2006-10-31 23:31:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI3726MEDIA REACTION: U.S. ARMS SALES TO TAIWAN
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies continued to focus November 1 on the prosecutors' request Tuesday to detain a Financial Supervisory Commission member for his alleged involvement in corruption. News coverage also focused on the arms procurement bill, which was again blocked by [...]
2006-11-01 22:57:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI3739MEDIA REACTION: U.S. ARMS SALES TO TAIWAN
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies November 2continued to put their focus on the prosecutors' decision Wednesday to detain a Financial Supervisory Commission member on the charge of violating the Securities Transaction Law. News coverage also focused on the Legislative Yuan's re [...]
2006-11-02 08:19:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI3754MEDIA REACTION: U.S. ARMS SALES TO TAIWAN, TAIWAN'S NEW
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their coverage November 3 on the kidnap of a local baseball pitching coach; on the investigation of the presidential allowance for state affairs case; and on President Chen Shui-bian's interview with the "Financial Times" Wednesday, in w [...]
2006-11-03 09:06:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI3778MEDIA REACTION: INDICTMENT OF FIRST LADY WU SHU-CHEN
[...] Summary: Taiwan's dailies gave significant reporting and editorial coverage November 4-7 to the indictments of First Lady Wu Shu-chen and three presidential aides last Friday, and President Chen Shui-bian's televised address to the Taiwan people Sunday evening. All the major Chinese-language [...]
2006-11-06 08:58:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI3799MEDIA REACTION: INDICTMENT OF FIRST LADY WU SHU-CHEN, U.S.
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies continued to focus their coverage November 7 on the aftermath of President Chen Shui-bian's televised address to the Taiwan people Sunday evening with regard to the indictments of First Lady Wu Shu-chen and three presidential aides. News covera [...]
2006-11-07 22:55:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI3805MEDIA REACTION: U.S. ARMS SALES TO TAIWAN, INDICTMENT OF
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies continued to put their focus November 8 on the aftermath of President Chen Shui-bian's televised address to the Taiwan people Sunday evening on the subject of the indictments of First Lady Wu Shu-chen and three presidential aides; and on the thi [...]
2006-11-08 09:29:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI3821MEDIA REACTION: U.S. MIDTERM ELECTIONS
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies gave extensive coverage November 9 to the aftermath of President Chen Shui-bian's televised address to the Taiwan people Sunday evening on the subject of the indictments of First Lady Wu Shu-chen; and to the Democrats' triumph in the U.S. mid-te [...]
2006-11-09 08:40:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI3834MEDIA REACTION: U.S. MIDTERM ELECTIONS
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their coverage November 10-13 on the aftermath of the prosecutor's indictments of First Lady Wu Shu-chen and three Presidential aides in early November; on the first televised debates among the Taipei mayoral candidates Sunday; and on fo [...]
2006-11-13 09:16:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI3840MEDIA REACTION: U.S. MIDTERM ELECTIONS
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies gave significant coverage November 14 to two DPP legislators who decided to resign effective this week in protest of the party's handling of the corruption scandal implicating President Chen Shui-bian and his wife. News coverage also focused on [...]
2006-11-14 08:03:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI3871MEDIA REACTION: APEC
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-15 09:07:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI3876MEDIA REACTION: TAIPEI MAYOR MA YING-JEOU
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major dailies all gave significant reporting and editorial coverage November 16 to Taipei Mayor Ma Ying-jeou, who apologized Wednesday for his office's administrative defects in handling the special mayoral allowance. Most papers front-paged Ma's apology and devoted several [...]
2006-11-16 08:14:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI3886MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS, APEC
[...] Summary: Taipei Mayor Ma Ying-jeou's admission of his office's administrative defects in handling the special mayoral allowance stayed in the spotlight of the Taiwan media November 17. News coverage also focused on a near mid-air collision in South Korean airspace, and the surprise victory of [...]
2006-11-17 09:23:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI3888Demarche on International Expansion of Federal Flight Deck
[...] Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Representative Sharon Walloppillai and AIT-Taipei econoff delivered reftel demarche to Taiwan Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA) Deputy Director General George Lee on November 13, 2006. Lee indicated that Taiwan was open to the U.S. proposal to [...]
2006-11-17 09:26:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDEAIR ECON PTER ASEC TW
06AITTAIPEI3896MEDIA REACTION: APEC, U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS, CROSS-STRAIT
[...] Summary: Taiwan dailies (November 18-20) focused on two issues: A traffic accident on Saturday that injured Taichung Mayor Jason Hu and especially his wife, who was still in critical condition as of November 20; and Taipei Mayor Ma Ying-jeou's decision on Friday to donate NT$15 million [US$46 [...]
2006-11-20 08:41:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI3921MEDIA REACTION: APEC
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies continued to focus their coverage November 21 on Taichung Mayor Jason Hu's wife, who is in a critical condition following a serious car accident last Saturday. News coverage also focused on Taipei Mayor Ma Ying-jeou's alleged misuse of the spec [...]
2006-11-21 22:34:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI3925REQUEST FOR ASSESSMENT OF FOREIGN POLICY
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-22 01:28:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA TBIO OSCI
06AITTAIPEI3938MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS, U.S.-CHINA
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their coverage November 22 on Taichung Mayor Jason Hu's wife, who remains in a critical condition following a serious car accident last Saturday; on Taipei Mayor Ma Ying-jeou's alleged misuse of the special mayoral allowance; on the upco [...]
2006-11-22 08:36:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI3957MEDIA REACTION: U.S. AND CROSS-STRAIT THREE LINKS
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-24 09:08:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI3968MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENT CHEN SHUI-BIAN'S FUTURE AND
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-27 07:10:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI3979MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-28 09:23:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI3988MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS AND U.S. MIDDLE EAST
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-29 08:42:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI3989 NT Dollar Loans to Foreign Borrowers
[...] (U) Taiwan's monetary authorities in November started permitting banking institutions to lend NT Dollars (NTD) to foreign borrowers in Taiwan which may be used to finance direct investment, securities trading, and real estate purchases. The new measure relaxes the conditions for using NTD loa [...]
2006-11-29 08:42:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDEINV EFIN ECON PINR TW
06AITTAIPEI3990 WEF Ranks Taiwan 100th in Banking Soundness
[...] The World Economic Forum (WEF) recently gave Taiwan's banking system a ranking of 100th out of 125 rated economies. Taiwan's banking regulators have expressed dismay, disagreement, and have pointed out flaws in evaluation method. End summary. Poor Ranking ------------ 2. In its 2006 [...]
2006-11-29 08:42:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDEINV EFIN ECON PINR TW
06AITTAIPEI3991MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS AND U.S. MIDDLE EAST
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-29 08:43:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI3996CIVAIR: VIOLATION OF FAA REGULATIONS (EVA AIRWAYS CORP.)
[...] On November 21, 2006, AIT econoff delivered FAA requests for investigation and investigative enforcement reports on EVA Airways Flights BR635 and BR698 (refs A and B, docket numbers 2006AL030038 and 2006AL030069, respectively) to Taiwan's Civil Aeronautics Administration (CAA). Econoff met wit [...]
2006-11-30 05:07:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDEAIR TW
06AITTAIPEI4005MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-30 09:03:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI4014R/V MELVILLE MARINE RESEARCH CLEARANCE REQUEST,
[...] No summary [...]
2006-12-01 07:14:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDKRVC TPHY EWWT
06AITTAIPEI4027MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2006-12-01 08:04:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI4046MEDIA REACTION: U.S., CHINA AND TAIWAN RELATIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2006-12-04 09:36:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI4051 Taiwan: Chiropractors Face Market Access Restrictions
[...] This is an action request. Please see paragraph 12. Summary ------- 2. Summary. After years of tolerating U.S.-trained chiropractors practicing in Taiwan, officials have moved to prevent such activities. Motivated largely by resistance in Taiwan's medical community, officials have raid [...]
2006-12-05 03:02:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD TW
06AITTAIPEI4052TAIWAN REGAINS ICCAT FISHING QUOTA
[...] SUMMARY. The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tuna (ICCAT) meeting 11/17-26 in Dubrovnik Croatia, restored to Taiwan the full tuna quota it had previously enjoyed and agreed Taiwan could maintain its non-member status in the organization. In the year since the 2 [...]
2006-12-05 03:43:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDEFIS ETRD ECON ICCAT TW
06AITTAIPEI4053 Terrorist Lists
[...] Taiwan does not have a public terrorist list similar to the USG Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) list published by the U.S. Department of the Treasury. YOUNG [...]
2006-12-05 06:18:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC KTFN KVPR PREL PTER TW
06AITTAIPEI4056MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT TRADE
[...] No summary [...]
2006-12-05 09:07:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI4061MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT TRADE
[...] No summary [...]
2006-12-06 09:05:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI4068LETTER TO TAIWAN REGARDING FISHING CAPACITY AND US
[...] No summary [...]
2006-12-07 01:24:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDEFIS ETRD SENV
06AITTAIPEI4069ENERGY TAX, GOOD IDEA SEARCHING FOR A GOOD PLAN
[...] SUMMARY. Concern over rising energy use and carbon dioxide emissions have led Taiwan authorities to devise new strategies for increased energy efficiency and conservation. A proposed new tax targeting hydrocarbon fuels was sent to the Executive Yuan in September. It targets eight fuel types [...]
2006-12-07 02:49:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDENRG SENV EPET ECON TW
06AITTAIPEI4073MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S POLITICAL SITUATION, CROSS-STRAIT
[...] Summary: As the upcoming Taipei and Kaohsiung mayoral elections stayed in the spotlight of the Taiwan media, news coverage on December 7 also focused on Taiwan's winning two gold medals in soft tennis in the Asian Games in Doha Wednesday. In terms of editorials and commentaries, an editorial i [...]
2006-12-07 10:22:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI4084MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S POLITICAL SITUATION, U.S.-TAIWAN
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their coverage December 8 on Taiwan's winning the third gold medal in the Asian Games in Doha Thursday; and on the Taipei and Kaohsiung mayoral elections, which are slated for Saturday, December 9. The pro-independence "Liberty Times," [...]
2006-12-08 09:15:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI4094TERRORISM FINANCE: TALKING POINTS AND Q & AS FOR
[...] No summary [...]
2006-12-11 08:56:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO EFIN ETTC PREL PTER
06AITTAIPEI4103MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN MAYORAL ELECTIONS
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies continued to focus its coverage December 12 on the aftermath of Saturday's Taipei and Kaohsiung mayoral elections, their impact on each political party's future development and on the 2008 presidential elections. The pro-independence "Liberty Ti [...]
2006-12-12 10:01:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI4111MEDIA REACTION: IRAQ STUDY GROUP REPORT, TAIWAN'S MAYORAL
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies continued to focus their coverage December 13 on the aftermath of Saturday's Taipei and Kaohsiung mayoral elections, and on alleged vote-buying in Kaohsiung. In terms of editorials and commentaries, a commentary in the mass-circulation "Apple D [...]
2006-12-13 09:07:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI4121TRANSLATION OF 2006 HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT
[...] AIT opts for a local translation of the individual Taiwan portion of the 2006 Human Rights Report. YOUNG [...]
2006-12-14 08:35:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM APER KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI4125MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S MAYORAL ELECTIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2006-12-14 22:41:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI4135MEDIA REACTION: NORTH KOREA, CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their coverage December 15 on First Lady Wu Shu-chen, who will stand trial today for her involvement in the Presidential Office Allowance for State Affairs case; on the Green camp's request for a constitutional interpretation on the lega [...]
2006-12-15 08:22:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI4141MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENT CHEN SHUI-BIAN'S FUTURE
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their coverage December 16-18 on First Lady Wu Shu-chen's trial on corruption charges in the Taipei District Court Friday where she faint during the proceedings; a possible cooperation between the KMT nativist faction of Taipei city coun [...]
2006-12-18 08:30:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI4146MEDIA REACTION: DPRK
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their coverage December 19 on Taiwan's new regulations on international air tickets. The issue is that abbreviations, codes, and information regarding weight allowances on international tickets are hard to understand. Taiwan's Civil Ae [...]
2006-12-19 01:05:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI4162MEDIA REACTION: SIX-PARTY TALKS
[...] No summary [...]
2006-12-20 08:43:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI4165LAUNCH OF SECURE FREIGHT INITIATIVE - NONPAPER
[...] No summary [...]
2006-12-20 08:50:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDEWWT KHLS ASEC PTER ECON TW
06AITTAIPEI4174MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2006-12-22 04:34:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI4183MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2006-12-26 08:17:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI4192TAIWAN HIT BY 3 OFFSHORE EARTHQUAKES NO AMCITS
[...] On December 26 at 8:26 pm a strong earthquake registering 6.7 on the Richter scale struck southern Taiwan. The quake, with an epicenter 21.8 km southwest of Hengchun was felt as a Richter 4 quake in the city of Kaohsiung, and a Richter 2 quake in Taipei. A second tremor, magnitude 6.4, with [...]
2006-12-27 08:26:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDCASC TSPL SENV ECON TPHY TW
06AITTAIPEI4193MEDIA REACTION: IRAN, TAIWAN'S ECONOMY
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their coverage December 27 on the strong earthquake and aftershocks that rocked southern Taiwan Tuesday evening, and on Taiwan's high-speed rail system, which will formally start its trial run next week. Most papers also reported on insi [...]
2006-12-27 08:49:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI4202MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENT CHEN SHUI-BIAN
[...] No summary [...]
2006-12-28 09:31:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI4216MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENT CHEN SHUI-BIAN
[...] No summary [...]
2006-12-29 20:20:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI428TAIWAN INVITES COMMENTS FROM DRUG COMPANIES
[...] SUMMARY. Joseph Damond VP International Affairs of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PHRMA) met with Bureau of National Health Insurance (BNHI) and Dept of Health (DOH) officials Jan 19-20 to discuss PHRMA market access concerns in Taiwan. They discussed separation of p [...]
2006-02-12 01:27:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECON KPRP KTDB TW
06AITTAIPEI521MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies continued February 17 to report on the aftermath of President Chen Shui-bian's Lunar New Year's Day proposal to abolish the National Unification Council, and the controversy sparked by a KMT advertisement Tuesday which for the first time the par [...]
2006-02-20 23:07:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI536MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies continued February 18-21 to report on the aftermath of President Chen Shui-bian's Lunar New Year's Day proposal to abolish the National Unification Council, and the controversy sparked by a KMT advertisement Tuesday in which (for the first time) [...]
2006-02-22 00:05:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI549MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENT CHEN'S PROPOSAL TO
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their coverage February 22 on U.S. National Security Council Senior Acting Director for Asian Affairs Dennis Wilder's visit to Taiwan February 13-17 to persuade President Chen Shui-bian to abandon his plan to abolish the National Unifica [...]
2006-02-22 08:34:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI556MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENT CHEN'S PROPOSAL TO
[...] Summary: Major Chinese-language Taiwan dailies continued to focus their coverage February 23 on the aftermath of President Chen Shui-bian's announced proposal to abolish the National Unification Council (NUC) and National Unification Guidelines (NUG). In addition, U.S. arms procurements, a B [...]
2006-02-23 08:58:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI579MEDIA REACTION: WASHINGTON-BEIJING-TAIPEI RELATIONS
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies continued to focus their coverage February 24 on the aftermath of President Chen Shui-bian's announced proposal to abolish the National Unification Council (NUC) and National Unification Guidelines (NUG); a BBC interview with KMT Chairman Ma Yin [...]
2006-02-26 22:55:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI595MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENT CHEN'S PLAN TO ABOLISH
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies continued to provide extensive reporting February 25-27 on Chen's plan to abolish the National Unification Council (NUC) and National Unification Guidelines (NUG),but coverage also focused on a controversy over the new electronic toll collectio [...]
2006-02-27 08:53:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI600MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENT CHEN'S ANNOUNCEMENT OF
[...] Summary: On the February 28 Incident Memorial Day, Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies gave prominent reporting and editorial coverage to President Chen's announcement Monday that the National Unification Council (NUC) will "cease to function" and the National Unification Guidelines (NUG) [...]
2006-03-01 01:40:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI644MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENT CHEN'S ANNOUNCEMENT OF
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their coverage March 1 on the aftermath of President Chen Shui-bian's announcement Monday that the National Unification Council (NUC) will "cease to function" and the National Unification Guidelines (NUG) will "cease to apply"; and memor [...]
2006-03-01 08:44:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI647 Economic Briefing for February 2006
[...] This cable summarizes selected recent economic events in Taiwan in February 2006: --Economic growth and expansion; --Cross-Strait links are expanding; --Listed companies repatriate earnings; --Foreign investors acquire financial institutions; --Duties assigned to ministers without portfoli [...]
2006-03-01 22:47:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDEINV EFIN ECON PINR TW
06AITTAIPEI680MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENT CHEN'S ANNOUNCEMENT OF
[...] Summary: Coverage of Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies March 3 focused on a Taiwan towel-makers' rally Thursday to protest China's alleged economic dumping of the product, a possible corruption scandal related to the freeway electronic toll collection system, and other local issues. The [...]
2006-03-05 22:55:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI704MEDIA REACTION: U.S. RESPONSE TO PRESIDENT CHEN'S
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies gave prominent reporting and editorial coverage March 4-6 to the U.S. State Department's statement last Friday urging Taiwan to unambiguously affirm that its February 27 announcement did not abolish the National Unification Council (NUC); Presid [...]
2006-03-06 23:29:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI707MEDIA REACTION: U.S. RESPONSE TO PRESIDENT CHEN'S
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies shifted the focus of their coverage March 7 from the uproar caused by President Chen Shui-bian's announcement regarding the cession of the National Unification Council (NUC) and National Unification Guidelines (NUG) to Taiwan-born filmmaker Ang [...]
2006-03-07 08:31:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI711 Freeing Taiwan's "Card Slaves"
[...] (SBU) Summary: Overdue credit card debt and the absence of a personal bankruptcy law has led to a few high-profile cases where Taiwan "card slaves" chose suicide or crime as their only options to escape aggressive harassment from debt collection agencies. While the overall amount of delinquen [...]
2006-03-07 23:39:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDEINV EFIN ECON PINR TW
06AITTAIPEI725MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies centered their coverage March 8 on the government's investment in Taiwan's high-speed rail project, the interpellation at the Legislative Yuan, the 27th anniversary of the death of Taiwan democracy pioneer Lei Chen, and other political issues. [...]
2006-03-08 08:18:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI744KMT CHAIRMAN MA YING-JEOU'S "NEW DISCOURSE" ON
[...] Summary: This cable is the first of two reports looking at local media and commentators' take on Taiwan's current political environment. This one looks at Ma Ying-jeou's recent public discourse; the second will focus on Chen Shui-bian. This analysis was drafted by one of AIT's senior local [...]
2006-03-09 08:09:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL TA KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI761MEDIA REACTION: U.S. AND CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS
[...] Summary: As Taiwan'smajor Chinese-language dailies centered their reporting March 9 on the government's management of state-run property, Taiwan's foreign relations, and other local issues, coverage also focused on the aftermath of President Chen Shui-bian's announcement of the cessation of th [...]
2006-03-09 08:16:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI790MEDIA REACTION: U.S. AND CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies shifted the focus of their coverage March 10 to local issues such as the arrest of members of a large local money-laundering ring, the freeway electronic toll collection system scandal, and Taiwan's foreign relations. All papers also reported in [...]
2006-03-10 08:51:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI797CHINESE TAIPEI WILL SUPPORT US REQUEST ON ONLINE
[...] AIT delivered reftel talking points and passed reftel draft text of the collective agreement to counterparts at Taiwan's Bureau of Foreign Trade (BOFT) on March 8. BOFT Deputy Director, Multilateral Trade Affairs Office, Amelia Day responded March 10 that Chinese Taipei would be willing to c [...]
2006-03-12 22:57:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDECON ECPS ETRD
06AITTAIPEI808MEDIA REACTION: U.S. AND CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS, 2005 HUMAN
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies centered their coverage March 11-13 on a major railway accident in Hualien; the KMT's victory in the Chiayi City legislative by-election Saturday; a KMT rally in Taipei Sunday to "Save Taiwan"; and the call for a new investigation into the 319 s [...]
2006-03-13 23:21:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI843MEDIA REACTION: U.S. AND CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS
[...] Summary: On the day marking the first anniversary of China's passage of its "Anti-Secession Law," Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their coverage on the call for a new investigation into the 319 shooting incident, and other local issues. The pro-independence "Taiwan Daily" ran a [...]
2006-03-15 06:17:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI848MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS AND U.S.
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies continued to center their reporting March 15 on the call for a new investigation into the 319 shooting incident, a third U.S. BSE case, and other local issues; coverage also focused on President Chen Shui-bian's interviews with the international [...]
2006-03-15 08:34:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI852Central Bank Short-term Liabilities Prevented BOP Deficit
[...] Taiwan in 2005 had a trade surplus of US$18 billion, which more than offset its services trade deficit and net capital outflow, and which pushed up Taiwan's foreign exchange (FX) reserves by 4.8% to US$253 billion. However, Taiwan would have had a negative Balance of Payments (BOP) in 2005 if [...]
2006-03-15 08:35:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDEINV EFIN ECON PINR TW
06AITTAIPEI863Central Bank Short-term Liabilities Prevented BOP Deficit
[...] Taiwan in 2005 had a trade surplus of US$18 billion, which more than offset its services trade deficit and net capital outflow, and which pushed up Taiwan's foreign exchange (FX) reserves by 4.8% to US$253 billion. However, Taiwan would have had a negative Balance of Payments (BOP) in 2005 if [...]
2006-03-16 03:28:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDEINV EFIN ECON PINR TW
06AITTAIPEI868MEDIA REACTION: AFTERMATH OF PRESIDENT CHEN SHUI-BIAN'S
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their coverage March 16 on Premier Su Tseng-chang's Wednesday remarks on improving Taiwan's public order; the freeway electronic collection system scandal; the call for a new investigation into the 319 shooting incident; the rally planned [...]
2006-03-16 07:36:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI869TAIWAN WELCOMES TIFA MEETING
[...] AIT Econ Chief delivered reftel talking points proposing a US-Taiwan TIFA Joint Council meeting to Vice Minister of Economic Affairs Steve Chen (Ruey-long) on March 16. Chen immediately agreed to the conditions of coordinating and agreeing on the substance of any public announcement/press poi [...]
2006-03-16 08:19:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDETRD TW
06AITTAIPEI884MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS AND U.S.
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies continued to focus their coverage March 17 on the freeway electronic toll collection system scandal, the year-end Taipei mayoral race, the rally planned by the DPP for March 18, and other local issues. The pro-independence "Liberty Times," Taiwa [...]
2006-03-17 09:00:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI888MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS AND U.S.
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies continued to focus their coverage March 17 on the freeway electronic toll collection system scandal, the year-end Taipei mayoral race, the rally planned by the DPP for March 18, and other local issues. The pro-independence "Liberty Times," Taiwa [...]
2006-03-17 09:13:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI889 CHEN SHUI-BIAN'S STRATEGY AND THE NUC/NUG
[...] Summary: This cable is one of two looking at the local media and commentators' take on Taiwan's current political environment. This one focuses on reactions to Chen's announcement in his January 29 Lunar New Year's Day speech that he "is seriously considering [the options] to abolish the Natio [...]
2006-03-17 09:14:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDPREL TA KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI890MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS AND U.S.
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies continued to focus their coverage March 17 on the freeway electronic toll collection system scandal, the year-end Taipei mayoral race, the rally planned by the DPP for March 18, and other local issues. The pro-independence "Liberty Times," Taiwa [...]
2006-03-17 09:14:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI891MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS AND U.S.
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies continued to focus their coverage March 17 on the freeway electronic toll collection system scandal, the year-end Taipei mayoral race, the rally planned by the DPP for March 18, and other local issues. The pro-independence "Liberty Times," Taiwa [...]
2006-03-17 09:15:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI893MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS AND U.S.
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies continued to focus their coverage March 17 on the freeway electronic toll collection system scandal, the year-end Taipei mayoral race, the rally planned by the DPP for March 18, and other local issues. The pro-independence "Liberty Times," Taiwa [...]
2006-03-17 09:15:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI896MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS AND U.S.
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies continued to focus their coverage March 17 on the freeway electronic toll collection system scandal, the year-end Taipei mayoral race, the rally planned by the DPP for March 18, and other local issues. The pro-independence "Liberty Times," Taiwa [...]
2006-03-17 09:16:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI904MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS AND U.S.
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies continued to focus their coverage March 17 on the freeway electronic toll collection system scandal, the year-end Taipei mayoral race, the rally planned by the DPP for March 18, and other local issues. The pro-independence "Liberty Times," Taiwa [...]
2006-03-19 22:39:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI917MEDIA REACTION: KMT CHAIRMAN MA YING-JEOU'S U.S. TRIP,
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their coverage March 18-20 on a railway accident in Pingtung; the freeway electronic toll collection system scandal; the DPP and PFP rallies in Taipei March 18 and March 19, respectively; and the year-end Taipei and Kaohsiung mayoral race [...]
2006-03-20 23:38:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI934MEDIA REACTION: KMT CHAIRMAN MA YING-JEOU'S U.S. TRIP
[...] Summary: As Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies continued March 21 to report on the freeway electronic toll collection system scandal, coverage also focused on the Taiwan High Court's investigation of the alleged 2004 "Soft Coup"; the year-end Taipei and Kaohsiung mayoral races; KMT Chairma [...]
2006-03-21 07:38:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI952MEDIA REACTION: KMT CHAIRMAN MA YING-JEOU'S U.S. TRIP,
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their coverage March 22 on KMT Chairman Ma Ying-jeou's U.S. trip; new AIT Taipei Director Stephen Young's meeting with President Chen Shui-bian; the investigation of the alleged 2004 "Soft Coup"; the freeway electronic toll collection sys [...]
2006-03-22 08:29:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI982MEDIA REACTION: KMT CHAIRMAN MA YING-JEOU'S U.S. TRIP
[...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies continued to focus their coverage March 23 on the freeway electronic toll collection system scandal; the Mainland Affair Council's announcement Wednesday of new measures concerning cross-Strait trade; KMT Chairman Ma Ying-jeou's U.S. trip; and ot [...]
2006-03-23 22:46:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06AITTAIPEI997MEDIA REACTION: KMT CHAIRMAN MA YING-JEOU'S U.S. TRIP
[...] Summary: As Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies gave extensive coverage March 23 to the suicide of a suspect allegedly involved in a recent train derailment; the freeway electronic toll collection system scandal; and other local issues. KMT Chairman Ma Ying-jeou's U.S. trip also received a [...]
2006-03-24 09:13:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO TW
06ALGIERS1075IMPRISONED ALGERIAN JOURNALIST MOHAMED BENCHICOU
[...] Mohamed Benchicou, former publisher of the now defunct French-language daily Le Matin, is set to be released from prison June 14 according to press reports. Benchicou served a two year prison term for illegal transfer of funds related to the operation of his newspaper, though many believe the [...]
2006-06-13 16:46:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM AG
06ALGIERS1080DEMARCHE DELIVERED: TRIPARTITE DEMARCHE REQUEST ON
[...] No summary [...]
2006-06-14 14:06:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM AG
06ALGIERS1112ALGERIA AMBIVALENT AS CHINESE LABOR AND GOODS, NOT
[...] Chinese workers, who first flocked to Algeria in the late 1990s to meet the country's steep labor demand for construction projects, today number around eight thousand at any given time. While they are still most prevalent in the construction sector, many moonlight as traders of Chinese wares. [...]
2006-06-19 14:51:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDECON EINV CH AG
06ALGIERS1209BOUTEFLIKA URGES WALIS TO TAKE GREATER STAKE IN
[...] In a two-hour televised speech June 25 before Algeria's 48 walis (presidentially-appointed provincial governors),President Bouteflika vociferously criticized his government for allowing red tape, corruption, and nepotism to impede plans to meet the basic needs of its citizens, particularly Al [...]
2006-06-28 17:15:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV ECON AG
06ALGIERS1311MFA JOINS CALL FOR EMERGENCY UN SECURITY COUNCIL
[...] In conjunction with the meeting of the Arab League foreign ministers in Cairo, MFA issued a statement July 15 calling on the UN Security Council to "hold an emergency meeting to put an end to the criminal Israeli aggressions" and "assure the protection of the Lebanese and Palestinian peoples. [...]
2006-07-16 16:23:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDPREL IS LE AG
06ALGIERS1504BOUTEFLIKA SENDS BIRTHDAY GREETINGS TO KING
[...] No summary [...]
2006-08-21 06:31:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV AG MO
06ALGIERS1828TRIPARTITE AGREEMENT REACHED TO PROMOTE PRIVATE
[...] SUMMARY: Tripartite discussions among representatives of Algerian government, labor, and employers have concluded with an unprecedented "pact" to promote economic development and diversification of Algeria's economy while "aiming to guarantee social stability." Parallel negotiations led to [...]
2006-10-17 06:23:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDELAB ECON EINV AG
06ALGIERS342THIRTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF SAHRAWI REPUBLIC OBSERVED
[...] According to Algerian press reports confirmed by Embassy Rabat (reftels),the Polisario peacefully marked February 27 the 30th anniversary of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR). Unlike May 2005 statements from Polisario leader Abdelaziz and President Bouteflika, the statements this ye [...]
2006-02-28 15:44:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PBTS PHUM AG MO WI
06ALGIERS365UNOFFICIAL, EMBASSY-EDITED TEXT OF IMPLEMENTING
[...] The opening chapter lauds the sovereignty of the people who overwhelmingly voted for the Charter and implements the legal provisions of the approved charter in their name. CHAPTER TWO: LEGAL PROCEEDINGS ------------------------------ 2. In brief, this chapter deals with legal proceeding [...]
2006-03-05 08:54:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PTER PHUM AG
06ALGIERS490QUESTIONABLE DEATH SPARKS DEMONSTRATIONS IN ZERALDA
[...] (U) The questionable death of Faycal Akbichi on March 5 in a police station in Zeralda, a city 30 kilometers west of Algiers, created a furor for local citizens and resulted in 18 injuries, cars and tires burned, and damage to the city hall and a local bank headquarters. The police reacted q [...]
2006-03-19 16:48:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM AG
06ALGIERS496ALGERIA STRESSES DEVELOPMENT AS KEY TO CONTROLLING
[...] Minister Delegate for Maghreb and African Affairs Abdelkader Messahel presented to journalists March 18 "an African Road Map" for addressing migration issues. He confirmed that further discussions on migration within the African continent and between Europe and Africa would be on the agenda [...]
2006-03-20 17:23:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDPREL SMIG PHUM AG XA
06ALGIERS556GOA AND POLISARIO REACT TO MOROCCAN KING'S VISIT
[...] In reaction to the visit last week of the Moroccan King Mohammed VI to the western side of the berm in the Western Sahara, the GOA and Polisario made public statements. Abdelaziz Belkhadem, former Foreign Minister and currently Minister of State and Personal Representative to President Boutef [...]
2006-03-27 17:31:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PBTS PHUM AG MO WI
06ALGIERS657MEETING OF AU EXPERTS ON MIGRATION HELD IN ALGIERS
[...] Mandated by the January Arab League Summit in Khartoum, the Commission of the African Union (AU) convened a meeting of migration and development experts in Algiers April 3-5. The participants addressed the major themes of security and stability, human rights, development, human resources, the [...]
2006-04-10 16:57:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDPREL SMIG PHUM AG XA
06ALGIERS781HEAD OF SHELL ALGERIA OFFERS VIEWS ON ALGERIAN
[...] Summary: The head of Shell Algeria, Michael Blaha, described to Econoff April 24 his perspective on Sonatrach and the impact of the 2005 hydrocarbon law. Blaha noted the difficulties the Algerians were having in finding experienced workers for Algeria's new energy regulatory agencies that wer [...]
2006-04-29 16:44:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDENRG EPET AG
06ALGIERS817IRAN OPENS FIRST-ANNUAL TRADE PAVILION IN ALGIERS
[...] The Iranian Chamber of Commerce, Industry, and Mining (CCIMI) opened May 2 its first-annual industrial and technology show in Algiers. The show, entitled IranExpo 2006, comes on the heels of an agreement signed in January 2005 between CCIMI and the Algerian Chamber of Commerce to expand trade [...]
2006-05-06 14:04:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECON IR AG
06ALGIERS848ARAB LEAGUE BOYCOTT HAS "NO PRACTICAL APPLICATION"
[...] Algerian law does not contain specific codifications or references to the Arab League Boycott and post is not aware of any GoA communiques on the issue. While the primary boycott is informally recognized by virtue of Algeria's membership in the Arab League and the stigma still attached to doi [...]
2006-05-10 16:49:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDKBCT ABLD PHUM PIRF AG
06ALGIERS854ALGERIA PLEASED WITH DARFUR AGREEMENT
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-14 13:50:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM SU AG
06ALGIERS855ALGERIA PLEASED WITH DARFUR AGREEMENT
[...] In a May 7 communique issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),the Government of Algeria expressed its "satisfaction" with the conclusion of a peace agreement to resolve the Darfur crisis. Algeria "rejoices in this positive development" and wishes that the "parties who are not yet si [...]
2006-05-14 13:56:00Embassy AlgiersUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM SU AG
06ALMATY1 AVIAN INFLUENZA TRIPWIRES
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Embassy Almaty Emergency Action Committee Pandemic Influenza (PI) Subcommittee has met to develop tripwires and responses per Action Request in Reftel. Participants in the PI Subcommittee include the DCM and representatives from MED, CDC, ADM, CON, RSO, USAID, PEACE CORPS, [...]
2006-01-02 05:13:00US Office AlmatyUNCLASSIFIEDKZ NOTAG
06ALMATY1161 SPRING THAW BRINGS CONSULAR OUTREACH
[...] No summary [...]
2006-04-03 06:57:00US Office AlmatyUNCLASSIFIEDKOCI PREL PGOV CASC CVIS KPAO KZ
06ALMATY1210 KAZAKHSTAN ECONOMIC AND ENERGY UPDATE
[...] Summary: This information is drawn primarily from the Kazakhstani local press, and has not been checked for accuracy. The opinions and policies expressed in this report are those of the authors, not the U.S. Government. -- New Refinancing Rate -- FSA to Toughen Requirements for Second- [...]
2006-04-04 08:56:00US Office AlmatyUNCLASSIFIEDECON EIND ENRG EPET EFIN KZ ECONOMIC
06ALMATY1287 EXBS: KAZAKHSTAN ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE
[...] EXBS Almaty continues its spring cleaning in preparation for the June 26 move to Astana. 2. The Almaty EXBS office initiated the CAJE process for a second LES position--an EXBS Program Assistant--and expects to have the new employee on board by June. II. COMPLETED ACTIONS FOR THE REP [...]
2006-04-12 01:34:00US Office AlmatyUNCLASSIFIEDETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP KZ
06ALMATY1372KAZAKHSTAN ENVIRONMENT UPDATE MARCH 31, 2006
[...] Summary: This information is drawn primarily from the Kazakhstani press and has not yet been verified. The opinions expressed in this report, therefore, should not be interpreted as official positions and/or policy of the U.S. Government. -- Kazakhstan Bans Waterfowl Hunting For Fear Of B [...]
2006-04-14 10:21:00US Office AlmatyUNCLASSIFIEDECONOMIC
06ALMATY1415 KAZAKHSTAN ADOPTIONS: ALLEDGED ABUSE OF ADOPTED
[...] SUMMARY. The first-ever reported allegation of sexual abuse of an adopted Kazakhstani child in the United States has ignited a firestorm of anti-adoption criticism in the Kazakhstani parliament and provoked widespread hand wringing among adoption providers and pro-adoption advocates. With co [...]
2006-04-18 09:35:00US Office AlmatyUNCLASSIFIEDKOCI PREL PHUM PGOV CASC CVIS KPAO KZ
06ALMATY1444 KAZAKHSTAN ECONOMIC AND ENERGY UPDATE; APRIL 2 -
[...] Summary: This information is drawn primarily from the Kazakhstani local press, and has not been checked for accuracy. The opinions and policies expressed in this report are those of the authors, not the U.S. Government. -- Samruk Board of Directors Formed -- New Environmental Protectio [...]
2006-04-20 13:37:00US Office AlmatyUNCLASSIFIEDECON EIND ENRG EPET EFIN KZ
06ALMATY1627KAZAKHSTAN: KEEPING THE DRUGS IN THE FAMILY
[...] (SBU) Summary: Traders from South Kazakhstan ply age-old skills to traffic Afghan narcotics and local marijuana. MVD tries to clamp down but the mostly women drug dealers who manage the business get off lightly. Stiffer penalties for drug traffickers, as in Singapore, are on hold pending coa [...]
2006-05-05 05:11:00US Office AlmatyUNCLASSIFIEDPOLITICAL
06ALMATY1636 KAZAKHSTAN: EXTENSION OF THE PHASE OUT PLAN FOR
[...] The social transition and security/law enforcement sectors of assistance to Kazakhstan are slated for phase-out in 2011, per the country's phase out assessment. As such, post understands that phase out plans must be prepared in 2006, five years before the expected phase out date, to ensure t [...]
2006-05-05 14:26:00US Office AlmatyUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ASEC EG KZ
06ALMATY1664 EXBS: KAZAKHSTAN ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE
[...] The paper shredder at the Export Control and Related Border Security Assistance (EXBS) Program office has been working overtime of late. May 2006 will be the office's last full month in Kazakhstan's "southern capital" of Almaty and over the last weekend in June EXBS Kazakhstan will relocate h [...]
2006-05-11 01:07:00US Office AlmatyUNCLASSIFIEDETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP KZ
06ALMATY1719KAZAKHSTAN ENVIRONMENTAL UPDATE, APRIL
[...] Summary: This information is drawn primarily from the Kazakhstani press and has not been verified. The opinions expressed in this report, therefore, should not be interpreted as official positions and/or policy of the U.S. Government. -- Karagachaganak Petroleum Operation Fined for Gas Fl [...]
2006-05-16 01:22:00US Office AlmatyUNCLASSIFIEDECON SENV ENRG EPET KZ ECONOMIC
06ALMATY1810 KAZAKHSTAN ECONOMIC AND ENERGY UPDATE, APRIL 30 -
[...] Summary: This information is drawn primarily from the Kazakhstani local press, and has not been checked for accuracy. The opinions and policies expressed in this report are those of the authors, not the U.S. Government. -- GOK to Cut Budget Spending -- Possible Imbalance in the Labor M [...]
2006-05-19 12:58:00US Office AlmatyUNCLASSIFIEDECON EIND ENRG EPET EFIN KZ
06ALMATY2034KAZAKHSTAN: AMBASSADOR'S VISIT TO AKTAU
[...] Summary: On May 17-18, the Ambassador traveled to the Caspian coastal city of Aktau to meet with representatives of the regional government, visit two sites receiving U.S. assistance, and partake in an official ceremony marking the transfer of three brand-new, U.S.-made patrol boats to the Bor [...]
2006-06-09 08:26:00US Office AlmatyUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PARM PREL KNNP KZ
06ALMATY2059 EXBS: KAZAKHSTAN ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE
[...] This is the office's final dispatch from Almaty. EXBS Kazakhstan will move to the Embassy Branch Office (EBO) in Astana the last weekend in June. EXBS Program staff continues to make preparations for the move to the EBO, as well as for the subsequent move to the New Embassy Compound, which is [...]
2006-06-12 07:51:00US Office AlmatyUNCLASSIFIEDETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP KZ
06ALMATY2298 KAZAKHSTAN ECONOMIC AND ENERGY UPDATE, JUNE 11 -
[...] Summary: This information is drawn primarily from the Kazakhstani local press, and has not been checked for accuracy. The opinions and policies expressed in this report are those of the authors, not the U.S. Government. -- Amendments to the 2006 Republican Budget -- Financial Violation [...]
2006-06-28 08:40:00US Office AlmatyUNCLASSIFIEDECON EIND ENRG EPET EFIN KZ
06ALMATY2299KAZAKHSTAN ENVIRONMENTAL UPDATE, APRIL
[...] Summary: This information is drawn primarily from the Kazakhstani press and has not been verified. The opinions expressed in this report should not be interpreted as official positions and/or policy of the U.S. Government. -- Russia and Kazakhstan to Form Uranium-Related JV -- Smuggling [...]
2006-06-28 08:57:00US Office AlmatyUNCLASSIFIEDECON SENV ENRG EPET KZ
06ALMATY2303KAZAKHSTAN: FISH, SEALS DYING IN CASPIAN
[...] Summary: In the past several months, thousands of dead sturgeon and seals have washed up on the Kazakhstani shore of the Caspian Sea. Initial indications are that the deaths were likely linked to energy development activities. The associated ecological and economic damage has prompted a flur [...]
2006-06-28 09:54:00US Office AlmatyUNCLASSIFIEDECON SENV ENRG EPET KZ
06ALMATY2332KAZAKHSTAN: SAFE DRINKING WATER FOR RURAL
[...] Summary: On June 5, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) convened a high-level meeting in Astana to discuss the issue of safe drinking water for rural settlements in Kazakhstan. EPA, together with the Akimat of Almaty Oblast, has been carrying out a village drinking water project i [...]
2006-06-29 15:59:00US Office AlmatyUNCLASSIFIEDSENV PGOV KZ
06ALMATY2370Q1 AND Q2 FRAUD SUMMARY - ALMATY
[...] A. COUNTRY CONDITIONS: Since independence in 1991, the economic situation in most of Kazakhstan has improved. In the larger cities, such as Almaty, Astana, and Atyrau, the oil and gas industry has provided an economic boom. However, the improvement in living conditions is uneven and in many r [...]
2006-07-05 08:29:00US Office AlmatyUNCLASSIFIEDKFRD CVIS KCRM CPAS CMGT ASEC KZ
06ALMATY2419 EXBS: KAZAKHSTAN ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE
[...] EXBS TDY Advisor Kevin Cummings' arrival on June 26 coincided with the EXBS Program office's first day at the Embassy Branch Office in Astana. Mr. Cummings will provide support to the office until mid-July, at which time a second TDY advisor is expected to arrive to assist the office through [...]
2006-07-08 01:01:00US Office AlmatyUNCLASSIFIEDETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP KZ
06ALMATY2573KAZAKHSTAN: NO OHCHR FIELD PRESENCE
[...] There appears to be no permanent OHCHR presence in Kazakhstan. OHCHR regional advisor Rein Mullerson reportedly returned to the UK and has not been replaced. 2. Post notes that the OHCHR web site (http://kazakhstan.ohchr.org/) lists the regional advisor position in Almaty as vacant. O [...]
2006-07-17 08:44:00US Office AlmatyUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL KZ
06ALMATY2604KAZAKHSTAN ENVIRONMENT UPDATE, JUNE 30, 2006
[...] Summary: This information is drawn primarily from the Kazakhstani press and has not yet been verified. The opinions expressed in this report, therefore, should not be interpreted as official positions and/or policy of the U.S. Government. -- Avian Flu Priorities Discussed in Almaty -- Ust [...]
2006-07-19 10:24:00US Office AlmatyUNCLASSIFIEDECON SENV ENRG EPET KZ
06ALMATY264KAZAKHSTANIS BREAK DOWN DOORS TO GET INTO U.S. FILM
[...] Summary: Embassy Almaty's first American film festival in November, featuring five films from U.S. producer Michael Fitzgerald, was widely viewed as the cultural event of the season, with audience attendance exceeding expectations. Combining the film screenings with a program of master classe [...]
2006-01-24 11:14:00US Office AlmatyUNCLASSIFIEDOIIP KPAO SCUL OEXC KZ POLITICAL
06ALMATY2681 KAZAKHSTAN ECONOMIC AND ENERGY UPDATE, JULY 9 -
[...] Summary: This information is drawn primarily from the Kazakhstani local press, and has not been checked for accuracy. The opinions and policies expressed in this report are those of the authors, not the U.S. Government. -- Series of Economic Laws Adopted -- Trade Policy Promotion Cente [...]
2006-07-26 07:47:00US Office AlmatyUNCLASSIFIEDECON EIND ENRG EPET EFIN KZ
06ALMATY2822006 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT -- KAZAKHSTAN
[...] The following information is provided in response to reftel request. Openness to Foreign Investment ------------------------------ Kazakhstan has made significant progress toward creating a market economy since its independence in 1991. The European Union in 2000 and the U.S. Department [...]
2006-01-25 10:42:00US Office AlmatyUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KTDB USTR ECONOMIC
06ALMATY2885 EXBS: KAZAKHSTAN ADVISOR'S MONTHLY REPORTING
[...] Export Control and Related Border Security (EXBS) Program TDY Advisor Kevin Cummings assisted Advisor Offenbacher during the office's initial three weeks in Astana. Mr. Cummings departed Kazakhstan the third week of July. EXBS TDY Advisor Larry Adkins arrived in Astana on July 24 to provide [...]
2006-08-11 07:47:00US Office AlmatyUNCLASSIFIEDETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP KZ
06ALMATY2887 KAZAKHSTAN ECONOMIC AND ENERGY UPDATE, JULY 23 -
[...] Summary: This information is drawn primarily from the Kazakhstani local press, and has not been checked for accuracy. The opinions and policies expressed in this report are those of the authors, not the U.S. Government. -- Vneshtorgbank Targets Kazakhstan's Market -- KazZhelDorTrans Pl [...]
2006-08-11 12:16:00US Office AlmatyUNCLASSIFIEDECON EIND ENRG EPET EFIN KZ
06ALMATY2888KAZAKHSTAN: TWENTY FOUR YOUNG CHILDREN CONTRACT HIV
[...] Summary: In the last four months, twenty four children under the age of three have been identified as HIV-positive in the Southern Kazakhstan Oblast (SKO). A joint investigation by Kazakhstan's Ministry of Health and the CDC found that significant problems with infection control procedures and [...]
2006-08-12 03:09:00US Office AlmatyUNCLASSIFIEDAMED SOCI PGOV KHIV KZ
06ALMATY3002KAZAKHSTAN: AUTHORITIES FREE 21 TRAFFICKING VICTIMS
[...] Summary: On August 14, Astana city policemen announced that they had freed 21 Tajik citizens from confinement by an Astana labor trafficker, who they promptly arrested. The Tajik victims were kept in a shed and forced to work at construction sites in the rapidly growing capital city. The E [...]
2006-08-23 11:12:00US Office AlmatyUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR KCRM KCOR PREL PINT KZ TJ
06ALMATY3025Kazakhstan, Russia Assess Damage Caused by Rocket Crash
[...] Summary: Russia is prepared to pay Kazakhstan 385 million tenge (approximately $3 million) as compensation for immediate damages resulting from the failed launch of a Dnepr rocket at Baikonur. A joint Kazakhstan-Russian committee is still investigating possible environmental damage and will re [...]
2006-08-26 14:24:00US Office AlmatyUNCLASSIFIEDECON SENV ENRG EPET KZ
06ALMATY3092 KAZAKHSTAN: GOK TO CONSIDER ENDORSING G8 ENERGY
[...] In an August 31 meeting, Energy Officer delivered reftel demarche and text of the G8 Statement on Energy Security Principles to Dauren Toleukhanov, Deputy Director of the Europe and Americas Department of Kazakhstan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). Toleukhanov acknowledged that the statem [...]
2006-09-01 00:45:00US Office AlmatyUNCLASSIFIEDENRG EPET KZ
06ALMATY3102KAZAKHSTAN: POTPOURRI OF TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS CASES
[...] Summary: The following is a collection of media reports on various types of TIP ranging from debt servitude to sex tourism. End summary. --------------------------------------------- ----- DEBT OF THE PARENTS PAID BY ENSLAVING THE CHILDREN --------------------------------------------- ---- [...]
2006-09-02 07:59:00US Office AlmatyUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR PINS PGOV PHUM KCRM KCOR KZ
06ALMATY3211 EXBS: KAZAKHSTAN ADVISOR'S MONTHLY REPORTING
[...] EXBS TDY Advisor Larry Adkins continued to assist the EXBS office in Astana throughout the month of August. Gulnara Abildaeva, EXBS Program Coordinator, took annual leave for much of the month. 2. September will likely be the EXBS program office's final month in its present interi [...]
2006-09-13 01:07:00US Office AlmatyUNCLASSIFIEDETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP KZ
06ALMATY324 KAZAKHSTAN ECONOMIC AND ENERGY UPDATE
[...] Summary: This information is drawn primarily from the Kazakhstani local press, and has not been checked for accuracy. The opinions and policies expressed in this report are those of the authors, not the U.S. Government. -- New Inter-State Bank in Russia and Kazakhstan -- EBRD is Among [...]
2006-01-30 07:19:00US Office AlmatyUNCLASSIFIEDECON EIND ENRG EPET EFIN KZ ECONOMIC
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