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ABLD BUILDING AND GROUNDS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The acquisition, management, and operation of U.S.-owned or-leased facilities and sites both domestic and foreign. (Replaces RCHB file categories: BG, ES)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acquisition
* AIEP
* Allotment
* Antenna
* Antiques
* Appraisals
* Architecture
* Asbestos
* Audit
* Bid Results
* Breathing Device
* Building
* Building Design
* Building Management
* Carpet
* Chancellery
* Construction Management
* Construction Security
* Consulate
* Contract Amendment Contract Award Contract Renewal Contract Termination Contractor
* Core Area
* DCR
* Deed
* Descent Device
* Electrical System
* Elevator
* Embassy
* EMR
* Energy Conservation
* EURMAC
* Fire Alarm
* Fire Detection System
* Fire Prevention
* Fire Safety
* Furnishings
* Generator
* Geotechnical
* Gift
* Hazardous Material
* Housing
* HVAC
* Improvement
* Inventory
* Lease
* Legation
* Maintenance
* Mechanical System
* NOB
* Parking
* PCC
* Post Opening
* Property Exchange
* Property Sales
* Public Access Control
* Real Property
* Reciprocity
* REMS
* Renovation
* Safety & Health Designee
* Safety Program
* Security Enhancement
* Seismology
* SHEMC
* Shielded Enclosure
* Site
* Space Management
* Survey
* WASHMAC
* Water Analysis
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AEMR EMERGENCY PLANNING AND EVACUATION
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Measures and actions implemented to protect U.S. personnel, citizens, property and information; especially related to crisis situations. (Replaces RCHB file category: EP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Citizen Protection
* Contingency Plan EAP
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Property
* Protection
* Records Destruction
* Rescue
* Safehaven
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AFIN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

The fiscal operations of the Department, Foreign Service posts, and other Federal agencies. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, FMGT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accounting
* Allowance
* Annuity Check
* Antideficiency
* Appropriation
* Audit
* Authentication Bank
* Account Bonding
* CAPPS
* Cash
* Cash Management
* Cashier
* Central Claim
* Commercial Claim
* Compensation
* Debt Collection
* Deficit
* Disallowances
* Disbursement
* Employee Claim
* ESF
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Management System
* Fiscal
* Fiscal Irregularities
* Foreign Currency
* FSCADP
* Fund Allotment
* Funding
* GBL
* General Ledger
* GTR
* Home Leave
* ICASS
* Leave
* Liquidation
* Local Currency
* Nonreceipt
* Over Obligation
* Pay Advance
* Pay Record
* Payment
* Payroll
* Payroll Deduction
* PCS
* Per Diem
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Post MGT
* Premium Pay
* Prompt Payment
* Reimbursement
* Relocation
* Reprogramming
* Retirement
* Security Enhancement
* Taxes
* TDY
* Time & Attendance
* Transportation Request
* Travel Advance
* Travelers Checks
* Treasury Check
* Vendor
* Vouchers
* Vulnerability Assessment
* Wages
* Working Capital Fund
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AMGT MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The management and organization of the Department and posts abroad and other U.S. agencies. (Replaces RCHB file category: ORG)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Administration
* Audit
* Authorities
* Background Information
* Bureau Organization
* Commissary
* Congressional Report
* Delegation of Authority
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Employee Association
* FCS
* FTE
* Geneva Group
* GORI
* Information System
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* Internal Control
* JAO
* Management Initiative
* Management Issues
* Mission Closure
* Mission Opening
* Occupational Safety
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Office Procedures
* Organization
* Overseas Post
* PCS
* Post Closing
* Post MGT
* Post Opening
* Post Operating Plan
* Reciprocity
* Recreation
* Reorganization
* Scheduling
* Staffing
* Support Services
* Survey
* Task Force
* Workload
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AORC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES
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Effective from January 1983

The structure and management of international or regional organizations and conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL and Organization Name)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Administration
* Application
* Budget
* Candidate
* Chairman
* Charter
* Congressional Reports
* Constitution
* Donor
* Election Results
* Financial Contribution
* Geneva Group
* Host Government
* Information System
* Infrastructure
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* International Organization
* International Organization Official
* Meeting Agenda
* Meeting Delegation
* Meeting Observer
* Meeting Venue
* Membership
* NGO
* Nomination
* Nonparticipation
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Participation
* PERMREP
* Referendum
* Reform
* Regional Organization
* Regional Organization Official Reorganization
* Resignation from Office Seating
* Secession Secretary General Specialized Agency
* Sponsorship
* Staffing
* Vacancy Announcement
* Veto
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
* Voting
* Wages
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APER PERSONNEL
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administration and support of the Department's Civil and Foreign

Service personnel. (Replaces RCHB file category: PER)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Adoption
* Affirmative
* Action
* Ambassador
* Appeal
* Award
* Backpay
* Benefit Plan
* Bilateral Work Agreements
* Blood Donor
* Boarding School Career Development Career Mobility
* CFC
* Civil Service
* Civil Service Reform Act
* Class Action Suit
* CLO Program
* Community Liaison Office
* Coordinators
* Compensation
* Complaint
* Complement
* Consultation
* Continuing Education
* Contract Employee
* Conversion
* CSR
* Death
* Demotion
* Dependent
* Dependent Education
* Dependent Employment
* Discipline
* Divorce
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Employee Association
* Employee Benefit
* Employee Relations
* Employee Service
* Employee Status
* Employee Training
* Employment
* Equal Employment Opportunity
* Family Life
* Family Separation
* Family Support Services
* Fellowship
* FERS
* Foreign Born Spouses
* Foreign Service
* Foreign Service Act
* FSPS
* FTE
* Functional Training
* Grade Retention
* Grievance
* Health
* Injury
* Insurance
* International School
* Interns
* Interview
* Job Title
* Leave
* Library
* Merit Pay
* Merit Promotion
* Military Furlough
* Military Reserve
* Nomination
* Nonsensitive Critical Position
* Open Assignments
* Orientation
* Overcomplement
* Pay Record
* Performance Evaluation
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Personnel
* Personnel Action
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Assignment
* Personnel Classification
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Promotion
* Personnel Reassignment
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Photographer
* PIT
* Position Classification
* Position Description
* Premium Pay
* Presidential Executive Exchange Program
* Private School
* Probation
* Promotion Panel
* PSC
* Public School
* Recall
* Recruitment
* Reentry
* Relocation
* Remains Disposition
* Reprogramming
* Retired Annuitant
* Retirement
* RIF
* Sabbatical
* Savings Bond
* School Admissions
* SEF
* Selection Board
* Selection Out
* Senior Foreign Service
* SES
* Severance Pay
* Sexual Harassment
* Skill Codes
* Spouse
* Staffing
* Staffing Pattern
* Survey
* Tandem Couple
* TDY
* Tenure Board
* Termination
* Time & Attendance
* Upward Mobility
* U.S. Family Member
* Vacancy Announcement
* Wages
* Work Requirements
* Workload
* Workmen Compensation
* Workweek
* Youth Programs
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ASEC SECURITY
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The development, coordination, or administration of security policies and programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SY)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AIASA
* Airport Access Procedures
* Antifraud
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Armored Vehicle
* Assault
* Bugging
* Building
* Contract Guard Program
* Counterintelligence
* Debriefing
* Debugging
* Demolition
* Detection Equipment
* Dismantling
* Electronic Security Device
* Emergency Response Team
* Explosives
* Fraud
* Host Country Guards
* Host Country Police
* Identification Systems
* Information Security
* Local Guard Program
* Maps
* Mission Takeover
* Monitoring
* MSG
* Name Check
* NSU
* Personnel Protection
* Physical Security
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Property Protection
* Protective Security
* Public Access Control
* Regional Security
* Riot Control
* RSO
* Scheduled Reporting
* Security Assessment
* Security Clearance
* Security Crisis
* Security Enhancement
* Security Survey
* Security Violation
* Special Support Program
* Suitability
* Technical Security
* Telephone
* Tempest
* Terrorism
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Unit Security Procedures
* Warning System
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BEXP TRADE EXPANSION AND PROMOTION
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts to promote trade and other commercial activities, including specific proposals and inquiries to establish trade relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: TP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Best Prospect
* Bid
* Business Firm
* Businessmen
* CMP
* Commercial Action
* Commercial Association
* Consultation
* Cooperatives
* Country Commercial
* Exhibit
* Exposition
* Foreign Agent
* Foreign Market
* Target Industry
* Targeting
* Trade Fair
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Visit
* WITS
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BTIO TRADE AND INVESTMENT
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OPPORTUNITIES

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Administrative and operational reporting on opportunities for U.S. businesses. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, TP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agribusiness
* Bid
* Business Firm
* FGT
* Foreign Markets
* GPC Implementation
* Joint Venture
* Patent
* PTO
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CASC ASSISTANCE TO CITIZENS
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Effective from May 1977 (Revised January 1983)

Consular services provided by the United States to citizens of the United States or any other country. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CON, PS)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Adoption
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Alien
* AMCIT
* Arrest Assault
* Attorney List
* Authorities
* Automation
* Child Custody
* Children Compensation
* Complaint
* Consular Assistance
* Consular Package
* Cult
* Custody
* Death Report
* Deportation
* Detention
* Direct Relay
* Drivers License
* Emergency Evacuation
* Estate
* Family
* FIMED
* Fraud Identification
* Lawyer
* Legal
* Medical Care
* Missing Person
* Murder Offenses
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Property
* Property Protection
* Release
* Remains Disposition
* Repatriation
* Seamen
* Ship Detention
* Ship Registry
* Spouse
* Third Country Representation
* Travel Advisory
* Trial
* Trust Account
* Trust Account Refund
* Welfare & Whereabouts
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CJAN JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE AND NOTARIAL SERVICES
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Effective from May 1983

Matters pertaining to Notarial Services and International Judicial Assistance, including the service of judicial and extra-judicial documents and obtaining evidence. (Replaces RCHB file categories: LEG, PS)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acknowledgment
* Affidavit
* Attorney List
* Authentication
* Automation
* Deed
* Deposition
* Documentation
* Evidence
* Extradition
* Fraud
* FSIA
* Judicial Assistance
* Letters Rogatory
* Notarial
* Oath
* Official Travel
* Prisoner Transfer
* Process Serving
* Subpoena
* Testimony
* Tort Claim
* Witness
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CMGT CONSULAR ADMINSTRATION AND MANAGEMENT
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Effective from August 1983

The administrative and operational management of Consular Affairs activities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, CON, FMGT,ORG, PER)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antifraud
* Automation
* CAS
* Consular Agent
* Consular Agreement
* Consular Conference
* Consular Equipment
* Consular Package
* Consular Service
* Consular Supplies
* Consular Treaty
* CSS
* ECR
* Fee
* Fraud
* ICARS
* IVACS
* Legislation
* MRP
* NIVCAPS
* Office Procedures
* Personnel
* PFM
* PIT
* Publication
* Space Management
* Supplies
* Support Services
* TDIS
* Third Country Representation
* Word Processor
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CVIS VISAS
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Effective from May 1973 (Revised January 1993)

Operational, procedural, and administrative functions of visa operations. (Replaces RCHB file category: V)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AA 1 Adoption
* Advisory Opinion AIDS
* Alien
* Alien Previously Deported
* Alien Smuggler
* Allocation
* Application
* Appointment
* Arrival Notice
* Athlete Automation
* Bearer Insert
* BUSVIS
* Centralized Visa Processing
* Chargeability
* CHINEX
* CLASS
* Clearance
* CONGRINT
* Consular Package
* Crew List
* Crewman
* Crime
* Data
* Defector
* Denial
* Departure Notice
* Dependent
* Deportation
* Derivatives
* Diversity Immigrant
* DNC
* Documentation
* DV 1DVACS
* Employment Based Preference
* Employment Creation
* Entertainer
* Entitlement
* Exchange Visitor
* Exclusion
* Extraordinary Ability
* Family Preference
* Fiance
* Fiancee
* Files
* Foreign Policy Exclusion
* Forms
* Fraud
* Health Related Grounds
* ICARS
* Immediate Relative
* Immigrant
* Intercompany Transferee
* International Child Abduction
* Interview
* Issuance
* IVACS
* Labor Certification
* LB 1
* Legislation
* Medical Examination
* Moral Turpitude
* MRV
* Name Check
* Narcotics Traffic
* News Media Representative
* NIV
* NIVCAPS
* Nonimmigrant
* Numerical Control
* NVC
* Operations
* Other Worker
* Out of District Applicant
* Parole
* Permanent Resident
* Polygamist
* Portsmouth Consular Center
* Priority Date
* Private Bill
* Procedures
* Public Charge
* Reciprocity
* Refugee
* Refusal
* Religious Worker
* Renewal
* Revocation
* SAO
* Skilled Worker
* SPLEX
* Student
* Supplies Temporary Worker
* Terrorist
* 30 60 Rule
* TIVPC
* Totalitarian Party Membership
* Transfer
* Transit
* Travel Agents
* Treaty Investor
* Treaty Trader
* TTYREP
* Validity Visa
* Visa Clearance
* Visa Photograph
* Visitor for Business
* VLOB
* Waiver
* Waiver of Ineligibility
* Walk Ins
* Workload
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EAGR AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Cultivating the soil and forest, raising livestock, and producing crops. (Replaces RCHB file category: AGR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Production
* Agricultural Program
* Agricultural Worker
* Agriculture
* Animal Disease
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Corn
* Cotton
* Crop Destruction
* Crops
* Dairy Products
* Desalinization
* Disease Control
* Drought
* Erosion
* Famine
* Farm Equipment
* Farming
* Fertilizer
* Food Shortages
* Forestry
* Fruit
* Fungicide
* Grain
* Harvest
* Herbicide
* Husbandry
* Insect
* Irrigation
* Jute
* Land Conservation
* Land Management
* Land Reform
* Livestock
* Natural Fiber
* Nuts
* Oilseeds
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Plant Disease
* Poultry
* Preservation
* Quarantine
* Rainfall
* Rice
* Rubber
* Seeds
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soybean
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Timber
* Tobacco
* Tropical Forest
* Vegetable
* Water Analysis
* Weather
* Wheat
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EAID FOREIGN ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Foreign economic and technical assistance provided by governments, international organizations, institutions, or private individuals. (Replaces RCHB file category: AID)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Agreement
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Program Airlift
* Bank
* Congressional Presentation
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Credit
* Debt
* Development Loan
* Development Program
* Disaster Relief
* Donor
* Economic Adviser
* Economic Assistance
* Economic Development
* Economic Support Fund
* Farm Equipment
* Financial Contribution
* Food
* Foreign Assistance Agreement
* Funding
* Grant
* Industrial Development
* Industrialized Nation
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* LLDC
* Loan
* Medical Care
* Medical Equipment
* North South Dialogue
* Paris Club
* PL 480
* PL 480 Title I
* PL 480 Title II
* PL 480 Title III
* Relief Effort
* Self Help
* Technical Assistance
* Water Analysis
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EAIR CIVIL AVIATION
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

Commercial and private aircraft and air operations, domestic as well as international. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AV, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Access
* Air Cargo
* Air Fare
* Air Safety
* Air Traffic
* Air Transportation
* Aircraft
* Aircraft Accident
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Airline
* Airport
* Airport Fee
* Airport Security
* Airspace
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Aviation Agreement
* Cargo Handling
* Charter Flight
* CIVAIR
* Commercial Aircraft
* Emergency Landing
* Flight Clearance
* Flight Manual
* Hazardous Cargo
* Helicopter
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Landing Rights
* Maintenance
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Manifest
* Pilot Training
* Private Aircraft
* Refueling
* Rescue
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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ECON ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The status of a nation's economy. (Replaces RCHB file category: E)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Development
* Antiinflationary Program
* Black Market
* Capital Investment
* Cost of Living
* Depression
* Economic Agreement
* Economic Assessment
* Economic Conditions
* Economic Crisis
* Economic Development
* Economic Forecast
* Economic Growth
* Economic Indicators
* Economic Program
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Reform
* Economic Report
* Economic Stability
* Economic Trend
* EEC 1992
* Employment
* Financial Profits
* GDP
* GNP
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Reform
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* National Debt
* NIEO
* Price Index
* Recession
* Stock Market
* Tax Law
* Unemployment
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ECPS COMMUNICATIONS AND POSTAL SYSTEMS
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Effective from March 1983

The efforts of governments, the private sector, or international organizations to manage, regulate, develop, apply, or monitor the methods and means of telecommunication, international communication policy, and the informational aspects of communication. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INF, MP, PO, PPB, PR, RAD, SP, TEL, TV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Broadcasting
* Cable TV
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* Fiber Optics
* Frequency Allocation
* Frequency Interference
* Frequency Spectrum
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Frequency
* lnformatics Information Access
* Information Center
* Information Flow
* Information Media
* Jamming
* Light Communication
* Networking
* NWICO
* Orbit
* Postal System
* Prior Consent
* Radio
* Satellite
* Telecommunication
* Telecommunication Agreement
* Telegraph
* Telephone
* Television
* Transborder Data Flow
* Transmitters
* Undersea Cable
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EFIN FINANCIAL AND MONETARY AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Domestic and international financial affairs of governments and private institutions. (Replaces RCHB file category: FN)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accounting
* Audit
* Bank
* Bank Account
* Bankruptcy
* Blocked Assets
* BOP
* Budget
* Buffer Stock
* Capital Flow
* CFF
* Commodities Exchange
* Credit
* Currency Shortage
* Debt
* Debt Equity Swap
* Debt Relief
* Debt Repayment
* Debt Repudiation
* Debt Rescheduling
* Deficit
* Devaluation
* Donor
* Drawing Rights
* Economic Growth
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Trend
* EFF
* EMS
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Agreement
* Financial Contribution
* Financial Control
* Financial Crisis
* Financial Market
* Financial Profits
* Financial Program
* Financial Reform
* Financial Reserve
* Financial Stability
* Foreign Currency
* Foreign Currency Control
* Foreign Currency Exchange
* Foreign Market
* Gold
* Grant
* IMF Standbys
* Income Tax
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* Loan Default
* Local Currency
* London Club
* National Income
* Overpayment
* Paris Club
* Payment
* Revaluation
* Sales Tax
* SDR
* Securities
* Securities Exchange
* Stock Shares
* Tax Haven
* Tax Law
* Taxation Treaties
* Treasury
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EFIS COMMERCIAL FISHING AND FISH PROCESSING
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The breeding and catching of fish and other marine life for commercial purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aquaculture
* Catch
* Quota Cod
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive Economic
* Zone Fish
* Fisheries
* Aid Fishery
* Fishing Agreement
* Fishing Concession
* Fishing Dispute
* Fishing Ground
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Fishing Vessel
* Fishing Vessel
* Detention Halibut
* Herring Joint
* Venture
* Quota Salmon
* Shellfish
* Shrimp
* TEDS
* Tuna
* Whaling Industry
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EIND INDUSTRY AND MANUFACTURING
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The commercial production of goods and services, including the processing of raw materials into manufactured goods. (Replaces RCHB file category: TEL, INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aerospace Industry
* Alloy
* Aluminum
* Antitrust
* Automotive Industry
* Bankruptcy
* Business Firm
* Capital Investment
* Chemical Industry
* Clothing Industry
* Commercial Association
* Communications Industry
* Complaint
* Construction Industry
* Consumer Goods
* Cooperatives
* Copyright Agreement
* Copyright Claim
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Dairy Industry
* Data Processing Industry
* Defense Industry
* Development Program
* Drug Industry
* Dyeing Industry
* Economic Growth
* Electronic Industry
* Espionage
* Factory
* Fertilizer Industry
* Finishing Industry
* Fishing Industry
* Food Contamination
* Food Industry
* Foreign Agent
* Fraud
* Garment Industry
* Garment Production
* Garment Workers
* Industrial Accident
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Production
* Industrial Reform
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insurance
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber Industry
* Machine Tool Industry
* Manmade Fiber
* Manufactured Product
* Merger
* Metal Industry
* Monopoly
* Nationalization
* Paper Industry
* Parastatal
* Patent
* Petroleum Industry
* Piracy
* Plastic Industry
* Power Looms
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Processing
* Product Safety
* Product Standards
* Product Testing
* Production
* Production Control
* Public Sector
* Railroad Industry
* Ramie
* Raw Materials
* Recall
* Registration
* Rubber Industry
* Sabotage
* Salvage
* Service Industry
* Shipbuilding Industry
* Silk
* Spinning Machinery
* Steel Industry
* Stockpile
* Subsidiary
* Subsidy
* Textile Industry
* Textile Production
* Tobacco Industry
* Tourism
* Trademark
* Vegetable Fiber
* Weaving Industry
* Wood Products Industry
* Wool
* Yarns
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EINT ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL INTERNET
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Effective from October 1997

Economic and commercial programs, policies, and issues relating to the Internet.

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agreement
* Censorship
* Competition
* Connectivity
* Content
* Copyright
* Data
* Democracy
* Economic Conditions
* Domain Names
* Electronic Commerce
* Encryption
* Free Flow of Information
* Information Availability
* Interconnectivity
* Internet
* Meeting
* Monopoly
* Piracy
* Policy
* Pornography
* Privacy
* Private Sector
* Reporting
* Trademark
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EINV FOREIGN INVESTMENTS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

Foreign investments made by governments or private enterprises for commercial gain. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bank
* Bid
* BIT
* Business Firm
* Business Loss
* Business Merger
* Capital Flow
* Capital Investment
* Compensation
* Credit
* Credit Guarantee
* Disinvestment
* Economic Growth
* Foreign Investment
* Fraud
* Garment Investment
* Insurance Risk
* Investment Climate
* Investment Control
* Investment Disputes
* Investment Guarantee
* Investment Incentive
* Investment Law
* Investment Opportunity
* Joint Venture
* Loan
* Multinational Corporation
* Nationalization
* Parastatal
* Private Investment
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Public Sector
* Subsidiary
* Textile Investment
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ELAB LABOR SECTOR AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised May 1995)

The labor sector, labor actors, and national labor policies and their effect on domestic and international systems and relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LAB)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Arbitration
* Benefits
* Bonded Labor
* Child Labor
* Collective Bargaining
* Compulsory Labor
* Dock Workers
* Employee Ownership
* Employee Rights
* Employer Organization
* Employment
* Equal Pay for Equal Work
* Forced Labor
* Foreign Worker
* GSP (Worker Rights)
* Illegal Worker
* International Labor Secretariat
* Job Creation
* Job Discrimination
* Job Security
* Job Training
* Labor Agreement
* Labor Code
* Labor Competition
* Labor Confederation
* Labor Cooperative
* Labor Costs
* Labor Courts
* Labor Disputes
* Labor Federation
* Labor Law
* Labor Leader
* Labor Market
* Labor Migration
* Labor Movement
* Labor Organization
* Labor Relations
* Labor Rights
* Labor Sector
* Labor Settlement
* Labor Standards
* Labor Union
* Layoffs
* Lockout
* Manpower
* Mediation
* NAFTA Labor Cooperation
* Occupational Health
* Occupational Safety
* Pension
* Prison Labor
* Privatization
* Right of Association
* Right to Organize Slave Labor
* Social Clause (WTO)
* Social Net
* Social Security
* Strike
* Trade
* Union
* Underemployment
* Unemployment
* Unemployment Insurance
* Vocational Training
* Wages
* Work Force
* Work Permit
* Worker Rights Workers
* Working Conditions
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ELTN LAND TRANSPORTATION
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

All aspects of land transportation. (Replaces RCHB file categories: IT, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antiterrorism Measures
* Automobile
* Bridge
* Bus
* Cargo Handling
* Detention
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Highway
* Highway Access
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Land Transportation
* Maintenance
* Overland Cargo
* Public Transportation
* Railroad
* Railroad Accident
* Railway Access
* Rescue
* Schedule
* Traffic Accident
* Traffic Safety
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
* Truck
* Tunnel
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EMIN MINERALS AND METALS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The exploration, discovery, and extraction of minerals and metals. (Replaces RCHB file category: INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bauxite
* Bid
* Chromite
* Coal
* Cobalt
* Copper
* Drilling
* Excavation
* Exclusive Economic Zone
* Exploration
* Factory
* Gems
* Gold
* Iron
* Magnesium
* Manganese
* Metal
* Mine
* Mineral
* Mineral Reserve
* Mining
* Mining Accident
* Mining Concession
* Nickel
* Offshore Mining
* Ore
* Quarry
* Silver
* Tin
* Tungsten
* Uranium
* Uranium Enrichment
* Zinc

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ENRG ENERGY AND POWER
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Government and private commercial activities in acquiring and providing energy services from all types of sources. For petroleum and natural gas, see EPET. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, FSE)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Coal
* Dam
* Decontamination
* Electric Energy
* Electric Power Plant
* Energy Conservation
* Energy Consumption
* Energy Reserve
* Energy Shortage
* Factory
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Fuel Shortage
* Generator
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Hydroelectric Power Plant
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
* Nuclear Power Plant
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Power Line
* Public Utility
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Reexport
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* Stockpile
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Thermal Power Plant
* Transformer
* Uranium Enrichment
* Wind Energy
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EPET PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
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Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)

Government and private sector activities in the exploration and extraction of petroleum and natural gas. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FSE, PET)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bid
* Drilling
* Exploitation
* Exploration
* LPG
* Natural Gas
* Natural Gas Pipeline
* Natural Gas Production
* Natural Gas Reserve
* Offshore Drilling
* Offshore Drilling Platform
* Offshore Oil
* Oil Field
* Petroleum
* Petroleum Concession
* Petroleum Pipeline
* Petroleum Production
* Petroleum Reserve
* Petroleum Shortage
* Refinery
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ETRD FOREIGN TRADE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Exchange of goods between nations. (Replaces RCHB file category: FT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alcoholic Beverage
* Aluminum
* Animal Hides
* Antidumping
* Antitrust
* Apparel Trade
* Arms
* Arms Traffic
* Barter
* BOP
* Boycott
* Buffer Stock
* Chemical
* Clothing
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Commercial Aircraft
* Commodity
* Commodity Market
* Communications Equipment
* Computer
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Countertrade
* Countervailing Duty
* Cross Border Trade
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Clearance
* Customs Court
* Customs Fine
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Official
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Dairy Products
* Debt
* Development Program
* Dispute Settlement
* Diversion
* Duty Free Entry
* East West Trade
* Economic Cooperation
* EEC 1992
* EEP
* Electronic Equipment
* Exhibit
* Export
* Fair Trade
* Farm Equipment
* FCN
* Fertilizer
* Fish
* Food
* Food Contamination
* Food Inspection
* Footwear
* Foreign Market
* Free Trade Zone
* Garment Exports
* Garment Imports
* Government Procurement
* GSP
* Harmonized System
* Helicopter
* Import
* Industrialized Nation
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Intervention
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* Leather
* License
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber
* Machine Tool
* Manmade Fiber
* Market Access
* Meat
* Meat Inspection
* Medical Equipment
* Merger
* Metal
* MFN
* MIC
* Monopoly
* Multifiber Arrangement
* NAFTA
* Natural Fiber
* Newly Industrialized Countries
* Nonalcoholic Beverage
* Nontariff Barriers
* North South Dialogue
* Oils
* Oilseeds
* Perishable Commodities
* Petroleum Products
* Pharmaceuticals
* Plastics
* Poultry
* Private Sector
* Product Standards
* Public Sector
* Quota
* Railroad Equipment
* Ramie
* Reexport
* Rice
* Rubber
* Sanction
* Shellfish
* Silk
* Smuggling
* Soybean
* Steel
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Synthetic Fiber
* Synthetic Rubber
* Tariff
* Tariff Barriers
* Tariff Relief
* Television
* Textile Exports
* Textile Imports
* Textiles
* Tin
* Tobacco
* Trade Agreement
* Trade Balance
* Trade Complaint
* Trade Control
* Trade Concession
* Trade Discrimination
* Trade Dumping
* Trade Fair
* Trade Law
* Trade Liberalization
* Trade Opportunity
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Protectionism
* Trade Relations
* Trade Visit
* Tuna
* VAT
* Vegetable
* Vegetable Fiber
* Vegetable Oil
* Wheat
* Wine
* Wood Products
* Wool
* Yarns
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ETTC TRADE AND TECHNOLOGY CONTROLS
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Effective from April 1984

Government efforts to control the transfer of goods (i.e., equipment),services, or technologies. This includes foreign policy trade controls, strategic (National Security) trade controls, munitions controls, general West to East technology transfer issues, and efforts to circumvent U.S. or COCOM controls. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FT, STR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Arms Traffic
* Blocked Assets
* Boycott
* COCOM Case
* COCOM List Review
* Computer
* Data Bases
* Data Processing Equipment
* Digital Switching
* Diversion
* EAA
* East West Trade
* Economic Warfare
* Electronic Equipment
* Embargo
* End Use Check
* End User
* Enforcement
* Espionage
* Exception List
* EXCON
* Export
* Export Control
* GSOIA
* GSOMIA
* High Technology Equipment
* IEEPA
* Illegal Trade
* Import Control
* ITAR
* Laboratory Equipment
* License
* Manufacturing Agreement
* Military Applications
* Military Critical Technologies
* Military Equipment
* Military Services
* Munitions Control
* NDPC
* Nonmarket Economy
* Origin Certificate
* Reexport
* Research & Development
* Sanction
* Security Survey
* Semiconductors
* SNEC
* Software
* Stockpile
* Strategic Material
* Strategic Trade Control
* Superconductor
* TCDC
* Technical Assistance Agreement
* Technology Acquisition Efforts
* Technology Gap
* Technology Transfer
* Transaction Check
* Turnkey Plant
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EWWT WATERBORNE TRANSPORTATION
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Movement of commercial and private vessels over high seas and inland waterways. (Replaces RCHB file categories: OS, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antiterrorism
* Measures Canal
* Cargo Handling
* Coast Guard
* Containerization
* Dock Workers
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Insurance
* Load Line
* Maintenance
* Marine Cargo
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Maritime Flag
* Maritime Law
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Ship
* Patrol Boat
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Port Congestion
* Private Ship
* Refueling
* Registration
* Rescue
* River
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule Ship Accident
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Detention
* Ship Harassment
* Ship Movement
* Ship Registry
* Shipyard
* SOLAS
* Strait
* Tonnage Measurement
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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KACT: Strategic Arms Control (ACS) Treaties
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Effective from August 2000 (Revised August 2004)

Use for all documents relating to specific, interrelated strategic (nuclear) arms control treaties and their implementation:

* ABM (i.e., anti-ballistic missile) treaty and its implementation body the SCC (Standing Consultative Commission);
* INF (i.e., Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) Treaty and its implementation body, the SVC (Special Verification Commission);
* START (i.e., Strategic Reductions Treaty) and its implementation body, the JCIC (Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission); and the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT) or the Moscow Treaty and its implementing body, the BIC (Bilateral Implementation Commission).

Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NP/EX)
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KAWC: Atrocities and War Crimes
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Effective from July 2001

Use for all documents relating to atrocities, massacres, and war crimes, including allegations, reports, investigations, and prosecutions of genocide, crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, and violations of the laws or customs for war. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau, Info: S/WCI)
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KCFE: Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
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Effective from August 1989

Use on all documents between U.S. Vienna and the Department pertaining to CFE negotiations; documents pertaining to conventional forces in Europe including both Eastern and Western forces, their structure, posture, changes, etc.; documents pertaining to allied and Warsaw Pact conventional arms control positions, plans and related internal political situations, documents referring to the High Level Task Force (HLTF) or its subgroups; and all documents discussing congressional delegation visits to Europe that will address conventional arms control issues. (Action: EUR/RPM)
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KCIP: Critical Infrastructure Protection
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Effective from August 2001

Use for all documents reporting on critical infrastructure protection (CIP) issues, which are defined as vulnerabilities and threats, both physical and cyber, to systems and assets (particularly interconnected information systems and networks) so vital to a nation that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on national security, national economic security, and/or national public health and safety. Use for reporting of CIP issues both as they affect host country and as they impact the United States. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)

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KCOM: Chief of Mission
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Effective from March 2004

Use for all documents addressed for action to the chief of a U.S. mission in a foreign location (e.g., ambassadors, chargés d’affaires, consuls general, or principal officers). Use KCOM in conjunction with generic PASS instructions to chiefs of mission in Department telegrams. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOR: Corruption and Anti-Corruption
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Effective from August 2001

Use for all documents relating to corruption and anti-corruption, dishonesty, and unethical behavior among public officials representing local, provincial, and national governments. This would include linkages with justice, economic, social and political entities. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)

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KCRM: Criminal Activity
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Effective from April 1994 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to criminal organizations and activities, the threat they pose to U.S. interests and/or friendly governments, and host country and U.S. Government programs to combat them. This includes international criminal organizations; money laundering and other financial crimes; illicit trafficking including alien smuggling and gun running; international stolen property theft and fencing rings; international frauds and commercial crimes; UN crime meetings and anti-crime programs; and interaction with international and regional organizations on these issues. U.S. assistance covers training of host country judicial and law enforcement agencies. Use this K TAGS with the Subject TAGS SOCI. Distinguish the use of this TAGS from AID-funded administration of justice programs in Latin America (KJUS),anti-narcotics issues and programs (SNAR),and anti-terrorism issues and programs (PTER). (Action: INL/ENT)
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KDEM: Democratization
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Effective from May 1991

Use on all documents dealing with democratization in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Encouraging democratization constitutes an essential component of U.S. policy. The U.S. Government is devoting significant resources to monitor and promote regional trends away from autocratic rule and toward political pluralism. Programs designed to encourage democratization are diverse, and often are cross-discipline in nature, requiring the involvement of several U.S. Government agencies. Also use the appropriate Subject and Geo-Political TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KDRG: Detainee Repatriation from Guantanamo Bay
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Effective from December 2007

Use for all documents addressing issues connected to the repatriation and transfer of detainees in U.S. Government custody at the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to their countries of origin or to third countries. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/WCI)
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KFRD: Fraud Prevention Programs
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Effective from August 1986

Use on all reporting that refers to efforts and activities pertaining to the prevention of fraud and deceptive practices in the issuance of visas, passports, the issuance of Federal benefits to U.S. citizens and others, and to active measures developed by the Department to oversee their legality and for reporting upon the results of antifraud and prevention measures in consular matters. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: CA/FPP)
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KGHG: Global Climate Change
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Effective from May 2007

Use for all documents addressing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and global climate change (also referred to as global warming). This includes, but is not limited to, the economic, energy, environmental, geographic, health, scientific, social, and political linkages of global climate change. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: OES/EGC)
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KGIC: Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism
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Effective from September 2006

Use for all documents relating to the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. The Global Initiative works toward the prevention, detection, and response to acts of nuclear terrorism. Also use appropriate Subject Tags. (Action: ISM/WMDT)
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KHIV: Emerging Infectious Diseases and HIV/AIDS Program
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Effective from June 2000

Use for all documents relating to actual and prospective activities by the U.S. Government, alone or in conjunction with or through other entities, to combat HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. Also use Appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: S/GAC)
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KHLS: Homeland Security
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Effective from August 2006

Use for all documents relating to all aspects of homeland security issues, including acts of terrorism directed at the U.S. homeland, its citizens, or interests; planning and support for such acts of terrorism; capabilities of terrorist groups; activities of institutions, groups, or individuals that support such terrorism; acts of terrorism that transcend national boundaries due to the support network or nationality of the perpetrator, victim, or facility or conventional, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) terrorism; terrorist travel; actions of the host government, institutions, or individuals related to support for or opposition to U.S. Government homeland security or counter-terrorism initiatives; actions of the host government or multilateral organizations related to the establishment of host country or regional security, bureaucratic, physical, or cyber infrastructure; homeland security implications and effects of border protection, immigration, and customs policies; transportation (e.g., seaports, civil air) security; host government travel document control and standards; emergency, preparedness, and response; biodefense, science and technology development related to the above areas; reactions of host government, media, etc., to homeland security-related programs and activities in the United States, or of the U.S. Government. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/CT, CA, OES, A/OEM)

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KIPR: Intellectual Property Rights
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Effective from December 1988 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to intellectual property rights which include patents, trademarks, copyrights, semiconductor designs (mask works),industrial designs, trade secrets, appellations of origin and other forms of protection to reward and encourage innovation and creativity. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/TPP/MTA/IPC)
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KIRF: International Religious Freedom
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Effective from January 1999

Use on all documents relating to all issues of religious freedom and persecution, including civil unrest where religion is a precipitating factor; changes to or enforcement of laws affecting freedom of religion; religious aspects of movements, parties or persons seeking governmental change; governmental repression of religious minorities, movements or leaders; religion playing a role in reconciling conflicts; and changes in religious demographics that may produce societal changes. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: DRL/IRF)
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KISL: Islamic Issues
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Effective from November 1988 (Revised April 2000)

Use on documents treating government involvement in recognition of or approaches to Islam; political and economic activities undertaken by private Islamic organizations or prominent individuals; and fundamentalism. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS.

(Action: NEA/PPR, AF/RA, EAP/RA)
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KJUS: Administration of Justice
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Effective from May 1986 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with the administration of justice in host countries, particularly as it relates to U.S. objectives of promoting democracy and just economic and social development. This includes judicial reforms, political reporting on personalities and institutions involved in the administration of justice, judicial infrastructure development, criminal investigation capabilities, penal systems, legal training, and assistance and exchange programs in this field. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: WHA/PPC)
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KMCA: Millennium Challenge Account
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Effective from August 2004

Use for documents relating to all aspects of the Millennium Challenge Account, a U.S. new foreign assistance account, or the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the independent government corporation recently established to manage and oversee this assistance. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: MCC/IT)
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KMDR: Media Reaction Reporting
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Effective From October 1999

Use on all documents dealing with setting post ―Watching Briefs and on all post reporting concerning editorial content and media reaction. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: INR/R)
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KNNP: Nuclear Non-Proliferation
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Effective from April 1984

Use on all documents on U.S. policy for preventing the spread of nuclear weapons to other countries, the transfer of nuclear material, equipment of technology, agreements for cooperation on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, matters concerning multilateral discussions on the uses of nuclear energy including the activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and activities in other countries related to the acquisition of nuclear explosives. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KOLY: Olympic Games Reporting
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Effective from February 1984

Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. Note: KOLY will be used in the above prescribed manner for all subsequent winter and summer Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KPAL: Palestinian Affairs
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Effective from August 1983 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with the Palestinian people, as a group or in part, or the area known as Palestine. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. (Action: NEA/PA)
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KPAO: Public Affairs Office
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Effective from May 2000

Use on all documents intended for Public Affairs sections abroad, and should be used by field Public Affairs sections abroad on all documents coming into the Department which relate to Public Diplomacy Programs. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: ECA/EX/PR)
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KPIN: Political Internationals
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Effective from November 1984

Use on all documents relating to the activities and policies of the four major Political Internationals: Socialist International, Christian Democratic International, Liberal International, and the International Democratic Union. This includes reporting on the attitudes of member parties towards the Internationals, the interaction between member parties of the Internationals, and the activities of the Internationals themselves. In addition, this TAGS should be used on all documents relating to the policies of the German (FRG) political foundations: Friederich Ebert, Konrad Adenauer, Hanns Seidel, and Friederich Naumann. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: P)
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KPKO: United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
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Effective from August 1996

Use on all documents relating to existing or potential United Nations peacekeeping activities, including proposals for and negotiations with other countries on peacekeeping activities, military support, sanctions monitoring, elections and humanitarian activities, as well as interaction with international and regional organizations on peacekeeping. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KPWR: Power Support Program
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Effective from March 1993

Use on all documents dealing with the Department’s electrical power support requirements. The program provides consolidated funding for generators, central uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, and PCB transformer abatement projects. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OBO/PE/DE)
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KRAD: Radioactive Contamination of the Environment
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Effective from May 1997 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with radioactive contamination of the environment from whatever source—military or civilian use, transportation, storage, or disposal of nuclear material Appropriate Subject Terms to use with this TAGS would include nuclear contamination, radiation, radioactive material and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) emergency notification. In connection with accidental or deliberate contamination, appropriate Terms to use with this TAGS include radioactive material transfer, radioactive waste disposal, radioactive waste management, industrial/medical radiography, medical isotope, and transfer of fissile material. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES/OA)

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KSCA: Science Counselors and Attachés
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Effective from February 1983

Use on all documents drafted by or sent to Science Counselors and Science Attachés. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES). Note: KSCA replaces the Organization SCSA.
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KSPR: Strategic, Performance and Resource Planning
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Effective from October 1997

Use on all documents dealing with the strategic planning process for all foreign affairs agencies or agencies with operations and programs abroad as well as the Department’s own strategic planning activities. This includes all resource allocation processes when associated with the Mission Performance Plan (MPP),namely: budget formulation, the Financial Plan (FINPLAN),and the field budget plan. Technical and operational messages that are purely budget-focused should only use ABUD. Use KSPR on messages regarding personnel planning in connection with the annual MPP exercises, and subjects relating to the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993. Operational personnel requests (e.g., new positions, classification actions, conversions of positions from FSN to PIT, etc.) should still only use APER. Suggested terms to use with KSPR are program planning, Mission Performance Plan (MPP),Resource Allocations and Budget Integration Tool (RABIT) and Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: M/P)
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KSUM: Summit Meetings
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Effective from January 1983 (Revised November 1987)

Use on all documents concerning Summit Meetings. This includes substantive and administrative arrangements for meetings, records of meetings and reports on actions by participants as a result of meetings, including preparatory meetings. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KTFN: Terrorism Finance Traffic
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Effective from July 2004

Use for documents relating to all aspects of terrorism financing; sanctions; designations of individuals under Executive Orders (E.O.) dealing with terrorism finance such as E.O. 13224; related UN resolutions; denial of funds to terrorists; and other related aspects of terrorism financing. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/ESC)
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KTIA: Treaties and International Agreements
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Effective from June 1984

Use on all documents concerning treaties, including conventions, protocols, or other International Agreements, such as exchange of notes, exchange of letters and memoranda of understanding, as well as requirements of the Case Act (11 FAM 724; 1 U.S.C. 112B). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: L/T)
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KTIP: Trafficking in Persons
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Effective from September 2008

Use for all cables related to the topics of trafficking in persons, human trafficking, slavery, involuntary servitude, forced labor, labor migration, illegal migration, commercial sexual exploitation, prostitution, sex tourism, forced marriage, child labor, debt bondage, peonage, and child soldiering. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: G/TIP)
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KUNR: UN Reform
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Effective from November 1995

Use on all documents dealing with all efforts to reform and restructure the United Nations. Some of the reforms are: the UN budget and/or ceiling, security council expansion, managerial improvements, and strengthening the role of the UN. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KWBG: West Bank and Gaza
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Effective from December 1993 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with the implementation of the Israeli-PLO Declaration of Principles, including Palestinian interim self-rule, economic development and development assistance to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Also, use for Israeli-PLO negotiations on implementing the agreement and political developments in the West Bank and Gaza including elections for a Palestinian Council. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NEA/IPA)
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KWMN: Women Issues
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Effective from June 1995

Use on all documents relating to the Fourth World Conference on Women and any future World Conferences on Women. Also use this TAGS on issues concerning women’s human rights, women’s political participation, women-in-development, and any discussions of women in the United Nations or any other international organizations. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: G/CS, IO, and DRL)
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MARR MILITARY AND DEFENSE ARRANGEMENTS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts to establish and maintain collective security or other international military cooperation. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Alliance
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* CFE
* Collective Security
* DECA
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Ground Forces
* Home Porting
* Host Government
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Lease
* Military Advisor
* Military Agreement
* Military Base
* Military Cooperation
* Military Exercise
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Visit
* Minesweeping
* Monitoring
* National Security
* Naval Forces
* Overflight Clearance
* Peace Plan
* Peacekeeping Forces
* Refueling
* Security Assessment
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Movement
* SOFA
* Tracking Station
* Troop Contribution
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Truce Observer
* Weapons Deployment
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MASS MILITARY ASSISTANCE AND SALES
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The Govemment to Govemment transfer, sale, or loan of military equipment, advisers, or services. (Replaces RCHB file categories DEF, FT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Airlift
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Bomber Aircraft
* CAT
* Congressional Presentation
* Credit
* Debt
* Debt Repayment
* Diversion
* Donor
* Economic Support Fund
* Fighter Aircraft
* FMS
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* IMET
* Loan
* Maintenance
* MAP
* Military Adviser
* Military Agreement
* Military Aircraft
* Military Assistance
* Military Procurement
* Military Training
* Military Vehicle
* Missile
* Reexport
* Salvage
* Spare Parts
* Surplus Weapons Disposal
* Technical Assistance
* Technology Transfer
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MCAP MILITARY CAPABILITIES
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Effective from March 1973 to June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The nonnuclear offensive and defensive ability of the military establishment of a nation or international organization. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Bomber Aircraft
* Burden sharing
* Cargo Aircraft
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon
* Control Civil Defense
* Coast Guard
* Conscription
* Contingency Plan
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon
* Control Court Martial
* Defense Industry
* Demobilization
* Fighter Aircraft
* Ground Forces
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* Infrastructure
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Logistics
* Military Aircraft
* Military Balance
* Military Budget
* Military Buildup
* Military Capability
* Military Communication
* Military Equipment
* Military Exercise
* Military Leader
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Reserve
* Missile
* Mobilization
* National Guard
* Naval Forces
* Naval Ship
* Ordnance
* Radar
* RDF
* Security Assessment
* Strategic Plan
* Submarine
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
* Warning System
* Weapons Deployment
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MNUC MILITARY NUCLEAR APPLICATIONS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The development and use of nuclear technology for military purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Artillery
* Counterforce
* Decontamination
* Delivery Vehicle
* Fissionable Material
* Guidance System
* INF
* LRTNF
* Military Capability
* Missile
* Missile Site
* Monitoring
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Powered Ship
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Winter
* Plutonium
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Radioactive Waste Management
* Spent Fuel
* Strategic Plan
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
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MOPS MILITARY OPERATIONS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Declared or undeclared war involving two or more nations. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Aggression
* Air Alert
* Air Forces
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Blockade
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Ceasefire
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* Combat
* Concentration Camp
* CONTRA
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Escalation
* Explosives
* Ground Forces
* Guerrilla
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intervention
* Invasion
* KIA
* Landing Rights
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* MIA
* Military Balance
* Military Buildup
* Military Plan
* Minesweeping
* Naval Forces
* No Fly Zone
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Occupied Area
* Peace Plan
* POW
* Repatriation
* Reprisal
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Ship Movement
* Surrender
* Threat
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* War
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ODIP U.S. DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATION
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Effective from January 1983

Official representational and ceremonial activities of U.S. diplomats and U.S. Government officials; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by U.S. officials. (Replaces RCHB file categories: PER, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Agrement
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Anniversary
* Assault
* Attache
* Ceremonial Representation
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* Personnel Conduct
* Real Property
* Social Reception
* Tax Exemption
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OEXC EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL
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EXCHANGE OPERATIONS

Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

The administration and operation of educational and cultural exchange programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: EDX)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* American Studies
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Community
* Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Exchange Program
* Designation Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* FLEX Program
* Foreign Leader Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange Grant
* Humphrey Program
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Nomination
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* Scientist
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* U.S. Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Youth Exchanges
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OFDP FOREIGN DIPLOMATS AND FOREIGN MISSIONS
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Effective from January 1983

Administrative, representational, and ceremonial matters related to non-U.S. diplomatic personnel and foreign missions; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by non-U.S. diplomats. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Assault
* Attache
* Building Design
* Ceremonial Representation
* Consul
* Consulate
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Embassy
* Envoy
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* NOB
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Post Closing
* Post Opening
* Real Property
* Recall
* Social Reception
* Staffing
* Tax Exemption
* Third Country Counterparts
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OIIP INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION PROGRAMS
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Effective from October 1999

Administrative and operational aspects of international information programs, products, and services that increase international support for U.S. policies and understanding of U.S. society.

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advance Documents Service
* Article Alert
* Book Donations
* Book Fairs
* Book Reprints
* Book Translations
* Books and Documents List
* Computer
* Cooperative Agreements
* Copyright
* Design Services
* DVC
* Electronic Journal
* Grant
* Graphic Design
* I-Bucks
* IRC
* IRO
* Listserv
* Paper Shows
* PDQ
* Photo Coverage
* Photo Rights
* Photo Requests
* Public Diplomacy
* Publication
* Reference Requests
* Speaker
* Technology Partnerships
* Teleconference
* Translation Requests
* Washington File
* Websites
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OPDC DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE
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Effective from January 1983

Correspondence and ceremonial messages between prominent leaders and principal officers. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acknowledgment
* Anniversary
* Appreciation Message
* Commemorative Message
* Condolence Message
* Congratulatory Message
* Invitation
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OPRC PUBLIC RELATIONS AND CORRESPONDENCE
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Effective from January 1983

Correspondence to and from the public commenting on U.S. policy and foreign incidents, requesting information and speaking engagements, and any other public relations activities. This TAGS includes routine constituent's correspondence such as employment opportunities, requests for photographs, autographs, etc. Also includes press summaries and press conferences, public opinion polls, and the administrative arrangements for press conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: PR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Authentication
* Autograph
* Constituents Mail
* Employment
* Interview
* Invitation
* Journalist
* Photo Request
* Photograph
* Poll
* Press Relations
* Public Diplomacy
* Public Information Publication
* Speaker
* Translation
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OREP U.S. CONGRESSIONAL TRAVEL
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Administrative and operational aspects of travel by Congressmen, congressional staffers, and delegations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LEG)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* CODEL
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protective Security
* Staffdel
* Support Services
* Travel Advisory
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OSCI SCIENCE GRANTS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administration of grants and disbursal of funds of U.S. Government sponsored research programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Foreign Currency
* Grant
* Science Grant
* Scientific Exchange
* Scientist
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OTRA TRAVEL
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Routine and operational aspects of travel and visits by other than prominent individuals and Congressmen. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL, TP, TRV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Businessmen
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Dependent
* Itinerary
* Journalist
* Official Travel
* Scientific Visit
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
* Travel Locator Messages
* Travel Orders
* Travel Report
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OVIP VISITS AND TRAVEL OF PROMINENT INDIVIDUALS AND LEADERS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administrative and operational aspects of visits or travel of U.S. and foreign leaders and prominent individuals. Use for assistant secretary level and above or foreign equivalent. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Envoy
* Hotel
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protection Technical Services
* Protective Security
* Secretarys Detail
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
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PARM ARMS CONTROLS AND DISARMAMENT
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts by governments to control the acquisition, development, and production of nuclear, biological, chemical, and other advanced weaponry. Also includes the control of efforts by countries to develop nuclear capabilities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, FT, POL, STR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* ABM Treaty
* Advance Notification
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aerial Inspection
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Arms Buildup
* Arms Control
* Arms Control Agreement
* Arms Control Impact Statement
* Arms Talks
* Arms Traffic
* Associated Measures
* Biological Warfare Convention
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* CDE
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* CNEA
* Compliance
* Confidence Building Measures
* Constraints
* Consultation
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* Conventional Weapon Freeze
* Cooperative Measures
* Counterforce
* Counting Rule
* CST
* CTB
* Deterrence
* Disarmament
* Diversion
* East West Relations
* Electronic Weapons Systems
* Emerging Technologies
* ENMOD
* Entry Exit Points
* Fissionable Material
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hotline
* Implementation
* INF
* IOZP
* Laser Fusion
* Launchers
* Limited Test Ban Treaty
* LRTNF
* Military Budget Reduction
* Military Expenditures
* Missile
* Monitoring
* Moratorium
* Napalm
* National Guidelines Area
* No First Use
* Nonproliferation
* Nonuse of Force
* NPT
* NRR
* NTEM
* NTM
* Nuclear Agreements
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Enrichment Process
* Nuclear Equipment
* Nuclear Free Zone
* Nuclear Material
* Nuclear Proliferation
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Technical Assistance
* Nuclear Technology
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Weapon Free Zone
* Nuclear Weapon Freeze
* Particle Beam
* Peace Movement
* Plutonium
* Political Concession
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* SCC
* SDI
* Simulations
* SNEC
* Spent Fuel
* START
* Stockpile
* Strategic Policy
* Technology Transfer
* Telemetry
* Tlatelolco Treaty
* Troop Level
* TTBT
* Unconventional Weapon
* Verification
* Warhead
* Weapon Destruction
* Weapon Systems Deactivation
* Weapons Deployment
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PBTS NATIONAL BOUNDARIES, TERRITORIES, AND SOVEREIGNTY
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Effective from January 1983

A territory over which dominion is exercised. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Alert
* Airspace
* Annexation
* Arbitration
* Archipelago
* Border Control
* Border Crossing
* Border Dispute
* Border Incident
* Boundary
* Boundary Claim
* Boundary Determination
* Canal
* Cession
* Coast Guard
* Continental Shelf
* Court Decision
* Dependency
* Dispute Settlement
* Island
* Island Claim
* Land Settlement
* Landlocked Country
* Maritime Boundary
* Mediation
* Occupied Area
* Overflight
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Province
* River
* Seabed
* Ship Detention
* Sovereignty
* Strait
* Survey
* Territorial Claim
* Territorial Reversion
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Unification
* Territorial Waters
* Trust Territory
* Water Boundary Agreement
* Water Boundary Claim
* West Bank
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PGOV INTERNAL GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised June 1983)

The form, structure, and organization of local, provincial, and national governments. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Absentee Ballot
* Administration of Justice
* Alliance
* Antigovernment
* Arbitration
* Berlin Access
* Berlin Wall
* Cabinet
* Cabinet Meeting
* Campaign
* Candidacy Support
* Candidate
* Charter
* Church State Relations
* Coalition Government
* Colonialism
* Communism
* Confederation
* Constitution
* Constitutional Law
* Corruption
* Court
* Court Decision
* Death
* Democracy
* Dictatorship
* Election
* Election Forecast
* Election Irregularities
* Election Law
* Election Observer
* Election Reform
* Election Results
* Extremist
* Federation
* First Lady
* Glasnost
* Government Agency
* Government Budget
* Government Media Relations
* Government Official
* Government Reform
* Governor
* Impeachment
* Inauguration
* Influence
* Infrastructure
* Interim Government
* Judicial Reform
* Judiciary
* Junta
* King
* Legislation
* Legislator
* Legislature
* Martial Law
* Mayor
* Minister
* Minority
* Municipal
* Nationalism
* Opposition
* Opposition Party
* Party Faction
* Party Leader
* Party Line
* Party Meeting
* Party Stability
* Party Strength
* Party Unity
* Patronage
* Perestroyka
* Political Adviser
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Crisis
* Political Leader
* Political Military Relations
* Political Party
* Political Trend
* Poll
* President
* Prime Minister
* Progovernment
* Province
* Queen
* Reconciliation
* Referendum
* Reorganization
* Resignation from Office
* Reunification
* Royal Family
* Ruling Party
* Self Government
* Socialism
* Special Interest Group
* State of the Union Message
* Succession
* Tenure of Office
* Totalitarian
* Trial
* Trust
* Territory
* Veto
* Vice President
* Voting
* Voting Rights
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PHSA HIGH SEAS AFFAIRS
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Effective from January 1983

Activities on the high seas, outside a country's national jurisdiction. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Continental Shelf
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive
* Economic Zone
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Freedom of Navigation
* Hazardous Cargo
* Innocent Passage
* International Waters
* LOS
* Marine Mammal
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Natural Resources
* Ocean Dumping
* Piracy
* Seabed
* Seabed Mining
* Ship Accident
* Ship Detention
* Ship Movement
* Strait
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Waters
* Transit Passage
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PHUM HUMAN RIGHTS
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Effective from January 1985

The violation of rights attributable to human beings. (Replaces RCHB file categories: POL, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Abuse
* Amnesty
* Antisemitic
* Apartheid
* Asylum
* Asylum Request
* Capital Punishment
* Childrens Rights
* Civil Rights
* Concentration Camp
* Court Decision
* Death Squad
* Deportation
* Detainee
* Detection Equipment
* Detention Development Rights
* Discrimination
* Economic Rights
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Ethnic Group
* EVD
* Execution
* Exile
* Family
* Forced Labor
* Harassment
* Human Rights
* Humane
* Imprisonment
* Indigenous Peoples
* Individual Rights
* Internal Exile
* Internee
* Mass Migration
* Massacre
* Minority
* Minority Rights
* Missing Person
* Mistreatment
* Murder
* Persecution
* Police Equipment
* Political Disappearance
* Political Prisoner
* Political Repression
* Political Rights
* Poverty
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Welfare
* Proselytize
* Psychiatric Abuse
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Returnees
* Rights of Peoples
* Security Forces
* Sponsorship
* Torture
* Walk In Procedures
* Women
* Womens Rights
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PINR INTELLIGENCE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The gathering and reporting of intelligence information, including biographic and background data. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INT, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aerial Reconnaissance
* Biographic Information
* Contacts
* Counterintelligence
* Covert Operations
* Disinformation
* Espionage
* Film
* Humint Collection Plan
* Information Security
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intelligence Collection
* Intelligence Services
* Maps
* Monitoring
* Olive Harvest
* PLPPR
* Remote Sensing
* Satellite
* Ship Movement
* Surveillance Aircraft
* Tracking Station
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PINS NATIONAL SECURITY
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

A regime's stability, control, or efforts to maintain itself in power, as well as activities and efforts to disrupt or overthrow the established regime by other than normal political activity. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Assassination
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Censorship
* Church State Relations
* Civil War
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Contingency Plan
* CONTRA
* Counterinsurgency
* Coup
* Court Decision
* Court Martial
* Death Squad
* Defector
* Demobilization
* Detention
* Dissident
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Escalation
* Ethnic Group
* Execution
* Exile
* Exiled Government
* Exit Permit
* Expulsion
* Extremist
* General Strike
* Guerrilla
* Harassment
* Hostility
* Hunger Strike
* Impeachment
* Infiltration
* Insurgency
* Intelligence Assessment
* Internal Control
* Intervention
* Land Reform
* Law Enforcement
* Liberation Front
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* Mercenary
* Minority
* Missing Person
* National Security
* Occupied Area
* Persona Non Grata
* Plot
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Political Assessment
* Political Crisis
* Political Military Relations
* Political Prisoner
* Political Settlement
* Political Stability
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Release
* Propaganda
* Property Protection
* Religious Group
* Repression
* Reprisal
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Sabotage
* Seizure
* Surrender
* Threat
* Travel Document
* Travel Restriction
* Treason
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Violence
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PREF REFUGEES
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Effective from January 1985 (Revised March 1995)

People who move across borders because of danger to life or fear of persecution. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Admissions
* Allocation
* Asylum Policy
* Early Warning
* Emergency Response
* ESLCO
* Family Reunification
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Internally Displaced Persons
* Letter of Introduction
* ODP
* Prevention
* Refugee Camp
* Refugee Protection
* Refugee Relief
* Refugee Resettlement
* Refugee Settlement
* Refugee Status
* Repatriation
* Safe Country of Origin and Transit
* Safe Haven
* Sponsorship
* Temporary Protection
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
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PREL EXTERNAL POLITICAL RELATIONS
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Effective from January 1983

The political relations between countries, international or regional organizations both bilateral and multilateral, that assess intentions, objectives, plans, or possible courses of interaction. (Replaces RCHB file category: CSM, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alliance
* Ambassador
* Amity
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antisoviet
* Bilateral Cooperation
* CBI
* Cold War
* Commitment
* Condemnation
* Consular Service
* Demarche
* Detente
* Deterrence
* Diplomatic Protest
* East West Relations
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Expulsion
* Extradition Treaty
* Foreign Commitment
* Foreign Relations
* Front Line States
* Government Reaction
* Hegemony
* Industrialized Nation
* Influence
* International Organization
* Intervention
* LDC
* Lobbying
* NAM
* National Security
* Neutrality
* No Fly Zone
* Nonaggression
* Nonaligned Nations
* Nonparticipation
* North South Dialogue
* Open Skies Treaty
* Opposition
* Participation
* Peace
* Peace Plan
* Persona Non Grata
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Initiative
* Political Settlement
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Exchange
* Prisoner Transfer
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Relations
* Reciprocity
* Recognition
* Reconciliation
* Regional Organization
* Relations Establishment
* Relations Interruption
* Reprisal
* Sanction
* Secession
* Signatory
* Sister City
* Third Country Representation
* Third World
* Threat
* War Claims
* West Bank
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PROP PROPAGANDA AND PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The spreading of ideology, information, or rumor for the purpose of supporting or defaming nations, institutions, causes, peoples, or persons. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CSM, CUL, INF, MP, POL, PPB, RAD, TV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Active Measures
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antinuclear
* Antisoviet
* Brain Drain
* Brainwashing
* Broadcasting
* Campaign
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Disinformation
* Frequency Interference
* Harassment
* Influence
* Jamming
* Lobbying
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Propaganda
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Disclosure
* Public Information
* Public Relations
* Publication
* Repression
* Slander
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PTER TERRORISTS AND TERRORISM
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Effective from March 1981 (Revised January 1983)

All aspects of terrorism which transcend national boundaries due to the nationality of the perpetrator, victim, place, or the incident. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acts of Terrorists
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Antiterrorist Forces
* Assassination
* Assault
* Bomb Threat
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Hijacking
* Hostage
* Hostility
* Infiltration
* Kidnapping
* Kidnapping Threat
* Mission Takeover
* Piracy
* Plot
* Proterrorism
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Small Arms
* Surrender
* Terrorism
* Terrorist Activities
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Violence
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SCUL CULTURAL AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

Any part or totality of a nation's behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, or sociology. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CUL, EDU, MP, PPB, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* American Studies
* Anthropology
* Archaeology
* Artifact
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Commemorative Celebration
* Community Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Presentation
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Education
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Ethnic Group
* Excavation
* Exchange Program Designation
* Exhibit
* Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* Fine Arts
* FLEX Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange
* History
* Holiday
* Humphrey Program
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Language
* Library
* Magazine
* Memorial
* Missionary
* Museum
* National Flag
* Newspaper
* Olympics
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Piracy
* Place of Worship
* Pope
* Publication
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Religious Leader
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* School
* Social Custom
* Social Reform
* Sports
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* University
* US Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Women
* Youth
* Youth Exchanges
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SENV ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The preservation, deterioration, and conservation of natural and animal resources, the air, water, land, and space environments. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AGR, CUL, E, HLTH, INCO, OS, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acid Rain
* Air Pollution
* Animal Conservation
* Animal Hides
* Atmosphere
* Biodiversity
* CITES
* Crop
* Destruction
* Dam
* Desertification
* Drought
* Earthquake
* Ecology
* Endangered Species
* Environment
* Erosion
* Exploitation
* Famine
* Fire
* Fish
* Flood
* Flora
* Forestry
* Fungicide
* Habitat
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Herbicide
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insect
* Land Conservation
* Marine
* Mammal
* Migratory Animals
* Monsoon
* National Park
* Natural Disaster
* Natural Resources
* Noise Pollution
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Winter
* Ocean Dumping
* Oil Spill
* Ozone
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Pollution Control
* Preservation
* Rainfall
* Seabed
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sludge
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soil Pollution
* Species Protection
* Storm
* Tidal Wave
* Transboundary Pollution
* Tropical Forest
* Volcanic Eruption
* Waste
* Waste Disposal
* Water
* Water Analysis
* Water Conservation
* Water Pollution
* Water Supply System
* Weather
* Whales
* Wildlife
* Yellow Rain
* Zoo
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SMIG MIGRATION
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Effective from March 1995

The legal or illegal movement of people across borders, border control, and the treatment of aliens by receiving states. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alien Interdiction
* Border Control
* Cross Border Migration
* Economic Migration
* Emigration
* Environmental Migration
* Family Reunification
* Illegal Migration
* Immigration
* Labor Migration
* Migration
* Migration and Development Policy
* Nationality and Citizenship
* Readmission Agreements
* Remittances
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SNAR NARCOTICS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 2008)

The illegal production, distribution, and use of narcotic drugs. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aircraft Registry
* Cocaine
* Crop Destruction
* Crop Substitution
* Crops
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Demand Reduction
* Detection
* Equipment
* Eradication
* Exhibit
* Foreigners
* Hashish
* Herbicide
* Heroin
* Illicit
* Immigration
* Interdiction
* Law Enforcement
* Legal
* Marijuana
* Money Laundering
* Morphine
* Narcotics
* Narcotics Abuse
* Narcotics Control
* Narcotics Detection
* Narcotics Seizure
* Narcotics Traffic
* Opium
* Patrol Boat
* Psychotropic Drugs
* Seizure
* Ship Registry
* Smuggling
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SOCI SOCIAL CONDITIONS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The conditions and factors that affect the social welfare of a community. (Replaces RCHB file category: HLTH, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Abortion
* Administration of Justice
* Adoption
* AIDS
* Birth Rate
* Black Market
* Census
* Child
* Custody
* Children
* Civil Disobedience
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Consumer Protection
* Crime
* Crime Control
* Cult
* Demography
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Divorce
* Educational Reform
* Elderly
* Epidemic
* Family
* Family Planning
* Food
* Fugitive
* Genocide
* Glasnost
* Health
* Housing
* Housing Shortage
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Hunger Strike
* Illegal Alien
* Immigrant
* Immigration Control
* Infant
* Infrastructure
* Inoculation
* Insurance
* Law Enforcement
* Life Expectancy
* Marriage
* Medical Care
* Medical Facility
* Mental Health
* Minority
* Modernization
* Mortality Rate
* Murder
* Penal System
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Population
* Population Growth
* Pornography
* Prison
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Prostitution
* Public Safety
* Public Transportation
* Public Welfare
* Quarantine
* Recall
* Reform
* Rehabilitation
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Rural Area
* Sanitation
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sex Ratio
* Sexual Crime
* Sexual Harassment
* Social Development
* Social Reform
* Social Security
* Social Service
* Social Trend
* Special Interest Group
* Standard of Living
* Sterilization
* Theft
* Urban Area
* Violence
* Volunteers
* Water Supply System
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TBIO BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL SCIENCE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The anatomy, physiology, chemistry, and psychology that affect living organisms and the mechanisms of their expression. (Replaces RCHB file categories: HLTH, SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AIDS
* Animals
* Biology
* Biotechnology
* Chemistry
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Eradication
* Food
* Genetic Engineering
* Hormones
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Medical Science
* Nuclear Contamination
* Parapsychology
* Pest Control
* Pharmaceuticals
* Quarantine
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* STRIDE Technology
* Technology
* Transfer
* Vaccine
* Zoology
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TPHY PHYSICAL SCIENCES
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development in any of the physical sciences. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Atmosphere
* Chemistry
* Geodesy
* Geology
* Hydrology
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Maps
* Materials Science
* Meteorology
* Metrology
* Microwave
* Minerology
* Ocean Drilling
* Oceanography
* Physics
* Research & Development
* Research Vessel
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Scientific Visit
* Seismology
* STRIDE
* Survey
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Volcanology
* Weather
* Weather Station
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TRGY ENERGY TECHNOLOGY
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Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development of energy sources. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF, FSE, PET, SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Electric Energy
* Energy Conservation
* Exploration
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Magnetic
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Petroleum
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* SSC
* STRIDE
* Synthetic Fuel
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Transmitters
* Wind Energy
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TSPA SPACE ACTIVITIES
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development leading to and resulting in the exploration and utilization of outer space. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, SP, TEL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Astronaut
* Astronomy
* Communications Satellite
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* ELV
* Exploration
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Technology Equipment
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Landing Rights
* Navigational Aid
* Orbit
* Outer Space
* Outer Space Commercialization
* Peaceful Use of Outer Space
* Reentry
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Salvage
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Space Agreement
* Space Fragment
* Space Law
* Space Liability
* Space Program
* Space Station
* Spacecraft
* Spacecraft Recovery
* Spaceflight
* STRIDE
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Telecommunication
* Tracking Station
* UFO
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10OSLO65NORWAY AGREES WITH SHARK PROTECTION, WORRIES ABOUT FINANCING
[...] (SBU) Norwegian Directorate for Nature Management Senior Advisor Oystein Storkensen told PolOff February 4 that Norway agrees in principle with U.S. efforts to control and protect shark resources per reftel. However, Storkensen noted that the new Memorandum of Understanding should include a c [...]
2010-02-06 07:58:00Embassy OsloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV EFIS PHSA NO
10OSLO71Ambassador's Introductory Meeting with Justice and Police
[...] (SBU) Summary: On February 12, the Ambassador met with GON Minister of Justice and the Police Knut Storberget. Storberget discussed his Ministry's key issues, Qcluding Norway's acceptance of Cuban migrants via the United Nations Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR),domestic violence, immi [...]
2010-02-18 12:45:00Embassy OsloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER AF CU NO KCRM KIPR KJUS PREL PREF KTIP
10OSLO83IRGC DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO NORWAY
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-26 15:29:00Embassy OsloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMNUC KNNP IR GM PREL PARM EFIN NO
10OSLO86Ambassador Discusses Pharmaceuticals, Afghanistan and Other
[...] (U) In his introductory call with Norwegian Minister of Health and Care Services Anne-Greth Strom-Erichson on February 10, the Ambassador 2010 discussed intellectual property problems facing research-based pharmaceuticals companies, Afghanistan, the H1N1 pandemic, and other issues. 2. [...]
2010-02-11 15:46:00Embassy OsloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KIPR ETRD AF PREL NO
10OSLO90NORWEGIAN MILITARY CONTRIBUTES FIELD KITCHENS TO NGO IN
[...] (SBU) In response to reftel, post contacted the Norwegian Ministry of Defense (MOD) to determine the nature and scope of Norway's military response to the Haiti crisis. The MOD said that for budget and logistical reasons, Norway would not contribute troops to peacekeeping operations on Haiti, [...]
2010-02-16 16:03:00Embassy OsloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL HA NO SOCI MCAP MARR KPKO
10OSLO92OSLO MUSLIMS PROTEST DAGBLADET'S PUBLISHING OF A PROPHET
[...] (U) Summary: Norwegian left-leaning daily Dagbladet's published a front-page photo February 3 of suspected terrorist Arfan Bhatti pointing out that a Prophet Mohammad caricature was available through a link on the Police Security Services' (PST) Facebook page. The fact that the caricature co [...]
2010-02-18 15:34:00Embassy OsloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PTER PHUM NO
10OTTAWA106CANADIAN PRIME MINISTER LAYS OUT G8, G20 PRIORITIES
[...] (SBU) Summary: In Davos, Canadian Prime Minister Harper set out his agenda as host of the June 2010 G8 and G20 summits, focusing primarily on financial sector reform, stimulus programs, and global trade and growth. He also underscored a continued important role for the G8 and its "close coope [...]
2010-01-28 21:32:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ECON ETRD CA
10OTTAWA12LIBERALS CHART RENEWAL IN 2010
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Liberal Party of Canada plans an eighteen month program of policy renewal, rebuilding, and member engagement to "inspire, engage, activate" the party faithful between now and its next biennial convention in June 2011. It will also organize a long-delayed "thinkers' conferenc [...]
2010-01-05 20:38:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CA
10OTTAWA124CANADIAN SUPREME COURT: GOVERNMENT CAN DECIDE ON KHADR
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a unanimous decision on January 29, the Supreme Court of Canada overturned an Appeals Court order that the Canadian government must request the repatriation of Canadian citizen Omar Khadr in Guantanamo Bay from U.S. authorities. However, the Supreme Court also ruled that the f [...]
2010-01-29 21:08:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PTER CA
10OTTAWA126CANADA: CONSERVATIVES GAIN CONTROL OF SENATE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Prime Minister Harper has gained effective control of the Senate in the next session of Parliament following the appointment of five new Conservative Senators, which gives his party a working plurality in the upper house for the first time. The shift should strengthen the Conser [...]
2010-02-01 20:51:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CA
10OTTAWA152CANADIAN COURT INTERVENES OVER TAMIL RELEASE
[...] (SBU) Summary: A Federal Court decision has underscored the federal government's responsibility to exercise due diligence in determining the admissibility of individuals to Canada on security grounds, overturning an Immigration and Refugee Board (IRB) order to release a Tamil male whom the gov [...]
2010-02-08 20:18:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PTER PHUM PREF CA CE
10OTTAWA158TFHA01: CANADIANS GIVE GENEROUSLY FOR HAITI RELIEF
[...] (U) Summary: Canadians have so far contributed C$113 million (approximately US$105.6 million) to the Haiti Earthquake Relief Fund; the government has pledged to match all such contributions through February 12. In addition, the Government of Canada has earmarked C$135 million (approximately U [...]
2010-02-09 16:36:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID HA CA
10OTTAWA172TFHA01: CANADIAN PM IN HAITI
[...] (SBU) Summary: During a two day visit to Haiti, Canadian Prime Minister Harper pledged C$12 million (US$11.4 million) to construct temporary buildings as a base for key Haitian government departments and underscored that Haiti would remain a long-term Canadian aid priority despite future budge [...]
2010-02-16 17:41:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID MOPS HA CA
10OTTAWA19Canadian Representation at PRT Conference in Prague
[...] (SBU) In response to a January 14 demarche by PolMinCouns concerning high level Canadian participation at the Prague PRT conference (ref a),Acting Director General Jamie Christoff of the Afghanistan Task Force at the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade confirmed that Jess D [...]
2010-01-19 15:31:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL NATO AF CA
10OTTAWA206Canada To Vote No On UNGA Goldstone Resolution
[...] (SBU) Canada will vote against the Palestinian-drafted resolution in the UN General Assembly on the Goldstone Report, according to the Human Rights Policy Division of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. Canada voted against the draft resolution tabled in the UNGA in No [...]
2010-02-26 22:10:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL UNGA CA
10OTTAWA208CANADA 2010 TIP REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-26 23:32:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC CA ELAB KCRM KFRD KMCA KTIP KWMN PGOV PHUM PREF SMIG
10OTTAWA61CANADA: WELCOME THE PRESIDENTIAL DELEGATION
[...] (U) Embassy warmly welcomes the Presidential delegation to the Opening Ceremony of the XXI Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver and grants country clearance. Ambassador Jacobson looks forward to welcoming the delegation personally upon arrival. JACOBSON [...]
2010-02-10 19:22:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAFIN AMGT OTRA PGOV CA
10OTTAWA70CANADA: MODEST CABINET SHUFFLE
[...] (SBU) Summary: PM Harper reshuffled his cabinet on January 19 in preparation for a new session of Parliament and Speech from the Throne on March 3 and a federal budget on March 4. The changes included ten medium and lower rank portfolios, and reflected a strongly economic focus. He identifi [...]
2010-01-19 22:12:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON PINR CA
10OTTAWA84CANADA POISED TO TIGHTEN CRIME SENTENCING RULES
[...] (SBU) Summary: Although PM Harper continues to criticize sentencing provisions in Canada that permit terrorists and criminals, including at least one convicted "Toronto 18" terrorist, to obtain enhanced sentencing credit for time served in pre-trial custody, Parliament actually passed a govern [...]
2010-01-22 20:30:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PTER CA
10OTTAWA89GCINT: Informing Canadaof 2010 UAE Plenary
[...] (SBU) In a February 25 meeting with David McDuff, Senior Policy Officer in the Non-Proliferation and Nuclear Disarmament Division of the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, polmiloff delivered reftel message about the 2010 GCINT plenary. McDuff offered no substantive com [...]
2010-02-26 23:37:00Embassy OttawaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM PINR PINS PREL PTER KGIC CA
10OUAGADOUGOU25BURKINA FASO: MARCEL KAFANDO, ONLY OFFICIAL SUSPECT IN THE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Marcel Kafando, the only official suspect in the 1998 assassination of well known Burkinabe journalist Robert Zongo, died in Ouagadougou on December 23rd, possibly bringing to a close this 11 year old unresolved case. This case has indirectly pointed the finger to high level i [...]
2010-01-20 16:16:00Embassy OuagadougouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PINS UV
10OUAGADOUGOU4BURKINA FASO: ECONOMICS AND DEMOCRACY ARE
[...] (U) SUMMARY: In his traditional New Year's address, President Blaise Compaore focused on economics, including sustainable and balanced development, economic growth, the fight against corruption, and infrastructure development. He also reflected on broader aspects of democracy with an emphas [...]
2010-01-06 14:57:00Embassy OuagadougouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PGOV PREL SOCI UV
10OUAGADOUGOU932010 Presidential elections on the horizon
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Compaore has been in power since 1987. As a result of a change to the constitution in 2000, he is eligible to run for President one final time in 2010. The likely outcome of the elections is predictable: a clear Compaore victory in the first round. Because the numerous [...]
2010-02-08 11:11:00Embassy OuagadougouUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM UV
10PARAMARIBO102Suriname Response: OIG Review of Impact of Required
[...] (U) Post is pleased to provide a response keyed to Reftel. 2. (SBU) a. The Human Rights Report takes the most time and attention from State personnel at the Embassy. b. The Political/Economic Section is responsible for gathering information and preparing the following congressi [...]
2010-02-11 20:15:00Embassy ParamariboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAMGT ASIG PHUM NS
10PARAMARIBO114Government of Suriname delayed in preliminary response to
[...] (SBU) On February 11, Post delivered the talking points (reftel) via diplomatic note to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) requesting that they be forwarded to the Ministry of Physical Planning, Land, and Forestry Management; Ministry of Labor, Technology, and Environment; Ministry of Transp [...]
2010-02-18 21:21:00Embassy ParamariboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KSCA AORC UNEP NS
10PARAMARIBO128Request for Human Rights Vetting for U.S. Sponsored
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-23 20:07:00Embassy ParamariboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM NS
10PARAMARIBO2Evaluation of Participation of Louis Alfaisie in FY09 MRP
[...] (SBU) Overview and positives: Mr. Louis Alfaisie, reporter for De West, a national daily newspaper, participated in the FY09 Multi-Regional Program (MRP) "INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM II" August 10 - 28, 2009. During his November 2009 return brief with the DCM, PolEconPDoff, and PD Assistant [...]
2010-01-04 12:39:00Embassy ParamariboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOEXC KPAO SCUL NS
10PARAMARIBO20Suriname: Political Parties Lack Fiscal Transparency and
[...] (SBU) Summary. With interest in Suriname's May 2010 elections primarily focused on the drama among Suriname's political parties, especially on whether former military dictator Desi Bouterse plans to run for president while he stands trial for murder, little attention is paid to the basic elemen [...]
2010-01-14 12:30:00Embassy ParamariboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL NS
10PARAMARIBO38Suriname's Offer of Humanitarian Assistance to Haiti
[...] (SBU) CDA Bell delivered REFTEL points to Ambassador Glen Alvares, Special Advisor to Suriname's Minister of Foreign Affairs, on January 20. Alvares indicated that all official Government of Suriname (GOS) offers of assistance are currently pending with CARICOM/CDEMA. Alvares, however, was un [...]
2010-01-20 21:42:00Embassy ParamariboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON PGOV PREL HA NS
10PARAMARIBO4Evaluation of Participation of Jimmy Chin Chan Sen in FY10
[...] (SBU) Overview and positives: Mr. Jimmy Chin Chan Sen, Education Inspector, participated as an International Visitor (IV) in the FY10 Multi-Regional Program (MRP) "ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION IN THE U.S." from October 17-November 07, 2009. During his return brief with the PolEcon Chie [...]
2010-01-04 18:48:00Embassy ParamariboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOEXC KPAO SCUL NS
10PARAMARIBO5Scenesetter for Special Envoy David Goldwyn and EGCI
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY OF PROPOSED TRIP AGENDA: Everyone at Embassy Paramaribo joins me in welcoming Special Envoy David Goldwyn and the Energy Governance and Capacity Initiative delegation to Suriname. Although we cannot yet provide a confirmed schedule, we expect our Ministerial-level and worki [...]
2010-02-23 18:12:00Embassy ParamariboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG EPET EAID ECON ETRD PGOV NS
10PARAMARIBO66Demarche Delivered: Suriname still deliberating whether to
[...] (SBU) DCM delivered reftel points to Suriname's Ministry of Foreign Affairs Permanent Secretary Jane Nanhu-Aarland on January 26. She said the GOS was still deliberating whether Suriname would associate with the Copenhagen Accord. In a follow-up call on January 29, she indicated the GO [...]
2010-01-29 18:56:00Embassy ParamariboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ENRG KGHG NS
10PARAMARIBO74Request for Human Rights Vetting for U.S. Sponsored
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-04 18:49:00Embassy ParamariboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM NS
10PARAMARIBO76SURINAME MAY 2010 ELECTIONS: Parties and Coalitions - The
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Suriname's political parties are entering the home stretch of negotiations, as parties and formal coalitions must register with the Central Polling Authority prior to the March 16-21 deadline in order to participate in the May 25 national elections. The public is bombarded by a [...]
2010-02-04 20:53:00Embassy ParamariboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL NS
10PARAMARIBO84EVALUATION OF PARTICIPATION OF SASKIA WOODLY IN FY-10 MRP
[...] (U) Overview and positives: Saskia Woodly, Prevention Manager at the National AIDS Program in Suriname, participated in the FY 2010 Multi-Regional Program "HIV/AIDS Education and Prevention in the U.S." from November 16 through December 4, 2009. During her post-trip briefing, Woodly thanked th [...]
2010-02-05 19:54:00Embassy ParamariboUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOEXC KPAO SCUL NS
10PARIS101OECD: OPPORTUNITIES TO ADVANCE U.S. DEVELOPMENT PRIORITIES
[...] (SBU) Summary: OECD development institutions provide opportunities for harnessing the OECD's unique strengths (donor coordination, peer learning, analysis of market-based best practices, and statistics) in support of U.S. development priorities. As the USG looks for ways to elevate its develop [...]
2010-01-29 16:29:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID EFIN OECD XA XE XF XL XM
10PARIS115Request for Guidance on USG Bluefin Tuna Policy in CITES
[...] (SBU) Since January 2009 when the USG listed France as a country that tolerates Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing, French public attention to the depletion of Mediterranean and Eastern Atlantic bluefin tuna stocks has grown. More importantly, Prince Albert of Monaco has asked m [...]
2010-02-02 17:20:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KSCA CITES AORC UNEP
10PARIS130VISIT OF CODEL TANNER TO PARIS, FEBRUARY 16 - 19
[...] (SBU) The U.S. Mission to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) welcomes CODEL Tanner travel to Paris from February 16 to 19, 2010 to attend several official events and meetings. 2. (U) The control Officer for the visit is Secretary of Delegation, J. Palmer Rosel [...]
2010-02-03 17:38:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP AMGT ASEC AFIN OVIP FR
10PARIS139FRANCE SUPPORTS COPENHAGEN ACCORD, WORKING ON NEXT STEPS
[...] (U) SUMMARY: France is promoting association with the Copenhagen Accord and is taking the initiative on next steps. The GOF is urging African countries directly, and through the Francophonie organization indirectly, to associate themselves with the Copenhagen Accord. The French are also wor [...]
2010-02-05 15:08:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KGHG ENRG FR
10PARIS140OECD COUNCIL AND ENHANCED ENGAGEMENT PARTNERS DISCUSS
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Council of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) met in an enlarged session with Enhanced Engagement and Accession Country countries to discuss the development dimension of OECD work on climate change, trade, taxation, and food security. The discus [...]
2010-02-05 15:09:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON EFIN ETRD OECD XA XE XF XL XM
10PARIS141FRANCE SUPPORTS MEASURES AGAINST DISTRACTED DRIVING
[...] Summary: In a February 3 meeting with the Ambassador, French Junior Minister for Transportation Dominique Bussereau praised recent USG efforts on distracted driving. Bussereau described ongoing GOF efforts to reduce road deaths from 7,000 a few years ago to 3,000 by 2012 through enforcing sp [...]
2010-02-05 16:16:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETTC SOCI UNDP EU FR
10PARIS146French Response to US CITES COP 15 PROPOSALS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On February 4, the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs told us that France agrees with the U.S. proposal on coral and shark, opposes the proposal on bobcat (because of look-alike concerns) and is still considering its position on polar bears. END SUMMARY. 2. (U) On February [...]
2010-02-08 14:54:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KSCA CITES AORC UNEP
10PARIS160FRANCE: POTENTIAL FOR SHALE GAS DEVELOPMENT
[...] (SBU) Summary: France has no identified shale gas bearing formations. Industry took an interest in the sector in 2007, but although the GOF plans to permit exploration activity for shale gas areas in Southeastern France in 2010 (making production possible around 2015),technical, legal and pol [...]
2010-02-10 15:03:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ENRG EPET FR
10PARIS175FRANCE BLUE LANTERN BROKER INQUIRY OF REGISTERED BROKER
[...] (SBU) Econoff contacted French company JENOPTEC regarding JENOPTEC's bona fides and registered broker activities under Case NO. K-1120 (ref). JENOPTEC CEO Gerard Nobili and Stephane Hostyn, Chief of Production, confirmed that JENOPTEC employs 47 people, including company executives, administrat [...]
2010-02-16 09:45:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETTC FR
10PARIS176FRANCE BLUE LANTERN BROKER INQUIRY OF REGISTERED BROKER
[...] (SBU) Econoff contacted Avram Alberto Bueno, CEO and General Manager of of the French company Business Developmental Security Industries (BDSI) regarding BDSI's bona fides and registered broker activities under Case NO. K-2277 (ref). Bueno said the company consisted of himself and his wife Soph [...]
2010-02-16 09:45:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETTC FR
10PARIS214France's Sleek New Export and Investment Machine
[...] (SBU) France is already world's fifth largest exporter, but recently restructured its export promotion and investment machine to stay competitive and increase assistance to small and medium enterprises (SMEs). The new "French Export Team" streamlined the roles of the major export promotion ent [...]
2010-02-23 12:00:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETRD EIND EINV FR
10PARIS22Russia's Accession to the OECD
[...] (SBU) Summary: The slow pace of Russia's accession to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) reflects poor internal coordination by the Russian Government and the significant hurdles that Russia faces in demonstrating consistency with the OECD's open market principles [...]
2010-01-08 08:18:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EFIN PREL OECD XG XH RS
10PARIS227French Electricity Leader en route to the U.S.
[...] (SBU) Summary: Henri Proglio is making his first trip to the U.S. as CEO of Electricite de France (EDF). His goal is to gauge potential American partners and review the firm's U.S. investments. EDF plans to expand as a "diversified service company" that can operate different nuclear reactor t [...]
2010-02-24 16:57:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG ECON ETRD EINV PREL FR CH
10PARIS23 OECD: DOC GC Cameron Kerry Leads U.S. Delegation to
[...] (SBU) Summary: U.S. Department of Commerce General Counsel Cameron Kerry led the U.S. delegation to an OECD Conference on December 9, 2009, which commemorated International Anticorruption Day, the ten-year anniversary of the entry into force of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, and the roll ou [...]
2010-01-08 08:19:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON KCOR OECD GM SW JA RS UK FR
10PARIS236EMBASSY PARIS TELECOM OFFICER
[...] (SBU) Per State 17143, Post notifies EB/CIP/BA that Embassy Paris' Telecommunications Policy Officer is Allison Areias. PEKALA [...]
2010-02-26 12:07:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ECPS FR
10PARIS237FRANCE SPECIAL 301 2010 ANNUAL REVIEW
[...] (SBU) Summary. Post has reviewed PhRMA's Special 301 submission on France and recommends against inclusion of France on the 2010 Special 301 Watch List. France has, in fact, improved the pharmaceutical R & D environment and post sees no evidence of lack of IPR protection or market access. Fr [...]
2010-02-26 12:07:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EIND EINV EUN KIPR FR
10PARIS26Russia's Accession to the OECD - Chronology and Standards
[...] (U) Summary: This cable is part two of a two-part series. Part I (Reftel) outlined the broader challenges that Russia faces during the accession process to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. This cable provides details on the chronology and the status of the accession e [...]
2010-01-11 08:36:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EFIN PREL OECD XG XH
10PARIS29France Proposes "Google Tax" for IPR
[...] (SBU) President Sarkozy announced plans to tax internet advertising revenue generated by Google and other major internet sites (the examples of which all happen to be American)to fund revenues lost from internet piracy. This measure and others to counter piracy and encourage legal downloading [...]
2010-01-11 14:36:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECPS EFIN ETRD EIND KIPR SCUL FR
10PARIS55AFGHANISTAN: FRANCE SHARES U.S. VIEWS ON ISAF
[...] (SBU) France is entirely in agreement that the ISAF transition plan adopted at NATO would be an excellent deliverable for the London conference, but should not be confused with a plan to withdraw ISAF forces. Francois Delmas of the French interagency Afghanistan-Pakistan cell said on January [...]
2010-01-15 17:09:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MOPS NATO PREL AF FR
10PARIS61OECD: POLICY COHERENCE FOR DEVELOPMENT
[...] (SBU) Summary: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) member states are engaged in a reflective exercise on how best to incorporate development into OECD activities writ large, both in terms of engaging developing countries in a two-way dialogue, extending support to deve [...]
2010-01-19 16:11:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ETRD OECD
10PARIS7AFGHANISTAN MOU: UPDATED INTERIM RESPONSE
[...] (SBU) Post has followed up with the GOF on the interim response reported in reftel A to points in reftel B. On January 5, Francois Delmas, action officer from the interagency Afghanistan and Pakistan Cell, said that delayed transmission of the draft MOU from the French Embassy in Kabul to Par [...]
2010-01-05 14:06:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV EAID AF FR
10PARIS76AMBASSADOR RIVKIN ENGAGES ON HAITI AS FRENCH
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Reinforcing the Secretary's message (ref A),Ambassador Rivkin engaged directly with over 100 French journalists in an event streamed live on-line by CNN where he highlighted U.S. assistance to Haiti and the cooperation of the United States with France, the UN, and the internati [...]
2010-01-25 12:33:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KPAO KDEM OIIP FR HA
10PARIS8AFGHANISTAN MOU: UPDATED INTERIM RESPONSE
[...] (SBU) Post has followed up with the GOF on the interim response reported in reftel A to points in reftel B. On January 5, Francois Delmas, action officer from the interagency Afghanistan and Pakistan Cell, said that delayed transmission of the draft MOU from the French Embassy in Kabul to Par [...]
2010-01-05 14:07:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV EAID AF FR
10PARIS9EEB A/S FERNANDEZ ADVOCATES GREATER FOCUS
[...] (SBU) Summary: EEB Assistant Secretary Jose W. Fernandez co-chaired the December 7-8 OECD Global Forum on International Investment and underscored the importance of foreign direct investment for global economic recovery. He discussed the upcoming OECD 50th Anniversary and OECD support for th [...]
2010-01-06 14:20:00Embassy ParisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAORC ECON EINV OECD
10PHNOMPENH113CAMBODIA'S BURGEONING YOUTH POPULATION
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A recent uptick in drug use, particularly ice - the crystallized form of methamphetamine preferred by Cambodia's new urban elite - has resulted in increased scrutiny of the social triggers and available treatment for Cambodia's young population. Reported increases in teens hold [...]
2010-02-17 07:29:00Embassy Phnom PenhUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR PGOV PREF PREL ASEC EAID CB
10PHNOMPENH127COURT ACQUITS RFA JOURNALIST OF DISINFORMATION
[...] (SBU) The Takeo Provincial Court on February 19 acquitted Radio Free Asia (RFA) reporter Sok Serey of disinformation. The case stemmed from a dispute within a Cham Muslim community in Takeo (Ref A),where a community leader alleged that the local imam misappropriated funds belonging to the co [...]
2010-02-19 08:47:00Embassy Phnom PenhUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL KJUS CB
10PHNOMPENH133THREE CAMBODIANS CONVICTED FOR LABOR TRAFFICKING;
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has convicted three Cambodians on human trafficking and assault charges stemming from the purchase and forced labor of an 11-year old girl in their custody. The primary offender in was sentenced to 20 years in prison for receiving and systematic [...]
2010-02-23 00:14:00Embassy Phnom PenhUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL KTIP KJUS SOCI CB
10PHNOMPENH135THREE CAMBODIANS CONVICTED FOR LABOR TRAFFICKING;
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Phnom Penh Municipal Court has convicted three Cambodians on human trafficking and assault charges stemming from the purchase and forced labor of an 11-year old girl in their custody. The primary offender in was sentenced to 20 years in prison for receiving and systematic [...]
2010-02-23 00:14:00Embassy Phnom PenhUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL KTIP KJUS SOCI CB
10PHNOMPENH1382010 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT FOR CAMBODIA
[...] (U) The following is Embassy Phnom Penh's 2010 Trafficking in Persons Report for Cambodia, covering the period April 2009 - March 2010. Responses follow the questions outlined in Ref B. The entire report is Sensitive But Unclassified (SBU). 2. (SBU) CAMBODIA'S TIP SITUATION ----------- [...]
2010-02-24 08:36:00Embassy Phnom PenhUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL PREF ELAB SMIG KCRM KTIP KWMN KFRD
10PHNOMPENH16PROVINCIAL COURT SETS SAM RAINSY TRIAL DATE
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Svay Rieng Provincial Court announced on January 8 that it will try opposition party leader Sam Rainsy on January 27. Rainsy, currently in France, did not appear on December 28 as summoned to answer questions before the court on charges of public destruction of property an [...]
2010-01-12 03:36:00Embassy Phnom PenhUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM KTIA KJUS CB
10PHNOMPENH17 EXPROPRIATION LAW PASSAGE REVEALS FLAWS IN THE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On December 29, the National Assembly (NA) approved a new draft expropriation law, which has raised concerns with its wide definition of "public interest" projects that justify confiscation of private property and vague provisions on "fair and just" compensation. There was limi [...]
2010-01-12 04:26:00Embassy Phnom PenhUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM EAGR SENV KDEM ECON CB
10PHNOMPENH27SEARCHING FOR ENERGY IN CAMBODIA'S WASTE
[...] (U) SUMMARY. Although large-scale solutions to Cambodia's energy issues have dominated national and regional attention, NGOs and investors are starting to realize the energy potential in the country's farms, trash bins, and landfills. Studies estimate a potential generation of 18,852 GWh per [...]
2010-01-15 01:58:00Embassy Phnom PenhUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV EAGR ENRG EAID EIND CB
10PHNOMPENH32 CAMBODIA COMMITTED TO IMPROVED FISCAL TRANSPARENCY
[...] (U) Per Ref A's request for information regarding fiscal transparency, posts response is below. Reforming the Public Financial Management System --------------------------------------------- --- 2. (U) The Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) is committed to greater financial accountability [...]
2010-01-19 10:04:00Embassy Phnom PenhUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON AID EFIN PREL CB
10PHNOMPENH33TFHA01: CAMBODIA OFFERS $50,000 IN HUMANITARIAN
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-19 10:13:00Embassy Phnom PenhUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON PGOV PREL PREF HA CB
10PHNOMPENH65RGC WILL ASSOCIATE WITH COPENHAGEN ACCORD BUT WANTS TO SEE COMMITMENTS FIRST
[...] (SBU) The Royal Government of Cambodia (RGC) has no objections to associating with the Copenhagen Accord in principle but wants to see concrete commitments from developed and major developing countries before taking action. DCM delivered Reftel talking points to Ouch Borith, Secretary of Stat [...]
2010-01-26 06:43:00Embassy Phnom PenhUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ENRG CB KGHG
10PHNOMPENH71CAMBODIAN AUTHORITIES BREAK UP TRAFFICKING RING;
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: An official from the Anti-Human Trafficking and Juvenile Protection (AHTJP) Police Unit confirmed the arrest of two Cambodians involved in a virginity sale and child trafficking business in Phnom Penh and Kandal Province. The two traffickers, and an American perpetrator arre [...]
2010-01-28 01:33:00Embassy Phnom PenhUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM KTIP KJUS CB
10PORTAUPRINCE1SCENESETTER FOR LT. GENERAL KEEN, JANUARY 12 VISIT TO HAITI
[...] (SBU) Summary: Your visit comes at an important point in Haiti's democratic development. President Rene Preval and his Prime Minister, Jean-Max Bellerive, are working hard to meet the basic needs of the population and conduct the next round of elections, including for a new president in Novemb [...]
2010-01-11 17:51:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOVIP PGOV PREL HA
10PORTAUPRINCE102TFHA01: EMBASSY PORT AU PRINCE EARTHQUAKE SITREP as of 1800,
[...] (SBU) Summary: US and UN representatives continue to keep the Government of Haiti (GOH) apprised of coordinated relief efforts. President Preval publicly announced that he will not seek to extend his presidency beyond the scheduled end of his term. Despite significant personnel losses, the [...]
2010-01-29 13:44:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA PGOV AID
10PORTAUPRINCE106TFHA01: EMBASSY PORT AU PRINCE EARTHQUAKE SITREP as of 1800,
[...] (SBU) Summary: As a sign of confidence in Haiti's recovery, the Vietnamese phone company Vietel reaffirmed its offer to purchase Teleco, Haiti's national telephone company. The Haitian Chamber of Commerce recommended establishment of a Building and Housing Reconstruction Fund to build [...]
2010-01-30 00:52:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA PGOV AID
10PORTAUPRINCE108USAID/DART OVERVIEW OF HAITI FOOD DISTRIBUTION PLAN
[...] (SBU) Summary. This weekend, the U.N. World Food Program (WFP) will shift to a geographically-focused distribution system in metropolitan Port-au-Prince through 16 identified sites. Distribution of food ration coupons is scheduled to begin on January 30, prior to distribution of food on Janua [...]
2010-01-30 05:32:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON PGOV PINR PREL PREF HA
10PORTAUPRINCE110TFHA01: EMBASSY PORT AU PRINCE EARTHQUAKE SITREP as of 1800,
[...] (SBU) Summary: Criticisms of President Preval continue, including from within the government, and various rumors of a pro-US rally are yet to materialize. Meanwhile, some parliamentarians are asking for an extension of their mandate by two years. Their request is unconstitutional and unlik [...]
2010-02-01 20:39:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA PGOV AID
10PORTAUPRINCE120TFHA01: EMBASSY PORT AU PRINCE EARTHQUAKE SITREP as of 1800,
[...] (SBU) Summary: Parliamentary elections originally scheduled for the end of the month are officially postponed until further notice. The Prime Minister attended a Senate hearing to defend the government's response to the earthquake. Protests against the government remain peaceful and sma [...]
2010-02-04 00:36:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA PGOV AID
10PORTAUPRINCE126HAITI USAID/DART - SYSTEM FOR FORMAL REQUESTS FOR U.S.
[...] (U) Summary. The scale and scope of the current crisis in Haiti has created opportunities to utilize the unique capacities of the U.S. Military to support relief efforts. The USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team (USAID/DART) serves as the focal point for receiving formal civilian requests [...]
2010-02-05 20:10:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON PGOV PINR PREL PREF HA
10PORTAUPRINCE130TFHA01: EMBASSY PORT AU PRINCE EARTHQUAKE SITREP as of 1800,
[...] (SBU) Summary: Private sector representatives pledged support to Preval for a common strategy. Minister of Justice Paul Denis re-established activities at his Ministry and appointed a new Chief Prosecutor and Dean of the Court of First instance. The Government of Haiti (GOH) [...]
2010-02-06 00:24:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA PGOV AID
10PORTAUPRINCE132Haitian National Police - Status Report and Action Request
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Three weeks after the devastating January 12 earthquake, and despite the loss of its headquarters building, commissariats, personnel, and equipment, the Haitian National Police (HNP) remains the most visible government institution in Haiti, and continues to provide a reassu [...]
2010-02-06 21:57:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC EFIN PGOV SNAR SOCI KJUS XL HA
10PORTAUPRINCE134USAID/DART Humanitarian Coordination Overview of Haiti
[...] (U) Summary. Following the devastating impact of the 7.0 magnitude earthquake in Haiti on January 12, the international humanitarian community has made significant progress in establishing humanitarian coordination structures and responding to needs in Port-au-Prince and other affected areas. [...]
2010-02-07 00:39:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON PGOV PINR PREL PREF HA
10PORTAUPRINCE142TFHA01: EMBASSY PORT AU PRINCE EARTHQUAKE SITREP as of 1800,
[...] (SBU) Summary: President Preval departed February 8 to Ecuador for a UNASUR summit, reportedly planning to return February 10. The Canadian Government has proposed to build a temporary administrative complex for the GOH. Commercial air traffic could partially resume as early [...]
2010-02-09 00:48:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA PGOV AID
10PORTAUPRINCE148Preval Ponders Continued Use of Emergency Power
[...] (SBU) On January 16, four days after the earthquake, President Preval declared a state of national emergency and assumed the extraordinary powers granted to the Executive by the "Law on the State of Emergency." The powers allow the Executive to enter into contracts, exercise eminent dom [...]
2010-02-09 20:12:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA PGOV AID
10PORTAUPRINCE152MINUSTAH Police Contingent Update and Action Request
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: NAS is working to rebuild contact with the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) following the loss of much of the organization's civilian, military, and police leadership in the January 12 earthquake. Coordination will remain a challenge as personnel ar [...]
2010-02-09 21:29:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC EFIN PGOV SNAR SOCI KJUS XL HA
10PORTAUPRINCE154USAID/DART OVERVIEW OF HAITI POST-EARTHQUAKE PROTECTION
[...] (U) Summary. In the post-earthquake period, affected populations confront significant risks, including potential exploitation, abuse, psychosocial distress, and gender-based violence. Limited information regarding the availQlity of humanitarian assistance exacerbates psychosocial distress, in [...]
2010-02-10 03:31:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON PGOV PINR PREL PREF HA
10PORTAUPRINCE158Haiti: UK and Canadian Donor Plans for Corrections Sector
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: NAS met on February 11 with officials from the United Kingdom's Department for International Development (DFID) and Canada's Stabilization and Reconstruction Task Force (START),to discuss corrections sector development plans in the wake of the January 12 earthquake in Hait [...]
2010-02-13 20:03:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PGOV SNAR SOCI KPKO KJUS UN XL HA
10PORTAUPRINCE160NAS Haiti December 2009 Monthly Report
[...] (U) (NOTE: This cable serves to fulfill a monthly INL reporting requirement to document activities for the month of December 2009. The content dates prior to the January 12, 2010 earthquake. END NOTE.) 2. (SBU) Summary: In December 2009, there were significant developments in the NAS-H [...]
2010-02-14 16:40:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR PGOV PREL XL HA
10PORTAUPRINCE164Haiti: Canada Reevaluates Security and Rule of Law
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Canada's Stabilization and Reconstruction Task Force (START) in Haiti is reassessing its security and rule of law development assistance in the aftermath of the January 12 earthquake. START will likely support the Haitian National Police (HNP) by building a new headquarter [...]
2010-02-15 23:34:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR PGOV PREL ASEC KPKO XL HA
10PORTAUPRINCE168Still Fighting Back: Cite Soleil Three Weeks Post-Earthquake
[...] (SBU) Summary: Cite Soleil, once Haiti's most emblematic hot spot, was hit hard but not devastated by the January 12 earthquake. Life there has changed, people are adjusting, and this latest catastrophe seems to have been largely absorbed and shaken off with an incredible resiliency. The pre [...]
2010-02-16 23:14:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA PGOV AID
10PORTAUPRINCE176PORT-AU-PRINCE: FEBRUARY 12 CODEL PELOSI VISIT TO HAITI
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On February 12 Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi, along with the 11 Senators and members of Congress, arrived in Port-au-Prince to observe U.S. relief efforts and to discuss the status of those efforts with US and GOH officials. President Preval told th [...]
2010-02-22 20:36:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PINR HA PGOV AID EAID
10PORTAUPRINCE178HAITI'S QUAKE PUTS CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM ON HOLD
[...] (SBU) The January 12 earthquake has taken February 2010 elections off the table and put an end to plans of securing constitutional reform before the May 12 deadline. Haiti's 1987 constitution requires that two consecutive legislatures approve constitutional amendments prior to their entr [...]
2010-02-22 22:01:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PINR HA AID EAID KDEM PHUM
10PORTAUPRINCE180HAITI POST-QUAKE ELECTION CALENDAR
[...] (SBU) Bowing to the inevitable, given the situation, on February 2 Haiti's Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) indefinitely postponed parliamentary elections originally scheduled in February 2010 (Ref A). The GOH has made no further announcements concerning elections. In a meeting wi [...]
2010-02-22 22:10:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PINR HA PGOV AID EAID
10PORTAUPRINCE186PREVAL'S PARLIAMENTARY UPPER-HAND
[...] (SBU) Summary. Parliament re-established itself quickly after the earthquake, setting up special commissions and trying to re-assert its role as a watchdog. Despite calls by opposition parliamentarians for changes in government, President Preval still has the upper-hand because of the b [...]
2010-02-23 21:03:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL HA PINR AID EAID KDEM
10PORTAUPRINCE194HAITI: GOH PLAN FOR IDP'S
[...] (SBU) On February 22, Reuters reported the Government of Haiti had halted food and water deliveries to internally displaced persons (IDP's) in a camp on the grounds of the prime minister's office, the Primature. The GOH was reportedly trying to pressure IDPs to abandon the Primature grou [...]
2010-02-24 14:09:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL HA PINR AID EAID KDEM
10PORTAUPRINCE196MINUSTAH'S POLITICAL ASSESSMENT: STABLE BUT WITH RISKS AHEAD
[...] (SBU) On February 23 Poloff met with MINUSTAH Political Office Director Lizbeth Cullity to review MINUSTAH's assessment of the post-quake political situation. Cullity was optimistic for political stability in the short term, with President Preval receiving support from a majority of the [...]
2010-02-24 19:54:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PINR HA PGOV AID EAID
10PORTAUPRINCE206APPAREL SECTOR HIGHLIGHTS HAITI'S ECONOMIC RESILIENCE AND
[...] (SBU) Within two weeks of the January 12 earthquake, Haiti's garment manufacturing sector resumed exports to the US, re-routing shipments through Dominican ports. Prior to the earthquake, apparel assembled in Haiti accounted for three-quarters of the country's exports, employing one-fift [...]
2010-02-26 18:34:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PINR HA PGOV AID EAID ECON ETRD EINV KTEX
10PORTAUPRINCE44HAITI EARTHQUAKE SITREP 2 as of 1900
[...] (SBU) As of the drafting of this sitrep, we continue to experience severe aftershocks. An initial housing update survey conducted by the Management section indicates that most Embassy residences do not have running water or electricity. The status of one-fourth of the Embassy housing pool i [...]
2010-01-14 00:16:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA AID EAID
10PORTAUPRINCE46CONTACT INFORMATION FOR EMBASSY PORT AU PRINCE
[...] (SBU) Per reftel, Embassy Port-au-Prince provides the office and mobile telephone numbers of all country team members and other key officers who have action responsibilities during this crisis. Please note that most Haitian cell towers are still not in service, and land lines are unreliable. [...]
2010-01-15 00:20:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT
10PORTAUPRINCE48TFHA01: EMBASSY PORT AU PRINCE EARTHQUAKE SITREP as of 1200,
[...] (SBU) Aftershocks continue, but since 6:00am January 14, some Embassy personnel have been able to sporadically send and receive phone calls and text messages on mobile phones. All land lines are still down. Trilogy International, parent company of ComCel/Voila, Haiti's largest cellphone ser [...]
2010-01-15 17:46:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA PGOV AID
10PORTAUPRINCE50TFHA01: EMBASSY PORT AU PRINCE EARTHQUAKE SITREP as of 1800
[...] (SBU) On January 14 at 3:00 PM the Ambassador attended first UN donor coordination meeting at MINUSTAH's log base with President Preval, Prime Minister Bellerive, the new Special Representative of the Secretary General Edmond Mulet, Kim Bolduc of UNDP, the Prime Minister of Jamaica, and t [...]
2010-01-16 02:50:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA PGOV AID
10PORTAUPRINCE62PORT-AU-PRINCE: READ OUT ON SECSTATE VISIT
[...] (SBU) Summary: On January 16 Secretary Clinton, Counselor Cheryl Mills, USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah, and Ambassador Merten met with President Preval anQime Minister Bellerive. The President stated that his priorities are restoration of telecommunications, electricity and transportat [...]
2010-01-19 14:43:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA PGOV AID
10PORTAUPRINCE66TFHA01: EMBASSY PORT AU PRINCE EARTHQUAKE SITREP as of 1600,
[...] (SBU) Summary: Despite hardships in devastated neighborhoods, residents appear to be calm and civil, though isolated reports of roving armed gangs continue. A survey of regional police stations shows that most are operational, though many are damaged. A survey of regional prisons reve [...]
2010-01-19 22:06:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA PGOV AID
10PORTAUPRINCE68Haiti Post-Quake INL/NAS Assistance for MINUSTAH, HNP and
[...] This message is sensitive but unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: NAS Port-au-Prince, in conjunction with DEA, FBI, and other USG agencies, has stepped up advisory, logistical, and material support to GOH security institutions since the January 12 earthquake. [...]
2010-01-20 23:02:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC EFIN PGOV SNAR SOCI KPKO KJUS XL HA
10PORTAUPRINCE70TFHA01: EMBASSY PORT AU PRINCE EARTHQUAKE SITREP as of 1800,
[...] (SBU) Summary: Port-au-Prince experienced an aftershock measuring 6.1 this morning, causing some concern but no reported damage. Destruction and deaths in Cite Soleil from last week's earthquake were relatively low, owing to the simple, low, makeshift housing. The turnout of police of [...]
2010-01-21 00:14:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA PGOV AID
10PORTAUPRINCE74TFHA01: EMBASSY PORT AU PRINCE EARTHQUAKE SITREP as of 1800,
[...] (SBU) Summary: Money transfer companies begin to deliver remittances. Ten thousand refugees camped on the Champs de Mars, with help from France and the U.S. Road congestion is reduced on the road corridor between the DR and Port-au-Prince, but travel time is still lengthy. The busines [...]
2010-01-22 03:32:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA PGOV AID
10PORTAUPRINCE80HAITI EARTHQUAKE: USAID/DART HUMANITARIAN SITUATION UPDATE
[...] (U) Summary. Despite U.N. and media reports noting that the Government of Haiti (GoH) declared the end of the search and rescue phase on January 22, urban search and rescue (USAR) teams responded to a request for assistance that resulted in a live rescue on January 23. On January 22, the GoH [...]
2010-01-24 03:08:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON PGOV PINR PREL PREF HA
10PORTAUPRINCE88TFHA01: EMBASSY PORT AU PRINCE EARTHQUAKE SITREP as of 1800,
[...] (SBU) Summary: Street markets and grocery stores in upscale Petionville are operating. Fuel is available, causing a return of the city's traffic-clogged streets - the congestion signaling movement toward normalcy. But downtown Port-au-Prince is devastated. The GOH has assigned minist [...]
2010-01-26 12:40:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA PGOV AID
10PORTAUPRINCE90TFHA01: EMBASSY PORT AU PRINCE EARTHQUAKE SITREP as of 1800,
[...] (SBU) Summary: Earthquake damage in a rural agricultural area near Port-au-Prince was relatively light, but communities are being challenged by incoming migrants from the capital city and the lack of cash to purchase its agricultural produce. The rural regional hospital is receiving pat [...]
2010-01-27 03:35:00Embassy Port Au PrinceUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA PGOV AID
10PORTLOUIS13SEYCHELLES: REQUEST FOR L DECISION ON LANDING FEES
[...] (U) This is an action message for L; please see paragraph 4. 2. (SBU) The U.S./Seychelles SOFA completed in 2009 was the first such agreement for Seychelles. As a result, the Government of Seychelles (GOS) and the commercial entities that are tasked with carrying out the day-to-day airp [...]
2010-01-13 12:31:00Embassy Port LouisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR PREL MASS MOPS SE
10PORTLOUIS42MAURITIUS AND SEYCHELLES: SPECIAL SELF-HELP FUND
[...] (SBU) For the FY 09 Ambassador's Special Self-Help Fund, Embassy Port Louis received USD45,000 for Mauritius and USD30,000 for Seychelles. The Special Self-Help Committee selected nine projects for Mauritius and seven for Seychelles to receive funding. In accordance with the Negroponte Risk [...]
2010-02-11 12:44:00Embassy Port LouisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYXA EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL MP SE
10PORTOFSPAIN142BOEING LIKELY TO WIN CARIBBEAN AIRLINES DEAL
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A Boeing representative told us that Trinidad and Tobago's Caribbean Airlines (CAL) will endorse Boeing's bid to sell the national airline ten new 737-800 aircraft it sorely needs, a deal potentially worth USD 790 million and for which we conducted extensive advocacy. The deal [...]
2010-02-01 19:11:00Embassy Port Of SpainUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EAIR EFIN ECON PGOV TD
10PORTOFSPAIN180CHILD LABOR REPORT FOR TRININDAD AND TOBAGO
[...] (SBU) This cable contains responses per ref A to 1/TVPRA and 2/TDA in order to provide updated information concerning child labor in the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago (TT) as required under the Trade and Development Act (TDA). We believe that the incidence of children exploited for labor is [...]
2010-02-17 21:45:00Embassy Port Of SpainUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI TD
10PORTOFSPAIN194TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT: TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
[...] (SBU) In response to reftel, post submits the following information regarding trafficking in persons in Trinidad and Tobago. 2. (SBU) Point of Contact: Ebony Custis; (868) 822-5922 v; (868) 822-5984 f. Thirty seven hours of work total by POLoff and POL Assistant. 3. (SBU) THE CO [...]
2010-02-22 16:44:00Embassy Port Of SpainUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB KTIP KMAC KCRM KFRD KWMN PGOV PHUM PREF SMIG TD
10PORTOFSPAIN208OAS Elections: Trinidad Supports Current SYG and ASYG
[...] (SBU) MFA Director of Affairs of the Americas Delia Chatoor told us February 24 that Trinidad and Tobago (TT) supports the candidacies of Jose Miguel Insulza for OAS SYG and Albert Ramdin for ASYG and has informed Santiago of that support. Chatoor said the decision was made at the highest lev [...]
2010-02-24 19:11:00Embassy Port Of SpainUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAORC PREL KDEM OAS TD
10PORTOFSPAIN30TTFHA01: TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO'S INITIAL RESPONSE ON HAITI
[...] (SBU) PM Manning announced January 13 that the GOTT will send USD 1 million to Haiti. In making the announcement, the PM stated that the fiscal situation in T&T remains tight, but the country still needed to assist its CARICOM colleague. When the money will be sent, to whom, and for what purp [...]
2010-01-14 19:43:00Embassy Port Of SpainUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC EAID HA PREL TD
10PORTOFSPAIN36CANADA MAY FUND BRITISH JUDICIAL REFORM EFFORT IN TT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Canada may fund a British initiative to embed an expert in judicial reform within the GOTT as early as the first half of 2010. Under the program developed from a 2007 assessment visit, an official with the British Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) would address several broad areas [...]
2010-01-20 17:00:00Embassy Port Of SpainUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL CJAN KJUS PGOV TD XL
10PORTOFSPAIN62TRINDIDAD'S OPPOSITION PARTY CHANGES GUARD
[...] (SBU) Summary: Trinidad and Tobago's (TT) leading opposition party dramatically changed leadership January 24 when United National Congress (UNC) members overwhelmingly elected Kamla Persad-Bissessar as political leader, making her the first woman to head a major political party in the country [...]
2010-01-27 21:28:00Embassy Port Of SpainUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV TD
10PRAGUE26CZECH CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE HAITI RELIEF EFFORT
[...] (SBU) We delivered reftel demarches on January 19 and 20 to Foreign Ministry Humanitarian Aid Department Officer Hana Volna, who is leading government coordination efforts. She reported that the Czech Government has pledged CZK 20 million (USD 1.1 million) to the international Haiti relief effo [...]
2010-01-20 14:29:00Embassy PragueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID AEMR ECON EFIN PGOV PHUM PREL EZ HA
10PRAGUE28CZECH AIRLINES CONTINUES ITS FIGHT FOR FLIGHT
[...] (SBU) Summary: Following the Czech cabinet's decision not to complete the privatization process for Czech Airlines (CSA) (Ref. B),the Finance Ministry with the help of several state-owned companies is taking steps aimed at moving the heavily indebted carrier towards financial solvency. Privat [...]
2010-01-20 16:33:00Embassy PragueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR PGOV ECON EZ
10PRAGUE33CZECH REPUBLIC: REPLY TO DEMARCHE ON CLIMATE
[...] (SBU) On January 20 Charge d'Affaires Thompson-Jones delivered reftel demarche to Environment Minister Jan Dusik and Environment Ministry Department of Multilateral Relations Director Jiri Hlavacek. Dusik said the EU plans to associate itself with the Copenhagen Accord and inscribe its targets [...]
2010-01-22 07:39:00Embassy PragueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ENRG KGHG EZ
10PRAGUE42ACTION REQUEST ON COORDINATION OF CZECH AID TO
[...] (SBU) This is an action request. Please see paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. (SBU) We delivered ref A on January 25 to Czech Foreign Ministry Humanitarian Aid Department Officer Hana Volna, who is leading government coordination efforts on Haiti earthquake relief. She told us that she has distribute [...]
2010-01-26 12:27:00Embassy PragueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID AEMR ECON EFIN PGOV PHUM PREL EZ HA
10PRAGUE44OUTREACH FOR IRAN UNIVERSAL PERIODIC REVIEW:
[...] (U) We delivered reftel points to Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Human Rights Department officials on January 26. MFA official Petra Ali Dolakova welcomed U.S. participation in the UPR. 2. (SBU) Dolakova said the MFA was preparing questions in advance of the February 15 session [...]
2010-01-26 16:10:00Embassy PragueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL IR EZ
10PRAGUE46CZECH REPUBLIC: NO SIGNIFICANT FORCED LABOR IN THE
[...] (SBU) The Czech Republic (CR) does not have significant incidence of forced labor or child labor in the production of goods. We conducted interviews with relevant staff from the Czech Labor and Social Affairs Ministry, the Interior Ministry, the State Bureau for Labor Inspection, the police, [...]
2010-01-28 13:06:00Embassy PragueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI EZ
10PRAGUE48CZECH REPUBLIC: REPLY TO DEMARCHE ON CITES COP15
[...] (SBU) We delivered reftel demarche on January 25 to Czech Environment Ministry Head of CITES Management Authority Jan Kucera. Mr. Kucera told us that the EU Council will present joint EU positions for the CITES meeting. Since the Council has yet to present its position, Mr. Kucera offered the [...]
2010-01-28 14:02:00Embassy PragueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKSCA SENV AORC EZ
10PRAGUE54CZECH REPUBLIC: REPLY TO DEMARCHE ON DISTRACTED
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-02 10:24:00Embassy PragueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON SOCI UNGA EZ
10PRAGUE66BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-SHIPMENT END-USE CHECK
[...] (SBU) In response to reftel, Poloff conducted a site visit of the Czech Police Aviation Department's (CPAD) facilities at Prague's Ruzyne International Airport to verify the serial numbers of nine (9) M949 night vision aviator's goggles (NVG),determine the adequacy of the security measures f [...]
2010-02-05 09:38:00Embassy PragueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKOMC ETTC EZ
10PRAGUE74CZECH REPUBLIC: REPLY TO DEMARCHE ON U.S.-EU
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-08 13:22:00Embassy PragueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTIA EAIR
10PRAGUE90DISCUSSIONS AMONGST OFFICIALS PRIOR TO PRAGUE'S
[...] (SBU) More than 250 participants from 46 countries met in Prague over three days in our pre-London conference. The participants included journalists, civilian and military government officials, and NGO leaders. They discussed ways in which Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs) could enhance [...]
2010-02-18 13:04:00Embassy PragueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL EZ
10PRAGUE94CHARGE'S MEETING WITH AGRICULTURE MINISTER SEBESTA
[...] (SBU) Summary: On February 16, Charge d'Affaires Mary Thompson-Jones met Czech Agricultural Minister Jakub Sebesta to inquire about his position regarding the budget of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) after 2013, U.S. beef access, and agricultural biotechnology. Sebesta said that the Czec [...]
2010-02-18 15:49:00Embassy PragueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR ECON ETRD EZ PL
10PRAIA28CAPE VERDE CONSULTS BEFORE JOINING COPENHAGEN ACCORD
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-25 17:54:00Embassy PraiaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKGHG SENV CV
10PRAIA51CAPE VERDE REPORTS NO WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Cape Verde has a very low incidence of forced and exploitative child labor has no worst forms of child labor. Of children who work, most do so to augment their family income. Specifically, many of these children work as street vendors and car washers in cities, or assist with ha [...]
2010-02-03 22:01:00Embassy PraiaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB ETRD PHUM SOCI CV
10PRAIA72CAPE VERDE: INFORMATION ON CHINESE ENGAGEMENT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Two primary types of Chinese commercial engagement are widespread in Cape Verde: Chinese small-scale retailers and high-profile Chinese economic development projects. With the former, the retailers have made largely economic contributions to the local market, and on the larger [...]
2010-02-12 14:36:00Embassy PraiaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID CN CV
10PRAIA74MCC CEO VISIT HIGHLIGHTS FIRST COMPACT SUCCESS AND LOOKS
[...] (U) Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) CEO Daniel Yohannes' visit to Cape Verde last week reviewed the tangible accomplishments of the 2005-2010 MCC Compact with Cape Verde and set the groundwork for the preparation of a second Compact for FY 2011-2016. As Yohannes met with the Cape Verde [...]
2010-02-12 18:55:00Embassy PraiaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOVIP EAID PREL EFIN CV
10PRETORIA100SOUTH AFRICA POLITICAL NEWSLETTER JANUARY 11-JANUARY 15
[...] (SBU) This was written in partnership with the Open Source Center's Pretoria Bureau. The newsletter is open to contributions from officers in the Embassy or in the Consulates who wish to highlight political trends. Contact Madeline Seidenstricker or Jonathan Smallridge for more information, [...]
2010-01-19 09:34:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKDEM PGOV ASEC SF POL PAS ECON
10PRETORIA125ESKOM AND THE WORLD BANK LOAN FOR MEDUPI
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Two years after power utility Eskom's electricity crisis, the state-owned company continues to grapple with financing expanded supply and diversifying its energy mix. The recently released Integrated Resource Plan is a brief, three-year planning document, not revelatory in term [...]
2010-01-21 15:06:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ENRG EPET EINV PGOV SENV SF
10PRETORIA147A/S CARSON MEETING REQUEST WITH SOUTH AFRICANS AT
[...] (SBU) PolCouns passed A/S Carson's request for a meeting with President Zuma on the margins of the AU Summit to Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) USA Director on January 15, and included contact information for USAU acting DCM Maybury. DIRCO officials acknowledged [...]
2010-01-22 17:04:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL OVIP CARSON JOHNNIE AORC XA SF
10PRETORIA149SOUTH AFRICA POLITICAL NEWSLETTER JANUARY 19-JANUARY 22
[...] (SBU) This was written in partnership with the Open Source Center's Pretoria Bureau. The newsletter is open to contributions from officers in the Embassy or in the Consulates who wish to highlight political trends. Contact Madeline Seidenstricker or Jonathan Smallridge for more information, [...]
2010-01-25 06:50:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKDEM PGOV ASEC SF POL PAS ECON
10PRETORIA199SOUTH AFRICA POLITICAL NEWSLETTER JANUARY 25-JANUARY 29
[...] (SBU) This was written in partnership with the Open Source Center's Pretoria Bureau. The newsletter is open to contributions from officers in the Embassy or in the Consulates who wish to highlight political trends. Contact Madeline Seidenstricker or Jonathan Smallridge for more information, [...]
2010-01-29 16:18:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM ASEC SF
10PRETORIA2SOUTH AFRICA POLITICAL NEWSLETTER
[...] (SBU) This was written in partnership with the Open Source Center's Pretoria Bureau. The newsletter is open to contributions from officers in the Embassy or in the Consulates who wish to highlight political trends. Contact Madeline Seidenstricker or Jonathan Smallridge for more information, [...]
2010-01-04 06:57:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKDEM PGOV ASEC SF POL PAS ECON
10PRETORIA230SOUTH AFRICANS COMMEMORATE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF
[...] (SBU) F. W. de Klerk, the last presidential leader under the apartheid state, stunned the world on February 2, 1990 by announcing his plans for the unconditional release of Nelson Mandela and the unbanning of liberation movements such as the African National Congress (ANC),Pan-African Congres [...]
2010-02-03 11:23:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV SF
10PRETORIA256SOUTH AFRICA POLITICAL NEWSLETTER FEBRUARY 1-FEBRUARY 5
[...] (SBU) This was written in partnership with the Open Source Center's Pretoria Bureau. The newsletter is open to contributions from officers in the Embassy or in the Consulates who wish to highlight political trends. Contact Madeline Seidenstricker or Jonathan Smallridge for more information, [...]
2010-02-05 15:15:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ASEC KDEM SF
10PRETORIA289PRETORIA INPUTS TO THE 2010 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS
[...] Post hereby submits responses to the Department's action request (ref A) for the tenth annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report, covering the period from mid-February 2009 through mid-February 2010. Following an overview of South Africa's counter-trafficking efforts, and of its unique capa [...]
2010-02-11 12:53:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL SF KTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD
10PRETORIA290PRETORIA INPUTS TO THE 2010 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-11 12:54:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL SF KTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD
10PRETORIA291PRETORIA INPUTS TO THE 2010 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-11 12:54:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL SF KTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD
10PRETORIA3SOUTH AFRICA POLITICAL NEWSLETTER
[...] (SBU) This was written in partnership with the Open Source Center's Pretoria Bureau. The newsletter is open to contributions from officers in the Embassy or in the Consulates who wish to highlight political trends. Contact Madeline Seidenstricker or Jonathan Smallridge for more information, [...]
2010-01-04 06:57:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKDEM PGOV ASEC SF POL PAS ECON
10PRETORIA310SOUTH AFRICA POLITICAL NEWSLETTER FEBRUARY 6-FEBRUARY 12
[...] (SBU) This was written in partnership with the Open Source Center's Pretoria Bureau. The newsletter is open to contributions from officers in the Embassy or in the Consulates who wish to highlight political trends. Contact Madeline Seidenstricker or Jonathan Smallridge for more information, [...]
2010-02-12 17:39:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ASEC KDEM SF
10PRETORIA316 Minerals Minister Says No Mine Nationalization for South
[...] (SBU) Summary: South African Minister of Mineral Resources Susan Shabangu stated publicly and clearly that nationalization of the country's mines is not government policy and is not on the government's agenda, speaking at the opening of the Africa Mining Indaba in Cape Town on February 2. She [...]
2010-02-16 13:44:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEMIN ELAB ENRG EINV PGOV SF
10PRETORIA339SOUTH AFRICA'S RESPONSE TO U.S. CITES PROPOSALS
[...] (U) Environment, Science and Technology Officer delivered reftel points on U.S. CITES proposals to Elise Haber, Deputy Director for Conservation in the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (DIRCO) and Sonja Meintjes, Deputy Director for Biodiversity Compliance in the Departme [...]
2010-02-18 14:11:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV AORC CITES KSCA UNEP
10PRETORIA352SOUTH AFRICA POLITICAL NEWSLETTER FEBRUARY 6-FEBRUARY 12
[...] (SBU) This was written in partnership with the Open Source Center's Pretoria Bureau. The newsletter is open to contributions from officers in the Embassy or in the Consulates who wish to highlight political trends. Contact Madeline Seidenstricker or Jonathan Smallridge for more information, [...]
2010-02-20 11:20:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ASEC KDEM SF
10PRETORIA355ESKOM PITCHES ITSELF AND THE MEDUPI POWER PLANT
[...] (SBU) Summary: Eskom hosted foreign diplomatic missions, South Africa Government officials, and its own staff on February 9 at Medupi Power Plant. Eskom asserted that its team is dedicated to keeping the lights on and fueling economic growth in South Africa, and that Medupi - as a key part of [...]
2010-02-22 10:07:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG EMIN EINV EFIN IBRD PGOV SENV SF
10PRETORIA395SOUTH AFRICA POLITICAL NEWSLETTER FEBRUARY 22-FEBRUARY 26
[...] (SBU) This was written in partnership with the Open Source Center's Pretoria Bureau. The newsletter is open to contributions from officers in the Embassy or in the Consulates who wish to highlight political trends. Contact Madeline Seidenstricker or Jonathan Smallridge for more information, [...]
2010-02-26 13:15:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ASEC KDEM SF
10PRETORIA399SOUTH AFRICA: MANAGING PART I OF THE CONFERENCE
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-28 22:02:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM MNUC KNNP PREL
10PRETORIA400SOUTH AFRICA: EXPLAINING U.S. POLICY ON IRAN'S
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-28 22:02:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP MNUC PARM IR SF
10PRETORIA401SOUTH AFRICA: PREPARING FOR SYRIA AT MARCH IAEA
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-28 22:02:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM PREL SY IAEA SF
10PRETORIA44SOUTH AFRICA POLITICAL NEWSLETTER JANUARY 4- JANUARY 8
[...] (SBU) This was written in partnership with the Open Source Center's Pretoria Bureau. The newsletter is open to contributions from officers in the Embassy or in the Consulates who wish to highlight political trends. Contact Madeline Seidenstricker or Jonathan Smallridge for more information, [...]
2010-01-08 10:31:00Embassy PretoriaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKDEM PGOV ASEC SF POL PAS ECON
10PRISTINA12KOSOVO: DEVELOPMENTS IN NORTHERN KOSOVO POINT TO PARTITION
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Political developments in northern Kosovo in the second half of 2009, notably illegal parallel elections that ousted representatives of former Serbian Prime Minister Kostunica's party from power, and the decision by current Serbian President Tadic to remove notorious hardliners f [...]
2010-01-11 07:54:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ECON ENRG SR KV
10PRISTINA23KOSOVO: THE MYTH OF "THE AGREEMENT" FOR A SERBIAN POWER
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A new myth has crept into discussions on electrical power in northern Kosovo: there was an offer to, or an agreement with, Serbia to establish a "second provider" of electricity for Serb areas in Kosovo. This is false. Kosovo's sole registered, legal energy distributor, Kosovo [...]
2010-01-13 13:43:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ENRG KV
10PRISTINA25KOSOVO: SERBIAN MINISTER FOR KOSOVO ESCORTED TO BORDER BY
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After ignoring procedures for official visits to Kosovo, Serbian Minister for Kosovo Goran Bogdanovic and his party were stopped and expelled from Kosovo by Kosovo Police on January 13. Bogdanovic and his party were traveling to Strpce for political purposes. The stop went smo [...]
2010-01-13 16:58:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ECON ENRG SR KV
10PRISTINA28EXBS: KOSOVO MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE DECEMBER 2009
[...] (SBU) BROAD ITEMS OF INTEREST TO ADVISORS AND AGENCY MANAGERS A) On December 03, 2009, the Kosovo and Macedonian Ministries of Internal Affairs signed a Bilateral Agreement on Police Cooperation. 2. (SBU) COMPLETED ACTIONS FOR THE REPORTING PERIOD N/A 3. (SBU) SITE ASSESSMENTS AND [...]
2010-01-14 13:03:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP KV
10PRISTINA31KOSOVO: OFFER OF ASSISTANCE TO HAITIAN RELIEF EFFORTS
[...] (SBU) On January 15 Kosovo Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, (DFM) Vlora Citaku, contacted us to offer financial assistance for relief efforts in Haiti. The Prime Minister's Chief of Staff Bekim Collaku confirmed by telephone that Kosovo would like to offer 50,000 EUR (72,000 USD) in assista [...]
2010-01-20 05:46:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAMER ASEC CASC MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA KV
10PRISTINA36KOSOVO: Visit of TIP/PISCES team
[...] (SBU) Post welcomes the visit of the TIP/PISCES team during the first week of February. Since time is short, please advise detailed travel plans ASAP so that we can set up meetings and arrange hotel accommodations and airport pickup. 2. (SBU) POC for this visit is Victor Myev (Pol/Econ INL/ [...]
2010-01-25 15:57:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPINR ASEC ELTN PTER SMIG PBTS PGOV KCRM KV
10PRISTINA4KOSOVO - ORTHODOX MONASTERIES SIGN POWER CONTRACTS; MOSQUES
[...] (SBU) On December 30, 2009, Father Simeon, secretary to Bishop Artemije, Serbian Orthodox Bishop of Ras and Prizren, signed an agreement with the Kosovo Electricity Corporation (KEK) for Gracanica Monastery, and stated that all SOC sites in Kosovo were now authorized to become KEK customers. K [...]
2010-01-08 09:13:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ENRG KV
10PRISTINA47KOSOVO: SERBIAN MINISTERS CHALLENGE OFFICIAL VISITS POLICY
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Recent travel by Serbian government ministers to Kosovo in contravention of the EU's official visits policy is a direct challenge to the GOK and the EU. The official visits policy provides for GOK approval unless there are indications visits might be abused for political purpos [...]
2010-01-28 17:11:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PINR SR KV
10PRISTINA55KOSOVO: LDK WOBBLY AS PDK WINS TWO MORE MUNICIPALITIES
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The ruling Democratic Party of Kosovo (PDK) scored two impressive victories over its coalition partner Democratic League of Kosovo (LDK) in the January 31 mayoral run-off elections in Prizren and Lipjan/Lipljan. The elections reaffirm PDK's confidence and unity under the leadersh [...]
2010-02-03 06:19:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PINR KDEM EAID SR KV
10PRISTINA60KOSOVO: NOTHING NEW IN SERBIA'S ENERGY PROPOSAL; SOME
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Serbian Ministry for Kosovo, on January 29, submitted a proposal to the Kosovo Energy Company (KEK) to resolve the current standoff over assets and the provision of electricity in northern Kosovo. The proposal offers to establish the Serbian Electricity Company (EPS) as a se [...]
2010-02-04 06:55:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PINR SR KV
10PRISTINA66KOSOVO: GOK TO STAFF DORMANT BORDER CROSSING POINT
[...] (SBU) In celebration of All Souls Day on February 6, hundreds of visitors from Serbia have submitted applications to the EU Special Representative in Belgrade requesting EULEX police escort to facilitate several large-scale visits to cemeteries in Kosovo. Among these many visitors, a large gr [...]
2010-02-05 14:53:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PINR PREL MARR KV
10PRISTINA71EXBS: KOSOVO MONTHLY REPORTING CABLE JANUARY 2010
[...] (SBU) BROAD ITEMS OF INTEREST TO ADVISORS AND AGENCY MANAGERS N/A. 2. (SBU) COMPLETED ACTIONS FOR THE REPORTING PERIOD N/A. 3. (SBU) SITE ASSESSMENTS AND MEETINGS DURING REPORTING PERIOD A) January 12, 2010: EXBS Advisor Milam and Program Assistant met with Bahri Berisha, Customs [...]
2010-02-09 15:07:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP KV
10PRISTINA73KOSOVO: SERBIAN ORTHODOX BISHOP ARTEMIJE'S FINANCES MAY
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A Serbian Orthodox Church committee sent by the Synod to audit the financial accounts of Bishop Artemije Radosavljevic's diocese has uncovered evidence of financial irregularities and fraud. Bishop Artemije's assistant and adviser, Hieromonk Simeon Vilovski has reportedly fled [...]
2010-02-10 16:28:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM KIRF SR KV
10PRISTINA76KOSOVO: EMBASSY WELCOMES SENATORS VOINOVICH AND SHAHEEN ON
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Embassy Pristina warmly welcomes the visit of Senator Voinovich and Senator Shaheen to Kosovo on February 17. Your visit will take place on the second anniversary of Kosovo's independence. You will find a peaceful and stable country where cooperation between ethnic Albanians and [...]
2010-02-12 13:15:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PINR SR KV
10PRISTINA77TENTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT FOR KOSOVO
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-12 15:14:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC EAID ELAB KCRM KDEM KFRD KJUS KMCA KTIP KV KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG
10PRISTINA78KOSOVO: EMBASSY WELCOMES CONGRESSMAN POMEROY TO KOSOVO
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Embassy Pristina warmly welcomes Congressman Pomeroy's visit to Kosovo on February 16, 17 and 21. Kosovo is a peaceful and stable country where cooperation between ethnic Albanians and Serbs in southern Kosovo continues to improve. The establishment of four new ethnic-Serb major [...]
2010-02-12 15:27:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PINR SR KV
10PRISTINA83KOSOVO CELEBRATES SECOND ANNIVERSARY WITH SUCCESSES AND
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Kosovo celebrated the second anniversary of its independence on February 17. These two years have seen political stability that has allowed the country to create legitimate new institutions, including the Constitutional Court and the Kosovo Security Force, and to start fulfilli [...]
2010-02-17 15:30:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PINR KDEM EAID SR KV
10PRISTINA84KOSOVO CELEBRATES SECOND ANNIVERSARY WITH SUCCESSES AND
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Kosovo celebrated the second anniversary of its independence on February 17. These two years have seen political stability that has allowed the country to create legitimate new institutions, including the Constitutional Court and the Kosovo Security Force, and to start fulfilli [...]
2010-02-17 15:34:00Embassy PristinaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PINR KDEM EAID SR KV
10QUITO100Fiscal Transparency in Ecuador
[...] (U) Post provides the following information on the transparency of the government of Ecuador's budget, keyed to questions in reftel. 2. (SBU) Is the central government expected to receive funding under the FY 2010 SFOAA? Yes. In 2009, overall USG assistance to Ecuador amounted to [...]
2010-01-27 19:56:00Embassy QuitoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAID EAID ECON EFIN PREL EC
10QUITO102Ecuador Economic News, December 2009 - January 2010
[...] (U) The following is a periodic economic update for Ecuador that reports notable developments that were not reported by individual cables during the December 2009-January 2010 timeframe. This document is sensitive but unclassified. It should not be disseminated outside of USG channels and sho [...]
2010-01-27 20:17:00Embassy QuitoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ENRG EFIN EINV USTR EC
10QUITO126Sporting Goods Sales of Nike and Avia Products in Ecuador
[...] (SBU) Summary. Less than a week after an information technology delegation met with GoE officials to encourage them to dismantle balance of payments safeguards that have been in place since January 2009 (septel),representatives of Nike and a local sporting goods retailer met with the Emba [...]
2010-02-02 14:01:00Embassy QuitoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON USTR WTRO EC
10QUITO128REQUEST FOR SOURCE/ORIGIN WAIVER: PROCUREMENT OF SIX
[...] (SBU) Issue: Post requests a source origin waiver from geographic code 000 (United States only) to geographic code 935 (Special Free World) to permit the procurement of vehicles in the Host Country local market for operational use by the Ecuadorian National Police's Sensitive Investigative Uni [...]
2010-02-02 15:20:00Embassy QuitoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR
10QUITO130GOE BACKS OFF PROPOSED 50 PERCENT INCREASE IN MINIMUM WAGE
[...] (SBU) Ecuador's President Correa has publicly championed the idea of a "dignified wage" since taking office in 2007, and this concept is enshrined in the country's 2008 Constitution. Last year, Correa frequently called for an almost 50% increase in the minimum wage to reach his definition of [...]
2010-02-02 17:13:00Embassy QuitoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ELAB EINV EC
10QUITO154Ecuador Economic News February 1 - February 8, 2010
[...] (U) The following is a periodic economic update for Ecuador that reports notable developments that are not reported by individual cables. This document is sensitive but unclassified. It should not be disseminated outside of USG channels and should not be posted on the Internet. ----------- [...]
2010-02-08 22:48:00Embassy QuitoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EINV EFIN SENV EC
10QUITO160UNASUR Stresses South-South Assistance to Haiti
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a UNASUR summit meeting in Quito on February 9, presidents and other representatives from member countries approved a $100 million UNASUR fund for Haiti and requested a $200 million loan from the Inter-American Development Bank that would be repaid by UNASUR member states. [...]
2010-02-09 23:49:00Embassy QuitoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID EFIN MARR EC HA CO XR
10QUITO162GOE EXTENDS BOP SAFEGUARDS BY SIX MONTHS, ELIMINATES
[...] (SBU) Summary. Embassy has confirmed that Ecuador's Foreign Trade and Investment Council (COMEXI) has developed a definitive schedule to eliminate the balance of payments (BoP) safeguards within six months. The safeguards were supposed to be eliminated by their one year anniversary on Jan [...]
2010-02-10 18:44:00Embassy QuitoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON WTRO USTR EC
10QUITO190Ecuador Economic News February 8 - 12, 2010
[...] (U) The following is a periodic economic update for Ecuador that reports notable developments that are not reported by individual cables. This document is sensitive but unclassified. It should not be disseminated outside of USG channels and should not be posted on the Internet. -------- [...]
2010-02-18 19:38:00Embassy QuitoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ETRD EPET EC
10QUITO212Repatriation Request: Marcelo Fabian Aldas
[...] NAME AND DPOB: Marcelo Fabian Aldas 2. DPOB: September 23, 1943; Carchi, Ecuador 3. PASSPORT DATA: 016421071 issued on February 29, 2000; Full Validity 4. PERSONS TO CONTACT: Carmela Burbano, wife, 703-431-8090 5. POST ACTION TO DATE: ConOff has extensively liaise [...]
2010-02-23 20:14:00Embassy QuitoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCASC AFIN SSA
10QUITO27TFAH01: Ecuador on assistance for Haiti
[...] (U) Poloff delivered points (refs A-C) to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Undersecretary for Coordination and Planning Galo Yepez, and Acting Director General for North American Affairs Fernando Chavez. Both officials expressed their support for current U.S. assistance efforts and the need for mil [...]
2010-01-20 21:34:00Embassy QuitoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PHUM MARR UN HA EC
10QUITO31Corrected: TFAH01: Ecuador on assistance for Haiti
[...] (U) Poloff delivered points (refs A-C) to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Undersecretary for Coordination and Planning Galo Yepez, and Acting Director General for North American Affairs Fernando Chavez. Both officials expressed their support for current U.S. assistance efforts and the need for mil [...]
2010-01-21 19:05:00Embassy QuitoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PHUM MARR UN HA EC
10QUITO35TFAH01: Ecuador's President intends to visit Haiti on
[...] (SBU) Ministry of Foreign Affairs Undersecretary for Coordination and Planning Galo Yepez informed Poloff and DAO representative that Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa intends to visit Haiti on January 28. Yepez emphasized repeatedly that Correa would visit Port-au-Prince in his capacity as P [...]
2010-01-22 20:12:00Embassy QuitoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID UN HA EC
10QUITO56Delivery of Response Letter to UNASUR Invitation
[...] (SBU) The Embassy delivered Ref A letter under cover of a diplomatic note to the Foreign Ministry, and a copy to the President's office, on January 15. CHRITTON [...]
2010-01-19 20:58:00Embassy QuitoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MARR OPDC US EC
10QUITO9DISORGANIZED LABOR: LOTS OF TALK, LITTLE COLLECTIVE ACTION
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Union leaders are calling for strikes beginning on January 15, ostensibly to protest the "insufficient" rise in the minimum wage, which will go from 218 dollars to 240 dollars in 2010. However, worker protests are unlikely to amount to much, since organized labor in Ecuador is [...]
2010-01-14 17:57:00Embassy QuitoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ELAB PHUM EC
10QUITO96GoE Response to Demarche on Balance of Payments Safeguard
[...] (SBU) Summary. In response to ref A demarche on balance of payments (BoP) safeguards, GoE officials assured Emboffs the government will publish by February 6 a schedule for the progressive reduction of the safeguards, leading to their total elimination in six months. Our interlocutors ar [...]
2010-01-27 15:26:00Embassy QuitoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON WTRO USTR EC
10RABAT108SCENESETTER FOR CODEL CARDIN
[...] (U) Summary: Senator Cardin, we look forward to your arrival in Morocco, a long-standing U.S. ally and model in many respects for other Arab, Muslim and African countries. The U.S. mission's goals in Morocco are promoting economic growth, enhancing democracy and governance through political [...]
2010-02-09 15:43:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP PREL PGOV PTER ECON MO
10RABAT120AMBASSADOR EXPLORES MOROCCO'S JUDICIAL REFORM
[...] (SBU) Summary: In his first meeting with the Ambassador, newly appointed Minister of Justice Mohamed Naciri welcomed U.S. offers of assistance with Morocco's planned judicial reform and emphasized his intention to bring meaningful change to a system he described as "dysfunctional." Referring [...]
2010-02-12 11:31:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV SNAR KJUS KCRM CJAN EAID MO
10RABAT124MOROCCAN CANDIDATE FOR REELECTION TO INTERNATIONAL
[...] (SBU) On February 2, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Morocco sent a diplomatic note to the Embassy seeking support of the United States for Morocco's candidacy for reelection to the Council of International Telecommunication Union (French original scanned and e-mailed to NEA/MAG). 2. ( [...]
2010-02-12 16:53:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PREL ECPS UN MO
10RABAT125MOROCCO WILL NOT CONTRIBUTE TO REINFORCING MINUSTAH
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-12 17:11:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMOPS MASS MARR PREL MO HA
10RABAT14MOROCCO REQUEST FOR BIOTECH OUTREACH FUNDS
[...] (U) Embassy Rabat's Economic, Agriculture, and Public Affairs Sections request Biotech Outreach Funds as outlined in the proposal below to support efforts to influence scientists and policy makers in Morocco regarding the benefits of agricultural biotechnology. 2. (SBU) Embassy Rabat pro [...]
2010-01-08 14:57:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR ETRD TBIO KPAO MO
10RABAT151CODEL CARDIN MEETS WITH GOM OFFICIALS
[...] (U) SUMMARY. On February 15, 2010, a five-member Congressional delegation led by Senator Cardin met with Moroccan MFA Secretary General Youssef Amrani and MOI Director of Internal Affairs Mohammed Tricha. The parties discussed regional stability, human rights, counterterrorism, and other dom [...]
2010-02-22 15:15:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PTER PHUM KTIP MO
10RABAT152DEMARCHE DELIVERED: MANAGING PART ONE OF THE
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-22 17:16:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PARM MNUC KNNP MO
10RABAT162DEMARCHE DELIVERED: U.S. APPROACH TO THE 2010 NPT
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-24 17:35:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PARM ENRG MNUC KNNP MO
10RABAT163DEMARCHE DELIVERED: DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-24 17:36:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PARM ENRG MNUC KNNP KSUM MO
10RABAT26MOROCCO: THE KING RESHUFFLES THE CABINET
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: King Mohammed VI appointed on January 4 five government ministers, a mere 24 hours after he had addressed the nation to announce the creation of an Advisory Committee for Regionalization tasked with accelerating the GOM's plan to devolve power to the regions. The new ministe [...]
2010-01-15 11:30:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PINR PREL MO
10RABAT36KING MOHAMMED VI'S SPEECH ON REGIONALIZATION
[...] (SBU) Summary: The latest cabinet reshuffle (reftel) came a day after King Mohammed VI appointed a new Advisory Committee on Regionalization tasked with developing a strategic plan to empower regional governance across Morocco. Moroccan analysts and politicians generally welcomed the initiat [...]
2010-01-21 08:12:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV EAID PHUM MO WI
10RABAT52MOROCCO TO ASSOCIATE ITSELF WITH COPENHAGEN ACCORD
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-26 16:29:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ENRG KGHG MO
10RABAT53MOROCCANS PROPOSE AREAS FOR SCIENCE-TECH
[...] (SBU) Summary: Responding to President Obama's call for increased cooperation in scientific and technological fields, prominent Moroccan researchers and businesspersons have created a working group to identify promising areas of U.S.- Morocco collaboration, including agriculture, energy, aer [...]
2010-01-27 12:55:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTNGD TSPL EINV ETRD KPAO MO XY
10RABAT62ANTICORRUPTION AUTHORITY PRESSES EFFORTS
[...] (U) Summary: In its first year, Morocco's Central Authority for Corruption Prevention (ICPC),established by the Government as the coordinating body for the fight against corruption, has initiated work on several draft anti-corruption laws. While Morocco's Transparency International corrupt [...]
2010-02-01 16:45:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPINS ECON KCOR PGOV KMPI MO
10RABAT63CODEL GREGG DISCUSSES ALGERIA, WESTERN SAHARA,
[...] (SBU) Summary: CODEL Gregg held a wide-ranging discussion with the Prime Minister on January 5. Prime Minister El Fassi addressed Moroccan relations with Algeria, stating that Algeria wanted to maintain the status quo on Western Sahara. The Prime Minister emphasized progress on the Israeli [...]
2010-02-01 16:55:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA PREL KPAL KDEM EFIN AG WI MO
10RABAT65MOROCCO RESPONSE: IRAN OUTREACH FOR UNIVERSAL
[...] (SBU) PolOff delivered subject demarche to the MFA's Chief of the Division on Humanitarian and Social Questions, Abdelmounaim El Farouq, on January 29. El Farouq stated that the universal periodic review (UPR) exercise is a good opportunity for a positive interaction with Iran on the issue o [...]
2010-02-01 17:21:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL IR MO
10RABAT68AMBASSADOR, INTERIOR MINISTER DISCUSS COOPERATION
[...] (U) Summary: Meeting for the first time on January 20, the Ambassador and newly appointed Moroccan Minister of Interior Taieb Cherkaoui (reftel) discussed a broad range of issues. Cherkaoui called relations with the United States "excellent," and he expressed gratitude for the long, rich pa [...]
2010-02-02 10:39:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PTER SNAR KJUS MO
10RABAT70MOROCCO IMPROVES ITS ECONOMIC RANKINGS, BUT STILL
[...] (SBU) Summary: After years of lagging behind in world economic rankings such as the World Bank's "Doing Business Index" and the Heritage Foundation's "Economic Freedom Index," Morocco is starting to show signs of improvement. The most recent iterations of these reports show Morocco moving up [...]
2010-02-02 12:27:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAID EINV ETRD EFIN PGOV MO
10RABAT87MOROCCO: AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH MINISTER OF
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador met Minister of State Laenser, the Secretary General of the Popular Movement Party (MP),on January 25. Laenser discussed the need for the King's entourage to devolve powers to the Parliament and the problem of a saturated political environment with too many pa [...]
2010-02-03 18:12:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PINR PREL ECON MO
10RABAT97MOROCCO UNDECIDED ON CITES PROPOSALS, WILL NOT
[...] (SBU) EconOff delivered Ref A demarche to Hayat Mesbah, Head of the Service of Conservation of Wild Flora and Fauna of Morocco's High Commission for Water and Forests and Combating Desertification on January 28, inviting Morocco's comments on the U.S. proposals for the Convention on Internatio [...]
2010-02-05 16:08:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV EFIS ETRD AORC KSCA CITES MO
10RABAT98IATA "AGENDA FOR FREEDOM" DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO
[...] (SBU) Embassy delivered reftel demarche by diplomatic note to Morocco's Foreign Ministry on January 8. EconCouns followed up in person on February 4 with Director of Air Transport Hamid Zhar of the Ministry of Equipment and Transportation, the senior Moroccan official responsible for aviatio [...]
2010-02-05 17:09:00Embassy RabatUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR ECON ETRD EFIN MO
10RANGOON100BURMA: SECOND AVIAN INFLUENZA OUTBREAK DETECTED
[...] (SBU) Burmese health officials reported to the World Organization for Animal Health February 23 that they have detected another outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) in Rangoon, the second in 2010. The previous outbreak began on February 1 in Myangone Township (reftel); prior [...]
2010-02-23 09:33:00Embassy RangoonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR EAID AMED PGOV PREL CASC TBIO KFLU BM
10RANGOON104 Journalism in Burma: Newspapers, the Censor Board, and the
[...] (SBU) Burmese journalists face a restricted and uncertain environment, but a literate public has fueled a recent expansion of privately owned newspapers in urban areas. Self-censorship is prevalent and the Censor Board is heavy handed, though editors generally get along with the current dire [...]
2010-02-25 01:45:00Embassy RangoonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKPAO PGOV PINR EAID PREL PHUM BM
10RANGOON108BURMA: RECOVERY FROM CYCLONE NARGIS
[...] (U) This cable was prepared by USAID's Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID/OFDA) in coordination with the U.S. Embassy Rangoon. 2. (SBU) Most of the people in Irrawaddy and Rangoon divisions in Burma who were affected by Cyclone Nargis are making limited progress in rebuil [...]
2010-02-26 04:14:00Embassy RangoonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAID PREL PGOV PINR BM
10RANGOON36TFHA01: BURMA HAS NO CURRENT PLANS TO ASSIST HAITI
[...] (SBU) The Government of Burma sent a condolence letter to the Government of Haiti after the earthquake; but, according to MOFA DG for Political Affairs Kyaw Tin, nothing further is in the works. The CDA phoned Kyaw Tin to offer USG facilitation assistance if the GOB has a donation in mind ( [...]
2010-01-20 10:23:00Embassy RangoonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAID PGOV PREL PREF BM
10RANGOON54BURMA: DESPITE PAY RAISE, CIVIL SERVICE SALARIES
[...] (SBU) Effective December 31, 2009, Government of Burma (GOB) employees in wage and salaried positions received pay raises. For the lowest paid employees this increase more than doubled pay, to just over USD1 per day. Higher paid officials saw more modest gains and the highest salaries now [...]
2010-01-29 01:39:00Embassy RangoonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ETRD PREL PGOV PINR BM
10RANGOON79BURMA: AVIAN INFLUENZA DETECTED IN POULTRY
[...] (SBU) Burmese health officials confirmed February 5 they have identified an outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) at a poultry farm in Rangoon's Myangone Township. The initial outbreak, detected February 1, was reported to health officials on February 2, and appeared to have a [...]
2010-02-09 10:26:00Embassy RangoonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR EAID AMED PGOV PREL CASC TBIO KFLU BM
10RANGOON81BURMA: AVIAN INFLUENZA DETECTED IN POULTRY
[...] (SBU) Burmese health officials confirmed February 5 they have identified an outbreak of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) at a poultry farm in Rangoon's Myangone Township. The initial outbreak, detected February 1, was reported to health officials on February 2, and appeared to have a [...]
2010-02-10 10:44:00Embassy RangoonUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR EAID AMED PGOV PREL CASC TBIO KFLU BM
10REYKJAVIK10 ICELAND WANTS IMF REVIEW TO TAKE PLACE ON SCHEDULE
[...] (SBU/NF) On January 11, Minister of Finance Steingrimur J. Sigfusson called in CDA to express the Icelandic government's desire for the IMF review to take place as scheduled and to seek USG support within the IMF. (Note: Prior to the President's refusal to sign the Icesave bill into law, the n [...]
2010-01-12 17:03:00Embassy ReykjavikUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ECON EFIN IC
10REYKJAVIK3PRESIDENT REJECTS ICESAVE BILL
[...] (U) Summary: President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson announced on January 5 that he will not sign into law the Icesave bill passed by parliament on December 30, but will refer the bill to a national referendum. This decision throws Iceland's political and economic future into complete uncertainty, l [...]
2010-01-05 17:15:00Embassy ReykjavikUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN IC NE PGOV PREL UK
10REYKJAVIK31 ICELAND: 2010 ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT
[...] (SBU) Summary: In 2009 Iceland took significant steps to combat trafficking in persons. The Government of Iceland, for the first time, prosecuted alleged trafficking violators on TIP specific charges. In addition, the government passed and began to implement the country's first anti-TIP natio [...]
2010-02-23 16:31:00Embassy ReykjavikUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB KMCA
10REYKJAVIK32ICELAND: RESPONSE TO IRISL DEMARCHE
[...] (SBU) Post delivered points in reftel to Petur Thorsteinsson in the Directorate for External Trade and Economic Affairs at the Icelandic Ministry of Foreign Affairs on January 23. Thorsteinsson thanked Emboff for the information regarding the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) [...]
2010-02-24 17:10:00Embassy ReykjavikUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETTC KNNP XF ZP ZR IR UK XG XT IC EFIN
10RIGA42LATVIA APPRECIATES U.S. ROLE IN HAITIAN RELIEF
[...] (SBU) MFA Head of the Americas and Caribbean Division Dace Rutka told us the Government of Latvia appreciated the role the U.S. had played in assisting Haitian authorities and our support and collaboration with the UN to provide assistance to the people of Haiti. She appreciated receipt of ref [...]
2010-01-25 14:51:00Embassy RigaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PREF EAID ECON HA LG
10RIGA43LATVIAN FM WILL ATTEND LONDON CONFERENCE ON
[...] (SBU) Latvian MFA Security Policy Director Kaspars Ozolins confirmed that Foreign Minister Maris Riekstins will attend the London Conference on Afghanistan, January 28, where he will formally announce an increase of two additional Latvian police officers (supplementing one already deployed) and [...]
2010-01-25 14:58:00Embassy RigaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV ECON EFIN AF LG
10RIGA48LATVIA CONCERNED ABOUT IRAN BUT NOT ACTIVE IN UPR PROCESS
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-27 15:45:00Embassy RigaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM IR LG
10RIGA51LATVIA: MORE CHARGES LIKELY AS POLICE CONTINUE PASSPORT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On January 21 we met with the Latvian Security Police to discuss a two-year passport fraud investigation. Officials confirmed that 10 suspects have been charged, and more indictments are expected. The Government of Latvia (GOL) confirmed that 144 false identities were created a [...]
2010-01-27 15:48:00Embassy RigaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCIS PGOV PREL ASEC KFRD KCOR KCRM LG
10RIGA63LATVIA: NEW POLICE UNIT SEEKS TO KEEP TOURISTS SAFE IN RIGA
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Riga has a new tourist police unit with multilingual officers who patrol areas popular with visitors and operate a telephone hotline around the clock. The more sophisticated police presence at a time of widespread budget cuts illustrates that city officials recognize the import [...]
2010-02-05 15:43:00Embassy RigaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCIS PGOV ECON ASEC KCRM LG
10RIGA65LATVIAN PRESSURE ON IRAN RE: HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (SBU) We delivered reftel demarche to Agnese Vilde of the MFA's Human Rights Policy Division. Vilde said that Latvia is deeply concerned about the human rights situation in Iran. Latvia has and will continue to speak against the deteriorating situation in Iran. The MFA's Political Director ha [...]
2010-02-09 12:03:00Embassy RigaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL IR LG
10RIGA74ECONOMIC ISSUES CHIP AWAY AT ETHNIC LOYALTY OF LATVIAN
[...] (SBU) Summary: Economic and social issues, particularly unemployment, will be foremost in voters' minds in the coming election. Some observers note that even though voters will remain conscious of tensions between traditionally ethnic-Russian and ethnic-Latvian parties, the role of ethnicity [...]
2010-02-12 15:19:00Embassy RigaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV SOCI LG
10RIGA90LATVIA WILL ABSTAIN ON GOLDSTONE RESOLUTION
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-22 16:02:00Embassy RigaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL LG PHUM UNGA
10RIGA92LATVIA WILL REVIEW LIST OF SANCTIONED IRANIAN ENTITIES FOR
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-24 11:52:00Embassy RigaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PARM KNNP IR LG
10RIGA94LATVIA JEWISH PROPERTY RESTITUTION: HOPE BUT NO CHANGE SO
[...] (SBU) While discussion of restitution of Jewish property in Latvia continues, little progress has been made. Earlier this month, the Prime Minister requested an additional 90-day review by a GOL Working Group, which has been studying the question of restitution of communal property since Septe [...]
2010-02-25 13:07:00Embassy RigaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV KNAR LG
10RIODEJANEIRO10The Brazilian Mining Sector: Opportunites and Obstacles
[...] (SBU) Brazil is one of the leading producers of minerals in the world, and minerals accounted for 53 percent of the Brazilian trade balance in 2008. Iron ore - the key feedstock for steel - accounts for 60 percent of mineral production value in the country, and output is expected to nearly do [...]
2010-01-06 18:38:00Consulate Rio De JaneiroUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEMIN ECON EIND EINV PGOV EXIM SENV CH BR
10RIODEJANEIRO12Rio Radar - January 7, 2010
[...] (U) Rio Radar is a regular compilation of key economic, political, commercial, and other developments in the states of Rio de Janeiro, Bahia, Minas Gerais, Espirito Santo, and Sergipe. This report's subjects: NUCLEAR REACTORS REMAIN OPERATIONAL AFTER DEADLY MUDSLIDES 2. (U) Brazi [...]
2010-01-07 17:34:00Consulate Rio De JaneiroUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG ASEC HUD OPIC EAIR SOCI BR
10RIODEJANEIRO28RIO RADAR - FEBRUARY 1, 2010
[...] (U) Rio Radar is a regular compilation of key economic, political, commercial, and other developments in the states of Rio de Janeiro, Bahia, Minas Gerais, Espirito Santo, and Sergipe. This week's subjects: LULA, PETROBRAS, AND GENERAL ELECTRIC OPEN FIRST ETHANOL POWER PLANT 2. [...]
2010-02-01 15:26:00Consulate Rio De JaneiroUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG EPET PGOV ELAB WHO
10RIODEJANEIRO32VIEWS ON POSSIBLE VP CANDIDATES FOR JOSE SERRA
[...] (SBU) Political observers and party actors across the country contend there is a possibility of the Brazilian Social Democratic Party (PSDB) presumed presidential candidate and frontrunner Jose Serra asking Green Party (PV) candidate Marina da Silva to be his vice presidential candidate. Whil [...]
2010-02-02 19:13:00Consulate Rio De JaneiroUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL BR
10RIYADH1CHEVRON INAUGURATES LARGE SCALE STEAM INJECTION
[...] (U) Ambassadors Smith and Jones, and Dhahran Consul General Kenny, participated in the inauguration of Chevron's large scale steamflood pilot project at the Wafra field in the Saudi Arabia-Kuwaiti partitioned neutral zone November 4. Saudi Minister of Petroleum and Mineral Resources Ali Al-Na [...]
2010-01-03 07:13:00Embassy RiyadhUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEPET ENRG ECON PREL SA KU
10RIYADH102SAUDI FOREIGN AGRICULTURE INVESTMENT PLANS: OPPORTUNITIES
[...] (U) This is an action request for EEB and USDA. Please see paragraph 17. Summary and introduction ------------------------ 2. (SBU) After decades of heavy support for domestic agriculture that made this arid Kingdom one of the world's largest wheat exporters for many years, the Saudi g [...]
2010-01-24 03:32:00Embassy RiyadhUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR EINV ECON EAID SENV PGOV PREL SA
10RIYADH103SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF PRESIDENTIAL SCIENCE
[...] (SBU) Mission Saudi Arabia enthusiastically welcomes your visit, planned for February 15-20, to Riyadh and Jeddah. You will arrive just after several prominent official visits, including Deputy Treasury Secretary Wolin and Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs Hormats, and just before [...]
2010-01-24 11:56:00Embassy RiyadhUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PREL KIPR EINV TSPL SENV SOCI SA
10RIYADH104SAUDI DEPUTY HEALTH MINISTER CALLS FOR
[...] (SBU) This is an action request. See paragraphs three and six. Summary ------- 2. (SBU) Deputy Minister of Health Ziad Memish told Econoffs that the Ministry's top two health cooperation priorities with the U.S. are to finalize an MOU with HHS and to increase significantly the number o [...]
2010-01-24 11:57:00Embassy RiyadhUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON TBIO SENV PREL SA
10RIYADH129SAUDI ARABIA RESPONDS TO HOUTHI CEASEFIRE OFFER
[...] (U) Speaking to the press from the Saudi border region of Jizan on January 27, Assistant Defense Minister Khalid bin Sultan responded to the ceasefire offer made by Abdul Malik Al-Houthi on January 25 (reftel). He maintained that the Saudis had driven the Houthis from their territory prior to [...]
2010-01-27 14:57:00Embassy RiyadhUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV SA YM
10RIYADH149SAUDI COMMERCE MINISTRY WELCOMES ANTIBOYCOTT
[...] (SBU) Representatives from DOC's Office of Anti-Boycott Compliance visited Riyadh January 31 to discuss Saudi progress on reported Arab League Boycott requests. Saudi Arabia's compliance record has improved dramatically from 350 prohibited requests in 1994 to five prohibited requests in 2009 [...]
2010-02-01 14:31:00Embassy RiyadhUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD KBCT PREL SA IS
10RIYADH161SAUDI ARABIA CAUTIOUSLY CONSIDERING CIVIL NUCLEAR POWER
[...] (SBU) Summary: A U.S. interagency delegation briefed KACST VP Dr. Prince Turki bin Saud January 23 on possible areas of cooperation with the United States on civil nuclear power. Prince Turki said KACST would issue a Request for Proposals in the next few months for a consulting firm to conduct [...]
2010-02-08 03:29:00Embassy RiyadhUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG KNNP PREL SA
10RIYADH172SCENESETTER FOR CODEL LOWEY
[...] (SBU) Madam Chair, Mission Saudi Arabia enthusiastically welcomes the visit of CODEL Lowey to Riyadh and Jeddah. By virtue of its energy resources, financial power, counterterrorism efforts, and leadership of the Muslim world, Saudi Arabia plays a critical role in almost every global and regi [...]
2010-02-09 17:21:00Embassy RiyadhUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP PREL PGOV PTER ECON SA
10RIYADH183SAUDI INVESTMENT AUTHORITY SUPPORTIVE OF A
[...] (SBU) Representatives from Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority (SAGIA) told Econoffs February 10 that SAGIA is very supportive of the development of a civilian nuclear sector in Saudi Arabia. The Vice President for Energy and Economic Cities Development Omar Al-Madhi said Canadian, Bri [...]
2010-02-12 14:13:00Embassy RiyadhUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG KNNP PREL SA
10RIYADH188INTERNATIONAL ENERGY FORUM DISCUSSIONS CAUTIOUSLY
[...] (SBU) Summary: Forty three of 53 countries that attended the International Energy Forum's February 6-7 meeting of the Expanded High Level Steering Group broadly endorsed a recommended set of next steps to make the IEF a more effective venue for a producer-consumer dialogue on international oil [...]
2010-02-14 07:38:00Embassy RiyadhUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEPET ENRG PREL SA
10RIYADH196GULF COOPERATION COUNCIL LOOKING FOR GREATER TRADE
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Gulf Cooperation Council is very interested in pursuing closer trade and investment ties with the United States, and made a strong pitch for the U.S. to consider concluding some kind of agreement with the GCC as a whole. GCC officials noted that GCC rules actually prohibit [...]
2010-02-15 14:30:00Embassy RiyadhUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON PGOV PREL SA
10RIYADH204SCENESETTER FOR FEBRUARY 21-23 VISIT OF ENERGY
[...] (SBU) Summary and introduction: Saudi officials are very excited about your visit, which they expect will build on the successful December visit of Deputy Secretary Poneman to write a new chapter in our bilateral dialogue on energy and Science & Technology Cooperation. You will arrive at a tim [...]
2010-02-18 13:21:00Embassy RiyadhUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEPET ENRG KGHG EINV ECON PREL SA
10RIYADH208FURTHER SAUDI GOVERNMENT PROGRESS ON ENFORCING
[...] (SBU) On February 17, Deputy Minister of Culture and Information (MOCI) Abdul Rahman Al-Hazzaa hosted a meeting with the Arabian Anti-Piracy Alliance and Microsoft, who presented initial mock ups of an extensive public relations campaign to increase public awareness of the issue of piracy in S [...]
2010-02-20 15:10:00Embassy RiyadhUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKIPR ETRD ECON PREL SA
10RIYADH214SAUDI ARABIA LAUNCHES SOLAR DESALINATION PLANT
[...] (SBU) King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST, effectively Saudi Arabia's science ministry) announced a three-phase national plan for solar energy-based desalination production in late January. The Kingdom has abundant sun energy exposure on the order of 2,000 kilowatts per squa [...]
2010-02-21 13:46:00Embassy RiyadhUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG KGHG SENV EPET PREL SA
10RIYADH29ASSISTANT SAUDI OIL MINISTER REQUESTS U.S. VIEWS
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph five. 2. (SBU) Ambassador met Assistant Minister for Petroleum Affairs Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman January 4 at the Prince's request. Prince Abdulaziz gave Ambassador a copy of the report of the International Energy Forum (IEF) Expert Gro [...]
2010-01-05 12:56:00Embassy RiyadhUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEPET ENRG PREL ECON FR IEF SA
10RIYADH69HUMAN RIGHTS NGO SENDS OPEN LETTER TO SAUDI KING
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On December 28, 2009 the unlicensed Civil and Political Rights Association (ACPRA) appealed to King Abdullah in an open letter to order the release from prison of 73-year old, well-known Human Rights activist, Suliman Al-Reshoudi. The letter claimed that Al-Reshoudi, a former j [...]
2010-01-12 14:43:00Embassy RiyadhUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL KISL PGOV KDEM OPDC SA
10RIYADH75FIRST EVER COPYRIGHT CASE REFERRED FOR DETERRENT
[...] (SBU) On January 5, Minister of Culture and Information Khoja referred the first-ever copyright violation case to the Board of Grievances (BOG),Saudi Arabia's tribunal for commercial dispute resolution. The Ministry's Violations Review Committee (VRC) recommended the Board fine the repeat of [...]
2010-01-13 13:50:00Embassy RiyadhUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD KIPR ECON EINV PREL SA
10RIYADH83IEF SYG ON JAN 10 ENERGY EXPERT GROUP MEETING IN PARIS AND
[...] (SBU) On the margins of a January 12 presentation of the IEA World Energy Outlook at the International Energy Forum (IEF) Secretariat headquarters, Secretary General Noe van Hulst discussed the IEF High Level Steering Group (HLSG) meeting in Paris he attended January 10. The HLSG met to review [...]
2010-01-17 13:41:00Embassy RiyadhUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEPET ENRG PREL IEA IEF SA
10RIYADH96SAUDI BUDGET CONTINUES TO BE TRANSPARENT
[...] (SBU) Post appreciates the opportunity to provide input into this year's review of budget transparency. The government publishes both its income and its expenditures each year, as well as information about the economy (e.g., inflation, growth, GDP, etc.). In addition, the central bank, the n [...]
2010-01-20 13:46:00Embassy RiyadhUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PGOV SA
10ROME117ITALY'S PUBLIC DEBT - NO PIIGS HERE
[...] Summary -- The 2008 financial crisis and ensuing recession have strained many Western European governments' finances, including Italy's. While the Italian debt picture is troubling, it is Post's view that the problem is manageable in the foreseeable future, and unlikely to deteriorate in the m [...]
2010-02-02 11:02:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON PGOV IT
10ROME142CITES: ITALY STILL FIGHTING ON CORAL, SAYS EU LIKELY TO
[...] (SBU) Summary. Italy is still fighting a losing battle within the European Union (EU) on corals. The GOI has asked the EU Council to reconsider its decision to co-sponsor the U.S. proposal listing Corallium under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) Appendix II, [...]
2010-02-05 16:10:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV CITES EFIS AORC KSCA UNEP IT
10ROME151ITALY TO BUILD REHABILITATION FACILITY IN HAITI
[...] (U) Summary. In a response to U.S. reftel, the GOI has informed post that it will build a Physical Rehabilitation Facility in Haiti. End summary. 2. (U) On January 26 ECONOFF met with Agostino Miozzo, General Director of the International Relations Office of the Italian Civil Protection Dep [...]
2010-02-09 07:28:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON HA IT PREF PREL
10ROME182DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON U.S.-EU SECOND STAGE AIR
[...] (U) EconOff delivered the demarche on U.S.-EU Second Stage Air Transport Negotiations. Post first spoke with Aldo Sansone, director general for airports an air nagivation at the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure. Sansone suggested that the demarche be delivered to M. Cristina Fra [...]
2010-02-12 17:02:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR EUN NO IT IC KTIA
10ROME94Italy Supports Copenhagen Accord; Waiting for BASIC
[...] (SBU) Summary: Italian FonMin Frattini confirmed to the Ambassador that Italy supports the Copenhagen Accord on climate change. Through the EU, Italy will associate itself with and inscribe a target in the accord. Frattini dismissed the idea that Tunisia would listen to Italian urging to sig [...]
2010-01-26 12:41:00Embassy RomeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KGHG ENRG TRGY KSCA UN IT
10SANAA106YEMEN BUDGET TRANSPARENCY FOR SECTION 7086(C)
[...] (U) The ROYG is currently receiving U.S. bilateral assistance using FY 10 funds, including development, counterterrorism, and military assistance. The non-military portion of the annual expenditures of the central government is publicly available on the Ministry of Finance's website (www.mof. [...]
2010-01-20 14:20:00Embassy SanaaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON PREL PGOV EFIN YM
10SANAA107ROYG REQUESTS U.S. FUNDING FOR TOP TEN ECONOMIC
[...] (U) This is an action request: see paragraph eight. SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Seeking to jumpstart a moribund economic-reform effort announced in August 2009, presidential son Ahmed Ali Saleh has brought in the U.S. consulting firm McKinsey and Company to help implement three of the Top T [...]
2010-01-20 14:45:00Embassy SanaaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON ENRG PREL PGOV UK FR GM AE SA YM
10SANAA291UNHCR CONCERNED ABOUT STRICTER ROYG POLICIES ON
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In a February 1 meeting with the Ambassador, UNHCR Representative Claire Bourgeois described recent developments in ROYG policy towards both Ethiopian and Somali refugees as reflecting an attempt by the ROYG to begin controlling an ever-increasing refugee population. Bourgeois [...]
2010-02-14 13:51:00Embassy SanaaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PHUM PGOV PREL PMIG UNHCR YM
10SANAA295YEMEN: TENTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP)
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-15 13:47:00Embassy SanaaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTIP ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PGOV PHUM PREF SMIG
10SANJOSE110COSTA RICA: LABOR UNIONS SQUARE OFF AGAINST THE GOVERNMENT
[...] (U) Summary: Union leaders from Costa Rica's largest ports ended a five-day sit-in at the Ministry of Labor (MOL) headquarters on January 25 without coming to an agreement over what they see as government interference in union activities in the potential concession of the ports. The union, whi [...]
2010-01-27 19:47:00Embassy San JoseUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ELAB PHUM ECON CS
10SANJOSE15COSTA RICAN FRUSTRATION WITH INABILITY TO IMPACT UNSC
[...] (U) Costa Rica finished its two-year stint on the United Nations Security Council on December 31 disappointed by its inability to have a significant impact on the way the body worked. Costa Rica began its turn on the Council with high hopes for improving the internal operations of the body. H [...]
2010-01-22 16:36:00Embassy San JoseUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL UN CS
10SANJOSE182COSTA RICA: Merida Monthly Report January 2010
[...] (U) Per Ref A, Post submits the following report detailing Embassy San Jose's Merida activities for January 2010. Issues for Washington 2. (U) Due to the amount of preparation and work that goes into producing the annual End-Use Monitoring (EUM) Report, due on February 1 (see Ref [...]
2010-02-09 19:38:00Embassy San JoseUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR MASS PGOV PREL CS
10SANJOSE19COSTA RICA'S ELECTION CAMPAIGN HITS ITS FINAL LEG
[...] (SBU) Summary: With national elections a week away, Laura Chinchilla of the ruling National Liberation Party (PLN) is holding on to first place in the race to be Costa Rica's next president. Most observers believe she will win more than the required forty percent needed to win the election in t [...]
2010-02-02 15:01:00Embassy San JoseUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM CS
10SANJOSE210SIEPAC: December 2011 Is Earliest Completion Date for Costa
[...] SUMMARY (U) Network Business Owner (EPR),the transmission line owner of the Electricity Interconnection System for Central America (SIEPAC),estimates completion of the last segment of the Costa Rican portion in December 2011. The schedule is contingent upon resolving acquisition problems in [...]
2010-02-13 00:05:00Embassy San JoseUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ENRG ECIN PREL PGOV CS SENV
10SANJOSE3COSTA RICA FLEXING ITS DEMOCRATIC MUSCLES
[...] (SBU) Summary: At a time when the electoral systems of some others in the region are wrapped in controversy, Costa Rica appears to be maintaining its status as a model of institutional democracy in Central America as the country moves towards national elections on February 7. The near-total dem [...]
2010-01-11 14:53:00Embassy San JoseUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPINR PGOV CS PLN KDEM
10SANSALVADOR10El Salvador's 2010 Budget
[...] (SBU) Summary: El Salvador's $3.7 billion budget for 2010 increases spending by only 0.7 percent over 2009 by zeroing-out budget increases and cutting spending across a wide range of government ministries. The few ministries granted budget increases include Labor (13.3%),Public Security (9.4% [...]
2010-01-07 20:23:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN PGOV SOCI ES
10SANSALVADOR246Citibank Skeptical of Government Lending Plans
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Citibank El Salvador's head expressed skepticism over Government of El Salvador proposals to increase lending through secured transactions, government guarantees, and a government development bank. In Citibank's view, cash-flow-based lending is the most effective method, as sec [...]
2010-02-25 22:29:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN PGOV SOCI CITIBANK ES
10SANSALVADOR252EL SALVADOR: 2010 SPECIAL 301 INPUT
[...] (U) SUMMARY. El Salvador continues to comply with CAFTA-DR and TRIPS IPR obligations and improve IPR protection. The GOES implemented data protection regulations for agricultural chemicals in 2009, its last outstanding CAFTA-DR IPR obligation. Stronger enforcement efforts started in 2008 hav [...]
2010-02-26 22:17:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD KIPR ES
10SANSALVADOR41GOES Applauds USG Aid to Haiti
[...] On January 27, PolOff delivered reftel A demarche to the MFA's Officer for UN Issues, Egriselda Gonzalez. Gonzalez expressed the GOES's appreciation for the USG's support to the earthquake recovery in Haiti and noted that GOES post-quake aid to Haiti has included 23 rescue, police and aid work [...]
2010-01-28 15:40:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID ES
10SANSALVADOR87EL SALVADOR'S RESPONSE TO GOLDSTONE FOLLOW-UP
[...] (SBU) Poloff met with Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) officials on February 24 to discuss points in reftel, including the Palestinian-drafted resolution and the UN General Assembly vote on Friday, February 26, on the Goldstone Report. MFA representative Egriselda Gonzalez of the Multilatera [...]
2010-02-25 23:06:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM UNGA ES
10SANSALVADOR91EL SALVADOR'S RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON IRISL
[...] (SBU) Poloff met with Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) officials on February 24 to discuss the Iranian shipping line IRISL. MFA representative Egriselda Gonzalez of the Multilateral Affairs Office said the MFA was aware of the shipping line and the nature of the problem, but appreciated the [...]
2010-02-26 22:41:00Embassy San SalvadorUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETTC KNNP ES
10SANTIAGO1Scenesetter for Assistant Secretary Arturo Valenzuela's
[...] (U) Embassy Santiago warmly welcomes you to Chile. 2010 will be a historic year as Chile celebrates its bicentennial, joins the OECD, and elects its fifth president since the return to democracy in 1990. Bilateral relations have never been better with particularly strong high-level ties and d [...]
2010-01-05 20:04:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV OVIP CI ECON MARR
10SANTIAGO100CHILE'S ENERGY HIGHLIGHTS - NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2009
[...] (SBU) Summary: This cable provides highlights of activity in the Chilean energy sector during November and December 2009. Chile participated in the United Nations meetings on climate change in Copenhagen and made a voluntary commitment to reduce emissions 20 percent below business as usual by [...]
2010-01-28 20:15:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ENRG SENV TRGY PGOV CI
10SANTIAGO106Chile Demarched on Iran's Universal Periodic Review at UN
[...] (SBU) On January 28, poloff delivered reftel demarche to Ambassador Carmen Hertz, Director of the Office of Human Rights at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Gerardo Ateaga, Deputy Director. Amb. Hertz said that Chile's representative to the UN Human Rights Council, Amb. Carlos Portales, wo [...]
2010-01-29 20:10:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL UN UNHRC IR CI
10SANTIAGO108Chile's Energy Highlights -- November-December 2009
[...] (SBU) Summary: This cable provides highlights of activity in the Chilean energy sector during November and December 2009. Chile participated in the United Nations meetings on climate change in Copenhagen and made a voluntary commitment to reduce emissions 20 percent below business as usual by [...]
2010-01-29 20:28:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ENRG SENV TRGY PGOV CI
10SANTIAGO160CHILE: MAY HAVE CONCERNS WITH CITES COP-15 PROPOSALS;
[...] (SBU) ESTHoff delivered reftel points to Ministry of Foreign Affairs-Environment Directorate (MFA/DIMA) CITES Coordinator Nancy Cespedes on January 27. Cespedes informed ESTHoff that Chile may have some concerns with the proposals, e.g., Chile trades in coral and is concerned with identifying [...]
2010-02-05 16:48:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KSCA AORC UNEP CI
10SANTIAGO162CHILE ASSOCIATES WITH COPENHAGEN ACCORD; WILL CONSULT WITH
[...] (SBU) Summary: Chile associated with the Copenhagen accord before January 31. However, it chose not to formalize its voluntary commitment, previously announced by the Chilean Minister of Environment in Copenhagen, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 20 percent below "business as usual" (BAU) [...]
2010-02-05 18:50:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ENRG SENV PGOV KGHG CI
10SANTIAGO166CHILE: Labor Monitoring and Engagement with FTA Countries
[...] (SBU) Summary: Chile has a developed and steadily growing economy and a stable government which generally protects most worker rights adequately. Areas of concern include low levels of female and youth participation in the workforce, lack of regulation in the informal economy, an inflexible [...]
2010-02-05 19:49:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB ETRD PGOV CI
10SANTIAGO21Sunday's Chilean Presidential Election: Pinera Appears
[...] (SBU) Summary: Opposition candidate Sebastian Pinera leads government candidate Eduardo Frei by 2-6 points just days before the January 17 presidential runoff election. Although the most recent (and only nationwide) poll shows the two in a statistical dead heat, Pinera and his campaign exude [...]
2010-01-15 19:29:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CI
10SANTIAGO27With Pinera Victory, Post-Pinochet Voting Trends are Broken
[...] (SBU) Summary: Sebastian Pinera's presidential election victory on January 17 signaled the end of Chilean politics dominated by the legacy of the Pinochet regime. The right--whom many believed could not win a majority in a presidential election--ran an excellent campaign and demonstrated cro [...]
2010-01-27 20:15:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV SOCI CI
10SANTIAGO29Chile's New Political Landscape
[...] (SBU) Summary: The election of Sebastian Pinera as the next Chilean president turns Chilean politics on its head. The political entities that were created before and during the transition from dictatorship to democracy--the center-left Concertacion coalition and the center-right Alianza--hav [...]
2010-01-27 20:23:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV CI
10SANTIAGO35Chile Response to Iran Human Rights Demarche
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-08 20:14:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM IR CI
10SANTIAGO38Chilean Response to Haitian Earthquake
[...] (U) Chile has taken or will take the following efforts in response to the earthquake that hit Port au Prince, Haiti. Initial Chilean Actions 2. (U) Chile has more than 500 troops in Chile as part of MINUSTAH. The Chilean armed forces operated their three helicopters in Haiti t [...]
2010-01-13 21:12:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR PREL CI HA
10SANTIAGO46A/S VALENZUELA DISCUSSES CHILE'S ECONOMIC STRENGTHS AND ROLE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A/S Valenzuela met with the Minister of Finance on January 12 to discuss Chile's accession to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD),the state of Chile's economy, and plans for the next Chilean administration. The discussion ranged from innovation to [...]
2010-01-15 11:54:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EINV ELAB PGOV SOCI CI
10SANTIAGO49Scenesetter for Secretary Clinton's March 1-2 Visit to Chile
[...] (SBU) Welcome to Chile. Your visit in the final days of the Bachelet administration will highlight the outstanding relations that we have enjoyed with Chile over the past four years. You will also meet President-elect Sebastian Pinera, an energetic moderate whose election marks a historic ch [...]
2010-02-25 16:21:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV OVIP ECON CI
10SANTIAGO50Sebastian Pinera Wins Chilean Presidential Election
[...] (U) Summary: In a historic January 17 election, Chilean voters selected opposition candidate Sebastian Pinera as the next president of Chile. Pinera, a Harvard-educated business tycoon from the center-right National Renewal party, will be the first conservative to lead Chile since the Pinoch [...]
2010-01-18 01:26:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ECON CI
10SANTIAGO86CHILE RESPONSE TO GEORGIA DEMARCHE
[...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Eduardo Schott, Deputy Director for European Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Schott was unaware of Ecuador's potential decision to recognize the independence of the Georgian separatist regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. He will consul [...]
2010-01-26 19:41:00Embassy SantiagoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPBTS PNAT PREL GG RS XG PE
10SANTODOMINGO132Santo Domingo Sit Rep 8 - Haiti Earthquake Response
[...] Embassy Santo Domingo Sitrep 8, further to reftel A: 2. Border Issues Update: a) The border is open between 07:00 and 19:00, with GODR officials permitting USG and humanitarian groups' conveys to go through without inspection, although this approach may change with time. While nighttim [...]
2010-01-21 01:10:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID CMGT ASEC AMGT DR HA
10SANTODOMINGO148SDO Sit Rep 10 - Haiti Earthquake response
[...] Embassy Santo Domingo Sitrep 10, further to reftels A and B: 2. Border issues update: a) Many entities are working on the DR-Haiti border at Jimani, including the United Nations (including the International Organization for Migration, IOM),the Red Cross, and several GoDR agencies, i [...]
2010-01-23 00:10:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID CMGT AMGT MARR DR HA
10SANTODOMINGO154Santo Domingo Sit Rep 11 - Haiti Earthquake response
[...] (U) Embassy Santo Domingo Sitrep 11, further to reftels A-C: 2. (SBU) Dominicans to join MINUSTAH: Embassy sources indicate that deployment of 150 Dominican troops as part of MINUSTAH has been agreed in principle by the DR, Haiti and UN, but details still need to be worked o [...]
2010-01-23 20:27:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID CMGT AMGT MARR DR HA
10SANTODOMINGO156Santo Domingo Sit Rep 11 - Haiti Earthquake response
[...] Embassy Santo Domingo Sitrep 11, further to reftels A-C: 2. (SBU) Dominicans to join MINUSTAH: Embassy sources indicate that deployment of 150 Dominican troops as part of MINUSTAH has been agreed in principle by DR, Haiti and UN, but details still need to be worked out. On W [...]
2010-01-23 20:39:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID CMGT AMGT MARR DR HA
10SANTODOMINGO17SDO Earthquake SitRep 4
[...] (U)Embassy Santo Domingo Earthquake Sitrep 4, further to reftels: Communications with U.S. Embassy PAP 2. (U) Normal communications established between Port-au-Prince and Santo Domingo, including ClassNet, OpenNet, VPN (including IVG). Post has not had communications with HF radio [...]
2010-01-15 21:15:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID DR AMGT ASEC HA
10SANTODOMINGO19DR-Haiti Border - Chaotic, But Functional
[...] (SBU) Summary: As of midday 1/17 a variety of American citizens working in the public hospital in the border town of Jimani report a disorganized yet functional situation in which hundreds of displaced Haitians seek, and generally receive, urgent medical assistance. Witnesses report that the [...]
2010-01-17 18:03:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL AMGT ASEC EAID DR HA
10SANTODOMINGO246FOREIGN MINISTRY STATES THAT PROPOSED AGREEMENT ON STATUS OF
[...] (SBU) The Foreign Ministry of the Dominican Republic, by diplomatic note dated 10 February 2010 (received 12 February),responded to the Embassy's diplomatic note on a proposed agreement on status protections for U.S. military personnel who will be temporarily present in the Dominican Republi [...]
2010-02-17 18:11:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR KTIA MOPS PREL DR
10SANTODOMINGO248REQUEST FOR AUTHORIZATION TO SIGN MOU ON RADAR SHARING WITH
[...] (SBU) ACTION REQUEST: SOUTHCOM, Dominican Air Force and Dominican Aviation Institute (IDAC) officials have developed the enclosed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on radar sharing. This MOU is designed to be an extension of the Cooperating Nations Information Exchange System (CNIES) that w [...]
2010-02-17 18:12:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR PREL SNAR DR
10SANTODOMINGO266REQUEST FOR AUTHORIZATION TO SIGN MOU ON RADAR SHARING WITH
[...] (SBU) ACTION REQUEST: SOUTHCOM, Dominican Air Force and Dominican Aviation Institute (IDAC) officials have developed the enclosed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on radar sharing. This MOU is designed to be an extension of the Cooperating Nations Information Exchange System (CNIES) that w [...]
2010-02-19 00:43:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR PREL SNAR DR
10SANTODOMINGO286DAS Reynoso's Meetings on Justice, Transparency and Human
[...] (SBU) WHA DAS Julissa Reynoso held separate meetings during her 5-9 February 2010 visit to the Dominican Republic related to justice, the rule of law and transparency, with Supreme Court Chief Justice Jorge Subero Isa, Attorney General Radhames Jimenez Pena, and leading NGOs dedicated to prom [...]
2010-02-22 20:49:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KJUS KCOR PHUM DR
10SANTODOMINGO288DR: DAS Reynoso Discusses Haiti with Foreign Minister,
[...] (SBU) WHA DAS Julissa Reynoso, during her 5-9 February 2010 visit, travelled to the Jimani border crossing and met with a wide range of leading Dominican Government (GoDR) officials, business leaders and intellectuals where the principal topic was what role the Dominican Republic should play [...]
2010-02-22 23:02:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ENRG HA DR
10SANTODOMINGO3DR BUDGET RAISES MORE QUESTIONS THAN IT ANSWERS
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The 2010 budget of the Government of the Dominican Republic (GoDR) fails to make any significant progress in making the budget process more transparent and, equally troubling, misses several marks set by the IMF as part of its Standby Agreement. The budget allocates 11.4 percent [...]
2010-01-06 14:05:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EINV DR
10SANTODOMINGO302DR: IRAN REVOLUTIONARY GUARD POINTS DELIVERED
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-25 17:11:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN KNNP PREL IR DR
10SANTODOMINGO31NEW CONSTITUTION MAY DELAY BUT SHOULD NOT PREVENT DOMINICAN
[...] (U) The Dominican Republic, on 1/26/10, promulgated a new Constitution, which contains a provision that could delay a Dominican troop deployment to MINUSTAH. Article 80(6) states that, "in the absence of a prior agreement," any deployment of foreign troops to the Dominican Republic, or of D [...]
2010-01-27 19:47:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KPKO PGOV DR HA
10SANTODOMINGO372009 Labor Monitoring and Engagement With Free Trade
[...] The following is Embassy Santo Domingo's submission (requested in reftel) for information on labor issues in the Dominican Republic. Labor Issues Scene-Setter --------------------------------- 2. Labor unions represent about eight percent of the formal workforce, according to [...]
2010-01-29 18:43:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB ECON ETRD DR
10SANTODOMINGO43DR: Electricity Sector at a Crossroads
[...] (SBU) Six months ago, President Leonel Fernandez shook up the dysfunctional electricity sector by appointing businessman Celso Marranzini - a long-time critic of the status quo - as head of the Dominican Corporation of State-Owned Electricity Companies (CDEEE). Marranzini has since embarked on [...]
2010-02-03 21:23:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG EFIN DR
10SANTODOMINGO5Emboffs Visit DR-Haiti Border Region
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Polchief and Poloff traveled to the border town of Dajabon (located in the northwestern part of the Dominican Republic) with representatives from NGO Catholic Relief Services (CRS) from 11/30-12/01/2009. Poloffs met with labor lawyers from the Solidaridad Fronteriza NGO wh [...]
2010-01-06 17:31:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KJUS KCRM ECON EAID DR
10SANTODOMINGO51GODR Health Assistance Following Haiti Earthquake
[...] Summary: On 04 Feb 2010, the Dominican Public Health Ministry (SESPAS) provided the Embassy statistics indicating that 50,647 people have received some kind of medical attention (29,467 vaccinated, plus 21,180 others) in the "framework" of the GoDR's "Contingency Plan to Help Haiti." SESPAS h [...]
2010-02-05 20:03:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV AMED SMIG AEMR AORC HA DR
10SANTODOMINGO59DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: FORCE GENERATION ISSUES TO REINFORCE THE
[...] (SBU) Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Juan Manuel Trullols, on 16 February 2010, informed Pol-Econ Counselor that the status of the Dominican Republic's planned deployment of a 150-troop unit to MINUSTAH is as follows: n The Minister of Defense is reviewing the agreement to be signed [...]
2010-02-16 20:37:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV KPKO MARR DR HA
10SANTODOMINGO61Dominican Republic: Information on Child Labor and Forced
[...] Persuant to ref A, this is Post's response to a Department of Labor request for a list of goods that may have been produced with child or forced labor in the Dominican Republic as mandated by the 2005 Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA). Although child labor remains a si [...]
2010-02-19 15:04:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB EIND ETRD KTIP PHUM SOCI DR
10SANTODOMINGO9Constitutional Reform Process - The Judiciary Altered
[...] (U) The GODR's constitutional reform process, ongoing now for more than a year (reftel A) reveals much about the relative powers of various actors including the President, political parties, the judiciary, civil society, the Catholic Church and Dominicans in general. The independence and po [...]
2010-01-08 21:13:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KJUS KDEM PHUM DR
10SANTODOMINGO92Santo Domingo - Haiti Earthquake Sit Rep 5
[...] (U) Embassy Santo Domingo Earthquake Sitrep 5, further to reftels: 2. (SBU) Embassy Santo Domingo is organizing a convoy that will travel to Embassy Port au Prince, Saturday 16 JAN. The convoy will include fuel, vehicles and drives, water and other supplies requested by Embas [...]
2010-01-15 22:37:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL AMGT ASEC EAID DR HA
10SANTODOMINGO96Santo Domingo - Haiti Earthquake Sit Rep 6
[...] Embassy Santo Domingo Earthquake Sitrep 6, further to reftels: 2. (SBU) As indicated in reftel A, there have been no signs of tension between Dominicans or displaced Haitians who are seeking medical assistance near the border. On 16 JAN, it was reported by Dominican authori [...]
2010-01-18 14:19:00Embassy Santo DomingoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL AMGT ASEC EAID DR HA
10SAOPAULO102SAO PAULO LEGAL TIMBER PROGRAM TAKES OFF
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-10 12:54:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ECON ETRD KCRM KJUS BR
10SAOPAULO112BRAZILIAN LGBT COMMUNITY FACES CHALLENGES TO RIGHTS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Protection of the rights of Gay Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered (LGBT) citizens in Brazil presents a mixed picture. Brazil's LBGT population has become far more visible in recent years and some local governments such as Sao Paulo have established special legal, law enfo [...]
2010-02-11 14:59:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM SOCI PGOV KPAO CVIS CASC BR ELAB
10SAOPAULO120BRAZIL: COTTON -PRIVATE SECTOR OFFERS IDEAS AND CONCERNS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Brazilian private sector representatives have expressed their increasing concern about perceived potential negative impact on bilateral trade if GOB moves forward with retaliation in the cotton dispute. Representatives of two of Brazil's most influential business associations h [...]
2010-02-19 15:35:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON PGOV PREL EAGR BR
10SAOPAULO18Private Sector Optimistic for Brazilian Economy in 2010
[...] (SBU) Summary: Brazilian private sector analysts see a bright economic outlook for 2010 with GDP growth nearing six percent, inflation remaining within target, and strong job creation. Boosted by the enduring impact of GOB stimulus measures implemented to weather the global economic crisis and [...]
2010-01-11 17:10:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ETRD EINV PGOV PREL BR
10SAOPAULO32SAO PAULO ENVIRONMENTAL POLICE MAKING INROADS AGAINST
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Creative, pro-active mechanisms and partnerships are enabling the Sao Paulo Environmental Police (SPEP) to combat illegal logging activities. Over 8,000 tons of illegally cut wood, most from outside the state, has been apprehended by the SPEP within the last 2 years. While SPEP [...]
2010-01-19 19:04:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ECON ETRD KCRM BR KJUS
10SAOPAULO42SAO PAULO KEY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS, JANUARY 1-15, 2010
[...] (U) SUMMARY: This cable highlights economic, energy and science and technology developments in the Sao Paulo Consular District for the period January 1-15, 2010, not covered by broader reporting. Significant developments during the period include: Carlyle Group's recent acquisition of majority [...]
2010-01-20 17:27:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EINV ENRG BR
10SAOPAULO44BRAZIL: PRIVATE SECTOR VIEWS OF THE BRAZILIAN ECONOMY OVER
[...] (SBU) Summary: Emerging from the global economic crisis, private sector leaders are generally confident that Brazil's economy will continue to grow over the next decade based on strong investment opportunities, stable macroeconomic policies, and favorable demographic and external factors. Neve [...]
2010-01-22 17:02:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ETRD EINV BR
10SAOPAULO74BRAZIL CITES LARGEST SUGAR PRODUCER FOR LABOR CONDITIONS
[...] (SBU) Summary: On December 31, 2009, Ministry of Labor (MOL) inspectors put Cosan, the world's biggest sugarcane producer on its list of companies, Portaria 540, who allegedly keep workers in "slave-like" conditions. In Brazil, Portaria 540 is commonly known as the "dirty list." On January 11 [...]
2010-01-29 16:19:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM ELAB EAGR ECON PGOV BR
10SAOPAULO76BRAZILIAN BUSINESS PERSPECTIVES ON OPEN SKIES
[...] (SBU) Summary: In recent meetings with Brazilian flag carrier TAM, low cost carrier Azul, U.S. airlines, Brazilian tour operator Agaxtour, FEDEX and the GOB-owned airport concessionaire (Infraero),representatives acknowledged the benefits of a potential Open Skies Agreement (OSA) between the [...]
2010-02-01 16:41:00Consulate Sao PauloUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR ECON PGOV EINV ETRD BR
10SARAJEVO100BOSNIA: TILTING TOWARD ASSOCIATION WITH COPENHAGEN
[...] (SBU) On January 20, DCM urged President Zeljko Komsic's Foreign Policy Advisor Davor Vuletic (in Komsic's absence) to support the Copenhagen Accord as an important step to combat climate change (reftel). DCM underscored that Washington is urging Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) to associate itse [...]
2010-01-29 15:39:00Embassy SarajevoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKGHG SENV ENRG BK
10SARAJEVO114SCENESETTER FOR CODEL MCCAIN-LIEBERMAN
[...] (SBU) You are visiting Sarajevo when frustration over the failure of government at all levels is higher than at any time since the failure of the April Package of constitutional reforms in 2006. Governmental gridlock has been further fueled by conflicting visions among Bosnia's ethnic groups [...]
2010-02-03 11:11:00Embassy SarajevoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL OVIP BK
10SARAJEVO12DEMARCHE DELIVERED: URGING IRAN TO RESOLVE AMCIT
[...] (SBU) Per reftel, post demarched Bosnian MFA Director of Bilateral Affairs Jasmina Pasalic on January 5, soliciting Bosnia's assistance in encouraging Iran to free Amcits who have been imprisoned. Post provided para 7 of reftel as non-paper to Pasalic. 2. (SBU) Pasalic had no substantive r [...]
2010-01-05 15:49:00Embassy SarajevoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYIR PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PROP PTER CASC BK
10SARAJEVO140SCENESETTER FOR CODEL POMEROY
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: You are visiting Sarajevo when frustration over the failure of government at all levels is higher than at any time since the failure of the April Package of constitutional reforms in 2006. Governmental gridlock has been further fueled by conflicting visions among Bosnia's ethn [...]
2010-02-10 16:13:00Embassy SarajevoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL OVIP ECON BK
10SARAJEVO141SCENESETTER FOR CODEL VOINOVICH
[...] (SBU) You are visiting Sarajevo when frustration over the failure of government at all levels is higher than at any time since the failure of the April Package of constitutional reforms in 2006. Governmental gridlock has been further fueled by conflicting visions among Bosnia's ethnic groups [...]
2010-02-10 16:23:00Embassy SarajevoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL OVIP ECON BK
10SARAJEVO150BOSNIA TO TAKE CONTROL OF ITS AIRSPACE IN 2010
[...] (U) Since the war, Serbia and Croatia have managed overflight control of Bosnian airspace, collecting USD 15 million annually in fees. After five years of developing its new air traffic management (ATM) system, Bosnia is poised to take control of this overflight space and the revenues that co [...]
2010-02-12 09:45:00Embassy SarajevoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR ECON PGOV BK
10SARAJEVO151BOSNIA: CODEL MCCAIN-LIEBERMAN DELIVERS MESSAGE ON
[...] (SBU) During their February 5 visit to Sarajevo, a Congressional Delegation led by Senators John McCain and Joseph Lieberman delivered strong messages to the BiH Tri-Presidency and Minister of Defense on the need to make real progress on constitutional and defense reform so that BiH can move [...]
2010-02-12 12:56:00Embassy SarajevoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL OVIP MARR BK
10SARAJEVO181BOSNIA: SOCIAL BENEFITS REFORM PASSES FEDERATION
[...] (U) Summary: In an extraordinary session February 24, the Federation House of Representatives speedily passed a set of amendments to reform the system of social benefits. If also passed in the House of Peoples, the legislation is expected to fulfill requirements for release of budget-support f [...]
2010-02-25 08:22:00Embassy SarajevoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV EFIN ECON SOCI BK
10SARAJEVO182INL-FUNDED PROGRAM UPDATE: FOCUS ON OPDAT
[...] (U) Summary. The work being done by INL-funded Overseas Prosecutorial Development and Assistance Program (OPDAT) remains crucial to our rule of law agenda in Bosnia. In addition to its training programs, OPDAT is providing technical assistance to the State Prosecutor's Special Department fo [...]
2010-02-25 08:22:00Embassy SarajevoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL EAID EFIN KAWC KCRM KJUS BK
10SARAJEVO183CODEL POMEROY MEETINGS IN BOSNIA, FEBRUARY 14-16
[...] (SBU) Summary: Representative Earl Pomeroy (D-ND),in Bosnia February 14-16, met with parliamentarians, civil society representatives, students, Prime Minister Nikola Spiric, and the Bosnian tri-presidency. Pomeroy outlined the functions of the House Democracy Partnership (HDP),urging Bosni [...]
2010-02-25 08:25:00Embassy SarajevoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL OVIP BK
10SARAJEVO184CODEL POMEROY MEETINGS IN BOSNIA, FEBRUARY 14-16
[...] (SBU) Summary: Representative Earl Pomeroy (D-ND),in Bosnia February 14-16, met with parliamentarians, civil society representatives, students, Prime Minister Nikola Spiric, and the Bosnian tri-presidency. Pomeroy outlined the functions of the House Democracy Partnership (HDP),urging Bosni [...]
2010-02-25 08:27:00Embassy SarajevoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL OVIP BK
10SARAJEVO186BOSNIA: USG PRIORITIES FOR MARCH UNHRC SESSION
[...] (SBU) Per reftel, on February 25, post delivered para five talking points to Bosnian MFA Head of Department for Human Rights, Amb. Milenko Misic, who was preparing to depart for Geneva to participate as a member of the Bosnian delegation at the upcoming UNHRC session. 2. (SBU) Delegation Co [...]
2010-02-25 13:41:00Embassy SarajevoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM BK
10SARAJEVO198BOSNIA - SUBMISSION FOR THE 2010 TIP REPORT
[...] (U) Summary: This cable constitutes Post's submission for the 2010 TIP report for Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH). Post's point of contact for trafficking issues is Poloff Patrick Hanish, tel: 387-33-445-700 x2312, fax: 387-33-659-722, e-mail: HanishPN@state.gov. Time spent preparing the repo [...]
2010-02-26 15:41:00Embassy SarajevoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB
10SARAJEVO21BOSNIA: UNCLEAR IF ECHR DECISION WILL BRING QUICK
[...] (SBU) On December 22, 2009, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled in favor of two complainants from the Jewish and Roma communities that certain provisions of the BiH constitution were unjustifiably discriminatory and thus, violated BiH's obligations under the ECHR and related proto [...]
2010-01-08 09:28:00Embassy SarajevoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PINR KJUS KDEM EUN BK
10SARAJEVO61BOSNIA: DISPUTE OVER FEDERATION TELECOM FIRM
[...] (SBU) Appointment of a general manager of the Federation majority-owned telecommunications firm HT Mostar has become a further point of conflict within the Federation. The Bosniak Party of Democratic Action (SDA),along with most other Bosniak and Croat parties, favors reappointment of the c [...]
2010-01-21 14:20:00Embassy SarajevoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ECPS PGOV BK
10SARAJEVO75BOSNIA: CORRIDOR 5C: THE ROAD NOT TRAVELED
[...] (SBU) If it is ever completed, corridor 5C, a multi-country strategic highway planned for south-central Europe would run from Budapest, Hungary, to the Adriatic port of Ploce in Croatia. Obstacles facing this project mirror the difficulty securing an agreement on other, equally important ini [...]
2010-01-26 07:58:00Embassy SarajevoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ELTN EINV BK
10SECION03OF08VIENNA176AUSTRIA: TENTH ANNUALTRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-17 12:14:00Embassy ViennaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC AU ELAB KCRM KFRD KMCA KTIP KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG
10SEOUL106SOUTH KOREA ECONOMIC BRIEFING - JANUARY 2010
[...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified and not/not intended for Internet distribution. In This Issue ------------- -- Korean Economy Achieves Positive Growth in 2009 -- Finance Minister Rules Out Quick Exit Policy -- Central Bank Keeps Record Low Interest Rates -- Consumer Prices S [...]
2010-01-28 06:22:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EINV ENRG ETRD KS
10SEOUL129ROKG FIRMLY SUPPORTS USG RELIEF EFFORTS IN HAITI
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-29 01:01:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PREF EAID ECON HA KS
10SEOUL13KOREAN AUTO MARKET NEW YEAR'S UPDATE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: This report highlights recent events and perspectives in the Korean automobile market. The increasing globalization of the ROK's automobile market - both in the influx of foreign cars in Korea and the expansion of Korea automobile production abroad - is particularly noteworthy. [...]
2010-01-06 05:35:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD KIPR KS
10SEOUL192ROKG TO CONSIDER MEGAPORTS DISCUSSION
[...] (SBU) Per reftel, Econoff on February 8 met with Second Secretary Kim He-jin in MOFAT's Disarmament and Nonproliferation Division to request meetings on February 25-26 to explore the possibility of establishing a DOE Megaports Initiative in the ROK. 2. (SBU) Kim thought MOFAT would probably [...]
2010-02-09 02:37:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETTC KNNP KS PREL
10SEOUL204AMBASSADOR'S VISIT TO SUPREME PROSECUTORS OFFICE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Visiting the Supreme Prosecutors Office (SPO) on February 4, the Ambassador praised the SPO for its cooperation in joint law enforcement projects, and for Korea's rapid development in rule of law. She encouraged the SPO to support Korea's accession to the Hague Convention on In [...]
2010-02-10 07:38:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCMGT ECON KIPR KTIA PHUM PREL KS
10SEOUL255NGOS CALL FOR GREATER ENGAGEMENT WITH NORTH KOREA
[...] (U) The National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and the Institute for Far Eastern Studies (IFES) at Kyungnam University co-sponsored a human rights-focused North Korea donors conference February 4-5 in Seoul. Ambassador Stephens delivered opening remarks, highlighting the USG's commitment to d [...]
2010-02-18 09:33:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREF PREL EAID SOCI PINR ECON KN KS
10SEOUL264MINISTER OF PATRIOTS AND VETERANS AFFAIRS ON ROK
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Minister Kim Yang of the Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs (MPVA),Republic of Korea (ROK),told Ambassador Stephens on February 16 that the MPVA is planning a series of events to commemorate the 60th Anniversary of the Korean War, the most significant of which will be a [...]
2010-02-19 08:18:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KS
10SEOUL312SOUTH KOREA ECONOMIC BRIEFING - FEBRUARY 2010
[...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified and not/not intended for Internet distribution. ------------- In This Issue ------------- -- Korea Swings to Trade Deficit in January -- Unprecedented Demand for Unemployment Insurance -- ROKG Raises Job Creation Target to 250,000 -- Governme [...]
2010-02-25 00:08:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EINV ENRG ETRD KS
10SEOUL318NORTH KOREA ECONOMIC BRIEFING - FEBRUARY 2010
[...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified and not/not intended for Internet distribution. ------------- In This Issue ------------- -- Grain Output Declines in 2009 -- Market Restrictions Eased -- Finance Chief Sacked Over Currency Debacle -- Scholar: Currency Reform Goal Was to Exp [...]
2010-02-25 08:05:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EINV ENRG ETRD KN
10SEOUL323ROK, U.S. PRIORITIES IN SYNC FOR MARCH UN HUMAN
[...] (SBU) We delivered reftel demarche on February 26 to MOFAT Human Rights and Social Affairs Division Director Cho Tae-ick seeking ROK support for U.S. priorities at the March UN Human Rights Council (HRC) session. Cho, who will be in Geneva for part of the session, said he would pass reftel inf [...]
2010-02-25 09:22:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM PINR KN KS UN
10SEOUL55ROK'S RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE NEXT STEPS
[...] (SBU) In response to REFTEL, ESTHOFF called the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade Director for Climate Change and Environment Kim Hyo-eun to see if Korea had yet associated itself formally with the Copenhagen Accord at the UNFCCC Secretariat and submitted its greenhouse gas emissions targe [...]
2010-01-14 05:28:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ENRG KGHG KS
10SEOUL60INITIAL ROK STEPS ON EMERGENCY RELIEF TO HAITI
[...] (SBU) Following a January 4 inter-agency meeting, MOFAT's Development Assistance Cooperation Division informed us that the ROKG will deploy a 35-member disaster relief team to Haiti, along with supplies for the team to distribute. MOFAT expects the deployment and supplies to cost USD 1 million [...]
2010-01-14 09:14:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTSD KCRS CASC EAID PREL KS HA
10SEOUL75DG SHIN DONG IK TO TRAVEL TO MANILA FOR NPT
[...] (SBU) On January 14, PolOff delivered reftel non-paper on Dissuading Abuse of the NPT Withdrawal Provision to Kim Sung-eun, Second Secretary, Disarmament and Nonproliferation Division, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. On January 20, Kim notified PolOff that Shin Dong-Ik, Director Genera [...]
2010-01-20 05:32:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM AORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PGOV PREL UNGA
10SEOUL82KEY NATIONAL ASSEMBLY STAFFERS ON IRAN, AFGHANISTAN
[...] (SBU) Three key National Assembly (NA) foreign policy staffers told us that the South Korean business community has been pressing the Blue House and key lawmakers to expand the ROK's economic ties with Iran, and other countries in the Middle East, and to be more aggressive in helping secure bi [...]
2010-01-21 08:15:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PINR ECON ETRD KS IR AF
10SEOUL95NORTH KOREA ECONOMIC BRIEFING - JANUARY 2010
[...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified and not/not intended for Internet distribution. ------------- In This Issue ------------- -- New Year's Editorial Focuses on the Economy -- DPRK Bans Foreign Currency Use -- DPRK Continues Closing Wholesale Markets -- Number of DPRK Cell Phon [...]
2010-01-26 07:01:00Embassy SeoulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EINV ENRG ETRD KN
10SHANGHAI15HOT MONEY INFLOW RESTRICTIONS BEING IMPLEMENTED IN EAST
[...] (SBU) Summary: Manipulation of trade transactions across China's borders to arbitrage anticipated renminbi movements has decreased under a new trade-transaction verification system. However, investors can still get "hot money" funds into China through a variety of loopholes -- such as transac [...]
2010-01-20 08:00:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EINV PGOV CH MG
10SHANGHAI19OFFICIALS SAY YANGTZE RIVER DELTA PLAYS "VITAL ROLE" IN
[...] (SBU) Participants in a conference organized by the Communist Party's Organization Department and the National Development and Reform Commission on economic and social development in the Yangtze River Delta (YRD) region observed that the administrative division of the region among Shanghai and [...]
2010-01-22 03:01:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EFIN EINV PGOV CH
10SHANGHAI20CODEL MURRAY: SHANGHAI LEADERS DISCUSS SHANGHAI EXPO AND
[...] (SBU) Summary: Shanghai Municipal leaders stressed the importance of the upcoming Shanghai 2010 World Expo during meetings with CODEL Murray on January 15. Security concerns related to the event remain a top priority for the municipal government. End Summary. World Expo the Big Ticket [...]
2010-01-22 03:45:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ASEC ECON PGOV OVIP MURRAY PATTY CH
10SHANGHAI21CODEL MURRAY: ECONOMIC COOPERATION -- NOT TAIWAN ARMS --
[...] (SBU) Summary: Shanghai Municipal leaders highlighted U.S.-China trade and investment cooperation in their meetings with CODEL Murray on January 15. Municipal Communist Party Secretary Yu Zhengsheng focused on the transportation sector in particular, pointing to General Motors (GM) and General [...]
2010-01-22 03:46:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL SENV ECON EINV PGOV KIPR OVIP MURRAY PATTY
10SHANGHAI22SHANGHAI OFFICIALS SEEKING TO RESOLVE PROPERTY BUBBLE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Shanghai housing officials say that the city is in the middle of a property market bubble. But rather than directly intervene to cool off the market, they instead are pushing to increase subsidized rentals for the poor and low-cost housing for low- and middle-income families. [...]
2010-01-22 04:46:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EINV PGOV CH
10SHANGHAI23CHINA CAUTIOUS ON DERIVATIVES, SHUTTING OUT FOREIGN BANKS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Chinese government regulators remain generally cautious of introducing new derivatives products in China, and some continue to seek to restrict products previously offered by foreign-invested banks. Foreign banks remain largely shut out of the market for foreign exchange swaps [...]
2010-01-22 07:37:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EINV PGOV CH
10SHANGHAI26SHANGHAI ECONOMISTS PREDICT RESUMPTION OF GRADUAL RMB
[...] (SBU) Summary: Shanghai economists told visiting Embassy Beijing Economic Minister Counselor that the current global economic climate has led to Central Government policy paralysis on several critical issues, including currency appreciation and state-owned enterprise (SOE) reform, as Beijing [...]
2010-01-25 10:59:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EINV PGOV CH
10SHANGHAI27BOOMING JIANGSU PROVINCE WELCOMES CONSULATE OBSERVERS TO
[...] (SBU) Summary: Jiangsu Governor Luo Zhijun pledged to "transform" the province's economy towards a greater emphasis on home-grown innovation and domestic consumption in the Jiangsu Provincial Government's 2010 Work Report delivered January 26. The provincial government will continue to address [...]
2010-01-27 06:50:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON EIND ETRD CH
10SHANGHAI28SHANGHAI FOCUSES ON EXPO AFTER YEAR OF "UNPRECEDENTED"
[...] (SBU) Summary: Managing the upcoming World Expo -- with particular attention to security -- formed the centerpiece of Shanghai Mayor Han Zheng's work report to the January 26 opening of the annual session of the Municipal People's Congress. Han did his best to stress Shanghai's 2009 achiev [...]
2010-01-27 10:27:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON SOCI CH
10SHANGHAI33SHANGHAI JEWISH COMMUNITY SEES EXPO AS A WAY TO EXPAND
[...] (SBU) Summary: Shanghai's Jewish community has seen slow-but-observable progress toward greater acceptance by local government authorities over the last decade. The community now seeks to take advantage of the six-month-long Shanghai World Expo to push the door open another few inches. End Sum [...]
2010-01-29 06:54:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCH IS KIRF PGOV PHUM PREL SCUL
10SHANGHAI34FINANCIAL SECTOR BUBBLES STILL CONTAINED, SAY EAST CHINA
[...] (SBU) Summary: Chinese policymakers are taking only moderate steps to dial back the financial system and deflate any incipient asset bubbles, according to East China financial sector contacts. There is a good chance that the pace of financial sector liberalization will pick up this year, sta [...]
2010-02-01 05:57:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EINV PGOV CH
10SHANGHAI42ANHUI ECONOMY FLYING HIGH ON INVESTMENT-DRIVEN
[...] (SBU) Anhui Province appears to have weathered China's early 2009 economic downturn and one year later is reporting labor shortages in several sectors as a result of rapid growth. Observers expressed concern, however, that the province is enjoying only a "temporary prosperity" fueled by investm [...]
2010-02-08 03:22:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ELAB PGOV EFIN ETRD EINV SENV CH
10SHANGHAI44CHINA EASTERN-SHANGHAI AIRLINES MERGER HIGHLIGHTS
[...] (U) This cable contains business proprietary information and is Sensitive but Unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: Central Government-owned China Eastern completed its long awaited merger with local rival Shanghai Airlines on January 29, with substantial concessions to [...]
2010-02-09 02:40:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR ECON EIND PGOV CH
10SHANGHAI45SEEKING SHEN HAO: FACT-CHECKING ANHUI'S MODEL RURAL CADRE
[...] (SBU) Eager to promote the model of selfless party cadre, Chinese media recently launched an extensive campaign to emulate Shen Hao, Communist Party secretary of a village in eastern Anhui closely tied to the beginnings of China's rural economic reforms three decades ago. Although Shen, who di [...]
2010-02-10 08:42:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON CH
10SHANGHAI46GETTING TO KNOW YOU: NANJING OFFICIALS WARM TO CONSULATE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Jiangsu provincial officials who were initially suspicious of Consulate General efforts to implement an "American Presence Officer" program in Nanjing a little over a year ago are now keen on more contact with the Consulate. Neighbor provinces Anhui and Zhejiang, watching the i [...]
2010-02-11 08:22:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV SOCI BEXP KPAO OIIP ECON CH
10SHANGHAI532010 SHANGHAI IPR ROUNDTABLE -- CANDID COMMENTARY FROM
[...] (U) This cable contains business proprietary information and is Sensitive but Unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: Shanghai remains the "best place overall" for IPR protection and enforcement in China despite continued problems, according to U.S. industry represent [...]
2010-02-19 08:24:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKIPR ECON ETRD PGOV CH
10SHANGHAI59BANK LENDING REVIVES GROWTH IN EAST CHINA'S ZHEJIANG
[...] (SBU) Summary: Despite the downturn in traditional export markets, East China's Zhejiang Province kept pace with average Chinese lending growth last year, helping to boost GDP growth by year end. Zhejiang has issued support plans for eleven industries, but is attempting to focus new financin [...]
2010-02-26 11:04:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EINV PGOV CH
10SHANGHAI60DEFLATING ZHEJIANG'S PROPERTY BUBBLE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Financial sector contacts in East China's Zhejiang Province see signs of a property bubble forming, but some are awaiting more economic data before committing to rigid government controls over the real estate sector. As a result, financial system regulators are somewhat divide [...]
2010-02-26 11:30:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EINV PGOV CH AE
10SHANGHAI9DELAYED REVELATIONS OF MELAMINE-TAINTED DAIRY PRODUCTS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: December 31 media reports of the closure of Shanghai Panda Dairy for producing melamine-tainted milk products have led to the revelation that Chinese authorities have known of the company's transgressions for nearly a year. Chinese authorities quoted in the media have attributed [...]
2010-01-08 08:53:00Consulate ShanghaiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON EAGR SENV TBIO PGOV CH
10SHENYANG10INTERNET FREEDOM IN CHINA:BIG BROTHER HAS RETURNED
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. New regulations have been put in place requiring strict identification of internet users and the installation of software allowing real-time monitoring of internet users and remote control of computers in all internet cafes in Liaoning Province. In order to implement these regu [...]
2010-01-26 02:30:00Consulate ShenyangUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCH EINT PGOV PHUM SOCI TINT
10SHENYANG19GROWTH, CHANGE, CAUTION: CHRISTIANITY IN SHENYANG
[...] (SBU) Summary: According to priests and expatriate residents active in the local Christian community, there have been few recent difficulties for registered churches, though churches remain cautious in their activities. The Protestant Church has seen rapid growth compared to the Roman Catholic [...]
2010-02-10 08:59:00Consulate ShenyangUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCH KS PGOV PHUM PINS SCUL SOCI
10SINGAPORE1 A BUBBLE IN SINGAPORE PROPERTY MARKET?
[...] (SBU) Summary: Despite Singapore suffering through its most serious recession in decades, the local property market saw a strong surge in 2009 that has fueled concerns a new asset bubble could be forming. The resurgent demand is due to a number of factors, including pent-up demand remaining fr [...]
2010-01-04 08:46:00Embassy SingaporeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EINV SN
10SINGAPORE113 ECONOMISTS QUESTION FUTURE OF SINGAPORE'S GROWTH MODEL
[...] (SBU) Summary: As Singapore recovers from another recession brought on by events outside its borders, local economists have begun to question Singapore's economic growth model. In past decades Singapore utilized an extraordinary openness to foreign investment and labor to quickly grow its ec [...]
2010-01-28 05:44:00Embassy SingaporeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ETRD EINV SN
10SINGAPORE167 SINGAPORE COMMITTEE RECOMMENDS PRODUCTIVITY BOOST TO DRIVE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Singapore's Economic Strategies Committee released recommendations to drive future growth, focusing on raising productivity by improving worker skills, encouraging innovation, and limiting the economy's reliance on foreign labor. The recommendations mark a policy shift from a [...]
2010-02-11 08:51:00Embassy SingaporeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ETRD EINV ELAB SN
10SINGAPORE176 SINGAPORE TAX INFO SHARING AMENDMENTS ENTER INTO FORCE
[...] (SBU) Amendments to Singapore's Income Tax Act went into force February 9, putting into effect new exchange of information sharing provisions that meet Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) standards. Singapore drafted the amendments after the OECD included Singapore on [...]
2010-02-12 09:34:00Embassy SingaporeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EINV SN
10SINGAPORE179 ENGAGING WITH THE APEC SECRETARIAT IN SINGAPORE
[...] (SBU) Summary: New leadership and a further strengthening of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Secretariat offer an opportunity to increase engagement with Secretariat staff. With the U.S. year to host APEC set to begin in 2011 after the 2010 Japan year, there is a need for strong [...]
2010-02-17 05:20:00Embassy SingaporeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAPECO ECON EAID ETRD SN
10SINGAPORE67 SINGAPORE - 2010 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT
[...] (U) In response to reftel instructions, this message is Post's draft chapter of the 2010 Investment Climate Statement for Singapore. As requested, we have also provided via email a Microsoft Word version of the document to EB/IFD/OIA. 2. (SBU) Begin text of Statement: 2010 Investment C [...]
2010-01-19 00:42:00Embassy SingaporeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV ETRD EFIN ELAB KTDB PGOV OPIC USTR SN
10SKOPJE53MACEDONIA: SCENESETTER FOR CODEL VOINOVICH
[...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador Philip Reeker and team warmly welcome Senator Voinovich, Senator Shaheen, and their delegation to the Republic of Macedonia. Your visit comes as Macedonia's path toward Euro-Atlantic integration (America's long-standing foreign policy goal for the country) remains sta [...]
2010-02-05 07:18:00Embassy SkopjeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL NATO EUN GR MK
10SKOPJE6MACEDONIA: THE OHRID FRAMEWORK AGREEMENT
[...] (U) Summary: Though eight years old, the Ohrid Framework Agreement (OFA) remains the key instrument for maintaining interethnic harmony in Macedonia. Even though it has been imperfectly implemented, it is still an effective tool to reduce the risk of another civil conflict. This cable conta [...]
2010-01-06 12:56:00Embassy SkopjeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM MK
10SKOPJE64MACEDONIA: SCENESETTER FOR CODEL POMEROY
[...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador Philip Reeker and team warmly welcome Congressman Pomeroy and his delegation to the Republic of Macedonia. Unfortunately, the Ambassador will not be able to greet you at the airport. Michael Fritz, Mission Director of USAID Macedonia will meet you and accompany you t [...]
2010-02-11 14:25:00Embassy SkopjeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL NATO EUN GR MK
10SKOPJE692010 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT FOR MACEDONIA
[...] Summary: During the reporting period the GOM continued to show a strong commitment to combating trafficking-in-persons (TIP) and participated in international activities directed at identifying and eliminating human trafficking. High-ranking GoM officials took an active interest in combating T [...]
2010-02-16 12:11:00Embassy SkopjeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PHUM KCRM KTIP KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC ELAB MCA AJ
10SKOPJE75VISIT OF THE ADJUTANT GENERAL OF THE VERMONT NATIONAL GUARD
[...] (SBU) Summary: Macedonia is prepared to take on increased risk in its joint deployment beginning next month with the Vermont National Guard (VTNG),GoM leaders told visiting VTNG Adjutant General Dubie during his Feb 13-17 visit to Skopje. President Ivanov said he understood that success in Af [...]
2010-02-22 14:43:00Embassy SkopjeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS MOPS MARR PREL AF MK
10SKOPJE77MACEDONIA: SENATORS VOINOVICH AND SHAHEEN URGE SPEEDY
[...] (SBU) Summary: Macedonia is committed to solving the name dispute with Greece, but Athens must also compromise, PM Gruevski told Senators Voinovich and Shaheen Feb 17. Gruevski outlined his government's continuing commitment to Euro-Atlantic integration and his efforts to reach out to Greek [...]
2010-02-23 15:26:00Embassy SkopjeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV GR MK
10SOFIA105BULGARIAN GOVERNMENT WALKS A TIGHT ROPE ON GMOS
[...] (SBU) Summary: A draft law that would bring Bulgaria's current restrictive biotechnology regime into EU compliance has been seized upon by anti-GMO groups. As a result, as a tactical response, the government is proposing, as a supplement to the draft law, a five-year moratorium on releasing [...]
2010-02-11 17:12:00Embassy SofiaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR ECON ETRD TBIO ENVT BU
10SOFIA114BULGARIA: NO PLANS FOR ASSISTANCE TO UN
[...] (SBU) Post delivered reftel points to Liuba Zaharieva, representative for the Department of Developmental Aid at the MFA's UN/Global Issues Directorate. According to Zaharieva, Bulgaria does not plan to send aid to MINUSTAH. Bulgaria has already dispatched over 70 medical personnel, a field [...]
2010-02-17 15:47:00Embassy SofiaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV HA SOCI BU MCAP MARR SNAR ASEC
10SOFIA12BULGARIA: EUR ENGAGEMENT ON WOMEN'S ISSUES
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Bulgarian women still struggle with domestic violence, trafficking in persons, sexism, harassment, and discrimination in the work place. To some extent, domestic priorities like combating organized crime and corruption and balancing the budget have pushed social issues, includi [...]
2010-01-08 07:26:00Embassy SofiaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV BU
10SOFIA123BULGARIA: 2010 ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP) REPORT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Bulgaria is primarily a point of origin and transit, and to a lesser degree destination for human trafficking. The government continued its energetic anti-trafficking prevention campaign and stepped up efforts in the area of victim protection. It also passed legislation to incre [...]
2010-02-22 15:26:00Embassy SofiaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KCRM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB BU
10SOFIA30STRATEGY FOR ENGAGEMENT OF MINORITIES
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: While Bulgaria has long been one of the most stable countries in the Balkans with regard to minorities, specific minority outreach is still a sensitive subject. Bulgarians still think in terms of "real" Bulgarians and "other" Bulgarians with regard to citizens of Turkish, Roma, [...]
2010-01-15 12:43:00Embassy SofiaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KISL KPAO PHUM PREL SCUL SOCI BG
10SOFIA49BULGARIA CONFIRMS ADDITIONAL AID TO HAITI
[...] (SBU) Post delivered reftel points A and B to MFA Head of Latin America Directorate Svetla Stefanova on January 19. We expressed our appreciation for Bulgaria's humanitarian assistance to Haiti and requested all additional donations be documented through the UN Office for the Coordination of [...]
2010-01-20 15:44:00Embassy SofiaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON PGOV PREL PREF PHUM UN HA BU
10SOFIA85BULGARIA SUPPORTS PROPOSED CHANGES TO THE GICNT
[...] (SBU) Summary. Post received document number 54-00-2/27.01.10 from the Security Policy Directorate at the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) outlining the Bulgarian position on the proposed changes to the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GICNT) Terms of Reference (ToR). [...]
2010-02-03 10:16:00Embassy SofiaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM PREL PTER KGIC
10SOFIA89DEMARCHE DELIVERED: OUTREACH FOR IRAN UNIVERSAL
[...] (SBU) Post delivered ref demarche to Milena Yotova of the Human Rights Directorate at the Bulgarian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). Yotova welcomed our recommendations for the U.N. Human Rights Council's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Iran and pledged to review them in detail. Bulgaria [...]
2010-02-04 11:13:00Embassy SofiaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYIR PHUM PREL
10STATE10160JORDAN LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE FOR JAF LEADERS
[...] (SBU) In response to reftel Leahy vetting request, the Department has reviewed its files and finds it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the Jordanian officials listed below. Please note that if at any time the Embassy becomes aware of infor [...]
2010-02-02 00:15:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PHUM JO
10STATE10166TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION REPORT
[...] (SBU) A 22-member congressional delegation is planning a four-hour stopover in Port-au-Prince February 5. (TF1/WHA-EX e-mail) SEARCH AND RESCUE (SAR) ---------------------- 2. (SBU) Twelve Fairfax County SAR staff will remain on standby in Port-au-Prince. (TF1/DART Team e-mail) [...]
2010-02-02 00:38:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA
10STATE10257TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION REPORT
[...] (SBU) Consular Affairs PDAS Kirby will visit Port-au- Prince February 2.(TF1/USSOUTHCOM e-mail) SEARCH AND RESCUE (SAR) ---------------------- 2. (SBU) The remains of an American citizen located at Hotel Montana have been identified, but not recovered from the rubble. A forensic tes [...]
2010-02-02 13:10:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA
10STATE10634LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (TIRANA 3)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the ICE REGIONAL TRAINING in TIRANA, ALBANIA from 2/10/2010 to 2/12/2010. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the individuals listed in reftel and possesses [...]
2010-02-02 20:27:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC MARR MASS PGOV PHUM AL
10STATE10636LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (TIRANA 5)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN CONFERENCE ON COUNTERTERRORISM AND BORDER SECURITY in ANKARA, TURKEY from 2/9/2010 to 2/12/2010. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vett [...]
2010-02-02 20:28:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC MARR MASS PGOV PHUM AL
10STATE10745LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (ANKARA 104)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the Exchange Pilot Course at Luke AFB, AZ from 01 February 2010 to 01 February 2012. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the individuals listed in reftel an [...]
2010-02-02 21:49:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR PGOV PREL TU
10STATE10746LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (TIRANA 4)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the USCG CONTAINER ISPECTION TRAINING in DURRES, ALBANIA from 2/15/2010 to 2/19/2010. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the individuals listed in reftel a [...]
2010-02-02 21:50:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC MARR MASS PGOV PHUM AL
10STATE1076LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (PODGORICA 232)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for GCMC Senior Executive Seminar to be held January 20-28, 2010 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, Seminar on Transatlantic Civil Security (STACS) to be held February 2-24, 2010 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, [...]
2010-01-06 18:18:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC KCRM KJUS PHUM PREL SNAR MW
10STATE10766TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION REPORT
[...] (SBU) Netherlands Antilles Prime Minster De Jongh-Elhage will visit Haiti February 3 to pursue repatriation of remains of a GONA official. Minister of Telecommunications and Transportation Adriaens will accompany him. (TF1/WHA e-mail) SEARCH AND RESCUE (SAR) ---------------------- [...]
2010-02-02 23:05:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA
10STATE10781JORDAN LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE FOR ATA COURSE 7096
[...] (SBU) In response to reftel Leahy vetting request, the Department has reviewed its files and finds it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the Jordanian officials listed below. Please note that if at any time the Embassy becomes aware of infor [...]
2010-02-03 00:59:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM ASEC JO
10STATE10853TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION REPORT
[...] (SBU) A Brazilian congressional delegation will arrive in Port-au-Prince on the afternoon of February 3. (TF1/SOUTHCOM e-mail) EVACUATIONS/AMERICAN CITIZEN ISSUES ----------------------------------- 2. (U) A judge questioned for several hours five of the Americans arrested in Haiti. T [...]
2010-02-03 13:24:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA
10STATE10914LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE: MANAGUA 154
[...] (SBU) As of February 2, 2010, the Department of State possesses no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights by the individual listed. Unit: Nicaraguan Army Treminio Ruiz, Santos Uriel; Lt. Col.; 05 March 1965 2. (SBU) Post is therefore authorized to provide the followin [...]
2010-02-03 16:07:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS MOPS PHUM PINR NU
10STATE1102LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (PODGORICA 232)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for GCMC Senior Executive Seminar to be held January 20-28, 2010 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, Seminar on Transatlantic Civil Security (STACS) to be held February 2-24, 2010 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, [...]
2010-01-06 18:38:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC KCRM KJUS PHUM PREL SNAR MW
10STATE11029LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (BAKU 34)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidate nominated to attend the SSLP-PASS 10-5 Course in Garmisch, Germany, from February 20-June 18, 2010. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the individual listed in reftel and posse [...]
2010-02-03 20:19:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PGOV PHUM AJ
10STATE11035LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (TBILISI 40)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidate nominated to attend the Defense Language Institute, Lackland AFB, San Antonio and at the National War College, Washington DC, VA. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the indivi [...]
2010-02-03 20:21:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM GG
10STATE11036LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (TBILISI 38)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidate nominated to attend the training at Defense Language Institute, Lackland AFB, San Antonio and at the NCO Academy, Fort Benning, GA. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the indi [...]
2010-02-03 20:22:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM GG
10STATE11044LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (TBILISI 15)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidate nominated to attend the Defense Language Institute, Lackland AFB, San Antonio and at the NCO Academy, Fort Benning, GA. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the individual listed [...]
2010-02-03 20:25:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM GG
10STATE11048LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (YEREVAN 29)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the Export Controls Best Practices Workshop in Bucharest, Romania from February 2-5, 2010. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the individuals listed in re [...]
2010-02-03 20:26:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC MASS PGOV PHUM AM
10STATE11055LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (ANKARA 104)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the Exchange Pilot Course at Luke AFB, AZ from 01 February 2010 to 01 February 2012. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the individuals listed in reftel an [...]
2010-02-03 20:28:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR PGOV PREL TU
10STATE11059LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (YEREVAN 29)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the Export Controls Best Practices Workshop in Bucharest, Romania from February 2-5, 2010. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the individuals listed in re [...]
2010-02-03 20:29:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC MASS PGOV PHUM AM
10STATE11093LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (BUCHAREST 36)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the Global Anti-terrorism and Operational Readiness, 03-20 February 2010, Redstone Arsenal, AL. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the individuals listed i [...]
2010-02-03 20:40:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS PHUM PINR RO
10STATE11173NON-PAPER FOR RUSSIA ON PROPOSED U.S.-RUSSIA
[...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. See paragraph 4 below. 2. (SBU) BACKGROUND: On January 20, 2010, in an Aide Memoire, the Russian MFA Department of Security and Disarmament (DVBR) responded to a U.S. non-paper dated November 11, 2009. The U.S. non-paper had accepted Russia's proposal for a [...]
2010-02-03 23:34:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCDG MCAP NASA PARM RS TSPA UNPUOS
10STATE11184TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION REPORT
[...] (SBU) A CODEL to Haiti is under consideration for February 5; congressional leadership is still determining the composition. (TF1/H e-mail) EVACUATIONS/AMERICAN CITIZEN/ LE STAFF ISSUES ----------------------------------- 2. (SBU) Prime Minister Bellerive approved 63 children in the a [...]
2010-02-04 01:35:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA
10STATE1119SUBJECT: Combating Illicit Trafficking in Arms--GUIDANCE
[...] (SBU) This is an action request. Please see paragraphs 5. 2. (SBU) The United States would like to follow-up the efforts of the Organization of American States (OAS) and the Presidents recent call to ratify the Inter-American Convention Against the Illicit Manufacturing of and Trafficking [...]
2010-01-06 19:12:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM MASS EAIR ETTC PREL OAS PE
10STATE11282TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE
[...] (U) French President Sarkozy is expected to visit Haiti February 17. (Lenouvelliste.com) EVACUATIONS/AMERICAN CITIZEN ISSUES ------------------------------------ 2. (SBU) Forty-two adoptees, forty-six escorts and/or adoptive parents and sixty-two other American citizens arrived in Florid [...]
2010-02-04 13:24:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR
10STATE11479LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (SARAJEVO 1369)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidate nominated to attend the Workshop on Preventing and Responding to a Terrorist Attack on Critical Energy Infrastructure Protection scheduled for February 11-12, 2010 in Vienna, Austria. [...]
2010-02-04 18:04:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS PHUM PINR PINS PREL BK
10STATE11485LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (ANKARA 85)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the Program on Terrorism and Security Studies at the George C. Marshall Center, College of International Studies in Garmisch, Germany from 12 February to 19 March 2010 [...]
2010-02-04 18:11:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR PGOV PREL TU
10STATE11566LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (ANKARA 84)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the KC-135 Simulator Training at Milden Hall, England from 16 to 19 February 2010. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the individuals listed in reftel and [...]
2010-02-04 19:41:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR PGOV PREL TU
10STATE11764TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION
[...] (SBU) A 14-member CODEL led by Senator Durbin (D-IL) and Representative Clyburn (D-SC) is scheduled to make a stopover in Port-au-Prince February 5, weather permitting (a go/no-go decision should be made by about 1800 EST). The CODEL will be accompanied by Assistant Secretary for Legislative [...]
2010-02-05 00:25:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA
10STATE11887LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (TIRANA 734 )
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the ADVANCED ILEA COURSE in NEW JERSEY, U.S.A. from 2/15/2010 to 3/13/2010. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the individuals listed in reftel and possess [...]
2010-02-05 14:32:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC MARR MASS PGOV PHUM AL
10STATE11889LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (TIRANA 740)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the EASTEN MEDITERRANEAN CONFERENCE (PART II) in ANKARA, TURKEY from 2/9/2010 to 2/13/2010. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the individuals listed in r [...]
2010-02-05 14:37:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC MARR MASS PGOV PHUM AL
10STATE11892LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (SARAJEVO 56)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend a program funded by the TCA, which is sponsored by ODC and scheduled for the 2010 at Military Schools and posts in the U.S. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vet [...]
2010-02-05 14:44:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS PHUM PINR PINS PREL BK
10STATE11917PROPOSED U.S.-HUNGARY DIPLOMATIC NOTE EXCHANGE
[...] This is an action request. Embassy Budapest please see paragraph 3 below. 2. BACKGROUND: Pursuant to Circular 175 authorization granted December 3, 2008, the Department of Energy (DOE) proposes to pursue an exchange of diplomatic notes to establish a U.S.-Hungary "umbrella" agreemen [...]
2010-02-05 15:15:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG IAEA HU
10STATE11920LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (TBILISI 81)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA; FEBRUARY 15, 2010 - FEBRUARY 28, 2011. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the individuals listed in reftel and [...]
2010-02-05 15:17:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM GG
10STATE11929LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (BUCHAREST 41)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the "Test Cell Training", 10-20 Feb 2010, Bucharest, Romania. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the individuals listed in reftel and possesses no credible [...]
2010-02-05 15:30:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PINR MASS MARR RO
10STATE1207BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 2: PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECK
[...] (U) This is an Action Request. See paragraph 4. 2. (U) The Department's Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance (PM/DTCC) requests Post's assistance in conducting a pre-license check on license 050207564 for the export of grenade and grenade launchers to Argentina. Post is requested to [...]
2010-01-06 21:55:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETTC KOMC AR
10STATE12073LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (SARAJEVO 1317)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the Straegic Force Planning Course scheduled for February 9 to February 11, 2010 in Sarajevo, BiH. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the individuals list [...]
2010-02-05 17:12:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS PHUM PINR PREL BK
10STATE12108ACTION REQUEST II: PRESSURING IRAN ON HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. This cable is a follow-on action request to reftel. Please see paragraph four. In addition to coordinating with host governments on the upcoming Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process on Iran, Department requests posts to engage host governments at high levels to call on the [...]
2010-02-05 20:22:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYIR PHUM PREL
10STATE12201TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION
[...] (SBU) Ambassador Merten reports former President Clinton and Counselor Mills had a successful visit in Port-au-Prince February 5, including good meetings with President Preval and UN representatives. Both former President Clinton and Counselor Mills have departed Haiti. (TF1/Interagency Conf [...]
2010-02-07 04:03:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA
10STATE12235TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION REPORT
[...] (SBU) Since February 6 at 2000 EST, 215 American evacuees and family members departed Port-au-Prince; a total of 15,706 have been evacuated to date. A total of 23,000 potential evacuees have been accounted for. There are 65 American evacuees at the airport. (TF1/Embassy Port-au-Prince e-mai [...]
2010-02-08 02:51:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA
10STATE12298TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE
[...] (SBU) Seventeen American evacuees and family members departed Port-au-Prince since February 7 at 2000 EST; a total of 15,723 have been evacuated to date. A total of 23,000 potential evacuees have been accounted for. There are 40 American evacuees at the airport. (TF1/Embassy Port-au-Prince [...]
2010-02-08 19:36:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR
10STATE12309TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION REPORT
[...] (SBU) Seventeen American evacuees and family members departed Port-au-Prince since February 7 at 2000 EST; a total of 15,723 have been evacuated to date. A total of 23,000 potential evacuees have been accounted for. There are 40 American evacuees at the airport. (TF1/Embassy Port-au-Prince [...]
2010-02-08 22:44:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA
10STATE12414MEXICO CITY AVIATION SECURITY CONFERENCE:
[...] (U) This is background and guidance sent in collaboration with the Department of Homeland Security. Summary and Guidance -------------------- 2. (SBU) Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano will travel to Mexico City on February 16-18, 2010 to attend a conferenc [...]
2010-02-09 19:48:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC EAIR ECON PREL PTER
10STATE12428JORDAN LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE FOR AVIATION
[...] (SBU) In response to reftel Leahy vetting request, the Department has reviewed its files and finds it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the Jordanian official listed below. Please note that if at any time the Embassy becomes aware of inform [...]
2010-02-09 21:30:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM ASEC JO
10STATE12459TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION REPORT
[...] (U) Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie will visit Haiti February 9 on behalf of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. (AP) EVACUATIONS/AMERICAN CITIZEN ISSUES ----------------------------------- 2. (SBU) Since February 8 at 2000 EST, 247 American evacuees and family members departed Po [...]
2010-02-10 00:11:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA
10STATE12464ADDRESSING RESOURCE REQUESTS FROM THE UN
[...] (SBU) This is an action request for USUN New York to share the information in paragraphs four through six with the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO). In addition to sharing the U.S. Government responses to DPKO requests for assistance, USUN is asked to confirm with DPKO that t [...]
2010-02-10 00:59:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV HA SOCI MCAP MARR SNAR ASEC EFIN KJUS KPKO
10STATE12538TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION
[...] (SBU) Since February 9 at 2000 EST, 88 American evacuees and family members have departed Port-au- Prince on seven flights bound for Charleston and Miami; a total of 16,218 have been evacuated to date. There are currently 45 evacuees at the airport. (TF1/Embassy Port-au-Prince Sitrep) 2 [...]
2010-02-10 21:07:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT
10STATE12558FORCE GENERATION ISSUES TO
[...] (SBU) This is an action request. Please see paragraphs seven and eight. Action Posts are requested to report back to Washington by February 16, 2010. 2. (SBU) Background: In response to the massive January 12 earthquake in Haiti, the UN Security Council (UNSC) authorized the UN Depart [...]
2010-02-11 05:55:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV HA SOCI MCAP MARR
10STATE12607TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION REPORT
[...] (SBU) DoD has established a weekly, Friday Codel flight which can accommodate up to eight Senators, eight Representatives, two House staff and two Senate staff. The visit will allow for about 4-5 hours on the ground in Haiti with visits to a relief site and a U.S. troop site. The first sche [...]
2010-02-11 22:11:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA
10STATE12674LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE: MANAGUA 152
[...] (SBU) As of February 12, 2010, the Department of State possesses no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights by the individual listed. Unit: Nicaraguan Air Force Diaz Morales, Alfredo Jose; Maj; 12 Nov 1965 2. (SBU) Post is therefore authorized to provide the following st [...]
2010-02-12 14:39:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS MOPS PHUM PINR NU
10STATE12676LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE: MANAGUA 160
[...] (SBU) As of February 12, 2010, the Department of State possesses no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights by the individual listed. Unit: Nicaraguan Army Torres Cajina, Ronald Alberto; Col; 19 Feb 1960 2. (SBU) Post is therefore authorized to provide the following stat [...]
2010-02-12 14:42:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS MOPS PHUM PINR NU
10STATE13002REQUEST FOR EMBASSY WARSAW PARTICIPATION IN A
[...] (U) This is an action request for Embassy Warsaw. See paragraph 7. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (U) The United States imports all of its Mo-99 (a key medical isotope) from foreign suppliers, but there is currently a worldwide shortage due to various nuclear research-reactor shutdowns. [...]
2010-02-12 23:20:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTRGY TBIO PL
10STATE13121TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION
[...] (U) House Speaker Pelosi and eleven other Members of Congress reviewed earthquake damage and humanitarian response during a one-day visit to Port-au-Prince February 12. The delegation also held a meeting with President Preval to discuss relief and reconstruction efforts. (AP) 2. (SBU) [...]
2010-02-13 23:50:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA
10STATE13150TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION
[...] (SBU) No evacuation flights departed February 13; 26 American citizen evacuees manifested for the 2000 EST February 13 flight were delayed until February 14. An additional 15 to 20 people at the airport February 13 were requested to return February 14 for processing. A total of 16,493 have b [...]
2010-02-14 20:30:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA
10STATE13215TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION REPORT
[...] (U) Canadian PM Harper began a two-day visit February 15 and is scheduled to meet with President Preval and PM Bellerive, according to press. Haiti is Canada's second- largest aid recipient after Afghanistan. (AFP) EVACUATIONS/AMERICAN CITIZEN ISSUES ----------------------------------- [...]
2010-02-15 23:18:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA
10STATE13423BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECK
[...] (U) This is an Action Request. See paragraph 4. 2. (U) The Department's Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance (PM/DTCC) requests Post's assistance in conducting a pre-license check on license 050209840 for the export of pistols to Pakistan. Post is requested to complete this Blue Lan [...]
2010-02-16 16:31:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETTC KOMC PK
10STATE13489January 2010 Paris Club Meeting
[...] (SBU) Summary: During the January 2010 Paris Club Tour d'Horizon, creditors discussed Afghanistan, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Democratic Republic of Congo, Congo-Brazzaville, Cte d'Ivoire, Cuba, Djibouti, Dubai/UAE, Grenada, Guinea, Guinea -Bissau, Haiti, Liberia, Mauritania, Seychelles a [...]
2010-02-16 17:37:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EAID XM XA XH XB SF FR
10STATE13577GUIDANCE: BUILDING BLOCKS FOR FEBRUARY 16 UNAMI
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-16 19:32:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL UNSC IZ
10STATE13643LETTER ON SINAI DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM FROM
[...] Please deliver the following message from Secretary Clinton to Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif. There will be no signed original. 2. Begin text: Dear Mr. Prime Minister: Over the course of the last year, the United States and Egypt have worked together to strengthen our bilateral relatio [...]
2010-02-16 20:30:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOPDC PREL EAID PHUM EG
10STATE13655TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION REPORT
[...] (U) French President Sarkozy will visit Haiti February 17 and is expected to make "very significant" announcements, including the cancellation of $75 million in bilateral debt. (metropolehaiti.com) 2. (U) Canadian PM Harper continued his February 15-16 visit, according to press. Canada's $1 [...]
2010-02-16 20:51:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA
10STATE13664LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (CHISINAU 17)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the ILEA's Advanced Management Training Course to be held in Roswell, New Mexico, from February 15, 2010 and March 10, 2010. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has ve [...]
2010-02-16 21:01:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM MD
10STATE13671LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (ANKARA 170)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the KC-135 Simulator Training Course at Mildenhall, England from 16 February to 16 May 2010. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the individuals listed in r [...]
2010-02-16 21:09:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR PGOV PREL TU
10STATE13701EGYPT LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE - 99488 THRU 99532
[...] (SBU) In response to reftel Leahy vetting request, the Department has reviewed its files and finds it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the Egyptian officials listed below. Please note that if at any time the Embassy becomes aware of informa [...]
2010-02-16 22:01:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS PARM PHUM PREL SNAR EG
10STATE13894EGYPT LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE - 99533 THRU 99545
[...] (SBU) In response to reftel Leahy vetting request, the Department has reviewed its files and finds it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the Egyptian personnel listed below. Please note that if at any time the Embassy becomes aware of informa [...]
2010-02-17 15:28:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS PARM PHUM PREL SNAR EG
10STATE14003Guidance: Middle East Consultations, February 18
[...] (SBU) This is an action request. USUN may draw from para two elements when making its intervention during Middle East consultations in the Security Council on February 18. 2. (U) Begin elements: Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you Under Secretary-General Pascoe for your briefing. Th [...]
2010-02-17 17:33:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL UNSC IS LE KPAL
10STATE14107JORDAN LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE FOR "ANALYSIS OF
[...] (SBU) In response to reftel Leahy vetting request, the Department has reviewed its files and finds it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the Jordanian officials listed below. Please note that if at any time the Embassy becomes aware of infor [...]
2010-02-17 18:42:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM ASEC JO
10STATE14113JORDAN LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE FOR SOVEREIGN
[...] (SBU) In response to reftel Leahy vetting request, the Department has reviewed its files and finds it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the Jordanian official listed below. Please note that if at any time the Embassy becomes aware of inform [...]
2010-02-17 18:43:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM ASEC JO
10STATE14116JORDAN LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE FOR DOJ/ OPDAT
[...] (SBU) In response to ref Leahy vetting request, the Department has reviewed its files and finds it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the Jordanian officials listed below. Please note that if at any time the Embassy becomes aware of informat [...]
2010-02-17 18:46:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM ASEC KCRM KJUS
10STATE14132BUILDING BLOCKS FOR FEBRUARY 18 UNSC
[...] (SBU) USUN may draw from the points and questions in paragraph three for the February 18 Security Council consultations on the Western Sahara. ---------- Objective ---------- 2. The U.S. objective is to indicate support for the UN-led process. --------------- Talking Points ---- [...]
2010-02-17 19:13:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL UNSC AG MO WI PBTS
10STATE14145LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (BUCHAREST 75)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the Ranger course, 16 February-25 March 2010,Fort Benning, GA. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the individuals listed in reftel and possesses no credibl [...]
2010-02-17 19:37:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PINR MASS MARR RO
10STATE14231LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (PODGORICA 17)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the GCMC Program in Advanced Security Studies to be held March 26- June 18, 2010 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the [...]
2010-02-17 21:03:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC KCRM KJUS PHUM PREL SNAR MW
10STATE14232LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (PODGORICA 21)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the GCMC Combat Terrorism Language Program/Program on Terrorism and Security Studies to be held February 23-March 24/June 25 - July 30, 2010 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, [...]
2010-02-17 21:04:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC KCRM KJUS PHUM PREL SNAR MW
10STATE14506JORDAN LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE FOR RJAF OFFICERS -
[...] (SBU) In response to reftel Leahy vetting request, the Department has reviewed its files and finds it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the Jordanian officials listed below. Please note that if at any time the Embassy becomes aware of infor [...]
2010-02-18 15:18:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM ASEC JO
10STATE14619LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (PRISTINA 554)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the Training of Trainers Course scheduled for February 14 till 18 of February, 2010. The training will be held in Vushtrri, Kosovo. 2. (SBU) The Department of Stat [...]
2010-02-18 18:11:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KV
10STATE14730LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (SARAJEVO 1412)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the Military Intelligence Battalion Training cheduled for February 22 to February 26, 2010 in Germany. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the individuals [...]
2010-02-18 19:52:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS PHUM PINR PINS PREL BK
10STATE14732LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (TIRANA 726)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the TRIAL ADVOCACY TRAINING in DURRES, ALBANIA from 2/21/2010 to 2/28/2010. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the individuals listed in reftel and possess [...]
2010-02-18 19:56:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC MARR MASS PGOV PHUM AL
10STATE14742LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (SARAJEVO 79)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the NATO Integration and Lessons Learned Regional Conference scheduled for February 24 2010 in Dubrovnik, Croatia. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the [...]
2010-02-18 20:05:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS PHUM PINR PINS PREL BK
10STATE14754LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (BAKU 56)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the six-month in-country English language training funded through the FMF program and to be conducted by instructors from the Defense Language Institute (DLI) schedule [...]
2010-02-18 20:22:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PGOV PHUM AJ
10STATE14764LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (TBILISI 46)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the Firearms Instructor and Range Master development training at the Georgia Public Safety Training Center, 1000 Indian Springs Drive, Forsyth, Georgia from 1 - 19 Mar [...]
2010-02-18 20:31:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM SNAR GG
10STATE14791LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (BAKU 45)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the six-month in-country English language training funded through the FMF program and to be conducted by instructors from the Defense Language Institute (DLI) schedule [...]
2010-02-18 20:42:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PGOV PHUM AJ
10STATE14801LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (BAKU 34)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidate nominated to attend the SSLP-PASS 10-5 Course in Garmisch, Germany, from February 20-June 18, 2010. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the individual listed in reftel and posse [...]
2010-02-18 20:51:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS PHUM PINR PINS PREL BK
10STATE14815LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (TBILISI 130)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidate nominated to attend the TOUR OF POLICE OPERATION IN GEORGIA AND NEW MEXICO; FEBRUARY 27- MARCH 13, 2010. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the individual listed in reftel and [...]
2010-02-18 21:05:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM SNAR GG
10STATE14917OSCE DRAFT DECISION ON CONFLICT PREVENTION AND
[...] (U) Post is authorized to distribute the following draft decision on conflict prevention and crisis management to participating States in advance of the February 23, 2010 Corfu Process discussion on this topic in Vienna. In doing so post should make clear that issues containing an "x" would b [...]
2010-02-18 23:26:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL OSCE
10STATE14945UN - COTE D'IVOIRE - COMMENTS FOR INFORMAL
[...] This is an action request. USUN is requested to draw from Para (3) points during the informal meeting on Friday, February 19, 2010 to be held under the auspices of the Chair of the committee established pursuant to resolution 1572 (2004) concerning Cote D'Ivoire. The Cote d,Ivoire Group of Ex [...]
2010-02-19 01:46:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL UNSC IV
10STATE14946GUIDANCE: CONSULTATIONS ON HAITI, FEB 19
[...] (U) This is an action message. Please see paragraph three. 2. (U) Mission may draw on the points at paragraph three for the February 19 Security Council consultations on Haiti. 3. (SBU) Begin points: -- I would like to extend our thanks to Under-Secretary General Le Roy and Under-Sec [...]
2010-02-19 01:58:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID HA
10STATE15082EGYPT LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE - 99546 THRU 99560
[...] (SBU) In response to reftel Leahy vetting request, the Department has reviewed its files and finds it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the Egyptian personnel listed below. Please note that if at any time the Embassy becomes aware of informa [...]
2010-02-19 14:05:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEG MASS PARM PHUM PREL SNAR
10STATE15153HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR U.S.-SPONSORED TRAINING
[...] (U) The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the member of the Iraqi Security Forces listed below. Department strongly suggests that a visa application for this individual be filed with as much [...]
2010-02-19 15:24:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM MASS IZ
10STATE15154HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR U.S.-SPONSORED TRAINING
[...] (U) The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the member of the Iraqi Security Forces listed below. Department strongly suggests that a visa application for this individual be filed with as much [...]
2010-02-19 15:25:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM MASS IZ
10STATE15158HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR U.S.-SPONSORED TRAINING
[...] (U) The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the members of the Ministry of Interior listed below. Department strongly suggests that visa applications for these individuals be filed with as muc [...]
2010-02-19 15:26:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM MASS IZ
10STATE15160HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR U.S.-SPONSORED TRAINING
[...] (U) The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the members of the Ministry of Interior listed below. Department strongly suggests that visa applications for these individuals be filed with as muc [...]
2010-02-19 15:27:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM MASS IZ
10STATE15161HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR U.S.-SPONSORED TRAINING
[...] (U) The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the member of the Iraqi Security Forces listed below. Department strongly suggests that a visa application for this individual be filed with as much [...]
2010-02-19 15:27:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM MASS IZ
10STATE15162HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR U.S.-SPONSORED TRAINING
[...] (U) The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the member of the Ministry of Defense listed below. Department strongly suggests that a visa application for this individual be filed with as much [...]
2010-02-19 15:28:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM MASS IZ
10STATE15163HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR U.S.-SPONSORED TRAINING
[...] (U) The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the members of the Iraqi Ministry of Defense listed below. Department strongly suggests that visa applications for these individuals be filed with [...]
2010-02-19 15:28:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM MASS IZ
10STATE15164HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR U.S.-SPONSORED ENGLISH
[...] (U) The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the member of the Iraqi Security Forces listed below. Department strongly suggests that a visa application for this individual be filed with as much [...]
2010-02-19 15:29:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM MASS IZ
10STATE1524LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (BUCHAREST 844)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the "Program in Advanced Security Studies", 26 Mar-18 Jun 2010, Garmisch, Germany. 2. (U) The Department of State has vetted the individuals listed in reftel and po [...]
2010-01-07 20:18:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PINR MASS MARR RO
10STATE15273LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (TBILISI 161)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidate nominated to attend the SECURITY STUDIES LANGUAGE PROGRAM (SSLP) AND THE PROGRAM IN ADVANCED SECURITY STUDIES (PASS 10-5) HELD FROM FEBRUARY 23 - JUNE 18, 2010 AT THE MARSHALL CENTER IN GA [...]
2010-02-19 18:10:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM GG
10STATE15373LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (BAKU 43)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidate nominated to attend the PASS 10-5 Course in Garmisch, Germany, from March 25 - June 18, 2010. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the individual listed in reftel and possesses n [...]
2010-02-19 19:42:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PGOV PHUM AJ
10STATE15409LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (BAKU 76)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the Ministry of Defense on 22-26 February 2010 at the Garaheybat Sergeants Academy. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the individuals listed in reftel an [...]
2010-02-19 20:18:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PGOV PHUM AJ
10STATE15419LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (PRISTINA 26)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the ICITAP/Case Management in THB Cases scheduled for Feb 22-26, 2010. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the individuals listed in reftel and possesses no [...]
2010-02-19 20:36:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KV
10STATE15420LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (PRISTINA 15)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the Security Studies Language Program (SSLP) followed by the Program on Advanced Security Studies (PASS) at Marshall Center from 23 February until 18 Jun 2010. 2. ( [...]
2010-02-19 20:37:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KV
10STATE1548MISSION CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR U/S WILLIAM J.
[...] (SBU) Mission clearance is requested for U/S William J. Burns, Robert Waller and Ambassador Steven Mull, for travel to USUN NY January 15-16, 2010. Purpose of travel is attendance to P5 1 meeting. Travelers information is as follows: --U/S William J. Burns --PPT: 910065473 --Hotel: Grand H [...]
2010-01-07 21:00:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA USUN PREL
10STATE15537UN 1267 SANCTIONS: RESULTS OF USG REVIEW OF
[...] (U) This is an action request. USUN is requested to inform the UN 1267 (Al-Qaida/Taliban Sanctions) Committee of the results of the USG review of names distributed in Tranche 3 pursuant to the Committee,s review per para 25 of UNSCR 1822. USUN should inform the Committee that the USG has no [...]
2010-02-19 22:55:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN KTFN PREL PTER UNSC
10STATE15554DESIGNATION OF FOUR ENTITIES AND ONE INDIVIDUAL
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph three. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) The United States designated four entities and one individual related to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) on February 10, 2010, under Executive Order (E.O.) 13382 (Blocking Propert [...]
2010-02-20 00:17:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP MNUC IR GM PREL PARM EFIN
10STATE15563CWC: GUIDANCE FOR THE 59th SESSION OF THE OPCW
[...] (U) The fifty-ninth session of the Executive Council (EC-59) will involve much routine Council business. Several politically loaded issues, both on and off the agenda, are likely to receive significant attention on the Council floor and on the margins. The issue of "how and when" to initiate [...]
2010-02-20 01:25:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM PREL CWC OPCW CBW IZ
10STATE15577REDESIGNED U.S. $100 NOTE
[...] (U) Summary: This is an action cable. This cable includes information on the unveiling of a redesigned $100 Federal Reserve Note and the associated U.S. government global public education program. The cable also includes a request for Embassy points of contact (POCs) by February 16, to supp [...]
2010-02-20 02:49:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON
10STATE15591TREATY ON OPEN SKIES REVIEW CONFERENCE JUNE
[...] (SBU) This is an action message; see para 4 below. 2. (SBU) Background: The President has made clear that strong multilateral engagement and cooperation with partners, including through arms control issues, is at the top of his international agenda. The Treaty on Open Skies is one of the l [...]
2010-02-20 04:04:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOSCE PARM PREL
10STATE15607TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION REPORT
[...] (U) At a news conference with President Preval in Port-au- Prince, French President Sarkozy said France has decided to forgive Haiti's debt of 56 million euros. France will provide 270 million euros over two years to support Haiti'seconomy. (Reuters) EVACUATIONS/AMERICAN CITIZEN ISSUES -- [...]
2010-02-20 07:02:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA
10STATE15608TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION REPORT
[...] (SBU) Seven members of the House are expected to travel to Haiti February 19, and a second CODEL is expected to travel February 26. (TF-1/Bureau of Legislative Affairs e-mail) EVACUATIONS/AMERICAN CITIZEN ISSUES ----------------------------------- 2. (SBU) Haitian authorities released [...]
2010-02-20 07:06:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA
10STATE15609TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION
[...] (SBU) CODEL Scott (D-VA) landed in Port-au-Prince at 1100 EST February 19. The CODEL will be on the ground for four hours. (TF1/H e-mail) EVACUATIONS/AMERICAN CITIZEN ISSUES ----------------------------------- 2. (SBU) The final evacuation flight departed February 18, with 107 [...]
2010-02-20 07:13:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA
10STATE15681TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION REPORT
[...] (SBU) NORTHCOM hosted a 1500 February 19 conference call on the halting of military air evacuations of American citizens and adoptees. DOD will have a five-day transition period for military air travel beginning February 19, during which travelers will be accommodated on a space-available, c [...]
2010-02-21 01:27:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA
10STATE1569AMROGGANG DEVELOPMENT BANK,S CORRESPONDENT
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. ------------------ SUMMARY/BACKGROUND ------------------ 2. (SBU) On October 23, 2009, the U.S. Department of the Treasury designated Pyongyang-based Amroggang Development Bank (ADB) under Executive Order (E.O.) 13382 for being own [...]
2010-01-07 21:26:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETTC KNNP PINR PARM PREL XB XE ZO JA
10STATE15719TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION REPORT
[...] (SBU) The Children of the Promise charter flight scheduled to bring six orphans and two escorts to Miami did not depart Port-au-Prince February 21 as scheduled, due to airport security concerns regarding the group's departure paperwork. The children and their American citizen escorts st [...]
2010-02-21 20:49:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA
10STATE15722GOLDSTONE FOLLOW-UP ACTION
[...] (SBU) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. Embassy Suva for Fiji, Tonga, Nauru, Kiribati and Tuvalu. Embassy Libreville for Gabon and Sao Tome. Embassy Port Moresby for Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu. Embassy Port Louis for Seychelles only. Embassy Koror for Palau only. Embas [...]
2010-02-22 00:27:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYIO PHUM UNGA
10STATE15893LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (CHISINAU 65)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the different IMET sponsored Programs in Advanced Security Studies to be held in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, from February 25 to June 19, 2010, and from March 26 [...]
2010-02-22 16:43:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM MD
10STATE15910LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (ANKARA 180)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the Planning, Programming, Budgeting, Resource Management course in Ft. Jackson, SC from 22 February to 02 April 2010. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted [...]
2010-02-22 17:05:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR PGOV PREL TU
10STATE15937LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE: MANAGUA 218
[...] (SBU) As of February 22, 2010, the Department of State possesses no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights by the individual listed. Unit: Nicaraguan Army Salgado Mercado, Franklin; Lt; 27 Jul 1982 Danglas Vargas; Enrique Salomon; Lt; 03 Aug 1981 2. (SBU) Post is therefo [...]
2010-02-22 18:03:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS MOPS PHUM PINR NU
10STATE15939LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE: MANAGUA 214
[...] (SBU) As of February 22, 2010, the Department of State possesses no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights by the individual listed. Unit: Nicaraguan Police Rivas, Jose Salvador; Sub-Comm; 05-19-1954 Guerrero Alarcon, Cinthia; Insp; 12-04-1982 Sandoval Carrillo, Sergio; Eng-In [...]
2010-02-22 18:04:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS MOPS PHUM PINR NU
10STATE15995LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (BUCHAREST 58)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the "Infantryman Advance Leader course", 16 February-16 July 2010, Ft. Benning, GA. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the individuals listed in reftel and [...]
2010-02-22 19:25:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS PHUM PINR RO
10STATE16000LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (BUCHAREST 62)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the "Observer Controller Training" course, 23 February-24 March 2010, Hohenfels Germany. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the individuals listed in refte [...]
2010-02-22 19:35:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS PHUM PINR RO
10STATE16109LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE: MANAGUA 220
[...] (SBU) As of February 22, 2010, the Department of State possesses no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights by the individual listed. Unit: n/a Pineda Gadea, Claudia Maria; Civilian; 10 Feb 1966 Guevara Ruis, Marcela Susana; Civilian; 25 Oct 1972 2. (SBU) Post is therefor [...]
2010-02-22 21:28:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS MOPS PHUM PINR NU
10STATE16163SRI LANKA: ENGAGING INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS
[...] (U) This is an action request; see paragraph 11. 2. (SBU) Summary: Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has followed his January 26 re-election with the extra-legal arrest of the opposition candidate and intimidation of independent media. While Rajapaksa's administration has faced cri [...]
2010-02-23 00:01:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCE KAWC KDEM PGOV PHUM PREF PREL
10STATE16219IRISL'S UNINSURED FLEET AND EVASIVE ACTIONS
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 6. ------------------ SUMMARY/BACKGROUND ------------------- 2. (SBU) On October 12, 2009, the UK government banned its companies from doing business with the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL),Iran's shipping line of [...]
2010-02-23 00:39:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETTC KNNP XF ZP ZR IR UK XG XT
10STATE16220IRISL'S UNINSURED FLEET AND EVASIVE ACTIONS
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 6. ------------------ SUMMARY/BACKGROUND ------------------- 2. (SBU) On October 12, 2009, the UK government banned its companies from doing business with the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL),Iran's shipping line of [...]
2010-02-23 00:44:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETTC KNNP XF ZP ZR IR UK XG XT
10STATE16231USG PRIORITIES FOR MARCH U.N. HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (U) This is an action request. See paras. 3-4. SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) The United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) will hold its 13th regular session in Geneva on March 1-26, 2010. The first week of the session will be a high-level segment; Under-Secretary for Democracy and Global Af [...]
2010-02-23 01:46:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM UN
10STATE16233USG PRIORITIES FOR MARCH U.N. HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (U) This is an action request. See paras. 3-4. SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) The United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) will hold its 13th regular session in Geneva on March 1-26, 2010. The first week of the session will be a high-level segment; Under-Secretary for Democracy and Global Af [...]
2010-02-23 01:47:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM UN
10STATE16234USG PRIORITIES FOR MARCH U.N. HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (U) This is an action request. See paras. 3-4. SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) The United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) will hold its 13th regular session in Geneva on March 1-26, 2010. The first week of the session will be a high-level segment; Under-Secretary for Democracy and Global Af [...]
2010-02-23 01:48:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM UN
10STATE16235USG PRIORITIES FOR MARCH U.N. HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (U) This is an action request. See paras. 3-4. SUMMARY -------------- 2. (SBU) The United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) will hold its 13th regular session in Geneva on March 1-26, 2010. The first week of the session will be a high-level segment; Under Secretary for Democr [...]
2010-02-23 01:48:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM UN
10STATE16236USG PRIORITIES FOR MARCH U.N. HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (U) This is an action request. See paras. 3-4. SUMMARY -------------- 2. (SBU) The United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) will hold its 13th regular session in Geneva on March 1-26, 2010. The first week of the session will be a high-level segment; Under Secretary for Democrac [...]
2010-02-23 01:49:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM UN
10STATE16358LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (KYIV 108)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the US INTERNATIONAL VISITORS PROGRAM ON PUBLIC SAFETY FROM FEBRUARY 27 TO MARCH 20, 2010. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the individuals listed in ref [...]
2010-02-23 15:22:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM UP
10STATE16375LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (KYIV 248)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidate nominated to attend the LACKLAND AIR FORCE BASE, TX., AND ARMY WAR COLLEGE, CARLISLE, PA., FROM 02/24/10 - 06/11/11. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the individual listed in [...]
2010-02-23 15:49:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV UP
10STATE16399LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (KYIV 249)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidate nominated to attend the ENGLISH LANGUAGE TRAINING AT LACKLAND AIR FORCE BASE, TEXAS AND FT MCNAIR WASHINGTON, ON 02/24/10 - 06/09/11. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the i [...]
2010-02-23 16:22:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV UP
10STATE16547LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (TIRANA 742)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the ALBANIAN MILITARY UNIVERSITY AND USMA/ROTC CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT (PART II) in NJ, NY, KY, U.S.A. from 2/28/2010 to 3/5/2010. 2. (SBU) The Department of State h [...]
2010-02-23 19:19:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC MARR MASS PGOV PHUM AL
10STATE16548LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (TIRANA 741)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the ALBANIAN MILITARY UNIVERSITY AND USMA/ROTC CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT in NJ, NY, KY, U.S.A. from 2/28/2010 to 3/5/2010. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted [...]
2010-02-23 19:19:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC MARR MASS PGOV PHUM AL
10STATE16551LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (TIRANA 749)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the ALBANIAN MILITARY UNIVERSITY AND USMA/ROTC CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT (PART II) in NJ, NY, KY, U.S.A. from 2/28/2010 to 3/5/2010. 2. (SBU) The Department of State h [...]
2010-02-23 19:23:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC MARR MASS PGOV PHUM AL
10STATE16553LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (TIRANA 751)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidate nominated to attend the EQUIPMENT DONATION FOR ALBANIAN STATE POLICE in TIRANA, ALBANIA from 3/10/2010 to 3/11/2010. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the individual listed in [...]
2010-02-23 19:25:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC MARR MASS PGOV PHUM AL
10STATE16577LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (YEREVAN 57)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidate nominated to attend the 5th Annual Sovereign Challenge Conference. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the individual listed in reftel and possesses no credible derogatory info [...]
2010-02-23 19:52:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC MASS PGOV PHUM AM
10STATE16711TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION REPORT
[...] (SBU) Post is working with the Government of Haiti to clarify procedures concerning approval of adoption lists, as the departures of several groups of adoptees have been delayed, including six children from the Children of the Promise Orphanage. The children are currently in a UNICEF- support [...]
2010-02-23 21:44:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA
10STATE16781DRUGS AND TRANSNATIONAL ORGANIZED CRIME:
[...] USUN is instructed to join consensus on the UN Security Council Presidential Statement (PRST) on drugs and transnational organized crime. USUN should refer any further substantive changes on the PRST to the Department prior to joining consensus for adoption. End action request. 2. Begin [...]
2010-02-24 00:17:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL UNSC XA XY UNCND UNIDCP SNAR
10STATE16894LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (BELGRADE 240)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidate nominated to attend the IMET Maneuver Advanced Non Commissioned Officer Course scheduled for March 1 - April 23, 2010 at Fort Knox, Kentucky. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted [...]
2010-02-24 14:35:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM PREL SR
10STATE16945HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR U.S.-SPONSORED TRAINING
[...] (U) The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the member of the Iraqi Ministry of Defense listed below. Department strongly suggests that a visa application for this individual be filed with as [...]
2010-02-24 15:29:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM MASS IZ
10STATE16948HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR U.S.-SPONSORED TRAINING
[...] (U) The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the members of the Iraqi Ministry of Defense listed below. Department strongly suggests that visa applications for these individuals be filed with [...]
2010-02-24 15:31:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM MASS IZ
10STATE16952HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR U.S.-SPONSORED TRAINING
[...] (U) The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the members of the Iraqi Ministry of Interior listed below. Note that if, at any time, the Embassy becomes aware of any information regarding incid [...]
2010-02-24 15:32:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM MASS IZ
10STATE16953HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR U.S.-SPONSORED TRAINING
[...] (U) The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the members of the Iraqi Ministry of Defense listed below. Department strongly suggests that visa applications for these individuals be filed with [...]
2010-02-24 15:33:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM MASS IZ
10STATE16954HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR U.S.-SPONSORED TRAINING
[...] (U) The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the members of the Iraqi Ministry of Interior listed below. Note that if, at any time, the Embassy becomes aware of any information regarding incid [...]
2010-02-24 15:33:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM MASS IZ
10STATE16955HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR U.S.-SPONSORED TRAINING
[...] (U) The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the members of the Iraqi Operations Coordination Group listed below. Department strongly suggests that visa applications for these individuals be f [...]
2010-02-24 15:34:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM MASS IZ
10STATE16959HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR U.S.-SPONSORED TRAINING
[...] (U) The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the members of the Iraqi Ministry of Defense listed below. Department strongly suggests that visa applications for these individuals be filed with [...]
2010-02-24 15:35:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM MASS IZ
10STATE16961HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR U.S.-SPONSORED TRAINING
[...] (U) The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the members of the Iraqi Ministry of Interior listed below. Department strongly suggests that visa applications for these individuals be filed with [...]
2010-02-24 15:35:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM MASS IZ
10STATE16964HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR U.S.-SPONSORED TRAINING
[...] (U) The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the member of the Iraqi Ministry of Defense listed below. Department strongly suggests that a visa application for this individual be filed with as [...]
2010-02-24 15:36:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM MASS IZ
10STATE17005INSTRUCTIONS FOR U.S. DELEGATION FOR NRRC
[...] (U) In accordance with the Nuclear Risk Reduction Center (NRRC) Agreement, which calls for annual consultations, the U.S. NRRC will visit the Arms Control and Inspection Activity Support Center of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic of Kazakhstan. The NRRC Consultations focus on NRRC opera [...]
2010-02-24 16:44:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYBO KACT KZ PARM RS UP
10STATE17009LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (BUCHAREST 57)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the A"Partnership Development Plan Training" exercise, 01 March-02 April and "Joint Combined Exercise Training", 01 June-21 June 2010, Romania. 2. (SBU) The Departm [...]
2010-02-24 16:45:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS PHUM PINR RO
10STATE17131LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (TBILISI 167)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidate nominated to attend the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA MARCH 6-19, 2010. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the individual listed in reftel and possesses no credible [...]
2010-02-24 19:34:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM GG
10STATE17244RESPONSE TO KUWAIT LEAHY VETTING REQUEST (KUWAIT
[...] (SBU) This cable responds to reftel Leahy vetting request for the Kuwait Marine Forces unit and unit commander Major General Ahmad Y.A.A.T. Almulla. The Department has reviewed its files and finds it possesses no credible derogatory information for the unit and individual listed reftel as o [...]
2010-02-24 21:26:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL KU
10STATE17290TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION REPORT
[...] (U) A Haitian judge told Reuters the two American missionaries who remain jailed in Haiti on child trafficking charges will be released this week. (AP) 2. (U) The six children from Children of the Promise Orphanage traveled today to the United States. Haitian officials prevented the child [...]
2010-02-24 22:49:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA
10STATE17615LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (PODGORICA 31)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidate nominated to attend the Department of Justice, Office of Prosecutorial Development, Assistance and Training sponsored Task Force study trip in Tirana, Albania. Scheduled for March 8, 2010. [...]
2010-02-25 17:45:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PHUM PREL MW
10STATE17617LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (PODGORICA 16)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidate nominated to attend the Air Command Staff College, Maxwell AFB. The course is scheduled for June 7 2010 - June 16 2011. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the individual listed [...]
2010-02-25 17:47:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PHUM PREL MW
10STATE17619LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (PODGORICA 15)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidate nominated to attend the International Maritime Officer in Yorktown, VA scheduled for March 10 - June 25, 2010. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the individual listed in refte [...]
2010-02-25 17:50:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PHUM PREL MW
10STATE17760LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (TBILISI 165)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the ADVANCED SECURITY STUDIES HELD FROM MARCH 26 - JUNE 18, 2010, AT THE MARSHALL CENTER IN GARMISCH- PARTENKIRCHEN, GERMANY. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has v [...]
2010-02-25 20:24:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM GG
10STATE17838JORDAN LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE FOR RJAF OFFICERS -
[...] (SBU) In response to reftel Leahy vetting request, the Department has reviewed its files and finds it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the Jordanian officials listed below. Please note that if at any time the Embassy becomes aware of infor [...]
2010-02-25 22:25:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM ASEC JO
10STATE17842JORDAN LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE FOR ATA COURSE 7288
[...] (SBU) In response to reftel Leahy vetting request, the Department has reviewed its files and finds it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the Jordanian officials listed below. Please note that if at any time the Embassy becomes aware of infor [...]
2010-02-25 22:27:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM ASEC JO
10STATE17901TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION REPORT
[...] (SBU) Under a new government regulation, a relief organization must first be registered in order to qualify for a duty exemption. Organizations unwilling to wait have paid large duties for the release of their goods. Relief workers argue the new process is delaying aid distribution and the gov [...]
2010-02-26 01:39:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA
10STATE18161EGYPT LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE - 99561 THRU 99582
[...] (SBU) In response to reftel Leahy vetting request, the Department has reviewed its files and finds it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the Egyptian personnel listed below. Please note that if at any time the Embassy becomes aware of informa [...]
2010-02-26 16:43:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS PARM PHUM PREL SNAR EG
10STATE18163EGYPT LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE - 99561 THRU 99582
[...] (SBU) In response to reftel Leahy vetting request, the Department has reviewed its files and finds it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the Egyptian personnel listed below. Please note that if at any time the Embassy becomes aware of informa [...]
2010-02-26 16:44:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS PARM PHUM PREL SNAR EG
10STATE18175ACTION REQUEST: ASIA-PACIFIC AVIATION SECURITY
[...] (U) This message contains an action request. See paragraph 3. It has been sent in collaboration with the Department of Homeland Security. Summary ------- 2. (SBU) Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano will travel to Tokyo March 12-14, 2010 to attend a confer [...]
2010-02-26 16:55:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC EAIR IN PGOV PK PTER XB
10STATE18190U.S. RESPONSE TO KAZAKHSTAN,S REQUEST FOR SUPPORT
[...] (U) This is an action request for Embassy Astana. Please see paragraph 3. SUMMARY 2. (SBU) This cable provides guidance to Post on responding to the Government of Kazakhstan,s (GOK) offer to host a Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GICNT) conference in Astana on or ar [...]
2010-02-26 17:37:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM PREL PTER KGIC KZ RS US
10STATE18197LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (YEREVAN 39)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the training by the Ministry of Defense. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the individuals listed in reftel and possesses no credible derogatory informat [...]
2010-02-26 17:45:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC MASS PGOV PHUM AM
10STATE18235LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (YEREVAN 31)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidate nominated to attend the Ministry of Defense for USG-sponsored training. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the individual listed in reftel and possesses no credible derogatory [...]
2010-02-26 18:33:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC MASS PGOV PHUM AM
10STATE18299LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE ( TBILISI 127)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidate nominated to attend the INTERNATIONAL MILITARY OFFICER COURSE ON MARCH 15 - MAY 25, 2010 IN YORKTOWN, VA. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the individual listed in reftel and [...]
2010-02-26 19:27:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PGOV PHUM GG
10STATE18324LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (YEREVAN 91)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidate nominated to attend the the Ministry of Foreign Affaires. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the individual listed in reftel and possesses no credible derogatory information as [...]
2010-02-26 20:12:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM MASS ASEC AM
10STATE18328LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (YEREVAN 90)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the Export Control Academy at the University of Georgia from March 15-26, 2010. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the individuals listed in reftel and pos [...]
2010-02-26 20:32:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM MASS ASEC AM
10STATE18355TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION REPORT
[...] (U) Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Michael Mullen met with Haitian President Rene Preval and Prime Minister Jean-Max Bellerive February 26. Admiral Mullen travelled to visit American troops and assess conditions in Port-au-Prince. (AP) AMERICAN CITIZEN ISSUES -------------- [...]
2010-02-26 20:47:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA
10STATE18444USUN: MISSION CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR S/CT
[...] (U) Department requests mission clearance for S/CT Ambassador Benjamin and S/CT Senior Advisor on Multilateral Engagement Eric Rosand for March 1, 2010. Amb Benjamin will give a talk at the International Peace Institute ("International Counterterrorism Policy in the Obama Administration: A S [...]
2010-02-26 22:55:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAORC KTFN PTER
10STATE18587TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION
[...] (SBU) EU High Representative Ashton and Crisis Response Commissioner Kristalina Georgieva will travel to Haiti February 28. (TF1/EUR/ERA e-mail) 2. (U) Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mullen met with Haitian President Preval and Prime Minister Bellerive February 26 and sa [...]
2010-02-27 23:13:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA
10STATE18595MGCI01: CHILE EARTHQUAKE SITUATION REPORT NO. 1
[...] (SBU) The 8.8-magnitude earthquake struck at 0134 EST 200 miles southwest of Santiago and 70 miles northeast of Concepcion at a depth of 22 miles. (Ops/USGS e-mail) 2. (SBU) Aftershocks up to 6.9-magnitude continue to hit Chile. (Ops/USGS e-mail) 3. (SBU) Three million people were expo [...]
2010-02-28 03:39:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT CI
10STATE18596MGCI01: CHILE EARTHQUAKE SITUATION REPORT NO. 2
[...] (U) President Obama expressed condolences to President Bachelet, commended the Government of Chile's disaster response, and stated the United States stands ready to assist with rescue and recovery efforts. (Reuters) 2. (SBU) Ambassador Simons spoke to Chilean Foreign Minister Fernandez and [...]
2010-02-28 03:45:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT CI
10STATE18621TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION
[...] (U) Haitian officials say eight people are dead and two missing after heavy rain fell on the southwest and caused widespread flooding. (AP) 2. (U) A U.S. military spokesman says six American soldiers involved in the aid mission have contracted malaria. One of the soldiers was evacuated [...]
2010-02-28 19:27:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA
10STATE18653MGCI01: CHILE EARTHQUAKE MONITORING GROUP
[...] (SBU) President Bachelet announced more than 700 people have been killed in the quake, report the media. All official Americans have been accounted for, confirms Embassy Santiago. Seventeen locally-engaged staff and 36 contract employees remain unaccounted for due to poor communications [...]
2010-02-28 22:05:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT CI
10STATE1923FY 2010 PROHIBITION ON ASSISTANCE TO CENTRAL
[...] (U) This is a request for action by January 20; see paragraphs 3, 4, and 10. 2. (U) Under Section 7086(c)(1) of the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 2010 (P.L. 111-117) (SFOAA),the Department and USAID are prohibited from providing any bi [...]
2010-01-08 18:38:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAID EAID ECON EFIN PREL
10STATE1990NEPAL AMBASSADOR SHARMA DISCUSSES PEACE PROCESS,
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During a January 7 courtesy call with Nepal's Ambassador to the United States, Shankar P. Sharma, SCA Assistant Secretary Robert Blake voiced U.S. concern regarding the lagging pace of the peace process in Nepal and emphasized the need for the Government of Nepal to reach out [...]
2010-01-08 20:41:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYIN NP PGOV PREL
10STATE206HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR U.S SPONSORED TRAINING
[...] (U) The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the member of the Iraqi Security Forces listed below. Department strongly suggests that a visa application for this individual be filed with as much [...]
2010-01-04 16:13:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYIZ PHUM MASS
10STATE207HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR U.S SPONSORED TRAINING
[...] (U) The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the member of the Iraqi Security Forces listed below. Department strongly suggests that a visa application for this individual be filed with as much [...]
2010-01-04 16:14:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYIZ PHUM MASS
10STATE2268LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (TIRANA 719)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the SURVEILLANCE TECHNIQUES AND STREET SURVIVAL COURSE (PART II) in TIRANA, ALBANIA from 1/11/2010 to 1/22/2010. 2. (U) The Department of State has vetted the indi [...]
2010-01-11 14:30:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV MARR MASS ASEC AL
10STATE2276LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE ( TIRANA 718)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the SURVEILLANCE TECHNIQUES AND STREET SURVIVAL COURSE (PART I) in TIRANA, ALBANIA from 1/11/2010 to 1/22/2010. 2. (U) The Department of State has vetted the indiv [...]
2010-01-11 14:45:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV MARR MASS ASEC AL
10STATE2302LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (TIRANA 724)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the ASSISTANCE TO VICTIMS/WITNESSES IN CRIMINAL CASES (PART I) in TIRANA, ALBANIA from 1/11/2010 to 1/12/2010. 2. (U) The Department of State has vetted the indivi [...]
2010-01-11 15:38:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV MARR MASS ASEC AL
10STATE2310LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (TIRANA 725)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the ASSISTANCE TO VICTIMS/WITNESSES IN CRIMINAL CASES (PART II) in VLORA, ALBANIA from 1/14/2010 to 1/15/2010. 2. (U) The Department of State has vetted the indivi [...]
2010-01-11 15:50:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV MARR MASS ASEC AL
10STATE2345LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE: GUATEMALA 1478 (128)
[...] (SBU) As of January 6, 2010 the Department of State possesses no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights by the individuals listed below. NAME: Rodrigo AJTZALAM TZEP RANK: PNC Officer DOB: March 15, 1979 POB: Guatemala, Guatemala NAME: Mario Ivan BARRIENTOS DE [...]
2010-01-11 16:31:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS PREL PHUM PINS PINR GT
10STATE2351HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR U.S.-SPONSORED ATA
[...] (U) The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the officers from the Ministry of Interior (NIIA) listed below. Note that if, at any time, the Embassy becomes aware of any information regarding i [...]
2010-01-11 16:38:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM MASS IZ
10STATE2353LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (BAKU 975)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the HRV REQUEST FOR MEMBERS OF FOREIGN ARMED FORCES TO ATTEND FY10 IMET TRAINING IN THE US. 2. (U) The Department of State has vetted the individuals listed in reft [...]
2010-01-11 16:43:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PGOV PHUM AJ
10STATE2354LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (PODGORICA 227)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidate nominated to attend the CTFP event in Ohrid, Macedonia, 17-22, 2010. 2. (U) The Department of State has vetted the individual listed in reftel and possesses no credible derogatory info [...]
2010-01-11 16:49:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PHUM PREL MW
10STATE2358LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (SARAJEVO 1389)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the Legal Issues Concerning Preparations for ISAF on January 17, 2010 in Ohrid, Macedonia. 2. (U) The Department of State has vetted the individuals listed in refte [...]
2010-01-11 16:53:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS PHUM PINR PINS PREL BK
10STATE2366LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (TIRANA 713)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the ATA TRAINING 7038 MAJOR CASE MANAGEMENT COURSE in TIRANA, ALBANIA from 2/1/2010 to 2/10/2010. 2. (U) The Department of State has vetted the individuals listed in reftel and possesses no credible [...]
2010-01-11 17:00:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC MARR MASS PGOV PHUM AL
10STATE2368HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR U.S.-SPONSORED SWIFTBOAT
[...] (U) The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the members of the Iraqi Security Forces listed below. Department strongly suggests that visa applications for these individuals be filed with as m [...]
2010-01-11 17:02:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM MASS IZ
10STATE2377LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (BUCHAREST 845)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidate nominated to attend the "Naval Staff College 5-1/2 Month", 06 January-11 June 2010, Newport, RI. 2. (U) The Department of State has vetted the individual listed in reftel and possesses [...]
2010-01-11 17:12:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PINR MASS MARR RO
10STATE2416LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE: MANAGUA 1362
[...] (SBU) As of January 8, 2009, the Department of State possesses no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights by the individual listed. Unit: Nicaraguan Army Espinoza Collado, Orlando Jose; LtC; 30 Oct 1955 Jiron Castillo, Ramon; Maj; 05 Apr 1963 2. (SBU) Post is therefore autho [...]
2010-01-11 18:38:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS MOPS PHUM PINR NU
10STATE2448LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (KYIV 2020)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the HIGH-LEVEL TRAINING: HL-19:3 AND MID-LEVEL TRAINING: MM-19:6, BOTH AT THE CENTER OF EXCELLENCE FOR STABILITY POLICE UNITS (COESPU) IN VICENZA, ITALY, BEGINNING ON [...]
2010-01-11 19:23:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM UP
10STATE2464LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (KYIV 2082)
[...] (SBU) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidate nominated to attend the MM-19 TRAINING AT THE CENTER OF EXCELLENCE FOR STABILITY POLICE UNITS (COESPU) IN VICENZA, ITALY, BEGINNING ON JANUARY 18, 2010. 2. (SBU) The Department of Sta [...]
2010-01-11 19:43:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PGOV PHUM SNAR UP
10STATE2491LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (BUCHAREST 864)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend "Legal Aspects of Combating Terrorism Preparations for Afghanistan Missions MET", 18-22 Jan 2010, Skopje, Macedonia. 2. (U) The Department of State has vetted the [...]
2010-01-11 20:08:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PINR MASS MARR RO
10STATE2586EGYPT LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE 99366 THRU 99397
[...] (SBU) In response to reftel Leahy vetting request, the Department has reviewed its files and finds it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the Egyptian officials listed below. Please note that if at any time the Embassy becomes aware of informa [...]
2010-01-11 22:35:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS PHUM PREL SNAR EG PM
10STATE2600GUIDANCE FOR JANUARY 14 BRIEFING BY UNRCCA SRSG
[...] (U) USUN is instructed to draw from the following talking points in paragraph two for the January 14 Security Council Briefing by the United Nations Regional Center for Preventive Diplomacy in Central Asia (UNRCCA) Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General(SRSG) Miroslav [...]
2010-01-12 00:16:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL UNSC UN TX
10STATE3121TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION
[...] (SBU) President Obama, Secretary Clinton, and UN Special Envoy Clinton issued separate statements. Haitian Ambassador to the U.S. Raymond Joseph called for assistance in a CNN interview. Chile, the Dominican Republic, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Jamaica have offered support, with more e [...]
2010-01-13 09:49:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA
10STATE3353AFRICAN UNION SUMMIT - A/S CARSON MEETING REQUESTS
[...] (U) This is an action message. See paragraph 4. 2. (U) Summary: Assistant Secretary Johnnie Carson will lead the United States delegation to the African Union summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from January 30-February 2, 2010. Action addressees are requested to inform their host governmen [...]
2010-01-13 16:48:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL OVIP CARSON JOHNNIE AORC XA
10STATE3573EGYPT LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE - 99398 THRU 99422
[...] (SBU) In response to reftel Leahy vetting request, the Department has reviewed its files and finds it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the Egyptian officials listed below. Please note that if at any time the Embassy becomes aware of informa [...]
2010-01-13 22:27:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS PHUM PREL SNAR EG PM
10STATE3584MISSION CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR ROBERT MAGGI,
[...] Mission clearance is requested for Coordinator for Counter Piracy Robert Maggi, Attorney-Adviser Jennifer Landsidle (L/LEI),William Astillero (Counter-piracy officer) and Trina Saha (Multilateral Affairs Officer, IO/UNP). They plan to attend the fifth plenary meeting of the Contact Group on [...]
2010-01-13 23:23:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA USUN
10STATE3588TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-14 00:13:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA
10STATE3640TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION
[...] (SBU) Embassy Port-au-Prince (PaP) confirms planes departed overnight and anticipates planes will be able to land. The embassy is investigating to confirm the tarmac is operational. Brazilian and Chilean military aircraft are expected to land January 13 in PaP to provide relief supplies to M [...]
2010-01-14 09:51:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA
10STATE3641TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION
[...] (SBU) The Port-au-Prince airport is open. Airport runway and apron areas are functional. Commercial operations are limited to emergency flights. U.S. airlines have suspended operations. U.S. Special Operations units will arrive at 1500 to establish ATC services and airport security. (TF1/Em [...]
2010-01-14 10:24:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA
10STATE3642TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION
[...] (SBU) SOUTHCOM personnel will arrive at 2100 EST to set up air traffic control services and airport security and hope to establish 24-hour airport operations within two hours. 2. (SBU) Embassy Port-au-Prince places a high priority on locating two missing American Citizen embassy employees [...]
2010-01-14 10:57:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA
10STATE3675TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION REPORT
[...] (SBU) The tower is now fully operational and the airport can conduct 24-hour operations. Lights function on the runway and in half of the terminal. (TF1/Interagency Conference Call) UN ASYG MULET AND DELEGATION EN ROUTE ------------------------------------ 2. (SBU) The UN delegation wi [...]
2010-01-14 12:49:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA
10STATE3701TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION REPORT NO. 6
[...] (SBU) Post reports 150 Americans, currently located at the U.S. Embassy, will be taken to the airport and put on a MilAir flight at 0900 EST January 14. Consul General Moore met with another 160 Americans at the airport and told them to come back at 0900 EST January 14 to prep for the second [...]
2010-01-14 13:12:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA
10STATE3867LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (TIRANA 730)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the CTFP REGIONAL SEMINAR in OHRID, MACEDONIA from 1/18/2010 to 1/22/2010. 2. (U) The Department of State has vetted the individuals listed in reftel and possesses [...]
2010-01-14 17:15:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV MARR MASS ASEC AL
10STATE3974LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (SARAJEVO 1413)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the George C Marshall Center Residential Courses scheduled for January 20, 2010 in Garmisch, Germany. 2. (U) The Department of State has vetted the individuals list [...]
2010-01-14 20:04:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS PHUM PINR PINS PREL BK
10STATE3976LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (SARAJEVO 1251)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the Drill Sergeants Duties Course scheduled for 26 January to 29 January, 2010 in Parris Island, South Carolina. 2. (U) The Department of State has vetted the indiv [...]
2010-01-14 20:05:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS PHUM PINR PINS PREL BK
10STATE3979LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (SARAJEVO 1250)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the Drill Sergeants Duties Course scheduled for 26 January to 29 January, 2010 in Parris Island, South Carolina. 2. (U) The Department of State has vetted the indiv [...]
2010-01-14 20:06:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS PHUM PINR PINS PREL BK
10STATE4029LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (TBILISI 2301)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the Defense Language Institute, Lackland AFB, San Antonio and at the Field Artillery School, Fort Sill, OK. 2. (U) The Department of State has vetted the individual [...]
2010-01-14 20:47:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM GG
10STATE4039LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (TBILISI 4)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the Advanced Management training course at the ILEA Roswell. 2. (U) The Department of State has vetted the individuals listed in reftel and possesses no credible d [...]
2010-01-14 20:56:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM SNAR GG
10STATE4204TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION
[...] (SBU) Two airlifts are scheduled for January 14. Requests for evacuations are low and therefore no further airlifts are anticipated on January 14. One unidentified person was pulled from rubble alive. Looting was reported, but incidents remain small and contained. One U.S. citizen was acco [...]
2010-01-15 05:17:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA
10STATE4205TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION
[...] (SBU) Embassy Port-au-Prince is identifying drivers familiar with the city; a majority of these drivers are being used to move American citizens to the airport for evacuation. MINUSTAH will help with transportation as long as civil unrest does not increase. Approximately 20 of 300 Locally [...]
2010-01-15 05:30:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA
10STATE4210TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION
[...] (SBU) The number of U.S. search and rescue personnel on the ground has increased to 310. The teams are from Fairfax County, Los Angeles, and Miami. (TF1/Embassy Port-au-Prince e-mail) EVACUATIONS/AMERICAN CITIZEN AND LES WHEREABOUTS --------------------------------------------- ---- 2. [...]
2010-01-15 07:45:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA
10STATE4231TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION
[...] (SBU) NSC Deputy Director Dennis McDonough and Captain John Kirby, spokesperson for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, arrived in Port-au-Prince at 0320 EST to address strategic communications. (TF1/Embassy Port-au-Prince/NSC Duty Officer telcons) SEARCH AND RESCUE --------------- [...]
2010-01-15 13:11:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT
10STATE4433LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (SARAJEVO 1413)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the George C Marshall Center Residential Courses scheduled for January 20, 2010 in Garmisch, Germany. 2. (U) The Department of State has vetted the individuals list [...]
2010-01-15 17:38:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS PHUM PINR PINS PREL BK
10STATE4441CFE: JCG OPENING OF SESSION GUIDANCE AND
[...] (SBU) Russia's ongoing suspension of its CFE Treaty implementation since December 12, 2007 will set the tone for the opening session of the Joint Consultative Group (JCG) in 2010. Russia will likely continue to press for discussion of elements of its May 2009 Aide Memoire in the JCG and NATO- [...]
2010-01-15 17:57:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOSCE PARM PREL KCFE
10STATE4459MISSION CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR ROBERT MAGGI,
[...] Mission clearance is requested for Coordinator for Counter Piracy Robert Maggi, Attorney-Adviser Jennifer Landsidle (L/LEI),William Astillero (Counter-piracy officer) and Trina Saha (Multilateral Affairs Officer, IO/UNP). They plan to attend the fifth plenary meeting of the Contact Group on [...]
2010-01-15 18:49:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA ASEC USUN
10STATE4464LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (PRISTINA 555)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the Department of Treasury Gaming Course (GC) scheduled to take place January 25 - Feb 2, 2010 in Pristina Kosovo. 2. (U) The Department of State has vetted the in [...]
2010-01-15 19:02:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KV
10STATE4547LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (BELGRADE 1530)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidate nominated to attend the IMET Army Medical Captains Career Course scheduled for January 22, 2010 to May 21, 2010 at the Army Medical Department Center and School, Fort Sam Houston, Texas. [...]
2010-01-15 19:47:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM PREL SR
10STATE4569LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (SARAJEVO 4)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidate nominated to attend the George C Marshall Center Residential Courses scheduled for January 20, 2010 in Garmisch, Germany. 2. (U) The Department of State has vetted the individual listed [...]
2010-01-15 19:53:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS PHUM PINR PINS PREL BK
10STATE4571LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (TBILISI 2311)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidate nominated to attend the Defense Language Institute, Lackland AFB, San Antonio and at the Basic Officer Course, Marine Corps University, Quantico, VA. 2. (U) The Department of State has [...]
2010-01-15 19:58:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS PHUM PINR PINS PREL BK
10STATE4591LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (YEREVAN 840)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the training by the Ministry of Defense. 2. (U) The Department of State has vetted the individuals listed in reftel and possesses no credible derogatory informatio [...]
2010-01-15 20:30:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC MASS PGOV PHUM AM
10STATE4600JORDAN LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE FOR COESPU TRAINING
[...] (SBU) In response to reftel Leahy vetting request, the Department has reviewed its files and finds it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the Jordanian official listed below. Please note that if at any time the Embassy becomes aware of inform [...]
2010-01-15 20:39:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM ASEC MASS JO
10STATE4601JORDAN LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE FOR F-16 BORESIGHT
[...] (SBU) In response to reftel Leahy vetting request, the Department has reviewed its files and finds it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the Jordanian officials listed below. Please note that if at any time the Embassy becomes aware of infor [...]
2010-01-15 20:40:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM ASEC JO
10STATE4603JORDAN LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE FOR ORSA MILITARY
[...] (SBU) In response to reftel Leahy vetting request, the Department has reviewed its files and finds it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the Jordanian official listed below. Please note that if at any time the Embassy becomes aware of inform [...]
2010-01-15 20:41:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM ASEC MASS JO
10STATE4608LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (YEREVAN 897)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidate nominated to attend the raining by the Military of Emergency Situations of RA. 2. (U) The Department of State has vetted the individual listed in reftel and possesses no credible derog [...]
2010-01-15 20:50:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC MASS PGOV PHUM AM
10STATE4613LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (TIRANA 733)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the DEFENSE RESOURCES MANAGEMENT COURSE in DURRES, ALBANIA from 1/25/2010 to 1/29/2010. 2. (U) The Department of State has vetted the individuals listed in reftel a [...]
2010-01-15 20:55:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC MARR MASS PGOV PHUM AL
10STATE4614LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (TIRANA 712)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the JARNG JOINT FORCES HEADQUARTERS EXCHANGE in LAWRENCEVILLE, NJ, U.S.A. from 1/25/2010 to 1/29/2010. 2. (U) The Department of State has vetted the individuals li [...]
2010-01-15 20:55:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC MARR MASS PGOV PHUM AL
10STATE4619LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (YEREVAN 869)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidate nominated to attend the training by the Military of Foreign Affaires. 2. (U) The Department of State has vetted the individual listed in reftel and possesses no credible derogatory in [...]
2010-01-15 21:02:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC MASS PGOV PHUM AM
10STATE4624LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (YEREVAN 846)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the Ftraining by the Police Department and Ministry of Defense. 2. (U) The Department of State has vetted the individuals listed in reftel and possesses no credible [...]
2010-01-15 21:08:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC MASS PGOV PHUM AM
10STATE4673ACTION REQUEST: SEEK ELECTION TO ECOSOC COMMITTEE
[...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 4-5. 2. (U) SUMMARY: The Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations (CNGO) is the committee responsible for making recommendations for ECOSOC approval regarding which NGOs should be granted consultative status. Consultative status allows NGOs [...]
2010-01-15 21:49:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM UN
10STATE4703TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-15 22:51:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA
10STATE4712INVITATION TO DOE/NNSA EVENT ENTITLED "REGIONAL
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 6. 2. (U) SUMMARY: The United States Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration (DOE/NNSA) and the United States Department of State are sponsoring a Regional Energy Planning and Nonproliferation Workshop in Muscat, Om [...]
2010-01-15 23:22:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAORC KNNP ENRG TRGY MU SA BA KU TC JO QA MO AG TS
10STATE4749THANK YOU FOR VOTES ON UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE
[...] (U) This is an action message for action addressees. See para 5. 2. (U) Summary: Efforts to reach out to host countries, at all levels, paid off on December 18, 2009 as the votes in favor of the Defamation of Religions resolution at the UN General Assembly (UNGA) declined by six votes ( [...]
2010-01-16 01:53:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM UNGA OPDC KIRF KISL
10STATE4775TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION
[...] (SBU) No updates at this time. SEARCH AND RESCUE (SAR) ----------------------- 2. (SBU) Prime Minister Bellerive said he is concerned about the lack of SAR operations outside of Port-au- Prince, the possibility of epidemics, and the perception rescue efforts are focused on foreigners r [...]
2010-01-16 07:52:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT
10STATE4776TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE
[...] (SBU) Secretary Clinton will travel to Haiti on Saturday. The Spanish VP and the Minister of Development intend to travel to Haiti Saturday. (TF1/IO telcon) AMERICAN CITIZEN WELFARE/WHEREABOUTS/EVACUATIONS --------------------------------------------- ------- ----- 2. (SBU) A tot [...]
2010-01-16 08:04:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR
10STATE4777TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE
[...] (SBU) Secretary Clinton and Administrator Shah will arrive in Haiti in the morning of January 16. The Spanish VP and the Minister of Development intend to travel to Haiti the morning of January 16. (TF1/IO telcon, DOS press release) SEARCH AND RESCUE (SAR) ----------------------- 2. [...]
2010-01-16 08:14:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR
10STATE4782TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-16 12:27:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT
10STATE4788TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION
[...] (SBU) 50 American citizens will depart Haiti with Secretary Clinton. Representative Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX) cancelled her trip to Haiti. UN Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon will travel to Haiti on January 17. He spoke with Haitian President Rene Preval by phone on January 15. Bolivian Pre [...]
2010-01-16 19:11:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT
10STATE4789TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION REPORT
[...] (SBU) Spanish Vice President Maria Teresa Fernandez de la Vega will travel to Haiti via the Dominican Republic January 17,carrying 11 tons of emergency humanitarian aid. (TF1/Embassy Madrid e-mail and telcon) 2. (SBU) Colombian President Alvaro Uribe will travel to Haiti January 17. (TF1/ [...]
2010-01-16 19:22:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA
10STATE4806TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION REPORT
[...] (U) Secretary Clinton is currently in Port-au-Prince. SEARCH AND RESCUE (SAR) ---------------------- 2. (U) No updates at this time. COMMODITY FLOW -------------- 3. (SBU) The Chevron convoy that departed Santo Domingo at 0430 arrived safely in Port-au-Prince at 1230. The convoy [...]
2010-01-17 02:14:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA
10STATE4819TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE
[...] (SBU) The Secretary has departed Haiti en route to Andrews AFB. SEARCH AND RESCUE (SAR) ---------------------- 2. (SBU) Embassy notes the window for successful rescue is narrowing; the sections of Hotel Montana that remain to be searched are extremely dangerous. (TF1/Embassy Port-au-Pr [...]
2010-01-17 06:59:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR
10STATE4821TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION REPORT
[...] (SBU) The Secretary returned to Andrews AFB at 0015. 2. (SBU) Bolivian President Morales is expected to travel to Haiti January 17. (TF1/HA/DR SitRep) SEARCH AND RESCUE (SAR) ---------------------- 3. (SBU) As of 2000 on January 16, five U.S. SAR teams had rescued a total of 23 indiv [...]
2010-01-17 12:29:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA
10STATE4829TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION REPORT
[...] (U) UNSYG Ban is en route to Port-au-Prince, and will meet with President Preval. (AP) 2. (U) Congressman Kendrik Meeks (D-FL) arrived overnight in Haiti. (TF1/Interagency Conference Call) 3. (SBU) Paul Farmer, one of the founders of Partners in Health, and Leslie Voltaire, Dep [...]
2010-01-17 20:02:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA
10STATE4843TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION REPORT
[...] (SBU) UNSYG Ban arrived in Port-au-Prince, and visited the destroyed UN Headquarters. (TF1/IO rep) 2. (SBU) Congressman Kendrick Meek (D-FL) flew to the Dominican Republic and drove overland to Haiti; he overflew the capital with Ambassador Merten. (TF1/H rep) 3. (SBU) Senato [...]
2010-01-18 00:20:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA
10STATE4855TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION REPORT
[...] (U) No updates at this time. SEARCH AND RESCUE (SAR) ---------------------- 2. (SBU) As of 2000, international urban search and rescue (USAR) teams had rescued a total of 62 individuals, including 30 live rescues by U.S. SARs. Operations are continuing and expanding to other areas ident [...]
2010-01-18 09:07:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA
10STATE4858TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION REPORT
[...] (U) Former President Clinton plans to meet with President Preval in Haiti January 18. (AP) SEARCH AND RESCUE (SAR) ---------------------- 2. (SBU) As of 2300 on January 17, international urban search and rescue (USAR) teams had rescued a total of 69 individuals, including 37 rescues by [...]
2010-01-18 11:46:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA
10STATE4884TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION REPORT
[...] (U) Embassy La Paz reports a humanitarian flight carrying Bolivian VP Garcia Liniera and 9 tons of aid is en route to Port-au-Prince. (TF1/Embassy La Paz e-mail) SEARCH AND RESCUE (SAR) ---------------------- 2. (U) No updates at this time. COMMODITY FLOW -------------- 3. (SBU) OF [...]
2010-01-18 18:16:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA
10STATE4905TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION REPORT
[...] (SBU) A Lebanese government delegation is scheduled to arrive in Port-au-Prince on January 19 with a planeload of humanitarian aid. (TF1/Lebanon desk e-mail) SEARCH AND RESCUE (SAR) ---------------------- 2. (SBU) To date, international SAR teams have rescued more than 70 in [...]
2010-01-18 23:07:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA
10STATE5001TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION REPORT
[...] (U) No updates at this time. SEARCH AND RESCUE (SAR) ---------------------- 2. (SBU) To date, international SAR teams have rescued more than 72 individuals. U.S. SAR teams have rescued 40 of the 72. (TF1/USAID e-mail) COMMODITY FLOW -------------- 3. (SBU) O [...]
2010-01-19 15:10:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA
10STATE5040OSCE/FSC: OPENING STATEMENT FOR FSC 2010 OPENING
[...] (U) This is an action message. See para 2. 2. (SBU) The following statement is provided for delivery by USDel at the Forum for Security Cooperation (FSC) Opening of Session Plenary on 20 January 2010: Begin text: Good morning, Mr. Chairman, On behalf of the United States, I congr [...]
2010-01-19 16:14:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOSCE PARM PREL
10STATE513KIMBERLEY PROCESS CABLE KUDOS
[...] (U) Summary. EEB wishes to express sincere gratitude to Embassy Harare, Embassy Windhoek, and two officers who contributed greatly to the U.S. representation to the Kimberley Process (KP) in 2009. 2. (SBU) The year in the KP began and ended with intense focus on the Marange diamond fields [...]
2010-01-05 15:07:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EMIN
10STATE5138LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (BAKU 993)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the United States Coast Guard (USCG) radar and maintenance facilities in Boston, MA, for training purposes from January 30-February 6, 2010. 2. (U) The Department o [...]
2010-01-19 19:56:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PGOV PHUM AJ
10STATE5197LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (BUCHAREST 00007)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the USG-funded training. 2. (U) The Department of State has vetted the individuals listed in reftel and possesses no credible derogatory information as of 01/15/201 [...]
2010-01-19 21:09:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PINR MASS MARR RO
10STATE5198MISSION CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR U.S. DELEGATION TO
[...] Mission clearance is requested for the U.S. delegation to the Countact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia Plenary. This meeting will take place on January 28th in NY at the United Nations. No USUN assistance, other than that noted in reftel, is required. Unless otherwise noted, all d [...]
2010-01-19 21:11:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA ASEC USUN
10STATE5259BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-LICENSE/PRE-SHIPMENT
[...] (U) This is an Action Request. See paragraphs 4 - 5. 2. (U) The Department's Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance (PM/DTCC) requests Post's assistance in conducting a post-license/pre-shipment check on license 050209404 for the export of detonators to India. Post is requested to com [...]
2010-01-19 23:00:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETTC KOMC IT IN
10STATE5268EAP FO MEETING WITH ROK NATIONAL ASSEMBLY MEMBERS
[...] (SBU) On January 14, PDAS Joe Donovan met with nine members of the Republic of Korea (ROK) National Assembly (NA). The NA members were on a trip sponsored by the Korean Economic Institute, and represented a cross section of the ROK legislature, six from the ruling Grand National Party (GNP),[...]
2010-01-19 23:27:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV ETRD SOCI KN KS
10STATE5273TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION
[...] No updates at this time. SEARCH AND RESCUE (SAR) ----------------------- 2. No updates at this time. COMMODITY FLOW -------------- 3. (SBU) 22nd MEU arrived and is conducting limited distribution activities. Air drops of humanitarian aid will begin January 20. (TF1/DOD SVTS) [...]
2010-01-20 00:50:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT
10STATE5358TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION REPORT
[...] (SBU) Actor Sean Penn is scheduled to arrive in Port-au- Prince January 20. (TF1/DS e-mail) SEARCH AND RESCUE (SAR) ---------------------- 2. (SBU) To date, international SAR teams have rescued more than 122 individuals. U.S. SAR teams have rescued 42 of the 122. U.S. SAR teams res [...]
2010-01-20 13:11:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA
10STATE5431DEMARCHE REQUEST ON UN TRUST FUND SUPPORTING THE
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-20 15:10:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYNSC PREL PHUM PHSA EWWT KCRM KPIR SO XA XW
10STATE5597LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (TBILISI 00021)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidate nominated to attend the DEFENSE LANGUAGE INSTITUTE, LACKLAND AFB, SAN ANTONIO, TX; SERGEANT MAJOR ACADEMY, FORT BLISS, TX; JANUARY 27, 2010 - JUNE 17, 2011. 2. (U) The Department of Sta [...]
2010-01-20 18:44:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM GG
10STATE5604LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (TBILISI 00025)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the EFENSE LANGUAGE INSTITUTE, LACKLAND AFB, SAN ANTONIO, TX; SERGEANT MAJOR ACADEMY, FORT BLISS, TX; JANUARY 27, 2010 - JUNE 17, 2011. 2. (U) The Department of St [...]
2010-01-20 18:50:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM GG
10STATE5613BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-LICENSE/PRE-SHIPMENT
[...] (U) This is an Action Request. See paragraphs 2-4. 2. (U) The Department's Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance (PM/DTCC) requests Post's assistance in conducting a post-license/pre-shipment check on license 050203970 for the export of International Traffic in Arms (ITAR)-controlled [...]
2010-01-20 19:04:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETTC KOMC UK
10STATE5621LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (BELGRADE 58)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the IMET Warrior Leader Course scheduled for March 1-19, 2010 at the 7th Army NCO Academy in Grafenwoehr, Germany. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the [...]
2010-01-20 19:16:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM PREL SR
10STATE5623LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (BELGRADE 1522)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidate nominated to attend the George C. Marshall Center (GCMC) Seminar on Transatlantic Civil Security (STACS) 10-2, scheduled for February 2-24, 2010 at Garmisch, Germany. 2. (SBU) The Depar [...]
2010-01-20 19:19:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM PREL SR
10STATE5624LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (BELGRADE 1520)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the George C. Marshall Center (GCMC) Program on Terrorism and Security Studies (PTSS) 10-3, scheduled for February 12 - March 19, 2010 at Garmisch, Germany. 2. (SB [...]
2010-01-20 19:20:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM PREL SR
10STATE5684UPDATED MISSION CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR U.S.
[...] Mission clearance is requested for the U.S. delegation to the Countact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia Plenary. This meeting will take place on January 28th in NY at the United Nations. No USUN assistance, other than that noted in reftel, is required. Unless otherwise noted, all d [...]
2010-01-20 20:12:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA ASEC USUN
10STATE5725IMO: LONDON CONVENTION REPORT ON MARINE
[...] (U) The annual meetings of Contracting Parties to the London Convention (LC) and the London Protocol (LP) on ocean dumping were held concurrently 26-30 October at the International Maritime Organization in London (LC31/LP4). The U.S. delegation consisted of representatives from seven USG agenc [...]
2010-01-20 21:13:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEWWT IMO PHSA SENV UK KRAD KGHG
10STATE5784CORRECTED COPY: MISSION CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR
[...] Mission clearance is requested for the U.S. delegation to the Countact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia Plenary. This meeting will take place on January 28th in NY at the United Nations. No USUN assistance, other than that noted in reftel, is required. Unless otherwise noted, all d [...]
2010-01-21 00:00:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA ASEC USUN
10STATE5796TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION
[...] No updates at this time. SEARCH AND RESCUE (SAR) ----------------------- 2. (SBU) SAR teams rescued three people the night of January 19. (Embassy Port-au-Prince, Interagency Conference Call) 3. (SBU) In light of the recent rescues we do not expect the GOH to declare an end to SAR ef [...]
2010-01-21 01:07:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT
10STATE5829TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION REPORT
[...] (SBU) Pan American Health Organization Director Dr. Roses will travel to Haiti January 21. (TF1/Interagency Conference Call) SEARCH AND RESCUE (SAR) ---------------------- 2. (SBU) Seventeen SAR teams continue operations in the field. Los Angeles County rescue workers made one rescue [...]
2010-01-21 12:21:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA
10STATE5831REPORT ON HORMATS-MAHDI MEETING IN WASHINGTON -
[...] (SBU) Summary: On January 13, 2010 Under Secretary for Economic, Energy and Agricultural Affairs, Robert Hormats and Iraqi Vice President Adel Abd' Al-Mahdi addressed several major economic challenges faced by Iraq. Al-Mahdi said that he is ready to see the debt issues with Gulf Arab neighbor [...]
2010-01-21 12:28:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EPET PREL PGOV EINV ECIN EAID EBEXP BTIO IZ
10STATE5967LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (TIRANA 729)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the FINAL PLANNING CONFERENCE UNIT LEVEL EXCHANGE in NEW JERSEY, U.S.A. from 2/1/2010 to 2/5/2010. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the individuals liste [...]
2010-01-21 15:32:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC MARR MASS PGOV PHUM AL
10STATE6148LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (BUCHAREST 00007)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the USG-funded training. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the individuals listed in reftel and possesses no credible derogatory information as of 01/20/2 [...]
2010-01-21 19:42:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PINR MASS MARR RO
10STATE6174LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (BUCHAREST 00010)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidate nominated to attend the Annual Sovereign Challenge Conference,Key West, Florida 8-11 Mar 2010. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the individual listed in reftel and possesses [...]
2010-01-21 19:53:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PINR MASS MARR RO
10STATE6190LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (TBILISI 00027)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidate nominated to attend the EFENSE LANGUAGE INSTITUTE, LACKLAND AFB, SAN ANTONIO, TX; SF QUALIFICATION COURSE AT JFK SPECIAL WARFARE CENTER, FT BRAGG,NC; MARCH 10, 2010 - FEBRUARY 25, 2011. [...]
2010-01-21 20:12:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM GG
10STATE6220LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (ANKARA 12)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the George C. Marshall Center (GCMC) College of International Studies' Senior Executive Seminar, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany. 2. (SBU) The Department of State h [...]
2010-01-21 20:42:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS PGOV PHUM PREL TU
10STATE623KUDOS TO EMBASSY KINSHASA FOR REPORTING ON HIPC
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-05 18:34:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EAID
10STATE6231LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (ANKARA 61)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the ATA Protecting Digital Infrastructure Course, scheduled to take place in Ankara, Turkey from March 8 through March 19, 2010. 2. (SBU) The Department of State ha [...]
2010-01-21 20:51:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR PGOV PREL TU
10STATE6301TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION REPORT
[...] (U) No updates at this time. SEARCH AND RESCUE (SAR) ---------------------- 2. (SBU) U.S. and Chilean SAR teams continue to search for signs of life at Hotel Montana January 21. (TF1/Interagency Conference Call) COMMODITY FLOW -------------- 3. (SBU) A World Food Program (WFP) [...]
2010-01-21 23:33:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA
10STATE6355OUTREACH ON LONDON CONFERENCE ON AFGHANISTAN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST. The United States expects the main headlines of the London Conference on Afghanistan on January 28 will be the announcement of an international trust fund to support Afghan-led reintegration efforts and the wide endorsement of NATO,s plan for conditions-based, [...]
2010-01-22 02:16:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV ECON EFIN AF
10STATE6419TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE
[...] (SBU) WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran arrived in Haiti. (TF1/Interagency Conference Call) SEARCH AND RESCUE (SAR) ---------------------- 2. (SBU) USGS experts expect strong aftershocks to continue. (TF1/SOUTHCOM telcon) 3. (SBU) U.S. SAR teams are conducting final swee [...]
2010-01-22 12:53:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR
10STATE6529LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (TBILISI 0041)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidate nominated to attend the DEFENSE LANGUAGE INSTITUTE, LACKLAND AFB, SAN ANTONIO, TX; MARINE CORPS UNIVERSITY, QUANTICO, VA; FEBRUARY 2, 2010 - JANUARY 28, 2011. 2. (SBU) The Department of [...]
2010-01-22 14:58:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM GG
10STATE6550LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE ( TBILISI 0049)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidate nominated to attend the TRANSATLANTIC CIVIL SECURITY PROGRAM HELD FROM FEBRUARY 2-24, 2010 AT THE MARSHALL CENTER IN GARMISCH-PARTERKIRCHEN, GERMANY. 2. (SBU) The Department of State ha [...]
2010-01-22 15:33:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM GG
10STATE6555LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (SARAJEVO 1347)
[...] (SBU) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the NBC Unit Operations and Training scheduled for January 26 to January 28, 2010 in Sarajevo. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the individuals nominat [...]
2010-01-22 15:38:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS PHUM PINR PINS PREL BK
10STATE6632OSCE/FSC: RESPONDING TO UKRAINE'S LATEST PROPOSAL
[...] (U) This is an action message. See paras 2-4. 2. (SBU) In response to Ukraine's proposal (FSC.DEL/212/09) to update the OSCE 1994 Principles Governing Nonproliferation, endorsed by Heads of State at the OSCE Summit in Budapest, USDel should inform Ukraine and others, as appropriate, th [...]
2010-01-22 17:13:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOSCE PARM PREL
10STATE6918DEMARCHE REQUEST: HAITI: U.S. HUMANITARIAN
[...] (SBU) Posts are instructed to demarche host governments at the highest appropriate level at the earliest opportunity to: -- underscore that the U.S. is actively supporting search and rescue, relief, recovery and reconstruction efforts in Haiti at the request of the Government of Haiti (REF C [...]
2010-01-22 23:09:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PREF EAID ECON HA
10STATE6934TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION REPORT
[...] (SBU) Brazilian FM Amorim will visit Port-au-Prince January 23. General Jorge Armando Felix, head of Brazil's Institutional Security Cabinet, is scheduled to visit Haiti January 24. (TF1/SOUTHCOM e-mail) 2. (SBU) Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) is scheduled to arrive January 23 with the non-pr [...]
2010-01-23 00:21:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA
10STATE6986TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION REPORT
[...] (SBU) Senator Kerry (D-MA),Representative McGovern (D- MA),USAID Administrator Shah, and FEMA Administrator Fugate will visit Haiti January 23. (TF1/CA e-mail, TF1/DHS and OFDA e-mails) 2. (SBU) Representative Rooney (R-FL) will travel to Port- au-Prince January 24, and Representative Wat [...]
2010-01-23 14:05:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA
10STATE7012TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION REPORT
[...] (SBU) Representative James McGovern (D-MA) and a group from Lynn University visited the Hotel Montana January 23. Contrary to earlier indications, Senator John Kerry (D-MA),did not travel with the Lynn University group. Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) was scheduled to arrive January 23 with the [...]
2010-01-24 02:53:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA
10STATE7039TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION REPORT
[...] (SBU) Representative McGovern (D-MA) and the Lynn University delegation departed Haiti at 2252 EST January 23 for Ft Lauderdale, FL. (TF1/ Embassy Port-au-Prince e-mail) 2. (SBU) Embassy reported that the visit of Representative McGovern and the Lynn University delegation went well. Th [...]
2010-01-24 12:32:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA
10STATE7069TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION
[...] (U) No updates at this time. SEARCH AND RESCUE (SAR) ------------------------------- 2. (SBU) The Government of Haiti is continuing search and rescue efforts. (TF1/Interagency Conference Call) COMMODITY FLOW -------------- 3. (SBU) Local water tankers have restarted limited del [...]
2010-01-25 02:31:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT
10STATE7079TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION
[...] (SBU) Representative T. Rooney (R-FL) visited the Hotel Montana January 24. (TF1/Embassy Port-au-Prince e-mail) 2. (U) Haitian-born rapper Wyclef Jean, who established the charity Yele Haiti, arrived in Port-au-Prince January 24. (BBC) SEARCH AND RESCUE (SAR) ----------------------- [...]
2010-01-25 04:43:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT
10STATE7242OUTREACH FOR IRAN UNIVERSAL PERIODIC REVIEW
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-25 17:03:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYIR PHUM PREL
10STATE7254TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION REPORT
[...] (SBU) Panamanian President Martinelli is scheduled to arrive in Port-au-Prince January 25 at 2100 EST. (TF1/Embassy Panama City e-mail) SEARCH AND RESCUE (SAR) ---------------------- 2. (U) No updates at this time. COMMODITY FLOW -------------- 3. (SBU) Water continues to b [...]
2010-01-25 17:16:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA
10STATE7384LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (PRISTINA 538)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidate nominated to attend training on preventing and responding to a terrorist attack on Critical Energy Infrastructure Protection (CEIP) scheduled to take place February 11-12, 2010 in Vienna, [...]
2010-01-25 19:47:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KV
10STATE7403LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE ( TBILISI 0077)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidate nominated to attend the DEFENSE LANGUAGE INSTITUTE, LACKLAND AFB, SAN ANTONIO, TX; INFANTRY BASIC OFFICER AND RANGER COURSES, FT BENNING, GA; FEBRUARY 9, 2010 - FEBRUARY 28, 2011. 2. ( [...]
2010-01-25 20:31:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM GG
10STATE7439TFHA01: INL RESPONSE TO NAS NEEDS FOR HNP,
[...] In response to reftel request concerning issues to be addressed by INL in support of Embassy Port au Prince. The Department has taken steps to assist with the following: 2. INL is preparing the procurement, delivery, and construction of a temporary camp for the US contingent to be located [...]
2010-01-25 20:56:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR ASEC EFIN KJUS KPKO PGOV SOCI HA XL
10STATE7461MISSION CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR JAMES CAPONITI
[...] Mission clearance is requested for Maritime Administration Assistant Administrator James Caponiti. Caponiti plans to attend the fifth plenary meeting of the Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia on January 28. 2. Caponiti plans to arrive in New York on January 27 and depart o [...]
2010-01-25 21:51:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA ASEC USUN
10STATE7463DEMARCHE REQUEST ON UN TRUST FUND SUPPORTING THE
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-25 21:58:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYNSC PREL PHUM PHSA EWWT KCRM KPIR SO XA XW
10STATE7506TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION REPORT
[...] (SBU) While Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) continues to plan to travel to Haiti, her staff cannot confirm flight information, itinerary, or her current location. (TF1/House staff e-mail) 2. (SBU) Panamanian President Martinelli's planned arrival in Port-au-Prince January 25 has been [...]
2010-01-26 03:57:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA
10STATE7528MANPADS ASSIST VISIT (MAV) AT LAHORE AIRPORT
[...] (SBU) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2 for action request and paragraph 13 for suggested talking points. Washington leaves to post discretion as to the timing for approaching Pakistani authorities, given the current negative media environment surrounding U.S. passenger scree [...]
2010-01-26 07:25:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR PGOV ECON PK
10STATE7531FEBRUARY 16 CIV-MIL ROC DRILL IN DOHA: PURPOSE
[...] (U) This is an action request; please see para 6. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: This is a front channel response to KABUL216 to provide S/SRAP guidance for post participation in the February 16 CIV-MIL ROC Drill in Doha, Qatar. S/SRAP requests response by January 27 identifying p [...]
2010-01-26 11:26:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAF EAID ECON NATO PGOV PREL
10STATE7562TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION REPORT
[...] (SBU) Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) was in Haiti January 25 and met with the DCM and USAID. (TF1/ Interagency Conference Call) SEARCH AND RESCUE (SAR) ---------------------- 2. (U) Teams from Fairfax County, VA, and Los Angeles County, CA, will continue to conduct operations thr [...]
2010-01-26 12:52:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA
10STATE7686Guidance: Middle East Consultations, January 27
[...] (U) This is an action request. USUN may draw from para two elements in making its intervention during Middle East consultations in the Security Council on January 27, 2010 and in answering subsequent press inquiries. 2. (SBU) Begin elements: I thank Assistant Secretary General Fernand [...]
2010-01-26 16:25:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL UNSC IS KPAL
10STATE7783USUN MISSION CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR S/WCI
[...] (SBU) Mission clearance is requested for Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues Stephen Rapp and Foreign Service Officer Todd Anderson from February 1-5. The purpose is to hold meetings with United Nations Security Council Delegations and to partpicpate in the Residual Mechanism Expert Gro [...]
2010-01-26 19:54:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KJUS AF UN
10STATE7843BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 2: POST-SHIPMENT END-USE CHECK
[...] (U) This is an Action Request. See paragraph 4. 2. (U) The Department's Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance (PM/DTCC) requests Post's assistance in conducting a post-shipment check on licenses 050020587 for the export of riot control grenades to Guatemala. Post is requested to comp [...]
2010-01-26 21:30:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETTC KOMC GT
10STATE7936TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-27 01:16:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT
10STATE7952CWC: GUIDANCE FOR CONSULTATIONS ON SITUATIONS
[...] (U) The October 13-16, 2009 session of the Executive Council (EC-58) established a facilitation to develop guidelines ?for the security and destruction of chemical weapons(CW)that come into the possession and/or control of a State Party or States Parties in situations not foreseen by the conve [...]
2010-01-27 03:58:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM PREL CWC OPCW CBW
10STATE7953TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION
[...] (SBU) Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) continued her visit January 26 with meetings in the U.S. Embassy. (TF1/Interagency Conference Call) SEARCH AND RESCUE (SAR) ---------------------- 2. (U) Two heavy SAR teams (Fairfax and Los Angeles) will remain in Port-au-Prince through Januar [...]
2010-01-27 04:08:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT
10STATE8207LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (TBILISI 0042)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the Financial Investigative Training (FIT) course at MOIA Police Academy on the dates of January 25-February 5, 2010. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted th [...]
2010-01-27 15:40:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM SNAR GG
10STATE8275LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (BELGRADE 78)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the George C. Marshall Center (GCMC) Program for Security, Stability, Transition, and Reconstruction (SSTaR) 10-4, scheduled for March 16 - April 2, 2010 at Garmisch, [...]
2010-01-27 17:52:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM PREL SR
10STATE8281TFHA01: CORRECTED: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE
[...] (SBU) OAS Secretary General Insulza arrived in Port-au- Prince on January 26. SOUTHCOM will provide an overflight tour of Port-au-Prince January 27. (TF1/Interagency telcon) 2. (SBU) Ecuadorian President Correa is scheduled to arrive in Port-au-Prince January 28. (TF1/SOUTHCOM e-mail) [...]
2010-01-27 18:12:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA
10STATE8399LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (TIRANA 739)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the ICE REGIONAL TRAINING in TIRANA, ALBANIA from 2/10/2010 to 2/12/2010. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the individuals listed in reftel and possesses [...]
2010-01-27 19:45:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC MARR MASS PGOV PHUM AL
10STATE8412LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (BUCHAREST 00016)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the "Program for Security, Stability, Transition, and Reconstruction", 16 Mar-2 Apr 2010, Garmisch, Germany. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the indivi [...]
2010-01-27 20:09:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PINR MASS MARR RO
10STATE8490GUIDANCE -- WORKING WITH RUSSIA ON OSCE TRAINING
[...] (SBU) Washington welcomes continued engagement with Russia on potential OSCE police training projects that would benefit Afghanistan, with an emphasis on border security and counter-narcotics. 2. (SBU) In close consultation with the Russian delegation, USOSCE should work with the OSCE Secre [...]
2010-01-27 22:23:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL OSCE RS AF
10STATE8521TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION REPORT
[...] (SBU) OAS Secretary General Insulza departed Port-au- Prince for Miami. (TF1/Embassy Port-au-Prince e-mail) 2. (SBU) Ecuadorian President Correa delayed his travel to Port-au-Prince until January 29. (TF1/SOUTHCOM e-mail) 3. (SBU) Erik Fresen (R) and David Rivera (R),members of the [...]
2010-01-28 01:19:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA
10STATE8629TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION
[...] (U) No updates at this time. SEARCH AND RESCUE (SAR) ----------------------- 2. (U) A French team rescued a 16-year-old girl in Port-au-Prince January 27. (washingtonpost.com) COMMODITY FLOW -------------- 3. (SBU) $20 million of Haitian funds held at the U.S. Federal Res [...]
2010-01-28 12:37:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT
10STATE8654HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR U.S SPONSORED TRAINING
[...] (U) The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the members of the Iraqi Security Forces listed below. Note that if, at any time, the Embassy becomes aware of any information regarding incidents [...]
2010-01-28 13:56:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM MASS IZ
10STATE8655HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR U.S SPONSORED TRAINING
[...] (U) The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the members of the Iraqi Ministry of Interior listed below. Department strongly suggests that visa applications for these individuals be filed with [...]
2010-01-28 13:57:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM MASS IZ
10STATE8656HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR U.S SPONSORED ENGLISH
[...] (U) The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the member of the Iraqi Security Forces listed below. Department strongly suggests that a visa application for this individual be filed with as much [...]
2010-01-28 13:58:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM MASS IZ
10STATE8658HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR U.S SPONSORED TRAINING
[...] (U) The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the members of the Iraqi Security Forces listed below. Department strongly suggests that visa applications for these individuals be filed with as m [...]
2010-01-28 13:59:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM MASS IZ
10STATE8739LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (TIRANA 737)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN CONFERENCE ON COUNTERTERRORISM AND BORDER SECURITY in ANKARA, TURKEY from 2/9/2010 to 2/12/2010. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vett [...]
2010-01-28 15:15:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC MARR MASS PGOV PHUM AL
10STATE8764LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (BELGRADE 92)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the ICITAP Anticorruption Workshop scheduled for February 8-12, 2010 in Vrnjacka Banja, Serbia. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the individuals listed i [...]
2010-01-28 15:34:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM PREL SR
10STATE8768LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (BELGRADE 76)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the George C. Marshall Center (GCMC) Program in Advanced Security Studies (PASS) 10-5, scheduled for March 26 - June 18, 2010 at Garmisch, Germany. 2. (SBU) The Dep [...]
2010-01-28 15:40:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM PREL SR
10STATE879HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING FOR U.S SPONSORED TRAINING
[...] (U) The Department has reviewed its files and finds that it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the member of the Iraqi Security Forces listed below. Department strongly suggests that a visa application for this individual be filed with as much [...]
2010-01-06 13:57:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYIZ PHUM MASS
10STATE8853MISSION CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR ANNE JOYCE L/EUR
[...] (SBU) Mission clearance is requested for Anne Joyce from the Office of the Legal Advisor to participate in the Residual Mechanism Expert Group Meetings hosted by the Permanent Mission of Canada to the United Nations on February 4 and 5, 2010. Mission POC is USUN/Legal: Mary McLeod 2. (SBU) No [...]
2010-01-28 17:53:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KJUS AF UN
10STATE8961LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (ANKARA 95)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidate nominated to attend the Decision Analysis Course at Ft. Lee, VA from 1 February to 14 February 2010. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the individual listed in reftel and pos [...]
2010-01-28 20:20:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR PGOV PREL TU
10STATE8978LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (ANKARA 95)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the Senior Enlisted Academy Course at Newport, RI from 17 February to 01 April 2010. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the individuals listed in reftel an [...]
2010-01-28 20:35:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR PGOV PREL TU
10STATE9108TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION REPORT
[...] (U) No updates at this time. SEARCH AND RESCUE (SAR) ---------------------- 2. (U) No updates at this time. COMMODITY FLOW -------------- 3. (SBU) CORRECTED ITEM: $20 million in Haitian funds held by HSBC are now scheduled to be delivered February 2 to the Central Bank of Hait [...]
2010-01-29 01:04:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA
10STATE9198TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION
[...] (SBU) ECUADORIAN PRESIDENT RAFAEL CORREA IS SCHEDULED TO VISIT JANUARY 29. (SOUTHCOM SITREP) SEARCH AND RESCUE (SAR) 2. No updates at this time. COMMODITY FLOW 3. No updates at this time. AMERICAN CITIZEN WELFARE/WHEREABOUTS/EVACUATIONS 4. (SBU) As of 0500 EST, 31 [...]
2010-01-29 11:52:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA
10STATE9410EGYPT LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE - 99423 THRU 99487
[...] (SBU) In response to reftel Leahy vetting request, the Department has reviewed its files and finds it possesses no credible information of gross violations of human rights at this time by the Egyptian officials listed below. Please note that if at any time the Embassy becomes aware of informa [...]
2010-01-29 17:03:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS PHUM PREL SNAR EG PM
10STATE9435BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECK
[...] This is an Action Request. See paragraphs 2-4. 2. The Department's Office of Defense Trade Controls Compliance (PM/DTCC) requests Post's assistance in conducting a pre-license check on license 050210579 for the export of International Traffic in Arms (ITAR)-controlled F-5 parts to Malaysia [...]
2010-01-29 17:54:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETTC KOMC MY
10STATE9499LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (PODGORICA 8)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the ICITAP Serbia and ICITAP Montenegro Anti-Corruption Training from February 8-12 in Vrnjacka Banja, Serbia. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the indi [...]
2010-01-29 20:01:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PHUM PREL MW
10STATE9503LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (PODGORICA 9)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the International Law Enforcement Academy located in Roswell, New Mexico from February 15 through March 12, 2010. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the i [...]
2010-01-29 20:14:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC PHUM PREL MW
10STATE9505RESPONSE TO KUWAIT LEAHY VETTING REQUEST (ALMULLA)
[...] (SBU) This cable responds to reftel Leahy vetting request for MAJOR GENERAL AHMAD Y. A. A. T. ALMULLA. The Department has reviewed its files and finds it possesses no credible derogatory information for the individual listed reftel as of 01/29/2010. Please note that if at any time the Emba [...]
2010-01-29 20:15:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL KU
10STATE9506RESPONSE TO KUWAIT LEAHY VETTING REQUEST (25TH
[...] (SBU) This cable responds to reftel Leahy vetting requests for the Kuwait 25th Commando Brigade and MOHAMMAD KH M ALKHADHER. The Department has reviewed its files and finds it possesses no credible derogatory information for the brigade and individual listed reftels as of 01/29/2010. Please [...]
2010-01-29 20:16:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM KU
10STATE9509DEMARCHE ON GREEK FSC FFT ON SMALL ARMS
[...] (U) This is an action cable. See para 3. 2. (U) Summary. Greece, as current Chair of the Forum for Security Cooperation (FSC) at the Organization for Security and Cooperation and Europe (OSCE),is promoting a food-for-thought paper (FSC.DEL/213/09) with suggested measures for an OSCE Plan [...]
2010-01-29 20:31:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOSCE PARM PREL GR
10STATE9653KUDOS TO EMBASSY PRAGUE
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-29 23:54:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAPER AMGT EZ
10STATE9667TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION REPORT
[...] (SBU) Ecuadoran President Correa arrived in Port-au- Prince January 29. (AFP) SEARCH AND RESCUE (SAR) ----------------------- 2. (SBU) As of January 29, USAID will re-deploy to Haiti a small rapid-response SAR team comprised of staff from the Los Angeles and Fairfax County SAR units. ( [...]
2010-01-30 01:30:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA
10STATE9756TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION
[...] (SBU) Congressman Cassidy (R-LA) will arrive January 30 in the Dominican Republic. He will visit Good Samaritan Hospital in Jimani on the Dominican side of the Haiti-DR border, which is treating 40 Haitian patients. (TF1/H e-mail) SEARCH AND RESCUE (SAR) ---------------------- 2. (SBU [...]
2010-01-30 15:57:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA
10STATE9774TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION REPORT
[...] (SBU) Former Haitian Minister of Culture Danielle St. Lot expressed interest in an expedited visa to visit Washington for meetings and a possible Senate Foreign Relations Committee appearance. (TF1/Embassy Port-au- Prince/Office of Senator Nelson e-mail) SEARCH AND RESCUE (SAR) --- [...]
2010-01-31 01:54:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA
10STATE9801TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE
[...] (SBU) No updates at this time. SEARCH AND RESCUE (SAR) ---------------------- 2. (SBU) No updates at this time. COMMODITY FLOW -------------- 3. (SBU) Nine of 16 UN World Food Program distribution points will be open in Port-au-Prince January 31 from 0900 until 1400 or until su [...]
2010-01-31 16:33:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR
10STATE9814TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION REPORT
[...] (SBU) No updates at this time. SEARCH AND RESCUE (SAR) ---------------------- 2. (SBU) No updates at this time. COMMODITY FLOW -------------- 3. (SBU) Lead NGOs completed food distribution at nine of the 16 WFP distribution points without incident January 31. The other seven [...]
2010-02-01 02:29:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA
10STATE9852TFHA01: HAITI EARTHQUAKE TASK FORCE SITUATION REPORT
[...] (SBU) No updates at this time. SEARCH AND RESCUE (SAR) ----------------------- 2. (SBU) A contingent of 15 Fairfax and LA Country SAR staff remain on standby in Port-au-Prince. (TF1/Interagency Conference Call) 3. (SBU) The remains of one Dutch and one Canadian citizen were recovered [...]
2010-02-01 13:17:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL PINR AMGT HA
10STATE9906LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (PRISTINA 13)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the Export Control and Related Border Security (EXBS) Terrorism and Proliferation of WMD course from February 01 through 04, 2010. 2. (SBU) The Department of State [...]
2010-02-01 15:02:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KV
10STATE9907LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (PRISTINA 553)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the (ICITAP)/Community Safety Action Teams Training (CSATT) scheduled for February 8 till March 31, 2010. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the individua [...]
2010-02-01 15:03:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM KV
10STATE9926LEAHY VETTING RESPONSE (BUCHAREST 00773)
[...] (U) This cable responds to the action request in reftel requesting human rights vetting for the candidates nominated to attend the "Seminar on Transatlantic Civil Security", 2-24 Feb 2010", Garmisch, Germany. 2. (SBU) The Department of State has vetted the individuals listed in reftel and p [...]
2010-02-01 15:42:00Secretary of StateUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PINR MASS MARR RO
10STOCKHOLM10 SWEDEN WILL PUSH OTHERS TO ASSOCIATE WITH THE COPENHAGEN
[...] (SBU) Post used REF A to follow up on the DCM's January 11 meeting (REF B) with Lars-Erik Liljelund, Prime Minister Reinfeldt's Special Envoy for Climate Change. Liljelund assured us that Sweden and the EU will also strongly encourage other countries to associate to the Copenhagen Accord. Lilj [...]
2010-01-13 13:30:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKGHG PREL SENV SW
10STOCKHOLM18SWEDISH RESPONSE: UN 1267 (AL-QAIDA/TALIBAN)
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-15 14:00:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN PREL PTER SW
10STOCKHOLM36Swedish Views on Climate Change Post-Copenhagen
[...] (SBU) Summary: Sweden has been encouraging the BASIC countries to inscribe their commitments to the Copenhagen Accord by January 31. Although he is concerned about Chinese back-tracking on verification, Sweden's Climate Ambassador welcomes news he heard that the BASIC countries agreed to sub [...]
2010-01-26 06:05:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKGHG SENV PREL PGOV ENRG SW
10STOCKHOLM58SWEDES UNWILLING TO PRESENT POSITION ON CITES
[...] (SBU) Marie Dahlstrom, Desk Officer, Division for Natural Resources, the Swedish Ministry of the Environment, told Emboff on February 11 that Sweden would not reveal its position on any of the U.S. species proposals prior to the CITES COP15 meeting, citing EU membership as the reason. Dahlstro [...]
2010-02-12 06:37:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKSCA SENV AORC ECON SW
10STOCKHOLM64SWEDISH RELIEF EXPERTS PRAISE U.S. EFFORTS IN HAITI
[...] (SBU) Summary: On February 8, the Ambassador met with Swedish relief effort experts from government, academia, and civil society to discuss coordination of assistance efforts in Haiti. The Swedes are currently the sixth or seventh largest international donor to emergency relief efforts in Hai [...]
2010-02-12 08:40:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR EAID ECON PGOV PREL PREF HA SW
10SURABAYA11EAST JAVA MUDFLOW UPDATE: REDUCED VOLUME OF MUDFLOW AIDS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Concerns that the 2006 Sidoarjo mud volcano would quickly engulf the entire regency have proven unfounded. Reduced volume of mudflow aided efforts to contain the area affected. Initial bank restrictions on loans to Sidaorjo businesses and residences threatened the overall econo [...]
2010-01-28 09:47:00Consulate SurabayaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EPET EINV SENV ENRG PGOV MCC KMCA ID
10SURABAYA12EAST JAVA ISLAMIC SCHOOL LAUNCHES RADIO STATION WITH
[...] (SBU) Summary: An East Java pesantren (religious boarding school) launched a local radio station designed to support Islamic teaching and values drawing on programming relayed directly from Al-Ahqhof University in Yemen. The Rector and Indonesian alumni of Al-Ahqhof University attended the st [...]
2010-02-02 09:44:00Consulate SurabayaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PTER SOCI ECPS YM ID
10SURABAYA7MIXED REACTIONS IN EASTERN INDONESIA TOWARD ASEAN/CHINA FTA
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Political and business leaders in Eastern Indonesia have mixed views of the impact that the recently implemented ASEAN/China FTA will have on local economies. Some express concern that the FTA will allow cheap Chinese goods to flood local markets. Others express optimism that [...]
2010-01-21 09:17:00Consulate SurabayaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EAID PGOV SOCI KMCA MCC ID
10TAIPEI17 Taiwan IPR: Campus Enforcement Improves, MOE Action Plan
[...] (SBU) The Taiwan Ministry of Education (MOE) will indefinitely continue its Campus Intellectual Property (IP) Action Plan. The Plan's requirements and incentives are spurring schools to increase enforcement efforts, and the MOE is helping schools to implement best practices across Taiwan. Rig [...]
2010-01-06 09:06:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON KIPR ETRD PGOV TW
10TAIPEI178 Taiwan IPR: 2010 301 Watch List Submission
[...] (SBU) The Taiwan authorities continued to strengthen intellectual property rights (IPR) enforcement over the past 12 months. The specialized IP Court, which began accepting cases in July 2008, adjudicated 1007 cases in 2009. The Legislative Yuan (LY) passed ISP-related amendments to the Copyri [...]
2010-02-22 10:00:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD KIPR TW
10TAIPEI68 Taiwan Biotech: 2010 Outreach Proposals
[...] (U) This is an action request for EEB/TPP/ABT. See paragraphs 6, 7, and 12. Background ---------- 2. (SBU) Taiwan is the U.S.'s sixth-largest agricultural export market. In 2009, the United States exported more than USD 3.2 billion of agricultural, fish and forest products to Taiwan, h [...]
2010-01-15 07:41:00American Institute Taiwan, TaipeiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR ETRD KPAO OEXC OIIP SENV TBIO TW
10TALLINN24EMBASSY HELPS TO REVIVE HIV PREVENTION IN ESTONIAN SCHOOLS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Despite having the highest HIV infection rate in Europe, Estonia's Ministry of Education and Research (MOER) has not made education on HIV prevention a priority in recent years. In order to draw attention to this issue and help educators share best practices on HIV education, Emb [...]
2010-01-12 15:00:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSOCI EAID KHIV TBIO EN
10TALLINN72Estonia: Submission for Tenth Annual Trafficking in Persons
[...] (U) The following is Embassy Tallinn's Anti-Trafficking Report for Estonia. Responses are keyed to the checklist in REF A. Post's points of contact on Trafficking in Persons (TIP) are Political Officer Johnathan Hilton (Email: HiltonJA@state.gov; Tel: +372-668-8291) and Political Assistant Rii [...]
2010-02-12 11:45:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB KTIP KMCA PGOV PHUM EN
10TALLINN82Estonia Hopes E.O. 13382 Designations Do Not Further Worsen
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-25 15:18:00Embassy TallinnUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMNUC KNNP EFIN PREL PARM IR EN
10TASHKENT100UZBEK PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS: FINAL WRAP-UP
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After the second round of parliamentary elections took place in 39 constituencies on January 10, Uzbekistan's Liberal-Democratic Party emerged with over 35% of the seats in the Lower House of Parliament, the Oliy Majlis. Relative party percentages remain almost unchanged [...]
2010-01-25 09:26:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM KDEM UZ
10TASHKENT148Uzbekistan: Leahy Vetting Request for GOU MVD Forensic
[...] This is an action request. Please see paragraph three. 2. Post is inviting representatives of the Uzbekistan Forensic laboratories to attend the American Academy of Forensic Sciences meeting that will be held in Seattle, Washington, from Feb 22-27, 2010. 3. Action request: Post [...]
2010-01-28 05:46:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL SNAR UZ
10TASHKENT150Uzbekistan: Leahy Vetting Request for Participants in the
[...] This is an action request. Please see paragraph four. 2. Post has been provided with the names of two GOU officials nominated to participate in the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS) Comprehensive Crisis Management course (CCM) on February 18 - March 19, 2010 in Honolulu, [...]
2010-01-28 05:47:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL SNAR ASEC UZ
10TASHKENT154UZBEKISTAN: REMITTANCES DOWN, BUT NOT AS MUCH AS EXPECTED
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Initial estimates from Western Union and other sources indicate that the picture surrounding remittances to Uzbekistan from citizens working abroad in 2009 remains mixed. Official remittances to Uzbekistan (e.g., remittances processed through the formal banking system) weak [...]
2010-01-28 09:48:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN SOCI UZ
10TASHKENT160UZBEKISTAN: SLOW APPROACH TO COPENHAGEN ACCORD
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Overall, Uzbekistan supports the Copenhagen Accord but doubts it can meet the January 31 deadline for notification of its wish to associate itself with the Accord. Uzbekistan's position is that it must finalize its nationally appropriate mitigation actions prior to official asso [...]
2010-01-29 11:58:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KGHG ENRG TSPL SENV UZ
10TASHKENT242UZBEKISTAN: FOOD FOR PROGRESS JOINT WORKING GROUP MEETING
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On February 9 the Regional Agricultural Counselor met with the Deputy Minister of Finance to review progress on projects implemented within the framework of Food for Progress (FFP). Although progress had been negligible over the 2006-09 period, it became apparent at this meetin [...]
2010-02-11 12:28:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR EAID ECON UZ
10TASHKENT29Uzbekistan: Feedback from the Embassy-hosted MLK Day
[...] (U) Summary: On January 19, Post used a reception at Ambassador Norland's residence to commemorate the life and work of Martin Luther King, Jr., and at the same time reach out to civil society and the human rights community regarding the Secretary's December 14 Georgetown message. Parti [...]
2010-01-21 11:43:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM PGOV KPAO UZ
10TASHKENT37CORRECTED COPY: PUNCTUATION MALFUNCTION: UZBEK PARLIAMENTARY
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: After the second round of parliamentary elections took place in 39 constituencies on January 10, Uzbekistan's Liberal-Democratic Party emerged with over 35% of the seats in the Lower House of Parliament, the Oliy Majlis. Relative party percentages remain almost unchanged from the [...]
2010-01-25 12:53:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM KDEM UZ
10TASHKENT54Uzbekistan: Positive Signals on IPR
[...] (SBU) Summary: A reliable contact responsible for Intellectual Property (IPR) issues in the Cabinet of Ministers of Uzbekistan reported on January 11 that the Uzbek Copyright Agency (UCA) plans to introduce a draft law on removal of Uzbekistan's reservation to Article 18 of Bern Convention in [...]
2010-01-13 06:42:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINT KIPR UZ
10TASHKENT59Uzbekistan: Response to DOL Request for Information on Child
[...] (U) Per Ref A request, post provides the following update on child labor and forced labor in Uzbekistan. TASKING 1/TVPRA ------------------------- 2. (U) Per instructions that post should only report on the use of child labor and forced labor during the production of [...]
2010-02-02 11:35:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM ELAB PGOV UZ
10TASHKENT69Uzbekistan: Urgent Leahy Vetting Request for GOU
[...] This is an request. Please see paragraph four. 2. Post has been provided with the name of one GOU official nominated to participate in the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS) Comprehensive Crisis Management Course (CCM) on February 18 - March 19, 2010, in Honol [...]
2010-02-12 10:54:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM PGOV SNAR ASEC UZ
10TASHKENT7Uzbekistan: Fiscal Transparency
[...] (SBU) Uzbekistan took a major step towards budget transparency at the beginning of this year (2010) when the state budget was posted on an official internet site. The site is a reference for all laws and regulations passed by the parliament (Oliy Majlis) and, by the standards of Uzbekistan, re [...]
2010-01-11 13:12:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PGOV ECON PREL UZ
10TASHKENT87UZBEKISTAN: SPECIAL 301 REVIEW RECOMMENDATION (2010)
[...] (U) SUMMARY. The GOU's interagency working group charged with drafting new IPR legislation and implementing IPR reform made rapid progress in 2009. A measure to remove Uzbekistan's caveat to Article 18 of the Berne Convention has passed Uzbek interagency review and can be expected to be intro [...]
2010-02-22 11:28:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON KIPR UZ
10TASHKENT9Uzbekistan: Strengthening Laws On Child Labor
[...] (U) Summary: At the end of December, President Karimov strengthened Uzbekistan's legal framework against child labor by signing into law amendments that increase penalties on public officials for using child labor, impose penalties on private individuals using child labor, and do away wi [...]
2010-01-14 05:56:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM ELAB PGOV UN KTIP UZ
10TASHKENT92FORENSIC SCIENCE IN UZBEKISTAN: THE SUBTLE APPROACH TO
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The Forensic Laboratory Improvement Project sponsored by the State Department Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs (INL),with assistance from the Department of Justice International Criminal Investigative Training and Assistance Program (ICITAP),cont [...]
2010-01-20 09:51:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID SNAR ASEC KCRM UZ
10TASHKENT97Uzbekistan: Submission for 10th Annual Trafficking in
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-25 09:11:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM ELAB PGOV KTIP KMCA UZ
10TASHKENT99Uzbekistan: Follow up on DOL Request for Information on
[...] (U) Post submitted its response to DOL's request for information on child labor and forced labor in Ref A. DOL requested follow up information in Ref B regarding the use of adult labor in the production of goods, pursuant to Task 1 under the TVPRA. 2. (U) Adult forced labo [...]
2010-02-26 10:24:00Embassy TashkentUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM ELAB PGOV UZ
10TBILISI155GEORGIA WELCOMES THE SECRETARY'S SPEECH ON
[...] (SBU) Government and non-governmental figures alike welcomed the Secretary's 29 January speech on European security. President Saakashvili's spokeswoman on 30 January noted that the remarks demonstrated Washington's support for Georgia. He welcomed the "unambiguous position and support" from [...]
2010-02-03 15:15:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV GG
10TBILISI177GEORGIAN OFFICIALS HOPE FOR CONTINUED FRIENDSHIP
[...] (SBU) Summary. Georgian government responses to the apparent election of Victor Yanukovych in Ukraine has been generally positive, with all following President Saakashvili's lead in congratulating the Ukrainian people for their well-run election. Additionally, officials from Saakashvili to t [...]
2010-02-10 14:47:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV UP GG
10TBILISI198GEORGIA: INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT FOR 2010
[...] Per reftel, below is Embassy TbilisiQs Investment Climate Statement for submission for 2009. Introduction Since 2004,, the Georgian Government has undertaken an ambitious program to modernize and liberalize its economy. Institutional reforms include restructuring and downsizing governmen [...]
2010-02-17 07:25:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV
10TBILISI199GEORGIA: SENATORS MCCAIN, THUNE AND BARRASSO INVESTIGATE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Senators John McCain (R-AZ),John Thune (R-SD) and John Barrasso (R-WY) met January 10-11 in the Black Sea resort city of Batumi with President Saakashvili and other members of the GoG as well as opposition representatives. They also traveled to Zugdidi near the administrative [...]
2010-02-17 08:41:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL GG
10TBILISI20 GEORGIA: CHARTER FLIGHTS TO RUSSIA SET TO RESUME JANUARY
[...] (SBU) Summary: Private airline Georgian Airways (formerly Airzena) is scheduled to initiate charter flights to Moscow and St. Petersburg on January 8, 9, and 10. Russia ended direct flights as a part of its embargo against Georgia in October 2006. The new temporary routes will be the first [...]
2010-01-06 05:43:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ECON EAIR ECIN RR GG
10TBILISI201GEORGIA: 2009 WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR REPORT
[...] Summary: Child labor is uncommon in Georgia because of societal norms, legal prohibitions against it and high unemployment has resulted in a large pool of adult workers willing to work for low wages. There have been no reported cases of forced child labor or exploitive child labor. While ch [...]
2010-02-17 11:04:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI USAID
10TBILISI206OPIC FINANCING: BETSY'S HOTEL PROJECT
[...] Summary: In response to reftel, Post's inquiry into Betsy's Hotel revealed no negative information that would impede issuance of OPIC credit to the company. End Summary. 2. Betsy's is a boutique hotel overlooking the center of Tbilisi. The hotel has been functioning successfully for about [...]
2010-02-18 14:29:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV EFIN GG
10TBILISI55GEORGIA: 2009 COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM
[...] (U) BEGIN TEXT. GEORGIA In 2009, Georgia continued to support U.S. efforts in the fight against terrorism, increasing its role by providing a battalion of Georgian soldiers, approximately 750 troops, to be trained by the U.S. in preparation for a spring 2010 deployment as part of the I [...]
2010-01-14 14:20:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER ASEC GG
10TBILISI98GEORGIA: OUTREACH ON LONDON CONFERENCE ON
[...] (SBU) We delivered reftel talking points to officials in the Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, America Department on January 25, 2010. We also inquired about whether Georgia expected to make any announcements at the London conference. MFA officials were not aware of any planned announceme [...]
2010-01-27 12:18:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV ECON EFIN AF GG
10TBILISI99GEORGIA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON DISTRACTED DRIVING
[...] (SBU) We delivered reftel points on 25 January 2010 to the Georgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Americas Department, and noted our request for additional information on the status of Georgian laws and experiences related to text messaging while driving. MFA officials assured us that they wo [...]
2010-01-27 12:19:00Embassy TbilisiUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYACTION ECON EU SOCI UNDP UNGA GG
10TEGUCIGALPA106POLITICAL AMNESTY DECREE APPROVED
[...] (U) Summary: The National Congress on January 26 passed a decree granting amnesty to those who committed the political crimes of treason, crimes against the form of government, terrorism, and sedition between January 1, 2008 and January 27, 2010. It also provides amnesty for the following com [...]
2010-02-01 22:47:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV SOCI KJUS KCOR HO
10TEGUCIGALPA110EEB A/S FERNANDEZ AND LOBO TEAM DISCUSS ECONOMIC
[...] (SBU) Summary: Assistant Secretary for Economic, Energy, and Business Affairs Jose Fernandez met with members of the new Honduran government's economic team on January 26, the day before the inauguration of President Lobo. Among the participants were William Chong Wong, who was subsequently [...]
2010-02-02 21:59:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ETRD EAGR PGOV PREL HO US
10TEGUCIGALPA116AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH THE PRESIDENT OF CONGRESS
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador met on February 1 with President of Congress Juan Orlando Hernandez, who was accompanied by several members of the congress' executive board and other congressional leaders. The Ambassador told Hernandez that it is important for the members of Honduras' politica [...]
2010-02-03 23:39:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM HO
10TEGUCIGALPA120CRIMINAL COURT DISMISSES CHARGES AGAINST MILITARY
[...] (U) Summary: According to press reports, the President of the Honduran Supreme Court, Jorge Rivera, acting as a criminal court judge, dismissed the charges of abuse of authority and illegal expatriation lodged against the Honduran Armed Forces Joint Chiefs of Staff on January 6. The press rep [...]
2010-02-04 23:24:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM KJUS MARR PREL HO
10TEGUCIGALPA121NEW FINANCE MINISTER FACES BLEAK ECONOMIC REALITY
[...] (SBU) Summary: In the new government's first public remarks on the economy following the January 27 inauguration of Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo as president of Honduras, the newly appointed Minister of Finance, William Chong Wong, presented a bleak picture of the economic situation, calling the nat [...]
2010-02-04 23:31:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PGOV PREL EINV ETRD ENRG SOCI HO
10TEGUCIGALPA13NEGOTIATIONS BEGIN ON MINIMUM WAGE
[...] (U) Summary: A tripartite commission of public, private, and labor sector representatives has begun discussions on raising the minimum wage, attempting to find a compromise between widely diverging demands. Any wage hike will be a strain on both public and private employers, since the minim [...]
2010-01-08 18:40:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EIND ELAB HO
10TEGUCIGALPA137SCENESETTER FOR CODEL LEMIEUX
[...] (SBU) Embassy Tegucigalpa warmly welcomes the February 15-16 visit of Codel Lemieux. Your visit comes at a historic moment. President Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo assumed office on January 27, 2010 as the chief executive elected with the greatest number of votes in Honduran history. The United Sta [...]
2010-02-11 23:04:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP PGOV PREL PHUM ASEC CASC ECON EAID MARR
10TEGUCIGALPA151SCENESETTER FOR CODEL DODD
[...] (SBU) Embassy Tegucigalpa warmly welcomes the February 15-16 visit of Codel Dodd. Your visit comes at a historic moment. President Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo assumed office on January 27, 2010 as the chief executive elected with the greatest number of votes in Honduran history. The United States [...]
2010-02-18 23:07:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP PGOV PREL PHUM ASEC CASC ECON EAID MARR
10TEGUCIGALPA163GOLDSTONE FOLLOW-UP ACTION
[...] (SBU) Poloff delivered demarche in reftel on February 23 to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Vice Minister Mireya Aguero Corrales. Corrales was only appointed to this position four days ago and the government of President Porfirio Lobo only took office on January 27. Corrales said she would follow [...]
2010-02-24 00:46:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYIO PHUM UNGA HO
10TEGUCIGALPA164AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH MINISTER OF LABOR
[...] (SBU) Summary: Secretary of State of Labor and Social Security Felicito Avila told the Ambassador during a February 22 courtesy call that the Lobo government needs to have a holistic view of the labor situation that provides assurances to both workers and businessmen. Avila said his role is [...]
2010-02-24 00:59:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ELAB ECON PHUM PREL HO
10TEGUCIGALPA165AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH MINISTER OF THE
[...] (SBU) Summary: In an introductory meeting with the new Minister of the Presidency, Maria Antonieta Bogran, the Ambassador said that the U.S. was committed to renewing assistance to Honduras, but in a way that takes a new look at development and investment, rather than return to business as us [...]
2010-02-24 01:13:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON EFIN EINV ENRG ETRD PGOV HO
10TEGUCIGALPA168LEAHY VETTING REQUEST FOR FBI PROGRAM CALEE, MARCH
[...] (SBU) Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidate to attend training in 2010, pursuant to The Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act. Post has completed its own vetting and found no credible evidence of gross violations of Human Rights. Both are police offic [...]
2010-02-24 20:12:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV KPKO HO
10TEGUCIGALPA170LEAHY VETTING REQUEST FOR CORRECTIONAL OFFICER
[...] (SBU) Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates to attend training March 8 to April 23, 2010, pursuant to The Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act. Post has completed its own vetting and found no credible evidence of gross violations of Human Rights. All [...]
2010-02-24 20:35:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV KPKO HO
10TEGUCIGALPA171LEAHY VETTING REQUEST FOR ANTI-GANG JUSTICE SECTOR
[...] (SBU) Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates to attend training in 2010, pursuant to The Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act. Post has completed its own vetting and found no credible evidence of gross violations of Human Rights. 2. (SBU) Names of [...]
2010-02-24 20:38:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV KPKO HO
10TEGUCIGALPA175Leahy Vetting Request for Jungle Commando Course, March 15 -
[...] (SBU) Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates to attend training March 15 to July 18, 2010, pursuant to The Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act. Post has completed its own vetting and found no credible evidence of gross violations of Human Rights. Bot [...]
2010-02-25 18:13:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL HO
10TEGUCIGALPA179Leahy Vetting Request for Central American Intelligence
[...] (SBU) Post requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidate to attend Central American Intelligence Program (CAIP) training in Guatemala March 8 to 26, 2010, pursuant to The Leahy Act and Foreign Assistance Act. Post has completed its own vetting and found no credible [...]
2010-02-26 00:10:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV KPKO HO
10TEGUCIGALPA181Lobo Commits Honduras to Protection of Human Rights
[...] (SBU) Summary. President Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo signed the Chapultepec Declaration on press freedom in Tegucigalpa on February 18 and committed the Honduran government to support freedom of the press and human rights. Lobo's government abrogated on February 16 a disarmament decree enacted by th [...]
2010-02-26 23:11:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM PHUM HO
10TEGUCIGALPA183Resistance Movement Demonstration
[...] (SBU) Summary: The anti-coup "resistance" movement held a peaceful demonstration on February 25 in Tegucigalpa in which about 10,000 protestors participated. The demonstrators tried to march to the Executive Building and, when they found the street leading there blocked by security forces, wen [...]
2010-02-26 23:36:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV SOCI PREL HO
10TEGUCIGALPA35CONGRESS SHELVES AMNESTY DECREE AND PULLS HONDURAS
[...] (SBU) Summary: With less than two weeks remaining before its term ends on January 21, the Congress on January 12 did not, as expected, take up for discussion a draft decree providing political amnesty to all actors in Honduras' political crisis. The likely motivation was the opposition to the [...]
2010-01-13 23:41:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KJUS KDEM HO
10TEGUCIGALPA41MODERNIZATION OF HONDURAN PRISONS CONTINUES POST-COUP
[...] (U) Summary: Under the de facto regime which came to power following the June 28, 2009 coup d'etat, implementation of the Ministry of Security's pre-coup prisons reform plan, while delayed, has continued. GOH-funded construction of an administrative segregation annex nicknamed "The Maquila" at [...]
2010-01-15 14:00:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR KCRM KJUS EAID PREL HO
10TEGUCIGALPA51MICHELETTI SAYS HE WON'T STEP DOWN BEFORE
[...] (U) Summary. Supporters of de facto regime leader Roberto Micheletti have been staging ceremonies in recent days to honor Micheletti. The largest was a January 18 rally organized by the pro-regime civil society organization Civic Democratic Union (UCD). During the speech he delivered at the [...]
2010-01-19 21:44:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL SOCI KDEM HO
10TEGUCIGALPA56HONDURAS: RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR FY 2010 FISCAL
[...] (U) The following is Post's responses to questions in ref A. 2. (U) Is the central government expected to receive funding under the FY 2010 SFOAA? --Yes. The central government is expected to receive funding under the FY 2010 Department of State Foreign Operations and Related Progra [...]
2010-01-21 21:52:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EAID AID PREL ECON HO
10TEGUCIGALPA58NATIONAL CONGRESS CHOOSES PROVISIONAL EXECUTIVE
[...] (U) Summary: The members of the National Congress elected in the November 29, 2009 election met on January 21 and elected by a show of hands Juan Orlando Hernandez of president-elect Lobo's National party as their President. Hernandez along with Reinaldo Sanchez as Vice President and Gladys Au [...]
2010-01-22 14:14:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM HO
10TEGUCIGALPA59MICHELETTI ANNOUNCES LEAVE OF ABSENCE
[...] (SBU) Summary. De facto regime leader Roberto Micheletti announced on January 21 that he would take a leave of absence from his public duties effective immediately. Micheletti said his decision was prompted by his concern for the good of the country. He said he wanted to avoid standing in the [...]
2010-01-22 16:02:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM CVIS HO
10TEGUCIGALPA66SCENESETTER FOR USG DELEGATION TO PRESIDENTIAL
[...] (SBU) We warmly welcome you and the delegation to Tegucigalpa January 26-27 to attend the January 27 inaugural ceremonies of the newly-elected Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo. The inauguration is an historical event, bringing back democratic and constitutional rule after a seven-month hiatus. The comi [...]
2010-01-26 01:27:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM ASEC CASC ECON EAID MARR KCRM
10TEGUCIGALPA7SUGAR ASSOCIATION SEEKS CHANGE IN U.S. SUGAR QUOTA
[...] (U) Summary: In a meeting with economic officers, a representative of the Honduran Sugar Producers Association expressed deep concern over a recent reduction of import quotas by USTR, and said that the association will seek to correct data from the Honduran de facto government that was used [...]
2010-01-07 20:14:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAGR ENRG ETRD HO
10TEGUCIGALPA73LABOR MONITORING AND ENGAGEMENT IN HONDURAS
[...] (U) Honduran President Jose Manuel "Mel" Zelaya was removed from power in a coup d'etat on June 28, 2009. The United States does not recognize the de facto regime that subsequently took over. As a result, it has not been possible for the Embassy to engage in high-level advocacy on labor issu [...]
2010-01-26 18:27:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB ECON ETRD PGOV HO
10TEGUCIGALPA88INAGURATION OF PRESIDENT LOBO AND DEPARTURE OF
[...] (U) Summary: President Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo was sworn in on January 27 in Tegucigalpa. During his inaugural address, President Lobo thanked the US and others for their help during the political crisis and paused during his speech to sign an amnesty law that had been passed by Congress late on [...]
2010-01-28 01:22:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM PREL PHUM HO
10TEGUCIGALPA92PRESIDENT LOBO URGES NATIONAL RECONCILIATION AND
[...] (U) Summary: The speech delivered by President Porfirio Lobo at his January 27 inauguration focused on national reconciliation and Honduras' reintegration into the community of nations. He pledged to implement the Tegucigalpa-San Jose Accord and to quickly establish the truth commission calle [...]
2010-01-29 00:54:00Embassy TegucigalpaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL SOCI HO
10TELAVIV137KADIMA'S INTERNAL SQUABBLES CONTINUE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Kadima party's leadership wrangling continued in mid-January, with little hope for near-term resolution. Kadima members met on January 21 to discuss an effort by former Defense Minister and Kadima second-in-command Shaul Mofaz to move leadership primaries up to mid-2010. [...]
2010-01-22 12:47:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV IS
10TELAVIV140IN DEPTH: DEAD SEA COSMETICS AND SKINCARE INDUSTRY FRAUD
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-25 05:37:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCVIS ASEC KFRD KCRM CMGT PINR IS
10TELAVIV192Israel's COP-15 Accord Commitment
[...] (SBU) Post communicated demarche on COP-15 Accord commitments (reftel) to Israel's Foreign Ministry (International Organization Department)on January 14, and later to Environmental Protection Ministry (MEP). MEP International Relations office noted that the GOI was still organizing itself to b [...]
2010-01-27 11:51:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ENRG KGHG IS
10TELAVIV194JEDG MIDTERM REVEIW - ISRAEL ON TARGET FOR FY2010 LOAN
[...] (SBU) At the December 15 mid-term review of the U.S.-Israel Joint Economic Development Group (JEDG) held in Jerusalem, the GoI clearly demonstrated that it is meeting, and may well surpass, the calendar year 2009 conditionality required to release the FY2010 tranche of loan guarantees. The G [...]
2010-01-27 11:58:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PGOV ELAB IS
10TELAVIV218PREPARATIONS FOR THE NUCLEAR SECURITY SUMMIT THIRD
[...] (SBU) Per reftel, emboffs discussed with Dutch DCM Roelof Buffinga on January 27 preparations for the February 9-11 Nuclear Security Summit Sherpa meeting in The Hague. Buffinga noted that the Dutch embassy had received reftel demarche a week earlier. Given conflicting schedules, he asked to [...]
2010-01-29 14:01:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM EAID TBIO IAEA NPT AORC CDG ENRG MNUC
10TELAVIV327 Israel Strengthens Science and Tech Strategy
[...] (U) Summary. The confluence of several different GOI initiatives indicate that the government is reassessing its industrial policy. Broadening Israel's R&D strength beyond the high-tech IT and communications sectors is the objective, with energy, life sciences, water and cleantech sectors bein [...]
2010-02-12 07:50:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV TBIO TSPL ETRD IS
10TELAVIV338MOFAZ AND LIVNI DO BATTLE AHEAD OF "DECISIVE"
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Kadima infighting continues ahead of the Kadima Council meeting scheduled for February 24 that is to consider a proposal to move party leadership primaries up from the scheduled date of 2013 to some time in 2010. Former Defense Minister and party number two Shaul Mofaz reporte [...]
2010-02-16 05:50:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV IS
10TELAVIV386JORDAN/ISRAEL/QIZ QUARTERLY MEETING LOOKS FOR WAYS TO KEEP QIZ PRGRAM ACTIVE
[...] (U) Jordan and Israel held their uarterly Qualified Industrial Zones (QIZ) meetin in Jerusalem on February 4th to review the secod and third quarter of 2009. 26 companies were aproved to continue exporting under the QIZ program. Six companies did not meet the eight percent Israeli content req [...]
2010-02-18 15:12:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD IS JO
10TELAVIV391NASA Administrator Visits Israel
[...] (U) Summary. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden visited Israel January 23-28 to present the keynote speech at the Fifth Ilan Ramon International Space Conference, to commemorate the legacy of Israel's first astronaut, and to meet with senior Israeli government officials to discuss opportunities [...]
2010-02-19 10:48:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTSPA ETRD PREL IS
10TELAVIV434D/Sec Lew Discusses Assistance Cooperation with MFA and
[...] (SBU) Summary: Deputy Secretary Jacob J. Lew met February 21 with Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon, and separately with MFA Director General Yossi Gal and MASHAV (Israel's foreign aid agency) head Haim Divon to discuss bilateral cooperation in development assistance and Israel's OECD access [...]
2010-02-24 07:38:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID EINV PREL OECD UNESCO IS PA
10TELAVIV457MINISTRY OF FINANCE PROPOSES TWO-YEAR BUDGET AND
[...] (U) Summary: In a press release dated February 22, the Ministry of Finance announced its intention to propose another two-year budget (2011-2012) and a new fiscal rule to the government in the coming days. The proposals have been agreed to by the Prime Minister and will be presented to the [...]
2010-02-26 14:55:00Embassy Tel AvivUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN IS
10THEHAGUE107CWC: WRAP-UP FOR THE WEEK ENDING FEBRUARY 19, 2010
[...] (SBU) As preparations advanced for the Executive Council meeting (EC-59) February 22-26 (reftel),facilitators held informal consultations on Article XI and the Report on the Status of Implementation of the External Auditor's Recommendations. The Western European and Others Group (WEOG) held [...]
2010-02-19 17:25:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM PREL AORC OPCW CWC
10THEHAGUE29CWC: WRAP-UP FOR WEEK ENDING JANUARY 15, 2010
[...] (U) This includes an action request: see para 12. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) As delegations return to The Hague from the long holidays, work at the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) is picking up speed. The Western European and Others Group (WEOG) hel [...]
2010-01-15 16:19:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM PREL OPCW CWC
10THEHAGUE51CWC: WRAP-UP FOR THE WEEK OF JANUARY 22, 2009
[...] (SBU) The Executive Council (EC) Chairman's consultation January 21 on issues related to the final destruction deadline dominated the week's agenda as the first official meeting at the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in the new year. Delreps met with the Russian d [...]
2010-01-27 17:31:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM PREL KTIA OPCW CWC
10THEHAGUE87CWC: MEETING WITH ALGERIAN DELEGATION AND OPCW TO
[...] (U) On February 11, Delrep Landsman met at the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) with Algerian DCM Sid Al Branci and OPCW Technical Secretariat (TS) officials to discuss the proposed chemical terrorism conference in Algiers (refs A-C). TS officials present were Offi [...]
2010-02-12 13:07:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAL PARM PREL PTER CWC
10THEHAGUE88NETHERLANDS: LATEST DUTCH VIEWS ON THE U.S.-EU
[...] (U) On February 11, Econoffs delivered reftel points on the second stage of the U.S.-EU Air Transport Negotiations to Hans de Jong, Special Advisor and Chief Negotiator for aviation issues, and Janneke Kolk, Policy Advisor, at the Ministry of Transport, Public Works, and Water Management. De J [...]
2010-02-12 15:40:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR EUN KTIA IC NO NL
10THEHAGUE89SCENE SETTER FOR EC-59 AND WRAP-UP FOR THE WEEK
[...] (SBU) The attention of the Technical Secretariat (TS) of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and delegations turned this week to preparations for the Executive Council (EC-59) session of February 22-26. EC Chairman Lomonaco (Mexico) convened the advance consultation [...]
2010-02-12 16:15:00Embassy The HagueUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM PREL CWC
10TIJUANA14ANOTHER SERIES OF SHOOTING INCIDENTS NEAR US CONGEN TIJUANA
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND CG COMMENT: Tijuana's latest wave of violence (reftels) continues, with a number of fresh assassinations of individuals apparently tied to the two main organized crime cartels. The Baja Attorney General told CG on January 7 that there is no sign that the renewed intra-carte [...]
2010-01-08 01:02:00Consulate TijuanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC KCRM SNAR MX CASC PINS PTER
10TIJUANA15ANOTHER SERIES OF SHOOTING INCIDENTS NEAR US CONGEN TIJUANA
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND CG COMMENT: Tijuana's latest wave of violence (reftels) continues, with a number of fresh assassinations of individuals apparently tied to the two main organized crime cartels. The Baja Attorney General told CG on January 7 that there is no sign that the renewed intra-carte [...]
2010-01-08 01:02:00Consulate TijuanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC KCRM SNAR MX CASC PINS PTER
10TIJUANA16ANOTHER SERIES OF SHOOTING INCIDENTS NEAR US CONGEN TIJUANA
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND CG COMMENT: Tijuana's latest wave of violence (reftels) continues, with a number of fresh assassinations of individuals apparently tied to the two main organized crime cartels. The Baja Attorney General told CG on January 7 that there is no sign that the renewed intra-carte [...]
2010-01-08 01:03:00Consulate TijuanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC KCRM SNAR MX CASC PINS PTER
10TIJUANA35MAJOR DEVELOPMENT IN EFFORTS TO COMBAT CARTEL VIOLENCE:
[...] (SBU) Mexican authorities arrested Eduardo Teodoro GARCIA-Simental (alias `El Teo') in a residence in La Paz, Baja California, Mexico at approximately 0500 hours on 01/12/2010. The arrest resulted from a joint operation planned by DEA, U.S. Marshal Service, and local authorities, as well as SSP [...]
2010-01-12 18:04:00Consulate TijuanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC KCRM PINS SNAR MX CASC
10TIJUANA46EAC AMCONSULATE TIJUANA - EAC CONVENED TO DISCUSS `EL TEO
[...] (SBU) On January 12, 2010, Post's Emergency Action Committee (EAC) was convened to discuss that morning's arrest of Eduardo Teodoro GARCIA-Simental (alias `El Teo' La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico (REFTEL). EAC participants included CG, CONS, RSO, DEA, DHS-ICE, MGT, PAO, CLO, and ATF. [...]
2010-01-13 17:53:00Consulate TijuanaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC KCRM CASC PINS PTER SNAR MX
10TIRANA27ALBANIA - FLOODING UPDATE JANUARY 13
[...] (SBU) Over the last 24 hours flooding from both the Drin and Buna rivers in northern Albania receded slightly. Water levels in the three dams in the region improved. The level at Fierze, the largest dam, has receded to 290.2 meters (the maximum allowable level is 296m); at Koman it has recede [...]
2010-01-13 15:56:00Embassy TiranaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV EAID SENV SOCI PHUM AL
10TIRANA28 ALBANIA FLOOD DISASTER DECLARATION
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-13 16:01:00Embassy TiranaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV EAID SENV SOCI PHUM AL
10TIRANA33EXBS ALBANIA REPORTING CABLE FOR DECEMBER 2009
[...] (U) BROAD ITEMS OF INTEREST TO ADVISORS AND AGENCY MANAGERS --None. 2. (U) COMPLETED ACTIONS FOR THE REPORTING PERIOD See paragraphs 4 and 5 below discussing equipment and training. 3. (SBU) MEETINGS DURING REPORTING PERIOD --December 11: Maritime Advisor (MA) met with the newly ap [...]
2010-01-15 14:38:00Embassy TiranaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETTC MNUC PARM PREL KSTC KNNP AL
10TIRANA39A NEW YEAR'S BUDGET RESOLUTION
[...] (SBU) Summary: The GOA is set to take the unprecedented move of "freezing" seven percent of government spending for 2010 in response to lower than expected 2009 government revenues, a larger deficit and the economic crisis. This means that for revenues to match spending targets, there will nee [...]
2010-01-21 05:53:00Embassy TiranaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PRIL PGOV AL
10TIRANA44RFG: ALBANIA REQUESTS U.S. CO-SPONSOR DISARMAMENT
[...] (U) This is an action request. See para 2. 2. (SBU) Action request. Foreign Minister/Deputy Prime Minister Ilir Meta met with Ambassador on January 21 to formally request U.S. assistance in organizing and hosting a two-day regional minister-level conference in Tirana on disarmament and demi [...]
2010-01-22 08:05:00Embassy TiranaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PARM AL
10TIRANA6WIDESPREAD FLOODING IN NORTHERN ALBANIA
[...] (SBU) Summary: Albania continues to experience heavy flooding around the northern cities of Shkoder and Lezhe and the Drini River Delta. Media has reported that approximately 10,000 acres in the coastal floodplain are flooded. Initial reports from the GOA are that 870 houses have been destro [...]
2010-01-07 15:48:00Embassy TiranaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV EAID SENV SOCI PHUM AL
10TIRANA75WHITHER GERDEC?
[...] (U) Summary: Almost two years after the tragic accident at the Gerdec military facility that killed 26 and injured hundreds, and one year since the first criminal case began, no verdicts have yet been handed down, although several criminal and civil cases have been filed and are ongoing. While [...]
2010-02-03 11:53:00Embassy TiranaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KCOR PHUM AL
10TIRANA8UPDATE ON FLOODING IN NORTHERN ALBANIA
[...] (SBU) Summary: Over the weekend, flood waters in northern Albania receded slightly, although they remain at critical levels. Rain is forecast for the foreseeable future. To date, approximately 5,000 out of 11,000 affected people have been evacuated from affected areas in the flood plain aroun [...]
2010-01-11 16:11:00Embassy TiranaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV EAID SENV SOCI PHUM AL
10TIRANA81 CLOSURE OF NEWSPAPER TEMA SYMPTOMATIC OF POOR STATE OF
[...] (SBU) Summary: Mero Baze, the publisher of the small circulation daily "Tema", announced in a January 23 editorial that "Tema" was closing. Baze said that for over one year, the newspaper had made a valiant effort to survive after being evicted from its premises in 2008; however he said he can [...]
2010-02-09 15:47:00Embassy TiranaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL AL
10TIRANA85GOA APPROVES BENEFITS FOR TIP VICTIMS; PLEDGES MORE ASSISTANCE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Over the past three months, the GOA has launched several new initiatives in anti-TIP to accelerate the momentum it lost in the latter half of 2009 during the electoral campaign. Foremost among these initiatives are the GOA's decision that victims of trafficking are now eligible f [...]
2010-02-10 15:11:00Embassy TiranaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KTIP KWMN PGOV PREL AL KDMR
10TOKYO110JAPAN TO ASSOCIATE WITH COPENHAGEN ACCORD,
[...] (SBU) EMIN demarched Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) Director General for Global Issues Shinsuke Sugiyama on January 19, per Reftel. Sugiyama agreed wholeheartedly that getting the Copenhagen Accord up and running is the highest priority through January. He said the GOJ is in the midst o [...]
2010-01-19 22:49:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG KGHG SENV PREL JA
10TOKYO137Japan Hosts Sixth Asian Senior Talks on Non-Proliferation
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-22 01:34:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP PUNE PARM PREL JA
10TOKYO152DOE DEPUTY U/S AOKI DISCUSSIONS WITH GOJ ON
[...] (SBU) Summary. During meetings with DOE Deputy Under Secretary for Counterterrorism Steven Aoki January 20-22, GOJ officials discussed Japan's expected role at the Nuclear Security Summit, and reaffirmed their intent to expand bilateral cooperation on nuclear safeguards and security technolo [...]
2010-01-25 22:44:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP ENRG PTER ASEC JA
10TOKYO153Japan Hosts Sixth Asian Senior-Level Talks on
[...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: The government of Japan hosted the sixth meeting of the Asian Senior-Level Talks on Non-Proliferation (ASTOP) December 11, 2009. Sixteen countries from the Asia-Pacific region and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) were represented. The U.S. delegation [...]
2010-01-25 23:38:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP PUNE PARM PREL ETTC JA
10TOKYO170POSTAL REFORM: MIC MINISTER HARAGUCHI WELCOMES
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) Kazuhiro Haraguchi said he was aware of USG and industry concerns regarding postal reform in response to DCM's delivery of RefA points on January 27. Minister Haraguchi also offered to meet with U.S. industry representati [...]
2010-01-27 08:20:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PGOV JA
10TOKYO208DEMARCHE DELIVERED: PREPARING FOR THE NUCLEAR
[...] (U) This cable containes an action request, please see para 3. 2. (SBU) Econoff, accompanied by Netherlands Embassy First Secretary (Political) Nora Dessing, delivered the demarche contained in reftel to Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) International Nuclear Energy Cooperation Division [...]
2010-02-02 07:08:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM PREL KNNP JA
10TOKYO25JAPANESE GOVERNMENT PROJECTS 1.4 PERCENT REAL GDP
[...] (U) The Hatoyama Cabinet approved the GOJ's official economic forecast for FY10 (April 2010 to March 2011) on December 25. The official forecast, prepared by the Cabinet Office and used in the Ministry of Finance's revenue estimates for the FY10 initial budget, projects real GDP growth of 1.4 [...]
2010-01-06 04:23:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN JA
10TOKYO257MEGAPORTS: JAPAN SEEKS CLARIFICATION ON THIRD
[...] This is an action request. Please see paragraph 9. 2. (SBU) Summary: The USG should explain how it will use container information on third country cargo shipments scanned by the Megaports Initiative pilot project in Yokohama, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) and Ministry of Finance (M [...]
2010-02-08 22:57:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETTC EWWT ENRG ELTN ETRD JA
10TOKYO280JAPAN'S RESPONSE TO U.S. CITES PROPOSALS
[...] Econoff delivered points on terrestrial proposals contained in ref to Ministry of Environment Nature Conservation Bureau Senior Assistant Director Keiji Nakashima February 2 and points on marine proposals to Fisheries Agency of Japan Ecosystems Conservation Office Assistant Director Hideki Mo [...]
2010-02-10 07:43:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KSCA CITES AORC UNEP JP
10TOKYO282GOJ PRESENTS ITS OUTLINE ON POSTAL REFORM
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Senior Vice Minister (SVM) Kouhei Ohtsuka of the Financial Services Agency (FSA) met with the DCM on February 8, to give an advance briefing of the release of the Government's outline on postal reform. The release of the outline begins a one-month dialogue among coalition part [...]
2010-02-10 09:01:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PGOV JA
10TOKYO284SCENESETTER FOR SENATOR WEBB'S FEBRUARY 14-17
[...] (SBU) Begin Text of Scenesetter: Dear Senator Webb: Welcome to Japan, a nation in transition. The Democratic Party of Japan's (DPJ) landslide victory in last year's August 30 Lower House election has dramatically altered Japan's political landscape, marking the end of the former ruling L [...]
2010-02-12 06:56:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV EFIN ECON MARR JA
10TOKYO290JAPAN RESPONSE: FORCE GENERATION ISSUES TO
[...] (U) Ministry of Foreign Affairs International Peace Cooperation Division Deputy Director Fumio Yamazaki confirmed the Japan Self Defense Force deployment in support of MINUSTAH is proceeding as described in reftel. An initial contingent of around 190 advance personnel departed Japan February [...]
2010-02-15 23:25:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV SOCI MCAP MARR
10TOKYO317MINISTER HARAGUCHI RAISES POSTAL REFORM WITH
[...] (SBU) In a wide-ranging meeting with the Ambassador, Minister for Internal Affairs and Communications Kazuhiro Haraguchi said the Japan Post group companies need freedom of management in the face of losses and decreasing deposits. He said the organization would be reorganized from three to fi [...]
2010-02-18 03:25:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PGOV JA
10TOKYO319JAPAN HOPES TOYOTA'S ILLS DO NOT DAMAGE BILATERAL
[...] (SBU) Summary: The GOJ does not want Toyota's recent problems to damage the U.S.-Japan relationship, Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) Minister Seiji Maehara told the Ambassador February 10. Minister Maehara met the Ambassador to discuss Toyota's safety recalls [...]
2010-02-18 04:20:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEIND ETRD SENV PREL WTRO ENRG JA
10TOKYO328RESPONSE FOR BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: POST-SHIPMENT
[...] (SBU) Post submits the following information in response to reftel inquiry. On January 20, Econoff conducted a site visit and met with Mr. Tsuneo TAKEDA, President of Sky Trading Co., Ltd. Takeda produced documentation (Japan Ministry of Defense (MOD) receipts) to verify the following eight [...]
2010-02-19 07:44:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETTC KOMC JA
10TOKYO336 CODEL WEBB HEARS JAPANESE VIEWS ON ALLIANCE AND
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Senator Webb listened to Japanese views on the importance of the U.S.-Japan Alliance and the Futenma relocation issue during meetings with GOJ officials February 15 in Tokyo. Foreign Minister Okada, Defense Minister Kitazawa, Cabinet and Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) officials [...]
2010-02-22 01:40:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV CASC KOCI MARR JA CH BM
10TOKYO338AMBASSADOR MARANTIS SEEKS GREATER TRADE AND
[...] (SBU) Summary: Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Demetrios Marantis called on senior Government of Japan (GOJ) political and career-level counterparts to work closely and quickly with the USG to prevent protracted trade irritants related to beef, autos, and Japan Post privatization from becom [...]
2010-02-22 06:02:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EAGR EINV APEC PREL JA
10TOKYO342JAPANESE REVISIONS TO G8 NONPROLIFERATION
[...] (SBU) Japan has offered a set of revisions to the draft G8 Foreign Ministers' Statement recently proposed by Canada at the G8 Nonproliferation Director's Group. Japan thinks the text is a good start but is too general and needs to be sharpened, including by making more specific references to [...]
2010-02-22 08:53:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM KNNP PUNE JA
10TOKYO365JAPAN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR S/R BOSWORTH + 2
[...] (U) Embassy warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to S/R Stephen Bosworth, Daniel Russel, and Jennifer Roque, for their February 26-27, 2010, visit to Tokyo, Japan. 2. (U) Control Officer for the visit will be Political Officer Jamie Roane. He can be reached at: Office phone: ( [...]
2010-02-24 07:30:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA AMGT KNNP PREL ASEC CN KN KS JA
10TOKYO382DEMARCHE DELIVERED: CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT (CD)
[...] (SBU) Econoff delivered the demarche contained in reftel to Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) Arms Control and Disarmament Deputy Director Shigeru Umetsu and his staffer Shoko Haruki February 22. Umetsu expressed interest in the proposed supplemental activities, but said MOFA would need som [...]
2010-02-25 08:20:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM MNUC KNNP PREL JA
10TOKYO389AUSTR CUTLER SHARES JAPAN POST CONCERNS WITH
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On February 24, Assistant United States Trade Representative (AUSTR) Wendy Cutler raised USG concerns with the GOJ's draft outline on postal reform legislation with Cabinet Office Senior Vice Minister for Financial Services and Postal Reform Kouhei Ohtsuka, a key architect beh [...]
2010-02-26 02:04:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PGOV JA
10TOKYO39HATOYAMA CABINET APPROVES FY2010 BUDGET
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Hatoyama Cabinet approved the central government's initial budget for FY2010 (April 2010 - March 2011) on December 25, clearing the way for its submission to the Diet. This is the first full budget formulated by the Hatoyama Administration since it came to power in September [...]
2010-01-07 07:58:00Embassy TokyoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN JA
10TORONTO18Ontario Moves Ahead With DRIC Construction Projects
[...] (SBU) Following the December 3, 2009 approval of the federal environmental assessment by the GOC, Ontario moved ahead with the province's portion of the Detroit River International Crossing (DRIC) that will expand the busiest trade corridor between the United States and Canada. On December 29, [...]
2010-01-11 18:29:00Consulate TorontoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD KHLS PGOV CA
10TORONTO38"LIFE SENTENCE" FOR "TORONTO 18" RINGLEADER PERMITS PAROLE
[...] (U) Summary. Canadian courts have sentenced one key participant in the "Toronto 18" terror plot to life imprisonment and another to twelve years, but they will be eligible for parole in 2016 and 2011, respectively, partly due to Canadian sentencing policies that give double credit for pretrial [...]
2010-01-19 16:42:00Consulate TorontoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER PINR PGOV CA
10TORONTO74Ontario Still Clarifying Domestic Content Rules for Feed-in
[...] (SBU) A senior Ontario official told Post on January 29 that the Province's trade and cooperation agreement with Quebec, signed in September 2009, falls short of granting Quebec domestic status in Ontario. Contrary to speculation, Quebec-based companies applying for Ontario's FIT program are r [...]
2010-02-01 19:15:00Consulate TorontoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ENRG SENV CA
10TORONTO90Ontario's Deadline to Eliminate Trash Shipments to Michigan
[...] (SBU) Summary: It is unclear whether Ontario will meet its 2006 commitment to phase out shipments of municipal trash to Michigan by the end of 2010 (reftel). The Province has yet to release up-to-date figures for the last two years, despite assurances that the effort is on track. As part of [...]
2010-02-08 21:36:00Consulate TorontoUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELTN SENV PGOV PREL CA US
10TRIPOLI135DEMARCHE DELIVERED: MOBILIZING PRESSURE TO PERSUADE IRAN'S
[...] (SBU) Pol/Econ Chief delivered ref demarche to MFA Director of the International Organizations Department, Mehdi al-Mjribi, on February 10. Mjribi reiterated Libya's support of nuclear non-proliferation initiatives and said that all nations should commit to the principles expressed within the [...]
2010-02-16 16:38:00Embassy TripoliUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM PREL IR UNSC LY
10TRIPOLI167LIBYA REQUESTS USG SUPPORT FOR FULL MTCR MEMBERSHIP
[...] (SBU) This is an action request; please see para 4. 2. (SBU) On February 15, 2010, the Embassy received a diplomatic note from the International Organizations Office at the General People's Committee for Foreign Liaison and International Cooperation (Ministry of Foreign Affairs equivalen [...]
2010-02-23 16:54:00Embassy TripoliUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MARR MCAP MNUC PARM LY
10TRIPOLI56LIBYA SENDS HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE TO HAITI
[...] (SBU) Pol/Econ Chief delivered reftel demarche to Waddat Sarrah of the Libyan MFA's Americas Department January 19, expressing appreciation for Libya's generous contribution of medical equipment and supplies, blankets, foodstuffs, and other relief materials, particularly since Libya does not ma [...]
2010-01-20 11:01:00Embassy TripoliUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON PGOV PREL PREF HA LY
10TRIPOLI6LIBYA: SECTION 565 WAIVER OF PROHIBITION AGAINST CONTRACTING
[...] (U) The Government of Libya (GOL) does not maintain diplomatic relations with Israel. Local firms are required by national law to comply with the Arab League (AL) boycott, and would therefore not be able to sign the required U.S. certification without exposing themselves to civil and/or crimi [...]
2010-01-05 16:12:00Embassy TripoliUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKBCT ABLD PHUM AL ECON AMGT ASUP AFIN LY
10TRIPOLI71WATCHING THE SECRETARY'S INTERNET FREEDOM SPEECH FROM
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy Tripoli assembled 40 prominent Libyan guests on January 21 to watch the Secretary's speech on Internet Freedom live over the Internet. Despite limited bandwidth, participants took part in a lively discussion covering a range of topics, such as government control of th [...]
2010-01-25 15:58:00Embassy TripoliUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKDEM KPAO OIIP PREL LY
10TRIPOLI72LIBYA REQUESTS FLIGHT CLEARANCE FOR RELIEF SUPPLIES TO
[...] (U) This is an action request; please see para 5. 2. (SBU) During a January 25 meeting with Pol/Econ chief, a representative of the Qadhafi International Charity and Development Foundation (QDF) requested immediate assistance to obtain flight clearances for a Libyan Boeing 747 plane, carryin [...]
2010-01-25 16:09:00Embassy TripoliUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PREF EAID ECON HA LY
10TUNIS103TUNISIA: MINISTER OF TOURISM SETS A DATE FOR OPEN
[...] (SBU) In a February 4 courtesy call, the Ambassador discussed Tunisia's tourism sector with Minister of Tourism Slim Tlatli. Tlatli reported that the Government of Tunisia (GOT) intends to sign an Open Skies agreement with the United States by November 2011. The Ambassador and the Minister a [...]
2010-02-09 16:08:00Embassy TunisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEIND EAIR PREL TS
10TUNIS116TUNISIA: UPDATE ON IMPLEMENTATION OF THE
[...] (U) This is an action message. Please see paragraphs four and five. ------------------- Science Envoy Visit ------------------- 2. (SBU) The Embassy continues to plan for the March 8-9 visit to Tunisia of U.S. Science Envoy Elias Zerhouni. Senior GOT officials have told the Ambassador [...]
2010-02-16 15:58:00Embassy TunisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON PREL TS
10TUNIS123TUNISIA: INPUT FOR THE 2010 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Neither the Tunis offices of the IOM, UNHCR, or UNICEF, nor any local or international NGOs working in Tunisia, identified any specific instances of trafficking during the reporitng period. End summary. 2. (SBU) This cable responds to questions posed by the Department in re [...]
2010-02-18 15:33:00Embassy TunisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB KTIP KCRM KFRD KWMN KMCA PHUM PREF SMIG
10TUNIS134TUNISIA: U.S. TRADE DELEGATION'S SUCCESSFUL VISIT
[...] (SBU) A U.S. business delegation of eight companies visited Tunisia February 14-16 before the Department of Commerce-led Executive Trade Mission to Algeria and Libya. Prominent U.S. firms, including Raytheon, Boeing, and Motorola, were among those in the group. The delegates met with minister [...]
2010-02-19 16:35:00Embassy TunisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRN EINV TS
10TUNIS137TUNISIA INCREASES FINES FOR DISTRACTED DRIVING
[...] (SBU) On February 19, Tunisian media reported that the Ministry of Interior had increased auto traffic fines for moving violations, including for speeding, driving without a safety belt, and using cell phones while driving. The fine for using a phone while driving increased from TD 20 (USD 14 [...]
2010-02-22 17:00:00Embassy TunisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON SOCI TS
10TUNIS144DEMARCHE TO TUNISIA ON LAKE UNICEF CANDIDACY
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-23 16:01:00Embassy TunisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID UNICEF TS
10TUNIS18FY 2010 BIOTECHNOLOGY OUTREACH FUNDS: TUNISIA PROPOSAL
[...] (SBU) Tunisia is at a crossroads on biotechnology policy. Tunisian policymakers are aware of the potential for biotechnology to address chronic problems such as crop disease, weeds, and irregularity of rainfall. A draft law currently under consideration would establish a legal framework for th [...]
2010-01-13 14:51:00Embassy TunisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAGR ETRD TBIO KPAO TS
10TUNIS20AMBASSADOR'S VISIT TO BIZERTE: ECONOMIC RESILIENCE
[...] (SBU) The Ambassador paid a courtesy call on an American auto components manufacturing plant, the president of a government-run business park, and business leaders in Bizerte on January 12. The discussions centered on the effects of the economic crisis, the state of foreign investment, and pe [...]
2010-01-13 17:27:00Embassy TunisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EINV ETRD TS
10TUNIS22NOBEL LAUREATE JOSEPH STIGLITZ OFFERS GRIM
[...] (SBU) During a visit hosted by the African Development Bank (AfDB),2001 Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz gave a speech and met with Tunisian policymakers. He offered a pessimistic view of the prospects for global economic recovery in 2010 and suggested that the global recession may last throug [...]
2010-01-14 08:48:00Embassy TunisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN XA TS
10TUNIS23ONE U.S. COMPANY'S INVESTMENT SHEDS LIGHT ON
[...] (SBU) Vistaprint, an American graphic design and printing company, inaugurated its offices in Tunis on January 13. Its investment is a textbook example of the kind of investment the GOT is seeking to target: a value-added, job-creating enterprise which can transfer technology and know-how to [...]
2010-01-14 16:15:00Embassy TunisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EINV ETRD TS
10TUNIS40MINISTER OF TRANSPORTATION ON OPEN SKIES, MARITIME
[...] (SBU) In a January 19 courtesy call by the Ambassador, Minister of Transportation Abderrahim Zouari confirmed Tunisia's willingness to negotiate an Open Skies Agreement, proposed signing a bilateral maritime cooperation agreement, and agreed in principle to host a port visit by the U.S. Coast [...]
2010-01-19 17:18:00Embassy TunisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAIR EFIN EINV ETRD TS
10TUNIS43TUNISIA: AMBASSADOR PUSHES CARTHAGE ON SCIENCE
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-20 16:46:00Embassy TunisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL TSPL TS
10TUNIS44TFHA01: TUNISIAN ASSISTANCE TO HAITI TO HAITI
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-20 17:18:00Embassy TunisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREL TU HA
10TUNIS45TFHA01: TUNISIAN ASSISTANCE TO HAITI UNLIKELY
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-20 17:26:00Embassy TunisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREL TU HA
10TUNIS46TFHA01: TUNISIAN MEDIA COVERAGE OF THE HUMANITARIAN CRISIS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Tunisian coverage of the Haitian earthquake and ensuing humanitarian crisis has been limited and essentially moderate in tone, with some coverage of international criticism of the U.S. government's response to the ongoing situation in Haiti. The Ambassador paid a call on the wel [...]
2010-01-20 17:30:00Embassy TunisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KPAO KDEM OIIP HA TU
10TUNIS53 SECRETARY'S SPEECH ON INTERNET FREEDOMS PROVOKES LIVELY
[...] (SBU) Summary: Secretary Clinton's January 22 speech on Internet freedom was well-regarded by Tunisian contacts, though it did not receive any coverage in the official press, given government oversight and censorship of Tunisian media. Discussions following Embassy-sponsored speech viewing pa [...]
2010-01-22 17:27:00Embassy TunisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KPAO KDEM OIIP TS
10TUNIS54TUNISIAN OFFICIALS APPARENTLY FLEXIBLE ON FULBRIGHT
[...] (SBU) Summary: The newly-appointed Minister of Higher Education and the Secretary of State for the Americas told NEA DAS Wittes (in separate meetings on January 21) that the GOT views the Fulbright program as being extremely important to Tunisia's development. We noted an apparent new willin [...]
2010-01-25 09:01:00Embassy TunisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KPAO OEXC SCUL TS
10TUNIS55SENIOR TUNISIANS ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
[...] (SBU) Summary: In January 21 meetings with the Minister of Communications, the Minister of Higher Education, and a senior MFA official, NEA DAS Wittes underlined the USG's interest in stepping up bilateral collaboration on science and technology, previewing the prospective March visit of Scie [...]
2010-01-25 10:08:00Embassy TunisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL SENV TSPL TS
10TUNIS64TFHA01: TUNISIA ANNOUNCES ONE MILLION DOLLARS IN
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-27 12:29:00Embassy TunisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREL TS HA
10TUNIS83TUNISIAN MINISTER OF INDUSTRY AND TECHNOLOGY ON
[...] (SBU) On January 28, the Ambassador called on Minister of Industry and Technology Mohamed Afif Chelbi, the minister also in charge of energy and small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Chelbi was enthusiastic about the forthcoming memorandum of understanding (MOU) between the U.S. Small Business [...]
2010-02-02 15:24:00Embassy TunisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EINV ETRD TS
10TUNIS97TUNISIA: CHILD LABOR AND FORCED LABOR REPORT
[...] (SBU) In 2009, there were no significant changes in the Government of Tunisia's efforts to combat the worst forms of child labor. The information on Tunisia in the Department of Labor's 2008 Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor remains accurate, to the best of Post's knowledge. UNICEF's [...]
2010-02-08 14:10:00Embassy TunisUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB EIND ETRD KTIP PHUM SOCI TS
10ULAANBAATAR152010 MONGOLIA INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-15 09:24:00Embassy UlaanbaatarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV KTTB MG OPIC USTR
10ULAANBAATAR162010 MONGOLIA INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-15 09:39:00Embassy UlaanbaatarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV KTTB MG OPIC USTR
10ULAANBAATAR172010 MONGOLIA INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-15 09:54:00Embassy UlaanbaatarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV KTTB MG OPIC USTR
10ULAANBAATAR272010 Mongolia Investment Climate Statement, Part 1 of 3
[...] As requested ref, post provides the 2010 Mongolia Investment Climate Statement. This cable, Part 1, contains sections A.1 through A.3. See septels for sections A.5-A.16. A.1 OPENNESS OF GOVERNMENT TO FOREIGN INVESTMENT In its specific policies, laws, and general attitude, the Government of [...]
2010-01-27 07:58:00Embassy UlaanbaatarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV ECON OPIC KTTB USTR MG
10ULAANBAATAR282010 Mongolia Investment Climate Statement, Part 2 of 3
[...] As requested ref, post provides the 2010 Mongolia Investment Climate Statement. This cable, Part 2, contains sections A.5 through A.9. See septels for sections A.1-A.4 and A.10-A.16. A.5 PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS AND INCENTIVES Mongolia imposes few performance requirements on, and offers few [...]
2010-01-27 08:10:00Embassy UlaanbaatarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV ECON OPIC KTTB USTR MG
10ULAANBAATAR292010 Mongolia Investment Climate Statement, Part 3 of 3
[...] As requested ref, post provides the 2010 Mongolia Investment Climate Statement. This cable, Part 3, contains sections A.10 through A.16. See septels for sections A.1-A.9 A.10 Competition from State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs) Mongolia passed and implemented a competition law applying to forei [...]
2010-01-27 08:17:00Embassy UlaanbaatarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV ECON OPIC KTTB USTR MG
10ULAANBAATAR36Consular Outreach Initiative in Mongolia Pays Off,
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A close review of consular statistics from Mongolia for the last three years suggests that post's Consular outreach efforts have achieved good results. The program, launched in 2008, helped shape a higher quality applicant pool, increased awareness about legal avenues for immig [...]
2010-02-05 08:01:00Embassy UlaanbaatarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCVIS CMGT KFRD OPRC XE MG
10ULAANBAATAR38Mongolia's Failed Uranium Mining Policy
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On February 1, 2010, Canadian uranium exploration company Khan Resources (KR) announced its intent to accept an offer from the Chinese National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) to buy controlling interest in KR through the purchase of shares. If consummated, CNNC's buyout would give [...]
2010-02-09 04:30:00Embassy UlaanbaatarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV PREL ETRD EMIN ENRG MG
10ULAANBAATAR55IRGC DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] (SBU) Post deliverd reftel demarche with non-paper on February 24 to A. Ariun, Attache of the International Organizations Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. She offered no substantive response but promised to read the document. HILL [...]
2010-02-25 03:20:00Embassy UlaanbaatarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP MNUC IR GM PREL PARM EFIN MG
10ULAANBAATAR61Competition for MPRP Chairmanship Intensifies; Coalition at
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Various members of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party (MPRP) Steering Council are pushing to set a date for a party conference where a new leader would be chosen to succeed the ailing S. Bayar. Bayar's prolonged illness and ongoing treatment in Seattle has put party work [...]
2010-02-26 08:24:00Embassy UlaanbaatarUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV MG
10UNESCOPARISFR148SERBIAN AMBASSADOR COURTESY CALL
[...] (SBU) Summary: Serbia's new ambassador to UNESCO, Dr. Zorica TOMIC, paid a courtesy call on Ambassador Killion today, 8 February, at the US Mission offices. Tomic wasted no time in hitting her number one issue, World Heritage sites in Kosovo, and asked that the United States support Serbian e [...]
2010-02-08 14:56:00Mission UNESCOUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL UNESCO YI
10UNESCOPARISFR226 FIRST MEETING WITH NEW ISRAELI AMBASSADOR TO UNESCO
[...] (SBU) Summary: Covering a wide range of subjects, Israel's new ambassador to UNESCO and the OECD, Nimrod BARKAN, said that his main goal at UNESCO is to integrate Israel into the organization by sharing its technical expertise, and keep it from being seen as a one issue country in connection [...]
2010-02-24 16:54:00Mission UNESCOUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL UNESCO IS
10UNESCOPARISFR231 ELECTORAL GROUP ONE MEETING RAISES THORNY ISSUES
[...] (SBU) Summary: The first Electoral Group I meeting of the year raised several issues that have the potential to complicate Director-General Bokova's agenda at UNESCO. Another unexpected problem for the U.S. also popped up with Turkey announcing its intention to run for the Executive Board. T [...]
2010-02-25 12:58:00Mission UNESCOUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL UNESCO IS
10UNROME1WORLD FOOD PROGRAM SOMALIA REFUGEE OUTFLOWS PIPELINE UPDATE
[...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) In response to reftel, between January 7 and 8, USUN-Rome contacted World Food Program (WFP) Deputy Executive Director (DED) Amir Abdulla to obtain the latest pipeline information on WFP Protracted Relief [...]
2010-01-08 17:40:00UN RomeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYWFP SO EAID EFIN UNHCR PREF
10UNROME10WORLD FOOD PROGRAM: SOMALIA OPERATIONS SITUATION UPDATE AS
[...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) On January 29, WFP reported to the Mission that: -- There were no security incidents reported against WFP staff or implementing partners during the January 25-29 period. -- WFP has no intention to res [...]
2010-01-29 16:59:00UN RomeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYWFP AORC EAID PREF UNHCR
10UNROME11NEW DEPUTY DIRECTOR GENERAL OF OPERATIONS AT FAO DESCRIBES
[...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified. Not for dissemination outside the USG. Summary ------- 2. (SBU) During an introductory meeting on January 29, FAO's new Deputy Director General (DDG) of Operations, He Changchui, described to the Ambassador his work priorities [...]
2010-02-01 17:26:00UN RomeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAGR ECON EAID FAO UN KBIO
10UNROME12WORLD FOOD PROGRAM: SOMALIA OPERATIONS SITUATION UPDATE AS
[...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) On February 2, WFP reported that artillery/mortar exchanges between militants and the TFG over the weekend in Mogadishu did not impact WFP operations as there was no shelling in the vicinity of the port w [...]
2010-02-02 18:21:00UN RomeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYWFP AORC EAID PREF UNHCR
10UNROME14INVESTING IN FOOD SECURITY: EXPERTS ADDRESS RESPONSIBLE
[...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified. Not for dissemination outside the U.S. Government. Summary ------- 2. (SBU) On January 24, the Swiss Development Corporation, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO),and the International Fund for Agricultural Investment ( [...]
2010-02-04 22:15:00UN RomeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR EAID EINV ECON ETRD PREL UN FAO
10UNROME18WORLD FOOD PROGRAM: SOMALIA OPERATIONS SITUATION UPDATE AS
[...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) WFP continues to express concerns over intensified fighting and shelling in Mogadishu. Although not targeted, WFP fears spillover into the port area where WFP is currently operating its feeding operation [...]
2010-02-16 17:46:00UN RomeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYWFP AORC EAID PREF UNHCR
10UNROME19USUN ROME CO-HOSTS HIGH LEVEL FOOD SECURITY EVENT ON HAITI
[...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified. Not for dissemination outside the U.S. Government. Summary ------- 2. (U) The U.S. Mission to the UN Agencies in Rome, joined by the Haitian and Brazilian Missions, co-hosted a high-level meeting `Supporting a Haitian-Led Food Security P [...]
2010-02-17 11:25:00UN RomeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYFAO IFAD WFP UN EAID EAGR PREL HA
10UNROME20COUNSELOR MILLS DISCUSSES NEXT STEPS IN GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY
[...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified. Not for dissemination outside the U.S. Government. Summary ------- 2. (SBU) On February 12, Cheryl Mills, Secretary Clinton's Chief of Staff and Counselor, discussed next steps on food security issues with key interlocutors on the margin [...]
2010-02-17 11:28:00UN RomeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYFAO IFAD WFP UN EAID EAGR PREL HA
10UNROME23HAITI: FEEDING HAITIANS: SEEDS FOR SUCCESS
[...] (SBU) Summary. Since the first days after the earthquake in Haiti, there has been concern - and considerable confusion - regarding the need for internationally sourced seed to meet the needs of the upcoming planting season. Haiti's Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Development [...]
2010-02-19 17:52:00UN RomeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYFAO IFAD WFP UN EAID EAGR HA BTIO
10UNROME26WORLD FOOD PROGRAM: SOMALIA OPERATIONS SITUATION UPDATE AS
[...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) On February 23, WFP disseminated its latest situation report. The text is pasted in its entirety below: BEGIN REPORT "WFP Somalia Operations Situation As of February 22, 2010 Summary Update -- W [...]
2010-02-23 17:52:00UN RomeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYWFP AORC EAID PREF
10UNROME28CHINA'S GROWING ROLE AT ROME-BASED UN FOOD AND AGRICULTURE
[...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified. Not for dissemination outside the U.S. Government. 2. (SBU) Summary: In response to Ref A request for information on China's emerging role in Africa, USUN Rome notes that in recent years China has increased its contribution to, and infl [...]
2010-02-26 12:48:00UN RomeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAGR EAID UN CH
10UNROME3WORLD FOOD PROGRAM SOUTHERN SOMLIA OPERATIONS UPDATE
[...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified. Please handle accordingly. --------------- Summary --------------- 2. (SBU) On January 12 the UN World Food Program presented an update on the current situation in southern Somalia to the Executive Board following WFP's partial suspen [...]
2010-01-13 19:35:00UN RomeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYWFP SO AORC EAID PREF EFIN UNHCR
10UNROME4FAO DEPUTY DIRECTOR GENERAL BRIEFS ON PRIORITY AREAS
[...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified. Not for dissemination outside the USG. Summary ------- 2. (SBU) The Deputy Director General (DDG) of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO),Jim Butler, told the DCM on January 13 that U.S. leadership on global food sec [...]
2010-01-19 16:42:00UN RomeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYFAO UN EAGR EAID PREL PTER
10UNROME5REFORMING THE FAO: THE ROLE FOR THE ROME CHAPTER OF THE
[...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified. Not for distribution outside U.S. Government channels. Summary ------- 2. (SBU) On January 14, the Mission co-hosted with UK counterparts a well-attended meeting of the Rome Chapter of the Geneva Group, and discussed ways to st [...]
2010-01-19 18:15:00UN RomeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYFAO UN EAID EAGR PREL
10UNROME6EGYPTIAN AMBASSASDOR MISREPRESENTS SUPPORT FOR U.S.
[...] (SBU) USUN Rome Ambassador Cousin sought clarification from Egyptian Ambassador Ashraf Rashed during a January 14 meeting regarding his misrepresentation of GOE intentions to support the official USG candidate, Thomas McInerney, in the election for Director General of the International Developm [...]
2010-01-21 12:28:00UN RomeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID ECON
10UNROME8WORLD FOOD PROGRAM: UPDATE ON CONTINGENCY PLANS FOR SOMALIA
[...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) USUN Rome contacted WFP to obtain an update on WFP's current operational plans and status of contingency planning efforts. (Separately, WFP disseminated to the WFP Executive Board its latest situation re [...]
2010-01-25 13:36:00UN RomeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSO
10UNROME9ROME AGENCIES WORKING ON VOLUNTARY "CODE OF CONDUCT" FOR
[...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified. Not for dissemination outside the USG. ----------- Summary and Action Request ----------- 2. (SBU) FAO senior staff are leading an effort, in close coordination with UNCTAD, the World Bank, IFAD, and others, to address issues r [...]
2010-01-28 10:32:00UN RomeUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR EAID ECON EINV PREL FAO
10UNVIEVIENNA11IAEA SAFEGUARDS: IAEA Request for Continued AFTAC Support
[...] (SBU) Mission received the letter below requesting continued AFTAC support at current contractual levels of 450 samples per year. 2. (SBU) ACTION REQUEST: Mission strongly recommends continued support for this critical safeguards mission and requests guidance for responding to IAEA. B [...]
2010-01-20 07:10:00UNVIEUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTRGY AORC KNNP MNUC IAEA
10UNVIEVIENNA17IAEA/PACT: Assessment of PACT's Function
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-22 16:34:00UNVIEUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO SOCI EAID KNNP AORC IAEA
10UNVIEVIENNA26IAEA's Budget Working Group Fulfills a Promise - But Little
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Budget Working Group (BWG) January 13-15 allowed a refreshingly non-polemical discussion on IAEA programs, but fell short of Geneva Group hopes to identify programs for emphasis or de-emphasis in the IAEA's 2011 budget. In contrast to Geneva Group readiness, the G-77 did no [...]
2010-02-01 14:45:00UNVIEUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAORC KNNP PREL IAEA UN
10UNVIEVIENNA34PROGRESS DELAYED TOWARD A REVIEW MECHANISM FOR ORGANIZED
[...] SUMMARY: INL DAS Elizabeth Verville chaired a two day expert meeting, hosted by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) from January 25-26, in order to resume discussions of possible mechanisms to review implementation of the UN Convention against Transnational Organized Crime (UNTOC). The ma [...]
2010-02-04 13:10:00UNVIEUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR KCOR KCRM PGOV UN BE CH CO AR PK PE RS MX
10UNVIEVIENNA35NEW CONSTELLATION POSES CHALLENGES FOR ADVANCING ANTI-CRIME
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Our partial success in negotiating a U.S.- backed review mechanism for an anticorruption convention last year has inspired a group of countries -- Russia, Iran, Algeria, China and Pakistan -- to coordinate more closely in Vienna at UN-related meetings on anti-crime and anti-drug [...]
2010-02-04 13:12:00UNVIEUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV UN AU KCRM KCOR RS CH PK EG AG SZ
10UNVIEVIENNA4IAEA MEMBER STATES REV UP FOR 2011 BUDGET NEGOTIATIONS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: With Member States preparing to tackle the open question of the IAEA's 2011 regular budget during the first meeting of the open Working Groug January 13-18, the U.S. will need to clarify soon our goals for the 2011 budget. The Budget Working Group (BWG),open to all Member Stat [...]
2010-01-04 15:39:00UNVIEUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAORC PREL KNNP IAEA UN
10UNVIEVIENNA49 IAEA/BOG: March Board Preview and Analysis
[...] (SBU) Although the March IAEA Board of Governors meeting is traditionally focused on nuclear safety and technology, Iran's nuclear brinksmanship and potential Syrian safeguards failures will likely dominate the debate. This is particularly true as the Board meeting, expected to run March 1-4, [...]
2010-02-12 07:52:00UNVIEUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAORC PARM KNNP IAEA ENRG TRGY
10UNVIEVIENNA61Anti-Human Trafficking Recommendations Reached, Russia,
[...] (U) The Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Working Group (WG) engaged in three days of often fruitful discussion and emerged with nearly fifty recommendations that will be forwarded to the Organized Crime Convention (UNTOC) Conference of the Parties (COP) in October 2010. The U.S. delegation (USDEL) [...]
2010-02-19 13:06:00UNVIEUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KWMN PREF SMIG KCRM KTIP UN RS CH PK MX AG IR
10USNATO54ACTION REQUEST: POSSIBLE AUTUMN 2010 NATO
[...] (SBU) This is an action request. Please see para 4. 2. (SBU) On February 2, Secretary General Rasmussen identified four tentative dates for possible foreign and/or defense ministerials this fall to be held in Brussels: -- Thursday, September 16; -- Thursday, September 23; -- Thursday, O [...]
2010-02-03 17:05:00Mission USNATOUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOVIP AORC PREL NATO
10USNATO69SCENESETTER FOR CODEL MCCASKILL
[...] (U) Welcome to Brussels, and to NATO! 2. (SBU) Your visit comes at an exciting time for NATO as Allies redouble our efforts to succeed operationally while working together to redefine NATO to meet the security challenges of the future. America is playing a key role, as we have in the past, [...]
2010-02-12 17:39:00Mission USNATOUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL NATO RS
10USOSCE10OSCE,S MEDITERRANEAN PARTNERSHIP LOOKS AHEAD TO
[...] (SBU) Summary: The OSCE,s annual Mediterranean Conference was held December 14-15 in Cairo, Egypt. All six Med Partners (Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia) attended and took an active part in discussions that focused on conflict prevention and resolution, trafficking in pers [...]
2010-01-15 15:19:00Mission USOSCEUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOSCE AG EG IS JO MO TS KMPI PREL KZ
10USOSCE11IS RUSSIA CRACKING OPEN THE DOOR ON OSCE TRAINING
[...] Summary: We could have an opportunity to advance cooperation with Russia through the OSCE in Central Asia and potentially open a crack in Russian opposition to OSCE training inside Afghanistan. In an unusually warm and persistent manner, Russian ambassador Anvar Azimov has requested a U.S. [...]
2010-01-19 18:10:00Mission USOSCEUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL OSCE RS AF
10USOSCE16CFE/JCG: 2010 WINTER OPENING-OF-ROUND, JAN 19 -
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-21 11:28:00Mission USOSCEUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCFE OSCE PARM PREL
10USOSCE17CFE/JCG: 2010 WINTER OPENING-OF-ROUND, JAN 19 -
[...] (U) Summary. The opening of round plenary for the winter session of the Joint Consultative Group (JCG) was brief. The United States underscored the importance of the CFE Treaty, called on Russia to resume compliance, and looked to 2010 with renewed hope, a sentiment echoed by several Allies an [...]
2010-01-21 12:29:00Mission USOSCEUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCFE OSCE PARM PREL
10USOSCE18FSC: JAN 20 OPENING WINTER SESSION--RUSSIA IS READY
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Winter Session of the FSC Plenary garnered general support for beginning the implementation of the main themes from the Issues Decision agreed at the Athens Ministerial: CSBMs including Vienna Document 1999 (VD99),Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW),Code of Conduct, and s [...]
2010-01-22 15:24:00Mission USOSCEUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCFE OSCE PARM PREL RS XG
10USOSCE19OPEN SKIES: 2010 OPENING PLENARY - AN EFFICIENT
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-27 06:55:00Mission USOSCEUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCFE OSCE PARM PREL
10USOSCE20 PROMOTING GREATER NATO/OSCE COORDINATION
[...] (U) Summary: Recent IPCs and discussions during the COM conference in Washington during January emphasized the need to promote greater coordination between NATO and the OSCE, especially in view of the Russian proposals for a European Security Treaty and for a treaty in the NRC. As NATO prep [...]
2010-01-28 10:11:00Mission USOSCEUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MARR OSCE NATO RS
10USOSCE26CFE/JCG: JAN 26 - JCG IS CONCLUDED IN RECORD SPEED
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-29 07:42:00Mission USOSCEUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCFE OSCE PARM PREL
10USOSCE28OSCE: 1/27 FSC RESPONSES TO RUSSIA ON
[...] (SBU) Summary: In response to Russia's insistence for clarification on why its proposed European Security Treaty (EST) cannot be discussed separately ("sectorally") from the Corfu Process or the human and economic dimensions, all interventions by participating States (pS) supported comprehens [...]
2010-01-29 18:28:00Mission USOSCEUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOSCE PARM PREL KCFE RS XG
10USOSCE33OSCE: 2/3 FSC HOLDS ROBUST DISCUSSION ON VIENNA
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Forum for Security Cooperation (FSC) received a presentation on one potential way ahead for the Vienna Document from alumnus Col Wolfgang Richter, currently with the German Institute for International and Security Affairs. Richter's presentation supported the currently tab [...]
2010-02-05 16:07:00Mission USOSCEUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOSCE PARM PREL KCFE RS XG
10USOSCE35MEDIA FREEDOM AT THE OSCE: EAST V. WEST CONTINUES
[...] (SBU) The state of Media Freedom in the OSCE region continues to be a hotly debated topic, particularly between the Russian Federation and the Central Asian States on one side and the U.S., EU and several like-minded delegations on the other. As the process to select the OSCE's next represent [...]
2010-02-09 14:04:00Mission USOSCEUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV OSCE PHUM PREL KHLS RS
10USOSCE38CFE/JCG: FEBRUARY 9 - A FRUSTRATED RUSSIA
[...] (SBU) Summary. At the Joint Consultative Group (JCG) meeting on February 9, Italy and the UK notified two new Russian CFE inspection rejections followed by statements of support by 13 Allies. A piqued Russia reiterated its stance. Allies held their ground against Russia's claims, rejected R [...]
2010-02-12 10:08:00Mission USOSCEUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCFE OSCE PARM PREL
10USOSCE39SUBJECT: OSCE: FEB. 10 FSC FOCUS ON SALW AND
[...] (SBU) Summary: This and next week's Forum on Security Cooperation focus on Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) in accordance with Ministerial Decision 15/09, which tasks the FSC to develop a Plan of Action by May 2010. Working Group "A" reviewed the Danish and UK proposals on improving the V [...]
2010-02-12 16:43:00Mission USOSCEUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOSCE PARM PREL KCFE RS XG
10USOSCE51CFE/JCG: FEBRUARY 16: GROUND HOG DAY AS A DOZEN
[...] (SBU) During the 16 February JCG, we saw our shadow, again. i.e., Statements were made regarding the refusal of CFE inspections by the Russian Federation, and multiple countries supported the complaints. In this case, the United States (Neighbour) and Turkey (Begec) made statements reporting [...]
2010-02-18 10:51:00Mission USOSCEUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCFE OSCE PARM PREL RO
10USOSCE57OSCE: FEBRUARY 17--FSC SALW AND VIENNA DOCUMENT
[...] (SBU) Summary: The FSC received presentations on Montenegro's demilitarization program from Deputy Defense Minister Rifet Kovacs and on the Wassenaar Arrangement from Chief of Secretariat Sune Danielsson. Kovacs received a mild rebuke from Denmark for Montenegro's lapses in keeping donors cu [...]
2010-02-22 06:57:00Mission USOSCEUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOSCE PARM PREL KCFE RS XG
10USOSCE60OPEN SKIES FEB 22: U.S.-DRAFTED RULES/PROCEDURES
[...] (SBU) Summary: The 22 February Open Skies Consultative Commission (OSCC) plenary approved the U.S.-drafted Decision on Rules of Procedure and Working Methods of the OSCC and its Informal Working Groups (OSCC.DD/3/10). The plenary was followed by a short Informal Working Group on Rules and Pr [...]
2010-02-23 13:30:00Mission USOSCEUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCFE OSCE PARM PREL
10USOSCE61OSCE WEEKLY HIGHLIGHTS: FEBRUARY 16 - 19, 2010
[...] (SBU) During the weekly EU coordination meeting February 17, Spanish Ambassador Betanzos Roig (representing the EU Presidency) said she understood Kazakhstan's consultations on the appointment of a new representative on freedom of the media (RFoM) would continue with Russian FM Lavrov's visit t [...]
2010-02-24 14:39:00Mission USOSCEUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOSCE PGOV PREL MARR KZ KG
10USOSCE68OSCE/FSC ON 2/24: DIFFERENCES OVER CODE OF
[...] (SBU) Summary: The February 24 Forum for Security Cooperation focused on the Code of Conduct, which drew out differences between U.S. and Russian approaches to dealing with conflict prevention and crisis management. It also underscored ambiguities within the Code and the tension between cons [...]
2010-02-26 15:52:00Mission USOSCEUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOSCE PARM PREL KCFE RS XG
10USTRGENEVA127th Working Party meeting on Yemen's Accession to the WTO
[...] The WTO Working Party on Yemen's accession met for its 7th session on January 26, 2010, chaired by Mr. Hartmut Roeben. Yemen's Minister of Industry and Trade, Dr. Yahya Y. Al-Mutwakel provided an opening statement on Yemen's efforts to accede to the WTO. He urged negotiating partners to show [...]
2010-02-05 16:39:00USMISSION USTR GENEVAUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON WTRO YM
10USUNNEWYORK11SRSG KAI EIDE BRIEFING AND UNAMA OPEN DEBATE
[...] (U) Summary: On January 6, the Security Council held a quarterly debate on the UN Assistance Mission for Afghanistan (UNAMA). SYG Ban, SRSG Eide and Afghan PermRep Tanin addressed the Council. Ban called Afghanistan an on-going "main priority" for the UN in 2010, and focused on the need to [...]
2010-01-12 13:41:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV NATO AF PK
10USUNNEWYORK115URUGUAYAN FINANCE MINISTER SAYS UN OFFICIALS
[...] (SBU) Uruguayan Minister of Economy and Finance Alvaro Garcia requested a meeting with Ambassador Wolff to express Uruguay's concern about the UN's late disbursements to Uruguayan peacekeepers. Garcia said Uruguay has been contributing to UN peacekeeping operations for years, regardless of th [...]
2010-02-26 23:23:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MARR UNSC UY
10USUNNEWYORK26SOMALIA: TERRORISM THREAT OF UNSTABLE SOMALIA;
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On January 14, UN Special Representative for Somalia Ould-Abdallah briefed the Security Council on the situation in Somalia. He focused on the terrorism threat posed by Somalia and urged the international community to boost financial support to both AMISOM and the TFG's securit [...]
2010-01-20 00:36:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV UNSC PTER MARR PHUM SO
10USUNNEWYORK38U.S. MISSION GRANTS CLEARANCE FOR U/S THOMAS A.
[...] (SBU) U.S. Mission grants clearance for Thomas A. Wuchte, U.S. 1540 Coordinator, to meet with USUN/POL and to assist visitors from the George Washington University Law School in facilitating GWU's offer of pro bono legal assistance for 1540 implementation. An additional meeting with the UN Offi [...]
2010-01-22 17:46:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA PREL ETTC PARM PGOV PTER UNSC
10USUNNEWYORK39COUNCIL DISCUSSES COTE D'IVOIRE ELECTIONS AND THE
[...] (SBU) UN Mission in Cote d'Ivoire (UNOCI) SRSG Choi told the Security Council in an open briefing on January 21 that challenges in implementing the "Ouagadougou IV" reunification plan could hamper the electoral process. Choi also said that the creation of a second electoral list by the Independ [...]
2010-01-22 23:23:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL UNSC XY IV LI UV
10USUNNEWYORK46U.S. MISSION GRANTS CLEARANCE FOR IO/UNP
[...] (SBU) U.S. Mission grants clearance for Andrew L. Morrison IO/UNP Multilateral Affairs Officer for consultations. These consultations will take place in New York on January 27, 2010. 2. (U) U.S. Mission POC is Political Adviser, Amy Schedlbauer, Tel: 212-415-4226, room 619, BB: 646-510-003 [...]
2010-01-26 16:52:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOTRA
10USUNNEWYORK53MINURCAT MANDATE RENEWAL -- CAUSE FOR CONCERN
[...] This is an action request, see paragraph 7. 2. (SBU) Summary: On January 25, the French mission held an informal meeting with Security Council experts and a Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) team prior to its January 26 trip to Chad to discuss the Government of Chad's (GoC) ob [...]
2010-01-29 14:26:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KPKO PREF UNSC CD CT SU
10USUNNEWYORK55UNSC: MIDDLE EAST OPEN DEBATE -- HEAVY CRITICISM
[...] (SBU) Summary: At the Security Council's January 27 Open Debate on the Middle East, Assistant Secretary-General Fernandez-Taranco noted the "worrying impasse" that persists in the region with the lack of progress on restarting negotiations and called for the Quartet to play a role. He voiced [...]
2010-01-29 23:20:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KPAL KWBG UNSC IS SY LE
10USUNNEWYORK59UNDP/UNFPA Executive Board 2010 First Regular Session
[...] (U) The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) is the flagship UN development agency with a billion-dollar annual operating budget, to which the United States contributes around $100 million yearly. UNDP works in over 130 countries, focusing on poverty, governance, environment/energy, cris [...]
2010-02-03 15:03:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYUNDP UNFPA EAID ECON
10USUNNEWYORK60UNICEF Executive Board 2010 First Regular Session
[...] (U) Summary: The UNICEF January 12-14 first regular session dealt with a light menu of routine items (budgeting and final approval of a few country programs),but took place against the backdrop of the Haiti earthquake disaster and Executive Director Ann Veneman's announcement that she would no [...]
2010-02-03 15:09:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYUNICEF EAID ECON TZ
10USUNNEWYORK61UNGA: SC REFORM: FOURTH ROUND ENDS; CHAIR TO
[...] (SBU) Summary: The informal plenary of the General Assembly met on January 19 and 20 for its second and final meeting of the fourth round of intergovernmental negotiations to discuss "areas of convergence." While the 52 delegations and one observer who spoke covered the subject of the meetin [...]
2010-02-03 15:12:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KUNR UNGA UNSC GE JA BR IN
10USUNNEWYORK77AMBASSADOR RAPP (S/SWCI) HOLDS MEETINGS IN NEW
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ambassador Stephen Rapp (S/WCI),held meetings in New York February 1, 2 and 5 to take the pulse of the P5, Austria, and Rwanda on the possibility of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) transferring cases to Rwanda's national judicial system where an internat [...]
2010-02-11 22:42:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYICTY PARM PREF PREL UNSC
10USUNNEWYORK89SECURITY COUNCIL LUNCH WITH SYG BAN: MINURCAT,
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a lunch hosted by the French Mission for Security Council members on February 12, Secretary General Ban discussed the future status of the UN Mission in Chad and the Central African Republic (MINURCAT),Cote D'Ivoire and Under-Secretary-General Lynn Pascoe's recent trip to [...]
2010-02-17 23:34:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREF PREL KPKO CD LY SU CT KN IV
10USUNNEWYORK94PEACEKEEPING: SECURITY COUNCIL CONSIDERS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. U/SYGs Le Roy and Malcorra told the Security Council in an informal briefing on February 17, that the need for strong Council unanimity of political support, the lack of adequate resources from TCCs/PCCs to match Council mandates, and the increasing complexity of modern peacekee [...]
2010-02-20 00:46:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM KPKO UNSC
10USUNNEWYORK97UNSC: MONTHLY MIDDLE EAST DISCUSSION - MEMBERS
[...] (SBU) Summary: UN Under Secretary-General for Political Affairs Pascoe briefed the Security Council during its monthly meeting on the Middle East on February 18. He emphasized that the two parties were seriously considering Special Envoy Mitchell's proposal to move to proximity talks and sai [...]
2010-02-22 19:49:00USUN New YorkUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KPAL KWBG UNSC IS LE SY
10VALLETTA67MALTA: 2009 END USE MONITORING REPORT
[...] In response to reftel, the following information is provided. 2. BACKGROUND A. EUM Program Coordinator: Pol-Econ-Commercial Chief Thomas A. Yeager, 356-2561-4167, yeagerta@state.gov, as an additional duty. B. Inventory System: No automated inventory system exists at post. C. Staff [...]
2010-02-01 17:23:00Embassy VallettaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR AFIN MT
10VALLETTA97MALTA: TENTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (TIP)
[...] (SBU) Responses are keyed to numbered/lettered reporting questions paragraphs of reftel: 25. (SBU) THE COUNTRY'S TIP SITUATION: -- A. What is (are) the source(s) of available information on human trafficking? What plans are in place (if any) to undertake further documentation of human [...]
2010-02-22 15:25:00Embassy VallettaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAP
10VANCOUVER102Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics: Situation Report #13
[...] (SBU) The following report provides security-related information for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games as of noon February 23, 2010. Please visit the following link for additional classified reporting: https://nol.nctc.sgov.gov/ng/cgi-bin/nctcHome .cgi?event=Vancouver_2 010. The intera [...]
2010-02-23 21:13:00Consulate VancouverUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC KOLY CASC CA PTER AMGT PINR OVIP
10VANCOUVER104Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics: Situation Report #14
[...] (SBU) The following report provides security-related information for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games as of noon February 24, 2010. Please visit the following link for additional classified reporting: https://nol.nctc.sgov.gov/ng/cgi-bin/nctcHome .cgi?event=Vancouver_2 010. The intera [...]
2010-02-24 22:52:00Consulate VancouverUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC KOLY CASC CA PTER AMGT PINR OVIP
10VANCOUVER106Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics: Situation Report #15
[...] (SBU) The following report provides security-related information for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games as of noon February 25, 2010. Please visit the following link for additional classified reporting: https://nol.nctc.sgov.gov/ng/cgi-bin/nctcHome .cgi?event=Vancouver_2 010. The intera [...]
2010-02-25 23:32:00Consulate VancouverUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC KOLY CASC CA PTER AMGT PINR OVIP
10VANCOUVER108Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics: Situation Report #16
[...] (SBU) The following report provides security-related information for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games as of noon February 26, 2010. Please visit the following link for additional classified reporting: https://nol.nctc.sgov.gov/ng/cgi-bin/nctcHome .cgi?event=Vancouver_2 010. The inte [...]
2010-02-26 22:39:00Consulate VancouverUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC KOLY CASC CA PTER AMGT PINR OVIP
10VANCOUVER114Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics: Situation Report #17
[...] (SBU) The following report provides security-related information for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games as of noon February 27, 2010. Please visit the following link for additional classified reporting: https://nol.nctc.sgov.gov/ng/cgi-bin/nctcHome .cgi?event=Vancouver_2 010. The [...]
2010-02-27 22:18:00Consulate VancouverUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC KOLY CASC CA PTER AMGT PINR OVIP
10VANCOUVER116Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics: Situation Report #18
[...] (SBU) This is the final report providing security-related information for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games as of noon February 28, 2010. Please visit the following link for additional classified reporting: https://nol.nctc.sgov.gov/ng/cgi-bin/nctcHome .cgi?event=Vancouver_2 010 [...]
2010-02-28 22:11:00Consulate VancouverUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC KOLY CASC CA PTER AMGT PINR OVIP
10VANCOUVER42AS BC POSITIONS TO BECOME A CLEAN ENERGY LEADER, CRITICAL
[...] Summary: Stakeholders in British Columbia's electricity sector are finally beginning to see some clarity in the BC government's approach to the procurement and possible export of electricity in the province. The independent regulator, the British Columbia Utilities Commission (BCUC),sent sho [...]
2010-01-26 22:31:00Consulate VancouverUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG ECON CA
10VANCOUVER62Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics: Situation Report #2
[...] (SBU) The following report provides security-related information for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games as of noon on February 12, 2010. Please visit the following link for additional classified reporting: https://nol.nctc.sgov.gov/ng/cgi-bin/nctcHome .cgi?event=Vancouver_2 010. The int [...]
2010-02-12 22:48:00Consulate VancouverUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC KOLY CASC CA PTER AMGT PINR OVIP
10VANCOUVER64Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics: Situation Report #3
[...] (SBU) The following report provides security-related information for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games as of noon on February 13, 2010. Please visit the following link for additional classified reporting: https://nol.nctc.sgov.gov/ng/cgi-bin/nctcHome .cgi?event=Vancouver_2 010. The [...]
2010-02-13 22:02:00Consulate VancouverUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC KOLY CASC CA PTER AMGT PINR OVIP
10VANCOUVER66Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics: Situation Report #4
[...] (SBU) The following report provides security-related information for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games as of noon on February 14, 2010. Please visit the following link for additional classified reporting: https://nol.nctc.sgov.gov/ng/cgi-bin/nctcHome .cgi?event=Vancouver_2 010. The [...]
2010-02-14 21:41:00Consulate VancouverUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC KOLY CASC CA PTER AMGT PINR OVIP
10VANCOUVER70Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics: Situation Report #5
[...] (SBU) The following report provides security-related information for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games as of noon on February 15, 2010. Please visit the following link for additional classified reporting: https://nol.nctc.sgov.gov/ng/cgi-bin/nctcHome .cgi?event=Vancouver_2 010. The int [...]
2010-02-15 22:33:00Consulate VancouverUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC KOLY CASC CA PTER AMGT PINR OVIP
10VANCOUVER76Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics: Situation Report #6
[...] (SBU) The following report provides security-related information for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games as of noon on February 16, 2010. Please visit the following link for additional classified reporting: https://nol.nctc.sgov.gov/ng/cgi-bin/nctcHome .cgi?event=Vancouver_2 010. The int [...]
2010-02-16 21:50:00Consulate VancouverUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC KOLY CASC CA PTER AMGT PINR OVIP
10VANCOUVER78Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics: Situation Report #7
[...] (SBU) The following report provides security-related information for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games as of noon on February 17, 2010. Please visit the following link for additional classified reporting: https://nol.nctc.sgov.gov/ng/cgi-bin/nctcHome .cgi?event=Vancouver_2 010. The int [...]
2010-02-17 22:28:00Consulate VancouverUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC KOLY CASC CA PTER AMGT PINR OVIP
10VANCOUVER80Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics: Situation Report #8
[...] (SBU) The following report provides security-related information for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games as of noon on February 18, 2010. Please visit the following link for additional classified reporting: https://nol.nctc.sgov.gov/ng/cgi-bin/nctcHome .cgi?event=Vancouver_2 010. The int [...]
2010-02-18 23:15:00Consulate VancouverUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC KOLY CASC CA PTER AMGT PINR OVIP
10VANCOUVER86Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics: Situation Report #9
[...] (SBU) The following report provides security-related information for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games as of noon on February 19, 2010. Please visit the following link for additional classified reporting: https://nol.nctc.sgov.gov/ng/cgi-bin/nctcHome .cgi?event=Vancouver_2 010. The int [...]
2010-02-19 22:42:00Consulate VancouverUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC KOLY CASC CA PTER AMGT PINR OVIP
10VANCOUVER88Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics: Situation Report #10
[...] (SBU) The following report provides security-related information for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games as of noon on February 20, 2010. Please visit the following link for additional classified reporting: https://nol.nctc.sgov.gov/ng/cgibin/nctcHome. cgi?event=Vancouver_20 10. The [...]
2010-02-20 21:38:00Consulate VancouverUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC KOLY CASC CA PTER AMGT PINR OVIP
10VANCOUVER90Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics: Situation Report #11
[...] (SBU) The following report provides security-related information for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games as of noon on February 21, 2010. Please visit the following link for additional classified reporting: https://nol.nctc.sgov.gov/ng/cgi-bin/nctcHome .cgi?event=Vancouver_2 010. The [...]
2010-02-21 21:33:00Consulate VancouverUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC KOLY CASC CA PTER AMGT PINR OVIP
10VANCOUVER96Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics: Situation Report #12
[...] (SBU) The following report provides security-related information for the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games as of noon on February 22, 2010. Please visit the following link for additional classified reporting: https://nol.nctc.sgov.gov/ng/cgi-bin/nctcHome .cgi?event=Vancouver_2 010. The int [...]
2010-02-22 22:07:00Consulate VancouverUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC KOLY CASC CA PTER AMGT PINR OVIP
10VATICAN10CATHOLIC CHARITIES ESTABLISH AID PLAN FOR HAITI; REPORTS ON
[...] (U) Caritas Internationalis, the Vatican-based federation of Caritas humanitarian assistance national chapters, is supporting Catholic Relief Services (Caritas USA) and Caritas Haiti response to the earthquake in Haiti. A Caritas Internationalis team is on the ground in PAP. Caritas is f [...]
2010-01-19 12:17:00Embassy VaticanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PHUM PGOV PREL PREF HA VT
10VATICAN21CATHOLIC CHURCH SEEKS INVITATION TO HAITI DONORS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Despite one bishop's mild criticism of the U.S. military's role in Haiti at a press conference in Rome -- later virtually retracted in a Caritas press release -- the Holy See and Catholic relief agencies greatly appreciate U.S. assistance to Haiti and urge the USG to remain eng [...]
2010-02-05 13:05:00Embassy VaticanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREL EAGR PGOV HA VT
10VATICAN31VATICAN-AFFILIATED CONFERENCE REVIEWS CHRISTIAN-MUSLIM
[...] (SBU) Summary: Political, academic and religious leaders from the Middle East presented their views on Christian-Muslim coexistence in the region at a conference organized by the Vatican-affiliated Community of Sant'Egidio on February 22 in Rome. The conference addressed, among other topics, [...]
2010-02-26 15:24:00Embassy VaticanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREF PREL KIRF IZ IS VT
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