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SECSTATE SECTOR SECURITY SEMAAN GABY EID SEN SENC SENG SENS SENU SENV SENVQGR SENVSPL SENVSXE SEP SERBIA SERZH SETTLEMENTS SEVN SEXP SF SFNV SG SGNV SGWI SH SHANNON SHI SHUM SI SILVASANDE SIMS SIPDI SIPDIS SIPR SIPRNET SIPRS SIUK SK SKCA SKEP SKI SKSAF SL SLM SLOVAK SM SMAR SMI SMIG SMIL SMIT SMITH SMRT SN SNA SNAP SNAR SNUC SO SOC SOCI SOCIA SOCIETY SOCIO SOCIS SOCISZX SOCR SOCY SOE SOFA SOI SOIC SOLI SOLIC SOM SOMALIA SOPN SORT SOSI SOVIET SOWGC SP SPAS SPC SPCE SPCVIS SPECI SPECIALIST SPILL SPP SPSTATE SR SREF SRIT SRS SRYI SSA SSH ST STAG START STATE STC STEINBERG STEPHEN HADLEY STET STP STR STUDENT SU SUCCESSION SUFFRAGE SULLIVAN SUMMIT SUR SUSAN SV SW SWHO SWMN SX SXG SY SYAI SYMBOL SYR SYRIA SYSI SYTH SZ TA TAGS TALAL TAUSCHER TAX TB TBI TBID TBIO TBIOZK TBKIO TBO TC TCOR TCSENV TD TDA TE TECH TECHNOLOGY TER TERAA TERFIN TERR TERROR TERRORISM TF TFIN TG TGRY TH THANH THE THERESE THIRDTERM THKSJA THOMAS THOMAS THOMMA THPY TI TIA TIBO TIFA TINT TIO TIP TITI TIUZ TJ TK TL TM TN 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KUIR KUM KUNA KUNC KUNH KUNP KUNR KUS KUWAIT KV KVBL KVIP KVIR KVIS KVPR KVRC KVRP KW KWAC KWAK KWAWC KWBC KWBG KWBW KWCI KWCR KWGB KWHG KWIC KWIM KWIR KWKN KWM KWMJN KWMM KWMN KWN KWNM KWNN KWOMN KWPA KWPB KWPG KWPR KWRC KWRF KWRG KWUN KWWT KWWW KX KY KZ LA LAB LABOR LANSANA LANTERN LARREA LARS LAS LAURA LAVIN LAW LB LBAR LBY LE LEAGUE LEB LEBIK LEGAT LEGATT LEIS LEON LEVINE LEW LG LGAT LH LI LIB LICC LIMA LINE LK LMS LN LO LOG LOPEZ LORAN LOTT LOVE LR LS LT LTG LTTE LU LV LVPR LY LZ MA MAAR MACEDONIA MACP MANUEL MANUEL SERGIO GONZALEZ MAP MAPP MAPS MAR MARAD MARANTIS MARIA MARIE MARINO MARITIME MARK MARQUEZ MARR MARS MARTIN MARV MAS MASC MASS MATT MAYA MB MBM MC MCA MCAP MCAPARR MCAPN MCAPP MCAPS MCAT MCC MCCAIN MCCONNELL MCCP MCGRAW MCRM MCTRE MD MDA MDC MDO ME MEA MED MEDIA MEETINGS MENDIETA MEP MEPI MEPN MEPP MERCOSUR MESUR MEX MF MFA MFO MG MGL MGMT MGOV MGT MGTA MH MHUC MI MIAH MIC MICHAEL MICHEL MIGUEL FELIPE CANAHUATI YACAMAN MIGUEL VARGAS MALDONADO MIK MIKE MIL MILI MILITANTS MILITARY MILLENNIUM MINURSO MINUSTAH MITCHELL MJ MK ML MLS MMAR MMED MN MNLF MNNC MNNUC MNU MNUC MNUCH MNUCWA MNUM MNUN MNUR MNUS MNVC MO MOHAMAD MOHAMED HESHAM ELDIN YOUSSEF MOHAMMAD MOLINA MONTENEGRO MONUC MONY MOOPS MOP MOPP MOPPS MOPS MORALES MORG MOROCCO MORS MOS MOTO MOTT MP MPOL MPOS MPP MPS MQADHAFI MR MRCRE MRRR MRS MRSEC MS MSG MSIG MT MTAA MTAG MTCAE MTCR MTCRA MTCRE MTRCE MTRE MTRRE MTS MU MUC MUCN MUKASEY MULLEN MUNC MURAD MURRAY MV MW MX MY MZ NA NAC NACB NADIA NAFTA NAM NAMSA NANCY NAR NARC NARCOTICS NARR NAS NASA NAT NATEU NATGAS NATIONAL NATO NATOAFGHAN NATOBALKANS NATOIRAQ NATOOPS NATOPOLICY NATSIOS NAVO NB NBTS NBU NC NCCC NCD NCT NCTC NDI NDP NE NEA NEC NEGROPONTE NEI NELSON NEPAD NERG NET NEW NFATC NFMS NFSO NG NGO NGUYEN NH NI NICHOLAS NICOLE NIH NIPP NK NKWG NL NLD NLIAEA NLO NMFS NMNUC NMUC NNPT NO NOAA NOI NOK NON NONE NORAD NOTAG NOVO NP NPA NPG NPT NR NRC NRG NRR NRRC NS NSC NSF NSFO NSG NSSP NT NTDB NTSB NTTC NU NUC NUIN NV NW NZ NZUS OA OAO OARC OAS OASC 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05TELAVIV5099 | DISENGAGEMENT SITUATION REPORT, AUGUST 17, 2005 [...] (SBU) Summary: On the third day of disengagement, IDF soldiers and police began to evacuate several settlements by force, meeting almost exclusively non-violent resistance. While most settlers continued to leave their homes either voluntarily or after brief non-violent refusal, Israeli Polic [...] | 2005-08-17 15:51:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWBG KPAL PREL ECON EAID IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV51 | WB/G SITREP: SEVEN DEAD, SIX WOUNDED IN BAYT [...] (SBU) Summary: IDF tank fire killed at least seven Palestinians and injured six more January 5 in Bayt Lahiya, as IDF soldiers attempted to target militants launching rockets at Israeli settler targets. One Israeli child was lightly wounded January 4 when Palestinian militants fired mortars [...] | 2005-01-04 16:46:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWBG PHUM PREL PTER ASEC CASC GZ IS |
05TELAVIV5132 | CORRECTED COPY: DISENGAGEMENT SITUATION REPORT, [...] (SBU) Summary: On the fourth day of disengagement, IDF soldiers and police focused on evacuating Kfar Darom, Kfar Yam, and Neve Dekalim. The security forces encountered some resistance in these settlements, particularly from young infiltrators from outside of the Gaza Strip who barricaded t [...] | 2005-08-18 16:05:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWBG KPAL PREL ECON EAID IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV5154 | DISENGAGEMENT SITUATION REPORT, AUGUST 19, 2005 [...] (SBU) Summary: On the fifth day of disengagement, IDF soldiers and police focused on evacuating the settlement of Gadid. At the beginning of the day, ten families and over 300 infiltrators remained, but the evacuation was complete by around 1500 hours. The GOI also began demolishing homes i [...] | 2005-08-19 14:56:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWBG KPAL PREL ECON EAID IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV5157 | DISENGAGEMENT SITUATION REPORT, AUGUST 21, 2005 [...] (SBU) Summary: On the seventh day of disengagement, IDF soldiers and police focused on evacuating the remaining southern Gaza Strip settlements of Katif and Atzmona and some remaining families in Shelo/Shalev/Slav -- after a day (August 20) of inaction due to the Sabbath. The Israeli cabinet [...] | 2005-08-21 17:19:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWBG KPAL PREL ECON EAID PINS IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV5186 | DISENGAGEMENT SITUATION REPORT, AUGUST 22, 2005 [...] (SBU) Summary: On the eighth day of disengagement, the evacuation of the Gaza Strip settlers concluded without incident. The evacuation proceeded smoothly with little of the protest that marked the evacuations of Kfar Darom or Atzmona. Removal and relocation of agricultural equipment from G [...] | 2005-08-22 15:31:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWBG KPAL PREL ECON EAID PINS IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV5224 | SHARON TO CONGRESSIONAL GROUP: ABBAS MUST ASSURE [...] Prime Minister Sharon met for 45 minutes August 22 with an AIPAC-sponsored Republican congressional delegation led by Rep. Roy Blunt. Rep. Blunt began the meeting by congratulating Sharon on the success to date of the disengagement plan, and he asked Sharon to explain Israel's thinking regar [...] | 2005-08-24 09:01:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IS KPAL OREP PREL XF ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
05TELAVIV5258 | DISENGAGEMENT SITUATION REPORT, AUGUST 25, 2005 [...] (SBU) Summary: Israeli disengagement is proceeding, with demolition of remaining settlements underway. Israeli focus has now turned to the situation of evacuees in Israel, and on political maneuvering post-disengagement. A gun battle that ensued during an Israeli operation near Tulkarm overn [...] | 2005-08-25 14:49:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWBG KPAL PREL ECON EAID PINS IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV5279 | AVIAN FLU PREPAREDNESS IN ISRAEL - A MAJOR [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOI is putting together plans for dealing with a possible outbreak of Avian Influenza (AI) and will share those with Embassy once available. The Ministry of Health has purchased USD 10 million worth of the Tamiflu vaccine and has been in contact with international agencies [...] | 2005-08-26 13:02:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO ECON PREL SOCI EAGR IS ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY |
05TELAVIV5285 | DISENGAGEMENT SITUATION REPORT, AUGUST 26, 2005 [...] (SBU) Summary: The Israeli cabinet is expected to approve on August 28 an agreement with Egypt allowing Egypt to post 750 Border Guards on the Egypt-Gaza border. Meanwhile, Israeli pundits and the weekend press ponder the impact of disengagement. The Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronot reported A [...] | 2005-08-26 15:01:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWBG KPAL PREL ECON EAID PINS IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV5343 | DISENGAGEMENT SITUATION REPORT, AUGUST 30, 2005 [...] (SBU) The IDF continues to make steady progress in implementing the GOI disengagement. Hamas and Fatah personnel clashed near Rafah. Otherwise few notable security incidents took place in the last twenty-four hours. The GOI appears to have agreed to a phased handover of settlement areas i [...] | 2005-08-30 14:49:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWBG KPAL PREL ECON EAID IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV5458 | ASHKELON DESALINATION PLANT OPEN FOR BUSINESS [...] (U) Summary: The Ashkelon desalination plant began providing potable water for the Israeli national water grid in mid-August, according to Gustavo Kronenberg, general manager of the private consortium that built and is operating the plant. By the end of this year, Ashkelon, the largest reve [...] | 2005-09-07 07:13:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV PREL KPAL KWBG IS ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY |
05TELAVIV571 | WB/G SITREP: IDF ARRESTS FIVE PALESTINIANS IN THE [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite the absence of incursions or demolitions in the Gaza strip, the IDF accidentally shot and killed a 10 year-old girl and wounded another 7 year-old Palestinian child in Rafah January 31. As many as 32 Palestinians, including passersby, were injured in violent clashes th [...] | 2005-01-31 17:41:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWBG PHUM PREL PTER ASEC CASC GZ IS |
05TELAVIV5723 | GAZA STRIP: EUPHORIA OR ANARCHY? [...] (SBU) A PA Ministry of Interior contact told poloff September 16 that the situation in Rafah remains "a big mess," with movement of Egyptians and Palestinians across the border through up to seven openings. The MOI contact, who visited Rafah on September 15 and remained in touch with his cont [...] | 2005-09-16 15:08:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWBG KPAL PREL ECON EAID PINS IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV5779 | FM SHALOM MEETING WITH CODEL DAVIS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom briefed CODEL Davis August 31 on the Government of Israel's Disengagement Plan, and anticipated costs associated with moving military forces and with developing the Negev and the Galilee. Asked about post-Disengagement scenarios and PM Sharon's d [...] | 2005-09-22 09:18:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPAL EAID KWBG PREF IS IR LE EG GAZA DISENGAGEMENT GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
05TELAVIV5866 | POSSIBLE POST-DISENGAGEMENT SCENARIOS [...] (SBU) Summary: Predictions about the universe of post-disengagement possibilities can be grouped into three possible scenarios and two remote options, according to a range of Israeli observers. The first scenario -- the roadmap scenario -- is the official position of the Government of Israel [...] | 2005-09-28 06:04:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KWBG KPAL PINS PREL IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05TELAVIV5892 | BOI FOLLOWS FED AND RAISES INTEREST RATE TO [...] (U) On September 25, the Bank of Israel (BOI) announced a .25 percent increase in interest rates, bringing the short-term rate to 3.75 percent. This was the first change since the Central Bank lowered rates by 0.2 percent to 3.5 percent at the end of January, 2005. In its September 25 press [...] | 2005-09-29 07:44:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN IS ECONOMY AND FINANCE |
05TELAVIV594 | ISRAELI PRESS REPORTS CLAIM ATTORNEY GENERAL [...] (SBU) Summary. Both Ha'aretz and radio station Kol Israel report Tuesday February 1 that Attorney General Menachem Mazuz has "instructed the government to immediately halt" applying the Absentee Property Law in East Jerusalem. Mazuz is reported to have done this through a letter to Finance [...] | 2005-02-01 14:46:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM KWBG IS JE GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
05TELAVIV6160 | ISRAEL SEEKING REGIONAL COORDINATION ON AVIAN [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOI is hoping to use an existing health grouping to pull together a meeting of health ministers to coordinate regional preparations on avian influenza. The Turkish Health Minister reportedly has agreed to host such a gathering. GOI officials hope that there can be some US [...] | 2005-10-20 13:33:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO EAGR PREL IS CY EG JO KPAL KWBG TU ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY |
05TELAVIV6221 | ISRAELI-ARAB LEADERS CALL ISRAEL HOME, BUT WANT [...] (SBU) Summary: Israeli-Arab speakers at an October 20 roundtable with the diplomatic community underscored their solidarity with West Bank and Gazan Palestinians, but stressed that most Israeli Arabs would prefer to remain in Israel -- but with equal rights -- rather than join any future Pal [...] | 2005-10-28 11:37:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM IS ISRAELI SOCIETY |
05TELAVIV6238 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: GOI ASSISTING PA; GROUPS FEAR [...] (SBU) Summary: Israeli officials are in daily contact with their counterparts from the Palestinian Authority and have been testing birds on behalf of the PA. GOI veterinary officials have provided their Palestinian counterparts with antigens to detect avian influenza. GOI and PA veterinary o [...] | 2005-10-31 09:37:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO EAGR PREL ECON KWBG IS ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
05TELAVIV6355 | ISRAEL SUPPORTS U.S. APPROACH TO CSD ENERGY ROUND [...] (U) The Ministry of Environment shares U.S. views on the recent Water Round of the U.N. Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) and looks forward to working closely with the U.S. and other like-minded parties in the Energy Round. MOE officials have made the following points to ESTH officer [...] | 2005-11-04 14:53:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ECON ENRG EAID AORC IS ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY |
05TELAVIV6405 | LABOR UNIONS LOSE POWER AND INFLUENCE, RELY ON THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Histadrut labor federation leaders told poloff October 31 that the movement has lost power to influence legislation since Histadrut's 1994 divorce from the Labor Party, which formerly served as its surrogate in the Knesset. To reverse the organization's declining impact on pub [...] | 2005-11-08 17:43:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PGOV IS ECONOMY AND FINANCE GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI SOCIETY |
05TELAVIV649 | WB/G SITREP: ISRAELI POLICEMAN INJURED AND FIVE [...] (SBU) Summary: An Israeli policeman in the Old City was injured trying to prevent Jewish youth from stoning Arabs, and eight international activists were injured while protesting construction of the separation barrier, on February 1. Five Palestinians were arrested by the IDF in the West Ban [...] | 2005-02-02 14:22:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWBG PHUM PREL PTER ASEC CASC GZ IS |
05TELAVIV651 | WB/G SITREP: PALESTINIAN YOUTH WOUNDED BY IDF [...] (SBU) Summary: In the West Bank, a Palestinian was shot and wounded by IDF soldiers during stone-throwing skirmishes near the village of Burqa south of Jenin. Two Palestinian youths were injured during stone-throwing clashes with the IDF in Nablus. Four Palestinians were arrested in various [...] | 2005-02-03 14:21:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWBG PHUM PREL PTER ASEC CASC GZ IS |
05TELAVIV652 | MAZUZ ABSENTEE PROPERTY LAW DECISION RILES [...] (SBU) The Absentee Property Law controversy continued to receive press play February 3, although at a less intense level than previously. AG Mazuz's January 31 decision to overturn application the Absentee Property Law (APL) to East Jerusalem led to a predictable outcry by Ministers Sharansk [...] | 2005-02-03 14:21:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KWBG IS JE GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
05TELAVIV653 | WB/G SITREP: PALESTINIAN YOUTH WOUNDED BY IDF [...] (SBU) Summary: In the West Bank, a Palestinian was shot and wounded by IDF soldiers during stone-throwing skirmishes near the village of Burqa south of Jenin. Two Palestinian youths were injured during stone-throwing clashes with the IDF in Nablus. Four Palestinians were arrested in various [...] | 2005-02-03 14:21:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWBG PHUM PREL PTER ASEC CASC GZ IS |
05TELAVIV6717 | Chief Justice Lauds Post's Judiciary Programs, [...] (U) Summary: At a program planning meeting November 29, 2005 in his chambers, Israel's Supreme Court Chief Justice Aharon Barak and National Court Administration President Judge Boaz Okun told the PAO, American Center Director, and PD rule of law program specialist that he places a high value [...] | 2005-12-01 09:02:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM SCUL OEXC OIIP KPAO IS ISRAELI SOCIETY GOI INTERNAL ISRAEL RELATIONS |
05TELAVIV6763 | Fischer Takes Command: BOI Rate Hike Counters [...] (SBU) In an expected move, the Bank of Israel (BOI) announced a 0.5 increase in interest rates on November 28, bringing the base rate to 4.5 percent. This was the Central Bank's third consecutive monthly hike, and the most pronounced, following increases of 0.25 percent at the end of both Sep [...] | 2005-12-02 15:18:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN IS ECONOMY AND FINANCE |
05TELAVIV6846 | LABOR MK HERZOG: "SHARON STOLE HANEGBI," AND MORE [...] (SBU) Summary: In a December 7 meeting with the Ambassador, Labor MK and former Housing Minister Isaac (Itzchak) Herzog discussed the ever-evolving Israeli political scene, including then breaking news that acting Likud Party Chairman and Minister-without-Portfolio Tzachi Hanegbi had decided [...] | 2005-12-08 11:50:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER KWBG KPAL IS ELECTIONS GOI INTERNAL ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS |
05TELAVIV7096 | PERETZ: REMOVE ILLEGAL OUTPOSTS, SPEED UP PEACE [...] (SBU) Summary: Labor Party Chairman Amir Peretz, who has tried to focus the Israeli electorate on economic issues (reftel),recently criticized the proliferation of Israeli outposts and expansion of settlements in the West Bank as damaging to Israel's international reputation and to prospects [...] | 2005-12-29 15:55:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KWBG KPAL IS SETTLEMENTS ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS GOI INTERNAL |
05TELAVIV711 | WB/G SITREP: PIJ AND AAMB INJURE FOUR IDF [...] (SBU) In the West Bank on February 3, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades wounded four IDF soldiers in a shooting attack south of Hebron. Eight international activists were lightly injured in clashes with the IDF when protesting the construction of the seamline barrie [...] | 2005-02-04 13:08:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWBG PHUM PREL PTER ASEC CASC GZ IS |
05TELAVIV73 | WB/G SITREP: EIGHT ARRESTED IN WEST BANK; IN GAZA, [...] (SBU) Summary: Violence continued in Gaza January 4-5 with 11-12 IDF soldiers reportedly injured by Qassam rocket attacks and eight Palestinians, including six members of the same family and one militant, killed by Israeli gunfire. In the West Bank, eight Palestinians were arrested, including [...] | 2005-01-05 15:44:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWBG PHUM PREL PTER ASEC CASC GZ IS |
05TELAVIV886 | WB/G SITREP: FEBRUARY 14, 2005 (1300 HOURS LOCAL) [...] (SBU) Summary: Palestinian militants launched three shooting attacks at IDF and Israeli settler targets February 11-14, including one in which militants fired on Israeli laborers who were putting up a fence along the Kissufim Road. No injuries were reported. The GOI agreed February 14 to th [...] | 2005-02-14 15:23:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWBG PHUM PREL PTER ASEC CASC GZ IS |
05TELAVIV916 | WB/G SITREP: FEBRUARY 15, 2005 (1300 HOURS LOCAL) [...] (SBU) Summary: A Palestinian driver said that an Israeli car fired shots at his vehicle north of Nablus on February 14, damaging his vehicle but causing no injuries. The IDF arrested a total of eight Palestinians throughout the West Bank February 14-15. In Gaza, unknown assailants opened fi [...] | 2005-02-15 14:02:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWBG PHUM PREL PTER ASEC CASC GZ IS |
05TELAVIV946 | WB/G SITREP: TWO AL-AQSA MILITANTS AND A [...] (SBU) Summary: The IDF shot and killed two Al-Aqsa militants in the West Bank, while an Israeli settler killed a 15-year-old Palesinian in Ramallah. In Gaza, militants fired mortar shells at Morag and Neve Dekalim. No injuries were reported in either attack. End Summary. --------- West [...] | 2005-02-16 15:47:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWBG PHUM PREL PTER ASEC CASC GZ IS |
05TELAVIV969 | WB/G SITREP: FEBRUARY 17, 2005 (1300 HOURS LOCAL) [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 16, settlers west of Hebron attacked a group of Amcit (Christian Peacemakers) and Italian peace activists who were escorting Palestinian shepherds grazing animals, beating up and injuring two activists, according to humanitarian NGOs. PA Labor Minister Ghassan Khat [...] | 2005-02-17 12:28:00 | Embassy Tel Aviv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWBG PHUM PREL PTER ASEC CASC GZ IS |
05THEHAGUE1201 | ONE YEAR SOFA FOR NETHERLANDS ANTILLES AND ARUBA [...] (SBU) In accordance with ref A, Embassy Legal Counselor exchanged diplomatic notes on May 3, 2005, concluding an exercise specific status of forces agreement with the Netherlands to provide privileges and immunities for U.S. forces in Aruba and the Netherlands Antilles. The agreement entered [...] | 2005-05-04 09:29:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMGT APER ASEC KTIA MARR MOPS PREL NL NA |
05THEHAGUE1786 | NETHERLANDS/MSF: DUTCH SEEK JOINT DEMARCHE IN KABUL [...] No summary [...] | 2005-06-23 13:20:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PHUM PREF PREL AF NL |
05THEHAGUE1925 | PALESTINIAN SECURITY/NETHERLANDS: DUTCH DONATION [...] (SBU) Acting POLCOUNS and Poloff discussed reftel demarche with the MFA on June 30 and July 7. Astrid Zonneveld (MFA Action Officer for security policy) told A/POLCOUNS that the GoNL would provide up to 500,000 euro to support the Ward Mission, drawing on the Security Policy Bureau's discre [...] | 2005-07-07 13:30:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MASS PREL KWBG IS NL PKPAL |
05THEHAGUE2252 | NETHERLANDS/IRAQ: RETURN OF DUTCH DONATION FOR IRAQ MISSING PERSONS ACTIVITIES [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 4. 2. (SBU) Poloff met Dirk Klaasen and Sari Holthuis (MFA, Department of Political Affairs) and shared the detailed explanation and apology contained in reftel, regarding the unspent 300,000 grant from the Government of the Netherlands to [...] | 2005-08-15 13:27:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IZ NL PHUM |
05THEHAGUE2452 | IRAQI CONSTITUTION--GETTING THE WORD OUT [...] (SBU) Post has shared the Iraqi constitution information contained in reftel with Ministry of Foreign Affairs, think- tank, and media contacts. In discussions with government contacts embassy officers stressed the importance of establishing a positive political environment for the constitutio [...] | 2005-09-09 11:38:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPAO NL IZ |
05THEHAGUE2544 | NETHERLANDS/IRAQ: BOOK CLOSED ON IRAQI NATIONAL [...] (SBU) Per refs, post orally advised the Dutch MFA on August 18 that the State Department had authorized the return of a 300,000 Euro grant from the Dutch government to support the establishment of an Iraqi Bureau of Missing Persons (project POBB8817). After verifying that the funds had been [...] | 2005-09-20 08:29:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM IZ NL XG XT |
05THEHAGUE2557 | NEW DUTCH MFA SECTION: TERRORISM AND NEW THREATS [...] (SBU) The Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has created a "Terrorism and New Threats" unit within the Department of Political Affairs. According to Fred Olthof, the newly-designated head of the unit, the reorganization is intended to consolidate into one office several counter-terroris [...] | 2005-09-20 16:59:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER NL |
05THEHAGUE2564 | NETHERLANDS/SUDAN: URGING INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT [...] (SBU) On September 21, POLOFF shared reftel points with Stella Kloth, Sudan Desk Officer at the MFA and member of the Dutch Government's Sudan Task Force. Kloth was very interested in the points and promised to share them with her colleagues at the Dutch Embassy in Khartoum. 2. (SBU) Kloth [...] | 2005-09-21 15:13:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PREF PHUM EAID NL |
05THEHAGUE2594 | DUTCH 2006 BUDGET: REFORM, GROWTH, AND UNCERTAINTY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. With early indications of a long- awaited economic recovery as a backdrop, the Netherlands' center-right governing coalition presented a draft 2006 budget that seeks to ensure continued economic growth through additional structural reforms of the country's welfare system and [...] | 2005-09-26 15:41:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PREL EINV ELAB PGOV NL |
05THEHAGUE2599 | THE DUTCH MUSLIM COMMUNITY: A PRIMER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Muslim community in the Netherlands is the second largest in Europe as a percentage of total population (5.8 percent). It is also one of the least-well integrated and most alienated, and according to polls looks less favorably on the United States than Muslim communities elsewher [...] | 2005-09-27 08:25:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR PTER SOCI SCUL KISL NL KPAO |
05THEHAGUE2674 | NETHERLANDS: ICJ ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) On October 3, Charge and POLCOUNS met with Hugo Siblesz, Director General of Political Affairs at the MFA, to urge the Dutch to support Judge Thomas Buergenthal's reelection to the International Court of Justice (ICJ),drawing on reftel points. A diplomatic note was presented earlier to [...] | 2005-10-05 14:49:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL NL UNSC UNGA |
05THEHAGUE2675 | NETHERLANDS: SUPPORTIVE ON SUA AMENDMENTS [...] Poloff discussed reftel points October 4 with Dr. Liesbeth Lijnzaad (Deputy Head, Legal Affairs Department, International Law Division, MFA),who will head the Dutch delegation to the International Maritime Organization Diplomatic Conference on October 10-14. 2. Lijnzaad said that she wou [...] | 2005-10-05 15:48:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP MNUC PARM PREL PGOV KTIA EWWT PHSA NL |
05THEHAGUE2694 | NETHERLANDS: DEMARCHE ON CESSATION OF VIOLENCE IN [...] (SBU) On October 4, Charge raised reftel points on the need to counter the recent increase in violence in Sudan with Hugo Siblesz, Director General of Political Affairs at the MFA. Siblesz agreed that the situation was worrisome, and that it was important for parties to weigh in with both the [...] | 2005-10-06 10:57:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PREF SU EAID NL |
05THEHAGUE2792 | NETHERLANDS/SUDAN: COORDINATED TROIKA PLUS [...] (SBU) On October 13, POLOFF delivered reftel points to Carlijn Pouwels and Hagar Lightvoet (Policy Officers, Sudan Task Force, MFA). POLOFF noted that the U.S. was urging the Presidency of the Government of National Unity (GNU) to form the Assessment and Evaluation Commission (EAC) and asked t [...] | 2005-10-14 16:09:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM NL SU |
05THEHAGUE2827 | NETHERLANDS/SUDAN: NEXT STEPS ON DARFUR - SLM [...] (SBU) On October 18, POLOFF shared reftel proposal to move the Abuja peace talks forward with Hagar Lightvoet (Policy Officer, Sudan Task Force, Dutch MFA). Lightvoet greeted the news enthusiastically and promised to share the proposal with Fred Racke, Dutch Ambassador-at-Large for Africa. Li [...] | 2005-10-18 13:57:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SU NL |
05THEHAGUE2853 | NETHERLANDS/ISRAEL/UNGA: DUTCH FOLLOW EU LEAD [...] (SBU) The Dutch are cosponsors of the Holocaust Remembrance Resolution and will follow the majority EU position by abstaining from voting on the renewal of the mandates of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (Committee),the Division for Palestinia [...] | 2005-10-20 15:34:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL IS NL UNGA |
05THEHAGUE2897 | PUSHING THE DUTCH TO HELP ON WTO/AGRICULTURE [...] (SBU) On October 24, Charge called Helen van Dongen, Deputy Director of WTO Affairs, Ministry of Economic Affairs (MEA),to urge continued Dutch activism within the EU for an improved market access offer ahead of the October 27 Five Interested Parties (FIPs) meeting in Geneva. Van Dongen sai [...] | 2005-10-25 15:44:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ETRD NL WTRO EUN KPAO |
05THEHAGUE2913 | US VISIT BY CROWN PRINCE OF THE NETHERLANDS [...] (U) On October 25, 2005, the Dutch press reported that FM Bot announced during October 24 meetings in Washington that Dutch Crown Prince Willem Alexander (aka Prince of Orange) planned to visit Washington D.C. on November 8, 2005. According to the press reports, the Crown Prince intends to mee [...] | 2005-10-26 16:17:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PGOV KPAO NL |
05THEHAGUE2928 | NETHERLANDS: DESPITE COURT DECISION, DUTCH VISA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Dutch Unification Church (DUC) is concerned that Dutch immigration authorities may deny Rev. Sun Myung Moon a visa to visit the Netherlands on Nov. 2. Although the Dutch invoked an exception clause to the Schengen Treaty framework to grant Rev. and Mrs. Moon visas in the pa [...] | 2005-10-27 14:13:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM CVIS NL GM |
05THEHAGUE2948 | NETHERLANDS/EXTREMISM: ONE YEAR AFTER VAN GOGH, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Nearly one year after the murder of controversial Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh by Islamic extremist Mohammed Bouyeri, the GONL is still struggling to craft a strategy to address rising radicalization of its large and disenfranchised Muslim population. An October 26 conference i [...] | 2005-10-28 17:27:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PINR PINS PGOV PREL NL KPRP |
05THEHAGUE3008 | NETHERLANDS/EXTREMISM: MOHAMMAD B'S NEIGHBORHOOD [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-04 10:09:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PINR PTER SOCI SCUL KISL NL KPAO |
05THEHAGUE3009 | NETHERLANDS/IRAQ: CONSTITUTIONAL REFERENDUM [...] (SBU) On November 1, POLCOUNS delivered reftel points and Secretary Rice's statement on the results of the SIPDIS Constitutional Referendum in Iraq to Willemijn Kallenberg (Iraq Desk Officer, Dutch MFA). In response to POLCOUNS' questions, Kallenberg said she was not aware of any "official [...] | 2005-11-04 10:14:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPAO KDEM IZ NL EUN |
05THEHAGUE3036 | NETHERLANDS: DUTCH GRANT ENTRY TO REV. MOON [...] (SBU) The Dutch Unification Church (DUC) appears to have successfully used the Dutch court system to reverse the Dutch Immigration and Nationalization Service's (IND) decision to deny visas to Unification Church founder Reverend Moon and Mrs. Moon -- at least for now. As reported reftel, the [...] | 2005-11-08 16:34:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM CVIS NL |
05THEHAGUE3053 | NETHERLANDS/UNGA: THIRD COMMITTEE RESOLUTIONS [...] (SBU) On November 8, POLOFF delivered reftel points to Marwienke Tillema (Deputy Director, International Law Division, MFA). POLOFF conveyed to Tillema U.S. gratitude to the EU for co-tabling the Turkmenistan resolution and explained that, despite U.S. desire to co-sponsor and assist with lob [...] | 2005-11-09 15:54:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL NL UNGA |
05THEHAGUE3069 | ONE YEAR AFTER MURDER OF THEO VAN GOGH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The first anniversary of the murder of Theo van Gogh passed with lightly attended memorial events, but the most durable memorial is a heated and constant discussion in the government, the press and on the streets about integration, Islam, immigrants, and terrorism. END SUMMARY. 2. [...] | 2005-11-10 15:57:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PINR PTER SOCI SCUL KISL NL KPAO |
05THEHAGUE3128 | MISSION OUTREACH DURING RAMADAN [...] (U) Summary: Embassy staff participated in 19 outreach events during Ramadan this year, including hosting mission's first-ever Iftar dinner, attending small Iftar gatherings hosted by Muslim families in Amsterdam, participating in the country's first nationwide Ramadan festival, and hosting an inte [...] | 2005-11-21 08:12:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAO PREL OEXC SCUL SOCI NL |
05THEHAGUE3145 | NETHERLANDS/SUDAN: DUTCH MAY SEND UNMIS TROOPS [...] (U) The Dutch recently moved a step closer to committing troops to the United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS). According to press reports, the Dutch cabinet on November 18 reached internal agreement to deploy 15 military observers, 15 police officers, and 5 staff officers to UNMIS for a one-y [...] | 2005-11-23 06:47:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PREF MARR SU NL |
05THEHAGUE3206 | NETHERLANDS/BOLIVIA: DUTCH MAY CONSIDER SENDING [...] (SBU) The Netherlands is receptive to the Bolivian government's call for bilateral assistance to the Organization of American States (OAS) mission to monitor the December 18 general elections. The Netherlands has provided US$100,000 to the mission and has pushed for EU support of the mission. [...] | 2005-11-30 17:44:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL NL BL |
05THEHAGUE3291 | NETHERLANDS/IRAQ: DUTCH SUPPORT FOR IRAQI [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Dutch are supporting the December 15 Iraqi elections by providing voting facilities in the Netherlands and will send six election monitors to Iraq. The Dutch MFA is actively engaged in the training of Iraqi jurists and diplomats, and will shortly revise its travel advisory [...] | 2005-12-09 14:28:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KDEM KPAO MARR MOPS IZ NL PROV |
05THEHAGUE3340 | KEY MUSLIM ORGANIZATIONS IN THE NETHERLANDS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Muslim community in the Netherlands boasts an array of organizations claiming to represent Muslim interests. The Dutch media and government frequently look to spokesmen from these groups to express "Muslim" views on integration initiatives and other matters. Some post con [...] | 2005-12-16 15:55:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR PTER SOCI SCUL KISL KPAO |
05THEHAGUE393 | NL/EU CONSTITUTION: DUTCH REFERENDUM CAMPAIGN OFF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Dutch government is committed to holding a referendum on the EU Constitutional Treaty -- most likely in late May or early June -- and also to obtaining a positive outcome. Some members of parliament have criticized the government for setting aside funds for a "yes" campaig [...] | 2005-02-10 16:54:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | NL PREL EUN |
05THEHAGUE865 | PSI: DUTCH ON AMENDMENTS TO THE SUA [...] No summary [...] | 2005-04-01 15:29:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP MNUC PARM PREL KTIA PHSA EWWT PGOV NL |
05THEHAGUE883 | DUTCH CABINET SURVIVES [...] (SBU) Summary: As anticipated (reftel,) the rank and file of the Democrats-66 (D66) party, the junior member of Prime Minister Balkenende's coalition government, voted overwhelmingly at an April 2 extraordinary party congress to remain in the coalition despite the resignation of D66 Deputy PM [...] | 2005-04-05 06:30:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINR NL |
05TORONTO2614 | 16 Dead in Toronto "Mystery" Flu Illness [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 6, the reported death count in a "mystery" flu-like virus outbreak in a Toronto-area nursing home climbed to 16, making it the city's worst respiratory outbreak since SARS killed 44 Canadians in the spring of 2003. Public health officials emphasize that they have ru [...] | 2005-10-06 17:40:00 | Consulate Toronto | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMED SOCI TBIO ECON CASC CA KPAO |
05TORONTO2631 | Throne Speech To Be Overshadowed by Finance [...] (U) A widely anticipated self-congratulatory provincial Liberal government throne speech today (October 12) to mark Premier McGuinty's mid-term and set the tone for the next election in October 2007 will likely be overshadowed by the resignation, announced last night, of Ontario Finance Minis [...] | 2005-10-12 14:13:00 | Consulate Toronto | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPAO CA |
05TORONTO2634 | Canadian Financial Services Sector: U.S. [...] (U) This message is one in a series reviewing the Canadian financial services sector from a cross-border, North American integration perspective. In September 2005 the Toronto Financial Services Alliance sponsored roundtables for ConGen Toronto with industry sector experts in venture capital [...] | 2005-10-12 15:46:00 | Consulate Toronto | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EFIN KTIA PREL CA US |
05TORONTO2638 | The Canadian Financial Services Sector: [...] (U) This message is one in a series reviewing the Canadian financial services sector from a cross-border, North American integration perspective. In September 2005 the Toronto Financial Services Alliance sponsored roundtables for ConGen Toronto with industry sector experts in venture capital [...] | 2005-10-12 15:52:00 | Consulate Toronto | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EFIN PREL CA US |
05TORONTO2680 | Sorbara's Resignation Trumps Lackluster [...] (SBU) The 23-page October 12 throne speech delivered in an hour-long monotone by Ontario's Lieutenant Governor James Bartleman contained only a few new initiatives: a money-back guarantee to provide birth certificates within 15 days for on-line requestors; and raising the age of mandatory edu [...] | 2005-10-13 14:56:00 | Consulate Toronto | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPAO CA |
05TORONTO2697 | The Canadian Financial Sector: U.S. Life [...] (U) This cable contains an action request; see paragraph 9. 2. (U) This message is one in a series reviewing the Canadian financial services sector from a cross-border, North American integration perspective. In September 2005 the Toronto Financial Services Alliance sponsored roundtable [...] | 2005-10-14 11:08:00 | Consulate Toronto | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EFIN PREL KPAO CA US |
05TORONTO2704 | ONTARIO COMMUNITY AND SOCIAL SERVICES MINISTER [...] (SBU) Summary: Ontario Community and Social Services Minister Pupatello emphasized the importance the Ontario Government places on relations with the United States during an October 13 courtesy call the Consul General paid on her. Pupatello digressed from issues associated with her portfolio [...] | 2005-10-17 10:08:00 | Consulate Toronto | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ELTN ENRG PGOV SENV CA US |
05TORONTO2705 | Canadian Financial Services Sector: Capital [...] (U) This cable contains a request for SEC guidance, see paragraph 14. 2. (U) This message is one in a series reviewing the Canadian financial services sector from a cross-border, North American integration issue perspective. In September 2005 the Toronto Financial Services Alliance spon [...] | 2005-10-17 12:26:00 | Consulate Toronto | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EFIN PREL CA US |
05TORONTO2737 | Ontario Signs Deal to Refurbish Two Nuclear [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 17, the Ontario government announced an agreement with the private Bruce Power consortium to refurbish two nuclear reactors at a capital cost of C$4.2 billion dollars. The resulting 1,500 megawatts (MW) of additional electricity will alleviate Ontario's tight power [...] | 2005-10-18 11:53:00 | Consulate Toronto | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ELAB PGOV SENV CA |
05TORONTO2805 | Update on Plans for New Detroit River Crossing [...] (U) Action request contained in para 12. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: In a closed-door session on October 19, 2005 in Detroit, the Corradino Group described to U.S. federal and state government officials the status of the Detroit River International Crossing (DRIC) study of potential new border cross [...] | 2005-10-25 14:44:00 | Consulate Toronto | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PBTS PREL CA |
05TORONTO2838 | Bringing Order to the Border: The Niagara [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At a ConGen Toronto-hosted October 13, 2005, dinner meeting in Toronto, border and law enforcement officials from the Buffalo/Niagara region expressed pride in the continued effectiveness of cross- border cooperation in combating transnational crime. The guests, which also incl [...] | 2005-10-31 08:46:00 | Consulate Toronto | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PBTS PTER PINR KPAO PREL CA |
05TORONTO2967 | Ontario Experts Discuss Environmental Politics and [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In preparation for the upcoming COP-11 meeting in Montreal, Ambassador Wilkins participated in a November 14 PA-organized meeting at the University of Toronto with leaders of environmental NGOs and academics concerned with environmental issues. Among the topics discussed were t [...] | 2005-11-17 15:54:00 | Consulate Toronto | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV PGOV KPAO PREL CA |
05TORONTO3086 | Bringing Order to the Border: Detroit- [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND INTRO: The Detroit-Windsor border crossings are preparing for a large increase in the volume of passenger traffic heading for special events in Detroit in January and February. Earlier concerns about processing times for buses entering the U.S. for special events (reftel) a [...] | 2005-11-28 15:41:00 | Consulate Toronto | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PBTS PGOV PREL CA |
05TORONTO3133 | Ontario Environment Minister Traveling to Montreal [...] (U) See action request in para 5. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Ontario Environment Minister Broten asked ConGen Toronto to help her set up meetings with U.S. environmental officials at the COP-11 meetings in Montreal next week. Post believes it would be useful for a U.S. official to meet with Brote [...] | 2005-12-01 12:41:00 | Consulate Toronto | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV PGOV KPAO PREL CA |
05TORONTO3250 | Reviving the Islamic Spirit Convention [...] (U) See para 8 for action request. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: A large convention for Islamic youth will take place in Toronto December 23 to 26. Organizers expect about 12,000 to 15,000 people to attend - about 1,000 people will likely travel to Canada from the U.S. Since the convention is occu [...] | 2005-12-14 15:20:00 | Consulate Toronto | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CASC KISL KPAO PREL CA |
05TUNIS1091 | Embassy Engages Tunisian Journalists on World Press [...] (SBU) Summary: On the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, the Embassy, with financial and logistical support from Internews, provided training for over 70 Tunisian journalists on the issue of on-line journalism. On May 3, the Embassy hosted a small hands-on workshop, led by American expert [...] | 2005-05-24 13:25:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KPAO SOCI KMPI TS ECIP |
05TUNIS1495 | USTR NOVELLI ADVANCES US-TUNISIA TRADE [...] (SBU) Summary. Assistant Trade Representative Catherine Novelli, in Tunis June 14-15 for the second TIFA Council meeting, firmly emphasized to Minister of Development and International Cooperation Jouini that the U.S. wants to expand our free trade community and is working at a modest pace, b [...] | 2005-07-08 06:08:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD TS EFTA |
05TUNIS898 | FREE TRADE WITH THE U.S.: ARE THE TUNISIANS READY? [...] (SBU) Summary. Booz Allen Hamilton's Emad Tinawi visited Tunis April 4 ) 8, to consult with U.S. Embassy and GOT officials, private sector representatives, and academics on U.S.-Tunisian trade and investment issues. Tinawi's visit, as a private sector consultant to the Department, aimed to a [...] | 2005-05-02 09:38:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EFIN TS |
05TUNIS909 | BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END USE CHECK ON [...] (SBU) Post has made appropriate inquiries to establish the legitimacy of a transaction for the export of AB205 Bell helicopter spare parts to Tunisia and concludes that it is a legitimate transaction. In addition, the post has investigated concerns regarding the end user, the Tunisian Army, a [...] | 2005-05-02 15:29:00 | Embassy Tunis | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KOMC ETTC TS |
05VANCOUVER1470 | ORGANIZED CRIME IN BC IS ON THE RISE AND LAW ENFORCEMENT IS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The number of organized crime groups in BC has more than doubled in the past two years, severely challenging BC law enforcement and the judiciary. Almost every global ethnic crime group known to law enforcement now has a base in Vancouver. Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs (OMG),or He [...] | 2005-11-15 18:13:00 | Consulate Vancouver | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KJUS SNAR SOCI |
05VATICAN102 | POPE ENCOURAGES DIALOGE OVER ARROGANCE; URGES [...] (SBU) In the face of the natural and manmade catastrophes that afflicted the world over the past year, Pope John Paul II's New Year address to the Vatican diplomatic corps set out four challenges facing world leaders that closely parallel priority U.S. policy goals: the defense of life, the c [...] | 2005-01-13 05:42:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM VT |
05VATICAN142 | VIETNAM WARMING TO RELATIONS WITH HOLY SEE? [...] No summary [...] | 2005-01-14 16:37:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM KIRF VM VT |
05VATICAN181 | JEWISH LEADERS HAIL POPE'S EFFORTS TO BUILD [...] (SBU) The largest group of Jewish leaders ever to travel to the Vatican lauded Pope John Paul II's efforts on behalf of reconciliation between Jews and Christians in a January 18 meeting. The group cited the Pope's numerous gestures toward the Jewish community as the Holy See marks the 40th [...] | 2005-01-19 16:25:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM IS VT |
05VATICAN194 | IRAQ: RELEASED ARCHBISHOP CALLS FOR U.S. [...] No summary [...] | 2005-01-20 15:30:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PINR IZ VT VTPREL |
05VATICAN2323 | POPE BENEDICT XVI PONTIFICATE PREVIEW PART THREE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-07-12 09:35:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINR VT |
05VATICAN253 | CATHOLIC AID ORGANIZATIONS: TSUMANI RESPONSE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-01-25 15:42:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM EAID SENV SOCI CE ID IN ML MY TH VT |
05VATICAN382 | UKRAINE: VATICAN OPTIMISTIC, DEFENDS CARDINAL'S [...] (SBU) Holy See Country Director for Ukraine Monsignor Julio Murat defended Ukrainian (Greek Catholic) Cardinal Lubomyr Husar, insisting that he had "no choice" but to speak out against abuses during his country's recent election controversy. According to Murat, Husar's public statements were [...] | 2005-02-04 14:17:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIRF PHUM PREL RS SOCI UP VT |
05VATICAN400 | ORTHODOX AND CATHOLICS PURSUE CULTURAL COOPERATION [...] (SBU) Holy See officials have told us recently they are encouraged by "small signs" of progress in Orthodo 2.(SBU) Holy See Country Director for Russia Monsignor Julio Murat told us that he has seen an increasing openness on the part of some Orthodox to the Vatican in recent months on cultura [...] | 2005-02-07 08:09:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM SOCI VT RU |
05VATICAN444 | INDIA: JESUITS SEE RISING HINDU FUNDAMENTALISM [...] (U) SUMMARY: Father Lisbert D'Souza, South Asia Regional Director at the Jesuit Curia in Rome said February 16 that recent attacks against Christians in India were motivated by increasing Hindu fundamentalism. D'Souza distinguished between simple banditry and religiously motivated attacks, and [...] | 2005-02-24 10:51:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | VT IN KIRF PGOV |
05VATICAN450 | VATICAN GRAPPLES WITH UNCERTAINTIES OF AN INCAPACITATED [...] (SBU) Pope John Paul II's February 24 tracheotomy will leave the already frail Pope further debilitated and unable to speak for some period of time. His deteriorating condition has already generated extensive media speculation about the possibility of a Papal resignation and the impact of seve [...] | 2005-02-25 16:30:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINR SOCI VT |
05VATICAN456 | POPE RETURNS TO VATICAN TO CONTINUE RECUPERATION; WILL KEEP [...] (U) Pope John Paul II returned to the Vatican in the early evening of March 13, after spending 18 days in Rome's Gemelli hospital. The Pontiff underwent a tracheotomy to facilitate his breathing and subsequent therapy to allow him to speak with a tube in his throat. Television coverage o [...] | 2005-03-16 18:14:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SOCI VT |
05VATICAN463 | TOWARD THE CONCLAVE PART I: THE ELECTION OF A NEW POPE [...] (U) On Monday, April 18 following nine days of official mourning after the burial of Pope John Paul II, 115 cardinals will gather in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel to elect a new pope. This cable -- the first in a series looking toward the conclave -- outlines the election procedures and provide [...] | 2005-04-13 14:04:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV VT |
05VATICAN465 | TOWARD THE CONCLAVE PART II: CHALLENGES FACING THE CHURCH [...] (U) When the 115 Cardinal Electors come together in the Sistine Chapel April 18 to elect a new Pope, they will vote to elect the individual they believe is best suited to lead the Catholic Church at this moment in history. Who that person is will depend in part on what the Cardinal electors be [...] | 2005-04-15 14:07:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV VT |
05VATICAN475 | BENEDICT XVI: LOOKING AHEAD TO THE NEW PONTIFICATE - PART [...] (U) This cable is the first of a series previewing the pontificate of Pope Benedict XVI. It examines the factors behind Benedict XVI's election and the implications of this choice for the Holy See. Subsequent cables will examine the approach the new Pope is likely to take on international iss [...] | 2005-05-12 16:44:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINR VT |
05VATICAN479 | BENEDICT XVI: LOOKING AHEAD TO THE NEW PONTIFICATE - PART [...] (U) This cable is the second of a series previewing the pontificate of Pope Benedict XVI. The first part (ref b) examined the reasons for the election of Pope Benedict and initial signals on directions for his papacy. This second cable examines the approach he is likely to take on major issu [...] | 2005-05-23 15:20:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINR VT |
05VATICAN480 | POPE NAMES AMERICAN TO KEY POST [...] (SBU) In the first new appointment of his pontificate, Pope Benedict XVI named San Francisco's Archbishop William Levada as his successor as Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF),the Holy See's primary doctrinal guardian. Levada becomes the highest placed American Cu [...] | 2005-05-26 11:27:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PINR PGOV VT |
05VATICAN487 | HOLY SEE AND RUSSIA FLIRTING WITH DIPLOMATIC UPGRADE [...] (U) Russian FM Sergei Lavrov's June 7 visit to the Vatican sparked renewed speculation upgrading the status of their diplomatic relations. A statement issued by the Holy See's press office said Lavrov, Vatican Secretary of State Sodano, and FM Lajolo discussed the "cordial" bilateral rela [...] | 2005-06-30 15:37:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KIRF RS VT |
05VATICAN503 | HOLY SEE SUPPORTS COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH TO UN REFORM [...] (SBU) Vatican MFA's Monsignor Francis Chullikatt told us July 22 he agreed that it made sense to take a comprehensive approach to UN reform rather than to reform the UNSC first and approach remaining reform issues in a "piecemeal" fashion. He confirmed the Holy See's support for a restructuri [...] | 2005-07-27 13:47:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KUNR KPKO VT UN |
05VATICAN551 | ISRAEL: HOLY SEE CITES PROBLEMS FOR PILGRIMS [...] (U) This telegram contains an action request. Please see paragraph 3. 2. (SBU) Holy See MFA Country Director for Israel Monsignor Franco Coppola raised the Vatican's concerns about freedom of movement for pilgrims to Bethlehem December 5. Coppola claimed that while people staying in Jer [...] | 2005-12-09 14:32:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IS KPAL PREL KIRF VT PHUM |
05VATICAN553 | SANT EGIDIO ASSEMBLES AFRICAN JUSTICE MINISTERS [...] (SBU) The Rome-based Sant'Egidio Community brought together justice ministers from several African states in November to consider their respective governments' positions on the death penalty and other issues involving their penal systems. Sant'Egidio's Mario Giro told us that the participation [...] | 2005-12-13 16:03:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL PGOV VT |
05VATICAN565 | POPE'S CALLS FOR JUST WORLD ORDER, ATTENTION TO TERRORISM, [...] (U) Pope Benedict XVI used his first Christmas message to the city of Rome and the world (Urbi et Orbi) to focus attention on the threat of terrorism and the humanitarian crises around the world. (Complete text of the speech was emailed to EUR/WE.) With an audience of hundreds of million [...] | 2005-12-28 16:41:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL SU VT |
05VATICAN89 | POPE URGES GENUINE RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN CUBA [...] No summary [...] | 2005-01-11 16:53:00 | Embassy Vatican | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM CU VT |
05VIENNA101 | EU COMMON POSITION ON CUBA: AUSTRIAN RESPONSE [...] (SBU) Embassy conveyed reftel points to Austrian MFA DAS-equivalent for Latin American Kornelia Weihs on January 10. Pol Unit Chief followed up with Weihs (who had just returned from the COLAT EU working group meeting in Brussels) on January 12. Weihs told us that the Luxembourg Presidency [...] | 2005-01-12 13:12:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL CU AU EUN |
05VIENNA1028 | GOA VIEWS ON DEBT RELIEF FOR HIPCS AND IRAQ, [...] (U) Econ/Pol Counselor and Econ Unit Chief met with Michael Linhart, Director of the Austrian Development Agency, on March 10 to discuss reftel points and background paper. Econ Unit Chief followed up on March 25 with Thomas Wieser, Director General in the MoF's Economic Policy and Financial [...] | 2005-03-31 06:07:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EAID AU IZ |
05VIENNA1033 | AUSTRIAN PARTICIPATION AT OSLO DONORS' CONFERENCE [...] (SBU) On March 30, we delivered reftel talking points to Africa Director Caroline Gudenus in the MFA's Middle East and Africa Bureau. Gudenus called back after hours to say that Under-Secretary for Development Assistance (USAID Director-equivalent) Irene Freudenschussreichl would attend the [...] | 2005-03-31 09:58:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID ECON MARR SU AU |
05VIENNA1062 | AUSTRIA IN LINE WITH EU CONSENSUS ON CHR CUBA [...] (SBU) On March 22, following receipt of ref a, Embassy Vienna provided a copy of the draft Cuba resolution to the Austrian MFA Human Rights Bureau and requested Austria's support for EU co-sponsorship. On April 1, Acting head of the Human Rights Bureau Ingrid Pech told EconPolOff that the de [...] | 2005-04-01 14:51:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL AU UNHRC EUN |
05VIENNA1064 | GAINING PSI PARTNERS' SUPPORT FOR EXISTING TEXT OF [...] (SBU) EconPol Unit Chief conveyed reftel points to Ambassador Dorothea Auer (2005 Australia Group Chair and Austria's PSI representative) on March 29. In a follow-up meeting on March 30, Auer agreed that her office would support the draft text that had emerged from the working group. 2. [...] | 2005-04-01 15:38:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP MNUC PARM PREL KTIA PHSA EWWT PGOV AU |
05VIENNA1101 | FREEDOM PARTY LEADERSHIP QUITS - NEW MOVEMENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At an April 4 press conference, the entire Freedom Party (FPO) national leadership announced it was quitting the FPO to found a new movement. The "Alliance for the Future of Austria" (Buendnis Zukunft Oesterreichs - BZO) will have Carinthian Governor Joerg Haider as chairman. [...] | 2005-04-05 10:02:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV AU |
05VIENNA112 | INTERNATIONAL MISSION FOR IRAQ ELECTIONS - [...] (SBU) Embassy conveyed reftel points to Austrian MFA Middle East Africa Bureau on January 10. Pol Unit Chief followed up with Middle East desk officer Wolfgang Lapuh on January 12. Lapuh agreed with our assessment that successful elections would represent a critical turning point for Iraq. [...] | 2005-01-12 15:19:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PROP PREL PHUM IZ AU |
05VIENNA1151 | AUSTRIA FAVORS LESS STRINGENT POST-KYOTO TARGETS [...] (SBU) At the March 22-23 European Council meeting, Austria initiated a remarkable about-face, arguing for lower emission reduction targets after 2012. In the run-up to the summit, Austria pressed for setting no emission reductions goals at all. There is an open discussion within the GoA bet [...] | 2005-04-08 06:08:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG EIND ECON PGOV AU |
05VIENNA1187 | Austria's 2006 Budget - Analysis [...] (U) On April 7, Parliament adopted the GoA's 2006 Budget Bill. For 2006, the GoA predicts a federal budget deficit of 2.2% of projected GDP (EMU's Maastricht definition) and a corresponding consolidated public sector budget deficit of 1.7%. The government's second- highest deficit since 200 [...] | 2005-04-12 11:24:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EFIN AU |
05VIENNA1221 | TERRORISM FINANCE: AL-HIYARI DESIGNATION - [...] (SBU) Per reftel instructions, Post submitted Bilal AL- HIYARI designation (List 69) demarche on April 13 to Alfred Lejsek, Head of the Financial Markets Directorate in the Federal Ministry of Finance (MOF),and Birgit Ertl, money laundering and terrorism financing coordinator in Lejsek's offi [...] | 2005-04-14 08:43:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTFN ETTC EFIN PTER KSEP CVIS KVPR AU EUN |
05VIENNA1222 | TERRORISM FINANCE: LET SUBMISSION - DEMARCHE [...] (SBU) Per ref A instructions, Post submitted LET submission to 1267 Committee on April 13 to Alfred Lejsek, Head of the Financial Markets Directorate in the Federal Ministry of Finance (MOF),and Birgit Ertl, money laundering and terrorism financing coordinator in Lejsek's office. Post also s [...] | 2005-04-14 08:45:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTFN ETTC EFIN PTER KSEP CVIS KVPR AU EUN |
05VIENNA1298 | HAIDER'S NEW MOVEMENT PLEDGES CONTINUED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At its founding convention on April 17, the Freedom Party (FPO) spin-off, the "Alliance Future Austria" (BZO),elected Carinthian governor Joerg Haider as chairman. Haider underscored the commitment of BZO ministers and legislators to the governing coalition with Chancellor Sch [...] | 2005-04-19 12:45:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR AU |
05VIENNA1310 | COMMUNITY OF DEMOCRACIES - AUSTRIAN PARTICIPATION [...] No summary [...] | 2005-04-20 15:29:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PREL AU |
05VIENNA1376 | Austrian Imams Outline Ambitious Goals at [...] (U) Austrian Imams held a conference April 24 in Vienna. The Islamic community's spiritual representatives adopted a declaration stressing the commitment of Muslims to be an integral part of Austrian society, condemning extremism and terrorism, and emphasizing the rights of women in Islam. [...] | 2005-04-26 13:56:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL SOCI AU |
05VIENNA139 | AUSTRIA: REQUEST FOR NAMES, TITLES AND CONTACT [...] Embassy Vienna's updated contact information for leading government officials is as follows: Post: Vienna, Austria Date of Submission: January 14, 2004 Head of State: Univ. Prof. Dr. Heinz Fischer Title: Federal President Office Tel: (43)(1) 53422-201 (or -202, -204) Office Fax: (43) [...] | 2005-01-14 15:45:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AU |
05VIENNA140 | AUSTRIAN RESPONSE: US PROPOSAL FOR GLOBAL EARLY [...] (U) On January 14, post delivered reftel talking points and paper to Franz Hoerlberger, Unit Chief for Humanitarian Aid in the MFA's Development Assistance Section. Hoerlberger, who will attend the January 18-22 World Conference on Disaster Reduction in Kobe, welcomed the USG proposal. He sa [...] | 2005-01-14 15:57:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KSCA SENV AU UNESCO |
05VIENNA1401 | FREEDOM PARTY: NEW LEADER, TRIED-AND-TRUE THEMES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Freedom Party (FPO) delegates elected Vienna state chairman Heinz Christian Strache as new FPO national chair at a special convention in Salzburg April 23. Strache, blasting the founder of the FPO spinoff party BZO (Alliance Future Austria),Joerg Haider, as a betrayer, pledge [...] | 2005-04-29 07:22:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR AU |
05VIENNA1425 | AUSTRIAN WEAPONS DELIVERY TO IRAN - MFA RESPONSE [...] (SBU) Summary: Green Party foreign policy spokeswoman Ulrike Lunacek submitted a parliamentary inquiry to Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik on February 24, 2005 asking for an explanation of the GOA's approval of the shipment of 800 Steyr 50 caliber high-powered rifles to Iran. Lunacek quotes A [...] | 2005-05-02 07:27:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR AU |
05VIENNA1438 | AUSTRIAN RESPONSE: INTERNATIONAL HEALTH [...] (U) On April 25, we conveyed reftel talking points to appropriate offices in the Ministry of Health and Ministry of Foreign Affairs. DAO will present talking points to the Ministry of Defense at earliest opportunity. 2. (SBU) On May 2, EconPol Unit Chief followed up with Hubert Hrabcik, [...] | 2005-05-02 16:53:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO PREL PTER AU WHO |
05VIENNA1439 | EXTENSION OF TRAINERS AT JORDAN INTERNATIONAL [...] (SBU) Political-Economic Counselor and Pol Unit Chief delivered reftel demarche on April 28 to the Bilateral Affairs Director at the Interior Ministry (MoI),Brigadier General Kurt Hager. Hager noted that any foreign deployment, including to the Amman police academy, required a Counci [...] | 2005-05-03 05:52:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM KJUS MARR MCAP PGOV PINR PINS PTER SNAR SOCI AU |
05VIENNA1470 | TERRORIST FINANCE: ELEHSSAN DESIGNATION DEMARCHE [...] (SBU) On May 6, post conveyed reftel name, background paper, and talking points to Birgit Ertl from the Financial Market Division in the Ministry of Finance. Ertl promised to distribute the information immediately to the appropriate authorities in the Ministry of Interior, Financial Market A [...] | 2005-05-06 09:55:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN PTER ETTC PREL AU KFTN |
05VIENNA1472 | SUPPORT FOR IRAQI TRANSITIONAL GOVERNMENT: [...] (SBU) EconPolCouns and Pol Unit Chief delivered reftel demarche to MFA head of Middle East/Africa Bureau Ralph Scheide on May 3. Scheide noted that Chancellor Schuessel had sent a congratulatory message to Prime Minister al-Ja'afari, and that President Fischer had sent a greeting to Presiden [...] | 2005-05-06 13:18:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL IZ AU EUN |
05VIENNA1482 | AUSTRIA REQUESTS U.S. CONTRIBUTION TO GENERAL [...] (SBU) Ambassador met Parliamentary President Andreas Khol on May 3, at Khol's request, to discuss progress in claims processing under the General Settlement Fund (GSF) for Holocaust victims. Khol reported that decisions on cases were moving much more quickly now with the additional st [...] | 2005-05-09 06:34:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNAR PREL PGOV AU |
05VIENNA1484 | 2005 - Austria's Year of Commemoration [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In the "Jubilee Year" of 2005, Austria is observing a number of significant anniversaries. Most prominent are the 50th anniversary of the Austrian State Treaty and the 60th anniversary of the reestablishment of the Austrian Republic after the end of World War II. Austria also [...] | 2005-05-09 10:48:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AU |
05VIENNA1498 | BWC 2005 WORK PROGRAM MEETINGS ON CODES OF [...] (SBU) Pol Unit Chief delivered reftel demarche and associated non-paper to acting head of MFA Nonproliferation Bureau Dorothea Auer on May 6. Auer thanked us for the information and responded that it was clear that any "universal" code of conduct was a non-starter. She also thought it unlik [...] | 2005-05-09 14:28:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL AU CBW EUN |
05VIENNA1561 | Austrian Parliament ratifies EU Constitution [...] (U) On May 11, the Austrian parliament voted to ratify the EU Constitution. Only one MP, Barbara Rosenkranz (Freedom Party),voted "no." In the debate that preceded the vote, government representatives stressed that the EU Constitution would bring the member states together to shape a socia [...] | 2005-05-12 13:04:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AU EUN |
05VIENNA1593 | AUSTRIAN VIEWS ON WTO SERVICES NEGOTIATIONS [...] (SBU) On May 12, Econ Unit Chief deliverd reftel talking points to Gabriela Habermayer, Head of the Ministry of Economy's Multilateral Trade Affairs Division. Habermayer said the GoA shared USG concerns that most initial offers lacked ambition. Habermayer admitted that the EU's initial serv [...] | 2005-05-13 14:15:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD AU WTO |
05VIENNA1704 | UNESCO CONVENTION ON CULTURAL DIVERSITY: AUSTRIAN [...] (SBU) On May 20 Econ Unit Chief delivered reftel talking points to Helge Plank, Head of the Ministry of Economy's Multilateral Trade Affairs Services Unit. Plank acknowledged that the GoA shared USG concerns with language on "cultural goods and services" in the current convention draft. He [...] | 2005-05-23 14:16:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD SCUL AU UNESCO |
05VIENNA1726 | BLUE LANTERN: PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECK ON [...] (U) EconPolCouns and Poloffs met on May 20 with Spedition Welz representatives Andreas Praehauser, deputy manager for customs procedures, and Rainer Wirthenstaetter, director of logistics, at the firm's customs office on Franz-Sauer-Strasse 48 in Salzburg. Praehauser and Wirthenstaetter pro [...] | 2005-05-24 13:56:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC KOMC AU |
05VIENNA1740 | U.S.-EU CONFERENCE ON IRAQ: AUSTRIAN RESPONSE [...] (SBU) Economic-Political Counselor and Political Unit Chief discussed ref (A) information on May 23 with Austrian MFA A/S-equivalent for Africa and the Middle East Ralph Scheide and Director for Gulf Affairs Oskar Wuestinger. Scheide observed that the U.S. and EU now appeared to have a "compl [...] | 2005-05-25 14:56:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID IZ AU EUN UN |
05VIENNA1776 | AUSTRIA'S GOVERNMENT AND JEWISH COMMUNITY REACH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On May 25, the Austrian Jewish Community (IKG) and the GOA announced that pending questions regarding the IKG's restitution claims had been resolved. In addition, a solution was on the way to address the IKG's demands for the ongoing financing of the community. IKG President [...] | 2005-06-01 08:19:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNAR PHUM PGOV AU |
05VIENNA1779 | CUBAN CANDIDACY FOR THE ILO GOVERNING BODY - [...] No summary [...] | 2005-06-01 09:22:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PHUM PREL BB CU AU ILO |
05VIENNA1895 | AFGHANISTAN: AUSTRIA SENDING UP TO 100 SOLDIERS [...] (SBU) On June 7, the Austrian Council of Ministers (cabinet) unanimously approved the deployment of up to 100 Austrian soldiers to Afghanistan in August - October 2005. Parliament's standing committee will have to give final approval to the deployment mandate, possibly as early as June 10. [...] | 2005-04-08 12:01:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR PREL KPKO AF AU BK SR MK NATO EUN |
05VIENNA1917 | AUSTRIA SUPPORTS REFERENCE TO IPR AT U.S.-EU SUMMIT [...] (SBU) Post conveyed reftel points to the GoA's COTRA delegation in Brussels and followed up June 8 with Gabriela Habermayer, Austria's 133 Committee representative. Habermayer agreed that U.S.-EU cooperation on IPR, especially in the developing world, was an area of positive collaboration tha [...] | 2005-06-09 09:37:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD ECIN AU |
05VIENNA1924 | AUSTRIA: PARTIES PREVENT KAMPL FROM ASSUMING [...] (SBU) On June 8, all parties in Austria's parliament agreed on a strategy to prevent a controversial nationalist from becoming president of the Upper House as of July 1. The deputy, Siegfried Kampl, unleashed a storm of protest in April when he complained of "brutal persecution" of Nazis aft [...] | 2005-06-09 13:09:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNAR PHUM PGOV AU |
05VIENNA1966 | AFGHANISTAN: PARLIAMENT APPROVES DEPLOYMENT OF [...] (SBU) On June 10, Parliament's standing committee (Hauptausschuss) unanimously approved the cabinet's decision (ref a) to send up to 100 Austrian soldiers to the ISAF mission in Afghanistan for a period of three months, until October 31, 2005. The Austrian soldiers will join the German PRT i [...] | 2005-04-08 12:01:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR PREL KPKO AF AU BK SR MK NATO EUN |
05VIENNA1969 | AUSTRIA: LEADERS EXPRESS SKEPTICISM ABOUT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Austria's political establishment is underlining its deep skepticism of Turkish EU membership. First, Chancellor Schuessel (conservative People's Party - OVP) reiterated the position he took at the December 2004 EU summit: that the EU should conduct "open-ended" negotiations wit [...] | 2005-06-14 12:39:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECIN AU TU EUN |
05VIENNA2007 | UNESCO BIOETHICS DECLARATION - AUSTRIAN RESPONSE [...] (SBU) EconPolOff conveyed reftel points to Christoph Mueller and Margarethe Koegeler from the Federal Chancellery's Office of Political Coordination (OPC) on June 13. Koegeler is also Deputy Head of the GoA's Bioethics Commission. The OPC has worked closely with the MFA to establish the Go [...] | 2005-06-15 14:50:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO AU UNESCO KSCI |
05VIENNA2130 | EUFOR-ALTHEA: AUSTRIA TO ASSUME COMMAND OF "TASK [...] No summary [...] | 2005-06-24 14:34:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR PREL KPKO AU BK NATO EUN |
05VIENNA2199 | AUSTRIA: CARINTHIAN STATE LEGISLATURE BLOCKS [...] (sbu) On June 29, The Carinthian State Legislature blocked controversial nationalist Siegfried Kampl (formerly BZO, now an Independent) from becoming president of the Federal Upper House. In a special session all but one of the 33 State Legislators present voted to drop Kampl. Instead, BZO M [...] | 2005-06-29 14:21:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNAR PHUM PGOV AU |
05VIENNA2253 | MFA LEGAL ADVISER HANS WINKLER BECOMES AUSTRIA'S [...] No summary [...] | 2005-07-05 14:55:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNAR PHUM PGOV AU |
05VIENNA2254 | AUSTRIAN PARLIAMENTARIAN DEMANDS CHARGES AGAINST [...] (U) A Greens parliamentarian has asked the Austrian state prosecutor's office to open a criminal case against Iranian President-elect Mahmoud Ahmedinejad for involvement in the 1989 murders of three Kurdish leaders in Vienna. Pilz claims to have received information from a person he has ident [...] | 2005-07-05 15:52:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV IR AU |
05VIENNA2324 | DEMARCHE TO AUSTRIA: COORDINATING CONSTITUTIONAL [...] (U) EconPolCouns delivered ref (a) demarche on July 7 to Wolfgang Lapuh, acting head of the Austrian Foreign Ministry's Middle East and Africa division. 2. (SBU) Lapuh said Austria had been prepared to provide training on constitutional issues to Iraqis, and had offered this to the Iraqi [...] | 2005-07-11 13:01:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID IZ AU EUN |
05VIENNA2327 | UPDATE ON EXTENDING THE MANDATE OF AUSTRIAN [...] (SBU) EconPolCouns and Poloff met on July 11 with Brigadier Kurt Hager, the Austrian Interior Ministry's Director of Bilateral Affairs. We asked for an update on Hager's efforts to secure an extension of the mandate of Austria's police trainers at the Iraqi Police Academy in Amman through th [...] | 2005-07-11 14:02:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER KCRM MARR SOCI SNAR AU |
05VIENNA2337 | AUSTRIAN PARTICIPATION AT THE DEAD SEA IRAQ [...] (SBU) On July 11, we raised ref (a) points with Lydia Saadat, the head of Planning and Program Activities for Asia, the Middle East, Latin America and the Mediterranean in the Austrian Foreign Ministry's Development Cooperation section. Saadat told us that the Austrian Ambassador to Jordan wou [...] | 2005-07-12 09:18:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID ECON EFIN IZ JO AU |
05VIENNA2380 | U.S.-EU WINE NEGOTIATIONS: AUSTRIA SUPPORTS [...] (SBU) Post conveyed reftel talking points on July 11 to Gabriela Habermayer, Head of the Ministry of Economy's Multilateral Trade Affairs Division and to Hans Kordik, Head of the Ministry of Agriculture's EU Coordination and Planning Division. Kordik promised to provide comments at a later d [...] | 2005-07-15 06:37:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ETRD AU |
05VIENNA2403 | AUSTRIA SUPPORTS USG POSITION ON CREATING UN [...] (SBU) On July 15, Acting Econ-Pol Counselor delivered reftel talking points and draft resolutions to Peter Huber in the MFA's International Organizations Division. Huber said the GoA supported the creation of a UN Peacebuilding Commission along the lines of the USG proposal. The EU also wan [...] | 2005-07-18 06:23:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KUNR KPKO AU UNSC UNGA ECOSOC |
05VIENNA2412 | TERRORISM FINANCE: MOVEMENT FOR ISLAMIC REFORM [...] (SBU) Per reftel instructions, Post submitted the Movement for Islamic Reform in Arabia (MIRA; List 70T) designation demarche on July 18 to Alfred Lejsek, Head of the Financial Markets Directorate in the Federal Ministry of Finance (MOF),and Anelika Schloegel, money laundering and terrorism f [...] | 2005-07-18 14:29:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTFN ETTC EFIN PTER KSEP CVIS KVPR AU EUN |
05VIENNA2420 | AUSTRIA OPPOSES G-4 FRAMEWORK RESOLUTION ON UN [...] (SBU) On July 18 Acting Econ-Pol Counselor delivered reftel talking points to Peter Huber from the MFA's International Organizations Division. Huber reiterated what senior MFA officials had previously and consistently told us (refs B-D): the GoA would not support the G-4 Framework Resolution [...] | 2005-07-19 09:26:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL AU UNGA |
05VIENNA2437 | DEBATE ON AUSTRIAN MUSLIM COMMUNITY [...] (U) In the aftermath of the London terror attacks, public debate in Austria has focused on the situation of its Muslim community. Interior Ministry officials stress that there are only a few radical elements in the community and that the GoA is closely monitoring extremist elements. The off [...] | 2005-07-20 10:54:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PHUM PGOV AU |
05VIENNA2545 | FOURTH WORLD WATER FORUM - AUSTRIAN RESPONSE [...] (SBU) EconPolOff delivered reftel points to Aloisia Woergetter, Head of the MFA's Environment and Sustainable Development Bureau, on July 26. Woergetter said the GoA shares the USG's basic goals regarding the Fourth World Water Forum (WWF4). She noted, however, that Austria does not believe [...] | 2005-07-28 14:25:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID SENV AU |
05VIENNA262 | AUSTRIA PLANS POSITIVE STATEMENT ON IRAQ ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) At a January 28 meeting, Foreign Ministry Middle East director (assistant secretary-equivalent) Ralph Scheide told EconPolCouns that Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik would issue a positive statement Monday, January 31 on the Iraq elections. Scheide's draft (which the Foreign Minister ha [...] | 2005-01-28 13:05:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL IZ AU |
05VIENNA2626 | EU/TURKEY: AUSTRIANS SHARPEN CRITICISM, BUT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Austrian attitudes are hardening on Turkey's prospects for EU accession. Polls show only ten percent of Austrians support Turkish entry. In recent statements, leaders across the spectrum have voiced increasing skepticism regarding Turkish EU membership. Finance Minister Grasse [...] | 2005-08-04 13:14:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECIN AU TU EUN |
05VIENNA2662 | ENGAGING AUSTRIA ON GUANTANAMO DETAINEES [...] (SBU) Embassy Vienna has provided a non-paper based on reftel points to Austrian MFA State Secretary (Deputy Foreign Minister-equivalent) Hans Winkler. The Public Affairs Section will post this information to Embassy's public website. Charge will also present the material to Chancellor Schu [...] | 2005-08-08 14:58:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KISL KPAO PGOV PREL AU |
05VIENNA2684 | IRAN EXILE GROUP SAYS NEW REGIME DETERMINED TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Paris-based National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) claimed at an August 8 press conference in Vienna that the new Iranian regime was determined to continue its nuclear program "to build the bomb." An NCRI official argued that the "cat and mouse game" with [...] | 2005-08-10 06:34:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP MNUC PREL PGOV ETTC IR AU UNSC EUN |
05VIENNA2698 | CENTRAL EUROPEAN INTERIOR MINISTERS PLEDGE TO [...] (U) SUMMARY: At the annual meeting of the "Salzburg Forum" (an informal conference of Central European Interior Ministers) Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Romania pledged to strengthen police cooperation against organized crime, corruption, and [...] | 2005-08-11 09:43:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER KCOR KCRM SMIG EZ HU PL LO SI RO BU AU EUN |
05VIENNA2922 | HAITI ASSISTANCE DEMARCHE: AUSTRIAN RESPONSE [...] (SBU) On August 30, Econ Unit Chief delivered reftel points to Klaus Koegler, Head of the MFA's European Union Development Policy Unit. Koegler pointed out that Austria currently had no bilateral assistance programs in Haiti and would not be able to help Haiti meet the anticipated financing [...] | 2005-08-31 14:49:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN AU HA EUN |
05VIENNA2925 | DEMARCHE TO AUSTRIA: COORDINATION ON ELECTORAL [...] No summary [...] | 2005-08-31 15:41:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID HA AU |
05VIENNA3019 | CODESHARING TO THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION - [...] (SBU) Post discussed reftel questions with Ingrid Seyrlehner, Director of Air Transportation Affairs in the Austrian Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) and with her deputy, Dieter Gaupmann. They informed us that Austria and the Russian Federation operate under a 1993 Air Services Agree [...] | 2005-09-12 07:01:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR AU |
05VIENNA302 | STATEMENTS FOR CARTAGENA CONFERENCE: DEMARCHE [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified. 2. (SBU) Embassy Vienna received reftel points at COB on February 1 and conveyed them immediately to Austrian MFA Americas Bureau. Pol Unit followed up on February 2. MFA informed us that the points had reached them after the departure for [...] | 2005-02-02 10:01:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OPDC PGOV PREL PTER SNAR ECON CO AU |
05VIENNA3024 | AUSTRIAN VIEWS ON DEVELOPMENT: DEVELOPMENT ISSUES [...] (U) Econ Unit Chief delivered ref A and B talking points to Thomas Nader, Director (A/S-level) of the MFA's Multilateral Development Cooperation Division on September 6 and to Thomas Wieser, Director General (U/S-level) of the Ministry of Finance's Economic Policy and Financial Markets [...] | 2005-09-12 10:40:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN EAIR EAID EFIN AU UNGA |
05VIENNA3060 | AUSTRIAN VIEWS ON THE AVIAN INFLUENZA THREAT [...] (U) DCM delivered reftel points to Clemens Auer, the Minister of Health's Chief of Staff, on September 8. APHIS also discussed avian flu issues with Johann Herzog, Ministry of Health Advisor for Veterinary Affairs, Medicine, Biotechnology, and Food Safety; and with Johan Damoser, A [...] | 2005-09-14 12:16:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO ECON PREL SOCI AU KSTH WHO |
05VIENNA3062 | AUSTRIA WILL SUPPORT SUA AMENDMENTS AT DIPLOMATIC [...] (SBU) Acting Econ/Pol Couns delivered reftel points to MFA A/S for Nonproliferation and Arms Control Dorothea Auer on September 7. Auer assured us that Austria supports the goals of the SUA amendments and would weigh in again in favor of them in MFA's internal discussions. 2. (SB [...] | 2005-09-14 14:19:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP MNUC PARM PREL EWWT KTIA PHSA AU EUN |
05VIENNA3098 | TERRORISM FINANCE: AL-AKHTAR TRUST INTERNATIONAL [...] (SBU) Per reftel instructions, Post submitted the addition of Al-Akhtar Trust International Movement to the UN 1267 Sanctions Committee list demarche on September 16 to Alfred Lejsek, Head of the Financial Markets Directorate in the Federal Ministry of Finance (MOF),and Birgit Ertl and Anelik [...] | 2005-09-19 10:40:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTFN ETTC EFIN PTER KSEP CVIS KVPR AU UN |
05VIENNA3129 | TERRORISM FINANCE: LIST 72T [...] (SBU) Per reftel instructions, Post submitted designation of Dr. Abdul Latif Saleh (list 72T) demarche on September 20 to Alfred Lejsek, Head of the Financial Markets Directorate in the Federal Ministry of Finance (MOF),and Birgit Ertl, money laundering and terrorism financing coordinator in [...] | 2005-09-21 10:45:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTFN ETTC EFIN PTER KSEP CVIS KVPR AU UN |
05VIENNA3201 | Parliament Committee Approves GSF Amendment [...] (U) On September 22, the Austrian Parliament's Constitutional Committee approved the draft amendment to the General Settlement Fund (GSF) Law (reftel). The change would make possible advance payments to survivors once legal peace exists. The plan is for the full parliament to adopt the law i [...] | 2005-09-27 11:53:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNAR PHUM PGOV AU |
05VIENNA3246 | DEMARCHE TO AUSTRIA ON UNESCO CONVENTION ON [...] (SBU) Economic-Political Counselor delivered reftel demarche to Ilona Hoyos, the Austrian Foreign Ministry's head of UNESCO affairs. We reviewed U.S. concerns about the text of the preliminary draft convention on the protection and promotion of the diversity of cultural expressions, a [...] | 2005-09-29 15:50:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SCUL ETRD AU UNESCO |
05VIENNA3269 | CONSERVATIVES LOSE GOVERNORSHIP OF STYRIA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In the state election in Styria on October 2, Chancellor Schuessel's conservative People's Party (OVP) suffered a significant defeat at the hands of the opposition Social Democrats (SPO). The OVP failed to hold Styria's governorship for the first time in the post-Wo [...] | 2005-10-03 14:22:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV AU |
05VIENNA328 | AUSTRIAN BANK HIGHLIGHTS BENEFITS TO EU OF [...] (U) A recent study by Austria's largest bank, Bank Austria Creditanstalt, concludes the EU would benefit economically from Turkish membership and that costs would be approximately the same as the costs from the May 2004 enlargement. There are certain caveats associated with Turkish membershi [...] | 2005-02-04 13:33:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN PREL TU AU EUN |
05VIENNA3292 | AUSTRIAN AIRLINES ON RUSSIA, IRAQ AND ITS BOEING [...] (SBU) Walter Reimann, Austrian Airlines' (AUA) Director of International Relations and Governmnet Affairs, confirmed to post recently that AUA would focus on markets in China, India, and, especially, in Eastern Europe, where AUA has more destinations than any carrier. AUA would like [...] | 2005-10-05 12:22:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR AU |
05VIENNA3314 | COMBATING EXTREMISM: EMBASSY EFFORTS IN AUSTRIA [...] (SBU) The Austrian political leadership is generally satisfied that radicalized Muslims do not pose an imminent threat to security in Austria. Austrian media have shared that confidence and have rarely demanded more be done to root out extremism. Austria counts around 340,000 Musl [...] | 2005-10-06 14:37:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KDEM KPAO PHUM PGOV KMPI AU EIAD |
05VIENNA3323 | UNFC DEMARCHE ON COMPLIANCE RESOLUTION:AUSTRIAN [...] (SBU) Embassy Vienna delivered reftel points and a copy of the U.S. draft compliance resolution to MFA Acting A/S-equivalent for International Organization Affairs Helmut Boeck on September 30. Pol Unit Chief followed up on October 5 with MFA A/S for Nonproliferation and Arms Control Dorothe [...] | 2005-10-07 14:11:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL AU CDG UNGA EUN |
05VIENNA3324 | ENCOURAGING UKRAINE TO RATIFY NATO-PFP TRUST FUND [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-07 14:40:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL MASS UP AU NATO |
05VIENNA3329 | SPO Wins Absolute Majority in Burgenland [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In state elections in Burgenland on October 9, the Social Democrats won an absolute majority. This followed a victory in Styrian state elections on October 2 (reftel). The state chapter of Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel's People's Party (OVP) saw a modest increase in s [...] | 2005-10-11 09:27:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV AU |
05VIENNA335 | AUSTRIAN HEALTH CARE REFORM: SMALL STEP TOWARDS [...] (SBU) On January 1, the GoA launched the first steps of a comprehensive health care reform. The reform aims to slow exploding costs, which now represent 9% of GDP. The reform includes the establishment of centralized Health Care Agencies, which should reduce the complex regional bureaucrati [...] | 2005-02-04 16:45:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EIND ETRD ECON BEXP AU |
05VIENNA3398 | DEMARCHE TO AUSTRIA: REQUEST FOR EU MEMBER STATES [...] (U) Post delivered ref (a) points on October 17 to key trade officials in the Ministries of Economics and Agriculture. In a preliminary discussion on October 17, the Economics Ministry's Multilateral Trade Division head, Gabriela Habermayer, told us she would ensure that the Austrian delegat [...] | 2005-10-19 08:38:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ETRD AU WTRO |
05VIENNA3407 | UNESCO CULTURAL DIVERSITY VOTE -- URGENT DEMARCHE [...] (U) Upon receipt of ref (a),Embassy formally delivered the diplomatic note on the UNESCO Cultural Diversity Convention to the Austrian government, via the Foreign Ministry. EconPolCouns and Econ Unit Chief concurrently delivered copies of the diplomatic note and ref (a) talking po [...] | 2005-10-19 14:25:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PHUM SCUL AU UNESCO |
05VIENNA3431 | SPO WINS ABSOLUTE MAJORITY IN VIENNA ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) On October 23, The Social Democrats (SPO) increased their absolute majority of seats in the state legislature of Vienna (Austria's most populous state),but narrowly missed winning over 50 percent of the popular vote. In the last of three state elections held in October, Chan [...] | 2005-10-24 12:23:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV AU |
05VIENNA3443 | DEMARCHE TO AUSTRIA: PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKE RELIEF [...] (SBU) Charge presented ref (a) points on October 24 to Austrian Foreign Ministry Secretary General Johannes Kyrle, who is currently acting deputy Foreign Minister. Charge expressed appreciation for Austria's deployment of a military unit of 60 troops with water purification equipment to the [...] | 2005-10-24 15:32:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PHUM PK PREL AU |
05VIENNA3487 | DEMARCHE TO AUSTRIA ON IRANIAN PRESIDENT'S [...] (U) EconPolCouns and visiting EUR/ERA director Chase discussed reftel points on October 28 with Austrian Foreign Ministry political director Thomas Mayr-Harting and MFA Middle East director Ralph Scheide. We also passed reftel points to Austrian MFA EU correspondent Andreas Riecken. [...] | 2005-10-28 16:07:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER PHUM IR AU |
05VIENNA3488 | IRAQ: AUSTRIAN STATEMENT SUPPORTING [...] (U) EconPolCouns and visiting EUR/ERA Director Chase discussed reftel points on October 28 with Austrian MFA Political Director Thomas Mayr-Harting and with Austrian MFA Middle East Director Ralph Scheide. 2. (SBU) Austrian Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik issued a statement notin [...] | 2005-10-28 16:24:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM KPAO PREL PGOV IZ AU |
05VIENNA3490 | AUSTRIAN GAS AND OIL INTERESTS IN IRAN [...] (SBU) The Austrian oil and gas giant OMV, in cooperation with four partner companies, is moving forward with plans to construct the $6 billion Nabucco gas pipeline from Turkey to an Austrian hub. Remaining challenges include price negotiations with Iran, Turkey's lukewarm support for the project, [...] | 2005-10-31 08:46:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETTC ENRG EPET AU |
05VIENNA3493 | AUSTRIAN VIEWS ON AIR SERVICE TO IRAQ, BUSINESS [...] (SBU) Recent discussions with Austrian economic officials and Austrian Airlines (AUA) revealed Austrian interest in intensifying commercial contacts in northern Iraq. AUA recently received rights to provide regularly scheduled flights to Iraq and hopes to initiate service in 2006. Austrian busin [...] | 2005-10-31 09:55:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL EAID AU IQ |
05VIENNA3542 | DEMARCHE TO AUSTRIA -- APPEAL FOR INCREASED [...] (U) Charge presented ref (a) demarche on November 3 to Irene freudenschuss-Reichl, the Under Secretary-level Director of the Austrian Foreign Ministry's Development Assistance Section. 2. (SBU) Freudenschuss-Reichl said Austria's national contribution for earthquake relief in Paki [...] | 2005-11-03 17:21:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PHUM PK PREL AU |
05VIENNA3586 | WTO -- DEMARCHES TO AUSTRIA ON EUROPEAN [...] (U) Charge d'Affaires presented ref (a) demarche on November 3 to Josef Mayer, the Under Secretary-level Chief of the Austrian Economics Ministry's Trade Section. Charge and Agriculture Counselor delivered ref (a) demarche on November 4 to Werner Wutscher, Secretary General (Deputy Minister) of t [...] | 2005-11-08 15:11:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EAGR EU AU |
05VIENNA3594 | WSIS - AUSTRIA BACKS EU POSITION, BUT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The GoA backs the EU position on Internet governance, but stresses the private sector predominance. The GoA does not aim at a change of the existing Internet governance structure, but seeks a problem solving mechanism in form of a "public private partnership." END SUMMARY. 2. [...] | 2005-11-09 13:00:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ETRD ECON EINT ETTC AU |
05VIENNA3704 | AUSTRIA SUPPORTS ADOPTION OF THIRD ADDITIONAL [...] (U) On 14 November, EconPolOff met with Bert Theuermann, Director for Human Rights in the Foreign Ministry, and Eva Schoefer from the same department to discuss adoption of a Third Additional Protocol to the 1949 Geneva Convention. If a vote is necessary, Theuermann said, Austria and the EU pl [...] | 2005-11-22 12:53:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC PHUM PREF PREL IS SZ AU ICRC |
05VIENNA3709 | CAPE TOWN CONVENTION: AUSTRIA TO WAIT FOR EU [...] (SBU) Per reftel instructions, post discussed Cape Town Convention demarche with Helmut Tichy, Head of the MFA's International Law Unit, and with Martin Adensamer, Head of the Ministry of Justice's (MoJ) International Civil Law Department. Tichy told us that the MFA would proceed with ratifi [...] | 2005-11-22 14:48:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BEXP EFIN EAIR EIND ETRD KTIA AU |
05VIENNA3735 | SEEKING SUPPORT FOR OAS MISSION IN COLUMBIA: [...] Post conveyed reftel talking points November 18 to Andreas Melan, Deputy Chief (DAS-equivalent) in the MFA's America's Division. Econ Unit Chief followed up on November 23 with Melan, the GoA's Latin American expert. Melan noted that there was no direct EU support for the OAS Mission, altho [...] | 2005-11-25 13:16:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PTER CO AU OAS |
05VIENNA3766 | UPDATED CONTACT INFORMATION FOR POST TERRORISM [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-29 14:40:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC EFIN KCRM PTER AU |
05VIENNA3775 | CAPE TOWN CONVENTION: MORE FROM AUSTRIA [...] (SBU) On November 25, the Austrian Ministry of Justice (MoJ) followed-up ref A demarche with a letter, explaining that the EU and its members have decided to ratify the convention jointly, because of shared competencies. According to the MoJ, Spain is currently blocking joint ratification be [...] | 2005-12-01 08:21:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BEXP EFIN EAIR EIND ETRD KTIA AU |
05VIENNA3834 | MDA: AUSTRIA CONFIRMS YES VOTE ON THIRD ADDITIONAL [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-07 20:01:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC PHUM PREF PREL IS SZ AU ICRC |
05VIENNA3840 | WTO TRADE TALKS: AUSTRIA UNITED AGAINST FURTHER [...] (SBU) Austria's Agriculture and Economics Ministers have announced that the GoA is "totally united" behind the current EU position on agricultural market access. The Minister of Agriculture, Josef Proell, and the influential Austrian farm lobby have engaged in an intensive public relations ca [...] | 2005-12-09 13:16:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EAGR PREL AU WTRO |
05VIENNA3852 | GSF Payments to Begin; Reconciliation Fund [...] (U) At a December 9 press conference, Parliamentary President Andreas Khol (and chairman of the General Settlement Fund, or GSF) and GSF Secretary General Hannah Lessing announced that, as a result of the dismissal of the Whiteman case by the U.S. federal court for the southern district of New [...] | 2005-12-12 15:17:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNAR PHUM PGOV AU |
05VIENNA3862 | General Settlement Fund: GOA Announces Legal [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-13 14:20:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNAR PHUM PGOV AU |
05VIENNA3877 | TERRORISM FINANCE: ASG INDIVIDUALS (LIST 73) [...] (SBU) Per ref A instructions, post advised Birgit Ertl from the Ministry of Finance's Financial Markets Division that the UN 1267 Committee approved December 5 the addition of three Abu Sayaf Group leaders to the list of individuals/entities subject to UNSC-mandated sanctions, including asset [...] | 2005-12-14 15:02:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN KTFN PTER PREL ETTC AU |
05VIENNA3883 | AUSTRIA NAMES CHARGE IN BAGHDAD FOR THE DURATION [...] (SBU) On December 13, the Austrian government announced that journalist and Middle East expert Gudrun Harrer will head Austria's diplomatic mission in Baghdad during the Austrian EU presidency, from January through June 2006. The Foreign Ministry's assistant secretary-level Director for Midd [...] | 2005-12-15 12:39:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL IZ AU EUN |
05VIENNA39 | DEMARCHES TO AUSTRIA: USG CALL FOR DONOR SUPPORT [...] (U) The Ambassador presented refs (a) and (b) demarches on January 7 to Foreign Ministry Secretary General (Deputy Secretary equivalent) Johannes Kyrle. Kyrle broke out of a SIPDIS tsunami strategy meeting of the Ministers of Foreign Affairs, SIPDIS Interior and Defense in order to see [...] | 2005-01-07 14:26:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AEMR EAID PGOV XO AU |
05VIENNA3963 | FOLLOW-UP ON SUN MYUNG MOON CASE IN AUSTRIA [...] (SBU) Per ref (a),on December 28, EconPolCouns and EconPolOff met with Eva Neumann, head of the Passport and Visa Issues Unit in the Ministry of Interior (MOI),to discuss the Ministry's October 2005 denial of a request by Sun Myung Moon and his wife, Hak Ja Han, to enter Austria. Moon and H [...] | 2005-12-28 13:56:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIRF PHUM AU |
05VIENNA462 | TERRORISM FINANCE: FADHLI DESIGNATION - DEMARCHE [...] (SBU) Per reftel instructions, Post submitted Muhsin Fadhli designation (List 67) demarche on opening of business February 16 to Alfred Lejsek, Head of the Financial Markets Directorate in the Federal Ministry of Finance (MOF). Post also sent a copy to the Foreign Ministry's International Sec [...] | 2005-02-16 14:45:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTFN ETTC EFIN PTER KSEP CVIS KVPR AU EUN |
05VIENNA550 | DEMARCHE ON CSW WOMEN'S ECONOMIC ADVANCEMENT: [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified. 2. (U) Embassy Vienna conveyed reftel points and the draft resolution to the Austrian MFA Human Rights Bureau on February 23. EconPolOff followed up on February 25 with Eva Koegler, MFA Director for International Women's Issues, who will re [...] | 2005-02-25 15:56:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWMN EAID AU CSW UN |
05VIENNA568 | DEMARCHE TO AUSTRIA: SOLICITING DONATIONS FOR [...] (U) EconPolCouns and Pol Unit Chief delivered reftel demarche on February 28 to Thomas Hajnoczi, the MFA's assistant secretary-equivalent Director for Political Military Affairs, and Robert Zischg, MFA Deputy Director for Arms Control, Disarmament and Non-Proliferation. 2. (U) Hajnoczi an [...] | 2005-02-28 16:14:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC MARR MOPS PREL UP AU NATO |
05VIENNA602 | AUSTRIA: FIFTH ANNUAL ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS [...] Entire cable is sensitive but unclassified, please treat accordingly. 2. Below please find Embassy Vienna's submission for the annual TIP Report. Responses are keyed to reftel. BEGIN TEXT: 18. OVERVIEW ------------ A. Austria as a Country of Transit and Destination Police, M [...] | 2005-03-01 20:09:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB AU |
05VIENNA655 | DEMARCHE ON UNGA DECLARATION ON HUMAN CLONING: [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified. 2. (SBU) Embassy Vienna conveyed reftel points to the Austrian MFA Human Rights Bureau on March 1. EconPolOff followed up on March 2 with Dr. Ingrid Pech, a director in the bureau whose portfolio covers human cloning. Dr. Pech said that th [...] | 2005-03-03 11:48:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO AU UNGA KSCI EUN |
05VIENNA697 | ISRAEL'S MEMBERSHIP IN GROUPS AT WIPO, ILO, UNEP, [...] (SBU) EconPolOff delivered ref a demarche on March 4 to Dr. Helmut Boeck, new deputy head of the Austrian MFA's International Organizations Bureau. He observed that some of these issues have been pending since his last stint in the UN Affairs Bureau seven years ago. Boeck told us that, to th [...] | 2005-03-04 16:19:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC ELAB KIPR IS AU WIPO ILO |
05VIENNA7 | LACK OF COMPETITION IN AUSTRIA'S ELECTRICITY MARKET [...] (U) According to a recent report from Austria's Federal Competition Authority, the anticipated benefits from the liberalization of the electricity market in 2001 have not materialized because incumbent providers have successfully cooperated to maintain a de-facto oligopoly. The incumbents ha [...] | 2005-01-04 08:39:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON EINV AU EUN |
05VIENNA735 | AUSTRALIA GROUP 2005 PLENARY: DEMARCHES DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2005-03-08 16:23:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC PARM PREL AU |
05VIENNA738 | FPO SACKS RIGHT WINGERS AFTER ELECTION LOSSES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Freedom Party (FPO) executive board decided on March 7 to strip prominent right-wingers of party offices. In a reaction to severe losses last weekend in local elections in the state of Lower Austria, the leadership also tasked a six-person reform committee with "renewing" [...] | 2005-03-09 07:11:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR AU |
05VIENNA739 | NEW STRAINS IN FEDERAL COALITION - BOTH SIDES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Friction between Chancellor Schuessel's People's Party (OVP) and the junior coalition partner, the Freedom Party (FPO),is generating a new wave of media speculation about the stability of the federal coalition. Carinthian governor Joerg Haider, in an apparent attempt to distra [...] | 2005-03-09 07:11:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR AU |
05VIENNA840 | AUSTRIAN RESPONSE TO UNHCR 61 DEMARCHE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: EconPolOff delivered ref a demarche on March 11 to Engelbert Theuermann, head of the Austrian MFA's Human Rights Bureau (with responsibility for the CHR). Theuermann reported that he had attended an EU Human Rights working group meeting the previous day which had discussed comm [...] | 2005-03-14 16:05:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL AU UNHRC EUN |
05VIENNA854 | CHILD MARRIAGE: AUSTRIAN RESPONSE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-03-15 14:05:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB PHUM PGOV SCUL SOCI KWMN AU |
05VIENNA875 | AUSTRALIA GROUP INFO EXCHANGE AND EXPERTS [...] (SBU) Pol Unit Chief delivered ref (a) points on March 10 to Dorothea Auer, Office Director for Biological and Chemical Weapons in MFA's Bureau for Nonproliferation and Arms Control. Auer said that Austrian representatives (including herself) would certainly attend these meetings. Austria p [...] | 2005-03-16 15:45:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC PARM PREL AU |
05VIENNA907 | SOMALIA - IGAD DEPLOYMENT: AUSTRIAN RESPONSE [...] (SBU) Pol Unit Chief discussed reftel points with Austrian MFA DAS-equivalent for Sub-Saharan Africa Caroline Gudenus on March 18. Gudenus related that an EU fact-finding mission to Somalia in mid-February had found some positive developments. While acceptance of a possible African Union-sp [...] | 2005-03-18 16:26:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SO AF AU UNSC EUN |
05VIENNA945 | FREEDOM PARTY CRISIS HEADING FOR APRIL SHOWDOWN [...] (SBU) The Freedom Party's leadership crisis continues unabated. On March 9, in an apparent damage-containment exercise, the party leadership announced a move to "re- brand" the Freedom Party (FPO) at a special convention on April 23. Meanwhile, Carinthian Governor Joerg Haider has alternatel [...] | 2005-03-22 13:36:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR AU |
05VIENNA975 | AUSTRIAN RESPONSE TO UK REQUEST FOR AFGHAN [...] (SBU) After coordinating with our British colleagues, EconPolCouns presented reftel points on March 23 to Johannes Froehlich, Head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Justice and Home Affairs Division, and Wolfgang Spadinger, Head of the Foreign Ministry's Office for International Cooperation [...] | 2005-03-24 13:38:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SNAR AF UK AU EUN |
05VIENNA983 | AUSTRIAN EU PRESIDENCY, FIRST HALF OF 2006 - [...] (SBU) This message provides an informal, first outline of the GoA's planned work program and a calendar of events for Austria's EU Presidency in the first half of 2006. We developed this information from public sources and personal contacts. This outline reflects a preliminary phase of plan [...] | 2005-03-25 09:01:00 | Embassy Vienna | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECIN EFIN ETRD AU EUN |
05VILNIUS1013 | SECURITY ENVIRONMENT PROFILE QUESTIONNAIRE (SEPQ) [...] DEMONSTRATIONS A. ARE THERE ANY ETHNIC OR RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES IN COUNTRY CAPABLE OF CARRYING OUT SIGNIFICANT ANTI-AMERICAN DEMONSTRATIONS? No B. HAVE THERE BEEN ANTI-AMERICAN DEMONSTRATIONS IN THE COUNTRY WITHIN THE LAST 12 MONTHS? No C. HAVE DEMONSTRATIONS TAKEN PLACE NEAR OR IN [...] | 2005-09-23 16:28:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC LH PTER |
05VILNIUS1049 | TERRORIST FINANCING: LITHUANIA ACCEPTS EU COURT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Acting Head of the MFA's Threat Analysis Division told us on September 28 that Lithuania continues to support dialogue to ensure effective sanctions against terrorist financing. Stonys said that the GOL is pleased that the European Court of First Instance (ECI) decided the [...] | 2005-10-03 14:45:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN KTFN KPAO PREL PGOV PTER LH |
05VILNIUS1075 | TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION OFFICER FOR [...] (SBU) The Terrorism Finance Coordinating Officer (TFCO) for Embassy Vilnius is DCM Tom Kelly, tel: 370-5-266-5535, e-mail: kellytp@state.gov. The TFCO Deputy is Scott Woodard, Economic Officer, tel: 370-5-266-5500, e-mail: woodards@state.gov. 2. (U) We believe it would be useful and conv [...] | 2005-10-07 15:01:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER KTFN KVPR EFIN ETTC PREL LH |
05VILNIUS1100 | LITHUANIA'S NEWEST IMMIGRANTS [...] SUMMARY: Immigration to Lithuania is increasing, with foreign workers filling gaps in the local economy as Lithuanians continue to emigrate in large numbers. Countries of the former Soviet Union, notably Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine, are the primary source of Lithuania's immigrants. With some [...] | 2005-10-14 11:27:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SMIG ELAB ECON PGOV LH |
05VILNIUS1156 | GOL CONDEMNS IRANIAN PRESIDENT'S REMARKS ABOUT [...] (U) The Baltic News Service agency reported October 27 that an MFA spokesperson made the following statement in response to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's comments regarding Israel. 2. (U) Begin text of statement. Lithuania condemns the exhortations by Iran's President Mahmoud [...] | 2005-10-27 15:26:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL IR IS LH |
05VILNIUS1203 | LITHUANIA WILL STICK CLOSE TO DENMARK IN IRAQ [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-10 15:22:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MOPS PREL IZ DA LH |
05VILNIUS1223 | LITHUANIAN DAILY ATTACKS OPEN SOCIETY FUND, CIVIL SOCIETY [...] (SBU) A weeklong, continuing series of articles in Lithuania's second leading daily "Respublika" has attacked several Western- oriented NGO leaders whose organizations have received funding from George Soros's Open Society Fund (OSF). The attacks impugn the intentions of the NGOs and tar weste [...] | 2005-11-18 15:30:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON KPAO KNAR LH |
05VILNIUS1224 | CONOCOPHILLIPS BACK IN TOWN TO PURSUE INTEREST IN [...] (SBU) ConocoPhillips (CP) President and CEO James Mulva, during a November 18 meeting with Prime Minister Algirdas Brazauskas, reiterated CP's interest in buying the Mazeikiu Nafta (MN) oil refinery in an equal partnership with the Russian oil firm Lukoil. A PM spokeswoman told us that Mulva [...] | 2005-11-18 15:46:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG EINV PGOV PREL LH |
05VILNIUS1239 | LITHUANIA READY ON PAPER TO COUNTER AVIAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The GOL has plans in place to manage a possible outbreak of avian influenza or human pandemic influenza. An outbreak of extremely virulent human pandemic influenza would undoubtedly strain Lithuania's capabilities, but the GOL likely would report its situation truthfully and s [...] | 2005-11-23 14:17:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO SENV ECON EAGR EAID PREL LT |
05VILNIUS1275 | PRELIMINARY RESULTS FROM B1/B2 VISA VALIDATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: We have completed work on the first three months of a year-long, B1/B2 validation study. Two percent of our randomly selected applicants during this period did not return, while another one percent remain as suspected yet unconfirmed overstays. While this preliminary data does [...] | 2005-12-05 11:30:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS KFRD LH |
05VILNIUS1277 | GOL DEFENSE SPENDING ON THE RISE [...] (SBU) Summary: Lithuania is set to achieve a 15 percent increase in its defense budget in 2006 in absolute terms. The key benchmark of military spending as a percentage of GDP will rise from 1.27 in 2005 to 1.32. Defense officials and key members of parliament are aware that sustained increas [...] | 2005-12-05 14:56:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINS LH |
05VILNIUS1291 | LITHUANIA'S DEFENSE BUDGET FALLS SHORT OF [...] (U) Lithuania's parliament approved a defense budget for 2006 on December 8 that falls short of the Lithuanian armed forces' hopes -- and of the GOL's commitment to NATO. Despite an 11 percent increase in absolute terms over last year's appropriation, defense spending will remain at 1.27 perc [...] | 2005-12-09 16:19:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINS LH |
05VILNIUS1305 | NGO CONCERNS -- NOT JUST IN RUSSIA [...] (SBU) We delivered reftel points regarding Russia's proposed new NGO law to Arunas Vinciunas, head of the MFA's Russia desk on December 13. He told us that the GOL continues to share our concerns regarding potential constraints on NGO activities. According to Vinciunas, however, the Nordic a [...] | 2005-12-14 15:58:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL RS LH |
05VILNIUS1323 | LITHUANIA UNFAZED BY U.S. DRAWDOWN; PLANS TO SEND [...] (SBU) We delivered ref A and B points regarding the upcoming January Afghanistan Compact in London and the proposed troop drawdown in Afghanistan to Vytautas Leskevicius, head of the MFA's NATO division, on December 21. We also delivered ref B points December 20 to Alvydas Kunigelis, Acting D [...] | 2005-12-21 15:11:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MOPS PGOV EAID AF LH |
05VILNIUS138 | Minister of Environment Setting New Priorities in [...] (SBU) Ambassador Mull met with Minister of Environment Arunas Kundrotas on February 8 as part of his tour of the GoL's new cabinet (refs A and previous). The Ambassador recalled the extensive bilateral environmental protection cooperation that has taken place, noted ongoing cooperation in are [...] | 2005-02-10 11:40:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV PGOV ECON EPET TBIO TSPL LH RS |
05VILNIUS162 | VISA WAIVER PROGRAM: LITHUANIA PREFERS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On February 17, Charge discussed with MFA representatives Lithuania's progress in conforming to Visa Waiver Program (VWP) regulations as part of a "roadmap" initiative (ref A). He cautioned that accession to VWP would likely not occur in the immediate future. GOL representativ [...] | 2005-02-22 09:38:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS PREL LH |
05VILNIUS276 | VISA WAIVER PROGRAM: LITHUANIA ACCEPTS ROADMAP, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The GOL, initially hesitant to pursue a formal agreement, is now anxious to accept the VWP roadmap following the model of other countries in the region. MFA officials remain very interested in arranging U.S. consultations, to examine both biometric security and "customer servic [...] | 2005-03-16 14:28:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS PREL LH |
05VILNIUS478 | LITHUANIA REJECTS UKRAINIAN MONEY LAUNDERING [...] The GOL dismissed recent allegations by Ukranian Minister of Interior Yuri Lutsenko that Lithuanian banks laundered USD 130 million to support the losing presidential campaign of Viktor Yanukovich. The Ukrainian Embassy confirmed that there is no evidence to support the charges. Lithuanian b [...] | 2005-05-09 10:54:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR EFIN KCRM PTER KTFN LH |
05VILNIUS58 | LITHUANIA'S JUSTICE MINISTER PLEDGES CONTINUITY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Justice Minister Gintautas Buzinskas, meeting with Ambassador Mull on January 14, pledged continuity in his Ministry and U.S.-Lithuanian cooperation on legal issues. Both sides agreed on the need for additional efforts on anti-corruption and counter-terrorism. The Ambassador e [...] | 2005-01-18 15:59:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCOR KNAR PREL LH |
05VILNIUS704 | GOL PROVIDES COALITION SOLIDARITY FUND WISH LIST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The GOL provided us on July 5 an updated list of equipment it hopes to purchase with the USD $8 million in Coalition Solidarity Funds that Congress allocated to Lithuania. The GOL plans to use the money to bolster its force leading the Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in A [...] | 2005-07-07 13:57:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MASS PREL PARM LH |
05VILNIUS714 | VISA WAIVER PROGRAM: INAUGURAL MEETING OF CONSULAR [...] SUMMARY: Embassy and MFA officials discussed next steps to accomplish the items listed in Lithuania's roadmap for the Visa Waiver Program (VWP) at the inaugural meeting of the Consular Working Group (CWG). We discussed Lithuanian progress on meeting the requirements for sharing lost/stolen pas [...] | 2005-07-08 14:37:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS PREL KPAO LH |
05VILNIUS718 | VISA WAIVER PROGRAM: INAUGURAL MEETING OF CONSULAR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy and MFA officials discussed next steps to accomplish the items listed in Lithuania's roadmap for the Visa Waiver Program (VWP) at the inaugural meeting of the Consular Working Group (CWG). We discussed Lithuanian progress on meeting the requirements for sharing lost/sto [...] | 2005-07-11 10:40:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS PREL KPAO LH |
05VILNIUS721 | QUARTERLY STATUS REPORT, JANUARY - MARCH 2005 [...] (U) SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT EVENTS A. (U) NARRATIVE OF ACTIVITIES DEA Regional Basic Narcotics Officers School (March 30 - April 8). This is a two-week Basic Narcotics Officers School with an emphasis on clandestine laboratory training conducted in Vilnius, Lithuania. Thirty-six students [...] | 2005-07-12 05:03:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC LH |
05VILNIUS767 | WORK ON LITHUANIA'S ROADMAP [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: We have begun taking concrete steps to implement Lithuania's Visa Waiver roadmap. Since the first meeting of our Consular Working Group (CWG) on June 29 (reftel),Consul discussed visa issues on a national radio program with an MFA rep as part of our joint Public Diplomacy camp [...] | 2005-07-25 07:11:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS PREL KPAO LH |
05VILNIUS87 | SCENE SETTER FOR A/S MAURA HARTY'S VILNIUS VISIT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION: Maura, it is an honor and delight to welcome you back to Lithuania, where we continue to benefit from your outstanding work as one of this Mission's "founding mothers." Since your last visit, Lithuania has matured into an important partner for the U.S., with re [...] | 2005-01-26 14:16:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL CMGT CVIS CASC ASEC LH |
05VILNIUS90 | Minister of Education and Science Pledges Support in Signin [...] No summary [...] | 2005-01-27 11:27:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SENV TSPL KPAO LH |
05VILNIUS93 | Minister of Health Looks to U.S. for Continued [...] No summary [...] | 2005-01-27 15:05:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV TBIO SENV TSPL KPAO LH |
05VILNIUS962 | CONTINUING EMIGRATION BEGINNING TO AFFECT LABOR [...] SUMMARY: Lithuanians continue to emigrate since their country joined the EU last year. As Lithuania's skilled workers emigrate, the number of foreign laborers from Belarus and Ukraine has increased. The Government acknowledges the need for programs to manage emigration, encourage emigrants [...] | 2005-09-13 12:17:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ECON SMIG PGOV LH |
05VILNIUS972 | WHY DO SO MANY LITHUANIANS COMMIT SUICIDE? [...] (U) Lithuania, a dramatic success story in so many ways, is the suicide capital of Europe, with 40 suicides per 100,000 residents each year. Teens and middle-aged men are most at risk. The bustling economy and expanded social protections have failed to lower the suicide rate, which has been [...] | 2005-09-16 09:42:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PHUM PGOV KPAO LH |
05VILNIUS994 | GOL PRESENTS ITS VERSION OF THE SU-27 CRASH [...] (SBU) The Lithuanian MFA delivered to the embassy a nonpaper describing the GOL's version of the events surrounding the crash of the Russian SU-27 in Lithuania (reftel). The account particularly highlights Russian authorities' alleged failure to provide accurate information about the plane, i [...] | 2005-09-21 13:38:00 | Embassy Vilnius | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINS MOPS LH |
05WARSAW1057 | Poland Still Lobbying EU on Open Pension Fund [...] (SBU) Summary: Poland is concerned that it will not be able to meet the 2007 target date agreed with the EU for meeting the Maastricht criteria on the road to adopting the Euro if the EU does not change the way it counts pension fund assets. In 2004, the EU's statistical agency, Eurostat, dec [...] | 2005-02-25 11:21:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PREL PL EUN |
05WARSAW1126 | POLISH PREMIER WEIGHS JOINING NEW PARTY, PREDICTS [...] (SBU) In an interview published March 2, Polish Prime Minister Marek Belka signaled that he is considering an offer to join a new, centrist political party (the "Democratic Party," or PD) being formed by the liberal Freedom Union (UW),disaffected politicians from the governing SLD, and other [...] | 2005-03-02 12:40:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR PL |
05WARSAW1168 | POLAND: FIFTH ANNUAL (2005) TRAFFICKING IN [...] (SBU) Following are responses keyed to questions in paragraphs 18-21 of REFTEL A. Embassy point of contact is POLOFF Tom Yeager (telephone: 48-22-504-2676, fax 48- 22-504-2613, e-mail yeagerta@state.gov). POLOFF (FP- 04) spent 65 hours collecting data and compiling report; Two POLFSNs spent [...] | 2005-03-02 15:08:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF KWMN PL KRCM |
05WARSAW1201 | LOW-COST AIRLINES FACE CHALLENGES WITH POLISH [...] (SBU) Low-cost airlines continue to expand their operations in Poland. During this rapid growth, air carriers have encountered difficulties dealing with the Polish airport authority, PPL. SkyEurope, in particular, has publicly announced that it will not increase its Warsaw operations due to [...] | 2005-03-03 11:24:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON PREL PL |
05WARSAW1204 | POLISH PM PRESSES FOR JUNE ELECTIONS, DEFERS [...] (SBU) In a much-anticipated address March 3, Polish Prime Minister Marek Belka underscored his determination to seek the dissolution of parliament May 5, clearing the way for new elections June 19, but said that he would not decide on his own political future (i.e., whether to abandon the gover [...] | 2005-03-03 14:19:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR PL |
05WARSAW1267 | IRAQ TAKES STEPS TO BUILD ITS CIVIC RELATIONSHIP [...] (SBU) During a meeting on other issues, the Iraqi Ambassador to Poland, Hussein Shialtagh, commented that the Iraqi Embassy in Poland is trying to build closer military, commercial, and civic relations with Poland. He said that while the military relationship is already quite robust due to Po [...] | 2005-03-07 13:38:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON PREL IZ PL |
05WARSAW13 | Further Press Stories on Alleged Polish Bribery [...] (U) Summary: Polish papers continue to follow allegations that a shadowy Polish tycoon, Marek Dochnal, bribed a parliamentarian related to the privatization sale of a steel mill. There are also allegations that Dochnal was involved in the campaign by Russian companies to buy shares in Poland' [...] | 2005-01-03 14:48:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETRD PARM PREL PL |
05WARSAW1320 | Poland Cautiously Optimistic EcoFin Will Loosen [...] (U) Polish papers widely reported that EU Finance Ministers came to no final conclusions at their March 8 EcoFin meeting on loosening the Stability and Growth Pact procedures for calculating deficits. For Poland, this means that EcoFin has yet to make a final decision on how to classify the [...] | 2005-03-09 13:26:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PREL PL |
05WARSAW1369 | LOT AIRLINES CEO DISCUSSES BOEING'S OFFER [...] (SBU) The CEO of LOT Airlines met with the Ambassador to discuss the LOT tender for wide-body aircraft. LOT still does not know when the final decision on which aircraft it will purchase will be made. The CEO expects, however, that if the decision is postponed past the middle of April the en [...] | 2005-03-10 14:06:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON PREL PL |
05WARSAW1395 | Polish Finance Minister Requests Formal Agreement [...] (SBU) On March 10, the Embassy received a letter from Finance Minister Gronicki (dated March 1) expressing appreciation for U.S. acceptance in principle of Poland's offer to repay its outstanding Paris Club debt early. Per the Paris Club Secretariat's instructions to Poland to seek formal agr [...] | 2005-03-14 07:54:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN PREL PL |
05WARSAW1396 | BRUSSELS CUTS TWO BILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF CO2 [...] (SBU) On March 8, the European Commission issued its much- delayed decision on national CO2 allotments under the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme. The EU conditionally accepted Poland's National Allocation Plan, but cut its proposed emissions by 16.5 percent (from 286 to 239 million tons). Altho [...] | 2005-03-14 08:30:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG ECON PREL PL EUN |
05WARSAW1895 | Poland to Host Visegrad Meeting of Environment [...] (U) On April 7-8, the Polish Minister of Environment will host his counterparts from Hungary and the Czech and Slovak Republics in Krakow. MinEnvironment officials report that the primary focus of the agenda will be to coordinate their approaches to a variety of environmental issues within the [...] | 2005-04-05 13:46:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ECON ENRG ETRD PREL PL EUN |
05WARSAW206 | Poland Pleasantly Surprised at Upturn in [...] (SBU) Summary: Polish and Russian firms had feared that Poland's EU accession would disrupt trade, in part because the EU required Poland to abrogate its bilateral trade agreement with Russia. Despite problems in some sectors, trade has expanded significantly. Polish exports were up more [...] | 2005-01-11 13:32:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON ENRG EPET PREL PL |
05WARSAW2164 | PROPOSED WARSAW CONFERENCE ON DISABILITIES IN IRAQ [...] (SBU) Summary. The Polish government sent a letter to USAID Administrator Natsios on April 6 stating that while it supports the idea of an international conference on Iraqi disabled issues in principle, it sees many obstacles to moving ahead with such a conference in Poland at this time due to [...] | 2005-05-04 14:51:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREL ECON IZ PL |
05WARSAW2252 | Polish Finance Ministry Releases Annual Report on [...] (SBU) Summary and Introduction: The Polish Ministry of Finance's Financial Intelligence Unit (the General Inspectorate for Financial Information, or GIIF),released an annual report in April on its activities in 2004 to combat money laundering and terrorism finance. The Polish Government has [...] | 2005-05-13 13:22:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PREL PL |
05WARSAW2467 | Polish Finance Ministry Hopes Higher Taxes Excise [...] (U) On June 1, the Polish Ministry of Finance announced that it would increase the excise tax on imported heating oil and liquefied gas used for cars (autogas) by mid-June. Under the proposal, the excise tax on heating oil would be raised from 233 Zloty ($68.70) per 1000 liters to 1028 Zloty ( [...] | 2005-06-06 15:14:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EFIN EPET ECON PREL PL |
05WARSAW2496 | Poland Continues to Chip Away at its Budget Deficit [...] (U) In early June, the Ministry of Finance released its initial assumptions for the 2006 budget, officially kicking off the six month budget drafting season. The Ministry of Finance purposely proposed conservative estimates for growth (4%) and inflation (1.5%). Finance also set the budget de [...] | 2005-06-09 08:58:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD PREL PL |
05WARSAW26 | Polish Parliament Enacts 2005 Budget with Lower [...] (SBU) Summary: Just before Christmas, the Polish Government completed work on a 2005 budget which has a lower deficit for the first time in three years (forecast at 3.7% of GDP compared to 4.8% in 2004). In drafting the 2005 budget, the GOP built on its success in 2004 in revitalizing the pri [...] | 2005-01-05 06:21:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PREL PL |
05WARSAW2711 | DELIVERY OF DEMARCHE ON UN REFORM [...] (SBU) Ambassador spoke to Polish Foreign Minister Daniel Rotfeld on June 30 to urge him to support the U.S. agenda for reform of the UN. Drawing on Reftels A and B, Ambassador emphasized the importance the Secretary attaches to broad reform, and emphasized that this goes farther than UNSC re [...] | 2005-07-01 08:37:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KUNR PREL PGOV AORC PL UNSC |
05WARSAW3242 | POLISH STATEMENT WELCOMES IRAQI DRAFT CONSTITUTION [...] (SBU) Following our approach (Ref B),the Polish MFA late August 29 released a public statement in support of Iraq's draft constitution. Unofficial embassy translation of the original Polish-language text follows. 2. (U) Begin text of Polish MFA statement. "Poland welcomes the completion [...] | 2005-08-31 09:19:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM IZ PL |
05WARSAW3270 | Polish Economy not yet Hurt by Rising Oil Prices [...] (SBU) Rapidly increasing oil prices have had a limited effect on the rate of inflation in Poland to date. Over the past 12 months, the average zloty price of oil has increased 12 percent, while the consumer price index rose only 1.3 percent and producer prices remained unchanged. Nevertheless [...] | 2005-09-02 12:25:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PREL PL |
05WARSAW3287 | Poland's Monetary Policy Council Continues [...] (SBU) Poland's Monetary Policy Council (MPC) cut interest rates for the fifth time in 2005, reducing all by 25 basis points (bp) except for the rediscount rate, which dropped by 50bp. As of September 1, basic Central Bank rates are: lombard rate 6.0 percent, rediscount rate 4.75 percent, r [...] | 2005-09-06 13:41:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PREL PL |
05WARSAW3298 | CENTRIST CIVIC PLATFORM SURGES IN PRE-ELECTION [...] (SBU) Summary: The centrist Civic Platform (PO) has moved into a strong first-place position in the latest opinion surveys, with just a few weeks remaining before Polish parliamentary and presidential elections. PO's recent surge suggests that the party will dominate a coalition government fo [...] | 2005-09-07 13:39:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON PL |
05WARSAW3300 | POLAND: PROBLEMS WITH SAUDI WTO ACCESSION [...] (SBU) Econoff spoke with Sara Riley from the U.K. Embassy regarding the WTO accession of Saudi Arabia. Riley noted concerns with regard to certain EU member states, including Poland, stemming from dual fuel pricing regimes (one for domestic, one for export). According to Riley, the Poles are [...] | 2005-09-07 13:59:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PL SA WTO |
05WARSAW3393 | POLISH ELECTIONS UPDATE: PO, PIS MAINTAIN LEAD [...] (SBU) Summary: The centrist Civic Platform (PO) and center-right Law and Justice (PiS) continue to dominate the party preference polls with little more than a week before Polish parliamentary elections September 25. The latest surveys indicate that PO still far outpaces PiS, and that, togethe [...] | 2005-09-16 14:05:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PL |
05WARSAW3429 | CHILDREN OF MARTIAL LAW AND YOUTHFUL POLITICS IN [...] (U) Summary: A survey of the youth wings of Poland's political parties and discussions with young voters give a picture of a generation raised in post-communist Poland fairly disengaged from the political process. While dedicated individuals in and out of the party structure try to reverse thi [...] | 2005-09-21 10:23:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON PL |
05WARSAW3456 | LIKELY COALITION PARTNERS NECK-AND-NECK ON EVE OF [...] (SBU) Summary: National opinion surveys on the last day of the Polish parliamentary election campaign show the centrist Civic Platform (PO) and center-right Law and Justice (PiS) running roughly even (albeit with a slight edge to PO),highlighting the fierce contest for first place between the [...] | 2005-09-23 14:41:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PL |
05WARSAW3494 | JAROSLAW KACZYNSKI UNEXPECTEDLY WITHDRAWS AS PM [...] (SBU) Summary: In a surprise move September 27, Law and Justice (PiS) party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski named Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz as the party's candidate to be Prime Minister. Kaczynski's decision to remove himself from the running is widely interpreted as a bid to improve his twin brothe [...] | 2005-09-28 15:00:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PL KJRE |
05WARSAW3557 | TUSK STILL LEADS IN TIGHTENING PRESIDENTIAL RACE [...] (U) Summary: Civic Platform (PO) candidate Donald Tusk remains the odds-on favorite to replace Aleksander Kwasniewski as Poland's next President, although the race with his principal rival, Law and Justice (PiS) candidate Lech Kaczynski is tightening in the final days before the October 9 el [...] | 2005-10-05 14:17:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PL |
05WARSAW3578 | TUSK EDGES OUT KACZYNSKI IN FIRST PRESIDENTIAL [...] (SBU) Summary: As predicted, Civic Platform's (PO's) Donald Tusk prevailed in the first-round of Poland's presidential election on October 9, and will face Lech Kaczynski in a second round of balloting on October 23. Despite only a three point margin over his rival, Tusk has bounced in post- [...] | 2005-10-11 13:56:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PL |
05WARSAW3806 | POLISH PM MARCINKIEWICZ SET TO WIN CONFIDENCE VOTE [...] (SBU) Summary: Polish Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz presented his government's program to parliament November 10, confident of prevailing in a vote of confidence later that day. Both the populist Self-Defense (SO) and the right-wing League of Polish Families (LPR) parties have given [...] | 2005-11-10 14:29:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PL |
05WARSAW4050 | Lepper undergoes a transformation on economics [...] (SBU) In a recent interview for business daily "Puls Biznesu" Andrzej Lepper, the leader of Samoobrona (Self Defense) the third largest party in the Polish Parliament, presents himself as a social-liberal as opposed to his portrayal as a dedicated socialist during the election period. His vie [...] | 2005-12-15 09:46:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PREL PGOV PL |
05WARSAW4058 | 2006 HAGUE COMPLIANCE REPORT PREPARATION -- POLAND [...] (SBU) We welcome the opportunity to provide comments related to Poland's compliance with The Hague Convention provisions. Although we generally agree with the negative portrayal of Poland's compliance efforts, we believe that Poland has made some small progress in its handling of Hague cases [...] | 2005-12-15 17:07:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CASC KOCI PL |
05WARSAW58 | Markets Show Increasing Appreciation for the [...] (SBU) Summary: The Zloty appreciated the most of any convertible currency against the Dollar, growing 20% in 2004. Most observers attribute this rise to a mix of factors, including greater political stability under the current technocratic government, Poland's entry into the EU in May, and t [...] | 2005-01-06 06:27:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PREL PL |
05WARSAW742 | Polish Government Appreciates USG Acceptance of [...] (U) On January 28, Econ Counselor delivered the news that the USG creditor agencies would participate in Poland's offer to prepay its Paris Club debt to Finance U/S Szczuka. Econoff subsequently followed up with MOF technical experts. During these conversations, we took the opportunity to expl [...] | 2005-02-08 15:02:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN PREL PL |
05WARSAW794 | SECURITY PROBLEMS AT WARSAW'S AIRPORT HIT THE PRESS [...] (SBU) Summary. In late January 2005, the European Union conducted an airport security assessment at Warsaw's Okecie airport. The EU assessors identified a number of deficiencies at the airport, including two important security problems related to passenger/baggage screening and maintaining th [...] | 2005-02-11 05:15:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON PREL PL |
05WARSAW924 | Polish Government Declares Half a Loaf on Public [...] (U) On February 1, the Council of Ministers issued a communiqu claiming that provisions implemented to date of the government's fiscal reform plan (the "Hausner plan," named after its chief architect, Economy Minister Jerzy Hausner) would save 25.4 billion Zloty ($8.2 billion) between 2004-7. [...] | 2005-02-18 07:49:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PREL PL |
05WARSAW959 | Defeat of Health Care Bill Prompts Health Minister [...] (SBU) Summary: On 17 February, the Sejm rejected a long awaited bill on restructuring of public health care units. The bill, prepared as part of the government's public finance reform package, was designed to write off up to $3 billion in local hospital debts in exchange for reforms, including [...] | 2005-02-22 05:09:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON ELAB PREL PL |
05WARSAW966 | Polish Ministry of Finance Reorganizes Debt [...] (U) At the end of January, the Ministry of Finance reorganized its debt department, creating a unified department from two formerly separate units, one for foreign debt and one for domestic debt. Pawel Kowalewski, the new head of the unified department, explained to Econoffs that this unifica [...] | 2005-02-22 11:24:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PREL PL |
05WARSAW985 | BOEING CEO MEETS WITH POLISH MINISTER OF TREASURY [...] (SBU) Boeing CEO, Harry Stonecipher, met with the Polish Minister of State Treasury, Jacek Socha, on February 18, to discuss Boeing's activities in Poland. The meeting centered on LOT's tender for long-haul aircraft and also touched on Boeing's plans to cooperate with Polish companies for tool [...] | 2005-02-24 13:17:00 | Embassy Warsaw | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ETRD EFIN PREL PL |
05WELLINGTON10 | INDUSTRY MAY FOOT BILL FOR COST OF BOOSTING NEW [...] (SBU) Summary: Oil companies are facing the prospect of shouldering the costly burden of bringing New Zealand's oil stocks up to an international standard. With the country's reserves well below the 90-day supply recommended by the International Energy Agency (IEA),New Zealand's Cabinet has [...] | 2005-01-07 04:51:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON NZ ENGR |
05WELLINGTON1000 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CODEL [...] (SBU) Embassy warmly welcomes the Congressional delegation led by Representative Sherwood Boehlert to Christchurch, New Zealand from January 4 - 12, 2006. New Zealand country clearance is granted to the following delegation members as listed in reftel: Rep. Sherwood Boehlert and Spouse, Rep [...] | 2005-12-28 23:02:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN AS NZ |
05WELLINGTON1002 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DAVID HUNTER, [...] (SBU) Embassy warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Mr. David Hunter, Staff Member, S-HSGAC, as part of the Congressional delegation led by Senator John McCain to Christchurch, New Zealand from January 4 - 11, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to inspect ongoing oceanographic and [...] | 2005-12-29 22:06:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN AS NZ |
05WELLINGTON1009 | NEW ZEALAND AND CLIMATE CHANGE [...] (SBU) Faced with unfavorable greenhouse gas emission projections and criticisms over its current climate change policies, the Labour Government is poised to alter its course. In the future, it will de-emphasize price-based measures and place greater emphasis on purchasing Kyoto compliant cred [...] | 2005-12-30 03:49:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG NZ |
05WELLINGTON115 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR LARRY FRICKS, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Larry Fricks, Director, ADCA, CMHS, SAMHSA, DHHS to travel to Wellington and Auckland, New Zealand from February 25 to March 9, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to present at the International Initiative for Mental Health Leadership Ex [...] | 2005-02-08 02:13:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TBIO NZ |
05WELLINGTON118 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR HODGEN, MURPHY, STEWART, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to the U.S. Government Delegation of Donald Hodgen, DOC; James Murphy, USTR; Susan Stewart, Treasury; Gail Davis, Treasury, and Robert Tobiassen, Treasury, to travel to Auckland and Wellington, New Zealand from February 27 - March 8, 2005. [...] | 2005-02-10 17:55:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA BEXP ETRD NZ |
05WELLINGTON119 | NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIA DELAY STARTUP OF JOINT [...] (SBU) Summary: New Zealand and Australia have agreed to delay the startup of a joint agency to regulate therapeutic products in both countries, after encountering difficulty in lining up political backing for legislation necessary to set up the agency. In New Zealand's case, that difficulty pa [...] | 2005-02-10 23:49:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD NZ |
05WELLINGTON128 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR A/S MAURA [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Assistant Secretary Maura Harty and Special Assistant Debra Heien to travel to Queenstown and Wellington, New Zealand from February 23-27, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to attend the Five-Nation Consular Colloque in Queenstown Febru [...] | 2005-02-14 17:53:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA CMGT NZ |
05WELLINGTON129 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR RONALD J. [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Ronald J. Nagel, DDS Director, AK Dental Support Center, to travel to Dunedin, New Zealand from February 16 to on or about March 31, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to evaluate the progress of the current students, develop the communi [...] | 2005-02-14 20:40:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TBIO NZ |
05WELLINGTON133 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ELLSWORTH AND [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to FAA Aviation Inspectors Gene H. Ellsworth and David A. Johnson, to travel to New Zealand from March 11-30, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to inspect U.S. certified repair stations. 2. (U) Embassy understands that country clearance [...] | 2005-02-13 16:10:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA EAIR NZ |
05WELLINGTON154 | YEAR 2005 SPECIAL 301 REVIEW -- NEW ZEALAND [...] (SBU) Although both the pharmaceutical and music-recording industries urge that New Zealand be placed on the Special 301 List, the Embassy recommends that New Zealand not be listed. The country's overall record is well above that of countries typically on the 301 list. As in past years, the Em [...] | 2005-02-22 05:00:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD ECON PREL NZ |
05WELLINGTON155 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR MS. BERT [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Ms. Bert Williams, Manila TSA Attache, to travel to Queenstown, New Zealand from March 1 - 5, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to participate in the 5th APEC- EGAS (Expert Group for Aviation Security) Meeting. 2. (U) Embassy unders [...] | 2005-02-22 18:03:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA NZ |
05WELLINGTON156 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR SYBIL GOLDMAN, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Sybil Goldman, Senior Advisor, OA, SAMHSA, DHHS to travel to Auckland and Wellington, New Zealand from February 26 - March 4, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to meet with the Director of International Initiative for Mental Health Lead [...] | 2005-02-22 18:04:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TBIO NZ |
05WELLINGTON161 | SECTION 1377 TELECOM REVIEW -- NEW ZEALAND [...] (U) Is there a ratio between rates charged for termination of fixed networks and rates charged for termination on mobile networks that reflects the disparate costs of the different networks? The New Zealand government is unable to provide such a ratio. While fixed network termination rates [...] | 2005-02-23 04:55:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ECON ETRD PREL NZ |
05WELLINGTON183 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR HARRIS AND [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to TSA employees Francis E. Harris and Lisa A. Williams to SIPDIS travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from March 28 - April 2, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to conduct inspections of the air carriers subject to U.S. regulations. [...] | 2005-03-03 23:16:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA EAIR NZ |
05WELLINGTON193 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DAVID G. [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Bureau of Census staff member David G. Waddington to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from April 13 - April 19, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to participate in the International Association for Official Statistics satellite meeting [...] | 2005-03-08 02:08:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA SOCI NZ |
05WELLINGTON197 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR MARVIN RAINES [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to U.S. Census Bureau staff members Marvin Raines and Brian Monaghan to travel to New Zealand from April 21-22, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to meet with the Director of Maori Population Statistics at Statistics, New Zealand. 2. (U [...] | 2005-03-09 02:36:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA SOCI AS NZ |
05WELLINGTON213 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR JOSEPH E. [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to IRS Official Joseph E. Slavinskas to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from April 8 - 18, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to discuss cases with New Zealand tax officials. 2. (U) Embassy understands that country clearance is the on [...] | 2005-03-15 02:19:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA ECON ASEC HK NZ IRS |
05WELLINGTON221 | TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS - NEW ZEALAND 3/2005 [...] (SBU) Following are responses to the Trafficking in Persons report for New Zealand, keyed to reftel: Begin responses: 18. Overview: New Zealand fully complies with international standards to eliminate trafficking. New Zealand problems with internationally trafficked persons are qui [...] | 2005-03-16 02:43:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB NZ |
05WELLINGTON223 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR LUPTON AND [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to NOAA Scientists John E. Lupton and Robert W. Embley to travel to Tauranga, New Zealand from April 23-May 11, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to participate in the ocean exploration seagoing expedition research cruise aboard the resea [...] | 2005-03-16 21:45:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TPHY KSCA SENV AS NZ |
05WELLINGTON226 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR HOWARD [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Associate Director for Global Health, NCCDPHP, CDC, DHHS Howard Goldberg to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from April 11 - 17, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to attend and present a paper on "Measurement Issues Associated with the [...] | 2005-03-17 02:55:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA NZ |
05WELLINGTON240 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE TO NIUE AND NEW ZEALAND FOR [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to NOAA Scientist Howard J. Diamond to travel to Auckland, New Zealand April 7-8, 2005 and to Niue April 8-19, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to meet with officials from the New Zealand National Institute for Water and Atmosphere while i [...] | 2005-03-22 18:44:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA KSCA TSPA NZ |
05WELLINGTON248 | NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT CHOOSES OIL-STOCKPILE OPTION [...] (SBU) The New Zealand government announced March 23 that it would hold a tender for additional oil storage in an effort to meet an international standard to maintain 90 days of reserves. The decision pleased oil companies, which had feared that the government would significantly raise their c [...] | 2005-03-24 03:45:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON NZ ENGR |
05WELLINGTON259 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR TIMOTHY D. [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to IRS Supervisory Competent Authority Analyst Timothy D. Dehan to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from April 8 - 13, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to discuss advance pricing arrangement tax cases with New Zealand tax officials. [...] | 2005-03-30 00:40:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA ECON ASEC HK NZ IRS |
05WELLINGTON263 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR LAWRENCE COX, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Lawrence Cox, Ph.D., Associate Director, Office of Research and Methodology, NCHS, CDC, DHHS to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from April 13-17, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to present a paper on Data Confidentiality at the ISI [...] | 2005-03-30 19:19:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA AS NZ CDC |
05WELLINGTON28 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR HARRIS AND WILLIAMS, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Transportation Security Administration Officials Francis E. Harris and Lisa A. Williams, to travel to Rarotonga, Cook Islands from January 29 - February 5, 2005, and Auckland, New Zealand from February 5 - 12, 2005. The purpose of this [...] | 2005-01-12 18:19:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA EAIR CW NZ |
05WELLINGTON280 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR MERIDA, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Federal Highway Administration Representatives Dennis Merida, Donald Tuggle, Robert Ritter, and David Geiger to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from April 9 - 12, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to participate in the Transportation A [...] | 2005-04-04 02:43:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA NZ |
05WELLINGTON292 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR MICHELE ADLER, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Social Security Administration Official Michele Adler to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from April 11-17, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to present a paper at the International Association for Official Statistics Conference. 2. [...] | 2005-04-07 22:01:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA CFED NZ |
05WELLINGTON299 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ELLSWORTH AND [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to FAA Aviation Inspectors Gene H. Ellsworth and David A. Johnson, to travel to New Zealand from May 2-19, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to inspect U.S. certified foreign repair stations in New Zealand. 2. (U) Embassy understands th [...] | 2005-04-08 15:35:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA EAIR ASEC NZ |
05WELLINGTON308 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CHRISTIAN [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to State Department INR official Christian Westermann to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from April 23-29. The purpose of this visit is to participate in technical meetings with New Zealand External Assessments Bureau. Embassy understands [...] | 2005-04-14 00:17:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA NZ |
05WELLINGTON325 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR EDWARD T. [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to NOAA Official Edward T. Baker to travel to Tauranga and Auckland, New Zealand from April 25 to May 13, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to participate in the vents/ocean exploration cruise aboard the research vessel Kaimikai-o- Kanaloa [...] | 2005-04-21 02:57:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TPHY KSCA SENV NZ |
05WELLINGTON327 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR THOMAS YEAGER, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to NASA Official Thomas Yeager to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from April 29 - May 12, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to attend the International Surface Friction Roads and Runways Conference. 2. (U) Embassy understands that [...] | 2005-04-21 03:43:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TSPA NZ |
05WELLINGTON329 | INDONESIAN AND MALAYSIAN LEADERS IN NEW ZEALAND: [...] (U) Summary. The April 6-7 visit to New Zealand by Indonesian Prime Minister Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) and the March 30-April 1 visit by Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmed Badawi (Abdullah) were largely symbolic, but provided the GoNZ an opportunity to highlight its efforts to streng [...] | 2005-04-22 03:34:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL NZ |
05WELLINGTON332 | COOK ISLANDS COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR VAN KIRK, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to IRS Officials Jay Van Kirk, Reginald Brown, Monte Myers, and Tonya Martin, to travel to the Cook Islands from May 19 - June 4, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to provide a two-week Financial Investigative Techniques (FIT) class to Coo [...] | 2005-04-22 04:06:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA ECON ASEC HK CW NZ IRS |
05WELLINGTON333 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR VAN KIRK, MAY [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Hong Kong IRS Attache Jay Van Kirk to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from May 17 - 20, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to make a presentation on terrorist financing at the New Zealand Police Financial Crime and Money Laundering sem [...] | 2005-04-26 01:22:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA ECON ASEC HK NZ IRS |
05WELLINGTON342 | IN SEVERAL WAYS, LABOUR GOVERNMENT BETRAYS REFORMS [...] (SBU) Begin summary: Never entirely content with the market-opening reforms that New Zealand's Labour government spearheaded in the mid-1980s, the leaders of today's Labour government have rolled back several of those reforms. Over the last four years, the government has intervened in the ene [...] | 2005-04-29 03:19:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PREL NZ |
05WELLINGTON343 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR PALMERI, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officials Douglas Palmeri, Adam Wysocki, James Jeffers, Christopher Johnston, Cynthia Stewart, and Carl Jaigobind to travel to New Zealand from May 6 - 13, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to meet wit [...] | 2005-04-28 01:18:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA NZ |
05WELLINGTON344 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR BONNIE HAMES, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Department of Energy Senior Chemist Bonnie Hames to travel to Rotorua and Auckland, New Zealand from May 11 - 21, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to participate in the 13th International Symposium on Wood, Fibre and Pulping Chemistry [...] | 2005-04-29 03:21:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA ENRG TRGY NZ |
05WELLINGTON372 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR FAA EMPLOYEE [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to FAA Program Director Paul A. Krois to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from May 22-27, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to witness the New Zealand field trial associated with the International Civil Aviation Organization normal oper [...] | 2005-05-03 16:20:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA ASEC EAIR NZ |
05WELLINGTON375 | NEW ZEALAND: REVISED OFFER FOR WTO SERVICES [...] (SBU) Post delivered reftel demarche May 4 to the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT). On May 9, Brian Wilson, senior negotiator for services and deputy director in MFAT's Trade Negotiations Division, reported to us that a proposed revised offer for the WTO services negot [...] | 2005-05-10 04:27:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD NZ WTO |
05WELLINGTON387 | NEW ZEALAND'S UNIONS FLEXING THEIR MUSCLES [...] (U) Summary: After a decade of quiet on the labor front, New Zealand's unions are again walking the picket line against a spectrum of industries. Emboldened by union- friendly legislation enacted in 2000 and 2004 and anxious to grab a bigger slice of the country's recent prosperity, organized [...] | 2005-05-17 03:24:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ECON PHUM NZ |
05WELLINGTON393 | ICJ ELECTIONS DEMARCHE: NEW ZEALAND RESPONSE [...] (SBU) Post provided reftel dipnote and background information on Judge Buergenthal's International Court of Justice (ICJ) nomination to the UN & Commonwealth Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT). On May 18, an officer in the Division told Pol-Econ Counselor that MFAT [...] | 2005-05-18 04:38:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | NZ UNGA UNSC |
05WELLINGTON396 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR GREGORY BOUSIE [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to FAA Safety Inspectors Gregory Bousie and Morris Pittman to travel to Wellington and Auckland, New Zealand from June 20-27, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to meet with New Zealand aviation authorities for BASA MIP process. 2. (U) [...] | 2005-05-16 17:22:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA EAIR NZ |
05WELLINGTON401 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR URI TEN BRINK, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to USGS Research Geophysicist Uri Ten Brink to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from June 17 - July 2, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to participate in workshops on the results of a state-of-the-art study of the alpine fault and plan [...] | 2005-05-20 04:38:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TPHY KSCA SENV ECON NZ |
05WELLINGTON409 | MINISTER SUTTON'S INVITATION TO USDA SECRETARY [...] (SBU/NF) Aides to New Zealand Agriculture Minister Sutton have reiterated to us their hope that Secretary Johanns will visit New Zealand, noting that a potential August/September visit, timed to a Quint Ministerial in Australia, would be viewed as "supportive." Minister Sutton would welcome t [...] | 2005-05-24 01:21:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD TBIO EAGR ECON NZ |
05WELLINGTON42 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NANCY GORDON, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Nancy Gordon, Bucen Staff Member, to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from April 13 - 18, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to attend the IAOS Satellite Meeting. 2. (U) Embassy understands that country clearance is the only assista [...] | 2005-01-13 23:54:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA AS NZ |
05WELLINGTON420 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR MICHAEL [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Michael Stafford to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from June 8-10, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to consult with New Zealand government officials on international participation in the Elimination of Weapons Grade Plutonium Produc [...] | 2005-05-31 05:05:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA ENRG KNNP PARM NZ |
05WELLINGTON450 | NEW ZEALAND: RECONSTRUCTION ASSISTANCE TO IRAQ [...] Post on March 15 delivered reftel demarche to the New Zealand Agency for International Development (NZAID). Jane Coster of NZAID on June 9 reported that the New Zealand government has allocated NZ $2 million (US $1.4 million, NZD 1.00 = USD .7145) for Iraqi reconstruction for the fiscal year [...] | 2005-06-09 05:11:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN PREL IZ NZ |
05WELLINGTON454 | NEW ZEALAND: US-EU INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON IRAQ [...] (U) Post on June 8 delivered ref B demarche. Post learned June 9 that the New Zealand government has decided to allocate NZ $2 million (US $1.4 million) for Iraqi reconstruction for the fiscal year 2005-6 (ref A). The government has not yet decided which programs will be funded by that alloc [...] | 2005-06-10 03:20:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID EIND ECON IZ NZ EUN |
05WELLINGTON47 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR HENNESSY AND [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Kevin Hennessy and H. Stephen Leff, DHHS/SAMHSA, to travel to Auckland, Rotorua, and Wellington, New Zealand from February 25 - March 5, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to provide 2-day workshops in each location on the promotion of e [...] | 2005-01-18 01:15:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TBIO NZ |
05WELLINGTON491 | NEW ZEALAND - RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR LICENSING [...] (SBU) Wellington Charge spoke about reftel questions to Kester Gordon, Senior Advisor, Telecommunications and Postal Policy Group for the New Zealand Ministry of Economic Development. We received the following responses on June 22, 2005: 2. (U) With regards to the first question on fee as [...] | 2005-06-23 00:42:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ETRD EU NZ |
05WELLINGTON513 | NEW ZEALAND RESPONDS TO SECRETARY'S MESSAGE ON [...] (SBU) Embassy passed reftel message and talking points to New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) Disarmament Division on April 26, 2005. Dell Higgie, Director of MFAT's Security Policy Division and Ambassador for Counter-Terrorism responded in a letter that the embassy recei [...] | 2005-07-05 03:36:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MNUC PARM PGOV PHSA PREL KNNP GG KPAO OIIP NZ |
05WELLINGTON535 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR HARRY PONTING [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Alex Yates and Harry Ponting to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from August 7 - 10, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to assist post in implementing the classified web publishing initiative known as Net-Centric Diplomacy (NCD). 2. [...] | 2005-07-11 02:08:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA AINF PINR NZ |
05WELLINGTON548 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR U.S. DELEGATION [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to U.S. Government representatives Howard Diamond (NOAA),Bill Hohenstein (USDA),Toral Patel-Weynand (USGS),Chuck Rice (Kansas State University),Harlan Watson (OES),Robert Wright (DOE) ,and Shira Yoffe (OES/EGC) to travel to Wellington a [...] | 2005-07-14 22:26:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA SENV NZ |
05WELLINGTON555 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR KYLE OLSEN, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to FAA Official Kyle L. Olsen to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from July 19-23, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to attend flight safety foundation aviation safety workshop. 2. (U) Embassy understands that country clearance is t [...] | 2005-07-12 10:57:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA ASEC EAIR NZ |
05WELLINGTON560 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR STEPHEN J. [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to National Nuclear Security Administration Official Stephen J. Bauer to travel to Auckland and Taupo, New Zealand from August 14-24, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to discuss his research and potential applications to the New Zealand [...] | 2005-07-20 03:04:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA ENRG TRGY KSCA NZ |
05WELLINGTON572 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DORN CARLSON, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Department of Commerce NOAA Official Dorn Carlson to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from August 13 - September 8, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to attend and participate in the 4th Biennial Conference on Marine Bioinvasions at Vi [...] | 2005-07-26 21:25:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TPHY SENV NZ |
05WELLINGTON577 | NEW ZEALAND AIMING TO STEM SALE OF PRESCRIPTION [...] (SBU) Summary: With selected medicines much cheaper in New Zealand than in the United States, efforts are under way to impede the ability of Americans to purchase prescription drugs from New Zealand. The New Zealand Ministry of Health is tightening the law to prevent doctors from prescribing m [...] | 2005-07-29 01:50:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON KIPR NZ |
05WELLINGTON596 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR MARGOT BEAN [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Department of Health and Human Services Officials Margot Bean and Daryl Wusk to travel to Auckland and Wellington, New Zealand from August 7-13, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to attend the Child Support Enforcement Heads of Agencies [...] | 2005-08-03 21:04:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA CASC KOCI NZ |
05WELLINGTON597 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR MICHAEL HOFF, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to NOAA Official Michael Hoff to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from August 20-September 3, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to participate in a meeting for the Ballast Water Program. 2. (U) Embassy understands that country clearan [...] | 2005-08-03 21:07:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TPHY SENV NZ |
05WELLINGTON603 | NEW ZEALAND EXPECTS TO MISS KYOTO PROTOCOL TARGET [...] (SBU) Summary: The GoNZ has revised its assessment of the Kyoto Protocol's impact on New Zealand, saying that it now expects to exceed its emissions allocation target and will have to buy carbon credits from other parties to the treaty. Previously, the government had claimed that participation [...] | 2005-08-05 02:53:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG NZ |
05WELLINGTON616 | NEW ZEALAND WATCHDOG TOLD TO RECONSIDER CURBS ON [...] (U) New Zealand's communications minister wants a review of a Commerce Commission recommendation that would reduce the high fees that mobile phone companies charge to terminate calls on their networks. 2. (U) Communications Minister Cunliffe on August 9 asked that the commission reconsider [...] | 2005-08-12 05:54:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ECON ETRD NZ |
05WELLINGTON63 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR AMBASSADOR [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Ambassador Jackie W. Sanders, Special Assistant Renick H. Smith, and NP/MNA Foreign Affairs Officer Elizabeth A. Murphy, to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from February 10-12, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to meet with New Zealan [...] | 2005-01-26 03:10:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA ABUD AMGT ASEC OVIP NZ NPT |
05WELLINGTON643 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR GREGORY [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to FAA Aviation Safety Inspector Gregory Bousie to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from September 19-22, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to meet with New Zealand national aviation authorities for BASA MIP Process. 2. (U) Embassy un [...] | 2005-08-23 03:31:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA EAIR NZ |
05WELLINGTON646 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR THOMAS A. [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service Official Thomas A. Munroe to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from September 18-25, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to study Flatfishes at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa. 2. (U) Embassy u [...] | 2005-08-23 21:41:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TPHY KSCA EFIS CW NZ |
05WELLINGTON664 | NZ ELECTIONS: A MINOR ROLE FOR ACT, UNITED FUTURE, [...] (SBU) Summary: Recent polling suggests that the September 17 general election will likely be a head-to-head contest between the two major parties, Labour and National. Such a result would diminish the role of the minor parties in the next Parliament. Since introduction in 1996, New Zealand,s m [...] | 2005-08-30 05:14:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV NZ |
05WELLINGTON665 | AUSTRALIA GROUP: BIOLOGICAL AGENTS WORKING GROUP [...] No summary [...] | 2005-08-30 05:31:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL ETTC NZ |
05WELLINGTON670 | UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY: HIGH-LEVEL ATTENDANCE AND [...] (U) Poloff requested reftel information from Valerie Meyer, Deputy Director, United Nations, Human Rights and Commonwealth Division (UNHC),Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT). 2. (SBU) Because New Zealand will hold general elections on September 17, New Zealand will not send a hig [...] | 2005-09-01 04:46:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL OTRA OVIP KSEP NZ UNGA |
05WELLINGTON69 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR THOMAS [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to DOE/NNSA Official Thomas P. Guilderson, to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from February 18 - April 1, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to visit the Rafter Radiocarbon Laboratory in Wellington, and to participate in the research cruis [...] | 2005-01-26 21:58:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA ENRG TRGY KSCA NZ |
05WELLINGTON698 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR JOHN TAKEKAWA, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to USGS Research Wildlife Biologist John Takekawa to travel to Dunedin, New Zealand from October 7-9, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to participate on a thesis committee for a student career employment program with the University of Ota [...] | 2005-09-12 02:21:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TPHY KSCA SENV ECON NZ |
05WELLINGTON70 | THE NEW ZEALAND ELECTIONS 2005: NEW ZEALAND'S [...] (SBU) This is the first in a series of reporting that Embassy New Zealand and ConGen Auckland will provide in the run-up to this year's Parliamentary elections. Although no date has been set, the elections must occur before September 2005. 2. (SBU) Summary: The current Labour Government i [...] | 2005-01-26 21:59:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL NZ |
05WELLINGTON71 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR JOSEPH [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to DINT/Fish and Wildlife Service Official Joseph Charles Starinchak, Division Chief - Environmental Quality, to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from February 2 - 13, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to meet with New Zealand Department [...] | 2005-01-26 22:00:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA SENV KSCA TBIO NZ |
05WELLINGTON716 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ANTHONY [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Social Security Administration Official Anthony Dinoto to travel to Wellington and Queenstown, New Zealand from September 23 - October 1, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to attend the Six Nations Benefit Fraud Conference. 2. (U) E [...] | 2005-09-18 20:52:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA CFED NZ |
05WELLINGTON724 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CHRISTINA LIN [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Supply Chain Security Specialists Christina Lin and Jay Im to travel to Auckland, New Zealand from on or about the 17th of October 2005 to on or about the 21st of October 2005. The purpose of this visit is to conduct Customs Trade Partn [...] | 2005-09-20 01:50:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA ASEC ETRD AMGT NZ |
05WELLINGTON728 | NZ ELECTIONS: THE NUMBERS BEHIND THE NUMBERS [...] (SBU) New Zealand's September 17 election results remain in limbo, as 10% of absentee ballots ("special votes") remain to be counted and Labour and National vie for coalition partners. But even though most pundits pick Labour as the party most likely to form a Government, Labour has taken a h [...] | 2005-09-21 00:32:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL NZ |
05WELLINGTON729 | EMBASSY WELLINGTON EAC MEETING SEPTEMBER 2005 [...] No summary [...] | 2005-09-21 03:40:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC NZ |
05WELLINGTON731 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR HOTHEM AND [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to USGS Physical Scientists Larry Hothem and Michael Starbuck to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from October 19 - December 2, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to transit to McMurdo Station, Antarctica, to conduct geodesy and geospati [...] | 2005-09-21 04:49:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TPHY KSCA SENV NZ |
05WELLINGTON732 | EMBASSY WELLINGTON EAC MEETING SEPTEMBER 2005 [...] No summary [...] | 2005-09-21 19:22:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC NZ |
05WELLINGTON735 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR WITHYCOMBE, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to FAA Personnel William Withycombe, Barry Brayer, John Clancy, Robert Rabideau, and Lloyd Golden to travel to Auckland, New Zealand from September 26-28, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to transit to Apia, Samoa, where they will arrange [...] | 2005-09-22 01:49:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA EAIR NZ |
05WELLINGTON757 | NEW ZEALAND: TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION OFFICER [...] (U) The following information is in response to reftel. 2. (SBU) Embassy Wellington's Terrorism Finance Coordination Officer (TFCO) is: David R. Burnett Charge d'Affaires Tel: 64-4-462-6101 e-mail: burnettDR@state.gov 2. (SBU) Post's deputy TFCO is: Joy Yamamoto Economic Officer [...] | 2005-09-29 23:31:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETTC KTFN KVPR PREL PTER NZ |
05WELLINGTON761 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DECOLA AND [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to NASA delegation members Philip Decola and Patricia Dunnington to travel to Christchurch and Wellington, New Zealand from October 10-31, 2005. The purpose of this visit by Decola to Christchurch is to attend the Antarctica Science Review [...] | 2005-10-03 00:16:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TSPA NZ |
05WELLINGTON764 | NZ ELECTIONS: LABOUR VICTORY CONFIRMED [...] (U) New Zealand's official election results, released October 1, confirm a Labour victory with 50 seats in Parliament and a slightly easier challenge in forming the next government. The notable change from preliminary counts on election night September 17 is the reduction of the overall size [...] | 2005-10-03 03:21:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL NZ |
05WELLINGTON767 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR THOMAS [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to FDA official Thomas Letonja to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from October 16-20, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to attend the 20th International Conference for the World Association for the Advancement of Veterinary Parasitolog [...] | 2005-10-04 23:56:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA KSCA TBIO NZ |
05WELLINGTON768 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR PENNY J. [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Transportation Security Administration Representative Penny J. Anderson to travel to Wellington and Christchurch, New Zealand from October 11-14, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to conduct meetings and follow-up on security assessment [...] | 2005-10-05 00:01:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA ECON NZ |
05WELLINGTON780 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DAVID RIND, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to NASA Official David Rind to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from December 8-15, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to attend and participate as lead author on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group I (WGI) [...] | 2005-10-11 04:15:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TSPA NZ |
05WELLINGTON781 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR KEITH [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to NASA Delegation members Keith Chamberlin and Stephen Smith to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from November 5 - 19, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to transit to McMurdo Station, Antarctica, where they will support McMurdo Ground [...] | 2005-10-11 04:16:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TSPA NZ |
05WELLINGTON782 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ALAN HAYNIE, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration National Marine Fisheries Service Official Alan Haynie to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from October 19-21, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to meet with govern [...] | 2005-10-11 04:18:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA NZ |
05WELLINGTON784 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR SAMUEL J. [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration physicist Samuel J. Oltmans to travel to Christchurch and Lauder, New Zealand from October 28 - November 18, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to calibrate ozone monitors in Lauder and to [...] | 2005-10-12 20:51:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TPHY KSCA SENV NZ |
05WELLINGTON809 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR BRAXTON, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to U.S. Customs and Border Protection Officials Sherri Braxton, Douglas Palmeri, and Matthew Wolf to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from October 28 - November 3, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to attend the Customs Asia Pacific Enfo [...] | 2005-10-18 00:50:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA ASEC ETRD AMGT NZ |
05WELLINGTON810 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR WEISSMAN AND [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to ICE officials Kimberly Weissman and Matthew Coughlin to travel to Auckland, New Zealand from on or about November 3 to on or about November 9, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to staff the U.S. visit booth at the ACI Conference Trade S [...] | 2005-10-18 18:37:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA ASEC ETRD AMGT NZ |
05WELLINGTON83 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR JOHN MENTZ, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Mr. John Mentz, Office of Nonproliferation Policy, to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from February 10-12, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to meet with New Zealand Government officials in preparation for the 2005 Review Conference [...] | 2005-01-31 02:26:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA ABUD AMGT ASEC OVIP NZ NPT |
05WELLINGTON836 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR MATTHES AND [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to ICE Officials Justin Matthes and Louritha Green to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from on or about October 30 to on or about November 2, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to attend the Regional Movement Alert List meeting. 2. (U) [...] | 2005-10-26 04:30:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA ASEC ETRD AMGT NZ |
05WELLINGTON838 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ICE LEFFLER [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to ICE Officials Jason Leffler and Jeremy Luczkowski to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from on or about November 20-23, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to conduct customs trade partnership against terrorism C-TPAT validations for APJ [...] | 2005-10-26 22:54:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA ASEC ETRD AMGT NZ |
05WELLINGTON839 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ICE KNOPP AND [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to ICE Officials Raymond Knopp and Arlene Villalba to travel to Auckland and Wellington, New Zealand from on or about November 19 - 23, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to conduct customs trade partnership against terrorism C-TPAT validat [...] | 2005-10-26 23:00:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA ASEC ETRD AMGT NZ |
05WELLINGTON840 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ICE STAJCAR [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to ICE Officials Daniel Stajcar and Anthony Orosz to travel to Auckland, New Zealand from on or about November 18-23, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to conduct customs trade partnership against terrorism C-TPAT validations for Sampco, [...] | 2005-10-26 23:01:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA ASEC ETRD AMGT NZ |
05WELLINGTON841 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR USCG LCDR [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to U.S. Coast Guard LCDR Bruce Tweed to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from November 8 - 13, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to conduct a follow-up visit with Maritime New Zealand (MNZ) to review the status of the ISPS code implementa [...] | 2005-10-18 06:48:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA NZ |
05WELLINGTON849 | NEW ZEALAND'S ECONOMY FACES BUMPY ROAD AHEAD [...] (SBU) After enjoying five years of strong economic growth, New Zealanders are awakening to the sober reality that the party may be over. The sign posts for a rough patch ahead have multiplied in recent weeks. Yawning deficits have appeared in the country's trade balance and current account. [...] | 2005-10-28 02:28:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PREL NZ |
05WELLINGTON851 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR MARK CHRISTL, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to NASA employee Mark Christl to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand, and McMurdo Station, Antarctica, from November 1 to 24, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to conduct an advanced thin ionization calorimeter high altitude balloon experi [...] | 2005-10-31 23:00:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TSPA NZ |
05WELLINGTON852 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NASA (LARC) [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to James Crawford and Glenn Diskin, members of a delegation from NASA's Langley Research Center (LARC),to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand, and McMurdo Station, Antarctica, from November 9 to December 28, 2005. The purpose of this visit [...] | 2005-11-01 00:15:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TSPA NZ |
05WELLINGTON853 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR JONI MAE [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Joni Mae L. Makuakane-Jarrell, training specialist, Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, to travel to Hamilton, New Zealand, from November 26 to December 6. The purpose of this visit is to represent the National Park Service at the World Indi [...] | 2005-11-01 00:31:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA KSCA TPHY SCUL SENV NZ |
05WELLINGTON858 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ASHLEY DAVIEW, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Ashley Davies, an employee of the California Institute of Technology working at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, to travel to Mount Erebus, Antarctica, by way of Christchurch, New Zealand, from November 25 to December 21, 2005. The purp [...] | 2005-11-02 19:31:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TSPA NZ |
05WELLINGTON86 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR LEAKSMY NORIN, FEBRUARY 20- [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Ms. Leaksmy Norin, G/TIP Reports Officer, to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from February 20-22. The purpose of this visit is to meet with Embassy officials to discuss monitoring, assessing and reporting on trafficking in persons. [...] | 2005-01-31 21:03:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA KCRM KWMN PHUM SMIG NZ |
05WELLINGTON863 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR THORSTEN [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Thorsten Markus, from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, to travel to Dunedin, New Zealand, from December 1-18, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to attend the International Glaciological Society International Symposium. 2. (U) E [...] | 2005-11-06 20:49:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TSPA NZ |
05WELLINGTON864 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR MICHAEL [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Michael Comberiate, Adan Rodriguez, Shannon Rodriguez and Kurt Rush, members of a delegation from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand, and McMurdo Station, Antarctica, from December 5 to 19, 2005. T [...] | 2005-11-06 21:16:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TSPA NZ |
05WELLINGTON868 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR DAWN HOPE AND [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Dawn Hope, assistant director, and Hugh Paquette, analyst, from GAO's Homeland Security and Justice Team to travel to Wellington and Auckland, New Zealand from December 1 to 6, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to review pre- screening [...] | 2005-11-07 03:04:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA AGAO CVIS AS JA NZ |
05WELLINGTON870 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR JASON LEFFLER [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials Jason Leffler, supply chain specialist, and Jeremy Luczkowski, program officer, to travel to Auckland, New Zealand, from on or about November 15 to on or about November 26, 2005. The pur [...] | 2005-11-07 22:05:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA ASEC ETRD AMGT NZ |
05WELLINGTON885 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR LOIS ROSSI AND [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Lois Rossi, division director, and George Herndon, associate director, EPA Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances, to travel to Wellington, New Zealand, from November 21 to December 5. The purpose of this visit is to parti [...] | 2005-11-14 21:18:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA KSCA SENV TPHY NZ EPA |
05WELLINGTON893 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR JOSEFINO COMISO [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Josefino Comiso and Per Gloersen, members of a delegation from NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC),to travel to Dunedin, New Zealand, from December 4 to 27, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to attend and present a paper at the I [...] | 2005-11-18 02:20:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TSPA OTRA NZ |
05WELLINGTON894 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR BUDY, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Phaedra Budy, U.S. Geological Survey biologist, to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand, from December 12, 2005 to January, 5, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to collaborate on research on ecological assemblage and discuss the potential [...] | 2005-11-18 02:21:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KSCA OTRA TPHY NZ |
05WELLINGTON895 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR MILLER AND [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Kirk Miller and Raymond Woodruff, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS),to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand and McMurdo Station, Antarctica, from December 4, 2005 to January 13, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to support the operations o [...] | 2005-11-18 02:21:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KSCA OTRA TPHY NZ |
05WELLINGTON896 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ELLENBERGER, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Jay Ellenberger, Susan Lewis and Jane Hopkins, members of a delegation from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA),to travel to Wellington, New Zealand, from November 25 to December 5, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to make a pre [...] | 2005-11-18 02:21:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KSCA SENV OTRA TPHY NZ |
05WELLINGTON897 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR STOUFFER,SOLOMON [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Ronald Stouffer, Susan Solomon and David Fahey, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand, from December 8, 2005 to January 2, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to attend the Intergov [...] | 2005-11-18 02:25:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KSCA TPHY OTRA SENV NZ |
05WELLINGTON899 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR BRUCE ROMANO [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Bruce Romano, associate chief, Office of Engineering and Technology, Federal Communications Commission, to travel to Rotorua, New Zealand, from November 19-25, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to attend and participate in the Spectrum [...] | 2005-11-20 23:16:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA ECPS ETRD NZ |
05WELLINGTON904 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR RONALD [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Ronald J. Stouffer, Susan Solomon and David W. Fahey of the Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand, from December 8-18, 2005. Country clearance also is granted to M [...] | 2005-11-23 04:27:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA KSCA SENV TPHY NZ |
05WELLINGTON905 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR PABLO CLEMENTE- [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Pablo Clemente-Colon, National Ice Center chief scientist, Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Environmental Satellite, Data and Information Service, to travel to Christchurch and Dunedin, New [...] | 2005-11-24 18:56:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA KSCA TSPA NZ |
05WELLINGTON917 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR SYDNEY [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Sydney Levitus, Director, Ocean Climate Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from December 9-17 [...] | 2005-12-01 02:16:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA KSCA TSPA NZ |
05WELLINGTON918 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ISAAC M. HELD, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to NOAA Official Isaac M. Held to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from December 8-16, 2005. The purpose of this visit is to attend the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). 2. (U) Embassy understands that country clearance [...] | 2005-12-01 02:17:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TPHY KSCA SENV NZ |
05WELLINGTON922 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR BRIAN [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Brian Hutchins, International Postal Affairs Specialist, U.S. Postal Service to travel to Napier, New Zealand from January 29 - February 3, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to attend a meeting of a subgroup responsible for networks and [...] | 2005-12-02 03:00:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA AORC NZ USPS |
05WELLINGTON931 | EMBASSY WELLINGTON EAC MEETING NOVEMBER 2005 [...] (U) Embassy Wellington's Emergency Action Committee met November 28, 2005 to approve releasing a warden message on the Avian Bird Flu. 2. (U) Message summary: "The Department of State has decided to preposition Tamiflu at its Embassies and Consulates for eligible U.S. Government Employees a [...] | 2005-12-05 23:01:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC NZ |
05WELLINGTON944 | NEW ZEALAND ON MDA VOTE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-08 04:05:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC PHUM PREF PREL NZ |
05WELLINGTON945 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR PETERSON, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Thomas Peterson, David Easterling, and Thomas Karl, members of a delegation from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS),to travel to Christchur [...] | 2005-12-09 00:59:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KSCA TSPA OTRA NZ |
05WELLINGTON954 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR LISA T. [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service officials Lisa T. Ballance and Robert L. Pitman to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from on or about January 12 to on or about F [...] | 2005-12-12 04:17:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TPHY KSCA EFIS CW NZ |
05WELLINGTON963 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR ROBERT E. [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to NASA Official Robert E. Spearing to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from January 9-18, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to review scientific research activities sponsored by the U.S. Antarctic Program. 2. (U) Embassy understand [...] | 2005-12-15 01:16:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TSPA NZ |
05WELLINGTON970 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR NEWCOMB, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Department of Energy Officials Charles R. Newcomb, Dave A. Corbus, Peter F. McNutt (alternate traveler),and Christopher E. Pink (alternate traveler) to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from December 29, 2005 through January 15, 2006. [...] | 2005-12-16 00:19:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA ENRG TRGY NZ |
05WELLINGTON977 | NEW ZEALAND RESPONSE TO UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE THANK [...] (SBU) Poloff on December 16 delivered reftel demarche points to Val Meyer, Deputy Director of the UN, Human Rights, and Commonwealth Division at the NZ Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. On December 19, Meyer responded that GNZ continues to support the U.S. position on all Third Committee [...] | 2005-12-19 03:37:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM UNGA UNHRC NZ |
05WELLINGTON983 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR LEAHY, JANUARY [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to U.S. Geological Survey Acting Director P. Patrick Leahy to travel to Christchurch, New Zealand from January 9 - 19, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to receive briefings from the International Antarctic Center in Christchurch before t [...] | 2005-12-20 22:38:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA TPHY KSCA SENV NZ |
05WELLINGTON984 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR HAMEL, [...] (SBU) Embassy welcomes and grants country clearance to Dr. Ernest Hamel, Biologist, National Cancer Institute, NIH, to travel to Wellington, New Zealand from February 13 - 26, 2006. The purpose of this visit is to serve as keynote speaker at a conference on Bioactives and Drug Development an [...] | 2005-12-20 23:18:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA KSCA TBIO NZ |
05WELLINGTON991 | NEW ZEALAND SCRAPS PLANS FOR CARBON TAX [...] (U) The New Zealand government has scrapped its plan to levy a tax on the carbon content of petrol and diesel fuel, which it had hoped would help New Zealand meet its emission targets under the Kyoto Protocol. However, the government still will consider a carbon tax on fuel-burning power stat [...] | 2005-12-22 03:55:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG NZ |
05WELLINGTON996 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR STAFFDEL [...] (SBU) Embassy warmly welcomes the delegation led by Mr. Mike Ringler, Professional Staff Member (PSM) House Appropriations Committee (HAC) to visit Christchurch, New Zealand from January 10 - 18, 2006. New Zealand country clearance is granted to the following delegation members: Mr. Mike Rin [...] | 2005-12-28 04:10:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN NZ |
05WELLINGTON997 | NEW ZEALAND COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR CODEL MCCAIN, [...] (SBU) Embassy warmly welcomes the delegation led by Senator John McCain to Christchurch, New Zealand from January 4 - 11, 2006. New Zealand country clearance is granted to the following delegation members as listed in ref A: Senator John McCain, Senator Joe Lieberman, Senator Susan Collins, [...] | 2005-12-28 04:43:00 | Embassy Wellington | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN AS NZ |
05YEREVAN1007 | ARMENIA'S STEADY GROWTH, STABLE ECONOMY CONTINUES [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED. PLEASE PROTECT ACCORDINGLY. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Armenia's steady economic performance continues during 2005. First quarter data supports the International Monetary Fund's (IMF) forecast of 8 percent GDP growth in 2005, and th [...] | 2005-06-08 10:52:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EAID AM |
05YEREVAN1044 | REMITTANCES DRIVE UP ARMENIAN CURRENCY, HAMPER [...] (SBU) A recent upward trend in remittances and capital inflows into Armenia has led to significant real appreciation of the national currency, the Armenian dram, since July 2003. These cash inflows enable Armenians to finance higher consumption and investment, but the nominal appreciation of [...] | 2005-06-16 08:57:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EAID AM |
05YEREVAN1053 | NAGORNO KARABAKH'S UPCOMING "PARLIAMENTARY [...] (SBU) On June 19 Nagorno Karabakh (N-K) will hold its fourth "parliamentary elections." Eight parties (two of which united in a bloc) and independent candidates will contest the 22 majoritarian and 11 party list seats of the "parliament." The parties with the most active election campaigns a [...] | 2005-06-16 12:46:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AM |
05YEREVAN1066 | CIVIC ACTION MAY RE-ROUTE CONTROVERSIAL TRANS- [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Treat Accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) The Ministry of Transport and Communication announced plans earlier this spring to construct a highway that some NGOs claim would destroy one of the last remaining forest reserves in Armenia. An organ [...] | 2005-06-17 13:03:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SENV AM |
05YEREVAN1067 | ARMENIA WILL CONVEY MESSAGE ON BIOETHICS [...] (SBU) We delivered demarche and talking points to MFA Chief of International Organizations Department Valery Mkrtumyan and MFA Americas Department Chief Lilit Toutkhalian June 15 per reftel instructions. While our MFA contacts were generally receptive to USG positions and promised to raise our [...] | 2005-06-17 13:03:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO AM UNESCO KSCI |
05YEREVAN1074 | U.S. INVESTORS WIN IMPORTANT VICTORY AGAINST GOAM [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) On June 16, Armenia's court of appeals ruled in favor of a group of American investors who have been trying, for over two years, to collect USD 2 million in taxes that they had overpaid to the [...] | 2005-06-20 12:41:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID ETRD AM |
05YEREVAN108 | SIX CASES OF TRAFFICKING PROSECUTED AS [...] (SBU) The Prosecutor General's (PG) Office provided detailed information on six criminal cases prosecuted in 2004 under Article 262 of the Armenian Criminal Code on the Organization of Prostitution (i.e., pimping). The defendants of all the cases were either recruiters, mediators, or pimps who [...] | 2005-01-21 12:38:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KCRM AM KTIP |
05YEREVAN109 | RUMORS TOUT ABRAHAMIAN TO LEAD NEW "SUPER- [...] (SBU) Galust Sahakian, Head of the National Assembly Republican Faction and close ally of Minister of Territorial Administration Hovik Abrahamian, revealed January 19 that Abrahamian will likely take over a new "super-ministry" taking shape within the GOAM. This new appointment would make Abr [...] | 2005-01-21 12:40:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AM |
05YEREVAN110 | J-1 SUMMER WORK AND TRAVEL CALLBACK [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified; please protect accordingly. 2. (U) Action request. Please see paragraph 10. ------- SUMMARY ------- 3. (SBU) Post's Fraud Prevention Unit (FPU) performed a callback survey of all summer 2004 J-1 work and travel program participan [...] | 2005-01-21 12:42:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFRD CMGT CVIS AM |
05YEREVAN1180 | GOAM CONFIRMS NEW ROUTE FOR IRAN-ARMENIA ROAD [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Treat Accordingly. 2. (SBU) Following the public outcry by local and international organizations (reftel),the GOAM confirmed June 30 that President Robert Kocharian has approved the alternative route for a new road which will connect Armenia's southernmost [...] | 2005-07-06 08:19:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SENV AM |
05YEREVAN1203 | UN REFORM: PROMOTING OUR PRIORITIES - [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Treat Accordingly. 2. (SBU) We delivered demarche and talking points regarding USG reform priorities at the United Nations on June 21 to MFA International Organizations Department Chief Valery Mkrtumyan per reftel instructions. We followed up with Mkrtumyan [...] | 2005-07-07 05:05:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KUNR PREL PGOV AORC AM UNSC |
05YEREVAN1282 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: NAJARIAN INVESTMENT [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Per reftel we delivered points to Deputy Minister of Trade and Economic Development Tigran Davtyan, who is responsible for monitoring Armenia's international obligations under Bilateral Investment Treaties. Davtyan told [...] | 2005-07-18 12:38:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV KIDE AM |
05YEREVAN1307 | GOAM VETS NEW COPYRIGHT LAW [...] (SBU) The Head of Armenia's Intellectual Property Agency, Armen Azizyan, has presented a proposed new copyright law to give the public and the international community a chance to comment before he submits the law to the National Assembly during the 2005 fall session. Azizyan noted (correctl [...] | 2005-07-21 11:47:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON KIPR AM |
05YEREVAN133 | LEADER OF ARYAN UNION PARTY ARRESTED FOR [...] (SBU) On January 24 Armenian authorities arrested Armen Avetisyan on charges of "inciting national, racial or religious hatred publicly and through mass media means" in what authorities called a "preemptive" measure. Avetisyan is the leader of the small, marginal extremist Armenian Aryan Unio [...] | 2005-01-26 13:12:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KCRM AM |
05YEREVAN1387 | ARMENIA: ANTI-TIP ACTION PLAN PRESENTED [...] (SBU) On August 1, CDA delivered reftel points to Deputy Foreign Minister Arman Kirakossian, underscoring the USG's judgment that Armenia has not shown increasing efforts to combat trafficking. We presented the proposed action plan, urging concrete steps forward, noting that the Department of [...] | 2005-08-03 06:57:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL AM KTIP |
05YEREVAN1394 | PUSHING THE WRONG BUTTONS, OR HOW NOT TO [...] (SBU) Opposition leader Aram Sargsian and his Republic Party have been among the most vocal opponents of the current government in Armenia and have recently announced an August revolution in the press, along with claims that the USG will support Sargsian's presidential and revolutionary ambiti [...] | 2005-08-03 12:30:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AM |
05YEREVAN142 | MCA COMPACT PROPOSAL NEARS COMPLETION - [...] (SBU) During a January 25 meeting with Embassy and USAID representatives, GOAM Deputy Minister of Finance and Economy Tigran Khachatryan said that the GOAM's consultants were nearing completion on the MCA compact proposal and expected to present a copy to the GOAM MCA Board by February 10. Af [...] | 2005-01-27 13:35:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KMCA PGOV PREL AM |
05YEREVAN1420 | "CENSORSHIP" AND THE HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER [...] (SBU) In a short editorial comment on August 3 titled "Either Together, or Not on the Air," opposition newspaper Aravot alleged that the Kocharian Administration "ordered" Armenian television companies to provide air time to Ombudsman Larisa Alaverdyan only if she appeared in programs with "Au [...] | 2005-08-05 12:17:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PGOV AM |
05YEREVAN1452 | IPR POLICE UNIT (FINALLY) PUT IN ACTION [...] (SBU) In its first major action since its creation in January 2005, Armenia's IPR police unit July 20 cracked down on three companies which together control roughly 70 percent of the pirated CDs, DVDs and tapes market. The police confiscated more than 50,000 illegal CDs, tapes and videotape [...] | 2005-08-12 10:09:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN KIPR AM |
05YEREVAN1453 | ARMENIA TAX REVENUES CONTINUE TO RISE [...] (SBU) One of the GOAM's main stated goals remains to increase tax revenues in order to support social spending while making the business environment fairer and more inviting. During the first half of 2005, tax revenues grew by 21.1 percent compared to the same period of previous year and comp [...] | 2005-08-12 10:12:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EAID AM |
05YEREVAN1529 | ARMENIAN MFA PROPOSES A2 VISA FOR NKR REP [...] SUMMARY: The issue of travel documents and visas for representatives of the "Nagorno Karabakh Republic" (NKR) to travel to the United States remains controversial. While it has been USG policy that it is useful for the NKR to have a voice in Washington, any recognition of the independence of [...] | 2005-08-24 09:59:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS PREL AM |
05YEREVAN1550 | ARMENIA: EXPLOITIVE CHILD LABOR REMAINS RARE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) In March 2005, the Armenian National Assembly adopted and President Robert Kocharian signed legislation that established the State Labor Inspectorate, a new government agency responsible for [...] | 2005-08-25 12:28:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI AM USAID GTIP ILO |
05YEREVAN1562 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: GOAM ADDRESSING THE THREAT OF [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) On August 23, Ambassador delivered reftel points to Haik Melik Darbinyan, First Deputy Minister of Health, Prof. Vladimir Davidiants, Chief of Public Health and Sanitation, and Liana Torosyan, Ministry of Health Coordinat [...] | 2005-08-26 12:33:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO ECON PREL SOCI GA AM KSTH WHO RU AZ |
05YEREVAN1573 | ARMENIAN SPEAKER OF PARLIAMENT VISITING WASHINGTON [...] (SBU) Artur Baghdasarian, the young, energetic and charismatic Speaker of the Armenian National Assembly, is flying to Washington today for a ten-day visit including a seven-day Voluntary Visitor program that has been a joint effort by the Office of International Visitors, Embassy Yerevan, the [...] | 2005-08-30 11:08:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL AM |
05YEREVAN1589 | ARMENIA WILL NOT PARTICIPATE TO THE CODEX AD [...] No summary [...] | 2005-09-01 08:21:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO EAGR AM |
05YEREVAN1596 | TFUS01: ARMENIAN OFFER OF ASSISTANCE [...] (U) The Republic of Armenia has offered to send as many as thirty trained rescue workers to the U.S. at its own expense to assist in search and rescue operations in New Orleans. End Summary. 2. (SBU) President Kocharian's Chief of Staff called Ambassador the afternoon of September 2 to make [...] | 2005-09-02 12:18:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON AEMR ASEC AMGT AM |
05YEREVAN1604 | TFUS01: ARMENIAN OFFER OF MONETARY AND OTHER [...] (SBU) In a telephone conversation with Ambassador Evans this morning, Deputy Foreign Minister Arman Kirakossian, on behalf of the Armenian Government, offered USD 100,000 in cash to support Hurricane Katrina disaster relief efforts. This follows the September 2 offer of as many as thirty trai [...] | 2005-09-06 12:12:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AEMR AMGT ASEC ECON PREL AM |
05YEREVAN1627 | CENTRAL BANK CLARIFIES NEW CURRENCY LAW, INVESTORS [...] (SBU) On July 26, the Central Bank of Armenia (CBA) published clarifications of the new currency law (reftel). The clarifications state that the law is not retroactive and detail certain exceptions to the law's requirement that prices be quoted in Armenian drams. Edith Khachatourian, local at [...] | 2005-09-08 11:46:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EFIN EAID KTDB AM |
05YEREVAN1641 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ARMENIA LIKELY TO JOIN THE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-09-09 11:51:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EAID KSCA PREL SOCI TBIO AM UNGA |
05YEREVAN1644 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UN SUMMIT OUTCOME DOCUMENT [...] No summary [...] | 2005-09-09 13:28:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AM UNGA |
05YEREVAN1665 | A2 VISA REQUEST AND ACCOMPANYING DIP NOTE [...] (SBU) The Government of the Republic of Armenia is withdrawing any and all requests for an A2 visa for Vardan Barseghyan, representative of the "Nagorno Karabakh Republic." Instead Barseghyan and his wife will apply in person for B1/B2 visas on Monday September 19. 2. (SBU) In withdrawing [...] | 2005-09-13 10:57:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS PREL AM |
05YEREVAN1678 | ARMENIAN FOREIGN MINISTERY STATEMENT SUPPORTS IRAQI [...] No summary [...] | 2005-09-15 04:02:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL IZ AM |
05YEREVAN168 | YEREVAN UNABLE TO RECOMMEND AN OSCE EXTRA- [...] (SBU) The OSCE's program of criminal justice reform in Armenia has had several positive effects, including support and training for a fledgling prison monitoring board and minor improvement of living conditions at several prisons. Post cannot recommend additional funding for the project at th [...] | 2005-02-01 10:13:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ABUD AFIN KCRM KJUS PHUM AM OSCE |
05YEREVAN1690 | RADICAL OPPOSITION PARTY SPLITS OVER [...] (SBU) On August 30 Armenia's radical opposition Republic party split, ending a year of increasingly vocal disagreements between pro-Western party leader Aram Z. Sargsian and pro-Russian Albert Bazeyan (former party chairman and former Yerevan mayor). Despite the split (both Sargsian and Bazey [...] | 2005-09-19 11:55:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AM |
05YEREVAN1692 | MORE THAN 750,000 VOTES NEEDED TO PASS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. -------------------------------------- NOVEMBER 20 LIKELY DATE FOR REFERENDUM -------------------------------------- 2. (SBU) President Robert Kocharian and the members of the ruling Coalition parties have preliminarily set No [...] | 2005-09-19 11:56:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AM |
05YEREVAN1705 | MACROECONOMIC NEWS: ARMENIA'S DOUBLE-DIGIT GROWTH [...] (SBU) Based on raw data provided by the National Statistical Service, Armenia's economy grew by 10.2 percent in the first six months of 2005 (compared to the same period in 2004). The inflation rate during the same period was 2.3 percent. Budget revenues and expenditures increased by 25.4 an [...] | 2005-09-20 09:18:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EAID AM |
05YEREVAN1707 | PRESIDENTIAL ADVISER TUMANYAN TO FORM A [...] (SBU) As local politicians begin to gear up for the 2007-2008 elections in Armenia, the rumor that President Robert Kocharian's Chief of Staff, Artashes Tumanyan, may enter national politics with his own party, is still big news. Tumanyan has been in politics since 1990 and has been promoted [...] | 2005-09-20 13:16:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AM |
05YEREVAN1806 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: WTO/DOHA TALKING POINTS [...] (SBU) On October 4 we delivered reftel points to Deputy Minister of Trade and Economic Development Tigran Davtyan. Davtyan said free trade is a GOAM priority and that the average tariff rate in Armenia is three percent. This average reflects the total amount collected under a streamlined tari [...] | 2005-10-06 15:53:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV PREL AM WTRO |
05YEREVAN1807 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: WOOD PACKAGING MATERIAL [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-07 02:47:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ETRD AM |
05YEREVAN1829 | ARMENIA'S JUDGES STEP FORWARD [...] (U) SUMMARY: At their autumn general meeting, Armenia's judges collectively stole a march on the country's ruling political parties and came out strongly and forthrightly in favor of the Council-of-Europe-approved Constitutional amendments, while also approving a Code of Ethics that USAID-sup [...] | 2005-10-13 06:32:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINR AM |
05YEREVAN1842 | MURDER SUSPECT RE-ELECTED AS TOWN MAYOR [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. --------------------------------------- MURDER CHARGES DON'T DISSUADE VOTERS... --------------------------------------- 2. (SBU) The campaign for mayor of the town of Nor Hajn (about 20 minutes outside of Yerevan in the Kotayk [...] | 2005-10-14 11:39:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AM |
05YEREVAN1856 | UNCONFIRMED REPORT OF MASS BIRD DEATHS IN ARMENIA [...] (SBU) In a recent news article, Ornithologist Martin Adamyan reported that mass bird deaths had been observed in the Lake Sevan and Arpi regions of Armenia. He speculated that bird migration patterns made it particularly likely that avian flu will be found in Armenia in the near future. Deput [...] | 2005-10-18 09:25:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KSCA ECON PREL SOCI AM WHO EAGR |
05YEREVAN1892 | ARMENIA'S SUPPORT FOR UNESCO CONVENTION ON [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-25 10:52:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM SCUL AM ETD UNESCO |
05YEREVAN1899 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: IMPLEMENTING THE WORLD CUSTOMS [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-25 12:27:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON ETRD AM |
05YEREVAN19 | ARMENIA: INCONSISTENT CLAIMS OF RELIGIOUS [...] (SBU) On January 6, Forum 18, a Norwegian NGO, reported that Armen Grigoryan, an Armenian citizen eligible for mandatory military service, had been refused status as a conscientious objector, hazed and forced to serve in Nagorno- Karabakh against his will. Post is investigating the claims mad [...] | 2005-01-07 12:53:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV AM |
05YEREVAN1900 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SUMMARY REPORT OF THE FIRST [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-25 12:34:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KSCA SENV ECON PREL AM WHO FAO EAGR |
05YEREVAN1905 | MASS BIRD DEATHS REPORTED IN NORTHERN IRAN [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-26 11:54:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KSCA ECON PREL SOCI IR AM WHO EAGR |
05YEREVAN1906 | LATEST OPPOSITION PARTY RALLY -- SAME RHETORIC, [...] (U) Aram Sargsyan's opposition Republic Party held a party meeting and rally October 25 in Yerevan's Matenadaran (Manuscript Museum) Square. The rally was peaceful and a modest police force of four officers was stationed at the sidelines of the meeting to assist with traffic flow and help ped [...] | 2005-10-26 12:24:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ASEC AM |
05YEREVAN1921 | NO GOAM POSITION YET: WORLD SUMMIT ON THE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-31 09:52:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ETRD ECON EINT ETTC AM |
05YEREVAN1956 | ARMENIA: PRESIDENT APPROVES AMENDMENTS TO LAW ON [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) On October 31, President Robert Kocharian approved legislation amending the Armenian Law on Conducting Meetings, Assemblies, Rallies and Demonstrations. The amendments include "most recommend [...] | 2005-11-04 11:03:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV AM |
05YEREVAN1960 | REVENUES AND EXPENDITURES UP IN DRAFT 2006 BUDGET [...] (SBU) The GOAM draft budget for 2006, currently under debate in the National Assembly, envisages significant increases in health and social security expenditures paid for by increased tax revenue and deficit spending. The budget is based on an exchange rate of AMD 420 to the dollar, a dram ap [...] | 2005-11-04 13:04:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EAID AM |
05YEREVAN1994 | CONGRESSMAN HASTINGS URGES ARMENIA TO INVITE OSCE [...] (SBU) During a November 7-9 visit to Armenia, Rep. Alcee Hastings, President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly, made a strong case to top Armenian officials to reconsider their decision not to invite OSCE observers to monitor the constitutional referendum scheduled for November 27. In a seri [...] | 2005-11-11 05:06:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL AM |
05YEREVAN2001 | EUR/TIP: INTERIM ASSESSMENT FOR ARMENIA [...] (SBU) Since January 2005, the GOAM has made progress on fighting trafficking in persons, especially in promoting the National Action Plan and increasing prosecutions under the anti-trafficking statute, but still has a significant way to go on some crucial areas. The following responses are g [...] | 2005-11-15 05:42:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL SMIG AM |
05YEREVAN2007 | AND THEN THERE WERE TWO...DWINDLING NUMBER OF [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. -------------------------------------- DEPMIN'S DISMISSAL: FROM BAD TO WORSE -------------------------------------- 2. (SBU) On November 8 the GOAM announced the removal of Lilit Asatryan as Deputy Minister of Culture and You [...] | 2005-11-15 13:31:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AM |
05YEREVAN2008 | CONGRESSMAN HASTINGS'S VISIT TO ARMENIA [...] (SBU) Congressman Alcee Hastings (President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly) visited Armenia November 7-9 as the country was preparing for a constitutional referendum on November 27 and already looking ahead to parliamentary elections in 2007 and presidential elections in 2008. During meeti [...] | 2005-11-16 05:00:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM AJ AM |
05YEREVAN2033 | LETTER FROM PRIME MINISTER ANDRANIK [...] (SBU) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Armenia transmitted, via diplomatic note No. 8/13455 dated November 17, 2005, a letter from Prime Minister Andranik Margaryan to John Hewko, Vice President of the Country Programs of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC),expressing [...] | 2005-11-18 13:08:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AM |
05YEREVAN2045 | ARMENIA: TRANSFER OF CUSTODY OF L.A. MURDER [...] (SBU) On November 21, Armenian authorities transferred fugitive suspect Akop Akopyan to U.S. custody. Akopyan, a U.S. Permanent Resident but still an Armenian citizen, was the prime suspect in a September 2000 gangland murder in Los Angeles. The location, apprehension and eventual transfer of [...] | 2005-11-22 10:51:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM ASEC CFED CPAS SOCI GG AM FBI |
05YEREVAN2051 | ARMENIA AS A DESTINATION COUNTRY--GOAM [...] (SBU) Tracking an alarm received from the "Hope and Help" NGO, the National Security Service (NSS),on November 16, discovered four trafficking victims from Ukraine in one of Yerevan's night-clubs. This is the first clear case of trafficking in which Armenia was the destination country and th [...] | 2005-11-22 12:12:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KCRM PHUM AM KTIP UA |
05YEREVAN2062 | ARMENIA: DEMOCRACY PROMOTION STRATEGY, 2005-2008 [...] (SBU) Armenia is at a crossroads in its democratic development. While the political landscape has remained relatively consistent since the last elections, the next two years will test the government's commitment to its reform agenda. As Assistant Secretary Fried said during his October visit [...] | 2005-11-23 13:12:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KDEM PHUM PREL AM |
05YEREVAN2104 | ARMENIA LIKELY TO SUPPORT UNGA/60TH RESOLUTION ON [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-05 11:16:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL MNUC AM UNGA |
05YEREVAN2105 | GOAM DETAINING, HARASSING OPPOSITION IN [...] (SBU) In the wake of a marred constitutional referendum and modest opposition rallies protesting the electoral fraud (reftels),over the past week the GOAM has opted to detain at least 50 opposition supporters for several hours at a time, with a number of the detainees credibly alleging that th [...] | 2005-12-05 13:09:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM AM |
05YEREVAN2109 | RFE/RL BROADCASTS DISRUPTED IN ARMENIA [...] (SBU) Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) broadcasts were periodically inaudible for three days in Armenia beginning on November 27, the day of the country's constitutional referendum. Armenia's state-run Public Radio claimed in a statement that the disruptions were due to technical prob [...] | 2005-12-06 04:13:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAO PGOV AM |
05YEREVAN2121 | NATIONAL ASSEMBLY EXTENDS GOAM NON-COMBAT [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-08 11:02:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR MOPS IZ AM |
05YEREVAN2125 | AMMENDMENTS TO ARMENIAN CONSTITUTION CAME [...] (SBU) Armenia formally adopted its amended constitution December 8, following the closure of the seven-day window for filing legal challenges to the November 27 constitutional referendum. According to Armenian law, only the President or one-third of the Parliament have standing to challenge t [...] | 2005-12-08 13:32:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AM |
05YEREVAN2174 | ARMENIAN OPPOSITION: RUNNING IN DIFFERENT [...] (SBU) Disagreements among Armenia's three main opposition parties have become more evident in the aftermath of the November 27 constitutional referendum and subsequent opposition rallies. Radical Republic Party Chairman Aram Sargsian insists that opposition leaders band together to establish [...] | 2005-12-15 13:27:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AM |
05YEREVAN2192 | ARMENIAN MFA: IRAQ ENTERS NEW PHASE FOLLOWING [...] (SBU) Despite early indications that the GOAM may avoid public statements congratulating Iraqi authorities on successful Council of Representatives elections (ref B),MFA Spokesman Hamlet Gasparyan released a December 17 press statement commending the elections as "an important step in buildin [...] | 2005-12-20 13:34:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM KPAO PREL PGOV IZ AM |
05YEREVAN2197 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: EMBASSY YEREVAN TRIPWIRES [...] (SBU) Post's Avian Influenza (AI) Taskforce meets on a regular basis and met on December 8 to discuss tripwires and response actions. Post has completed all but three of the preparedness steps outlined in ref A and is in the process of completing the outstanding tasks. Information about reso [...] | 2005-12-21 12:27:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMED AMGT ASEC CASC CMGT AM |
05YEREVAN2200 | GOVERNING COALITION BEGINS DISCUSSING [...] (SBU) Following their stoic congratulatory remarks immediately after the vote, pro-government officials are starting to talk publicly about fraud during the November 27 constitutional referendum. National Assembly Speaker Artur Baghdasarian launched a wave of discussion with allegations of fr [...] | 2005-12-21 13:41:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AM |
05YEREVAN2215 | ARMENIA TO CRIMINALIZE EVASION OF ALTERNATIVE [...] (U) During an extraordinary session on December 16, the Armenian National Assembly unanimously adopted amendments to the Criminal Code that, for the first time in Armenian law, would criminalize evasion of alternative service. President Robert Kocharian has until January 6, 2006 to sign the a [...] | 2005-12-23 02:40:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KCRM AM |
05YEREVAN2226 | NEW AMBASSADORIAL APPOINTMENTS FOR THE NEW [...] (SBU) President Kocharian recently announced two new ambassadorial appointments, naming Ashot Hovakimian Ambassador to Austria (replacing Jivan Tabibian) and Ashot Galoyan as Ambassador to Poland (replacing Ashot Hovakimian). (Note: While the presidential proclamation does not explicitly ide [...] | 2005-12-28 04:07:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR AM |
05YEREVAN2232 | TRAFFICKING: DOING BETTER ON PROSECUTION AND [...] (SBU) A strictly pro-governmental newspaper reflected a positive shift in the approach towards the issue of trafficking that has occurred in the Prosecutor's office in recent months. In November the Prosecutor's office registered the first case of domestic trafficking in Armenia. Also in Nov [...] | 2005-12-28 12:57:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KCRM AM KTIP |
05YEREVAN244 | ARMENIA: PARLIAMENTARY ABSENTEEISM STALLS ARTICLE [...] Sensitive but Unclassified. Please Treat Accordingly. 2. (SBU) Despite GOAM assurances that ratification by the National Assembly was "locked in," the Armenian parliament failed on February 9 to ratify its bilateral Article 98 agreement with the USG. Member absenteeism and the oppositio [...] | 2005-02-10 12:30:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM AM |
05YEREVAN258 | DAMAGE TO HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL: CAUSE UNKNOWN [...] (SBU) The local chairman of the Jewish Community of Armenia, Rimma Varzhapetyan, told us that community members found a stone memorial to the Holocaust lying flat in a park in Central Yerevan on February 11. The rectangular slab showed no signs of being struck, and the official police report [...] | 2005-02-14 13:38:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM AM |
05YEREVAN270 | A1-PLUS LOSES BID FOR RADIO LICENSE [...] (SBU) Mesrop Movsesian, the owner of the now-defunct A1-Plus television station, told Post that he lost a recent bid for a radio frequency license to two other competitors, and he alleged that his loss was politically motivated. On February 14, the Armenian National Commission on Television [...] | 2005-02-16 09:20:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV AM |
05YEREVAN301 | ARMENIAN RESPONSE TO CSW WOMEN'S ECONOMIC [...] No summary [...] | 2005-02-22 13:27:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWMN EAID AM UN CSW |
05YEREVAN309 | MALFEASANCE IN THE GOAM AUDIT OFFICE [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Armenian authorities arrested Levon Shahinian, the head of the Financial Control Department of the Ministry of Finance and Economy (the department charged with auditing GOAM budget expenditures) February 23. He had alrea [...] | 2005-02-23 13:30:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN AM |
05YEREVAN358 | TWO SEPARATE GROUPS PROTEST AT EMBASSY [...] (SBU) Two small groups, for a total of fewer than 100 people, protested in front of the U. S. Embassy on Monday, February 28. The groups sought to commemorate attacks on ethnic Armenians in Sumgait in 1988. Both protests seem to have been intended to counterbalance reports of efforts to com [...] | 2005-03-01 13:37:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM ASEC AM |
05YEREVAN361 | RESULTS OF CONVERSATIONS WITH U.S. [...] (SBU) Ambassador Evans began his recent tour of Armenian- American diaspora centers on February 11, only three days prior to the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Hariri, which so drastically changed the political landscape in Lebanon. Conversations with Lebanese- origin Armeni [...] | 2005-03-02 07:11:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL LE AM |
05YEREVAN367 | CORRECTION TO PREVIOUS OMBUDSMAN CABLE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-03-03 02:52:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV AM |
05YEREVAN370 | ARMENIAN RESPONSE TO CLONING DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-03-03 10:29:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO AM UNGA KSCI |
05YEREVAN371 | ARMENIAN RESPONSE TO CWC ARTICLE VII DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-03-03 10:29:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM ABUD AM AROC CWC CBW OPCW |
05YEREVAN409 | COMPACT PROPOSAL MOVES ALONG -- FROM LOCAL [...] (SBU) The GOAM has informed Post that AVAG Solutions, the local consulting firm hired to compile Armenia's MCA compact proposal, completed its work and presented a draft version of the proposal to the GOAM MCA Board of Trustees on March 2. The Board reportedly discussed and approved the docu [...] | 2005-03-07 13:37:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID KMCA AM |
05YEREVAN434 | ARMENIA'S PLANS FOR APRIL 24 COMMEMORATION, STATUS [...] (SBU) Armenian Foreign Minister Oskanian convoked chiefs of mission resident in Yerevan March 10 to preview events planned in April to mark "Genocide Memorial Day." The two main events will be an academic conference, April 21-22, featuring several American scholars, and the April 24 formal co [...] | 2005-03-11 07:35:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PBTS AM TU UNHRC |
05YEREVAN469 | CHILD MARRIAGE - ARMENIA [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) There are no reported incidents of child marriage in Armenia, except in small Yezidi and Kurdish national minority groups where experts believe the issue is a problem. No data exist, however, [...] | 2005-03-16 11:59:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB PHUM PGOV SCUL SOCI KWMN AM |
05YEREVAN477 | JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES WANT TO DO "MAN'S WORK" [...] (SBU) In January, Armenia completed implementation of its Law on Alternatives to Military Service, and 22 members of the Jehovah's Witnesses began work in various civilian institutions around the country. Two of the organization's leaders told us, however, that many of their members are unhap [...] | 2005-03-17 09:29:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV AM |
05YEREVAN506 | ARMENIA PROSECUTES A CASE OF HATE SPEECH [...] (SBU) On January 24 authorities arrested the leader of the Armenian Aryan Union, Armen Avetisian, for "inciting national hatred," and after a two-day trial he received a suspended sentence on March 18. Avetisian told a newspaper in January that "the future of any nation that has a Jewish commu [...] | 2005-03-22 12:52:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV AM |
05YEREVAN52 | PRESIDENT KOCHARIAN: 2005 TO BE THE YEAR OF TAX AND [...] SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED. PLEASE PROTECT ACCORDINGLY. NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Armenia's President Robert Kocharian has publicly said that 2005 will be a year of reform for the customs and tax services in Armenia. Besides increasing tax revenu [...] | 2005-01-13 12:24:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG KNNP ECON AM |
05YEREVAN524 | EXPLOSIVE DEVICE DESTROYS VEHICLE OF TOP GOAM [...] (U) Local press reported March 24 that an explosive device went off in front of the Armenian State Customs committee building at 10:00 a.m. local time, damaging the official vehicle of the Committee Chairman Armen Avetisyan. Avetisyan had already left the car and had entered the building by th [...] | 2005-03-24 13:36:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ASEC AM |
05YEREVAN546 | PRESIDENT'S PROPOSAL TO REVISE OMBUDSMAN LAW [...] (SBU) The Armenian National Assembly has effectively refused two Presidential requests to revise the law on the Human Rights Defender, according to the Ombudsman, Larissa Alaverdian. The separate proposals would have limited the Ombudsman's power to obtain court documents and would have incor [...] | 2005-03-29 07:11:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV AM |
05YEREVAN554 | CONGRESSIONAL REQUEST FOR "HARM REDUCTION" [...] (SBU) Per reftel instructions, Post has conducted a comprehensive search of documents related to "harm reduction," drug legalization and programs co-funded with the Soros Foundation and affiliated organizations. 2. (SBU) The Embassy's search has not uncovered a single document that fits the [...] | 2005-03-29 12:22:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID KPAO |
05YEREVAN584 | OSKANIAN: ARMENIA'S NATO COMMITMENT [...] (SBU) In a March 31 speech to NATO's Atlantic Policy Advisory Group meeting in Yerevan, Armenian Foreign Minister Vartan Oskanian said that Armenia's "commitment to NATO is...irreversible and desirable." Oskanian stated that security is Armenia's number one priority and argued that cooperation [...] | 2005-04-04 12:10:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV AM NATO |
05YEREVAN6 | ARMENIA STRENGTHENS ADVOCATES AND PUBLIC [...] (SBU) The Armenian National Assembly adopted legislation December 14 that creates a potentially powerful Chamber of Advocates for criminal defense lawyers and seeks to improve the state-funded public defender's program. Local legal assistance groups believe the changes may help level the play [...] | 2005-01-04 13:01:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM AM |
05YEREVAN626 | ARMENIA FINALLY TAXING THE RICH? [...] (SBU) Four months after President Kocharian called for reform of the state tax and customs services, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank have applauded improvements in Armenia's tax collection. The government has increased overall tax collections by 19.3 percent over last [...] | 2005-04-08 12:54:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN AM |
05YEREVAN637 | RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR SPEAKS ON RUSSIAN INVESTMENT IN [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. Not for internet distribution. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) During his last press conference before the end of his posting, April 8, Russian Ambassador to Armenia Anatoliy Dryukov cited the large influx of Russian capital [...] | 2005-04-12 04:43:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PREL AM RU |
05YEREVAN649 | NO POMEGRANATE REVOLUTION IN SIGHT [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) One year after an opposition rally was forcibly broken up Armenia is decidedly not on the verge of a "Pomegranate Revolution." With a fractured opposition, lack of a clear opposition leader, [...] | 2005-04-13 12:13:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AM |
05YEREVAN680 | ARMENIA CREATES IPR ENFORCEMENT UNIT [...] (U) THIS CABLE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED. PLEASE PROTECT ACCORDINGLY. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) The GOAM has established an Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) enforcement unit under the police department, filling a structural gap in their IPR protection regime. In an April [...] | 2005-04-18 12:16:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON KIPR AM |
05YEREVAN725 | VIOLENCE DURING RALLY PROMPTS BROAD [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Treat Accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) An April 20 rally organized by The New Times Party in the city of Sevan (35 miles northeast of Yerevan) was disrupted when a scuffle between pro- government and anti-government supporters ended in a no [...] | 2005-04-22 12:22:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AM |
05YEREVAN762 | ARMENIA WILL CONVEY MESSAGE ON WHO HEALTH [...] (SBU) We delivered demarche and talking points to MFA Chief of International Organizations Department Valery Mkrtumyan, MFA Americas Department Chief Lilit Touthalian and Ministry of Health International Affairs Section Chief Haik Grigoryan April 25 per reftel instructions. Post also delivere [...] | 2005-04-28 02:04:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO PREL PTER AM WHO |
05YEREVAN769 | GOAM RELEASES TEXT OF KOCHARIAN-ERDOGAN [...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) While the final text of the letter from President Kocharian to his Turkish counterpart Prime Minister Erdogan stuck broadly to the outline that Foreign Minister Oskanian gave us April 21 (refte [...] | 2005-04-28 09:12:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AM TU |
05YEREVAN785 | AMNESTY FOR DRAFT EVADERS ANNOUNCED IN ARMENIA [...] No summary [...] | 2005-05-04 08:15:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AM |
05YEREVAN856 | ARMENIA: CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS MOVING [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) In a May 11 extraordinary session, Armenia's parliament passed -- in the first reading -- the ruling coalition's draft amendments to the constitution. Armenia has been under pressure from th [...] | 2005-05-16 05:45:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AM |
05YEREVAN857 | ARMENIA'S SOUTHERN PROVINCE: DEAD END? [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Armenia's Southern region of Syunik is a narrow swath of remote mountainous land, bound by the closed historical borders with Azerbaijan to the East and West, and stretching South [...] | 2005-05-16 05:46:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON KHDP PHUM PGOV PREF ETRD AM IR |
05YEREVAN884 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: CONVENTION ON CULTURAL [...] (SBU) Post delivered demarche talking points to relevant GOAM offices May 17 per reftel instructions. Initial reaction from the GOAM indicated that the Cultural Diversity Convention had not yet appeared on the radar screens of the offices in question. As a relatively new member of the WTO, t [...] | 2005-05-18 12:23:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD SCUL AM UNESCO |
05YEREVAN887 | HAVING OUR SAY ON THE PROPOSED CONSTITUTIONAL [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. ------------------ SUPPORTING THE COE ------------------ 2. (SBU) The National Assembly passed the governing coalition's draft amendments in the first reading May 11 (reftel). The Council of Europe's (CoE) Venice Commission [...] | 2005-05-19 03:56:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AM |
05YEREVAN986 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED, ARMENIA ON TIP TIER 2 [...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) On June 3, CDA delivered talking points per reftel to Deputy Foreign Minister Armen Baibourtian and Valery Mkrtumyan, head of Armenia's interagency Anti-TIP Commission. CDA informed Baibourtian [...] | 2005-06-06 12:53:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OPRC KCRM KWMN PHUM PREL SMIG AM |
05ZAGREB1121 | GOC MISJUDGES PARLIAMENTARY MAJORITY IN JULY 1 [...] (SBU) The GoC missed a constitutionally-required two- thirds majority in the Sabor by one vote July 1 when the Defense Ministry's request for approval of a number of upcoming international military exercises came to the agenda. Lack of approval means an exercise planned for September 2005 (Ad [...] | 2005-07-07 16:20:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR PGOV HR NATO |
05ZAGREB119 | Aftermath of Presidential Elections: New Energy for [...] (SBU) Croatian President Stjepan Mesic was re-elected to a second five-year term on January 16, defeating his ruling party Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) opponent Jadranka Kosor 66 to 34 percent. Four months before local elections (scheduled for May 17, 2005),Mesic's victory could energize t [...] | 2005-01-24 17:20:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM HR |
05ZAGREB132 | A CONFIDENT CRAWL TOWARDS CLOSING THE REFUGEE FILE [...] (SBU) Meeting with Ambassador Frank and the Heads of Mission of the OSCE and UNHCR Missions and European Commission Delegation to Croatia for the first time in 2005, Croatia's National Refugee Coordinator (Minister of Maritime Affairs, Tourism, Transportation, and Development and National R [...] | 2005-01-28 09:00:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PREL PHUM HR |
05ZAGREB1333 | INFORMING CROATIA ABOUT CIVIL NUCLEAR COOPERATION [...] (SBU) As requested reftel, poloff recently briefed Vesna Klaic, director of the MFA's Eurasia Office on the U.S. - INDIA CIVIL NUCLEAR COOPERATION initiative. Klaic noted that Croatia supports all efforts to promote peace and to increase accountability in nuclear facilities. In response to [...] | 2005-08-12 12:25:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ETTC PREL IN HR |
05ZAGREB1422 | GOVERNMENT OF CROATIA ISSUES STATEMENT SUPPORTING [...] SBU) A/DCM and Pol Counselor presented reftel points to MFA State Secretary Biscevic August 29. Later that same day, a supportive statement was released on the GoC website. Text of statement (informal translation provided by Embassy Zagreb)follows. 2. Statement by GoC: "The Government [...] | 2005-08-30 14:00:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL HR IZ |
05ZAGREB1441 | PETRAC ARREST SEEN AS PROGRESS TOWARD GOTOVINA [...] (SBU) The August 31 arrest in Greece of fugitive Croatian businessman and organized crime figure Hrvoye Petrac is widely perceived in Croatia as another step in the GoC's plan to put pressure on war crimes indictee Ante Gotovina. As a close Gotovina associate, Petrac is thought to have fina [...] | 2005-09-01 11:30:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KAWC PREL HR |
05ZAGREB173 | REHN STRIKES A NERVE IN ZAGREB [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: EU Enlargement Commissioner Olli Rehn's January 31 statement casting doubt on a March 17 start for Croatia's EU accession talks due to lack of full cooperation with The Hague elicited several statements from the political leadership designed to show a united front and [...] | 2005-02-03 07:47:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KAWC PREL PHUM HR |
05ZAGREB177 | ADRIATIC CHARTER MINISTERIAL REAFFIRMS REGIONAL [...] (SBU) Adriatic Charter Defense Ministers endorsed an ambitious agenda of 21 joint activities for 2005 that begins to bring much-needed substance to the Adriatic Charter dialogue. Although the planned August 2005 deployment of an A3 medical team to Afghanistan remains the most visible "deliver [...] | 2005-02-03 15:23:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR HR NATO |
05ZAGREB190 | CROATIAN PRIVATIZATION: 14 STEPS FORWARD, UNKNOWN [...] (SBU) The Croatian Privatization Fund -- under energetic leadership and with the help of U.S.-funded advisors -- has fought an uphill battle the past seven months, and can take some pride in the privatization of 14 majority government-owned firms over that period. Privatization of subsidy-su [...] | 2005-02-07 14:32:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EAID HR |
05ZAGREB1930 | ICTY FUGITIVE GOTOVINA ARRESTED [...] (SBU) According to media reports December 8, Spanish Authorities on the Canary Islands arrested ICTY Fugitive Ante Gotovina on December 7. ICTY Head of Office in Croatia Thomas Osorio confirmed for us that Gotovina had been arrested. The Croatian State Prosecutor's Office told us that they e [...] | 2005-12-08 14:24:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KAWC PREL HR |
05ZAGREB1955 | EMERGENCY ACTION COMMITTEE MEETING ON AVIAN [...] (U) The DCM convened the EAC on December 16, 2005, to review post's avian influenza preparedness plans and tripwires. All embassy sections were represented. 2. (U) The DCM conducted a point-by-point review of post's preparedness steps and asked the EAC members for any input they may have o [...] | 2005-12-16 14:01:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC CASC HR |
05ZAGREB273 | PRESIDENT MESIC'S SECOND INAUGURAL SPEECH -- [...] (U) President Mesic's second inaugural speech (ref a) was classic Mesic -- soaring rhetoric delivered in simple language. While claiming that the election results validated his policies, Mesic also reached out to those that did not vote for him. Addressing neighboring states, Mesic noted th [...] | 2005-02-22 15:15:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV HR |
05ZAGREB298 | IRANIAN PRESIDENT TO MAKE LONG-EXPECTED VISIT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Iranian President Mohammad Khatami is expected to visit Croatia on March 17 as part of a multi-nation tour. He is returning a visit President Stjepan Mesic made to Tehran in 2001 before he leaves office. Mesic,s office and GoC contacts have told Post that the timing [...] | 2005-02-25 13:34:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV XF IR HR |
05ZAGREB377 | Prosecutors Investigate Refugee Housing Scam [...] (SBU) In mid-February, the Croatian Office for Combating Corruption and Organized Crime (USKOK) began investigating possible illegal sales of refugee Serb houses to the Croatian State Agency for Refugee Property (APN). Intermediaries in Serbia and Montenegro (SAM),supposedly representing Serb [...] | 2005-03-09 12:06:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PGOV HR |
05ZAGREB475 | BOSKOSKI TRANSFERRED TO THE HAGUE [...] (U) Croatian authorities today transferred Former Macedonian Interior Minister Ljubo Boskoski to the custody of the ICTY in The Hague. Croatian authorities had been holding Boskoski in a Pula prison since August of 2004 on charges stemming from the murder of seven Pakistanis in Macedonia in [...] | 2005-03-24 14:34:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KAWC PREL MK HR |
05ZAGREB510 | DRAFT GMO LAW BRINGS ANTI-BIOTECH FEELINGS BACK TO [...] (SBU) A proposal to consolidate Croatia's restrictive legislative framework for the introduction of genetically modified seeds has brought public outrage at the thought of GMOs in Croatia back to the surface. While Parliament seems set to institutionalize a precautionary principle approach fo [...] | 2005-03-31 12:31:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR SENV ETRD PGOV HR |
05ZAGREB78 | PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: ALLEGED FRAUD IN CROATIAN [...] (SBU) The respected Croatian NGO GONG has alleged that a number of votes recorded at polling stations in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) during the first round of the Croatian presidential elections were fraudulent. These allegations apply only to so-called diaspora voting in BiH and not/not in [...] | 2005-01-14 15:15:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL HR |
05ZAGREB792 | LOCAL ELECTIONS: BELLWETHER FOR HDZ GOVERNMENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Local elections on May 15 will be dominated by county and city issues but are bringing to light regional fractures within the ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ),as the party suffers the repercussions of reforms made after the 2003 parliamentary elections. This [...] | 2005-05-13 05:48:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL HR |
05ZAGREB827 | LOCAL ELECTIONS: HDZ FALTERS, OPPOSITION GAINS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Strong personalities, unpredictable coalitions, and a continued drop in popularity of the ruling Croatian Democratic Union (HDZ) marked Croatia's May 15 local elections. Coalitions among multiple parties will be necessary to form governments in the vast majority of [...] | 2005-05-19 06:38:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL HR |
05ZAGREB834 | LOCAL ETHNIC TENSIONS RISE IN ELECTION WAKE [...] (SBU) An unfortunate convergence of events has stirred anger and fear among some small-town Croats, sparking several incidents of ethnic hatred against Serbs. The May 9 USG presentation of the Legion of Merit to the relatives of Chetnik leader Draza Mihailovic; the May 10 reports of propose [...] | 2005-05-19 13:50:00 | Embassy Zagreb | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SR HR |
06ABIDJAN1004 | COTE D'IVOIRE: TOXIC WASTE SCANDAL UNFOLDS [...] (U) Summary. The illegal dumping of toxic waste at eleven open-air garbage sites around the city of Abidjan has reportedly left three people dead and led some 1,500 others to seek treatment for symptoms of nausea, rashes, fainting, diarrhea and headaches. The dumping has generated public pro [...] | 2006-09-08 17:44:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SENV ASEC IV |
06ABIDJAN1133 | COTE D'IVOIRE: TEXTILE AND APPAREL PRODUCTION [...] (U) Per REF A request, Post provides the following information on Cote d'Ivoire's textile and apparel production sector. 2. (U) The National Statistical Institute's (INS) Division of National Accounts (INSAE) provided the following statistics on total industrial production and total text [...] | 2006-10-06 17:27:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD KTEX IV |
06ABIDJAN1153 | EXXONMOBIL TELLS GOV'T IT INTENDS TO SELL [...] (SBU) ExxonMobil Regional Director John A.C. Bell, along with Regional Manager Frederic Dauvergne and local Director General Manar Sall met with EconChief on October 10 to discuss the company's announcement to the government of Cote d'Ivoire that it intends to sell its stake in its Ivorian f [...] | 2006-10-13 15:10:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EINV ASEC PREL IV ECON |
06ABIDJAN1173 | GOVERNMENT CREATES 133 JUDGESHIPS TO RESUME AND [...] (U) President Gbagbo has signed a decree creating 133 judgeships throughout Cote d'Ivoire, in areas controlled by both the government and the New Forces. The decree was signed on October 5 but only published on October 17, on the eve of the AU Peace and Security Council meeting on Cote d'Ivoi [...] | 2006-10-18 17:29:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ASEC KPKO IV |
06ABIDJAN1216 | DEMARCHE ON CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION, NATIONAL IMPLEMENTATION OBLIGATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-10-31 17:14:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IV NOTAG |
06ABIDJAN1217 | DEMARCHES ON UNGA RESOLUTIONS REGARDING THE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-10-31 17:18:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | UNGA LE IS PHUM PREL PTER IV |
06ABIDJAN1255 | GOVERNMENT $144M IN ARREARS ON WAR BONUSES, [...] (SBU) While the payment of regular salaries is current for both civil servants and military personnel (which includes the FANCI, the Gendarmerie and the National Police) as of October 31, 2006, according to sources within the Ministry of Defense, the Government of Cote d'Ivoire is 12 months o [...] | 2006-11-09 17:05:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR PGOV PREL EFIN IV |
06ABIDJAN1276 | UNION OF STATE-OWNED NEWSPAPER THREATENS STRIKE [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 30, 2006 the board of influential government-owned newspaper Fraternite Matin (FratMat) dismissed Director General Honore De Yedagne (close to the FPI) and replaced him with Leon Lebry Francis, an ally of PM Banny. On November 6 the union for employees at FratMat, [...] | 2006-11-16 15:55:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ELAB IV |
06ABIDJAN226 | COTE D'IVOIRE: 2006 TIP REPORT [...] (SBU) Since a September 2002 coup attempt that evolved into a civil war, Cote d'Ivoire has been partitioned in two with the government maintaining control of the south and the ex-rebel New Forces controlling the north. Tensions between the two sides have lessened since the appointment of a new [...] | 2006-03-01 16:49:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB IV |
06ABIDJAN227 | COTE D'IVOIRE: ILO-UNHCR TO PUBLISH REPORT ON [...] (SBU) Summary: ILO and UNHCR will publish a report on the exploitation of refugee and displaced children in Cote d'Ivoire almost two years after its completion. ILO-UNHCR identified labor and sexual exploitation as the two main forms of exploitation for refugee and displaced children in Cot [...] | 2006-03-01 16:50:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PHUM PREL EAID SOCI IV |
06ABIDJAN495 | GOCI TO LAUNCH PILOT IDENTIFICATION PROGRAM ON MAY [...] (SBU) Summary. The Prime Minister,s office and a New Forces (FN) representative have told us that on May 18 the government will begin a pilot population identification program at seven locations in government and FN territory and in the Zone of Confidence. End summary. 2. (SBU) Francois K [...] | 2006-05-12 16:58:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KPKO ASEC PREL IV |
06ABIDJAN500 | PRIME MINISTER DISCUSSES IDENTIFICATION [...] (U) SUMMARY. On May 14, Prime Minister Charles Konan Banny addressed the nation on the televised evening news and confirmed reports that the Ministry of Justice will begin pilot identification programs on May 18. Banny also announced that identification and disarmament (DDR) would occur sim [...] | 2006-05-15 13:33:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO ASEC IV |
06ABIDJAN504 | COTE D'IVOIRE: MORE VIOLENCE IN WEST [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-15 17:24:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ASEC KPKO IV |
06ABIDJAN568 | COTE D'IVOIRE: PILOT IDENTIFICATION PROGRAM [...] (U) Summary: From May 18 through 24, 4810 applicants were interviewed at seven sites in the pilot identification program. A total of 2601 birth certificates and 2188 certificates of nationality were approved after interviews averaging 40 minutes per person. The pilot identification program [...] | 2006-05-30 16:48:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ASEC KPKO IV |
06ABIDJAN583 | COTE D'IVOIRE: PILOT IDENTIFICATION PROGRAM [...] (U) Summary: From May 18 through 24, 4810 applicants were interviewed at seven sites in the pilot identification program. A total of 2601 birth certificates and 2188 certificates of nationality were approved after interviews averaging 40 minutes per person. The pilot identification program [...] | 2006-06-02 09:36:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ASEC KPKO IV |
06ABIDJAN613 | COTE D'IVOIRE: FINAL NUMBERS FROM PILOT ID PROGRAM [...] (U) The Ivorian government announced the official figures for the pilot identification process which ended on May 27. The official figures are: 5003 applicants were interviewed, 3907 birth certificates were granted, and 3137 certificates of nationality were approved. The analysis of the pilo [...] | 2006-06-08 15:20:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ASEC KPKO IV |
06ABIDJAN633 | COTE D'IVOIRE: UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS RESTART [...] (U) The group of university professors known as Coordination Nationale des Enseignants du Superieur et des Chercheurs (CNEC) has again commenced an unlimited strike after a two-week truce in which it considered the options put forth by the Council of Ministers (ref A). On June 9, the members [...] | 2006-06-13 17:10:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PGOV ECON EFIN IV |
06ABIDJAN648 | COTE D'IVOIRE: PRIMARY AND SECONDARY PUBLIC [...] (U) Summary: On June 15, primary and secondary public school teachers began unlimited strikes to protest the lack of government response to their demands for a housing allowance and salary increases. The government did not respond to a three-day strike held from June 6 to June 8 by the Coll [...] | 2006-06-16 14:54:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PGOV ECON EFIN IV |
06ABIDJAN758 | LATEST ON CORA DE COMSTAR U.S. BUSINESS DISPUTE [...] (SBU) The Ivoirian Telecommunications Agency (ATCI) announced last week that it had revoked Cora de Comstar's cell phone license because of non-use of the license by Cora. The unexpected decision follows the signing of a draft, non-binding agreement in February 2006 between Western Wireless an [...] | 2006-07-14 16:32:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD IV EINV |
06ABIDJAN783 | COTE D,IVOIRE SITUATION REPORT - 1700 GMT JULY 19, [...] (SBU) As of late afternoon, roadblocks in the Abidjan districts of Riviera (where Embassy is located),Cocody, and Deux Plateaux, where most Embassy personnel reside, have been dismantled or shut down. The airport remains open and we understand that Air France is flying tonight. An Embassy v [...] | 2006-07-19 17:00:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ASEC IV |
06ABIDJAN819 | CORA INVESTMENT DISPUTE NEAR RESOLUTION? [...] (SBU) Summary. A joint delegation of representatives of Cora shareholders and the Ivoirian government expressed strong optimism to the Ambassador July 26 that the Cora dispute is very close to a final resolution. They will meet with the Prime Minister about this July 27. The Ambassador welc [...] | 2006-07-26 15:51:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ETRD PREL IV |
06ABIDJAN911 | COTE D'IVOIRE: TENSIONS CONTINUE WITHIN MARITIME [...] (U) On August 8, Maritime Police officers announced in a press conference that on August 4 Minister of Transport Anaky Kobenan (leader of the MFA, an opposition party) had issued the payment of bonus arrears in the amount of USD 234,000 (CFAF 117 million) and suspended Director General for M [...] | 2006-08-11 18:55:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ASEC ELAB EFIN |
06ABIDJAN927 | COTE D'IVOIRE: TEACHERS WITHHOLD EXAM [...] (U) As of August 18, public secondary school teachers in the government-controlled zone are refusing to release results from the baccalaureate exam (required for entry to university) until they are paid for grading them. (Note: Exams in the rebel-controlled zone are scheduled to start Augus [...] | 2006-08-18 17:04:00 | Embassy Abidjan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PGOV IV |
06ABUDHABI106 | INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL BOARD ELECTION [...] No summary [...] | 2006-01-17 11:52:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL AORC AE UNCND UN |
06ABUDHABI108 | DEMARCHE ON LONDON CONFERENCE ON AFGHANISTAN [...] (SBU) Pol Chief discussed ref A points with MFA International Organizations Director Yacub al-Hosani January 16. Al-Hosani said the UAEG had not yet determined who will represent the UAE at the conference on Afghanistan, but that the UAEG will support Afghanistan and the objectives of the Af [...] | 2006-01-17 13:05:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN KDEM PGOV PREL AF AE |
06ABUDHABI1122 | UAEG REPORTS ADDITIONAL TRAFFICKING PROSECUTIONS, [...] (U) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has provided the following trafficking-related statistics as was mentioned reftel. Post is awaiting additional prosecutions statistics from the Emirate of Dubai where the majority of sex trafficking prosecutions take place. ------------- Camel Jockeys - [...] | 2006-03-22 12:48:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL AE TAGS |
06ABUDHABI1199 | ABU DHABI OVERHAULS TRANSPORTATION SECTOR [...] (U) The Abu Dhabi Government Restructuring Committee recently announced the establishment of an Abu Dhabi Department of Transport (DOT),headed by Khalfan Ghaith Al Muhaibi. Sheikh Mohammad bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Abu Dhabi Crown Prince and Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Executive Council chairs the r [...] | 2006-03-27 09:25:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR EWWT PREL ECON AE |
06ABUDHABI1219 | EXXON GETS 28% OF UPPER ZAKUM [...] (U) On March 27, Exxon Mobil signed agreements with the Emirate of Abu Dhabi's Supreme Petroleum Council and the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) for a 28% stake in the Upper Zakum field as of January 1, 2006. ADNOC's stake in the field drops from 88% to 60% and the Japan Oil Development [...] | 2006-03-28 13:54:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG EINV AE |
06ABUDHABI1405 | ETIHAD FLYING TO KENNEDY, ABU DHABI AIRPORT [...] (SBU) Summary. Etihad Airways recently reported to Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) rep that it has decided to fly to Kennedy, instead of Newark as was previously reported. Econoff and FAA rep met with several members of the Supervision Committee for the Expansion of the Abu Dhabi Inter [...] | 2006-04-11 11:34:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR PREL ECON AE |
06ABUDHABI1437 | OECD PROGRAMS ON GOOD GOVERNANCE AND INVESTMENT IN [...] (U) Summary: On April 9, Ambassador met with Richard Hecklinger, Deputy Secretary General of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD),to discuss the MENA-OECD Initiative on Governance and Investment for Development. The initiative, which began in February 2005, is a r [...] | 2006-04-15 07:48:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OECD ECON EFIN AE |
06ABUDHABI1775 | UAE TELECOM UPDATES [...] (SBU) Summary. On April 19, econoff met with Mohammed Gheyath, Technical Affairs Manager of the Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (TRA),to discuss UAE telecom initiatives. Gheyath said the TRA is planning to allow a third internet service provider (ISP) in the UAE and is also consideri [...] | 2006-05-02 07:29:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ECIN PHUM ECON AE |
06ABUDHABI183 | IAEA DONOR CONFERENCE ON DECOMMISSIONING IRAQ'S [...] No summary [...] | 2006-01-23 12:57:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC KNNP OTRA AE IAEA |
06ABUDHABI1931 | ARAB LEAGUE BOYCOTT IN THE UAE [...] (U) Summary. The UAE still implements the primary Arab League boycott on Israel, but abides by the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) policy of not implementing the secondary or tertiary aspects of the boycott. Despite this policy, there have still been instances of prohibited boycott requests af [...] | 2006-05-10 11:53:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KBCT ABLD PHUM AL AE PIRF |
06ABUDHABI2045 | UAE CHANGES WEEKEND TO FRIDAY-SATURDAY [...] (U) The UAE announced on May 17 that beginning September 1, 2006, all schools and government offices will move from a Thursday-Friday weekend to a Friday-Saturday weekend. Although the Cabinet decision applies only to federal and government organizations and public and private schools, many UA [...] | 2006-05-17 10:12:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PHUM PREL ETRD AE |
06ABUDHABI2095 | BLUE LANTERN RESPONSE: APPLICATION 05-996225 [...] (SBU) Post received reftel Blue Lantern request concerning an intermediately consignee, Gulf Technical Trading & Services L.L.C. (GULF). On May 10 ConGen Dubai spoke with Dr. Jamal Al Murra, deputy commander of the Dubai Police Force (the person mentioned in reftel as having signed the end us [...] | 2006-05-21 08:44:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC KOMC AE |
06ABUDHABI2123 | UAE INTEREST IN TIP/PISCES SYSTEM [...] (SBU) On May 8, 2006, DCM and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Attache met with Colonel (now Brigadier General) Nassar Al Nuaimi, Chief of Staff for UAE Minister of Interior Sheikh Saif bin Zayed Al Nayhan, regarding UAE participation in a U.S.-sponsored Terrorist Interdiction Pr [...] | 2006-05-22 12:22:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER CJAN AE |
06ABUDHABI2127 | VISIT BY COUNCIL ON AMERICAN ISLAMIC RELATIONS [...] (U) On May 21, the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) paid a courtesy call on the Ambassador to discuss the organization's issues, outreach strategies, and its visit to the UAE. The UAE press has reported that Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid al-Maktoum, Deputy Ruler of Dubai and UAE Ministe [...] | 2006-05-22 14:35:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KISL SOCI PHUM PGOV KDEM AE |
06ABUDHABI2169 | UAE RELIGIOUS ADVISOR DEFENDS ISLAM AND CALLS FOR [...] (U) On May 23, Sheikh Sayyed Ali al-Hashimi, the Judicial and Religious Affairs Advisor to UAE Presidential Court, paid a courtesy call on the Ambassador following attendance at a reception hosted by al-Hashimi the previous night in honor of a delegation from the Washington-based Council on Ame [...] | 2006-05-24 12:12:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KISL PREL KPAO PHUM AE |
06ABUDHABI2210 | UAE CONCERNS: US-MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA PRIVATE [...] (SBU) In response to Ref A, the following are key officers at the Emirates Banking Association: 1) Mr. Fathi Mahmood Saik, General Manager, (971)2-627-2541 (phone),(971)2-627-4155(fax),ebuau@emirates.net.ae and, 2) Mr. Awni Bushnaq, Financial and Administrative Manager, (971) 2-627-2541 [...] | 2006-05-30 12:41:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER KTFN ECON EFIN ETTC PREL AE |
06ABUDHABI2242 | UAE DEPUTY CHARGE IN BAGHDAD FREED BY CAPTORS [...] (U) UAE Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed confirmed the release of UAE Deputy Charge d'Affaires Naji al-Nuaimi the evening of May 30. Al-Nuaimi was kidnapped May 16 by gunmen belonging to the previously unknown Banner of Islam group (refs A, B). One of his bodyguards, a Sudanese, wa [...] | 2006-05-31 13:39:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PINS PTER MARR IZ AE |
06ABUDHABI2248 | UAE JOINS UN OCHA DONOR SUPPORT GROUP (ODSG); UAE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Already a regional leader in humanitarian assistance, the UAE announced at a May 9 conference in Abu Dhabi its decision to become the 20th member and the first non-Western country to join the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Donor Support Group (ODSG). US [...] | 2006-05-31 15:36:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PHUM KPAL IZ AF AE |
06ABUDHABI2284 | UAE PRESS HIGHLIGHTS MBR'S REMARKS ON FTA [...] U) Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum (MbR),UA Vice President/Prime Minister and Ruler of Duba gave a wide ranging interview to the pan-Arab pper Al-Sharq Al-Awsat on Saturday June 3, which as carried in most UAE Arabic and English languag papers the same day. MbR covered a number of tpic [...] | 2006-06-05 10:52:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON PGOV AE |
06ABUDHABI2347 | PLANES, TRAINS, AND AUTOMOBILES: TRANSPORTATION [...] (SBU) Summary. On June 3, Deputy Secretary of Transportation Maria Cino met with Sultan bin Saeed al-Mansouri, the UAE Minister of Governmental Sector Development, to discuss transportation and development issues. Al-Mansouri discussed the expansion of the UAE's civil aviation sector. He al [...] | 2006-06-07 10:58:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELTN EWWT EAIR ECON ETRD PREL AE |
06ABUDHABI2348 | UAE REQUESTS U.S. SUPPORT FOR INTERNATIONAL [...] (U) The Embassy received via diplomatic note May 28 the UAE,s request for U.S. support for their nomination to the International Telecommunication Union Council (ITU). 2. (U) Begin text of diplomatic note: The Ministry has the honor to inform the Embassy that the UAE has achieved a distin [...] | 2006-06-07 10:58:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS AORC AE |
06ABUDHABI235 | UAE MINSTATE FINANCE KHIRBASH ON JAN 30-FEB 1 FTA [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador met Minstate Finance Dr. Khirbash on January 25 to discuss the upcoming January 30-February 1 London FTA negotiating round. She stressed our interest in working with the UAE to conclude an FTA that addressed its concerns but was also consistent with the principle th [...] | 2006-01-25 12:00:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EFIN CVIS AE |
06ABUDHABI2437 | WOMEN ASSURED SEATS IN UPCOMING FNC ELECTIONS [...] (U) On June 12, Dr. Anwar Mohammed Ghargash, MinState for Federal National Council (FNC) Affairs, submitted a memo to the Council of Ministers outlining the process for Federal National Council elections to be held later this year after Ramadan. Confirming previous reports, the memo noted that [...] | 2006-06-13 11:24:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM AE |
06ABUDHABI2455 | UPDATE ON UAE AGENCY AND COMPANY LAWS [...] (SBU) Summary: The UAE's Federal Supreme Council(rulers of the seven emirates)is reviewing amendments to the UAE's law on Commercial Agencies (Agency Law). These amendments include: (1)requiring mutual consent to renew an agency agreement, (2)limiting an agency contract to a fixed time period [...] | 2006-06-14 11:02:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV ECON AE |
06ABUDHABI2461 | SHEIKHA LUBNA ON FTA NEGOTIATIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 14, Minister of Economy Sheikha Lubna Al-Qasimi told Ambassador and Econchief that she was facing increasing local opposition to the FTA. She stressed the importance of continuing with discussions/negotiations on the investment chapter of the FTA as "a critical path" to [...] | 2006-06-14 11:21:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON KBCT AE |
06ABUDHABI2470 | THE PALESTINIAN COMMUNITY IN THE UAE: A PROSPEROUS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: MORE THAN 120,000 PALESTINIAN EXPATRIATES CURRENTLY RESIDE IN THE UAE, A GULF STATE WHICH IS A MAJOR AID DONOR TO PALESTINIANS IN THE WEST BANK AND GAZA. OVER THE LAST SEVERAL DECADES, PALESTINIANS HAVE COME TO THE UAE, BRINGING WITH THEM THEIR EDUCATION, KNOW-HOW, AND CAPITAL [...] | 2006-06-17 09:15:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KPAL KWBG AE |
06ABUDHABI249 | UAEG PRESENTS UAE MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING REGARDING [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 4. 2. (U) On January 24, 2006, Assistant Under Secretary for International Cooperation Mohammed Abdul Jalil delivered to Econ Chief a diplomatic note containing a Memorandum of Understanding regarding visas and the U.S. - UAE Free Trade Agreeme [...] | 2006-01-25 14:16:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS ETRD ECON AE |
06ABUDHABI2561 | UAE AMENDS COMMERCIAL AGENCY LAW [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 18, the Gulf News reported that UAE President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan amended several provisions of the Commercial Agencies Law. These amendments include: (1) limiting an agency contract to a fixed time period, (2) requiring mutual consent to renew an agency [...] | 2006-06-21 11:27:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV ECON AE |
06ABUDHABI2625 | POLIO ERADICATION IN NIGERIA [...] (SBU) On June 19, Post delivered reftel demarche to the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs. On June 25, Econchief and Econoff met with Ambassador Ali al-Zarouni, Director of European, American and Oceanic Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to follow up. Econchief urged the UAEG to encou [...] | 2006-06-25 10:54:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KSCA TBIO WHO AE |
06ABUDHABI2627 | UAEG AGREES TO IMPLEMENT FULBRIGHT PROGRAM [...] (U) Summary: On June 24, Ambassador, PAO and Econoff met with Sheikh Nahyan bin Mubarak al-Nahyan, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, to discuss implementing a Fulbright Visiting Student Program in the UAE. Sheikh Nahyan was enthusiastic about the program and agreed to sign [...] | 2006-06-25 12:17:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAO OEXC SOCI AE |
06ABUDHABI277 | CAMEL JOCKEY REPATRIATIONS CONTINUE -- RACING [...] (U) Summary: The UAEG is close to concluding the repatriation of former camel jockeys to their countries of origin. Having already sent 1,038 jockeys home, only 27 children remain at the Bani Yas shelter outside Abu Dhabi. UNICEF,s representative in Abu Dhabi monitoring progress on the rescue [...] | 2006-01-28 14:00:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM ELAB AE |
06ABUDHABI2774 | UAE LABOR UPDATES [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 30, Econoff met with Mohammed Al-Zaabi, Director of International Relations, at the Ministry of Labor (MOL) to discuss recent changes to the UAE labor system. Al-Zaabi explained that foreign workers are "temporary" workers, not "immigrant" workers and stressed to Econo [...] | 2006-07-05 11:57:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ECON PREL ETRD AE |
06ABUDHABI286 | UAE LABOR UPDATES [...] (U) Summary: On January 22, Econoffs met with Dr. Khalid Al Khazraji, Undersecretary for Labor Affairs, at the Ministry of Labor to discuss recent changes to the UAE labor system. Dr. Al Khazraji explained the procedures for filing a labor complaint and for changing sponsorship and also dis [...] | 2006-01-29 11:54:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB PREL ETRD AE |
06ABUDHABI2924 | Capital Partners - TECOM Commercial Dispute [...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy has received several Congressional and USTR inquiries in recent weeks over U.S. firm Capital Partners' dispute with Dubai's TECOM Investments (a member of Dubai Holding) as well as inquiries from former Sec HHS Thompson. TECOM executive Chairman Ahmed bin Byat told Ambas [...] | 2006-07-17 13:28:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON AE |
06ABUDHABI305 | UAE RETALIATES AGAINST DANISH CARTOONS [...] (U) The UAEG has condemned Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten's September 30 publication of twelve offensive cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad. UAE Minister of Justice, Islamic Affairs and Awqaf, Mohammad Nakhira Al Daheri alleged in the UAE press that the publication of the cartoons cou [...] | 2006-01-31 07:13:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL ETRD AE |
06ABUDHABI3125 | G/TIP: UAE RESEARCH CENTER SEEKS TO HOST UN TIP [...] (SBU) In a July 19 conversation with EmbOffs, Director General of the Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research (ECSSR) Dr. Jamal Al-Suwaidi expressed frustration with the UN for not taking a greater interest in his offer to host a global conference on Trafficking in Persons in Abu D [...] | 2006-08-01 12:38:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM KCRM ELAB UN AE |
06ABUDHABI3127 | TFLE01: STATUS OF UAE INVESTMENT IN LEBANON [...] (SBU) Summary: Prior to the most recent outbreak of hostilities in Lebanon, UAE-based companies had an estimated US $2.3 billion invested in-country, largely in Beirut's real estate and luxury services sectors. While most UAE-owned properties have not been damaged by Israeli air strikes, inves [...] | 2006-08-01 13:16:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ETRD ECON EFIN LE AE |
06ABUDHABI3163 | TFLE01: UAE PM SPEAKS OUT ON LEBANON [...] (U) UAE headlines August 2 cited Vice President and Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum (MbR, also ruler of Dubai) expressing solidarity with Prime Minister Siniora in a telephone call the previous evening. UAE media also highlighted MbR's statements early on August 1, in whi [...] | 2006-08-02 13:32:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KMDR LE AE |
06ABUDHABI3374 | SUMMARY OF UAE HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TO LEBANON [...] (SBU) The UAEG pledged $20 million in assistance to Lebanon early in the crisis, and has now committed an unspecified amount to rebuild Lebanese hospitals and schools. MFA's Assistant Under Secretary for International Cooperation Ambassador Mohammad Abdul Rahim Abdul Jalil told the Charge Aug [...] | 2006-08-20 15:01:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID KMDR LE AE |
06ABUDHABI3414 | UAE CONTINUES TO CONTRIBUTE TO LEBANON [...] (SBU) PolChief discussed ref A demarche regarding the August 31 Stockholm Conference with Deputy Director of the MFA Department of European, American and Oceanic Affairs Saeed Rashed Al-Zaabi on August 26. Al-Zaabi noted that UAE deliveries of humanitarian supplies to Lebanon continued daily [...] | 2006-08-26 12:50:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID LE AE |
06ABUDHABI3428 | UAE MINSTATE FOR FINANCE AND INDUSTRY TO ATTEND [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-28 10:47:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID LE AE |
06ABUDHABI3490 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR G/TIP SENIOR [...] (SBU) Embassy Abu Dhabi grants country clearance and welcomes the visit of G/TIP Senior Coordinator Mark Taylor on September 3-6. 2. (SBU) In addition to the September 4 steering committee meeting for the ECSSR-hosted international TIP conference, we have requested a meeting on September 5 [...] | 2006-09-01 13:33:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA PHUM AE |
06ABUDHABI3623 | INTERNATIONAL MOBILE SATELLITE ORGANIZATION [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-13 11:44:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC ECPS EWWT IMO INMARSAT KHLS AE |
06ABUDHABI3629 | IRAQ COMPACT PREPARATORY MEETING A SUCCESS [...] (SBU) Summary: On September 10, the United Arab Emirates hosted the Preparatory Group for the International Compact for Iraq (ICI). The United Nations (UN) represented by Deputy Secretary General Mark Malloch Brown, and the Government of Iraq (GOI),represented by a delegation led by Iraqi Dep [...] | 2006-09-14 07:51:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EFIN IZ PREL PGOV ECON AE |
06ABUDHABI3631 | UAE UPDATE ON SUPPORT FOR INTERNATIONAL MOBILE [...] (SBU) Ref A reports the probable support of the UAE for Steven Lett's candidacy to head the International Mobile Satellite Organization. Subsequent to that exchange, and in response to a diplomatic note which had been submitted to the MFA prior to our September 5 meeting, the MFA has responde [...] | 2006-09-14 10:03:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC ECPS EWWT IMO INMARSAT KHLS AE |
06ABUDHABI3687 | UAEG "REGRETS" POPE'S REMARKS ON ISLAM, ADDING [...] (U) Pope Benedict XVI's reported remarks on Islam have received a modest degree of coverage in UAE printed media since the story broke, with front-page mention of the incident and associated reactions in the Muslim world, as well as inside-page editorial emphasizing the potential damage done [...] | 2006-09-18 13:45:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KMDR KPAO VT AE |
06ABUDHABI373 | DECISION ON UAE'S FIRST HUMAN RIGHTS NGO IMMINENT [...] (SBU) The UAE Government is apparently close to announcing that it will allow a domestic human rights organization to operate for the first time. On February 6, the English-daily 'Gulf News' reported that the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs had approved the first human rights organization [...] | 2006-02-06 12:24:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PHUM AE |
06ABUDHABI3872 | DRAFT UAE-U.S. "GAP ANALYSIS" OF CASH COURIER REGULATIONS [...] (U) In response to the Central Bank Governor's request at the September 12 JTFCC for a "gap analysis" of the U.S. and UAE cash reporting regulations and procedures, Embassy/CG interagency team (State/Econ, Treasury/OFAC, DHS/ICE) prepared the following draft and passed to the UAE Central Bank f [...] | 2006-10-04 08:40:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER KTFN AE |
06ABUDHABI4010 | DELIVERED POINTS ON UNSCR 1718 [...] (SBU) PolChief passed reftel points to MFA Director for International Organizations and Conferences Yacub Al-Hosani on October 16. Al-Hosani, with whom we have discussed the North Korean issue frequently, offered no immediate comment. 2. (SBU) On October 17, Charge also shared reftel dema [...] | 2006-10-17 13:28:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KNNP PARM KN AE |
06ABUDHABI421 | UPDATE ON ABU DHABI GAY ARREST CASE [...] (U) SUMMARY: HALF OF THE 26 MEN WHO WERE ARRESTED BY ABU DHABI POLICE DURING AN ALLEGED GAY WEDDING NOVEMBER 23, 2005, HAVE BEEN RELEASED WHILE THE OTHER HALF HAVE BEEN CONVICTED AND SENTENCED, ACCORDING TO THE PRESS AND THEIR DEFENSE ATTORNEY. THIS LATEST INFORMATION CONTRADICTS INFORMATION FR [...] | 2006-02-14 15:14:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KCRM AE |
06ABUDHABI4211 | UPCOMING ARAB LEAGUE CENTRAL BOYCOTT OFFICE [...] (SBU) On November 5, Econchief and Polchief raised the November Arab League Boycott meeting in Damascus with MFA A/US for International Cooperation Mohamed Abduljalil and urged the UAEG to neither attend nor support the meeting. Abduljalil reiterated the UAE's position that it did not implemen [...] | 2006-11-06 12:29:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON KBCT AE |
06ABUDHABI4225 | PSI: LETTER FROM U/S JOSEPH AND EXERCISE LEADING [...] (SBU) Post delivered reftel letter from U/S Joseph to MFA Acting Under Secretary Tariq Al-Haidan under cover of a diplomatic note. Following up on delivery of the letter, PolChief discussed its content November 7 with our primary interlocutor on nonproliferation issues at MFA, Director for I [...] | 2006-11-07 15:45:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP PARM PREL PHSA MNUC AE |
06ABUDHABI4234 | UAE REACTION TO SADDAM VERDICT GENERALLY MUTED [...] (SBU) Emiratis have been slow to comment on the November 5 announcement of Saddam's verdict and sentencing. One Dutch diplomat summed up his extensive efforts to glean UAE views on the verdict as "justice is justice," with few Emiratis offering explanatory comment. An Emirati academic told P [...] | 2006-11-08 11:24:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM KCRM IZ AE |
06ABUDHABI424 | UNESCO CONVENTION ON CULTURAL EXPRESSIONS UPDATE [...] (SBU) It is difficult to determine the exact level of activity with regard to ratification of the UNESCO convention in the UAE, because the UAE does not generally publicize its efforts on treaty ratification, until the treaty has either been ratified -- or at the very least has received cabinet [...] | 2006-02-14 18:18:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD SCUL AE UNESCO |
06ABUDHABI4261 | UAEG SHELTERING TRAFFICKING VICTIMS [...] (SBU) During a November 5 call on Lt. Colonel Nasser Al-Minhali, Head of Immigration, Abu Dhabi Police, G/TIP Reports Coordinator Gayatri Patel and PolOff discussed UAEG efforts on action plan (reftel) goals. Al-Minhali stated that the Ministry of Interior is currently providing shelter assis [...] | 2006-11-09 13:37:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM AE |
06ABUDHABI4281 | IRAQ VP AL-HESHIMI VISITS UAE [...] (U) Iraqi Vice President Tareq Al-Heshimi made a well-publicized visit to the UAE November 12, in which he met with President Khalifa bin Zayed and Vice President Mohammed bin Rashid. President Khalifa stated, according to press reports, that the UAE would "spare no effort" in supporting and [...] | 2006-11-14 11:36:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KDEM AE |
06ABUDHABI4286 | UAE PASSES ANTI-TIP LEGISLATION [...] (U) On November 10, UAE President Khalifa bin Zayed Al-Nahyan issued a federal law to combat human trafficking in the UAE. The law defines trafficking in generally the same manner as the U.N. Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, upon which the UAE legislation is re [...] | 2006-11-14 14:04:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM KCRM AE |
06ABUDHABI4321 | TIP: INTERIM ASSESSMENT FOR NEA SPECIAL WATCHLIST-UAE [...] (U) Summary: Since the release of the June 2006 TIP Report, the UAEG has made steady progress in addressing the problem of trafficking in the UAE, especially with regard to women in the sex trade and laborers working in servitude. The answers in paragraphs 2-7 below are keyed to the six questi [...] | 2006-11-21 11:53:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM ELAB KCRM KWMN SMIG AE |
06ABUDHABI4322 | TIP: INTERIM ASSESSMENT FOR NEA SPECIAL [...] (U) Summary: Since the release of the June 2006 TIP Report, the UAEG has made steady progress in addressing the problem of trafficking in the UAE, especially with regard to women in the sex trade and laborers working in servitude. The answers in paragraphs 2-7 below are keyed to the six questi [...] | 2006-11-21 12:31:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM ELAB KCRM KWMN SMIG AE |
06ABUDHABI4360 | STATUS OF ABU DHABI GENERATOR DONATION TO IRAQ [...] (U) Contains business proprietary information. Not for internet distribution. 2. (SBU) On November 16, Econchief met with Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Authority (ADWEA) Director of Planning and Development Ahmed Saif Al-Darmaki to discuss the status of the two power stations that Abu Dh [...] | 2006-11-27 15:14:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EINV IZ AE |
06ABUDHABI4415 | TERRORIST LISTS - UAE [...] (SBU) The UAE does not maintain a published list of banned terrorist entities. The Central Bank sends circulars with search and freeze orders to banks and other financial institutions based on the UNSC 1267 committee lists. SISON [...] | 2006-12-05 12:45:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTFN EFIN ETTC PREL PTER AE |
06ABUDHABI4474 | UAE HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TO THE PALESTINAN TERRITORIES, [...] (U) BEGIN SUMMARY: The UAE provides humanitarian assistance to the Palestinians, Iraq, Afghanistan and Lebanon primarily through its three quasi-governmental charities: the UAE Red Crescent Society (RCS),the Sheikh Zayed Foundation (ZF),and the Dubai-based Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Makto [...] | 2006-12-14 13:04:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PHUM KPAL IZ AF AE |
06ABUDHABI4477 | QUIET CAMPAIGNING FOR FNC ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: A mild sense of anticipation has candidates and the public watching for results of the first UAE Federal National Council (FNC) limited elections to take place December 16, 18, and 20. The 14-day campaign period for 20 FNC seats ends December 14; candidates have promoted their [...] | 2006-12-14 13:47:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM PHUM AE |
06ABUDHABI4528 | UAE FNC ELECTIONS RESULTS: 20 MEMBERS, INCLUDING ONE WOMAN, [...] (U) Summary: On December 16, 18, and 20, the UAE held their first limited election for 20 members of its 40-member Federal National Council (FNC). Despite the fact that 14% (65) of all candidates were women, only one woman was elected--in the emirate of Abu Dhabi. Even though voting was limit [...] | 2006-12-21 16:19:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM PHUM AE |
06ABUDHABI567 | UPDATE ON ABU DHABI GAY ARREST CASE [...] (U) SUMMARY: HALF OF THE 26 MEN WHO WERE ARRESTED BY ABU DHABI POLICE DURING AN ALLEGED GAY WEDDING NOVEMBER 23, 2005, HAVE BEEN RELEASED WHILE THE OTHER HALF HAVE BEEN CONVICTED AND SENTENCED, ACCORDING TO THE PRESS AND THEIR DEFENSE ATTORNEY. THIS LATEST INFORMATION CONTRADICTS INFORMATION FR [...] | 2006-02-15 14:56:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KCRM AE |
06ABUDHABI575 | UNESCO CONVENTION ON CULTURAL EXPRESSIONS UPDATE [...] (SBU) It is difficult to determine the exact level of activity with regard to ratification of the UNESCO convention in the UAE, because the UAE does not generally publicize its efforts on treaty ratification, until the treaty has either been ratified -- or at the very least has received cabinet [...] | 2006-02-15 15:00:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD SCUL AE UNESCO |
06ABUDHABI715 | UAE SUSPENDS OPERATIONS OF BOUT FRONT COMPANY [...] (U) Summary. The Embassy notified the UAEG on 14 February that Irbis Air, a small air service operating out of Sharjah Internatioanl Airport, was a UN designated front company for international arms trafficker Viktor Bout. One week later, on February 21, the UAE closed the Irbis office and sus [...] | 2006-02-27 10:46:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM SOCI ETRD PREL PTER LI AE |
06ABUDHABI730 | INTERAGENCY TEAM WORKS WITH UAEG TO ADDRESS ARAB [...] (U) This message contains business proprietary information. 2. (SBU) Summary: A USDOC/State anti-boycott compliance team visited the UAE from February 18 to 21 for meetings with UAEG officials and U.S. businesses. MinEcon A/US Abdullah Al-Saleh stressed that the UAEG does not implement the [...] | 2006-02-27 15:15:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KBCT KMPI ETRD ECON IS AE |
06ABUDHABI789 | UAE 2006 TIP REPORT [...] (U) Following is Post's submission of the 2006 Trafficking in Persons Report for the United Arab Emirates, covering the reporting period of March 2005 through March 2006. Responses under each section heading are keyed to the relevant sections of ref. A paragraphs 21-24. Embassy TIP points [...] | 2006-03-04 03:39:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF ELAB KCRM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC AE |
06ABUDHABI813 | UAE AVIATION UPDATES [...] (SBU) Summary. The UAE,s aviation sector is rapidly growing in both the private and public sectors. During a recently held aviation conference in Abu Dhabi, the Directors General of Arab Civil Aviation Authorities formed an aviation security panel. In addition, commercial aviation services i [...] | 2006-03-04 13:19:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AE EAIR ECON PREL |
06ABUDHABI850 | IRAN ENVOY MOSTAFAVI VISIT TO UAE [...] (SBU) Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister, Mehdi Mostafavi, was scheduled to meet with the UAE leadership March 6 to brief them on Iran's nuclear issue and other regional developments. Mostafavi was to meet at the MFA, according to an Embassy source, but we have no further details about the meetin [...] | 2006-03-06 14:22:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL IR AE GCC IAEA |
06ABUDHABI953 | NEWLY CREATED HUMAN RIGHTS NGO SETS TIP AS A [...] (U) Summary: On March 7, the Emirates Human Rights Association (EHRA) met for the first time since being approved by the Ministry of Social Affairs on February 18. They elected a seven-member board of governors, three of whom are women. The new board announced plans to focus its immediate att [...] | 2006-03-13 12:38:00 | Embassy Abu Dhabi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM KDEM AE |
06ABUJA1015 | ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL CRIMES COMMISSION [...] SUMMARY. The investigation started by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) at post's request appears to be winding down. They have arrested the MFA's courier and apparently believe that there was no other involvement at the MFA. Post finds this to be a dubious claim and Lega [...] | 2006-05-05 06:20:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFRD CVIS PREL AMGT NI |
06ABUJA1076 | DARFUR PEACE AGREEMENT SIGNED AFTER INTENSIVE [...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Sudan and Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) faction leader Minni Minnawi signed the Darfur Peace Agreement on May 5 following days of intensive negotiations led by the U.S. and U.K. During a final all-night, early morning session led by Nigerian President Olus [...] | 2006-05-09 16:50:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM SU NI DARFUR |
06ABUJA1079 | DARFUR PEACE AGREEMENT: ABUJA AFTERMATH [...] (SBU) Summary: Sudan Liberation Movement faction leader Minni Minnawi remains under considerable pressure on number of fronts for signing the Darfur Peace Agreement. His followers are seeking assistance in bolstering his ability to promote the deal in Darfur. SLM's Abdelwahid Nur continues [...] | 2006-05-10 13:41:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM SU NI |
06ABUJA1097 | MAY 11 NIGERIA AVIAN FLU UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary. Economic officer attended on May 9 the UN and foreign donors meeting on AI in Nigeria. UN and foreign officials expressed serious concern over the GON's inaction and evident desire to declare the AI outbreak "solved." The GON has moved the Avian Influenza Crisis Management Cent [...] | 2006-05-11 16:26:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KFLU EAID AMED EAGR NI AVIANFLU |
06ABUJA1232 | Nigeria Jan-April Petroleum Production [...] (SBU) According to figures gathered by the Central Bank of Nigeria and due to be released this week, in 2005 Nigeria's total crude oil production was 923.5 million barrels, averaging 2.5 million barrels per day (mbd). For the first months of 2006 production breaks down as follows: January 2 [...] | 2006-05-24 15:31:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET EFIN NI |
06ABUJA1359 | JUNE 6 NIGERIA AVIAN FLU UPDATE [...] (U) Summary. Nigeria experienced continued outbreaks of AI in Kano and Bauchi States in May, though the GON has not reported on these in detail. Some of these occurrences possibly were reinfections on poultry farms whose owners restocked too quickly and without carrying out proper decontamin [...] | 2006-06-06 10:19:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KFLU EAID AMED EAGR NI AVIANFLU |
06ABUJA1387 | JUNE 8 NIGERIA AVIAN FLU UPDATE [...] (U) Summary. On May 25 the Ambassador handed over to the Nigerian minister of agriculture a representation of anti-AI commodities, including equipment and disinfectant, worth more than 46 million naira (about $360,000). The agriculture minister said Nigeria had paid 1.7 million naira (almost [...] | 2006-06-08 06:15:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KFLU EAID AMED EAGR NI AVIANFLU |
06ABUJA1412 | JUNE 8 NIGERIA AVIAN FLU UPDATE -- GON LOSES FOCUS [...] (SBU) Summary. The GON's high-level meetings on AI have declined to negligible levels although are set to increase. The ministers of health, agriculture, and information have met once in 10 weeks, and there are considerable tensions between the Ministries of Health and Agriculture. The thric [...] | 2006-06-08 13:22:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KFLU EAID AMED EAGR NI AVIANFLU |
06ABUJA1429 | JUNE 9 NIGERIA AVIAN FLU UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary. The June 7 meeting of the AI Technical Committee featured considerable bitterness, as the Ministry of Agriculture accused the Ministry of Health of telling "lies" about AI's spread in Kano State. The National Veterinary Research Institute confirmed three new instances of AI in [...] | 2006-06-09 14:39:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KFLU EAID AMED EAGR NI AVIANFLU |
06ABUJA1606 | JUNE 26 NIGERIA AVIAN FLU UPDATE - NO HUMAN CASES? [...] (SBU) Summary. The GON AI Steering Committee met June 14 for the first time since April 20. Nigeria will issue permits to four major poultry producers to import grandparent birds for restocking and will discuss possibly permitting poultry vaccinations. Nigeria does not yet have a system for [...] | 2006-06-26 16:28:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KFLU EAID AMED EAGR NI AVIANFLU |
06ABUJA1773 | NIGERIA'S SALE OF NITEL COMPLETES LARGEST PRIVATIZATION [...] (SBU) Summary. Nigeria's Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) sold on July 3 a 75% stake in the state-owned Nigerian Telecommunications (NITEL) Limited and its M-Tel subsidiary to Nigeria's Transcorp for $750 million in a negotiated sales process. This is Nigeria's biggest privatization deal so [...] | 2006-07-11 12:39:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS EINV EIND PGOV NI |
06ABUJA2103 | NIGERIAN FIU REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE [...] This is a request for guidance; see para 4. 2. After the recent training done by FINCEN through the Department of the Treasury, the Nigeria Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) has asked for assistance in information sharing. In June of this year, following a visit from the FATF, Nigeria was r [...] | 2006-08-15 12:24:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN KCRM CVIS SNAR NI |
06ABUJA212 | A VISIT TO NIGERIA'S EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY [...] (SBU) Summary. Embassy Abuja economic officer and military air attach visited the headquarters of Nigeria's National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA). This visit occurred following the October and December 2005 crashes of large passenger aircraft near Lagos and in Port Harcourt. NEMA curren [...] | 2006-01-31 07:57:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | NI |
06ABUJA213 | NIGERIA MAKES SOME PROGRESS ON U.S. AVIATION TIES [...] (U) The Nigerian Ministry of Aviation sent correspondence to Embassy Abuja dated January 12, 2006, stating that Minister of Aviation Babalola Borishade "accepted the designation" of North American Airlines (NAA) to begin passenger, cargo, and mail service between New York City and Lagos, Niger [...] | 2006-01-31 07:58:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR EINV EFIN ECON PREL NI |
06ABUJA2335 | THREATS TO BONNY LNG PROJECT [...] (SBU) Summary: The project managers have shut down the $1.2 billion train six construction of the Nigeria Liquid Natural Gas (NLNG) Plus Project on Bonny Island twice in the last two months due to violence and sabotage. The project management, headed by a TSKJ, a subsidiary of Kellog, Brown and [...] | 2006-09-07 07:49:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET EINV BEXP PGOV KCRM NI |
06ABUJA2397 | THE SECOND IMF REVIEW OF NIGERIA'S PSI [...] Summary: On September 7, 2006, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) review team debriefed the international community on the second review of Nigeria's Policy Support Instrument (PSI). They said the GON's commitment to the PSI was still very strong, but passage of key legislative and civil se [...] | 2006-09-13 10:21:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETRD ECON PINR NI |
06ABUJA2504 | THE STATE OF HIV/AIDS IN NIGERIA AS OF JULY 2006 [...] (SBU) Summary: This cable evaluates HIV/AIDS' impact on Nigerians and their institutions. Roughly 4 million (UNAIDS, 2003) of the nation's 132 million people (PRB, 2005) are infected with HIV/AIDS, reflecting a national HIV/AIDS prevalence rate of 4.4%. (NPS, 2005) Nigeria had at least 2.4 m [...] | 2006-09-25 07:26:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KHIV SOCI TBIO ECON PREL PGOV NI |
06ABUJA2508 | NIGERIA AVIAN FLU UPDATE: SOUTHWESTERN OUTBREAKS [...] (SBU) Summary. Cooperation between the Ministries of Agriculture, Information, and Health on the issue of avian influenza (AI) remains an issue, and relations between Agriculture and Health officials remain tense over the extent of AI in Nigeria and whether to authorize poultry vaccinations. [...] | 2006-09-25 08:31:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KFLU AMED EAGR EAID NI AVIANFLU |
06ABUJA2535 | NIGERIA AVIAN FLU: ANIMAL SURVEILLANCE LAUNCHED [...] (SBU) Summary. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization and the Ministry of Agriculture launched on Sept. 21 their European Union/USG-funded program for active animal surveillance of the avian influenza (AI) in Nigeria. Preparations will consist of six to eight weeks of training, followed by [...] | 2006-09-26 10:24:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KFLU AMED EAGR EAID NI AVIANFLU |
06ABUJA2539 | NIGERIA AVIAN FLU: ANIMAL-SURVEILLANCE PROGRAM [...] Summary. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the Ministry of Agriculture launched on Sept. 21 their EU/USG-funded program for active animal surveillance of the avian influenza (AI) in Nigeria. Training would precede fieldwork, which would cover all 36 states and the Federal Cap [...] | 2006-09-26 14:10:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KFLU AMED EAGR EAID NI AVIANFLU |
06ABUJA2691 | NIGERIAN MANUFACTURERS SEEKING NEW ELECTRICITY SOURCES [...] (SBU) Summary. Embassy Abuja hosted Iftar dinners in Kaduna and Kano on October 2 and 3. Northern political figures were emphatic that they relied heavily on the U.S. Government to "safeguard" Nigeria's federal electoral process in the spring of 2007. The president of the Manufacturers Assoc [...] | 2006-10-12 11:38:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG PGOV NI |
06ABUJA2725 | AGOA ELIGIBILITY REVIEW - NIGERIA [...] (U) Country: Nigeria Current AGOA Status: Eligible 2. (U) Country Background Summary: Estimated population of 140 million. 2005 GNI was $74.2 billion; 2005 GNI per capita was $560. (World Bank 2006 Data) Nigeria completed civilian-run national and state elections in 2003 that were marr [...] | 2006-10-13 13:37:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD AGOA ECON NI |
06ABUJA2777 | NIGERIA OCTOBER 18 AVIAN FLU UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary. The Government of Nigeria's (GON) response to an avian influenza (AI) outbreak remains sluggish. A World Health Organization (WHO) official said Nigeria's AI animal-surveillance program already had fallen one month behind an optimistic schedule. He said the GON's sense of urgen [...] | 2006-10-19 09:16:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU TBIO AMED EAGR EAID NI AVIANFLU |
06ABUJA2800 | NIGERIA OCTOBER 25 AVIAN FLU UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary. The Government of Nigeria's (GON) response to the avian influenza (AI) remains limited but has demonstrated recent improvement. Economic and USAID officers attended the October 18 United Nations/foreign donors AI meeting in Abuja and met with representatives from the UN Develop [...] | 2006-10-25 14:56:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU TBIO AMED EAGR EAID NI AVIANFLU |
06ABUJA2836 | NIGERIA: CENSUS RESULTS NOT READY FOR PRIMETIME [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Nigerian census tabulations are nearly complete and the GON has said the figures will be unveiled in December. International monitors reported that donor contributions have facilitated a census process that was fairly transparent, open and covered a high percentage of the p [...] | 2006-10-30 11:19:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI KDEM ECON PGOV EAID NI CENSUS |
06ABUJA2863 | PRESIDENT OBASANJO UNVEILS 2007 BUDGET [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 11 President Obasanjo presented a 2.3 trillion naira ($18 billion) 2007 budget to a joint session of the National Assembly (NA). The budget represents a 21 percent increase over the 1.9 trillion naira authorized in the 2006 budget. The unveiled 2007 budget is nearly [...] | 2006-10-31 15:44:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON NI |
06ABUJA2867 | NIGERIA ADC AIR CRASH SHAKES CONFIDENCE IN SECTOR [...] (SBU) Summary. Nigeria's troubled aviation sector suffered another major blow with the October 29 crash of a Sokoto-bound ADC Airlines Boeing 737 aircraft just beyond Abuja International Airport, which killed at least 98 persons. Minister of Aviation Babalola Borishade blamed the crash on pil [...] | 2006-11-01 07:51:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR CASC AMGT ASEC NI |
06ABUJA2894 | NIGERIAN AVIATION, TOURISM MINISTERS EXCHANGE JOBS [...] (SBU) Summary. Following concern over the October 29 ADC Airlines crash that killed 96 persons, Nigerian President Obasanjo announced November 2 he had switched the jobs of two ministers. Former Minister of Aviation Babalola Borishade took the job of Femi Fani-Kayode, Minister of Culture and T [...] | 2006-11-03 13:27:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR CASC AMGT ASEC NI |
06ABUJA2902 | ASSESSMENT OF NFIU FOR EGMONT GROUP ADMISSION [...] (U) Summary: A representative from the U.S. Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FINCEN) unit conducted a positive assessment of Nigeria's Financial Intelligence Unit (NFIU) for membership in the Egmont Group at the next plenary session for 2007. The assessment went well and the U [...] | 2006-11-05 16:11:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON ASEC KCRM PTER NI |
06ABUJA2917 | NIGERIA: ELECTIONS SNAPSHOTS [...] (SBU) In an attempt to convey the local environment in the lead up to 2007 elections, Post plans to submit a series of elections snapshots. More in-depth information and analysis will be reported in septels, with the snapshot format being used to convey interesting and pertinent anecdotes or f [...] | 2006-11-08 08:03:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM NI ELECTIONS |
06ABUJA3008 | NIGERIAN AVIATION ROUNDUP [...] (U) Summary. A five-member team from the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) arrived in Nigeria on November 8 to audit the country's aviation industry over a 10-day period. Nigerian President Obasanjo signed a new civil-aviation law on November 16 to improve the country's aviation [...] | 2006-11-17 12:04:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR CASC AMGT ASEC NI |
06ABUJA3069 | MACROECONOMIC SUCCESS HAS LIMITED GRASSROOTS IMPACT [...] (SBU) Summary: Nigeria's economic reform program, the National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy (NEEDS),is only two years old, but has resulted in macroeconomic stability with the climax of a Paris Club debt write off of $18 billion in 2005/2006. Nigeria's economic monitoring prog [...] | 2006-11-29 07:46:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV EPET NI |
06ABUJA3076 | NIGERIA BEGINS TO ADDRESS NEED FOR BETTER ROADS [...] (SBU) Summary. In late September 2006, the World Bank's Nigeria country director pronounced more than 50% of Nigeria's federal roads in poor condition. He said sending a 20-ton truck from Maiduguri to Lagos cost more than shipping the same cargo by sea from Lagos to Europe. This high cost of [...] | 2006-11-29 16:21:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELTN NI |
06ABUJA3083 | NIGERIAN AVIATION MINISTER ON U.S. AIR LINKS [...] (SBU) Summary: The new Minister of Aviation met with the Ambassador on November 23 and expressed a strong interest in expanding aviation links between Nigeria and the U.S. and broadening cooperation in civil aviation more generally. He thanked the U.S. for its support through the National Tran [...] | 2006-11-30 13:19:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR CASC AMGT ASEC NI |
06ABUJA3130 | ECOWAS DONORS' MEETING HIGHTLIGHTS PROGRESS [...] (U) Summary: Development partners of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) met November 20-21 in Abuja for a progress report on the organization's initiatives. While peace and security issues remain central to ECOWAS's work, transforming the ECOWAS Secretariat into a Commissio [...] | 2006-12-06 16:17:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN ETRD EINV EAID PREL NI ECOWAS |
06ABUJA441 | FEB 22 NIGERIA AVIAN FLU UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary. The GON announced Feb. 21 that AI has been confirmed in an eighth state, Gombe State. The Chief Veterinary Officer (CVO) said Nigeria has 170 surveillance sites nationwide where the disease is most likely to be encountered, and the GON has tested more than 1,200 samples of susp [...] | 2006-02-22 17:21:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KFLU EAID AMED EAGR NI |
06ABUJA448 | FEB 22 NIGERIA AVIAN FLU - UN MEETING [...] (SBU) Summary. The UN Development Program hosted in Abuja on Feb. 22 an information session on AI in Nigeria attended by international diplomatic and aid representatives. With some prompting, the Abuja UN Resident Coordinator's Office agreed to create "soon" a matrix to record international [...] | 2006-02-23 13:29:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KFLU EAID AMED EAGR NI |
06ABUJA480 | FEB 27 NIGERIA AVIAN FLU UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary. On February 26, the GON confirmed the presence of AI in two more states, Yobe and Nasarawa. Though not confirmed, it is almost certainly in Jigawa. Currently four states and the Federal Capital Territory have had samples confirmed H5N1 positive through the FAO laboratory in R [...] | 2006-02-27 17:10:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KFLU EAID AMED EAGR NI |
06ABUJA501 | FEB 28 NIGERIA AVIAN FLU UPDATE [...] (U) Summary: A donors' meeting noted progress on approving plans, procedures and guidelines in the animal, health and outreach functions, but noted continued gaps in coordination and information. Surveillance is stepping up in the South, but enforcement of movement bans is still lacking. Poul [...] | 2006-03-02 07:00:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KFLU EAID AMED EAGR NI |
06ABUJA536 | MARCH 6 NIGERIA AVIAN FLU UPDATE; H5N1 SPREADS [...] (SBU) Summary. A GON official said the HN51 virus is now present in Port Harcourt, Rivers State; Benue State, and Anambra State, as confirmed by the Vom laboratory. The agriculture minister traveled to Kano State to kick off on March 6 the government's compensation program for culled birds. [...] | 2006-03-07 06:16:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KFLU EAID AMED EAGR NI |
06ABUJA552 | MARCH 8 NIGERIA AVIAN FLU UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary. The HN51 virus is now confirmed as present in 11 Nigerian states, including Anambra and Rivers States in the south. An outbreak of AI was reported March 8 in three locations within the Federal Capital Territory. Jigawa State also is very likely to have AI, as do all of its nei [...] | 2006-03-09 06:24:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KFLU EAID AMED EAGR NI |
06ABUJA576 | MARCH 13 NIGERIA AVIAN FLU UPDATE [...] (U) Summary. The GON announced March 9 that an additional state, Ogun State, was confirmed positive for the H5 virus. An Ogun official said the state is investigating the outbreak at a commercial poultry facility in Akute-Oja, near the border between Lagos State and Ogun State. Southwestern [...] | 2006-03-13 15:50:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KFLU EAID AMED EAGR NI |
06ABUJA592 | MAR 15 NIGERIA AVIAN FLU UPDATE -- LAGOS OUTBREAK [...] (SBU) Summary. The Lagos State agriculture commissioner said on March 14 that a commercial poultry farm in Iju, Lagos State, near the border with Ogun State, reported a suspected outbreak of AI. He said the outbreak likely was H5N1. The GON's chief veterinary officer later confirmed the out [...] | 2006-03-16 06:24:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KFLU EAID AMED EAGR NI AVIANFLU |
06ABUJA596 | Avian Flu in Nigeria: The Long Haul [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite a substantial effort to respond to the Avian Influenza (AI) outbreak in Nigeria by the GON and international partners, the epidemic clearly has not been brought under control. Given the weak human- and animal- health infrastructures, and the complicated issues of federa [...] | 2006-03-16 10:52:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KFLU EAID AMED EAGR NI AVIANFLU |
06ABUJA647 | MARCH 22 NIGERIA AVIAN FLU UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary. As of March 15, reliable information, including from testing, was not available on the extent of AI in Nigeria. State veterinarians lacked vehicles and equipment, and some lacked personal protective equipment. There was no documentation on the location and numbers of small flo [...] | 2006-03-22 16:30:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KFLU EAID AMED EAGR NI |
06ABUJA651 | BOEING OFFICIAL ON NIGERIA'S LACK OF AIR SAFETY [...] (U) Ambassador and embassy officers met March 16 in Abuja with Chamsou Andjorin, the Boeing International Corporation's executive director, international relations, for West and Central Africa; and Philip de St. Aubin, Boeing's vice president, international relations, for Africa. 2. (SBU [...] | 2006-03-23 11:26:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR CASC ASEC AMGT NI |
06ABUJA656 | MARCH 23 NIGERIA AVIAN FLU UPDATE -- WHO CONCERNS [...] (SBU) Summary. The WHO's representative in Nigeria sought constructive criticism to improve UN agencies' efforts in combating AI, especially in boosting assistance to improve operational field capacity. He warned that Nigeria's anti-AI efforts "most probably" were not diagnosing human cases. [...] | 2006-03-23 15:13:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KFLU EAID AMED EAGR NI AVIANFLU |
06ABUJA658 | MARCH 23 NIGERIA AVIAN FLU UPDATE -- WORLD BANK [...] (SBU) Summary. The DCM and World Bank officials on March 22 discussed the GON's sluggishness in employing already provided foreign assistance against AI. The Bank officials said their main concerns are the need to vaccinate birds and compensate poultry farmers. The GON discussed with the Ban [...] | 2006-03-23 16:19:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KFLU EAID AMED EAGR NI AVIANFLU |
06ABUJA659 | MARCH 24 NIGERIA AVIAN FLU UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary. Ogun State and GON officials culled by March 20 more than 85,000 birds at a farm in Akute, Ogun State. Culling workers did not use personal protective equipment. Almost 3,700 birds were culled at a farm in Iju, Lagos State. A Lagos State agricultural official denied AI's pre [...] | 2006-03-24 06:00:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KFLU EAID AMED EAGR NI AVIANFLU |
06ABUJA676 | DARFUR PEACE TALKS: OBASANJO MEETS DARFUR PARTIES [...] (SBU) Summary: Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo stressed the importance of getting a peace deal soon to parties to the Darfur conflict on March 25. Obasanjo also asked the African Union mediation for a clear schedule for the negotiations and expressed his desire to weigh in on the peac [...] | 2006-03-27 11:01:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM SU NI |
06ABUJA706 | ENHANCING SECURITY MEDIATION TEAM AT DARFUR PEACE [...] (SBU) Per State 04850, USDEL asked African Union Special Envoy Dr. Salim Salim if he would welcome BG Kazura from Rwanda as part of his mediation team. Salim said yes. He hopes Kazura can arrive soon. CAMPBELL [...] | 2006-03-29 09:08:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM KPKO SOCI SU NI |
06ABUJA722 | DARFUR PEACE TALKS: AN ACCELERATING PACE [...] (SBU) Summary: USDEL is encouraging the mediation and parties to make progress on security arrangements text and has again urged African Union Special Envoy Salim to table a full package for discussion next week. Khartoum CDA Hume outlined the contents of President Bush's letter to Bashir to [...] | 2006-03-31 10:09:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM SU NI |
06ABUJA729 | DARFUR PEACE TALKS: PRONK WARNS UN TRANSITION [...] (SBU) Summary: (SBU) UN Special Representative for Sudan Jan Pronk expressed his concern that the African Union's top leadership, including Alpha Omar Konare, does not support the transition of an AU force to UN in Sudan on April 1 and 2. Pronk told USDEL and international partners that Ko [...] | 2006-04-03 10:53:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM SU NI |
06ABUJA737 | DARFUR PEACE TALKS: CEASE-FIRE TEXT AS STEPPING [...] (SBU) Summary: The African Union Mediation presented the revised cease-fire document to international partners on April 4, hoping it will become a stepping stone to the final agreement. AU Chief Mediator Sam Ibok stated that the document could build momentum for the AU to table other eleme [...] | 2006-04-05 10:35:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM SU NI |
06ABUJA772 | DARFUR PEACE TALKS: TAHA OPTIMISTIC, MEDIATION [...] (SBU) Summary: Sudanese Vice President Taha remains hopeful that a comprehensive peace deal can be reached within weeks. Taha and top SPLM leaders continue bilateral meetings with the movements in order to develop clear proposals on the way forward. Taha expressed his desire for the AU to p [...] | 2006-04-12 10:41:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM SU NI |
06ABUJA792 | SUDAN: RESPONSE TO HUMANITARIAN AND CHAD DEMARCHES [...] (SBU) Summary: Khartoum CDA Hume carried out ref A instructions on humanitarian administration concerns in Sudan with Vice President Ali Osman Taha at his Abuja hotel suite on April 15. As Hume went through each of the five demarche points, Taha listened without comment except to interject [...] | 2006-04-17 10:35:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM SU NI CD |
06ABUJA798 | DARFUR PEACE TALKS: TAHA REMAINS, AU PREPARING [...] (SBU) Summary: Sudanese Vice President Taha remains in Abuja to continue consultations with the parties. JEM is avoiding meeting Taha, but is complaining it is being left out. His delegation may be augmented with the arrival of Salah Gosh and Mutrif Sadiq. The African Union's Peace and Se [...] | 2006-04-18 10:26:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM SU NI CD |
06ABUJA856 | DARFUR PEACE TALKS: NEXT STEPS [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 19, African Union Chief Negotiator Sam Ibok discussed potential next steps for putting forward the entire peace deal with USDEL. During the same meeting, AU Special Representative Baba Gana Kingibe said that there will be a transition from AMIS to a re-hatted force i [...] | 2006-04-20 10:11:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM SU NI |
06ABUJA889 | DARFUR PEACE TALKS: FINAL SECURITY ARRANGEMENTS ON [...] (SBU) Summary: The African Union Mediation put the final security arrangements text on the negotiating table April 22, which has generated serious discussions of the future status of the movements' forces between the Government of Sudan and the rebels. AU Special Envoy Salim Salim said he w [...] | 2006-04-24 11:59:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM SU NI |
06ABUJA897 | DIPLOMATIC VISA FRAUD BY NIGERIA MFA UNCOVERED [...] SUMMARY: U.S. Customs and Border Protection began intercepting travelers at ports of entry on March 31, 2006 who had received their A or G diplomatic visas in Abuja through diplomatic notes containing fraudulent information. These notes were genuinely issued by the Nigerian Ministry of Foreign [...] | 2006-04-25 06:23:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS KFRD PREL NI |
06ABUJA900 | LOCAL VIEWS ON NIGERIA'S FITCH AND S&P RATINGS [...] (U) Summary: Some Lagos business leaders, looking at the credit ratings as a broad indicator of Nigeria's economic prospects, consider the January 31, 2006 Fitch Ratings of BB minus and the February 6, 2006 Standard and Poor's (S&P) Ratings of BB minus for long-term foreign currency and BB ra [...] | 2006-04-25 07:44:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON NI |
06ABUJA910 | DARFUR PEACE TALKS: MEDIATION PROMISES TO PRESENT [...] (SBU) Summary: USDEL facilitated meetings between Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) faction leader Minni Minnawi to clarify points of divergence between both sides on integration and border issues. The African Union Mediation Team worked into the early morning hours on April 25 to prepare the [...] | 2006-04-25 10:25:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM SU NI |
06ABUJA931 | APRIL 24 NIGERIA AVIAN FLU UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary. The GON is losing its sense of urgency on AI. The GON appears to be moving toward adopting the line that Nigeria's AI crisis is more or less over. Lack of reporting on new outbreaks, previously attributable to weak surveillance, more recently appears also to be due to deliber [...] | 2006-04-25 17:46:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KFLU EAID AMED EAGR NI AVIANFLU |
06ABUJA939 | DARFUR PEACE TALKS: AU MEDIATION PUTS [...] (SBU) Summary: The African Union Mediation team presented the draft Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) to the parties on April 25. The long-awaited comprehensive package was unveiled in a press event at which AU Special Envoy stated that the AU mediation paper constituted a "just basis" for a neg [...] | 2006-04-26 11:15:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM SU NI |
06ABUJA975 | DARFUR PEACE TALKS: AU EXTENDS NEGOTIATIONS BY 48 [...] (SBU) Summary: African Union Special Envoy Dr. Salim Salim extended the deadline for the Darfur negotiations by 48 hours at the request of USDEL, other international partners, and the parties. Salim announced his decision in a late night plenary and urged all the parties to take full advant [...] | 2006-05-01 09:37:00 | Embassy Abuja | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM SU NI |
06ACCRA1013 | GHANAIAN NGO HOSTS TOGOLESE AND IVORIAN PARTY TALKS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In two separate events, Ghana's Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) hosted conferences with Togolese and Ivoirian political parties in Accra to discuss creative listening and conflict management skills. The IEA expects to host a second conference for Togolese parties in May. [...] | 2006-05-03 07:45:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV GH CI TO |
06ACCRA1072 | Ghana's Dagbon Conflict Moving Toward Peace [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Four years after his murder, the late king of the Dagbon traditional area in northeastern Ghana, Ya Na Yakubu Andani II, was buried in Yendi on April 10. This brought to an end a prolonged stalemate between the Andani "gate" (line of succession) and its rival Abudus over the c [...] | 2006-05-09 07:24:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM GH |
06ACCRA1141 | SCENESETTER FOR VISIT TO GHANA OF GENERAL JONES [...] (SBU) Ghana is democratic, market-oriented, pro-American, and has one of the best human rights records in Africa. President John Kufuor is in his second term. Ghana is on the UN Security Council and the IAEA Board of Governors this year. As the first sub-Saharan country to achieve independen [...] | 2006-05-16 16:57:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON GH MARR MCAP PGOV PREL |
06ACCRA1160 | LAW ENFORCEMENT ASSISTANCE TO GHANA: IMPROVING [...] (SBU) Summary: The UK High Commission recently chaired a donors, meeting on law enforcement assistance to Ghana. The U.S. and the U.K. are the only significant donors on law enforcement issues. The U.K. is focusing on narcotics trafficking, financial fraud, document fraud, basic police tr [...] | 2006-05-19 09:48:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC EAID GH PGOV PHUM PREL SNAR |
06ACCRA1236 | GHANA ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS MAY 2006 [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-31 13:19:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EAID ETRD EAIR EMIN GH |
06ACCRA1357 | ADDRESSING THE IRAN ISSUE AT THE JUNE 12-16 IAEA [...] (SBU) Charge made Ref A points with FMA Chief Director Ellen Serwaa Nee-Whang on June 9. Nee-Whang said the GoG had consistently supported the use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes only and that it would back the role of the IAEA to verify that Iran's nuclear program was peaceful. Nee-W [...] | 2006-06-14 07:29:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IAEA PREL KNNP AORC UNSC GH |
06ACCRA1409 | GHANA CIVIL AVIATION WRAP UP -- JUNE 2006 [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-20 15:13:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAIR GH |
06ACCRA1688 | SOME TOGOLESE REFUGEES REPATRIATING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A recent UNHCR registration revealed that the overall count of Togolese refugees who fled into Ghana's Volta Region in 2005 has decreased from 11,900 to 6,578. Refugees remain queasy about repatriating, despite evidence that several thousand have quietly done so already without [...] | 2006-07-24 08:44:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PHUM TO BN GH |
06ACCRA1796 | KRISAN CAMP SHOWING SIGNS OF IMPROVEMENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Morale at Krisan Refugee Camp has improved considerably since the previous Embassy visit eight months ago. While refugees exhibited renewed confidence in UNHCR and have apparently repudiated the camp's violent past, some problems with sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV),l [...] | 2006-08-03 14:23:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PHUM GH |
06ACCRA1855 | ILLEGAL SMALL ARMS IN GHANA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ghana has an estimated 150,000 illegal arms. Most are crude locally made guns, but there is an unknown quantity of arms trafficking from elsewhere in West Africa. Ghana,s Small Arms Commission has worked with the UNDP and civil society on the issue since 2003 through the Ghana [...] | 2006-08-14 12:11:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL PGOV PHUM KCRM MOPS ASEC GH |
06ACCRA217 | SCENESETTER FOR ADMIRAL ULRICHT,S VISIT TO GHANA, [...] (SBU) Introduction/Summary: Ghana is a democratic, market-oriented, pro-American country in a region marked by conflict and authoritarian rule. It has one of the best human rights records in Africa and has made significant efforts to combat trafficking in persons. President John Kufuor just [...] | 2006-01-26 14:33:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON EFIN ELAB GH MAS PGOV PREL |
06ACCRA2181 | Western Region - Energy, HIV and Illegal Mining Top List of [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-18 17:20:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON GH |
06ACCRA2250 | TWO NEW POLITICAL PARTIES IN GHANA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Two new political parties emerged in Ghana in August, bringing the total number of parties in Ghana to eleven. The United Renaissance Party (URP),led by Kofi Wayo, is an NPP spin-off. The Democratic Freedom Party (DFP),formed by Obed Asamoah, is composed of disaffected former [...] | 2006-09-25 12:21:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV GH |
06ACCRA2321 | Textile and Apparel Sector: Statistics and Projection of [...] No summary [...] | 2006-10-02 15:21:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ETRD KTEX GH |
06ACCRA248 | REFUGEES IN GHANA: STRENGTHENING UNHCR AND GOG [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a January 23 meeting with Embassy officers, UNHCR Representative Luc Stevens welcomed USG support for his various refugee programs in 2006 and accepted our encouragement to work more closely with the GOG. Beyond money and staffing, his primary concern was the GOG wild card: [...] | 2006-01-30 14:38:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | GH LI PREF PREL TO |
06ACCRA2623 | NATIONAL IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered talking points per Ref A on October 27 to the MFA's Supervising Director for Multilateral, Passport and Legal Affairs, Kwesi Quartey. Quartey noted that Ghana was totally committed to preventing chemical weapons from reaching the wrong hands. Its failure to pass implem [...] | 2006-10-31 16:04:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL CWC OPCW CBW AF BWC GH |
06ACCRA2624 | OPPOSING ANTI-ISRAELI BIAS WITHIN THE UNGA [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered talking points per reftel on October 27 to the MFA's Supervising Director for Multilateral, Passport and Legal Affairs, Kwesi Quartey. Quartey noted that Ghana has traditionally voted in favor of self-determination for the Palestinian people and said he was not aware of [...] | 2006-10-31 16:05:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNGA IS GH |
06ACCRA2630 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH DUTCH AMBASSADOR [...] (SBU) Newly arriving Dutch Ambassador Alida ("Lidi") Remmelzwaal paid a courtesy call on Ambassador Pamela Bridgewater on October 30; the DCM and Poloff also attended. Remmelzwaal shared her government's concerns over transparency and economic development in Ghana. Ambassador Bridgewater pro [...] | 2006-11-01 16:51:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PINR GH |
06ACCRA2662 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH KUMASI REGIONAL MINISTER [...] (U) SUMMARY: Ashanti Regional Minister Emmanuel Owusu- Ansah told the Ambassador during an October 25 meeting that he is committed to a secure and drug-free Ashanti region. Ansah requested Embassy assistance in training community policemen to deter petty crime and in setting up an export prog [...] | 2006-11-06 07:22:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SNAR GH |
06ACCRA2674 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH HEAD OF NEW DEMOCRATIC [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Obed Asamoah engaged Ambassador in a robust discussion on economic development, his vision for the new political party he founded, health, and education. Asamoah shared our concerns over the escalating war of words between President Kufuor and former head of state Rawlings, ass [...] | 2006-11-06 16:23:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV GH |
06ACCRA2808 | SCENESETTER FOR VISIT TO GHANA OF HUD SECRETARY [...] (SBU) Ghana is a democratic, market-oriented, pro-American country in a region marked by conflict and authoritarian rule. In 2007, Ghana will celebrate 50 years of independence. President John Kufuor is nearly two years into his second four-year term, which has so far been marked by solid ec [...] | 2006-11-22 16:19:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON GH OTRA PGOV PREL |
06ACCRA2842 | GHANA: DEMARCHE ON INT,L MARITIME ORGANIZATION,S [...] EconOff delivered reftel demarche to two representatives of the Ghana Maritime Authority scheduled to attend the IMO Maritime Safety Committee meeting in Istanbul: Mrs. Bernadette Esa Chinery-Hesse, Board Secretary; and Captain E.B. Komeng, Maritime Security Coordinator. Both were highly supp [...] | 2006-11-28 10:14:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ANET AORC ECPS EU EWWT GH IMO INMARSAT KTIA |
06ACCRA2876 | RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR ON RELATIONS WITH GHANA [...] (SBU) On November 21, Russia's newly arrived Ambassador to Ghana, Andrey Pokrovskiy, paid a courtesy call on Ambassador Bridgewater. Porkrovskiy noted that Russia is politically active in Ghana and is trying to reengage in Africa generally. He was disappointed that Ghana was not realizing [...] | 2006-11-30 12:29:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | GH PGOV PREL RS |
06ACCRA2954 | GHANA: PRECIOUS MINERALS MARKETING COMPANY OUTLINES [...] (U) SUMMARY: EconChief and EconOff met with Acting Managing Director Aristotle Kotey and Deputy Managing Director (Operations) George Asante of the Precious Minerals Marketing Company Ltd. (PMMC) on December 6, 2006, to discuss the actions Ghana has taken to ensure compliance with the minimum r [...] | 2006-12-11 17:25:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EMIN ECON EFIN AO GH |
06ACCRA3025 | Ghana: 2007 Budget Highlights [...] (U) Summary. The Government of Ghana (GoG) released its 2007 budget on November 16, 2006. The 2007 Budget outlines a target growth rate of at least 6.5 percent, single digit inflation, accumulation of internatioal reserves of at least 3 months import cover, ad an overall budget deficit of 3. [...] | 2006-12-22 12:41:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN GH |
06ACCRA3057 | BELGIAN AMBASSADOR ON GHANA AND COTE D'IVOIRE [...] (U) On December 21, Belgium's Ambassador to Ghana (based in Cote d'Ivoire) Dirk Verheyen paid a courtesy call on CDA Brown. He noted that Belgium's Embassy in Ghana was burned down 45 years ago in a local reaction to the murder of Congo's Patrice Lumumba. Belgium has never rebuilt the Emba [...] | 2006-12-29 08:45:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BE CI EMIN GH PREL |
06ACCRA345 | GHANA'S PRESIDENT KUFUOR DELIVERS STATE OF NATION [...] Summary: President Kufuor's January 31 State of the National address reemphasized his government's commitment to human resource development, private sector development and good governance. It highlighted the GOG's macroeconomic successes while pressing for passage of the Representation of the [...] | 2006-02-08 12:44:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON GH PGOV PREL SOCI |
06ACCRA414 | AMBASSADOR SHARES TIP CONCERNS WITH MINISTER [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 1, the Ambassador called on Minister of Women and Children (MOWAC)'s Affairs Hajia Alima Mahama, and emphasized that credible implementation of the Human Trafficking Act signed by President Kufuor in December 2005 will play a significant role in determining whether G [...] | 2006-02-15 11:42:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | GH PGOV PREL |
06ACCRA418 | DEMACHE DELIVERED: U.S. CANDIDATE FOR ICAO [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador Bridgewater discussed Mr. Voss's candidacy with Secretary of the President, Ambassador D.K. Osei during a meeting February 8 and mentioned again it to President Kufuor after the meeting. FAA Regional Rep and EconOff delivered reftel demarche to Ghana Civil Aviation [...] | 2006-02-15 15:22:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAIR CM GH MZ NI SF ICAO |
06ACCRA439 | SCENESETTER FOR VISIT TO GHANA OF CODEL PELOSI [...] (SBU) Ghana is a democratic, market-oriented, pro-American country in a region marked by conflict and authoritarian rule. It has one of the best human rights records in Africa and has made significant efforts to combat trafficking in persons. President John Kufuor just completed the first yea [...] | 2006-02-17 14:51:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMGT ECON GH OREP OTRA PGOV PREL |
06ACCRA472 | GHANA PASSES PEOPLE'S REPRESENTATION BILL, [...] (U) Summary: On February 23, Ghana's parliament passed the Representation of the People (Amendment) Bill, giving Ghanaians residing abroad the right to vote. The President has 21 days to sign the bill into law. Passage came two days after a major opposition demonstration in Accra turned u [...] | 2006-02-26 08:39:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC GH PGOV PHUM |
06ACCRA518 | GHANA'S 2006 TRAFFICKING-IN-PERSONS REPORT [...] (SBU) As requested ref A, post submits this cable as input for the sixth annual Trafficking in Persons Report. Ghana has problems with both domestic and international human trafficking. The GOG, international and local NGOs have combined efforts to focus on combating domestic trafficking in chi [...] | 2006-03-02 13:57:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB GH |
06ACCRA523 | AMBASSADOR TRAVELS TO VOLTA REGION: REFUGEES, POVERTY AND [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 15-16, Ambassador traveled to Ghana's Volta Region to meet the Regional Minister, make a donation to a USAID-funded school literacy program, highlight USG research on Leishmaniasis, and discuss refugee, Amcit and political issues with local contacts. The Volta Region [...] | 2006-03-02 14:47:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON GH PGOV PREF PREL SOCI |
06ACCRA547 | EMBASSY ENGAGES ON LIBERIAN REFUGEE REPATRIATION [...] (U) Summary: In a February 14 meeting with Liberian Ambassador to Ghana von Ballmoos, Ambassador expressed USG support for the new GOL and for repatriation of Liberian refugees. Ref Coord echoed these themes in a speech to graduates of a skills training program at Budumburam Refugee Camp. [...] | 2006-03-08 14:34:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PREL GH LI |
06ACCRA566 | GHANA PROMISES SUPPORT FOR GUATEMALA,S UNSC [...] (U) The Ambassador spoke with Ghanaian Foreign Minister Nana Akufo-Addo March 8 and raised ref A points regarding support for Guatemala,s candidacy as Latin America,s next non-permanent member of the UNSC. Akufo-Addo quickly stated that the GOG would support Guatemala and asked when the vot [...] | 2006-03-10 09:11:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | GH GT KPKO PREL SU VE NATO UNSC UN |
06ACCRA643 | AMBASSADOR HOSTS GHANA'S NPP AND NDC: BEGINNING [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador recently hosted lunches for the leadership of each of Ghana's major political parties, the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the ruling New Patriotic People's Party (NPP). The NDC views the NPP as intolerant and opposed the GOG passage of a law to [...] | 2006-03-22 07:13:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | GH PGOV PREL |
06ACCRA66 | DEMARCHE ON AMIS RE-HAT: GHANA [...] (SBU) On January 5, PolOff met with Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director of African Union Affairs Kwabena Baah-Doudu to urge the Government of Ghana to press the AU to request that the UN begin planning to re-hat the African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) in 2006, per reftel. 2. (SBU) Baah-D [...] | 2006-01-09 16:24:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPKO PGOV PHUM PINS PREL SU |
06ACCRA681 | AMBASSADOR MEETS LEADER OF GHANA'S PEOPLE'S [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 13, Ambassador paid a courtesy call on Dr. Edward Mahama, leader of the People's National Congress (PNC) party, Ghana's third largest party. Mahama was concerned about increasing confrontation in Ghanaian politics aggravated by passage of the Representation of the [...] | 2006-03-23 16:39:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | GH PGOV PREL |
06ACCRA839 | AMBASSADOR EMPHASIZES US-GHANAIAN PARTNERSHIPS [...] (U) SUMMARY: On March 26-29, Ambassador traveled to Ghana's Western Region to meet the Regional Minister, visit USAID-funded projects, observe Peace Corp programs, highlight USG and GOG maritime partnerships, and discuss refugee, Amcit, economic, and political issues with local contacts. Th [...] | 2006-04-11 15:05:00 | Embassy Accra | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PREF KPAO GH |
06ADANA10 | HUMAN RIGHTS PROTEST IN ADANA [...] (U) The Adana Chapter of Turkey's Human Rights Association lead a protest at the US Consuate in Adana on Friday, January 20, 2006 at 12:15 pm. There were aproximately 40 attendees and the protest lasted twenty minutes. A representative made a statement protesting the conditions of the prison [...] | 2006-01-23 06:51:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PREL TU ADANA |
06ADANA112 | TURKEY: FORMER PRESIDENT SULEYMAN DEMIRAL STUMPS IN ADANA [...] (SBU) In a May 16 keynote speech to kick off his stump around the region, center-right octogenarian former President Suleyman Demirel sung the praises of the Turkish secular state. Speaking for over one hour at Cukurova University before an audience of more than 500 people (approximately 25 pe [...] | 2006-05-18 09:14:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM CASC PREL TU |
06ADANA128 | TURKEY: SOUTHEAST'S TEXTILE INDUSTRY CONTINUES TO STRUGGLE [...] (SBU) Summary: Turkey's textile industry continues to face difficulties in dealing with rapidly growing global competition, particularly from China and India. Textile industry leaders in Kahramanmaras, Gaziantep and Adana recently told us that the textile industry in Turkey's southeast continu [...] | 2006-05-30 12:46:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON PREL TU SY IZ |
06ADANA142 | TURKEY: IRAQI INTERNATIONAL FAIR IN GAZIANTEP [...] (U) Summary: The first Iraqi International Fair was held in Gaziantep on June 7-11, with the goal of increasing economic and trade relations between Turkey and Iraq, as well as among other countries in the region. With high-level business and government participation from Turkey, Iraq and othe [...] | 2006-06-15 11:09:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON PREL PHUM CASC TU SY IZ |
06ADANA145 | TURKEY: OPPOSITION IN ADANA HOPING FOR EARLY ELECTION [...] (SBU) Summary: In Adana, Turkey's fourth largest city, local opposition leaders are pushing for an early national election to prevent the Justice and Development Party (AKP)-controlled parliament from choosing the next Turkish President. To do so, they hope to stoke fears of an "Islamic threa [...] | 2006-06-19 10:54:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM CASC TU |
06ADANA155 | TURKEY: CORRUPTION INVESTIGATION AT HABUR GATE SLOWS FUEL [...] (U) On June 28 the flow of fuel trucks across Habur Border Gate was drastically reduced in both directions for nearly one day as a result of the arrest of 30 officials at the gate, allegedly for irregular handling of petroleum products. The press reported that the Silopi Prosecutor stopped tra [...] | 2006-06-30 05:44:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON CASC TU |
06ADANA216 | WOMEN'S NGO IN SE TURKEY CHANGING ATTITUDES ABOUT "HONOR" [...] (SBU) A women's non-governmental organization - KA-MER - has established centers throughout SE Turkey and is making impressive inroads against the practice of families killing women who have damaged their "honor." Although social attitudes remain regressive on this topic, KA-MER is influencin [...] | 2006-10-11 05:43:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM TU |
06ADANA244 | GAZIANTEP: TURKEY'S SOUTHEASTERN ENGINE KEEPS CHUGGING; [...] The Southeastern Turkish city of Gaziantep is the region's model child for economic development, with a diverse, internationally competitive industrial base. Locals attribute the success to an entrepreneurial tradition, a light touch by government as well as above-average levels of smuggling [...] | 2006-11-20 14:02:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON PREL TU CH |
06ADANA254 | TURKEY'S SOUTHEASTERN ENGINE KEEPS CHUGGING; NEIGHBORING [...] (SBU) The Southeastern Turkish city of Gaziantep is the region's model child for economic development, with a diverse, internationally competitive industrial base. Locals attribute the success to an entrepreneurial tradition, a light touch by government as well as above-average levels of smu [...] | 2006-12-06 08:12:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON PTEL TU CH |
06ADANA255 | TURKEY'S "HOUSTON"?: ADANA WANTS BTC PIPELINE TO ATTRACT [...] (U) With the BTC terminal as an anchor, the Turkish government wants its eastern Mediterranean coast-line to develop into an energy-based hub that will include ship-building, petro-chemicals and oil refining. While hype about Ceyhan becoming Turkey's "Houston" or "Rotterdam" is overblown, if [...] | 2006-12-08 07:05:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG TU |
06ADANA27 | CHRISTIANS FACE STRONG INTOLERANCE IN ADANA [...] (SBU) Summary: Adana Christians are disturbed by the recent beating of a local Christian man, but do not consider the incident out of the ordinary for Christians in the Turkey's eastern Mediterranean (Adana, Mersin, Gaziantep) region. Police behavior toward Christians in Adana has improved i [...] | 2006-02-08 09:34:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM ASEC |
06ADANA28 | US AVIAN INFLUENZA TEAM VISITS VAN IN EASTERN TURKEY [...] (SBU) Summary: The U.S. interagency Avian Influenza (AI) team traveled to Van, Turkey on January 22 for talks with local officials. The team met with the Acting Governor and the Deputy Governor, who heads up the province's interagency AI crisis management center. The team then split into two [...] | 2006-02-08 11:08:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU PGOV TU ADANA |
06ADANA29 | ADANA AKP CHAIRMAN ENGAGES CONSTRUCTIVELY ON SENSITIVE [...] (SBU) Summary: Adana AKP Chairman Abdullah Dogru constructively engaged us on a number of sensitive issues in Turkey-US relations. He was confident that the AKP would remain in power in the upcoming elections and would find a lasting solution to the Kurdish issue within the next five years. D [...] | 2006-02-09 09:26:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL TU ADANA |
06ADANA33 | TURKEY - SE TURKEY UNSETTLED BY LARGE PEACEFUL PROTESTS OF [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-14 11:12:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL TU ADANA |
06ADANA40 | TURKEY: PROTESTS MARK ANNIVERSARY OF OCALAN CAPTURE [...] (SBU) Summary: As in past years, protest activities marking the anniversary of the February 15, 1999 capture in Kenya of PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan and his subsequent transport to Turkey by Turkish authorities, occurred throughout southeast Turkey. This year's protests lasted one week, instea [...] | 2006-02-22 12:27:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER TU ADANA |
06ADANA42 | TURKEY: SOME ENTREPRENEURSHIP EMERGING IN EASTERN MED ZONE [...] (SBU) Summary: The adaptability of the business community along Turkey's eastern Mediterranean coast to new opportunities created by the changes and growth in Turkey's economy contrasts with the rest of the region's traditional agricultural and industrial communities. These coastal businesses [...] | 2006-02-23 10:21:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN TU ADANA |
06ADANA49 | TURKEY: AMBASSADOR WILSON VISITS GAZIANTEP AND ADANA IN SE [...] (SBU) During a March 5-8 trip to Gaziantep and Adana, Ambassador Wilson met with local government leaders, business groups, academics, journalists, civic leaders, as well as U.S. Air Force personnel at Incirilik Air Base. He also participated in numerous outreach activities, including a visit [...] | 2006-03-15 06:09:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON TU ADANA |
06ADANA56 | TURKEY: PRIVATE BROADCASTERS BEGIN KURDISH LANGUAGE [...] (SBU) Summary: Three private, local stations began Kurdish-language broadcasts in Turkey's southeast on March 23. The landmark broadcasts mark the end of nearly four years of obstructionism by GOT broadcasting authorities. Though strapped with severe restrictions on air time and Turkish-langu [...] | 2006-03-24 14:28:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL TU ADANA |
06ADANA57 | TURKEY: NEWROS CELEBRATIONS QUIET IN SE TURKEY [...] (SBU) Participation in this year's March 23 Newroz celebrations was generally lower than in past years throughout Turkey's southeast. The celebrations were generally peaceful with comparatively few instances of violence reported. Our contacts in the region, as well as media reports, said that [...] | 2006-03-24 15:24:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL TU ADANA |
06ADANA60 | TURKEY: VIOLENT CIVIL UNREST IN SE AT HIGHEST LEVEL IN [...] (U) Summary: March 28 funeral ceremonies for PKK killed by security forces turned violent around southeastern Turkey, including in Diyarbakir, Adana, Batman and Siirt, when large crowds, waving PKK flags and shouting pro-Ocalan slogans, confronted security forces with Molotov cocktails and sto [...] | 2006-03-29 13:52:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM TU ADANA |
06ADANA62 | TURKEY: NEWROS CELEBRATIONS QUIET IN SE TURKEY [...] (SBU) Participation in this year's March 23 Newroz celebrations was generally lower than in past years throughout Turkey's southeast. The celebrations were generally peaceful with comparatively few instances of violence reported. Our contacts in the region, as well as media reports, said that [...] | 2006-03-30 06:38:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL TU |
06ADANA64 | TURKEY: UNEASY CALM SHATTERED ON THE THIRD DAY OF FUNERAL [...] (SBU) Summary: A temporary, uneasy calm was shattered at approximately 3:30 p.m. local time on March 30 when renewed violence erupted between funeral mourners and security forces in Diyarbakir (reftel). Diyarbakir Mayor Osman Baydemir had earlier called on both sides to cease the violence. L [...] | 2006-03-30 16:34:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM CASC TU |
06ADANA66 | TURKEY: DIYARBAKIR MAYOR OSMAN BAYDEMIR'S MARCH 30 [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-31 14:44:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM CASC TU |
06ADANA67 | TURKEY: CIVIL UNREST CONTINUES IN SOUTHEAST [...] (SBU) Summary: A tense mood continued to prevail in Diyarbakir on March 31, the fourth day of violent civil unrest sparked by anger over the recent deaths of PKK guerrillas. With the March 31 police shooting death of yet another victim, a young child in Batman, the death toll across the southe [...] | 2006-03-31 16:09:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM CASC TU |
06ADANA68 | TURKEY: TENSIONS REMAIN HIGH WHILE UNREST SPREADS THROUGHOUT [...] (SBU) Summary: Violent civil unrest abated in Diyarbakir and Batman over the April 1-2 weekend, but picked up elsewhere in southeast Turkey. The press reported that demonstrators in Kiziltepe set fire to the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) provincial offices and two banks, while po [...] | 2006-04-03 13:47:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM CASC TU |
06ADANA69 | POLICE SHOOTING OUTSIDE US CONSULATE ADANA [...] (SBU) On Sunday, April 2, 2006 at 10:40 am an altercation occurred between a TNP police member on duty at the US Consulate in Adana and his Supervisor. The Supervisor has been working at the Consulate for approximately four years and the other policeman only six weeks. The two policemen have [...] | 2006-04-04 09:39:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC TU |
06ADANA72 | TURKEY: VIOLENCE SUBSIDES BUT UNREST AND TENSIONS SPREAD [...] (SBU) Civil unrest in Turkey's southeast (reftels) has subsided, though problems continue throughout the region. While no new deaths were reported on April 4, security forces continue to detain and arrest protestors, and tensions remain high in many southeast towns that have been affected over [...] | 2006-04-04 13:59:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM CASC TU |
06ADANA76 | TURKEY: GAZIANTEP AS LIKLEY TERROR FINANCE CENTER [...] (SBU) Summary: Legitimate businesses in Gaziantep are used to launder money obtained through drug and fuel smuggling taking place in Turkey's southeast. Gaziantep's role as a logistics and finance center for PKK activities serves to protect the city itself from becoming host to, or victim of, [...] | 2006-04-10 13:38:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON PREL PHUM TU IZ SY |
06ADANA77 | TURKEY: GAZIANTEP AS LIKELY TERROR FINANCE CENTER [...] (SBU) Summary: Legitimate businesses in Gaziantep are used to launder money obtained through drug and fuel smuggling taking place in Turkey's southeast. Gaziantep's role as a logistics and finance center for PKK activities serves to protect the city itself from becoming host to, or victim of, [...] | 2006-04-12 05:49:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON PREL PHUM TU IZ SY |
06ADANA82 | TURKEY: PKK-RELATED VIOLENCE IN THE SE , AND ALLEGATIONS OF [...] (SBU) Summary: PKK-related violence continues throughout Turkey's southeast. Meanwhile, though civil unrest in cities throughout the southeast has abated, tensions remain high amid allegations of torture by security forces. End Summary PKK-related Violence Picks Up ---------------------- [...] | 2006-04-13 13:23:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM CASC TU |
06ADANA93 | SOUTHEAST TURKEY: MINORS INDICTED, KURDISH LANGUAGE UNDER [...] (SBU) Our contact at the Diyarbakir Bar Association told us that 5 of the 57 minors remaining in custody after the recent civil unrest in Diyarbakir (reftel) were released on April 25, leaving 52 minors in prison. According to the press, the Children's Branch of the Prosecutor's office has pr [...] | 2006-04-27 14:24:00 | Consulate Adana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM CASC TU |
06ADDISABABA1003 | DPKO ASG ANNABI MAKES TRANSITION PROGRESS WITH AU [...] (SBU) Summary: The UN is cautiously optimistic that planning for transition of the African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) to a UN mission is on better footing following consultations with AU Peace and Security Commissioner Amb. Said Djinnit and his team, UN ASG for Peacekeeping Operations Hedi [...] | 2006-04-14 13:46:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPKO SU AU |
06ADDISABABA1005 | DARFUR: AU CONTINUES TO SUPPORT TRANSITION [...] (SBU) Summary/action request: Addis-based Darfur Liaison Group (LG) heads of mission met April 14 with African Union (AU) Peace and Security Commissioner Amb. Said Djinnit to discuss the AU's draft roadmap for implementation of the March 10 Peace and Security Council (PSC) decision on Darfur [...] | 2006-04-14 14:07:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPKO EAID SU AU |
06ADDISABABA115 | AU SUMMIT KHARTOUM SCENESETTER [...] (SBU) Summary: The January 23-24 African Union (AU) Summit in Khartoum will focus on the AU's efforts to make the organization more relevant for Africa, while retaining international credibility. The Summit will spotlight education, social and cultural issues, though the AU Commission's mod [...] | 2006-01-11 17:05:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SU AU |
06ADDISABABA1231 | SLOW START TO ETHIOPIAN OPPOSITION TRIAL [...] (U) SUMMARY: What was anticipated to be the opening of full-fledged evidentiary proceedings against CUD chairman Hailu Shawel and more than 100 other opposition supporters detained since November 2005 was not. Rather, prosecutors submitted, and the Court accepted, the amended charge of "attem [...] | 2006-05-04 14:07:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KDEM KJUS ET |
06ADDISABABA1336 | SUDAN-AU PSC DEMARCHE: PSC WILL LIKELY NOT ADDRESS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The African Union Commission anticipates that the upcoming May 15 AU Peace and Security Council meeting will address the implementation of the previous March PSC on AMIS transition, but will not discuss a new CONOPs for AMIS. Separately, Gabon notes that it only learned of the [...] | 2006-05-12 16:34:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SU KPKO AU |
06ADDISABABA1359 | LOOKING AHEAD ON THE U.S.- AFRICAN UNION [...] (SBU) Note from Charge Vicki Huddleston: This "think piece" on the African Union (AU) was drafted by political officer Cate McGeary whose brilliant coverage of the AU over the past two years has kept pace with the rapid changes in the institution and in our relations with it. Her voluminous, [...] | 2006-05-16 07:47:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPKO EAID PGOV AU |
06ADDISABABA140 | DARFUR: AU PSC ACCEPTS TRANSITION OF AMIS TO THE [...] (SBU) Summary: On January 12, the African Union (AU) Peace and Security Council (PSC) extended the mandate of the AU Mission in Darfur, Sudan (AMIS) until March 31, 2006 and accepted "in principle" the transition of AMIS to a UN operation. The PSC will meet again in Addis at the foreign mini [...] | 2006-01-17 12:12:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPKO MARR SU AU |
06ADDISABABA1400 | ETHIOPIA: PRIME MINISTER AND BILATERAL DONORS [...] SUMMARY: After nearly four months of donor requests for a high-level meeting on democratic governance, Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, senior ministers, and advisors met with the Charge, other donor Ambassadors, and heads of cooperation on May 8 to launch a dialogue on governance with [...] | 2006-05-19 09:36:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EAID PREL PHUM ET |
06ADDISABABA1402 | TRIAL OF ETHIOPIAN OPPOSITION BEGINS WITH VIDEOS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Six months after arrest, federal prosecutors began presenting the High Court with evidence it said would substantiate capital charges ranging from treason and attempted genocide against CUD chairman Hailu Shawel and other opposition members, independent journalists, and civil s [...] | 2006-05-19 15:00:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KDEM KJUS ET |
06ADDISABABA143 | COMMISSION INVESTIGATING ETHIOPIAN ELECTORAL [...] (U) SUMMARY. The 11-member commission of inquiry established by Parliament to investigate anti-government demonstrations that occurred in June and November 2005 has yet to formally meet, but is scheduled to deliver its report in March. According to its chairman, Frehiwot Samuel, a career jud [...] | 2006-01-17 14:08:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINR KJUS KDEM ET |
06ADDISABABA1499 | ETHIOPIA: OPPOSITION DIALOGUE WITH EPRDF PROVIDES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The political dialogue between the ruling EPRDF and opposition parties UEDF and OFDM yielded its first fruit on May 22: a joint public declaration on respect for the constitution and renewed space for peaceful political activity. The government, UEDF and OFDM also agreed on a [...] | 2006-05-30 15:56:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL ET |
06ADDISABABA1568 | UNSC MISSION REPORTS TO AU THAT SUDAN HAS NOT [...] (SBU). SUMMARY. On June 7, the visiting UN Security Council delegation visiting Addis Ababa, Chad, and Sudan, briefed representatives of the 15-member African Union Peace and Security Council (AU PSC) and AU partners (i.e., non-member states) on its June 6 meetings in Khartoum with Sudanese P [...] | 2006-06-09 07:11:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MOPS KPKO SU AU UN |
06ADDISABABA1581 | AFRICAN UNION CHAIRPERSON FORMALLY REQUESTS NATO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. AU Commission Chairperson Konare has formally requested NATO assistance for AMIS in a June 2 letter to NATO Secretary-General Scheffer, but confines the scope of such assistance to manning a handful of advisory positions in AMIS's Forward Joint Mission Headquarters and providin [...] | 2006-06-09 16:23:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPKO MOPS NATO PREL SU AU UN |
06ADDISABABA1615 | DARFUR: JEM SEEKS FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO REFORM, [...] (SBU) Summary. Two members of the Sudanese Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) told poloff June 12 that their organization sought to join the peace process under the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) but urgently needed funds to hold a general congress in order to elect new leadership. End Summary [...] | 2006-06-13 12:55:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPKO MOPS PREL SU AU UN |
06ADDISABABA1647 | IGAD AMBASSADORS IN ETHIOPIA DISCUSS SOMALIA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At a meeting of ambassadors from IGAD member states and donor partners June 15, the Ambassador of the Somalia TFG to Ethiopia, Abdil Karim Farah, told those assembled that the armed units of the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) were advancing toward both Belet Dweyne and Baidoa. He s [...] | 2006-06-15 17:03:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IGAD PTER ASEC MARR KPKO AU SO ET |
06ADDISABABA1655 | SUDAN/DARFUR: SECURITY ASSISTANCE FOR THE DARFUR [...] (U) Per reftel, Post has actively engaged African Union officials and Partner representatives on the U.S. initiatives to support the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA). 2. (U) DPA VERIFICATION: -- Prior to the June 9 departure of the joint UN-AU technical assistance mission (TAM) to Sudan, Charge [...] | 2006-06-16 16:28:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPKO MOPS PREL SU NATO AU |
06ADDISABABA1691 | CORRECTED COPY -- IGAD AMBASSADORS IN ETHIOPIA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At a meeting of ambassadors from IGAD member states and donor partners June 15, the Ambassador of the Somalia TFG to Ethiopia, Abdil Karim Farah, told those assembled that the armed units of the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) were advancing toward both Belet Dweyne and Baidoa. He s [...] | 2006-06-20 13:41:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IGAD PTER ASEC MARR KPKO AU SO ET |
06ADDISABABA1709 | AU COMMISSION CHAIRPERSON PREVIEWS AU SUMMIT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Streamlining duplication among Africa?s numerous regional economic communities (e.g., SADC, COMESA, IGAD, EAC, WAEMU, CEMAC, ECOWAS, etc.) and establishing a ?United States of Africa? are among the nominal themes of the upcoming African Union Summit to be held in Banjul. More l [...] | 2006-06-22 04:39:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM SOCI AU SU XA |
06ADDISABABA1736 | AU AGREES WITH PARTNER NOMINATIONS TO STAFF FJMHQ [...] Summary. The African Union (AU) notified its partners via note verbale June 22 that it had no objections to the partners providing all six personnel requested as advisors to the AMIS Joint Forward Headquarters in El Fasher. Furthermore, the AU had no objections to the partners' nominations f [...] | 2006-06-24 12:56:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPKO MOPS NATO PREL SU AU UN |
06ADDISABABA1741 | A/S FRAZER TALKS SOMALIA AND DARFUR WITH IGAD [...] (SBU) Summary. A/S Frazer met June 23 with Ethiopia-based representatives of Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) member states. The Kenyan and Somali Ambassadors argued that membership in the International Somalia Contact Group (SCG) should have been cast a bit wider to include [...] | 2006-06-26 07:29:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPKO AU UN SU SO ET |
06ADDISABABA1745 | SUDAN - AU REJECTS SUPPORT TO JEM SPLINTER GROUP [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Dissident representatives of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM),a non-signatory to the May 5 Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA),seek USD 200,000 to hold a party congress in Addis Ababa to replace JEM leader Khalil Ibrahim Muhammed. While the JEM representatives have approache [...] | 2006-06-26 10:22:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PINS SU AU KPKO |
06ADDISABABA1788 | ETHIOPIA: VIDEO PHASE OF CUD TRIAL CONCLUDES [...] (U) SUMMARY: The prosecution wrapped up the video phase of evidence in its case against detained opposition Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD) leaders, independent journalists and civil society representatives on June 26. The final four videos had nothing more damning than those videos pr [...] | 2006-06-30 21:50:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL PGOV ET |
06ADDISABABA1902 | BEREKET SAYS HR 4423 COULD HURT BILATERAL RELATIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Bereket Simon, public relations advisor to Ethiopia's Prime Minister with rank of Minister, told PAO that CUDP leaders' request to arrange a meeting with the jailed CUD leaders was a positive initiative, which he would support. After praising the way the Charge had conducted th [...] | 2006-07-12 14:23:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ET |
06ADDISABABA1954 | ETHIOPIA: TRADE MINISTER CONFIDENT OF SUBMISSION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Trade and Industry Minister Girma Birru assured the Charge on July 13 that the Government of Ethiopia (GOE) is fully committed to WTO accession and plans to submit the Memorandum on the Foreign Trade Regime (MFTR) no later than the end of August. Minister Girma stressed that th [...] | 2006-07-18 06:28:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EAGR ET |
06ADDISABABA1961 | DARFUR: JULY 13 AU DITF BRIEFING HIGHLIGHTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: African Union planners state that USD 440 million will be needed to extend the AU Mission in Sudan (AMIS) to the end of December 2006 and have it implement the additional tasks required by the May 5 Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA). The degree of AMIS enhancement will depend large [...] | 2006-07-19 04:48:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MOPS KPKO SU AU |
06ADDISABABA1970 | WORLD BANK PRESIDENT'S VISIT HIGHLIGHTS POSITIVE [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-19 08:26:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EFIN KHUM PGOV ET |
06ADDISABABA2042 | SOMALI PERMREP BRIEFS AU PEACE AND SECURITY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On July 24, the African Union's Peace and Security Council (PSC) met to discuss the situation in Somalia and upcoming elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Prior to closed door deliberations, Somalia's Permanent Representative to the AU Amb. Abdulkarim Farah briefed P [...] | 2006-07-25 13:53:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MOPS KPKO AU SO |
06ADDISABABA2061 | ETHIOPIAN PASTORALISTS DISCUSS INTERNAL AND CROSS- [...] (U) SUMMARY: From July 16-18, the UN's Office of the Coordinator for Humanitarian Activities (UN OCHA) convened approximately 300 pastoralists from about 15 West and East African countries, as part of UN OCHA's DFID-funded Pastoralist Communications Initiative. The meeting provided a platform [...] | 2006-07-26 12:03:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID PGOV PREF ET |
06ADDISABABA2073 | ETHIOPIAN PASTORALISTS GATHERING DISCUSS INTERNAL AND CROSS-BORDER CONFLICTS [...] (U) SUMMARY: From July 16-18, the UN's Office of the Coordinator for Humanitarian Activities (UN OCHA) convened approximately 300 pastoralists from about 15 West and East African countries, as part of UN OCHA's DFID-funded Pastoralist Communications Initiative. The meeting provided a platform [...] | 2006-07-26 14:14:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EFIN EINV EAID PGOV PREF ET EAGR OPIC |
06ADDISABABA2122 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: DARFUR - SECURITY COUNCIL [...] DCM delivered reftel demarche to Ambassador Sahlework Zewde, Director of African Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on July 31. Responding that an October 1 date for the transition of AMIS to the UN would not be easy, Ambassador Sahlework raised the concerns of Sudan's non-acceptance of r [...] | 2006-08-02 14:24:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ET KPKO PREL AU SU |
06ADDISABABA2123 | ETHIOPIA: NATIONAL ELECTION BOARD REFORMS MOVING [...] (U) SUMMARY. On July 27, Pol/Econ Counselor and Poloff met with British election expert Hannah Roberts and Rosanna Dudziak of the UNDP to discuss progress on the reorganization and capacity building of the Ethiopian National Elections Board (NEB). In early 2006, Roberts completed a study ide [...] | 2006-08-03 06:53:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM ET |
06ADDISABABA2130 | DARFUR: AU SAYS NEW PLEDGES ALLOW AMIS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At his first briefing for donors and other partners since the July 18 pledging conference for the AU Mission in Sudan (AMIS),the head of the African Union's Darfur Integrated Task Force (DITF) said that the conference's main outcome was the acknowledgement that partners seek t [...] | 2006-08-04 09:45:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MOPS KPKO EAID SU AU |
06ADDISABABA2270 | ETHIOPIA: ANTI-CORRUPTION MINISTER TALKS ABOUT [...] (SBU) Summary: Ali Suleiman, the Minister for the Federal Anti Corruption and Ethics Commission told the Charge and Cons chief August 10 that the Alazar Dessie case, which falls within his jurisdiction, may finally be concluded in January. He also discussed the Commission's priorities: educat [...] | 2006-08-17 08:57:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PGOV CASC ET |
06ADDISABABA2312 | DARFUR: AUGUST 10 AU DITF BRIEFING HIGHLIGHTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At an August 10 briefing AU officials reported that the situation in Darfur was "relatively calm" despite serious incidents in northern Darfur (Sector 6),including several alleged attacks by GOS aircraft on an IDP camp and a village, and a suspension of AMIS activities near Ku [...] | 2006-08-21 13:27:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MOPS KPKO SU AU |
06ADDISABABA2391 | ETHIOPIA: BI-WEEKLY REPORT AUGUST 30 2006 [...] The following reports compiled over the last two weeks illustrate the variety of economic, political, and social developments occurring in Ethiopia. POLITICAL --------- Strategic Plan for National Electoral Board Complete 2. (U) On August 24, UNDP-funded consultant Hannah Roberts tol [...] | 2006-08-31 13:53:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM ETRD ECON ET |
06ADDISABABA2410 | AU MILITARY STAFF QUESTIONS PLAN FOR IGASOM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. On August 28, the African Union's Military Staff Committee (MSC),comprised of defense attaches or other military representatives of each of the 15 members of the AU Peace and Security Council, reviewed the proposed deployment plan for an IGAD peace support operation [...] | 2006-09-05 16:11:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MOPS KPKO SO AU |
06ADDISABABA2420 | DARFUR: AU MINISTERIAL MUST DECIDE FUTURE OF AMIS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. African Union Peace and Security Commissioner Said Djinnit reported to international partners that in September 4 discussions with the AU, Sudan disavowed press reports that say it seeks the immediate expulsion of the AU Mission in Sudan (AMIS),but confirmed its rejection of a [...] | 2006-09-06 17:55:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MOPS KPKO AU SU |
06ADDISABABA2438 | ETHIOPIA: MFA APPRECIATIVE OF PRESIDENT'S SPEECH [...] No summary [...] | 2006-09-08 12:30:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM |
06ADDISABABA2504 | ETHIOPIA: UNMEE PUSHES FOR CONTINUATION OF MISSION [...] (SBU) Summary. The United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) Deputy Special Representative Ambassador Azouz Ennifar briefed representatives of permanent members of the United Nations Security Council September 12 on the status of the mission's downsizing efforts and recommended an [...] | 2006-09-14 11:29:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPKO MARR ET ER |
06ADDISABABA2506 | DEMARCHE ON UN PEACEKEEPING FORCE IN DARFUR [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel points on September 13 to Head of the MFA's UN Directorate, Counsellor Abdulkadir Risku, and to UN Directorate officer Eyob Tekalegn. 2. (SBU) Citing the binding nature of UN Security Council resolutions on UN member states, Risku said that Sudan would not be abl [...] | 2006-09-14 14:04:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPKO UNSC SU ET |
06ADDISABABA2523 | DARFUR: SEPTEMBER 14 AU DITF BRIEFING REPORTS AMIS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: According to African Union officials, Sudan has requested that AMIS suspend rotation of peacekeeping troops to Darfur, pending the outcome of the September 18 ministerial-level PSC. The AU confirmed that the Rwandan rotation is on hold, but suggested that the September 16 rotat [...] | 2006-09-15 10:29:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MOPS KPKO SU AU |
06ADDISABABA2524 | DARFUR: SEPTEMBER 7 AU DITF BRIEFING REPORTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On September 7, African Union officials reported to AU partners that recent cash contributions would allow the AU Mission in Sudan to continue operations beyond September 30, but that any decision on either extending or strengthening AMIS by two additional battalions would have [...] | 2006-09-15 13:35:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MOPS KPKO SU AU |
06ADDISABABA2527 | ETHIOPIA: 10,000 PRISONERS RELEASED IN NEW YEARS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY On September 10, 2006, (New Years Eve in the Ethiopian calendar) the Ethiopian government granted pardons and reduced sentences for nearly 10,000 prisoners across Ethiopia. This is the largest pardon ever granted in Ethiopia and reduces the prison population by 15 percent. All o [...] | 2006-09-18 11:11:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM ET |
06ADDISABABA2532 | ETHIOPIA: 10,000 PRISONERS RELEASED IN NEW YEARS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY On September 10, 2006, (New Years Eve in the Ethiopian calendar) the Ethiopian government granted pardons and reduced sentences for nearly 10,000 prisoners across Ethiopia. This is the largest pardon ever granted in Ethiopia and reduces the prison population by 15 percent. All o [...] | 2006-09-18 11:55:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM ET |
06ADDISABABA2610 | DARFUR: SEPTEMBER 21 AU DITF BRIEFING CONFIRMS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: While the AU PSC extended the mandate of AMIS to December 31, and Sudan has allowed the rotation of AMIS troops to resume, AU officials expressed concern that transition to a UN peacekeeping operation remains an unresolved issue. The AMIS Force Commander remained in Addis Abab [...] | 2006-09-25 15:45:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MOPS KPKO SU AU |
06ADDISABABA2663 | ETHIOPIA: PM MELES TOUR D'HORIZON ON TPLF [...] (SBU) Summary: In response to a request from major donors, Prime Minister Meles met September 30 with the Ambassador's Donor Group (ADG) to review internal and external developments, as well as to review the decisions of the Tigray Peoples Liberation Front (TPLF),the core decision making body [...] | 2006-10-03 05:56:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM ECON EFIN MARR ET |
06ADDISABABA2775 | AFRICAN UNION DEPUTY CHAIRPERSON SUPPORTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. African Union Commission Deputy Chairperson Patrick Mazimhaka underscored the need for a robust U.N. mandate for peacekeeping in Sudan, noting that the AU lacked the resources to sustain an operation in Darfur and therefore sought to transfer responsibility to the international [...] | 2006-10-13 15:42:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPKO MASS AU SO SU ET ER |
06ADDISABABA2936 | DARFUR: AMIS FORCE COMMANDER REJECTS FJMHQ CONCEPT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. African Union civilian and military officials, including the new AMIS Force Commander, had few conclusions to share from a recently concluded internal "brainstorming" session on operational challenges facing the AU peacekeeping mission in Darfur. Sudan's recent acceptance of 1 [...] | 2006-11-06 05:58:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MOPS KPKO SU AU |
06ADDISABABA2948 | DARFUR: AMIS FORCE COMMANDER ARGUES FOR UP TO NINE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In a November 2 briefing to major AU partners, officers from the AU Mission in Sudan (AMIS) highlighted two areas of continued fighting in Darfur: North Darfur, where GOS aerial reconnaissance and bombardment of suspected NRF strongholds continues; and the Darfur-Chad border, [...] | 2006-11-06 14:26:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MOPS KPKO SU AU |
06ADDISABABA3003 | ETHIOPIA: CUD TRIAL MOVES ON TO WITNESSES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The trial of detained opposition Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD) leaders, independent journalists and civil society representatives has resumed after a two-month break and quickly wrapped up the documentary stage of evidence. The bench ruled in favor of the prosecution [...] | 2006-11-14 07:53:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KJUS KDEM PGOV ET |
06ADDISABABA3011 | DARFUR: UN A/SYG FOR PEACE-KEEPING DISCUSSES UN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. UN A/SYG for Peace-keeping Operations Annabi said November 11-12 meetings with President Bashir, FM Lam Akol and other GOS principals resulted in an affirmation that the GOS would accept UN packages of "light" and "heavy" assistance to the AU Mission in Sudan, despite Sudan's c [...] | 2006-11-14 15:28:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MOPS KPKO SU CD AU UN |
06ADDISABABA3120 | ETHIOPIA: LOCAL ELECTIONS ON THE HORIZON - IS [...] (U) ACTION REQUEST: Please see paragraph 19. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY Still working through the aftermath of the disputed federal elections in 2005, Ethiopia now focuses on important local elections in early 2007. Voter anger and candidate intimidation are hurdles to a successful campaign, as is a [...] | 2006-11-28 13:11:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM ET |
06ADDISABABA323 | AU SUMMIT KHARTOUM WRAP-UP [...] (SBU) Summary: The African Union (AU) Summit held January 23 and 24 in Khartoum highlighted the AU Commission's efforts to "do the right thing" in terms of promoting continental good governance and human rights, as well as social progress, but also produced member state division. Long negotia [...] | 2006-02-02 12:22:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM ETRD SU AU |
06ADDISABABA3243 | DARFUR: DECEMBER 7, AU DITF BRIEFING PROVIDES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. According to African Union officials, the head-of-state-level November 30 AU Peace and Security Council (PSC) meeting affirmed Sudan's acceptance of UN assistance to the AU peacekeeping mission in Darfur, but highlighted that Sudan continues to oppose full transition to a hybrid [...] | 2006-12-08 13:54:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MOPS KPKO SU AU |
06ADDISABABA3249 | ETHIOPIA: SENATOR FEINGOLD DISCUSSES DEMOCRATIC [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Opposition parliamentarians told visiting U.S. Senator Feingold that they are still waiting for the GoE to address key democratic reforms during the ongoing inter-party dialogue. Opposition leaders bemoaned the divide that has grown between their parties in Ethiopia and former [...] | 2006-12-11 08:19:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM ET ER |
06ADDISABABA3390 | SOMALIA: PM MELES PUBLICLY ACKNOWLEDGES "DEFENSIVE [...] (U) SUMMARY. In a national address broadcast live on December 24, Prime Minister Meles acknowledged that Ethiopia had launched military operations within Somalia, describing them as "defensive measures" taken against "terrorist forces" who had infiltrated insurgents into Ethiopia. Citing the [...] | 2006-12-26 16:02:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PINS MOPS KISL ET SO |
06ADDISABABA3392 | ADDIS ABABA EAC REVIEWS SECURITY SITUATION AFTER ETHIOPIAN [...] (U) On December 26, the Emergency Action Committee (EAC) met to review the general security situation in Ethiopia as well as post's general security posture. The following offices were represented at the EAC: Charge, A/DCM, PE, DATT, USAID, USAU, CONS, RMO, ORA, CDC, MGT, GSO, A/PAO, MSG and [...] | 2006-12-27 06:02:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC ET SO |
06ADDISABABA49 | ETHIOPIAN OPPOSITION DENIED BAIL; NEXT HEARING IN [...] (U) SUMMARY: After holding CUD opposition leaders, independent journalists, NGO representatives, and other individuals suspected of anti-government activity in jail for nine weeks, the High Court ruled on January 4 to reject their request for bail, and decided to schedule the next hearing in [...] | 2006-01-06 14:29:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KJUS KDEM ET |
06ADDISABABA658 | ETHIOPIA: POST REPLY TO TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS [...] (SBU) Responses cued to reftel questions are provided below. QUESTION 21: OVERVIEW ---------------------- A. Ethiopia is a country of origin for internationally trafficked women, to a far lesser extent men, and a small number of children. Trafficking also occurs within the country's [...] | 2006-03-06 13:20:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF |
06ADDISABABA659 | COORDINATING PARTNER SUPPORT TO THE AFRICAN UNION [...] (SBU) Summary: The African Union's (AU) profile continues to rise in the international community as the AU strives to build the capacity to proactively address challenges on the continent. To further mutual objectives, the AU and Addis-based donors/partners are working to enhance coordinatio [...] | 2006-03-06 13:20:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID KPKO AU |
06ADDISABABA667 | JUDGE ENTERS "NOT GUILTY" PLEA FOR SILENT [...] (U) SUMMARY: Four months after their arrest, nearly 90 Ethiopian opposition leaders, rank-and-file supporters, independent journalists, and NGO representatives remain in detention, awaiting prosecution on capital charges ranging from "outrages against the constitution" to high treason and geno [...] | 2006-03-07 08:51:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM KJUS ET |
06ADDISABABA723 | AU APPROVES AMIS REHAT - NOW WHAT? [...] (SBU) Summary/Action Request: The March 10 African Union (AU) Peace and Security Council (PSC) ministerial supported transition of the AU Mission in Darfur, Sudan (AMIS) to a UN mission. The PSC extended AMIS' mandate until September 30, 2006, and set a deadline of April 30 to conclude the A [...] | 2006-03-14 04:45:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPKO EAID PREL SU AU |
06ADDISABABA738 | DARFUR - AMIS MEDIA STRATEGY NEEDS HELP [...] (SBU) Summary/Action Request: The African Union (AU) recognizes that its mission in Darfur, Sudan (AMIS) requires a more proactive public outreach approach, especially in light of the March 10 AU Peace and Security Council (PSC) decision to approve transition of AMIS to a UN operation. AU Sp [...] | 2006-03-14 14:01:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPKO SU KPAO AU |
06ADDISABABA756 | DARFUR PSC DECISION: KONARE EMPHASIZES AFRICAN [...] (SBU) Summary: In a March 15 briefing for Addis-based partner ambassadors, African Union (AU) Commission Chairperson Alpha Oumar Konare emphasized the importance of African leadership in creating a democratic Sudan. Konare called for partner support in pressing for a political solution to th [...] | 2006-03-16 07:08:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPKO EAID SU AU |
06ADDISABABA773 | ETHIOPIA TOUR D'HORIZON: PM MELES SAYS CITY HALL [...] (SBU) Summary and Action request: The Prime Minister appeared to enjoy the give and take of the conversation with the EU Troika (Austrian, Finish ambassadors and Pol Counselor for EC),French ambassador as head of the Ambassadors' Donor Group and U.S. Charge. Meles was up-beat on the oppositi [...] | 2006-03-20 05:59:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM EAID EFIN ET |
06ADDISABABA86 | AU SOCIAL AFFAIRS COMMISSIONER ON AU HEALTH [...] (SBU) Summary: The African Union's (AU) attention to social issues in Africa is one of the major issues differentiating it from its predecessor organization, the OAU, Commissioner for Social Affairs Bience Gawanas (Namibian) told DCM January 5. The AU is working with African regional economi [...] | 2006-01-11 06:09:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL AORC WHO SOCI AU |
06ADDISABABA917 | AU POLITICAL AFFAIRS OBJECTIVES AND INSTITUTIONAL [...] (SBU) Summary: The African Union's (AU) top priority through 2007 is to push forward the process of institutional transformation to ensure a proactive and effective organization as compared to the OAU, AU Commission Secretary Prof. Johnson recently told a group of AU partners. Political Affai [...] | 2006-04-06 12:30:00 | Embassy Addis Ababa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID XA AU |
06AITTAIPEI1444 | DIRECTOR'S INTRODUCTORY CALL ON TAIWAN'S AGRICULTURE [...] (SBU) Summary. During his April 24 introductory call on Taiwan's Council of Agriculture (COA) Minister, Mr. Su Chia-chyuan, Director Young raised U.S. concerns over Taiwan's sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) import requirements and Taiwan's advocacy of protection for so-called sensitive agricul [...] | 2006-04-26 23:12:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ETRD TW |
06AITTAIPEI1540 | TAIWAN RECEPTIVE TO UNILATERAL ADHERENCE TO IHR [...] (U) AIT delivered ref A demarche to Department of Health (DOH) Director General Peter Chang on May 2. Drawing from points in ref A, ESTHOFF also briefed Chang about U.S. efforts in Beijing seeking additional participation for Taiwan in WHO health activities. Chang seemed pleased with this app [...] | 2006-05-04 06:56:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO PREL WHO CH TW |
06AITTAIPEI2084 | NUCLEAR ENERGY BECOMING ACCEPTABLE IN TAIWAN? [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In the wake of gasoline and utility price hikes, nuclear energy has enjoyed rising support in Taiwan. Following this trend, some anti-nuclear proponents have spoken out in favor of continued nuclear energy use. Sustainable development has become the rallying point for those who [...] | 2006-06-16 09:43:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP SENV ECON PGOV TW |
06AITTAIPEI2590 | VAGUE CONSENSUS, MINORITY OPINIONS, POSITIVE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: TAIWAN'S SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CONFERENCE CONCLUDED JULY 28 PRODUCING NUMEROUS VAGUE CONSENSUS RECOMMENDATIONS. MORE CONTENTIOUS AND CONCRETE RECOMMENDATIONS WERE RELEGATED TO THE CATEGORY OF "OTHER OPINIONS," ON WHICH NO CONSENSUS WAS POSSIBLE. HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDED [...] | 2006-08-02 09:27:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EAIR EINV PREL CH TW |
06AITTAIPEI2612 | DIRECTOR'S MEETING WITH TAIWAN'S AGRICULTURE CHAIRMAN [...] (SBU) Summary. In his August 1 meeting with Taiwan's Council of Agriculture (COA) Chairman, Mr. Su Chia-chyuan, Director Young gained a commitment to finalize the documents establishing the Consultative Committee on Agriculture (CCA) by the end of October, reiterated the primacy of science-bas [...] | 2006-08-03 07:43:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ETRD TW |
06AITTAIPEI3275 | TAIWAN TIFA FOLLOW UP - PHARMACEUTICALS IN FLUX [...] (U) Please see action request in paragraph 14. Over the past five months the U.S. and Taiwan have held three sets of consultations in an effort to resolve differences over pharmaceutical pricing policies. In May, Taiwan agreed to a three-month delay in announcing mandatory price cuts and m [...] | 2006-09-22 02:05:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EIND TW |
06AITTAIPEI3381 | ICCAT CHAIR WEIGHS TAIWAN'S PROSPECTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: International Commission on Conservation of Atlantic Tuna (ICCAT) Chairman William Hogarth and advisors met with Taiwan officials on September 22 to discuss Taiwan's progress in meeting ICCAT recommendations to reduce its fishing capacity. Taiwan officials presented data to supp [...] | 2006-09-29 09:46:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIS ETRD SENV ICCAT TW |
06AITTAIPEI3384 | TAIWAN PHARMACEUTICALS: PVS RESULTS ANNOUCED, [...] On September 28, the Bureau of National Health Insurance announced the results of the fifth Price Volume Survey, with price cuts effective November 1. Pricing information for individual companies will be sent out Monday, October 2, and companies will have two weeks to ppeal. BNHI President [...] | 2006-10-02 03:37:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EIND TW |
06AITTAIPEI3880 | POLITICS STILL LOOMS OVER TAIWAN IMPORTS OF U.S. [...] (SBU) Summary: In advance of USDA Deputy Undersecretary Lambert's visit, Taiwan Minister of Health Hou Sheng-mou complained to AIT Director Young about politically motivated criticism of DOH and its decision-making process to reopen Taiwan's market to U.S. beef. Hou sought the Director's sup [...] | 2006-11-17 01:10:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ETRD TW |
06AITTAIPEI4158 | TAIWAN BIDS ON LIBYAN OIL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. According to local news reports Taiwan's state owned China Petroleum Corp (CPC) sent its general manager Chen Pao-lang November 21 on a 13-day fact-finding mission to Libya to look at oil exploration and investment opportunities. Following that, CPC announced Nov. 28 it was b [...] | 2006-12-20 07:03:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET PREL LY TW |
06AITTAIPEI961 | TAIPEI LIKELY TO REPLACE KEELUNG AS TAIWAN'S [...] (SBU) The construction of container wharfs at Taiwan's Port of Taipei will reduce container traffic at Keelung Harbor where the Department of Homeland Security plans to implement the Container Security Initiative (CSI). The Port of Taipei will have seven container wharfs that will begin opera [...] | 2006-03-22 22:52:00 | American Institute Taiwan, Taipei | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EWWT ECON TW |
06ALGIERS1120 | ICRC PENDING HUMANITARIAN ISSUES IN THE WESTERN [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-20 14:03:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PBTS WI AG MO |
06ALGIERS1184 | UPTICK IN VIOLENCE IN ALGERIAN COUNTRYSIDE [...] (SBU) Since late April, GSPC terrorists have intensified their attacks against both traditional military and government targets and civilians in areas to the east and west of Algiers. The GSPC has changed tactics and increased the lethality of its attacks. The Algerian Army for its part has [...] | 2006-06-27 17:32:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV ASEC AG |
06ALGIERS1249 | PRESIDENT BOUTEFLIKA PARDONS JOURNALISTS, SEEKS [...] (U) On the occasion of Algerian National Day (July 5),President Bouteflika announced July 3 the unconditional pardon of all journalists in Algeria convicted of or facing charges of defamation. The announcement followed the "definitive convictions" of several journalists in previous days so [...] | 2006-07-09 11:16:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM PHUM AG |
06ALGIERS1299 | DEMARCHE ON ALGERIA'S WTO ACCESSION DELIVERED [...] (SBU) Ambassador, accompanied by PolEC Chief, delivered reftel demarche July 11 to MFA Americas Director General Selmane. Reviewing reftel points and leaving a non-paper in French and English at the end of the discussion, Ambassador highlighted strong U.S. support for Algerian WTO accession, [...] | 2006-07-15 12:25:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON WTRO AG |
06ALGIERS1305 | ALGERIAN REACTION TO EVENTS IN LEBANON [...] (U) In an apparent effort to get out in front of an Algerian public furious over Israeli actions in Lebanon, the GOA adopted an unusually high-profile posture the past few days. The MFA issued a statement July 13 denouncing "the flagrant aggressions" perpetrated by Israeli military forces ag [...] | 2006-07-15 15:31:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL IS LE AG |
06ALGIERS1315 | BOUTEFLIKA MULLS CHANGES TO 2005 HYDROCARBON LAW [...] (SBU) President Bouteflika is reviewing proposed changes to Algeria's 2005 hydrocarbon law, touted at the time as a major step toward greater openness. The proposed changes would slow down current rates of oil and gas exploitation while limiting the expanded role for foreign energy companies e [...] | 2006-07-17 12:58:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET TRGY AG |
06ALGIERS1331 | DEMARCHE ON WTO ACCESSION DELIVERED TO ALGERIAN [...] (SBU) PolEC Chief delivered Ref A demarche July 17 to Ministry of Commerce Director General for Foreign Trade Cherif Zaaf, who serves concurrently as Algeria's WTO coordinator. Ambassador previously delivered the same demarche to MFA Americas Director General Selmane (Ref B). Leaving behind n [...] | 2006-07-18 09:59:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON WTRO AG |
06ALGIERS1364 | LIBYAN, ALGERIAN MINISTERS OF INTERIOR DISCUSS [...] (SBU) General Salah Rajab El-Mismari, Libyan Secretary General of the Popular Committee and de facto Libyan Minister of the Interior, visited Algiers July 17-19, holding talks on border and security issues with Algerian Minister of the Interior Nouredine Yazid Zerhouni. The official visit, a [...] | 2006-07-22 16:38:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PBTS AG LY |
06ALGIERS1373 | LEBANESE FIGURE VISITS ALGIERS, THANKS GOA FOR ITS [...] (U) Saad Hariri, the leader of the largest political party represented in the Lebanese parliament and son of the slain Lebanese prime minister, visited Algiers July 23. In public remarks reported by the press, he thanked "Algeria, its president and head of government fo their support" and und [...] | 2006-07-24 14:00:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL AG IS LE |
06ALGIERS1376 | ALGERIAN COMMITTEE OF SOLIDARITY AND SUPPORT FOR [...] Vice President of the Conseil de la Nation (Senate) Zohra Bitat; Senator Saida Benhabyles; Female Executives NGO President Aicha Kouadri; and General Union of Students President Nabil Yahoui called July 24 on the Charge d'Affaires to present a petition calling on the United States to take ste [...] | 2006-07-24 16:24:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL LE IS AG |
06ALGIERS1401 | ABBAS RECEIVED BY PRIME MINISTER IN ALGIERS [...] (SBU) Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas followed in the footsteps of Lebanese party leader Saad Hariri (see reftel) and made a stop in Algiers July 26 as part of what Abbas described as a tour of Arab capitals devoted to "bilateral discussions on next steps" to address the situati [...] | 2006-07-29 16:22:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL LE IS AG |
06ALGIERS1414 | GOA COORDINATES PUBLIC STATEMENTS FROM RELIGIOUS [...] (SBU) The Ministry of Religious Affairs over the past couple of weeks has continued to provide imams with points on the ongoing violence in Lebanon from which to draw for Friday sermons (reftel). Imams have confirmed to post that July 28 sermons were required to contain a reference to "the l [...] | 2006-08-02 15:02:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM PTER AG |
06ALGIERS1518 | USG RESPONSE TO IMMINENT FOOD SHORTAGE IN TINDOUF [...] (SBU) Marius Fortman, World Food Program (WFP) Country Director for Algeria, briefed us August 23 on the current state of food stocks for the Sahrawi refugees. Fortman said Sahrawi refugee camps near Tindouf would run out of food by the end of September absent additional donations. Fortman m [...] | 2006-08-26 07:38:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PBTS WFP AG |
06ALGIERS1769 | FORMER SONATRACH COUNSEL CRITIQUES CHANGES TO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A former Sonatrach counsel provided us with a detailed briefing on the changes to Algeria's hydrocarbon legislation over the last 20 years and his views on the impact of the recent hydrocarbon amendments. He clarified that while the new amendments obligate the Algerian petrole [...] | 2006-10-04 13:11:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG EINV ECON TRGY AG |
06ALGIERS1844 | KHELIL ON PROGRESS IN ALGERIAN ENERGY SECTOR [...] (U) SUMMARY: Minister of Energy Chakib Khelil gave a public overview October 8 of the Algerian energy and mining sector's successes over the last five years. He probably underestimated the true long-term impact, given the long gestation period of energy exploration projects. According to K [...] | 2006-10-18 15:27:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET EINV TRGY AG |
06ALGIERS2162 | DETAINED JOURNALIST RELEASED, TRIES TO KEEP LOW [...] (SBU) On December 18 Algerian authorities released the director of the low-circulation Arabic-language daily "El Fedjr" following her incarceration December 7 on year-old charges of bouncing a check for USD 21,400 to a government-owned printing company. Hadda Hazzam's lawyer refused to commen [...] | 2006-12-19 16:51:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM AG |
06ALGIERS338 | IMPLEMENTING ORDINANCES FOR NATIONAL [...] (SBU) The ordinances implementing the provisions of National Reconciliation as approved by voters in September 2005, made public February 22, are expected to be implemented by presidential decree by the end of the current month. While several organizations representing victims of terrorism cr [...] | 2006-02-28 12:49:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER PHUM AG |
06ALGIERS341 | GOA STATEMENT PRAISES ALGERIAN PUBLIC'S CALM [...] (SBU) The Algerian Council of Ministers issued February 27 a declaration on the Danish cartoon controversy praising the Algerian public's calm reaction and calling for tolerance, mutual understanding, and the avoidance of both violence and provocations. The declaration is a textbook case of [...] | 2006-02-28 14:50:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV AG |
06ALGIERS367 | TALLY OF ALGERIAN JOURNALISTS IN JAIL [...] (SBU) There are currently three Algerian journalists in prison. Eighteen other journalists have been sentenced to prison terms but are free pending appellate court rulings on their appeals. In prison the longest is Mohamed Benchicou, former publisher of the now-defunct Le Matin newspaper, wh [...] | 2006-03-05 09:48:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM AG |
06ALGIERS454 | NEA A/S WELCH AND PM OUYAHIA'S DISCUSSION OF WTO [...] (SBU) During a March 14 meeting with Prime Minister Ouyahia on other issues (septel),NEA A/S Welch affirmed U.S. support for Algeria's reform process and WTO accession bid. Ouyahia expressed appreciation for U.S. support of its economic modernization efforts, including U.S. technical support [...] | 2006-03-18 06:02:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV AG |
06ALGIERS554 | UPDATE ON ALGERIAN JOURNALISTS FIRED/JAILED OVER [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-27 16:53:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM AG |
06ALGIERS570 | BECHTEL POISED TO PREVAIL IN BID PROCESS FOR [...] (U) This cable contains proprietary information. Please protect accordingly. BIDS UNSEALED IN FULLY TRANSPARENT PROCESS ------------------------------------------- 2. (U) In full view of the Algerian media, public and diplomats representing the home countries of firms bidding to build [...] | 2006-03-29 17:00:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV BEXP ELTN ETRD AG |
06ALGIERS629 | NEW LAW DENOTES ALGERIAN PROGRESS AGAINST [...] (SBU) Summary: A new anti-corruption law, which took effect March 8, aims to bring Algeria in line with the U.N. Convention Against Corruption. The law is an important step in establishing an institutional framework to combat corruption and comes at a time the GoA has been actively pursuing cr [...] | 2006-04-06 06:58:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV PGOV AG |
06ALGIERS734 | AMBASSADOR'S DISCUSSION OF NEW RELIGIOUS LAW WITH [...] (SBU) During an April 15 meeting with Religious Affairs Minister Ghlamallah, Ambassador discussed U.S. concerns about Algeria's new law regulating non-Muslim worship, noting that it opened the door to arbitrary interpretations and restrictions, had been adopted without any consultation with a [...] | 2006-04-22 06:28:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV SOCI KIRF KISL AG |
06ALGIERS850 | ALGERIAN PRESIDENT PARDONS JOURNALISTS [...] (C) On the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, President Bouteflika issued a communique May 2 pardoning Algerian journalists found "definitively" guilty of "insults against civil servants, offense against the President of the Republic, and insults against corporate bodies." The announcement [...] | 2006-05-10 18:09:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM AG |
06ALGIERS887 | OPEN SKIES: ALGERIA OFFERS REDUCED WEIGHT ON [...] (SBU) Embassy received May 13 an MFA diplomatic note (Ref B) providing Algeria's response to our Open Skies proposals of March 11 concerning exchange rates, intermodal transport, and transition period start date. The latest proposals (faxed to NEA/MAG) overtake Ref A instructions, which had no [...] | 2006-05-17 15:47:00 | Embassy Algiers | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ETRA EBEXP KTIA ECON AG |
06ALMATY1001 | KAZAKHSTAN: OSCE ROUNDTABLE ON IMPLEMENTING THE ICCPR [...] (U) Summary: On February 13 the local NGO "Charter for Human Rights NGO" and the OSCE Center in Almaty hosted a roundtable discussion on the implementation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR),ratified by Kazakhstan on November 28, 2005. The roundtable included [...] | 2006-03-21 01:45:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KZ ECONOMIC POLITICAL OSCE |
06ALMATY1018 | KAZAKHSTAN: POLITICAL FALLOUT FROM SARSENBAIULY [...] (SBU) Summary: The murder of Altynbek Sarsenbaiuly continues to cause political shockwaves in Kazakhstan. Allegations by the opposition of First Family involvement and charges of high-level cover-up (reftel) have prompted first daughter Dariga Nazarbayeva to go on the offensive by accusing fo [...] | 2006-03-21 13:05:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KZ |
06ALMATY1070 | KAZAKHSTAN: IMAM NAZAROV DEPARTS FOR SWEDEN [...] (SBU) After receiving UNHCR refugee status, well-known Uzbek imam Abidkhan Nazarov and his extended family left Kazakhstan for Sweden on March 15. Despite the UNHCR's careful coordination with the MFA to avoid any immigration problems, at the last moment the KNB tried to block Nazarov's depar [...] | 2006-03-27 11:08:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF UZ KZ POLITICAL |
06ALMATY1083 | KAZAKHSTAN: TAX AND CUSTOMS EXEMPTIONS FOR CTR PROGRAM [...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy Almaty received a letter from Ministry of Finance outlining the ministry's interpretation of tax and customs liabilities for CTR program participants. The letter states that exemptions shall only be provided to those organizations specifically named; that only contracto [...] | 2006-03-27 15:48:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM EAID KZ |
06ALMATY1099 | KAZAKHSTAN: PROTEST REGARDING COMMENTS ON SARSENBAIULY [...] (U) Summary: A group of ten to twelve demonstrators gathered outside Embassy Almaty on March 13 to protest the Ambassador's March 7 comments on the Sarsenbaiuly murder investigation. One of Sarsenbaiuly's sisters took part in the event. The protest was peaceful and the protesters dispersed a [...] | 2006-03-28 16:22:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KZ |
06ALMATY1144 | KAZAKHSTAN: UNUSUAL PUBLIC DEBATE ON SARSENBAIULY MURDER [...] No summary [...] | 2006-03-31 09:55:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KPAO KDEM KZ |
06ALMATY1153 | CORRUPTION, KAZAKHSTANI STYLE: "ROTTING FROM THE HEAD [...] (SBU) Summary: Corruption is rife in Kazakhstan, affecting all sectors from education to health care. Kazakhstani perceptions of the impact and acceptability of the various forms of corruption are nuanced. While they are decidedly critical of the large- scale corruption found at the top levels [...] | 2006-04-03 01:43:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM ECON KDEM EINV KPAO PGOV KZ |
06ALMATY1226 | KAZAKHSTAN'S REACTION TO NSG DISCUSSION OF INDIA [...] (SBU) Summary: Kazakhstan is open to further discussion of the India civil nuclear initiative, but is skeptical that the Nuclear Suppliers' Group will be able to reach consensus in the near future. India needs to provide much more information about the nature of its obligations and what is be [...] | 2006-04-05 13:05:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ENRG KSCA PARM KNNP ETTC IN KZ |
06ALMATY1239 | KAZAKHSTAN: NUCLEAR SECURITY COOPERATION WITH U.S. [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has informed post that it believes a U.S. - Kazakhstan agreement on nuclear security cooperation expired seven years ago. See request for guidance, para. 3. End summary. 2. (SBU) Post received a diplomatic note dated March 1, 2006, from the [...] | 2006-04-08 02:39:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG PARM PREL KZ |
06ALMATY1401 | KAZAKHSTAN: ENERGY MINISTER ON CPC EXPANSION, BTC- [...] (SBU) Summary: Kazakhstan and Russia reached agreement on CPC expansion during President Nazarbayev's recent visit to Moscow, according to Energy Minister Izmukhambetov, but it remained to be seen whether the agreement would hold. Four very substantial issues remain to be resolved in the BTC [...] | 2006-04-18 04:54:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON ENRG ETRD KZ |
06ALMATY1402 | KAZAKHSTAN: DEPUTY PM MASIMOV ON VIP VISIT [...] (SBU) Summary: In a meeting to discuss issues related to the upcoming VIP visit to Kazakhstan, Deputy PM Masimov expressed confidence that agreement would be reached on both the AIG settlement and the Second Line of Defense program before the visit. He gave a favorable assessment of the majo [...] | 2006-04-18 05:01:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EPET PARM PREL KZ |
06ALMATY1403 | KAZAKHSTAN: FM TOKAYEV ON VIP VISIT [...] (SBU) Summary: The MFA is carefully reviewing a list of potential activities related to the upcoming VIP visit and will work to ensure implementation of the most feasible ideas, according to FM Tokayev. The MFA is also pursuing the idea of hosting a TIFA Council meeting as discussed with A/S [...] | 2006-04-18 05:07:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN PREL KZ |
06ALMATY1404 | KAZAKHSTAN: AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH MINISTER OF [...] (SBU) Summary: Minister of Economy and Budget Planning Kelimbetov reports that the GOK has almost finished its review of the draft MOU on the Program for Economic Development; he will push for completion before the upcoming VIP visit to Astana. Kelimbetov said that the Kazakhstani government [...] | 2006-04-18 05:25:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN PREL KZ |
06ALMATY1418 | KAZAKHSTAN: AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH NEW DEPUTY PA [...] (SBU) Summary: New deputy head of the Presidential Administration Ashimbayev will take over Marat Tazhin's duties in coordinating policy on political issues, including democratization. Ashimbayev reacted positively to the list of suggested ideas related to the upcoming VIP visit, and promise [...] | 2006-04-18 11:11:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL KZ |
06ALMATY1428 | KAZAKHSTAN: PROCURATOR GENERAL ON HUMAN RIGHTS, [...] (SBU) Summary: During a discussion with the Ambassador of the upcoming VIP visit to Astana, Procurator General Tusupbekov was receptive to the idea of working with the U.S. to ensure that there are clear guidelines for proper application of the extremism law. The Ambassador raised the use of [...] | 2006-04-19 13:18:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KDEM KZ |
06ALMATY1437 | ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING IN KAZAKHSTAN - [...] (SBU) Summary: In conjunction with pending anti-money laundering (AML) legislation, INL sponsored an AML study tour for Kazakhstani parliamentarians to visit the financial intelligence unit (FIU) in Copenhagen, Denmark. Prior to the trip, the majority expressed doubt about the necessity for t [...] | 2006-04-20 08:42:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR ASEC KCOR KCRM PREL KZ |
06ALMATY1450 | KAZAKHSTAN: AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH MINISTRY OF [...] (SBU) Summary: Ministry of Finance officials committed to work with the Embassy to resolve the AIG dispute and conclude a Second Line of Defense (SLD) agreement before the upcoming VIP visit to Astana. They also expressed willingness to help resolve tax and customs issues related to assistan [...] | 2006-04-21 03:54:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PARM PREL KZ |
06ALMATY1475 | KAZAKHSTAN: DISCUSSIONS ON DEALING WITH HAMAS [...] (SBU) On April 18, Poloff met with Daniyar Sarekenov, Deputy Director of the MFA's Asia Department, to discuss the Kazakhstani position on dealing with Hamas. Sarekenov requested the meeting in response to Ref A demarche. Sarekenov stated that the GOK believes that Hamas must renounce violenc [...] | 2006-04-21 13:36:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KZ |
06ALMATY1485 | KAZAKHSTAN: AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH MINISTER OF [...] (SBU) Summary: Air Astana is considering buying several Boeing aircraft for its fleet, according to Transport Minister Mamin. He will travel to Seattle in June for discussions with Boeing, as well as to Toulouse to discuss the Airbus offer. Mamin confirmed that Kazakhstan also wants to host [...] | 2006-04-24 07:14:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAIR EIND EINV PREL KZ |
06ALMATY1561 | KAZAKHSTAN: OPPOSITION LEADERS PREVENTED FROM TRAVELING [...] (SBU) Summary: Opposition leaders Galymzhan Zhakiyanov and Bulat Abilov were prevented from traveling to Brussels on April 24 to address the European Parliament. Authorities reportedly claimed that Zhakiyanov's parole status required him to seek prior approval before leaving. Zhakiyanov insist [...] | 2006-04-28 01:57:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KZ |
06ALMATY1575 | KAZAKHSTAN: AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH SENATE [...] (SBU) Summary: The Senate and Mazhilis are working to finalize amendments to the Law on International Agreements, according to the chairman of the Senate Committee on International Affairs, Defense, and Security. The two houses will establish a reconciliation committee to reach agreement on h [...] | 2006-05-02 01:34:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EAID PARM EPET KZ |
06ALMATY1576 | KAZAKHSTAN: AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH CEC CHAIR [...] (SBU) Summary: The Central Election Commission is reviewing its election law and procedures with ODIHR, and preparing for October 2007 maslikhat elections, according to CEC chair Zhumabekov. While the Kazakhstani government believes that its election law largely conforms to international stan [...] | 2006-05-02 01:35:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL KZ |
06ALMATY158 | KAZAKHSTAN: ZHAKIYANOV RELEASED ON PAROLE [...] (SBU) Summary: Jailed Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan leader Galymzhan Zhakiyanov was freed on January 14 and has returned to Almaty. He stated at a January 17 press conference that, although the terms of his parole will prevent him from holding elected or appointed public office for several [...] | 2006-01-17 13:35:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KZ POLITICAL |
06ALMATY1585 | KAZAKHSTAN: MARCH 2006 CICA CONFERENCE IN ALMATY [...] (SBU) Summary: CICA members held a working group meeting in Almaty on March 28-31. The bulk of the meeting was spent working to finalize the text of the draft Statute of the CICA Secretariat and Financial Rules. The next working group SIPDIS meeting will occur in mid-May; the delegates pr [...] | 2006-05-02 11:13:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KZ |
06ALMATY1644 | KAZAKHSTAN: A/S BOUCHER MEETS WITH ENERGY MINISTER [...] (SBU) Summary: Kazakhstan plans to build a nuclear power plant in order to address energy deficits in the south and to expand uranium production, Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Izmukhambetov told Assistant Secretary Boucher and Special Assistant to the President Millard. As oil prod [...] | 2006-05-10 01:10:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON ENRG ETRD KZ |
06ALMATY1646 | A/S BOUCHER AND ADB REPRESENTATIVE DISCUSS REGIONAL [...] (SBU) Summary: In a May 4 meeting, Craig Steffensen of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) briefed A/S Boucher and NSC Senior Director Millard on the projects the ADB is working on in Central and South Asia. One of the problems for regional development and integration, according to Steffensen, [...] | 2006-05-10 01:29:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECONOMIC |
06ALMATY1661 | KAZAKHSTAN: MINISTER OF INTERNAL AFFAIRS ASKS FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: Minister of Internal Affairs (MVD) Baurzhan Mukhamedzhanov told Assistant Secretary Boucher, National Security Council Senior Director Elisabeth Millard, and Ambassador Ordway that Kazakhstan wants to expand cooperation in counter-narcotics, efforts to combat trafficking in pers [...] | 2006-05-10 11:37:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM KDEM PGOV PREL SMIG SNAR KZ |
06ALMATY1662 | KAZAKHSTAN: A/S BOUCHER AND NSC DIRECTOR MILLARD [...] (U) Summary: On May 4, Assistant Secretary Boucher and National Security Council Senior Director Elisabeth Millard met with Kazakhstani Minister of Defense Altynbayev to discuss the continuing cooperation between the U.S. Department of Defense and MOD. Altynbayev's staff provided briefings on [...] | 2006-05-10 11:39:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV MARR MOPS PREL KZ |
06ALMATY168 | TIME TO MOVE KAZAKHSTAN OFF JACKSON-VANIK LIST [...] (SBU) Summary: Post believes the time is right to remove Kazakhstan from the Jackson-Vanik list, thus eliminating a legal obstacle to Kazakhstan's WTO accession. President Nazarbayev identified WTO accession as a top economic goal in his January 11 inauguration speech. We believe that the GO [...] | 2006-01-18 07:24:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KZ ETRD PREL WTO ECONOMIC |
06ALMATY1703 | KAZAKHSTAN: DISCUSSION OF GUANTANAMO DETAINEES [...] (SBU) Summary: Kazakhstan insists on a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty with the U.S. in order to accept the return of Guantanamo detainees. The MFA is willing to meet with U.S. experts in Astana to discuss the issue. See request for guidance, para. 4. End summary. 2. (SBU) On May 2, Poloff [...] | 2006-05-15 02:25:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER KAWC PINR PREL KZ |
06ALMATY171 | SSD/CTR: WMD-PPI-K-035-05 (CCR) Exit cable on technical [...] (SBU) Summary: Project Manager, Mr. John Booker, and delegation participated in site visit and discussed programmatic issues for the Weapons of Mass Destruction Infrastructure Elimination (WMDIE-K-1) Project pursuant to referenced cables. End summary. 2. (SBU) Objectives/Agenda The purpos [...] | 2006-01-18 09:57:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA PARM KZ ECONOMIC DTRO WMD |
06ALMATY1720 | KAZAKHSTAN: PROPOSED AGREEMENT ON INFORMATION SHARING [...] (SBU) Summary: In an October 2005 conversation with then- Deputy FM Shakirov, the Ambassador raised information sharing problems related to the BN-350 decommissioning project. The two discussed the advisability of an information sharing agreement to resolve this and potential future problems. [...] | 2006-05-16 01:22:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KNNP MARR KZ |
06ALMATY1729 | KAZAKHSTAN 2006 SPECIAL 301 NOTIFICATION [...] (U) Summary: IPR Committee officials expressed deep gratitude for Kazakhstan's removal from the Special 301 Watchlist, were receptive to U.S. recommendations, and requested U.S. expertise in implementing further reforms. End summary. 2. (U) POEC Chief notified Nurgaysha Sakhipova, Deputy C [...] | 2006-05-16 11:44:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PREL KZ |
06ALMATY1750 | KAZAKHSTAN: INFORMATION MINISTER REPLACES MANAGERS AT NATIONAL TELEVISION STATIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-05-17 10:17:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KPAO KDEM KZ |
06ALMATY1759 | KAZAKHSTAN: REGIONAL OPPOSITION ACTIVIST SENTENCED TO [...] (SBU) Summary: An activist from the "For a Just Kazakhstan" (FJK) movement has been sentenced to five years in jail for allegedly ordering others to burn Nazarbayev campaign billboards. FJK leaders claim the charges were trumped up in order to justify statements by law enforcement authorities d [...] | 2006-05-18 01:14:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KDEM KZ |
06ALMATY1762 | KAZAKHSTAN: ZHAKIYANOV'S LATEST LEGAL BATTLE [...] (SBU) Summary: The Kazakhstani Ministry of Internal Affairs, working with the Pavlodar Oblast Court, has succeeded in modifying the terms of Galymzhan Zhakiyanov's parole in order to retroactively justify the April 24 decision not to allow him to travel to Europe. Under the revised conditions, [...] | 2006-05-18 01:14:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KZ |
06ALMATY188 | KAZAKHSTAN: REQUEST TO REMOVE EQUIPMENT PROVIDED [...] (SBU) On January 6, Embassy Almaty received a diplomatic note from the Ministry of Foreign affairs requesting that the U.S. Government take steps to remove equipment provided under the Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) program's former Defense Conversion program. The equipment is a productio [...] | 2006-01-19 02:09:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA PARM KZ POLITICAL DTRO |
06ALMATY1922 | KAZAKHSTAN: SECOND ROUND OF NUCLEAR SMUGGLING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Following up on their February meeting, the U.S. outreach delegation, augmented by IAEA and European Commission representatives, met in Astana May 25 with a Kazakhstani delegation comprising 14 representatives from seven ministries and organizations. The sides reached provisio [...] | 2006-05-31 01:22:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KNNP KZ |
06ALMATY1946 | KAZAKHSTAN: DISCUSSIONS ON GUANTANAMO DETAINEES; [...] (SBU) Summary: Poloff met with Kazakhstani Ministry of Foreign Affairs Officer Ualikhan S. Sanginkhanov to stress that it is not appropriate to link the return of the Kazakhstani detainees at Guantanamo to the conclusion of a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT),as the two matters are not [...] | 2006-06-01 16:58:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER KAWC PINR PREL KZ |
06ALMATY1960 | KAZAKHSTAN: A/S PATTERSON'S MEETINGS WITH GOK [...] (SBU) Summary: During a May 12 visit to Astana, INL A/S Anne Patterson, accompanied by Ambassador Ordway, secured agreement with the Vice Minister of Interior to initiate a counter-narcotics strategy dialogue. Her conversation with the Deputy Procurator General broke through a logjam on the [...] | 2006-06-03 03:09:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR ASEC KCOR KCRM PREL KZ |
06ALMATY1996 | KAZAKHSTAN: ATTENDANCE AT PSI HIGH-LEVEL POLITICAL [...] (U) On June 2, Poloff called Sergey Savelyev, Deputy Director of the MFA's Department of International Organizations and Security Issues, to discuss the Proliferation Security Initiative High-level Political Meeting to be held in Warsaw on June 23, and to inquire as to the GOK's plans for atte [...] | 2006-06-06 08:47:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MNUC KNNP PARM PREL KZ |
06ALMATY2007 | KAZAKHSTAN: NEW OWNER OF POPULAR WEEKLY CEDES CONTROL TO EDITOR [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-07 04:22:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KPAO KDEM KZ |
06ALMATY2074 | KAZAKHSTAN: DRAFT AMENDMENTS TO MEDIA LAW RAISE CONCERNS [...] No summary [...] | 2006-06-13 08:43:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KPAO KDEM KZ |
06ALMATY2115 | KAZAKHSTAN: SARSENBAIULY MURDER TRIAL BEGINS [...] (SBU) Summary: The highly-anticipated trial of the ten men accused in the murder of opposition leader Altynbek Sarsenbaiuly and his associates began June 14 in Taldykorgan, a regional capital several hours' drive from Almaty. The judges suspended the proceedings after only a few minutes on th [...] | 2006-06-16 01:34:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KZ |
06ALMATY214 | KAZAKHSTAN: SECRETARY JOHANNS' JANUARY 11 MEETING [...] (SBU) Summary: During a January 11 meeting with Secretary of Agriculture Johanns and his delegation, Halyk SIPDIS Bank CEO offered his opinion of the greatest challenges to the country's economic future: in the medium term, the choice of a new Prime Minister and the nature of reforms the ne [...] | 2006-01-23 09:36:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PREL ECON KZ ECONOMIC |
06ALMATY215 | KAZAKHSTAN: SECRETARY JOHANNS' JANUARY 11 MEETING [...] (U) Participants in Secretary Johanns' January 11 Meeting with Kazakhstani Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade Mynbayev in Astana: U.S. Secretary Mike Johanns SIPDIS Mrs. Stephanie Johanns Ambassador John Ordway Undersecretary of State for Economic, Business, and A [...] | 2006-01-23 09:36:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PREL ECON ETRD KZ ECONOMIC |
06ALMATY216 | KAZAKHSTAN: SECRETARY JOHANNS' JANUARY 11 MEETING [...] (U) Participants in Secretary Johanns' January 11 meeting with Kazakhstani Foreign Minister Tokayev in Astana: U.S. Secretary Mike Johanns SIPDIS Mrs. Stephanie Johanns Ambassador John Ordway Under Secretary of State for Economic, Business, and Agricultural Affairs Josette Shiner Unde [...] | 2006-01-23 09:38:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PREL ECON KZ POLITICAL |
06ALMATY2160 | KAZAKHSTAN: POLICE, ALGA SUPPORTERS CLASH AT SUPREME [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 6, opposition Alga party supporters were denied access to a Supreme Court hearing on the Ministry of Justice's decision to deny that party's bid for official registration. Failing to gain entry to the hearing, Alga supporters began to set up a sound system on the steps [...] | 2006-06-20 01:49:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KZ |
06ALMATY2187 | KAZAKHSTAN'S POSITION ON FMCT, U.S.-INDIA CIVIL [...] (SBU) Summary: Kazakhstan will carefully consider the U.S. proposal to conclude a Fissile Materials Cutoff Treaty (FMCT),and would like advance notice in order to be able to speak on the topic the next time it is raised in the Conference on Disarmament (CD). With regard to the U.S.- India ci [...] | 2006-06-21 03:45:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MNUC PARM PREL KNNP CDG KZ |
06ALMATY2191 | KAZAKHSTAN: PROCURATOR GENERAL'S OFFICE WANTS CHANGE IN [...] (SBU) Summary: INL funded a conference on improving the collection of crime statistics, organized by the Procurator General's Office in conjunction with the Customs Control Committee and the Border Guard Service. The main purpose of the conference was to improve collection of legal statistics [...] | 2006-06-21 08:45:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR ASEC KCRM KCOR PREL KZ |
06ALMATY2291 | KAZAKHSTAN: UZBEK REFUGEE DETAINED BY AUTHORITIES [...] (SBU) Summary: Kazakhstani security officials have detained an Uzbek citizen holding a UNHCR refugee certificate, purportedly in connection with crimes committed in Kazakhstan. UNHCR reports that the MFA has not responded formally to their numerous inquiries and requests for access, but has [...] | 2006-06-28 01:09:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF UZ KZ |
06ALMATY23 | KAZAKHSTAN: ZHAKIYANOV RELEASE DELAYED [...] (SBU) Summary: A local procurator in Pavlodar has blocked the release of jailed opposition leader Galymzhan Zhakiyanov, who had been scheduled for parole on December 24. A court will consider the case on January 10. The move has raised concerns that the GOK may have reversed its decision t [...] | 2006-01-04 12:17:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KZ POLITICAL |
06ALMATY2302 | KAZAKHSTAN: FIVE-YEAR SENTENCE UPHELD FOR REGIONAL [...] (U) Summary: On June 22, opposition activist Alibek Zhumabayev's appeal was rejected by the Taraz Regional Court. Zhumabayev had earlier been sentenced to five years in jail for hooliganism, insulting President Nazarbayev's dignity and honor, and organizing mass disorder. Zhumabayev's defense [...] | 2006-06-28 09:54:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KZ |
06ALMATY2393 | KAZAKHSTAN: AMBASSADOR'S JULY 3 MEETING WITH [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-06 11:10:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM MOPS PREL KZ AF |
06ALMATY2394 | KAZAKHSTAN: AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES DEMOCRATIC [...] No summary [...] | 2006-07-06 11:26:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM KZ |
06ALMATY2399 | KAZAKHSTAN: DISCUSSIONS ON GUANTANAMO DETAINEES [...] (SBU) Summary: In a June 29 meeting regarding the possible transfer of Kazakhstani citizens detained at Guantanamo, an MFA Consular Services representative stated that the GOK could give no guarantees that the transferred detainees would never again engage in terrorism, asked for the backgrou [...] | 2006-07-07 01:07:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER KAWC PINR PREL KZ |
06ALMATY2400 | KAZAKHSTAN PROPOSES DRAFT TEXT OF INFORMATION SHARING [...] (SBU) Summary: The Kazakhstani MFA has proposed a draft agreement on the sharing of classified information. Post believes it would be worthwhile to pursue such an agreement, and requests Department guidance (see para. 4). End summary. 2. (SBU) On July 6 post received a diplomatic note fro [...] | 2006-07-07 01:07:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KNNP MARR KZ |
06ALMATY2403 | KAZAKHSTAN: AMBASSADOR'S JULY 3 MEETING WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: In a July 3 meeting with the Ambassador, Security Council chair Marat Tazhin responded favorably to a suggestion that Kazakhstan allocate funds to supplement FMF funding for the purchase of UH-II helicopters through the Foreign Military Financing program, stated that Kazakhstan [...] | 2006-07-07 06:53:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM MOPS PREL KZ AF |
06ALMATY2404 | KAZAKHSTAN: AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES DEMOCRATIC [...] (SBU) Summary: In a July 3 meeting with the Ambassador, Deputy PA head Ashimbayev conceded that the process of consideration of amendments to the media law could have been more open, but argued that the current debate about the provisions proved that the process had been transparent. He stre [...] | 2006-07-07 06:53:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM KZ |
06ALMATY2453 | KAZAKHSTAN: PRO-PRESIDENTIAL PARTIES MERGE [...] (U) Summary: On July 4, the two main pro-presidential parties, Asar and Otan, merged. President Nazarbayev, who will be the official head of this mega-party, praised the merger and laid out the new party's leadership structure and strategic priorities. Dariga Nazarbayeva, the president's da [...] | 2006-07-11 10:48:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KZ |
06ALMATY2533 | KAZAKHSTAN: GLOBAL INITIATIVE COORDINATING OFFICER [...] (SBU) Embassy Almaty's Global Initiative Coordinating Officer is Pol-Econ Chief Deborah Mennuti. Unclassified email: mennutid@state.gov. Classified email: mennutid@state.sgov.gov. Office phone: 7 (3272) 50-49-95, home phone: 7 (3272) 60-70-72, cell phone: 7-333-222-2610. 2. (SBU) Back-u [...] | 2006-07-13 06:46:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MCAP PINS PTER KZ |
06ALMATY2545 | KAZAKHSTAN: PROGRESS ON UZBEK REFUGEE CASE [...] (SBU) Summary: Kazakhstani authorities granted UNHCR access to Uzbek refugee Gabdurafikh Temirbayev on July 11. UNHCR reports that Temirbayev is in good physical and mental condition. The GOK has also said that it will permit a joint review by the UNHCR and the Almaty procuracy of documentati [...] | 2006-07-13 15:21:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF UZ KZ |
06ALMATY256 | KAZAKHSTAN: COURT REFUSES TO ENFORCE BYELKAMIT [...] (SBU) Summary: A Kazakhstani court has refused to enforce the London Court of International Arbitration's award of legal fees to U.S. firm Byelocorp Scientific Inc. (BSI). BSI will contest the ruling, which asserted that enforcement of the LCIA award would be "detrimental to public order in [...] | 2006-01-24 07:50:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV PGOV PREL PINR KZ ECONOMIC |
06ALMATY2564 | KAZAKHSTAN: HOUSING DEMOLITIONS SPARK VIOLENCE [...] (SBU) Summary: A campaign by Almaty city authorities to demolish illegally-built houses has turned violent. Several residents of the Bakay neighborhood who resisted eviction on July 7 were wounded in clashes with the police. The residents were unable to prevent the authorities from demolishi [...] | 2006-07-14 14:28:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF UZ KZ |
06ALMATY2603 | KAZAKHSTAN: NEW INTERNET DOMAIN REGULATIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: Last year, the GOK issued new regulations stating that the government would control the registration of internet domains in Kazakhstan. These rules have been criticized by internet groups and the OSCE as unduly politicizing Kazakhstani cyberspace. However, to date the rules ha [...] | 2006-07-19 07:33:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KZ |
06ALMATY2607 | KAZAKHSTAN: ATTENDANCE AT BUDAPEST PRT CONFERENCE [...] (U) In response to Ref A logistical information, Zhanbulat Ussenov of the MFA's North America/Europe division reported on July 19 that Kazakhstani ambassador to Hungary Rashid Ibrayev would attend the July 20-21 PRT Effectiveness Conference in Budapest. Ussenov promised to forward the logisti [...] | 2006-07-20 06:26:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM AORD NATO KZ |
06ALMATY2668 | KAZAKHSTAN: CANWFZ TO BE SIGNED SEPTEMBER 8 [...] (SBU) In a July 24 meeting with General Abizaid (other issues to be reported septel),Deputy Foreign Minister Kairat Abdrakhmanov stated that the five countries of Central Asia intend to sign the Central Asian Nuclear Weapons Free Zone (CANWFZ) Treaty on September 8. 2. (SBU) Abdrakhmanov d [...] | 2006-07-24 12:44:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP PARM UNGA KZ |
06ALMATY2673 | KAZAKHSTAN: THE NUCLEAR INDUSTRY [...] (SBU) Summary: The nuclear fuel cycle in Kazakhstan is wholly managed by the state-owned Kazatomprom company, and dominated by uranium mining and milling operations. Kazatomprom is investing heavily in increasing uranium production not only to profit from the projected increase in world demand, [...] | 2006-07-25 09:02:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KNNP MARR KZ |
06ALMATY2783 | KAZAKHSTAN: REACTION TO IRAN DEMARCHE [...] (U) Pol-Econ Chief conveyed reftel demarche to Daniyar Sarekenov of the MFA's Middle East division on July 27. 2. (SBU) Sarekenov said that Kazakhstan was very concerned with the developing situation in Iran and hoped for a constructive response from the GOI to the P5+1 proposal. The GOK pl [...] | 2006-08-03 10:52:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KNNP PARM IR KZ |
06ALMATY2822 | KAZAKHSTAN OFFERS LEGAL STATUS FOR LABOR MIGRANTS [...] Summary: August 1 was the effective date of a new amnesty law allowing illegal laborers from CIS countries to obtain legal status in Kazakhstan. In order to qualify, employers of illegal laborers must submit application documents to the city migration police before December 31. Migrants will [...] | 2006-08-08 09:57:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB PBTS PGOV PHUM PREF PREL SMIG KZ |
06ALMATY2890 | KAZAKHSTANI GOVERNMENT SETS ITS SIGHTS ON ROADSIDE [...] (SBU) Summary: In an effort to reduce low-level corruption, the Ministry of Internal Affairs introduced new controls on the activities of the notoriously bribe-happy traffic police. Post considers these measures, while not a cure-all, a clear step in the right direction. End summary. ----- [...] | 2006-08-12 03:33:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM ECON KDEM EINV KPAO PGOV KZ |
06ALMATY2904 | KAZAKHSTAN: PROCURACY REJECTS UZBEK EXTRADITION [...] (SBU) UNHCR representative Cesar Dubon called the Ambassador on August 14 to report that after a joint review with UNHCR, the Procuracy General rejected Uzbekistan's request for the extradition of refugee Gabdurafikh Temirbayev (reftel). Temirbayev has been accepted for resettlement by Sweden [...] | 2006-08-15 03:05:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREF UZ KZ |
06ALMATY2953 | KAZAKHSTAN: FOREIGN MINISTER ON GUANTANAMO [...] (SBU) Summary: During an August 17 meeting, Foreign Minister Tokayev told Ambassador Ordway that he would recommend to President Nazarbayev that Kazakhstan send a "fact finding" team to Afghanistan to investigate possible Kazakhstani participation in a Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT). T [...] | 2006-08-19 03:39:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KZ |
06ALMATY2955 | KAZAKHSTAN: FOREIGN MINISTER ON GUANTANAMO [...] (SBU) Summary: During an August 17 meeting, Foreign Minister Tokayev told Ambassador Ordway that he would recommend to President Nazarbayev that Kazakhstan send a "fact finding" team to Afghanistan to investigate possible Kazakhstani participation in a Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT). T [...] | 2006-08-19 03:39:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KZ |
06ALMATY3026 | KAZAKHSTAN: DAS FEIGENBAUM'S MEETINGS IN ALMATY [...] (SBU) Summary: During an August 22-24 visit to Almaty, SCA DAS Evan Feigenbaum met with a wide range of civil society, political, and business representatives who painted a vivid picture of the political and economic challenges facing Kazakhstan. His interlocutors expressed concern about res [...] | 2006-08-28 02:53:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KDEM PHUM KZ |
06ALMATY3027 | KAZAKHSTAN: TIMUR KULIBAYEV GIVES DAS FEIGENBAUM [...] (SBU) Summary: During an August 25 meeting in Astana, Presidential son-in-law Timur Kulibayev provided SCA DAS Evan Feigenbaum with an overview of Kazakhstan's oil and gas sector, outlining his vision for the next decade. Kulibayev expressed firm support for the Trans-Caspian gas pipeline proj [...] | 2006-08-28 05:14:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KZ |
06ALMATY3028 | KAZAKHSTAN: VICE MINISTER OF TRADE DISCUSSES [...] (SBU) Summary: During an August 25 meeting in Astana with SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum, Vice Minister of Industry and Trade Askar Batalov described Kazakhstan's economic diversification strategy and highlighted the promise of, and obstacles to, greater regional trade. Of the [...] | 2006-08-28 05:14:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KZ |
06ALMATY3040 | SECURITY COUNCIL CHAIRMAN: KAZAKHSTAN WILL SEND [...] No summary [...] | 2006-08-28 08:13:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KZ |
06ALMATY3041 | SECURITY COUNCIL CHAIRMAN TAZHIN, DAS FEIGENBAUM [...] (SBU) Summary: During an August 25 meeting in Astana, the Chairman of Kazakhstan's Security Council, Marat Tazhin, told SCA Deputy Assistant Secretary Evan Feigenbaum that the GOK was assembling an inter-agency "Survey Team" to study possible Kazakhstani participation in an Afghan Provincial [...] | 2006-08-28 09:28:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KZ |
06ALMATY3062 | KAZAKHSTAN: DAS FEIGENBAUM MEETS WITH DEPUTY PRIME [...] (SBU) Summary: On August 25, SCA DAS Evan Feigenbaum and Ambassador Ordway met with Deputy Prime Minister Karim Masimov in Astana. Conversation centered on preparations for a joint U.S.-Kazakhstan meeting on the margins of the upcoming World Bank-IMF meetings in Singapore, President Nazarbaye [...] | 2006-08-28 11:35:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON KZ |
06ALMATY3075 | KAZAKHSTAN NONCOMMITAL ON INDIA CIVIL NUCLEAR [...] (SBU) Summary: The Kazakhstani MFA welcomes progress in the U.S. and India on laying the groundwork for civil nuclear cooperation, and will consider making a statement of support at the upcoming NSG meeting in Vienna. Kazakhstan would like to ensure that Pakistan's views are considered as th [...] | 2006-08-31 04:44:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ENRG KSCA PARM KNNP ETTC IN KZ |
06ALMATY3076 | KAZAKHSTAN: CANWFZ SIGNING WILL HAPPEN AS PLANNED [...] (SBU) Summary: The countries of Central Asia will sign the Central Asian Nuclear Weapons Free Zone Treaty on September 8 in Semipalatinsk despite P-3 concerns, according to Deputy Foreign Minister Abdrakhmanov, because it is too late to postpone the event. End summary. 2. (SBU) In an Augu [...] | 2006-08-31 04:46:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP PARM UNGA KZ |
06ALMATY3107 | CONTACTING MISSION KAZAKHSTAN DURING THE MOVE FROM [...] (SBU) Embassy Almaty is preparing to move to Astana, pending completion of the New Embassy Compound (NEC) in Kazakhstan's capital. Although the move into the NEC will not start until September 29, many sections have already relocated to temporary offices in the Embassy Branch Office in Asta [...] | 2006-09-06 02:29:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMGT ACOA AFIN ASEC KZ |
06ALMATY3143 | KAZAKHSTAN: SUPREME COURT DENIES HARE KRISHNA [...] (SBU) Summary: On August 24, the Supreme Court of Kazakhstan denied the Hare Krishnas' appeal of an adverse lower court ruling concerning title to their commune in the Karasai district, near Almaty. The GOK now intends to form a special commission to resolve the issue. The Hare Krishnas are [...] | 2006-09-06 21:57:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PGOV KZ |
06ALMATY3178 | KAZAKHSTAN: KAZMUNAIGAS ANNOUNCES OFFERING OF [...] (SBU) Summary: On September 4, KazMunaiGas Exploration and Production company (KMG E&P),the onshore production subsidiary of Kazakhstan's state-owned oil company, formally announced its intention to issue shares on both Kazakhstan's stock exchange (KASE) and the London Stock Exchange. Accord [...] | 2006-09-11 08:48:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KZ |
06ALMATY3245 | KAZAKHSTAN: GOK AGREES TO THE TRANSFER OF [...] (SBU) Summary: This is an action request. The Government of Kazakhstan has agreed to receive the transfer of the Kazakhstani detainees at Guantanamo Bay, according to Kazakhstani Ministry of Foreign Affairs Officer Ualikhan S. Sanginkhanov. Post requests Department guidance on the mechanism [...] | 2006-09-15 01:15:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER KAWC PINR PREL KZ |
06ALMATY3271 | BOUCHER AND AITZHANOVA DISCUSS STATUS OF [...] (SBU) Summary: During a September 9 meeting in Astana, Assistant Secretary Boucher and Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade Aitzhanova discussed the timing of the next round of bilateral World Trade Organization negotiations, next steps on Kazakhstan's negotiations with Working Party members, [...] | 2006-09-18 06:42:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ETRD ECON KZ |
06ALMATY3272 | KAZAKHSTAN: BOUCHER AND TAZHIN COVER AFGHANISTAN, [...] (SBU) Summary: Kazakhstan will send a survey team to Afghanistan in September to examine ways to support reconstruction, Security Council secretary Tazhin told Assistant Secretary Boucher during a September 8 meeting. Boucher welcomed the news and encouraged Kazakhstan to look at assistance p [...] | 2006-09-18 06:44:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM EINV ENRG SNAR IQ KZ |
06ALMATY3273 | BOUCHER TO DZHAKSYBEKOV: CONCRETE PROGRESS ON [...] (SBU) Summary: In a September 8 meeting with Presidential Administration head Dzhaksybekov, Assistant Secretary Boucher outlined U.S. hopes for President Nazarbayev's upcoming visit to Washington, pressing on the importance of showing concrete progress on democratic reform. In the context of [...] | 2006-09-18 06:45:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KDEM ETRD MOPS AF KZ |
06ALMATY3274 | KAZAKHSTAN: A/S BOUCHER AND DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER [...] (SBU) Summary: Deputy Prime Minister Masimov expressed concern regarding the pace of bilateral WTO negotiations with the U.S. during a September 8 meeting with Assistant Secretary Boucher and requested a sign of U.S. support for SIPDIS Kazakhstan's early accession during President Nazarbayev [...] | 2006-09-18 07:13:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ETRD ECON EINV ENRG AF KZ |
06ALMATY3275 | KAZAKHSTAN: A/S BOUCHER MEETS WITH SENATE SPEAKER [...] (SBU) Summary: Senate Speaker Abykayev told Assistant Secretary Boucher on September 9 that Kazakhstan saw SIPDIS President Nazarbayev's upcoming visit to the U.S. as an opportunity to highlight its record on economic reform and security. A/S Boucher underscored the need to discuss plans f [...] | 2006-09-18 07:14:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KDEM KZ |
06ALMATY3278 | KAZAKHSTAN: CEO UPDATES AMBASSADOR ON STATE [...] (SBU) Summary: Sauat Mynbayev, Acting CEO of Samruk, Kazakhstan's Holding Company for State Assets, told Ambassador on September 12 that Samruk had completed its "organizational phase" and was now concentrating on improving corporate management. Mynbayev confirmed the anticipated privatizati [...] | 2006-09-18 09:41:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ENRG EPET KZ |
06ALMATY3280 | KAZAKHSTAN: "KAZENERGY" LOBBYING ASSOCIATION [...] (SBU) Summary: "KazEnergy," Kazakhstan's new "power industry" association founded by presidential son-in-law Timur Kulibayev, made its public debut the week of September 5 by organizing the first annual "Eurasia Energy Forum" in Astana. The high-level GOK and private sector attendance at the [...] | 2006-09-18 10:17:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KZ |
06ALMATY3296 | KAZAKHSTAN TO SEND SURVEY TEAM TO AFGHANISTAN [...] (SBU) Summary: A high-level Kazakhstani survey team will visit Afghanistan the week of September 24 in order to examine participation in a Provincial Reconstruction Team and possible investment/reconstruction projects. The team will provide its recommendations to President Nazarbayev soon af [...] | 2006-09-19 05:24:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM AORD NATO KZ |
06ALMATY339 | KAZAKHSTAN: REQUEST FOR NUCLEAR SMUGGLING TALKS [...] (SBU) Post conveyed reftel points to the Kazakhstani MFA by diplomatic note on January 20. Olzhas Togyzbayev, of the MFA's international security department told POEC chief on January 25 that, in principle, he thought the idea of a systematic review of programs to combat nuclear smuggling was [...] | 2006-01-31 02:46:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP PREL PARM PINS KZ POLITICAL |
06ALMATY3394 | KAZAKHSTAN: FEEDBACK ON GICNT DOCUMENTS PROMISED [...] (U) Pol-Econ Chief, along with Counselor Gennadiy Spiglyazov and Third Secretary Dmitriy Tretyakov from the Russian Embassy, conveyed Ref A points and documents to Olzhas Togyzbayev of the MFA's international security section on September 21. 2. (SBU) Togyzbayev indicated that despite the f [...] | 2006-09-25 06:29:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER KGIC MCAP PINR PINS KNNP KZ |
06ALMATY3396 | KAZAKHSTAN: INVITATION TO IRAQ CONFERENCE DELIVERED [...] (U) Pol-Econ Chief conveyed reftel demarche and invitation letter addressed to FM Tokayev to Daniyar Sarekenov of the MFA's Middle East division on September 22. 2. (SBU) Sarekenov noted that in the absence of FM Tokayev, currently in New York for UNGA, he would forward the letter to Deputy [...] | 2006-09-25 06:30:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MOPS PREL IZ KZ |
06ALMATY379 | KAZAKHSTAN: JANUARY 27 MEDIA ROUNDUP [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-01 12:15:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KPAO KDEM KZ |
06ALMATY434 | KAZAKHSTAN: GENERAL WALD,S MEETING WITH ENERGY [...] (SBU) Summary: During a January 19-20 visit to Astana, EUCOM Deputy Commander General Charles Wald discussed energy security with oil and gas company representatives. General Wald underscored the importance of energy as a security issue, informing his interlocutors that NATO's new mission inc [...] | 2006-02-03 12:06:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MAS PREL ENRG KZ |
06ALMATY456 | KAZAKHSTAN: RUSSIANS HOST CTAG MEETING [...] (SBU) Summary: During the first CTAG of the Russian G-8 presidency, representatives of G-8 embassies discussed the threats to Kazakhstan posed by international terrorism, organized crime, and drug trafficking. While expressing general satisfaction with the GOK's approach to counterterrorism [...] | 2006-02-07 03:43:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER RS KZ |
06ALMATY49 | KAZAKHSTAN: SUIT AGAINST ZHUMA TIMES BEGINS [...] SUMMARY. The trial to close the opposition newspaper Zhuma Times began January 6 and was immediately put on hold pending a request to move the case to another jurisdiction. Lawyer Sergey Utkin asked that the case be transferred from Almaty's inter-district economic court to the Auezovskiy di [...] | 2006-01-05 12:49:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KPAO KDEM KZ POLITICAL |
06ALMATY576 | KAZAKHSTAN: OPPOSITION FIGURE MURDERED IN ALMATY [...] (SBU) Summary: The body of leading opposition figure Altynbek Sarsenbaiuly, along with those of two associates, was found in an Almaty field on February 13. All three men had been shot to death and appear to have been murdered. The Minister of Internal Affairs is personally supervising the i [...] | 2006-02-13 13:48:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | POLITICAL |
06ALMATY6 | KAZAKHSTAN: SHKOLNIK ON NUCLEAR POWER INDUSTRY [...] (SBU) Summary: The Kazakhstani Minister of Energy spoke publicly on December 21 about the need for Kazakhstan to develop a domestic nuclear power industry. He cited Kazakhstan's enormous uranium reserves and significant experience with nuclear technology as factors in the decision. Although [...] | 2006-01-03 05:31:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG PGOV KZ ECONOMIC |
06ALMATY646 | KAZAKHSTAN: UPDATE ON MURDER OF OPPOSITION FIGURE [...] (SBU) Summary: An estimated three to five thousand people, including the Ambassador, DCM and representatives from other missions and international organizations, attended the February 15 memorial services in Almaty for slain opposition leader Altynbek Sarsenbaiuly. No prominent GOK official [...] | 2006-02-15 12:54:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | POLITICAL |
06ALMATY78 | KAZAKHSTANI RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON AFGHAN COMPACT [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. 2. (SBU) On December 22, Poloff delivered reftel demarche on donor pledging for the Afghanistan Compact in London to Aitzhan Aidashev, First Secretary in the Asia Department of the Kazakhstani Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Aidashev co [...] | 2006-01-12 05:07:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EAID PREL AF KZ POLITICAL |
06ALMATY79 | KAZAKHSTAN: BAYMENOV LOOKS TOWARD ASTANA [...] (SBU) Summary: Unsuccessful Ak Zhol presidential candidate Alikhan Baymenov is moving to reorganize his party, with the goal of occupying the Mazhilis seat it won in 2004 elections and engaging the GOK in discussion of political reform. The party also intends to take part in the Democratizat [...] | 2006-01-12 05:08:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KZ POLITICAL |
06ALMATY821 | OPPOSITION, AMBASSADOR DISCUSS SARSENBAIULY CASE [...] (SBU) Summary: In a March 2 meeting, opposition leaders Oraz Zhandosov and Tulegan Zhakayev told Ambassador that, while they could accept that the ten people arrested thus far in the Sarsenbaiuly murder case (reftels) had been involved in the crime, they did not believe that Senate Administ [...] | 2006-03-02 12:57:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KZ POLITICAL |
06ALMATY960 | SECRETARY BODMAN'S MARCH 14 MEETINGS IN KAZAKHSTAN [...] (SBU) Summary: Secretary Bodman conducted a full day of meetings with Government of Kazakhstan (GOK) officials and energy sector representatives in Astana on March 14, on the eve of the Secretary's G8 energy meetings in Moscow. (Secretary Bodman's meeting with President Nazarbayev is reported [...] | 2006-03-16 01:43:00 | US Office Almaty | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PREL ECON ENRG ETRD KZ ECONOMIC |
06AMMAN1156 | PSI DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-16 14:36:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHSA ETTC KNNP MNUC JO |
06AMMAN1174 | LOWER HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT APPROVES BUDGET AMIDST [...] (SBU) The Chamber of Deputies on February 15 approved the GOJ's budget for 2006 (reftel) with only minor modifications during a chaotic session marked by a walkout of MPs and a vote by a hurried show of hands. During the full week of debate prior to the vote, 72 out of 110 MPs insisted on ex [...] | 2006-02-16 16:08:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EFIN JO |
06AMMAN1214 | INVITATION FOR DEFENSE THREAT REDUCTION AGENCY [...] (U) SUMMARY. Embassy Amman invites the Defense Threat Reduction Agency International Counterproliferation Program to begin a partnership with the Government of Jordan. Post will coordinate program events with other USG assistance. END SUMMARY. 2. INVITATION. A. (SBU) Embassy Amman is p [...] | 2006-02-21 11:10:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC MNUC PARM PREL MASS KSTC KNNP JO |
06AMMAN1315 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION HOST COUNTRY AGREEMENT [...] No summary [...] | 2006-02-22 16:02:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MASS MOPS KTIA JO |
06AMMAN151 | ARTICLE 98 -- PARLIAMENT COMPLETES RATIFICATION [...] No summary [...] | 2006-01-08 15:55:00 | Embassy Amman | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MARR JO KICC |