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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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06PORTAUPRINCE755 | FUSION'S GAILLARD OPTIMISTIC ABOUT PREVAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Fusion party spokesman Micha Gaillard believes that Haitian politics have entered a new era of negotiation and compromise as a direct result of President-elect Rene Preval,s conciliatory approach and endeavors to build a coalition government. Gaillard and his party are enthusi [...] | 2006-04-27 20:22:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE756 | PRESIDENT ALEXANDRE RESISTS RELEASING NEPTUNE [...] This message is sensitive but unclassified -- protect accordingly. Â [...] | 2006-04-27 20:43:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KJUS HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE846 | PETROCARIBE OIL MAY FLOW THROUGH EDH [...] This message is sensitive but unclassified: please protect accordingly. 2. Michel Guerrier, Director of National, Haiti's only domestic oil company, told Econoff May 11 that a ship with 100,000 barrels of PetroCaribe oil has embarked for Haiti and is due to arrive on or before May 15. Ho [...] | 2006-05-12 19:06:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON EFIN EINV EAID HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE866 | POSTCARD FROM LES CAYES [...] (U) Summary. Poloff traveled to Haiti's South Department capital of Les Cayes, near the westernmost end of Haiti,s "southern claw" (peninsula),to observe the final round of parliamentary elections. The Les Cayes region is more prosperous and orderly than Port-au-Prince, though drug traffick [...] | 2006-05-15 19:58:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ASEC SNAR MARR HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE876 | HAITI LABOR LEADER SAYS CITE SOLEIL STILL A POWDER [...] This message is sensitive but unclassified -- protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: Patrick Numas, leader of one of the larger labor unions in Port au Prince, believes that despite the recent calm, the situation in Cite Soleil is &a powder keg,8 and that the supply of arms continues to [...] | 2006-05-16 18:57:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KCRM ASEC HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE881 | CRIMINAL DEPORTATIONS ARE SCHEDULED TO RESUME [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-17 18:04:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KHLS SMIG HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE891 | PETROCARIBE WILL SELL TO EDH [...] This message is sensitive but unclassified: please protect accordingly. 2. Michel Guerrier, Director of National, confirmed May 17 the scenario described in reftel A, whereby Haiti's National Electricity Company (Electricite d'Haiti -- EDH) will be designated as Haiti's state-owned oil co [...] | 2006-05-17 20:47:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON EFIN EINV EAID HA |
06PORTAUPRINCE901 | GOVERNOR BUSH'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENT PREVAL [...] This message is sensitive but unclassified -- protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) President-elect Rene Preval met with Florida Governor Jeb Bush, head of the official U.S. delegation including the Ambassador and Florida State Secretary for Health Dr. Rony Francois, on the morning of his May 14 i [...] | 2006-05-19 18:53:00 | Embassy Port Au Prince | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM HA |
06PORTLOUIS720 | AMBASSADOR PRESENTS CREDENTIALS IN SEYCHELLES [...] (U) Summary: Ambassador Cesar Cabrera presented his credentials to Seychelles President James Michel on November 21. During his visit the Ambassador had productive meetings with the President, Vice-President, and Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Health. He visited two CJTF-HOA construction pr [...] | 2006-11-28 13:14:00 | Embassy Port Louis | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ODIP PREL CJAN CASC CVIS MASS SE |
06PORTOFSPAIN1070 | DEMARCHE ON UN PEACEKEEPING FORCE IN DARFUR DELIVERED TO [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-14 14:55:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM UNSC KDEM SU TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN204 | CARICOM ON CRICKET WORLD CUP PREPARATIONS [...] (U) Prime Minister Keith Mitchell of Grenada provided a mid-morning press briefing on February 9 during the CARICOM Inter-Sessional meeting on the state of play of Cricket World Cup (CWC) preparations and the status of West Indies cricket more generally. Mitchell opened by noting that West I [...] | 2006-02-13 19:50:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECIN XL TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN229 | T&T'S UNC FRACTURING; PANDAY "ENFORCES" UNITY [...] (U) Trinidad and Tobago's opposition United National Congress (UNC) is increasingly in disarray. On February 10, Leader of the Opposition Basdeo Panday fired Senator Robin Montano, allegedly because he discussed internal party matters publicly. Montano strongly opposed Panday's apparent inte [...] | 2006-02-16 19:21:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN294 | T&T CARNIVAL GENERALLY FREE FROM CRIME; [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Minister of National Security Martin Joseph noted that Carnival 2006 was relatively crime free, contrary to media speculation. He praised the law enforcement forces for their quick action to resolve the first kidnapping for ransom of the year. The Ministry utilized surveillan [...] | 2006-03-08 15:45:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCRM TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN295 | TRINIDAD ABOUT-FACE ON PETROCARIBE AND CARICOM [...] (U) SUMMARY: Trinidad's opposition to Petrocaribe softened at the February 9-10 CARICOM summit, as it agreed to lifting the CARICOM common external tariff so other member states could go ahead with their individual agreements with Venezuela. One reason why T&T acquiesced is its interest in jo [...] | 2006-03-08 18:11:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ETRD ECIN TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN370 | T&T POLICE REFORM BILLS: PARLIAMENTARY REVIEW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Trinidad and Tobago's lower house of Parliament debated three bills, resulting from unusual government-opposition collaboration, aimed at reforming the police force in an effort to curb growing violent crime. The bills reconstitute the Police Complaints Authority as an indepe [...] | 2006-03-24 12:12:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCRM UK TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN371 | TOBAGO CRIME AND NARCOTICS ISSUES: LAID-BACK [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The smaller, resort island of Tobago is relatively safer than the larger Trinidad. Understaffing, short tours of duty and a resort mentality, however, create a potential gap in GOTT counter narcotics efforts in Tobago. INL-funded computers are not being used because officers [...] | 2006-03-24 12:15:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SNAR KCRM TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN405 | AMBASSADOR'S CONVERSATION WITH DOOKERAN ON CRIME, [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-31 16:29:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN406 | 100 MURDERS IN 85 DAYS: T&T POLICE CANNOT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: One hundred murders have been committed in Trinidad and Tobago in the first 85 days of 2006. Police officers attribute the problem to a combination of guns, drugs and gangs. Additionally, a track record of police incompetence and fears of repercussions keep civilians from wo [...] | 2006-03-31 18:33:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCRM SNAR TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN411 | IS THE LAW CLOSING IN ON PANDAY? [...] (U) SUMMARY: The much-awaited corruption trial for UNC Party Chairman and Opposition Leader Basdeo Panday's trial has begun. Panday is on trial for knowingly failing to disclose his interest in a London bank account as required by the Integrity in Public Life Act. Panday claimed he had no [...] | 2006-03-31 20:16:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCRM KCOR TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN488 | T&T LEADER OF OPPOSITION FOUND GUILTY IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: United National Congress Leader of the Opposition Basdeo Panday was found guilty on all three counts of knowingly making a false declaration of income and assets to the Integrity Commission. Panday has been incarcerated in the maximum security prison. Constitutionally, he wil [...] | 2006-04-25 11:56:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCOR TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN505 | PANDAY NO LONGER OPPOSITION LEADER; KAMLA STEPS UP [...] (U) Basdeo Panday is no longer Leader of the Opposition due to his April 24 conviction (reftel). The Office of the President issued a notice midday on April 25 removing Panday from his position as Leader of the Opposition as he can no longer legally function as a member of parliament. 2. [...] | 2006-04-26 19:27:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINS KCOR TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN562 | POST AGAIN RAISES SOFA REQUEST WITH MFA [...] (SBU) During a May 3 meeting on other topics with Foreign Minister Knowlson Gift, Charge again raised Embassy Port of Spain's longstanding and often-repeated request to the GOTT for a Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) with the USG. Charge told Gift that the US is well aware of the GOTT's opp [...] | 2006-05-05 16:59:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR PREL TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN615 | T&T BACCHANAL: CHIEF JUSTICE ACCUSED OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Chief Justice of Trinidad and Tobago, Satnarine Sharma, stands accused of attempting to influence the outcome of the Panday Integrity Commission case (reftel). Given the seriousness of the situation, PM Manning canceled his trip to Europe for two high-level summits. Info [...] | 2006-05-19 13:05:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KJUS TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN671 | OAS: HELMS-BURTON RESOLUTION AND SANTO DOMINGO [...] (SBU) A/DCM made reftel demarche early on June 1 with Kathleen Seenarine, MFA Americas Department acting director. Seenarine said she was familiar with both issues, having prepared the briefing book for Foreign Minister Knowlson Gift. She committed to convey our request at once via email to t [...] | 2006-06-02 13:53:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL XL TD MX |
06PORTOFSPAIN672 | OAS: HELMS-BURTON RESOLUTION AND SANTO DOMINGO [...] (SBU) A/DCM made reftel demarche early on June 1 with Kathleen Seenarine, MFA Americas Department acting director. Seenarine said she was familiar with both issues, having prepared the briefing book for Foreign Minister Knowlson Gift. She committed to convey our request at once via email to t [...] | 2006-06-02 13:53:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL XL TD MX |
06PORTOFSPAIN690 | CWC ASSISTANCE DEMARCHE: DETAILS WOULD BE [...] (U) Political Officer delivered the demarche contained reftel to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Americas Desk, Multilateral Affairs Desk and Protocol Office (as each office has a hand due to how this assistance is proposed to be delivered),and passed a copy to the Office of the Prime Minist [...] | 2006-06-05 17:32:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER OAS XL TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN848 | GAO VISITS TRINIDAD TO STUDY MARITIME ENERGY [...] (U) SUMMARY: Officials from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO),Homeland Security and Justice Team, visited Trinidad June 19-23 to observe the security of energy transport infrastructure into the United States. Through meetings with ministry officials, including the T&T Coast G [...] | 2006-07-17 14:21:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AGAO EPET EWWT PINS TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN863 | TRINIDAD/VENEZUELA CLOSER TO TREATY ON USE OF [...] (U) The June 19 edition of daily paper "Trinidad & Tobago Newsday" reported on a Ministry of Foreign Affairs release that addressed a future agreement between the governments of T&T and Venezuela on shared gas reserves. Full text of the release follows in next paragraph. 2. (U) Begin Text [...] | 2006-07-21 19:42:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ECIN PREL TD |
06PORTOFSPAIN920 | SCENESETTER FOR DHS SECRETARY CHERTOFF'S VISIT TO T&T [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (U) Secretary Chertoff, my team and I look forward to welcoming you to Trinidad and Tobago. T&T is a major political and economic player in the region, and your visit will help underscore the importance we plac [...] | 2006-08-03 18:18:00 | Embassy Port Of Spain | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER OVIP ASEC CARICOM TD |
06PRAGUE1056 | LEADERSHIP OF CZECH CHRISTIAN DEMOCRAT PARTY [...] SUMMARY (SBU) Just days after the fiercely anti-Communist Christian Democrats (KDU-CSL) joined a surprising coalition with the Social Democrats (CSSD) that would have relied on the tacit support of the Communist Party (KSCM),the party chair Miroslav Kalousek, and three of the party's five Dep [...] | 2006-08-30 14:02:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EZ |
06PRAGUE1093 | LOW-KEY CZECH REACTION TO NEW DETAINEE INITIATIVE [...] (SBU) Ambassador briefed Czech PM Topolanek September 7 on the new USG initiative related to detainees in the war on terrorism (reftel). Topolonek had no substantive reaction but asked for additional details (we are providing his office with transcripts and tailored points). Separately, visit [...] | 2006-09-08 11:59:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM EZ |
06PRAGUE1119 | CZECHS ON THE CD MINISTERIAL [...] (SBU) Poloff spoke with Czech MFA Director of the UN Department Jan Kara on September 12 to discuss reftel concerning the Communities of Democracies (CD) Ministerial scheduled to take place during UNGA on September 20. Kara thanked the U.S. for providing advance information about issues to be [...] | 2006-09-13 13:11:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | UNGA PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM EZ |
06PRAGUE1121 | CZECHS HAVE NON-PARTICIPATING OBSERVER AT NAM [...] (SBU) Czech MFA Cuba Desk Officer Jarmila Povejsilova told Poloff on September 12 that, contrary to previous indications, the Czechs have decided to have an observer attend the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Summit in Havana. The observer will be the new Charge d'Affaires of the Czech Mission in H [...] | 2006-09-13 13:11:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL CU EZ |
06PRAGUE1142 | CZECH PARLIAMENT MAKES COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS, AND [...] (SBU) Summary: Nearly 15 weeks after the June 2-3 general election, the Czech parliament has finalized committee assignments. The Social Democrats (CSSD),which came in second in the election behind the Civic Democrats (ODS) arguably took the best assignments. The smaller parties have fewer c [...] | 2006-09-15 13:51:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EZ |
06PRAGUE1183 | CZECHS SUPPORT GUATEMALA FOR SEAT ON UNSC [...] (SBU) Poloff met with Czech MFA Director of the UN Department Jan Kara on September 1 to discuss Guatemala's candidacy for a non-permanent seat on the UNSC. Kara confirmed the Czech Republic strongly supports Guatemala. Kara met with Guatemalan officials at UNGA in New York the week of Septemb [...] | 2006-09-25 15:45:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNSC GT UN VE EZ |
06PRAGUE1187 | CZECHS: NO SPECIAL TREATMENT FOR CUBA IN UNHRC [...] (SBU) Poloff spoke with Czech MFA Deputy Director of the Human Rights Department Martin Boucek on September 26 to discuss Cuba's efforts to eliminate the UNHRC's mandate on Cuba. Boucek said the Czechs share U.S. concerns, and think the UNHRC's handling of human rights abuses in Cuba and Belar [...] | 2006-09-26 14:28:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL CU EZ |
06PRAGUE1190 | UPDATE: CZECHS STILL CONSIDERING CUBAN MIGRANT [...] (SBU) Poloff met on September 19 with Czech Ministry of Interior Director of the Department for Asylum and Migration Policies Tomas Haisman, and Head of the Unit for Policy, International Relations and Information on Countries of Origin Pavla Fridrichova, to continue the discussion on possible [...] | 2006-09-26 15:10:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF SMIG CU EZ |
06PRAGUE1253 | CZECH POLITICS: TOPOLANEK LOSES VOTE OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. As expected, the Topolanek government failed to win the vote of confidence and will formally resign on October 11, although it will continue serving until a new cabinet is named. President Klaus has said this will not happen until after the Senate and municipal elections later [...] | 2006-10-09 12:23:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EZ |
06PRAGUE1296 | AMBASSADOR'S INTRODUCTORY CALL AT MINISTRY OF [...] (SBU) Summary: During the Ambassador,s October 16 introductory call on Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Petr Necas, Necas expressed his support for strong transatlantic ties as a fundamental foreign policy pillar for the current government, and lamented the Czechs [...] | 2006-10-18 06:38:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV ELAB EZ |
06PRAGUE1297 | CZECH SENATE AND LOCAL ELECTIONS - POSSIBLE IMPACT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. One third of the Czech Senate,s 81 seats will be contested in two rounds of voting October 20-21 and 27-28. The right-of-center Civic Democrats (ODS),which won the June 2-3 general election, will defend ten seats, more than any other party. While it has the most to lose, ODS is [...] | 2006-10-18 14:46:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EZ |
06PRAGUE1302 | CZECHS WILL RESETTLE UP TO 10 CUBAN MIGRANTS [...] (SBU) The Czechs have confirmed they will accept up to ten Cuban migrants this year. Ministry of Interior Head of the Unit for Policy, International Relations and Information on Countries of Origin Pavla Fridrichova said that if all goes well, the Czechs will consider accepting similar numbers [...] | 2006-10-19 06:21:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF SMIG CU EZ |
06PRAGUE1335 | CZECHS OPPOSE UN RESOLUTIONS ON SITUATION IN [...] (SBU) The Czechs will oppose the two resolutions on the situation of human rights and children in Lebanon sponsored by Non Aligned Movement (NAM) members in the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly. Poloff discussed the resolutions and reftel talking points with Czech MFA Director of the [...] | 2006-10-25 12:06:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | UNGA LE IS PHUM PREL PTER EZ |
06PRAGUE1375 | CZECH REPUBLIC: AMBASSADOR'S INTRODUCTORY CALL ON [...] (SBU) Summary: During the Ambassador,s introductory call on Antimonopoly Office Chairman Martin Pecina on October 25, Pecina discussed antitrust issues, energy independence and the government tender review process. Pecina remains worried about EU dependence on Russian energy and monopolies wi [...] | 2006-11-06 13:05:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ENRG EPET ECON EZ |
06PRAGUE1384 | CZECH REPUBLIC: TOPOLANEK TO MAKE SECOND ATTEMPT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Czech President Klaus will give outgoing Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek the second chance at forming a government. Klaus will make the announcement on November 8. Topolanek, whose minority government lost a vote of confidence in early October, has said he will focus again on a [...] | 2006-11-07 16:29:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EZ |
06PRAGUE1430 | CZECH REPUBLIC: TOPOLANEK GETS A QUALIFIED OK FOR [...] (SBU)SUMMARY. The Civic Democrats (ODS) held their annual party Congress November 17-18, and gave Party Chair Mirek Topolanek the support he was looking for to begin negotiations with the party's main rival, the left-of-center Social Democrats (CSSD),on a coalition that would also include one [...] | 2006-11-20 15:25:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EZ |
06PRAGUE1435 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR STS JAMES ELLIS [...] (SBU) Embassy Prague warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Security Technical Specialist James Ellis for the period 4-8 December 2006 for technical security services. 2. (SBU) POC for this action is ARSO Marc Wint, Embassy phone: (420)257-022-307, cell number: (420) 602-299-801. [...] | 2006-11-24 09:28:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC KSEO |
06PRAGUE1474 | CZECH'S RESPOND TO PSI LETTER ON UNSCR 1718 [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified, please protect accordingly. This is an action request. Please see paragraph 5. 2. (SBU) Summary: The Czech MFA Political Director has written to Under Secretary Joseph to recommend two PSI improvements. Post requests a formal response to the Czech propos [...] | 2006-12-06 07:01:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP PARM PREL EWWT EZ |
06PRAGUE1483 | PRAGUE HAS LOW-KEY RESPONSE TO AUSTRIAN BORDER [...] SUMMARY. (U) Austrian opponents of nuclear power blocked two border crossings with the Czech Republic on Sunday, December 3, to protest the November 3 administrative licensing of the Temelin Nuclear Power Plant. The anti-nuclear protest was one of the largest since the plant began trial opera [...] | 2006-12-06 14:12:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG SENV PREL PGOV EZ |
06PRAGUE1509 | CZECHS SUPPORT SINIORA, APPROVE TROOPS FOR UNIFIL, [...] (U) Czech MFA Head of the Near East Group in the Middle East and Africa Department Jaromir Marek told Poloff on December 1 that the Czechs fully support the government of Lebanese PM Faud Siniora, and continue to closely monitor the situation in Lebanon. In a separate meeting, Director of the [...] | 2006-12-13 14:47:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER KDEM MOPS LE EZ |
06PRAGUE1513 | CZECHS AGREE THAT IRANIAN ELECTIONS ARE FLAWED [...] (SBU) Poloff met with Czech MFA Middle East Department official Silvia Sulaimanova on December 1 to discuss the upcoming Iranian elections and deliver reftel. Consistent with the Czech government's consistent support for U.S. policy on Iran generally, Sulaimanova confirmed that the Czechs reg [...] | 2006-12-14 15:44:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KDEM IR EZ |
06PRAGUE1544 | CZECHS WILL NOT EXTEND TOUR OF POLICE TRAINERS IN [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-22 08:42:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KRCM SNAR IZ JO EZ |
06PRAGUE1548 | CZECH PRESIDENT REJECTS PROPOSED GOVERNMENT, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Czech President Vaclav Klaus has rejected the government put forward by Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek (ODS),prolonging at least temporarily the half-year search for a new government. Klaus's decision is only a delaying measure as under the Constitution he has no choice but to [...] | 2006-12-22 12:30:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EZ |
06PRAGUE160 | CZECH CORRUPTION: HOW MUCH IS TOO MUCH FOR VOTERS? [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Less than a year has passed since Czech Prime Minister Stanislav Gross (CSSD) was forced out of office by questions about the source of money used to pay for his private residence, and succeeded by current PM Jiri Paroubek (CSSD). Since that time several others in the cabinet, p [...] | 2006-02-14 17:06:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCOR EZ |
06PRAGUE192 | CZECH MEDICAL AID TO THE MIDDLE EAST: "A SIGNAL TO [...] (U) Summary: U.S. Ambassador Cabaniss, the Iraqi Ambassador, and the Pakistani Charge d'Affaires visited Iraqi and Pakistani children recuperating in Prague from surgery on February 21. The purpose of their visit was to thank the Czech government for its "medevac" program, which brings critica [...] | 2006-02-22 13:47:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREL IZ PK EZ |
06PRAGUE284 | CZECH GREENS: A REFRESHING CHANGE FROM THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In recent weeks the Czech Green Party has, for the first time ever, jumped above 5% in opinion polls, indicating that the party could enter parliament in the June 2-3 general election. A fifth party in the new parliament would change the calculations for the forming a new gover [...] | 2006-03-17 16:02:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EZ |
06PRAGUE305 | CZECHS PROMISE TO LOOK INTO ROMANIAN ADOPTION [...] (SBU) Poloff met Dagmar Hovohradska, MFA's Human Rights Department, March 22 to discuss reftel demarche on Romanian intercountry adoption. Hovohradska said the Human Rights Department will research the issue and provide a response within a week. However, Hovohradska was unsure what the Czech p [...] | 2006-03-23 14:23:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL CASC EU RO EZ |
06PRAGUE306 | CZECHS TEACH IRAQIS IMMIGRATION CONTROL [...] (U) Summary. The Czechs are helping the Iraqi government learn how to manage Iraq's borders. In February, the Czechs brought ten senior Iraqi government officials to Prague to learn best practices in asylum and migration policy. The visit -- sponsored by a partnership between the Czech governm [...] | 2006-03-23 14:25:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KDEM IZ EZ |
06PRAGUE427 | MARTIN BURSIK, MEAN GREEN CHAMELEON, POSSIBLE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. It looks increasingly likely that the Czech Green Party will cross the 5% threshold in the June 2-3 parliamentary elections, and have a say in the formation of the next coalition government. Martin Bursik, who became Chairman of the party six months ago, and who is given credit [...] | 2006-04-25 10:46:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EZ PGOV PINR PREL |
06PRAGUE44 | CZECH REPUBLIC: AFGHANISTAN COMPACT DONOR PLEDGING [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel talking points to Czech MFA Afghan desk officer Michal Svoboda January 12. Svoboda said the Czech Republic most likely would not be able to make a donor pledge to form part of the Afghanistan Compact. He did say, however, that at the Jan 31 - Feb 1 Compact meeti [...] | 2006-01-13 11:52:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AF EAID PGOV PREL KDEM EFIN ECON EZ |
06PRAGUE505 | SCENESETTER FOR CZECH FM SVOBODA'S MAY 16 MEETING [...] (SBU) Madame Secretary, This is your first bilateral meeting with Czech Foreign Minister Cyril Svoboda. I have found him to be a strong and committed supporter of transatlantic relations. Under Svoboda's leadership, the Czechs have become trailblazers in supporting democracy and promoting hu [...] | 2006-05-11 14:52:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EZ OVIP PGOV PREL |
06PRAGUE527 | CZECH REPUBLIC: BCWG MEETING ON THE VISA ROADMAP [...] (SBU) Summary: The U.S.-Czech Bilateral Consular Working Group (BCWG) met May 11 to discuss progress on the Visa Roadmap toward eventual membership in the U.S. Visa Waiver Program. The Czechs confirmed that all passports issued in September 2006 and after will contain biometric chips. They ann [...] | 2006-05-16 14:35:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS PREL EZ |
06PRAGUE531 | CZECHS: EU SHOULD DESIGNATE TAMIL TIGERS AS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-17 12:15:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EUN PGOV PREL CE EZ |
06PRAGUE535 | CZECH ELECTIONS - THE FADING STIGMA OF COMMUNIST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The stigma of having some form of association with either the pre-1989 Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, or with its post-1989 successor, seems to be fading. A growing number of Czechs, though still in the minority, do not seem to mind the Communist Party. One major turning po [...] | 2006-05-18 17:10:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL EZ |
06PRAGUE540 | CZECH FOREIGN MINISTER CALLS IN AMBASSADOR ON [...] (SBU) Czech FM Cyril Svoboda called in the Ambassador on the morning of May 19 to discuss the recently approved Senate amendment to immigration reform legislation that would extend the visa waiver program (VWP) to Poland, but not to the Czech Republic. Svoboda, who faces re-election in two wee [...] | 2006-05-19 13:55:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL CVIS PGOV EUN PL EZ |
06PRAGUE574 | CZECH ELECTIONS: DECISIVE VICTORY UNLIKELY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. There are a number of trends, and idiosyncrasies in the Czech political system that will influence the June 2-3 general election, and politics for the foreseeable future. These include: (1) the semi-outlaw status of the Communist Party, which holds more than 20% of the seats in [...] | 2006-05-26 16:50:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EZ |
06PRAGUE591 | CZECH ELECTIONS: THE SHORT, BRUTISH, NASTY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: With the June 2-3 election only a day away, political pundits are still waffling on their predictions and a significant number of voters remain uninspired and unsure of whom to support. The choices made by this large block of still undecided voters, as high as 25% according to s [...] | 2006-06-01 10:11:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EZ |
06PRAGUE607 | CZECH ELECTION RESULTS: TOTAL STALEMATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The June 2-3 Czech general elections ended in a dramatic stalemate, with the left and the right camp each receiving 100 seats in the 200-seat Chamber of Deputies, and Prime Minster Paroubek threatening to file a complaint with the courts to have the results annulled. An obvious [...] | 2006-06-04 16:59:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EZ |
06PRAGUE662 | NEW CZECH PARLIAMENT: FRESHMEN DOMINATE MAIN [...] (U) SUMMARY. One half of the next Czech parliament, chosen in the June 2-3 general election, will be new members. The Foreign Affairs and Defense Committees lost more than half of their members, including some very experienced politicians. The parliament will have more representation by the two [...] | 2006-06-15 16:13:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EZ |
06PRAGUE719 | CZECH REPUBLIC: COALITION AGREEMENT REACHED [...] (U) The Civic Democrats (ODS),Christian Democrats (KDU- CSL),and the Green Party (SZ) signed a coalition agreement and finalized ministerial nominations late June 23. ODS, which won the largest number of votes in the June 2 - 3 election, will hold 10 posts including that of the Prime Minist [...] | 2006-06-26 14:36:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EZ |
06PRAGUE771 | CZECH ELECTIONS: IMPASSE UNBROKEN BUT TWO MAIN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Five weeks after Czech general elections resulted in a draw, the winning party, the right-of-center Civic Democrats (ODS),has yet to form a coalition government. The current Prime Minister Jiri Paroubek, whose left-of-center Social Democrats (CSSD) came in second, is using vari [...] | 2006-07-11 13:52:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EZ |
06PRAGUE898 | CZECHS OFFER SURGICAL CARE FOR SERIOUSLY-INJURED [...] (SBU) Summary. The Czech government has launched a medevac program to help critically injured women and children in Lebanon. This program is modeled on the successful Czech medevac programs for Iraq and Pakistan, and typifies the GOCR's modest yet extraordinarily active and adaptable disaster [...] | 2006-08-03 12:45:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREL MOPS IS LE EZ |
06PRAGUE934 | CZECH PUBLIC DEBATE ON MISSILE DEFENSE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Since reftel report on July 19, Czech media coverage has intensified, with a steady stream of editorials and news coverage about a potential siting of a U.S. missile defense facility in the Czech Republic. Pro-MD commentators continue to make the arguments that an MD [...] | 2006-08-11 08:44:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MOPS PREL PGOV EZ |
06PRAGUE944 | CZECHS DO NOT SUPPORT TEXT OF UNHRC'S DRAFT [...] (SBU) Poloff met with Czech MFA Deputy Director of the Human Rights Department Jan Kamenik to discuss the UNHRC special session and deliver reftel demarche. Kamenik said the Czechs support the mechanism for the special session, but do not/not support the current text of the draft UNHRC resolut [...] | 2006-08-12 07:46:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KPAO UNRCR EZ |
06PRAGUE964 | AGREEMENT ON SPEAKER OF CZECH PARLIAMENT PAVES WAY [...] (U) SUMMARY. More than 10 weeks after the deadlocked June 2-3 general election, the five parties in the Czech Parliament have agreed on a Speaker and five Deputy Speakers, allowing the new parliament to formally begin work, and removing one of the key issues that has blocked progress toward th [...] | 2006-08-16 05:08:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EZ |
06PRAGUE969 | CZECHS WILL SUPPORT WEDGWOOD [...] (SBU) Poloff met with Czech MFA Deputy Director of the Human Rights Department Jan Kamenik on August 12 to discuss Czech support for the candidacy of Professor Ruth Wedgwood and to deliver reftel demarche. Kamenik confirmed the Czechs will/will vote to reelect Wedgwood to serve on the UN Human [...] | 2006-08-16 14:52:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM US UNHRC EZ |
06PRAGUE988 | CZECH POLITICS: TOPOLANEK IN, BUT PAROUBEK STILL [...] (U) On Aug 16, Czech PM Jiri Paroubek formally presented his resignation to President Klaus, nearly ten weeks after deadlocked national elections and days after a compromise on Speaker of the Parliament broke the political logjam (reftel). In a carefully orchestrated sequence, Klaus accepted [...] | 2006-08-18 14:25:00 | Embassy Prague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EZ |
06PRETORIA1021 | SOUTH AFRICA: DRAFT BEE CODE 700: RESIDUAL [...] (U) Summary. The South African Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) released for public comment drafts of Broad-based Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) Codes of Good Practice belonging to the second and final phase on December 20, 2005. The Minister of Trade and Industry plans to promulgate [...] | 2006-03-10 14:33:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ETRD EFIN ECON USTR SF |
06PRETORIA109 | The Accelerated and Shared Growth [...] (SBU) Summary. The Accelerated and Shared Growth Initiative (ASGI),a new government economic strategy to be unveiled in February, aims to push growth to a sustained six percent annually. It is expected to focus on improving coordination and implementation. Key elements will be infrastruc [...] | 2006-01-12 06:58:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB PGOV SF |
06PRETORIA1158 | SOUTH AFRICA: MOELETSI MBEKI SAYS DONORS HOLD THE [...] (U) Summary. Donors hold the key to economic reform in Africa, says Moeletsi Mbeki, businessman, political analyst, and brother of South African President Thabo Mbeki. In a recent address, Mbeki said that donors leverage more power than Africa's military or political elite. Mbeki explained t [...] | 2006-03-22 10:27:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EFIN PGOV EAID PINR SF |
06PRETORIA1299 | SOUTH AFRICA SHINES FATF SPOTLIGHT ON DEVELOPING [...] (SBU) Summary. The Eastern and Southern Africa Anti-Money Laundering Group (ESAAMLG) demonstrated its commitment to Anti-Money Laundering/Counter Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) as observers during the February Financial Action Task Force (FATF) meetings in Cape Town. South Africa, as the c [...] | 2006-03-31 10:21:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN KFTN PTER ETTC PREL PGOV KCRM PINR SF |
06PRETORIA1313 | SOUTH AFRICA: $16MILLION JOHANNESBURG AIRPORT HEIST [...] (SBU) Fifteen armed men stole an estimated R100 million ($16 million) in foreign currency, mostly U.S. dollars, from a South African Airways passenger plane at Johannesburg International Airport (JIA) on March 25. No shots were fired. The heist, which police suspect was an inside job, follow [...] | 2006-04-03 04:18:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ASEC ECON SF |
06PRETORIA1324 | SOUTH AFRICA: AFRICA'S BIOTECH POWERHOUSE [...] (U) Summary. South Africa leads the African continent in the adoption, acceptance and advancement of biotech knowledge. It has a vibrant and productive biotech community that produces far more scientific articles and patents than any other Africa country. Funding for biotech grew 360% betwe [...] | 2006-04-03 12:24:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ETRD SENV TBIO TSPL SF |
06PRETORIA1397 | SOUTH AFRICA: SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF CODEL [...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified; Not for Internet Distribution. 2. (SBU) Welcome to South Africa. In the twelve years since the end of apartheid, the South African government (SAG) has taken major steps toward establishing a democracy and market-based economy. Despite problems of income [...] | 2006-04-07 04:38:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP PREL EFIN EINV ETRD ECON KHIV SF |
06PRETORIA2022 | SOUTH AFRICA: DEPUTY PRESIDENT MEETS OPIC DURING [...] (SBU) Summary. On May 4, Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka met with OPIC President and CEO Robert Mosbacher, Jr. and Executive VP John Simon to discuss how OPIC could assist with the Accelerated and Shared Growth Initiative for South Africa (ASGISA). The meeting focused on two potential [...] | 2006-05-16 15:11:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EFIN PGOV PREL EAID SF |
06PRETORIA2138 | PRESIDENT MBEKI ANNOUNCES CABINET RESHUFFLE [...] (U) President Mbeki announced a minor cabinet reshuffle on May 22, following the May 7 death of Public Works Minister Stella Sigcau. Four serving ministers, all women, were appointed to new positions, and one deputy ministerial position was left vacant. 2. (U) Most notable was the appoin [...] | 2006-05-25 11:51:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL SF |
06PRETORIA2395 | Central Bank Unexpectedly Raises Interest [...] (U) Summary. Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni announced June 8 an increase of 50 basis points to 7.5 percent in the central bank's repurchase (repo) rate. In its statement, the Reserve Bank's Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) cited deterioration in the inflation outlook, continued growth i [...] | 2006-06-09 14:56:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV SF |
06PRETORIA2654 | SOUTH AFRICA SIGNS TEXTILE, NUCLEAR ENERGY AND COAL FUEL [...] (U) Summary. Leading a delegation of government officials and business leaders, Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao visited South Africa June 21-22, 2006. The Chinese visit was part of a seven-country tour of Africa intended to strengthen China's diplomatic ties, ensure robust trade, and secure its acc [...] | 2006-06-29 09:46:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON KTEX SF CH |
06PRETORIA2665 | SOUTH AFRICA: BANK FEES UNDER FIRE [...] (SBU) Summary. As the result of a recent report, South Africa's Competition Commission launched a public inquiry into the amount of income the banking industry generates from transaction fees. The banking industry earned R29 billion ($4.1 billion) in transaction fee revenue and an estimated [...] | 2006-06-30 08:46:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EINV PGOV SF |
06PRETORIA2711 | SOUTH AFRICA: TELECOM REGULATOR STRUGGLES FOR [...] (SBU) Summary. South Africa's beleaguered telecommunications regulator, ICASA (Independent Communications Authority of South Africa),received a bit of good news when constitutional changes guaranteeing the regulator's independence were proposed to Parliament June 22. The Minister of Communic [...] | 2006-07-03 14:35:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS EINV ECON SF |
06PRETORIA2746 | SOUTH AFRICA: POLITICS STALLING LOW-INCOME HOUSING [...] (SBU) Summary. The ANC's Tripartite Alliance with the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and the South African Communist Party (SACP) has slowed down low-income housing finance initiatives, according to the Banking Association. The Housing Ministry sidelined a bilateral MOU conc [...] | 2006-07-06 13:51:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EINV PGOV PREL EAID SF |
06PRETORIA2768 | Emerging Market Jitters Weaken Rand, Inflation Diminishes [...] (SBU) Summary. Emerging market jitters in May and June led to a roughly 20 percent depreciation in the rand, contributing to a growing current account deficit and higher inflation. As a result, growth in 2006 will likely be below the government's forecast of 4.9 percent. Other than contribut [...] | 2006-07-07 11:02:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV SF |
06PRETORIA2831 | SOUTH AFRICA: CREDIT ACT PROTECTS CONSUMERS [...] (SBU) Summary. South Africa's National Credit Act came into effect on June 1, replacing weak and outdated legislation. This Act seeks to protect primarily poor South Africans, who have endured exorbitant interest rates, lender exploitation, and rising personal debt. The previously-named Mic [...] | 2006-07-11 14:51:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV PGOV SF |
06PRETORIA330 | SOUTH AFRICA ECONOMIC NEWSLETTER JANUARY 27 2006 [...] (U) Summary. Each week, Embassy Pretoria publishes an economic newsletter based on South African press reports. Comments and analysis do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the U.S. Government. Topics of this week's newsletter are: - December Consumer Prices Higher; - Producer [...] | 2006-01-27 13:37:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EFIN ETRD BEXP KTDB PGOV SF |
06PRETORIA3339 | SCENESETTER FOR SENATOR OBAMA'S VISIT TO SOUTH [...] (SBU) Welcome to South Africa, an anchor country in our Africa policy. Since the end of apartheid in 1994, the African National Congress (ANC)-led South African Government (SAG) has made major progress toward establishing a vibrant democracy and market-based economy. The SAG has focused on p [...] | 2006-08-15 14:57:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP PREL PGOV ECON KHIV SF |
06PRETORIA337 | SOUTH AFRICA: GOVERNMENT RELEASES THE SECOND [...] (U) Summary. The South African Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) released for public comment drafts of Broad-based Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) Codes of Good Practice belonging to the second and final phase on December 20, 2005. The Minister of Trade and Industry plans to promulgate [...] | 2006-01-27 14:42:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ETRD EFIN ECON USTR SF |
06PRETORIA3422 | ENTICED BY AFRICA'S MANIFOLD RICHES, AMERICANS AND CHINESE [...] (SBU) Summary: About 30 government, academic and business leaders -- including several former senior State Department officials -- held a groundbreaking dialogue to explore how China and the U.S. could work with Africa to spur development on the continent. Discussions centered on energy, trade [...] | 2006-08-21 08:34:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EFIN EINV EAID EIND KDEM CH XA SF |
06PRETORIA3462 | SOUTH AFRICAN MEDIA SAYS PRESS FREEDOM IMPERILED BY [...] (U) A government proposal to amend South African's Films & Publications Act has been met by howls of protest from media groups who say it would bring back pervasive censorship not seen since the apartheid era. Currently, the Act exempts newspapers from the publications covered by its censorshi [...] | 2006-08-23 07:14:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR SCUL KDEM KPAO SF |
06PRETORIA347 | SOUTH AFRICA: HOUSING AND SERVICE DELIVERY WOES [...] (SBU) Summary. Since mid-2004, South Africa has seen several protests in disadvantaged communities, ostensibly against poor public service delivery, lack of adequate housing, and corruption. These protests have intensified in the run up to the March 1 local elections, suggesting that there ar [...] | 2006-01-30 07:39:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EFIN EINV EAID SF |
06PRETORIA3720 | SOUTH AFRICA NUCLEAR STATUS: R&D AGREEMENTS AND [...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified; Protect Accordingly. Not for Internet Distribution. 2. (SBU) Incoming and outgoing Econ M/C's and Econoff met 31 August with Tseliso Maqubela, Chief Director: Nuclear at the South African Department of Minerals and Energy (DME). Maqubela reported that the Re [...] | 2006-09-07 13:38:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG KNNP PARM PREL SF |
06PRETORIA3722 | NUCLEAR FUEL SUPPLY ASSURANCES [...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified; Protect Accordingly. Not for Internet Distribution. 2. (SBU) Incoming and outgoing Econ M/C's and Econoff presented August 31 reftel points and concept paper to Department of Mineral and Energy's Tseliso Maqubela, Chief Director, Nuclear Energy and Mahlatsi [...] | 2006-09-07 13:53:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG KNNP PARM PREL SF |
06PRETORIA4513 | SOUTH AFRICAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION CIRCLES ITS WAGONS [...] (SBU) Summary: The embattled South African Broadcast Corporation (SABC) took another hit to its credibility with the unauthorized release of a report confirming the Managing Director of its News and Current Affairs Division banned certain commentators, in some cases for politically motivated [...] | 2006-10-31 08:43:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR SCUL KDEM KPAO SF |
06PRETORIA4553 | SOUTH AFRICANS LOOK BACK ON THE FTA AND WONDER [...] (U) Summary. A recent conference organized by South Africa's leading business group produced a variety of views on what caused the collapse of free trade talks with the U.S. earlier this year. Some speakers blamed a failure of vision in the South African government. Others blamed an inflexi [...] | 2006-11-02 13:58:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PREL SF |
06PRETORIA4593 | SHAIK APPEALS UNANIMOUSLY DISMISSED [...] (SBU) On 6 November, the Supreme Court of Appeal unanimously rejected Schabir Shaik's appeals against his June 2005 fraud and corruption charges, almost guaranteeing that Shaik will begin his 15-year prison term within the next 72 hours. (Note: Shaik was sentenced to 15 years in prison on eac [...] | 2006-11-06 13:01:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR KJUS SF |
06PRETORIA4597 | NEXT STEPS FOR U.S./SOUTH AFRICA AGREEMENT TO TAKE [...] This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Not for internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Summary. South African government approval will be more likely for a project to take back U.S.-origin nuclear fuel assemblies once a technical feasibility study has been revised by the Department of Energy (D [...] | 2006-11-06 14:34:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG KNNP IAEA PARM PREL SF |
06PRETORIA463 | SOUTH AFRICA: ADVANCING BILATERAL COOPERATION ON [...] (SBU) Summary. On January 30, CDA Teitelbaum raised with Minister of Minerals and Energy Lindiwe Hendricks a number of bilateral cooperation items in the area of nuclear energy. Hendricks said that what remained on the Joint Standing Committee on Nuclear Energy Cooperation was for her to resp [...] | 2006-02-06 12:53:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG KNNP OPDC TRGY SF |
06PRETORIA468 | MBEKI SAYS HE WILL NOT SEEK THIRD TERM [...] (U) President Mbeki said in a press interview February 5 that he will not/not seek a third term as South African President. Mbeki was last elected in 2004 for a second five-year term. Section 88 of the South African Constitution limits presidents to two terms of office, and a third term for [...] | 2006-02-06 14:29:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM SF |
06PRETORIA560 | SOUTH AFRICA: DEMARCHE IN SUPPORT OF U.S. [...] (SBU) Per Ref A, Post delivered January 31 demarche talking points in support of U.S. Candidate for ICAO Secretary General William Voss to the South Africa Department SIPDIS of Transport (DOT). DOT Deputy Director General for Transport Regulation and Public Entity Oversight, Ms. Nonkulule [...] | 2006-02-09 08:20:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ICAO PREL SF |
06PRETORIA575 | SOUTH AFRICA: DRAFT BEE CODE 300: EMPLOYMENT [...] (U) Summary. The South African Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) released for public comment drafts of Broad-based Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) Codes of Good Practice belonging to the second and final phase on December 20, 2005. The Minister of Trade and Industry plans to promulgate [...] | 2006-02-09 12:25:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ETRD EFIN ECON USTR SF |
06PRETORIA581 | SOUTH AFRICA DENIES ZIMBABWE POWER, FUEL CUTS [...] (U) The South African power utility Eskom reduced its supply of electricity to Zimbabwe during January, according to February 6-8 South African press reports. Eskom spokesman Fani Zulu said that the power utility provided less power than required to Zimbabwe because of planned "maintenance ou [...] | 2006-02-09 15:04:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ZI SF |
06PRETORIA582 | MBEKI PUBLICLY DETAILS SAG EFFORTS TO FORGE NEW [...] (U) President Mbeki publicly described South Africa's past role in "informal talks" about a new Zimbabwean Constitution, during a February 5 South African Broadcasting Corporation television interview. Mbeki said the Zimbabwean parties had completed negotiations and provided him with a copy of [...] | 2006-02-09 15:12:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ZI SF |
06PRETORIA636 | UNESCO CONVENTION ON CULTURAL EXPRESSIONS UPDATE [...] (SBU) We understand from Director Rufus Mathebe of the Department of Arts and Culture and State Law Advisor Joann Schneeberger of the Department of Foreign Affiars that the Convention on Cultural Diversity must be approved by Cabinet before taken up by Parliament for ratification. Mathabe exp [...] | 2006-02-14 14:17:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD SCUL UNESCO SF |
06PRETORIA640 | SOUTH AFRICA SCENESETTER FOR CODEL PELOSI VISIT [...] (SBU) Welcome to South Africa, an anchor country in our Africa policy. Since the end of apartheid in 1994, the African National Congress (ANC)-led South African Government (SAG) has made major progress toward establishing a vibrant democracy and market-based economy. The SAG has focused on [...] | 2006-02-15 07:35:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP PGOV PREL ECON MARR KHIV SF |
06PRETORIA646 | SOUTH AFRICA: DRAFT BEE CODE 400: SKILLS [...] (U) Summary. The South African Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) released for public comment drafts of Broad-based Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) Codes of Good Practice belonging to the second and final phase on December 20, 2005. The Minister of Trade and Industry plans to promulgate [...] | 2006-02-15 13:11:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ETRD EFIN ECON USTR SF |
06PRETORIA676 | SOUTH AFRICA: DRAFT BEE CODE 400: SKILLS [...] (U) Summary. The South African Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) released for public comment drafts of Broad-based Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) Codes of Good Practice belonging to the second and final phase on December 20, 2005. The Minister of Trade and Industry plans to promulgate [...] | 2006-02-16 14:17:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ETRD EFIN ECON USTR SF |
06PRETORIA698 | SOUTH AFRICA: MBEKI ANNOUNCES THE ACCELERATED AND [...] (U) Summary. In his State of the Nation address on February 3, President Thabo Mbeki spent considerable time introducing what he termed the "Accelerated and Shared Growth Initiative of South Africa" (ASGISA),which he described as a limited set of interventions designed to halve unemployment [...] | 2006-02-17 14:38:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EFIN PGOV SF |
06PRETORIA700 | SOUTH AFRICA: DRAFT BEE CODE 500: PREFERENTIAL [...] (U) Summary. The South African Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) released for public comment drafts of Broad-based Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) Codes of Good Practice belonging to the second and final phase on December 20, 2005. The Minister of Trade and Industry plans to promulgate [...] | 2006-02-17 15:04:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ETRD EFIN ECON USTR SF |
06PRETORIA816 | ANC CONFIDENT OF CONTINUED STRENGTH IN NORTHERN [...] (SBU) Summary: The ANC heads into local elections in the Northern Cape?s main urban area confident of another overwhelming showing. Some progress in expanding service delivery and a weak and fractured opposition are the basis for that optimism. Nonetheless, persistent unhappiness over service [...] | 2006-02-27 12:58:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EFIN EINV EAID SF KDEM |
06PRETORIA844 | SOUTH AFRICA: ANC WILL DOMINATE LIMPOPO DESPITE [...] (SBU) Summary. The residents of Waterberg and Vhembe District Municipalities in Limpopo live with high levels of unemployment, poverty, and limited access to public services. Despite frustrations, the electorate stands behind the ANC and will vote overwhelming for them in the March 1 local el [...] | 2006-03-01 08:15:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EFIN EINV EAID SF |
06PRETORIA879 | SOUTH AFRICA: DRAFT BEE CODE 600: ENTERPRISE [...] (U) Summary. The South African Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) released for public comment drafts of Broad-based Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) Codes of Good Practice belonging to the second and final phase on December 20, 2005. The Minister of Trade and Industry plans to promulgate [...] | 2006-03-03 07:25:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ETRD EFIN ECON USTR SF |
06PRETORIA889 | SOUTH AFRICA: INFORMATION ABOUT PROPOSED [...] (SBU) Summary. Econoff met with Department of Minerals and Energy and Department of Trade and Industry officials to deliver reftel points. In both instances, officials confirmed that they had not notified the WTO Secretariat of the revised regulations gazetted on January 13, and seemed unsure [...] | 2006-03-03 12:25:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ENRG SENV SF |
06PRETORIA955 | SOUTH AFRICA: PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR DISCUSSES [...] (SBU) Summary and Introduction. Econ M/C met March 2 with Alan Hirsch, Chief Director for Economic Policy Coordination in the Presidency, to discuss bilateral economic relations. The discussion included the status of U.S.-SACU free trade negotiations, the launch of the Accelerated and Shared Gr [...] | 2006-03-08 11:07:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EAIR ELAB ECPS ENRG EINV EIND SF |
06PRETORIA960 | SOUTH AFRICA: PROGRESS ON IMPLEMENTATION OF [...] (SBU) Summary. The United States and South Africa have made significant progress in implementing the June 10, 2005 Presidential Joint Statement. The two countries signed the ACOTA agreement in August 2005 to enhance South Africa's peacekeeping capacity, and training programs will begin this [...] | 2006-03-08 13:02:00 | Embassy Pretoria | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON ETRD MASS PHUM SF |
06PRISTINA1071 | KOSOVO: COM DELIVERS STRONG MESSAGE TO KOSOVO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: COM used the inauguration of a USAID-funded school renovation project in Serb-majority north Mitrovica to underscore the U.S. commitment to the continued presence of a vibrant Serb community in Kosovo, with full legal rights and special protections for its cultural and religio [...] | 2006-12-15 10:43:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KDEM PGOV SOCI PREL UNMIK YI PHUM |
06PRISTINA1072 | KOSOVO: GORANI EDUCATION DISAGREEMENT ILLUSTRATES [...] (SBU) A long-simmering disagreement between Gorani leaders, Kosovar education officials, and Belgrade's Coordination Center for Kosovo and Metohija (CCK) highlights the complex situation of the Gorani, a Muslim minority who live in the southern part of Dragas municipality and speak a dialect o [...] | 2006-12-15 10:43:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KCRM KDEM PGOV PINR PREL SOCI YI UNMIK |
06PRISTINA1074 | KOSOVO: TERRORIST LISTS [...] (SBU) Kosovo is administered by the United Nations Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) pursuant to UN Security Council Resolution 1244. UNMIK does not keep a list of terrorist organizations. Terrorist designations must be done through Administrative Directives issued by the Special Representative of t [...] | 2006-12-15 15:24:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTFN PGOV KJUS KCRM EAID UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA1088 | KOSOVO: 2006 ANNUAL TERRORISM UPDATE [...] (U) The following submission provides Post's contribution to the Department's "Country Reports on Terrorism 2006." BEGIN REPORT 2. (U) The United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) continues to administer Kosovo pursuant to UN Security Council Resolution 1244, and K [...] | 2006-12-20 09:01:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER ASEC KCRM PGOV KJUS EAID KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA1091 | KOSOVO MISSING PERSONS: OMPF REQUESTS USG FUNDING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. UNMIK's Office of Missing Persons and Forensics (OMPF) has asked the USG to pay the salaries up to three forensic specialists to assist with ongoing exhumations, autopsies and identifications of war victims. OMPF is very concerned about the lack of local capacity to carry out [...] | 2006-12-20 16:10:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KCRM KDEM PGOV PINR PREL YI UNMIK SOCI |
06PRISTINA1117 | KOSOVO ASHKALI LEADERS THREATEN TO WITHDRAW FROM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Pristina District Court sentenced Kosovo MP and President of the Ashkali Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDAK) Sabit Rrahmani to five months in prison for fraud. Fellow PDAK party leaders do not deny the charges, but told us that Ashkali are being targeted for prosecution, an [...] | 2006-12-28 13:44:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM KDEM PGOV PINR PREL YI UNMIK EAID PHUM |
06PRISTINA216 | KOSOVO: AGIM CEKU APPROVED AS NEW PRIME MINISTER; [...] (U) The Kosovo Assembly approved outgoing Kosovo Protection Corps commander General Agim Ceku as Kosovo's new Prime Minister and his slate of ministers with 65 votes in favor; 33 opposed and 5 abstentions. The vote followed along party lines with coalition members Democratic League of Kosovo [...] | 2006-03-10 17:21:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA218 | KOSOVO: AGIM CEKU APPROVED AS NEW PRIME MINISTER; [...] (U) The Kosovo Assembly approved outgoing Kosovo Protection Corps commander General Agim Ceku as Kosovo's new Prime Minister and his slate of ministers with 65 votes in favor; 33 opposed and 5 abstentions. The vote followed along party lines with coalition members Democratic League of Kosovo [...] | 2006-03-10 17:21:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA229 | KOSOVO: CEKU OFF TO GOOD START IN HIS FIRST DAYS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In his acceptance speech on March 10 and interviews over his first weekend as prime minister, former Kosovo Protection Corps (KPC) commander General Agim Ceku stressed Kosovo's future as a multiethnic state, but affirmed there can be no solution for Kosovo other than independence [...] | 2006-03-14 16:34:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA232 | SCENESETTER FOR MARCH 24 VISIT OF CODEL VOINOVICH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Kosovo has a new, stronger government, and is starting to get serious about the compromises needed to ensure that status negotiations result in the independence they so desire. The Kosovo Albanian negotiating team has made a well-received proposal on decentralization, but need [...] | 2006-03-15 18:19:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA240 | KOSOVO'S NON-SERB MINORITIES LOOKING FOR MORE CLOUT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Kosovo's non-Serb minorities are trying to increase their role in the new Kosovo government and solidify their participation on Kosovo's delegation to status negotiations. Non-Serb minorities currently control the health ministry, fill a rotating seat in the Assembly Presidenc [...] | 2006-03-16 16:10:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA256 | KOSOVO: RECOMMENDATION ON TREATMENT OF ROMA LEAD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. International community stakeholders have decided that Roma victims of lead poisoning can be safely treated at Osterode, UNMIK's temporary relocation facility. Notwithstanding the insistence of Roma leaders that their constituents will accept relocation only to their old Mitrov [...] | 2006-03-21 18:12:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF EAID SENV PHUM UNMIK KDEM YI |
06PRISTINA259 | KOSOVO PROTECTION CORPS TO TAKE ON GREATER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During their March 12-15 visit to Kosovo, Department representatives agreed to provide up to USD 110,000 in funding through the Slovene International Trust Fund for Demining and Mine Victim's Assistance (ITF) for badly-needed replacement equipment for the Kosovo Protection Corp [...] | 2006-03-22 16:22:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MASS MARR PREL EAID PGOV UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA265 | KOSOVO: PROGRESS NEEDED ON MISSING PERSONS CASES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Pristina and Belgrade delegations at the March 9 meeting of the working group on missing persons agreed that progress on the identification and return of remains from the 1999 conflict is too slow. Kosovo's delegation demanded the immediate return of the 180 remaining bodi [...] | 2006-03-24 10:05:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA274 | KOSOVO: POLICE TRYING TO CURB INTERETHNIC VANDALISM [...] (U) Since March 2004 no ethnic Serbs have returned to live in Zhiti/Zitinje, a village in multi-ethnic Viti/Vitina municipality in southeastern Kosovo. In September 2005 Kosovo's Provisional Institutions of Self-Government completed the reconstruction of 33 houses in Zhiti/Zininje, 29 for eth [...] | 2006-03-28 15:27:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PGOV PREL UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA282 | RETURNS AND MISSING PERSONS FOREVER LINKED IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Many ethnic Albanians from parts of Kosovo that were subjected to violent ethnic cleansing during the war do not give much thought to the return of their ethnic Serb neighbors, and they doubt that any of the Serbs want to come back. For these Albanians any reconciliation with [...] | 2006-03-29 14:52:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ICTY KCRM KDEM KJUS PGOV PREF PREL SI YI |
06PRISTINA285 | KOSOVO PRESIDENT SEJDIU REACHES OUT TO MINORITIES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. President Fatmir Sejdiu visited Dragas/Dragash and Orahovac/Rahovec municipalities and discussed (in Serbian) standards implementation, freedom of movement, inter-ethnic relations and economic development in public meetings with minorities. He plans to make more outreach trip [...] | 2006-03-30 14:22:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA290 | KOSOVO SERB PUBLIC SERVANTS FORCED TO CHOOSE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On March 21, Belgrade-based chief of the Kosovo Coordination Center (CCK) Sanda Raskovic-Ivic told public sector Kosovo Serbs that Serbia will no longer pay salaries to employees who also receive salaries from Pristina. Many Kosovo Serbs believe that if they choose Pristina, [...] | 2006-03-31 16:42:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA299 | KOSOVO STANDARDS DELIVERABLE: PROPERTY RIGHTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. UNMIK and the Provisional Institutions of Self Government (PISG) have created the Kosovo Property Agency (KPA) as a quasi-judicial forum for resolution of private real estate disputes. The KPA will replace the Housing and Property Directorate (HPD),the independent agency that [...] | 2006-04-04 15:14:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA302 | NEW KOSOVO GOVERNMENT PUSHES STANDARDS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: New Kosovo Prime Minister Agim Ceku has produced a 91 item "to do" list for the next three months on standards implementation. UNMIK's Office of the Strategy Coordinator has drafted a complementary list of 25 standards-related action items and tasked the Provisional Institutio [...] | 2006-04-05 17:14:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA333 | VISIT OF SENATOR VOINOVICH TO KOSOVO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In meetings with Prime Minister Agim Ceku and President Fatmir Sejdiu during his March 24 visit to Kosovo, Senator George Voinovich urged the new leaders to reach out to Kosovo Serbs and to show them and leaders in Belgrade that Kosovo's government is serious about creating a K [...] | 2006-04-19 15:23:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA335 | KOSOVO: A UNIFIED CONTACT GROUP PRESSES STANDARDS, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Representatives of the Contact Group (CG) visited Kosovo April 6-7 to highlight CG unity and deliver a focused message about the importance of the standards and elements of an eventual future status settlement; by prior agreement, the CG did not address the status outcome itself. [...] | 2006-04-20 14:13:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA338 | UNMIK FACILITATES OUTREACH TO NORTH KOSOVO SERBS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On April 19 UNMIK hosted the first meeting of the Mitrovica Focus Group to encourage engagement between northern Kosovo Serb leaders and the international community. The regional CCK representative, the mayors of the three northern Serb-majority municipalities and the UNMIK adv [...] | 2006-04-21 13:42:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA339 | KOSOVO ROMA MOVE TO LEAD-SAFE RELOCATION FACILITY, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Over 290 Roma from two lead-contaminated refugee camps in north Mitrovica have moved to the Osterode temporary relocation facility. All involved agree that a convalescence center to treat Roma with lead poisoning will be built there. The World Health Organization (WHO) has d [...] | 2006-04-21 14:46:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF EAID SENV PHUM UNMIK KDEM YI |
06PRISTINA352 | KOSOVO PRESIDENT SEJDIU CONTINUES MINORITY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On the first ever visit by a Kosovo President to Decani Monastery, President Fatmir Sejdiu toured the grounds and church on Orthodox Easter Sunday, and then discussed the protection of Kosovo's Serbian Orthodox heritage sites with Bishop Teodosije in Serbian. Other visitors in [...] | 2006-04-26 13:08:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PINR PREL SOCI YI UNMIK |
06PRISTINA364 | UNMIK LOOKING FOR ELUSIVE CONSENSUS ON MUNICIPAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The SRSG and the OSCE head of office hosted an April 27 meeting of Kosovo political party representatives and interested international parties, including COM, to discuss whether Kosovo's municipal elections should take place in October 2006 as scheduled. Most political party p [...] | 2006-04-28 14:13:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PREL UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA365 | BERISHA LOOKING FOR THE RIGHT BALANCE IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In his first several weeks as president of Kosovo's Assembly, Kole Berisha has made great progress in making it more fiscally and procedurally democratic and less autocratic. Berisha has taken public steps to distance himself from the questionable fiscal practices and domineeri [...] | 2006-04-28 14:14:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM PREL UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA366 | CONTACT GROUP DEMARCHE RESPONSE [...] (SBU) COM delivered reftel points to Contact Group (CG) heads of Pristina missions on April 28. COM's CG counterparts had been similarly instructed by their capitals. The group agreed to coordinate action with UNMIK as soon as possible following SRSG Soren Jessen-Petersen's return to Kosovo [...] | 2006-04-28 16:10:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA369 | KOSOVO: TERRORISM FINANCE LIST 77 (JI-4) DELIVERED [...] (SBU) On April 28 E/P Deputy Section Chief delivered reftel talking points and background information to Robert Jordan, the new head of UNMIK's Advisory Unit on Security in the Office of the SRSG and Deputy Head Jared Rigg. Jordan promised to check the name against the Banking and Payments Au [...] | 2006-05-02 15:36:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTFN PTER EFIN PREL CVIS KVPR KSEP YI |
06PRISTINA381 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO INR BALKAN ANALYST [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to INR Balkan Analyst Robert Nash to visit Pristina May 18 to May 20, 2006. The purpose of the visit is to meet with host government officials and representatives of political parties and other groups on domestic and regional issues. C [...] | 2006-05-05 07:25:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA PINR SR ASEC YI |
06PRISTINA384 | KOSOVO SERB POLITICIANS VIE FOR POWER IN PRISTINA; [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. After several tumultuous months, the Serbian Democratic Party -- the only Kosovo Serb party actively participating in the Kosovo government -- held an extraordinary party assembly on April 29 and re-elected Slavisa Petkovic as party president over the protests of a strong mino [...] | 2006-05-05 16:38:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PREL KCRM PINR UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA392 | KOSOVO'S DRAFT LAW ON RELIGIOUS FREEDOM STILL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Drafted by Prime Minister Bajram Rexhepi's government in 2004, Kosovo's draft law on religious freedom remains a point of contention between the government and religious communities in Kosovo. Kosovo's Islamic Community opposes the internationally approved draft because it arg [...] | 2006-05-09 16:52:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PREL UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA397 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED TO AMBASSADOR NULAND [...] US Office Pristina welcomes and grants country clearance to Ambassador Nuland to visit Pristina May 11, 2006. The purpose of the visit is in conjunction with an organized visit of NATO Permanent Representatives to KFOR. Point of Contact for this visit is Chief Dion Bivens, who can be reached [...] | 2006-05-10 09:57:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMGT NATO OTRA ASEC YI |
06PRISTINA410 | BEST OF TIMES, WORST OF TIMES: KOSOVO PAST AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) removed Nexhat Daci as Kosovo Assembly president on March 10, 2006, and replaced him with Kole Berisha. Both will visit the United States in the coming week. Their diametrically-opposed leadership styles engender continued criticism for Da [...] | 2006-05-12 17:18:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KDEM PINR UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA425 | FURTHER CONVERSATIONS WITH RETURNEES TO KOSOVO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Serbs and others who have returned to Kosovo are more concerned about immediate economic prospects, security, and freedom of movement than the final status of Kosovo, though the future of the region is also a source of apprehension for some. Many Kosovo Serb returnees are midd [...] | 2006-05-17 16:59:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREF SR |
06PRISTINA426 | KOSOVO: FINAL THREE PERCENT OF MARCH 2004 [...] (SBU) Most reconstruction of homes damaged in the March 2004 violence has long since been completed, albeit with some complaints about the quality of construction and frictions about the terms of reconstruction of outbuildings. Most of what has not been rebuilt is in the historic center of [...] | 2006-05-18 15:32:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI PREF |
06PRISTINA448 | RELATIONS BETWEEN DECANI MONASTERY AND LOCAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In the month since SRSG Jessen-Petersen extended the controversial protection zone around Decani Monastery, relations between the Monastery and the local Kosovo Albanian community have improved. KFOR has removed the fixed checkpoint outside the monastery and replaced it with [...] | 2006-05-24 15:10:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA449 | KOSOVO: CHANGES IN HARADINAJ'S POLITICAL PARTY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Ramush Haradinaj was handily re-elected president of the party he founded, the Alliance for the Future of Kosovo (AAK),during the party's May 20 convention. Other prominent AAK members lost votes as compared with their standing at the party's last convention in 2004, namely M [...] | 2006-05-24 16:18:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA450 | SCENESETTER FOR MAY 26 VISIT OF CODEL INHOFE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The new Kosovo government, formed in March after the death of President Ibrahim Rugova in January, is focused on status negotiations, implementation of the "Standards for Kosovo" program, and the transfer of governing competencies as UNMIK winds down its presence in Kosovo. Alt [...] | 2006-05-24 18:44:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA461 | KOSOVO: ICTY DEFENSE TEAM VISIT TO MASSACRE SITE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The unannounced visit of two Serbian ICTY defense lawyers to a rural village that was the site of a 1999 Serb-on-Albanian massacre caused an uproar among village residents, virtually all of whom are relatives of the victims. Kosovo Albanians blocked the main village road and s [...] | 2006-05-30 06:29:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA480 | FUNDING FOR MISSING PERSONS AND FORENSICS IN KOSOVO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. As the recent confrontation between police and families of the missing in Krushe e Vogel/Mala Krusa demonstrates, missing persons remains a volatile issue in Kosovo (Ref A). The USG has helped fund both UNMIK's Office of Missing Persons and Forensics (OMPF) and the Kosovo oper [...] | 2006-06-05 16:45:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA484 | KOSOVO SERB HARDLINERS CALL FOR SELF DEFENSE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. According to the OSCE, 500-700 people participated in a June 5 demonstration in Zvecan against recent acts of violence against Kosovo Serbs. Local leaders announced a resolution by the Zvecan municipal assembly to end contact with the Kosovo government until the crimes are s [...] | 2006-06-06 16:38:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA491 | KOSOVO: PM CEKU ALREADY AT WORK ON CONTACT GROUP [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During a June 8 meeting with Contact Group (CG) heads of mission in Pristina, Kosovo Prime Minister Agim Ceku received the 13 points of priorities for standards implementation as something that will help the Kosovo government focus its current efforts, not as criticism of its e [...] | 2006-06-08 16:59:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM PREF UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA493 | KOSOVO: ASSEMBLY LEADERSHIP REVEALS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Kosovo Assembly formally unveiled a new work plan on June 7 designed to improve procedural and budgetary transparency. International advisors, including USAID, have been very involved in the development of this plan and heads of diplomatic liaison offices, including COM, p [...] | 2006-06-09 14:52:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA507 | KOSOVO: PROTOCOL ON RETURN WITH SERBIA SIGNED AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After almost two years of negotiations, the Provisional Institutions of Self Government in Kosovo (PISG),the Government of Serbia and UNMIK signed a Protocol on Voluntary and Sustainable Return on June 6, 2006. UNMIK pressed hard to get the protocol signed before SRSG Soren J [...] | 2006-06-13 16:01:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PGOV PREL UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA520 | KOSOVO: BAD POLL NUMBERS FOR THACI SIGNAL REQUEST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. A new public opinion poll of non-Serb Kosovars suggests plummeting popularity for opposition leaders Hashim Thaci and his Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK). The poll, taken by a nominally apolitical local consulting company, was issued days before Thaci made a rare request for [...] | 2006-06-16 17:40:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA532 | SALI BERISHA TELLS KOSOVO ALBANIANS TO RECONCILE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During an emotional June 15-17 visit to Kosovo, Albanian Prime Minister Sali Berisha reiterated his support for Kosovo's independence, voiced his confidence in Kosovo's current leadership and asked Kosovo Albanians to reconcile with Serbs. He also attempted to mend fences with [...] | 2006-06-20 17:40:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM PREF UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA534 | KOSOVO: VIOLENT DEATH OF ELDERLY SERB RAISES FEAR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. An elderly Kosovo Serb returnee was found dead on June 20 from a gunshot wound to the head in western Kosovo's Klina municipality. Police tell us informally that the path of the bullet (entry through the front of the neck and exit through the top of the head) would ordinarily [...] | 2006-06-21 18:37:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PREF PREL PGOV PINR SCUL UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA547 | KOSOVO SERBS: A SUCCESS STORY AND TWO PLEAS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-23 11:57:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREF SR |
06PRISTINA549 | KOSOVO MINORITIES: RURAL POVERTY AND A [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Many Serbs and other minority members who either returned to or stayed put in rural areas of Kosovo after the end of the conflict in June 1999 or the ethnic riots in March 2004 live marginally. Their immediate preoccupation is their livelihoods. Determination of Kosovo's final [...] | 2006-06-23 14:53:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREF SR YI |
06PRISTINA554 | KOSOVO: CONTROVERSY CONTINUES OVER ICTY VISIT; [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Several widows from the Krushe e Vogel/Mala Krusa massacre say they first assisted a visiting UN convoy on May 25, but then grew suspicious when the convoy showed interest in the local Serb graveyard and the homes of former Serb residents. One widow expressed no remorse over [...] | 2006-06-27 16:03:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KCRM KDEM KJUS PGOV PINR PREL YI UNMIK |
06PRISTINA564 | KOSTUNICA VISIT TO KOSOVO SPARKS ONLY ISOLATED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Serbian Prime Minister Vojislav Kostunica visited Gracanica monastery in Kosovo on June 28 to commemorate Vidovdan. Despite receiving UNMIK permission to visit Kosovo only for personal, religious reasons, Kostunica used the opportunity to make a provocative speech in which he [...] | 2006-06-29 16:30:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA567 | KOSOVO: PM CEKU UP-BEAT ON FULFILLMENT OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Agim Ceku gave Contact Group representatives a largely positive interim report June 27 on progress on the 13 priorities for standards implementation delivered to Kosovo's Provisional Institutions of Self-Governance (PISG) on June 8 (reftel). While the report sho [...] | 2006-06-30 17:03:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM PREF UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA575 | NORTH MITROVICA LEADERS CLARIFY MUNICIPAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Two influential Kosovo Serbs from north Mitrovica clarified recent declarations issued by Kosovo's three northern Serb-majority municipalities and the Mitrovica advisory board ostensibly cutting off ties with the government in Pristina. UNMIK representatives say the declarati [...] | 2006-07-07 13:55:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI PREF |
06PRISTINA584 | SERBIA REPATRIATES FINAL SETS OF HUMAN REMAINS TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In an emotional handover on June 30, Serbia repatriated to Kosovo the final sets of human remains found in known mass grave sites in Serbia. UNMIK's Office of Missing Persons and Forensics (OMPF) is now working to perform autopsies on the remains and return the few that were i [...] | 2006-07-11 17:52:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI KJUS EAID |
06PRISTINA599 | KOSOVO: ACTING SRSG PUSHES BELGRADE/WHO ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Although medication is on hand, medical personnel have been trained, and construction of a clinic has been completed, treatment of Mitrovica-area Roma acutely ill with lead poisoning has not begun. The World Health Organization (WHO) has been waiting for more than three month [...] | 2006-07-17 18:50:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF EAID SENV PHUM UNMIK KDEM YI |
06PRISTINA608 | KOSOVO MISSING PERSONS FORENSICS HAMPERED BY LACK [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. UNMIK's Office of Missing Persons and Forensics (OMPF) is faces severe staffing and funding shortages which are hampering its ability to resolve cases of missing persons. Despite fewer leads on potential new grave sites, OMPF is still very busy with a few ongoing exhumations [...] | 2006-07-19 18:00:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI KJUS EAID |
06PRISTINA611 | KOSOVO: DETAILS OF SLKM PROPOSAL ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Oliver Ivanovic views his Serbian List for Kosovo and Metohija (SLKM) plan for seven new Serb-majority municipalities and the enlargement of an eight existing municipality (Novo Brdo) as a bridge between the current proposals on new municipalities by the Serbian and Kosovo gove [...] | 2006-07-20 16:49:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA614 | MODERATE KOSOVO CHURCH LEADERS, UNOSEK AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Father Sava told PolOff that he personally supports UNOSEK proposals for the protection of cultural heritage. He said the Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC),however, cannot support the proposals publicly so long as the government in Belgrade continues to oppose them. Sava critic [...] | 2006-07-21 16:40:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA639 | COM URGES MODERATE KOSOVO SERB LEADERS TO ENGAGE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. During introductory meetings with moderate Kosovo Serb leaders Oliver Ivanovic, Bishop Teodosije and Father Sava, COM echoed recent comments by Ambassador Wisner about the importance of active and direct engagement in status negotiations during the coming weeks. Ivanovic, Teod [...] | 2006-08-02 16:22:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA663 | KOSOVO: SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH IN BABIN MOST [...] (SBU) On August 6, the priest in the ethnic-Serb majority village of Babin Most (Obiliq/Obilic municipality) reported that unknown perpetrators vandalized and robbed his church. He said that several icons were damaged or stolen, along with 800 euros in church funds. On August 6 the Acting Chi [...] | 2006-08-11 09:00:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI PHUM KRIF |
06PRISTINA782 | KOSOVO MISSING PERSONS DIALOGUE: SLOW PROGRESS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Families of the missing gathered in Pristina and Gracanica on August 30 to commemorate the International Day of Missing Persons, protest lack of progress in resolving cases and bring public attention to the almost 2,300 persons still missing from the Kosovo conflict. Although [...] | 2006-09-18 12:24:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
06PRISTINA853 | FERIZAJ LEADERS AGREE TO REPAIR ROOF ON VANDALIZED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On October 6 Ferizaj/Urosevac Municipal leaders promised visiting poloff and a U.S. sergeant involved in civil-military operations in the area that they would pay for the August theft of the copper roof of the St. Uros church. (The thief, who was apprehended shortly after the [...] | 2006-10-10 14:33:00 | Embassy Pristina | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM PGOV PINR KDEM UNMIK YI |
06QUITO1157 | Ecuador Election Update--Six Months Out [...] (U) Summary: Six months away from national elections in October, and three months before candidates formally register, more than 20 aspirants already crowd the presidential field and that number is likely to rise. Former VP Leon Roldos holds a consistent lead in early polling, but most Ecuad [...] | 2006-05-10 19:06:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL EC |
06QUITO126 | PRESIDENT'S CONCILIATORY STATE OF THE NATION SPEECH [...] (SBU) Summary: In the president's annual "report to the nation" speech widely interpreted as conciliatory, President Palacio averted further confrontation with Congress over his reform agenda. Instead, Palacio thanked his critics and praised the role of a loyal opposition, inviting Congress [...] | 2006-01-17 23:01:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM KCRM ECON EC |
06QUITO1275 | LABOR MINISTRY PRIORITIZES TRIPARTITE DIALOGUE AND [...] (U) Summary: Minister of Labor Galo Chiriboga and Vice Minister of Labor Jose Serrano outlined the four main goals of the Ministry of Labor (MOL): combating child labor, tripartite dialogue, modernization of the MOL, and combating employment discrimination. President Palacio recently signed [...] | 2006-05-24 18:47:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PGOV EC |
06QUITO128 | ECUADOR: FM SUPPORTS UNSC REFORM [...] (SBU) The Ambassador discussed reftel points with FM Francisco Carrion in a one-on-one meeting on January 13, requesting GOE support for management reforms and emphasizing the need for a more credible Human Rights Council. 2. (SBU) FM Carrion said that the UN has great importance to Ecua [...] | 2006-01-17 23:35:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM EC |
06QUITO1284 | AMBASSADOR PROMOTES SECURITY AND DEVELOPMENT ON [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador visited the remote Carchi province on May 18 to highlight USG investment in security and development on Ecuador's northern border with Colombia. While there, the Ambassador met with military and police officials, toured a customs and immigration post, hosted a lu [...] | 2006-05-24 21:07:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR MASS MOPS SNAR PTER EC CO |
06QUITO1386 | GOE INCLINED TO SUPPORT UN INDIGENOUS DECLARATION [...] (SBU) PolOff presented reftel points to Augusto Saa, Director of Human Rights and Social and Environmental issues at the MFA, on May 22, emphasizing the USG view that the Chair's draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is fundamentally flawed. Saa said the GOE is inclined to su [...] | 2006-06-06 22:09:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL EC |
06QUITO1395 | AMBASSADOR VISITS MACHALA AND EL ORO PROVINCE [...] (U) Summary. In a trip to the southern border province of El Oro, the Ambassador visited U.S. company Machala Power's gas platform and electricity generation facilities and heard about their plight in trying to collect nearly $50 million in unpaid bills from GOE-related entities. She inaugura [...] | 2006-06-07 20:22:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV ENRG SNAR ECON PREL EC |
06QUITO1399 | CONGRESS PASSES SUBCONTRACTING LAW IMPROVING [...] (SBU) Summary: Congress passed a law on May 30 to regulate subcontracting, setting a maximum 50 percent of workers that can be hired through this mechanism. Workers can be subcontracted for any function. Employers must provide subcontracted workers with profit sharing and contributions to [...] | 2006-06-07 21:31:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PGOV EC |
06QUITO1434 | ECUADOR READY FOR A FEMALE PRESIDENT? [...] (SBU) Summary: Women in Ecuador have made significant strides in politics in the last decade, with quotas helping to give women opportunities to win public office and contributing to a gradual change in societal attitudes. The campaign of Cynthia Viteri, the only female presidential pre-can [...] | 2006-06-12 16:55:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM SCUL EC |
06QUITO1436 | SUPREME COURT ALLOWS FORMER PRESIDENT MAHUAD TO [...] (U) Summary: The Supreme Court ruled on June 7 that criminal charges against ex-president Jamil Mahuad would be put on hold for lack of evidence, permitting Mahuad to return to Ecuador without facing an arrest warrant. Ex-president Mahuad, widely blamed for the country,s severe financial cr [...] | 2006-06-12 18:27:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EC |
06QUITO1477 | CAN LEADERS MEET IN QUITO [...] (U) Summary: Presidents from Ecuador, Colombia, Peru and Bolivia met at the Andean Community (CAN) conference in Quito on June 13 to publicly demonstrate their commitment to the troubled regional organization, discuss areas for cooperation with the European Union (EU),and to issue a joint let [...] | 2006-06-15 15:45:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EC |
06QUITO1549 | MIGRATION: ECUADORIANS STILL LOOKING NORTH [...] (U) Summary: At least since the severe economic crisis in 1999, the two certainties in Ecuador have been death and emigration. A steady stream of 30,000 to 40,000 undocumented migrants takes to the sea and skies annually from Ecuador in pursuit of their own American dreams. Periodic reports [...] | 2006-06-23 19:30:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SMIG PHUM PREL EC |
06QUITO1588 | INDIGENOUS HEARTLAND DIVIDED ON ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: The indigenous heartland provinces of Chimborazo and Cotopaxi are predominantly indigenous strongholds of the Pachakutik Movement. Despite Pachakutik's dominance, the indigenous movement is fractured internally over whether to run its own candidate or support Rafael Correa, an [...] | 2006-06-28 16:19:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EC |
06QUITO1612 | ECUADOR SIGNS MORE ENERGY AGREEMENTS WITH VENEZUELA [...] (U) Summary. Ecuador's and Venezuela's state energy companies PetroEcuador and PDVSA yesterday signed a pair of energy agreements, following a series of technical meetings this month. Venezuela's Energy Minister Rafael Ramirez and acting PetroEcuador President Walter Lopez were joined by Ec [...] | 2006-06-30 20:03:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EC EPET ETRD PREL VZ EINV |
06QUITO1657 | AFRO-ECUADORIAN HEARTLAND RIPE FOR POPULIST APPEAL [...] (SBU) Summary: The province of Esmeraldas is the largest of two centers of the minority Afro-Ecuadorian population. The province is also marked by high unemployment and underdevelopment, fueling populist electoral appeal. Since 2002, the Popular Democratic Movement (MPD),a Marxist populist [...] | 2006-07-06 22:34:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM EC |
06QUITO1707 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH LUCIO GUTIERREZ [...] (SBU) Summary: After appearing in constitutional court to defend his right to run in upcoming elections, Gutierrez met with the Ambassador on July 12. Gutierrez summarized the legal charges against him, seeking to show their arbitrary nature. While the charges are obviously politically mot [...] | 2006-07-13 20:35:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EC |
06QUITO1722 | REGULATION FOR HYDROCARBONS REFORM REVISED [...] (SBU) Summary: President Palacio issued a decree July 11 correcting the implementing Regulation of the April Hydrocarbons Law that had been published in the Official Register on June 29. The previous regulation offered potentially important opportunities for companies to mitigate the law's m [...] | 2006-07-14 18:28:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EPET EINV |
06QUITO1735 | LEGISLATION TO REFORM ECUADOR'S ELECTRICITY SECTOR [...] (SBU) Summary. President Palacio submitted to Congress July 10 legislation to reform Ecuador's electricity sector that would represent a significant advance if passed and implemented as proposed. The legislation would make it a crime to steal electricity, recognize almost $1 billion owed by [...] | 2006-07-17 20:07:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EINV |
06QUITO1772 | ELECTIONS UPDATE: GUTIERREZ BARRED, POPULIST [...] (U) Summary: The Constitutional Court on July 18 ruled that ex-President Lucio Gutierrez could not run for public office until 2007. With Gutierrez blocked from running, a PRIAN-PSP alliance is a strong possibility and could produce a strong showing in this year's elections. In the interim, [...] | 2006-07-19 22:33:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EC |
06QUITO1837 | ELECTIONS UPDATE: PSP-PRIAN FORM ALLIANCE; [...] (U) Summary: Lucio Gutierrez, PSP and Alvaro Noboa's PRIAN announced on July 26 that the two parties would form an alliance for the presidential ticket. Gutierrez publicly asked Noboa to reenter the presidential race at the top of the PRIAN-PSP ticket. Noboa, however, has not responded pub [...] | 2006-07-27 19:15:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EC |
06QUITO1867 | ELECTIONS UPDATE: CANDIDATE POSITION PROFILE [...] (U) Summary: In Ecuador,s presidential race, only two of the four front runners have concrete political platforms. Leon Roldos and Rafael Correa present well-defined stances on the issues. Correa,s stance is particularly anti-U.S. Cynthia Viteri and the PRIAN/PRI alliance have not yet defi [...] | 2006-07-31 19:48:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EC |
06QUITO1887 | MINISTER OF LABOR CHIRIBOGA NAMED HEAD OF [...] (U) President Palacio replaced the board of directors of Petroecuador, and named Labor Minister Galo Chiriboga president of the state energy company on July 31. The decision comes after the failed July 27 auction of 17 million barrels of crude oil from Occidental's former concession, Block 1 [...] | 2006-08-01 21:10:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EC |
06QUITO2008 | ECUADOR ELECTION UPDATE: CORREA NAMES SURPRISE [...] (SBU) Summary: Far-left presidential candidate Rafael Correa (PAIS) on August 5 announced Lenin Voltaire MORENO Garces as his running mate at a mass rally in rural coastal Guayas province. Moreno, a relative political unknown, is unlikely to attract many votes to Correa, who said his choice [...] | 2006-08-09 21:58:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EC |
06QUITO2041 | PALACIO AND EHLERS RE-IGNITE REFORM DEBATE [...] (SBU) Summary: In a ceremonial speech on August 10 President Palacio renewed his call for a public referendum to force political reforms. The surprise proposal would be non-binding and administered in conjunction with the second round of presidential elections on November 26. It would incl [...] | 2006-08-14 23:32:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM EC |
06QUITO2050 | ECUADOR REITERATES SUPPORT FOR SECURITY COUNCIL ON [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-15 21:17:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER MOPS UNAUS UNSC IS LE |
06QUITO2064 | ECUADOR ELECTION: THEN THERE WERE SEVENTEEN [...] (SBU) Summary. The registration period for all candidates running for office in October 15 elections closed on August 15, attracting an unprecedented seventeen presidential aspirants. Eccentric billionaire candidate Alvaro Noboa announced his reentry, oddly declaring himself "a hero of God w [...] | 2006-08-16 21:14:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM EC |
06QUITO2078 | CARRION'S MFA REFOCUSES ECUADOR'S FOREIGN POLICY [...] (SBU) Summary: Since taking office in October 2005, Foreign Minister Francisco Carrion, Ecuador's top career diplomat, has attempted to restore credibility to the ministry by reversing the politicization and decline of the diplomatic corps under his immediate predecessors. Part of this proc [...] | 2006-08-17 20:16:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EC |
06QUITO2082 | NEW COLOMBIAN FOREIGN MINISTER VISITS ECUADOR [...] (U) Summary: Colombian Foreign Minister Maria Araujo made her first official visit to Ecuador on August 16. In meetings with Foreign Minister Francisco Carrion and Vice President Alejandro Serrano she discussed the need for safeguarding bilateral relations in the face of problems along the c [...] | 2006-08-17 22:49:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR MASS MOPS SNAR PTER EC CO |
06QUITO2087 | SUBJECT: DEMARCHE REQUEST RE POTENTIAL INDONESIAN [...] (U) This is an action request; see para 7. 2. (SBU) Summary: Press reports indicate Indonesia's state-run oil company Pertamina is interested in running Occidental Petroleum's (Oxy) former Block 15 in Ecuador under an Energy Cooperation MOU signed between the two countries in July. Frenc [...] | 2006-08-18 19:42:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV ENRG |
06QUITO2093 | ECUADOR WILL NOT SUPPORT WEDGWOOD FOR THE HRC [...] (SBU) On August 18, PolOff met with Lourdes Puma, Director General for Multilateral Affairs in the Ecuadorian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to deliver the diplomatic note in reftel. Ms. Puma said the GOE will not support Professor Ruth Wedgwood's candidacy for re-election to the HRC. She said [...] | 2006-08-21 20:58:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM UN UNHRC EC |
06QUITO2094 | NORTHERN BORDER PROVINCES TILTING TOWARD ROLDOS [...] (U) Summary: The northern provinces of Imbabura and Carchi are strongholds of the Democratic Left (ID) party and, in Imbabura, the indigenous movement. Predictably, Leon Roldos is the acknowledged front runner in presidential elections. There is little agreement among key actors over which [...] | 2006-08-21 21:30:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EC |
06QUITO2131 | ECUADOR ELECTIONS: NOW THERE ARE TEN...OR ELEVEN? [...] (SBU) Summary: The Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) on August 22 announced that it had approved the candidacies of 10 of the original 17 presidential hopefuls, and reported that five independents failed to secure required signatures and would be disqualified. PSP candidate Gilmar Gutierrez [...] | 2006-08-24 21:29:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EC |
06QUITO2151 | NEW DEFENSE POLICY ADDRESSES NARCOTICS THREAT [...] (U) Summary: Since taking office in August 2005, Defense Minister Oswaldo Jarrin has attempted to shift the focus of Ecuador's defense posture away from its traditional rivalry with Peru towards more current national security threats, including that of narco-terror on Ecuador's northern border [...] | 2006-08-28 19:53:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR MASS MOPS SNAR PTER EC CO |
06QUITO2152 | COLOMBIAN SHOTS LEAVE ECUADORIANS WOUNDED [...] (SBU) Colombian military units and FARC rebels exchanged heavy gunfire late in the evening on August 23 in the southern Colombian border town of Tetye, Putumayo. Ecuadorian 19th Jungle Brigade Commander (based in Lago Agrio, Sucumbios province) Colonel Ramiro Caceres confirmed the live fire i [...] | 2006-08-28 19:55:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR MASS MOPS SNAR PTER EC CO |
06QUITO2242 | ELECTIONS UPDATE: 13 PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES FINAL [...] (SBU) Summary: The Constitutional Court on September 6 authorized the candidacies of Lenin Torres (Popular Participation Revolution Movement) and Bolivarian candidate Marcelo Larrea (Third Republic Alliance Movement),while denying two other appeals, bringing down the final number of preside [...] | 2006-09-07 22:07:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EC |
06QUITO2294 | NAM:GOE STUDIES DARFUR REQUEST [...] (SBU) The DCM delivered RefTel points on September 13 to Acting Foreign Minister Diego Ribadeneira, conveying USG concern that Sudan might use the Non-Aligned Movement Summit in Havana to undermine international efforts to deploy a UN peacekeeping mission to Darfur. The DCM stressed the urgen [...] | 2006-09-14 16:00:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PINS KPKO UNSC KDEM PGOV EC SU |
06QUITO2356 | UN CD MINISTERIAL DEMARCHE CONVEYED TO GOE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-20 22:18:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | UNGA PHUM KDEM PREL EC |
06QUITO2409 | ECUADORIAN AMAZON LEANS TOWARD CORREA; RESENTS CENTRAL [...] (SBU) Summary: The Amazon provinces of Orellana and Napo have largely indigenous populations and represent just over 1 percent of the national electorate - yet contribute approximately 60% of the national budget in the form of oil production. During a recent visit by Emboffs, officials in bot [...] | 2006-09-29 20:23:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV EC |
06QUITO2434 | Ecuador's Presidential Spokesman Resigns and Criticizes [...] (SBU) The Palacio administration remains rife with internal divisions and instability, most recently reflected in the resignation of the Presidential spokesman. Enrique Proano, Secretary of Communication and spokesman for Ecuadorian president Alfredo Palacio, resigned on Sept. 25, 2006, and pu [...] | 2006-10-03 21:20:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINR PGOV EC |
06QUITO2457 | ELECTIONS: DEBATE SHARPENS ECUADOR'S CHOICE [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite the staid format of a televised CNN debate on October 5, the exchange sharpened contrasts among the top four contenders. Alvaro Noboa, regarded as a fairly poor debater, exceeded expectations by taking the offensive against Correa, while Leon Roldos and Cynthia Viteri [...] | 2006-10-06 22:25:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV EC |
06QUITO2458 | ECUADOR ELECTIONS: Andean Parliament Sideshow [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 15, many Ecuadorians may be surprised to learn that they must also decide, in addition to selecting among the candidates for president, Congress, provincial and municipal council officials, who will represent them in the little known, little respected, Andean Parliam [...] | 2006-10-10 12:05:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV EC |
06QUITO2465 | City Oriente Requesting Arbitration [...] (SBU) Summary. City Oriente is presenting on October 10 its request for international arbitration, asserting that its contract has been violated by the revised hydrocarbons law. The company asserts that it is still focused on a negotiated solution, but believes that it should file for arbit [...] | 2006-10-10 19:15:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EPET ENRG EC |
06QUITO2513 | ECUADOR PLANS TO INITIATE WTO CASE AGAINST EU [...] (SBU) Summary. According to U/S for International Economic Policy Fernando Yepez, Ecuador plans to bring a WTO case against the EU banana import regime, and will be joined by Colombia, Panama, Nicaragua, and Honduras. Yepez asked whether the USG would be joining in the case, since it had be [...] | 2006-10-12 18:39:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EAGR EC |
06QUITO2525 | ECUADOR CONDEMNS DPRK TEST, SUPPORTS UNSC [...] (SBU) PolChief conveyed points in Ref B to MFA U/S for Multilateral Affairs Gonzalo Salvador on October 12 and congratulated the GOE for its principled public statement condemning the DPRK's nuclear test. Salvador said the GOE shared international opprobrium against the DPRK's test and would [...] | 2006-10-13 18:18:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM EC IO KN KNNP PREL |
06QUITO2532 | ELECTION: FIRST ROUND TO NOBOA, CORREA; SECOND [...] (SBU) Summary: Banana magnate Alvaro Noboa and radical leftist Rafael Correa have won the first round of presidential voting on October 15, according to incoming official results, independent quick counts and exit polls. The two men now face a run-off election on November 26. Voting proceede [...] | 2006-10-16 02:38:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV EC |
06QUITO2536 | ELECTION AFTERMATH: QUICK COUNT FOUNDERS AT 70%; [...] (SBU) Summary: The Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) on October 16 unilaterally cancelled its $5.8 million quick count contract with Brazilian firm E-Vote after the firm failed to deliver results on time on election night. As a result, official results must await until after more labor-inten [...] | 2006-10-16 22:07:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV EC |
06QUITO2544 | ELECTIONS: CORREA BACKS DOWN, OFFICIAL RESULTS OUT [...] (SBU) Summary: Ecuador's electoral authorities told the press on October 17 that they expect final official presidential results no later than October 22 and possibly by the 19th, to be followed Congressional and other results by October 25, at the latest. Current official tabulations of 60 [...] | 2006-10-17 22:39:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV EC |
06QUITO2545 | BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END USE CHECK ON [...] (SBU) Embassy officers confirmed the identity and location of end-user Maria Cristina Vera Medranda. Vera and her husband, Jose Luis Vargas, sell firearms out of their home. Vera's firearms' distribution license expired on May 17, 2006 and there is no indication that a renewal is underway. [...] | 2006-10-18 12:57:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC EC KOMC |
06QUITO2558 | GOE INCLINED TO SUPPORT UN INDIGENOUS DECLARATION [...] (SBU) PolOff presented reftel points and delivered copies of three non-papers to Augusto Saa, Director of Human Rights and Social and Environmental issues at the MFA, on October 12, emphasizing the USG view that the Chair's draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (DRIP) is funda [...] | 2006-10-19 22:27:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL EC |
06QUITO2574 | GOE INCLINED TO SUPPORT INDIGENOUS DECLARATION [...] (SBU) PolOff presented Ref A points and non-papers to Augusto Saa, Director of Human Rights and Social and Environmental issues at the MFA, on October 12, emphasizing the USG view that the Chair's draft UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is fundamentally flawed. 2. (SBU) S [...] | 2006-10-20 18:04:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL EC |
06QUITO258 | GOE PROTESTS ALLEGED GOC INCURSION [...] (U) Summary: Reports that Colombian military units entered Ecuadorian territory in hot pursuit of FARC irregulars on January 28 prompted vociferous GOE protests. End Summary. Reported Facts -------------- 2. (U) According to the press, three Black Hawk helicopters and two Colombian mi [...] | 2006-01-31 23:51:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MOPS PREL SNAR PTER EC CO |
06QUITO2625 | RELIGION IN ECUADOR'S PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN [...] (SBU) Summary: Rafael Correa has taken a page from his presidential rival Alvaro Noboa's success in the first round by increasing his use of religion as a campaign crutch, drawing criticism and public comment from the Catholic Church and political observers. Meanwhile, evangelical groups are [...] | 2006-10-30 19:20:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM EC |
06QUITO2638 | ELECTION UPDATE: CANDIDATES ACTIVE BUT VOTERS NOT [...] (SBU) Summary: The second round of campaigning is well underway, with leftist candidate Rafael Correa seeking to re-position himself, using symbolic meetings with authority figures to attract centrist voters. For his part, center-right candidate Alvaro Noboa is sticking with the formula that [...] | 2006-11-01 22:12:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM EC |
06QUITO2681 | GOE GAINS FIRST CONVICTION UNDER NEW TIP LAW [...] (U) Summary: Prosecutions against trafficking in persons (TIP) are starting to gain traction in Ecuador, with El Oro province prosecutors winning a maximum sentence and the first conviction under the new anti-TIP law passed in June of 2005. Other big cases are proceeding to trial, and we exp [...] | 2006-11-06 22:42:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL EC |
06QUITO2698 | Draft Ecuadorian Health Law Requires Approval and Labeling [...] (SBU) Summary. The Ecuadorian Congress approved a new Health Code that requires that competent authorities approve foods containing genetically modified organisms as innocuous and safe. Similar provisions in an April law, since set aside as unenforceable, led to a temporary freeze in imported [...] | 2006-11-07 22:24:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EAGR PGOV EC |
06QUITO2734 | ECUADOR: ANTI-ISRAEL BIAS DEMARCHES [...] (SBU) PolOff delivered reftel demarches on anti-Israel bias in resolutions dealing with Lebanon and resolutions extending the mandate of three anti-Israel entities to MFA Director General for Multilateral Affairs Lourdes Puma on October 31. Puma said Ecuador had always supported the entities [...] | 2006-11-09 21:01:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | UNGA PREL EC LE IS PHUM PTER |
06QUITO2736 | ECUADOR: CUBA EMBARGO UN RESOLUTION DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-11-09 21:19:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | UNGA UN EC CU PHUM PREL |
06QUITO2737 | ECUADOR: INTERNATIONAL LAW COMMISSION DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-11-09 21:23:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ODIP ILC UNGA EC |
06QUITO2738 | ECUADOR: UNSCR 1718 DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2006-11-09 21:29:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | UNSC PARM EC |
06QUITO2807 | ELECTRICITY SHORTAGES THREATEN ECUADOR [...] (SBU) Summary: A potential electricity crisis in Ecuador looms once again on the horizon. Growing demand coupled with lack of new investment has resulted in an industry stretched thin. Low rainfall near the main hydroelectric plant in Paute, located in the lowlands of eastern Ecuador, has ag [...] | 2006-11-15 21:19:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EINV EC |
06QUITO2809 | LAB BUSTS MARK ECUADOR'S MOVE FROM TRANSIT TO [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ecuadorian National Police (ENP),working with Peruvian anti-drug authorities and the DEA, uncovered and dismantled three cocaine processing labs in southern Ecuador. The ENP arrested 45 individuals - including Colombian fugitive Juan Solarte Mora, and seized vehicles, boa [...] | 2006-11-15 22:23:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MASS SNAR PTER EC CO PE |
06QUITO2817 | RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON EFFORTS TO INTRODUCE A PROJECT [...] (SBU) Talking points were delivered to the office of Santiago Salguero, Under Secretary of Industries at the Ministry of Foreign Trade, which holds the presidency of the Codex commission in Ecuador. 2. (SBU) Salguero understands the points and would support the U.S. proposal to continue w [...] | 2006-11-16 17:06:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON ETRD |
06QUITO2832 | UN: ECUADOR FOR BALANCE IN BEIT HANOUN [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOE will vote in favor of the Beit Hanoun resolutions in NY and Geneva, in favor of the Burma country resolution, against Iran's retaliatory Canada resolution, and seeks to shift GRULAC consensus from abstention on Belarus' retaliatory resolutions against the U.S. to a 'no [...] | 2006-11-17 21:13:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UN BO EC |
06QUITO2838 | ELECTION: TSE TIES UP LOOSE ENDS, BIELSA TO RETURN [...] (SBU) Summary: The Supreme Electoral Tribunal (TSE) on November 20 announced plans to use a combination of exit polling and civil society and media quick count reporting to tally unofficial presidential results. With a week to go before elections on November 26, the TSE also froze both candi [...] | 2006-11-20 22:42:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM EC |
06QUITO2874 | Election: Slugfest Tightens, Getting Dirtier [...] (SBU) Summary: Private polls continue to show the presidential race between Alvaro Noboa (PRIAN) and Rafael Correa (PAIS) in a dead heat. With the formal campaign period closing at midnight on November 23, both candidates continue to fund a final publicity blitz, despite prohibitions on furt [...] | 2006-11-22 19:48:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KDEM EC |
06QUITO2898 | ELECTION: CORREA WINS BIG, NOBOA FIZZLES [...] (SBU) Summary: Leftist candidate Rafael Correa (representing the Proud and Sovereign Fatherland Movement-PAIS and Socialist Party) won the runoff round of presidential voting decisively over rival candidate Alvaro Noboa (PRIAN) on November 26, according to most exit polls and quick count res [...] | 2006-11-27 03:26:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM EC |
06QUITO2904 | CORREA EFFUSIVE; NOBOA SQUAWKS; VOTE COUNT [...] (SBU) Summary: Official results were temporarily delayed by Noboa's November 27 allegations of unspecified fraud and his demand that election authorities re-count the vote by hand in three coastal provinces. National election authorities disallowed the request as unjustified by election rul [...] | 2006-11-27 23:26:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM EC |
06QUITO2928 | PRESIDENT DID NOT VETO GMO PROVISIONS IN HEALTH CODE [...] (U) Summary and action request. President Palacio did not veto the GMO provisions of the draft Health Code, which is expected to enter into force in mid to late December. Post will work with the private sector and interested GOE agencies to develop implementing regulations that do not impede [...] | 2006-11-30 13:19:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EAGR PGOV EC |
06QUITO2937 | ELECTION WRAP-UP: CORREA COMPLIMENTS BUSH; [...] (SBU) Summary: Final certified results of the election are now expected by December 4, confirming a 57-43% presidential victory by Rafael Correa over Alvaro Noboa. Presumptive president-elect Correa received a congratulatory phone call from President Bush on November 30. Correa subsequently [...] | 2006-12-01 23:52:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM EC |
06QUITO2965 | ELECTION OVER, CORREA TAKES STAGE [...] (SBU) Summary: The Supreme Electoral Tribunal officially declared Rafael Correa Ecuador's president-elect on December 4, but rival candidate Alvaro Noboa has refused to concede defeat, requesting an investigation of Correa campaign finances. Since being elected on November 26, Correa has rea [...] | 2006-12-07 22:35:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM PREL PHUM ETRD EC |
06QUITO2998 | External Debt Report Will Be Released in December [...] (SBU) Summary. The GOE's External Debt Commission will release its report in mid-December, and the Correa administration could look to the report to identify whether any of Ecuador's debt is "illegitimate." The President of the Commission, Alfredo Castillo, asserted that much of Ecuador's de [...] | 2006-12-12 13:21:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EC |
06QUITO3017 | ECUADOR: TERRORIST LISTS [...] (SBU) The GOE does not maintain a National List of banned terrorist entities. Ecuador,s Superintendency of Banks relies on the USG Specially Designated Global Terrorist List and the OFAC website in executing terrorist financing oversight and remaining compliant with their United Nations obliga [...] | 2006-12-13 21:50:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EC PREL PTER KTFN |
06QUITO3075 | CORREA NAMES NEW CABINET MEMBERS, INCLUDING LABOR [...] (SBU) Summary: On December 19 President-Elect Rafael Correa announced two new cabinet level ministers and four lower level positions. The new officials named were: Antonio Gagliardo Valarezo, Minister of Labor; Raul Carrion Fiallos as Sports Minister; Monica Chuji Gualinga will be the Commun [...] | 2006-12-21 07:26:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR EC |
06QUITO320 | NEW CHARGES AGAINST EX-PRES. GUTIERREZ [...] (U) Summary: The acting attorney general Cecilia Armas charged ex-President Lucio Gutierrez with violating the constitution while President by dissolving the Supreme Court in April 2005, and for convoking a special session of Congress which selected a new court in December 2004. Gutierrez ha [...] | 2006-02-07 20:26:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM EC |
06QUITO407 | ECUADOR ELECTIONS, NINE MONTHS OUT [...] (U) Summary: Nine months out from national congressional and presidential elections, campaign season is heating up with prospective candidates plumping for support, courting running-mates, and fueling speculation over electoral alliances. As speculation turns to the elections, the Palacio g [...] | 2006-02-14 13:57:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL EC |
06QUITO472 | GOE INTERCEPTS MIGRANT SHIP, RETAINS JURISDICTION [...] (SBU) Summary: There have been several significant recent developments relating to maritime law enforcement. The Ecuadorian Navy interdicted an overloaded fishing boat off its coast on February 18 carrying more than 100 migrants destined for Guatemala and the U.S. In another case, the GOE h [...] | 2006-02-22 23:15:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SMIG SNAR EC |
06QUITO483 | NAPA-PASTAZA STRIKE SUSPENDED, NEGOTIATIONS BEGIN [...] (SBU) Summary: A disruptive citizens strike in the eastern province of Napo, supported by neighboring Pastaza province, was suspended pending the outcome of negotiations between protesters, the Ministry of Government, and the Minister of Economy and Finance Diego Borja on February 23. Ecuado [...] | 2006-02-23 22:31:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PREL PGOV PHUM EC |
06QUITO492 | CONSTITUTIONAL TRIBUNAL AND JUDICIAL COUNCIL [...] (SBU) Summary: Coastal parties voted together on February 22 to select a new Constitutional Tribunal, excluding the main highland party, the Democratic Left (ID). The process followed constitutional guidelines and fulfills a key benchmark in our democracy promotion strategy. Important cases [...] | 2006-02-24 20:46:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM KJUS EC |
06QUITO534 | EX-PRES. GUTIERREZ RELEASED FROM PRISON [...] (SBU) Summary: Ex-President Lucio Gutierrez has been cleared of bogus sedition charges, and was released from prison on March 3. Gutierrez' vindication may be partial, however, with other charges still pending against him for constitutional violations. Rumors of his release will recharge t [...] | 2006-03-03 23:18:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM EC |
06QUITO535 | IRAN/IAEA: GOE REAFFIRMS SUPPORT [...] (SBU) PolChief presented suggested RefTel points for Board member statements at the March 6 IAEA Board of Governors meeting to MFA U/S Mauricio Montalvo on March 3. Montalvo indicated GOE agreement that the DG report met conditions in the Board's earlier resolution to refer Iran to the UNSC, [...] | 2006-03-03 23:26:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM KNNP PREL IAEA IR EU AORC EC |
06QUITO638 | GOE "STUDIES" ALLEGED GOC AIRSPACE VIOLATION [...] (U) Two Colombian military aircraft reportedly entered Ecuadorian airspace in pursuit of FARC rebels in the border town of Puerto Nuevo, Sucumbios province on March 11. Representatives from the Colombian and Ecuadorian defense ministries met on March 14 on the border to exchange information o [...] | 2006-03-15 22:15:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR MASS MOPS SNAR PTER EC CO |
06QUITO639 | INDIGENOUS PROTEST FTA, OXY; GOVERNMENT MINISTER [...] (SBU) Summary: Government Minister Alfredo Castillo resigned on May 15 after indigenous blocked key highways throughout eight central provinces beginning on March 14 to threaten an indefinite "progressive national mobilization" demanding an end to FTA negotiations, the expulsion of Occidenta [...] | 2006-03-15 23:17:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SOCI PHUM EC |
06QUITO674 | VEGA NAMED NEW MINISTER OF GOVERNMENT [...] (U) Summary: Felipe Vega de La Cuadra was announced as the next Minister of Government and will be sworn in on March 20, becoming President Palacio's fifth Minister of Government. Vega replaces Alfredo Castillo in the volatile position, after Castillo submitted his resignation amid anti-FTA [...] | 2006-03-17 21:39:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINR EC |
06QUITO678 | GOE OPPOSES VENEZUELA'S CICTE MOVE [...] (SBU) PolChief delivered RefTel points to MFA U/S for Multilateral Affairs and CICTE delegation head Mauricio Montalvo on March 16. Montalvo said the GOE also was taken aback by Venezuela's alternate declaration, and offended by the interruption of the ongoing negotiation. He said the GOE [...] | 2006-03-17 22:23:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL ECON MARR CVIS OAS EC |
06QUITO694 | INDIGENOUS PROTESTS RENEW; LIMITED ACTION IN QUITO [...] (SBU) Summary: Indigenous protesters renewed their Disruption of transportation in the highland provinces of Imbabura, Chimborazo, Cotopaxi and Canar, and began arriving in Quito in small numbers on March 20. Others were blocked by police from entering the capital. Two injuries stemming fr [...] | 2006-03-20 22:55:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINS EC |
06QUITO725 | ECUADORIAN PROTESTS: ROADS CLEAR, FUTURE CLOUDY [...] (U) Summary: The state of emergency declared in five of Ecuador's 22 provinces has permitted the GOE to clear road blockages in all but the north-central province of Imbabura, where protesters continue to return obstacles to the street as fast as authorities can clear them. Some clashes betw [...] | 2006-03-23 22:30:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PHUM PREL EC |
06QUITO768 | BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECK ON [...] (SBU) In response to RefTel questions on application 05-986059, Embassy offices verified that Monica Cecilia Herrera Suasnavas is the owner of Sierra Nevada Adventure and Guns, a legitimate, registered firearms dealer. Ms. Herrera and her brother, Francisco Herrera, have operated the busines [...] | 2006-03-28 16:57:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC KOMC EC |
06QUITO850 | INDIGENOUS PROTESTS DIVERTED, TEMPORARILY [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOE has actively blocked indigenous protesters from marching in provinces under a state of emergency declaration, arresting leaders and preventing concerted movement of protesters to the capital. FENOCIN, the indigenous campesino group, announced 7,000 protesters will con [...] | 2006-04-06 13:28:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM EC |
06QUITO909 | INDIGENOUS TO REGROUP, PROTESTS UNLIKELY NEXT WEEK [...] (SBU) Summary: Both evangelical indigenous of the organization FEINE and indigenous of the CONAIE organization have told us that they will be meeting at the local level to evaluate the political and economic situation and decide on next steps. An Embassy police contact told us that the CONA [...] | 2006-04-12 21:55:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM EC |
06QUITO978 | REGIONAL IAEA CONFERENCE ENCOURAGES NUCLEAR [...] (SBU) Summary: PolOffs on April 3-4 represented the USG at the first Pan-American IAEA Meeting on Strengthening Implementation of International Instruments for Enhanced Nuclear and Radiological Security. During the two-day conference, IAEA organizers explained international efforts to counte [...] | 2006-04-21 00:12:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KNNP PTER KTIA IAEA CARICOM EC |
06QUITO988 | BI-NATIONAL BORDER DEVELOPMENT PLAN ADVANCES [...] (SBU) Summary: Ecuadorian and Colombian government officials will meet in Quito on April 24-25 to discuss the creation of an integrated development zone along their common border. The idea of the plan, agreed to at December 7, 2005 bilateral ministerial meetings in Quito, seeks to identify [...] | 2006-04-21 22:21:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR SNAR PTER EC CO |
06QUITO995 | WHA/AND DIRECTOR FRENCH VISITS NORTHERN BORDER, [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 17, WHA Andean Affairs Director Philip French and Embassy officials visited the towns of Lago Agrio and General Farfan on Ecuador's northern border with Colombia. At the USG-funded Lago Agrio police base, the province's narcotics chief described challenges with infor [...] | 2006-04-24 22:03:00 | Embassy Quito | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM EC |
06RABAT1000 | MOROCCO: URGING SIGNATURE AND RATIFICATION OF THE [...] (SBU) On April 27, poloff discussed ref (a) request for countries to sign and ratify the 2005 SUA protocols with MFA Director of International Organizations and UN Affairs Nasser Bourita. Polcouns followed up with Bourita on May 24. Bourita told Polcouns that the GOM was supportive of the US [...] | 2006-05-24 15:43:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP MNUC PARM PREL KTIA PHSA EWWT MO |
06RABAT1001 | MOROCCO: TRIPARTITE DEMARCHE REQUEST ON THE UN [...] (SBU) Polcouns met May 24 with MFA Director of International Organizations and UN Affairs Nasser Bourita to discuss reftel demarche request on the UN declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples. There is no Embassy of New Zealand or Australia in Morocco. Polcouns left behind non-papers w [...] | 2006-05-24 15:55:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM MO |
06RABAT1095 | MOROCCO: PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR IRAQI GOVERNMENT [...] (SBU) Further to reftels, MFA Director of Arab and Islamic Organizations Hassan Hami contacted Poloff on June 5 to report that during the May 27 Morocco-Kuwait Joint High Committee meeting held in Kuwait FM Benaissa and his Kuwaiti counterpart Sheikh Sabah Al Jaber Al Sabah issued a communique [...] | 2006-06-06 15:59:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM KPAO PREL PGOV IZ MO |
06RABAT1123 | THE AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION: TRANSFORMATIONAL [...] This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please treat accordingly. 2. (SBU) The American Bar Association (ABA, reftel A) is a strong partner of the USG as it implements programs relating to the rule of law in Morocco. Funded by both DRL and MEPI, the ABA is effectively and inventively [...] | 2006-06-10 15:27:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV MO |
06RABAT1196 | MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE CORPORATION BRIEFS PRIME [...] (SBU) Summary. On June 16, Prime Minister Driss Jettou met with Ambassador Riley and the visiting team from the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) to discuss the results of the MCC team's recent meetings with the Government of Morocco's (GOM) Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) team. The [...] | 2006-06-19 18:40:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID ECON SOCI KMCA MO |
06RABAT1427 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON AMENDING THE 505 AGREEMENT [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Per reftel, Poloffs met July 27 with MFA Bilateral Affairs and Counterterrorism officer Karim Halim to encourage the Government of Morocco (GOM) to replace its existing 505 agreement with the text of a new [...] | 2006-07-27 17:04:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTIA MARR MASS PGOV MO XA |
06RABAT1481 | TRANSFORMATIONAL DIPLOMACY: THE GOM AND POLITICAL [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The Ambassador, accompanied by Sarah Johnson, resident country director of the International Republican Institute (IRI),and Emboffs met with Abdelaziz Meziane Belfkih, one of the king's advisors, [...] | 2006-08-04 10:07:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MO |
06RABAT1483 | NDI: UNCLE SAM WANTS TO "EDUCATE" MOROCCAN [...] This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: French-language daily, l'Economiste (August 1),published an article about the "American-Canadian" National Democratic Institute (NDI),entitled "An NGO to 'educate' the parties." The article, which in [...] | 2006-08-04 12:06:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR MO |
06RABAT1490 | DEMARCHE IN ADVANCE OF AUGUST 7 ARAB LEAGUE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-05 17:16:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL LE IS MO |
06RABAT1552 | PRESSING FOR CLARIFICATION OF MOROCCO'S [...] (SBU) Summary and Action request; Commercial and Econ Counselors called on Ahmed Maani, Acting Director of International Cooperation of the Moroccan Customs Administration on August 10 to review the status of two recent cases where U.S. imports have been denied preferential entry into Morocco [...] | 2006-08-17 09:14:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD BEXP MO |
06RABAT1574 | KING AND PEOPLE'S REVOLUTION DAY SPEECH [...] (U) Summary: On August 21, Morocco celebrated the fifty-third anniversary of the "Revolution of the King and the People Day." The king's speech underlined the significance of citizens uniting to "build a modern Morocco and turn the country into a highly motivated, enterprising and dedicate [...] | 2006-08-22 15:01:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MO |
06RABAT1577 | MODERNIZING MOROCCO'S CAPITAL [...] (SBU) Summary; Lemghari Essakl, General Manager of the Agency for Bouregreg Valley Development, called on Ambassador on August 9 to outline the Government of Morocco's ambitious plans for the development and revitalization of the valley separating Rabat and its neighboring city of Sale. Noting [...] | 2006-08-22 16:11:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV MO |
06RABAT1618 | MOROCCO: FYO6 SECTION 1206 PROGRAMS [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Per reftel, Poloffs met August 29 with MFA Bilateral Affairs and Counterterrorism officer Karim Halim to inform the Government of Morocco (GOM) of the likely provision of a combined $6,200,000 for Algeria [...] | 2006-08-30 15:48:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MAS PARM PREL MO |
06RABAT1641 | PARLIAMENT: UPPER HOUSE ELECTIONS SET FOR [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: On September 8, Morocco will hold indirect elections for 90 of the 270 seats in the Chamber of Councilors, the upper house of parliament. The official campaign period started September 1 and runs [...] | 2006-09-05 16:42:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM MO |
06RABAT1652 | STAFFDEL BIXBY'S MEETING WITH PRIME MINISTER JETTOU [...] (SBU) Summary: Prime Minister Driss Jettou told Staffdel Bixby in an August 30 meeting that Morocco deeply appreciates the United States' decision to enlist in aiding its economic development through the Millennium Challenge Account," and that it is essential that "America help Morocco succeed. [...] | 2006-09-06 17:38:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EAID MO |
06RABAT1677 | DONOR COMMUNITY PROGRAMS IN MOROCCO [...] (U) This is the third part of a three part series on international donor activities in Morocco. Part 1 (ref A) covered the World Bank while part 2 (ref B) discussed the European Union's Barcelona Process. 2. (U) Summary. A wide variety of international donor organizations are present in [...] | 2006-09-08 17:09:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN KMCA MO |
06RABAT1720 | MOROCCO AT THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY [...] (SBU) Embassy Rabat has conveyed to senior levels of the GOM the U.S. invitation for Morocco to participate with President Bush in a roundtable discussion on democracy on the margins of UNGA, September 19 (ref B). Morocco will be represented in the discussion by Prime Minister Jettou. 2. ( [...] | 2006-09-14 15:50:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MO |
06RABAT1723 | MAINTAINING THE MOMENTUM IN LEBANON [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-15 12:35:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL LE MO |
06RABAT1745 | MOROCCO: GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT NUCLEAR [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) On September 20, following a brief pre-meeting, Polcouns and Russian DCM Mikhail Golovanov jointly delivered the text of Statement of Principles, Explanatory Notes Regarding the Statement of Principles, an [...] | 2006-09-20 18:07:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KGIC MCAP PINR PINS PTER KNNP MO |
06RABAT1770 | MOROCCO: CHANGE OF DATE FOR FIRST MEETING OF THE [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) On September 22, Poloff informed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) that the United States and Russia agreed to its preference (ref A) to hold the first Global Initiative meeting in Morocco on October 3 [...] | 2006-09-22 15:45:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KGIC MCAP PINR PINS PTER KNNP MO |
06RABAT1771 | MOROCCO: CHANGE OF DATE FOR FIRST MEETING OF THE [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) On September 22, Poloff informed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) that the United States and Russia agreed to its preference (ref A) to hold the first Global Initiative meeting in Morocco on October 3 [...] | 2006-09-22 15:45:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KGIC MCAP PINR PINS PTER KNNP MO |
06RABAT1801 | MOROCCO MACROECONOMIC UPDATE AND ECONOMIC [...] (U) This message provides an update on Morocco's macroeconomic situation, together with other highlights of recent economic developments, including: A. Altadis's purchase of the remaining 20 percent of the National Tobacco Monopoly. B. The creation of a new fund (Oleo Capital) to support t [...] | 2006-09-27 15:34:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD ELAB EAIR EINT ECPS KTEX TS |
06RABAT1825 | MOROCCO: 2007 UN PANEL OF GOVERNMENTAL EXPERTS ON [...] (U) In an October 2 meeting with MFA Director for Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Affairs Azzeddin Farhane, Poloffs urged the GOM to support the final draft of the report of the 2004 Panel as the basis for the 2007 Panel's work, and passed the non-paper conveyed reftel. Farhane thanked pol [...] | 2006-10-02 15:51:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | UNGA PARM PREL CDG MO |
06RABAT1862 | EU PARLIAMENTARIANS VISIT TO THE WESTERN SAHARA [...] This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) On September 29, a clutch of European diplomats informed Poloffs that two European Union (EU) parliamentarians (MEP's) planned to visit the Western Sahara the following week, having previously visited Tindouf [...] | 2006-10-05 20:43:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PBTS PHUM MO EU |
06RABAT1865 | UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [...] This cable is sensitive but unclassified, please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Reftel demarche was delivered to Nasser Bourita, Director of United Nations and International Organizations, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on October 5. (Note: Bourita was not in the country prior to Sep [...] | 2006-10-06 10:47:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM MO |
06RABAT1868 | TRADE AGREEMENT MONITORING AT EMBASSY RABAT [...] (SBU) Since the entry-into-force of the U.S.-Morocco Free Trade Agreement on January 1, 2006, the U.S. Mission in Morocco has made monitoring of Moroccan compliance with the agreement a top priority. We carry out this responsibility through an interagency team, chaired by the Embassy Economic [...] | 2006-10-06 14:16:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD BEXP MO |
06RABAT1890 | GLOBAL INITIATIVE: MOROCCO WELCOMES AND OFFERS [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) At the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on October 6, Ambassador Riley thanked Minister Delegate Taieb Fassi Fihri for agreeing to host the Initial Partner Nations (IPNs) meeting on October 30-31 of the Global [...] | 2006-10-10 15:11:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KGIC MCAP PINR PINS PTER KNNP MO |
06RABAT201 | CARTOON CONTROVERSY: MOROCCANS ANGRY BUT REACTING [...] (SBU) Summary: In response to the Danish cartoon controversy, reaction in Morocco has been uniform -- amongst the Moroccan government, the Supreme Council of Ulemas, the political parties, demonstrators, and shopkeepers -- in condemning the drawings and their affront to the Prophet. A Febr [...] | 2006-02-07 19:41:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPAO KISL MO DK |
06RABAT2015 | REALLOCATIONS OF GWOT FUNDS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-10-31 12:57:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MASS PREL PARM MO |
06RABAT2050 | MESSAGE TO THE ARAB LEAGUE REGARDING UPCOMING [...] This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please treat accordingly. 2. (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Hassan Hami, Chief of Division of Arab and Islamic Organizations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on November 3. Hami, spoke unofficially because Mohammed Azeroual, the Di [...] | 2006-11-03 16:06:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL IO IS IZ LE SY ECON MO |
06RABAT2076 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON AMENDING THE CUBA EMBARGO [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Per reftel, poloff delivered talking points to Azzedine Farhane, Chief of the United Nations Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, urging Morocco to support the Australian amendment to the Cuba em [...] | 2006-11-08 14:17:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL UNGA MO |
06RABAT2082 | DEBT RELIEF FOR IRAQ: INTERIM MOROCCAN RESPONSE [...] (SBU) Econ Counselor raised reftel demarche with Hassan Hami, Chief of Division of Arab and Islamic Organizations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on November 7. Hami declined substantive comment on the issue, indicating that it is being handled directly at a higher level by Mohammed Azerou [...] | 2006-11-09 11:07:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON IZ MO |
06RABAT2124 | SAHRAWI ACTIVIST HAIDAR'S SAFE RETURN TO LAYOUNE [...] (SBU) Aminetou Haidar, the prominent Sahrawi human rights activist, returned to her home in Layoune on November 15, following an extended trip abroad. According to an account posted on the website of the Polisario Front, confirmed by Embassy contacts in Western Sahara, Haidar arrived at Layou [...] | 2006-11-16 14:35:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL PGOV MO |
06RABAT2134 | DEBT RELIEF FOR IRAQ: FOLLOW-UP [...] (SBU) Econ Counselor pursued the issue of Moroccan debt relief for Iraq in a November 16 meeting with Ambassador Mohammed Azeroual, Director General for Arab and Islamic Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Azarwal noted that the GOM has been in repeated contact with Iraqi officials o [...] | 2006-11-17 13:38:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON IZ MO |
06RABAT2140 | MOROCCO: NOVEMBER 17 EMERGENCY SPECIAL SEESION OF [...] (SBU) In a November 17 meeting, Poloff raised with the Moroccan Government USG concerns about the text of a draft resolution condemning recent Israeli actions in Gaza, and urged that the Moroccan delegation in New York vote against it. Drawing from reftel points, poloff outlined the U.S. vie [...] | 2006-11-17 16:51:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MO PREL KISL |
06RABAT2156 | MOROCCO AT THE BMENA FORUM FOR THE FUTURE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-11-21 16:52:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KMPI MO |
06RABAT2157 | ATTENDANCE AT LEBANON'S NATIONAL DAY CELEBRATION [...] (SBU) POLOFF MET WITH HASSAN HAMI, OFFICE DIRECTOR FOR ARAB AND ISLAMIC AFFAIRS AT THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS ON NOVEMBER 21 TO URGE THAT MOROCCO NOT SEND ITS AMBASSADOR TO THE NATIONAL DAY CELEBRATION HOSTED BY PRESIDENT LAHOUD AND URGED THAT MOROCCO ESCHEW THE EVENT ALTOGETHER IF PRIME [...] | 2006-11-21 17:03:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL LE MO |
06RABAT2158 | DEMARCHE ON ANTI-COUNTERFEITING TRADE AGREEMENT [...] (SBU) Econ Counselor raised reftel demarche last week in separate meetings with Houda Marrakchi, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Abdallah Ouadghiri, Director of the Moroccan Copyrights Office (BMDA),and Aziz Bouazzaoui, Director of the Moroccan Office of Industrial and Commercial Property (OMPI [...] | 2006-11-21 17:16:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD KIPR PGOV MO |
06RABAT2169 | MOROCCAN GOVERNMENT DEFENDS ITS TOBACCO POLICY [...] (SBU) Summary: Econ Counselor met on November 15 with Abdelaziz Talbi, Morocco's Director of Public Enterprises and Privatization, to review the GOM's decision to extend Morocco's monopoly on the wholesale distribution of tobacco from December 31, 2007 to December 31, 2010. Reiterating the U [...] | 2006-11-24 16:32:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PGOV MO |
06RABAT2170 | MOROCCO MACROECONOMIC UPDATE AND ECONOMIC [...] (U) This message provides an update on Morocco's macroeconomic situation, together with the following other economic highlights: A. Moroccan Ports In Compliance With International Security Standards B. FTA Wheat Quotas Unfulfilled C. Parliament Debates Anti-Money Laundering Law D. Ryan [...] | 2006-11-24 16:55:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAIR ECON EIND ELAB ETRD KTEX MO |
06RABAT2183 | DIPLOMATICNOTE RECEIVED: AMENDING THE 505 [...] (U) Thiscable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Post received Diplomatc Note 003685 from the Ministry of Foreign Affais November 28, 2006 in response to reftel A and . The Note was transmited in both Arabic and Eglish. In the following note, the Moroccan [...] | 2006-11-29 15:14:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTIA MARR MASS PGOV MO XA |
06RABAT2196 | USG SUPPORT FOR BAMAKO CONFERENCE ON AVIAN AND [...] (U) Per reftel, talking points were delivered to Dr. Abderraham Benmamoun, Chief of Infectious Diseases, Ministry of Health, on November 30. Benmamoun was well briefed on the Bamako Avian Flu conference and said he would lead the Moroccan delegation, which would also include Dr. Abderrahman L [...] | 2006-11-30 14:58:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU EAGR TBIO PREL EAID |
06RABAT2205 | NATURAL GAS AND RENEWABLE ENERGY AT CENTER OF [...] (SBU) Summary: Government and private industry came together last month for a one-day conference on Moroccan energy policy, stressing the need for Morocco to reinforce its energy sector and render it more competitive. Diversification of supply was the key message articulated by Prime Minister [...] | 2006-12-01 16:54:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON SENV MO |
06RABAT2206 | MISSION MOROCCO PREPARATIONS FOR POSSIBLE [...] (SBU) Mission Avian Influenza Working Group met on November 6 to review guidance in reftel and has worked since that date to prepare the guidance it recommended and disseminate it to Mission personnel. An administrative notice was issued to publicize the most recent M/MED information on avian [...] | 2006-12-01 16:55:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMGT AMED TBIO ASEC FKLU SKSAF KSEO MO |
06RABAT2241 | ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING BILL INTRODUCED IN PARLIAMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: Morocco's draft bill on anti-money laundering was formally presented to parliament by Justice Minister Bouzoubaa on November 20, and will be taken up by the chamber's Justice Committee the week of December 11. Key parliamentarians predict passage of the measure, but are divided [...] | 2006-12-12 08:54:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTFN EFIN PTER PGOV MO |
06RABAT2248 | MOROCCAN PRO REFORM STIRS OPPOSITION [...] (U) Summary: A new Moroccan port reform law went into effect December 5, amidst strong opposition from stevedores (longshoremen). The new law, designed to increase port efficiency and competitiveness, divides the present Ports Authority (ODEP) into two entities: a National Ports Agency (ANP),[...] | 2006-12-13 10:05:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EWWT MO |
06RABAT225 | NEW CEO OF MILLENNIUM CHALLENGE CORPORATION VISITS [...] (U) Summary. New Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) CEO, Ambassador John Danilovich, visited Morocco January 24- 27 to review and discuss the country's progress in preparing its compact proposal to use MCC funds. Danilovich and his staff met with Prime Minister Driss Jettou, the GOM's M [...] | 2006-02-10 10:43:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID ECON SOCI KMCA MO |
06RABAT2253 | ISLAMISTS STAGE DEMONSTRATION [...] This cable is sensitive but unclassified, please protect accordingly. 2. (U) On December 8, the families of 350 Islamist prisoners staged a demonstration in front of the Consultative Council for Human Rights (CCDH) offices in Rabat. The demonstration was organized by the Annasir ("helpe [...] | 2006-12-13 15:15:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM MO |
06RABAT2255 | UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL: SPECIAL SESSION ON SUDAN [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-13 15:15:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTIA PHUM PREL SU UN MO |
06RABAT2299 | GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT NUCLEAR TERRORISM: [...] (SBU) Ambassador joined with Russian ambassador to present GI agenda and other information reftel December 13 to MFA Secretary-General Omar Hilale, who led the Moroccan SIPDIS delegation at the Initial Partners meeting in Rabat. Hilale confirmed that Morocco would attend the Ankara meeting [...] | 2006-12-20 17:15:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KGIC KNNP PTER PREL MO |
06RABAT2348 | DEMARCHE: 2007 LIBERIA PARTNERS FORUM [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified - protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) On December 28, econoff passed points coveyed in reftel to Abdellatif Bendahane, Director of African Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Bendahane was unaware of the Liberia forum, but spoke very positively abou [...] | 2006-12-29 08:53:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN MO |
06RABAT2351 | MOROCCO-EU OPEN SKY AGREEMENT FEEDS TOURISM BOOM [...] (U) Summary: Morocco's booming tourist industry received a boost on December 12 with the signing of a new EU-Morocco open sky agreement. The agreement replaces all existing Moroccan bilateral aviation agreements with European Union (EU) member states and supports the GOM's goal of doubling th [...] | 2006-12-29 17:12:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON MO |
06RABAT308 | IRI POLL SHOWS VOTERS HAVE LITTLE FAITH IN [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: A September 2005 poll of 1500 Moroccans administered by the International Republican Institute (IRI) under the auspices of its MEPI/USAID program found that Moroccans are disillusioned with the [...] | 2006-02-22 16:57:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KMPI KDEM MO |
06RABAT31 | THE KING CALLS FOR TURNING TO THE FUTURE [...] This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please treat accordingly. 2. (U) King Mohammed VI delivered a televised speech to the Moroccan nation on January 6, following midday prayers. The five-minute speech was announced in the press the previous day to maximize interest. In attendance [...] | 2006-01-06 18:32:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM MO |
06RABAT333 | MFA DISCUSSES NEED FOR ASSISTANCE, PRESS FREEDOM [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: On February 17, 2006 visiting NEA/MAG Office Director William Jordan met separately with MFA Director of Bilateral Affairs Youssef Amrani and MFA Director of American Affairs Salahuddin Tazi to dis [...] | 2006-02-24 15:38:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPKO MO PBTS PGOV PHUM PREL |
06RABAT336 | MOROCCO: DEMARCHE ON THE APPOINTMENT OF THE NEXT [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Poloffs met February 21 with MFA Director of United Nations and International Organizations Nasser Bourita to discuss reftel points on the appointment of the next UN Secretary General (SYG). Per guidance [...] | 2006-02-24 16:57:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UN MO |
06RABAT356 | AML: PROSPECTS FOR PARLIAMENTARY PASSAGE [...] (SBU) Summary: Although the controversial draft bill has been languishing in interministerial vetting for three years, Government of Morocco (GOM) officials say the government will push through parliament new anti-money laundering (AML) legislation this spring. Citing a full legislative agen [...] | 2006-02-28 13:53:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN PTER PGOV MO |
06RABAT357 | HUMAN RIGHTS LAW CLINICS IN MOROCCO -- THE CASE [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please treat accordingly. 2. (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 3. With funding ending March 31, Post seeks an opportunity to express support for the continuation of the American Bar Association "Human Rights Clinical Legal Educat [...] | 2006-02-28 16:53:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM MO |
06RABAT358 | WESTERN SAHARA: SAHRAWI CLAIMS POLISARIO HOLDS AN [...] This cable is sensitive by unclassified. Please treat accordingly. 2. (SBU) Poloff recently met with Dahi Akai, President of the Association of Those Who Disappeared by the Polisario. Akai presented a letter in Arabic for the Secretary requesting assistance for an American allegedly hel [...] | 2006-02-28 16:55:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC MO PBTS PGOV PHUM |
06RABAT399 | CIVIL SOCIETY INVOLVEMENT IN JUDICIAL REFORM [...] This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: The American Bar Association (ABA) has MEPI and DRL funds to implement "rule of law" reform changes in Morocco. One of the MEPI funded programs is "judicial development" (reftel A). In light of th [...] | 2006-03-03 15:58:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV MO |
06RABAT40 | CODEL LANTOS VISITS PARLIAMENT, MEETS REFORMERS, [...] (SBU) As part of his January 2-5 visit to Morocco, Congressman Lantos (D-CA) visited and toured the Moroccan Parliament, met with Moroccan reformers, and discussed recent political, social and religious reforms with the Minister of Islamic Affairs. Lantos was accompanied by his wife Annette L [...] | 2006-01-09 17:11:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL OVIP MO |
06RABAT403 | ARAB MAGHREB UNION: LETTERS TO SECRETARY RICE AND [...] (U) Post received on March 3 the following letters to Secretary Rice and NEA A/S Welch from Secretary General of SIPDIS the Arab Maghreb Union Habib Ben Yahya. The originals have been pouched to NEA/MAG. 2. (SBU) Begin letter (as received) to Secretary Rice: Dear Madam, On the oc [...] | 2006-03-03 17:45:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MO |
06RABAT443 | DEMARCHE: ARAB LEAGUE FOREIGN MINISTERS [...] (SBU) Post delivered reftel demarche to the office of MFA Director for Arab and Islamic Affairs Mohammed Azeroual on March 3. Post will report any substantive response septel. ****************************************** Visit Embassy Rabat's Classified Website; http://www.state.sgov.gov/p/nea [...] | 2006-03-09 18:42:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MO |
06RABAT453 | FTA Implementation: First Bumps in the Road [...] (SBU) Summary: During the first 75 days of FTA implementation Moroccan and U.S. businesses have experienced a few difficulties. The most pressing and disturbing implementation difficulties have been in the area of agricultural trade, including an unfavorable rules of origin determination f [...] | 2006-03-13 10:54:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EAGR BEXP KIPR KTIA MO |
06RABAT490 | MOROCCO ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS [...] (U) Central bank governor Abdellatif Jouahri said March 14 that Morocco plans to move "in the medium-term" towards a more flexible exchange rate system. Jouahri said the country's increasing openness to trade warrants a transition to an as-yet-unspecified exchange regime, a move the IMF has c [...] | 2006-03-20 14:10:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV ELAB ECPS MO |
06RABAT505 | STAFFDEL PHELAN AT MOROCCAN MFA [...] (SBU) Summary: Staffdel Phelan met senior Moroccan MFA officials, including Bilateral Affairs Director Amrani, to discuss Western Sahara, reform, FTA, MCA and other issues of mutual interest. Phelan emphasized the need for a concrete, practical Western Sahara autonomy proposal that could se [...] | 2006-03-21 17:21:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL OREP MO |
06RABAT517 | HUMAN RIGHTS: PARLIAMENT PASSES NEW LAW AGAINST [...] This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (U) On March 16, the GOM announced parliament's passage of a new law against torture, according to the English-language Morocco Times. The Minister of Justice, Mohammed Bouzoubaa, reportedly said, "The new law aga [...] | 2006-03-23 11:50:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PBTS MO |
06RABAT618 | EMBASSY OFFICERS DISCUSS FOREIGN POLICY WITH [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: Poloffs visited Morocco's prestigious Al-Akhawayn University on April 3 to meet with faculty and discuss US-Morocco relations and human rights with undergraduate and graduate students as part o [...] | 2006-04-07 08:13:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PBTS MO |
06RABAT630 | UNHCR REMAINS UPBEAT ON REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT [...] (SBU) Over lunch March 30, UNHCR Head of Office Johannes Van der Klaauw told Polcouns that he remained optimistic at UNHCR's capacity to resettle abroad several hundred individuals in Morocco whom UNHCR had determined to be refugees. Following the visit of Cairo-based refugee coordinator (Re [...] | 2006-04-07 14:13:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PGOV PHUM PREL MO |
06RABAT638 | MCA: MOROCCO HOLDS NATIONAL CONSULTATIVE WORKSHOP [...] (SBU) Summary. On March 28-29, the GOM hosted a national consultative workshop with NGOs, local associations, academics, private sector representatives and members of the international donor community as part of its consultation process for developing a compact proposal to access funds from [...] | 2006-04-07 18:27:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KMCA EAID ECON SOCI MO |
06RABAT642 | MOROCCO: U.S. NOT TO RUN FOR UN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (SBU) A/Polcouns met April 10 with MFA Director of International Organizations and UN Affairs Nasser Bourita to deliver reftel message that the U.S. will not run for a seat on the new UN Human Rights Council this year. Bourita responded with a request for the U.S. to support Morocco's bid to b [...] | 2006-04-10 16:43:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KUNR PREL PHUM UNGA MO |
06RABAT661 | THE BARCELONA PROCESS IN MOROCCO [...] (SBU) Summary. Currently, the European Union (EU) has over $1.5 billion in ongoing projects in Morocco under the Barcelona Process (BP). These projects cover issues related to economics, social services, environmental protection and human rights. The European Commission (EC) in Rabat repor [...] | 2006-04-13 16:32:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON PGOV SOCI MO |
06RABAT730 | MONEY LAUNDERING BILL PASSES COUNCIL OF [...] (U) On April 19, Morocco's long awaited draft Anti- Money Laundering (AML) bill was approved the Moroccan Council of Government (the cabinet chaired by Prime Minister Driss Jettou). After clearing the Council of Government, a Ministerial Council, presided over by King Mohammed VI, will then [...] | 2006-04-21 08:46:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTFN EFIN PTER PGOV MO |
06RABAT732 | ELECTRICITY (IS) NOT STATIC [...] (U) SUMMARY: Director of Moroccan state electricity company Younes Maamar described to Ambassador on April 18 the government's plans to deregulate the electricity sector, stressing the GOM's urgency to diversify its energy sources and his personal preference that Morocco move forward with nuc [...] | 2006-04-21 10:54:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ETTC ECON SENV KNNP MO |
06RABAT736 | HUMAN RIGHTS CLINICS IN MOROCCO -- SPENDING MONEY [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please treat accordingly. 2. (U) This is an action request. See paragraphs 3 and 4. 3. (SBU) Summary: On April 18, Poloff and Laboff visited the Human Rights Clinical Legal Education program at Hassan II University in Mohammedia, loc [...] | 2006-04-21 12:01:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM MO |
06RABAT779 | GOM SEEKS US SUPPORT IN BID FOR HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please treat accordingly. 2. (SBU) Post received the following diplomatic note and aide-memoire seeking US support for Morocco's candidacy to the Human Rights Council. As the aide-memoire is a comprehensive summary of how the GOM views its [...] | 2006-04-26 16:21:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL PGOV MO |
06RABAT786 | INTERIOR MINISTER'S FIRST INTERVIEW OFFERS GLIMPSE [...] This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Coming on the heels of his recent visit to France, Interior Minister Chakib Benmoussa provided April 19, 2006 the Moroccan French-language daily L'Economiste his first official interview since being appointed [...] | 2006-04-27 11:00:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PBTS PHUM PTER MO |
06RABAT788 | MOROCCO: CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC) - US [...] (SBU) On April 27, poloff discussed reftel U.S. extension request to destroy chemical weapons stockpiles with MFA Director of International Organizations and UN Affairs Nasser Bourita. Bourita expressed surprise that the U.S. was requesting an extension, noting that it was usually the Russian [...] | 2006-04-27 11:47:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL CWC |
06RABAT789 | MOROCCO ON INDEPENDENT INQUIRY COMMITTEE FOLLOW-UP [...] (SBU) Poloff discussed reftel impact of the Independent Inquiry Committee (IIC) charged with investiging the UN's Oil-for Food program on April 27 with MFA Director for International Organizations and UN Affairs Nasser Bourita. According to Bourita, the issue needs to be viewed "globally," and [...] | 2006-04-27 12:37:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KFIN PGOV IZ MO |
06RABAT85 | MOROCCO: TERRORIST VICTIM NGOS [...] (SBU) As requested reftel, Post offers the following information on Moroccan non-governmental organizations that provide support or services to the victims and families of the Casablanca terrorist attacks on May 16, 2003, or are engaged in activities designed to blunt the appeal of Islamic ex [...] | 2006-01-19 15:30:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER KAWC KPAO MO |
06RABAT908 | AMAZIGH (BERBER) CONFERENCE DEMANDS [...] This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please treat accordingly. 2. (U) Le Reporter (April 20),a weekly French-language magazine format journal, reported the results of the April 7 and 8 Amazigh (Berber) conference held in Meknes. (Note: Meknes is located east of Rabat in the Mekne [...] | 2006-05-10 08:32:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR MO |
06RABAT911 | MOROCCO: UN DEMOCRACY FUND INVITATION FOR GRANT [...] (SBU) Poloff discussed reftel fund on April 27 with MFA Director of International Organizations and UN Affairs Nasser Bourita. Bourita expressed interest in the fund and said that it was likely that the GOM would be interested in participating. He said he would review the information and pro [...] | 2006-05-10 13:59:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KDEM UNGA MO |
06RABAT913 | WESTERN SAHARA: GOM WILL PROCEED WITH OHCHR VISIT [...] (SBU) MFA Director of UN and International Affairs Nasser Bourita told Polcouns May 10 that the May 15 visit of the Office of the High Commission for Human Rights (OHCHR) was going forward, and the program had been prepared. The delegation, which would not include Louise Arbour, would arrive [...] | 2006-05-10 18:37:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MO PBTS PHUM PREL PINR |
06RABAT971 | NATIONAL WAR COLLEGE FIELD STUDY IN MOROCCO [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: A delegation of National War College (NWC) students and faculty, led by Commandant Major General Teresa Marne Peterson and Deputy Commandant Ambassador Marcelle Wahba, visited Morocco May 13-18, [...] | 2006-05-19 18:47:00 | Embassy Rabat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAO MARR MO MOPS PGOV PREL |
06RANGOON1017 | BURMA'S BUDGET, FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOB published its 2006-07 budget, as well as 2005-06 supplemental expenditures in the minimally distributed Burma Gazette. Although accurate amounts and totals are impossible to determine, categories with the largest expenditures in both years are clear: state-owned enterpr [...] | 2006-07-21 03:47:00 | Embassy Rangoon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN PGOV BM |
06RANGOON1036 | IN BURMA, SMALL NGO EFFORTS SCORE BIG IMPACT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: While international NGOs and organizations in Burma face increasing pressure on their activities (reftel),local initiatives to improve health and educational and meet other basic development needs are growing. These projects, often organized by NLD-affiliated civic leaders and [...] | 2006-07-21 09:33:00 | Embassy Rangoon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM ECON PREL BM |
06RANGOON1240 | FEW TAKERS FOR LAND IN BURMA'S NEW CAPITAL [...] (SBU) Summary: On August 20, the Naypyitaw City Development Committee (NCDC) announced that it will accept applications to buy residential plots and small business sites in Burma's new capital. By tightly regulating private development in the new capital, the GOB aims to provide services to t [...] | 2006-08-30 08:35:00 | Embassy Rangoon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV BM |
06RANGOON1249 | BURMA: AI UPDATE - AUGUST 30, 2006 [...] (SBU) Summary: Burma has reported no new cases of Avian Influenza (AI) since a February/March 2006 poultry outbreak, which was contained in April. Donors, including USAID, support targeted WHO and FAO activities to improve local capacity to address AI. Although the GOB continues to cooperate [...] | 2006-08-31 08:04:00 | Embassy Rangoon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID AMED PGOV PREL CASC TBIO KFLU BM |
06RANGOON1323 | UNFPA PROPOSES TO EXPAND ITS BURMA PROGRAM [...] (SBU) Summary: At its September 13 Executive Board meeting in New York, UNFPA plans to propose a new four-year program for assistance in Burma that expands its current projects into new areas, including emergency obstetric care and expanded HIV/AIDs prevention, according to UNFPA's representa [...] | 2006-09-13 07:50:00 | Embassy Rangoon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON PGOV BM |
06RANGOON1503 | AI RESPONSE IN BURMA REMAINS A WORK IN PROGRESS [...] (SBU) Summary: The World Health Organization (WHO) and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO),together with the Burmese Ministry of Health (MOH) and Livestock Breeding and Veterinary Department (LBVD) hosted donor and training workshops in Rangoon on September 28-29. U reps used the donor me [...] | 2006-10-11 01:48:00 | Embassy Rangoon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID AMED PGOV CASC TBIO KLFU BM |
06RANGOON1559 | LETTER FROM NLD TO GAMBARI [...] (SBU) Summary: The Chairman and Secretary of the National League of Democracy (NLD) asked the Embassy to pass copies to Secretary Rice and Ambassador Bolton of a letter they sent to SIPDIS Ibrahim Gambari, Under Secretary General at the United Nations. We have abridged the text to focus on [...] | 2006-10-20 08:15:00 | Embassy Rangoon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL BM |
06RANGOON1615 | WFP'S NEW PROGRAM FOCUSES ON BURMA'S NEEDIEST [...] (SBU) Summary: Under a new Country Director, the World Food Program (WFP) will continue to supply food to three of Burma's most vulnerable regions in Shan and Rakhine States, and Magwe Division. WFP plans to consolidate these three programs and expand operations slightly to include selected v [...] | 2006-10-31 10:56:00 | Embassy Rangoon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID ECON PGOV BM |
06RANGOON1679 | BURMA: AI UPDATE [...] (U) Summary: GOB authorities have not reported any new cases of Avian Influenza in Burma since the outbreak in poultry in Mandalay and Sagaing Divisions was contained in April 2006. On October 30, the government imposed a ban on the import and use of AI vaccine, as well as on animal bones and [...] | 2006-11-13 10:15:00 | Embassy Rangoon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID AMED PGOV PREL CASC TBIO KFLU BM |
06RANGOON1686 | CI TO PROTECT BURMESE TURTLES [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite Burma's unpredictable environment for NGO activities, Conservation International (CI) recently received provisional GOB approval for two major projects to address threats to a number of animal species in Burma, including the critically endangered Burmese Star Tortoise and [...] | 2006-11-15 10:02:00 | Embassy Rangoon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ECON PGOV BM |
06RANGOON1713 | GOB TRIES TO SQUEEZE TAXPAYERS [...] (SBU) Summary: Eager to squeeze out more revenues, Burma's military regime has pushed tax officials to clamp down on tax evaders. Government efforts to increase tax collection have increased revenues somewhat, but many still bribe their way out of payments. End Summary. Salaries Rise, Taxe [...] | 2006-11-20 06:18:00 | Embassy Rangoon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV BM |
06RANGOON1722 | A TALE OF TWO SITTWES: BURMA'S ETHNIC TENSIONS [...] (SBU) Summary. Non-Buddhist ethnic minorities in Burma's Rakhine State face the worst of times, with a flat economy, no citizenship rights, and no freedom to seek better opportunities elsewhere. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO),World Food Program (WFP),UN High Commission on [...] | 2006-11-27 09:51:00 | Embassy Rangoon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL PGOV EAID BM |
06RANGOON1769 | BURMA AI UPDATE - DECEMBER 5 [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-05 05:43:00 | Embassy Rangoon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID AMED PGOV PREL CASC TBIO KFLU BM |
06RANGOON1776 | BURMA AI UPDATE - DECEMBER 5 [...] (SBU) Summary: Burma has not reported any new cases of AI since it contained the March - April 2006 poultry outbreak through extensive culling. The GOB continues to work with donors to improve its surveillance, reporting, and response capabilities. David Castellan, a short-term advisor to FAO [...] | 2006-12-07 02:10:00 | Embassy Rangoon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID AMED PGOV PREL CASC TBIO KFLU BM |
06RANGOON1783 | GOB TRIES TO WHITEWASH EXTENSIVE FLOOD DAMAGE [...] (SBU) Summary: Closely-held GOB reports confirm that severe flash floods in central Burma in October damaged over 200,000 acres in Mandalay and Sagaing Divisions and Shan State. Despite unofficial reports of significant human deaths and crop losses, the GOB has not officially acknowledged tha [...] | 2006-12-08 08:57:00 | Embassy Rangoon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV EAGR BM |
06RANGOON1807 | BURMA'S RICE SUPPLY SHRINKS AFTER OCTOBER FLOODS [...] (U) Rumors are have circulated around Rangoon about an impending rice shortage as Burmese officials move rice stocks to provinces in central Burma hit by severe flooding in October. In addition, smuggling, inflated production estimates, poor storage, and inadequate buffer stocks exacerbate th [...] | 2006-12-18 10:05:00 | Embassy Rangoon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV EAGR EAID BM |
06RANGOON244 | BURMA'S INADEQUATE IPR REGIME [...] (U) Burma is, and should remain, on the 2006 Special Mention List for Special 301 Review. Following is an update on the current IPR protection situation in Burma. Overview --------- 2. (U) Burma does not have adequate IPR protection. Patent, trademark, and copyright laws and regulations a [...] | 2006-02-22 05:57:00 | Embassy Rangoon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD KIPR PGOV SNAR BM |
06RANGOON270 | BURMA: TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-01 03:25:00 | Embassy Rangoon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KWMN KCRM KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB SMIG BM |
06RANGOON289 | IN MANDALAY, TRADE UP AND TOURISM DOWN [...] (U) Summary: Enough people make money from trade with China to keep upscale retailers busy in Mandalay, Burma's second largest city. However, due to rising prices and the poor state of the economy, residents are increasingly price sensitive, making it tougher to prosper there. Europeans, the [...] | 2006-03-03 06:42:00 | Embassy Rangoon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV BM |
06RANGOON312 | NATURE, GOVERNMENT CONSPIRE AGAINST RICE FARMERS [...] (U) Summary: In 2005, unpredictable new export restrictions, higher fuel prices, political interference in planting decisions, and a shorter than usual summer monsoon added new problems for Burmese rice farmers. Rice exports increased 90% over the previous year to 220,000 metric tons as a GOB [...] | 2006-03-08 00:42:00 | Embassy Rangoon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR PGOV ECON BM |
06RANGOON319 | EU HUMANITARIAN AID IN BURMA [...] (U) SUMMARY: The European Union has established an EU Humanitarian Aid office in Rangoon to improve coordination of its 8 million euro aid projects in Burma. The new office supports humanitarian projects in health, water and sanitation, nutrition, and protection. The EU Humanitarian Aid offi [...] | 2006-03-08 06:27:00 | Embassy Rangoon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PGOV PHUM PREF PREL BM NGO |
06RANGOON345 | SUSPECTED AI OUTBREAK AMONG BIRDS IN BURMA [...] (U) SUMMARY: On March 12, GOB officials informed FAO and WHO officials of a suspected outbreak on March 8 of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) at a commercial poultry farm in Mandalay Division. Specimens collected by a joint-ministerial investigation team from Rangoon tested positive f [...] | 2006-03-14 23:31:00 | Embassy Rangoon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID AMED PGOV PREL SOCI TBIO CASC KFLU BM |
06RANGOON355 | BURMA AI OUTBREAK - MARCH 15 UPDATE [...] (U) SUMMARY. In response to a suspected AI outbreak on March 8 in Pyi-gyi-dagun Township, Mandalay authorities have banned all sales of chickens, ducks, and eggs. A Bangkok-based USAID expert on AI and an Embassy Rangoon FSN agricultural specialist will join a FAO and WHO assessment team tra [...] | 2006-03-15 11:13:00 | Embassy Rangoon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID AMED PGOV PREL CASC TBIO KFLU BM |
06RANGOON362 | VILLAGERS REVIVE THE IRRAWADDY DELTA'S FOREST [...] (U) Summary: A Burmese domestic NGO, the Forest Resource and Environment Development and Conservation Association (FREDA),uses village-based programs to slow rampant deforestation in the southern part of Irrawaddy division. Residents have cut down 86% of the forest cover for firewood, buildin [...] | 2006-03-17 05:29:00 | Embassy Rangoon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ECON PGOV BM NGO |
06RANGOON364 | BURMA AI OUTBREAK UPDATE - MARCH 17 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The FAO/WHO assessment team is on the ground in Mandalay to investigate confirmed cases of AI at poultry farms in the district. Supplementary supplies of PPE and disinfectant arrived in Rangoon on March 16 and some have already reached the field investigation teams in Mandalay. [...] | 2006-03-17 08:41:00 | Embassy Rangoon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID AMED PGOV PREL CASC TBIO KFLU BM |
06RANGOON370 | CHIN STATE'S UNEASY COHABITATION WITH THE REGIME [...] (U) Summary. Burma's ethnic minority Chin population, long victims of the Burmese regime's "Myanmarization" program, has reached a stage of uneasy but peaceful cohabitation with ruling authorities in its home state. In underdeveloped Chin State along Burma's western border with India, ethnic [...] | 2006-03-20 08:54:00 | Embassy Rangoon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINS PREL ECON ETRD CVIS KFRD BM IN |
06RANGOON372 | BURMA AI OUTBREAK UPDATE - MARCH 20 [...] (U) SUMMARY. No human cases of AI have been reported in Burma to date. A joint FAO/WHO assessment team, accompanied by USAID Bangkok Infectious Diseases Advisor and Embassy's FSN agricultural specialist, visited hospitals and poultry farms in Mandalay and Sagaing Divisions on March 17-18 to [...] | 2006-03-20 10:00:00 | Embassy Rangoon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID AMED PGOV PREL CASC TBIO KFLU BM |
06RANGOON394 | RISING PRICES HIT BURMA'S POOR...AGAIN [...] (SBU) Summary: Rising prices in February again hit Burma's poor hard, with significant increases in the cost of basic foods, transportation, and fuel. A slight, but unexpected, depreciation of the kyat increased the price of imported consumer goods. Dry season power shortages increased, lead [...] | 2006-03-23 04:33:00 | Embassy Rangoon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PGOV BM |
06RANGOON399 | BURMA AI UPDATE - MARCH 23 [...] (U) SUMMARY. FAO Bangkok reported a possible new AI outbreak among poultry in Shan State, but local contacts have not yet been able to confirm. Foreign donors have yet to respond to the GOB's request for additional assistance, although Australian animal testing equipment en route before the [...] | 2006-03-23 23:30:00 | Embassy Rangoon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID AMED PGOV PREL CASC TBIO KFLU BM |
06RANGOON437 | BURMA AI OUTBREAK SITE ASSESSMENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. A joint FAO/WHO team, accompanied by a USAID Regional Infectious Diseases advisor and a FSN from the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS),assessed an AI outbreak in Sagaing and Mandalay Divisions, Burma, on March 17-18. Government of Burma (GOB) officials reported cases to the OI [...] | 2006-03-30 09:23:00 | Embassy Rangoon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID AMED PGOV PREL CASC TBIO KFLU BM |
06RANGOON459 | BURMA AI UPDATE - APRIL 4 [...] (U) SUMMARY. On March 31, WHO/FAO Burma briefed UN agencies and diplomatic missions on the country's AI situation. A Ministry of Livestock and Fisheries (MLF) director gave a chronology of the AI outbreaks in central Burma, which began on March 3, and the GOB's efforts to control the disease [...] | 2006-04-04 09:10:00 | Embassy Rangoon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID AMED PGOV PREL CASC TBIO KFLU BM |
06RANGOON460 | UNODC SEEKS FUNDING FOR BURMA OPIUM SURVEYS [...] (SBU) Summary: UNODC-Burma is seeking USG support to help cover a budget shortfall of $100,000 to complete its ongoing 2006 opium yield survey, as well as additional funding in the amount of $260,000 to conduct its 2007 survey. These surveys offer the most reliable evidence to measure progres [...] | 2006-04-05 04:08:00 | Embassy Rangoon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR KCRM BM |
06RANGOON471 | APRIL 7 SITREP: IED INCIDENT AT INTERNATIONAL [...] (U) Embassy personnel spent April 7 following up on the April 6 discovery and dismantling of an improvised explosive device (IED) on the campus of the USG-sponsored International School of Yangon (ISY). The device was packed with what local security personnel determined was 1.5 pounds of exp [...] | 2006-04-07 11:42:00 | Embassy Rangoon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PTER PGOV BM |
06RANGOON475 | REQUEST FOR A SCIENCE FELLOW IN BURMA [...] (SBU) Post requests that a Science Fellow from the Smithsonian Institution or the Environmental Protection Agency be placed at the U.S. Embassy in Rangoon to assess and prepare a detailed report on the regional environmental impact of the ruling military regime's policies, especially actions [...] | 2006-04-10 09:15:00 | Embassy Rangoon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMGT APER KSCA OTRA SENV TSPL BM |
06RANGOON601 | RANGOON EARTH DAY ENCOURAGES CIVIC PARTICIPATION [...] (SBU) Earth Day 2006 gave Post a chance to support the efforts of private individuals who, by addressing environmental issues, show citizens how they can take more control over their futures from the repressive ruling regime. Embassy employees donated funds for mangrove reforestation, a nasce [...] | 2006-05-04 08:48:00 | Embassy Rangoon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ECON PGOV BM |
06RANGOON604 | OFFICIALS UPDATE VISITING FAS REPS ON AI [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During an introductory visit, APHIS Area Director Ned Cardenas and FAS Agricultural Attache Russ Nicely received an open, thorough update from Livestock Breeding and Veterinary Department (LBVD) officials about current GOB efforts to contain the recent Avian Influenza outbreak. [...] | 2006-05-05 00:55:00 | Embassy Rangoon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID AMED PGOV PREL CASC TBIO KFLU BM |
06RANGOON623 | BURMA UNPREPARED TO FIGHT AI IN HUMANS [...] (SBU) Summary: WHO Country Director Dr. Adik Wibowo reported that Australia will donate A$1,000,000 (approximately $770,000) and the Asia Development Bank plans to donate US$1,000,000 to combat AI in Burma, but stressed that more work is needed to handle an AI epidemic effectively. On a recen [...] | 2006-05-09 09:37:00 | Embassy Rangoon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID AMED PGOV PREL CASC TBIO KFLU BM |
06RANGOON668 | SOCIAL PROJECTS BENEFIT PIPELINE VILLAGES [...] (SBU) Summary: The controversial pipeline running from the Yadana gas field in the Andaman Sea to Thailand is expected to produce over $800 million in revenue this year for its joint venture partners TOTAL, UNOCAL, PTTEP (the Thai government petroleum company),and the Myanmar Oil and Gas Ente [...] | 2006-05-19 09:57:00 | Embassy Rangoon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG SOCI PGOV BM |
06RANGOON713 | DRUG OUTREACH PROJECTS IN NORTHERN SHAN STATE [...] (U) Summary: UNODC-supported Outreach Projects appear effective in dealing with demand for narcotics and harm reduction for residents of northern Shan State. The GOB cooperates with NGOs to address drug abuse and associated problems, including high HIV/AIDS infection rates, but does not addre [...] | 2006-05-31 07:43:00 | Embassy Rangoon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR KCRM BM |
06RANGOON728 | BURMA: 2006 COUNTERNARCOTICS REPORT CARD [...] (U) This message responds to ref A request for a report card on the Government of Burma's cooperation on counternarcotics efforts, based on benchmarks established in late 2005 (ref B),in preparation for the FY 2007 certification process. 2. (SBU) Begin Text of 2006 Certification Report Ca [...] | 2006-06-05 09:25:00 | Embassy Rangoon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR KCRM BM |
06RANGOON762 | BURMA'S ROAD TO PROSPERITY LEADS TO CHINA [...] (SBU) Summary: On a visit to Muse, the main border crossing point for trade with China, emboffs observed how trade enriches the Burmese towns along the route, and has spawned development on the Chinese side of the border. The GOB retains only a small percentage of potential revenue generated [...] | 2006-06-09 09:24:00 | Embassy Rangoon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV PREL CM BM |
06RANGOON778 | BURMA BUSINESS REPS PESSIMISTIC ABOUT FUTURE [...] (SBU) Summary: At a recent meeting with visiting EAP/MLS Director Scot Marciel, Burmese business representatives described the many challenges they face in the current business environment, including multiple exchange rates, lengthy bureaucratic delays, constant power shortages, rising costs, [...] | 2006-06-13 02:38:00 | Embassy Rangoon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PGOV BM |
06RANGOON843 | BURMA/TIP: MUTED REACTION TO THE 2006 TIP REPORT [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOB officially reacted to the 2006 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report through a critique in the state press June 20. Although it was given front-page attention, regime criticism of the Tier 3 ranking was restrained, reflecting the SPDC's expectation to retain Tier 3 ranki [...] | 2006-06-21 10:41:00 | Embassy Rangoon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL BM |
06RANGOON924 | WORKERS STRIKE FOR HIGHER PAY [...] (SBU) Summary: Although Burmese law prohibits strikes, many worker successfully staged strikes for wage increases in 2005 and 2006. Lab and management peacefully resolved most strikes, and GOB officials intervened in some cases to press for resolution. As long as the strikes stay apolitical, [...] | 2006-07-05 06:46:00 | Embassy Rangoon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ECON PGOV BM |
06RANGOON963 | ILO PRESSURE LEADS TO LAWYER'S RELEASE [...] (SBU) On July 9, authorities released U Aye Myint from Bago prison. In June, International Labor Organization (ILO) members set Aye Myint's release by the end of July as one test of the GOB's willingness to address forced labor. Aye Myint credits the ILO pressure for his release. End Summary [...] | 2006-07-10 10:17:00 | Embassy Rangoon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ECON PGOV BM |
06RANGOON975 | NAY PYI DAW UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: Construction of Burma's new capital city, Nay Pyi Taw, continues. Gradually foreigners are getting to see the under-construction city, but plans to invite all of the Ambassadors are still on hold pending further progress. The current impression is of a vast green empty space s [...] | 2006-07-12 11:05:00 | Embassy Rangoon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL BM |
06RANGOON981 | BURMESE REGIME REACTS TO POSSIBLE UNSC ACTION [...] (SBU) Summary: The government daily newspaper, the New Light of Myanmar (NLM),has recently intensified the quantity and degree of its rhetoric against its political opposition in an ongoing series of multi-page articles. The articles also attempt to counter charges that Burma represents a th [...] | 2006-07-13 07:20:00 | Embassy Rangoon | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM ECON PREL BM |
06REYKJAVIK102 | ICELAND: ADDITIONAL IRAQ ASSISTANCE NOT [...] (SBU) Post briefed Icelandic MFA Head of Security and Disarmament Division Thordur Bjarni Gudjonsson March 23 on the President's budget requests for Iraq (ref A). Asked the current Icelandic thinking on additional assistance for Iraqi reconstruction, Gudjonsson referenced Reykjavik's recent d [...] | 2006-03-23 17:09:00 | Embassy Reykjavik | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREL IZ IC |
06REYKJAVIK120 | ICELAND REACTION: OPTIMISTIC TONE FOLLOWING MARCH [...] (SBU) Summary: The Government and news media of Iceland, for the most part, have echoed FM Haarde's cautious optimism over the round of bilateral defense talks in Reykjavik 3/31. The two leading newspapers published editorials praising the talks for providing the first step toward clarifying t [...] | 2006-04-03 18:28:00 | Embassy Reykjavik | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | NATO MARR PREL KPAO IIP ECA IC |
06REYKJAVIK130 | ICELANDIC FOREIGN MINISTER BEARING UP WELL UNDER [...] (SBU) Summary: Icelandic Foreign Minister Geir H. Haarde has spent early April trying to diffuse criticism from press and politicians who accuse him of failing to predict the U.S. decision to draw down Naval Air Station Keflavik (NASKEF),and who say he is too passive in letting the U.S. defi [...] | 2006-04-11 16:05:00 | Embassy Reykjavik | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | NATO MARR PREL KPAO IIP ECA IC |
06REYKJAVIK158 | ICELAND DEFENSE: FM HAARDE DEFENDS [...] (SBU) Summary: In a 4/29 parliamentary briefing on bilateral defense talks earlier in the week, FM Haarde continued to emphasize that the U.S. and Icelandic governments are moving forward constructively to develop new defense arrangements in preparation for the upcoming closure of Naval Air S [...] | 2006-05-03 17:19:00 | Embassy Reykjavik | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR PREL NATO IC |
06REYKJAVIK162 | ICELAND/HUMAN RIGHTS: SKEPTICAL OF IRAN, BUT [...] (SBU) Since April post has regularly discussed the new UN Human Rights Council (refs A and B) and Iranian human rights violations (refs C and D) with Icelandic MFA Minister Counselor Nikulas Hannigan, who is both the International Institutions director and Middle East director in Iceland's sma [...] | 2006-05-09 15:07:00 | Embassy Reykjavik | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM IR IC |
06REYKJAVIK205 | Icelandic PM Halldor Asgrimsson to Leave Post; [...] (U) Summary: In a move apparently designed to resuscitate his party's hopes of surviving 2007 parliamentary elections, Halldor Asgrimsson announced 6/5 that he would resign both as Icelandic Prime Minister and as Progressive Party (PP) Chairman. The dates for his departure remain unclear whi [...] | 2006-06-08 16:28:00 | Embassy Reykjavik | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MARR IC |
06REYKJAVIK210 | Iceland Appoints First Female Foreign Minister; [...] (U) Summary: Outgoing PM Asgrimsson and incoming PM Haarde announced 6/10 results of their talks regarding a new Icelandic cabinet to take office 6/15: current Minister of Industry and Commerce Valgerdur Sverrisdottir, an international relations neophyte, will become Foreign Minister. Haarde [...] | 2006-06-13 07:47:00 | Embassy Reykjavik | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MARR IC |
06REYKJAVIK224 | MDA: ICELAND WILL BE SUPPORTIVE AT JUNE 20 INTERNATIONAL [...] (SBU) Post discussed points from refs A and B with Icelandic Ministry for Foreign Affairs Human Rights Officer Ingibjorg Davidsdottir June 14 and 19, respectively. Following consultation with the MFA PermSec and the Icelandic Mission in Geneva, Davidsdottir replied as follows: -- Iceland wi [...] | 2006-06-19 15:41:00 | Embassy Reykjavik | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PREL PHUM ICRC IC IS |
06REYKJAVIK294 | ICELAND: PEACEKEEPERS STICKING IT OUT IN SRI LANKA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: According to MFA officials, Iceland will probably maintain or even expand its peace monitoring mission in Sri Lanka following the withdrawal of EU peacekeepers, despite renewed media questioning of the appropriateness of Icelandic participation in peacekeeping in combat zones. T [...] | 2006-08-14 18:00:00 | Embassy Reykjavik | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPKO CE IC |
06REYKJAVIK308 | ICELAND WILL SUPPORT WEDGWOOD FOR UN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-28 18:16:00 | Embassy Reykjavik | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM UNHRC PREL IC |
06REYKJAVIK312 | Iceland: Progressive Party Elects New Leadership; Clears [...] (SBU) Summary: At an August 19 congress, the Progressive Party (PP - the minority member in Iceland's ruling conservative coalition alongside PM Haarde's Independence Party),replaced former PM Asgrimsson as party chair with Minister of Industry and Commerce Jon Sigurdsson. Party rank and file [...] | 2006-08-30 17:37:00 | Embassy Reykjavik | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MARR EAGR IC |
06REYKJAVIK357 | Iceland Defense Talks: PM Unveils Agreements for the [...] (SBU) Summary: Iceland's Prime Minister Haarde presented the results of the last six months of U.S.-Iceland defense talks to his political opposition, the parliamentary foreign affairs committee, and the nation in meetings and an hour-long televised press conference September 26. Haarde - wit [...] | 2006-09-27 07:33:00 | Embassy Reykjavik | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR PREL PTER KPAO NATO IC |
06REYKJAVIK359 | Iceland: Press and Politicos Respond to Defense [...] (SBU) Summary: Icelandic press reaction to the Prime Minister's September 26 announcement of the results of defense talks with the U.S. (Reftel) has been measured and largely favorable. Opposition party expressions of discontent center on two points: 1) the Government's failure to make public [...] | 2006-09-27 18:03:00 | Embassy Reykjavik | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR PREL KPAO NATO IC |
06REYKJAVIK364 | ICELAND DEFENSE: TECHNICAL AGREEMENT TO CLOSE U.S. BASE SIGNED [...] (SBU) Summary: Iceland's Foreign Minister signed the bilateral "Technical Agreement" on the closure of Naval Air Station Keflavik (NASKEF),as well as an agreement amending the classified annexes to the 1951 U.S.-Iceland defense agreement, at 1236 GMT on 29 September. The last U.S. military p [...] | 2006-09-29 16:56:00 | Embassy Reykjavik | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR PREL EAIR MASS IC |
06REYKJAVIK401 | Iceland: Visit of USS Wasp Demonstrates "Robust and [...] (SBU) Summary: The October 12-17 port visit of the USS Wasp provided a visible demonstration of USG intent to honor its defense commitment to Iceland following the September closure of Naval Air Station Keflavik (NASKEF). The Prime Minister, Foreign Minister, and Justice Minister - just back [...] | 2006-10-26 17:54:00 | Embassy Reykjavik | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MOPS PREL MARR KPAO OPRC NATO IC |
06REYKJAVIK405 | ICELAND FOLLOWING NORDIC LEAD ON INDIGENOUS PEOPLES [...] (SBU) Poloff presented reftel demarche to Icelandic MFA Counselor for Human Rights Ingibjorg Davidsdottir on October 25. Davidsdottir, who transferred from the Icelandic mission in Geneva this summer, was familiar with the text and the joint U.S.-Australian-New Zealand position, but apologetic [...] | 2006-10-31 16:47:00 | Embassy Reykjavik | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KTIA IC |
06REYKJAVIK406 | ICELAND DOES NOT SUPPORT ANTI-ISRAEL UNGA RESOLUTIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-10-31 16:48:00 | Embassy Reykjavik | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNGA LE IS IC |
06REYKJAVIK428 | Iceland: Water Damage at former U.S. base poses first [...] (SBU) Summary: The newly-formed corporation overseeing redevelopment of the former U.S. Naval Air Station Keflavik (NASKEF) site is inheriting an additional problem in the form of serious water damage from frozen pipes in a number of residential buildings. The Ministry for Foreign Affairs, wh [...] | 2006-11-21 18:34:00 | Embassy Reykjavik | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR PGOV NATO IC |
06REYKJAVIK431 | ICELAND: PEACEKEEPING POLICY AT A CROSSROADS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Iceland's Foreign Minister has announced that Iceland will increase the number of peacekeepers sent abroad with the Icelandic Crisis Response Unit(ICRU),while focusing on civilian projects where Iceland has particular expertise and restricting behavior (e.g. wearing battle dress [...] | 2006-11-27 11:49:00 | Embassy Reykjavik | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPKO EAID NATO IC |
06REYKJAVIK62 | ICELAND: HLG CHAIRMAN'S LETTER DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-24 16:52:00 | Embassy Reykjavik | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MNUC NATO NPG IC |
06REYKJAVIK63 | ICELAND JOINS EU IN CONDEMNATION OF IRAQ [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-24 16:52:00 | Embassy Reykjavik | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KDEM KPAO PTER IZ IC |
06REYKJAVIK68 | SIXTH ANNUAL ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) [...] (SBU) Embassy point of contact on the trafficking in persons (TIP) issue is Political Officer Lisa Kierans, tel. +354-562-9100x2294, fax +354-562-9139, unclassified e-mail Kieransl@state.gov. Hours spent on preparation: - Polofficer (FO-02) 20 hrs - Polassistant 60 hrs - DCM [...] | 2006-03-02 12:49:00 | Embassy Reykjavik | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KCRM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF IC |
06REYKJAVIK69 | ICELAND TO MAKE NEW DONATION TO NTM-I [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-02 15:47:00 | Embassy Reykjavik | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MOPS PINS PREL AF IZ IC |
06RIGA202 | LATVIA'S RULING COALITION IN DEADLOCK OVER [...] (U) SUMMARY. Since Transport Minister Ainars Slesers's March 15 dismissal for his alleged involvement in a vote- buying scandal in the city of Jurmala (reftel),Latvia's governing coalition has been unable to appoint a successor due to the tough stance taken by the coalition's senior member, [...] | 2006-03-24 15:31:00 | Embassy Riga | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM LG |
06RIGA246 | LATVIA TO CONTINUE WITH MINORITY GOVERNMENT AS [...] (SBU) Prime Minister Aigars Kalvitis now leads a minority government. The New Era party, the governing coalition's largest, left the government April 7 in the culmination of a three-week government crisis characterized by competing claims of corruption and government malfeasance. New Era lef [...] | 2006-04-07 15:41:00 | Embassy Riga | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL LG |
06RIGA656 | RUSSIA URGES ROBUST OSCE OBERSERVATION OF OCTOBER [...] (SBU) Summary: An ODIHR election assessment team visited Latvia August 3-4 to assess the overall state of Latvia's election system prior to October parliamentary elections in order to make recommendations on an OSCE election observation mission. As part of this assessment, the team met with re [...] | 2006-08-18 04:20:00 | Embassy Riga | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM OSCE RU LG |
06RIGA662 | COCA-COLA STILL FIGHTING LATVIAN MINISTRY OF HEALTH OVER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. DURING THE PAST SEVERAL WEEKS, COCA-COLA HAS MET WITH GOL OFFICIALS AT BOTH THE HEALTH AND EDUCATION MINISTRIES TO PRESS THE GOVERNMENT TO WITHDRAW PROPOSED REGULATIONS ON SOFT DRINK SALES IN SCHOOLS. ON AUGUST 2, POST ARRANGED FOR THE MINISTER OF ECONOMICS TO VISIT COCA-COLA'S [...] | 2006-08-18 14:47:00 | Embassy Riga | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV BEXP PREL LG |
06RIGA680 | LATVIA LOOKS TO COMMISSION CONSENSUS ON CHINA IPR [...] (SBU) Pol/econ off met with Zaiga Liepina, Ministry of Economics Deputy State Secretary, on August 22 to request support in the possible WTO dispute with China on IPR. Liepina stated that Latvian business has a very small representation in China, so Chinese IPR practices do not have much of a [...] | 2006-08-25 06:16:00 | Embassy Riga | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD AORC KIPR EURM WTRO USTR CH LG |
06RIGA686 | LATVIA: NO NEW AID AT LEBANON DONOR CONFERENCE [...] (SBU) Pol/econ off met on August 25 with Signe Jansone, MFA A/S-level official responsible for the Middle East to deliver demarche on Latvian attendance and financial commitments at the August 31 Stockholm Donor Conference on Lebanon. She said that the Latvian delegation will be headed by Maij [...] | 2006-08-28 04:17:00 | Embassy Riga | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREL LE LG |
06RIGA736 | LATVIA WILL SUPPORT U.S. CANDIDATE FOR THE INTERNATIONAL [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-13 12:59:00 | Embassy Riga | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL AORC UNGA LG |
06RIGA836 | SECRETARY CHAO'S MEETINGS WITH GOL OFFICIALS [...] (SBU) Summary: Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao's visit to Latvia provided an opportunity to discuss economic growth and job creation, relations with Russia and the recent Latvian elections with senior governmental officials. All interlocutors noted the challenge for Latvia of the out migra [...] | 2006-10-13 14:10:00 | Embassy Riga | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ELAB ECON MARR CVIS OVIP CHAO ELAINE RU |
06RIGA857 | Special 301 Out-of-Cycle Review Recommendation: Latvia [...] (SBU) Summary: Latvia's performance since April 2006 on IPR-related issues shows continued improvement in the number of police raids conducted, amount of goods seized or destroyed, and IPR cases brought to prosecution. However, Latvia has not shown improvement in a number of areas that were hi [...] | 2006-10-19 14:25:00 | Embassy Riga | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD KIPR ECON LG |
06RIODEJANEIRO234 | Petrobras Seeking Alternatives to Bolivian Gas [...] (SBU) In a recent conversation with Consul General, Petrobras officials indicated that they did not anticipate that the Bolivia-Brazil crisis will lead to any short or medium term disruption in gas supply to Brazil. Petrobras, however, will accelerate the development of gas reserves in the Sa [...] | 2006-05-24 16:41:00 | Consulate Rio De Janeiro | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG ECON PGOV PREL BR |
06RIODEJANEIRO262 | Visit of U.S. NRC Commissioner to Rio de Janeiro [...] (SBU) From 10-12 May 2006, Consulate hosted Commissioner Jeffrey Merrifield of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for a series of meetings with nuclear regulatory counterpart officials at the Brazilian National Nuclear Energy Commission (CNEN),the Brazil-Argentine Agency for the Acc [...] | 2006-06-12 09:50:00 | Consulate Rio De Janeiro | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KSCA KNNP BR |
06RIODEJANEIRO445 | AMBASSADOR'S ENERGY AND BIO-FUELS DISCUSSIONS IN RIO DE [...] (SBU) Summary: Some oil and gas companies in Brazil, notably Shell and Petrobras, are embracing bio-fuels as part of a diversified energy product mix, Shell Brazil CEO Diaz told the Ambassador in an August 21 meeting. On August 22, Petrobras CEO Gabrielli said his company is expanding its etha [...] | 2006-09-06 14:06:00 | Consulate Rio De Janeiro | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET PGOV SENV PREL EINV BR |
06RIODEJANEIRO446 | AMBASSADOR'S BRAZIL-BOLIVIA-VENEZUELA GAS DISCUSSIONS IN [...] (SBU) Summary: Petrobras CEO Sergio Gabrielli and Shell Brazil CEO Vasco Dias told Ambassador Sobel in meetings on August 22 that Brazil's priority in upcoming negotiations over gas supplies from Bolivia was to ensure continuity of supply. Despite its unhelpful role in Bolivia, the CEOs did no [...] | 2006-09-06 14:08:00 | Consulate Rio De Janeiro | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET PGOV PREL EINV BR |
06RIODEJANEIRO601 | BRAZIL'S EMBRAER: SEEKING A U.S. DEFENSE RUNWAY FROM [...] (U) Summary: On October 21 Admiral Edmund P. Giambastiani Jr., Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Ambassador, and the Consul General met with Embraer President & CEO Mauricio Novis Botelho and Executive Vice President for Defense and Government Market, Luiz Carlos Aguiar, to revi [...] | 2006-11-01 16:57:00 | Consulate Rio De Janeiro | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EAIR MARR BEXP BR |
06RIYADH1375 | NO WOMEN AMONG SAG APPOINTEES TO EP CHAMBER OF [...] (SBU) The Ministry of Commerce and Industry announced on March 1 its six appointees to the board of the Eastern Province (EP) Chamber of Commerce & Industry (EPCCI): Nasr Al-Hajry; Ghasan Al-Nimr (a Shi'a; also a member of the Ta'awun slate); Halal Al-Twerki (a cousin of Minister Naimi's chi [...] | 2006-03-06 05:53:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KWMN KMPI SA |
06RIYADH1982 | DHAHRAN DIGEST 5 [...] (SBU) During a recent lunch with PolOff, an appointed member of the Al-Ahsa municipal council who is also an American-educated professor of plant physiology fielded two phone calls from students. The first was from a female graduate student who needed help on some laboratory research she was [...] | 2006-03-22 10:59:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON SOCI PREL SA |
06RIYADH2542 | Avian Flu: Saudi Arabia Closing Small Poultry [...] (U) Summary: Meetings with the WHO representative, Ministry of Agriculture (MOA),and Ministry of Health (MOH) revealed that the SAG has established necessary preparations for avian flu, including action plans, an emergency "hotline" number, monitoring and testing sites for migratory birds, a [...] | 2006-04-09 13:43:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KFLU EAGR SA |
06RIYADH2544 | Cultural Norms and Non-Transparency Hamstring [...] (SBU) Summary: Meetings with public health officials during the visit of regional ESTH officer to Saudi Arabia provided a snapshot of Saudi health issues: a population increasingly afflicted with costly illnesses of the wealthy - obesity, diabetes, and heart disease - and a health system tha [...] | 2006-04-10 04:26:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KHIV SA |
06RIYADH2893 | GULF WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION: CIVIL SOCIETY, SAUDI [...] (SBU) Summary: Jameyat Fatat al Khaleej is one of the oldest women's charitable societies in Saudi Arabia, and provides an example of a civil society organization welcomed by the government. Founded and run by women from the Eastern Province's most prominent business families, and with close [...] | 2006-04-19 14:23:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI KPAO KMPI SA |
06RIYADH4960 | UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL--ANTICIPATED OIC ASSAULT [...] (SBU) Post attempted to contact FM Saud Al-Faisal on June 19 to deliver ref a demarche. He is currently on vacation in an intentionally remote location. We delivered demarche by diplomatic note directly to the FM's Chief of Staff, who agreed to forward to the FM. Please note that Post del [...] | 2006-06-20 10:59:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM SA |
06RIYADH7990 | IRAQI DELEGATION VISITS KSA TO DISCUSS IRAQ [...] The Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Finance confirmed to us on October 9 that an Iraqi technical delegation came to Saudi Arabia on October 7 to discuss Iraqi debt to Saudi Arabia. 2. According to Deputy Minister of Finance Al-Bazi'y, three Iraqi delegates from the Ministry of Finance v [...] | 2006-10-11 10:47:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECIN ECON IZ SA |
06RIYADH9155 | KATRINA ASSISTANCE, COMING TO CLOSURE [...] (U) As per reftel request, on 17 December, Mission delivered a diplomatic note to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) formally requesting information on the status of disbursements of the outstanding $48 million of $100 million the SAG pledged for Hurricane Katrina assistance. We request [...] | 2006-12-24 10:15:00 | Embassy Riyadh | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREL EPET SA |
06ROME1019 | BERLUSCONI-PRODI DEBATE SHOWS CONTRAST: NO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Many commentators give PM Berlusconi a slight edge over challenger Romano Prodi in last night's second candidate debate. Berlusconi was more poised than in the first debate and offered a surprise proposal to eliminate local property taxes on every family's first home--a proposal [...] | 2006-04-04 15:16:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON IZ IT ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS |
06ROME1034 | ITALY'S POST ELECTION LOTTO-MINISTRO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Italy's April 9-10 national elections begin a political process that probably will not produce a new government until mid-May to mid-June. Presidents of the two legislative houses must be elected followed by a replacement for President of the Republic Carlo Azeglio Ciampi before [...] | 2006-04-05 13:13:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV IT ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS |
06ROME111 | CRISIS MANAGEMENT EXERCISE FOR ROME, TURIN, MILAN [...] (SBU) On December 14 and 16, Embassy Rome, the Olympic Coordination Office in Turin, and Consulate Milan underwent a coordinated Crisis Management Exercise (CME) facilitated by the Foreign Service Institute's Office of Crisis Management Training. According to FSI, this was the first time a CME [...] | 2006-01-12 15:46:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AEMR AMGT ASEC CA IT OCS ACS POSTS FOR RSO |
06ROME1183 | ITALIAN CASSATION DECLARES RESULTS OFFICIAL: PRODI [...] (SBU) Italy's Court of Cassation finished verification procedures for Italy's contested parliamentary elections, confirming center-left challenger Romano Prodi's electoral victory over incumbent PM Silvio Berlusconi in the critical Chamber of Deputies. Though Berlusconi might continue to prot [...] | 2006-04-19 17:10:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV IT ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS |
06ROME1303 | MILANO-MANHATTAN/EUROFLY: GOI HAS NOT AUTHORIZED, [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 1, Eurofly representatives told Rome TSA attache the company will start flying an all-business-class service between Milan-Linate and New York-JFK May 8, though an official at Italian aviation regulator ENAC said the agency has yet to approve the plan. Unless instructed [...] | 2006-05-02 16:46:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR IT |
06ROME1317 | ITALY: CHAMBER PRESIDENTS ELECTED, PRESIDENCY OF [...] (SBU) Italy's new parliament formally sat April 28 and subsequently voted Communist Renewal (RC) National Secretary Fausto Bertinotti President of the Chamber of Deputies and Daisy party leader Franco Marini President of the Senate. Both were contentious votes. As one of his first acts as Cha [...] | 2006-05-03 15:48:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV IT |
06ROME1329 | MIMA/EUROFLY, FLIGHTS WILL LIKELY GO FORWARD [...] (SBU) Summary: Italy's aviation authority appears to be acquiescing to the MiMa/Eurofly flights. ENAC's Vice Director General, Salvatore Sciacchitano, said that, barring a decision by his agency to deny permission, Eurofly could begin operating from Linate's general aviation terminal on a fl [...] | 2006-05-05 04:30:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR IT |
06ROME1412 | AMBASSADOR ADDRESSES ITALIAN BUSINESS LEADERS [...] (U) On April 27, Ambassador Spogli addressed the leaders of Confindustria, Italy's leading business association, about barriers to, and opportunities for, U.S. investment in Italy. The Ambassador spoke at the invitation of Confindustria President (and Fiat Chairman) Luca Cordero di Montezemolo [...] | 2006-05-10 16:41:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV IT |
06ROME1414 | ITALY PLANS TO FULFILL UN DEMOCRACY FUND PLEDGE [...] (SBU) Poloff met with Gian Lorenzo Cornado, MFA Office Director for United Nations Affairs, May 10 to deliver points in reftel regarding UN Democracy Fund grand opportunities and to inquire about the status of Italy's $3 million pledge to UNDEF. Cornado noted that the GOI was aware of the grant [...] | 2006-05-11 07:05:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KDEM UNGA IT |
06ROME1435 | ITALIAN LABOR: BACK AT THE POLICY-MAKING TABLE [...] (SBU) Summary: The election of two former union leaders, Fausto Bertinotti of the Communist Renewal Party as President of the Chamber of Deputies, and Franco Marini of the Daisy Party as President of the Senate, will help bring Italian unions back to the table on social and economic policy f [...] | 2006-05-11 15:10:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ELAB IT |
06ROME1466 | ITALY SUPPORTS EXTENSION OF CW DESTRUCTION DEADLINE [...] (SBU) Poloff on May 10 received a response to Ref demarche from Giulio Picheca, director of the MFA's Disarmament Office. Picheca said Italy understands the rationale for the USG request and noted that there were other countries, such as Japan, in similar circumstances. Picheca said his offi [...] | 2006-05-15 08:29:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL IT CWC |
06ROME1539 | THE NOT-SO-BEAUTIFUL GAME: CORRUPTION SCANDAL [...] (SBU) Summary: A scandal over alleged match-rigging by the Turin football squad Juventus is snowballing into a broader investigation of corruption in Italy's football league. Many top soccer federation officials have resigned, and shares of publicly-traded teams have crashed. Some members of [...] | 2006-05-19 14:50:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON SCUL IT |
06ROME1552 | ITALIANS WELCOME FORMATION OF IRAQI GOVERNMENT [...] (SBU) Summary. The GOI welcomed the formation of the new Iraqi Government and pledged to continue support for Iraqi reconstruction and democratic development. Newly elected Prime Minister Prodi, who was critical of the war, and newly-appointed Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema issued individua [...] | 2006-05-22 14:21:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KDEM KPAO IZ IT |
06ROME1585 | GOI INQUIRY REGARDING ITALIAN SATELLITE LAUNCH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: Embassy requests Department assistance to follow up on several pending export license requests for U.S.-origin components for the Italian Space Agency's (ASI) AGILE scientific satellite mission, which ASI would like to launch from India in October. The Min [...] | 2006-05-24 11:56:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC TSPA KFPC ETRD IT IN |
06ROME163 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: FAO UPDATE ON TURKEY AND THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. ON JANUARY 13, USMISSION UN ROME STAFF MET WITH JOSEPH DOMENECH, FAO CHIEF VETERINARY OFFICER, AND MEMBERS OF HIS STAFF TO DISCUSS THE CURRENT SITUATION IN TURKEY AND NEEDS THERE. ALSO DISCUSSED WAS THE OUTLOOK FOR ARMENIA, AZERBAIJAN AND GEORGIA. FOR TURKEY, DOMENECH STATE [...] | 2006-01-18 11:05:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID CASC SENV SOCI TBIO TU UP AM AJ GG FAO WHO AVIAN INFLUENZA |
06ROME1661 | LINATE AIRPORT: GOI WANTS TO WAIT ON CONSULTATIONS [...] (U) Summary: In response to ref A letter from DAS John Byerly, ENAC Director General Silvano Manera stated his agency wants to wait on holding bilateral consultations until the new GOI has a chance to review Linate airport restrictions. End summary. New GOI Will Review Linate Rules -------- [...] | 2006-06-05 13:52:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR IT |
06ROME1767 | ITALY WITH EU CONSENSUS ON INDIGENOUS PEOPLES [...] (SBU) New Zealand Deputy Head of Mission Adele Bryant, Australian Deputy Head of Mission Angus MacKenzie, and Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA Office Director for Human Rights Laura Carpini May 22, emphasizing our joint concerns with the draft UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous [...] | 2006-06-15 07:00:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL IT |
06ROME209 | WFP LIST D CHAIR [...] (SBU) Summary. On January 13, Danish Ambassador Poul Skytte Christoffersen, 2005 President of the World Food Program (WFP) Executive Board and chair of WFP's List D countries (OECD),convened his last session as List D Chair. The meeting was called to appoint a new List D chair. The United [...] | 2006-01-23 10:14:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC EAID WFP |
06ROME2093 | P5+1 INCENTIVE PACKAGE FOR IRAN: NO SURPRISE TO [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-21 14:45:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER PHUM EUN KNNP SNAR IR IT |
06ROME2157 | ITALY'S TRADE AND INVESTMENT RELATIONS WITH SOMALIA [...] The MFA reports Somalia remains a political priority for Italy (ref A),an assertion bolstered by Italy's providing over 21 million euro in foreign assistance in 2005-2006 and Italy's membership in the Somalia Contact Group. That said, aside from some foreign assistance, Italy's economic ties [...] | 2006-08-01 13:09:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ETRD SO SW IT |
06ROME2188 | ITALY: 61ST UNGA HIGH LEVEL ATTENDANCE INITIAL [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-03 16:17:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL OTRA OVIP KSEP UNGA |
06ROME2191 | ITALY WIDENS THE WELCOME MAT FOR IMMIGRANTS [...] (SBU) Summary. The Prodi government has been surprisingly proactive on immigration issues since it took office in May 2006. The Council of Ministers today will introduce legislation to cut from ten to five years the time needed for immigrants to qualify for citizenship and will offer, for th [...] | 2006-08-04 10:22:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ELAB SMIG IT |
06ROME2217 | ITALIAN TRADE AND INVESTMENT IN LIBYA [...] (U) The importance of Libyan oil and gas to the Italian electricity industry has ensured a steady stream of trade and investment between the two countries, notwithstanding Libya's sometimes difficult business environment. Italian trade and investment outside the energy sector is virtually no [...] | 2006-08-08 08:50:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV ENRG ETRD LY IT |
06ROME2258 | ITALY SEES HRC LEBANON SESSION AS UNPRODUCTIVE [...] (SBU) August 9 Poloff delivered reftel points to MFA Acting Office Director for Human Rights Francesco De Stefani, stressing that a UN Human Rights Council (HRC) Special Session on Lebanon would be a distraction that could undermine UN Security Council (UNSC) efforts to bring about a cessation [...] | 2006-08-10 15:07:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IS LE MOPS PHUM PREL PTER IT |
06ROME2433 | ITALY TO PLEDGE 30 MILLION EUROS FOR LEBANON AT STOCKHOLM [...] (U) Acting EconMinCouns and Econoff met with Federica Ferrari Bravo, Office Director for the Middle East and Balkans in the MFA's Bureau of Cooperation and Development (BCD) August 30 to deliver reftel points. 2. (U) Ferrari Bravo stated that the GOI will pledge 30 million euro at the A [...] | 2006-08-30 15:34:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID LE SW IT |
06ROME255 | ITALY OPEN TO MUTUAL SUPPORT OF INCB CANDIDATES [...] (U) Poloff presented reftel dipnote and CV of Melvyn Levitsky, U.S. candidate for re-election to the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB),to Enrico Valvo, head of the MFA Counterterrorism Policy Unit January 25. Highlighting Amb. Levitsky's extensive experience, Poloff stressed that [...] | 2006-01-27 16:35:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL AORC UNCND UN IT |
06ROME28 | ITALY'S BUDGET: SQUEEZED BY ELECTION-YEAR SPENDING [...] On December 22, Parliament approved the 2006 budget which includes euro 27.5 billion in spending cuts and new revenue measures to shrink the deficit/GDP ratio to 3.8 percent (Italy's EU ceiling for 2006). Italy's budget process faced the double pressure of EU deficit ceilings, and front-loaded [...] | 2006-01-04 17:05:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ELAB PGOV IT KPRP |
06ROME3205 | ANTI-COUNTERFEITING TRADE AGREEMENT (ACTA): ITALY [...] (SBU) The GOI is interested in further discussing a possible ACTA, but underscores that Italy is committed to working within existing multilateral organizations and arrangements (i.e., the WTO and EU),and would have to evaluate very carefully adhering to any agreement outside these arrangeme [...] | 2006-12-01 09:32:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV KIPR PGOV IT |
06ROME3243 | ANTI-COUNTERFEITING TRADE AGREEMENT (ACTA): [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 4. 2. (SBU) The presumed GOI lead for ACTA, Fabrizio Pagani, Chief of Staff to the Undersecretary to the Prime Minister, has asked whether there will be an ACTA "launch" session in January. He has also asked whether Washington agencies have [...] | 2006-12-07 09:33:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV KIPR PGOV IT |
06ROME328 | GOI SAYS JUDICIAL REFORM WILL NOT REDUCE IPR [...] (U) Summary: The Italian Ministry of Justice, in a written reply to the Ambassador, has firmly rejected U.S. copyright industry arguments that recent judicial reforms will hamper the prosecution of intellectual property crimes. Contrary to the claims of the Recording Industry Association of [...] | 2006-02-03 14:29:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD EINV IT EUN |
06ROME3354 | ITALY, UN ASSESSMENTS: EU DOESN'T WANT TO GET [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-21 14:41:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMGT AORC PREL UNGA |
06ROME339 | ICAO: ITALY "POSITIVE" ON VOSS CANDIDACY [...] (SBU) Econoff delivered reftel demarche to Roberto Pietrosanto and Stefano Nicoletti, two office-director-level officials in the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Directorate for Multilateral Economic and Financial Cooperation. Both said the GOI would not make a final decision on who to vot [...] | 2006-02-06 07:58:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR PREL IT AVIATION FAA |
06ROME3397 | BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECK ON [...] (SBU) Emboffs met with Mario Barbetti, General Manager of Pansystem s.r.l., in Rome December 27. (Note: Reftel lists the company's name as "Pansystems." Please note correct company name is "Pansystem s.r.l.") 2. (SBU) Barbetti began by wondering why the USG was reviewing one order (DT [...] | 2006-12-29 13:27:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC KOMC IT |
06ROME344 | SERBIAN AMBASSADOR: ITALIAN MESSAGES ON KOSOVO [...] (SBU) Summary. Serbia and Montenegro Ambassador Darko Uskokovic told Poloff that the GOI has given a balanced message to Belgrade and Pristina as the Kosovo status talks prepare to get underway. He noted that the Italian MFA has urged both sides to remain open as during the negotiations and [...] | 2006-02-06 12:03:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SR MW YI IT EUN |
06ROME346 | CODEL KING DISCUSSES OLYMPIC SECURITY, [...] (U) Transmission of this cable was delayed pending CODEL clearance. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: CODEL King met January 12 with Under Secretary to the Council of Ministers Gianni Letta and SIPDIS Minister of Interior Giuseppe Pisanu. Both Letta and Pisanu described U.S.-Italian cooperation in the [...] | 2006-02-06 14:51:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL IT |
06ROME347 | ITALY WILL PUSH FOR ACTION ON CARICC PROJECT [...] (SBU) Poloff took advantage of Ref demarche to approach Enrico Valvo of the MFA's Counterterrorism Policy Unit (which also covers counternarcotics issues) and gauge Italian sentiment ahead of the Feb. 7-9 meeting. Valvo said Italy fully agrees with USG goals for the CARICC meeting. The GOI b [...] | 2006-02-06 17:22:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR KCRM IT EUN ANTITERRORISM FORCE PROTECTION |
06ROME361 | TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS -- USG SITUATION [...] (SBU/NF) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games as of 02/07/2006. 2. (SBU/NF) USG interagency Joint Operations Center (JOC) numbers (24/7) are: 39-011-55-99-793/794/564 (tel); 011- [...] | 2006-02-07 16:52:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS ITALIAN POLITICS |
06ROME377 | TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS--USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games as of 02/08/2006. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following [...] | 2006-02-08 15:49:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER OLYMPICS |
06ROME384 | ITALY,S PARLIAMENT PASSES "SARBANES-OXLEY". [...] SUMMARY. On December 23 Italy's Senate passed the financial market oversight reform bill, two years after the massive Parmalat fraud scandal and just following the resignation of Bank of Italy (BOI) Governor Fazio. The bill leaves in place the five regulatory authorities: antitrust, central [...] | 2006-02-09 11:50:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ELAB PGOV IT KPRP |
06ROME390 | TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS--USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games as of 02/09/2006. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following [...] | 2006-02-09 16:10:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER OLYMPICS |
06ROME407 | TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS--USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games as of 02/12/2006. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following [...] | 2006-02-12 11:46:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER OLYMPICS |
06ROME487 | TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS: USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following numbers: USG [...] | 2006-02-17 10:28:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER OLYMPICS |
06ROME503 | TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS: USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following numbers: USG [...] | 2006-02-18 10:54:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER OLYMPICS |
06ROME504 | TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS: USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following numbers: USG [...] | 2006-02-19 10:47:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER OLYMPICS |
06ROME556 | ITALY: 2005/2006 REPORT TO CONGRESS ON ALLIED [...] The following is Embassy Rome,s contribution to the 2005 ) 2006 Report to Congress on Allied Contributions to the Common Defense. Post understands from Reftel, Paragraph 6, that DOD will secure significant quantitative data, including defense spending data, from other sources. Post will prov [...] | 2006-02-23 09:42:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | JA KS KU MCAP PREL QA SA US MARR IT TC NATO |
06ROME568 | TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS: USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following numbers: USG [...] | 2006-02-24 09:48:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER OLYMPICS |
06ROME583 | ITALY'S DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE IN DECLINE [...] (U) SUMMARY: In view of Italy's extraordinary 27.6% cut in 2006 foreign assistance from 2005 levels, DCM called on Guiseppe Deodato, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Director General for Development, recently to hear his views and ensure continued good cooperation on development assistance. [...] | 2006-02-24 15:35:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN IT IRAQI FREEDOM AFGHANISTAN |
06ROME587 | TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS: USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following numbers: USG [...] | 2006-02-26 09:22:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER OLYMPICS |
06ROME594 | TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS: USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (U) This is the final sitrep from the USG office supporting U.S. participation in the Turin Winter Olympics. The Closing Ceremonies of the 2006 Winter Olympic Games concluded on a high note on 02/26/2006, as IOC officials hailed the 17-day Olympic Games as a major success. Italian security ef [...] | 2006-02-27 10:27:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER OLYMPICS |
06ROME599 | 2006 TIP REPORT: ITALY [...] Below is the 2006 Trafficking in Persons Report for Italy. Answers are keyed to questions in reftel. The Embassy point of contact is Labor Counselor Candace Putnam, telephone: 39-06-4674-2327, fax 39-06-4674-2623. OVERVIEW -------- 2. (SBU) 21.A. Italy is a country of destination an [...] | 2006-02-27 15:21:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB IT HUMAN RIGHTS EUN |
06ROME692 | GOI: EVERGREEN CAN'T SELF-HANDLE AT GROTTAGLIE [...] (U) In response to ref A demarche, Gennaro Bronzone, Deputy Chief of Air Regulatory Service at ENAC, Italy's aviation regulatory agency, told Econoff that the GOI cannot allow Evergreen to conduct cargo self-handling operations because, as a low-traffic airport, Grottaglie is not subject to li [...] | 2006-03-06 13:24:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR IT FAA AVIATION |
06ROME697 | BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE CHECK ON [...] (SBU) EconOff and FSN met Nicola Ruccia, Chief Operating Officer of Air One, and Alfredo Pozzi, Director of Research and Development of A-Technology, January 30 and February 27, respectively. Air One and A-Technology both denied knowledge of the license application 05-962149, and plans for th [...] | 2006-03-06 15:46:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN IT BLUE LANTERN |
06ROME698 | SURVEY OF ITALIANS' VIEWS ON FOREIGN ASSISTANCE [...] Against the backdrop of April's national elections and a four-year drop in foreign assistance, Inter Press Service News Agency reported the results of a recent survey February 17 indicating most Italians favor using Italian budgetary resources to fight global poverty, rather than increasing m [...] | 2006-03-07 08:45:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN IT ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS |
06ROME699 | BIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION: FRANCESCO OLIVIERI, WTO [...] (U) In January, the Italian Government appointed Francesco Olivieri as Special Adviser on WTO issues to Deputy Productive Activities Minister (Foreign Trade Minister) Adolfo Urso. Olivieri had been Ambassador to the Italian Mission to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development [...] | 2006-03-07 09:50:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINR PREL PGOV IT |
06ROME759 | TURIN 2006 PARALYMPIC GAMES - USG SITUATION [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following numbers: US [...] | 2006-03-10 15:57:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER PARALYMPIC GAMES |
06ROME769 | TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS: USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Paralympic Games. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following numbers: [...] | 2006-03-11 11:04:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER PARALYMPIC GAMES |
06ROME770 | TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS: USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following numbers: USG [...] | 2006-03-12 12:21:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER PARALYMPIC GAMES |
06ROME771 | TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS: USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following numbers: USG [...] | 2006-03-13 10:22:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER PARALYMPIC GAMES |
06ROME806 | TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS: USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following numbers: USG [...] | 2006-03-14 16:15:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER PARALYMPIC GAMES |
06ROME810 | TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS: USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following numbers: USG [...] | 2006-03-15 10:45:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER PARALYMPIC GAMES |
06ROME827 | TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS: USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following numbers: USG [...] | 2006-03-16 11:16:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER PARALYMPIC GAMES |
06ROME849 | TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS: USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following numbers: USG [...] | 2006-03-17 11:29:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER PARALYMPIC GAMES |
06ROME860 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: WEEKLY UPDATE ON FAO ACTIVITIES [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 16, USMISSION UN ROME staff met with various members of FAO's Animal Production and Health Division (AGA) and Emergency Operations and Rehabilitation Division (TCE) for an update on Avian Influenza (AI) operations worldwide as well specific country programs. Much of t [...] | 2006-03-17 16:59:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU EAGR EAID CASC SENV SOCI TBIO FAO WHO AVIAN INFLUENZA |
06ROME865 | TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS: USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following numbers: USG [...] | 2006-03-18 11:13:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER PARALYMPIC GAMES |
06ROME868 | TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS: USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following numbers: USG [...] | 2006-03-19 11:28:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER PARALYMPIC GAMES |
06ROME869 | TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS:USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. KEY POINTS ----------------- 2. (U) This is the final Situation Report from the USG office supporting U.S. participation in the Tu [...] | 2006-03-20 12:08:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER PARALYMPIC GAMES |
06ROME943 | ITALY: TAKEOVERS SHAKE-UP BANKING SECTOR [...] (SBU) The December 2005 resignation of Bank of Italy (BOI) Governor Antonio Fazio, and the appointment of reformist Mario Draghi, has raised expectations that a wave of bank mergers will sweep Italy in 2006. French bank BNP-Paribas made the first move, taking over Banca Nazionale del Lavoro [...] | 2006-03-28 09:13:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ELAB PGOV IT KPRP ITALIAN POLITICS |
06ROME996 | The Economy, But Not Economic Reform, Begins [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: Italy's electoral campaign has begun to focus almost exclusively on incumbent Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's Achilles heel: the economy. Center-left challenger Romano Prodi threw Berlusconi on the defensive during a nationally televised debate March 14 that focu [...] | 2006-04-03 08:36:00 | Embassy Rome | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON IT ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS |
06SANAA1116 | "THE BLEEDING MUST STOP": FIRST FEMALE [...] (SBU) Summary. On April 12, Ambassador met with Sumaya Raja, Yemen's first female presidential candidate (reftel). Raja explained that she was running as an independent candidate on an anti-corruption platform. She hopes to generate support from alienated groups, especially young voters. Am [...] | 2006-04-19 08:08:00 | Embassy Sanaa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KDEM KWMN YM |
06SANAA1147 | AN ECONOMIC AND FOOD SECURITY ISSUE SHOULD AVIAN [...] (U) Summary: Even though there are currently no reported cases of Avian Influenza (AI) in Yemen, Ministry of Agriculture (MAI) officials are extremely concerned AI will breakout in Yemen soon. To assist the Republic of Yemen Government (ROYG),the USG has to date: provided US$8,500 in reagents [...] | 2006-04-24 03:31:00 | Embassy Sanaa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR KFLU YM |
06SANAA1213 | AN ECONOMIC AND FOOD SECURITY ISSUE SHOULD AVIAN [...] (U) Summary: Even though there are currently no reported cases of Avian Influenza (AI) in Yemen, Ministry of Agriculture (MAI) officials are extremely concerned AI will breakout in Yemen soon. To assist the Republic of Yemen Government (ROYG),the USG has to date: provided US$8,500 in reagents [...] | 2006-05-02 12:59:00 | Embassy Sanaa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR KFLU YM |
06SANAA1769 | (SBU) COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR INTERAGENCY [...] (SBU) Embassy Sanaa grants country clearance and welcomes the visit of S. Witten, C. Camponovo, S. Walker, A. Liotta and T. Monheim from 16 to 19 June. Security Clearance information is on file. 2. (SBU) Control Officer for the visit will be Joey Hood who can be contacted at all times th [...] | 2006-06-14 12:50:00 | Embassy Sanaa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMGT OTRA |
06SANAA223 | SANAA'S HIP NEW CAFE BULLDOZED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On January 30, bulldozers ripped through the patio of Zorba's Cafe, an establishment that had rapidly become a popular hang-out for both locals and foreigners. Zorba's expatriate owners had high hopes that opening the first sidewalk cafe in Sanaa would allow them to recoup thei [...] | 2006-02-01 12:53:00 | Embassy Sanaa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON PGOV SOCI YM COM |
06SANAA2697 | ELECTIONS SITREP 2: ORDERLY VOTING CONCLUDES, [...] (SBU) Polls officially closed across Yemen at 2000L. International and local observers contacted by post universally agreed that voting was conducted in a generally peaceful and orderly manner. There were no reports of widespread violence and unconfirmed reports of isolated incidents were f [...] | 2006-09-20 18:04:00 | Embassy Sanaa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM YM |
06SANAA2700 | ELECTIONS SITREP 2: ORDERLY VOTING CONCLUDES, [...] (SBU) Polls officially closed across Yemen at 2000L. International and local observers contacted by post universally agreed that voting was conducted in a generally peaceful and orderly manner. There were no reports of widespread violence and unconfirmed reports of isolated incidents were f [...] | 2006-09-23 04:48:00 | Embassy Sanaa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM YM |
06SANAA583 | ADEN JEWISH CEMETERY IN STATE OF DISREPAIR, HELP [...] This is an action request. Please see paragraph 6. 2. (SBU) Summary. In February, post received a letter from a contact stating his concerns over the possible destruction of a Jewish cemetery in Aden. The contact claimed that unknown individuals had destroyed a section of the wall surr [...] | 2006-03-07 11:20:00 | Embassy Sanaa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KIRF YM |
06SANAA916 | POST SUPPORTS OPIC INVESTMENT IN YLNG [...] SUMMARY: In this cable, Post provides comments on the Overseas Private Investment Corporation,s (OPIC) support for the Yemen Liquefied Natural Gas (YLNG) project, as requested in Ref A. YLNG is crucial for Yemen's economy, with considerable benefits for American companies. The ROYG has gener [...] | 2006-04-03 09:35:00 | Embassy Sanaa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EINV EPET ECON YM |
06SANAA926 | FREEDOM AGENDA BRINGS DOWN GOVERNMENT: 2006 FIRST [...] SUMMARY: The Freedom Agenda had a dramatic impact in Yemen within the last quarter, resulting in significant advances in fighting corruption, women's representation in government, independence of the judiciary, and other key areas. Post marshaled a multilateral initiative to pressure President [...] | 2006-04-04 13:34:00 | Embassy Sanaa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KDEM KMPI KMCA ECON PHUM YM |
06SANJOSE1 | SCENESETTER: CODEL BURTON IN COSTA RICA [...] (U) SUMMARY: Embassy San Jose warmly welcomes CODEL Burton on its January 10 ) 12 visit to Costa Rica. The delegation's visit comes at a time when the main issue in the bilateral relationship is the United States-Central American-Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR). The debate [...] | 2006-01-03 14:59:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN ETRD CS |
06SANJOSE1059 | PRESIDENT ARIAS TO CODEL BURTON: "FOREIGN AID IS [...] (SBU) During a May 6 dinner with CODEL Burton, then President-elect Oscar Arias lamented Costa Rica's inability to qualify for most U.S. foreign aid, and concluded that "foreign aid is dead in Washington." Arias stated several times that the U.S. and other Western governments need to change t [...] | 2006-05-16 17:49:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL CS VZ |
06SANJOSE1106 | COLOMBIAN PRESIDENT URIBE DISCUSSES FREE TRADE [...] (SBU) Summary: In a May 8 meeting with the six members of CODEL Burton on the margins of Oscar Arias's presidential inauguration, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe urged rapid U.S. Congressional action on a free trade agreement with Colombia. He said that a failure to act quickly would bolst [...] | 2006-05-19 22:13:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ETRD CS CO |
06SANJOSE1195 | OAS/GA: COSTA RICA RESPONSE TO VENEZUELAN [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel talking points on May 31 to Carlos Cordero, Director of Multilateral Policy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Cordero stated that Costa Rica's delegation to the OAS General Assembly meetings will be Foreign Minister Bruno Stagno, Amb. Jose Joaquin Chaverri, Dir [...] | 2006-05-31 22:33:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON MX CS VZ |
06SANJOSE1203 | COSTA RICA RESPONSE TO IRAQ GOVERNMENT FORMATION [...] (SBU) Poloff sent reftel talking points on May 22 to Carlos Cordero, Director of Multilateral Policy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In a meeting with Poloff on May 31, Cordero indicated that Costa Rica did not issue any statement regarding the new Iraqi government, nor are there any pla [...] | 2006-06-02 14:46:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL CS |
06SANJOSE1254 | COSTA RICA - 2006 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND [...] (U) SUMMARY. The Embassy is aware of two outstanding American business claims against the Government of Costa Rica (GOCR). Since our last report in January 2005, the GOCR has made little effort to resolve these investment disputes despite Embassy efforts to urge conciliation or arbitration t [...] | 2006-06-07 17:30:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV KIDE EFIN PGOV PREL ECON CS |
06SANJOSE1427 | ARIAS TOURS EUROPE, CALLS FOR DEBT FORGIVENESS AND [...] (SBU) President Oscar Arias recently toured Europe for 13 days, meeting with political and business leaders in three countries. He once again brought forth his Costa Rica Consensus notion for debt forgiveness, and used several occasions to call for free trade and the elimination of farm subs [...] | 2006-06-23 22:21:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON EFIN CS |
06SANJOSE181 | COSTA RICA: UNIVERSALIZATION OF THE FRAMEWORK [...] (SBU) Summary: The MFA told us that the Framework Treaty on Democratic Security in Central America stands no chance of ratification in Costa Rica without substantial modifications. Negotiations on modifying the treaty took place three years ago, and Costa Rica is willing to restart those neg [...] | 2006-01-25 22:26:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL MARR MCAP CS |
06SANJOSE1815 | COSTA RICA: DEMARCHE ON UN HIGH LEVEL DIALOGUE [...] (SBU) On August 16, PolCouns and Poloffs met with Carlos Cordero, Director of Multilateral Policy at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and Guisella Sanchez, head of the Human Rights Division at the MFA, to discuss talking points from reftel delivered to Cordero on August 4. 2. (SBU) San [...] | 2006-08-17 18:32:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF SMIG UNGA CS |
06SANJOSE1913 | COSTA RICA ON THE P5+1 INCENTIVE PACKAGE FOR IRAN [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-30 00:42:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM KNNP IR EU AORC CS |
06SANJOSE193 | ARIAS LIKELY TO WIN PRESIDENCY, BUT WITHOUT [...] (U) Reputable polls conducted over the last six months show Oscar Arias, who was president 1986-90, with a consistent and commanding lead to be reelected president on February 5. Polls taken in late January show Arias, considered a centrist candidate, to have the support of 45-49 percent of [...] | 2006-01-26 22:16:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV CS |
06SANJOSE204 | "COSTA RICA CONSENSUS:" OSCAR ARIAS'S [...] (SBU) Summary: Oscar Arias, the likely next president of Costa Rica, appears poised to call for a "Costa Rica Consensus," a debt-relief initiative that would be a centerpiece of a promised "active and progressive" foreign policy. He plans to convene an international summit in San Jose to pe [...] | 2006-01-27 22:38:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON EAID CS |
06SANJOSE2113 | NATIONAL GUARD STATE PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM FOR COSTA [...] (U) See action request, para 7. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Public Security Minister Berrocal is enthusiastic about the National Guard,s State Partnership Program (SPP). Using his relationship with Governor Richardson, which dates from their service as UN Permreps, Berrocal believes he has a partn [...] | 2006-09-25 19:50:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR PGOV SNAR XK CS |
06SANJOSE2263 | COSTA RICA REESTABLISHING TIES TO ARAB WORLD; ALSO [...] SUMMARY: Costa Rica has restored diplomatic relations with Egypt, Kuwait, Bahrain and Yemen, following its decision to move its embassy in Israel from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv. The GOCR also plans to open embassies in India and Singapore. The GOCR will use these newly-expanded ties to seek addi [...] | 2006-10-14 10:32:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL XF BA EG KU YMCS |
06SANJOSE2312 | PORT WORKERS PROTEST CONCESSIONS, TEST GOCR RESOLVE [...] A show-down between the government and unionized dock workers in the country,s Atlantic ports may serve as a harbinger of GOCR resolve and capacity for dealing with promised mobilization against the country,s CAFTA-DR commitments. Since September 23, the government and port workers have been [...] | 2006-10-20 19:38:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ECON PGOV CS |
06SANJOSE2316 | 128 CHINESE AND PERUVIAN MIGRANTS INTERCEPTED BY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: October 11-18, in an international, inter-agency operation involving the Costa Rican Coast Guard (SNGC),the US Coast Guard, the Peruvian Air Force, the GOCR's Directorate of Immigration (and MOTR Plan participants in Washington),128 Chinese and Peruvian intending immigrants we [...] | 2006-10-23 14:10:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL KCRM CS PE |
06SANJOSE2431 | ANTI-CAFTA PROTEST IN COSTA RICA: TACTICAL VICTORY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 23 and 24, a two-day strike and associated demonstrations against CAFTA ratification took place throughout Costa Rica. The peaceful demonstrations fell short of organizers, expectations and disruptions in basic services and transit were largely avoided. Costa Rican [...] | 2006-10-31 23:51:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PGOV CS |
06SANJOSE2543 | COSTA RICA NOT LIKELY TO OPPOSE CUBA EMBARGO [...] (SBU) Late afternoon of November 7, Polcouns discussed reftel talking points regarding the Cuba embargo resolution and the proposed Australian human rights amendment with Antonio Alarcon, chief of staff for Minister of Foreign Affairs Bruno Stagno. Post also delivered talking points to the Mi [...] | 2006-11-09 16:59:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | UNGA PREL PHUM UN CS |
06SANJOSE2581 | CARIBBEAN PORT SLOWDOWN ENDS POSITIVELY FOR [...] (U) SUMMARY: On October 27, a month-long standoff between dockworkers in the Caribbean ports of Limon and Moin ended. A full strike over the last four days of the slowdown added to the financial losses the region was already suffering, causing a cruise ship with 3,000 passengers to cancel a p [...] | 2006-11-15 10:33:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ECON PGOV CS |
06SANJOSE2614 | COSTA RICAN RESPONSES TO UN-RELATED DEMARCHES [...] (U) On November 14, PolCouns and Poloff met with Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials to discuss pending Third Committee country-specific human rights resolutions, the upcoming International Law Commission election, and the recent Costa Rican UNGA votes concerning Cuba. In attendance were D [...] | 2006-11-17 19:54:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ILC PHUM PREL UNGA UNHRC CS |
06SANJOSE2778 | GWOT: COSTA RICAN COLLECTION OF IDENTIFYING [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-18 22:26:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV PINR CVIS ASEC KVPR CS |
06SANJOSE2799 | COSTA RICA ON UN SCALE OF ASSESSMENTS [...] (SBU) PolOff discussed reftel points with the Foreign Ministry's Director for Multilateral Affairs, Carlos Cordero, on December 18. Cordero claimed to be unaware of any G-77 position or proposals for increasing the dues ceiling from 22 to 25 percent. Cordero stated that Costa Rica would prefe [...] | 2006-12-21 16:15:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNGA AMGT AORC CS |
06SANJOSE283 | ARIAS MAINTAINS SLIGHT LEAD THE DAY AFTER THE [...] (U) With 89 percent of the polls reporting by the afternoon of February 6, Oscar Arias of the National Liberation Party (PLN) has 40.5 percent of the vote for president and Otton Solis of the Citizens' Action Party (PAC) 40.3 percent. With only 3,250 votes separating the two candidates, the f [...] | 2006-02-06 23:15:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV CS |
06SANJOSE331 | ELECTION RESULTS EMBOLDEN ANTI-CAFTA-DR FORCES [...] (U) Public sector labor unions and other opponents of CAFTA-DR are trying to capitalize on the February 5 election results to stop treaty ratification in Costa Rica. They claim that the better-than-expected showing for presidential candidate Otton Solis, a treaty critic, nullifies the Legisla [...] | 2006-02-10 23:24:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ELAB PGOV PREL CS |
06SANJOSE410 | SOLIS ALLEGES "SERIOUS ANOMALIES AND VIOLATIONS" [...] (U) On the eve of finishing the recount of presidential ballots (and Oscar Arias returning to the lead),rival Otton Solis cried foul in a televised address to all Costa Ricans. Solis claimed "serious anomalies and violations" in the voting but did not make a direct accusation of fraud. He u [...] | 2006-02-22 23:26:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL CS |
06SANJOSE592 | KEVIN CASAS, SECOND VICE-PRESIDENT-ELECT [...] (U) Summary: Kevin Casas, chosen by Oscar Arias to be his second vice presidential running mate, will come into the third highest political position in the country on May 8 with scant political credentials. Only 37 years old, Casas is an academic and researcher who has never held office. Int [...] | 2006-03-14 20:28:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINR PGOV CS |
06SANJOSE727 | PAC REITERATES FRIENDSHIP, BUT REMAINS STEADFAST [...] On March 24, Ambassador Langdale hosted a breakfast for the newly elected legislative deputies from the Citizens' Action Party (PAC) at the residence. Conversation was dominated by the U.S.-Central America-Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR),with all of the deputies-elect sti [...] | 2006-04-04 14:59:00 | Embassy San Jose | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV CS |
06SANSALVADOR1013 | EL SALVADOR: HERMOSA MANUFACTURING CASE REMAINS [...] This is an action request; see para. 7. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Hermosa Manufacturing Co., a Salvadoran owned and operated apparel manufacturer, ceased operations in May 2005, leaving more than 250 workers jobless and liabilities of USD 825,000 in outstanding wages, severance payments, and unp [...] | 2006-04-20 13:55:00 | Embassy San Salvador | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ES ETRD PGOV |
06SANSALVADOR103 | TACA AIRLINES FINDS HOME FIELD ADVANTAGE IN THE [...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified. Not for Internet Distribution. 2. (U) Summary: The Supreme Court of El Salvador has ruled that the Civil Aviation Authority (AAC) of El Salvador violated the constitutional rights of TACA International Airlines S.A. (TACA) in allowing Compania Panamena [...] | 2006-01-12 21:52:00 | Embassy San Salvador | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAIR ES |
06SANSALVADOR1085 | SALVADORAN APPOINTED WORLD BANK MANAGING DIRECTOR [...] On April 21, 2006, World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz named Salvadoran Juan Jose Daboub as a Managing Director of the World Bank. Daboub was one of ex-President Flores' most trusted advisors, and he served as Chief of Staff and Minister of Finance during Flores' term from 1999-2004. He is [...] | 2006-04-25 21:23:00 | Embassy San Salvador | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IBRD PINR ECON EAID EFIN ES |
06SANSALVADOR1088 | NEEDED CENTRAL BANK RESTRUCTURING NOT FORTHCOMING [...] (SBU) Summary. El Salvador adopted the dollar as legal tender in 2001, but the Central Bank still maintains institutional vestiges of a monetary authority, issuing short-term and long-term debt and keeping on its balance sheet more than $700 million in government debt. Completing the institu [...] | 2006-04-26 15:01:00 | Embassy San Salvador | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ES |
06SANSALVADOR1615 | GOES SEEKS EMBASSY SUPPORT WITH DHS ON DEPORTATION [...] (SBU) Summary: Senior GOES officials appealed to Ambassador on June 14 for help with El Salvador's deportations-related agenda with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Ambassador spoke with DHS Assistant Secretary Julie Myers to discuss the issue of DHS financial support for document pr [...] | 2006-06-21 20:30:00 | Embassy San Salvador | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ES |
06SANSALVADOR1864 | 61ST UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY: HIGH-LEVEL ATTENDANCE [...] (SBU) On July 20, Poloff spoke with Protocol Officer of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Herbert Caceres. Caceres indicated that the Salvadoran delegation plans to arrive September 18 and depart September 23. They will travel via Taca Airlines and the port of entry will be John F. Kenn [...] | 2006-07-25 15:42:00 | Embassy San Salvador | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KSEP PREL OTRA OVIP ES |
06SANSALVADOR190 | EL SALVADOR: GOES CANDIDATE FOR UN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] Embassy is in receipt of a letter from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs indicating that the GOES will nominate Ambassador Roberto Mejia Trabanino for a 2007-2010 position on the UN Human Rights Committee, the elections for which will take place September 9, 2006 in New York. Trabanino has ser [...] | 2006-01-25 15:08:00 | Embassy San Salvador | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ES PGOV PHUM PREL UN |
06SANSALVADOR2051 | EL SALVADOR: PROGRESS WITH LABOR MINISTRY IN KEY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In the span of less than a month, El Salvador's Ministry of Labor has made moves to establish the official status of the airport maintenance workers union (SITEVMAIES) and the telecommunications workers union (SITCOM). The former case had proven controversial and attracted in [...] | 2006-08-18 18:24:00 | Embassy San Salvador | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ES ETRD PGOV PREL |
06SANSALVADOR2142 | EL SALVADOR: LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY RATIFIES ILO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: El Salvador's Legislative Assembly on August 24 voted unanimously to ratify International Labor Organization (ILO) Conventions 87 and 98 regarding freedom of association and the right to organize and bargain collectively, as well as Conventions 135 and 151 dealing with protect [...] | 2006-08-31 20:59:00 | Embassy San Salvador | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EIND ELAB ES ETRD PGOV PHUM PREL |
06SANSALVADOR2181 | SALVADORAN PAYMENT OF IATTC DUES AND LETTER FOR SECRETARY [...] (U) SUMMARY: Econoff delivered reftel demarche on non-payment of Inter-American Tropical Tuna Comission (IATTC) contributions to the Center for the Development of Fisheries and Aquaculture (CENDEPESCA) director Manuel Fermin Oliva and Fisheries Coordinator Sonia Salavarria. They understand th [...] | 2006-09-06 20:55:00 | Embassy San Salvador | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIS SENV ES |
06SANSALVADOR235 | EL SALVADOR VIEWS ON MESOAMERICAN ENERGY INITIATIVE [...] (SBU) The Government of El Salvador (GOES) has expressed interest in the Mesoamerican Energy Initiative (PIEM) and will participate in related working groups, but the GOES appears to be not yet convinced of the feasibility of the proposal or its benefits for Central America. After the Mexica [...] | 2006-01-31 00:12:00 | Embassy San Salvador | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET ECON ES |
06SANSALVADOR2562 | EL SALVADOR: MFA SAYS WILL SUPPORT CONSENSUS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-10-25 12:06:00 | Embassy San Salvador | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM SMIG OAS MX ES |
06SANSALVADOR2587 | EL SALVADOR: LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY PASSES 505 [...] (SBU) On October 26, the Legislative Assembly passed the 505 Agreement, with 44 in favor, none against, and the remainder abstaining. ARENA's 34-seat delegation was joined by 5 PCN deputies and 5 PDC votes in favor, while the FMLN abstained after criticizing U.S.-Salvadoran military cooperat [...] | 2006-10-26 21:06:00 | Embassy San Salvador | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ES MASS MARR |
06SANSALVADOR2652 | EL SALVADOR: DEMARCHES ON LEBANON AND ANTI-ISRAELI [...] (SBU) On November 1, Poloff delivered reftel demarches to Amb. Guillermo Melendez, Director General for Foreign Policy at the MFA, and Mario Rivera, Head of Multilateral Affairs. They replied that, bearing significant changes to the resolutions' text, El Salvador was unlikely to change its vo [...] | 2006-11-03 18:43:00 | Embassy San Salvador | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNGA IS ES LE PHUM |
06SANSALVADOR2653 | EL SALVADOR: DEMARCHE ON UNSCR 1718 OBLIGATIONS ON [...] No summary [...] | 2006-11-03 18:45:00 | Embassy San Salvador | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM ES |
06SANSALVADOR2914 | EL SALVADOR TO CO-SPONSOR FINNISH RESOLUTION [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-08 16:38:00 | Embassy San Salvador | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTIA PHUM PREL SU UN ES |
06SANSALVADOR2962 | EL SALVADOR: UNGA VOTE ON DEC 19 [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-18 18:44:00 | Embassy San Salvador | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM UNAUS ES |
06SANSALVADOR2963 | EL SALVADOR: UN SCALE OF ASSESSMENTS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-18 18:45:00 | Embassy San Salvador | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMGT AORC PREL UNGA ES |
06SANSALVADOR515 | FMLN CHALLENGES CAFTA IN COURT [...] (U) On March 1, the FMLN made good on its rhetoric and challenged the constitutionality of the U.S.-Central America Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR),which entered into force for the United States and El Salvador that same day. In an event staged for political effect, FMLN [...] | 2006-03-02 14:50:00 | Embassy San Salvador | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PGOV ES |
06SANSALVADOR531 | EL SALVADOR 2006 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT [...] (SBU) The following is Post,s submission for the 2006 Trafficking in Persons Report. The format tracks paragraphs 21 to 24 in reftel. Post POC is INL Country Director J. Brian Duggan, 011-503-2501-2037. For OMB purposes, Duggan (FS-03) spent 10 hours compiling the following information. Sen [...] | 2006-03-03 16:04:00 | Embassy San Salvador | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB ES |
06SANSALVADOR794 | SALVADORAN ASSEMBLY APPROVES FINAL CAFTA CHANGES [...] (U) Ministry of Economy Trade Policy Director Johanna Hill told Econcouns late this afternoon that El Salvador's Legislative Assembly did today approve the awaited reform to the CAFTA-DR text to waive Chapter 22.5's 90-day waiting period for entry into force for other CAFTA signatories. Legal [...] | 2006-03-23 22:35:00 | Embassy San Salvador | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PGOV ES CAFTA |
06SANSALVADOR953 | INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY THIEVES REACT VIOLENTLY TO [...] (U) On Friday, April 7, vendors of pirated optical media in downtown San Salvador, joined by suspected FMLN-linked militants, launched violent protests, looting and burning several small stores and causing damages estimated at more than $200,000. More than four hours after the protests began [...] | 2006-04-10 20:40:00 | Embassy San Salvador | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ECON ES CAFTA |
06SANSALVADOR963 | U.S. Ambassadors Outline Agenda for Central [...] (SBU) WHA Assistant Secretary Tom Shannon, Ambassador to El Salvador Douglas Barclay, Ambassador to Guatemala James Derham, Ambassador to Belize Robert Dieter, Ambassador to Panama William Eaton, Ambassador to Honduras Charles Ford, Ambassador to Costa Rica Mark Langdale, and Ambassador to Ni [...] | 2006-04-11 20:16:00 | Embassy San Salvador | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON |
06SANTIAGO1761 | CHILE UNABLE TO EXPLAIN IPR REGIME TO USTR [...] (SBU) Summary. Assistant USTR Eissenstat visited Santiago August 10-11 as part of Chile's Out of Cycle Review under the Special 301 Process. Eissenstat met with a panel from the Ministries of Health and Foreign Affairs and patent office. The GOC was unable to explain how its system provides I [...] | 2006-08-17 20:36:00 | Embassy Santiago | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ECON ETRD PREL CI |
06SANTIAGO1889 | ENERGY NEEDS MOVE CHILE TO CONSIDER BIOFUELS, [...] (U) Summary. Chile has felt its energy dependency more strongly this year than usual. From spiking world oil prices to the occasional cutoff of gas from Argentina, there has been nothing but bad news on energy. As part of an effort to diversify energy sources and to boost foreign direct inve [...] | 2006-09-06 15:45:00 | Embassy Santiago | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EPET EAGR SENV CI |
06SANTIAGO2054 | CHILE INITIATES INVESTIGATION WITH AIM OF APPLYING [...] Post has received Chilean Diplomatic Note No. 3018 dated September 15, 2006. Note 3018 announces the Government of Chile's initiation of an investigation to determine the possible application of safeguard measures on the import of a number of categories of U.S. dairy products. The head of the [...] | 2006-10-02 12:17:00 | Embassy Santiago | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD CI |
06SANTIAGO2118 | CHILE ENERGY PROFILE AND POTENTIAL FOR BIOFUELS [...] (U) Summary. Energy security is a top priority for Chile. It has limited domestic energy resources and depends on imports. Argentina's own gas crisis forced Chile to encourage new investment in energy generation, from both conventional and non-conventional sources. The GOC has implemented an [...] | 2006-10-11 12:34:00 | Embassy Santiago | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EPET EAGR SENV CI |
06SANTIAGO2140 | CHILE EXPLAINS COUNTER-TERRORISM EFFORTS TO G-8 [...] (SBU) Summary. In a local G-8 CTAG meeting, the chiefs of Chile's National Intelligence Agency and the Director of intelligence for the National Investigative Police agreed Chile must seek to disrupt any activity that could benefit terrorists. They said they had no conclusive evidence of a te [...] | 2006-10-12 20:50:00 | Embassy Santiago | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV SNAR EFIN RU CI |
06SANTIAGO227 | CODEL MCCONNELL DISCUSSES CHILE'S MIXED SUCCESS [...] (SBU) Summary. Chile,s privatized pension administration (Administradoras de Fondos de Pensiones--AFP) superintendent Guillermo Larrain briefed Codel McConnell on the strengths and weaknesses of Chile,s pension system at a January 13 meeting in Santiago. Chile,s three-pillared pension system, [...] | 2006-02-01 21:02:00 | Embassy Santiago | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV PGOV CI |
06SANTIAGO2289 | STAFFDEL MEACHAM -- NGO COMMUNITY HEALTHY AND VIBRANT IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Senior Senate Foreign Relations Committee Staff Member Carl Meacham met with Chileans across the political spectrum October 25-27 to discuss challenges facing Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) in Chile. NGO representatives emphasized there is freedom to operate and no onero [...] | 2006-10-31 19:45:00 | Embassy Santiago | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KPAO PREL PHUM OVIP CI |
06SANTIAGO2303 | CHILE'S SPECIAL 301 OUT-OF-CYCLE REVIEW: POST [...] (SBU) Summary: Post recommends that Chile be placed on the Special 301 Priority Watch List. Nearly three years after the entry into force of the U.S.-Chile Free Trade Agreement, the GOC's institutional framework and political commitment to IPR protection, whether for pharmaceutical patents or [...] | 2006-11-03 12:14:00 | Embassy Santiago | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD KIPR PREL CI |
06SANTIAGO2358 | CHILE'S APEC PRIORITIES: ASIAN FREE TRADE AREA, [...] (SBU) Summary. The Ambassador delivered ref A demarche on U.S. APEC priorities to FM Foxley on November 7. FM Foxley listed Chile's priorities for the upcoming APEC summit as discussion of an Asia-Pacific Free Trade Area, a jumpstart for the Doha round, and a renewed push for APEC reform. En [...] | 2006-11-09 18:38:00 | Embassy Santiago | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PREL CI |
06SANTIAGO2479 | CHILE: HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING CLEARANCE FOR CYBER [...] Per reftel A, Embassy verifies that as of November 29, 2006, the Department of State possesses no credible evidence or information of gross human rights violations by the Chilean candidates cited in reftel B. 2. Acting Counselor for Economic and Political Affairs, Harry R Kamian, certifie [...] | 2006-12-01 13:34:00 | Embassy Santiago | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PINR SNAR KCRM CI |
06SANTIAGO2482 | CHILE: LEGATT REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR [...] This is an action request. See paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. Action request: Embassy requests the Department assist in conducting a Leahy Amendment Human Rights review, as well as a general name check of the following Chilean candidate who has been nominated for training in the U.S., pursuant t [...] | 2006-12-01 21:16:00 | Embassy Santiago | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MASS PREL PHUM CI |
06SANTIAGO302 | MARCH 11 BACHELET INAUGURATION: LIMITED SPACE FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: The Foreign Ministry advised resident diplomatic missions in writing on February 9 that the number of spaces available for foreign delegations at Michelle Bachelet's presidential inauguration on March 11 will be very limited. For the inauguration ceremony itself, only heads of [...] | 2006-02-09 21:33:00 | Embassy Santiago | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PREL PGOV CI INAUGURATION |
06SANTIAGO307 | CHILEAN GOVERNMENT LOGISTICS GUIDANCE AND REQUESTS [...] (U) On February 9, Post received a diplomatic note from the Foreign Ministry regarding President-elect Michelle Bachelet's inauguration on March 11. The note includes details on the number of delegation members who will be able to attend the inaugural events, as well as administrative and log [...] | 2006-02-10 21:55:00 | Embassy Santiago | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PREL PGOV AMGT CI INAUGURATION |
06SANTIAGO338 | MARCH 11 BACHELET INAUGURATION: UPDATE ON FOREIGN [...] (SBU) Below is Post's latest information on attendance by foreign delegations for certain countries at President-elect Michelle Bachelet's March 11 inaguration ceremony, as provided by resident diplomats: --Argentina: President Kirchner. --Bolivia: President Morales. --Brazil: President [...] | 2006-02-15 20:56:00 | Embassy Santiago | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PREL PGOV CI INAUGURATION |
06SANTIAGO401 | SECURITY ENVIRONMENT PROFILE QUESTIONNAIRE (SEPQ) [...] (SBU) DEMONSTRATIONS A. ARE THERE ANY ETHNIC OR RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES IN COUNTRY CAPABLE OF CARRYING OUT SIGNIFICANT ANTI-AMERICAN DEMONSTRATIONS? Yes. A small community of Arab-Muslim descent could demonstrate against U.S. interests. Members of this community have participated in de [...] | 2006-02-27 20:11:00 | Embassy Santiago | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMGT ASEC PTER |
06SANTIAGO411 | MARCH 11 BACHELET INAUGURATION: FEB 28 UPDATE ON [...] (SBU) Below is Post's latest information on attendance by foreign delegations for certain countries at President-elect Michelle Bachelet's March 11 inauguration ceremony, as provided by resident diplomats: --Argentina: President Kirchner. (Arrives March 10, departs March 11, Sheraton Hotel [...] | 2006-02-28 21:15:00 | Embassy Santiago | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PGOV PREL CI |
06SANTIAGO431 | CHILE: BRITISH GAS WINS BID TO BUILD [...] (U) Summary: British Gas (BG) beat out other international competitors to secure a USD 400 million contract to build a liquid natural gas (LNG) facility on Chile's central coast at Quintero. Chile's state-owned oil company ENAP hopes this mega-project will reduce Chile's dependence on Argent [...] | 2006-03-02 13:19:00 | Embassy Santiago | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG PREL CI |
06SANTIAGO438 | CHILE: SUBMISSION FOR SIXTH ANNUAL TIP REPORT [...] (SBU) Summary: Chile continues to improve in its efforts to identify, investigate and prosecute trafficking in persons, and to protect trafficking victims. The number of known or suspected cases of cross-border trafficking in Chile is low, although there is a problem with domestic commercial [...] | 2006-03-02 22:30:00 | Embassy Santiago | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB GTIP CI |
06SANTIAGO439 | CHILE: SUBMISSION FOR SIXTH ANNUAL TIP REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-02 22:30:00 | Embassy Santiago | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB GTIP CI |
06SANTIAGO774 | GROWING TRADE BETWEEN CHILE AND CHINA [...] (U) Summary. Chile's economic ties with China are increasing. In 2005, China became Chile's number two trading partner, consuming over 12 percent of Chile's exports, and the two countries signed a partial trade agreement. Chinese companies are increasing their investment in Chile, with the f [...] | 2006-04-13 16:51:00 | Embassy Santiago | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EMIN ETRD EINV CI CH |
06SANTIAGO776 | CHILE: COPPER INDUSTRY REVIEW [...] (U) Summary: Copper represents nearly half the value of Chile's exports and remains a key component of Chile's economy. Record copper prices explain in part Chile's real GDP growth rates of over six percent in 2004 and 2005. Chile currently produces 37 percent of the world's copper, more tha [...] | 2006-04-13 17:11:00 | Embassy Santiago | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EMIN ETRD EINV CI CH |
06SANTODOMINGO1112 | FIRST ISSUE OF DOMINICAN MFA'S POLICY MAGAZINE [...] Summary: Haiti is the focus of the Dominican Republic,s first number of a new foreign policy review released at the close of 2005. Among texts are President Leonel Fernandez's speech at a seminar where he presented his priorities for the border region and other quasi-official statements. The [...] | 2006-04-03 21:24:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM SMIG DR |
06SANTODOMINGO1123 | FIRST ISSUE OF DOMINICAN MFA'S POLICY MAGAZINE [...] Summary: Haiti is the focus of the Dominican Republic,s first number of a new foreign policy review released at the close of 2005. Among texts are President Leonel Fernandez's speech at a seminar where he presented his priorities for the border region and other quasi-official statements. The [...] | 2006-04-04 14:11:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM SMIG DR HA |
06SANTODOMINGO1225 | DOMINICAN ELECTIONS #7: OPPOSITION SAYS IT WILL [...] (SBU) This is the 7th cable in a series reporting on the May 16 congressional and municipal elections in the Dominican Republic: Opposition Says It Will Win Elections, Then Address Reforms (SBU) At a political party breakfast with the Ambassador and Embassy colleagues April 6, leaders of th [...] | 2006-04-12 11:38:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ETRD DR PTER |
06SANTODOMINGO1350 | DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: EXTRADITION TREATY ASSAILED BY [...] Over the last two weeks, sensationalist tabloid "El Nacional" has attacked the United States for purported violations of the 1910 U.S.-Dominican Extradition Treaty. According to sources cited by "El Nacional," U.S. extradition requests for individuals whose alleged crimes are punishable by se [...] | 2006-04-21 20:00:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CJAN SNAR KCRM DR |
06SANTODOMINGO1566 | DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: NSC-DIRECTED [...] (SBU) Summary: Dominican President Fernandez is continuing his low-profile approach to Cuban issues. Interaction is limited to educational, sports, and technical exchanges, visits to Cuba by Dominican tourists, and residence in Cuba by a few church-affiliated social workers. There are approxi [...] | 2006-05-12 15:07:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CU ETTC DR ETRD PREL |
06SANTODOMINGO1598 | DOMINICAN ELECTIONS #11: MAY 16 ELECTIONS OUTLOOK [...] (SBU) This is the 11th cable in a series reporting on the Dominican Republic's May 16 congressional and municipal elections: May 16 Elections Outlook On the eve of the May 16 congressional and municipal elections, Central Elections Board (JCE) president Luis Arias has credibly assured the [...] | 2006-05-16 00:43:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | DR PGOV |
06SANTODOMINGO1635 | DOMINICAN ELECTIONS #12: RULING PLD GAINS IN [...] (SBU) This is the 12th cable in a series reporting on the Dominican Republic's May 16 congressional and municipal elections: Ruling PLD Gains in Congressional Elections Dominican voters went to the polls May 16 to elect 32 senators, 178 representatives, 151 mayors and vice mayors, and 96 [...] | 2006-05-18 00:24:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | DR PGOV |
06SANTODOMINGO1652 | DOMINICAN GOVERNMENT SAYS IT WANTS TO RENEGOTIATE [...] (U) In late April the Dominican Commission for the Renegotiation of Contracts in the Electric Sector publicized its formal decision to seek renegotiation of contracts signed by the government and electricity generators, alleging that technical flaws in the formulas are resulting in excessive [...] | 2006-05-18 22:31:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | DR ENRG ECON EINV EFIN |
06SANTODOMINGO1689 | DOMINICAN FM INVITES SECRETARY RICE TO REGIONAL [...] (SBU) Dominican Foreign Minister Carlos Morales Troncoso has formally invited Secretary Rice to attend a June 2-3 extraordinary meeting of the 8 countries that are members of the Central American System of Integration. The presidents of Colombia and Mexico are invited. Dominicans will consid [...] | 2006-05-23 17:43:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OPDC PREL DR ENRG |
06SANTODOMINGO1757 | DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON SEEKING [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered talking points on public support for Iraqi government formation completion to Dominican Ambassador for African and Middle Eastern Affairs, Jose Juan Hernandez Cimadevilla, on May 24. There was no substantive comment. HERTELL [...] | 2006-05-30 21:13:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM KPAO PREL PGOV IZ |
06SANTODOMINGO1919 | DHS WORK LEADS TO CSI CERTIFICATION FOR CAUCEDO, [...] (SBU) Embassy has been informed by Department of Homeland Security (DHS)/Customs and Border Protection (CBP) that the Dominican port of Caucedo has been designated as meeting the necessary requirements of the Container Security Initiative (CSI) and that DHS and Dominican Customs have agreed on [...] | 2006-06-07 19:32:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EWWT PGOV PINS PREL KCOR DR |
06SANTODOMINGO1955 | DOMINICAN REPUBLIC EMBRACES IACHR: PLACES JUDGE [...] (U) Long-time Foreign Ministry professional Dr. Radhys Abreu de Polanco was elected from among 6 candidates during the recent OAS General Assembly (June 4-6) to serve a term as judge on the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR). She is one of six judges; each has a term of six years wit [...] | 2006-06-12 20:16:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KJUS OAS DR HA |
06SANTODOMINGO2228 | AMBASSADOR'S CERTIFICATION FOR SWIFTSHIPS SALE TO [...] I have reviewed arrangements made by the Dominican authorities, at the suggestion of this Embassy, concerning the proposed sale to the Dominican Republic of four 46-foot Swiftships patrol vessels with financing from the U.S. Export-Import Bank. 2. The Dominican Navy, the Dominican Navy's sp [...] | 2006-07-07 11:53:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN SNAR BEXP MARR DR |
06SANTODOMINGO225 | DOMINICAN POLITICS II #15: THE EMERGING "PINK" [...] (U) This is the 15th cable in a series reporting on the second year of the administration of Dominican president Leonel Fernandez. Dominican Politics II #15: The Emerging &Pink8 Alliance - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - (U) Since October, the main opposition PRD has been negotiating [...] | 2006-01-19 21:09:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | DR PGOV |
06SANTODOMINGO243 | WHA DAS DUDDY VISITS THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC JAN [...] (U) Summary: Following his visit to Port au Prince, WHA DAS Patrick Duddy visited the Dominican Republic January 11-12 where he met President Fernandez (ref a),the congressional leadership, the Secretary of Foreign Affairs (ref b) and several other cabinet -level officials. Much of the dis [...] | 2006-01-23 18:35:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | DR PGOV PHUM PREL |
06SANTODOMINGO2465 | NEW DOMINICAN CRIME CONTROL INITIATIVES TAKE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Thousands of military soldiers joined police in joint nighttime patrols throughout the country this week in an effort to quell violent crime and enforce new curfews on the sale of alcohol. These initiatives, among others, were implemented by presidential decree this week in [...] | 2006-07-28 21:14:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | DR CASC PGOV PHUM SOCI ASEC KCRM |
06SANTODOMINGO2720 | DOMINICAN MFA OFFICIAL COMMENTS THAT "COMPACT WITH [...] (SBU) Summary. In response to shared points regarding the "Compact with the Cuban People," Embassy received a four page written response by Ambassador Danilo P. Clime, Director of the Caribbean Affairs Section of the Dominican Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Clime asserts in his response that, g [...] | 2006-08-24 12:56:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINR PREL CU DR |
06SANTODOMINGO273 | DOMINICAN POLITICS II #16: FERNANDEZ WARNS OF [...] (SBU) This is the 16th cable in a series reporting on the second year of the administration of Dominican president Leonel Fernandez. (The President's remarks on "balkanization" reflect the Dominican obsession with the thorny issue of dealing with Haitian migrants; ugly incidents suggest tha [...] | 2006-01-25 20:48:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL HA DR PHUM |
06SANTODOMINGO2769 | DOMINICAN POLITICS III #2: PRD: DEFEAT, THE [...] This is the second cable in our series on Dominican politics in the third year of the administration of President Leonel Fernandez. PRD: Defeat, the Preliminary to Renewal - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - (SBU) The decisive defeat of the Dominican Revolutionar [...] | 2006-08-25 20:46:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | DR PGOV PREL |
06SANTODOMINGO2785 | CALL ON NEW DOMINICAN ATTORNEY GENERAL RADHAMES [...] (SBU) On August 22, Ambassador Hertell, accompanied by DCM, poloff, NAS, RSO, and representatives from DHS, FBI, USAID, and the U.S. Marshals Service, met recently sworn-in Attorney General Radhames Jimenez Pena in a one-hour courtesy call also attended by members of the media. Jimenez, who l [...] | 2006-08-29 10:37:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL SNAR KCRM KJUS DR JIMENEZ |
06SANTODOMINGO287 | ALEMAN DEMARCHE TRIGGERS PLEDGE OF ACTION, BUT [...] (SBU) The issue of Nicaraguan - Dominican cooperation in investigating the movement of funds laundered by Nicaraguan ex-president Aleman is long-standing, with a USG-brokered meeting between Dominican and Nicaraguan Attorney Generals occurring as early as June 2005. Poloff discussed the case [...] | 2006-01-26 13:58:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KCRM KCOR DR NI |
06SANTODOMINGO2899 | OPEN SKIES IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC HELD HOSTAGE [...] (SBU) Summary. Although the Dominican Government signed the 1986 and the 1999 Air Trade Agreements between the United States and the Dominican Republic, the Dominican Congress never ratified them. According to Dominican civil aviation authorities, the agreements are not legally binding. Air [...] | 2006-09-08 11:07:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR DR |
06SANTODOMINGO2900 | DOMINICAN POLITICS III #3: BALAGUER COMMEMORATION: [...] This is the third cable in our series on Dominican politics in the third year of the administration of President Leonel Fernandez. (SBU) Summary. The commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of longtime president Joaquin Balaguer presented Dominican politicians with many difficul [...] | 2006-09-08 13:03:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | DR PGOV PREL |
06SANTODOMINGO292 | DEMARCHE ON UN REFORM DELIVERED TO DOMINICAN [...] (SBU) Ambassador delivered Ref A demarche to Foreign Minister Carlos Morales Troncoso on January 24 and left the general points (paras 4-5) as a non-paper, regarding UN reform priorities. Morales accepted the non-paper and acknowledged the importance of the issue of UN reform. He did not ask [...] | 2006-01-26 16:13:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KUNR DR PHUM UN ADCO |
06SANTODOMINGO2987 | IMF: DOMINICANS MISSING FISCAL TARGETS [...] (U) Summary: IMF resrep Erik Offerdal told the Ambassador on September 13 that the Dominican government has failed to meet fiscal targets so far this year and that the IMF told the Dominicans it expects the problem to be alleviated to keep the standby on track. The Dominican Republic missed it [...] | 2006-09-18 20:28:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EFIN DR |
06SANTODOMINGO3129 | DOMINICAN TEXTILES AND APPAREL - STATS AND [...] (U) Summary. Textile and apparel production represents an important part of the Dominican Republic's economy. Half of all companies in the Dominican Free Trade Zones (FTZs) are textile and apparel related companies and 98 percent of all Dominican textile and apparel companies are located in [...] | 2006-10-03 17:33:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD KTEX DR |
06SANTODOMINGO3188 | DOMINICAN PRESIDENT SAYS COUNTRY IS READY TO ACT [...] (SBU) On October 5 President Leonel Fernandez told the Ambassador that if CAFTA-DR is not implemented by January 1 it will be a failure for the country. He asked what needs to be done to secure entry into force by the end of the year. The Ambassador outlined a series of pending issues that mu [...] | 2006-10-06 20:47:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD DR |
06SANTODOMINGO3250 | CONTROVERSIAL PRIEST, BATEY ACTIVIST RECALLED TO [...] Sensitive but unclassified -- protect accordingly. 2. SUMMARY: Father Christopher Hartley, an outspoken and controversial advocate for worker rights on the Dominican sugar plantations (bateyes),has been unexpectedly recalled to New York. Church spokesmen claim that the recall was a routin [...] | 2006-10-13 17:56:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ELAB PHUM DR |
06SANTODOMINGO3321 | STAFFDEL MEACHAM: U.S. ASSISTANCE AND DOMINICAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Carl Meacham and Bernard Toon, Senior Professional Staff Members of the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, traveled to the Dominican Republic October 13-14. The visit's primary focus was Operation Enduring Friendship, a U.S. assistance program funded by Section 1206 resource [...] | 2006-10-23 21:00:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | DR PGOV PREL OVIP |
06SANTODOMINGO3324 | DECLARATION IN OAS ON U.S. BORDER SECURITY: [...] (SBU) On October 24, Ambassador delivered Reftel demarche to Foreign Minister Morales. Morales replied that he understands U.S. sensitivities on this issue, since the Dominican Republic has similar problems with the border it shares with Haiti. The Foreign Minister said that he agreed with t [...] | 2006-10-24 20:55:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | DR PGOV PREL PHUM SMIG |
06SANTODOMINGO333 | DOMINICAN PRESIDENT FERNANDEZ INVITES PRESIDENT [...] (SBU) Dominican President Leonel Fernandez has formally invited President Bush to attend a May 30-31 extraordinary summit meeting of the 8 countries members of the Central American System of Integration. The presidents of Colombia and Mexico will be invited. Dominicans will consider the pos [...] | 2006-01-31 21:01:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OPDC DR PREL XK CO MX |
06SANTODOMINGO3387 | DOMINICAN ELECTRICITY SERIES #2: INSISTING ON [...] No summary [...] | 2006-10-30 14:03:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG PREL EFIN DR |
06SANTODOMINGO3398 | LAW ENFORCEMENT DEVELOPMENT PROJECT PERIODIC [...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy Santo Domingo Law Enforcement Development program has continued to make significant progress in assisting the Dominican National police's (DNP) transition to a professional civilian authority. Police reform initiatives launched within the last year are consistent with n [...] | 2006-10-30 19:26:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM KJUS DR |
06SANTODOMINGO3409 | DOMINICAN ELECTRICITY SERIES #3: FINISH WHAT YOU [...] No summary [...] | 2006-10-31 20:55:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG PREL EFIN DR |
06SANTODOMINGO3438 | SANTO DOMINGO 2007 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL [...] The Dominican Republic (DR) is a major transit country for drugs from South America, with cocaine transiting to Europe, and both cocaine and heroin transiting to the United States. During 2006, the DR dramatically increased major seizures of narcotics such as heroin, cocaine and MDMA; continued [...] | 2006-11-03 20:53:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCOR SNAR KCRM DR |
06SANTODOMINGO3482 | AMBASSADORS HERTELL AND SANDERSON TOUR [...] (U) SUMMARY: On October 19 U.S. ambassadors to the Dominican Republic and to Haiti visited a "maquiladora" in the Haitian CODEVI Free Trade Zone (FTZ) owned by Dominican corporation Grupo M. The enterprise directly employs around 1,500 Haitian workers in garment assembly. It hopes to expand th [...] | 2006-11-13 16:59:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | DR PGOV PREL ELAB KTEX ECON ETRD EINV HA |
06SANTODOMINGO3521 | DOMINICAN POLITICS III #10: FERNANDEZ"S BIG [...] (U) This is the tenth cable in our series on Dominican politics in the third years of the administration of President Leonel Fernandez. 2. (SBU) Summary: President Fernandez has initiated a program to reform the constitution of the Dominican Republic, seizing the opportunity presented by a [...] | 2006-11-16 18:41:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | DR EAID ECON PGOV PHUM SMIG |
06SANTODOMINGO3642 | DOMINICAN VALIDATION STUDY REVEALS LOW [...] SUMMARY: Results of a completed validation study for the Dominican Republic suggest that three (3) to five (5) percent of Embassy's recently issued B1/B2 visa holders remain in the United States beyond the six months normally authorized under their visa classification. The study included app [...] | 2006-12-04 19:09:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS CMGT DR SMIG KFRD ETRD |
06SANTODOMINGO3649 | DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: TERRORIST LISTS [...] While the Dominican Republic maintains internal watch lists, it does not maintain a terrorist list as contemplated by reftel. BULLEN [...] | 2006-12-05 17:07:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETTC KTFN KVPR PREL PTER DR |
06SANTODOMINGO3655 | SCENESETTER FOR CODEL ENGEL VISIT TO THE DOMINICAN [...] (SBU) The United States Mission in the Dominican Republic warmly welcomes your planned December 8-10 visit to Santo Domingo. Space permitting, Ambassador Hans Hertell will greet you in Washington, DC on the day of your departure, and travel with you via milair to Santo Domingo. We have arrange [...] | 2006-12-06 11:00:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EAGR EPET PHUM PREF PREL ETRAD ECON DR |
06SANTODOMINGO3759 | CODEL ENGEL: HAITIAN ISSUES DOMINATE VISIT TO THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The December 9-10 Congressional visit led by Rep. Eliot Engel touched some of the most sensitive points in the Dominican psyche. The group had intended to learn about a range of issues, but their trip, truncated by a late departure from Washington, was defined in the Dominican [...] | 2006-12-18 18:42:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EAGR PHUM PREF PREL EWWT DR XL OREP ELAB |
06SANTODOMINGO427 | DOMINICAN AMBASSADOR: "TRANSFORMATIONAL DIPLOMACY" [...] (U) The Dominican ambassador to the United States sees Secretary Rice's concepts of "transformational diplomacy" as SIPDIS applicable to the danger Haiti presents to the international community, including to the Dominican Republic. He argues that since failing states threaten all, the inte [...] | 2006-02-08 17:22:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV DR HA |
06SANTODOMINGO508 | DOMINICAN ELECTIONS 2006 SERIES #1: LOOKING TOWARD [...] (SBU) This is the first cable in a series reporting on the upcoming elections in the Dominican Republic . Election Series #1: Looking Toward the May 16 Elections --------------------------------------------- ------------- On May 16 Dominican voters will choose all 32 senators, 178 repre [...] | 2006-02-13 17:57:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV DR |
06SANTODOMINGO592 | MESSAGE ON PALESTINIAN ASSISTANCE DELIVERED TO [...] Embassy on February 13 delivered reftel points on Palestinian assistance to MFA Africa/Middle East director Jose Juan Hernandez Cimadevilla. He expressed appreciation for the information, but had no immediate substantive reaction. Any subsequent reaction will be reported. HERTELL [...] | 2006-02-17 21:15:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL IS KPAL DR |
06SANTODOMINGO827 | DOMINICAN ELECTIONS 2006 SERIES #2: ALFREDO [...] (SBU) This is the second cable in a series reporting on the upcoming elections in the Dominican Republic . Alfredo Pacheco: Rising Star in Dominican Politics - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Opposition PRD National District president Cesar Cabrera gave politi [...] | 2006-03-09 11:03:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | DR PGOV PINR |
06SANTODOMINGO913 | DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: REPLY ON UN REFORM [...] (SBU) Embassy followed up to obtain a substantive response to the non-paper on UN reform that the Ambassador delivered to Foreign Minister Carlos Morales Troncoso on January 24. Acting UN affairs director Rhadys Abreu de Polanco informed us March 8 that our views had been duly considered. 2, [...] | 2006-03-14 11:37:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ADCO KUNR PHUM PREL DR UN |
06SANTODOMINGO976 | DOMINICAN ELECTIONS 2006 SERIES #4: POLL SHOWS [...] (U) This is the 4th cable in a series reporting on the upcoming elections in the Dominican Republic . Poll Shows Former Police Chief as One of the Most Popular Figures - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - President Leonel Fernandez [...] | 2006-03-21 16:49:00 | Embassy Santo Domingo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | DR |
06SAOPAULO1002 | SOUTHWEST BRAZIL: CATTLE CRISIS, POROUS BORDER, AND U.S. [...] (SBU) Consul General (CG) recently visited Brazil's southwestern border state of Mato Grosso do Sul. Meetings with representatives of the cattle ranching sector and government researchers shed light on an economic dichotomy in the Brazilian beef industry today: Drought conditions, market worr [...] | 2006-09-18 13:36:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAGR ETRD ENRG SENV KPAO EINV ECON BR |
06SAOPAULO102 | SAO PAULO VICE-MAYOR GILBERTO KASSAB: PFL INSIDER DISCUSSES [...] (SBU) Summary: Charge d'Affaires (CDA),accompanied by POLCOUNS, Sao Paulo Consul General, and Sao Paulo poloff, met January 19 with Sao Paulo Vice-Mayor Gilberto Kassab. The 45-year-old Kassab, an influential leader of the state Liberal Front Party (PFL),will serve as acting Mayor through th [...] | 2006-02-01 17:49:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR ECON BR |
06SAOPAULO1038 | WHA PDAS SHAPIRO'S MEETINGS IN SAO PAULO [...] (SBU) During a September 18-21 visit to Sao Paulo to attend the WHA ELO Conference, WHA PDAS Charles Shapiro met with a series of experts on questions of foreign policy, international trade, and socio-economic issues. Private sector representatives painted a gloomy economic picture, noting t [...] | 2006-09-27 16:34:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL EINV ETRD SOCI ECON BR |
06SAOPAULO1054 | EXPORTS, POPULISM AND OLD ALLIES: A TRIP TO PARANA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On a recent trip to the state of Parana just southwest of Sao Paulo, Consul General helped launch a Commerce Department initiative at the Port of Paranagua, which, according to Port officials and the state's governor, is being revitalized into a dynamic commercial sea link for [...] | 2006-10-02 18:18:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAGR ETRD EWWT EINV SCUL KPAO BR |
06SAOPAULO1069 | ALCKMIN AS PRESIDENT: THE END OF IDEOLOGY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In a friendly and candid discussion with the Ambassador, Joao Carlos Meirelles, a long-term advisor and the current campaign manager for PSDB presidential hopeful Geraldo Alckmin (Ref B),outlined the likely policies of an Alckmin government, as well as the strategy that the c [...] | 2006-10-06 16:39:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON ETRD KPLS BR |
06SAOPAULO1082 | AMBASSADOR SOBEL MEETS WITH PRIVATE SECTOR IN SAO PAULO [...] (U) Ambassador Sobel met with various business leaders and organizations during his September 26-28 visit to Sao Paulo. Septels report on Ambassador Sobel's meetings on education during this visit and his inauguration of a USAID-sponsored development project. The leader of an important indust [...] | 2006-10-11 12:53:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV EFIN EAGR EAID BR |
06SAOPAULO1105 | RIO GRANDE DO SUL: ELECTION RESULTS REFLECT VOTER [...] (SBU) For the first time in five presidential elections, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva failed to carry Rio Grande do Sul on October 1, losing by nearly 1.5 million votes to challenger Geraldo Alckmin. At the same time, incumbent Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB) Governor Germano Rigotto n [...] | 2006-10-17 17:58:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR BR |
06SAOPAULO1131 | AMBASSADOR SOBEL'S MEETING WITH SAO PAULO GOVERNOR-ELECT [...] (SBU) Summary: During an October 18 meeting with Governor-elect Jose Serra, Ambassador Sobel stressed the USG's interest in working with the state government on public security issues. Serra acknowledged that crime is a major challenge facing his administration and that there are many possibil [...] | 2006-10-23 16:37:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON KCRM BR |
06SAOPAULO1192 | PSDB STATE LEADER: LESSONS LEARNED FROM ALCKMIN CAMPAIGN; [...] (SBU) Sao Paulo State Deputy Sidney Beraldo told Poloff that state leaders of the Social Democracy Party of Brazil (PSDB) have been conducting a "lessons learned" exercise to identify what went wrong in ex-Governor Geraldo Alckmin's unsuccessful presidential campaign. One conclusion is that t [...] | 2006-11-14 11:48:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON PINR BR |
06SAOPAULO1202 | GOVERNOR LEMBO DISCUSSES POST-ELECTION POLITICAL LANDSCAPE [...] (SBU) During a lunch with the CG, Sao Paulo Governor Lembo predicted that President Lula will face some opposition from within his own party, and expressed concern that if Lula has difficulty sustaining a majority in Congress, he might resort to populist rhetoric, though probably not populist [...] | 2006-11-21 14:14:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR BR |
06SAOPAULO1206 | FAVORABLE TRENDS IN FIGHTING IPR PIRACY IN SAO PAULO [...] (U) Econoff met recently with Marcio Vaz Guimaraes de Souza Netto, the head of the Sao Paulo State Interagency Council to Combat Piracy, to discuss recent activities of the organization and new developments in the fight against piracy. The Council has been reaching out to law enforcement in o [...] | 2006-11-21 17:22:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD ECON KJUS BR |
06SAOPAULO121 | LULA'S GOVERNMENT IN THE CROSSHAIRS: A PT PERSPECTIVE ON [...] (SBU) Summary: Although they deny it, members of President Lula's Workers' Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores - PT) who attended the Sixth World Social Forum - Americas Region (WSF) in Caracas in late January had some difficult moments. The event became Hugo Chavez's show and Brazil was critici [...] | 2006-02-07 17:13:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PHUM SOCI ELAB BR |
06SAOPAULO1264 | PT EXPECTS LULA TO ADVANCE THE PARTY'S AGENDA [...] (SBU) Summary: Officials of President Lula's Workers' Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores - PT) downplayed reports of tensions between the President and his party. The PT considers the 2006 elections to have been a referendum on President Lula's record and his vision for the country and believe [...] | 2006-12-15 14:29:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR ECON PREL BR |
06SAOPAULO202 | LULA'S RECOVERY IN POLLS EXPOSES PSDB QUANDARY [...] (U) SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED - PLEASE PROTECT ACCORDINGLY. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (U) Recent polls showing President Lula recovering lost popularity have sounded alarms within the opposition Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB),which is struggling to nominate a candidate to o [...] | 2006-02-23 18:14:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR BR |
06SAOPAULO206 | LULA'S RECOVERY IN POLLS EXPOSES PSDB QUANDARY [...] (U) SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED - PLEASE PROTECT ACCORDINGLY. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (U) Recent polls showing President Lula recovering lost popularity have sounded alarms within the opposition Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB),which is struggling to nominate a candidate to o [...] | 2006-02-23 19:26:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR BR |
06SAOPAULO207 | Destruction of Pirated Software in Sao Paulo [...] (U) On 21 February 2006, the Business Software Alliance (BSA) sponsored the destruction of more than 500,000 pirated software discs outside Sao Paulo's Pacaembu Stadium. The contraband was displayed publicly and then ceremoniously destroyed by feeding discs into a wood chipper. This event hig [...] | 2006-02-23 19:27:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD KJUS BR |
06SAOPAULO215 | LEADER OF THE 1992 CARANDIRU PRISON MASSACRE ACQUITTED OF [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 15, Police Colonel Ubiratan Guimaraes was absolved of responsibility for the infamous 1992 Carandiru prison massacre by a Special Session of the Sao Paulo State Court of Justice. The Court overturned a 2001 grand jury sentence of 632 years in prison for Guimaraes. [...] | 2006-02-24 23:07:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV SOCI BR |
06SAOPAULO223 | CONTINUED DECLINE IN MOST VIOLENT CRIME IN SAO PAULO [...] (SBU) Summary: The Sao Paulo State Secretariat for Public Security released fourth quarter (October-December, 2005) crime statistics for the city of Sao Paulo, the Sao Paulo city outskirts, and the state as a whole. Statewide, violent crime decreased, including a marked decrease in homicide an [...] | 2006-03-02 18:32:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PGOV ASEC PHUM ECON SNAR BR |
06SAOPAULO245 | BRAZIL CRAWLS TOWARD DIGITAL TV [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. With the nominal March deadline set for the adoption of a digital television (DTV) standard, Brazilian officials remain divided on the issue, and the recent entry of the Brazilian Congress into the process will likely delay a final decision. Brazil is currently choosing a digit [...] | 2006-03-06 19:39:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ECON PGOV ETRD BEXP BR |
06SAOPAULO261 | The Ever-Rising Real Part II: The Emergence of Dutch [...] (U) This is the second of a two-part series on the macro-economic consequences of the recent rise in the Brazilian real. The first cable in the series, Brasilia 366, looked at the GOB's macro and debt management policies. This cable, authored by ConGen Sao Paulo, considers the effect of the [...] | 2006-03-10 19:58:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETRD BEXP ECON EINV PGOV BR |
06SAOPAULO269 | LEBANESE SUSPECT IN HARIRI ASSASSINATION ARRESTED [...] (U) This cable was coordinated with Embassy Brasilia. 2. (SBU) Sao Paulo State Civil Police arrested Rana Abdel Rahim Koleilat (PDOB Lebanon 23 JAN 1976) on March 12 based on an Interpol warrant for her involvement in the mid-2003 collapse of the Lebanese-based Al-Madina Bank. She is the [...] | 2006-03-13 20:22:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN PTER KCRM BR LE |
06SAOPAULO276 | CARDINAL HUMMES DISCUSSES LULA GOVERNMENT, THE OPPOSITION, [...] (U) During a March 10 courtesy call by Consul General, Claudio Cardinal Hummes spoke at length of the successes and failures of the Lula government; shared his views on the competition between Sao Paulo Mayor Serra and Governor Alckmin for the presidential nomination of the Brazilian Social Dem [...] | 2006-03-14 19:42:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SCUL ETRD ECON ELAB BR |
06SAOPAULO277 | CARDINAL HUMMES DISCUSSES LULA GOVERNMENT, THE OPPOSITION, [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-14 20:33:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SCUL ETRD ECON ELAB BR |
06SAOPAULO280 | LABOR LEADERS DIFFER OVER LULA GOVERNMENT, BUT MOST WORKERS [...] (SBU) During his March 6-7 visit to Sao Paulo, Labor Attache met with representatives of three major labor organizations and the ruling Workers' Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores - PT),as well as some academics specializing in labor issues. With the exception of representatives of the influen [...] | 2006-03-15 13:28:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ECON PGOV SOCI BR |
06SAOPAULO30 | PMDB Leader Ponders Party's Electoral Options [...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified - protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: Federal Deputy Michel Temer, national president of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB),believes that public disillusion with President Lula and the Workers' Party (PT) provides an opportunity for the PMDB to [...] | 2006-01-11 14:02:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINR PGOV ETRD BR |
06SAOPAULO316 | GERALDO ALCKMIN: TWO ADVISORS TALK ABOUT HOW HE BEAT SERRA, [...] (SBU) The March 14 announcement by the leadership of the opposition Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB) of the nomination of Sao Paulo Governor Geraldo Alckmin for President (ref A) represented the culmination of a two-month blitzkrieg by Alckmin's forces that apparently took party chieftai [...] | 2006-03-22 17:36:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR ECON ETRD BR |
06SAOPAULO319 | GANGS ON THE RISE IN SAO PAULO'S WOMEN'S PRISONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: According to the Director of Training for the Sao Paulo state prison system, street gang influence within Sao Paulo prisons has notably increased over the last three years. Particularly disturbing in this trend is that for the first time, prison officials see the influence of g [...] | 2006-03-22 17:50:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KCRM SOCI SNAR ASEC BR |
06SAOPAULO332 | LANDLESS MOVEMENT'S EARLY YEAR ACTIVITIES [...] (SBU) Land invasions led by the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (Landless Rural Workers Movement - MST) and allied groups have begun in the Sao Paulo Consular District (southern and part of southeastern Brasil) in anticipation of the annual Red April protests (ref A). Early Mar [...] | 2006-03-24 18:51:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR PREL ELAB PGOV PHUM ECON SOCI ASEC BR |
06SAOPAULO348 | SEVEN DEAD IN LATEST WAVE OF PCC-LED RIOTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Seven inmates died during a 21-hour rebellion that rocked a public jail in Sao Paulo state March 23-24. This deadly event occurred two days after a series of prison disturbances in four municipalities in the state, and is believed to have been organized by the powerful gang, [...] | 2006-03-29 19:09:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KCRM SOCI SNAR ASEC BR |
06SAOPAULO357 | ITAMARATY NEGOTIATOR TALKS TRADE [...] (SBU) EconOff recently attended an American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) event featuring Ambassador Regis Percy Arslanian, Director of International Negotiations for the Brazilian MFA (Itamaraty). Well-known to U.S. diplomats from his tenure as Brazilian DCM in Washington as well as his stewar [...] | 2006-04-03 19:19:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EAGR ECIN KIPR PGOV PREL BR |
06SAOPAULO360 | REP. ISSA'S MEETING WITH LEADERS OF LEBANESE COMMUNITY IN [...] (SBU) During the visit to Sao Paulo of CODEL Grassley (septels),Rep. Darrel Issa (CA) held a separate meeting with four leaders of Sao Paulo's Lebanese community. They discussed the size and activities of Brazil's Lebanese community as well as the influence of the broader Arab community on th [...] | 2006-04-04 13:59:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP PGOV PREL ETRD PTER EFIN BR LE |
06SAOPAULO387 | "TUCANO" TALKS CAMPAIGN, CHICKENS, CHINA [...] (U) Poloffs met April 3 with Christian Lohbauer, until recently a municipal official in the administration of Sao Paulo Mayor Serra and now a lobbyist for Brazil's poultry association. Lohbauer ventured some predictions about the upcoming presidential campaign, described some of the challenges [...] | 2006-04-10 11:40:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR TBIO PGOV PREL PINR ETRD BR CH |
06SAOPAULO400 | PSDB OFFICIAL EYES UPCOMING ELECTIONS [...] (U) Poloff and Political Assistant met April 7 with Sao Paulo Municipal Secretary of Government Aloysio Nunes Ferreira to discuss the local and national political scene following Mayor Jose Serra's resignation to run for Governor of Sao Paulo state (ref A). Nunes, who is close to Serra, was sa [...] | 2006-04-13 10:16:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR BR |
06SAOPAULO412 | U.S. CONSULATE GENERAL SAO PAULO UNDERGOES CRISIS [...] (U) SUMMARY: Selected staff of the U.S. Consulate General Sao Paulo participated in two-day crisis management training on March 30-31. Observations and recommendations, keyed to reftel para 2, A-H, follow in cable body. END SUMMARY. 2. (U) On March 30/31, selected staff of the U.S. Consul [...] | 2006-04-18 18:49:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AEMR CASC ASEC AFSI KCOM KESS OTRA BR |
06SAOPAULO415 | WASTED OPPORTUNITIES -- SAO PAULO BUSINESS TELLS A/S WAYNE [...] (SBU) E. Anthony Wayne, Assistant Secretary of State (A/S) for Economic and Business Affairs, visited Sao Paulo April 5-6 to participate in the World Economic Forum on Latin America. During his visit, he also had several meetings with Sao Paulo business leaders, who generally agreed that whil [...] | 2006-04-19 12:49:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV PREL ETRD EFIN EINV BR |
06SAOPAULO428 | ALCKMIN THE BETTER MANAGER, SAO PAULO BUSINESS TELLS A/S [...] (SBU) E. Anthony Wayne, Assistant Secretary of State (A/S) for Economic and Business Affairs, visited Sao Paulo April 5-6 to participate in the World Economic Forum on Latin America. While here, A/S Wayne also had several meetings with Sao Paulo business leaders. They indicated a general disa [...] | 2006-04-24 17:54:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON ETRD BR |
06SAOPAULO436 | CODEL GRASSLEY: FRANK DISCUSSIONS ON TRADE IN SAO PAULO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During its recent visit to Sao Paulo, CODEL Grassley engaged in vigorous and sometimes contentious discussions with representatives of Brazil's private sector over U.S. and Brazilian trade policies and different approaches to bilateral and multilateral trade negotiations. Braz [...] | 2006-04-25 18:18:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP PGOV PREL ETRD EAGR ECON ENRG BR |
06SAOPAULO449 | FEDERAL DEPUTY GREEHALGH SHARES VIEWS ON ELECTION CAMPAIGN, [...] (SBU) In a ninety-minute breakfast meeting with Consulate representatives, Federal Deputy Luiz Eduardo Greenhalgh (PT-SP) offered his insights on a number of current political issues. He said President Lula faces a tough fight for re-election and is concerned about his prospects in populous S [...] | 2006-04-28 18:30:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PHUM ELAB EAGR BR |
06SAOPAULO454 | TREASURY A/S LOWERY MEETS WITH SAO PAULO CONTACTS [...] (SBU) Summary: Treasury A/S Clay Lowery's interlocutors during an April 4 Sao Paulo visit pointed to problems obtaining financing and skilled labor, along with the high and complicated taxes, as hindering the development of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). A round-table with recipients of [...] | 2006-05-02 18:20:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL BR |
06SAOPAULO464 | MULTINATIONAL'S CONCERNS ABOUT BOLIVIAN GAS [...] (SBU) Summary: The Sao Paulo-based head of British Gas (BG) for South America expressed grave concerns about the May 1 Bolivian Government decree nationalizing natural gas production. Brazil's Petrobras was hit the worst of all the multinational companies, losing much of its revenue stream in [...] | 2006-05-03 14:04:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET EINV ECON PGOV PREL BL BR |
06SAOPAULO465 | 2006 ELECTIONS: A "RENT-A-PARTY" (PTB) POLITICIAN'S [...] (SBU) Sao Paulo former Governor Luiz Antonio Fleury Filho, now a Federal Deputy representing the Brazilian Labor Party (PTB),shared his views with Poloff on the upcoming national and state elections. DPO subsequently attended an event at AMCHAM where Fleury talked about his ideas for politica [...] | 2006-05-03 14:10:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR BR |
06SAOPAULO492 | SAO PAULO GOVERNOR CLAUDIO LEMBO TALKS ABOUT [...] (SBU) Sao Paulo Governor Claudio Lembo told us that despite press reports suggesting otherwise, his Liberal Front Party (PFL) will/will form an alliance with the Brazilian Social Democracy Party (PSDB) and will strongly support the presidential candidacy of PSDB Sao Paulo ex-Governor Geraldo A [...] | 2006-05-05 19:03:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR BR |
06SAOPAULO498 | SAO PAULO'S ARAB COMMUNITY: DIVERSITY AND DIVISIONS [...] (SBU) While the Lebanese Christian community in Sao Paulo is active in politics, the Arab community in general (Muslim and Christian) lacks political clout at the national level. In fact, our conversations with a number of Christian and Muslim leaders of Sao Paulo's large Middle Eastern comm [...] | 2006-05-09 16:00:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL KPAO KISL KIRF SOCI SCUL BR |
06SAOPAULO505 | A BUSY TWO WEEKS FOR LULA'S PARTY: PT READIES FOR CAMPAIGN [...] (SBU) The ruling Workers Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores - PT) held its National Encounter in Sao Paulo, April 28-30, in preparation for the election campaign. Delegates authorized President Lula and party leadership to enter into electoral alliances with any willing partners, excluding only [...] | 2006-05-10 18:55:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR ELAB EPET BR |
06SAOPAULO512 | SAO PAULO PERSPECTIVES ON BOLIVIAN GAS SITUATION [...] (U) Representatives of Sao Paulo's leading industrial federation indicate that while gas supplies from Bolivia remain stable after that country's May 1 hydrocarbons nationalization announcement (refs B-C),Brazilian industries relying on gas are very price-sensitive, and short-term cost increas [...] | 2006-05-11 18:42:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG ECON PGOV PREL EIND EINV BR |
06SAOPAULO516 | OPPOSITION ASSERTS CRISIS IN BRAZIL'S FOREIGN POLICY [...] (U) Brazil's foreign policy is going through its worst crisis in recent history, according to a number of leading diplomatic and academic experts tied to the opposition. Consul General (CG) attended a May 10 seminar on Brazil's foreign relations at the Fernando Henrique Cardoso Institute (IFH [...] | 2006-05-12 18:27:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ETRD BR |
06SAOPAULO526 | GANG WAGES WAR ON SAO PAULO POLICE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The notorious Sao Paulo organized crime gang First Capital Command ("PCC") waged a deadly and brutal assault against the police over the weekend, killing 44 officers and injuring another 27 in up to 180 attacks across Sao Paulo state. The police, in turn, killed 23 suspected cr [...] | 2006-05-15 20:28:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KCRM SOCI SNAR ASEC BR |
06SAOPAULO532 | SAO PAULO STREET WAR OVER, BUT WHO WON? [...] (U) SUMMARY: The three-night assault on Sao Paulo police forces by the organized crime gang PCC seemed to have ended Monday evening (May 15) as suddenly as it started. The daily newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo reported on Tuesday, May 16, that the PCC leadership called a truce after reaching an [...] | 2006-05-16 18:58:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KCRM SOCI SNAR ASEC BR |
06SAOPAULO543 | DEPUTY IZAR SPEAKS ABOUT THE ETHICS COUNCIL, THE CORRUPTION [...] (U) Federal Deputy Ricardo Izar, Chairman of the Chamber of Deputies' Ethics Council, is frustrated that so many corrupt Deputies have been exonerated by the full Chamber, but believes nonetheless that the political corruption scandal will have a healthy impact on Brazil's political culture. [...] | 2006-05-17 19:23:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR BR |
06SAOPAULO551 | SAO PAULO POLICE STRIKE BACK [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In reaction to a wave of violence orchestrated by the organized crime gang First Capital Command (PCC) which left over 100 persons dead including over 40 law enforcement officers, Sao Paulo police stepped up patrols and checkpoints on Tuesday and Wednesday (May 16-17) in certai [...] | 2006-05-18 20:05:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KCRM CASC SOCI SNAR ASEC BR |
06SAOPAULO573 | DUST SETTLES IN SAO PAULO AFTER VIOLENT CRIME WAVE [...] (U) SUMMARY: Criminal activities associated with last week's violent crime wave orchestrated by the organized criminal gang the First Capital Command (PCC) have all but ceased in and around Sao Paulo. A few random incidents that appear related were reported over the weekend, but in general, [...] | 2006-05-22 18:43:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KCRM CASC SOCI SNAR ASEC BR |
06SAOPAULO590 | SEMICONDUCTORS RETURN TO BRAZIL AFTER 15 YEARS [...] (U) American company Smart Modular Technologies (Smart) recently inaugurated its first semiconductor factory in Brazil. The Smart plant, which encapsulates imported finished memory wafers, is the first semiconductor facility in Brazil since the early 1990s when all microchip companies closed o [...] | 2006-05-30 12:05:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS EIND PGOV ETRD EINV BEXP BR |
06SAOPAULO623 | PMDB LEADER RULES OUT ALLIANCE WITH LULA [...] (SBU) Former Governor Orestes Quercia, Sao Paulo state chairman of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB),will support Senator Pedro Simon if he decides to run for President, but he considers it far more likely the PMDB will run no presidential candidate and will not ally with any par [...] | 2006-06-02 14:25:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR BR |
06SAOPAULO647 | ALCKMIN'S CAMPAIGN COORDINATOR CLAIMS LULA'S POLL NUMBERS [...] (SBU) Despite a series of recent opinion polls that show President Lula maintaining a lead of more than twenty points, with a chance to be re-elected in the first round, Geraldo Alckmin's campaign coordinator told Charg that the PSDB is methodically building grassroots political networks throu [...] | 2006-06-07 18:49:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL ETRD ECPS BR |
06SAOPAULO659 | ARGENTINE CG DISCUSSES REGIONAL INTEGRATION, CALLS FOR [...] (U) In a recent speech on Argentine-Brazilian bilateral relations, Argentine Consul General Vidal faulted regional asymmetries for Mercosul's disappointing economic performance (reftel) and proposed strengthening cultural ties as a means of achieving regional integration. Vidal points to indu [...] | 2006-06-12 11:30:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN ETRD PGOV PREL SCUL BR AR |
06SAOPAULO676 | PSDB INSIDER OFFERS "REALISTIC" ASSESSMENT OF ALCKMIN'S [...] (SBU) Though not sanguine about the odds, PSDB heavyweight Andrea Matarazzo thinks Geraldo Alckmin still has a chance to defeat President Lula in the election this October, provided that all the pieces fall into place. But the Assistant Mayor of Sao Paulo's downtown district thinks his party [...] | 2006-06-16 18:35:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR ECON BR |
06SAOPAULO689 | PMDB CHIEF AFFIRMS PARTY'S POSITION AS POWER BROKER BUT [...] (SBU) Michel Temer, President of the Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB),believes President Lula has done a masterful job of disassociating himself from the political corruption scandals that have crushed some of his closest advisers. He also has effectively expanded social programs t [...] | 2006-06-21 16:05:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR ECON BR |
06SAOPAULO692 | BRAZIL'S BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT [...] (U) SUMMARY: Viewed through the lenses applied by many business groupings, Brazil's "competitiveness" has been falling relative to its major emerging market peers, such as India and China. Numerous surveys of business leaders and some studies, including by the OECD, show Brazil falling in var [...] | 2006-06-22 15:15:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV KIPR PGOV ETRD BR |
06SAOPAULO708 | PCC FOILED IN ATTEMPTED ATTACKS ON OUTSKIRTS OF SP [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Sao Paulo state security officials reported on Monday, June 26, that police foiled several attacks against employees of detention facilities planned by Sao Paulo's notorious criminal gang the First Capital Command (PCC). State officials said imprisoned PCC leaders ordered stre [...] | 2006-06-27 18:14:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KCRM CASC SOCI SNAR ASEC BR |
06SAOPAULO722 | SAO PAULO MAYOR DISCUSSES PCC VIOLENCE, ELECTIONS, BOLIVIA [...] (SBU) Sao Paulo Mayor Gilberto Kassab told the Consul General (CG) June 29 that the recent gang violence in the city was a wake-up call to the public, which has responded in solidarity with the police. Kassab believes opposition candidate Geraldo Alckmin will have a hard time catching up with [...] | 2006-06-30 12:18:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR ECON ETRD EPET BR |
06SAOPAULO73 | ELECTION 2006: OPPOSITION PSDB TO DECIDE ON [...] (SBU) In a series of meetings in Sao Paulo on January 16- 20, Charge d'Affaires (CDA),Sao Paulo Consul General, Embassy PolCounselor and SP Poloff discussed the coming presidential election with the leading PSDB candidates - Sao Paulo city mayor Jose Serra (who is still undeclared) and Sao Pa [...] | 2006-01-26 16:48:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON ETRD PINR BR |
06SAOPAULO734 | ALCKMIN UNVEILS GOVERNMENT PROGRAM [...] (SBU) The opposition PSDB government program unveiled at the party's June 11 national convention cannot be characterized as a page-turner, but it contains a number of interesting proposals and initiatives. Its centerpiece, as is to be expected under the circumstances, is economic development [...] | 2006-07-03 17:49:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR ECON ETRD BR |
06SAOPAULO742 | PCC KILLS PRISON GUARDS AT HOME, POLICE NAB DOZENS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ten days after a raid that left 13 of their compatriots dead and five apprehended, the PCC has carried out almost daily, precise assassinations and attempts on prison guards at their homes around Sao Paulo. Five guards have been killed and several other law enforcement person [...] | 2006-07-07 16:52:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KCRM CASC SOCI SNAR ASEC BR |
06SAOPAULO751 | SNAPSHOT OF PRISON CHAOS IN SAO PAULO STATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: For the past month, Sao Paulo prison officials have been housing over 1400 prisoners in an open yard designed to hold about 160 people in the Araraquara prison in northern Sao Paulo state. No AmCits are currently housed in Araraquara, but one AmCit is being held in somewhat si [...] | 2006-07-10 17:58:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KCRM CASC SOCI SNAR ASEC BR |
06SAOPAULO771 | VIOLENCE CONTINUES TO DIMINISH IN SAO PAULO NIGHT OF JULY [...] (U) Sao Paulo and neighboring cities suffered a third night of attacks the evening of July 12/morning of July 13 from the organized criminal gang First Capital Command (PCC),though the level of violence continued to fall. There were only about 17 attacks (no deaths) reported overnight: two in [...] | 2006-07-14 18:32:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KCRM SOCI SNAR ASEC BR |
06SAOPAULO782 | SAO PAULO LEBANESE AND MUSLIM REACTIONS TO EVENTS IN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Federation of Muslims Associations in Brazil sent a letter to the Consul General in Sao Paulo expressing "immense concern" regarding the recent military actions conducted by Israel in Lebanon, especially as it affects Brazilians currently in Lebanon for tourism and to visit [...] | 2006-07-18 19:08:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SOCI ASEC PREL BR |
06SAOPAULO785 | BRAZIL: SENATOR CORNYN VISITS TRI-BORDER REGION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Senator John Cornyn of Texas and his Foreign Affairs Advisor Russ Thomasson visited Brazil and Paraguay on July 1-3 in order to study issues involving the tri-border region. The Senator sits on several subcommittees that provide oversight for matters involving the region, incl [...] | 2006-07-20 18:35:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP PGOV PREL ETRD PTER EFIN BRPA |
06SAOPAULO810 | IMPROVING POLL NUMBERS BUOY OPTIMISM OF ALCKMIN'S CAMPAIGN [...] (SBU) Opposition presidential candidate Geraldo Alckmin's campaign coordinator told Consul General that the campaign is coming together well and that support for Alckmin is growing, as reflected in recent polls. Joao Carlos Meirelles said that critical alliances at the state level are firming [...] | 2006-07-28 16:36:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR ECON EAGR BR |
06SAOPAULO862 | LULA'S BALANCING ACT: PT LEADER OUTLINES PARTY'S ELECTORAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Sao Paulo State Legislator Renato Simoes outlined the strategy of Lula's Workers Party (Partido dos Trabalhadores - PT) for the October elections. Simoes indicated that the party believes the Sao Paulo state and national campaigns have to be integrated. PT gubernatorial candid [...] | 2006-08-07 18:39:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR ECON BR |
06SAOPAULO865 | PRE-FATHER'S DAY ATTACKS IN SAO PAULO BY PCC [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Sao Paulo residents awoke Monday morning, August 7, to reports of yet another round of bus burnings and bomb and gun attacks against police targets orchestrated by the organized crime ring PCC. Twenty-seven attacks were reported in greater Sao Paulo by the office of the state [...] | 2006-08-07 19:42:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCRM CASC ASEC SNAR SOCI BR |
06SAOPAULO869 | SAO PAULO FACES DAY 2 OF PRE-FATHER'S DAY JITTERS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The dawn of Tuesday, August 8, marked Day Two of the third wave of PCC violence in Sao Paulo State since May (ref A). Metropolitan Sao Paulo was spared from attacks overnight, but cities scattered throughout Sao Paulo state suffered from homemade bomb and Molotov cocktail att [...] | 2006-08-08 20:14:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCRM CASC ASEC SNAR SOCI BR |
06SAOPAULO873 | FEWER PCC ATTACKS IN SAO PAULO BUT NEW POLITICAL BATTLES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The third day of what is being called the third wave of PCC-led attacks in Sao Paulo state brought only a few new incidents on Wednesday morning, August 9. The newest attacks, however, included targets in upper-scale neighborhoods and the greater use of homemade bombs. Meanwh [...] | 2006-08-09 19:48:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCRM CASC ASEC SNAR SOCI BR |
06SAOPAULO887 | QUIET IN SAO PAULO, BUT JOURNALISTS' KIDNAPPING MARKS NEW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Sao Paulo residents enjoyed a relatively quiet Father's Day weekend, as a feared repeat of the widespread violence that occurred on Mother's Day three months ago failed to materialize (ref B). Some 13,000 inmates were given weekend furloughs for the holiday, but only scattered [...] | 2006-08-14 13:59:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCRM CASC ASEC SNAR SOCI BR |
06SAOPAULO907 | PMDB LEADER PREDICTS NARROW LULA VICTORY, AND A [...] (SBU) Federal Deputy Delfim Netto predicted President Lula will win a "fairly close" election in the second round if he can avoid committing too many more gaffes. Lula's Workers Party (PT),however, will take a serious hit because of corruption scandals and will end up with fewer than 50 Fede [...] | 2006-08-18 13:24:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR ECON BR |
06SAOPAULO910 | BRAZIL'S NATIONAL PLAN TO COMBAT PIRACY: AN UPDATE ON [...] SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED; PLEASE PROTECT ACCORDINGLY 2. (U) Summary. At the July 26 Sao Paulo meeting of Brazil's National Council to Combat Piracy and Intellectual Property Crimes, the public-private Forum Against Piracy and Illegality (FNCP) officially became an autonomous unit of the [...] | 2006-08-18 15:04:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD ECON KJUS BR |
06SAOPAULO924 | FIESP Responds to Threat to Brazil's GSP Benefits [...] (SBU) Summary. The Federation of Industries of the State of Sao Paulo (FIESP),which represents approximately 34% of Brazil's industrial units and 39% of its manufacturing jobs, has concluded in a soon to be released study that if Brazil were to lose its eligibility for GSP benefits, the count [...] | 2006-08-24 13:06:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON KIPR EINV BR |
06SAOPAULO935 | Despite Sagging Poll Numbers, Alckmin Adviser Thinks [...] (SBU) Fernando Braga, Sao Paulo State Secretary for Economy and Planning, argued that former Governor Geraldo Alckmin will make it to the second round of the presidential election, where he will take advantage of Lula's high negative numbers in the polls to "win in the last five minutes." He [...] | 2006-08-28 10:43:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR ECON BR |
06SAOPAULO965 | AMBASSADOR'S AUGUST 23-24 VISIT TO SAO PAULO [...] (SBU) Ambassador Clifford Sobel passed two eventful days in Sao Paulo August 23-24, beginning his visit with an appearance at the opening of a Calder exhibit at the Pinacoteca, one of the major art museums in Sao Paulo. The following day he met separately with the heads of the Brazilian subsi [...] | 2006-09-05 16:57:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV ETRD BEXP KIPR BR |
06SAOPAULO988 | COMMANDER OF CARANDIRU MASSACRE FOUND MURDERED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The police commander who was in charge of operations during the infamous 1992 police massacre of inmates at Sao Paulo's Carandiru Prison was found dead in his apartment on Sunday night, September 10. Early reports indicate that Ubiratan Guimaraes, who retired from the police f [...] | 2006-09-12 18:49:00 | Consulate Sao Paulo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCRM PHUM PINR SOCI BR |
06SARAJEVO1129 | BOSNIA: DODIK UPS THE ANTE IN ITA GOVERNING BOARD [...] (U) Summary. The ongoing controversy over distributions from the BiH Single Account has resulted in the filing of criminal charges by Republika Srpska (RS) Prime Minister Milorad Dodik against Indirect Taxation Authority (ITA) Governing Board Chairman Joly Dixon (who is seconded by the Europ [...] | 2006-05-19 15:18:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PREL BK |
06SARAJEVO1165 | BOSNIA - TESLIC MAYOR FIGHTS OFF SDS CHALLENGE [...] (SBU) Teslic Mayor Rade Pavlovic retained office May 21 by securing over 60 percent of the vote in a recall election prompted by a nationalist/center-right coalition led by the Serbian Democratic Party (SDS) and Serb Radical Party - Dr. Vojislav Seselj. Pavlovic, who heads a multi-ethnic, cen [...] | 2006-05-24 15:45:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL BK |
06SARAJEVO2305 | BOSNIA CAMPAIGN 2006: THE DAY AFTER [...] (U) This is the fourth in a planned series of election-related cables. It provides information on the procedure and timeline for formation of governing coalitions in Bosnia and Herzegovina. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Citizens of Bosnia and Herzegovina will go to the polls October 1 to elect t [...] | 2006-09-29 11:51:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV BK |
06SARAJEVO2361 | BOSNIAN ELECTIONS: PRESIDENCY COUNT FINAL BUT [...] (SBU) Vote counting for the October 1 national elections is continuing. In the evening of October 2, the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Bosnia and Herzegovina confirmed Haris Silajdzic, Nebojsa Radmanovic and Zeljko Komsic as the winners of Bosniak, Serb and Croat seats on the Tri-Pres [...] | 2006-10-03 16:57:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV BK |
06SARAJEVO3071 | BOSNIA AGREES TO TEXT OF NEW 505 AGREEMENT [...] (SBU) We received a diplomatic note from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs dated November 28 accepting the U.S. proposed language for a new 505 agreement applicable to GPOI. The MFA note acknowledged that the exchange constitutes an agreement between the United States and Bosnia and Herzegovina. [...] | 2006-12-04 15:29:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTIA MARR MASS PGOV BK |
06SARAJEVO3089 | MILORAD DODIK RECONFIRMED AS RS PREMIER [...] (SBU) Milorad Dodik was confirmed for his third term as Republika Srpska (RS) Premier by the RS National Assembly November 30. Both in personnel and policy matters, Dodik,s new RS Government will differ little from his previous cabinet. Eleven of sixteen ministers have retained their posts, [...] | 2006-12-06 10:37:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL BK |
06SARAJEVO3090 | NEW DODIK GOVERNMENT: MOST MINISTERS REMAIN [...] (SBU) The RS National Assembly (RSNA) elected Milorad Dodik for a second consecutive term as Republika Srpska (RS) Premier November 30, by a vote of 60 to 18 with 2 abstentions. Dodik and his government slate received the support of his own Alliance of Independent Social Democrats (SNSD),Mla [...] | 2006-12-06 10:40:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL BK |
06SARAJEVO3151 | PRESIDENCY APPROVES AFGHAN ARMS DONATION [...] (SBU) In its December 13 session, the Tri-Presidency approved the donation of arms and ammunition from the former Army of Republika Srpska to Afghanistan. President Silajdzic and former President Tihic had blocked the transfer for months, citing political concerns within the Bosniak caucus. T [...] | 2006-12-14 08:04:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MARR BK |
06SARAJEVO3254 | SDS MOVES TO THE RIGHT [...] (SBU) Serb Democratic Party (SDS) internal elections held December 16 reveal a party divided, with new leadership rethinking the party's support for constitutional reform in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Mladen Bosic, former Deputy President of SDS and the party's failed 2006 state presidency candi [...] | 2006-12-26 14:42:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL BK |
06SARAJEVO738 | BOSNIA: TRUTH COMMISSION PROPOSALS CONTROVERSIAL [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 12. 2. (SBU) Summary: A number of local and international organizations have put forward concepts for the formation of a "truth and reconciliation commission" for Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). However, some of the key players suffer from compet [...] | 2006-04-07 14:28:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL PGOV SOCI BK |
06SARAJEVO858 | BOSNIA PASSES LEGISLATION TO RESTRUCTURE WARTIME [...] (SBU) Summary: After more than two years of efforts (reftel),on April 13 Bosnia's state-level parliament approved legislation to restructure KM 1.9 billion of hard currency bank deposits seized by Belgrade during the war, just in time to meet a court-imposed deadline for a settlement. The [...] | 2006-04-19 10:57:00 | Embassy Sarajevo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PGOV BK |
06SEOUL1031 | RECENT TRENDS IN PRC-DPRK ECONOMIC RELATIONS AND [...] (SBU) Chinese economic ties with North Korea have expanded greatly in the past two years. Although the ROKG welcomes the stabilizing effect that Chinese trade and investment brings to the DPRK, it is alarmed at the PRC's growing influence, to the point that ROK officials now routinely assert [...] | 2006-03-29 08:22:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON EAID KN KS |
06SEOUL1035 | U.S., CANADA, ROK ANTI-TIP GROUP RECONVENES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After a 16-month hiatus, the ROK-U.S.-Canada Trilateral Working Group on anti-trafficking issues (TWG) met on March 22 to discuss the trafficking of women from Korea to the U.S. and elsewhere. While the group recognized the cooperation among the Embassy and local police to arr [...] | 2006-03-29 22:58:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV CVIS PHUM KS KCRIM SMIG PREL |
06SEOUL1128 | ADDITIONAL INFORMATION KEY TO RESOLVING IMPASSE [...] (SBU) Prior to USTR Ambassador Portman's call to Trade Minister Kim Hyun-chong about the beef issue, Embassy Seoul would like to offer some current context, and try to explain the possible reasons for the apparent disconnect between messages given to us by Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade [...] | 2006-04-06 02:35:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EAGR KS |
06SEOUL1179 | DPRK REQUESTS ANOTHER 300,000 TONS OF FERTILIZER [...] (U) The Yonhap News Agency reported April 10 that, via a Red Cross telegram, the DPRK had requested an additional 300,000 tons of fertilizer assistance from the ROK. Ministry of Unification officials reportedly told Yonhap that they expected the request for fertilizer would be an agenda item [...] | 2006-04-10 08:52:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID KS KN |
06SEOUL1327 | FTA LABOR TEAM MEETS ROKG OFFICIALS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: U.S. FTA labor negotiators visited Seoul April 4 through 7 to meet with Korean government, management, and labor representatives; explain the FTA process; and conduct background research on Korean labor law and practices. Below, we report on the delegation's meetings with the [...] | 2006-04-21 09:27:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB ETRD KS PGOV |
06SEOUL1328 | LABOR GIRDING FOR FTA BATTLE [...] (SBU) The U.S. FTA labor negotiating team visited Seoul April 4 to 7 to meet with Korean government, labor and management officials and conduct background research. Korean organized labor representatives were wary of an FTA and feared that it would precede mass layoffs like those experienced [...] | 2006-04-21 09:29:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB ETRD KS PGOV |
06SEOUL1378 | ROK PREPARING TO SIGN THIRD ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL [...] No summary [...] | 2006-04-25 08:42:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC PHUM PREL PREF ICRC KS SZ |
06SEOUL1391 | EMBASSY FTA OUTREACH EFFORTS AIM TO RALLY KOREAN [...] (SBU) The Ambassador and other Embassy officials have stepped up outreach efforts aimed at galvanizing Korea's "silent majority" to be more vocal in their support of the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement (KORUS FTA). The Ambassador delivered well-received speeches to politicians from both the r [...] | 2006-04-26 04:32:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PGOV KS |
06SEOUL1477 | PHARMACEUTICALS: HEALTH MINISTER TELLS AMBASSADOR [...] (SBU) The Ambassador met on May 2 with Minister of Health and Welfare (MHW) Rhyu Si-min and expressed serious concerns with Rhyu's plan to officially announce on May 3 a proposal to shift to a "positive list" system for reimbursing pharmaceuticals. The Ambassador urged Rhyu to postpone such a [...] | 2006-05-02 09:00:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EIND KS |
06SEOUL1643 | AMERICAN ACADEMIC SKEPTICAL ABOUT KIM DAE-JUNG'S [...] (SBU) In a May 12 meeting with poloff, Dr. Brian Myers, Professor of Korean Studies at Inje University, expressed skepticism that a June visit to North Korea by former President Kim Dae-jung would result in any substantial changes in the North's behavior or its return to the Six Party Talks. [...] | 2006-05-17 00:06:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MNUC EAID KN KS |
06SEOUL1680 | ROK READOUT OF UNSYG ANNAN'S VISIT [...] (SBU) On May 17, Oh Young-ju, MOFAT's Deputy Director for the UN Division, provided poloff with a brief readout of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's visit to Seoul. During his SIPDIS May 14-16 visit to the ROK, Annan met with President Roh, Foreign Minister Ban, and visited Seoul National [...] | 2006-05-18 08:10:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV UNSC KS |
06SEOUL1779 | BUSAN: GNP POISED FOR CLEAN SWEEP [...] (SBU) The Grand National Party's (GNP) is poised, once again, to vanquish all challengers in the Busan region in the May 31 regional elections. Dissatisfaction with the Roh Administration appears to have hardened the Gyeongsang Provinces' traditional loyalty to the conservative GNP. END SUM [...] | 2006-05-26 05:21:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KS |
06SEOUL1791 | GNP LEAD WIDENS AFTER ATTACK ON PARK GEUN-HYE [...] (SBU) Polls indicate that the May 20 attack on the main opposition Grand National Party (GNP) leader and presidential hopeful Park Geun-hye has influenced voters in swing provinces to vote GNP, which is forecasted to win at least 11 out of the 16 major mayoral and gubernatorial contests. Symp [...] | 2006-05-26 09:42:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KS KN |
06SEOUL1858 | KORUS FTA: AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH DEPUTY PRIME [...] (SBU) Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance and Economy (MOFE) Han Duck-soo told the Ambassador on June 2 that the results of the May 31 local elections were probably unrelated to the economy, which is doing well. He attributed the poor showing of Uri Party candidates to personality p [...] | 2006-06-05 09:17:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EFIN PGOV KS |
06SEOUL1868 | COMPETITION POLICY: AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH [...] (SBU) Newly-appointed Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC) Chairman Kwon Oh-seong told the Ambassador on May 25 that he is planning to redirect KFTC policy toward a stricter approach toward anti-competitive commercial practices, while taking a lighter touch toward limiting the overall economic p [...] | 2006-06-07 05:45:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV PGOV KS |
06SEOUL1879 | NORTH-SOUTH COOPERATION: DPRK AND ROK REACH [...] (SBU) North Korean and South Korean delegations meeting on Jeju Island reached an agreement late on June 6 that should allow the two sides to go forward with test runs of the two reconstructed cross-border railways located on the east and west coasts of the Korean Peninsula. Under the deal, S [...] | 2006-06-07 08:32:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ETRD EINV SOCI KN KS |
06SEOUL1921 | FM BAN KI-MOON CONVEYS CONGRATULATIONS ON KILLING [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-09 09:10:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MOPS KS IZ |
06SEOUL1963 | KORUS FTA: SENIOR BLUE HOUSE OFFICIALS PLEDGE [...] (SBU) A troika of key senior Blue House officials told the Ambassador that they are paying very close attention to the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement (KORUS FTA). The Chief Secretary to the President for National Policy outlined the SIPDIS Korean government's plans for internal coordinatio [...] | 2006-06-13 05:52:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PGOV KS |
06SEOUL1978 | ROK TO SUPPORT MDA AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-14 07:23:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PREL PHUM ICRC KS IS |
06SEOUL1981 | KOREA-ASEAN FTA: TRADE IN GOODS AGREEMENT FINALIZED [...] (SBU) Korea and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN),with the exception of Thailand, finalized and signed the Trade in Goods (TIG) part of their free trade agreement (FTA) on May 16 in Manila. The agreement will liberalize 90 percent of tariff lines, amounting to 90 percent of [...] | 2006-06-14 08:35:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PREL KS XC |
06SEOUL2054 | ROK TO OPPOSE CONFERENCE DISRUPTION [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-21 03:45:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PREF AORC ICRC KS |
06SEOUL2095 | U.S. BUSINESS REPS AND AMBASSADOR MEET PRESIDENT [...] (SBU) The Ambassador accompanied Citibank Chairman Bill Rhodes and other top representatives of the U.S.-Korea Business Council (USKBC) to their June 22 courtesy call on President Roh. The meeting focused on the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement (KORUS FTA) and lasted a little over an hour. US [...] | 2006-06-25 22:42:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PGOV KS |
06SEOUL2201 | BLUE HOUSE RESHUFFLES CABINET [...] (SBU) The Blue House announced today a partial cabinet reshuffle, placing in the Ministry of Finance and Economy and the Ministry of Education and Human Resources two of President Roh Moo-hyun's most trusted advisors, Kwon O-kyu and Kim Byong-joon, respectively. Kwon, who replaces Han Duck-s [...] | 2006-07-03 09:03:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KS |
06SEOUL2211 | ROK REACTIONS TO DPRK MISSILE LAUNCHES [...] (SBU) Following an emergency NSC meeting early in the morning on July 5, ROK Senior Presidential Secretary for Security Policy Suh Choo-suk announced that the DPRK, between 0332 and 0500 Wednesday, had launched six missiles, including the Taepo Dong II as well as Scud and Nodong class missiles [...] | 2006-07-05 10:12:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MNUC KNNP KN KS |
06SEOUL2488 | FTA LABOR TEAM MEETS KCTU, OTHER LABOR GROUPS [...] (SBU) Formally meeting with U.S. officials in Seoul for the first time, the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU),the more radical of the ROK's two major labor federations, welcomed the U.S. FTA labor negotiators to their headquarters on July 13. In a professional and business-like me [...] | 2006-07-24 23:20:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB ETRD KS PGOV |
06SEOUL2557 | ROK RECEPTIVE TO FMCT NEGOTIATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-28 05:54:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MNUC PARM PREL KNNP UNGA CDG KS |
06SEOUL2674 | ROK BRIEFED ON LEBANON SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-08 08:01:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER MOPS UN KS IS |
06SEOUL2679 | ROK INTENDING TO ATTEND UNHRC SPECIAL SESSION [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-09 07:02:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PTER MOPS KS IS LE |
06SEOUL2721 | ROK WELCOMES U.S. NOMINEE'S CANDIDACY FOR UNHRC [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-11 05:00:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM UNHRC KS US |
06SEOUL2732 | ROK WELCOMES UNSC RESOLUTION ON LEBANON [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-13 23:34:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER MOPS UNSC UN KS IS LE |
06SEOUL2899 | ROK SUPPORTIVE OF USG CANDIDATE'S REELECTION TO ILC [...] (SBU) On August 24, poloff delivered reftel points and diplomatic note supporting the reelection of Mr. Matheson to the International Law Commission (ILC) to Dr. Kim Sun-pyo, Director of the International Legal Affairs Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Kim said Seoul shou [...] | 2006-08-24 07:53:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | UNGA UNSC KS |
06SEOUL3028 | NORTH KOREAN ECONOMIST ON "ABNORMAL" DPRK ECONOMY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Cho Myungchul, Head of the International Cooperation Team for Korean Unification at the Korea Institute for International Economic Policy in Seoul, who defected from the DPRK in 1994 and is a prominent commentator on the DPRK, said that the DPRK economic situation is very dang [...] | 2006-09-01 08:14:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL KN |
06SEOUL3308 | ROK SUPPORTS USG POSITION ON CUBA AT HRC [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-26 08:03:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL |
06SEOUL3366 | GYEONGGI PROVINCE GOVERNOR'S AMBITIOUS AGENDA [...] (SBU) The Ambassador met with Kim Moon-soo, the newly elected Governor of Gyeonggi Province, on September 28. His province is of particular interest at this time because the majority of U.S. troops currently stationed at Yongsan in Seoul will be relocated to a base in the city of Pyeongtaek [...] | 2006-09-29 08:40:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KS |
06SEOUL3442 | FINANCIAL MARKETS REBOUND DAY AFTER DPRK,S [...] No summary [...] | 2006-10-10 10:00:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV PREL KS KN |
06SEOUL3458 | TRIPARTITE DEMARCHE ON THE UN DECLARATION ON THE [...] (SBU) Per reftel request, New Zealand's Ambassador to the ROK, Jane Coombs, Australian POL Counselor Martin Quinn, and poloff delivered the tripartite demarche on the draft UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (DRIP) to MOFAT Director-General for International Organizations Kang [...] | 2006-10-11 07:47:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KTIA UN |
06SEOUL3492 | REACTION TO DPRK TEST: ACADEMIC PERSPECTIVES [...] (SBU) Local academic observers in South Korea provided the Embassy on October 10 and 11 with their takes on the DPRK nuclear test. Professor of Korean Studies and DPRK cultural analyst Brian Myers argued that the DPRK conducted the test primarily for internal reasons to recover from failed mi [...] | 2006-10-12 08:45:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MNUC PREL PGOV KS KN |
06SEOUL3673 | ROKG PROBABLY TO ABSTAIN ON UNGA RESOLUTIONS ON [...] No summary [...] | 2006-10-26 07:53:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL PTER UNGA KS IS LE |
06SEOUL3688 | ROKG STUDYING DEMARCHE OPPOSING ANTI-ISRAEL BIAS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-10-27 04:41:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNGA KS IS |
06SEOUL3875 | ROK TO SUPPORT USG CANDIDATE'S REELECTION TO ILC [...] No summary [...] | 2006-11-09 06:33:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNGA KS |
06SEOUL3995 | ROKG EXPLAINS VOTE FOR NOVEMBER 17 ESS RESOLUTION [...] (SBU) On November 17, poloff delivered reftel demarche, urging capitals to vote against or abstain on an unbalanced draft resolution on Israel that was to be proposed later that day at an Emergency Special Session (ESS) of the UNGA, to Lee Kyung-chul, Deputy Director of the UN Division, Minist [...] | 2006-11-20 01:16:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNGA KS IS |
06SEOUL4123 | ROKG-AMCHAM ON REGULATORY REFORM [...] (U) The American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham) held its semi-annual meeting on regulatory reform with Deputy Minister Park (in the Office of Policy Coordination under the Prime Minister) on November 22. Park emphasized the ROKG's continuing commitment to regulatory reform, and highlighted ma [...] | 2006-12-01 06:27:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV ECON KS |
06SEOUL4130 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DAS FEIGENBAUM [...] (U) Embassy Seoul welcomes and grants country clearance to DAS Evan Feigenbaum for December 9-12, 2006 official visit to Seoul. CONTACT INFORMATION ------------------- 2. (U) Control officer for the visit is Political Officer Andrew Bennett. Office telephone: (82)(2) 397-4372 E [...] | 2006-12-01 07:35:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMGT OTRA KS |
06SEOUL4193 | ROKG TO SUPPORT HRC RESOLUTION ON SUDAN [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-07 08:43:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM KTIA UN KS SU |
06SEOUL4194 | KOREA PASSES NON-REGULAR WORKER BILLS [...] (SBU) After two years of delays and debate, the ROK passed three labor bills to address wage and benefit discrimination against non-regular workers who comprise more than one-third of the workforce in Korea. Although the bills layout a clear path for non-regular workers to become regular wor [...] | 2006-12-07 08:44:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PGOV PREL KS |
06SEOUL4261 | ROK ACADEMICS OFFER MULTI-DIMENSIONAL APPROACH TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Several conservative ROK academics urged a multi-pronged approach toward North Korean human rights, arguing that the U.S. should take larger number of refugees, continue sanctions and increase radio broadcasts into North Korea, while providing humanitarian assistance and promotin [...] | 2006-12-14 09:12:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PHUM PREL KS KN CH |
06SEOUL4281 | NORTH KOREAN REFUGEES IN THE ROK: AN OVERVIEW [...] (SBU) The ROKG's resettlement programs for North Korean refugees have evolved over time as the number of refugees has grown and their demographics have changed. South Korean officials and experts see the ROK's efforts to help the nearly 10,000 refugees successfully resettle in the ROK as the [...] | 2006-12-15 09:05:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PHUM PGOV PREL KTIP KS KN |
06SEOUL4282 | NORTH KOREAN REFUGEES: FIRST STEPS INTO ROK SOCIETY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Upon arrival in the ROK, North Koreans undergo an interagency security screening process, during which the ROKG seeks to confirm refugees' bona fides and assess security risks. Thereafter, nearly all North Koreans move to the ROK's Hanawon resettlement facility, where they rece [...] | 2006-12-15 09:05:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PHUM PGOV PREL KTIP KS KN |
06SEOUL4283 | NK REFUGEES: OBSTACLES TO INTEGRATION IN THE SOUTH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: North Korean refugees face an enormous culture shock in adjusting to life in the ROK. Not accustomed to South Korean political and economic systems and unable to compete educationally, North Koreans face difficulties obtaining stable employment. Their resettlement is not helpe [...] | 2006-12-15 09:05:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PHUM PGOV PREL KTIP KS KN |
06SEOUL4284 | NK REFUGEES: THE QUEST FOR STABLE EMPLOYMENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Finding stable employment is probably the greatest challenge for North Koreans resettling in the ROK. The ROKG assigns North Korean refugees to employment officers, provides incentives, recruits employers, and subsidizes half of North Koreans' salaries to their employers for two [...] | 2006-12-15 09:05:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PHUM PGOV PREL KTIP KS KN |
06SEOUL4376 | SOUTH KOREAN PARLIAMENT APPROVES EXTENSION OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: As the ROKG proposed on December 22, 2006, the National Assembly approved a bill to extend, but reduce, ROK troop presence in Iraq. The number of troops stationed in Erbil will be reduced from 2300 to 1200 by the end of April 2007. According to the Ministry of National Defense [...] | 2006-12-26 08:20:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL KS |
06SEOUL4412 | ROKG UNDECIDED ON ARF WORKSHOP DELEGATION [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-29 07:34:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AORC ARF KS |
06SEOUL449 | KOREA'S FREE TRADE AGREEMENT WITH ASEAN [...] (U) On December 13, 2005, the Republic of Korea and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) announced the conclusion of a Framework Agreement for a bilateral free trade agreement (FTA). Although the parties had also concluded negotiations for the Trade-in-Goods (TIG) and Dispute S [...] | 2006-02-08 08:19:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON PREL KS KN XB |
06SEOUL491 | KOREA LAUNCHES SPECIAL TRADE NEGOTIATIONS WITH [...] (SBU) Korea added to its rapidly lengthening list of trade negotiations by announcing on February 7 the launch of Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) negotiations with India during the visit to Seoul of Indian President Abdul Kalam. The same week, Korea and Mexico held a first [...] | 2006-02-13 22:43:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PREL KS IN MX |
06SEOUL498 | FORMER KIM IL SUNG UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR SAYS [...] (SBU) Dr. Cho Myungchul, a think tank researcher who defected to South Korea in 1994 after years of living among the DPRK elite, told poloff on February 8 that social discontent among the DPRK's working class was kept in check through propaganda and periodic acts of decency by the state, rath [...] | 2006-02-14 05:02:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SOCI MNUC PINR EAID ECON KN KS |
06SEOUL502 | KOREA MOVING SLOWLY TO RATIFY UNESCO CULTURAL [...] (SBU) According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MOFAT),Korea has not yet initiated domestic procedures for ratifying the UNESCO Cultural Diversity Convention, despite having signed the agreement. 2. (SBU) Kim Eun-jeong, Deputy Director of MOFAT's Cultural Cooperation Division [...] | 2006-02-14 06:24:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD SCUL UNESCO KS |
06SEOUL507 | LABOR SNAPSHOT: THE PLAYERS [...] (SBU) Upcoming U.S.-ROK FTA negotiations will include a close USG look at Korea's labor-management relations, a tumultuous sector charged with decades of conflict. This is the first of three cables that will draw a contemporary portrait of industrial relations in the ROK. This cable describ [...] | 2006-02-14 08:29:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB ETRD KS PGOV |
06SEOUL510 | INDIAN PRESIDENT'S VISIT FOCUSED ON ECONOMICS [...] (SBU) On February 13, Park Young-shik, Southwest Asia and Oceania Division Deputy Director at MOFAT, told poloff that the February 6-9 visit of Indian President Abdul Kalam resulted in the signing of three documents: (1) a joint statement on the start of negotiations for a South Korea-India C [...] | 2006-02-14 08:46:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON KS IN |
06SEOUL548 | LABOR SNAPSHOT: THE ISSUES [...] (SBU) This is the second of three cables (Ref A is the first) that describe ROK labor-management relations in anticipation of upcoming U.S.-ROK Free Trade Agreement negotiations. This report focuses on the two main issues that have dominated industrial relations debate over the past year: " [...] | 2006-02-17 05:04:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB ETRD KS PGOV |
06SEOUL549 | LABOR SNAPSHOT: MEETING THE STANDARDS [...] (SBU) This is the final report in a three-part series on labor-management relations in the ROK. In previous cables we described the major players (Ref A) and current issues (Ref B). We now focus on whether Korean labor laws meet the core labor standards contained in the Trade Promotion Autho [...] | 2006-02-17 06:07:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB ETRD KS PGOV |
06SEOUL551 | USAID OFFICIAL DISCUSSES DPRK FOOD SITUATION WITH [...] (SBU) Visiting USAID official Jon Brause met with a range of ROKG officials and NGO and other agency leaders involved in assistance to the DPRK, February 12-16. Brause articulated the USG position on the upcoming WFP proposal for Protracted Relief and Recovery Operations (PRRO) in the DPRK, a [...] | 2006-02-17 07:03:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREL KS KN |
06SEOUL595 | THE DPRK LEADERSHIP SUCCESSION: ROK OBSERVERS [...] (SBU) ROK academics interviewed in recent weeks by poloff were divided on whether North Korean leader Kim Jong-il would name his successor in the near future, and on whether Kim would choose one of his sons as his heir or seek outside the Kim family. Most believed Kim Jong-il's second son, Ki [...] | 2006-02-23 07:58:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PINR MNUC SOCI KN KS |
06SEOUL601 | KOREA SPECIAL 301 IPR REVIEW: EMBASSY RECOMMENDS [...] (SBU) Following Korea's removal from the Special 301 "Priority Watch List" in April 2005, the Korean government continued to move forward in a number of areas to improve the level of intellectual property rights (IPR) protection in Korea. These measures included: introducing legislation that [...] | 2006-02-23 22:46:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD KIPR ECON PREL KS |
06SEOUL609 | NGO PROJECT TARGETS FAMILY REUNION FOR [...] (SBU) On February 22, Stephen W. Linton, Chair of the Eugene Bell Foundation (EBF),an NGO with a long history of providing humanitarian assistance to DPRK medical institutions, told the Ambassador about his organization's new project to help Korean-Americans locate relatives in the DPRK. Li [...] | 2006-02-24 06:29:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SOCI EAID KN KS |
06SEOUL632 | ROH TO RESHUFFLE CABINET NEXT WEEK [...] (SBU) Roh Administration officials, including the Prime Minister, have signaled another partial Cabinet reshuffle to be announced next week. Three ministers -- Oh Geo-don (Maritime and Fisheries),Oh Young-kyo (Government Administration and Home Affairs),Lee Jae-yong (Environment) -- appear [...] | 2006-02-27 08:58:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR KS |
06SEOUL657 | PROMINENT SCHOLAR SAYS U.S. SHOULD UNDERMINE DPRK [...] (SBU) Andrei Lankov, a prominent authority on the DPRK, told the Ambassador on February 27 that the United States should ignore the DPRK at a political level, as the Kim Jong-il regime was a threat only to its own people. He argued that a low-key effort to provide greater information to Nor [...] | 2006-03-02 07:53:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON SOCI KS KN |
06SEOUL76 | ROK SCHOLARS BELIEVE DPRK "CLAMPING DOWN" IN [...] (SBU) Two ROK scholars believed the DPRK'S New Year's message for 2006 showed Pyongyang planned to brace itself for hostile action from the United States and focused its attention to psychologically and ideologically prepare its citizens to maintain strong support for the Kim Jong-il regime. [...] | 2006-01-06 09:19:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MNUC MARR KN KS |
06SEOUL769 | ROK AND JAPAN AGREE ON KEDO TERMINATION PACKAGE [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 9 the ROK passed to us a "Proposed Draft Resolution on the Termination of the LWR Project." The ROK proposes that the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization meet on April 10-11 to adopt the resolution and requests a response from the United States as soon as [...] | 2006-03-10 06:26:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ENRG ETTC KS KN |
06SEOUL777 | SIXTH ANNUAL ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT [...] (U) Post's submission for the sixth annual Anti-Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report follows. Responses are keyed to questions in Ref A. SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) The ROKG continued to make efforts to fight trafficking in persons during the March 2005 to March 2006 reporting period. G [...] | 2006-03-10 09:00:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KS KCRM KWMN PGOV ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF |
06SEOUL809 | KOREA FTA: PREPARATORY DISCUSSIONS ON TRACK [...] (SBU) On March 6-8 an interagency team led by Assistant U.S. Trade Representative Wendy Cutler made substantial progress in laying the procedural groundwork for U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement (FTA) talks, the first round of which will be held during the week of June 5 in Washington. The U.S. [...] | 2006-03-14 02:10:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON SCUL PGOV KS |
06SEOUL861 | KOREA NAMES NEW ENVIRONMENT MINISTER AND NEW FAIR [...] (U) On March 15, President Roh nominated Lee Chi-beom, President of Korea's state-run company that promotes recycling (the Korea Environment and Resources Corporation - - ENVICO) to be Minister of the Environment. The nominee will replace Lee Jae-yong, who resigned to run in local elections s [...] | 2006-03-16 08:39:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV PGOV KS |
06SEOUL863 | ROK TO PARTICIPATE IN ARF NONPROLIFERATION SEMINAR [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-16 08:43:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM KNNP KS |
06SEOUL864 | MARCH 2006 QUARTERLY TRADE MEETING: AGENDA-SETTING [...] (SBU) The first Quarterly Trade Meeting (QTM) for 2006 was held in Seoul on March 3. While there were no breakthroughs, the meeting was constructive and identified no new problems. The Korean government indicated a willingness to address USG concerns, including a potentially serious problem [...] | 2006-03-16 08:45:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON KS |
06SEOUL876 | FOLLOW-UP DEMARCHE FOR U.S.-INDIA CIVIL NUCLEAR [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-17 09:07:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KNNP ENRG IN KS |
06SEOUL889 | KOREAN TAX REFORMS DRAW FIRE, PASSAGE UNCERTAIN [...] (SBU) The Korean government introduced ambitious income tax reform legislation in February, proposing to raise certain value-added and excise taxes and tighten individual income tax loopholes favoring the wealthy and self-employed. But the proposals have run up against significant criticism fr [...] | 2006-03-20 06:55:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PGOV KS |
06SEOUL954 | KOREA TO ENHANCE CONTROL OF STRATEGIC PRODUCT [...] (SBU) According to the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy (MOCIE),Korea plans to tighten controls over the export of strategic products that could be used for weapons development. MOCIE's planned measures, which will go into effect in the latter part of 2006, call for tougher legal ac [...] | 2006-03-23 22:41:00 | Embassy Seoul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC KSTC PARM PREL KS |
06SHANGHAI7085 | INNOVATION REQUIRED FOR CHINA'S ECONOMIC GROWTH [...] (SBU) Summary: The National Bureau of Statistics and the U.S.-based Conference Board hosted a national forum on Innovation and China Economic Growth October 20- 22 in Suzhou, Jiangsu Province. During the conference, PRC officials from the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPP [...] | 2006-11-27 08:18:00 | Consulate Shanghai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD PGOV PREL CH WTO |
06SHANGHAI7091 | CHINA'S FOREIGN EXCHANGE TRADING SYSTEM UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: In a series of conversations in late October and November, China Foreign Exchange Trading System (CFETS) Vice General Manager Song Jianqi and Market Development Manager Justin Zhang discussed recent forex market developments, including continued gradual appreciation, increased i [...] | 2006-11-28 12:01:00 | Consulate Shanghai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PREL CH |
06SINGAPORE1044 | SECRETARY CHERTOFF'S MEETINGS WITH SENIOR GOS [...] (SBU) Summary: During Secretary Michael Chertoff's March 29 meetings with senior GOS officials, he stressed the need for closer law enforcement cooperation and a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT). The Secretary noted that Singapore and the United States had similar approaches to balance th [...] | 2006-03-31 06:27:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV EFIN KCRM SN |
06SINGAPORE109 | SEN. BAUCUS' MEETING WITH LEE KUAN YEW [...] (SBU) Summary: During a January 12 meeting with Senator Max Baucus (D-MT),Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew discussed the rise of China and its generally successful efforts to improve ties with its neighbors. China's economic success had also spurred reform in India; the only question now was how [...] | 2006-01-17 04:39:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER ECON SN |
06SINGAPORE1119 | FTA - JOINT COMMITTEE CONCLUDES SECOND ANNUAL REVIEW [...] (SBU) Summary. Representatives from the USG and GOS (the "Joint Committee") met in Washington March 30 for the second annual review of the U.S.-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (FTA). The review agenda (individual items noted below) focused both on implementation of the current agreement and p [...] | 2006-04-06 08:22:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EFIN EINV ECPS SENV EAGR KTEX KIPR ETTC SN |
06SINGAPORE1153 | SINGAPORE COMMENCES MEGAPORTS PILOT PROJECT [...] (SBU) The Department of Energy and Singapore on April 4 commenced joint operations of a Second Line of Defense (SLD) Megaports pilot project at Singapore's Pasir Panjang Terminal (PPT). Radiation detectors installed at two of the terminal's five truck lanes will monitor export containers and [...] | 2006-04-11 03:06:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EWWT TRGY KSCA KNNP PARM PTER SN |
06SINGAPORE1205 | AMBASSADOR RAISES TELECOM AND MEDIA ISSUES WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: Singapore is close to a decision on local-leased ("last mile") circuit connections for U.S. and other telecom operators (a significant implementation issue under our bilateral Free Trade Agreement or FTA),Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts (MICA) Dr. LEE Boon [...] | 2006-04-13 08:39:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ETRD EIND EINV ECON SN |
06SINGAPORE1321 | SINGAPORE'S NEW MALAY/MUSLIM PAP MP CANDIDATES [...] (U) Summary. Four new Muslim candidates will be running for Parliament on the ruling People's Action Party (PAP) slate, replacing four retiring Muslim members of Parliament (MPs). All four are highly educated, successful professionals with international experience. Only one, however, has th [...] | 2006-04-24 07:30:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PSOC KISL SN |
06SINGAPORE139 | IMPROVING CONDITIONS FOR FOREIGN WORKERS IN [...] (U) Singaporean civil society over the past year has become increasingly vocal in publicly advocating better treatment of foreign workers in Singapore. While the Singapore government has fairly tight labor regulations to protect foreign workers from abuse and exploitation, some workers, part [...] | 2006-01-18 07:52:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KCRM ELAB KWMN SN |
06SINGAPORE1430 | DEPUTY SECRETARY OF COMMERCE SAMPSON CALLS ON PRIME [...] (SBU) Summary: Dr. David A. Sampson, Deputy Secretary of Commerce, met with LEE Hsien Loong, Prime Minister, and LIM Hng Kiang, Minister for Trade and Industry, during a one-day visit to Singapore on April 26, 2006. During the two meetings, the Deputy Secretary focused on the importance of U [...] | 2006-05-03 04:31:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EINV ETTC ECPS EPET EAGR KIPR SN |
06SINGAPORE1468 | MALAY/MUSLIM ISSUES IN SINGAPORE'S GENERAL ELECTION [...] (U) Summary: Opposition candidates in Singapore's general election campaign have questioned the ruling People's Action Party (PAP) handling of Malay/Muslim concerns such as unemployment. The PAP has responded that Malay concerns are national issues, but, at the same time, asserted that the PA [...] | 2006-05-05 09:37:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KISL SN |
06SINGAPORE1484 | REGULATOR WILL NOT RESTRICT MEDIA CONTENT EXCLUSIVITY [...] (SBU) In a victory for U.S. content providers, the Media Development Authority (MDA) on May 8 announced privately its decision to not pursue more restrictive regulation of exclusive carriage agreements between media content/channel providers and Singapore's sole Pay-TV operator, SCV StarHub Ca [...] | 2006-05-08 09:23:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS EIND EINV ETRD SN |
06SINGAPORE1530 | SCENESETTER FOR COMMERCE ASSISTANT SECRETARY [...] (SBU) We look forward to your May 23-25 visit to Singapore. Your meetings with key Singapore government officials are an important opportunity to solidify our deepening cooperative relationship on developing and enforcing trade controls and combating proliferation of weapons of mass destructi [...] | 2006-05-11 08:47:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC PREL ETRD KSTC SN |
06SINGAPORE1540 | IPR: SINGAPORE FINES FIRST COMPANY UNDER AMENDED [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-11 09:37:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ECON ETRD EINV SN |
06SINGAPORE1567 | SINGAPORE SCENESETTER FOR EAP A/S HILL [...] (SBU) We warmly welcome your May 20-22 visit to Singapore. Singapore's leadership will be interested in your views on developments in Asia and the U.S. role in the region and can be counted on to provide thoughtful views on questions such as terrorism in Southeast Asia and the rise of China. [...] | 2006-05-16 05:39:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON ETRD PTER PHUM SN |
06SINGAPORE1667 | PM LEE MAKES MINOR CHANGES TO GOS CABINET [...] (U) Summary: Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced minor changes to his cabinet on May 22. The only ministerial change involves Minister for Transport Yeo Cheow Tong, who will be stepping down; his replacement will be Raymond Lim, currently Minister in the Prime Minister's Office. Five ne [...] | 2006-05-24 06:18:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV PHUM SN |
06SINGAPORE1687 | TELECOM - MINISTER DENIES SINGTEL'S APPEAL ON LOCAL [...] (U) Minister for Information, Communications and the Arts Lee Boon Yang on May 23 announced his decision to uphold the telecom regulator's requirement that dominant carrier SingTel provide competitors access to its local leased ("last mile") circuits (LLCs) at cost-based rates using an open-st [...] | 2006-05-25 07:11:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS EIND EINV ETRD SN |
06SINGAPORE1740 | THE GOMEZ SAGA: PAP'S APPROACH TO THE OPPOSITION [...] (U) Summary: Opposition politician James Gomez left Singapore for Sweden on May 15 after the police issued him a "stern warning." The Elections Department had accused him of "criminal intimidation" stemming from his mishandling the paperwork of his election campaign (Ref A),and the ruling P [...] | 2006-05-31 06:31:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SN |
06SINGAPORE1912 | COURT RULES THAT SDP DEFAMED LEES [...] (U) The High Court ruled on Thursday, June 8, that the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) had defamed Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew in the January edition of its newsletter. Lawyers for PM Lee and MM Lee asserted that articles in the newsletter alleged that the [...] | 2006-06-09 08:57:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV SN |
06SINGAPORE1935 | TORRES STRAIT DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] This is an action request. See paragraph 3. 2. Econoff delivered reftel note and talking points on June 7 to Florence Lim, Ministry of Transport (MOT) Sea Transport Division Assistant Director, and Benjamin Wong, Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore International Department (Policy Di [...] | 2006-06-13 07:36:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EWWT PBTS PHSA PREL SENV |
06SINGAPORE2120 | FIRST MEGAPORTS PILOT PROJECT REVIEW CONCLUDED [...] (SBU) Summary: The Department of Energy (DOE) and Singapore Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) recently concluded a first review of the Megaports pilot project (reftel),with a tentative agreement to expand the program in Singapore to include more transshipped cargo. ICA officials t [...] | 2006-06-30 01:59:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EWWT TRGY KSCA KNNP PARM PTER SN |
06SINGAPORE2695 | SENATOR BOND'S MEETINGS WITH SINGAPORE'S SENIOR [...] (SBU) Summary: Discussing the Middle East situation, Singapore's senior leadership told Senator Christopher "Kit" Bond (R-MO) that Hezbollah had won a strategic victory against Israel and the reputation of the Israeli Defense Forces had been damaged by its poor performance in Lebanon. Foreign [...] | 2006-08-24 06:45:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SN |
06SINGAPORE274 | DPM JAYAKUMAR ON MLAT AND TERRORISM [...] (SBU) Summary: On January 26, the Ambassador raised the U.S. interest in concluding a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT) with Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) and Minister for Law S. Jayakumar. DPM Jayakumar noted the recent efforts by the GOS to amend its Mutual Assistance in Criminal Matters [...] | 2006-02-02 01:09:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER KIPR ECON KJUS KTIA KCRM SN |
06SINGAPORE277 | AMBASSADOR'S CALL ON TRADE AND INDUSTRY MINISTER [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador told Minister for Trade and Industry LIM Hng Kiang that, short of an immediate solution, the United States would again raise Singapore's fulfillment of its telecom-related commitments at the upcoming second annual review of our bilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA [...] | 2006-02-02 03:05:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EINV ETTC ECPS EPET EAGR KIPR SN |
06SINGAPORE2900 | KL MEETING ON MALACCA STRAIT: GOS URGES MEASURED [...] (SBU) Summary: MFA Southeast Asia Deputy Director Foo Chi Hsia asked to meet us September 8 to urge USG patience in pressing for maritime security at the September 18-20 conference in Kuala Lumpur. At the conference, the littoral states would present a new "cooperation mechanism" to enhance n [...] | 2006-09-12 09:36:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER EWWT PHSA KCRM MRSEC SN |
06SINGAPORE2978 | FED CHAIRMAN BERNANKE MEETS WITH SINGAPORE [...] (SBU) Summary: China's economic development and its economic relationship with the United States figured prominently in separate meetings between Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board Ben Bernanke and Prime Minister (PM) Lee Hsien Loong and Minister Mentor (MM) Lee Kuan Yew. Both the PM and [...] | 2006-09-18 07:41:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON ETRD EINV PREL IMF IBRD SN |
06SINGAPORE3429 | 2006-2007 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY [...] Per reftel instructions, Post submits its draft 2006-2007 International narcotics Control Strategy Report, Part I Q Drug and Chemical Control. Part II will be submitted septel. I. Summary 2. The Government of Singapore (GOS) enforces stringent counter narcotics policies through strict [...] | 2006-10-26 09:01:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM SNAR ECON ETRD PREL SN |
06SINGAPORE3460 | GOS RESPONSE TO AUSTRALIA'S PROPOSED LANGUAGE FOR [...] (SBU) Australian High Commission Political Counselor Lucinda Bell met with Wong Chow Ming, Deputy Director of MFA's ASEAN Directorate, before reftel arrived to discuss proposed language for the ASEAN Regional Forum Chairman's statement. 2. (SBU) Wong told Bell that Australia's language wa [...] | 2006-10-30 10:06:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM SN |
06SINGAPORE350 | AMBASSADOR'S CALL ON MINISTER OF HEALTH KHAW BOON [...] (SBU) Summary. Minister of Health KHAW Boon Wan told the Ambassador during her February 2 courtesy call that our bilateral Regional Emerging Diseases Intervention (REDI) Center first needed to "get off the ground" -- hiring a permanent Director and additional staff -- before broadening its f [...] | 2006-02-07 05:25:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMED EAGR TBIO ECON EINV APECO SN |
06SINGAPORE3720 | INTERNATIONAL CONTAINER SCANNING NETWORK: [...] No summary [...] | 2006-11-30 07:16:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EWWT ASEC KHLS SN |
06SINGAPORE3766 | RESULTS OF BLUE LANTERN CHECK ON LICENSE 05-1009651 [...] (U) Per reftel, Post made inquiries to confirm the order with Penta-Kohden listed reftel. 2. (U) Penta-Kohden Marketing Pte. Ltd. is a limited exempt private company that has been operating in Singapore since April 4, 1999. Singapore's online business directory, Biznet, lists the company [...] | 2006-12-12 03:01:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC KOMC SN |
06SINGAPORE3786 | DUSTR BHATIA AND GOS OFFICIALS DISCUSS DOMESTIC [...] (SBU) Summary: Singapore's growth opportunities and regional development figured prominently in discussions between Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Karan Bhatia and GOS officials. Representatives from the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) and the Economic Development Board (EDB) offered [...] | 2006-12-15 01:03:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECN EINV USTR PGOV SN |
06SINGAPORE3827 | THAI ECON ANNOUNCEMENTS UNLIKELY TO AFFECT [...] No summary [...] | 2006-12-20 10:10:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN SN |
06SINGAPORE3829 | VIETNAM'S PLACE IN THE SUN: SINGAPORE'S VIEW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Singapore is actively promoting closer economic and diplomatic ties with Vietnam as an up and coming regional leader worth cultivating. Singapore is already Vietnam's largest source of foreign direct investment, and bilateral trade has grown at a 20-percent annual rate over the [...] | 2006-12-21 03:34:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV PREL ETRD VM SN |
06SINGAPORE404 | U.S. CANDIDATE FOR ICAO SECRETARY GENERAL: [...] (SBU) Emboff delivered reftel demarche to Singapore International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Representative Bong Kim Pin on February 10, following a personal representation by Singapore-based FAA Asia Pacific Director Nancy Graham to Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore Deputy Direct [...] | 2006-02-10 09:28:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAIR ICAO AORC AS CA FI HU JA KS SN UK |
06SINGAPORE563 | IIP COORDINATOR ALEXANDER FELDMAN'S VISIT TO [...] (SBU) Summary: Senior Minister Goh Chock Tong expressed his concern about a rising tide of Islamic conservatism to Coordinator for International Information Programs (IIP) Alexander Feldman during his February 16 - 19 visit to Singapore. SM Goh urged the United States to encourage Muslims to [...] | 2006-02-24 06:37:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER SOCI KISL SN |
06SINGAPORE630 | SINGAPORE'S SUBMISSION FOR THE 2006 TIP REPORT: [...] This is the first of three messages relaying Embassy Singapore's 2006 TIP submission. Due to the length of our submission, we have split it into three cables. Part I covers the overview of Singapore's trafficking problem and prevention efforts. The Embassy point of contact for this report i [...] | 2006-03-01 09:20:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF SN |
06SINGAPORE631 | SINGAPORE'S SUBMISSION FOR THE 2006 TIP REPORT: [...] This is the second of three messages relaying Embassy Singapore's 2005 TIP submission. It covers the investigation and prosecution of traffickers. INVESTIGATION AND PROSECUTION ----------------------------- 2. (SBU) A. Does the country have a law specifically prohibiting trafficking in [...] | 2006-03-01 09:23:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF SN |
06SINGAPORE632 | SINGAPORE'S SUBMISSION FOR THE 2006 TIP REPORT: [...] (U) This is the third of three messages relaying Embassy Singapore's 2006 TIP submission. Part III covers Protection and Assistance to Victims, and details the sources Post has consulted in preparing this submission. PROTECTION AND ASSISTANCE TO VICTIMS ------------------------------------ [...] | 2006-03-01 09:33:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF SN |
06SINGAPORE649 | Singapore: USDA Acting U/S Lambert Discusses U.S. [...] (SBU) In a March 1 meeting, USDA Acting Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs Dr. Charles Lambert thanked Singapore officials for reopening the country's market to U.S. beef. He also thanked them for their discretion in the handling of problems in the recent first shipment. [...] | 2006-03-02 09:49:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ETRD ECON SENV SN |
06SINGAPORE689 | TREASURY U/S ADAMS' VISIT TO SINGAPORE [...] (SBU) Summary: In meetings with Singapore's top leadership, Treasury Under Secretary for International Affairs Timothy Adams emphasized U.S. commitment to the Southeast Asia region. Prime Minister Lee said that U.S. preoccupation with other parts of the world fueled a perception of neglect. [...] | 2006-03-07 00:49:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON ETRD ETTC EINV PREL SN |
06SINGAPORE725 | SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY CHERTOFF'S VISIT TO [...] (SBU) I warmly welcome your March 28-30 visit to Singapore and look forward to introducing you to Singapore's leadership. The bilateral relationship is at an historic high point and your visit offers tremendous opportunities to move it further forward, particularly in law enforcement cooperat [...] | 2006-03-09 04:59:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL ETRD KCRM EFIN SN |
06SINGAPORE811 | IPR: SINGAPORE CHARGES FIRST COMPANY UNDER AMENDED [...] (U) Summary: The Singapore Subordinate Court on March 9 charged interior design firm PDM International with three counts of copyright infringement, in the first case based on 2005 amendments to Singapore's Copyright Act. Business Software Alliance (BSA) representatives believe a successful pr [...] | 2006-03-15 02:27:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ECON ETRD EINV SN |
06SINGAPORE818 | SINGAPORE HOSTS FIRST INDONESIAN AVIAN INFLUENZA [...] (U) Representatives from the United States, Indonesia, and Singapore met jointly for the first time March 2 in Singapore to discuss preparations for the Indonesian Avian Influenza Trilateral Pilot Project. The World Bank, World Health Organization (WHO),World Organization for Animal Health ( [...] | 2006-03-15 10:05:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU AMED CASC EAGR AMGT SN ID |
06SINGAPORE892 | SPECIAL 301 REVIEW SINGAPORE: RECOMMEND NO CHANGE [...] Summary: Post recommends maintaining Singapore's current Special 301 status in 2006, i.e., not on the watch list or priority watch list. Singapore is committed to enhancing what is already one of Asia's strongest intellectual property regimes. The government continues to implement its IPR-re [...] | 2006-03-20 09:56:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ECON ETRD EINV USTR WTRO SN |
06SINGAPORE915 | AMBASSADOR'S CALL ON MINISTER OF TRANSPORT YEO [...] (SBU) Summary: The United States appreciates Singapore's implementation of maritime security programs such as the Container Security Initiative and Megaports, the Ambassador told Transportation Minister Yeo Cheow Tong in a March 17 courtesy call. The Ambassador stressed that Singapore needed [...] | 2006-03-22 07:11:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ELTN EWWT ECON SN |
06SINGAPORE928 | Singapore To Begin Rejecting U.S. Beef Shipments [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 8. 2. (SBU) Singapore's Agri-Veterinary Authority (AVA) informed the Embassy and USDA/FSIS on March 22 that it would begin rejecting U.S. beef shipments that contain bone fragments for what AVA regards as non-compliance with our agreement fo [...] | 2006-03-22 10:25:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ETRD ECON SENV TBIO SN |
06SINGAPORE938 | SINGAPORE TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS UPDATE [...] Summary: GOS officials from the Ministries of Home Affairs; Manpower; Community Development, Youth and Sports; and Foreign Affairs met with the E/P Counselor and Embassy officers on March 17 to discuss Singapore's 2005 trafficking situation and enforcement efforts. The GOS provided updated st [...] | 2006-03-23 10:01:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF SN |
06SINGAPORE945 | DUSTR BHATIA'S MEETING WITH MTI MINISTER LIM [...] (SBU) Summary. Singapore Minister for Trade and Industry LIM Hng Kiang told Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Karan Bhatia during a March 18 meeting that the WTO's "big four" economies needed to work together to finalize a package that could be sold to other more resistant member economies. [...] | 2006-03-24 06:12:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EINV USTR PGOV SN |
06SINGAPORE946 | MEDIA CONTENT EXCLUSIVITY: MINISTRY RULES AGAINST [...] (U) Singapore officials informed us on March 23 that they had decided to set aside a proposed ex-ante amendment of exclusive carriage agreements between media content/channel providers and Singapore's sole Pay-TV operator, SCV StarHub Cable Vision. This represents a modest, and perhaps tempor [...] | 2006-03-24 06:12:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS EIND EINV ETRD SN |
06SINGAPORE990 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH MOF/MFA SECOND MINISTER [...] (SBU) Summary. Second Minister for Finance and Foreign Affairs Raymond Lim told the Ambassador during a March 24 courtesy call that the United States and Singapore could resolve issues separating us on a double taxation agreement (DTA). On casinos, he said that Singapore would implement addit [...] | 2006-03-28 06:44:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV ETTC PGOV PREL SN |
06SINGAPORE998 | AMBASSADOR ADDRESSES BEEF CONCERNS WITH AVA CHAIRMAN [...] (SBU) Summary. The Ambassador assured Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) Chairman KOH Poh Tiong and CEO Dr. Chua Sin Bin that U.S. beef was safe in a March 24 meeting. She said that Singapore's issues with quality control stemmed from differing definitions of what constituted boneless [...] | 2006-03-28 08:28:00 | Embassy Singapore | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR KFLU TBIO SENV ETRD ECON SN |
06SKOPJE1030 | MACEDONIA LIKELY TO FOLLOW EU POSITION ON UNGA [...] No summary [...] | 2006-10-27 02:16:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNGA IS MK |
06SKOPJE1031 | MACEDONIA LIKELY TO FOLLOW EU POSITION ON UNGA [...] No summary [...] | 2006-10-27 02:17:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNGA IS |
06SKOPJE1032 | MACEDONIA LIKELY TO FOLLOW EU POSITION ON UNGA [...] No summary [...] | 2006-10-27 02:17:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | UNGA LE IS PHUM PREL PTER MK |
06SKOPJE1095 | MACEDONIA: SCENESETTER FOR CODEL DREIER'S VISIT, [...] (U) Welcome to Macedonia! HDAC,s assistance to the Macedonian parliament, both the provision of IT equipment and the opportunity for a professional visit to the United States earlier this year, has made a real contribution here. Your visit, nearly three months into the new government,s man [...] | 2006-11-16 12:09:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR MK |
06SKOPJE1096 | MACEDONIA: SCENESETTER FOR CODEL DREIER'S VISIT, [...] (U) Welcome to Macedonia! HDAC's assistance to the Macedonian parliament, both the provision of IT equipment and the opportunity for a professional visit to the United States earlier this year, has made a real contribution here. Your visit, nearly three months into the new governmentQs mandat [...] | 2006-11-16 14:02:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR MK |
06SKOPJE1100 | MACEDONIA: RULE OF LAW VICTORIES -- WIRETAP LAW [...] (U) Macedonia recently scored two major victories in strenghtening rule of law and fighting organized crime. On November 15, after months of preparatory work by the former and current governments, and heated parliamentary and public debate, the parliament passed the Law on Monitoring Communic [...] | 2006-11-20 15:34:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KCRM SMIG MK |
06SKOPJE1112 | MACEDONIA: GOVERNMENT ELIMINATES MOST CAVEATS ON [...] (SBU) The GOM approved in a closed government session on November 22 the elimination of five of seven caveats currently in force for Macedonian troops supporting ISAF operations in Afghanistan (reftel) and Macedonian soldiers serving in Iraq. Of the two remaining caveats, one prohibits Macedon [...] | 2006-11-24 13:57:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MOPS NATO PREL MK AG |
06SKOPJE1117 | MACEDONIA: GOM FACING POTENTIAL POLITICAL FALLOUT [...] (SBU) Macedonia,s new government faces several critical challenges in the electricity market. In the short-term, the supply of available electricity may not be sufficient to meet demand this winter. In addition, the newly privatized electricity distribution company is beginning to enforce p [...] | 2006-11-27 16:11:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON EINV EAID MK |
06SKOPJE1139 | MACEDONIA WELCOMES NATO SUMMIT STATEMENT, [...] (SBU) In a telcon November 30, MFA State Secretary Igor Ilievski told P/E Chief the GOM was delighted with the NATO Summit statement at Riga announcing, inter alia, the Alliance's intent to "extend further invitations to those countries who meet NATO's performance based standards..." The gover [...] | 2006-12-01 16:18:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV NATO MK |
06SKOPJE1144 | MACEDONIA: RENEWED ACTIVITY IN 45 MILLION EURO [...] (SBU) On November 15, Macedonia's special Organized Crime prosecutor issued detention requests for former Export Import Bank Director Metodija Smilenski, and former National Bank of Macedonia (NBM) Governor Ljube Trpeski. They are accused of defrauding the NBM of over 45 million Euros in 2004. [...] | 2006-12-05 07:42:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINR MK |
06SKOPJE1164 | MACEDONIA'S AMBASSADOR-DESIGNATE TO WASHINGTON, [...] (SBU) The Macedonian government has nominated Zoran Jolevski, a close associate of late President Trajkovski's and a longtime USAID local Chief of Party (COP),as Macedonia's next Ambassador to the United States. Never strongly identified with any single political party, Jolevski nevertheless [...] | 2006-12-13 07:56:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR MK |
06SKOPJE234 | MACEDONIA: SCENESETTER FOR CODEL VOINOVICH VISIT [...] (SBU) Your visit comes as the government and opposition are gearing up for this summer's parliamentary election, the actual date of which has yet to be determined. Amid the clamor of mutual recrimination and mudslinging of the "pre-campaign," which already is underway, your visit is an excell [...] | 2006-03-10 14:14:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP OREP AMGT ASEC MK |
06SKOPJE289 | MACEDONIA CHURCH DISPUTE: MOC PATRIARCH DECRIES [...] (SBU) Summary: The Macedonian Orthodox Church (MOC) has reacted strongly to recent revelations that the Serbian government funds an affiliate of the Serbian Orthodox Church (SOC) in Macedonia, calling that support an intrusion into Macedonia's domestic affairs. The MOC also has opposed intern [...] | 2006-03-30 07:57:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KIRF MK |
06SKOPJE294 | MACEDONIA: CAMPAIGN RHETORIC HEATS UP AS SUMMER [...] (SBU) With parliamentary elections possible as soon as late June, political parties are fueling increasingly heated pre-campaign rhetoric with personal attacks and mudslinging. Although the parties publicly deny it, there are numerous behind-the-scenes discussions ongoing about possible post-e [...] | 2006-03-31 14:04:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MK |
06SKOPJE310 | SEN. VOINOVICH DISCUSSES NATO, KOSOVO NEGOTIATIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: In meetings with senior Macedonian officials on March 25, Sen. George Voinovich encouraged Macedonia to make further progress on NATO-related reforms, discussed Kosovo final status issues, and thanked Macedonia for its military support of coalition operations in Iraq and Afghani [...] | 2006-04-05 07:20:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MK |
06SKOPJE329 | MACEDONIA WILL TAKE INTO ACCOUNT USG POSITION ON [...] No summary [...] | 2006-04-11 16:26:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KUNR OPDC PREL PHUM UNGA MK |
06SKOPJE330 | MACEDONIA REAFFIRMS COMMITMENT TO IRAQ EFFORT [...] (U) Deputy Senior Advisor on Iraq Robert Deutsch and his State and DoD team visited Skopje April 5-6 to thank GOM officials and parliamentarians for Macedonia's support for international efforts in Iraq, and to discuss developments in Iraq. (NOTE: Macedonia currently has 40 troops deployed to [...] | 2006-04-11 16:37:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MARR MK IZ |
06SKOPJE38 | MACEDONIA'S SPEAKER OF PARLIAMENT NOMINATED AS [...] (SBU) The GOM has nominated Speaker of Parliament Ljupco Jordanovski as Macedonia's next ambassador to the United States. A long-time parliamentarian, Jordanovski is meticulous, hard-working, and a consensus builder. He is widely-respected as an administrator and has presided over an ambitio [...] | 2006-01-17 08:31:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINR PREL PGOV MK |
06SKOPJE497 | MACEDONIA: POLITICAL LEADERS EXPECT INDEPENDENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Initial Macedonian reaction to the May 21 Montenegro referendum on independence has been generally positive, with most interlocutors welcoming the development as contributing to bolstering regional stability. It is encouraging that harder-line eAlbanian parties, such as opposi [...] | 2006-05-23 15:46:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MK |
06SKOPJE507 | MACEDONIA: SUPPORT FOR IRAQI GOVERNMENT FORMATION [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-25 05:51:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM KPAO PREL PGOV IZ MK |
06SKOPJE517 | MACEDONIA: ETHNIC ALBANIANS GIVE POLICE A VOTE OF [...] (U) Three ethnic Albanian youths were killed and six were injured after a drive-by shooting at an internet cafe in the Skopje municipality of Cair late May 18. A Ministry of Interior (MOI) spokesman told the local press on May 22 the police suspect an inter-family blood feud was the motive for [...] | 2006-05-30 05:54:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ASEC MK |
06SKOPJE596 | MACEDONIA: AS PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION CAMPAIGN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The 20-day official campaign season for Macedonia's July 5 parliamentary elections began June 15, with a total of 31 parties competing in the country's six electoral districts. The parliament on June 12 amended the criminal code to stiffen penalties for violations of the electo [...] | 2006-06-22 14:19:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV MK |
06SKOPJE640 | MACEDONIA VOTES: OPPOSITION WINS IN GENERALLY CALM [...] (SBU) The opposition VMRO-DPMNE party emerged as the clear winner in Macedonia's July 5 parliamentary elections, with the ethnic Albanian DUI party (governing coalition) consolidating its lead over rival eAlbanian opposition party DPA. The elections were considered to have "largely met intern [...] | 2006-07-06 15:50:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL MK |
06SKOPJE779 | MACEDONIA: YOUNG TECHNOCRATS DOMINATE NEW [...] (SBU/NF) Prime Minister-designate Gruevski's proposed cabinet lineup, which the parliament is likely to approve on August 25, is comprised of mostly young technocrats without extensive bureaucratic experience. That bodes well for a fresh start, with Gruevski likely to exercise greater control [...] | 2006-08-17 14:39:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL MK |
06SKOPJE837 | MACEDONIA: FOREIGN MINISTER-DESIGNATE ON KOSOVO [...] (SBU) P/E Chief delivered reftel points on Kosovo status negotiations to Foreign Minister-designate Antonijo Milososki on August 23. (NOTE: Milososki and his fellow cabinet members were confirmed in office following a parliamentary vote on August 26). Milososki agreed strongly with the point o [...] | 2006-09-04 14:58:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MK KS |
06SKOPJE848 | MACEDONIA SUPPORTS IMPROVED SERBIA-ICTY COOPERATION [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-07 14:52:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR ICTY SRYI AA MK |
06SKOPJE849 | MACEDONIA: RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON USG VIEWS ON [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-07 15:12:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL KNNP MNUC WMD CT KPAO PTER KN KS |
06SKOPJE851 | MACEDONIA: PRESIDENTIAL SPEECH ON DETAINEES IN THE [...] (SBU) P/E Chief delivered reftel points on President Bush's September 6 speech on detainees in the war on terror to MFA State Counselor Milan Spiridonovski on September 7. Spiridonovski appreciated the briefing and said he understood the need to ensure vital security information was quickly ob [...] | 2006-09-11 05:25:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL MK |
06SKOPJE887 | MACEDONIA NOMINATES FORMER FM SRDJAN KERIM FOR [...] (U) MFA State Counselor for Multilateral Affairs Svetlana Geleva confirmed on September 16 press reports that the GOM has nominated former Foreign Minister and former Macedonian PermRep to the UN Srdjan Kerim for the 2007 UNGA Presidency. Kerim currently is the general director of the local med [...] | 2006-09-20 01:37:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINR UNGA MK |
06SKOPJE888 | MACEDONIA: A/S FRIED'S MEETING WITH ADRIATIC [...] (SBU) Although you will be meeting with the A-3 foreign ministers as a group on the margins of the UNGA in New York on September 22, we believe you can reinforce some key themes we have been underlining with the newly-elected GOM should you have an opportunity for a brief pull-aside with newly [...] | 2006-09-20 14:31:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MARR UNGA MK |
06SKOPJE898 | MACEDONIA: POLITICS TRUMPS FAITH -- ELECTION OF [...] (SBU) Self-proclaimed moderate Islamic cleric Sulejman Rexhepi was elected Reis-ul-Ulema (head) of the Islamic Community of Macedonia (ICM) on September 20. The election itself was uneventful, but the electoral process was marred by the political intervention of ethnic Albanian governing coal [...] | 2006-09-25 12:53:00 | Embassy Skopje | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PINR PGOV MK |
06SOFIA1017 | SOCIALISTS CONTINUE MACROECONOMIC PROGRESS, BUT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Almost one year into its tenure, the Socialist-led government has succeeded in preserving macroeconomic stability, growing the economy and preparing the country to meet EU convergence criteria. The coalition government has maintained the key elements of the previous governmen [...] | 2006-07-21 12:03:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV BU |
06SOFIA1045 | BULGARIAN REPRESENTATION AT 61ST UN GENERAL [...] (SBU) Kamen Velitchkov at the MFA's UN Directorate informed us on July 26 that Minister of Foreign Affairs Ivailo Kalfin will be the highest ranking member of the Bulgarian government attending the 61st UN General Assembly general debate in September. Kalfin will head a delegation consisting [...] | 2006-07-26 11:57:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL OTRA OVIP KSEP UNGA BU |
06SOFIA1063 | BULGARIA SUPPORTS U.S. POSITION ON HLD; REQUESTS [...] (U) Summary: We delivered reftel demarche to Mr. Kamen Velichkov of the MFA,s Department of UN and Global Issues on July 28. He said the GOB sees no need for a permanent forum on migration and that migration issues are best discussed in regional fora. He also requested USG support for Bulg [...] | 2006-08-01 06:45:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF SMIG UNGA BU |
06SOFIA1080 | LINE OF BULGARIAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES BEGINS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The October 22 presidential elections will offer Bulgarian voters the opportunity to pass judgment on the country,s most influential politician, incumbent President Georgi Parvanov. With Parvanov's candidacy a certainty (though still formally unannounced),several other figur [...] | 2006-08-03 12:42:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL BU |
06SOFIA1083 | FOLLOW-UP REQUEST - DETAINED U.S. GAUGES FROM [...] (U) This is an action request - please see paragraph 4. 2. (SBU) We delivered reftel demarche to MFA representative Elizabeth Konstantinova on 2 August. She agreed to convey our request for continued detention of the gauges and information on the truck's routing to inter-ministerial collea [...] | 2006-08-03 15:00:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC PTER ASEC KNNP UK IR BU |
06SOFIA1102 | BULGARIA SUPPORTS DRAFT UNSC RESOLUTION ON LEBANON [...] (SBU) We delivered reftel on draft UNSCR regarding Lebanon to Emil Yalnazov, MFA's Head of United Nations and Global Issues Directorate, on Aug. 7. Yalnazov said the GOB welcomes the resolution as a sign of a united UN voice on the issue. It is time for action; allowing the crisis to go on [...] | 2006-08-07 15:16:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER MOPS UN BU |
06SOFIA1111 | BULGARIA KICKS OFF DECADE OF ROMA INCLUSION WITH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In an official ceremony on July 4, Bulgaria took over the presidency of the 2005-2015 Decade of Roma Inclusion. The pomp and circumstance of Bulgaria's ascendance to the Decade's presidency contrasts sharply, however, with the squalid living conditions of the Roma throughout [...] | 2006-08-09 03:57:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL KTIA BU |
06SOFIA1168 | BULGARIA: NEW TOOLS IN THE FIGHT AGAINST MONEY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Under U.S. and EU urging, Bulgaria has begun considering more sophisticated tools to fight organized crime (OC),especially its financial aspects. Complex money laundering schemes finance massive, pervasive local underground activities. Recognizing that inadequate laws and w [...] | 2006-08-17 04:10:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN KCRM PGOV PTER BU |
06SOFIA1169 | BULGARIA NON-COMMITTAL BUT LEANING TOWARDS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-17 07:29:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM UNHCR BU |
06SOFIA1170 | BULGARIA'S FOREIGN MINISTRY ISSUES STATEMENT IN [...] (U) Bulgaria's Ministry of Foreign Affairs released the following public statement supporting UNSCR 1701 on August 16: Begin text of unofficial translation: Bulgaria supports unanimously-adopted UN Security Council Resolution 1701 which calls for a full cessation of hostilities, deployment [...] | 2006-08-17 07:44:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPKO KPAO UN UNSC BU |
06SOFIA1173 | BULGARIA: TOUGH GMO LAW HAMSTRINGS BIOTECH INDUSTRY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Bulgaria currently has some of the most restrictive legislation on biotechnology in Europe, surpassing even the European Union's stringent standards. In addition to prohibiting the commercialization and release into the environment of modified products banned by EU member countr [...] | 2006-08-17 09:00:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KSTH ECON EAGR ETRD PREL BU |
06SOFIA1196 | BULGARIA: BLUE LANTERN ACTION OFFICER [...] (U) Embassy Sofia's Blue Lantern action officer is: John Senior Political Officer 359 2 932 5270 (office) 359 2 937 5320 (fax) SeniorJM@state.gov (unclassified email) SeniorJM@state.sgov.gov (classified email) Estimated Departure Date: August 2007 2. (SBU) After receiving a Blue Lanter [...] | 2006-08-24 14:29:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC KOMC KSEP BU |
06SOFIA1233 | BULGARIA SUPPORTIVE ON U.S.-INDIA DEAL [...] (SBU) On August 28 we delivered reftel demarche to Elizabeth Konstantinova of the MFA's International Security Directorate. While hesitating to commit to a statement at the NSG meeting, she emphasized Bulgaria's overall support for the U.S.-India Civil Nuclear Cooperation Initiative. Specific [...] | 2006-08-30 15:23:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM ETTC ENRG MNUC KNNP TRGY BU |
06SOFIA126 | BULGARIA: NEW CORRUPTION STRATEGY OFFERS LOFTY [...] SUMMARY: (SBU) After weeks of delay and last-minute revisions, the Council of Ministers finally adopted its new National Anti-Corruption Strategy on January 12. The strategy clearly seeks to address Brussels' criticism that Bulgaria has made little progress in curbing corruption, particularl [...] | 2006-01-27 16:37:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PREL PINR |
06SOFIA1264 | BULGARIA SUPPORTS WEDGWOOD FOR UNHCR [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-07 13:01:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM UNHCR BU |
06SOFIA1292 | BULGARIA: DEMARCHE ON IRAN DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-12 12:09:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL PTER IAEA UNSC BU |
06SOFIA1311 | BULGARIA FULLY SUPPORTS THE COMMUNITY OF [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-14 12:22:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | UNGA PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM BU |
06SOFIA1314 | BULGARIA WILL RAISE SUDAN AT NAM IF POSSIBLE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-14 13:34:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM UNSC KPKO KDEM BU |
06SOFIA1331 | 61ST UNGA: UPDATED BULGARIAN HIGH LEVEL ATTENDANCE [...] (SBU) On September 14, 2006, we met with MFA's Kamen Velichkov, Head of the MFA's UN and Global Issues Department, to confirm Bulgaria's official representation at the 61st UN General Assembly. Foreign Minister Ivailo Kalfin will lead a delegation of Deputy Ministers and Ambassadors. 2. Pl [...] | 2006-09-18 15:43:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | UNGA OVIP OTRA PREL KSEP BU |
06SOFIA1499 | INCUMBENT PARVANOV SCORES LANDSLIDE VICTORY IN BULGARIAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Incumbent President Georgi Parvanov scored a decisive victory against extreme nationalist Volen Siderov in the October 29 run-off, becoming Bulgaria's first president re-elected since communism collapsed. The former Socialist leader captured 75.9 percent of a weak turnout, an u [...] | 2006-10-30 12:41:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV BU |
06SOFIA1532 | BULGARIA CONSIDERS ACCEPTING GUANTANAMO MIGRANTS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-11-06 14:21:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF SMIG BU |
06SOFIA1575 | BULGARIA GOES HOLLYWOOD . . . FINALLY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In a suspenseful tale full of intrigue, deceit and high-powered bluffs, Los Angeles-based NuImage films finally received the keys to the Boyana Film Studios on November 16, a year-and-a-half after they were selected as the winner of a three-way bid for the Bulgarian state film c [...] | 2006-11-17 15:50:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON KPAO BU |
06SOFIA1613 | BULGARIA SEEKS TO WITHDRAW FROM TWO BILAT TREATIES [...] This is an action request, please see para. 4. 2. (SBU) On Nov. 24, Emilena Popova, Head of MFA's International Law Directorate, presented us with diplomatic note #54-00-17 proposing to terminate two U.S. - GOB bilateral trade agreements and to amend one. According to the three-part note, [...] | 2006-11-29 10:13:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EISNLN EUN PREL BU |
06SOFIA1639 | BULGARIA: SA/LW DESTRUCTION HITS A ROADBLOCK [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see Paragraph 5. 2. (SBU) Embassy Sofia and the GoB are eager to begin work on the USG-financed destruction of excess Small Arms/Light Weapons articles authorized in reftel A. Logistical obstacles remain, however, before the $400,000 in authorized ass [...] | 2006-12-06 08:38:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL AFIN MARR BU |
06SOFIA1648 | GOB READY TO EXCHANGE BIT INSTRUMENTS DURING [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para. 4. 2. (SBU) We delivered ref. A points and draft protocol to MFA's Emilena Popova, Director of the International Law Department, on December 7. Popova confirmed that the Additional Protocol to the Bilateral Investment Agreement (BIT) was rati [...] | 2006-12-08 14:11:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV KTIA OVIP OFDP PREL EUN BU |
06SOFIA1655 | BULGARIA STRUGGLES TO DISCLOSE COMMUNIST-ERA FILES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Bulgaria's parliament passed groundbreaking legislation on December 6, to open up the files of the former communist secret services. Under the law, adopted after heated debate, all senior officials in the Presidency, Parliament, government, the Judiciary, academia, mass media, [...] | 2006-12-11 15:17:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR BU |
06SOFIA1656 | TERRORIST LISTS: BULGARIA [...] (SBU) According to our contacts at the Financial Intelligence Agency and other Bulgarian government entities, Bulgaria does not maintain its own "national" list of terrorists. The GOB instead uses information from the United Nations, European Union and other individual countries when determin [...] | 2006-12-12 07:22:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER BU |
06SOFIA1661 | ANTI-OC TRAINING CENTER: BULGARIA READY TO HOST [...] (SBU) Introduction and Summary: Mission strongly supports establishment of a South Eastern European Regional Organized Crime Training Center (SEEROCTC). We believe a center located in Bulgaria will advance U.S. rule of law objectives here and regionally. A center in Bulgaria would build on an [...] | 2006-12-13 11:13:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM EAID KJUS KCOR SNAR KPAO BU |
06SOFIA1683 | OUTRAGED BULGARIA CONDEMNS LIBYAN DEATH SENTENCES OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Bulgaria predictably reacted with shock and outrage to the Tripoli Criminal Court decision to confirm the death sentences of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor accused of deliberately infecting more than 400 Libyan children with HIV. Although largely expected, the dec [...] | 2006-12-19 14:20:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM LBY BU |
06SOFIA1684 | OUTRAGED BULGARIA CONDEMNS LIBYAN DEATH SENTENCES OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Bulgaria predictably reacted with shock and outrage to the Tripoli Criminal Court decision to confirm the death sentences of five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor accused of deliberately infecting more than 400 Libyan children with HIV. Although largely expected, the dec [...] | 2006-12-19 14:24:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM LBY BU |
06SOFIA1692 | BLUE LANTERN, APPLICATION 05-050020397: [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In response to reftel instructions, Poloff met with TEREM Executive Director Mariyan Yovchev on December 18 and spoke with MoD Arms Control Director Nikola Mihaylov on December 19. Post believes this transaction to be legitimate and has no information to recommend against its a [...] | 2006-12-21 06:58:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KOMC ETTC BU |
06SOFIA1695 | BULGARIAN GOVERNMENT DROPS "SILENT DIPLOMACY;" [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The death sentences passed by a Tripoli court on five Bulgarian nurses Dec. 19 triggered mounting outrage in Bulgaria as politicians, NGOs, the public and the press lashed out at Libya for holding a deeply politicized trial and called for international support. Over the course o [...] | 2006-12-21 13:33:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM LBY BU |
06SOFIA1696 | BULGARIA LOCKS IN NEW DEAL WITH GAZPROM UNTIL 2030 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Bulgaria signed December 18 a deal with Russian gas giant Gazprom, guaranteeing Russian natural gas deliveries and transit until 2030. Insiders tell us the price of gas will gradually rise 40 percent by 2012 - largely due to the termination of the agreement to barter gas in lieu [...] | 2006-12-21 13:41:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON RU BU |
06SOFIA187 | IMF AND BULGARIA AGREE TO 3 PERCENT BUDGET SURPLUS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The recent January 19-26 IMF mission to Bulgaria succeeded in reaching an agreement on economic policies for this year. The agreement entails radical fiscal tightening through a three percent budget surplus and a credit growth rate target of 17.5 percent. The IMF commended Bu [...] | 2006-02-03 09:47:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV BU |
06SOFIA249 | PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES APPROVE BULGARIAN MISSION [...] The parliamentary committees on foreign policy and defense voted in a joint session February 15 to approve the proposal to send Bulgarian military personnel to Camp Ashraf in Iraq. Four MPs from the ultra-nationalist Ataka party voted against the proposal as expected, and the other 14 MPs re [...] | 2006-02-16 15:14:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KJUS KCRM EU IZ BU |
06SOFIA250 | BULGARIAN CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS: TOO FAR OR NOT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Bulgarian parliament is currently considering a package of proposed constitutional amendments aimed at implementing judicial reform and responding to EU criticism of the judicial system. While most observers view the package as essentially well-meaning, concerns have been r [...] | 2006-02-17 07:52:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KJUS KCRM EU BU |
06SOFIA251 | BULGARIA 301 REVIEW: RECOMMEND WATCH LIST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In response to increased pressure from the EU and our Embassy, the Bulgarian government has made progress this year towards improving the Intellectual Property (IP) regime. Ambassador Beyrle has consistently raised the issue with responsible ministers and MPs, and highlighted [...] | 2006-02-17 13:10:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD KIPR BU |
06SOFIA267 | PARLIAMENT APPROVES BULGARIAN MILITARY DEPLOYMENT [...] (SBU) Bulgaria's ruling three-party coalition won parliamentary approval February 22 to send 155 Bulgarian military personnel to Camp Ashraf, Iraq. The vote was 151 to 14 with one abstention. This decision clears the final hurdle in the GOB's political approval process for the mission and hi [...] | 2006-02-22 16:06:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KJUS KCRM EU IZ BU |
06SOFIA292 | BULGARIA CONDEMNS AL-ASKARIYA SHRINE BOMBING [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Venelin Lazarov, Head of the MFA's Near East and North Africa Section, on February 24. The MFA issued an official statement February 24 condemning the Al-Askariya bombing and calling on Iraqis to exercise restraint. 2. (U) Embassy Sofia's unofficia [...] | 2006-02-27 13:53:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER KDEM KPAO PREL PGOV IZ BU |
06SOFIA304 | BULGARIA: 2006 ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) [...] SUMMARY: This cable provides Embassy Sofia's input for the sixth annual Anti-Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report. Bulgaria is primarily a country of transit and origin, and to a lesser extent a country of destination for human trafficking. The past year has seen enhanced cooperation betwee [...] | 2006-03-01 14:52:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF ASEC ELAB SMIG KCRM KWMN KFRD BU |
06SOFIA444 | BULGARIA: FINAL COURT DECISION REJECTS JEWISH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a decision released March 20, Bulgaria's highest court ended the Jewish community's 15- year legal struggle for restitution of the Rila Hotel. The ruling of the Supreme Court of Cassation denied the Jewish community's request for an extraordinary appeal of the 2005 court de [...] | 2006-03-24 15:22:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM KCOR KNAR KIRF BU |
06SOFIA468 | BULGARIAN TROOPS LEAVE FOR IRAQ [...] (U) A contingent of 153 soldiers departed Bulgaria March 30 to begin its mission at Camp Ashraf, located 70 kilometers north of Baghdad. The unit will replace a U.S. Army military police company, providing security for defectors from the Mujahedeen-e-Khalq (MEK),an Iranian opposition group. [...] | 2006-03-30 13:45:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KJUS KCRM EU IZ BU |
06SOFIA518 | BULGARIA: JEWISH COMMUNITY PONDERS OPTIONS FOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Following the recent court decision rejecting the Bulgarian Jewish community's claim to the Rila Hotel (reftel),the community and the government have initiated talks toward a political settlement to outstanding property claims. The creation of a commission to consider restitu [...] | 2006-04-12 07:05:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM KNAR KIRF BU |
06SOFIA527 | BULGARIA'S VIEW ON UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [...] (U) We delivered reftel A talking points to Ambassador Kamen Velichkov, Director of the MFA's UN and Global Issues Directorate, on 12 April. Velichkov stressed the importance of the Human Rights Council (HRC) to Bulgaria's UN agenda, and said that the Foreign Minister might raise the issue w [...] | 2006-04-13 14:34:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM UNGA BU |
06SOFIA601 | BULGARIA: DEFENSE COOPERATION AGREEMENT SIGNED [...] (SBU) The Secretary of State and Foreign Minister Kalfin signed the Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA) April 28 at a ceremony at the Council of Ministers. After the ceremony, the Embassy and the MFA exchanged diplomatic notes using cleared text from Ambassador Loftis referencing the NATO- Ru [...] | 2006-04-28 13:17:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR PGOV PREL KPAO BU |
06SOFIA638 | BULGARIAN LEADERS SPEAK OUT IN SUPPORT OF BASING [...] (U) Since the signing of the Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA) in Sofia April 28, Bulgarian political leaders have stepped up their support of the accord. In a May 6 article in the Bulgarian daily "24 Hours," Sofia Mayor Boyko Borisov, the most popular politician in Bulgaria, added his voi [...] | 2006-05-08 15:31:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR PGOV PREL KPAO BU |
06SOFIA661 | BULGARIA: EXTREME NATIONALISTS REAPING WHAT THEY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The extreme nationalist party Ataka is reeling from self-inflicted wounds just one year after its founding. A recent scandal steming from the erratic behavior of several Ataka members following a highway accident has contributed to a sharp decline in the party's support and led [...] | 2006-05-10 11:47:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV MARR PINR SOCI RU BU |
06SOFIA68 | BULGARIA: COURT HEARS APPEAL OF JEWISH PROPERTY [...] (U) SUMMARY. A five member panel of the Supreme Cassation Court (SCC) held a hearing January 17 on the Bulgarian Jewish community's appeal regarding restitution of the disputed Rila Hotel (reftel). The Jewish community organization Shalom is appealing a July 2005 decision on grounds that it [...] | 2006-01-18 15:55:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SOCI KTIA BU |
06SOFIA713 | BULGARIA: PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES APPROVE DEFENSE [...] Six parliamentary committees overwhelmingly recommended final approval of the Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA) between Bulgaria and the U.S. after concluding a review of the document May 18. The Committees on Defense, Foreign Policy, Legal Affairs, Internal Security, Economy, and Finance w [...] | 2006-05-19 12:44:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV MARR BU |
06SOFIA714 | BULGARIA: PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES APPROVE DEFENSE [...] Six parliamentary committees overwhelmingly recommended final approval of the Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA) between Bulgaria and the U.S. after concluding a review of the document May 18. The Committees on Defense, Foreign Policy, Legal Affairs, Internal Security, Economy, and Finance w [...] | 2006-05-19 12:44:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV MARR BU |
06SOFIA746 | BULGARIAN PARLIAMENT RATIFIES DEFENSE COOPERATION [...] (U) SUMMARY. Parliament ratified the Defense Cooperation Agreement (DCA) between Bulgaria and the U.S. May 26 by an overwhelming majority. The ruling socialist-led coalition and the right-wing opposition parties came together in support of the agreement. Only the ultra-nationalist Ataka par [...] | 2006-05-26 12:54:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR PGOV PREL KPAO BU |
06SOFIA774 | BULGARIA TO CONTRIBUTE 60,000 EUROS TO NTM-I TRUST [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel points to Rumen Kamenov in the MFA's NATO and International Security Directorate June 1. Kamenov said that the GOB will contribute 60,000 euros to the NTM-I trust fund this year, a 50 percent increase from last year. The MFA and MOD will formally authorize this [...] | 2006-06-02 08:56:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL NATO MOPS IZ BU |
06SOFIA777 | BULGARIA ISSUES STATEMENT SUPPORTING U.S. IRAN [...] (SBU) In response to reftel demarches by Ambassador and DCM, the MFA released the following statement June 1: "Bulgaria welcomes the statement by the Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice for the preparedness of the USA to become a full partner to the EU 3 negotiations with Iran. This new ini [...] | 2006-06-02 11:35:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV IR BU |
06SOFIA810 | BULGARIA: BIG U.S. INVESTORS DISCOVERING THAT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Bulgaria is seeing increased U.S. investment this year. Just during the week of June 5, three major American companies -- AES, General Electric and Hewlett Packard -- have broken ground or cut ribbons on projects bringing well over a billion dollars and thousands of jobs to B [...] | 2006-06-09 13:22:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV BU |
06SOFIA937 | BULGARIA: UPDATE ON DOUBLE TAXATION TREATY [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-05 14:14:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EFIN ETRD BU |
06SOFIA952 | RESPONSE TO NORTH KOREAN MISSILE LAUNCHES [...] (SBU) We delivered ref. A talking points on July 7 to Krassimir Stefanov, Director of the Asia, Australia and Oceania Directorate of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He said that Bulgaria fully shares the U.S. concerns about the provocative actions that the DPRK has undertaken, and is suppo [...] | 2006-07-07 12:55:00 | Embassy Sofia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM KNNP KN BU |
06STATE114035 | MISSION FRANCE'S EXPERIENCE WITH THE AMERICAN PRESENCE [...] (SBU) American Presence Posts (APP),active in France since 1999, play a key role in this mission's transformational diplomacy efforts. The concept is replicable in other countries, but Missions need to remain flexible as they adapt the APP concept to local conditions. Key factors to consi [...] | 2006-07-12 02:07:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ADIP AMGT ASEC BEXP CASC SCUL FR |
06STATE144127 | RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE: MUCCIO LETTER AND NOGUN-RI [...] (SBU) The Department appreciates Post's continued efforts to help resolve the Nogun-ri issue. OSD is aware of the ROKG's request for both the Department of the Army Inspector General's (IG) explanation of the Muccio letter and the status of the Nogun-ri Scholarship (reftel) and is preparing [...] | 2006-08-31 22:49:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KS MARR PREL |
06STATE147093 | 1267 COMMITTEE: FRANCO-AMERICAN PROPOSAL ON [...] (U) This is an Action Request. Please see Paragraph 2. (SBU) The Department appreciates USUN's efforts to draft a compromise proposal with the French Mission regarding procedural protections and fairness in the 1267 (al-Qaida/Taliban) Sanctions Committee (REF A). The Department instructs US [...] | 2006-09-07 02:31:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER UNSC |
06STATE157519 | IMMIGRATION ADVISORY PROGRAM: APPROVAL OF NOTE [...] (SBU) This is an action request. Per ref A request, the Department of State and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) have reviewed the draft Note Verbale and three Memoranda of Operation (MOO) for the Immigration Advisory Program with the final minor change proposed by Japan,s Ministry [...] | 2006-09-21 18:59:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER EAIR CVIS JA |
06STATE185480 | DEMARCHE REQUEST: BN350 BILATERAL TALKS [...] (U) This is an Action Request: Chief of Mission (or highest appropriate official at post's discretion) is requested to approach the highest ranking Government of Kazakhstan (GOK) official available, as soon as possible, to convey U.S. request to establish ongoing senior and technical level di [...] | 2006-11-09 22:17:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MNUC PARM KNNP KZ |
06STATE185727 | BN-350 SENIOR POLICY WORKING GROUP PROPOSAL [...] THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. See Para. 3 and 4. SUMMARY: The USG would like to begin discussions with the Government of Kazakhstan on permanent disposition of Kazakhstan,s BN-350 spent nuclear fuel. The USG proposes that the first formal discussion on options for permanent disposition be he [...] | 2006-11-13 13:16:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PARM KNNP MNUC KZ |
06STATE185757 | BN-350 SENIOR POLICY WORKING GROUP PROPOSAL [...] THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. See Para. 3 and 4. SUMMARY: The USG would like to begin discussions with the Government of Kazakhstan on permanent disposition of Kazakhstan,s BN-350 spent nuclear fuel. The USG proposes that the first formal discussion on options for permanent disposition be he [...] | 2006-11-13 13:41:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PARM KNNP MNUC KZ |
06STATE187610 | IRAQ: TRANSPORTING JAPANESE DIPLOMATS [...] (U) This is an action reqeust. See para. 3. 2. (SBU) The Embassy of Japan approached the Department to ask the USG for assistance in moving its diplomatic personnel via helicopter from Baghdad International Airport (BIAP) to the International Zone (IZ). Currently, Japan enters Baghdad fro [...] | 2006-11-15 21:51:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MOPS PREL JA IZ |
06STATE197169 | GUIDANCE: UNSCR 1701 CONSULTATIONS [...] (U) USUN is authorized to draw from the points in para 2 below during UNSC resolution 1701 consultations currently scheduled for December 11. 2. (SBU) Begin points. -- We welcome the Secretary General's letter detailing progress made on UNSC resolution 1701 implementation. -- The [...] | 2006-12-08 21:49:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | UNSC PREL IS LE |
06STATE197205 | INSTRUCTIONS: CO-SPONSORING UNSCR 1701 PRST [...] (U) USUN is authorized to join France and the UK in sponsoring the draft PRST in para 2 below, reacting to the Secretary General's letter on UNSC resolution 1701 SIPDIS implementation. USUN should report outcome of negotiations to Department and seek Department guidance regarding the fin [...] | 2006-12-08 23:24:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | UNSC IS LE |
06STATE197404 | INSTRUCTIONS: BELARUS POLITICAL PRISONER [...] (SBU) Action Request: USUN is instructed to raise the issue of the hunger strike of Belarus political prisoner Kozulin under "other matters" during the Security Council,s informal consultations on Monday, December 11, and to make a statement to the press following the consultations, drawing [...] | 2006-12-11 14:17:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | UNSC BO |
06STATE199552 | GUIDANCE: CONSULTATIONS ON BRAMMERTZ REPORT, [...] (U) USUN is authorized to draw from the points in para 2 during consultations on the 6th UN International Independent Investigation Commission (UNIIIC) currently scheduled for December 18, 2006. 2. (U) Begin points. -- We welcome the 6th report from the UN International Independent [...] | 2006-12-15 19:05:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | UNSC PREL LE SY |
06STATE202497 | IDENTIFICATION OF GOVERNMENT MEASURES THAT [...] (SBU) IN RECOGNITION OF THE STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE OF THE NORTH AMERICAN STEEL INDUSTRY, THE THREE NAFTA GOVERNMENTS AGREED IN 2005 TO PURSUE A NORTH AMERICAN STEEL STRATEGY TO PROMOTE GROWTH, COMPETITIVENESS, AND PROSPERITY. THE STRATEGY IS A "SIGNATURE ISSUE" UNDER THE NORTH AMERICAN SECURITY [...] | 2006-12-22 19:33:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD OTRA FR GR IT JA KS EUN |
06STATE58612 | BILATERAL NUCLEAR SAFETY AGREEMENT [...] As noted in reftel, the Government of Kazakhstan is correct: the original 1994 agreement did terminate in 1999, but similar cooperation has continued through two subsequent agreements between the USNRC and Kazakhstan's Atomic Energy Committee of the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Resources. T [...] | 2006-04-12 21:06:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG PREL TRGY KSCA KTIA KZ |
06STATE89712 | FURTHER GUIDANCE ON THE SIPDIS CABLE CAPTION [...] (SBU) The Department in December 2005 distributed general guidance (05 State 00226504) concerning the use of the new SIPDIS distribution caption (5FAH-2 H-440). The SIPDIS caption (which means SIPRnet distribution) facilitates inter-agency information sharing, a top State Department priority [...] | 2006-06-02 16:03:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMGT ACOA AOMS PINR KCCP |
06STATE91067 | FISCAL DATA FOR USG SITE DEVELOPMENT IN EL [...] (U) An expanding U.S. Government presence in Darfur requires modest infrastructure development, including living and working facilities, to support U.S. personnel in the field. S/CRS and AF/EX have agreed to split the costs associated with refurbishing RSO-identified buildings in El Fasher (r [...] | 2006-06-05 20:50:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRS PGOV SU |
06STATE91785 | SEEKING UPDATE ON PROGRESS OF JAPAN-KOREA EEZ [...] (U) This is an action message ) see para 3 for action. Background in para 2 is provided for Post's information only. ---------- Background ---------- 2. (SBU) In April, tensions between South Korea and Japan flared up when Japan announced plans to carry out a hydrographic survey in disp [...] | 2006-06-06 18:44:00 | Secretary of State | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIS PBTS PHSA PREL JA KS |
06STOCKHOLM192 | SWEDISH GOV'T PRESSURES COMPANY TO SHUT DOWN [...] (U) Summary. On February 9 a Swedish internet company shut down a small, right-wing political party website that featured the Jyllands-Posten Mohammed cartoons and planned to publish additional ones. The Swedish government, which beforehand had cautioned the company on the danger the image [...] | 2006-02-13 10:02:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PTER SCUL ECPS EINT PINS PROP KPAO KMDR |
06STOCKHOLM196 | SWEDISH GOV'T PRESSURES COMPANY TO SHUT DOWN [...] (U) Summary. On February 9 a Swedish internet company shut down a small, right-wing political party website that featured the Jyllands-Posten Mohammed cartoons and planned to publish additional ones. The Swedish government, which beforehand had cautioned the company on the danger the images [...] | 2006-02-13 13:33:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PTER SCUL ECPS EINT PINS PROP KPAO KMDR |
06STOCKHOLM198 | SWEDISH GOV'T PRESSURES COMPANY TO SHUT DOWN [...] (U) Summary. On February 9 a Swedish internet company shut down a small, right-wing political party website that featured the Jyllands-Posten Mohammed cartoons and planned to publish additional ones. The Swedish government, which beforehand had cautioned the company on the danger the images [...] | 2006-02-13 13:34:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PTER SCUL ECPS EINT PINS PROP KPAO KMDR |
06STOCKHOLM235 | SWEDEN'S IMMIGRANTS' DISPROPORTIONATELY HIGH [...] (SBU) Summary. Two recent GoS reports show immigrants in Sweden to be overrepresented in crime and sick leave statistics, which are interpreted as being indicators of integration shortcomings. The level of attention applied to the issue of integration stands to increase as we approach the S [...] | 2006-02-22 15:45:00 | Embassy Stockholm | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI PINS PGOV KCRM ASEC SW |
06SUVA107 | DEPORTEES TO TONGA: A FESTERING PROBLEM. ACTION [...] (U) On each of the Ambassador's three visits to Tonga in the past six months, the issue of deportees from the U.S. has arisen early and often. Tongans blame the deportees, described as hardened criminals, for turning their once-docile kingdom into a crime zone where armed robberies, once unh [...] | 2006-03-14 01:51:00 | Embassy Suva | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CASC CJAN CVIS KCRM PREL TN |
06SUVA287 | Fiji's Sugar Industry: An Uncertain Future [...] (SBU) For decades, sugar has been the backbone of Fiji's economy. Nearly a quarter of the population depends on the sugar industry. The EU decision to drastically cut sugar subsidies over the next four years, however, casts a giant shadow over the industry's future. A variety of fixes ha [...] | 2006-07-17 17:43:00 | Embassy Suva | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR ENRG SENV EUN FJ IN |
06SUVA323 | CODEL HYDE'S VISIT TO FIJI, AUGUST 15-17 [...] (SBU) Visiting House International Relations Committee Chairman Henry Hyde congratulated Fiji's Minister of Foreign Affairs Tavola on Fiji's recent national elections, testimony to the strong democratic institutions Fiji has developed. The Minister hoped that Fiji will be considered for Mill [...] | 2006-08-17 00:51:00 | Embassy Suva | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MARR EAID ETRD CVIS FJ TN |
06SUVA341 | PACIFIC THOUGHTS ON RESTRUCTURE OF REGIONAL [...] (U) Pacific leaders tasked a group of experts to consider ways regional agencies might be rationalized. The experts' report advocates realigning 10 regional agencies into three pillars. The Pacific Island Forum (PIF),the regional policy-oriented body, would acquire policy/negotiation aspect [...] | 2006-08-28 23:28:00 | Embassy Suva | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC PREL EFIS EAID SENV SPC PIF XV |
06SUVA364 | PACIFIC FORUM POST-FORUM DIALOGUE - PROPOSAL FOR [...] (U) When EAP/ANP Director Steven McGann visited the Pacific Island Forum (PIF) Secretariat on Sept. 6, PIF Secretary General Greg Urwin elaborated on current plans for SIPDIS the annual Forum meetings, now to be held in Nadi, Fiji. The schedule has been condensed, with the Forum meetings t [...] | 2006-09-07 00:34:00 | Embassy Suva | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC OVIP PIF XV |
06SUVA418 | PIF OFFICIALS DISCUSS RESTRUCTURING PACIFIC ISLAND [...] (SBU) Charge passed Ref A points to Greg Urwin, Secretary General of the Pacific Island Forum (PIF) SIPDIS Secretariat October 2. Charge also passed the points to SIPDIS Jimmie Rodgers, Director General of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC). Urwin had no immediate comment. [...] | 2006-10-05 00:26:00 | Embassy Suva | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV XV XU |
06SUVA424 | FIJI REACTION TO DEMARCHE ON RIGHTS OF INDIGENOUS [...] (SBU) The Australian and U.S. Ambassadors and the New Zealand Charge d'Affaires presented reftel demarche to Fiji's Foreign Ministry CEO, Isikeli Mataitoga, on October 12. In response, Mataitoga noted Fiji's long-standing interest in bringing a UN resolution on indigenous rights to an UNGA vot [...] | 2006-10-11 20:30:00 | Embassy Suva | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KTIA UN FJ |
06SUVA452 | PRC PROTESTS A/S HILL'S PLANNED MEETING WITH TAIWAN VICE [...] (SBU) Summary: China pressed on U.S. diplomats at the Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) summit in Nadi, Fiji, to cancel an informal encounter between Assistant Secretary Christopher Hill and Taiwan Vice Foreign Minister Chang Siao-Yue. Beijing's new special envoy for PIF affairs, Ambassador Wang Yon [...] | 2006-10-24 23:52:00 | Embassy Suva | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV CH TW FJ |
06SUVA459 | ASSISTANT SECRETARY HILL'S OCTOBER 25 MEETING WITH PACIFIC [...] (SBU) Summary: Pacific heads of government welcomed EAP Assistant Secretary Hill's participation in a Pacific Islands Forum special session with the U.S. in Fiji on October 25, 2006, as a sign of stepped-up U.S. engagement with the region. A/S Hill proposed to revitalize the Joint Commercial [...] | 2006-10-26 22:41:00 | Embassy Suva | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ETRD EAID FJ NZ XV |
06SUVA524 | TOURISM TAKES A NOSE-DIVE IN FIJI [...] (SBU) Managers of several of Fiji's top hotels told us the tourism industry is "bleeding" due to RFMF Commander Bainimarama's repeated threats to take action against the government. Occupancy for most major resorts in Fiji is 40% or below, when it should be in the 70-75% range this time of [...] | 2006-11-28 22:58:00 | Embassy Suva | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON CASC PGOV PREL FJ |
06TAIPEI1287 | KMT Wins Taitung Supplemental Magisterial Election [...] (SBU) In Taitung County's April 1, 2006, supplemental magisterial election, the KMT candidate Kuang Li-chen defeated Pan Green independent candidates Liu Chao-hao and Lai Kun-cheng. Voter turnout was only 38.17 percent. 2. (SBU) In her first-ever election, Kuang Li-chen won with 62.51 p [...] | 2006-04-12 08:16:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL TW |
06TAIPEI1380 | Update on Thai Labor Riot Fallout [...] (U) Summary. The widely publicized Thai labor problems relating to construction of Kaohsiung's subway continue to simmer. Huapan Management, the company that recruited the laborers, in February filed an NTD 19.7 million lawsuit against fourteen of the laborers involved in the initial riot la [...] | 2006-04-20 05:39:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON IND LR TW |
06TAIPEI1398 | CROSS-STRAIT TOURISM - EXPECTATIONS HIGH, PRESSURE [...] (SBU) Expectations are high that Taiwan and the PRC will lift remaining restrictions on PRC tourist travel to Taiwan. Estimates of the potential economic benefit range as high as 0.2 percent of GDP. One industry contact speculated that Taiwan could see 5 million PRC tourists per year within [...] | 2006-04-21 08:25:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL CH TW |
06TAIPEI1400 | Police Raids Human Trafficking Ring in Southern Taiwan [...] (U) Working on a tip, on April 19 the Kaohsiung criminal police raided a human trafficking ring that had arranged for Chinese women to enter into Taiwan by means of sham marriages. The "brides" were actually coming to work in the sex trade. The police arrested the head of the trafficking ri [...] | 2006-04-21 08:53:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR TW KS KCRM |
06TAIPEI1434 | TAIWAN STUDENTS: US DOING TOO LITTLE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On April 11, 2006, AIT hosted a group of 35 students to discuss cross-Strait issues in a Digital Video Conference (DVC) with Washington. In a 1-hour follow-on discussion, the students candidly expressed frustration with the USG's cross-Strait policy and the lack of support for Ta [...] | 2006-04-26 05:06:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPAO US CH TW |
06TAIPEI1454 | TAIWAN HEALTH MINISTER: WHO, AVIAN FLU, AND 2G [...] (U) Summary: Minister of Health Hou Sheng-mou told AIT Director Young that preparing for Avian Influenza is the top priority of Taiwan's Department of Health (DOH). Taiwan is eager to participate meaningfully in WHO meetings and to work with the U.S. to respond to global health emergencies. [...] | 2006-04-27 08:44:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON TW |
06TAIPEI1536 | DEMARCHE TO MOFA ON TAIWAN AND WHO: TAIWAN RAISES [...] (SBU) Summary. AIT presented Ref A demarche on Taiwan participation in WHO to Vice Foreign Minister Michael Kau, highlighting U.S. requests for Taiwan to unilaterally adhere to the IHR's and to agree to the "two-by-two" debate proposal. Kau responded that Taiwan is nearly ready to go forwar [...] | 2006-05-04 01:32:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO PGOV PREL WHO CN TW |
06TAIPEI160 | TAIWAN CONSIDERING U.S. REQUEST ON BURMA [...] (SBU) AIT delivered reftel talking points to Taiwan Ministry of Justice Department of Prosecutorial Affairs Director Shawn Tsai (Ching-hsiung) on January 17. Tsai said Taiwan would give full consideration to the U.S. message when it came time to vote on Burma's application for membership in [...] | 2006-01-17 21:44:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN KCRM PTER IMF TW CN |
06TAIPEI18 | KEELUNG HARBOR PREPARING FOR CSI VISIT [...] (SBU) Summary: During a December 29 meeting with AIT/T econoff Taiwan Customs officials at Keelung expressed support for the proposal to implement the Container Security Initiative (CSI) in Keelung. However, they also presented data that underscored the low level of container traffic from Kee [...] | 2006-01-04 05:15:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EWWT TW |
06TAIPEI1900 | TAIWAN TIFA: Public and Private Outcomes [...] (U) This cable reports public and private outcomes of the Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) consultations between the United States and Taiwan in Taipei during May 25 - 26, 2006: --Doha and economic developments in Asia-Pacific --Government Procurement Agreement --Agricultural [...] | 2006-06-02 09:05:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EFIN ECON ETRD PINR TW |
06TAIPEI1901 | NEXT STEPS FOR TAIWAN TIFA [...] (SBU) Summary and introduction: The fifth round of US-Taiwan Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (TIFA) talks concluded in Taipei on May 26. Deputy USTR Karan Bhatia and Taiwan's Deputy Economic Minister Steve Chen jointly presided over the talks. Reftels report on each session of the [...] | 2006-06-02 09:05:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EFIN EINV TW |
06TAIPEI1987 | TAIWAN EXPLAINS CROSS-STRAIT POLICY [...] (U) In a June 1 speech at National Chengchi University, Mainland Affairs Council (MAC) Chairman Joseph Wu said he expects regular cross-Strait charter flights and mainland tourist travel within five to six months. He reiterated familiar complaints that China misunderstands Taiwan's democracy [...] | 2006-06-10 04:39:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON CH TW |
06TAIPEI2421 | TAIWAN PARTICIPANTS IN APEC SEMINAR ON PANDEMIC [...] Dr. Chan-Hsien Chiu Director of Surveillance Taiwan Center for Disease Control e-mail: zschou@cdc.gov.tw tel: 886-2-23434901 fax 886-2-23210110 2. Ms. Lili Lee Deputy Director, Pandemic and Biosafety Preparedness E-mail: lililee@cdc.gov.tw tel: 886-2-23917675 fax: 886-2-23570944 The [...] | 2006-07-17 22:24:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON TBIO KFLU APECO TW |
06TAIPEI2490 | COAST GUARD FINDS TAIWAN SUBSTANTIALLY IMPLEMENTING ISPS [...] (U) A four-member U.S. Coast Guard team visited Taiwan July 17-21 under the International Port Security Program to examine Taiwan's implementation of the International Maritime Organization's International Ship and Port Facility Security (ISPS) Code. The team consisted of Pacific Area Inspecti [...] | 2006-07-25 07:14:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EWWT TW |
06TAIPEI2677 | AIT DIRECTOR VISITS ITRI CHAIRMAN LIN HSIN-I [...] (U) Summary. AIT director paid a courtesy call on July 24 to Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI) Chairman Lin Hsin-I to exchange views on Taiwan's current educational system, economic situation, and strategies for the future. Lin stressed the need for educational reform, to bring d [...] | 2006-08-08 09:05:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL ETRD EINV TW |