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08BRASILIA1612 | BRAZIL: DEMARCHE DELIVERIES: TERRORIST FINANCE DESIGNATIONS [...] (SBU) On 12 December 2008, ECONOFF met Council for the Control of Financial Activities (COAF) official Bernardo Motta to follow up previous discussions regarding the recent USG designations of individuals and organizations as supporters of terrorism under Executive Order 13224 (refs A, B, and [...] | 2008-12-16 19:23:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTFN ETTC PTER PINR EFIN KCRM PREL BR |
08BRASILIA1617 | BRAZIL'S PORT DREDGING CHALLENGE [...] (U) Summary: Brazil recently unveiled updated plans to dredge over 75 thousand cubic meters at an estimated cost of R$ 1.4 billion (USD580 million) in 16 of its largest commercial maritime ports as part of President Lula's Accelerated Growth Program (PAC). The plan, entitled the National Progra [...] | 2008-12-17 17:30:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV BR |
08BRASILIA1621 | Brazil Civil Aviation: Liberalization/Privatization Update [...] (SBU) Summary: Brazil is currently considering Brazilian civil aviation liberalization/privatization legislation that the government hopes would result in greater direct foreign investment, domestic market liberalization, transference of air traffic functions from military to civilian control, [...] | 2008-12-17 18:33:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR EINV ECON BR |
08BRASILIA1622 | BRAZIL AND INDONESIA: A RELATIONSHIP FOR THE FUTURE [...] (SBU) Summary: During a November 18-19 visit to Brazil by Indonesian President Susilo Yudhoyono, Indonesia and Brazil agreed to cooperate in agriculture, including biofuels; mining; and poverty eradication. They formalized a strategic partnership for ongoing dialogue and cooperation. Brazili [...] | 2008-12-18 13:42:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ETRD EINV ENRG EAGR BR ID |
08BRASILIA1640 | BRAZIL RESPSONE TO IMPLEMENTATION OF AMENDED LACEY ACT - [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) On December 9, Environment, Science and Technology, and Health (ESTH) Counselor briefed Antonio Carlos Hummel, Director for the Department of Forests, in the Brazilian environmental agency (IBAMA) abo [...] | 2008-12-22 10:04:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EAID EAGR ETRD EINV BTIO BR |
08BRASILIA1664 | Brazil: 2008 Country Report on Terrorism [...] (U) The Brazilian government continues to be a cooperative partner in countering terrorism and related activities that could contribute to the facilitation of attacks in the region or elsewhere--to include investigating potential terrorism financing, and document forgery networks and other illi [...] | 2008-12-29 10:39:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV ECON CO BR |
08BRASILIA1665 | NSF DIRECTOR'S VISIT HIGHLIGHTS US-BRAZIL SCIENTIFIC [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The visit to Brasilia and Sao Paulo by National Science Foundation (NSF) Director, Dr. Arden Bement and Brazil Program Manager from the NSF Office of International Science and Engineering (OISE),Dr. Carmina Londono, included several very productive meetings with GOB agencies an [...] | 2008-12-29 10:40:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TSPL NSF KSCA SENV ENRG EAGR KIPR BR |
08BRASILIA1666 | BRAZIL: ANNUAL 2007/2008 REPORTS SHOWS MIXED RESULTS IN [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. In its annual deforestation report, the Brazilian National Space Research Institute (INPE) concluded that for the August 2007 to July 2008 period deforestation in the Amazon Forest rose by 3 [...] | 2008-12-29 10:40:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV KGHG KSCA EAGR BR |
08BRASILIA169 | BRAZIL CIVAIR: MEETINGS WITH GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS ON [...] (SBU) Ref A points were raised in Ambassador's January 10 meeting with Tourism Minister Suplicy, in Ambassador's January 17 meeting with Defense Minister Jobim (ref B) and by Econcouns and Econoff in January 18 meeting with Ronaldo Costa Filho, the head of the Ministry of External Relations's ( [...] | 2008-02-01 16:46:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON BR |
08BRASILIA177 | BRAZILIAN RESPONSE: U.S.-INDIA CIVIL NUCLEAR [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) Environment, Science and Technology (EST) Counselor delivered REFTEL points on January 31 to Counselor Luiz Fernando Abbott Galvao in the Ministry of External Relations' Division for Disarmament and S [...] | 2008-02-01 19:33:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG TRGY KNNP IAEA PARM IN BR |
08BRASILIA196 | BRAZIL: EXPLAINING THE PAC (THE GROWTH ACCELERATION PROGRAM) [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-08 19:07:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EFIN ECON BR |
08BRASILIA222 | BRAZIL CIVAIR: MEETINGS WITH MINISTRY OF DEFENSE, ANAC [...] (SBU) On February 13, during a meeting with Brazilian Defense Minister Nelson Jobim primarily to discuss Jobim's March visit to Washington, the Ambassador raised the issue of the proposed aircraft parking fee increase at Sao Paulo's Guarulhos airport. The measure was announced in December by [...] | 2008-02-15 17:57:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR OTRA ECON BR |
08BRASILIA229 | BRAZIL'S DEFORESTATION CYCLE (PART 2 of 3): FROM FORESTS, [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. The massive clearing that has been taking place in the Amazon since the 1970's (REFTEL) has generally followed the pattern: conversion into cattle pastures and later either soybean productio [...] | 2008-02-19 16:06:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EAGR ENRG KSCA BR |
08BRASILIA246 | BRAZIL'S DEFORESTATION CYCLE (PART 3 of 3): GOVERNMENT HAS [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. The Government of Brazil (GOB) has a limited ability to use "sticks," various law enforcement measures to control deforestation. Even if it could obtain the tools it currently lacks (suffic [...] | 2008-02-24 13:03:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EAGR ENRG KSCA BR |
08BRASILIA247 | WIREC 2008: BRAZILIAN DELEGATION [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) The Brazilian Ministry of External Relations (MRE) has informed Post that the official delegation to the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC 2008) is as follows: Head of Dele [...] | 2008-02-24 13:03:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ENRG SENV TRGY KSCA BR |
08BRASILIA249 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ADVANCING THE US POSITION FOR [...] (SBU) Post delivered reftel per instructions to Ministry of External Relations (MRE). Officials had no immediate reaction, and post will report any response septel. SOBEL [...] | 2008-02-25 20:01:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL CU BR |
08BRASILIA253 | BRAZIL: EXTENSION OF FRAMEWORK SPACE COOPERATION AGREEMENT; [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. EXTENSION OF FRAMEWORK SPACE COOPERATION AGREEMENT 2. (SBU) Per REFTEL, Post delivered a diplomatic note to the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MRE) regarding the extension of the Space Cooperation Ag [...] | 2008-02-26 11:04:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KSCA TSPA TSPL BR |
08BRASILIA254 | BRAZIL: 2008 Special 301 Recommendation [...] (U) Per reftel A, the following is Embassy Brasilia's input for the 2008 Special 301 Review of Brazil. 2. (SBU) Summary: Post recommends that Brazil remain on the Special 301 Watch List based on the GoB's ongoing commitment to a strong overall anti-piracy enforcement regime and its determin [...] | 2008-02-26 11:04:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD ECON BR |
08BRASILIA271 | BRAZIL EXPECTS TO SIGN JOINT ACTION PLAN AGAINST [...] (U) This cable contains an action request, please see paragraph 7. 2. (SBU) Summary: Although the new Racial Equality Minister Edson Santos was just confirmed on February 20, President Lula's administration is working hard to have the bilateral Joint Action Plan against Racism signed durin [...] | 2008-02-28 17:58:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL BR |
08BRASILIA272 | BRAZIL: INFRASTRUCTURE AND MORE - TREAS DAS O'NEILL VISIT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In January 29 meetings with BNDES, Casa Civil, Central Bank, and Planning and Finance Ministries, Treasury Western Hemisphere DAS Brian O'Neill advanced discussion of a possible US-Brazil infrastructure initiative, further explored bilateral investment and tax treaties (see para [...] | 2008-02-29 11:40:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EFIN ECON BR |
08BRASILIA286 | BRAZIL: NEW SCANDAL COULD MEAN ANOTHER LOST YEAR [...] (SBU) Summary: The latest scandal to engulf the Lula government was unleashed January 13 when influential daily Estado de Sao Paulo took advantage of one of the government's most highly touted clean-government initiatives, its transparency web portal, to report on the exponential increase in u [...] | 2008-03-02 13:59:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV BR |
08BRASILIA288 | Brazil: CEO Forum Members meetings Feb 20 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: CEO co-chair Tim Solso (CEO Cummins) and Brazilian CEO Forum representatives Jorge Gerdau (CEO, Gerdau SA) and Flavio Leite (representing Josue Gomes da Silva of Cotaminas) met with Embassy staff and MRE visas chief Mitzi Gurgel the morning of February 20 to discuss progress on C [...] | 2008-03-03 14:01:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ETRD ECON EFIN BR |
08BRASILIA289 | Brazil: Investment Agreement Principles - consolidated GOB [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: This message provides consolidated input to Washington agencies regarding the status of intra-GOB discussions on bilateral investment treaty principles. While no treaty "text" comparable to the US model BIT exists, CAMEX (the Brazilian External Trade Chamber) member ministries h [...] | 2008-03-03 14:01:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ETRD ECON EFIN BR |
08BRASILIA318 | BRAZIL: RANF DEMARCHE - GOB OPEN TO DISCUSSION BECAUSE IT [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) On February 27, 2008, Environment, Science, Technology and Health (ESTH) Counselor met with the Deputy Director of the Ministry of External Relations' Department of Disarmament and Sensitive Technolog [...] | 2008-03-06 17:58:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP TRGY ENRG IR IAEA BR |
08BRASILIA319 | BRAZIL: USG VIEWS ON IAEA IRAN BRIEFING [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) On February 27, 2008, Environment, Science, Technology and Health (ESTH) Counselor met with the Deputy Director of the Ministry of External Relations' Department of Disarmament and Sensitive Technolog [...] | 2008-03-06 17:58:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP MNUC PARM IR IAEA BR |
08BRASILIA322 | BRAZIL: RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) On February 27, 2008, Environment, Science, Technology and Health (ESTH) Counselor met with the Deputy Director of the Ministry of External Relations' Department of Disarmament and Sensitive Technolog [...] | 2008-03-07 12:32:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC KNNP MNUC PARM IR IAEA BR |
08BRASILIA323 | BRAZIL AND ARGENTINA COOPERATION ON URANIUM ENRICHMENT [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. Brazilian President Lula and Argentine President Kirchner met on February 22 and announced a joint effort regarding uranium enrichment. This new initiative is part of Brazil's overall polic [...] | 2008-03-07 13:26:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP ENRG IAEA PREL ECON AR BR |
08BRASILIA33 | BRAZIL GRAPPLES WITH RACISM AND RACIAL QUOTAS [...] (SBU) Summary: Poloffs recently met with University of Brasilia (UnB) President Timothy Mulholland, an expert on Brazil,s university quota systems to discuss self-imposed quotas and the proposed Racial Equality Statue. Racism in Brazil is a difficult topic to address largely as a result of a [...] | 2008-01-07 12:04:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL BR |
08BRASILIA36 | BRAZIL: TREASURY DAS O'NEILL MEETS WITH GOB AND MDBs ON [...] (SBU) Summary: Treasury Deputy Assistant Secretary Brian O'Neill had economic meetings in Brasilia on December 12-13, 2007 with officials from the Brazilian Central Bank, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Planning, as well as the World Bank and the Inter-American Development Bank. The meetings [...] | 2008-01-07 15:00:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV BR |
08BRASILIA373 | POLLUTION RANKS HIGH AMONG ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS IN PERU [...] (SBU) Regional Environmental Officer held meetings January 28-31, 2008 with Peruvian government representatives, trade organizations, international institutions, NGOs, and private industry to discuss environmental concerns. Discussions of priority environmental issues covered: (1) Mining pollu [...] | 2008-03-18 16:38:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR |
08BRASILIA390 | Brazil's Congress Prepares to Rein in President's Decree [...] (SBU) Summary. Angered by an alleged overuse of decree-making authority that has caused legislative gridlock, Congress will try to limit the president's ability to dominate the legislative agenda and implement policy through issuance of "provisional measures" (MPs). President Lula's unprecede [...] | 2008-03-20 18:50:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM BR |
08BRASILIA525 | BRAZIL: RECOVERY OF A FALLEN SPACE OBJECT [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) On April 14, the Ministry of External Relations' (MRE) Director of the Division for the Sea, Antarctica and Space, Counselor Bernardo Paranhos Velloso, informed the Embassy's Environment, Science and [...] | 2008-04-18 18:30:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TSPA SENV KSCA BR |
08BRASILIA551 | Brazil: CEO Forum April 28 Scenesetter [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified, please treat accordingly. 2. (U) Summary: The relationship between the United States and Brazil is as productive and broad-based as it as ever been, with an excellent relationship between President Bush and President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva [...] | 2008-04-25 10:26:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ETRD ECON EFIN CVIS BR |
08BRASILIA593 | HOW BRAZIL IS WIRED - ELECTRICITY SERIES #1 [...] SUMMARY: (U) This year will mark ten years since the denationalization of Brazil's electrical sector after fifty years of state control. The sector has undergone many changes during this period: from the days of former president Fernando Henrique Cardoso's ambitious drive to privatize the ent [...] | 2008-05-05 14:24:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON EINV BR |
08BRASILIA640 | DOROTHY STANG'S KILLER'S FREED ON APPEAL -- TOP [...] (SBU) Summary: Vitalmiro Bastos de Moura, also known as Bida, was acquitted by a jury of the murder of Dorothy Stang, an American nun and naturalized Brazilian citizen, on May 6, almost exactly a year after his initial conviction. On May 15, 2007, Moura, a Brazilian rancher, was sentenced to [...] | 2008-05-12 15:01:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BR PREL PHUM |
08BRASILIA641 | RESPONSE: IMPACT OF RISING FOOD/COMMODITY PRICES - BRAZIL [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) Summary. Below is Post's response to STATE 39410 regarding the impact of rising food and commodity prices on Brazil. As Brazil is a significant net agricultural exporter, high international commodity p [...] | 2008-05-12 18:05:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR BR |
08BRASILIA656 | RESPONSE: IMPACT OF RISING FOOD/COMMODITY PRICES - BRAZIL [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) Summary. Below is Post's response to STATE 39410 regarding the impact of rising food and commodity prices on Brazil. As Brazil is a significant net agricultural exporter, high international commodity p [...] | 2008-05-15 12:53:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR BR |
08BRASILIA664 | BRAZIL: GREEN LIGHT TO NEGOTIATE A TROPICAL FOREST [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. On May 5, the Ministry of External Relations' (MRE) Director of the Environment Department, Min. Figueiredo Machado, informed Post that the Government of Brazil wants to begin negotiations t [...] | 2008-05-15 19:10:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV KGHG EAID EFIN BR |
08BRASILIA672 | SOURCES OF GENERATION - ELECTRICITY SERIES #2 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-16 12:09:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON EINV BR |
08BRASILIA681 | BRAZIL'S ENVIRONMENT MINISTER MARINA SILVA RESIGNS - [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. Frustrated by a growing string of defeats and cuts to her authority, Brazil's Environment Minister Marina Silva resigned on May 13. Her ministry's slow pace in approving environmental licen [...] | 2008-05-19 11:13:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV BR |
08BRASILIA703 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: PARTICIPATION IN INT'L COMPACT WITH [...] (U) Post delivered reftel points to the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Office (MRE) on May 2 and to the Ministry of Finance on May 8. At MRE, Minister Luis Antonio Balduino Carneiro, Coordinator-General of the Finance Affairs Office, joined by representatives of the Middle East and Unite [...] | 2008-05-20 18:05:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | NOTAG |
08BRASILIA708 | CALLING ALL SMUGGLERS - BRAZILIAN "SACOLEIROS" BILL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A Brazilian bill intended to improve customs processing at the Paraguayan border would likely serve to increase opportunities for the importing of counterfeit goods and smuggling of all types. The so-called "Sacoleiros" (or peddlers) bill would allow small-scale importers to re [...] | 2008-05-20 19:39:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD ECON BR |
08BRASILIA750 | BRAZIL LAUNCHES ANOTHER PLAN FOR A SUSTAINABLE AMAZON [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED AND NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. On May 8, 2008, Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva unveiled a package of 16 measures called the Plan for a Sustainable Amazon (PAS). The plan is long on good intentions and hints [...] | 2008-06-03 19:43:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV KGHG EAGR ECON BR |
08BRASILIA768 | DELIVERY OF DEMARCHES ON FOOD SECURITY TO BRAZILIAN [...] SUMMARY: Post delivered the messages indicated in reftels to the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture (MAPA). MAPA agrees with many of the arguments stated and shares many common positions with the U.S. government. END SUMMARY. 2. (SBU) USDA Under Secretary Mark Keenum and FAS Administrator M [...] | 2008-06-06 17:56:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR BR |
08BRASILIA769 | DELIVERY OF DEMARCHES REGARDING U.S. CANDIDATE FOR CODEX [...] SUMMARY: Post delivered demarche points in reftel regarding the U.S. candidate for CODEX chairperson to Brazil's CODEX Point of Contact and the Ministry of Agriculture. Both expressed support for the candidate, but clarified that the Government of Brazil's position also involves input from Min [...] | 2008-06-06 17:56:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR BR |
08BRASILIA792 | Brazil: "Sovereign Wealth Fund" aka "fiscal savings fund" [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-10 17:23:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV BR |
08BRASILIA793 | Brazil: "Sovereign Wealth Fund" aka "fiscal savings fund" [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-10 17:24:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV BR |
08BRASILIA813 | Brazil: Local elections: Lots of Heat, Little Light [...] (SBU) Summary. Campaigning for October 5 municipal elections is getting underway with much media attention and political jockeying but the results will have almost no bearing on national politics. About a fifth of the 513 federal deputies are running for mayor, and the Chamber of Deputies will [...] | 2008-06-13 18:32:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV BR |
08BRASILIA824 | Brazil: Tax Treaty Roundtable with Receita Federal [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-16 13:59:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV BR |
08BRASILIA843 | BRAZIL: SATELLITE PIRACY MONITORING HAS BEGUN--SLOWLY [...] (SBU) Summary: Following up on Ref. C demarche regarding U.S. military satellite interference by Brazilian radio operators, Brazilian telecommunications regulatory agency, ANATEL POC indicated during a telcon on 9 June that monitoring will take place over the next at least two months and then [...] | 2008-06-19 20:37:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECPS MARR PINR TSPA BR |
08BRASILIA855 | Brazil: Do All the Corruption Scandals Matter? [...] (SBU) Summary. Fresh scandal news appears daily in major newspapers, and there are now investigations into at least seven major corruption scandals involving politicians. Experience suggests courts and congressional inquiries will mete out little or no punishment. The constant parade of cor [...] | 2008-06-25 16:37:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCOR KJUS KCRM KDEM EAIR BR |
08BRASILIA89 | BRAZIL: LAUNCH OF ECONOMIC PARTNERSHIP DIALOGUE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: WHA Assistant Secretary Tom Shannon and EB Assistant Secretary Dan Sullivan, joined by Treasury Deputy Assistant Secretary for Latin America Brian O'Neill, led the US delegation to the successful December 13 Economic Partnership Dialogue (EPD) with Brazil's Ministry of External A [...] | 2008-01-15 15:55:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV EFIN BR |
08BRASILIA895 | INFRASTRUCTURE THREATENS AMAZON FOREST CONSERVATION [...] (U) SUMMARY. Vulnerability of Amazonian rainforests is increasing as a result of rising commodity prices and regional infrastructure integration, as well as global climate change and fire practices. This is the first in a two-part series addressing the regional impacts of agricultural expansion [...] | 2008-07-01 16:33:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON XR BR |
08BRASILIA910 | OIL RESTRUCTURIN: AMBASSADOR TALKS TO ENERGY MINISTER LOBAO [...] (U) SUMMARY: As Brazil debates the revision of its oil exploration fee structure in light of its newly discovered presalt reserves, it is clear that the Ministry of Mines and Energy, tasked with making a recommendation to the President, will advise the formation of a new state entity to own th [...] | 2008-07-03 18:40:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ENRG EPET EIND EINV BR |
08BRASILIA94 | BRAZIL CIVAIR: AVIATION BILATERALS HELD IN RIO DEC. 5-6, [...] (SBU) Summary: U.S. and Brazilian delegations met in Rio de Janeiro December 5-6, 2007 for their first formal bilateral aviation consultations in 10 years to focus on liberalization. While the Brazilian negotiators offered a limited number of increased frequencies to limited destinations in t [...] | 2008-01-16 10:05:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON MARR PGOV PREL EINV BEXP BR |
08BRASILIA958 | CONVEYANCE OF THE UPDATED P5+1 PACKAGE FOR IRAN TO BRAZIL [...] (SBU) On 2 July 2008, EST officer delivered ref updated copy of the P5+1 package for Iran to Minister Santiago Mourao, Head of the Division of Disarmament and Sensitive Technologies for Brazil's Foreign Ministry. Minister Mourao expressed appreciation for the delivery of the P5+1 package an [...] | 2008-07-14 19:44:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP TRGY ENRG KSTC IAEA PARM BR |
08BRASILIA964 | RESPONSE TO ACTION REQUEST REGARDING RAW SUGAR TARIFF RATE [...] (SBU) Post approached the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture regarding the U.S. raw sugar tariff rate quota (TRQ) and received the following response. Brazil has already shipped nearly all of its FY2008 quota to the U.S. and expects to ship the entire amount. If the U.S. were to open further TR [...] | 2008-07-16 13:42:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON BR |
08BRASILIA998 | RESPONSE TO ACTION REQUEST REGARDING RAW SUGAR TARIFF RATE [...] (SBU) Post approached the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture regarding the U.S. raw sugar tariff rate quota (TRQ) and received the following response. Brazil has already shipped nearly all of its FY2008 quota to the U.S. and expects to ship the entire amount. If the U.S. were to open further TR [...] | 2008-07-23 20:21:00 | Embassy Brasilia | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ETRD BR |
08BRATISLAVA109 | GOS ROLLS OUT ROMA STRATEGY [...] (SBU) Summary. The Government of Slovakia has new EU-provided funding and increased staff in the office of Deputy Prime Minister Dusan Caplovic (Smer) to dramatically upgrade programs that address the needs of the Roma community. Roma activists and other observers are very skeptical, however [...] | 2008-03-11 10:38:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM SOCI PGOV LO |
08BRATISLAVA114 | DEMARCHE RESPONSE: U.S.-EU CLIMATE CHANGE [...] (SBU) In separate March 12 conversations, we delivered talking points and reftel to Peter Solcansky, Director of the Department of Air Quality at the Ministry of Environment, and Norbert Kurilla, Environmental Attache at the Slovak Permanent Mission in Brussels. Solcansky is the primary GOS t [...] | 2008-03-13 12:22:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EUN SENV PREL LO |
08BRATISLAVA127 | COALITION ALTERS PRESS LAW DRAFT, BUT NOT ENOUGH [...] (SBU) In advance of next week's parliamentary session, the governing coalition quietly introduced in the Culture and Media Committee on March 18 an amended version of its draft press law. The new version, introduced by Smer MP Jan Podmanicky, addresses one of the two major deficiencies identif [...] | 2008-03-20 16:56:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM LO |
08BRATISLAVA129 | COALITION ALTERS PRESS LAW DRAFT, BUT NOT ENOUGH [...] (SBU) In advance of next week's parliamentary session, the governing coalition quietly introduced in the Culture and Media Committee on March 18 an amended version of its draft press law. The new version, introduced by Smer MP Jan Podmanicky, addresses one of the two major deficiencies identif [...] | 2008-03-20 16:59:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM LO |
08BRATISLAVA138 | RESPONSE TO REQUEST TO RESETTLE CUBAN MIGRANTS [...] (SBU) Pol/Econ Chief delivered reftel demarche to Acting Director of the MFA Americas Office Tomas Bican on March 10. Bican undertook to coordinate with the Ministry of Interior and informed Embassy on March 28 that the preliminary reaction from the MOI was "mainly positive," and "open" to th [...] | 2008-03-28 15:46:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM CU LO SMIG |
08BRATISLAVA164 | FICO GETS HIS PRESS LAW AND LISBON TREATY TOO [...] (SBU) Summary. The Slovak Parliament passed the ruling coalition's media law bill April 9; the bill will now be submitted to President Gasparovic for signing. The controversial "right to reply" remains largely unchanged despite indications over the past week from the coalition and the opposi [...] | 2008-04-10 17:18:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM LO |
08BRATISLAVA184 | SLOVAK NOMINATIONS FOR ILEA PERSONNEL AND FACILITY [...] (U) Slovakia's nominations for ILEA's "Personnel and facility security" course beginning on June 9, 2008 follow in paragraph 2. All nominees have been vetted consistent with Department policy and in compliance with the State Leahy Amendment as per Ref A. 2. (SBU) - Peter Pokorny, 03/07/1976 [...] | 2008-04-25 12:08:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR KCRM ASEC KJUS ECON EAID HU LO |
08BRATISLAVA189 | SLOVAKIA IMPLEMENTS UNSCRS ON IRAN [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel points to Milan Ciganik, Deputy Director of the MFA's Department for Disarmament, Counter-Terrorism and OSCE, and Sona Baiova from the Department of the UN and International Organizations. Baiova explained that Slovakia implements UNSCRs such as 1737, 1747 an 1803 [...] | 2008-04-28 06:32:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TAGS |
08BRATISLAVA216 | SLOVAKIA TO ADOPT EURO IN 2009 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The European Commission's Convergence Report, released on May 7, recommended Slovakia for entry into the Euro zone as of January 1, 2009. The report noted that Slovakia's fulfillment of the Maastricht economic criteria (price stability, sound public finances, exchange rate stabi [...] | 2008-05-12 15:45:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD LO |
08BRATISLAVA221 | SLOVAK PARTICIPATION IN INTERNATIONAL COMPACT WITH [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-14 15:19:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN EINV PREL IZ LO PGOV |
08BRATISLAVA243 | SLOVAK VIEWS ON THE PARIS CONFERENCE [...] (SBU) Econoff delivered reftel points to Drahomir Stos, desk officer for Afghanistan, on May 19. Stos indicated that the Slovak Government was reviewing its approach to the conference, including possible contributions, and suggested Embassy follow-up after May 22. Stos told Pol/Econ Chief on [...] | 2008-05-23 14:05:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL LO AA |
08BRATISLAVA249 | Slovak/Euro parity revalued for an unprecedented second [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At the request of the Slovak government the European Union revalued the Slovak koruna's central parity rate by 17 percent to 30.126 against the Euro from May 29. This is the outer edge of the previous parity of 35.44 set in March 2007, and creates a new band of 25.60-34.64 SKK/E [...] | 2008-05-30 11:15:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD LO |
08BRATISLAVA252 | POST PROMOTES HIRING ROMA TO ADDRESS SLOVAK LABOR SHORTAGE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Recognizing that Slovakia's impressive economic growth and low unemployment means that labor is becoming scarcer and more expensive, the Embassy partnered with U.S. Steel Kosice and the American Chamber of Commerce to hold a May 20 conference in Presov on hiring the long-term une [...] | 2008-05-30 12:27:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB PHUM SOCI PGOV LO |
08BRATISLAVA261 | UPDATES TO CONTACT INFORMATION FOR LEADING [...] (U) Post response to reftel follows in paragraph 2. 2. (SBU) Country: Slovak Republic Date: June 2, 2008 Head of Government Fico Robert Robert FICO Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic 421 2 5729 5400 (office) 421 2 5978 2211 (MFA duty phone) 421 905 755 705 (residence/mobile) [...] | 2008-06-02 13:32:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL LO |
08BRATISLAVA262 | SUBSTITUTE NOMINATION FOR ILEA PERSONNEL AND [...] (U) Post nominates Colonel Imrich Schlosser to take part in ILEA's "Personnel and Facility Security" training course beginning on June 9, 2008. Colonel Schlosser is nominated as a substitute for Peter Domanicky, who was nominated and approved for the same course in Ref A. Colonel Schlosser has [...] | 2008-06-03 14:12:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR KCRM ASEC KJUS ECON EAID HU LO |
08BRATISLAVA275 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: THE U.S. AND THE HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (SBU) Pol/Econ Chief conveyed reftel points to Veronika Lombardini, Director of the MFA's Human Rights Office on June 10. Lombardini did not appear surprised by the news, saying that she understood U.S. objections to various trends and developments within the Council. That said, Lombardini [...] | 2008-06-11 16:02:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM LO |
08BRATISLAVA282 | SLOVAKIA INPUT FOR OSCE HUMAN DIMENSION MEETING [...] (SBU) Summary. Slovakia is a functioning Parliamentary democracy and market economy that, for the most part, has done very well implementing its OSCE commitments to human rights and fundamental freedoms. In recent years Slovakia has become an advocate for human rights and fundamental freedoms [...] | 2008-06-13 14:31:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM OSCE KDEM PREL LO |
08BRATISLAVA284 | SLOVAK ATTENDANCE AT JUNE 23 CONFERENCE ON [...] (SBU) Pol/Econ Chief delivered reftel points to MFA Desk Officer for Lebanon, Syria and Israel, Beata Urbanova. According to Urbanova, MFA Deputy Minister Diana Strofova will represent Slovakia at the June 23 Conference. Urbanova also confirmed that the GOS is considering a pledge, but said t [...] | 2008-06-13 15:24:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PHUM PGOV PREL LO LE UNRWA |
08BRATISLAVA291 | PARLIAMENT APPROVES EXPANDED ISAF MISSION [...] (SBU) Slovakia's Parliament approved on June 19 the Government's plan (described in Ref A) to expand its contribution to ISAF. 126 of Slovakia's 150 MPs were present for the vote, in which 119 voted in favor and seven abstained. All six MPs from the right-of-center Christian-Democratic Party ( [...] | 2008-06-20 12:41:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ISAF MOPS LO |
08BRATISLAVA314 | SLOVAKIA WILL ONLY ONLY SUPPORT PRISONERS OF [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel points to Veronika Lombardini, Director of MFA's Department for Human Rights and the Council of Europe. Lombardini said the EU will discuss support for a prisoners of conscience public affairs event again at a meeting on July 8, but that Slovakia will not support [...] | 2008-07-08 09:23:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EUN PHUM PREL KDEM LO |
08BRATISLAVA315 | SLOVAKIA TO JOIN THE EURO ZONE: IT'S OFFICIAL [...] (SBU) On July 8, European Commissioner for Economic and Monetary Affairs, Joaquin Almunia, officially welcomed Slovakia as the 16th member of the Euro zone as of January 1, 2009. As widely expected, the final conversion rate between the Slovak Koruna and the Euro was fixed at the current cen [...] | 2008-07-08 17:26:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD LO |
08BRATISLAVA336 | GAERC: SLOVAKIA SUPPORTS U.S. POSITIONS ON UKRAINE [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel points to MFA European Correspondent Albin Otruba on July 18. Otruba will include U.S. non-papers in the briefing materials acting FM Diana Strofova receives ahead of the July 22-23 GAERC meeting(FM Kubis will be on vacation at the time of the GAERC). 2. (SBU) [...] | 2008-07-18 16:04:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EUN PHUM PREL PGOV IR SO SU CD ZI UP LO |
08BRATISLAVA34 | GAERC RESPONSE [...] (U) Poloff discussed reftel points with MFA EU Correspondent Alexander Micovcin on January 25. Slovakia's delegation will be led by MFA State Secretary Olga Algayerova, as Minister Jan Kubis will be hosting a visit by the UN Secretary General. 2. (SBU) Micovcin predicted that an EU Peacekee [...] | 2008-01-25 15:07:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EUN PHUM PREL PGOV KVIR IR IS SU LO |
08BRATISLAVA351 | 63RD UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY: HIGH-LEVEL ATTENDANCE [...] (U) Embassy Bratislava's response to reftel follows in paragraph 2. 2. (SBU) A. President Ivan Gasparovic will not/not attend. B. Prime Minister Robert Fico will not/not attend. C. Foreign Minister Jan Kubis will attend. - Arrive September 20 or 21, 2008. Depart September 26 or 27, [...] | 2008-08-01 12:20:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL OTRA OVIP KSEP UNGA |
08BRATISLAVA372 | TFGG01: SLOVAKIA WILL SUPPORT STRONG NAC STATEMENT [...] (SBU) Summary. Ambassador delivered reftel points to Acting Foreign Minister Olga Algayerova on August 11. Algayerova said that Slovakia will "of course" support a strong statement from the NAC, and that she will also support a firm united statement from the EU at the August 13 GAERC meeting. [...] | 2008-08-11 15:56:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | NATO PREL RU GG LO |
08BRATISLAVA392 | 40TH ANNIVERSARY OF 1968 INVASION SLIPS BY QUIETLY [...] (SBU) The fortieth anniversary of the Warsaw Pact's August 21, 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia was observed in small, lightly attended ceremonies around Slovakia. Czech President Vaclav Klaus attended a short wreath-laying ceremony near Comenius University in Bratislava with Slovak President G [...] | 2008-08-22 10:23:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL CZ LO |
08BRATISLAVA393 | TFGG01: GEORGIA'S TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY IS [...] (SBU) DCM drew on refs A, B, and C in an August 25 discussion with Maria Krasnohorska, MFA Director General for International Organizations and Humanitarian Assistance. Krasnohorska appreciated U.S. communicativeness on the Georgian situation and said the Slovak MFA "reads the situation the sa [...] | 2008-08-25 14:25:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPKO MARR GG RU LO |
08BRATISLAVA397 | TFGG01: SLOVAKIA REJECTS ABKHAZIA AND SOUTH [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-28 14:32:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPKO PGOV PREL MARR GG RU LO |
08BRATISLAVA464 | SLOVAKIA EXPECTS TO RATIFY NATO ENLARGEMENT IN 2008 [...] (SBU) Poloff discussed reftel text with Martin Pangrac, Political Affairs Officer in the MFA Security Policy Department. Pangrac assured Poloff that Slovakia is aware of ratification and deposit procedures and predicted Slovakia will deposit its instruments before the end of the year. 2. (S [...] | 2008-10-10 14:07:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM MARR NATO PREL KTIA |
08BRATISLAVA483 | SLOVAK BANKING SECTOR CALM IN GLOBAL STORM [...] (SBU) The banking scene here is calm, as Slovak banks have been largely insulated from the crisis by practicing conservative banking. The government has put in place an unlimited guarantee on deposits and some restrictions on moving short-term assets to foreign parents of banks. PM Robert Fi [...] | 2008-10-20 16:19:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON LO |
08BRATISLAVA512 | SLOVAK REACTIONS TO U.S. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-06 17:16:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV LO |
08BRATISLAVA514 | SLOVAKIA: GOING BACKWARDS ON PENSION REFORM [...] (U) The Slovak government will soon re-open the private pension pillar in an effort to get 150,000 workers to transfer back to the public pension system. This is only the latest attack in a long-running war on the second pillar, which has been subjected to blistering criticism from PM Robert [...] | 2008-11-07 14:10:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV LO |
08BRATISLAVA57 | GOS RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR SUPPORT FOR LEBANON [...] (SBU) With both the Director and the Deputy Director of the MFA's Middle East Bureau away, Pol/Econ Chief delivered reftel demarche to Beata Urbanova, Desk Officer for Syria and Lebanon, on February 7. Urbanova underscored strong GOS support for the Siniora government, but was unable during the [...] | 2008-02-08 17:31:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL LE LO SY |
08BRATISLAVA597 | CIVIL NUCLEAR ENERGY SECTOR OVERVIEW [...] (U) Responses to reftel questions follow. Overview of Civil Nuclear Power Program --------------------------------------- 2. (U) Slovakia currently has five 440 megawatt (MW) nuclear reactors in operation. One of them will be shut down in December 2008. Two 440 MW reactors are currently [...] | 2008-12-23 16:06:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG TRGY BEXP BTIO EPET PGOV LO |
08BRATISLAVA76 | WHERE IS SLOVAKIA ON MISSILE DEFENSE? [...] (U) Slovak Minister of Economy Lubomir Jahnatek, a nominee of the PM's Smer-SD party, expressed concerns about US Missile Defense (MD) plans following a February 19 meeting with Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergej Naryshkin in Bratislava. Jahnatek said "Every rational person knows this is a t [...] | 2008-02-20 17:11:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL NATO PARM LO RU |
08BRATISLAVA81 | BOOMING ECONOMY REMAINS ON TRACK FOR EURO ADOPTION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Slovakia's economy continues to grow at an astronomical rate - 10.3 percent for 2007 - keeping the country on track for euro adoption in 2009. A few signs of a possibly overheating economy are present, such as creeping inflation, but these do not appear serious at this point. P [...] | 2008-02-25 13:02:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD LO |
08BRATISLAVA89 | GOVERNMENT BACKS AWAY FROM PROBLEMATIC NGO LAW [...] (SBU) In a February 27 meeting with NGO leaders, Interior Minister Kalinak acknowledged that the government's draft law on NGOs was flawed and tasked NGO lawyers to produce a mututally satisfactory draft within two weeks. The NGOs plan to draft an amendment to the existing 1990 law that would [...] | 2008-02-29 15:57:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL LO |
08BRATISLAVA93 | SLOVAKIA ANNUAL REPORT ON TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY ---------------------------- A. Slovakia is steadily moving forward in its fight against TIP. In addition to allocating a substantial increase in anti-TIP funding (by multiplying it fourfold, from USD 91,000 to USD 364,000) the Government of Slovakia (GOS) has increased bot [...] | 2008-03-03 16:08:00 | Embassy Bratislava | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG KFRD PREF ASEC |
08BRAZZAVILLE233 | UPDATED REPUBLIC OF CONGO RESPONSE - 63RD UNGA, HIGH-LEVEL [...] (SBU) This reftel provides an update to Reftel A regarding GROC attendance at the 63rd UN General Assembly: A. ATTENDANCE OF THE HEAD OF STATE -- President Sassou-Nguesso has no plans to attend B. ATTENDANCE OF THE HEAD OF GOVERNMENT -- Head of Government will not attend C. ATT [...] | 2008-09-04 15:35:00 | Embassy Brazzaville | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL OTRA OVIP UNGA KSEP |
08BRIDGETOWN120 | TIP SUBMISSION - ST. LUCIA [...] (U) As requested (ref A),below are Post's responses to questions regarding St. Lucia for the annual Trafficking in Persons Report. ------------------ Para 27 - Overview ------------------ 2. (SBU) A. Is the country a country of origin, transit, and/or destination for internationa [...] | 2008-02-27 15:40:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG PREF ST XL |
08BRIDGETOWN121 | TIP SUBMISSION - DOMINICA [...] (U) As requested (ref A),below are Post's responses to questions regarding Dominica for the annual Trafficking in Persons Report. ------------------ Para 27 - Overview ------------------ 2. (SBU) A. Is the country a country of origin, transit, and/or destination for international [...] | 2008-02-27 15:40:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG PREF DO XL |
08BRIDGETOWN125 | SNAPSHOT: ISLAM IN NEVIS [...] (SBU) Summary: Following-up on contacts made at the Embassy's inaugural Iftar, PolOff met with the leader of the Nevis Muslim Association, as well as with leaders from the local university's Muslim Association. While both groups are small, they are well-integrated into the tiny island comm [...] | 2008-02-28 18:25:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KISL SOCI PREL PHUM XL SC |
08BRIDGETOWN130 | TIP SUBMISSION - ST. KITTS AND NEVIS [...] (U) As requested in reftel, below are Post's responses to questions regarding St. Kitts and Nevis for the annual Trafficking in Persons Report. ------------------ Para 27 - Overview ------------------ 2. (SBU) A. Is the country a country of origin, transit, and/or destination for [...] | 2008-03-03 14:45:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC XL SC |
08BRIDGETOWN132 | TIP SUBMISSION - ST. VINCENT AND THE GRENADINES [...] (U) As requested in reftel, below are Post's responses to questions regarding St. Vincent and the Grenadines for the annual Trafficking in Persons Report. ------------------ Para 27 - Overview ------------------ 2. (SBU) A. Is the country a country of origin, transit, and/or desti [...] | 2008-03-03 16:07:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF XL VC |
08BRIDGETOWN134 | ST. VINCENT: MAN ACQUITTED OF KILLING PM'S PRESS [...] (U) Summary: In a year of sensational crime stories, St. Vincent witnessed its most sensational trial fall apart this week, as the man accused with the 2006 murder of the Prime Minister's press secretary was acquitted of the charges. The presiding judge had earlier ruled that an oral confessio [...] | 2008-03-04 13:13:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM SOCI PGOV PHUM KJUS PREL XL VC |
08BRIDGETOWN162 | TIP SUBMISSION - ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA [...] (U) Below are Post's responses to questions regarding Antigua and Barbuda for the annual Trafficking in Persons Report. ------------------ Para 27 - Overview ------------------ 2. (SBU) A. Is the country a country of origin, transit, or destination for internationally trafficked m [...] | 2008-03-11 12:28:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM ELAB KFRD ASEC KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG BB XL |
08BRIDGETOWN163 | TIP SUBMISSION - BARBADOS [...] (U) Below are Post's responses to questions regarding Barbados for the annual Trafficking in Persons Report. ------------------ Para 27 - Overview ------------------ 2. (SBU) A. Is the country a country of origin, transit, or destination for internationally trafficked men, women, o [...] | 2008-03-11 12:28:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM ELAB KFRD ASEC KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG BB XL |
08BRIDGETOWN21 | BARBADOS ELECTION UNPREDICTABLE TO THE END [...] (U) SUMMARY: With elections scheduled for January 15, the Barbados political landscape has heated up with accusations flying between the two main parties, the launch of their political manifestos, and the increased vigor of on-the-ground canvassing and media campaigning. Statistically, the op [...] | 2008-01-11 14:33:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL CN TW BB XL |
08BRIDGETOWN23 | LABOR STRIFE HEATING UP IN EASTERN CARIBBEAN [...] Summary: In recent months, there have been a number of high-profile industrial actions in the Eastern Caribbean. Behind the increase in industrial actions, lies a worsening economic situation for the average worker, who is facing shrinking real income due to high inflation, and decrease in re [...] | 2008-01-11 17:10:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ELAB XL |
08BRIDGETOWN25 | BARBADOS BUSINESS CLIMATE ON EVE OF ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: With Barbados' elections slated for January 15, pundits have been speculating the post-election business climate. Many have settled on a wait-and-see approach as they claim that the economic climate will only take shape after the election results are known. Others predict that [...] | 2008-01-11 21:33:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL BB XL |
08BRIDGETOWN36 | TEMPERS, CARS SET ABLAZE BY ST. KITTS ELECTORAL [...] (U) Summary: Following the passing of electoral reform law in December 2007 in St. Christopher (St. Kitts) and Nevis, tempers have flared as the opposition has raised objections to the ruling Labour party's implementation of re-registration rules. In what has devolved into a vicious battle in [...] | 2008-01-16 21:19:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI EAID SC XL |
08BRIDGETOWN43 | NEW BARBADOS CABINET SWORN IN [...] (SBU) In a four-hour ceremony January 20 that included an extensive ecumenical service, the Governor General of Barbados officially swore into office the new cabinet. New PM David Thompson used the event to set the tone for his government's priorities: to manage expectations for the econom [...] | 2008-01-23 19:56:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL BB XL |
08BRIDGETOWN44 | NEW BARBADOS CABINET SWORN IN [...] (SBU) In a four-hour ceremony January 20 that included an extensive ecumenical service, the Governor General of Barbados officially swore into office the new cabinet. New PM David Thompson used the event to set the tone for his government's priorities: to manage expectations for the econom [...] | 2008-01-24 12:44:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL BB XL |
08BRIDGETOWN49 | Renewed Interest in Barbados for AmCham [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-28 15:10:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMCHAMS BEXP ECON ETRD EIND ASEC BB XL |
08BRIDGETOWN587 | HESS OIL, ALTERNATIVE ENERGY GAINING GROUND IN ST. [...] (SBU) In mid-September, the St. Lucian press was abuzz with the rumor that Hess Oil CEO John Hess had visited the island and met with the PM to discuss its long-planned seven billion U.S. dollar oil refinery. Local Hess Oil managers, however, told poloff that the alleged meeting never took [...] | 2008-09-26 20:00:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG OECS EINV ECON XL |
08BRIDGETOWN649 | U.S. INVESTOR AT WIT'S END IN DOMINICA [...] (SBU) AGGPIT Caribbean, L.L.C. (incorporated at 14900 Intracoastal Drive, New Orleans, LA 70129),a startup quarry investment into Dominica, is facing difficulties in obtaining the final permits needed to start operations and has requested U.S. government assistance. This US $1 million invest [...] | 2008-10-29 21:07:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV KTDB ETRD PGOV SENV XL |
08BRIDGETOWN77 | DOL ILO FUNDED PROGRAM IN BARBADOS WINDS DOWN [...] (U) Summary: In December, 2007, DOL funding for the ILO/DOL HIV AIDS in the Workplace program ended in Barbados. The ILO program held a workshop in November 2007 to discuss the results of the program and to look at next steps towards setting up a domestically funded successor program. Key reco [...] | 2008-02-05 20:59:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB BEXP ECON KHIV ILO LAB BB XL |
08BRIDGETOWN89 | DOMINICANS CONCERNED ABOUT ALBA [...] (U) SUMMARY: While the Government of the Commonwealth of Dominica (GOCD) defends its decision to join Hugo Chavez's Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas (ALBA),many sectors in Dominican society are concerned about the long-term consequences of this agreement. The decision to halt progres [...] | 2008-02-13 20:19:00 | Embassy Bridgetown | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG PREL PGOV PHUM PINR VE DO XL |
08BRUSSELS103 | BELGIUM REGISTERS FIRST BUDGET DEFICIT IN EIGHT [...] (U) Belgium registered its first budget deficit since 1999 for the year 2007. The deficit came in at a level of 0.3% of GDP, or 260 million euros (USD 390 million). GDP for year was 80 billion euros (USD 120 billion),up 2.7 %. Economic growth is expected to slow to 2.1 % in 2008 and the bu [...] | 2008-01-18 15:48:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON BE |
08BRUSSELS1034 | EC NON-PROLIFERATION WORKSHOPS YIELD IMPROVED [...] (SBU) Building on cooperative efforts that began in March, U.S. non-proliferation officials participated in European Commission (EC)-hosted workshops focused on determining the EC's priorities for programming EU Stability Instrument funding on non-proliferation and identifying opportunities f [...] | 2008-07-09 09:52:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL KNNP EUN |
08BRUSSELS1050 | TERRORIST FINANCING / CHARITIES: EU SENSITIVITIES FOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: USEU met on June 16 with a European Commission terrorist financing contact regarding U.S. proposals to discuss with the EU the abuse of charities by terrorist organizations. Contact expressed doubt that a U.S.-EU workshop on this topic can be agreed by the EU during the French [...] | 2008-07-11 15:44:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC EFIN KTFN PTER FR EUN PINR UNSC EZ |
08BRUSSELS1065 | BELGIUM: SUPPORT FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF UNSCR 1816 [...] (U) Belgian MFA officials told econoff Belgium supports efforts to protect shipping from piracy off the Somali coast. The officials consider UNSCR 1816 a good resolution and hope useful action results in the next six months and/or the time period will be extended. They noted that France and S [...] | 2008-07-15 09:39:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EWWT KCRM KCRS KJUS PHSA PREL SO BE |
08BRUSSELS1074 | KING ALBERT BRINGS THE POLITICIANS TOGETHER AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After Prime Minister Yves Leterme's surprise resignation late July 14 (reftel),Belgium is still in a state of limbo as King Albert II continues to play his intermediary role in the complex Belgian political process. King Albert is discussing with all the political factions w [...] | 2008-07-16 12:08:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL BE |
08BRUSSELS108 | EUROPEAN UNION VIEWS ON DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE TO [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-22 13:00:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINR EAID PREL EUN KDEM MARR NATO GR NL TU |
08BRUSSELS1088 | EULEX KOSOVO COMMITTEE OF CONTRIBUTORS DISCUSSES [...] (SBU) Summary: During the July 16 EULEX Kosovo Committee of Contributors meeting, EU Civilian Operations Commander Kees Klompenhouwer told EU member and third-state contributors that the EU and the UN were still trying to reach agreement on reconfiguration details. As a result of the unexpe [...] | 2008-07-16 16:32:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EUN UNMIK KV |
08BRUSSELS1098 | EU LIKELY TO EXPAND ZIMBABWE SANCTIONS [...] (U) EU Foreign Ministers appear ready to expand the list of Zimbabwean officials under EU sanctions when the ministers meet July 22 at the General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC). Working level negotiators from the 27 EU member states have agreed to add some 37 individuals to th [...] | 2008-07-18 12:41:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EUN |
08BRUSSELS1099 | KING ALBERT REJECTS PM LETERME'S RESIGNATION; [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: King Albert rejected Prime Minister Leterme's resignation and, after discussions with many political and labor leaders, called for "credible" dialogue on institutional reform for more devolution of power to the regions. Leterme's resignation turned into a clever political st [...] | 2008-07-18 12:49:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON PREL BE |
08BRUSSELS1107 | THREE "WISE MEN" MUST SET REFORM TALKS FORMULA BY [...] (SBU) King Albert II appointed three mediators to set by July 31 the terms and conditions for a resumption of institutional reform talks. They will try to set a format and timetable for the talks on the regional level, as well as find some way to guarantee to those concerned the talks will [...] | 2008-07-22 11:04:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR BE |
08BRUSSELS1147 | BELGIUM IN FAVOR OF TURKEY'S ACCESSION TO THE EU [...] (SBU) Poloff gave reftel points to MFA Turkey Desk Officer Marie Noelle Dubois July 25. Dubois said the Belgian position remains in favor of Turkey's accession to the EU, dependent upon how Turkey progresses with reforms, and how it handles the current court case mentioned in reftel. The Be [...] | 2008-07-28 14:45:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV TU EUN BE |
08BRUSSELS1148 | BELGIUM FAVORS SOLANA AS SINGLE CONTACT POINT WITH [...] (SBU) MFA Middle East Office Director Francoise Gustin told POLOFF that GOB agrees with the points presented in reftel. The Belgians believe Solana should be the only one to have direct contact with the SARG. Belgium is in favor of keeping open the dialog with Syria, but thinks the EU must [...] | 2008-07-28 15:05:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SY EUN BE |
08BRUSSELS1171 | EU MOVING QUICKLY FORWARD ON BIOFUELS; WINDOW FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: The EU-is considering biofuels sustainability and greenhouse gas reduction criteria that could all but eliminate importation of U.S. and Brazilian biofuels to Europe. Representatives from the European Parliament, the Brazilian Mission to the EU, and industry have all stressed to [...] | 2008-07-30 11:39:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ENRG EU EUN SENV TPHY TRGY |
08BRUSSELS1189 | AMBASSADOR SILVERBERG'S MEETING WITH EU ENERGY [...] (SBU) Summary. In a July 28, 2008 meeting with Ambassador Silverberg, EU Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs laid out his goals and concerns for the coming months. On the environment, Piebalgs argued for the need for the US, the EU, and Japan to adopt a common position going into the Copenh [...] | 2008-07-31 15:39:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET SENV |
08BRUSSELS1238 | RWE'S VIEWS ON THE NABUCCO PROJECT [...] (SBU) Summary. In a July 15 meeting with Special Envoy Gray, RWE's Chief Commercial Officer Stephan Judisch shared his views on the current progress on the Nabucco Pipeline project and the challenges he sees going forward. From Judisch's standpoint, the biggest challenge on Nabucco is lining [...] | 2008-08-11 12:45:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EPET EU |
08BRUSSELS1239 | BP BULLISH ON SOUTH CASPIAN GAS PRODUCTION [...] (SBU) Summary. In a July 16, 2008 meeting with Special Envoy Gray, Bill Schrader (President of BP Azerbaijan) and Herb Vogel (Head of BP Global Gas) presented BP's planning scenarios for potential gas supplies from Azerbaijan and offshore Turkmenistan. BP predicts Europe will face a big sup [...] | 2008-08-11 12:52:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EPET EU |
08BRUSSELS1249 | WITHIN DOMESTIC POLITICAL CONSTRAINTS, BELGIUM [...] (SBU) POL/E Chief delivered reftel demarche to Michel Peetermans, Chief of Service, Belgian MFA, in the company of his French and British counterparts. Peetermans said that MFA non-proliferation expert Werner Bauwens would attend the August 21-22 Extraordinary Plenary in Vienna. Noting that [...] | 2008-08-13 09:04:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL ETTC AORC BE |
08BRUSSELS1273 | SCENESETTER FOR LUGAR CODEL MEETINGS WITH EU [...] (SBU) Welcome to Brussels. Your visit comes as the EU struggles to develop a common energy policy, internally and externally. One goal of the French EU Presidency is to reach political agreement by the end of the year on the EU Commission proposals on internal energy market liberalization a [...] | 2008-08-18 14:00:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON ENRG EPET EU |
08BRUSSELS1329 | EU: GEORGIA HUMANITARIAN AID DELIVERY SUCCESSFUL [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-28 07:23:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PREL GG EAID EUN |
08BRUSSELS1348 | EUROPEAN COMMISSION OFFICIALS SKEPTICAL ON [...] (SBU) In an August 28 meeting with members of a U.S. economic delegation returning from an assessment trip to Georgia, European Commission (EC) officials expressed skepticism about some aspects of the Georgian request for assistance, especially the GOGQs plea for budget support. According to [...] | 2008-09-02 05:29:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID PREL GG RS |
08BRUSSELS1369 | DE CREM: NO MANDATE FOR BELGIAN SOLDIERS ON THE [...] (U) The Belgian public's tolerance for putting any of its soldiers in harm's way was tested by the September 3 death of a Belgian "blue helmet" soldier in Lebanon, who was engaged in a de-mining operation. Responding to such sensitivities, Belgian Defense Minister De Crem was obliged to take i [...] | 2008-09-04 13:21:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MARR BE |
08BRUSSELS1403 | EUROPEAN COMMISSION ON AFGHAN NATIONAL ARMY [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-09 16:07:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL AF |
08BRUSSELS1430 | NEW EU SPECIAL REP FOR GEORGIA MEETS WITH DAS [...] (SBU) The EU's new Special Representative for the Georgia Crisis, Pierre Morel, met with visiting Deputy Assistant Secretary David Merkel September 15. During their lunch, Morel got "the call" that his new position had been made official at the EU Foreign Ministers GAERC. Morel told Merkel t [...] | 2008-09-15 17:50:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EUN GG KZ OSCE PGOV PREL TU UZ |
08BRUSSELS1439 | EU: PARLIAMENT AGREES ON RENEWABLES DIRECTIVE; [...] (SBU) Summary: The European Parliament,s Industry Committee on September 11 reached an agreement on a set of compromise amendments during the first reading on the Commission,s proposed Renewable Energy Directive. However, this only represents the EP,s negotiating position, and it is likely t [...] | 2008-09-17 11:57:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KGHG EAGR SENV ENRG TRGY EUN |
08BRUSSELS1440 | SENATOR LUGAR DISCUSSES ENERGY SECURITY WITH EU [...] (SBU) Summary. Senator Lugar met separately this week with EU Competition Commissioner Nellie Kroes and EU Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs. The meeting with Commissioner Kroes focused on the EU's efforts to liberalize the internal market for natural gas and electricity. Kroes provided t [...] | 2008-09-17 14:29:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EPET EU |
08BRUSSELS1449 | SCENESETTER FR 2008 U.S.-EU INFORMATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. This yearQs annual U.S.-EU Information Society Dialogue (ISD) talks, on September 26, come after a busy period in Europe, with the European Parliament voting on a final scaled-back telecom reform package, the EU calling for negotiations to update the WTO Information Technol [...] | 2008-09-18 15:18:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ECIN EINV EINT ETRD ECON EUN |
08BRUSSELS1465 | EU ENERGY SECURITY GOALS FOR THE SENIOR LEADERSHIP [...] (SBU) Econ Officer spoke with Ulrich Eckle, Principal Administrator for Relations with the United States and Canada at DG-RELEX, on September 19 about the EU position on energy security going into the U.S./EU Senior Leadership Group (SLG) meeting. 2. (SBU) According to Eckle, the EU,s numbe [...] | 2008-09-22 16:24:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EPET EU |
08BRUSSELS1486 | EULEX KOSOVO COMMITTEE OF CONTRIBUTORS WELCOME [...] (SBU) Summary: During the September 22 EULEX Kosovo Committee of Contributors meeting, EU Civilian Operations Commander Kees Klompenhouwer and EULEX Head of Mission General Yves de Kermabon told EU member and third-state contributors that deployment had resumed as of September 21. The EU and [...] | 2008-09-24 13:35:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EUN UNMIK KV |
08BRUSSELS1500 | EUROJUST'S EVOLVING ROLE IN INVESTIGATING AND [...] (U) The President of the European Union's Judicial Cooperation Unit (EUROJUST),Jose Luis Lopes da Mota, and the Chairperson of EUROJUST's External Relations Committee, Malci Gabrijelcic, explained their organization's increasing role in investigating and prosecuting serious organized crime wi [...] | 2008-09-26 13:29:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PGOV PREL SNAR EUN |
08BRUSSELS1501 | INGUSH HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS SEEK ATTENTION FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: On September 24, Poloff met with two Ingush human rights activists, Ibragim Muharbekovich Lianov and Alik Osdoev. They described human rights violations in Ingushetia since 1992. They said that Russia intends to abolish the Republic of Ingushetia and merge it with Chechnya in O [...] | 2008-09-26 14:37:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM RU BE GG |
08BRUSSELS1504 | DAS DOUG HENGEL'S MEETINGS WITH EU OFFICIALS [...] (SBU) Summary. In September 11 meetings with EU officials visiting DAS Doug Hengel learned that energy security is getting more focused attention at high levels with many initiatives underway. While the process going forward will be complex, the EU is focused on internal reforms (with compe [...] | 2008-09-26 15:29:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EPET EU |
08BRUSSELS1526 | SPECIAL ENVOY GRAY'S MEETINGS ON THE NABUCCO [...] (SBU) Summary. Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy C. Boyden Gray met separately on September 25 with Hungary's Nabucco Ambassador Mihaly Bayer and Jeremy Ellis, the head of the Nabucco Project for Germany's RWE. Bayer laid out Hungary's plans to host a high-level Nabucco summit on January 26 [...] | 2008-09-30 15:07:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EPET EU |
08BRUSSELS1532 | SPECIAL ENVOY GRAY'S MEETINGS WITH EU OFFICIALS [...] (SBU) Summary. On September 23-24 Special Envoy for Eurasian Energy C. Boyden Gray met with EU officials to discuss the way forward on the EU's Southern Corridor strategy. Energy Commissioner Piebalgs said that the Nabucco project remains a high priority for the EU but that negotiations wit [...] | 2008-10-01 11:54:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EPET EU |
08BRUSSELS1576 | COMMISSIONER MCCREEVY INTENDS TO ATTEND [...] (SBU) European Commission Internal Markets Commissioner McCreevy told Ambassador October 9 he plans to attend a rescheduled TEC meeting in November. McCreevy stressed his support for the TEC and belief it should continue into the next U.S. Administration and Commission. He said upcoming Euro [...] | 2008-10-10 09:27:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON ETRD EUN |
08BRUSSELS1579 | COMPETING PIPELINES [...] (SBU) On September 25 Eurogas, an industrial association of 44 gas companies and federations, held its annual policy conference in Brussels. One of the sessions, "Key Challenges and Opportunities in the Development of Major Infrastructures," was comprised of presentations on the major East-W [...] | 2008-10-10 15:48:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EPET EU |
08BRUSSELS1629 | CLIMATE AND ENERGY PACKAGE PASSES COMMITTEE IN [...] (SBU) Summary: The European Parliament's Environment Committee (ENVI) on October 7 passed legislation on the revisions to the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS),Member State burdens to meet the EU's emissions reduction goals, and the implementation of carbon capture and storage (CCS). These thre [...] | 2008-10-21 16:01:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON ENRG EU EUN EWWT KGHG SENV TRGY |
08BRUSSELS1670 | EU STRATEGIC ENERGY REVIEW [...] (SBU) On November 5 the EU Commission plans to publish its second "Strategic Energy Review." The Commission presented its first strategic energy review in January 2007 as part of a wider communication on energy and climate change. The review provided the basis for commitments made by EU cou [...] | 2008-10-29 15:28:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EPET EU |
08BRUSSELS1671 | EUROPEAN COMMISSION FINDS EXISTING NANO REGULATION [...] (SBU) Summary: In its Communication on the Regulatory Aspects of Manufactured Nanomaterials issued June 17, 2008, the European Commission concluded that existing regulation is sufficient to handle nanomaterials, but left the door open for new legislation if the Commission determines it needs to [...] | 2008-10-29 15:42:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EIND EU EUN TPHY TSPL |
08BRUSSELS1684 | OUTLOOK FOR THE EU'S THIRD ENERGY PACKAGE [...] (SBU) Summary. EU Commission officials tell Econ Officers that the French Presidency plans to defer action on the Third Energy Package this year, with the package to be acted on by the Czech Presidency after the first of the year. There are large differences between the current Council and [...] | 2008-10-31 15:34:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EPET EUN |
08BRUSSELS1685 | DEPSEC KUPFER DISCUSSES EUROPEAN ENERGY SECURITY [...] (SBU) Summary. On October 6-7, 2008 Acting Deputy Secretary of Energy Jeffrey Kupfer met with EU and industry officials to discuss developments in European energy security and also discussed a wide range of topics including climate change and energy research. Research Commissioner Potocnik [...] | 2008-10-31 15:47:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EPET EUN |
08BRUSSELS1686 | STATE OF PLAY OF EU'S CLIMATE AND ENERGY PACKAGE [...] (SBU) Summary: The European Union, headed by the French Presidency, is trying to finalize a Climate and Energy Package before the end of the year. The Package includes directives on Europe's cap and trade system and the methods to meet Europe's "20-20-20 in 2020 goals" (20% emissions cut as c [...] | 2008-10-31 16:00:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON EIND ENRG EUN EWWT KGHG SENV TPHY |
08BRUSSELS1709 | EDISON CEO QUADRINO BULLISH ON PROSPECTS FOR TGI [...] (SBU) On November 6, 2008 Ambassador Silverberg met with Umberto Quadrino, CEO of the Italian energy firm Edison. Quadrino was in town for meetings with EU officials, notably Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs. His objective was to promote the Turkey-Greece-Italy (TGI) gas pipeline project [...] | 2008-11-06 14:41:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EPET EUN |
08BRUSSELS1718 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED REGARDING U.S.-EU DATA [...] (SBU) Following instructions in Reftel, on November 7, 2008, USEU Senior Justice Counsel spoke with Claire Rocheteau of the French Permanent Representation to the EU who serves as the chair of the EU side of the U.S.-EU High Level Contact Group (HLCG) experts. The USEU representative raised th [...] | 2008-11-10 13:29:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PREL PTER EUN FR KJUS ECON KPAO KTIA |
08BRUSSELS1742 | DEMARCHE RESPONSE: EU OPEN TO U.S. APPROACH FOR [...] (SBU) The European Union is broadly in agreement with U.S. goals for the November 19 International Conference on the Return and Reintegration of Afghan Refugees, according to two officials at the European Commission Humanitarian Aid Office (ECHO) to whom RefCoord delivered reftel message Novemb [...] | 2008-11-14 17:12:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PHUM PREL EUN |
08BRUSSELS1744 | EU PROPOSES TO REGULATE CREDIT RATING AGENCIES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On November 12, 2008, the European Commission published its proposal to regulate Credit Rating Agencies (CRAs). The proposed Regulation seeks to introduce a new mandatory registration and surveillance regime, and to harmonize rules on CRAs throughout the EU, ensuring that rati [...] | 2008-11-17 08:56:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON ETRD EINV EUN |
08BRUSSELS1747 | BELGIUM: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON EU REGULATIONS ON [...] Economic officer delivered the subject demarche to Mr Geert Cockx of the Internal Markets Division at the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on November 7. Cockx was aware of the third maritime security package in general but not familiar with recognized organizations or with the USG concer [...] | 2008-11-18 10:57:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EWWT EUN IMO BE |
08BRUSSELS1748 | CLIMATE CHANGE: OUTREACH TO BELGIUM ON POZNAN [...] In separate meetings on November 14 with officials from the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and of Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment, Economic officer shared reftel points regarding the December Poznan UN climate change conference, focusing on the firm U.S. commitment to success in Cope [...] | 2008-11-18 14:55:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG KGHG SENV BE |
08BRUSSELS1757 | EU LEADERS PRAISE G20 SUMMIT OUTCOMES, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. EU leaders expressed public and private approval over the G20 Financial Summit discussion and adoption of a detailed action plan. French President Sarkozy, British PM Brown, European Commission President Barroso and Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner Almunia, all of whom [...] | 2008-11-19 17:26:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON ETRD EINV EUN |
08BRUSSELS1761 | EU STRATEGIC ENERGY REVIEW [...] (SBU) Summary. On November 13, EU Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs presented the Commission's 2nd Strategic Energy Review (SER) to the Parliament. The SER contains a new five-point "EU Energy Security and Solidarity Action Plan," focused on: infrastructure needs and diversification of e [...] | 2008-11-20 17:20:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EPET EUN |
08BRUSSELS1763 | MCCREEVY ON G-20 AND EU RESPONSE TO THE CRISIS [...] (SBU) Summary. EU Internal Market Commissioner McCreevy told Ambassador Silverberg November 20 that: -the G-20 Leaders Summit accomplished as much could be expected given the U.S. Presidential transition; -it was still unclear how the EU will implement the G-20 action plan; -the Commission [...] | 2008-11-20 18:09:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON ETRD EIND EINV EUN |
08BRUSSELS1768 | EUROPEAN UNION UPDATES BIOFUELS GHG VALUES; U.S. [...] (U) The European Council has modified the values used to determine the lifecycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for biofuels feedstocks, used to determine whether a feedstock saves enough in greenhouse gas emissions to be counted toward the EU-wide target of 10% of transport fuels coming from [...] | 2008-11-21 17:24:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON EIND ENRG EUN EWWT KGHG SENV TPHY |
08BRUSSELS1770 | MEMBER STATES SKEPTICAL ON CLIMATE AND ENERGY [...] (SBU) Summary: Representatives from several EU Member States have expressed skepticism that the EU will be able to come to compromise on all aspects of the Climate and Energy Package in time for an agreement by the end of the year, but each stated with differing levels of surety that an elevent [...] | 2008-11-21 17:24:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON EIND ENRG EUN EWWT KGHG SENV TPHY |
08BRUSSELS1776 | THE EU'S "CASPIAN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION" PROPOSAL [...] (SBU) Summary. On 14 November, and in a series of earlier meetings, DG-TREN Officials explained the concept of the "Caspin Development Corporation" (CDC) to Econ Offices. As proposed by the EU Commission, the CDC would have the mandate to aggregate gas demand from European buyers and presen [...] | 2008-11-24 13:18:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EPET EUN |
08BRUSSELS1793 | BOSNIA AND OPERATION ALTHEA: OHR LAJCAK ADDRESSES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At the November 24 joint meeting of NATO,s North Atlantic Council and the EU,s Political and Security Committee, HR Javier Solana said he thought 5-plus-2 could be met by mid-2009. Acknowledging the positive momentum engendered by the Solana-Rehn paper on Bosnia and the Novem [...] | 2008-11-26 16:22:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR MOPS EUN BK AF |
08BRUSSELS1814 | NORWAY'S EMBRACING THE EU [...] (SBU) Summary: In several separate conversations with Emboffs, Norwegian diplomats posted to and visiting Brussels have described extensive Norwegian integration into EU structures as a status quo most Norwegians are comfortable with and unlikely to want to change in the near future. The cl [...] | 2008-12-02 14:59:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EU MARR MOPS NO PREL |
08BRUSSELS184 | NANOTECHNOLOGY: EUROPEAN UNION VIEWPOINTS AND U.S. [...] (SBU) Summary: The European Commission wants to continue cooperation with the U.S. in nanotechnology research and regulation to avoid divergent policies which could harm transatlantic cooperation and trade. Given the Community's possible influence over global approaches to nanotechnology, U [...] | 2008-02-05 16:53:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EIND EUN TPHY TSPL |
08BRUSSELS1862 | BARROSO LETTER TO POTUS ON ENERGY SECURITY [...] (SBU) EU Commission Officials provided USEU with a copy a letter dated November 27, 2008 from EU Commission President Jose Manual Barroso's to POTUS in response to the POTUS letter to President Barroso on Energy Security. Text Follows: Begin Text. ----------------------------- [...] | 2008-12-10 14:02:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EPET EUN |
08BRUSSELS1873 | READ-OUT OF U.S.-EU TASK FORCE MEETING, DECEMBER 8, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The U.S.-EU Task Force covered a range of top priority political, economic, and other bilateral issues during a December 8 meeting in Brussels. The U.S. team was led by EUR/PDAS Marcie Ries and USEU Charge Christopher Murray, and included NSC Director for Europe Kristina Kvien a [...] | 2008-12-12 10:31:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON ETRD EUN |
08BRUSSELS1876 | EU AND CANADA REACH AIR TRANSPORT AGREEMENT [...] (SBU) On December 9, the EU and Canada announced they had concluded negotiations and initialed a comprehensive air transport agreement. It will replace the existing network of bilateral aviation arrangements, liberalize direct air services between Canada and EU member states, allow cargo car [...] | 2008-12-12 14:39:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON EUN CA |
08BRUSSELS1878 | EU INTERESTED IN PIRACY CONTACT GROUP PARTICIPATION [...] (SBU) On December 12, USEU delivered reftel points on U.S. plans for a new, stronger UN Security Council Resolution on Horn of Africa piracy, to include the formation of a Contact Group, to Didier Lenoir, Head of the Operations and Exercises Unit in the EU Council Secretariat's DG E VIII. Leno [...] | 2008-12-12 15:24:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MOPS PBTS PHSA PTER EUN |
08BRUSSELS1883 | EUROPEAN COMMISSION ON POTENTIAL PAKISTAN DONORS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-12 16:15:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN IBRD IMF PK |
08BRUSSELS1907 | RWE PROPOSES TWO NEW APPROACHES TO GET NABUCCO [...] (SBU) In a December 9 meeting with Econ Officers, an official from German RWE raised two new approaches RWE is pursuing to advance the Nabucco gas pipeline project. The first approach he outlined would be for RWE and Austrian OMV to form a "Caspian Energy Corporation" to negotiate directly w [...] | 2008-12-16 15:06:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EPET EUN |
08BRUSSELS1945 | JANUARY 1 - "GROUNDHOG DAY" IN UKRAINE? [...] (SBU) Ambassador Silverberg spoke with Ukraine Ambassador to the EU Andri Veselovsky on December 22 to discuss the dispute between Russia and Ukraine over the terms of the gas supply contract. Veselovsky said the Russians claim $2 billion is due on the contract and will not enter into a new a [...] | 2008-12-22 16:26:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET EUN RS UP |
08BRUSSELS216 | EU INFORMED OF UPCOMING U.S. INITIATIVES ON ARF [...] (SBU) EU Council Secretariat Southeast Asia official Friederike Tschampa thanked USEU for the U.S. draft proposal for the ARF Counterterrorism and Transnational Crime (CTTC) Workplan and non-paper, comments on Singapore's draft ARF Review, and copy of A/S Hill's letter. She admitted the EU h [...] | 2008-02-08 12:35:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ARF PTER EUN |
08BRUSSELS226 | USEU SCENESETTER FOR UNDERSECRETARY JEFFERY'S [...] (SBU) Welcome to Brussels. Your visit comes at an opportune time, as the EU is struggling to develop a common energy policy, internally and externally. Recent Commission proposals on internal market liberalization and climate change measures have met with considerable skepticism from member [...] | 2008-02-08 18:20:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EPET ETRD EU SENV |
08BRUSSELS284 | US/EU ENERGY SECURITY DISCUSSIONS [...] (U) Summary. Under Secretary for Economic, Energy, and Agricultural Affairs Reuben Jeffery and Special Envoy Gray learned during February 12 meetings with EU Competition Commissioner Neelie Kroes, Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs, CFSP High Representative Javier Solana, and industry reps [...] | 2008-02-21 06:30:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EPET ETRD EU |
08BRUSSELS292 | BELGIUM FREEZES PKK-ASSOCIATED ROJ-TV'S ASSETS [...] (U) Ref e-mail relayed a Turkish press report that "PKK mouthpiece" Roj TV has been levied a heavy tax fine by Belgian authorities. The press report asserted that Roj TV officials in Belgium "claimed that Turkey's pressure on the U.S. and certain EU countries led to the Belgian decision to l [...] | 2008-02-22 15:17:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETTC PTER BE TU |
08BRUSSELS293 | BELGIANS OPEN TO UNSCR ON FDLR, BUT HAVE QUESTIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-22 16:37:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ETTC ASEC BE |
08BRUSSELS310 | EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT QUESTIONS UTILITY OF GALILEO [...] (SBU) Summary: Amendments made by Parliament to the Commission's new proposal for the governance and financing for the Galileo satellite navigation program were debated during the January 29 meeting of the European Parliament's Industry, Research, and Energy Committee (ITRE). Key topics at is [...] | 2008-02-28 16:24:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EUN TSPA TSPL |
08BRUSSELS311 | EUROPE TRENDING TOWARD INCREASED USE OF SPACE IN [...] (SBU) Summary: The debate over security and space policy in Europe tends to favor expanding the role of space for security, and military, purposes. The vast majority of those in attendance at a recent European Parliament workshop, representing the EU, the European Space Agency (ESA),and priv [...] | 2008-02-28 16:26:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EUN TSPA TSPL |
08BRUSSELS42 | EU: GALILEO READY FOR TAKEOFF; 2008 U.S.-EU SPACE [...] (SBU) Summary: Ken Hodgkins, State Department Director for OES Office of Space and Advanced Technology, discussed with European Commission officials U.S. perspectives on the future of GPS and Galileo Cooperation, Europe's next steps in the development of Galileo, and the 2008 U.S.-EU Space [...] | 2008-01-10 16:18:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EUN TSPA TSPL |
08BRUSSELS426 | DEMARCHE ON TAIWAN'S PARTICIPATION IN THE OECD [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-20 13:04:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON CM TW OECD BE |
08BRUSSELS451 | EU NOT REVEALING ITS HAND YET ON 08 FUNDING FOR [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-26 16:07:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PREL PHUM EAID EUN |
08BRUSSELS46 | CORRECTED COPY: EU: GALILEO READY FOR TAKEOFF; [...] (U) The following is a corrected copy of BRUSSELS 000042 for format corrections. 2. (SBU) Summary: Ken Hodgkins, State Department Directorfor OES Office of Space and Advanced Technology, discussed with uropean Commission officials U.S. perspective on the future of GPS and Galileo Cooper [...] | 2008-01-10 17:12:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EUN TSPA TSPL |
08BRUSSELS464 | EU APPROACHES TO DEVELOPMENT IN A POST-LISBON WORLD [...] (U) SUMMARY: Even as the Lisbon Treaty moves through the ratification process among individual EU states, discussions are underway in Brussels on what it will mean in any number of areas, including development. At a recent forum organized to address these concerns, there was widespread conse [...] | 2008-03-28 15:21:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EUN |
08BRUSSELS502 | EU AGREES ON GALILEO GOVERNANCE [...] (U) An agreement on the amendments to the Commission,s proposals on Galileo governance was reached on April 3 during an informal trilogue meeting between the European Commission, Council, and Parliament, according to the press with details confirmed to USEU Econ Officer during a conversation wi [...] | 2008-04-04 15:38:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EIND EUN TSPA TSPL |
08BRUSSELS503 | EUROPEAN COMMISSION PRESENTS SECURITY RESEARCH [...] (U) Summary: The European Commission told the European Parliament April 1 that it plans to significantly expand its 7th Framework Directive research program, including on border patrol sensors, maritime security, and chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear detection, as well as develop [...] | 2008-04-04 16:35:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EUN KNNP PARM TSPA TSPL |
08BRUSSELS534 | EU STRATEGY FOR THE SOUTHERN GAS CORRIDOR [...] (SBU) Summary. In an April 7 meeting, EU Commission officials discussed the EU's strategy for the Southern Gas Corridor to bring gas from the Caspian region to Europe. Jozias Van Aartsen, the EU's Coordinator for the Southern Gas Corridor, believes the EU and Turkey need to agree to prioriti [...] | 2008-04-09 05:24:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EPET ETRD EU TU |
08BRUSSELS550 | PM MALIKI VISIT WILL HIGHLIGHT EU COMMITMENT TO [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-11 09:53:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV IZ UEU |
08BRUSSELS590 | IRAQ PLEDGES 5 BCM/Y OF GAS TO EUROPE [...] (SBU) Summary. In meetings in Brussels this week Iraq's Oil Minister pledged to supply Europe with 5 billion cubic meters per year (bcm/y) of gas. The gas would come from development of Iraq's western Akkas field and would be supplied to Europe by building pipeline interconnections between [...] | 2008-04-18 15:59:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EPET ETRD EU IZ SY TU |
08BRUSSELS591 | EU RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON ZIMBABWE CHAIR OF UN [...] (SBU) We raised points on Zimbabwe chairing the Commission on Sustainable Developmnet (reftel) with EU Council Secretariat Deputy Head of Africa Task Force and Special Advisor on Africa Jean-Christophe Belliard, whose response was a succinct, "Agree 100 per cent with the U.S. views." 2. [...] | 2008-04-18 16:09:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV AORC PREL EAGR EAID ECON EUN |
08BRUSSELS605 | EU Automakers: Greater Flexibility in Implementing [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 11, USEU held a Chatham House rules discussion with leading EU and U.S. automakers on the European CommissionQs proposal to reduce CO2 emissions from automobiles.. Participants stressed the need for as much flexibility as possible in both U.S. and EU regulation to reac [...] | 2008-04-22 14:13:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ELTN ECON EPET EUN |
08BRUSSELS609 | Aviation Emissions: EU Willing to Negotiate, but [...] (SBU) Summary: EU interlocutors told FAA Assistant Administrator Daniel Elwell that the EU proposal to include aviation emissions in the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) would probably be enacted by end 2008. The EU is committed to going forward with a unilateral proposal, and many EU entiti [...] | 2008-04-22 15:29:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ELTN ECON EPET EUN |
08BRUSSELS64 | TREASURY AND COMMISSION ASSESS FINANCIAL MARKET [...] SUMMARY. A Treasury team led by DAS Mark Sobel met on January 8 in Brussels with European Commission officials and private sector representatives separately to discuss global financial market turmoil, including the impact on the real economy and regulatory policy implications. The officia [...] | 2008-01-15 10:48:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV EUN |
08BRUSSELS651 | EU INSTITUTIONS AGREE ON GALILEO GOVERNANCE; FINAL [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 22, the European Parliament endorsed a compromise text on the governance and financing of the EU's Galileo global satellite navigation system (GNSS). The adoption of the Regulation, which already received the backing of the EU member states at the Transport, Telecommuni [...] | 2008-04-29 13:17:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EIND EU EUN TSPA TSPL |
08BRUSSELS652 | EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT TO RECOMMEND USE OF SPACE [...] (U) The European Parliament is set to adopt a resolution on "the contribution of space assets to ESDP" (European Security and Defense Policy) in July of this year. The current text of the resolution, as drafted by the chairman of the Parliament's Subcommittee on Security and Defense (SEDE) Ka [...] | 2008-04-29 13:24:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EIND EU EUN TSPA TSPL |
08BRUSSELS690 | EMBASSY BRUSSELS OUTREACH TO DEMOCRACY ACTIVISTS [...] (U) Over the past year, the Embassy has promoted the President's Freedom Agenda in numerous ways. Post regularly works with the Belgian government to support democracy-promotion initiatives, for example, the transnational network to advance the rights of women from Belgium, Morocco, Turkey a [...] | 2008-05-08 13:18:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL BE |
08BRUSSELS70 | TREASURY AND COMMISSION ASSESS FINANCIAL MARKET [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. A Treasury team led by DAS Mark Sobel met on January 8 in Brussels with European Commission officials and private sector representatives separately to discuss global financial market turmoil, including the impact on the real economy and regulatory policy implications. The offi [...] | 2008-01-15 12:35:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV EUN |
08BRUSSELS704 | YOUR PARTICIPATION IN THE MAY 13 TRANSATLANTIC [...] The U.S. Mission to the European Union and I welcome you to Brussels for the May 13 meeting of the Transatlantic Economic Council. This meeting will help realize President Bush and Chancellor Merkel's aspiration for greater transatlantic economic integration, but much will depend on the app [...] | 2008-05-09 15:39:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EIND EINV EFIN EAGR ENRG WTO EUN |
08BRUSSELS71 | EU PROPOSAL TO USG FOR CASH COURIERS / CONTROLS [...] (SBU) Summary: EU Member State representatives will discuss on Jan. 16 how to respond to U.S. proposals for the next U.S.-EU practitioners' workshop on countering terrorist financing at the EU's Committee on Terrorism (COTER) working group. A Council Secretariat contact predicted to USEU tha [...] | 2008-01-15 14:35:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC EFIN PTER KTFN KCRM KJUS KHLS SNAR EUN |
08BRUSSELS733 | Treasury Deputy Secretary Kimmitt meets with EU [...] (SBU) Summary: Treasury Deputy Secretary Kimmitt met with EU Commissioner Charlie McCreevy hours before the second meeting of the Transatlantic Economic Council (TEC) meeting on May 1th, 2008. They discussed transition processes, the TEC, and insurance issues. They agreed to work on the Comm [...] | 2008-05-16 14:24:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON ETRD EIND EINV EUN |
08BRUSSELS75 | SOUGHIR TERRORISM TRIAL ENDS IN STIFF SENTENCES [...] (U) A Belgian court convicted Bilal Soughir and five other men January 10 under Belgium's 2003 antiterrorism law. The six were on trial for abetting the recruitment and training of terrorists for suicide attacks in Iraq, including Muriel Degauque, a Belgian national who in 2005 blew herself up [...] | 2008-01-16 10:30:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER BE |
08BRUSSELS808 | EU HOSTS INAUGURAL COMMITTEE OF CONTRIBUTORS [...] (SBU) Summary: The EU hosted the first meeting of the third-state Committee of Contributors (CoC) for the EULEX Kosovo mission on May 26 in Brussels. EULEX Head of Mission Yves De Kermabon said that EULEX could be fully deployed by mid-September, but noted that contributing nations need to [...] | 2008-05-29 16:05:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EUN UNMIK KV |
08BRUSSELS829 | IAEA/IRAN - BELGIUM WILL JOIN THE EU IN A STRONG [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-02 15:00:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP MNUC PARM IR IAEA BE |
08BRUSSELS832 | BELGIUM SEEKING A SOLUTION TO THE UNMEE DILEMMA [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel points June 2 to Wilm Geurts and Rudi Brieven of the Belgian MFA UN Directorate, Security Council, and also shared the points with the MFA Eritrea and Ethiopia Desk Officer Isabelle Maduda-Lukebamoko. Although they have no specific instructions yet, they said B [...] | 2008-06-02 15:56:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNSC KPKO PBTS ET ER BE |
08BRUSSELS858 | BELGIUM: UPDATES FOR LEADING GOVERNMENT AND [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-06 11:35:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL BE |
08BRUSSELS871 | BELGIANS DISAPPOINTED AT USG DECISION TO NO LONGER [...] (SBU) PolOff met June 9 with Francine Chainaye, MFA Director for Human Rights Affairs, to discuss points in reftel. Chainaye said the Belgians know the problem and understand our discouragement with the Council, but she said "this is bad news" and asked how we expect the Council to improve [...] | 2008-06-09 15:15:00 | Embassy Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM BE |
08BRUSSELS903 | REFUGEE NUMBERS PROVE DIFFICULT MEASURE OF EUFOR [...] (U) Summary: Three months into the European Union's military mission to Chad and Central African Republic (EUFOR),officials at the Operational Headquarters (OHQ) told USEU officers the mission has been more logistically challenging than expected, but is fulfilling its goal of protecting refug [...] | 2008-06-13 15:00:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PREL EUN |
08BRUSSELS940 | EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT REMAINS DIVIDED ON [...] (U) Summary: This month, the Parliament's Industry (ITRE) and Environment (ENVI) committees debated the Commission's Renewables Directive launched in January as part of the 3rd energy package. Though the directive covers Europe's renewable energy goals for 2020-20% reduction of greenhouse gas [...] | 2008-06-19 15:09:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EU EUN SENV TSPL |
08BRUSSELS986 | TERRORIST FINANCING / CHARITIES: EU SENSITIVITIES FOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: USEU met on June 16 with a European Commission terrorist financing contact regarding U.S. proposals to discuss with the EU the abuse of charities by terrorist organizations. Contact expressed doubt that a U.S.-EU workshop on this topic can be agreed by the EU during the French [...] | 2008-06-27 15:38:00 | USEU Brussels | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC EFIN KTFN PTER FR EUN PINR UNSC EZ |
08BUCHAREST1016 | ROMANIA: NEW COALITION'S ECONOMIC PLAN A MOVING TARGET [...] (SBU) The new PDL-PSD coalition government announced a ruling program full of campaign promises and political sweeteners prior to officially taking power on December 22, but has just as quickly begun to back away from many of those positions in its first two weeks in office. New Prime Ministe [...] | 2008-12-29 14:23:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV RO |
08BUCHAREST130 | ROMANIAN PRESIDENT, PRIME MINISTER, AND PARLIAMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: In a rare display of political unanimity, President Traian Basescu, Prime Minister Tariceanu, and Parliament met in joint session February 18 declare formally that Romania will not recognize Kosovo's independence. Almost all parties--with the exception of the ethnic Hungarian UD [...] | 2008-02-19 15:55:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL RO KV |
08BUCHAREST139 | 2008 SPECIAL 301 REVIEW -- ROMANIA [...] (SBU) Post recommends that Romania remain on the Special 301 Watch List for 2008. Although industry contacts report that there has been a decline in physical optical disc piracy, the growth of internet piracy - both peer-to-peer file sharing and business-to-consumer piracy - is a worrisome tre [...] | 2008-02-21 06:03:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD ECON RO |
08BUCHAREST178 | QROMANIAQS EIGHTH ANNUAL ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-07 14:34:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM PREF SMIG ELAB EAID KCRM KWMN KFRD |
08BUCHAREST183 | ROMANIA'S EIGHTH ANNUAL ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN [...] (SBU) OVERVIEW: ------------------- A. Romania is a country of origin and transit for trafficking in persons (TIP). While the majority of TIP cases pertain to international trafficking between Romania and Western Europe, there are cases of domestic trafficking as well. Victims ) primar [...] | 2008-03-10 13:22:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PGOV PHUM PREF PREL |
08BUCHAREST220 | DEADLOCK RESOLVED: PRESIDENT AND PM AGREE ON NEW [...] (SBU) In an announcement that caught even his party colleagues by surprise, Prime Minister Calin Popescu-Tariceanu February 29 nominated Catalin Marian Predoiu as the next Justice Minister. Less than three hours later, President Basescu hosted a ceremony to swear in the new Justice Minister. [...] | 2008-03-18 13:18:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL RO |
08BUCHAREST268 | ROMANIA: A STRONG ALLY ON ENERGY DIVERSIFICATION [...] (SBU) Summary: In an April 2 meeting with visiting DAS Matthew Bryza, Ministry of Economy and Finance State Secretary Viorel Palasca strongly reaffirmed Romania's commitment to the Nabucco pipeline project. Romania continues to seek U.S. support for its efforts to ensure energy security thro [...] | 2008-04-10 06:10:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET EINV PGOV PREL RO |
08BUCHAREST290 | ROMANIA PROPOSES POST-CONFLICT TRAINING CENTER, [...] (SBU) Summary: Political Director Stefan Tinca briefed NATO and EU member state embassies on April 8 on the GOR's renewed proposal for a post-conflict reconstruction training center in Romania. He also discussed Romania's broader strategy for the Black Sea Region following the successful NA [...] | 2008-04-15 09:17:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SOCI SENV ECIN RO |
08BUCHAREST481 | ROMANIAN RESPONSE ON U.S. PRIORITIES FOR IWC MEETING [...] (SBU) Econoff delivered reftel points in writing and followed up by phone with Mihai MANOIU, the Biodiversity Division Director at the Ministry of Environment, on June 13, 2008. Manoiu admitted that the Government of Romania (GOR) has not given too much attention to whaling, having just joined [...] | 2008-06-17 04:47:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EFIS KSCA PREL IWC ETRD RO |
08BUCHAREST491 | ROMANIA'S ECONOMY CHARGES AHEAD, BUT INFLATION LOOMS AS A [...] (U) Defying expectations of a slowdown in light of global conditions, the GOR reported that Romania's economy grew in the first quarter at a very impressive 8.2 percent annual rate over the same period last year. Growth was chiefly driven by the spectacular expansion in construction. However [...] | 2008-06-18 10:38:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EIND EFIN RO |
08BUCHAREST511 | ROMANIA: BYSTROE CANAL HOPES SINKING DESPITE INTERNATIONAL [...] (SBU) Summary: At a recent conference in Bucharest, 48 countries - including, surprisingly, Ukraine itself - agreed that Ukraine's work on the Bystroe Canal is not compliant with the Espoo Convention. Despite this public admonishment, the Romanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) reported th [...] | 2008-06-23 11:56:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PBTS PREL SENV UP RO |
08BUCHAREST560 | ROMANIA: U.S. COMPANIES ENGAGE ON CYBER CRIME [...] (SBU) Summary. As part of an initiative spearheaded by eBay, representatives of several American financial services, software, and e-business companies visited Bucharest on June 10th and 11th, 2008 to discuss ways to enhance existing cooperation with the Romanian authorities in combating finan [...] | 2008-07-11 14:09:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINT EFIN EINV ECON PGOV KCRM KIPR RO |
08BUCHAREST562 | ROMANIA: CENTRAL BANK ON CREDIT MARKETS, INFLATION AND [...] (SBU) Summary. At a June 27 roundtable to discuss the Romanian central bank's (BNR) stance on credit growth and its impact on other economic fundamentals, BNR Governor Mugur Isarescu stressed that BNR's recent tighter monetary policy does not aim to stop non-government credit growth, but inste [...] | 2008-07-14 05:43:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON ETRD EIND RO |
08BUCHAREST571 | ROMANIA, HUNGARY TO INTERCONNECT GAS NETWORKS [...] (U) A long-postponed project to link Romanian and Hungarian natural gas networks through a cross-border connection took an important step forward on July 2 with the signing of a Joint Development Agreement between firms MOL of Hungary and Transgaz of Romania. The 109 km connector pipeline wil [...] | 2008-07-16 05:33:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON ETRD HU RO |
08BUCHAREST574 | ROMANIA: POLICYMAKERS ATTUNED TO INFLATION AS ELECTION [...] (SBU) Summary: Rising inflation is capturing the attention of Romanian policymakers and is likely to play a significant role in the upcoming election season. Annualized inflation (June 2007 to June 2008) is up to 8.61 percent, with price increases in consumer staples acutely affecting consum [...] | 2008-07-21 08:48:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETRD ECON PGOV RO |
08BUCHAREST575 | ROMANIA: TOURISM GROWING, BUT FALLING SHORT OF POTENTIAL [...] (SBU) Romania offers travelers an intriguing if complicated mix of stunning scenery and rich culture and history, juxtaposed with generally poor infrastructure, widespread litter, and often-disappointing service quality. Industry experts say that although the travel and tourism sector is expan [...] | 2008-07-21 11:48:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD RO |
08BUCHAREST578 | ROMANIA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON IRANIAN ENTITIES DESIGNATED [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-22 09:52:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ENRG KNNP EFIN PARM IR ECON RO |
08BUCHAREST586 | ROMANIA READY TO SIGN SECOND LINE OF DEFENSE MOU [...] (SBU) The Embassy received a note verbale on July 23, stating that the GOR is prepared to sign the "Agreement between the Romanian Ministry of Interior and Administrative Reform and the U.S. Department of Energy Regarding cooperation in the Area of Preventing the Illicit Trafficking of Nuclea [...] | 2008-07-25 13:01:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM PGOV RO |
08BUCHAREST595 | ROMANIA: DOE PROGRAMS RETURNING SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL [...] (SBU) Summary: The National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA),together with the DOE National Laboratories, have been active in Romania as part of the Global Threat Reduction Initiative (GTRI). Currently, NNSA employees and contractors are in Romania assisting with a spent fuel return s [...] | 2008-07-28 11:51:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON RO |
08BUCHAREST601 | ROMANIAN HEALTHCARE PART 1: AILING PUBLIC SYSTEM HOBBLES [...] (SBU) Romania's public healthcare system is at a crossroads. At present, the system's resources are distributed unevenly and unreliably throughout the country. The quality and accessibility of care, cost of services, and competence of personnel remain unpredictable, ranging from tolerable to [...] | 2008-07-30 13:41:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB PGOV SOCI AMED RO |
08BUCHAREST604 | ROMANIAN HEALTHCARE PART 2: PHARMACEUTICAL DEMAND RISING, [...] (SBU) As incomes rise in Romania, pharmaceutical consumption is also increasing. Better awareness of useful medications has put pressure on the Government of Romania (GOR) to expand the national drug list and to include more cutting-edge medications. While any pharmaceutical which has been o [...] | 2008-07-30 14:10:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB EINV PGOV SOCI AMED RO |
08BUCHAREST607 | ROMANIAN HEALTHCARE PART 3: PRIVATE HEALTHCARE STRUGGLES [...] (SBU) While the public healthcare system remains the primary source of medical care for the majority of Romanians, it is under-funded, and the unpredictable quality of care has begun to lead some wealthier consumers towards the growing private healthcare sector. Revenues from this private sec [...] | 2008-07-31 07:06:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB EINV PGOV SOCI AMED RO |
08BUCHAREST609 | ROMANIA: DISASTER DECLARATION FOR SIX ROMANIAN COUNTIES [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 6. 2. (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador has determined that severe floods in Northern Romania have created a natural disaster beyond Romania's ability to respond without additional assistance. The Ministry of Interior has requested the ass [...] | 2008-07-31 13:30:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID SOCI |
08BUCHAREST647 | ROMANIA : PROPERTY FUND IS HIRING PROFESSIONAL MANAGERS AND [...] (SBU) Summary: The long process of establishing a property restitution fund to reimburse former owners of certain expropriated properties is finally drawing to a close. The four billion Euro fund has already distributed nearly 20 percent of its outstanding shares and is in the final stages of [...] | 2008-08-14 13:35:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETRD ECON CASC PGOV RO |
08BUCHAREST653 | CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES, NEGATIVE VOTE FREEZES [...] (SBU) Summary: In an emergency session called by President Basescu, the Chamber of Deputies on August 13 voted against referring to the National Anti-Corruption Directorate (DNA) the corruption charges against former Prime Minister Adrian Nastase and former Transportation Minister Miron Mitre [...] | 2008-08-15 08:29:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL RO |
08BUCHAREST659 | ROMANIA: CODEL LUGAR SCENESETTER [...] (SBU) Mission warmly welcomes the visit of CODEL Lugar, and looks forward to making sure you get the most out of your time in country. Romania is an excellent strategic partner, ally, and friend of the United States, and continues to be among the staunchest contributors to NATO missions since [...] | 2008-08-20 08:32:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON PGOV PREL OREP RO |
08BUCHAREST675 | ROMANIA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON ADDITIONAL DESIGNATED [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-26 13:04:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETRD ENRG ECON RO |
08BUCHAREST68 | BASESCU'S ANNUAL ADDRESS TO THE DIPLOMATIC CORPS: [...] (U) Summary: President Basescu made his annual New Year's foreign policy address to Bucharest,s diplomatic corps on January 23. He confirmed that Romania would fulfill its international commitments, including its military deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan, and would work within the EU and [...] | 2008-01-25 17:32:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV RO |
08BUCHAREST717 | ROMANIA: SEN. LUGAR PRESSES MINISTER OF [...] (SBU) Summary. Highlighting his experience as a farmer, visiting Senator Richard Lugar on August 28 encouraged Minister of Environment Attila Korodi to permit the use of more advanced agricultural methods in Romania, including biotechnology. Korodi indicated a willingness to reevaluate his p [...] | 2008-09-10 11:38:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ETRD ENRG ECON PGOV PREL TBIO RO |
08BUCHAREST739 | ROMANIA: STRONG GROWTH CONTINUES, BUT AT AN INFLATIONARY [...] (U) Summary. Romania's economy posted higher-than-expected growth in the first half of 2008, prompting renewed worries of over-heating in the near future. The construction, services, industrial and retail sectors drove the growth rate to 8.8% over the same period last year. However, the imp [...] | 2008-09-22 09:25:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EIND EFIN RO |
08BUCHAREST753 | ROMANIA: MARINE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AUTHORIZATIONS [...] (U) In response to reftel request for information, post's officer responsible for transportation issues, including handling of Foreign Ministry authorizations for maritime scientific research, is Economic Officer Justin D. Berg: Tel: 40-21-200-3436 Fax: 40-21-200-3478 E-mail: BergJ@state.gov [...] | 2008-09-23 14:03:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KRVC TPHY EWWT RO |
08BUCHAREST786 | ROMANIA: ASSISTANCE TO GEORGIA [...] (SBU) EconCouns met October 3 with Anamaria Almasan, Acting Director for EU External Relations and Development Assistance at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),to convey reftel information on U.S. aid to Georgia and to inquire about Romanian plans for both bilateral and EU-coordinated assis [...] | 2008-10-07 14:43:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EFIN KCRS KMCA EUN PREL GG RO |
08BUCHAREST796 | ROMANIA'S TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE: TAKING THE SLOW [...] (SBU) While the Government of Romania (GOR) is painfully aware how large a problem Romania's inadequate infrastructure presents for sustaining future growth, improvements will be slow in coming. Project financing and management constraints continue to impede progress, with signs emerging that [...] | 2008-10-16 05:03:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELNT EAIR EWWT EINV PGOV RO |
08BUCHAREST812 | ROMANIA: BY TAPPING ON THE BRAKES, THE CENTRAL BANK KEEPS [...] (SBU) Summary. Several factors particular to the Romanian economy have reduced the local impact of the global financial crisis. Overall, Romania's financial and banking system has sufficient liquidity and is not expected to experience any negative short-term repercussions from the current cr [...] | 2008-10-23 09:29:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON ETRD EIND RO |
08BUCHAREST816 | ROMANIA: NO SURPRISES ON ISPS PRE-INSPECTION VISIT [...] (SBU) Summary. EconOff visited ports in Constanta and Galati together with visiting International Port Security Liaison Officers, LtCmdrs Radiah Jones and William Kasten, who were in Romania for an orientation visit between October 6th and 10th. Both ports are busy and profitable, with Consta [...] | 2008-10-23 13:59:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EWWT ECON RO |
08BUCHAREST818 | ROMANIA: LABOR SHORTAGE CRISIS AND SOARING WAGE INFLATION [...] (SBU) Summary: Romania has one of the most acute labor shortages in the European Union (EU),which has led to rapidly rising wages. The construction industry has been the hardest hit, with skills and talent increasingly moving west following Romania's EU accession. Since 2005, the overall aver [...] | 2008-10-24 06:16:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ELAB AFSN RO |
08BUCHAREST82 | GLOBAL INITIATIVE PRIVATE SECTOR OUTREACH DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-01 08:21:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL PTER KGIC IAEA RO |
08BUCHAREST9 | ROMANIA PASSES 2008 BUDGET WITH VOTERS IN MIND [...] (SBU) Clearly padded to reflect political calculations ahead of local and national elections over the next 24 months, the Government of Romania's 2008 budget includes sizable increases for education, health care, social services, and retirement pensions. The Parliament approved the state and [...] | 2008-01-09 07:06:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN PGOV SOCI RO |
08BUCHAREST90 | SPLITTING THE ETHNIC HUNGARIAN VOTE: COURT [...] (SBU) Summary. On January 29, after four years of delays, the Bucharest Court registered a new political party representing ethnic Hungarians, the Hungarian Civic Party (PCM). The new party aims to provide an alternative to Romania's Democratic Alliance of Ethnic Hungarians (UDMR),seen by so [...] | 2008-02-01 16:36:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SOCI KDEM SCUL RO |
08BUCHAREST905 | ROMANIA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON REVOCATION OF IRAN'S [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-20 11:47:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN PARM PREL KNNP ECON RO |
08BUCHAREST915 | ROMANIA: PARTIES' POCKETBOOK PROMISES [...] (SBU) Fiscal profligacy has been the leitmotif of the current parliamentary campaign. While the governing National Liberal Party (PNL) has hardly been a paragon of fiscal prudence -- ramping up social spending and allowing the expected budget deficit to rapidly increase in the third quarter -- [...] | 2008-11-24 15:29:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV PREL RO |
08BUCHAREST953 | ROMANIA: FDI STILL FLOWING FOR NOW, BUT NEW PROSPECTS MAY [...] (SBU) The high levels of foreign direct investment (FDI) which have fueled economic growth and provided substantial cover for Romania's big current account deficit will likely dwindle in the coming months. While FDI already in the pipeline is expected to continue to flow over the next few mont [...] | 2008-12-08 06:37:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV PREL RO |
08BUCHAREST958 | ROMANIA: NO OBJECTION TO NSG AD REFERENDUM TEXT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-09 06:14:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ETTC KNN MNUC PARM TRGY PREL RO |
08BUCHAREST963 | ROMANIA: THREE BOEING 737-800S JOIN TAROM'S FLEET [...] (U) Post EconOffs and Commercial Attache attended a December 4th ceremony at Bucharest Otopeni Airport to mark the arrival of the newest addition to the fleet of state-owned airline Tarom. Minister of Transportation Ludovic Orban, State Secretary Antonel Tanase, Tarom CEO Gheorghe Birla, Boein [...] | 2008-12-09 15:39:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON BEXP PREL PGOV RO |
08BUCHAREST983 | ROMANIA: HPV VACCINATION CAMPAIGN FOUNDERS IN FACE OF [...] (SBU) Summary. An effort by the Romanian Ministry of Health (MOH) to address the inordinately high levels of cervical cancer deaths in Romania through a Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination campaign has largely failed. With parental refusal rates of up to 90 percent two thirds of the way t [...] | 2008-12-16 14:03:00 | Embassy Bucharest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB EINV PGOV SOCI AMED RO |
08BUDAPEST1008 | HUNGARY DESIRES CONTACT POINT DESIGNATION IN [...] (SBU) During a meeting on October 9, MFA Security and Non-proliferation Department Head Vilmos Hamikus asked PolOff to forward Hungary's desire to serve as the Contact Lead Nation in Montenegro. Commenting that "Hungary has no nasty roots in the region," he stated that Hungary has a special p [...] | 2008-10-20 10:22:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL NATO HU MW |
08BUDAPEST1027 | FOREIGN CURRENCY LOANS: HOW HARD WILL BORROWERS BE [...] (U) Although most hope and expect the recently announced IMF assistance package will help strengthen and stabilize Hungary's currency, the recent weakening of the forint has caused many to consider the impact a weakened currency will have on the large number of households holding foreign curre [...] | 2008-10-30 15:32:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON HU |
08BUDAPEST1035 | HUNGARY NOT INVITED TO IRAN'S UPCOMING NUCLEAR [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-31 15:52:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC MNUC TRGY IR HU |
08BUDAPEST1095 | TERRORISM FINANCE: DELIVERY OF GULF-BASED AL-QAIDA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-17 17:13:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL HU |
08BUDAPEST1102 | HUNGARIAN/SLOVAKIAN PRIME MINISTERS MEET NOVEMEBER [...] (SBU) Summary. In their first substantial meeting in more than a year, Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsany of Hungary and Prime Minister Robert Fico of Slovakia on November 15 discussed ways to decrease ethnic tensions that reached a flash point during a November 1 soccer match in the Slovakian b [...] | 2008-11-18 14:45:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV LO HU |
08BUDAPEST1144 | CLIMATE CHANGE: OUTREACH TO HUNGARY ON U.S. [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador Foley delivered USG talking points on the 14th Conference of the Parties (COP-14) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to Hungarian Minister of Environment Szabo on November 20, and ESTH Hub Officer followed up with Hungarian climat [...] | 2008-11-28 15:26:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG KGHG SENV HU US EUN |
08BUDAPEST1145 | EU BIOFUEL SUSTAINABILITY CRITERIA DEMARCHE [...] (SBU) EconOff delivered the talking points received in Ref A to Zsuzsanna Bibok, head of the Air, Noise and Transport Unit at the Ministry of Environment and Water, and to her assistant, Mate Kovacs. Bibok seemed generally receptive to U.S. views concerning biofuel sustainability criteria, b [...] | 2008-12-01 07:59:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR KGHG SENV ENRG TRGY EUN HU |
08BUDAPEST1175 | HUNGARY SUPPORTS DRAFT NSG TEXT FOR TRANSFERS OF [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-09 14:31:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP ENRG ETTC MNUC PARM TRGY HU |
08BUDAPEST1201 | ECONOMIC REFORM ISSUES I: THE TAX WEDGE [...] (U) This is the first in a series of reports on structural economic reforms proposed by economists and macroeconomic analysts to help Hungary achieve higher economic growth, reduce macroeconomic vulnerabilities, and to remain economically competitive in the region. THE HIGH TAX BURDEN ON LAB [...] | 2008-12-17 08:44:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PREL HU |
08BUDAPEST1214 | BANKING SECTOR DEVELOPMENTS: GOV'T AND BANKS ADAPT [...] (SBU) Summary. The banking industry is undergoing a rapid transformation as the financial crisis and global credit crunch impose new realities on the financial sector in Hungary. Banks find themselves altering their business models to reduce loan deposit ratios and improve the quality of the [...] | 2008-12-19 06:09:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PREL HU |
08BUDAPEST1227 | HUNGARY PLANNING EXPANSION OF NUCLEAR ENERGY [...] (U) SUMMARY: The probable expansion of the Hungarian nuclear power sector offers significant opportunities to U.S. firms engaged in nuclear-related manufacturing and services. Hungary is currently considering building one or two new nuclear reactor units at the Paks nuclear plant. There is s [...] | 2008-12-23 14:52:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG TRGY BEXP BTIO KGHG US RS FR HU |
08BUDAPEST194 | HUNGARY SUPPORTS U.S. POSITION FOR CHANGE IN CUBA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-26 09:15:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL HU CU |
08BUDAPEST21 | HUNGARIAN SUPPORT FOR ASPIRATIONS OF THE SYRIAN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-08 14:20:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KMPI PREL HU |
08BUDAPEST307 | HUNGARY RECOGNIZES KOSOVO [...] (SBU) In a statement released March 19 shortly following a joint declaration of intent with Croatia and Bulgaria, the Hungarian Foreign Ministry announced the GoH's decision to recognize Kosovo. 2. (SBU) The statement: Recognizes that moving forward was necessary for lasting stability [...] | 2008-03-21 09:08:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KO HU |
08BUDAPEST444 | FINANCE MINISTER GETS THE MESSAGE ON TAX TREATY [...] (SBU) In a meeting with Ambassador Foley April 29 (other issues septel),Finance Minister Janos Veres underscored his commitment to expediting resolution of the outstanding issues in our bilateral tax treaty (REFTEL). 2. (SBU) Veres confirmed that the GoH will be prepared to resume negoti [...] | 2008-04-30 13:53:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN PREL HU |
08BUDAPEST593 | IMF ON HUNGARY'S ECONOMY: STABLE NOW BUT WARY [...] (U) Growing concerns regarding Hungary's current growth indicators and long-term sustainability have tempered an IMF assessment team's "favorable" assessment of Hungary's short-term, macro-economic indicators. The country has made a good start in its deficit reduction plans but must continue [...] | 2008-06-13 13:25:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON EFIN HU |
08BUDAPEST603 | HUNGARY WILL ATTEND JUNE 23 VIENNA CONFERENCE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-18 07:31:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PGOV PREL PHUM HU |
08BUDAPEST630 | HUNGARY WINS MERCEDES-BENZ AND EU INNOVATION CENTER [...] (U) Hungary is celebrating its recent selection over other countries in the region for both a new Daimler car plant and the European Institute for Innovation and Technology. The Daimler plant alone is expected to add another 1 to 1.5 percent to Hungary's GDP. In total, some USD 1.7 billion w [...] | 2008-06-24 11:07:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EIND EINV HU |
08BUDAPEST666 | HUNGARIAN PARTICIPATION AT THE KOSOVO DONORS' [...] (SBU) MFA Kosovo Affairs Officer Zoltan Nagy discussed ref A demarche with PolOff on July 2. He noted that Hungary gives considerable importance to the conference, highlighting the GOH's decision last month to commit 1.2 million Euros in support of Kosovo. Nagy said that Ambassador Marianne [...] | 2008-07-03 08:14:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPKO PREL PGOV HU |
08BUDAPEST681 | SCENE-SETTER FOR TREASURY ACTING DAS ERIC MEYER [...] (SBU) Your visit comes as the Parliament has recessed for the long summer "cucumber season." With the dissolution of the MSzP-SzDSz coalition following the national referendum on elements of Prime Minister Gyurcsany's reform agenda this spring, the government is now feeling its way forward wit [...] | 2008-07-08 08:51:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON EFIN HU |
08BUDAPEST694 | HUNGARIAN PARTICIPATION IN PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE [...] (SBU) Recently appointed MFA Ambassador-at-Large for Human Rights Istvan Lakatos received text of reftel request on July 2 and discussed the issue with PolOff on July 10. Lakatos stated that Hungary would participate in the prisoners of conscience public affairs event on July 24 but could not [...] | 2008-07-11 12:14:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PHUM PREL EUN HU |
08BUDAPEST696 | HUNGARIAN COMMENTS ON NEW U.S. POLICY ON CLUSTER [...] (SBU) MFA Deputy Security and Non-Proliferation Department Head Gabor Horvath discussed reftel with PolOff on July 10. Horvath noted that, while Hungary intends to sign the Oslo Convention on Cluster Munitions, the final text provides flexibility to continue operations and training with thos [...] | 2008-07-11 14:40:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL MOPS NATO HU |
08BUDAPEST715 | PRESIDENT OF HUNGARIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES [...] (SBU) On July 18, Ambassador Foley used the occasion of her initial call on Jozsef Palinkas, the newly-elected President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (MTA),as an opportunity to raise with him ISN's plans to host a workshop for former Iraqi WMD experts in Hungary. Palinkas expressed [...] | 2008-07-21 13:12:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG TRGY PINR KSCA HU IQ |
08BUDAPEST721 | HUNGARIAN ATTENDANCE AT THE 63RD UN GENERAL [...] (SBU) Post provides the following current information per reftel format: A. The Head of State, President Solyom, undecided. B. The Head of Government, Prime Minister Gyurcsany, does not plan to attend. C. The Foreign Minister, Kinga Goncz, plans to attend the General Debate. - Pla [...] | 2008-07-22 14:36:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL OTRA OVIP UNGA HU |
08BUDAPEST723 | HUNGARY'S CUBA POLICY [...] (SBU) MFA Americas Department Head Szilveszter Bus discussed reftel with PolOff on July 22. Bus commented that the recently updated EU Common Position opens a new chapter in EU/Cuba relations. While Hungary supported the lifting of sanctions - stating that the embargo was/is not successful - [...] | 2008-07-23 07:33:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL CU HU EUN |
08BUDAPEST737 | HUNGARY RECEIVES NON-PAPER ON ADDITIONAL IRANIAN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-24 14:23:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP EFIN PARM IR HU |
08BUDAPEST763 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: NATO MEMBERS AND ASPIRING [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-30 15:21:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | NATO PREL PHUM PTER HU |
08BUDAPEST836 | HUNGARY: CODEL LUGAR SCENESETTER [...] (SBU) Welcome to Budapest. Your visit comes as the Hungarian Government slowly re-engages following the long summer "cucumber season" and offers an excellent opportunity for discussion of Georgia and energy security. While Hungary remains a committed partner in the trans-Atlantic relationsh [...] | 2008-08-22 12:31:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON GG RU HU |
08BUDAPEST848 | HUNGARY - DESIGNATION OF ADDITIONAL IRANIAN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-27 12:54:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP MNUC PREL PARM EFIN |
08BUDAPEST853 | 63RD UNFC: HUNGARY LIKELY TO SUPPORT U.S. UNGA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-29 10:35:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL UNGA CDG HU |
08BUDAPEST854 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: HUNGARY SUPPORTIVE OF [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-29 10:36:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP MNUC PARM TRGY ENRG EMIN ETTC IR HU |
08BUDAPEST872 | UPDATE TO HUNGARY'S ATTENDANCE AT 63RD UN GENERAL [...] (SBU) Post provides the following updates to information provided earlier in ref B: A. The Head of State, President Solyom, will not attend B. The Head of Government, Prime Minister Gyurcsany, will not attend C. The Foreign Minister, Kinga Goncz, will attend the General Debate. - [...] | 2008-09-03 16:30:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL OTRA OVIP UNGA HU |
08BUDAPEST874 | THE GOVERNMENT'S NEW TAX PLAN - TAX CUTS WITHOUT [...] (U) Summary. The GOH unveiled its multi-year USD 7 billion tax cut plan last week. Under the plan the government proposes to remove the unpopular 4 percent "solidarity tax" on businesses and to reduce employer social security contributions for lower wage employees, but it also intends to incre [...] | 2008-09-04 13:15:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV HU EFIN |
08BUDAPEST879 | HUNGARIAN COMMENTS ON UPCOMING SEPTEMBER 5-6 [...] (SBU) MFA EU External Relations Section Chief Andras Dekany discussed reftels with PolOff on September 4 and provided the following comments on GYMNICH agenda items: 2. (SBU) Georgia: - Hungary supports an ESDP mission to Georgia and expects a decision at the September 15 GAERC. The mis [...] | 2008-09-05 11:43:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM HU EUN GG |
08BUDAPEST882 | HUNGARY SUPPORTS AFGHAN NATIONAL ARMY EXPANSION [...] (SBU) In response to reftel, MFA Afghan Desk Officer Ferenc Hegyesi told PolOff on September 4 that Hungary supports increasing the size of the Afghan National Army (ANA). Highlighting the current and planned Hungarian military activity in Afghanistan - their PRT in Baghlan province, the upco [...] | 2008-09-05 13:54:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AF PREL HU |
08BUDAPEST902 | HUNGARIAN COMMENTS ON SEPTEMBER 15-16 GAERC [...] (SBU) MFA EU External Relations and Crisis Situations Section Chief Andras Dekany discussed reftels with PolOff on September 12, and provided the following comments concerning the agenda items: 2. (SBU) Zimbabwe - We are awaiting a clearer picture of the apparent agreement reached this w [...] | 2008-09-15 13:02:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL PGOV HU GG RS |
08BUDAPEST916 | HUNGARY'S VIEW ON REBUTTING RUSSIA'S CLAIMS [...] (SBU) MFA Security and Non-proliferation Department Head Vilmos Hamikus discussed reftel with PolOff on September 17. Hamikus commented that Hungary would most likely work within the EU framework rather than making an individual statement on Russia's genocide claim. He noted that the September [...] | 2008-09-19 10:33:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM HU RS GG |
08BUDAPEST935 | HUNGARIAN ASSISTANCE TO GEORGIA [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-23 16:23:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRS EAID GG RS HU |
08BUDAPEST963 | HUNGARY: VIEWS ON EU BIOFUELS PACKAGE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Hungary is supportive of EU efforts on biofuels, which are generally in accord with steps Hungary is already taking. However, there are some differing viewpoints between the two ministries principally involved in formulating Hungary's approach to renewable energy. The Energy [...] | 2008-10-01 12:11:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KGHG EAGR SENV ENRG TRGY EUN HU |
08BUDAPEST983 | DELIVERY OF FINANCING FOR DEVELOPMENT DEMARCHE [...] (SBU) On October 2, Econoff met with Ministry of Economy Bilateral (Non-EU) Relations Director Katalin Csorba and delivered reftel points. Csorba agreed that the Financing for Development (FfD) Outcome Document should be balanced and should be an accurate reflection of countries' economic pol [...] | 2008-10-06 15:40:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN PREL UN HU |
08BUDAPEST993 | HUNGARY MOVING TO SUPPORT U.S. FIRST COMMITTEE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-10 12:38:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL UNGA HU |
08BUDAPEST995 | HUNGARIAN COMMENTS ON IMPLEMENTING UN SECURITY [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-10 12:39:00 | Embassy Budapest | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM MNUC KNNP HU IR |
08BUENOSAIRES1006 | ARGENTINA: JAPANESE AMBASSADOR EXPRESSES CONCERN [...] (SBU) Summary: In an early July meeting among embassy teams, Japanese Ambassador to Argentina, Hitohiro Ishida, stressed the importance of Paris Club solidarity in dealing with Argentina's outstanding Paris Club debt and emphasized the need to send a strong message to the GOA to develop a rep [...] | 2008-07-23 15:26:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV EAGR AR JA |
08BUENOSAIRES1012 | ARGENTINE GOVERNMENT REPLACES AG SECRETARY [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOA appointed Carlos Cheppi as the new Secretary of Agriculture on July 23. Secretary Cheppi replaces Javier de Urquiza in a widely expected change following the defeat in the Senate of the variable export tax proposal of the government. The new Agricultural Secretary is a [...] | 2008-07-24 21:13:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EINV PGOV ELAB PHUM PINR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES102 | ENVIRONMENTAL AWARENESS IN ARGENTINA BRINGS NEW RESOURCES, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Argentine public is paying attention to environmental issues like never before, but measurable progress has been lacking to date. Argentina faces several major environmental challenges: overexploitation of its land resources, which leads to deforestation, desertification, a [...] | 2008-01-30 16:03:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EAGR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1039 | ARGENTINA: COURT CONVICTS EX-ARMY CHIEF FOR DIRTY WAR [...] (U) On July 24, 81 year-old Luciano Benjamin Menendez, an Argentine ex-army General, was sentenced to life in prison for the 1977 kidnapping, torture and killing of four left-wing activists. Menendez must serve a life sentence in prison since a 2007 law was passed stating that all military offi [...] | 2008-07-28 09:00:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KJUS MARR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1041 | ARGENTINA: VISITING G/TIP AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH TIP [...] (SBU) Summary. On June 19, Ambassador Wayne hosted a TIP roundtable in honor of Ambassador-at-large to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Mark Lagon to discuss Argentina's efforts in the fight against TIP. Participants included working-level GOA officials, NGOs, and a representati [...] | 2008-07-28 13:10:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PHUM PREL SMIG SNAR KJUS KCRM KWMN AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1051 | A/S SHANNON ENGAGES WITH GOA OFFICIALS AT U.S.-ARGENTINE [...] (SBU) Summary: In connection with the July 10-11 bilateral consultations with the GOA, A/S Shannon used a lunch, dinner and an unscheduled meeting with FM Taiana to raise regional and global issues with GOA officials. At lunch, the GOA expressed frustration with the Doha Development Round but [...] | 2008-07-31 12:22:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON ETRD PTER BO CO PY MX IR UY AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1052 | ARGENTINA: WHA A/S SHANNON AND AMBASSADOR WAYNE [...] (SBU) Summary: WHA A/S Shannon and Ambassador Wayne met with Argentine Chief Justice Lorenzetti on July 11 to discuss bilateral cooperation in the area of judicial reform. Lorenzetti praised the Argentine Supreme Court's close cooperation with the Embassy and the U.S. Supreme Court, citing a [...] | 2008-07-31 12:23:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KJUS KCOR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1053 | Argentina: Electricity Tariff Increase: Welcome Sign of [...] (SBU) The GoA has announced scaled 10-30% increases on residential electricity use in the greater Buenos Aires metropolitan area, the first such increase since 2002. The move is designed to maintain rates for low-use/low-income clients at current levels. Planning Minister De Vido declared that [...] | 2008-07-31 12:28:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1054 | ARGENTINA: JUSTICE MINISTER COMMITS TO ENHANCED [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador Wayne met with GOA Minister of Justice and Security Anibal Fernandez at the latter's request July 30 to discuss the monitoring and control of methamphetamine and heroin precursor drugs produced and imported to Argentina. With leaders of the key police agencies prese [...] | 2008-07-31 14:09:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KJUS SNAR DCRM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1055 | U.S.-Argentine Bilateral Consultations Promote S&T, [...] (SBU) USG-GOA bilateral consultations took place on July 10-11 and covered a range of topics including bilateral relations, human rights, science and technology, education and culture, cooperation on global issues, regional economic issues, and issues of hemispheric interest. Four non-binding [...] | 2008-07-31 15:29:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM SENV MARR TSPA SCUL ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1068 | A/S SHANNON ENGAGES WITH GOA OFFICIALS AT U.S.-ARGENTINE [...] (SBU) Summary: In connection with the July 10-11 bilateral consultations with the GOA, A/S Shannon used a lunch, dinner and an unscheduled meeting with FM Taiana to raise regional and global issues with GOA officials. At lunch, the GOA expressed frustration with the Doha Development Round but [...] | 2008-08-04 09:47:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON ETRD PTER PINR BO CO PY MX IR UY AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1079 | LULA VISITS ARGENTINA TO ADDRESS BILATERAL TRADE FRICTIONS [...] (SBU) Brazilian President Lula da Silva arrives in Buenos Aires August 3 with a 300-strong delegation of private sector representatives shortly after a very public split between Argentina and Brazil on agricultural subsidy and industrial tariffs in end-game WTO Doha negotiations. Lula's meetin [...] | 2008-08-04 19:52:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PREL EAGR WTRO AR BR |
08BUENOSAIRES1088 | Argentina: President Celebrates Energy Investment in [...] (SBU) Ambassador attended the inauguration of a GE-manufactured electricity-generating turbine, where President Fernandez de Kirchner gave the keynote address, during a July 28-29 trip to the distant northwestern province of Salta. The President's message emphasized the positive impact of the [...] | 2008-08-06 13:27:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV ENRG KPAO PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1089 | ARGENTINA: CFK BOOSTED BY LULA, CHAVEZ VISITS, MIXED [...] (SBU) President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) used overlapping August 3-5 visits by Brazil's President Lula and Venezuelan President Chavez to try to regain political momentum. Lula's visit focused on renewed Argentine-Brazilian commercial collaboration following a damaging public diverg [...] | 2008-08-06 13:27:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON ETRD WTRO AR BR VE |
08BUENOSAIRES1092 | Argentina: President Kirchner Cancels Trip to Bolivia, [...] (U) In the face of protests in Tarija, Bolivia and reportedly at the request of Bolivian Foreign Minister Choquehuanca, President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner Kirchner and visiting Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez cancelled August 5 their planned trip to meet with Bolivian President Evo Moral [...] | 2008-08-06 20:58:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL AR BR VE |
08BUENOSAIRES1099 | ARGENTINA:COMMERCIAL SUCCESS STORIES, FEBRUARY TO [...] (U) Per reftels, Embassy Buenos Aires submits the following two recent commercial success stories for the period February to July 2008. 2. (SBU) Date: July 2008 Post/Department Office: Buenos Aires Action Officers: Ambassador E. Anthony Wayne, Commercial Counselor Brian Brisson (FCS) Coun [...] | 2008-08-07 18:49:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV BEXP ENRG EIND AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1116 | Argentina's Growing Trade Deficit with Brazil Spotlights [...] (SBU) President Lula's August 3-4 visit to Argentina has focused attention on Argentina's 62-month-long string of bilateral trade deficits with Brazil. Brazil is Argentina's number one trading partner and this bilateral merchandise trade deficit, up 47% y-o-y to US$ 3 billion in just the first [...] | 2008-08-09 16:01:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EINV EAGR AR BR |
08BUENOSAIRES1136 | ARGENTINA EXPECTS TO JOIN CONSENSUS ON NUCLEAR [...] (SBU) Pol-Mil Officer, EST Counselor, and EST Officer presented reftel issues to the Argentine MFA's Directorate for International Security, Nuclear, and Space Issues (DIGAN) on August 12. Deputy Director Ricardo Bocalandro was knowledgeable and forthcoming about Argentina,s views on this iss [...] | 2008-08-13 12:46:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL AORC AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1153 | MONSANTO ARGENTINA PRESIDENT ON SEED ROYALTY ISSUE [...] (SBU) Summary: Juan Ferreira, outgoing president of Monsanto Argentina, met with the Ambassador to say farewell prior to his new assignment to Europe and to thank the Ambassador for his support for Monsanto in dealing with the GOA. Ferriera noted a decision by the GOA to impose additional duti [...] | 2008-08-15 12:47:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1154 | Argentine Trade Officials on Doha: Optimistic Words, [...] (SBU) Nestor Stancanelli, a senior GoA trade official, expressed pique at Brazil's decision to favor an end-game WTO Doha round compromise proposal on agriculture and NAMA tariffs, but argued that intra-Mercosur relations between Argentina and Brazil remain good. In a Doha post-mortem, he argue [...] | 2008-08-15 14:07:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD WTRO ECON EAGR EIND PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES116 | Argentina 2007 Trade in Goods: Trade Up, Surplus Down [...] (U) Argentina exports grew at a 20% rate in calendar 2007 and imports jumped by 31%, according to a report released by GoA statistics agency INDEC on January 25. 2007 exports totaled US$55.9 billion and imports were US$ 44.8 billion, with Argentina's net trade surplus of $11.2 billion down 9.4 [...] | 2008-01-31 17:29:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EAGR ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1160 | Argentina Rides Bond-Price Rollercoaster Amid Market [...] (SBU) A series of interrelated events the week of August 4-8, including the GoA's private sale of US$1 billion in sovereign bonds to Venezuela at a high yield, prompted a significant drop in GoA bond prices and a climb in Argentina's country risk premium to 741 basis points. On August 10, the [...] | 2008-08-15 22:01:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV EAGR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1166 | ARGENTINE PRESIDENT HELPS BROKER CHAVEZ MEETING [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentine President Cristina Kirchner (CFK) and her Ambassador to Washington, Hector Timerman, appear to have played a role in setting up Hugo Chavez's August 13 meeting in Caracas with Jewish leaders, as confirmed by Timerman's participation in the meeting. CFK's involvement a [...] | 2008-08-19 14:49:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KIRF VE AR BZ |
08BUENOSAIRES1171 | ARGENTINE FARM LEADER LUCIANO MIGUENS COMMENTS ON FARM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Ambassador met with Luciano Miguens, President of the Rural Society of Argentina (SRA),during the Palermo Livestock Show in Buenos Aires city. Miguens gave his views on the recent farm strike and its political and economic impact. While pleased that the government had repe [...] | 2008-08-19 20:32:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1172 | ARGENTINE FARMERS RENEW PROTESTS AND THREATEN TO STRIKE [...] (SBU) Summary: On Monday, August 18, the farm sector staged roadside demonstrations against unresolved GOA agriculture policies for the first time since the rejection of variable export taxes (Resolution 125) by the Argentine Congress one month ago. Farmers have threatened to go on strike by t [...] | 2008-08-19 23:08:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EINV PGOV ELAB PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1205 | ARGENTINA: SCENESETTER FOR CODEL PETERSON [...] (U) This telegram is sensitive but unclassified, and not for Internet distribution. ------------ Introduction ------------ 2. (SBU) On behalf of Embassy Buenos Aires, I warmly welcome your September 3-6 visit to Argentina. The agricultural and political situation in Argentina has chang [...] | 2008-08-28 15:28:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP CODEL EAGR ECON PREL BEXP AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1218 | Argentina: Government Subsidy Increases Could Squeeze [...] (SBU) Government subsidies, mostly for energy, transportation, and food, have been surging in 2008 and threaten to undermine one of the pillars of the GOA's economic model, a primary fiscal surplus in the range of 3% of GDP. In the first half of 2008, the GOA spent over US$4 billion on subsidi [...] | 2008-08-29 20:02:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV EINV EAGR ENRG ETRD AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1226 | Chilean Ambassador to Argentina Emphasizes Positives in [...] (U) Chilean Ambassador Luis Mairre Aguirre met with Ambassador Wayne August 15, the first formal meeting between them. Mairre has been Ambassador since July of 2004 when he was appointed by former President Lagos. The former political exile, Minister, Ambassador to Mexico, and Socialist party [...] | 2008-09-03 19:17:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON CI AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1242 | ARGENTINA: HIGH-PROFILE GOVERNOR ASPIRES TO LESS [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador Wayne met with the governor of Argentina's prosperous and populous Santa Fe province Hermes Binner August 28 to discuss potential avenues of cooperation which included tax reform, health, education and commerce. The two hours of discussion were also an opportunity t [...] | 2008-09-05 17:12:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1245 | ARGENTINA'S MAIN LABOR CONFEDERATION SPLITS [...] (SBU) Summary: Long-simmering internal tensions within Argentina's main union confederation, the CGT, finally boiled over in the confederation's latest internal elections. CGT Secretary General Hugo Moyano won a second term, while his rival, Luis Barrionuevo, quit the CGT to create a "disside [...] | 2008-09-05 19:48:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ELAB AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1249 | ARGENTINA WELCOMES DIALOGUE ON PRIORITIES FOR UNGA [...] (SBU) Poloff raised ref A points with Minister Silvia Fernandez, Director for the Argentine MFA's Office of Human Rights on September 5. No-action motions ----------------- Poloff thanked the GOA for voting against all no-action motions and voting for country-specific resolutions against [...] | 2008-09-05 21:14:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL UN AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1255 | CODEL PETERSON'S SEPTEMBER 4 MEETING WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner met September 4 with a U.S. congressional delegation led by Collin Peterson of Minnesota. The President supported holding bilateral discussions later this year to try to resolve market access issues involving Argentine lemons a [...] | 2008-09-08 20:45:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EAGR EFIN BEXP AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1263 | Argentina: Seizing the Bilateral Opportunity - Building on [...] (SBU) The GoA's surprise September 2 announcement that it will soon pay all Paris Club debt, which would include fully clearing some $402 million in arrears to the USG, opens the door to Argentina's normalization with official USG credit agencies. Once arrears to the USG are reconciled and cle [...] | 2008-09-10 19:13:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV OPIC EXIM BEXP AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1264 | Argentina: Rising Trade with Iran Prompts Jewish Community [...] (SBU) Bilateral trade between Argentina and Iran has grown rapidly in 2008, increasing to US$ 483 million in the first half of 2008 from under US$ 5 million in the first half of 2007, driven mainly by Argentine agricultural exports. Paradoxically, the increase in bilateral trade follows Argent [...] | 2008-09-10 19:18:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON PTER PREL AR IR |
08BUENOSAIRES127 | ARGENTINA: DRAFT MISSION RESPONSE TO OPPOSITION [...] (U) Action Request -- para 5. 2. (SBU) Argentine opposition leader Elisa Carrio, who was the runner-up in the October 28 presidential election with 24% of the vote, publicly released a letter to the Ambassador on January 31 voicing concern about "rumors" that, in order to improve bilateral [...] | 2008-02-04 14:20:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV CJAN KJUS KPAO AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1275 | Argentina Renationalizes Flag Carrier Aerolineas Argentinas [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On September 3, Argentina's Senate approved the re-nationalization of Aerolineas Argentinas (AR) and its sister carrier Austral, formally marking the return of the financially troubled flag carrier from the Spanish travel conglomerate Marsans Group to state hands. In announcing [...] | 2008-09-12 18:54:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON PGOV ELAB AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1277 | Argentina Renationalizes Flag Carrier Aerolineas Argentinas [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On September 3, Argentina's Senate approved the re-nationalization of Aerolineas Argentinas (AR) and its sister carrier Austral, formally marking the return of the financially troubled flag carrier from the Spanish travel conglomerate Marsans Group to state hands. In announcing [...] | 2008-09-12 20:42:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON PGOV ELAB AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1279 | Argentina: Advocating U.S. Digital TV Standard [...] This is an action request. Please see para 7. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. The Government of Argentina (GOA) is close to choosing the Japanese-Brazilian digital TV (DTV) standard as a result of a recently-signed bilateral trade, investment, and infrastructure joint declaration with the Government of [...] | 2008-09-12 21:36:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV PREL ECPS ITU OVIP TSPL TINT AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1280 | Argentina: Ambassador Promotes Chevron Corporate Social [...] (SBU) Ambassador attended the inauguration of a newly-rebuilt high school on September 9 in Junin de los Andes, in the southwestern province of Neuquen, whose reconstruction was sponsored by Chevron Argentina. The rural school, which had been damaged in an August 2007 fire, serves many impover [...] | 2008-09-12 21:48:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI SENV KGLB EINV ENRG KPAO BEXP PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1281 | ARGENTINA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON OFAC DESIGNATIONS [...] (SBU) Per reftel, Poloff on September 12 delivered notice of the impending OFAC Narcotics Kingpin Act designations of three senior Venezuelan officials to Ricardo Roselli, the Director General for International Narcotics Affairs at the Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Points were also p [...] | 2008-09-12 21:52:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTFN PTER PINR EFIN SNAR KCRM PREL VE AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1283 | U.S.-Argentina Bilateral Energy Consultations on Renewable [...] (SBU) U.S.-Argentina binational working group on alternative energy and energy efficiency met September 11 in Buenos Aires to advance cooperation under the July 2008 U.S.-Argentina Memorandum of Intention (MoI) on Renewable and Clean Energy. The GoA underscored its intention to advance bilate [...] | 2008-09-15 14:55:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG SENV TRGY PREL ETRD EINV EAGR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1285 | Argentina: No Movement on Bilat Trade Issues, or Doha [...] (SBU) In a September 4 meeting with visiting Codel, Argentine Foreign Minister Taiana and other Foreign Ministry officials protested the lack of U.S. market access for Argentine lemons and beef, but had no response to Codel requests for Argentina to allow imports of U.S. beef and poultry. Code [...] | 2008-09-15 19:15:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD WTRO ECON EAGR PREL PTER AR BL IR |
08BUENOSAIRES1288 | UNRESOLVED REGULATIONS STILL STIFLE ARGENTINE AGRICULTURAL [...] (SBU) Summary: GoA changes to the export registration process during the agricultural conflict have given its independent Agricultural Control Office (ONCCA) broad authority and control over commodity exports. Time limits for loading commodities and a law that retroactively establishes export [...] | 2008-09-16 12:20:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EINV PGOV ELAB PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1302 | Argentina's Customs Agency: A Bright Spot on IPR and [...] (SBU) Argentina's Customs Director Silvina Tiribassi spoke on September 12 with Ambassador about her agency's efforts to protect intellectual property and encouraged additional information-sharing initiatives with the USG on the model of the successful Trade Transparency Unit and Container Secu [...] | 2008-09-17 21:06:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ECON PREL ETRD AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1309 | Argentine President Criticizes Wall Street Analyst [...] (SBU) President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) has taken on Argentine economic analysts abroad who have criticized the GoA's economic policy mix, calling them "parrots who always predict chaos and cataclysm...who are always talking about our country risk and never talking about the risks [...] | 2008-09-18 20:15:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES131 | Argentina: Pan American Energy principal Carlos Bulgheroni [...] (SBU) In a January 28 meeting with Ambassador, Pan American Energy principal and GoA insider Carlos Bulgheroni (protect) detailed Pan American's significant new oil/gas discovery in Chubut province, Pan American's intent to significantly expand its hydrocarbon development budget and the company [...] | 2008-02-04 16:08:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN BEXP OVIP AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1312 | ARGENTINA: GOVERNMENT CLEARS LEGAL HURDLES TO PARIS CLUB [...] (SBU) With little fanfare, the GoA has moved to amend the Argentine Central Bank's (BCRA) Charter to allow for the legal use of BCRA reserves to pay Paris Club debts (see reftels for background). The GoA added an article to this effect to the decree issued September 16 amending the 2008 budget [...] | 2008-09-19 20:12:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PREL PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1315 | ARGENTINE GOVERNMENT EXPRESSES SOLIDARITY WITH THE [...] (U) Argentine MFA U/S for Bilateral Affairs Ambassador Vicente Espeche Gil contacted the CDA September 19 to convey condolences for the September 17 terrorist attack on the U.S. Embassy in Sanaa. The previous evening, at a reception hosted by the CDA, several GOA officials expressed similar s [...] | 2008-09-19 22:31:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER YM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1324 | Argentina and Brazil Pledge Increased Cooperation [...] (SBU) Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva (Lula) pledged increased cooperation and agreed on a number of economic and infrastructure deals during a September 6-8 CFK state visit to Brazil. The fact that the summit constitut [...] | 2008-09-23 12:12:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL EINV ENRG EFIN EIND MARR MCAP SENV AR BR |
08BUENOSAIRES1333 | ARGENTINA: PRESIDENT'S TOUGH UNGA SPEECH [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentine President Fernandez de Kirchner used her September 23 speech to the UNGA to appeal to a number of domestic constituencies, encapsulating a number of Kirchner governance themes and putting them in the context of a multilateralist, anti-neo-liberal framework. The speech, [...] | 2008-09-24 22:53:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PHUM PREL PTER IR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1336 | Tri-Border and Argentina Public-Private Dialogue on [...] (SBU) Wayne Paugh, Department of Commerce Coordinator for International Intellectual Property (IP) Enforcement, delivered a positive message in support of IP protection during a series of events in Argentina. Paugh met with the Argentine Customs Director, where both emphasized the importance o [...] | 2008-09-25 13:50:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ECON PREL ETRD AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1347 | ARGENTINA SUPPORTS COMMUNITY OF DEMOCRACIES BUT ASKS FOR [...] (SBU) Poloff raised reftel points with Soledad Capone in the Argentine MFA's Office of International Organizations. Capone indicated that Vice Foreign Minister Victorio Taccetti is currently scheduled to participate in the September 26 Community of Democracies (CD) meeting. She explained that [...] | 2008-09-26 20:15:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1358 | ARGENTINA: DIGITAL TV ENDGAME [...] (SBU) Summary and Action Request: Jose Aranda, Vice Chairman of the media conglomerate Clarin Group, told Charge on September 23 that that there is a "fighting chance" that the GOA could still choose the U.S. digital norm for DTV (ref B),and offered to work with the Embassy to promote this st [...] | 2008-10-02 13:07:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAO KMDR AMTC ECPS TSPL TINT PGOV ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1363 | ARGENTINE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR DECLARES SIX-DAY STRIKE [...] (U) Summary: In the wake of the agricultural sector's Mesa de Enlace coordinating committee ("Liaison Board") failure to reach agreement with the GOA on key issues during a meeting with Secretary of Agriculture Cheppi last week, farm leaders announced a six-day strike that will begin this Frid [...] | 2008-10-02 21:15:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EINV PGOV ELAB PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1373 | ARGENTINA: DELIVERY OF ZIMBABWE DEMARCHE RE BANK [...] (SBU) EconOff delivered reftel demarche in separate meetings on October 1 to Marcelo Cesa, Argentine MFA desk officer for the U.S., Adrian Cosentino, new Finance Undersecretary at the Ministry of Economy, and also with Argentine Central Bank Managing Director and Chief Economist Hernan Lacunza [...] | 2008-10-07 18:46:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC BEXP ECON EFIN AR ZI |
08BUENOSAIRES1380 | ARGENTINE POLICE AGENT CLAIMS FBI OFFERED HER [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentina's largest circulation newspaper "Clarin" and other media outlets (including television and radio) reported that former airport police agent Maria del Lujan Telpuk claimed the FBI had offered her "political asylum" and help in getting "work," presumably in exchange fo [...] | 2008-10-08 16:58:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KJUS KCRM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1389 | Argentine Congress' Budget Review Clouded by Global [...] (SBU) The Argentine legislature is set to amend the 2008 budget and pass the 2009 budget in the face of a deteriorating external environment and increasing anxiety about its impact on Argentina's economy and finances. The 2008 bill increases expenditures in 2008 by about US$11.5 billion due to [...] | 2008-10-09 17:13:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON ETRD PREL PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1398 | Argentina Structures Modest Development Bank on Brazil [...] (SBU) Former Economy Minister Miguel Peirano is now working to transform Argentina's state-owned Bank for Commerce and External Trade (BICE) into a development bank on the model of Brazil's BNDES. He argues that countries with such unstable economic and financial histories as Argentina and Bra [...] | 2008-10-09 20:30:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1400 | Argentina Calls for Emergency Mercosur Summit to Address [...] (U) On October 8, Argentine Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana announced he would ask his fellow Mercosur Foreign Ministers as well as Economy Ministers to hold an emergency summit regarding the global financial crisis. Daily La Nacion quoted a "high-ranking government official" as saying that "the [...] | 2008-10-10 14:44:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD WTRO ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1401 | ARGENTINE WITNESS IN MIAMI TRIAL CONTINUES TO [...] (SBU) Sumary: After ten days in Miami, former Airport Security Police Officer and witness in the Antonini-Wilson case, Maria Lujan Telpuk returned to Buenos Aires on October 9 and continued (reftel) to question the way the FBI intercepted and interviewed her at Miami International Airport on S [...] | 2008-10-10 18:45:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KCRM KCOR SNAR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1407 | Argentina: GoA Pressures IDB for New Financing [...] (SBU) IDB President Luis Moreno noted growing GoA fears that global financial turmoil will exacerbate Argentina's already restricted access to international credit. Following his meeting in New York with President Christina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK),the GoA has requested that the IDB increa [...] | 2008-10-14 13:17:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1409 | Argentina: Civair Tour d'Horizon [...] (SBU) Summary. Argentine civil aviation authorities are slowly working the transition from military to civilian control of Argentine civil aviation with support from ICAO and the Mitre Corporation, and the GoA hopes to sign a new technical assistance agreement soon with the FAA. The profitabi [...] | 2008-10-14 13:36:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON PGOV ELAB UY AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1410 | ARGENTINA: SIX-DAY AGRICULTURAL STRIKE ENDS WITH LITTLE [...] (U) Summary: Without the fanfare of previous strikes, the agricultural sector ended its latest strike against GOA agricultural policies on Wednesday, October 8 - at least for now. Compared to other agricultural protests in the previous seven months, this strike was a non-event, as it attracte [...] | 2008-10-14 14:32:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EINV PGOV ELAB PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1415 | Argentine President Announces "Administered Trade" Policy [...] (SBU) Responding to fears that slower global growth and a significant Brazilian devaluation will prompt waves of cheap imports "dumped" on the Argentine market, GoA President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) announced an "administered trade" and safeguard policy to protect local employment [...] | 2008-10-15 17:33:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON WTRO AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1418 | Argentina's Buenos Aires Province-owned Bank [...] (SBU) Guillermo Francos, President of Argentina's second largest public bank, Banco de la Provincia de Buenos Aires (BP),is looking to expand secured lending to provincial small and medium enterprise for investment in new productive capacity. Outside of BP's regular lending activity, Francos [...] | 2008-10-15 19:10:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV PGOV PINR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1426 | Argentina's Buenos Aires Province Taxman: Public Profile, [...] (SBU) Santiago Montoya, tax chief of Buenos Aries province, Argentina's largest, is riding a wave of popularity following high-profile tax compliance sweeps of wealthy neighborhoods. This popular support, he told Ambassador, demolishes the Argentine political truism that zealous tax enforcement [...] | 2008-10-17 12:30:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV PREL PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1427 | Argentina: American Chamber Describes Investment [...] (SBU) As the American Chamber of Commerce in Argentina celebrates its ninetieth anniversary, member company reps noted to visiting WHA DAS McMullen their long and successful tenures in Argentina's historically volatile economic environment. U.S. companies remain broadly profitable, and a numbe [...] | 2008-10-17 12:33:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON WTRO AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1434 | ARGENTINA: LA RIOJA GOVERNOR WELCOMES U.S. [...] (SBU) Summary: La Rioja Governor and Peronist party member Luis Beder Herrera described his rural province's economy and expressed hope for U.S. investment in the mining area. The Governor asked about U.S. relations with Argentina, and the Ambassador highlighted strong cooperation in a wide [...] | 2008-10-20 12:02:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1442 | Argentina: Cash-Strapped GoA to Nationalize Private Pension [...] (SBU) The GoA will announce formally October 21 its plans to submit a bill to Congress to "rescue" future retirees by nationalizing Argentina's private pension system. Argentina's social security system was partially privatized in 1994, with workers given the right to choose between affiliatin [...] | 2008-10-21 18:19:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1443 | Argentina's auto sector still somewhat strong despite [...] (U) The Argentine auto sector is on track for another record-breaking year in 2008, in spite of the adverse impact of the global financial crisis on the Argentine economy and recent high profile media reports of slowdowns in sales and planned layoffs. Production, sales, and exports are at all-t [...] | 2008-10-21 19:28:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EIND ETRD ELAB AR BR |
08BUENOSAIRES1444 | ARGENTINA: RUSSIAN DELEGATION PROMOTES DEFENSE [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentine Defense Minister Nilda Garre hosted the Secretary of Russia's National Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev, on October 15, entertaining Russian proposals for military sales, training, and non-military cooperation including in the field of nuclear energy. Although poten [...] | 2008-10-22 14:32:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR PREL PGOV ECON RU AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1445 | AMCHAM ARGENTINA CELEBRATES 90TH ANNIVERSARY [...] (U) The American Chamber of Commerce in Argentina (AMCHAM) is currently celebrating its 90th Anniversary. Embassy and AMCHAM have organized several successful celebrating events and we continue to work together vigorously to promote US values and the positive role of US companies in Argentina. [...] | 2008-10-22 14:37:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP BEXP ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1449 | ARGENTINA WELCOMES AMBASSADOR SCHULTE'S [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentine Vice Foreign Minister Victorio Taccetti welcomed Ambassador Schulte's October 16 consultations in Argentina, confirming Argentina's predisposition to cooperate with the U.S. internationally and at the IAEA. In the meeting with VFM Taccetti and at a lunch hosted by the [...] | 2008-10-22 20:11:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC KNNP IAEA ENRG TRGY PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1451 | SPANISH-ARGENTINE RELATIONS: SPAIN WAITING OUT TOUGH TIMES [...] (SBU) SBU Ambassador met with Spanish Ambassador to Argentina, Rafael Estrella Pedrola, on October 16 to compare notes on recent developments. Estrella (protect) explained that Spanish-Argentine relations have been going through difficult times, in large part due to the GoA decision to nationa [...] | 2008-10-23 09:38:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EAIR EFIN EINV PREL AR SP |
08BUENOSAIRES1456 | ARGENTINA: PRESIDENT'S TOUGH UNGA SPEECH [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentine President Fernandez de Kirchner used her September 23 speech to the UNGA to appeal to a number of domestic constituencies, encapsulating a number of Kirchner governance themes and putting them in the context of a multilateralist, anti-neo-liberal framework. The speech, [...] | 2008-10-23 18:30:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PHUM PREL PTER IR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1458 | U.S. Company MetLife Discusses Options in the Face of [...] (SBU) Met Life, the only U.S.-operated private pension fund operating in Argentina, does not see any way to block the Argentine government's plan to nationalize all private pension assets (reftels). The only possible obstacles are major social unrest or Congressional rejection of the GoA's pro [...] | 2008-10-23 20:45:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PREL PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES146 | ARGENTINA'S DIPLOMATIC "CAR TALK" SCANDAL ROLLS ON [...] (SBU) Summary: "Car Talk" continues to fill the daily press with new twists in allegations of illegal diplomatic car sales. The Supreme Court is expected to announce it found insufficient evidence against foreign diplomats to warrant its involvement in the case, somewhat vindicating the diplo [...] | 2008-02-07 15:35:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMGT KLIG KCOR KTIA ODIP PREL ASEC KREC AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1461 | ARGENTINA RECEIVES IRAN'S NOTIFICATION THAT IT WILL NOT [...] (U) The Argentine Foreign Ministry received October 22 Iran's formal rejection of its extradition requests for eight Iranian individuals, including ex-President Hashemi Rafsanjani, wanted for trial in connection with the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires that kill [...] | 2008-10-24 12:29:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PHUM PGOV ASEC IR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1465 | ARGENTINA: LEGISLATORS SUPPORT CLOSER [...] (SBU) Summary: Five members of the Argentine Lower House in three meetings with the Ambassador shared their impressions of recent political developments in Argentina and expressed support for greater collaboration with the U.S. Congress. Opposition members of the Argentine Lower House "U.S. F [...] | 2008-10-24 20:50:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1466 | Pensions Nationalization Proposal Prompts Financial Panic, [...] (SBU) The Argentine government appears to have been completely unprepared for the plunge in Argentine stock and bond prices following its announcement that it would nationalize the nation's private pension system. GoA officials clearly did not think through the possible negative consequences o [...] | 2008-10-27 14:51:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PREL PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1469 | ARGENTINA DESIGNATES U.S. AMBASSADOR AS G-20 SHERPA [...] (U) In response to a diplomatic note delivered Friday, October 24, Ambassador received a call from cabinet-ranked Secretary General to the Presidency Oscar Parrilli October 27 to inform us that Argentine Ambassador the U.S. Hector Timerman has been designated the GoA Sherpa for the upcoming No [...] | 2008-10-27 15:13:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPAO EFIN ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1475 | Blow-by-Blow on Argentina's Nationalization of Pensions and [...] (SBU) Argentine President Cristina Kirchner de Fernandez has justified the GoA's nationalization of Argentina's private pension system as a "rescue of retirees," although local analysts agree that the real reasons are financial. Under Judicial order, the pension funds were raided and blocked f [...] | 2008-10-27 19:38:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PREL PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1495 | Argentina: Global Crisis Threatens Export Growth, Trade [...] (SBU) Argentina's strong goods export performance in the aftermath of the 2001/02 financial crisis has stalled, a victim of plunging world commodity prices and slower global growth projections. From a projected 2008 trade surplus in the $12 billion range, local economists now see the 2009 surp [...] | 2008-10-30 17:21:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EAGR AR BR |
08BUENOSAIRES152 | ARGENTINA: MENDOZA GOVERNOR SEEKS CLOSER U.S. TIES [...] (U) Summary: Mendoza Governor Celso Jaque called on the Ambassador February 6, seeking increased contact and opportunities for cooperation with the Embassy and U.S. agencies on such issues as public security, counternarcotics, and public administration. Public security is a top concern for Mend [...] | 2008-02-08 17:52:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KJUS SNAR PHUM ASEC KPAO MASS AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1520 | Argentina: Finance and Industries Secretaries on G-20 [...] (SBU) GoA Finance Secretary Hernan Lorenzino confirmed he has taken on the substantive role of formulating Argentina's positions for the upcoming G-20 Summit in Washington and that these positions will be coordinated with those of Brazil at the upcoming November 8-9 Mercosur Summit in Sao Paulo [...] | 2008-11-04 18:11:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV PREL PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1522 | ARGENTINA: GOVERNMENT MOSTLY SILENT SO FAR ABOUT [...] (U) Summary: The November 3rd guilty verdict in the trial of convicted illegal Venezuelan agent Franklin Duran was front page news in Argentina November 4. Key prosecution witness Guido Antonini-Wilson (A-W) was also quoted in most dailies after he repeated in his first press interview his co [...] | 2008-11-04 20:12:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SNAR KCRM KJUS EFIN AR |
08BUENOSAIRES153 | Ambassador Meets with Argentine Mogul Eduardo Eurnekian, [...] (SBU) Ambassador met February 6 with Argentine CEO Eduardo Eurnekian, who has important investments in the United States, Argentina, Armenia, Uruguay, Ecuador, Italy, Morocco and China in agro-industry, energy, airports, infrastructure, construction, banking and real estate. An admirer of the [...] | 2008-02-11 07:36:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAIR EAGR ENRG PREL AM AR UY |
08BUENOSAIRES1537 | Argentina: G-20 Trade Policy Position [...] (SBU) Despite a relatively protectionist response to the global financial crisis, Argentina trade officials say they will work towards consensual and practical trade policy communique language at the G-20 Summit. Argentina will, however, likely object to any Summit calls to resuscitate WTO Do [...] | 2008-11-07 13:51:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EFIN PREL PGOV BR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES154 | ARGENTINA: REITERATION OF REQUEST FOR SAIEGH [...] (SBU) The Ambassador has a February 13 meeting scheduled with Argentine Minister of the Economy Martin Lousteau. This would be an excellent opportunity for the Ambassador to resume his efforts on behalf of Mr. Eduardo Saiegh, the Argentine citizen who in 1980 was kidnapped, torturGKQLQoQ). In [...] | 2008-02-11 15:58:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1542 | ARGENTINE POLITICAL CLASS WELCOMES OBAMA VICTORY; [...] (U) Summary: Argentine reaction to the victory of President-elect Obama was uniformly positive and welcoming. In a congratulatory message to President-elect Barack Obama (reftel),Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) called Obama's win "a major milestone...in the fight ag [...] | 2008-11-07 20:44:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPAO OPDC AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1549 | Argentina's New Federalism: Politicized Revenue Sharing [...] (SBU) Argentina's federal government collects the lion's share of national revenues, and a "co-participation" revenue-sharing scheme mandates that fixed shares of most federal taxes be distributed to the nation's 24 provinces. Controversial earmarks and other alterations to the distribution fo [...] | 2008-11-12 18:47:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV PREL PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1550 | ARGENTINA: ANTONINI-WILSON CLAIMS NESTOR KIRCHNER [...] (SBU) Summary and introduction: Argentine daily "La Nacion" prominently published November 9 a lengthy exclusive interview with dual U.S.-Venezuelan citizen Guido Antonini-Wilson (A-W),who was intercepted by GOA authorities in August 2007 with a suitcase stuffed with $800,000 arriving on a c [...] | 2008-11-12 20:30:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SNAR KCOR KLIG CJAN AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1552 | ARGENTINA SHARES CONCERNS OVER PROPOSED NSG RESTRICTIONS OF [...] (SBU) Summary: Vice Foreign Minister Victorio Taccetti told visiting DOE NNSA Administrator Thomas D'Agostino November 7 that the GOA was ready to work for an agreement under paragraph 6 of the draft criteria-based guidelines for the transfer of enrichment and reprocessing technology (ENR),but [...] | 2008-11-13 14:07:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KNNP IAEA ENRG TRGY AORC AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1569 | ARGENTINA: SAN JUAN GOVERNOR SAYS STATE CAN [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador Wayne and DCM Kelly met with San Juan Governor and Peronist Party member (PJ) Jose Luis Gioja on October 28, shortly before the Governor's travel to the U.S. to observe the presidential elections. Gioja said he maintains a positive dialogue with President Cristina F [...] | 2008-11-17 22:20:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINR PREL PGOV ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES158 | Argentina: San Luis Governor Discusses His Province's [...] (U) Summary: San Luis Governor Jose Luis Gioja briefed the Ambassador February 7 on San Juan's infrastructure development, investment climate, and environmental protection measures. The Ambassador congratulated the Governor on San Juan's impressive export growth -- particularly in the mining a [...] | 2008-02-11 17:22:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EMIN SENV KPAO EINV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1580 | ARGENTINA: SUPREME COURT RULING OPENS THE DOOR FOR TRADE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Argentine Supreme Court declared Article 41 of the Trade Unions Law unconstitutional and upheld the right of a workers' union that lacks official legal recognition to elect its own delegates. The ruling, if widely applied to organized labor, would expand representation right [...] | 2008-11-19 19:39:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1589 | Argentina and Brazil Consider New Trade Barriers [...] (SBU) Argentine and Brazilian officials discussed in Argentina November 17 a new Brazilian plan to subsidize consumer auto financing that will include autos imported from Argentina. They also reviewed recently imposed Argentine non-tariff barriers and Argentina and Brazil's common interest in [...] | 2008-11-21 18:05:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON AR BR |
08BUENOSAIRES159 | Argentine Official Inflation: Allegations of [...] (SBU) The GoA is reporting "official" January 2008 inflation at 0.9%, well below independent measures of monthly inflation in the 2% range. The international financial press is calling this lowball release a blow to expectations that the Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) administration woul [...] | 2008-02-12 14:03:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV AMGT AFSN APER AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1595 | Argentine Former President Kirchner's Bid to Head Unasur [...] (U) Leading daily "La Nacion" reported November 20 that the GOA would abandon its effort to win regional backing for former President Nestor Kirchner as head of the South American Union of Nations (Unasur). Argentine sources indicated that Uruguayan President Tabare Vasquez's rejection of Kirc [...] | 2008-11-24 13:37:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1618 | ARGENTINE GOVERNOR TO VISIT FORMER VICE PRESIDENT GORE IN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-28 13:48:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SENV PGOV KPAO SCUL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1619 | ARGENTINA: ON UNGA RESOLUTIONS WITH AN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-28 13:55:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNGA IS PA AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1623 | Plan B: Argentina Announces Robust Public Works, Tax [...] (SBU) Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner announced November 25 an ambitious US$21 billion public works plan to stimulate the economy, boost employment, and counter the impact on Argentina of the global financial crisis. She also proposed the creation of a new Ministry of Produc [...] | 2008-11-28 21:43:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ELAB EINV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1632 | ARGENTINA: MEXICAN PRESIDENT CALDERON'S VISIT [...] (SBU) Summary: Mexican President Felipe Calderon paid a state visit to Argentina November 23-25, renewing a diplomatic relationship that had been relatively limited since the 2005 Summit of the Americas at Mar de Plata, despite growing commercial ties over that period. GOA officials emphasize [...] | 2008-12-01 18:45:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON SNAR ETRD EFIN AR MX |
08BUENOSAIRES1633 | Argentine National Prayer Breakfast [...] (U) Argentina's small but growing Evangelical community held its annual prayer breakfast on November 27 with the participation of Argentine Vice President Julio Cobos and four national deputies of the center-right PRO party, led by Buenos Aires mayor Mauricio Macri, and a range of civic leaders [...] | 2008-12-01 19:28:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM SCUL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1635 | ARGENTINA 2008-2009 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL [...] (U) Per reftel, Post provides following draft of 2008-2009 INCSR II report on money laundering and financial crimes for Argentina. 2. (SBU) Begin Text: Argentina: Argentina is neither an important regional financial center nor an offshore financial center. Money laundering related to na [...] | 2008-12-02 09:05:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN KCRM KTFN SNAR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1642 | ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR'S NOVEMBER 23-24 TRIP TO RODRIGUEZ [...] (SBU) Ambassador Wayne, visiting the central Argentine province of San Luis for the first time November 23-24, saw evidence of a provincial government that prides itself on its investment in infrastructure, technology, education, and good governance. Governor Rodriguez Saa, a flamboyant Peronis [...] | 2008-12-02 19:48:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1643 | ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, NOVEMBER 2008 [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering November 2008. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econoff Chris Landberg at landbergca@state.gov to be included on the ema [...] | 2008-12-02 20:26:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PREL PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1651 | ARGENTINA: JEWISH COMMUNITY LEADERS TELL [...] (SBU) Summary: Leaders of the Argentine Jewish Mutual Association (AMIA) told the Ambassador November 28 that they are satisfied with prosecutor Alberto Nisman's work in going after the Iranian authors and perpetrators of the 1994 AMIA bombing that killed 85 persons, but they believe he now ne [...] | 2008-12-03 18:58:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL ASEC SNAR SCUL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1661 | ARGENTINA WILL CONFER WITH BRAZIL BEFORE [...] (SBU) Pol-Mil Officer discussed ref demarche December 2 with Ambassador Elsa Kelly, the MFA Director for International Security, Nuclear and Space Affairs (DIGAN),the head of Argentina's delegation to the November 19-20 NSG Consultative Group (CG) meeting in Vienna. Kelly described the CG me [...] | 2008-12-04 17:19:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP ENRG ETTC MNUC PARM TRGY AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1664 | ARGENTINA: FORMOSA GOVERNOR CONCERNED ABOUT BORDER WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: Peronist Gildo Insfran, Governor of Argentina's northeastern province of Formosa, discussed with Ambassador Wayne on November 20 his views regarding economic development, renewable energy, the challenges of cross-border security, and the status of Formosa's indigenous population [...] | 2008-12-05 11:38:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EAGR SNAR PHUM AR PA |
08BUENOSAIRES1665 | ARGENTINA: ENVIRONMENT SECRETARY EXITS GOVERNMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: Controversial Environment Secretary Romina Picolotti resigned on December 2, reportedly at the request of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK). Picolotti is replaced by Homero Maximo Bibiloni, an environmental attorney. Presidency sources quoted in the press stated t [...] | 2008-12-05 12:03:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SENV KCOR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1667 | Argentina Announces Economic Stimulus Package [...] (SBU) One week after announcing a 71 billion public works plan (Ref A),President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) unveiled an additional ARP 13.2 billion (US$3.9 billion) "economic incentives" package, designed to "revive and stimulate production, investment, jobs, and consumption, and all [...] | 2008-12-05 18:36:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EIND ETRD EAGR PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1672 | ARGENTINE APPEALS COURT AGREES THERE IS [...] (SBU) An Argentine appeals court upheld the (reftel) July 3 determination by Judge Daniel Petrone that there is not enough evidence to prosecute or to acquit former Argentine government official Claudio Uberti in the "Valijagate" investigation, involving the infamous Venezuelan suitcase carryi [...] | 2008-12-09 19:54:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SNAR KCOR CJAN AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1673 | Argentina: U.S. Private Sector Players Downbeat on [...] (SBU) U.S. private sector players in the finance, accounting, and energy fields are downbeat on Argentina's medium-term economic prospects. In a November 25 lunch hosted by Ambassador for visiting State Department CFO Brad Higgins, they predicted the Kirchner administration's political base wi [...] | 2008-12-09 20:39:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1676 | ARGENTINA: SCENESETTER FOR CODEL MEEKS [...] (SBU) Introduction: On behalf of Embassy Buenos Aires, I warmly welcome your visit to Argentina December 16-18. With the administration of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, we are looking to build on a strong and positive bilateral relationship. We are working together in significant [...] | 2008-12-10 17:14:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP CODEL ECON PREL BEXP AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1681 | ARGENTINE PRESIDENT REPRISES HER CRITIQUE OF U.S. [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentine President Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) indulged in an increasingly familiar critique of the international system during a two-day visit to Russia December 9-10, taking jabs implicitly at the U.S. and blaming "unilateralism" for economic and security hardships in the wor [...] | 2008-12-11 17:45:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ETRD PHUM ECON EAGR RU AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1685 | Argentina: Inflation Down as Economy Slows [...] (SBU) In line with Argentina's economic slowdown, real monthly consumer inflation rates have decelerated over the past five months from the 25% range to an something near 20% in November 2008. Food and beverage inflation, an important contributor to poverty measures, is showing the largest dec [...] | 2008-12-12 12:48:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1696 | Argentina: Lavagna Decries GoA Crisis Initiatives, Projects [...] (SBU) Former Economy Minister and Presidential Candidate Roberto Lavagna in a December 11 meeting with Ambassador projected stagflation in 2009, with zero percent GDP growth but with real inflation not falling below 20%, and warned about money laundering concerns related to GoA legislation; se [...] | 2008-12-15 20:35:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1698 | ARGENTINA UNLIKELY TO SUPPORT US POSITION ON [...] (SBU) Poloff presented reftel points to the MFA's Manuel Fernandez Salorio, the responsible officer in the Directorate for International Organization affairs, on December 12. Fernandez concurred with the USG concern about retention of personnel for peacekeeping operations and special political [...] | 2008-12-15 20:47:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC AMGT APER UNGA AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1703 | Argentina: World Bank's Ambitious Riachuelo River Basin [...] (SBU) Current World Bank (WB) priorities in Argentina include reforming and rationalizing the Argentine social safety net in anticipation of greater needs during this economic downturn, and finalizing a major $2 billion, ten-year loan project to clean-up Greater Buenos Aires' heavily polluted R [...] | 2008-12-17 13:15:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EIND SENV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1705 | Human Rights Day Message Reaches Millions of Argentines [...] (U) SUMMARY: Embassy Buenos Aires used the observance of Human Rights Day on December 10 to reach tens of thousands of Argentines on the importance of respecting human rights both here in Argentina and throughout the world. Post co-hosted a human rights recognition ceremony with the GOA's Na [...] | 2008-12-17 17:09:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KDEM OEXC OIIP SCUL KPAO PGOV PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1706 | Argentina: Former President Nestor Kirchner Criticizes a [...] (SBU) Summary. Former Argentine president Nestor Kirchner attacked Vice President Julio Cobos, the opposition, the United States, and the press in remarks to party faithful December 16. Kirchner accused Cobos of intentionally trying to hinder Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's administration and [...] | 2008-12-18 09:43:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPAO KMDR SNAR PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1708 | Argentina: World Bank Country Director Cautions on Economy [...] (SBU) The local World Bank (WB) Country Director (protect) sees the GoA "walking a tightrope" in terms of its capacity to maintain market confidence, stem capital flight, and sustain twin fiscal and current account surpluses in a context of economic slowdown, continued high rates of GoA public [...] | 2008-12-18 12:11:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1715 | ARGENTINA: KIRCHNER ALLY ADMITS RECEIVING CUBAN [...] (SBU) Argentine journalist Gerardo Young alleges in his new book that street activist ("piquetero," literally meaning "picketer") Luis D'Elia successfully evaded security at Argentina's Ezeiza international airport in late October 2005 to bring in USD 1 million from Cuba to finance the "counte [...] | 2008-12-18 19:40:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL VZ CU AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1717 | ARGENTINA'S HOPES TO OVERCOME URUGUAY'S OBJECTIONS [...] (SBU) The Argentine press on December 17 focused on the failure by President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner to achieve what had previously been described by Administration sources to the press (and to the Embassy) as her top priority for the December 16-17 regional summit meetings in Brazil: t [...] | 2008-12-19 09:35:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SENV ECON PHUM CU AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1723 | Argentina Trade Updates: No New MERCOSUR Protectionism, [...] (SBU) Argentina's Foreign Ministry announced December 15 that MERCOSUR made an unexpectedly non-protectionist decision NOT to raise the trade bloc's common external tariff on a short list of products during a December 14 meeting prior to the December 16 MERCOSUR summit in Brazil. MERCOSUR's la [...] | 2008-12-19 19:38:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EAGR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1724 | ARGENTINE PROSECUTOR ON AMIA BOMBING DEVELOPMENT [...] (U) As anticipated in ref A, Argentine Special Prosecutor Alberto Nisman on December 16 ordered the attachment of real estate property in Buenos Aires allegedly belonging to former Iranian Embassy Cultural Attache in Argentina Mohsen Rabbani, one of six Iranian suspects sought by Interpol at Ar [...] | 2008-12-19 20:21:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL ASEC SNAR SCUL IR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1725 | ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, DECEMBER [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period December 1-19, 2008. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econoff Chris Landberg at landbergca@state.gov to be inc [...] | 2008-12-19 20:36:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1727 | Argentina: Message from Argentine Senate VP to the U.S. [...] (U) Action request: The Vice President of Argentina's National Senate and Chairman of the U.S.-Argentina Friendship Caucus Juan Carlos Romero wrote the Ambassador, asking him to forward to the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs the follow [...] | 2008-12-19 21:13:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL OREP OPDC AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1742 | ARGENTINES NOT SHOCKED THERE'S CORRUPTION GOING [...] (SBU) Summary: German company Siemens' December 15 guilty plea with the U.S. Department of Justice-Fraud Section, over corrupt practices, including payments of bribes to officials in previous Argentine governments, has provoked sustained attention in the Argentine press but no major reaction fr [...] | 2008-12-23 19:27:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCOR PREL EFIN AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1745 | ARGENTINA: OVERVIEW OF CIVIL NUCLEAR PROGRAM [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified, and not for Internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Summary: Argentina has had a nuclear program for nearly sixty years and currently draws on two power reactors to supply approximately nine percent of its total electricity generation. The country i [...] | 2008-12-24 12:00:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG TRGY BEXP BTIO AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1746 | Argentine Congress Approves GoA Expropriation of Flag [...] (SBU) On December 17, the Argentine Senate approved a bill to expropriate the troubled national airline, Aerolineas Argentinas, and its smaller sister carrier Austral. The action followed a lower house vote on December 3, and marked the end of almost two decades of Spanish control of the flag [...] | 2008-12-24 13:46:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON EINV EIND PGOV ELAB AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1750 | ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, DECEMBER [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period December 19 - 24, 2008. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econoff Chris Landberg at landbergca@state.gov to be [...] | 2008-12-24 17:47:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES176 | ARGENTINA: SCENESETTER FOR CODEL ENGEL [...] (SBU) Introduction: On behalf of Embassy Buenos Aires, I warmly welcome your visit to Argentina February 20-23. The Government of Argentina is billing your visit as a major indicator of U.S. goodwill, firming up the recent "rapprochement" that ended seven weeks of discord. With the new admin [...] | 2008-02-14 16:27:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM PTER SNAR ECON EFIN BEXP AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1760 | ARGENTINA: AMERICAN CHAMBER DESCRIBES [...] (SBU) CODEL Meeks received a first-hand understanding of the commercial opportunities and challenges faced by U.S. companies operating in Argentina during a roundtable discussion with American Chamber of Commerce in Argentina (AmCham) member companies on December 17, 2008. Discussion focused o [...] | 2008-12-30 12:57:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON WTRO AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1763 | ARGENTINE CHIEF CABINET MINISTER MEETS CODEL MEEKS [...] (SBU) Summary and introduction: Argentine Cabinet Chief Minister Sergio Massa received in his office at Casa Rosada presidential palace Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY),Rep. Ruben Hinojosa (D-TX),and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) December 17. The codel conveyed a strong U.S. desire for dialogue and streng [...] | 2008-12-30 17:51:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL OREP ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES1764 | ARGENTINE FM TAIANA MEETS CODEL MEEKS [...] (SBU) Summary and introduction: Argentine FM Jorge Taiana received in his office Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY),Rep. Ruben Hinojosa (D-TX),and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) December 18. The codel conveyed a strong U.S. desire for dialogue and strengthened bilateral relations with Argentina. Taiana expr [...] | 2008-12-30 17:52:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL OREP ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES188 | Argentine Economy Minister Prioritizes Paris Club [...] (SBU) GOA Economy Minister Martin Lousteau, in his second meeting with the Ambassador, called a Paris Club settlement an important -- but not urgent -- priority of the Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner administration. He called any formal role for the IMF in a rescheduling politically unpalatable [...] | 2008-02-15 15:43:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AR ECON EFIN ETRD |
08BUENOSAIRES19 | Argentine Summer Electricity Shortages: GoA Rolls Out [...] (SBU) The Greater Buenos Aires metropolitan area has begun to experience electricity cuts as overloaded distribution systems fail in the face of hot summer weather and high air conditioning loads on the electricity distribution grid. Resulting neighborhood protests have received wide media cove [...] | 2008-01-04 16:58:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AR ECON ENRG |
08BUENOSAIRES190 | Argentina: U.S. Silver Mining Company Coeur Earns Solid [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Idaho-based Coeur d'Alene Mines Corporation has completed construction of a $15 million silver processing mill at their Santa Cruz province mine site that is adding domestic value and generating employment. President Cristina Kirchner is expected to attend the plant's March 19 i [...] | 2008-02-15 18:03:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV ECON PGOV ENRG BL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES225 | ARGENTINE PRESIDENT KIRCHNER ENGAGES CONSTRUCTIVELY WITH [...] (SBU) Summary and introduction: Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) engaged enthusiastically for an hour in her office February 21 with visiting U.S. Congressional delegation headed by Representative Eliot Engel (D-NY),chairman of the House Subcommittee on the Western Hem [...] | 2008-02-25 13:16:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL OREP PTER KIRF PHUM KV IR VZ AR |
08BUENOSAIRES226 | ARGENTINE FM TAIANA MEETS WITH CODEL ENGEL [...] (SBU) Summary and introduction: Codel Engel enjoyed a warm meeting with Argentine FM Taiana on February 21. Meeting participants discussed Argentina's economic recovery and political progress, the bilateral relationship, and regional and world issues. The codel conveyed concern about Iranian [...] | 2008-02-25 15:13:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL OREP EFIN KDEM PHUM PBTS KV IR VZ BL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES230 | Argentina Hosts Brazil, Bolivia Presidents on Looming [...] (SBU) A bilateral Argentine/Brazil presidential summit in Buenos Aires February 22 and a follow-on February 23 trilateral Argentine/Brazil/Bolivia presidential summit focused largely on regional energy coordination. Bolivia's President Morales acknowledged his country's near-term inability to [...] | 2008-02-26 08:09:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EPET PREL PGOV AR BR BL |
08BUENOSAIRES231 | ARGENTINA'S 2008 SPECIAL 301 REVIEW [...] (SBU) In 2007, Argentine authorities responsible for providing "adequate and effective protection to intellectual property rights" made few meaningful improvements in IPR legislation, regulation and enforcement, and there remain serious weaknesses in each of these areas. Customs authorities' i [...] | 2008-02-26 10:10:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES241 | ARGENTINA CIVAIR: TRANSITION FROM MILITARY TO CIVILIAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Almost a year after the creation of the National Civil Aviation Administration (ANAC),the agency that will assume responsibility for Argentina's civair once a transition from military to civilian control occurs, a Director has finally been named and some institutional reorganiz [...] | 2008-02-27 14:40:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON PGOV ELAB AR |
08BUENOSAIRES242 | ARGENTINA: POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC ANALYSTS DISCUSS CFK [...] (SBU) Summary: Representative Eliot Engel and Delegation met February 21 with noted Argentine political and economic analysts to discuss bilateral relations, views on the Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) administration, and regional issues, including relations with Brazil, Venezuela, and Cu [...] | 2008-02-27 15:10:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON OREP AR VE BR CU |
08BUENOSAIRES244 | ARGENTINE CONGRESSIONAL LEADERSHIP MEETS WITH [...] (SBU) Summary and introduction: Codel Engel had a warm and productive meeting with Argentine Vice President (and Senate President) Cobos and other congressional leaders. They discussed Iran, energy, Argentina's economic recovery, the environment, and the positive feelings following their meeti [...] | 2008-02-27 16:21:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL OREP ECON IR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES245 | ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, JANUARY [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period January 28 - February 22, 2008. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econoff Chris Landberg at landbergca@state. [...] | 2008-02-27 17:13:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES246 | CODEL ENGEL VISITS AMIA AND DISCUSSES CONCERN OVER [...] (SBU) Summary. On February 22, Ambassador Wayne and a visiting U.S. Congressional delegation headed by Representative Eliot Engel (D-NY) met with the political leadership of the Argentine Jewish community (DAIA) and the President of the Argentine Israeli Mutual Association (AMIA). During the [...] | 2008-02-27 18:23:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV KJUS AR FBI |
08BUENOSAIRES249 | ARGENTINA: NGO PARTICIPATION IN UNHRC REVIEW MIXED [...] (SBU) Per Ref A instructions, poloff contacted two leading human rights organizations (HROs) in Argentina, Poder Ciudadano, (Citizen Power) and the Center for Legal and Social Studies (CELS),to see if they participated in the UN Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review for Argentina. [...] | 2008-02-28 09:28:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES253 | ARGENTINA: GOA DOWNBEAT ON DOHA SERVICES "SIGNALING" [...] (SBU) In a sharp response to Ref A letter from USTR Schwab on upcoming WTO Doha Development Round (DDR) services negotiations, Foreign Ministry Trade Secretary Alfredo Chiaradia argued that Schwab's linking the USG's ability to agree to modalities on Agriculture and NAMA to our confidence in an [...] | 2008-02-29 07:34:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD WTRO ECON EAGR EINV PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES269 | ARGENTINE PRESIDENT CFK ANNOUNCES HER PRIORITIES [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) opened the ordinary session of Congress March 1 with the equivalent of a State of the Union address. Speaking extemporaneously for 73 minutes, she was well organized and demonstrated an impressive mastery of statistics. [...] | 2008-03-03 19:27:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES272 | ARGENTINE PRESIDENT CFK ANNOUNCES HER PRIORITIES [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) opened the ordinary session of Congress March 1 with the equivalent of a State of the Union address. Speaking extemporaneously for 73 minutes, she was well organized and demonstrated an impressive mastery of statistics. [...] | 2008-03-04 08:21:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES273 | ARGENTINA'S SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY MINISTER WANTS [...] (U) This telegram is sensitive but unclassified, and not for Internet distribution. ------- Summary ------- 2. (SBU) Argentine Minister of Science and Technology Lino Baranao told Ambassador Wayne February 29 that he would like to develop new bilateral initiatives. Baranao hopes to wor [...] | 2008-03-04 10:12:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TSPL TSPA SCUL PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES281 | NEW ARGENTINE ATOMIC ENERGY CHIEF STILL SETTLING IN [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified, and not for Internet distribution. ------- Summary ------- 2. (SBU) Ambassador Wayne called on recently appointed Argentine Atomic Energy Commission (CNEA) President Norma Boero February 29. The ambassador thanked Boero for CNEA's cooperat [...] | 2008-03-04 18:43:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP ENRG IAEA OTRA PREL ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES307 | ARGENTINA: COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CODEL SHELBY [...] Post warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Ambassador Richard Shelby and members of his delegation to travel to Argentina for the period March 23-26, 2008. The purpose of the visit is to have bilateral discussions with senior Argentine government officials on a range of financial, ec [...] | 2008-03-10 18:13:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM PTER SNAR ECON EFIN BEXP AR |
08BUENOSAIRES310 | FORMER ARGENTINE SUPREME COURT JUSTICE SEEKS USG [...] (SBU) Polcouns met with former Argentine Supreme Court Justice Antonio Boggiano, who is seeking USG intervention with the Inter-American Human Rights Commission (IAHRC) to accelerate the handling of his case. Boggiano submitted his case to the IAHRC 16 months ago, and his petition was issued [...] | 2008-03-11 18:13:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM KJUS IAHRC OAS AR |
08BUENOSAIRES311 | ARGENTINE GOVERNOR OF SALTA CALLS ON THE AMBASSADOR [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador met with Salta Governor Juan Manuel Urtubey, Argentina's youngest governor, and discussed areas for cooperation, including promotion of trade and investment, cultural exchanges, and his upcoming trip to Miami, Washington, and New York in April. The Governor descr [...] | 2008-03-12 10:52:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON PGOV PINR SCUL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES318 | ARGENTINA: SCENESETTER FOR CODEL SHELBY [...] (SBU) On behalf of Embassy Buenos Aires, I warmly welcome your March 23-26 visit to Argentina. We are looking to build on an already strong and positive bilateral relationship with the three-month-old administration of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. Current significant areas of mut [...] | 2008-03-13 11:35:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM PTER SNAR ECON EFIN BEXP AR |
08BUENOSAIRES322 | ARGENTINA DISCUSSES SHIFT IN POLICY TOWARD ILLICIT [...] (SBU) Summary: Minister of Justice Anibal Fernandez announced this week that the GoA intends to redirect its counternarcotics efforts away from the pursuit of drug users in order to make more resources available for investigating and prosecuting drug traffickers. He argues that Argentina's co [...] | 2008-03-13 17:30:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR KJUS PGOV PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES328 | ARGENTINA BOOSTS EXPORT TAXES ON MAJOR AG COMMODITIES, [...] (SBU) Economy Minister Lousteau on March 12 announced a modification of Argentina's agricultural export tax regime under which taxes on soy and sunflower exports were substantially increased, taxes on wheat and corn nominally lowered, and all four will move for the next four years will move in [...] | 2008-03-14 13:47:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON ENRG EPET AR |
08BUENOSAIRES329 | ARGENTINA: NO TIME WASTED IN NAMING NEW VICE [...] (SBU) The Foreign Ministry, according to stories just coming out in the local press, has moved quickly to replace outgoing Vice FM Roberto Garcia-Moritan, who offered his resignation on March 11 (reftel). On March 13, Foreign Minister Taiana reportedly offered the VFM position to current Arge [...] | 2008-03-14 15:24:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES331 | Argentina's Mendoza Province: Agriculture-Based Growth and [...] (SBU) During a visit to Mendoza to attend the province's emblematic Vendimia wine harvest festival, Ambassador reviewed the province's strong economic growth -- and burgeoning inflation -- with newly elected Radical Party Mendoza City Mayor Fayad, and briefly with Governor Jaque and Provincial [...] | 2008-03-14 18:13:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AR ECON EINV BEXP PREL |
08BUENOSAIRES336 | Embassy Buenos Aires' IPR Strategic Plan: 2007 Report Card [...] (SBU) Post recently submitted our 2008 Special 301 recommendation that Argentina remain, for the 13th consecutive year, on USTR's Priority Watch List (Ref A). Given the myriad challenges and deficiencies of the Argentine IPR regime, Post in 2007 developed a strategic plan (Ref C) to integrate [...] | 2008-03-17 18:24:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES337 | ARGENTINA: CABINET CHIEF FERNANDEZ DEFENDS "PROPER AND [...] (SBU) In response to press stories asserting that U.S.-Argentine relations continued to sour, Chief of Cabinet Minister Alberto Fernandez spoke to the local media March 14 characterizing the U.S.-Argentina relationship as "proper and mature, based on mutual respect...even though both countries [...] | 2008-03-17 19:34:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES355 | Argentina: PhRMA Unexpectedly Upbeat on IP Environment [...] (SBU) Members of PhRMA's (Pharmaceutical Researchers and Manufacturers of America) Latin American task force, on a two-day visit to Argentina to meet with GoA officials, local affiliates, and pharmaceutical chambers, remain concerned about inadequate data protection for new pharmaceutical produ [...] | 2008-03-19 16:31:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV KIPR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES356 | Argentina's "Gas Plus" Natural Gas Production Incentives: [...] (SBU) GoA Planning Minister Julio De Vido has announced a series of measures designed to avert looming energy shortages in the upcoming (austral) winter heating season. These include the extension through year-end 2008 of the GoA's "Total Energy" liquid fuel subsidy program and a "Gas Plus" pla [...] | 2008-03-19 19:08:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG ECON PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES359 | ARGENTINA: WORKING WITH TIP ACTIVIST SUSANA TRIMARCO [...] (SBU) Summary. Ambassador Wayne and other Embassy officials recently met with trafficking in persons (TIP) activist Susana Trimarco. During the meeting, Trimarco was informed that the U.S. Department of Defense's Southern Command had approved a $2500 grant to assist her anti-TIP Foundation' [...] | 2008-03-20 10:36:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB KCRM KWMN PHUM PREL SNAR SMIG KJUS ASEC AR |
08BUENOSAIRES368 | ARGENTINE AGRICULTURAL SECTOR ON STRIKE [...] (SBU) Argentina's agricultural sector has organized protests -- during which no commodities have been sold -- in opposition to changes announced by Economy Minister Martin Lousteau to Argentina's agricultural export tax scheme (Ref A). Roadblocks have disrupted travel across a large part of th [...] | 2008-03-20 17:02:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON ENRG EPET AR |
08BUENOSAIRES378 | FISCAL TRANSPARENCY - ARGENTINA [...] (U) Post submits the following responses keyed to reftel questions. 2. (U) IS THE HOST COUNTRY'S BUDGET MADE PUBLIC? By law, the Government of Argentina (GOA) makes public its national budget, including revenues and expenditures. 3. (U) IF SO, THROUGH WHAT MEDIUM (E.G. PUBLICATION, INTE [...] | 2008-03-27 15:42:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN PREL PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES389 | ARGENTINA: NGO "QUIENES SOMOS?" FIGHTS AGAINST [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador Wayne recently met with representatives from the NGO "Quienes Somos?" ("Who are We?"),an organization that promotes legislation against child trafficking for illegal adoptions and lobbies the Argentine government (GOA) to assist in their efforts to uncover their t [...] | 2008-03-28 18:53:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES407 | ARGENTINA: ENERGY SECRETARY ON WIREC, GOA ENERGY [...] (SBU) Argentina will consider making a renewable energy pledge following its participation in the Washington WIREC conference, according to GoA delegation head Energy Secretary Cameron. He noted to Ambassador Argentina's recently implemented energy conservation measures and the GoA's passage o [...] | 2008-04-01 21:30:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET ECON PINR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES408 | ARGENTINE GOVERNMENT SEEKS TO SPLIT AGRICULTURAL SECTOR AND [...] (SBU) President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) and her Economy Minister Martin Lousteau announced on March 31 a basket of agricultural concessions targeting small producers. New measures include export tariff rebates, transportation subsidies, a re-opening of currently blocked wheat expo [...] | 2008-04-01 21:56:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON ENRG EPET AR |
08BUENOSAIRES415 | ARGENTINA: AGRICULTURE SECTOR SUSPENDS STRIKE [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentina's four main agricultural organizations lifted their strike on April 2 for 30 days to hold discussions with the GOA. Roadblocks have been lifted throughout the country and food supplies are arriving in Buenos Aires and other major cities. Local papers report that basic [...] | 2008-04-03 20:49:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON ETRD PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES422 | CODEL Shelby discusses financial crisis, inflation, banking [...] (SBU) During a March 25 meeting with Argentine Central Bank President Martin Redrado, a CODEL led by Senator Shelby (R-AL) congratulated the Central Bank for exceeding $50 billion in official reserves, asked about efforts to bring down inflation, and inquired about the possibility of an agreeme [...] | 2008-04-04 16:57:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN OREP AR |
08BUENOSAIRES425 | CODEL Shelby discusses bilateral relationship, TIP, and [...] (SBU) During a March 25 meeting with Justice Minister Anibal Fernandez, a delegation of four U.S. Senators and one Representative, led by Senator Shelby (R-AL),noted U.S. Congressional interest in Argentina's efforts to combat terrorism, terrorism financing, and money laundering, particularly [...] | 2008-04-04 19:14:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV GTIP PTER KTFN ECON OREP AR |
08BUENOSAIRES429 | CODEL Shelby discusses agricultural strike, global [...] (SBU) Representatives of U.S. commercial banks, investment banks, insurance companies, and rating agencies told CODEL Shelby March 25 that the GoA's interventionist tendencies has scared off foreign direct investment (FDI) -- except from Brazil -- and long-term lending from the private sector, [...] | 2008-04-07 12:12:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN OREP AR |
08BUENOSAIRES430 | CODEL SHELBY DISCUSSES AGRICULTURAL STRIKE, GLOBAL [...] (SBU) Representatives of U.S. commercial banks, investment banks, insurance companies, and rating agencies told CODEL Shelby March 25 that the GoA's interventionist tendencies has scared off foreign direct investment (FDI) -- except from Brazil -- and long-term lending from the private sector, [...] | 2008-04-07 13:50:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN OREP AR |
08BUENOSAIRES433 | ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, MARCH 17 [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period March 17 - April 4, 2008. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econoff Chris Landberg at landbergca@state.gov to [...] | 2008-04-07 18:44:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES435 | ARGENTINA: Ambassador Discusses Farm Strike with [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador met with one of the largest soybean producers in Argentina the day after the agricultural strike was suspended for 30 days. Government supporters have responded to the agricultural strike by attacking large producers and soybean production in general. The agricultur [...] | 2008-04-08 14:59:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON ETRD PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES438 | ARGENTINE HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS PROTEST NEW TIP [...] (U) Summary: A small group of anti-trafficking and feminist organizations gathered outside Argentina's Congress on April 3 to protest anti-TIP legislation currently under consideration by the Chamber of Deputies. According to NGOs, the draft bill falls short of Argentina's international obli [...] | 2008-04-08 19:05:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KWMN SMIG KCRM ELAB AR |
08BUENOSAIRES442 | Argentina: U.S. Mining Company Coeur Inaugurates New Silver [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On March 19, President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner inaugurated Idaho-based Coeur d'Alene Mines Corporation's new US$15 million silver processing mill in Santa Cruz province (where former President Nestor Kirchner was Governor before becoming President in 2003). The new mill a [...] | 2008-04-09 13:47:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EMIN EIND ETRD EINV ECON PGOV BL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES462 | ARGENTINE VALIJAGATE INVESTIGATION MOVING SLOWLY [...] (SBU) Summary: The Argentine investigation into the origin and destination of USD 800,000 seized from a Venezuelan-American passenger arriving on a chartered flight from Caracas last August continues to move forward slowly. A new judge has been assigned to oversee the money laundering and cu [...] | 2008-04-10 12:03:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KJUS PREL SNAR KCOR VZ AR |
08BUENOSAIRES465 | ARGENTINE CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES PASSES NEW TIP LEGISLATION [...] (SBU) Summary: The Argentine Chamber of Deputies passed a bill on April 9 that, for the first time, defines trafficking in persons as a federal crime. While the new legislation represents a step in the right direction, it has generated controversy among feminist and human rights organizations [...] | 2008-04-10 15:34:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KWMN SMIG KCRM ELAB AR |
08BUENOSAIRES472 | ARGENTINA: COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR FSI ECONOMICS DIVISION [...] Post warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to FSI Economics Division Professor Lynda D. Vargha for the period of April 19-26, 2008. The purpose of the trip is an orientation to Economic Section work and training requirements. 2. Embassy Buenos Aires Control Officer will be ECON Office [...] | 2008-04-14 13:29:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON AMGT AFSI AFSN ETRD AR |
08BUENOSAIRES478 | ARGENTINA: SENATE VP JUAN CARLOS ROMERO [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador met with Senate Vice President Juan Carlos Romero of the Kirchners' National Victory Front (FPV) on April 4 in his office to discuss greater bilateral legislative cooperation. Romero has occasionally been critical of GOA policy in the past and publicly disagreed wit [...] | 2008-04-14 20:39:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON ETRD PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES486 | REPORT CRITICIZES MEDIA COVERAGE OF ARGENTINE AGRICULTURAL [...] (SBU) Summary: A report released by the University of Buenos Aires's School of Social Sciences on April 5 sharply criticizes the Argentine media's coverage of the recent agricultural crisis in Argentina. The timing of the report's release, however, raised serious concerns, as it coincided wit [...] | 2008-04-15 18:22:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SCUL KPAO KDEM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES494 | ARGENTINA: AMIA ELECTIONS -- ORTHODOX BLOC WINS PLURALITY [...] (U) The Argentine Israeli Mutual Association (AMIA),held internal elections April 13. The Orthodox bloc, led by Rabbi Samuel Levin, won a plurality of votes in internal elections with 37.7% votes. AMIA, Argentina's most important and representative Jewish organization, suffered a 1994 terror [...] | 2008-04-16 23:33:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV KJUS AR |
08BUENOSAIRES495 | ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES HARVARD TRIP, DOW [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador met April 15 with the mayor of Bahia Blanca, Cristian Breitenstein, who had recently returned from a brief course of study at Harvard University. Young, dynamic and pro-American, Breitenstein identified priorities for his first full term in office, including expan [...] | 2008-04-17 15:45:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL BEXP EINV ENRG EPET ETRD SOCI AR |
08BUENOSAIRES498 | REQUEST CLARIFICATION ON FOIA REQUEST: RECORDS OF ALL [...] (SBU) Per ref A exchanges with the Department, post requests clarification of ref B Freedom of Information Act request from Mara Verheyden-Hilliard on behalf of the Venezuela Solidarity Network. The request asks for "copies of all records regarding all grants, payments, and/or funds transfers t [...] | 2008-04-17 21:21:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AINF AFIN PGOV AR VE |
08BUENOSAIRES499 | REQUEST CLARIFICATION ON FOIA REQUEST: RECORDS OF ALL [...] (SBU) Per ref A exchanges with the Department, post requests clarification of ref B Freedom of Information Act request from Mara Verheyden-Hilliard on behalf of the Venezuela Solidarity Network. The request asks for copies of all records regarding all grants, payments, and/or funds transfers to [...] | 2008-04-18 11:26:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AINF AFIN PGOV AR VE |
08BUENOSAIRES50 | Government Policies and Argentine Agriculture -- Lower [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Government policies in Argentina have reduced prices paid for goods from the most important agricultural sectors (oilseeds, grains, beef and dairy) an estimated 30 to 40 percent below world market prices. The lower prices are due to GoA intervention in the market to keep down d [...] | 2008-01-15 10:36:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ETRD PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES500 | A CONSERVATIVE MEGACONFERENCE TAKES PLACE IN LEFT-LEANING [...] (U) Summary. Argentine think tank the Liberty Foundation celebrated its twentieth anniversary March 26-28 with an international seminar drawing over 300 participants from around the region and Spain. Participants included noted author Mario Vargas Llosa as well as five ex-Presidents of Lati [...] | 2008-04-18 13:22:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINR ECON PHUM KJUS XM VZ AR |
08BUENOSAIRES501 | ARGENTINA: ANALYSIS OF TIP LAW [...] (SBU) Summary. Local NGOs and the Argentine government's National Institute for Anti-Discrimination (INADI) and the National Ombudsman's Office have criticized the anti-TIP legislation passed on April 9. Their concern is that adult trafficking victims will have to prove that they did not cons [...] | 2008-04-18 14:48:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG AR |
08BUENOSAIRES504 | ARGENTINA: SUPREME COURT OVERRULES CONGRESS AND REINSTATES [...] (U) Summary: The Argentine Supreme Court ruled 4-3 that the Congress acted illegally when it refused to seat Luis Patti, the former mayor of Escobar who is accused of committing human rights violations as a police officer during the 1976-83 military dictatorship. The decision opened the way f [...] | 2008-04-18 18:43:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KJUS PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES506 | ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, APRIL 7 - [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period April 7 - 18, 2008. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and SIPDIS charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econoff Chris Landberg at landbergca@state.gov [...] | 2008-04-18 20:33:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES516 | FORMER ARGENTINE SUPREME COURT JUSTICE SEEKING USG [...] (SBU) Polcouns tracked down former Argentine Supreme Court President Antonio Boggiano in Rome and delivered telephonically all of the points provided ref A. Polcouns noted the U.S. strongly supports the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) and the strong sense of integrity and in [...] | 2008-04-21 20:24:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KJUS PHUM KDEM IACHR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES522 | A/S SHANNON AND AMCHAM REPRESENTATIVES SHARE [...] (SBU) Summary. Assistant Secretary Shannon and Ambassador Wayne met with members of American Chamber (AmCham) Executive Committee to discuss the companies, observations and concerns about the Argentine business climate, market opportunities and challenges. AmCham representatives were unanim [...] | 2008-04-22 19:32:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON EINV EPET KPAO KCOR MARR VZ AR |
08BUENOSAIRES553 | ARGENTINA: JOHN DEERE CONCERNED ON IMPACT OF AGRICULTURAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: John Deere Company executives met Ambassador on April 1, the day before Argentina's agricultural sector strike was suspended for 30 days. While business has been good, executives indicated concern over future business due to the uncertain policy environment and expected decreas [...] | 2008-04-28 17:08:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR AR ECON EINV |
08BUENOSAIRES563 | ARGENTINE PRESIDENTQS APPROVAL RATINGS TAKE A HIT [...] (SBU) Summary: Local papers report that President Cristina Fernandez de KirchnerQs approval ratings have fallen as low as 36% because of her handling of the rural sector strike and growing concerns over inflation and insecurity. The papers do not name specific polling firms, however, because [...] | 2008-04-29 16:38:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES566 | ARGENTINA TENTATIVELY SUPPORTS U.S.- EU [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-29 22:57:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL UNGA EU AR |
08BUENOSAIRES568 | ARGENTINA: PLANNING MINISTER DE VIDO ON ARGENTNE TIES WITH U.S., VENEZUELA, AND DOMESTIC STRATEGY TO LAUNCH NEW INFRASTRUCTURE AND "SOCIAL PACT" INITIATIVES [...] (SBU) Planning Minister De Vido called A/S Shannon's visit to Buenos Aires a positive step in rebuilding bilateral relations damaged by the earlier Antonini Wilson "suitcase" scandal. He hopes the postponed visits to the United States by former President Nestor Kirchner and Chief of Cabinet Al [...] | 2008-04-30 17:22:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON PREL PGOV AR VZ BR EC EPET |
08BUENOSAIRES575 | ARGENTINA HIGH-LEVEL MEETING AGENDA [...] (SBU) Following up on WHA A/S Shannon's April 10-11 meetings with Argentine FM Taiana and their agreement in principle to hold in June in Buenos Aires a meeting under the auspices of the Special Process of Regular High-Level Bilateral Consultations, emboffs met with MFA officials April 17 to de [...] | 2008-05-02 17:26:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON PHUM ETRD SENV SCUL PTER SNAR KJUS XM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES586 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH TIERRA DEL FUEGO GOVERNOR [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador met April 29 with Tierra del Fuego Governor Fabiana Rios, Argentina's first elected female governor. Governor Rios was straightforward and cordial throughout the meeting, during which she explained her province's abysmal financial state. Rios solicited the Amba [...] | 2008-05-05 20:15:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID EFIN KDEM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES587 | MEDIA GROUPS CONCERNED AS ARGENTINE GOVERNMENT PUSHES NEW BROADCAST LAW [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-05 21:21:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAO OPRC KMDR PREL PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES592 | ARGENTINA: AGRICULTURAL NEGOTIATIONS MAKE LITTLE PROGRESS [...] (SBU) Summary: Based on limited progress in agricultural negotiations, farm sector leaders extended their truce with the GOA from May 2 to May 6, but in the absence of any additional progress it appears likely that strikes will resume in some fashion. GOA and farming leaders did not reach agre [...] | 2008-05-06 20:16:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAGR ECON ELAB ETRD AR |
08BUENOSAIRES597 | ARGENTINA: CUBA SOLIDARITY DAY [...] (SBU) Per reftel, Embassy Buenos Aires will seek to place in local media an op-ed being drafted in the Department and will use its Strategic Distribution Initiative (SDI) to circulate background materials on Cuba to approximately 3,500 local contacts. 2. (SBU) Post contacted a local NGO, the [...] | 2008-05-06 21:36:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PHUM PREL EUN CU AR |
08BUENOSAIRES599 | ARGENTINA CONSIDERING U.S. CANDIDATE FOR OAS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-06 21:52:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL OAS AR |
08BUENOSAIRES609 | AMBASSADOR'S VISIT TO LA PLATA: A UNIVERSITY TOWN AND HOME [...] (U) The Ambassador reaffirmed the USG commitment to strengthening bilateral ties with Argentina and discussed investment, drugs, and local issues during an April 30 meeting with Buenos Aires Governor Daniel Scioli and series of meetings in the provincial capital. The Ambassador visited a paris [...] | 2008-05-07 21:37:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL OEXC OTRA SCUL SENV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES615 | FARM STRIKE RESUMES IN ARGENTINA [...] (U) Farm groups announced late on May 7 that they will resume the farm strike due to the GoA's refusal to discuss making any changes to the variable export tax regime. The farm groups will continue protests for the next 8 days (through May 15),when they will meet again to discuss their next [...] | 2008-05-08 18:57:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EINV PGOV ELAB PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES62 | ANNUAL OVERSEAS SECURITY ADVISORY COUNCIL (OSAC) CRIME AND [...] (SBU) OVERALL CRIME AND SAFETY: Traffic accidents are still the primary threat to life and limb in Argentina, especially in Buenos Aires. Pedestrians should be vigilant when crossing streets and remember to look both directions, even if the street is designated one way. Traffic laws are ro [...] | 2008-01-16 17:47:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC AR |
08BUENOSAIRES622 | ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, APRIL 21 [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period April 21 - May 5, 2008. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econoff Chris Landberg at landbergca@state.gov to be [...] | 2008-05-09 18:50:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES634 | Argentina: Negative Reaction to Special 301 Priority Watch [...] (SBU) GoA interlocutors in the Foreign Ministry reacted negatively to USTR's placement of Argentina on the Special 301 Priority Watch List (PWL) for the thirteenth straight year. Econoff delivered Reftel demarche to Luis Niscovolos, Director of Multilateral Economic Negotiations in the Argenti [...] | 2008-05-12 20:54:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES636 | FOLLOWING UP WITH ARGENTINA ON U.S.-EU DECLARATION [...] (SBU) The Ambassador spoke May 9 and May 13 with Argentine MFA U/S for Multilateral Policy Raul Ricardes to urge Argentine co-sponsorship of the U.S.-EU declaration on prisoners of conscience. Ricardes asked who else was sponsoring. Per ref (A),the Ambassador noted there were 44 co-sponsors [...] | 2008-05-13 19:35:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL UN EU AR |
08BUENOSAIRES64 | Argentina International Airport: Labor Woes, Overbooking [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Flight delays and cancellations at Argentina's Ezeiza International Airport in Buenos Aires erupted into chaos on January 12, affecting 4,000-5,000 passengers. The conflict began with Aerolineas Argentinas ground workers and pilots staging slowdowns in the middle of the high sum [...] | 2008-01-17 15:15:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON PGOV ELAB AR |
08BUENOSAIRES641 | TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS: ARGENTINA SERIOUS ABOUT [...] (SBU) Summary: On the evening of May 7, Argentine Minister of Justice and Security Anibal Fernandez told visiting ICE Assistant Secretary Myers and Ambassador Wayne that he was serious about implementing Argentina's new federal law against Trafficking in Persons (TIP) and is very open to work [...] | 2008-05-14 20:07:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG KJUS ASEC AR |
08BUENOSAIRES642 | ARGENTINA AT THE MAY 16-17 EU-LATIN AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN [...] (SBU) Summary: President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) and Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana are scheduled to visit Lima May 16-17 to attend the Summit Meeting of European Union - Latin American and the Caribbean (EU - LAC). CFK appears to have a full but still-unconfirmed schedule, with GO [...] | 2008-05-14 21:43:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ENRG ETRD AR |
08BUENOSAIRES643 | ARGENTINA: SUPREME COURT JUSTICE TO VISIT U.S. TO FURTHER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Argentina4s Supreme Court President Ricardo Lorenzetti will travel to Washington and New York the week of May 19 for meetings at the American Law Institute and the Council of the Americas as part of his effort to strengthen judicial practices in Argentina. Ambassador Wayne met wi [...] | 2008-05-15 10:26:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER SNAR SCUL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES645 | ARGENTINA: AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH SENATE DEFENSE CHAIR MARIA [...] (U) Summary: The Ambassador met May 14 with National Victory Front Senator and President of the Senate Defense Commission Maria Cristina Perceval. Ambassador Wayne and Perceval discussed her recent trip to the United States to attend a conference on the role of civilians in the security sect [...] | 2008-05-15 15:06:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES646 | ARGENTINE PROSECUTORS SEEK TO TRAVEL TO THE U.S. [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentine press indicates local prosecutors are looking to travel to the U.S. to gather evidence for their investigation into the infamous Venezuelan suitcase with US$800,000 seized by GOA officials in August 2007. Articles published in La Nacion on May 11 and 12 provide new i [...] | 2008-05-15 18:26:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KJUS PREL SNAR KCOR VZ AR |
08BUENOSAIRES652 | ARGENTINA: NESTOR KIRCHNER OFFICIALLY ASSUMES PJ [...] (SBU) Summary: Former President Nestor Kirchner (NK) assumed presidency of the Justicialist (Peronist) party (PJ) officially on May 14 at a rally in the province of Buenos Aires. The event began with several emphatic and hardline speeches from party officials. NK was expected to use the occasi [...] | 2008-05-16 12:58:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES665 | ARGENTINE FARM STRIKE EXTENDED SIX MORE DAYS [...] (U) The farm groups leading the Argentine agricultural strike announced on May 15 that the strike will continue, despite a call for further dialogue from President Cristina Kirchner. The farm groups will meet again on May 21 to review the situation and decide whether to continue the strike. T [...] | 2008-05-19 10:18:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EINV PGOV ELAB PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES686 | ARGENTINE FARM STRIKE SUSPENDED [...] (SBU) Under heavy fire from other sectors and political supporters in provincial governments, Argentina's major farm groups announced May 19 that they are again suspending their ten-week strike in order to hold discussions with the GoA. This latest suspension of the on-again, off-again strike [...] | 2008-05-20 21:15:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EINV PGOV ELAB PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES687 | ARGENTINE PRESIDENT'S LOW-PROFILE PARTICIPATION IN EU - LAC [...] (SBU) Summary: President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) met (low) expectations (ref A) at the Summit Meeting of Leaders of the European Union - Latin America and the Caribbean ( EU - LAC),holding a number of bilateral meetings but dodging the press. In the Mercosur - EU bilateral, CFK [...] | 2008-05-20 21:20:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAGR ECIN ECON ENRG ETRD ETTC SOCI TSPL |
08BUENOSAIRES70 | ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, January 1-11, [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period January 1-11, 2008. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts SIPDIS tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econoff Chris Landberg at landbergca@state.gov [...] | 2008-01-18 15:58:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB AR |
08BUENOSAIRES701 | ARGENTINA: CUBA SOLIDARITY DAY [...] (SBU) Embassy Buenos Aires placed in newspaper-of-record "La Nacion" on May 21 an op-ed written by Cuban independent journalist Jorge Olivera-Castillo. 2. (SBU) Also per ref A, post sought to contact Dr. Roberto Quinones, the son of Cuban neurosurgeon Hilda Molina who, since 1994, has been [...] | 2008-05-22 20:54:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PHUM PREL EU CU AR |
08BUENOSAIRES706 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON UN SYSTEM OF INTERNAL JUSTICE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-23 19:42:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC APER PREL UNGA AR |
08BUENOSAIRES708 | ARGENTINA: SCENESETTER FOR CODEL DODD (BUENOS [...] (U) This telegram is sensitive but unclassified, and not for Internet distribution. ------------ Introduction ------------ 2. (SBU) On behalf of Embassy Buenos Aires, I warmly welcome your May 28-30 visit to Argentina. We are looking to build on an already positive bilateral relationsh [...] | 2008-05-23 20:06:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM PTER SNAR ECON EFIN BEXP AR |
08BUENOSAIRES711 | ARGENTINE FARM TALKS FALTER (AGAIN) - ALL EYES ON COMPETING [...] (SBU) The first meeting between the GoA and leaders of the major farm groups following suspension of the on-again, off-again farm strike on May 21 quickly broke down after the GoA negotiators reportedly refused to address the controversial variable export tax until after the large demonstration [...] | 2008-05-23 20:28:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EINV PGOV ELAB PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES715 | ARGENTINA: EMBASSY ADVOCATES FOR U.S. INTERESTS ON NEW [...] Summary: In recognition of the important U.S. commercial interests that could potentially be affected by the new broadcast bill that the GOA is drafting for submission to Congress in the near future, the Embassy arranged a meeting for the major U.S. broadcasters and content producers operatin [...] | 2008-05-23 21:03:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON OVIP PREL BEXP AR |
08BUENOSAIRES725 | ARGENTINE CENTRAL BANK PRESIDENT COMMENTS ON [...] (SBU) Ambassador informed Argentine Central Bank (BCRA) President Martin Redrado May 19 that Treasury's Office of Technical Assistance had nearly completed a technical assistance agreement on terrorism finance for the BCRA and GOA regulatory agencies. The question now is how to fund it, and R [...] | 2008-05-28 12:54:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTFN EFIN PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES729 | SEEKING ARGENTINE SUPPORT FOR IOM CANDIDATE AMB. [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-28 17:05:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PREF SMIG IOM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES733 | ARGENTINE FARMERS RESUME STRIKE - GRAINS AND BEEF TARGETED [...] (SBU) Argentine farm groups are back on strike, at least until June 2, and will block marketing of grains and oilseeds for exports, as well as sales of cattle for slaughter. The farm groups have called for protestors on the highways to allow free movement of all other transport, although there [...] | 2008-05-28 22:45:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EINV PGOV ELAB PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES737 | ARGENTINA: EMBASSY ADVOCATES FOR U.S. INTERESTS ON NEW [...] Summary: In recognition of the important U.S. commercial interests that could potentially be affected by the new broadcast bill that the GOA is drafting for submission to Congress in the near future, the Embassy arranged a meeting for the major U.S. broadcasters and content producers operatin [...] | 2008-05-29 13:52:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON OVIP PREL BEXP AR |
08BUENOSAIRES751 | Argentina: Ambassador Promotes NGOs, U.S. Commercial [...] (SBU) Ambassador met with political, business and military leaders, NGOs, media, and Fulbright scholars during a May 22-23, 2008, visit to Argentina's southwestern province of Neuquen. Ambassador discussed the current political situation and U.S. corporate social responsibility efforts with Gov [...] | 2008-05-30 20:08:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV ENRG KPAO BEXP PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES753 | ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, MAY 6 - [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period May 6 - 23, 2008. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econoff Chris Landberg at landbergca@state.gov to be inclu [...] | 2008-05-30 21:25:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES757 | High Commodity Prices Boost Argentina's Early 2008 Trade in [...] (U) Argentine goods exports were up 40% year-on-year in the first four months of 2008, and imports increased by 45%, according to a report released by GoA statistics agency INDEC on May 26. Total exports were USD 21.6 billion, and imports were USD 17.8 billion, leaving a trade surplus of $3.8 [...] | 2008-06-02 15:33:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EAGR EPET ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES760 | ARGENTINA: CODEL DODD DISCUSSES REGION WITH [...] (U) Summary: The Ambassador hosted a lunch with ambassadors and private sector employees in honor of Senator Christopher Dodd and Representative Xavier Becerra. The group discussed the region's efforts at integration, pointing to the benefits of closer relations that have developed and the c [...] | 2008-06-03 18:51:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ETRD SNAR MASS EAID EC |
08BUENOSAIRES764 | CODEL DODD MEETS ARGENTINE FM TAIANA [...] (SBU) Summary: Senator Chris Dodd and Representative Xavier Becerra and the Ambassador called on Argentine FM Taiana May 29. On Bolivia, Taiana expressed his worry about the potential for violent conflict despite what he saw as Evo Morales's moderating influence on his radical MAS support bas [...] | 2008-06-03 20:04:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON AR BL |
08BUENOSAIRES765 | CODEL DODD MEETING WITH NGOS HIGHLIGHTS CIVIL SOCIETY [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive information - not for internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Ambassador Wayne hosted Senator Christopher Dodd (D - CT) and Congressman Xavier Becerra (D - CA) at an event featuring key individuals and organizations representing Argentine civil society. The group d [...] | 2008-06-03 20:16:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG PGOV PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES766 | ARGENTINE FARMERS' STRIKE CONTINUES FOR ANOTHER WEEK [...] (SBU) The leadership of Argentina's four main agricultural organizations decided late on June 2 to prolong their third strike against the GOA for another full week, at least until Monday, June 9. The farmer groups will continue the boycott on grain sales and embargo of grain exports, includin [...] | 2008-06-03 20:56:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EINV PGOV ELAB PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES767 | ARGENTINA: LATEST IAEA REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-03 22:00:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP MNUC PARM IR IAEA |
08BUENOSAIRES768 | ARGENTINA ON ZIMBABWE ELECTIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-03 22:28:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL OAS AR ZI |
08BUENOSAIRES781 | Codel Dodd Meeting with Argentine President Fernandez de [...] (SBU) President Fernandez de Kircher met with Codel Dodd for over an hour May 29. On Bolivia, she called for a solution which respected democratic institutions and avoided "Balkanization." More broadly in Latin America, the President said she hoped for increasing regional integration in the [...] | 2008-06-06 11:38:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG PGOV PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES782 | ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, MAY 26 - [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period May 26 - June 4, 2008. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econoff Chris Landberg at landbergca@state.gov to be i [...] | 2008-06-06 15:40:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES785 | ARGENTINA: SCHEDULING THE NEXT POL/MIL BILATERAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Regular bilateral Pol/Mil meetings have been an integral part of managing and advancing our broad security relationship with Argentina, from the classic Pol/Mil issues to counterterrorism and non-proliferation. The GoA hosted the last Pol/Mil bilaterals in December 2006. It is [...] | 2008-06-06 20:13:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR PARM PREL PGOV PTER AR |
08BUENOSAIRES786 | ARGENTINA: FORCED AND CHILD LABOR IN GARMENT INDUSTRY [...] (SBU) Summary: Based on interviews with GOA officials, International Labor Organization representatives, and union and NGO leaders, as well as a review of media articles, some companies in Argentina's apparel industry appear to use forced and child labor in their production chain. It is diffi [...] | 2008-06-06 20:14:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ELAB PHUM PGOV ECIN ECON SOCI AR |
08BUENOSAIRES790 | Argentina-China Trade Update: Advantage, China [...] (SBU) After declining rapidly over the last few years, Argentina's bilateral trade surplus with China fell into deficit in early 2008. This is due mainly to increased imports, which have risen more quickly from China than the rest of the world, whereas the increase in exports to China is simil [...] | 2008-06-09 14:13:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV AR CH |
08BUENOSAIRES797 | ARGENTINA ANNOUNCES SOCIAL INVESTMENTS FROM [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOA announced June 9 that it will direct the marginal proceeds from its March 11 increase in soy export taxes to health (60%),housing (20%) and rural roads (20%). Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) followed the announcement with a 25-minute speech arg [...] | 2008-06-11 14:30:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EFIN EAGR PHUM EAID AR |
08BUENOSAIRES800 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH ARGENTINE OPPOSITION SENATOR [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador met June 6 with Argentine Senator Maria Eugenia Estenssoro, prominent leader of the opposition Civic Coalition (CC). Estenssoro offered her critical view of how the GOA was managing the ongoing agricultural strike. In connection with congressional consideration [...] | 2008-06-11 20:20:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ELAB PHUM PGOV ECIN ECON SOCI AR |
08BUENOSAIRES802 | Argentine Economy Minister to Senator Dodd: The Kirchner [...] (SBU) New Economy Minister Carlos Fernandez highlighted the Argentine economy's strong recovery since 2002 and continuing strength during a May 29 meeting with visiting U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd and Representative Xavier Becerra. The Minister attributed the fast growth since 2003 to the "K [...] | 2008-06-12 10:21:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB OREP AR |
08BUENOSAIRES81 | ARGENTINA-CHINA TRADE UPDATE: IMPORTS NOT CROWDING OUT [...] (SBU) In response to a surge in goods imports from China, the GoA imposed a series of "non-discriminatory" non-tariff trade restrictions implicitly aimed at Chinese goods seen as crowding out domestic production. Argentina's trade surplus with China peaked in 2003 at $1.8 billion, but may have [...] | 2008-01-24 17:32:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV AR CH |
08BUENOSAIRES816 | ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, JUNE 6 - [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period June 6 - 13, 2008. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econoff Chris Landberg at landbergca@state.gov to be incl [...] | 2008-06-13 20:57:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES817 | ARGENTINA SEEKING USG SUPPORT FOR THE CANDIDACY OF SALVIOLI [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-13 21:18:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PGOV UNHCR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES82 | Telecom and ATSC in Argentina: The Visit of Ambassador [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ambassador David Gross, U.S. Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy, and Jamie Estrada, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Manufacturing and Services for the Department of Commerce, visited Argentina on January 17. The visitors were unable to meet with Go [...] | 2008-01-24 17:59:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL EINT ECPS OVIP TSPL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES822 | Argentina: Important Issues at Stake in Proposed New Media [...] (SBU) Summary: Gabriel Mariotto, Director of Argentina's FCC equivalent agency COMFER, will be in Washington on June 19-20 to meet with FCC officials, Congressional leaders, and media associations. The Government of Argentina is in the final stages of drafting an ambitious new federal broadca [...] | 2008-06-17 16:57:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV PREL ECPS KPAO OVIP KMDR PHUM TSPL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES823 | ARGENTINE MINISTER OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY [...] This telegram is sensitive but unclassified, and not for Internet distribution. ------- Summary ------- 2. (SBU) Argentine Minister of Science and Technology Lino Baranao (Ba-ran-yow) will visit Washington July 7-9, and he hopes to meet with you during that trip. I believe you would [...] | 2008-06-17 17:28:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TSPL TSPA PREL SENV SCUL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES828 | Argentina: Economic Impact of Farming Crisis [...] (SBU) Argentine consumer confidence has declined markedly due to economic disruptions linked to the 100-day long agricultural sector strike. A just released measure of popular sentiment on the general economic situation, employment, family income and purchasing power was down for the fifth stra [...] | 2008-06-17 21:50:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR ETRD EINV PGOV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES829 | ROUND 4 - ARGENTINE FARM STRIKE RESUMES [...] (SBU) Argentina experienced an intense 3-day weekend of protests and counter demonstrations after the government sent federal highway and border police (gendarmerie) to clear a roadblock in Gualeguaychu on June 14, on the main highway to Brazil and Uruguay, and temporarily arrested prominent fa [...] | 2008-06-17 21:50:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EINV PGOV ELAB PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES83 | ARGENTINA'S PRESIDENT ENJOYING A HONEYMOON WITH THE PUBLIC [...] (SBU) Summary. A leading Argentine polling firm (Poliarquia) found that President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner's (CFK) standing rose by five points since she took office December 10, with 56% of those polled rating her favorably, despite foreign policy missteps in early weeks. This is far b [...] | 2008-01-25 11:55:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES836 | "Argentinization:" Government Promotes Greater Local [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. A decade after its great privatization wave, and followed by the 2001/02 economic collapse, Argentina has undergone a paradigm shift, with the Government of Argentina (GOA) promoting a heavy hand in the economy. While this trend has been much in the news over the GOA's price sta [...] | 2008-06-18 19:48:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV ETRD PGOV PREL ENRG AR |
08BUENOSAIRES838 | GOVERNOR OF ALABAMA VISITS ARGENTINA [...] On June 4-6, 2008, Ambassador welcomed a 43-member Alabama Trade Mission led by Governor Bob Riley and organized by the Embassy's Commercial Section. The purpose of the mission was to increase awareness and promote future business opportunities between the State of Alabama and Argentina. Duri [...] | 2008-06-19 12:13:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP BEXP AR |
08BUENOSAIRES848 | ARGENTINA: KIRCHNERS' POLL NUMBERS PLUMMET IN WAKE [...] (SBU) The 100 day farm crisis has had a dramatic and negative effect on President Fernandez de Kirchner's (CFK) poll numbers, according to results published today by leading polling firm Poliarquia. CFK's positive image sits at 20 percent, a six percentage point drop over the previous month, [...] | 2008-06-20 20:38:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EAGR EFIN ETRD AR |
08BUENOSAIRES849 | FedEx/UPS Discuss Challenges with Truckers Union [...] (SBU) Ambassador met on June 6 with executives from UPS and FedEx to discuss challenges they face with the local Truckers Union. FedEx and UPS were recently forced to sign a 20 percent salary increase with this union, the second sizable increase in a matter of three months. The companies highl [...] | 2008-06-23 10:01:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON ELAB EAIR OVIP BEXP AR |
08BUENOSAIRES857 | Argentina: San Juan Welcomes Ambassador [...] During Ambassador's June 12 - 13 visit to San Juan, provincial authorities emphasized their desire to work with U.S. interests to explore mutually beneficial relationships. Ambassador had extensive meetings with San Juan Governor Jose Luis Gioja, San Juan Vice-Governor Dr. Jose Ruben U$ac, an [...] | 2008-06-23 20:06:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES858 | More than Malbec: Ambassador Donates Scholarships and [...] Ambassador visited the Binational Center in Mendoza and presented certificates to 21 Mendoza high school students who have received scholarships to study English as part of the Embassy's Sarmiento-Mann scholarship program. Ambassador then met with influential Mendoza Governor Celso Jaque and [...] | 2008-06-23 20:07:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES86 | ARGENTINA: UPDATE ON SKANSKA CORRUPTION CASE [...] (SBU) Summary. Judicial investigations continue into alleged bribery and tax evasion by the local affiliate of Swedish construction multinational Skanska in the expansion of Argentina's northern and southern natural gas pipelines. The courts appear to be approaching the indictment phase, desp [...] | 2008-01-25 14:00:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCOR EPET EINV ASEC SNAR OECD AR |
08BUENOSAIRES860 | ARGENTINE FARM STRIKE SUSPENDED, GRAIN TRADE RESUMES [...] (SBU) Summary: Agricultural producers formally suspended the farm strike, and trucks carrying grains, oilseeds, and cattle started to arrive at processing plants and export terminals over the weekend. Producers and truckers have lifted most of the roadblocks around the country and, unlike the [...] | 2008-06-23 22:21:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EINV PGOV ELAB PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES866 | ARGENTINA: CFK RESUMES TALKS WITH FARMERS [...] (SBU) Summary. President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) and representatives of the four main agricultural associations who have led protests against variable export taxes on agricultural products met on June 23, following 71 days of hostile public exchanges since their last meeting on Ap [...] | 2008-06-24 21:59:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAGR ECON AR |
08BUENOSAIRES881 | ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, JUNE 16 - [...] (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and Financial Review covering the period June 16 - 20, 2008. The unclassified email version of this report includes tables and charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econoff Chris Landberg at landbergca@state.gov to be inc [...] | 2008-06-25 19:39:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR |
08BUENOSAIRES910 | ARGENTINE CONGRESS DEBATES AG EXPORT TAX [...] (SBU) Summary: The Kirchner government's majority in the Argentine Congress appears to be fracturing over the GOA's request for approval of the variable export tax regime for grains and oilseeds. The GOA continues to insist that the Congress approve the export tax regime currently in place wit [...] | 2008-07-01 19:35:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EINV PGOV ELAB PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES931 | ARGENTINA: HIGHLIGHTS OF JULY 1-2 MERCOSUR SUMMIT [...] (SBU) Summary and Introduction: Mercosur and associated member country presidents meeting at the July 1-2 Mercosur summit in Tucuman, Argentina, strongly condemned the EU's toughened immigration policies and declared their intention to fight their enforcement. President Cristina Fernandez de [...] | 2008-07-03 21:29:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES932 | ARGENTINE REACTION TO RESCUE OF FARC HOSTAGES IN COLOMBIA [...] (U) Summary: Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner (CFK) welcomed the news of the July 2 rescue of 15 FARC hostages. Although her initial public reaction July 2 stopped short of praising Uribe for the GOC's successful operation, the following day the GOA announced she had called U [...] | 2008-07-03 21:55:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES943 | ARGENTINE AG EXPORT TAX APPROVED BY LOWER HOUSE OF CONGRESS [...] (SBU) Summary: By a vote of 129 to 122, the Fernandez de Kirchner government on July 5 won a closely fought battle in the Chamber of Deputies (Lower House) of the Congress to approve the controversial variable export tax regime for grains and oilseeds. The legislative battle now shifts to the [...] | 2008-07-08 17:59:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EINV PGOV ELAB PHUM AR |
08BUENOSAIRES946 | ARGENTINA: JUDGE RULES LACK OF EVIDENCE AGAINST [...] (SBU) Argentine Judge Daniel Petrone determined on 3 July that there is not enough evidence to prosecute or to acquit former Argentine government official Claudio Uberti in the "Valijagate" investigation, involving the infamous Venezuelan suitcase carrying USD 800,000 and seized by Argentine cu [...] | 2008-07-08 20:12:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCOR KJUS PGOV PREL SNAR VZ AR |
08BUENOSAIRES95 | BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECK ON [...] (SBU) Per Reftel request, post carried out a pre-license check on Aerospacio SRL, based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on January 9. It is Post's opinion that the company will be a responsible recipient of United States Munitions List items. 2. (SBU) A site visit by Blue Lantern Officer and in [...] | 2008-01-29 11:23:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC KOMC AR |
08BUENOSAIRES961 | U.S. Fourth Fleet Stirs Concern in Argentina [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentine government officials expressed serious concern about the U.S. Fourth Fleet last week, but were reassured by Assistant Secretary Shannon and other U.S. messages. GoA concern had been fed by assertions made by President Chavez at the Mercosur Summit held June 30-July 1 i [...] | 2008-07-14 19:18:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR PREL KPAO AR |
08BUENOSAIRES962 | Doha update -- Argentina will hang tough [...] (SBU) Summary: Argentina is not ready to show much flexibility on the WTO texts this week in meetings with Mercosur and at the upcoming July 21-26 Geneva Ministerial, according to Argentina's Foreign Minister and a senior Foreign Ministry trade official. End Summary ------------------------ [...] | 2008-07-14 19:20:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EAGR ECON MARR PREL AR |
08BUENOSAIRES976 | Argentina: Economy Minister Fernandez on Economic Impact of [...] (SBU) GoA Economy Minister Fernandez, in a meeting with WHA Assistant Secretary Shannon, Treasury DAS O'Neill, and Ambassador, emphasized the "legitimate right" of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner to unilaterally impose variable export tariffs on agricultural commodities, but argued tha [...] | 2008-07-17 15:09:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD PREL EINV AR |
08BUENOSAIRES989 | Argentina Shows No Flexibility on Latest Doha NAMA Text [...] (SBU) Public comments by Foreign Minister Jorge Taiana, as well as press reports, indicate a growing divide between MERCOSUR members Argentina and Brazil over their respective WTO Doha Development Round (DDR) negotiating positions, despite a July 14 meeting in Rio de Janeiro of MERCOSUR Foreign [...] | 2008-07-18 21:26:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD WTRO AR |
08BUENOSAIRES991 | GoA Repeals Export Tax Resolution, Ending Farm Crisis [...] (SBU) Late July 18, the GoA repealed the March 11 decree that set off the 129-day battle with the rural sector by imposing sliding scale export taxes on grains and oilseeds exports. This decision, which follows the Argentine Senate's July 17 failure to pass the resolution into law, returns exp [...] | 2008-07-18 22:24:00 | Embassy Buenos Aires | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EFIN ETRD PREL PGOV AR |
08BUJUMBURA176 | BACK TO SQUARE ONE IN FNL NEGOTIATIONS [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Political Directorate (PD) (Executive Representative to the Secretary General of the United Nation Youssef Mahmoud, French Ambassador Joel Louvet, South African Ambassador Mdu Lembede, and Tanzanian Ambassador Francis Mdowla) informed the diplomatic corps in an April 4 briefi [...] | 2008-04-04 12:51:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL BY |
08BUJUMBURA177 | EX-PARTY STRONGMAN RADJABU GETS 13 YEAR SENTENCE [...] (U) In an April 3 decision, the Supreme Court sentenced former party president of the ruling National Council for the Defense of Democracy - Forces for the Defense of Democracy (CNDD-FDD) Hussein Radjabu to 13 years in prison for intent to disrupt state security through armed rebellion and in [...] | 2008-04-04 12:52:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PINR PREL BY |
08BUJUMBURA244 | 1ST VP SAYS PEACE WITH FNL CRITICAL FIRST STEP [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Following a request from Ambassador Moller for a meeting, First Vice-President Dr. Yves Sahinguvu told the Ambassador on May 8th that: -- the Government of Tanzania (GOT) is the key to solving the PALIPEHUTU-FNL (FNL) problem; -- the Government of Burundi (GOB) is ready to gra [...] | 2008-05-15 05:57:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL BY |
08BUJUMBURA249 | TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION: SLOW PROGRESS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During comprehensive consultations with Representatives from the Ministry of Justice, the Steering Committee of the Transitional Justice Mechanism, civil society, the international community and NGO organizations April 16-18, Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Clint Williamson [...] | 2008-05-15 09:17:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL BY |
08BUJUMBURA253 | WISE MAN'S COUNCIL SAYS DON'T MISS GOLDEN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a May 9 meeting with Ambassador Moller, executive members of the Bashingatahe, Burundi's traditional wise men, advised that: -- the Government of Burundi (GOB) is positioned to take advantage of the PALIPEHUTU-FNL's (FNL) intent to return to the negotiating table to conclu [...] | 2008-05-15 15:04:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL BY |
08BUJUMBURA268 | TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION: SLOW PROGRESS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During comprehensive consultations with Representatives from the Ministry of Justice, the Steering Committee of the Transitional Justice Mechanism, civil society, the international community and NGO organizations April 16-18, Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Clint Williamson [...] | 2008-05-20 15:46:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL BY |
08BUJUMBURA270 | AGMIN REP WELCOMES GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY [...] (SBU) In a meeting with EconOff May 20, Pegase Banyankiye of the Burundian Ministry of Agriculture's Directorate for Mobilization and Self-Development said that he welcomed the Global Food Security Initiative and agreed with the basic precepts it embodies (reftel). Burundi does not, nor does i [...] | 2008-05-21 10:03:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EAGR EAID ECON TBI BY |
08BUJUMBURA271 | CIVIL AVIATION DIRECTOR RECEPTIVE TO U.S. VIEWS ON [...] (SBU) In a meeting with EconOff May 20, Ambassador Joseph Bangurambona, Director of Burundi's civil aviation authority, the National Aeronautic Service, expressed his support for key U.S. positions to be raised at the International Civil Aviation Organization's (ICAO's) Nineteenth Aviation Sec [...] | 2008-05-21 10:04:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON ETRD PREL PTER BY |
08BUJUMBURA298 | FOMIN: BURUNDI TRYING TO REVIVE REGIONAL ECONOMIC [...] (SBU) Summary: In a June 4 meeting with the Ambassador and Director of Central African Affairs Karl Wycoff, Burundian Minister of External Relations Antoinette Batumbwira: - requested that the U.S. help persuade the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to return to active participation [...] | 2008-06-05 15:11:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV PINR PREL BY |
08BUJUMBURA357 | UNIVERSAL POSTAL UNION (UPU) CONGRESS: MINISTRY OF [...] (SBU) In a July 15 meeting with PolOff, the Chief of Cabinet for the Ministry of Transport, Posts and Telecommunications, Dieudonne Karasavye confirmed that Minister Philippe Njoni will head the Burundian delegation to to the Universal Postal Union (UPU) in Geneva and stated that he would di [...] | 2008-07-16 15:20:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC ECON ETRD WTRO BY |
08BUJUMBURA396 | SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF CODEL PAYNE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Your visit to Burundi comes as the country grapples with the many challenges facing nascent democracies. The last remaining rebel group, the PALIPEHUTU-FNL, signed a cessation of hostilities agreement in May following several weeks of violent attacks that left over 100 people d [...] | 2008-07-31 19:39:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP MARR PGOV PREF PREL BY |
08BUJUMBURA573 | BURUNDI TO RESPECT DESIGNATION OF IRANIAN [...] (SBU) In a meeting November 7 with PolOff concerning the designation of the Export Development Bank of Iran (EDBI) and its affiliates under E.O. 13382 with Director General of International Organizations in the Ministry of External Relations Ambassador Adolphe Nahayo. Ambassador Nahayo, said [...] | 2008-11-11 11:54:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN IR KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PINR PREL BY |
08BUJUMBURA574 | GOB WILL CONTINUE UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE SUPPORT [...] (SBU) In a meeting November 7 with PolOff, Director General of International Organizations in the Ministry of External Relations Adolphe Nahayo confirmed that Burundi will continue to vote against any no-action motions and in favor of resolutions concerning Iran, Burma and the DPRK expected [...] | 2008-11-11 11:57:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINR BY |
08BUJUMBURA585 | UNGA IRAN RESOLUTION: BURUNDI AGAINST NO-ACTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-20 15:02:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL UN IR BY |
08BUJUMBURA587 | GOB ELIMINATES POLITICAL MEETING RESTRICTIONS [...] (SBU) In a November 18 reversal, Minister of the Interior Venant Kamana canceled an October 6 Ministerial Ordinance that severely restricted the right of political parties to meet freely (ref A). The new ordinance requires political parties to simply inform local authorities three days in ad [...] | 2008-11-24 15:33:00 | Embassy Bujumbura | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV BY |
08CAIRO1021 | EGYPTIAN CANDIDATE FOR CHAIR OF THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY [...] (SBU) In a May 8 meeting, Finance Minister Boutros Ghali informed the Ambassador of his candidacy for Chair of the IMF's Monetary and Financial Committee and asked for U.S. support. The Ambassador told the Minister she was not the decision maker on this, but congratulated him for throwing in h [...] | 2008-05-21 07:47:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EG |
08CAIRO1036 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH FINANCE MINISTER YOUSSEF [...] (SBU) Summary: In an upbeat May 15 introductory courtesy call with Finance Minster Youssef Boutros Ghali (YBG),the Ambassador discussed local perceptions of economic reform, Egyptian assistance to Iraq and the Iraq Compact meeting in Stockholm, the Egyptian debt relief proposal, the Minister's [...] | 2008-05-21 15:19:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EPET PGOV EG |
08CAIRO1048 | EGYPTIAN QIZ EXPORTS LEVEL OFF IN FIRST QUARTER [...] (U) SUMMARY: Egyptian exports to the United States under the Qualified Industrial Zone (QIZ) agreement leveled off in the first quarter of 2008 to $169 million USD. GOE and Government of Israel trade officials continued to push for QIZ expansion into Upper Egypt at the quarterly QIZ meeting [...] | 2008-05-22 14:17:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD IS EG |
08CAIRO1061 | DEMARCHE REQUEST: U.S. POSITION ON THE RETENTION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-27 08:12:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA PARM TBIO EG |
08CAIRO1066 | EGYPT EXTENDS EMERGENCY LAW [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-27 11:46:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER EG |
08CAIRO1086 | EGYPT UNLIKELY TO MOVE ENGINEERS FROM UNMIS TO [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-28 11:27:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPKO PREL UNSC EG SU |
08CAIRO1101 | CODEL Gutierrez meets Egyptian Central Bank Governor [...] (U) Summary: Codel Gutierrez met with Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) Governor Farouk el Okdah on May 25 for a wide ranging, substantive conversation. Key themes raised were on banking sector reform, high commodity prices, mortgage sector development, and unemployment. End Summary. 2. (U) El [...] | 2008-05-29 13:59:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EG |
08CAIRO1102 | EGYPTIANS OPEN TO BIOTECH, CRITICIZE BIOFUELS, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ministry of Trade and Ministry of Agriculture officials defended the GOE ban on rice exports, criticized USG support of biofuels, and noted the GOE's recent approval of a genetically modified variety of corn as evidence of Egypt's openness to agricultural biotechnology in respo [...] | 2008-05-29 14:20:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EAGR EG |
08CAIRO1111 | UPPER EGYPT SECTARIAN STRIFE APPEARS UNRELATED TO CAIRO [...] (U) Summary: Tensions between Coptic and Muslim residents of the Upper Egyptian village of Malawi continue to simmer after a land dispute between a monastery and its neighbors turned violent on May 31, leading to fears of sectarian strife during the June 4 celebrations of the Virgin Mary Moulid [...] | 2008-06-02 09:59:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI PHUM KIRF EG |
08CAIRO1126 | EGYPT: COUNTRY TEAM ASSESSMENT FOR THE PROCUREMENT OF TWO [...] (SBU) Description. In REF B, the GOE submitted a request to procure two UH-60M Black Hawk Helicopters to augment the Egyptian Air Force (EAF) Search and Rescue capability. This capability will directly support the GOE National Crisis Response Plan. The primary role of these designated SAR ai [...] | 2008-06-04 07:09:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MASS MARR EG |
08CAIRO1128 | EGYPT: COUNTRY TEAM ASSESSMENT FOR THE PROCUREMENT OF TWO [...] (SBU) Description. In REF A, the GOE submitted a request to procure two UH-60M Black Hawk Helicopters to support their Border Security Mission. These designated aircraft will perform tasks associated with border security and surveillance. These helicopters will support an existing military f [...] | 2008-06-04 09:40:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MASS MARR EG |
08CAIRO1132 | IMPACT OF NEW REVENUE MEASURES [...] (U) The revenue generating measures announced by the GOE on May 5 (reftel) continue to attract attention in the local media. Press reports indicate that the measures are designed to raise about LE 14 billion ($2.6 billion) annually, or about 5% of annual revenues. The Ministry of Finance (MO [...] | 2008-06-05 05:16:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EFIN EINV EG |
08CAIRO1177 | PROTESTERS CLASH WITH POLICE OVER FLOUR SUBSIDIES [...] (U) Summary: The northern Egyptian coastal town of Burg al-Burullus was the site of a large June 7 impromptu protest against the provincial governor's recent decision to halt the distribution of subsidized flour in favor of subsidized bread distribution. Police sent to disperse the demonstrato [...] | 2008-06-09 12:30:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SOCI ECON EG |
08CAIRO1188 | POVERTY, LEGAL LOOPHOLE FUEL EGYPTIAN ORGAN TRADE [...] (SBU) Summary: Recent years have seen increased Egyptian and international media reports of both the consensual sale and theft of human organs in Egypt, earning the country a spot on the World Health Organization's 2007 list of the world's top five organ trafficking "hotspots". Rising poverty [...] | 2008-06-10 12:21:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KCRM EG |
08CAIRO1192 | EGYPT CRIMINALIZES TRAFFICKING OF CHILDREN AND FGM [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 7, Egypt's upper house of parliament approved amendments to Egypt's Child Protection Law that criminalize and stipulate severe punishments for trafficking of children and for female genital mutilation (FGM). The new legislation represents Egypt's first legal framework to [...] | 2008-06-10 13:37:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SOCI KCRM KWMN EG |
08CAIRO1193 | MORE SECTARIAN TENSIONS IN UPPER EGYPT [...] (SBU) Summary: The killing of a young Copt on June 6 sparked a demonstration of a few hundred Christians in the town of Dafesh, which lies 140 kilometers from the site of last week's altercations between Copts and Muslims over the Abu Sana monastery (reftel). Church sources have been quick to [...] | 2008-06-10 13:46:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI PHUM KIRF EG |
08CAIRO1212 | EGYPT WOULD CONSIDER HOSTING KOSOVAR DELEGATION [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-12 12:38:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV UNMIK EG KV YI |
08CAIRO1213 | EGYPT ACCEPTS REQUEST TO REPLACE INFANTRY WITH [...] (SBU) MFA Counselor for UN Affairs Yasser Naggar told us on June 12 that, later that same day, the MFA would instruct its delegation in New York to accept the UN DPKO's request to replace one of four companies in Egypt's second infantry battalion for the UN/AU Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) with an [...] | 2008-06-12 12:42:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPKO UNSC EG SU |
08CAIRO1231 | EGYPT ALLEGEDLY DEPORTS POSSIBLE ERITREAN [...] (SBU) Summary: While we cannot confirm Amnesty International allegations that Egypt has deported hundreds of Eritreans seeking refuge in Egypt, our UNHCR contacts say that convincing circumstantial evidence shows that Egypt deported at least some Eritreans to either Eritrea or Sudan between Ju [...] | 2008-06-15 14:37:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PREL EG ER |
08CAIRO1255 | IFES ENGAGEMENT WITH EGYPT'S SUPREME ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) On June 16, the Egypt country director for the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) debriefed us on a June 2-7 trip to Poland that IFES, in coordination with the Al Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies, arranged for three senior members of Egypt's Supreme Ele [...] | 2008-06-18 10:10:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM PO EG |
08CAIRO1274 | PARLIAMENT PASSES NEW REAL ESTATE TAX LAW [...] (U) Summary: Egypt's parliament approved a new real estate tax law on June 16 that will significantly increase the nation-wide property tax base. The real estate tax law previously in effect limited property taxation to residential and commercial property in the Cairo metropolitan area. The [...] | 2008-06-19 13:37:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV EG |
08CAIRO1276 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: CONVEYING THE UPDATED P5+1 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-19 14:58:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM MNUC KNNP IR EG |
08CAIRO1335 | MOODY'S DOWNGRADES EGYPT [...] (U) Moody's Investors Service downgraded its ratings of several categories of Egypt's debt on June 23. In particular, Moody's changed the outlook on Egypt's Ba1 foreign currency government bond from stable to negative and it changed the local currency bond rating from Baa3 to Ba1 while preser [...] | 2008-06-26 13:14:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EFIN EG |
08CAIRO1351 | PARLIAMENT PASSES WEAKENED AMENDMENTS TO THE COMPETITION [...] (U) The People's Assembly recently passed a modified version of amendments to the competition law proposed by the Egyptian Competition Authority (ECA) to make the law more effective. ECA proposed an obligatory fine of 10% of annual profits for companies found guilty of monopolistic practices. [...] | 2008-06-29 13:00:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EFIN EG |
08CAIRO1352 | AGRIUM INVESTMENT DISPUTE COULD UNDERMINE EGYPT'S IMPROVED [...] (U) A campaign against construction of a urea fertilizer plant in the Port of Damietta industrial zone threatens to derail much of the GOE's success in improving Egypt's image as a safe, secure destination for foreign investment. EAgrium, a consortium of Canada's Agrium (60%),various GOE min [...] | 2008-06-29 14:31:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV SENV PGOV EG |
08CAIRO1359 | EGYPT'S ENERGY STRATEGY, AND CONCERN OVER GAS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Determined to satisfy rapid growth in domestic demand and position Egypt as a regional hub for energy distribution, the GOE recently adopted a fifteen year national energy strategy, according to Ibrahim Saleh, special advisor to Finance Minister Yousef Boutros-Ghali and former [...] | 2008-06-30 13:23:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EPET PGOV EG IS |
08CAIRO1370 | BANQUE DU CAIRE PRIVATIZATION POSTPONED [...] (U) The GOE postponed indefinitely the sale of state-owned Banque du Caire on June 25, after the highest bid received did not meet the minimum asking price of $1.6 billion for 67% of the bank's shares. A GOE evaluation committee set the minimum price based on the $1.6 billion that Italy's San [...] | 2008-07-01 13:24:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV EG |
08CAIRO1388 | EGYPT: STILL INCOMPLETE UNHCR ACCESS TO ERITREANS [...] (SBU) On July 1, the Ambassador told Deputy Foreign Minister Wafaa Bassim that the USG is concerned that the GOE was still not providing the UNHCR complete access to Eritrean asylum seekers in Egyptian custody. UNHCR Deputy Regional Representative for Protection Katharina Lumpp had confirmed [...] | 2008-07-02 12:48:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF PREL EG ER |
08CAIRO1410 | EGYPT STILL WARY ON KOSOVO RECOGNITION [...] (SBU) On July 1, the Ambassador pressed Deputy Foreign Minister Wafaa Bassim for Egypt to recognize Kosovo. Bassim repeated previous Egyptian objections to Kosovo recognition (ref C),noting that Kosovo's declaration of independence came "outside of international law" and worrying that it mig [...] | 2008-07-06 13:06:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPKO PREL PGOV EG KV YI |
08CAIRO1414 | EGYPT: CONSIDERING NAVAL SUPPORT TO WFP FOR HORN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-07 12:29:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PHUM EAID EG |
08CAIRO1481 | INFLATION RISES IN JUNE, BUT NOT AS FAST AS IN PREVIOUS [...] (U) Inflation reached 20.2% year-on-year (YoY) in June, up from 19.7% YoY in May, according to Egypt's Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS). Food prices increased 27.2% YoY, up slightly from 27% YoY in May. Speaking just before release of the inflation figures, Mini [...] | 2008-07-15 05:39:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV EG |
08CAIRO150 | RISING ANXIETY ABOUT PRICE INCREASES [...] (U) In one clear manifestation of rising popular anxiety about price increases, large demonstrations were held recently in two Nile Delta cities, protesting increased prices of basic commodities such as bread, oil, beans and rice. On January 18, approximately 2000 protestors, including member [...] | 2008-01-29 10:18:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ELAB EG |
08CAIRO152 | RISING ANXIETY ABOUT PRICE INCREASES: Part II [...] (U) Rising food prices have led to demonstrations and pessimism among the poor, but official data show inflation within a reasonable range, given current economic growth. Most analysts believe the official figures do not capture the full picture, particularly as the poor are hurt most by risi [...] | 2008-01-29 11:47:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN KLAB EG |
08CAIRO1524 | MEETING BETWEEN AMBASSADOR SCOBEY AND MINISTER OF HEALTH [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador Scobey paid an introductory call on Minister of Health and Population Hatem El Gabaly on June 29. Discussion centered on ongoing health sector reform, graduate level training for ministry staff in US and by U.S. universities in Egypt, pharmaceutical intellectual prope [...] | 2008-07-17 13:19:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EAGR PGOV TBIO KIPR KSCA KFLU KWMN EG |
08CAIRO1527 | CLOSED LABOR NGO RE-OPENS [...] (SBU) After a year-long legal battle, the Center for Trade Union and Workers Services (CTUWS),a labor rights group, has re-opened. The group's offices were closed by State Security officers in April 2007, after the Ministry of Social Solidarity accused the organization of inciting nationwide [...] | 2008-07-17 14:59:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PGOV PHUM KDEM EG |
08CAIRO1566 | EGYPT: REACTION TO TIP TIER 2 WATCH LIST ACTION [...] (SBU) On July 22 we delivered reftel trafficking-in-persons (TIP) action plan to MFA Deputy Assistant Minister for Human Rights Wael Aboulmagd, emphasizing that the GOE needs to make measurable progress in victim protection and in prosecutions of, and a comprehensive legal framework to prosecu [...] | 2008-07-24 12:00:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KWMN KCRM PHUM SMIG EG |
08CAIRO157 | COURT RULES IN FAVOR OF BAHA'IS [...] (SBU) On January 29, the Cairo Administrative Court ruled in two cases brought by members of Egypt's small Baha'i religious community that the government may issue official identification documents without listing the holder's religion on the document. (Note: Under current practice, the gove [...] | 2008-01-29 15:47:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIRF PHUM PGOV EG |
08CAIRO1581 | EGYPT ARRESTS FACEBOOK ACTIVISTS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-28 08:18:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KDEM EG |
08CAIRO1608 | WOMEN'S ISSUES COORDINATOR VISITS EGYPT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-30 07:17:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWMN PHUM PGOV EG |
08CAIRO1651 | EGYPT: NEW APPROACH ON ERITREAN REFUGEES [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOE has acknowledged that it returned 167 Eritreans that it claims did not need refugee protection to Eritrea, claims to have "set free" 87 who were arrested in Egypt but who carried UNHCR refugee identification cards, and is disputing UNHCR designated refugee status for 130 [...] | 2008-07-31 15:16:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PREL EG ER IS |
08CAIRO1677 | Egypt: Counterfeit Drugs Threaten Public Health, IPR [...] (U) Summary: GOE health and security officials are seeking assistance from US pharmaceutical companies to combat counterfeit drugs, which threaten public health, cost an estimated 1 billion Egyptian pounds ($190 million) a year, and violate the intellectual property rights of the innovative dr [...] | 2008-08-04 12:46:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON KIPR ETRD EG |
08CAIRO1679 | EGYPT RELEASES FACEBOOK ACTIVISTS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-08-04 14:01:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KDEM EG |
08CAIRO172 | COUNTRY TEAM ASSESSMENT FOR THE UPGRADE OF [...] (SBU) Description: In Ref A (TAB A),the GOE requested the modification and upgrade of all existing Type 3 NVGs to type 4 in support of the operational flying requirements of the Egyptian Air Force (EAF). These upgrades are essential for the safe execution of night flying operations and must [...] | 2008-02-03 05:05:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MASS MARR EG |
08CAIRO1793 | AL HURRA MEETS WITH MINISTER OF INFORMATION [...] (SBU) Summary: Al Hurra officials met with Information Minister Anas El Fikki to discuss options for broadcasting portions of a three-hour daily live television program from Cairo. Minister Fikki was adamant that all satellite transmissions for this program be transmitted from within Media [...] | 2008-08-14 14:05:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL BBG KPAO EG |
08CAIRO1813 | EGYPT CLAIMS IPR IMPROVEMENTS DURING USTR VISIT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: While maintaining their longstanding resistance to USG requests regarding pharmaceutical test data exclusivity, GOE officials claimed progress in protecting intellectual property rights (IPR) during a USTR-led visit July 27-29. Private-sector representatives agreed that IPR pro [...] | 2008-08-19 08:30:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD KIPR EG |
08CAIRO1851 | INFERNO AT EGYPT'S SHURA COUNCIL [...] (SBU) Summary: In a dramatic fire the evening of August 19, the 142-year old building housing the main hall, offices, and committee rooms of the Shura Council, Egypt's upper parliamentary house, was heavily damaged. The GOE has pledged to rapidly rebuild, and parliament, which is currently on [...] | 2008-08-21 11:36:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KDEM EG |
08CAIRO1863 | EGYPTIAN SUBSIDIES HIT THE FISCAL BOTTOM LINE HARD [...] (U) Recent data released by the GOE on spending during fiscal year 2007-8 (July-June) highlight the impact of inflation and the rising cost of government subsidies on the GOE budget. Sharp increases in revenue due to economic growth and tax increases were offset by a 25% increase in public spe [...] | 2008-08-25 05:00:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EFIN EINV EG |
08CAIRO1931 | EGYPT HAS NO POSITION ON KOSOVO ICJ RESOLUTION [...] (SBU) PolOff delivered reftel points to the Office of Eastern and Southern European Affairs at the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on September 1. We stressed USG concerns over Serbia's request for a UNGA resolution seeking an International Court of Justice (ICJ) advisory opinion on Koso [...] | 2008-09-01 14:26:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UN UNGA KV EG |
08CAIRO1932 | EGYPTIAN COURT BLAMES FIRMS FOR CEMENT INFLATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A Cairo court fined 20 cement executives including Amcham President Omar Mohanna USD $1.9 million each for collusion to fix cement prices, blaming the companies for contributing to soaring inflation and in particular the rising cost of much- needed housing. While Trade Minister [...] | 2008-09-01 15:48:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EINV PGOV EG |
08CAIRO201 | EGYPT MAKES INCREMENTAL PROGRESS ON IPR PROTECTION [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Government of Egypt continues to make progress on the concerns identified in the Special 301 action plan for Egypt (ref A); more remains to be done. This message responds to request in ref B to update the status of specific concerns, keyed to each item in the action plan. EN [...] | 2008-02-05 14:14:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ECON ETRD EG |
08CAIRO2054 | ELECTRICITY DEMAND OVERWHELMS SUPPLY, LEADS TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The independent press reports that power cuts and brownouts have made life uncomfortable in villages and towns across the Delta region since early August and railed against the government for failing to meet electricity demand outside of major cities. Minister of Electricity an [...] | 2008-09-18 15:04:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON EG |
08CAIRO2055 | ELECTRICITY DEMAND OVERWHELMS SUPPLY, LEADS TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The independent press reports that power cuts and brownouts have made life uncomfortable in villages and towns across the Delta region since early August and railed against the government for failing to meet electricity demand outside of major cities. Minister of Electricity an [...] | 2008-09-18 15:04:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON EG |
08CAIRO2062 | INFLATION STILL A WORRY FOR THE EGYPTIAN CENTRAL [...] (U) Summary: The Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) raised key lending and deposit rates by 50 basis points on September 18. Year-on-year inflation was 25.5% in August, and the latest move by the CBE reflects its worries over continued inflationary pressure on the economy, even as it noted that food [...] | 2008-09-21 14:14:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV PGOV EG |
08CAIRO2077 | IFES PLANS SECOND TRIP WITH SUPREME ELECTORAL [...] (SBU) International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES) Country Director Jeffrey Carlson told us September 15 there is a good chance that IFES will lead a trip with four members of Egypt's Supreme Electoral Commission (SEC) in October to India, where SEC members would meet with Indian coun [...] | 2008-09-22 14:30:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID KDEM PO IN EG |
08CAIRO2089 | EGYPTIAN UNAMID DEPLOYMENT [...] (U) As of September 2008, this is the data we have on Egypt's UNAMID deployment. Egypt's initial planned contribution to UNAMID was 1,520 personnel, which it has not yet met. This number appears to have increased with the commitment of a second infantry battalion of approximately 850 personn [...] | 2008-09-23 14:41:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPKO SU EG |
08CAIRO2097 | EGYPT REVIEWS TEXTILE LABEL REQUIREMENT [...] (SBU) Econoff met with Walid el-Nozahy, head of the WTO unit at the Ministry of Trade and Industry, on September 25 to raise the concerns of Nike and other U.S. garment exporters regarding GOE decrees 515 of 2003 and 770 of 2005 (ref e-mail). Econoff noted that U.S. exporters believe that the [...] | 2008-09-25 10:55:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON WTRO EG |
08CAIRO2175 | UPDATE: EGYPT INCREASES COUNTER-SMUGGLING EFFORTS [...] Sensitive but unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: Egyptian security forces continue to improve counter-smuggling efforts along the Gaza border following the June Egyptian-brokered "tahdiya" ("calming") between Israel and Palestinian groups. During an August visit [...] | 2008-10-13 14:19:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL PTER MASS MARR KPAL IS EG |
08CAIRO2221 | IS THE EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT READY FOR A GLOBAL SLOWDOWN? [...] (SBU) Summary: Egypt's stock market, like nearly all globally, has been significantly down this year and the global financial crisis has only accelerated that decline. The index is down 50 percent from its April historic highs, and in October, the most intense period of global financial crisi [...] | 2008-10-20 10:58:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV PGOV EG |
08CAIRO2246 | EGYPTIAN AUTHORITIES WILL NOT CLEAR R/V OCEANUS IN [...] (U) SEE ACTION REQUEST IN PARAGRAPH 4. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Despite repeated approaches over several months, the Ministry of Defense has not made a decision regarding the research vessel Oceanus' request to enter Egyptian waters in order to conduct meteorological and geological research in th [...] | 2008-10-23 09:44:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EWWT SENV PREL EG |
08CAIRO2257 | UPDATE ON EGYPT'S NATURAL GAS INFRASTRUCTURE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: According to the Ministry of Petroleum, Egypt is moving quickly to upgrade and expand its natural gas network and distribution systems across the country and plans to add one liquefied natural gas (LNG) train at Damietta in the near future. Construction is underway on a pipeline [...] | 2008-10-27 05:10:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG IR EG |
08CAIRO2262 | NOMINATION OF NEHAD ABOUL KOMSAN FOR THE 2009 [...] (SBU) Summary: Nehad Aboul Komsan, Embassy Cairo's nominee for the Secretary's International Women of Courage Award, deserves USG commendation for her tireless campaigning on behalf of women's rights in Egypt in an often hostile public environment. Aboul Komsan's efforts as Chair of the Boar [...] | 2008-10-27 14:54:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KPAO KWMN EG |
08CAIRO2371 | REQUESTING DEPARTMENT ASSISTANCE TO RESTORE [...] (U) This is an action request; please see para 4. 2. (SBU) Prominent Egyptian blogger, human rights activist and winner of the 2007 Knight-Ridder International Journalism Award, Wael Abbas, contacted us November 17 to report that YouTube removed from his website two videos exposing police a [...] | 2008-11-18 10:39:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KDEM EG |
08CAIRO2373 | EGYPTIAN COURT SEEKS TO END NATURAL GAS EXPORTS TO [...] (SBU) The Administrative Court of Cairo ruled on November 18 that ongoing natural gas exports to Israel should be halted because the export agreement between Egypt and Israel violates article 123 of the Egyptian constitution, pertaining to the protection and use of natural resources. The court [...] | 2008-11-18 16:14:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG PREL ECON IS EG |
08CAIRO2404 | NEA/ELA DIRECTOR DISCUSSES QIZ EXPANSION WITH [...] (U) Summary: In a meeting with NEA/ELA Director Nicole Shampaine, officials from the Egyptian Ministry of Trade and Industry expressed their frustration with what they felt was excessive delay in United States Trade Representative's (USTR's) consideration and approval of a 2007 request to expa [...] | 2008-11-24 12:59:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV PGOV PREL IS EG |
08CAIRO2406 | AMBASSADOR RAISES COKE, NIKE COMPLAINTS WITH TRADE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ambassador met November 23 with Minister of Trade Rachid Rachid to discuss two ongoing complaints by US firms, Coca Cola and Nike. In Coke case, which Rachid described as a commercial dispute rather than a trade mark issue, he gave his assurances that his ministry would not i [...] | 2008-11-24 13:49:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV ECON EG |
08CAIRO2408 | EGYPT ANNOUNCES MASS PRIVATIZATION SCHEME [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On November 10, Minister of Investment Mahmoud Mohieddin announced a new privatization scheme whereby the GOE will transfer shares in 45 state-owned companies to 41 million Egyptian citizens within the next 12-14 months. The plan requires parliamentary approval, which he expect [...] | 2008-11-24 13:55:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV PGOV EG |
08CAIRO2409 | TRADE OFFICIAL ON GOE ECONONIC REFORM, TRADE STRATEGY, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a November 13 meeting with Commerce DAS for Services Mark Brady, Ministry of Trade and Investment First Advisor Samiha Fawzy said that Egyptian was not interested in a new bilateral investment treaty (BIT) with the U.S., and that Egypt must "maintain the FTA as an overall ob [...] | 2008-11-24 14:14:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV ECON EAGR PREL EG |
08CAIRO2410 | READOUT FROM THE 15TH QIZ JOINT COMMITTEE MEETING [...] (SBU) Summary: the Qualifying Industrial Zone (QIZ) Joint Committee held its quarterly meeting in Cairo on November 24. The Egyptians requested a reduction in Israeli inputs, citing insufficient supply, and the Israelis agreed to work with companies in both sides to help them meet the existing [...] | 2008-11-24 14:16:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV PGOV PREL IS EG |
08CAIRO2419 | HEALTH MINISTER READIES NEW DRUG REGISTRATION RULES, PLANS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY On November 23, newly appointed Ministry of Health Assistant Minister for Pharmaceutical Affairs Kamal Sabra told FCS and Econ counselor that the MOH would soon put drug registration on-line and that the new drug registration rules are almost finished. The department's new faci [...] | 2008-11-25 13:40:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON PGOV PREL KIPR EG |
08CAIRO2436 | Economic and financial leaders debate Egypt's economic [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-30 13:47:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV EG |
08CAIRO244 | EGYPTIAN HIGH COURT RULES IN FAVOR OF RECONVERTS [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 10, Egypt's Supreme Court of Administrative Justice ruled in a case brought by Christian "re-converts" that the government must issue identification documents listing their religion as Christianity. The ruling reversed an April 2007 decision by the Cairo Court of A [...] | 2008-02-10 14:36:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIRF PHUM PGOV EG |
08CAIRO2445 | BIRD FLU IN EGYPT: ALL QUIET ON THE MIDDLE EASTERN [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: In July 2008, the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) declared the H5N1 avian influenza (AI) virus to be endemic in Egyptian poultry. Now, just four months later, some Egyptians are wondering why. Seven months have passed since the Ministry of Health and Popul [...] | 2008-12-01 14:09:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KFLU KSTH PGOV ECON KSCA EAGR EG |
08CAIRO2453 | UPDATE ON DEPORTATION REQUEST: CASE OF IYAD AHMAD [...] (SBU) Econ-Political MinCouns has raised the case of Mr. Badawi with Egyptian Deputy Assistant Foreign Minister Amin Meleika on three occasions: November 13, November 23, and November 30. On November 13, MinCouns orally explained the background of the case and asked if Egypt would allow Mr. [...] | 2008-12-02 16:38:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPAL CVIS PTER EG IS |
08CAIRO246 | AMBASSADOR WISNER ASKS ARAB LEAGUE, EGYPT TO [...] (SBU) Special Envoy for the Kosovo Final Status Talks Ambassador Frank Wisner asked Arab League Secretary General Amre Moussa on February 6 for the League and its member states to support an independent Kosovo when Kosovo declares its independence in the coming weeks. Ambassador Wisner emphas [...] | 2008-02-10 15:59:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV UNMIK EG YI |
08CAIRO2492 | EGYPT: COUNTRY TEAM ASSESSMENT FOR THE PROCUREMENT [...] (SBU) Description. In REF A, The GOE submitted a request to procure twenty-four (24) AH-64D Helicopters (BLK II) with the Modernized Target Acquisition and Designation System (MTADS),the required infrastructure/facility upgrades, logistical and technical support requirements. This case will [...] | 2008-12-11 17:39:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MASS MARR EG |
08CAIRO2507 | MOVING FORWARD ON QIZ EXPANSION [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph six. 2. (SBU) On December 14, econcouns met with Ali Awni, chief of the Qualifying Industrial Zone (QIZ) Unit of the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI). Awni stated that he hoped further consideration of the proposed QIZ expansion to Up [...] | 2008-12-16 07:19:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN EINV PGOV PREL IS EG |
08CAIRO2508 | GOE LOOKS AT RETAIL AND DISTRIBUTION SECTOR [...] (SBU) FCS and Econ counselors met recently with the Minister of Trade and Industry's newly hired advisor for internal markets, Sahar El Salab. El Salab was until recently a vice president of CIB, Egypt's largest private bank. In her new role, she is charged with reforming Egypt's internal ma [...] | 2008-12-16 09:24:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV ECON EFIN EG |
08CAIRO256 | EGYPTIAN COURT RULES AGAINST CONVERT [...] (SBU) On January 29, the Cairo Administrative Court denied the petition of Mohamed Hegazy, a Muslim-born convert to Christianity, to change the religious affiliation on his national identification card from Islam to Christianity. While Hegazy has the right to appeal the decision, he will prob [...] | 2008-02-11 16:07:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIRF PHUM PGOV EG |
08CAIRO2562 | UPDATE ON BABY TRAFFICKING NETWORK [...] (SBU) Summary: This cable updates ref (A) which reported ongoing investigation into child trafficking in Egypt. Another Egyptian doctor and couple have been arrested by Egyptian State Security Investigative Services (SSIS) for their involvement in the baby trafficking network uncovered by th [...] | 2008-12-23 15:40:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFRD KPAO EG AESC CASC CMGT CVIS KIRF KOCI PHUM SMIG |
08CAIRO2580 | STATUS OF CONTAINER SECURITY PROGRAMS IN EGYPT [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. 2. (SBU) Implementation of the Container Security Initiative (CSI) program at the Port of Alexandria has been stalled since June 2008. The U.S. and GOE agreed to pursue a CSI program in Alexandria in a memorandum of understanding known [...] | 2008-12-30 13:56:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EWWT PTER EG |
08CAIRO268 | WTO DEMARCHES DELIVERED ON ENVIRONMENTAL, TAFT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Econ Counselor and econoff delivered demarches on the US/EC proposals on labeling for textile, apparel, footware, and travel (TAFT) goods (ref A) and environmental goods and services (ref B) to Walid el-Nozahay, head of the WTO department at the Egyptian Ministry of Trade and I [...] | 2008-02-12 13:10:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD WTO SENV EG |
08CAIRO278 | OPIC CONSIDERING LOW COST MORTGAGE PROGRAM IN EGYPT [...] (SBU) OPIC has been trying for several years to provide financing to Egypt's mortgage market. As part of that effort, OPIC VP Robert Drumheller visited Cairo February 5-6 to discuss an OPIC proposal to guarantee a loan to a local bank to provide low cost mortgages to Egypt's nascent mortgage [...] | 2008-02-13 13:50:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EG |
08CAIRO31 | EGYPT'S COURTS CONTINUE TO CONVICT POLICE IN ABUSE [...] (U) On January 4, an Alexandria court reportedly convicted a police major and two junior policemen of abusing a detainee in April 2007. The major reportedly ordered his men to beat the detainee and then force him to appear publicly in women's clothes. The court sentenced the major to five y [...] | 2008-01-08 15:41:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV EG |
08CAIRO323 | EGYPTIAN POLITICAL PARTY MEMBERS' SUCCESSFUL [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-19 12:20:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KDEM EG |
08CAIRO325 | EGYPT "WAITING AND SEEING" ON RECOGNIZING KOSOVO [...] (SBU) The Ambassador called Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit on February 17 to reiterate our position that Egypt should quickly recognize Kosovo, as Special Envoy for the Kosovo Final Status Talks Ambassador Frank Wisner had conveyed to Aboul Gheit in their February 7 meeting (ref B) [...] | 2008-02-20 15:59:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV UNMIK EG KV YI |
08CAIRO348 | 2008 Special 301 Review: Egypt [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Egypt has made incremental progress in the protection of Intellectual Property Rights during the last three years. The GOE has worked with the private sector and USG to improve its system for granting pharmaceutical patents and increase enforcement against copyright pirates, w [...] | 2008-02-21 15:29:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD KIPR EG |
08CAIRO361 | QIZ EXPORT DROP REINFORCES EGYPTIAN-ISRAELI [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-25 11:31:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PREL KTEX IS EG |
08CAIRO364 | QIZ EXPORT DROP REINFORCES EGYPTIAN-ISRAELI EXPANSION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: As we prepare for high-level visits to the region surrounding the 60th anniversary of Israel and the World Economic Forum in Egypt, Post recommends strong consideration of a joint Egyptian-Israeli request to expand the Qualified Industrial Zone (QIZ) into Upper Egypt. Expand [...] | 2008-02-25 14:26:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PREL KTEX IS EG |
08CAIRO373 | WTO SERVICES NEGOTIATIONS: DEMARCHE DELIVERED IN [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-26 09:57:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EG |
08CAIRO38 | EGYPT'S FOREIGN MINISTRY RAISES DETENTION OF [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-10 05:04:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PTER CVIS EG |
08CAIRO382 | SOMALIA: EGYPT, ARAB LEAGUE ON CONTACT GROUP, [...] (SBU) Summary: The Arab League and Egypt are supportive of ref A proposal for restructuring the International Contact Group on Somalia (ICG). However, the Arab League wants to see better planning to make the group more effective, and Egypt wants to ensure that there will be strong coordination [...] | 2008-02-26 14:56:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID PGOV KCRM UNSC EG SO |
08CAIRO396 | PROSECUTOR GENERAL PRESSES CHARGES AGAINST CEMENT [...] (U) The trial of 12 cement companies accused of collusion under Egypt's 2005 Competition Law begins this week, amidst calls for prosecution of steel manufacturers under the same law. As reported in reftel, in October 2007 the Egyptian Competition Authority (ECA) announced that its 14-month in [...] | 2008-02-27 15:56:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EINV EG |
08CAIRO408 | EMBASSY CAIRO SUBMISSION FOR 2008 TIP REPORT [...] (SBU) This message responds to reftel. Embassy POC is poloff Aaron Berman, phone 20-2-2797-2550, fax 20-2-2797-2181, bermanad@state.gov. Pol LES spent approximately 75 hours on TIP-related activities and in preparation of the TIP report. Poloff spent approximately 160 hours; ECPO Minister [...] | 2008-02-28 14:32:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM SMIG PREF ASEC KFRD KCRM KWMN ELAB EG |
08CAIRO410 | EMBASSY CAIRO SUBMISSION FOR 2008 TIP REPORT [...] (SBU) This message responds to reftel. Embassy POC is poloff Aaron Berman, phone 20-2-2797-2550, fax 20-2-2797-2181, bermanad@state.gov. Pol LES spent approximately 75 hours on TIP-related activities and in preparation of the TIP report. Poloff spent approximately 160 hours; ECPO Minister [...] | 2008-02-28 15:10:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM SMIG PREF ASEC KFRD KCRM KWMN ELAB EG |
08CAIRO413 | EGYPT AVIAN INFLUENZA: FIRST CASE OF 2008 [...] (SBU) Summary: Egypt has confirmed its first Human Avian Influenza (AI) case in 2008: a four-year-old girl from the Minya governorate who is currently hospitalized in Cairo. Reacting rapidly and thoroughly, the Ministry of Health and Population (MOHP) and the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) disp [...] | 2008-03-02 07:56:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KSCA KFLU ECON EAGR PGOV EG |
08CAIRO435 | ARAB LEAGUE RESPONSE ON RESTRUCTURING SOMALIA CONTACT [...] (SBU) Arab League Office of African Affairs Director Samir Hosni provided on March 4 the non-paper below detailing the Arab League's suggestions for restructuring the International Contact Group (ICG) on Somalia. The non-paper echoes points Hosni made verbally (ref A),emphasizing that interna [...] | 2008-03-04 15:16:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID PGOV EG SO |
08CAIRO439 | EGYPT CONSIDERING KOSOVO RECOGNITION, SOLIDARITY [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-05 14:14:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNSC EAID KISL PGOV EG KV YI |
08CAIRO45 | EGYPT: CODEL JOHNSON DISCUSSES WATER WITH MINISTER OF WATER [...] (SBU) Minister of Irrigation and Water Resources Mahmoud Abu Zeid briefed the DCM and a CODEL led by Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX) on January 6 on the challenges Egypt faces regarding water and its cooperation with the other nine Nile Basin states. The CODEL consisted of Represent [...] | 2008-01-13 11:31:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON SENV EWWT EAGR EG |
08CAIRO464 | EGYPT BANS DEMONSTRATIONS IN MOSQUES AND CHURCHES [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 22, Egypt's lower house of Parliament, the Peoples' Assembly, passed a law banning demonstrations "inside or around places of worship." Although the law prohibits demonstrations in both churches and mosques, the law appears specifically to target the Muslim Brotherh [...] | 2008-03-09 14:55:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KIRF KISL KDEM PHUM EG |
08CAIRO47 | EGYPT: FOREIGN MINISTER ABOUL GHEIT DISCUSSES [...] (SBU) Summary: Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit highlighted Egypt's "energetic" Africa policy in a January 6 meeting with the DCM and a CODEL led by Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX). Both Aboul Gheit and the CODEL confirmed the importance of a good U.S.-Egypt bilateral r [...] | 2008-01-13 11:37:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV CVIS EG |
08CAIRO480 | COURTROOM ENCOUNTER WITH AYMAN NOUR [...] (SBU) Summary: In a chance encounter on the sidelines of a March 10 court hearing, poloff had a brief conversation with jailed former opposition leader Ayman Nour. Nour, looking pale but generally healthy, said he was "extremely grateful" for all of the USG's efforts on his behalf: "I cannot [...] | 2008-03-10 14:55:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM KDEM EG |
08CAIRO486 | PUBLIC FEARS OVER DIESEL, GASOLINE SHORTAGES [...] (SBU) Recent reported shortages of diesel fuel and low-grade gasoline throughout Egypt are prompting press and public speculation over a looming fuel crisis, although the GOE has assured the public that no such emergency is impending. Shortages of low-grade gasoline are likely a function of t [...] | 2008-03-11 12:24:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EPET PGOV EG |
08CAIRO53 | EGYPT'S PROSECUTOR GENERAL ORDERS RELEASE IN [...] (SBU) According to her lawyer, Egypt's Office of the Prosecutor General ordered the release on January 13 of Shadia Nagui Ibrahim, who was convicted of fraud on November 21, 2007, in connection with her father's brief conversion in the early 1960s from Christianity to Islam (ref A). Ibrahim, [...] | 2008-01-13 15:39:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIRF PHUM PGOV EG |
08CAIRO555 | O TV: A RISING STAR IN THE ARAB MEDIA MARKET [...] (U) Summary: On March 16, A/IO met with Yasmine Abdullah Attia, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Egyptian youth entertainment channel O TV, which celebrated its one-year anniversary on January 31, 2008. In slightly more than one year, O TV has rocketed into the top 10 most watched ente [...] | 2008-03-19 13:52:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECPS KPAO XF EG |
08CAIRO563 | EGYPTIANS DEMAND A NEW MINIMUM WAGE [...] (U) Demonstrations over rising prices have turned into calls for a new minimum monthly wage for public sector employees. The current minimum wage of LE 40 ($7.20)/month for unskilled workers has not changed since the 1980s. University professors and doctors have joined the call for a new pay [...] | 2008-03-23 07:17:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EG |
08CAIRO579 | EGYPT WILL NOT RECOGNIZE KOSOVO [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-25 13:50:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV UNMIK EG KV YI |
08CAIRO587 | MUBARAK ORDERS MILITARY TO ASSIST IN RESOLVING "BREAD [...] (U) Summary: In apparent reaction to what the media is characterizing as a "bread crisis" - shortages of subsidized bread and rising prices for unsubsidized bread -President Mubarak has ordered the military to assist civilian agencies in ensuring availability of subsidized bread. According t [...] | 2008-03-26 07:53:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EAID EG |
08CAIRO595 | EGYPTIAN COURT CONVICTS EDITOR BUT SUSPENDS JAIL [...] (SBU) On March 26, a Cairo court convicted Ibrahim Eissa, editor of the independent newspaper Al-Dustour, of spreading false information in connection with the newspaper's August 2007 publication of stories reporting rumors then circulating that President Mubarak was in poor health. The cou [...] | 2008-03-26 15:04:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KDEM KPAO EG |
08CAIRO596 | IRAQI REFUGEES: AMBASSADOR FOLEY ASKS ARAB LEAGUE TO [...] (SBU) Summary: Senior Coordinator for Iraqi Refugee Issues James Foley pressed Arab League Chief of Staff Hisham Youssef on March 24 for Arab League member states to pledge financial commitments for Iraqi refugees at the March 29 Arab League Summit in Damascus. He noted that refugees, particul [...] | 2008-03-26 15:08:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PREF EG IR |
08CAIRO607 | DARFUR: CAIRO-BASED REBELS ON NATIONAL CENSUS [...] (SBU) In a March 26 meeting, we asked Alaa El Din Ibrahim and Abdallah Ali, Political and Media Secretaries of the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army (SLM/A) Abdulwahid Nur faction, respectively, to encourage Nur supporters in Darfur, and particularly in the internally displaced persons (IDP) camp [...] | 2008-03-27 12:53:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SOCI UNSC KDEM EG SU |
08CAIRO693 | MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD ANNOUNCES BOYCOTT OF LOCAL [...] (SBU) On April 7, the Muslim Brotherhood (MB),which up until now had urged Egyptians to participate in the April 8 local council elections, called on voters to boycott. The full text of the MB's statement is posted on the organization's website (translated text at para 3). The MB's Deputy S [...] | 2008-04-07 12:09:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KDEM KISL EG |
08CAIRO697 | DAY OF PROTESTS LARGELY QUIET, BUT VIOLENT CLASH [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-07 14:46:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PGOV PHUM ECON EG |
08CAIRO7 | EGYPTIAN COURT REJECTS LEGAL ATTACK ON BLOGS [...] (U) On December 29, the Cairo Administrative Judicial Court dismissed a lawsuit aimed at shutting down 51 websites belonging to Egyptian human rights organizations, opposition groups and individual bloggers. As a legal basis for its ruling, the Cairo court cited Article 19 of the Universal D [...] | 2008-01-02 16:08:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAO PHUM PGOV EG |
08CAIRO714 | RISING CONSTRUCTION COSTS PROMPT GOE ACTION [...] (U) In late March the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MOTI) announced a six-month ban on cement exports, beginning April 1. The ban is the latest in a series of steps by MOTI to control rising construction prices. Industry analysts predict the ban will not bring cement prices down, as demand [...] | 2008-04-08 16:15:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EINV EG |
08CAIRO715 | SECOND NIGHT OF VIOLENT CLASHES IN NILE DELTA TOWN [...] (SBU) Violent clashes between police and protestors reignited April 7 on the streets of the Nile Delta textile mill town of Mehalla el Kubra. The flashpoint of the protests centered on the Mehalla police station, where protesters gathered to demand the release of those detained the previous d [...] | 2008-04-08 17:57:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PGOV PHUM ECON EG |
08CAIRO724 | NILE DELTA TOWN LARGELY CALM APRIL 8-9; PM [...] (SBU) Even after the parade of Egyptian cabinet ministers and attendant security had long returned to Cairo, the streets of Mehalla el Kubra remained relatively calm the evening of April 8 and early April 9. Earlier on April 8, Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif joined the three ministers of Manpower [...] | 2008-04-09 12:40:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PGOV PHUM ECON EG |
08CAIRO784 | BIRD FLU KILLS SECOND EGYPTIAN THIS MONTH [...] (SBU/NF) Summary: On April 11, the Ministry of Health and Population (MOHP) confirmed its sixth Human avian influenza (AI) case this year, the 49th overall, and the second in less than a week: a 30-year old woman from Al-Matarya in the Cairo Governorate. The woman's death, which made her the 2 [...] | 2008-04-16 12:00:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KSCA KFLU ECON EAGR PGOV EG |
08CAIRO786 | EGYPT BALANCING EMPLOYMENT, ILLEGAL MIGRATION WITH WORKERS [...] (U) This is a joint US Embassy Cairo-US Embassy Tripoli message. 2. (SBU) Summary: Egyptians have long sought economic betterment by working - usually illegally - in Libya. Although constantly changing Libyan labor restrictions resulted in the return of some Egyptian workers to Egypt in [...] | 2008-04-16 14:16:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PREL PHUM ECON EG LY |
08CAIRO833 | LOCAL COUNCIL ELECTIONS: UNOFFICIAL RESULTS [...] (SBU) To date, no official nationwide results have been announced in Egypt's April 8 local council elections. Reportedly, results are being released governorate by governorate, and will be finalized nationally next week. With only 962 opposition candidates on the ballot country-wide, out of th [...] | 2008-04-22 16:15:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KDEM KISL EG |
08CAIRO844 | GRIM BIRD FLU MILESTONE: EGYPT'S 50TH CASE [...] (SBU) On April 16, the Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population (MOHP) confirmed its seventh human avian influenza (AI) case this year: a 2-year-old boy from the Sharqia Governorate north of Cairo. This marks Egypt's 50th confirmed AI case overall, and the third in the month of April. The [...] | 2008-04-23 15:56:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU TBIO ECON PGOV EG |
08CAIRO859 | SOMALIA: EGYPT CAUTIOUS ON ANTI-PIRACY EFFORTS, [...] (U) Per reftel demarche, we notified Arab League African Affairs Department Director Samir Hosni on April 22 that the UN Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) plans to chair the International Contact Group (ICG) on Somalia after the next ICG meeting in Oslo, with the discretio [...] | 2008-04-24 15:27:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID PGOV EG SO |
08CAIRO860 | DARFUR: EGYPT URGES RE-ENGAGEMENT, INCLUSIVITY ON [...] (SBU) The GOE seeks to re-invigorate the idea that UN and AU Darfur envoys Jan Elaisson and Selim Ahmed Selim engage in "shuttle diplomacy" between the rebel groups and GOS to bring them to a comprehensive political solution, MFA Cabinet Advisor for African Affairs Ahmed Abu Zeid told us on Apr [...] | 2008-04-24 15:30:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM EG SU |
08CAIRO862 | FACEBOOK ACTIVIST RELEASED [...] (SBU) Israa Abdel Fattah, a young Ghad party member detained since April 6 for allegedly inciting a general strike on the same day, was released the evening of April 23. Abdel Fattah was reportedly ordered released on April 14 by the Public Prosecutor, but was kept in "protective custody" by [...] | 2008-04-24 15:39:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM EG |
08CAIRO886 | EGYPT "DISAPPOINTED" WITH INTERIM TIP REPORT [...] (SBU) On April 23, Amira Fahmy of the MFA Human Rights office told us that the GOE was "disappointed" that the interim Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report on Egypt states that Egypt has only made "minimal progress" on combating TIP during the reporting period. Fahmy said that the National Coord [...] | 2008-04-29 06:26:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM EG |
08CAIRO90 | CENTRAL AUDITING AGENCY CRITICIZES GOE BUDGET MANAGEMENT [...] (U) Parliament witnessed heated debates on January 10 over the Central Auditing Agency's (CAA) report on the FY 2005-06 and 2006-07 budgets. Gawdat El Malt, head of the CAA, lauded the Nazif government's success in spurring economic growth and attracting investment, but noted the oft-repeated [...] | 2008-01-21 13:30:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EG |
08CAIRO902 | USAID DEMOCRACY AND GOVERNANCE PROGRAMS: THE WAY FORWARD [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-30 14:24:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PGOV PREL EG |
08CAIRO913 | EGYPTIAN COURT DISMISSES LAWSUITS AGAINST [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-04 14:47:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL PGOV KDEM EG |
08CAIRO930 | MAY 4 STRIKE FIZZLES [...] (SBU) Summary: The general strike called for May 4 to protest rocketing inflation and low wages was largely a non-event. Activists from Kefaya ("The Egyptian Movement for Change") and virtual oppositionists using the social networking site Facebook called for the strike (scheduled purposefully [...] | 2008-05-05 14:15:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PGOV PREL KDEM ECON EG |
08CAIRO932 | RESPONSE: IMPACT OF RISING FOOD/COMMODITY PRICES - EGYPT [...] (SBU) Rising global food prices are hitting Egypt's poor hard and are the major contributor to stubbornly high inflation (14.4% y-o-y in March). Past episodes of rising food prices (e.g., 2003-05) pushed Egypt's poverty rate up, and some fear this is happening again now. Almost every interna [...] | 2008-05-05 15:16:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR EAID EFIN EINV ELAB PGOV EG |
08CAIRO959 | GOE RAISES FUEL PRICES TO OFFSET SALARY INCREASE [...] (SBU) Parliament passed a series of revenue generating measures to offset the cost to the budget of the 30% wage increase announced by President Mubarak on April 30 (reftel). The measures include fuel and cigarette price increases, higher automobile registration fees, and imposition of some n [...] | 2008-05-11 09:06:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EPET PGOV EG |
08CAIRO975 | SHEIKH OF AL AZHAR DISCUSSES COUNTERING EXTREMISM [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-13 10:53:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER KISL KPAO KIRF EG |
08CAIRO99 | FOLLOW-UP MEDIA COVERAGE OF PRESIDENT BUSH'S VISIT [...] (SBU) Following a week of negative media coverage, from government, opposition and independent newspapers alike, in the lead up to President Bush's January 16 visit to Egypt, all Egyptian TV channels - government and satellite - carried the joint POTUS-Mubarak press conference live and provide [...] | 2008-01-22 14:22:00 | Embassy Cairo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPAO EG |
08CANBERRA1003 | WESTERN AUSTRALIA ECONOMY - MORE THAN ROCKS AND [...] (SBU) Summary: Canberra-based econoff visited Perth, Western Australia (WA) September 18-19 for meetings with local government and business figures. On this trip, econoff hoped to meet with people to discuss topics OTHER than Western Australia's booming resources sector, which includes nicke [...] | 2008-10-01 07:12:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD ENRG AS |
08CANBERRA1010 | AUSTRALIAN CENTRAL BANK SLASHES OFFICIAL BANK RATE [...] (U) Summary: Australia slashed its official cash rate by 100 basis points on Tuesday, based on fears that the economy will slow down and on concerns about international financial markets. Initial reactions have been positive, with Australia share prices rising on Tuesday. End summary. 2. [...] | 2008-10-07 06:03:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON AS |
08CANBERRA102 | GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT NUCLEAR TERRORISM - [...] (U) Australia's plan to participate in the March GI Model Guidelines Document Workshop in Washington was confirmed to Poloffs by Mohan Mathews, Executive Director, Counter-Terrorism Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Section, International Security Division, DFAT, during a Februar [...] | 2008-02-07 01:55:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM KNNP PTER EAIR ETRD EWWT PREL AS |
08CANBERRA1020 | TOUGH WEEK FOR AUSTRALIAN ECONOMY [...] (U) Summary: This was a bad week for Australia's economy, primarily because of the effects of the global financial crisis. Stocks down 16%. Australian dollar down over 10%. Commodities softening, confidence down, unemployment up. Rudd is making reassuring statements and announced a new b [...] | 2008-10-10 05:38:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN AS |
08CANBERRA1028 | TURNBULL OFF TO A GOOD START AS OPPOSITION LEADER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In the first Newspoll that measured Malcolm Turnbull's performance as Opposition Leader, voters gave him a satisfaction rating of 50 percent, 10 points higher than former Leader Brendan Nelson's top of 40 percent and nine points better than Kevin Rudd when he first became Opposit [...] | 2008-10-14 07:07:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV AS |
08CANBERRA1039 | AUSTRALIA WILL NOT ATTEND GEORGIA DONORS CONFERENCE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-16 00:02:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EFIN GG PREL RS EUMEM KMCA KCRS AS |
08CANBERRA1054 | PUBLIC SUPPORTS RUDD BUT PUNISHES LABOR IN STATE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: According to a new A.C. Nielsen poll, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's approval rating has increased by 10 points to 71 percent, the highest rating he has ever recorded. Seventy-six percent of those surveyed supported Rudd's handling of the economic crisis and his economic package, [...] | 2008-10-20 06:18:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON AS |
08CANBERRA1079 | AUSTRALIAN DOLLAR TAKES A DIVE [...] (SBU) Buffeted by falling commodity prices, fear of global economic recession, and dropping domestic interest rates, the Australian dollar has lost 37% of its value against the U.S. dollar, falling faster since July than even the Icelandic krona. The Aussie dollar has lost 27% of its trade-wei [...] | 2008-10-27 06:04:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON ETRD AS |
08CANBERRA1105 | DEMARCHE RE IRAN DESIGNATIONS DELIVERED TO [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-31 07:08:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MNUC PREL PARM EFIN KNNP AS |
08CANBERRA1114 | AUSTRALIAN CENTRAL BANK SLASHES INTEREST RATES - [...] (U) Summary. On November 4 the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) slashed the official cash rate by 75 basis points, to 5.25%. Again, the cut was greater than expected, showing the RBA has placed protecting growth ahead of restraining inflation. This comes in the wake of a whole series of unif [...] | 2008-11-04 04:36:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON AS |
08CANBERRA1121 | AUSTRALIAN MID-YEAR ECONOMIC UPDATE - GROWTH, SURPLUSES [...] (SBU) Summary. On November 5, Treasurer Wayne Swan released the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) 2008-09, the annual update to the Australian Government's budget for the 2008-2009 fiscal year, which runs from July 1 to June 30. The update lowered the estimated growth rate from 2.75 [...] | 2008-11-06 06:02:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN AS |
08CANBERRA1134 | NEW AUSTRALIAN CAR PLAN ANNOUNCED [...] (U) Summary. On November 10, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd and Industry Minister Kim Carr released the GOA's response to the Bracks Review of the car industry. The 'New Car Plan for a Greener Future' aims to make the car industry more responsive to changing consumer demand, environmental policy an [...] | 2008-11-12 04:05:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EIND ECON ETRD AS |
08CANBERRA1163 | AUSTRALIAN AID AGENCY CONDUCTING SURVEY IN IRAQ RE [...] (SBU) Lloyd Brodrick, Iraq Director, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT),advised poloff November 17 that a representative from AusAID, the Australian government's overseas aid agency, is currently in the middle of a two-week fact-finding mission to Iraq to study possible Australia [...] | 2008-11-17 08:56:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EAGR PREL AS |
08CANBERRA1191 | AUSTRALIA DELEGATION TO DOHA CONFERENCE ON FFD [...] (SBU) Econoff delivered reftel points to Treasury, AusAID, and Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Vanessa Hegarty of AusAID noted they were working with State on a joint "statement by international development assistance donors on the impact of the current financial crisis on donor comm [...] | 2008-11-26 04:24:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID UNGA AS |
08CANBERRA1192 | AN OPENING ON AUSSIE QUARANTINE? [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Australian quarantine regulator has ruled that Philippine bananas can be imported into Australia. The Deputy Prime Minister publicly asserted the agency's independence and implicitly defended the decision. This could be an indication of a changing direction in Australian [...] | 2008-11-26 05:19:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ETRD AS |
08CANBERRA1194 | AUSTRALIA RESPONSE ON GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR AGRICULTURE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Post Economic and Agriculture officers met with officials from Australian Department of Agriculture and Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF),Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT),and AusAID to discuss the Global Partnership on Agriculture and Food (GPAF). The GOA expressed s [...] | 2008-11-26 06:15:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID ECON ETRD AS |
08CANBERRA1199 | AUSTRALIA RESPONSE ON GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP FOR AGRICULTURE [...] (SBU) The following is the written response to ref A demarche on behalf of the GOA, provided to Embassy by AusAID following our November 26 meeting (ref B). Begin text of GOA response: "1. The Australian Government is generally supportive of improved coordination and increased transparenc [...] | 2008-12-01 04:30:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID ECON ETRD AS |
08CANBERRA1205 | AUSTRALIA SEEKS MORE INFO ON PAKISTAN CONFERENCE [...] (SBU) Summary. Econoff met with Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) and AusAID officials December 2 to discuss reftel potential Pakistan donors conference. The GOA officials were unable to make any commitments, but are clearly interested. However, they need more details before they [...] | 2008-12-02 05:13:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN IBRD IMF AS PK |
08CANBERRA1208 | AUSSIE RESERVE BANK AGAIN SLASHES INTEREST RATES [...] (U) Summary. On December 2, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) announced a 100 basis points reduction in the cash rate to a record low of 4.25 per cent. RBA continues to prioritize demand ahead of inflation. End summary. RBA SLASHES RATES AGAIN 2. (U) The RBA today slashed the officia [...] | 2008-12-02 20:46:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON AS |
08CANBERRA1215 | AUSTRALIA BARELY AVOIDS NEGATIVE GROWTH [...] (SBU) Summary. Australia's economy grew by less than 0.1% in the September quarter; excluding farms, the economy contracted 0.3%. Despite the fiscal stimulus package and aggressive interest rate cuts, contraction in the current quarter and recession in 2009 seem likely. End summary. LATES [...] | 2008-12-03 23:46:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN AS |
08CANBERRA1222 | GOVERNMENT PROPOSES REVISED LABOR LAWS FOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Labor unions are generally happy with the Rudd Government's major industrial relations bill, introduced on November 25. This bill proposes a new labor relations scheme for Australia, providing stronger collective bargaining rights, easier worksite access for union officials, th [...] | 2008-12-04 20:53:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ELAB AS |
08CANBERRA1230 | NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR DUNCAN LEWIS [...] (U) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Kevin Rudd announced the appointment of Duncan Lewis to the newly-created post of National Security Advisor (NSA). The creation of the position of NSA is the first step in the formation of the Rudd Government's new national security structure. The NSA will be resp [...] | 2008-12-05 06:32:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR MARR AS |
08CANBERRA1238 | SURGE IN BOAT PEOPLE BECOMES POLITICAL ISSUE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Opposition is blaming a surge in the number of illegal boat people on the Rudd Government's relaxation of the former Howard Government's border protection policies. Since the policy toward illegal refugees was changed in August, six people-smuggling boats traveling from Ind [...] | 2008-12-08 06:52:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SMIG PREF AS |
08CANBERRA1244 | POLLING GETS WORSE FOR LIBERAL PARTY [...] (U) SUMMARY: A Newspoll released December 9 indicates that the Opposition is going backwards since it switched leaders to Malcolm Turnbull in September. Support for the Coalition is at its lowest level since June. Since the last Newspoll two weeks ago, the Australian Labor Party (ALP) has in [...] | 2008-12-09 06:13:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV AS |
08CANBERRA1252 | Pressure on Australia's Current Account Deficit? [...] (SBU) Summary. Australia's current account deficit (CAD) fell sharply to its lowest level in six years from almost A$20 billion in the March quarter (7 per cent of GDP) to A$9.8 billion in the June quarter (3.2 per cent of GDP) due to a boost to export prices (especially coal and iron ore) and [...] | 2008-12-10 06:02:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETRD ECON AS |
08CANBERRA126 | RUDD SAYS "SORRY" TO INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The House of Representatives passed a motion February 13 apologizing for the treatment of indigenous Australians, particularly the "Stolen Generations" - which refers to the Aboriginal children who were taken from their families by white Australia between 1910 and 1970. Prime Mi [...] | 2008-02-13 22:38:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SOCI AS |
08CANBERRA1266 | AUSTRALIA TACKLES EXECUTIVE PAY - DON'T EXPECT TOO [...] (SBU) Summary. Prime Minister Rudd has been outspoken on the need for reform of executive pay to better balance compensation with risk management. Australian regulators are working on high-level general principles on executive pay with an eye on what emerges as the international consensus. T [...] | 2008-12-12 04:16:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON AS |
08CANBERRA1270 | AUSTRALIA UNDECIDED ON PAKISTAN CONFERENCE [...] (SBU) GOA remains uncertain whether it will be able to attend a Pakistan donors conference at the Foreign Minister level, and on what sort of commitment it could make. DFAT Pakistan Director Lisa Rice-Madan reiterated that the uncertainty about the details of the conference (now including its [...] | 2008-12-12 05:56:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN IBRD IMF PK |
08CANBERRA1277 | TELSTRA OUT OF BROADBAND BIDDING [...] (SBU) Summary. The GOA confirmed December 15 that Telstra has been excluded from the National Broadband Network bidding process because its bid failed to conform to bid guidelines on SMEs. Telstra's chairman criticized the decision over a "trivial" point. Minister Conroy was caught in a diff [...] | 2008-12-15 07:06:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ECON AS |
08CANBERRA1278 | CLIMATE CHANGE: PM TARGETS 5% EMISSIONS CUT BY 2020 [...] (SBU) Prime Minister Rudd released the Government's White Paper on the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) on December 15, which commits Australia to reducing emissions by 5% from 2000 levels (4% from 1990 levels) by 2020. The plan holds out the option of increasing the target to 15% of [...] | 2008-12-15 20:53:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV KGHG ECON AS |
08CANBERRA1279 | CLIMATE CHANGE: PM TARGETS 5% EMISSIONS CUT BY 2020 [...] (SBU) Prime Minister Rudd released the Government's White Paper on the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) on December 15, which commits Australia to reducing emissions by 5% from 2000 levels (4% from 1990 levels) by 2020. The plan holds out the option of increasing the target to 15% of [...] | 2008-12-15 20:53:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV KGHG ECON AS |
08CANBERRA1282 | AUSTRALIAN REPLY ON EU REGULATIONS ON RECOGNIZED [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-17 02:20:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EWWT EUN IMO AS |
08CANBERRA1285 | AUSTRALIA EXTENDS SANCTIONS TO ADDITIONAL MUGABE [...] (SBU) Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade confirmed to Embassy December 17 that the GOA has announced it will extend sanctions against 75 more supporters of the Mugabe regime in Zimbabwe, and against four extra companies. DFAT Director for Sanctions and Transnational Crimes Peter [...] | 2008-12-17 06:35:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD AS ZI |
08CANBERRA1302 | AUSTRALIA ROLLS OUT FURTHER STIMULUS [...] (SBU) The Australian Government announced a $4.7 billion (USD 3.2 billion) nation building package, on 12 December 2008, with the aim of strengthening the economy and creating up to 32,000 jobs. The package provides new funds for rail investment, brings forward road spending, allocates funds [...] | 2008-12-19 06:31:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN AS |
08CANBERRA1307 | BILL OF RIGHTS FOR AUSTRALIA? [...] (U) SUMMARY: On the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the Government announced it would establish a consultation process on how best to protect and promote human rights in Australia. A committee will canvass public opinion on whether human rights need any addition [...] | 2008-12-22 06:01:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM AS |
08CANBERRA1314 | DESIGNATION OF ADDITIONAL IRANIAN ENTITIES - [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-23 21:34:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP EFIN PARM IR AS |
08CANBERRA1316 | GOA SUPPORTS NEW GM/HOLDEN SMALL CAR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On 22 December, Prime Minister Rudd announced an agreement with GM Holden and the South Australian Government to support production of a new, fuel-efficient, low-emission small car in Australia. The agreement provides A$179 million (US$122 million) over 3-4 years to Holden under [...] | 2008-12-23 23:50:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EIND ECON AS |
08CANBERRA1324 | HANEEF INQUIRY RECOMMENDS REVIEW OF CT LAWS AND [...] (U) SUMMARY: A judicial inquiry into the collapsed prosecution of former terrorism suspect Dr Mohammed Haneef, which occurred during the Howard Government in July 2007 (reftel),found no evidence connecting Haneef to terrorist activities. It recommended an independent review of counter-terror [...] | 2008-12-29 05:08:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER AS |
08CANBERRA1326 | AUSTRALIAN RESPONSE TO BURMESE AND DONOR CONCERNS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-29 06:26:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ETRD EAID PHUM BM AS |
08CANBERRA140 | RUDD HAS A VERY GOOD WEEK [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Kevin Rudd burnished his leadership image this week by issuing an emotional apology to indigenous Australians, particularly the "Stolen Generations" and by coolly managing his first foreign crisis, the attack on East Timorese President Ramos-Horta. By closing the apology issue [...] | 2008-02-15 05:55:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV AS |
08CANBERRA150 | AUSTRALIA RECOGNIZES KOSOVO [...] (SBU) The GOA Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade announced at mid-day on February 19 that it formally recognized the Republic of Kosovo as an Independent State. The announcement noted that both the United States and the U.K. had issued their recognitions (earlier in the day a DFAT offic [...] | 2008-02-19 03:56:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AS PREL YI UN |
08CANBERRA186 | AUSMIN 2008: JOINT COMMUNIQUE AND MEDIA EVENTS [...] (U) The Joint Communique issued at the conclusion of the Australia-United States Ministerial Consultations (AUSMIN) in Canberra on February 23 reflected a reaffirmation of the strength of the U.S.-Australian alliance, and a reiteration by both countries of their commitment to work together to [...] | 2008-02-25 20:54:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR PREL AS |
08CANBERRA220 | RUDD SHINES IN FIRST 100 DAYS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In its first several months, the Rudd Government has made a smooth transition to Government, enjoying a continuing honeymoon with the media and the public. To mark 100 days in office, the Prime Minister issued a report card outlining the Rudd Government's achievements and imple [...] | 2008-03-04 05:45:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON AS |
08CANBERRA222 | AUSTRALIAN RESPONSE TO UNSC RESOLUTION 1803 ON IRAN [...] (U) Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith issued a statement March 4 within hours of the UN Security Council's near-unanimous vote on Resolution 1803, welcoming its adoption, urging Iran to suspend its enrichment-related and reprocessing activities, and pledging that Australia would prompt [...] | 2008-03-04 06:18:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MNUC PARM KNNP AS |
08CANBERRA240 | SUPPLEMENTAL TIP QUESTIONAIRE RESPONSE - AUSTRALIA [...] (SBU) Below are supplemental responses to the questions posed in ref A, which were initially answered in ref B. The answers correspond to the question numbers in ref A. PART I: OVERVIEW OF ACTIVITIES TO ELIMINATE TRAFFICKING B. Sex Trafficking Arrests ----------------------- On Ma [...] | 2008-03-12 07:06:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG ASEC AS |
08CANBERRA246 | UNIONS ASK FOR THE SPOILS OF VICTORY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Jeff Lawrence, the new Secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Union (ACTU),the unions' national umbrella organization, said in a speech March 12 that organized labor would lobby for real wage increases for low-paid workers, higher retirement contributions from employers, [...] | 2008-03-17 04:52:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ELAB AS |
08CANBERRA276 | ASIA PACIFIC DEMOCRACY PARTNERSHIP: AUSTRALIA [...] (U) Poloff met with Assistant Secretary for International Organizations Andrew Goledzinowski March 20 to deliver the non-paper and points in Ref A. Goledzinowski, who will shortly transfer to New York to take up his new posting as Deputy Permrep, was joined by Evan Gallagher, Secretary-Genera [...] | 2008-03-20 05:45:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM AS |
08CANBERRA278 | AUSTRALIA GROUP: REQUEST FOR SUMMARY OF U.S. [...] (U) This message contains an action request for ISN/CB -- please see para 3 below. 2. (SBU) Poloff delivered the U.S. proposal to redefine the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza Virus (HPAI) on the AG's animal pathogen common control list (reftel) to Gerry McGuire, Director for Counter-Proli [...] | 2008-03-20 05:47:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM ETTC AS |
08CANBERRA287 | RUDD HONEYMOON MEETS BUDGET REALITIES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: From March 7-12, the dominant political issue was speculation over whether the Rudd Government would axe budget allocations for carers (family members who care for invalids) and seniors in his fight against inflation. With Rudd overseas for most of this period, the Government di [...] | 2008-03-25 06:47:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SOCI AS |
08CANBERRA298 | INTERIM AUSTRALIAN COMMENTS ON THE ASIA PACIFIC [...] (U) This message contains an action request - please see para 6 below. 2. (SBU) On March 26, poloff spoke with Evan Gallagher of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade's (DFAT) International Organizations Branch, who has been designated the action officer of the Asia Pacific Democracy [...] | 2008-03-27 05:16:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM AS |
08CANBERRA310 | RUDD MOVES TO OVERHAUL FEDERAL-STATE RELATIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Since becoming Australian Labor Party (ALP) leader, Rudd has spoken repeatedly about "ending the blame game" between the federal and state governments. At the heart of the "blame game" is the funding imbalance between the federal and state governments. The federal government r [...] | 2008-03-28 06:01:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON AS |
08CANBERRA375 | RURAL INTERNET BROADBAND SCHEME NIXED [...] (SBU) Summary: The former Howard Government's rural broadband scheme was jettisoned by Communications Minister Conroy, who was critical of its technology and inadequate coverage. The main reason for the decision is simple: it duplicates in part the ALP national broadband initiative. End sum [...] | 2008-04-11 05:32:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ECON AS |
08CANBERRA392 | AUSTRALIA WANTS MORE INFO ON U.S. WTO REMAN [...] (SBU) Summary: Australia is not at the moment in a position to agree to cosponsor the US WTO remanufacturing initiative text, but does not rule it out. The Australians suggest a dialogue on this issue, preferably in Geneva. End summary. 2. (SBU) Deputy Econcouns met with Department of Fo [...] | 2008-04-16 06:59:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD WTRO ECON AS |
08CANBERRA403 | RUDD HOLDS SUMMIT OF THE BEST AND BRIGHTEST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Kevin Rudd convened a summit of 1000 of Australia's "brightest and best" on the weekend of April 19-20 to discuss ways of addressing long-term challenges facing Australia. The high-profile summit, "Australia 2020," produced a number of proposals, many of which we [...] | 2008-04-21 23:40:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SOCI AS |
08CANBERRA416 | TORCH RELAY PROCEEDS WITH LITTLE INCIDENT [...] (SBU) Summary: Prime Minister Rudd, GOA officials and Chinese Embassy diplomats here are breathing a collective sigh of relief after the Olympic torch relay ended late April 24 morning with no major incidents, despite the presence of thousands of pro-China and pro-Tibet protesters. Two Chines [...] | 2008-04-24 07:37:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL CH AS |
08CANBERRA423 | AUSTRALIA TO PARTICIPATE IN ASIA-PACIFIC DEMOCRACY [...] (SBU) Poloff met April 28 with Evan Gallagher and Nicole Forrester of the International Organizations Branch, and Berenice Owens-Jones of the United States Political and Strategic Section, of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) to present USG responses to the questions posed by [...] | 2008-04-28 07:48:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM AS |
08CANBERRA456 | DESPITE INFLATION, INTEREST RATES UNCHANGED FOR NOW [...] (U) The Reserve Bank of Australia today did not raise the official cash rate; it remains at 7.25%. Despite higher than expected inflation (reftel),the RBA noted that the substantial tightening since mid-2007 and "difficult" conditions in international financial markets were acting to restrai [...] | 2008-05-06 06:05:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON AS |
08CANBERRA461 | RUDD ANGERS LEFT ON GAY MARRIAGE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Rudd government, exercising the Federal Government's power to override territory laws, has forced the left-leaning Australian Labor Party (ALP) government of the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) to abandon plans to allow "civil unions" for same-sex couples. The Rudd govern [...] | 2008-05-07 05:16:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SOCI AS |
08CANBERRA469 | AUSTRALIA ON WIPO D-G ELECTION [...] (U) Econoff delivered reftel demarche to Nicholas Rodgers, Director for International Intellectual Property at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade May 9. IP Australia, preparing for the long trip to Geneva, was unable to attend, but DFAT has been in close consultation with them and bot [...] | 2008-05-09 05:31:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC WIPO KIPR ETRD PREL AS |
08CANBERRA474 | UNIONS THREATEN RUDD'S INFLATION FIGHT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: There are signs that labor unions in Australia are becoming impatient with the wall-to-wall Federal and state Australian Labor Party (ALP) governments. While the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) and some of the larger unions have tried to work with the Rudd Government a [...] | 2008-05-12 00:30:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON ILAB AS |
08CANBERRA490 | RUDD DELIVERS FOR WORKING FAMILIES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Rudd Government's first budget has slowed the growth of government spending and hit "the rich" to combat inflation, while delivering its election promises and looking after Rudd's "working families." There is means testing of family benefits, tax cuts, spending on the ALP's [...] | 2008-05-14 07:20:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV SENV AS |
08CANBERRA507 | GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT NUCLEAR TERRORISM: [...] (U) This is an action request - please see para 4, below. 2. (U) As instructed Ref A, poloff reapproached Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade's Global Initiative (GI) point of contact, Mohan Mathews, Executive Officer, Counter-Terrorism Cooperation Section, on May 16 to urge [...] | 2008-05-19 07:42:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PTER PREL AS |
08CANBERRA508 | MARKING MAY 21 - DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH CUBAN [...] (SBU) Further to Ref E, and as requested Ref A, U.S. Mission Australia has developed additional activities to help mark May 21 - Day of Solidarity with the Cuban People, as outlined in para 2, below. (We assume Ref B notification of a possible call by Deputy Assistant to the President Julie C [...] | 2008-05-19 07:42:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KDEM KPAO CU AS |
08CANBERRA520 | RUDD TO BOOST SKILLED IMMIGRATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Rudd government plans to significantly boost Australia's migration program to address labor shortages in the Australian economy. The Skilled Migration Program will be expanded by 30 percent. The Government is also considering boosting unskilled migration, including a labor s [...] | 2008-05-20 07:25:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON PREF ELAB SMIG AS |
08CANBERRA521 | BUDGET RECEIVES MIXED REVIEWS AS LIBERALS SQUABBLE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Two national polls released May 20 indicate the Rudd government's popularity has not been affected by last week's budget. Both polls, taken after the budget was announced, have the Australian Labor Party (ALP) leading the Coalition 57 percent to 43 with Kevin Rudd thrashing Bren [...] | 2008-05-20 07:38:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV AS |
08CANBERRA530 | FORMER FM DOWNER MULLING ROLE AS UN SPECIAL ENVOY [...] (U) SUMMARY: The press carried reports on May 22 that former foreign minister Alexander Downer has been offered the job of UN Special Envoy for Cyprus. UN Undersecretary-General for Political Affairs Lynn Pascoe reportedly made the offer through Australia's UN Ambassador Robert Hill. Accordi [...] | 2008-05-22 02:08:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AS CY PINR PREL |
08CANBERRA531 | FOOD EXPORT RESTRICTIONS [...] (U) The GOA has taken no steps to restrict agricultural exports from Australia, nor does post expect any such moves in Australia, which exports on average two-thirds of its agricultural production. 2. (SBU) Bruce Bowan, Acting Director for International Affairs at the Department of Agricul [...] | 2008-05-22 06:48:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EAGR ECON TBIO AS |
08CANBERRA535 | AUSTRALIA: REPORT ON MAY 21 - DAY OF SOLIDARITY [...] (U) As requested Ref B, post hereby furnishes the following report on activities undertaken by the U.S. Mission to observe May 21 - Day of Solidarity with the Cuban People. 2. (SBU) Parliamentary Outreach: Michael Danby, a prominent Member of Parliament, distributed the following statement [...] | 2008-05-22 07:38:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KDEM KPAO CU AS |
08CANBERRA538 | AUSTRALIAN RESPONSE ON GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY AND [...] (U) Post shared reftel demarche with Paul Morris, Executive Manager, Technical Market Access at Australia's Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry. In response, Morris provided the following paper laying out the GOA,s views. 2. (SBU) DAFF Comments on US Food Cable The Austra [...] | 2008-05-23 04:59:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EAGR EAID ECON TBIO AS |
08CANBERRA542 | HIGH COURT HEARS CASE ON SLAVERY AND TRAFFICKING [...] (U) SUMMARY: On May 13 the High Court of Australia heard an appeal of a brothel owner who was convicted for enslaving five Thai prostitutes who had incurred a debt of A$45,000 when they were recruited to work in a brothel in Melbourne. The brothel had been raided in 2003 and the owner, Wei Tang [...] | 2008-05-27 04:46:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SOCI KWMN AS |
08CANBERRA554 | AUSTRALIA AND CHILE CONCLUDE FTA [...] (U) Summary: Australia and Chile have concluded negotiations for an FTA. It is expected to be signed in July. This is the first FTA to be concluded by the Rudd Government; negotiations began under the previous Howard government. End summary. 2. (U) On May 27 Trade Minister Simon Crean [...] | 2008-05-29 07:34:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV ECON AS CI |
08CANBERRA579 | AUSTRALIAN FUNDING FOR UN ELECTORAL ASSISTANCE FOR [...] (U) This is an action request - please see para 4 below. 2. (U) Poloff conveyed reftel request for the GOA to submit its letter of commitment for its planned contribution to the UN Trust Fund for Electoral Assistant to Evan Gallagher, International Organizations Branch, Department of Foreig [...] | 2008-06-05 08:17:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM AS |
08CANBERRA621 | RUDD POPULARITY UNDIMINISHED DESPITE CRITICISM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Rudd Government has extended its lead in the polls, despite rising fuel prices, alleged inappropriate conduct by one of its MPs, and criticism of Rudd's approach to economics and foreign affairs. Previous polls had the Coalition trailing badly but closing the gap, which pro [...] | 2008-06-17 07:36:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV AS |
08CANBERRA623 | BABCOCK & BROWN'S SHAREPRICE MELTDOWN [...] (U) Summary: Australian investment bank Babcock & Brown (B&B) lost over half its share value in the week of June 9 over concerns it could not manage its debt load. B&B stock has been recovering this week. The Australian Securities Exchange has said there is no sign of market manipulation; r [...] | 2008-06-18 06:54:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON AS |
08CANBERRA625 | DRIED-UP RIVER SYSTEM THREATENS SOUTH AUSTRALIAN [...] (SBU) Summary: A report presented to the Murray-Darling Ministerial Committee, which was leaked to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on June 18, says that the critically-stressed river system (the largest in Australia) has only months to go before salinity and acidification of the lower [...] | 2008-06-19 06:48:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV AS |
08CANBERRA627 | AUSTRALIA GROUP: 2008 INTERSESSIONAL MEETING AND [...] (U) This cable contains an action request for ISN/CB - please see para 4 below. 2. (SBU) 2008 Intersessional Implementation Meeting: During a June 20 meeting, Alexandra Jones, Acting Director for Counter-Proliferation, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, advised us that the dates for [...] | 2008-06-19 09:31:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL ETTC AS |
08CANBERRA631 | POST WELCOME STAFFDEL WILLIAMS [...] (SBU) AmEmbassy Canberra, with concurrence of Consulate-General Sydney welcomes STAFFDEL Williams and delegation for travel to Sydney, Canberra, and Cairns, Australia from June 26-July 6, 2008. The purpose of the travel is to discuss US-Australia trade, climate change and aboriginal issues. [...] | 2008-06-20 08:01:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN AS |
08CANBERRA640 | COALITION POISED TO WIN FIRST BY-ELECTION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The National Party candidate appears poised to win a June 28 by-election that has been billed by the media as a major test of Brendan Nelson's leadership and, to a lesser extent, as a bellwether signaling the end of the Rudd Government's honeymoon. Most observers expect The Nat [...] | 2008-06-26 05:43:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV AS |
08CANBERRA653 | BY-ELECTION RESULT A WARNING FOR RUDD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: As predicted (see ref A),the National Party retained the rural Victorian seat of Gippsland at a by-election on June 28, although the 6.4 percent swing against the Australian Labor Party (ALP) was greater than expected. Most observers are attributing the larger than expected sw [...] | 2008-06-30 06:48:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV AS |
08CANBERRA660 | END OF RUDD HONEYMOON DOES NOT HELP NELSON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Two days after the Australian Labor Party's (ALP) loss in the Gippsland by-election (reftel),support in the polls for the ALP and Rudd has slumped to its lowest level since the election. The ALP's lead over the Coalition has fallen eight points to 55-45 and Rudd's satisfaction [...] | 2008-07-01 05:47:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SENV AS |
08CANBERRA670 | FORMER FM DOWNER NEW UN ENVOY ON CYPRUS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Alexander Downer, former foreign minister under John Howard and Australia's longest serving Foreign Minister, told an Australian newspaper June 30 that he would announce his retirement from politics when he returned to Australia from Europe at the end of the week. He will work [...] | 2008-07-02 08:01:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINR CY AS |
08CANBERRA704 | DELAYS IN AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL BROADBAND NETWORK [...] (SBU) Summary: Progress on the National Broadband Network (NBN) has been slower than expected. The original deadline (July 25) for bids will slip, primarily due to Telstra's delay in providing network information to the GOA for other bidders. We expect an announcement that this information h [...] | 2008-07-11 06:34:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ECON AS |
08CANBERRA709 | AUSTRALIA AVIATION - EU OPEN SKIES AND RISING FUEL [...] (SBU) Summary: As Australia and the EU prepare to begin Open Skies talks in September, environmental issues such as emissions will be the hardest point to resolve. Qantas expects to increase its European operations under an Open Skies deal. Qantas and Virgin Blue are both coping reasonably [...] | 2008-07-15 03:38:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR AS |
08CANBERRA712 | AUSTRALIA STUDYING NTI FUEL BANK PROPOSAL [...] Tim Bryson, Executive Officer, Arms Control Section of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT),responded in writing on July 15 to Embassy's June 26 demarche urging the GOA to consider contributing funds to the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) proposal for an IAEA-administered nuclear [...] | 2008-07-15 07:03:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP ENRG AS |
08CANBERRA757 | CLIMATE CHANGE: EMISSION TRADING PAPER REACTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: The July 16 release of the Rudd government's Green Paper setting up the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS) emissions trading system has laid out the banquet for an escalating round of maneuvering by industry, government and the Opposition. The details provided in the 532- [...] | 2008-07-25 07:33:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ECON ENRG AS |
08CANBERRA760 | AUSTRALIA SET FOR FIRST URANIUM SHIPMENT TO PRC [...] (SBU) Per instructions in reftel, press reports on July 26 indicate that Energy Resources of Australia (ERA),which is controlled by Rio Tinto (68 percent ownership) has reached agreement with an unspecified utility in China to sell uranium oxide from the Ranger mine in the Northern Territory [...] | 2008-07-28 06:58:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG KNNP TRGY AS |
08CANBERRA788 | APEC FOOD DEFENSE PILOT PROJECTS: AUSTRALIA [...] (U) This is an action request, see para 4. 2. (SBU) Per instructions in reftel, we provided information on the Food Defence Pilot Program to Amy Crago in the Reform, Ecotech and Human Security Section of the APEC Branch at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). Crago told us t [...] | 2008-08-06 06:10:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER TBIO EAGR AS |
08CANBERRA792 | EXPERTS DISCUSS AUSTRALIA-CHINA ECONOMIC [...] (SBU) Summary: The consensus among several of the leading Australian economic thinkers in Canberra is that the commodities boom will begin to cool off, but that Chinese and other developing market economic growth will continue to prop up Australian export strength over the long run. Australi [...] | 2008-08-08 01:16:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PREL AS |
08CANBERRA819 | LNG INDUSTRY REACTION TO GREEN PAPER ON EMISSIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: Australia's extensive and growing Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) industry is up in arms about the Government's plan to create an emissions trading scheme (ETS) because the Government's discussion paper (aka green paper) on emissions trading (reftel A) failed to indicate whether LNG [...] | 2008-08-17 22:18:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ETRD SENV AS |
08CANBERRA864 | MIXED RESULTS FOR OPPOSITION IN WEEKEND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: By-elections in two federal parliamentary seats, caused by the resignation of former foreign minister Alexander Downer and former leader of the National Party Mark Vaile, will be held on Saturday September 6. The Liberal Party is expected to comfortably retain Downer's seat of [...] | 2008-09-03 08:32:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV AS |
08CANBERRA886 | AMBASSADOR MCCALLUM CALL ON INDUSTRY MINISTER CARR [...] (SBU) Summary: Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research Kim Carr wants the Rudd government to set up a 10-year plan to address key innovation needs, which would include funding of A$1.5 billion per year to improve research training and infrastructure and changes to the tax treat [...] | 2008-09-08 07:49:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD ESTH EIND AS |
08CANBERRA892 | IMSO ASSEMBLY: AUSTRALIA WILL NOT ATTEND [...] No summary [...] | 2008-09-10 02:43:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS EWWT PBTS PHSA PREL KSCA AS |
08CANBERRA896 | IS THE TIDE SHIFTING AGAINST STATE LABOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Recent swings against the Australian Labor Party (ALP) in the Western Australian (WA) and Northern Territory (NT) state elections may indicate that voters are tiring of long-serving Labor governments around Australia. On August 9, in NT, there was a nine percent swing against th [...] | 2008-09-10 06:38:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV AS |
08CANBERRA901 | COSTELLO DECLARES NO INTEREST IN LIBERAL LEADERSHIP [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In an interview published September 11, former Howard Government Treasurer Peter Costello ended months of speculation by declaring that he would not seek the leadership of the Liberal Party. Recent media commentary that Costello would contest the leadership of his party has bee [...] | 2008-09-11 05:45:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV AS |
08CANBERRA909 | BENBRIKA PLUS 5 OTHERS GUILTY ON TERROR CHARGES [...] (SBU) A Victoria State Supreme court jury announced on September 15 that Abdul Benbrika and five co-defendants were found guilty under Australia's recent anti-terrorism legislation. Four of Benbrika's accomplices were acquitted and the verdicts of two others have yet to be announced. Local au [...] | 2008-09-15 07:50:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV AS |
08CANBERRA915 | MALCOLM TURNBULL NEW OPPOSITION LEADER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a leadership vote by the Liberal Party federal caucus on September 16, Shadow Treasurer Malcolm Turnbull beat incumbent Liberal Party Leader Brendan Nelson 45-41. He is now the head of the Liberal Party and Opposition Leader in the Parliament. After former Treasurer Peter C [...] | 2008-09-16 06:41:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV AS |
08CANBERRA921 | AUSTRALIA ON REBUTTING RUSSIAN MISSTATEMENTS ON [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Annabel Anderson, Assistant Secretary for Northern, Southern and Eastern Europe, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, on September 16. 2. (SBU) In a preliminary response, Anderson said the U.S. position on Russia's claims about Georgia tracked pe [...] | 2008-09-16 07:40:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL RS GG AS |
08CANBERRA956 | TURNBULL GIVES LIBERALS A BOOST IN THE POLLS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Two opinion polls released September 22 suggest the Liberal Party made the right decision installing Malcolm Turnbull as leader. Although the Australian Labor Party (ALP) remains well in front, one poll has the ALP's support at its lowest since November 2006, and the other has [...] | 2008-09-22 06:50:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV AS |
08CANBERRA979 | AUSTRALIA TO SUPPORT SIDIBE FOR UNAIDS EXECUTIVE [...] (SBU) Nicole Forrester, Executive Officer for the United Nations and Commonwealth Section, advised poloff on September 26 that Australia would support Malian candidate Michel Sidibe as its top priority candidate for the UNAIDS Executive Director position, followed by Debrework Zewdie of Ethiopi [...] | 2008-09-26 03:01:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | UNGA EAID KHIV ML AS |
08CANBERRA99 | AUSTRALIA: DEMARCHE ON IAEA REQUEST FOR MORE NSG [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-06 06:04:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM KNNP MNUC PREL AS |
08CANBERRA998 | POLL: AUSTRALIANS MORE FAVORABLE TOWARD U.S., WARY [...] (U) SUMMARY: According to the 2008 annual poll by the Lowy Institute in Sydney, support among Australians for the United States has risen, while the public has become increasingly wary of China. Support for Australia's security alliance with the United States has reached its highest level sinc [...] | 2008-09-30 07:18:00 | Embassy Canberra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR SENV SCUL CH AS |
08CAPETOWN210 | THE INDEPENDENT DEMOCRATS: INSTRUCTING AND COURTING ANC [...] (SBU) Patricia DeLille, out-spoken leader of the Independent Democrats (ID) -- the third largest party in the Western Cape and the fourth in South Africa -- is doing double duty as some ruling African National Congress (ANC) member's contemplate leaving their party. In a recent article publishe [...] | 2008-10-17 09:34:00 | Consulate Cape Town | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SF |
08CAPETOWN212 | WESTERN CAPE ANC SPLIT? [...] (SBU) Summary: The African National Congress (ANC) is facing its worst political crisis since the end of apartheid 14 years ago. Supporters of former President, Thabo Mbeki, who was deposed last month by the ANC's National Executive Committee (NEC),are threatening to break away from the ANC an [...] | 2008-10-23 06:33:00 | Consulate Cape Town | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SF |
08CAPETOWN217 | SCORPIONS TO BE DISMANTLED [...] (SBU) On October 20, the African National Congress (ANC) pushed through legislation to dissolve the Directorate of Public Prosecutions and amend the South African Police Services Bill. The October 20 meeting of Parliament's safety and security and justice committees was a joint meeting of the [...] | 2008-10-29 08:25:00 | Consulate Cape Town | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SF |
08CAPETOWN227 | CG DISCUSSES FOREIGN AFFAIRS WITH SAG MP SKOSANA [...] (SBU) On November 12, 2008 the CG, PolOff and PolAsst met with Moleeane Skosana, a member of the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP),and one of three House Chairpersons of the National Assembly as well as a member of the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Foreign Affairs. Mr. Skosana has had a long [...] | 2008-11-14 14:03:00 | Consulate Cape Town | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM SF |
08CAPETOWN232 | U.S. ELECTION RESULTS COULD BRING NEW ERA TO USG-SAG [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 5, 2008 the Consul general hosted an election party at her residence. After the confirmation of Barrack Obama as President Elect, Professor Ben Turok, an ANC MP who was imprisoned with Mandela strolled into the CGR with a pronouncement that ANC Parliamentary members [...] | 2008-11-25 07:26:00 | Consulate Cape Town | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KDEM SF |
08CAPETOWN234 | HUGE TURNOUT IN SA VOTER REGISTRATION-OBAMA'S VICTORY A [...] (U) The South Africa Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) organized a voters registration drive during the weekend of November 8 and 9, 2008, in an effort to energize the younger citizens to participate in the 2009 election. From all accounts the campaign was a success. According to the IEC [...] | 2008-11-25 07:27:00 | Consulate Cape Town | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KDEM SF |
08CAPETOWN245 | CAPE TOWN MAYOR DISCUSSES LOCAL, NATIONAL AND [...] (SBU) On December 12, Cape Town CG, Poloff and Polasst met with City of Cape Town Mayor and Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Helen Zille. Mayor Zille was enthusiastic about the strong gains the DA made in the recent by-elections, particularly in the Western Cape. She said that although the resu [...] | 2008-12-18 09:45:00 | Consulate Cape Town | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM SF |
08CAPETOWN247 | ANC NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COUNCIL REIGNS IN ITS WESTERN CAPE [...] (U) On December 17 and 18, the ANC National Executive Council (NEC) met to discuss its roadmap for the upcoming months, in particular with regards to the ANC provincial leadership in the Western Cape. The Western Cape Provincial leadership of the African National Congress (ANC) is again under [...] | 2008-12-19 14:18:00 | Consulate Cape Town | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM SF |
08CAPETOWN258 | OUSTED EASTERN CAPE MAYOR DISCUSSES POLITICS [...] (SBU) Summary. On December 23, Cape Town CG, Poloff, Econoff, PAO, and FCS met with Ntombentle Cordelia Peter, the former Mayor of Buffalo City (East London) in the Eastern Cape when she came to the Consulate to pick her visa for her forthcoming IV program. Peter discussed a range of issues, [...] | 2008-12-31 09:38:00 | Consulate Cape Town | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM SF |
08CAPETOWN52 | TRANSNET RESTRUCTURING AND CAPE TOWN PORT EXPANSION PLANS [...] (SBU) Summary. Transport Officer and Special Agent for Department of Defense Force Protection met with Transnet and maritime industry officials in Cape Town to discuss Transnet restructuring, port expansion projects, and investments to increase port security. The National Port Authority (NPA) [...] | 2008-03-14 11:38:00 | Consulate Cape Town | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EWWT ELTN EIND EINV SF |
08CARACAS1079 | 63RD UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY: EXPECTED DELEGATION FROM [...] (SBU) Venezuelan Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) officials reported to us that President Chavez' attendance at the United Nations General Assembley is as yet undetermined. The Venezuelan delegation will likely include Foreign Minister Maduro and Vice Foreign Minister for North America and M [...] | 2008-08-01 20:37:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL OTRA OVIP KSEP UNGA VE |
08CARACAS118 | NOT MUCH SUBSTANCE AT THE VI ALBA SUMMIT [...] (U) SUMMARY: Venezuela hosted the VI Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples of our Americas (ALBA) summit January 24-26, 2008 in Caracas. While little substantive occurred at the summit, it provided Hugo Chavez a platform to rail against capitalism and the United States. Three of the four [...] | 2008-01-30 18:44:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD ENRG EINV VE |
08CARACAS1207 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON REJECTION OF RECOGNITION OF [...] (SBU) Embassy delivered talking points in reftel to Foreign Ministry Affairs Director for North American Affairs Yaneth Arocha. No response is expected from the MFA. 2. (SBU) The Venezuelan government has so far refrained from recognizing Abkhazia and South Ossetia, however President Ch [...] | 2008-08-27 21:36:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL VE |
08CARACAS1352 | DEMONSTRATION AT EMBASSY CARACAS [...] (SBU) On 09/23/2008, a group of approximately 50 demonstrators gathered outside the main entrance of Embassy Caracas. Post officials received advance notice of the protest and in light of increased anti-U.S. rhetoric from the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV),decided it was prudent to c [...] | 2008-09-25 22:46:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC CVIS PREL VE |
08CARACAS1405 | EXPRESSION OF SUPPORT FROM BRV PARLIAMENT FOR FIVE [...] (SBU) The Embassy received an official statement of support from the National Assembly (NA) of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) for five Cuban citizens held in the United States on spying charges. The expression of support, passed by the NA on September 23, 2008, condemns the case [...] | 2008-10-03 13:00:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL VE |
08CARACAS1455 | BRV SUBMITS 2009 BUDGET, FOR WHAT IT'S WORTH [...] (U) Press reports indicate that the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) has submitted the 2009 budget to the National Assembly (AN),though it has not yet been formally presented by the Minister of Finance as is the custom. According to these reports, which cite AN deputy and president of [...] | 2008-10-16 20:28:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN VE |
08CARACAS15 | MEDIA REACTION: FARC FALLS FROM FRONT PAGE AS [...] (SBU) Days before Christmas Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez stated that a mission to liberate three FARC-held hostages ("Operation Emmanuel") would commence December 28th. As of January 4, the hostages remain captive, international observers have left Colombia accusations of blame are flying [...] | 2008-01-04 22:04:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV VE CO |
08CARACAS152 | CHAVEZ THREATENS TO EXPROPRIATE LARGE FOOD [...] (U) This message is Sensitive But Unclassified, Please Treat Accordingly. 2. (SBU) During a February 4 speech celebrating the 16th anniversary of his attempted 1992 coup (Septel),Chavez threatened to expropriate large food distributors and producers. Chavez said, "I have ordered Mr. Vice- [...] | 2008-02-07 20:42:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON PGOV VE |
08CARACAS1537 | CHAVEZ OBSCURES MIAMI VERDICT, FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (SBU) President Hugo Chavez took over the airwaves in an obligatory national "cadena" broadcast on November 3, squashing early news reports of Franklin Duran's guilt in the Miami "suitcase" trial. Venezuelan law requires free-to-air broadcasters to carry presidential "cadena" broadcasts in t [...] | 2008-11-06 12:29:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV VE |
08CARACAS1595 | NOVEMBER 23 STATE AND LOCAL ELECTIONS: BY THE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-18 15:09:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV VE |
08CARACAS1669 | VENEZUELA: TAX AUTHORITY SURPASSES 2008 REVENUE [...] (U) Summary. The tax authority of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela (BRV) announced December 2 it had already reached its tax revenue goal for budget year 2008. Tax officials predict record tax revenues for budget year 2009 and continue to find creative methods to increase compliance with [...] | 2008-12-05 18:42:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PREL EINV PGOV VE |
08CARACAS232 | 2008 SPECIAL 301 RECOMMENDATION: KEEP VENEZUELA [...] (SBU) Summary: The BRV's protection and enforcement of IPR continues to deteriorate. The market for legitimate music CDs is eclipsed by piracy, with piracy rates for CDs, DVDs, and business software hovering above 80 percent. SAPI, the agency that oversees IPR enforcement and issues patents, [...] | 2008-02-22 21:27:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR VE |
08CARACAS278 | (SBU) REQUEST FOR SPANISH TEST FOR VIRGINIA M. [...] (U) Post requests a FSI Language Proficiency test(test type-DVC). 2. (SBU) Information on employee to be tested: Employee: Virginia M. Gregory SSN: XXX-XX-6451 Agency: State Language: Spanish Date for exam preferred: April 11, 2008. PLO: Stephen Bruce Stewart 3. (U) Method of s [...] | 2008-02-29 20:45:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AFSI APER |
08CARACAS347 | (SBU) REQUEST FOR SPANISH TEST FOR ALYCE ABDULLA [...] (U) Post requests a FSI Language Proficiency test (test type-DVC). 2. (SBU) Information on employee to be tested: Employee: Alyce Abdalla SSN: XXX-XX-9525 Agency: State Language: Spanish Date for exam preferred: April 28, 2008. PLO: Stephen Bruce Stewart 3. (U) Method of shipment: [...] | 2008-03-12 19:27:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AFSI APER |
08CARACAS422 | RUSSIAN ARMS ARRIVE IN VENEZUELA, AIR DEFENSE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Nineteen shipping containers carrying Russian made ammunition for AK-103 assault rifles were transferred from Puerto Cabello to Maracay under heavy security on March 25 according to local media. General Alejandro Tineo of the 41st Armored Division added that the shipment incl [...] | 2008-03-27 15:51:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV MCAP PTER BO RS VE |
08CARACAS587 | BRV SELLS USD 4 BILLION IN SOVEREIGN BONDS [...] (U) The Ministry of Finance (MoF) published on April 28 the results of the Sovereign International Bond (SIB) issuance announced April 21 (reftel). Per these results, the MoF will sell SIBs worth a total amount (face value) of USD 4 billion. The announcement does not specify the amount allo [...] | 2008-04-29 14:46:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN VE |
08CARACAS609 | CHAVEZ ANNOUNCES 30 PERCENT HIKE IN MINIMUM WAGE [...] (U) Speaking on the evening of April 30 at a commemoration of International Worker's Day, President Chavez announced a 30 percent increase in the minimum wage and in all public sector employees' salaries. The new monthly minimum wage is 799 bolivars (Bs),or USD 372 at the official exchange [...] | 2008-05-02 21:39:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB PGOV VE |
08CARACAS707 | TEXT OF DIPLOMATIC NOTE PROTESTING VIOLATION OF [...] (SBU) The text of the diplmatic note received by Ambassador Duddy at his May 20 meeting with BRV Foreign Minister Maduro (reftel) follows. Begin Text: The Ministry of Popular Power for Foreign Affairs of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela raises its strongest protest to the Government [...] | 2008-05-23 13:00:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL VE |
08CARACAS956 | INFLATION CONTINUES RELENTLESS MARCH WITH FOOD [...] (U) According to the national consumer price index (CPI-N) compiled by the Central Bank and the National Statistics Institute, inflation for the month of June was 2.4 percent and reached 15.1 percent for the first half of 2008. Annualized inflation (June 2006 to June 2007) topped 32 percent i [...] | 2008-07-09 19:54:00 | Embassy Caracas | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON AMGT ALOW APER AFIN ABUD VE |
08CASABLANCA107 | CHINA'S GROWING ECONOMIC INFLUENCE IN MOROCCO [...] (SBU) Summary: Strong bilateral ties between China and Morocco have been bolstered in recent years by state and official visits. Commercial exchanges between the two countries have increased, and Chinese traders have begun to set up shop in Casablanca's largest commercial district. Although b [...] | 2008-05-29 16:28:00 | Consulate Casablanca | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PGOV XA CH MO |
08CASABLANCA144 | VISAS VIPER FOR June 2008 REPORTING PERIOD (follow up) [...] (U) The following information was provided by RAO on July 10 with respect to the recent arrests of 35 individuals suspected of belonging to a network that recruits volunteers on behalf of Al Qaeda in Iraq and Algeria. 2. (SBU) Hamid al-Bochibi: Moroccan citizen, DPOB: 15 Nov. 1983, Tetoua [...] | 2008-07-11 15:57:00 | Consulate Casablanca | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS KVPR CMGT PINR PTER ASEC MO |
08CASABLANCA27 | EL FASSI'S FIRST 100 DAYS: TOO EARLY TO TELL, BUT TIME TO ACT [...] (SBU) Summary: 100 days into El Fassi's tenure as Prime Minister, many Casablancans feel they have little on which to judge the new government, though they feel it is time for action. Citizens expressed anger over the increase in value-added tax on cars, and a sense of urgency about the need t [...] | 2008-02-05 10:28:00 | Consulate Casablanca | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN KDEM MO |
08CASABLANCA270 | DONKEY CARTS BY DIOR: CASABLANCA GOES UPSCALE [...] (SBU) Summary: An explosion of high-end stores has hit Casablanca in the past few years, causing one magazine to declare luxury a new sector in Morocco. While some view the luxury boom as evidence of newfound upward mobility, others believe the rich are just getting richer, though it is not a [...] | 2008-01-14 09:23:00 | Consulate Casablanca | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN KDEM MO |
08CASABLANCA271 | EFFECTIVENESS OF UN EFFORTS TO COMBAT SEXUAL EXPLOITATION [...] (U) This cable responds to a request for information on MINURSO's efforts to combat trafficking in persons (TIP) and sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) involving UN peacekeeping mission personnel in the Western Sahara and Moroccan peacekeepers in Cote d'Ivoire. This message was cleared with [...] | 2008-01-15 16:59:00 | Consulate Casablanca | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KPRO MO |
08CASABLANCA272 | U.S. COMMERCIAL SERVICE DIRECTOR GENERAL ISRAEL HERNANDEZ [...] (U) Summary: Director General and Assistant Secretary for Trade Promotion Israel Hernandez visited Morocco December 5-7 to reinforce the important friendship and bilateral trade relationship between the U.S. and Morocco. He met separately with Minister of Industry, Commerce and New Technologi [...] | 2008-01-16 12:02:00 | Consulate Casablanca | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BEXP ECON ETRD BMGT PREL MO |
08CASABLANCA281 | CASABLANCA REFORMERS FOCUS ON EDUCATION, PARLIAMENT, [...] (SBU) Summary: At a reform advocates' luncheon for visiting DAS Kent Patton and Tunis MEPI Director Peter Mulrean on January 16, 2008 in Casablanca, discussion focused on three types of reform: educational, parliamentary and constitutional. The discussion preceded a letter calling for the defe [...] | 2008-01-29 11:14:00 | Consulate Casablanca | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV ECON SOCI MO |
08CASABLANCA282 | EXXONMOBIL SELLS SHARES IN MOROCCAN AFFILIATE [...] (SBU) Summary: ExxonMobil will announce on January 30 a strategic decision to sell its shares of Mobil Oil Maroc to Libya Oil Holdings Limited, a Libyan-government entity. The sale's impact on Morocco is expected to be minor. End Summary. --------------------------------------------- EXXON [...] | 2008-01-29 17:06:00 | Consulate Casablanca | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EPET ENRG EFIN MO |
08CASABLANCA39 | MOROCCO: 2008 ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT [...] (U) This cable responds to action request (reftel) for updated information on the Moroccan government's efforts to combat trafficking in persons from April 2007 to March 2008. ------------------------------------- Morocco Headed in the Right Direction ------------------------------------- [...] | 2008-02-27 12:42:00 | Consulate Casablanca | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF ELAB SMIG KFRD KCRM KWMN MO |
08CASABLANCA50 | MOROCCAN APPAREL EXPERTS SPIN YARNS ABOUT TRADE WITH U.S. [...] (SBU) Summary: Experts in the Moroccan apparel sector say they have limited contact with U.S. clients as a result of stiff competition from Asian markets, American retailers' quest for higher profit margins, and the weak dollar. They question the benefits the FTA offers, but believe that maki [...] | 2008-03-11 14:51:00 | Consulate Casablanca | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD KTEX MO |
08CASABLANCA56 | Services, Safety and Management Ongoing Concerns in [...] (SBU) Summary: Six Americans have been arrested in Morocco in the past five months, more than were arrested in all of FY07. The recent increase has expanded Post's knowledge of the prison system and the issues Americans face while incarcerated, including few provisions for their basic needs, b [...] | 2008-03-28 15:42:00 | Consulate Casablanca | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CASC PINS PGOV MO |
08CASABLANCA62 | ANTI-PIRACY EFFORTS IN CASABLANCA DO NOT DETER [...] (SBU) Summary: Following a series of seizures of pirated CDs and DVDs, Moroccan authorities destroyed some 80,000 discs on March 27 in Casablanca. Undeterred, illegal CD and DVD vendors remain in business, buoyed by strong demand and the knowledge that periodic raids are annoying, but not rui [...] | 2008-04-03 13:58:00 | Consulate Casablanca | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN KDEM MO |
08CHENGDU11 | GUIZHOU PARTY SECRETARY HOSTS LUNCH FOR DEPUTY SECRETARY [...] (SBU) Summary. During a lunch banquet hosted for the Deputy Secretary, Guizhou Party Secretary Shi Zongyuan described his SIPDIS professional challenges, especially the problems of economic development in the face of deep rural poverty. He urged more high-level visits to interior China, c [...] | 2008-01-23 01:15:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON SOCI CH |
08CHENGDU210 | CHENGDU MANIPULATING AIR QUALITY DATA? [...] (SBU) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the Internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: Official data published on the Ministry of Environmental Protection website strongly suggests that Chengdu air quality data is being manipulated to appear cleaner [...] | 2008-09-29 09:49:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG ECON PREL CH |
08CHENGDU241 | SOUTHWEST CHINA'S REAL ESTATE CONTINUES PRE-QUAKE SLIDE [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: Land prices and housing prices in Chengdu and Chongqing, two major cities in southwest China, have been declining since late last year as government regulations have [...] | 2008-10-27 08:08:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB CH |
08CHENGDU267 | CHENGDU YET TO SEE SURGE OF RETURNING WORKERS FROM CLOSED [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the internet. 2. (SBU) Summary. While laid off workers from the coast returning to Sichuan may eventually boost unemployment in Sichuan Province, Chengdu labor experts have yet to see evidence of t [...] | 2008-11-26 08:53:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB FCS PAS POL |
08CHENGDU293 | SOUTHWEST CHINA: QUAKE RECONSTRUCTION AND ECONOMIC STIMULUS [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: According to two prominent researchers in Chengdu, the national-level economic stimulus plan will bolster Sichuan Province's economy during the two to three year windo [...] | 2008-12-18 09:16:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN CH |
08CHENGDU299 | ASSISTANCE TO RETURNING LABORERS IN SOUTHWEST CHINA'S [...] (U) This cable contains sensitive but unclassified information - not for distribution on the internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY. Authorities in southwest China's Guizhou province have set up booths at the capital city's train station to assist the thousands of migrant laborers who are returning [...] | 2008-12-31 08:25:00 | Consulate Chengdu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ELAB CH |
08CHENNAI100 | NEW HYDERABAD AIRPORT STILL IN HOLDING PATTERN [...] (U) Sonia Gandhi, chair of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA),formally inaugurated the new Rajiv Gandhi International Airport (RGI) in Hyderabad on March 14, 2008, with much fanfare. The inauguration heralded the planned opening of the facility on March 16 (ref B). Almost immediately afte [...] | 2008-03-17 10:50:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAIR ETRD EFIN PREL PGOV IN |
08CHENNAI103 | KERALA COMMUNISTS SLAM HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The recently released Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2007 (Human Rights Report) drew sharp rebukes from leftists in the South Indian state of Kerala. The state's ruling Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) described the report as an "imperialist strategy t [...] | 2008-03-19 10:34:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM PREL PINR IN |
08CHENNAI104 | HINDU NATIONALISTS TARGET STATE COMMUNIST PARTY CHIEF IN [...] (SBU) Summary: A group of Hindu nationalists reportedly ransacked the home of the communist party chief in the South India state of Karnataka's on March 9. The attack was likely inspired by violence against Hindu nationalists by communists in the neighboring state of Kerala several days earli [...] | 2008-03-20 06:40:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM PINR IN |
08CHENNAI11 | BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-SHIPMENT END-USE CHECK ON [...] (SBU) Mission personnel visited Park Controls & Communications (http://www.parkcontrols.com/index.htm) on December 17, and were granted full access to the site. Only one of the boxes containing the RCB-2000 Digital Receiver Systems had been unpacked at the time of our visit -- the company had [...] | 2008-01-09 13:00:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC KOMC IN |
08CHENNAI113 | UNSEASONABLE RAINS DEVASTATE KERALA'S CROPS AND EXPOSE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: An unseasonable spell of rain hit the South India state of Kerala in mid-March as farmers were preparing to harvest rice causing an estimated crop loss of USD 45 million. The unusual downpours also caused political trouble for the state's ruling Communist Party of India (Marxist [...] | 2008-03-28 04:25:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON IN |
08CHENNAI119 | KARNATAKA HEADED FOR MAY POLLS [...] (U) Summary: The South India state of Karnataka will hold elections for its legislative assembly before May 28, according to a statement India's Chief Election Commissioner made to reporters on March 28 in Chennai. The precise date of the elections has not been set, but earlier reports sugges [...] | 2008-04-01 10:38:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON IN |
08CHENNAI134 | BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-LICENSE PRE-SHIPMENT CHECK ON [...] (SBU) Summary: Post does not recommend approval of this license. Both the foreign consignee and end-user have been difficult or impossible to contact, and much of the contact information on the license check request is erroneous. The end-user has also been evasive and non-cooperative. We ha [...] | 2008-04-11 07:41:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC KOMC IN |
08CHENNAI15 | MAYAWATI ON THE MOVE IN SOUTH INDIA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP),led by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati, is moving into South India. BSP previously had little presence in the south, but has recently increased its visibility in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka with Mayawati holding rallies in both states' capit [...] | 2008-01-14 11:16:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV IN |
08CHENNAI153 | MORE OF THE SAME: COMMUNIST NATIONAL MEET OUTLINES FUTURE [...] (U) Summary: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) held its nineteenth Party Congress in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu from March 29 - April 3. The CPM promised continued opposition to U.S.-India bilateral ties, which it characterized as a subjugation of India's national interests. The party [...] | 2008-04-24 07:58:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM PREL PINR IN |
08CHENNAI157 | IRAQI LABOR ACTIVIST'S ANTI-U.S. COMMENTS DRAW MEDIA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Abdulla Muhsin, described as a labor activist from Iraq, grabbed media attention in the South India state of Kerala with sharp comments against American multinational companies "looting billions and billions of dollars worth of oil under the guise of the U.S. occupation of Iraq." [...] | 2008-05-01 06:35:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ELAB IN IZ |
08CHENNAI163 | BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: APPLICATION 05-050095903 PRE-LICENSE [...] (U) We have no objection to this application. 2. (SBU) We spoke by telephone on April 30 with K.S. Manjunath, Senior Stores Officer at the Defence Avionics Research Establishment (DARE) in Bangalore. Manjunath confirmed that DARE had placed the order for the items listed in reftel, para 5. [...] | 2008-05-05 05:18:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC KOMC IN IS |
08CHENNAI170 | A NIGHT ON KARNATAKA'S CAMPAIGN TRAIL [...] (U) Summary: Elections for the South India state of Karnataka's legislative assembly begin on May 10 (refs A and B),and new interpretations of the restrictions on what candidates may -- and may not -- do have changed how campaigns are conducted. No longer can candidates spend unaccounted-for [...] | 2008-05-09 11:27:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM IN |
08CHENNAI192 | CONGRESS REELING AFTER BIG BJP WIN IN KARNATAKA [...] (SBU) Summary: The May 25 announcement of the state assembly election results in Karnataka gave the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) a major victory. The party took 110 of the 224 seats in the assembly, leaving it three seats shy of an absolute majority. The BJP quickly secured the support of f [...] | 2008-05-28 11:03:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL ECON KIRF KDEM IN |
08CHENNAI197 | CONGRESS, TDP BEAT EXPECTATIONS IN ANDHRA PRADESH [...] (SBU) Summary: The results of the May 29 by-elections in Andhra Pradesh dealt a blow to separatist aspirations in the southern state's Telangana region. The separatist Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) underperformed despite high expectations, winning only 7 of the 16 seats in the state legislativ [...] | 2008-06-04 10:41:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM IN |
08CHENNAI20 | MODI FLIRTS WITH JAYA, SPECULATION OF BJP-AIADMK ALLIANCE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On January 15, Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi visited Chennai. Modi's visit, cloaked under heavy security, sparked several protests. His lunch with J Jayalalithaa, leader of Tamil Nadu's opposition AIADMK, fueled speculation of an AIADMK-BJP alliance in future elections. [...] | 2008-01-17 11:24:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KIRF IN |
08CHENNAI21 | FIGHT WITH CHRISTIAN GROUPS FURTHER WEAKENS KERALA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Leftist political leaders have been engaged in a months-long war of words with Syrian Christian leaders in the South Indian state Kerala. The Syrian Christians' anger at government proposals that would reduce their church's autonomy to manage its schools has pushed them into dir [...] | 2008-01-17 11:24:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KIRF IN |
08CHENNAI22 | SOUTH INDIA PREPARES TO DEFEND AGAINST AVIAN INFLUENZA [...] (SBU) Summary: The preparedness of India's southern states to manage a potential outbreak of Avian Influenza (AI) in the region is mixed. Tamil Nadu appears better prepared than the other southern states, but a severe outbreak is likely to stretch both the state and national governments' abil [...] | 2008-01-23 11:49:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU TBIO EAGR CASC SENV ECON ETRD AMED IN |
08CHENNAI224 | DMK COALITION SHRINKS, EXPECT EVEN CLOSER TIES TO CONGRESS [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 17 Tamil Nadu's ruling DMK party finally broke its contentious alliance with the PMK, another Tamil Nadu-based regional party. The allies had been feuding for more than a year, but it appears that the DMK preemptively broke ties when it heard that the PMK wanted to ali [...] | 2008-06-27 10:47:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL IN |
08CHENNAI229 | ANDRHA'S TDP ROCKED BY SECOND-IN-COMMAND'S RESIGNATION [...] (SBU) Summary: The Telugu Desam Party (TDP),a major regional party based in the South Indian state Andhra Pradesh, suffered a serious blow when the party's second-in-command, T. Devender Goud, resigned on June 23. Goud, who had been a member of the party since 1987, broke with the TDP to pro [...] | 2008-07-02 10:10:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV IN |
08CHENNAI231 | MAYAWATI GIVES HER PARTY'S NATIONAL SECRETARY THE BOOT [...] (U) Summary: General Secretary of the Bhujan Samaj Party (BSP) P.G.R. Sindhia was unceremoniously tossed from his office by party president and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati on June 24. Sindhia's defenestration followed the party's dismal performance in recently concluded legislative as [...] | 2008-07-03 08:33:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM IN |
08CHENNAI234 | MAOIST AMBUSH OF ELITE UNIT STRIKES A BLOW TO [...] (SBU) Summary: Maoist (also known as Naxalite) rebels ambushed an elite Indian police unit in the eastern state Orissa, striking a major blow to the India's counter-insurgency effort. Thirty-two members of the Andhra Pradesh-based "Greyhounds" unit, which was conducting joint operations with [...] | 2008-07-08 11:06:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER ASEC IN |
08CHENNAI235 | BJP DECLARES OPEN SEASON FOR POACHING KARNATAKA'S [...] (SBU) Summary: Closer cooperation between the two opposition parties in the South Indian state of Karnataka has, as expected, led the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to start encouraging opposition party members to defect. Four members of the legislative assembly (MLAs),two from the Congr [...] | 2008-07-10 11:06:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM IN |
08CHENNAI239 | MUSLIM RIOTING IN BANGALORE HANDLED WELL BY NEW BJP [...] (SBU) Riots broke out in one of Bangalore's Muslim districts on July 11 following the desecration of two mosques and some hot-headed agitation. Police apparently acted professionally to quell the violence. This may help calm some Muslim concerns about the attitude of Karnataka's newly elected [...] | 2008-07-16 10:40:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KIRF KDEM IN |
08CHENNAI240 | SRI LANKAN PRESIDENT VISITS IMPORTANT SOUTH INDIAN HINDU [...] (SBU) Summary: On July 11 - 12, Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa visited one of South India's most important Hindu temples. Sri Lankan officials said the visit was "personal," except for a hastily thrown together press conference. Embassy contacts said that although President Rajapaks [...] | 2008-07-17 10:25:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER IN CE |
08CHENNAI254 | BANGALORE RECOVERING FROM TERROR ATTACKS AS INVESTIGATION [...] (SBU) Summary: A sense of normalcy is returning to Bangalore following the series of eight explosions on July 25 that killed one person and injured eight. A ninth device that failed to explode is providing city police insights on the bombs' construction. No Americans were killed or injured i [...] | 2008-07-29 02:46:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV PREL ASEC CACS IN |
08CHENNAI256 | POLICE FOIL ALLEGED PLOT TO BOMB TARGETS IN CHENNAI [...] (SBU) Summary: Following bombings in Bangalore and Ahmedabad (reftels),Tamil Nadu police have arrested several men in connection with alleged plans to bomb targets in Chennai and around the state, according to media reports confirmed to us by both police and government sources. The targets o [...] | 2008-07-30 05:26:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV PREL ASEC CACS IN |
08CHENNAI260 | SOUTH INDIA HELPS UPA IN CONFIDENCE VOTE, BUT TROUBLE AHEAD [...] (SBU) Summary: When the dust settled after the gripping July 22 trust vote in India's parliament (ref A),South Indians found the regional political landscape altered. Andhra Pradesh's Telugu Desam Party (TDP),a UPA opponent, fell further into disarray when two of its five Members of Parlia [...] | 2008-08-05 09:49:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON ENRG IN |
08CHENNAI263 | TAMIL NADU EXPERIENCES POWER SHORTAGES, INEVITABLE [...] (SBU) Summary: Decades of under-investment in power generation have finally caught up with the South India state of Tamil Nadu, which is currently experiencing unprecedented disruptions of electricity supply. This under-investment, combined with strong economic growth and accompanying demand [...] | 2008-08-07 08:48:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG TRGY KNNP ECON EINV PGOV EFIN IN RS |
08CHENNAI272 | WHAT WOULD LENIN DO? KERALA CPM SAYS "SEEK OUT FDI" [...] (SBU) Summary: Political Counselor and Consulate staff surveyed Kerala's political and economic scene in conversations with political and business leaders, journalists, and academics during an August 11 -12 visit to the South Indian state's capital, Trivandrum (Thiruvananthapuram). In a majo [...] | 2008-08-18 10:06:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM ECON ENRG IN |
08CHENNAI28 | SEPARATIST SENTIMENT PUTS ANDHRA PRADESH'S MAJOR PARTIES ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Demands for separate statehood for Andhra Pradesh's Telangana region have set the state's politics on edge again. The historically underdeveloped region has long harbored separatist demands, which in 2001 led to a split in the state's major regional political player, the Telugu [...] | 2008-01-25 10:47:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM ECON PREL IN |
08CHENNAI298 | RE-PUBLICATION OF CONTROVERSIAL DANISH CARTOON SPURS MUSLIM [...] (SBU) Summary: Hundreds of Muslims angry over a newspaper's September 2 re-publication of the controversial Danish cartoon caricaturing the Prophet Mohammed demonstrated in several locations in the South Indian state Tamil Nadu. In Vellore, approximately 145 kilometers from Chennai, demonst [...] | 2008-09-05 10:11:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER KISL IN |
08CHENNAI299 | KERALA'S COMMUNIST CHIEF MINISTER CALLS FOR FOREIGN [...] (U) Principal Officer Andrew Simkin traveled to Trivandrum (Thiruvananthapuram),the capital of the South Indian state Kerala, on August 29-30 where he held introductory meetings with senior government officials and other key contacts. During his trip he met with Chief Minister V.S. Achuthana [...] | 2008-09-05 10:20:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON EINV IN |
08CHENNAI30 | KARNATAKA GOVERNOR WANTS STATE ELECTIONS BY MAY 28 [...] (U) Karnataka Governor Rameshwar Thakur, speaking to reporters in Bangalore on January 23, said that he wants to see state elections happen before May 28. (Thakur has administered the state since the imposition of "President's Rule" in November, when the state's legislature demonstrated that i [...] | 2008-01-25 10:47:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM ECON PREL IN |
08CHENNAI315 | MILITANT HINDUS ATTACK CHURCHES IN SOUTHERN KARNATAKA [...] Summary: Militant Hindu groups attacked three churches and six prayer houses located in three southern districts of Karnataka on September 14. The attacks took place between 10:15 and 10:30 as Sunday morning services were in progress. According to Christian groups three individuals including [...] | 2008-09-16 04:42:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR KIRF IN |
08CHENNAI32 | KERALA COMMUNISTS LEAVE U.S. COMPANY'S DONATED BOATS HIGH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Twenty fishing boats lie unused sixteen months after they were donated by an American company to help rehabilitate a tsunami-affected coastal fishing community in the South Indian state of Kerala. Even though a tsunami-affected fishing community is standing by in need of boats [...] | 2008-01-29 09:13:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EAID PREL IN |
08CHENNAI322 | ANDHRA PRADESH ANTI-MAOIST STRATEGY SUCCESSFUL, BUT TOUGH [...] (SBU) Summary: The South India state Andhra Pradesh, which was once a hotbed of Maoist activity, has made substantial progress in quelling the leftist insurgency within its borders. The state's success can be attributed to improved governance, both in terms of more effective policing and the [...] | 2008-09-23 04:09:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER ECON PHUM ASEC IN |
08CHENNAI326 | INCIDENTS AGAINST CHURCHES IN KARNATAKA CONTINUE AS [...] (SBU) Summary: In the wake of another round of apparent attacks on churches in Karnataka on September 21, Consul General Andrew Simkin visited Bangalore September 23-24. The CG used the opportunity to emphasize the importance of protecting religious freedom to a wide variety of interlocutors, [...] | 2008-09-25 09:57:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM ASEC PINR KIRF SOCI IN |
08CHENNAI33 | HHS SECRETARY SWINGS THROUGH SOUTH INDIA [...] (SBU) Summary: The Honorable Michael O. Leavitt, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS),visited three of South India's largest cities from January 7-9, 2008. The visit provided the Secretary an opportunity to promote the importance of assuring SIPDIS product safety in an increa [...] | 2008-01-29 10:47:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON TBIO SENV AMED KSCA PHUM KCRM SOCI IN |
08CHENNAI330 | CONGRESS CONSIDERING BANNING HINDU FUNDAMENTALIST BAJRANG [...] (SBU) Summary: A prominent Catholic voice in the Congress party came away from a recent meeting with Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Indian National Security Advisor MK Narayanan feeling that India will probably ban the militant Hindu group Bajrang Dal as a result of the violence in Oriss [...] | 2008-09-29 09:56:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM ASEC PINR KIRF SOCI IN |
08CHENNAI344 | TAMIL NADU'S MAJOR PARTIES PRESSURE GOI TO INTERVENE IN [...] (SBU) Summary: An "all-party meeting" held on October 14 under the chairmanship of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Karunanidhi resolved that the Members of Parliament (MPs) from Tamil Nadu would resign if the Government of India does not ensure a ceasefire in Sri Lanka within two weeks. The "all-pa [...] | 2008-10-15 10:04:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINR PTER IN CE |
08CHENNAI350 | CHRISTIANS STILL NERVOUS IN SOUTH INDIA [...] (SBU) Several of South India's Christian leaders expressed their continuing fear of anti-Christian violence to Joannella Morales, an officer in the Department's Office of International Religious Freedom, during her visit to Chennai and Bangalore on October 7 and 10. While violence on the scal [...] | 2008-10-17 04:29:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR KIRF IN |
08CHENNAI359 | FALLOUT FROM GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS HITTING SOUTH INDIA, [...] (SBU) Summary: Our contacts in South India remain largely optimistic about the longer-term trajectory of the region's economy, but they are bracing for a rough ride in the short-term. Banks are tightening credit, importers are facing rising costs as the rupee drops, and exporters are not benef [...] | 2008-10-24 00:47:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD IN |
08CHENNAI36 | HARDLINE KERALA COMMUNISTS LOSING OUT, BUT PARTY STILL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: As Kerala's Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) prepare to hold its State Conference February 11 - 14, insiders say that the party's conservatives, led by Chief Minister Achuthanandan, will face a major defeat in the elections to the party's state committee. State Sec [...] | 2008-02-04 04:55:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PARM KNNP IN |
08CHENNAI362 | DMK PRESSURE TACTICS EMBARRASS CONGRESS; SUSPENSE CONTINUES [...] (SBU) Summary: After setting a two-week deadline for the Government of India to force a ceasefire in Sri Lanka, Tamil Nadu's ruling DMK party is going full steam on a campaign in support of Sri Lankan Tamils. The DMK's 20 Members of Parliament have handed over resignations to Chief Minister Kar [...] | 2008-10-24 10:05:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINR PTER IN |
08CHENNAI378 | INVESTMENT IN SOUTH INDIA CONTINUES, AS DO JITTERS ABOUT [...] (SBU) Assistant US Trade Representative Michael Delaney met on November 10 with business leaders from key sectors of South India's economy, urging progress on the WTO Doha Round and assessing how the region's business are weathering the current economic slowdown. While all of Delaney's interloc [...] | 2008-11-14 07:45:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ENRG ETRD EINV PGOV IN RU |
08CHENNAI379 | ANDHRA PRADESH POLICE KILL KEY MAOIST LEADERS [...] (SBU) Consulate sources say police in Andhra Pradesh struck a significant blow against Maoist (also known as Naxalite) efforts to reinvigorate the declining insurgency in the South Indian state. On October 28 Andhra Pradesh police killed two members of the Maoists' Andhra Pradesh Special Comm [...] | 2008-11-14 07:48:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER PHUM IN |
08CHENNAI385 | POLICE KILL SUSPECTED MAOISTS IN KARNATAKA [...] (SBU) Summary: State police ambushed a group of four suspected Maoist insurgents (also known as Naxalites) before dawn on November 19, killing three, according to press reports. The fourth, reported to be a woman, escaped the ambush, which took place in southwestern Karnataka. Press reports [...] | 2008-11-20 08:27:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV ASEC PINS PHUM IN |
08CHENNAI387 | SRI LANKAN REFUGEES STILL ARRIVING, POST RECOMMENDS PRM [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraphs 12 and 13. 2. (SBU) Summary: The recent escalation of Sri Lanka's war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam has not resulted in the expected flood of new refugees to India. Nonetheless, refugees continue to arrive at a steady, but mod [...] | 2008-11-24 08:13:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PGOV PTER PHUM SOCI IN CE |
08CHENNAI39 | LITTLE SUPPORT FOR TAMIL TIGERS IN INDIA DESPITE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Recent events in Sri Lanka, including the Sri Lankan government's decision to formally withdraw from the ceasefire agreement and target the Tamil Tiger leadership, have been widely covered in Tamil Nadu media. Despite the coverage, India's Tamils remain lukewarm to the occasion [...] | 2008-02-04 10:52:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREF PREL PTER IN CE |
08CHENNAI394 | ANDHRA PRADESH CONGRESS USES IRRIGATION PROJECT TO WOO [...] (SBU) Summary: The Chief Minister of South India's Andhra Pradesh state recently laid the ceremonial foundation stone for what would be India's largest lift irrigation project. With 437 miles of canals and tunnels, the $7.7 billion project seeks to irrigate 1.64 million acres of drought-pron [...] | 2008-12-05 07:57:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EAGR PGOV IN |
08CHENNAI399 | India and the Maoist Threat [...] (SBU) Summary: Lieutenant General K.M. Seth, a retired counter-insurgency expert and the former Governor of Chhattisgarh, gave a November 21 lecture entitled "Naxalism: Threat to Internal Security" to the Chennai-based Centre for Security Analysis. Seth, who served as Chhattisgarh's Governo [...] | 2008-12-08 08:03:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER PHUM IN |
08CHENNAI405 | COMMUNIST ALLIANCE WITH KEY REGIONAL PARTY LEAVES BJP OUT [...] (SBU) Summary: The the Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPM) and the Communist Party of India (CPI) have agreed to an alliance with Tamil Nadu's principal opposition party, the AIADMK, for next year's elections to the Indian parliament. The communists' decision to join with the AIADMK hurt [...] | 2008-12-11 06:03:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM IN |
08CHENNAI408 | ABANDONED BOATS STOKE FEARS OF LTTE OPERATIVES FLEEING INTO [...] (SBU) Summary: Six abandoned Sri Lankan boats, some marked with bullet holes and blood stains, recently washed up on Tamil Nadu shores. Tamil Nadu police claim the boats drifted to India after a recent cyclone, but this explanation has not convinced Indian Navy officials. Security analysts s [...] | 2008-12-18 02:04:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER PHUM IN CE |
08CHENNAI413 | BJP SET TO TIGHTEN ITS GRIP ON KARNATAK IN DECEMBER 27 [...] (SBU) Summary: The Bharthiya Janata Party (BJP) looks poised to tightenits grip on the reins of Karnataka's government onDecember 27, when the state holds seven by-electons (ref A). The BJP currently has 110 of the 224 seats in the legislative assembly, and was able to form a government (beco [...] | 2008-12-23 07:36:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL IN |
08CHENNAI416 | BJP THE BIG WINNER IN KARNATAKA'S BY-ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won five of the eight Karnataka legislative assembly seats contested in by-elections on December 27. The victory gives the BJP an absolute majority of 115 seats in Karnataka's 224-seat legislative assembly, the first time the BJP has accomplishe [...] | 2008-12-30 08:08:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL IN |
08CHENNAI51 | FIRST EVER USG VISIT TO INDIAN CAMPS FOR SRI LANKAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On January 30, Consulate staff visited two camps for Sri Lankan Tamil refugees in Vellore, Tamil Nadu, marking the first official visit to the camps by representatives of the U.S. government. The visit reflects the growing openness of Indian government authorities, particularl [...] | 2008-02-14 03:18:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREF PREL IN |
08CHENNAI73 | INDIA'S THIRD FRONT LOOKS TO AN ALLIANCE WITH LEFT PARTIES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A senior leader of the United National Progressive Alliance (the "UNPA" or "Third Front") told post that they are moving towards an alliance with India's Left parties. Former Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh Chandrababu Naidu explained that the UNPA and Left parties are motivat [...] | 2008-02-26 11:11:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON IN |
08CHENNAI77 | COMMUNISTS WANT A "THIRD ALTERNATIVE" TO BJP AND CONGRESS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Communist Party of India (Marxist) (CPI(M)) politburo member from Kerala Pinarayi Vijayan, told post that his party would work to form "a third alternative" to the coalitions led by the Indian National Congress (INC) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) before India's next par [...] | 2008-02-29 04:49:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ENRG IN |
08CHENNAI81 | FILM STAR SET TO SHAKE UP ANDHRA PRADESH POLITICS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Andhra Pradesh's media is rife with rumors that Telugu film superstar Chiranjeevi is set to form his own political party. With an enormous and dedicated fan base the action hero will immediately be a force to be reckoned with. In a recent meeting with Consulate officers, Chir [...] | 2008-03-05 07:19:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL IN |
08CHENNAI86 | DMK INSIDER SAYS CIV-NUKE WILL GO FORWARD; EXPECTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Tamil Nadu Minister for Electricity and Rural Industry Arcot Veerasamy told post that he expects the ruling United Progressive Alliance (UPA) to move forward on the U.S.-India Civil Nuclear Cooperation Agreement. Veerasamy's comments merit attention because he is DMK leader M. [...] | 2008-03-07 09:52:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON ENRG IN |
08CHENNAI97 | U.S. NUCLEAR TEAM VISITS SOUTH INDIA ATOMIC RESEARCH [...] (SBU) Summary: A six-member delegation from the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) visited on March 3-4 the Indira Gandhi Center for Atomic Research (IGCAR) near Chennai as part of a 10-day visit to India that also included a stop in Mumbai to discuss nuclear safety issues with counterpa [...] | 2008-03-14 06:56:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON PARM KNNP PGOV TRGY IN |
08CHENNAI99 | NEW AIRPORTS IN HYDERABAD AND BANGALORE WILL BRING [...] (SBU) Summary: The new airports slated to open in the next several weeks in both Hyderabad and Bangalore promise to bring world-class modernity and comfort to air travelers in South India. The opening of the new airports will also close the cities' current airports for commercial aviation, one [...] | 2008-03-14 10:46:00 | Consulate Chennai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAIR ETRD EFIN PREL PGOV IN |
08CHIANGMAI140 | RELOCATIONS HURT HILL TRIBE AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY, [...] (SBU) Agriculturally-dependent hill tribe or highland people in northern Thailand have become economically strained by forest conservation and drug control policies adopted by the Thai government in the last several decades. These policies have had success in conservation and counternarcotics [...] | 2008-09-10 07:18:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON SOCI SNAR PHUM TH |
08CHIANGMAI145 | VIOLENT CLASH BETWEEN PRO AND ANTI-THAKSIN GROUPS IN CHIANG [...] (SBU) A violent clash in Chiang Mai between members of the anti-government People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) and the pro-government United Front of Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) resulted in two injuries on the evening of Sunday, September 28. Police response was initially slow, but [...] | 2008-09-29 10:32:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM TH |
08CHIANGMAI147 | PM'S VISIT TO CHIANG MAI: NOT AS SMOOTH AS SILK [...] (SBU) Despite concerted efforts by provincial and local officials, Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat's October 1-2 visit to Chiang Mai met with some unwelcome disruptions. Meanwhile, tensions between the anti-government People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD),and the pro-government United Front [...] | 2008-10-03 09:43:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI KDEM TH |
08CHIANGMAI156 | PILOT PROJECT TACKLES CORRUPTION AT GRASSROOTS LEVEL [...] (SBU) Provincial Counter-Corruption Commissions in Lamphun and Sukhothai, launched a year ago as part of a pilot project that includes six other provinces, have had modest success in raising grassroots awareness to counter local government corruption. The project will ultimately be replicated [...] | 2008-10-15 04:04:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON KCRM KJUS BTIO TH |
08CHIANGMAI161 | TV NEWS PROGRAM FOR BURMESE YOUTH LAUNCHED [...] (SBU) The exile media group Democratic Voice of Burma marked the official launch of its news program by and for Burmese youth on October 3 in Chiang Mai. Youth Voice is the result of a collaborative effort between several NGOs and governments, and is a first for Burma, giving youth a chance to [...] | 2008-10-17 07:12:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SCUL SOCI ECPS PROP TSPA BM TH NL NO |
08CHIANGMAI168 | POLITICAL TEMPERATURE IN CHIANG MAI ON THE RISE [...] (SBU) Over the past six days, a bombing targeting a key People's Alliance for Democracy (PAD) leader, and the siege of the Chiang Mai Thai Public Broadcasting Service station by pro-government supporters have upped the political tension in Chiang Mai. Though the bomb did not injure anyone, an [...] | 2008-11-04 11:15:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM PROP KDEM TH |
08CHIANGMAI57 | AN NGO PERSPECTIVE ON ANTI-TRAFFICKING EFFORTS IN NORTHERN [...] (SBU) Most Burmese who become trafficking victims knowingly enter Thailand illegally, but fall prey to deception and coercion after crossing the border, according to the head of a key anti-trafficking NGO operating in the region. Child prostitution has diminished significantly in northern Tha [...] | 2008-04-03 02:36:00 | Consulate Chiang Mai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM KWMN SMIG PHUM TH |
08CHISINAU1001 | MOLDOVA: FINANCING FOR DEVELOMENT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-07 11:53:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN PREL MD |
08CHISINAU1038 | MOLDOVA RECEIVES DEMARCHE RE GITMO [...] No summary [...] | 2008-10-17 14:29:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MOPS PTER PHUM KAWK KISL |
08CHISINAU1107 | MOLDOVA RECEIVED DEMARCHE CONCERNING [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-13 05:32:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP MNUC IR GM PREL PARM EFIN MD |
08CHISINAU112 | BUDGET LOSSES RESULT IN PERSONAL PROFITS [...] (SBU) Summary: One of the issues that will be on the agenda in any comprehensive Transnistrian (TN) peace settlement will be the resumption of railway traffic. TN authorities recently presented a railroad initiative, which appears to be a response to President Voronin's October 2007 proposal t [...] | 2008-02-06 05:49:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PBTS ELTN PINR MD |
08CHISINAU113 | MOLDOVA'S ECONOMY RESILIENT IN 2007 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Moldova's economy remained resilient in 2007, overcoming the negative impacts of Russian trade bans, higher tariffs for natural gas and a devastating drought. Although GDP growth was less than forecast (below 4 percent) and inflation was higher than projected (13.1 percent),for [...] | 2008-02-06 14:14:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV MD |
08CHISINAU1158 | MOLDOVA RECEIVED DEMARCHE CONCERNING [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-28 13:47:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNGA IS PA LE SY MD |
08CHISINAU1159 | MOLDOVA RECEIVED DEMARCHE CONCERNING [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-28 13:48:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EAGR TBIO EAID PGOV MD |
08CHISINAU1160 | MOLDOVA RECEIVED DEMARCHE CONCERNING U.S. [...] No summary [...] | 2008-11-28 13:49:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MNUC PARM PREL UNGA MD |
08CHISINAU1161 | MOLDOVA RECEIVED DEMARCHE CONCERNING [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-01 05:59:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN KTFN PTER PREL UNSC PINR MD |
08CHISINAU1257 | LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL REACTIONS RELIEVE PRESSURE ON PRO [...] (SBU) Summary: The Audiovisual Coordinating Council decided on December 19 to extend the broadcasting license of PRO TV and 11 other media outlets to an undetermined date after the upcoming elections. The decision recognized that any action taken against these media would be viewed as politic [...] | 2008-12-22 13:12:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM MD |
08CHISINAU1266 | TRANSNISTRIAN PARLIAMENT PASSES BILL TO FACILITATE [...] (SBU) Summary: The Transnistrian Supreme Soviet passed a bill on December 19, 2008, providing for a simplified travel regime for foreign diplomats. According to the new law, diplomats accredited in Chisinau would be able to travel to Transnistria without prior notification or coordination with [...] | 2008-12-24 09:16:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PBTS PGOV PHUM MD |
08CHISINAU127 | CHANGING THE ELECTION COMMISSION, AND THE RULES OF THE [...] (SBU) Summary: Unhappy with opposition party dominance of the Central Electoral Commission (CEC),the ruling Communist Party may be planning to take legal measures to ensure itself a dominant position in the electoral-administration body for the 2009 parliamentary elections. Revising existing [...] | 2008-02-11 05:45:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV MD |
08CHISINAU1270 | MOLDOVA NOT PLEASED WITH ITS PLACEMENT IN [...] (SBU) Summary: Moldova is unhappy with a European Commission offer that puts it on the path to closer ties to the EU, but only in association with other CIS countries. On December 3, the European Commission officially proposed an Eastern Partnership to promote upgraded political and economi [...] | 2008-12-29 08:16:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EUN MD |
08CHISINAU1277 | THE CHANGING NATURE OF TRAFFICKING IN [...] (SBU) Summary: Two of Moldova's most experienced anti-TIP activists met Ambassador Chaudhry on December 19. They described subtle but profound changes in the methods used to recruit and trap victims of trafficking, and the challenges that these "kinder, gentler" methods posed to police and [...] | 2008-12-31 10:00:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTIP PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM MD |
08CHISINAU130 | MORE TRANSNISTRIAN LEGAL TRADE IN 2007 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Throughout 2007 the Government of Moldova (GOM) honored its commitment to facilitate legal Transnistrian (TN) trade. The GOM's final 2007 TN trade data document increases in certified exports and imports, increases in the numbers of companies registered with Chisinau, and increa [...] | 2008-02-11 12:18:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PBTS PREL PGOV ETRD OSCE MD |
08CHISINAU134 | PROPOSALS FOR G/TIP FUNDING [...] (SBU) Summary: In response to the Solicitation for Proposals received by email from the Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking (G/TIP),Embassy Chisinau has reviewed and vetted three proposals, from the International Organization for Migration (IOM),La Strada, and Winrock International. Po [...] | 2008-02-13 12:33:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SMIG KCRM KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL OPRC MD |
08CHISINAU151 | MOLDOVA: TROUBLE ON THE DANUBE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Progress at the port of Giurgiulesti, Moldova's sole access to the Danube River, continues with the construction of additional berths for unloading bulk cargo and grains, and a grain storage facility. In 2007, the port's oil terminal opened, receiving the first shipment of gasol [...] | 2008-02-14 12:21:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EWWT PGOV MD |
08CHISINAU172 | MOLDOVA FACES KOSOVO DILEMMA OVER TRANSNISTRIA ANALOGY: [...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Moldova (GOM) and all major parties reacted to Kosovo's proclamation of independence with concerns that the analogy of Kosovo might be applied to Transnistria. Tiraspol authorities gladly accepted Kosovo's independence and said it should be a precedent for the [...] | 2008-02-21 12:18:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PBTS PNAT PREL PGOV MD |
08CHISINAU174 | SCENE-SETTER FOR PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS IN MOLDOVA'S [...] (SBU) Summary: Legislative elections in Moldova's autonomous region of Gagauzia have been scheduled for March 16. Lack of funding has created uncertainty about whether the elections may have to be cancelled, but Gagauz leaders are still working on reaching an agreement with the central govern [...] | 2008-02-21 14:47:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM PREL MD |
08CHISINAU175 | MOLDOVA: EIGHTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT [...] (U) Responses are keyed to questions in ref A, which requests post's contribution to the eighth annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. 2. (SBU) Summary: Anti-TIP efforts in the Republic of Moldova mostly were undertaken by NGOs and international organizations (IOs),primarily because [...] | 2008-02-21 14:52:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KWMN ELAB SMIG KFRD KCRM PREF MD |
08CHISINAU190 | TRANSNISTRIAN BUDGET BATTLE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On February 20, the Transnistrian (TN) Supreme Soviet (parliament) voted to override the Executive's partial veto of the 2008 budget law (reftel). The Supreme Soviet stood firm on measures which limit the Executive, forcing the transfer of revenues generated by ministries and ex [...] | 2008-02-25 08:35:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PBTS PGOV PREL MD |
08CHISINAU191 | CHANGE IN CUBA: MOLDOVA WILL DELIVER PRO FORMA NOTE OF [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-25 13:09:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EU CU MD |
08CHISINAU221 | MOLDOVA SUPPORTS UNSCR 1803 [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-04 09:36:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP MNUC PARM IR MD |
08CHISINAU222 | MOLDOVA SUPPORTS U.S. VIEWS ON IAEA DG REPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-04 09:37:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP MNUC PARM IR IAEA MD |
08CHISINAU223 | MOLDOVA SUPPORTS U.S. POSITION ON IAEA BRIEFING [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-04 09:37:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP MNUC PARM IAEA IR MD |
08CHISINAU264 | TERRORISM FINANCE, ABU GHADIYAH--MOLDOVA WILL BLOCK AND [...] No summary [...] | 2008-03-11 11:10:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL UNSC IZ SY MD |
08CHISINAU268 | MOLDOVA: AVIAN INFLUENZA AND TRANSNISTRIA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: USDA'S Foreign Agricultural Service has approved funding for a targeted technical assistance project on Avian Influenza (AI) in the Transnistrian (TN) region of Moldova. Although we face political constraints, TN officials are receptive to the idea, acknowledging that they are no [...] | 2008-03-11 12:04:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAGR KFLU TBIO MD |
08CHISINAU270 | MOLDOVAN LEU UP AGAINST THE U.S. DOLLAR [...] (SBU) The Moldovan Leu (MDL) continues its steady appreciation against the USD. On March 11, the National Bank of Moldova's (NBM) official exchange rate (set for accounting purposes) was MDL 10.9357 per USD and MDL 16.7924 per Euro. Year-on-year the MDL has appreciated 16.7 percent against th [...] | 2008-03-11 13:58:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AFIN ECON EFIN PGOV MD |
08CHISINAU295 | Gagauz Legislative Elections Go Well [...] (SBU) Summary: With international observers and a strong American contingent watching widely and carefully, March 16 elections for the 161 candidates contesting 35 positions in the Gagauz autonomous region's People's Assembly proceeded for the most part without incident. Problems that did occ [...] | 2008-03-17 15:29:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KDEM MD |
08CHISINAU358 | Gagauz Legislative Elections Conducted Reasonably Well in [...] (SBU) Summary: Three Embassy teams monitored the March 30 runoff elections for the 17 undecided seats for the 35-seat Gagauz People's Assembly. In most constituencies, voters cast their secret ballots in well-run polling stations, but two victories could have been won with the aid of suspect [...] | 2008-04-01 13:27:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KDEM MD |
08CHISINAU396 | MOLDOVA WILL PUT PROLIFERATORS ON ITS LISTS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-07 13:27:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP MNUC UNSC IR MD |
08CHISINAU399 | MOLDOVA: WHEN VORONIN CALLED SMIRNOV [...] (SBU) On Monday, April 7 the Presidential press office publicly confirmed that President Vladimir Voronin had telephoned Transnistrian (TN) leader Igor Smirnov earlier that day. This phone call, the first direct contact the two leaders have had in years, represents an historic breakthrough. A [...] | 2008-04-08 15:05:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PBTS PGOV PREL MD |
08CHISINAU418 | FIRST QUARTER TRANSNISTRIAN TRADE GROWS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Government of Moldova's (GOM) Transnistrian (TN) trade data show significant increases in certified exports (+30%) and imports (+22%) documented by the Moldovan Customs Service (MCS) in the first quarter. Since January, 26 more TN companies have registered with Chisinau, inc [...] | 2008-04-16 14:48:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV PBTS ETRD MD |
08CHISINAU438 | MOLDOVA SEES NO BARRIER TO SIGNING US-EU PRISONERS OF [...] No summary [...] | 2008-04-23 05:56:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EUN PHUM PREL MD |
08CHISINAU457 | Supporting Democracy and Human Rights Activists [...] In response to questions raised in reftel, post notes that we have not encountered democracy and human rights activists from un-free nations who are living in exile, or seeking asylum, in Moldova. We cooperate, regularly and frequently, with Moldovan democracy and human rights activists in the [...] | 2008-04-30 11:14:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL MD |
08CHISINAU467 | MOLDOVA SUPPORTS U.S. NPT GOALS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-02 13:40:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PREL NPT IAEA MD |
08CHISINAU494 | MOLDOVAN ANTI-CORRUPTION OFFICIALS LEARN TO MEET THE PRESS [...] (SBU) Summary: A three-day assistance program in Chisinau boosted the ability of Moldova's anti-corruption bureau, the Center for Combating Economic Crime and Corruption (CCECC),to meet Millennium Challenge Corporation Threshold Country Plan (MCC TCP) goals of transparency, integrity and acco [...] | 2008-05-08 11:18:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL |
08CHISINAU508 | MOLDOVA: APPLICATION FOR OPIC FINANCE [...] (SBU) The Western NIS Enterprise Fund (WNISEF),established by the U.S. Congress, is well and favorably known to the Embassy. FinComBank, a leading universal bank, has 14 branches and 35 offices in Moldova, and over 74,000 clients. WNISEF acquired 25 percent of FinComBank in late 2007. In [...] | 2008-05-13 08:01:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV MD |
08CHISINAU510 | MOLDOVA SEES NO PROBLEM WITH VOTING FOR HULEBAK AT THIS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-13 09:44:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON ETRD TRIO KPAO PREL MD |
08CHISINAU511 | MOLDOVA WILL REPORT ON UNSCR 1803 COMPLIANCE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-13 14:30:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN AORC ETRD TRGY KNNP UNSC IR MD |
08CHISINAU522 | MOLDOVA RECEIVES INVITATION TO TALINN MEETING OF GLOBAL [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-19 14:22:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PTER KGIC PREL MD |
08CHISINAU523 | MOLDOVA RECEIVES INVITATION TO FRIENDS OF IRAQ CONFERENCE [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-20 05:50:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MOPS OTRA PREL MD |
08CHISINAU524 | MOLDOVAN SOCIETY FAILS GAY PRIDE TOLERANCE TEST [...] (SBU) Summary: Some 400-500 representatives of Moldovan Christian groups, veterans of Afghan and Transnistrian wars and radical skinheads blocked attempts to hold a gay pride march in Chisinau on May 11. Under the terms of a recently adopted law with liberal provisions on public assembly, th [...] | 2008-05-20 05:50:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM MD |
08CHISINAU535 | AFTER RUSSIA'S BAN: MOLDOVAN WINE FLOWING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Bolstered by the resolution of the Russian wine ban, Moldovan wine exports were up three-fold in the first quarter of 2008 compared with 2007. Exports to Ukraine and Belarus, which increased substantially in 2007, continue to grow. Preferential trade access granted by the EU p [...] | 2008-05-21 13:49:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV MD |
08CHISINAU536 | MOLDOVA RECEIVES THE PRESIDENT'S GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-21 14:14:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EAGR EAID ECON TBIO MD |
08CHISINAU537 | MOLDOVA RECEIVES REQUEST TO END FOOD STAPLE EXPORT [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-21 14:16:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EAGR ECON TBIO MD |
08CHISINAU538 | LARGEST OPPOSITION RALLY EVER IN TRANSNISTRIA [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 17, some 2,000-3,000 people gathered in central Tiraspol to protest rising prices of food and utilities. The demonstrators adopted a resolution calling for Smirnov's dismissal and demanding early elections. The rally was organized by the Transnistrian Communist Party and [...] | 2008-05-22 05:44:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PBTS PGOV PHUM MD |
08CHISINAU552 | MOLDOVA RECEIVES REQUEST RELATED TO THE CONVENTION ON [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-27 08:40:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP TRGY ENRG KSTC IAEA PARM MD |
08CHISINAU553 | NEW NATIONAL SECURITY CONCEPT PASSES WITH A NARROW [...] (SBU) Summary: Moldova's new National Security Concept (NSC) passed in Parliament on May 22. The document provides for neutrality as the cornerstone of Moldova's national security. Unlike the previous 1995 version, the new document focuses more on social and economic threats to national secur [...] | 2008-05-27 09:53:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINS PBTS PARM PREL PTER PGOV MD |
08CHISINAU554 | MOLDOVA IS INCLINED TO SUPPORT SWING AS IOM DIRECTOR [...] No summary [...] | 2008-05-27 10:34:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PREF SMIG AORC MD |
08CHISINAU556 | MOLDOVA AND ROMANIA RESUME TALKS ON BORDER ISSUES [...] (SBU) Summary: Moldova and Romania resumed talks on the Border and Framework Treaties on May 14-15. These discussions are influenced by debates over the Local Border Traffic Convention proposed by Romania, which would establish a visa-free travel regime for residents of a 30-km zone along the [...] | 2008-05-28 12:42:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PBTS PREL PGOV MD RO |
08CHISINAU579 | UKRAINE AND MOLDOVA SOLVE THAT DAM PROBLEM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Moldova and Ukraine reached a settlement on the disputed ownership of the Novodnestrovsk hydroelectric power plant, which spans the Dniester River and partially sits on Moldovan territory. In return for Chisinau's recognition of Ukraine's full ownership of the power plant, Kyi [...] | 2008-06-03 10:43:00 | Embassy Chisinau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PBTS PREL ENRG ECON UA MD |