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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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06BISHKEK1310 | TEKEBAYEV RETURNS TO KYRGYZSTAN; SECURITY SERVICE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Opposition MP Omurbek Tekebayev returned to Kyrgyzstan early September 12, after Polish authorities dropped all charges against him for carrying narcotics, as he appeared to have been framed (Ref B). At a morning rally in front of Parliament, Tekebayev accused the Kyrgyz Govern [...] | 2006-09-12 13:27:00 | Embassy Bishkek | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KG |
06BISHKEK1407 | Local Media Reaction to Incident at Manas Airport [...] (SBU) Summary: Local media reaction to the September 26 incident involving a U.S. KC-135 Stratotanker and a Kyrgyz Airlines TU-135 has largely been restrained, by local standards. Some outlets have played up the fact that the Kyrgyz plane involved in the accident occasionally transports Presi [...] | 2006-10-03 07:51:00 | Embassy Bishkek | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPAO KG |
06BISHKEK1428 | KYRGYZ INTERIOR MINISTER APPOINTED SNB CHAIRMAN, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 6, Kyrgyzstan's Interior Minister, Major-General Murat Sutalinov, was named to be the new Chairman of the National Security Service (SNB). Osmonaly Gurunov, Head of MVD's Department for Combating Extremism and Illegal Migration, was named to be the new Interior Minis [...] | 2006-10-11 03:04:00 | Embassy Bishkek | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR KCRM KG |
06BISHKEK1430 | KYRGYZ PROCURATOR GENERAL RESPONDS BUT PROVIDES NO [...] (SBU) In response to the Ambassador's request for information regarding five missing Uzbek asylum seekers (ref b),the Kyrgyz Procurator General's office wrote to us on October 10 that law enforcement officials in Osh were continuing to investigate the cases, but there was no new information r [...] | 2006-10-11 08:32:00 | Embassy Bishkek | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF PHUM KDEM KG |
06BISHKEK1463 | POINTS ON UNSCR 1718 DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2006-10-18 06:07:00 | Embassy Bishkek | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KNNP PARM PGOV KG |
06BISHKEK1496 | SCA DAS Feigenbaum Visit to Kyrgyzstan: Muslim [...] (U) SCA DAS Feigenbaum and the Ambassador welcomed the Chief Mufti of Kyrgyzstan, his deputy, the Human Rights Ombudsman, and a group of 40 representatives of civil and religious society to the October 17 dinner in Bishkek. This year, Embassy Bishkek held two Iftaar dinners, one in the north [...] | 2006-10-25 02:18:00 | Embassy Bishkek | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SCUL KPAO KG |
06BISHKEK1516 | OCTOBER 25 NUCLEAR SMUGGLING OUTREACH TALKS IN [...] (U) SUMMARY. On October 25, 2006, the Nuclear Smuggling Outreach Delegation met a Kyrgyz Republic delegation representing eight agencies and ministries to continue the discussions begun in May 2006 on improving the Kyrgyz Republic's capabilities to combat nuclear smuggling. The two delegati [...] | 2006-10-27 11:00:00 | Embassy Bishkek | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC KG KNNP PREL |
06BISHKEK1521 | DAS FEIGENBAUM'S ROUNDTABLE MEETINGS WITH CIVIL [...] (U) SUMMARY: On October 17 and 18, DAS Evan Feigenbaum held separate roundtable discussions with political analysts, democracy NGO leaders, economic development NGO leaders. Participants offered a range of views about what would happen as a result of planned opposition protests on November 2 [...] | 2006-10-30 09:49:00 | Embassy Bishkek | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR KCRM KG |
06BISHKEK1604 | KYRGYZSTAN: 2006-2007 INSCR, PART II, FINANCIAL [...] (U) No report was published for Kyrgyzstan in last year's International Narcotics Control Strategy Report, Part II, Financial Crimes and Money Laundering. This is a new report for Kyrgyzstan. Embassy point of contact for this report is Resident Legal Advisor Irfan Saeed, e-mail: SaeedIA@stat [...] | 2006-11-14 11:00:00 | Embassy Bishkek | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM EFIN KTFN PGOV KG |
06BISHKEK1644 | Off the Record, Journalists Predict Political Games to [...] (SBU) Summary: In an off the record session with four of the most well-connected journalists in Bishkek, the Ambassador had a wide-ranging discussion on the state of post-protest Kyrgyzstan. The general opinion was that while the new constitution had provided both sides a face-saving compromise [...] | 2006-11-21 06:12:00 | Embassy Bishkek | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KPAO KG |
06BISHKEK1737 | KYRGYZ MEDIA: WHO'S PULLING THE STRINGS AND WHY [...] (U) This is the first in a series of cables on the state of the media in Kyrgyzstan, with additional cables covering Internet news agencies, broadcast media, National TV and overall analysis to follow. 2. (SBU) BACKGROUND: The Kyrgyz media and political scene have become closely intertwined [...] | 2006-12-11 04:35:00 | Embassy Bishkek | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL KPAO KG |
06BISHKEK1742 | WEB-BASED NEWS MEDIA IN KYRGYZSTAN: KYRGYZ NEWS IN [...] (U) This is the second in a series of cables on the state of the media in Kyrgyzstan, with additional cables covering broadcast media, National TV and overall analysis to follow. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: From the far corners of the republic, an increasing number of Kyrgyz citizens have access to ne [...] | 2006-12-12 05:04:00 | Embassy Bishkek | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL KPAO KG |
06BISHKEK1744 | A PRIMER TO POLITICAL PARTIES OF KYRGYZSTAN [...] (SBU) Summary. Kyrgyzstan's new constitution envisions an increasingly important role for political parties in the parliament and in forming the government. Under the new constitution, half of the 90 seats in the new parliament will be elected by party list, and the majority party (among thos [...] | 2006-12-12 10:57:00 | Embassy Bishkek | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM KG |
06BISHKEK1752 | KYRGYZ BROADCAST MEDIA: THE INFLUENTIAL AIRWAVES [...] (U) This is the third in a series of cables on the state of the media in Kyrgyzstan, with additional cables covering Kyrgyz National TV (KTR) and an overall analysis to follow. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Clearly all parties in the political spectrum of Kyrgyzstan see broadcast media as the most powe [...] | 2006-12-13 10:58:00 | Embassy Bishkek | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL KPAO KG |
06BISHKEK1763 | KYRGYZ STATE TV: LURING THE DINOSAUR TOWARD [...] (U) This is the fourth in a series of cables on the state of the media in Kyrgyzstan, with the final cable offering an overall analysis to follow. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: With access to the nearly every household in Kyrgyzstan, the State Television and Radio Company (KTR) is by far the dominant m [...] | 2006-12-14 13:42:00 | Embassy Bishkek | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL SCUL KPAO KG |
06BISHKEK1782 | KYRGYZ GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS OF IPR PROTECTION [...] (SBU) Summary: Kyrgyzstan's IPR agency chief Roman Omorov recently claimed that the number of confiscations of pirated audio/video products in 2006 should nearly double the 20,000 pirated items confiscated in 2005. Based on analyses by Omorov's staff, nearly 80% of items seized by police for [...] | 2006-12-19 09:32:00 | Embassy Bishkek | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ECON EINV KG |
06BISHKEK1792 | KYRGYZ BUNDLE GAS, POWER AND WATER WITH UZBEKISTAN [...] (SBU) Summary: Kyrgyz-Uzbek negotiators agreed on a $100 per thousand cubic meter rate for Uzbek natural gas for 2007, nearly doubling the current price. In response, the Kyrgyz government announced a 44% hike in natural gas rates for consumers to absorb the price increase. In a related deal [...] | 2006-12-21 07:12:00 | Embassy Bishkek | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG ECON PREL KG |
06BISHKEK385 | KYRGYZ JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE (OR THE LACK THEREOF) [...] (SBU) Summary: The issue of judicial independence in the Kyrgyz Republic continues to be problematic, with the judiciary little more than a tool of the executive branch. Even with the ouster of President Akayev in March 2005 and the guarded optimism that judicial reforms might follow, little [...] | 2006-03-23 05:29:00 | Embassy Bishkek | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM KJUS PGOV KMDR KG |
06BISHKEK436 | CENTRAL ELECTION COMMISSION REVOKES REGISTRATION [...] (SBU) On March 30, the Central Election Commission voted 10-0 to revoke the candidate registration of notorious mob boss Ryspek Akmatbayev. Akmatbayev is running for parliament from the Issykul Oblast city of Balikchy. The CEC decision comes only nine days after its March 21 decision to appr [...] | 2006-03-30 11:44:00 | Embassy Bishkek | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCRM KCOR PREL KDEM KG |
06BOGOTA10637 | AUTHORITIES ARREST VENEZUELAN TELESUR [...] (U) On November 19, immigration authorities from the Department of Administrative Security (DAS) detained Freddy Munoz Altamiranda on suspicion of terrorism and rebellion, as he attempted to enter the country through El Dorado Airport. Munoz, a Colombian citizen, is an international corresponde [...] | 2006-11-21 15:29:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV PHUM VE CO |
06BOGOTA1086 | COLOMBIA: AVIAN FLU CONTINGENCY PLANNING AND [...] (U) As requested in Ref A, post's avian influenza (AI) committee has begun to develop preparedness measures against AI, including AI-specific tripwires. For a comprehensive assessment of Colombia's AI preparedness, see Ref B. ------------------------------ Post Avian Influenza Committee - [...] | 2006-02-06 11:41:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO SENV ECON EAGER EAID PREL KFLU PGOV CO |
06BOGOTA11300 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH NEW ILO PERMANENT [...] (SBU) In a cordial meeting on December 14, Marcelo Castro, the newly-appointed International Labor Organization (ILO) permanent representative to Colombia, said he wanted to maintain a cooperative relationship with the GOC, labor, and employer groups. Castro explained his mandate was to suppor [...] | 2006-12-18 20:06:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ETRD PGOV CO |
06BOGOTA1967 | COLOMBIA'S SIXTH ANNUAL ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN [...] (U) Embassy point of contact on trafficking in persons is human rights officer Laura Kirkpatrick, phone number (57-1) 383-2168, fax number (57-1) 315-2163. Officer spent 50 hours preparing report. 2. (U) Responses below are to questions in paragraphs 21-24 of reftel. Please note that answ [...] | 2006-03-04 00:25:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KCRM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB CO |
06BOGOTA2028 | URIBE'S ELECTORAL LEAD DECLINES IN LATEST POLL [...] (U) Summary: A poll in daily El Tiempo revealed an 11 percentage point decline in the intention to vote for President Uribe from December 2005 to February 2006. The poll shows Uribe remains over 30 points ahead of closest rival Horacio Serpa from the Liberal Party, and that he would still w [...] | 2006-03-07 17:33:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON KJUS CO |
06BOGOTA2237 | ANSWERS TO REMAINING QUESTIONS FOR COLOMBIA'S [...] (U) REF A responded to questions posed in REF B for the 2006 Annual Anti-Trafficking in Persons report. Para. 2 of REF A indicated that some questions from paragraphs 21.A., 23.E., and 23.I. of REF B were outstanding and would be answered when the information was provided. Answers to these q [...] | 2006-03-10 23:07:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KCRM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB CO |
06BOGOTA2993 | COLOMBIA CONSIDERING U.S.CANDIDATE FOR [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel demarche on the U.S. candidate for the International Narcotics Control Board (INBC) to MFA's Coordinator for the U.S. and Canada Patricia Cortes March 30. Cortes said she would pass information about U.S. candidate Ambassador Levitsky to other relevant MFA offic [...] | 2006-04-04 14:20:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PREL CO |
06BOGOTA3049 | DRUMMOND HAS MAJORITY STAKE IN NEW RAIL CONCESSION [...] (U) Summary. The U.S. based Drummond Co. recently purchased a controlling share of a new rail concession linking Colombia's coal belt in Cesar with the northern coast ports of Cienaga and Santa Marta, resolving one of Colombia's most serious trade irritants. Drummond and other coal companie [...] | 2006-04-06 13:44:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ENRG EMIN CO |
06BOGOTA3444 | PRESIDENTIAL CHALLENGERS ON RELATIONS WITH U.S., [...] (U) Summary: Presidential challengers Gaviria, Serpa, Mockus, and Leyva held a televised (one channel) debate on April 6. All save Mockus lamented an asymmetrical U.S.-Colombia relationship and criticized the FTA. The responses on our extradition relationship were more complex. All support [...] | 2006-04-19 14:20:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ETRD KJUS CO |
06BOGOTA3760 | COURT REJECTS PROCEDURAL CHALLENGE TO JUSTICE [...] (U) On April 24, the Constitutional Court ruled that the Justice and Peace Law is valid on procedural grounds, namely that it was passed in a proper fashion by the Colombian Congress. The seven to two ruling determined that the law as a whole did not affect the fundamental rights of citizens [...] | 2006-04-27 20:52:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KJUS PTER SNAR CO |
06BOGOTA4001 | POLICE REESTABLISHMENT PROGRAM: STEADY PROGRESS IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Reestablishment of Police Presence in Conflictive Zones program, which the Uribe Administration initiated with U.S. assistance in 2002, is making significant and steady progress in extending law and order to formerly abandoned municipalities of rural Colombia. The program's [...] | 2006-05-05 19:56:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR SENV KCRM PTER CO |
06BOGOTA4584 | WEEKLY ELECTION ROUNDUP - MAY 16-23 [...] (U) Weekly election roundup for May 16-23. 2. (U) Final Polls: Uribe Holds Steady, Serpa Slips: The latest polls, released by Bogota daily El Tiempo May 21, both confirmed the likelihood of Uribe's first round victory and previewed what might be a surprise ending to the race for second pl [...] | 2006-05-24 14:07:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KJUS CO |
06BOGOTA5142 | PRIVATE CARGO PLANE ACCIDENT AT RIO NEGRO; NO [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-07 22:19:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR CASC CO |
06BOGOTA5894 | COLOMBIA SCENESETTER FOR CODEL CORNYN, JULY 3-5 [...] (SBU) Post warmly welcomes the July 3-5 visit of CODEL Cornyn to Colombia. President Alvaro Uribe was re-elected in May; he is the first president to be re-elected to a second, consecutive term in Colombia,s history. Close bilateral relations between the United States and Colombia are expecte [...] | 2006-06-29 22:50:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SNAR ECON CO |
06BOGOTA65 | FARC COMMUNIQUE REJECTS IDEA OF HUMANITARIAN [...] (SBU) In a four paragraph written communique dated December 29 (Spanish version emailed to WHA/AND),the FARC rejected the possibility of humanitarian prisoner exchange during the Uribe Administration. While sharply critical of Uribe, the communique welcomed the good offices of France, Switz [...] | 2006-01-03 21:31:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PHUM PREL CO |
06BOGOTA7060 | SCENESETTER FOR CODEL DAVIS - AUGUST 5-9 [...] (SBU) Post welcomes the August 5-8 visit of CODEL Davis to Colombia. President Alvaro Uribe was re-elected in May; he is the first president to be re-elected to a second, consecutive term in over 100 years. We expect close bilateral relations between the United States and Colombia to continu [...] | 2006-08-03 19:15:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOC ECON CO |
06BOGOTA7387 | COLOMBIA GRANTS CLEARANCE FOR TROPICAL STORM AND [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-14 15:57:00 | Embassy Bogota | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MOPS EAIR SENV CO |
06BRASILIA1008 | BRAZIL - FOREIGN EXCHANGE LIBERALIZATION AND MARKET [...] (SBU) Summary: Growing pressure from exporters for some sort of GoB action in the face of the Real's appreciated levels has forced Finance Minister Guido Mantega and Central Bank President Henrique Meirelles to state they will put forward a proposal to liberalize the country's foreign exchange [...] | 2006-05-25 16:54:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV PGOV BR |
06BRASILIA1056 | BRAZIL - CVRD ON CHAVEZ AND CHINA [...] (SBU) Charge, CG and Econoff spoke to Brazilian mining giant Companhia Vale Rio Doce (CVRD) Director of Foreign Affairs, Renato Amorim, on May 26 about the company's stake in the current turmoil in the Latin American business climate and the increasing influence, often to Brazil's detriment, of [...] | 2006-05-31 19:15:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EMIN EPET PREL BR CH VE |
06BRASILIA1061 | BRAZIL'S MANAUS FREE TRADE ZONE [...] (SBU) Charge, Econoff and Commercial Specialist met with a number of entities in the Manaus Free Zone May 14-16, including Whirlpool Brazil, the Manaus Free Zone Administration (SUFRAMA),the Amazon State Industries Federation (FIEAM) and the Center for Business Development (CIDE),all of which [...] | 2006-06-01 10:01:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EAIR EINV ECON PGOV BR |
06BRASILIA1094 | PETROBRAS' CAREFUL STEPS [...] (SBU) Summary: In a May 26 meeting Petrobras Director of International Affairs Nestor Cervero told the Charge, CG and econoff that three issues occupy most of the discussion in ongoing negotiations with Bolivia -- the degree to which the Bolivian government will increase well-head taxes, how t [...] | 2006-06-02 19:26:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG EINV ECON PGOV CH BR BO |
06BRASILIA1151 | BRAZIL'S SOCIAL SECURITY DEFICIT: THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM [...] (SBU) Summary: Brazilian pensioners recently have been subjected to a burdensome requirement to appear in person to reregister with the social security administration (INSS) in order to continue receiving their pension payments. The requirement, problematic for elderly and sometimes infirm re [...] | 2006-06-09 14:03:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PGOV BR |
06BRASILIA117 | CODEL MCCONNELL MEETS BRAZILIAN POLICYMAKERS [...] (SBU) Introduction. During a January 9 stop in Brasilia, a congressional delegation led by Senator Mitch McConnell met with Brazilian government leaders. The meetings were positive and covered a range of issues, including trade, the MINUSTAH peacekeeping mission to Haiti, Venezuela's entry i [...] | 2006-01-19 12:05:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON ETRD BR |
06BRASILIA1171 | PETROBRAS ACQUISITION OF PASADENA REFINING SYSTEMS - [...] (SBU) The Mission has received repeated assurances, most prominently during Secretary of Commerce Gutierrez's June 7 meeting with President Lula's Chief of Staff Dilma Rousseff -- who also serves as President of Petrobras' Board of Directors -- that Petrobras has no interest in taking over Occi [...] | 2006-06-12 18:51:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EPET ECON PREL BR |
06BRASILIA1178 | U.S. OIL EXPLORATION/PRODUCTION FIRMS FIND BRAZILIAN [...] (SBU) Summary. During a series of June 5-6 meetings with U.S. firms involved in upstream petroleum sector operations, our interlocutors complained of Brazil's inadequate climae for foreign investment. In separate meetings,Exxon-Mobil, Chevron, and El Paso recounted talesof Brazil's dysfuncti [...] | 2006-06-13 12:12:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG EINV ECON PGOV ASEC BR |
06BRASILIA1181 | COMMERCE SECRETARY GUTIERREZ MEETS WITH BRAZILIAN [...] (SBU) Summary. After Secretary Gutierrez's June 5-6 discussions in Rio de Janeiro at the Association of American Chambers of Commerce of Latin America (AACLA) annual meeting and the bilateral U.S.-Brazil Commerce Exchange Dialogue talks (septels),he traveled to Brasilia for sessions with gove [...] | 2006-06-13 12:15:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON KIPR EPET KTFN BEXP BR |
06BRASILIA1185 | BRAZIL'S VARIG AUCTION: DESTINED TO FAIL, IT DID [...] (SBU) VARIG, Brazil's troubled airline with USD 3.5 billion in debt, went for auction in two rounds on June 8. After failing to attract any bids at the USD 860 million minimum in the first round, the company received a USD 449 million bid from an employees' group (TGV) in the no-minimum-bid se [...] | 2006-06-13 16:40:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR EIND OPRC BR |
06BRASILIA1188 | U.S.-Brazil IPR Discussions at the Bilateral Commercial [...] (SBU) Summary. On June 6, Secretary Gutierrez inaugurated in Rio de Janeiro the bilateral U.S.-Brazil Commercial Dialogue (septel). At that event, US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Deputy Steven Pinkos conducted an IPR Breakout session with officials from INPI (Brazil's Patent Institute [...] | 2006-06-14 13:47:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD BR |
06BRASILIA1192 | AMEMBASSY BRASILIA NOMINATES SAMBAZON FOR THE SECRETARY'S [...] (U) Based upon its innovative approach to development and export, Charge d'Affaires nominates the U.S. small/medium-sized firm SAMBAZON for the Secretary's 2006 Corporate Excellence Award. 2. (U) Begin Text of Award Nomination Established in 2000, SAMBAZON (short for Saving and Managing [...] | 2006-06-14 18:40:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON BEXP ELAB ETRD SENV BR |
06BRASILIA1193 | COMMERCE SECRETARY GUTIERREZ MEETS WITH BRAZILIAN [...] (SBU) Summary. After Secretary Gutierrez's June 5-6 discussions in Rio de Janeiro at the Association of American Chambers of Commerce of Latin America (AACLA) annual meeting and the bilateral U.S.-Brazil Commercial Dialogue (septels),he traveled to Brasilia for sessions with government polic [...] | 2006-06-14 18:40:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON KIPR EINV EPET KTFN BEXP BR |
06BRASILIA1231 | The U.S.-Brazil Commercial Dialogue [...] (SBU) Summary. On June 6 in Rio de Janeiro, Secretary of Commerce Gutierrez and Minister of Development, Industry and Trade Furlan launched the U.S.-Brazil Commercial Dialogue. The Dialogue was launched as a follow up on commitments made in the Joint Declaration issued on the occasion of Pre [...] | 2006-06-20 18:50:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON KIPR EINV ENRG BEXP BR |
06BRASILIA1240 | COMMERCE SECRETARY GUTIERREZ MEETS WITH PRIVATE SECTOR [...] (SBU) Summary. During Secretary Gutierrez's June 4 - 8 policy visit to Brazil, the Secretary and his team - OPIC President Robert Mosbacher Jr., USDOC A/S David Bohigian, State DAS Patrick Duddy, US Patent and Trademark Office Deputy Director Steve Pinkos, Charge Phil Chicola, TDA, Western Hem [...] | 2006-06-21 13:22:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON KIPR EINV ENRG BEXP BR |
06BRASILIA1245 | COMMERCE SECRETARY GUTIERREZ MEETS WITH PRIVATE SECTOR [...] (SBU) Summary. During Secretary Gutierrez's June 4 - 8 policy visit to Brazil, the Secretary and his team - OPIC President Robert Mosbacher Jr., USDOC A/S David Bohigian, State DAS Patrick Duddy, US Patent and Trademark Office Deputy Director Steve Pinkos, Charge Phil Chicola, TDA, Western Hem [...] | 2006-06-21 19:00:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON KIPR EINV ENRG BEXP BR |
06BRASILIA1251 | BRAZIL: THE FINANCE MINISTRY'S NEW ECONOMIC POLICY [...] (SBU) Finance Minister Guido Mantega named Sergio Gomes de Almeida to be his Secretary for Economic Policy on May 22. Almeida filled the last policy-level vacancy in the Finance Ministry team left after Mantega's late-March appointment. A PhD economist and former executive director of the Ins [...] | 2006-06-22 13:08:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV PGOV PINR BR |
06BRASILIA1276 | SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF CODEL CORNYN [...] (SBU) The United States Mission in Brazil warmly welcomes your planned July 1-3 visit to Foz de Iguacu. Consul General McMullen will greet you in Sao Paulo, and he and his team will brief you on your program. In addition, our DEA Country Attache and our Acting DHS Attache will brief you on t [...] | 2006-06-26 15:14:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON BR |
06BRASILIA1302 | BRAZIL: VARIG'S DEATH THROES [...] (SBU) Summary. On June 23, Rio Bankruptcy court Judge Luiz Roberto Ayoub declared the bid by VARIG workers group TGV as failed since it unsurprisingly was unable to make its first required payment of USD 75 million. Judge Ayoub also said that he will now focus on the USD 485 million bid for VA [...] | 2006-06-29 10:00:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR EIND OPRC BR |
06BRASILIA1322 | BRAZIL: MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE RESIGNS AFTER TUSSLE OVER [...] (SBU) On June 28, Roberto Rodrigues, the GOB Minister of Agriculture announced his resignation, effective June 30. While Rodrigues first attributed his departure to concerns about the health of his wife, he later indicated to the press that the real reason behind his exit was his inability to [...] | 2006-06-30 18:39:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON PINR BR |
06BRASILIA1337 | AmEmbassy Brasilia's NAS/DEA Partnership [...] (U) This cable was coordinated with Brazil's DEA Country Office. 2. (SBU) Summary. In conjunction with the Brazilian Federal Police, DEA Brazil and AmEmbassy Brasilia's Narcotics Affairs Section (NAS) work together to dismantle large-scale international drug trafficking organizations ( [...] | 2006-07-03 18:29:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR BR |
06BRASILIA1355 | BRAZILIAN COPYRIGHT OFFICE SEEKS AN ALTERNATIVE PATH ON IPR [...] (SBU) Summary. Recently, Econ and FCS personnel met with officials at Brazil's Copyright Office (organizationally, located within the Ministry Culture) to discuss Brazil's emerging policy on IPR and digital inclusion issues. This meeting was to follow-up on an earlier, June 7 session between [...] | 2006-07-05 19:06:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ECPS BR |
06BRASILIA1366 | BRAZIL: SUBMISSION FOR INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND [...] (SBU) Summary: Per instructions in reftel, US Embassy Brasilia is aware of two (2) claims of US persons that may be outstanding against the Government of Brazil (GOB). Claim 1 ------- a. Claimants A and B b. 1999 c. Claimants A and B, along with a Brazilian partner, through a joint [...] | 2006-07-06 18:52:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV KIDE ENRG CASC ECON OPIC PGOV BR |
06BRASILIA142 | PETROBRAS WILL PLAY BALL WITH BOLIVIA OR ELSE [...] (U) The information provided is industry sensitive. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary. Banco Pactual energy analyst Pedro Batista, commenting on the recent visit of Evo Morales to Brazil and what it means for Petrobras, told us that the partially privatized Brazilian petroleum [...] | 2006-01-23 19:01:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EINV ECON PGOV BR |
06BRASILIA1440 | PROSPECTS FOR BRAZIL'S MERCOSUL PRESIDENCY [...] (SBU) Summary. Recently, Econoffs met with Julio Laranjeiras, Counselor for Mercosul at the Ministry of External Relations to discuss Brazil's ambitious and hopeful integration agenda during its 5-month tenure as Mercosul pro tempore president starting August 1. Brazil plans to, among other th [...] | 2006-07-17 15:32:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN ETRD PREL ECON BR |
06BRASILIA146 | BRAZIL - NEW CIVIL AVIATION AGENCY [...] (U) Summary. A September 2005 law in Brazil created the National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC),a civilian regulatory body that will replace the current Department of Civil Aviation (DAC) in the Ministry of Defense by March 2006. ANAC's mission is to regulate and monitor civil aviation as well [...] | 2006-01-24 09:59:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON BR |
06BRASILIA157 | BRAZIL: U.S. CARRIERS EXPLORE NEW ENTRY POINTS DESPITE [...] (U) This cable contains business-proprietary information. It has been coordinated with AmConsulate General Sao Paulo. 2. (SBU) Summary. During a recent trip to Sao Paulo, Charge met with local United and American Airlines representatives to gauge their interest in offering air connections [...] | 2006-01-24 13:44:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR CVIS CMGT BR |
06BRASILIA1624 | USTDA DIRECTOR TRAVELS TO BRAZIL, MEETS WITH MINISTER OF [...] Summary. (U) In a mid-July three-day visit to Brazil, USTDA Director Thelma Askey met with government leaders, industry officials and businessmen in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, and Brasilia. In addition, Ms. Askey signed four grants, totaling nearly US$2 million, in support of priority Brazil [...] | 2006-08-09 18:45:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD BEXP KIPR EIND BR |
06BRASILIA1630 | BRAZIL: ECONOMY HELPING LULA'S REELECTION BID [...] (SBU) Summary: Economic factors are boosting President Lula's chances of winning reelection in October 2006. Solid expected GDP growth of about 4% this year combined with higher salaries, lower unemployment and inflation under control, mean that the economic "feel-good" factor going into the [...] | 2006-08-09 19:02:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV PREL EFIN EINV BR |
06BRASILIA1638 | BRAZILIAN NGO FOCUSES ON IMPROVING THE CLIMATE FOR DOING [...] (U) Summary. In a series of recent events, the Brazilian Competitiveness Movement (MBC),a local NGO, has sought to create greater awareness of the barriers to doing business in Brazil and the need to improve the local investment climate. Specifically, MBC has explored the possibility of lin [...] | 2006-08-10 17:10:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD BEXP ECON EIND BR |
06BRASILIA1655 | MIXED SIGNALS ON LOCAL CURRENCY-DENOMINATED TRADE WITH [...] (SBU) Summary. According to the local press, on July 20 Brazilian Finance Minister Guido Mantega met with Argentine Economy Minister Felisa Miceli on the margins of the Mercosul Summit meeting to discuss ways to conduct trade between the two countries in local currency (reais/pesos) instead o [...] | 2006-08-11 17:27:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EFIN BR |
06BRASILIA1659 | BRAZIL INTERNAL POLITICS UPDATE, 7-11 AUGUST 2006. [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Parliamentary Inquiry Committee (CPI) investigating the so-called "blood suckers" (Sanguessugas) corruption scandal issued a report on August 9 that implicated 69 federal deputies and three federal senators, calling for their removal from politics. The scale of the accusati [...] | 2006-08-11 19:27:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON BR |
06BRASILIA1670 | BRAZIL NONCOMMITTAL ON PARTNERSHIP FOR DEMOCRATIC [...] (SBU) Summary. GOB officials responded in a noncommittal fashion to visiting S/P Director Krasner's presentation on the Partnership for Democratic Governance (PDG). During an August 4 meeting at the Foreign Ministry, GOB officials expressed concerns about the PDG's relationship, if any, to [...] | 2006-08-14 19:20:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNSC BR |
06BRASILIA1680 | DEMARCHE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL SPECIAL SESSION [...] (SBU) Poloff met on August 14 with Marcia Adorno, head of the Division of Human Rights, who said that, in Brazil's view, the Human Rights Council could not fail to address the situation in Lebanon (ref). Brazil voted in favor of the resolution text but did not consider it balanced, Adorno sa [...] | 2006-08-15 16:30:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KPAO BR |
06BRASILIA1702 | BRAZIL: AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH MINISTER OF DEVELOPMENT, [...] (SBU) Summary. On August 8, Ambassador paid an initial courtesy call on Brazilian Minister of Development, Industry, and Commerce Luiz Furlan. The wide-ranging session touched upon a variety of topics, including the upcoming Commercial Dialogue meeting in Washington during the fall between U [...] | 2006-08-16 16:13:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD BEXP KIPR EFIN SENV BR |
06BRASILIA1706 | BRAZILIAN INDUSTRY AND GOVERNMENT REACT TO THREAT TO GSP [...] (SBU) Summary. During recent days, both local policymakers and entrepreneurs have begun to marshal arguments in favor of Brazil retaining eligibility for GSP benefits should that legislation be renewed by the U.S. Congress. Economic and trade officials have raised the issue with the Ambassad [...] | 2006-08-16 18:52:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD KIPR ECON BR |
06BRASILIA1744 | BRAZIL INTERNAL POLITICS UPDATE, 14-18 AUGUST 2006. [...] (U) SUMMARY. Campaign season is now in full swing across Brazil. The first debate among presidential candidates was held on August 14, but President Lula did not participate, although the others made him the focus of the two hour program. On August 15 candidates began running campaign messa [...] | 2006-08-18 18:50:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON BR |
06BRASILIA1775 | BRAZIL: MOVEMENT ON PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS [...] (SBU) The GoB is close to launching a much-delayed inter-agency review of its first Public-Private Partnership (PPP) proposals for major infrastructure investments. These projects would be reviewed by the Ministers of Planning and Budget (Paulo Bernardo),Finance (Guido Mantega) and the Presid [...] | 2006-08-23 13:18:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV PREL EFIN EINV BR |
06BRASILIA1781 | Brazil: Copyright Piracy Six Months Later [...] (SBU) Summary. In January 2006, a USG interagency community closed U.S. industry's petition, based upon lax enforcement of copyright piracy, to strip Brazil of GSP eligibility. Since then, both the Brazilian government and U.S. firms report advances in terms of seizures and law enforcement. [...] | 2006-08-24 09:59:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR KCRM ETRD BR |
06BRASILIA1784 | BRAZIL: AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH CIVIL HOUSEHOLD [...] (SBU) Summary. Ambassador Sobel, accompanied by DCM and PolCouns, met 23 August with Civil Household Minister Dilma Rousseff, for an incisive discussion focused heavily on planning for strategic U.S.-Brazil cooperation in bio-fuels. Rousseff, whose position equates to Presidential Chief of St [...] | 2006-08-24 17:11:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ENRG KSCA KCRM EINN BR |
06BRASILIA1798 | BRAZIL INTERNAL POLITICS UPDATE, 21-25 AUGUST 2006. [...] (U) SUMMARY. The Chamber of Deputies began proceedings against 67 of its own that could result in expulsion from Congress and several years' banishment from political life. They were implicated in the "Bloodsuckers" scandal involving rigged ambulance contracts and kickbacks for congressional [...] | 2006-08-25 18:16:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON BR |
06BRASILIA1854 | BRAZIL: OAS CULTURAL DIVERSITY DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (U) Please see action request in paragraph 4. 2. (SBU) Econoff made reftel points to Marcelo Dantas, Director of the Division of Multilateral Cultural Agreements and Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Dantas told Econoff that he would be "quite frank." According to Dantas, the Braz [...] | 2006-09-01 18:50:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD OAS PREL BR |
06BRASILIA1855 | BRAZIL INTERNAL POLITICS UPDATE, 28 AUGUST - 1 SEPTEMBER [...] (U) SUMMARY. The presidential race entered a new phase this week, as opposition PSDB candidate Geraldo Alckmin began to hit President Lula da Silva hard with negative campaign messages. Alckmin, who has been criticized by some PSDB-PFL coalition figures for demurring in attacks on Lula for th [...] | 2006-09-01 19:23:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON BR |
06BRASILIA1857 | Moving Forward the U.S.-Brazil Commercial Dialogue [...] Action Request - paragraph 2. 2. (SBU) On September 1, Marcela Carvalho, the Commercial Dialogue Coordinator for the Ministry of Development, Industry, and Commerce (MDIC),met with Econ Counselor to report on the Ministry's internal meeting on Dialogue issues earlier in the week. Carval [...] | 2006-09-02 14:23:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EINV BEXP BR |
06BRASILIA1865 | BRAZIL: AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH FINANCE MINISTER MANTEGA [...] (SBU) Summary: In the Ambassador's August 18 initial call on Finance Minister Guido Mantega, the two discussed Brazil's economy, ethanol, and mechanisms for bilateral economic engagement, including the Treasury-Fazenda Group for Growth meetings. Mantega raised the USG's review of Generalized [...] | 2006-09-05 18:56:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PGOV PREL EFIN EINV BR |
06BRASILIA1866 | BRAZIL: AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES REFORM AGENDA WITH FINANCE [...] (SBU) Summary: In an August 23 meeting with the Ambassador, Ministry of Finance (Fazenda) International Secretary Luiz Pereira made the point that, with the macroeconomic framework for growth in place, it was time for Brazil to focus ever more on the microeconomic reforms and business environm [...] | 2006-09-05 18:57:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV PREL EFIN EINV BR |
06BRASILIA1933 | USG PRESENTS ETHANOL COOPERATION STRATEGY TO BRAZIL'S MFA [...] (U) Greg Manuel of the Department of State and Sarah Ladislaw from the Department of Energy (DoE),accompanied by Matthew Golden and Morgan Perkins from Mission Brazil, met with the MFA's U/S Patriota and Minister Antonio Simoes, on September 5, to discuss bilateral, biofuel cooperation. The m [...] | 2006-09-13 23:38:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TRGY SENV ENRG KSCA ETRD EAGR BR |
06BRASILIA1934 | ETHANOL FORUM - PREPARATORY MEETING OUTCOMES [...] (U) Summary: Brazil hosted the first preparatory meeting to the Ethanol Forum on September 5 in Brasilia. Five delegations attended including India, South Africa, China, the EU, the U.S. and Brazil. The USG delegation was headed by State's Greg Manuel and included Sarah Ladislaw from the Depar [...] | 2006-09-13 23:39:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TRGY SENV ENRG KSCA ETRD EAGR BR |
06BRASILIA1935 | USG TALKS ETHANOL WITH THE BRAZILIAN PRESIDENCY [...] (SBU) Summary. Greg Manuel of the Department of State (DoS) and Sarah Ladislaw of the Department of Energy (DoE) accompanied by Morgan Perkins and Matthew Golden of Mission Brazil met with Alessandro Teixeira, President of the Brazilian Agency for Industrial Development (ABDI) on September 5. [...] | 2006-09-13 23:40:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TRGY SENV ENRG KSCA ETRD EAGR BR |
06BRASILIA1960 | NORTHEAST BRAZIL SOCIALIST LEADER SAYS LULA MUST IMPROVE [...] (SBU) Summary. The success or failure of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's second term will depend on Lula's determination to appoint good people and to achieve a higher economic growth rate, according to Eduardo Campos (protect),national president of the Brazilian Socialist Party (PSB) [...] | 2006-09-15 18:16:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON BR |
06BRASILIA1961 | PERNAMBUCO PMDB LEADER FORESEES DIFFICULT LULA SECOND [...] (SBU) Summary: The re-election of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will be a "tragedy" and his government will perform so badly he may not finish his term of office, according to Pernambuco's former Governor Jarbas Vasconcelos, (strictly protect),a veteran PMDB (Party of the Brazilian Demo [...] | 2006-09-15 18:17:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON BR |
06BRASILIA1963 | BRAZILIAN OPPOSITION SAYS ALCKMIN CAMPAIGN IS ON THE RISE [...] (SBU) Summary. Opposition presidential candidate Geraldo Alckmin's national campaign manager said the campaign's strategy of pressing hard for more votes in Bahia while letting Lula take the rest of the northeast still has a chance of forcing a second round and then defeating president Luiz In [...] | 2006-09-15 18:21:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON BR |
06BRASILIA1968 | BRAZIL: AMBASSADOR'S COURTESY CALL ON MINISTER OF [...] (SBU) Summary. In a wide-ranging and friendly meeting on 14 September, Minister of Communications and leading PMDB party figure Helio Costa told the Ambassador that President Lula da Silva will likely win a first-round victory in October's election, and Lula's PT party, the PMDB and other sma [...] | 2006-09-18 16:22:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL BR |
06BRASILIA1971 | BRAZIL: AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH TAX AND CUSTOMS CHIEF [...] (SBU) Jorge Rachid, Secretary of Brazil's Receita Federal, the finance ministry agency which oversees both tax collection and customs, assured the Ambassador in a September 14 meeting of the GoB's continued intent to work closely with the USG on security and law enforcement, including through t [...] | 2006-09-18 17:32:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETTC PGOV PREL EINV BR |
06BRASILIA1972 | BRAZIL RESPONDS TO BOLIVIA REFINERY SEIZURE [...] (SBU) Summary: Brazilian Minister of Energy Silas Rondeau told the press Thursday September 14 that the Bolivian effective seizure of Petrobras' refineries without compensation was "unacceptable" while President Lula rejected "unilateral" measures. Stating that it needed time to study the Bol [...] | 2006-09-18 18:45:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET PGOV PREL EINV ECON BR |
06BRASILIA1973 | BRAZIL: AMBASSADOR FURTHER DISCUSSES BIOFUELS WITH DILMA [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador Sobel, accompanied by PolCouns and Special Assistant, met with President Lula's Chief of Staff, Minister Dilma Rousseff, on September 12 to discuss biofuels issues. Rousseff said the U.S. and Brazil need to move quickly on biofuels, but first must work through their [...] | 2006-09-18 18:57:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PGOV PREL EFIN EINV BR |
06BRASILIA1992 | BRAZIL: AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES BIOFUELS AND OTHER TOPICS WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador Sobel, accompanied by PolCouns and Commercial Counselor, met with Alessandro Teixeira, President of the Brazilian Agency for Industrial Development (ABDI) on September 14 to discuss biofuels issues. The meeting quickly boiled over to cover a range of topics and poten [...] | 2006-09-19 18:47:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PGOV PREL EFIN EINV BR |
06BRASILIA2003 | Bahia PFL Leaders Combative and Pessimistic [...] (SBU) Summary. Senator Antonio Carlos Magalhaes (ACM)(protect),opposition PFL (Party of the Liberal Front) from Bahia, said Lula will try but fail to form a government of reconciliation if he is re-elected on October 1, and Federal Deputy Jose Carlos Aleluia (protect),PFL from Bahia, says Br [...] | 2006-09-21 10:11:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON BR |
06BRASILIA206 | CHARGE ENGAGES SAO PAULO PRIVATE SECTOR ON TRADE [...] (U) This cable contains business proprietary data. 2. (SBU) Summary. During his January 16-18 economic theme meetings in Sao Paulo, Charge discussed a wide variety of trade, financial and investment issues with key private sector officials. Embassy and Consulate representatives met with [...] | 2006-01-27 11:15:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PGOV KIPR ECON PREL PINR BR |
06BRASILIA2066 | REPORT ON BRAZIL WORKSHOP ON MEASUREMENTS AND STANDARDS FOR [...] (U) Summary: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) co-sponsored with their Brazilian counterpart, the National Institute of Metrology, Standardization and Industrial Quality (INMETRO),a workshop entitled, "Measurements and Standards for Biofuels: Enabling a Transition from [...] | 2006-09-28 12:48:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TRGY TBIO TSPA SENV ENRG KSCA ETRD EAGR BR |
06BRASILIA2083 | BRAZIL: NEW ONLINE PATENT AND TRADEMARK REGISTRATION [...] Summary: The GoB's National Institute of Industrial Property (INPI) has adopted an electronic system designed to reduce bureaucracy in the country's patent and trademark registration process. This new "e-marcas" system, launched on September 1, should enable patent and trademark requesters to [...] | 2006-09-29 18:48:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ECON EIND EINV ETRD PGOV BR |
06BRASILIA2099 | BRAZIL: SECOND QUARTER GDP GROWTH DISAPPOINTS [...] (SBU) Summary: Brazil's economy expanded by a scant 0.5 percent in the second quarter of 2006, a result below most analysts' expectations, due primarily to poor results in industrial production and investment. According to Central Bank survey data, the market now expects 2006 GDP growth barely [...] | 2006-10-02 19:17:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PGOV PREL EFIN EINV BR |
06BRASILIA2103 | BRAZILIAN CUSTOMS MOVING FORWARD ON PLAN TO REFORM AGENCY [...] (SBU) Summary. In a September 27 meeting with DHS and Embassy officers, leadership at Brazilian Customs outlined the challenges they face in modernizing their agency and the strategies they have formulated to accomplish this task. GOB managers seek to reform the culture of their organizatio [...] | 2006-10-03 17:41:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD BEXP ECON EIND BR |
06BRASILIA214 | BRAZIL CIVAIR LIBERALIZATION: HOW DEEP AND HOW MUCH? [...] (SBU) On January 25, 2006 Econoff delivered ref A talking points to Michel Arslanian, First Secretary in the Division of Foreign Affairs, Investments and Financial Affairs at Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). The meeting was a follow up to the January 23 meeting CONGEN Rio Econoffs had with t [...] | 2006-01-30 17:18:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR BR |
06BRASILIA2157 | BRAZIL: LULA AND ALCKMIN TIE IN DEBATE BUT ALCKMIN [...] (SBU) Summary. President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and PSDB challenger Geraldo Alckmin faced off against each other for the first time in a live national television debate on Sunday, October 9. Lula and Alckmin traded accusations for nearly two and a half hours in a debate that many saw as [...] | 2006-10-11 19:27:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV BR |
06BRASILIA2193 | BRAZIL ELECTIONS: PRESIDENTIAL CONTEST FOCUSES [...] (SBU) Summary. With a week and a half left before the second round of the Brazilian presidential election, the campaign has evolved into a bitter contest dominated by President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's (PT - Workers Party) claims that challenger Geraldo Alckmin (PSDB - Brazilian Social Dem [...] | 2006-10-19 14:05:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV BR |
06BRASILIA2233 | THE AMBASSADOR'S SEPTEMBER 28 MEETING WITH BRAZILIAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: AMBASSADOR SOBEL, ACCOMPANIED BY EMBASSY AGRICULTURAL AND ECONOMIC COUNSELORS, MET WITH MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE LUIS CARLOS PINTO GUEDES ON SEPTEMBER 28 TO DISCUSS GENERAL AGRICULTURAL ISSUES. DISCUSSION CENTERED ON BRAZIL'S RAPID RISE AS A WORLD AGRICULTURAL EXPORT POWER, U.S. [...] | 2006-10-25 19:03:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EINV ETRD ENRG PREL PGOV BR |
06BRASILIA2278 | BRAZIL: LULA REAFFIRMS MACROECONOMIC POLICY CONTINUITY [...] (SBU) Summary: Only a day after winning reelection to a second four year term, President Lula was forced by an outburst from his Institutional Relations Minister and PT party stalwart, Tarso Genro, into reaffirming during a series of October 30 television interviews his commitment to his curre [...] | 2006-10-31 17:41:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL BR |
06BRASILIA2287 | BRAZIL: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON INTERNATIONAL EXPANSION OF [...] (SBU) TSA Regional Attache and Econoffs delivered reftel demarche Monday afternoon to representatives from the Brazilian National Civil Aviation Authority, ANAC, as well as GOB interlocutors from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Brazilian Airports Authority, INFRAERO. 2. (SBU) The [...] | 2006-11-01 14:28:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON PTER BR |
06BRASILIA2314 | The October 17 Meeting of the U.S.-Brazil Bilateral [...] (SBU) Summary and Introduction. On October 17, a USG delegation met with the Brazilian interagency economic players in a session of the two countries' Bilateral Consultative Mechanism (BCM) meeting. The wide-ranging agenda covered a variety of issues, including WTO matters (the Doha Round, [...] | 2006-11-05 12:29:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD KIPR EINV ENRG WTRO BEXP BR |
06BRASILIA2315 | BRAZIL: CHAOS IN AIRPORTS NATIONWIDE AS AIR TRAFFIC [...] (SBU) Summary: Wednesday and Thursday, Nov. 1 and 2, were two particularly bad days to be an airline worker or passenger in Brazil. The national holiday on Nov. 2, start of a long weekend for many travelers, saw frayed tempers and more than one fracas in airports throughout the country as fl [...] | 2006-11-05 12:30:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR OTRA CASC BR |
06BRASILIA235 | Brazil: Demarche on SAICM Issues [...] (SBU) On January 31, Econoff delivered ref A talking points to (Jose) Rafael Azeredo, Chief of the Foreign Ministry's Division on Environmental Policy and Sustainable Development and the Brazilian head of delegation to the final negotiations of the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals [...] | 2006-02-02 10:07:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD SENV BR |
06BRASILIA24 | BRAZIL ADOPTS WAIT AND SEE ATTITUDE REGARDING [...] (U) This cable was coordinated with AmConsulate Rio de Janeiro. 2. (SBU) Summary. In recent discussions with Embassy officials, Ministry of Mines and Energy officials told us that Brazil, for various reasons, is adopting a wait and see attitude on the Bolivian energy situation in the wake o [...] | 2006-01-04 19:07:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET PREL EFIN BR |
06BRASILIA2433 | SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF CODEL GOODLATTE [...] (SBU) The United States Mission in Brazil warmly welcomes your planned November 26-28 visit to Rio de Janeiro. Deputy Chief of Mission Phil Chicola will greet you in Rio de Janeiro on November 26 prior to your scheduled meetings the next day. We are lining up for you meetings with U.S. agricu [...] | 2006-11-20 18:13:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON BR |
06BRASILIA2487 | EU DELEGATION SEEKS EMBASSY SUPPORT ON REGULATION OF [...] (U) Action Request - paragraph 3. 2. (SBU) On November 24, EU Econ Counselor Fabian Delcross contacted Emboff to enlist USG support in persuading the GOB to proceed with plans to tighten up current regulations governing the import of generic agrochemicals. According to Delcross, the nat [...] | 2006-11-24 23:32:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EAGR EIND BR |
06BRASILIA2490 | BRAZIL'S FISCAL GORDIAN KNOT [...] (SBU) Summary: Fresh from its reelection victory, the Lula Administration has begun to consider the elements of a plan to try to cut through its fiscal Gordian knot: a rigid budgetary system rife with constitutional earmarks and revenue sharing requirements, a large debt service burden, high [...] | 2006-11-27 16:14:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL BR |
06BRASILIA2521 | BRAZILIANS BEGIN TO SPEAK OF AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL "CRISIS" [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Brazilian Air Traffic Controllers' continued "work to rule" operation, which reduces the number of aircraft each controller handles to the maximum allowed by International Civil Aviation Organization standards (14),has made flight delays routine in Brazil: on November 27, accord [...] | 2006-11-30 16:46:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR OTRA CASC ECON BR |
06BRASILIA2542 | TERRORIST LISTS - BRAZIL DOES NOT MAINTAIN ANY [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-05 13:10:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETTC KTFN KVPR PREL PTER BR |
06BRASILIA2562 | WHY BRAZIL'S ECONOMY WILL JUST KEEP MUDDLING THROUGH [...] (SBU) Summary: By many measures, Brazil's economy has better fundamentals today than it has had at any point over the last three decades. The 1994 "Plano Real" brought previously unknown macroeconomic stability to Brazil, defeating its traditional inflation nemesis. Fiscal management has pro [...] | 2006-12-07 15:56:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV EFIN PREL SOCI BR |
06BRASILIA2563 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH BRAZIL-US PARLIAMENTARY [...] (SBU) Summary. Ambassador Sobel met with members of the Brazil-U.S. Parliamentary Group (GPBE) on November 30 to discuss bilateral relations and ways to increase contacts between the GPBE and members of the House of Representatives. Ambassador offered to arrange a forum at the Embassy early [...] | 2006-12-07 15:58:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV BR |
06BRASILIA2578 | GOVERNMENT DEFEAT IN CHAMBER VOTE MAY FORETELL [...] (SBU) Summary. President Lula suffered a defeat in the Chamber of Deputies on December 6 when his candidate to the National Accounting Court, Federal Deputy Paulo Delgado, a well-respected Workers Party (PT) deputy from Minas Gerais, was soundly defeated by Federal Deputy Aroldo Cedraz (PFL - [...] | 2006-12-08 20:00:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV BR |
06BRASILIA2583 | SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY MCMURRAY [...] (SBU) The United States Mission in Brazil warmly welcomes your planned December 12-13, 2006, visit to Brasilia. Counselor for Environment, Science, Technology and Health Patricia Norman and OES Advisor Lawrence Sperling will greet you upon your arrival in Brasilia December 12. You are scheduled [...] | 2006-12-11 17:34:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON SENV BR |
06BRASILIA2588 | BRAZIL: BIOFUELS COOPERATION: 2ND PREPARATORY MEETING OF [...] (SBU) Summary: The Second Preparatory Meeting of the Global Biofuels Forum, held in Rio de Janeiro on 27 and 28 November, achieved consensus on priorities and next steps for the group. Gregory Manuel, Special Advisor to the Secretary and International Energy Coordinator, and Lisa Kubiske, Dire [...] | 2006-12-11 17:38:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG SENV PREL EINV ECON BR |
06BRASILIA2589 | Brazilian Regulatory Agency Contemplates Increasing [...] (SBU) Summary. ANVISA, Brazil's FDA-equivalent, has published new regulations which require importers of medical devices to provide the agency with detailed foreign economic pricing data, along with it product registration or re-registration dossier, as a condition for market access. Compani [...] | 2006-12-11 20:33:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON BR |
06BRASILIA2606 | BRAZIL - REGULATORY AGENCY FORGING AHEAD WITH NEW [...] (SBU) Summary: Emboffs met December 12 with representatives of Brazil's National Sanitary Vigilance Agency (ANVISA, an FDA-like agency) to clarify the scope of new requirements for commercial and pricing information for approval of medical device sales and urge that the GoB take into account [...] | 2006-12-14 18:41:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON BR |
06BRASILIA2626 | BRAZIL: CODEL GOODLATTE PARTICIPATES IN INFORMATIVE SET OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: CODEL Goodlatte, led by Chairman of the Agriculture Committee of the House of Representatives Bob Goodlatte, accompanied by eight members of the House Agricultural Committee and one member of the House Appropriations Committee, visited Rio de Janeiro on November 26-28. During t [...] | 2006-12-18 14:16:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR OREP EINV ETRD ENRG PREL PGOV BR |
06BRASILIA2680 | BRAZILIANS FEAR MORE AIRPORT CHAOS OVER CHRISTMAS WEEKEND [...] (SBU) Summary: Air travelers in Brazil fear a difficult holiday season after inclement weather in southeast Brazil, overbooking by the country's principal carrier-TAM, malfunctions in TAM computers, and unscheduled maintenance required on six TAM airlines aircraft caused generalized flight del [...] | 2006-12-27 10:07:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR OTRA CASC ECON BR |
06BRASILIA271 | INTERFARMA BRIEFS CHARGE ON DIFFICULTIES IN DOING BUSINESS [...] (SBU) Summary. During a recent trip by Charge to Sao Paulo, officials from Interfarma - the local industry group representing international pharmaeuticals firms - described the challenges member companies face in operating in Brazil. Chief among Interfarma complaints was that the high tax b [...] | 2006-02-07 15:17:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD TBIO ECON BR |
06BRASILIA281 | BRAZIL: FINANCE MINISTRY REACHES OUT TO G-8 EMBASSIES [...] Action Request - paragraph 6. 2. (SBU) Summary. On February 2, the Ministry of Finance's Assistant Secretary for International Affairs, Luiz Pereira, called in Emboffs from the German, French, Italian, Canadian, Japanese, British, Canadian, and U.S. Embassies to brief on the themes that [...] | 2006-02-08 19:26:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV EFIN BR |
06BRASILIA327 | CONGRESS, INDUSTRY SEEK TO SEIZE THE INITIATIVE ON REFORM [...] (SBU) Summary. On February 8, Senator Fernando Bezerra (PTB-Rio Grande do Norte),leader of the government in the Senate, and President of the Senate, Renan Calheiros (PMDB-Alagoas) introduced a bill which, if passed, would liberalize the country's foreign exchange regime. The proposal was dev [...] | 2006-02-14 19:29:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PGOV BR |
06BRASILIA329 | BRAZIL AND DEBT-FOR-NATURE ... TWO STEPS BACK [...] (SBU) Summary and Action Request: Treasury Secretary Joaquim Levy told Econoff in a February 9 meeting he was surprised that the USG had begun formally to evaluate Brazil's eligibility to participate in debt reduction/swaps under the Tropical Forest Conservation Act (TFCA). Before entering int [...] | 2006-02-15 12:21:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN SENV EAID PREL BR |
06BRASILIA361 | BRAZIL RESPONSE TO HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION MEMORANDUM OF [...] (U) During their visit to Brazil in July of 2005, Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) representatives expressed interest in deepening ties between Brazilian and American transport authorities. The message was reinforced by Department of Transportation (DOT) Undersecretary for Policy Jeffrey N [...] | 2006-02-21 11:02:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELTN EWWT ECON BR |
06BRASILIA362 | BRAZIL AND ARGENTINA AGREE ON A TRADE SAFEGUARDS MECHANISM; [...] (SBU) Summary. Tensions between Brazil and Argentina over access to each other's markets continue. In early February, Brazil and Argentina finalized their long-running negotiations on a bilateral trade safeguards mechanism should excessive exports from one country endanger an industry in the o [...] | 2006-02-21 16:28:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EIND BR |
06BRASILIA366 | BRAZIL - THE EVER-RISING REAL AND OTHER MACROECONOMIC [...] (SBU) Summary: The torrent of dollars entering Brazil, fueled primarily by the trade surplus (over $44 billion in 2005) but also by FDI and portfolio investment flows, has created both opportunities and challenges for Brazilian macroeconomic policy management. GoB and private debtors are maki [...] | 2006-02-21 19:58:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV PGOV BR |
06BRASILIA410 | NEVER MINED: ILLEGAL TRAFFICKING ARRESTS ROCK KIMBERLEY [...] (SBU) Summary: Six people, including one GoB official, were arrested February 10 in a sting operation to stop the trafficking of illegally certified diamonds in Brazil. The gang is accused of illegal mining, document fraud, money laundering, tax evasion, and possible blood diamond trade. The Br [...] | 2006-02-27 16:48:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR ETTC EMIN EFIN PTER BR |
06BRASILIA418 | BRAZIL: UNESCO CONVENTION ON CULTURAL EXPRESSIONS [...] (SBU) Currently, ratification of the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions is not on the Brazilian Congress' agenda. With the attention of the legislative branch diverted to the ongoing influence peddling scandal and the upcoming October [...] | 2006-03-03 19:48:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD SCUL UNESCO BR |
06BRASILIA437 | APPLICATION FOR OPIC FINANCE: COMSAT INTERNATIONAL [...] (U) Per reftel tasking, post submits the following regarding COMSAT and VICOM activities in Brazil. 2. (SBU) Begin Text. On January 28, 2005, the Ministry of Communication signed a contract with VICOM (which is owned by COMSAT) in the amount of R$114 million for the implementation of the [...] | 2006-03-07 13:25:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV BR |
06BRASILIA478 | SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF CODEL GRASSLEY [...] (SBU) The United States Mission in Brazil warmly welcomes your planned March 19-26 visit to Manaus, Santarem, Brasilia, Maringa, and Sao Paulo. I will, unfortunately, be out of the country at that time, but the Acting Deputy Chief of Mission will greet you in Manaus on Sunday evening, March 19 [...] | 2006-03-10 20:07:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP PGOV ECON BR |
06BRASILIA578 | VICE-MINISTER OF JUSTICE OPEN TO COOPERATION ON IPR PIRACY, [...] (SBU) Summary. On March 17, FCS Senior Commercial Officer (SCO) and Commercial Attache met with National Secretary of Public Safety Luiz Fernando Correa to discuss pending bilateral trade issues. In this friendly hour-long meeting Correa proved open to cooperation with the USG on: a) combatin [...] | 2006-03-22 19:26:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BEXP KIPR KCRM ASEC ECPS EAIR BR |
06BRASILIA587 | BRAZIL - DIGITAL TELEVISION: NEXT STEPS AFTER THE MARCH 17 [...] (SBU) Summary. Reporting on Ambassador Gross' Digital Video Conference (DVC) advocating adoption of the ATSC digital television standard focused primarily on the questions raised regarding the reliability of the European and Japanese "offers" to build a semiconductor factory in Brazil and highl [...] | 2006-03-23 10:56:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS EIND OPRC BR |
06BRASILIA588 | MINISTRY OF JUSTICE OPEN TO COOPERATION ON IPR PIRACY, [...] (SBU) Summary. On March 17, FCS Senior Commercial Officer (SCO) and Commercial Attache met with National Secretary of Public Safety Luiz Fernando Correa to discuss pending bilateral trade issues. In this friendly hour-long meeting Correa proved open to cooperation with the USG on: a) combatin [...] | 2006-03-23 10:59:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BEXP KIPR KCRM ASEC ECPS EAIR BR |
06BRASILIA603 | BRAZILIAN VICE-PRESIDENT ALENCAR HELPS LAUNCH THE [...] (SBU) Summary. Brazilian Vice-President Jose Alencar's March 19-24 trip to Shanghai and Beijing generated little notice here as both the public and the press instead devoted their attention to domestic issues. While in years past the creation of the China-Brazil High-Level Committee on Con [...] | 2006-03-27 16:38:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECPS EAGR KIPR PGOV PREL BR CH |
06BRASILIA604 | BRAZILIAN FINANCE MINISTER'S FATE TO BE DECIDED THIS WEEK [...] (SBU) Press speculation about the possible resignation of Finance Minister Antonio Palocci resignation is at a fever pitch, with nearly identical story lines stating that Palocci's future as minister is to be decided March 27, reportedly at an planned meeting between Lula and Palocci. The oppo [...] | 2006-03-27 16:40:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL BR |
06BRASILIA609 | BRAZILIAN FINANCE MINISTER FIRED, REPLACED BY BNDES [...] (SBU) Summary: President Lula fired Finance Minister Palocci the night of March 27 after evidence came to light implicating Palocci personally in the leak from state-owned bank Caixa Economica Federal (CEF) of the confidential bank statements of handyman Francenildo da Costa. Costa's bank stat [...] | 2006-03-28 16:08:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL BR |
06BRASILIA628 | BRAZILIAN INTEREST GROUPS DUG IN ON WTO DOHA ROUND ISSUES [...] (U) Over the past week two sets of high-level visitors, CODEL Grassley and representatives from the Brazil-U.S. Business Council, have raised WTO Doha Round issues with GOB cabinet members and private sector interest groups. The week of March 20 CODEL Grassley met with Foreign Minister Amorim [...] | 2006-03-30 19:39:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD WTRO EAGR PGOV PREL BR |
06BRASILIA631 | BRAZIL'S NEW AIR REGULATORY AGENCY FACES CHALLENGES [...] (SBU) Summary. The National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC) was formally inaugurated in a March 20 ceremony in Brasilia. Emboffs met with ANAC officials March 16 to discuss the agency's plans for the airline industry. Settled are issues like where the agency will be headquartered -- Brasilia -- an [...] | 2006-03-31 10:51:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR EINV ECON CASC BR |
06BRASILIA637 | CODEL GRASSLEY MEETS WITH BRAZILIAN GOVERNMENT [...] (SBU) Summary and Introduction. During a March 19-23 trip to Brazil, a Congressional delegation led by Senate Finance Committee Chairman, Senator Chuck Grassley (IA),visited Manaus, Santarem (Para state),Brasilia, Maringa (Parana state),and Sao Paulo. This cable reports on the Codel's Ma [...] | 2006-03-31 19:22:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EAGR WTRO ENRG PGOV PREL BR |
06BRASILIA665 | BRAZIL - NEW FINANCE MINISTER'S EARLY CHOICES REASSURE [...] (SBU) Summary. New Finance Minister Guido Mantega has moved cautiously in his early days on the job, reassuring financial markets. His choices for Vice Minister and Treasury Secretary, Bernard Appy and Carlos Kawall, respectively, have been well received. On March 31, Mantega supported a mea [...] | 2006-04-05 18:08:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL BR |
06BRASILIA678 | SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF CODEL SPECTER [...] (SBU) The United States Mission in Brazil warmly welcomes your April 12-15, 2006 visit to Brasilia (DF) and Manaus (AM),Brazil. We look forward to your trip and are arranging meetings and events for you in Brasilia and Manaus. As the Charge d'Affaires, I will meet your party upon arrival and [...] | 2006-04-07 18:57:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP AFIN AMGT ASEC PGOV ECON KSCA SENV OTRA DR CO |
06BRASILIA687 | BRAZIL INTERDICTS DOD SATELLITE PIRATERS [...] Action Request - paragraph 2. 2. (SBU) ANATEL regulator Itamar Barreto Paes contacted post on April 7 with a read-out on ANATEL actions to stop the pirating of DOD satellite signals, per Reftel A. First, Brazilian authorities monitored the specific frequency at issue according to the info [...] | 2006-04-10 15:02:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ECON BR |
06BRASILIA688 | BRAZIL'S NEW AVIATION REGULATOR ASKS FOR INVITE TO [...] (U) This is an action cable. Please see paragraph 2 and 5 for details. 2. (U) During an April 7 lunch with Emboffs, Directors Denise Abreu and Leur Lomanto of the newly created National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC) asked that the FAA extend a formal invitation to ANAC representatives for Ma [...] | 2006-04-10 15:02:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR EINV ECON CASC BR |
06BRASILIA694 | VARIG'S DOWNWARD SPIRAL: WE'LL PAY YOU LATER [...] (U) The following cable has business sensitive information, please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) VARIG's downward spiral continues with a recent spate of cancellations that have left passengers stranded and caused outcries from local and international creditors clamoring for GoB action. The [...] | 2006-04-11 15:23:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR EIND OPRC BR |
06BRASILIA754 | REINING IN PETROBRAS' PARADE [...] (SBU) Summary. Evo Morales' address at the opening ceremony of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) meeting in Belo Horizonte, along with the Bolivian IDB governor's speech, gave some discomfort to Petrobras' leadership, which is currently in the midst of increasingly tense contract negoti [...] | 2006-04-18 18:57:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EINV ECON PGOV CH BR |
06BRASILIA773 | BILATERAL COOPERATION WITH BRAZIL ON BIOFUELS [...] (SBU) Summary and Action Request. In view of the President's State of the Union address calling for expanded U.S. use of ethanol and Brazil's desire for closer ties to the United States in this area, Mission would like to stage a bilateral conference with Brazilian government and industry on e [...] | 2006-04-20 17:44:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG KSCA EAGR TRGY EINV ETRD BR |
06BRASILIA778 | BRAZIL - TRADE COMPLIANCE AND ENFORCEMENT - AI AND BSE [...] (SBU) Agricultural Counselor personally delivered to the Ministry of Agriculture (April 11) and the Ministry of External Relations (April 13) the talking points from Reftel regarding the status of Brazil's import measures that continue to restrict access for commercial shipments of US beef and [...] | 2006-04-20 18:55:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ETRD USDA USTR BR |
06BRASILIA786 | BRAZIL/MERCOSUL BILATERAL TRADE NEGOTIATING PRIORITIES [...] SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED 2. (U) Introduction and Summary. This cable is intended to provide a brief overview of Mercosul's bilateral trade negotiations. The following information is based primarily on Econoff's conversations with Orlando Leite Ribeiro of the Foreign Ministry's Regional [...] | 2006-04-24 16:40:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD KIPR ECON BR |
06BRASILIA790 | BRAZIL AT A FISCAL INFLECTION POINT? [...] (SBU) Summary: The Lula administration heretofore has compiled an impressive record of fiscal rectitude, routinely posting primary budget surpluses well beyond its formal 4.25 percent of GDP target. This performance has allowed the GoB to reduce its net-debt-to-GDP ratio (from 57.2% in 2003 to [...] | 2006-04-24 19:00:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL BR |
06BRASILIA823 | CODEL SPECTER VISIT TO BRAZIL APRIL 12-15, 2006 [...] (SBU) The Congressional delegation headed by Senator Arlen Specter, Chairman, Senate Judiciary Committee, visited Brasilia and Manaus April 12-15, 2006, and met with Brazilian officials to discuss narcotics, immigration and environmental issues. Codel members included Senator Specter and Mrs. [...] | 2006-04-27 17:17:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN SENV TBIO KSCA OTRA BR |
06BRASILIA835 | BRAZILIAN CAPITAL MARKETS - MORE INITIAL SHARE OFFERINGS IN [...] (SBU) Summary: Brazilian companies, always interested in obtaining access to cheaper capital than that on offer by the banking sector, have been turning more and more to equity offerings on the Sao Paulo stock exchange (BOVESPA). One particular slice of the market, the BOVESPA's "Novo Mercado [...] | 2006-04-28 15:39:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON BR |
06BRASILIA844 | Brazil 2006 Special 301 Notification [...] (SBU) On April 27, Econ Counselor delivered USG talking points to Otavio Brandelli, the chief of the Ministry of External Relations's IPR office. Speaking informall, Brandelli termed the USG's decision to maintain Brazil on the 2006 Priority Watch List as both "unpleasant" and "lamentable." [...] | 2006-05-02 13:51:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD KIPR BR |
06BRASILIA891 | CHOICE OF DIGITAL TELEVISION STANDARD STILL ON HOLD [...] (U) During recent weeks the issue of which standard the Brazilian government will embrace for digital television (DTV) has faded from public view as President Lula has (so far) declined to endorse the recent MOU signed with the Japanese. Meanwhile, continued technical progress by industry on [...] | 2006-05-08 18:53:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS EIND BR |
06BRASILIA902 | BRAZIL BUYS BACK BRADY BONDS [...] (U) Summary: The GOB exercised its option to buy back its Brady bonds on April 18. The operation involved bonds with a total face value of US$6.63 billion, and was part of Brazil's broader effort, taking advantage of the appreciated Real, to put behind it the legacy of its 1980's default. Bra [...] | 2006-05-10 12:42:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PGOV BR |
06BRASILIA918 | BRAZIL; LOW EXPECTATIONS FOR THE UPCOMING [...] (SBU) Summary. Brazilian officials admit that their game-plan for achieving results at the May 12 EU-Latin American summit in Vienna, followed by a May 13 EU-Mercosul bilateral in the same locale, is now in question. While they had hoped to use the opportunity of the summits to have Presiden [...] | 2006-05-10 19:22:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECIN KSUM PREL BR |
06BRASILIA931 | BRAZIL'S MINISTER OF HEALTH RESPONDS POSITIVELY ON FUTURE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Charge Phillip T. Chicola delivered the demarche on cooperation on HIV/AIDS and other areas (ref A) to Brazil's Minister of Health Jose Agenor Alvares da Silva on May 9. The Charge referenced former Health Minister Saraiva's proposals for increased bilateral collaboration offered [...] | 2006-05-11 18:40:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KHIV KIPR TBIO KSCA EAID BR |
06BRASILIA940 | DELIVERING OF BUREC'S RESPONSE TO BRAZIL'S REQUEST [...] On May 3, 2006, Embassy delivered Diplomatic Note 126 dated May 2, 2006, to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Government of Brazil and a letter (per State 56827) from Bureau of Reclamation (BUREC) in response to GOB's January 25, 2006, diplomatic note ABC/DEUC/006/ETEC BRAS-EUA. 2. Tex [...] | 2006-05-12 18:53:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KSCA KTIA EAGR SENV PREL BR |
06BRASILIA941 | RESPONSE TO PORTUGUESE VERSION OF NASA/LBA IMPLEMETING [...] (SBU) On May 10, 2006, Embassy received Brazilian Government Diplomatic Note DMAE/029/MESP-BRAS-EUA in response to changes to the Portuguese language version of the NASA/LBA implementing arrangement per State 70101. 2. (SBU) Informal translation of text of DIP NOTE 029 is as follows: (S [...] | 2006-05-12 18:56:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TSPA KSCA KTIA SENV TBIO NASA BR |
06BRASILIA952 | BRAZIL: CENTRAL BANK COOPERATION WITH THE BANK OF RUSSIA [...] (SBU) Summary: Henrique Meirelles, president of the Brazilian Central Bank (BCB),traveled to Moscow May 10-11 to meet with local monetary authorities. During that visit, Meirelles planned to sign a cooperation agreement with the Bank of Russia (BOR) as officials there are reportedly intereste [...] | 2006-05-15 18:38:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL BR |
06BRASILIA971 | SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF COMMERCE SECRETARY GUTIERREZ [...] (SBU) The United States Mission in Brazil warmly welcomes your planned June 4-8 visit to Rio de Janeiro, Brasilia, and Sao Paulo. I will greet you in Sao Paulo airport on June 4 prior to your active schedule of events at the AACLA meeting in Rio and with Minister of Development, Industry, and C [...] | 2006-05-18 18:25:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON BR |
06BRASILIA993 | DESPITE RECENT RAIDS, BRASILIA'S PIRATE GOODS MARKETPLACE [...] (U) Summary. According to an article published in the May 11 "Correio Brazilense," more than 150,000 products, mostly pirated DVDs and CDs, were apprehended in raids at Brasilia's Feira dos Importados (i.e., the "Import Fair"). The operation mobilized 120 police officers and closed down 95 r [...] | 2006-05-22 17:22:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD ECON BR |
06BRATISLAVA160 | SLOVAKIA ANNUAL REPORT ON TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS [...] (U) Embassy TIP Point of Contact: Name: Richard "Trey" Lyons Position: Political Officer Phone: 00421 2 5922 3210 Fax: 00421 2 5922 3109 E-mail: LyonsRN@state.gov 2. (SBU) OVERVIEW OF ANTI-TRAFFICKING ACTIVITIES --------------------------------------------- --- A. A COUNTRY OF ORI [...] | 2006-03-01 07:01:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG KFRD PREF ASEC |
06BRATISLAVA180 | BELARUSIAN OPPOSITION TELLS BRATISLAVA THE [...] (SBU) At a March 3 briefing hosted jointly at the MFA by State Secretary (Deputy Minister) Magda Vasaryova and German Marshall Fund's Pavol Demes, Belarusian opposition figures Andrei Sannikov and Oleg Manaev told representatives from the Canadian, U.S., and EU embassies that the Lukashenko r [...] | 2006-03-03 16:40:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM SOCI LO BO |
06BRATISLAVA192 | A/S SILVERBERG VISIT TO BRATISLAVA: SLOVAKIA HOLDS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The March 5-7 Bratislava visit of IO A/S Kristen Silverberg provided the occasion to engage Slovakia on UNSC issues, congratulate the country on two successful months at the table, and coordinate our approaches to the upcoming challenges of the Council's agenda. A/S Silverber [...] | 2006-03-08 08:07:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNSC UN IR YI SR LO |
06BRATISLAVA229 | SLOVAKIA FULLY SUPPORTS US DRAFT UNSC RESOLUTION [...] (SBU) UNSC Coordination Unit desk officer for Africa Pavol Popjak told us March 23 that Slovakia fully supports the U.S. draft resolution on AMIS re-hatting, and has "no objection" to making a decision on the draft "today." Popjak told us that French changes to resolution language regarding [...] | 2006-03-23 15:30:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPKO SOCI UNSC UN SU LO |
06BRATISLAVA252 | SLOVAKS NOT KEEN ON ROMANIAN ADOPTION DEMARCHE [...] (U) Post delivered reftel demarche March 21 to Juraj Kubla at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Human Rights directorate. Kubla in turn shared the points with officials at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs, and Family, and the Slovak Embassy in Bucharest. [...] | 2006-03-30 14:42:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL CASC EU RO LO |
06BRATISLAVA254 | CARETAKER MINISTER OF INTERIOR PROMISES STEADY [...] (SBU) Ambassador called upon Minister of the Interior Martin Pado on March 28 to discuss trafficking in persons and extremism. Pado, formerly State Secretary (Deputy Minister),was installed as caretaker Minister following the withdrawal of the Christian Democratic Movement (KDH) and their [...] | 2006-03-31 06:51:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM SMIG KWMN SOCI LO |
06BRATISLAVA287 | SMER PARTY CONFERENCE PRESENTS A MODERATE FICO [...] (U) Summary: Party chairman Robert Fico presented an unexpectedly moderate position at Smer - Socialna Demokracia's weekend conference. He acknowledged for the first time that some of the current government's reforms might be useful, and laid down strict adherence to European rules allowing Sl [...] | 2006-04-11 14:58:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM PHUM SOCI LO |
06BRATISLAVA338 | SLOVAKIA PREPARING DOG TEAMS FOR SERVICE IN IRAQ [...] (U) This is a guidance request, see paragraph 3. 2. (SBU) According to Vladimir Jakabcin, General Director of the Department of Defense Policy, International Relations and Legislation, the Slovak MoD is in the process of purchasing dogs to meet the needs of NTM-1 per Reftel. Including time [...] | 2006-04-26 14:55:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | NATO MARR MOPS IZ LO |
06BRATISLAVA349 | CONFERENCE ON BELARUS: EU ON DEFENSIVE, RUSSIANS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: An April 25-26 conference on Belarus held at the Slovak Ministry on Foreign Affairs was an intellectual lynch mob in two acts. The first day, academics and activists painted a bleak picture of the Lukashenko regime, criticized Russian "meddling," and presented statistical da [...] | 2006-04-28 14:03:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KDEM SOCI EU BO LO |
06BRATISLAVA355 | UN HRC: SLOVAKIA WILL VOTE AGAINST IRAN, CUBA, [...] (SBU) DCM delivered reftel demarche on Iran's candidacy for the Human Rights Council (HRC) May 4 to MFA State Secretary (Deputy Minister) Magda Vasaryova. Vasaryova has SIPDIS direct responsibility for Slovakia's UN portfolio at the MFA. She assured us that Slovakia would oppose Iran's m [...] | 2006-05-04 12:02:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL UN UNSC LO |
06BRATISLAVA357 | MECIAR SAYS HZDS WANTS BACK INTO GOVERNMENT [...] (SBU) Summary. Former PM Vladimir Meciar told the program conference of his Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (HZDS) party on 21 April 2006 that HZDS would like to be in government after June 17, elections and is ready to align with almost any party to achieve that end. Meciar seemed to focus [...] | 2006-05-05 07:38:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR LO |
06BRATISLAVA373 | ROMA UPDATE: MAYOR TRIES TO DEPORT FAMILIES, NDI [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Embassy continues to be heavily involved in promoting human rights and integration among Slovakia's minority communities, the Roma in particular. In the past month, the Emboffs have: -- Visited a northern village in which the mayor is seeking to move 35-40 Roma to a smal [...] | 2006-05-11 08:16:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL KPAO SOCI LO |
06BRATISLAVA386 | SLOVAKIA SUPPORTIVE OF SYRIA-LEBANON UNSCR [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel points on May 10 to MFA Directors for International Organizations, UN Security Council, and Middle East affairs. Colleagues from the British Embassy also followed-up on May 11. On May 12, Ambassador Vladimir Lomen from the UNSC Coordination Unit called to say [...] | 2006-05-15 06:40:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV UNSC SY LE LO |
06BRATISLAVA390 | SLOVAKIA SUPPORTS UNSC SYRIA-LEBANON RESOLUTION [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-16 14:41:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNSC SY LE LO |
06BRATISLAVA401 | SLOVAKIA,S COMMUNISTS DON,T WANT TO BE IN [...] (U) Summary. Jozef Sevc, Chairman of the Communist Party of Slovakia (KSS),spoke at a sparsely attended breakfast meeting organized by the American Chamber of Commerce on May 17. Sevc acknowledged that KSS faces an uphill struggle to get the 5% of the vote necessary to be in the next Parliam [...] | 2006-05-23 11:13:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR LO |
06BRATISLAVA423 | SMER'S THINK-TANK ROOTED IN THE PAST [...] (U) Summary. A new think-tank established to advise the leftist political party Smer on matters concerning economy, politics and defense recently rolled out its foreign policy recommendations. The think-tank is dominated by older academics trained in the command-economy era who have decidedly [...] | 2006-05-31 15:24:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR LO |
06BRATISLAVA428 | SLOVAKIA WILL SUPPORT U.S. RESOLUTION ON BURMA [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel demarche on May 26 to MFA UNSC Coordinator Marcel Pesko and his deputy, Vladimir Lomen. Pesko reaffirmed to us June 1 that Slovakia has instructed its mission in New York to "consider positively" a U.S. draft resolution on Burma. 2. (SBU) According to Pesk [...] | 2006-06-01 12:01:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM UNSC BM LO |
06BRATISLAVA431 | SLOGANS AND GIMMICKS: THE ELECTION CAMPAIGN [...] (U) SUMMARY/INTRODUCTION: Although the streets of Slovakia have been wallpapered in billboards and discarded political pamphlets for months now, the official media campaign opened on May 27. Given the low public interest and overall disillusionment with politics, campaigning has been low key [...] | 2006-06-01 15:43:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR LO |
06BRATISLAVA434 | SMER RELEASES CAMPAIGN STATEMENT QUESTIONING SLOVAK [...] (U) Opposition party Smer-SD ("Direction - Social Democracy") released a statement on June 2 (translated below) blasting the war in Iraq, the deployment of Slovak troops there, and pledging that it will begin deliberations on the possible withdrawal of Slovak troops from Iraq if the party fo [...] | 2006-06-02 15:39:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM KPAO PINR PREL SOCI IZ LO |
06BRATISLAVA448 | SLOVAKIA SUPPORTIVE BUT PESSIMISTIC ON FMCT [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-08 11:16:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MNUC PARM PREL KNNP CDG LO |
06BRATISLAVA489 | CAMPAIGN ATMOSPHERICS [...] Summary. (U) Slovakia has entered the final countdown to elections. Polls open Saturday June 17 at 7:00 AM and close at 10:00 PM (1:00 AM to 4:00 PM EST). The parties are hosting their grand finale campaign programs, the last polls have been released, and the final TV debate has been held. Giv [...] | 2006-06-16 14:46:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR ECON LO |
06BRATISLAVA490 | Tax Reform and the Election [...] Summary. The flat tax is the flagship of the reform agenda that helped the government of Prime Minister Mikulas Dzurinda quickly turn Slovakia into one of Europe's most attractive destinations for global investment. While admired by investors, Slovakia's flat rates for income, corporate, and [...] | 2006-06-16 15:17:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV LO |
06BRATISLAVA495 | SLOVAKIA WILL NOT ACT ON VENEZUELAN NGO LAW [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-20 08:54:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PREL PGOV EAID VE LO |
06BRATISLAVA510 | SLOVAKIA LIKELY TO SUPPORT WEDGWOOD FOR SEAT ON [...] (SBU) Post delivered reftel demarche regarding the candidacy of Ruth Wedgwood for a seat on the United nations Human Rights Committee (UNHRC) to Slovak MFA on June 1. A close contact in the MFA's Division of Human Rights told us June 13 that she had seen a draft of the instructions to suppo [...] | 2006-06-23 00:29:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM UNHRC LO |
06BRATISLAVA533 | ROMA VOTE BUYING: MONEY FOR NOTHING [...] (SBU) Poloff spent June 17 - election day - in the eastern Spis region with Roma politician and activist Peter Pollak, who - juggling three phones, several phone directories, and a bottle of water - was canvassing Roma settlements investigating allegations of vote buying. Both Pollak and Na [...] | 2006-06-29 18:23:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM SOCI LO |
06BRATISLAVA552 | INTRODUCING SLOVAKIA'S NEW CABINET [...] (U) President Gasparovic swore in the new cabinet of the Fico government on July 4. Of the fifteen ministries, ten have gone to Smer, three to SNS, and two to HZDS. The majority of these new ministers are little-known on the Slovak political scene. However, the ones of most active interest [...] | 2006-07-07 15:24:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR ECON LO |
06BRATISLAVA589 | SLOVAKIA ECONOMIC ROUNDUP - JULY 18, 2006 [...] (SBU) The Slovak korun has faced intense weakening pressure over the past two weeks due to investor uncertainties about the future direction of GOS economic policies. Prime Minister Robert Fico and Finance Minister-designate Jan Pociatek have clashed in public about economic and fiscal plans, [...] | 2006-07-18 11:45:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV LO |
06BRATISLAVA601 | SLOVAKIA'S POST-ELECTION STATE OF MIND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The June 17 parliamentary elections were characterized by low voter turnout: 54.67 percent. Robert Fico's Smer was the clear winner across Slovakia, taking 29.14 percent and five of Slovakia's eight regions. Mikulas Dzurinda's SDKU only won the Bratislava region, but it was pl [...] | 2006-07-25 12:00:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON SOCI LO |
06BRATISLAVA621 | SLOVAKIA ECONOMIC ROUNDUP - JULY 28, 2006 [...] (U) The following are recent noteworthy events in the Slovak economy: PM'S ADVISOR: REALITY WILL DIFFER FROM ELECTION PLEDGES --------------------------------------------- ---------- 2. (SBU) In anticipation of the GOS release of its economic plan on August 1, Emboff spoke this week with [...] | 2006-07-31 06:11:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV LO |
06BRATISLAVA666 | PM FICO PRESENTS POLICY AGENDA FOR NEXT FOUR YEARS [...] (SBU) OVERVIEW AND COMMENT. One month after Slovakia's new governing coalition took office, Prime Minister Robert Fico has presented the government's policy statement, a four-year agenda determined by the governing three-party coalition. Bureaucrats had drafted an early version of the govern [...] | 2006-08-09 16:32:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON PHUM LO |
06BRATISLAVA679 | SLOVAKIA: HIGH-LEVEL ATTENDANCE AT UN GENERAL [...] (SBU) Per ref A instructions, an interim report on high-level Government of Slovakia representation at the UN General Assembly was sent in ref B. This is an update to that report: A. Attendance of the Head of State: -- Ivan Gasparovic, President, will not/not attend -- Arrival and departur [...] | 2006-08-11 14:34:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV UNGA LO |
06BRATISLAVA704 | REACTION OF SLOVAKIA'S ETHNIC HUNGARIANS TO NEW GOVERNMENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: New Slovak PM Robert Fico's decision to form a ruling coalition with the Slovak National Party (SNS) following the June 17 parliamentary elections elicited a strong negative reaction from the country's sizeable Hungarian minority. SNS leader Jan Slota is notorious for anti-minori [...] | 2006-08-21 06:04:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL KPAO LO |
06BRATISLAVA706 | ROMA ISSUES ROUND-UP FOR SLOVAKIA [...] (U) The August 14 release of the U.S. Helsinki Commission's report on sterilization of Romani women without informed consent in the Czech Republic and Slovakia has spurred a reaction in Slovakia. The report received media coverage on both television and radio. Deputy Prime Minister for Human [...] | 2006-08-21 13:05:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM SOCI PGOV LO |
06BRATISLAVA719 | SLOVAKIA POLITICAL ROUND-UP AUGUST 25, 2006 [...] (SBU) The Justice Ministry, under the auspices of new Justice Minister Stefan Harabin, has prepared draft legislation to close the Special Court and the Special Prosecution Office. Former Justice Minister Daniel Lipsic provided a copy of the draft to the media. According to the draft, both i [...] | 2006-08-25 13:41:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM ELAB LO |
06BRATISLAVA733 | UPDATE ON SLOVAK-HUNGARIAN TENSIONS FOR VISIT OF [...] (SBU) This cable is intended to highlight the latest events in Slovak-Hungarian tensions since your departure from the U.S. on August 21. Any necessary updates on other ongoing issues in Slovakia will be provided at a briefing upon your arrival in Bratislava on September 4. 2. (SBU) The GO [...] | 2006-08-31 11:14:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM LO |
06BRATISLAVA750 | CONGRESSMAN LANTOS URGES SLOVAKIA TO RESOLVE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On September 4 in Brtislava, Representative Tom Lantos (D-California) delivered the message to the GOS that ethnic Slovak-Hungarian tensions must be resolved and that the Slovak government needs to do more to assure its role on the world stage. Rep. Lantos met with Prime Minist [...] | 2006-09-08 14:58:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL LE IZ LO |
06BRATISLAVA754 | ATTACK ON ETHNIC HUNGARIAN STUDENT FABRICATED, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Reports of a racially-motivated attack on an ethnic Hungarian student in the town of Nitra two weeks ago and which have sparked considerable controversy between Hungary and Slovakia were false, according to the Slovak police investigator. Interior Minister Kalinak announced on S [...] | 2006-09-12 15:05:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM LO |
06BRATISLAVA764 | ETHNIC-HUNGARIAN SLOVAK RESPONDS PUBLICLY TO [...] (SBU) Summary. During a September 13 news conference, Hedviga Malinova, a Slovak student of Hungarian ethnicity, stuck firmly to her claim that she was verbally and physically attacked by two youths on August 25. (Ref A) She contradicted the conclusion drawn by PM Fico and Interior Minister Ka [...] | 2006-09-13 15:51:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV HU LO |
06BRATISLAVA779 | SLOVAK POLICE TO FORM SPECIAL UNIT FOR EXTREMISM [...] (U) Minister of Interior Robert Kalinak announced on September 20 the creation of a special police unit to combat extremism. The idea for the unit was first mooted by Police President Jan Packa in the wake of the alleged attack on an ethnic Hungarian woman in Nitra last month (refs A-C). Whil [...] | 2006-09-22 14:48:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KCRM LO |
06BRATISLAVA786 | MORMONS ATTEMPT TO REGISTER IN SLOVAKIA, GET [...] (SBU) The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints submitted a petition to the Slovak government on September 26 with over 25,000 signatures of local residents who support the Church's official registration. (A religious body needs 20,000 signatures to register with the GOS.) In fact, the [...] | 2006-09-26 15:43:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KIRF CACS SOCI LO |
06BRATISLAVA802 | SMER PARTY CONGRESS PRODUCES NO SURPRISES: FICO IS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Smer ("Direction"),the leading party in Slovakia's governing coalition, unsurprisingly re-elected the Prime Minister, Robert Fico, as Chairman of the party during the annual party congress on September 30. Two of Fico's closest advisors became Vice Chairmen, replacing two inte [...] | 2006-10-02 15:13:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON PINR IZ LO |
06BRATISLAVA815 | MORMON CHURCH REGISTRATION APPROVED [...] (SBU) On October 3, the Ambassador paid his introductory call on the new Minister of Culture Marek Madaric, rumored to be one of Prime Minister Fico's closest advisors. Madaric expressed an openness to review Slovakia's religious registration law, which requires the signatures of 20,000 suppo [...] | 2006-10-06 14:13:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KIRF PHUM LO |
06BRATISLAVA817 | SLOVAKIA POLITICAL ROUND UP OCTOBER 6, 2006 [...] (SBU) The new National Coordinator to Combat Trafficking in Persons will be Jozef Bucek, the new State Secretary at the Ministry of Interior. This effectively raises the political clout of the National Coordinator position by several notches. Bucek, a Smer party member from Kosice, does not [...] | 2006-10-06 14:48:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM EAID PREL ELAB KDEM PINR AF RO BU |
06BRATISLAVA820 | UNSC SHOULD SEND A STRONG, IMMEDIATE, UNANIMOUS MESSAGE ON [...] (SBU) DCM has urged Slovakia at the highest levels of the MFA to adopt a strong position to counter North Korea's nuclear test, per points in refs A and B and previous messages. Saying it was "high time" the international community got tough on North Korea's nuclear program, MFA Director for t [...] | 2006-10-10 16:10:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM KNNP UNSC KN LO |
06BRATISLAVA823 | EU FUNDS: SMER STRENGTHENS ITS POSITION VERSUS SNS [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 8, the GOS cabinet announced its distribution plan for EU funds from 2007-2013. The new government's basic funding priorities appear to remain consistent with EU fund priorities proposed by the previous government, but authority over more than 1.7 billion Euros in "k [...] | 2006-10-11 14:31:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EU KPAO LO PGOV |
06BRATISLAVA838 | EUROPEAN SOCIALISTS SUSPEND SMER WHILE THE PARTY [...] (U) The Presidency of the Party of European Socialists (PES) suspended the membership of Prime Minister Robert Fico's Smer party on October 12 for entering into a coalition with the Slovak National Party (SNS),chaired by Jan Slota. PES President Poul Nyrup Rasmussen said that the European soc [...] | 2006-10-13 14:50:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV LO |
06BRATISLAVA862 | SLOVAKIA POLITICAL ROUND-UP OCTOBER 23, 2006 [...] (U) Vladimir Meciar's Movement for a Democratic Slovakia (HZDS) won agreement for their nomination of current Justice Minister Stefan Harabin to a seat on the Constitutional Court (ref A),only after two rounds of parliamentary voting on October 19. Any cracks in the coalition were patched up [...] | 2006-10-24 14:08:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KIRF LO |
06BRATISLAVA883 | SLOVAKIA SUPPORTS FRANCO-AMERICAN PROPOSAL ON 1267 [...] Poloff delivered reftel points and non-paper to MFA UNSC Coordination Unit Chief Vladimir Lomen together with First Secretary Xavier Rouard of the French Embassy. Mr. Lomen had SIPDIS been unaware of the Franco-American proposal before it was discussed by the 1267 Committee on 16, October, b [...] | 2006-10-31 15:47:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER UNSC LO |
06BRATISLAVA914 | PREVIEW OF MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS IN SLOVAKIA: [...] (SBU) Slovakia's nation-wide municipal elections have traditionally reflected local issues and political alliances. Ruling parties and opposition parties on ocassion ally to back the same candidate. However, observers expect that PM Robert Fico's record high popularity may have an impact local [...] | 2006-11-20 11:09:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON SOCI LO |
06BRATISLAVA915 | SLOVAKIA WILL ABSTAIN ON ISRAEL RESOULTION IN [...] (SBU) In response to reftel points, Marcel Pesko, Director of the UN and International Organizations Department at MFA, said that Slovakia will abstain on the Israel resolution in the UNGA/ESS. SILVERMAN [...] | 2006-11-20 14:45:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNGA IS LO |
06BRATISLAVA938 | SLOVAK LOCAL ELECTIONS PREVIEW - DEC 2, VOL. II [...] (SBU) This is the second of two pre-election cables outlining the candidates and issues in the Slovak local elections to take place on December 2. Contrary to previous municipal elections that followed local political trends, the alliances for this election reflect national coalition and oppo [...] | 2006-12-01 16:03:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SOCI PINR LO |
06BRATISLAVA943 | DAS KRILLA REINFORCES PRO-NGO MESSAGE WITH SLOVAKS [...] (SBU) During a November 30 - December 2 visit to Bratislava, DRL DAS Jeff Krilla reinforced Embassy concerns about possibly dwindling support for Slovak non-governmental organizations (NGOs),many of which were founded during the 1990s in an attempt to bring an end to the "cronyism" of then-P [...] | 2006-12-06 16:04:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM SOCI LO |
06BRATISLAVA946 | WHAT DOES A GUY HAVE TO DO GET FIRED AROUND HERE? [...] (U) Summary. Slovakia's Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs is busy preparing new legislation to overhaul its labor code in early 2007. Business interests are happy with the current law and concerned about forthcoming changes, especially since the drafter of the new proposal, MOL State Secre [...] | 2006-12-07 08:16:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB LO |
06BRATISLAVA952 | SLOVAK LOCAL ELECTION RESULTS: LOCAL POLITICS ARE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Slovakia's nationwide December 2 municipal elections demonstrated that Slovaks care about local politics and that the national-level political scene does not strongly influence the selection of local leaders. Most - but not all - major political parties were satisfied with the [...] | 2006-12-08 15:43:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SOCI LO |
06BRATISLAVA960 | SLOVAKIA WILL SUPPORT UK-FRENCH DRAFT RESOLUTION [...] Slovakia will likely support the UK-French draft UNSCR on Iran, according to Ambassador Vladimir Lomen of the UNSC Coordination Unit at MFA. Lomen told Poloff the UK had lobbied the GoS hard for support and that the matter was being considered in the FM's office as of the morning of December 1 [...] | 2006-12-12 14:29:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNSC IR LO |
06BRATISLAVA964 | PRIME MINISTER'S PARTY CELEBRATES ITSELF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On December 9, Prime Minister and Chairman of the Smer party Robert Fico addressed the party faithful with a speech highlighting the achievements of the past six months. After focusing on fulfilled domestic campaign promises which "turn the wheel of governance towards the peop [...] | 2006-12-13 13:53:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON SOCI LO |
06BRATISLAVA977 | SLOVAKIA POLITICAL ROUND-UP DECEMBER 21, 2006 [...] (SBU) Since the new Smer-SNS-HZDS (Smer-Social Democracy, Slovak National Party, Movement for a Democratic Slovakia) government took office in July, the Embassy has faced increased difficulty in the responsiveness of established contacts from several ministries. Notably in the Ministries of I [...] | 2006-12-21 12:14:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SOCI LO LH |
06BRATISLAVA979 | SLOVAK GOVERNMENT RENEWS INTEREST IN TIP [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The new National Coordinator for Fight against Trafficking in Persons held his first inter-ministerial Expert Group meeting on the subject. The Ministry of Interior earmarked SKK 2 million (USD 74,000) for TIP activities in 2007. The GOS passed an amendment on the law coverin [...] | 2006-12-21 14:20:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SMIG LO |
06BRIDGETOWN100 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR BARBADOS [...] (SBU) Embassy Bridgetown warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Ambassador John D. Rood to travel to Barbados on February 3-5, 2006. 2. (SBU) We understand that further Embassy assistance is not required. In case of emergency, please contact Post One through the Embassy general p [...] | 2006-01-17 20:36:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | APER OTRA BB |
06BRIDGETOWN1165 | ST. VINCENT AIRPORT PLANS RELY ON FOREIGN AID AND [...] (SBU) Summary: The ambitious plan put forward by the Government of St. Vincent and the Grenadines (GOSV) to expand two of the nation's existing airports and construct a major new international airport will rely on substantial foreign aid and runs the risk of miring the country in debt. These [...] | 2006-07-07 13:06:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EAIR ECON EFIN EINV PGOV PREL CU MY TW |
06BRIDGETOWN117 | RSO GRENADA TRIP REPORT (01/11-13/2006) [...] (U) This trip report contains information related to the RSO's and SD Coordinator's travel to St. George's, Grenada, from January 10-13, 2006. This report conforms to the requirements outlined in reference. 2. (SBU) Eugene Cunningham, DS/PSD/PCB, traveled to and assisted post with physical [...] | 2006-01-19 14:10:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC ABLD AMGT BB XX |
06BRIDGETOWN1220 | BARBADOS SUGAR INDUSTRY - STILL ON LIFE SUPPORT [...] (SBU) Summary: The ailing Barbados sugar industry is a large drain on government resources. In 2004, the country lost US$498 on each ton of sugar exported, for a total loss of US$17,136,360. Instead of shutting down this incredible drain on resources, the government plans to invest US$150 m [...] | 2006-07-13 20:38:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ETRD PGOV BB XL |
06BRIDGETOWN1286 | CARICOM HEADS SPEAK OUT ON DOHA ROUND [...] (SBU) Summary: At their recent annual meeting, CARICOM Heads of Government (HOGs) said they felt marginalized in World Trade Organization (WTO) Doha round negotiations. In the HOGs' opinion, "small and vulnerable economies" are being ignored in the trade talks, which have been dominated by t [...] | 2006-07-21 20:46:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EAGR EAID PREL PINR WTO XL |
06BRIDGETOWN1287 | OECS SIX SIGN ON TO CSME [...] (SBU) Summary: After months of quibbling and backtracking (Ref B),the six nations of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) signed on to the single market phase of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) at the start of the CARICOM Heads of Government meeting July 3-6 in St. [...] | 2006-07-21 21:44:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECIN EAID PREL PINR XL |
06BRIDGETOWN1556 | BARBADOS: OP-ED RILES LOCAL JEWISH COMMUNITY [...] (U) SUMMARY: On August 26, a leading daily newspaper ran a half-page op-ed piece in its weekly "As A Matter Of Fact" column, which offended Barbados' Jewish community. Intended as criticism of the armed conflict in Lebanon, the article degenerated into the propaganda of intolerance. The pap [...] | 2006-09-06 13:57:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM ASEC OPRC KPAO SCUL BB XL |
06BRIDGETOWN165 | TRAVEL LOCATOR FOR BRIDGETOWN A/RSO NEDD [...] (SBU) Locator data as required: 2. NAME OF TRAVELER: Sean A Nedd 3. TITLE: A/RSO Bridgetown, Barbados 4. POINTS OF CONTACT: U.S. Embassy Port Au Prince Port Au Prince, Haiti ARSO Cellular (246) 823-2098 5. PURPOSE: DS/IP/WHA Security Detail to Haiti for Election Covera [...] | 2006-01-25 17:56:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC OTRA BB |
06BRIDGETOWN1721 | Bridgetown Final Accreditation [...] (SBU) Per reftel, OBO/Bridgetown confirms that the New Embassy Compound (NEC) is ready for the final accreditation inspection. OBO/Bridgetown sent updated accreditation checklists via C-Lan in late August and last week. 2. (SBU) OBO/Bridgetown confirms that the following work is complete or [...] | 2006-09-26 20:58:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ABLD ASEC AMGT BB |
06BRIDGETOWN178 | BARBADOS BUDGET - PM PLEDGES TAX CUTS AND ENERGY [...] (SBU) Summary: Barbados Prime Minister Owen Arthur presented his government's 2006 economic and financial policies in a January 16 speech to parliament. PM Arthur pledged to lower energy costs, cut taxes, boost pensions, and prop up manufacturing. Most of the budget seems practical and will [...] | 2006-01-27 18:12:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EIND ECPS SENV ENRG PINR BB |
06BRIDGETOWN1832 | AMBASSADOR KRAMER BEGINS FAREWELL TOUR: ST. KITTS [...] (U) SUMMARY: During her September 18-20 visit to St. Kitts, Ambassador Kramer began the first in a series of farewell meetings with the Prime Ministers and Governors General of the seven island-nations to which she is accredited. On September 18 she met with St. Kitts and Nevis Governor Gen [...] | 2006-10-17 15:21:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV PGOV PREL PINR CASC ELAB OPIC EAGR KIDE |
06BRIDGETOWN1833 | AMBASSADOR KRAMER BEGINS FAREWELL TOUR: ST. KITTS [...] (U) SUMMARY: During her September 18-20 visit to St. Kitts, Ambassador Kramer began the first in a series of farewell meetings with the Prime Ministers and Governors General of the seven island-nations to which she is accredited. On September 18 she met with St. Kitts and Nevis Governor Gen [...] | 2006-10-17 15:21:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV PGOV PREL PINR CASC ELAB OPIC EAGR KIDE |
06BRIDGETOWN1852 | BIOFUELS IN THE EASTERN CARIBBEAN: UNCLASS/SBU [...] (U) Discussions with eastern Caribbean Energy Ministries in the region revealed a strong interest in alternatives to fossil fuels. Like the countries themselves, the proposed alternatives are very diverse, ranging from ethanol and geothermal, to solar and wind, and even to waste conversion. M [...] | 2006-10-20 00:40:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EAGR ETRO EAID EPET EINV PGOV PREL BB |
06BRIDGETOWN198 | REQUEST TO INCREASE LOCAL GUARD COVERAGE - US [...] (SBU) Post requests authorization to increase the coverage of an existing local guard position at the U.S. embassy in Grenada by 15.5 hours. US MISSION - GRENADA 2. (SBU) AmEmbassy Grenada is an unclassified lock and leave stand-alone facility. The embassy compound has two (2) vehicle e [...] | 2006-01-31 10:49:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC ABUD ASUP AFIN GJ BB XL |
06BRIDGETOWN205 | CINGULAR WIRELESS - BARBADOS HOLDS UP SALE TO [...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Barbados has demanded all cellular phone companies adopt the Barbados specific Home Network Indicator (HNI) Code. By doing so prior to the approval of the pending sale of Cingular's Barbados business to Digicel, the government will force Cingular to comply by [...] | 2006-01-31 13:39:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS EINV BB |
06BRIDGETOWN206 | EASTERN CARIBBEAN WARY OF CARICOM SINGLE MARKET [...] (U) Summary. The January 1 "start" of the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) and January 30 signing are purely ceremonial events because the CSME is a patchwork process that countries must implement through national legislation. Owing to fears of a mass influx of foreign labor, concerns [...] | 2006-01-31 14:17:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN ETRD ELAB EAID EIND EFIN PREL XL |
06BRIDGETOWN2084 | AMBASSADOR OURISMAN'S INTRODUCTORY VISIT TO ST. [...] (U) Summary: On November 14-15, 2006, Ambassador Ourisman visited St. Kitts and Nevis to present her credentials. She conducted an initial round of meetings with Kittitian and Nevisian officials, including the Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, who identified trade and U.S. assistance as ke [...] | 2006-11-28 11:41:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINR ETRD ECON EAID CMGT SC XL |
06BRIDGETOWN214 | BRIDGETOWN RECEIPT OF SBU SHIPMENT [...] (SBU) Post acknowledges receipt of shipment under registry #3437219. All contents were received in good working order and will be distributed accordingly for their exclusive usage. 2. (SBU) RSO's office wishes to thank all those individuals who assisted in providing these very needed [...] | 2006-01-31 22:14:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC KMSG BB |
06BRIDGETOWN2145 | BARBADOS AND EASTERN CARIBBEAN TO BOYCOTT ACP [...] (U) Per reftel instructions, talking points discouraging governments from attending the 7-8 December African Caribbean Pacific Group of States (ACP) Summit in Khartoum were delivered under cover of Diplomatic Notes (Antigua #1655, Barbados #1656, Dominica #1657, St. Kitts #1658, St. Lucia #16 [...] | 2006-12-06 16:08:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINR SOCI SU XL |
06BRIDGETOWN2180 | OCTOGENARIAN SIR JOHN COMPTON RETURNED TO THE HELM IN ST. [...] (U) The opposition United Workers Party (UWP) unexpectedly dominated the December 11 St. Lucia parliamentary elections with an 11-6 win. This electoral upset returns 80-year-old Sir John Compton to the Prime Minister's seat for his seventh term in the position (Compton previously served 1964-7 [...] | 2006-12-12 16:09:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR ECON KCRM ST XL |
06BRIDGETOWN277 | BRIDGETOWN A/RSO RETURN TO POST [...] Per above listed reftels, this cable advises that that A/RSO Sean A Nedd has returned to Post. The below listed information is submitted accordingly: A. EMPLOYEE: Sean A Nedd B. TYPE OF TRAVEL: DS/IP/WHA SECURITY DETAIL C. DEPENDANTS AT POST: None D. DATE DE [...] | 2006-02-13 11:38:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC OTRA BB |
06BRIDGETOWN312 | ST. LUCIA: FORMER PRIME MINISTER CONCERNED ABOUT [...] (SBU) Summary: Former St. Lucia Prime Minister John Compton has warned against the deepening ties between CARICOM member states, Venezuela and Cuba. Compton, leader of the opposition United Workers Party, expressed his concern that St. Lucia Prime Minister Kenny Anthony and other Caribbean l [...] | 2006-02-17 17:44:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR ENRG CU VE ST XL |
06BRIDGETOWN318 | QUARTERLY STATUS REPORT FOR EMBASSY BRIDGETOWN [...] (U) SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT INFORMATION: ---------------------------------- AMERICAN EMBASSY BRIDGETOWN located on Barbados is comprised of 8 resident agencies housed in four separate facilities; the Chancery, the Admin Annex, the Consular building and the warehouse. Construction on t [...] | 2006-02-21 12:50:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC BB XL |
06BRIDGETOWN319 | THE WINDIES - SPOT REPORTS FROM THE EASTERN [...] (U) The Barbados-based Caribbean Regional Negotiating Machinery (CRNM) announced that it is expanding its private sector outreach program, beginning in January with a dialogue that will bring together the private and public sectors in St. Kitts. The CRNM will also teach the private sector how [...] | 2006-02-21 13:36:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL CPAS SNAR EAID EAIR EFIN ELAB ENRG |
06BRIDGETOWN322 | QUARTERLY STATUS REPORT FOR EMBASSY BRIDGETOWN [...] (U) SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT INFORMATION: ---------------------------------- AMERICAN EMBASSY BRIDGETOWN located on Barbados is comprised of 8 resident agencies housed in four separate facilities; the Chancery, the Admin Annex, the Consular building and the warehouse. Construction on t [...] | 2006-02-21 15:28:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC BB XL |
06BRIDGETOWN383 | TIP SUBMISSION - ST. VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES [...] (U) As requested in reftel, below are Post's responses to questions regarding St. Vincent and the Grenadines for the annual Trafficking in Persons Report. Paragraph 21 - Overview ----------------------- 2. (SBU) -- A) Is the country a country of origin, transit, or destination for int [...] | 2006-03-01 20:42:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF VC XL |
06BRIDGETOWN384 | TIP SUBMISSION - DOMINICA [...] (U) As requested in ref A, below are Post's responses to questions regarding Dominica for the annual Trafficking in Persons Report. Paragraph 21 - Overview ----------------------- 2. (SBU) -- A) Is the country a country of origin, transit, or destination for internationally trafficked [...] | 2006-03-01 20:42:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF DO XL |
06BRIDGETOWN385 | TIP SUBMISSION - ST. LUCIA [...] (U) As requested in reftel, below are Post's responses to questions regarding St. Lucia for the annual Trafficking in Persons Report. Paragraph 21 - Overview ----------------------- 2. (SBU) -- A) Is the country a country of origin, transit, or destination for internationally traffick [...] | 2006-03-01 20:42:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF ST XL |
06BRIDGETOWN386 | TIP SUBMISSION - BARBADOS [...] (U) As requested in reftel, below are Post's responses to questions regarding Barbados for the annual Trafficking in Persons Report. Paragraph 21 - Overview ----------------------- 2. (SBU) -- A) Is the country a country of origin, transit, or destination for internationally trafficke [...] | 2006-03-01 20:43:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM ELAB KFRD ASEC KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG BB XL |
06BRIDGETOWN387 | TIP SUBMISSION - ST. KITTS AND NEVIS [...] (U) As requested in reftel, below are Post's responses to questions regarding St. Kitts and Nevis for the annual Trafficking in Persons Report. Paragraph 21 - Overview ----------------------- 2. (SBU) -- A) Is the country a country of origin, transit, or destination for internationall [...] | 2006-03-01 20:44:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF SC XL |
06BRIDGETOWN388 | TIP SUBMISSION - ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA [...] (U) As requested in reftel, below are Post's responses to questions regarding Antigua and Barbuda for the annual Trafficking in Persons Report. Paragraph 21 - Overview ----------------------- 2. (SBU) -- A) Is the country a country of origin, transit, or destination for internationall [...] | 2006-03-01 20:44:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF AC XL |
06BRIDGETOWN389 | TIP SUBMISSION - GRENADA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Post consulted with the Royal Grenada Police Force, Ministry of Legal Affairs, Ministry of Labor, and NGOs and has received no reports of any form of Trafficking in Persons (TIP) as defined in Reftel. There are no laws in Grenada concerning TIP. End Summary. Paragraph 21 - [...] | 2006-03-01 21:40:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF GJ |
06BRIDGETOWN392 | LIAT PILOTS' SURPRISE SICKOUT LEAVES HUNDREDS [...] (SBU) Summary: Without advance warning, Leeward Islands Air Transit (LIAT) cockpit crews staged a sickout beginning 4:00 a.m. March 1. This industrial action left hundreds of passengers stranded, including the Principal Officer in Grenada and an Embassy-sponsored jazz group. LIAT is vital [...] | 2006-03-02 17:23:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ELAB PREL PGOV KPAO XL |
06BRIDGETOWN466 | THE WINDIES - SPOT REPORTS FROM THE EASTERN [...] (U) The opposition Antigua Labor Party (ALP) claimed it has been denied access to Government broadcast media and called for the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) to investigate the matter. The ALP, according to opposition leader Lester Bird, believes that the Government breach [...] | 2006-03-15 17:53:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAIR ENRG KCRM PHUM SMIG HA VE TW |
06BRIDGETOWN530 | HOW MANY CUBANS DOES IT TAKE TO SCREW IN A [...] (SBU) Summary: The Cuban Government recently promised to provide hundreds of thousands of Cuban-made energy-efficient lightbulbs to the island-nations of Antigua and Barbuda, Grenada, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Cuban aid in the region, previously confined largely to medical assistan [...] | 2006-03-24 19:30:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ENRG PINR PREL XL CU VE CH |
06BRIDGETOWN533 | EASTERN CARIBBEAN ALTERNATIVE ENERGY POSSIBILITIES [...] (U) This message is in response to the action request in Ref A. See contact list in paragraph 9. 2. (SBU) Summary: The Eastern Caribbean is a land of missed opportunities for alternative energy. High oil prices, however, have recently brought the issue to the forefront. This is a very [...] | 2006-03-27 12:38:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENS SOCI EAID EPET TRGY ENRG XL CU VE |
06BRIDGETOWN553 | EASTERN CARIBBEAN MOVES TOWARD ECONOMIC UNION [...] (SBU) Summary: The Eastern Caribbean's small island-states are creating an economic union that could lead to political integration. Under a draft plan, the heads of government of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) would sit on a supranational body that has the authority to mak [...] | 2006-03-30 12:38:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN EFIN PGOV PREL UK XL |
06BRIDGETOWN578 | U.S. FAA CATEGORY ONE STATUS PRESENTATION - THE [...] (U) SUMMARY: In an official ceremony on March 24, organized by the Eastern Caribbean Civil Aviation Authority, Ambassador Kramer presented the organization with Category One status on behalf of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration. This classification could open the way for regional air [...] | 2006-04-04 12:38:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ETRD AORC PREL XL AC |
06BRIDGETOWN593 | THE WINDIES - SPOT REPORTS FROM THE EASTERN [...] (U) Dr. Compton Bourne was re-elected to a second five- year term as President of the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB),beginning May 1, 2006. Although generally seen as an effective leader of this organization that lends funds to Caribbean development projects, Bourne has endured criticism f [...] | 2006-04-05 20:16:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL CPAS CVIS EAID EAIR ETRD PHUM PINS |
06BRIDGETOWN602 | PETROCARIBE UPDATE #20: TEXACO AND VENEZUELA [...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of St. Vincent and the Grenadines (GOSV) and Texaco have settled their dispute over the pricing of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG),with the GOSV agreeing to increase the government-regulated price of this cooking fuel used in nearly every home on the island. The [...] | 2006-04-07 11:51:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ENRG EPET ETRD VC VE XL |
06BRIDGETOWN654 | ST. KITTS SUGAR TRANSITION - JOBS AVAILABLE, [...] (SBU) Summary: According to the St. Kitts Sugar Transition Team, there are around 700 former sugar workers still unemployed and about 600 available hotel jobs. (Note: St. Kitts ended its centuries-old sugar industry in 2005, after decades of financial losses at the state-run sugar company. [...] | 2006-04-19 14:01:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ELAB ECON PREL PGOV KPAO SC XL |
06BRIDGETOWN700 | ST. LUCIA: VIOLENT CRIMES HIGHLIGHT POOR SECURITY [...] (SBU) Summary: A series of violent crimes has drawn attention to St. Lucia's poor security situation, which has the potential to hurt this Caribbean nation's tourism- dependent economy. In the course of only a few weeks, several St. Lucians were killed, the nation's Roman Catholic Bishop was [...] | 2006-04-26 20:56:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC CASC PGOV PREL SMIG KCRM ST XL |
06BRIDGETOWN76 | THE WINDIES - SPOT REPORTS FROM THE EASTERN [...] (U) During a recent visit to the region, International Monetary Fund (IMF) Deputy Managing Director Agustin Carstens expressed concern that Caribbean nations would take on more debt through the concessionary financing scheme offered by Venezuela's PetroCaribe oil initiative. Carstens spoke hi [...] | 2006-01-12 13:54:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL CPAS EAID EFIN TW XL |
06BRIDGETOWN788 | THE WINDIES - SPOT REPORTS FROM THE EASTERN [...] (U) Leaders of the six independent nations in the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) reaffirmed in April their intention to delay officially signing on to the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) until a Regional Development Fund (RDF) is established to help less developed sta [...] | 2006-05-08 20:03:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECIN EFIN ENRG EPET PGOV PHUM PREL CH |
06BRIDGETOWN829 | MALAYSIA PRIME MINISTER VISITS ST. VINCENT [...] (SBU) Summary: Malaysia Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi visited St. Vincent and the Grenadines over the course of four days in April and May for what was touted by St. Vincent Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves as a follow-up to his successful March visit to Malaysia and Singapore. Whil [...] | 2006-05-15 16:26:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV OVIP PGOV PINR PREL JM MY VC XL |
06BRIDGETOWN85 | ST. VINCENT OPPOSITION CHALLENGES ELECTION RESULTS [...] (SBU) Summary: St. Vincent and the Grenadines opposition New Democratic Party (NDP) has challenged the outcome of the nation's December 7, 2005, election, in which the ruling Unity Labor Party (ULP) won 12 Parliamentary seats to the NDP's 3. Charging that voting irregularities could have alt [...] | 2006-01-13 14:04:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM VC XL |
06BRIDGETOWN968 | THE WINDIES - SPOT REPORTS FROM THE EASTERN [...] (U) Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer traveled to Tokyo in May to meet Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and other officials. Accompanied by Antigua Minister for Tourism Harold Lovell and the country's new Ambassador to Japan and representative to the International Wh [...] | 2006-06-07 19:16:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EFIN PGOV PREL OFDP OVIP SENV JA XL |
06BRIDGETOWN978 | CUBAN-EASTERN CARIBBEAN LOVE AFFAIR CONTINUES [...] (SBU) Summary: Cuba and the Eastern Caribbean continued their very public romance in May. The St. Lucia Prime Minister traveled to Havana and returned with a pledge from Cuba to train 300 St. Lucian nurses, while his Government praised the "wonders" of Cuba's eye care assistance program. Dom [...] | 2006-06-08 18:38:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL EAID CU XL |
06BRIDGETOWN992 | EASTERN CARIBBEAN DELAYS ENTERING CARICOM SINGLE [...] (SBU) Summary: CARICOM's delay in setting up a special fund for less developed countries threatens to further postpone the entry of the small nations of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) into the CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME). The OECS members made the establishm [...] | 2006-06-09 19:49:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN ETRD EAID PGOV PREL XL |
06BRUSSELS1022 | Belgium's Newest Anti-Terrorism Tool [...] (SBU) The Belgian House of Representatives has approved the creation of a new tool for combatting terrorism, the "Coordination Agency for Analyzing Threats" also known as "OCAM" (or "OCAD" in Dutch). The decision follows about eighteen months of debate; the Senate's pro forma approval is expe [...] | 2006-03-24 07:59:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BE PGOV PTER |
06BRUSSELS1095 | BELGIAN STEWPOT: March 17, 2006 [...] (U) Although Belgium has one of the highest per capita income levels of the EU ($35,749 in 2005),Belgian households still struggle to balance their budgets, due to high prices for some basics. Electricity prices, for example, are near 30 percent above those of France. A recent survey compa [...] | 2006-03-30 13:07:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV EWWT EAIR BE |
06BRUSSELS1165 | BOSNIA WAR CRIMES CHAMBER CONFERENCE: 9.25 [...] (SBU) A March 31 conference in Brussels on the Bosnia judicial system raised 9.25 million euros for the War Crimes Chamber (WCC) for 2007-09. BiH PM Terzic and BiH finance and justice ministers presented the case for additional funding needs and noted that the cost of trying cases in BiH's sy [...] | 2006-04-05 14:23:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID PHUM BK EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
06BRUSSELS1166 | BURMA'S HUMANITARIAN SITUATION DETERIORATING: EU [...] (SBU) Summary. The 2006 Burma/Myanmar Forum, sponsored by the European Institute for Asian Studies (EIAS),focused on the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Burma. NGOs, international organizations, academics and government officials outlined the reasons for increased displacement in 20 [...] | 2006-04-05 16:15:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PHUM PREL EAID BM TH EUN USEU BRUSSELS |
06BRUSSELS1227 | RESPONSE TO EC COMMENTS AT 2006 BURMA/MYANMAR FORUM [...] No summary [...] | 2006-04-12 11:29:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BM EAID EU PHUM PREF PREL BE |
06BRUSSELS2543 | FIREWORKS AT OSCE ELECTION MONITORING CONFERENCE [...] (SBU) Summary: The Belgian OSCE Chairmanship focused its attention on election monitoring at a conference in Brussels on July 12. The technical theme was the need for continued strict adherence to observation guidelines when monitoring. The political message was that ODIHR remains the most co [...] | 2006-07-20 10:27:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BE OSCE PHUM PREL |
06BRUSSELS2974 | BELGIANS WILL URGE DELIVERY OF STRONG MESSAGE TO [...] (U) Belgian Foreign Minister De Gucht will urge the delivery of a strong message to the Iranians at the conclusion of the September 1 Gymnich in Finland. Despite some nervousness on the part of several EU members, De Gucht reportedly expects little difficulty in reaching agreement to follow [...] | 2006-09-01 12:05:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP PARM PGOV PREL BE |
06BRUSSELS3164 | APPEALS HEARD IN GICM AND DHKP-C TERROR TRIALS [...] (U) Five members of the Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group (GICM),who appealed February 2006 convictions under Belgium's antiterrorism law, have received sentences ranging from forty months to eight years. The February 2006 verdict by a Brussels criminal court found the GICM members guilty of [...] | 2006-09-19 13:45:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BE MO PREL PTER TU |
06BRUSSELS3382 | BELGIAN LOCAL POLLS -- FAR RIGHT LOOKS POISED TO [...] (SBU) Summary: Belgium's October 8 local elections will prove one thing -- all politics might be local, but all local politics have national political implications. In Dutch-speaking Flanders, that means that the far right Vlaams Belang party looks poised to make important gains, but not to [...] | 2006-10-06 09:44:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV BE |
06BRUSSELS3388 | UN SCALE OF ASSESSMENTS: DEMARCHE TO BELGIUM ON [...] (U) When reftel arrived, the entire Belgian IO team was in NY attending the UNGA. On October 6, DCM Imbrie and Polcounselor Andrews met with Belgian UN experts, headed by Benedicte Frankinet (IO P/DAS-equivalent) to discuss the scale of assessments and UNGA. 2. (U) DCM reviewed US prioriti [...] | 2006-10-06 13:50:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | UNGA KUNR AORC BE |
06BRUSSELS3447 | BELGIAN LOCAL ELECTIONS -- FAR RIGHT STUMBLES, [...] (U) In elections for almost 600 communal and provincial council elections on October 8, the Flemish Liberal party (senior member of the governing four-party coalition) fared badly, as did its Francophone Liberal partner. Leaders of the Flemish Liberals have ascribed their poor showing on infi [...] | 2006-10-12 09:31:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV BE |
06BRUSSELS3540 | EMBASSY OCTOBER 16 IFTAR: BELGIAN MUSLIMS PONDER [...] (U) More than 20 guests at Ambassador Korologos' October 16 Iftar dinner discussed the October 8 local elections in Belgium, Muslim identity and integration into Belgian society, and whether it is possible to criticize Islam. This was the Ambassador's second Iftar dinner of this Ramadan seaso [...] | 2006-10-18 13:15:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KISL SOCI BE |
06BRUSSELS3799 | BELGIAN NUCLEAR ENERGY REASSESSED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Pressed by global energy concerns and climate change targets, Belgium is reassessing the country,s use of nuclear energy and its future energy policy options. Although current law commits Belgium to decommissioning its nuclear-powered generating installations from 2015-2025, med [...] | 2006-11-13 11:54:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EINV EFIN SENV BE |
06BRUSSELS4099 | MUSLIM ENGAGEMENT STRATEGY 2006-2007 FOR BELGIUM [...] (U) The Muslim populace in Belgium, a country of just over 10 million people, forms nearly five percent of the total population. Although the Government of Belgium does not keep statistics on ethnicity or religion, most estimates for the total population of Muslims in Belgium range from 450, [...] | 2006-12-12 16:43:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KISL SOCI PGOV BE |
06BRUSSELS4130 | EU Faults Belgian Aerospace Subsidies [...] (U) Summary. The EU Commissioner for Competition has found Belgium's state aid program to aerospace firms working with Airbus to be incompatible with EU regulations. In an agreement with the Belgian government announced November 24, the assistance program will be halved in funding, and some [...] | 2006-12-14 15:33:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR EIND EINV BE |
06BRUSSELS4187 | BELGIUM: 2006 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM [...] (U) Post submits the following update on Belgium for the Department,s 2006 Patterns of Global Terrorism report (reftel). 2. (U) Patterns of Global Terrorism ) Belgium Update for 2006: ------------------ General Assessment ------------------ 3. (U) The Belgian government continues [...] | 2006-12-20 15:18:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC EFIN PTER BE |
06BRUSSELS4193 | Letter from Belgian Attorney Concerning [...] (SBU) Belgian attorney Jacques Bourgaux wrote the Ambassador December 11 to seek information regarding the detention in Iraq of Oussama Atar, a Belgian of Moroccan origin. Unofficial embassy translation of the letter is reproduced in paragraph two. The letter reports Atar as being held by th [...] | 2006-12-21 08:29:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PINS BE IZ |
06BRUSSELS791 | LEVERAGING EU ASSISTANCE FOR US FOREIGN POLICY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Bush's historic visit to Brussels in February 2005 has been followed by increased US-European cooperation on a range of political and security issues. An important component of that cooperation is greater synergy between US and EU approaches to development and humani [...] | 2006-03-08 10:55:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON KDEM PREF PREL KMCA EUN UN USEU BRUSSELS |
06BUCHAREST1011 | ROMANIAN SOLDIER KIA IN AFGHANISTAN; FOUR [...] (SBU) Romanian Defense Ministry (MOD) sources confirm that a Romanian soldier was killed in action and four Romanian soldiers and an Afghan interpreter were wounded in Afghanistan June 20 at approximately 0300 local time. MOD sources advise that one of the wounded Romanian soldiers is in crit [...] | 2006-06-20 11:09:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MOPS MARR AF IZ RO |
06BUCHAREST1015 | ROMANIAN SENATE RATIFIES DEFENSE COOPERATION [...] (SBU) The Romanian Senate meeting in plenary session voted June 20 to adopt legislation to ratify the U.S.-Romanian Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA) (Ref). The unofficial tally, recorded by an EmbOff present for the vote, was 62 "ayes", 3 "nays" and 2 abstentions. In a demonstration of b [...] | 2006-06-20 15:09:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MOPS MARR MCAP PREL PGOV PTER RO |
06BUCHAREST1054 | ROMANIAN ARRESTED FOR PLANNING CAR BOMBING IN [...] (SBU) Romanian media have reported heavily on the arrest June 26 of a Romanian man near Timisoara who allegedly planned to detonate a car bomb in a busy intersection to protest Romania's military contribution to Iraq and strong relationship with the U.S. Suspect Ioan Florin Lesch, also called [...] | 2006-06-28 13:39:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PINS PINR ASEC RO |
06BUCHAREST1055 | ROMANIA SUPPORTS DEMARCHE ON UN REFORM AND LIFTING [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-28 14:01:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMGT AORC PREL RO |
06BUCHAREST1088 | DEFENSE COOPERATION AGREEMENT SIGNED BY PRESIDENT, [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-06 16:11:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MOPS MARR MCAP PREL PGOV PTER RO |
06BUCHAREST1115 | POLL SHOWS STRONG SUPPORT FOR PRESIDENT BASESCU, AT PM [...] Summary: (SBU) A July opinion poll carried out by The National Institute for Polling and Marketing Studies (INSOMAR) revealed continued high public support for President Traian Basescu and relatively low support for Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu, despite the latter's recent attempt to [...] | 2006-07-11 15:48:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI RO |
06BUCHAREST1133 | BYSTROE CANAL: ROMANIA WELCOMES UN FINDINGS [...] (SBU) Summary: Romania welcomed the unanimous findings released by a special UN Inquiry Commission noting the negative trans-boundary impact of Ukraine's dredging in Bystroe Canal. Romanian officials now expect Ukraine to initiate public and cross-border consultations on this sensitive environ [...] | 2006-07-14 15:18:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON PBTS SENV UP RO |
06BUCHAREST1235 | ROMANIA'S ROMA AT EUROPE'S DOOR [...] (SBU) Summary. Persistent poverty among Romania's ethnic Roma population, numbering at roughly two million by some estimates, remains one of Romania's most prominent social problems, which will impact other parts of Europe more directly after Romania enters the EU in 2007. Highly transient, g [...] | 2006-08-04 14:18:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI RO |
06BUCHAREST1258 | BASESCU IN BAGHDAD: ROMANIAN TROOPS STAYING IN IRAQ, [...] (SBU) Summary. President Traian Basescu made an August 9 trip to Iraq to emphasize Romania's commitment to stay in Iraq until the Iraqis ask them to leave. His meetings with Iraqi officials also focused on getting Romanian companies reconstruction contracts, both to further support Iraq and t [...] | 2006-08-10 15:41:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MOPS MARR IZ RO |
06BUCHAREST1266 | ROMANIA TO ENDORSE UNSC RESOLUTION ON LEBANON [...] (SBU) Post delivered reftel demarche on Aug 12 to MFA Director General for Global Affairs Stelian Stoian and also provided a copy to Presidential Advisor Claudiu Saftoiu. 2. (SBU) Stoian, who was in the proces of preparing briefing materials on Lebanon for Romanian President Basescu, reporte [...] | 2006-08-12 17:40:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER MOPS IS LE RO |
06BUCHAREST138 | AMBASSADOR VISITS TIMISOARA; UZBEK REFUGEES THANK [...] (SBU) Summary: Timisoara Mayor Gheorghe Ciuhandu on January 18 described Timisoara as an economically-thriving city with commercial and cultural links throughout Central and Western Europe, during the Ambassador's first visit to the city. Nonetheless, Ciuhandu lamented that the central gover [...] | 2006-01-25 15:34:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PREF PHUM RO |
06BUCHAREST1511 | RESPONSE TO CUBA AT UN HRC DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (UN) Poloff delivered reftel demarche and non-paper to MFA Director for OSCE, CE, and Human Rights Issues, Steluta Arhire and MFA Director for UN, Petru Dumitru. They said GOR was in agreement and as part of EU group would support the US position regarding NGOs and the working groups dealing [...] | 2006-09-27 16:03:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL RO |
06BUCHAREST1512 | SECOND SESSION HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL DEMARCHE [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel demarche and non-paper to MFA Director for OSCE, CE, and Human Rights Issues, Steluta Arhire and MFA Director for UN, Petru Dumitru. Both stated they were in agreement with US comments on the Human Rights Council issue and GOR would support our position as a member [...] | 2006-09-27 16:03:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL RO |
06BUCHAREST1679 | ROMANIA SUPPORTS BSEC ENVIRONMENTAL INITIATIVE [...] Following Embassy,s delivery of reftel A demarche in early October, Econoff and regional environmental hub officer Sam Kotis met with the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs BSEC coordinator, Florica Barbu on October 18. Barbu delivered a dipnote formally stating Romania's support for the U. [...] | 2006-11-02 15:35:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SENV KCRM RO |
06BUCHAREST1804 | ROMANIA REQUESTS NEGOTIATIONS TO REPLACE BILATERAL TRADE [...] (U) This cable is an action request. See paragraph four. 2. (SBU) Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials met with Econoffs on November 27 to formally request negotiations on a replacement to the current bilateral Agreement on Trade Relations (BTA). The MFA is proposing that the current BTA, [...] | 2006-12-04 05:40:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EAGR PREL RO |
06BUCHAREST1808 | STABILITY PACT MEETINGS IN BUCHAREST FOCUS ON [...] (SBU) The November 15-16 meetings in Bucharest of the Stability Pact for South East Europe saw continued progress toward shifting the Pact's program of regional cooperation initiatives to the responsibility of regional governments under the umbrella of the South East Europe Cooperation Proces [...] | 2006-12-04 13:43:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON ETRD EUN PREL BK BU GR HR MD MI |
06BUCHAREST359 | TRANSYLVANIA REGIONAL GOVERNMENT, FOURTH QUARTER [...] (U) Summary: This cable summarizes recent newsworthy regional and local controversies in the last quarter of 2005. Common themes during this period included local government corruption and stormy relations between members of the governing alliance at the local level, sometimes counterbalance [...] | 2006-03-01 15:40:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EINV SOCI RO |
06BUCHAREST366 | ROMANIA'S SIXTH ANNUAL ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS [...] (SBU) OVERVIEW: ------------------- A. Romania is a country of origin and transit for trafficking in persons (TIP). While the majority of TIP cases pertain to international trafficking between Romania and Western Europe, there are cases of domestic trafficking as well. Victims - primar [...] | 2006-03-01 16:54:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PGOV PHUM PREF RO SMIG SOCI |
06BUCHAREST516 | YOUNG LIBERAL LEADER ELECTED SPEAKER OF THE [...] (SBU) Summary: Bogdan Olteanu, the ex-minister for relations with parliament, was elected March 20 President of the Romanian Chamber of Deputies, replacing former Prime Minister Adrian Nastase. A curious coalition of deputies elected Olteanu in the first round, consisting of the parties of [...] | 2006-03-23 15:16:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SOCI PINR RO |
06BUCHAREST574 | GENETICALLY MODIFIED SOYBEANS STILL UNDER FIRE IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. With European Union (EU) accession looming, the Government of Romania (GOR) decided in January to ban the cultivation of Genetically Modified (GM) soybeans starting in 2007, Romania's anticipated accession date. However, the GOR has yet to decide whether GM soybeans may be cult [...] | 2006-04-05 11:33:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ETRD EU TBIO RO |
06BUCHAREST620 | UZBEK REFUGEES: ROMANIAN MFA, LOCAL UNHCR [...] (U) This is an action message -- see paragraph 5. 2. (SBU) PolChief received a call April 11 from MFA Director General for Global Affairs Stelian Stoian expressing concern about the slow resettlement to third countries of the Uzbek refugees transported in August 2005 to a facility near Tim [...] | 2006-04-14 15:40:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PHUM PREL SOCI UZ RO |
06BUCHAREST638 | ROMANIA'S RENEWABLE ENERGY MARKET SHOWS INCREASING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Romania's small but growing market for renewable energy will provide new opportunities not only for U.S. exporters and investors, but for cooperation with Europe in the energy field. In conjunction with its European Union (EU) aspirations, Romania has set aggressive targets for [...] | 2006-04-18 16:29:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG SENV PREL TRGY EINV ETRD EAGR EU RO |
06BUCHAREST757 | PRESIDENT BASESCU UNDERGOES SURGERY FOR HERNIATED [...] (U) Romanian President Traian Basescu underwent surgery for a herniated disc early Tuesday, May 9, at the University of Vienna Allgemeines Krakenhaus Hospital. He had been transported the evening before to the Austrian capital. A press release from the presidential palace reports that doctor [...] | 2006-05-09 11:40:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL RO |
06BUCHAREST769 | ROMANIAN ADOPTIONS CHIEF REMAINS INFLEXIBLE, AS [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 3, Consul General, and the AID Director called on Theodora Bertzi, Secretary of State of the Romanian Office for Adoptions (ROA). The purpose was to present our formal reaction to the March 29 GOR report on the files of Romanian orphans and abandoned children on whose be [...] | 2006-05-11 15:39:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CASC PREL PGOV PHUM RO |
06BUCHAREST780 | ROMANIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH'S OVERNIGHT DEMOLITION OF [...] (U) Several media outlets reported that, overnight, a wrecking crew acting on instructions from the GOR-affiliated Romanian Orthodox Church (BOR) demolished a Greek-Catholic church in the Transylvanian village of Taga, near Cluj- Napoca, violating a court's injunction that banned the building' [...] | 2006-05-12 16:03:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SOCI KIRF RO |
06BUCHAREST811 | AVIAN INFLUENZA - OUTBREAK IN ROMANIAN COMMERCIAL [...] (SBU) Romania's National Institute for Animal Diagnosis and Health confirmed that H5N1 avian influenza (AI) has been found in Brasov County, the first confirmed case in Transylvania. Ministry officials confirmed that the virus was found in three commercial farms in the county, and warned th [...] | 2006-05-16 15:56:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU TBIO PREL EAID CASC WHO RO |
06BUCHAREST834 | AVIAN INFLUENZA EXPLODES ACROSS SEVEN ROMANIAN [...] (SBU) Romania's Ministry of Agriculture has confirmed new cases of H5N1 Avian Influenza (AI) in three counties and is testing suspected outbreaks in four more. The cases all are clustered in central Romania, where no previous cases had occurred. Six suspected cases of human AI have tested n [...] | 2006-05-18 17:00:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU TBIO PREL EAID CASC WHO RO |
06BUCHAREST843 | AVIAN INFLUENZA OUTBREAK UNFOLDS [...] (SBU) On May 18, authorities stepped up their effort to contain the H5N1 avian influenza (AI) outbreak in southern Transylvania, restricting traffic and establishing disinfection checkpoints on the DN 1 highway. The virus has also been identified in the bird population within the city limit [...] | 2006-05-22 06:56:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU TBIO PREL EAID CASC WHO RO |
06BUCHAREST847 | AVIAN INFLUENZA SPREADS TO BUCHAREST, OTHER MAJOR [...] (SBU) The latest outbreak of avian influenza (AI) in Romania continues to spread over nearly one third of the country. A total of 34 sites in nine counties have been confirmed as H5N1 positive, with another 24 sites under suspicion pending confirmation. In Bucharest, dead domestic poultry [...] | 2006-05-22 16:04:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU TBIO PREL EAID CASC WHO RO |
06BUCHAREST878 | ROMANIAN SUPPORT FOR THE PROLIFERATION SECURITY [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-30 13:20:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP MNUC PARM PREL RO |
06BUCHAREST913 | MORE AVIAN INFLUENZA CASES DISCOVERED THROUGHOUT [...] (U) Following the detection of H5N1 in three commercial poultry farms in the city of Codlea, Brasov County, the number of outbreaks identified throughout the country has grown rapidly. A total of 114 outbreaks have been confirmed in 15 counties since May 12, including outbreaks within the cit [...] | 2006-06-01 14:50:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU TBIO PREL EAID CASC WHO RO |
06BUDAPEST1498 | HUNGARY,S PARLIAMENT: THE FALL 2006 AGENDA [...] (U) The last plenary session of Parliament,s &extraordinary8 summer sitting, which began May 16, was July 24; now, the cabinet, the prime minister and Members of Parliament are already making preparations for the autumn session. While new items are certain to be added to the political agenda [...] | 2006-07-28 08:24:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM HU |
06BUDAPEST541 | HUNGARY'S ELECTIONS: THAT'S ZALA, FOLKS [...] (U) On a March 9 trip to Nagykanizsa, Zala County, most contacts described the local mood as tenuous and uncertain. With the election one month away, Emboffs visited this small city of 60,000 to meet with a range of local figures: a business executive, a representative from the Roma minority [...] | 2006-03-14 16:58:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PHUM SOCI HU |
06BUDAPEST543 | HUNGARY'S ELECTIONS: SOMOGY COUNTY (C-RE6-00145) [...] (U) This cable continues Embassy's pre-election coverage from the provinces in the run-up to the April contest. On a March 10 trip to Kaposvar, Somogy County, local contacts described the city's electorate as inured to partisan politics and somewhat anxious about bread-and-butter issues such [...] | 2006-03-15 06:57:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PREL SOCI HU |
06BUDAPEST629 | HUNGARY'S ELECTIONS: SNAPSHOTS FROM WESTERN [...] (SBU) Contacts in Gyor, Sopron, Szombathely, Csorna, and Kormend predicted to Embassy representatives in March 21-24 meetings that opposition party FIDESZ would continue to dominate western Hungary in the April general elections. A majority of interlocutors believed that FIDESZ would again w [...] | 2006-03-28 16:47:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PREL SOCI HU |
06BUDAPEST644 | HUNGARY'S ELECTIONS: THE VIEW FROM THE NORTHEAST: [...] (U) MSZP is likely to gain seats from FIDESZ in Szabolcs-Szatmar-Bereg County. During a March 23-24 reporting trip to the area, most interlocutors predicted to poloffs that in addition to holding on to its two districts in the county seat of Nyiregyhaza, MSZP could win up to half the remaini [...] | 2006-03-29 14:37:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PHUM SOCI HU |
06BUDAPEST656 | HUNGARY'S ELECTIONS: THE VIEW FROM THE NORTHEAST: [...] (U) Heves County is an MSZP stronghold. During a March 23-24 election reporting trip through the region, most interlocutors predicted that MSZP would win all six of the individual mandates in the county. Although the region is a traditional reservoir of strong Catholic sentiment, good relat [...] | 2006-03-30 15:27:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PHUM SOCI HU |
06BUDAPEST658 | HUNGARY'S ELECTIONS: DISPATCH FROM PECS [...] (U) This cable continues Embassy's pre-election coverage from the provinces in the run-up to the April contest. On a March 28-29 trip to the southwestern town of Pecs, Baranya County, local contacts described the city's electorate as inured to partisan politics and somewhat anxious about brea [...] | 2006-03-31 05:40:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PREL SOCI MARR HU |
06BUDAPEST698 | HUNGARY'S ELECTIONS: PROMISING CAKE TO PENSIONERS [...] (U) This cable examines the likely role of pensioners in this spring's elections, and the issues most likely to unite them. Pensioners are a large and growing segment of Hungary's voting population. As elsewhere, they turn out at the polls more regularly than younger voters. Today's pension [...] | 2006-04-05 15:59:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM SOCI HU |
06BUDAPEST701 | HUNGARY'S ELECTIONS: SNAPSHOT OF THREE INDIVIDUAL [...] (U) On April 9 and 23, 176 of the 386 members of Parliament will be elected in individual mandate races. This cable presents snapshots of three of those contests by way of illustrating the varying considerations that complicate efforts by observers to forecast the outcomes of any of many of th [...] | 2006-04-05 17:04:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR KDEM SOCI HU |
06BUDAPEST710 | HUNGARY'S ELECTIONS: BALATON RESORT TOWNS POISED [...] (SBU) The FIDESZ campaign in the western resort towns of Keszthely and Heviz is tagging the MSZP for high unemployment and a sagging economy and hoping to use FIDESZ's improved organizational skills to get unhappy voters to the polls on April 9. A FIDESZ politician already in Parliament pegs h [...] | 2006-04-06 18:16:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR KDEM SOCI HU |
06BUDAPEST711 | HUNGARY'S ELECTIONS: THE ROMA (C-RE6-00145) [...] (U) There are an estimated 600-800 thousand Roma in Hungary, yet most Hungarians do not view them as a viable political force. Disagreements among national leaders, social marginalization and poverty, "tribal" differences, and a tendency to focus on short-term, local issues, have resulted in [...] | 2006-04-06 18:52:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PHUM SOCI HU |
06BUDAPEST718 | HUNGARY'S ELECTIONS: DEBRECEN SNAPSHOT [...] (SBU) Conversations in Debrecen April 4 with governing MSZP, junior governing coalition SZDSZ, opposition FIDESZ, and a journalist suggested strongly that FIDESZ can be expected to sweep Hajdu-Bihar (eastern Hungary) County's nine individual mandate seats and turn in an equally strong party li [...] | 2006-04-07 13:56:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR KDEM SOCI HU |
06BUDAPEST722 | HUNGARY'S ELECTIONS: ROUND ONE (C-RE6-00145) [...] (U) The first round of Hungary's two round system on April 9 will determine which parties will be represented in Parliament for the next four years. Currently, there are four parliamentary parties: the governing MSZP (Socialist) party, its junior coalition partner SZDSZ (the Free Democrats),[...] | 2006-04-07 18:17:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV HU |
06BUDAPEST733 | HUNGARY'S ELECTIONS: PARSING ROUND ONE'S RESULTS [...] (SBU) Only the April 23 second round of Hungary's elections will establish who may form the country's next government, but the wind is with the governing coalition. That alone is a first for Hungary's post-1990 elections, but there were some other surprises: an unexpectedly robust turnout, an [...] | 2006-04-10 16:31:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV HU |
06BUDAPEST741 | HUNGARY'S ELECTIONS: ANALYST SEES CHIEF OPPOSITION [...] (SBU) Policy research institute "Political Capital" Director Krisztian Szabados offered April 10 some thoughts on the April 9 first round of the elections and what they portend for round two on April 23: -- the three round-one winners were the governing MSZP with more absolute votes than FID [...] | 2006-04-11 10:13:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM PINR SOCI HU |
06BUDAPEST748 | HUNGARY'S ELECTIONS: SZDSZ BEATS EXPECTATIONS IN [...] (SBU) On April 9, the liberal Alliance of Free Democrats (SZDSZ) made a strong showing in the first round of Hungary's national elections, exceeding both current expectations and its 2002 performance. As a result, it appears poised to remain in government alongside its current partner, the Hu [...] | 2006-04-11 14:23:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM SOCI ECON PINR HU |
06BUDAPEST753 | HUNGARY'S ELECTIONS: SNAPSHOT OF MDF'S UNEXPECTED [...] (U) Junior opposition party MDF's capture of 5.04 percent of the county list vote in the April 9 first round of the election, surprised pundits, pollsters and even MDF insiders. With one week remaining before Hungary's elections, three public opinion research companies here predicted that MDF [...] | 2006-04-11 15:09:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PHUM SOCI HU |
06BUDAPEST780 | HUNGARY'S ELECTIONS: ENERGETIC CAMPAIGN, CLEAN [...] (U) Since 1990, international observers have deemed all of Hungary's elections free and fair. There is no basis for believing that outcome of the first round was affected by the alleged irregularities that have been reported in the course of the campaign. On April 10, one day after the first [...] | 2006-04-13 15:15:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV SOCI HU |
06BUENOSAIRES109 | QUARTERLY STATUS REPORT - BUENOS AIRES: [...] (SBU) SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT EVENTS: A. OVERVIEW OF ACTIVITIES: Â [...] | 2006-01-17 12:07:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC |
06BUENOSAIRES1090 | ARGENTINA: AGRICULTURAL SECTOR ADVOCATE EXPELLED [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-12 19:49:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL AR |
06BUENOSAIRES1099 | Argentina: Disaster Management System Overview [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified - Not For Internet Distribution. 2. (SBU) Summary: The GOA has a number of agencies in place to deal with disaster management, many with well-trained personnel and established action plans. Of them, the GOA Nuclear Regulatory Agency (ARN) is particularly wel [...] | 2006-05-15 14:44:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID OFDA PREL SENV KNNP KSCA AEMR ASEC KESS AR |
06BUENOSAIRES119 | MINISTER DE VIDO DISCUSSES ECONOMIC AND ENERGY [...] (SBU) Minister of Planning Julio DeVido received CODEL McConnell on January 11. DeVido noted that the GOA and the U.S. Embassy had a constant dialogue and that they worked together to monitor the status of U.S. companies in Argentina. DeVido said he was optimistic about the future of the Ar [...] | 2006-01-17 21:16:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON EINV ENRG EFIN AR BL VE |
06BUENOSAIRES1191 | ARGENTINA: SEEKING PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR IRAQI [...] (SBU) DCM, accompanied by PolCouns, delivered reftel points seeking public GoA support of the Iraqi political process to Argentina MFA acting Undersecretary for Foreign Policy Luis Cappagli on May 23. 2. (SBU) Cappagli concurred that the government formation process represented an "import [...] | 2006-05-24 21:01:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM KPAO PREL PGOV IZ AR |
06BUENOSAIRES1223 | BCRA Meets its Monetary Target, but Is Not [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for internet distribution. ------- Summary ------- 2. (SBU) The average M2 level during the first quarter was close to the lower end of the Central Bank's (BCRA's) Monetary Program target. Still, M2 increased 26 percent y-o-y, and would have increa [...] | 2006-06-01 19:56:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON ELAB ALOW AR |
06BUENOSAIRES1270 | ARGENTINA OFFERS MORE FLIGHTS TO U.S. CARRIERS [...] This message is sensitive but unclassified and not for internet distribution. This is an action request: see paragraph 6. ------- Summary ------- 2. (U) Econoffs met with Under Secretary of Transportation for Commercial Aviation Ricardo Cirielli on May 19 as a follow-up discussion o [...] | 2006-06-06 17:57:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON AR |
06BUENOSAIRES1286 | CODEL SHELBY MEETINGS WITH VP SCIOLI AND FM TAIANA [...] (U) Summary: Senators Richard Shelby and Paul Sarbanes visited Argentina April 22-24. The Senators' visit was focused on examining GoA cooperation on combating money laundering and terrorism financing but also touched on regional issues and the Argentine economic recovery. The Senators hel [...] | 2006-06-07 20:07:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER AR |
06BUENOSAIRES1288 | MEETING READOUT WITH GOA ON TIG INSURANCE [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified and not for internet distribution. 2. (U) The DCM and Econoff (notetaker) met with Secretary of Economy for Legal and Administrative Affairs Estela Palomeque, and Advisors to the Secretary Carlos Arganaraz and Beatriz Pallares on June 7 to di [...] | 2006-06-07 20:55:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV PREL AR |
06BUENOSAIRES1309 | ARGENTINA: 2007 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN STARTS EARLY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Former Minister of the Economy Roberto Lavagna's recent steps towards a likely presidential run has opened the 2007 presidential campaign early, with President Nestor Kirchner finally admitting that either he or his wife will be the "official" candidate and center-right Republic [...] | 2006-06-09 20:43:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL AR |
06BUENOSAIRES1434 | The Argentine/Uruguay Pulp Mill Imbroglio: [...] Sensitive but Unclassified, Not for Internet Distribution 2. (SBU) Summary: Argentina's strong stand against the construction of two pulp mills on the Uruguayan side of a river that borders an Argentine eco-tourism area, has given environmental activists an opening to press for increased e [...] | 2006-06-26 17:18:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV PGOV ECON PREL AR |
06BUENOSAIRES1442 | EMBASSY SUPPORTS PROPOSED IDB LOAN TO ARGENTINA FOR REMOTE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Summary: Embassy Buenos Aires supports the proposed USD 50 million IDB loan to Argentina for a remote sensing satellite as being in the US national interest and as being an appropriate loan for the IDB. Far from be [...] | 2006-06-27 17:37:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EAID TSPA AR |
06BUENOSAIRES1459 | ARGENTINA TO AGREE TO EXPANDED FLIGHTS [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified and not for internet distribution. 2. (U) The DCM met with Secretary of Transportation Ricardo Jaime on June 27 to discuss Reftel A talking points on Open Skies. The DCM observed that business and tourism travel between the U.S. and Argentin [...] | 2006-06-29 10:41:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR KTIA AR |
06BUENOSAIRES146 | STAFFDEL MACKEY PUSHES AMIA BOMBING CASE [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified, and not for Internet distribution. 2. (U) This is an action cable. Please see paragraph 14. ------- Summary ------- 3. (SBU) House Committee on International Relations (HIRC) Senior Counsel John Mackey and HIRC Democratic Deputy Chief [...] | 2006-01-19 20:35:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREF PREL PTER KJUS AR |
06BUENOSAIRES147 | STAFFDEL MACKEY EXAMINES ARGENTINE NARCOTICS [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified, and not for Internet distribution. ------- Summary ------- 2. (SBU) House Committee on International Relations (HIRC) Senior Counsel John Mackey and HIRC Democratic Deputy Chief Counsel Paul Oostburg Sanz traveled to Argentina January 10-13 [...] | 2006-01-19 20:41:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PREL PGOV AR |
06BUENOSAIRES154 | ARGENTINA: LABOR SECRETARY CHAO MEETINGS WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: On January 11, U.S. Labor Secretary Elaine Chao paid a courtesy call on Argentine Labor Minister Carlos Tomada. Secretary Chao took the opportunity to speak about the benefits of free trade, noting that free trade was the best way for Argentina to achieve the goals of continued [...] | 2006-01-20 14:55:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON PARM AR SNAR |
06BUENOSAIRES161 | PRESIDENT KIRCHNER SUPPORTS URUGUAY'S RIGHT TO [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified, not for Internet distribution. 2. (U) President Nestor Kirchner made a statement to the press on January 19 during his state visit to Brasilia that he would not oppose Uruguay's negotiation of a free trade agreement with the U.S. "If Argent [...] | 2006-01-20 20:40:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EINV PREL AR BL VE CI |
06BUENOSAIRES184 | ARGENTINA: IAEA ARREARS AND IRAN VOTE [...] (U) Ambassador delivered talking points on the upcoming IAEA Board of Governors meeting and Argentina's arrears to the IAEA to Argentine Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana on January 24. As in previous discussions with Taiana on the Iranian nuclear program (reftels b and c),the Ambassador unders [...] | 2006-01-24 20:45:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AFIN AORC AR IR KNNP PREL IAEA |
06BUENOSAIRES1906 | ARGENTINA CONFIRMS PLANS TO EXPAND NUCLEAR POWER [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified, and not for Internet distribution. 2. (U) President Nestor Kirchner presided over a ceremony August 23 at which Planning Minister Julio De Vido announced that Argentina was going to expand its nuclear power program and reactivate a dormant ura [...] | 2006-08-24 20:41:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP ENRG IAEA OTRA PREL ECON AR |
06BUENOSAIRES2038 | U.S. NO VOTE ON IDB SATELLITE LOAN: EMBASSY [...] (U) Post delivered reftel talking points to Foreign Ministry North America Director Ambassador Vicente Espeche Gil, to Ministry of Economy Director for International Organization Projects Gerardo Hita and to the Foreign Ministry's CONAE (NASA-equivalent) Executive Director Conrado Varotto. Pr [...] | 2006-09-08 10:05:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON ETRD AR |
06BUENOSAIRES2120 | KIRCHNER PROMOTES INVESTMENT IN ARGENTINA DURING [...] (SBU) President Kirchner travels to New York for the UNGA with the stated objective of enticing U.S. companies to invest in Argentina, even as local press plays up the chilly bilateral relationship. Kirchner has a limited official schedule -) including meetings with UNSG Kofi Annan and Italia [...] | 2006-09-18 16:08:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EFIN ENRG PREL AR |
06BUENOSAIRES2191 | GOA PRICE CONTROLS STRATEGIES - EDUCATION AS EXEMPLAR [...] (SBU) Private school fees remain a politically sensitive barometer in greater Buenos Aires and GoA efforts to "manage" tuition expenses offer an instructive insight into the Kirchner administration's approach to controlling inflation. Private school tuition fees have already jumped 24 percent [...] | 2006-09-26 17:55:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON ELAB ETRD ALOW AR |
06BUENOSAIRES2199 | OTA FIT: FINANCIAL INVESTIGATIVE TECHNIQUES (FIT) [...] (U) ACTION REQUESTED -- PARAGRAPH 5. 2. (SBU) AS PART OF A USG/GOVERNMENT OF CHILE BILATERAL INITIATIVE, THE U.S. TREASURY OFFICE OF TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE (OTA) IS OFFERING A ONE-WEEK FINANCIAL INVESTIGATIONS TECHNIQUES (FIT) COURSE IN SANTIAGO, CHILE, OCTOBER 23 ) OCTOBER 27. IN ORDER TO M [...] | 2006-09-26 19:52:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PREL KTFN AR BL PE |
06BUENOSAIRES2200 | ARGENTINA: RESPONSE TO CUBA AT UN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-26 21:45:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL AR |
06BUENOSAIRES2386 | CORDOBA GOVERNOR DE LA SOTA: ARGENTINA'S FREE MARKET [...] (SBU) Cordoba Governor Jose Manuel de la Sota, in a dinner with the Charge, portrayed himself as a champion of free market orthodoxy standing up to a Kirchner administration riding roughshod over market disciplines and contractual sanctity. He questioned the values of a politically and sociall [...] | 2006-10-20 19:39:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN AR |
06BUENOSAIRES258 | ARGENTINA REACHES SAFEGUARDS AGREEMENT WITH BRAZIL [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Not for Internet distribution. ------- Summary ------- 2. (SBU) Argentina and Brazil arrived at a bilateral safeguards agreement February 1. The widely publicized agreement is the result of over a year of negotiations, and is a political t [...] | 2006-02-03 15:48:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV ECON PREL AR |
06BUENOSAIRES2580 | SECRETARY'S S&T ADVISER VISITS ARGENTINA [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified, and not for Internet distribution. ------- Summary ------- 2. (SBU) Science and Technology Adviser (STAS) to the Secretary Dr. George Atkinson led a delegation of U.S. SIPDIS scientists and engineers on a visit to Argentina November 7-9. [...] | 2006-11-17 21:00:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TSPL SCUL OEXC OSCI |
06BUENOSAIRES2594 | DUKE ENERGY BETS ON GROWING ARGENTINE ELECTRICITY [...] (SBU) Duke Energy plans to upgrade and expand its two hydro and gas-fired electricity generating plants in Neuquen province and possibly make new generating capacity acquisitions in the domestic market. In a call on Ambassador Wayne, Duke executives explained that they see the Argentine elect [...] | 2006-11-20 19:25:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EPET AR |
06BUENOSAIRES2629 | UNESCO DEMARCHE ON CULTURAL EXPRESSIONS - GOA [...] (SBU) Post delivered reftel demarche to Martin Romero, Secretary of Embassy in the Foreign Ministry's Directorate of SIPDIS International Organisms (DIOIN). According to Romero, Argentina is proceeding with the ratification process for the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion o [...] | 2006-11-28 18:58:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL AR |
06BUENOSAIRES2647 | ARGENTINA'S FINANCIAL SERVICE PLAYERS ON CAPITAL MARKETS, [...] (SBU) Senior Argentine financial sector representatives outlined to Ambassador their concerns about lagging development of domestic capital markets. While optimistic about Argentina's medium term growth prospects, they questioned whether existing channels of financial intermediation can sustai [...] | 2006-11-29 15:51:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON AR |
06BUENOSAIRES2667 | AMBASSADOR WAYNE VISITS ARGENTINA'S AGROINDUSTRIAL CAPITAL [...] (U) SUMMARY: AMBASSADOR WAYNE TRAVELED TO ARGENTINA'S AGROINDUSTRIAL CAPITAL OF ROSARIO FOR HIS FIRST TRIP OUTSIDE OF THE CAPITAL. ACCOMPANIED BY THE COMMERCIAL ECONOMIC AND AGRICULTURAL COUNSELORS, THE INFORMATION OFFICER AND THE SENIOR FSN COMMERCIAL SPECIALIST, THE AMBASSADOR MET WITH THE [...] | 2006-11-30 19:43:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AR BESP ECON ETRD |
06BUENOSAIRES2683 | GROWING RESISTENCE TO GOA PRICE, EXPORT CONTROLS: AGRARIAN [...] (SBU) GoA price control czar Internal Commerce Secretary Guillermo Moreno is encountering increasing resistance to his efforts to tamp down headline consumer inflation rates via expanded export controls on beef, wheat and corn and via pressure on wholesalers and retailers to observe publicize [...] | 2006-12-04 14:54:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD AR |
06BUENOSAIRES2695 | ARGENTINA'S VIEWS ON THE POTENTIAL INCLUSION OF [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified, and not for Internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Embassy officers made Ref A points to officials from Argentina's foreign ministry and transportation secretariat November 30. After first saying that Argentina would not take a position on the issue ( [...] | 2006-12-06 13:59:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON SENV AR |
06BUENOSAIRES2696 | ARGENTINA'S ROLE IN UPGRADING LIBYAN NUCLEAR [...] (U) This telegram is sensitive but unclassified, and not for Internet distribution. 2. (SBU) A December 3 article in a local daily reported that Argentine high technology firm INVAP (Ref A) had won a contract to upgrade a Libyan nuclear power plant. For clarification and details, the Embas [...] | 2006-12-06 14:00:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP ENRG IAEA OTRA PREL AR |
06BUENOSAIRES2712 | BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECK ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Per Ref A request, post carried out a pre-license check on Buenos Aires, Argentina-based foreign end-user Juan Diego Ariztegui, Representaciones Aeronauticas (Ariztegui) on November 9. It is post's opinion that the company will be a responsible recipient of United States Muniti [...] | 2006-12-07 17:30:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC KOMC AR |
06BUENOSAIRES2723 | CODEL GOODLATTE MEETINGS WITH ARGENTINE OFFICIALS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: CODEL Goodlatte November 30 meetings in Argentina included discussions with senior officials at the GoA Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Economy, and the Argentine Lower House of Congress, as well as with U.S. company representatives at the American Chamber of Commerc [...] | 2006-12-11 14:12:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL EAGR AR OREP ETRD |
06BUENOSAIRES2726 | CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR ON MONETARY POLICY, GROWTH, TERROR [...] (SBU) Central Bank Governor Martin Redrado, in a December 5 lunch with the Ambassador, invited a dialogue with USG on GoA monetary policy which he called conservative, slightly contractionary and generally misunderstood. Now, five years after Argentina's economic crisis, Redrado said Argentina [...] | 2006-12-11 18:25:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON AR |
06BUENOSAIRES2730 | ARGENTINA DOES NOT MAINTAIN TERRORIST LISTS [...] (SBU) The Government of Argentina does not maintain any list of terrorists such as the USG Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT) List (reftel). According to Acting Director of the MFA's Counter Terrorism Office, Gustavo Urrutia, the GoA instead relies on the UN 1267 Committee consolida [...] | 2006-12-11 20:02:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTFN PTER ETTC PREL EFIN AR |
06BUENOSAIRES2798 | A SURPLUS 2007 BUDGET DESIGNED TO BOLSTER KIRCHNER [...] (SBU) The Argentine Senate approved the 2007 National Budget December 13, 2006, in the face of opposition criticism over its growth and inflation assumptions, the continuation of "superpowers" that allow the GoA to make future fiscal decisions without Congressional authorization, and the lack [...] | 2006-12-20 20:44:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV AR |
06BUENOSAIRES2808 | AMBASSADOR HOSTS ELECTRICITY, GAS SECTOR U.S. INVESTOR [...] (SBU) Country managers of U.S. players in Argentina's electricity and natural gas sectors met with Ambassador to review constraints imposed by GoA regulations, uncertain natural gas supplies for generation, and frozen retail electricity and gas tariffs. Participants representing AES, CMS, Duke, [...] | 2006-12-21 20:11:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET ECON ETRD AR |
06BUENOSAIRES291 | VISIT OF DASD PARDO-MAURER TO ARGENTINA [...] (SBU) Summary: Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Rogelio Pardo-Maurer visited Argentina January 26-28. During his visit, Pardo-Maurer met with Argentine Minister of Defense Nilda Garre and other senior ministry officials. During his meetings, Pardo-Mau [...] | 2006-02-08 12:58:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL AR |
06BUENOSAIRES300 | The 2006 Monetary Program Unlikely to Help [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for internet distribution. ------- Summary ------- 2. (SBU) Central Bank (BCRA) President Martin Redrado presented the BCRA's 2006 monetary program on December 29. It will maintain a moderately contractive monetary policy, with a small increase in [...] | 2006-02-08 16:18:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON ELAB ALOW AR |
06BUENOSAIRES338 | ARGENTINE PROGRESS ON RATIFICATION OF THE UNESCO [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified, and not for Internet distribution. 2. (U) Argentina has done little to ratify the Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions following its October 2005 adoption. The process by which the Convention wou [...] | 2006-02-10 19:40:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD SCUL UNESCO AR |
06BUENOSAIRES407 | ARGENTINA POLITICAL ROUNDUP [...] (U) Reftels and other Mission reporting available at http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/wha/buenosaires 2. (U) TABLE OF CONTENTS: -- Ambassador Meets with New MFA International Security Director -- Rumors of Kirchner Cabinet Changes -- Paper Mill Dispute: Blockage of Bridges into Uruguay Contin [...] | 2006-02-17 21:00:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AR |
06BUENOSAIRES451 | ARGENTINA POLITICAL ROUNDUP FOR FEBRUARY 24 [...] (U) Reftels and other Mission reporting available at http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/wha/buenosaires 2. (U) TABLE OF CONTENTS: -- Paco Use Increases Among Argentine Adolescents -- Ibarra Impeachment Update -- Las Heras Truce Wearing Thin -- Argentina Seeks Dialogue with Uruguay but Prepared f [...] | 2006-02-24 20:24:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AR |
06BUENOSAIRES480 | DEMARCHE ON ARGENTINA IDB ABSTENTION [...] (SBU) Per Ref A instruction, I called on MFA Director for Political Affairs Ambassador Luis Cappagli (the number three official in the MFA) at 10:45 a.m. local time (8:45 a.m. Washington time) on March 1. Foreign Minister Taiana was at the Congress for President Kirchner,s speech at the openi [...] | 2006-03-01 16:40:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN AR |
06BUENOSAIRES499 | PRESIDENT KIRCHNER DELIVERS STATE OF THE NATION [...] (SBU) Kirchner delivered a state of the nation speech to congress on March 1st. He began the speech by repeating many of the themes that he has mentioned in earlier speeches, such as Argentina's continuing struggle to emerge from "hell." He claimed that Argentina has now entered a process of [...] | 2006-03-03 14:41:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV ENRG AR |
06BUENOSAIRES699 | GOA RESCINDS WATER CONCESSION FROM FRENCH FIRM AND [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified, and not for Internet distribution. 2. (U) The GOA on March 21 announced that it was rescinding privately-owned Aguas Argentinas' thirty year concession to provide water and sewer services to Buenos Aires city and its surroundings in Buenos Air [...] | 2006-03-23 19:52:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV AR |
06BUENOSAIRES723 | Embassy Buenos Aires Avian Influenza Tabletop [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified - Not For Internet Distribution. 2. (SBU) Summary: Embassy Buenos Aires' Avian Influenza (AI) Mission Task Force (MTF) conducted an AI mission specific tabletop exercise which was led by the PMO and included CLO, IRM, PAS and the MSG representatives on Marc [...] | 2006-03-28 17:34:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMGT ASEC CASC AMED KFLO AEMR AR |
06BUENOSAIRES727 | ARGENTINA'S TOURISM SECTOR CONTINUES TO EXPERIENCE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified, not for internet distribution ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (U) Argentina received a record number of 3.7 million foreign tourists in 2005, a twelve percent rise over 2004. Argentina's tourist sector was the third most important source of foreign exchange [...] | 2006-03-29 12:31:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON AR |
06BUENOSAIRES748 | BRIDGING ARGENTINA'S DIGITAL DIVIDE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for Internet distribution. ------- Summary ------- 2. (U) Argentina's IT industry is the third largest in Latin America. Argentina's IT industry enjoys many advantages and is growing quickly. IT companies expect continued rapid growth and are inv [...] | 2006-03-31 18:58:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EIND AR |
06BUENOSAIRES787 | ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR'S POST MEMORANDUM FOR OIG [...] (SBU) BACKGROUND: Argentina's size, importance to the regional economy, and ability to contribute to U.S. security goals make the bilateral relationship important to U.S. interests. Argentina is the size of the United States east of the Mississippi, with a population of 39 million inhabitants [...] | 2006-04-06 21:53:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMGT ASIG BBG |
06BUENOSAIRES862 | GOA Will Easily Cover its Financial Needs in [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for Internet distribution. ------- Summary ------- 2. (SBU) The GOA will have no difficulty meeting its USD 11 billion in financing needs in 2006. Under a conservative set of assumptions, the GOA will have resources of USD 12.3 billion from its fiv [...] | 2006-04-17 15:11:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON ELAB ALOW AR |
06BUENOSAIRES911 | TRAVEL NOTES: ARGENTINA'S NEUQUEN PROVINCE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In March, Poloff traveled to the province of Neuquen to meet with political and academic leaders and has subsequently met with a number of national legislators from Neuquen. Neuquen Governor Jorge Sobisch is currently the only declared candidate for the 2007 presidential elect [...] | 2006-04-21 21:37:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL AR |
06CAIRO1006 | EGYPT: H5N1 AVIAN INFLUENZA (AI) CONFIRMED IN [...] (U) NIACT precedence due to urgency of information regarding outbreak of H5N1 avian influenza in Egyptian poultry. 2. (SBU) Summary: H5N1 avian influenza has been detected in samples from birds from multiple locations in three governorates in Egypt. No human cases have been reported. Th [...] | 2006-02-17 13:45:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO AMED CASC SENV EAGR EG KFLU |
06CAIRO1100 | EGYPT: AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary. H5N1 avian influenza has spread to twelve governorates in Egypt. Poultry sales have virtually ceased since the February 17 GOE announcement (ref A) that H5N1 had been detected. The GOE has instituted a number of measures to combat the outbreak, but it is unclear how effective [...] | 2006-02-21 16:42:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO AMED CASC SENV EAGR EAID EG KFLU |
06CAIRO1178 | SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY GUTIERREZ VISIT TO EGYPT [...] (SBU) Mr. Secretary, you will be the first Secretary of Commerce to visit Egypt since 1999. The business climate has changed significantly since then, especially with the installation in July 2004 of Ahmed Nazif as Prime Minister and a coterie of reform-minded ministers in economic ministrie [...] | 2006-02-26 13:46:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON PGOV PREL EG |
06CAIRO1262 | EGYPT: 2006 SPECIAL 301 REVIEW [...] (SBU) Over the past year, the Government of Egypt has made progress in strengthening its intellectual property rights (IPR) regime. It issued the final set of implementing regulations for its 2002 IPR law, established new offices to license copyrighted materials, and cleared up a backlog of [...] | 2006-02-28 13:41:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD KIPR EG USTR |
06CAIRO1288 | GOE OFFERS TENDER DOCUMENT FOR THIRD MOBILE [...] (SBU) The GOE's National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (NTRA) on February 19 made available instructions for bidders on the proposed third mobile telephone licence (reftel). According to press reports, as of February 27, 17 companies had purchased the tender document, or the "Networ [...] | 2006-03-01 10:44:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECPS EINT EINV ETRD EG KGIT |
06CAIRO132 | UNHCR ASKS EGYPT TO DELAY DEPORTING SUDANESE [...] (SBU) The GOE has not yet begun deportation of Sudanese detainees. Interior Ministry contacts advised on January 8 that the 72 hour grace period given to UNHCR to interview Sudanese detainees (see Refs A and B) had expired, and the GOE had not yet determined whether to give UNHCR additional [...] | 2006-01-08 15:34:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SU EG KREF UNHCR |
06CAIRO1474 | EGYPTIAN RETAIL CHAIN PRIVATIZATION GENERATES [...] (SBU) Summary: The Nazif administration,s proposed sale of the Omar Effendi Company - a major retail chain founded in 1856 - to a private investor is generating intense debate over the company,s proper valuation. Conditions the administration has set, especially for the purpose of avoiding [...] | 2006-03-09 13:31:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV EIND EG |
06CAIRO1492 | EGYPT: AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE [...] (SBU) H5N1 avian influenza (AI) has spread to 17 Egyptian governorates, and new cases are being reported daily. The GOE enforced drastic measures to contain the avian influenza (AI) outbreak, and has decided to vaccinate poultry, but the poultry industry has collapsed, and promised compensati [...] | 2006-03-09 15:30:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO AMED CASC SENV EAGR EAID EG KFLU |
06CAIRO1493 | PRIVATIZING SUGAR MAY BE BITTER IN THE SHORT TERM [...] (SBU) The Egyptian Ministry of Investment (MOI) recently announced plans to sell 36% of Delta Sugar, a joint venture company, in an initial public offering (IPO). Announcement of the sale follows an earlier announcement that another public sector sugar producer, El Nobareyah, would be put up [...] | 2006-03-11 12:32:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV EIND EG |
06CAIRO1634 | EMBASSY CAIRO SUBMISSION FOR SIXTH ANNUAL [...] (SBU) This message responds to reftel. Embassy POC is poloff Roger Kenna, phone 20-2-797-2749, fax 20-2-797-2181, kennart2@state.gov. Poloff spent approximately 16 hours in the preparation of the TIP report. Conoff spent approximately 24 hours; ECPO Minister Counselor spent two hours; D [...] | 2006-03-15 14:07:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM SMIG KFRD ELAB PREF EG IS KWN |
06CAIRO1697 | EGYPT REPORTS FIRST HUMAN CASE OF AVIAN INFLUENZA [...] (SBU) The U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU-3) in Cairo confirmed the first reported human case of H5 Influenza infection in Egypt in a 35-year-old woman from a village in the governorate of Qalyoubiya, Egypt's major center of poultry production. The woman, Amal Mohamed Ismael, died Ma [...] | 2006-03-19 17:10:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO SENV AMED CASC KSCA EAGR EG KFLU |
06CAIRO170 | SUDANESE REFUGEES IN EGYPT [...] (SBU) THE VIOLENT CONFRONTATION ON DECEMBER 30 BETWEEN EGYPTIAN POLICE AND SUDANESE REFUGEES WHEN AT LEAST 27 LOST THEIR LIVES AND HUNDREDS MORE WERE DETAINED, HAS FOCUSED WORLD-WIDE ATTENTION ON THE LIVES OF THE MANY ASYLUM- SEEKERS WHO HAVE SOUGHT REFUGE IN CAIRO. MANY OF THESE FLED TURMOI [...] | 2006-01-12 20:03:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PHUM PREL ASEC CVIS EG SU UNHCR |
06CAIRO1838 | GOE MAKES SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS ON FINANCIAL SECTOR [...] (SBU) The GOE made substantial progress in financial sector reform in 2005 and is nearing completion of many of the benchmarks in the DSP-II Financial Sector MOU, signed in March 2005. Post and the USAID Mission estimate the GOE will have met all of the benchmarks for the first three policy [...] | 2006-03-26 14:18:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV EG |
06CAIRO2165 | SENIOR ADVISOR FOR AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY [...] (SBU) State Department Senior Advisor for Agricultural Biotechnology Madelyn Spirnak visited Egypt the week of February 12-18 to speak at the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA),to advocate in favor of a supportive regulatory framework for agricultural bi [...] | 2006-04-10 11:16:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ETRD ECON EFIN EINV TBIO EG |
06CAIRO23 | CONCLUDING THE ISMAILIA VIRTUAL CONSULATE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-01-02 13:55:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINT KWWW OPRC TINT EG KLIP |
06CAIRO2336 | AFTERMATH OF SECTARIAN STRIFE IN ALEXANDRIA [...] (SBU) Summary. Alexandria has been peaceful since the April 14 attacks and April 15-16 clashes reported reftel. There continues to be considerable speculation about whether the man who was arrested after the fatal church attacks was operating alone. Protesters in Alexandria on April 16 as [...] | 2006-04-18 15:12:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KIRF EG |
06CAIRO2437 | TERRORIST BOMBINGS IN DAHAB, SINAI KILL AT LEAST [...] (SBU) At around 1915 local time April 24, three bombs exploded in the Sinai resort town of Dahab, approximately 80 KM north of Sharm el-Sheikh. An Egyptian Ministry of Interior statement released approximately 2100 local put the total number of dead at 10 and 70 injured. This number is proba [...] | 2006-04-24 21:57:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER ASEC CASC EG |
06CAIRO2473 | EGYPTIAN SECURITY DETAINS AL-JAZEERAH BUREAU [...] (SBU) The GOE detained Al-Jazeerah's Cairo bureau chief, Hussain Abdel Ghani, in Dahab on April 26, where he was reporting on the recent Sinai terror bombings, on charges of disturbing the peace and spreading false information. (As of 1430 on April 27, Abdul Ghani remained under detention.) [...] | 2006-04-27 12:36:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINS PHUM KPAO EG |
06CAIRO2477 | MUBARAK'S MAY DAY SPEECH STRESSES CONTINUED REFORM [...] (SBU) President Mubarak's annual May Day address to the Egyptian labor movement, on April 27 at the Convention Center in Nasr City, a suburb of Cairo, was notable for his comments on reform and stability. In addition to the obligatory congratulations to Egypt's labor movement, Mubarak recapp [...] | 2006-04-27 14:22:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER KISL KDEM EG |
06CAIRO2526 | EGYPT: EMERGENCY LAW EXTENDED FOR TWO YEARS [...] (SBU) On the afternoon of April 30, Egypt's People's Assembly voted in favor of the government's proposed two year extension of the state of emergency. In a midday address to the People's Assembly, Prime Minister Nazif alluded to last week's terrorist attacks in Dahab, Sinai, as he asked PA [...] | 2006-04-30 14:59:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM EG |
06CAIRO268 | SUDAN REFUGEES: EGYPT RELEASES ADDITIONAL [...] (SBU) MFA Assistant Minister for American Affairs briefed the DCM January 18 on the status of detained Sudanese asylum seekers in Egypt. Hefny clarified that 153 Sudanese had been released January 17, with an unspecified number of others to be released shortly. UNHCR, he said, had been given [...] | 2006-01-18 16:34:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PHUM PREL ASEC CVIS EG SU UNHCR |
06CAIRO270 | CAIRO AIWG REVIEWS MISSION AND GOE PREPAREDNESS [...] (U) Summary: The Cairo Avian Influenza Working Group (AIWG) met January 12, 2006, to assess mission preparedness, review its tripwires, and evaluate recent interactions with the Government of Egypt (GOE) on avian influenza (AI) preparedness and other related issues. End summary. 2. (SB [...] | 2006-01-18 17:06:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO ECON PREL SOCI EG WHO KSTH |
06CAIRO2972 | MRS. MUBARAK CITES PRESIDENT BUSH IN LAUNCHING [...] (SBU) Summary: Speaking at an IOM conference in Cairo, First Lady Suzanne Mubarak, building on her activism at an Athens Conference in January, spoke out forcefully against TIP and pledged that her "Stop Human Trafficking Now!" campaign would work closely with governments and businesses to era [...] | 2006-05-17 16:31:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KCRM EG |
06CAIRO3027 | MRS. MUBARAK AND ISRAELI FM LIVNI PLEDGE [...] (SBU) Israeli FM Livni delayed her departure from the WEF at Sharm el-Sheikh on May 21 in order to meet with Egyptian First Lady Suzanne Mubarak to discuss increasing Egyptian-Israeli cooperation on combating TIP. The meeting came at US suggestion to both sides after Livni had raised the TIP [...] | 2006-05-22 08:57:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KCRM EG |
06CAIRO3071 | MRS. MUBARAK AND ISRAELI FM LIVNI PLEDGE [...] (SBU) Israeli FM Livni delayed her departure from the WEF at Sharm el-Sheikh on May 21 in order to meet with Egyptian First Lady Suzanne Mubarak to discuss increasing Egyptian-Israeli cooperation on combating TIP. The meeting came at US suggestion to both sides after Livni had raised the TIP [...] | 2006-05-23 13:41:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KCRM EG |
06CAIRO3128 | POTENTIAL IMPACT OF A REDUCTION OF EGYPT'S FMF [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph two. 2. (U) During a recent meeting with Office of Military Cooperation-Egypt Chief MG Byron Bagby, Congressman Kolbe requested an outline of the potential impact of a reduction or reprogramming of Egypt's Foreign Military Financing. P [...] | 2006-05-25 11:15:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MASS MOPS EG |
06CAIRO3269 | IRAQ: EGYPTIAN PRESIDENT AND PRIME MINISTER [...] (U) In addition to a public statement made by Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit (reftel) that welcomed the formation of a new government in Baghdad, President Mubarak sent congratulatory telegrams to both new Iraqi Prime Minister, Nour El Maliki, and Iraqi President Jalal Talabani. Accordin [...] | 2006-05-30 13:52:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EG IZ |
06CAIRO3354 | EGYPT: MFA ASKS INTERNATIONAL REPUBLICAN [...] (SBU) ECPO Counselor and poloff attended a June 1 meeting at the MFA between IRI country director Gina London and Assistant Minister for North American Affairs Salama Shaker, which Shaker had called to address the issue of IRI's pending registration in Egypt. London apologized to Shaker for [...] | 2006-06-01 15:05:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM EAID KDEM EG |
06CAIRO3363 | EGYPT: MFA ASKS INTERNATIONAL REPUBLICAN [...] (SBU) ECPO Counselor and poloff attended a June 1 meeting at the MFA between IRI country director Gina London and Assistant Minister for North American Affairs Salama Shaker, which Shaker had called to address the issue of IRI's pending registration in Egypt. London apologized to Shaker for [...] | 2006-06-01 15:12:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM EAID KDEM EG |
06CAIRO3583 | EGYPT: NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (SBU) On June 5, the National Council for Human Rights (NCHR) issued a statement sharply critical of the GOE's treatment of pro-reform activists. According to the statement, GOE security forces should reconsider their use of "highly cruel security measures used lately against protestors who [...] | 2006-06-08 18:05:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL EG |
06CAIRO3639 | EGYPT: PUBLIC PROSECUTOR ON JUDICIAL INDEPENDENCE, [...] (SBU) Summary: Public Prosecutor Maher Abdel Wahed stressed to the Ambassador in a recent meeting that the independence of the judiciary is substantial in Egypt and refuted claims that the executive influences the decisions of the Supreme Judicial Council - the body which oversees day to day [...] | 2006-06-12 15:22:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM EAID EG |
06CAIRO3746 | NAZIF SLOWS DOWN EGYPT'S PRIVATIZATION PROGRAM [...] (SBU) Stock market volatility, mounting political opposition, and sectoral sensitivities are obliging the Nazif administration to reconsider the rapid pace of privatization that has been its hallmark for almost two years. The GOE is attempting a variety of countermeasures to enable the contin [...] | 2006-06-15 13:02:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV EG |
06CAIRO3755 | POSITIVE IPR DEVELOPMENTS IN EGYPT [...] (SBU) Minister of Health and Population Hatem El Gabaly issued an order directing an Egyptian pharmaceutical company to cease production of a generic copy of Lilly's innovator drug Zyprexa. Marketing approval for the generic drug Olapex had been granted to Apex Pharma in December 2005 by El G [...] | 2006-06-15 15:02:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD KIPR EG USTR |
06CAIRO3874 | GOE PROSECUTES STATE SECURITY OFFICER ON TORTURE [...] (SBU) In a notable break with past practice, GOE prosecutors have moved to prosecute a State Security officer on torture charges. In recent years, there has been a modest trend of successful prosecutions of regular police officials on torture and abuse charges in Egyptian criminal courts. Pe [...] | 2006-06-21 15:38:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM EG |
06CAIRO4034 | FOLLOW-UP TO EGYPT: ACTION ON DOHA ROUND DEMARCHES [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-29 06:54:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD WTRO ECON EG |
06CAIRO4142 | EGYPT: ETISALAT CONSORTIUM WINS THIRD MOBILE [...] (U) Emirati telecommunications corporation Etisalat, in partnership with the Egyptian Post Office, the Commercial International Bank of Egypt (CIB),and the National Bank of Egypt, on July 4 won the auction for Egypt's third mobile license, pledging to pay a whopping LE 16.7 billion (USD 2.91 [...] | 2006-07-05 11:43:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECPS EINT EINV ETRD EG KCOR KGIT |
06CAIRO4243 | EGYPT: POPE SHENOUDA AND PAPAL SUCCESSION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Pope Shenouda III, head of Egypt's sizeable Coptic Orthodox Church for the last three decades, returned to Cairo July 9 after receiving treatment for back and kidney problems in Cleveland. Although it appears the Pope will recover fully, change in the Coptic Orthodox Church has [...] | 2006-07-10 07:36:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF EG |
06CAIRO4338 | AMB MEETING WITH TRADE MINISTER RACHID, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On June 28, Ambassador met with Trade Minister Rachid and the U.S.-Egyptian Business Council. Topics included the future of FTA, QIZs, U.S. policy toward Egypt and the bilateral economic relationship. Ambassador called for an active business council while Minister Rachid praise [...] | 2006-07-12 17:16:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EG EAGR FCSC |
06CAIRO448 | NEW EGYPTIAN MINISTER OF HEALTH BRINGS [...] (SBU) In a January 23 meeting with the Ambassador and key country team members in health and science affairs, newly installed Minister of Health and Population Hatem El Gabaly demonstrated that he will be a valuable addition to Egypt's reformer camp. Displaying a "can do," business-like attit [...] | 2006-01-26 11:03:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ETRD PGOV PINR EG KFLU |
06CAIRO4560 | TFLE01: FREQUENT DEMONSTRATIONS IN CAIRO AGAINST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Demonstrations in support of Lebanon and against Israel have become near daily occurrences in Cairo since the July 13 Israeli bombing of Beirut,s international airport. Protests are expected to continue this week, with the largest anticipated to be a July 26 demonstration in C [...] | 2006-07-25 16:10:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EG |
06CAIRO4596 | EGYPT INCREASES FUEL PRICES; PUBLIC REACTION MUTED [...] (SBU) Egypt made a small dent in its burdensome fuel subsidies on July 21 with price increases across a range of fuel products. The increases will be welcomed by multinational fuel retailers who have been operating on non-existent margins. Price gouging in the across the economy for derivati [...] | 2006-07-27 09:56:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON PGOV EG |
06CAIRO4604 | EGYPT MEDIA TRENDS FOR JULY 25, 2006 [...] Summary. Today,s Egyptian major developing story in Egyptian media was President Mubarak,s statement before departing for Saudi Arabia during which he declared the current situation in Lebanon as "destructive chaos." Headlines continued to be strongly negative toward perceived US involvem [...] | 2006-07-27 12:08:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KMDR KPAO OPRC PGOV PTER UK AG EG AL |
06CAIRO4605 | EGYPT MEDIA TRENDS FOR JULY 26, 2006 [...] Summary: As we have witnessed repeatedly since the outbreak of the current Israel-Lebanon crisis the Egyptian opposition and independent press demonstrated once again today, through words and photos, strong bias against Secretary Rice and her efforts thus far to achieve a cease-fire. Com [...] | 2006-07-27 12:10:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KMDR KPAO OPRC PGOV PTER AG AL EG IZ |
06CAIRO4608 | Egypt Media trends for July 27, 2006 [...] Summary. The past week internal disagreement over Hezbollah as right or wrong has been replaced by unified calls for an immediate ceasefire. The US has been characterized as frustrating any opportunity to end the days of bloodshed splashed on front pages and captured on Egyptian and regio [...] | 2006-07-27 13:53:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER KPAO KMDR OPRC UK AL AG IS SA IR EG |
06CAIRO4611 | TFLE01: EGYPT: JULY 26 DEMONSTRATIONS [...] (U) SUMMARY: On July 26, an estimated 1000 Egyptians gathered in Cairo's central Tahrir Square to protest Israeli attacks on Lebanon and Palestine and to criticize a perceived lack of response on the part of Arab governments. Police cordoned off the protesters and several violent scuffles b [...] | 2006-07-27 14:11:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL EG |
06CAIRO4676 | SAHRAWIS: ANOTHER FOOD CRUNCH IN TINDOUF [...] (U) This message has been cleared by Embassy Algiers. ------- Summary ------- 2. (SBU) Cairo-based Regional Refugee Coordinator Cheyne met separately with WFP representative Marius de Gaay Fortman, and UNHCR Representative Peter van der Vaart, in Algiers July 27. WFP is concerned that a [...] | 2006-07-31 14:23:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PHUM AL EG |
06CAIRO480 | SUDAN REFUGEES: UNHCR MEETS DEADLINE, BUT [...] (SBU) UNHCR has completed its evaluation of the 183 Sudanese asylum seekers still in detention since they were forcibly evicted from a sit-in in a downtown park last December 30 and will present its final report to the GOE tonight. Since it reopened its offices, UNHCR has been overwhelmed wit [...] | 2006-01-26 16:06:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PHUM PREL ASEC CVIS EG SU UNHCR |
06CAIRO4876 | EGYPT: GOE ANNOUNCES SHORT LIST OF BUYERS FOR BANK OF [...] (U) On August 2 the GOE announced a short-list of prospective buyers for the state-owned Bank of Alexandria (BOA). Final bids are due from the six short-listed entities by the end of September. GOE contacts have provided various estimates of when the BOA sale will be completed, but post esti [...] | 2006-08-08 13:27:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV EG |
06CAIRO4907 | EGYPTIAN ISLAMIC GROUP DENIES JOINING AL QAEDA [...] (SBU) Egyptian Islamic Group (EIG) ("Al Gamaa Al Islamiyah) officials have issued a denial of recent claims by Al Qaida's Ayman al Zawahiri that the EIG has joined Al Qaida. In a statement posted on the EIG's website (www.egyptianislamicgroup.com),the group "asserts the incorrectness" of Za [...] | 2006-08-09 12:28:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER EG |
06CAIRO5001 | EGYPT: FINANCIAL SECTOR MOU UPDATE, PART I [...] (SBU) Since the last update on the status of the Financial Sector MOU (Ref A),the GOE has met all of the benchmarks for disbursement of USD 25 million in DSP-II funds tied to Policy Item 1 - Central Bank Management. The GOE has indicated that it expects to complete, by September 2006, all of [...] | 2006-08-14 11:03:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV EG |
06CAIRO5169 | EGYPT: FINANCIAL SECTOR MOU UPDATE, PART II [...] (SBU) Reftel reported GOE progress in meeting benchmarks for the first three policy items of the Financial Sector MOU. Following is post's assessment of GOE progress on the remaining policy items in the MOU. In a boost to the GOE's overall real estate sector reform program (key benchmarks fo [...] | 2006-08-17 15:53:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV EG |
06CAIRO5287 | EGYPT: THIRD MOBILE LICENSE AGREEMENT SIGNED [...] (U) Summary: The National Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (NTRA) recently signed a licensing agreement with Egyptian-Emirati consortium Etisalat for operation of Egypt's third mobile phone system. Etisalat paid LE 16.7 billion ($2.9 billion) for the license, a sum that will have a sig [...] | 2006-08-23 13:38:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECPS EINT EINV ETRD EG KCOR KGIT |
06CAIRO5333 | GOE SEEKS CLARIFICATION OF FAA PLANS [...] (U) This is an action cable. For action requested, see paragraph four. 2. (SBU) On August 6, econoff learned from Chairman of the Egyptian Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) General Samir Abdel Maboud that a courtesy call by FAA desk officer Leeann Hart on the Egyptian Ambassador in Washin [...] | 2006-08-24 15:05:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR PREL EG |
06CAIRO5337 | CBE GOVERNOR EL OKDAH PROPOSES "AUDIT" SOLUTION [...] (U) URGENT ACTION REQUEST: See para 5. 2. (SBU) In an animated discussion with Central Bank Governor El Okdah, the Ambassador and USAID Mission Director Ellis repeated the U.S. position, already conveyed in a letter from the Ambassador to the Minister of Finance, regarding use of the term [...] | 2006-08-24 15:39:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV EG |
06CAIRO5392 | CBE GOVERNOR EL OKDAH UPDATES AMBASSADOR ON GOE FINANCIAL [...] (SBU) Summary: In addition to the request for a DVC reported in Ref. A, CBE Governor El Okdah provided the Ambassador and USAID Mission Director Ellis an overview of the current status of GOE financial sector reform efforts during their August 23 meeting. EL Okdah noted that privatization of [...] | 2006-08-29 13:53:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EFIN ETRD EINV EG |
06CAIRO5445 | DISCUSSIONS IN EGYPT ON POULTRY IMPORTS [...] (SBU) The Ambassador and FAS Minister Counselor met with Minister of Agriculture Amin Abaza August 8 to discuss Egypt?s previously announced plans to temporarily lift poultry tariffs and restrictions in advance of Ramadan (reftel),and to relay USG dissatisfaction regarding the conditions un [...] | 2006-08-31 12:12:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ETRD BEXP USTR EG |
06CAIRO5461 | EGYPT: CONGRESSIONAL EARMARK AGAINST PRESIDENT'S 2007 [...] (U) ACTION REQUEST: Please see para 4. 2. (SBU) The Senate version of the 2007 Foreign Operations Bill contains language restricting the President's budget request and discretion in using it. If left unchanged, these restrictions will make it difficult to meet the goal of negotiating an [...] | 2006-08-31 15:24:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EFIN EG |
06CAIRO5529 | GRAND MUFTI SEEKS INCREASED MEDIA ATTENTION ON [...] (SBU) In a September 4 meeting with Grand Mufti of the Republic Ali Goma'a, Charge registered USG concern regarding the Mufti's August 7 Al Ahram op-ed titled "The Crime of the Qana Massacre." The article centered on criticizing Israeli "crimes" in Lebanon, but also cited the notorious alleged [...] | 2006-09-06 03:53:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KISL PHUM EG |
06CAIRO562 | FY 2006 FUNDS AVAILABLE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY OUTREACH [...] (SBU) Summary. Post proposes a two-fold program that targets both regulators and the Egyptian public to build on past and current public outreach programs and focus on breaking the regulatory logjam that currently impedes the introduction of biotech products in Egypt. End Summary. 2. (S [...] | 2006-01-30 16:35:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON ETRD TBIO |
06CAIRO565 | PRIME MINISTER NAZIF OUTLINES GOE GOALS BEFORE [...] (SBU) Summary: Presenting the GOE's overall policy and legislative agenda for the current legislative session, Prime Minister Nazif addressed parliament on January 30. The Prime Minister's remarks covered seven pillars, five of which concerned economic and development matters, a sixth covering [...] | 2006-01-30 16:44:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EG |
06CAIRO5860 | EGYPTIAN REACTIONS TO PAPAL COMMENTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A loud chorus of Egyptian political and religious leaders has publicly criticized Pope Benedict XVI's September 12 comments regarding Islam. The Pope's September 17 statement that he is "deeply sorry" about the reaction to his comments has been met with varying reactions in Egyp [...] | 2006-09-19 03:53:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KISL EG |
06CAIRO5942 | EGYPT: EIGHTH ANNUAL EUROMONEY CONFERENCE SEPT. 11-12 [...] (U) Summary: Prime Minister Nazif kicked off Egypt's eighth Euromoney conference September 11-12, highlighting improvements in Egypt's economy and laying out his government's plans for the coming five years. His upbeat assessment was echoed by the economic ministers in the Cabinet, who each [...] | 2006-09-21 11:30:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV EG |
06CAIRO6022 | BANK OF ALEXANDRIA: BIDS DELAYED UNTIL OCTOBER 7 [...] (SBU) Egyptian press reported on September 24 that the deadline for submission of offers from the six short-listed bidders for Bank of Alexandria had been delayed from September 28 to October 7. During a meeting that same day, Minister of Investment Mohieldin told the Ambassador that the deadl [...] | 2006-09-25 16:37:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EFIN EINV EG |
06CAIRO6035 | GOOGLE'S VIEWS ON EGYPT'S ECONOMIC ENVIRONMENT, [...] (SBU) Summary: On September 14, Google,s Regional Manager for the Middle East and North Africa Sherif Iskander gave econoff an overview of Google,s business in the region and opined optimistically about the improvement of Egypt,s business environment and economy, though with some reservations [...] | 2006-09-26 08:25:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECPS EINT EINV ETRD KCOR KGIT PHUM EG CH |
06CAIRO6043 | GOE PULLS FOREIGN PAPERS FOR CRITICIZING ISLAM [...] (U) Liberal independent daily al-Masry al-Yom reported September 25 on its front page that Minister of Information Anas El Fiqqi prevented the local distribution of issue no. 19324 of the French newspaper Le Figaro; issue no. 216 of the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung; and issue [...] | 2006-09-27 07:13:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM EG |
06CAIRO6191 | AIRLINE REPS HELD AT JFK SHIRK FUTURE US INVESTMENT [...] (SBU) Egyptian representatives from AMC Airlines, one of the country's largest and longest running private airlines, were taken into secondary questioning at JFK International Airport for more than 12 hours while en route to Seattle in late August. Company representatives, including the chairm [...] | 2006-10-03 14:06:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR BTIO BEXP BTRA CGEN EG |
06CAIRO6196 | AVIAN FLU CASES REEMERGE IN EGYPT AFTER SUMMER LULL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Several new cases of H5N1 avian influenza (AI) emerged in backyard poultry farms in August and September, following a relative lull in outbreaks in the early summer. Both the Ministers of Health and Agriculture expressed concern about recent outbreaks. The re-emergence of live [...] | 2006-10-03 15:01:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KSTH KFLU ECON PREL WHO EG |
06CAIRO6326 | FIRST HUMAN CASE OF AI IN FIVE MONTHS REPORTED IN EGYPT [...] (U) On October 10, World Health Organization (WHO) officials in Cairo confirmed the first case of H5N1 Avian influenza in a human since May, bringing the total number of human cases this year to fifteen, six of which were fatal. According to WHO statistics, Egypt has had the second highest num [...] | 2006-10-11 15:28:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KSTH KFLU ECON PREL WHO EG |
06CAIRO6371 | CAIRO DATE MARKET AS POLITICAL BAROMETER [...] (SBU) In a recent visit to Cairo's bustling date market, poloff chatted with several date vendors about their merchandise and marketing techniques. Egyptians traditionally break the Ramadan fast with a date - a custom that hearkens back to the 7th century, when the Prophet Mohammed broke his [...] | 2006-10-15 15:36:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KISL EG |
06CAIRO6373 | APPLICATION FOR OPIC FINANCE: DAMIETTA [...] (SBU) Post supports OPIC's plan to provide an investment guaranty of up to $150 million for the Damietta Port Project. OPIC's re-entry into Egypt's economy will be an important signal to the GOE and investors that OPIC is confident of Egypt's commitment to economic reform. Moreover, OPIC pa [...] | 2006-10-16 07:04:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EG |
06CAIRO6377 | EGYPT: GOVERNMENT FORMING INTER-MINISTERIAL BODY [...] (SBU) On October 12, MFA Assistant Minister for Multilateral Affairs Naela Gabr told Charge the GOE is creating an inter-ministerial body to coordinate TIP policy. Gabr acknowledged the Prime Minister's office has not yet issued the decree establishing the new coordinating body (it is due out [...] | 2006-10-16 14:01:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL PGOV KCRM EG |
06CAIRO639 | SUDAN REFUGEES: UNHCR COMPLETES ITS WORK WITH [...] (SBU) Although some Sudanese asylum seekers were released during the week, 155 remain in detention following their forcible eviction from a sit-in in a downtown park December 30. UNHCR has completed its evaluation of all of those still in detention and will present its final report to the GOE [...] | 2006-02-02 14:50:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PHUM PREL ASEC CVIS EG SU UNHCR |
06CAIRO6425 | FINANCIAL SECTOR REFORM: INSURANCE SECTOR [...] (SBU) Econoff met with Mahmoud Abdallah, head of the new Egyptian Holding Company for Insurance, to discuss insurance sector reform. Although the Ministry of Investment (MOI) planned to privatize only one of the four public insurance companies, Abdallah convinced Minister of Investment Mohiel [...] | 2006-10-17 09:57:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EG |
06CAIRO6444 | ITALY'S SAN PAOLO WINS BANK OF ALEXANDRIA AUCTION [...] (U) The Italian Gruppo SanPaolo IMI, Italy's third largest bank, won the auction for Bank of Alexandria (BOA) for a total price of $1.6 billion. SanPaolo will purchase 80 percent of BOA's shares, with 5 percent reserved for BOA employees and the remaining 15 percent floated on the Cairo/Alexa [...] | 2006-10-17 15:48:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EINV EFIN EG |
06CAIRO6501 | BANK OF ALEXANDRIA DEAL TO BE SIGNED OCTOBER 31 [...] (SBU) GOE officials told econoff that the contract for sale of 80 percent of the shares of Bank of Alexandria (BOA) to the Italian bank SanPaolo IMI would be signed on October 31. The terms of the contract require Sanpaolo to deposit the $1.6 billion cost of the purchase into an escrow accoun [...] | 2006-10-22 15:13:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EINV EFIN EG |
06CAIRO6521 | COURT DISCREDITS 2005 ELECTION RESULTS, BUT [...] (SBU) In a series of recent judgments, Egypt's Court of Cassation has ruled that results of nearly 100 contests in the 2005 parliamentary elections should be invalidated due to evidence of voting violations. Ultimate authority for overturning election results, however, remains with Parliamen [...] | 2006-10-23 15:02:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM EG |
06CAIRO6666 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES QIZ, RAIL EQUIPMENT SALES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In an October 30 call on Minister of Trade and Investment Rachid, Ambassador pressed for favorable GOE consideration of US-produced rail equipment and raised the issue of Egypt's continued ban on US poultry part exports. Rashid asked for an expansion of QIZs to Upper Egypt i [...] | 2006-11-02 12:09:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV ECON EFIN EAID IS CH EG |
06CAIRO6799 | VOTING BEGINS IN EGYPT'S CONTENTIOUS LABOR UNION [...] (SBU) THE LABOR UNION VOTE IS THE FIRST NATIONAL-LEVEL TEST FOR THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD (MB) FOLLOWING THEIR STRONG SHOWING IN 2005'S PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS. WHILE SOME ACCUSE THEM OF BEING WEAK ON "BREAD-AND-BUTTER" WORKER ISSUES, THEIR PARLIAMENTARY SUCCESS AND EFFECTIVE GRASSROOTS ORGANIZIN [...] | 2006-11-08 14:34:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ELAB ECON KISL EG |
06CAIRO680 | CONTROVERSY OVER SALE OF EGYPTIAN AMERICAN BANK [...] (SBU) Calyon Bank of Egypt recently purchased all of the GOE's shares in Egyptian American Bank (EAB),taking a controlling interest in the small but profitable bank. Shareholders immediately protested the sale, claiming that it was not sufficiently transparent, and that the price per share p [...] | 2006-02-05 12:12:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV EG |
06CAIRO6800 | ARAB LEAGUE BOYCOTT NOT OBSERVED BY EGYPT [...] (U) THIS MESSAGE IS SENSITIVE. PLEASE HANDLE ACCORDINGLY. 2. (SBU) EMBOFF RAISED REFTEL DEMARCHE WITH STAFF AT THE ARAB LEAGUE SECRETARIAT AND THE EGYPTIAN MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, STRESSING USG VIEWS TOWARD THE AL'S ISRAEL BOYCOTT. ACCORDING TO CONTACTS AT THE MFA, EGYPT IS AWARE THA [...] | 2006-11-08 15:27:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON EFIN MEPN ARABL KPAL EG |
06CAIRO6822 | ARAB LEAGUE FOREIGN MINISTERS TO MEET IN CAIRO [...] (SBU) FOREIGN MINISTERS OF THE LEAGUE OF ARAB STATES (AL) WILL GATHER AT AL HEADQUARTERS IN CAIRO ON NOVEMBER 12, TO DISCUSS THE ONGOING VIOLENCE IN THE GAZA STRIP. THE MINISTERIAL FOLLOWS A NOVEMBER 6 MEETING OF AL PERMREPS ON THE SAME ISSUE, AND WAS CALLED FOR IN THE WAKE OF THE NOVEMBER 8 [...] | 2006-11-09 15:36:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPAL MEPN PTER ARABL EG IS |
06CAIRO6824 | INTERNATIONAL COMPACT WITH IRAQ -- DEBT RELIEF [...] No summary [...] | 2006-11-09 15:46:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PREL IZ EG |
06CAIRO6859 | OPIC: DAMIETTA PORT PROJECT [...] (SBU) The Ambassador and Nancy Rivera, OPIC Director of Structured Finance, met with Minister of Transportation Mansour to discuss the Damietta port project. Rivera explained that in order for OPIC to help finance the project, the GOE would need to amend the concession contract. The contract [...] | 2006-11-14 12:34:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV EG |
06CAIRO6867 | SENIOR-LEVEL RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT TRAVEL TO MIDDLE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-11-15 14:24:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MEPN KPAL KDEM EG RU |
06CAIRO6888 | CBE GOVERNOR ON BANK OF ALEXANDRIA, FINANCIAL SECTOR MOU [...] (SBU) The Ambassador, USAID Mission Director Ken Ellis and econoff met recently with Central Bank Governor El Okdah, Deputy Governor Tarek Amer, Sub Governor Tarek Kandil and Minister of International Cooperation Fayza Aboul Naga. El Okdah touted the privatization of Bank of Alexandria (BOA),[...] | 2006-11-16 15:06:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EFIN ETRD EINV EG |
06CAIRO689 | EGYPT FERRY DISASTER UPDATE [...] (SBU) Despite some recent rescues, hopes are fading for the approximately 830 passengers still missing after the sinking of the Egyptian passenger ferry "Al Salam Boccacio 98" during its transit from Dubah, Saudi Arabia to Safaga, Egypt. Embassy Cairo has been in close contact with GOE counte [...] | 2006-02-05 16:21:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON EWWT MARR EG |
06CAIRO6894 | EGYPTIAN GAS, TEXTILE EXPORTS NARROWING TRADE GAP [...] (U) SUMMARY: ALTHOUGH U.S. EXPORTS TO EGYPT ARE RISING THIS YEAR, BARRIERS TO TRADE ARE LOWERING, AND NEW SECTORS ARE OPENING TO U.S. PRODUCTS, THE U.S. TRADE SURPLUS WITH EGYPT HAS BEEN SHRINKING SINCE 2000, PRIMARILY BECAUSE OF RISING U.S. IMPORTS OF EGYPTIAN NATURAL GAS AND DECLINING EGYPT [...] | 2006-11-19 05:14:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID ECON ETRD FCSCEG EG |
06CAIRO6935 | EGYPT: DETAILS ON GOE FIGHT AGAINST TRAFFICKING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: THE GOE IS TACKLING TIP WITH UNPRECEDENTED VIGOR AND COHERENCE. THE FOREMOST DEVELOPMENT IS THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN INTER-MINISTERIAL COMMITTEE TO COORDINATE THE FIGHT AGAINST TIP THAT EXPAND AND COORDINATE ANTI-TIP OPERATIONS ON A NUMBER OF FRONTS. PER REF E, POST HAS ADVI [...] | 2006-11-21 15:19:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KCRM KWMN SMIG EG |
06CAIRO6938 | EGYPT: IAEA/IRAN TECHNICAL COOPERATION DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-11-21 15:57:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MNUC EG |
06CAIRO6953 | EGYPT: BAHAI CASE POSTPONED UNTIL DECEMBER 2 [...] (SBU) As anticipated (reftel),on November 20 Egypt's Supreme Administrative Court (SAC) again postponed the GOE's appeal of an April 4 decision by a lower administrative court, which had ruled that Egypt's Baha'is have the right to receive GOE identity cards. The SAC acknowledged receipt of [...] | 2006-11-22 11:49:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF EG |
06CAIRO6974 | HALA MUSTAFA REAPPOINTED TO NDP POLICIES COMMITTEE [...] (SBU) Hala Mustafa, the NDP Policies Committee member who had expressed concerns that her criticism of the GOE and the ruling NDP had led to threats against her safety and reputation (retels),has renewed her membership in the Policies Committee. In an article in Al-Masry Al-Youm (AMAY) on [...] | 2006-11-26 13:55:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM EG |
06CAIRO7059 | FINAL BANK OF ALEXANDRIA SALE PENDING CBE APPROVAL [...] (U) Econoff met with Mahmoud Abdel Latif, Chairman of Bank of Alexandria (BOA) to discuss the final steps in BOA's sale to Italy's Intesa-SanPaolo Group. Abdel Latif has already begun referring to BOA as "Alexandria-SanPaolo," which will likely become the bank's new name. If the name is not [...] | 2006-12-05 16:49:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EFIN EG |
06CAIRO7078 | ARAB LEAGUE FOREIGN MINISTERS CALL FOR DISMANTLING [...] (SBU) Summary: Arab League foreign ministers, meeting in Cairo on December 5, deplored the deteriorating security situation in Iraq, and called for the immediate dismantling of sectarian militias. Mubarak expressed support for Iraq, and welcomed Talabani's visit on December 12. Iraqi foreign [...] | 2006-12-06 16:36:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EG IZ |
06CAIRO7109 | EGYPT: HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES UPDATE [...] (SBU) International Human Rights Day passed with little notice in Egypt, but human rights continue to generate public debate and controversy. Government progress on some human rights issues has been notable, but civil society critics of the GOE--bolstered by an increasingly assertive media-- [...] | 2006-12-11 12:58:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM KIRF EG |
06CAIRO711 | EGYPT ICAO DEMARCHE: INITIAL RESPONSE [...] (SBU) Econoff delivered reftel demarche and points to Samir Abd El Maboud, Head of the Egyptian Civil Aviation Authority (ECAA). Vice Chairman of the ECAA Gen. Shawky El Azzab was also present at the meeting. Maboud was thankful for the points outlining the U.S. position and for the Voss bio [...] | 2006-02-06 15:10:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAIR AORC EG ICAO |
06CAIRO713 | ANGER IN EGYPT OVER DANISH CARTOONS EXPRESSED [...] (SBU) Egyptians are peacefully expressing their outrage over Danish cartoons of the Prophet Mohamed, which is finding expression through various official and private channels. Businesses and consumers are boycotting Danish products, and the government is publicly condemning the cartoons in a [...] | 2006-02-06 15:49:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PREL PGOV ECON ASEC EG DE |
06CAIRO7159 | EGYPT PRESSING FORWARD ON NILE BASIN INITIATIVE [...] (SBU) Summary. The Government of Egypt is a strong supporter of the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) as a tool for cooperative management of water resources and is leading efforts to finalize a framework agreement. In January, the GOE will host an NBI council meeting aiming to ratify the framew [...] | 2006-12-17 14:37:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV PREL KPAO EG ET ER SU BY RW UG TZ KE |
06CAIRO7206 | EGYPT PROPOSES STRENGTHENED TIES BETWEEN UN [...] (SBU) MFA Assistant Minister for African Affairs, Ambassador Massoum Marzouk, convoked the Charge on December 19 to describe Egypt's proposal to strengthen institutional linkages between the African Union's Peace and Security Council (PSC) and the United Nations Security Council (UNSC). The [...] | 2006-12-21 07:02:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNSC UNGA ECON EFIN EG |
06CAIRO721 | EGYPTIAN STUDENTS FRET OVER MB INFLUENCE, FUTURE [...] (SBU) Summary: In a recent encounter, secular Egyptian university students expressed worry over the growing influence of Islamists on and off campus and blamed GOE-imposed restrictions on student life for fueling support for the MB. The students discussed their on-campus efforts to counter w [...] | 2006-02-07 07:58:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SCUL ELAB KDEM EG |
06CAIRO7218 | EGYPT SNAPSHOT: VIOLENCE SURROUNDS CLOSURE OF FISH [...] (SBU) Summary: Citing public health concerns, GOE officials recently ordered police in the northern Delta to remove thousands of fish-rearing cages from the Nile, prompting clashes that led to the deaths of three fishermen and the injury of thirty more. While scientists, environmentalists, [...] | 2006-12-21 13:21:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ECON EFIS SOCI TBIO PHUM PGOV ELAB EG |
06CAIRO7219 | EGYPTIAN QIZ EXPORTS CONTINUE TO RISE, LABOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: TWO YEARS AFTER THE SIGNING OF THE QUALIFIED INDUSTRIAL ZONE (QIZ) AGREEMENT BY EGYPT, ISRAEL AND THE UNITED STATES, EGYPTIAN QIZ EXPORTS ARE CONTINUING TO RISE SHARPLY. FACTORY OWNERS ARE SCRAMBLING TO FIND ENOUGH WORKERS TO STAFF THEIR NEW PRODUCTION LINES, EVEN AS THEY MOVE [...] | 2006-12-21 14:21:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON ELAB EG |
06CAIRO7249 | EGYPT: THREE NEW HUMAN AVIAN INFLUENZA CASES [...] (SBU) Officials from the Central Public Health Lab at the Ministry of Health and Population (MOHP) and NAMRU-3 confirmed on December 24 two new cases of H5N1 and a probable third in a family in the northern governorate of Gharbia, the most recent human cases since October (reftel). All three [...] | 2006-12-28 09:10:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KSTH KFLU ECON PREL WHO EG |
06CAIRO7256 | EGYPT LABOR STRIKES FORCE GOE CONCESSIONS [...] (SBU) Seeming to catch the GOE off-guard, a major strike crippled one of Egypt's largest textile companies this month, successfully extracted financial concessions from the company and GOE, and encouraged spillover strikes. While the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) was happy to jump on the workers' b [...] | 2006-12-28 13:40:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ECON PGOV EG |
06CAIRO776 | GOE ANNOUNCES ICT INITIATIVES, TIMELINE FOR MOBILE [...] (U) At the tenth annual Cairo Information and Communications Technology (ICT) trade fair on February 5, Minister of Communications and Information Technology Dr. Tarek Kamel made several announcements of note: - The GOE would issue the long-awaited Request For Proposals (RFP) to license [...] | 2006-02-09 13:10:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECPS EINT EINV ETRD EG KGIT |
06CAIRO783 | SUDAN REFUGEES: ALL UNHCR `PERSONS OF CONCERN' [...] (SBU) Emboffs met separately February 9 with MFA and UNHCR to discuss the status of Sudanese asylum seekers in Cairo. All UNHCR `persons of concern' have been released, leaving the fate of the remaining 156 detainees in question. MFA contacts rule out deportations in the short term, and belie [...] | 2006-02-09 14:29:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PHUM PREL ASEC CVIS EG SU UNHCR |
06CAIRO835 | BANKING SECTOR UPDATE: U.S. INVESTMENT FIRM [...] (U) Ripplewood Holdings, a New York based investment company, recently led a group of investment firms in the purchase of all of the public shares in Commercial International Bank (CIB),the largest joint venture (JV) bank in Egypt. The Ripplewood-led consortium purchased 18.7% of CIB, which [...] | 2006-02-12 14:03:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EAID EG |
06CAIRO90 | EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT APPROVES GENERIC COPY OF U.S. [...] (SBU) Representatives of Eli Lilly met with trade officer January 4 to provide information on a recently approved and marketed Egyptian generic copy of one of its innovator drugs. According to Lilly, sometime in December 2005, the Ministry of Health and Population (MOHP) gave approval to Ape [...] | 2006-01-05 15:51:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ECON ETRD EG USTR |
06CAIRO972 | AYMAN NOUR SEEMS HEALTHY, RELAXED IN PRISON [...] (SBU) During a regularly scheduled consular visit to several American Citizens incarcerated at the Torah Prison complex, just south of Cairo, conoff had a "chance" encounter with detained political opposition leader Ayman Nour. Shortly after conoff was admitted to the prison warden's office an [...] | 2006-02-15 16:38:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KDEM EG |
06CALCUTTA100 | INDIAN OFFICIALS REPORT NO PROGRESS IN CASE OF KIDNAPPED [...] (SBU) Post continues monitor the kidnapping case of the Kuki Movement for Human Rights (KMHR) Chairman and Kuki Christian Church Administrative Secretary Dr. Tongkhojang Lunkim (REFTEL). On January 17, the Kuki Liberation Army (KLA) kidnapped Dr. Lunkim in the Senapti district of the Northeast [...] | 2006-03-01 13:16:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PHUM KRIM ASEC IN |
06CALCUTTA101 | WEST BENGAL LEFTISTS PROTEST PRESIDENT BUSH'S VISIT TO [...] (SBU) On March 1, demonstrators from the youth wings of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM),the Democratic Youth Federation of India (DYFI) and the Students Federation of India (SFI),protested the impending arrival of President Bush to India in front of the American Center in Calcut [...] | 2006-03-01 13:26:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ASEC CASC CVIS PREL KRIM OVIP IN |
06CALCUTTA103 | ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS STILL STRUGGLING TO RECOVER FROM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Over a year after suffering the tsunami disaster of December 2004, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands still have not fully recovered. The GOI's substantial mobilization of assistance, while initially laudable, has now resulted in a culture of dependency in which the population ap [...] | 2006-03-02 12:32:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID SENV PGOV SOCI TPHY XD IN |
06CALCUTTA105 | ELECTION COMMISSION SCHEDULES WEST BENGAL ASSEMBLY [...] (U) Summary: On March 1, the Election Commission (EC) announced an extended five-phase polling schedule for West Bengal's (WB) upcoming state legislative assembly election. The phased schedule reflects the EC's intention to monitor polling closely in this state noted for vote rigging by the l [...] | 2006-03-03 09:57:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SOCI PTER IN |
06CALCUTTA109 | MAOIST INSURGENTS EXECUTE WEST BENGAL COMMUNIST PARTY [...] (SBU) Summary: March 4-5 Communist Party of India - Maoist (Maoist) insurgents killed two Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPM) workers in separate attacks in West Bengal. These attacks come just a week after a Maoist-emplaced landmine killed three West Bengal policemen. The recent spate [...] | 2006-03-07 07:07:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PINR ASEC KRIM PHUM PGOV IN |
06CALCUTTA123 | KUKI LIBERATION ARMY RELEASE KIDNAPPED CHRISTIAN LEADER DR. [...] (SBU) On March 18, the Kuki Liberation Army (KLA) in the Northeast Indian state of Manipur released Chairman of the Kuki Movement for Human Rights (KMHR) and Administrative Secretary of the Kuki Christian Church Dr. Tongkhojang Lunkim after two months of captivity. The KLA returned him in good [...] | 2006-03-20 13:35:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PHUM SOCI PGOV ASEC IN |
06CALCUTTA134 | PARTIES JOCKEY FOR POSITION JUST DAYS BEFORE ASSAM STATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On April 3 India's Northeastern state of Assam will begin its two-phased state assembly election. The second phase will be the following week on April 10. Even in the last hours of campaigning, the situation is still very fluid. No party has a clear majority and yet no formal [...] | 2006-03-31 12:51:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PTER ASEC SOCI IN |
06CALCUTTA137 | BIHAR GOVERNMENT STRUGGLES TO ERADICATE POLIO AND FACES [...] (SBU) Summary. On March 23 CG had introductory meetings with recently elected Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his senior officials to discuss the new state government's economic development, public health and security initiatives. Kumar and other contacts expressed a strong interest in [...] | 2006-04-03 10:02:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON SOCI ASEC KHIV IN |
06CALCUTTA145 | EXIT POLLS SHOW NO CLEAR WINNER IN ASSAM'S LAST ROUND OF [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 10, the Congress-ruled Northeast Indian state of Assam concluded its second and final phase of state assembly elections. Counting of votes and announcing of results will be on May 11. Exit polls indicate that the Congress Party will not retain a majority of over 64 se [...] | 2006-04-11 12:48:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PTER ASEC SOCI IN |
06CALCUTTA148 | LEFTIST PROJECTED TO WIN WEST BENGAL STATE ASSEMBLY [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 17, West Bengal will hold its first phase of the state assembly elections. With only a few days remaining, main opposition parties the Trinamul Congress (Trinamul) and the Congress Party (Congress) have failed to unite against the ruling Left Front. The only "opposit [...] | 2006-04-13 14:46:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SOCI ASEC IN |
06CALCUTTA173 | INDIAN HIMALAYAN STATE SIKKIM SLOWLY OPENING FOR TRADE AND [...] (SBU)Summary: From April 13-19 CG visited the Himalayan state of Sikkim to assess its political, social and economic issues. An independent kingdom until its annexation by India in 1975, Sikkim offers an interesting contrast to its neighbors, Bhutan, Nepal and Tibet, with which it shares many [...] | 2006-04-28 11:25:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON SENV SOCI ETRD IN CH |
06CALCUTTA195 | COMMUNISTS SWEEP WEST BENGAL STATE ELECTIONS AND CONGRESS [...] (SBU) Summary: Initial May 11 state election results indicate that the Communist Party of India (Marxist)(CPM) and its Left allies increased their seats in West Bengal's 294-seat state assembly from 199 to 235. The CPM's victory is seen as a strong endorsement of Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bha [...] | 2006-05-11 14:10:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SOCI IN |
06CALCUTTA201 | TREASURY U/S ADAMS MEETS WEST BENGAL FINANCE MINISTER AND [...] (U) Summary: May 2-3, 2006 U.S. Department of the Treasury Under Secretary for International Affairs Mr. Timothy D. Adams visited Calcutta as part of his trip to India for the Asian Development Bank's Annual meeting in Hyderabad. During his time in Calcutta, U/S Adams met with West Bengal F [...] | 2006-05-12 12:51:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EINV ECON SOCI ETRD IN |
06CALCUTTA211 | U.S. CORPORATIONS BEGIN EAST INDIA'S RURAL CONNECTIVITY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: To bridge the digital divide between the India's high-tech urban centers and its vast rural hinterland, Microsoft Corporation (Microsoft) is working with the GOI and state governments to establish Internet Technology (IT) connectivity in 100,000 villages around the country. Pil [...] | 2006-05-18 12:37:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EINV SOCI PHUM IN |
06CALCUTTA221 | CONGRESS LOSES ITS MAJORITY IN ASSAM STATE ASSEMBLY AND THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The May 11 state assembly election results returned a diminished Congress Party to power in Assam that must now rule in a coalition with the tribal Bodo People's Progressive Front - Hagrama (BPPF-H). The recently established Muslim party Asom United Democratic Front (AUDF) spl [...] | 2006-05-22 06:08:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SOCI PHUM PTER IN |
06CALCUTTA244 | WEST BENGAL CHIEF MINISTER BUDDHADEB BHATTACHARJEE FACES [...] (SBU) Summary: In the April-May West Bengal (WB) state assembly elections, the Left Front emerged victorious for the seventh consecutive time with an overwhelming 235 out of 294 seats. The Communist Party of India - Marxist (CPM) under the leadership of Chief Minister (CM) Buddhadeb Bhattach [...] | 2006-05-27 11:11:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EIND EINV SOCI IN |
06CALCUTTA306 | NORTHEAST INDIAN STATE MEGHALAYA STRUGGLES WITH SOCIAL AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: July 7-8, 2006 ConGen visited the Northeast state of Meghalaya to meet senior government officials and to attend a regional conference on trafficking in persons in the capital, Shillong. Meghalaya's persistent insurgency problem appears to have moderated, with the two dominant [...] | 2006-07-18 09:28:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM ECON KWMN EMIN ASEC IN BG |
06CALCUTTA307 | CALCUTTA EAC MEETING JULY 14, 2006 [...] (SBU) In response to ref. A, on July 14 post convened an EAC meeting to discuss the local security implications of escalating hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah. 2. (SBU) The Consulate has received no information indicating the possibility of violent protests or threats in Calcutta or [...] | 2006-07-18 10:32:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC CASC PTER PGOV IN |
06CALCUTTA327 | GOOD AND EVIL IN THE EDEN GARDENS CRICKET GROUNDS: [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On July 30, two passions in West Bengal (WB),cricket and politics, collided in the voting for the Cricket Association of Bengal (CAB) presidency. The election took on a significance greater than normal for a local sporting association as the two candidates, former president o [...] | 2006-08-01 13:44:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SOCI IN |
06CALCUTTA349 | UNITED LIBERATION FRONT OF ASOM CONDUCTS DEADLY EXPLOSIVE [...] (SBU) In the run-up to India's August 15 Independence Day celebrations, the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) conducted two deadly explosive attacks in the Northeast Indian state of Assam. On August 11, six policemen were killed when a landmine exploded under a police convey conducting [...] | 2006-08-14 12:36:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PINR ASEC CASC IN BG NP |
06CALCUTTA362 | LACK OF TRUST CONTINUES TO STIFLE PEACE TALKS IN ASSAM [...] (U) SUMMARY: Local media reports that hurdles for direct talks between Government of India (GOI) and United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) have been reduced, with New Delhi agreeing to release five militant leaders and ULFA announcing a "cessation of hostilities" against the Indian Army. [...] | 2006-08-23 08:56:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER PINR IN XD NCTC |
06CALCUTTA386 | CHARGE PYATT MEETS W. BENGAL COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY MINISTER [...] (SBU) Summary. On August 29, Charge met with Government of West Bengal (GOWB) Minister for Commerce and Industry Nirupama Sen to discuss Communist Party of India - Marxist's (CPM) views on economic development in the state and CPM policy perspectives at the state and national level. Sen was [...] | 2006-08-31 09:56:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ETRD IN PREL EAGR EIND ECON |
06CALCUTTA401 | JHARKAND'S GOVERNMENT BEGINS TO CRUMBLE, WITH LITTLE HOPE [...] (U) SUMMARY: The fate of the Jharkhand state government, led by Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Arjun Munda, has become uncertain with the resignation of four ministers. However, the shape of an alternative formation is still unclear, with major national parties like the Indian National Con [...] | 2006-09-07 13:15:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV IN PINR |
06CALCUTTA411 | COMMUNIST WEST BENGAL OPENS FOR BUSINESS BUT A LAND BATTLE [...] (U) SUMMARY: West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee has received a vote of confidence from industry in recent months with the announcements of various large investments totaling several billion dollars. Foreign and domestic corporations have publicized plans to construct new fac [...] | 2006-09-13 07:13:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ETRD IN ECON |
06CALCUTTA420 | JHARKHAND'S NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE GOVERNMENT FALLS [...] (U) SUMMARY: On September 14 Jharkhand Chief Minister Arjun Munda resigned as independent party members defected from his National Democratic Alliance (NDA) coalition government to the opposition United Progressive Alliance (UPA). With the fall of the Bhartiya Janata Party(BJP)-led NDA govern [...] | 2006-09-15 10:21:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SOCI IN |
06CALCUTTA423 | CPM POLITBURO PLANS MORE OPPOSITION TO ECONOMIC REFORMS [...] (SBU) Summary: September 12-13, the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) Politburo met in Calcutta to discuss its progress since the party`s 18th Congress in 2005 and aspects of the GOI`s economic reforms that the CPM intends to oppose. The CPM Politburo plans to force a change in the Spec [...] | 2006-09-18 12:48:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EINV ETRD IN |
06CALCUTTA430 | NEPAL MAOIST LEADER RELEASED THEN DETAINED [...] (U) Summary: On September 18 in Chennai, W. Bengal police attempted to arrest Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) (CPNM) Politburo member Chandra Prakash Gajurel upon his release from a Chennai prison after serving a three year term for passport forgery. The W. Bengal police action was in conn [...] | 2006-09-21 12:53:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PINR PGOV IN NP PTER |
06CALCUTTA447 | INDIA'S CEASE-FIRE WITH ULFA ENDS [...] (U) Summary: Citing continuing violence and extortion, the Government of India (GOI) on September 24 ended the six-week ceasefire it had with the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA). The GOI decision comes in the wake of ULFA's reluctance to commit in writing to taking part in direct peace [...] | 2006-09-28 12:33:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER IN BT PGOV |
06CALCUTTA454 | STATEWIDE STRIKE IN WEST BENGAL EXTENDS THE HOLIDAY WITH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 9, the All-India Trinamul Congress (AITC),the state's main opposition party, called a 12-hour general strike, forcing closed most business and government offices in West Bengal. The strike was called to protest the West Bengal's government's acquisition of fertile [...] | 2006-10-10 12:27:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EIND EINV PGOV IN |
06CALCUTTA463 | DHAKA POL/ECON COUNSELOR DUNDAS MCCULLOUGH INTERACTS WITH [...] (U) Summary: On October 5, Embassy Dhaka Pol/Econ Counselor Dundas McCullough visited Calcutta to assess Indian perspectives on security and infiltration of terrorists from Bangladesh into India and for an overview of India's economic relationship with Bangladesh. The prevailing sentiment in [...] | 2006-10-16 13:08:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PBTS ECON IN BG NP PTER |
06CALCUTTA464 | INDIA'S LOOK EAST ECONOMIC POLICY - JUST LOOKING, NOT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: India continues to adopt a contradictory attitude in its trade relations with its Eastern neighbors, claiming to seek more bilateral trade agreements but placing severe limits and barriers to those agreements to make them essentially meaningless. The opening on July 1 of Indo-C [...] | 2006-10-17 11:52:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV WTRO EIND IN NP BG |
06CALCUTTA481 | UPPER ASSAM `LIKE A BATTLEFIELD' AS INDIAN SECURITY FORCES [...] (SBU) Summary: On September 24, the GOI resumed its operations against the Assam-based United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA). This resumption of hostilities came forty-one days after the Indian military unilaterally suspended its operations against ULFA. Though the GOI is calling the brea [...] | 2006-10-24 10:23:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PTER PHUM PINR IN BT |
06CALCUTTA495 | INDIA'S COMMUNISTS LOBBY FOR CHINA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In anticipation of Chinese President Hu Jintao's November 20-24 visit to India, Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPM) has been pressuring the GOI to conduct a more conciliatory foreign policy towards China. In its September Central Committee meeting, the CPM criticized the r [...] | 2006-11-01 12:35:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON CH ETRD ENRG PBTS IN PGOV PREL |
06CALCUTTA508 | LEFTISTS DEMONSTRATE AGAINST SADDAM HUSSEIN'S DEATH [...] (SBU) In response to ref. A, on November 5, post convened an EAC meeting to discuss the local security implications of the death sentence verdict in the Saddam Hussein case. EAC had no indication of direct threats. However, local security and police were directed to be alert for possible prot [...] | 2006-11-06 12:38:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC CASC PTER PGOV IN |
06CALCUTTA509 | DEADLY BOMB ATTACKS IN ASSAM KILL 12 PEOPLE AND INJURE 50 [...] (SBU) Summary: Following Assam's bloodiest month of insurgent violence this year, November began with one of Assam's deadliest bombings in recent years. On November 5, two bomb explosions in Assam's capital Guwahati killed 12 people and injured at least 50 others. GOI and state law enforcem [...] | 2006-11-06 15:54:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC MARR PTER PHUM IN |
06CALCUTTA516 | NO PROGRESS DURING LATEST ROUND OF TALKS ON NAGALAND [...] (U) Summary. October 17-19 in Amsterdam, another round of talks between the Northeast Indian insurgent group National Socialist Council of Nagalim - Isak Muivah (NSCN-IM) and the GOI ended without progress. The Indian delegation met the rebel leadership to discuss "substantive issues" as a fo [...] | 2006-11-12 11:24:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER IN BM |
06CALCUTTA517 | DAILY DEMONSTRATIONS AGAINST SADDAM HUSSEIN DEATH SENTENCE [...] (SBU) The street in front of post's American Center continues to be the venue for daily demonstrations against the recent Saddam Hussein death sentence. A range of the usual Leftist groups have come out to express their opposition to the verdict but other political groups, such as the youth [...] | 2006-11-13 07:35:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC AMGT CASC PREL IN |
06CALCUTTA526 | RULING COALITION LOSES 4 PARLIAMENT SEATS IN 3 DIFFERENT [...] (U) SUMMARY: On November 6, Congress and its ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) partners lost all four contested seats in Lok Sabha (national parliament) by-elections in Bihar, Jharkhand and Assam. In Bihar, the opposition National Democratic Alliance (NDA) won two seats, while in Jha [...] | 2006-11-16 12:39:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV IN |
06CALCUTTA533 | BOMBS ON TRAIN IN W. BENGAL KILL AT LEAST SIX [...] (U) Summary: On November 20, an explosion on the Haldibari-New Jalpaiguri passenger train in northern West Bengal killed at least 6 and injured more than 50 people. Unofficial estimates indicate the death toll may rise to 15. No Americans have been reported injured. Although no one has cl [...] | 2006-11-21 12:22:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PTER IN |
06CALCUTTA535 | RESOURCE WEALTHY JHARKHAND FACES INSTABILITY AND RISING [...] No summary [...] | 2006-11-24 11:59:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM IN PTER |
06CALCUTTA536 | INDIAN AUTHORITIES SEIZE USD 70 MILLION AMPHETAMINE [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 14 officials of the Indian Narcotics Control Bureau (NCB) seized an estimated USD 70 million in methampetamine precursor chemicals in a cargo shipping container at a warehouse in Calcutta. NCB officials arrested Indian national of Chinese origin Vincent Chang alia [...] | 2006-11-28 08:05:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR KCRM SOCI ASEC IN CH CO |
06CALCUTTA540 | STRIKE CALLED IN WEST BENGAL AS OPPOSITION DESTROYS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On December 1, West Bengal regional political party Trinamul Congress (TC) organized a12-hour general strike in the state, disrupting commercial activity and resulting in some violent incidents. One government official was killed and four people reportedly injured by crude bom [...] | 2006-12-01 13:32:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV IN EINV ECON ASEC |
06CALCUTTA555 | WEST BENGAL LABOR SECRETARY PROVIDES CHILD LABOR STATUS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On December 1, Government of West Bengal (GOWB) Labor Secretary Subesh Das met with Poloffs to discuss child labor and the state government's efforts to implement the national child labor ban enacted on October 10. Das recognized that implementation has been slow, but argued th [...] | 2006-12-14 14:47:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB KWMN SOCI KCRM PHUM PREL IN |
06CALCUTTA556 | GOVERNANCE, DEVELOPMENT, AND NAXALISM IN BIHAR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After one year in office, expectations remain high for Bihar's Janata Dal United (JDU)-led government. During a December 4-6 visit to Bihar, state officials, journalists, and NGOs told Poloff, however, that the new state government has to start from scratch after fifteen years [...] | 2006-12-15 08:40:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER ECON PREL SOCI IN |
06CALCUTTA561 | NAGA INSURGENCY OFFERS NO EASY SOLUTION [...] (SBU) Summary: December 4-7, ConGen met with government officials and contacts in the Northeast Indian state of Nagaland to discuss ongoing ethnic Naga insurgencies. During this period, representatives of the separatist National Socialist Council of Nagaland (Isak-Muivah) (NSCN-IM) factio [...] | 2006-12-18 11:58:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER ASEC PREL PGOV PHUM IN BM |
06CALCUTTA574 | ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS EXPERT IDENTIFIES AREAS OF [...] (SBU) Summary: Army Corps of Engineers (ACE) Ecologist and Regulatory Program Manager Wade L. Eakle visited Calcutta November 1-7, 2006. Eakle met senior Government of West Bengal (GOWB) officials representing the different agencies involved in wetlands management and administration to explo [...] | 2006-12-28 09:52:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ECON IN |
06CALCUTTA578 | WEST BENGAL: MAMATA STARTS EATING AGAIN, BUT POT STILL [...] (SBU) Summary: At midnight on December 28, Trinamul Congress leader Mamata Banerjee ended her 25-day fast to protest construction of a Tata car factory in the rural West Bengal district of Singur. Banerjee's health had been declining and two days earlier she had been put on oxygen. This e [...] | 2006-12-29 13:39:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR PGOV PHUM IN |
06CALCUTTA63 | ASSAM POLICE SHOOT VIOLENT PROTESTORS DEMONSTRATING AGAINST [...] (U) On February 10, nine people were killed in the Northeast Indian state of Assam when police opened fire on demonstrators protesting the death of suspected United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) supporter Ajit Mahanta while in Indian Army custody. On February 5, the Indian Army detained Maha [...] | 2006-02-14 07:16:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PINR SOCI ASEC IN |
06CALCUTTA66 | MINERAL RICH JHARKHAND SUFFERS INSURGENCY AND POVERTY [...] (SBU) February 5-8, CG visited the Eastern Indian state of Jharkhand to assess the economic development, security, religious freedom and the political situation. A new state, established only in 2000, Jharkhand is still experiencing serious growing pains. The National Democratic Alliance (ND [...] | 2006-02-14 12:20:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON ASEC EIND EMIN SOCI PHUM IN |
06CALCUTTA71 | ASSAM STARTS STATE ASSEMBLY ELECTIONEERING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On February 11 Congress Party Chairwoman Sonia Gandhi traveled to the Northeast Indian state of Assam to inaugurate her party's campaign for the May 2006 state assembly elections. Her presence reflected Congress' concern about retaining its hold on Assam, following recent setba [...] | 2006-02-16 13:06:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PTER SOCI BG IN |
06CALCUTTA93 | KUKI LIBERATION ARMY ABDUCTS KUKI COMMUNITY LEADER DR. [...] (SBU) On January 17, the Kuki Liberation Army (KLA) kidnapped Chairman of the Kuki Movement for Human Rights (KMHR) and Administrative Secretary of the Kuki Christian Church Dr. Tongkhojang Lunkim in Senapati district of Manipur state in Northeast India. While ostensibly fighting for an indepe [...] | 2006-02-24 10:08:00 | Consulate Kolkata | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PTER ASEC KCRM SOCI IN |
06CANBERRA2044 | AUSTRALIA PLANS TO IMPLEMENT UNSCR 1737 SANCTIONS [...] (U) In a media statement released December 24, Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer affirmed that Australia would proceed to implement sanctions on Iran's nuclear and missile programs, in accordance with the terms of UN Security Council Resolution 1737. He noted specifically the requ [...] | 2006-12-28 06:49:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MNUC KNNP IR AS |
06CARACAS1791 | VENEZUELA,S PROPOSED MEGA NATURAL GAS PIPELINE FOR [...] (U) SUMMARY: Venezuela's proposed mega natural gas pipeline for South America (GASUR) -- which could span 12,000 to 15,000 kilometers and cost $20 to $40 billion to construct -- is Chavez's most recent and audacious effort to use the country's hydrocarbon endowment to expand his influence in t [...] | 2006-06-19 19:34:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET SENV EINV VE |
06CARACAS2450 | 2006 SECTION 527 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES IN [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-17 18:36:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV KIDE OPIC PGOV |
06CARACAS2623 | BRV RELEASES NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FUND FINANCIALS [...] (U) SUMMARY: The BRV,s National Development Fund (FONDEN) published a financial statement for the first time since its inception 11 months ago. Coupled with a recent presentation by Finance Minister Merentes, the documents show that Fonden has received USD 14.9 billion in combined Central Bank [...] | 2006-08-30 20:49:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PGOV VE |
06CARACAS2758 | VENEZUELANS TO CHAVEZ ON MURDER OF CUBANS: "WHAT [...] (SBU) The September 2 murder of Cuban doctor Raquel de los Angeles Perez Ramirez in a Caracas barrio struck a raw nerve with President Chavez. With his administration currently criticized for not being tough on crime, the murder of a Cuban doctor somehow provoked a reaction in Chavez that t [...] | 2006-09-11 17:42:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM VE |
06CARACAS2817 | BRV: DEMARCHE ON UN PEACEKEEPING FORCE IN DARFUR [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-15 13:15:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PINS KPKO UNSC KDEM PGOV VE |
06CARACAS2831 | INFLATION GOING UP, UP, AND AWAY IN THE BRV [...] (SBU) Inflation rose 2.2 percent in August, reaching a total of 10.4 percent for 2006 and implying an annual rate exceeding 15 percent. The BRV is now incapable of meeting its inflation target for 2006 of 10 percent and recent statements by Chavez and senior BRV officials demonstrate that the [...] | 2006-09-15 21:21:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PGOV VE |
06CARACAS3041 | PDVSA RELEASES 2005 FINANCIALS [...] (U) SUMMARY: PDVSA released its 2005 financial results on October 3. According to a presentation by PDVSA President and Minister of Energy and Petroleum (MEP) Rafael Ramirez, PDVSA had worldwide revenues of USD 85.73 billion in 2005 and USD 6.483 billion in profits. These results shed a lit [...] | 2006-10-06 20:58:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EPET EINV VE |
06CARACAS3231 | AMBASSADOR VISITS ANZOATEGUI STATE [...] SUMMARY: (U) With an eye to highlight USG-related activities and institutions in eastern Venezuela, Ambassador Brownfield visited the state of Anzoategui on October 19-20, 2006. When BRV meddling prohibited visits to U.S. business plants in the Jose industrial complex, he met with Exxon Mobi [...] | 2006-10-27 17:28:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON VE |
06CARACAS3316 | BRV RELEASES 2007 NATIONAL BUDGET [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Minister of Finance delivered the proposed 2007 budget for Venezuela to the National Assembly (AN) on October 17, 2006. The budget calls for spending 115.2 trillion Bolivars (USD 53.6 billion) in 2007. The proposal assumes an exchange rate of 2150 Bs/USD, an average oil exp [...] | 2006-11-06 20:29:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN VE |
06CARACAS3345 | THE VENEZUELA-IRAN ECONOMIC RELATIONSHIP [...] (SBU) In the last two years, Venezuela and Iran have signed at least 61 agreements, respective presidents have visited each other at least four times, and trade between both countries has increased exponentially in percentage terms. However, the number of joint ventures in operation on the g [...] | 2006-11-08 12:59:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PGOV PREL EFIN VE IR |
06CARACAS335 | CARACAS URBAN EXPROPRIATIONS SPURS WAVE OF [...] (SBU) After the Mayor of Caracas announced the expropriation of thirteen (mostly vacant or under construction) residential buildings on Jan 5 to provide housing for those displaced by heavy rains, a wave of illegal occupations swept through the city. The occupations were aided directly by po [...] | 2006-02-09 16:12:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV VE |
06CARACAS3375 | BRV TO ISSUE BONOS DEL SUR [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Ministry of Finance (MF) announced the imminent issuance of the long-awaited "Bonos del Sur" on November 7. The bonds, issued jointly by Venezuela and Argentina, will be worth USD 1 billion and are expected to start trading the week of November 13. The bonds will likely be [...] | 2006-11-13 15:28:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN VE |
06CARACAS3411 | SAVING FOR A RAINY DAY? BRV ACCUMULATES CASH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy estimates are that the BRV currently has between USD 40 and 50 billion in available funds, apart from the USD 35 billion in foreign exchange reserves, distributed between the Central Bank (BCV) and private and public sector banks. These funds represent "excess" oil rev [...] | 2006-11-15 19:52:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN VE |
06CARACAS3414 | INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY FROM THE REVOLUTIONARY [...] (SBU) The BRV's Autonomous Intellectual Property Service (SAPI) held a conference on November 3-4 to discuss intellectual property from the ALBA (Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas) perspective. The event brought together government officials, Cuban regime panelists, and members of left [...] | 2006-11-16 12:15:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ECON ETRD WIPO VE |
06CARACAS3437 | DEMARCHE ON CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION NATIONAL [...] No summary [...] | 2006-11-20 21:21:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL CBW BWC CWC OPCW VE |
06CARACAS3439 | DEMARCHE ON COUNTRY RESOLUTIONS DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2006-11-20 21:37:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL UNHRC VZ |
06CARACAS3500 | STOCKING UP FOR THE HOLIDAYS [...] (U) SUMMARY: Economic inefficiencies, coupled with retrograde government policies, future uncertainty, and record-high consumer spending are making shortages an increasing part of life in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela. Recent weeks have seen recurring shortages of sugar and milk and m [...] | 2006-11-30 15:21:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR VE |
06CARACAS3505 | AN OVERVIEW OF THE BRV'S 24 MISSIONS [...] (SBU) According to the Ministry of Finance, since 2003, President Chavez has spent USD 12.9 billion to create 24 "missions" - government funded social programs - in a variety of areas. The first missions focused on basic needs of the poorest sectors of society. Chavez then took advantage of [...] | 2006-11-30 21:28:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON VE |
06CARACAS3530 | VENEZUELAN ELECTION UPDATE - NOON (EST) [...] (SBU) Summary. Opposition candidate Manuel Rosales told the media that he is concerned that voting delays are occurring disproportionately in traditional opposition strongholds. Rosales nevertheless said that voting was occurring with "a certain degree of normality." A relaxed President Cha [...] | 2006-12-03 18:31:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM VE |
06CARACAS3561 | BRAZILIAN FIRMS SAMBA ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Venezuelan-Brazilian trade is expected to reach USD 4 billion this year, representing a 60 percent increase over 2005. This increase is consistent with Venezuela's import boom and with the growing relationship between the two countries. Brazilian firms also seem to be winning [...] | 2006-12-07 18:52:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD VE |
06CARACAS3617 | NO PLANES, SOME TRAINS AND MANY, MANY AUTOMOBILES [...] (U) Caracas roads and highways are congested like never before, leading to massive gridlock and huge productivity losses. A result of insufficient infrastructure and over a 100 percent increase in car sales during the past two years, the plight of Caracas residents seems unlikely to be resolve [...] | 2006-12-13 19:44:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON SOCI VE |
06CARACAS3621 | POST-ELECTION SCENESETTER FOR CODEL DELAHUNT/MEEKS [...] (SBU) Representatives Delahunt and Meeks are already very familiar with the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV). They will be the first congressional visitors to come to Caracas since their April 23-24 visit, and this visit comes on the heels of President Chavez's re-election on December 3. [...] | 2006-12-14 18:09:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV VE |
06CARACAS3653 | VENEZUELA: THE BEST IS YET TO COME [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Two days after the Presidential election, the BRV instituted several changes to customs and currency control regulations. The measures included a 15 percent luxury tariff, price controls on construction materials, and changes to the list of goods which qualify for foreign exch [...] | 2006-12-19 21:27:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN VE |
06CARACAS444 | VENEZUELA WAKES UP AND SMELLS THE COFFEE [...] (U) After the BRV doubled the price roasters had to pay farmers for raw coffee beans, and fixed the price of ground coffee below cost, a nationwide shortage of ground coffee took effect in late December 2005. Roasters refused to sell their product at a loss and hoarded it in an attempt to pr [...] | 2006-02-16 20:56:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR VE |
06CARACAS503 | MESSAGE ON PALESTINIAN ASSISTANCE DELIVERED [...] (SBU) Ministry of Foreign Affairs Third Secretary for Multilateral Affairs Aldo Perfetto had no substantive response to ref A regarding the US government's conditions for providing future financial assistance to the new Palestinian Authority government. Perfetto agreed, however, to pass talki [...] | 2006-02-23 19:06:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL IS KPAL |
06CARACAS523 | VENEZUELA'S SIXTH ANNUAL TIP REPORT SUBMISSION [...] (SBU) The following is post's input (ref A) for the sixth annual anti-trafficking in persons report (TIP). Political officer LaTranda Martin is Embassy,s point of contact. Telephone: 58-212-907-8531; Fax: 58-212-907-8033; Email: martinls@state.gov. Hours spent compiling the report: 31. 2 [...] | 2006-02-24 21:11:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF |
06CARACAS631 | JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF VENEZUELA DISTANCES FROM [...] (SBU) Recently, the president of Junior Achievement Venezuela visited the Embassy to convey his organization's decision to cancel a planned annual reception for supporters which was to be held at the Ambassador's residence. The decision was the result of a split vote by their board of director [...] | 2006-03-08 20:49:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM KPAO VE |
06CARACAS76 | MAJOR CARACAS HIGHWAY SHUTS DOWN AS RESIDENTS [...] (SBU) On January 9, residents of "El Chupulun" in the municipality of Baruta staged protests on the Prados del Este highway, a major Caracas thoroughfare, shutting it down for two and half hours and causing major traffic congestion. The residents were demanding that the mayor of Baruta take [...] | 2006-01-12 18:28:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM VE |
06CARACAS80 | GOV GRANTED OBSERVER STATUS IN AU [...] (U) Vice-Minister for Africa Reinaldo Bolivar announced December 23 that the African Union (AU) had approved Venezuela's May 2005 request for observer status. Venezuela is now one of 23 non-African states, including Cuba, granted observer status since the AU established guidelines for their p [...] | 2006-01-12 20:08:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL VE |
06CARACAS854 | BOLIVARIAN DOLLAR DIPLOMACY [...] (U) SUMMARY: During the past year President Chavez has undertaken an extensive dollar-diplomacy campaign to win friends and influence countries in the region and beyond. Two recent studies, drawn from Chavez' announcements, place BRV public commitments of support (donations, discounts, gover [...] | 2006-03-29 16:52:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID PREL VE |
06CASABLANCA1020 | VISAS VIPER FOR AUGUST 2006 REPORTING PERIOD [...] (U) Members of the Embassy Rabat and Consulate General Casablanca joint Visas Viper Committee met September 5, 2006. The meeting was chaired by the Acting DCM and attended by representatives from CONS, RAO, RSO, POL, ECON, PAS, DAO and LEGATT. 2. (SBU) The Committee submits the following 53 [...] | 2006-09-08 17:11:00 | Consulate Casablanca | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KVPR CVIS CMGT PINR PTER ASEC MO |
06CASABLANCA1151 | VISAS VIPER FOR SEPTEMBER 2006 REPORTING PERIOD [...] (U) Members of the Embassy Rabat and Consulate General Casablanca joint Visas Viper Committee met October 2, 2006. The meeting was chaired by the DCM and attended by the CG and representatives from CONS, RAO, RSO, POL, ECON, PAS, DAO and LEGATT. 2. (SBU) The Committee submits the following [...] | 2006-10-06 15:41:00 | Consulate Casablanca | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KVPR CVIS CMGT PINR PTER ASEC MO |
06CASABLANCA1233 | MOROCCANS PROTEST HIGH PRICES WITH LOW TURN-OUT [...] (U) Summary: As Ramadan began in late September, so did protests in Casablanca and other major cities against the rise in prices of basic commodities. However, levels of participation were lower than organizers had hoped. This was due in part to the fact that the GOM gained union acceptance [...] | 2006-10-31 10:39:00 | Consulate Casablanca | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN KDEM MO |
06CASABLANCA1286 | VISAS VIPER FOR OCTOBER 2006 REPORTING PERIOD [...] (U) Members of the Embassy Rabat and Consulate General Casablanca joint Visas Viper Committee met November 7, 2006. The meeting was chaired by CONS on behalf of the DCM and attended by the CG and representatives from RAO, RSO, ECON, PAS, DAO and LEGATT. POL earlier reported they had no names [...] | 2006-11-09 15:47:00 | Consulate Casablanca | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KVPR CVIS CMGT PINR PTER ASEC MO |
06CASABLANCA1293 | VISAS VIPER REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2006-11-15 07:06:00 | Consulate Casablanca | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KVPR CVIS CMGT PINR PTER ASEC MO |
06CASABLANCA1294 | VISAS VIPER REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2006-11-15 07:34:00 | Consulate Casablanca | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KVPR CVIS CMGT PINR PTER ASEC MO |
06CASABLANCA1298 | MOROCCAN NGO FOR CIVIC EDUCATION, DEMOCRACY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Forum for Citizenship is an NGO that promotes democratic principles, civic education, and open political dialogue. While its efforts have been successful, particularly in creating clubs to educate youth about democracy, it counts among its challenges regional instability and [...] | 2006-11-17 13:50:00 | Consulate Casablanca | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PHUM PGOV PREL MO |
06CASABLANCA1308 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON MARITIME SAFETY ISSUES [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Per reftel, Econoff delivered talking points regarding the International Maritime Organization's (IMO) role in two maritime safety and security programs to Mohamed Marzagui, Chief of the Division of Maritim [...] | 2006-11-22 15:49:00 | Consulate Casablanca | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTIA EWWT ANET AORC PREL ECPS IMO |
06CASABLANCA1314 | VISAS VIPER FOR NOVEMBER 2006 REPORTING PERIOD [...] (U) Members of the Embassy Rabat and Consulate General Casablanca joint Visas Viper Committee met December 4, 2006. The meeting was chaired by the DCM and attended by the CG and representatives from CONS, POL, RAO, RSO, ECON, PAS, DAO and LEGATT. 2. (SBU) The Committee submits the following [...] | 2006-12-05 07:58:00 | Consulate Casablanca | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KVPR CVIS CMGT PINR PTER ASEC MO |
06CASABLANCA1325 | MOROCCAN BANKS ON REGIONAL GROWTH, REFORM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A recent series of meetings with Morocco's three national banks showed that while they have distinct personalities, they share a strong interest in expanding to francophone Africa and other countries in the Maghreb. They also agree that the economic climate in Morocco has improv [...] | 2006-12-20 08:54:00 | Consulate Casablanca | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN KDEM MO |
06CASABLANCA167 | VISAS VIPER FOR JANUARY 2006 REPORTING PERIOD [...] (U) Members of the Embassy Rabat and Consulate General Casablanca joint Visas Viper Committee met on February 6, 2006. The meeting was chaired by the DCM and attended by the CG and representatives from CONS, RAO, RSO, POL, ECON, DAO, PAS, and LEGATT. 2. (SBU) The Committee submits the f [...] | 2006-02-08 13:50:00 | Consulate Casablanca | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KVPR CVIS CMGT PINR PTER ASEC MO |
06CASABLANCA232 | MOROCCO 2005 ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (U) This cable responds to action request (ref A) for updated information on the Moroccan government's efforts to combat trafficking in persons from March 2005 to March 2006. --------------------------------- Morocco Remains [...] | 2006-02-28 15:52:00 | Consulate Casablanca | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB MO |
06CASABLANCA264 | VISAS VIPER FOR FEBRUARY 2006 REPORTING PERIOD [...] (U) Members of the Embassy Rabat and Consulate General Casablanca joint Visas Viper Committee met on March 6, 2006. The meeting was chaired by the DCM and attended by the CG and representatives from CONS, RAO, RSO, POL, ECON, DAO, RAO, PAS, and LEGATT. 2. (SBU) The Committee agreed that L [...] | 2006-03-08 17:05:00 | Consulate Casablanca | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KVPR CVIS CMGT PINR PTER ASEC MO |
06CASABLANCA365 | VISAS VIPER FOR MARCH 2006 REPORTING PERIOD [...] Members of the Embassy Rabat and Consulate General Casablanca joint Visas Viper Committee met on April 3, 2006. The meeting was chaired by the DCM and attended by the CG and representatives from CONS, RAO, RSO, POL, ECON, PAS, and LEGATT. DAO was unable to attend, but noted prior to the meet [...] | 2006-04-07 09:10:00 | Consulate Casablanca | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KVPR CVIS CMGT PINR PTER ASEC MO |
06CASABLANCA45 | VISAS VIPER FOR DECEMBER 2005 REPORTING PERIOD [...] (U) Members of the Embassy Rabat and Consulate General Casablanca joint Visas Viper committee met on January 9, 2006. The meeting was chaired by the DCM and attended by the CG and representatives from CONS, RAO, RSO, POL, ECON, DAO, PAS, and LEGATT. 2. (SBU) The committee has no names [...] | 2006-01-10 15:33:00 | Consulate Casablanca | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KVPR CVIS CMGT PINR PTER ASEC MO |
06CASABLANCA489 | VISAS VIPER FOR APRIL 2006 REPORTING PERIOD [...] (U) Members of the Embassy Rabat and Consulate General Casablanca joint Visas Viper Committee met on May 8, 2006. The meeting was chaired by the DCM and attended by the CG and representatives from CONS, RAO, RSO, POL, ECON, PAS, DAO and LEGATT. 2. (SBU) The Committee submits the following n [...] | 2006-05-10 16:15:00 | Consulate Casablanca | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KVPR CVIS CMGT PINR PTER ASEC MO |
06CASABLANCA530 | MOROCCO PROPOSES NEW LAW TO RESCUE LITTLE MAIDS [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (U) Summary: On May 9, 2006, Secretary of State in Charge of Families, Children, and the Handicapped, Yasmina Baddou, announced the GOM's plan of action to end the practice of employing child maids in Morocco [...] | 2006-05-19 17:02:00 | Consulate Casablanca | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB EIND ETRD EAID PHUM SOCI KWMN MO |
06CASABLANCA562 | CASABLANCA COMMEMORATES THIRD YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF [...] This cable is sensitive but unclassified, please protect accordingly. 2. (U) Summary: On May 16 2006, the city of Casablanca peacefully commemorated those who fell to terrorism three years ago when 12 suicide bombers struck five sites around the city. Government officials, civil society [...] | 2006-05-25 09:23:00 | Consulate Casablanca | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM MO |
06CASABLANCA634 | UNHCR PROPOSES JOINT REFUGEE REGISTRATION WITH GOM [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) On May 24, UNHCR Head of Office Johannes Van der Klaauw told poloff that he had submitted a proposal to the Ministry of Interior (MOI) and the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) seeking to form a joint registrati [...] | 2006-06-09 15:10:00 | Consulate Casablanca | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF PREL SOCI PGOV MO |
06CASABLANCA674 | VISAS VIPER FOR MAY 2006 REPORTING PERIOD [...] (U) Members of the Embassy Rabat and Consulate General Casablanca joint Visas Viper Committee met on June 12, 2006. The meeting was chaired by the DCM and attended by the CG and representatives from CONS, RAO, RSO, POL, ECON, PAS, DAO and LEGATT. 2. (SBU) The Committee has no names to submi [...] | 2006-06-16 17:08:00 | Consulate Casablanca | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KVPR CVIS CMGT PINR PTER ASEC MO |
06CASABLANCA771 | VISAS VIPER FOR JUNE 2006 REPORTING PERIOD [...] (U) Members of the Embassy Rabat and Consulate General Casablanca joint Visas Viper Committee met on July 3, 2006. The meeting was chaired by the DCM and attended by the CG and representatives from CONS, RAO, RSO, POL, ECON, PAS, DAO and LEGATT. 2. (SBU) The Committee has no names to submit [...] | 2006-07-06 15:20:00 | Consulate Casablanca | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KVPR CVIS CMGT PINR PTER ASEC MO |
06CASABLANCA819 | RESPONSE: EFFECTIVENESS OF UN EFFORTS TO COMBAT SEXUAL [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (U) This cable is a response to a request for information on MINURSO's efforts to combat trafficking in persons (TIP) and sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) involving UN peacekeeping mission personnel in the We [...] | 2006-07-17 16:16:00 | Consulate Casablanca | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM KPRO PGOV MO |
06CASABLANCA851 | ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING LAW TAKES SIGNIFICANT STEP [...] (U) On July 20th, the Ministerial Council presided over by King Mohammed VI approved Morocco's long-awaited draft Anti-Money Laundering (AML) legislation. The royally-approved draft law can now be presented to Parliament when it convenes in the second week of October. Both the upper and lo [...] | 2006-07-21 14:40:00 | Consulate Casablanca | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN KTFN PTER MO |
06CASABLANCA926 | VISAS VIPER FOR JULY 2006 REPORTING PERIOD [...] (U) Members of the Embassy Rabat and Consulate General Casablanca joint Visas Viper Committee met on August 7, 2006. The meeting was chaired by the Acting DCM and attended by representatives from CONS, RAO, RSO, POL, ECON, PAS, DAO and LEGATT. 2. (SBU) The Committee has no names to submit f [...] | 2006-08-08 16:58:00 | Consulate Casablanca | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KVPR CVIS CMGT PINR PTER ASEC MO |
06CHENGDU1250 | FEDERAL RESERVE LOOKS AT SOUTHWEST CHINA DEVELOPMENT [...] (SBU) Summary. A Federal Reserve delegation visited Chengdu from November 28-30. According to local government leaders, the economies of Sichuan and Chengdu will continue to grow rapidly, although environmental protection is a concern. Representatives of smaller U.S. businesses operating in [...] | 2006-12-08 05:34:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV SENV CH |
06CHENGDU1252 | HHS SECRETARY SEES SOUTHWEST CHINA HEALTH CHALLENGES [...] (SBU) Summary. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Michael O. Leavitt visited rural health-care providers in Sichuan Province and met with Central Government and Provincial health authorities on southwest China's health-care challenges. While touring the small village of Yujian, about tw [...] | 2006-12-12 11:18:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI ECON ELAB PGOV SCUL SENV TBIO CH |
06CHENNAI1002 | PONDICHERRY: CONGRESS RETAINS POWER WITH DMK [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Congress Chief Minister N. Rangasamy returned to power in the Union Territory of Pondicherry, forming a minority government with the external support of the DMK and other allies. A cluster of four former French enclaves in South India with a total population of one million, Pon [...] | 2006-05-19 04:24:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR IN |
06CHENNAI1105 | PROPOSED VAT ON IMPORTS MAY SHRINK MARKET FOR [...] (U) SUMMARY: Fruit dealers in south India expect U.S. apple imports to shrink by 30% to 50% if a proposed Value Added Tax (VAT) on imports is levied. Commercial Tax Commissioners in southern states oppose the imposition of VAT on imports because they fear a loss of tax revenue and potential a [...] | 2006-05-30 10:56:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD PGOV IN |
06CHENNAI1176 | CORRECTIONS TO CHENNAI 01105 - VAT ON IMPORTED [...] (U) SUMMARY: Post has learned that trade sources quoted in Reftel were misinformed and that a VAT on imports of fresh fruits and vegetables, reported as a possibility in Reftel, is extremely unlikely. A Government of Karnataka tax official has confirmed that the imposition of a VAT on importe [...] | 2006-06-07 02:49:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD PGOV IN |
06CHENNAI1188 | TAMIL NADU REPEALS ITS ANTI-CONVERSION LAW [...] (U) SUMMARY: On May 31, 2006, the newly elected Tamil Nadu Assembly passed a bill that formally repealed the state's already inactive anti-conversion law. Formal repeal of the anti-conversion law fulfilled a campaign promise of the victorious Dravida Munnethra Khazhagam (DMK) party. END SUMM [...] | 2006-06-08 04:09:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV SOCI DRL IN |
06CHENNAI1195 | KERALA CHIEF MINISTER ACHUTHANANDAN: VINTAGE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Eighty three years old and with little formal education, Kerala's new Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) is different from the state's previous communist Chief Ministers in that he hails from a low- caste and working class background. Wi [...] | 2006-06-09 10:19:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR IN |
06CHENNAI1200 | ST-CMS ENERGY PLANS TO PURSUE ARBITRATION IN ITS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: U.S. company ST-CMS Energy plans to immediately begin arbitration proceedings to seek to resolve its dispute with the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB) over the final capital costs of its 250 megawatt power plant in Neyaveli, Tamil Nadu. This case is an unresolved legacy issu [...] | 2006-06-09 11:36:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ENRG ECON PGOV IN |
06CHENNAI1247 | NEPALI MAOIST SENTENCED TO THREE YEARS BY [...] SUMMARY: (SBU) C.P. Gajurel, a Nepali Maoist leader who has been held in a Chennai jail since his arrest in 2003 on charges of presenting a forged passport at Chennai airport, was sentenced to three years imprisonment by a Chennai court on June 13. The sentencing follows continued demands for [...] | 2006-06-15 04:40:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR PTER IN NP |
06CHENNAI1418 | DIVIDED AND AMBIVALENT: KERALA'S NEW LEFTIST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A recent visit to Kerala one month into the new CPI(M)-led government found Chief Minister Achuthanandan's cabinet divided, slow off the mark and ambivalent about new foreign investment. Nonetheless, the government enjoys a huge majority in the legislative assembly and is solid [...] | 2006-07-06 10:08:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR EINV IN |
06CHENNAI1426 | TAMIL NADU: NO POPULAR SUPPORT FOR SRI LANKAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Tamil Nadu Government (GoTN) and the state's political parties across the board continue to voice sympathy for the Tamils of Sri Lanka but there is little evidence of a groundswell of support in Tamil Nadu for the LTTE or other militant groups. In a recent meeting with Cons [...] | 2006-07-11 11:01:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PTER PHUM IN CE |
06CHENNAI1497 | SMALL INDIAN SHRIMP EXPORTERS SETTLE WITH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: 24 Indian shrimp exporters have reached agreement with the Southern Shrimp Alliance (SSA) to remove their names from the Department of Commerce's review list for imposition of dumping duties. This continues the trend that began in May when exporters from Thailand, Vietnam and E [...] | 2006-07-13 11:48:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PGOV EFIS EIND IN CE BR EC TH CH VM |
06CHENNAI1660 | TAMIL NADU TO ADOPT VAT FROM JANUARY 2007 [...] (U) Summary: U.S. companies have welcomed the Tamil Nadu government's announcement that it will adopt Value Added Tax (VAT) from January 2007. The companies remain apprehensive of the rules that will govern implementation, however. State officials assert that rule formulation will be consultat [...] | 2006-07-27 08:01:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV IN |
06CHENNAI1705 | MAOIST LEADERS KILLED IN ANDHRA PRADESH [...] (U) Summary: In a recent series of incidents in the state of Andhra Pradesh (AP) in south India, police forces have killed numerous Maoist insurgents, including several leaders. Although the number of Maoist fighters in AP has fallen due to police action and moves into neighboring states, the [...] | 2006-08-01 11:33:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINS PTER PHUM ASEC IN |
06CHENNAI1746 | REFUGEE INFLOW INCREASES AS FIGHTING ESCALATES IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The number of Sri Lankan refugees reaching Tamil Nadu shores continues to accelerate. From a total of 304 refugee arrivals in January the number has grown to 1,892, taking the total number of arrivals in 2006 to 5,799. Escalated fighting on the island and the welcome signal ext [...] | 2006-08-04 11:35:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREF IN |
06CHENNAI1786 | SRI LANKAN ISSUE: CENTER AND TAMIL NADU ON THE SAME PAGE, [...] (U) With the Sri Lankan Tamil issue grabbing increased media and political attention in Tamil Nadu, GOI National Security Adviser M.K. Narayanan held discussions with Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi on August 9. After the meeting, Narayanan told the Chennai media corps that "there is [...] | 2006-08-11 11:09:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR IN |
06CHENNAI1813 | REFUGEE INFLOW INCREASES AS FIGHTING ESCALATES IN SRI LANKA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The number of Sri Lankan refugees reaching Tamil Nadu shores continues to accelerate. From a total of 304 refugee arrivals in January the number has grown to 1,892, taking the total number of arrivals in 2006 to 5,799. Escalated fighting on the island and the welcome signal exte [...] | 2006-08-18 11:23:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREF IN |
06CHENNAI1818 | FURTHER INCREASE IN SRI LANKAN REFUGEE ARRIVALS [...] (SBU) With the tense situation prevailing in northern Sri Lanka, there has been a further rise in the number of refugees arriving Tamil Nadu. According to Chennai-based UNHCR Associate Repatriation Officer Vadeja Bharati, 528 persons landed at Mandapam on August 20, the highest number to land [...] | 2006-08-21 11:52:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR PHUM CE IN |
06CHENNAI1856 | TAMIL NADU CONGRESS PRESSES DMK TO TAKE FIRM STAND AGAINST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A quiet walk-out of Congress legislators from the Tamil Nadu assembly on August 22 brought into media focus the policy differences between the DMK and the Congress -- partners in the UPA alliance -- on the sensitive Sri Lankan Tamil issue. Despite the tactical show of protest, h [...] | 2006-08-25 11:05:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR IN |
06CHENNAI212 | NEW KARNATAKA CHIEF MINISTER H.D. KUMARASWAMY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Haradanahally Deve Kumaraswamy (age 46),a former film producer and the son of former Indian Prime Minister Deve Gowda, became the new Chief Minister of the south Indian state of Karnataka on February 3, 2006. Kumaraswamy, who led a defection of Janata Dal (Secular) (JD(S)) as [...] | 2006-02-07 10:24:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR IN |
06CHENNAI2145 | ANDHRA PRADESH POLICE SEIZE CACHE OF CRUDE ROCKETS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Andhra Pradesh (AP) Police Chief confirmed to Post the seizure of hundreds of Chennai-made rocket shells and dozens of rocket launchers from the storehouses of a transport company in the Mahaboobnagar and Prakasam Districts of AP on September 8. With no evidence of LTTE invo [...] | 2006-09-18 11:27:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINS PTER PHUM ASEC IN |
06CHENNAI2303 | COMMUNAL RIOTS CLOSE MANGALORE: PORT REMAINS OPEN [...] (SBU) Summary: Four days of sporadic communal (Hindu-Muslim) clashes and the resulting curfew stopped most commercial activity from October 4 to 9 in the western Karnataka port city of Mangalore. The conflict was sparked when militant Hindu groups attempted to prevent the transport of cattle f [...] | 2006-10-10 09:45:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV MARR PINS PINR EWWT ASEC CASC IN |
06CHENNAI2308 | SCA/INS DIRECTOR BERNICAT ENGAGES SOUTH INDIAN [...] (SBU) Summary: Political analysts Lt. General V.R. Raghavan and N. Sathiya Moorthy agreed that prospects for the upcoming October 28 talks were somewhat encouraging between the Government of Sri Lanka (GoSL) and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) during discussions on October 5 with [...] | 2006-10-10 11:47:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER IN NP CE |
06CHENNAI2407 | RULING DMK PARTY WINS TAMIL NADU LOCAL POLLS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The ruling DMK party and its allies -- including the Congress -- emerged clear winners in the October elections to Tamil Nadu local bodies, but the victory was tainted by wide allegations of violence by DMK henchmen, particularly in Chennai. The DMK hopes the violence will soon b [...] | 2006-10-25 08:02:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV IN |
06CHENNAI2467 | TWO SUSPECTED TERRORISTS ARRESTED IN MYSORE [...] (SBU) Summary: City police in Mysore, west of Bangalore in the south Indian state of Karnataka, announced the arrest of two Islamic terrorists on October 27. According to the Mysore city police commissioner, the two arrested suspects are Pakistani nationals and members of Al Badr, a Pakistan b [...] | 2006-10-31 04:57:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV PINR ASEC CASC IN |
06CHENNAI2552 | SOUTH INDIA REACTS TO HUSSEIN VERDICT: SECURITY NOT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Reactions to the Saddam Hussein verdict from the left-leaning political parties in south India - Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh - ranged from mild opposition to strong condemnation. Protests were peaceful overall yet indicative of the region's steadfast opposi [...] | 2006-11-09 11:24:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC CASC PTER PGOV IN |
06CHENNAI2554 | TAMIL NADU: ECONOMIC GROWTH, BUT IRRITANTS REMAIN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The growing FDI inflow into Tamil Nadu, particularly in the manufacturing sector, the support the state receives from the Center due to the synergic political arrangement between the DMK and the Congress parties, the bipartisan support for economic development available in the st [...] | 2006-11-09 11:40:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ETRD ECON EINV ENRG IN |
06CHENNAI2555 | MILITARY ATTACKS IN SRI LANKA: TAMIL NADU URGES CENTER TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Pro-Eelam Tamil rhetoric has again gone into high pitch in Tamil Nadu following the recent Sri Lankan army attacks in Tamil areas (ref a) and in anticipation of the upcoming India visit of Sri Lankan President Rajapakshe. Chief Minister Karunanidhi cited the recent attacks on Ta [...] | 2006-11-13 10:03:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV IN CE |
06CHENNAI2564 | UPDATE ON U.S. POWER PRODUCERS' DISPUTES IN TAMIL NADU [...] (SBU) Summary: This message provides an update on the long-standing disputes, often called "legacy issues," between three U.S. independent powers producers (IPPs) and the Government of Tamil Nadu (GoTN). In a letter to post received November 8, the GoTN asserted that it is awaiting a directive [...] | 2006-11-17 11:35:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ENRG ECON EFIN PREL PGOV IN |
06CHENNAI2575 | SRI LANKA PRESIDENT'S INDIA VISIT CAUSES MILD TURBULENCE IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Protest demonstrations, quiet in-camera consultations with the Center, and passive indifference -- Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa's visit to India has drawn three types of responses from Tamil Nadu's political parties. Tamil Nadu's smaller pro-LTTE parties such as the MD [...] | 2006-11-27 11:04:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER IN CE |
06CHENNAI2580 | D/USTR AMBASSADOR BHATIA VISIT TO CHENNAI [...] (SBU) Ambassador Karan Bhatia's visit to Chennai was a full morning to evening schedule on November 29. He spoke with Chennai-based business people and journalists on a range of topics. At the Ford Factory, the issue of excise tax concessions for small cars, piqued his interest. With members [...] | 2006-12-04 05:33:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV ECON PGOV IN |
06CHENNAI2584 | MUSLIM POLITICS OF KERALA: EMERGING HARDLINERS A CAUSE OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Kerala's widely reported sympathy for the convicted Saddam Hussein is a pointer to the direction of Islamic politics in this south Indian state where 24% of the population is Sunni Muslim. Driven by anti-Iraq war sentiments and leftist politics, Kerala's Muslim population strong [...] | 2006-12-06 11:05:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER PINR ASEC KISL CASC IN |
06CHENNAI2590 | BY-ELECTION RESULTS WORRY SOUTH INDIA RULING PARTIES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Four by-elections in three south Indian states produced results mostly worrying to the states' ruling parties. Karnataka's unstable JD(S)-BJP ruling coalition had yet another setback in the victory of a prominent JD(S) defector to the Congress. In Andhra Pradesh's Karimnagar con [...] | 2006-12-08 09:39:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV IN |
06CHENNAI2601 | SUSPECTED LTTE ARMS SMUGGLING FROM TAMIL NADU [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A chance discovery in southern Tamil Nadu of thousands of "gelex boosters" suspected to be on their way to Sri Lanka's Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) has embarrassed the state police, who long have denied any arms movement from the state. Separately, the Indian Navy sei [...] | 2006-12-12 07:33:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER IN CE |
06CHENNAI2607 | U/S BURNS IN HYDERABAD: A NEW CONSULATE, MORE [...] (SBU) Summary: A busy series of December 9 meetings and a wide-ranging &windshield tour8 provided Under Secretary for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns a quick but thorough introduction to one of India,s leading boom towns and the planned site for the fifth U.S. post in India. While hi-tech dr [...] | 2006-12-14 10:02:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AMGT ABLD CMGT ECON KISL IN |
06CHENNAI295 | NEW KARNATAKA DEPUTY CHIEF MINISTER [...] (SBU) SUMARY: Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister Bukanakere Siddalingappa Yediyurappa (age 63),leader of the Bharathiya Janata Party (BJP) in the Karnataka legislature, took his oath of office on February 3, 2006. A member of the Hindu nationalist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS),he has headed [...] | 2006-02-14 11:30:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR IN |
06CHENNAI393 | TAMIL NADU ELECTION: DRAMATIC CHANGES AS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: With Tamil Nadu state assembly elections slated for May 8, intense political activity is changing the shape of party alliances. Vaiko, an LTTE supporter (Reftel) and fiery orator, has led his party out of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) fold to join hands with his former fo [...] | 2006-03-06 11:21:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PTER IN |
06CHENNAI476 | MINOR BOMB EXPLOSIONS IN NORTH KERALA RAISE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Two crude bomb explosions in Kozhikode (formerly known as Calicut),located in the northern part of Kerala, on March 10, highlighted the activity of Islamic groups dominant in the region. In view of the anti-U.S. attitude of these groups, security precautions are advisable whil [...] | 2006-03-14 11:33:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PTER ASCE CASC IN |
06CHENNAI521 | TAMIL NADU ELECTION: THE ACTION BEGINS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The lineups are set and the battle lines drawn for the Tamil Nadu state assembly elections on May 8. Incumbent Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa's campaign seems to have the momentum but her opposition may have the more impressive coalition in terms of committed voters. Swing vote [...] | 2006-03-21 10:58:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR IN |
06CHENNAI567 | KERALA ELECTIONS: INFIGHTING SUSPENDED, RIVAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Communist-led Left Democratic Front poses a strong challenge to the ruling Congress- led United Democratic Front in the upcoming Kerala state assembly elections slated for April 22, 29 and May 3. Infighting, a perennial bane of the Congress party, has crept into the Communis [...] | 2006-03-27 12:11:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR IN |
06CHENNAI724 | VIOLENCE IN BANGALORE FOLLOWS FILM STAR'S DEATH [...] (U) SUMMARY: Street violence rocked Bangalore on April 12 and 13, following the death of Kannada language film superstar Rajkumar. Widespread street riots left eight persons dead and more than 150 injured. The city's famed information technology industry was forced to shut down operations an [...] | 2006-04-17 10:58:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR IN |
06CHENNAI772 | TAMIL NADU ELECTIONS: MANY GIVEAWAYS, BUT NO [...] SUMMARY: (SBU) Free color TVs for all families without one; ten kilograms of free rice through ration shops; two acres of land for the landless; maternity dole for six months to pregnant women; burial allowance for the dead . . . Tamil Nadu political parties' election promises have surpassed [...] | 2006-04-24 08:37:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR IN |
06CHENNAI802 | INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE ATTACK: TRAIL GOES [...] SUMMARY: (SBU) Four months after a gunman opened fire at the Indian Institute of Science (IISC) at Bangalore, the assailant remains at large. While Karnataka police officially blame the Jammu and Kashmir based Lashkar e- Tayyiba (LeT) for the attack, in private they speculate that the attacke [...] | 2006-04-25 11:47:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV PINR ASEC CASC OVIP IN |
06CHENNAI846 | BOOM TIMES FOR SOUTH INDIAN COTTON MILLS [...] SUMMARY: (U) The cotton textile industry in south India is in the midst of a boom as international demand continues to grow for all categories of Indian cotton products. The spurt in demand, attributed to low production costs, internationally acceptable levels of quality and the removal of qu [...] | 2006-05-02 10:20:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV ETRD EAGR EIND IN |
06CHENNAI848 | KERALA ELECTIONS: EXIT POLLS POINT TO A LEFT [...] SUMMARY: (SBU) Peaceful polling and unanimous exit poll results predicting a Left Front victory marked the first and second phases of Kerala elections, which cover 90% of the state. The remaining constituencies will vote on May 3. Despite the Congress leaders' media bravado, they privately a [...] | 2006-05-02 10:22:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR IN |
06CHENNAI873 | TAMIL NADU ELECTION: CLOSE CONTEST, BUT DMK- [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Growing DMK confidence of success in Tamil Nadu's May 8 election was evident in our contacts with party insiders during the final days of the campaign. At the end of a long and intensive campaign battle, opinion polls and conversations with experts indicate a narrow lead for th [...] | 2006-05-05 11:20:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR IN |
06CHENNAI898 | SRI LANKAN TAMIL REFUGEES AGAIN ARRIVING IN [...] SUMMARY: (SBU) Tamil refugee leader Chandrahasan has reported to Post and Government of Tamil Nadu (GoTN) officials have confirmed that on May 6, a renewed flow of Tamil refugees from Sri Lanka to south India began after a hiatus of four months. The flow at this point is light but may increas [...] | 2006-05-09 11:48:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PHUM PTER IN CE |
06CHENNAI926 | SOUTH INDIA VOTES FOR CHANGE [...] SUMMARY: (U) In state assembly election results announced on May 11, incumbent governments in Tamil Nadu and Kerala lost to their traditional rivals. In the Union Territory of Pondicherry, the current Congress government won another term. END SUMMARY. ------------------ TAMIL NADU RESULTS [...] | 2006-05-11 11:58:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR IN |
06CHENNAI969 | DMK AND CONGRESS PREVAIL IN TAMIL NADU AS [...] SUMMARY: (SBU) The DMK-alliance, led by 82 year old M. Karunanidhi, won a closer than normal Tamil Nadu state assembly election and will set up Tamil Nadu's first minority government in memory. Their victory was assured by a cohesive coalition of parties with Congress making an especially st [...] | 2006-05-16 08:00:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR IN |
06CHENNAI971 | BIO OF NEW TAMIL NADU CHIEF MINISTER KARUNANIDHI [...] (SBU) Reftel described state assembly election results in Tamil Nadu. Post has updated the biographical information on newly elected Chief Minister M. Karunanidhi. The complete new biography can be found on Consulate General Chennai's SIPRNet site under "South India Materials - Biographies - [...] | 2006-05-16 11:21:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR IN |
06CHIANGMAI117 | NORTHERN MUSLIMS CULTIVATE MODERATE IMAGE [...] (U) Summary: With 17 mosques and the largest percentage of Muslims outside of Thailand's southern provinces, Chiang Mai is regarded as a model of inter-cultural harmony. One important element is a Provincial Islamic Committee (PIC) that cultivates a moderate, scholarly image and works close [...] | 2006-07-21 08:29:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PNAT PHUM KPAO OEXC OIIP TH |
06CHIANGMAI165 | SAPRANG SOFTENS HIS TONE [...] (SBU) Outspoken Third Army Commander LTG Saprang Kalayamitra has continued to consolidate control in the northern region, winning marks for showing restraint in his dealings with a police investigation and for a softer tone in his meetings with local officials. 2. (SBU) According to a lo [...] | 2006-09-29 11:18:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV TH |
06CHIANGMAI181 | CONCERNS OVER SPDC OFFENSIVE IN KAREN STATE [...] (SBU) Summary: According to border sources, the Burmese army offensive in Karen State that persisted throughout the rainy season (ref b) is now intensifying, despite continued heavy rains, and appears aimed at crushing the Karen resistance. Meanwhile, the Karen National Union (KNU) is con [...] | 2006-10-19 09:44:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREF PINS TH BM |
06CHIANGMAI182 | TRT TIES STILL BIND [...] (SBU) Summary: Northerners who derived benefits from the Thai Rak Thai (TRT) party before the Sept. 19 coup that deposed party leader Thaksin Shinawtra are now worried about the loss of that patronage, ranging from government-run social programs to assistance for weddings and funerals from [...] | 2006-10-20 08:39:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV TH |
06CHIANGMAI189 | AIRPORT EXPANSION UNPREPARED FOR EARLY TAKE-OFF [...] (SBU) Summary. Chiang Mai International Airport rushed to inaugurate a new international passenger terminal October 27, reportedly to be ready for the grand opening of the Royal Flora horticultural exposition on November 1. The hasty opening put immigration controls back on manual operati [...] | 2006-10-31 08:25:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON ASEC TH |
06CHIANGMAI193 | FEARS OF THAKSIN'S RETURN FOCUS ON NORTHERN BORDER [...] (SBU) Summary. Northern Thai contacts dismissed as groundless rumors that former Prime Minister Thaksin plans to re-enter the country from China via Thailand's the northern border. The 3rd Army is seen as a likely source for the widely reported stories, either as a way of testing the wa [...] | 2006-11-07 10:50:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PREL TH |
06CHIANGMAI20 | ANGER OVER THAILAND'S EARLY HARVEST AGREEMENT FUELS FTA [...] No summary [...] | 2006-01-20 10:21:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECIN WTRO EAGR PGOV CH TH |
06CHIANGMAI211 | UNDERCURRENTS, CONFIDENCE BOTH WEAK IN NORTH [...] (SBU) Summary. The government's decision to retain martial law in most of northern Thailand Nov. 28 evoked little reaction here beyond concern from the Chiang Mai Chamber of Commerce for the province's image. Political contacts see little reason to maintain restrictions, but were not surp [...] | 2006-12-05 18:52:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV TH |
06CHIANGMAI59 | VISIT TO SHAN CAMP HIGHLIGHTS US CONCERN [...] (SBU) Summary. Despite the last-minute refusal by Thai government authorities to allow entry into an informal Shan refugee camp in northern Chiang Mai province, Ambassador Boyce's March 21 visit to the area succeeded in highlighting U.S. concern about the group. By traveling to the Thai-Burm [...] | 2006-03-31 10:13:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PREL PGOV TH BM |
06CHIANGMAI67 | POLITICALLY CONNECTED RELATIVES VIE FOR CHIANG MAI SENATE [...] (sbu) Summary: Despite a rule against candidates in Thailand's Senate election being members of a political party, several of Chiang Mai's best-known contenders are connected with the Thai Rak Thai (TRT) party via either family or patronage. As in other provinces, this has led to jokes about t [...] | 2006-04-19 07:56:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV TH |
06COLOMBO1008 | CLAYMORE ATTACK ON CIVILIAN BUS [...] (SBU) On Thursday, June 15, 2006 the American Embassy received reports of a claymore mine attack on a civilian bus north east of Anuradhapura town in North Central Province. We have been advised that at approximately 0740 on June 15, 2006, a government operated civilian passenger bus traveling [...] | 2006-06-15 09:40:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC CE PTER |
06COLOMBO1012 | SRI LANKA'S HIGH SUICIDE RATES: A PERSISTENT PUBLIC [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite broad awareness of Sri Lanka's high suicide rate, several factors inhibit the Sri Lankan government's ability to address this public health problem. Suicide and deliberate self-harm (DSH) pose a financial burden on Sri Lanka's healthcare and police and negatively affect [...] | 2006-06-15 11:26:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI PGOV TBIO EAGR ECON CE |
06COLOMBO1038 | A POSSIBLE WAY OUT OF THE FUEL CRISIS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: ON JUNE 11, THE GOVERNMENT OF SRI LANKA (GSL) RAISED THE PRICE OF FUEL FOR THE SECOND TIME IN EIGHT WEEKS AND ANNOUNCED PLANS TO LIBERALIZE FUEL PRICES. THE PRICE HIKE ANNOUNCEMENT CAME AS ABOUT A THIRD OF THE STATIONS IN SRI LANKA, RUN BY THE INDIAN OWNED LANKA INDIAN OIL C [...] | 2006-06-21 03:18:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ENRG ECON CE |
06COLOMBO1052 | INITIAL FIRST QUARTER GDP STATS MAY BE MISLEADING [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Department of Census and Statistics (DCS),an agency coming within the Ministry of Finance and Planning, has released quarterly Gross Domestic Product (GDP) data for the first quarter of 2006. According to these statistics, GDP in the first quarter of 2006 was 7 percent mor [...] | 2006-06-26 12:16:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON CE |
06COLOMBO1142 | SRI LANKA SHUTS DOWN MAIN PAY TV OPERATORS [...] (U) Summary: A sudden clampdown on two of the biggest companies offering pay TV services in Sri Lanka has caused distress to investors and thousands of subscribers. The initial reason for the closure of the first operator was an alleged but still unproven connection to the Liberation Tigers [...] | 2006-07-12 11:52:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ECPS SCVL CE |
06COLOMBO1160 | NEW TAX ON FOREIGN BROADCASTING COULD CRIPPLE POPULAR [...] (U) Summary: The Sri Lankan government (GSL) has imposed a hefty tax exclusively on foreign commercials, television programs, and movies distributed via television. Private TV stations say they will go out of business as a result. The two most prominent foreign media involve Hindi and Engli [...] | 2006-07-14 06:46:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECPS ETRD EFIN SCUL CE |
06COLOMBO1184 | SRI LANKA: ISOLATED VIOLENT INCIDENTS IN NORTH AND [...] (SBU) Summary: A July 12 gun battle between the Sri Lankan Army (SLA) and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) in the eastern region of Batticaloa left 12 SLA troops and reportedly 4 LTTE cadres dead and marked the beginning of several small violent incidents in Sri Lanka's north and ea [...] | 2006-07-19 11:31:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER CE |
06COLOMBO1200 | PORT SLOWDOWN MAY FORCE GOVERNMENT TO RESIST UNION DEMANDS [...] (U) Summary: Work at the Port of Colombo has been disrupted due to a work slowdown as unions demand a salary hike. The partial strike has significantly slowed work at the government-run section of the Port of Colombo. Port officials say that the strike is politically instigated, making it d [...] | 2006-07-21 06:26:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD ELAB EWWT EFIN CE |
06COLOMBO1425 | GE KERAWALPITIYA POWER DEAL: MINISTRY OF POWER AND [...] (SBU) Summary and action request: CDA called Minster of Power and Energy Seneviratne on August 29 to express USG support for Lakdhanavi Private Limited's bid to build a 300 megawatt power plant at Kerawalapitiya using General Electric equipment. Seneviratne acknowledged that the Treasury Mini [...] | 2006-08-30 12:49:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV PREL CE |
06COLOMBO1479 | SRI LANKA BROADLY AGREES WITH US POINTS ON NAM [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-11 06:41:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNGA PTER PHUM CE |
06COLOMBO148 | SRI LANKA: LTTE AND GOVERNMENT AGREE OF VENUE FOR [...] (U) Summary: On January 25, the Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) agreed to hold talks on implementation of the Cease-Fire Agreement (CFA) in Geneva, Switzerland in February, according to various sources. No specific dates or modalities have been r [...] | 2006-01-25 11:35:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER CE |
06COLOMBO1515 | 2006 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND EXPROPRIATION [...] The following dispute is being submitted for 2006 as per section 527 of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act (FRAA) for Sri Lanka: (A) Claimant A (B) 2004 (C) Claimant had been contracted in June 2000 to provide power to the national grid under a combined cycle agreement signed with [...] | 2006-09-14 09:30:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CASC EFIN EINV KIDE OPIC PGOV CE |
06COLOMBO1569 | SRI LANKA: FINANCE SECRETARY EXPECTS GROWTH AND STABILITY [...] (SBU) Summary: Finance Secretary PB Jayasundera, the government's economic mastermind, expects Sri Lanka's GDP to grow by 7 percent this year, fueled by strong performance in the service, construction, and manufacturing sectors, and by healthy export growth. The government is pushing hard to [...] | 2006-09-26 03:34:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV ETRD PTER CE |
06COLOMBO1571 | SRI LANKA: AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES TRADE AND INVESTMENT WITH [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: Ambassador Blake informed Minister of Investment Promotion and Enterprise Development Rohitha Bogollagama of developing plans for a U.S. trade mission to Sri Lanka in early December, possibly followed soon after by a round of Trade and Investment Framework Agreement [...] | 2006-09-26 03:35:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV ETRD CE |
06COLOMBO1589 | SRI LANKA: GE KERAWALAPITIYA POWER DEAL RECEIVES [...] (SBU) Summary: The proposal by Lakdhanavi Private Limited (Lakdhanavi) for a 300 megawatt power plant in Kerawalapitiya, described reftel, has been approved by the Cabinet of Ministers. This project will include significant US content through the sale of General Electric (GE) products and ser [...] | 2006-09-28 05:13:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV PREL CE |
06COLOMBO1602 | SRI LANKA: CENTRAL BANK GOVERNOR DESCRIBES ECONOMY'S [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: Central Bank Governor Nivard Cabraal told Ambassador Blake during their introductory meeting that Sri Lanka's economy was healthy and its business climate good. Cabraal was making a personal effort to tell multilateral development banks, credit rating agencies, and [...] | 2006-10-02 11:39:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV ETRD PREL CE |
06COLOMBO1606 | SRI LANKA: TRADE MINISTER WANTS TIFA TALKS [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: Trade Minister Jeyaraj Fernandopulle told Ambassador Blake during their introductory meeting that he would welcome a round of Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) talks. However, since Fernandopulle did not inspire confidence that he would be ready to act [...] | 2006-10-03 03:29:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV ETRD PREL CE |
06COLOMBO1608 | SRI LANKA: MCC AND GOVERNMENT AGREE TO KEEP IRRIGATION [...] (SBU) Summary: Senior Millennium Challenge Corporation and Government of Sri Lanka officials agreed to proceed with development of a proposed USD 590 million MCC compact that would include projects on irrigation and agriculture, roads, and small and medium enterprise promotion. MCC officials [...] | 2006-10-03 04:39:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON PREL SENV CE |
06COLOMBO1679 | SRI LANKA: TEXT ON GSL REPORTS ON LTTE FINANCING [...] (SBU) Summary: During reftel discussion to prepare for the initial meeting of the Contact Group, Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) officials gave Post copies of reports they had produced regarding Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) financing. The following are excerpts from two of those report [...] | 2006-10-13 05:39:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL CE |
06COLOMBO1710 | SRI LANKA SUPPORTS POSTPONING UNGA VOTE ON RIGHTS [...] (SBU) The Australian High Commission approached us regarding joint delivery of reftel demarche, to which we agreed. Poloff accompanied Australian Deputy High Commissioner and political officer to a meeting on October 13 with Sumedha Ekanayake, Deputy Director for UN and Multilateral Affairs a [...] | 2006-10-17 05:02:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KTIA UNGA CE |
06COLOMBO1719 | SRI LANKA: LTTE "SEA TIGER" SUICIDE ATTACK ON [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 18, five "Sea Tiger" boats disguised as fishing craft attacked the Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) base in Galle Harbor, in Sri Lanka's south. Two of the suicide boats detonated at the entrance to the harbor; the Navy destroyed the three others before they could do much damage. [...] | 2006-10-18 11:00:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER PHUM PREF MOPS CE |
06COLOMBO1722 | SRI LANKA: LTTE "SEA TIGER" SUICIDE ATTACK ON [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 18, five "Sea Tiger" boats disguised as fishing craft attacked the Sri Lanka Navy (SLN) base in Galle Harbor, in Sri Lanka's south. Two of the suicide boats detonated at the entrance to the harbor; the Navy destroyed the three others before they could do much damage. [...] | 2006-10-18 12:13:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER PHUM PREF MOPS CE |
06COLOMBO1762 | SRI LANKA: GLOBAL PEACE OPERATIONS INITIATIVE [...] (SBU) Pol Chief and PolOff presented the offer for a Global Peace Operations Initiative Partnership with Sri Lanka (ref a) to MFA Additional Secretary for Multilateral Affairs Maduwedegera on October 25. Maduwedegera appeared interested and asked several questions for clarification. He under [...] | 2006-10-25 11:20:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPKO MARR MASS CE |
06COLOMBO1803 | SRI LANKA: FEARED VIOLENCE AT NEGOMBO AHMADI [...] (SBU) Summary: The Embassy received a letter from a local Ahmadi leader expressing concern that his community was being targeted for violence and a possible take-over of the Negombo Ahmadi mosque by Jumma Muslims on October 31. The US-based Ahmadi community also wrote letters to senators and t [...] | 2006-10-31 10:58:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KIRF PGOV CE |
06COLOMBO1804 | CIVAIR: DELETION OF CRS ANNEX IN THE US-SRI LANKA [...] (SBU) Embassy Colombo and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka exchanged notes constituting an agreement to remove Annex 3 of the Air Transport Agreement between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Democratic Soc [...] | 2006-11-01 00:54:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR KTIA CE |
06COLOMBO1819 | GOVERNMENT BLAMES LTTE FOR JAFFNA HUMANITARIAN [...] (SBU) Minister of Healthcare and Nutrition and lead peace negotiator DeSilva briefed the Sri Lankan Diplomatic Corps on November 2 on the outcome of the peace talks and government plans to mobilize the private sector to help meet humanitarian needs in Jaffna. DeSilva disagreed with press cha [...] | 2006-11-02 11:05:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER PGOV CE |
06COLOMBO1821 | SRI LANKA: INFORMATION FOR MCC NOVEMBER 8 MEETING [...] (SBU) Summary: Post recommends that Sri Lanka continue to be considered MCC-eligible. MCC projects would increase overall prosperity and support our main objective of helping Sri Lanka attain a lasting peace. Violence between Government of Sri Lanka forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil [...] | 2006-11-03 06:34:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID MCC KMCA CE |
06COLOMBO1825 | MALDIVES: INFORMATION FOR MCC NOVEMBER 8 MEETING [...] (U) SUMMARY: As a candidate country that has met the Millennium Challenge Corporation,s (MCC,s) threshold requirements, post recommends that Maldives be selected for eligibility by the MCC Board. Maldives, a small but ambitious country with an educated population, seeks to diversify its eco [...] | 2006-11-03 10:42:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON ETRD KMCA MV PREL |
06COLOMBO1837 | SRI LANKA - 2007 NATIONAL TRADE ESTIMATE REPORT [...] The following report has been submitted per reftel instructions in Microsoft Word format to the US Trade Representative. With the exception of format changes for dissemination and readability via cable, the language remains the same: SRI LANKA: TRADE SUMMARY ------------------------- 2 [...] | 2006-11-06 13:46:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI EAID CE |
06COLOMBO1848 | SRI LANKA WILL SUPPORT U.S. CANDIDATE FOR ELECTION [...] No summary [...] | 2006-11-07 12:19:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNGA CE |
06COLOMBO1851 | SRI LANKA: COUNTRY-SPECIFIC RESOLUTIONS AT UNGA [...] No summary [...] | 2006-11-07 12:59:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KTIA UN KN BO IR UZ BM CE |
06COLOMBO186 | ENERGY INVESTOR WOES AS SRI LANKA DISPUTES [...] (SBU) Summary: Sri Lanka?s oil and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) suppliers, including two foreign investors (neither American),are facing significant losses as the government has not allowed price increases or has not paid previously agreed subsidies in a timely manner despite increased wor [...] | 2006-02-02 11:04:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EINV ENRG CE |
06COLOMBO1879 | SRI LANKA: DEMARCHE ON OPPOSING ANTI-ISRAEL BIAS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-11-09 09:54:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNGA CE |
06COLOMBO1892 | BILATERAL DONORS AND INGOS PRESS GOVERNMENT ON [...] (SBU) Summary. Meetings of the Bilateral Donors Group (BDG) and the Consultative Committee Meeting on Humanitarian Assistance (CCMHA) this past week focused on NGO access and the deteriorating humanitarian situation in Sri Lanka's North and East. While BDG members, the UN, the ICRC, and the [...] | 2006-11-13 06:06:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PHUM PTER MOPS PREL ASEC CE |
06COLOMBO1902 | SRI LANKA: TRANSPORT AND PETROLEUM DEVELOPMENT MINISTER [...] (SBU) Ambassador Blake called on Minister A. H. M. Fowzie October 25 to discuss transportation and petroleum development. Fowzie is Minister of Railways and Transport and Minister of Petroleum and Petroleum Resources Development. Fowzie's political career began 47 years ago, including signifi [...] | 2006-11-14 09:34:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI EAID CE |
06COLOMBO1906 | SRI LANKA: ARMY MINE ACTION EFFORTS STALL IN [...] (U) Summary: December 2006 marks the end of the four-year, eight million dollar USG-RONCO contract in Sri Lanka which has successfully trained a Sri Lanka Army humanitarian mine action unit of nearly 600 deminers and mine detection dog handlers. On November 3, SLA mine action coordinator Brig [...] | 2006-11-14 12:18:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER PHUM PREF MOPS CE |
06COLOMBO1916 | SRI LANKA WILL VOTE AGAINST BELARUS-SPONSORED [...] No summary [...] | 2006-11-15 10:09:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL BO CE |
06COLOMBO1935 | SRI LANKA WANTS TWO SHIPS TO TRANSPORT AID TO JAFFNA FOR [...] (SBU) Ambassador Blake called on Minister Rohitha Bogollagama November 14 at the Minister's request to discuss the procurement of shipping services to Jaffna, Sri Lanka's northern city which is currently suffering a shortage of necessary supplies due to the closure of the A-9 highway. Bogolla [...] | 2006-11-20 02:48:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV ETRD SOCI EAID CE |
06COLOMBO1971 | SRI LANKAN REACTIONS TO NOV. 21 CO-CHAIRS STATEMENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Following the November 21 publication of the Co-Chairs' statement, Emboffs spoke to politicians and civil society representatives to gauge the Sri Lankan reaction. In a November 22 speech to parliament, Foreign Minister Mangala Samaraweera thanked the international community a [...] | 2006-11-24 12:28:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER PHUM PREF MOPS CE |
06COLOMBO1977 | SRI LANKA: PRESIDENT RAJAPAKSA'S REPORT CARD, ONE YEAR ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Mahinda Rajapaksa came to office in November 2005 after a campaign highlighting his strong Sinhalese nationalism. He made electoral pacts with the Marxist, Sinhalese chauvinist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) and the hard-line Buddhist monk-based Jathika Hela Urumaya [...] | 2006-11-28 08:06:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM PTER CE |
06COLOMBO1978 | SRI LANKA: PRESIDENT RAJAPAKSA'S REPORT CARD, ONE YEAR ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Mahinda Rajapaksa came to office in November 2005 after a campaign highlighting his strong Sinhalese nationalism. He made electoral pacts with the Marxist, Sinhalese chauvinist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) and the hard-line Buddhist monk-based Jathika Hela Urumaya [...] | 2006-11-28 08:06:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM PTER CE |
06COLOMBO1982 | SRI LANKA: PRESIDENT RAJAPAKSA'S REPORT CARD, ONE YEAR ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Mahinda Rajapaksa came to office in November 2005 after a campaign highlighting his strong Sinhalese nationalism. He made electoral pacts with the Marxist, Sinhalese chauvinist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) and the hard-line Buddhist monk-based Jathika Hela Urumaya [...] | 2006-11-28 08:12:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM PTER CE |
06COLOMBO1993 | SRI LANKA: LACK OF DESIRE FOR PEACE MAY IMPEDE ECONOMIC [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador met with a group of key financial sector institution heads on November 27. The meeting provided for a frank discussion on pressing issues faced by the sector and the country. While peace is essential for their business and for the economy, the group expressed g [...] | 2006-11-29 06:50:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV EAID PGOV PTER CE |
06COLOMBO200 | PROMISE OF CEASE-FIRE TALKS STANCHES FLOW OF [...] (SBU) Data recently released by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) office in Colombo shows that the flow of Tamils out of potential conflict areas in northern Sri Lanka was much higher than the Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) or the Sri Lankan Army (SLA) had reported. Di [...] | 2006-02-08 08:29:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER PHUM PREF CE |
06COLOMBO2031 | TERRORIST LISTS: SRI LANKA DOES NOT MAINTAIN A [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-08 06:08:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTFN EFIN ETTC PREL PTER KVPR CE |
06COLOMBO2033 | SRI LANKAN PRESIDENT DEFENDS EMERGENCY MEASURES TO [...] (SBU) In a December 7 address to the nation on the new emergency measures (in Sinhala, translation e-mailed to SCA/INS),President Mahinda Rajapaksa offered brief thanks to the members of international community that have rejected the LTTE's call for "Eelam," or a separate state. He singled o [...] | 2006-12-08 09:55:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER PHUM PREL CE |
06COLOMBO2063 | Sri Lanka FY 2007 Budget [...] (SBU) Summary: President Mahinda Rajapakse, who is also the Finance Minister, presented the Government of Sri Lanka's (GSL's) FY 07 budget to Parliament on November 16. The budget envisages large increases in both expenditure and revenue. Military expenditure will increase by 28 percent to [...] | 2006-12-13 12:20:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN CE |
06COLOMBO2066 | DONORS PRESS GSL TO FOCUS ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND [...] Chiefs of Mission of the EU, Norway, Australia, Canada, Germany (on behalf of the Finnish EU Presidency),and Switzerland and the DCM met on December 12 to develop a joint response to the GSL's call to host a development forum in late January. The forum would provide bilateral and multilater [...] | 2006-12-14 09:25:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CE EAID ECON PHUM SOCI |
06COLOMBO2067 | SRI LANKA TO PROCEED WITH GLOBAL PEACE OPERATIONS [...] (SBU) Following up on ref B, Defense Attache passed information to Defense Secretary Gothabaya Rajapaksa during a previously scheduled meeting on November 3. DATT later received a call back from Defense Ministry expressing interest and asking for more information. Pol Chief received a reque [...] | 2006-12-14 09:54:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPKO MARR PREL MASS KSEP CE |
06COLOMBO2070 | 5TH ROUND OF TIFA TALKS HIGHLIGHT ON OBSTACLES TO US [...] (SBU) Summary. The Office of the US Trade Representative and the Sri Lankan Ministry of Trade, Commerce, Consumer Affairs and Marketing Development held the Fifth Joint Council Meeting under the bilateral US-Sri Lanka Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) in Colombo on December 1. [...] | 2006-12-14 11:01:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB EIND ETRD EAID CE |
06COLOMBO2086 | SRI LANKA: HUGE PUSH TO DEVELOP THE PRESIDENT'S HOME [...] Summary. Since President Rajapaksa's election, there has been renewed interest in pursuing several infrastructure projects in Hambantota District, his home district and one of the poorest and least developed areas in Sri Lanka. Proposed projects include an international airport, an industria [...] | 2006-12-18 03:39:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB EIND ETRD EAID CE |
06COLOMBO209 | CHAIRMAN GIVES STATUS REPORT ON AD HOC COMMITTEE [...] (SBU) On February 8, Sri Lankan Foreign Secretary H.M.G.S. Palihakkara hosted the Chiefs of Missions of the G-8 countries and India for a discussion concerning the outstanding issues facing the February 27 meeting of the Ad Hoc Committee on Terrorism (AHCT). AHCT chairman Dr. Rohan Perera ( [...] | 2006-02-08 11:35:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER CE |
06COLOMBO2096 | ECONOMIC LEADERS MUST FOCUS ON DEFENSE; IMF [...] (SBU) Summary: Corruption within the Government of Sri Lanka (GSL),shifting of budgetary allocations for defense expenditures, Sri Lanka,s true potential for economic growth, and the planned closure of the International Monetary Fund,s (IMF,s) Resident Office in Sri Lanka, were topics on De [...] | 2006-12-18 12:47:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EAID CE |
06COLOMBO2101 | TERRORIST LISTS: MALDIVES DOES NOT MAINTAIN A [...] (SBU) EconOff coordinated with US TreasuryOff located in Sri Lanka to obtain the following information requested reftel. The Government of Maldives (GOM) does not maintain a national list of banned terrorist organizations. The GOM does not identify any terrorist groups in its country. Altho [...] | 2006-12-20 05:00:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTFN EFIN ETTC PREL PTER KVPR MV |
06COLOMBO2105 | Agreement Ends Tea Plantation Strike For Most [...] Summary: Sri Lankan tea trade unions have been striking for the last two weeks to demand an increase in wages. On December 19, most unions, representing 80-90 percent of the tea plantation workforce, entered into an agreement for a moderate increase in wages. Some unions, however, did not ca [...] | 2006-12-20 12:22:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI EAID CE |
06COLOMBO2106 | SRI LANKA: US TRADE MISSION A SUCCESS [...] (SBU) Summary: The extended business outreach project involving four US companies to Sri Lanka, who were part of a major US trade delegation to India, was successfully concluded with the participating companies reporting encouraging prospects. Post would like to acknowledge the efforts and ti [...] | 2006-12-20 12:23:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI EAID CE |
06COLOMBO2118 | COLOMBO PLAN ON TRACK TO RECRUIT NEW [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 5. 2. (SBU) On December 21 Ambassador Blake met with Pakistani High Commissioner Shahzad Chaudhry, currently serving as President of the Colombo Plan Council (CPC). The Ambassador explained US objections to an extension on Colombo Plan Secret [...] | 2006-12-22 06:00:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC PREL CE |
06COLOMBO2124 | MALDIVES REFORMS MAKING SLOW PROGRESS [...] (SBU) Summary: Assistant U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) to South and Southwest Asia Ambassador Douglas A. Hartwick and Special Assistant Manpreet Anand traveled to Maldives on December 5-6, 2006, to meet with President Gayoom and other government officials to discuss US-Maldives bilateral e [...] | 2006-12-26 05:19:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON PHUM SOCI EAID PREL MV |
06COLOMBO2126 | SRI LANKA: LTTE BOARDS JORDANIAN SHIP, RUNS IT [...] (U) On December 23, the Jordanian vessel "Faraha 3," carrying 14,000 metric tons of rice from southern India to South Africa, had engine failure and anchored in Sri Lanka's northern territorial waters. Newspapers reported that Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) cadres boarded the ship, r [...] | 2006-12-26 12:06:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER EWWT ETRD EAGR PREL CE |
06COLOMBO2127 | SRI LANKA LOSES HALF OF GERMAN TSUNAMI AID [...] (U) SUMMARY: News of Germany's reallocation of approximately 19 million euros in tsunami reconstruction funding from Sri Lanka to Aceh, Indonesia hit the newswires on December 23 and 24 following remarks by the German Minister for Overseas Development during a visit to Aceh. This funding, ea [...] | 2006-12-26 12:06:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PHUM SOCI EAID CE |
06COLOMBO2132 | DEVELOPMENT GOALS FOR MALDIVES [...] (U) Summary: The importance of creating a stable economy before Maldives' 2011 LDC graduation, diversification beyond the fisheries and tourist industries, and promoting environmental protectionism were the main topics of Assistant U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) to South and Southwest Asia, [...] | 2006-12-27 12:06:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAIR ENRG EWWT SENV EINV ETRD MV |
06COLOMBO2142 | SRI LANKA: HUMAN RIGHTS GROUPS VOICE CONCERN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Following up on Secretary Rice's December 14 initiative, Ambassador Blake hosted a roundtable discussion with human rights activists and civil society representatives on December 21. The Ambassador briefed the group on USG efforts and also solicited views on how best to stren [...] | 2006-12-29 12:10:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PTER PREL CE |
06COLOMBO247 | SRI LANKA NOMINATION OF MFA LEGAL ADVISER ROHAN [...] (U) Ambassador was requested to come in by Foreign Secretary Palihakkara Feb 16 to discuss the candidacy of Sri SIPDIS Lankan MFA Legal Adviser Rohan Perera to the International Law Commission (ILC). At the last minute, Foreign Secretary was detained at the President's office, so meeting wa [...] | 2006-02-16 11:04:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AORC CE UN |
06COLOMBO248 | SRI LANKA NOMINATION OF MFA LEGAL ADVISER ROHAN [...] (U) Ambassador was requested to come in by Foreign Secretary Palihakkara Feb 16 to discuss the candidacy of Sri SIPDIS Lankan MFA Legal Adviser Rohan Perera to the International Law Commission (ILC). At the last minute, Foreign Secretary was detained at the President's office, so meeting wa [...] | 2006-02-16 11:07:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AORC CE UN |
06COLOMBO250 | SRI LANKA: POLICE, COMMUNITY, SUPPORTIVE OF [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 7, emboffs traveled to Alawwa, 30 miles north of Colombo in Kurunegela District, to look into reports from the National Christian Evangelical Alliance of Sri Lanka (NCEASL) that the congregation of a local Christian church had been threatened and harassed on Christm [...] | 2006-02-16 11:58:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KIRF PGOV CE |
06COLOMBO287 | SRI LANKA: DEMARCHE ON REQUEST FOR STATEMENTS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-23 11:05:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KDEM PTER IZ CE |
06COLOMBO288 | MALDIVES: REQUEST FOR STATEMENTS CONDEMNING THE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-23 11:06:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KDEM PTER IZ MV |
06COLOMBO309 | SRI LANKA'S PREMIER BUSINESS CHAMBER CALLS FOR [...] (U) Summary: Sri Lanka's first "Economic Summit," sponsored in January by Sri Lanka's premier business group, the Ceylon Chamber of Commerce, provided an opportunity for business leaders to discuss their role in vital issues confronting the country such as the peace process and economic deve [...] | 2006-02-28 03:16:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV XD XO CE |
06COLOMBO331 | SRI LANKA: THE SIXTH ANNUAL ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN [...] (U) Mission's submission for the sixth annual Anti- Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report for Sri Lanka follows. Responses are keyed to questions in Reftel. Mission point of contact is poloff Anamika Chakravorty, telephone +94.11.2.448.007 x2425, fax +94.11.2.471.092. Paragraph 21: Sri Lanka [...] | 2006-03-01 11:00:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM ELAB ASEC PREF KCRM KWMN SMIG KFRD CE |
06COLOMBO337 | AVIAN INFLUENZA - SRI LANKA UPDATE FOLLOWING INDIA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The avian flu (AI) outbreak in nearby India has generated significant publicity in Sri Lanka, with public concern leading to decreased consumption of poultry products. Little change has taken place since November (Ref A) in the pace of preparations by the Government of Sri Lan [...] | 2006-03-02 11:12:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KSTH ECON PREL SOCI WHO EAGR CASC CE |
06COLOMBO342 | SRI LANKA: DEMINING RETURNING TO FULL SPEED [...] (U) NGOs continued humanitarian demining while Sri Lankan Army (SLA) deminers were still hunkered down following the December and January surge in attacks on security forces by the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). While remaining on operational stand down, Department-funded demining [...] | 2006-03-03 06:46:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM EAID CASC MOPS KHDP CE |
06COLOMBO368 | LETTER FROM SECRETARY RICE TO SRI LANKAN FOREIGN [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-08 09:09:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER OPDC UN CE |
06COLOMBO374 | EU Election Observation Media Analysis [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-08 10:32:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KPAO EAID OIIP PREL CE |
06COLOMBO383 | USCIRF VISIT TO SRI LANKA [...] (SBU) Summary. Members of the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) visited Sri Lanka February 23-25 and met with religious, political, and civil society leaders to get a sense of the overall human rights situation as well as to discuss reports of unethical conv [...] | 2006-03-10 04:43:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KIRF PGOV CE |
06COLOMBO431 | SRI LANKA MAY HAVE OIL AND GAS FIELDS, BUT LACKS [...] (U) Summary: Sri Lanka is preparing to call for expressions of interest from international companies for oil and gas exploration as studies conducted by an international company have revealed possible petroleum resources in the seabed off the northern and western coasts. While Sri Lanka app [...] | 2006-03-21 03:42:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG ETRD BEXP CE |
06COLOMBO484 | Slow but Steady Progress on Sri Lankan Tsunami [...] (U) Summary: Despite a change in Government in late 2005, and resultant changes in ministries and personnel handling tsunami reconstruction, Sri Lanka continues to make steady, if not speedy, progress in rebuilding. The new Government has rolled back the problematic ?buffer zone,? thus movi [...] | 2006-03-28 11:21:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON CE |
06COLOMBO528 | SRI LANKA: STRONG GOVERNMENT PERFORMANCE IN LOCAL [...] (SBU) Local government (LG) elections were held March 30 in a total of 266 Municipal Councils (MCs),Urban Councils (UCs),and Pradeshiya Sabhas (PSs- village councils) in most areas of Sri Lanka except the north and the eastern district of Batticaloa. (Note: Polling in those areas is due Sep [...] | 2006-04-03 12:07:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV CE |
06COLOMBO533 | Sri Lanka Garment Sector Revises Revenue [...] (SBU) Summary: Sluggish growth in apparel exports has prompted Sri Lanka to re-design its textile and garment industry strategy. While new growth targets have not been set, the new strategy will focus on promoting two broad categories of apparel and enhancing productivity. In addition, a k [...] | 2006-04-05 03:29:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID KTEX ETRD CE |
06COLOMBO534 | SRI LANKAN TAX ON FOREIGN PROGRAMMING COULD HARM [...] (SBU) Summary: In a move to resuscitate the ailing local movie industry and protect the local TV production industry, Sri Lanka has announced plans to impose a tax on most foreign television series and movie broadcasts. While the tax was slated to go into effect April 1, no implementing reg [...] | 2006-04-05 03:29:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD CE |
06COLOMBO537 | Garment Quota Expiration No Drastic Impact on Labor [...] (SBU) Summary: While Sri Lankas apparel export growth slowed to 3% from an expected 12% (REFTEL),there has been no drastic impact on labor, as previously expected. Although, there is evidence of about 10,000 job losses, most of the workers have been absorbed back into the industry as large [...] | 2006-04-05 04:51:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID KTEX ETRD CE |
06COLOMBO550 | SRI LANKA PLANS FIRST SOVEREIGN BOND ISSUE; MAY [...] (U) Summary: For the first time, the Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) intends to raise funds through a sovereign bond issue. Traditionally, Sri Lanka has avoided large-scale borrowing from the international capital markets, relying on concessionary donor financing and local borrowing to fill i [...] | 2006-04-06 06:34:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON CE |
06COLOMBO551 | NATION-BUILDING BONDS: SRI LANKA TARGETS ITS [...] (U) Summary: In a move to raise funds from new markets, the Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) is targeting its citizens living overseas (who normally repatriate over USD 1 billion in remittances annually) to purchase patriotically-branded, Nation Building Bonds (NBB),by offering tax holidays and [...] | 2006-04-06 07:49:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON CE |
06COLOMBO559 | SRI LANKAN AIRLINES INTERESTED IN BOEING AIRCRAFT [...] (SBU) Summary: Sri Lankan Airlines (SLA),Sri Lankas national carrier, is in contact with Boeing and Airbus regarding gradual replacement of its current all Airbus fleet. Boeing will have tough competition from Airbus, due to its existing hold on Sri Lankan Airlines and its partner Emirates [...] | 2006-04-10 05:39:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR EFIN ECON CE |
06COLOMBO568 | AVIAN INFLUENZA PREPARATIONS IN MALDIVES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Lack of a concentrated poultry sector keeps Maldives at low risk for highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI). At the same time, it also presents challenges for surveillance and detection in the case of infection due to inadequate animal testing facilities, underdeveloped quara [...] | 2006-04-10 05:45:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KSTH ECON PREL SOCI WHO EAGR CASC MV |
06COLOMBO581 | SRI LANKA: SCENESETTER FOR CODEL ENZI [...] (SBU) Senator Enzi, your delegation's April 14 visit to Sri Lanka offers a valuable opportunity to highlight our warm bilateral ties, re-emphasize our commitment to support the peace process and review progress on key elements of our humanitarian assistance program. Bilateral relations with [...] | 2006-04-10 12:27:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP PREL PGOV PTER EAID ECON CE |
06COLOMBO585 | SRI LANKA CIVIL AIR INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT [...] (U) Summary: Sri Lankas civil aviation industry is undergoing important changes. In order to continue development of its tourism industry and meet International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) standards within the country, the Government of Sri Lanka (GSL) wants to build a second runway [...] | 2006-04-12 04:19:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAIR CE |
06COLOMBO601 | SRI LANKA: MORE BOMB BLASTS AND BLOODSHED IN [...] (SBU) A recent upsurge in violence that has seen 30 people killed in the north and east in just five days continued April 12 when a series of bomb blasts shook Trincomalee town in the late afternoon. Although details remain sketchy, information culled from police, journalists, local resident [...] | 2006-04-12 13:39:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER CE |
06COLOMBO639 | SRI LANKA: CODEL ENZI CALLS ON PRESIDENT [...] (SBU) Summary: In an April 14 visit to Sri Lanka, Senators Michael Enzi, Lamar Alexander and Johnny Isakson, their spouses, staff and Terrell Halaska, Assistant Secretary of the Office of Legislation and Congressional Affairs, Department of Education, observed US-funded humanitarian demining [...] | 2006-04-20 09:15:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID OREP CE |
06COLOMBO676 | SRI LANKA: DEMARCHE ON U.S. REQUEST TO EXTEND 100 [...] No summary [...] | 2006-04-26 06:49:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL CWC CE |
06COLOMBO763 | Your Efforts to Rationalize Foreign Assistance [...] (SBU) I have read with interest the information we have received regarding your efforts to revamp US foreign assistance processes. In that vein, I believe Sri Lanka deserves a closer look and poses interesting questions for the foreign aid planning community to consider as it moves forward wi [...] | 2006-05-11 06:45:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON CE |
06COLOMBO776 | HIV/AIDS IN MALDIVES -- LOW PREVALENCE BUT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Despite a low reported prevalence of HIV/AIDS in Maldives, the lack of surveillance among high risk populations and risky behavior among Maldivian drug- using youth suggest underreporting and the potential for a serious, but silent, outbreak. Even though Government of Maldives ( [...] | 2006-05-15 03:41:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KSTH ECON PREL SOCI WHO EAGR CASC MV |
06COLOMBO793 | Central Bank reports 6% GDP Growth Sri Lanka in [...] (U) Summary: According to the Central Bank, Sri Lanka's economy grew by 6% in 2005 compared with 5.4% in 2004. Post- tsunami reconstruction, debt moratoria and foreign grants SIPDIS and loans helped mitigate the adverse effects of the December 2004 tsunami. Main contributors to growth wer [...] | 2006-05-16 09:36:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON CE |
06COLOMBO794 | Sri Lanka Tax mess [...] (U) Summary: The cost of doing business in Sri Lanka is set to rise, due to increased taxation and tax complexity. International trade is also subject to high taxation in the form of increased non-tariff fees and surcharges. However, the impact of higher taxes is not equitable. For companies [...] | 2006-05-16 09:43:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN CE |
06COLOMBO803 | TRANSITIONS AND CHALLENGES IN HIV/AIDS PREVENTION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Though Sri Lanka is still considered a low prevalence country for HIV/AIDS, most local HIV/AIDS experts agree that interventions must shift from general awareness campaigns to behavior change approaches targeted at vulnerable and at-risk populations. Government bureaucracy, lack [...] | 2006-05-17 06:56:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KSTH ECON PREL SOCI WHO EAGR CASC MV |
06COLOMBO809 | MAIN PARTIES TROT OUT THE OLD GUARD FOR COLOMBO [...] (SBU) Local government elections for the Colombo Municipal Council (CMC) and 21 other local government authorities will be held on May 20. Elections in these localities were postponed from March 30 because of assorted court challenges to electoral lists submitted by various parties (Reftel). [...] | 2006-05-17 12:11:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV CE |
06COLOMBO814 | POPULATION DISPLACEMENTS DUE TO RECENT [...] (SBU) OFDA REGIONAL ADVISOR, WILLIAM BERGER TRAVELED TO SRI LANKA FROM MAY 4 THROUGH MAY 14TH TO ASSESS REPORTED POPULATION DISPLACEMENTS DUE TO RECENT INCREASE IN HOSTILITIES BETWEEN THE SRI LANKAN GOVERNMENT FORCES AND THE LIBERATION TIGERS OF TAMIL EELAM (LTTE). FINDINGS OF THE ASSESSMENT [...] | 2006-05-18 09:40:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID CE |
06COLOMBO819 | Electricity strike could delay reforms [...] (U) Summary: Unions affiliated with the Marxist- Nationalist Janatha Vimukthi Peramuna (JVP) party have warned of a strike and country-wide blackout on May 23 in protest of government moves to present electricity reforms to Parliament, which they fear would lead to privatization of the state [...] | 2006-05-19 07:10:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG CE |
06COLOMBO836 | World Health Assembly: Smallpox Demarche [...] (SBU) Econoff and EconFSN met on May 19 with Dr. H.A.P. Kahandaliyanage, Director General of Health, Ministry of Healthcare and Nutrition, regarding reftel. Kahandaliyanage appeared to agree with various arguments for retaining the smallpox virus. He promised that he would discuss the issue wi [...] | 2006-05-22 08:24:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL AORC TBIO WHO CE |
06COLOMBO898 | Sri Lanka Tourism Prospects [...] (U) Summary: Despite the deteriorating security situation, tourist arrivals in the first four months of 2006 have increased 25%, according to the Sri Lanka Tourist Board (STB). April arrivals were up 18%. Discussions with tourism sector reps, however, indicate that the Government of Sri La [...] | 2006-05-31 10:00:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON CE |
06COLOMBO946 | HCOC: SRI LANKA HAS "NOT HAD TIME" TO CONSIDER AS [...] (SBU) On April 25, poloff delivered Reftel demarche to Sumedha Ekanayake, Assistant Director of UN and Multi-lateral Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In a June 6 phone conversation, Ekanayake explained that his government "had not had time" to consider the Hague Code Of Conduct (HC [...] | 2006-06-06 10:38:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MTCRE PREL MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA CE |
06COLOMBO947 | SRI LANKA WILL ATTEND RED CROSS-RED CRESCENT [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered Reftel demarche to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Assistant Director for UN and Multilateral Affairs Sumedha Ekanayake June 5. Ekanayake said Sri Lanka will send a delegation to the Red Cross- Red Crescent scheduled for June 20-21 in Geneva, and his government supports [...] | 2006-06-06 10:39:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC PHUM PREF PREL ICRC CE |
06COLOMBO958 | EAC MEETING 7 JUNE 2006 [...] (SBU) Colombo EAC met June 7 to discuss the June 6 early morning claymore mine attack along the main road from Colombo to the airport north of town. The latest information indicates the explosion occurred near the entrance to a Navy base (which processes new recruits) about five hundred meter [...] | 2006-06-07 11:40:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC CASC CE PTER |
06COLOMBO989 | SRI LANKA: ASSESSING UNOHCHR FIELD PRESENCE [...] (U) Summary: Poloff met with United Nations Office of the High Commissioner of Human Rights (OHCHR) Sri Lanka representative Rory Mungoven on June 9 to discuss the successes and constraints of the program and how the U.S. could buttress OHCHR's mandate in Sri Lanka. Mungoven noted moderately [...] | 2006-06-12 11:21:00 | Embassy Colombo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER PHUM CE |
06CONAKRY1647 | GUINEA: SEVERAL PEACEFUL PROTESTS UP COUNTRY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Between October 26 and October 30, Guinea experienced several peaceful demonstrations up country. N'Zerekore remains calm in the wake of an October 26 march by over 5000 citizens in the city (ref A). Two demonstrations in the port city of Kamsar were led by women protesting r [...] | 2006-11-03 13:09:00 | Embassy Conakry | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINS ECON PREF EAID ELTN ASEC GV |
06CONAKRY1665 | PROTESTS IN KAMSAR AS LABOR DISPUTE SPARKS EMPLOYEE ANGER [...] (SBU) Summary. Senior managers of the Compagnie des Bauxites de Guinee (CBG),in which the U.S. firm Alcoa is a major partner, are the targets of passionate protests by CBG employees and their dependants, angered by recent cutbacks in long-provided benefits and services. Protesters -- mainly [...] | 2006-11-08 10:23:00 | Embassy Conakry | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB EMIN PINS ASEC CASC GV |
06CONAKRY1695 | Guinea's Movement Towards Political Consensus: At a [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Little has been done to implement the recommendations by Guinea's opposition and majority political parties since they reached consensus on political reforms on October 16. The changes, including an independent electoral commission, would be wide-ranging and could greatly inc [...] | 2006-11-15 12:18:00 | Embassy Conakry | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON PREF EAID ELTN SOCI ASEC GV |
06CONAKRY1696 | GLOBAL ALUMINA ENTERS NEW PARTNERSHIP TO GAIN NECESSARY [...] (SBU/PROPIN) Summary. Global Alumina is entering into a new strategic partnership, via joint venture with BHP Billiton (BHP),one of the world's leading alumina producers, and Dubai Aluminum (DUBAL),owner of one of the world's largest alumina smelters. Once the BHP board approves the deal, [...] | 2006-11-15 12:18:00 | Embassy Conakry | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EMIN ETRD ECON PGOV GV |
06CONAKRY1711 | Mano River Union Conference: Consolidating Peace and [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On November 16-17, Guinea hosted the Conference for the Consolidation of Peace and Security in the Mano River Region. The event brought together delegations from Liberia and Sierra Leone with officials from various United Nations agencies, foreign governments, and diplomatic mi [...] | 2006-11-21 07:24:00 | Embassy Conakry | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREF PREL PBTS EAID GV LI SL IV |
06CONAKRY1718 | IMF TEAM CONCLUDES GUINEA IS FARTHER THAN BEFORE FROM A [...] (SBU) The November 18-21 visit by an IMF technical team ended with the team leader, Israel de la Piedra, expressing disappointment that Guinea's microeconomic performance had worsened since the IMF's last examination in March of this year (reftel). The three-person team was dispatched to exami [...] | 2006-11-22 12:27:00 | Embassy Conakry | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON IMF PGOV GV |
06CONAKRY1763 | SYLLA/FUTURLEC SAGA: BLOCKING GUINEA'S PROGRESS TO A [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In the aftermath of the IMF's recent criticism of Guinea's monetary and economic performance (ref A),EconOff discussed Guinea's return to a funded program with IMF resident representative Alvin Hilaire. In Guinea for less than two months, Hilaire echoed the donor community's [...] | 2006-12-04 15:35:00 | Embassy Conakry | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PGOV IMF GV |
06CONAKRY1764 | SYLLA/FUTURLEC SAGA: BLOCKING GUINEA'S PROGRESS TO A [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In the aftermath of the IMF's recent criticism of Guinea's monetary and economic performance (ref A),EconOff discussed Guinea's return to a funded program with IMF resident representative Alvin Hilaire. In Guinea for less than two months, Hilaire echoed the donor community's [...] | 2006-12-04 15:35:00 | Embassy Conakry | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PGOV IMF GV |
06CONAKRY1824 | GUINEA'S UNIONS PUT STRIKE ON HOLD, FOR NOW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Guinea's CNTG-USTG union coalition has decided that it will not call a general strike during December. Ongoing negotiations have resulted in government concessions on retirement-related issues. With the upcoming end-of-year celebrations, union leadership believes that the cos [...] | 2006-12-20 09:52:00 | Embassy Conakry | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM CWC PREL PGOV OPCW CBW GV |
06CONAKRY747 | GUINEA'S UNIONS COMMIT TO STRIKE, CLAIM THE [...] (SBU) Guinea's labor union coalition has issued a formal call for an open-ended general strike to begin June 8. In a meeting June 6 with AF/W Director Phil Carter, representatives from the USTG and CNTG said the government has "disappeared" from negotiations. Ironically, after signing their [...] | 2006-06-07 17:21:00 | Embassy Conakry | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ECON PGOV SOCI ASEC CASC GV |
06CONAKRY757 | GUINEA STRIKE: DAY ONE IS PEACEFUL, PUBLIC SUPPORT [...] (U) Summary. Guineans are mostly following the strike called for June 8 by the USTG-CNTG union coalition. Most offices, larger stores, businesses and government offices are either closed or barely staffed. As the day continued, some taxi drivers got on the road, and most gas stations opene [...] | 2006-06-08 16:36:00 | Embassy Conakry | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ECON PGOV SOCI ASEC CASC GV |
06CONAKRY775 | GUINEA STRIKE: DAY TWO REMAINS CALM, GOVERNMENT PR [...] (SBU) Summary. Guinean support for the general strike remained relatively strong and peaceful on its second day. The government seems more prepared to handle the PR aspects of the strike, compared to the five-day strike that ended in March. While it is neither failing nor fading, this union [...] | 2006-06-09 13:34:00 | Embassy Conakry | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ECON PGOV SOCI ASEC CASC GV |
06COPENHAGEN352 | ANTI-ISRAEL CLAUSES - LESS THAN MEETS THE EYE [...] (U) Summary: In the context of domestic Danish politics following the Mohammed cartoon crisis, it has become known that some Danish firms accept the use of anti-Israel clauses in trade agreements with certain Muslim countries. The government of Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, despite [...] | 2006-03-21 05:27:00 | Embassy Copenhagen | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL ETRD PHUM IS DA |
06COPENHAGEN450 | DENMARK: INDEPENDENT INQUIRY COMMITTEE FOLLOW-UP [...] (U) 22 Danish firms were named in the final report of the Independent Inquiry Committee (IIC) on the Oil-for-Food Program (OFF) as having been involved in illicit OFF-program payments. Ref A describes the initial Danish response to the report. 2. (SBU) In response to Ref B, post followed u [...] | 2006-04-06 09:06:00 | Embassy Copenhagen | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KFIN PGOV IZ DA |
06COPENHAGEN705 | GREENLAND: AMB'S VISIT REINFORCES STRONGER TIES [...] (SBU) Summary. Ambassador Cain's recent five-day visit to Greenland confirmed that U.S. relations with this strategic, semi-autonomous territory are stronger than ever and no longer the bilateral irritant they once were with the Danish government. Greenland Home Rule officials uniformly expr [...] | 2006-05-18 11:42:00 | Embassy Copenhagen | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PBTS SENV DA GL |
06COPENHAGEN833 | ATTENDANCE AT PSI HIGH-LEVEL POLITICAL MEETING [...] (SBU) MFA PSI Action Officer Casper Nervil confirmed June 9 that MFA State Secretary Michael Zilmer-Johns will represent Denmark June 23 at the High-Level Political Meeting for the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) in Warsaw. As an Under Secretary-equivalent in the MFA, he currently has [...] | 2006-06-12 12:46:00 | Embassy Copenhagen | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MNUC KNNP PARM PL DA |
06COPENHAGEN857 | MDA: DENMARK SUPPORTIVE OF US POSITION [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-16 12:04:00 | Embassy Copenhagen | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PREL PHUM ICRC DA IS |
06COPENHAGEN858 | DANES AGREE TO LEAN AGENDA FOR HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (SBU) Poloff discussed reftel points June 13 with Ambassador Tyge Lehmann, MFA Senior Advisor for International Law and June 16 with Kim Vinthen, Office Director for Human Rights Policy. Lehmann noted that Denmark fully supports the U.S. opinion that the inaugural session of the Human Rights [...] | 2006-06-16 12:06:00 | Embassy Copenhagen | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL DA |
06COPENHAGEN859 | DENMARK TILTS TOWARD DUTCH CANDIDATE FOR NATO SCR [...] (SBU) Embassy conveyed reftel points in support of Ambassador Litt's candidacy to MFA Deputy Director for International Security Michael Lund Jeppesen and MFA NATO Section Chief Maria Egense. Egense responded June 15 by stressing that Denmark believes both Amb. Litt and the Dutch candidate Am [...] | 2006-06-16 13:02:00 | Embassy Copenhagen | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | NATO MARR PREL AF DA |
06COPENHAGEN861 | DENMARK WANTS RED CRYSTAL VOTE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-19 07:13:00 | Embassy Copenhagen | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC PHUM PREL PREF ICRC SZ DA |
06COPENHAGEN991 | DANISH GOVERNMENT DEFENDS LEBANON POLICY [...] (SBU) At an extraordinary weekend session of the Danish parliament's foreign policy committee July 22, Danish Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller maintained a firm line against an unconditional cease-fire in Lebanon and signaled Danish government interest in participating in an eventual peacekee [...] | 2006-07-24 10:07:00 | Embassy Copenhagen | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNSC IS LE DA |
06COTONOU1107 | SCENE SETTER FOR GULF OF GUINEA MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Post welcomes your participation in the Government of Benin (GOB)-ACSS hosted Gulf of Guinea Ministerial Conference on Maritime Security in Cotonou, November 13-14, 2006. Your visit highlights USG support for security and safety initiatives in the Gulf of Guinea. The conference [...] | 2006-11-07 14:04:00 | Embassy Cotonou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EWWT MARR MASS PREL PGOV PINR CASC BN |
06COTONOU1118 | BENIN: SCENE SETTER FOR EUCOM AND NAVEUR PARTICIPATION IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Post welcomes your participation in the NAVEUR/ACSS-sponsored Gulf of Guinea Maritime Safety and Security (MSS) Ministerial Conference hosted by the Government of Benin (GOB) in Cotonou, November 13-15, 2006. Your visit highlights USG support for safety and security and initiati [...] | 2006-11-09 08:01:00 | Embassy Cotonou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EWWT MARR MASS PREL PGOV PINR BN |
06COTONOU1148 | BENIN: DEMARCHES ON UNGA RESOLUTIONS DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2006-11-21 14:44:00 | Embassy Cotonou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | UNGA PHUM PREL PTER BN |
06COTONOU1149 | BENIN: MARITIME SAFETY AND SECURITY MINISTERIAL CONFERENCE A SUCCESS [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Government of Benin hosted a ministerial conference on "Maritime Safety and Security in the Gulf of Guinea" in Cotonou on November 13-15. The conference, sponsored by NAVEUR, and organized by the Africa Center for Strategic Studies (ACSS),involved ministerial delegations from [...] | 2006-11-21 15:46:00 | Embassy Cotonou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MASS ETRD ECON MARR KMCA PGOV PREL BN EWWT |
06COTONOU1153 | BENIN: PRESIDENT YAYI FIRES TRANSPORT AND PORTS MINISTER [...] (U) SUMMARY: On November 20, President Yayi dismissed the Minister for Transports, Public Works and Urban Development, Mr. Alexandre Dossou Kpedetin. At the same time he split the portfolio into two, bringing the total number of ministers to 23. The new Minister of Public Works and Transport i [...] | 2006-11-22 13:12:00 | Embassy Cotonou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR BN EWWT |
06COTONOU1167 | BENIN: 2006-2007 COTTON HARVEST IN JEOPARDY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Late rains had compelled Benin's cotton experts to revise their 2006-2007 harvest estimates from 500,000 tons (the GOB's official target) to 350,000 tons, and the crop now faces damage by insects. Comment: A poor 2006-2007 cotton harvest will not necessarily lead to economic co [...] | 2006-11-29 09:35:00 | Embassy Cotonou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR EINV PGOV BN |
06COTONOU1168 | BENIN BORDER ARREST OF TWO CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC [...] (U) On November 27, Beninese media reported the recent arrest by Beninese Customs of two Central African Republic nationals at the Benin/Togo border. According to the media reports, Michel Djotodia and Abakar Sabone are reportedly wanted for their role in an attempted coup in the Central Afric [...] | 2006-11-29 13:26:00 | Embassy Cotonou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR ASEC CT BN |
06COTONOU1175 | SCENESETTER FOR PRESIDENT BONI YAYI OF BENIN'S USA VISIT, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Benin's new pro-American President Boni Yayi welcomes his December 13-16, 2006, USA visit to meet with President George W. Bush, and other USG, IFI and private sector officials. President Yayi likely will express his appreciation for the US support to Benin via its $307 million M [...] | 2006-11-30 16:02:00 | Embassy Cotonou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EWWT EAID MARR PGOV EFIN PINR CASC MASS PHUM |
06COTONOU1198 | BENIN: GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCES RESULTS OF INITIAL AUDITS OF [...] (U) SUMMARY: The GoB has announced the much-anticipated results of the audits of twenty-one ministries and several major parastatals for the 2003-2006 period. President Yayi's government initiated these audits immediately upon taking office in April 2006, as part of a high priority effort to i [...] | 2006-12-11 12:54:00 | Embassy Cotonou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KMCA BN |
06COTONOU1199 | BENIN: CWC IMPLEMENTATION DEMARCHE [...] (SBU) On October 26 Pol/Econ Chief delivered reftel talking points to Thomas Adoumasse, Director of the MFA's Office of International Organizations. 2. (SBU) On December 7 Pol/Econ Chief asked Mr. Bienvenu Houngbedji of the MFA's International Organizations office to provide additional in [...] | 2006-12-11 14:36:00 | Embassy Cotonou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL CWC OPCW CBW AF BWC BN |
06COTONOU1201 | BENIN: IMO DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (SBU) Pol/Econ Chief made reftel demarche on December 7 to Mr. Bienvenu Houngbedji of the MFA's International Organizations office and also emailed French translation of talking points to Director of the Merchant Marine office at the Ministry of Transportation, Ms. Rahanatou Anki Dosso. HO [...] | 2006-12-11 14:37:00 | Embassy Cotonou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTIA EWWT ANET AORC PREL ECPS IMO |
06COTONOU1202 | BENIN: UNSCR 1718 IMPLEMENTATION EFFORTS [...] (SBU) On December 11 embassy delivered REF A report text to Mr. Bienvenu Houngbedji of the MFA's International Organizations office to follow up delivery of REF B demarche on December 7. HOLTZAPPLE [...] | 2006-12-11 14:37:00 | Embassy Cotonou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP PARM PREL XX KN BN |
06COTONOU1203 | TERRORIST FINANCE: USG DESIGNATION OF [...] (SBU) Embassy delivered demarche in reftel December 7 to US Desk Officer Mr. Randal Oguidan of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Department of the Americas. HOLTZAPPLE [...] | 2006-12-11 14:43:00 | Embassy Cotonou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER XR BN |
06COTONOU1213 | BENIN: LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS SET FOR MARCH 25, 2007; GOB [...] (U) SUMMARY: Benin's Council of Ministers on December 9 set the date for the upcoming legislative elections as March 25, 2007. This launches official preparations for the fifth legislative elections in Benin since the democratic transition in 1990. With just over three and a half months to go [...] | 2006-12-14 07:41:00 | Embassy Cotonou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID BN |
06COTONOU1231 | BENIN: PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS REFERRAL OF TWO [...] On December 21, 2006, after examining a report from a parliamentary investigative committee, the Legal Committee of the National Assembly recommended that Cosme Sehlin and Valentin Houd, respectively the former ministers of Finance and Institutional Relations under President Mathieu Kerekou, be [...] | 2006-12-22 09:26:00 | Embassy Cotonou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KCOR KMCA BN |
06COTONOU887 | AMBASSADOR'S PRESENTATION OF CREDENTIALS TO PRESIDENT BONI [...] (U) This isan acton request. Please see para 11. SUMMARY ------ 2. (SBU) President Boni Yayi, in his first meting with newly-arrived Ambassador Gayleatha B. rown, on September 8, 2006, reaffirmed his refor agenda, commitment to good governance, and detemination to improve Benin's busine [...] | 2006-09-13 17:47:00 | Embassy Cotonou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ASEC AMGT EAID BN |
06COTONOU927 | JOURNALISTS DETAINED AFTER ALLEGEDLY DEFAMING PRESIDENT'S [...] (U) Summary: Police arrested and jailed three journalists September 15 for violating the libel law and released them September 18. The three, from the newspaper La Diaspora de Sabbat, were deemed responsible for an article alleging that President Boni Yayi's elder son was mentally ill. The [...] | 2006-09-21 15:01:00 | Embassy Cotonou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KPAO BN |
06COTONOU944 | BENIN U.S. COAST GUARD ISPS COMPLIANCE TEAM VISIT CONCERNED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A four-man US Coast Guard delegation led by Mr. Peyton Coleman visited Benin August 27-30, 2006 to assess the Port of Cotonou's security and compliance with the International Shipping and Port Facility Security (ISPS) Code. The team's unofficial findings are that the Port of Coto [...] | 2006-09-28 09:20:00 | Embassy Cotonou | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EINV ETRD EWWT PGOV BN |
06CURACAO127 | RULING PAR PARTY WINS BIG, PRO-CHAVEZ LEFT LOSES BIG IN NA [...] (U) The ruling PAR party led by its new leader Emily de Jongh-Elhage had a dramatic win in Curacao's national elections January 27 with over 25 percent of the vote, gaining five seats. In a night of surprises Charles Cooper's MAN party jumped from no seats in the last national election to thre [...] | 2006-01-30 21:23:00 | Consulate Curacao | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL NA |
06DAKAR1005 | CASAMANCE: CHIEF REBEL STRONGER THAN ANTICIPATED [...] (SBU) Beginning in mid-March the Bissau-Guinean military lent a helping hand to Senegal, putting into execution its threat to cleanse the border area of Movement of Democratic Forces of the Casamance (MFDC) recalcitrant Salif Sadio and his supporters. Bissau- Guinean troops have succeeded in [...] | 2006-04-26 17:26:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MOPS PINS PGOV PREL PU SG |
06DAKAR1100 | WHAT DID SENEGALESE DO BEFORE THEY HAD CANDLES?; [...] (U) SUMMARY: The latest political joke making the rounds in Dakar these days is: "What did Senegalese do before they had candles? ... They had electricity." Unfortunately, Senegal's chronic electricity shortages are no laughing matter and continue to have adverse economic, social and politi [...] | 2006-05-10 08:01:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON EPET SG |
06DAKAR1246 | SENEGAL ON THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-23 13:33:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KUNR OPDC UN SG |
06DAKAR1268 | PRESIDENTIAL COUNCIL REPRESENTS WATERSHED IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On March 2, Senegalese President Abdoulaye Wade convened an extraordinary Presidential Council to review the status of Senegal's Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) proposal. Prime Minister Macky Sall, most Ministers, heads of major independent agencies, representatives of mult [...] | 2006-05-30 15:53:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EIND KMCA SOCI SG |
06DAKAR1270 | SENEGAL'S ACCELERATED GROWTH STRATEGY (AGS) AND [...] (SBU) The Minister of Finance met with the donors to update them on the development of Senegal's Accelerated Growth Strategy (AGS) on March 22. The Government intends to finalize and implement the strategy on July 1, but donors have not heard what changes have been made over the last two mon [...] | 2006-05-30 16:24:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EAGR SG |
06DAKAR1280 | THE CORNICHE HEMMED: WILL VOTERS SWALLOW WADE'S [...] (U) Two of three major roads leading through the Dakar peninsula and downtown are closed by construction. Using Kuwaiti funds for the next Islamic summit and on short notice, President Wade on May 10 began tunnel projects and road widening on the well-known Corniche, redirected traffic to al [...] | 2006-05-31 13:43:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELTN PGOV ECON PINS PINR SG |
06DAKAR1623 | SENEGAL: SCENESETTER FOR GENERAL WARD [...] (SBU) As the Mission and the Government of Senegal prepare to host you, Senegal is preparing for presidential and parliamentary elections in February 2007. The Senegalese are proud to have a predominantly Muslim democracy that preaches tolerance and visibly supports the United States in prom [...] | 2006-07-07 15:22:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP ECON PHUM EAID MASS PGOV PREL SOCI KMCA |
06DAKAR1674 | SENEGAL'S OPPOSITION PUT TO THE TEST [...] (SBU) The opposition, already fractured, has been put to the test in recent weeks. On June 30, the terms of office for Senegalese deputies should have ended, but the National Assembly remains in session thanks to a 2005 act extending the terms by eight months (Ref A). Despite debate within t [...] | 2006-07-12 18:21:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KFRD EFIS SG |
06DAKAR168 | GUINEA-BISSAU SEEKS ASSISTANCE IN COMBATING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: On January 20, the Mission received a letter from Bissau-Guinean Prime Minister Aristides Gomes requesting assistance in combating narcotics trafficking through Guinea-Bissau. The letter noted that Bissau-Guinean Army officers, senior Ministry of Interior off [...] | 2006-01-24 16:39:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR EAID MARR PINS PU |
06DAKAR1774 | MOURIDE KHALIF BANS POLITICS IN TOUBA [...] (SBU) The Mouride Khalif has banned campaigning in his brotherhood's capital. As Senegal's fastest growing city, with at least half 800,000 souls, Touba looked to become a political battleground for 2007 elections. The holy city by tradition has no polling station, and was considered politi [...] | 2006-07-25 10:48:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KISL SG |
06DAKAR1780 | IMPOSTERS CONTINUE TO EXPLOIT U.S. REFUGEE TRAVEL [...] (SBU) Per reftel, airlines in Dakar continue to see genuine Refugee Travel Documents (I-571) issued to imposters. In the past three months, Senegalese immigration officials seized five Refugee Travel Documents from travelers denied boarding by South African Airways (SAA) because they appeare [...] | 2006-07-25 12:22:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS KFRD CPAS CMGT ASEC KSTC SG |
06DAKAR1846 | AMBASSADOR'S JULY 28 MEETING WITH MINISTER OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On July 28, the Ambassador, Senior Regional Commercial Officer and Agricultural Attache called on Minister of Commerce Decroix to discuss the Doha Round, AGOA, U.S. assistance to Senegal's cotton farmers, possible Sri Lankan investment in the textile industry, and franchising. [...] | 2006-08-01 15:03:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EAGR EAID EINV SG |
06DAKAR1852 | 61ST UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY: HIGH-LEVEL ATTENDANCE [...] (SBU) Format is keyed to reftel. A. Attendance of the Head of State -- Name and title: Joao Bernardo "Nino" Vieira, President of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau -- Arrival and departure dates to and from New York and other U.S. locations, and whether the Head of State will be present f [...] | 2006-08-02 12:13:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL OVIP UNGA PU |
06DAKAR1878 | TFLE01: SWASTIKAS IN DAKAR'S MAIN SQUARE [...] (U) On August 3, Senegal's Lebanese community staged another peaceful protest, erecting a memorial of sorts in Dakar's main square, Place de l'Independence. The memorial includes American and Israeli flags with reversed swastikas, as well as signs saying "Israeli and American assassins" belo [...] | 2006-08-04 12:31:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PINS PREL CASC SG LE IS |
06DAKAR2011 | PROMINENT SENEGALESE MUSLIM LEADER REQUESTS USG [...] (U) This is an action request; please see para 11 below. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Post has received a USD 1.3 million request for financial support from prominent Senegalese Islamic leader Cheikh Hassan Cisse, to expand the broadcast capability of his community radio station, Medina Baye FM, af [...] | 2006-08-21 14:00:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER EAID PHUM SENV SOCI KPAO SG |
06DAKAR2062 | POSSIBLE FRAUD RING FOR SHAM MARRIAGES [...] (SBU) Post's Fraud Prevention Unit (FPU) suspects that Mishel M. Kamara, a tax preparer in Maryland, may be arranging sham marriages between low income Amcits and Sierra Leoneans solely for the purpose of illegal immigration. Kamara works for MMK Tax Services LLC, 9420 Annapolis RS, Suite 202 [...] | 2006-08-28 11:25:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS KFRD SG |
06DAKAR2065 | POSSIBLE FRAUD RING FOR SHAM MARRIAGES [...] (SBU) Post's Fraud Prevention Unit (FPU) suspects that Mishel M. Kamara, a tax preparer in Maryland, may be arranging sham marriages between low income Amcits and Sierra Leoneans solely for the purpose of illegal immigration. Kamara works for MMK Tax Services LLC, 9420 Annapolis RS, Suite 202 [...] | 2006-08-28 12:52:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS KFRD SG |
06DAKAR2114 | SENEGAL LIFTS SAFEGUARD MEASURE FOR WAEMU OIL IMPORTS, BUT [...] (U) SUMMARY: In response to ongoing controversy surrounding Senegal's application of a safeguard measure in 2005, President Wade signed a revised law on July 21, 2006, applying a 25 percent provisional safeguard tax on refined and palm oils originating outside the West African Economic and Mon [...] | 2006-09-01 16:50:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EAGR ECON PGOV EAID EINV IV MY SG |
06DAKAR2120 | RESOLVING SENEGAL'S EDUCATIONAL CRISIS [...] (U) In the past year, Senegal,s public education system has been shaken by faculty and student unrest from the university level down. Though the violence that disrupted university campuses in the spring has mostly dissipated, current protests by middle and secondary-school teachers have had [...] | 2006-09-05 12:12:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI ELAB ECON PHUM SG |
06DAKAR2224 | DAKAR: EMERGENCY ACTION COMMITTEE (EAC) MEETING [...] (U) The DCM convened the EAC on September 13, 2006, to review mission security posture due to an increase in violence in the Casamance area and petty theft in Dakar. The EAC deemed the current security posture appropriate in Dakar. In light of recent banditry and rebel activity in the Casama [...] | 2006-09-14 09:53:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PTER CASC PINS AMGT SG |
06DAKAR2245 | SENEGAL'S ENERGY CRISIS WORSENS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: There seems to be no medium- or long-term strategy to Senegal's energy crisis. After a year of rancor, the relationship between GE/GTi Dakar and Senelec has further deteriorated, and both's debts are mounting. On September 16, GTi shut down because of a lack of fuel, and the [...] | 2006-09-18 09:17:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EINV ECON EPET KMCA SG |
06DAKAR2307 | TARIQ RAMADAN ENCOURAGES SENEGALESE MUSLIMS TO [...] (SBU) Tariq Ramadan, the Islamic scholar of Egyptian origin, gave a series of conferences to Islamic audiences in Senegal in August. His talks drew large audiences and enthusiastic press coverage, focused on his dual messages encouraging Muslims to take active part in politics but, at the sa [...] | 2006-09-25 11:14:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KISL KDEM PINR SG |
06DAKAR2364 | SENEGAL'S STRATEGY TO ADDRESS ITS ENERGY CRISIS [...] (SBU) As we enter the ninth month of Senegal's energy crisis, the GOS and energy parastatals have outlined a number of steps that they hope will stabilize the situation. With presidential and parliamentary elections in February 2007, there is widespread agreement among sector analysts that th [...] | 2006-09-29 17:09:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EINV ECON EPET KMCA SG CH IR LY MO |
06DAKAR2367 | "THE WADE FORMULA" - PRESIDENT WADE'S PROPOSES GLOBAL OIL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On September 26, President Abdoulaye Wade convoked the Ambassador to discuss Senegal's MCC program and other large development plans and to present "The Wade Formula," the President's own vision of a new mechanism for fighting poverty in Africa by sharing a new global surcharge [...] | 2006-10-02 07:50:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET EAID ECON ETRD EINV SG |
06DAKAR2418 | GUINEA-BISSAU: CASHEWS: INFORMATION FOR USITC STUDY ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Two-thirds of Bissau-Guineans depend upon cashews for their livelihood. Cashews constitute Guinea-Bissau's primary export, but only two or three percent of total production is processed in the country. Most of the remainder is sold to India for processing. USAID and OPIC had [...] | 2006-10-05 11:09:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EAGR ECON EINV PU US |
06DAKAR2431 | GUINEA-BISSAU: ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL TOUR D'HORIZON ON [...] (SBU) Guinea-Bissau ranked 172 out of 177 countries on the UNDP's 2005 Human Development Index. This is a critical moment for Guinea-Bissau, which has only recently emerged from years of armed conflict and missed economic opportunities. With a government struggling to provide basic services [...] | 2006-10-10 09:45:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EAGR EINV EPET EFIN SOCI PU |
06DAKAR2460 | WESTERN OIL COMPANIES REDUCE HOLDINGS IN SENEGAL AS OTHER [...] (SBU) Citing poor returns on investments, Exxon-Mobil officials have announced publicly the sale of its 300 service stations in Senegal, Cote d'Ivoire, Gabon, Cameroon, Kenya, and the island of Reunion to the Libyan firm Tamoil. At the same time, Royal Dutch Shell is quietly selling off the r [...] | 2006-10-13 06:15:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EINV ECON EPET KMCA CH IR LY MO SG |
06DAKAR2571 | SENEGAL: TEXTILES AND APPAREL SECTOR: UPDATED STATISTICS [...] (U) In response to Ref A request, post provides the following information on Senegal's textile and apparel industry. This expands upon information provided in Ref B. 2. (SBU) Senegal's textile industry produces limited volumes of domestic cloth and finished apparel. Despite being highlig [...] | 2006-10-23 11:33:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON KTEX EINV AGOA SG |
06DAKAR2588 | LOOKING AT ELECTIONS AND OIL, UN SEES UNEMPLOYMENT AS [...] (SBU) On October 19, the six UN special representatives (UNSRs) in West Africa gathered in Dakar for their eighth meeting under the chairmanship of Ambassador Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, the UN Secretary General's Special Representative for West Africa. They focused on Cote d'Ivoire and Guinea alt [...] | 2006-10-26 08:42:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECIN EPET PINS SNAR SG |
06DAKAR2610 | SENEGALESE WOMEN'S MOVEMENT DOWN FOR THE COUNT [...] (SBU) Although Senegalese women recently received the legal right to head households and to enjoy the relevant tax and insurance benefits, Senegal's women's movement is stagnating. In a system where the few women in national politics tend to spend more energy consolidating power than using i [...] | 2006-10-30 09:35:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KWMN KISL PINR SG |
06DAKAR2612 | THE LOST BOYS OF BISSAU [...] (U) During a recent adoption research trip to Guinea-Bissau, several contacts reported that young boys continue to be victims of child trafficking schemes. Children continue to be trafficked from Bissau to Senegal through networks of religious leaders (marabouts) and the GOGB has limited reso [...] | 2006-10-30 10:10:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KCRM KOCI KFRD PU SG |
06DAKAR2614 | SENEGAL'S DONORS GIVE IMF MISSION AN EARFUL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 26, a visiting IMF Mission, on its first day in Senegal for Article 4 consultations, invited key donors to present their view of Senegal's economic situation and the policy performance of the Wade Government. The donors highlighted many issues of concern, a number of [...] | 2006-10-30 11:03:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN ETRD EINV SG |
06DAKAR2661 | DAKAR FRAUD SUMMARY - FOURTH QUARTER FY2006 [...] Following is Embassy Dakar's quarterly fraud reporting cable for the fourth quarter (July-September) of FY2006. Responses are keyed to Reftel A. 2.A. COUNTRY CONDITIONS: No change since last quarterly report. B. NON-IMMIGRANT (NIV) FRAUD: No change since last quarterly report. C. IMM [...] | 2006-11-03 07:21:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS KFRD CPAS CMGT ASEC KSTC SG |
06DAKAR2703 | SENEGAL SCENESETTER FOR A/S HARTY [...] (SBU) As the Mission and the Government of Senegal (GOS) prepare to host you, Senegal is preparing for presidential and parliamentary elections in February 2007. The Senegalese are proud to have a predominantly Muslim democracy that preaches tolerance and visibly supports the United States in [...] | 2006-11-08 18:01:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP CMGT SMIG ECON EAID PGOV PREL KMCA SG |
06DAKAR2758 | IMF MISSION DISAPPOINTS SENEGAL'S DONORS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On November 8, an IMF Mission to Senegal for Article 4 consultations briefed the Ambassador and other members of Senegal's donor community on its impressions of Senegal's economic situation and performance and policy outlook for 2007. The team did not provide any new insights. [...] | 2006-11-16 15:52:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN PGOV PREL SG |
06DAKAR2927 | TERRORIST LISTS [...] (SBU) Currently the Senegalese Government does not have a specifically designated national list of banned terrorist entities. Rather, separate lists are maintained by different intelligence and enforcement agencies. 2. (SBU) The five agencies maintaining names of banned terrorist entities [...] | 2006-12-08 14:35:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER KTFN SG |
06DAKAR3016 | CASAMANCE: ESCALATION IN REBEL ATTACKS [...] (SBU) On December 20, Movement of Democratic Forces of the Casamance (MFDC) combatants ambushed a Senegalese army vehicle near the village of Kagnaru, north of Bignona. Two soldiers died, and 14 suffered injuries. One day before, a Senegalese army vehicle struck a fresh landmine in the outsk [...] | 2006-12-27 10:51:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINS ASEC CASC KHDP PHUM SG MO |
06DAKAR418 | PRIME MINISTER PROMISES TO FOLLOW UP ON MCC CEO [...] (SBU) On February 20, Charge hand delivered the translated copy of Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Chief Executive Officer John Danilovich,s February 13 letter to Senegalese Prime Minister Macky Sall (Ref A). Sall noted that he had already received the English-language version from th [...] | 2006-02-21 14:52:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KMCA PREL SG |
06DAKAR527 | GUINEA-BISSAU: TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT [...] (SBU) Guinea-Bissau is a source of children trafficked for forced agricultural work and begging, primarily in Senegal. Muslim Koranic teachers, known as marabouts, travel from Senegal or send intermediaries to convince parents to send children purportedly for a religious education. Children [...] | 2006-03-02 07:47:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KCRM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF PU |
06DAKAR528 | SENEGAL: ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT [...] (U) SUMMARY: After being upgraded last year from Tier 2 Watch List to Tier 2 status, Senegal has continued to devote significant time and attention to the issue of trafficking in persons. The most important achievement of the past year was passage of its first trafficking-in- persons (TIP) l [...] | 2006-03-02 07:47:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KCRM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF SG |
06DAKAR587 | GUINEA-BISSAU: GOVERNMENT PROGRAM UNDER [...] (U) The National Popular Assembly (ANP) voted to schedule the Government's policy program for discussion, overturning a technical advisory board's decision, which tried to keep the program from being read by the full Assembly. Fifty-one parliamentarians voted in favor, thirty-four against, a [...] | 2006-03-07 13:01:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINS KCRM PU |
06DAKAR610 | BISSAU-GUINEAN MEDIA ON LIFE SUPPORT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Government and private media in Guinea- Bissau barely function and rely heavily on the international donor community to survive. Nonetheless, editors have a solid grasp of the role of independent media in building a pluralist democracy as well as advancing national reconciliat [...] | 2006-03-09 12:22:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM SCUL KDEM KPAO PU |
06DAKAR619 | ELY OULD VALL: "MAURITANIA HAS NO REFUGEES IN [...] (U) Mauritania'S Colonel Ely Ould Mohamed Vall made his first visit to Senegal as head of state, March 6-7, 2006. In a press conference shortly before departure, he said use of the term "refugee" is inappropriate for those who left Maritania in 1989, and that those who claim to be Mauritani [...] | 2006-03-09 16:50:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PREF KFLU KUNR KPAL CN IZ MR SU SG |
06DAKAR626 | DEMARCHE TO SENEGAL ON LATEST WTO COTTON PROPOSAL [...] (SBU) On March 7, Senior Commercial Officer raised the Cotton-4,s latest World Trade Organization (WTO) proposal (reftel) with Minister of Commerce Mamadou Diop Decroix. Decroix said he had discussed the proposal with representatives of the Cotton-4 in Ouagadougou and that Senegal fully suppo [...] | 2006-03-10 11:38:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EAGR SG |
06DAKAR664 | SENEGAL: MARCH 15 AVIAN FLU UPDATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Between March 7 and 10, USAID/Senegal Health Officers visited the primary sites where migratory birds are found. They found Ministry of Livestock officials well informed about avian influenza, but health officials were less knowledgeable and less prepared. Although a national [...] | 2006-03-15 14:41:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KFLU CASC EAID AMED EAGR SG |
06DAKAR709 | OVER 5,000 DISPLACED BY GUINEA-BISSAU FIGHTING [...] (SBU) As of midnight on March 17, Senegalese authorities had registered 2,518 refugees and displaced persons fleeing the fighting between Bissau-Guinean forces and Movement of Democratic Forces of the Casamance (MFDC) factions who want peace and Salif Sadio's "Attika" MFDC forces (reftel). T [...] | 2006-03-20 15:38:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF CASC EAID MOPS PINS PU SG |
06DAKAR86 | SUD FM AFFAIR: SIX JOURNALISTS ACQUITTED, REBEL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Six journalists from the Sud Communications Group were acquitted on January 6 of charges of complicity in endangering Senegal's territorial integrity. In a volte-face, the prosecution joined the defense in requesting that all charges against the journalists be dropped. Moveme [...] | 2006-01-13 07:14:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KPAO SG |
06DAKAR933 | SENEGAL: 2006 BUDGET CONTINUES TO FOCUS ON THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Senegal's 2006 budget allocates more money to the social sector (education and health),and relies on CFA francs (CFAF) 43.1 billion (USD 78.3 million) in savings from the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) debt relief initiative to reduce poverty, which affects nearly 57 p [...] | 2006-04-18 08:50:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EAID MARR SG |
06DAKAR957 | AVIATION SAFETY AND SECURITY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: South African Airlines begins daily flights from Johannesburg to Washington Dulles via Dakar next month. Delta Air Lines is scheduled to begin service from Atlanta through Dakar to Johannesburg in December. Recent FAA and TSA safety and security assessments [...] | 2006-04-20 13:24:00 | Embassy Dakar | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR EAID SG |
06DAMASCUS1017 | SYRIA: ADDITIONAL INPUT ON INTERNATIONAL [...] (SBU) As promised in reftel A, Post is providing the SARG's March 2 written response to a query about its stance toward the following international instruments as requested in reftel B. While the following information differs in some cases from that provided for last year's report, it is the [...] | 2006-03-08 14:15:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB |
06DAMASCUS1398 | EXPORT LICENSE APPROVAL FOR ICARDA IS IN USG INTEREST [...] (SBU) Summary: The International Center for Agricultural Research of Dry Areas (ICARDA),a not-for profit-organization headquartered outside Aleppo, has been unsuccessful in its most recent attempts to obtain a U.S. export license. Under the provisions of the Syria Accountability Act, a waiver [...] | 2006-03-29 10:22:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD ETTC SY |
06DAMASCUS1510 | UNDP AGREES TO HELP SARG LEASE AIRPLANES [...] (U) On April 4, local press reported that a UNDP expert was consulting with Syrian officials from the Ministry of Transportation, the Civil Aviation Establishment, and Syrian Arab Airlines regarding SyrianAir's desire to lease commercial airplanes. The UNDP expert's visit is part of a project [...] | 2006-04-04 14:17:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON ETTC SY SANC |
06DAMASCUS1926 | SYRIA'S ECONOMY - FRAGILE STABILITY [...] (U) Summary. Syria,s economy is benefiting from the high price of oil and other positive trends, but faces two chronic economic problems that could become acute in the next two to three years: decreasing oil production and rising unemployment. The economy is also hamstrung by a number of sho [...] | 2006-04-27 15:21:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETTC SY SANC |
06DAMASCUS2164 | THE SARG'S NEW ECONOMIC SCORECARD [...] (SBU) Summary: The recently enacted 10th Five-Year Plan presents a number of quantifiable targets for reaching seven percent annual GDP growth and represents an agenda for reform against which the SARG's progress can be measured. The plan assumes that broad-based reform will allow the SARG t [...] | 2006-05-09 12:37:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD EIND ELAB EAGR ENRG SY |
06DAMASCUS2394 | SYRIA: ADDITIONAL INPUT FOR TRAFFICKING IN [...] (SBU) The Syrian Ministry of Interior (MOI) responded on May 7 to Post's February 2, 2006 diplomatic note with statistics about the number of persons arrested in 2005 on charges of trafficking in persons. According to the diplomatic note, in the last nine months of 2005, authorities had arre [...] | 2006-05-23 13:47:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB |
06DAMASCUS3489 | TFLE01: IRANIAN FM VISITS DAMASCUS [...] (U) Iran's FM Manouchehr Mottaki visited Damascus July 17, meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Asad and delivering a message from Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who stressed Iran's stand with Syria in confronting any attacks or aggression, according to the official Syrian Arab New [...] | 2006-07-17 14:35:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPAL SY IR LE |
06DAMASCUS3700 | TFLE01: SYRIA DAILY SITREP 11 THURSDAY JULY 27, [...] (U) Summary: The head of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Ali Larijani, arrived in Damascus July 26 for talks with SARG officials on the crisis in Lebanon and the Rome Conference, according to Arab regional media. DAO reports increasing displays of pro-Hizballah Arabic-language banne [...] | 2006-07-27 13:39:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM LE SY |
06DAMASCUS3927 | SYRIA RESPONSE TO UN EFFORTS TO COMBAT SEXUAL [...] (SBU) In preparing the annual Syria submission for the Global Trafficking in Persons report, Post did not come across any public or private statements or media reports about trafficking in persons (TIP) or sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) involving UN peacekeeping personnel based in Syria. [...] | 2006-08-10 12:24:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPKO |
06DAMASCUS393 | NEW KFC IN SYRIA WITNESSES ITS FIRST ANTI-AMERICAN [...] (SBU) Summary: Having opened only recently with generous media coverage, demonstrators associated with the Committee to Boycott U.S. Products staged a protest against the new KFC restaurant in Damascus this week. The organizers of the protest are not affiliated with the Central Boycott Office [...] | 2006-02-02 15:12:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV SY |
06DAMASCUS4094 | SURVEY OF SYRIAN WATER SECTOR - 2006 [...] (SBU) Summary: After years of national water shortages, it has become clear that Syria faces a water crunch that, if not addressed comprehensively, will balloon into a crisis in the medium to long term. Rapidly growing demand for water from various sectors of Syrian society in recent years com [...] | 2006-08-21 13:25:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECIN ECON EIND EAID SENV SY EWWT |
06DAMASCUS4236 | UNICEF ACTING REPRESENTATIVE SKETCHES OUT SYRIA [...] (SBU) The Charg paid a courtesy call August 27 on UNICEF's acting director, Marc Lucet, who said that UNHCR, WFP and UNICEF planned to do a joint assessment of the remaining displaced Lebanese who are thought to be staying in private homes in about six locations in Syria. UN agencies had rep [...] | 2006-08-28 13:53:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PHUM PGOV SY LE |
06DAMASCUS4284 | THE SARG PLAYS WITH THE POWER SWITCH TO LEBANON [...] (SBU) Summary. Though the SARG,s chronic electricity shortage has recently threatened to turn acute, its most recent cutoff of electricity to Lebanon appears to have been an attempt to remind the GOL that Syria holds the economic levers in the bilateral relationship. End summary. 2. (U) [...] | 2006-08-31 13:58:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG ETRD PREL SY |
06DAMASCUS514 | DANISH COMPANY ALRA FACES THREATS AND ECONOMIC LOSSES [...] (SBU) Summary: In the wake of the destruction to the Danish and Norwegian Embassies in Damascus, many Syrians are encouraging non-violent protests of the Mohammad caricatures, including a general boycott of Danish products. The Syrian distributor for Alra Danish dairy products says that as a [...] | 2006-02-08 15:09:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV SY |
06DAMASCUS5378 | SYRIANS REFUSE TO DEPORT ACCUSED AMCIT MURDERER [...] (U) This is an action request, please see paragraph 5. 2. (SBU) The Syrian MFA notified us by a dipnote (text included below) received December 2 that the SARG has rejected our request to deport Amcit accused murderer Muaz Haffar (AKA to the Syrians as Omar al-Sawwaf). The dipnote, dated [...] | 2006-12-07 16:54:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL CASC ASEC SY |
06DAMASCUS5431 | SYRIA: 2006 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM [...] (U) Maria d.G. Olson is the Embassy POC. Address: 6110 Damascus Pl. Dulles, VA 20189. Unclassified e-mail: OlsonM@state.gov. Tel: (963) (11) 3391-3785. Cell Phone: (963) 94405166. 2. (SBU) The Syrian Government continued to provide political and material support to Hizballah and pol [...] | 2006-12-21 12:11:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER ASEC PGOV SY |
06DAMASCUS598 | SYRIA JOINS THE UNOFFICIAL DEVELOPING NATIONS GROUP AT [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 6, the SARG announced that it had joined the unofficial developing nations group at the WTO, the latest in an ongoing campaign to portray the SARG as strengthening international economic relationships. Syria is receiving $1.6 million USD in pre-WTO accession assistan [...] | 2006-02-13 11:18:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD ECIN SY |
06DAMASCUS65 | APPLYING TARGETED SANCTIONS TO SYRIA [...] No summary [...] | 2006-01-04 13:46:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON ETTC SY SANC |
06DAMASCUS844 | FACTS ON US BUSINESS ACTIVITY IN SYRIA [...] (SBU) The following information is offered for EU posts, consideration and reference when discussing aligning EU and USG policy vis--vis the SARG (ref A). Two discrepancies between USG and EU economic policy are apparent from Damascus: EU missions continue to promote business investment in S [...] | 2006-03-01 12:32:00 | Embassy Damascus | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV SY |
06DARESSALAAM1065 | CHINESE PREMIER JIABAO VISIT FOCUSED ON TRADE AND [...] (SBU) The Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's overnight visit, June 22 to 23, in Tanzania centered on improving trade and revitalizing construction projects between the two countries rather than military or strategic issues. While President Jakaya Kikwete hurried back from the legislative capital of [...] | 2006-06-28 19:33:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID ETRD ECON CH TZ |
06DARESSALAAM1090 | AMBASSADOR RETZER DISCUSSES HIV/AIDS, MALARIA [...] (SBU) In an hour-long lively exchange on June 23, Ambassador Retzer and Tanzania's Prime Minister Edward Lowassa discussed the recent PEPFAR conference in Durban, South Africa, USG plans to accelerate HIV/AIDS testing and to ramp up anti-malaria programs on both the Mainland and in Zanzibar, t [...] | 2006-07-03 12:17:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID TZ |
06DARESSALAAM1282 | AMBASSADOR URGES TANZANIA?S PRIME MINISTER FORWARD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. To urge the Government of Tanzania (GOT) forward on HIV/AIDS testing policy and anti-money laundering (AML) legislation, Ambassador Retzer, together with USAID Director Pam White, called on Prime Minister Lowassa during their visit to Dodoma on July 19. Prime Minister Lowassa [...] | 2006-08-01 08:08:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KTFN EAID TZ |
06DARESSALAAM1418 | TIME RIPE FOR US-TANZANIA PARLIAMENTARY EXCHANGE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Government of Tanzania (GOT) is ready and willing to establish a legislative exchange with the United States Congress. This sentiment surfaced quickly during a Congressional staff delegation from August 8-10 led by Matthew Szymanski, Chief of Staff for both the U.S.-China [...] | 2006-08-21 10:05:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPAO OPRC KMDR TZ |
06DARESSALAAM1473 | TANZANIA CONSIDERING CO-SPONSORING DARFUR [...] (U) Co-sponsorship of the draft UN Security Council resolution on Darfur is "under serious consideration" by Tanzania, Ambassador Liberata Mulamula, Director of the Department of Multilateral Cooperation in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told Poloff August 30. Poloff inquired as to whethe [...] | 2006-08-30 15:32:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPKO UNSC SU TZ |
06DARESSALAAM1508 | BURUNDI, FNL SIGN CEASEFIRE AGREEMENT [...] (U) SUMMARY: Burundi's president, Pierre Nkurunziza, and Palipehutu-FNL's Chairperson, Agathon Rwasa, signed a Comprehensive Ceasefire Agreement in Dar es Salaam September 7. The ceasefire is to take effect 72 hours from the signing of the agreement. The agreement outlines further steps to [...] | 2006-09-08 10:38:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV BU TZ |
06DARESSALAAM1561 | INTERNATIONAL MOBILE SATELLITE ORGANIZATION [...] (U) Tanzania was pleased to learn that the United States government views the future of the International Mobile Satellite Organization (IMSO) as important enough to merit the full endorsement of a U.S. candidate, Steven Lett, for IMSO Director, according to Dr. Bartholomew Rufunjo, Director o [...] | 2006-09-19 13:28:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC ECPS EU EWWT IMO INMARSAT KHLS TZ |
06DARESSALAAM1730 | TANZANIA UNDERLINES INTEREST IN DEPLOYING [...] (U) SUMMARY: Tanzania's Defense Minister has warmly welcomed recent developments in the U.S.-Tanzania mil-to-mil relationship, including the latest timeline for ACOTA training, deployment of a CJTF-HOA civil affairs team to Tanzania, the reintroduction of IMET training, and the offer of sever [...] | 2006-10-23 04:59:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MASS MARR PREL PGOV TZ |
06DARESSALAAM1822 | TANZANIA: COUNTRY SPECIFIC HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) Ambassador Liberata Mulamula, Director of the Multilateral Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told PolCouns November 8 that Tanzania would consider each of the Third Committee country specific resolutions on Iran, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Burma and North Korea on its own merits. Mul [...] | 2006-11-14 11:07:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM UNGA TZ |
06DARESSALAAM1925 | TERRORIST LISTS: TANZANIA DOES NOT HAVE OWN LIST [...] (SBU) Susan Mkapa, Director for Legal Services at the Ministry of Finance, confirmed December 7 that Tanzania does not maintain its own list of terrorist entities. Mkapa said that the Government of Tanzania (GOT) and the Bank of Tanzania (BOT) depend on information from the U.S. Government t [...] | 2006-12-11 09:59:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EFIN KTFN TZ |
06DARESSALAAM1946 | SOFA WITH TANZANIA: PROPOSED LANGUAGE BEING [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-19 08:12:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KTIA MARR MOPS TZ |
06DARESSALAAM295 | SAICM: TANZANIAN DELEGATION TO DUBAI CONFERENCE [...] (SBU) The Director of the Environmental Pollution Section of the Office of the Vice President of Tanzania, Ms. Angeline Mulande, told EconOff February 2 that the Tanzanian delegation to the Dubai Conference on the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM) understood the [...] | 2006-02-15 10:54:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ETRD ECON PGOV PREL TZ |
06DARESSALAAM300 | TANZANIA'S FOOD SHORTAGE: GOVERNMENT REQUESTS [...] (SBU) The Government of Tanzania (GOT) called all heads of mission to Dodoma, the legislative capital, on February 13 for a briefing by Prime Minister Edward Lowassa on the food crisis in Tanzania. On February 14, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Dr. Asha Rose [...] | 2006-02-15 14:34:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID ECON EAGR TZ |
06DARESSALAAM307 | TANZANIA AND NEW UN SECRETARY-GENERAL [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-16 12:13:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL TZ UN UNSC |
06DARESSALAAM396 | TANZANIA'S ARMYWORM INFESTATION: AMBASSADOR URGES [...] (U) Ambassador Retzer and USAID Director, Pamela White, met with the newly appointed Minister for Agriculture, Food Security and Cooperatives, Joseph J. Mungai, to congratulate him on his appointment as Minister and assure him that the USG continues to support agricultural activities in Tanzani [...] | 2006-03-01 04:10:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID EAGR ECON ETRD TZ |
06DARESSALAAM696 | TANZANIA: ANTI-CORRUPTION DRIVE MARKS KIKWETE'S [...] (SBU) As Jakaya Kikwete passed the 120-day mark of his presidency, he continued to wage a sustained and very public attack on alleged corruption, urging probes into persons and institutions that for years enjoyed apparent immunity from scrutiny under previous administrations. The press carried [...] | 2006-05-02 09:15:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EAID TZ |
06DARESSALAAM978 | MAKE BURMA TEST CASE OF HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL, SAYS [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered to Ambassador Liberata Mulamula, Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Multilateral Division, on June 12, demarche concerning a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution on Burma (reftel A). Mulamula said the Government of Tanzania (GOT) believes the mat [...] | 2006-06-19 03:27:00 | Embassy Dar Es Salaam | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM UNSC BM TZ |
06DHAKA1044 | COLLABORATION FOR BASIC SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS [...] (SBU) Summary: The BDG is overhauling its public education system with the help of international partners. Post has supplemented these activities by focusing on USAID-funded pre-school education programs that include math and science elements. The Public Affairs section has also been involved [...] | 2006-03-01 11:57:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON PREL SENV BD |
06DHAKA1107 | CONGRESSMAN CROWLEY MEETS WITH MFA MORSHED KHAN [...] (SBU) Summary: Congressman Crowley met with Morshed Khan and discussed terrorism, elections, protection of minorities, the BDG economy and corruption, and possible reductions in US AID funding. Khan reviewed the BDG's positive actions on counterterrorism, expressed optimism about the elections, [...] | 2006-03-05 08:32:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KDEM ETRD PTER IR BG |
06DHAKA1108 | CONGRESSMAN CROWLEY MEETS AWAMI LEAGUE LEADERS [...] (SBU) Summary. Congressman Joseph Crowley met with Awami League (AL) leader Sheikh Hasina, with several AL members and embassy officials. Hasina and others said the international community and election monitors need to better understand the election situation in Bangladesh, perhaps by arriving [...] | 2006-03-05 08:32:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER PGOV BG |
06DHAKA1109 | CONGRESSMAN CROWLEY MEETS WITH JAMAAT ISLAMI [...] (SBU) Summary: Congressman Crowley and embassy officials met with JI's top leadership including Amir Nizami. Crowley noted JI's contributions in counter terrorism, asked JI to promote respect for minority rights, sought avoidance of election violence and intimidation, raised corruption issues, [...] | 2006-03-05 08:32:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PREL PTER BG |
06DHAKA1143 | BDG CONFRONTED BY FAILURE TO INVEST IN POWER SECTOR [...] (SBU) Summary: The chronic electricity shortage in Bangladesh has turned acute this winter. Steady economic growth and the corresponding growth in electricity demand have begun to overwhelm the country's aging generating capacity. "Load shedding" (controlled blackouts) occurs more regul [...] | 2006-03-06 09:51:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG PGOV EAGR BG |
06DHAKA1241 | IAGGA REPORT SUBMISSION FOR BANGLADESH [...] (U) Post is pleased to provide its submission for the 2004-2005 International Anticorruption and Good Governance Act as requested reftel. 2. (SBU) Begin text: Bangladesh Government Efforts: The Government of Bangladesh (BDG) established an independent Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC [...] | 2006-03-09 10:50:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PGOV BG |
06DHAKA1251 | DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY VISIT A SUCCESS; NUCLEAR [...] (U) Summary: The Department of Energy's visit to Dhaka was successful in moving forward on the Radiological Threat Reduction Program. After a two-year build up, contracts were signed at the Science Ministry, and a vendor has been hired to complete work. A demarche on the U.S.-India Nuclear [...] | 2006-03-12 00:45:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG PREL KSCA PARM KNNP OTRA ETTC IN BG |
06DHAKA1252 | DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY VISIT A SUCCESS; NUCLEAR [...] (U) Summary: The Department of Energy's visit to Dhaka was successful in moving forward on the Radiological Threat Reduction Program. After a two-year build up, contracts were signed at the Science Ministry, and a vendor has been hired to complete work. A demarche on the U.S.-India Nuclear [...] | 2006-03-12 00:47:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG PREL KSCA PARM KNNP OTRA ETTC IN BG |
06DHAKA1365 | MANAGEMENT ACCEPTS UNION; BUYERS PLEDGE INCREASED [...] (SBU) Summary: After management fired a newly formed union's members, corporate social responsibility compliance agents, trade groups and labor organizers successfully negotiated the reinstatement of fired workers and union officers. Shortly after the settlement, buyers tripled the garment or [...] | 2006-03-14 10:59:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ETRD PGOV BG |
06DHAKA1526 | MEETING WITH JOURNALIST SALAHUDDIN SHOAIB CHOWDHURY [...] On March 16, poloff met with journalist Salahuddin Shoaib Chowdhury at his request to discuss his 2003 arrest for attempted travel to Israel and his still-pending sedition charges. As a condition of his bail, Chowdhury's passport has been confiscated by the home ministry. 2. Chowdhury st [...] | 2006-03-20 09:51:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM BG |
06DHAKA1527 | FACTORIES COLLAPSE AND BURN; EXPERTS HOLD MEETING; [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-20 09:58:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ETRD PGOV BG |
06DHAKA1528 | FACTORIES COLLAPSE AND BURN; EXPERTS HOLD MEETING; [...] (SBU) On March 14, in the wake of the Phoenix factory collapse in Dhaka which killed 21 and injured 50, and of the KTS factory fire in Chittagong which killed at least 61 and injured over a 100, and the Radiant Sweater company fire which killed 3 and injured 22, the Center for Policy Dialogue [...] | 2006-03-20 10:08:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ETRD PGOV BG |
06DHAKA1600 | GOVERNMENT AND OPPOSITION NEGOTIATE TERMS OF [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-23 07:40:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL BG |
06DHAKA1740 | EYEWITNESSES PLACE KTS FACTORY FIRE DEATHS AT OVER [...] (SBU) Summary: Media reported that a fire on February 23 at the Chittagong KTS Textile factory killed 61 people and injured over a hundred. Laboff spoke to KTS factory workers who described the fire which destroyed the factory, left hundreds of workers searching for work, others seeking unpaid [...] | 2006-03-30 08:51:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ETRD PHUM PGOV BG |
06DHAKA1743 | BEPZA HIRES LABOR CONCILATORS IN ANTICIPATION OF [...] (SBU) Towards the end of 2005, the Bangladesh Export Processing Zone Authority (BEPZA) hired two labor "conciliators" pursuant to chapter five --Conciliation and Arbitration -- of the EPZ Workers Association and Industrial Relations Act, 2004 (the EPZ Law). According to the law, the concilia [...] | 2006-03-30 09:04:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ETRD PGOV BG |
06DHAKA1866 | CHURCH BURNING IN HILL TRACTS [...] (U) On April 2, local newspapers reported that arsonists burned down a church in the remote village of Lambopara in the Khagrachhari Hill District of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, apparently in retaliation for the conversion of local Buddhists to Christianity. 2. (SBU) Two Bangladeshi journa [...] | 2006-04-04 10:17:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM KIRF BG |
06DHAKA2185 | OPPOSITION SIT-IN AT PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICE COULD [...] (SBU) The Awami League-led opposition alliance is pressing forward with plans to hold on April 19 a sit-in in front of the Prime Minister's Office from 1100 to 1300 local. Their declared objective is to trap Prime Minister Khaleda Zia inside her office in support of their demands for electoral [...] | 2006-04-19 00:35:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL BG |
06DHAKA2440 | BANGLADESH CAPTURES TERROR LEADERS [...] (SBU) BDG security forces have captured Khaled Saifullah and Salauddin, (who goes by only one name),the remaining two members of Jamaatul Mujahedin Bangladesh (JMB) terrorist group's seven man Majlish-i-Shura or ruling council. According to media reports, Khaled Saifullah was captured on Apri [...] | 2006-04-26 09:29:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER KISL KCRM BG |
06DHAKA2746 | SCENESETTER FOR VISIT TO BANGLADESH OF TREASURY [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-16 03:08:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER EFIN BG |
06DHAKA2841 | OPPOSITION, MEDIA SHARPEN ATTACKS ON VOTER LIST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Election Commission released its draft voter list on May 3, and gave the public until May 21 to submit corrections. The opposition Awami League and the media harshly criticize the list as having excess voters and numerous omissions. Prominent NGOs believe the problems are [...] | 2006-05-18 09:13:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KISL BG |
06DHAKA3389 | CLASHES MARK OPPOSITION'S DHAKA SIEGE PROGRAM [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-11 16:09:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM BG |
06DHAKA3570 | WEEK OF PROTESTS CONSIDERED A SUCCESS BY OPPOSITION [...] SUMMARY: The Awami League (AL) and its 14-party alliance declared a 36-hour hartal on June 13 and 14 on the heels of their "siege of Dhaka" program. The hartal appeared to be better observed than previous ones, with some incidents of violence. The AL views the action as a success, and has an [...] | 2006-06-15 10:53:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM BG |
06DHAKA3571 | WEEK OF PROTESTS CONSIDERED A SUCCESS BY OPPOSITION [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Awami League (AL) and its 14-party alliance declared a 36-hour hartal on June 13 and 14 on the heels of their "siege of Dhaka" program. The hartal appeared to be better observed than previous ones, with some incidents of violence. The AL views the action as a success, and has [...] | 2006-06-15 11:06:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM BG |
06DHAKA4169 | AMBASSADOR VISITS KIBRIA FAMILY [...] (U) On July 9, the Ambassador paid a call on the Kibria family, the third in a series of five visits to families of victims of political violence. Asma Kibria, Shah Kibria's widow, son Reza (an academic formerly resident in Brisbane, Australia),daughter Nazli, Reza's wife, and several grandch [...] | 2006-07-10 10:29:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM BG |
06DHAKA5434 | HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR "ATA-6001 - PREVENTING [...] (U) This is an action request. See para three. 2. (SBU) The following candidates have been selected for participation in the Diplomatic Security Anti-Terrorism Assistance Preventing Attacks Against Soft Targets (PAAST) course from September 16-23, 2006 in Washington, D.C. Post vetting was [...] | 2006-08-27 05:48:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PHUM BG MASS MARR PREL KCRM |
06DHAKA5515 | EXPORT ZONE CHAIRMAN OUTLINES PLANS FOR DEALING [...] (U) Summary. Economic officers visiting the Bangladesh Export Processing Zone Authority (BEPZA) on 27 August were surprised to find themselves meeting with BEPZA Executive Chairman, Brigadier General Ashraf Abdullah Yussuf, for over forty minutes instead of the head of BEPZA's statistics off [...] | 2006-08-31 06:48:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EIN ELAB ETRD EIND BG |
06DHAKA5797 | TWO AWAMI LEAGUE MP'S INJURED IN CLASHES WITH [...] (SBU) Approximately 100 persons, including Awami League MP's Mohammaed Nasim, a former Home Minister, and Assaduzzaman Nur received modest injuries today during the opposition's march on the Prime Minister's Office, according to press and police reports. Police used tear gas and batons to rep [...] | 2006-09-12 12:34:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL BG |
06DHAKA5933 | IMF PRGF REVIEW TEAM GENERALLY POSITIVE,BUT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. An IMF team met with BDG officials and with donor countries in preparation for Executive Board review of the next $71 Million tranche under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF). The tone of the IMF team's meeting and informal discussions with donor countries was [...] | 2006-09-20 01:35:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON IMF BG BD |
06DHAKA6077 | GARMENT WORKERS TAKE TO STREETS [...] (SBU) On September 30, media reported that garment workers from several factories ransacked police stations and damaged 50 vehicles to protest for better pay. Police responded with rubber bullets and teargas, resulting in 50 police officers injured along with several journalists. 2. (SBU) [...] | 2006-10-02 04:49:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ETRD PGOV BG |
06DHAKA6258 | GARMENT WORKERS RAMPAGE [...] (SBU) Local media reported that garment workers blocked roads, ransacked over 100 factories, and looted storefronts in the Dhaka areas of Mipur, Uttara, Gazipur and to a limited extent Savar over a period of four hours on 10 October. Police fired blank shotgun rounds and deployed tear gas in an [...] | 2006-10-12 02:48:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ETRD PGOV BG |
06DHAKA6299 | NATIONAL WAGE BOARD OFFERS INCREASED MINIMUM WAGE [...] (SBU) On 12 October, the National Wage Board, composed of representatives from labor, government and management, announced what they insisted was the Board's final recommendation to increase the minimum wage for garment workers from 930 to 1,662.50 taka (25 USD) per month. If approved by the [...] | 2006-10-16 10:03:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ETRD PGOV BG |
06DHAKA6346 | BEPZA PLANS FOR WORKER ASSOCIATION ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Bangladesh Export Processing Zone Authority (BEPZA) Deputy Secretary Morshed Alam discussed with laboff BEPZA's plans to prepare for Workers Association (WA) elections. Alam confirmed BEPZA will announce its plans to factory managers, and BEPZA counselors and administrators before the en [...] | 2006-10-19 08:48:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ETRD PGOV BG |
06DHAKA6368 | "STOLEN FILMS" ALLEGEDLY AT ROOT OF DISPUTE WITH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The October 5 incident involving journalist Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury took a new turn with the revelation that the person he accused of attacking him, Hussain Khan Helal, is a U.S. citizen. POLOFF met with Helal when he came to the Embassy's Consular Section to complain abo [...] | 2006-10-19 11:52:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM BG |
06DHAKA6521 | CARETAKER GOVERNMENT ADVISORS APPOINTED [...] (SBU) Summary. The opposition Awami League fared well with its nominees for caretaker advisers, though portfolios have yet to be assigned. Sporadic political violence persists, mostly outside of Dhaka. Under apparent pressure from the former ruling party, the caretaker government reversed two [...] | 2006-11-01 10:16:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM BG |
06DHAKA6636 | SEARCH FOR ALLEGED CHILD WORKERS AT HARVEST RICH [...] Summary: After a labor rights group acccused the Harvest Rich Garment factory of using child labor, Harvest Rich denied the allegations and produced some of the alleged child workers, who said they are 18 or older. Visiting buyers were unable to find any evidence of child workers, while NLC was [...] | 2006-11-09 08:21:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ETRD PGOV CASC BG |
06DHAKA683 | IMPLEMENTATION OF WRWC EPZ LAW PRESSES ON [...] (SBU) The Bangladesh Export Processing Zone Authority (BEPZA) continues to press ahead in implementing the EPZ Workers Association and Industrial Relations Act, 2004 (the EPZ Law). BEPZA's Savar Export Processing Zone General Manager Kamal Ahkter told laboff that by the beginning of February, [...] | 2006-02-09 00:54:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ETRD PGOV BG |
06DHAKA705 | MICRO-CREDIT BANK BOSS PROPOSES POLITICAL FORMULA [...] (SBU) On February 4, micro-credit pioneer and Grameen Bank Managin Dr. Muhammad Yunus proposed that political parties choose a respected find a solution to the deadlock over modalities for holding the next elections. Speaking at a gala dinner to commemorate the founding of Star newspaper, Yunu [...] | 2006-02-09 08:37:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV BG BGD |
06DHAKA706 | MORE PROTESTS PLANNED AGAINST DANISH AND EUROPEAN EMBASSIES [...] (U) According to police sources, several Islamic groups have plann a protest around the Baitul MukarramNationalMosque on Friday, Febru (after Friday prayers) followed bya march towards the Danish, French and the EC Mission. The protests are in response to the cartoons publ western newspapers de [...] | 2006-02-09 09:21:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PTER BG |
06DHAKA715 | MORE PROTESTS PLANNED AGAINST DANISH AND EUROPEAN [...] (U) According to police sources, several Islamic groups have planned to organize a protest around the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque on Friday, February 10 at 1500 (after Friday prayers) followed by a march towards the Danish, French, and Italian embassies and the EC Mission. The protests are [...] | 2006-02-12 00:48:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PTER BG |
06DHAKA716 | MORE PROTESTS PLANNED AGAINST DANISH AND EUROPEAN [...] (U) According to police sources, several Islamic groups have planned to organize a protest around the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque on Friday, February 10 at 1500 (after Friday prayers) followed by a march towards the Danish, French, and Italian embassies and the EC Mission. The protests are [...] | 2006-02-12 00:49:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PTER BG |
06DHAKA717 | MORE PROTESTS PLANNED AGAINST DANISH AND EUROPEAN EMBASSIES [...] (U) According to police sources, several Islamic groups have plann 2. (U) The demonstration will originate from the downtown Dhaka Baitu 3. (U) There have been other smaller demonstrations in downtown Dhaka 4. (SBU) On February 8, Home Minister of State Babar assured Charge t 5. (SBU) RSO [...] | 2006-02-12 00:49:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PTER BG |
06DHAKA721 | CONTINUED PROTESTS AGAINST DANISH AND EUROPEAN [...] (U) According to police sources, several Islamic groups have planned to organize a protest around the Baitul Mukarram National Mosque on Monday, February 13, 2006 at 1600 hours followed by a march towards the National parliament. The protests have been called because of the cartoons depicting [...] | 2006-02-12 05:16:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PTER BG |
06DHAKA724 | EMBASSY DHAKA USAID LOCAL CONTRACTOR ROBBED AT [...] On February 12, 2006, ARSO was notified that a USAID contractor had been the subject of a robbery in the Diplomatic Enclave. 2. On February 12, 2006, ARSO interviewed the contractor (employee works for RTI International and this organization receives donor money from USAID and has a close E [...] | 2006-02-12 08:23:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC |
06DHAKA746 | THREATENING LETTER AGAINST FOREIGN MISSIONS [...] (SBU) On 02/12/2006, RSO was informed by the Canadian High Commission Security Officer that the Swiss Embassy received a general threat against foreign missions reportedly by the Jamatul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB). The message was sent via letter and a scanned copy was sent to RSO. In these l [...] | 2006-02-12 10:26:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC BD PTER |
06DHAKA752 | MICRO-CREDIT BANK BOSS PROPOSES POLITICAL FORMULA [...] (SBU) On February 4, micro-credit pioneer and Grameen Bank Managing Director Dr. Muhammad Yunus proposed that political parties choose a respected citizen to find a solution to the deadlock over modalities for holding the next general elections. Speaking at a gala dinner to commemorate the fo [...] | 2006-02-13 01:32:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV BG BGD |
06DHAKA753 | MICRO-CREDIT BANK BOSS PROPOSES POLITICAL FORMULA [...] (SBU) On February 4, micro-credit pioneer and Grameen Bank Managing Director Dr. Muhammad Yunus proposed that political parties choose a respected citizen to find a solution to the deadlock over modalities for holding the next general elections. Speaking at a gala dinner to commemorate the fo [...] | 2006-02-13 01:41:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV BG BGD |
06DHAKA810 | BANGLADESH: UNESCO CONVENTION ON CULTURAL [...] (SBU) Embassy contacted Dr. Hamidur Rashid, Director, United Nations Wing, Ministry of Foreign Affairs for an update on BDG's position on the UNESCO Convention on Cultural Expression. Dr. Rashid was unaware of BDG's position on the convention and directed embassy to other MFA offices. 2. ( [...] | 2006-02-14 07:23:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD SCUL BG UNESCO |
06DHAKA820 | SCENESETTER FOR CODEL CROWLEY [...] (SBU) Everything and nothing has changed since your last visit to Bangladesh in January 2004. The economy continues to grow annually at a robust 5-6 percent, but infrastructure and other problems prevent real inroads on poverty reduction. The feared loss of jobs in the garment industry with t [...] | 2006-02-14 10:26:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP BG BGD |
06DHAKA932 | REPRESENTATIVE CROWLEY MEETS WITH RELIGIOUS [...] (SBU) On February 21, Representative Joseph Crowley began his visit to Dhaka by laying a wreath at the monument to the Bangla Language Movement in commemoration of National Language Day. Mr. Crowley, accompanied by USAID Mission Director George and poloff (notetaker),met separately with lea [...] | 2006-02-23 02:15:00 | Embassy Dhaka | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KDEM BD |
06DILI101 | DISTURBING DEVELOPMENTS IN PREPARATIONS FOR ELECTIONS; UNDP [...] (SBU) Summary: In recent discussions with representatives of international election assistance NGOs and via requests for assistance relayed to the UN, senior Government of East Timor (GOET) officials have revealed an outline of their plans for the 2007 legislative and presidential elections. E [...] | 2006-03-07 05:42:00 | Embassy Dili | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM TT |
06DILI147 | FOREIGN MINISTER BRIEFS DIPLOMATIC CORPS ON LOCAL TENSIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: On 29 March, Foreign Minister Jose Ramos Horta briefed the diplomatic corps on recent events in Dili, emphasizing that press reports of riots and military strife are exaggerated and that recent disturbances have been neither politically or ethnically motivated nor fatal. Rather [...] | 2006-03-30 03:37:00 | Embassy Dili | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MARR TT |
06DILI152 | END OF WEEK UPDATE ON FDTL DISMISSALS AND UNREST IN DILI [...] (U) Summary: As of today, the situation in Dili remains calm and appears to have mostly returned to normal after the spate of incidences reported in Reftel D. Dili residents who had left their homes to stay with relatives or take refuge elsewhere out of fear of escalating violence, a number th [...] | 2006-03-31 09:24:00 | Embassy Dili | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV MARR ASEC TT |
06DILI167 | AMBASSADOR GUTERRES TO CHALLENGE ALKATIRI FOR FRETILIN PARTY [...] (SBU) Summary: Preparations for Fretilin's National Party Congress are well underway. Delegates to the Congress have been elected at district meetings that began in February. Within the party it has long been assumed that Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri would continue in a second term as Secreta [...] | 2006-04-12 09:13:00 | Embassy Dili | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM TT |
06DILI18 | EX-MILITIA MEMBERS KILLED IN CLASH WITH EAST TIMOR BORDER [...] (U) Summary: Three alleged members of 1999-era anti-independence militias were shot dead by officers of East Timor's Border Patrol Unit (BPU) on Friday, January 6. One of the three, Jose Mausorte, was a prominent member of the Halilintar militia and had been accused of involvement in several [...] | 2006-01-09 15:18:00 | Embassy Dili | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PBTS PHUM ASEC KAWC TT ID |
06DILI192 | MORE VIOLENCE IN DILI AREA LAST NIGHT, BUT CALM TODAY [...] (U) Summary: There was more rioting yesterday evening in the village of Tasitolu, just west of Dili, and at least three more people died, apparently shot by members of the armed forces (FDTL) who had responded to the Tasitolu riot, in addition to the two who had died earlier in Dili. Although [...] | 2006-04-29 15:57:00 | Embassy Dili | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM ASEC MARR TT |
06DILI210 | DAS JOHN MEETING WITH PRIME MINISTER ALKATIRI [...] (SBU) Summary: EAP Deputy Assistant Secretary Eric John, along with Ambassador Rees and Emboff, met with Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri on May 3. DAS John congratulated Alkatiri on the many things that the Government of East Timor (GOET) is getting right, such as their work with the Millennium C [...] | 2006-05-04 15:15:00 | Embassy Dili | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM ASEC MARR PREL KJUS KCRM KAWC ID TT |
06DILI214 | AMBASSADOR GUTERRES ON POLITICAL/SECURITY SITUATION AND [...] (SBU) Emboff met with East Timor's Ambassador to the U.S. and the United Nations, Jose Luis Guterres, on May 6. Guterres is running against Prime Minister Alkatiri for Secretary General of the ruling Fretilin Party in the party congress scheduled for May 17-20. Ambassador Guterres conveyed st [...] | 2006-05-06 14:17:00 | Embassy Dili | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM ASEC MARR KDEM TT |
06DILI35 | RESPONSE TO CRIMINALIZATION OF DEFAMATION IN NEW PENAL CODE [...] (U) Last month the Council of Ministers announced their approval of a new penal code for East Timor. The law is now in the hands of the President either to promulgate or to veto. Although no official copies of the law are available, leaked copies have been circulated among civil society organi [...] | 2006-01-20 08:50:00 | Embassy Dili | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KPAO TT |
06DILI368 | PRIME MINISTER RAMOS-HORTA ANNOUNCES NEW GOVERNMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: Prime Minister Jose Ramos-Horta on Friday, July 14, announced the composition of the government over which he will preside. The new government resembles the previous one led by ex-Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri in most respects, with a few notable changes. The majority of ministe [...] | 2006-07-17 12:09:00 | Embassy Dili | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV TT |
06DILI372 | PRIME MINISTER RAMOS HORTA'S LATEST VIEWS [...] (SBU) Summary: In several conversations with Ambassador and Emboffs following his swearing in as East Timor's new Prime Minister, Jose Ramos Horta shared his views on some issues facing his government. Among the subjects addressed were: his delicate working relationship with the Fretilin party; [...] | 2006-07-19 00:15:00 | Embassy Dili | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM KPKO UN PO AU TT |
06DILI404 | INCREASED GANG ACTIVITY STRETCHES LIMITS OF INTERNATIONAL [...] (SBU) Summary: There has been a notable increase in disturbances around Dili in recent days, beginning late last week and continuing through today. These have mostly occurred in neighborhoods that have been regular sites of conflict during the last few months. Additionally, there has been a r [...] | 2006-08-08 10:16:00 | Embassy Dili | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPKO PHUM ASEC AU TT |
06DILI405 | IDP RETURN PLANS AND SECURITY ISSUES [...] (SBU) Summary: In a conversation with Charge d'Affaires on August 7, Anna Pessoa, the Minister for State Administration, discussed the current state of planning for the return of as many as 150,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) to their homes in Dili. Noting the deteriorated security envi [...] | 2006-08-09 02:49:00 | Embassy Dili | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM ASEC PREF EAID TT |
06DILI424 | REDUCED VIOLENCE IN DILI, BUT SERIOUS PROBLEMS REMAIN [...] (SBU) Summary: During the last week there was a significant reduction in the gang-related incidents reported in reftel, but late last week there were several serious incidents and the potential for renewed gang activity remains. Although some of the factors contributing to the resumption of ga [...] | 2006-08-21 02:44:00 | Embassy Dili | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPKO PHUM ASEC AU CASC PREF KJUS TT PGOV |
06DILI428 | FRETILIN FACTIONS RESPOND TO COURT DECISION AFFIRMING [...] (U) Summary: The Court of Appeals this week issued its official decision rejecting the argument that the re-election of Mari Alkatiri and Francisco "Lu'olo" Guterres to the Fretilin party leadership at the party congress in May was illegal. The case was brought by members of Fretilin's interna [...] | 2006-08-22 11:07:00 | Embassy Dili | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KJUS KDEM TT |
06DILI452 | MAJORITY OF DILI'S POPULATION STILL DISPLACED [...] (U) Summary: Dili has become a city characterized by a large displaced population residing in over 50 separate camps. Resolving this issue and convincing internally displaced persons (IDPs) to return home is turning out to be a slow and complicated process, partially due to the complexity of th [...] | 2006-09-07 11:09:00 | Embassy Dili | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PHUM PGOV UN ASEC TT |
06DILI463 | DILI SECURITY UPDATE: GANG DISTURBANCES BECOMING ENTRENCHED [...] (SBU) Summary: Following a spike in gang activity in early August in the period immediately following the arrest of dissident Major Alfredo Reinado, there was a reduction in such incidents later in the month. However, gang incidents have gradually escalated during the ensuing weeks, particular [...] | 2006-09-13 02:04:00 | Embassy Dili | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPKO PHUM ASEC CASC PREF AU PO TT |
06DILI491 | EAST TIMOR'S STRONGEST OPPOSITION PARTY GAINING MOMENTUM [...] (SBU) Summary: East Timor's strongest opposition party, the Democratic Party (PD),held its national congress on September 29 - October 1, reelecting the incumbent leadership. The congress demonstrated that PD has emerged as a well-organized and well-funded party with a strong base among the y [...] | 2006-10-05 05:54:00 | Embassy Dili | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM ID TT |
06DILI540 | UNMIT ADDRESSES SECURITY ISSUES [...] (SBU) Summary: UNMIT sees ongoing disturbances in Dili becoming more organized and UNPOL notes drug related behavior and evidence that payments are being made to perpetrators. Recognizing the counterproductive effect of freeing most of those of those arrested after only a short period of deten [...] | 2006-10-27 11:59:00 | Embassy Dili | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KPKO MARR ASEC CASC UN TT |
06DILI592 | UPDATE ON POLICING AND SECURITY ISSUES [...] (SBU) Summary: UNMIT reports that the situation in and around Dili IDP camps, which previously have been the main flashpoints for violence, largely has returned to "normal," with only sporadic rock fights and disturbances. However, they remain concerned that government plans to utilize PNTL an [...] | 2006-12-08 03:31:00 | Embassy Dili | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KPKO ASEC MARR UN TT |
06DILI595 | PRESIDENT GUSMAO AND EX-PM ALKATIRI MEET [...] (SBU) Summary: President Gusmao and former Prime Minister Mari Alkatiri met for the first time in five months on December 8, and both participated in a traditional Timorese peace ceremony on December 10, taking an oath to work together for peace and stability. Their meetings followed followed [...] | 2006-12-11 09:05:00 | Embassy Dili | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KPKO UN TT |
06DILI70 | UPDATE ON JANUARY BORDER INCIDENTS [...] (U) Summary: Two border incidents that occurred in January have caused a spike in tension between East Timor and Indonesia. First, on January 6, three alleged members of 1999-era militias were shot dead by East Timor's Border Patrol Unit (BPU). See Reftel. Then, on January 24, it was reporte [...] | 2006-02-15 05:37:00 | Embassy Dili | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PBTS PHUM ASEC TT ID |
06DILI84 | INDONESIAN TRUTH AND FRIENDSHIP COMMISSIONERS ARRIVE IN [...] (SBU) Summary. The five Indonesian members of the bilateral Truth and Friendship Commission (TFC) arrived in Dili on Sunday to commence a weeklong program. The program is to include meetings with high-level Government officials, site visits, meetings with victims of violence in 1999, and a fo [...] | 2006-02-21 14:21:00 | Embassy Dili | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL JKUS KCRM KAWC ID TT |
06DJIBOUTI1131 | PRESIDENT HAILS BILATERAL SECURITY AND DEVELOPMENT [...] (U) On September 18, 2006 Ambassador W. Stuart Symington presented his credentials to President Ismail Omar Guelleh of the Republic of Djibouti. Attendees included: Susan Symington; DCM David W. Ball; Rear Admiral Richard W. Hunt, Commander Combined Joint Task Force ) Horn of Africa (CJTF-H [...] | 2006-09-19 14:27:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KADM APER PINR DJ |
06DJIBOUTI341 | REQUEST FOR AGREMENT [...] (U) Ambassador passed reftel notice on March 13 to Minister of Foreign Affairs Mohamoud Ali Youssuf. The Minister stated that he was certain Djibouti would grant agrement. Ambassador followed up March 16 in a phone conversation with the Minister of Foreign Affairs. We will continue to press [...] | 2006-03-17 05:57:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | APER |
06DJIBOUTI615 | UPDATE 2: AVIAN INFLUENZA IN DJIBOUTI [...] (U) Summary. Since our last update, very little new information has been confirmed. In reftel we referred to a confirmed case in an eight-year-old girl. Since then we have learned that the child in question was only two-years-old. She has since recovered nicely. We believe she may be one of [...] | 2006-05-23 13:38:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMED CASC TBIO KFLU EAID EAGR DJ |
06DJIBOUTI66 | TERRORISM FINANCE - SAJID MOHAMMED BADAT [...] (U) Ambassador passed January 14 to Djibouti's Foreign Minister Mahmoud Ali Yousuf pertinent content of reftel during a meeting on other matters. Customarily, Djibouti channels information of this kind received from the Embassy directly to its Ministry of Finance for handling. RAGSDALE [...] | 2006-01-16 10:34:00 | Embassy Djibouti | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KSEP ETTC EFIN PTER CVIS DJ |
06DOHA1257 | DISAPPOINTMENT IN ELECTED MUNICIPAL COUNCIL [...] (U) Summary. A recent newspaper survey revealed that most Qataris are disappointed in the performance of the Central Municipal Council, to date Qatar's only elected body. Critics said that the Council has no real power and has not accomplished anything of note. The survey suggests that Qataris [...] | 2006-08-21 14:31:00 | Embassy Doha | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM QA |
06DOHA1384 | AL JAZEERA ENGLISH SAYS IT WILL LAUNCH AFTER RAMADAN [...] (U) Summary: The Managing Director of Al Jazeera International told DCM the English language channel would likely launch in late October/early November, with limited U.S. distribution, at least initially. End summary. 2. (U) DCM, accompanied by PAO, made a courtesy call 9/13 on Nigel Parson [...] | 2006-09-17 09:00:00 | Embassy Doha | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPAO QA ALJAZEERA |
06DOHA1725 | QATARIS WILL USE ARAB LEAGUE OR TEMPORARY [...] (SBU) P/E Chief spoke to Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs Mohamed al-Rumaihy December 7 regarding the mechanism for transfering funds promised by the Qatari government to the Palestinian Authority (reftel). Rumaihy said that Qatar will "certainly" use the Arab League bank account or the [...] | 2006-12-10 14:16:00 | Embassy Doha | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPAL EFIN EAID PTER GZ IS QA |
06DOHA303 | QATAR: 2006 ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified--entire report. 2. (U) Embassy Point of Contact is Political Officer, Farah Chery-Medor. Tel. 974-488-4101 ext. 6453. Fax 974 488-4163. One FS-04 officer spent 34 hours in the preparation of this report cable. 3. (U) Following is post's sixth annual Anti- [...] | 2006-02-27 12:58:00 | Embassy Doha | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB QA |
06DOHA312 | AL JAZEERA NETWORK BOARD OF DIRECTORS NAMED [...] (SBU) In an effort to maintain brand identity and consistency of message and quality, the GOQ established in late 2005 (reftel) an entity known as the Al Jazeera Network (AJN),charged with overseeing all bodies bearing the Al Jazeera brand name. On March 1, an Amiri decree announced the estab [...] | 2006-03-01 07:58:00 | Embassy Doha | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPAO IZ QA ALJAZEERA |
06DOHA328 | Al Jazeera website director to quit; start new [...] (SBU) Summary: The director of the Al Jazeera Arabic website, Abdulaziz Al Mahmoud, said he is quitting his Al Jazeera job to take up the chief editorship of an Arabic newspaper called "Al Arab", which will become the fourth Arabic daily newspaper on the Qatari market. Al Mahmoud is the only s [...] | 2006-03-02 14:24:00 | Embassy Doha | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAO PREL QA ALJAZEERA |
06DOHA559 | FIVE YEARS ON: THE STATUS OF EDUCATION REFORM IN [...] (U) Summary: In 2001, the government of Qatar embarked on an ambitious mission to reform the country's education system. Under the banner of, "Education for a New Era," this initiative, led by the Amir's consort, Sheikha Mozah, aims to comprehensively reform education from kindergarten throug [...] | 2006-04-12 11:22:00 | Embassy Doha | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAO SCUL KMPI QA |
06DOHA793 | AL JAZEERA ACCORDING TO WADAH KHANFAR [...] Summary: (U) On May 21, a Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) delegation met with Wadah Khanfar, Director-General of the Al Jazeera Network (AJN) and Managing Director of the Arabic Al Jazeera TV channel. Khanfar told the delegation that Al Jazeera, reflecting regional developments, has ent [...] | 2006-05-24 12:58:00 | Embassy Doha | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPAO QA ALJAZEERA |
06DOHA923 | AL JAZEERA PETITIONS IRAQI GOVERNMENT TO RETURN TO [...] (SBU) Summary: Wadah Khanfar, Director-General of the Al Jazeera Network, told PAO that Al Jazeera has asked the Iraqi government for permission to return to Baghdad and is awaiting a response. He said the decision to replace him as head of Al Jazeera Arabic is unlikely to occur before the end [...] | 2006-06-14 10:17:00 | Embassy Doha | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IZ KPAO PREL QA ALJAZEERA |
06DUBAI1070 | DPW REQUESTS FULL 45-DAY CFIUS REVIEW; ANNOUNCES DELAY IN [...] (U) In a statement (text at para 3) issued February 26, Dubai Ports World (DPW) formally requested that CFIUS initiate "the full 45-day investigation authorized under U.S. law" of the acquisition of P&O Ports North America (POPNA) by DPW. In the statement, DPW announced that it would "voluntar [...] | 2006-02-27 08:22:00 | Consulate Dubai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ETRD PREL AE |
06DUBAI1455 | HEAD OF DUBAI WOMEN'S SHELTER NOT INTIMIDATED BY CRITICS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Sharla Musabih, head of an independent women's shelter in Dubai, dismissed recent public criticism of her shelter by a prominent Sunni cleric, saying it was not a threat to her operation. She said she was trying to schedule a meeting with him to discuss the matter further. The D [...] | 2006-03-14 14:11:00 | Consulate Dubai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV SOCI AE |
06DUBAI1847 | DUBAI SHELTER NOT CLOSING [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-28 10:32:00 | Consulate Dubai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV SOCI AE |
06DUBAI1966 | BLUE LANTERN: PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECK ON APPLICATION [...] No summary [...] | 2006-04-05 13:25:00 | Consulate Dubai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC KOMC AE |
06DUBAI2014 | ESTONIAN SOLDIER OUT ON BAIL [...] (U) Consul General contacted Netherlands CG April 11 to seek an update on the case involving the Estonian soldier serving with NATO forces in Afghanistan, who was arrested at Sharjah Airport on February 23 for drunkeness and molesting a female police officer. Sharjah's Shari'a court originally [...] | 2006-04-11 13:18:00 | Consulate Dubai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR PHUM NATO AE EN |
06DUBAI2600 | ETHIOPIAN DOMESTIC WORKERS IN THE UAE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-10 09:52:00 | Consulate Dubai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PHUM SOCI KCRM ET AE SY |
06DUBAI2762 | ETHIOPIAN DOMESTIC WORKERS IN THE UAE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-16 11:02:00 | Consulate Dubai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PHUM SOCI KCRM ET AE SY |
06DUBAI3054 | DURING VISIT BY CONGENOFFS, RAS AL-KHAIMAH SHIHUH RENEW [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-22 10:15:00 | Consulate Dubai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PINS SOCI KDEM MU AE |
06DUBAI3360 | NEXT IPR STEP: COMBATING TRANSSHIPMENT [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-06 13:10:00 | Consulate Dubai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TC PREL PGOV ZR ECIN ETRD AE |
06DUBAI3374 | KHOR FAKKAN PORT - A TRANSHIPPMENT HUB [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-07 17:02:00 | Consulate Dubai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EWWT ETRD ELAB AE IZ IR |
06DUBAI3675 | SHARJAH AIRPORT - IRBIS FOLLOW-UP [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-14 13:13:00 | Consulate Dubai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAIR ETTC PGOV PINS SOCI KCRM LI AE |
06DUBAI4047 | IRANIAN OFFICIAL STATEMENTS ON THE NUCLEAR ISSUE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-28 16:38:00 | Consulate Dubai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IR ZP PGOV PREL KNNP |
06DUBAI4122 | EMIRATES SHIPPING LINES INFORMATION [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-05 14:48:00 | Consulate Dubai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EWWT EIND ETRD AE HK |
06DUBAI4123 | KELLOGG, BROWN AND ROOT ACCUSES DUBAI POLICE OF RACIAL [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-05 15:20:00 | Consulate Dubai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CASC ASEC SNAR AE IZ ETRD |
06DUBAI4793 | STREAMLINING VISA PROCESS FOR IRANIANS WOULD REINFORCE US [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-26 13:21:00 | Consulate Dubai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IR PREL CMGT |
06DUBAI4934 | DEMONSTRATION NEAR US CONSULATE IN DUBAI [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-31 14:38:00 | Consulate Dubai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PREL SOCI AE LE |
06DUBAI523 | IRANIAN GOVERNMENT REACTS TO IAEA VOTE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-05 13:10:00 | Consulate Dubai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC IAEA KNNP EU IR |
06DUBAI5780 | ECONOMIC MINISTER ENDORSES FTA, LOOKS FOR UPSIDE OF DPW [...] (SBU) Summary: Sheikha Lubna Al Qassimi, UAE Minister of Economy and Planning, spoke to Dubai's American Business Council (ABC) September 13. In prepared remarks, she affirmed the UAE's commitment to free trade, and said a bilateral FTA with the US would benefit both the US and UAE. During th [...] | 2006-09-14 12:50:00 | Consulate Dubai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON ECIN ETRD AE |
06DUBAI6051 | BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE CHECK ON APPLICATION [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-26 05:40:00 | Consulate Dubai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PK ETTC KOMC AE |
06DUBAI6054 | EMIRATES AND DPWORLD LEADERS OUTLINE AMBITIOUS PLANS TO [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-26 12:47:00 | Consulate Dubai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAIR EINV PREL AE |