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SECSTATE SECTOR SECURITY SEMAAN GABY EID SEN SENC SENG SENS SENU SENV SENVQGR SENVSPL SENVSXE SEP SERBIA SERZH SETTLEMENTS SEVN SEXP SF SFNV SG SGNV SGWI SH SHANNON SHI SHUM SI SILVASANDE SIMS SIPDI SIPDIS SIPR SIPRNET SIPRS SIUK SK SKCA SKEP SKI SKSAF SL SLM SLOVAK SM SMAR SMI SMIG SMIL SMIT SMITH SMRT SN SNA SNAP SNAR SNUC SO SOC SOCI SOCIA SOCIETY SOCIO SOCIS SOCISZX SOCR SOCY SOE SOFA SOI SOIC SOLI SOLIC SOM SOMALIA SOPN SORT SOSI SOVIET SOWGC SP SPAS SPC SPCE SPCVIS SPECI SPECIALIST SPILL SPP SPSTATE SR SREF SRIT SRS SRYI SSA SSH ST STAG START STATE STC STEINBERG STEPHEN HADLEY STET STP STR STUDENT SU SUCCESSION SUFFRAGE SULLIVAN SUMMIT SUR SUSAN SV SW SWHO SWMN SX SXG SY SYAI SYMBOL SYR SYRIA SYSI SYTH SZ TA TAGS TALAL TAUSCHER TAX TB TBI TBID TBIO TBIOZK TBKIO TBO TC TCOR TCSENV TD TDA TE TECH TECHNOLOGY TER TERAA TERFIN TERR TERROR TERRORISM TF TFIN TG TGRY TH THANH THE THERESE THIRDTERM THKSJA THOMAS THOMAS THOMMA THPY TI TIA TIBO TIFA TINT TIO TIP TITI TIUZ TJ TK TL TM TN 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KUIR KUM KUNA KUNC KUNH KUNP KUNR KUS KUWAIT KV KVBL KVIP KVIR KVIS KVPR KVRC KVRP KW KWAC KWAK KWAWC KWBC KWBG KWBW KWCI KWCR KWGB KWHG KWIC KWIM KWIR KWKN KWM KWMJN KWMM KWMN KWN KWNM KWNN KWOMN KWPA KWPB KWPG KWPR KWRC KWRF KWRG KWUN KWWT KWWW KX KY KZ LA LAB LABOR LANSANA LANTERN LARREA LARS LAS LAURA LAVIN LAW LB LBAR LBY LE LEAGUE LEB LEBIK LEGAT LEGATT LEIS LEON LEVINE LEW LG LGAT LH LI LIB LICC LIMA LINE LK LMS LN LO LOG LOPEZ LORAN LOTT LOVE LR LS LT LTG LTTE LU LV LVPR LY LZ MA MAAR MACEDONIA MACP MANUEL MANUEL SERGIO GONZALEZ MAP MAPP MAPS MAR MARAD MARANTIS MARIA MARIE MARINO MARITIME MARK MARQUEZ MARR MARS MARTIN MARV MAS MASC MASS MATT MAYA MB MBM MC MCA MCAP MCAPARR MCAPN MCAPP MCAPS MCAT MCC MCCAIN MCCONNELL MCCP MCGRAW MCRM MCTRE MD MDA MDC MDO ME MEA MED MEDIA MEETINGS MENDIETA MEP MEPI MEPN MEPP MERCOSUR MESUR MEX MF MFA MFO MG MGL MGMT MGOV MGT MGTA MH MHUC MI MIAH MIC MICHAEL MICHEL MIGUEL FELIPE CANAHUATI YACAMAN MIGUEL VARGAS MALDONADO MIK MIKE MIL MILI MILITANTS MILITARY MILLENNIUM MINURSO MINUSTAH MITCHELL MJ MK ML MLS MMAR MMED MN MNLF MNNC MNNUC MNU MNUC MNUCH MNUCWA MNUM MNUN MNUR MNUS MNVC MO MOHAMAD MOHAMED HESHAM ELDIN YOUSSEF MOHAMMAD MOLINA MONTENEGRO MONUC MONY MOOPS MOP MOPP MOPPS MOPS MORALES MORG MOROCCO MORS MOS MOTO MOTT MP MPOL MPOS MPP MPS MQADHAFI MR MRCRE MRRR MRS MRSEC MS MSG MSIG MT MTAA MTAG MTCAE MTCR MTCRA MTCRE MTRCE MTRE MTRRE MTS MU MUC MUCN MUKASEY MULLEN MUNC MURAD MURRAY MV MW MX MY MZ NA NAC NACB NADIA NAFTA NAM NAMSA NANCY NAR NARC NARCOTICS NARR NAS NASA NAT NATEU NATGAS NATIONAL NATO NATOAFGHAN NATOBALKANS NATOIRAQ NATOOPS NATOPOLICY NATSIOS NAVO NB NBTS NBU NC NCCC NCD NCT NCTC NDI NDP NE NEA NEC NEGROPONTE NEI NELSON NEPAD NERG NET NEW NFATC NFMS NFSO NG NGO NGUYEN NH NI NICHOLAS NICOLE NIH NIPP NK NKWG NL NLD NLIAEA NLO NMFS NMNUC NMUC NNPT NO NOAA NOI NOK NON NONE NORAD NOTAG NOVO NP NPA NPG NPT NR NRC NRG NRR NRRC NS NSC NSF NSFO NSG NSSP NT NTDB NTSB NTTC NU NUC NUIN NV NW NZ NZUS OA OAO OARC OAS OASC 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07TOKYO3164 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 07/11/07-2 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-11 08:28:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3165 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - PAKISTAN MOSQUE SIEGE [...] "Mosque Siege: Breeding Grounds for Terrorists Should Not Be Neglected" An editorial in the top- circulation, moderate Yomiuri commented (7/11): "What effect will Pakistan's difficult decision to use force against Islamist militants at the Red Mosque have on its shaky internal political situat [...] | 2007-07-11 08:35:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO3171 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 07/12/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-12 01:24:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3181 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - PAKISTAN MOSQUE SIEGE [...] LEAD STORIES: Most Thursday morning papers front-paged a panel discussion among the heads of seven main political parties in Tokyo on Wednesday one day before the official start of the campaign for the July 29 Upper House election. 2. "Storming of Mosque: The Danger of Relying on Force" Th [...] | 2007-07-12 06:15:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO3191 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 07/12/07-1 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-12 08:08:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3192 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 07/12/07-2 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-12 08:12:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3205 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 07/13/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-13 04:11:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO321 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 01/24/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-24 01:32:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3232 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 07/13/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-13 08:10:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3241 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - DPRK [...] "Continue Pressure on DPRK Nuclear Disablement" The top-circulation, moderate Yomiuri editorialized (7/17): "... North Korea declared it has shut down its Yongbyon nuclear facilities. IAEA Director General ElBaradei said IAEA inspectors, visiting the Yongbyon complex, confirmed the facilities' [...] | 2007-07-17 01:20:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO3243 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 07/17/07-1 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-17 01:40:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3244 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 07/17/07-2 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-17 01:42:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3263 | JAPAN: NUCLEAR POWER: EARTHQUAKE CAUSES FIRE AND [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-17 11:44:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | TRGY JA |
07TOKYO3265 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 07/17/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-17 21:13:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3276 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 07/18/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-18 01:18:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3296 | JAPAN: NUCLEAR POWER: ADDITIONAL MISHAPS AT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-18 08:06:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENRG JA TRGY |
07TOKYO3301 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 07/19/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-19 01:14:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3311 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 07/19/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-19 08:12:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3318 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 07/20/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-20 01:22:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3319 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - UK-RUSSIA RELATIONS [...] "UK-Russia Relations Looking Like New Cold War" The business-oriented Nihon Keizai editorialized (7/18): "At a time when US-Russia relations are awkward, ties between London and Moscow are becoming downright chilly, and the friction between the two appears so deep-rooted that coming to terms w [...] | 2007-07-20 02:20:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO333 | MEDIA REACTION - STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS/ARMS [...] There were no immediate editorials or commentaries regarding the State of the Union Address. 2. "Bush Calls for Support for New Iraq Policy" Quasi- governmental NHK-TV's Washington bureau chief Nishikawa stated (1/23): "In his first State of the Union Address to a Democratic Congress, the p [...] | 2007-01-24 06:10:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO3349 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - SIX-PARTY TALKS [...] "No Optimism Warranted over DPRK Denuclearization" The top-circulation, moderate Yomiuri editorialized (7/21): "Procedures for North Korea's denuclearization could not be finalized in the recent round of the six- party talks in Beijing, and the participants put off dealing with thorny issues. [...] | 2007-07-23 03:22:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO3362 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 07/24/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-24 01:07:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3371 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 07/24/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-24 07:57:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3376 | JAPAN GEARED TO RATIFY THE INTERNATIONAL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-24 22:57:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP PTER MCAP PINR PINS PARM PREL JA |
07TOKYO3380 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 07/25/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-25 02:09:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3383 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - PAKISTAN AS AL-QAEDA [...] "US Applies Pressure on Pakistan to Clear out al-Qaeda Stronghold" Washington correspondent Sakamoto of the top-circulation, moderate Yomiuri reported (7/25): "The Bush administration has become increasingly irritated with Pakistani President Musharraf, who is not inclined to take action again [...] | 2007-07-25 04:27:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO339 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 01/24/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-24 08:24:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3397 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 07/25/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-25 08:18:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3398 | REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR [...] This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Japan Self Defense Force who have been nominated for training in the United States. Post has n [...] | 2007-07-25 08:35:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM MOPS MARR PINS PINR JA |
07TOKYO3413 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - MIDDLE EAST PEACE [...] "Stepped up Diplomacy for Middle East Peace" Jerusalem correspondent Mina Mitsui of the top- circulation, moderate Yomiuri wrote (7/26): "Egyptian Foreign Minister Gheit and Jordanian Foreign Minister al-Khatib visited Jerusalem for talks with Israeli Prime Minister Olmert and Israeli Foreign [...] | 2007-07-26 02:40:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO343 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 01/25/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-25 01:14:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3437 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 07/27/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-27 01:22:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3439 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - AFGHANISTAN HOSTAGE [...] "Taliban's Indiscriminate Brutality" The business- oriented Nihon Keizai editorialized (7/27): "The Taliban have executed one of the 23 South Korean hostages that the group has been holding. The Koreans had entered the country on a relief mission. This is yet another example of the Taliban's i [...] | 2007-07-27 04:02:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO3451 | JAPAN WELCOMES ASIA DEMOCRACY PARTNERSHIP [...] (SBU) Summary: In a July 17 meeting with Deputy Special Envoy Christian Whiton, MOFA Regional Policy Division Director Kazutoshi Aikawa indicated initial support for the proposed Asian Democracy Partnership while saying that GOJ deliberations were ongoing and that they would provide a list of [...] | 2007-07-27 08:24:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM PREL XB JA |
07TOKYO3452 | HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DEMARCHE DELIVERED, JAPAN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-27 08:54:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | UNESCO PREL JA |
07TOKYO3455 | WHALING: FIRST NATIONAL WHALE FORUM PRESSURES GOJ TO RESUME [...] (SBU) Mayors from coastal-whaling municipalities have officially pressured the GOJ to voluntarily resume commercial small-type coastal whaling (STCW). At a July 7-8 public whale forum in Ishinomaki City, north-eastern Japan, four mayors from whaling sites -- Abashiri, Ayukawa, Wada and Taiji - [...] | 2007-07-29 00:46:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EFIS KSCA IWC JA ETRD |
07TOKYO3458 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 07/30/07-1 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-30 01:23:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3459 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 07/30/07-2 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-30 01:26:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3460 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - SECRETARY RICE'S TRAVEL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-30 02:15:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO347 | MEDIA REACTION - STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS - [...] "US Burden in Iraq Casts Shadow on its DPRK Policy" The top-circulation, moderate Yomiuri editorialized (1/25): "The burden of Iraq rests heavily on the shoulders of President Bush, whose remaining term in office is about two years. The question is what impact America's Iraq policy will have o [...] | 2007-01-25 04:09:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO3487 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - US MILITARY AID TO [...] "US to Offer Large-Scale Military Aid to Middle East" Washington correspondent Hideo Kato of the business-oriented Nihon Keizai reported (7/31): "The USG will likely offer large-scale military aid to the pro-US Arab nations of Egypt and Saudi Arabia, as well as Israel. Washington has announced [...] | 2007-07-31 05:19:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO3490 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 07/31/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-31 08:22:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3495 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/01/07-1 [...] Meantime, the opposition camp, which obtained a majority in the House of Councillors in Sunday's poll, is poised to oppose that legislation. A termination of the SDF mission against the background of the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan might rock the foundation of the Japan-US alliance a [...] | 2007-08-01 01:26:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3496 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/01/07-2 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-01 01:28:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3505 | JAPAN TO EXTEND SELF DEFENSE FORCE PARTICIPATION [...] (U) Japan decided July 31 to extend Japan Self Defense Force (JSDF) participation in the U.N. Disengagement Observer Force in the Golan Heights (UNDOF) for an additional six months ending March 31, 2008, according to press reports confirmed by MOFA contacts. The decision was made in response [...] | 2007-08-01 07:29:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MOPS IS SY JA KPKO |
07TOKYO3511 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/01/07-1 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-01 08:13:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3512 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/01/07-2 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-01 08:14:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO352 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 01//07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-25 08:30:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3523 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - A.R.F. MINISTERIAL [...] "Rice's Absence from ARF Ministerial Criticized" The moderate Tokyo Shimbun's Manila correspondent Tomoyoshi Aoyagi reported (8/2): "Representatives from some countries attending the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) ministerial are critizing Secretary of State Rice's absence from the meeting, saying [...] | 2007-08-02 04:43:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO353 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: JAPAN WEEKLY REPORT JANUARY 25 [...] No human outbreaks of H5N1 AI were reported in Japan during the period from January 18 to 25. --- Another Suspected AI Outbreak in Kyushu --- 2. On January 23, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry of Fisheries (MAFF) and the Miyazaki Prefectural Government announced that an avian influ [...] | 2007-01-25 08:42:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KFLU KSTH ECON PREL SOCI JA |
07TOKYO3538 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/03/07-1 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-02 08:13:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3539 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/03/07-2 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-02 08:15:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3547 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/03/07-1 [...] Top headlines 2. Editorials 3. Prime Minister's daily schedule 4. Abe Cabinet reaches new support low of 22% in Fuji-Sankei poll, with non-support rate at 64.8% ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) meeting: 5. ASEAN ARF closes after having given consideration to North Korean abduction and comf [...] | 2007-08-03 01:20:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3548 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/03/07-2 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-03 01:23:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3550 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - ASEAN REGIONAL FORUM [...] LEAD STORIES: Most Friday morning papers front-paged the conclusion on Thursday of the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) foreign ministerial in the Philippines, with the chairman's statement welcoming the shutdown of North Korean nuclear facilities. 2. "China's Presence at ARF Stands out in Rice's [...] | 2007-08-03 02:28:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO3554 | Country Clearance for CODEL Hastert [...] (U) Embassy Tokyo welcomes and grants country clearance to Congressman J. Dennis Hastert and his delegation traveling to Japan from August 4-7, 2007. The delegation is as follows: Rep. J. Dennis Hastert Rep. John Shadegg Mr. David Cavicke Mr. William Koetzle Maj. David Kincaid Post un [...] | 2007-08-03 04:21:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN JA |
07TOKYO3557 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - HOUSE ADOPTION OF [...] "House Adoption of 'Comfort Women' Resolution Could Damage US-Japan Relations" The business-oriented Nihon Keizai editorialized (8/1): "The adoption by the US House of Representatives of a resolution calling for the GOJ to formally apologize for the 'comfort women' issue could damage US-Japan [...] | 2007-08-03 05:23:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO3568 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/03/07-1 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-03 08:00:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3569 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/03/07-2 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-03 08:03:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3575 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - DARFUR VIOLENCE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-06 06:56:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO359 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 01/26/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-26 01:37:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3595 | TERRORISM FINANCE: JAPAN'S RESPONSE TO DOMESTIC [...] (U) Embassy Tokyo Political Officer conveyed reftel demarche to Ministry of Foreign Affairs International Counterterrorism Cooperation Division Miyako Ishimura and Ministry of Finance Legal Office Deputy Division Chief Shunichi Fukushima on July 27, 2007. Both counterparts thanked Embassy O [...] | 2007-08-06 08:16:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN PREL PTER JA |
07TOKYO3598 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/06/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-06 08:52:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO36 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 01//07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-09 01:16:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3606 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/07/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-07 01:42:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3612 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/07/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-07 07:24:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3614 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/07/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-07 22:33:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO362 | MEDIA REACTION - CHINA'S MISSILE TEST - TOKYO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-26 04:45:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO3624 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/08/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-08 01:49:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3639 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/09/07-2 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-09 02:16:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3640 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/09/07-1 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-09 02:18:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3643 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - INTER-KOREAN SUMMIT [...] "Can Roh-Kim Summit Help Denuclearization?" The top- circulation, moderate Yomiuri editorialized (8/9): "The main focus of the just-announced inter-Korean summit will be whether the talks can give momentum to the six- party talks aimed at ending North Korea's nuclear weapons program. South Kor [...] | 2007-08-09 03:28:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO3658 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/09/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-09 08:22:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3688 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/10/07 [...] The government's failure to extend the law would result in the withdrawal of the Maritime Self-Defense Force, which has been on the refueling mission in the Indian Ocean for naval vessels of the United States, Britain, and other countries that are engaged in mop-up operations against terrorists [...] | 2007-08-10 08:30:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3696 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/13/07-1 [...] Views in the party are being unified after President Ichiro Ozawa expressed opposition to the said law, but many members are worried that if the party remains opposed to the said law, questions might be raised about its ability to grab political power. The party's move reflects its desire to do [...] | 2007-08-13 01:44:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3703 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - IRAQ [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-13 03:05:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO3716 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/13/07-2 [...] Officials from the Defense Ministry and the Foreign Ministry explained the current state of the Maritime Self-Defense Force's refueling operations based on the said law. But many DPJ members voiced dissatisfaction calling the ministries to disclose more detailed information. House of Councillor [...] | 2007-08-13 08:20:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3717 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/13/07-3 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-13 08:23:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3718 | DPRK RELIGIOUS PRISONER DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-13 08:31:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM JA |
07TOKYO3720 | JAPAN,S RESPONSE TO DOMESTIC USG DESIGNATION OF [...] (SBU) Embassy Tokyo Political Officer conveyed reftel demarche to Ministry of Foreign Affairs International Counterterrorism Cooperation Division Deputy Director Miyako Ishimura and Ministry of Finance Legal Office Deputy Division Chief Shunichi Fukushima on August 9, 2007. Both counterparts [...] | 2007-08-13 08:40:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | KTFN JA |
07TOKYO3727 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/14/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-14 06:37:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3736 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/14/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-14 08:00:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3739 | CLIMATE CHANGE: EMISSION IMPOSSIBLE: NPP SHUTDOWN [...] Summary: According to a joint Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (METI) and Ministry of Environment (MOE) interim report issued on August 10, Japan will miss its Kyoto Protocol emissions reduction target by 20-34 million tons per year (1.5-2.7 percent of total emissions) if it maintains [...] | 2007-08-14 09:26:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV ENRG KGHG JA |
07TOKYO3749 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/15/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-15 02:23:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO375 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 01/26/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-26 08:22:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3766 | Country Clearance for NTSB -- Rosenker, Mark; Doyle, [...] (U) Embassy Tokyo welcomes and grants country clearance to the NTSB delegation traveling to Tokyo August 19-27, 2007, for meetings with Japanese automobile manufacturers. The delegation is as follows: Mark V. Rosenker, Chairman Thomas W. Doyle, Counselor to the Chairman, Barbara A. Czech, [...] | 2007-08-15 08:10:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA ELTN EAIR ASEC NTSB JA |
07TOKYO3768 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/14/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-15 08:26:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3769 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/15/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-15 08:29:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3777 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/16/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-16 04:58:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3783 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/16/07-1 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-16 08:24:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3784 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/16/07-2 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-16 08:24:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3792 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - SHANGHAI COOPERATION [...] LEAD STORIES: Top items in Friday morning national papers included worldwide stock-market plunges and the scorching heat wave sweeping Japan. 2. "SCO reinforces unity to check US." The business- oriented Nikkei reported from Bishkek, Kyrgyz (8/17): "The leaders of the Shanghai Cooperation [...] | 2007-08-17 02:12:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO3794 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/17/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-17 03:13:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3812 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/17/07 [...] Ozawa has expressed his opposition to the extension of the law, but Maehara, who is regarded as an active leader of the anti-Ozawa force, has advocated that the law should be extended. There was a rumor in the largest opposition party that Maehara might break away from Ozawa since the two ha [...] | 2007-08-17 08:23:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3820 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/20/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-20 01:51:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3821 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - GLOBAL MARKET REACTION [...] "Can U.S. Rate Cut Stop Worldwide Stock Plunge?" The top-circulation, moderate Yomiuri editorialized (8/19): "In the wake of the downturn in global stock markets, the Federal Reserve cut the discount rate on its loans to banks, and this has helped the U.S. bourses rebound. Optimism, however, i [...] | 2007-08-20 02:03:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO3830 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/20/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-20 08:16:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3837 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/21/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-21 01:29:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3841 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - CONSTITUTIONAL LIMITS [...] "Rules for SDF's Use of Arms Should Follow International Standards" The top-circulation, moderate Yomiuri editorialized (8/21): "It is time for Japan to take a concrete first step toward revising the rules for the Self-Defense Forces' use of arms, which are very different from those of foreign [...] | 2007-08-21 02:14:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO3865 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/21/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-21 08:20:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3870 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/22/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-22 01:53:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3877 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/22/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-22 08:21:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3884 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/23/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-23 01:27:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO39 | MEDIA REACTION - JAPAN-CHINA TIES - TOKYO [...] "Japan Should Adopt Strategic Diplomacy Toward China" The moderate Tokyo Shimbun editorialized (1/9): "...Japan and China have established close economic ties similar to the US-Japan economic relationship. Both Japan and China are opposed to North Korea's nuclear test. The removal of nuclear w [...] | 2007-01-09 02:27:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO3914 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/23/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-23 08:37:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3919 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/24/07 [...] In Tokyo, members of the Tokyo Action Committee stood outside the West Entrance of Shinjuku Station and campaigned. Many people stopped to talk with them. A woman (36) from Saitama Prefecture stated: "I am absolutely against Japan cooperating with the war. It only makes terrorism worse. They [...] | 2007-08-24 07:06:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3920 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - PRESIDENT BUSH'S 8/22 [...] "President Bush Equates Prewar Japan with Al-Qaeda" The liberal Asahi's Washington correspondent Yoshiyuki Komurata wrote (8/24): "Although President Bush praised Japan's successful postwar democratization to justify his Iraq policy during his remarks at the national convention of Veterans of [...] | 2007-08-24 07:06:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO3929 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/24/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-24 08:24:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3948 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/27/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-27 01:26:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3954 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - PRESIDENT BUSH'S 8/22 [...] "US Policy on Iraq Too Simplistic" The liberal Tokyo Shimbun editorialized (8/25): "Faced with growing debate in the US about withdrawing troops from Iraq, President Bush during a speech last week at the national convention of Veterans of Foreign Wars in Kansas City, Missouri, likened the form [...] | 2007-08-27 02:55:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO3955 | EXPLAINING U.S. CONCERNS ABOUT TIP SHELTERS IN [...] Embassy Tokyo Political Officer met August 23 with MOFA International Organized Crime Division TIP Officer Hiroko Sasahara to discuss the Japanese government's reliance on prefecture-level public shelters to protect victims of human trafficking. Embassy Political Officer delivered Ref A's "C [...] | 2007-08-27 05:03:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM KCRM KWMN JA |
07TOKYO3966 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/27/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-27 08:27:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3974 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/28/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-28 01:43:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3987 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/28/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-28 08:39:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO3995 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/29/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-29 01:23:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4000 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - 8/22 SPEECH OF [...] "Bush's Controversial Reading of War History" Washington correspondent Arimoto of the conservative Sankei wrote (8/29): "President Bush's speech on August 22 rejecting calls for a pullout of US forces from Iraq has generated controversy for his reference to the US victory over Japan in WWII an [...] | 2007-08-29 04:27:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO4004 | CORRECTED TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - 8/22 SPEECH [...] "Bush's Controversial Reading of War History" Washington correspondent Arimoto of the conservative Sankei wrote (8/29): "President Bush's speech on August 22 rejecting calls for a pullout of US forces from Iraq has generated controversy for his reference to the US victory over Japan in WWI [...] | 2007-08-29 06:18:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO401 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 01/29/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-30 07:24:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4011 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/29/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-29 08:21:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4015 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/30/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-30 01:31:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO402 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 01/30/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-30 07:27:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4027 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - TALIBAN RELEASE OF [...] "Hard Lessons from Hostage Crisis" The liberal Asahi editorialized (8/30): "It is a good thing that the South Koreans taken hostage by the Taliban are starting to be released and can now return home. The incident, however, is bound to have grave effects on reconstruction in Afghanistan and has [...] | 2007-08-30 05:00:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO403 | MEDIA REACTION - RESUMPTION OF SIX-PARTY TALKS [...] "Japan Should Strengthen Joint Stance with US at Six- Party Talks" An editorial in the conservative Sankei commented (1/30): "The US and the DPRK will begin bilateral talks Tuesday in Beijing concerning financial sanctions to open the way for a resumption of the six- party talks on North Korea [...] | 2007-01-30 07:27:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO4046 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/30/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-30 08:33:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4047 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 08/31/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-31 01:24:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4051 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - JAPAN-CHINA DEFENSE [...] "China Needs to Increase Military Transparency" The top-circulation, moderate Yomiuri editorialized (8/31): "Although progress was made on defense exchanges between Japan and China during the meeting this week between the Japanese and Chinese defense ministers, the bilateral talks failed to di [...] | 2007-08-31 05:46:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO4056 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 08/31/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-31 07:51:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4080 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 09//07 [...] Endo said to Yosano, "Please tell the prime minister that I will step down." TOKYO 00004080 006 OF 012 SUBJECT: JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 09 Yosano's determination to put a speedy end to Endo's scandal came from strong alarm against the Kantei's (Prime Minister's Official [...] | 2007-09-04 01:50:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4085 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - US-DPRK NUCLEAR ACCORD [...] "Details Must be Thoroughly Worked Out" The liberal Asahi editorialized (9/4): "...It is good that the US and North Korea confirmed that Pyongyang will declare all of its nuclear facilities and disable them within this year. The issue here is how to hammer out the details.... Implementing nuc [...] | 2007-09-04 04:43:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO4094 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09//07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-04 08:23:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4108 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 09/05/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-05 04:31:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4114 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - IRAQ AND US-DPRK [...] "How to Get out of Iraq Quagmire" The liberal Tokyo Shimbun editorialized (9/5): "The Maliki government is facing a crisis following a number of suicide bombings and a series of resignations of cabinet ministers. Although the Bush administration is looking at scaling back the US presence in Ir [...] | 2007-09-05 05:01:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO4120 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09/05/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-05 08:20:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4121 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 09/06/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-06 01:29:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4140 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09/06/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-06 07:32:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4159 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 09/07/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-07 01:26:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4172 | JAPAN'S ANNUAL REPORT ON HIV/AIDS FOR 2006 [...] Summary: According to Japan's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) AIDS Surveillance Committee Annual Report on the HIV/AIDS Epidemic for 2006, 952 new HIV-positive cases and 406 new AIDS cases were reported in Japan during the year. These were larger increases than reported in 2005. [...] | 2007-09-07 03:14:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO SOCI KHIV AMED KSCA JA |
07TOKYO4176 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - JAPAN-DPRK [...] "Opportunity to Break the Ice" The liberal Asahi editorialized (9/7): "Although no specific progress was made during the Japan-DPRK normalization talks held in Mongolia, the meeting set the stage for continued dialogue.... The fundamental gap between the two nations remains, but an atmosphere [...] | 2007-09-07 05:20:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO4187 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09/07/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-07 08:24:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4196 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09/10/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-10 02:30:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4198 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - IRAQ AND US-JAPAN [...] "9/11 and US Society" The liberal Asahi editorialized (9/9): "...Six years after 9/11, American society is divided over the war in Iraq. According to a Gallup poll conducted in August, 60% of the American people said the Iraq war was a mistake.... US presidential candidates are conducting a he [...] | 2007-09-10 02:38:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO4213 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - MISSILE DEFENSE IN [...] "Tension Growing Between US and Russia" Warsaw correspondent Sakuraba of the business-oriented Nikkei commented on Polish Defense Minister Szczyglo's disclosure of his country's plan to begin the construction of a missile-defense facility next spring (9/6): "Tension is bound to increase betwee [...] | 2007-09-10 06:01:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO4217 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09//07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-10 08:13:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4223 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 09/11/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-11 01:21:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4229 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - WAR ON TERROR; APEC [...] "Six Years After 9/11: Unity Against Terrorism Still Needed" The conservative Sankei editorialized (9/11): "Six years have passed since 9/11.... Not only Americans but people the world over remember the shock of that day. There is as yet no end in sight to the fight against terrorism.... Is th [...] | 2007-09-11 02:48:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO4241 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09/11/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-11 08:20:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4248 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 09/12/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-12 01:27:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4255 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - APEC SUMMIT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-12 02:21:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO426 | MEDIA REACTION - SIX-PARTY TALKS - TOKYO [...] "Six-Party Talks: North Korea Has No Choice But to Denuclearize" The top-circulation, moderate Yomiuri editorialized (1/31): "At the next round of the six-party talks, which are to resume on February 8 in Beijing, will there be any concrete progress that will lead to North Korea's denucleariza [...] | 2007-01-31 02:35:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO4261 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09/12/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-12 08:16:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4267 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 09/13/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-13 02:33:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4269 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - PM RESIGNATION AND ITS [...] "Hope for Progress on Nuclear Dismantlement" Seoul correspondent Makino of the liberal Asahi wrote (9/12): "There is a possibility that the resignation of Prime Minister Abe could have an impact on progress in the six-party talks concerning North Korea's nuclear dismantlement, as Japan has bee [...] | 2007-09-13 03:51:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO4281 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09/13/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-13 07:58:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4292 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - RESIGNATION OF PRIME [...] "Candidates' Policies and Qualifications Must Be Scrutinized" The top circulation, moderate Yomiuri editorialized (9/14): "Following Prime Minister Abe's announcement that he will step down, the LDP presidential election campaign officially starts today. The ruling party must elect a new presi [...] | 2007-09-14 01:56:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO4297 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 09/14/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-14 02:27:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4316 | SAFE AND SECURE SOCIETY: MEXT FUNDS PROJECTS FOR JFY2007 [...] Summary -- The Office of Science and Technology for a Safe and Secure Society in Japan's Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) has selected five science and technology related "Safe and Secure Society" projects to receive Yen 405 million (USD 3.5 million) in JFY [...] | 2007-09-14 07:44:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | TNGD PTER JA |
07TOKYO4317 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09/14/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-14 07:49:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4322 | JAPANESE FOREIGN MINISTER UNABLE TO ATTEND AD HOC [...] (U) Due to the unsettled political situation in Tokyo, Foreign Minister Machimura will be unable to attend the September 24 Ad Hoc Liaison Committee meeting in New York, according to MOFA First Middle East Division Deputy Director Hideaki Adachi. The meeting will take place on the day after t [...] | 2007-09-14 11:10:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EAID KPAL KWBG XF JA |
07TOKYO4328 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09/18/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-18 22:52:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4329 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - SIX-PARTY TALKS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-18 22:52:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO4330 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 09/18/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-18 22:56:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4339 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 09/19/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-19 01:35:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4359 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - UNREST IN PAKISTAN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-19 02:28:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO437 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 01/31/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-31 08:20:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4373 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09/19/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-19 08:16:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4375 | JAPAN SHARES U.S. POSITION ON MINUSTAH, AWAITING [...] This cable contains an action request. Please see paragraph 3. 2. Embassy Tokyo Political officer delivered reftel demarche September 19 to MOFA Caribbean Division Haiti Desk Officer Akiko Yamasaki. Yamasaki said that Japan will support the extension of the MINUSTAH mandate, and althoug [...] | 2007-09-19 09:06:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID KPKO EFIN PGOV PREL HA JA |
07TOKYO4384 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 09/20/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-20 01:38:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4386 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - FRB RATE CUT [...] "Drastic Measures Necessary to Resolve Subprime Loan Problem" The liberal Mainichi editorialized (9/20): "The US lowered its key interest rate for the first time in almost four years.... The US has adopted an easy-money policy as an 'emergency measure' to prevent cash-strapped financial instit [...] | 2007-09-20 02:19:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO4397 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09/20/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-20 22:46:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4400 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 09/21/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-21 01:52:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4416 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09/21/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-21 08:03:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4424 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 09/25/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-25 01:31:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4432 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - OIL PRICES [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-25 04:23:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO4436 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09/25/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-25 08:05:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4446 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 09/26/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-26 01:32:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4452 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - CLIMATE CHANGE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-26 06:15:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO4462 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09/26/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-26 08:07:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4474 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 09/27/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-27 01:45:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4481 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - UNREST IN BURMA [...] "Burmese Junta in Stalemate" The business-oriented Nikkei editorialized (9/27): "Massive rallies have been taking place day after day in Burma to protest the junta's oppressive rule. Given the military regime's strict control, the demonstrations are a bold act. The junta's rule has continued f [...] | 2007-09-27 02:51:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO452 | MEDIA REACTION - DEFENSE MINISTER KYUMA'S [...] "The Responsibility of Defense Minister Kyuma" Guest commentator Naoyuki Agawa, a Keio University professor and former minister at the Japanese Embassy in Washington, wrote in the conservative Sankei (2/1): "...Meeting the press on January 24 at the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo, Defense [...] | 2007-02-01 03:01:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO4528 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09/27/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-27 08:12:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4533 | AMBASSADOR HOSTS IFTAR DINNER [...] Nearly one hundred guests attended the Ambassador's annual Iftar dinner, hosted at the residence on September 20. The guest list included Ambassadors and chiefs of missions from Islamic nations and their spouses, members of Tokyo's small Muslim community, and Japanese academics who specialize [...] | 2007-09-27 22:02:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO KISL ODIP JA |
07TOKYO4542 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 09/28/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-28 01:21:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4545 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - UNREST IN BURMA [...] "High Time for Burma to Democratize" The conservative Sankei editorialized (9/28): "The Burmese junta may be worried that more demonstrations will lead to its collapse. But if it continues its oppression, its rule will eventually wither in the face of the people's opposition and pressure from [...] | 2007-09-28 01:58:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO4551 | REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR [...] This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidate of the Japan Self Defense Forces who has been nominated for training in the United States. Post has no [...] | 2007-09-28 07:25:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM MARR MOPS PINR PINS JA |
07TOKYO4557 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 09/28/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-28 08:52:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4561 | JAPAN TO PLAY A PASSIVE ROLE IN COMMUNITY OF [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-28 08:58:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM PHUM PREL UNGA PGOV JA |
07TOKYO4570 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/01/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-01 01:58:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4574 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - SIX-PARTY TALKS [...] "Vague Accord Will Create Problems for Future" The conservative Sankei editorialized (10/1): "There is a high possibility that the provisional six-party deal will create problems for the future, given that the definition of disablement, as well as its scope and procedures, remains vague and li [...] | 2007-10-01 02:11:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO4579 | JAPAN AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE [...] No human or animal outbreaks of H5N1 Avian Influenza (AI) were reported in Japan during the period from May 24 to September 27. MHLW to Approve Sale of New H5N1 Vaccine for Humans 2. An advisory panel to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) on September 1 confirmed the safety [...] | 2007-10-01 05:22:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KFLU KSTH ECON PREL SOCI CASC JA |
07TOKYO4588 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/01/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-01 08:28:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4601 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/02/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-02 01:14:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO461 | JAPAN'S RESPONSE: CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION [...] On February 1, ESToff delivered reftel demarche to Principal Deputy Director Nobuharu Imanishi and Officer Masamichi Ito in MOFA's Biological and Chemical Weapons Conventions Division. Imanishi said that he would share the demarche with other officials for interagency coordination. He reported [...] | 2007-02-01 06:04:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM AORC EIND |
07TOKYO4633 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/02/07 [...] MSDF operations will be limited to oil and water supply. Search and rescue operations and rescuing victims will not be stipulated. 2. The MSDF will conduct operations based on UN Security Council Resolution 1776 that expressed appreciation for the Maritime Interdiction Operation by the US-led [...] | 2007-10-02 08:06:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4638 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/03/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-03 01:23:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4639 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - INTER-KOREAN SUMMIT [...] "ROK Should Extract Denuclearization Pledge from DPRK" The liberal Asahi editorialized (10/3): "...It is desirable not only for the two Koreas but also for their neighbors that Seoul and Pyongyang confirm reconciliation and cooperation and look for peace and stability during their summit. Alth [...] | 2007-10-03 02:30:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO4645 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/03/07 [...] The aim is to eliminate as many obstacles as possible in pursuing Diet deliberations due to the dominance of the opposition in the Upper House so that a possible vacuum in MSDF operations as a result of failure to secure Diet approval before the law expires can be lessened as much as possible. [...] | 2007-10-03 07:53:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4646 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - SIX-PARTY TALKS AND [...] "No Compromise on Nuclear Disablement" The liberal Mainichi wrote in an editorial (10/2): "The North Korean nuclear threat will remain even after the disablement of three facilities in Yongbyon. As these plants have already served their purpose, there is a growing view that their disablement w [...] | 2007-10-03 07:53:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO4648 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/05/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-04 01:35:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4653 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - SIX-PARTY TALKS [...] "Step Forward toward Denuclearization" The liberal Asahi editorialized (10/4): "... US experts have come to the view that the level of uranium enrichment by North Korea has not yet reached a stage where it can manufacture weapons-grade uranium. This being the case, the disablement of three fac [...] | 2007-10-04 04:53:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO4666 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/04/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-04 08:08:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4673 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/05/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-05 01:21:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4678 | END OF THE DIET SESSION NOVEMBER, DECEMBER OR [...] (SBU) Summary. The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has declared its intention to introduce a new bill authorizing the refueling mission in the Indian Ocean in support of OEF. The introduction and timing of this new bill create the possibility that the current extraordinary Diet session will ex [...] | 2007-10-05 03:57:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV JA |
07TOKYO4684 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - SIX-PARTY TALKS AND [...] "Problems Remain in Six-Party Agreement" The conservative Sankei editorialized (10/5): "...The latest round of the six-party talks looked for a detailed roadmap for implementing the 'next phase' actions. However, the joint statement announced on Wednesday lacks details, and it is problematic i [...] | 2007-10-05 04:54:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO4686 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - SIX-PARTY TALKS AND [...] "No Compromise on Nuclear Disablement" The liberal Mainichi wrote in an editorial (10/2): "The North Korean nuclear threat will remain even after the disablement of three facilities in Yongbyon. As these plants have already served their purpose, there is a growing view that their disablement w [...] | 2007-10-05 04:55:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO4703 | MIXED PRESS REACTIONS TO LATEST SIX-PARTY AGREEMENT [...] SUMMARY: Official comments on the six-party accord and the accompanying abduction issue have been generally favorable, with Japan being satisfied that its views were reflected in the final document, namely, that delisting would be considerably difficult unless the nuclear and humanitarian is [...] | 2007-10-06 02:37:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL PTER OIIP KPAO KMDR KN KS JA |
07TOKYO4704 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/05/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-08 23:58:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4715 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/09/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-09 04:54:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4717 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - SITUATION IN BURMA [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-09 04:55:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO4721 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/09/07 [...] Purpose of the law In order to contribute positively and independently to the efforts of the international community to stop and eliminate international terrorism, refueling operations by the Self-Defense Forces (SDF) toward the vessels of each country participating in maritime interdiction [...] | 2007-10-09 08:00:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4726 | JAPAN PLANS CONTRIBUTION FOR IRAQ REFUGEE SUPPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-10 01:16:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PHUM IZ JA |
07TOKYO4732 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/10/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-10 02:20:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4734 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - DPRK NUCLEAR PROGRAM [...] "Prime Minister Should Swiftly Firm up Strategy" The liberal Asahi editorialized (10/10): "The GOJ decided yesterday on a half-year extension of sanctions on North Korea. Such measures as a ban on the entry of the DPRK passenger-freighter Man Gyong Bong will continue for the time being.... It [...] | 2007-10-10 05:00:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO474 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 02/01/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-01 08:49:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4746 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/10/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-10 10:24:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4766 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/11/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-11 01:51:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4769 | JAPANESE DIET MEMBERS TO LOBBY AGAINST DELISTING [...] A group of "more than 10" lawmakers from the nonpartisan Parliamentarian League for Early Repatriation of Japanese Citizens Kidnapped by North Korea are planning to travel to Washington in early December to lobby against removing the DPRK from the list of state sponsors of terrorism, according [...] | 2007-10-11 05:03:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM PGOV KN JA |
07TOKYO4775 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/11/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-11 08:27:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4784 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/12/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-12 01:22:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4799 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/12/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-12 08:21:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4803 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/15/07-1 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-15 02:34:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4804 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - 2+2 TALKS IN RUSSIA [...] "Russia's Hard Line Pronounced" Moscow correspondent Seguchi of the top circulation, moderate Yomiuri reported (10/14): "During a 2+2 defense and foreign ministerial with the US in Moscow, Russian President Putin called for the cancellation of US plans to deploy a missile defense system in Eas [...] | 2007-10-15 03:27:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO4813 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/15/07-2 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-15 07:48:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4822 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/16/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-16 01:34:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4823 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - Chinese Communist Party [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-16 02:54:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO4829 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/16/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-16 22:17:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4843 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/17/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-17 01:27:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4846 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - ARMENIAN GENOCIDE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-17 05:47:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO4856 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/17/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-17 22:26:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4857 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/18/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-18 01:13:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4870 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/18/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-18 22:31:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4872 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - TURKEY AND IRAQ [...] "Tension Mounting over Iraq" The conservative Sankei's Istanbul correspondent Murakami wrote (10/18): "Concern is mounting over the possibility of further destabilization in Iraq following the Turkish parliament's move to grant the country's army the authority to cross the border and attack PK [...] | 2007-10-18 22:31:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO4879 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/19/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-19 01:49:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4881 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - G7 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-19 02:03:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO489 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: JAPAN WEEKLY REPORT FEBRUARY 02 [...] No human outbreaks of H5N1 AI were reported in Japan during the period from January 25 to February 02. -- MHLW drafts guidelines for pandemic influenza -- 2. On January 19, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) submitted to an advisory panel draft guidelines on measures to be [...] | 2007-02-02 07:41:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KFLU KSTH ECON PREL SOCI JA |
07TOKYO490 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 02/02/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-02 08:04:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4902 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/19/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-19 08:26:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4913 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/22/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-22 01:32:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4917 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - PAKISTAN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-22 02:19:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO4925 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/22/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-22 08:02:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4931 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/23/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-23 01:20:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO495 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 02/02/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-02 08:26:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4950 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/23/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-23 07:52:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4953 | ADVOCATING FOR TIP VICTIM IDENTIFICATION [...] Embassy Tokyo Political Officer met October 18 with MOFA International Organized Crime Division TIP Officer Hiroko Sasahara to discuss formal procedures for identifying victims of human trafficking. In proposing steps that Japan could take in this regard, Embassy Political Officer delivered R [...] | 2007-10-23 22:21:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM KCRM KWMN JA |
07TOKYO4954 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/24/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-24 01:36:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4956 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - NEW LEADERSHIP LINEUP [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-24 02:25:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO4967 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/24/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-24 08:01:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4968 | JAPAN WILL DECIDE UNIAAC VOTE AT THE LAST MINUTE [...] This message contains an action request. Please see paragraph 3. 2. Embassy Tokyo Political Officer delivered reftel demarche October 22 to MOFA UN Planning and Administration Division Principal Deputy Director Kenichi Matsuda. Matsuda said that Japan would "carefully consider" Mr Walke [...] | 2007-10-24 08:06:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AORC UN UNGA JA |
07TOKYO4976 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/25/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-25 01:04:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO4980 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/25/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-25 07:49:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 01//07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-03 07:41:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5003 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/26/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-26 01:18:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5018 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/26/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-26 08:07:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5028 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/29/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-29 01:22:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5031 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - IRAN [...] "What Happened to Syria-DPRK Connection?" The Liberal Mainichi wrote (10/29): "The US has decided to slap additional sanctions on Iran for its continued uranium enrichment.... The US has also claimed that Iran has been supplying arms to the Taliban and to Shiite militias in Iraq. However, Iran [...] | 2007-10-29 05:21:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO5032 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/29/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-29 07:59:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5038 | Japan-Germany to Expand IPR Cooperation [...] (U) On October 19 Japan announced a pilot program with Germany under the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH). The program, which will start in March 2008, extends to four the number of countries with which Japan has such agreements. The other countries already piloting PPH agreements with Japan [...] | 2007-10-30 01:11:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD KIPR JA GE |
07TOKYO5039 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/30/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-30 01:17:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO504 | MEDIA REACTION - IRAQ - TOKYO [...] LEAD STORIES: Monday morning's Asahi front-paged the suicide bombing Saturday in central Baghdad, which claimed the lives of at least 135 people. 2. "International Community Must Tackle Issues That Cause Suicide Bombings" The conservative Sankei editorialized (2/5): "It is reported that mo [...] | 2007-02-05 00:57:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO5043 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/30/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-30 07:52:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5045 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 10/31/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-31 00:49:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5047 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - TURKEY-IRAQ [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-31 02:13:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO5055 | CORRECTED TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - TURKEY-IRAQ [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-31 04:23:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO5061 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 10/31/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-31 22:41:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5063 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 11//07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-01 01:06:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5069 | JAPANESE HIV VACCINE GOES TO CLINICAL TRIALS IN THE U.S. [...] Japanese scientific and other press report that a Japanese consortium plans to begin clinical trials of its AIDS vaccine in the U.S. as early as 2010. It would be the first clinical test of a Japanese-developed AIDS vaccine. The consortium includes the University of Tokyo, the National Insti [...] | 2007-11-01 07:55:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO SOCI KHIV AMED KSCA JA |
07TOKYO5070 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 11/01/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-01 08:10:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5082 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 11/02/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-02 01:11:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5096 | MEDIA COVERAGE OF OCTOBER 31 COALITION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 31, the Canadian Embassy in Tokyo hosted a briefing for Japanese Diet members focusing on the international nature of OEF Coalition efforts in the Indian Ocean to combat global terrorism, as well as on the importance of Japan's contribution to OEF. Approximately 10 [...] | 2007-11-02 07:33:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO KMDR KN KS JA |
07TOKYO5099 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 11/02/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-02 08:04:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5105 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - PAKISTAN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-05 00:41:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO5106 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 11/05/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-05 01:28:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5109 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - US RATE CUT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-05 05:08:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO5112 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 11/05/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-05 08:04:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5116 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 11/06/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-06 01:14:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5126 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 11/06/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-06 08:30:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5130 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 11/07/07 [...] (Omitted (by the Yomiuri Shimbun)) 2. The bill is to expressly stipulate basic principles for Japan to invoke its right to self-defense under the Constitution of Japan and participate in collective security measures under Chapter 7 of the United Nations Charter. Japan is to play a leading ro [...] | 2007-11-07 01:16:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5133 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - DPRK NUCLEAR PROGRAM [...] "Nuclear Disablement Alone Is Not Enough" The business-oriented Nikkei editorialized (11/7): "Disablement of the nuclear facilities at Yongbyon has finally started.... However, it will be necessary to dismantle them in order to realize the ultimate goal of denuclearizing North Korea. Disableme [...] | 2007-11-07 05:06:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO5139 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 11/07/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-07 22:57:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5140 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 11/08/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-08 01:49:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5147 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - TURKISH PM ERDOGAN'S US [...] "From Invasion to Limited Air Strike" The liberal Tokyo Shimbun's Ankara-based correspondent wrote (11/8): "Following Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan's agreement with President Bush on Monday on greater sharing of US military intelligence concerning PKK rebels, there is a growing consensus in T [...] | 2007-11-08 04:26:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO5173 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 11/08/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-08 08:26:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5175 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 11/09/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-09 01:41:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5182 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - TURKEY [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-09 05:21:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO5197 | JAPAN, NEW ZEALAND SIGN STRATEGIC OIL RESERVE PACT [...] (U) Japan and New Zealand signed a pact November 5 which allows New Zealand access to Japan's strategic oil reserves for emergency use according to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI). Under the agreement, New Zealand may purchase up to 90,000 metric tons, or 659,700 barrels of o [...] | 2007-11-09 08:05:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENRG JA PGOV PREL |
07TOKYO5202 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 11/09/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-09 08:37:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5216 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - GEORGIA [...] "Rose Revolution Losing Appeal" The business-oriented Nikkei editorialized (11/13): "Four years ago, a peaceful democratization movement called the 'Rose Revolution' displaced then Georgian President Shevardnadze and led to the election of Saakashvili as the nation's new leader. Ironically, ho [...] | 2007-11-13 01:54:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO5217 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 11/13/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-13 02:28:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5221 | STAS MEETING ON U.S.-JAPAN FRAMEWORK INITIATIVE FOR A SAFE [...] Summary. Dr. Nina Fedoroff, S&T Advisor to the Secretary of State and Mr. Yasutaka Moriguchi, Director-General, Science and Technology Policy Bureau of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) co-chaired a meeting on October 10 to discuss the U.S.-Japan Frame [...] | 2007-11-13 07:12:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | TNGD PTER TBIO TSPL KSCA JA |
07TOKYO5222 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 11/13/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-13 07:58:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5227 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 11/14/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-14 08:19:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5228 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 11/14/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-14 08:22:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5232 | FTC COMMISSIONER HARBOUR MEETINGS WITH GOJ [...] Summary: Japanese officials who met with Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Commissioner Pamela Jones Harbour November 8 showed interest in stronger cooperation with the United States on antitrust issues as well as in initiatives related to e-commerce and consumer protection. The Japan Fair Trad [...] | 2007-11-14 09:09:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EINV KCRM PGOV JA |
07TOKYO5240 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 11/15/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-15 01:43:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5241 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - PAKISTAN'S CRISIS AND [...] "Power-Sharing Plan on Verge of Collapse" The conservative Sankei's Bangkok correspondent reported (11/15): "Political confusion in Pakistan is deepening, as President Musharraf has decided to take a harder line by rejecting a power-sharing arrangement with former Prime Minister Bhutto followi [...] | 2007-11-15 04:47:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO5244 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 11/15/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-15 08:10:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5258 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 11/16/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-16 01:30:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5261 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - Pakistan [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-16 04:15:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO5267 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 11/16/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-16 08:14:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5272 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 11/19/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-19 01:08:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5277 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - US-JAPAN SUMMIT [...] "Solid Alliance Must Be Maintained" The top- circulation, moderate Yomiuri argued (11/19): "Prime Minister Fukuda and President Bush in their first summit agreed to reinforce the US-Japan alliance. Each hoped to ease the doubts of the other, which, if unaddressed, could undermine the bilateral [...] | 2007-11-19 04:19:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO5290 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 11/19/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-19 22:56:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5294 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 11/20/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-20 01:25:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5295 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - ASEAN SUMMIT AND OPEC [...] "First Step Toward East Asia Community" The liberal Asahi editorialized (11/20): "The long-held dream of creating an 'East Asian Community' is finally coming into focus as a realistic goal for the future. Japan's decision to forge an economic partnership agreement with ASEAN will have signific [...] | 2007-11-20 02:28:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO5298 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 11/20/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-20 07:57:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5310 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 11/21/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-21 04:32:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5311 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - ASEAN SUMMIT AND [...] "Rough Road Toward Community" The liberal Mainichi's Singapore correspondent wrote (11/21): "In its leaders' summit on Tuesday, ASEAN adopted the ASEAN Charter, which sets forth the organization's legal and other frameworks. While the charter is considered the basic principles upon which the g [...] | 2007-11-21 04:33:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO5320 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 11/21/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-21 08:22:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5321 | EXCHANGE OF TELECOM MRA LETTERS [...] On November 21, 2007, and per instructions in ref, Embassy and GOJ effected the exchange of letters required to bring the Agreement on Mutual Recognition of Results of Conformity Assessment Procedures between Japan and the United States of America into force on January 1, 2008. The Embassy re [...] | 2007-11-21 08:25:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON PREL JA |
07TOKYO5324 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 11/26/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-26 01:25:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5327 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - WTO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-26 02:37:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO5333 | JAPAN FAVORABLY CONSIDERING U.S. CANDIDATE FOR CERD [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-26 06:58:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL UNGA JA |
07TOKYO5337 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 11//07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-26 22:51:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5338 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 11/27/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-27 01:11:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5341 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - ANNAPOLIS MEETING [...] "Good Opportunity for Progress on Middle East Peace" The liberal Tokyo Shimbun editorialized (11/27): "The Annapolis meeting will be the first US-arranged Middle East peace conference since the days of the Clinton administration. The meeting is significant in that it will bring together minist [...] | 2007-11-27 02:34:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO5345 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 11/27/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-27 07:59:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5346 | JAPAN WILL NOT PRESENT AT G8 KIDNAPPING CONFERENCE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-27 08:47:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER ASEC PREL PGOV KCRM JA |
07TOKYO5350 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 11/28/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-28 01:28:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5356 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - ANNAPOLIS MEETING [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-28 05:24:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO5359 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 11/28/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-28 08:05:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5364 | JAPAN INCSR PART I [...] Japan's efforts to fight drug trafficking comply with international standards; Japan is a party to the 1988 UN Drug Convention. Japan cooperates with other countries in intelligence sharing and law enforcement. Methamphetamine abuse remains the biggest challenge to Japanese antinarcotics effo [...] | 2007-11-29 01:26:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR JA |
07TOKYO5365 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 11//07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-29 01:30:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5369 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - ANNAPOLIS MEETING [...] "Implementation of Agreement Not in Sight" The liberal Asahi's report from Annapolis said (11/29): "President Bush announced during the Annapolis meeting on Wednesday an agreement of 'common understanding' between the Israelis and Palestinians to end their conflict and establish a Palestinian [...] | 2007-11-29 04:43:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO5376 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 11/29/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-29 08:21:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO538 | MEDIA REACTION - IRAQ - TOKYO [...] "The Use of Force Alone Cannot Stop Iraq's Sectarian Violence" The moderate Tokyo Shimbun editorialized (2/6): "...In the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) submitted to Congress, US intelligence agencies said that Iraq was in a 'state of civil war.' The question is how to get control of the [...] | 2007-02-06 04:34:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO5388 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 11/30/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-30 01:37:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5391 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - PROSPECTS FOR MIDDLE [...] "U.S. Role Most Important" The top circulation, moderate Yomiuri editorialized (11/30): "The fact that both Palestinian leader Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Olmert have weak political bases is a source of concern.... Given the circumstances, it is even more imperative that Washington act as [...] | 2007-11-30 02:19:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO540 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 02/06/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-06 08:26:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5400 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 11/30/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-02 23:02:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5410 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 12/03/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-03 01:28:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5416 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - RUSSIAN PARLIAMENTARY [...] "Doubts Raised About Election Fairness" The liberal Tokyo Shimbun's Moscow correspondent wrote (12/3): "Parliamentary elections were held across Russia on Sunday. Given that President Putin's ruling party "United Russia" appears to be heading toward a lopsided victory, momentum is bound to bui [...] | 2007-12-03 05:06:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO5425 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 12//07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-03 08:12:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5426 | JAPAN LIKELY TO ABSTAIN ON ANTI-ISRAEL UN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-03 08:53:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNGA IS JA |
07TOKYO5429 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 12/04/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-04 01:36:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5435 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - RUSSIAN PARLIAMENTARY [...] "Premonitions of a 'Putin Dynasty'" The liberal Asahi editorialized (11/4): "Each nation has its own form of democracy. Although the recent Russian parliamentary elections may have been conducted in a 'Russian way,' we have to wonder whether this was true democracy at all.... During President [...] | 2007-12-04 04:30:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO5439 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 12/04/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-04 08:16:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5441 | REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR [...] This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. 2. Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates of the Japan Self Defense Force who have been nominated for U.S.-sponsored training. Post has no der [...] | 2007-12-04 08:51:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM MARR MOPS PINR PINS JA |
07TOKYO5444 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 12/05/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-05 01:18:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5450 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - NIE REPORT ON IRAN [...] "U.S. Urged to Make Strategic Adjustments to Approach to Iran" The liberal Mainichi's report from Washington said (12/5): "Following the revelation on Monday that this year's National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) concluded that Iran halted its nuclear-weapons program in 2003, the Bush administr [...] | 2007-12-05 03:28:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO5463 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 12/5/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-05 08:14:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5465 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 12/06/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-06 01:21:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO547 | MEDIA REACTION - CRITICISM OF IRAQ WAR - TOKYO [...] "How About Voicing Criticism Directly to Cheney?" An editorial in the liberal Asahi stated (2/7): "Defense Minister Kyuma and Foreign Minister Aso have made remarks critical of US policy in Iraq. Kyuma questioned America's justification for the launch of the war and said that the decision to i [...] | 2007-02-07 03:59:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO5474 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 12/06/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-06 07:50:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5481 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 12/07/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-07 01:15:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5484 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - IRAN NATIONAL [...] "And Then There Was North Korea" The liberal Mainichi editorialized (12/7): "This year's National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) concluded that Iran halted its nuclear-weapons programs in 2003 and has not resumed it since. It must be a severe blow to the Bush administration, which has stressed th [...] | 2007-12-07 02:20:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO5488 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - IRAN AND RUSSIA [...] "Use NIE Report to Lead to Peaceful Resolution" The liberal Tokyo Shimbun editorialized (12/6): "President Bush's hard line against Iran may falter following the issuance of the latest National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) report. The Bush administration should take advantage of the release and [...] | 2007-12-07 06:26:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO5493 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 12/07/07 [...] Fund management organizations of Diet members and candidates for the Diet 2. Political organizations represented by Diet members and others and their branches in electoral districts 3. Political organizations recommending Diet members and others Political funds auditors (tentative name) regi [...] | 2007-12-07 08:22:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5495 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 12/10/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-10 02:33:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5499 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - KOSOVO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-10 07:03:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO55 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 01/09/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-09 08:13:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5502 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 12/10/07-2 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-10 08:27:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5504 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 12/11/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-11 02:02:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5505 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - PUTIN'S SELECTION OF [...] "With Few Enemies, Medvedev Seen as Harmless Figure" The liberal Asahi wrote from Moscow (12/11): "In view of the deepening rivalry among political players over who will succeed President Putin, Medvedev is seen as an innocuous politician who has few enemies. In addition, Putin appeared to cho [...] | 2007-12-11 06:43:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO5510 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 12/11/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-11 08:09:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5520 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 12/12/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-12 02:01:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5522 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - PUTIN'S SELECTION OF [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-12 02:09:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO5530 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 12/12/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-12 08:08:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5533 | JAPAN WILL GIVE FULL SUPPORT TO COUNTRY-SPECIFIC [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-12 09:46:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL UNGA JA |
07TOKYO5534 | BAMAKO CONSULATATIONS DEMARCHE ON CUBA DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-12 09:47:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM CU JA |
07TOKYO5537 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 12/10/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-13 01:04:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5543 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - RUSSIA [...] "Very Odd Change of Leadership" The conservative Sankei editorialized (12/13): "The word 'retirement' appears to be a forbidden one for Russian President Putin, who is scheduled to leave office next spring. First Deputy Prime Minister Medvedev, whom Putin has chosen as his heir apparent, decid [...] | 2007-12-13 04:14:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO5549 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 12/13/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-13 08:05:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5559 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 12/14/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-14 02:26:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5560 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - EU EXPANSION AND IRAQ- [...] "Accommodating Varying Interests of Members Makes Makes Lisbon Treaty Meaningless" A Brussels correspondent for the liberal Mainichi wrote (12/13): "EU leaders signed the Lisbon Treaty on Thursday calling for the creation of the posts of 'president' and 'foreign minister' in preparation for th [...] | 2007-12-14 02:58:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO5572 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 12/14/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-16 22:44:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5573 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 12/17/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-17 01:38:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO558 | FEBRUARY 25-26, 2007 ASTOP IV MEETING [...] SUMMARY: On February 25-26, 2007, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs hosted the Fourth Asian Senior-Level Talks on Non-Proliferation (ASTOP IV) in Tokyo. Senior-level government officials in charge of non-proliferation policies from the ASEAN member countries, Australia, Brunei Darussala [...] | 2007-02-07 23:27:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV JA |
07TOKYO5582 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - COP13 [...] "Use Bali Accord to Create Low-Carbon Society" The economic-oriented Nikkei editorialized (12/16): "Along with the return of the U.S., a major focus of attention at the Bali climate-change conference was the inclusion of China and India in a new framework, though the specifics of their partici [...] | 2007-12-17 03:38:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO5589 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 12/17/07 [...] Realize peace of mind and affluence: Expand medical services areas offered by nurses and midwives to reduce the burden of doctors. Introduce a direct contract method between authorized child-care centers and users. Ease standards for admission to child-care centers. Establish a school teacher-r [...] | 2007-12-17 22:59:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5591 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 12/18/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-18 01:14:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5592 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - RUSSIA [...] "Putin Rein to Continue" The top-circulation, moderate Yomiuri's Moscow correspondent Seguchi wrote (12/18): "With President Putin's official announcement on Monday that he will assume the premiership under President Medvedev, a new political system is in the making, under which Putin will con [...] | 2007-12-18 02:18:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO5598 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 12/18/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-18 08:23:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO560 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 02/08/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-08 00:43:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5603 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 12/19/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-19 01:34:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5604 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - IRAN'S RELATIONS WITH [...] "U.S. Approach to Iran Facing Impasse" The top- circulation, moderate Yomiuri's Washington correspondent reported (12/19): "President Bush expressed support on Monday for the Russian provision of nuclear fuel to an Iranian nuclear power plant at Bushehr by saying that Tehran no longer needs to [...] | 2007-12-19 02:56:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO5611 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 12/19/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-19 22:57:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5615 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 12/20/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-20 01:26:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5619 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - SOUTH KOREAN [...] "Good Opportunity for Improving Regional Coordination" The liberal Asahi editorialized (12/20): "ROK President-elect Lee has not yet clarified his diplomatic stance. Judging from his previous comments, Lee apparently plans to uphold the basic tone of his predecessor's soft line toward North Ko [...] | 2007-12-20 02:37:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO5627 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 12/20/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-20 08:08:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5633 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 12/21/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-21 01:25:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5637 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - U.S.-JAPAN MISSILE [...] "U.S.-Japan Coordination Important for Effective MD operation" The top-circulation, moderate Yomiuri editorialized (12/21): "Missile defense is not perfect. Properly speaking, there are two types of military deterrence: deterrence via the possibility of a retaliatory strike, and deterrence by [...] | 2007-12-21 02:30:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO5643 | UN BUDGET DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-21 05:10:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC UNGA XA XD JA |
07TOKYO5646 | TIP: FINAL CLARIFICATION OF JAPAN'S ROADMAP TO [...] This cable contains an action request. Please see paragraph 4. 2. Japan has begun taking steps to follow the "Roadmap to Tier 1" (Ref A),MOFA International Organized Crime Division TIP Officer Hiroko Sasahara told us December 20. Embassy Tokyo Political Officer delivered Ref B's "Clari [...] | 2007-12-21 05:44:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM KCRM KWMN JA |
07TOKYO5648 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 12/21/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-21 05:54:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5649 | JAPAN: 2007 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM [...] Japan continued to increase efforts to prevent terrorism and there were no terrorist attacks in Japan in 2007. Domestically, Japan bolstered its defenses against terrorism by improving crisis management and first responder capabilities and took steps to strengthen border security. By December [...] | 2007-12-21 06:46:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC PTER |
07TOKYO5652 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - SYRIA [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-26 02:33:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO5653 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 12/26/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-26 03:17:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5657 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 12/26/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-26 08:23:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5658 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 12/27/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-27 01:26:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5661 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: FOREIGN AGENTS IN THE UNITED [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-27 03:08:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL CJAN KJUS ASEC VE AR JA |
07TOKYO5663 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - THAI ELECTION AND [...] "Ensure Political Stability after Election" The business-oriented Nikkei editorialized (12/27): "The People Power Party that supports former Prime Minister Thaksin won a plurality in the Thai general election. While there is the possibility that the party may lose several seats due to vote vio [...] | 2007-12-27 03:59:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO5668 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 12/27/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-27 08:15:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5671 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 12/28/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-28 01:24:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5674 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - PAKISTAN [...] "U.S. Concerned About Impact on War on Terror" A Washington dispatch in the business-oriented Nikkei wrote (12/28): "The death of pro-American political leader Bhutto has dealt a heavy blow to the Bush administration. President Bush condemned the act of terrorism as a 'cowardly act by murderou [...] | 2007-12-28 02:47:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO5682 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 12/28/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-28 08:24:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO569 | MEDIA REACTION - SIX-PARTY TALKS - TOKYO [...] "Six-Party Talks at a Turning Point" The liberal Asahi editorialized (2/8): "...The six-party talks on North Korea's nuclear ambitions will resume today in Beijing. Because of past disappointments with North Korea, there is no predicting what will result from this round of talks. However, rema [...] | 2007-02-08 05:06:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO5690 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 12/31/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-31 01:28:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO5692 | TOKYO MEDIA REACTION - PAKISTAN [...] LEAD STORIES: Top stories on Monday morning include the Japanese government's plan to strengthen monitoring of foreign airlines serving in Japan with an aim of improving safety of their operations. 2. "U.S. Concerned about Rise in Extremists" The liberal Asahi's report from Washington claim [...] | 2007-12-31 02:00:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO5694 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 12/31/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-31 04:22:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO580 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 02/08/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-08 08:14:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO592 | MEDIA REACTION - NORTH KOREA / WTO - TOKYO [...] "No Compromise on Nuclear Dismantlement" The moderate Mainichi editorialized (2/9): "...We are concerned about what the DPRK will be given in return for its nuclear dismantlement and are also worried that the US and Japan could fall out of step on the policy of using both dialogue and pressure [...] | 2007-02-09 02:36:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO597 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: JAPAN WEEKLY REPORT FEBRUARY 08 [...] No human outbreaks of H5N1 AI were reported in Japan during the period from February 02 to 08 -- Update on AI Outbreak in Shintomi, Miyazaki - 2. On February 3, the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) confirmed that the avian influenza outbreak in the town of Shin [...] | 2007-02-09 06:58:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KFLU KSTH ECON PREL SOCI JA |
07TOKYO599 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 02/09/07 [...] Name(Time of establishment) 2. Immediate purpose 3. Confronting challenge  [...] | 2007-02-09 08:10:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO605 | MEDIA REACTION - SIX-PARTY TALKS IN BEIJING - [...] There were no immediate TV commentaries on the latest developments at the six-party talks. 2. "Formal Deal Expected Today at Six-Party Talks" On the Tuesday 7 a.m. news program of quasi-governmental broadcaster NHK-TV, correspondents Yui and Hioki reported from Beijing: "As A/S Hill, the ch [...] | 2007-02-13 01:22:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO61 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 01//07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-10 01:10:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO617 | JANUARY 25-26, 2007 ASTOP IV MEETING [...] SUMMARY: On January 25-26, 2007, the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs hosted the Fourth Asian Senior-Level Talks on Non-Proliferation (ASTOP IV) in Tokyo. Senior-level government officials in charge of non-proliferation policies from the ASEAN member countries (Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, [...] | 2007-02-13 06:41:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM JA ENRG |
07TOKYO619 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 02/13/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-13 08:04:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO643 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 02/14/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-14 08:18:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO646 | MEDIA REACTION Q SIX-PARTY TALKS IN BEIJING - [...] "Six-Party Talks Accord: First Step Toward North Korea's Denuclearization" The business-oriented Nihon Keizai editorialized (2/14): "... Although efforts by US, Japanese, Chinese and other negotiators in dealing with their North Korean counterparts are understandable, we want to reconfirm that [...] | 2007-02-14 08:45:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO650 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 02/14/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-15 01:07:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO660 | JAPAN WELCOMES AGREEMENT BETWEEN PALESTINIANS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-15 09:05:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAL JA |
07TOKYO689 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: JAPAN WEEKLY REPORT FEBRUARY 15 [...] No human outbreaks of H5N1 AI were reported in Japan during the period from February 08 to 15. -- Update on AI outbreaks in Miyazaki and Okayama -- 2. On February 14, a team of experts on avian influenza reported that all four recent outbreaks of avian influenza in Miyazaki and Okayama [...] | 2007-02-16 08:11:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KFLU KSTH ECON PREL SOCI JA |
07TOKYO692 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 02/16/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-16 08:24:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO7 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 01/04/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-04 05:14:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO701 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 02/20/07-1 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-20 01:23:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO702 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 02/20/07-2 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-20 01:26:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO704 | MEDIA REACTION - CHENEY VISIT/SECOND ARMITAGE [...] "Strategic Cooperation Among US, Japan, and Australia Needed" An editorial in the conservative Sankei commented (2/20): "Vice President Cheney will arrive in Japan this afternoon and meet with Prime Minister Abe and Foreign Minister Aso on Wednesday before leaving for Australia.... Cheney's vi [...] | 2007-02-20 02:36:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO722 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 02/21/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-21 00:28:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO742 | MEETING WITH MEXT TO DISCUSS PROPOSED BILL ON [...] SUMMARY. On January 30, 2007, Embassy EST section met with MEXT officials to glean additional information on the Government of Japan (GOJ) plan to submit to the Diet a bill intended to prevent nuclear and radiological terrorism. The bill is being introduced to the Diet to ratify the U.N. Inter [...] | 2007-02-22 05:18:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL |
07TOKYO744 | MEDIA REACTION - CHENEY VISIT - TOKYO [...] "Cheney-Abe Meeting: We Welcome Their Agreement to Address the Abduction Issue as a Common Task" The conservative Sankei editorialized (2/22): "Vice President Cheney wound up his visit to Japan after meeting Wednesday with Prime Minister Abe, Foreign Minister Aso, and other senior officials. C [...] | 2007-02-22 05:22:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO752 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 02/22/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-22 05:55:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO763 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 02//07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-22 23:55:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO774 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 01//07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-23 01:37:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO779 | MEDIA REACTION - CHENEY VISIT - TOKYO [...] "Cheney-Abe Meeting: Did PM Abe Show 'Assertive' Diplomacy?" The moderate Tokyo Shimbun editorialized (2/23): "During talks with visiting Vice President Cheney Wednesday at the Prime Minister's Official Residence, Prime Minister Abe promised Japan's continued support for Iraq. However, if he h [...] | 2007-02-23 05:36:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO784 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 02//07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-23 08:18:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO794 | MEDIA REACTION - IRAN - TOKYO [...] "Iran Should Show Confidence-Building Posture" The business daily Nihon Keizai editorialized (2/25): "International tensions are continuing over Iran's nuclear development program. The UNSC adopted a resolution in December calling on Iran to halt its uranium enrichment activity within 60 days [...] | 2007-02-26 02:17:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO807 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 02/26/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-26 08:06:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO832 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 02/28/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-28 01:30:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO856 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 02//07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-28 22:59:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO859 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 03/01/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-01 01:32:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO865 | MEDIA REACTION Q AFGHANISTAN - TOKYO [...] "Suicide Bombing: Taliban Expanding Activities in Afghanistan" Kabul correspondent Masahiro Sato of the top- circulation, moderate Yomiuri wrote (3/1): "A suicide bombing in eastern Palwan province, Afghanistan, on February 27, an apparent attempt on the life of Vice President Cheney during hi [...] | 2007-03-01 02:52:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO876 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 03//07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-01 08:21:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO896 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 03/02/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-04 22:52:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO903 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 03/05/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-05 01:32:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO907 | MEDIA REACTION Q IRAQ - TOKYO [...] "International Conference in Iraq: Chance for Dialogue Must Be Seized" The liberal Mainichi editorialized (3/4): "Is the direction of the wind changing? An international conference aimed at stabilizing Iraq is expected to be held on March 10 in Baghdad with the US, Iran, and Syria attending. A [...] | 2007-03-05 04:28:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO929 | MEDIA REACTION Q DPRK - TOKYO [...] "Japan and US Should Work Together to Resolve Abduction Issue" The liberal Mainichi editorialized (3/6): "...Difficult negotiations are expected over the abduction issue at Japan-DPRK working-group talks to be held Wednesday and Thursday in Hanoi. Japan needs to maintain its basic position of [...] | 2007-03-06 02:19:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO956 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 03/07/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-07 02:26:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO958 | MEDIA REACTION Q US-DPRK Talks in New York - [...] "US, DPRK Still Far from Normalizing Relations" New York correspondent Takashi Sakamoto of the top- circulation, moderate Yomiuri wrote (3/7): "The first session of two-day working group talks on US-DPRK normalization was held at a hotel in New York, marking the first such talks under the Bush [...] | 2007-03-07 03:11:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TOKYO971 | DAILY SUMMARY OF JAPANESE PRESS 03/07/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-07 08:16:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO985 | JAPANESE MORNING PRESS HIGHLIGHTS 03/08/07 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-08 01:26:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO PGOV PINR ECON ELAB JA |
07TOKYO994 | MEDIA REACTION - US-DPRK Talks in New York - [...] "Japan Wary About US-DPRK Talks" The business-oriented Nihon Keizai editorialized (3/8): "The US and North Korea ended their two-day working-group talks on normalization in New York.... Although the two sides are believed to have confirmed an agreement for Pyongyang to shut down and seal its n [...] | 2007-03-08 02:49:00 | Embassy Tokyo | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR KPAO JA |
07TORONTO441 | Federal Government Promotes Canada as a Low Tax Country [...] Summary: Federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty made no new announcements in a November 5 Toronto speech, instead apparently previewing Conservative economic themes for the next campaign by focusing mostly on Canada's strong economy and Conservative tax-cutting, including the next promised one [...] | 2007-11-05 19:35:00 | Consulate Toronto | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN PGOV PINR PREL SENV CA |
07TRIPOLI1058 | UPDATING INFORMATION FOR TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-23 12:22:00 | Embassy Tripoli | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ETTC PTER KTFN |
07TRIPOLI420 | TEST [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-01 09:04:00 | Embassy Tripoli | UNCLASSIFIED | ACOA PTER |
07TRIPOLI487 | LIBYA: INFECTIOUS DISEASES WORKSHOP ATTEMPTS TO INJECT [...] SUMMARY. On May 4-7 the Libyan National Center for Infectious Diseases Protection and Control (NCIDCP) held the first-ever Infectious and Endemic Diseases Scientific Conference in Tripoli, which included two sessions on HIV/AIDS in Libya. Most conference discussions were not highly technical, b [...] | 2007-05-24 15:33:00 | Embassy Tripoli | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO PGOV PHUM LY |
07TRIPOLI912 | A SUCCESS?: ENI'S DEAL WITH LIBYA'S NATIONAL OIL [...] Summary: Italian energy firm Eni has struck a major deal with Libya's National Oil Corporation that will significantly extend its concession contracts and launch an ambitious series of exploration and development activities. While trumpeted by Eni as a success, the deal carries serious negat [...] | 2007-10-26 16:32:00 | Embassy Tripoli | UNCLASSIFIED | BTIO ECON EINV EPET ENRG PREL LY |
07TRIPOLI946 | DESIGNATIONS OF IRANIAN ENTITIES AND INDIVIDUALS UNDER [...] (U) The Charge delivered reftel demarche to MFA Secretary for Americas Affairs Dr. Ahmed Fituri November 1. Fituri offered no substantive response, but undertook to convey to the appropriate authorities the request that the GOL take parallel measures. Noting Libya's recent election to a non-pe [...] | 2007-11-07 16:16:00 | Embassy Tripoli | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KNNP IR PARM EFIN |
07TRIPOLI993 | MINISTERIAL DELEGATIONS TO WASHINGTON INTERNATIONAL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-26 15:28:00 | Embassy Tripoli | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ENRG EPET SENV SOCI TRGY KPAO KGHG KSCA LY |
07TRIPOLI999 | LIBYAN ORGANIZATION ISSUES STATEMENT OPPOSING AFRICOM [...] On November 21, the Community of Sahel and Saharan States (Cen-Sad) issued a statement at its Tripoli headquarters "categorically rejecting" Africom and any foreign military presence in any Cen-Sad member country. The statement noted that Cen-Sad represents roughly half of Africa's territory [...] | 2007-11-27 15:20:00 | Embassy Tripoli | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PMIL PGOV LY |
07TUNIS1024 | CALVERT SUPPORT TO TUNISIA'S ENDA [...] (U) Per reftel request, Post provides the following background information on ENDA Inter-Arabe. ENDA and co-founder Essma Ben Hamida are well-known to the Embassy. Post has no objections to the proposed OPIC guaranty of Calvert Social Investment Foundation loans to ENDA. 2. (U) ENDA was fo [...] | 2007-07-31 15:19:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ECON EFIN TS |
07TUNIS1066 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: PROMOTION OF STANDING [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-07 09:06:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PREL PHUM ICRC TS |
07TUNIS1134 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: CONVENTION AGAINST TORTURE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-21 15:34:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL UNGA TS |
07TUNIS1240 | TUNISIAN UNGA PARTICIAPTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-12 11:28:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SOCI TSPL UNGA TS |
07TUNIS1257 | ARAB LEAGUE BOYCOTT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-17 06:41:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD KBCT USTRPS ECON EFIN TS |
07TUNIS137 | INFLUENTIAL WOMEN [...] In response to reftel, Post provides the names of five influential Tunisian women: Faiza Kefi President Cour des Comptes (General Accounting Office) 25 avenue de la Liberte 1002 Tunis Belvedere Phone: 216-71-831-060 Maya Jribi Secretary General SIPDIS Parti Democrate Progressiste ( [...] | 2007-01-30 15:52:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KWMN PREL TS |
07TUNIS138 | AU CHARTER ON DEMOCRACY, ELECTIONS AND GOVERNANCE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-30 15:52:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KDEM PGOV TS |
07TUNIS140 | TUNISIA: INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT 2007 [...] Tunisia's 2007 Investment Climate Statement. Topics covered include: Paragraph -- Topic 2 -- Openness to Foreign Investment 16 -- Conversion and Transfer Policies 21 -- Expropriation and Compensation 22 -- Dispute Settlement 26 -- Performance Requirements and Incentives 33 -- Right to Priv [...] | 2007-01-30 16:45:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB OPIC USTR TS |
07TUNIS141 | TUNISIA: INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT 2007 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-30 16:51:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB OPIC USTR TS |
07TUNIS1419 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: CANDIDACY OF AVID WALKER FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-25 14:51:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AORC UN UNGA TS |
07TUNIS1422 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON WIREC 2008 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-25 15:20:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG EAID SENV KSCA EPET TRGY KGHG TS |
07TUNIS1435 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON DESIGNATIONS OF IRANIAN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-29 15:10:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KNNP IR PARM EFIN TS |
07TUNIS1436 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON ICAO MONTREAL CONVENTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-29 15:11:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC EAIR ICAO KNNP OTRA KTIA PARM TS |
07TUNIS1439 | TUNISIA INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY [...] There is no discernible money laundering or terrorist finance activity occurring in Tunisia. Tunisia is not considered an important regional financial center due in large part to the very strict control exercised by the Central Bank over financial transactions, particularly those involving fo [...] | 2007-10-30 10:15:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN KCRM KTFN SNAR PTER TS |
07TUNIS1442 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON FATF STATEMENT AND GUIDANCE [...] On October 30, 2007, reftel points were transmitted to the Americas Division of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Tunisian Financial Analysis Commission (Tunisia's FIU) and the Ministry of Finance. Any reactions, comments, or response received from the GOT will be reported septel. 2. In [...] | 2007-10-30 13:03:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL MNUC ECON EFIN KTFN TS |
07TUNIS1452 | TRANSLATION OF INTERNATIONAL RELIGIOUS FREEDOM [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-02 08:13:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM KPAO TS |
07TUNIS1478 | TRANSLATION OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-15 07:27:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM KPAO TS |
07TUNIS1515 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON NEW DELHI CONFERENCE ON [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-23 14:32:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR KFLU EAID TBIO PREL TS |
07TUNIS1516 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE TO TUNISIA GRANTED FOR CODEL [...] Embassy Tunis grants country clearance and warmly welcomes Senator Daniel K. Inouye, Senator Ted Stevens and accompanying members of CODEL Inouye to Tunisia from November 25-26, 2007. 2. Point of contact for the visit is Political Officer Susannah Cooper. Contact information for Ms. Cooper [...] | 2007-11-23 14:37:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED | OREP AMGT ASEC TS JO |
07TUNIS1563 | TUNISIAN NGO COMBATTING VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN [...] In recognition of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (reftel),the Ambassador and EmbOffs visited the National Union of Tunisian Woman's (UNFT) Tunis headquarters, women's shelter and counseling center on December 5. UNFT President Aziza Hatira and other UNFT [...] | 2007-12-07 11:38:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KWMN PREL KPAO TS |
07TUNIS1564 | TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION OFFICERS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-07 13:45:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER TS |
07TUNIS226 | Beywatch: YOUNG TUNISIAN MEN ASK: "IS THE MARRIAGE VISA [...] INTRODUCTION: This report is one of a series drafted by Post's entry level officers which have the "Beywatch" caption. We believe the perspectives offered in the following vignette will give the reader a sense of everyday life in Tunisia. END INTRODUCTION. 2. SUMMARY: This cable is a look [...] | 2007-02-14 08:05:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED | KFRD SOCI CVIS TS |
07TUNIS229 | TUNISIAN NOMINATION FOR INTERNATIONAL WOMEN OF [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-14 15:20:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KWMN PREL KPAO TS |
07TUNIS296 | Beywatch: Can Tunisia Cut Its Way Into the Medical Tourism [...] INTRODUCTION: This report is one of a series drafted by Post's entry level officers which have the "Beywatch" caption. We believe the perspectives offered in the following vignette will give the reader greater insight into Tunisia. END INTRODUCTION. 2. SUMMARY: From Budapest to Bangkok, We [...] | 2007-03-06 14:01:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON EINV SOCI TS |
07TUNIS313 | Beywatch: Can Tunisia Cut Its Way Into the Medical Tourism [...] INTRODUCTION: This report is one of a series drafted by Post's entry level officers which have the "Beywatch" caption. We believe the perspectives offered in the following vignette will give the reader greater insight into Tunisia. END INTRODUCTION. 2. SUMMARY: From Budapest to Bangkok, We [...] | 2007-03-07 15:58:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON EINV SOCI TS |
07TUNIS471 | EMBASSY SCIENCE FELLOWS PROGRAM REQUEST [...] Embassy Tunis requests an Embassy Science Fellow from the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the field of engineering. The Science Fellow would identify potential partnerships between Tunisian and US educational and research institutions and participate in Embassy public outreach activities [...] | 2007-04-17 07:18:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED | TSPL SENV KSCA KPAO TS |
07TUNIS591 | SFAX FACTS: TUNISIA'S BUSINESS CAPITAL WANTS [...] Ambassador conducted a familiarization tour of the southern governorate, and second largest city, Sfax from April 4-8. The visit included economic/commercial, public affairs, and humanitarian components. Interlocutors at every stop pressed for increased collaboration and assistance from the [...] | 2007-05-11 18:00:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON ETRD KPAO SCUL TS |
07TUNIS605 | BLUE LANTERN CHECK: TUNISIAN MOD LICENSES [...] THIS MESSAGE CONTAINS AN ACTION REQUEST. PLEASE SEE PARA 4. 2. As instructed in reftel, on May 15 PolMilOff conducted a post-shipment end-use check on applications 05-998131 and 05-991008 for the export of F-5 aircraft spares to the Tunisian Ministry of National Defense (MND). PolMilOff met [...] | 2007-05-16 10:00:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC MARR TS |
07TUNIS856 | TUNISIA: NOTIFICATION OF ARB PROCEEDINGS DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-28 12:19:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PINR PHUM TS |
07TUNIS94 | AMBASSADOR PRESENTS CREDENTIALS TO PRESIDENT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-18 13:52:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV TS |
07ULAANBAATAR105 | Mongolia Welcomes Six Party Talks Agreement [...] DCM conveyed reftel points to MFA. In response, an MFA official called attention to a statement which MFA released on February 14 (para 2). 2. Begin text: Statement by the Spokesman of Ministry of Foreign Affairs The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mongolia applauds the initial actio [...] | 2007-02-16 03:13:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PARM KNNP EAID KN MG |
07ULAANBAATAR106 | Mongolia Welcomes Six Party Talks Agreement [...] DCM conveyed reftel points to MFA. In response, an MFA official called attention to a statement which MFA released on February 14 (para 2). 2. Begin text: Statement by the Spokesman of Ministry of Foreign Affairs The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mongolia applauds the initial actio [...] | 2007-02-16 03:13:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PARM KNNP EAID KN MG |
07ULAANBAATAR107 | Mongolia Welcomes Six Party Talks Agreement [...] DCM conveyed reftel points to MFA. In response, an MFA official called attention to a statement which MFA released on February 14 (para 2). 2. Begin text: Statement by the Spokesman of Ministry of Foreign Affairs The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Mongolia applauds the initial actio [...] | 2007-02-16 03:14:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PARM KNNP EAID KN MG |
07ULAANBAATAR109 | List of Mongolian Registered Ships [...] Mongolia's Ministry of Roads, Transportation and Tourism (MRTT) has provided post with a list of 283 "active ships" currently registered under the Mongolian flag. Ministry officials define "active" as those vessels operating on a regular, long-term basis with a normal or permanent registration [...] | 2007-02-20 02:59:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED | EWWT PHSA PINR PREL ETRD MG |
07ULAANBAATAR141 | Update on Mongolian Adoption Processing [...] Summary: A high-ranking official in the Ministry of Social Welfare and Labor has provided assurances that international adoption cases which had been on hold for at least two months would be processed within the next few weeks. A new adoption law may be introduced in the Mongolian Parliament [...] | 2007-03-05 04:25:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC KOCI CVIS MG |
07ULAANBAATAR146 | Bilateral Consular Convention Instruments Exchanged [...] On March 6, the U.S. and Mongolia exchanged the protocols and instruments of ratification for the bilateral consular convention which was signed in Ulaanbaatar on August 2, 1990. Signing on behalf of the United States was U.S. Ambassador Mark C. Minton. Signing on behalf of Mongolia was Forei [...] | 2007-03-06 06:01:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KTIA CASC AMGT MG |
07ULAANBAATAR157 | Mongolia and GSP: An undiscovered Country [...] SUMMARY: Less than half a percent of Mongolia's exports to the U.S. came in under GSP in 2006, partially because over 90% of Mongolian exports to the U.S. are textiles. However, in other cases, Mongolian goods eligible for GSP treatment simply don't take advantage of it. The Ministry of Indu [...] | 2007-03-08 03:53:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EIND PGOV KPRV EFIN PREL MG |
07ULAANBAATAR159 | USG Trade-Related Assistance to the GOM [...] SUMMARY: In the upcoming bilateral Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) talks, Mongolia continues to ask for trade-related technical assistance. USAID is already providing extensive help in a number of areas, including trade policy and negotiations, creation of a single window for [...] | 2007-03-08 05:24:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EAID PREL EMIN ECON PGOV MG |
07ULAANBAATAR164 | Mongolia Customs [...] Summary: While there is a bilateral Customs agreement with the U.S., cooperation has waned since the end of the Multifiber Arrangement in 2005. Mongolia has a relatively liberal trade regime, with low tariffs and no quotas or onerous licensing requirements. Customs is widely viewed as corru [...] | 2007-03-10 03:55:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EIND PGOV KPRV EFIN PREL MG |
07ULAANBAATAR207 | THANKS FOR ASSISTANCE TO IRAQ VISIT OF MONGOLIAN [...] I want to express my personal thanks to the U.S. military and State Department personnel who assisted in the March 27-28 visit to Iraq of Mongolian Defense Minister Sonompil to meet with Mongolian troops and make a personal assessment of the conditions in Iraq. I met with the Minister on Apri [...] | 2007-04-06 08:22:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR PREL MG IZ |
07ULAANBAATAR220 | Mongolian President's Letter to POTUS Discusses Iraq, MCC [...] The Ministry of Foreign Affairs provided the Embassy with the copy of a letter from President Enkhbayar to President Bush. MFA stated that, while the letter is dated March 30, it was delivered by the Mongolian Embassy in Washington on April 11. The letter was released to the Mongolian press [...] | 2007-04-12 09:19:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MARR EAID MG IZ |
07ULAANBAATAR222 | Country Clearance for DHS Employee Joseph Martin [...] We welcome and grant country clearance to JOSEPH MARTIN for travel to ULAANBAATAR, MONGOLIA. The purpose of the visit to Mongolia is for case processing during April 16 to April 23, 2007. 2. POC: Your point of contact is Lisa Conner, Consular Section Chief. Contact numbers are as follows: [...] | 2007-04-13 03:28:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA PREF MG |
07ULAANBAATAR241 | Foreign Minister Offers Condolences on Virginia Tech [...] On April 23, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent the embassy a copy of the letter in paragraph 2. The Ministry stated the text had been delivered to the State Department on April 20 by the Mongolian Embassy in Washington. 2. Begin text. Mongolia Ministry of Foreign Affairs The Minis [...] | 2007-04-23 08:27:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OPDC MG |
07ULAANBAATAR245 | Mongolia's Newest Domestic Private Airline: EZnis [...] Summary: Mongolia's second domestic private airline, EZnis Airways, was launched in December 2006, taking advantage of the vacuum created when the country's flag carrier MIAT sharply reduced domestic routes (reftel a). Mongolian telecom/IT company Newcom has funneled substantial amounts of mon [...] | 2007-04-25 06:33:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR PGOV ECON MG |
07ULAANBAATAR257 | Mongolia's Newest Domestic Private Airline: EZnis [...] Summary: Mongolia's second domestic private airline, EZnis Airways, was launched in December 2006, taking advantage of the vacuum created when the country's flag carrier MIAT sharply reduced domestic routes (reftel a). Mongolian telecom/IT company Newcom has funneled substantial amounts of mon [...] | 2007-04-30 08:30:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR PGOV ECON MG |
07ULAANBAATAR316 | Third US-Mongolia TIFA Joint Council, March 12, 2007, Part [...] (U) SUMMARY: Immediately following the March 12 Third US-Mongolia Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) Joint Council meeting, Marideth Sandler, Executive Director of USTR's Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) program, spearheaded a GSP education and outreach drive March 13-15 in [...] | 2007-06-02 22:30:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD PREL EAID ECON EFIN PGOV MG |
07ULAANBAATAR346 | Mongolia Confirms Entry Into Force of 1996 Bilateral [...] The Embassy has received a diplomatic note from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs with an original note in Mongolia. A translation of the text is provided in paragraph two, and is based on the informal translation provided by MFA. The Mongolian text of the original and the English translation [...] | 2007-06-15 04:02:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR KTIA PREL MG |
07ULAANBAATAR363 | Country Clearance for Codel Payne [...] We warmly welcome and grant country clearance to Codel Payne to visit Ulaanbaatar from July 1-4. Schedule information is being exchanged via email. 2. Control officer for the Codel is Economic/Political Section Chief Patrick Freeman. Contact numbers are as follows: --Office Telephone Num [...] | 2007-06-22 02:06:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED | OREP AMGT PREL ASEC AFIN MG |
07ULAANBAATAR388 | USTR TRANSPARENCY AGREEMENT PROPOSAL CONVEYED, MORE [...] On June 28, DCM passed to Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT) Trade Director a copy of AUSTR Stratford's letter to Ministry of Industry and Trade (MOIT) Vice Minister Sodhbaatar (ref) proposing preliminary consideration of a bilateral agreement on transparency, including as an example the dra [...] | 2007-07-03 00:14:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD PREL EFIN PGOV MG |
07ULAANBAATAR392 | MONGOLIA'S PRESIDENT, FM SEND JULY 4 CONGRATULATORY [...] (U) Post received letters to President Bush from President Enkhbayar and to Secretary Rice from Foreign Minister Enkhbold on July 5 dated July 4 offering congratulations on the U.S. July 4 holiday. Copies have been sent via email to the desk. Americas, Middle East and Africa DG Jambaldorj conf [...] | 2007-07-05 08:16:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EAID MG |
07ULAANBAATAR436 | No Investment Disputes or Expropriation Claims in Mongolia [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-27 02:42:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV CASC PGOV KIDE OPIC MG |
07ULAANBAATAR448 | Mongolia's Economy Still Running Strong [...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Mongolia's economy continued strong growth in the first half of 2007 and, according to local analysts, will likely meet expectations of 7% to 8% GDP growth this year. High copper prices and increased tax receipts bolstered Government revenues. The Ministry of Finance is n [...] | 2007-08-02 07:05:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PREL EAID EMIN SOCI MG |
07ULAANBAATAR51 | Indoor Air Pollution in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia [...] SUMMARY: While indoor air pollution (IAP) is certainly a problem in Mongolia, there are no major donor or government initiatives underway at this time to address it as a separate issue. Mongolia's capital, Ulaanbaatar, suffers from extreme air pollution from coal smoke emitted from combined [...] | 2007-01-30 08:38:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV ENRG EAID PGOV AMGT AMED MG |
07ULAANBAATAR57 | UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL: MONGOLIA DOES NOT INTEND [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-01 07:00:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL UNHRC MG |
07ULAANBAATAR587 | GOVERNMENT OF MONGOLIA WELCOMES DOE PROPOSAL FOR PURSUING [...] S. Enkhbat, Vice Chairman of the Nuclear Energy Commission of Mongolia, has said he welcomes overtures by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE),National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) to discuss possible areas of cooperation on securing sealed radioactive sources. He also looks forward [...] | 2007-10-16 02:28:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC KOLY MG PARM KNNP TRGY |
07ULAANBAATAR599 | WE'RE TALKIN' TRASH: MONGOLIA TACKLES A MOUNTING SOLID [...] SUMMARY. As Mongolia evolves into a consumerist, disposable society, its cities are increasingly becoming overrun by mounting piles of trash and other solid waste. Garbage sometimes goes uncollected for months, especially in impoverished ger (yurt) districts, and Ulaanbaatar's single landfill [...] | 2007-10-19 06:37:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON SENV PGOV SOCI EAID BTIO MG |
07ULAANBAATAR692 | MONGOLIA URGED TO GET SERIOUS ON DEFORESTATION [...] SUMMARY: Mongolia has lost more than 10% of its forests since 1990, according to Government of Mongolia (GOM) reports, and the problem is getting worse. Fires, illegal logging, forest mismanagement and other factors are threatening important ecosystems and wildlife. Past efforts by the GOM to [...] | 2007-12-14 07:29:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR ENRG PGOV ECON PREL MG |
07ULAANBAATAR695 | UPDATE ON WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR IN MONGOLIA [...] Per reftel, Post provides the following information on whether Mongolia, eligible for trade benefits under the Generalized System of Preference (GSP) program, is implementing its international commitments to eliminate the worst forms of child labor, as required under the Trade and Development A [...] | 2007-12-17 01:46:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ELAB ETRD PHUM SOCI USAID MG |
07ULAANBAATAR696 | Asbestos-Coated Heating Pipes, Construction Materials A [...] Asbestos and cement covered pipes that make up Ulaanbaatar's aged and decaying centralized heating system may constitute a significant unidentified health risk. Of the 286 kilometers of heating pipes that snake through the city, estimates indicate 91% are coated with asbestos-cement insulatio [...] | 2007-12-17 08:18:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENRG SENV EFIN SOCI PGOV MG |
07ULAANBAATAR704 | COUGH, COUGH: DONORS ENERGIZED AS ULAANBAATAR'S AIR [...] SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION: World Bank Mongolia Director Arshad asked a gathering of diplomatic corps and other partners December 18 to review proposals to address Ulaanbaatar's growing air pollution problem. The pollution topic was added to the agenda of a preparatory discussion for the January [...] | 2007-12-21 00:21:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV PREL EAID PGOV MG |
07ULAANBAATAR86 | Mongolia Privatizes 16 Industries in 2006 [...] SUMMARY: Of the 22 state-owned enterprises (SOE) put up for sale by the GOM last year, 16 were successfully privatized, while 6 failed to find qualified buyers. Sales brought in an estimated US$26 million. Th% tdjtdr"xocess paN02enitivnyQqmoth|9 i&QmgSt cc3Ea.Q Af|er`4`l`Bcmth` c4ih(p;Q:s;QkDQ [...] | 2007-02-07 22:39:00 | Embassy Ulaanbaatar | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EIND PGOV KPRV EFIN PREL MG |
07UNVIEVIENNA384 | IAEA/BOG/IRAN: STATEMENTS CALL FOR COOPERATION, [...] (SBU) Director General ElBaradei's opening statement noted that Iran has continued to place additional limitations on IAEA verification activities, which has resulted in a "deterioration" of the IAEA's knowledge of some aspects of Iran's nuclear program. Almost all country and bloc statements [...] | 2007-06-18 08:01:00 | UNVIE | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC IAEA IR KNNP |
07UNVIEVIENNA473 | IAEA: REQUEST FOR GUIDANCE ON RESEARCH REACTOR ISSUES IN [...] Summary: The French mission expressed concern about indications that a UK mining company was pressing the DROC Government to restart the Triga research reactor. At an August 2 meeting, French DCM asked Nuclear Counselor for the U.S. position on the IAEA's security plan for the reactor as wel [...] | 2007-08-03 11:06:00 | UNVIE | UNCLASSIFIED | IAEA ENRG TRGY AORC KNNP CG |
07USEUBRUSSELS1100 | EU UNEMPLOYMENT DOWN TO 7.4 PERCENT; EURO ZONE RATE DOWN [...] SUMMARY. The aggregate unemployment rate for the EU-27 reached 7.4 percent in February 2007, according to data published by the EU Commission's Statistical Office (EUROSTAT) on March 30. The unemployment rate for the euro zone (the thirteen EU countries participating in the euro) was down to [...] | 2007-03-30 15:47:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EUN |
07USEUBRUSSELS1120 | MONITORING AND EVALUATION: THE COMPLEX EMERGENCIES [...] (U) PRM Policy Team Leader and USEU RefAssistant visited the Center for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) at the University of Louvain in Brussels on March 21 to monitor the continued development and global expansion of the Complex Emergencies Database (CE-DAT) to provide key nu [...] | 2007-04-02 15:46:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PHUM BE |
07USEUBRUSSELS2208 | EU NOTE VERBALE ON APPROVAL OF SECURITY AGREEMENT [...] (U) This message contains an action request. Please see paragraph 4. 2. (U) In accordance with the text of the US-EU Agreement on the Security of Information, signed April 30, 2007, USEU received a note verbale dated July 2 from the Council of the European Union. The note informs us that th [...] | 2007-07-06 14:40:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PINR EUN |
07USEUBRUSSELS2750 | EU UNEMPLOYMENT DOWN TO 6.8 PERCENT IN [...] SUMMARY. The aggregate unemployment rate for the EU-27 reached 6.8 percent in July 2007, according to data published by the EU Commission's Statistical Office (EUROSTAT) on August 31. Unemployment in the eurozone (the thirteen EU countries participating in the euro) stood at 6.9 percent. E [...] | 2007-08-31 13:43:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EUN |
07USEUBRUSSELS3268 | USITC INFO REQUEST ON BIO-BASED CHEMICAL PRODUCTS [...] Summary. In response to reftel USITC request, Post submits the following overview of activities related to bio-based chemicals and liquid biofuels. The European Union has a broad array of programs and organizations dealing with the development and adoption of bio-based chemical products and [...] | 2007-10-31 14:05:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENRG ETRD EU |
07USEUBRUSSELS536 | EU AGREES ON ACCESS TO POLICE DATABASES FOR [...] EU ministers for Justice and Home Affairs (JHA Council) on February 15 agreed to incorporate into the EU legal order the main provisions of the Treaty of Pr|m relating to police and judicial cooperation in criminal matters (issues coming under the so- called "third pillar") with the exception [...] | 2007-02-16 11:55:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS PREL KCRM RS EUN |
07USEUBRUSSELS712 | CONTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR MICHAEL C. MOZUR [...] POST REQUESTS COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR MICHAEL C. MOZUR, DEPUTY SPECIAL COORDINATOR OF THE STABILITY PACT FOR SOUTH EASTERN EUROPE, TO TRAVEL TO SKOPJE ON MARCH 7, 2007 TO PARTICIPATE AT THE BUSINESS ADVISORY COUNCIL FOR SOUTH EASTERN EUROPE MEETING ON MARCH 7 AND 8 IN SKOPJE. MOZUR HAS PROVIDED [...] | 2007-03-05 12:31:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA PREL EUN MK |
07USEUBRUSSELS756 | IWD: WOMEN DRIVING EU JOB GROWTH BUT STILL [...] SUMMARY. In a paper submitted to EU leaders on March 8 (International Women's Day),the EU Commission said three out of four new jobs created in the EU were now being taken by women. However, the report also showed women in the EU continue to be employed less Q and paid less Q than men. EN [...] | 2007-03-08 08:28:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ESOC KWMN PGOV EUN |
07USEUBRUSSELS827 | REFUGEE RETURNS IN EASTERN CONGO: A JOINT US-EU [...] Summary: A joint USG-European Union assessment team composed of US representatives from PRM and OFDA traveled throughout Katanga and South Kivu provinces in January, finding a basic level of peace and stability, but continued sporadic human rights abuses perpetrated primarily by security force [...] | 2007-03-13 09:55:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PGOV PHUM PREL EAID EU BE |
07USNATO111 | AHTISAARI COMES TO NATO AND OUTLINES WAY FORWARD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On February 16, UN Special Envoy for Kosovo, (UNSEK) Martti Ahtisaari updated the NAC and non-NATO KFOR troop contributors on the Kosovo status process and his vision for the way forward. Ahtisaari said that prospects for a negotiated settlement by both sides were exhausted. Th [...] | 2007-02-23 08:38:00 | Mission USNATO | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM NATO PGOV PHUM PREL SR |
07USNATO123 | USNATO WELCOME FOR MODERN INSURGENCY TEAM FEBRUARY [...] USNATO, in conjunction with USEU welcomes the visit of the Modern Insurgency Team February 27-March 2, 2007 for meetings at NATO and the European Union. The USNATO control officer for this visit is USNATO Political Officer Mr. John Cockrell, work:(32-2) 724-3136, fax:(32-2) 724-3421. He can [...] | 2007-02-26 15:54:00 | Mission USNATO | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR OTRA PREL NATO PINS BEXP GM |
07USNATO124 | USNATO WELCOME FOR THOMAS J. BRENNAN FEBRUARY [...] Mission welcomes Thomas Brennan for meetings at NATO. Control officer for the visit is USNATO Political Officer, Kelly Magsamen work tel:(32)2-724-3145. Admin. support is Lucia Krul (32) 2-724-3233. 2. Accommodations have been confirmed for Mr. Brennan arriving February 28-departing Marc [...] | 2007-02-27 09:51:00 | Mission USNATO | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OTRA NATO BE EU |
07USNATO126 | USNATO WELCOME FOR JOHN B. BELLINGER AND JOSHUA [...] Mission welcomes Mr. John Bellinger and Joshua Dorosin for meetings at NATO and USEU. Control officer for the NATO visit is USNATO Political Officer, Kelly Magsamen work tel:(32)2-724-3145. Admin. support is Lucia Krul (32) 2-724-3233. 2. Accommodations have been confirmed by USEU via e [...] | 2007-02-27 14:08:00 | Mission USNATO | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OTRA NATO BE EU |
07USNATO129 | WELCOME FOR NATO DMEG MEETING MARCH 7-8, 2007 [...] U.S. Mission welcomes Rose Ann McHenry and Shirley Grosner to Brussels for meetings March 7-8, 2007. Control officer for the visit is Don Sheehan, work tel:(32)2-724-3486 and fax: (32)2-724-3421, home tel: (32) 2-779-2047, cell: (32)476-663-647. Admin. support is Lucia Krul (32) 2-724-3233. [...] | 2007-03-01 10:27:00 | Mission USNATO | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AMGT NATO OTRA PARM ASEC |
07USNATO132 | WELCOME FOR EUR/RPM DEPUTY BRENT HARTLEY, MARCH [...] U.S. Mission welcomes EUR/RPM Deputy Mr. Brent Hartley to Brussels for consultations March 5-7, 2007. Control officer for the visit is Don Sheehan, work tel:(32)2-724-3486 and fax: (32)2-724-3421, home tel: (32) 2-779-2047, cell: (32)476-663-647. Admin. support is Lucia Krul (32) 2-724-3233. [...] | 2007-03-02 08:13:00 | Mission USNATO | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AMGT NATO OTRA PARM ASEC |
07USNATO135 | MACEDONIA COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR USNATO [...] Request country clearance for the following USNATO team members invited to accompany the NATO International Staff Ministerial Task Force Planning Team on a visit to Ohrid, Macedonia from March 12 to March 16, 2007. The purpose of this visit is to attend meetings and site visits lead by the D [...] | 2007-03-02 11:56:00 | Mission USNATO | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT NATO |
07USNATO144 | WELCOME FOR NATO VCC EXPERTS MEETINGS MARCH 8, 2007 [...] Mission welcomes John H. Farrar, James Starkey, and Mark Shepard to Brussels for the March 8 Verification Coordinating Committee Experts meeting. Control officer for the visit is Don Sheehan, work tel:(32)2-724-3486 and fax: (32)2-724-3421, home tel: (32) 2-779-2047, cell: (32)476-663-647. A [...] | 2007-03-06 11:16:00 | Mission USNATO | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ASEC NATO OSCE OTRA PARM |
07USNATO149 | NATO SYG ACCEPTS APRIL 4 DINNER INVITATION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-07 17:16:00 | Mission USNATO | UNCLASSIFIED | NATO PREL |
07USNATO161 | USNATO SUPPORTS CONTINUED ENGAGEMENT WITH GERMAN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-12 14:33:00 | Mission USNATO | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO MARR MASS NATO PGOV PREL EU GM PL CZ RS |
07USNATO167 | WELCOME HLTF MARCH 21-23, 2007 TO NATO [...] Mission welcomes Karin Look, Larry Schultz, Jennifer Laurendeau, Sharon White, Jeffrey Gibbs, James Starkey, Christopher Beecroft, Powell Moore, and Stephen Olejasz to USNATO for HLTF meetings March 21-23. Control Officer for the visit is USNATO Political Officer is Don Sheehan. Office: (32) [...] | 2007-03-15 15:20:00 | Mission USNATO | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OTRA ASEC AADP NATO OSCE PARM |
07USNATO169 | WELCOME FOR NATO EXECUTIVE WORKING GROUP COMMITTEE [...] Mission welcomes Anita Friedt, Michelle Azevedo, and Paul Iarrobino to Brussels for meetings. Control officer for the visit is Don Sheehan, work tel:(32)2-724-3486 and fax: (32)2-724-3421, home tel: (32) 2-779-2047, cell: (32)476-663-647. Administrative support is provided by Lucia Krul (32) [...] | 2007-03-15 15:21:00 | Mission USNATO | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ASEC NATO OSCE OTRA PARM |
07USNATO178 | DATA MANAGEMENT EXPERTS GROUP MEETING, MARCH 8, [...] (U) Summary: The Data Management Expert Group (DMEG) met on March 8, 2007. Italy, Spain, and Romania introduced new representatives, and the Chair reported on staff activity since the January meeting. After reviewing the status of the NCFS and VERITY XXI for the current CFE, the group focused [...] | 2007-03-20 11:12:00 | Mission USNATO | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PARM KCFE NATO OSCE |
07USNATO190 | WELCOME FOR NATO NRC AMBASSADORIAL MEETING AND [...] Mission welcomes Donna A. Phelan, James Starkey, Jon Errickson, and Adam Xavier to Brussels for meetings. Control officer for the visit is Don Sheehan, work tel:(32)2-724-3486 and fax: (32)2-724-3421, home tel: (32) 2-779-2047, cell: (32)476-663-647. Administrative support will be provided by [...] | 2007-03-23 16:18:00 | Mission USNATO | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ASEC NATO OSCE OTRA PARM |
07USNATO192 | APPROACHING NATO ON KOSOVO EU RULE OF LAW MISSION [...] Per Reftel, USNATO distributed to delegations and the Secretary General on March 22 the points provided on possible SIPDIS U.S. participation in the EU Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo. The points were distributed as a non-paper, in order to provide them to PermReps as soon as possible prior to [...] | 2007-03-23 16:55:00 | Mission USNATO | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM NATO PGOV PHUM PREL SR |
07USNATO241 | WELCOME TO NATO FOR A/S JOHN ROOD AND SENIOR [...] Mission welcomes Mr. John C. Rood, Assistant Secretary, and Mr. Hugh A. Amundson, Senior Advisor, Bureau of International Security and Non proliferation to USNATO on April 17-21, 2007. Control Officer for the visit is USNATO Political Officer Reece Smyth. Office: (32)2-724-3268 Fax: (32)2- [...] | 2007-04-12 10:20:00 | Mission USNATO | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL OTRA OVIP BE |
07USNATO248 | WELCOME TO NATO FOR STEVEN RUSHEN MAY 6-12 [...] Mission welcomes INR Analyst, Mr. Steven Rushen to NATO for meetings on May 9-11. Control officer for the visit is USNATO Political Officer, Beverli DeWalt, work tel:(32)2-724-3239, fax: (32)2-724-3421. Administrative support is provided by Lucia Krul (32) 2-724-3233. 2. Hotel reservatio [...] | 2007-04-13 15:07:00 | Mission USNATO | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON OTRA POL EU BE |
07USNATO254 | WELCOME TO AMBASSADOR RODOLPHE M. VALLEE APRIL [...] Mission welcomes Ambassador Vallee to USNATO for meetings and consultations. Control officer for the visit is USNATO Political Officer, Beverli DeWalt, work tel:(32)2-724-3239, fax: (32)2-724-3421. Administrative support is provided by Lucia Krul (32) 2-724-3233. 2. Per email, hotel rese [...] | 2007-04-19 07:55:00 | Mission USNATO | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA AMGT LO BE |
07USNATO256 | WELCOME FOR NATO VCC EXPERTS MEETINGS APRIL 24, [...] Mission welcomes John H. Farrar, James Starkey, and Jon Erickson to Brussels for the April 24 for the Verification Coordinating Committee Experts meeting. Control officer for the visit is Don Sheehan, work tel:(32)2-724-3486 and fax: (32)2-724-3421, home tel: (32) 2-779-2047, cell: (32)476- [...] | 2007-04-19 12:52:00 | Mission USNATO | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ASEC NATO OSCE OTRA PARM |
07USNATO284 | RESPONSE TO COUNTRY CLEARANCE CABLE: FOREIGN [...] U.S. Mission NATO welcomes the visit of Mr. Richard L. Prosen to conduct consultations with USNATO and NATO International Staff in Brussels, May 9-11, 2007. 2. Hotel reservations have been requested at the Crowne Plaza Airport Hotel for arrival on May 9, 2007. 3. U.S. Mission POC: [...] | 2007-05-03 13:54:00 | Mission USNATO | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC OSCE OTRA PREL PL BE |
07USNATO285 | WELCOME TO NATO FOR THOMAS A. LYNCH, JR. MAY [...] Mission welcomes Foreign Policy Advisor to the Army Chief of Staff, Thomas Lynch to NATO for consultations May 13-17, 2007. Control officer for the visit is Robert Kemp, work tel:(32)2-724-3487 cell: (32) 0494.54.55.58 and fax: (32)2-724-3421. Admin. support is Lucia Krul (32) 2-724-3233. [...] | 2007-05-03 13:56:00 | Mission USNATO | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OTRA BE |
07USNATO299 | WELCOME JOHN ERATH AND PAUL BROTZEN TO NATO MAY [...] Mission welcomes Mr. John F. Erath, EUR/SCE Deputy Director, and LTC Paul C. Brotzen, EUR/RPM Policy Officer for meetings. Control officer for the visit is Greg Shaffer, work tel:(32)2-724-3383 and fax: (32)2-724-3421. Admin. support is provided by Lucia Krul (32) 2-724-3233. 2. Hotel r [...] | 2007-05-11 13:11:00 | Mission USNATO | UNCLASSIFIED | ASCE NATO OTRA AU BE EUN GM SI UK |
07USNATO300 | WELCOME TO NATO FOR HLTF, NRC(ACE),AND VCC TEAM [...] Mission welcomes, DAS Karin Look and traveling party to NATO for HLTF, NRC(ACE),and VCC meetings, May 15-18. Control Officer for the visit is USNATO Political Officer is Don Sheehan. Office: (32)2-724-3486 fax: (32)2-724-3421. Administrative support is provided by Lucia Krul (32)2-724-3233. [...] | 2007-05-11 14:32:00 | Mission USNATO | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PARM OTRA NATO KCFE OSCE |
07USNATO332 | WELCOME TO NATO FOR STAFFDEL KENNETH MYERS, MAY [...] Mission welcomes Mr. Kenneth Myers to NATO for meetings. Control officer for the visit is USNATO Political Officer, Peter Chisholm, work tel:(32)2-724-3384, fax: (32)2-724-3421. Administrative support is provided by Lucia Krul (32) 2-724-3233. USEU Control Officer is USEU Political Officer M [...] | 2007-05-25 12:06:00 | Mission USNATO | UNCLASSIFIED | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN NATO EUN FR BR |
07USNATO334 | WELCOME TO NATO FOR MAY 29, 2007 EWG-R MEETINGS [...] Mission welcomes Anita Friedt, Michelle Azevedo and Paul Iarrobino to USNATO for meetings. Control officer for the visit is Don Sheehan, work tel:(32)2-724-3486 and fax: (32)2-724-3421, home tel: (32) 2-779-2047, cell: (32)476-663-647. Administrative support is provided by Lucia Krul (32) 2- [...] | 2007-05-25 13:25:00 | Mission USNATO | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OTRA |
07USNATO345 | WELCOME TO MICHELLE AZEVEDO FOR JUNE 5, 2007 NAC [...] Mission welcomes Michelle Azevedo to USNATO. Control officer for the visit is Don Sheehan, work tel:(32)2-724-3486 and fax: (32)2-724-3421. Administrative support is provided by Lucia Krul (32) 2-724-3233. 2. Hotel reservations have been confirmed at the Jolly Sablon, Bodenbroeck 2, 100 [...] | 2007-05-31 12:54:00 | Mission USNATO | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OTRA |
07USNATO346 | WELCOME FOR SENATOR WILLIAM NELSON AND TRAVELING [...] Mission welcomes The Honorable William Nelson and traveling party June 3-4, 2007. Control officers for the visit are USNATO Political Officer Robert Kemp, Office Tel:(32)2-724-3125, Cell: (32) 0494.54.55.58, Fax: (32)2-724-3421 and Col. Brian Murtha, USMC, Special Assistant to the Commander [...] | 2007-05-31 14:52:00 | Mission USNATO | UNCLASSIFIED | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN NATO US |
07USNATO352 | WELCOME FOR JUNE 12-13, 2007 NATO MANPADS [...] U.S. Mission to NATO welcomes the visit of Lisa Benthien, Herman Rediess, and Frank Diaz for the purpose of attending the Man-Portable Air Defense System (MANPADS) Conference. The control officer for this visit is Political Officer Mr. Tom Underwood, work:(32-2)724-3142, fax:(32-2)724-3421. H [...] | 2007-06-05 11:53:00 | Mission USNATO | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OTRA ASEC ALBE BE |
07USNATO354 | WELCOME TO NATO FOR HLTF AND CFE MEETINGS, JUNE [...] Mission welcomes, DAS Karin Look and traveling party to NATO for HLTF and CFE meetings, June 6-8, 2007. Control Officer for the visit is USNATO Political Officer is Don Sheehan. Office: (32)2-724-3486 fax: (32)2-724-3421. Administrative support is provided by Lucia Krul (32)2-724-3233. [...] | 2007-06-06 13:04:00 | Mission USNATO | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PARM OTRA NATO KCFE OSCE |
07USNATO355 | COUNTRY, THEATRE AND SPECIAL AREA CLEARANCE REQUEST [...] COUNTRY TO BE VISITED: TALLINN, ESTONIA, 18-20 JUNE 2007 2. PERSON TRAVELING: A. LT COL JOHN S. SHAPLAND, 585-31-7996, DEFENSE POLICY ADVISOR, USNATO GRADE: O-5 DOB: 18 APR 66; POB: CHAMPAIGN, IL PASSPORT: # 900475340, ISSUED 10 MAY 2006, EXP 31 OCT 2009, TYPE: DIPLOMATIC CLEARAN [...] | 2007-06-06 13:06:00 | Mission USNATO | UNCLASSIFIED | NATO |
07USNATO356 | WELCOME FOR NATO DMEG MEETING JUNE 18-22, 2007 [...] U.S. Mission welcomes Rose Ann McHenry and Horacio Vignale to Brussels for meetings March 7-8, 2007. Control officer for the visit is Don Sheehan, work tel:(32)2-724-3486 and fax: (32)2-724-3421, home tel: (32) 2-779-2047, cell: (32)476-663-647. Admin. support is Lucia Krul (32) 2-724-3233. [...] | 2007-06-06 14:15:00 | Mission USNATO | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AMGT NATO OTRA PARM ASEC |
07USNATO374 | WELCOME FOR EUR/RPM DEPUTY DIRECTOR EVA SHINAGEL [...] U.S. Mission to NATO welcomes the visit of Eva Shinagel, EUR/RPM Deputy Director for the purpose of attending meetings. The control officer for this visit is Political Officer Mr. Peter Chisholm, work:(32-2)724-3384, fax:(32-2)724-3421. He can also be reached through the tri-mission switchbo [...] | 2007-06-18 08:42:00 | Mission USNATO | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA NATO GM |
07USNATO376 | REQUEST FOR IMMEDIATE GUIDANCE ON NATO MANAGEMENT [...] (U) See para 3 request for guidance, due by OOB Brussels time, Wednesday June 20. 2. (U) NATO Secretary General de Hoop Scheffer has issued SG(2007)0419 on the Strategic Airlift Capability (SAC) Initiative Adoption of the NAMO Charter, under a silence that expires Wednesday, June 20, at 1 [...] | 2007-06-19 16:38:00 | Mission USNATO | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR NATO |
07USNATO377 | WELCOME TO NATO FOR MATTHEW E. EWALD JUNE 20-23 [...] Mission welcomes INR/EC Analyst, Mr. Matthew Ewald to NATO for meetings. Control officer for the visit is USNATO Political Officer, Beverli DeWalt, work tel:(32)2-724-3239, fax: (32)2-724-3421. Administrative support is provided by Denise Corbin (32) 2-724-3226. 2. Hotel reservations hav [...] | 2007-06-20 14:19:00 | Mission USNATO | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA EU BE |
07USNATO381 | WELCOME FOR NATO SGP MEETING JUNE 27-29, 2007 [...] Mission welcomes William Silkworth, C.S. Eliot Kang, Terry Godby, Michael Scott Davis, and Thomas A. Wuchte to Brussels for the June 27-29 meetings of the Senior Politico-Military Group on Proliferation (SGP). Control officer for the visit is Don Sheehan, work tel:(32)2-724-3486 and fax: (3 [...] | 2007-06-21 14:32:00 | Mission USNATO | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PARM OTRA NATO |
07USNATO386 | WELCOME FOR EDWARD SMITH JUNE 27-30, 2007 [...] Mission welcomes the visit of Edward Smith, Senior Advisor, South Central Asian Affairs Bureau to Brussels June 27-29. The overall control officer for this visit is USNATO Political Officer Mr. John Cockrell, work: 32.(0)2.724.3136, Cell: 32.(0)496.198.008. USEU point of contact is PolMil C [...] | 2007-06-25 07:35:00 | Mission USNATO | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA AMGT ASEC AFDB BE |
07USNATO388 | WELCOME TO NATO FOR HLTF JUNE 28, 2007 [...] Mission welcomes, DAS Karin Look and traveling party to NATO for HLTF meetings, June 27-28, 2007. Control Officer for the visit is USNATO Political Officer is Don Sheehan. Office: (32)2-724-3486 fax: (32)2-724-3421. Administrative support is provided by Lucia Krul and Denise Corbin(32)2-724- [...] | 2007-06-25 14:42:00 | Mission USNATO | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC KCFE NATO OSCE OTRA PARM PREL |
07USNATO399 | WELCOME TO STAFFDEL TILLEMANN JULY 1-2, 2007. [...] Mission welcomes Professional Staff Member, Tomicah Tillemann to Brussels for meetings at USEU and USNATO on July 2, 2007. USNATO Control officer for the visit is USNATO Political Officer, Beverli DeWalt, work tel:(32)2-724-3239, fax: (32)2-724-3421. Administrative support is provided by Luc [...] | 2007-06-29 13:53:00 | Mission USNATO | UNCLASSIFIED | OREG AMGT ASEC AFIN NATO EUN BEXP ENRG GM RS |
07USNATO451 | MEETING OF NATO SPS [...] (U) Summary. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Science for Peace and Security (SPS) Committee met on March 23, 2007, at NATO Headquarters. The Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council (EAPC) met at NATO Headquarters on March 22, 2007. The U.S Representative was Dr. Vigdor L. Teplitz [...] | 2007-08-13 15:13:00 | Mission USNATO | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT MARR NATO PGOV PREL TSPL |
07USNATO500 | REQUEST FOR GUIDANCE: SPC(R) DISCUSSION OF ANNUAL [...] (U) USNATO has transmitted Albania's, Croatia's, and Macedonia's Annual National Programs (ANPs) for 2007-2008 to the Department, DOD, Tirana, Zagreb, and Skopje (REFS). The Senior Political Committee Reinforced with Defense Experts (SPC(R)) will take up the ANPs on September 18 (Croatia),Se [...] | 2007-09-13 15:50:00 | Mission USNATO | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL NATO MARR AL HR MK |
07USNATO52 | SECRETARY RICE'S NATO INTERVENTIONS AND FACT SHEET [...] At the NATO Foreign Ministerial meetings held Friday, January 26, 2007, Secretary Rice addressed both a regular NAC and a NAC plus non-NATO Contributors and Partners. These interventions are repeated below "as prepared for delivery," along with an Afghanistan Fact Sheet which was made availabl [...] | 2007-01-30 15:30:00 | Mission USNATO | UNCLASSIFIED | OVIP RICE CONDOLEEZZA NATO MOPS PREL MARR AF |
07USNATO525 | NON-PAPER CIRCULATED BY SOME ALLIES ON RAISING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: NATO Permanent Representatives from Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Italy, The Netherlands, Norway, and Spain circulated a non-paper (see below) to all Allied PermReps on September 19 on exploring ways to strengthen NATO's profile in arms control and disarmament prior to t [...] | 2007-09-26 15:48:00 | Mission USNATO | UNCLASSIFIED | KCFE NATO PARM PREL OSCE |
07USNATO542 | REVIEW AND CONCURRENCE OF HQUSEUCOM 1206 PROPOSAL [...] This message requests USNATO support for a HQUSEUCOM 1206 proposal entitled Global Stability Operations Training Capability (GSOTC). This proposal will minimize gaps that impede foreign nation's military forces to perform efficiently in Military Operations Other Than War (MOOTW),and particul [...] | 2007-10-04 08:01:00 | Mission USNATO | UNCLASSIFIED | AFSN NATO |
07USNATO585 | RFG: NTM-I 2007 PERIODIC MISSION REVIEW [...] SUMMARY: This is an action request, see paragraph 4. The Autumn 2007 Periodic Mission Review (PMR) of NATO Training Mission - Iraq (NTM-I) has passed NATO's Military Committee (MC) and the Policy Coordination Group (PCG) will meet on November 9 to consider recommendations to the North Atlanti [...] | 2007-10-31 18:21:00 | Mission USNATO | UNCLASSIFIED | NATO PREL |
07USNATO647 | SPS MEETING [...] (U) Summary: NATO held its annual SPS meeting October 19 in Brussels. A U.S. expert briefed on developments for explosives stand-off detection techniques. The Committee discussed finding alternative funding for the Virtual Silk Highway project. There was no objection to the U.S. Commercia [...] | 2007-12-20 11:26:00 | Mission USNATO | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT NATO PREL TSPL |
07USNATO89 | USNATO WELCOMES JAMES STARKEY FOR VCC EXPERTS [...] Mission welcomes Mr. James Stakey to Brussels for the February 12-13 VCC Meetings. Control officer for the visit is Don Sheehan, work tel:(32)2-724-3486 and fax: (32)2-724-3421, home tel: (32) 2-779-2047, cell: (32)476-663-647. Admin. support is Lucia Krul (32) 2-724-3233. 2. Hotel rese [...] | 2007-02-12 16:03:00 | Mission USNATO | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AMGT NATO OTRA PARM UP |
07USNATO94 | WELCOME TO USNATO FOR HONORABLE JOHN TANNER AND [...] Mission welcomes the visit of Representative John Tanner(D-TN),Chairman, House NATO Parliamentary Assembly, and traveling party: -Honorable John Tanner and Mrs. Betty Ann Tanner -Honorable Dennis Moore and Mrs. Stephene Moore -Honorable Mike Ross and Mrs. Holly Ross -Honorable Ben Chandler [...] | 2007-02-14 16:41:00 | Mission USNATO | UNCLASSIFIED | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN AORC NATO USEU OECD BEXP |
07USNATO95 | SUBJECT: BACKGROUNDER FOR NATO PARLIAMENTARY [...] (SBU) We look forward to your visit to Brussels, where your presence will remind Allies once again of the strong Congressional support for the Alliance. Today, NATO is conducting operations on three continents bringing peace and stability to Afghanistan and the Balkans, while supporting peac [...] | 2007-02-14 17:26:00 | Mission USNATO | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR NATO OREP PREL PTER |
07USNATO99 | FOLLOW-UP REQUEST FOR EXPENSES RELATED TO BLACK [...] Per Ref A, USNATO reports there are no outstanding expenses related to Black ICE. 2. Per Ref B, the airfare charged against the fiscal data for three NATO participants was 886.20 Euros for Mr. Axel Angeley; 856.49 Euros for Mr. Carsten Fausboll; and 856.45 Euros for Mr. Ayhan Batur. OLSON [...] | 2007-02-15 16:12:00 | Mission USNATO | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT ASEC PTER TBIO |
07USOSCE363 | OSCE Legal Personality, Round 6 ? Talks Make Progress As Russ [...] Summary: Meeting for the first time since July, on September 13-14 Article 14 -- OSCE Officials ---------------------------- 2. On Wednesday, before the WG convened, Belgium called a small group 3. At the beginning of the WG on Thursday, the Chair, Dutch Ambassador -- Bracketed tex [...] | 2007-09-28 11:46:00 | Mission USOSCE | UNCLASSIFIED | OSCE KTIA |
07USOSCE365 | OSCE Legal Personality, Round 6 Q Talks Make [...] Summary: Meeting for the first time since July, on September 13-14 the Working Group on the Convention on Legal Personality, Legal Capacity and Privileges and Immunities for the OSCE (CLPPI) made considerable progress in removing bracketed text and reaching compromise on previously disputed i [...] | 2007-09-28 12:08:00 | Mission USOSCE | UNCLASSIFIED | OSCE KTIA |
07USOSCE366 | OSCE Legal Personality, Round 6 ? Talks Make [...] Summary: Meeting for the first time since July, on September 13-14 the Working Group on the Convention on Legal Personality, Legal Capacity and Privileges and Immunities for the OSCE (CLPPI) made considerable progress in removing bracketed text and reaching compromise on previously disputed i [...] | 2007-09-28 12:15:00 | Mission USOSCE | UNCLASSIFIED | OSCE KTIA |
07USUNNEWYORK10 | U.S. TO BRING UNDP'S DPRK PROGRAM TO THE BOARD [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-10 17:08:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | KN KUNR UNDP EAID PREL PINR |
07USUNNEWYORK1002 | GENERAL ASSEMBLY PRESIDENT CONVENES AN "INFORMAL [...] The Secretary General has circulated the following (para 2) letter convening a meeting to discuss implementation of the Counter-terrorism Strategy (Res 60/288). The discussion will take place in an "informal meeting" to permit participation by non-state actors. Action Request. Department gui [...] | 2007-11-12 15:49:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PTER UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK1003 | UNGA/C-6 ADOPTS OBSERVER STATUS DRAFT RESOLUTIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-12 17:09:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK1005 | MISSION CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR G/TIP AMBASSADOR [...] Mission clearance is granted for G/TIP Ambassador Mark P. Lagon and Public Outreach Officer Solmaz Sharifi for consultations at the UN in New York on November 13-15, 2007. Ambassador Lagon will be meeting with UNICEF, and will be speaking at a luncheon hosted by the International Crisis Grou [...] | 2007-11-12 19:56:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KCRM KWMN |
07USUNNEWYORK1008 | ICJ PRESIDENT SAYS UNEQUAL JUDGE SALARIES VIOLATE [...] SUMMARY: President of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) Rosalyn Higgins delivered the ICJ's annual report to the General Assembly on November 1. Higgins reviewed ICJ action on key cases and criticized UNGA resolution 61/262 (Conditions of Service and Compensation for Officials other t [...] | 2007-11-13 12:56:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK1009 | UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY: UN SUPPORT FOR NEW AND [...] (U) On November 5, the General Assembly considered Agenda item 12, Support by the United Nations system of the efforts of governments to promote and consolidate new or restored democracies. Qatar introduced draft resolution A/62/L.9, which outlines the outcomes of the Sixth International Conf [...] | 2007-11-13 17:33:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UNGA KDEM PHUM |
07USUNNEWYORK1010 | UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY: REPORT OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS [...] SUMMARY: On Nov. 5-6, UNGA's Third Committee addressed the Human Rights Council's Report and particularly its institution-building package. In introducing the Report, HRC president Costea (Romania) argued that the Council had made progress, faces major challenges, and should only be judged on [...] | 2007-11-13 17:34:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK1011 | UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY: HUMAN RIGHTS IN BURMA [...] (U) On October 24 Professor Paulo Pinheiro, Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Myanmar, presented his report to the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly. 2. (U) Professor Pinheiro outlined the tragic events that have taken place since the publication of his report, [...] | 2007-11-13 18:04:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM UNGA BM |
07USUNNEWYORK1012 | PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE [...] BEGIN SUMMARY: Judge Rosalyn Higgins, President of the International Court of Justice (ICJ),briefed the Security Council on November 2, 2007, a day after she presented the Court's annual report to the General Assembly (reftel). She highlighted decisions rendered by the ICJ in two recent c [...] | 2007-11-14 17:40:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNGA UNSC |
07USUNNEWYORK1013 | UN- FOLLOWING DPKO RESTRUCTURING BAN MOVES TO [...] This is an action request. Please see paragraph 13. 2. Summary: Following the restructuring of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) earlier this year, Secretary-General Ban has now called for strengthening the SIPDIS Department of Political Affairs (DPA). Ban,s proposal c [...] | 2007-11-14 19:40:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC PREL UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK1014 | ACTION REQUEST: REVISED PROPOSED LETTER FROM KEY [...] On November 5, 2007, an IO team met with their British counterparts to discuss a variety of issues to be dealt with during the 62nd UNGA, including the proposed letter (reftel) from key Geneva Group members to the Secretary-General. The participants agreed to send that letter at the Permanent [...] | 2007-11-14 20:01:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK1015 | HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS ADDRESSES UN [...] (U) On October 24, the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly heard reports by the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Louise Arbour. She highlighted the pervasiveness of impunity for gross violations of human rights, noting a lack of will and resources to address the issue. Without elab [...] | 2007-11-15 12:43:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM NP UG |
07USUNNEWYORK1016 | UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY: THIRD COMMITTEE ADOPTS EIGHT [...] (U) On November 1, the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly adopted 8 resolutions without a vote. 2. (U) The United States joined consensus on the following resolutions: --L.6, Cooperatives for Social Development (ref A). --L.15.Rev.1, Violence Against Women (ref B),with EOP. [...] | 2007-11-15 12:43:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UNGA PHUM SNAR KWMN |
07USUNNEWYORK1017 | ACTION REQUEST: UPDATED DRAFT RESOLUTION ON [...] ACTION REQUEST: USUN requests instructions from the Department to join consensus on the Sixth Committee draft resolution on Measures to eliminate international terrorism (agenda item 108) contained in para 3, or substantially similar text. This action request supersedes the request for instru [...] | 2007-11-15 13:47:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK1018 | ACTION REQUEST: SIXTH COMMITTEE DRAFT RESOLUTION [...] ACTION REQUEST: USUN requests instructions from the Department to join consensus on the Sixth Committee's draft resolution on the Rule of Law at the national and international levels (agenda item 86) contained in para 3, or substantially similar text. The Sixth Committee will take action on [...] | 2007-11-15 13:51:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK1019 | UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY: HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) Speaking Oct. 31 in the annual debate on promotion and protection of human rights in the UN General Assembly's Third Committee, Ambassador Khalilzad emphasized the value the United States places on human rights, described the important role these rights play in building societies, cited exa [...] | 2007-11-15 14:27:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UNGA PHUM BM CU KN SY CH |
07USUNNEWYORK1020 | ACTION REQUEST: SIXTH COMMITTEE DRAFT DECISION AND [...] ACTION REQUEST: USUN requests instructions from the Department to join consensus on the Sixth Committee's draft decision, conclusions paper on Administration of Justice, and accompanying cover letter (agenda item 137) contained in para 3 - 5, or substantially similar text. USUN also seeks ins [...] | 2007-11-15 14:27:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK1022 | U/SYG GUEHENNO: STILL NO AGREEMENT ON UNAMID TCC [...] (U) SUMMARY: DPKO U/SYG Guehenno told the Security Council November 14 that the Government of the Sudan (GOS) has not yet made the strategic decision to cooperate fully with UNAMID deployment. Guehenno said the GOS had not finalized agreement on the UN/AU agreed TCC list, which they received [...] | 2007-11-15 14:33:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC KPAL SU MOPS |
07USUNNEWYORK1023 | UNICEF ACKNOWLEDGES RECEIPT OF U.S. CONTRIBUTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-15 16:56:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN UN |
07USUNNEWYORK1028 | SECURITY COUNCIL MEETING ON BURMA [...] (SBU) In a public meeting of the Security Council November 13, Special Adviser Ibrahim Gambari discussed his November 3-8 trip to Burma. He listed positive developments in Burma leading up to his visit, including the withdrawal of visible military presence, the release of some detainees, and [...] | 2007-11-15 22:34:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC BM PHUM |
07USUNNEWYORK1033 | UNDP ACKNOWLEDGES RECEIPT OF U.S. CONTRIBUTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-16 20:22:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC ABUD AFIN UNDP |
07USUNNEWYORK1037 | UNSC 1540 COMMITTEE: NEW WEBSITE, PROGRESS ON 1673 [...] SUMMARY: On November 14, the Security Council's 1540 Committee discussed the Committee's new website, plans to inform regional groups about the Committee's recent letter requesting information from States and transmitting the Committee's implementation matrices to them, and the possibility o [...] | 2007-11-16 21:41:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UNSC PREL AORC KPAO PTER KNNP |
07USUNNEWYORK1038 | UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY: U.S. ANTI-RAPE RESOLUTION [...] (U) On November 15, the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly adopted by consensus the resolution "Eliminating rape and other forms of sexual violence in all their manifestations, including in conflict and related situations." Consensus was reached after weeks of negotiations, in a proc [...] | 2007-11-16 21:44:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UNGA PHUM KWMN |
07USUNNEWYORK1039 | BIASED UNGA COMMITTEE DEBATES ISRAELI PRACTICES IN [...] (SBU) Begin Summary and Comment: The UN General Assembly's Fourth Committee met November 12-14 to receive and debate the annual "Report of the (UN) Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territori [...] | 2007-11-16 22:09:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM KPAL IS |
07USUNNEWYORK1040 | CARICOM PERMREPS URGE U.S. FOCUS ON CLIMATE [...] (SBU) During a meeting with CARICOM Ambassadors on November 15, Amb Khalilzad underscored U.S. interest in working closely with the group on issues of mutual concern at the UN. CARICOM representatives said their priorities included addressing climate change, ensuring a greater UN focus on dev [...] | 2007-11-16 22:12:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PREF KUNR CARICOM |
07USUNNEWYORK1042 | CHAIRMEN OF 1267, COUNTER-TERRORISM, AND 1540 [...] The Chairmen of the UN Security Council's 1267 (Al-Qaida/Taliban) Sanctions Committee, Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC),and 1540 Committee on nonproliferation briefed the Council in a public meeting on November 14, 2007, in the eighth such meeting of its kind. The Chairmen, Ambassador Ve [...] | 2007-11-19 15:31:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC PTER |
07USUNNEWYORK1043 | HOSTAGE TAKING CONVENTION: U.S. RESPONSE TO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-19 20:35:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV OPDC PREL PTER KTIA IR |
07USUNNEWYORK1044 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST GRANTED TO ATTEND UNGA [...] In response to Reftel, USUN grants country clearance for Constance Arvis and Kenli Schaaf to attend the UNGA Oceans Omnibus Negotiation to be held at the United Nations headquarters on November 26 - 30. 2. USUN POC is James Donovan at 212-415-4300. Khalilzad [...] | 2007-11-19 20:35:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA UNGA PHSA |
07USUNNEWYORK1049 | SIXTH COMMITTEE ADOPTS 14 ITEMS AND CONCLUDES [...] On November 19, 2007, the Sixth Committee adopted without a vote 12 draft resolutions and two draft decisions, thereby concluding the consideration of its agenda for the 62nd UNGA session. Per reftels, USUN joined consensus in the adoption of these resolutions. The resolutions will be present [...] | 2007-11-20 18:51:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK105 | UNDP'S ROLE IN UZBEKISTAN [...] Begin Summary. As previously reported (Ref A),UNDP in New York has confirmed that, at the request of the Government of Uzbekistan, the UNDP Resident Coordinator (RC) provided $20,000 USD for the flight of five GOU officials to New York. There was no programmatic content to the trip. Also, [...] | 2007-02-07 21:31:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV EAID PHUM PINR PREL UNGA UZ |
07USUNNEWYORK1051 | TANZANIAN MISSION REFUSES WAIVER [...] This message is sensitive but unclassified - please protect accordingly. 2. Action request: By diplomatic note dated November 19, 2007, the Permanent Mission of Tanzania has declined to waive the criminal immunity of the two sons of Mission Minister Counselor Isaack Katanda as requested [...] | 2007-11-20 20:59:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | OFDP PREL TZ UN |
07USUNNEWYORK1056 | MISSION CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR BURANS, WARD TO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-21 20:43:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK1060 | MISSION CLEARANCE FOR U.S. DELEGATION TO THE UN [...] Mission clearance is granted for the following members of the U.S. delegation to the First Extraordinary Session of the Conference of the Parties of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification to be held at UNHQ in New York on November 26, 2007. Mary Rowen Wildlife and Biodiversity Advisor [...] | 2007-11-21 20:54:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | ADM ECOS RSO |
07USUNNEWYORK1062 | UNGA SECOND COMMITTEE: PALESTINIAN RESOURCES AND [...] Summary. The UN General Assembly's Second Committee (Economic and Financial) adopted four resolutions on November 16. Per reftel instructions, the U.S. called for a vote and voted against resolutions on the permanent sovereignty of Palestinian natural resources and unilateral economic meas [...] | 2007-11-21 21:08:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECIN ETTC KPAL UNGA IS |
07USUNNEWYORK1063 | UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY: MERCENARIES [...] (U) On November 7, Jose Luis Gomez del Prado, Chairmen of the UN's Working Group on the Use of Mercenaries as a Means of Violating Human Rights and Impeding the Exercise of the Right of Peoples to Self-Determination, presented his report to the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly. Much [...] | 2007-11-21 21:13:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UNGA PHUM IZ |
07USUNNEWYORK1069 | UN - P-5 DISCUSS DPA STRENGTHENING [...] Summary: The five permanent members of the Security Council (P-5) met at the Deputy Permanent Representative (DPR) level with Lynn Pascoe, the Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, on November 21 to discuss SYG Ban's proposal to strengthen the Department of Political Affairs (DPA). [...] | 2007-11-27 18:08:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC PREL UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK1071 | 1540 COMMITTEE: OUTREACH, BRIEFING FOR REGIONAL [...] SUMMARY: On November 21, the Security Council's 1540 Committee reviewed outreach activities, discussed briefing the UN's regional groups on the Committee's letter to states transmitting its implementation matrices and seeking information on states' implementation of resolution 1540, and conti [...] | 2007-11-28 12:58:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UNSC PREL AORC KPAO PTER KNNP |
07USUNNEWYORK1072 | SIXTH COMMITTEE DEBATE ON THE REPORT OF THE [...] SUMMARY: The Sixth Committee held its debate on the report of the fifty-ninth session of the International Law Commission (ILC) from October 29 through November 6. ILC Chairman Ian Brownlie (UK) attended sessions from October 29 through November 2 to present the ILC report to the Sixth Comm [...] | 2007-11-28 13:05:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK1077 | UN REQUESTS PAYMENT OF U.S. ASSESSMENTS FOR TWO [...] USUN has emailed to Department (IO/PSC-Tammy Pomerleau and EUR-IO/EX/FM-Alice Green) a copy of a note and three related annexes from the SYG dated November 20, 2007 concerning the financing of two peacekeeping operations. Annex One contains current amounts payable by the U.S. Government as fo [...] | 2007-11-28 14:21:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN UN |
07USUNNEWYORK1078 | UN ACKNOWLEDGES RECEIPT OF U.S. CONTRIBUTIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-28 14:21:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN UN |
07USUNNEWYORK1079 | SECURITY COUNCIL ADOPTS RESOLUTION CONCERNING [...] The Security Council, on November 28, adopted resolution 1786 (text reftel). The resolution appoints Serge Brammertz as Prosecutor of the International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia with effect from January 1, 2008 for a four-year term, which is subject to an earlier termination by th [...] | 2007-11-28 16:38:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC |
07USUNNEWYORK1082 | COUNTRY-SPECIFIC HUMAN RIGHTS RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED [...] SUMMARY: On November 20-21, the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly adopted four country-specific resolutions addressing the human rights situations in North Korea, Burma, Iran and Belarus, despite attempts to derail the process through no-action motions on the last three resolutions. [...] | 2007-11-28 19:21:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UNGA PHUM IR KN BM BO |
07USUNNEWYORK1086 | UN: DARFUR POLITICAL AND SECURITY TRACKS STALLED [...] (U) SUMMARY: In back-to-back briefings to the Security Council at a November 27 open debate, Special Envoy Jan Eliasson and DPKO U/SYG Jean Marie Guehenno told Council members that both the political and security tracks of the Darfur peace process are stalled. Eliasson told the Council he nee [...] | 2007-11-29 13:48:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC KPAL SU MOPS |
07USUNNEWYORK1088 | CUBAN MISSION REGISTERS CONCERN OVER REMOVAL OF [...] Unclassified - entire text. 2. Following a November 26 meeting between Diplomatic Security agents from the New York Field Office (DS/NYFO) and the security officer of the Cuban Mission to the UN to discuss further the NYPD's plan to remove the Mission's fixed post protection, DS/NYFO indic [...] | 2007-11-29 16:33:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | OFDP CU UN |
07USUNNEWYORK1089 | GERMAN MISSION RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR WAIVER OF DIPLOMATIC IMMUNITY [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-29 19:05:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | GM OFDP UN THOMAS THOMMA |
07USUNNEWYORK1090 | UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE: TORTURE, IDPS, [...] (U) Summary: On October 29, the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly heard reports on torture, on the human rights of internally displaced persons, on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, and on the situation of human rights in [...] | 2007-11-29 19:29:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UNGA PHUM PREF PTER SU |
07USUNNEWYORK1094 | KUWAITI COMPLAINS RE DIPLOMATIC PARKING PROGRAM, [...] On November 27, 2007, USUN received a diplomatic note from the Kuwait Mission to the UN (text in paragraph 2 below) objecting to the New York City Parking Program for Diplomatic Vehicles because its application does not correspond to Kuwait's treatment of American Embassy vehicles in Kuwait. T [...] | 2007-11-30 13:59:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | OFDP UN KU |
07USUNNEWYORK1095 | NOV 28 ICTY/ICTR UNSC WORKING GROUP MEETING ON [...] SUMMARY: Members of the UNSC Working Group on Residual Issues concerning the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) met on Nevember 28 to discuss a non-paper prepared by the Chair (Indonesia) on the preparati [...] | 2007-11-30 18:43:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREF PREL RW |
07USUNNEWYORK1097 | UNGA/C-5: D/SYG MIGIRO ADDRESSES FIFTH COMMITTEE [...] (U) Summary. The Committee on Administration and Budget of the United Nations General Assembly (Fifth Committee) met for its organizational session on October 5. Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro addressed the Committee. SIPDIS She conveyed Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's priorities [...] | 2007-11-30 19:29:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC PREL UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK1099 | UNGA/C-5: AUDIT REPORTS ON UNOPS AND UNHCR [...] (U) The UN General Assembly Fifth Committee met in formal session on October 10 to hear introduction of several financial audit reports (A/62/5/Add.5, A/61/5/Add.10, A/62/120, A/61/214/Add.2, A/61/350/Add.1 and A/62/355). Introduction of the OIOS Annual Report will be reported septel. Director [...] | 2007-11-30 19:35:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC PREL UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK1100 | UNGA/C-5: CONSOLIDATED REPORT DRAWS STRONG [...] (U) The 5th Committee met on October 18 to take up review of the efficiency of the administrative and financial functioning of the United Nations. Nancy Hurtz-Soyka, Chief of the Office of Oversight and Internal Justice, introduced the United Nations Secretariat Consolidated Report 2006. Thi [...] | 2007-11-30 19:37:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC PREL UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK1101 | UNGA/C-5: DEVELOPMENT ACCOUNT A LIGHTENING ROD FOR [...] (SBU) Summary. The Administrative and Budgetary Committee met in formal session on October 30 for introduction of several reports on the Development Account. The Secretariat presented three proposals for identifying additional resources for the Development Account. The ACABQ evaluated the Secr [...] | 2007-11-30 19:39:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC PREL UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK1102 | UNGA/G-5: SYG BAN INTRODUCES 2008-2009 UN BUDGET [...] (U) Summary. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon introduced the proposed program budget for the biennium 2008-2009 before the Committee on Administration and Budget on October 25. SYG Ban stated the proposed budget of $4.2 billion represents real growth of $23 million, or 0.5%, over the previous [...] | 2007-11-30 19:39:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC PREL UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK1103 | UNGA/C-5: OIOS REPORTS ON LACK OF UN-WIDE INTERNAL [...] (U) The UN General Assembly Fifth Committee met in formal session on October 10 to hear introduction of several financial reports (REF). UN Undersecretary-General for Internal Oversight Services (OIOS) Inga-Britt Ahlenius presented the OIOS Annual Report (A62/281/Part 1/Add. 1),covering OIOS [...] | 2007-11-30 19:42:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC PREL UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK1105 | UNGA SECOND COMMITTEE: CLIMATE CHANGE, UNEP, [...] Summary. Four resolutions were adopted by consensus during the November 30 session of the UN General Assembly's Second Committee. Per Ref A on the climate change resolution, the U.S. requested a vote on a budgetary paragraph, which lost 160-2 (U.S. and Japan),and the U.S. joined consensus [...] | 2007-11-30 21:29:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV ECIN UNGA UNEP |
07USUNNEWYORK1106 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR ERIN CROWE AND JOHN [...] (U) In response to Reftel, USUN grants country clearance for Erin Crowe and John Sandage to participate in the informal meeting of the General Assembly on the implementation of the Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy, to attend meetings of the 1267 (al-Qaida/Taliban Sanctions) Committee, and to [...] | 2007-11-30 21:39:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PREL |
07USUNNEWYORK1109 | SIXTH COMMITTEE DIVIDED OVER NEW SYSTEM OF [...] SUMMARY: At the conclusion of its sixty-second session, the Sixth Committee had yet to reach consensus on a number of key issues concerning the legal aspects of the proposed reform of the UN system of administration of justice, a measure that the UN Advisory Committee on Administrative and Bu [...] | 2007-12-03 13:11:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK1110 | CTED DIRECTOR MICHAEL SMITH MAKES INITIAL BRIEFING [...] SUMMARY: The Security Council's Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) met November 29 to welcome Michael Smith (Australia),the new Executive Director of the Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate (CTED). Smith praised CTC's role in UN counter-terrorism efforts, and said the CTC should continue [...] | 2007-12-03 13:13:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREF PREL UNSC |
07USUNNEWYORK1111 | ACTION REQUEST: SCENESETTER AND "PANDERMANIA" - [...] This is an action request - see para 3. 2. On Friday, November 30, Ambassador Wallace hosted the latest in a series of JUSCKANZ meetings dedicated to developing a coordinated strategy to reduce the Secretary-General's proposed programme budget (PPB) for the SIPDIS 2008-2009 biennium, wh [...] | 2007-12-03 21:44:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK1112 | UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE TAKES ACTION ON THE HUMAN [...] (U) Summary: On Nov. 16 the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly adopted by a vote of 165-7(U.S.)-3 a resolution containing the so-called institution-building package of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC),as amended by Cuba on behalf of the Non-Aligned Movement. (The amendment added to [...] | 2007-12-04 20:14:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UNGA PHUM |
07USUNNEWYORK1114 | MISSION CLEARANCE REQUEST: G/TIP MULTILATERAL [...] Mission clearance is granted for Carla Menares-Bury, Multilateral Affairs Coordinator in the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, to participate in the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Assistance and Support to Victims of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse on December 5 - 7, 2007 [...] | 2007-12-04 21:08:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM OTRA UNGA KPKO |
07USUNNEWYORK1118 | UN SECRETARIAT CIRCULATES QUESTIONNAIRE ON STATE [...] This is an action request. Please see para 4. 2. The UN Secretariat has sent a diplomatic note to USUN, transmitting a questionnaire prepared by the International Law Commission (ILC),which seeks information on State practice regarding oil and gas (para 3). The ILC prepared the questio [...] | 2007-12-05 13:43:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK1124 | BHUTAN PERM REP COMPLAINT RE TREATMENT DURING [...] USUN received on December 3, 2007, a complaint (text in paragraph 3 below) from the Bhutan Mission to the UN protesting the treatment received by its Ambassador/Permanent Representative at Newark International Airport upon departure by Transportation Security Administration (TSA) personnel and [...] | 2007-12-05 19:17:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | OFDP BH UN |
07USUNNEWYORK1125 | SIXTH COMMITTEE DISCUSSION OF CHARTER COMMITTEE [...] SUMMARY: The Sixth Committee concluded its consideration of the Report of the Special Committee on the Charter and Revitalization of the Organization with the adoption of a draft resolution that differed little in substance from last year (Ref A). During the Sixth Committee's debate, many d [...] | 2007-12-05 20:23:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK113 | ISRAEL AND JUSCANZ DISCUSS UN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-09 19:37:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK1131 | GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTS SIXTH COMMITTEE RESOLUTIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-06 19:27:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK1135 | CONCEPTS FOR BUDGET NEGOTIATIONS ON THE 2008/2009 [...] The draft resolution on the 2008/2009 biennium budget constituting a compendium of proposals from the G-77, EU, CANZ and others, is expected to be distributed at the end of this week. In anticipation of the intense negotiations that will begin next week, Ambassador Wallace and the USUN/MR tea [...] | 2007-12-07 16:08:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK1136 | GA MEETING ON UN GLOBAL COUNTER-TERRORISM STRATEGY [...] SUMMARY: The General Assembly (GA) convened an informal meeting to review the implementation of the United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy on December 4. Member States expressed broad support for the Strategy and held a constructive debate that lacked the polemics of previous meet [...] | 2007-12-07 18:04:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PTER UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK1144 | UNEP ACKNOWLEDGES RECEIPT OF U.S. CONTRIBUTIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-10 14:21:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN UNEP |
07USUNNEWYORK1145 | UN ACKNOWLEDGES RECEIPT OF U.S. CONTRIBUTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-10 14:21:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN UN |
07USUNNEWYORK1146 | UNEP REQUEST PAYMENT OF $5,149,222 TO THE TRUST [...] USUN has faxed to EUR-IO/EX/FM-Alice Green a copy of an official note and invoice requesting payment of $5,149,222 to the Trust Fund for the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Depete the Ozone Layer (MP),of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). As of November 22, 2007 payments [...] | 2007-12-10 14:21:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN UNEP |
07USUNNEWYORK1149 | UNSC: U/SYG ON THE HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IN [...] (U) On December 6 John Holmes, UN Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, briefed an open session of the Security Council following his recent mission to Ethiopia, Sudan, and Somalia (as well as Nairobi, Kenya to meet with donors and UN staff working [...] | 2007-12-11 14:51:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREF UNSC SO SU ET |
07USUNNEWYORK1151 | SECURITY COUNCIL ADOPTS RESOLUTION EXTENDING THE [...] The Security Council, on December 10, unanimously adopted resolution 1787 (text below). The following countries co-sponsored the resolution: Belgium, Congo, France, Italy, Panama, Russia, Slovakia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The resolution extends the initial period of the Co [...] | 2007-12-11 15:47:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER UNSC PREL UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK1163 | UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY PASSES CLIMATE CHANGE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-13 22:48:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | KGHG SENV UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK1164 | UNGA SECOND COMMITTEE: INTERNATIONAL TRADE, [...] Summary. The United Nations General Assembly's Second Committee adopted fourteen resolutions by consensus during its December 7 session. In accordance with Ref A and Ref B, the U.S. called for a vote and gave an Explanation of Vote (EOV) on the international trade and Lebanon oil slick draft [...] | 2007-12-13 22:48:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECIN EAID AORC KWMN SOCI PREL UNGA LE |
07USUNNEWYORK1165 | UNGA SECOND COMMITTEE: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, [...] Summary. The United Nations General Assembly's Second Committee adopted eight resolutions by consensus during its December 5 session, including resolutions on sustainable development, international financial system, UN Habitat, Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs),and global partnerships [...] | 2007-12-13 22:48:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG SENV UNGA BO BN |
07USUNNEWYORK1168 | YUGOSLAV AND RWANDA WAR CRIMES TRIBUNALS REPORT TO [...] SUMMARY: The Security Council met December 10 for a briefing on the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). The President and Prosecutor of each tribunal made a statement, as did all Council members and repr [...] | 2007-12-14 16:58:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UNSC ICTY ICTR PHUM PREL |
07USUNNEWYORK1169 | UN AND WORLD BANK STRENGTHEN POST-CONFLICT [...] SUMMARY: UN and World Bank officials have jointly briefed New York missions on measures to improve field coordination and standardize operating procedures, improving consistency and reaction time to post-conflict emergencies. Initiatives include standardizing fiduciary arrangements and fund t [...] | 2007-12-14 18:16:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID KPKO UN |
07USUNNEWYORK1170 | NATO SEEKS COOPERATION WITH 1540 COMMITTEE [...] SUMMARY: NATO Assistant Secretary General Martin Erdmann (Germany) delivered the first NATO briefing to the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 ("1540 Committee") on December 11. Erdmann said 1540 issues were a central part of NATO counter-proliferation efforts [...] | 2007-12-14 18:39:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC UNSC PREL KPAO PTER KNNP |
07USUNNEWYORK1171 | UNSC: SECURITY COUNCIL EXTENDS UNDOF MANDATE FOR [...] (U) The Security Council December 14 adopted by a 15-0 vote a resolution (UNSCR 1788) to extend the mandate of the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force for six months to June 30, 2008. The extension was recommended by the Secretary-General in his December 3 "Report of the SIPDIS Sec [...] | 2007-12-14 19:42:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV UNSC |
07USUNNEWYORK1172 | FIFTH COMMITTEE REACTS TO SOBERING MESSAGE ON THE [...] Ambassador Mark Wallace addressed the Fifth Committee (Administration and Budget) during informal consultations on the proposed program budget (PPB) for the biennium 2008-2009 on December 10. Ambassador Wallace stated that the budget, in reality, is well beyond the Secretary General's initial [...] | 2007-12-14 20:56:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK1174 | YUGOSLAV AND RWANDA WAR CRIMES TRIBUNALS PRESENT [...] (U) SUMMARY: The International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) presented their joint paper on residual functions at a December 11 meeting of the Security Council Working Group on Ad Hoc International Tribunals (WG). The main t [...] | 2007-12-14 21:04:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UNSC ICTY ICTR PHUM PREL |
07USUNNEWYORK1180 | UN BUDGET: RECOMMENDATION TO DEMARCHE KEY CAPITALS [...] This is an action request - see para 5. 2. Discussions in the Fifth Committee on the proposed 2008-2009 UN regular budget are coming to a head without any significant action to counter the unacceptably large increase in the projected budget. The Secretary-General has proposed an "initial [...] | 2007-12-18 14:29:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK1184 | LEBANON TRIBUNAL: EXPERTS FROM KEY AND LIKELY [...] SUMMARY: Following up on recent conversations held at ambassadorial level among major and likely donors to the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) (see reftels),experts from USUN, France, Germany, the UK, and the Netherlands, as well as Lebanese PermRep Salam and representatives of the UN Off [...] | 2007-12-19 17:10:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PTER UNSC SY LE |
07USUNNEWYORK1188 | UNGA SECOND COMMITTEE ADOPTS TRIENNIAL [...] Summary. On December 18, the UN General Assembly's Second Committee adopted by consensus the draft resolution on the Triennial Comprehensive Policy Review (TCPR) of operational activities for development of the UN system. The Committee also adopted the draft program of work for the 63rd UNG [...] | 2007-12-20 16:03:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | ECIN EAID UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK1189 | UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY GRADUATES SAMOA FROM LDC [...] In its December 17 session, the UN General Assembly adopted by consensus draft resolution A/62/L.33 entitled, "Graduation of Samoa," submitted under Agenda item 43. The resolution takes note of a July 2007 decision by the Economic and Social Council that endorsed a recommendation by the Commi [...] | 2007-12-20 16:03:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR SENV WS |
07USUNNEWYORK1192 | UN/LIBERIA SANCTIONS: SECURITY COUNCIL UNANIMOUSLY [...] On December 19 the UN Security Council unanimously adopted resolution 1792 (2007) renewing the arms embargo and travel ban in Liberia until December 20, 2008 and the mandate of the Liberia Panel of Experts until June 20, 2008. Please see paragraph 2 for the text of the resolution. 2. Text [...] | 2007-12-20 16:12:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC UNSC PREL PGOV LI |
07USUNNEWYORK1195 | OUTGOING MEMBERS BRIEF COUNCIL ON SUBSIDIARY BODIES [...] SUMMARY: On December 17, outgoing Security Council members Congo, Ghana, Peru, Qatar, and Slovakia briefed the Council on the activities of the following Subsidiary Bodies under their chairmanship: the 1518(2003) Committee on Iraq; the 1132 (1997) Committee on Sierra Leone; the 1521 (2003) C [...] | 2007-12-20 19:17:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UNSC PREL AORC KPAO PTER KNNP |
07USUNNEWYORK1197 | UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY TAKES ACTION ON THIRD [...] (U) Summary: The UN General Assembly took action on Third Committee resolutions in a plenary meeting on November 18, including the adoption of the contentious resolutions on the situation of human rights in the DPRK, Iran, and Belarus. The General Assembly rejected a no-action motion on the [...] | 2007-12-20 20:28:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UNGA PHUM |
07USUNNEWYORK1199 | 1540 COMMITTEE DISCUSSES ITS ROLE ON BIOSAFETY AND [...] SUMMARY: Members of the Security Council's 1540 Committee held a thematic discussion on biosafety and biosecurity on December 18, which the Committee's Chairman (Slovakia) scheduled to help determine how the Committee's April 2008 report to the Security Council would address these issues. S [...] | 2007-12-20 20:44:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UNSC PREL AORC KPAO PTER KNNP |
07USUNNEWYORK1201 | UNGA SECOND COMMITTEE ADOPTS TRIENNIAL [...] Summary. On December 18, the UN General Assembly's Second Committee adopted by consensus the draft resolution on the Triennial Comprehensive Policy Review (TCPR) of operational activities for development of the UN system. The Committee also adopted the draft program of work for the 63rd UNG [...] | 2007-12-20 21:41:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | ECIN EAID UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK1202 | GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTS SECOND COMMITTEE [...] Summary. On December 19, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) took final action on all remaining resolutions adopted by the Second Committee. The UNGA voted on six resolutions that were also voted on in the Committee and adopted all others by consensus. End summary. UNGA Votes ---------- [...] | 2007-12-21 17:23:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECIN AORC UNGA ETRD SENV KPAL LE IS |
07USUNNEWYORK1206 | UNGA ADOPTS RESOLUTION APPROVING CREDENTIALS [...] On December 21, the UN General Assembly adopted without a vote a resolution entitled "Credentials of representatives to the sixty-second session of the General Assembly" (reftel). Afterward, Iran made an statement expressing its reservations about the Credential Committee's report to the Gener [...] | 2007-12-21 23:10:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK1207 | DECEMBER MIDDLE EAST BRIEFING: PRAISE FOR PARIS, [...] (U) Summary: UN Under Secretary-General for Political Affairs Lynn Pascoe delivered the monthly briefing on the Middle East to the Security Council on December 21. Pascoe praised the Paris donors' conference but said the goal now is to generate "real momentum on all aspects of the peace proc [...] | 2007-12-21 23:32:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAL IS |
07USUNNEWYORK1214 | UNGA DEBATES THE QUESTION OF PALESTINE AND THE [...] (U) Summary: The participants in the annual UNGA debates on the Question of Palestine and on the Situation in the Middle East that took place November 29-30 broke no new ground, restating well-known arguments in support of well-known positions. Several countries did, however, acknowledge the [...] | 2007-12-26 19:20:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAL KWBG PHUM PREF UNGA IS |
07USUNNEWYORK1215 | UNGA ADOPTS 27 FOURTH COMMITTEE RESOLUTIONS [...] (U) The U.N. General Assembly December 17 adopted 27 draft resolutions on the recommendation of the Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization Committee). Resolutions and Plenary votes are in paragraph three. 2. (U) The only notable aspect of the voting was a spontaneous applaus [...] | 2007-12-26 19:21:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAL KWBG PHUM PREF UNGA IS |
07USUNNEWYORK1222 | UNSC: SECURITY COUNCIL ADOPTS PRESIDENTIAL [...] (U) The Security Council December 27 adopted a Presidential Statement (PRST) condemning the December 27 terrorist attack by extremists that caused the death of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and others. The statement also paid tribute to former Prime Minister Bhutto, called on [...] | 2007-12-28 17:16:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV UNSC PTER |
07USUNNEWYORK1223 | UN REVAMPS ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE AND KEEPS THE [...] Begin Summary: The UN has adopted a resolution creating a new system of Administration of Justice (AoJ) that stresses informal dispute resolution over litigation in resolving staff grievances. It responds to most, but not all, of the Secretary General,s requests and will be implemented over [...] | 2007-12-28 19:29:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC KUNR UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK1224 | UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTS OCEANS AND FISHERIES [...] (U) SUMMARY: The General Assembly adopted without a vote the draft resolution on Sustainable Fisheries (A/62/L.24) on December 18 and the draft resolution on Oceans and the Law of the Sea (A/62/L.27) with a vote (146-2-3) on December 22. The majority of delegations emphasized the significance [...] | 2007-12-28 20:07:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UNGA PHSA PREL PREF PREM |
07USUNNEWYORK124 | UN: LATEST APPOINTMENTS AND RESIGNATIONS OF SENIOR [...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT: On Friday, February 9, 2007, Chef de Cabinet Vijay Nambiar announced that Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon had accepted the resignation of fifteen senior officials (9 at the Under-Secretary-General level, 6 at the Assistant Secretary-General level). Nambiar also announced t [...] | 2007-02-12 19:00:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC KUNR |
07USUNNEWYORK126 | UN CAPITAL MASTER PLAN: JAPAN WILL PAY LATER THAN [...] The Japanese delegate has told USDel, confidentially, that the supplemental budget recently approved by the Diet does not include any funding for the 2007 assessment for the Capital Master Plan (CMP). The GOJ hopes to include funding in next year's supplemental budget (normally approved in M [...] | 2007-02-13 14:25:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UNGA AORC KUNR |
07USUNNEWYORK127 | 1540 COMMITTEE DISCUSSES MIDDLE EAST OUTREACH, [...] (SBU) BEGIN SUMMARY: At an informal meeting February 7, the 1540 Committee discussed outreach activities; a proposed roadmap for implementing its program of work; and proposals for coordination among the Committee's experts, the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED) and th [...] | 2007-02-13 15:35:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL AORC PTER UNSC KNNP |
07USUNNEWYORK131 | DEMARCHE: TURNING OFF THE CEIRPP UN-SPONSORED [...] On February 14 Polmincouns delivered reftel demarche on a conference of the Committee for the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP) to be held in Rome on March 22-23 co-hosted by the Italian government. USUN explained to Assistant Secretary-General for Politica [...] | 2007-02-14 19:23:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV UNSC |
07USUNNEWYORK132 | SECURITY COUNCIL AND GENERAL ASSEMBLY DISCUSS [...] SUMMARY: The Security Council and the General Assembly held separate sessions on January 30 and February 6, 2007 respectively to discuss post-conflict peacebuilding. In both venues, speakers urged the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) to focus on work in its country-specific format where it is [...] | 2007-02-15 14:15:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | KPKO SOCI UNGA EFIN UN |
07USUNNEWYORK133 | UNSC: MECCA AGREEMENT AND TEMPLE MOUNT [...] Summary: In the monthly Security Council briefing on the Middle East held February 13, UNSCO Alvaro de Soto said that the Mecca agreement and recent international initiatives to re-energize the peace process, especially the commitment of the Quartet partners, showed "potential" for progress. C [...] | 2007-02-15 18:20:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV UNSC |
07USUNNEWYORK139 | ELEVENTH SESSION OF THE UN SIXTH COMMITTEE AD HOC [...] (SBU) BEGIN SUMMARY: The eleventh session of the Ad Hoc Committee met on February 5, 6, and 15. Delegations discussed completion of the comprehensive convention; the proposal to convene a high-level conference on counter-terrorism; and the status of intersessional informal negotiations; and [...] | 2007-02-20 19:48:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UNSC PREL PTER |
07USUNNEWYORK14 | UN REQUESTS PAYMENT OF 2007 ASSESSMENT FOR CAPITAL [...] USUN has faxed to Department (IO/MPR-David Leis and EUR-IO/EX/FM-Alice Green) a copy of a note from the Secretary-General, dated January 5, 2007 requesting payment SIPDIS of the U.S. assessed contribution to the UN Capital Master Plan (CMP) for 2007. The note outlines two payment options, [...] | 2007-01-11 20:38:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UN CMP AORC AFIN |
07USUNNEWYORK141 | UN SECRETARY GENERAL'S COUNTER-TERRORISM [...] Summary. At a February 17 briefing the Secretary General and members of his Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Force (CTITF) reported to member states on progress in implementing the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy (A/RES/60/288) adopted last September. The CTITF also introduced the [...] | 2007-02-20 22:55:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC PREL PTER |
07USUNNEWYORK147 | UNEP REQUEST PAYMENT OF $4,211,476 TO THE TRUST [...] USUN has faxed to EUR-IO/EX/FM-Alice Green a copy of an official note and Invoice requesting payment of $4,211,476 to the Trust Fund for the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (MP),of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). As of January 25, 2007 payments [...] | 2007-02-22 20:51:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN UNEP |
07USUNNEWYORK148 | UNEP REQUEST PAYMENT OF $834,302 TO THE TRUST FUND [...] USUN has faxed to EUR-IO/EX/FM-Alice Green a copy of an official note and Invoice requesting payment of $834,302 to the Trust Fund for the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer, of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). As of February 01, 2007 payments owed are as [...] | 2007-02-22 23:01:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN UNEP |
07USUNNEWYORK154 | UN COMMISSION ON SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT 2007 SESSION [...] (U) Summary: The Commission on Social Development held its 45th session from February 7 to 16, 2007. Deputy Permanent Representative of Iran, Mehdi Danesh-Yazdi chaired the session, whose main theme was "Full Employment and Decent Work for All." Discussions and panels included macroeconomic [...] | 2007-02-27 14:43:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ELAB TBIO SOCI UN |
07USUNNEWYORK157 | UNFPA SEGMENT OF THE 2007 FIRST REGULAR SESSION OF [...] Summary: The UNDP/UNFPA Joint Executive Board First Regular Session for 2007 took place on January 23-26. Opening the UNFPA segment, UNFPA Executive Director Thoraya Obaid announced that UNFPA,s financial situation had achieved record highs in total core income, number of donor countries, and [...] | 2007-02-28 15:53:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID KUNR KWMN UNDP UNFPA |
07USUNNEWYORK164 | UN ACKNOWLEDGES RECEIPT OF U.S. CONTRIBUTIONS [...] USUN has received official receipts from the United Nations dated January 31, 2007 acknowledging receipt of U.S. contributions for the following: ICTR $ 5,934,685 ICTY 6,707,532 MINURSO 1,852,500 UNOMIG 1,813,904 MONUC 71,158,313 UNMEE 11,389,8 [...] | 2007-03-01 20:15:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN UN |
07USUNNEWYORK167 | ECOSOC 2007 ORGANIZATIONAL SESSION: THEMES FOR [...] (U) Meeting in formal session March 2, ECOSOC adopted the themes for the High Level Segment (HLS) that have been under negotiation since December 2006. The themes adopted were unchanged from the ECOSOC President's March 1 proposals. As 2007 marks the first time ECOSOC will need to operate [...] | 2007-03-02 21:27:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EFIN KUNR ECOSOC |
07USUNNEWYORK172 | UNDP SUSPENDS OPERATIONS IN NORTH KOREA [...] USUN has received a note from UNDP Administrator Kemal Dervis informing Executive Board Members that UNDP has suspended operations in North Korea due to North Korea's refusal to accept the Executive Board decision of January 25, 2007 on the continuation of its country program. Mission will p [...] | 2007-03-02 23:09:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EFIN UNDP KN |
07USUNNEWYORK176 | ACTION REQUEST:FUNDING OF THE 2005 AND 2007 REVIEW [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-05 14:25:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC KNNP KUNR PREL UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK178 | UN REQUESTS PAYMENT OF U.S. ASSESSMENTS FOR FOUR [...] USUN has faxed to Department (IO/PSC-Dennis Hankins and EUR-IO/EX/FM-Alice Green) a copy of a note and three related annexes from the SYG dated March 2, 2007 concerning the financing of four peacekeeping operations. Annex One contains current amounts payable by the U.S. Government as follows [...] | 2007-03-06 15:32:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN UN |
07USUNNEWYORK179 | DDA, IAEA, OPCW, AND WCO BRIEF COUNCIL ON [...] BEGIN SUMMARY: Representatives of the Department for Disarmament Affairs, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW),the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA),and the World Customs Organization briefed the Security Council in a public meeting on February 23, concer [...] | 2007-03-06 18:47:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PTER UNSC PARM KNNP |
07USUNNEWYORK199 | UN: CONDITIONS OF SERVICE AND COMPENSATION FOR [...] ACTION REQUEST: See paragraph 16. This is an action request. USUN requests instructions for upcoming negotiations in the Fifth Committee. 2. SUMMARY: As requested by General Assembly resolution A/59/282, the Secretary-General (SG),in his report A/61/554: Conditions of service and compensa [...] | 2007-03-13 14:27:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UNGA AORC KUNR |
07USUNNEWYORK20 | UN REQUESTS PAYMENT OF 2007 REGULAR BUDGET [...] USUN has faxed to Department (IO/MPR-David Leis, IO/PSC-Charles Casper and EUR-IO/EX/FM-Alice Green) a copy of a note dated December 28, 2006 from the Secretary General requesting payment of the U.S. assessed contribution to the UN regular budget for 2007 in the amount of $496,481,769. The no [...] | 2007-01-12 22:45:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC ABUD UN AFIN |
07USUNNEWYORK209 | PARKING ISSUES, IRS SETTLEMENT INITIATIVE, ALLEGED [...] Summary: The UN Committee on Relations with the Host Country (Host Country Committee-HCC) discussed the results of the HCC's survey of the New York Diplomatic Parking Programme (the Program) at its 232nd meeting on March 5, 2007. Missions which oppose the Program as implemented or on principl [...] | 2007-03-15 12:32:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | OFDP UN CVIS |
07USUNNEWYORK21 | UN/SIERRA LEONE SPECIAL COURT: MANAGEMENT [...] This is a guidance request - see para 7. 2. SUMMARY: In the coming weeks, the Sierra Leone Special Court Management Committee will convene a series of meetings, including a day-long discussion to be hosted by the UK Mission on January 17, to consider a series of issues that will impact th [...] | 2007-01-12 22:47:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC KJUS KDEM PGOV SL XA |
07USUNNEWYORK217 | IRAQ BRIEFING TO SECURITY COUNCIL [...] SUMMARY: Iraqi Vice President Abd al-Mahdi told the Security Council that 2007 will be the year of civil peace and unity in Iraq. The UN Security Council held March 15 its quarterly open briefing (REFTEL) on the activities of the UN Assistance Mission to Iraq (UNAMI) and the Multinational For [...] | 2007-03-19 14:34:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL PGOV UNSC IZ |
07USUNNEWYORK22 | UN SEEKS BANKING INSTRUCTIONS TO DEPOSIT BALANCE [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. 2. (U) The United Nations contacted the Mission to seek electronic fund transfer instructions (EFT) in order to deposit the balance of funds remaining in the Trust Fund for the Implementation of the Cotonou Accord on Liberia. Per r [...] | 2007-01-12 22:49:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AFIN AORC KUNR |
07USUNNEWYORK228 | UN COMMISSION ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN 2007 SESSION [...] (U) Summary: The UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) held its 51st session from February 26 to March 9, 2007. Permanent Representative of El Salvador, Carmen Maria Gallardo Hernandez, chaired the session, whose main theme was "The Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination and Violenc [...] | 2007-03-21 14:08:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | SOCI KWMN UN CSW |
07USUNNEWYORK237 | UNODC BRIEFING IN NY - UPCOMING EVENTS, BUDGET [...] (U) Summary: Executive Director Costa of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) briefed interested delegations in New York on March 20 regarding UNODC's Global Initiative against Trafficking in Persons, including a ministerial-level meeting in November 2007 in Vienna. He described the fou [...] | 2007-03-23 19:34:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KWMN KCRM UN |
07USUNNEWYORK24 | CHINA AND RUSSIA VETO UNSC BURMA RESOLUTION [...] On January 12, the Security Council voted 9 - 3 (China, Russia, South Africa) - 3 (Indonesia, Qatar, Congo) on the UNSCR introduced by the United States and co-sponsored by the United Kingdom on the situation in Burma. The negative votes by permanent members China and Russia resulted in defeat [...] | 2007-01-13 00:16:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM UNSC BM |
07USUNNEWYORK251 | UNSC/IRAN: RESOLUTION 1747 UPS THE SANCTIONS; FM [...] Summary. On March 24, the UN Security Council unanimously adopted a second Chapter VII Security Council Resolution imposing sanctions on Iran for its failure to comply with its obligation to suspend its enrichment, reprocessing and heavy water activities and cooperate fully with the IAEA. Ira [...] | 2007-03-28 15:49:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC KNNP IR |
07USUNNEWYORK254 | MISSION CLEARANCE FOR SPECIAL ENVOY NATSIOS [...] (U) Mission clearance is granted for Special Envoy of the President for Sudan Andrew S. Natsios and Chief of Staff Andrew W. Steinfeld, for meetings with United Nations leadership as well as with USUN and foreign Mission leadership, on Monday, April 2, 2007. 2. (U) United Nations badges and [...] | 2007-03-29 22:53:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SU UNSC ARSO |
07USUNNEWYORK256 | MISSION CLEARANCE FOR DENNIS J. KING, INR/GGI/HIU [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-30 15:31:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC OTRA |
07USUNNEWYORK269 | UNSC: HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IN SUDAN, CHAD AND CAR [...] (U) SUMMARY. On April 4 Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs John Holmes briefed the Security Council on his recent mission to Sudan, Chad, and the Central African Republic (CAR). Despite the wide agenda topic, "Situation in Africa," Holmes' presentation focused on the three coun [...] | 2007-04-06 12:24:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREF PREL SU CD CT UNSC |
07USUNNEWYORK27 | AMBASSADOR WALLACE MEETS WITH UN A/SYG LUTE ON [...] (U) SUMMARY: Ambassador Wallace met January 9 with Assistant-Secretary General for the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations Jane Holl Lute on recent allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) by peacekeepers in Sudan and on the general strategy to address SEA going forward. Lute a [...] | 2007-01-16 20:12:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC ASIG KTIA KUNR PGOV PREL UNSC |
07USUNNEWYORK270 | UNSC: SYG BAN KI-MOON'S AFRICA/MIDDLE EAST TRIP [...] In the April 4 briefing of his recent trip to Africa and the Middle East, Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon focused on five issues: the Middle East Peace Process, Lebanon, Iraq, Darfur and Somalia. This cable will review only his comments on the Middle East Peace Process. His comments on other s [...] | 2007-04-06 13:13:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV UNSC |
07USUNNEWYORK274 | GUIDANCE REQUEST: UN REQUEST FOR U.S. PAYMENT FOR [...] GUIDANCE REQUEST: Per reftel, USUN is transmitting below a March 30 letter from UN Controller Warren Sach to Ambassador Mark Wallace requesting the Mission's assistance in obtaining a payment from the United States for the 2005 NPT Review Conference and the first session on the Preparatory Com [...] | 2007-04-10 15:40:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC KNNP PREL UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK275 | LETTER FROM UN SECRETARY GENERAL ON APRIL 16 [...] Mission received the letter below from Secretary General (SYG) Ban Ki-Moon, regarding the April 16 special ECOSOC high-level meeting with the Bretton Woods institutions, requesting ministerial level representation. Unless otherwise instructed, Ambassador Miller will attend for the U.S. 2. [...] | 2007-04-10 18:19:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN EAID ECOSOC |
07USUNNEWYORK276 | UN SECRETARIAT THINKING ON HANDLING CLIMATE CHANGE [...] (SBU) Mission has received a copy of internal secretariat documents proposing various strategies for climate change leadership by Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and a high-level event on climate change at the General Assembly. Copies have been forwarded electronically to IO/EDA (Tuminaro) and [...] | 2007-04-10 21:01:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK28 | SECURITY COUNCIL AUTHORIZES ADVANCE MISSION TO [...] (U) On January 16 the United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted a Presidential Statement (PRST) requesting the Secretary-General to deploy an advance mission to Chad and the Central African Republic to lay the political groundwork for an eventual multidimensional UN presence in those [...] | 2007-01-16 23:35:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREF PREL KPKO CD SU |
07USUNNEWYORK284 | MISSION CLEARANCE FOR SPECIAL ENVOY NATSIOS [...] (U) Mission clearance is granted for Special Envoy of the President for Sudan Andrew S. Natsios and Chief of Staff Andrew W. Steinfeld for meetings with United Nations Special Envoy for Darfur Jan Eliasson and Department of Peacekeeping Operations Under-Secretary-General Jean-Marie Guehenno, on [...] | 2007-04-12 12:08:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SU UNSC ARSO |
07USUNNEWYORK287 | SECRETARY-GENERAL BAN MEETS WITH NYC MAYOR [...] SUMMARY. Ambassador Mark Wallace was asked by UN Under-Secretary for Management Alicia Barcena to attend an April 11 meeting between Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg in the Secretary-General's office. Also in attendance were UN officials Bob Orr, Chef de Cabinet V [...] | 2007-04-12 16:10:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC KUNR UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK297 | GUIDANCE REQUEST: UN RESPONDS TO AMBASSADOR [...] GUIDANCE REQUEST:The UN responded on March 28 to Ambassador Mark Wallace's March 15 letter to them regarding the status of the UN vendors that government witness and former UN procurement officer Alexander Yakovlev asserted in sworn testimony he assisted with the preparation of their UN procur [...] | 2007-04-17 22:22:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC KUNR UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK312 | UNSC: CONSULTATIONS ON THE WESTERN SAHARA [...] Summary: In an April 20 briefing on the situation in Western Sahara that he shared with Special Representative (SRSG) Julian Harston, Personal Envoy Peter van Walsum reiterated the Secretary-General's call on Morocco and the Polisario Front to engage in "direct negotiations without preconditio [...] | 2007-04-23 15:14:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV UNSC AG MO WI |
07USUNNEWYORK326 | UNSC: APRIL MIDDLE EAST BRIEFING [...] (U) SUMMARY: In the monthly briefing to the Security Council on the situation in the Middle East, U/SYG Lynn Pascoe welcomed recent diplomatic developments and expressed concern over the recent escalation of violence in the West Bank and Gaza. Pascoe also announced the resignation of UNSCO Al [...] | 2007-04-27 13:12:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV UNSC |
07USUNNEWYORK327 | UN REQUESTS PAYMENT OF U.S. ASSESSMENTS FOR FIVE [...] USUN has emailed to Department (IO/PSC-Dennis Hankins) and EUR-IO/EX/FM-Alice Green) a copy of a note and three related annexes from the SYG dated April 27, 2007 concerning the financing of five peacekeeping operations. Annex One contains current amounts payable by the U.S. Government as fol [...] | 2007-04-27 22:13:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN UN |
07USUNNEWYORK33 | UK SLAPS U.S. ON CLIMATE CHANGE, FORECASTS STORMY [...] UKUN Counselor for Sustainable Development Alistair Fernie addressed the UN NGO Committee on Sustainable Development (a normally neutral organization) at a January 18 panel discussion on "The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Report." Joined by German scientist Philipp Schmidt-Thome of t [...] | 2007-01-20 00:25:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENRG SENV UNCSD UNEP EU UK |
07USUNNEWYORK332 | USUN PRESENTS U.S. 1540 ACTION PLAN TO 1540 [...] Per ref A, Mission delivered the overview of the U.S. national action plan on implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1540 (2004) to the 1540 Committee Chairman, Slovak PermRep Peter Burian, on April 20. The UN Secretariat distributed copies of the U.S. national action plan to 1540 [...] | 2007-04-30 14:07:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AORC KPAO PTER UNSC OSCE KNNP |
07USUNNEWYORK339 | WESTERN SAHARA: SECURITY COUNCIL RENEWS MINURSO [...] The Security Council April 30 adopted a resolution extending the MINURSO (United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara) mandate for a further six months to October 31, 2007. In addition, the resolution takes note of both Moroccan and Polisario proposals for ending the political [...] | 2007-05-01 13:42:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV UNSC MO AG WI |
07USUNNEWYORK346 | LEBANON: FRENCH INSIST BRAMMERTZ MUST SUCCEED [...] (SBU) During a P-3 meeting on May 1 (septel),French PermRep de la Sabliere reported that UN International Independent Investigation Commission (UNIIIC) head Serge Brammertz has informed France that he will leave his current position on June 15, 2007 and return to the International Criminal Co [...] | 2007-05-03 01:04:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER UNSC FR SY LE |
07USUNNEWYORK348 | SECURITY COUNCIL ENDS LIBERIA DIAMOND SANCTIONS [...] On April 27, the Security Council unanimously adopted UNSCR 1753 (text in para 4),which terminated diamond sanctions in Liberia. The Security Council concluded that Liberia had met the criteria set out in resolution 1521 (2003) to create a transparent and internationally verifiable certifica [...] | 2007-05-03 13:32:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC UNSC PREL PGOV LI |
07USUNNEWYORK367 | UN ACKNOWLEDGES RECEIPT OF U.S. CONTRIBUTIONS FOR [...] USUN has received official receipts from the United Nations dated March 30, 2007 acknowledging receipt of U.S. contributions for the following: UNIFIL $24,228,000 UNMIL $25,819,733 MINUSTAH $15,950,000 ICTY $19,055,000 ICTR $16,860,000 2. Copy of receipts ha [...] | 2007-05-11 22:00:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN UN |
07USUNNEWYORK37 | 1540 COMMITTEE DISCUSSES EXPERTS' PANEL [...] (SBU) BEGIN SUMMARY: The 1540 Committee met informally January 19 to discuss the appointment of three experts to fill vacancies on the Committee's panel of experts, as well as the extension of contracts of the five remaining experts. Committee Chairman Burian asked delegations to seek instru [...] | 2007-01-22 16:50:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UNSC PTER PREL KNNP |
07USUNNEWYORK370 | SUDAN: BENCHMARKS FOR DARFUR - P3 AMBASSADORS MEET [...] U.S., U.K. and French ambassadors met with Under Secretary General Guehenno on Friday, May 4, to discuss benchmarks for Darfur. The three ambassadors conveyed the need to see quick progress on the political, security, and humanitarian fronts. They encouraged Guehenno to show results soon beca [...] | 2007-05-14 19:09:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC ETTC SU PGOV |
07USUNNEWYORK371 | CUBA FORMALLY COMPLAINS RE NGO REP'S VISA REFUSAL [...] Action request - see paragraph 3. 2. Cuba's UN Mission Permrep, Amb. Rodrigo Malmierca, has sent a Note Verbale (text in paragraph 5 below) to USUN Host Country Affairs expressing concern for the USG's decision to deny a visa to Mrs. Fabiola Mora (DPOB 31Jan1953, Cuba),a representative of [...] | 2007-05-14 19:54:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | OFDP CVIS UN CU |
07USUNNEWYORK384 | LEBANON TRIBUNAL: P-3 AGREE ON DRAFT UNSCR AND [...] (SBU) The U.S., France, and the UK (P-3) reached agreement on a draft Chapter VII resolution to establish the Special Lebanon Tribunal on May 17. P-3 Permanent Representatives will share the text with all UNSC delegations either bilaterally or in joint approaches by close of business on May 1 [...] | 2007-05-17 21:00:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PTER UNSC SY LE |
07USUNNEWYORK389 | LEBANON TRIBUNAL: P-5 PERMREPS DISCUSS DRAFT UNSCR [...] (SBU) P-5 PermReps met on May 17 to discuss the P-3 draft Chapter VII UNSC resolution on the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (reftel). French PR de la Sabliere introduced the draft resolution, noting that the co-authors preferred the "light" approach of deciding that the tribunal agreement and s [...] | 2007-05-18 19:04:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PTER UNSC SY LE |
07USUNNEWYORK415 | U.S. BILATERALS AT THE UN COMMISSION ON [...] (U) Under Secretary of State for Global Affairs Paula Dobriansky took advantage of the ministerial segment of the UN Commission on Sustainable Development's 15th Session (CSD-15) May 9-11 to conduct a number of bilateral discussions with key states, with climate change, energy and economic dev [...] | 2007-05-25 21:14:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON KGCC SENV EAID EAGR CH MD FI PK RS IN |
07USUNNEWYORK42 | UN ACKNOWLEDGES RECEIPT OF U.S. CONTRIBUTIONS [...] USUN has received official receipts from the United Nations acknowledging receipt of U.S. contributions dated November 30 and December 28, 2006 for the following: UN Regular Budget $235,000,000 UN Capital Master Plan 19,546,837 MONUC 27,000,000 UNOCI [...] | 2007-01-23 15:08:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN UN |
07USUNNEWYORK43 | UN REQUESTS PAYMENT OF U.S. ASSESSMENTS FOR THE [...] This is an action cable please see paragraph 5. 2. USUN has faxed to Department (IO/MPR-David Leis and EUR-IO/EX/FM-Alice Green) two notes from the SYG dated January 19, 2007 concerning the financing of the International Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the Territory of Rwan [...] | 2007-01-23 15:09:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AFIN AORC UN |
07USUNNEWYORK437 | MISSION CLEARANCE FOR USAID/OFDA PUBLIC HEALTH [...] USUN WELCOMES MS. CAROLINE ABLA, MS. HEATHER PAPOWITZ, AND MR. IAN MOISE, PUBLIC HEALTH ADVISORS IN USAID'S OFFICE OF U.S. FOREIGN DISASTER ASSISTANCE (OFDA),TO NEW YORK ON JUNE 18-20 TO ATTEND UN-LED MEETINGS ON EMERGENCY NUTRITION, HEALTH, AND WATER/SANITATION. CLEARANCE IS ALSO GRANTED TO [...] | 2007-06-01 21:27:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM |
07USUNNEWYORK438 | BAN BRIEFS SECURITY COUNCIL ON BERLIN QUARTET [...] Summary: In a private meeting with the Security Council held June 1, Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon briefed on the May 30 meeting of the Quartet Principals in Berlin, tracking closely issues covered in the May 30 Quartet Statement. He also mentioned the situation in Lebanon, expressing concern [...] | 2007-06-01 21:47:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV UNSC |
07USUNNEWYORK439 | UNHCHR ARBOUR MAY 31 MEETING WITH AMBASSADOR [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 31, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour met with Ambassador Khalilzad to discuss her recent mission to the Great Lakes region. She noted many ongoing problems, specifically the overall lack of security, violence against women and children, and judicial [...] | 2007-06-01 21:57:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | CG KAWC KWMN PHUM PREL XA ZF |
07USUNNEWYORK44 | UN SEEKS CONCURRENCE FROM U.S. TO TRANSFER PART OF [...] This is an action request. See para. 4. 2. USUN has faxed to Department (IO/PSC) a note from Assistant Secretary General/Controller for Management Warren Sach, addressed to Ambassador Wolff, dated January 15, 2007 notifying us that the United Nations Trust Fund in support of the delimita [...] | 2007-01-23 22:06:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN UN |
07USUNNEWYORK440 | SECURITY COUNCIL ADOPTS RESOLUTION 1757 ON LEBANON [...] (U) THE UN SECURITY COUNCIL VOTED 10-0-5 ON MAY 30 TO ADOPT RESOLUTION 1757, WHICH DECIDES UNDER THE COUNCIL'S CHAPTER VII AUTHORITY TO BRING INTO EFFECT THE SPECIAL PAGE 02 RUCNDTA0440 UNCLAS USUN NEW YORK 000440 TRIBUNAL FOR LEBANON. RUSSIA, CHINA, QATAR, SOUTH AFRICA, AND INDONESIA A [...] | 2007-06-04 11:44:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PTER UNSC SY LE |
07USUNNEWYORK443 | UN REQUESTS PAYMENT OF 2007 ASSESSMENT FOR CAPITAL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-04 21:09:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC KUNR UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK445 | GUIDANCE REQUEST: US FAILURE TO DEPOSIT 2003 AND [...] GUIDANCE REQUEST: USUN is transmitting two May 23 note verbales from the Secretary-General notifying the United States that the United Nations has voided check payments to the United States from 2003 and 2004 that have not been deposited. These payments represent a full refund to the United S [...] | 2007-06-05 19:02:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC KUNR UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK446 | GUIDANCE REQUEST: US FAILURE TO DEPOSIT 2005 UN [...] GUIDANCE REQUEST: USUN is transmitting a May 23 note verbale from the Secretary-General notifying the United States that the United Nations has voided its check payment to the United States from 2005 that has not been deposited. This payment represent a full refund to the United States for its [...] | 2007-06-05 19:03:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC KUNR UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK45 | UNEP ACKNOWLEDGES RECEIPT OF U.S. CONTRIBUTIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-23 22:06:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN UNEP |
07USUNNEWYORK451 | UN REQUESTS PAYMENT OF U.S. ASSESSMENTS FOR THREE [...] USUN has emailed to Department (EUR-IO/EX/FM-Alice Green) a copy of a note and three related annexes from the SYG dated May 31, 2007 concerning the financing of three peacekeeping operations. Annex One contains current amounts payable by the U.S. Government as follows: Operation [...] | 2007-06-06 16:32:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN UN |
07USUNNEWYORK458 | LEBANON TRIBUNAL - UN PREPARES TO SET IT UP [...] Summary. As June 10, the date of entry into force of the Lebanon Tribunal Agreement, approaches, the UN Secretariat is gearing up to put arrangements in place for its full implementation. In a June 6 meeting, UN Office of Legal Affairs (OLA) officials described preparations for the Tribunal [...] | 2007-06-07 21:39:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM LE PREL PTER UNSC |
07USUNNEWYORK46 | UNEP REQUEST PAYMENT OF $70,467,371 TO THE TRUST [...] USUN has faxed to EUR-IO/EX/FM-Alice Green an official note and invoice requesting payment of $70,467,371.34 to the Trust Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (MF),of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). As of January 10, [...] | 2007-01-23 22:06:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN UNEP |
07USUNNEWYORK460 | MISSION CLEARANCE FOR DEBORAH KINGSLAND JUNE 12 [...] USUN WELCOMES MS. DEBORAH KINGSLAND, DEPUTY DIRECTOR IN THE OFFICE OF MULTILATERAL COORDINATION AND EXTERNAL RELATIONS IN THE BUREAU OF POPULATION, REFUGEES AND MIGRATION, TO NEW YORK ON JUNE 12 TO MEET WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UN OFFICE FOR THE COORDINATION OF HUMANITARIAN AFFAIRS (OCHA). [...] | 2007-06-08 22:04:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM PREF |
07USUNNEWYORK468 | UN SEEKS INSTRUCTIONS TO DEPOSIT BALANCE OF FUNDS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-11 20:23:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UN AFIN AORC KUNR |
07USUNNEWYORK47 | SIERRA LEONE SPECIAL COURT CONFIRMS RECEIPT OF [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-23 22:06:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN UN |
07USUNNEWYORK470 | UNHCHR ARBOUR UNSC BRIEFING ON GREAT LAKES REGION [...] (U) Summary: UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Arbour briefed the UN Security Council on her recent mission to the Great Lakes region. Noting she had addressed the Peacebuilding Commission on Burundi the previous day, Arbour focused her remarks on conditions in the Democratic Republic o [...] | 2007-06-12 16:35:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | BY CG KAWC KWMN PHUM PREL RW UG XA ZF ZU |
07USUNNEWYORK473 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR S/WCI AMBASSADOR [...] In response to reference (a),country clearance is granted for Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues J. Clint Williamson and Special Assistants Matthew Lavine and Brendan Doherty to meet with tribunal officials on June 18, 2007 and to observe the June 18 UNSC tribunal session. The June 1 [...] | 2007-06-12 21:46:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | ABUD BK KAWC OTRA UN |
07USUNNEWYORK48 | UNCDF ACKNOWLEDGES RECEIPT OF U.S. CONTRIBUTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-23 22:07:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN UNCDF |
07USUNNEWYORK483 | UN ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE REFORM PLAN: AMBITIOUS [...] This is an action request - please see para 8. ------- Summary ------- 2. The two co-chairs of a UN environmental governance reform process released an Options Paper June 14 offering their summary of states' views on micro- and macro-reform, and recommending further action. The co-chai [...] | 2007-06-14 22:22:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK489 | UN RESPONSE TO AMBASSADOR WALLACE'S INQUIRY ON [...] USUN is transmitting a June 5 letter from Assistant Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Jane Holl Lute SIPDIS answering Ambassador Mark Wallace's May 11 inquiry into recent allegations of misconduct at the UN Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT). 2. Text of June 5 letter f [...] | 2007-06-15 20:05:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC KUNR UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK49 | UN/SIERRA LEONE SPECIAL COURT: MANAGEMENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: USUN M/R joined other Sierra Leone Special Court Management Committee members (UK, Canada, Netherlands, Sierra Leone, Nigeria) for a day-long meeting convened January 17 at the UK Mission to assess the more than fifty recommendations to improve efficiency of the Special Court [...] | 2007-01-24 15:56:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC KJUS KDEM PGOV SL XA |
07USUNNEWYORK495 | SECURITY COUNCIL STATEMENTS ON LEBANON [...] (U) During the past week, the Security Council has issued three statements on the situation on Lebanon. The Council issued a press statement June 18 condemning the rocket attack from Lebanon into Israel; a Presidential Statement (PRST) June 13 condemning the assassination of Lebanese parliam [...] | 2007-06-19 00:38:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC IS SY LE |
07USUNNEWYORK498 | SPECIAL COURT FOR SIERRA LEONE - UK DRAFT PRST [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2 below. The UK distributed the draft UNSCR Presidential Statement (PRST) contained in paragraph 3 below to the Special Court for Sierra Leone Management Committee on June 15. The UK indicated that since the June 8 UNSC meeting on the S [...] | 2007-06-20 14:20:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREF PREL |
07USUNNEWYORK50 | UNDP ASSOCIATE ADMINISTRATOR AD MELKERT PROVIDES [...] In a letter dated January 21, 2007, UNDP Associate Administrator Ad Melkert responded to Ambassador Mark Wallace's letter of January 16, 2007. In this letter, the latest in a string of formal communication between USUN and UNDP, Associate Administrator Melkert attempts to explain away USG con [...] | 2007-01-24 16:14:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID KFPC KN KNNP KUNR PINR PREL UNDP |
07USUNNEWYORK504 | MISSION CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR ISN/MNSA OFFICER [...] In response to REFTEL, mission clearance is granted for ISN/MNSA officer William F. Menold Jr. to attend the first one-week session, beginning June 25, of the open-ended working group (OEWG) on convening a fourth special session of the UNGA devoted to disarmament (SSOD IV). 2. UNGA Resolut [...] | 2007-06-21 00:23:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA PARM UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK505 | SECURITY COUNCIL SPLIT OVER SUPPORT FOR ABBAS [...] (SBU) In the monthly briefing to the Security Council on the situation in the Middle East, Michael Williams, the recently appointed UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process, said the Middle East was in a time of crisis. Williams focused his briefing on recent events in Gaza and [...] | 2007-06-21 00:58:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAL LE SY IS |
07USUNNEWYORK507 | INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL FOR RWANDA (ICTR)- [...] Amb. Gerald Scott, USUN Senior Area Adviser for Africa,and USUN Legal Adviser Carolyn Willson met on June 21 with Rwanda's Prosecutor General Martin Ngoga and the GOR's representative to the ICTR, Mutabingwa Alloys, at their request, to discuss Rwanda's role in the ICTR's completion strateg [...] | 2007-06-22 19:55:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | KAWC KJUS PREF PREL ZF RW |
07USUNNEWYORK509 | UN/COTE D'IVOIRE SANCTIONS: COUNCIL UNANIMOUSLY [...] (U) On June 20 the UN Security Council unanimously adopted resolution 1761 (2007)--full text in para 2--renewing the mandate of the Cote d,Ivoire Group of Experts until October 31, 2007. The UN sanctions related to Cote d,Ivoire--an arms embargo, a ban on the import of Ivorian diamonds, and a [...] | 2007-06-22 22:23:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | CI PREL UNSC ETTC PGOV |
07USUNNEWYORK510 | UN/DPRK SANCTIONS: SANCTIONS COMMITTEE ADOPTS [...] (U) On June 20 the Committee concerning the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea (DPRK),established pursuant to resolution 1718 (2006),convened for a formal meeting to adopt Committee Guidelines (see full text in para 3 below). Italian PermRep and Chairman of the Committee Marcello Sp [...] | 2007-06-22 22:56:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC PHUM ETTC MCAP KN |
07USUNNEWYORK511 | RUSSIA DENIES PROTECTION OF VLASTIMIR DJORDJEVIC [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Security Council (SC) met June 18 for a briefing on the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR). The President and Prosecutor of each tribunal made a statement, as did representatives from all [...] | 2007-06-22 23:28:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | ICTY PHUM PREL |
07USUNNEWYORK514 | BOARD OF AUDITORS REPORT ON STATUS OF UN CAPITAL [...] A well placed UN official shared with USUN M&R Ambassador Wallace a copy of a soon to be released report by the UN Board of Auditors (BOA) on the US $1.9 billion Capital Master Plan project. The report, expected to be released in two weeks, states that the project has been delayed by nearly a [...] | 2007-06-25 15:41:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC KUNR UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK516 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR OPEN ENDED INFORMAL [...] In response to reference A, USUN grants country clearance for all members of the U.S. Delegation to the United Nations Open Ended Informal Consultative Process for Oceans and Law of the Sea in New York from June 25-29, 2007. 2. Unescorted access within USUN is granted only to State Depart [...] | 2007-06-25 18:47:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC ASEC UN |
07USUNNEWYORK519 | 1540: UPDATE ON COMMITTEE ACTIVITIES [...] (SBU) Summary. Per reftel, USUN has solicited views from 1540 Committee Members on how to handle matrices more broadly and with specific regard to Iran. The Chair (Slovakia) has indicated that he intends to hold a meeting in late June to consider formally how matrices are handled. UNODA [...] | 2007-06-25 19:20:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PTER UNSC PARM |
07USUNNEWYORK52 | UN BUDGET: GENERAL ASSEMBLY APPROVES ADDITIONAL [...] SUMMARY: On December 22, 2006, the General Assembly (GA) adopted resolutions related to the program budget for the biennium 2006-2007: "Enhancing the role of the subregional offices of the Economic Commission for Africa" (A/RES/61/234) and "Questions relating to the program budget for the bien [...] | 2007-01-24 16:37:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UNGA AORC KUNR |
07USUNNEWYORK523 | MISSION CLEARANCE FOR USAID/DCHA/DG MS. JULIE [...] USUN WELCOMES MS. JULIE WERBEL, TO NEW YORK ON JUNE 29 TO ATTEND A UN-LED ORGANIZATION FOR ECONOMIC COOPERATION AND DEVELOPMENT (OECD) BREIFING ON ITS RECENTLY PUBLISHED SECURITY SECTOR REFORM HANDBOOK. 2. TED MALY, USUN/ECOSOC, IS THE CONTROL OFFICER. MR. MALY'S DESK PHONE IS 212-415-43 [...] | 2007-06-27 14:31:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM |
07USUNNEWYORK528 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: CHINA/TAIWAN NOMENCLATURE AT [...] Ambassador Wolff delivered reftel demarche June 26 to UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Lynn Pascoe. Pascoe said that he was unaware of recent UN actions referred to in our demarche and of the possible shift in UN treatment of the China/Taiwan nomenclature. He said he would loo [...] | 2007-06-27 21:20:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UNSC PREL |
07USUNNEWYORK53 | UN CAPITAL MASTER PLAN: GENERAL ASSEMBLY APPROVES [...] SUMMARY: After several years of debate over how to finance the project, during which time the cost has significantly increased, the General Assembly (GA) decided that Member States should be directly assessed for their share of the total costs for the UN Capital Master Plan (A/61/251). The G [...] | 2007-01-24 17:01:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC UNGA KUNR |
07USUNNEWYORK532 | UN SECURITY COUNCIL ADOPTS PRESIDENTIAL STATEMENT [...] As instructed in reftel, USUN joined consensus on the UK drafted Presidential Statement (PRST) on the Special Court for Sierra Leone. The PRST was adopted by the UN Security Council on June 28. KHALILZAD [...] | 2007-06-29 14:57:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREF PREL |
07USUNNEWYORK541 | UNSC: U/SYG HOLMES ON PROTECTION OF CIVILIANS IN [...] (U) On June 22, Under Secretary for Humanitarian Affairs John Holmes briefed the Security Council in an open session on the protection of civilians in armed conflict. His remarks included first-hand observations from recent field missions to Chad, Darfur, the Central African Republic, norther [...] | 2007-07-02 17:04:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREF UNSC XA |
07USUNNEWYORK549 | SECURITY COUNCIL VOTES TO TERMINATE UNMOVIC [...] (U) Summary: The Security Council voted June 29 in support of the U.S.-UK resolution to terminate the mandates of UNMOVIC and the IAEA's Iraq Nuclear Verification Office, with 14 members voting in favor and one abstention (Russia). Russian PermRep Churkin attributed Russia's abstention to th [...] | 2007-07-03 20:41:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC IZ |
07USUNNEWYORK55 | ACTION REQUEST:USUN PROPOSED COMMENTS TO UNDP ON [...] Per reftels, UNDP has delivered correspondence to USUN and made public statements on the UNDP DPRK country program. USUN proposes to respond with the letter below from Ambassador Mark Wallace to UNDP Associate Administrator Ad Melkert at opening of business on January 25, prior to the UNDP Ex [...] | 2007-01-24 18:06:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID KFPC KN KNNP KUNC PINR PREL UNDP |
07USUNNEWYORK553 | MISSION CLEARANCE FOR 1540 ASSISTANCE PROVIDER [...] In response to REFTEL, mission clearance is granted for ISN officers Pieter Ott, Yvette Wong, Thomas Wuchte and DoE officer Todd Perry to attend the July 11-12 meeting of the 1540 Assistance Provider Meeting. 2. Control officer will be USUN Mark Groombridge who will join delegates at the [...] | 2007-07-06 15:54:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC KCFE OTRA PARM PREL SC UN WMD |
07USUNNEWYORK568 | UNSC: BRIEFING ON WESTERN SAHARA NEGOTIATIONS; [...] Summary: In a July 11 closed briefing to the Security Council, the Secretary General's Personal Envoy for Western Sahara Peter van Walsum explained that he had included recommendations in his report that were eventually deleted in order to suggest a way for the parties to move beyond "atmosph [...] | 2007-07-12 20:41:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV UNSC MO AG WI |
07USUNNEWYORK574 | WEST AFRICAN STATES ASK FOR HELP IN COMBATING [...] (U) SUMMARY: The UN Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED) held an informal meeting on July 11 to address the technical assistance needs of West African states in fulfilling their counter-terrorism obligations under Security Council resolution 1373. Present at the meeting w [...] | 2007-07-13 19:58:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PTER XY KFTN KCRM |
07USUNNEWYORK576 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR DR. LISA ROTZ AND [...] Country clearance is granted for Dr. Lisa Rotz and Dr. Carol Linden, both of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, to participate as an expert and an observer in an informal technical consultative group in preparation for the development of a single comprehensive database on biolog [...] | 2007-07-13 21:31:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO UN PTER OTRA |
07USUNNEWYORK58 | SPECIAL POLITICAL MISSIONS: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE [...] 1. This is an action request. Please see paragraphs 2 and 13. 2. As reported reftel, the General Assembly (GA) agreed on December 22, 2006 to additional funding for 27 special political missions (SPMs),including the UN missions in Iraq and Afghanistan (A/RES/61/252 Section VII). Howeve [...] | 2007-01-25 15:44:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UNGA AORC KUNR PREL |
07USUNNEWYORK582 | MEETING OF THE COMMITTEE ON RELATIONS WITH THE [...] Summary. On July 9, 2007 the Committee on Relations with the Host Country convened its 233rd meeting to address, inter alia, Host Country travel regulations, acceleration of immigration and customs procedures, and entry visas issued by the Host Country. Briefly mentioned were New York,s con [...] | 2007-07-17 11:48:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | OFDP UN CVIS SY |
07USUNNEWYORK583 | UN/COTE D'IVOIRE: COUNCIL ADOPTS RESOLUTION 1765 [...] The UN Security Council unanimously adopted resolution 1765 (2007) on July 16, renewing the mandate of the UN Operation in Cote d'Ivoire (UNOCI) until January 15, 2008. The resolution requests UNOCI to support the implementation of the Ouagadougou Political Agreement and encourages the Facilit [...] | 2007-07-17 16:17:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | CI PREL UNSC KPKO PGOV |
07USUNNEWYORK584 | UN NAMES CMP EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR [...] (U) On Monday, July 2, 2007, Ban Ki Moon announced Michael Adlerstein as Executive Director of the Capital Master Plan, the $1.9 billion renovation project of the United Nations New York headquarters complex. The project will extend over the next several years. Adlerstein, a Harvard trained arc [...] | 2007-07-17 21:21:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC KUNR UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK586 | MISSION CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR ISN/MNSA OFFICER [...] Mission clearance is granted for ISN/MNSA officer Alexander T. Liebowitz to attend the second one-week session, beginning July 30, of the Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG) on convening a fourth special session of the UNGA devoted to disarmament (SSOD IV). 2. USUN POC is Bridget Lines at 212 [...] | 2007-07-18 14:13:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA PARM UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK588 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE: JOHN SANDAGE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-18 19:44:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC PTER UNSC |
07USUNNEWYORK592 | UN BOARD OF AUDITORS SKIRTS SERIOUS REVIEW OF UNDP [...] At the insistence of one member of the ACABQ (rumored to be the French member),the ACABQ met with the Board of Auditors (BOA) to discuss the Board's response to ACABQ's request to complete the audit of the UN's voluntarily funded programs in the DPRK. The US member and others made clear dur [...] | 2007-07-20 17:44:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | ACABQ AID AORC KUNR UNDP UNFPA UNICEF UNOPS |
07USUNNEWYORK602 | UN ACKNOWLEDGES RECEIPT OF U.S. CONTRIBUTIONS FOR [...] USUN has received official receipts from the United Nations dated May 31, 2007 acknowledging receipt of U.S. contributions for the following: UNDOF $ 5,198,550 UNIFIL 52,304,550 MINURSO 3,705,000 UNOMIG 2,539,466 UNFICYP 3,177,856 ICTY 2,680,06 [...] | 2007-07-24 20:12:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN ABUD UN |
07USUNNEWYORK603 | UNEP REQUEST PAYMENT OF $205,200 TO THE REGIONAL [...] USUN has faxed to EUR-IO/EX/FM-Alice Green a copy of an official note and invoice dated July 4, 2007 requesting payment of $205,200 for 2007 to the Regional Trust Fund for the Implementation of the Action Plan for the Caribbean Environment Programme (CEP),of the United Nations Environment P [...] | 2007-07-24 20:13:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN UNEP |
07USUNNEWYORK605 | DPRK ATTEMPTS TO INSCRIBE AN ANTI-JAPAN ITEM ON [...] (U) SUMMARY: THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY (UNGA) DECIDED, ON JULY 24, NOT TO INSCRIBE A NEW ITEM ENTITLED, "CONTEMPORARY FORMS OF XENOPHOBIA" ON ITS CURRENT AGENDA. ADDITION OF THE ITEM HAD BEEN REQUESTED BY THE DEMOCRATIC PEOPLES REPUBLIC OF KOREA (DPRK) WHICH SUBMITTED A MEMO CLAIMING THAT A NE [...] | 2007-07-24 22:34:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC KN JA |
07USUNNEWYORK607 | UN/SIERRA LEONE SPECIAL COURT: MANAGEMENT [...] USUN has received a letter dated July 10, 2007 (full text - para 2) from Canadian Ambassador John McNee, current Chairman of the Sierra Leone Special Court Management Committee, addressed to Ambassador Khalilzad seeking additional U.S. financial support for the Special Court. The Special Cou [...] | 2007-07-25 16:21:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC KJUS KDEM PGOV SL XA |
07USUNNEWYORK608 | UNEP ACKNOWLEDGES RECEIPT OF U.S. CONTRIBUTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-25 18:48:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN UNEP |
07USUNNEWYORK609 | UNEP REQUEST PAYMENT OF $59 MILLION TO THE TRUST [...] USUN has faxed to EUR-IO/EX/FM-Alice Green a copy of an official note and invoice requesting payment of $59,152,371.34 to the Trust Fund for the Multilateral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer of the United Nations Environment Progr [...] | 2007-07-25 18:49:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN UNEP |
07USUNNEWYORK615 | UNRWA ACKNOWLEDGES RECEIPT OF U.S. CONTRIBUTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-26 19:43:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN UNRWA |
07USUNNEWYORK618 | UNSC: JULY MIDDLE EAST BRIEFING/CONSULTATIONS [...] Summary: In his July Middle East Security Council briefing, UN Special Coordinator (UNSCO) Michael Williams highlighted both the positive and negative developments in the region over the past month. Positive developments include the release of BBC journalist Alan Johnston, renewed contact b [...] | 2007-07-27 15:29:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV UNSC |
07USUNNEWYORK62 | UNSC: JANUARY MIDDLE EAST BRIEFING [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-25 23:33:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV UNSC |
07USUNNEWYORK629 | UN/SIERRA LEONE SPECIAL COURT: MANAGEMENT [...] USUN has received a letter dated July 10, 2007 (full text - para 2) from Canadian Ambassador John McNee, current Chairman of the Sierra Leone Special Court Management Committee, addressed to Ambassador Khalilzad seeking additional U.S. financial support for the Special Court. The Special Cou [...] | 2007-07-31 21:25:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC KJUS KDEM PGOV SL XA |
07USUNNEWYORK630 | UNSC: QATAR AND INDONESIA DROP GAZA PRST [...] (SBU) Qatar and Indonesia formally abandoned July 30 an effort to push a UNSC Presidential Statement expressing concern about the humanitarian situation in Gaza, including a call to open the border crossings, after USUN advised the Council we would not be able to support the statement. USUN [...] | 2007-08-01 00:33:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPAL ID QA |
07USUNNEWYORK639 | RESOLUTION ON REVITALIZATION PASSES BY CONSENSUS [...] Requests the Secretary-General to submit an update to his report on the implementation of resolutions on the revitalization of the work of the General Assembly, in particular resolutions 58/126, 58/316, 59/313, 60/286 and the present resolution, at its sixty-second session; 2. Decides to [...] | 2007-08-03 18:03:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UNGA KUNR AORC |
07USUNNEWYORK640 | ACABQ COMPLETES REVIEW OF SYG'S PROPOSED BUDGET [...] Summary: The Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ) held its spring session May 15 - July 27 2007. The session primarily focused on the Secretary General's proposed budget for the biennium 2008-2009 (A/62/6). It held extensive hearings with Secretariat offici [...] | 2007-08-03 22:33:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK644 | UN REQUESTS PAYMENT OF U.S. ASSESSMENTS FOR TWELVE [...] USUN has emailed to Department (IO/PSC-Douglas Wake and EUR-IO/EX/FM-Alice Green) a copy of a note and four related annexes from the SYG dated July 31, 2007 concerning the financing of 15 peacekeeping operations. Annex One contains current amounts payable by the U.S. Government for 12 operat [...] | 2007-08-06 21:42:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN UN |
07USUNNEWYORK646 | UN/SIERRA LEONE SPECIAL COURT: COURT PRESIDENT [...] SUMMARY: Sierra Leone Special Court President Judge George Galaga King told members of the Special Court Management Committee via telephone on August 2 that motions from the defense teams in both the Charles Taylor case and the AFRC appeal seeking additional time to prepare, if approved by th [...] | 2007-08-07 19:05:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC KJUS KDEM PGOV SL XA |
07USUNNEWYORK647 | USUN MEETS WITH NEW CMP EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-07 19:56:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC KUNR UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK648 | CLIMATE CHANGE: GENERAL ASSEMBLY DEBATE ATTESTS TO [...] Nearly 100 member states delivered remarks during the July 31-August 2 informal thematic debate of the General Assembly on climate change. The theme of "common but differentiated responsibilities" ran through the speeches with developed countries pledging continued reductions of greenhouse gas [...] | 2007-08-07 23:40:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON SENV KGHG UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK650 | MISSION CLEARANCE FOR LIBERIA SSR TEAM [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-08 21:18:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRS UN YI PREL |
07USUNNEWYORK655 | UN REQUEST PAYMENT OF U.S. ASSESSMENT FOR UNMEE [...] USUN has emailed to Department EUR-IO/EX/FM-Alice Green a copy of a note dated August 9, 2007 from the UN Secretary-General requesting payment of the U.S. assessed SIPDIS contribution to the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) for the period from July 1, 2007 to January [...] | 2007-08-09 20:32:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN UN |
07USUNNEWYORK660 | UN/DRC SANCTIONS: COUNCIL UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTS [...] The UN Security Council unanimously adopted resolution 1771 on August 10, renewing the sanctions regime in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) for six months. The sanctions consist of an arms embargo on non-governmental armed groups, and an international travel ban and assets freeze on [...] | 2007-08-10 20:44:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | DRC PREL UNSC ETTC |
07USUNNEWYORK662 | UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY WORKING GROUP TO CONSIDER [...] This is an action request. Please see paragraph 5. 2. Summary: On Friday, August 3, 2007, Ambassador Wallace delivered a strong statement at the meeting of the GA Ad Hoc Working Group on Assistance and Support to Victims of Sexual Exploitation and Abuse (SEA) (by UN staff or related pers [...] | 2007-08-10 22:32:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC ASIG KTIA KUNR PGOV PREL UNSC UN |
07USUNNEWYORK672 | POST CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR TRAVEL TO USUN [...] (U) Post clearance is granted per reftel request for travel to USUN on Thursday, August 16, for consultations on UNSCR 1769 and related issues. 2. (U) The tentative schedule for reftel delegation includes 0900-1200 DPKO meetings, a 1400-1530 UN Force Generation Service meeting, a 15:45-16:4 [...] | 2007-08-15 16:22:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL SU UNSC KPKO |
07USUNNEWYORK673 | UNEP REQUEST PAYMENT OF $834,302 TO THE TRUST FUND [...] USUN has faxed to EUR-IO/EX/FM-Alice Green a copy of an official note and invoice requesting payment of $834,302 to the Trust Fund for the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer, of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). As of July 26, 2007 payments owed are as fol [...] | 2007-08-15 18:32:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN UNEP |
07USUNNEWYORK674 | UNEP REQUEST PAYMENT OF $4.2 MILLION TO THE TRUST [...] USUN has faxed to EUR-IO/EX/FM-Alice Green a copy of an official note and invoice requesting payment of $4,211,476 to the Trust Fund for the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer (MP),of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). As of July 25, 2007 payments owe [...] | 2007-08-15 18:32:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN UNEP |
07USUNNEWYORK675 | UNRWA ACKNOWLEDGES RECEIPT OF U.S. CONTRIBUTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-15 20:09:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN UNRWA |
07USUNNEWYORK677 | UNEP ACKNOWLEDGES RECEIPT OF U.S. CONTRIBUTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-15 23:05:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN UNEP |
07USUNNEWYORK678 | UN ACKNOWLEDGES RECEIPT OF U.S. CONTRIBUTIONS FOR [...] USUN has received official receipts from the United Nations dated June 29, 2007 confirming receipt of U.S. contributions for the following: Receipt No. Mission Amount($) ----------- ------- ---------- B072563 MINURSO 1,852,500 B072564 UN [...] | 2007-08-15 23:05:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN UN |
07USUNNEWYORK688 | NETHERLANDS AGREES TO HOST SPECIAL TRIBUNAL FOR [...] (U) The UN Secretariat announced on August 17 that UN Secretary-General Ban had received a letter dated August 15 SIPDIS from Prime Minister Jan Balkenende informing him that the Government of the Netherlands is "favorably disposed" to hosting the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, created pursu [...] | 2007-08-17 22:24:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PTER UNSC SY LE NE |
07USUNNEWYORK69 | ECOSOC 2007 ORGANIZATIONAL SESSION: AGENDA [...] Summary: See Action request para 6. The Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) met January 17 and 22 for the first segment of its 2007 Organizational Session. After prolonged discussion in the second (exceptional) meeting of the session, the agenda we sought was adopted. Work on the core eleme [...] | 2007-01-29 17:13:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EFIN KUNR ECOSOC |
07USUNNEWYORK697 | OLA LEGAL COUNSEL TO TRAVEL TO THE NETHERLANDS TO [...] Begin Summary: UN Legal Counsel Nicolas Michel will lead a high-level UN delegation to the Netherlands in the next two weeks to discuss practical arrangements for the Netherlands to host the Special Tribunal for Lebanon, Michel's Special Assistant Mark Quarterman advised USUN August 21. The [...] | 2007-08-22 23:45:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PTER UNSC KCRM SY LE NE |
07USUNNEWYORK70 | 1540 COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN PROPOSES DIFFERENT [...] BEGIN SUMMARY: At its informal meeting January 24, the 1540 Committee discussed, but did not reach decisions on several topics: (1) candidates to fill three current vacancies on the Committee's experts' panel; (2) disposition of the contracts of the Committee's five current experts (ref B),[...] | 2007-01-29 17:46:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UNSC PTER PREL KNNP |
07USUNNEWYORK700 | 1540: UN SUBCOMMITTEE DEFERS CONSIDERATION OF [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 7. 2. (U) At an August 21 meeting, Sub-Committee B of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004) ("1540 Committee") agreed to defer consideration of a matrix assessing Iran's implementation of resolution 1 [...] | 2007-08-23 22:03:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AORC KPAO PTER UNSC KNNP |
07USUNNEWYORK704 | UNSC UNANIMOUSLY EXTENDS UNIFIL'S MANDATE AMID [...] (U) The UN Security Council unanimously approved resolution 1773 on 24 August 2007 to extend the mandate of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) until 31 August 2008. (Note: The full text of the resolution is contained in reftel and can be found on the UN website. End Note.) [...] | 2007-08-24 22:25:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KPKO UNSC IS LE |
07USUNNEWYORK706 | USUN: AMBASSADOR KHALILZAD'S ABSENCE FROM POST [...] Ambassador Khalilzad temporarily departed post on Friday, August 24, 2007 at 1915 local time. Deputy Permanent Representative Alejandro Wolff has assumed charge. 2. Ambassador Khalilzad will return to New York on Tuesday, September 4, 2007. WOLFF [...] | 2007-08-25 00:08:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AFIN AMGT OVIP |
07USUNNEWYORK71 | WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT AND THE UN PEACEBUILDING [...] (SBU) Summary. Senior Advisor to the Secretary for Women's Empowerment Shirin Tahir-Kheli called upon UN Assistant Secretary-General Carolyn McAskie, who heads the recently created Peacebuilding Support Office of the UN Peacebuilding Commission (PBC). McAskie commended the Secretary's outre [...] | 2007-01-29 21:52:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN KPAO UNGA PHUM PREL BY |
07USUNNEWYORK717 | MONTHLY UNSC MIDEAST DEBATE: CAUTIOUS OPTIMISM FOR [...] (U) Summary. During a seven-hour monthly UNSC debate on the Middle East on August 29 featuring over 30 speakers, UNSCO Michael Williams professed "guarded optimism" about recent developments in the Arab-Israeli peace process but was decidedly downcast about the reality on the ground. Amb Wol [...] | 2007-08-30 22:20:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PTER UNSC KPKO KPAL KWBG SY LE IS |
07USUNNEWYORK727 | INSTRAW VOLUNTARY FUNDING REQUEST [...] (U) Summary: Mission received the following note dated August 23, 2007, from the Permanent Representative of Honduras to the United Nations addressed to Amb. Khalizad, raising the need for voluntary funding for the United Nations International Research and Training Institute for the Advancemen [...] | 2007-09-06 19:48:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | SOCI EAID KWMN UN |
07USUNNEWYORK733 | UN A/S MULET BRIEFS ON UNMIS, EXPRESSES CONCERN ON [...] (U) SUMMARY. New Assistant Secretary for Peacekeeping Operations Edmond Mulet delivered two separate briefings to the UNSC on September 7 regarding recent developments with the UN Mission in the Sudan (UNMIS) and Mission of the United Nations in the Democratic Republic of Congo (MONUC). Follow [...] | 2007-09-08 00:14:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL UNSC CG SU |
07USUNNEWYORK736 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST GRANTED FOR DEPT. OF [...] Country clearance is granted for the following personnel to travel to New York for the meetings described in paragraph 2 of reftel. John B. Sandage Chief, Counterterrorism and Sanctions Policy Bureau of International Organization Affairs Department of State Arrives o/a September 10, depar [...] | 2007-09-10 19:09:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER UNSC |
07USUNNEWYORK740 | UN REQUESTS PAYMENT OF U.S. ASSESSMENTS FOR UN [...] USUN has faxed to Department (IO/PSC-David Leis and EUR-IO/EX/FM-Alice Green) a copy of a note and attachment dated August 31, 2007 from the Secretary-General requesting payment of U.S. assessed contributions to the UN Regular Budget and the Capital Master Plan which remain outstanding in the [...] | 2007-09-11 21:47:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN UN |
07USUNNEWYORK741 | 62ND UNGA PRESIDENT PLANS FOR TAIWAN ISSUE [...] Action Request Para 5. 2. Summary. UN General Assembly President-elect H.E. Mr. Srgjan Kerim convened informal consultations of the 62nd UNGA General Committee on September 6 to discuss procedures for considering the request for inscription of a new agenda item on Taiwan. The Chinese ur [...] | 2007-09-11 23:09:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | TW UNGA XE ZO |
07USUNNEWYORK744 | UNSC: U/SYG HOLMES ON HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IN DR [...] (U) Summary. On September 11, UN Under Secretary for Humanitarian Affairs John Holmes briefed the Security Council in a closed session on the humanitarian situation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Based on his recent field visit to DRC, Holmes outlined continuing humanitarian [...] | 2007-09-12 21:58:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREF UNSC CG XA |
07USUNNEWYORK747 | SYG BAN BRIEFS THE COUNCIL ON UN/AU POL PROCESS, [...] (U) SUMMARY: SYG Ban Ki-Moon briefed the UNSC September 12 on his recent travels to Sudan, Chad and Libya and provided an update on UNAMID deployment. SYG Ban asked for UNSC members to support the planned meeting between the Government of National Unity (GNU) and the Darfur rebel groups to be [...] | 2007-09-13 14:24:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL UNSC SU |
07USUNNEWYORK75 | UNSC/PBC: CONSULTATIONS ON THE PEACEBUILDING [...] (U) Summary. The Security Council held closed consultations on the Peacebuilding Commission (PBC) on Tuesday, January 23, in advance of the January 31 open debate. The Russians, as Council President for January, sought to use the Council's engagement this month to exert leadership over a bod [...] | 2007-01-31 14:24:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON UNSC KPKO |
07USUNNEWYORK752 | 1540: COMMITTEE DISCUSSES WEBSITE, OUTREACH [...] BEGIN SUMMARY: At an informal meeting September 12 of the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004) ("1540 Committee"),Slovak PermRep and Chairman Peter Burian announced that interested delegations were discussing proposals for reaching agreement on the langu [...] | 2007-09-14 13:46:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC PREL PTER UNSC KNNP |
07USUNNEWYORK757 | SECURITY COUNCIL EXTENDS TERMS OF RWANDA AND [...] The Security Council, September 14, adopted resolutions extending the terms of the Prosecutors for the International Tribunals for Rwanda (ICTR) and Yugoslavia (ICTY). Resolution 1774 (ref A),which re-appointed Hassan Jallow as ICTR Prosecutor for a four year term, was adopted unanimously. [...] | 2007-09-14 21:56:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | ICTY PHUM PREL UNSC ICTR |
07USUNNEWYORK759 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE: PAUL DERGARABEDIAN AND BRUCE [...] (U) Country Clearance request (reftel) granted for Paul Dergarabedian, Office of Terrorist Financing and Financial Crime, Department of the Treasury and Bruce Miller, DHS, Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, to lead a training workshop on trade-based issues involving money launderin [...] | 2007-09-17 15:27:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER KTFN PREL UNSC |
07USUNNEWYORK77 | UNSCR 1373: NEW CTC CHAIRMAN SEEKS U.S. INPUT [...] (SBU) BEGIN SUMMARY: At a January 29 meeting with newly appointed Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) Chairman, Panamanian PermRep Ricardo Arias, Ambassador Wolff and Ambassador Sanders offered U.S. views on the CTC's work and expressed support for Arias's leadership. END SUMMARY. 2. (SBU [...] | 2007-01-31 16:32:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PTER UNSC |
07USUNNEWYORK771 | PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES FOR THE AFRICAN UNION [...] Unclassified - entire text. 2. Ambassador Khalilzad has received a September 18 letter from AU Permanent Observer Ratsifandrihamanana requesting reinstatement of certain diplomatic privileges and immunities that the African Union (then the Organization of African Unity) lost in 1996. [...] | 2007-09-20 14:02:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | OFDP UN |
07USUNNEWYORK773 | UN DEBATE ON TAIWAN MEMBERSHIP [...] (U) Summary: When determining the agenda for the 62nd UN General Assembly September 19, the General Committee considered whether to include the agenda item "Urging the Security Council to process Taiwan's membership application pursuant to provision rules of procedure 59 and 60." Following a [...] | 2007-09-20 21:10:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNGA CH TW |
07USUNNEWYORK776 | MISSION CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE [...] Mission clearance is granted for Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Chief, Ambassador John J. Danilovich, Maureen Harrington, Vice President, Policy and International Relations, Jaroslav Dutkewych, Director, Country Relations; and Richard Biro, Chauffeur, for consultations at the UN with [...] | 2007-09-21 13:56:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | ADM AMGT EAID RSO UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK78 | UN CAPITAL MASTER PLAN: MORATORIUM ON GIFTS DURING [...] SUMMARY: USUN has received the following diplomatic note dated 10 January 2007 from the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Management noting that there will be a moratorium on gifts during the Capital Master Plan implementation period. Full text of note is below. 2. Begin Text: [...] | 2007-01-31 20:46:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UNGA AORC KUNR |
07USUNNEWYORK781 | SEPTEMBER MIDDLE EAST BRIEFING: COUNCIL FOCUSES ON [...] Summary: In delivering the UN's monthly briefing on the situation in the Middle East on September 20, U/SYG Lynn Pascoe characterized the continuing Olmert/Abbas dialogue, Secretary Rice's current trip to the Middle East and Quartet SIPDIS Representative Tony Blair's work as elements of a g [...] | 2007-09-21 17:23:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV UNSC |
07USUNNEWYORK782 | 62ND UNGA ADOPTS THE REPORT OF THE GENERAL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-21 17:36:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNGA PHUM CH TW |
07USUNNEWYORK786 | UNGA KEEPS TAIWAN UN MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION OFF [...] (U) Summary: The UN General Assembly met in plenary session September 21 to consider the report of the UN General Committee containing its recommendations for the agenda of the new (62nd) UNGA session which opened September 18. The General Committee had decided not to inscribe the agenda it [...] | 2007-09-22 01:00:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNGA CH TW |
07USUNNEWYORK788 | UN REQUESTS PAYMENT OF U.S. ASSESSMENT FOR UNIFIL [...] USUN has emailed to Department (IO/PSC-Tammy Pomerleau and EUR-IO/EX/FM-Alice Green a copy of a note dated September 11, 2007 from the UN Secretary-General requesting payment of the U.S. assessed SIPDIS contribution to the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) for the period Sep [...] | 2007-09-24 19:09:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN UN |
07USUNNEWYORK79 | UN REQUESTS PAYMENT OF U.S. ASSESSMENTS FOR 14 [...] USUN has faxed to Department (IO/MPR-David Leis and EUR-IO/EX/FM-Alice Green) a copy of a note and three related annexes from the SYG dated January 31, 2007 concerning the financing of 14 peacekeeping operations. Annex One contains current amounts payable by the U.S. Government as follows: [...] | 2007-01-31 23:49:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN UN |
07USUNNEWYORK794 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST: CONSTANCE ARVIS TO [...] Country Clearance request (reftel) granted for Constance Arvis, Deputy Director for Law of the Sea, Office of Oceans Affairs to visit USUN, New York to attend the UNGA negotiations on the Oceans Omnibus Resolution to be held from September 30 to October 6, 2007. 2 POC is James Donovan at [...] | 2007-09-25 13:47:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC ASEC EFIS EWWT UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK80 | UN REQUESTS USG VIEWS ON PROPOSED CONVENTIONAL [...] USUN has received the following diplomatic note dated 16 January 2007 from the United Nations Department of Disarmament Affairs (DDA) requesting Member State input on a "comprehensive, legally binding instrument establishing common international standards for the import, export, and transfer [...] | 2007-01-31 23:49:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PARM KTIA UN |
07USUNNEWYORK803 | UN/CMP REVISITS SINGLE PHASED APPROACH TO UN [...] This is an action cable see paragraph 8. 2. The CMP renovation project is reportedly over budget by $220 million. Over the past two weeks, senior level officers within the UN Secretariat, including the UN's Capital Master Plan Office, have told State Department officials and representative [...] | 2007-09-28 17:03:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | ABUD ACABQ AORC UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK81 | INVITATION TO FRB CHAIRMAN BERNANKE TO ADDRESS THE [...] Action request. USUN received January 29 the following letter from Ambassador Dalius Cekuolis (Lithuania),incoming President of The UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC),inviting Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke to deliver a keynote address to the UN Economic and Social Council on the su [...] | 2007-01-31 23:49:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECOSOC |
07USUNNEWYORK818 | USUN REQUESTS GUIDANCE FROM DEPARTMENT ON THE UN [...] This is an action cable. See paragraph 2. 2. The UN Secretary General's proposed budget for the 2008-2009 biennium is $4.4 billion. This represents a 5% increase over the previous budget of $4.2 billion for the 2006-2007 biennium. In addition to the proposals contained in the proposed prog [...] | 2007-10-05 20:13:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | ACABQ AORC UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK829 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR US DELEGATION TO [...] In response to reftel, USUN grants country clearance for the five (5) individuals listed in para 2 below to attend the 62nd informal consultations on the UNGA sustainable fisheries resolution to be held at the United Nations headquarters October 8-11 and November 11-22. 2. Begin list: [...] | 2007-10-08 19:21:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA PHSA EFIS |
07USUNNEWYORK838 | MISSION CLEARANCE GRANTED TO IO/PSC JOHN SANDAGE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-09 22:11:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC KUNR PREL PTER |
07USUNNEWYORK844 | UNICEF ACKNOWLEDGES RECEIPT OF U.S. CONTRIBUTIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-10 18:09:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN UN |
07USUNNEWYORK845 | UN ACKNOWLEDGES RECEIPT OF U.S. CONTRIBUTION TO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-10 18:09:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN UN |
07USUNNEWYORK847 | UNEP ACKNOWLEDGES RECEIPT OF U.S. CONTRIBUTIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-10 18:10:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN UNEP |
07USUNNEWYORK85 | UN REQUESTS PAYMENT OF U.S. ASSESSMENTS FOR 14 [...] USUN has faxed to Department (IO/MPR-David Leis and EUR-IO/EX/FM-Alice Green) a copy of a note and three related annexes from the SYG dated January 31, 2007 concerning the financing of 14 peacekeeping operations. Annex One contains current amounts payable by the U.S. Government as follows: [...] | 2007-01-31 23:49:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN UN |
07USUNNEWYORK851 | UNGA HIGH LEVEL DIALOGUE ON INTERRELIGIOUS AND [...] (U) Summary: Speakers at a UN General Assembly High-Level Dialogue on Interreligious and Intercultural Understanding and Cooperation for Peace, Oct. 4-8, stressed the value of dialogue and education in overcoming misunderstanding and the importance of respecting basic freedoms, particularly fr [...] | 2007-10-11 13:39:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KIRF AORC UNGA XF XC XD NU CU |
07USUNNEWYORK852 | UN BRIEFS SECURITY COUNCIL MEMBERS ON LEBANON [...] Summary: The UN is moving to appoint the principal officers of the Lebanon Tribunal during October and November. UN Legal Counsel told Security Council members that a mechanism has been set up to identify the Tribunal Prosecutor and Judges before the end of the year. He explained that the [...] | 2007-10-11 13:59:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM KJUS LE PREL SY |
07USUNNEWYORK857 | MISSION CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR UNGA SESSION GRANTED [...] Mission clearance is granted for the following individuals for the UNGA session in New York at the US Mission. Ambassador Grover Joseph Rees Linda Lum - IO/RHS Thomas Johnson - IO/RHS Paul Birdsall - IO/RHS Douglas Rohn - IO/RHS Monika Meta - IO/RHS Elizabeth Wepler - IO/RHS Nicholas Ka [...] | 2007-10-11 22:35:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | ADM AMGT EAID RSO PHUM PREL UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK86 | UN REQUESTS USG VIEWS ON PROPOSED CONVENTIONAL [...] USUN has received the following diplomatic note dated 16 January 2007 from the United Nations Department of Disarmament Affairs (DDA) requesting Member State input on a "comprehensive, legally binding instrument establishing common international standards for the import, export, and transfer [...] | 2007-01-31 23:49:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PARM KTIA UN |
07USUNNEWYORK860 | UN HOST COUNTRY COMMITTEE MEETING OCTOBER 5, 2007 [...] (U) The 19-member UN Committee on Relations with the Host Country held its 234th meeting on October 5, 2007. USUN Counselor for Host Country Affairs represented the United States. Over a dozen non-Committee Member States participated as observers. There were no requests for specific items [...] | 2007-10-12 19:14:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | OFDP UNAUS IT SU IV |
07USUNNEWYORK865 | UNGA: MOROCCO AND ALGERIA AGREE ON CONSENSUS [...] Summary. The UNGA Fourth Committee adopted its resolution on the Western Sahara by consensus October 15 following Moroccan-Algerian agreement on its text, which showcases support for the negotiating process launched in April, features constructive ambiguity on self-determination, and eschews a [...] | 2007-10-15 20:00:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV UNGA WI MO |
07USUNNEWYORK866 | UNSC 1540 COMMITTEE DISCUSSES OUTREACH ASSISTANCE [...] BEGIN SUMMARY: On October 10 the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1540 (2004)("1540 Committee") discussed a strategy for further outreach and a draft matrix states could use to submit assistance requests. Committee members also welcomed the Committee's October 9 [...] | 2007-10-15 20:30:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UNSC PREL AORC KPAO PTER KNNP |
07USUNNEWYORK870 | PRESENTATION OF ANNUAL RWANDA WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL [...] At a meeting in the plenary of the General Assembly on October 15, 2007, Judges Dennis Byron, President of the ICTR, and Fausto Pocar, President of the ICTY, presented annual reports on the Tribunals. In his remarks to the General Assembly, Judge Byron indicated that the Tribunal's chambers c [...] | 2007-10-16 16:42:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL ICTR ICTY |
07USUNNEWYORK871 | UNGA/C-6:OBSERVER STATUS DRAFT RESOLUTIONS [...] ACTION REQUEST: USUN requests instructions from the Department regarding draft resolutions on observer status in the General Assembly under consideration by the Sixth Committee (paras 2 - 6). Background information on each organization is contained in the UN documents referenced below. The f [...] | 2007-10-16 22:18:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK878 | BOARD OF AUDITORS (BOA) DECIDES NOT TO COMPLETE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-17 22:39:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC KUNR UNDP UNFPA UNGA UNICEF |
07USUNNEWYORK879 | CRIME AND DRUGS DISCUSSED AT UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY [...] (U) Summary: In an Oct.10-11 discussion in the "crime and drugs" segment of the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly (agenda items 106 and 107),speakers outlined current problems and their individual advances in combating crime, corruption and drug trafficking and abuse. Speaking for [...] | 2007-10-17 22:56:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR UNGA XF XR XC |
07USUNNEWYORK88 | INVITATION TO FRB CHAIRMAN BERNANKE TO ADDRESS THE [...] Action request. USUN received January 29 the following letter from Ambassador Dalius Cekuolis (Lithuania),incoming President of The UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC),inviting Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke to deliver a keynote address to the UN Economic and Social Council on the su [...] | 2007-01-31 23:49:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECOSOC |
07USUNNEWYORK880 | UNGA/C6: POSITIVE REACTION TO U.S. COUNTER [...] SUMMARY: Seventy-four delegations addressed the Sixth Committee during the debate on counterterrorism on October 10 - 11. As in previous years, delegations strongly condemned acts of terrorism, called for measures to promote tolerance and eliminate the root causes of terrorism and rejected at [...] | 2007-10-17 23:33:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PTER UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK884 | UNGA/C-6: ADDITIONAL REQUEST FOR OBSERVER STATUS [...] ACTION REQUEST: Reftel requested instructions from the Department regarding observer status requests under consideration by the Sixth Committee. The General Committee will consider the inclusion of an additional item for observer status for the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the G [...] | 2007-10-18 22:57:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK893 | 62ND UNGA GENERAL COMMITTEE - SECOND MEETING [...] At a meeting on October 19, the General Committee recommended to the General Assembly the following action on inscription and allocation of agenda items: (a) Inclusion of an item "Question of the Comorian Island of Mayotte" (A/BUR/62/1) - consideration deferred to the 63rd General Assembly [...] | 2007-10-19 20:37:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK904 | USUN: AMBASSADOR KHALILZAD'S ABSENCE FROM POST [...] Ambassador Khalilzad temporarily departed post on Monday, October 22, 2007 at 2049 local time. Deputy Permanent Representative Alejandro Wolff has assumed charge. WOLFF [...] | 2007-10-23 17:08:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AFIN AMGT OVIP |
07USUNNEWYORK905 | UN: PROPOSED LETTER FROM KEY GENEVA GROUP MEMBERS [...] Following the conclusion of the Geneva Group CLM on October 2, 2007, Stephen Pattison (Director, International Security, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, United Kingdom) and Ambassador Mark Wallace consulted, in their capacity as co-chairs as to what deliverable could be produced from the day' [...] | 2007-10-23 20:13:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC UN UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK907 | UNGA/C-6 ADOPTS OBSERVER STATUS DRAFT RESOLUTIONS [...] The Sixth Committee adopted without a vote the draft resolutions requesting observer status in the General Assembly for the organizations listed in para 2 on October 23, 2007 (refA). Per refB, USUN joined consensus in support of these organizations. Information on the organizations and the [...] | 2007-10-23 22:04:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK910 | MISSION CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR USAID/OFDA OFICIALS [...] Mission clearance is granted for USAID/OFDA Sureka Khandagle, Anita Malley and David Lillie for consultations with USUN and the UN in New York to discuss USAID/OFDA's programs in East Chad and Darfur. 2. USUN Control Officer for the visit is Ted Maly, office 212-415-4398, cell 917-385-847 [...] | 2007-10-24 15:11:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | ADM AMGT EAID RSO UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK912 | LIBYAN MISSION QUESTIONS SECONDARY SCREENING FOR [...] Unclassified - entire text. 2. The Libyan Mission to the UN has sent USUN an October 18 diplomatic note protesting what it characterizes as an instruction from the Department of Homeland Security that nationals of certain countries - including Libya - be subjected to secondary inspection [...] | 2007-10-24 17:11:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | OFDP LY UN |
07USUNNEWYORK914 | UNGA/C-6:ARGUMENTS FOR AND AGAINST A CONVENTION ON [...] During the October 19 debate on diplomatic protection the following delegations addressed the Sixth Committee: Canada (on behalf of CANZ),Norway (on behalf of Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Iceland),Portugal, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Venezuela, China, Poland, Mexico, Germany, Malaysia, Aus [...] | 2007-10-24 22:07:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK915 | UNGA/C-6:PRAISE FOR THE WORK OF UNCITRAL'S 40TH [...] SUMMARY: The UN Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) presented the report of its 40th session to the Sixth Committee on October 22. Twenty-seven delegations addressed the Sixth Committee and took note of UNCITRAL's achievements in harmonizing international trade law. Concerning t [...] | 2007-10-24 22:17:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UNCITRAL UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK916 | USUN: AMB. KHALILZAD'S RETURN TO POST [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-25 13:44:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT AFIN OVIP |
07USUNNEWYORK926 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED:DEMARCHE TO HEADS OF UN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-26 22:25:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC KUNR UNDP UNFPA UNGA UNICEF |
07USUNNEWYORK929 | ACTION REQUEST:RE-APPOINTMENT OF THE USG TO THE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-29 18:31:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC KUNR UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK93 | DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLES: [...] (U) Representatives of the Canadian, Australian, New Zealand, and U.S. Missions met February 1st to discuss the way forward on the looming consultations on the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples ("DRIP"). Though the co-sponsors and the African group have begun meeting to discuss [...] | 2007-02-02 15:32:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL |
07USUNNEWYORK930 | SECURITY COUNCIL UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTS RESOLUTION [...] The UN Security Council unanimously adopted resolution 1782 on October 29, renewing the sanctions regime in Cote d'Ivoire and the mandate of the Group of Experts--the Cote d'Ivoire Sanctions Committee's investigative body--until October 31, 2008. The sanctions consist of an arms embargo, a ba [...] | 2007-10-29 21:01:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | CDI ETTC PGOV PREL UNSC |
07USUNNEWYORK932 | SIERRA LEONE SPECIAL COURT PROSECUTOR MEETS WITH [...] Sierra Leone Special Court Management Committee met, October 25, with Court Prosecutor Stephen Rapp. Rapp, in the U.S. on home leave, had just come from meetings in Ottawa after addressing the Canadian Bar Association. He had also given a speech at UCLA. Rapp reviewed progress on ongoing c [...] | 2007-10-30 21:11:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | KAWC NL PGOV PREL SL |
07USUNNEWYORK935 | 62ND GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTS CUBA EMBARGO [...] (U) On October 30, 2007, the General Assembly (GA) adopted the Cuban-sponsored resolution on the U.S. embargo by a vote of 184-4, with one abstention. The U.S. was joined by Israel, Palau, and the Marshall Islands in voting against it. Micronesia abstained. Albania, El Salvador, and Iraq we [...] | 2007-10-31 17:47:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD PHUM UN CU |
07USUNNEWYORK936 | UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY: SPECIAL RAPPORTEURS ON [...] (U) On October 26, the Third Committee of the General Assembly heard reports from the Special Rapporteurs on Extrajudicial, Summary or Arbitrary Executions; Freedom of Religion or Belief; the Human Rights of Migrants; and the Situation of Human Rights in the DPRK, Burundi and the DRC. The U.S. [...] | 2007-10-31 17:47:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREF UNGA KIRF |
07USUNNEWYORK937 | MEETING WITH RWANDA TRIBUNAL (ICTR) PRESIDENT SIR [...] On Wednesday, October 17, 2007, Ambassador Wallace and USUN Legal Adviser met with Judge Dennis Byron who was in New York to address the General Assembly. Byron was accompanied by Spokesperson of the Tribunal, Roland Kouassi G. Amoussouga. Recognizing the serious violations of humanitarian law [...] | 2007-10-31 19:05:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UN UNGA KJUS KAWC ICTR |
07USUNNEWYORK942 | MISSION CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR IO/EDA STAFF TO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-31 22:59:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT AORC APER |
07USUNNEWYORK943 | UPCOMING ELECTIONS IN THE FIFTH COMMITTEE - [...] This is a guidance request. See para 3. 2. Summary: The Fifth Committee will hold elections on Friday, November 2, 2007, for the following offices: Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ),Committee on Contributions (CoC),Board of Auditors (BoA),United Nati [...] | 2007-11-01 01:55:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK944 | UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY: REPORT ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN [...] (U) Summary: On October 24, Professor John Dugard, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, briefed the Third Committee of the General Assembly on his latest report, UN document A/62/275 of 17 August 2007. Israel called the report one-s [...] | 2007-11-01 13:34:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM UNGA KPAL IS |
07USUNNEWYORK946 | WESTERN SAHARA: SECURITY COUNCIL RENEWS MINURSO [...] The Security Council October 31 adopted a resolution extending the MINURSO (United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara) mandate for a further six months to April 30, 2008. The resolution takes note of the two rounds of negotiations held under the auspices of the Secretary-Ge [...] | 2007-11-01 17:58:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV UNSC WI AG MO |
07USUNNEWYORK947 | KOREAN PENINSULA RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY CONSENSUS [...] (U) Summary. On October 31, 2007, the General Assembly adopted by consensus a resolution on "Peace, Security, and Reunification in the Korean Peninsula," co-sponsored by the Republic of Korea (ROK) and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK). Ambassador Khalilzad delivered the U.S. [...] | 2007-11-01 20:11:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PARM KN KS UN |
07USUNNEWYORK953 | UNGA/C-6: RULE OF LAW DEBATE [...] SUMMARY: Fifty delegations addressed the Sixth Committee during its October 25 - 26 debate on the rule of law at the national and international levels. Many delegations underscored the importance of rule of law activities and their contribution to human rights and international peace and secu [...] | 2007-11-02 18:24:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK955 | DAVID WALKER WINS INDEPENDENT AUDIT ADVISORY [...] (U) Summary: Fifth Committee elections were held on Friday, November 2, 2007. As reported in ref B, the WEOG positions on the Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ) and the Independent Audit Advisory Committee (IAAC) were the only contested elections. All other [...] | 2007-11-02 19:18:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK958 | SPECIAL COURT FOR SIERRA LEONE ACKNOWLEDGES [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-06 19:50:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN UN |
07USUNNEWYORK959 | UNIFEM ACKNOWLEDGES RECEIPT OF U.S. CONTRIBUTIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-06 19:50:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN UNIFEM |
07USUNNEWYORK96 | UN COUNTER-TERRORISM TASK FORCE IN HIGH GEAR [...] Action Requests paras 7 and 8. 2. Summary: In a January 31 meeting with UN Assistant Secretary General Robert Orr, head of the Secretary General's SIPDIS Counter Terrorism Task Force (CTTF),Orr described current activities and future projects of the group. Orr said that he expects t [...] | 2007-02-02 20:56:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PTER |
07USUNNEWYORK960 | UN ACKNOWLEDGES RECEIPT OF U.S. CONTRIBUTION TO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-06 19:51:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN UN |
07USUNNEWYORK961 | UN REQUESTS PAYMENT OF U.S. ASSESSMENTS FOR THREE [...] USUN has faxed to Department (IO/PSC-Tammy Pomerleau and EUR-IO/EX/FM-Alice Green) a copy of a note and three related annexes from the SYG dated October 31, 2007 concerning the financing of three peacekeeping operations. Annex One contains current amounts payable by the U.S. Government as fo [...] | 2007-11-06 19:52:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC AFIN UN |
07USUNNEWYORK967 | UN: ICJ PRESIDENT HIGGINS LOBBIES FOR EQUAL PAY [...] SUMMARY: Justice Rosalyn Higgins, President of the International Court of Justice (ICJ),met on November 2 with Ambassador Wallace to request USG assistance in redressing the "invidious situation" created by the General Assembly's decision in Resolution 61/262 to establish a different pay sca [...] | 2007-11-07 18:06:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNSC UNGA KJUS PGOV |
07USUNNEWYORK968 | UNGA: SIXTH COMMITTEE DEBATES ILC ARTICLES ON [...] SUMMARY: During the October 23 Sixth Committee debate, delegations delivered statements on the consideration of prevention of transboundary harm from harmful activities and allocation of loss in the case of such harm, and the responsibility of States for internationally wrongful acts. The key [...] | 2007-11-07 19:38:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK969 | GENERAL ASSEMBLY DEBATES INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL [...] BEGIN SUMMARY: Judge Philippe Kirsch, President of the International Criminal Court (ICC),presented the Court's annual report at a meeting in the plenary of the General Assembly on November 1, 2007. He briefly outlined recent developments at the Court and spoke about the importance of con [...] | 2007-11-07 19:42:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL UNGA UNSC |
07USUNNEWYORK975 | UN HOST COUNTRY COMMITTEE MEETING OCTOBER 31, 2007 [...] Summary: At its 235th meeting on October 31, 2007, the 19-member UN Committee on Relations with the Host Country adopted the annual draft Report of the Committee summarizing Committee meetings during the previous year and including recommendations and conclusions. USUN Minister-Counselor for H [...] | 2007-11-08 21:34:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | OFDP UN |
07USUNNEWYORK987 | ACTION REQUEST: SIXTH COMMITTEE DRAFT RESOLUTION [...] ACTION REQUEST: USUN requests instructions from the Department to join consensus on the Sixth Committee's draft resolution on Responsibility of States for internationally wrongful acts (agenda item 78) contained in para 3, or substantially similar text. The text of all draft resolutions must [...] | 2007-11-09 19:17:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK988 | ACTION REQUEST: SIXTH COMMITTEE DRAFT RESOLUTION [...] ACTION REQUEST: USUN requests instructions from the Department to join consensus on the Sixth Committee's draft resolution on Criminal accountability of UN officials and experts on mission (agenda item 80) contained in para 3, or substantially similar text. The text of all draft resolutions m [...] | 2007-11-09 19:18:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK989 | ACTION REQUEST: SIXTH COMMITTEE DRAFT OMNIBUS [...] ACTION REQUEST: USUN requests instructions from the Department to join consensus on the Sixth Committee's draft omnibus resolution on the Report of the International Law Commission (agenda item 82) contained in para 3, or substantially similar text. The text of all draft resolutions must be t [...] | 2007-11-09 19:20:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK99 | CTC DEFERS DISCUSSION ON BORDER CONTROL MEETING IN [...] (SBU) BEGIN SUMMARY: Under the new chairmanship of Ambassador Arias of Panama, the Counter-Terrorism Committee (CTC) held its 179th meeting February 1, discussing several topics: 1) the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate's (CTED) preliminary conclusions on its 2006 visits to [...] | 2007-02-05 17:42:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PTER UNSC |
07USUNNEWYORK990 | ACTION REQUEST: SIXTH COMMITTEE DRAFT RESOLUTION [...] ACTION REQUEST: USUN requests instructions from the Department to join consensus on the Sixth Committee's draft resolution on the Charter of the United Nations and on the Strengthening of the Role of the Organization (agenda item 85) contained in para 2, or substantially similar text. The tex [...] | 2007-11-09 19:22:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK991 | ACTION REQUEST: SIXTH COMMITTEE DRAFT RESOLUTION [...] ACTION REQUEST: USUN requests instructions from the Department to join consensus on the Sixth Committee's draft resolution on the UN Programme of Assistance in the Teaching, Study, Dissemination and Wider Appreciation of International Law (agenda item 79) contained in para 3, or substantially [...] | 2007-11-09 19:23:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK992 | ACTION REQUEST: SIXTH COMMITTEE DRAFT RESOLUTION [...] ACTION REQUEST: USUN requests instructions from the Department to join consensus on the Sixth Committee's draft resolution on the consideration of prevention of transboundary harm from hazardous activities and the allocation of loss in the case of such harm (agenda item 84) contained in para 3 [...] | 2007-11-09 19:24:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK993 | ACTION REQUEST: SIXTH COMMITTEE DRAFT RESOLUTION [...] ACTION REQUEST: USUN requests instructions from the Department to join consensus on the Sixth Committee's draft resolution on Diplomatic protection (agenda item 83) contained in para 2, or substantially similar text. The texts of all draft resolutions are due in the Sixth Committee by Novembe [...] | 2007-11-09 19:26:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK994 | ACTION REQUEST: SIXTH COMMITTEE DRAFT RESOLUTION [...] ACTION REQUEST: USUN requests instructions from the Department to join consensus on the Sixth Committee's draft resolution on Measures to eliminate international terrorism (agenda item 108) contained in para 3, or substantially similar text. The texts of all draft resolutions must be tabled b [...] | 2007-11-09 19:30:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UNGA |
07USUNNEWYORK996 | PALESTINIAN COMPLAINT - REMOVAL OF POLICE POST [...] Ambassador Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer of Palestine, called Ambassador Wolff on November 9 to register his concern with the New York Police Department's decision to reduce and then eliminate police coverage in the security booth located in front of the PLO Mission to the UN. Mansour sa [...] | 2007-11-09 19:37:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | OFDP ASEC PLO UN |
07USUNNEWYORK998 | ACTION REQUEST: SIXTH COMMITTEE DRAFT RESOLUTION [...] ACTION REQUEST: USUN requests instructions from the Department to join consensus on the Sixth Committee's draft resolution on the Report of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law on the work of its fortieth session (agenda item 81) contained in para 3, or substantially simila [...] | 2007-11-09 21:08:00 | USUN New York | UNCLASSIFIED | UNGA |
07VALLETTA355 | MALTA ON HUMAN RIGHTS THEMATIC RESOLUTIONS [...] Charge conveyed reftel objectives to MFA Director-General for Political Affairs John Inguanez on August 31st. Inguanez thanked Charge for sharing the U.S. position, which he said would be useful for the "internal EU deliberations" that would precede any decisions. 2. Inguanez noted that the [...] | 2007-09-04 13:51:00 | Embassy Valletta | UNCLASSIFIED | EUN PREL UNGA MT |
07VATICAN108 | FE/BR WINDOW REPLACEMENT [...] The FE/BR windows installed in the ground floor of the Vatican Chancery are deteriorating and three of the thirteen panels have already suffered fogging damage which limits the visibility and light entering through the panels. The FE/BR panels, which were installed in 1993/1994, are reaching t [...] | 2007-07-11 09:23:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED | ABLD AMGT ASEC |
07VATICAN112 | 2007 ANNUAL CHIEF OF MISSION MANAGEMENT CONTROL STATEMENTS [...] As requested in reftel, the following is the Charge D'Affaires' abbreviated management control statement: I certify that the management control responsibilities assigned to me have been carried out. Signed: C. Sandrolini, Charge D'Affaires. 2. Please note that for U.S. Embassy Vatican, th [...] | 2007-07-13 15:05:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED | ABLD AMGT VT |
07VATICAN120 | HOLY SEE: CONFERENCE ON PASTORAL CARE OF SICK ELDERLY [...] Embassy wishes to bring to the attention of relevant USG agencies that we have received information from the Holy See concerning the XXII International Conference on "The Pastoral Care of Sick Elderly People", which will take place in Vatican City's Synod Hall from November 15-17, 2007. The con [...] | 2007-08-24 07:21:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED | SOCI VT |
07VATICAN129 | VATICAN GOES GREEN OVER THE SUMMER [...] Ecology and the environment predominated in material coming out of Rome during the usually languid summer months. At the forefront of " die gr|ne revolution" was Pope Benedict XVI, who before a variety of audiences recalled the Catholic Church's teachings on the right to water, conservation, p [...] | 2007-09-19 17:28:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV VT |
07VATICAN140 | HOLY SEE: FELICE GAER CANDIDACY FOR UN CAT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-01 11:02:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL UNGA UNHRC VT |
07VATICAN144 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO HOLY SEE ON DRAFT RESOLUTION AGAINST [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-05 08:44:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC UN PHUM KWMN SOCI VT |
07VATICAN147 | HOLY SEE REVIEWS CLIMATE CHANGE WITH APEC DIPLOMATS [...] Summary. At an October 8 diplomatic gathering, Charge drew on recent high-level USG statements to provide Holy See and other representatives with a broad view of USG activities addressing climate change and the environment. Holy See deputy FM Parolin confirmed in detail the Holy See's increas [...] | 2007-10-10 16:11:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV APEC VT |
07VATICAN149 | HOLY SEE: INTEREST IN WIREC 2008 [...] Charge d'affaires provided Ref A information October 8 to Dr. Paolo Conversi, the responsible official for multilateral environmental issues in the Holy See's foreign ministry. Conversi was personally very interested but has not yet been able to confirm whether the Vatican wishes to participate [...] | 2007-10-15 14:11:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ENRG EPET SENV SOCI TRGY KPAO KGHG KSCA VT |
07VATICAN161 | RELIGIOUS AND POLITICAL LEADERS GATHER TO ADVANCE WORLD [...] (U) Religious and political leaders from around the world convened in Naples under the auspices of a Catholic non-governmental organization for three days of dialogue and debate on a broad range of issues under the overall theme of "A World without Violence". Among the participants were heads [...] | 2007-11-07 10:16:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KIRF EC IS VT |
07VATICAN175 | NUNS UNITE TO CREATE ANTI-TRAFFICKING NETWORK [...] Summary. More than 30 nuns from 26 countries came together in Rome for a week-long Training Seminar organized by the U.S. Embassy to the Holy See that culminated in the creation of the first-ever international religious network to combat trafficking in persons. The network - "International Ne [...] | 2007-11-23 12:09:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM PHUM KWMN PGOV SMIG OPRC ELAB KOCI |
07VATICAN24 | HOLY SEE: NEW NUNCIO TO SUDAN [...] Pope Benedict XVI has appointed 53 year-old career diplomat, Monsignor Leo Boccardi, as papal nuncio in Sudan. Boccardi replaces Archbishop Dominique Mamberti who became Secretary for Relations with States (i.e., foreign minister) SIPDIS last September. To date, Boccardi has been serving [...] | 2007-01-25 08:52:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PINR KISL SU VT |
07VATICAN25 | HOLY SEE: VISIT OF VIETNAMESE PRIME MINISTER [...] (U) Summary. Vietnamese PM Dung met Pope Benedict XVI and other senior Holy See officials January 25, the first meeting of its kind. The meeting appears to have gone well and there is hope for full diplomatic relations in the near future. The Holy See has sent a steady stream of important vi [...] | 2007-01-26 14:53:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL VT VM |
07VATICAN44 | WOMAN OF COURAGE" - SR. EUGENIA BONETTI - ANTI-TRAFFICKING [...] Sr. Eugenia Bonetti, 67, is a Consolata Missionary sister and director of the anti-trafficking in persons (TIP) office of the Italian Union of Major Superiors (USMI),the umbrella organization for thousands of nuns throughout Italy. Her remarkable courage and commitment to fighting the injusti [...] | 2007-02-14 20:22:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN PHUM PREL KPAO VT |
07VATICAN50 | KEEPING THE VATICAN ENGAGED ON BIOTECH [...] Summary. Dr. Greg Traxler met Vatican officials on February 15 to follow up on his visit in October 2006 as part of Post's biotechnology speaker program (reftel). Traxler met with Monsignor James Reinert of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, and with Archbishop Elio Sgreccia, the P [...] | 2007-03-05 09:48:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAID ECON TBIO VT OIIP |
07VATICAN52 | VATICAN CONFERENCE FOCUSES ON LIFE AS FUNDAMENTAL RIGHT [...] The Vatican's Academy for Life gathered an international group of ethicists and theologians February 23-24 to debate various right-to-life and bioethical issues. Numerous Vatican Curial officials, religious personnel and lay people from all over the world, and Vatican-based media filled t [...] | 2007-03-07 08:02:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED | VT |
07VATICAN56 | HOLY SEE: OES DAS BALTON DISCUSSES OCEANS AND FISHERIES [...] (U) Summary. OES DAS Balton, Dr. Rebecca Lent of NOAA and Deirdre Warner-Kramer of OES shared USG views on oceans, fisheries, and related topics with Paolo Conversi, the Holy See official covering those subjects, during a productive meeting in Rome March 9. Conversi appreciated that the USG sh [...] | 2007-03-15 14:41:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SENV VT |
07VATICAN97 | EMBASSY VATICAN LINKS NGO SANT'EGIDIO WITH AFRICAN BUREAU [...] (SBU) Post hosted a digital video conference (DVC) May 25, linking the Community of Sant'Egidio, a Vatican-related NGO, with the Africa Bureau. Embassy Paris's Africa watcher and staff from S/WCI also joined the DVC. Sant'Egidio responded to questions raised by AF on issues related to confl [...] | 2007-06-20 08:00:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PHUM SOCI UG IV VT |
07VATICAN98 | VATICAN-AFFILIATED NGO ADDRESSES RELIGIOUS FREEDOM [...] (U) This cable is being resent due to an error found with EACT MailReader. ------- Summary ------- 2. (U) The U.S.-based Acton Institute, an NGO with significant ties to the Vatican, explored issues related to religious freedom during a March conference in Rome (for informat [...] | 2007-06-20 15:59:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KIRF VT |
07VIENNA1005 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: April 18, 2007 [...] Many Austrian politicians are calling on the government to withdraw all state business from bank Bawag after it closed accounts owned by people from Cuba. The bank is in the process of being handed over to its new owner, US investor Cerberus. Director General Ewald Nowotny has said the bank wa [...] | 2007-04-18 12:29:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA1037 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: April 20, 2007 [...] Defense Minister Norbert Darabos (SPOe) has said he will not publish the assessment on the Austrian Eurofighter purchase by legal expert Koziol at this point. The Minister has also refused to provide the parliamentary investigative committee looking into the deal with a copy of the file, emphas [...] | 2007-04-20 13:25:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA1042 | AUSTRIA TO VOTE "NO" ON BIOTECH SUGAR BEET AND [...] Ambassador and AgCouns presented reftel demarche in the course of a general meeting with Austrian Agriculture Minister Josef Proell on April 19. (Full report septel.) 2. Proell indicated that Austria would vote "no" at the EU Standing Committee on the European Commission's proposal to ap [...] | 2007-04-20 15:05:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON ETRD EU AU |
07VIENNA1072 | AUSTRIAN RESPONSE TO U.S. DEMARCHE ON NPT PREPCOM [...] EconPolOff met on 25 April with Alexander Marschik, Deputy of the Foreign Ministry's office for arms control and nuclear nonproliferation. Marschik said he has been in touch with Christopher Ford, the U.S. Special Representative for Nuclear Nonproliferation, and knows the U.S. position on the [...] | 2007-04-25 14:35:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG KNNP PARM PREL NPT AU |
07VIENNA1097 | Politicians Slam Austrian BAWAG Bank for Closing Cuban [...] Summary: BAWAG P.S.K. bank, which the U.S. investment fund Cerberus Capital Management bought in early 2007, has come under harsh criticism for terminating the accounts of some 100 Cuban customers. Austrian Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik announced in parliament on April 26 that she had int [...] | 2007-04-27 14:39:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN PGOV AU |
07VIENNA1119 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: May 02, 2007 [...] About 100,000 people attended the traditional May Day event held by the ruling Social Democrats (SPOe) on Monday in central Vienna. It was the first May Day Alfred Gusenbauer attended since he became Chancellor earlier this year. During his speech, the Chancellor emphasized that the SPOe is com [...] | 2007-05-02 12:57:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA1134 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: May 03, 2007 [...] The coalition government agreed on a package of election reforms Wednesday, which will now be sent to Parliament for approval. The reforms propose holding general elections every five years instead of four, as well as lowering the voting age from 18 to 16. It will also make it easier for absent [...] | 2007-05-03 12:54:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA114 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: January 18, 2007 [...] Speaking on ORF TV yesterday, the President of the Austrian Administrative Court Clemens Jabloner, like the new Justice Minister Maria Berger earlier this week, suggested the federal government could take Carinthian Governor Joerg Haider to court over the issue of bi-lingual road signs in Austr [...] | 2007-01-19 08:12:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO AU OPRC |
07VIENNA1156 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: May 04, 2007 [...] The Austrian Parliament will hold a special session to remember the victims of the Nazi regime today. ORF television will broadcast live from Parliament on channel ORF II, starting at 10:00 am. Parliamentary President Barbara Prammer (SPOe) is among the speakers discussing "Resistance from 1938 [...] | 2007-05-04 13:11:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA1159 | EU STANDING COMMITTEE VOTE ON BIOTECH VARIETIES - AUSTRIA [...] (U) On May 3, the Mission's Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) office conveyed ref A talking points to Ulrich Herzog, Head of the Ministry of Health's Department for Consumer Health (lead office),and to Hans Kordik, Head of the Ministry of Agriculture's Department for EU Coordination. Neithe [...] | 2007-05-04 13:46:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON ETRD EU AU |
07VIENNA117 | U.S. Investment Fund Cerberus Buys Austria's Fourth [...] The U.S. investment fund Cerberus Capital Management has purchased the BAWAG P.S.K. (BAWAG) bank, Austria's fourth largest banking group, for Euro 3.2 billion ($4.0 billion). Scandal-ridden BAWAG was up for sale after a government guarantee stabilized a run on the bank in May 2006. The probl [...] | 2007-01-19 08:13:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN PGOV AU |
07VIENNA1176 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: May 07, 2007 [...] Eurofighter boss Aloysius Rauen and Defense Minister Norbert Darabos (SPOe) will be interviewed by the parliamentary investigative committee looking into the Austrian Eurofighter purchase deal today. The committee will also demand that Darabos provide them with a copy of the expert opinion asse [...] | 2007-05-07 13:38:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA1182 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: May 08, 2007 [...] Austrian Defense Minister Norbert Darabos from the Social Democrats says he is convinced that the Eurofighter interceptors for the Austrian armed forces will fail a major quality control test, which will be carried out by Defense Ministry officials next week. Although he did not go into detail, [...] | 2007-05-08 12:36:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA1204 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: May 09, 2007 [...] There are new tensions in the SPOe-OeVP coalition government over the parliamentary inquiry into the Eurofighter purchase. Vice-Chancellor and Finance Minister Wilhelm Molterer of the People's Party has criticized Defense Minister Norbert Darabos of the Social Democrats over his handling of the [...] | 2007-05-09 14:43:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA1218 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: May 10, 2007 [...] The parliamentary investigative committee looking into the purchase of Eurofighter jets for Austria's armed forces will hold the next round of hearings today. A key figure in the affair is due to appear before the committee: Erhard Steininger, a lobbyist for the EADS consortium, who has been a [...] | 2007-05-10 13:39:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA1230 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: May 11, 2007 [...] Even if Austria cancels the contract to purchase 18 Eurofighters from the EADS consortium, the jets will have still cost the country a considerable amount of money. So far, about 200 million Euros have gone into preparations for the interceptors and most of it cannot be refunded, experts explai [...] | 2007-05-11 13:02:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA1237 | AUSTRIA: INITIAL BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3 END-USE [...] EconPolOff and Post's Office of Defense Cooperation (ODC) Chief met on May 8 with Manfred Siegl, of the Austrian Ministry of Defense's (MOD) Air Material Division. ODC and Siegl have a close working relationship and have carried out previous end-use checks for the Department of Defense "Golde [...] | 2007-05-11 13:27:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC AU |
07VIENNA1242 | AUSTRIA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON OECD ENLARGEMENT [...] On March 11, EconUnit Chief discussed reftel points with Ulrike Magloth, Director of the Austrian Federal Chancellery's International Economic Affairs office. On Russia, Magloth expressed appreciation for the USG position from the April OECD Executive Council in Special Session. For Austria, [...] | 2007-05-11 14:29:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON OECD EUN AU |
07VIENNA1260 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: May 14, 2007 [...] Vice-Chancellor and Finance Minister Wilhelm Molterer (OeVP) will appear before the parliamentary investigative committee looking into the Austrian Eurofighter purchase today. Topping the agenda are once again the interceptor deal's tax files, large parts of which were redacted by the Finance M [...] | 2007-05-14 12:50:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA127 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: January 19, 2007 [...] Representatives of Austria's Student Union are considering what further action to take in their opposition to university tuition fees. They are reported to be considering boycotting the fees, organizing a popular petition and holding regular demonstrations. Meeting in Linz yesterday, the leader [...] | 2007-01-19 15:49:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO AU OPRC |
07VIENNA1279 | AUSTRIA ON MAY 31-JUNE 1 COUNTERTERRORISM [...] EconPolCouns delivered reftel demarche on May 14 to Klaus Famira of the Austria MFA's OSCE office. Fammira said he thought Austria would designate a senior Interior Ministry official as head of delegation to the May 31-June 1 Counter-Terrorism Conference. He did not yet know exactly who it [...] | 2007-05-15 11:36:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OSCE PREL PTER RS SP AU |
07VIENNA1284 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: May 15, 2007 [...] Austrian Defense Minister Norbert Darabos from the Social Democrats said negotiations with EADS, the manufacturer of the Eurofighter interceptors, will continue. Speaking in Brussels at a joint meeting of foreign and defense ministers, Darabos said talks would resume in a few days. A scenario t [...] | 2007-05-15 13:40:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA1306 | AUSTRIA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON OECD ENLARGEMENT [...] On March 11, EconUnit Chief discussed reftel points with Ulrike Magloth, Director of the Austrian Federal Chancellery's International Economic Affairs office. On Russia, Magloth expressed appreciation for the USG position from the April OECD Executive Council in Special Session. For Austria, [...] | 2007-05-18 12:44:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON OECD EUN AU |
07VIENNA1307 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: May 18, 2007 [...] The People's Party's defense and military spokesperson Walter Murauer has accused Social Democratic Defense Minister Norbert Darabos of "working against the military." In his efforts to cancel the Eurofighter deal, the Minister has "neglected his responsibilities," and is "only working towards [...] | 2007-05-18 13:25:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA1312 | JUNE 5 U.S.-AUSTRIA MARSHALL PLAN CEREMONY -- [...] This message contains an urgent action request in para 4. 2. Per refs, the Austrian government has proposed a memorandum of understanding to serve as the vehicle for recording consensus on the use of European Recovery Program (ERP) funds under a 1961 bilateral U.S.-Austrian agreement. It i [...] | 2007-05-18 14:00:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV SCUL AU |
07VIENNA1350 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: May 22, 2007 [...] The Austrian Press Agency reported yesterday that US Ambassador to Austria Susan McCaw opened the American Corner (ACI) at Innsbruck University's Institute for American Studies on Monday. Austrian Press Agency APA reported on the opening of the American Corner Innsbruck, which aims at "emphasiz [...] | 2007-05-22 13:33:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA1362 | AUSTRIA SUPPORTS UN-PROPOSED ARMS TRADE TREATY [...] EconPolOff met on May 22 with Margit Bruck-Friedrich, Director of the Austrian Foreign Ministry's Office of Conventional Arms Export Control, Military Transit, and Overflight Control. EconPolOff explained reftel points on why the U.S. opposes the UN-proposed Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) and laid [...] | 2007-05-23 12:35:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC UNDC PARM AU |
07VIENNA1363 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: May 23, 2007 [...] The quality control test for the first Eurofighter jets for the Austrian armed forces will take longer than the usual testing period of two days, a spokesperson for Eurofighter told the Austrian Press Agency yesterday. This is "not unusual," however, given that it is the first interceptor earma [...] | 2007-05-23 13:13:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA1408 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: May 24, 2007 [...] The former head of the Bawag bank, Helmut Elsner, appearing for a second time before the parliamentary inquiry into bank supervision in Austria, has claimed he cannot answer a number of questions because of memory loss following a recent heart bypass operation. Elsner faces charges of fraud and [...] | 2007-05-29 11:06:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA1414 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: May 29, 2007 [...] The head of the parliamentary committee looking into the purchase of Eurofighter jets for Austria's armed forces, Peter Pilz, has accused the People's Party of "blocking" the inquiry. Pilz harshly criticized as an "ultimatum to Parliament" the OeVP's demand that the committee's hearings and int [...] | 2007-05-29 13:26:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA1437 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: May 30, 2007 [...] Defense Minister Norbert Darabos from the SPOe is continuing his efforts to demonstrate his commitment to his office beyond the controversial Eurofighter purchase deal, Austrian media say. He discussed the status of the Austrian army's reform process, and dismissed criticism of his performance [...] | 2007-05-30 12:23:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA1480 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: June 04, 2007 [...] Austrian President Heinz Fischer is urging that by summer, the entire complex matter surrounding the Eurofighter purchase for Austria's military, including the parliamentary investigative committee looking into the circumstances of the deal, be concluded. In an interview with an Austrian daily, [...] | 2007-06-04 13:52:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA1507 | EU JUNE 8 STANDING COMMITTEE VOTE ON BIOTECH VARIETIES - [...] On June 1, post conveyed reftel talking points to Ulrich Herzog, Head of the Ministry of Health's Department for Consumer Health (lead office),to Hans Kordik, Head of the Ministry of Agriculture's Department for EU Coordination, and to Gabriela Habermayer, Head of the Ministry of Economics' D [...] | 2007-06-06 12:27:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON ETRD EU AU |
07VIENNA1510 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: June 06, 2007 [...] On Tuesday, the Austrian parliament approved a major reform of the election laws, lowering the legal voting age to 16 and extending the legislative period to five years. Semi-official daily "Wiener Zeitung" reports on the new legislation, which applies to national elections, but also requires p [...] | 2007-06-06 14:29:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA157 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: January 23, 2007 [...] Minister for the Environment Josef Proell yesterday presented "Perspectives Group 2010", which outlines proposals for the OEVP's future course that are to be developed in detail by 14 working groups. The OeVP will be "open to outside criticism," Proell emphasized. Presenting the OeVP's program [...] | 2007-01-23 13:53:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO AU OPRC |
07VIENNA1604 | IRANIAN MINISTER VISITS AUSTRIA [...] (SBU) During a June 12-13 visit to Austria, the Iranian Minister for Economics and Finance, Davoud Danesh Jafari, met with Minister of Economics Martin Bartenstein, President of the Economic Chamber Christoph Leitl, and Head of the Kontrollbank (Austria's export credit agency) Rudolph Scholten [...] | 2007-06-15 13:45:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ETRD EINV PREL IR AU |
07VIENNA1640 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: June 19, 2007 [...] Austria's Minister for Education, Claudia Schmied from the Social Democrats, will unveil her plans for a comprehensive school system for 10- to 14-year-old students later today. During a test stage beginning in fall 2008, the comprehensive system will be introduced in five Austrian regions. How [...] | 2007-06-19 15:07:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA1651 | UNSCR 1747/OECD: AUSTRIAN EXPORT CREDITS FOR IRAN [...] (SBU) Acting EconPol Counselor met on June 15 with Silvia Maca, Head of the Ministry of Finance's Export Financing and Promotion Department to deliver reftel points. Maca acknowledged that the Kontrollbank, Austria's export credit agency, remained open for issuing new commitments to the Gove [...] | 2007-06-20 17:55:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EFIN ETRD EXIM OECD IR AU |
07VIENNA1666 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: June 21, 2007 [...] EU heads of government are preparing to meet in Brussels today to discuss a treaty to help the union work more effectively. A draft tabled by Germany recommends deep reforms, but not a constitution - an idea rejected by French and Dutch voters two years ago. Whether progress can be made at the [...] | 2007-06-21 12:50:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA1693 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: June 22, 2007 [...] As withdrawing from the purchase agreement apparently no longer seems realistic, a further reduction of the number of Eurofighter jets to be acquired is becoming increasingly likely, Austrian media say. According to a new strategy paper by the Austrian armed forces, twelve of the interceptors w [...] | 2007-06-25 09:53:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA1715 | GOA'S 2007 AND 2008 BUDGETS - ANALYSIS AND OUTLOOK [...] The coalition government's 2007 and 2008 budgets foresee federal deficits of 1.3% and 1.2% of GDP, respectively. The budgets represent small steps towards a balanced budget, a goal that the GoA still maintains. However, the GoA now expects to achieve a balanced budget only by 2010. Finance [...] | 2007-06-26 15:54:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ECON EFIN AU |
07VIENNA1728 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: June 27, 2007 [...] Defense Minister Norbert Darabos of the Social Democrats has reached an agreement with Eurofighter producer EADS: The corporation will deliver only 15 instead of the planned 18 interceptor jets to Austria - a deal that will save the country up to 400 million Euros, Darabos says. It is not clear [...] | 2007-06-27 13:16:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA1754 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: June 29, 2007 [...] All Austrian media report on the continuing serious tensions in the SPOe-OeVP coalition government. Now, the 400 million Euros the Defense Minister is expecting to retain from his deal with Eurofighter manufacturer EADS has emerged as the latest bone of contention between the two major parties. [...] | 2007-06-29 14:41:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA1765 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: July 02, 2007 [...] Speaking on Austrian television on Sunday, President Heinz Fischer described the reduction achieved by Defense Minister Norbert Darabos from 18 to 15 Eurofighter jets for Austria's armed forces as a "positive result." The President also argued that a complete cancellation of the contract with E [...] | 2007-07-02 13:07:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA1790 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: July 05, 2007 [...] Three legal experts appointed by the parliamentary investigative committee looking into the purchase of Eurofighter jets have concluded that Austria did have adequate legal grounds to cancel the original two-billion-Euro contract. The three, Josef Aicher, Andreas Kletecka and Heinz Mayer, said [...] | 2007-07-05 13:04:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA1798 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: July 06, 2007 [...] The Austrian Parliament will meet for its last session before the summer recess today. After it concluded the investigation into the purchase of Eurofighter interceptors for Austria's armed forces yesterday, Parliament will now also wrap up the inquiry into Austrian banking practices in connect [...] | 2007-07-06 12:32:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA1817 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: July 09, 2007 [...] The Interior Ministry's Human Rights Advisory Board has come to the conclusion that the Austrian immigration and alien laws need to be amended, as they are not in compliance with the EU's Human Rights Convention. Because the Convention is part of the Austrian Constitution, the Advisory Board ha [...] | 2007-07-09 12:34:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA1826 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: July 10, 2007 [...] A new quarrel among Austria's political parties has emerged, as random checks revealed that up to forty percent of mothers in Salzburg province were above the legally permitted additional annual income limits while receiving child benefit payments. While Family Minister Andrea Kdolsky and the P [...] | 2007-07-10 11:50:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA1856 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: July 11, 2007 [...] Austria's coalition partners, the Social Democrats and the People's Party, are gathering in the Burgenland provincial capital of Eisenstadt for the second day of closed-door meetings on key policy issues. Following a first round of talks yesterday, the leaders of the SPOe and the OeVP pledged t [...] | 2007-07-11 14:11:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA186 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: January 25, 2007 [...] All major Austrian media continue to analyze and comment on US President George Bush's 2007 State of the Union Address. One Austrian daily headlines "The new Bush: the president as petitioner," and writes that Bush came across as modest and low-key, and presenting a "green agenda." The daily's [...] | 2007-01-25 15:10:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO AU OPRC |
07VIENNA1874 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: July 13, 2007 [...] The first of Austria's fifteen Eurofighter jets, delivered from Germany, landed at the Zeltweg air base at 10:45 am Thursday morning and was greeted with a traditional brass band and an arch of water from a water cannon. Economics Minister Martin Bartenstein of the People's Party was the only g [...] | 2007-07-13 13:17:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA1881 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: July 16, 2007 [...] All Austrian media give prominent coverage to the major civil trial, which is set to begin in a Vienna court today. Nine people are facing charges of breach of trust, fraud and false accounting in connection with speculation losses incurred by the formerly union-owned bank Bawag. Those on trial [...] | 2007-07-16 13:03:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA1890 | AUSTRIA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED FOR AMBASSADOR SWING'S [...] On July 13, EconPolOff delivered reftel demarche in support of Ambassador William Swing's candidacy to become Director General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to Andrea Ikic-Boehm and Michael Brunner from the MFA's Department of Asylum, Residence, and Immigration Matters [...] | 2007-07-16 14:33:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC EUN PREF PREL SMIG |
07VIENNA1914 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: July 18, 2007 [...] On the third day of the bank Bawag trial, presiding judge Claudia Bandion-Ortner is expected to question the defendants on how the formerly union-owned bank incurred the vast losses of about 1.4 billion Euros between 1998 and 2000. Yesterday, all nine former bank officials, including ex-CEO Hel [...] | 2007-07-19 10:15:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA1917 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: July 19, 2007 [...] When questioned by presiding judge Claudia Bandion-Ortner how bank Bawag came to lose around 1.4 billion Euros in currency speculations in the late 1990s, former bank CEO Helmut Elsner blamed his co-defendant, investment banker Helmut Floettl. Losses incurred prior to 1998 were the result of "b [...] | 2007-07-19 12:35:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA1927 | AUSTRIAN RESPONSE: A COORDINATED APPROACH ON [...] (SBU) On July 19, Acting EconPol Counselor and PolUnit Chief delivered reftel talking points to Georg Heindl from the MFA's Human Rights Department. Heindl agreed that the USG and EU should speak with one voice to the GOAJ on reftel concerns. Heindl pointed to the strong human rights and de [...] | 2007-07-20 15:35:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV EUN KDEM OSCE PHUM PREL AU AJ |
07VIENNA1933 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: July 23, 2007 [...] Independent daily "Der Standard" reports on the rekindled debate about whether Eurofighter pilots are to use military force against civilian planes that are hijacked by terrorists. Erich Speck, the trade union representative of the air force was quoted as calling it "a shame to shift this respo [...] | 2007-07-23 12:15:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA1984 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: July 26, 2007 [...] Former BAWAG boss Helmut Elsner and investment banker Wolfgang Flttl are increasingly at loggerheads at the current BAWAG trial. Helmut Elsner denies that the bank's Caribbean deals were anything but credit business. That the deals involved high-risk speculation was something Flttl had never to [...] | 2007-07-26 12:02:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA1996 | LATEST TELECOM DEVELOPMENTS IN AUSTRIA [...] After strong growth over the past 10 years, total telecom sales in Austria declined slightly in 2006 due to downward pressure on prices in the mobile phone sector and a significant drop in demand in the fixed-wire phone segment. Austrian mobile phone operators will implement the EU Roaming Re [...] | 2007-07-27 08:48:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ECPS ETRD USTR AU |
07VIENNA200 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: January 26, 2007 [...] Unlike Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer (SPOe),Vice-Chancellor Wilhelm Molterer has harshly criticized FPOe boss Heinz-Christian Strache's "war games pictures." Such images, Molterer underscored, "could not simply be dismissed as some foolish action" Strache committed as a youth. Similarly, should [...] | 2007-01-26 15:35:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO AU OPRC |
07VIENNA2000 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: July 27, 2007 [...] The President of the Economics Chamber Christoph Leitl in an interview with ORF radio and last night on Austrian TV sharply criticized the statement by Social Minister Erwin Buchinger (SPOe) that for the upcoming wage negotiations it "would be optimal if a four percent rise" could be achieved. [...] | 2007-07-27 14:40:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA2001 | AUSTRIA'S IMPROVED 2007/2008 GROWTH OUTLOOK [...] Austria's two leading economic institutes recently again revised GDP growth forecasts upward for 2007 and 2008. Growth in 2007 should be 3.1-3.2% and 2.5-2.8% in 2008. Strong exports, a robust investment cycle and improving private consumption are driving growth. Austria's unemployment rate [...] | 2007-07-27 14:41:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ELAB EUN AU |
07VIENNA2003 | LATEST AVIATION DEVELOPMENTS IN AUSTRIA [...] New non-stop services from Austria to the U.S. include a Delta Airlines Atlanta-Vienna flight and an Austrian Airline's (AUA) Vienna-Chicago flight. AUA has increased the frequency of its Vienna-Erbil, Iraq flights, and added new destinations, such as Astana, Kazakhstan. AUA's has intensifie [...] | 2007-07-27 15:01:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR AU |
07VIENNA2015 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: July 30, 2007 [...] In an interview with independent daily "Salzburger Nachrichten," Vice Chancellor Wilhelm Molterer criticizes his coalition colleague Erwin Buchinger's latest political proposals. Buchinger's demand for a four-percent pay rise for employees was an intervention into the affairs of the social part [...] | 2007-07-30 12:50:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA2023 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: July 31, 2007 [...] The ninth day of the BAWAG trial focused on the events immediately before the first massive losses of the bank through speculation deals. As before, the two antagonists of the trial, former BAWAG boss Helmut Elsner and investment banker Wolfgang Flttl, contradicted each other with regard to how [...] | 2007-07-31 11:43:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA2041 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: August 1, 2007 [...] All Austrian media report extensively on the continuation of the BAWAG trial where the two main figures, former BAWAG boss Helmut Elsner and investment banker Wolfgang Flttl have apparently abandoned all conventional politeness and are attacking each other with full force. When Flttl explained [...] | 2007-08-01 12:04:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA2064 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: August 2, 2007 [...] Even though he had lost the BAWAG bank 639 million dollars in October 1998, the bank's managing board gave Wolfgang Flttl another 330,000 million dollars to continue his speculations. On the 11th day of the BAWAG trial, the former Secretary General of the bank, Peter Nakowitz, confirmed that Wo [...] | 2007-08-02 13:42:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA2071 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: August 3, 2007 [...] The intended implementation of the plan to introduce a minimal social security income is taking shape. According to Minister for Social Affairs, Erwin Buchinger, who presented a report on the current state of the negotiations between the federal government and the provinces the project is makin [...] | 2007-08-03 14:35:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA2076 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: August 6, 2007 [...] In an interview with independent daily "Der Standard," Vice Chancellor and Minister of Finance Wilhelm Molterer has expressly rejected the idea of bringing forward the proposed tax reform. He referred in this context to the OeVP goal of uniting "sustainability, tax reform and zero deficit." He [...] | 2007-08-06 12:04:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA2082 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: August 7, 2007 [...] All Austrian median continue to report on the trial of nine former managers of bank Bawag, which has entered its fourth week. The key question is why the bank under CEO Helmut Elsner gave co-defendant and former investment banker Wolfgang Floettl hundreds of millions of dollars in additional fu [...] | 2007-08-07 11:58:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA2092 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: August 8, 2007 [...] All media report that former Austrian Unions Association (OeGB) boss Fritz Verzetnitsch has come under fire in connection with the bank Bawag trial currently underway in Vienna: It has been alleged that he made false statements earlier this year before the parliamentary committee looking into t [...] | 2007-08-08 12:07:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA2099 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: August 9, 2007 [...] Austrian media expect Thursday will be another important day in the bank Bawag trial currently underway in Vienna. Presiding Judge Claudia Bandion-Ortner has announced she intends to shed light on details of the "management agreement" between the Bawag and investment banker Wolfgang Floettl, wh [...] | 2007-08-09 13:04:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |