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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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07VIENNA2102 | DEMARCHE TO AUSTRIA: SUPPORT FOR GAER'S CANDIDACY [...] EconPolOff delivered reftel demarche on August 7 to Engelbert Theuermann, Director of the MFA's Human Rights Division. Theuermann appreciated the active role of the United States in the United Nations Committee Against Torture and praised the valuable work of Felice Gaer on that committee. [...] | 2007-08-09 14:45:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL UNGA AU |
07VIENNA2103 | 2007 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES: NO CLAIMS IN [...] Based on information available to Post (EconPol Section and FCS),no U.S. citizen expropriation claims or other investment disputes in Austria should be included in the report. Kilner [...] | 2007-08-09 14:52:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC EINV KIDE OPIC AU |
07VIENNA2113 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: August 10, 2007 [...] Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer of the Social Democrats (SPOe) has appointed Green Party politician Andreas Wabl as his personal representative for climate issues. Gusenbauer said Wabl will oversee projects to combat climate change and manage special funds allocated by the coalition government for [...] | 2007-08-10 13:33:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA212 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: January 27, 2007 [...] FPOe boss Heinz-Christian Strache is expected to give what he called an "unambiguous and definite statement" on the series of controversial photos showing him during a paintball game and giving a neo-Nazi salute, which emerged last week. FPOe sources at the weekend claimed the pictures originat [...] | 2007-01-29 15:19:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO AU OPRC |
07VIENNA2136 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: August 16, 2007 [...] Minister for Justice Maria Berger of the SPOe has spoken out in support of Interior Minister Guenther Platter's (OeVP) proposal to set up a database listing known sex offenders in Austria. According to Austrian media, the database is to be launched in 2008. It is not clear at this point, howeve [...] | 2007-08-16 12:48:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA2148 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: August 17, 2007 [...] Austria's' "first Eurofighter jet will have company soon," Austrian media say, explaining that the second of the country's 15 EADS-made interceptors is expected to arrive from Germany at the Styrian Zeltweg Air Base in the near future. According to Eurofighter spokesperson Wolfdietrich Hoeveler [...] | 2007-08-17 12:45:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA2152 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: August 20, 2007 [...] After a one-week recess, the bank Bawag trial resumes today. Nine people, including the bank's former CEO Helmut Elsner and investment banker Helmut Floettl, are facing charges of breach of trust, fraud and false accounting in connection with speculation losses incurred by the formerly union-ow [...] | 2007-08-20 13:31:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA2168 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: August 21, 2007 [...] Austrian Justice Minister Maria Berger of the Social Democrats (SPOe) has proposed alleviating the problem of overcrowded detention facilities by offering inmates the choice of parole and community service. Starting this fall, people convicted of minor offences and facing fines could avoid serv [...] | 2007-08-21 13:03:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA2187 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: August 22, 2007 [...] Speaking on ORF television on Tuesday, Freedom Party boss Heinz-Christian Strache ruled out a rapprochement or teaming-up of his party with the FPOe spin-off BZOe. Strache also announced that he and the Freedom Party would "certainly run" in the Carinthian provincial elections. The province nee [...] | 2007-08-23 07:14:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA2204 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: August 24, 2007 [...] The leader of the Freedom Party (FPOe),Heinz-Christian Strache, has acknowledged that he had contacts with the German neo-Nazi group Wiking Jugend, which was banned in 1994. ORF television quotes Strache as stressing that he was never a member and that he was last in touch with the group in 19 [...] | 2007-08-24 12:21:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA223 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: January 30, 2007 [...] The leader of Austria's Freedom Party, Heinz Christian Strache, has said he never was a neo-Nazi and would never be one. Strache spoke at a press conference called to answer allegations he had links to the far-right scene, after a series of photographs surfaced, one of which appears to show him [...] | 2007-01-30 15:55:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO AU OPRC |
07VIENNA231 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: January 31, 2007 [...] Findings by the parliamentary investigative committee, which is looking into the purchase of Eurofighter jets for Austria, have incriminated former Defense Minister Guenther Platter from the OeVP. According to one of the committee's files, Platter had ordered to have part of the jets' acquisiti [...] | 2007-02-01 07:13:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO AU OPRC |
07VIENNA2320 | STARTING AN IMPORT SAFETY DIALOGUE - AUSTRIAN REACTION [...] Austria maintains product safety regulations for imports and cooperates closely with EU authorities, as well as the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Our Austrian interlocutors proposed focusing the product safety dialogue with EU Member States at the EU level. The GoA recommended that U.S [...] | 2007-08-31 12:40:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON ETRD TBIO AU |
07VIENNA2340 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: September 05, 2007 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-05 13:20:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA2364 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: September 10, 2007 [...] A recent survey by polling institute Gallup has revealed that almost 50 percent of Austrians disapprove of the SPOe-OeVP coalition government's work so far. The government will have to do far better from now on, if it wants to convince the people it is doing a good job, one daily argues, and po [...] | 2007-09-10 12:26:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA2378 | SCENE-SETTER FOR FBI DIRECTOR MUELLER'S VISIT TO [...] Summary: The Ambassador and the rest of Embassy Vienna's team are looking forward to your visit. The Embassy's Legal Attache Office (Legat) has an excellent working relationship with its Austrian counterparts and routinely nominates and facilitates training for Austrian officials at the FBI [...] | 2007-09-11 14:29:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PTER KHLS AU |
07VIENNA240 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: February 01, 2007 [...] Austrian Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer presented the SPOe-OeVP coalition's government program in the Upper House of Parliament, the Bundesrat, yesterday. Key issues on his agenda, the Chancellor emphasized, are cutting unemployment by providing better education and training opportunities, and i [...] | 2007-02-01 15:48:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO AU OPRC |
07VIENNA2400 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: September 12, 2007 [...] All Austrian media report that the Austrian Unions Association OeGB has lost almost three billion Euros as a result of the failed currency speculations by formerly union-owned bnk Bawag. The OeGB's losses from the Bawag's nea-bankruptcy are thus much higher than initially hought, the Union Asso [...] | 2007-09-12 14:19:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA2404 | PLASSNIK TO ATTEND WOMEN LEADERS' WORKING GROUP IN [...] Elisabeth Koegler, Head of MFA's Unit for International Women's Issues, contacted Econ/PolOff on September 10 to confirm that FM Ursula Plassnik would be attending the breakfast meeting of the Women Leader's Working Group in New York on September 28, 2007 hosted by Secretary Rice. Please not [...] | 2007-09-13 12:31:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | UNGA KWMN PHUM PREL AU |
07VIENNA2406 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: September 13, 2007 [...] Three Islamists arrested in Vienna are said to have had ties to terrorist network al Qaeda. The two men and one woman are suspected of having produced and published a video message, which -- according to ORF radio -- "indirectly" threatened attacks against Austria and Germany, unless they withd [...] | 2007-09-13 13:42:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA241 | LIST OF MOST INFLUENTIAL WOMEN IN AUSTRIA [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-01 15:54:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL KWMN |
07VIENNA2414 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: September 14, 2007 [...] A recent survey carried out by the University of Vienna's Institute of Sociology has revealed that the majority of second-generation Muslims living in Austria rejects and condemns violence as a tool to spread their faith. In addition, 77 percent of the interviewees have distanced themselves fro [...] | 2007-09-14 13:09:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA2425 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: September 17, 2007 [...] Ahead of sessions resuming after the summer recess today, Austrian Parliamentary President Barbara Prammer of the SPOe outlines the key issues Parliament will be expected to address in 2007/2008. Topics include decisions on the EU reform treaty, Prammer says, and underscores that in her view an [...] | 2007-09-17 13:37:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA2428 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: September 18, 2007 [...] Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer is to meet with religious leaders, including leaders from Austria's Islamic Community, today. Talks are aimed at defusing a debate over Islam's presence in the country in the wake of arrests of four suspected Islamist militants in Austria and Canada last week. Gusen [...] | 2007-09-18 12:24:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA2436 | IDENTIFIER INFORMATION FOR DANIEL FROSCH [...] (SBU) Per ref C request, post has obtained the following identifying information on Daniel Frosch: DOB: April 26, 1982 POB: Feldbach, Austria Austrian Passport: L0798512 McCaw [...] | 2007-09-18 14:56:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL ETTC AU |
07VIENNA2439 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: September 19, 2007 [...] At a meeting in Vienna Tuesday in the wake of recent tensions over the arrest of several suspected Islamist militants in Vienna and Canada last week, Austrian Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer (SPOe) and religious leaders emphasized the significance of mutual tolerance and respect, and urged a peace [...] | 2007-09-19 12:45:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA2447 | U.S. CANDIDATE FOR UN COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-20 07:29:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL UNHRC AU |
07VIENNA2456 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: September 20, 2007 [...] The new board of directors of bank Bawag says it will sell the bank's real estate assets, which include the Bawag headquarters in Vienna's first district that is topped off with a large penthouse formerly inhabited by ex-Bawag CEO Helmut Elsner. Other Bawag properties to be sold include the pen [...] | 2007-09-20 13:37:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA2466 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: September 21, 2007 [...] The wife of Wolfgang Floettl, one of the key defendants in the trial surrounding the Bawag banking scandal took the witness stand Thursday, as one of the most closely-watched trials in recent Austrian history continues to grind on. Anne Eisenhower, the granddaughter of President Dwight Eisenhow [...] | 2007-09-21 09:44:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA2482 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: September 25, 2007 [...] Austria's Data Protection Commission does not issue a good report for the state authorities and companies with regard to their handling of sensitive data. In their Data Protection Report 2005-1007, the Commission has made a case for urgent legislative action in three areas: Information on cred [...] | 2007-09-25 11:15:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA2486 | NOTE VERBAL FROM AUSTRIAN MFA REGARDING IRAQI [...] (U) Embassy has received a Diplomatic Note (Text in para 3) from the Austrian Foreign Ministry with a request for information regarding the terms and conditions of employment for translators employed by U.S. military forces in Austria. The request arises from the case of an unnamed applicant f [...] | 2007-09-25 14:20:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PHUM PREL |
07VIENNA2496 | GoA To Create An Austrian Development Bank [...] The Austrian Government has announced plans to establish an Austrian Development Bank (ADB) to support private sector projects in developing countries by providing export and financing guarantee cover. The ADB will be a subsidiary of the Kontrollbank, the Austrian equivalent of the ExIm Bank [...] | 2007-09-26 14:25:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON EFIN AU |
07VIENNA2499 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: September 26, 2007 [...] Contrary to the recommendations of a SPOe/OeVP expert group, there will be a separate asylum court - Vice Chancellor Wilhelm Molterer has announced that a respective decision will be made this year and that the new institution will begin its work in the first half of 2008. The intention is to r [...] | 2007-09-27 13:17:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA2525 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: September 28, 2007 [...] The good economic figures have made it possible: Austria's provinces and communities will get a considerably larger share from federal tax revenues. An agreement on revenue sharing was concluded between the federal government and the provinces and communities, according to which the former wil [...] | 2007-09-28 11:18:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA2526 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: September 27, 2007 [...] Austrian Minister of the Interior G|nther Platter wants to avoid fixed deadlines that give asylum seekers the right to stay in Austria indefinitely and favors instead the current practice according to which each case is to be examined individually. This is his answer to the discussion about the [...] | 2007-09-28 11:20:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA253 | AVIATION EMISSIONS: AUSTRIA STONGLY FAVORS [...] Following up on ref B demarche, Econ Unit Chief delivered ref A points on January 23 to Dieter Gaupmann, Acting Director of the Ministry of Transportation's Air Transport Division, and on January 31 to Katharina Wieser, Head of the MFA's Environment and Sustainable Development Unit. Gaupmann [...] | 2007-02-02 13:49:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ECON SENV AU |
07VIENNA2536 | NOMINATION OF PARTICIPANT FOR WORKSHOP ON [...] Embassy Vienna nominates the following officer to participate in the Workshop on Radicalization and Muslim Engagement scheduled for October 30-31, 2007 in Washington, DC. 2. Michael Spring, Economic-Political Officer, Human Rights, Religious Freedom, and Muslim Outreach. Top Secret secur [...] | 2007-10-01 06:10:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KISL KPAO PREL PTER SCUL SOCI XG AU |
07VIENNA2543 | AUSTRIAN PARTICIPATION IN GPOI G-8+ GLOBAL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-02 08:04:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR MASS PREL AU |
07VIENNA2563 | AUSTRIA FAVORS RESOLUTION CONDEMNING RAPE AS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-04 13:55:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC UN PHUM KWMN SOCI AU |
07VIENNA2564 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: October 4, 2007 [...] After the latest deportations of families to Kosovo, the government rallied behind Minister of the Interior G|nther Platter on Wednesday. The OeVP ministers reiterated Platter's position that "laws have to enforced," while Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer backed up Platter's proposal that the provi [...] | 2007-10-04 14:03:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA2565 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: October 1, 2007 [...] After a week's hiatus, the Bawag trial will resume on Monday with more prominent politicians testifying. The first to testify is former Federal Chancellor Franz Vranitzky, followed by former Vice-Governor of the National Bank, Gertrude Tumpl-Gugerell. On Wednesday, former Minister of Finance an [...] | 2007-10-04 14:15:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA2595 | EU REGULATORY COMMITTEE: AUSTRIA TO VOTE AGAINST BIOTECH [...] (U) On October 5, post forwarded reftel talking points to the relevant offices in the Ministries of Health (MoH),Agriculture and Environment, and Economics. We followed up on October 9 with Michel Haas, Head of the MoH's Department of Biotechnology. The MoH has the lead on this issue in Aust [...] | 2007-10-10 14:55:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD TBIO ECON EAGR AU |
07VIENNA2626 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: October 15, 2007 [...] A government platform addressing topics and problems in connection with integration and security will begin its work today. The arrest in Austria in September of three Islamist suspects and the case of Bosnian teenager Arigona Zogaj have added a sense of urgency to the creation of the platform, [...] | 2007-10-15 13:24:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA2627 | U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL EXPERTS VISIT AUSTRIA [...] (U) To promote U.S.-Austria environmental cooperation, the Foreign Ministry sponsored an intensive week-long program from Aug. 7-14 for a group of 10 American environmental experts. The group included representatives from federal, state, and local governments; Congress; universities; business [...] | 2007-10-15 13:40:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SENV |
07VIENNA2631 | WIREC 2008 - AUSTRIA CANNOT YET CONFIRM PARTICIPATION AT [...] Post contacted Katharina Wieser from the MFA's Department for Environment and Energy Issues to inquire about Austria's participation at the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC 2008). After consulting with the Ministry of Agriculture and Environment and the Ministry of [...] | 2007-10-16 09:29:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ENRG EPET SENV SOCI TRGY KPAO KGHG KSCA AU |
07VIENNA2633 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: October 16, 2007 [...] A SPOe-OeVP government review of integration policy began in Austria on Monday with the launch of the so-called "integration platform." At the same time, the European Union released a study saying Austria has one of the worst records in the EU on integration. The study reveals that Austria is r [...] | 2007-10-16 13:35:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA2636 | AUSTRIA'S 2007/2008 ECONOMIC OUTLOOK - STRONGER GROWTH IN [...] Austria's two leading economic institutes recently revised their GDP growth forecasts upward for 2007 to 3.2-3.4%, but slightly revised downward their growth expectations for 2008 to 2.4-2.6%. Strong exports and a robust investment cycle continue to drive growth, while private consumption grow [...] | 2007-10-17 07:31:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ELAB EUN AU |
07VIENNA2639 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: October 17, 2007 [...] Austria is to significantly improve its handling of asylum cases, the government has said. Funds will be released to provide more staff to process applications for asylum, according to Finance Minister and Vice-Chancellor Wilhelm Molterer of the People's Party (OeVP). The coalition government h [...] | 2007-10-17 13:45:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA2656 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: October 19, 2007 [...] Only a day after the SPOe-OeVP coalition reached swift agreement on giving police greater powers to search personal computers online, critics are suggesting the new bill may violate constitutional rights. According to semi-official daily Wiener Zeitung, one specialist in constitutional law, Ber [...] | 2007-10-19 12:25:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA266 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: February 05, 2007 [...] The Eurofighter controversy continues to occupy Austrian politicians and media. Vice Chancellor Wilhelm Molterer (OeVP) has once again defended the purchase of the planes and emphasized that former Minister of Defense and now Interior Minister G|nther Platter had acted correctly. In this asses [...] | 2007-02-06 11:06:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO AU OPRC |
07VIENNA2663 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: October 22, 2007 [...] Austrian President Heinz Fischer began a three-day official visit to Egypt at the weekend. He is accompanied by Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik and a business and cultural delegation. Topping the agenda of his meetings with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif will b [...] | 2007-10-22 13:41:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA2672 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: October 23, 2007 [...] A report issued on Monday by Doris Bures, Austria's Minister for Women's Issues (SPOe),shows that female migrants in Austria face a double disadvantage in the labor market. The report says women more often have jobs with lower incomes and recognition than those held by men. The study also reve [...] | 2007-10-23 14:28:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA2679 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: October 24, 2007 [...] Austrian Education Minister Claudia Schmied of the Social Democrats (SPOe) has said she is "appalled" by People's Party (OeVP) efforts to block the introduction, in selected areas of Austria, of comprehensive-type schools. Speaking after talks with the People's Party education spokesperson Frit [...] | 2007-10-24 12:45:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA2688 | AUSTRIA: DELIVERY OF IRANIAN DESIGNATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-25 13:34:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KNNP PARM PTER EFIN IR |
07VIENNA269 | 2007 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT FOR [...] Following is the 2007 Investment Climate Statement for Austria, keyed to reftel instructions: 2007 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT -- AUSTRIA -------------------------------------------- Introduction ------------ With the European Union's (EU) enlargements in May 2004 and January 2007, [...] | 2007-02-06 12:37:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ELAB ETRD PGOV KTDB OPIC |
07VIENNA2693 | AUSTRIA: DEMARCHING EU STATES FOR HUMAN RIGHTS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-29 07:56:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM UN CU AU |
07VIENNA2707 | AUSTRIAN RESPONSE: WHO IGWG ON PUBLIC HEALTH, [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-30 08:02:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD KIPR WTRO WHO |
07VIENNA2709 | INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION: AUSTRIA SUPPORTS U.S. [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-30 09:47:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC IMO EWWT PHSA UK AU |
07VIENNA2718 | Friction in Austrian Coalition [...] The coalition Social Democratic (SPO) and People's (OVP) parties appear to be in a deadlock over major reform projects. This, coupled with incessant sniping between Minsiters, has triggered substantial criticism by the media and the opposition parties of the coalition government's ability to c [...] | 2007-10-31 08:01:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV AU |
07VIENNA2737 | AUSTRIA: CANDIDACY OF DAVID WALKER [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-02 11:34:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AORC UN UNGA AU |
07VIENNA2738 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: November 2, 2007 [...] According to a study issued by the Imas Institute, Austrians are ever more satisfied with the general political situation. Contentment with the standard of living, the freedom of opinion and the health care situation are highest. Also, despite the constant quarrels in the coalition, the approva [...] | 2007-11-02 12:15:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA2757 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: November 06, 2007 [...] Education Minister Claudia Schmied from the Social Democrats and Science Minister Johannes Hahn from the People's Party have reached a "last-minute agreement" on the introduction of comprehensive-type "new middle schools" in Austria. The breakthrough was achieved after Schmied agreed to a so-ca [...] | 2007-11-06 14:50:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA2758 | AUSTRIA: 2007 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-07 07:19:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER SNAR AU |
07VIENNA2764 | SERB AND KOSOVAR WOMEN LEADERS MEET IN VIENNA [...] (U) Demonstrating her continuing interest in international women's diplomacy, Austrian foreign minister Ursula Plassnik hosted a meeting of prominent women from Serbia and Kosovo in Vienna November 5-6. The choice of dates was deliberate - to coincide and contrast with another round of troika- [...] | 2007-11-08 08:41:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV AU |
07VIENNA2791 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: November 14, 2007 [...] Members of the SPOe-OeVP coalition government and representatives from the retirees association agreed on Tuesday to raise pensions next year. Minimum pensions will be increased by 2.9 percent to 747 Euro per month. Pensions between 1,050 and 1,700 Euros will go up two percent. Those between 1, [...] | 2007-11-14 15:36:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA2793 | AUSTRIAN SUPPORT FOR RESOLUTION CONDEMNING RAPE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-14 16:55:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC KWMN SOCI UNGA AU |
07VIENNA2818 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: November 16, 2007 [...] According to a report on migration trends by the Austrian Academy of Sciences, which was published on Thursday, Austria is an important destination for immigrants. The authors of the study warn, however, that Austria is not sufficiently aware of this fact and has failed to create the necessary [...] | 2007-11-16 16:09:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA282 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: February 06, 2007 [...] The Eurofighter investigation committee has concluded that the Austrian government purchased the technically most advanced and, at the same time, most expensive interceptor planes. The version purchased was calculated to be the best deal because only new (not used) planes were considered and ma [...] | 2007-02-06 14:59:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO AU OPRC |
07VIENNA2826 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: November 19, 2007 [...] Speaking on Austrian television on Sunday, Vice-Chancellor and Finance Minister Wilhelm Molterer from the People's Party (OeVP) defended the SPOe-OeVP coalition government's decision to raise pension by up to 2.9 percent next year. He acknowledged concerns voiced by experts, but supported the i [...] | 2007-11-20 09:16:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA2838 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: November 21, 2007 [...] All Austrian media report that a new internet video threatening Austria and Germany has surfaced, apparently made by militants associated with the "Global Islamic Media Front" (GIMF),an al Qaeda propaganda group. The video demands that Austria and Germany withdraw their military personnel from [...] | 2007-11-21 14:31:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA2845 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: November 23, 2007 [...] The opposition Freedom Party (FPOe) leader Heinz-Christian Strache has called for the resignation of Defense Minister Norbert Darabos over the latter's decision to have Austrian soldiers deployed to Chad on a peacekeeping mission. Referring to a recent internal Defense Ministry report describin [...] | 2007-11-23 14:50:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA2849 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: November 26, 2007 [...] The departure of the Austrian Army contingent's advance party to Chad will not take place today, as originally scheduled. The Commander of the Austrian unit, which will participate in peacekeeping and humanitarian aid efforts in the African state, Lt. Gen. Guenther Hoefler, said the delay was b [...] | 2007-11-26 13:48:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA286 | FOLLOW UP TO AUSTRIA: FEBRUARY 13-14 LIBERIA [...] A/DCM met on February 6 with Carolina Gudenus, the Austrian MFA's DAS-level Africa Director, to press U.S. objectives for the February 13-14 Liberia Partners Forum. We pointed out the high level of attendees, including the Secretary and President Sirleaf, and stressed Liberia's need SIPDIS [...] | 2007-02-06 15:45:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON EFIN PREL LI AU |
07VIENNA2876 | NEW DELHI CONFERENCE ON AVIAN FLU: GOA MOST LIKELY NOT [...] On November 28, EmbOff conveyed reftel talking points to and discussed them with Maria Gregorich-Schega, head of the International Relations Section within the Youth and Family Affairs Department (MoH). She stated that Austria, due to a "total lack" of funds, would be "with 99% certitude" una [...] | 2007-11-30 10:59:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU TBIO EAGR EAID PREL XX AU |
07VIENNA29 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: January 05, 2007 [...] SPOe boss Alfred Gusenbauer is taking a tough stance towards his party's potential future coalition partner OeVP: Speaking on Thursday, he stressed the Conservatives would have to "budge" on the Eurofighter purchase and university tuition fees, and "think of something other than simply saying n [...] | 2007-01-08 07:05:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO AU OPRC |
07VIENNA2906 | AUSTRIA SUPPORTS USG POSITION ON UNCITRAL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-06 14:25:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC UNCITRAL UN AU |
07VIENNA2907 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: December 06, 2007 [...] Education Minister Claudia Schmied of the Social Democrats (SPOe) said one of the keys to raising standards in education is to improve teacher training and review the selection process for those wishing to enter the profession. She was speaking on Austrian television after the publication of th [...] | 2007-12-06 16:37:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA2921 | EMBASSY VIENNA TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-11 08:46:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ETTC PTER KTFN AU |
07VIENNA2928 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: December 11, 2007 [...] ... regarding the issue of private home nursing care for the sick and elderly, Austrian media report. Speaking on ORF television, Erwin Buchinger, the Social Affairs Minister from the SPOe, said he was "displeased" with his party's coalition partner OeVP for "playing a double game" on the issue [...] | 2007-12-12 09:23:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA294 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: February 07, 2007 [...] Minister for Economy and Labor Martin Bartenstein announced he is planning to reform the system of care for the elderly. In an interview with independent daily "Der Standard," Bartenstein outlined a new work model for caregivers, similar to that already in existence for household and hospital s [...] | 2007-02-07 13:25:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO AU OPRC |
07VIENNA2948 | AUSTRIAN TRADE DELEGATE VIEWS ON IRANIAN POLITICAL AND [...] (SBU) A former Austrian trade delegate to Iran recently told Emboff that financial sanctions are effective in the banking sector, but less successful in deterring Austrian companies from trading with Iranian counterparts. In the view of the trade official, U.S. sanctions were counterproductiv [...] | 2007-12-14 14:47:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ETRD EINV PREL IR AU |
07VIENNA2958 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: December 17, 2007 [...] All Austrian media report on what is described as "massive squabbling" among the country's leading political parties over the case of teenage Kosovo asylum seeker Arigona Zogaj. On Friday, the Austrian Constitutional Court turned down an appeal from the family seeking initial residence status i [...] | 2007-12-17 14:10:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA2960 | AUSTRAIN EDUCATION MINISTER RECOMMENDS BILINGUAL [...] Following a December 13 summit of more than 100 education officials and experts to discuss planned reforms of the Austrian school system, Education Minister Claudia Schmied (Social Democrat Party) proposed that the integration of immigrant children could be enhanced by teaching certain subjects [...] | 2007-12-17 15:16:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM AU |
07VIENNA2976 | BALI RESULTS: SPLIT REACTIONS IN AUSTRIA [...] Austrian reactions to the results of the UNFCCC Bali conference were not uniform, even not within the Austrian government. Overall, government representatives and NGOs were relieved that the "roadmap" is on track, but criticized the lack of progress on numerical reduction goals. Thus, univer [...] | 2007-12-18 15:17:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV KGHG ENRG PREL PGOV AU |
07VIENNA2980 | BACKGROUND AND PROSPECTS FOR RECENT OMV-GAZPROM DEALS [...] (U) In September 2006, Austria's OMV negotiated an extension of its gas supply agreement with Gazprom that will guarantee that Russian gas is routed through OMV's Baumgarten gas distribution center until 2027. As part of that deal, Gazprom obtained the right to market gas in three of the nine [...] | 2007-12-18 15:19:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG ECON PGOV EPET AU |
07VIENNA306 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: February 08, 2007 [...] A conflict is under way between Minister for Economy and Labor Martin Bartenstein and Minister for Social Issues Erwin Buchinger about the former's proposal for a new model for elderly care. Buchinger called the Bartenstein initiative "counterproductive" and said the proposal should not have be [...] | 2007-02-08 14:42:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO AU OPRC |
07VIENNA31 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: January 08, 2007 [...] 99 days after the Austrian general elections a decision on a grand coalition government seems to be imminent. The final round of talks between the SPOe and the OeVP will be held today, following a "secret meeting" yesterday of party leaders Alfred Gusenbauer and Wolfgang Schuessel to discuss re [...] | 2007-01-08 11:04:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO AU OPRC |
07VIENNA328 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: February 09, 2007 [...] Starting Friday, the SPOe/OeVP coalition will begin working on an extensive reform of state and government which, according to Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer, will be the "core piece" of the grand coalition and is intended for completion in summer. The reform will build on reforms announced and p [...] | 2007-02-09 13:48:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO AU OPRC |
07VIENNA350 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: February 12, 2007 [...] Controversies and conflicts have been dominating the climate in the SPOe/OeVP coalition since it took office a month ago. Any major issue seems to have the potential so split the coalition partners: privatization, elderly care, pension reform or environmental issues. The SPOe suspects the OeVP [...] | 2007-02-12 12:31:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO AU OPRC |
07VIENNA374 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: February 13, 2007 [...] The infighting in the SPOe/OeVP coalition has culminated in a sharp attack by Minister for Environmental Issues, Josef Prll on Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer, reproaching him for "lack of leadership qualities." Prll said the OeVP did not have the impression that Gusenbauer sees himself as the he [...] | 2007-02-13 13:56:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO AU OPRC |
07VIENNA377 | AUSTRIA CONSIDERING REQUEST FOR FURTHER EXTENSION [...] EconPolCouns and EconPolOff delivered reftel demarche on February 13 to Brigadier Kurt Hager. As the Austrian Interior Ministry's Director for Bilateral Affairs, Hager manages Austria's international police training missions, among other things. 2. Hager said he would pursue our request [...] | 2007-02-13 15:48:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR KCRM JO IZ AU |
07VIENNA392 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: February 14, 2007 [...] Former Bawag boss Helmut Elsner arrived in Vienna yesterday after a months-long tug of war between Elsner and his lawyers, who claimed the ex-Bawag boss had a weak heart and could not be transported from his French residence to Vienna for trial, and the law enforcement authorities who doubted t [...] | 2007-02-14 12:35:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO AU OPRC |
07VIENNA396 | AUSTRIA: NOMINATION FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE'S [...] Per reftel request, post nominates Eva Kaufmann, a key staffer in the Austrian NGO LEFOE/IBF. ------------------- Contact Information ------------------- 2. Name: Eva Kaufmann Organization: LEFOE/IBF, Floragasse 7a/7, 1040 Vienna Telephone: 43 1 796 92 98 Email: ibf@lefoe.at --- [...] | 2007-02-14 16:06:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL KWMN KPAO |
07VIENNA407 | AUSTRIA: WAITING FOR EU GUIDANCE ON COMMISSION ON [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-15 10:47:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC SNAR UNCND AU |
07VIENNA411 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: February 15, 2007 [...] Former Bawag boss Helmut Elsner is back in Vienna and in detention while awaiting trial. For the time being, however, Elsner is in the Wilhelminenspital where his medical condition is being monitored. For months, the former head of Bawag had escaped extradition claiming a heart condition. Accor [...] | 2007-02-15 14:19:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO AU OPRC |
07VIENNA412 | AUSTRIA ON UN MIDDLE RING SECURITY IN IRAQ [...] EconPolCouns delivered reftel demarche on February 15 to Peter Huber, the Austrian MFA's deputy Director for International Organizations Affairs, and Ralph Scheide, the MFA's Middle East and Africa Director. 2. Huber said Austria considered the UN role in Iraq to be an important one. Hub [...] | 2007-02-15 14:37:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UN IZ AU |
07VIENNA419 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: February 16, 2007 [...] BZOe boss Peter Westenthaler is coming under fire in the Bawag affair. On Thursday, former Minister of Justice Karin Gastinger confirmed towards centrist daily "Die Presse" that he tried "very, very cautiously" to intervene on behalf of investment banker Wolfgang Flttl, who lost the Bawag billi [...] | 2007-02-16 12:51:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO AU OPRC |
07VIENNA440 | ILLICIT CASH COURIERS: AUSTRIAN LAW IN COMPLIANCE [...] On February 15, EconUnit Chief delivered reftel nonpaper to Birgit Ertl and Elisabeth Ottawa in the Ministry of Finance's Financial Markets Division. Ottawa noted that in August 2006, Austria had implemented a domestic regulation, which already incorporates all provisions of the EU's Regulat [...] | 2007-02-20 11:25:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER AU |
07VIENNA455 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: February 21, 2007 [...] BZOe boss Peter Westenthaler is scheduled to testify today before the parliamentary investigative committee looking into the scandal surrounding former union-owned bank Bawag. He is suspected of having intervened in favor of investment banker Wolfgang Floettl, a key figure in the Bawag affair. [...] | 2007-02-22 07:45:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO AU OPRC |
07VIENNA478 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: February 23, 2007 [...] Erika Rumpold, head of public relations company 100 Percent Communications, which received over 6 million Euros to promote Eurofighters refused to answer questions at the parliamentary inquiry looking into the purchase of the planes. Committee members said Rumpold may face a fine similar to tha [...] | 2007-02-23 14:54:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO AU OPRC |
07VIENNA492 | AUSTRIAN SUPPORT FOR BOSNIA'S UNHRC CANDIDACY [...] EconPolOff delivered reftel demarche regarding UNHRC EEG candidates on February 26 to Engelbert Theuermann, Director of the MFA's Human Rights Division. Theuermann agreed it was important to have strong democracies occupy as many seats as possible on the Council. Theuermann added that the Go [...] | 2007-02-26 14:49:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL UNHRC |
07VIENNA516 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: February 28, 2007 [...] Eurofighter company boss Aloysius Rauen complained that his firm has been disadvantaged by details leaked to the public from an Austrian parliamentary inquiry into the purchase of 18 Eurofighter jets for use by the Austrian armed forces. Rauen said that concerns about corporate security and dam [...] | 2007-02-28 14:31:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO AU OPRC |
07VIENNA53 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: January 10, 2007 [...] Incoming Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer from the SPOe has come under fire from within his own party for having "given up too much to the Conservatives" in the government negotiations. Student and youth organizations continued their protests yesterday. Meanwhile, 75 percent of the party executive [...] | 2007-01-10 17:37:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO AU OPRC |
07VIENNA534 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: March 01, 2007 [...] Minister for Women's Issues Doris Bures of the SPOe and Science Minister Johannes Hahn of the OeVP are the last two members of the coalition cabinet to be officially sworn in by President Heinz Fischer today. The two have been ministers without portfolio since inauguration of the SPOe-OeVP gove [...] | 2007-03-02 07:33:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO AU OPRC |
07VIENNA552 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: March 02, 2007 [...] After the Defense and Finance Ministers reconciled their differences over allocation of funds for the defense portfolio, the coalition partners SPOe and OeVP agreed yesterday on a double budget for 2007 and 2008. The spending plan is expected to be presented in parliament before the end of Marc [...] | 2007-03-05 07:27:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO AU OPRC |
07VIENNA583 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: March 06, 2007 [...] Following a call for the introduction of a tax on kerosene by Minister for the Environment Josef Proell, Vice-Chancellor and Finance Minister Wilhelm Molterer has also spoken in favor of such a move. It would be a "politically sensible" measure with regard to climate protection goals, and could [...] | 2007-03-06 14:50:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO AU OPRC |
07VIENNA6 | DEMARCHE TO AUSTRIA -- IRAN AND UNSCR 1737 [...] A/DCM delivered reftel demarche and non-paper on December 27 to Carolina Gudenus, acting head of the Austrian MFA's Middle East and Africa division. A/DCM followed up on January 3 with Ralph Scheide, the MFA's assistant secretary-level Middle East and Africa director. SIPDIS 2. Scheid [...] | 2007-01-03 16:26:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | MNUC KNNP IR AU |
07VIENNA621 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: March 12, 2007 [...] The conflict in the governing SPOe/OeVP coalition about the inheritance tax, which the Constitutional Court judged to be unconstitutional, last week, is escalating. On Sunday, Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer expressly rejected the OeVP proposal to abolish the tax altogether. Rather, he wants to so [...] | 2007-03-12 15:46:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO AU OPRC |
07VIENNA634 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: March 13, 2007 [...] The divisions in the governing coalition over inheritance tax continue. People's Party (OeVP) insists on the complete abolition of taxes on inherited wealth, but Social Democrats (SPOe) say they want a reform of inheritance taxes, after the Constitutional Court last week suspended laws relating [...] | 2007-03-13 15:51:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO AU OPRC |
07VIENNA652 | U.S.-EU OPEN SKIES PLUS DEMARCHE [...] On March 15, EconPol Counselor presented reftel demarche to Manfred Bialonczyk, Director General for Civil Aviation in the Austrian Ministry of Transportation, Innovation and Technology. We gave him copies of the Draft Air Transportation Agreement, the Draft Memorandum of Consultations and th [...] | 2007-03-15 13:40:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ECON KTIA PREL EU AU |
07VIENNA667 | DEMARCHE TO AUSTRIA: UN REFORM OF INTERNAL [...] EconPolOff delivered reftel demarche on March 15 to Peter Huber, the Austrian MFA's DAS-level Deputy Director for International Organizations. Huber said that the points we made were valuable and worthy of rethinking. Specifically, Huber mentioned that in regard to the issue of the Office of [...] | 2007-03-16 14:35:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC ACABQ APER PREL UNGA |
07VIENNA670 | AUSTRIAN MFA GETS A NAME CHANGE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-19 11:37:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OPDC AU |
07VIENNA702 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: March 20, 2007 [...] Although politicians agree Austria needs more child-care spaces, they disagree on how to finance such facilities. Health Ccare and Family Issues Minister Andrea Kdolsky wants the provinces to provide the funding, but Austrian municipality president Helmut Moedlhammer argues the federal governme [...] | 2007-03-21 07:37:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO AU OPRC |
07VIENNA714 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: March 21, 2007 [...] The SPOe-OeVP coalition will make an effort to settle its ongoing dispute regarding implementation of Kyoto goals at today's Council of Ministers. There has been disagreement on a number of aspects of Austria's planned new climate strategy, including on the SPOe's proposals of holding a climate [...] | 2007-03-21 15:27:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO AU OPRC |
07VIENNA722 | DEMARCHE TO AUSTRIA ON EXTENSION OF THE OCCUPIED [...] EconPolCouns presented reftel demarche on March 21 to Franz-Josef Kuglitsch, acting Middle East director in the Austrian MFA, and Wolfgang Lapuh, the MFA's Near East Director. We argued that the review of the mandate of the special rapporteur should take place in the working group that is re [...] | 2007-03-22 07:53:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNHRC PHUM AU |
07VIENNA755 | AUSTRIA EXTENDS TRAINERS AT JORDAN INTERNATIONAL [...] Please see action request para. 4. 2. In a March 21 meeting, Austrian Interior Minister Guenther Platter told Ambassador that the GOA is sympathetic to the notion of continuing the deployment of Austrian trainers at the Jordan International Police Training Center (JIPTC). There are no im [...] | 2007-03-23 15:30:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR KCRM JO IZ AU |
07VIENNA756 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: March 23, 2007 [...] Austrian Defense Minister Norbert Darabos met with Eurofighter boss Aloysius Rauen to discuss the contract to purchase 18 jets for the Austrian armed forces. The time and place of the meeting was kept secret. It is believed that the talks aimed at finding ways to reduce the cost of the aircraf [...] | 2007-03-23 15:41:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA77 | AUSTRIAN RESPONSE: URGING SUPPORT FOR LEBANON AT [...] On January 11, Acting Econ/Pol Counselor met with Helfried Carl, Deputy Director in the MFA's Near East and Africa Division, to encourage high-level Austrian participation at the January 25 Paris III conference and to urge Austrian financial support for Lebanon. Carl stressed that the GoA sh [...] | 2007-01-12 14:22:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EAID AU LE |
07VIENNA773 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: March 26, 2007 [...] Defense Minister Norbert Darabos (SPOe) is still confident he has legal grounds for a cancellation of the Eurofighter purchase contract. A complete backing-out of the deal continues to be "our number one priority," he stressed on Austrian television. "Intensive negotiations" to that effect will [...] | 2007-03-26 14:45:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO AU OPRC |
07VIENNA785 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: March 27, 2007 [...] Despite demonstrations of unity, cooperation between the coalition partners SPOe and OeVP has been marked by quarrels and disagreement. It is therefore hardly surprising that benchmark information on Finance Minister Wilhelm Molterer's address in Parliament to present the double budget for 2007 [...] | 2007-03-27 14:28:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO AU OPRC |
07VIENNA807 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: March 28, 2007 [...] Gernot and Erika Rumpold, owners of the public relations firm which has been in charge of promoting the Eurofighter, told the parliamentary committee looking into the interceptor purchase deal that it was "not uncommon" for a press conference to cost 96,000 Euros, which the committee has called [...] | 2007-03-28 14:36:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA853 | AUSTRIA ON THE ADOPTION OF UNSCR 1747 AND THE [...] EconPolCouns delivered ref (a) demarche on March 29 to Ralph Scheide, the Austrian MFA's Director for the Middle East and Africa. Per ref (b),on March 28, EconUnit Chief had delivered ref (c) demarche the implementation of UNSCR 1747 to the Austrian Finance Ministry. 2. Scheide echoed r [...] | 2007-03-30 09:58:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP EFIN IR IAEA PARM MNUC TRGY AORC UNSC AU |
07VIENNA86 | AUSTRIAN PARTICIPANTS: EIGHTH INTERNATIONAL EXPORT [...] Post delivered reftel letter of invitation for the Eighth International Export Control Conference (March 6-8, 2007 in Bucharest, Romania) to Helmut Krehlik from the Federal Ministry of Economics and Labor and to Franz Kocian from the Ministry of Interior's Office for the Protection of the Con [...] | 2007-01-17 12:27:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KSTC PARM PREL RO AU |
07VIENNA88 | AUSTRIA'S 2007/2008 OUTLOOK - DYNAMIC GROWTH [...] Austria's GDP grew at a better than expected rate of 3.3% in 2006, its highest growth rate since 2000. For 2007, Austria's two leading Austrian economic institutes have upgraded their growth forecasts to 2.6-2.7% on the basis of strong exports, robust investments, recovering private consumpti [...] | 2007-01-17 12:44:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ELAB EUN AU |
07VIENNA891 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: April 03, 2007 [...] Helmut Elsner, one of the chief suspects in the Bawag banking scandal, has begun rehabilitation treatment in a facility in the south of Austria after a heart bypass operation. The former CEO of Bawag is expected to remain in the clinic for at least four weeks, during which time Austrian justice [...] | 2007-04-03 14:14:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC PAO AU |
07VIENNA909 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: April 04, 2007 [...] Greens MP Werner Kogler says he believes a "network" connecting intermediaries and Austrian ministry officials was set up surrounding the Eurofighter purchase deal, citing specifically two members of the Defense Department's evaluation commission, who entertained close personal ties with interc [...] | 2007-04-04 14:28:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC PAO AU |
07VIENNA916 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: April 05, 2007 [...] An improvement of the legal rights of people living in same-sex partnerships in Austria could happen soon - provided the OeVP settles its intra-party disputes over the issue. OeVP secretary general Hannes Missethon suggested on ORF television yesterday that same-sex partnerships could in the fu [...] | 2007-04-05 13:17:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC PAO AU |
07VIENNA926 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: April 06, 2007 [...] Andrea Kdolsky, Austria's Minister for Health and Family Issues from the People's Party has called for adherence to the limit of extra income that a person receiving childcare benefit payments while on maternity leave can make. She said the payments must be returned if a person goes over the li [...] | 2007-04-10 07:05:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA932 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: April 10, 2007 [...] Austrian Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer of the SPOe, and the head of the parliamentary inquiry into the Eurofighter deal, Peter Pilz of the Green Party, believe the country's chances to get out of the purchase contract have increased. Last week new documents surfaced which allegedly confirmed bus [...] | 2007-04-10 12:42:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA96 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: January 17, 2007 [...] A statement made by Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer during his inaugural address in Parliament has caused a stir among MPs: Gusenbauer offered to give tutoring lessons in Austrian schools once a week, thus reflecting a proposal included in the coalition agreement that students could do community w [...] | 2007-01-17 16:22:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO AU OPRC |
07VIENNA960 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: April 12, 2007 [...] Defense Minister Norbert Darabos of the Social Democrats says the planned mid-year delivery of the first Eurofighter jets for the Austrian armed forces will be delayed "until November at best." He said the required software for the navigation system from the United States should arrive by then. [...] | 2007-04-12 13:50:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA974 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: April 13, 2007 [...] Although he had dismissed such a move earlier, emphasizing he was "loyal to the coalition," Defense Minister Norbert Darabos now says he no longer rules out his party, the Social Democrats (SPOe) could be "going it alone," if a decision is made to withdraw from the contract to purchase 18 Eurof [...] | 2007-04-13 13:49:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENNA979 | AUSTRIA'S ECONOMY: STRONGER GROWTH IN 2007/2008 [...] Austria's two leading economic institutes recently revised GDP growth forecasts upward for 2007 and 2008. Following 3.2% growth in 2006, latest estimates are for growth of 3.0% in 2007 and 2.4-2.6% in 2008. Strong exports, a robust investment cycle and improving private consumption are prope [...] | 2007-04-16 07:06:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ELAB PGOV AU |
07VIENNA990 | AUSTRIAN MEDIA HIGHLIGHTS: April 16, 2007 [...] After the first 100 days of the SPOe-OeVP coalition, all Austrian media present their assessments of the government's performance so far. One daily in its weekend issue says the Social Democrats and Conservatives' cooperation has been marked by "dispute, glitches, intrigues and petty jealousies [...] | 2007-04-16 13:31:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KPAO AU |
07VIENTIANE125 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: AI FOUND IN BIRDS IN VIENTIANE (WEEKLY [...] SUMMARY: The Lao government's avian influenza (AI) coordinator told donors on February 13 that two wild ducks in Vientiane had tested positive for avian influenza. Tests on two possible human cases are underway; initial results are negative. END SUMMARY. Reports of H5N1 Positive Ducks in [...] | 2007-02-14 11:23:00 | Embassy Vientiane | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KFLU SOCI SCUL PREL AMED AMGT CASC EAGR EAID |
07VIENTIANE133 | LAOS INSTITUTES "SLOWDOWN" FOR NEW MINING APPROVALS [...] In a press conference Friday February 16 the vice-president of the Committee for Planning and Investment (CPI),Mr. Bounthavy Sisouphantong, announced a "slowdown" in the approval of new mining concessions. He also indicated the Government of Laos (GOL) would be developing new technical guid [...] | 2007-02-16 10:15:00 | Embassy Vientiane | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV EMIN KIDE LA |
07VIENTIANE137 | SEAS-2007 BULLETIN NO. 2 - NOMINATIONS DUE 20 FEB 07 [...] (U) Embassy Vientiane is pleased to nominate Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Europe and Americas Department Director General (DG) Southam Sakonhninhom to attend this course. Our alternate candidate is Mr. Khamvone Phanouvong, MFA Asia-Pacific and Africa Department Deputy DG. Their personal [...] | 2007-02-20 10:20:00 | Embassy Vientiane | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL LA |
07VIENTIANE159 | NAS VIENTIANE: REQUEST FOR GUIDANCE ON CONTINUING [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see Paragraph 6. 2. (U) Under the direction of the Lao National Commission for Drug Control and Supervision's (LCDC) Programme Facilitation Unit (PFU),opium treatment programs in Laos reduced the addict population by more than 80% in 5 years, based [...] | 2007-02-26 02:44:00 | Embassy Vientiane | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR LA |
07VIENTIANE295 | AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE [...] SUMMARY: There have been no new human avian influenza (AI) cases or bird outbreaks since the last report. Massive culling in Vientiane municipality was completed on March 16. The World Bank-assisted compensation program is paying poultry owners sixty percent of the market value of culled bi [...] | 2007-04-09 10:16:00 | Embassy Vientiane | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KFLU SOCI SCUL PREL AMED AMGT CASC EAGR EAID |
07VIENTIANE316 | SUGGESTED 2007 BUDGET ALLOCATIONS FOR LAOS UXO [...] This is an action request. Please see paragraph 6. 2. In 2006 PM/WRA requested post create suggested budgets for supporting the removal of Unexploded Ordnance (UXO) in 2007 based upon a number of scenarios. One of those scenarios envisioned a 25% cut to the UXO budget for Laos in 2007. [...] | 2007-04-18 09:51:00 | Embassy Vientiane | UNCLASSIFIED | KHDP ECON PREL MASS LA |
07VIENTIANE325 | Anti-Trafficking in Persons Proposals for Laos [...] Following are the anti-trafficking in persons proposals received by Embassy Vientiane. In total, eleven completed proposals were submitted by four non-governmental organizations, two international organizations, and one for-profit Lao enterprise. The following organizations submitted proposa [...] | 2007-04-20 09:56:00 | Embassy Vientiane | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG LA |
07VIENTIANE36 | AVIAN INFLUENZA - WEEKLY REPORT FOR JANUARY 12, 2007 [...] SUMMARY: Following are recent Avian Influenza (AI)-related developments in Laos: -- There have been no new outbreaks since our last report. -- Representative McCollum's visit to Vientiane's leading hospital both to learn about its capabilities and to express the need for focus on the AI is [...] | 2007-01-16 08:06:00 | Embassy Vientiane | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KFLU SOCI SCUL PREL AMED AMGT CASC EAGR EAID |
07VIENTIANE361 | SPECIAL 301 LAO PDR 2007: GOL PLEASED WITH DESIGNATION BUT [...] Summary: Nheune Sisavad, a senior Lao official who oversees intellectual property issues, expressed relief to the DCM that Laos is not on any Special 301 lists but said that it is important for Laos to strengthen its intellectual property rights (IPR) regime. He said that the National Assembl [...] | 2007-05-03 10:11:00 | Embassy Vientiane | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EAID KIPR LA |
07VIENTIANE411 | LAOS WILL CONSIDER ATTENDING JULY APHIS SEMINAR IN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-18 03:19:00 | Embassy Vientiane | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAID ETRD ASEAN PREL LA |
07VIENTIANE490 | 2007 Report on Investment Disputes and Expropriation [...] The Embassy is unaware of any changes to the below noted disputes since submission of the 2006 report. Please note the Embassy no longer has contact information for the Claimants. 2. a. Claimant A b. 1991 c. According to Claimant's attorney, Claimant asserts that he entere [...] | 2007-06-13 07:33:00 | Embassy Vientiane | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC ECON EINV KIDE OPIC PGOV PREL LA |
07VIENTIANE556 | ICAO ASSEMBLY: NO RESPONSE FROM THE LAO GOVERNMENT [...] The Government of Laos (GOL) has not responded to any of the questions raised in either reftel. Post demarched Yakua Lopangkao, the Director General of Civil Aviation in Laos on June 19 and at his request also delivered the information contained in reftels to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs i [...] | 2007-07-10 09:42:00 | Embassy Vientiane | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ECON ETRD SENV LA |
07VIENTIANE598 | DEMARCHE REQUEST: PROMOTION OF STANDING COMMITTEE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-27 09:35:00 | Embassy Vientiane | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PREL PHUM LA |
07VIENTIANE600 | 62ND UNGA: REQUESTING INFORMATION ON LAO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-27 09:35:00 | Embassy Vientiane | UNCLASSIFIED | LA OVIP PREL UNGA |
07VIENTIANE676 | RHYTHM ROAD - VIENTIANE INTEREST [...] U.S. Embassy Vientiane is interested in hosting the Rhythm Road American Music Abroad tour by the urban music group Dana Leong Band. Post control officer is PAO Amy Archibald, at archibaldae@state.gov, 856-21-7214. Assisting FSN is Cultural Affairs Specialist ChanthanomeSydavanh, at Chanthan [...] | 2007-08-24 00:49:00 | Embassy Vientiane | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC SCUL LA |
07VIENTIANE789 | DEMARCHE: CANDIDACY OF DAVID WALKER FOR UN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-24 09:55:00 | Embassy Vientiane | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AORC LA |
07VIENTIANE800 | SIGNIFICANT HEROIN ADDICTION EMERGES IN LAOS FOR [...] (U) Summary: Heroin abuse has not been encountered among the Laotian people in the past, but so far in 2007, the principal Lao national drug abuse treatment center at Somsanga has admitted more than 50 acknowledged heroin addicts, at least seven of whom admitted to current injecting drug use. [...] | 2007-10-29 10:52:00 | Embassy Vientiane | UNCLASSIFIED | KHIV LA SNAR SOCI UNCRIME |
07VIENTIANE802 | DEMARCHE (2ND REQUEST AND FOLLOW-UP): CANDIDACY [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-30 04:17:00 | Embassy Vientiane | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AORC LA |
07VIENTIANE806 | REQUEST INL APPROVAL FOR CONTRACT TO CONSTRUCT ATS [...] (U) Summary and Action Requested (see also para 9): This message requests INL/RM approval for NAS Vientiane to authorize RPSO Frankfurt to contract for design and construction of a drug abuse treatment clinic in Vientiane Province, Laos, specializing in treatment of addiction to amphetamine-t [...] | 2007-10-30 08:47:00 | Embassy Vientiane | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR ASUP LA |
07VIENTIANE820 | BURMA IN THE LAO NEWS, BUT NOT EXACTLY WHAT WE WANT TO SEE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-06 23:46:00 | Embassy Vientiane | UNCLASSIFIED | KMDR PREL PGOV KPAO LA BM |
07VIENTIANE839 | 2007-2008 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-15 09:28:00 | Embassy Vientiane | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR LA |
07VIENTIANE840 | EXCHANGING DEFENSE ATTACHES WITH LAOS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-16 06:22:00 | Embassy Vientiane | UNCLASSIFIED | LA MARR MASS MOPS PREL APER |
07VIENTIANE854 | EXTRANCHECK: PSV AT LANG XANG MINERALS - LICENSE [...] Economic officer Joshua Archibald carried out the post-shipment export verification at Lane Xang Minerals in Savannakhet Province, Laos, on November 20, 2007. 2. Econoff met with Jukka Kortelainen, Copper Process Engineer at Lane Xang Minerals, for approximately 3 hours on November 20. M [...] | 2007-11-26 08:55:00 | Embassy Vientiane | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ETRD ETTC LA |
07VIENTIANE857 | LAOS: TIP INTERIM ASSESSMENT [...] Summary: While the GOL has made great strides in getting its legal house in order to combat human trafficking, and has also make progress in protecting returning trafficking victims, it needs to do more to address the growing problem of internal human trafficking. Post does not have updated inf [...] | 2007-11-26 10:28:00 | Embassy Vientiane | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM KWMN ELAB PHUM PGOV PREL LA |
07VIENTIANE876 | International Education "Week" in Laos [...] Summary: Embassy Vientiane hosted a number of events to mark International Education Week throughout the month of November, including public speaking workshops, video presentations at the Faculty of Engineering, a lunch hosted by the Ambassador for National University deans and vice-deans, pres [...] | 2007-12-05 10:26:00 | Embassy Vientiane | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC SCUL PREL LA |
07VIENTIANE925 | VIENTIANE APPLICATION FOR ECA PERFORMING ARTS INITIATIVE [...] PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: U.S. Embassy Vientiane requests ECA funding in the amount of $11,500 under the Performing Arts Initiative (PAI) for the Battery Dance Company (BDC) to travel to Vientiane for four days (April 19-23, 2008). The BDC will conduct an Asian regional tour with travel to South K [...] | 2007-12-27 09:55:00 | Embassy Vientiane | UNCLASSIFIED | OEXC OIIP SCUL KPAO LA |
07VIENTIANE926 | LAOS: ANNUAL UXO MEETINGS HIGHLIGHT U.S. [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-27 10:00:00 | Embassy Vientiane | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID KHDP PREL LA MASS |
07VIENTIANE928 | LAO DEFENSE MINISTER SPEAKS OUT AGAINST CHILD TRAFFICKING [...] Summary: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defense Lieutenant General Douangchay Phichit spoke to a crowd of 1000 government officials and members of the public at an all-day event marking the International Day Against Child Trafficking on December 7. The Minister described Lao [...] | 2007-12-28 06:03:00 | Embassy Vientiane | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM KWMN ELAB PHUM PGOV PREL SMIG LA |
07VILNIUS172 | LITHUANIA: ADEQUATE PLANS FOR AVIAN INFLUENZA [...] SUMMARY. The Government of Lithuania (GOL) has had plans for combating Avian Influenza (AI) since 2005. The GOL has taken several steps to prepare for or detect AI including exercises, avian livestock management, and testing of dead birds. There has been extensive inter-departmental cooperati [...] | 2007-03-13 15:03:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU TBIO LH |
07VILNIUS194 | LITHUANIA ON ZIMBABWE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-20 14:56:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM LH |
07VILNIUS214 | LITHUANIA SUPPORTS SANCTIONS ON IRAN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-26 14:43:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM EFIN KNNP IAEA MNUC TRGY AORC UNSC LH |
07VILNIUS221 | LITHUANIA SUPPORTS SWIFT IMPLEMENTATION OF UNSCR [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-28 10:19:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM EFIN ETTC KNNP IR LH |
07VILNIUS243 | PROTECTING THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS OF SOVIET [...] Summary: A dispute over the right of Soviet-era artists to profit from their work has generated an intriguing dispute that threatens to damage a satirical amusement park cheekily referred to as "Stalin World." The case raises several interesting legal and moral questions and has helped raise [...] | 2007-04-06 09:22:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON KIPR ETRD PGOV LH |
07VILNIUS271 | LITHUANIA: WMO SHOULD REMAIN WEATHER-FOCUSED [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-17 06:32:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV TPHY LH |
07VILNIUS275 | LITHUANIA ON ICI: GOL'S AMB TO EGYPT WILL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-18 14:26:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EFIN PGOV PREL UN IZ LH |
07VILNIUS284 | LITHUANIA ON ICI: UPDATED ATTENDANCE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-24 14:29:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EFIN PGOV PREL UN IZ LH |
07VILNIUS289 | LITHUANIA AGREES SAMOA SHOULD GRADUATE FROM LDC [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-26 15:33:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON AORC LH WS |
07VILNIUS323 | CITES: LITHUANIA FOLLOWING EU LEAD, EXCEPT ON EELS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-09 14:35:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD KSCA SENV LH |
07VILNIUS332 | LITHUANIA ON THE ANNUAL WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-11 11:18:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KFLU TBIO AORC LH |
07VILNIUS333 | LITHUANIA SUPPORTS ESTONIA BUT MAY 9 PASSES [...] Summary: Lithuanians have been speaking up about Russian policies in many ways following the violence in Tallinn surrounding Estonia's decision to move the Bronze Soldier monument and demonstrations outside the Estonian Embassy in Moscow. The events have tapped a deep reserve of anti-Russian [...] | 2007-05-11 14:41:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ZB RS LH |
07VILNIUS360 | LITHUANIA SUPPORTS BROAD SANCTIONS ON IRAN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-21 14:39:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PARM ETTC UNSC LH |
07VILNIUS361 | LITHUANIA SUPPORTS UNSCR 1267'S CT GOALS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-21 14:41:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER UNSC EFIN LH |
07VILNIUS362 | DIP NOTE RECEIVED: U.S.-LITHUANIA CULTURAL [...] The Embassy received a Diplomatic Note dated May 10, 2007 with the following text: COMPLIMENTARY OPENING with reference to the Embassy's note No. 117/06 dated 23 October 2006 and in accordance with the Agreement between the Government of the Republic of Lithuania and the Government of the [...] | 2007-05-21 14:48:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SCUL LH |
07VILNIUS499 | LITHUANIA WELCOMES UPDATE OF UNSCRS 1737 AND 1747 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-09 11:53:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM EFIN KNNP LH IR |
07VILNIUS503 | LITHUANIA: PROS MAY OUTWEIGH CONS OF COMPROMISE ON [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-10 06:47:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM LH |
07VILNIUS529 | LITHUANIA: PRESIDENT WILL ATTEND UNGA [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-25 14:15:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KSEP OVIP UNGA LH |
07VILNIUS531 | LITHUANIA AGREES HUMAN RIGHTS IN AZERBAIJIN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-26 09:00:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM OSCE AJ LH |
07VILNIUS532 | LITHUANIA HAPPY TO LEARN ABOUT USG'S IOM CANDIDATE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-26 12:59:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PREF EUN AORC SMIG LH |
07VILNIUS533 | LITHUANIA SUPPORTS UNESCO ADDRESSING HOLOCAUST [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-26 13:01:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNESCO PHUM SCUL LH |
07VILNIUS540 | LITHUANIA: FIRST LADY ADAMKIENE WILL ATTEND UNGA, [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-31 08:58:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SOCI TSPL UNGA LH |
07VILNIUS543 | LITHUANIA: RATIFIED NUCLEAR TERRORISM CONVENTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-01 09:36:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KNNP PTER MCAP PINR PINS PARM LH |
07VILNIUS544 | LITHUANIA YET TO CONSIDER STANDING COMMITTEE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-01 09:37:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PREL PHUM LH |
07VILNIUS545 | LITHUANIA: WELCOMES INFO ON U.S.-INDIA PEACEFUL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-01 11:32:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL ENRG KNNP KTIA LH IN |
07VILNIUS555 | LITHUANIA WELCOMES INFO ON U.S. CANDIDATE FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-03 13:18:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL LH |
07VILNIUS599 | LITHUANIA LIKELY TO SUPPORT U.S. FOR ICAO; [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-21 12:02:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR PREL AORC ICAO LH |
07VILNIUS617 | LITHUANIA PLEASED TO GET INFO ON UNSCR 1737 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-30 14:09:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM MNUC KNNP LH IR |
07VILNIUS618 | CAP IMPROVES LIVES OF LITHUANIAN FARMERS BUT NOT [...] Begin summary: Statistics about the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) are readily available; however it is difficult to determine its direct impact on Lithuanian farmers with numbers alone. We recently visited several farms to get an understanding of the CAP,s effects in Lithuania. CAP funds [...] | 2007-08-31 08:52:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON PGOV LH |
07VILNIUS621 | LITHUANIA: APPRECIATES INFO ON TRAVEL BAN ON [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-04 13:19:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM KDEM LH |
07VILNIUS622 | LITHUANIA ON EU HUMAN RIGHTS THEMATIC RESOLUTIONS [...] We delivered reftel points to Darius Staniulis, Head of the MFA's Human Rights and NGOs Division, on September 4. He noted that there were some issues -- capital punishment and the Rights of the Child text -- where the EU and the U.S. have "agreed to disagree," but he added that overall the E [...] | 2007-09-04 13:21:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM LH |
07VILNIUS635 | LITHUANIA: EU STILL DISCUSSING IAEA ISRAEL AGENDA [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-07 14:13:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL IAEA LH IS |
07VILNIUS637 | IRAN CANCELLED VISIT TO LITHUANIA; GOL SHARES [...] Charge delivered ref A points to Zygimantas Pavilionis, Under Secretary in the MFA, on September 10. We delivered ref B and C points at the working level to Rimgaile Karciauskaite, Second Secretary in the MFA's Arms Control, Non-proliferation and Disarmament Division, on September 6. Karciau [...] | 2007-09-10 13:13:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KNNP MNUC IAEA AORC LH IR |
07VILNIUS639 | LITHUANIA'S FIRST LADY WILL ATTEND LUNCHEON ON [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-10 14:03:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SOCI TSPL LH |
07VILNIUS647 | LITHUANIA: BACKGROUND FOR PRESIDENT'S HUMAN RIGHTS [...] SUMMARY. Lithuania actively promotes democracy in the "new neighborhood," especially in Belarus. Post has good relations with NGOs, but limited funding to support them. The Ambassador and Post work with NGOs, with the GOL, and in the media to promote tolerance and encourage the GOL to addre [...] | 2007-09-12 13:27:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL LH |
07VILNIUS659 | ICAO ASSEMBLY: LITHUANIA LIKELY TO SUPPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-17 13:14:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR LH |
07VILNIUS713 | LITHUANIA CONCERNED ABOUT BURMA, WILL SUPPORT EU [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-04 12:22:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM BM LH |
07VILNIUS714 | LITHUANIA CONSIDERS U.S. CANDIDATE FOR UN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-04 12:32:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL UNHRC LH |
07VILNIUS715 | LITHUANIA WELCOMES USG'S DRAFT ON CONDEMNING RAPE; [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-04 12:44:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM UN KWMN AORC SOCI LH |
07VILNIUS724 | LITHUANIA WELCOMES INVITATION TO MNF-I COALITION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-11 10:48:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MARR MOPS OTRA LH |
07VILNIUS725 | LITHUANIA WELCOMES INFO, UNDECIDED ABOUT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-11 11:49:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM MNUC LH |
07VILNIUS733 | LITHUANIA PROVIDES NO DIRECT AID TO BURMA [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-16 06:25:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM BM LH |
07VILNIUS781 | LITHUANIA REPORTS NO PKK PRESENCE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-31 09:01:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PREL PGOV KTFN TU IZ EUN LH |
07VILNIUS808 | LITHUANIA ON THE COMMUNITY OF DEMOCRACIES [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-09 13:43:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL KDEM LH |
07VILNIUS814 | TRIP TO REGIONS HIGHLIGHTS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT [...] Ambassador Cloud visited Panevezys and Birzai on November 7 and 8, meeting with city political leaders, linen and glass companies, and a group of NGO leaders. The Ambassador delivered remarks at a high school, encouraging the students to consider study opportunities in the U.S., toured a local [...] | 2007-11-13 12:47:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV LH |
07VILNIUS825 | LITHUANIA AGREES WITH USG ON UN RAPE RESOLUTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-16 10:09:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KWMN AORC SOCI LH |
07VILNIUS852 | LITHUANIA WELCOMES INFO ON U.S. CANDIDATE FOR THE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-27 12:49:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL LH |
07VILNIUS854 | LITHUANIA NTE DATA SUBMITTED ON TIME [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-27 15:23:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON EFIN LH |
07VILNIUS879 | LITHUANIA WILL SUPPORT COUNTRY-SPECIFIC [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-10 15:50:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV LH |
07VILNIUS890 | WTO GAMBLING: LITHUANIA WILL BOW TO EC [...] We delivered reftel points to Sigrida Muleviciene, Head of the MFA's International Economic Organizations Department, on December 12. Muleviciene said this issue is being handled at the European Commission level. She admitted that the USG's offer should be considered seriously, but was clear [...] | 2007-12-13 15:43:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD LH |
07VILNIUS914 | LITHUANIA AGREES UN BUDGET NEEDS DISCIPLINE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-20 15:01:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNGA LH |
07VLADIVOSTOK113 | REVERSING VLADIVOSTOK'S WATER QUALITY DECLINE [...] (U) Summary. A recent conference in Vladivostok highlighted the seriousness of pollution in the waters off the city's picturesque coastline. Untreated sewage, a lack of pollution controls, and unchecked dumping not only threaten the region's unique wildlife but also its human inhabitants. Th [...] | 2007-10-09 03:51:00 | Consulate Vladivostok | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV ECON PGOV RU |
07VLADIVOSTOK125 | AMUR LEOPARD: WORLD'S RAREST BIG CAT AT THE CROSSROADS [...] (U) Summary: On November 8, 2007 the Consulate helped organize and host a film and lecture dedicated to the plight of the Amur leopard, the world's rarest big cat. The event took place at Vladivostok's Arsenyev Museum. The film, roughly translated as "Forsaken Challenge," noted that one of [...] | 2007-11-16 03:51:00 | Consulate Vladivostok | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV ECON RU |
07VLADIVOSTOK127 | GOVERNMENT TO VLADIVOSTOK: HAVE WE GOT A BRIDGE FOR YOU... [...] (SBU) Summary. A major component of the federal government's program to prepare Vladivostok to host the 2012 APEC summit is construction of a bridge to Russkiy Island, the probable location of the APEC Summit. At a recent public hearing, government officials and bridge designers reviewed te [...] | 2007-11-21 07:57:00 | Consulate Vladivostok | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL ECON RU |
07VLADIVOSTOK135 | VISALESS IN SEATTLE [...] (SBU) Summary. Vladivostok Consul General Tom Armbruster's trip to Seattle last week provided a chance to encourage American companies to take advantage of an improved business climate and new opportunities in the Russian Far East. Seattle is already deeply involved in Russia through trade, [...] | 2007-12-11 04:16:00 | Consulate Vladivostok | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON RU |
07WARSAW1071 | DEMARCHE ON KEY US OBJECTIVES AT THE WORLD HEALTH [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-09 12:01:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO AORC PREL KFLU ECON WHO PL |
07WARSAW1072 | CITES DEMARCHES DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-09 12:02:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV ETRD KSCA ECON PL |
07WARSAW109 | POLAND: SIX INFLUENTIAL WOMEN [...] This is Mission Poland's (Embassy Warsaw and ConGen Krakow) response to reftel on identifing the six influential Polish women. PolOff David Van Cleve is Post's officer responsible for tracking women's issues (Tel: 48 22 504-2720. Fax: 48 22 504 2613. Email: VanCleveDHL@state.gov). 2. Post h [...] | 2007-01-18 14:26:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN PHUM PREL PL |
07WARSAW1097 | FM FOTYGA OUTLINES POLISH FOREIGN POLICY PRIORITIES [...] Summary: FM Anna Fotyga outlined the government's foreign policy priorities in a two hour report to the Polish Parliament on May 11. Fotyga repeatedly stressed the need for greater energy security, referring to it as the "flagship issue" of Poland's foreign policy. She did little to amelio [...] | 2007-05-11 15:30:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PL |
07WARSAW110 | POLAND: SIX INFLUENTIAL WOMEN [...] This is Mission Poland's (Embassy Warsaw and ConGen Krakow) response to reftel on identifying six influential Polish women. PolOff David Van Cleve is Post's officer responsible for tracking women's issues (Tel: 48 22 504-2720. Fax: 48 22 504 2613. Email: VanCleveDHL@state.gov). 2. Post has [...] | 2007-01-18 14:28:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN PHUM PREL PL |
07WARSAW1117 | Polish On-line Consumers: Promising Growing Market [...] With high speed internet access becoming ever more common in Poland, the proportion of those with access making purchases increasing, and buyers overwhelmingly reporting positive online experiences, it comes as no surprise that the Polish consumer online market is doing well. U.S. companies s [...] | 2007-05-15 08:08:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | ECPS ECON EINT EINV PL |
07WARSAW1178 | POLAND - RESPONSE TO CITES DEMARCHES [...] Per ref C, Econoff delivered reftel demarches on the upcoming CITES COP 14 to the Department of the Washington Conference in the Ministry of Environment. A written response was received on May 18 from Krzysztof Lissowski, Deputy Director of the Department of Forestry, Nature Conservation and [...] | 2007-05-21 14:12:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV ETRD KSCA ECON PL |
07WARSAW1179 | POLAND COMPLAINS ABOUT NEW CO2 LIMIT, BUT WILL [...] The Government of Poland is upset that the EU approved a CO2 emissions limit 1/3 lower than the GOP requested. Although the approved limit is close to Poland's current emission level, and Poland lowered CO2 emissions 18% since 1990, the GOP fears that such a cut-back in emissions will slow fu [...] | 2007-05-21 14:47:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON SENV EINV ETRD PL |
07WARSAW1279 | POLAND SUES EU OVER CO2 LIMITS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-01 12:15:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON SENV EINV ETRD PL |
07WARSAW1331 | CFE EXTRA CONFERENCE: U.S. THINKING POINTS [...] On the morning of June 6, Poloff delivered reftel demarche on CFE Extraordinary Conference Preparations to Mieczyslaw Kuzinski, Head of Regional Security Policy, MFA. As per instructions contained in Calvin Peterson's June 5 e-mail with subject line "Urgent: Instructions to NATO posts for del [...] | 2007-06-06 14:18:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | KCFE NATO PARM PREL |
07WARSAW1359 | POLAND'S FOREIGN ASSISTANCE DIRECTOR WANTS TO [...] (SBU) Begin Summary. Jerzy Pomianowski, Director of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs Development Cooperation Department (Polish AID) would like to meet with his US counterparts while in Washington June 25 and 26 for meetings with the World Bank. Pomianowski is the GOP equivalent of t [...] | 2007-06-12 13:36:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL PO |
07WARSAW1423 | POLAND: CORPORATE EXCELLENCE NOMINATION FOR 3M POLAND [...] Summary. Embassy Warsaw nominates 3M Poland for the Corporate Excellence Award in the U.S. multinational corporation category. 3M Poland began operations in Poland in the 1960's and began investing in the country in 1991. Through acquisitions and growth 3M Poland now employs 850, with plans [...] | 2007-06-20 15:58:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ECON EINV ETRD PL |
07WARSAW1493 | Polish consumer e-commerce: Considerations for new [...] Leading Polish internet players have a recipe for success in the Polish and other central European internet markets. New entrants following the lead of these players should consider online infrastructure, logistics, consumer market characteristics and online consumer behavior when making the [...] | 2007-06-28 14:40:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | ECPS ECON EINT EINV PL |
07WARSAW1549 | INITIAL POLISH REACTION TO AMBASSADOR SWING [...] Per reftel, Pol External Chief provided bio and press announcement of Amb. William Swing's IOM candidacy on July 9 to Dariusz Manczyk of MFA International Organizations Department, and also briefed Manczyk orally on the U.S. position regarding current DG McKinley's independent candidacy. Manc [...] | 2007-07-10 16:19:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC EUN PREF PREL SMIG PL |
07WARSAW1581 | POLAND: POC FOR DHS/CBP C-TPAT COUNTRY CLEARANCES [...] The US Embassy Warsaw POC for C-TPAT Country Clearances and visits is: Kasia Dragan, Political Assistant Telephone: 48 22 504 2536 Fax: 48 22 504 2678 Email: DraganKE@state.gov PIASCIK [...] | 2007-07-13 14:59:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD PL |
07WARSAW1726 | WARSAW STOCK EXCHANGE CREATES NEW SMALLER EXCHANGE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-09 08:40:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | ZFR ECON EINV ETRD PL |
07WARSAW1728 | POLAND: PROMOTION OF STANDING COMMITTEE CANDIDATE [...] (SBU) PolOff delivered reftel points to Mariusz Lewicki, MFA Head of the Economic and Social Division of the UN Department, to seek support for Steve Carr,s candidacy to the International Red Cross and Red Crescent,s Standing Committee. Lewicki responded that the MFA would review the informat [...] | 2007-08-09 12:04:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PL PREF PREL ICRC |
07WARSAW1743 | WARSAW STOCK EXCHANGE CREATES NEW SMALLER EXCHANGE [...] Summary. The Warsaw Stock Exchange's (WSE's) new trading platform NewConnect will be launched on August 30, 2007. NewConnect will be dedicated to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) with high growth potential. The new exchange has less restrictive listing and capitalization requirements. T [...] | 2007-08-10 12:03:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV ETRD PL |
07WARSAW1786 | SCENE-SETTER FOR CONGRESSIONAL VISITS TO POLAND [...] Your visits to Warsaw come at a somewhat turbulent political time in Poland, with the governing Law and Justice (PiS) party leadership having just dissolved a fractious coalition with two extremist junior partners and declared they will seek elections in the fall. The elections could be stave [...] | 2007-08-17 14:06:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PINR ECON MARR PL |
07WARSAW1820 | DEMARCHE REQUEST: POLAND SUPPORTS U.S. CANDIDACY [...] Embassy Economic counselor presented reftel points on August 23 to Darek Manczyk, official responsible for aviation affairs in the Polish Foreign Ministry Office of UN System and Global Affairs. Manczyk said that Poland has a policy of supporting EU and NATO members for the boards of interna [...] | 2007-08-24 10:28:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAIR EINV PL |
07WARSAW1897 | POLAND TO SUPPORT CANDIDACY OF FELICE GAER FOR UN [...] As a follow up to Reftel demarche, Embassy received a diplomatic note informing that Poland will support the candidacy of Felice Gaer for re-election to a seat in the United States Committee against Torture at the October 8 election in Geneva. Original diplomatic note will be pouched to Wash [...] | 2007-09-06 13:37:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL UNGA PL |
07WARSAW1934 | DEMARCHE REQUEST: POLAND WILLING TO SCAN SHIP [...] Econoff presented Reftel points on August 29 to Tadeusz Gorecki, assistant director of the Department of Maritime Transportation. While noting that Poland shipped almost 38,000 containers directly to the U.S. in the year ending April 30, Gorecki said he foresaw no problems with Poland's abli [...] | 2007-09-13 05:38:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EWWT PL PTER |
07WARSAW2043 | KEEPING PRESSURE ON THE BURMESE REGIME [...] (SBU) Poloff met October 2 with Beata Stoczynska, Acting Director, and Krzysztof Ciebien, Minister Counsellor from the Asia-Pacific Department of the MFA to deliver reftel points on Burma. Stoczynska confirmed that Poland is pushing within the framework of the EU to keep pressure on the Burmes [...] | 2007-10-02 15:47:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM BM PL |
07WARSAW2052 | POLAND TO SUPPORT CANDIDACY OF STEVE CARR FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-03 15:59:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PL PREF PREL ICRC |
07WARSAW2129 | GET OUT THE VOTE EFFORTS TARGET PRO-PO YOUNG [...] (U) With youth vote possibly delivering the election to the opposition Civic Platform (PO),turn out of students in this weekend's parliamentary elections will be a crucial factor. Students are more energized this year than in previous rounds, particularly in 2005 when many opted to sit out. [...] | 2007-10-19 12:38:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PL |
07WARSAW221 | GOP REQUEST USG SUPPORT POLISH CANDIDIATE FOR OECD [...] During a phone call between Polish Minister of Economy Wozniak and Secretary of Commerce Gutierrez on January 31, Wozniak asked the USG to support a Polish candidate for the position of OECD Deputy Secretary General. Deputy Minister of Economy Naimski subsequently informed CDA of the request. [...] | 2007-02-02 11:05:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON OECD ETRD PL |
07WARSAW2231 | POLISH IPR ADVANCEMENT: TRAINING FOR ALL [...] Summary: The Polish government has issued a higher education guideline calling for all Polish university students to receive instruction in intellectual property rights (IPR). To our knowledge, this is the first time such a step has been taken anywhere in the world. The President of the Po [...] | 2007-11-14 09:04:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON KIPR PL |
07WARSAW2272 | ASYLUM SEEKERS IN POLAND- PART 1: THE BASICS [...] (U) Poland,s accession to the Schengen area, permitting open travel within much of Europe, and its geographical location on the Eastern border of the European Union, have had a large influence on the number of Eastern Europeans (especially Chechens) seeking asylum in Poland. As the number of [...] | 2007-11-27 15:35:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PREF PL |
07WARSAW2338 | POLAND TO SUPPORT UNGA PLENARY VOTES ON [...] (U) On December 7, PolOff delivered reftel points regarding the votes on country specific resolutions in the upcoming UNGA Plenary to Mariusz Lewicki, Head of the Human Rights Section in the MFA,s UN Department. Mr. Lewicki assured us that Poland will attend the Plenary and reiterated Poland, [...] | 2007-12-07 14:10:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV PREL UNGA PL |
07WARSAW2339 | POLAND WILL SUPPORT PROSPER'S CANDIDACY FOR UN CERD [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-07 14:13:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL UNGA PL |
07WARSAW2349 | UPDATING INFORMATION FOR TERRORISM FINANCE [...] (U) Post provides the following information in response to reftel. Post's TFCO is Economic Counselor, Richard A. Rorvig. His office phone number is (48)(22)504-2711, cell number (48)(22)0608-338-330. His classified e-mail address is RorvigRA@state.class and unclassified RorvigRA@state.gov. [...] | 2007-12-10 15:52:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ETTC PTER KTFN PO |
07WARSAW2379 | HIV-AIDS PATIENTS IN POLAND [...] According to a panel of experts who met in Warsaw November 29, 22 years after the first HIV cases were noted in Poland, Poles continue to stigmatize and discriminate against HIV positive persons. The panel, made up of Polish doctors, nurses, and social workers from NGO's, met to mark World AI [...] | 2007-12-17 13:02:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | SOCI TBIO PL |
07WARSAW2392 | POLISH NOMINEES FOR THE ONDCP/INL 23-24 JANUARY [...] To follow up on our interim response to Ref A text, the following individuals have been identified for participation in the January 23-24, 2008 Regional Drug Demand Reduction seminar to be held in Budapest, Hungary. a) Mr. Michal Sztyk, Chief Specialist from the Ministry of Health, Depart [...] | 2007-12-18 14:19:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | OTAR SNAR PL |
07WARSAW2399 | POLAND'S ENTRY INTO THE SCHENGEN ZONE [...] On December 21, 2007, Poland will join the European Union's Schengen area along with seven other Central European nations and Malta. After months of preparation and coordination with other EU members, Poland is ready to enter the Schengen zone and, with its 1185 km eastern frontier, defend the [...] | 2007-12-19 16:22:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | PBTS PREL PREF SMIG PGOV EU PL |
07WARSAW2409 | 2007 COUNTERTERRORISM REPORT - POLAND [...] SUMMARY: There have been no reported terrorist groups or incidents in Poland. Despite this, Poland addresses counterterrorism issues domestically and internationally and is a firm partner of the United States in this sphere. Overseas, Poland provides about 1200 troops to the International Sec [...] | 2007-12-31 10:19:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER ASEC EFIN KCRM KHLS AEMR PL |
07WARSAW372 | POLAND: SHOWING OF AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH AND HIGHLIGHTING [...] (U) SUMMARY. Post co-sponsored the Polish premiere of Al Gore's movie on global warming, "An Inconvenient Truth," and used the occasion to articulate U.S. policy on climate change and to highlight USG efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The screening, at an environmental and clean en [...] | 2007-02-16 10:11:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON SENV EINV ETRD PL |
07WARSAW433 | NO RESPONSE ON REQUEST FOR POLAND'S SUPPORT TO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-23 15:56:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC SNAR UNCND PL |
07WARSAW563 | POLAND: ENVIRONMENT AND SCIENCE INITIATIVES [...] In response to ref A, post takes the opportunity to highlight post initiatives in environment and science. Various initiatives are already underway and post is planning for continued and increased cooperation in these areas. The Ambassadorplays a significant role in many of the environmental [...] | 2007-03-08 13:45:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON SENV KPAO ENRG PL |
07WARSAW582 | ACTION REQUEST AND BACKGROUND: USG PRIORITIES FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-09 15:45:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM UNHRC HUMAN |
07WARSAW593 | POLAND: POC FOR MISSILE DEFENSE PUBLIC DIPLOMACY [...] Embassy Warsaw POC for overall Missile Defense issues is Political External Chief David Morris, (48)(22)504-2657 or IVG 8-628-2657, e-mail MorrisDT@state.gov. POC for Public Diplomacy efforts is Information Officer Andrew Schilling, (48)(22)504-2331 or IVG 8-628-2331, e-mail SchillingAJ@state [...] | 2007-03-12 16:08:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV MARR PL EZ RU |
07WARSAW688 | POLAND: COMPETITION INCREASING IN TELCOM SECTOR [...] Competition in Poland's telecommunications sector is increasing rapidly due to the strong new policies of the telcom regulator. By forcing the monopoly telcom company, TPSA, to lease its lines to other telcom providers, consumers finally can choose which voice and internet services they use. [...] | 2007-03-20 15:21:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ECPS EINT PL |
07WARSAW729 | FRONTEX: A PRIMER ON THE EU'S BORDER CONTROL AGENCY [...] (U) SUMMARY: Headquartered in Warsaw, the EU's external border control agency, FRONTEX, focuses on EU-level coordination of "intelligence driven operational cooperation" to strengthen security at the EU's external borders. In a meeting with Pol-Mil Officer, FRONTEX External Relations Officer [...] | 2007-03-23 15:38:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PTER KNNP KSTCPL PL |
07WARSAW735 | Polish e-commerce: Challenges, but Solid Fundamentals. [...] Poland's e-commerce sector appears to be doing well although some challenges remain in the level of internet access, business IT investment, and government e-commerce initiatives. The business-to-consumer segment of the market has already reached 4 billion zloty ($1.4 billion) annually, while [...] | 2007-03-26 08:05:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | ECPS ECON EINT EINV PL |
07WARSAW755 | AVIAN AND PANDEMIC INFLUENZA; STATE-DOD CONTACTS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-29 11:29:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU ECON MARR MASS CASC EAGR PL |
07WARSAW810 | POLAND'S PERM REP WILL SIGN US-EU OPEN SKIES PLUS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-05 11:25:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAIR KTIA PREL EU PL |
07WARSAW855 | DEMARCHE ON ANTARCTIC TREATY CONSULTATIVE MTG [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-12 07:58:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON SENV AOCR AY KSCA KTIA PL |
07WARSAW908 | WMO QUADRENNIAL CONGRESS DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-19 12:18:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON SENV TPHY WMO PL |
07WARSAW935 | TWO POLAND SUBMISSIONS FOR G/TIP-MANAGED FY 2007 [...] Two Polish NGOs prepared proposals for G/TIP funded projects in response to Reftel. Post has already submitted the full proposals for the projects to the G/TIP Programs Section regional officer for EUR. Summary information for each project follows: 2. PROJECT PROPOSAL ONE: COMBATING HUM [...] | 2007-04-23 12:54:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG PL |
07WARSAW982 | EMBASSY WARSAW CELEBRATES EARTH DAY [...] In celebration of Earth Day and the 10th anniversary of the GLOBE program in Poland, the Ambassador and other Embassy officers participated in a variety of events promoting increased protection of the environment. The GLOBE program (Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment) [...] | 2007-04-30 08:37:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON SENV PL |
07WELLINGTON104 | DICK-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dr. Jere Dick, Veterinary Medical Officer, Veterinary Services, APHIS/USDA to visit Waitangi, New Zealand from March 25-30, 2007 to attend the Animal Health Quadrilateral Meeting. 2. Embassy understands that country clearance is the only assistance req [...] | 2007-02-01 03:02:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
07WELLINGTON107 | EDWARDS -NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Gavin Edwards, APHIS, International Services, US Embassy Canberra to visit Wellington and Queenstown, New Zealand from February 14-24, 2007 to attend Annual Plant Quad meetings. 2. Embassy understands that country clearance is the only assistance requir [...] | 2007-02-02 02:51:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
07WELLINGTON111 | ROSSON-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to James Rosson, Research Forester, US Forest Service to visit Palmerston North, New Zealand from February 09-18, 2007 to attend 49th Annual Meeting of the International Association of Vegetation Science and present a paper at the conference. 2. Embassy und [...] | 2007-02-05 01:01:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
07WELLINGTON112 | LEVIS HANDLEY-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Levis Handley, Biotechnologist, Biotechnologist Regulatory Services Environmental Risk Analysis Division, APHIS, Maryland to visit Rotorua, New Zealand from February 23-28, 2007 to attend IAPTC&B Conference. 2. Embassy understands that country clearance [...] | 2007-02-05 01:02:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
07WELLINGTON117 | MCINNIS-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Donald McInnis, Research Geneticist, USDA/ARS/PWA, Hawaii to visit Christchurch, New Zealand from April 01-05, 2007 to collaborate on developing competitive sterile fruit fly or moth males for sit programs. 2. Embassy understands that country clearance i [...] | 2007-02-07 03:18:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
07WELLINGTON118 | CLEMENT-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Stephen Clement, Research Entomologist, USDA/ARS/PWA/Washington to visit Christchurch, New Zealand from March 21 to April 02, 2007 to attend and present at the 6th International Symposium of Fungal Endophytes of Grasses. 2. Embassy understands that count [...] | 2007-02-07 03:29:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
07WELLINGTON119 | HANG AND OBERT-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Andrew Hang and Donald Obert, Research Geneticist, USDA/ARS/PWA/Aberdeen, Idaho to visit Christchurch, New Zealand from February 13-20, 2007 to make plant and row selections and harvest selected populations. 2. Embassy understands that country clearance [...] | 2007-02-07 03:48:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
07WELLINGTON120 | DAVID-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dr. Michael David, Veterinary Medical Officer, Veterinary Services, APHIS/USDA to visit Christchurch, New Zealand from March 22-31, 2007 to attend OIE Quadrilateral Meetings. 2. Embassy understands that country clearance is the only assistance required. [...] | 2007-02-07 03:49:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
07WELLINGTON122 | NEW ZEALAND - FIVE INFLUENTIAL WOMEN [...] Right Honorable Helen Clark Prime Minister PO Box 18888 Parliament Buildings Wellington Now in her third term as PM, Clark is now the seventh- longest serving Prime Minister in New Zealand's history. In 2006, she was ranked by Forbes Magazine as the 20th most powerful woman in the world [...] | 2007-02-07 04:19:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL KWMN NZ |
07WELLINGTON130 | REQUEST FOR DVC WITH GREG NOTESS (First choice) or MARYDEE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-12 03:41:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP SCUL |
07WELLINGTON138 | GOVERNMENT OF NEW ZEALAND'S PUBLIC SUBMISSION FOR 2007 [...] On January 9, the United States Trade Representative submitted a Federal Register notice inviting public submission on the practices of U.S. trading partners to be reviewed under the Special 301 provisions of the 1974 Trade Act (as amended in 1988). On February 12, the Government of New Zealan [...] | 2007-02-13 03:51:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | KIPR ETRD ECON PREL NZ |
07WELLINGTON143 | Proposal for U.S. Speaker Dr. Karen Litfin to attend the [...] Post requests U.S. speaker Dr Karen Litfin, Associate Professor, who specializes in international relations theory and international environmental politics at the University of Washington at Seattle, where she is primarily interested in the impact of science and technology on world politics. I [...] | 2007-02-14 04:48:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP |
07WELLINGTON148 | BURKE-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Joan Burke, Animal Scientist, USDA/ARS/SPA/Ar. to visit Christchurch, New Zealand from March 14-29, 2007 to attend 6th International Symposium. 2. Embassy understands that country clearance is the only assistance required. 3. Point of contact at the A [...] | 2007-02-16 02:34:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
07WELLINGTON149 | TSUNEMUZI-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Ronald Tsunezumi, Preclearance Coordinator, Maryland to visit Hastings, New Zealand from March 26 to June 8, 2007 to inspect Apple and Pear Preclearance. 2. Embassy understands that country clearance is the only assistance required. 3. Point of conta [...] | 2007-02-16 02:35:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
07WELLINGTON156 | ANGELO DEPAOLA AND WILLIAM BURKHARDT-NEW ZEALAND [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Angelo Depaola, Microbiologist, and William Burkhardt, Research Officer, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, FDA,HHS to travel to New Zealand from March 13-18, 2007 to exchange scientific and public health information on the identification and ris [...] | 2007-02-20 03:48:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
07WELLINGTON161 | GARY RICHARDS -NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Gary Richards, Microbiologist, USDA/ARS/NAA/Dover, DE to travel to Blenheim New Zealand from March 15-29, 2007 to attend conference on Mulluscan Shellfish Safety 2007 and participate in workshop. 2. Embassy understands that country clearance is the only [...] | 2007-02-22 00:35:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
07WELLINGTON168 | REPEAT - BURKE-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Joan Burke, Animal Scientist, USDA/ARS/SPA/Ar. to visit Christchurch, New Zealand from March 14-29, 2007 to attend 6th International Symposium. 2. Embassy understands that country clearance is the only assistance required. 3. Point of contact at the A [...] | 2007-02-22 22:36:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
07WELLINGTON169 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST: CHRISTINE VIVIAN [...] WELLINGTON ARC DIRECTOR, CHRISTINE VIVIAN, REQUESTS COUNTRY CLEARANCE TO VISIT KUALA LUMPUR MARCH 5-9, 2007, TO ATTEND THE EAP IRC DIRECTOR'S CONFERENCE. 2. MS. VIVIAN WILL ARRIVE IN KUALA LUMPUR ON MONDAY, MARCH 5, ON MALAYSIAN AIRLINES FLIGHT MH130 AT 2000 HOURS. SHE WILL DEPART KL FOR AU [...] | 2007-02-23 01:48:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO KIRC OTRA NZ |
07WELLINGTON17 | NOAA KA'IMIMOANA MARINE RESEARCH CLEARANCE REQUEST, [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-05 02:10:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | KRVC TPHY EWWT NZ |
07WELLINGTON187 | DICK, JERE-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Jere Dick, Veterinary Services, APHIS/USDA to visit Paihia, Bay of Island, New Zealand from March 23-31, 2007 to attend Animal Health Quadrilateral. 2. Embassy understands that country clearance is the only assistance required. 3. Point of contact at [...] | 2007-03-01 02:54:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
07WELLINGTON188 | MORALES -NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Joseph Morales, Preclearance Coordinator/APHIS/Florida to visit Hastings, New Zealand from March 26-June 8, 2007 to inspect apple and pears preclearance program attend 6th International Symposium. 2. Embassy understands that country clearance is the only [...] | 2007-03-01 02:55:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
07WELLINGTON19 | COYNE-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Clarice Coyne, Horticulturist, USDA/ARS/PWA/Pullman/WA, to visit Christchurch, New Zealand from February 3-March 2, 2007 to collaborate with New Zealand Institute for Corp and Food Research on a joint project. 2. Embassy understands that country cleara [...] | 2007-01-07 21:17:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
07WELLINGTON2 | DR. LAURO- NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dr. Alexander Laura, Program Auditor, USDA/FSIS/OIA/International Audit Staff/Omaha/NE to visit New Zealand from January 22-Februrary 22, 2007 to conduct a routine audit of New ZealandQs meat inspection system. 2. Embassy is coordinating with New Zeal [...] | 2007-01-03 00:17:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
07WELLINGTON20 | Thistle-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Harold Thistle, Jr. Program Manager, US Forest Service, to visit Auckland, New Zealand from January 12-February 25, 2007 to attend workshops on forest protection, spray drift and application modeling, aerial application etc. 2. Embassy understands th [...] | 2007-01-07 21:17:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
07WELLINGTON205 | TEACHMAN-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Mark Teachman, Senior staff Veterinarian, Veterinary Services, USDA/APHIS, Riverdale to visit Christchurch, New Zealand from March 22-30, 2007 to attend the Animal Quads Meeting. 2. Embassy understands that country clearance is the only assistance requir [...] | 2007-03-07 21:45:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
07WELLINGTON206 | SHEESLEY-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dan Sheesley, Deputy Administrator, International Services, APHIS/USDA to visit Paihai, New Zealand from March 23-30, 2007 to attend Animal Health Quad Meetings. 2. Embassy understands that country clearance is the only assistance required. 3. Point [...] | 2007-03-07 21:45:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
07WELLINGTON209 | DR. RAYMOND, MR. STEELE, MS. STUCK, MS. KENNARD, MR [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dr. Richard Raymond, USDA Under Secretary for Food Safety; Mr. Michael Steele, Confidential Assistant to the Under Secretary for Food Safety; Ms. Karen Stuck, Assistant Administrator for the FSIS; Ms. Edith Kennard, Staff Officer, US Codex Office; and Mr. Ro [...] | 2007-03-08 00:28:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
07WELLINGTON216 | WALDRON-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Blair Waldron, Geneticist, USDA/ARS/NPA, UT to visit Christchurch, New Zealand from March 23-30, 2007 to attend and present a paper at the 6th International Symposium on Fungal Endophytes of Grasses. 2. Embassy understands that country clearance is the o [...] | 2007-03-08 22:40:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
07WELLINGTON244 | AIKEN/BACON-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Glen Aiken, Animal Scientist, Lexington, KY and Charles Bacon, Plant pathologist, Athens, GA, USDA/ARS to visit Christchurch from March 20-30, 2007 to attend 6th International Symposium on Fungal Endophytes on Grasses meeting and present papers. 2. [...] | 2007-03-22 00:31:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
07WELLINGTON247 | CLIFFORD-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dr. John Clifford, Administrator, veterinary Services, APHIS/USDA to visit Auckland, New Zealand from March 21-30, 2007 to attend Animal Health Quadrilateral Meeting. 2. Embassy understands that country clearance is the only assistance required. 3. P [...] | 2007-03-23 03:11:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
07WELLINGTON248 | GUIDICIPIETRO-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Michael Guidicipietroto, Deputy Director, Plant Protection and Quarantine, USDA/APHIS to visit Auckland, New Zealand from March 30- April 03, 2007 to attend meeting with Australian officials on Technical Issues. 2. Embassy understands that country clear [...] | 2007-03-23 03:12:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
07WELLINGTON249 | FLEMING AND VO-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Mary Fleming, Trade Specialist and Trang Vo, Management Analyst, trade Support Team, APHIS/USDA to visit Auckland, New Zealand from March 29-April 05, 2007 to attend meetings of the US-Australia Standard Technical Working Group. 2. Embassy understands th [...] | 2007-03-23 03:13:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
07WELLINGTON254 | QUICK-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Mr. Bryce Quick, Deputy Administrator for Food Safety and Inspection Service, APHIS/OIA to visit Paihia, New Zealand from March 25-30, 2007 to attend Food Safety Quadrilateral Meeting. 2. Embassy understands that country clearance is the only assistance [...] | 2007-03-26 02:57:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
07WELLINGTON26 | SCHNEEBERGER-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Steven Schneeberger, International Dairy Market News Reporter, Dairy Programs, Agriculture Marketing Service to visit New Zealand from February 26-March 02, 2007 to meet dairy industry contacts to meet with various dairy industry contacts that Diary Market [...] | 2007-01-08 02:05:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
07WELLINGTON261 | EDWARDS -NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Gavin Edwards, Agricultural Scientist, APHIS, International Services, US Embassy Canberra to visit Auckland, New Zealand from April 1-3, 2007 to accompany APHIS Administrator Ron de Haven. 2. Embassy understands that country clearance is the only assist [...] | 2007-03-28 23:40:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
07WELLINGTON27 | KRETSCHMANN-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to David Kretschmann, Research General Engineer, US Forest Service, to visit Christchurch, New Zealand from January 26-February 02, 2007 to attend Compromised Wood Workshop. 2. Embassy understands that country clearance is the only assistance required. [...] | 2007-01-08 02:06:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
07WELLINGTON270 | New Zealand - Prenotification Information Delivered [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-01 22:07:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER NZ |
07WELLINGTON279 | STAUB-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Mr. Jack Staub, Horticulturist, USDA/ARS/MWA/Madison to visit Christchurch, New Zealand from April 20-30, 2007 to observe preliminary results of cooperative research with Cropmark Seeds and continue dialog. 2. Embassy understands that country clearance is [...] | 2007-04-04 21:40:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
07WELLINGTON3 | JOHN RALPH - NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Mr. John Ralph, Chemist, ARS/USDA to visit New Zealand from January 9 - February 1, 2007. 2. Point of contact at the U.S. Embassy is the Office of Agricultural Affairs. Contact details are: Atn: Laura Scandurra, Agricultural Attache Tel: 64-4-462-6012 [...] | 2007-01-03 00:28:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
07WELLINGTON30 | FIESELMANN-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Daniel Fieselmann, Plant Protection and Quarantine, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Raleigh, North Carolina, to visit Wellington and Christchurh, New Zealand from February 10-17, 2007 to attend pre-quad for Science and Technical Meetings/Border [...] | 2007-01-09 23:51:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
07WELLINGTON325 | UNSCR 1747/OECD: DEMARCHE TO PROMOTE A COMMON LINE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-22 19:35:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EFIN ETRD OECD UN NZ |
07WELLINGTON330 | DR. ALEXANDER LAURO- NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dr. Alexander Laura, Program Auditor, USDA/FSIS/OIA/International Audit Staff/Omaha/NE to visit New Zealand from April 30-June 1, 2007 to conduct a routine inspection system equivalence audit of New ZealandQs meat inspection system. 2. Embassy is coordi [...] | 2007-04-23 21:36:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
07WELLINGTON335 | NEW ZEALAND - DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON SAMOA AS LDC [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-24 06:14:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC EAID ECON UNGA WS NZ |
07WELLINGTON336 | NEW ZEALAND - DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON NPT PREPCOM [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-24 06:15:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP ENRG MNUC PARM PREL NZ |
07WELLINGTON337 | NEW ZEALAND - DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON PLANS FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-24 06:15:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | KPKO PREL NZ |
07WELLINGTON342 | NZ UPDATES ON IRAQ COMPACT SIGNING AND REFUGEE [...] (U) Ref A reported that Embassy Wellington had asked NZ officials whether New Zealand would participate in the signing of the Iraq Compact. On May 1, Darryl Dunn, Director of the Mideast Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, told Pol-Econ Couns that PM Clark has approved New [...] | 2007-05-01 05:23:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EFIN PREL PGOV UN IZ NZ |
07WELLINGTON351 | NEW ZEALAND'S MONETARY POLICY AT ODDS WITH FISCAL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-04 06:52:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ETRD PGOV PREL NZ |
07WELLINGTON365 | NEW ZEALAND'S MONETARY POLICY AT ODDS WITH FISCAL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-09 05:48:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ETRD PGOV PREL NZ |
07WELLINGTON367 | NZ UPDATES ON IRAQ COMPACT SIGNING AND REFUGEE [...] (U) Ref A reported that Embassy Wellington had asked NZ officials whether New Zealand would participate in the signing of the Iraq Compact. On May 1, Darryl Dunn, Director of the Mideast Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, told Pol-Econ Couns that PM Clark has approved New [...] | 2007-05-09 05:49:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EFIN PREL PGOV UN IZ NZ |
07WELLINGTON377 | NEW ZEALAND'S INCREASED AID BUDGET WILL BENEFIT [...] Summary: Foreign Minister Winston Peters announced on May 14 a record increase of NZD 70 million (about USD 50 million) to New Zealand's overseas development assistance (ODA) for the 2007/2008 fiscal year. Over half of the 20 percent budget increase will go to the Pacific, particularly Melan [...] | 2007-05-18 04:18:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL NZ XV |
07WELLINGTON390 | USDA/APHIS COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Karen Akcerman, Trade Director, and Michael Guidicipietro, Deputy Director, Plant Protection and Quarantine, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Riverdale, Maryland, to visit New Zealand from June 10 to June 12, 2007, to attend the Technical Bilater [...] | 2007-05-24 02:37:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
07WELLINGTON4 | NEW ZEALAND - DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON MERCURY ISSUES AT 24TH [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-03 03:09:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC EMIN ETRD PREL SENV NZ |
07WELLINGTON40 | WAINIO-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to John Wainio, Economist, USDA/ERS/MTED/Canberra to visit Queenstown, New Zealand from February 10-17, 2007 to attend Annual Meetings of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society. 2. Embassy understands that country clearance is the only [...] | 2007-01-10 23:32:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
07WELLINGTON438 | NEW ZEALAND - NEW THIRD PARTY RETRANSFER REQUEST [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-14 05:16:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR MASS PGOV NZ |
07WELLINGTON44 | R/V NATHANIEL B. PALMER, FILE NO. 2004-139 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-10 23:49:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | KRVC TPHY EWWT NZ |
07WELLINGTON441 | NEW ZEALAND - NEW THIRD PARTY RETRANSFER [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-15 00:23:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR MASS PGOV NZ |
07WELLINGTON444 | 2007 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES - NEW ZEALAND [...] SUMMARY: Pursuant to reftel, Post has reviewed all cases in the past year involving investment disputes and found that there were no/no cases of expropriations (or other takings) without compensation on the part of the New Zealand government. In regards to disputes between a U.S. person/corpor [...] | 2007-06-15 06:14:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC EINV KIDE PGOV OPIC NZ |
07WELLINGTON46 | A request for a DVC with Tom Neale, Congressional Research [...] PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: Post requests a DVC with Mr Neale to discuss the outlook of the first 100 days of the 110th Congress. 2. Preferred Activity Date, Fiscal Year, and Quarter: This is an FY07 program, which is requested ideally the week starting 29th January; second quarter; 6.00pm EST ti [...] | 2007-01-11 23:04:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP SCUL |
07WELLINGTON462 | NEW ZEALAND - ADDITIONAL IRAN DESIGNATIONS UNDER E.O. [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-20 04:49:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KNNP PARM ETTC IR NZ |
07WELLINGTON477 | KHALIAKA MEARDRY- NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Khalaika Meardry, Trade Specialist, USDA/FAS/OCRA/South Asia Division to visit Wellington, New Zealand from July 7-14, 2007, 2007 to participate in trade discussions. 2. Embassy is coordinating with New Zealand Food Safety Authority officials to prepare [...] | 2007-06-27 04:08:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
07WELLINGTON480 | R/V KILO MOANA, FILE NO. 2006-099 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-28 02:16:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | KRVC TPHY EWWT NZ |
07WELLINGTON489 | STATUS OF RECENT NEW ZEALAND INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY [...] (U) SUMMARY: New Zealand remains embroiled in a politically contentious battle over access to medicines and regulatory reform of its pharmaceutical industry. Recent legislation aimed at linking a proposed to create a joint Australia - New Zealand regulatory body (ANZTPA) along with stricter ma [...] | 2007-07-05 06:12:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ECPS ETRD KIPR PREL NZ |
07WELLINGTON493 | R/V NATHANIEL B. PALMER, FILE NO. 2004-139 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-05 21:23:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | KRVC TPHY EWWT NZ |
07WELLINGTON5 | NEW ZEALAND - DEMARCHE DELIVERED UNSCR 1737 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-03 03:40:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | MNUC KNNP NZ |
07WELLINGTON501 | R/V NATHANIEL B. PALMER, FILE NO. 2006-032 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-09 04:17:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | KRVC TPHY EWWT NZ |
07WELLINGTON502 | R/V NATHANIEL B. PALMER, FILE NO. 2006-103 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-09 04:35:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | KRVC TPHY EWWT NZ |
07WELLINGTON503 | R/V MELVILLE, FILE NO. 2006-083 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-09 05:42:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | KRVC TPHY EWWT NZ |
07WELLINGTON511 | NEW ZEALAND - POINT OF CONTACT FOR C-TPAT VISITS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-11 19:32:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD NZ |
07WELLINGTON513 | NEW ZEALAND - SUPPORT FOR AMBASSADOR SWING AS DG FOR IOM [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-12 05:10:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC EUN PREF PREL SMIG NZ |
07WELLINGTON515 | DUNLEVY- NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Peter Dunlevy, Supervisor Wildlife Biologist, Wildlife Services, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA to visit Nelson, New Zealand from July 6-27, 2007 to participate in a rodent eradication operation. 2. Point of contact at the American Emba [...] | 2007-07-13 03:56:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
07WELLINGTON527 | BATES- NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Rocklyn Bates, Facility and Equipment Review Specialist, Dairy Program, USDA/AMS to visit Te Rapa, Hamilton, New Zealand from August 4-13,2007 to perform equipment review. 2. Point of contact at the American Embassy is the office of Foreign Agricultural [...] | 2007-07-19 22:32:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
07WELLINGTON535 | NEW ZEALAND - SEOUL CONFERENCE ON SOLIDARITY LEVIES [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-25 01:40:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON PREL TBIO NZ |
07WELLINGTON539 | HORVATH- NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to David Horvath, Plant Physiologist, USDA/ARS/NPA Fargo, North Dakota to visit Queenstown and Auckland, New Zealand from August 23 to September 8,2007 to attend a seminar at the ZMB Satellite Conference on Plant Gene Regulation and development; collaborate wit [...] | 2007-07-26 04:10:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
07WELLINGTON543 | NEW ZEALAND - DEMARCHE REQUEST: PROMOTION OF STANDING [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-27 03:27:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PREL PHUM ICRC |
07WELLINGTON544 | NEW ZEALAND - DEMARCHE REQUEST: HOLOCAUST REMEBERENCE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-27 03:28:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | UNESCO |
07WELLINGTON550 | NEW ZEALAND - TERRORISM FINANCE: DOMESTIC DESIGNATION OF [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-29 23:08:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN KTFN PREL PTER NZ |
07WELLINGTON556 | NEW ZEALAND - WTO TRADE NEGOTIATIONS COMMITTEE MEETING [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-02 03:53:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD WTRO USTR EAGR |
07WELLINGTON559 | NEW ZEALAND - INVITATION DELIVERED TO NUCLEAR [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-02 23:00:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM KNNP ENRG PREL NZ |
07WELLINGTON572 | NEW ZEALAND - DEMARCHE REQUEST PART TWO: CONVENTION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-08 01:18:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL UNGA |
07WELLINGTON578 | NEW ZEALAND - ACTION REQUEST: SELECTING REPRESENTATIVES TO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-09 01:33:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB OTRA NZ |
07WELLINGTON58 | GORDH-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dr. Gordon Gordh, Senior Science Advisor, Plant Protection and Quarantine, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Raleigh North Carolina to New Zealand from February 10-19, 2007 to attend pre-quad science & tchnology meetings. 2. Embassy understands [...] | 2007-01-18 00:15:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
07WELLINGTON599 | NEW ZEALAND - TERRORISM FINANCE: DOMESTIC USG DESIGNATION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-16 03:21:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN KTFN PREL PTER NZ |
07WELLINGTON606 | WILLNOW and SANTOS- NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Jeffery G. Willnow, Area Director and Maria Andrea de los Santos, Administrative Assistant USDA/APHIS to visit Wellington, New Zealand from September 19-22, 2007 to conduct supervisory oversight trip. 2. Point of contact at the American Embassy is the off [...] | 2007-08-20 05:56:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
07WELLINGTON607 | EDWARDS- NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Gavin Edwards, Agricultural Scientist, USDA/APHIS/Canberra to visit Wellington, New Zealand from September 19-22, 2007 to conduct regular area visit along with Jeffrey Willnow, Area Director, USDA/APHIS. 2. Point of contact at the American Embassy is [...] | 2007-08-20 05:57:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
07WELLINGTON612 | NEW ZEALAND - DEMARCHE DELIVERED: U.S. CANDIDACY TO ICAO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-21 23:24:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EAIR AORC ICAO |
07WELLINGTON613 | NEW ZEALAND - DEMARCHE DELIVERED: U.S. CANDIDACY TO ICAO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-21 23:25:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EAIR AORC ICAO |
07WELLINGTON614 | NEW ZEALAND - DEMARCHE DELIVERED: U.S. CANDIDACY TO ICAO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-21 23:25:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EAIR AORC ICAO |
07WELLINGTON621 | NEW ZEALAND WILLING TO START AN IMPORT SAFETY [...] SUMMARY: ECONOMIC AND AGRICULTURAL ATTACHES CONVEYED POINTS IN REF CABLE TO THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND TRADE AND THE NEW ZEALAND FOOD SAFETY AUTHORITY (NZFSA). THE NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT WELCOMES THE OPPORTUNITY TO MAINTAIN A DIALOGUE ON FOOD AND PRODUCT SAFETY WITH THE UNITED STATES [...] | 2007-08-23 06:22:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON ETRD TBIO |
07WELLINGTON63 | ADDITIONAL IRAN DESIGNATIONS UNDER E.O. 13382 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-19 06:42:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP ETTC PARM PREL NZ |
07WELLINGTON636 | GENT- NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to David Gent, Research Plant Pathologist, USDA/ARS/PWA, Oregon to visit New Zealand on personal travel from December 10-20, 2007. 2. Point of contact at the American Embassy is the office of Foreign Agricultural Service, USDA. Their contact details are: [...] | 2007-08-29 02:22:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
07WELLINGTON645 | NEW ZEALAND WILLING TO START AN IMPORT SAFETY [...] SUMMARY: ECONOMIC AND AGRICULTURAL ATTACHES CONVEYED POINTS IN REF CABLE TO THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS AND TRADE AND THE NEW ZEALAND FOOD SAFETY AUTHORITY (NZFSA). THE NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT WELCOMES THE OPPORTUNITY TO MAINTAIN A DIALOGUE ON FOOD AND PRODUCT SAFETY WITH THE UNITED STATES [...] | 2007-08-30 05:08:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON ETRD TBIO |
07WELLINGTON657 | TERROROISM FINANCE: Saudi Five Pre-notification [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-03 23:11:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | KTFN EFIN PREL PTER ETTC NZ |
07WELLINGTON661 | UNDER SECRETARY REY- NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Under Secretary Mark Edward Rey, Natural Resources & Environment, USDA to visit Auckland, New Zealand from September 08 through September 11, 2007 to attend the New Zealand-United States Partnership Forum 2007. 2. Point of contact at the American Embass [...] | 2007-09-06 03:02:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
07WELLINGTON672 | SUNDLOF- ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Stephen Sundlof, Director, Centre for Veterinary Medicine, FDA, HHS to visit Wellington, New Zealand from September 24-29, 2007 to speak at New Zealand Food Safety Authority 2007 Annual Conference. 2. Please contact the Agricultural Attache upon arrival a [...] | 2007-09-11 22:51:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
07WELLINGTON673 | VAN TASELL- NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Curtis Van Tassell, Research Geneticist, USDA/ARS to visit Auckland and Dunedin, New Zealand from September 29 through October 2, 2007 to visit research centers. 2. Point of contact at the American Embassy is the office of the Foreign Agricultural Servic [...] | 2007-09-12 22:42:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
07WELLINGTON678 | REQUEST FOR DVC WITH BRUCE HOFFMAN FOR COUNTERTERRORISM [...] PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: Post requests a DVC with Bruce Hoffman, terrorism expert in Georgetown University's Security Studies Program at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service in Washington, DC. 2. PREFERRED DATE AND TIME OF PROGRAM, FISCAL YEAR, QUARTER: Request November 5, 3:00pm Washin [...] | 2007-09-17 04:22:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KPAO NZ |
07WELLINGTON681 | NEW ZEALAND CONSIDERING SPLIT-CURRENCY ASSESSMENTS FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-18 02:23:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ICAO |
07WELLINGTON687 | NEW ZEALAND'S TEXTILE AND APPAREL SECTOR [...] New Zealand (NZ) is recognized as a global leader in the production of sheep's wool. With the exception of wool, this country's textile/apparel requirements are dominated by imports. New Zealand sheep's wool is the variety that is used mainly in interior textiles such as carpets, upholstery, f [...] | 2007-09-20 03:44:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD KTEX NZ |
07WELLINGTON723 | GLICK- NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Dennis Glick, Facility and Equipment Review Specialist, Dairy Program, Agriculture Marketing Service, USDA to visit Auckland, New Zealand from October 20-26, 2007 to conduct equipment review. 2. Point of contact at the American Embassy is the office of [...] | 2007-10-03 01:18:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
07WELLINGTON758 | ELIAS- NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Thomas Elias, Director, U.S. National Arboretum, USDA/ARS/BA/USNA, Washington, D.C. to visit New Zealand from November 19 to December 01, 2007 to attend New Zealand Recreation Association Conference. 2. Point of contact at the American Embassy is th [...] | 2007-10-14 21:33:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
07WELLINGTON764 | U.S. Customs and Border Patrol's Assistant Commissioner [...] Michael C. Mullen, Assistant Commissioner in the Office of International Affairs and Trade Relations at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) was in Auckland, New Zealand from September 9 to 12, 2007 to attend the NZ-US Partnership Forum and to meet with his counterparts in the GNZ espec [...] | 2007-10-17 18:43:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD NZ |
07WELLINGTON767 | NEW ZEALAND ORGANIZATIONS SPECIALIZING IN BIOFUEL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-18 23:01:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON ENRG ETRD OTRA NZ |
07WELLINGTON779 | RESPONSE TO ACTION REQUEST: NEW ZEALAND - REQUEST [...] No summary [...] | 2007-10-26 03:56:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ENRG EPET SENV SOCI TRGY KPAO KSCA |
07WELLINGTON80 | R/V NATHANIEL B. PALMER, FILE NO. 2006-077 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-25 04:37:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | KRVC TPHY EWWT NZ |
07WELLINGTON805 | NEW ZEALAND - 2008 NATIONAL TRADE ESTIMATE REPORT [...] Following is Post's submission for the 2008 National Trade Estimate Report (NTE) regarding New Zealand per request reftel. We assume that Washington agencies will provide updated trade and investment data. 2. Begin text of NTE submission: IMPORT POLICIES In general, tariff rates in Ne [...] | 2007-11-08 02:14:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ETRD NZ |
07WELLINGTON83 | GRANT-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Gordon Grant, Research Hydrologist, U.S. Forest Service to visit Christchurch, New Zealand from February 15-24, 2007 to attend 6th International Symposium on Ecohydraulics. 2. Embassy understands that country clearance is the only assistance required. [...] | 2007-01-26 02:52:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
07WELLINGTON84 | SOJKA-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Robert Sojka, Research Soil Scientist, USDA/ARS/PWA/IDAHO to New Zealand from February 04-14, 2007 to attend Fertilizer and Lime research centre of Massey University. 2. Embassy understands that country clearance is the only assistance required. 3. [...] | 2007-01-26 02:53:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
07WELLINGTON847 | FONTERRA - NEW ZEALAND'S LARGEST COMPANY PLANS TO [...] Note: This is a joint Foreign Agricultural Service and State report. End note. 2. Summary. Fonterra Co-operative Ltd, New Zealand's largest company is beginning a two-year consultation with its farmer shareholders whether to approve a preferred capital restructuring option. If approve [...] | 2007-12-07 05:07:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON EFIN ETRD PREL NZ XV |
07WELLINGTON85 | BROWN-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Rose Brown, Preclearance Coordinator, Riverdale, Maryland to visit Hastings, New Zealand from February 22-28, 2007 to inspect apple and pear preclearance program. 2. Embassy would appreciate copy of the program and would potentially be interested in pa [...] | 2007-01-26 02:54:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
07WELLINGTON86 | DUNKLE AND GREIFER-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to Richard Dunkle, Deputy Administrator, Plant Protection and Quarantine; John Greifer, Director, Trade Support, International Services, APHIS/USDA to visit Queenstown, New Zealand from February 16-18, 2007 to participate in the annual plant health quadrila [...] | 2007-01-26 02:54:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
07WELLINGTON87 | ELLIS-NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE [...] Embassy grants country clearance to David Ellis, Plant Pathologist, USDA/ARS/NPA/Ft.Collins/CO to visit Rotorua, New Zealand from February 22 through March 10, 2007 to attend and speak at the International Association of Plant Tissue Culture and Bio-Technology Biennial Meeting. 2. Embas [...] | 2007-01-26 02:55:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR NZ |
07YAOUNDE1044 | TRADITIONAL LEADERS SEEK EMBASSY PROTECTION WHEN [...] (U) Summary. Nineteen men from the community of Sabga in Cameroon's Northwest Province gathered outside of the Embassy compound at the opening of business on August 21 claiming fear of arrest, violence, and deadly force in retaliation for their opposition to an effort to install a governmen [...] | 2007-08-21 12:33:00 | Embassy Yaounde | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV PREL CM |
07YAOUNDE1049 | CAMEROON: POST DEMARCHES GOVERNMENT, TRADITIONAL [...] (U) Summary. Leaders and community members from Sabga (reftel) spent the night August 21 outside the Embassy gates, claiming fear of harassment and arrest if they left. In an August 22 demarche to the Political Director at the Ministry of Territorial Administration and Decentralization (MIN [...] | 2007-08-22 12:09:00 | Embassy Yaounde | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PREF PGOV CM |
07YAOUNDE106 | CAMEROON: SUPPORTING HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS [...] (U) Poloff met with Felix-fils Eboa Ebongue of Foreign Ministry (MINREX) on January 17 to discuss points outlined in reftel. Ebongue said he would convey the U.S. concerns to the Ministry. He pointed out that NGOs receive protection under the new penal code, which was promulgated January 1. [...] | 2007-01-25 12:38:00 | Embassy Yaounde | UNCLASSIFIED | CM KDEM PHUM PREL |
07YAOUNDE1061 | CAMEROON: POST CONTINUES TO LOBBY GRC, SABGA MEN [...] (U) Summary. Charge and Mission staff have continued to raise the Sabga issue (reftels) with contacts in the GRC, but there has been no formal response. The group of men is still camped in front of the Embassy compound. The President of the leading national Mbororo organization called Polo [...] | 2007-08-24 14:00:00 | Embassy Yaounde | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PREF PGOV CM |
07YAOUNDE1065 | CAMEROON AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE: DESPITE [...] (SBU) Summary. The Government of Cameroon's interministerial committee (CIM, French acronym) for avian influenza (AI) is better poised to respond to an AI outbreak than it was last year, due to substantial training and assistance from USAID, NAMRU-3 (reftel),CDC, APHIS and others, includin [...] | 2007-08-28 09:01:00 | Embassy Yaounde | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU TBIO EAGR SENV AMED CASC KSCA CM |
07YAOUNDE1112 | CAMEROON LIKELY TO OBJECT TO COST OF MARITIME [...] (U) Poloff met with Chantal Nama, Sub-Director in the Bureau of UN Affairs at the Foreign Ministry on August 31 and to discuss reftel talking points. Nama promised to pass the information to the Department of Customs at the Ministry of Economy and Finance to assess Cameroon's capacity to adh [...] | 2007-09-10 13:51:00 | Embassy Yaounde | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EWWT AMGT PTER CM |
07YAOUNDE1116 | FORMER CANADIAN PM ON CONGO BASIN VISIT, ENDS UP [...] (SBU) Summary. Former Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin visited Cameroon September 9-12 on a familiarization trip in his new role as a co-chair (with Kenyan Minister and Noble Laureate Wangari Maathai) of the Congo Basin Forest Partnership (CBFP). In a meeting where donor representatives [...] | 2007-09-12 11:34:00 | Embassy Yaounde | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAID KCOR ECON CM |
07YAOUNDE1140 | BIYA LAYS OUT VISION FOR CAMEROON'S DEVELOPMENT [...] (SBU) Summary. In a rare publicized meeting with his cabinet, President Paul Biya on September 12 ordered his new government to focus on achieving more robust economic growth, progress on social issues like health and education, and better governance, including increased efforts against ant [...] | 2007-09-18 10:48:00 | Embassy Yaounde | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KMCC PREL PINR ECON ETRD EINV CM |
07YAOUNDE1159 | CAMEROON TO ANNOUNCE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF [...] (U) The Government of Cameroon (GRC) has informed post that it will announce at the upcoming UNGA its plan to create an International School of Security Forces in Cameroon (with French support),focused on training police and gendarmes for peacekeeping operations in Africa. Cameroon is seeki [...] | 2007-09-21 09:44:00 | Embassy Yaounde | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC CM MASS PGOV PREL |
07YAOUNDE117 | CAMEROON: COTCO OIL SPILL TROUBLING CALM WATERS [...] (SBU) On January 19, Cameroonian newspapers reported an oil spill from the Cameroon Oil Transportation Company (COTCO) off the coast of Cameroon near Kribi. COTCO Managing Director Jacky Lesage informed the Embassy that the spill took place some time during the night of January 14-15 from a [...] | 2007-01-29 12:33:00 | Embassy Yaounde | UNCLASSIFIED | EPET SENV CM |
07YAOUNDE1196 | CAMEROON INTERESTED IN JOINING THE COALITION [...] (U) In a September 11 letter, Minister of Forestry and Wildlife Elvis Ngolle Ngolle responded to A/S McMurray's invitation (ref A) asking Cameroon to join the Coalition against Wildlife Trafficking (CAWT). The letter declared the Ministry's interest in participating in CAWT, stating that CAW [...] | 2007-10-03 13:31:00 | Embassy Yaounde | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV PREL CM |
07YAOUNDE1257 | TRADITIONAL MUSLIM LEADER SALUTES PEACE CORPS, US POLICY [...] (U) Summary: The image of the USG among Muslims in the Mokolo Division of Cameroon's Extreme North Province is largely positive, thanks to the work of Peace Corps volunteers, US Embassy outspokenness on democracy and anti-corruption, and small-grant development efforts, according to Yacouba [...] | 2007-10-22 08:25:00 | Embassy Yaounde | UNCLASSIFIED | KISL KPAO PREL EAID CM |
07YAOUNDE1269 | CAMEROON VISA FRAUD: NOT ENOUGH HANDCUFFS [...] (U) Summary: Three recently uncovered visa scams highlight the ongoing efforts of malafide Cameroonian travelers to emigrate illegally to the United States. Excellent support from the Regional Security Office, collaboration with local law enforcement and vigilance by consular employees are key [...] | 2007-10-24 10:33:00 | Embassy Yaounde | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS ASEC KFRD CMGT ECON PHUM KPAO CM |
07YAOUNDE1304 | WHICH VISA LOTTERY? CONSULAR OUTREACH IN CAMEROON [...] (U) Summary: Although Embassy Yaounde visa procedures are of intense interest to Cameroonians and are readily available from multiple sources, they are often distorted in the public eye, usually by scam artists who prey on the desperation and ignorance of many applicants. This phenomenon is mo [...] | 2007-11-02 06:35:00 | Embassy Yaounde | UNCLASSIFIED | CMGT CVIS KFRD KPAO ECON CM |
07YAOUNDE32 | CAMEROON: PRESIDENT BIYA'S NEW YEAR'S MESSAGE [...] (U) President Biya delivered his New Year's message to the diplomatic corps January 4, which largely echoed his New Year's address to the nation (septel). In his 20 minute remarks he named the June 12 Greentree Agreement on Bakassi and reaching the HIPC Completion Point in April as Cameroon' [...] | 2007-01-08 15:23:00 | Embassy Yaounde | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PBTS ECON CM NI TBIO SENV |
07YAOUNDE492 | CAMEROON: INDEPENDENT ELECTORAL COMMISSION ONE [...] (U) Prime Minister Ephraim Inoni issued a decision April 16 creating an inter-ministerial ad hoc committee to facilitate the implementation of ELECAM (Elections Cameroon),the independent electoral commission announced in December. The ad hoc committee has 45 days (maximum) to complete its ta [...] | 2007-04-17 16:25:00 | Embassy Yaounde | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV CM |
07YAOUNDE539 | POACHERS BEWARE: CAMEROON'S LAST GREAT APE IS ON [...] (U) Summary. Cameroon's Last Great Ape (LAGA) organization deploys passionate staff and proven law enforcement techniques to achieve spectacular results in prosecuting wildlife traffickers in Cameroon and, increasingly, the Central African region. In their unorthodox pursuit of wildlife tr [...] | 2007-04-27 10:49:00 | Embassy Yaounde | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV KCOR SNAR PHUM PARM EAID PGOV CM |
07YAOUNDE61 | CAMEROON: AMBASSADOR AND FINANCE MINISTER DISCUSS [...] (U) Summary: On January 17, the Ambassador and Finance Minister Abah Abah discussed Cameroon's revised, updated action plan to qualify for the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) and the ongoing anti-corruption and good governance efforts of the government of Cameroon (GRC). The Minister sa [...] | 2007-01-17 16:14:00 | Embassy Yaounde | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL PGOV ETRD ECON KMCA CM |
07YAOUNDE62 | CAMEROON: SIGNATURE OF BILATERAL DEBT FORGIVENESS [...] (U) On January 17, the Ambassador and Minister of Economy and Finance Polycarpe Abah Abah signed an agreement forgiving Cameroon's official bilateral debt to the United States. The debt forgiveness stems from Cameroon's attainment of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative Com [...] | 2007-01-17 16:20:00 | Embassy Yaounde | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL PGOV ETRD ECON CM |
07YAOUNDE689 | CAMEROON SEEKS USG SUPPORT FOR CANDIDATE TO WORLD [...] (U) In a May 22 diplomatic note, the Government of Cameroon (GRC) announced the candidacy of Mr. Antoine Marie Manga Massina for the post of Director of Tariff and Trade Affairs at the Secretariat of the World Customs Organization (WCO) and requested USG support for his candidacy. This mess [...] | 2007-06-01 11:47:00 | Embassy Yaounde | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ETRD CM |
07YAOUNDE766 | 2007 TIP REPORT: CAMEROON DEMARCHE [...] (U) Embassy delivered the advance copy of the Country Narrative for Cameroon to Joe Nzume, Head of the Americas Division at the foreign ministry (MINREX) on June 12 by fax. 2. (U) In addition, DCM addressed government leaders at an event jointly sponsored by the government of Cameroon and [...] | 2007-06-15 07:45:00 | Embassy Yaounde | UNCLASSIFIED | CM ELAB KCRM KPAO KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL |
07YAOUNDE837 | CAMEROON'S COCOA SECTOR: ECONOMIC AND LABOR ISSUES [...] (U) PolOff recently met with Bill Guyton, president of the World Cocoa Foundation (WCF) and separately with representatives from the USDA's Agricultural Research Service (ARS). The USDA's focus is on disease prevention in the cocoa sector, while WCF addresses primarily world market developme [...] | 2007-06-29 11:17:00 | Embassy Yaounde | UNCLASSIFIED | CM ELAB ECON EAGR PHUM |
07YAOUNDE902 | CAMEROON ELECTIONS ON JULY 22; NUTS, BOLTS, AND [...] (U) Summary. Cameroonians will go to the polls on Sunday, July 22 to elect their representatives to the National Assembly (Parliament) and to municipal councils nationwide (reftels). Post will field 11 observer teams across all ten provinces, many working in coordination with other diploma [...] | 2007-07-19 13:22:00 | Embassy Yaounde | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PINR KMCC PREL CM |
07YAOUNDE927 | CAMEROON/DEMARCHE DELIVERED: PRESSING FOR [...] (U) Charge d'Affaires (CDA) a.i. delivered reftel demarche to Secretary General at the Ministry of Foreign Relations (MINREX) Martin Mpana during a July 24 meeting. Mpana recalled that Cameroon had updated the terrorism-related provisions of domestic law after the September 11th attacks and [...] | 2007-07-26 13:51:00 | Embassy Yaounde | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER KNNP MCAP PINR PINS PARM PREL CM |
07YAOUNDE960 | CAMEROON: M'BORORO REFUGEE TRAIL OF TEARS POURS [...] (U) Summary. Refugees from the Central African Republic (CAR) are crossing Cameroon's eastern border in increasingly large numbers. They are the victims of escalating violence, and their situation has worsened despite continued aid from NGOs. Aid operations are impeded by the tenuous secur [...] | 2007-08-02 14:40:00 | Embassy Yaounde | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PHUM PGOV CM CT |
07YAOUNDE974 | CAMEROON: M'BORORO REFUGEE TRAIL OF TEARS POURS [...] (U) Summary. Refugees from the Central African Republic (CAR) are crossing Cameroon's eastern border in increasingly large numbers. They are the victims of escalating violence, and their situation has worsened despite continued aid from NGOs. Aid operations are impeded by the tenuous secur [...] | 2007-08-06 12:19:00 | Embassy Yaounde | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PHUM PGOV CM CT |
07YEREVAN1008 | ARMENIA HAS SIGNED, STILL WORKING TO RATIFY, [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-08 05:56:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PARM PINS PINT MCAP KNNP AM |
07YEREVAN1062 | 8/28 UPDATE ON AFRICAN SWINE FEVER OUTBREAK IN ARMENIA [...] The Russian government has confirmed that the suspect virus affecting swine in Armenia is in fact ASF. The testing was done at a laboratory at the Institute of Virology and Microbiology in Pokrov. Upon receipt of an official letter, Armenia will be obligated to inform the World Veterinary Org [...] | 2007-08-28 13:11:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAID SENV TBIO KFLU AM |
07YEREVAN1093 | MACROECONOMIC OVERVIEW FOR THE FIRST HALF OF 2007 [...] (SBU) Double-digit expansion of Armenia's economy continued in the first half of 2007, with GDP growth equal to 11.2 percent year-on-year. As in the previous year, the growth was driven mostly by construction and services. The inflation rate in June was 4.8 percent year-on-year, due to rising [...] | 2007-08-31 12:55:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EAID |
07YEREVAN1134 | SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES REPORT-ODC ARMENIA-August 2007 [...] EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Harris Radio End-Use-Monitoring inspections conducted with 100% verification; Crisis Response Survey Conducted; Developing FMF FY08 Letters of Request with Armenian MOD ; Three JCTP events conducted in Aug; Awaiting Letter of Agreement for Excess Defense Articles (EDA) to b [...] | 2007-09-12 03:08:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | MCAP KCFE XG AM |
07YEREVAN1135 | ARMENIA NEWS HIGHLIGHTS: SEPTEMBER 1-12, 2007 [...] TABLE OF CONTENTS POLITICAL NEWS: -- FM: Armenia ready for an "effective political dialogue" with NATO, will double Kosovo contingent by year's end -- "Inauguration" Day in "NKR" -- Air Tax to take flight? -- Be careful with that!: GOAM reaction to more Turkish "reconstructions" [...] | 2007-09-12 07:26:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON ETRD EINV AM TU |
07YEREVAN116 | IMPROVING U.S. DIPLOMACY ON INDOOR AIR POLLUTION [...] Post delivered reftel points to Head of the Department of Air Pollution at the Ministry of Nature Protection Aram Gabrielian. Post's assessment of GOAM commitment to reduce indoor air pollution and summary of recent projects in this area are provided below. --------------- GOAM COMMITMENT - [...] | 2007-02-02 11:52:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV TBIO AID AM |
07YEREVAN126 | SURVEY FINDS ARMENIANS LESS TOLERANT OF CORRUPTION [...] Armenians are becoming less tolerant of corruption, according to a Transparency International Armenia (TIA) survey released January 31. The most striking symbol of their mounting dissatisfaction was respondents' answers to a question regarding the most visible and common manifestation of Arme [...] | 2007-02-06 06:19:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KCOR SOCI AM |
07YEREVAN1268 | SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES REPORT-ODC ARMENIA-September 2007 [...] EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: PAP-DIB Survey conducted; IMET graduate reception; Humanitarian Assistance events conducted with KSNG; FY08 FMF Letter of Request being finalized; One JCTP and two SPP events conducted in Sep; Letter of Agreement for Excess Defense Articles (EDA) still in DoS Legal. 2. [...] | 2007-10-19 12:59:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | MCAP KCFE XG AM |
07YEREVAN1313 | DESIGNATIONS OF IRANIAN ENTITIES AND INDIVIDUALS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-01 13:04:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PARM EFIN KNNP IR AM |
07YEREVAN132 | SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES REPORT-ODC ARMENIA-JANUARY 2007 [...] EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Expeditionary Medical Services (EMEDS) contingency hospital training conducted in Armenia on 31 Jan - 4 Feb 07. WIF funded personnel reform seminar coordinations on track. FMF AM-B-BAA Peacekeeping battalion equipment delivery not yet completed. NCO program development mee [...] | 2007-02-06 11:45:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | MCAP KCFE XG AM |
07YEREVAN1333 | SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES REPORT-ODC ARMENIA-October 2007 [...] EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Letter of Request totaling $6.8M of FMF for Peacekeeping equipment and radios requested for Armenian Peacekeeping Brigade; Review of Armenian National Military Doctrine conducted; DASD Cagan visit; Letter of Agreement for Excess Defense Articles (EDA) still awaits State Dep [...] | 2007-11-07 08:21:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | MCAP KCFE XG AM |
07YEREVAN1346 | ARMENIAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION ANNOUNCED FOR FEBRUARY 19, [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-09 13:17:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM AM |
07YEREVAN1405 | ARMENIAN PARTICIPATION IN THE DECEMBER 4-6 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-05 05:58:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR KFLU EAID TBIO PREL XX AM |
07YEREVAN1412 | SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES REPORT-ODC ARMENIA-November 2007 [...] EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Letter of Agreement (LOA) totaling $6.8M in FMF for Peacekeeping equipment and radios signed by ARM MOD; Letter of Agreement for Excess Defense Articles (EDA) approved; Letter of Request (LOR) received from ARM MOD requesting additional EDA trucks forwarded to USASAC; ARM M [...] | 2007-12-07 06:00:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | MCAP KCFE XG AM |
07YEREVAN1437 | ARMENIA ADOPTS NEW ANTI-TRAFFICKING NATIONAL ACTION PLAN [...] On December 6, Armenia's government approved the new 2007-2008 National Plan of Action (NPA) on Combating Trafficking in Persons (TIP). Armen Baiburtyan, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, presented the NPA on behalf of the government, and said the new NPA will focus more on the implement [...] | 2007-12-18 03:18:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KTIP KCRM HSTC AM |
07YEREVAN1471 | ARMENIA'S GROWING INSURANCE SECTOR [...] Despite the rapid growth of Armenia's banking sector and GDP over the past several years, other financial services, including insurance, have developed more slowly. Insurance remains a small part of the financial sector and plays a minor role in financial intermediation. Encouragingly, the tr [...] | 2007-12-27 06:31:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN AM |
07YEREVAN1472 | SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES REPORT-ODC ARMENIA-DECEMBER 2007 [...] EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Joint Visual Inspection for Excess Defense Article (EDA) trucks conducted; EMEDS IPR conducted in San Antonio; ARM MOD cancels EDA UH-1H helicopter request; Dec SPP event postponed until Jan 08. 2. SIGNIFICANT EVENTS A. On 17-18 Dec 07 the ODC Chief and two repr [...] | 2007-12-27 12:51:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | MCAP KCFE XG AM |
07YEREVAN150 | NOMINEE FOR CONFERENCE IN EUROPEN ON MODERN [...] 1. Post would like to nominate Armen Yedigarian, Director of the Arms Control and National Security Department at the MFA (roughly U.S. Assistant Secretary equivalent),for the Marshall Center European conference on insurgency March 26-27. Yedigarian is a knowledgeable, effective, and influen [...] | 2007-02-12 13:07:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PINS PREL PROP PTER NATEU MARR MOPS KISL |
07YEREVAN151 | PALESTINIAN UNITY GOVERNMENT POINTS DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-12 13:07:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KISL KPAL KWBG IS AM |
07YEREVAN167 | FUNDING REQUEST FOR AI HEALTH AWARENESS PSAS [...] Per ref A announcement, Embassy Yerevan would like to request USD 50,000 for the development and broadcast of television Public Service Announcements (PSAs) on health and food safety issues related to Avian Influenza. While UNICEF and others have produced posters and leaflets targeted at chil [...] | 2007-02-15 13:37:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | AM KFLU KPAO |
07YEREVAN209 | JOURNALIST WINS COURT CASE ON FREEDOM OF [...] The head of Armenia's independent Asparez Press Club won a freedom of information case against several village mayors in the Shirak region on February 23. The mayors had denied press club director Levon Barseghyan's requests for copies of the village budgets. The court ruled that the mayors h [...] | 2007-02-27 13:02:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM AM |
07YEREVAN21 | PRESIDENT KOCHARIAN'S NEW YEAR'S EVE REMARKS [...] SUMMARY: President Kocharian's New Year's Eve remarks reiterated his call for free and fair parliamentary elections in 2007, and for deepening Armenia's political and economic reforms, especially for competitive markets, judicial reform, and anti-corruption. He said that government-paid salari [...] | 2007-01-08 11:43:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM AM |
07YEREVAN251 | HOW LONG CAN THIS GO ON? ARMENIA'S CONTINUED DOUBLE- [...] Armenia's economy continued its significant expansion in 2006, with GDP up by 13.4 percent, the fifth consecutive year of double-digit growth. As in previous years, construction, much of which is funded by remittances, was the primary driver of growth, up by 37 percent and accounting for 26 pe [...] | 2007-03-05 06:28:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EAID |
07YEREVAN300 | ARMENIA: MEDIA REACTION ON MCC VP JOHN HEWKO'S VISIT [...] MCC Vice President for Operations John Hewko visited Armenia March 7-9. As part of his visit, Hewko held a press conference that was covered extensively by the major television stations, three newspapers, and a number of news agencies. Press reports focused on Hewko's statement that the MCC [...] | 2007-03-14 14:09:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC AM KMDR KPAO |
07YEREVAN320 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UN INTERNAL ADMINISTRATION OF [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-16 12:37:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | ACABQ AORC APER PREL UNGA AM |
07YEREVAN332 | ARMENIA CELEBRATES NATO WEEK (WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM ITS [...] (SBU) Embassy Yerevan provided key support to ensure that Armenia's first "NATO Week," held March 12-16, was a success. The Week was launched with the NATO - Armenia Youth Educational Rally, featuring the departure of a NATO bus that traveled from one end of Armenia to the other giving present [...] | 2007-03-19 14:36:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM KPAO NATO AM |
07YEREVAN339 | LOW-KEY MEDIA COVERAGE OF IRAN-ARMENIA PIPELINE CEREMONY [...] The March 20 Iran-Armenia pipeline inauguration ceremony, led by Presidents Kocharian and Ahmadinejad, offered surprisingly little fodder for Armenian media. The ceremony was short. The two presidents did not deliver their prepared remarks, apparently because of bad weather at the outdoor si [...] | 2007-03-20 13:57:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC PREL ENRG EPET EINV IR AM |
07YEREVAN349 | ARMENIA GRANTS LEGAL STANDING TO THE ARMENIAN CHURCH [...] The Armenian Church, which counts among its fold the vast majority of Armenians both in the homeland and in the diaspora, until earlier this month had no legal standing in Armenia. A law signed March 14 by the president granted legal standing, but did not grant the Church status as the only st [...] | 2007-03-23 07:57:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM AM |
07YEREVAN358 | SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES REPORT-ODC ARMENIA-MARCH 2007 [...] EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: ODC Armenia conducted Bilateral Country Planning Conference in Yerevan; LOA for AM-B-UAB Harris radio case for 12th Peacekeeping BN signed and returned 27 Mar; LOA for AM-B-OAA blanket training case signed and returned 27 Mar. New Budget Analyst/Admin Assistant hired. 2. [...] | 2007-03-27 08:08:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | MCAP KCFE XG AM |
07YEREVAN405 | ARMENIA JOINS THE GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT [...] Post met with Head of Global Security at the MFA Arshak Manukyan to discuss the Global Initiative to Combat Acts of Nuclear Terrorism (GICANT) and conference scheduled for June 11-15, 2007 (refs). Manukyan confirmed that Armenia fully supports GICANT and the Statement of Principles. According [...] | 2007-04-04 12:04:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER KNNP MCAP PARM PREL AM |
07YEREVAN44 | ARMENIA INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT, 2007 [...] (U) Following is our submission per reftel for the 2007 Investment Climate Statement for Armenia. ---------- BEGIN TEXT ---------- Foreign investment in Armenia has steadily increased from USD 70 million in 2001 to USD 297 million as of September 2006, according to data from the National [...] | 2007-01-12 12:47:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV OPIC USTR AM |
07YEREVAN442 | ARMENIA JOINS INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION ON PROTECTION AND [...] Armenia joined the International Convention on Protection and Promotion of Rights and Dignity of Disabled Persons March 30, the first day of its signing. (NOTE: The convention was adopted by the UN General Assembly in December. END NOTE.) Armenia also signed the Optional Protocol. The conv [...] | 2007-04-12 11:26:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM AM |
07YEREVAN457 | NIGHT OF 1000 DINNERS RECEPTION RAISES FUNDS FOR NGO'S [...] (U) Summary: At a fundraising reception held as part of the Night of 1000 Dinners (reftel),Post helped raise over 4,000 USD for the Armenian Red Cross Society, a local NGO working to reduce landmine casualties through a Mine Risk Education program. The event drew more than 70 guests, includi [...] | 2007-04-16 12:40:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | DMIN PHUM KMDR KPAO EAID KHDP MASS PARM PREL AM |
07YEREVAN502 | ARMENIA: POINTS OF CONTACT FOR GLOBAL INITIATIVE [...] Post delivered reftel points to MFA Global Security and Non-Conventional Issues Division chief Arshak Manoukian on April 20. 2. Armenian Government points of contact for Global Initiative issues are: Primary: Arshak Manoukian, Global Security and Non-Conventional Issues Division Chief, [...] | 2007-04-25 12:38:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PARM ETTC PREL KGIC AM |
07YEREVAN510 | ARMENIA UNLIKELY TO PARTICIPATE IN NUCLEAR [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-26 06:20:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP MNUC ASEC ENRG PARM AM |
07YEREVAN520 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: NPT PREPCOM [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-26 12:14:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | MNUC PARM PREL AM ENRG KNNP |
07YEREVAN526 | NEW WAY FORWARD ON IRAQ [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-27 09:40:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR MASS MOPS PREL PTER AM |
07YEREVAN566 | SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES REPORT-ODC ARMENIA-April 2007 [...] EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: ODC Armenia conducted visit of Defense Reutilization Management Office and Excess Defense Article stockyard in Kaiserslautern; FY08 Counter Terrorism Fellowship Program plan developed at TPMR; Letter of Request for equipping Nuclear Biological and Chemical defense platoon se [...] | 2007-05-07 09:54:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | MCAP KCFE XG AM |
07YEREVAN604 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON KEY U.S. OBJECTIVES AT THE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-11 12:14:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO AORC PREL KFLU WHO AM |
07YEREVAN646 | ARMENIA: ENTRY INTO FORCE OF THE AGREEMENT ON THE [...] According to Armenian Diplomatic Note 16/05822 dated May 14, 2007 and received at the Embassy on May 17, 2007, Armenia has completed the formalities required for entry into force of the agreement on the exchange of technical information and cooperation in nuclear safety matters. 2. The sub [...] | 2007-05-17 11:37:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ENRG ECON AM |
07YEREVAN653 | ARMENIA WILL PARTICIPATE IN OSCE PPP CONFERENCE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-18 12:33:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | OSCE PREL PTER ABUD AFIN RS SP AM |
07YEREVAN688 | DEMARCHES DELIVERED: NEW GLOBAL INITATIVE PARTNERS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-30 04:05:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KGIT PARM PREL PTER IC NO SZ AM |
07YEREVAN698 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: NEW WORLD BANK PRESIDENT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-30 12:10:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN IBRD AM |
07YEREVAN699 | MARKING FOURTH ANNIVERSARY OF PSI WITH AN OP-ED [...] Post concluded the best way to accomplish reftel goals was to place an op-ed from the CDA in the governmental newspaper Hayastan Hanrepetutyun, which we also conveyed as a courtesy to the MFA's International Security Department. The op-ed ran on May 30. Complete text follows. 2. TEXT OF [...] | 2007-05-30 12:16:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL MNUC KNNP XG AM |
07YEREVAN720 | HR DEFENDER'S OFFICE CREATES MILITARY POSITION [...] The Armenian government has created a new position within the office of Human Rights Defender (ombudsman) Armen Harutyunyan intended to follow up complaints of human rights abuses in the ranks of the Armenian military. The Ministry of Defense proposed the position to the ombudsman in late 200 [...] | 2007-06-01 09:37:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM MARR AM |
07YEREVAN735 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: GLOBAL INITIATIVE [...] (U) We delivered reftel information to Arshak Manukyan, head of the MFA's Division of Non-Conventional Arms and Global Security, who thanked us for the update. GODFREY [...] | 2007-06-05 10:25:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER KGIC PARM PREL FI PL PO SW AM |
07YEREVAN77 | OPENING THE TURKISH-ARMENIAN BORDER: BUSINESSES AND [...] On January 13 and 14 the Armenian International Policy Research Group (AIPRG),with funding from USAID, the British Embassy, and the Eurasia Foundation, held a conference on "The Economic and Social Consequences of Opening the Armenia-Turkish Border." While the caliber of the papers was mixed, [...] | 2007-01-23 06:49:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EINV ELNT PGOV PREL TU GG AM |
07YEREVAN779 | CIVAIR: REVISED TEXT OF U.S.-ARMENIAN AVIATION SECURITY [...] On June 8, 2007, we delivered reftel talking points and the revised draft U.S.-Armenian security agreement to the Director General of Civil Aviation, Artyom Movsesyan, and the Deputy Director General of Civil Aviation for Security, Arsen Poghosyan. 2. Movsesyan indicated that all the propose [...] | 2007-06-15 11:02:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR KTIA AM |
07YEREVAN785 | SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES REPORT-ODC ARMENIA-May 2007 [...] The Letters of Request (LOR) for two FMF cases designed to enhance the Armenian EMEDS were forwarded to DSCA and SAF/IA on 23 May. One case is an amendment to the existing AM-D-EAA equipment case. This amendment will acquire additional medical and deployment equipment that will improve the capa [...] | 2007-06-18 02:45:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | MCAP KCFE XG AM |
07YEREVAN81 | ARMENIANS REMEMBER HRANT DINK WITH VIGILS, MARCHES [...] Bearing signs that read "We are all Hrants," in acknowledgment of similar slogans borne by protesters in Istanbul, several thousand Armenians attended a January 23 memorial gathering for slain Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink at Yerevan's Freedom Square. Event organizers, a small ad hoc [...] | 2007-01-24 10:42:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM PGOV TU AM |
07YEREVAN884 | NEW CHALLENGE TO RADIO LIBERTY BROADCASTS [...] SUMMARY: Radio Liberty's Armenian Service is again in jeopardy, as the state radio service gave 30 days notice of its intent to pull Radio Liberty off the air. The notice implies that the reason is Radio Liberty's unpaid bills to the public radio service, which now amount to either $76,000 ( [...] | 2007-07-10 12:36:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM KPAO AM |
07YEREVAN893 | SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES REPORT-ODC ARMENIA-June 2007 [...] EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Bilateral Defense Consultations (BDC) held in Wash DC; South Caucasus and Moldova Clearing House (SCMCH) conducted in Tbilisi; U.S. Assessment of Armenian English language program concluded; ODC escorts key MOD leaders to DLI in San Antonio; Letter of Agreement for Nuclear, [...] | 2007-07-13 05:51:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | MCAP KCFE XG AM |
07YEREVAN998 | SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES REPORT-ODC ARMENIA-July 2007 [...] EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Large FMF equipment shipment for 12th Peacekeeping Battalion arrives; Received Defense Language Institute assessment of Armenian English language training programs; Armenian OIF contingent deploys; Awaiting Letter of Agreement for Excess Defense Articles (EDA) to be approved [...] | 2007-08-07 10:32:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | MCAP KCFE XG AM |
07ZAGREB100 | CROATIA INTRODUCES SURCHARGES ON RECORDABLE [...] Summary: Croatia has implemented a system of surcharges on recordable media (CDs, DVDs, burners, etc.) in an effort to offset the losses to the entertainment industry from digital piracy. The new system of surcharges went into effect on January 1, 2007 and is evaluated bi-monthly to assess [...] | 2007-01-29 15:05:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON KIPR ETRD HR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY |
07ZAGREB1013 | NO EXPECTATIONS OF MAJOR CHANGES TO UNGA [...] Ref points were delivered to Andrej Dogan at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration - Department of the United Nations on 15 November 2007. Dogan does not expect the GOC to support amendments watering down or otherwise altering the focus of the UNGA Third Committee resolutio [...] | 2007-11-15 13:45:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC KWMN SOCI UNGA |
07ZAGREB1015 | EXBS: CROATIA/SLOVAKIA/SLOVENIA ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING [...] SITE ASSESSMENTS AND MEETINGS Croatia ----18 October, met with the Ministry of Interior (MoI) General Police Directorate, Deputy Head of Border Police to present the Coast Guard Toughbook computer donation and finalize coordination of the Coast Guard Port Asset Protection and Security Tra [...] | 2007-11-16 14:20:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP HR LO SI |
07ZAGREB1017 | CROATIA WILL SUPPORT U.S. FOR IMO COUNCIL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-19 08:23:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC IMO EWWT PHSA UK HR |
07ZAGREB1019 | (U) DEMARCHE ON UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-20 08:22:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIA PHUM PREL HR |
07ZAGREB1025 | PRELIMINARY REPORT OF ODIHR LIMITED ELECTION [...] SUMMARY: The OSCE/ODIHR's Limited Election Observation Mission (LEOM) to Croatia released its interim report on November 20. All indicators point toward free and fair elections conducted in line with the established legal framework, but the report does draw particular attention to the new La [...] | 2007-11-21 11:44:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV HR OSCE POLITICAL PARTIES ELECTIONS |
07ZAGREB1034 | GLOBAL INITIATIVE - DETECTION ARCHITECTURE [...] Post delivered reftel document to Assistant Minister of Foreign Affairs Pjer Simunovic November 20 and he repeated GoC support for the Global Initiative. Just ahead of November 25 Parliamentary elections, he was unable to name a definitive POC or commit to attendance at the proposed January w [...] | 2007-11-23 15:19:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PTER EAIR ETRD EWWT PREL PINR PINS HR |
07ZAGREB1040 | CODEL TANNER - CROATIA STOPS (FEB 21-24, 2008) [...] Embassy Zagreb welcomes the planned visit of CODEL Tanner to Croatia (Zagreb/Dubrovnik) February 21-24, 2008. 2. Embassy Zagreb control officer for this CODEL will be Political Officer Tom Selinger. (Office: 385-1-661-2260; Fax: 385-1-661-2178; Home: 385-1-467-4396; Cell: 385-91-455-1017; [...] | 2007-11-28 11:51:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN NATO AORC BE FR HR |
07ZAGREB1042 | NO SUBSTANTIVE RESPONSE ON ELECTION FOR THE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-28 15:17:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL UNGA |
07ZAGREB1043 | CROATIAN UNEMPLOYMENT DOWN BUT STILL HIGH [...] SUMMARY: Despite a steady decline in recent years, the Croatian unemployment rate remains high, at 11.8%. One contributing factor is a mismatch between the skills job-seekers have and those employers want. The mismatch stems from two situations: students are pursuing the "wrong" majors, and wor [...] | 2007-11-28 16:27:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV ELAB HR |
07ZAGREB1044 | CROATIA 2007 INCSR REPORT - PART II: FINANCIAL CRIMES AND [...] Below is post's submission per reftel of part II of the INCSR on money laundering. 2. Croatia is a middle income transition economy that is neither a financial center nor a venue of choice for money laundering activities. Tourism and services make up the largest portion of GDP. Croatian [...] | 2007-11-29 07:36:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN KCRM KTFN HR |
07ZAGREB1045 | GOC WILL NOT ATTEND NEW DELHI CONFERENCE ON AVIAN AND [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-29 09:37:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR KFLU EAID TBIO PREL HR |
07ZAGREB1049 | UPDATE OF WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR: CROATIA [...] Summary: Child labor is not a significant problem in Croatia. Croatia has a strong institutional and legal framework for protecting the rights of minors and a good track record of taking action to prevent child labor. Problems are isolated and infrequent and are addressed effectively by author [...] | 2007-11-30 12:08:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI USAID HR |
07ZAGREB1050 | CROATIA TO FOLLOW EU ON UNGA RESOLUTIONS WITH [...] Ref points were delivered to Andrej Dogan at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration - Department of the United Nations on 29 November 2007. The GOC plans to vote with the EU on all of the referenced UNGA resolutions. BRADTKE [...] | 2007-11-30 13:34:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL UNGA IS |
07ZAGREB1053 | Police Make Major Seizures of Heroin, Cocaine [...] Last week Croatian Police announced the seizure of seven kilograms of heroin in two border searches into Croatia. In one action on 22 November, border police apprehended two Macedonians who were crossing the Serbian-Croatian border at Bajakovo with 2 kilograms of heroin, Heptanon and other nar [...] | 2007-11-30 14:45:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM SNAR PREL PGOV HR |
07ZAGREB1069 | CROATIAN SUPPORT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS RESOLUTIONS IN [...] Ref A points were delivered to Andrej Dogan at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration - Department of the United Nations on 10 December 2007. The GOC, which supported the resolutions discussed in refs, plans to be present during the Plenary vote in mid-December. BRADTKE [...] | 2007-12-10 14:05:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV UNGA |
07ZAGREB1070 | ZAGREB TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION OFFICERS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-12 10:39:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ETTC PTER KTFN HR |
07ZAGREB1082 | PRIME MINISTER SANADER RECEIVES MANDATE TO TRY AND [...] As forecast in REF A, on December 15 President Stipe Mesic gave the mandate to Prime Minister Ivo Sanader to try and form a new government led by Sanader's HDZ party, based on the results of Croatia's November 25 parliamentary elections. The official final results of the Nov. 25 elections have [...] | 2007-12-17 15:00:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV HR |
07ZAGREB1087 | NO CHANGE IN PLENARY VOTE ON FUNDING OF DURBAN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-18 14:15:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL UNGA |
07ZAGREB1089 | ZAGREB WEEKLY ACTIVITY REPORT - DECEMBER 19, 2007 [...] (U) RETURN TO SENDER - CROATIA PROTESTS ITALIAN STAMP: On 12 December 2007 the Croatian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration sent a letter of protest to the Italian Republic over the issuance of a postage stamp. The stamp, issued by the Italian Post Office, depicts the Croatia [...] | 2007-12-19 13:34:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV HR |
07ZAGREB1094 | CROATIAN ELECTIONS: CAMPAIGN SPENDING FIGURES AND [...] Following the November 25 parliamentary elections in Croatia, Transparency International Croatia (TIH) and GONG, an election monitoring organization, have published their report on campaign spending. During the official campaign season 3 - 23 November, Croatian political parties spent more t [...] | 2007-12-21 13:35:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV HR |
07ZAGREB112 | CROATIA KEEPS TOURISM INDUSTRY AT THE FOREFRONT [...] Summary. Croatian officials are proclaiming 2006 as another banner year for tourism while, at the same time, warning the industry not to rest on its laurels and encouraging improvements in existing facilities and infrastructure, green-field investments and creation of new products and services. [...] | 2007-02-01 14:05:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV EIND HR |
07ZAGREB12 | CROATIA WILL FOLLOW EU LEAD ON DRONABINOL AND ORIPAVIN [...] Reftel points were delivered to Andrej Dogan at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration - Department for the United Nations on December 8, 2006. Government of Croatia responded to points on January 4, 2007. As Croatia is in the process of negotiation with the EU regarding beco [...] | 2007-01-04 12:42:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SNAR UNCND UNCRIME HR EU |
07ZAGREB131 | SHIPBOARDING AGREEMENT RATIFIED, PSI EXERCISE IN [...] Parliament on February 2 ratified the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) Shipboarding Agreement that the GoC had signed with the USG in June 2005. The reciprocal agreement, which facilitates PSI cooperation by establishing contacts and procedures to expedite requests to board and search [...] | 2007-02-06 07:18:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL KNNP MNUC HR NON PROLIFERATION |
07ZAGREB143 | ZAGREB QUARTERLY FRAUD SUMMARY - OCTOBER 2006 - JANUARY [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-08 11:54:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | KFRD CVIS CPAS CMGT ASEC HR |
07ZAGREB164 | NEW VIGOR IN CROATIA IPR ENFORCEMENT [...] Summary and Comment: The number of criminal charges brought by the Croatian Ministry of Interior for violations of IPR statutes rose 89% in 2006. Although Croatia's legal framework for IPR protection is in accordance with international standards, enforcement has often lagged. The fact that mo [...] | 2007-02-13 15:03:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV KIPR HR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY |
07ZAGREB178 | EXBS: CROATIA/SLOVAKIA/SLOVENIA ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING [...] SITE ASSESSMENTS AND MEETINGS Croatia ----04 January, met with Minister of Interior (MoI),Deputy Head, Border Police (BP) Directorate, to discuss the FBI Terrorism and WMD Proliferation and Coast Guard Port Security trainings scheduled for January and February respectively, along with pl [...] | 2007-02-16 15:04:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP HR LO SI |
07ZAGREB189 | HOST COUNTRY PRACTICE SURVEY: CROATIA HAS NO EXPERIENCE [...] The Croatian Government recognizes the obligations of Article 36 of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations. MFA does routinely notify the Embassy of the arrest or detention of American citizens, though there may be a delay of several days between the detention and our receipt of MFA's not [...] | 2007-02-22 09:55:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC HR |
07ZAGREB19 | EMBASSY ZAGREB RESPONSE TO DOGGETT AMENDMENT INQUIRY [...] In response to reftel, there has been (1) no support of Croatia's tobacco control efforts, (2) no cases where post took action on behalf of tobacco or tobacco products, (3) no cases of tobacco industry requesting assistance from the U.S. Embassy and (4) no documents related to specific measures [...] | 2007-01-08 12:04:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON ETRD HR |
07ZAGREB193 | MFA HIGHLIGHTS NATO PUBLIC EDUCATION PLAN AT JOINT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-22 14:57:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | MOPS MARR NATO HR DEFENSE REFORM PGOV PREL |
07ZAGREB197 | CROATIA'S FURTHER EXTENSION OF INTERNATIONAL POLICE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-23 14:59:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KCRM HR IZ |
07ZAGREB202 | MARCH 2 ZAGREB MINISTERIAL TO ENDORSE NEW COOPERATIVE [...] Croatian MFA State Secretary Hidajet Biscevic previewed for the diplomatic corps February 26 the upcoming March 2 South East Europe Cooperative Process (SEECP) Foreign Ministerial. His presentation was brief but emphasized that regional relations have matured sufficiently to permit regional [...] | 2007-02-27 06:03:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON HR |
07ZAGREB224 | EXBS: CROATIA/SLOVAKIA/SLOVENIA ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING [...] SITE ASSESSMENTS AND MEETINGS Croatia ----02 February, accompanied the Minister of Interior (MoI),Deputy Head, Border Police (BP) Directorate, to Slovonia to meet with Osijek and Vinkovci District Chiefs to discuss border issues and monitor the opening session of the MoI Sensor Deploymen [...] | 2007-03-06 12:11:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP HR LO SI |
07ZAGREB25 | INFORMATION REGARDING UNSCR 1737 DELIVERED TO GOC [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-09 12:06:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MNUC HR IR |
07ZAGREB253 | DEMARCHE ON UN REFORM DELIVERED [...] Poloff delivered ref points on March 14 to Andrej Dogan, UN Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration. There was no immediate substantive response. Bradtke [...] | 2007-03-15 12:38:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC APER PREL ACABQ UNGA HR |
07ZAGREB262 | AUSTRALIA GROUP: CROATIAN GRATEFUL FOR U.S. SUPPORT FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-19 12:10:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL CBW ETTC HR |
07ZAGREB264 | ANTI-TIP TRAINING FOR CROATIAN JUDGES AND PROSECUTORS [...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Embassy Zagreb and the Government of Croatia (GOC) are working together to train Croatian prosecutors and judges in preventing and prosecuting trafficking in persons (TIP) crimes. Two specialized seminars for trial and investigative judges, as well as for prosecutors, were [...] | 2007-03-19 13:17:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL KCRM KWMN HR TRAFFICKING |
07ZAGREB265 | NATO ROUNDTABLE REFLECTS ENTIRE NGO SPECTRUM [...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Nearly 20 local NGOs and a dozen leading academics debated the pros and cons of Croatia's NATO candidacy at a March 13 roundtable organized by DEFIMI, a scientific research NGO focused on defense and security issues which receives some government funding. Participating NGO [...] | 2007-03-19 14:55:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MARR NATO HR DEFENSE REFORM |
07ZAGREB28 | CROATIAN ANTI-TIP EFFORTS PAY OFF IN 2006; 1 TIP and 2 [...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT: As part of the Government of Croatia's coherent and well-structured approach to fighting trafficking in persons (TIP),GOC successfully prosecuted several trafficking cases, increasing the numbers of TIP and TIP-related convictions to five in 2006. Embassy Zagreb commends G [...] | 2007-01-09 15:07:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM KWMN PHUM PREL HR TRAFFICKING |
07ZAGREB284 | CROATIA TO FOLLOW EU LEAD ON ZIMBABWE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-23 14:30:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM ZI HR HUMAN RIGHTS |
07ZAGREB285 | Commerce DAS Dyck meets Croatian Ministers of Economy and [...] SUMMARY: Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce Paul Dyck discussed possible investment opportunities in Croatia with Croatia's Minister of Economy and Minister of Finance. Dyck also commended Croatia for its economic progress, notably in working to resolve IPR issues. He also raised concerns e [...] | 2007-03-26 05:47:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EINV HR |
07ZAGREB294 | CROATIA FULLY SUPPORTIVE OF UNSCR 1747 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-27 15:24:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN PARM AORC KNNP IAEA MNUC UNSC IR HR |
07ZAGREB313 | AVIAN AND PANDEMIC INFLUENZA; STATE-DOD CONTACTS IN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-02 12:08:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU ECON MARR MASS CASC EAGR |
07ZAGREB329 | CENTCOM INVITATION TO CONFERENCE ON IRAQ DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-04 15:13:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR MOPS OTRA PREL IZ HR |
07ZAGREB349 | EXBS: CROATIA/SLOVAKIA/SLOVENIA ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING [...] SITE ASSESSMENTS AND MEETINGS Croatia ----01 March, attended a meeting called by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Ambassador at Large, which also included Customs Directorate and Ministry of Economy representatives to discuss the topics for inclusion in the Chemical Weapons Conventio [...] | 2007-04-11 14:47:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP HR LO SI |
07ZAGREB353 | OPPOSITION LEADER RESIGNS [...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Former Prime Minister Ivica Racan resigned April 11 as president of the Social Democratic Party (SDP),Croatia's largest opposition party, due to health reasons. After weeks of increasingly bleak cancer diagnoses, his departure is not unexpected, but coming just seven mon [...] | 2007-04-12 13:23:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL HR POLITICAL PARTIES |
07ZAGREB356 | CROATIA REQUESTS EMBASSY SCIENCE FELLOWS [...] Summary: In response to reftel, Post supports a request from the Government of Croatia (GoC) to host Embassy Science Fellows in 2007. Post has received eight proposals from seven scientific institutions, with a commitment from the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports and the University of [...] | 2007-04-12 15:02:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | KSCA TSPL SENV AMGT OTRA APER HR |
07ZAGREB358 | SALE OF CROATIAN MILITARY EQUIPMENT [...] PolOff delivered ref A points March 29 to Ivan Nekic, general manager of Agencija Alan, MOD's arms marketing branch, and MFA head of Department for International Security Sanja Bujas-Juraga. Both were pleased by USG position. Nekic reported that he did not know if an actual tender was open bu [...] | 2007-04-13 14:08:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL MARR LY HR |
07ZAGREB359 | CONTINUED SERVICE BY CROATIAN POLICE AT THE JORDAN INTL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-13 14:08:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | MOPS PINR SNAR KCRM JO HR |
07ZAGREB365 | EXBS: CROATIA/SLOVAKIA/SLOVENIA ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING [...] SITE ASSESSMENTS AND MEETINGS Croatia ----01 March, attended a meeting called by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Ambassador at Large, which also included Customs Directorate and Ministry of Economy representatives, to discuss the topics for inclusion in the Chemical Weapons Conventi [...] | 2007-04-16 11:56:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP HR LO SI |
07ZAGREB389 | ICRC CLOSES IN CROATIA, BUT SEARCH FOR THE MISSING [...] The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) formally closed its door in Croatia on April 13, after being present in the country for more than 15 years. Although its regional office in Budapest will continue to follow developments in tracing missing persons in Croatia, the ICRC databas [...] | 2007-04-19 14:39:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL HR REGIONAL ISSUES |
07ZAGREB395 | NATO OUTREACH IN HIGH GEAR, CROATIAN PUBLIC [...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT: After a slow start, the GoC's NATO public education campaign is moving into high gear. Head of MFA's NATO Office Neven Mikec highlighted the GoC's now crowded public outreach calendar with Embassy PolOff, PAO, and DATT at April 12 joint communications working group sessio [...] | 2007-04-20 16:24:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV MOPS MARR NATO KPAO HR DEFENSE REFORM |
07ZAGREB427 | STABILITY PACT TRANSITION: SEECP AGREES ON RCC SECRETARY [...] (SBU) Summary: Stability Pact-SEECP meetings April 24-25 in Zagreb yielded consensus on the final institutional documents related to the creation of the proposed Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) as the successor to the Stability Pact in early 2008. Consensus with respect to the nomination [...] | 2007-05-02 13:09:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON EAID SR HR EUN MI RO BU GR BK MW YI |
07ZAGREB428 | SUMMARY OF MARCH 2007 AUCKLAND OPERATIONAL EXPERTS GROUP [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-02 15:31:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | MHUC PARM PREL HR KNNP |
07ZAGREB444 | CROATIA SUPPORTS US WMO POSITION [...] Summary: The Croatian Meteorological and Hydrological Service (DHMZ) is actively involved with the World Meteorological Organization, plans to attend the upcoming Congress and supports the US position on strengthening the WMO in its intended capacity. End Summary. 2. Econoff spoke with Ivan [...] | 2007-05-08 06:17:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV TPHY WMO HR |
07ZAGREB449 | IRAQI MP EYES CROATIA AS POST-CONFLICT MODEL [...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT: An Iraqi Member of Parliament and close relative of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, Ms. Ala Talabani, visited Croatia April 20-27 in search of a successful post-conflict model to further promote human rights, strengthen the role of NGOs, and develop women's rights in Iraq. [...] | 2007-05-09 15:01:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL KWMN HR IZ |
07ZAGREB453 | PRM Ambassador's Fund for Refugees - Croatia Projects [...] After consultation with UNHCR and other partners, Post is pleased to propose two projects for PRM's Ambassadors Fund for Refugees. The projects listed below do not receive other donor funding and would provide immediate assistance to vulnerable populations in Croatia. If approved, Post has the [...] | 2007-05-10 12:57:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PGOV HR |
07ZAGREB459 | EXBS: CROATIA/SLOVAKIA/SLOVENIA ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING [...] SITE ASSESSMENTS AND MEETINGS Croatia ----14-15 April, attended the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) Customs Authorities Workshop in Cavtat. As requested, a presentation was made on the topic of "The Role of Customs in Achieving Effective Enforcement Export Controls". This theme was r [...] | 2007-05-10 15:17:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP HR LO SI |
07ZAGREB46 | CROATIA 2007 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] Summary: Croatia has enjoyed respectable economic growth over the last few years, accompanied by low inflation, a stable exchange rate and growth in the tourism sector. At the same time, the government has undertaken several initiatives aimed at streamlining the bureaucracy in an effort to [...] | 2007-01-17 15:40:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV OPIC |
07ZAGREB465 | CROATIA SENDS DELEGATION TO WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY [...] Econoff delivered reftel demarche to the Office of International Cooperation of Croatia's Ministry of Health and Welfare. Dr. Inga Deolo, director of international cooperation, said she and State Secretary of Health Dr. Ante-Zvonimir Golem plan to attend the SIPDIS convention in Geneva May 1 [...] | 2007-05-11 15:17:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO AORC PREL KFLU WHO HR |
07ZAGREB472 | REFUGEE RETURN: KEY TO OSCE MISSION CLOSURE [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: Facing intensifying pressure from the international community to make additional tangible progress on refugee issues, the GOC has established and clarified program benchmarks for this year. With OSCE mission closure high on the GOC's priority list, the GOC has put [...] | 2007-05-15 10:57:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PREF OSCE HR |
07ZAGREB481 | CROATIA UNDECIDED ON PARTICIPATION IN MAY 31-JUNE 1 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-17 13:26:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | OSCE PREL PTER ABUD AFIN RS HR |
07ZAGREB514 | CROATIA RATIFIES CEFTA [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-25 13:54:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD PREL HR |
07ZAGREB521 | PARTICIPATION IN THE OSCE HEADS OF MISSION VISIT TO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-25 15:16:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM OSCE BO HR REGIONAL ISSUES |
07ZAGREB522 | U.S. INVITATION TO THE NUCLEAR SUPPLIERS' GROUP (NSG) PLENARY [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-25 15:16:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP MNUC IR HR |
07ZAGREB530 | CROATIA AND THE GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT NUCLEAR [...] Pol Counselor delivered reftel information to Sanja Bujas-Juraga, Director of MFA PSI Non-proliferation Department on May 30, 2007. Explanatory notes, calendar and the plan of work (received by e-mail from ISN/WMDT on May 23) were delivered to the same office on May 24. Ms. Bujas-Juraga note [...] | 2007-05-31 14:54:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER KGIC PARM PREL HR REGIONAL ISSUES |
07ZAGREB546 | MAIN OPPOSITION PARTY ELECTS YOUTHFUL NEW LEADER [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment. Zoran Milanovic is the new President of the Social Democratic Party of Croatia (SDP). A youthful 41 years old, this former diplomat defeated acting party president and former defense minister Zeljka Antunovic in the second round of voting by 828 to 675 votes of dele [...] | 2007-06-04 15:31:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV HR POLITICAL PARTIES |
07ZAGREB56 | EXBS: CROATIA/SLOVAKIA/SLOVENIA ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING [...] SITE ASSESSMENTS AND MEETINGS Croatia ----04 December, Participated in the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) presentation of the findings of the Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) Survey of Croatia. The findings revealed the presence of approximately 968,000 weapons in civilian [...] | 2007-01-19 14:21:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP HR LO SI |
07ZAGREB582 | EXBS: CROATIA/SLOVAKIA/SLOVENIA ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING [...] SITE ASSESSMENTS AND MEETINGS Croatia ----4 May, attended the EU Regional Code of Conduct Workshop coordinated by SIPRI and BAFA. The workshop provided a forum for networking and coordination among regional states and EU member states to aid effective development of their respective Muni [...] | 2007-06-14 06:50:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP HR LO SI |
07ZAGREB612 | EMPLOYMENT ISSUE BIGGER THAN MINORITY ELECTIONS [...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT: The Minority Council elections held June 17 in 20 counties, 57 cities and 68 municipalities brought out only eight percent of eligible voters and did little to change the public impression that ethnic minority councils are largely symbolic. These bodies, created to advance [...] | 2007-06-27 13:48:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM HR |
07ZAGREB625 | CROATIA ADOPTS UNSCR 1747 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-29 14:58:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PARM ETTC UNSC IR HR |
07ZAGREB626 | ENGAGING CROATIA OVER AMCIT ISSUES IN IRAN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-06-29 15:07:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KDEM IR PHUM EUN HR |
07ZAGREB63 | INFLUENTIAL CROATIAN WOMEN [...] Post has identified the following five women as among the most influential in Croatia, by field: POLITICS: -- Jadranka Kosor, Deputy PM and Vice president of the ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ)+ADs- Contact info PHONE +384-1-4569-204 FAX +384-1-4569-326 -- Vesna Pusic, Deputy Spe [...] | 2007-01-22 15:07:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN PHUM PREL HR |
07ZAGREB637 | EXBS: CROATIA/SLOVAKIA/SLOVENIA ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING [...] SITE ASSESSMENTS AND MEETINGS Croatia ----13 June, Held attended a meeting with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),Department Head for International Security who requested EXBS Advisor support and assistance to their Diplomatic Academy Training Program by creating and delivering a pre [...] | 2007-07-02 12:33:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP HR LO SI |
07ZAGREB642 | OSCE MISSION TO CROATIA: WINDING DOWN ITS MANDATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY and COMMENT. This is a joint Embassy Zagreb and USOSCE cable and represents our strategy in moving forward toward OSCE Croatia mission closure. While we believe full closure could be achieved by the end of 2007, there is no consensus on this issue among European missions in Zag [...] | 2007-07-03 15:36:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV OSCE PREF KWCI HR WAR CRIMES REFUGEES |
07ZAGREB664 | CROATIA: SCENESETTER FOR CODEL BEAN [...] You are coming to Croatia at an exciting time, as this young nation prepares to take its place among democratic, free-market members of the Euro-Atlantic community with a level of freedom, security, and prosperity that were unimaginable fifteen years ago. Croatia will very likely receive an inv [...] | 2007-07-11 10:36:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV HR |
07ZAGREB679 | IOM DEMARCHE ON SWING CANDIDACY DELIVERED [...] REF Points were delivered July 11 to Andrej Dogan in MFA UN Department. Dogan indicated GOC willingness to consider supporting Ambassador William Lacy Swing, however could not give an official position at this time. BRADTKE [...] | 2007-07-16 08:29:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC EUN PREF PREL SMIG |
07ZAGREB682 | CROATIAN SHIPBOARDING AGREEMENT POCS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-16 13:03:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM KTIA EWWT KNNP PREL HR NON PROLIFERATION |
07ZAGREB688 | CROATIANS ACCEPT U.S. SOFA PROPOSAL [...] (SBU) Ministry of Foreign Affairs State Secretary Biscevic informed Ambassador July 19 that the Croatian Government accepted the U.S. compromise proposal on custody (ref e-mail),resolving the last outstanding issue in the U.S.-Croatian negotiations on a bilateral status of forces agreement. [...] | 2007-07-19 13:00:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MARR HR DEFENSE REFORM |
07ZAGREB694 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH CROATIAN DEPUTY PRIME [...] Mr. Secretary, During my meeting on July 18 with Croatian Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Family, Veterans and Intergenerational Solidarity Jadranka Kosor, I informed the Minister of your decision to resign. The Minister expressed her regret at hearing this news and reiterated her appr [...] | 2007-07-19 14:23:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SOCI HR |
07ZAGREB695 | CODEL BEAN TRAVEL TO CROATIA [...] Post welcomes CODEL Bean to Zagreb. Control Officer is Kirsten Brooks Selinger, work: 385-1-661-2250/home: 385-467-4396/fax: 385-1-661-2178/cell: 385-91-455-2346, email SelingerKB@state.gov. Administrative point of contact is Matthew Werner, work: 385-1-661-2248/home:385-234-0100/fax: 385-661- [...] | 2007-07-19 15:15:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN SR HR |
07ZAGREB713 | CROATIA PARTY TO NUCLEAR TERRORISM CONVENTION, [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-27 14:40:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP PTER MCAP PINR PINS PARM PREL HR |
07ZAGREB714 | GLOBAL INITIATIVE GARMISCH MEETING: CROATIAN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-07-27 14:40:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER KGIC HR |
07ZAGREB715 | 62ND UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY: CROATIAN ATTENDANCE, A-3 [...] PolOff delivered reftel to MFA Asst Minister for International Organizations and Security Pjer Simunovic on July 24. Following is initial GOC response: A. Attendance of the Head of State: Yes -- Name and title: Stjepan Mesic, President of the Republic of Croatia -- Arrival and departu [...] | 2007-07-27 14:41:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | KSEP PREL OVIP UNGA HR |
07ZAGREB716 | SECTION 1206 - END-USE, RETRANSFER AND SECURITY [...] PolOff delivered REFTEL diplomatic note to MFA Asst Minister for International Organizations and Security Pjer Simunovic on July 24 with request for urgent reply. Simunovic reported that these assurances will require the concurrence of the MOD and the GOC's legislative office and a government [...] | 2007-07-27 14:41:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIA MASS PREL MARR HR |
07ZAGREB717 | CODEL BEAN Visits Croatia [...] Summary: CODEL Bean visited Zagreb on 22-23 July and met with Croatian business, government, and parliamentary leaders. Discussion at most meetings focused on Croatia's leadership and stabilizing role in the region, Kosovo, future membership in NATO and the EU, its international contributions t [...] | 2007-07-27 14:45:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | OREP PREL PGOV HR |
07ZAGREB72 | GOC DISMISSES FLAWED ECONOMIC FREEDOM [...] Summary: The Croatian Government reacted sharply to a Heritage Foundation/Wall Street Journal ranking of economic freedom around the world in which Croatia was ranked 109 overall and near the bottom in Europe. The GOC dismissed the Report, saying it did not reflect Croatia's current economic [...] | 2007-01-23 14:49:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV HR |
07ZAGREB720 | REQUEST FOR BLANKET RETRANSFER END-USE SECURITY [...] PolOff delivered reftel dipnote to MFA Head of Dept for International Security Sanja Bujas-Juraga on July 13. She informed PolOff July 27 that she had forwarded the USG proposal to all relevant ministries and would provide reactions soonest. 2. COMMENT: Bujas-Juraga seemed interested in pr [...] | 2007-07-30 15:09:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR MASS HR |
07ZAGREB721 | PROPOSED 2008 PSI EXERCISE UPDATE [...] THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. Please see para 5. 2. Head of MFA's Department for International Security Sanja Bujas-Juraga advised PolOff July 16 that the GOC's National Commission for Non-Proliferation of WMD has accepted the GOC's proposal to host a Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) e [...] | 2007-07-30 15:18:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM MNUC PGOV PHSA PREL KNNP HR |
07ZAGREB732 | CROATIAN FIRST LADY'S ATTENDANCE UNCONFIRMED [...] PolOff delivered reftel to MFA on July 31. The President's office has advised that his wife is unlikely to travel with him, but that they will confirm in coming days. PolOff will report definitive response to invitation as soon as possible. BRADTKE [...] | 2007-08-02 12:23:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SOCI TSPL UNGA |
07ZAGREB733 | CROATIA HAS NO COMMENT ON STANDING COMMITTEE CANDIDATE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-02 12:53:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PREL PHUM ICRC HR |
07ZAGREB734 | HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-02 12:57:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM UNESCO HR |
07ZAGREB745 | SECTION 1206: CROATIA AGREES TO END-USE, SECURITY AND [...] MFA has delivered a Diplomatic Note dated August 2 confirming the GoC's decision to accept proposed assurances related to the end-use, security and retransfer of USG-supplied defense articles, training and services pursuant to Section 1206 of the National Defense Authorization Act. Post will p [...] | 2007-08-07 12:52:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PREL KTIA MARR HR |
07ZAGREB747 | CROATIA DISASTER DECLARATION [...] I am declaring a disaster in Croatia for the loss of property, loss of livelihoods, and actual and potential loss of life caused by heat wave-related wildfires currently raging throughout southern Croatia. I am requesting USD 50,000 for immediate disaster relief from USAID/OFDA. The Governmen [...] | 2007-08-07 14:37:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL PGOV AFIN AMGT HR |
07ZAGREB750 | CROATIA: SCENESETTER FOR CODEL COSTELLO [...] You are coming to Croatia at an exciting time, as this young nation prepares to take its place among democratic, free-market members of the Euro-Atlantic community with a level of freedom, security, and prosperity that were unimaginable fifteen years ago. Croatia will very likely receive an in [...] | 2007-08-08 13:57:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | OREP PREL PGOV HR |
07ZAGREB751 | CROATIA CONSIDERING GAER CANDIDACY [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-09 10:25:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL UNGA HR |
07ZAGREB760 | CROATIAN FIRST LADY WILL NOT ATTEND UNGA [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-14 11:51:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SOCI TSPL UNGA HR |
07ZAGREB792 | APPARENT DOMESTIC CONSENSUS ON PLAN FOR CROATIA-SLOVENIA [...] SUMMARY: In what was portrayed as a breakthrough in its long-standing border dispute with its northern neighbor, Croatian PM Ivo Sanader joined Slovenian PM Janez Jansa after a meeting at Lake Bled on August 26 to announce bilateral agreement to refer the dispute to the International Court of J [...] | 2007-08-27 15:01:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV SI HR |
07ZAGREB800 | CROATIA SUPPORTS U.S. FOR ICAO COUNCIL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-31 12:38:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL EAIR AORC ICAO HR |
07ZAGREB801 | HOST WOMEN LEADERS' WORKING GROUP IN NEW YORK: [...] No summary [...] | 2007-08-31 13:49:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL UNGA HR |
07ZAGREB833 | HUMAN RIGHTS ROUNDTABLE 2007 UNGA - INPUT FROM [...] USG programs in Croatia for the past several years have supported activities to bolster Human Rights in the areas of refugee return and reintegration, minority rights, and continued assistance to civil society organizations. We have, together with our European partners, the OSCE and UNHCR, wor [...] | 2007-09-11 15:20:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL HR |
07ZAGREB853 | CROATIAN GENERALS' WAR CRIMES TRIAL CONTINUES [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment. The case of Croatian Army Generals Rahim Ademi and Mirko Norac, whose trial began in the summer, continued this week. It is the first, and likely only, case to be transferred to Croatia by the ICTY (a so-called 11 bis case). As such, it is seen as a test of Croati [...] | 2007-09-17 08:40:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | HR CROATIA ICTY KAWC KJUS |
07ZAGREB86 | CROATIA'S EXPORT OFFENSIVE [...] Summary: Hoping to reduce its chronic trade deficits and accelerate economic growth, the Government of Croatia launched an "Export Offensive" on January 22 aimed at boosting the number of businesses involved in the export sector by 25% over the next three years. At the core of the plan is the [...] | 2007-01-25 15:07:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EINV HR |
07ZAGREB875 | DEMARCHE ON THE UN COMMITTEE AGAINST TORTURE [...] REF A demarche was delivered to Andrej Dogan at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration - Department for the United Nations on September 19, 2007. The GOC had no substantive comment. WALKER [...] | 2007-09-21 11:20:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | UNGA PREL HR |
07ZAGREB878 | PRIORITIES AND REPRESENTATION AT UNGA [...] During a meeting on September 19, 2007, Andrej Dogan at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration - Department of the United Nations told PolOff that attaining a seat on the UNSC will be Croatia's top priority at the upcoming UNGA. Dogan provided no additional priorities, notin [...] | 2007-09-21 12:41:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | UNGA PREL HR |
07ZAGREB879 | DEMARCHE ON U.S. PRIORITIES FOR THE COMMUNITY OF [...] Ref demarche was delivered to Andrej Dogan at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration - Department for the United Nations on September 19, 2007. The GOC had no substantive comment. WALKER [...] | 2007-09-21 12:43:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | UNGA HR PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM |
07ZAGREB880 | ICAO ASSEMBLY: CROATIA WILL SUPPORT SPLIT-CURRENCY [...] No summary [...] | 2007-09-21 14:15:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ECON HR |
07ZAGREB883 | DEMARCHE ON CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SPECIAL TRIBUNAL [...] REF A demarche was delivered to Andrej Dogan at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration - Department for the United Nations on September 19, 2007. Dogan told PolOff that, if Croatia decides to contribute, it would most likely be symbolic in nature. WALKER [...] | 2007-09-21 14:16:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AA LE UNSC HR |
07ZAGREB907 | TEXTILES AND APPAREL SECTOR: CROATIA [...] In response to reftel, the following are the main sector data for the Croatian textiles and apparel industry. According to information from the Croatian Chamber of Economy and Central Bureau of Statistics: -- Total industrial production- sale value: (2005 - most recent official data availabl [...] | 2007-09-28 12:10:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD KTEX HR |
07ZAGREB914 | EXBS: CROATIA/SLOVAKIA/SLOVENIA ADVISOR MONTHLY REPORTING [...] SITE ASSESSMENTS AND MEETINGS Croatia ----12 September, Met with the Director and staff of State Office for Nuclear Safety (SONS) to tour their new office spaces, discuss issues related to operation of portal monitors and deliver two (2) Ludlum 192 survey meters. ----13 September, met [...] | 2007-10-02 11:12:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP HR LO SI |
07ZAGREB916 | NEW POLL SHOWS CONTINUED GROWTH IN NATO SUPPORT [...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT: A poll contracted by the International Republican Institute (IRI) shows a continued rise in public support for NATO membership. In a Post-organized briefing to NATO-member embassies on October 2, IRI representatives highlighted a 10 percent increase in support for Croatia [...] | 2007-10-04 15:01:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL NATO PGOV KPAO MOPS MARR HR DEFENSE REFORM |
07ZAGREB918 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: U.S. DRAFT RESOLUTION ON [...] Ref demarche was delivered to Andrej Dogan at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration - Department of the United Nations on 02 October 2007. Dogan told PolOff that the GOC had no issues with the text of the resolution as presented. While the GOC is considering supporting the [...] | 2007-10-05 12:16:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC UN PHUM KWMN SOCI |
07ZAGREB937 | Croatia Top Reformer, but Still Regional Laggard [...] SUMMARY: The World Bank's "Doing Business 2008" report lists Croatia as the top reformer in the region and second worldwide for improving the ease of doing business during 2006-07. Croatia reformed in four of the ten areas covered in the study, and moved from 124th to 97th place in the overall [...] | 2007-10-15 08:22:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV ELAB HR |
07ZAGREB950 | SCENESETTER FOR CROATIA'S NOVEMBER 25 PARLIAMENTARY [...] This is the first in a series of reports on Croatia's upcoming elections, providing a general overview of the issues central to the election. Further installments will discuss specific parties and issues in greater detail. 2. SUMMARY: As Croatia gears up for parliamentary elections tentati [...] | 2007-10-17 12:36:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV HR POLITICAL PARTIES |
07ZAGREB953 | CROATIA ADOPTS LEGISLATION ON DIRECT ELECTION OF MAYORS AND [...] On October 5, just one week before adjourning for the upcoming legislative elections, the Croatian Parliament (Sabor) passed a package of legislation providing for direct election of mayors, county prefects, and their deputies. Until now, these officials have been chosen by the members of the [...] | 2007-10-18 11:42:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV HR POLITICAL PARTIES |
07ZAGREB954 | REFERENDUM ON CROATIA'S ENTRY INTO NATO - NOT LEGALLY [...] SUMMARY: Real public debate on the pros and cons of Croatia's NATO membership has only just begun, but the campaign for the November 25 parliamentary elections has already produced promises of a NATO referendum from some Croatian opposition parties. While all parties in Parliament are pro-NATO [...] | 2007-10-19 07:54:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV HR POLITICAL PARTIES |
07ZAGREB955 | REFERENDUM ON CROATIA'S ENTRY INTO NATO - NOT LEGALLY [...] SUMMARY: Real public debate on the pros and cons of Croatia's NATO membership has only just begun, but the campaign for the November 25 parliamentary elections has already produced promises of a NATO referendum from some Croatian opposition parties. While all parties in Parliament are pro-NATO [...] | 2007-10-19 07:58:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV HR POLITICAL PARTIES |
07ZAGREB956 | REGIONAL PROSECUTORS MEET ON WAR CRIMES COOPERATION [...] (U) SUMMARY: Between 2-4 October, on the island of Hvar in Croatia, S/WCI and DoJ OPDAT hosted a regional conference on war crimes cooperation that gathered Chief State Prosecutors and their deputies from Bosnia, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, and Serbia, together with representatives of ICTY, [...] | 2007-10-19 13:55:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | KAWC ICTY PREL PGOV HR WAR CRIMES |
07ZAGREB987 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON IAAC CANDIDACY OF DAVID [...] Ref points were delivered to Andrej Dogan at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration - Department of the United Nations on 26 October 2007. Dogan provided no substantive comments on Mr. Walker's candidacy. Post is attempting to follow-up with the GOC and will report any furt [...] | 2007-11-05 07:37:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL AORC UN UNGA |
07ZAGREB988 | CROATIA TO FOLLOW EU ON THIRD COMMITTEE RESOLUTIONS [...] Ref points were delivered to Andrej Dogan at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Integration - Department of the United Nations on 26 October 2007. The GOC expects to follow the EU's position on resolutions appearing before the UN's Third Committee over the coming months. 2. Dog [...] | 2007-11-05 07:37:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL KTIA UN UNGA |
07ZAGREB989 | CROATIA: FATF STATEMENT AND GUIDANCE ON IRAN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-05 07:38:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL MNUC ECON HR |
07ZAGREB992 | VISAS VIPER: OCTOBER 2007 MONTHLY ACTIVITY REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-05 12:16:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS CMGT PINR PTER ASEC PREL KVPR HR |
08ABIDJAN36 | COTE D'IVOIRE 2008 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] OPENNESS TO FOREIGN INVESTMENT Despite the ongoing political/economic crisis, the Ivorian government actively encourages foreign investment through mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, takeovers, or startups. There are no significant limits on foreign investment nor are there generally diffe [...] | 2008-01-16 14:18:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED | OPIC USTR KTDB ECON ETRD |
08ABIDJAN374 | GLOBAL MARITIME PARTNERSHIPS [...] Pol/Econ Section Chief delivered talking points in reftel on June 5 to Bertin Tanoh Koffi, Deputy Director General of Maritime and Port Affairs at the Ministry of Transportation. 2. Koffi stated that the Government of Cote d'Ivoire welcomed the Global Maritime Partnerships and would be inter [...] | 2008-06-06 16:16:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED | EWWT EAID ECIN ECON EFIS MARR MASS MCAP MOPS |
08ABIDJAN462 | POLITICAL PARTY YOUTH LEADERS OFFER LITTLE BUT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a country where over half of the population is under 25 and job opportunities for young people are scarce, political parties have had little trouble in the recent past mobilizing youth for violent ends during times of political crisis. In light of the looming November 30th [...] | 2008-07-15 16:51:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL ECON IV |
08ABIDJAN810 | OFFICIAL CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE TO THE PRESIDENT [...] Embassy Abidjan received a message of congratulations to the President Elect from Henri Konan Bedie, former President of Cote d'Ivoire (1993-1999) and currently leader of one of the country's three major political parties, the Democratic Party of Cote d'Ivoire, known by its French acronym, PDCI [...] | 2008-11-14 14:42:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED | OPDC PREL OVIP IV |
08ABIDJAN811 | OFFICIAL CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE TO THE PRESIDENT [...] Embassy Abidjan received a message of congratulations to the President Elect from Charles Konan Banny, former Prime Minister of Cote d'Ivoire (2005-2007). Embassy will transmit a hard copy of the message to the Department by diplomatic pouch. 2. Embassy translation of the French language m [...] | 2008-11-14 14:43:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED | OPDC PREL OVIP IV |
08ABIDJAN816 | OFFICIAL CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE TO THE PRESIDENT [...] Embassy Abidjan received a message of congratulations to the President Elect from Lucien Tape Mambo, President of the Forum of Civil Society of the 79 African, Caribbean, and Pacific States (ACP). The ACP is composed of African, Caribbean and Pacific nations that are signatories to the George [...] | 2008-11-17 16:10:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED | OPDC PREL OVIP IV |
08ABIDJAN820 | G/TIP TIER 2 WATCH LIST INTERIM ASSESSMENT [...] (U) SUMMARY: In response to reftel, Poloff met with NGOs and government officials working on trafficking in persons (TIP) issues, but could not obtain meetings with key ministries, specifically the Ministries of Justice and Interior, despite repeated phone calls and follow-up letters from th [...] | 2008-11-19 08:26:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PGOV SOCI SMIG KTIP KWMN KCRM IV |
08ABIDJAN907 | U.S. TREASURY TRAINS WEST AFRICAN FINANCIAL [...] Summary. December 15-19, advisors from the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Technical Assistance (OTA) provided training in financial investigative techniques to 55 individuals from francophone and lusophone West Africa. Ambassador delivered opening remarks. On margins of the course, eco [...] | 2008-12-31 10:13:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER EFIN ECON KCRM KTFN IV |
08ABUDHABI1002 | EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: IT DEALS FZC, DEIRA, DUBAI, [...] Reftel requested that post conduct a pre-license check at IT Deals FZC, Deira, Dubai for their order of drilling and fluid related products from Computer Dynamics of Illinois (CDI),a General Electric company. On August 31, 2008, Embassy Export Control Officer (ECO) attempted to locate Mr. Bash [...] | 2008-09-04 12:40:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ETRD ETTC AE |
08ABUDHABI1048 | EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: SHAPOOR TRADING [...] Reftel requested that post conduct a post-shipment verification at Shapoor Trading LLC, Deira, Dubai for a shipment of 3000 cellphone lithium batteries exported as No License Required by BProlific Inc., Brooklyn, NY. On 17 Sept 2008, Export Control Officer (ECO) met with Mr. Shahbaz Mirzai and [...] | 2008-09-18 11:57:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ETRD ETTC AE |
08ABUDHABI1053 | EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: HIGH UTILITY BASE [...] Reftels requested that post conduct several post-shipment verifications at High Utility Base (HUB) LLC, located in Bur Dubai, UAE for high quantities of computer equipment shipped no license required from Advance Computer, Mineola, New York. Export Control Officer (ECO) attempted to contact HUB [...] | 2008-09-18 14:10:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ETRD ETTC AE |
08ABUDHABI106 | SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: BUSH'S VISIT TO THE MIDDLE EAST; [...] SUMMARY: A Saudi writer in "Al-Ittihad" chastised President Bush's visit to the region for being heavy on international diplomacy and very light on moral leadership. A Qatari writer in "Al-Ittihad" wondered why President Bush emphasized the U.S. obligation to securing the Gulf instead of [...] | 2008-01-28 07:26:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR TC |
08ABUDHABI1065 | EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: UNIQUE SYSTEMS FZE [...] Reftels requested that post conduct a pre-license check at Unique Systems FZE, Sharjah, UAE for re-export licenses D395250; D393603: Orion Inertial Navigation Systems which are controlled under ECCN: 7A103 for Missile Technology and Anti-terrorism reasons. The license applicant is Teledyne TSS [...] | 2008-09-22 06:10:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ETRD ETTC AE |
08ABUDHABI1066 | EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: FUGRO SURVEY MIDDLE EAST [...] Reftel requested that post conduct a pre-license check at end user: Fugro Survey Middle East, Mussafah, Abu Dhabi, UAE for re-export license D395250: Orion Inertial Navigation System which is controlled under ECCN: 7A103 for Missile Technology and Anti-terrorism reasons. The license applicant [...] | 2008-09-22 06:11:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ETRD ETTC AE |
08ABUDHABI1158 | EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: HAMID REZA [...] Reftel requested that post conduct a post-shipment verification at Hamid Reza Pharmaceutical Products Trading LLC, located at 1802 Saeed Tower II, Sheikh Zayed Road, Dubai, UAE for the shipment of a Hitachi 911 Chemical Analyzer exported as No License Required by Labworld Inc., Stoughton, MA. [...] | 2008-10-14 13:37:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ETRD ETTC AE |
08ABUDHABI1187 | Assistant Secretary Kramer, Minister of Justice Review NGO [...] (SBU) Summary: A/S Kramer met on the margins of the BMENA Forum for the Future in Abu Dhabi with Jordanian Minister of Justice Ayman Odeh and Jordanian Ambassador to UAE. The Minister solicited and responded to DRL's concerns about the new Jordanian NGO law, and suggested possible ways to allev [...] | 2008-10-20 12:18:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL KMPI JO |
08ABUDHABI1196 | EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: SHAPOOR TRADING [...] Reftel requested that post conduct a post-shipment verification at the Ras Al Khaimah Hotel, Room 227 (Guest: Gilbert Blakely) for the shipment of a Signaling Apparatus exported as No License Required by Industrial Scientific, Oakdale, PA. 2. On 15 Oct 2008, Export Control Officer (ECO) visi [...] | 2008-10-21 04:58:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ETRD ETTC AE |
08ABUDHABI1197 | EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: DIAGRAM STANDARD [...] Reftels requested that post conduct post-shipment verifications at Diagram Standard General Trading LLC, Dubai, UAE for several shipments of laptop computers exported as no license required by Sunrise Technology and Trading Corp., New Hyde Park, NY. 2. On 15 Oct 2008, Export Control Officer [...] | 2008-10-21 04:58:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ETRD ETTC AE |
08ABUDHABI1198 | EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: RAK HOTEL [...] Reftel requested that post conduct a post-shipment verification at the Ras Al Khaimah Hotel, Room 227 (Guest: Gilbert Blakely) for the shipment of a Signaling Apparatus exported as No License Required by Industrial Scientific, Oakdale, PA. 2. On 15 Oct 2008, Export Control Officer (ECO) visi [...] | 2008-10-21 04:58:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ETRD ETTC AE |
08ABUDHABI1237 | DEPUTY SECRETARY OF STATE JOHN NEGROPONTE MEETS WITH CIVIL SOCIETY LEADERS FROM THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-28 11:54:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PGOV KMPI XF AE |
08ABUDHABI1248 | EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: COMPUTER NETWORK SYSTEMS [...] Reftel requested that post conduct a pre-license check at Computer Network Systems (CNS),Abu Dhabi, UAE for license D405917: Cisco Systems equipment, appliances and related hardware which are controlled for Anti-terrorism and National Security reasons. The license applicant is listed at Cisco [...] | 2008-11-02 12:15:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ETRD ETTC AE |
08ABUDHABI1282 | EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: APTEC GULF LTD [...] Reftel requested that post conduct a pre-license check at APTEC Gulf Ltd, Dubai, UAE for export license application D405919: MCS7816H3-K9-CMA2; Cisco Encryption products which are controlled under ECCN: 5A002 for National Security and Anti-terrorism reasons. The license applicant is Cisco Syste [...] | 2008-11-09 10:23:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ETRD ETTC AE |
08ABUDHABI1283 | EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: NCR CORPORATION [...] Reftel requested that post conduct a pre-license check at NCR Corporation, Bur Dubai, UAE for export license application D405918: Cisco Encryption products which are controlled under ECCN: 5A002, 5D002 for National Security and Anti-terrorism reasons. The license applicant is Cisco Systems Inc. [...] | 2008-11-09 11:11:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ETRD ETTC AE |
08ABUDHABI1284 | EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: SAV COMPUTERS LLC [...] Reftels requested that post conduct post-shipment verifications at SAV Computers, Bur Dubai, UAE for various computer parts exported as no license required by AHLO, Miami, FL through Daisytek Computers LLC, Bur Dubai, UAE. 2. On 6 Nov 2008, Export Control Officer (ECO) visited SAV Computers [...] | 2008-11-09 12:45:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ETRD ETTC AE |
08ABUDHABI1293 | EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: CONTINENTAL [...] Reftel requested that post conduct a post-shipment verification at Continental Aviation Services, Abu Dhabi, UAE for the shipment of an Aircraft propeller assembly and parts exported as no license required by Hartzell Propeller Inc., Piqua, Ohio. 2. On 10 Nov 2008, Export Control Officer (EC [...] | 2008-11-10 09:41:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ETRD ETTC AE |
08ABUDHABI1301 | EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: EMIRATES INSTITUTE OF [...] Reftel requested that post conduct a pre-license check at the Emirates Institute of Advanced Science and Technology (EIAST),Dubai, UAE for export license application D406987: Juniper encryption hardware, software and related products worth nearly 44 million USD. These items are controlled unde [...] | 2008-11-12 13:31:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ETRD ETTC AE |
08ABUDHABI1312 | PLANNING A SUCCESSFUL VISIT TO THE UAE [...] As the UAE hosts to an increasing number of USG travelers, the Mission offers the following perspective on how to plan for a successful visit, with a caution about overextended demands on the UAE leadership and a chronic lack of hotel capacity in Abu Dhabi, with periodic problems related to ho [...] | 2008-11-16 13:05:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT PREL OVIP OTRA AE |
08ABUDHABI1408 | EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: MOHAMED ABDUL [...] Reftel requested that post conduct post-shipment verifications at Mohamed Abdul Rahman Al-Bahar company for the shipment of a Marine propulsion engine and a Marine Generator set and associated parts and equipment exported as No License Required by Caterpillar Inc., Peoria, Illinois. 2. On 1 [...] | 2008-12-16 09:57:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ETRD ETTC AE |
08ABUDHABI1409 | EXTRANCHECK: POST-SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: LUCKY RECYCLING [...] Reftel requested that post conduct a post-shipment verification at Lucky Recycling, Jebal Ali Free Zone, Dubai, UAE for the shipment of industrial furnace cooling tower parts exported as No License Required by Inductotherm Corporation, Rancocas, New Jersey. 2. On 11 Dec 2008, Export Control [...] | 2008-12-16 09:57:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ETRD ETTC AE |
08ABUDHABI1422 | EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: BOROGUE 2 PROJECT; ABU [...] Reftel requested that post conduct a pre-license check at the Borouge 2 Project administered by the Abu Dhabi Polymers Company for license application no. D407715: numerous bleed, relief, spectacle blind and ball valves and inlets which are all controlled under ECCN 2B350 for Chemical, Biologic [...] | 2008-12-18 12:33:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ETRD ETTC AE |
08ABUDHABI1434 | UAE NOTIFIED OF FIFTH GLOBAL INITIATIVE MEETING IN JUNE [...] Following coordination with Dutch DCM, PolOff discussed reftel with MFA Director of International Organizations Yacub al-Hosani on December 21, 2008. Al-Hosani was appreciative of the timely notice and pleased with so much time to coordinate a "high level" delegation. He did ask for further i [...] | 2008-12-22 06:57:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PINR PINS PREL PTER KGIC AE |
08ABUDHABI1444 | EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: PETROPIPE INTERNATIONAL [...] Reftel requested that post conduct a pre-license check at Petropipe International Ltd for license application no. D409103: Class 1500 stainless steel threaded monel stem ball valve which is controlled under ECCN 2B350 for Chemical, Biological Warfare, and Anti-Terrorism reasons. The U.S. licens [...] | 2008-12-23 04:44:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ETRD ETTC AE |
08ABUDHABI1457 | EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: SBM MOPU STOR; ADYARD [...] Reftel requested that post conduct a pre-license check for a SBM Offshore Inc. project under license application no. D409170: Hastelloy-C 60 series ball valve with Teflon seats and seals which are all controlled under ECCN 2B350 for Chemical, Biological Warfare, and Anti-Terrorism reasons. The [...] | 2008-12-29 05:04:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ETRD ETTC AE |
08ABUDHABI1459 | EXTRANCHECK: POST SHIPMENT VERIFICATION: ABU DHABI POLYMERS [...] Reftel A requested that post conduct a post-shipment verification at the Abu Dhabi Polymers Company Ltd for the shipment of several industrial and laboratory furnace parts shipped No License Required by Selas Fluid Processing Corporation, Blue Bell, PA. 2. On December 29, 2008, Export Contro [...] | 2008-12-29 07:35:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ETRD ETTC AE |
08ABUDHABI197 | UAE INPUT FOR NEW REQUIRED REPORTS TO CONGRESS ON [...] Post appreciates the opportunity to provide input to the Department's report to Congress as required by the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. The UAE qualifies as a major energy producer. Increasingly, with rapid economic development, the UAE is becoming a larger energy consumer as [...] | 2008-02-13 06:39:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG SENV APER ABUD AE |
08ABUDHABI236 | GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT NUCLEAR TERRORISM: [...] In the absence of MFA director for International Cooperation Yacoub Al-Hosani and other senior MFA officials, Econchief followed up on reftel message with senior America's Desk Officer Rowda Al-Otaiba and urged that the UAE consider signing on to the Global Initiative Statement of Principles. [...] | 2008-02-21 14:07:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL PTER KGIC AE |
08ABUDHABI238 | DRAFT MOU ON PEACEFUL NUCLEAR COOPERATION [...] Econchief delivered reftel MOU to the UAEG on February 20 for review. Econchief expressed the USG's desire to discuss it during the February 26 experts' meeting and willingness to sign. Executive Affairs Authority member Hamad Al-Kaabi stated that his team would review the document and be pr [...] | 2008-02-21 14:46:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP ENRG AE |
08ABUDHABI263 | SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: UAE, FRANCE AND THE U.S.; ARABS [...] SUMMARY: A UAE columnist in "Al-Ittihad" criticizes Arabs for a selective use of terminology in differentiating between martyrdom and terrorism and insinuates that Iran is meddling in Lebanon. A UAE intellectual in "Al-Khaleej" suggests that France's recent military agreements and exercis [...] | 2008-02-28 11:45:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR TC |
08ABUDHABI267 | SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: UAE, FRANCE AND THE U.S.; ARABS [...] SUMMARY: A U.A.E. columnist in "Al-Ittihad" contrasts Arabs' selective reference to terminologies of martyrdom versus terrorism which he believes are largely nourished by Iran. In light of France's recent cooperation with the U.A.E. on a French naval base, a U.A.E. intellectual in "Al-Kha [...] | 2008-02-28 13:42:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR TC |
08ABUDHABI317 | SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: ADMIRAL FALLON'S RESIGNATION [...] SUMMARY: UAE print and electronic media gave prominent coverage to the resignation of Admiral Fallon. Editorials agree that Fallon's resignation means that the voice of reason in the American administration has been ousted and therefore a military confrontation with Iran sounds likely now. [...] | 2008-03-13 11:14:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR TC |
08ABUDHABI332 | SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: Human Rights Report [...] SUMMARY: Two editorials attacked the annual Human Rights Report. The first dismissed the U.S. as unqualified to issue the report given our own lack of credibility on human rights. The second denounced the report as biased in favor of Israel and "Zionism". End summary. 2. Unsigned editor [...] | 2008-03-17 08:05:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR TC |
08ABUDHABI336 | SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: Human Rights Report [...] SUMMARY: Two editorials attacked the annual Human Rights Report. The first dismissed the U.S. as unqualified to issue the report given our own lack of credibility on human rights. The second denounced the report as biased in favor of Israel and "Zionism". End summary. 2. Unsigned editor [...] | 2008-03-18 05:07:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR TC |
08ABUDHABI35 | BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END USE CHECK ON [...] Reftel requested that post conduct a Blue Lantern pre-license check on application 050073494 for the export of thermal cameras to the UAE. On January 6, 2008, Commercial Officer Nasir Khan and Commercial Specialist Jamal Bafagih met with Mr. Murshed Al Redaini, Managing Director, C4 Advanced So [...] | 2008-01-09 05:25:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD ETTC KOMC AE |
08ABUDHABI365 | SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: VP CHENEY'S MIDEAST VISIT [...] SUMMARY: One op-ed piece strongly attacks Vice President Richard Cheney's visit to the region, claiming that the objective of his visit is to dictate to Arab allies that their alliance with America will be on America's terms, all that is required of them is surrender. End summary. 2. An [...] | 2008-03-24 04:11:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR TC |
08ABUDHABI39 | SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENT BUSH'S VISIT TO THE [...] SUMMARY: A columnist in Al-Bayan believes that Israel will continue to influence American presidents toward igniting international wars after President Bush leaves. An editorial in Gulf News considers President Bush's visit as an attempt to salvage his administration's reputation in the M [...] | 2008-01-10 09:25:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR TC |
08ABUDHABI403 | MEDIA REACTION: ARAB SUMMIT [...] SUMMARY: Columnists in U.A.E. Arabic dailies generally considered the Arab Summit as a success because the Arab leaders managed to meet despite recommendations to boycott it. This was explicitly highlighted by one columnist in Al-Khaleej who deemed the summit was a major step forward. In [...] | 2008-04-01 15:06:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR TC |
08ABUDHABI428 | MEDIA REACTION: ARAB SUMMIT [...] SUMMARY: UAE columnists and editorials viewed the Damascus summit somewhat positively, certainly more so than the impression one gets reading the front page headlines that declared it a flop. One writer said that holding the meeting despite U.S. efforts to derail it was, per se, a success. An [...] | 2008-04-06 04:36:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OIIP KMDR TC |
08ABUDHABI431 | AL AMYAL AVIATION SERVICES FZE [...] Reftel A requested that post conduct a pre-license check of Super Alloys LLC for license application no. D387111. Reftel B provided Posts response. On March 12, 2008 Export Control Officer received an additional related request to determine the relationship between Super Alloys LLC and Al Amyal [...] | 2008-04-06 05:33:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ETRD ETTC AE |
08ABUDHABI46 | SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: BUSH'S VISIT TO THE MIDDLE EAST [...] SUMMARY: Two days before President Bush's arrival in the UAE, Gulf News published a front page Open Letter to the President. The pointed, detailed letter harshly criticized both the President and his Administration's actions in the Middle East, and expressed the view that the region has ab [...] | 2008-01-13 04:21:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR TC |
08ABUDHABI500 | BLUE LANTERN PRE-LICENSE END USE CHECK ON [...] Econchief met with Saeed Al-Hashemi, Chairman of the Al-Hashemi Group, on April 7 to discuss reftel Blue Lantern. Al-Hashemi explained that he was a retired UAE general who had served as the UAE's Defense Attach in Washington from 1993-1997. After retirement in 2002, he took over the chairman [...] | 2008-04-21 11:47:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC AE |
08ABUDHABI527 | NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY (NPT) PREPARATORY [...] Econchief discussed reftel papers with MFA International Organizations Director Yacub Al-Hosani and passed him copies on April 24. Al-Hosani said that the papers had arrived just in time, as the delegation was departing the UAE the next day. Al-Hosani told econchief that the UAE would review [...] | 2008-04-28 14:12:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG MNUC PARM PREL KNNP AE |
08ABUDHABI562 | IMPACT OF RISING FOOD/COMMODITY PRICES - UNITED ARAB [...] Summary: UAE imports 90 percent of its agricultural and food product needs. Food prices over the last few years have increased in a range around 20 percent. Overall inflation in the UAE is around 10 percent annually. The UAE Ministry of Economy (MoE) has taken steps to curb prices of basic good [...] | 2008-05-05 12:16:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAGR EFIN ETRD EAID AE |
08ABUDHABI57 | SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: BUSH'S VISIT TO THE UAE [...] SUMMARY: Press coverage of President Bush's visit has been widespread and generally favorable. Key points including Iran, the democracy agenda and Israeli-Palestinian affairs were prominently reported in headlines and there have been positive and optimistic assessments of the likely impact on [...] | 2008-01-15 12:50:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | OIIP KMDR TC |
08ABUDHABI579 | U.S. 60-DAY REPORT ON UNSCR 1803 IRAN SANCTIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-11 09:00:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN AORC KNNP ETRD TRGY UNSC AE |
08ABUDHABI638 | BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-SHIPMENT CHECK ON APPLICATION [...] Reftel A requested that post conduct a Blue Lantern post shipment verification at Airborne Systems, Dubai Airport Free Zone for application 050052052 (F-16 component parts destined for the Pakistani Air Force). Post notes that Airborne Systems was the subject of a favorable Blue Lantern check c [...] | 2008-05-28 03:46:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD ETTC KOMC AE |
08ABUDHABI682 | UAE REACTS MATTER-OF-FACTLY TO TIP REPORT [...] The UAEG welcomed the Department of State's Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report released June 4, citing it as constructive feedback for UAE efforts to combat the scourge of trafficking. Acknowledging that TIP remains a significant problem, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and head of the [...] | 2008-06-05 10:19:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB KCRM KPAO KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG AE |
08ABUDHABI697 | SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: AMERICA AND IRAN [...] SUMMARY: Local media perceives an increase in volume and stridency toward Iran by both Israel and the U.S., though alleged causes vary: "Al-Ittihad" accuses PM Ehud Olmert of rattling sabers to divert attention from corruption charges; "Gulf News" suggests that Israel wants to push a confrontat [...] | 2008-06-12 13:01:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OIIP KMDR TC |
08ABUDHABI731 | First Female Judge Appointed in UAE [...] Summary: On March 26, 2008, UAE President and Abu Dhabi Ruler Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan appointed the first female judge in the UAE. This landmark decision to break the gender gap in the judiciary was received matter-of-factly in the UAE, and the idea seems to have sufficient tractio [...] | 2008-06-20 04:24:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV SCUL KDEM KWMN KMPI AE |
08ABUDHABI813 | UAE 2008 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND EXPROPRIATION [...] (U) Pursuant to the requirements of Section 527 of the FY 94-95 Foreign Relations Authorization Act (FRAA),Embassy Abu Dhabi has compiled a list of U.S. citizen expropriation claims and investment disputes involving the Government of the United Arab Emirates. The Embassy is currently aware o [...] | 2008-07-15 12:37:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC EINV KIDE OPIC PGOV |
08ABUDHABI814 | DELIVERY OF LETTER ON ARAB LEAGUE BOYCOTT TO UAE OFFICIAL [...] On July 15, TDY ECONOFF met with UAE Ministry of Economy Assistant Under Secretary for Companies and Control Affairs Mr. Humaid Ali Bin Butti Al Muhairi to deliver the letter in reftel regarding the Arab League Boycott. ECONOFF explained the purpose of the letter and handed it to Mr. Muhairi [...] | 2008-07-16 05:48:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON ETRD KBCT AE IS |
08ABUDHABI815 | BP ENERGY PRESENTATION IN ABU DHABI [...] Summary: on July 10, 2008, Mark Finley, Head of Energy Analysis for BP P.L.C. in London, delivered a presentation on BP's annual statistical review of world energy. In attendance were representatives from ADNOC, Taqa, the British Embassy, Canadian Embassy, and the media. BP expressed the view t [...] | 2008-07-16 09:28:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | ENGR ECON AE |
08ABUDHABI919 | SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION: IRAN AND THE GCC [...] SUMMARY: UAE semi-official daily Al-Ittihad carried numerous editorials criticizing Iranian official remarks about removing 'kingdom regimes' in the region on August 14. A UAE columnist in "Al-Ittihad" wrote a parable contrasting the Iranian Shah, referred to as 'father,' and the current Irani [...] | 2008-08-14 13:21:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OIIP KMDR TC |
08ABUDHABI948 | Designation of additional Iranian entities [...] Embassy Abu Dhabi's OFAC Officer transmitted reftel non-paper via diplomatic note number 739 on August 19, 2008. To date post has not had a response to the note. 2. Note: Post's OFAC Officer is in Washington for consultations and will return to Abu Dhabi on/about September 7, 2008. Qui [...] | 2008-08-21 06:42:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | MNUC KNNP IR GM PREL PARM EFIN AE |
08ABUDHABI972 | EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: AL ARABIA FOR SAFETY AND [...] Reftel requested that post conduct a pre-license check of Al Arabia Safety and Security for license application no. D401100: Technical data relating to parts, systems, machining, and assembly processes relating to ECCN 9A018 controlled airport firefighting vehicles. On August 20, 2008, Embass [...] | 2008-08-27 10:46:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ETRD ETTC AE |
08ABUJA1014 | NIGERIA: CENTRAL BANK INCREASES MONETARY POLICY RATE [...] SUMMARY: The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has raised its Monetary Policy Rate (MPR) from 9.5% to 10% in April. This is the second increase in four months. A higher MPR increases the cost of borrowing and should encourage savings, but has not. The Nigerian interest deposit savings rate has [...] | 2008-06-02 13:24:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON EINV PGOV NI |
08ABUJA1038 | NIGERIA: IOM CANDIDATE DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel A demarche to the office of Mr. Charles Onianwa, Director of the Northern and Central American Division at Nigeria's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, after having difficulty contacting anyone in the International Organizations Division. Poloff previously spoke to Mr. O [...] | 2008-06-05 13:01:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PREL SMIG AORC NI |
08ABUJA1039 | NIGERIA: USG IPR TRAINING INCREASING LOCAL SKILLS [...] Summary: IPR violations are a major problem in Nigeria and Mission Nigeria is working closely with the Nigerian Government (GON) to improve the skills and effectiveness of several key agencies. In the past 12 months more than 40 GON officials have participated in various United States Patent [...] | 2008-06-05 13:44:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | KIPR ETRD ECON NI |
08ABUJA1063 | NIGERIA: PRESIDENT'S CHIEF OF STAFF RESIGNS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Within days of the one year anniversary of President Yar'Adua's inauguration, the resignations of two of his key staff members, Chief of Staff General Abdullahi Mohammed and Principal Secretary to the President Steve Oransanye, were announced. Both men also served under former P [...] | 2008-06-09 11:29:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL NI |
08ABUJA1068 | NIGERIA: DEMARCHE ON FAO/WHO CODEX ALIMENTARIUS COMMISSION [...] Embassy has delivered reftel points regarding U.S. candidate for Chairperson of the Codex Alimentarius Commission to the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Agriculture, Health, and Commerce and Industry. GON has not yet made a decision on U.S. or other candidates. Post will report any additional i [...] | 2008-06-10 09:29:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON ETRD TBIO KPAO NI |
08ABUJA107 | NIGERIA: 2008 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] The following information is Nigeria's 2008 Investment Climate Statement. Overview -------- With an estimated population of 140 million, Nigeria is Africa's most populous nation. It offers investors a low-cost labor pool, abundant natural resources, and potentially the largest domestic [...] | 2008-01-17 06:39:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ETRD EFIN OPIC KTDB USTR NI |
08ABUJA1081 | NIGERIA: TRIAL UPDATE - BAUCHI CROSS-DRESSERS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On May 22, Poloffs attended a meeting of gay, lesbian, and transgender rights organizations regarding the case of 18 young men from Bauchi State arrested in August 2007 for allegedly displaying homosexual behavior. Defense attorney Ralph Monye elaborated on the case to date, as [...] | 2008-06-11 15:16:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV KDEM NI |
08ABUJA111 | NIGERIA: IOM CANDIDATE DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] PolOff delivered reftel demarche to Mr. Charles Onianwa, Director of the Northern and Central American Division at Nigeria's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Mr. Onianwa was unaware of any confusion over the two candidates for Director General (DG) of the International Organization for Migration [...] | 2008-01-17 13:06:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PREL SMIG NI |
08ABUJA1163 | INL BODY SCANNERS HANDED OVER TO THE NIGERIA NATIONAL DRUG [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-17 15:00:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR KCRM ASEC EAID NI |
08ABUJA1185 | ILEA GABORONE Law Enforcement Executive Development Course, [...] The following 14 Nigerian personnel from the Nigeria Customs Service, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Nigeria Police Force and the State Security Services are nominated for attendance at the above referenced ILEA Training. Name OTAESIRI, Robinson Akporhuarho DOB April 3, [...] | 2008-06-20 06:42:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR KCRM ASEC EAID NI |
08ABUJA1236 | NIGERIA: DELEGATION INFORMATION FOR 11TH AU SUMMIT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-25 11:49:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | KSUM OVIP PGOV XA NI |
08ABUJA1250 | NIGERIA: GON CALLS FOR DELAY OF ZIMBABWE POLL [...] After resolutions by both the Senate and the House of Representatives urging the Nigerian government to intervene in the Zimbabwe crisis, the GON publicly called for the postponement of Zimbabwe's presidential run-off. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement late on June 26 which s [...] | 2008-06-27 12:03:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL NI ZI |
08ABUJA1261 | NIGERIA: SUSTAINABLE PALM OIL PRODUCTION [...] In response to reftel questions, the palm oil plant is indigenous to Nigeria, and palm oil is widely used domestically for cooking. Local demand for palm oil is high, and local production supplies can't meet demand. A report by the Agro-Raw Material Survey indicates that Nigeria produces 785 [...] | 2008-06-30 10:26:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ENRG ECON SENV NI |
08ABUJA1339 | ILEA GABORONE Law Enforcement Executive Development Course, [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-15 08:08:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR KCRM ASEC EAID NI |
08ABUJA1353 | ILEA GABORONE Precursor Chemical PRECURSOR CHEMICAL [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-16 13:34:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR KCRM ASEC EAID NI |
08ABUJA141 | NIGERIAN ATTENDENCE AT AU SUMMITT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-23 15:15:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KSUM NI |
08ABUJA1433 | DELIVERY OF IRANIAN ENTITIES LIST DESIGNATED UNDER [...] (SBU) PolOff delivered reftel demarche and nonpaper on the designation of additional Iranian entities and individuals under E.O. 13382 to Charles Ononye, Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' First United Nations Division. Mr. Ononye said that he would pass the information on to the In [...] | 2008-07-25 13:19:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP EFIN PARM IR NI |
08ABUJA1490 | NIGERIAN ATTENDANCE AT 63RD UNGA: INTERIM REPORT [...] Post received confirmation of attendance for the following individuals at the 63rd United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). More information will be provided septel as it becomes available. A. Attendance of Head of State. -- President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua will attend. -- Arrival and dep [...] | 2008-07-31 15:55:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OTRA OVIP KSEP UNGA NI |
08ABUJA1501 | NIGERIA: PSI WORKSHOP NONPAPER DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-04 10:59:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP MNUC PARM PREL NI |
08ABUJA1506 | ECOWAS SEEKS $31 MILLION DONOR SUPPORT FOR CAPACITY [...] Summary: On July 7, development partners of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) met in Abuja to consider the draft 2008/2009 ECOWAS Commission Capacity Building plan (CBP) and discuss strategies for its implementations with donor support. ECOWAS CBP in 2009 will focus on re [...] | 2008-08-04 15:28:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ECIN ETRD EINV EAID PREL NI ECOWAS |
08ABUJA1542 | NIGERIA: 14 KILOMETERS OF LOST PRODUCTIVITY [...] (SBU) On a recent trip to Ilorin, Poloff passed a 14 kilometer (8.7 mile) line of tractor trailer trucks waiting to pick up cement from the Obajana Cement Factory in Obajana, Kogi State (135 miles southwest of Abuja). The cement factory, owned by Aliko Dangote of Dangote Industries Limited, w [...] | 2008-08-05 16:05:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ELAB PGOV NI |
08ABUJA1567 | MISSION NIGERIA WELCOMES STAFFDEL SMITH [...] U.S. Mission Nigeria warmly welcomes the visit of Senate Foreign Relations Committee staff Ms. Shannon Smith and Ms. Sarah Margon to Abuja, Nigeria from August 12-14, and Lagos from August 14-16, 2008. Embassy Abuja and Consulate General Lagos will work to schedule requested meetings. The [...] | 2008-08-08 10:46:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN NI |
08ABUJA159 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON UNAMID DEPLOYMENT [...] Per reftel demarche, both Chief of Defense Staff Owoye Andrew Azazi and Defense Headquarters' Department of Peacekeeping Operations confirm that the Nigerian contribution of a Level II hospital is expected to deploy on or about March 22. SANDERS [...] | 2008-01-24 15:08:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MOPS UNSC NI |
08ABUJA1594 | NIGERIA: EMBASSY WELCOMES CODEL JOHNSON, AUGUST [...] U.S. Mission Nigeria warmly welcomes the visit of Congressmen Hank Johnson, Phil Gingrey and Jean Schmidt, as well as other accompanying members of their delegation, to Abuja, Nigeria from August 18-20, 2008. Embassy Abuja will work to schedule requested meetings. The Mission looks forward [...] | 2008-08-11 14:46:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN PREL NI |
08ABUJA1603 | NIGERIA: NEITI BRIEFS U/S JEFFERY AND REQUESTS ASSISTANCE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a July 25 meeting, Nigerian Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) officials briefed visiting Under Secretary Reuben Jeffery and requested additional USG assistance to strengthen the institution's capacity to implement required audits of revenues and expenses in [...] | 2008-08-12 14:17:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | EPET ENRG ECON PGOV EAID NI |
08ABUJA1634 | NIGERIA: 2008 IPR OUTREACH PILOT PROGRAM PLAN [...] Mission Nigeria looks forward to participating in the IPR Outreach Pilot Program for 2008. The following is a summation of the Program Plan per reftel instructions. 2. PAS Abuja and Lagos will work with the Nigerian recording and motion picture industries, and Nigerian government official [...] | 2008-08-15 12:08:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | KIPR EPPD ECON EAID PGOV NI |
08ABUJA180 | NIGERIA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON HCOC INREACH [...] (U) Per reftel, Post delivered demarche to Ambassador Charles Ononye, Deputy Director of the International Organizations Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Ambassador Ononye sid he would ensure its delivery to the proper office, and would relay any future substantive response. SAN [...] | 2008-01-28 13:41:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA NI |
08ABUJA1839 | NIGERIA: UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (U) SUMMARY: During the course of a September 8 meeting with Foreign Minister Ojo Maduekwe, Assistant Secretary David Kramer delivered reftel demarche. The FonMin seemed amenable to coordination with the USG on both country specific and thematic resolutions, and provided responses on the issue [...] | 2008-09-10 16:40:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL KIRF KNNP AF UN IR ZI NI |
08ABUJA1869 | UPDATE: NIGERIAN ATTENDANCE AT 63RD UNGA [...] On September 17, Ambassador M.K. Ibrahim, Director of the Second United Nations Division at the MFA, provided Poloff with confirmation of attendance for the following individuals at the 63rd United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). More information will be provided septel as it becomes availabl [...] | 2008-09-17 15:45:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OTRA OVIP KSEP UNGA NI |
08ABUJA1872 | NIGERIA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UNAIDS EXECUTIVE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-17 16:12:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV NI |
08ABUJA1920 | NIGERIA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON 63RD UNGA FIRST [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-26 08:41:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PARM PREL CDG UNGA NI |
08ABUJA1925 | NIGERIA: GOOD NEWS-GON DROPS SOME IMPORT BANS [...] Summary. In a major breakthrough, September 25 the Government of Nigeria (GON) announced the number of banned import categories would decrease from 44 to 26 items, and that there would be tariff reductions on a wide range of products. Bright Okogu, Director General of the Budget Office of th [...] | 2008-09-26 14:50:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON ECIN EAGR EINV PREL PGOV NI |
08ABUJA193 | AGBIOTECH OUTREACH PROPOSAL FOR NIGERIA [...] Summary. The Government of Nigeria (GON) has signed the Convention of Biosafety, participated in the Cartagena Protocol and has begun the legal framework for biotechnology legislation. FAS/Lagos has proposed an orientation program in the United States for GON regulators and lawmakers through th [...] | 2008-01-30 15:39:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR TBIO ETRD SENV PGOV NI |
08ABUJA1954 | DEMARCHE TO NIGERIA RE US CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT [...] (U) PolOff delivered biographic data and a copy of the nonpaper urging Nigerian support of the U.S. candidate Dr. Ines R. Triay to serve as President of the Third Review Meeting of the Contracting Parties to the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radio [...] | 2008-10-06 07:06:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG TRGY OTRA KNNP IAEA AORC NI |
08ABUJA1955 | DEMARCHE TO NIGERIA RE IRANIAN COMPLIANCE WITH [...] (U) Per reftel, on October 3, PolOff delivered copy of UNSC Resolution 1835 (regarding Iranian compliance with all non-proliferation resolutions) and accompanying nonpaper to Maria Laose, Deputy Director of the First United Nations Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. PolOff noted the [...] | 2008-10-06 07:06:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP IR MNUC PARM |
08ABUJA1977 | NIGERIA - 2009 AGOA ELIGIBILITY REVIEW [...] (U) Country: Nigeria Current AGOA Status: Eligible 2. (U) Country Background Summary: Estimated population of 147 million. 2006 GDP was $115.3 billion; 2006 GNI per capita was $620 (World Bank 2008 data). Nigeria continues to struggle to consolidate its fragile democracy following a ci [...] | 2008-10-07 14:37:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD AGOA ECON NI |
08ABUJA2001 | NIGERIA'S REQUIREMENTS FOR OBTAINING MARINE SCIENTIFIC [...] Post provides the following response per reftel requests. 2. The Nigerian Institute for Oceanography and Marine Research (NIOMR) and the Nigerian Navy are the designated Nigerian government agencies for issuing approval for marine research in Nigerian waters. The NIOMR provided post with th [...] | 2008-10-09 15:51:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV KRVC EFIS TPHY EWWT NI |
08ABUJA2006 | REQUEST HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR CANDIDATE FOR [...] Post requests the Department's assistance pursuant to the Leahy Act and the Foreign Assistance Act in screening the following individual who has been nominated for training by the Office of Security Cooperation. The individual is to attend Flight Nurse Training at Lackland Air Force Base, Te [...] | 2008-10-10 11:07:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV AF NI |
08ABUJA2064 | NIGERIA: U.S. EPA SUPPORT FOR LANDFILL METHANE RECOVERY [...] Summary: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Landfill Methane Outreach Program Manager, Swarupa Ganguli, attended the International Renewable Energy Conference (IREC) from October 6-9 in Abuja. She delivered a presentation on "Landfill Gas to Energy Experience in the U.S. and oth [...] | 2008-10-17 14:16:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV ENRG ECON TRGY KRVC TPHY NI |
08ABUJA2080 | Contact List for Nigeria [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-22 07:17:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | APER AMGT NI |
08ABUJA2128 | NIGERIA: USG TEAM ADVOCATING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT [...] SUMMARY: On October 11, ESTH and ECONOff visited Zarazong villages in Plateau State and discussed with community leaders methods for developing and implementing sustainable income generating micro projects. EMBOffs also facilitated linkage with a local sustainable development network that coo [...] | 2008-10-29 08:27:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR ECON EAID ENRG NI |
08ABUJA2140 | NIGERIA: DEMARCHE ON HUMAN CLONING DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-29 16:19:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO UNESCO NI |
08ABUJA2142 | NIGERIA'S NOMINEE FOR THE 2009 SECRETARY'S AWARD [...] (U) Mission Nigeria is pleased to nominate Mrs. Josephine Effah-Chukwuma as its nominee for the 2009 Secretary's Award for International Women of Courage. Her biographical details and nomination justification follow. 2. NOMINEE'S BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: FULL LEGAL NAME: Josephine Effah- [...] | 2008-10-29 16:59:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM KWMN KPAO NI |
08ABUJA2145 | NIGERIA: USG ENGAGES MIDLEVEL GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS [...] On October 14, as part of ongoing Mission effort to increase the capacity of the Nigerian civil service, ESTHOff led a presentation on the policy and governance factors that had contributed to the growth of the U.S. economy over the years and described the U.S. civil service at a workshop for m [...] | 2008-10-30 08:08:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON SENV EAGR EAID PGOV NI |
08ABUJA215 | NIGERIA: AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH PLATEAU [...] (U) Summary: In a January 25 meeting with the Ambassador, the Governor of Plateau State, Jonah David Jang (People's Democratic Party - PDP),and Deputy Governor, Pauline K. Tallen (PDP) presented a copy of their 10-Point Agenda and emphasized peace and stability, education, health, and touris [...] | 2008-02-04 08:03:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ECON EAID NI |
08ABUJA2170 | NIGERIA: 2008-2009 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-04 10:26:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR KCRM NI IZ |
08ABUJA2190 | CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE TO PRESIDENT-ELECT FROM [...] Below is the text of a congratulatory message to President-elect Obama from Umaru Musa Yar A'dua, President, Federal Republic of Nigeria. The original letter will be sent via diplomatic pouch. 2. Text of letter: "Felicitation. On this epic day in the political history of the United [...] | 2008-11-06 09:24:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | OPDC PREL OVIP NI |
08ABUJA2192 | CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE TO PRESIDENT-ELECT [...] Below is the text of a congratulatory message to President-elect Obama from Prince Vincent Eze Ogbulafor, OFR, National Chairman, and Alhaji Abubakar Baraje, National Secretary, of the Peoples Democratic Party of Nigeria. The original letter will be sent via diplomatic pouch. 2. Text of [...] | 2008-11-06 09:36:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | OPDC PREL OVIP NI |
08ABUJA2197 | NIGERIA 2009 NATIONAL TRADE ESTIMATE [...] The following information is Nigeria's 2009 National Trade Estimate. . Trade Summary ------------- . 2. The U.S. goods trade deficit with Nigeria was $30.0 billion in 2007, an increase of $4.4 billion from $25.6 billion in 2006. U.S. goods exports in 2007 were $2.8 billion, up 24.8 percen [...] | 2008-11-07 12:34:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON EFIN EAID EINV PGOV NI |
08ABUJA2198 | CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE TO MRS. MICHELLE OBAMA, [...] Below is the text of a congratulatory message to Mrs. Michelle Obama, wife of President-Elect Barack Obama, from Turai Umaru Yar'Adua, the First Lady of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The original letter will be sent via diplomatic pouch. 2. Text of letter: 5th November, 2008 Mrs [...] | 2008-11-07 13:04:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | OPDC PREL OVIP NI |
08ABUJA2204 | NIGERIA: BURKINA FASO TSCTP DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (U) PolOff delivered reftel demarche concerning the admission of Burkina Faso to the Trans-Sahara Counterterrorism Partnership (TSCTP) to Dr. Olawale Maiyegun, Deputy Director of the Second United Nations Division of the Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Bureau of International Organizatio [...] | 2008-11-10 14:19:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PTER XA XI NI |
08ABUJA2210 | INL NIGERIA REQUEST APPROVAL FOR PURCHASE OF TWO VEHICLES [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-12 06:57:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR NI IZ |
08ABUJA2270 | PD OCTOBER ROUND-UP - MISSION NIGERIA PROGRAMS SUPPORT [...] Summary: In the month of October, public diplomacy activities of the U.S. Mission to Nigeria supported each of the four pillars of the U.S. - Nigeria Framework for Partnership: Governing Justly and Democratically, Investing in People, Economic Trade and Growth, and Peace and Security. Headlin [...] | 2008-11-18 15:29:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO SCUL KDEM ECON EFIN NI |
08ABUJA2280 | CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE TO PRESIDENT-ELECT [...] Below is the text of a congratulatory message to President-elect Obama from Cecilia Ibru, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of the Oceanic Bank International Plc in Nigeria. The original letter will be sent via diplomatic pouch. 2. Text of letter: "Congratulations. On beha [...] | 2008-11-20 10:22:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | OPDC ECON PREL OVIP NI |
08ABUJA2302 | NIGERIA: OPPORTUNITIES FOR US AG PRODUCT EXPORTS [...] Summary: Following the September 25, 2008 release of the 2008-2012 Nigerian government tariff book, a number of major import bans were eliminated and some tariffs were significantly reduced (reftel C). A review of the tariff book demonstrates that in several products there may be significant o [...] | 2008-11-24 10:35:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON ETRD EAID EFIN PGOV NI |
08ABUJA2304 | NIGERIA: FIRST ENVIRONMENT SUMMIT EXPOSES PROBLEMS [...] Summary: From October 20-21, 2008 the Nigerian government (GON) hosted its first ever environmental summit where participants from the federal and state governments, civil society and academics assessed the environment and discussed approaches for sustainable development. The summit provided [...] | 2008-11-24 13:45:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV ENRG EAGR ECON EFIS EPET NI |
08ABUJA2306 | CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE TO PRESIDENT-ELECT [...] Below is the text of a congratulatory message to President-elect Obama from Professor Maurice Fangnon, Secretary-General, Centre for the Defence of Human Rights and Democracy in Africa - CDHRDA (NGO). The original letter will be sent via diplomatic pouch. 2. Text of letter: "Dear Brot [...] | 2008-11-24 14:28:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | OPDC PREL OVIP NI |
08ABUJA2309 | NIGERIA: NEW POLIO CASE IN LAGOS [...] A World Health Organization (WHO) contact informed ESTHOff that a positive test for a single Type I polio case was reported on November 20-21 in Ali Mosho, a district within Lagos. The WHO contact coordinates polio vaccine efforts in Nigeria and has well-established ties to Nigerian public hea [...] | 2008-11-25 14:09:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO KISL PGOV SOCI ECON KOCI EAID NI |
08ABUJA2313 | NIGERIA: USG LED CIVIL AVIATION PRIVATE PUBLIC PARTNERSHIP [...] Summary. The U.S. Mission led a public private partnership (PPP) aviation workshop on November 17-18 with the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA) and the Boeing Company to catapult Nigeria one step closer to attaining U.S. Federal Aviation Authority Category 1 status. The workshop rallied [...] | 2008-11-26 08:10:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ECON EAID ASEC ERTD PREL NI |
08ABUJA233 | NIGERIA: 2007-2008 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY [...] Summary Nigeria remains a hub of narcotics trafficking and money laundering activity and is still ranked as one of the world's most corrupt countries. Nigerian criminal organizations dominate the African drug trade and transport narcotics to markets in the United States, Europe, Asia, and oth [...] | 2008-02-05 14:10:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR KCRM NI IZ |
08ABUJA236 | NIGERIA: 2007-2008 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY [...] Although the Federal Republic of Nigeria is not an offshore financial center, Nigeria's large economy is a hub for the trafficking narcotics and other contraband. Nigeria is also a center of criminal financial activity, reportedly for the entire continent. Individuals and criminal organizations [...] | 2008-02-05 14:14:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN SNAR KTFN KCRM NI |
08ABUJA2360 | NIGERIA: 2008-2012 TARIFF BOOK REVIEW [...] Summary. Following the September 25, 2008 release of the 2008-2012 Nigerian government tariff book, a number of major import bans were eliminated and some tariffs were significantly reduced (reftel I). The Government of Nigeria's (GON) tariff policy for 2008 to 2012 reduces the number of ban [...] | 2008-12-03 08:32:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON KIPR EAGR EINV EAID PGOV SENV NI |
08ABUJA2365 | NIGERIA: PRESIDENT YAR'ADUA PRESENTS THE 2009 BUDGET [...] (U) Summary. President Umaru Musa Yar'Adau presented the 2.87 trillion naira ($24.53 billion),budget for calendar year 2009 to a joint session of the National Assembly on December 2, 2008. The 2009 budget is a slight increase from the final 2008 budget of 2.7 trillion naira ($23 billion) re [...] | 2008-12-04 11:29:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON EINV EPET ENRG PGOV NI |
08ABUJA2432 | NIGERIA: UN UNIVERSAL PERIODIC REVIEW PREPARATIONS [...] (U) In anticipation of action request (ref A),Post had already contacted both GON officials and key local NGOs and reported on their efforts to prepare for the UN Universal Periodic Review (UPR) scheduled for February 2009 (ref B). Both the GON and civil society have been proactively engaged [...] | 2008-12-15 15:51:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM UNHRC NI |
08ABUJA2435 | NIGERIA: SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION VISITS THE [...] Summary: The Nigerian Securities Exchange Commission (NSEC) traveled to the U.S. from November 17 through November 21 to visit with U.S government agencies and private sector firms in Washington D.C., New York and Boston to exchange experience in areas of securities market surveillance and enfo [...] | 2008-12-16 08:04:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON EINV ENRG EAID PGOV NI |
08ABUJA2439 | NIGERIA: NATIONAL ASSEMBLY SETS CONDITIONS FOR 2009 BUDGET [...] Summary. The 2009 budget seeks to limit fiscal spending because of falling revenue from the sale of crude oil. The legislature's intent to fund more projects is at odds with President Yar'Adua's cost-cutting. Also, the National Assembly is putting pressure on the executive because the 2008 b [...] | 2008-12-16 15:06:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON EINV PGOV NI |
08ABUJA2446 | NIGERIA: AGOA FOCUS PRODUCTS CHOSEN [...] Summary. As part of the Government of Nigeria's (GON) Seven Point Agenda, it plans to promote sustainable growth in the real sector of the economy and expand its investments in agriculture. It further plans to focus on key sectors in which it has a comparative advantage. The GON's export fo [...] | 2008-12-17 08:53:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON EAGR EINV EAID PGOV NI |
08ABUJA2481 | NIGERIA: DEMARCHE FOR AU PSC DELIVERED [...] (U) Post delivered reftel demarche urging African Union Peace and Security Council members to ramp up pressure on the Mauritanian junta to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director of the African Union Division E.T.P. Josakweker on December 18 both orally and by diplomatic note. Josakweker had no [...] | 2008-12-18 17:46:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL USAU MR ML NI |
08ABUJA2523 | ILEA GABORONE - Financial Forensics Course, February 9-20, [...] The following 6 Nigerian personnel from the Nigerian Securities & Exchange Commission are nominated for attendance for the above referenced ILEA Training. Name Reginald. Chukwudi Karawusa DOB July 27 1966 Gender - Male Rank - Assistant Director Current Position - Ag. Head of En [...] | 2008-12-24 10:39:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR KCRM ASEC EAID NI |
08ABUJA256 | WIREC 2008 MINISTERIAL DELEGATIONS [...] Post does not have any discretionary funds available for GON delegation. Post believes that the GON can provide funding for participation in WIREC. 2. Post has promoted WIREC with the Ministries of Finance, Agriculture and Water Resources, Energy, and Environment, Housing and Urban Develop [...] | 2008-02-08 12:27:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG SENV EAGR PGOV NI |
08ABUJA285 | NIGERIA: G/TIP GRANT PROPOSALS [...] (U) Summary: Per reftel, post is submitting five grant proposals for consideration for G/TIP managed FY 2008 ESF and INCLE funds. Summaries of the proposals recommended by post follow. End Summary. TIP IN NIGERIA -------------- 2. (U) Nigeria is a source, transit, and destination countr [...] | 2008-02-12 17:01:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREF KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC NI |
08ABUJA293 | NIGERIA: AMBASSADOR LAGON'S VISIT TO ABUJA [...] (U) SUMMARY: During a January 22 visit to Abuja, Ambassador-at-Large for Trafficking and Director of the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking, Mark Lagon, emphasized the importance of increased prosecutions of traffickers, the protection of victims, and the prevention of human trafficking. [...] | 2008-02-13 14:55:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG NI |
08ABUJA296 | NIGERIA: KOSOVO DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-13 15:43:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV UNAUS UNMIK YI EU NI |
08ABUJA318 | NIGERIA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON U.S. CONCERNS ON [...] Per reftel, Post delivered demarche to Maria Laose, Head of First United Nations Division of the Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Though Ms. Laose affirmed that Nigeria was firmly committed to the Oslo Process, she had no substantive reply at the time. She said she would forward our conc [...] | 2008-02-20 15:57:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | MOPS PARM PREL PGOV NI |
08ABUJA324 | 2008 SPECIAL 301 REVIEW - NIGERIA [...] (SBU) Intro and Summary: The Government of Nigeria (GON),Nigerian industry and U.S industry recognize the serious Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) problems in Nigeria. There have been some successes in IP enforcement; however, convictions are rare owing to long and tortuous judicial proces [...] | 2008-02-21 09:17:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD KIPR PGOV PREL NI |
08ABUJA341 | ILEA GABORONE - Criminal Investigations Course, March [...] The following 6 Nigerian personnel from the Independent Commission for Corrupt Practices and other related offences, the Nigeria Police Force and National Drug law Enforcement Agency are nominated for attendance for the above referenced ILEA Training. Sharon Ogiri-Okpe DOB - 15 September, 19 [...] | 2008-02-22 12:43:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR KCRM ASEC EAID NI |
08ABUJA351 | NIGERIA'S OFFICIAL DELEGATION TO WIREC 2008 [...] The Federal Ministry of Energy (Power) has informed post of the composition of the official GON delegation to the March 2008 Washington International Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC). The Ministry of Energy (Power) sees the role of renewable energy as important to Nigeria. In the power sect [...] | 2008-02-25 06:30:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG SENV EAID TRGY ECON CVIS SOCI KSCA NI |
08ABUJA359 | OPIC-SUPPORTED INVESTMENT FUNDS IN THE REGIONS: AFRICA [...] The required capital to operate businesses and implement development programs that will create jobs and improve the livelihoods of the citizens is in short supply in Africa. Some African countries, Nigeria inclusive, are implementing economic reforms in order to achieve higher growth rates an [...] | 2008-02-26 14:51:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ECON NI |
08ABUJA360 | OPIC-SUPPORTED INVESTMENT FUNDS IN THE REGIONS - AFRICINVEST FUNDS II [...] The required capital to operate businesses and implement development programs that will create jobs and improve the livelihoods of the citizens is in short supply in Africa. Some African countries, Nigeria inclusive, are implementing economic reforms in order to achieve higher growth rates an [...] | 2008-02-26 14:51:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ECON NI |
08ABUJA404 | NIGERIA: TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT [...] (U) The following is Mission Nigeria's submission for the annual trafficking in persons (TIP) report. Paragraphs respond to questions in reftel. -------- OVERVIEW -------- 2. (SBU) -- A. Nigeria is a source, transit, and destination country for trafficked persons. Trafficking also occu [...] | 2008-02-29 13:23:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KCRM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB NI |
08ABUJA422 | NIGERIA: IRAN UNSC SANCTIONS DEMARCHES DELIVERED [...] On March 4, PolOff delivered demarche and associated nonpapers on UN Security Council (UNSC) sanctions against Iran approved March 3 per SECSTATE 21770 to Nigerian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Deputy Director for International Organizations Charles A. Ononye. Mr. Ononye expressed support for a [...] | 2008-03-04 14:23:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL KNNP IO NI |
08ABUJA436 | NIGERIA: SPECIAL ENVOY TO OIC DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-04 16:01:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV OIC NI |
08ABUJA45 | IRAN DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-09 10:59:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PARM NI |
08ABUJA481 | NIGERIA: CONGRESSIONALLY MANDATED REPORT ON FISCAL [...] (U) Mission provides the following information per reftel request: President Umaru Yar'Adua's administration assumed office in May 2007, and has committed itself verbally to upholding the principles of openness, transparency and full accountability in the management of public funds, and has not [...] | 2008-03-12 10:22:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EFIN ECON PREL NI |
08ABUJA484 | THE INTERNATIONAL ANTICORRUPTION AND GOOD GOVERNANCE ACT [...] (U) Mission Nigeria provides the following in response to reftel. 2. (U) Host country efforts to combat corruption and improve transparency/acountability in 2006/2007: Former President Olusegun Obasanjo initiated a broad agenda to tackle corruption, including enforcement of existing anti [...] | 2008-03-12 13:56:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | KCOR KCRM SNAR NI IZ |
08ABUJA492 | ECOWAS: AMBASSADOR SANDERS PRESENTS HER CREDENTIALS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-13 16:12:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | OPDC PGOV PREL NI ECOWAS |
08ABUJA521 | NIGERIA Q 2008 PRESIDENT'S REPORT ON AGOA [...] In response to reftel, this cable contains Nigeria's submission for the 2008 President's Report on AGOA. . Market Economy/Economic Reform/Elimination of Trade Barriers --------------------------------------------- -- . 2. A new government headed by Umaru Musa Yar'Adua was sworn in on May [...] | 2008-03-18 15:41:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD AGOA ECON NI |
08ABUJA574 | NIGERIA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON U.S. SPECIAL ENVOY [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-31 10:01:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | MASS PGOV PREL PTER MARR PARM NI |
08ABUJA582 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: IMPLEMENTING UNSC RES. 1803 ON [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-31 16:53:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PARM NI |
08ABUJA60 | ILEA GABORONE - Financial Forensics Course, February [...] The following 6 Nigerian personnel from the Nigeria Financial Intelligence Unit and the Special Crime Unit against Money Laundering are nominated for attendance for the above referenced ILEA Training. Musa Bah Mohammed DOB - 22 August, 1958 Gender - Male Rank - Chief Superintenden [...] | 2008-01-10 13:32:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR KCRM ASEC EAID NI |
08ABUJA628 | ILEA ROSWELL, New Mexico - Advanced Management Course - [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-07 14:01:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR KCRM KJUS ASEC EAID ECON NI |
08ABUJA629 | NIGERIA DESK OFFICER DISCUSSES TRADE/INVESTMENT [...] (U) SUMMARY: Visiting Nigeria Desk Officer and PolOff visited Plateau and Bauchi States March 19-22 and met Plateau Governor Jonah Jang and Bauchi Governor Isa Yuguda to discuss increasing trade with, and investment from, the United States in various sectors, particularly agriculture, food pro [...] | 2008-04-07 14:03:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAGR EINV ENRG ETRD SENV KPWR NI |
08ABUJA695 | EMBASSY NIGERIA INTERESTED IN THE AWASH INITIATIVE [...] Post is interested in participating in the Ambassador's Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (AWASH) project. The Mission is already actively engaged in the education sector, and endorses the opportunity to raise awareness about water, sanitation and hygiene issues while building goodwill in local Ni [...] | 2008-04-15 15:35:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV TBIO SOCI NI |
08ABUJA711 | ILEA ROSWELL, New Mexico - Advanced Management Course - [...] Name: Obi Josephine Ruth DOB: 08 May 1964 Gender: F Position/Rank: Superintendent of Narcotics Passport #: A00046337 Expiry date 01 October 2012 2. The Department has checked its files and finds it holds no credible information regarding gross abuse of human rights on the part of th [...] | 2008-04-17 06:23:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR KCRM KJUS ASEC EAID NI |
08ABUJA751 | FUND CITE FOR TRAVEL OF FINCEN STAFF JILL BEZEK AND NIIBEN [...] This is an action request. 2. Request FINCEN to establish fund cite to support FINCEN expenses, as follows: 3. Charge fund cite for ticket cost from Washington-Abuja-Washington and per diem cost for stay in Abuja April 27-May 2, 2008. APPROPRIATION: 1911 5/71022 BUREAU CODE: 01 EXPENDITURE [...] | 2008-04-22 15:48:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR KCRM KFRD TRSY NI EAID IZ |
08ABUJA755 | NIGERIA: INVITATION TO PSI WORKSHOP DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-23 11:14:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL PGOV MNUC KNNP XX NI |
08ABUJA759 | NIGERIA: INVITATION TO COESPU UNAMID-RELATED [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-23 15:14:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIA MARR MASS PGOV NI |
08ABUJA784 | NIGERIA: FY 2008 INL PROPOSAL, Request FOR $1.190 Million [...] Summary: Per reftel instructions, Post proposes 3 key INL projects and 1 alternate project to be funded with FY 2008 funds for a total amount of $1.190 million dollars. This amount includes $600,000 in Program Development and Support(PD$S): $300,000 in Interdiction and $290,000 in the area of [...] | 2008-04-29 08:09:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM PGOV SNAR ECON NI |
08ABUJA796 | NIGERIA: NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY PREPCOM [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel demarche and papers to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director of International Organizations Ambassador Secudo on April 24. Amb. Secudo informed Poloff on April 30 that he passed the papers to the Nigerian PrepCom participants in Geneva and that Nigeria is prepared [...] | 2008-04-30 14:07:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PREL NPT IAEA NI |
08ABUJA802 | NIGERIA APPROVES MULTI YEAR ELECTRICITY TARIFF [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-02 07:38:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENRG EPET PGOV |
08ABUJA813 | NIGERIA: ALTERNATE NOMINEE FOR THE CHAIRMANSHIP OF [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-05 15:53:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG KNNP PREL MNUC PARM NPT IAEA PGOV NI |
08ABUJA816 | NIGERIA: DEMOCRACY OUTREACH SUMMARY [...] (U) In response to ref A, Nigeria is generally considered a free nation and developing democracy. In keeping with the President's Freedom Agenda, the Chief of Mission and officers from relevant Mission agencies and sections (including Political, Public Affairs, and USAID) regularly meet with [...] | 2008-05-06 13:11:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL KPAO NI |
08ABUJA817 | NIGERIA: RISING FOOD PRICES YET NO SHORTAGES [...] Summary. Rising food and agricultural commodity prices are having a significant impact in Nigeria. Since late 2007, basic food prices have risen sharply. The Ministry of Agriculture calculates that 71% of Nigerians are underfed and the World Bank estimates that 54% of the population earns le [...] | 2008-05-06 14:44:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAGR EAID ETRD PREL NI |
08ABUJA832 | NIGERIA 2008 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND [...] We have received no reported cases of an investment dispute where a U.S. citizen alleges there has been an expropriation, other taking of property, or contract repudiation by a foreign government. SANDERS [...] | 2008-05-07 09:59:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ECON PGOV KIDE CASC OPIC NI |
08ABUJA837 | NIGERIA: PSI ENDORSEMENT DEMARCHE RE-DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-07 16:18:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | MNUC PARM PGOV PHSA PREL KNNP NI |
08ABUJA840 | NIGERIA APPROVES MULTI-YEAR ELECTRICITY TARIFF [...] (U) The Government of Nigeria (GON) approved a multi-year tariff order (MYTO) allowing a rate structure that captures the full cost of delivering electricity. Dr. Ransome Owan, CEO of the Nigeria Electricity Regulatory Commission, told us that the MYTO will provide the regulatory framework for [...] | 2008-05-08 15:56:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENRG EPET PGOV NI |
08ABUJA841 | NIGERIA: EARTH DAY IN JOS A SUCCESS [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Jos American Corner (AC) partnered with local environmentalists and non-government organizations (NGO) to stage an Earth Day event with the theme A Call for Climate Change. The program was an all day event held outdoors at the AC with guest speakers representing the Plateau S [...] | 2008-05-08 15:57:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV ECON KPAO |
08ABUJA861 | NIGERIA - RECENT OUTBREAKS OF MEASLES AND MENINGITIS [...] Summary. From January to April 2008 reports indicate there have been 20,549 suspected cases of measles (5,798 confirmed) with sixty-four recorded deaths. This is compared to the 6,400 suspected cases for all of 2007. About eighty percent of the confirmed cases for this year are in children u [...] | 2008-05-09 15:49:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO EAID DEOC SOCI PGOV NI |
08ABUJA864 | NIGERIA: MICROFINANCE SECTOR-GROWTH AREA [...] Summary. The microfinance sector in Nigeria is large and has the potential for further growth. GON officials view establishing Private Public Partnership (PPP) as a mechanism to increase lending that will eventually alleviate poverty. For the GON to be successful the public sector should foc [...] | 2008-05-12 08:58:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV EAID ECIN NI |
08ABUJA874 | NIGERIA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON INTEROPERABILITY [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-13 15:11:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | MOPS PARM PREL NATO UN NI |
08ABUJA876 | NIGERIA: NORTHERN PARENTS REJECT VACCINES [...] (U) SUMMARY. Poloff and PolSpecialist spoke with Dr. Muhammad Kabir, professor of community medicine at Bayero University in Kano, and Bashir Sanusi, community health specialist with the Kano State Ministry of Health, on April 16. Two themes clearly emerged: 1) despite the recent outbreak of [...] | 2008-05-14 09:53:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV SOCI TBIO KISL KOCI NI |
08ABUJA882 | NIGERIA: PASSAGE OF THE 2008 BUDGET [...] (U) SUMMARY: President Umaru Musa Yar'Adua signed the 2008 budget appropriation bill into law on April 14, 2008. Due to disagreements between the President and the National Assembly (NA) budget passage was held up for five months, stalling government economic activities. The Government of N [...] | 2008-05-15 09:05:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON EINV ENRG PGOV NI |
08ABUJA899 | ILEA GABORONE - Train the Trainer on Fraudulent Documents [...] The following 7 Nigerian personnel, from the Nigeria Customs Service and the Nigeria Immigration Service are nominated for attendance for the above referenced ILEA Training. Name Ilesanmi Kehinde (ALTERNATE) DOB Feb 19, 1964 Gender Male Rank Superintendent of Customs [...] | 2008-05-19 06:20:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR KCRM ASEC EAID NI |
08ABUJA947 | NIGERIA: ICAO DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] EconOff met with Dr.Imoro Kubor, Director, Air Transport Management, to discuss reftel points on May 16, 2008. According to Dr. Kubor, Nigeria is actively collaborating with other African countries and does not, as of May 23, have an answer on the U.S. positions. SANDERS [...] | 2008-05-27 06:25:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ECON PARM KTIA KNNP AORC NI |
08ABUJA963 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: REPORT ON IMPLEMENTATION OF [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-30 08:54:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ETRD TRGY KNNP UNSC NI |
08ACCRA001382SUSPECTEDDUPLICATE1 | GHANA PRE-ELECTION POLLING-- A WIDE MARGIN FOR [...] (U) Summary. There is limited polling data available ahead of Ghana's December 7 presidential election. The polls that are available show a tight race between the ruling New Patriotic Party and the opposition National Democratic Congress, with neither party strong enough to win a first round e [...] | 2008-10-23 13:53:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PGOV PHUM KDEM GH |
08ACCRA1003 | GHANA TIP CASE UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: An EMBOFF visited northern Ghana July 31 to observe conditions of children rescued in July 17 raid. The children are in generally good condition, but resources for their continued welfare are limited. The Koranic teacher arrested for holding the children is now out on bail. The [...] | 2008-08-05 16:07:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB KCRM KWMN PREF GH PHUM |
08ACCRA1006 | GHANA POLITICAL ROUNDUP [...] (U) Summary. The Electoral Commission on July 31 began the voter registration exercise, after months of delay. NPP supporters continue to wait for a decision on a running mate for Presidential Candidate Nana Akufo-Addo, who has assumed the role of the party's leader from President Kufuor. The [...] | 2008-08-05 16:22:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREF GH IV |
08ACCRA1048 | GHANA VOTER REGISTRATION --LONG LINES AND SUSPECT [...] (SBU) Summary. Ghana's long delayed voter registration exercise ended August 13, marked by long lines, insufficient materials, and accusations of partisan tampering with the process. EMBOFFs toured voter registration centers in Accra, Ashanti, Central and Western regions, finding long lines of [...] | 2008-08-14 15:56:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PGOV KDEM GH |
08ACCRA1052 | ACCRA INPUT FOR FY 09 AFRICA PARTNERSHIP STATION [...] (U) (Summary) EMBOFF's conversations with Ghanaian officials found broad support for participation in the Africa Partnership Station (APS). The Ghanaian officials were unanimous in seeing APS as an opportunity for staff training and development. Ghanaian officials cited their need to develop [...] | 2008-08-15 07:52:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | AFIN MARR MASS SNAR MOPS PREL GH |
08ACCRA1058 | NPP ANNOUNCES VP CANDIDATE [...] (U). The New Patriotic Party announced late on August 14 that Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia would be its vice presidential candidate in the upcoming election. Dr. Bawumia is currently the Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana, and is a technocrat with no previous electoral experience. The choice will be [...] | 2008-08-15 08:10:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREF GH |
08ACCRA107 | DEMARCHE ON LACK OF EFFORTS TO ADDRESS CHILD SEX [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-17 16:54:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB KCRM KWMN PHUM PREL GH |
08ACCRA1103 | GHANA--EC CRITIQUES REGISTRATION, NPP LAUNCHES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Deputy Commissioner of the Electoral Commission expressed concerns about the recently finished voter registration exercise. He acknowledged questions about the integrity of the voter roll following allegations of under-age and multiple registrations. The New Patriotic Part [...] | 2008-08-26 10:38:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF KDEM PREL PHUM GH |
08ACCRA1159 | Ghana: Special Self Help Final Obligation [...] PostQs USD 70,000 Special Self-Help Fund (FY07) allocations have been awarded to 12 projects listed below. Grants were allocated under three elements: Water Supply and Sanitation (4 projects); Social Services (5 projects); and Social Assistance (3 projects). Geographic distribution of proje [...] | 2008-09-10 14:54:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON GH |
08ACCRA1169 | VOTER REGISTRATION: ELECTORAL COMMISSION ADMITS [...] (U) SUMMARY. Electoral Commission (EC) Chairman Afari-Gyan began a September 5 meeting of the Inter-party Advisory Committee (IPAC) by admitting that there were problems with the registration exercise, which saw 290% more new registrants than a similar exercise two years ago. He asserted that [...] | 2008-09-11 10:26:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM GH |
08ACCRA1174 | GHANA CIVIL SOCIETY, CLERGY AND PARTY LEADERS [...] (U) Summary: Civil religious and political leaders have consistently called for peaceful elections and calm and reemphasized their message following recent incidents of violence in Northern Ghana that saw several killings and the destruction of property (REFTEL). The calls for calm are receiv [...] | 2008-09-12 08:07:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KDEM GH |
08ACCRA1312 | U.S. AFRICA COMMAND UPDATE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-08 12:23:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR PREL GH |
08ACCRA1317 | CLEANSING THE VOTER REGISTER -- STRONGER SOAP [...] (U) SUMMARY. More than 2,000 polling stations throughout Ghana opened on October 5 to give parties and citizens the opportunity to challenge the eligibility of registrants. As the week set aside for this process draws to a close, the response has been totally underwhelming. For all of the [...] | 2008-10-10 11:43:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREF PREL KDEM GH |
08ACCRA1319 | DEMARCHE ON IRANIAN UN SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTIONS [...] (SBU) Economic Chief Philip Cummings delivered the reftel demarche and non-paper on UN Security Council Resolution 1835 regarding Iran and the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty to Mr. Akwasi Agyare, acting Director of the AmericaQs Bureau at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 2. (SBU) In respo [...] | 2008-10-10 12:21:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM MNUC KNNP IR GH |
08ACCRA1324 | Ghana: Input for AGOA Eligibility Review [...] Ghana is a country of 22 million people with a constitutional democracy dominated by a strong presidency. President John Kufuor has governed since assuming office democratically in January 2001, succeeding Jerry Rawlings, who ruled for 19 years. Presidential elections are scheduled for 2008. [...] | 2008-10-10 12:23:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD GH |
08ACCRA1352 | USITC STUDY ON SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: EFFECTS OF [...] SUMMARY: GhanaQs physical infrastructure is adequate between the capital and the countryQs two major seaports, but can be less comprehensive in other parts of the country. There are ample areas for Ghanaian government and international donor collaboration and coordination in order to enhance [...] | 2008-10-16 16:58:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD OTRA ASEC GH |
08ACCRA1386 | GHANAIAN ELECTIONS: AN OVERVIEW OF THE PROCESS [...] (U) SUMMARY. Ghana's presidential and parliamentary elections are scheduled for December 7. This cable provides background for the framework and process. END SUMMARY. 2. Ghana is governed by the 1992 constitution that created the Fourth Republic. It is a constitutional democracy with a [...] | 2008-10-23 16:27:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | GH KDEM PGOV PHUM PINR PREF PREL |
08ACCRA1428 | DESIGNATION OF ADDITIONAL IRANIAN ENTITIES AND INDIVIDUALS [...] (SBU) Economic Chief Philip Cummings delivered the reftel demarche and non-paper on the additional Iranian entities and individuals named under Executive Order 13382 to Mr. Akwasi Agyare, acting Director of the AmericaQs Bureau at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The MFA had no substantive res [...] | 2008-11-05 16:13:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM MNUC KNNP EFIN IR GH |
08ACCRA1448 | GHANA ELECTIONS: BUSSING STUDENTS FOR POLITICAL [...] (U) SUMMARY. Members of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) party in Cape Coast physically prevented a group of university students from transferring their voting district to this university town in Ghana's Central Region early this week. According to NDC party officials, the [...] | 2008-11-14 09:20:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | GH KDEM PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
08ACCRA1449 | GHANAQS 2009 TRADE ESTIMATE REPORT [...] SUMMARY: The U.S. goods trade surplus with Ghana was $217 million in 2007, an increase of $120 million from $97 million in 2006. U.S. goods exports in 2007 were $416 million, up 43.7 percent from the previous year. Corresponding U.S. imports from Ghana were $199 million, up 3.4 percent. Ghan [...] | 2008-11-14 09:42:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON EFIN GH |
08ACCRA1462 | GHANA ELECTIONS: THE PRESIDENTIAL DEBATES [...] SUMMARY. For the first time in its history, Ghana has held two nationally-televised presidential debates in which the candidates for both major parties, along with the two minor parties that currently hold seats in Parliament, came together to answer questions on the issues facing the country. [...] | 2008-11-14 13:22:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | GH KDEM PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
08ACCRA1466 | EC: PREPARATIONS FOR ELECTION CONTINUE, VOTER [...] (U) Summary. The Chairman of Ghana's Electoral Commission (EC),Dr. Kwadwo Afari-Gyan, told a November 13 meeting of the Inter-party Advisory Committee (IPAC) that progress was being made in cleaning the voter rolls, with nearly 350,000 names deleted in an on-going program. Afari-Gyan told t [...] | 2008-11-14 13:36:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM GH |
08ACCRA1471 | PARTY YOUTH LEADERS ADVOCATE FOR PEACEFUL ELECTIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-19 13:32:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM KDEM GH |
08ACCRA1475 | Ghana: 2009 International Narcotics Control [...] Ghana is not a regional financial center, but due to continuing turmoil in the region, GhanaQs financial sector is likely to become more important regionally as it develops. Most of the money laundering found in Ghana involves narcotics and public corruption. Ghana is a significant transship [...] | 2008-11-20 16:04:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN SNAR KCRM KTFN GH |
08ACCRA1477 | AMBASSADOR MEETS PNC CANDIDATE EDWARD MAHAMA [...] (SBU) Summary. Ambassador Teitelbaum discussed the up coming election with People's National Convention (PNC) presidential candidate Dr. Edward Mahama. Mahama is making his fourth run for president as the PNC's candidate, although he has never received over three percent of the national vote [...] | 2008-11-24 09:22:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM GH |
08ACCRA1480 | GHANA: CONGRATULATORY MESSAGES TO PRESIDENT-ELECT [...] Below are texts of congratulatory messages to President-elect Obama from 2008 Ghana Presidential Candidate Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, MP and Former First Lady of Ghana, Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings Dr. (Mrs). 2. Text of letter from Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo: "Dear Senator Obama, RE [...] | 2008-11-25 08:08:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | OPDC ECON PREL OVIP NI |
08ACCRA1510 | GHANA ELECTIONS: ALL THEY ARE SAYING, IS GIVE [...] SUMMARY. If Ghana's December elections somehow go awry, it won't be for lack of trying to focus the attention of the populace on peace. For the past two months, the call for peaceful elections has been omnipresent and inescapable, even drowning out discourse on political platforms and the eve [...] | 2008-11-28 09:33:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | GH KDEM PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
08ACCRA1517 | GHANA AGRICULTURAL AND RURAL SECTOR HIGHLIGHTS, DECEMBER [...] SUMMARY: A. Ghana has benefitted this year from higher cocoa prices and increased U.S. investment in cocoa processing facilities. B. The EU and Ghana signed an agreement to combat the export of illicit timber to be implemented in 2009. This could potentially impact more than 50 percent [...] | 2008-12-02 12:09:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON ETRD EINV SENV GH |
08ACCRA1523 | GHANA ENERGY SECTOR HIGHLIGHTS, DECEMBER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A. (U) New hydro generation projects are moving ahead with Chinese and Brazilian financial assistance and tied contractors. Based on the assumption that new gas-fired thermal plants will also be online by 2011, the Minister of Energy has announced a target power price of 9 [...] | 2008-12-03 07:59:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG ECON EINV EIND EFIN GH |
08ACCRA1525 | GHANA ELECTIONS: WHAT MAKES PAPA RUN? [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Papa Kwesi Nduom, presidential candidate for the Convention Peoples Party (CPP),has managed to offend most of the party's organizational leaders, and is running his campaign with very little support from the rank and file. According to Ivor Greenstreet, CPP's general secretar [...] | 2008-12-03 08:00:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | GH KDEM PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
08ACCRA1530 | GHANA'S NORTH- HOLDING CALM PRIOR TO ELECTION [...] (U) SUMMARY. The people of Northern Ghana are preparing for the December 7 election with the same mix of campaigning, rallies and calls for peace as the rest of the nation. The north's history of violence-- including some campaign related clashes earlier this political season-- is a source of [...] | 2008-12-04 14:54:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM PGOV KDEM GH |
08ACCRA154 | CODEL ENGEL'S VISIT TO GHANA [...] SUMMARY - During a January 9 - 11 visit to Ghana, CODEL Engel pressed Ghanaian officials, NGOs and industry for further efforts against the worst forms of child labor in the cocoa sector in accordance with the 2001 Harkin-Engel Protocol. The GOG outlined steps it has taken to survey child labo [...] | 2008-01-29 12:48:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM OVIP PGOV PREL ELAB GH |
08ACCRA1545 | GHANA ELECTIONS: HEADING FOR A RUNOFF DECEMBER 28 [...] (U) The Electoral Commision has announced that Ghana's next president will be determined by a runoff election on December 28. EC Chairman Dr. Kwadwo Afari-Gyan announced the results of the December 7 Presidenial race at a December 10 press conference. With all 230 constituencies reporting, th [...] | 2008-12-10 17:24:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM PINS GH |
08ACCRA1559 | GHANA ELECTIONS: PARLIAMENTARY KINGMAKERS [...] (U) SUMMARY: Although results have not yet been confirmed, it appears certain that the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) will win a minimum of 113 seats in Parliament, while the ruling National Patriotic Party (NPP) is certain to win 108. Candidates outside the two major parties a [...] | 2008-12-11 14:45:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | GH KDEM PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
08ACCRA1562 | GHANAIAN MEDIA SHAPE PEACEFUL ELECTION [...] Radio a Cause for Joy: During the months leading up to Ghana's presidential elections many elements of Ghanaian society, not least of all the media itself, were critical of the inflammatory tone of political news coverage. The largest complaint was reserved for radio station call-in programs [...] | 2008-12-12 11:29:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | AF GH KPAO |
08ACCRA1581 | CODEL NELSON CALLS ON MINISTER, MEETS ELECTION [...] (U) Senator Bill Nelson called on Ghana's Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Abraham Ossei-Aidooh, on December 14 to congratulate the Minister and the Ghanaian people on their recent successful presidential and parliamentary elections and to assure the Minister of continued U.S. support for [...] | 2008-12-17 16:59:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | GH KDEM PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
08ACCRA1585 | ACCRA DELIVERS KOSOVO RECOGNITION DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-18 15:02:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KVIR GH |
08ACCRA1592 | SCENE SETTER FOR A/S FRAZER'S VISIT TO GHANA, [...] U.S. Mission Accra warmly welcomes the visit of Assistant Secretary Frazer and Staff Assistant Dana Banks to Ghana, with a scheduled arrival on a UN flight on December 26 at approximately 11:00, and departure on December 28 at 21:55 on a KLM/NWA flight 8590 to Amsterdam. Control officer for th [...] | 2008-12-19 07:48:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA OVIP PREL PGOV ECON AMGT GH |
08ACCRA1604 | GHANA: THE MIDFIELD ECONOMIC GROWTH MODEL [...] SUMMARY: An economic analyst with ties to ruling party NPP candidate Nana Akufo-Addo praised the Kufuor Administration's economic record, noted remaining problems, and laid out key economic policy proposals and benchmarks necessary for the success of the next President of Ghana. END SUMMARY. [...] | 2008-12-23 15:04:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PGOV PINR GH |
08ACCRA1611 | GHANA'S NUCLEAR ENERGY AMBITIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: This cable reports on Ghana,s current civilian uses of atomic technology and their plans to become a nuclear power producer (response to REF A). Ghanaian atomic science research is established institutionally, but at a low level of technical sophistication. Ghana,s atomic scien [...] | 2008-12-24 07:57:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG EINT TRGY TBIO EINV BEXP BTIO GH |
08ACCRA1612 | GHANA'S NUCLEAR ENERGY AMBITIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: This cable reports on Ghana,s current civilian uses of atomic technology and their plans to become a nuclear power producer (response to REF A). Ghanaian atomic science research is established institutionally, but at a low level of technical sophistication. Ghana,s atomic scien [...] | 2008-12-24 07:58:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG EINT TRGY TBIO EINV BEXP BTIO GH |
08ACCRA1617 | GHANA ELECTION: ATTA-MILLS VICTORIOUS (ALMOST) [...] (U) The Director of Ghana's Electoral Commission (EC),Dr. Kwadwo Afari-Gyan, announced the results of the December 28 presidential runoff election at 4:55 pm on December 30. National Democratic Congress (NDC) candidate John Atta-Mills polled 4,501,466 votes (50.13%),and New Patriotic Party [...] | 2008-12-30 18:50:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | GH KDEM PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
08ACCRA1624 | GHANA ELECTIONS: AKUFO-ADDO NOT READY TO CONCEDE [...] (U) On December 31, one day after the Electoral Commission (EC) announced the results of the presidential runoff election, New Patriotic Party (NPP) candidate Nana Akufo-Addo called a press conference at his residence in East Legon to announce that his party had compiled the evidence to back [...] | 2008-12-31 17:14:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | GH KDEM PGOV PHUM PINS PREL |
08ACCRA219 | 2008 SPECIAL 301 REVIEW - GHANA [...] Summary: Ghana has made progress in recent years in protecting intellectual property rights (IPR) under both domestic and international law. Most domestic intellectual property laws have been revised to become compliant with Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS). The n [...] | 2008-02-12 18:31:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD KIPR GH |
08ACCRA255 | FUNDING REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL [...] Request ICASS funding to continue leasing the current USAID warehouse April 1, 2008. Estimated annual warehouse lease (33,000),utility (16,000) and guard (13,700) costs are 63,000 USD. This cable has been cleared by the ICASS Council. In addition, OBO/RE advised use of MOU to transfer leas [...] | 2008-02-22 10:52:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | KICA AFIN AMGT USAID ASEC ABUD |
08ACCRA292 | GHANA: DEMARCHE ON MALDIVES DRAFT UNHRC RESOLUTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-29 12:44:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM PGOV KCHG UNHRC MV GH |
08ACCRA293 | GHANA: IAEA BRIEFING ON IRANIAN NONCOMPLIANCE AND [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-29 12:45:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KNNP MNUC PARM IAEA IR GH |
08ACCRA300 | PRESIDENT KUFUOR DELIVERS FINAL STATE OF THE NATION [...] SUMMARY: ON FEBRUARY 14, 2008, PRESIDENT KUFUOR DELIVERED HIS FINAL STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS TO PARLIAMENT, FOCUSING ON THE GOVERNMENT'S POSITIVE ECONOMIC ACHIEVEMENTS SINCE HE CAME TO OFFICE IN 2001. HE SAID HIS GOVERNMENT HAD BROUGHT A PERIOD OF ACCELERATED GROWTH, LARGELY ACHIEVED THROUG [...] | 2008-03-03 15:12:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL ECON GH |
08ACCRA324 | NPP Campaign Strategy Unfolding [...] SUMMARY. In a February 26 meeting with Poloff and visiting Ghana Desk Officer Dana Banks, New Patriotic Party (NPP) General Secretary Nana Ohene Ntow outlined the party's campaign strategy of focusing on the government's record of accomplishments, managing communication issues, and targeting w [...] | 2008-03-07 13:19:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL SNAR GH |
08ACCRA351 | MCC ENTERS SECOND YEAR IN FULL GEAR [...] Summary: The MCC program in Ghana is in full implementation mode, as it enters its second year. Over the past six months 51 contracts and other agreements have been signed, with a total value of over $22 million. Consultants are on the ground and activities are well in progress. This is a r [...] | 2008-03-14 15:24:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ETRD EAID GH |
08ACCRA381 | Response to ILEA Gaborone - Training Needs Assessment [...] (U) Summary: Post has selected three senior level law enforcement officials to attend the ILEA - Gaborone Training Needs Assessment Conference, which will be held from April 14-16, 2008, in Gaborone, Botswana. As a delegation, the selected officials are senior level law enforcement personnel w [...] | 2008-03-19 16:42:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM SNAR ASEC EAID ECON KJUS GH |
08ACCRA388 | Response to ILEA Gaborone - Training Needs Assessment [...] (U) Summary: Post has selected three senior level law enforcement officials to attend the ILEA - Gaborone Training Needs Assessment Conference, which will be held from April 14-16, 2008, in Gaborone, Botswana. As a delegation, the selected officials are senior level law enforcement personnel w [...] | 2008-03-20 16:45:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM SNAR ASEC EAID ECON KJUS GH |
08ACCRA415 | Ghana - Economic Round-up [...] (U) Summary: this cable provides a summary of notable developments in the economic sector in February 2008 and March 2008: -- Inflation Continues to Rise; -- Cocoa Farmgate Price Increased to Check Smuggling; -- Banking Ghanaian Banks Get Reprieve in Bank Recapitalization; Libyan Bank Op [...] | 2008-03-27 15:28:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EAGR ENRG GH |
08ACCRA432 | PROPOSALS FOR INL LAW ENFORCEMENT AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE [...] (SBU) Per reftel instructions, Post proposes five projects to be funded with FY 2008 funds. Post's objective is to build on past efforts to enhance the capabilities of Ghanaian counter-narcotics units, including the Narcotics Control Board, and to focus attention on improving interdiction capa [...] | 2008-04-01 17:53:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL SNAR GH |
08ACCRA476 | GHANA POLITICAL ROUNDUP [...] SUMMARY: Speculation continues in Ghana over possible running-mates for opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) flag bearer Professor John Atta Mills, with former First Lady Nana Rawlings publicly urging Mills to select a female candidate. With the continuing crisis over Liberian refuge [...] | 2008-04-04 12:15:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL GH |
08ACCRA505 | PRESIDENT CARTER NOTES PROGRESS AND EMPHASIZES [...] Summary: Former United States President Jimmy Carter visited Ghana March 31-April 1, 2008 to review the successes of the Guinea worm eradication program as well as to begin discussions on the potential role of the Carter Center as election monitors for the upcoming Presidential election in G [...] | 2008-04-15 08:22:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PGOV GH |
08ACCRA509 | GHANA TRANSPORTATION: SAFE SKIES AND FRIENDLY PORTS [...] SUMMARY: On April 11, Deputy Secretary of Transportation Thomas Barrett, accompanied by Charge d'Affaires Sue K. Brown, officials from the Department of Transportation, the U.S. Trade and Development Agency, and the Millennium Challenge Corporation, met with Ghanaian counterparts to discuss ai [...] | 2008-04-15 15:17:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ECON PREL SNAR EPET DOT GH |
08ACCRA530 | GHANA POLITICAL ROUNDUP [...] SUMMARY: On April 17, former New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential candidate Alan Kyerematen delivered a resignation letter to his party amidst speculation that he will launch an independent bid for the presidency. Following weeks of intense media speculation, NDC presidential candidate John [...] | 2008-04-21 07:44:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL KIRF GH |
08ACCRA537 | GHANA: INVITATION TO PSI WORKSHOP [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-23 17:14:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL MNUC GH |
08ACCRA542 | ACCRA: NPT PREPARATORY MEETING DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-25 14:50:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PREF NPT IAEA GH |
08ACCRA561 | REGIONAL FISHIERIES NEWS [...] SUMMARY: Chinese industrial fishing practices off the coast of Cameroon are described as destructive and threatening. Ghanaian fishermen allege Chinese commercial trawling methods are damaging the artisanal fishing equipment. China completes site survey in Ghana for potential aquaculture si [...] | 2008-04-29 16:42:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID SENV XA CM GH |
08ACCRA602 | Ghana - Impact of Rising Food/Agricultural Commodity Prices [...] Summary: Ghana is a net food importer and has seen a significant increase in the price of food staples, some portion of which may be explained in part by seasonal factors and the high cost of petroleum. In general, Ghana tends to record surpluses in tubers and deficits in cereals and the sit [...] | 2008-05-06 16:34:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAID ETRD ECON PGOV PREL GH |
08ACCRA606 | AMBASSADOR BRIDGEWATER'S FAREWELL VISIT TO [...] (U) SUMMARY: During her farewell tour of Brong-Ahafo and Ashanti Regions, Ambassador Pamela Bridgewater paid a farewell call on Brong-Ahafo Regional Minister Ignatious Baffour-Awuah April 29. Baffour-Awuah briefed the Ambassador on political and economic development activities in the Region, a [...] | 2008-05-06 17:55:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ECON GH |
08ACCRA741 | AMBASSADOR BRIDGEWATER PAYS FAREWELL CALL ON [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-10 16:36:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV GH |
08ACCRA746 | GHANA POLITICAL ROUNDUP [...] (U) Summary: President Kufuor plans to bestow Ghana's highest civilian award on opposition presidential candidate John Atta Mills, to the vocal consternation of top New Patriotic Party leaders. The Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) accuses President Kufuor of confli [...] | 2008-06-11 10:35:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM SNAR PREL GH |
08ACCRA89 | GHANA 2008 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-16 09:13:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN OPIC USTR |
08ACCRA904 | Ghana - Economy Under Pressure [...] (SBU) Summary: this cable provides a summary of notable developments in the economic sector in April, May and June 2008. The inflation figures and relatively weak move on energy tariffs do not bode well for Ghana's fiscal health in 2008. -- May Inflation Accelerates to 16.9 Percent; -- Distr [...] | 2008-07-11 12:31:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EAGR ENRG GH |
08ACCRA93 | EVICTION AGAINST BULGARIAN AMBASSADOR'S RESIDENCE [...] On January 9, a disgruntled landlord attempted to evict the Bulgarian Ambassador from his residence which doubles as the Bulgarian Embassy. According to several sources, the landlord and his minions arrived early in the morning on January 9, forced their way inside the compound and began carr [...] | 2008-01-16 16:43:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL OFDP PGOV GH |
08ACCRA933 | COCOA AND CHILD LABOR: TULANE CONSULTATIVE MEETING [...] (U) SUMMARY. Tulane University hosted in Accra July 15 the second annual consultative meeting on its research into child labor in the cocoa sector. The meeting was attended by Government of Ghana officials, led by Deputy Minister of Manpower, Youth and Employment, Akosua Frema Osei-Opare and o [...] | 2008-07-16 16:49:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM OVIP PGOV PREL ELAB GH ILAB IV |
08ACCRA934 | ACCRA RESPONSE: RALLYING SUPPORT FOR INDIA-IAEA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-17 13:43:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL ETTC GH |
08ACCRA945 | ACCRA RESPONSE TO GHANA TIP RAID [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-22 16:29:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL GH KWMN |
08ACCRA97 | FORMER MINISTER OF NATIONAL SECURITY UNDER HOUSE [...] On January 16, sources told us that elements of the Ghana Police and military surrounded former Minister of National Security Francis Poku,s home, effectively placing him under house arrest. (NOTE: Poku was removed from his post as Minister on January 12 as reported reftel. END NOTE.) Source [...] | 2008-01-17 11:25:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL GH |
08ADANA17 | ASSUME CHARGE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-27 09:56:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT ORA TU |
08ADANA20 | ASSUMED CHARGE [...] PRINCIPAL OFFICER ERIC F. GREEN RETURNED TO POST ON 1 JUNE 2008 AND ASSUMED CHARGE. GREEN [...] | 2008-06-02 14:22:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT OTRA TU |
08ADANA25 | LEAVE (CREVIER, JUSTIN C. XXX-XX-7127, FS-03) [...] FOR FSC CHARLESTON: PLEASE SUSPEND POST DIFFERENTIAL PAYMENTS FROM 07/02/2008 UNTIL 08/05/2008 FOR CREVIER, JUSTIN C. , SSN: XXX-XX-7127, FS-03 GREEN [...] | 2008-06-30 11:56:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED | APER AFIN |
08ADANA28 | ASSUME CHARGE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-14 06:49:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT ORA TU |
08ADANA30 | CASHIER CHECKING ACCOUNT [...] In reftel, post cashier was authorized to establish a checking account valid until 08/31/08. Post requests that this authorization be extended to allow principal cashier, Muge Kocak, to continue using the checking account. 2. Required information for cashier checking account: a. Nam [...] | 2008-08-26 08:06:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED | AFIN |
08ADANA32 | ASSUME CHARGE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-09 05:51:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT ORA TU |
08ADANA33 | REASSIGNMENT AT POST (CREVIER, JUSTIN C., XXX-XX-7127, [...] EFFECTIVE DATE: 08/28/08 2. AGENCY: STATE 3. POST: adana 4. reassignment at post FROM position no. 50006001 manAgement officer to POSITION NO. 60244001 public diplomacy officer. 5. transfer eligibility date is 05/2009. GREEN [...] | 2008-09-10 10:57:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED | APER |
08ADANA35 | TURKEY: MERSIN PUSHING FORWARD TO PROSPERITY, WINS EU'S [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Eastern Mediterranean port of Mersin has become Turkey's first city to win funding under the EU's "Region of Knowledge" (ROK) project, focusing on innovation in agriculture and food processing. The project brings together 12 entities (government, private sector and NGOs) fr [...] | 2008-09-26 08:42:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ECIN PREL TU ZM |
08ADANA36 | TURKEY: MERSIN PUSHING FORWARD TO PROSPERITY, WINS EU'S [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Eastern Mediterranean port of Mersin has become Turkey's first city to win funding under the EU's "Region of Knowledge" (ROK) project, focusing on innovation in agriculture and food processing. The project brings together 12 entities (government, private sector and NGOs) fr [...] | 2008-10-06 06:10:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ECIN PREL TU ZM |
08ADANA37 | CA/CST INSTALLATION/TRAINING EXIT TELEGRAM [...] Visit summary: A. Post visited: Adana B. CA/CST installation and training team members: Nicholas A. Lombardo Alvin J. Brown C. Post visit dates: 09/08/08 - 09/16/08 D. Post personnel contacted: Robin D. Solo [...] | 2008-10-06 10:33:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED | KCSY CMGT AADP CVIS CPAS |
08ADANA40 | FIMED: TRUST FUND CASE OF NURAY SUSAN KING, OB # 9941937572, [...] OCS/TRUST FINAL PAYMENT OF U.S. DOLS. $720.00 WAS DISBURSED TO KING, NURAY SUSAN on 11-Oct-2008 - $720.00 disbursed by SOLOMON, ROBIN. 2. Name of loan recipient: NURAY SUSAN KING. 3. Recipient's date and place of birth: 09 OCT 1986, ADANA, TURKEY. 4. Total amount received: $720.00. [...] | 2008-10-24 06:06:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC AFIN CPAS |
08ADANA47 | SOUTHEAST TURKEY PRESS SUMMARY FOR MARCH 12, 2007 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-26 08:53:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PINS PGOV PHUM TU |
08ADANA53 | ASSUME CHARGE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-18 08:09:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT ORA TU |
08ADDISABABA1000 | ELECTIONS HERALD 7: THE INEVITABLE - OPPOSITION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On April 4, just over one week before the initial polling date (April 13) in Ethiopia's local elections, the largest participating opposition party, the United Ethiopian Democratic Forces (UEDF) formally outlined seven demands that they insist must be met by the National Electio [...] | 2008-04-10 14:01:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KJUS KDEM PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA105 | ETHIOPIA: 2008 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT [...] As requested in Reftel, post is pleased to submit the 2008 Investment Climate Statement for Ethiopia. Begin Text: 2. Openness to Foreign Investment 2006/2007 HIGHLIGHTS -- In a bid to curb increasing food prices the Government of Ethiopia (GoE) levied a 10 percent surtax on selected import [...] | 2008-01-14 13:45:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ETRD ECON KTDB USTR OPIC ET |
08ADDISABABA1106 | DEMARCHE ON IMPLEMENTATION OF INTERNATIONAL HEALTH [...] Poloff, USAID Chief of Health Office, Meri Sinnitt and Project Management Specialist, Eshete Yilma delivered reftel points and shared the International Health Regulations (IHR) plan with Ministry of Health (MoH) officials on April 17th. The MoH has in place a System Integrated Disease and Surv [...] | 2008-04-22 10:03:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO AORC PREL KFLU WHO ET |
08ADDISABABA1111 | ELECTION HERALD 9: ELECTIONS FULFILL EPRDF PROPHECY [...] (SBU) April 20 marked the second round of polling in Ethiopia's local elections and will decide the make-up of the thousands of kebele (district) administrations, as well as the few remaining federal parliamentary by-elections seats not chosen in the first round. As was the case on the April [...] | 2008-04-23 06:13:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KJUS KDEM PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA1132 | EMBASSY ADDIS ABABA NOMINATES GIRMA ABEBE FOR FSN [...] Nominee: Mr. Girma Abebe. Official Position Title: Political Specialist. Grade: FSN-11. Total Years of Service: 16. Type of Appointment: DH. 2. BEGIN NOMINATION TEXT: Girma Abebe, Addis Ababa's senior Political Section Foreign Service National, one of the most senior FSNs in our Mission [...] | 2008-04-23 14:09:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT APER AFSN |
08ADDISABABA116 | EVIDENCE OF INCREASED MARIJUANA CULTIVATION AND POSSIBLE [...] SUMMARY: A recent seizure of 73 kilograms of cannabis (marijuana) and the arrest of five people indicates a possible up-tick in commercial drug cultivation in Ethiopia. Additionally, sources indicate that drug growers are using machines to manufacture hashish from cannabis plants, a new develo [...] | 2008-01-15 09:18:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR KCRM ET |
08ADDISABABA120 | USG HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TEAM: FIELD VISIT #2 -WATER, [...] Between January 2 and 9, U.S. Government (USG) Humanitarian Assistance Team (HAT) in Ethiopia staff, traveled to Degehabur and Fik zones in Somali Region as part of a second field visit to assess the current humanitarian situation, including health, nutrition, and water and sanitation conditio [...] | 2008-01-16 05:45:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA1212 | USAID/OFDA DIRECTOR VISIT TO ETHIOPIA [...] In discussions with USAID/OFDA implementing partners, the USAID/OFDA Director emphasized the importance of coordination and information sharing within the Ethiopian humanitarian community, particularly in Somali Region. To facilitate improved response programming, the Director advised NGOs op [...] | 2008-05-06 11:08:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA1228 | RESPONSE: IMPACT OF RISING FOOD/COMMODITY PRICES- ETHIOPIA [...] SUMMARY: Ethiopia is witnessing significant food inflation. However, this inflation appears to be caused primarily by internal forces rather than global market forces. An expected poor upcoming Belg season harvest is likely to exacerbate further the already-tenuous food situation. The U.S. Ag [...] | 2008-05-08 11:03:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAGR EAID ET |
08ADDISABABA1229 | WATER SHORTAGE LEADS TO POWER CUTS [...] SUMMARY: Due to lower-than-normal spring (Belg) rains, the Ethiopian Electric Power Company (EEPCO) has instituted a program of rolling power cuts throughout the country. Heavily dependent on hydropower, without improved rains the cuts are expected to expand from two days per week to four in Ma [...] | 2008-05-08 11:04:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENRG SENV ET |
08ADDISABABA1267 | ETHIOPIAN AIRLINES DETAILS AMBITIOUS EXPANSION PLANS [...] SUMMARY: In recent meetings, the management of Ethiopian Airlines detailed expansion plans both to their core business and into associated areas. The airline's plans mesh well with the Government of Ethiopia's (GoE) poverty reduction efforts, but overexpansion or poor investments could risk Et [...] | 2008-05-12 08:19:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EAIR ECON ET |
08ADDISABABA129 | ETHIOPIA SUPPORTS U.S. CANDIDATE ON CERD [...] (U) Ms. Lulit Zewdie, the Ethiopian Foreign Ministry's Counselor for UN Principal Organs, confirmed to PolEcon Chief on January 16 that Ethiopia will vote in favor of U.S. candidate for the UN Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, Ambassador Pierre-Richard Prosper. The Ethio [...] | 2008-01-16 09:11:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM UNGA ET |
08ADDISABABA1299 | EXCEPTIONAL ISSUANCE OF IMPORT LICENSES TO CHINESE FIRMS [...] The influence of the Chinese Government on Ethiopian economic sectors continues to gain traction. The Ethiopian Council of Ministers recently approved an exception to issued licenses previously reserved for domestic investors to two Chinese government firms to import and distribute heavy const [...] | 2008-05-14 08:37:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EINV EAGR ET EEB |
08ADDISABABA134 | USG HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TEAM: FIELD VISIT #2 - [...] Summary: Between January 2 and 9, U.S. Government (USG) Humanitarian Assistance Team (HAT) in Ethiopia staff, including a USAID/Ethiopia Assets and Livelihoods Transition program coordinator, traveled to Degehabur and Fik zones in Somali Region as part of a second field visit to assess the c [...] | 2008-01-16 14:16:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA1415 | ADDIS ABABA EAC MEETS TO DISCUSS MAY 20 EXPLOSIONS ON [...] (U) On Wednesday, May 21, 2008 The Addis Ababa Emergency Action Committee (EAC) met to discuss the May 20 incident in which a public transport mini-van experienced a bombing resulting in casualties. The following EAC members were present: DCM, USAID, PAO, MGT, GSO, ORA, MSG, OBO, CLO, USAU, P [...] | 2008-05-21 14:24:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC ASEC ET |
08ADDISABABA1419 | ETHIOPIA WILL ATTEND ICAO MEETING AS OBSERVER [...] Post provided information from reftel to Ms. Fortuna Dibaco at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Ms. Dibaco stated that Ethiopia is an observer to ICAO and not a council member. A representative for Ethiopia will attend the meeting in Montreal, but as an observer state, Dibaco did not feel tha [...] | 2008-05-22 12:41:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ET |
08ADDISABABA142 | ETHIOPIA: SECSTATE HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING APPROVAL [...] (SBU) Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following Ethiopian military candidate, pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act. The below listed Ethiopian military officer is the head of the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) Peacekeeping Operations Departm [...] | 2008-01-17 13:50:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | PMIL PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA152 | USG HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TEAM: DELAYS DISRUPT FOOD AID [...] Between January 2 and 9, U.S. Government (USG) Humanitarian Assistance Team (HAT) in Ethiopia staff, traveled to Degehabur and Fik zones in Somali Region as part of a second field visit to assess current humanitarian conditions. A primary focus of the field visit was to assess the status of f [...] | 2008-01-18 11:05:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA153 | USG HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TEAM: SECURITY AND ACCESS [...] Between January 2 and 9, U.S. Government (USG) Humanitarian Assistance Team (HAT) in Ethiopia staff, traveled to Degehabur and Fik zones in Somali Region as part of a second field visit to assess current humanitarian conditions. USG HAT staff report that a letter of approval from the Somali R [...] | 2008-01-18 11:05:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA1531 | EPRDF MOVES TO FURTHER STRIP POWER OF FORMER CUDP [...] (SBU) At the May 21 quarterly address by PM Meles Zenawi to Parliament, leader of the former Coalition for Unity and Democracy Party (CUDP),Temesgen Zewdie, attempted to present his response and questions following the PM's speech, as is traditionally allowed for party leaders. However, befor [...] | 2008-06-04 14:37:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM PGOV EAID PHUM KJUS ET |
08ADDISABABA1533 | ETHIOPIA: ACTION REQUEST FOR PRE-BLAST TRAINING [...] ACTION REQUEST: Embassy Addis Ababa requests DS/ATA provide Ethiopia the following courses, to be conducted in Ethiopia, as soon as possible: Explosive Incident Countermeasures (EIC) and Advanced Explosive Incident Countermeasures (AEIC). The courses have been requested by the Ethiopian poli [...] | 2008-06-05 06:04:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC PREL PHUM ET |
08ADDISABABA1546 | LACK OF POLITICAL WILL PROMPTS TREASURY PROJECT SUSPENSION [...] SUMMARY: Seven months after the signing of the Terms of Reference (TOR) between the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE) and the U.S. Treasury Department for an Anti-Money Laundering and Counter Terrorist Financing (AML/CFT) program, the U.S. Department of Treasury has decided to suspend work on the [...] | 2008-06-06 05:33:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | KTFN EAID ECON EFIN PTER PREL ET |
08ADDISABABA1639 | NBE- ETHIOPIA'S BANKING BIG BROTHER [...] SUMMARY: Ethiopia's Banking Business Proclamation contains a host of clauses that grant the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE, Ethiopia's central bank) wide ranging and extensive power over the operations of private banks and Ethiopians' rights to invest in the financial sector. The Proclamation [...] | 2008-06-16 14:04:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV ET |
08ADDISABABA1640 | PARLIAMENT CONSIDERS TWO BANKING LAWS [...] SUMMARY: The National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE, Ethiopia's central bank) presented an amendment to the monetary and banking proclamation to Parliament on June 2. The principal objectives of the amendment include removing the borrowing ceiling of the Government of Ethiopia (GoE) from the NBE, intro [...] | 2008-06-16 14:05:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EINV EAGR ET |
08ADDISABABA165 | MONTHLY ECONOMIC REVIEW FOR DECEMBER 2007 [...] SUMMARY -- Ethiopian Government's (GoE) 2006/07 macroeconomic performance report indicates economic growth was broad based and sustainable. -- GoE projects double digit economic growth in 2007/08, the fifth year in a row; -- The Central Statistical Agency (CSA) changed the base year of the [...] | 2008-01-22 13:13:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EINV EAGR ET |
08ADDISABABA1691 | ETHIOPIA: 2008 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND [...] The United States Government is aware of four (4) claims by U.S. persons which may be outstanding against the Government of Ethiopia (GOE). One claim included in the 2006 report has been resolved. There are two new reported claims. 2. The U.S. Government is also aware of two other disputes [...] | 2008-06-20 06:59:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ETRD ECON ET |
08ADDISABABA1746 | "FORUM FOR DEMOCRATIC DIALOGUE IN ETHIOPIA": A NEW [...] (U) On June 24, 2008, representatives from the United Ethiopian Democratic Forces (UEDF),Oromo Federalist Democratic Movement (OFDM),Somali Democratic Alliance Forces (SDAF),Arena Tigray for Democracy and Sovereignty (Arena),former President of Ethiopia Dr. Negasso Gidada, and former Defens [...] | 2008-06-26 14:17:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM PHUM ET |
08ADDISABABA1755 | DEATH OF PRIME MINISTER MELES'S FATHER [...] (U) Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi's father, Ato Zenawi Asres, passed away on June 26, after a prolonged illness. Ato Zenawi was 82 years old. Prime Minister Meles, family and senior government officials will attend Ato Zenawi's funeral on June 27 in the northern Ethiopian town of Adwa [...] | 2008-06-27 08:19:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | OPDC PREL ET |
08ADDISABABA1787 | ETHIOPIA - USG/HAT - MEETING WITH WFP [...] Senior World Food Program (WFP) officials - the Country Director for Ethiopia and the Chief of the Logistics Division in Rome - briefed USAID officials Friday June 27 on the current transport situation and its capacity to meet food aid imports over the coming months. There is little capacity t [...] | 2008-07-01 12:56:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA1815 | USAU: APRIL 9-11 AFRICAN UNION CONSULTATIVE [...] SUMMARY: From April 9-11 the African Union (AU) Consultative Meeting on Women and Gender met in Addis Ababa to review a framework paper to be subsequently endorsed by the AU Council of Ministers as the definitive AU statement on gender policy and gender mainstreaming. Subsequent to the meet [...] | 2008-07-07 06:23:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL SOCI AU |
08ADDISABABA1817 | USAU: PROPOSAL FOR AFRICAN CLIMATE POLICY CENTER [...] SUMMARY: On May 20 African Union (AU) and United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) officials briefed donor partners on joint efforts to establish an African Climate Policy Center (ACPC). The African Development Bank (ADB) is also involved in the initiative to address the challe [...] | 2008-07-07 06:25:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL EAID SOCI AU |
08ADDISABABA1821 | ETHIOPIA - USAID/HAT - UPDATE ON HUMANITARIAN SITUATION IN [...] This cable provides a summary of the current situation in the Somali region based on field reporting by the Government of Ethiopia (GoE) regional government in Jijiga, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and United Nation (UN) agencies. The cable draws exclusively from second hand sources du [...] | 2008-07-07 06:26:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA1823 | SERIOUS IMPACTS OF FAILED BELG RAINS IN ETHIOPIA [...] There is a 'green famine' in Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region (SNNPR) as the U.S. Government Humanitarian Assistance Team (USG/HAT) observed during their recent field trips in Wolyata and Gurage zones in late June. Nutrition programs are overwhelmed with patients in the absenc [...] | 2008-07-07 06:27:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA1825 | USAU: JUNE 11-12 MEETING OF IGAD COUNCIL OF [...] SUMMARY: On June 11-12 the Foreign Ministers of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) convened in Addis for their twenty-seventh Ordinary Session. The meeting was chaired by Kenya, co-chaired by the Italian Ambassador, and addressed by Ethiopia's Minister of Foreign Affairs, [...] | 2008-07-07 06:28:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV EAID AU |
08ADDISABABA1870 | Japan Embargoes Ethiopian Coffee for Trace Insecticides [...] SUMMARY: The Japanese Coffee Association (JCA) has rejected the delivery of 16 container loads of Ethiopian coffee due to the presence of three banned insecticides. The JCA sent multiple teams to Ethiopia to obtain samples from throughout the supply chain to determine the source of the contamin [...] | 2008-07-09 04:46:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EINV EAGR ET |
08ADDISABABA1878 | ETHIOPIAN NGO WINS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AWARD [...] (U) The Ashden Trust awarded its 2008 Sustainable Development award to the Gaia Association of Ethiopia, a U.S.-supported organization providing ethanol-burning stoves to refugee camps in Ethiopia's Somali region. Through financial assistance from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and t [...] | 2008-07-09 14:09:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR ENRG PREF ET |
08ADDISABABA191 | ETHIOPIA'S HIDES, SKINS AND LEATHER SECTOR [...] SUMMARY: The hides, skins and leather (HSL) sector is a priority area in the Government of Ethiopia's (GoE) economic development plan. While Ethiopia has the potential to produce large amounts of very high-quality leather, problems of poor quality inputs, over-capacity in tanneries, and a low [...] | 2008-01-24 12:16:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR ECON ETRD EINV EAID ET |
08ADDISABABA1943 | INFLATION PEAKS, THE PUBLIC FEELS THE PINCH [...] In June, Ethiopia's general inflation rate hit 55.3 percent on an annualized basis (from June 2007 to June 2008). Food inflation ticked in at 78.2 percent and cereal inflation, as a subset of food inflation, soared 132.5 percent over the same period. Cereals include staple grains such as tef [...] | 2008-07-17 08:13:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | ALOW ECON PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA1948 | PARLIAMENT PASSES 2008/09 FEDERAL BUDGET [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Ethiopian Parliament passed a federal budget of US$5.6 billion for 2008/09 fiscal year that runs from July 8, 2008 to July 7, 2009. The budget is 16 percent higher than the US$4.9 billion budget endorsed last year. Given that annual general inflation in June 2008 was 55.3 pe [...] | 2008-07-17 10:06:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EINV EAGR ET |
08ADDISABABA2093 | ETHIOPIA REGISTERS AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE - HOPE FOR [...] The Ethiopian Ministry of Justice formally registered the American Chamber of Commerce in Ethiopia (ACCE) on June 26 after a concerted 20-month effort by Embassy Addis Ababa to establish what is only the fourth American Chamber of Commerce in Africa. The establishment of the ACCE offers a uniq [...] | 2008-07-30 12:58:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ETRD ECON PREL ET |
08ADDISABABA213 | USG HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TEAM FIELD VISIT #3: HEALTH AND [...] Between January 15 and 21, U.S. Government (USG) Humanitarian Assistance Team (HAT) in Ethiopia staff, traveled to Gode and Korahe zones in Somali Region as part of a third field visit to assess the current humanitarian situation, including health and nutrition conditions. USG HAT staff repor [...] | 2008-01-29 04:48:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA2149 | GOE REAFFIRMS PROTECTION OF COPYRIGHTS [...] (U) The Ethiopian Government (GoE) destroyed close to half a million pirated copies of locally produced music CDs, software, Ethiopian-produced DVD films and foreign-produced pornographic films on 27 July 2008 at Meskel Square in Addis Ababa in the presence of senior government officials, artis [...] | 2008-08-07 04:45:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EINV EAGR ET |
08ADDISABABA2217 | LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE: MR. ABEBAW ASFAW FELLEKE'S [...] (SBU) Pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act, REFTEL identified one Ethiopian National to Participate in Small Arms and Light Weapons non-proliferation training, to be held 17-22 August in Kampala Uganda. Per REFTEL Embassy verifies that as of 11 Aug 08 the Department of State P [...] | 2008-08-12 09:59:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | PMIL PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA2218 | SUBJECT: LEAHY VETTING REQUEST FOR PARTICIPATION [...] (SBU) Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following Ethiopian citizen who has been nominated for USG-sponsored training, pursuant to the Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act. Post has no derogatory information on this individual. 2. (SBU) This seminar is a regional [...] | 2008-08-12 10:00:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | PMIL PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA233 | USG HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TEAM FIELD VISIT #3: [...] Between January 15 and 21, U.S. Government (USG) Humanitarian Assistance Team (HAT) in Ethiopia staff, including a USAID/Ethiopia senior policy advisor and a USAID/Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) agriculture and livestock advisor, traveled to Gode and Korahe zones in Somali R [...] | 2008-01-30 09:57:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA240 | USG HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TEAM: FIELD VISIT #2 -WATER, [...] Between January 2 and 9, U.S. Government (USG) Humanitarian Assistance Team (HAT) in Ethiopia staff, traveled to Degehabur and Fik zones in Somali Region as part of a second field visit to assess the current humanitarian situation, including health, nutrition, and water and sanitation conditio [...] | 2008-01-31 09:09:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA249 | STATE MINISTER TEKEDA DISCUSSES REGIONAL AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a January 17 meeting with State Minister for Foreign Affairs, Tekeda Alemu, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Linda Thomas-Greenfield asked about Ethiopia's SIPDIS outlook for the new Somali government, the Ethiopian relationship with Sudan, as well as noted the importan [...] | 2008-02-04 07:58:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | KDEM PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA2531 | COMMERCE VISIT PUNCTUATED BY MIXED FEELINGS ABOUT DOING [...] (U) U.S. Department of Commerce Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) Holly Vineyard's August 17-20 visit to Ethiopia highlighted an economy offering significant opportunities as well as great challenges. While the Ethiopian economy has shown significant growth in recent years, business and developm [...] | 2008-09-15 14:12:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD PREL ET |
08ADDISABABA2655 | ADDIS ABABA EAC MEETS TO DISCUSS RECENT TERRORIST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: U.S. Embassy Addis Ababa's Emergency Action Committee (EAC) convened on September 22, 2008 to review the details of the September 17, 2008 terrorist attack on U.S. Embassy Sana'a and the September 20, 2008 attack on the Marriott hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan. Post,s primary foc [...] | 2008-09-23 13:28:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC CASC |
08ADDISABABA2694 | ADDIS ABABA EAC MEETS TO DISCUSS END OF RAMADAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: U.S. Embassy Addis Ababa's Emergency Action Committee (EAC) convened on September 29, 2008 to review the details of the September 28, 2008 hotel bombing in Jijiga, Ethiopia which killed four and wounded twenty-two. Post's focus was to determine what impact this may have on Mi [...] | 2008-09-30 09:48:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC CASC |
08ADDISABABA27 | USG HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TEAM: SECURITY AND ACCESS [...] Summary: Between December 27 and 30, the U.S. Government (USG) Humanitarian Assistance Team (HAT) in Ethiopia program officer, health and nutrition specialist, and safety and security officer traveled to Jijiga and Degehabur zones in Somali Region as part of an initial field visit to assess [...] | 2008-01-08 08:07:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA2802 | ETHIOPIA'S LACKLUSTER PARLIAMENTARY AGENDA [...] (U) Ethiopian President Girma Woldegiorgis presented the Ethiopian Government's (GoE) parliamentary agenda at the October 6 opening session of Parliament. Peppered with dry calls for administrative proclamations, quality control standards and institutes, and the improvement of key sectors suc [...] | 2008-10-08 07:17:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV EAGR ECON ET |
08ADDISABABA2816 | GOVERNMENT OF ETHIOPIA LIFTS FUEL SUBSIDY [...] (U) The government of Ethiopia's (GoE) Council of Ministers lifted subsides on domestic fuel prices effective October 4. The move came after the International Monetary Fund (IMF) objected to the fuel subsidy before considering a balance of payments loan (reftel). The Council also authorized t [...] | 2008-10-14 04:52:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EINV EAGR ET |
08ADDISABABA2817 | ETHIOPIA'S NOMINATION: INTERNATIONAL WOMEN OF COURAGE 2009 [...] (U) Embassy Addis Ababa would like to nominate Ms. Birtukan Midekssa Deme, Chairperson, Unity for Democracy and Justice Party, as our nominee for the 2009 Secretary's Award for International Women of Courage. The remainder of this cable is tracked to nomination detail criteria outlined in reft [...] | 2008-10-14 04:52:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN PREL KPAO PHUM ET |
08ADDISABABA3060 | PROFILE OF ETHIOPIA'S DEBT SUSTAINABILITY [...] (SBU) Although the government of Ethiopia (GoE) has assumed only minimal new official external bilateral and multilateral debt since completing two rounds of external debt relief, state-owned enterprises (SOE) are accumulating off-budget external (and domestic) debt at an alarming rate. The Go [...] | 2008-11-10 04:31:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EINV EAGR ET |
08ADDISABABA315 | USG HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TEAM FIELD VISIT #3: WASH [...] Between January 15 and 21, U.S. Government (USG) Humanitarian Assistance Team (HAT) in Ethiopia staff traveled to Gode and Korahe zones in Somali Region as part of a third field visit to assess the current humanitarian situation, including water, sanitation, and hygiene conditions. The USG HA [...] | 2008-02-08 08:43:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA3298 | BENZENE FUEL SUPPLY BOTTLENECK SQUEEZES MARKET [...] (SBU) The Government of Ethiopia's (GoE) decision to require regular benzene to be blended with ethanol has led to severe benzene fuel supply gaps, exacerbating an already inefficient fuel supply chain. The ethanol blending program has hampered the GoE's ability to maintain adequate benzene fu [...] | 2008-12-09 14:21:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EINV EAGR ENRG ET |
08ADDISABABA3467 | ETHIOPIA CLAIMS MINIMAL IMPACT OF GLOBAL FINANCIAL [...] (U) In statements to Parliament on October 16 and December 11, Prime Minister Meles has argued that the Ethiopian economy will be largely unaffected by the global financial crisis. Noting with pride that Ethiopia's financial system is insulated from global finance -- with foreign financial se [...] | 2008-12-30 13:16:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON EFIN ET |
08ADDISABABA360 | USG HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TEAM: FIELD VISIT #2 -WATER, [...] Between January 2 and 9, U.S. Government (USG) Humanitarian Assistance Team (HAT) in Ethiopia staff, traveled to Degehabur and Fik zones in Somali Region as part of a second field visit to assess the current humanitarian situation, including health, nutrition, and water and sanitation conditio [...] | 2008-02-13 07:09:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA369 | USG HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TEAM: LIVESTOCK AND MARKET [...] U.S. Government Humanitarian Assistance Team (USG HAT) in Ethiopia staff report concern regarding the ability of pastoralist populations to sell their livestock and purchase staple commodities as a result of ongoing movement and trade restrictions within the conflict-affected areas of Somali R [...] | 2008-02-14 04:48:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA411 | TEN BIRR: THE BLACK MARKET HERALDS THE CURRENCY [...] SUMMARY: In a shift from historic patterns, Ethiopia's currency, the Birr, has been significantly depreciating recently against major hard currencies including the U.S. Dollar in the black market. Government of Ethiopia (GoE) officials attribute the depreciation to shortages in supply and the e [...] | 2008-02-19 05:43:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EINV EAGR ET |
08ADDISABABA412 | USG HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TEAM: PHASE I FINDINGS AND NEXT [...] During the December 20 to January 31 Phase I of the U.S. Government (USG) Humanitarian Assistance Team (HAT) in Ethiopia presence, USG HAT staff conducted multiple humanitarian assessment trips to the conflict-affected areas of Somali Region, including Degehabur, Fik, Gode, and Korahe zones. [...] | 2008-02-19 05:45:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA414 | ETHIOPIA'S RESPONSE TO CONGRESSIONAL REPORTS ON ENERGY [...] Post offers the following responses to reftel: A. The Political/Economic section and the Regional Environment, Science and Technology Office share responsibility for energy matters. The Political/Economic section, when fully staffed, consists of 8 FSOs, 1 OMS, 1 EFM and 6 FSNs. The Regiona [...] | 2008-02-19 08:25:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG SENV APER ABUD ET |
08ADDISABABA438 | ETHIOPIA'S SUGAR RUSH [...] SUMMARY: The sugar and ethanol industries have recently garnered much attention in Ethiopia, with India's ExIm Bank providing a $640 million line of credit to fund expansion of Ethiopia's state-owned Finchaa sugar factory and construction of a new factory at Tendaho. Ethiopia is expanding sugar [...] | 2008-02-21 07:28:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ETRD ECON EAGR ENRG SENV ET |
08ADDISABABA492 | USG HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TEAM: PHASE I FINDINGS AND NEXT [...] During the December 20 to January 31 Phase I of the U.S. Government (USG) Humanitarian Assistance Team (HAT) in Ethiopia presence, USG HAT staff conducted multiple humanitarian assessment trips to the conflict-affected areas of Somali Region, including Degehabur, Fik, Gode, and Korahe zones. [...] | 2008-02-27 08:22:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA512 | BLACK GOLD: PETROLEUM RESOURCES IN ETHIOPIA [...] SUMMARY: The Government of Ethiopia (GoE),through the Ministry of Mines and Energy, is actively seeking investment and exploration in the oil and gas sector. While to date there are no proven reserves of oil or gas, exploration is taking place in several areas of the country with promising geo [...] | 2008-02-27 14:19:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ETRD ECON ENRG ET |
08ADDISABABA610 | TRADITIONAL FINANCIAL STRUCTURES - IQUB AND IDIR [...] SUMMARY: While Ethiopia has one of the least-developed formal financial sectors in the world, it is possessed of a rich tradition in indigenous, community-based revolving savings and credit associations and insurance societies. These "iqub" and "idir" groups provide a source of credit and insu [...] | 2008-03-04 08:33:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ET |
08ADDISABABA615 | ETHIOPIA INPUT FOR 2008 PRESIDENT'S ANNUAL AGOA REPORT [...] Post submits the following input for the 2008 President's Annual AGOA report: 2. Status: AGOA-eligible, including for textile and apparel benefits. 3. AGOA Trade and Investment: Ethiopia's 2006 exports under AGOA and its GSP provisions were valued at $7.2 million, representing 9 perce [...] | 2008-03-04 14:14:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD AGOA ECON ET |
08ADDISABABA656 | Post Report of Visit of IIP Speaker Elbert "Bert" Ransom to [...] SUMMARY: IIP Speaker Rev. Dr. Elbert "Bert" Ransom completed a highly-successful, twelve-day visit to Ethiopia on the topic of "The Role of Faith Communities in Social Change: Contributions of Christians, Jews, and Muslims to the American Civil Rights Movement," as the main focus of post's Blac [...] | 2008-03-06 13:41:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO KIRF ET |
08ADDISABABA696 | RESPONSE TO CONGRESSIONALLY-MANDATED REPORT ON FISCAL [...] This cable presents post's response to questions on Ethiopia's fiscal transparency. 2. While Ethiopia does not have specific laws or regulations governing the pubic disclosure of revenues and expenditures in national budgets, the information is regularly published and disseminated at the di [...] | 2008-03-10 10:06:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON PREL ET |
08ADDISABABA71 | USAU: REQUEST FOR SUPOORT FOR AVIATION FUEL FOR [...] (U) This cable is from US Mission to African Union (USAU) Dr. Cindy L. Courville. 2. (U) Summary. Political unrest in Kenya has interrupted aviation fuel supplies into Burundi. Currently there is no aviation fuel available for the Burundi to airlift their 1st Battalion of Peacekeepers to Mo [...] | 2008-01-10 04:46:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | KPKO MARR PGOV PREL |
08ADDISABABA716 | MONTHLY ECONOMIC REVIEW FOR FEBRUARY 2008 [...] SUMMARY -- The Ethiopian Parliament passed a law imposing taxes on the export of raw and semi-processed leather and hides; the Council of Ministers lifted 5 percent duty and 10 percent surtax on imports of computers. -- The Government of Ethiopia (GoE) adjusted domestic oil prices effective [...] | 2008-03-12 12:38:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EINV EAGR ET |
08ADDISABABA722 | Fake Gold found at Ethiopia's Central Bank [...] SUMMARY: Since December 2007, the Ethiopian financial sector has been gripped by a who-done-it tale of fake gold in the vaults of the National Bank of Ethiopia (NBE),Ethiopia's central bank. To date, 21 suspects ranging from local businessmen to high-ranking NBE officials are being held on un [...] | 2008-03-13 09:25:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ECON ET |
08ADDISABABA753 | BLACK MARKET BUSTED - FOREIGN EXCHANGE CRACKDOWN [...] SUMMARY: Following a period of rapid depreciation in the black market exchange rate and a growing gap between official and parallel rates, Ethiopian authorities have cracked down on the thriving but illegal parallel foreign exchange market in Addis Ababa. END SUMMARY. 2. Per reftel, the pa [...] | 2008-03-17 12:37:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EINV EFIN ET |
08ADDISABABA774 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE IS GRANTED FOR AMBASSADOR [...] Embassy Addis Ababa welcomes Ambassador Lincoln P. Bloomfield, Jr., U.S. Special Envoy for Man-Portable Air Defense Systems (MANPADS) Threat Reduction, PM/WRA Senior Policy Advisor Stephanie Pico, and PM/WRA Technical Advisor Michael Kunst to travel to Ethiopia March 27-28 and April 1, 2008. [...] | 2008-03-19 14:34:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | AFIN MARR OTRA PREL MU YM DJ EG SA ET |
08ADDISABABA82 | PRIVATIZATION OR MONOPOLIZATION IN ETHIOPIA? [...] SUMMARY: An examination of available information on privatized enterprises in Ethiopia shows that companies owned by, or affiliated with, Ethio-Saudi billionaire Sheik Mohammed Al Amoudi have purchased the vast majority (in terms of value) of enterprises. Nearly every enterprise of significant [...] | 2008-01-11 07:27:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ETRD ECON EFIN ET |
08ADDISABABA867 | CONTINGENCY PLANNING FOR ETHIOPIA PASTORAL AREAS [...] THE FAMINE EARLY WARNING SYSTEM NETWORK (FEWSNET) FROM MARCH 10TH THROUGH THE 18TH, CONDUCTED A CONTINGENCY PLANNING WORKSHOP UTILIZING THE HOUSEHOLD ECONOMY APPROACH (HEA) TO PREDICT OUTCOMES FOR WHAT IS EXPECTED TO BE A POOR SHORT RAINY SEASON IN ETHIOPIA'S MAIN PASTORAL AREAS. RESULTS FROM [...] | 2008-04-01 08:38:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA886 | ETHIOPIA: UNIONS AND UNIONIZATION AN EVOLVING PHENOMENON [...] Ethiopia's unions are small institutions experiencing difficulties in the context of a growing private sector. Although both constitutional and labor laws recognize and protect worker rights, the economy's formal sector is small, and efforts to organize workers in-country are challenging. Empl [...] | 2008-04-01 13:00:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI USAID ET |
08ADDISABABA941 | USAU: AFRICAN UNION REQUEST FOR FINANCIAL AND [...] THIS CABLE IS FROM THE U.S. MISSION TO THE AFRICAN UNION (USAU) AMBASSADOR DR. CINDY L. COURVILLE. 2. SUMMARY: AU Peace and Security Commission is requesting USG financial and logistical support to establish a temporary AMISOM Mission Headquarters in Mogadishu. The current Headquarters is [...] | 2008-04-07 04:42:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL MARR MASS MOPS AU |
08ADDISABABA978 | USAID/OFDA STRATEGY CONSULTATIONS [...] Ethiopia is a country of 77 million people and growing by 3 percent per year. Despite healthy growth in the macro economy and an aggressive pro-poor agenda supported by the World Bank and major donors, including USAID, millions of Ethiopians rely every year on a safety net food program to comp [...] | 2008-04-09 06:05:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
08ADDISABABA987 | UPDATE ON SNNPR AND OROMIYA REGION DROUGHT [...] From March 11 to 18, 2008, USAID Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) Washington-based public health advisor and Addis-based field monitor staff traveled to SNNPR and Oromiya regions to assess the current drought condition and its impact on the nutrition and health status of [...] | 2008-04-10 13:23:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PHUM SENV EAGR PGOV ET |
08AITTAIPEI1008 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-10 08:23:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1026 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN ARMS SALES [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-13 22:24:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1030 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN ARMS SALES [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage July 12-14 on the alleged telephone conversation between U.S. National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley and Taiwan's National Security Council Secretary-General Su Chi at the end of June; on eight Taiwan businessmen who went [...] | 2008-07-14 08:16:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1037 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN ARMS SALES [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-15 08:24:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI104 | MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S UN REFERENDUM, U.S.-TAIWAN [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage January 19-22 on the various steps taken by the DPP to review and remedy itself in the wake of its severe defeat in the January 12 legislative elections; on the KMT's selection of its nominee for the new deputy legislative [...] | 2008-01-22 08:43:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1053 | MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S DIPLOMACY [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-17 08:11:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1062 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN ARMS SALES [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-18 08:42:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1066 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN ARMS DEALS [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their July 19-21 news coverage on the flash floods and landslides triggered by Tropical Storm Kalmaegi in central and southern Taiwan last Friday and the agricultural losses Taiwan has suffered; on President Ma Ying-jeou's sliding approv [...] | 2008-07-21 13:51:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1074 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN ARMS DEALS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-22 09:48:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1088 | DESIGNATION OF ADDITIONAL IRANIAN ENTITIES AND INDIVIDUALS [...] (U) Per reftel, Taiwan's Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) issued a formal instruction on July 21, 2008, providing all banking institutions with information on an additional 11 Iranian entities and individuals under E.O.13382 for being involved in Iran's nuclear or missile programs. 2. [...] | 2008-07-24 00:27:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP EFIN FARM PTER PREL ETTC PINR UNSC ECON IR TW |
08AITTAIPEI11 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-03 09:42:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI110 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-23 09:49:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1109 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage July 26-29 on Typhoon Fung-wong, which swept across the island Monday; on the current status of the U.S.-Taiwan arms deals; on the title of Taiwan's Olympic team; and on President Ma Ying-jeou's upcoming trip to Paraguay an [...] | 2008-07-29 23:24:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1116 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-31 07:10:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1138 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused August 2-4 news coverage on the Olympic Games in Beijing; on President Ma Ying-jeou's call for "workable diplomacy" in Taiwan's foreign relations; on U.S. arms sales to Taiwan; and on the domestic oil price adjustment policy. Several pa [...] | 2008-08-04 09:11:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1143 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-05 06:47:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1151 | MEDIA REACTION: BEIJING OLYMPICS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-06 07:30:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1152 | TAIWAN: RESULTS OF BLUE LANTERN POST-SHIPMENT CHECK [...] (SBU) Per reftel requests, AIT/T contacted Taiwan Air Force and the Aerospace Industrial Development Corporation (AIDC). Investigation results showed that these two business orders came from AIDC, and the reason for going through New Zealand-based company was because it served as a broker. [...] | 2008-08-06 07:39:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC TW |
08AITTAIPEI116 | MEDIA REACTION: TAIWAN'S UN REFERENDUM [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-24 09:12:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1170 | U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-08 06:43:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI118 | TAIWAN: RESULTS OF BLUE LANTERN PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECK [...] (SBU) Per reftel A request, AIT Kaohsiung visited Yeou Zheng Co. and a residential space used as a warehouse in downtown Kaohsiung, and interviewed the company's owner, Ms. Chen Mei-liu and other staff. AIT/K also conducted two telephone interviews with Lieutenant Commander Liang Dao-hung, wh [...] | 2008-01-24 09:13:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC TW |
08AITTAIPEI1189 | MEDIA REACTION: THE BEIJING OLYMPIC GAMES; PRESIDENT BUSH'S [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused August 9-11 news coverage on the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games; on weightlifter Chen Wei-ling winning Taiwan's first medal in the Olympics; and on the conflict in South Ossetia. In terms of editorials and commentaries, a [...] | 2008-08-11 09:46:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1201 | MEDIA REACTION: SOUTH OSSETIA, PRESIDENT MA YING-JEOU'S [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused August 12 news coverage on Taiwan tennis player Lu Yen-hsun, who defeated six-seeded Andy Murray of Great Britain in the first round of the Olympic tennis match Monday; on President Ma Ying-jeou's first trip overseas and his transit stops [...] | 2008-08-12 10:18:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1203 | TAIWAN: RESULTS OF BLUE LANTERN POST-SHIPMENT CHECKS [...] Per reftel request, AIT/T visited the end user, Legend Laser Inc.(Legend). Legend's General Manager, Sherman Kuo, and Sales Division Secretary, Maggie Tsai, provided the following information. Responses to the Questions in Reftel Para 4 ------------------------------------------- 2. Lege [...] | 2008-08-12 10:55:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC TW |
08AITTAIPEI1206 | MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENT MA YING-JEOU'S OVERSEAS TRIP [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-13 08:02:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1216 | MEDIA REACTION: BEIJING OLYMPICS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-14 07:36:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1230 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-18 09:43:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI124 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-25 09:44:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1252 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS, GEORGIA [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused August 20 news coverage on the continuing investigation into former President Chen Shui-bian and his family members' alleged money laundering, and on Chinese Taipei's defeat by the United States at the Beijing Olympic baseball competitio [...] | 2008-08-20 09:33:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1268 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their August 23-25 news coverage on the investigation into former President Chen Shui-bian's money laundering case; on Taiwan Taekwondo athlete Su Li-wen's show of sportsmanship by sustaining injuries in a competition and fighting up to [...] | 2008-08-25 09:45:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1290 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-28 09:36:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1296 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-29 07:48:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI130 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S. ECONOMIC SLOWDOWN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-28 08:07:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1300 | MEDIA REACTION: RUSSIA-GEORGIA SITUATION, U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused August 30 - September 2 news coverage on the continued investigation into former President Chen Shui-bian's money laundering case; on Saturday's mass rally targeting President Ma Ying-jeou's first one hundred days in office; and on Japan [...] | 2008-09-02 08:43:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1311 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-03 09:34:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1316 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-04 08:54:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1331 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS, U.S. DEFENSE [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage September 6-8 on the Ma Ying-jeou Administration's various moves to stimulate Taiwan's sluggish economy, following extensive and severe criticisms against President Ma's failure to realize his economic platform in his first [...] | 2008-09-08 08:54:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1339 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-09 23:57:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1341 | PSV: CHUNG SHAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY [...] COMMERCIAL OFFICER ERIC CROWLEY, FN FRANCES LI, AND EXBS ADVISOR MI-YONG KIM OF THE ECONOMIC SECTION VISITED THE CHUNG SHAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (CSIST) AT THE ADDRESS GIVEN AND MET WITH DIRECTOR BOR-RONG SONG OF PROCUREMENT AND CONSTRUCTION SERVICE DIVISION AND PROJECT DIRECTOR [...] | 2008-09-10 08:17:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ETRD ETTC TW |
08AITTAIPEI1342 | PSV: CHUNG SHAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY [...] COMMERCIAL OFFICER ERIC CROWLEY, FN FRANCES LI, AND EXBS ADVISOR MI-YONG KIM OF THE ECONOMIC SECTION VISITED THE CHUNG SHAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (CSIST) AT THE ADDRESS GIVEN AND MET WITH BOR-RONG SONG, DIRECTOR OF THE PROCUREMENT AND CONSTRUCTION SERVICE DIVISION AND WITH CHAN-ZH [...] | 2008-09-10 08:17:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP ETRD ETTC TW |
08AITTAIPEI1349 | MEDIA REACTION: PRESIDENT MA YING-JEOU'S CROSS-STRAIT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-11 09:09:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1353 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN ARMS SALES, U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage September 13-15 on Typhoon Sinlaku's pounding of Taiwan over the weekend and the import of tainted Chinese milk powder to Taiwan. In terms of editorials and commentaries, the centrist, KMT-leaning "China Times" published a [...] | 2008-09-15 06:46:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1363 | DESIGNATION OF ADDITIONAL IRANIAN ENTITIES AND INDIVIDUALS [...] (U) Per reftel, Taiwan's Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) issued a formal instruction on September 11, 2008, providing all banking institutions with information on an additional 5 Iranian entities listed under E.O. 13382 for involvement in Iran's nuclear or missile programs. 2. (U) In [...] | 2008-09-16 06:00:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP MNUC EFIN FARM PREL UNSC ECON GM IR TW |
08AITTAIPEI1370 | MEDIA REACTION: DECLINE OF THE UNITED STATES [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-17 09:28:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1387 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S. AND TAIWAN'S UN BID [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-22 06:14:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1390 | DESIGNATION OF ADDITIONAL IRANIAN ENTITIES AND INDIVIDUALS [...] Per reftels, the Central Bank of the ROC (Taiwan) has searched, but not found, any bank record of foreign exchange receipts from or payment to the following five Iranian entities designated under E.O. 13382 on August 12, 2008: --Nuclear Research Center for Agriculture and Medicine, --Esfahan [...] | 2008-09-22 09:46:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP MNUC EFIN FARM PREL UNSC ECON GM IR TW |
08AITTAIPEI1393 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S. FINANCIAL CRISIS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-23 09:45:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI14 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-04 05:16:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1424 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN ARMS DEALS [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage September 27-30 on Super Typhoon Jangmi, which pounded Taiwan heavily Sunday and Monday, bringing massive rains and causing considerable damage to the island; on the House of Representatives' veto of the Bush Administration [...] | 2008-10-01 01:30:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1426 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S. ARMS SALES TO TAIWAN, [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their news coverage October 1 on U.S. President George W. Bush's call for Congress to pass the US$700 billion bailout bill Tuesday; on the Taiwan government's measures to prop up the Taiwan stock exchange after the House of Representativ [...] | 2008-10-01 09:56:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1430 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage October 2 on the revamped U.S. financial bailout plan, which is scheduled for the Senate's vote Thursday morning; on rumors that a big local bank is suffering financial problems; on the probe into the alleged money-launderi [...] | 2008-10-02 09:48:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1438 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S. ARMS SALES TO TAIWAN, [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage October 3 on a order by Taiwan's Department of Health Thursday to remove from shelves more dairy products from China that were found to be contaminated with melamine; on the U.S. Senate's approval of a revised US$700 billio [...] | 2008-10-05 22:56:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1443 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S. ARMS SALES TO TAIWAN [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage October 4-6 on the U.S. financial bailout bill, which U.S. President George W. Bush signed into law Friday; on the approved U.S. arms sales to Taiwan; and on the probe into the alleged money-laundering case involving former [...] | 2008-10-06 09:49:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1450 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-TAIWAN ARMS SALES, U.S.-TAIWAN [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage October 7 on the arrest of Yeh Sheng-mao, former Director of the Ministry of Justice's Investigation Bureau (MJIB); National Security Bureau (NSB) Director-General Henry Tsai's remarks that SARS was a bio-chemical warfare a [...] | 2008-10-07 09:48:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1467 | TERRORISM FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF FIVE INDIVIDUALS AND TWO [...] (U) Per reftel, Taiwan's Financial Supervisory Commission (FSC) issued a formal instruction on October 3, 2008, providing all banking institutions with information on an additional five individuals and two entities pursuant to E.O. 13438 for threatening the peace and stability of Iraq and the G [...] | 2008-10-14 10:18:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL UNSC ECON IZ IR SY TW |
08AITTAIPEI1469 | MEDIA REACTION: NORTH KOREA NUCLEAR PROGRAM [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-15 06:07:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1482 | TERRORISM FINANCE: DESIGNATION OF FIVE INDIVIDUALS AND TWO [...] Per reftels, the Central Bank of the ROC (Taiwan) has searched, but not found, any bank record of foreign exchange receipts from or payment to the following five individuals and two entities designated by the U.S. Department of the Treasury on September 16, 2008 pursuant to E.O. 13438 for thre [...] | 2008-10-17 09:03:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL UNSC ECON IZ IR SY TW |
08AITTAIPEI1488 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S. VISA WAIVER PROGRAM, U.S. FINANCIAL [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused October 18-20 news coverage on the funeral of Formosa Plastics Group founder Wang Yung-ching; on the DPP's planned rally on October 25 to protest the Ma Ying-jeou Administration's "pro-China" policy and the upcoming visit to Taiwan by Ch [...] | 2008-10-20 09:46:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1492 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS, U.S. FINANCIAL [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their October 21 news coverage on a Taiwan Indigenous Defense Fighter (IDF) and its two pilots that went missing near Penghu [Pescadores] Monday on a training mission; and on the continuing probe into former first family's money launderi [...] | 2008-10-21 08:52:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1495 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-22 09:41:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1517 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-27 09:43:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1524 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, CROSS-STRAIT [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused October 28 news coverage on the upcoming visit to Taiwan by China's Association for Relations across theQaiwan Strait (ARATS) Chairman Chen Yunlin and planned talks between ARATS and Taiwan's Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF); and on Tai [...] | 2008-10-28 07:11:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1525 | AIT NOMINATION FOR THE SECRETARY'S AWARD FOR [...] (U) AIT wishes to nominate Buddhist leader CHENG Yen for the Secretary's Award for International Women of Courage. Dharma Master Cheng Yen was born in Chingshui, a town in central Taiwan, in 1937. In 1966, she established the Tzu Chi Foundation, which concentrates its activities in four area [...] | 2008-10-28 08:47:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN PHUM PREL KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1528 | MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-29 08:10:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1538 | MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused October 30 news coverage on former Vice President Lien Chan being appointed as Taiwan's envoy to the APEC leaders' summit in late November; on President Ma Ying-jeou's remarks Wednesday that he will receive China's Association for Relati [...] | 2008-10-30 09:57:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1544 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S. AND CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-31 09:59:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1550 | MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese- and English-language dailies gave significant straight news reporting and editorial coverage November 1-3 to the five-day Taiwan visit by China's Association for Relations across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS) Chairman Chen Yunlin; the talks to be held between ARAT [...] | 2008-11-03 09:25:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1561 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, CROSS-STRAIT [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese and English-language dailies continued to give significant news coverage November 4 to the historic meeting between Taiwan's Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) Chairman P.K. Chiang and China's Association for Relations across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS) Chairman Ch [...] | 2008-11-04 09:41:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1565 | MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT TALKS, U.S.-TAIWAN RELATIONS [...] Summary: The four agreements signed between Taiwan's Straits Exchange Foundation (SEF) Chairman P.K. Chiang and China's Association for Relations across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS) Chairman Chen Yunlin Tuesday concerning the three links across the Taiwan Strait received extensive coverage in Tai [...] | 2008-11-05 09:41:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1567 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese- and English-language dailies all gave significant straight news reporting and editorial coverage November 6 to the election of Democrat Barack Obama as the next U.S. president. News coverage also focused on the mass protests in Taipei Wednesday against the vis [...] | 2008-11-06 09:42:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1572 | TAIWAN: PART ONE OF 2009 NATIONAL TRADE ESTIMATE REPORT [...] The U.S. goods trade deficit with Taiwan was $11.9 billion in 2007, a decrease of $3.2 billion from $15.2 billion in 2006. U.S. goods exports in 2007 were $26.4 billion, up 14.4 percent from the previous year. Corresponding U.S. imports from Taiwan were $38.3 billion, up 0.2 percent. Taiwan is [...] | 2008-11-07 08:15:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON EFIN TW |
08AITTAIPEI1575 | TAIWAN: PART TWO OF 2009 NATIONAL TRADE ESTIMATE REPORT [...] Taiwan has identified both the medical device and pharmaceutical sectors as priorities for development, resulting in Taiwan agencies sometimes appearing to favor the interests of local companies over foreign firms. In addition, Taiwan bans imports from China of about 30 medical products. Due t [...] | 2008-11-07 08:19:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON EFIN TW |
08AITTAIPEI1576 | TAIWAN: PART THREE OF 2009 NATIONAL TRADE ESTIMATE REPORT [...] Foreign certified public accountants may serve as private agents contracted by Taiwan authorities to provide notary services or conduct audits only if they pass Taiwan's public certified accountant qualification tests, although foreign CPAs are exempt from some portions of the tests. Foreign C [...] | 2008-11-07 08:20:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON EFIN TW |
08AITTAIPEI1578 | MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS, U.S. PRESIDENTIAL [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage November 7 on the violent clashes between pro-Green supporters and police on Thursday night; on the short meeting between President Ma Ying-jeou and China's Association for Relations across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS) Chairma [...] | 2008-11-07 08:21:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1580 | TAIWAN: PART ONE OF 2009 NATIONAL TRADE ESTIMATE REPORT [...] The U.S. goods trade deficit with Taiwan was $11.9 billion in 2007, a decrease of $3.2 billion from $15.2 billion in 2006. U.S. goods exports in 2007 were $26.4 billion, up 14.4 percent from the previous year. Corresponding U.S. imports from Taiwan were $38.3 billion, up 0.2 percent. Taiwan is [...] | 2008-11-07 09:36:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON EFIN TW |
08AITTAIPEI1587 | MEDIA REACTION: U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused news coverage November 8-10 on students' sit-in campaign in protest of the police's excessive use of force against demonstrators during the Taiwan visit of China's Association for Relations across the Taiwan Strait (ARATS) Chairman Chen [...] | 2008-11-10 09:32:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |
08AITTAIPEI1601 | MEDIA REACTION: CROSS-STRAIT RELATIONS, U.S.-CHINA-TAIWAN [...] Summary: Taiwan's major Chinese-language dailies focused their November 11-12 news coverage on former President Chen Shui-bian, who was handcuffed and taken into to court Tuesday night as prosecutors sought his detention on alleged corruption and embezzlement charges; and on the students stagi [...] | 2008-11-12 09:31:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC KMDR KPAO TW |