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SECSTATE SECTOR SECURITY SEMAAN GABY EID SEN SENC SENG SENS SENU SENV SENVQGR SENVSPL SENVSXE SEP SERBIA SERZH SETTLEMENTS SEVN SEXP SF SFNV SG SGNV SGWI SH SHANNON SHI SHUM SI SILVASANDE SIMS SIPDI SIPDIS SIPR SIPRNET SIPRS SIUK SK SKCA SKEP SKI SKSAF SL SLM SLOVAK SM SMAR SMI SMIG SMIL SMIT SMITH SMRT SN SNA SNAP SNAR SNUC SO SOC SOCI SOCIA SOCIETY SOCIO SOCIS SOCISZX SOCR SOCY SOE SOFA SOI SOIC SOLI SOLIC SOM SOMALIA SOPN SORT SOSI SOVIET SOWGC SP SPAS SPC SPCE SPCVIS SPECI SPECIALIST SPILL SPP SPSTATE SR SREF SRIT SRS SRYI SSA SSH ST STAG START STATE STC STEINBERG STEPHEN HADLEY STET STP STR STUDENT SU SUCCESSION SUFFRAGE SULLIVAN SUMMIT SUR SUSAN SV SW SWHO SWMN SX SXG SY SYAI SYMBOL SYR SYRIA SYSI SYTH SZ TA TAGS TALAL TAUSCHER TAX TB TBI TBID TBIO TBIOZK TBKIO TBO TC TCOR TCSENV TD TDA TE TECH TECHNOLOGY TER TERAA TERFIN TERR TERROR TERRORISM TF TFIN TG TGRY TH THANH THE THERESE THIRDTERM THKSJA THOMAS THOMAS THOMMA THPY TI TIA TIBO TIFA TINT TIO TIP TITI TIUZ TJ TK TL TM TN 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KUIR KUM KUNA KUNC KUNH KUNP KUNR KUS KUWAIT KV KVBL KVIP KVIR KVIS KVPR KVRC KVRP KW KWAC KWAK KWAWC KWBC KWBG KWBW KWCI KWCR KWGB KWHG KWIC KWIM KWIR KWKN KWM KWMJN KWMM KWMN KWN KWNM KWNN KWOMN KWPA KWPB KWPG KWPR KWRC KWRF KWRG KWUN KWWT KWWW KX KY KZ LA LAB LABOR LANSANA LANTERN LARREA LARS LAS LAURA LAVIN LAW LB LBAR LBY LE LEAGUE LEB LEBIK LEGAT LEGATT LEIS LEON LEVINE LEW LG LGAT LH LI LIB LICC LIMA LINE LK LMS LN LO LOG LOPEZ LORAN LOTT LOVE LR LS LT LTG LTTE LU LV LVPR LY LZ MA MAAR MACEDONIA MACP MANUEL MANUEL SERGIO GONZALEZ MAP MAPP MAPS MAR MARAD MARANTIS MARIA MARIE MARINO MARITIME MARK MARQUEZ MARR MARS MARTIN MARV MAS MASC MASS MATT MAYA MB MBM MC MCA MCAP MCAPARR MCAPN MCAPP MCAPS MCAT MCC MCCAIN MCCONNELL MCCP MCGRAW MCRM MCTRE MD MDA MDC MDO ME MEA MED MEDIA MEETINGS MENDIETA MEP MEPI MEPN MEPP MERCOSUR MESUR MEX MF MFA MFO MG MGL MGMT MGOV MGT MGTA MH MHUC MI MIAH MIC MICHAEL MICHEL MIGUEL FELIPE CANAHUATI YACAMAN MIGUEL VARGAS MALDONADO MIK MIKE MIL MILI MILITANTS MILITARY MILLENNIUM MINURSO MINUSTAH MITCHELL MJ MK ML MLS MMAR MMED MN MNLF MNNC MNNUC MNU MNUC MNUCH MNUCWA MNUM MNUN MNUR MNUS MNVC MO MOHAMAD MOHAMED HESHAM ELDIN YOUSSEF MOHAMMAD MOLINA MONTENEGRO MONUC MONY MOOPS MOP MOPP MOPPS MOPS MORALES MORG MOROCCO MORS MOS MOTO MOTT MP MPOL MPOS MPP MPS MQADHAFI MR MRCRE MRRR MRS MRSEC MS MSG MSIG MT MTAA MTAG MTCAE MTCR MTCRA MTCRE MTRCE MTRE MTRRE MTS MU MUC MUCN MUKASEY MULLEN MUNC MURAD MURRAY MV MW MX MY MZ NA NAC NACB NADIA NAFTA NAM NAMSA NANCY NAR NARC NARCOTICS NARR NAS NASA NAT NATEU NATGAS NATIONAL NATO NATOAFGHAN NATOBALKANS NATOIRAQ NATOOPS NATOPOLICY NATSIOS NAVO NB NBTS NBU NC NCCC NCD NCT NCTC NDI NDP NE NEA NEC NEGROPONTE NEI NELSON NEPAD NERG NET NEW NFATC NFMS NFSO NG NGO NGUYEN NH NI NICHOLAS NICOLE NIH NIPP NK NKWG NL NLD NLIAEA NLO NMFS NMNUC NMUC NNPT NO NOAA NOI NOK NON NONE NORAD NOTAG NOVO NP NPA NPG NPT NR NRC NRG NRR NRRC NS NSC NSF NSFO NSG NSSP NT NTDB NTSB NTTC NU NUC NUIN NV NW NZ NZUS OA OAO OARC OAS OASC 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05ISTANBUL218 | YAPI KREDI DEAL WILL VAULT KOC INTO BIG LEAGUES OF [...] (SBU) Summary: The January 31 deal to purchase Yapi Kredi Bank from the embattled Cukurova Group will vault Koc Financial Services into the front rank of Turkish banking, fulfilling a long-standing goal of the Koc Group. More critically, it will remove a major cloud hanging over the Turkis [...] | 2005-02-11 06:44:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV TU |
05ISTANBUL2180 | FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AND MINORITY PROPERTY ISSUES [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: "The genius of democracy is in freedom of expression; those without this are hunters and gatherers." Thus Can Paker, Chair of TESEV (Istanbul's preeminent thinktank) opened a December 10 conference on Turkey's Minority Rights Question, underlining Turkish civil s [...] | 2005-12-28 13:27:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV TU PHUM |
05ISTANBUL2186 | ISTANBUL MEZZES: SLICES OF LIFE FROM TURKEY'S [...] (U) This is the third in a series of cables offering a sampling of political, economic and human rights topics circulating in Istanbul. Vatican II ) Muslim Style? -------------------------- 2. (SBU) We recently attended a Koran reading and sermon at Sehzadebasi Mosque in the Eminonu-Fat [...] | 2005-12-29 14:28:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM TU |
05ISTANBUL267 | IZMIR VIEWS ON APP CLOSURE, OVACIK MINE RESTART, [...] (SBU) Summary: In meetings in Izmir February 2-4, Izmir liaison officer informed municipal, business and academic officials of the Congressional decision to close the Izmir American Presence Post and the U.S. plan to reopen a consular agency. Regarding U.S. efforts to reopen the Ovacik Gold [...] | 2005-02-17 13:15:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL TU PHUM EINV |
05ISTANBUL329 | MUNICIPALITY TO FUND ISTANBUL TIP SHELTER, BUT [...] Summary and comment: In recent Istanbul meetings on trafficking in persons (TIP),G/TIP officer Jennifer Donnelly discussed the upcoming TIP report and Turkey's Tier 2 watch list placement with Istanbul prosecutors, municipal and governorate officials and the leading Turkish NGO on TIP issues. [...] | 2005-02-28 14:25:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TU BO MD PHUM KCRM PGOV KJUS TIP IN TURKEY |
05ISTANBUL346 | SUZER PLAZA CONTROVERSY CONTINUES [...] (SBU) Summary: Istanbul's controversial Suzer Plaza skyscraper, which houses the Ritz Carlton Hotel and was partially financed by OPIC, has returned to the headlines in recent weeks. In early January, two restaurants at the building's base were targeted for partial demolition by city official [...] | 2005-03-02 07:59:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV TU OPIC |
05ISTANBUL357 | INFORMAL ECONOMY TURNS DEADLY AS 10 TURKS SUCCUMB [...] (U) Summary: The problem of counterfeiting in Turkey took a new and deadly turn this week as ten Istanbul residents died from alcohol poisoning after drinking counterfeit raki. Another forty remain hospitalized here, several in critical condition. The homemade brew, some of which was produced [...] | 2005-03-04 07:44:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN TU |
05ISTANBUL38 | ISTANBUL POLICE ON TIP AND MURDER OF BELARUSIAN [...] (SBU) Summary: On December 27, poloff met with Osman Kaplan, Deputy Director of the Foreigners Unit of the Istanbul Police Department, to follow up on trafficking in persons issues raised during the visit of a Moldavan anti-TIP government delegation (ref B) and the murder of a Belarusian woman [...] | 2005-01-11 07:37:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TU BO MD KCRM PGOV KJUS |
05ISTANBUL403 | MARMARA GROUP REFLECTIONS ON PRESIDENT ASSAD AND [...] (SBU) Summary: A delegation of Marmara Group (Strategic and Social Research Foundation, founded in 1985) members visiting Damascus February 20-24 was impressed with President Assad's stated interest in promoting positive relations with Turkey and the U.S., but sensed the Syrian bureaucracy was [...] | 2005-03-14 12:18:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SY TU |
05ISTANBUL412 | TURKISH LPG TANKER SINKS WITH LITTLE ENVIRONMENTAL [...] (U) This cable was coordinated with Embassy Ankara. 2. (U) A 138 ton Turkish tanker carrying seven tanks of LPG from Kartal on the Asian side of Istanbul to Zeytinburnu on the European side sank at approximately 22:00 March 12. Five tanks of LPG were retrieved intact with no leakage from th [...] | 2005-03-15 06:06:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG EWWT SENV TU |
05ISTANBUL422 | TURKISH-U.S. BUSINESS COUNCIL PLANS AGRESSIVE PUSH [...] (SBU) Summary: Turkish-U.S. Business Council (TUSBC) leaders outlined an agressive push to expand both their business promotion work and their public relations activities in support of the bilateral relationship in a March 14 breakfast with Consul General. Incoming President Yilmaz Arguden, [...] | 2005-03-17 14:31:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV TU |
05ISTANBUL470 | DELIVERY OF NOTE REQUESTING OBSERVER STATUS TO THE [...] (SBU) Post delivered diplomatic note contained in ref A para 5 to the International Secretariat of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation Council on Wednesday, March 23. In P/E Chief's meeting later that day with the organization's Secretary General, Ambassador Tedo Japaridze, his three SIPDIS [...] | 2005-03-28 14:08:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN ETTC KFPC KTIA TU XG |
05ISTANBUL526 | CORRUPTION: TURKEY'S 800-POUND GORILLA? [...] (SBU) Summary: Public attention has returned to the subject of corruption in Turkey in recent weeks with publication of a country survey by the "Economist" magazine blaming the problem for Turkey's failure to attract more foreign investment. The survey coincided with the publication of Trans [...] | 2005-04-08 05:51:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCOR ECON EFIN TU |
05ISTANBUL692 | INVESTMENT ADVISORY COUNCIL PRAISES TURKEY'S [...] (SBU) Summary: Turkey's second annual Investment Advisory Council Meeting on April 29 in Istanbul brought recognition of the economic and political strides Turkey has made over the past year, including most notably macroeconomic stability and a date for beginning of accession negotiations with [...] | 2005-05-06 15:41:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON EFIN TU |
05ISTANBUL758 | CLOSURE OF YAPI KREDI DEAL HIGHLIGHTS FOREIGN [...] (SBU) Summary: The announcement on Monday, May 9 that Koc Financial Services and the Cukurova Group had reached final agreement by which Koc and its Italian partner Unicredito will purchase Yapi Kredi Bank vaults Koc into the banking big leagues and removes the largest remaining cloud hangin [...] | 2005-05-13 14:54:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV BEXP TU |
05ISTANBUL97 | YAPI KREDI END GAME NEARS [...] (SBU) Summary: In a move that marked the first official step forward towards realization of its long-rumored desire to buy Yapi Kredi Bank, Unicredito-Koc Holding on January 17 announced that it had signed an agreement with the bank's dominant shareholder, the controversial Cukurova Group, for [...] | 2005-01-21 09:25:00 | Consulate Istanbul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EINV ECON TU |
05JERUSALEM1578 | WB/G SITREP: APRIL 18, 2005 (1800 HOURS LOCAL) -- [...] (SBU) Summary: In the West Bank, a 12-year-old Palestinian boy was wounded by IDF gunfire near Ramallah on April 17. Eight Palestinians were arrested from April 15-17 throughout the West Bank. Two firebombs were thrown at passing Israeli vehicles on road 443 and near Ofra settlement on April 1 [...] | 2005-04-18 16:37:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PBTS PHUM KWBG KPAL IS ASEC |
05JERUSALEM1617 | WB/G SITREP: APRIL 19, 2005 (1600 HOURS LOCAL) -- [...] (SBU) Summary: In the West Bank, IDF troops arrested three Hamas members and two Fatah militants on April 18. IDF troops in Nablus found three kilograms of explosives hidden in a house in Askar refugee camp on April 18. The IDF imposed a curfew on Burqa village, north of Nablus, on April 18 [...] | 2005-04-19 14:23:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PBTS PHUM KWBG KPAL ASEC IS |
05JERUSALEM1633 | WB/G SITREP: APRIL 20, 2005 (1500 HOURS LOCAL) -- [...] (SBU) Summary: In the West Bank, a Palestinian man was hospitalized April 19 after he was shot by an Israeli soldier. Palestinian militants also reportedly fired shots at Bet Romano settlement in the Old City of Hebron April 19. The IDF arrested five Palestinians April 19 in various areas of [...] | 2005-04-20 14:07:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PBTS PHUM KWBG KPAL IS ASEC |
05JERUSALEM1655 | WB/G SITREP: APRIL 21, 2005 (1600 HOURS LOCAL) -- [...] (SBU) Summary: In the West Bank, a Palestinian shepherd was attacked by a number of settlers from Betar Illit settlement, near Husan village by Bethlehem on April 20. Six Palestinians were arrested in various areas of the West Bank April 20. In the Gaza Strip, one IDF soldier was moderately [...] | 2005-04-21 14:36:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PBTS PHUM KWBG KPAL IS ASEC |
05JERUSALEM1668 | WB/G SITREP: APRIL 22, 2005 (1600 HOURS LOCAL) -- [...] (SBU) Summary: In the West Bank, 11 Palestinian and foreign peace activists were lightly injured when hit by rubber-coated bullets during clashes with the IDF in the village of Bil,in, west of Ramallah, April 21. The IDF found and defused a six-kilogram explosive device near Jenin on April 21 [...] | 2005-04-22 14:32:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PBTS PHUM KWBG KPAL IS ASEC |
05JERUSALEM1792 | WB/G SITREP: MAY 2, 2005 (1800 HOURS LOCAL) -- ONE [...] (SBU) Summary. On May 2, one IDF soldier and one PIJ gunman (Shawfiq Abd al-Ghani) were killed in a shootout during an IDF operation in Saida village, by Tulkarm, according to Israeli and Palestinian media. In Gaza, one Palestinian was killed during a gunfight between members of the Eddiri [...] | 2005-05-02 16:45:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PBTS PHUM KWBG ASEC CASC IS |
05JERUSALEM1813 | WB/G SITREP: MAY 3, 2005 (1700 HOURS LOCAL) -- [...] (SBU) Summary. The West Bank was quiet May 2-3. Fatah will hold primary elections to determine PLC candidates on May 27 or June 1, according to PLC speaker Rawhi Fattuh. In Gaza, PA security forces arrested in Gaza City three Hamas members suspected of preparing to fire Qassam rockets. The [...] | 2005-05-03 14:57:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PBTS PHUM KWBG ASEC CASC IS |
05JERUSALEM1849 | WB/G SITREP: MAY 4, 2005 (1700 HOURS LOCAL) -- [...] (SBU) Summary. IDF forces conducted several incursions near Jenin, Nablus and Hebron in the West Bank on May 3, but no deaths or serious injuries resulted. PA President Abbas is expected to leave Ramallah May 7 for an international tour including Chile, Brazil, Japan and India. A PA Interio [...] | 2005-05-04 14:55:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PBTS PHUM KWBG ASEC CASC IS |
05JERUSALEM1859 | WB/G SITREP: MAY 5, 2005 (1500 HOURS LOCAL) -- TWO [...] (SBU) Summary. IDF troops shot and killed two unarmed Palestinian teens near Bayt Liqya village (off Route 443) on May 4, during stone-throwing clashes and protests against the separation barrier. In Gaza, two mortar shells exploded May 4, one east of an IDF post near Khan Yunis and the othe [...] | 2005-05-05 12:23:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PBTS PHUM KWBG ASEC CASC IS |
05JERUSALEM1891 | WB/G SITREP: MAY 6, 2005 (1700 HOURS LOCAL) -- [...] (SBU) Summary. Fatah won at least 60 percent of 906 municipal council seats in May 5 elections held in 84 localities in the West Bank and Gaza, based on preliminary results and exit polling, but Hamas also garnered 35-37 percent. Militants fired four Qassam rockets toward Sderot May 5-6, ac [...] | 2005-05-06 14:36:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PBTS PHUM KWBG ASEC CASC IS |
05JERUSALEM1987 | WB/G SITREP: PALESTINIAN KILLED AT WEST BANK [...] (SBU) Summary: In the West Bank, the IDF on May 16 shot and killed a Palestinian as he approached an Israeli checkpoint on foot near Tulkarm. The IDF on May 15 shot and wounded two Palestinians who had thrown firebombs near 'Abud village, northwest of Ramallah. In the Gaza Strip, four Isra [...] | 2005-05-16 17:27:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PBTS PHUM KWBG CASC IS |
05JERUSALEM1996 | WB/G SITREP: CLASHES IN GAZA CITY BETWEEN PA [...] (SBU) Summary: At least three Palestinians were shot and injured the evening of May 16 in Gaza City during an altercation that broke out between members of the PA civil police and the anti-riot police unit. The ensuing gun battle went on for several hours. In the West Bank, PA police on M [...] | 2005-05-17 16:59:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PBTS PHUM KWBG CASC IS |
05JERUSALEM2009 | WB/G SITREP: IDF MISSILE STRIKE INJURES ONE HAMAS [...] (SBU) Summary: In the Gaza Strip, the IDF fired missiles at two Hamas militants May 18, injuring one critically, as the two were reportedly preparing to fire mortars into the Gush Katif settlement bloc. The IDF action followed a barrage of five mortars into the settlement earlier in the day [...] | 2005-05-18 16:21:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PBTS PHUM KWBG CASC IS |
05JERUSALEM2051 | WB/G SITREP: HAMAS MILITANT SUCCUMBS TO WOUNDS [...] (SBU) Summary: In the Gaza Strip, a Hamas militant on May 18 died from wounds received from an Israeli missile strike earlier that day. The IDF and UNRWA reported that Palestinian militants fired a total of 45 mortar shells and homemade rockets overnight May 18-19 at Israeli targets through [...] | 2005-05-19 18:02:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PBTS PHUM KWBG CASC IS |
05JERUSALEM2059 | WB/G SITREP: ONE PALESTINIAN KILLED IN GAZA STRIP; [...] (SBU) Summary: In the Gaza Strip, IDF soldiers shot and killed one Palestinian militant overnight May 19-20 and wounded another during an early morning attack on the Kfar Darom settlement with anti-tank rockets and mortar fire. No Israelis were reported injured. The IDF and UNRWA reported [...] | 2005-05-20 15:36:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PBTS PHUM KWBG CASC IS |
05JERUSALEM2225 | WB/G SITREP: JUNE 1, 2005 (1800 HOURS LOCAL) -- [...] (SBU) Summary: In the West Bank, an Israeli settler shot and wounded a Palestinian near Itamar settlement, near Nablus, May 31. In al-Fraides village, near Bethlehem, three Palestinians were assaulted by Israeli settlers May 31. Five Fatah and six Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) members were [...] | 2005-06-01 15:17:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PBTS PHUM KWBG KPAL IS ASEC |
05JERUSALEM2250 | WB/G SITREP: JUNE 2, 2005 (1700 HOURS LOCAL) -- [...] (SBU) Summary: Fourteen Palestinian and foreign peace activists were injured from tear gas inhalation during clashes with IDF troops over construction of the separation barrier near the village of Beit Suriq, northwest of Jerusalem, June 1. Israeli security forces arrested 21 Palestinians in [...] | 2005-06-02 15:06:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PBTS PHUM KWBG KPAL IS ASEC |
05JERUSALEM2419 | WB/G SITREP: JUNE 10-14, 2005 (1600 HOURS LOCAL) [...] (SBU) Summary. Two Palestinians were shot and injured during clashes between different al-Aqsa cells by Manasra Square in Ramallah on June 12. The IDF shot and injured a a Palestinian youth in Saida village near Tulkarm on June 11, according to Palestinian security sources. UNRWA reported [...] | 2005-06-14 16:12:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PBTS PHUM KWBG ASEC CASC IS |
05JERUSALEM2436 | WB/G SITREP: JUNE 15, 2005 (1600 HOURS LOCAL) -- [...] (SBU) Summary. Four Palestinian family members were shot and killed in Jabaliya in Gaza June 14, when an internal family dispute between two brothers turned violent, according to UNRWA. In the West Bank, the IDF entered Dura, west of Hebron on June 14, and shot and injured two Palestinians i [...] | 2005-06-15 15:03:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PBTS PHUM KWBG ASEC CASC IS |
05JERUSALEM2461 | WB/G SITREP: JUNE 16, 2005 (1300 HOURS LOCAL) -- [...] (SBU) Summary: In the West Bank, the IDF arrested four members of Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) June 15. Israeli settlers uprooted or set on fire 140 Palestinian-owned olive trees near Nablus-area settlements. In the Gaza Strip, IDF forces entered al-Mughragha overnight June 15-16 and arre [...] | 2005-06-16 12:07:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PBTS PHUM KWBG KPAL IS ASEC |
05JERUSALEM2508 | WB/G SITREP: JUNE 17, 2005 (1500 HOURS LOCAL) -- [...] (SBU) Summary. Palestinian militants fired two Qassam rockets at the Israeli town Sderot on June 16, but caused no injuries or significant damage. A Palestinian Preventive Security (PSO) agent died in Ramallah June 16 from an accidental discharge of his weapon. Two Palestinians were shot a [...] | 2005-06-17 12:40:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PBTS PHUM KWBG ASEC CASC IS |
05JERUSALEM2570 | WB/G SITREP: JUNE 22, 2005 (1700 HOURS LOCAL) -- [...] (SBU) Summary: The IDF arrested alleged 10 PIJ activists June 21, most in Qalqiliya and Nablus. The IDF also arrested a Palestinian woman who attempted to stab an IDF soldier at a checkpoint near Tulkarm on June 21, according to Israeli newspapers. There were no injuries in the incident. In [...] | 2005-06-22 14:06:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PBTS PHUM KWBG KPAL IS ASEC |
05JERUSALEM2643 | WB/G SITREP: JUNE 27, 2005 (1800 HOURS LOCAL) -- [...] (SBU) Summary: Palestinian gunmen shot and killed two Israelis and injured two others outside Bayt Haggai settlement near Hebron June 24. PIJ and Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed credit. In subsequent IDF incursions into the area, the IDF shot and injured two Palestinians in Dura village, [...] | 2005-06-27 14:37:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PBTS PHUM KWBG KPAL IS ASEC |
05JERUSALEM2670 | WB/G SITREP: JUNE 28, 2005 (1800 HOURS LOCAL) -- [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Palestinian militants launched a total of six mortar shells and one Qassam rocket from the southern Gaza Strip. Erez Crossing was open June 27, and 4,200 laborers and 405 merchants crossed into Israel. An IDF military court has convicted a former IDF soldier of manslaughter, [...] | 2005-06-28 14:48:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PBTS PHUM KWBG KPAL IS ASEC |
05JERUSALEM2673 | WB/G SITREP: JUNE 29, 2005 (1800 HOURS LOCAL) -- [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Five disengagement opponents and one Palestinian were lightly wounded in June 28 stone-throwing clashes that broke out in al-Mowassi in Gaza. In the West Bank, IDF raids continued in the area of Allar, Attil, and Saida. Several Palestinian activists suffered minor injuries in c [...] | 2005-06-29 14:55:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PBTS PHUM KWBG KPAL IS ASEC |
05JERUSALEM2739 | WB/G SITREP: JUNE 30, 2005 (1800 HOURS LOCAL) -- [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: UNRWA and Israeli media reported that five Palestinians were injured, one of them seriously, as stone-throwing clashes between Palestinians, Israeli settlers, and Israeli security forces continued for a fourth day in al-Mowassi. A large IDF force entered Nablus after three IDF [...] | 2005-06-30 13:50:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PBTS PHUM KWBG KPAL IS ASEC |
05JERUSALEM2786 | WB/G SITREP: JULY 01, 2005 (1800 HOURS LOCAL) -- [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Five Palestinians and one IDF soldier were lightly wounded June 30 in Nablus during an IDF incursion in response to reports, ulimately unfounded, that two soldiers had been kidnapped. UNRWA and Israeli media reported that disengagement opponents in the al-Mowassi area of Gaza [...] | 2005-07-01 16:05:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PBTS PHUM KWBG KPAL IS ASEC |
05JERUSALEM2911 | WB/G SITREP: TWO PALESTINIANS KILLED, SEVENTEEN [...] (SBU) Summary: In the West Bank, an Israeli security guard on July 8 shot and killed a Palestinian teenager near Bayt Liqya, west of Ramallah. The Israeli Police are reportedly conducting an investigation of the incident. A second Palestinian teenager on July 10 died from bullet wounds re [...] | 2005-07-11 16:00:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PBTS PHUM KWBG CASC IS |
05JERUSALEM2955 | WB/G SITREP: SENIOR PA OFFICIAL ASSAULTED IN WEST [...] (SBU) Summary: A senior official from the Palestinian Authority (PA) Ministry of the Interior (MOI) on July 12 sustained injuries from an attack by unknown assailants as he traveled from Jerusalem to Ramallah. The MOI official was later hospitalized, but is expected to recover from his in [...] | 2005-07-12 16:18:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PBTS PHUM KWBG CASC IS |
05JERUSALEM2970 | WB/G SITREP: TWO PALESTINIANS KILLED, FIVE [...] (SBU) Summary: In response to the July 12 suicide bombing in Netanya that killed four Israelis and wounded at least 90 others, and the attempted car bombing by a Palestinian in the West Bank settlement of Shavei Shomron, the IDF on July 13 launched an operation into Tulkarm, killing two Pal [...] | 2005-07-13 16:09:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PBTS PHUM KWBG CASC IS |
05JERUSALEM3005 | WB/G SITREP: OPERATIONS IN TULKARM, GENERAL [...] (SBU) Summary: IDF operations in Tulkarm continued for a second day following the July 12 suicide bombing in Netanya, which killed five Israelis. A general closure remains in effect for the entire West Bank and Gaza Strip. In Nablus, the IDF on the evening of July 13 shot and killed a loc [...] | 2005-07-14 14:37:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PBTS PHUM KWBG CASC IS |
05JERUSALEM3019 | WB/G SITREP: TARGETED KILLINGS, ROCKET ATTACKS [...] (SBU) Summary: In the West Bank, Israeli helicopters on July 15 fired missiles at a vehicle traveling near Salfit, killing at least two Hamas activists. Meanwhile, in the Gaza Strip, Hamas and PA security forces have engaged in street battles July 14-15, resulting in the deaths of at least [...] | 2005-07-15 15:49:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PBTS PHUM KWBG CASC IS |
05JERUSALEM3095 | WB/G SITREP: JULY 21, 2005 (1400 HOURS LOCAL) -- [...] (SBU) Summary: In Gaza, one IDF soldier was lightly wounded by a mortar shell fired at an IDF outpost near Neve Dekalim settlement. Israeli media reported that Israeli police arrested about 250 disengagement opponents who tried to enter Gaza, some of whom reportedly tried to cut through the [...] | 2005-07-21 11:12:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PBTS PHUM KWBG KPAL IS ASEC |
05JERUSALEM3181 | WB/G SITREP: JULY 26, 2005 (1700 HOURS LOCAL) -- [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: IDF soldiers shot and seriously injured a wanted Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) member in Hebron July 26. The local planning and construction committee in Jerusalem approved July 25 plans to build a new Jewish settlement inside the Muslim Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem [...] | 2005-07-26 14:10:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PBTS PHUM KWBG KPAL IS ASEC |
05JERUSALEM3250 | WB/G SITREP: JULY 27, 2005 (1700 HOURS LOCAL) -- [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In the West Bank, a Palestinian teenager was killed when hit by a car driven by an Israeli settler near Karmi Tzur settlement. According to PA security sources, an unarmed Palestinian teenager was shot and killed by the IDF during an incursion in Jenin July 27. The IDF arrest [...] | 2005-07-27 15:33:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PBTS PHUM KWBG KPAL IS ASEC |
05JERUSALEM3317 | WB/G SITREP: JULY 28, 2005 (1700 HOURS LOCAL) -- [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In the West Bank, according to Palestinian security sources, a 15-year old Palestinian wqas shot and killed by the IDF when IDF troops entered into Jenin July 27. The IDF arrested a senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) official during the operation. In Gaza, a five-year-o [...] | 2005-07-29 05:58:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PBTS PHUM KWBG KPAL IS ASEC |
05JERUSALEM3325 | WB/G SITREP: JULY 29, 2005 (1500 HOURS LOCAL) -- [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In the West Bank, IDF forces entered into Shufa village near Tulkarm July 28 and killed a 29-year old Palestinian, whom the IDF said helped organize the recent suicide bombing in Netanya. The IDF arrested a total of four PIJ militants in Ramallah, Jenin, and Hebron July 28. In [...] | 2005-07-29 12:31:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PBTS PHUM KWBG KPAL IS ASEC |
05JERUSALEM3557 | WB/G SITREP: AUGUST 8, 2005 (1800 HOURS LOCAL) -- [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The IDF shot and injured two Palestinians in Tulkarm August 6 during an incursion into the city, according to Palestinian security sources. Two Israeli settlers, including a 10-year-old boy, were shot and injured by Palestinian gunmen near Ateret settlement, north of Ramallah [...] | 2005-08-08 16:18:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PBTS PHUM KWBG KPAL IS ASEC |
05JERUSALEM3580 | WB/G SITREP: AUGUST 9, 2005 (1800 HOURS LOCAL) -- [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has suspended its activity in Gaza after militants fired at their offices in Khan Yunis August 8 and in the aftermath of recent kidnappings of foreign aid workers. The IDF shot and killed a Palestinian in Nur Shams Refugee C [...] | 2005-08-09 15:26:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PBTS PHUM KWBG KPAL IS ASEC |
05JERUSALEM3626 | WB/G SITREP: AUGUST 10, 2005 (1700 HOURS LOCAL) -- [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In the West Bank, the IDF entered Tulkarm for an arrest operation on August 9, seizing two alleged Hamas members and leaving three Palestinian youths injured in stone-throwing clashes during the operation. Gunmen shot and lightly injured two Israeli settlers in a car near Hebro [...] | 2005-08-10 15:08:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PBTS PHUM KWBG KPAL IS ASEC |
05JERUSALEM3683 | WB/G SITREP: AUGUST 11, 2005 (1700 HOURS LOCAL) -- [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In the West Bank on August 10, ten Palestinians were injured during clashes with the IDF over construction of the separation barrier west of Ramallah. In Gaza, Israel radio reported August 11 that two Palestinians in Rafah were injured when an improvised hand grenade exploded. [...] | 2005-08-11 14:53:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PBTS PHUM KWBG KPAL IS ASEC |
05JERUSALEM3701 | WB/G SITREP: AUGUST 12, 2005 (1700 HOURS LOCAL) -- [...] (SBU) Summary: In the West Bank, the IDF entered the Nablus casbah on August 11 and clashed with gunmen from the al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, injuring one Palestinian in the clashes. In the Gaza Strip, Palestinian police on August 11 found an explosive device near the Eley Sinai settlement. The [...] | 2005-08-12 15:16:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PBTS PHUM KWBG KPAL IS ASEC |
05JERUSALEM3914 | DISENGAGEMENT SITUATION REPORT, AUGUST 23, 2005 [...] (SBU) Summary: On the morning of August 23, approximately 15,000 IDF soldiers and Israeli Police commenced operations to evacuate more than 2,000 settlers and their supporters from Sa Nur and Homesh settlements in the northern West Bank. According to press, most of these people were infiltrat [...] | 2005-08-23 16:06:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWBG KPAL PREL ECON EAID PINS IS |
05JERUSALEM3983 | DISENGAGEMENT SITUATION REPORT, AUGUST 24, 2005 [...] (SBU) Summary: As of 1800 local time August 23, all settlers were evacuated from Sa Nur and Homesh settlements, completing evacuation of all residents and protesters from the Gaza Strip and four northern West Bank settlements. Israeli forces told Israeli press that they were prepared for heav [...] | 2005-08-24 15:24:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWBG KPAL PREL ECON EAID PINS IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05JERUSALEM4288 | DISENGAGEMENT SITUATION REPORT, SEPTEMBER 12, 2005 [...] (SBU) Summary: As of 0900 local time September 12, all settlers and IDF personnel had departed the Gaza Strip. PA security forces took over Gaza settlement areas in stages before dawn September 12. Rafah crossing was closed in both directions by Israel, pending an agreement on border crossin [...] | 2005-09-12 15:31:00 | Consulate Jerusalem | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWBG KPAL PREL ECON EAID PINS IS GAZA DISENGAGEMENT |
05KABUL4948 | INTIMIDATION FORCES VILLAGERS TO INCREASINGLY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Local NGOs in Kandahar report increased intimidation by anti-coalition forces. This, compounded by continuing corruption, creates an extremely difficult environment for aid organizations. Villagers are asking NGOs not to return. Corrupt officials are impeding their work in other [...] | 2005-12-07 10:41:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF |
05KABUL4953 | KANDAHAR PROVINCIAL COUNCIL NOT REPRESENTATIVE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Governor of Kandahar and local NGOs told the Ambassador that the newly elected Provincial Council is not representative of the province's population and is being circumvented by use of the shura system. They believe the shuras currently are a better means to identify and add [...] | 2005-12-07 10:49:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF |
05KABUL4967 | KARZAI DISCUSSES ASSISTANCE BUDGET WITH [...] (SBU) President Karzai and AID Administrator Natsios on November 17 ran through a tour dhorizon of the progress of U.S. assistance programs, Afghan needs, U.S. budget realities, and plans for counter-narcotics work in the coming year. While Karzai continues to believe a twenty percent reduct [...] | 2005-12-07 12:40:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PGOV SNAR AF |
05KABUL4971 | AFGHANISTAN (WITH UK HELP) LEADS BABY STEPS TOWARD [...] (SBU) The joint GoA and UK-hosted Regional Economic Cooperation Conference was held in Kabul December 4 and 5. The event featured an opening address by President Karzai, and speeches by GoA economic ministers and regional delegates, who were primarily at the ministerial and vice- ministerial l [...] | 2005-12-08 05:36:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PREL KPWR EAID PGOV AF |
05KABUL4985 | CODEL MURPHY/SKELTON MEETS KARZAI [...] (SBU) Congressmen Murphy, Skelton, and Marshall, accompanied by Ambassador Neumann, met with President Karzai on November 24 to discuss U.S. engagement in Afghanistan. Karzai expected the inauguration of the newly elected Parliament to occur December 18 or 19 since announced for the 19th. He [...] | 2005-12-08 13:59:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PREL PGOV SNAR PARM MASS AF |
05KABUL5010 | KARZAI'S MESHRANO JIRGA APPOINTMENTS [...] (U) SUMMARY: President Karzai released his official list of 34 appointments to the Meshrano Jirga (MJ, Upper House of Parliament) on December 10. The list fulfills Afghan Electoral Law requirements that he include 17 women, two Kuchi representatives, and two representatives of the martyrs and [...] | 2005-12-11 12:49:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF |
05KABUL5024 | REVISED AFGHANISTAN COMPACT FOR WASHINGTON REVIEW [...] (SBU) This cable includes the full text of the December 11 revised Afghanistan Compact and three Annexes for Washington review. This final revision reflects the bulk of consensus recommendations reached at a series of December 2- 5 PrepCom meetings held on the margins of the Kabul Regional Ec [...] | 2005-12-13 02:33:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EAID PREL PGOV AF |
05KABUL5027 | AFGHAN PARLIAMENT - ONE WEEK UNTIL INAUGURATION DAY [...] (U) SUMMARY: In the final week before Afghanistan's first Parliamentary Inauguration in 30 years, discussions among MPs are intently focused on who will take the "plum jobs" in the new National Assembly. Despite skepticism among some partisan politicians in Kabul, both the Ambassador and USG [...] | 2005-12-13 05:06:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINR KDEM AF |
05KABUL5032 | AFGHANISTAN (WITH UK HELP) LEADS BABY STEPS TOWARD [...] (SBU) The joint GoA and UK-hosted Regional Economic Cooperation Conference was held in Kabul December 4 and 5. The event featured an opening address by President Karzai, and speeches by GoA economic ministers and regional delegates, who were primarily at the ministerial and vice- ministerial l [...] | 2005-12-13 10:25:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PREL KPWR EAID PGOV AF |
05KABUL5033 | REHABILITATING STATE-RUN ARIANA AIRLINES [...] (SBU) The President of state-owned flag carrier Ariana, Nadir Atash, has ambitious plans to revamp the airline by upgrading its personnel, aircraft, systems and maintenance. Today Atash confronts a large and largely ineffective workforce, massive corruption and persistent nepotism. Even with [...] | 2005-12-13 10:26:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EAIR ECON AF |
05KABUL5034 | GOVERNORS OF GEORGIA, KANSAS, AND MISSISSIPPI MEET [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: IN A MEETING WITH THE GOVERNORS OF GEORGIA, KANSAS AND MISSISSIPPI AND GENERAL BLUM, KARZAI WAS IN A GENIAL MOOD, HIGHLIGHTING PROGRESS ON COUNTER NARCOTICS, BUT PRESSING FOR CONTINUED INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT TO ENSURE SUCCESS. HE PRAISED THE AFGHAN PEOPLE'S COMMITMENT TO DEMOC [...] | 2005-12-13 12:25:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SNAR AF |
05KABUL5039 | GOVERNORS OF GEORGIA, KANSAS, AND MISSISSIPPI MEET [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: IN A MEETING WITH THE GOVERNORS OF GEORGIA, KANSAS AND MISSISSIPPI AND GENERAL BLUM, KARZAI WAS IN A GENIAL MOOD, HIGHLIGHTING PROGRESS ON COUNTER NARCOTICS, BUT PRESSING FOR CONTINUED INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT TO ENSURE SUCCESS. HE PRAISED THE AFGHAN PEOPLE'S COMMITMENT TO DEMOC [...] | 2005-12-14 08:10:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SNAR AF |
05KABUL5042 | EMERGING AFGHAN INTERAGENCY PROCESS TO MANAGE [...] (SBU) Summary. USDOJ and CFC-A representatives briefed a delegation of Afghan officials on the fundamentals of an interagency process. The GOA officials are to become the working group that will decide the form of the process Afghanistan will use to receive detainees transferred by the USG. [...] | 2005-12-14 08:10:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR KAWC AF |
05KABUL5047 | GOVERNORS OF GEORGIA, KANSAS, AND MISSISSIPPI MEET [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: IN A MEETING WITH THE GOVERNORS OF GEORGIA, KANSAS AND MISSISSIPPI AND GENERAL BLUM, KARZAI WAS IN A GENIAL MOOD, HIGHLIGHTING PROGRESS ON COUNTER NARCOTICS, BUT PRESSING FOR CONTINUED INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT TO ENSURE SUCCESS. HE PRAISED THE AFGHAN PEOPLE'S COMMITMENT TO DEMOC [...] | 2005-12-14 08:11:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SNAR AF |
05KABUL5066 | MINISTRY OF FRONTIERS AND TRIBAL AFFAIRS: [...] (SBU) Summary: Deputy Minister of Frontiers and Tribal Affairs Alhaj Sayeed Ahmad Haqbeen described for Poloffs the important work of his Ministry in supporting national unity and understanding. The key competencies of the Ministry of Frontier and Tribal Affairs (MFTA) are promoting the nation [...] | 2005-12-14 12:54:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM AF |
05KABUL5071 | PRT/GHOR - PICNIC POLITICS [...] (U) SUMMARY: PolOffs and Chaghcharan AIDOff spent the afternoon of December 8 with Ghor Governor Afzali, former Ghor Governor and current MP Dr. Mohammad Ibrahim Malekzada, and several of Afzali's wealthy family members chatting about local politics in classic Afghan style - over a lavish meal [...] | 2005-12-14 15:18:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINR KDEM AF |
05KABUL5089 | IRAQ: SEEKING PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR ELECTION [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-15 13:01:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KDEM KPAO IZ AF |
05KABUL5092 | COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM - AFGHANISTAN [...] (SBU) In 2005, Afghanistan continued its progress toward building a democratic government. The 2004 Presidential elections were followed by national assembly and provincial council elections in September 2005. In spite of Taliban threats to disrupt the democratic process, only minor inciden [...] | 2005-12-15 13:02:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER ASEC KCRM EFIN KHLS KPAO AF |
05KABUL5118 | DUELING AFGAN CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE [...] (SBU) An ongoing battle between the AID-supported Afghan International Chamber of Commerce (AICC) and the GTZ- supported Afghan Chamber of Commerce and Industry is heating up with a proposed law that would effectively eliminate the AICC, dealing a significant blow to the development of an inde [...] | 2005-12-17 14:01:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN PREL EAID PGOV AF |
05KABUL5121 | TWO SCHOOLS ATTACKED IN HELMAND [...] (SBU) A TEACHER WAS KILLED ON DECEMBER 16 IN NAD ALI DISTRICT IN HELMAND PROVINCE. ALTHOUGH THE MOTIVE WAS UNCLEAR, TERRORISM IS LIKELY. ON DECEMBER 17, ANOTHER INCIDENT INVOLVING A SCHOOL TOOK PLACE, THIS TIME IN THE PROVINCIAL CAPITAL. TWO MEN ON A MOTORCYCLE DROVE TO THE KARTELEGON SCH [...] | 2005-12-18 03:22:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID PTER AF |
05KABUL5147 | DONOR PLEDGING FOR THE AFGHANISTAN COMPACT [...] (SBU) Per reftel demarche request, on December 17 Ambassador informed President Karzai of USG efforts to encourage international donors to consider new financial pledges to Afghanistan at the upcoming Jan 31 - Feb 1 London Conference and to accelerate disbursements of funds they have already p [...] | 2005-12-19 05:40:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN AF |
05KABUL5181 | KUNDUZ POLITICS OF CORRUPTION IN THE BAGHLAN [...] (U) Summary: Highway Police forces throughout the north and northeast and Afghan National Police (ANP) forces in Baghlan province are both dominated by Tajik warlords and drug traffickers. General Abdul Khalil has assigned former jihadi/Hezb-i-Islami loyalists from Baghlans Andarab District [...] | 2005-12-20 12:27:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AF GE |
05KABUL5185 | URGENT RESOURCE REQUEST TO SUPPORT AFGHAN BORDER [...] (SBU) We have long recognized the Border Management Initiative (BMI) as a top USG priority for mission success in Afghanistan givendue to its links to GoA revenue generation, security, and counter-narcotics initiatives. Reftel laid out the basic elements of a BMIn approach that we now make mor [...] | 2005-12-20 18:39:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINS ECON EFIN AF |
05KABUL5186 | PRT/FARAH: SEXUAL POLITICS OVERSHADOW AS [...] (SBU) Summary: Five men and three women were sworn in as Provincial Councilors in Farah Province November 10. Gender division was overcome with the decision to elect a woman to the Vice Chairperson position. Aside from a momentary gaffe from Governor Wasefi as he tried to make the selection [...] | 2005-12-21 10:07:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV AF |
05KABUL5201 | JAILED JOURNALIST ALI MOHAQIQ NASAB RELEASED WITH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Jailed journalist Ali Mohaqiq Nasab was released from jail with a suspended six-month sentence. During the hearing Nasab gave a one-sentence apology stating, "I ask the court to forgive me if I caused any confusion and problem." This statement appeased the court and the orig [...] | 2005-12-22 02:21:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PGOV PTER AF |
05KABUL5256 | REVISED AFGHANISTAN COMPACT [...] (SBU) The GoA pushed back strongly against Washington's undercutting the reciprocal balance of the Afghanistan Compact but accepted most of our other points. In a December 24 meeting, Senior Economic Advisor to the President Naderi and UNAMA Deputy SRSG Haq reviewed with Ambassador the lates [...] | 2005-12-27 12:11:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EAID PREL PGOV AF |
05KABUL5268 | PRT/BAMYAN: GOVERNMENT TAKES FIRST STEPS TOWARDS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Bamyan Provincial authorities may be unelected but they appear to grasp the idea that their legitimacy derives from the people. The Governor's office organized and hosted a PRT-funded two-day conference outlining ongoing development activity in Bamyan. Participants appreciated [...] | 2005-12-28 11:51:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EAID ECON PHUM SOCI AF |
05KABUL5273 | PRT/QALAT: CHALLENGES IN SOUTHEASTERN ZABUL PROVINCE [...] (SBU) Summary: Zabul Governor Arman has a strategic goal of a goo 2. (SBU) PRT PolOff discussed the goal with the Governor, as well as Goal Of Connecting Pakistan and the Ring Road in Zabul 3. (SBU) Governor Armans vision is to have a good road connect Qalat Shinkay District 4. [...] | 2005-12-29 06:33:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER ECON EAID ELTN AF |
05KABUL5274 | PRT JALALABAD: NEW NANGARHAR CHIEF OF POLICE APPOINTED [...] (SBU) Summary. Governor Gul Agha Sherzai welcomed newly appointe Nangarhar Police Chief Basir Salangi at a special ceremony on Decembe 27 attended by district chiefs of police, the Nangarhar chief justice and other key judicial sector personnel. Sherzai, who has been activ campaigning to kee [...] | 2005-12-29 07:49:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR SNAR AF |
05KABUL5292 | CORRECTED COPY PRT/QALAT: CHALLENGES IN [...] (SBU) Summary: Zabul Governor Arman has a strategic goal of a good road connecting the Ring Road in Qalat to the Pakistani border in southeastern Zabul Province. The road improvement is underway (with US funding),but the districts are not secure yet nor under the effective control of the ce [...] | 2005-12-31 06:10:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PTER ECON EAID ELTN AF |
05KABUL5297 | CORRECTED COPY: PRT JALALABAD: NEW NANGARHAR [...] (SBU) Summary. Governor Gul Agha Sherzai welcomed newly appointed Nangarhar Police Chief Basir Salangi at a special ceremony on December 27 attended by district chiefs of police, the Nangarhar chief justice, and other key judicial sector personnel. Sherzai, who has been actively campaigning [...] | 2005-12-31 06:13:00 | Embassy Kabul | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR SNAR AF |
05KATHMANDU1294 | GOVERNMENT ARRESTS JOURNALISTS; BAN ON INDIAN [...] (U) The government arrested 98 human rights activists and lawyers, including 71 journalists, from Kathmandu and Kavre Districts on June 13. The government released all 50 arrested in Kavre the same day. Journalists from FM radio stations vowed to continue their protest programs despite the [...] | 2005-06-14 12:13:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV PINS PHUM NP |
05KATHMANDU1305 | SOME LABOR RIGHTS IN NEPAL REMAIN CURTAILED [...] (SBU) After the King assumed power February 1, His Majesty's Government of Nepal (HMGN) imposed extensive restrictions on trade unions and their leaders. HMGN banned labor union strikes by industries that were on an "Essential Services/ Commodity List," including fourteen service sectors the [...] | 2005-06-15 11:34:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM ELAB KDEM PGOV NP |
05KATHMANDU1320 | NEPAL: GARMENT EXPORTS DROP 43 PERCENT, BUT [...] (U) Nepal's ready-made garment exports to the United States declined by 43 percent in the first five months of 2005 following the expiration of the Multi-Fiber Arrangement (MFA). Entrepreneurs within the garment sector attributed the decline to the combined effects of MFA phaseout and the gov [...] | 2005-06-16 11:12:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV ETRD PINS NP |
05KATHMANDU1323 | RELEASE AND RE-ARREST OF POLITICAL LEADERS [...] (SBU) On June 15, following a Supreme Court order, the government released three leaders of the People's Front Nepal (PFN) from the Kathmandu District Court. However, the police re-arrested Nava Raj Subedi, General Secretary of the PFN, from the party office premises within five hours of his [...] | 2005-06-16 12:18:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINS PHUM NP GON |
05KATHMANDU2150 | NEPAL AGREES TO PARTNERSHIP ON AVIAN AND PANDEMIC [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 3. 2. (SBU) Dr. Bishnu Prasad Pandit, the senior point of contact on Avian Influenza for His Majesty's Government of Nepal (ref A),informed Emboff on September 30 that Nepal agreed to be listed as a partner on the International Partnership on [...] | 2005-09-30 11:21:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KSCA EAGR ECON PREL SOCI NP WHO |
05KATHMANDU2151 | RNA FINDS OFFICERS GUILTY IN RELATION TO HUMAN [...] (SBU) On September 27, the military court of the Royal Nepal Army (RNA) sentenced Colonel Bobby Khatri and Captains Sunil Adhikari and Amit Pun, the son of a senior RNA General, to six-month jail terms and temporary suspensions of promotion. They were found guilty in relation to the killing o [...] | 2005-09-30 11:27:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PINS NP |
05KATHMANDU2206 | TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION OFFICER (TFCO) [...] (SBU) Embassy Kathmandu's Terrorism Finance Coordination Officer (TFCO) is Deputy Chief of Mission Elisabeth I. Millard. Her phone number is 977-1-441-1179; classified e-mail: MillardEI@state.sgov.gov; unclassified e-mail: MillardE@state.gov. Deputy TFCO is Pol/Econ Officer Natasha Basley un [...] | 2005-10-07 09:56:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER KTFN KVPR EFIN ETTC PREL NP |
05KATHMANDU2266 | UNHCR UPDATE ON TIBETANS IN NEPAL [...] (SBU) On October 19, UNHCR informed us that they were seeking custody of two Tibetans currently being held by His Majesty's Government of Nepal (HMGN). UNHCR was also monitoring the cases of five other Tibetan individuals in HMGN custody and could become involved in those cases later. End Sum [...] | 2005-10-19 12:06:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PHUM NP |
05KATHMANDU2295 | MAOIST ATROCITIES CONTINUE DESPITE CEASEFIRE [...] (U) Despite a three-month unilateral ceasefire announced on September 3 by Prachanda, Chairman of the Communist Party of Nepal-Maoist (CPN-Maoist),the rebels continued to commit atrocities daily. The Maoists abducted more than 4,500 civilians, including teachers and students, in the month f [...] | 2005-10-20 11:21:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINS PTER PHUM PGOV NP |
05KATHMANDU2308 | FINANCIAL CRISIS IN NEPAL OIL CORPORATION [...] (SBU) Only three weeks after averting a financial crisis, the state-owned monopoly oil importer Nepal Oil Corporation (NOC) has again defaulted on payment to its supplier Indian Oil Corporation (IOC). Nepal's Ministry of Finance (MOF) and Nepal Rastra Bank (NRB) last averted a petroleum sup [...] | 2005-10-21 13:48:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG ECON ETRD EFIN PGOV NP |
05KATHMANDU2315 | SAFE MIGRATION: PREVENTION OF LABOR AND SEXUAL [...] (SBU) With dwindling economic prospects stemming from a decade-long Maoist insurgency, increasing numbers of Nepalese workers are leaving for other countries in search of safety and better employment opportunities. The Embassy and USAID recently gathered representatives from UN agencies and N [...] | 2005-10-24 08:01:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV ELAB PINS KWMN NP |
05KATHMANDU2321 | UNHCR TIBETAN UPDATE [...] (SBU) On October 24, UNHCR informed us that, as requested, (reftel) His Majesty's Government of Nepal (HMGN) had turned over to UNHCR two Tibetan refugees who had been detained on immigration violations (one a new arrival and one returning to Tibet from India to visit relatives). Five other Ti [...] | 2005-10-25 05:56:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PHUM NP |
05KATHMANDU2326 | NEPAL'S TOURISM INDUSTRY BENEFITS FROM CEASE-FIRE [...] (U) According to recent figures released by Nepal's Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation (MOCTCA),tourist arrivals grew by a record 46.5 percent in September compared to the same month in 2004. The increase is largely attributed to the three-month unilateral ceasefire declared by [...] | 2005-10-25 10:39:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EIND PTER PINS NP |
05KATHMANDU2403 | GOVERNMENT'S REVENUE COLLECTION POOR [...] (SBU) THE GOVERNMENT OF NEPAL'S RECENT INCOME AND EXPENDITURE FIGURES, RELEASED BY NEPAL'S MINISTRY OF FINANCE (MOF) ON OCTOBER 26, SHOW THAT TOTAL REVENUE COLLECTION RECORDED A GROWTH OF ONLY 0.6 PERCENT IN THE FIRST QUARTER OF FY 2005/06. (NOTE: FIRST QUARTER IS FROM JULY 16 TO OCTOBER 15. [...] | 2005-11-08 01:03:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EFIN ABUD NP |
05KATHMANDU2442 | NEPAL: DOCUMENT VENDORS ARRESTED [...] (SBU) Nepal Police (NP) arrested a group of six collaborating document vendors in mid-October and a single fraudulent document vendor on November 5, 2005. In both cases, NP gave Post's Fraud Prevention Manager (FPM) and Senior Fraud Prevention FSN (FPFSN) access to exemplars of the documents t [...] | 2005-11-14 00:26:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFRD CVIS CPAS CMGT ASEC NP |
05KATHMANDU2508 | INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY EXPRESSES CONCERN OVER [...] (SBU) Along with others from the donor community and United Nations agencies, the Embassy signed the following letter to the Minister for Women, Children and Social Welfare regarding our concerns about the new Code of Conduct for NGOs (reftel). In the letter, the international community expre [...] | 2005-11-17 11:06:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL NP |
05KATHMANDU2781 | ICE OFFICIAL SEEKS FUNDING FOR NEPAL CUSTOMS [...] (SBU) In recent meetings with James Dozier of the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Immigration and Customs Enforcement Division (ICE) from Embassy New Delhi, Nepali officials identified training and equipment needed to improve immigration, customs, and drug trafficking enforcement. Pol [...] | 2005-12-12 10:27:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON KCOR KFRD CVIS SNAR PTER NP |
05KATHMANDU2784 | TERRORIST FINANCE: LIST 74 [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-13 00:59:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER KTFN EFIN ETTC CVIS KVPR |
05KATHMANDU2828 | 2005-2006 INCSR REPORT, FINANCIAL CRIMES AND MONEY [...] (SBU) This is Post's 2005-2006 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report Part II, Financial Crimes and Money Laundering, per reftel. Begin Text. Nepal Nepal is not a regional financial center and there are no indications that Nepal is used as an international money laundering cen [...] | 2005-12-16 10:51:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN KCRM KTFN PTER SNAR NP |
05KATHMANDU2849 | EMBASSY KATHMANDU PANDEMIC INFLUENZA TRIPWIRES AND [...] (SBU) The Embassy has established an ad hoc interagency working group on avian influenza (AI) that meets regularly to discuss the Post Emergency Action Plan (EAP) specific to AI. The working group has recommended the following: to develop a section for Post's general EAP specific to a Pandemic [...] | 2005-12-19 10:05:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMGT ASEC CASC AMED KFLO AEMR NP |
05KATHMANDU2897 | BUSINESS LEADERS TO STAFFDEL: NEPAL IS OPEN FOR [...] (SBU) At a December 21 breakfast meeting with congressional Staffdel, six Nepali business leaders said that Nepal was "open for business." The business leaders explained to the Staffdel how the Maoist insurgency and the current instability of His Majesty's Government of Nepal (HMGN) were hind [...] | 2005-12-22 09:28:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BEXP BTIO EINV ECON ENRG NP |
05KATHMANDU2949 | EMBASSY KATHMANDU PANDEMIC INFLUENZA TRIPWIRES NOW [...] (SBU) Post has published pandemic influenza tripwires from ref A on the Tripwire Reporting and Integrated Planning System (TRIPS) per instructions in ref B. MILLARD [...] | 2005-12-29 09:54:00 | Embassy Kathmandu | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMGT ASEC CASC AMED KFLO AEMR NP |
05KINGSTON1197 | KINGSTON POL/ECON ROUNDUP: APR 22 - MAY 6, 2005 [...] This week's topics: -- Police Under Attack from Kingston Gunmen -- Latest Crime Statistics -- Prime Minister Rolls Out the Goodies -- PNP Sources Report Concerns of a Party Divided -- Mexican President Fox Visits Jamaica -- Air Jamaica Settles Labor Dispute ----------------------------- [...] | 2005-05-06 20:58:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EFIN ECON EINV JM SNAR KCOR KCRM ELAB |
05KINGSTON1289 | JAMAICA: POLICE OFFICERS CALL OUT SICK [...] (U) On Monday, May 9, angry Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) officers blocked Finance Minister Omar Davies from leaving the Ministry of Finance and Planning building in an attempt to force the Minister to respond within 48 hours to the officers, demands for a 47 percent wage increase. Davies, [...] | 2005-05-18 17:17:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KCRM SNAR ASEC JM |
05KINGSTON1316 | WESTERN HEMISPHERE TRAVEL DOCUMENT INITIATIVE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Jamaica is one of the countries in the Caribbean which exempts U.S. citizens traveling to the island for tourism from the requirement of a passport or visa. Ref (A) announced that effective December 31, 2005, DHS will require all U.S. citizens traveling to and from the Caribbe [...] | 2005-05-20 18:04:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC CPAS CVIS JM KFRD TIP |
05KINGSTON1321 | JAMAICA: CRIME SNAPSHOT FOR MAY 9 - 20 [...] Crime Statistics 2. Another Police Officer Slain in the Line of Duty 3. Prime Minister Calls Crucial Meeting on Corruption 4. Gunmen Open Fire on Passenger Bus Filled with School Children ------------------------------ Crime Statistics - Nothing New ------------------------------ Â [...] | 2005-05-24 16:40:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KCRM SNAR JM |
05KINGSTON1444 | GOJ OFFERS MIXED RESPONSE ON TIP, CONCERNED ABOUT [...] (SBU) On May 31 and June 2, emboffs met with GOJ officials to discuss the imminent release, on June 3, of the 2005 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. The different meetings yielded varying responses. On May 31, Charge met with National Security Minister Peter Phillips at the Minister's req [...] | 2005-06-06 19:42:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM KWMN OPRC PHUM PREL SMIG JM TIP |
05KINGSTON1531 | OFFICE OF PRIME MINISTER DRIVING JAMAICA'S [...] (U) Since the June 3 release of the 2005 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report (Ref A),the GOJ has not engaged Post on the issue, nor has there been any official reaction to the Tier 3 Action Plan delivered to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade (MFAFT) on June 2. However, follow [...] | 2005-06-17 18:58:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM KWMN OPRC PHUM PREL SMIG JM TIP |
05KINGSTON1534 | KINGSTON POL/ECON ROUNDUP: MAY 7 - JUNE 16, 2005 [...] This week's topics: -- TIP: GOJ Responding to Threat of Sanctions -- Foreign Carriers Yield After Call Blocking Crisis -- Mayor of Spanish Town Resigns Following Arrest -- Seaga Offers Advice on his 75th Birthday -- Crime Statistics - Count Them Yourself -- Tax Laws to Fight Crime -- Prime [...] | 2005-06-17 19:11:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EFIN ECON EINV JM SNAR KCOR KCRM ELAB CASC TIP |
05KINGSTON1611 | A DEFENSIVE NATIONAL SECURITY MINISTER HOSTS TIP [...] (U) On June 24, at the request of National Security Minister Peter Phillips, Charge, USAID Mission Director, and Poloff (notetaker) attended a meeting hosted by Phillips on the subject of trafficking in persons (TIP) at the Ministry of National Security (MNS). Unfortunately, Phillips used the [...] | 2005-06-29 20:51:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM KWMN OPRC PHUM PREL SMIG JM TIP |
05KINGSTON1622 | CABINET OFFICE HOSTS TIP WORKING SESSION [...] On June 28, the Cabinet Office hosted a working meeting with USAID Mission Director and Poloff to review actions taken to date by the GOJ to combat trafficking in persons (TIP). The meeting had been scheduled as a follow up to a June 24 meeting on TIP at the Ministry of National Security (MNS [...] | 2005-06-30 18:40:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM KWMN OPRC PHUM PREL SMIG JM TIP |
05KINGSTON1652 | KINGSTON POL/ECON ROUNDUP: JUNE 17-30, 2005 [...] This week's topics: -- Poll Shows Davies Gaining Ground -- Six Closer to Extradition to U.S. -- JCF Recruits Abroad as Crime Soars -- Jamaica to Launch Copyright Campaign -- Trade Deficit Deteriorates -- Jamaica and China Sign Bauxite Agreement -- Thailand Views Jamaica As Possible Hub - [...] | 2005-07-05 11:29:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EFIN ECON EINV JM KCRM CASC EAGR |
05KINGSTON1675 | LONDON EXPLOSIONS [...] (SBU) Embassy Kingston has suspended normal operations for all of Thursday July 7 due to the proximity of Hurricane Dennis to the Jamaica mainland. Post will resume normal ops on July 8 and will convene EAC as directed. In the interim, post does not consider a terrorist attack in Jamaica likely [...] | 2005-07-07 17:58:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMGT ASEC CASC PTER |
05KINGSTON1784 | DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS VISIT KINGSTON TO EVALUATE [...] (U) On July 14 and 15, G/TIP Reports Officer Rachel Owen and WHA/PPC Senior Labor Advisor Michael Puccetti visited Kingston to assess what actions the GOJ had taken to combat trafficking in persons (TIP) in the 60-day grace period following the June 1 publication of the 2005 TIP Report (Ref A) [...] | 2005-07-21 20:48:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM KWMN OPRC PHUM PREL SMIG JM TIP |
05KINGSTON1904 | ASSESSMENT OF RECENT GOJ ACTION ON TIP [...] The GOJ has responded energetically to the June 3 publication of the 2005 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report, in which Jamaica was downgraded to Tier 3 (Ref A). Coordinated from the highest levels by the Office of the Prime Minister and various other Cabinet-level officials, a National TIP Ta [...] | 2005-08-10 13:28:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM KWMN OPRC PHUM PREL SMIG JM TIP |
05KINGSTON1905 | IMF GIVES JAMAICA PASSING MARK [...] (SBU) Summary: The IMF Interim Staff Report, issued on June 23, gave the GOJ high marks for stabilizing the economy following the macroeconomic challenges of 2003. By expressing broad agreement with the country's economic policies, the report could have boosted public confidence in Finance Minister [...] | 2005-08-10 13:41:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN JM |
05KINGSTON2059 | GOJ LAUNCHES TIP PUBLIC AWARENESS CAMPAIGN [...] Summary: The GOJ on August 30 launched a yearlong public awareness campaign to educate its citizens about the dangers of trafficking in persons (TIP). In a move that appears to indicate the GOJ's determination to make sustained efforts against trafficking, the Cabinet Office organized a publi [...] | 2005-09-01 16:28:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM KWMN OPRC PHUM PREL SMIG JM TIP |
05KINGSTON2144 | BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECK ON [...] (SBU) On August 22, Poloff spoke with Senior Superintendent XXX of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF). XXX explained that the JCF is currently participating in a training course led by London-based Task International (http://www.task-int.com). The technical training includes segments on ho [...] | 2005-09-13 21:42:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC KOMC JM |
05KINGSTON2220 | INTERNATIONAL SEABED AUTHORITY - 2005 (ELEVENTH) [...] (U) The Eleventh Session of the International Seabed Authority (ISBA) took place in Kingston, Jamaica from 15-26 August, 2005. The majority of the meeting's time was spent on the first detailed review of proposed regulations on prospecting and exploration for polymetallic sulphides and cobal [...] | 2005-09-23 18:39:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHSA TPHY JM |
05KINGSTON2495 | PETROCARIBE: PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTOR CONCERNS [...] (SBU) Under the bilateral agreement signed between Jamaica and Venezuela on August 23 (ref A),Jamaica receives 21,000 barrels of petroleum products and crude oil daily. While the island pays market price for the products, a portion of the payment can be converted into a concessionary loan for [...] | 2005-11-03 20:26:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG ECON PREL JM |
05KINGSTON2552 | JAMAICA: INTERIM TIP ASSESSMENT [...] The following constitutes Post's submission for Jamaica's Interim TIP Assessment, per Ref A instructions. In addition to the information reported below and in Ref B and Ref C, Post has details of recent TIP-related law enforcement actions that are available upon request. ------------------ [...] | 2005-11-15 21:15:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM KWMN OPRC PHUM PREL SMIG JM TIP |
05KINGSTON2682 | KINGSTON POL/ECON ROUNDUP: NOVEMBER 26 - DECEMBER [...] This week's topics: -- JLP Holds Annual Conference -- Poverty Cut in Half -- GOJ Increases Social Benefits -- Brazilians to Invest in Sugar Industry -- Chinese Government to Finance Mega Projects -- Tourist Arrivals to Surge -- Police Officers on Trial -- Crime Statistic [...] | 2005-12-09 19:08:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EFIN ECON EINV PHUM ELAB KHIV JM |
05KINGSTON2784 | KINGSTON POL/ECON ROUNDUP: DECEMBER 10 - DECEMBER [...] This week's topics: -- Police Officers on Trial for Murder -- Telecommunications Company Goes Belly-up -- Electricity Thieves Cost Power Company -- Cricket World Cup -- Bauxite Industry Labor Issues -- Weak Christmas Retail Season -- Egg Farmers Seek Duty Protection -- E [...] | 2005-12-23 19:29:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EFIN ECON EINV PHUM ELAB KHIV JM |
05KINGSTON292 | JAMAICA CIVAIR: INFORMING GOJ OF FAA REQUEST FOR [...] (SBU) Per Ref A instructions, on January 27 Pol/Econ Chief and Econoff met with Transport Minister Robert Pickersgill, Jamaica Civil Aviation Authority (JCAA) Chief Col. Torrance Lewis, and members of their staffs, to advise of the areas in which the FAA found the Jamaica Civil Aviation Autho [...] | 2005-02-02 19:42:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON ETRD PREL JM |
05KINGSTON673 | JAMAICA LABOR PARTY: FROM THE WILDERNESS TO THE [...] (U) Summary: The Jamaica Labor Party on February 21 held its annual conference, which had been postponed twice since September 2004 due to Hurricane Ivan and internal disputes. The meeting officially elected Bruce Golding, who ultimately ran unopposed, to the position of party leader. The even [...] | 2005-03-09 20:36:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | JM PGOV PREL |
05KINGSTON806 | HCOC DEMARCHE - JAMAICA [...] (SBU) On March 14, Pol/Econ Chief conveyed reftel talking points to Shorna-Kay Richards, of the International Organizations Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade (MFAFT),leaving talking points as a non-paper. Richards carefully reviewed the points, as well as The Hague Co [...] | 2005-03-21 23:37:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA JM MTCRE |
05KINGSTON829 | NATIONAL SECURITY MINISTER (AND PM-HOPEFUL) [...] (U) Summary: Prompted by an escalating murder rate, on March 17 Minister of National Security Peter Phillips, in an address to graduates of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) training academy announced: "We are at war. The criminal gangs that have been spawned by the illegal drug trade have [...] | 2005-03-23 20:12:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM SNAR JM |
05KINGSTON832 | JAMAICA: A NATION SADDLED BY DEBT [...] (U) Summary: Despite GOJ efforts to lower its gargantuan public debt, Jamaica still has the unenviable record of being the second most indebted country in the world, after Lebanon, in terms of its debt-to-GDP ratio. At the end of 2004, Jamaica's stock of public debt stood at USD 12.5 billion [...] | 2005-03-24 11:41:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN JM |
05KINGSTON893 | DISCOVERY OF FINANCE MINISTRY'S ISSUES ILLEGAL [...] (U) Summary: The Jamaican Ministry of Finance (MOF) used deferred financing to support development projects without going to Parliament for approval. Following an amendment to the Financial Administration Act (FAA) in 2002, the MOF modified their "comfort letters" to financial institutions, turni [...] | 2005-03-31 18:14:00 | Embassy Kingston | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN JM |
05KINSHASA100 | GOVERNMENT SHUTS DOWN BEMBA-OWNED RADIO AND [...] (U) SUMMARY: Authorities in Kinshasa shut down two television stations and a radio station owned by Vice President Bemba. These stations aired comments made by an ousted former minister, which were critical of President Kabila. This action comes during a period of heightened tension between [...] | 2005-01-21 09:07:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM KPAO CG |
05KINSHASA106 | GREAT LAKES PEACE PROCESS - TRIPARTITE MEETING [...] (SBU) Ambassador-at-Large Andre Kaponga told DCM on January 20 the DRC delegation to the February 2 Tripartite will "probably" be headed by Minister of Regional Cooperation Mbusa Nyamwisi. (Note: Foreign Minister Ramazani told the Ambassador on January 18 that he would not be able to attend s [...] | 2005-01-21 14:49:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PREF MOPS CG |
05KINSHASA123 | APPREHENDING FUGITIVE ICTR INDICTEES [...] (U) Information requested reftel follows. Status of Rewards for Justice Program ------------------------------------- 2. (SBU) Rewards for three informants involved in the May 2004 arrest of indictee Yusuf John Munyakazi are still pending Department action. (Comment: In 2004 local press [...] | 2005-01-24 15:12:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KAWC KJUS CG RW ICTR |
05KINSHASA127 | HIGH MEDIA AUTHORITY SUSPENDS TELEVSION PROGRAM [...] (SBU) On January 13, the High Media Authority (HAM) suspended the television program "Forum des Medias" for thirty days. In announcing the suspension, the HAM remarked that this program has "proved to be in violation of ethical standards set out under the terms and conditions of its own contr [...] | 2005-01-25 13:44:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KPAO KDEM CG |
05KINSHASA1329 | CONGO/B: BEACH TRIAL VERDICT EXPECTED TODAY; EAC [...] (SBU) Summary. A verdict is expected today in the trial of 15 of the country's senior security officials over the disappearance of more than 350 political refugees in events referred to as 'the affair of the missing at the beach' or the 'beach' case. Post recognizes that there is some possibil [...] | 2005-08-17 14:57:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PGOV PHUM AEMR AMGT KJUS CF |
05KINSHASA1345 | CONGO-B: AN ASSESSMENT OF POLITICAL STYLE AND [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 10. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: A product of years of strife, struggle, and coalition building to gain and retain power, Congolese President Denis Sassou-Nguesso has emerged as the uncontested and unquestioned leader of government, chairman of the corp [...] | 2005-08-22 11:28:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON PHUM ASEC ETRD EINV CF |
05KINSHASA1365 | CONGO/B: CHINESE PRESENCE IN CONGO-BRAZZAVILLE [...] (U) SUMMARY: As was stated in Ref B, Chinese presence in the Republic of Congo (ROC) is on the rise. One corporation is constructing a hydroelectric dam, another is building low-income housing, another is bringing drinking water to low-income communities, and yet another is expanding televi [...] | 2005-08-24 13:07:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AF CH ECON EAGR EFIN EMIN ENRG ETTC PHUM PREL ETRD SENV CF ENIV |
05KINSHASA1665 | 15 MILLION VOTERS REGISTERED [...] (SBU) Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) officials said they had registered 15 million voters as of October 4. This represents over fifty percent of the initial estimate of 28 million potential voters nationwide. They noted the vast majority of voter registration centers have opened in all [...] | 2005-10-05 13:45:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM KPKO PREL CG |
05KINSHASA185 | RESURGENCE OF ETHNICALLY-BASED VIOLENCE IN ITURI [...] (U) Summary. Lendu militias attacked the Ituri Hema village of Tche January 26, causing an unknown number of civilian casualties and hundreds of IDPs. A similar attack on another village February 1 apparently resulted in about 60 deaths. Clashes between Lendu and Hema militias in the Djugu ter [...] | 2005-02-03 13:39:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KPKO PHUM CG |
05KINSHASA198 | CONGO/B: UPDATED 2005 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS [...] Embassy Brazzaville submits the following updated Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report. Responses are keyed to the questions in Ref A and C with very little change from Ref B. Republic of Congo (Congo/B) Overview of activities to eliminate trafficking in persons: A. Congo/B is not belie [...] | 2005-02-04 14:56:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB CF |
05KINSHASA204 | PARLIAMENTARIANS AIM TO FINISH CONSTITUTION BY [...] (U) SUMMARY: A working group of parliamentarians and government representatives agreed February 4 to a calendar that would have the Senate finish with the draft constitution by February 27 and the National Assembly adopt a final version by March 14. On issues of substance, the group basicall [...] | 2005-02-07 09:42:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINS PREL CG |
05KINSHASA205 | INTER-INSTITUTIONAL SEMINAR UNREALISTIC ON [...] (U) Summary: The Elections Finance Committee of the Feb 2-4 Inter-Institutional Seminar highlighted the $100 million gap in funding for elections in the DRC. While committee discussion tended to focus on increased funding from the international community, plenary debate concentrated on general [...] | 2005-02-07 09:46:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINS KDEM EFIN ECON CG |
05KINSHASA218 | CONGOLESE TRANSITION ACTORS EVALUATE ELECTORAL [...] (U) SUMMARY: Parliamentarians and other transition government officials met in Kinshasa February 2-4 to exchange views on how to improve the electoral process. Their main recommendations include increased GDRC financial and logistical support for the Independent Electoral Commission; starting [...] | 2005-02-08 15:08:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM PINS PREL CG |
05KINSHASA219 | CONGO/B: CENTRAL AFRICAN HEADS OF STATE ENVIRONMENT [...] (U) Summary: The Second Summit of the Central African Heads of State on Conservation and the Sustainable Management of Forest Ecosystems, held in Brazzaville on February 4 and 5, was marked by the signature of a treaty that strengthens the role of the Central Africa Forest Commission (COMI [...] | 2005-02-08 17:03:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV PREL CF |
05KINSHASA221 | CONGO/B: APPREHENDING FUGITIVE ICTR INDICTEES [...] (U) Post continues to follow the Awards for Justice programs very closely and the Ambassador engages President Sassou on the issue at every opportunity. Although, the ROC government turned over two genocidaires in 2003, there continue to be reports that Protuis Mpinaya travels regularly betw [...] | 2005-02-08 18:02:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KAWC KJUS ICTR |
05KINSHASA23 | GDRC RESHUFFLES CABINET [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The GDRC carried out a sizeable cabinet reshuffle January 3, replacing the Ministers of Defense, Mines, and Energy, among others. The long-awaited move is the outcome of a recent parliamentary report on official corruption, combined with a desire on the part of the RCD-Goma's l [...] | 2005-01-05 14:38:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV CG |
05KINSHASA231 | CATHOLIC BISHOPS TELL POLITICIANS TO GET TO WORK, [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Congo's Catholic bishops issued a public statement on February 5, calling upon the transitional government and parliament to buckle down so that national elections can take place "as soon as possible." The statement also warned unnamed political parties against "manipulating [...] | 2005-02-09 15:45:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINS KDEM CG |
05KINSHASA259 | CONGO, BURUNDI TO EXCHANGE AMBASSADORS [...] (U) SUMMARY: Foreign ministers from Burundi and the DRC signed a joint communique February 11 that calls for the exchange of ambassadors, the sharing of security information, for the DRC to support Burundi's application to join the existing Congo-Rwanda-Uganda Tripartite. END SUMMARY. Comm [...] | 2005-02-15 12:44:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL CG BY |
05KINSHASA271 | MOROCCO ACTS AGAINST PEACEKEEPERS ACCUSED OF [...] No summary [...] | 2005-02-16 13:48:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPKO PHUM CG |
05KINSHASA295 | INFORMATION MINISTER BACKTRACKS ON MEDIA BAN [...] (U) SUMMARY: The DRC's information minister on February 16 rescinded an order he issued in January which banned community radio stations from broadcasting political news. END SUMMARY. Information Minister Backtracks ------------------------------- 2. (U) Minister of Press and Information [...] | 2005-02-22 07:56:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KPAO KDEM PHUM SOCI CG |
05KINSHASA31 | KABILA'S QUIET KISANGANI VISIT [...] (SBU) Summary: On January 3, President Kabila arrived in Kisangani, Province Orientale with little fanfare or advance notice. On January 5, Kabila met with several Ituri warlords scheduled to become FARDC brigadier generals. The President appears to be inspecting the new FARDC forward operati [...] | 2005-01-06 16:08:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL CG |
05KINSHASA342 | INCREASING UNION ACTIVITY: PRIVATE SECTOR UNION [...] (U) Summary. The DRC labor sector is facing two key events in 2005: union elections and a civil census. Vice President Z'ahidi N'goma and the National Labor Council authorized labor union leadership elections in April 2004. The Ministry of Labor is attempting to organize these elections fro [...] | 2005-03-01 06:59:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ECON PHUM PGOV SOCI CG |
05KINSHASA352 | DEM. REP. OF CONGO 2005 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS [...] (SBU) Embassy Kinshasa provides the following information in accordance with instructions in reftel. Responses are keyed to reftel's numbered paragraphs (18-21). Begin responses: OVERVIEW OF COUNTRY'S ACTIVITIES TO ELIMINATE TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS (para 18): A. The DRC is not generall [...] | 2005-03-01 16:39:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN EAID SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB CG |
05KINSHASA355 | MONUC PURSUES MILITIA INVOLVED IN PEACEKEEPERS' [...] (SBU) According to MONUC sources, a contingent of 242 Pakistani special peacekeeping forces on March 1 conducted a military operation against the Front for National Integration (FNI) in Djugu territory, Ituri. These sources said that MONUC engaged over 100 militia and inflicted "heavy casualti [...] | 2005-03-02 11:40:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KPKO PHUM PREL MARR CG |
05KINSHASA356 | SAN'EGIDIO COULD SEE SUCCESS [...] (SBU) Ambassador received a letter from President Kabila's Ambassador-at-Large Antoine Ghonda informing him that on March 6, the FDLR has agreed in principle to publicly agree to renounce violence, denounce the Rwandan genocide, and agree to disarm and voluntarily repatriate to Rwanda. Infor [...] | 2005-03-02 13:27:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KPKO CG RW |
05KINSHASA365 | PROGRESS REPORT ON ELECTORAL COMMISSION'S TIMELINE [...] (SBU) Summary. Immediately following the February 2-4 Inter-Institutional Seminar, the DRC's Independent Electoral Commission published an electoral timeline highlighting the need to provide the CEI with increased office and storage space, and to begin identifying voting registration centers b [...] | 2005-03-03 10:09:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM PINS PREL CG |
05KINSHASA370 | ITURI UPDATE [...] (SBU) According to MONUC sources, the military operation conducted by Pakistani special peacekeeping forces March 1 against the Front for National Integration (FNI) in Loga, Djugu territory, Ituri, has so far resulted in over 50 militia casualties. These sources said two peacekeepers were inju [...] | 2005-03-03 11:53:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KPKO PHUM PREL MARR CG |
05KINSHASA404 | ITURI CALM IN WAKE OF MONUC ACTION [...] (U) SUMMARY: The site of a recent MONUC military operation in Ituri is now calm and people are returning to their homes, according to NGO sources who visited the area March 5-7. Several international NGOs and UNICEF also resumed providing humanitarian assistance to internally-displaced peopl [...] | 2005-03-08 15:59:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KPKO MOPS PHUM PREL CG |
05KINSHASA410 | U.N. BRIEFS ON ITURI SITUATION [...] (U) SUMMARY: U.N. officials briefed Kinshasa-based diplomats and humanitarian workers on March 8 about the current situation in Ituri. They stressed the need for the GDRC to adopt a clear position towards Ituri militias and to address the dire humanitarian situation they have caused. End Summa [...] | 2005-03-09 16:27:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KPKO MOPS PHUM PREL CG |
05KINSHASA436 | CONGO/B: POLITICAL ATMOSPHERICS - POOL REGION [...] (SBU) Summary: Over the last two weeks, both the Ninja and Pool Region issues have returned to the forefront of the political landscape in Congo-Brazzaville. Beginning with a stand off between "Ninjas" and security forces in the BaCongo neighborhood of Brazzaville followed by the Government's [...] | 2005-03-14 14:14:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM ASEC CF |
05KINSHASA457 | UNHCR DONORS VISIT SOUTH KIVU [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: UNHCR hosted a field mission for donors to South Kivu February 14-16. This mission gave donors an opportunity to view firsthand the current state of affairs, infrastructure, political climate and security concerns surrounding processing of refugees in South Kivu. The mission [...] | 2005-03-17 09:12:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PHUM PGOV CG |
05KINSHASA461 | DR CONGO: CHILD MARRIAGE EXISTS [...] (SBU) Response is keyed to reftel. Begin response: A) The legal age of marriage is 15 for girls and 18 for boys. The government is revising the family code, and experts believe the legal age of marriage for girls will be raised to 18. There is not a lower legal age for marriage with pare [...] | 2005-03-17 12:09:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB PHUM PGOV SCUL SOCI CG |
05KINSHASA464 | DR CONGO: CHILD MARRIAGE EXISTS [...] (SBU) Response is keyed to reftel. Begin response: A) The legal age of marriage is 15 for girls and 18 for boys. The government is revising the family code, and experts believe the legal age of marriage for girls will be raised to 18. There is not a lower legal age for marriage with pare [...] | 2005-03-18 07:46:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ELAB PHUM PGOV SCUL SOCI CG |
05KINSHASA52 | LABOR SECTOR UPDATE [...] (U) From Nov-Dec 2004, a series of civil servant strikes to claim salary payments and raises occurred in both government organizations and state-owned enterprises. In 2003-2004, the GDRC negotiated a civil service restructuring plan with the World Bank without union involvement. The GDRC desig [...] | 2005-01-11 14:02:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ECON PHUM PGOV SOCI CG |
05KINSHASA601 | Congo/B: UNHCR - Demarche [...] (U) Post was sent Department reftels only on April 1, and executed demarches at the first available opportunity April 4. For future UNCHR Collective cables please send to Kinshasa slugged "Pass to Brazzaville" since Post does not have access to either Department's unclassified or classified s [...] | 2005-04-11 05:23:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM CF CU UNCHR |
05KINSHASA63 | JANUARY 10 PROTESTS IN KINSHASA [...] (U) SUMMARY: Violent protests in outlying parts of Kinshasa over the possibility of delayed elections claimed the lives of several civilians on January 10. Post issued two warden messages; no Amcits were injured during the events. END SUMMARY. 2. (U) Violent demonstrations took place in [...] | 2005-01-12 15:52:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CASC ASEC PGOV PINS PHUM CG |
05KINSHASA80 | CONGO/B: A LOOK AT THE NEW GOVERNMENT, REACTIONS TO [...] (U) POST HAS NO ACCESS TO CLASSIFIED SYSTEM AT THIS TIME, THEREFORE MORE DETAILED ANAYLSIS WILL BE PROVIDED WHEN POSSIBLE. 2. (U) SUMMARY: IN A FOLLOW-UP TO CONGO/B PRESIDENT DENIS SASSOU NGUESSO'S NEW YEAR'S DAY SPEECH HIGHLIGHTING HIS DESIRE FOR A NEW, MORE EFFICIENT, EFFECTIVE, AND SMALL [...] | 2005-01-17 10:26:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL CF |
05KINSHASA82 | KINSHASA SHUTS DOWN, NEW MINISTERS SWORN IN ON [...] (U) SUMMARY: The city of Kinshasa shut down on January 14, following calls for a strike to commemorate protesters killed earlier in the week by police. Despite the "dead city," several new GDRC ministers also took their oath of office on January 14, but MLC officials boycotted the ceremony o [...] | 2005-01-19 12:48:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINS ASEC CASC CG |
05KINSHASA88 | CONGO/B: TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT [...] Sensitive but unclassified - entire text. 2. Embassy Brazzaville submits the following Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report. Responses are keyed to the questions in Ref A. Republic of Congo (Congo/B) Overview of activities to eliminate trafficking in persons: A. Congo/B is not be [...] | 2005-01-20 05:35:00 | Embassy Kinshasa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB CF |
05KIRKUK288 | (SBU) ELECTORAL COMPLAINTS HEAT UP IN KIRKUK [...] (SBU)SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION. RC and PolOff heard differing electoral complaints in meetings with Kirkuk Provincial Council Chairman Rizgar Ali and several Turcoman council members plus one Arab member on December 12, 2005. The Kurdish Chairman (affiliated with PUK) expressed frustration and [...] | 2005-12-14 08:23:00 | REO Kirkuk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM IZ |
05KIRKUK293 | (U) SULAYMANIYAH AIRPORT GOES INTERNATIONAL [...] (U) SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION: Sulaymaniyah airport has begun international operations, with weekly flights to Amman and Dubai via Baghdad on Iraqi Airways. On December 10, the Turkish private airline Fly Air inaugurated its service to Istanbul. Other destinations are to be added shortly after [...] | 2005-12-18 13:28:00 | REO Kirkuk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON PGOV IZ IRMO |
05KIRKUK300 | (U) CHINA WOOS IRAQI KURDS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: China seeks better relations and trade with Iraq's Kurdistan Region, including oil. Kurdistan is officially autonomous, but foreign relations remain the prerogative of the Iraqi national government, so the Kurds' dealings with China are handled through the dominant political p [...] | 2005-12-22 12:50:00 | REO Kirkuk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ETRD CH IZ |
05KUWAIT1496 | KUWAIT ENERGY UPDATE: RECORD PRICES AND PROFITS, [...] (U) Summary: Kuwait Export Crude hits another record high in March, while sustained high oil prices push Kuwait's budget surplus to $9.2 billion for the current fiscal year and as high as $12-$13 billion in the next. Kuwait Oil Company expects to boost crude exports by an additional 150,000 [...] | 2005-04-13 12:19:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EPET ENRG KU OIL SECTOR |
05KUWAIT1539 | KUWAIT DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UNRWA EMERGENCY APPEAL [...] No summary [...] | 2005-04-17 13:17:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF KPAL KU PRES |
05KUWAIT1542 | KUWAITI DELEGATION DESCRIBES SUDAN AS "WORSE THAN [...] (SBU) During a 17 April meeting, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Under Secretary Khaled Al-Jarallah described the current situation in Sudan as worse than it was 20 years ago. Al-Jarallah, as part of a delegation led by Minister for Diwan Affairs Shaykh Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah, visite [...] | 2005-04-17 14:54:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID ECON EINV PHUM SU KU |
05KUWAIT1660 | EDUCATION REFORM: NEW KUWAITI TEXTBOOKS BY 2006 [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador, accompanied by CAO, met with Kuwait's Minister of Higher Education Dr. Rashid Al- Hamed on April 9, 2005. Discussion focused on reform of the educational system and textbooks. In previous meetings with Emboffs, ministry officials have said that the Ministry's str [...] | 2005-04-24 14:07:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV OEXC KISL KU |
05KUWAIT1677 | KUWAIT DEMARCHE DELIVERED: FUNDING AFGHANISTAN'S [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) PolChief discussed reftel demarche with Hamad Al-Ahmad, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Counselor - Chief of Asian Affairs on April 20 and 24. Al-Hamad reported that Kuwait pledged $30 million at the January 2002 Tokyo Internat [...] | 2005-04-25 09:53:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID AF KU |
05KUWAIT1682 | COUSINS' CONSORTIA VIE FOR IRAQ POWER DEAL [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment. Two wings of the influential Al-Ghanim clan are competing for the sale of electrical power to Iraq. Kutayba Al-Ghanim and Fouad Al-Ghanim recently presented similar, Kuwait-based BOT proposals to a visiting Iraqi negotiating team. The two consortia offer 7-10 year [...] | 2005-04-25 13:10:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BEXP ENRG IZ KU KUWAIT IRAQ RELATIONS |
05KUWAIT1711 | EMBASSY KUWAIT VALIDATION STUDY ON DOMESTIC [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy Kuwait has completed a nonimmigrant visa validation study on domestic employee B1 visa recipients. The purpose of this study was to measure the overstay and non-return rates for B1 visa holders with Kuwaiti sponsors, as well as the B1 sponsors' compliance with U.S. labo [...] | 2005-04-26 16:38:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS KFRD PHUM KU |
05KUWAIT1756 | KUWAIT STOCK EXCHANGE: AN INSIDE VIEW [...] (U) Summary: Econ Officer met on April 27 with Kuwait Stock Exchange Manager of the Technical Bureau Department Ms. Wafa Mohamed Al-Rasheed for an overview and tour of the Exchange. Al-Rasheed described the modernization and upgrading of the Exchange, including the installation of a new ele [...] | 2005-05-01 04:51:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN BEXP PINR KU |
05KUWAIT1830 | OIL AND WATER: REGIONAL HUB OFFICER RECEIVES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. During his April 17-20 orientation visit to Kuwait, Amman Regional Environment, Science, Technology and Health (ESTH) officer Jock Whittlesey met with a wide range of governmental, non-governmental and private sector individuals and participated in three public diplomacy outre [...] | 2005-05-03 09:32:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV TBIO EPET PREL KPAO KU TSPL |
05KUWAIT1878 | GULF INVESTMENT CORP: A GCC INVESTMENT POWERHOUSE [...] (U) Summary: Ambassador met May 3 with executives of the Gulf Investment Corporation and heard how this GCC-funded institution is changing its focus from simply encouraging private enterprise in the Gulf to providing financial research, investment advice and consulting throughout the region. [...] | 2005-05-07 12:45:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV PINR KU |
05KUWAIT1965 | KUWAIT: THREE IPR SEMINARS IN THREE WEEKS [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment. After their country was strongly criticized this past year for its poor intellectual property rights (IPR) record, Kuwaitis from inside and outside the government organized three different IPR seminars in late April and early May. The first event, an April 25 roun [...] | 2005-05-11 13:16:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON PREL KIPR KU |
05KUWAIT2041 | GOK UPS ANTE ON WOMEN'S RIGHTS; REQUESTS IMMEDIATE [...] (U) The GOK surprised many during the May 16 session of the National Assembly in what was expected to be a re-vote on the proposed measure to grant women political rights at the Municipal Council level. Bypassing any discussion on municipal-level rights for women, the GOK introduced a motion, [...] | 2005-05-16 13:09:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL PGOV KWMN KDEM KU WOMEN POLITICAL RIGHTS NATIONAL ASSEMBLY |
05KUWAIT2197 | KUWAIT'S PRIVATE INVESTMENT COMPANIES ADVANCING ON [...] (U) Summary and Key Findings: During May 2005, Ambassador met with the leading figures in the Kuwaiti private investment sector. The Ambassador encouraged continued investment in the U.S. and new investments in Iraq and in other countries of U.S. interest. The Ambassador encouraged the inve [...] | 2005-05-23 13:01:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV KU KGCC |
05KUWAIT2212 | SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT CELEBRATES NEW RIGHTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On May 22, Kuwait's Women's Cultural and Social Society held an official reception to celebrate the May 16 passage of the law allowing women to vote and run for office. The event, held at the Society's headquarters and hosted by its President, activist Shaykha Al Nisif, featured [...] | 2005-05-24 09:47:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KWMN KDEM PREL KMPI KU WOMEN POLITICAL RIGHTS |
05KUWAIT2231 | KUWAIT INPUT FOR 2005 REPORT OF INVESTMENT [...] (U) As requested reftel, post is submitting the following update for inclusion in the 2005 Report on Investment Disputes and Expropriations Claims. 2. (U) A. Claimant Designation: Claimant A vs. Kuwait Ministry of Finance, Offset Department. 3. (U) B. Year When Dispute Arose: The di [...] | 2005-05-25 04:27:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EFIN CASC PGOV KIDE KU OPIC |
05KUWAIT2251 | KUWAIT IPR: NEW INFORMATION MINISTRY ASSISTANT U/S [...] (SBU) Summary. On May 24, emboffs met with Ibrahim Al-Nouh, the Ministry of Information's new assistant undersecretary overseeing intellectual property rights (IPR) enforcement. Econ/C congratulated Al-Nouh on his ministry,s recent raids (ref B),and asked for additional details on Al-Nouh' [...] | 2005-05-25 11:21:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EINV PGOV PREL KIPR KU |
05KUWAIT2486 | KUWAIT HOLDS SEMINAR ON POSSIBLE FTA WITH U.S. [...] (U) Summary. In a June 4 seminar sponsored by American-Kuwaiti Alliance (AKA),the Kuwait Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the American Business Council of Kuwait and the Kuwait Economic Society, Kuwaiti, American, Jordanian and Singaporean speakers discussed the benefits of U.S. free trade [...] | 2005-06-06 13:36:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EINV PREL BEXP JO SN KU |
05KUWAIT2802 | DOE WILLIAMSON DELEGATION VISITS KUWAIT [...] (U) Summary. DOE officials Williamson and Brodman met on 21 June with Minister of Energy Shaykh Ahmed and other senior GOK energy officials. The delegation delivered a letter from Secretary Bodman inviting Shaykh Ahmed to meet with him in Washington and expressing the Secretary's interest i [...] | 2005-06-23 05:37:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EPET KU PREL OIL SECTOR |
05KUWAIT2831 | GOK INCREASES IRAQI GRANTS TO $125 MILLION; PLANS [...] (U) In a June 25 conversation with Econ Officer, Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development Deputy Director Hisham Al-Waqayan commented on Foreign Minister Shaykh Dr. Mohammad Al-Sabah's statements concerning additional aid for Iraq made at the Brussels Conference on June 22. Local newspapers [...] | 2005-06-26 05:42:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID KU IZ KUWAIT IRAQ RELATIONS |
05KUWAIT2926 | GOK AND GOI CONTINUE TO MEET ON DEBT REDUCTION [...] (SBU) Ministry sources tell us that the Kuwaiti Minister of Finance Bader Al-Humaidhi met with Iraqi Prime Minister Jaffari on June 29 immediately prior to attending the final National Assembly session and then leaving the country for a short trip to Lebanon. We understand that debt reduction [...] | 2005-06-29 16:17:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID KU IZ |
05KUWAIT2990 | GOK PROSECUTION FOR TRAFFICKING-RELATED CRIMES [...] (SBU) Since the June 3 release of the 2005 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report, PolOff has continued to meet with Hashim Maged Mohamed, General Manager of the Kuwait Union of Domestic Labor Offices (KUDLO). Mohamed also has a business association with Al-Haqooq International, a law firm provid [...] | 2005-07-03 12:59:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KCRM PREL KU |
05KUWAIT3037 | CFLCC/MOI SIGN BORDER MOU [...] (SBU) Summary: On July 4, CFLCC and GOK Ministry of the Interior signed a memorandum of understanding that outlines the terms of use for the Coalition Crossing point on the Kuwait/Iraq border. This agreement entrusts the U.S. military with significant responsibility for control of one of the [...] | 2005-07-06 13:26:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELTN KTIA MARR MOPS PBTS PGOV KU IZ |
05KUWAIT3085 | GOK LIKELY TO REACTIVATE OFFSET PROGRAM SOON [...] (U) At a July 11 signing ceremony between Boeing and the Ministry of Finance for an offset program project (reftel),the Minister of Finance said that Kuwait "has to go along with the program," indicating that the offset program, suspended in September 2004, would be reactivated. (Note: The [...] | 2005-07-12 06:39:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON BEXP KU |
05KUWAIT3091 | NATO MEMBER COUNTRIES IN KUWAIT OUTLINE PROGRAM [...] (SBU) Italian Ambassador to Kuwait Vincenzo Prati hosted July 6 the first meeting of NATO member countries in Kuwait, providing a general introduction to the Istanbul Cooperation Initiative (ICI) and explaining the role of NATO Contact Point Embassies (CPEs). The Italian Embassy is the CPE f [...] | 2005-07-12 06:59:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR PREL PGOV KU NATO |
05KUWAIT3112 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: GOK UNAWARE OF MAURITANIAN [...] No summary [...] | 2005-07-13 09:21:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER OPDC KU MR |
05KUWAIT3222 | MIN COMMERCE IPR TASKFORCE RAMPS UP, SEPTEMBER [...] (SBU) Summary: During a July 18 meeting with Ministry of Commerce Inspection Department Director Mansour Al-Nazhan, we heard about increased IPR enforcement activity on the part of a newly created "task force" to combat intellectual property theft. While the six-month old task force does not [...] | 2005-07-20 14:49:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON KIPR PREL KU IPR |
05KUWAIT3224 | ACTIVISTS LAUD WOMEN'S RIGHTS ACCOMPLISHMENTS; [...] (U) Summary: The Charge hosted on July 19 a tea for the three delegations of Kuwaiti women who traveled in early July to the U.S., the UK, and France to talk about women's rights (ref b). Other attendees included political activists, Members of Parliament, journalists, and members of the d [...] | 2005-07-20 14:53:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KWMN KMPI KU WOMEN POLITICAL RIGHTS |
05KUWAIT3246 | Engaging Kuwaitis On Terrorism and Islam [...] (U) SUMMARY: The July 7 terror attacks in London, followed closely by increasingly horrific and deadly suicide attacks in Iraq, Lebanon and Egypt, have deeply affected Kuwaiti leaders and opinion makers. Some contacts have said that the London attacks, in particular, hit them harder than the 9 [...] | 2005-07-24 04:41:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER KPAO KISL PREL PHUM KU TERRORISM |
05KUWAIT3287 | JULY 25 DISTURBANCE ON IRAQ/KUWAIT BORDER [...] (SBU) An estimated 800-1000 Iraqi civilians converged on the closed border crossing point at Umm Qasr the morning of July 25 protesting lack of compensation for farm land lost due to the UN border demarcation. Kuwaiti contractors working on emplacing a pipeline barrier along the border were t [...] | 2005-07-25 13:37:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PBTS ASEC PREL IZ KU KUWAIT IRAQ RELATIONS |
05KUWAIT3363 | SPECIAL PARLIAMENTARY SESSION: NO QUORUM, BUT [...] (U) An extraordinary session of Parliament held July 30 at the written request of 36 Members of Parliament (MPs) failed to reach the required quorum of 33 MPs/Ministers present. An unusual request while Parliament is not in session and many MPs are abroad on vacation, the extraordinary sess [...] | 2005-07-30 13:44:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM KU NATIONAL ASSEMBLY |
05KUWAIT3405 | KUWAITI HIGH-LEVEL ATTENDANCE FOR THE 60TH UN [...] (SBU) The GOK has not yet finalized attendance for the 60th UNGA, although the Prime Minister will participate in the High-Level Event (HLE). Post will provide additional information as it becomes available. 2. (SBU) GOK Participation. A. Attendance of Head of State: No B. Att [...] | 2005-08-01 12:01:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV OVIP KU UNGA |
05KUWAIT3464 | BANGLADESHI EMBASSY IN KUWAIT UPDATES G/TIP ON [...] (SBU) For source country insight into the plight of foreign laborers in Kuwait, visiting G/TIP delegation, Ambassador John Miller and Reports Officer Feleke Assefa (ref A),met July 27 with Bangladeshi Embassy Labor and Welfare Attache Shahriar Kader Siddiky who reported that 250,000 Banglades [...] | 2005-08-06 08:50:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL PGOV KCRM ELAB KU HURI PDEM |
05KUWAIT3507 | HUMANITARIAN OPERATIONS CENTER TO DECENTRALIZE [...] (U) Summary and Comment: At an August 2 meeting at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, MFA International Organizations Department Director Ambassador Abdullah Murad said that the Humanitarian Operations Center (HOC) offices would be closing down on August 10, but said that the MFA would try to c [...] | 2005-08-07 10:33:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON PREL PREF KU IZ |
05KUWAIT3809 | NATIONAL BANK OF KUWAIT CEO DISCUSSES REGIONAL [...] (SBU) Summary. In a meeting with the Ambassador on August 22, Ibrahim Dabdoub, the CEO of the National Bank of Kuwait (NBK--largest Kuwaiti bank and third largest in the Middle East),made the following key points: (1) NBK has outgrown the Kuwaiti market and continues to expand worldwide; (2 [...] | 2005-08-24 13:51:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETTC KTFN PTER PINR CVIS KVPR KU |
05KUWAIT3850 | KUWAIT FUND DIRECTOR GENERAL DISCUSSES AID TO [...] (U) Action request at para 13. 2. (SBU) Summary and Comment: In an August 24 meeting with the Ambassador, the Director General of the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED),Abdulwahab Al-Bader, made the following key points: (1) GOK has donated 25 million USD in grants to the [...] | 2005-08-28 13:26:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETTC KTFN KVPR PINR PTER KU AF IZ GZ CH WB TERROR FINANCE |
05KUWAIT3870 | OPEC PRESIDENT EXPRESSES "CONCERN OVER HIGH OIL [...] (U) Kuwait's Minister of Energy and current OPEC President Shaykh Ahmad Fahd Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah said in a statement released August 28 that OPEC would "explore options to reduce prices" at the September OPEC meeting in Vienna. "We are becoming increasingly concerned at the continuing high leve [...] | 2005-08-29 11:24:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET ECON KU OIL SECTOR |
05KUWAIT3948 | KUWAIT SENDS IMMEDIATE ASSISTANCE TO IRAQ BRIDGE [...] (SBU) The GOK responded immediately to the August 31 Bridge of the Imams stampede in Baghdad, by sending a fully equipped ambulance and 500 first aid kits to Iraq the next day. On September 3, the aid continued as six truck loads carrying twelve tons of medical supplies began driving north. [...] | 2005-09-05 14:08:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL IZ KU KUWAIT IRAQ RELATIONS |
05KUWAIT3961 | TFUS01: AMBASSADOR THANKS KUWAITI NATIONAL [...] (U) Ambassador called on the Acting Speaker of the Kuwaiti National Assembly, Abdulwahab Rashid Al-Haroun on September 6 to thank him for the outpouring of sympathy and solidarity from the Kuwaiti parliament and population. The Ambassador also reiterated his public statement (carried in Kuwa [...] | 2005-09-06 12:18:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AEMR EAID PREL ENRG KU US KATRINA AID |
05KUWAIT3976 | KUWAIT DEMARCHE DELIVERED: NO DECISION ON KUWAITI [...] (SBU) The Ambassador delivered reftel demarche to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Acting Undersecretary Ambassador Khaled Abdul Mohsen Al-Babtain in a September 7 meeting. Noting that Kuwait was both a destination and a transit point for many people coming from south-east Asia, the area most affe [...] | 2005-09-07 12:33:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAGR EAID TBIO KU UNGA |
05KUWAIT4056 | KUWAIT SEEKING INDEPENDENT AUDITOR FOR CHARITABLE [...] (SBU) The Ambassador used a September 12 meeting on other issues (septels) to inform Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Faisal Al-Hajji of the September 20-23 visit of Department of Treasury Director of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Robert Werner. He told the Minister that among the issu [...] | 2005-09-14 14:53:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER EFIN PREL PGOV ETTC KU TERROR FINANCE |
05KUWAIT4084 | AMBASSADOR PRESSES AGAIN FOR DFI DISBURSEMENT [...] (SBU) On September 14, Ambassador asked Ministry of Foreign Affairs Acting Under Secretary Khalid Al-Babtain for an update on GOK consideration of release of frozen funds to the Development Fund for Iraq. Al-Babtain promised to check and got back to the Ambassador on the 18th. He said that t [...] | 2005-09-18 11:25:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EAID IZ KU |
05KUWAIT4146 | KPC CHIEF ON IMPLEMENTATION OF GOK KATRINA AID [...] During a September 20 meeting with Ambassador, Kuwait Petroleum Corporation CEO Hani Hussain, offered further clarification of GOK intentions on mechanisms for distribution of petroleum product assistance connected to Hurricane Katrina relief, specifically on the pricing of the $100 million of [...] | 2005-09-22 09:03:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AEMR EAID PREL ENRG KU US |
05KUWAIT4185 | COMMERCE MINISTER ON TIFA PROGRESS, ECONOMIC [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: During a September 24 meeting, Commerce Minister Abdullah Al-Taweel told the Ambassador that Kuwait would like another TIFA Council Meeting, and that the U.S. "must understand that changing laws in Kuwait takes time." He said that he would soon be sending a letter t [...] | 2005-09-26 10:30:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON KIPR PREL KU |
05KUWAIT4202 | INDUSTRY REPS POSITIVE ABOUT GOK IPR PROTECTION [...] (SBU) Summary: Econ Officer met September 25 with Arabian Anti-Piracy Alliance (AAA) CEO Scott Butler, his local Kuwaiti staff, and Microsoft's local License Compliance Manager, Sami Al-Anzy, to discuss the status of IPR protection and enforcement in Kuwait. Butler emphasized that he has see [...] | 2005-09-27 07:43:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON KIPR BEXP KU |
05KUWAIT4230 | TERRORIST FINANCE: SUMMARY OF OFAC DIRECTOR [...] (U) Summary. On September 22, OFAC Director Robert Werner met separately with officials from the National Bank of Kuwait, the Union of Kuwaiti Banks and the Kuwait Finance House to discuss ways in which OFAC and the Kuwaiti banking sector can further cooperate on combating terrorist financing [...] | 2005-09-28 13:11:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETTC KTFN PTER CVIS KVPR KU |
05KUWAIT4316 | KUWAIT AGREES TO U.S. CONDITIONS REGARDING [...] (SBU) Post received October 4, a diplomatic note from the Office of the Under Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reaffirming that the GOK will detain and try five of the Kuwaitis currently held in Guantanamo upon their return to Kuwait, as requested ref C. Post's unofficial transla [...] | 2005-10-04 12:55:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV PHUM OPDC KU TERRORISM |
05KUWAIT4325 | MEPI-FUNDED REGIONAL CAMPAIGN SCHOOL BRINGS ARAB [...] (U) Summary. The National Democratic Institute (NDI) held in Kuwait from September 25 - 28, the fourth regional campaign school funded by the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI). "Partners in Participation" attracted women activists from 14 countries in the Middle East and North Afri [...] | 2005-10-05 09:35:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KDEM KMPI KWMN PGOV PREL PINR KU XF WOMEN POLITICAL RIGHTS MEPI |
05KUWAIT4378 | STUDENT UNION ELECTIONS: A MICROCOSM OF POLITICS [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: The Islamic Alliance, a partnership between two student parties affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood and the Salafis, swept Kuwait University's (KU) Student Union elections held in October. The Muslim Brotherhood has dominated the influential Student Union, which [...] | 2005-10-11 13:54:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KISL KDEM KWMN SOCI KU |
05KUWAIT4402 | UPDATE ON KUWAIT IPR EFFORTS [...] (SBU) Summary: While Kuwait's elevation to the Special 301 Priority Watch List in 2004 galvanized some GOK agencies into action, overall the GOK has not made significant progress in enforcement actions, rewriting copyright laws, or prosecuting violators. Officials say steps will be taken af [...] | 2005-10-12 14:13:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD KIPR PREL KU IPR |
05KUWAIT4516 | KUWAITI PREPARATIONS FOR AVIAN INFLUENZA [...] (U) SUMMARY On October 17, Emboffs met with officials of the Department of Public Health (DPH) to discuss the GOK's preparations for a possible Avian Influenza (AI) outbreak in Kuwait. A recently formed committee has been charged with formulating the GOK's preparations to combat AI. The co [...] | 2005-10-20 06:30:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMED CASC KSCA SENV TBIO KU |
05KUWAIT4517 | KUWAIT CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ON PARLIAMENTARY [...] (SBU) Summary. In an October 19 meeting with Econ Counselor, the Deputy Director General of the Kuwait Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) lamented the political infighting among parliamentarians resulting in the election of a new and less pro-business chairman of the National Assembly's [...] | 2005-10-20 06:37:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KU |
05KUWAIT4531 | NATIONAL ASSEMBLY VS. GOVERNMENT: FOOTBALL MATCH [...] (SBU) Government Ministers and National Assembly members (MPs) faced off October 19 for their fifth annual Ramadan football match. Laying aside both their traditional dishdashas (robes) and their political differences, Ministers and MPs alike donned football jerseys to participate in the jov [...] | 2005-10-22 13:20:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SOCI KU |
05KUWAIT4532 | KUWAITIS HOPEFUL FOR DEATH PENALTY AS SADDAM'S [...] (SBU) Summary. Kuwaiti newspapers, television and radio stations gave front-page, first-item coverage to the start of Saddam Hussein's trial in Iraq. Kuwaitis interviewed called for the death penalty and said that Saddam and his cohorts had "too much" to answer for during the 1990-1991 Iraqi [...] | 2005-10-22 13:34:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MOPS PINS IZ KU |
05KUWAIT4535 | FINANCE MINISTRY ON EARTHQUAKE ASSISTANCE TO [...] (SBU) Summary. In an October 22 meeting with Econ Counselor, the Acting Undersecretary at the Ministry of Finance confirmed the GOK $100M assistance offer for Pakistan's earthquake victims. He was unaware of any additional assistance to be announced at the upcoming October 26 Geneva donors c [...] | 2005-10-23 06:43:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AEMR EAID PGOV PREL XD KU |
05KUWAIT4555 | AMBASSADOR RE-EMPHASIZES RECENT DEMARCHES DURING [...] (U) On October 23, the Ambassador, accompanied by Econcouns and Econoff (notetaker),met with the new head of the Economics Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Shaykh Ali Khaled Al-Sabah. The Ambassador congratulated Al-Sabah on his recent appointment and discussed current issues [...] | 2005-10-24 10:26:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR KU |
05KUWAIT4559 | KUWAIT CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ON IPR AND LABOR ISSUES [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment. In an October 19 meeting with Econ Counselor, the Deputy Director General of the Kuwait Chamber of Commerce and Industry (KCCI) contested Kuwait's non-compliance status on IPR and labor rights. He requested additional details outlining USG IPR compliance issues and [...] | 2005-10-24 11:36:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ELAB PGOV PREL KU IPR |
05KUWAIT4586 | MGXDO1: GOK NOT PLANNING NEW PLEDGE IN GENEVA AND [...] (U) Summary. Per reftel A, Embassy followed-up with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) to confirm GOK participation at the upcoming Geneva Donors Conference for South Asia earthquake victims and to urge continued GOK assistance to victims in anticipation of winter. The MFA's Asia and Ameri [...] | 2005-10-25 11:44:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO MARR PREL AMGT XD KU |
05KUWAIT4588 | FOUR SHI'A POLITICAL ASSOCIATIONS FORM COALITION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: LEADERS OF FOUR LOCAL SHI'A POLITICAL ASSOCIATIONS ANNOUNCED OCTOBER 23 THE FORMATION OF A SHI'A UMBRELLA ORGANIZATION, THE NATIONAL SOCIETIES COALITION (NSC),TO ADVOCATE FOR GREATER SHI'A RIGHTS AND TO COORDINATE EFFORTS IN THE 2007 PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS. TWO OF THE FIVE S [...] | 2005-10-25 12:45:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINR KISL KU SHI |
05KUWAIT4624 | OVERVIEW OF GOK ASSISTANCE TO AFGHANISTAN [...] (SBU) Summary. This cable provides an overview of GOK assistance to Afghanistan, including outstanding GOA arrears with the GOK's Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED). The following information is current as of October 2005 and was provided to the Embassy by KFAED in response to [...] | 2005-10-29 12:18:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL KU AF |
05KUWAIT4625 | KUWAIT RED CRESCENT CHAIRMAN FINDS FAULT WITH [...] (SBU) During an October 25 meeting with Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS) Chairman Mr. Barjas Al-Barjas, the Chairman presented the Ambassador with a set of points he had prepared on specific complaints he has with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC),and asked for support in [...] | 2005-10-29 12:18:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID KU |
05KUWAIT4626 | OVERVIEW OF GOK ASSISTANCE TO AFGHANISTAN [...] (SBU) Summary. This cable provides an overview of GOK assistance to Afghanistan, including outstanding GOA arrears with the GOK's Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED). The following information is current as of October 2005 and was provided to the Embassy by KFAED in response to [...] | 2005-10-29 12:18:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL KU AF |
05KUWAIT4640 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: GOK PLEDGE FOR PAKISTAN [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-30 13:05:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PHUM PREL PK KU |
05KUWAIT4643 | GOK STILL GEARING UP FOR ECONOMIC REFORM [...] (SBU) Ambassador met with Advisor to the Prime Minister Dr. Yousef Al-Ebraheem on October 26. Among other issues, they discussed the slow pace of Kuwait's economic reform and the stalled TIFA process. Al-Ebraheem acknowledged that the GOK carried as much responsibility as did the parliament [...] | 2005-10-30 13:51:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PREL EFIN EINV BEXP KU |
05KUWAIT4644 | GCC EQUITIES: INVESTMENTS OR LOTTERY TICKETS? [...] (SBU) Summary. During a meeting with the Ambassador October 26, National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) CEO said skyrocketing GCC equities could presage a Gulf equivalent of the U.S. "dot com" market bust. In order to "shake up the market a bit," NBK will host a December 18 symposium to examine the [...] | 2005-10-30 14:09:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD PGOV PREL KU |
05KUWAIT4670 | GOK CONGRATULATES IRAQI PEOPLE FOR APPROVING [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-01 10:11:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV IZ KU KUWAIT IRAQ RELATIONS |
05KUWAIT4673 | KUWAIT AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE: GOK MEASURES FOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 30, Emboffs and two U.S. military veterinarians met with the Deputy Director General for Animal Resources to discuss the GOK's efforts to combat the spread of the Avian Influenza (AI) virus. The GOK has teams of inspectors that routinely inspect farms and bird marke [...] | 2005-11-01 14:21:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD AMED KPAO PREL CASC KSCA SENV TBIO KU WHO FAO |
05KUWAIT4684 | APPEAL FOR INCREASED CONTRIBUTIONS TO PAKISTAN [...] (SBU) As reported in ref B, Ambassador met with Finance Minister Bader Al-Humaidhi on November 1 to commend the GOK for its $100M pledge and to urge increased GOK assistance to earthquake relief efforts in Pakistan. Without offering specifics, Al-Humaidhi said that the initial $100M package w [...] | 2005-11-02 13:23:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PHUM PK PREL KU |
05KUWAIT4719 | DRAFT U.S. STATEMENT FOR 28th MEETING OF [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraphs 2 and 3. 2. (U) Action request: The Tripartite Commission on Gulf War Missing will meet in Kuwait on November 15, 2005. Post requests Department approval of the below statement to be delivered by the Ambassador. Post would appreciate app [...] | 2005-11-08 13:50:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL MARR PGOV ICRC KU |
05KUWAIT4727 | BLUE LANTERN: CASE 966701 [...] (U) Per reftel request, Econoff paid a visit to the offices of "National Contracts Group" (NCG) to ascertain the validity of the company and its stated role as a party to pending license No. 966701. Econoff met with Mr. Omar A. A. Almutawa, President of NCG and Mr. Shahid Ayaz, General Manage [...] | 2005-11-09 12:21:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC KOMC KUNC KU US |
05KUWAIT4729 | PRIME MINISTER HOSTS FIRST OFFICIAL RAMADAN DINNER [...] (U) On October 31 Prime Minster Shaykh Sabah Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Al-Sabah hosted a 'Ghabqa' traditional Ramadan late night dinner for a group of Kuwaiti women, marking the first time an official dinner has been held for women by the Prime Minister. The Ghabqa was held at the Prime Minister's [...] | 2005-11-09 12:47:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINR KWMN KU |
05KUWAIT4742 | INTERIOR AND PLANNING MINISTERS CONFIRM GOK [...] (SBU) Summary: During separate meetings on November 12, the Ambassador pressed Interior Minister Shaykh Nawaf Al-Sabah and Planning Minister Dr. Masouma Al-Mubarak to step up GOK efforts to combat human trafficking and improve the working conditions of Kuwait's large expatriate work force. [...] | 2005-11-13 08:00:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM ELAB PREL PGOV SOCI KDEM KCRM KU |
05KUWAIT4746 | GOK TO ATTEND NOVEMBER 19 ISLAMABAD CONFERENCE BUT [...] (SBU) Begin Summary. According to MFA and Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED) officials, the GOK is unlikely to make any additional pledges at the November 19 Islamabad conference. However, a GOK delegation, including KFAED's Director of Operations, will attend the conference. [...] | 2005-11-13 13:11:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EFIN PGOV PHUM PREL PK KU |
05KUWAIT4791 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON FOLLOW-UP APPEAL FOR SUPPORT [...] (SBU) Begin Summary. Econoffs delivered ref A demarche points to Abdulkareem Al-Mutawa, the Regional Manager for South Asia at the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED). Al-Mutawa acknowledged the importance of expediting GOK assistance to earthquake victims and confirmed KFAED p [...] | 2005-11-16 13:46:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREL PHUM SENV PAK KU |
05KUWAIT4794 | PENINSULA LIONS UPDATE: DEFENSE CHALLENGES CHARGES [...] (SBU) The trial of the Peninsula Lions resumed on November 12 amid tightening security with over a dozen defense lawyers presenting their arguments one-by-one as the trial judges sat and listened. The hearing, which began at 2 pm, has continued in extraordinary sessions finishing after 8 pm [...] | 2005-11-16 14:38:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV JO IZ SA KU TERRORISM |
05KUWAIT4832 | AMBASSADOR RAISES ALARM RE SHARP DECLINE IN KUWAITI [...] (U) Summary and comment: On November 9, Ambassador met with Undersecretary for Higher Education, Dr. Rasha Al- Sabah. During the meeting, they discussed reasons for the significant decline in the number of Kuwaiti students studying in the U.S., the benefits of increasing the number of Ameri [...] | 2005-11-22 04:11:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OEXC KPAO SCUL PREL PTER OIIP CVIS KISL XF KU |
05KUWAIT4901 | AMBASSADOR TELLS MFA UNDERSECRETARY THE TIME IS [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-27 13:06:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AORC ICRC PHUM PREF IS SZ KU |
05KUWAIT4904 | PARLIAMENTARIAN REQUESTS ASSISTANCE FOR KUWAITI [...] (SBU) Summary and Action Request. In a letter dated 19 November 2005, Mohammad J. Al-Sager, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Kuwaiti Parliament, wrote Ambassador requesting Embassy intervention with U.S. Department of Justice on behalf of Kuwaiti citizen Ali Hijazi, a principal [...] | 2005-11-27 14:52:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL CJAN CVIS KCRM KU |
05KUWAIT4938 | NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DID NOT/NOT VOTE ON KATRINA AID [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-29 13:05:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID AMER ENRG KU KATRINA AID |
05KUWAIT4960 | DEMARCHE POINTS DELIVERED--FINCEN 314 (A) NOTICE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-30 10:52:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTFN PTER LE SY KU |
05KUWAIT4964 | FORMATION OF JOINT STATE-DOD AVIAN INFLUENZA [...] (U) SUMMARY Embassy convened a new committee of Emboffs and military officers at the working level to coordinate USG efforts in Kuwait in preparation for a possible Avian Influenza (AI) outbreak. The group discussed information provided by the GOK about its preparations, internal Embassy pl [...] | 2005-12-01 07:16:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMED CASC KSCA SENV TBIO PREL KU |
05KUWAIT4980 | KUWAIT FUND SIGNS IRAQ SCHOOL CONSTRUCTION [...] (SBU) Begin Summary. During a November 30 meeting with Econoff, the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development's (KFAED) acting Regional Manager for Arab Countries, Abdullah Al-Musaibeeh, confirmed that KFAED signed a $30M contract with a Kuwaiti firm to begin school construction in Iraq but t [...] | 2005-12-03 14:08:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL IZ KU |
05KUWAIT4981 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED--FINCEN 314 (A) NOTICE ON SYRIA [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-04 04:28:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTFN PTER LE SY KU |
05KUWAIT4993 | FREEDOM AGENDA: NOW SHOWING AT EMBASSY KUWAIT. [...] (U) Post has taken advantage of its Motion Picture Licensing Corporation license to screen films addressing democratic reform issues and MEPI themes for host country audiences. The response has been overwhelmingly positive and post has made available purchased DVD versions of the movies to [...] | 2005-12-04 11:38:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPAO SOCI KDEM KWMN KMPI KU |
05KUWAIT5031 | MUSHARRAF THANKS KUWAIT FOR EARTHQUAKE AID; GOK [...] (SBU) In Kuwait for the first stop on a Gulf tour, President Pervez Musharraf thanked the GOK for its $100 million in earthquake aid and received assurances that Pakistan would receive concessional oil sales. The Pakistani Ambassador told us on December 6 that the visit, (which coincided wit [...] | 2005-12-06 14:45:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID EINV KU PK |
05KUWAIT5046 | UPDATE ON ARTICLE 98 [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-07 12:02:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PARM KLEG KU |
05KUWAIT5052 | DEMARCHES DELIVERED ON ASG AND BANCO DELTA ASIA; [...] (SBU) On December 6, Econcouns, accompanied by Econoff, delivered reftels B-D demarche points (verbally and through non-papers) to Khaled Al-Mughamis, Director of the MFA's Follow-up and Coordination Department responsible for terrorism finance and anti-money laundering issues. 2. (SBU) Wi [...] | 2005-12-08 07:42:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETTC KTFN KJUS KNNP PTER PREL KN LE SY |
05KUWAIT5053 | DEMARCHES DELIVERED ON ASG AND BANCO DELTA ASIA; [...] (SBU) On December 6, Econcouns, accompanied by Econoff, delivered reftels B-D demarche points (verbally and through non-papers) to Khaled Al-Mughamis, Director of the MFA's Follow-up and Coordination Department responsible for terrorism finance and anti-money laundering issues. 2. (SBU) Wi [...] | 2005-12-08 07:42:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETTC KTFN KJUS KNNP PTER PREL KN LE SY |
05KUWAIT5081 | OIL INDUSTRY CONTACTS TALK INVESTMENTS, PROJECT [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: In the first two weeks of December, Econ Officer heard from a number of oil industry contacts that, while the GOK and the Kuwait oil industry are serious about investment in increasing upstream and downstream capacity, a bottleneck remains in bringing concepts to f [...] | 2005-12-11 14:02:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET ECON BEXP PINR KU |
05KUWAIT5082 | TERRORIST FINANCE: AMBASSADOR OPENS ANTI-MONEY [...] (U) On December 11, Ambassador delivered remarks at the opening of an anti-money laundering and terror finance conference hosted by Kuwait General Administration of Customs (KGAC) and DHS's U.S. Custom's Advisory Team. The Ambassador's remarks praised ongoing cooperation between the GOK and t [...] | 2005-12-11 14:09:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETTC KTFN PTER CVIS KVPR KU |
05KUWAIT5099 | AMBASSADOR PITCHES COMMUNICATIONS MINISTER ON [...] (SBU) Ambassador ran into the Kuwait Communications Minister, Shaykh Ahmed Al-Abdullah Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah, the evening of December 11 and made a strong pitch to pull Al Manar from ARABSAT programming. The Minister replied that ARABSAT is a jointly owned company and therefore others would nee [...] | 2005-12-12 13:01:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV PREL ANET KU |
05KUWAIT5100 | APOSTOLIC NUNCIO RAISES VATICAN CONCERNS [...] (SBU) Ambassador, DCM, and PolOff met with Mounged El-Hachem, the Apostolic Nuncio to Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, and Yemen, on December 10. El-Hachem praised Kuwait's general atmosphere of religious tolerance but said two concrete issues would receive a great deal of his focus. 2. (SBU) First [...] | 2005-12-12 13:26:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KIRF PGOV SOCI PREL PINR VT KU |
05KUWAIT5114 | DOD AVIAN FLU BRIEFING TO GOK MILITARY DOCTORS; [...] (SBU) SUMMARY On December 12, U.S. military medical personnel briefed Kuwaiti military doctors on Avian Influenza (AI) and the U.S. military's preparations for a possible outbreak. Comments and follow-up questions from Kuwaiti attendees indicate that the briefing was well received. On Decem [...] | 2005-12-14 04:10:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMED CASC KSCA SENV TBIO PREL KU |
05KUWAIT5129 | AMBASSADOR RESTATES TO FOREIGN MINISTER THE CASE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-14 12:38:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV PREL ANET KU |
05KUWAIT514 | KUWAITI BLOGGERS: VOICES OF THE FUTURE [...] (U) Summary: Econ Officer attended 2 February a monthly meeting of Kuwaiti web-bloggers where the group discussed their various web-logs, technology, politics, religion, social life, and a variety of other issues. The group was made up of nine men and one woman, mostly in their early to mid [...] | 2005-02-07 05:00:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINT SCUL SOCI ECON KU |
05KUWAIT5190 | PARLIAMENT'S HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE PLANNING MARCH [...] (SBU) MP and head of Parliament's Human Rights Committee Ali Al-Rashed announced December 10, International Human Rights Day, that he intended to organize a March conference, to coincide with International Women's Day, on human rights with a specific focus on women's issues. During a December [...] | 2005-12-19 12:44:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KMPI KWMN PINR KU |
05KUWAIT5210 | SHUNNED KUWAITI EDITOR FEARS FOR SAFETY [...] (SBU) Summary: Mohammed Abdul Qader Al-Jassem, Al Hurra talk show host and the liberal former editor-in-chief of the Arabic daily Al-Watan, complained to Emboffs of receiving threats after posting a scathing article on his website on December 10 criticizing Prime Minister Shaykh Sabah Al-Ahm [...] | 2005-12-20 12:57:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL PINR SOCI KU |
05KUWAIT5270 | PENINSULA LIONS VERDICT IN: 30 CONVICTIONS [...] (U) In a verdict announced December 27, 30 of the 37 Peninsula Lions defendants were convicted of murder, attempted assassinations and other terror related crimes. The decision was first read to the defense lawyers in a closed court session, followed by an announcement to court observers out [...] | 2005-12-27 12:58:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PHUM PGOV JO IZ SA KU TERRORISM |
05KUWAIT5306 | FREEDOM AGENDA: LACK OF QUORUM IN PARLIAMENT [...] (SBU) The last three National Assembly sessions of 2005 epitomized the obstacles to passage of key legislation on the Assembly agenda, such as the revised press law. (Note: The current parliamentary term began on October 17 and ends in July 2006. End note.) During its December 26 session, [...] | 2005-12-31 14:00:00 | Embassy Kuwait | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SOCI KU NATIONAL ASSEMBLY |
05LAGOS1359 | ANALYSIS OF APPLICATION FOR OPIC FINANCE: JACKDAN [...] Per action request in reftel, Post submits observations on the planned OPIC loan of USD 2.4 million to support the development of Jackdan Breweries Nigeria Limited, a microbrewery and water treatment and bottling project in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State. 2. There is a significant consumer base for b [...] | 2005-08-30 15:07:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EFIN NI |
05LAGOS1376 | NIGERIA: FUEL PRICE HIKE AND NATIONAL STRIKE UPDATE [...] (SBU) On August 26, the Petroleum Products Regulatory Agency (PPPRA),citing increased international oil prices, raised gas prices from 50 Naira/liter to 65 Naira/liter. The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) requested the increase, claiming it could no longer shoulder the financ [...] | 2005-09-01 16:22:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ELAB KDEM PGOV NI |
05LAGOS1377 | UNIONS SET TENTATIVE DATE FOR STRIKE TO PROTEST [...] (SBU) Labor sector stakeholders are preparing a nation- wide strike in protest of recent fuel price hikes. The date for the strike, set tentatively for September 7, will be affirmed at meetings scheduled for September 5. Nigerian Labor Congress (NLC) officials expect the strike to last one [...] | 2005-09-01 17:29:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ELAB KDEM PGOV NI |
05LAGOS1390 | NIGERIA: SOUTH-EAST STATES TARGET CLINICS INVOLVED [...] (SBU) Summary. In response to information passed by Post's fraud prevention unit (FPU),police authorities in four of the five South-East zone states have raided clinics involved in trafficking infants. Clinic staff were paying less than 200 dollars to young, indigent pregnant women in exc [...] | 2005-09-06 15:38:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS PHUM PREL KCRM KWMN SMIG NI |
05LAGOS1402 | NIGERIA: ECONOMIC BRIEFS, JULY/AUGUST 2005 [...] (U) Summary: While targeting a 1.6 trillion Naira budget for 2006, GON officials claim Budget 2005 cannot be fully implemented due to oil production shortage resulting from oil well closures in the Niger Delta. With oil production at only 2.4million barrels per day (bpd) instead of the budgete [...] | 2005-09-08 13:44:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV ETRD KIPR PGOV NI |
05LAGOS1405 | BANKS SCRAMBLING TO MEET DECEMBER RECAPITALIZATION [...] (SBU) Banking experts predict 25 to 30 banks or newly merged bank groups will make the December 2005 Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) deadline to attain a 25 billion naira capital base. A large number of banks will be unable to meet the CBN's naira 25 billion (USD 192 million)recapitalization re [...] | 2005-09-08 15:07:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV NI |
05LAGOS1443 | FINANCE MINISTER ANNOUNCES INSURANCE INDUSTRY [...] (SBU) Summary. Finance Minister Okonjo-Iweala recently unveiled Government of Nigeria's (GON) insurance industry reforms aimed at raising the capital base requirements for insurance companies by February 28, 2007. The goal is to consolidate and strengthen the insurance industry along the lin [...] | 2005-09-16 13:00:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV NI |
05LAGOS1464 | 2005 NIGERIAN STOCK MARKET NEGATIVELY AFFECTED BY [...] (SBU) Summary. The bank recapitalization process continues to weaken the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) as many investors prefer to channel their money toward bank Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) rather than daily stock market activities. The average returns on investment (ROI) for the 30 lar [...] | 2005-09-21 15:11:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV PGOV NI |
05LAGOS1570 | NIGERIA'S VERSION OF MCDONALD'S SAYS PROFITS ARE [...] (SBU) Summary. The increase in food and transportation prices had cut into the profit margins of Nigeria's equivalent to McDonald's -- Mr. Biggs. The company's executives told us food prices are rising because of weak infrastructure, inconsistent agricultural policies, and lack of local capa [...] | 2005-10-12 09:30:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EIND PGOV PREL NI |
05LAGOS1876 | SOSOLISO AIRPLANE CRASH/ENUGU BUS ACCIDENT [...] (SBU) Consular Response Team (CRT) reported Doctor's Without Borders (DWB) collected Amcit Hawa Kamara's remains and are in contact with Ms. Kamara's parents to arrange for transport of her remains and personal effects to Monrovia, Liberia (Ms. Kamara was a DWB employee). Post has tried to rea [...] | 2005-12-12 18:07:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR CASC ASEC AMGT NI PREL |
05LAGOS1883 | ENUGU BUS CRASH AMCITS SAFELY MEDEVACED;SOSOLISO [...] This is an action request. Please see para 6. -------------------------------------- Enugu Bus Crash Amcits Safely Medevaced --------------------------------------- 2. (SBU) Last night, Amcit Erin Cothran was medevaced to Accra and AmCit Rebecca Carter was medevaced to Johannesburg. [...] | 2005-12-13 16:20:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR CASC ASEC AMGT NI PREL |
05LAGOS1892 | NIGERIA: RECAPITALIZATION OF MORTGAGE FINANCE [...] (U) Summary: Nigeria's ninety-plus primary mortgage institutions (PMIs) may soon be required to recapitalize in line with the ongoing reforms in the financial sector. In anticipation of a directive from the Central Bank (CBN),mortgagors are striving to raise their capital base from the curr [...] | 2005-12-15 10:18:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECIN NI |
05LAGOS1917 | NIGERIA ENTERS DEEPWATER ERA AS BONGA GOES ONSTREAM [...] (U) Nigeria entered the era of major league deepwater oil and gas production on November 28, as Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company (SNEPCO),announced its Bonga oil field began production. Bonga will initially produce 225,000 barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil, for a total of [...] | 2005-12-20 07:06:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET EINV NI ENERG |
05LAGOS4 | GREEK NATIONAL KILLED IN PORT HARCOURT [...] (SBU) Francis Lauze, Security Manager for Nigerian firm Globestar Engineering and Construction Company, (an affiliate of French firm Stolt Offshore Services),confirmed the killing of a Greek national, Anastassiou Stilianos, in Port Harcourt on January 1, 2005. Daniel Oliseh, President and [...] | 2005-01-05 06:11:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET CASC ASEC NI |
05LAGOS413 | ANOTHER NEAR CRASH OF CHANCHANGI AIRLINER [...] (U) On March 12, Chanchangi Airlines (Nigeria) experienced its second crash landing in the last three months (reftel). Chanchangi officials blamed high winds and a rain-flooded runway for veering the B727- 200 some thirty meters off the Abuja airport runway. The Saturday flight from Katsina t [...] | 2005-03-15 13:43:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ATRN NI |
05LAGOS419 | RECENT TIP CASES SHOW NIGERIA'S PROGRESS AND [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In late February, state government officials in Lagos closed an "orphanage" run by a supposed church minister that was fronting for child trafficking and other illicit practices. On March 5, police in Lagos intercepted a truck carrying more than 60 children from Niger State. T [...] | 2005-03-16 12:32:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KCRM KWMN NI |
05LAGOS422 | GOVERNMENT REQUESTS ASSISTANCE WITH 2005 PETROLEUM [...] (U) This is an action request for the Department of Energy and the U.S. Trade and Development Agency: Please see paragraphs five and six. 2. (SBU) In a series of meetings on March 9 and 10 with a visiting Department of Energy official, Presidential Advisor for Petroleum and Energy Reso [...] | 2005-03-16 17:01:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET EINV NI ENERG |
05LAGOS46 | NIGERIA ECONOMIC UPDATE, JANUARY 2005 [...] (U) This economic update includes: -- Banking Reform Effort Drives Industry Change -- Power Sector Reform Bill -- Recharge Card Import Ban Target Date Extended -- A Nigerian Success Story: Expanding Cassava Operations --------------------------------------------- Banking Reform Effort Driv [...] | 2005-01-12 07:34:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON NI |
05LAGOS935 | NIGERIA: 2006 NARCOTICS CERTIFICATION REPORT CARD [...] (U) This responds to Ref A's request for a certification report card identifying the Government of Nigeria's (GON's) efforts towards meeting the 2004 certification benchmarks. A. Major Traffickers 2. (SBU) The 2003 benchmark for cooperation against major traffickers include increased eff [...] | 2005-06-16 14:17:00 | Consulate Lagos | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR NI |
05LILONGWE1005 | MUTHARIKA-BUSH LETTER ON TAIWAN [...] Post is pouching to Department a letter from President Mutharika to President Bush, requesting U.S. consideration of UN membership for Taiwan. In the letter, Mutharika cites the examples of the former Soviet republics, states of the former Yugoslavia, and Singapore as nations that were all adm [...] | 2005-11-28 06:27:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MI TW |
05LILONGWE1043 | MALAWI TELECOMMUNICATIONS PRIVATIZED AT LAST [...] (SBU) After a delay that started last August, Malawi's telecom provider has been sold to a consortium of local companies for $29 million. President Bingu wa Mutharika had stopped the deal out of concern that the privatized company might disconnect the two state-owned television broadcasters. [...] | 2005-12-15 08:07:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON ECPS KCOR MI |
05LILONGWE1062 | RE-ENERGIZED MUTHARIKA LAUNCHES IRRIGATION DRIVE [...] (U) Summary: Fresh from his party's by-election victory, a newly confident President Mutharika has launched a major GOM initiative to expand irrigation and improve food security. In a wide-ranging donor briefing on December 16, the president talked of plans for commercial farming, new dams and [...] | 2005-12-20 09:44:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EAGR PGOV MI |
05LILONGWE107 | MALAWI REIGNING IN PARASTATALS, PUSHING [...] (SBU) President Bingu wa Mutharika has recently reactivated the GOM's privatization program with a public speech strongly endorsing the Privatization Commission's efforts to push ahead with selling parastatal corporations. He is also said to have ordered the halt of operations at the Malawi De [...] | 2005-02-03 12:17:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KMCA KCOR PREL ECON EINV EAID MI |
05LILONGWE117 | PRESIDENT RESIGNS FROM OWN PARTY, RESHUFFLES [...] Summary: In a dramatic move, President Bingu wa Mutharika has resigned from his own party, making a definitive break with his predecessor, Bakili Muluzi. In addition, Mutharika has fired two ministers and two deputy ministers and reshuffled his cabinet. The actions are positive moves, both [...] | 2005-02-07 14:08:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM EAID KMCA MI |
05LILONGWE128 | MALAWI CONSIDERS NEW DEVELOPMENT AGENDA [...] (SBU) As Malawi's Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) reaches the end of its three-year life, the GOM has floated the idea of taking a new tack as it develops its next PRSP. The proposed new agenda would be based on the Malawi Economic Growth Strategy, essentially a plan for removing constr [...] | 2005-02-09 10:57:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EFIN EINV PREL KMCA MI |
05LILONGWE143 | MALAWI CROP ESTIMATE: SHORTAGE COMING [...] (U) Malawi's first crop estimates show a shortage of over 20 percent in maize, due mainly to late distribution of fertilizer and a developing dry spell. Grain stocks are adequate for now, though the hunger season is now reaching its peak. If the crop is seriously impaired, it may begin to imp [...] | 2005-02-15 14:54:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KMCA EAGR ECON EAID PREL MI |
05LILONGWE15 | A PLOT TO KILL MALAWI'S PRESIDENT? [...] (SBU) Three United Democratic Front officials were charged with treason on Wednesday for carrying guns to a meeting with President Bingu wa Mutharika. The Attorney General said authorities had information that some politicians had plotted to kill the president on January 2, 2004. By Thursda [...] | 2005-01-06 16:32:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KDEM MI |
05LILONGWE152 | PRESIDENT TO LAUNCH NEW PARTY; UDF DEFECTIONS [...] (U) Summary: President Mutharika intends to form a new political party called the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). Mutharika has stated that, unlike his predecessor, he will not be involved in the administration of the party, but will only serve as its symbolic head. Meanwhile, the presid [...] | 2005-02-17 04:45:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM MI |
05LILONGWE166 | PRESIDENT PRESSES DEVELOPMENT AGENDA [...] Summary: President Mutharika last week launched a new series of regular meetings with donor heads of mission, and used the occasion to amplify his vision of Malawi's development. The president emphasized economic growth, rural development, performance evaluation, and the need to mobilize all [...] | 2005-02-22 14:31:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EAID KMCA MI |
05LILONGWE17 | THE UDF SPLIT: SOME POSSIBLE SCENARIOS [...] No summary [...] | 2005-01-10 10:07:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KDEM MI |
05LILONGWE177 | MALAWI LOSES GARMENT MANUFACTURER [...] (U) SUMMARY: Haps Investments, one of Malawi's largest AGOA garment manufacturers, has ceased operations, putting over 2,000 employees out of work. The closure stems from the financial failure of the Taiwanese parent company, which apparently faltered as a result of losses suffered at its ope [...] | 2005-02-25 10:02:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EIND MI AGOA BUD FIN |
05LILONGWE227 | DEBT PROPOSAL A PLEASANT SURPRISE FOR MALAWI [...] (SBU) Over the past week, Embassy has discussed the relative merits of the U.S. and U.K. proposals for debt relief to poor countries (reftel) with senior Malawian officials in ministries of finance, foreign affairs, and economic planning. To a person, our interlocutors have been unaware of ev [...] | 2005-03-10 14:06:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PREL EAID PA MI BUD FIN |
05LILONGWE282 | MALAWI PAUSES ON FOOD CRISIS ACTION [...] (SBU) Malawi's president has recently softened his public stand on this year's food crisis and the government's likely reaction to it. From earlier indications, the GOM appeared to be set on a course of massive government-funded importation of maize for the commercial market. After several m [...] | 2005-03-29 06:32:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON EFIN EINV MI |
05LILONGWE283 | MALAWI KWACHA UNDER SPECULATIVE PRESSURE [...] (U) Malawi's banks are reporting a surge in demand for foreign currency. Experts attribute the surge to speculation that the GOM may devalue the currency as the tobacco auction starts on March 29 or shortly afterward. The governor of the central bank has given no clear signals, though it appe [...] | 2005-03-29 08:43:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EINV ECON MI BUD FIN |
05LILONGWE348 | IMF MALAWI PROGRAM DEPENDS ON FOOD SOLUTION [...] (U) As the IMF's team comes to negotiate a new program for Malawi, it is clear that the central issue is food. The poor crop is expected to lower GDP to 0-2 percent, and food-driven inflation is already rising. The need for humanitarian relief has become clear, and one of the main points to b [...] | 2005-04-22 11:21:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EINV ECON MI |
05LILONGWE409 | MALAWI'S BUDGET CONSULTATIONS [...] (U) In preliminary budget consultations with donors, Finance Minister Goodall Gondwe sketched an FY 2005/06 budget that would include some tax reform, allocations for humanitarian food relief, and a comparatively modest fertilizer subsidy. The budget for development will be increased by 35 pe [...] | 2005-05-13 11:56:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PREL KMCA BUD FIN |
05LILONGWE447 | RURAL LOAN PROGRAM ENDANGERS MICROFINANCE SECTOR [...] Summary: Against the advice of donors and banking experts, the GOM has launched a controversial rural loan program with subsidized interest rates, administered by a state-owned bank that has no experience in microfinance. The U.S. and other donors have expressed our concerns, but the GOM is de [...] | 2005-05-26 06:33:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EFIN EAID EAGR KMCA MI BUD FIN |
05LILONGWE457 | PRESIDENT MUTHARIKA'S FIRST YEAR IN POWER [...] SUMMARY: Bingu wa Mutharika's first year as President of Malawi has seen ups and downs. The questionable nature of the May 2004 presidential election created an unsettled political atmosphere that would have tested any president. His inaugural speech generated hope with its emphasis on the [...] | 2005-05-31 14:47:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM KCOR ECON KPAO MI |
05LILONGWE496 | MALAWI REOPENS FINANCE BANK [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Finance Bank of Malawi was allowed to reopen under Reserve Bank curatorship. The bank is experiencing a mild run, as Reserve Bank imposed restrictions curb withdrawals for the moment. With Finance Bank's shady customer base, liquidation seems a more likely outcome than a recov [...] | 2005-06-10 11:01:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETTC EINV ECON MI BUD FIN |
05LILONGWE506 | MALAWI BUDGET DEBATE BEGINS [...] (SBU) Malawi's finance minister presented the FY 2005/06 budget on June 10 to open parliamentary debate. The budget includes a sharply lower deficit, some paydown of both domestic debt and government arrears, and line items for food security and a fertilizer subsidy. While opposition is thre [...] | 2005-06-16 06:42:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EFIN MI BUD FIN |
05LILONGWE507 | MALAWI ADOPTS U.S. TAX RECOMMENDATIONS IN BUDGET [...] (SBU) In presenting the draft budget to Parliament on 10 June, Malawi's finance minister proposed several tax reforms which follow recommendations made by U.S. Treasury experts. The changes include a higher floor and simpler structure for personal income tax, lower excise rates on most imports, [...] | 2005-06-16 06:43:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV EAID MI BUD FIN |
05LILONGWE509 | MALAWI: POST RECOMMENDATIONS ON GLOBAL FUND PHASE 2 [...] (U) Malawi 2. (U) Grant No: MLW-102-G01-H-00 Phase 1 amount: $41,751,500.00 Phase 2 amount requested in proposal: $155 million 3. (SBU) Overall Comments/Recommendations: Post recommends funding Malawi's Phase II, HIV/AIDS proposal at the levels requested. However, approval of Phase II [...] | 2005-06-16 14:48:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KHIV SOCI TBIO MI HIV AIDS |
05LILONGWE555 | SPEAKER DIES AS PRESIDENT BLASTS OPPOSITION [...] (U) Summary: The Speaker of Parliament passed away late on June 27, after suffering a heart attack on the house floor on June 23. This comes as the President, along with various community groups, is blaming the opposition parties for the Speaker's condition, as well as Parliament's delay in pa [...] | 2005-06-28 14:42:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON KCOR KDEM PGOV PREL MI |
05LILONGWE888 | MALAWI SENTENCES CHILD TRAFFICKERS TO SEVEN [...] (U) SUMMARY. ON SEPTEMBER 24, A MALAWIAN COURT SENTENCED THREE MEN TO SEVEN YEARS IMPRISONMENT WITH HARD LABOR FOR KIDNAPPING. ALTHOUGH MALAWI HAS YET TO ADOPT SPECIFIC TRAFFICKING LEGISLATION, THERE IS GROWING AWARENESS OF THE ISSUE AMONG THE COUNTRY'S LEADERS AND CIVIL SOCIETY. THE SENTENC [...] | 2005-10-11 11:50:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM ELAB PGOV PREL ZA MI |
05LILONGWE905 | MALAWI ON WTO AND GEOGRAPHICAL INDICATIONS [...] (SBU) Embassy delivered reftel points to trade ministry principal secretary Newby Kumwembe on 3 October, with follow up on 11 October. As is usual in Malawi's multilateral trade discussions, Kumwembwe anticipated that Malawi would follow the consensus of least-developed countries in the WTO n [...] | 2005-10-13 14:51:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR EAGR ETRD |
05LILONGWE924 | MODEST IMPROVEMENT TO MALAWI'S MICROLENDING FUND [...] (SBU) The GOM recently responded to concerns about its new microfinance program by announcing that it was offering something slightly closer to commercially viable interest rates. The program has been the subject of heated political debate, on the assumption that the loans will be political h [...] | 2005-10-25 05:26:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV MI |
05LILONGWE927 | MALAWI CONTINUES STRONG FISCAL PERFORMANCE [...] (U) The Reserve Bank of Malawi recently published its mid-year economic and fiscal report, showing strong performance across the board. Higher than projected domestic revenue and sharply lower expenditures compensated for lower revenues from external grants. Macroeconomic performance at the [...] | 2005-10-25 05:26:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EFIN MI |
05LILONGWE946 | SUBSIDIES WORSEN MALAWI'S FOOD SHORTAGE [...] (SBU) In a year marked by severe shortages of food and fertilizer, it is increasingly clear that the government's interventions in these commodities have considerably deepened the crisis. The current shortage of maize is in part a result of the GOM's insistence on selling subsidized maize thr [...] | 2005-11-02 13:24:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV EAGR EAID MI |
05LILONGWE994 | IMF MALAWI REVIEW: ANOTHER GOOD QUARTER [...] (SBU) The IMF's country team today delivered its first quarterly review of Malawi's new Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF). Malawi has met substantially all of its targets, although it appears headed to miss its net asset target next month. The IMF is recommending a looser foreign [...] | 2005-11-22 11:52:00 | Embassy Lilongwe | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV MI |
05LIMA1017 | PRESIDENT TOLEDO REALIGNS CABINET: POLS REPLACE [...] (U) President Toledo replaced four cabinet members on 2/26, bringing in new heads for the Ministries of Justice, Agriculture, Labor and Production. The new faces raise the profile of Toledo's Peru Possible party in the government -- two of the new ministers are strong party members and the th [...] | 2005-03-02 22:46:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PE ATPDEA |
05LIMA1062 | Cocalero Marching Season Begins [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The annual cocalero marching season has begun with two road-blocking demonstrations in Upper Huallaga Valley areas infamous for their militancy. Leaders launched the protests with false stories of local illnesses from spraying of coca fields with chemicals. Police easily freed [...] | 2005-03-03 20:43:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR ASEC EAID PGOV PE |
05LIMA1092 | PERU'S IPR NEGOTIATOR RESIGNS, BUT THEN STAYS ON [...] (SBU) Summary. Infighting between the Ministry of Trade (Mincetur) and Indecopi (Peru's IPR administrative agency) over Peru's intellectual property rights position in the FTA negotiations has become increasingly heated. Following the resignation of Peru's lead IPR negotiator and Indecopi emp [...] | 2005-03-04 17:29:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD ECON PGOV PE FTA |
05LIMA1094 | PERU: NARCOTICS AFFAIRS SECTION, FEBRUARY 2005 [...] (SBU) On February 9, Bryan Tuttle, NAS's Deputy Port Security and Maritime Advisor, was killed in an accident while assisting a drug investigation in the Port of Callao in Lima. As part of the port security program, a Peruvian delegation visited Colombian facilities at the Bogota airport and [...] | 2005-03-04 17:44:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR KCRM ASEC PREL PE |
05LIMA1169 | ANDEAN NORTHERN BORDER CONFERENCE [...] Peruvian National Police (PNP) successfully sponsored with the assistance of the Lima Country Office (LCO) the Andean Northern Border Strategy Conference from Feb. 22-24, 2005. This conference centered on Counter-narcotics strategy on Amazonas Border countries and included National Police D [...] | 2005-03-08 21:11:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR |
05LIMA1176 | DEMARCHE ON OAS SOCIAL CHARTER (PERU) [...] (U) Poloff presented the demarche on the OAS Social Charter (Reftel) to Julio Garro, the Foreign Ministry's Assistant Secretary for Multilateral and Security Affairs on 3/8, Deputy Director for Multialteral Affairs Carlos Chocano, and Director of Social Affairs Maria Eugenia Echeverria were [...] | 2005-03-09 15:00:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI PREL PE |
05LIMA1191 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR EXIM BANK OFFICIALS [...] No summary [...] | 2005-03-10 13:54:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BEXP EFIN OTRA CI PE EXIM |
05LIMA1390 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES MINING AND DEVELOPMENT IN [...] (SBU) Summary. During a March 3-5 trip to Cajamarca in Northern Peru, the Ambassador met with local dignitaries to discuss mining and economic development, toured the Newmont- operated Yanacocha mine, and visited with Peace Corps volunteers. Cajamarca has more factors in its favor than virt [...] | 2005-03-23 12:55:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EMIN EINV ECON PGOV PE |
05LIMA1409 | FUTURE OF OUR CN PROGRAMS AND OBJECTIVES IN PERU [...] (SBU) Summary: As reported reftels, our Mission counter- drug strategy in the short term will be focused on holding the line against expansion of coca and opium cultivation and drawing the noose around no-go coca source zones through eradication and alternative development. The advent in mid [...] | 2005-03-23 21:41:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR EAID PGOV PREL PE |
05LIMA1418 | THIRD NATIONAL COCALERO CONGRESS A BUST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Third National Congress of the National Confederation of Agricultural Producers of the Coca Valleys (CONPACCP),held 3/14-18 outside Lima, was largely a bust. Cocaleros from the Monzon and parts of the Apurimac-Ene Valley (VRAE) did not attend and a group led by Elsa Malpart [...] | 2005-03-23 22:53:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SNAR PTER PE |
05LIMA1564 | GOP RESPONDS QUICKLY TO CAMPESINO UNREST IN [...] (U) SUMMARY. The GOP responded quickly to road blockages last week by campesinos around Andahuaylas, Apurimac Department, declaring a 30-day state of emergency on 4/3, substantially increasing police presence in the area and offering to send a high-level negotiating commission to address the [...] | 2005-04-05 19:06:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINS PHUM ASEC PE |
05LIMA1606 | PERUVIAN ARMY OFFICER TAKES HIS TROUBLES TO CITY [...] (U) A Peruvian Army Officer on 4/6 chose an unusual method to bring attention to a dispute with his superiors. Lieutenant Colonel Carlos Soto Sarmiento arrived at the Mayor's Office in the regional capital of Moquegua with 35 of his troops to denounce alleged mistreatment he had been submitted [...] | 2005-04-06 22:45:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINS MARR PE |
05LIMA1660 | MOVEMENT ON THE EXXON-MOBIL DISPUTE [...] (SBU) Summary. The Economic Commission of Congress is expected to deliberate on the Ministry of Finance (MEF) amendment to the tax law in upcoming weeks. The amendment would grant Exxon-Mobil a $15 million credit over the next three and half years. The Mining and Petroleum Society (SNMPE) [...] | 2005-04-11 15:24:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EFIN ECON EPET KIDE PE |
05LIMA1728 | ANDEAN FTA: LIMA ROUND SCENESETTER FOR A/USTR VARGO [...] (SBU) We very much look forward to your April 17-22 visit to Lima for the ninth round of the U.S.-Andean Free Trade Agreement (FTA) negotiations. Peruvian public support for the FTA, at 68 percent, continues to be the highest in the region and the government remains committed to concluding ne [...] | 2005-04-13 18:09:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON PGOV PE |
05LIMA1795 | COMMUNITY OF DEMOCRACIES: ENCOURAGING CONSTRUCTIVE [...] (SBU) On 4/15, D/Polcoun delivered reftel points with U.S. views on the April 28-30 Community of Democracies Ministerial to Foreign Ministry North American Affairs Director Nestor Popolizio, and to Human Rights and Social Affairs Director Carlos Roman. Popolizio told Emboff that he expected Fo [...] | 2005-04-18 11:57:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PREL PE |
05LIMA1852 | COMMUNITY OF DEMOCRACIES: PERU ON ELECTION [...] (SBU) On 4/19, D/Polcoun delivered reftel points and concept paper on the U.S. proposal for developing election standards and assessment mechanisms to Foreign Ministry Human Rights and Social Affairs Director Carlos Roman. Roman told Emboff on 4/21 that he had forwarded the U.S. proposal to F [...] | 2005-04-21 17:04:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PREL PE |
05LIMA2017 | ANOTHER ATPDEA DISPUTE OVER; LUZ DEL SUR AND [...] (SBU) Summary. Good news on three commercial disputes. Arcadis signed its contract for an environmental remediation project, completely resolving that dispute. In the Luz del Sur case, The Tax Court has a new valuation of the U.S. company's assets (similar to the firm's initial appraisal) a [...] | 2005-05-02 22:17:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON ETRD PGOV PE |
05LIMA2025 | CAN PERU IMPROVE COMPETITION IN TELECOMS INDUSTRY? [...] (SBU) Summary. Two recent developments in the telecommunications industry have GOP officials pointing to improved competition in the market. America Movil, a Mexican company owned by Carlos Slim, acquired the fourth mobile band on March 30 and should begin operations by early 2006. The Mi [...] | 2005-05-03 16:47:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ECON ETRD EINV PE |
05LIMA2027 | USTR DISCUSSES MOBILE TERMINATION RATES WITH [...] (SBU) Summary. During the ninth round of U.S.-Andean Free Trade negotiations, USTR lead telecommunications negotiator Ken Shagrin met with both the Ministry of Communications (MTC) and Osiptel (Peru's telecommunications regulator) to discuss the lack of competition in the telecommunications [...] | 2005-05-03 17:46:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ECON ETRD EINV PE |
05LIMA2053 | WILL AEROCONTINENTE RESUME FLIGHTS? [...] (SBU) Summary. OFAC King Pin designate and owner of the now defunct AeroContinente airlines, Fernando Zevallos, recently announced plans to resume domestic service of his airline. On May 1, AeroContinente announced job openings for pilots who can fly F28s, B737s, and B727s - all planes in th [...] | 2005-05-04 21:42:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON ETRD EINV CASC PE |
05LIMA2054 | CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE REPORT ON FORGED [...] (U) SUMMARY: The three opposition party members of the congressional committee investigating allegations that President Alejandro Toledo's party forged signatures to register for the 2000 elections concluded that there was massive fraud and that Toledo was responsible. The two pro-GOP memb [...] | 2005-05-04 21:43:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINS PINR PE |
05LIMA2080 | PERU: OAS WORKING GROUP ON RACISM [...] Poloff delivered the demarche on the proposed OAS Working Group on Racism (Reftel) to the Foreign Ministry's Director of Human Rights, Carlos Roman, and to its Director of OAS and Hemispheric Affairs, Carlos Chocano, on 5/5. Neither offered an official reply. Chocano indicated, however, that [...] | 2005-05-06 20:20:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM AORC PE USOAS |
05LIMA2111 | PERU: NARCOTICS AFFAIRS SECTION, APRIL 2005 [...] (SBU) On April 7, CORAH started eradication in the hard-core zone of Polvora-Pizana north of Santa Lucia in the Huallaga Valley. The eradicators and their police security units encountered stiff resistance by some cocaleros, including rock-throwing that damaged 3 INL helicopters in 2 separat [...] | 2005-05-10 15:38:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR KCRM ASEC PREL PE |
05LIMA2115 | TINTAYA MINE: FROM CONFLICT TO COOPERATION [...] (SBU) Conflicts between communities and mining companies are among the most serious problems that confront Peru. One company, however, stands out as an exception: BHP Billiton, an Australian firm with a copper mine in Tintaya, has succeeded in ameliorating once highly conflictive relations w [...] | 2005-05-10 19:12:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EMIN SOCI ETRD ECON EAID ENRG PGOV PHUM PE |
05LIMA2132 | FUROR CONTINUES IN SALLY BOWEN CASE [...] (U) British journalist Sally Bowen may have been convicted for defamation in a Peruvian court, but her cause continues to gain converts and momentum in the court of public opinion. Bowen found herself bolstered from support by a variety of sources over the weekend, including: the British and [...] | 2005-05-11 15:40:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KPAO PE |
05LIMA2180 | TOLEDO MAINTAINS HARD LINE ON 1995 CHILEAN ARMS [...] (U) President Alejandro Toledo is maintaining the GOP's hard line on Chile's 1995 arms deliveries to Ecuador. In a declaration made on 5/10 while attending the South American Arab Summit in Brasilia, Toledo announced that the issue will not/not be resolved and there will be no/no 2x2 meeting [...] | 2005-05-13 20:46:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PE CI |
05LIMA2187 | KILLINGS AND KIDNAPPINGS BY INDIGENOUS GROUP [...] (SBU) Summary: The murder of four health workers followed by the kidnapping of a journalist and his assistant by indigenous Aguaruna tribesmen sparked speculation that these incidents were linked to efforts to cover up local opium cultivation and trafficking. An ongoing police investigatio [...] | 2005-05-13 22:31:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR ASEC PGOV PINS PE |
05LIMA2223 | PERU'S PARTICIPATION IN THE FOURTH GLOBAL FORUM ON [...] No summary [...] | 2005-05-18 15:53:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SOCI AMGT ASEC CPAS CVIS KCRM KFRD PINR PINS PE BR |
05LIMA2235 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES FREE TRADE IN PIURA [...] (SBU) Summary. During a May 5-6 trip to Piura in northern Peru, the Ambassador met with local dignitaries to discuss free trade and economic development, inaugurated a new AID-sponsored small business center, toured a local textile plant, and visited Peace Corps volunteers. Although the Wor [...] | 2005-05-18 18:52:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV ECON PGOV PE |
05LIMA2254 | GRADUATING COUNTERNARCOTICS CADETS INCREASE PNP [...] (U) SUMMARY: On May 12, almost 200 new Peruvian National Police (PNP) cadets graduated from two police academies in the heart of the coca source zones. These academies were conceived, constructed and fully equipped by Embassy NAS. The 200 graduates are the first batch of a planned 2000 more c [...] | 2005-05-19 20:49:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC SNAR EAID PGOV PE |
05LIMA2271 | AN EYE FOR A VISA -- FAKING EYE INJURIES TO GET [...] (U) Summary: Post's Fraud Prevention Unit was contacted by internal auditors for the Peruvian Ministry of Women and Social Development (MIMDES) who were auditing the National Council for Integration for the Handicapped (CONADIS). During the course of their audit, they determined that someone [...] | 2005-05-20 14:46:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFRD CVIS KCRM ASEC CMGT CJAN PE |
05LIMA2324 | Revocation Request - Visas Issued to Malafide [...] (U) Post submitted reftel reporting on mala fide applicants who obtained non-immigrant visas by faking a medical handicap. Applicants had appeared at the Embassy with one eye glued shut to simulate a vision problem requiring medical attention in the United States. The applicants paid visa fi [...] | 2005-05-25 13:25:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFRD CVIS KCRM ASEC CMGT CJAN PE |
05LIMA2335 | STRIKES BY AGRICULTURAL PRODUCERS AFFECT TEN [...] (SBU) Agricultural producers from 10 departments, all with distinct agendas, began a series of strikes and road blockages on 5/23. The GOP quickly reached an accommodation with potato growers in the south, and remains in negotiation with rice farmers from the north. Textile manufacturers and [...] | 2005-05-25 21:47:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINS EAGR ETRD CASC PE |
05LIMA2342 | OPPOSITION APRA PARTY DECIDES TO DROP PROPOSED [...] (U) APRA Congresswoman (and Chairwoman of the party's Political Committee) Mercedes Cabanillas announced 5/25 that the APRA legislative bloc had decided to drop its planned resolution calling for a "political trial" of President Alejandro Toledo on allegations that he was involved in forging [...] | 2005-05-26 16:59:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINS PE |
05LIMA2376 | MORE COCALERO INFIGHTING; BOMBS SIGNAL [...] (U) SUMMARY: Monzon cocaleros' highly publicized rejection of Huallaga cocalero leader Nancy Obregon (for allegedly being too conciliatory to the GOP) is a parable for the fact that continued cocalero fragmentation is going hand-in-hand with a new radicalization. There are other disturbing si [...] | 2005-05-27 15:35:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR EAID ETRD PGOV ASEC PE |
05LIMA2377 | THRUSH AIRCRAFT SEARCHES FOR OPIUM POPPIES AMID [...] (U) SUMMARY: Cocalero leader Elsa Malpartida has renewed the groundless rumors of GOP coca fumigation, this time citing the presence of a U.S. Thrush surveillance aircraft. To counter these allegations, the Mission continues a concerted public affairs effort that included a tour of the Thrush [...] | 2005-05-27 15:36:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC SNAR EAID ETRD PGOV PE |
05LIMA2444 | PERU'S TROUBLED FOREST CONCESSION PROCESS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Three years after Peru began implementing a modern forest concession system - to wide acclaim - concessions remain unconsolidated and problematic. Lack of concessionaire funds, delays in management plan approval, lack of GOP capacity to oversee concessions, and competing land c [...] | 2005-06-02 15:19:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ETRD EINV ECON PGOV SNAR PE |
05LIMA2451 | NEW PERUVIAN NATIONAL AIRPORT POLICE DIVISION [...] (SBU) Post's Fraud Prevention Unit (FPU) continues to actively engage with Peruvian officials to rout out corruption among the ranks of more than seven different police units operating at Lima's Jorge Chavez International Airport (JCIA). These discussions led to the idea of one, overall divis [...] | 2005-06-02 18:00:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFRD CVIS KCRM ASEC CMGT CJAN PE |
05LIMA2509 | TELECOMS REGULATOR ISSUES TEMPORARY MOBILE [...] (SBU) Summary. On May 26, Peruvian telecommunications regulator OSIPTEL issued a temporary mobile termination rate of $0.2053 for all carriers. According to OSIPTEL President Edwin San Roman, OSIPTEL is still working to establish a cost-based mobile termination rate, which should be publish [...] | 2005-06-06 18:58:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ECON ETRD EINV PE |
05LIMA2523 | PERU'S TEXTILE EXPORTS INCREASE 13 PERCENT IN Q1 [...] (U) Summary. Peru's textile industry witnessed a 13 percent increase in exports during the first quarter of 2005 year-on-year, despite local fears that the end of the Multi- Fiber Agreement (MFA) would limit the Peruvian textile industry's ability to compete internationally. The GOP, noting [...] | 2005-06-06 22:30:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTEX ETRD ECON PGOV PREL PE |
05LIMA2553 | GOP RESPONSE TO AGRICULTURAL STRIKE! PROMISES, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a four-day strike, that ended May 27, agricultural producers in ten departments put up roadblocks demanding import controls and price supports and concessions/protections for agriculture in the FTA negotiations. However, in some areas only a 15-day pause was agreed upon, hin [...] | 2005-06-07 21:54:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA EAGR EC |
05LIMA2565 | GOP RESPONSE TO AGRICULTURAL STRIKE! PROMISES, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a four-day strike, that ended May 27, agricultural producers in ten departments put up roadblocks demanding import controls and price supports and concessions/protections for agriculture in the FTA negotiations. However, in some areas only a 15-day pause was agreed upon, hin [...] | 2005-06-08 17:03:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA EAGR EC |
05LIMA2571 | ANDEAN COMMUNITY ISSUES STATEMENT SUPPORTING [...] (U) Acting in his capacity as President of the Andean Community Council, Foreign Minister Manuel Rodriguez issued a statement on 6/7 expressing support for constitutional norms and democratic institutions in Bolivia. Embassy's informal translation of the statement follows: (begin text) A [...] | 2005-06-08 19:59:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PE BL |
05LIMA2600 | VISIT OF STAFFDEL WALKER TO PERU [...] SUMMARY. (SBU) During a busy two-day visit, Staffdel Walker raised pending U.S. company commercial disputes, trafficking of narcotics and persons, and the benefits of an U.S.-Andean Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in discussions with Members of Congress, high-ranking government officials, and pri [...] | 2005-06-10 14:49:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON SNAR EFIN EINV SOCI PGOV PE |
05LIMA2616 | Peruvian Congressman involved in visa fraud [...] (SBU) According to a recent investigative report in the newspaper "Correo" dated March 17, 2005, Peruvian Congressman Roger SANTA MARIA Del Aguila, DPOB: September 26, 1950, Peru, appears to have been involved in visa/passport fraud by fraudulently filing a birth registration for a child who i [...] | 2005-06-10 22:28:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFRD CVIS PGOV PE |
05LIMA2642 | SEIZURE OF MAJOR COCAINE HCL LABORATORY IN APURIMAC [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 9, 2005, PNP DIRANDRO Special Operations Group, aided by NAS helicopters, seized a major cocaine HCL laboratory on the River Ene in the VRAE. At the site, the Special Ops group found half a metric ton of cocaine hcl along with 1 metric ton of cocaine base, as well as 3 [...] | 2005-06-14 14:33:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ASEC SNAR PE |
05LIMA2674 | UNODC ANDEAN COCA SURVEYS FOR 2004 SHOW EXPANSION [...] (SBU) Summary: UNODC's 2004 coca survey found a 14 pecent increase in coca cultivation over the previous year, totalling 50,300 hectares. Most of this increase occurred in the Upper Huallaga and San Gaban areas. The UNODC's findings match Embassy's observations; our current eradication sche [...] | 2005-06-15 19:04:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PE PREL SNAR UN |
05LIMA2698 | MDA: CONFERENCE FOR THIRD ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL -- [...] No summary [...] | 2005-06-16 19:10:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PREF PHUM PE ICRC |
05LIMA2748 | REFORMING THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION (CHR): [...] (SBU) On 6/17, A/Polcouns delivered reftel points on CHR reform to Foreign Ministry Director of Human Rights Carlos Roman, stressing that we were aware of Peru's proposal for the creation of a body of a body of Independent Experts, and requesting a comprehensive review of the U.S. non-paper, in [...] | 2005-06-20 23:46:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KUNR PE UNCHR |
05LIMA2751 | VENEZUELAN EMBASSY'S SEMINAR ON THE SOCIAL CHARTER [...] (SBU) On 6/15, Political Section FSN Assistant attended a "Participative Forum/Workshop" sponsored by the Embassy of Venezuela in Lima entitled "The Social Charter of the Americas (SCA)." Summaries of the interventions by the scheduled speakers are provided below. 2. (U) Ambassador Jorge V [...] | 2005-06-21 17:03:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SOCI VE PE |
05LIMA3261 | GOVERNING PARTY CANDIDATE ELECTED AS PRESIDENT OF [...] (U) On July 26, 2005, the Peruvian Congress elected Marcial Ayaipoma, the candidate of President Alejandro Toledo,s ruling Peru Posible (PP) Party, as its new President, succeeding Antero Flores Araoz. Although Ayaipoma ran unchallenged, his election proved difficult. The opposition APRA and U [...] | 2005-07-27 18:44:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PE |
05LIMA3289 | PERUVIAN GOVERNMENT STRENGTHENS ANTI-PIRACY EFFORTS [...] (SBU) Summary. The GOP, recognizing that intellectual property violations have escalated in recent years, is making a concerted effort to improve its anti-piracy efforts. Indecopi, Peru's IPR administrator, continues to work closely with the tax agency SUNAT and the police and has conducted [...] | 2005-08-01 20:19:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD KIPR PE |
05LIMA3341 | EU AMBASSADOR PROVIDES READOUT ON SOUTH AMERICAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ambassador met with EU Ambassador Mendel Goldstein on 7/27 to convey concerns about statements attributed to EU External Relations Commissioner Benita Ferrero-Waldner that appeared to criticize U.S. counternarcotics policies in the Andes. Goldstein stated that Ferrero-Waldne [...] | 2005-08-03 21:48:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PREL ETRD PTER EU PE |
05LIMA3366 | DGAC GRANTS AEROCONTINENTE FLIGHT PERMISSIONS [...] (SBU) Summary. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGAC) in mid-June presented OFAC-listed Narcotics Kingpin Fernando Zevallos documentation granting flight permissions to Zevallos' new airline, AeroContinente EIRL. AeroContinente, which plans to use five planes - two Fokkers and 3 Ai [...] | 2005-08-04 20:44:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON ETRD EINV CASC PE |
05LIMA3375 | CAMISEA GREENLIGHT: REPSOL TO EXPORT LNG [...] (U) SUMMARY: Hunt Oil's liquefied natural gas project cleared its last major hurdle to securing financing for its planned Peru plant. On August 1,Spanish firm Repsol agreed to buy the 4 million annual tons of LNG for 18.5 years. Hunt hopes to secure financing and begin construction of the LNG [...] | 2005-08-05 12:39:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG SENV EPET SOCI EINV ECON ETRD PGOV PE |
05LIMA3414 | Peru's Evangelicals: A Rising Force [...] (SBU) This is the first in a three-part series on Peru's Evangelical Christians. This cable traces the recent history of this key emerging sector. The second will delineate the Evangelicals' political strategy for the upcoming presidential and congressional elections. The final cable will [...] | 2005-08-08 22:28:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PE |
05LIMA3415 | Peru's Evangelicals: Political Strategy [...] (U) This is the second in a three-part series on Peruvian Evangelicals. It will delineate their political strategy for the upcoming presidential and congressional elections. -------- Summary: -------- 2. (U) Peruvian Evangelical Christians fervently believe that Peru needs thoroughg [...] | 2005-08-08 22:30:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PE |
05LIMA3534 | AMERICA MOVIL BUYS PERU'S SECOND LARGEST MOBILE [...] (SBU) Summary. America Movil, one of the largest mobile telecommunications providers in South America, expanded its infant operations in Peru on August 11 with the $503 million purchase of TIM Peru. Although TIM, Peru's second largest mobile provider with 31 percent of the market, recently [...] | 2005-08-16 18:04:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ECON ETRD EINV PE |
05LIMA3554 | PERU RESUMES FTA NEGOTIATIONS WITH THAILAND [...] (U) Summary. After almost 10 months of delay, the GOP resumed free trade talks with Thailand on August 15. During round six, held in Lima August 15-17, the GOP and GOT will negotiate chapters on market access, rules of origin, customs procedures and safeguards. GOP officials view Thailand [...] | 2005-08-17 16:00:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EAGR PGOV PREL PE |
05LIMA3578 | TRANSPORT MINISTER WILL NOT ATTEND WHTI MEETING [...] (U) Per reftel B, we have ascertained that Minister of Transportation and Communications Jose Ortiz will not/not attend the Western Hemisphere Transportation Initiative (WHTI) in Brazil, August 25-26. Vice Minister of Transportation Nestor Palacios will act as the GOP's lead delegate. 2. [...] | 2005-08-18 15:41:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR AORC ELTN EWWT PE |
05LIMA3594 | INTRODUCING MINISTER OF FINANCE FERNANDO ZAVALA [...] (SBU) Summary. On August 16, President Toledo appointed former Vice Minister of Economy Fernando Zavala Lombardi to replace Pedro Pablo Kuczynski as the Minister of Economy and Finance. Zavala, prior to his position as Vice Minister, served as General Manager of Indecopi (Peru's IPR Administ [...] | 2005-08-18 22:15:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL PE ENIV |
05LIMA3609 | MINING COMPANIES WORRIED ABOUT SECURITY [...] (SBU) Summary: The U.S. and Canadian Ambassadors hosted a meeting on August 11 for representatives of international mining companies to review their operating difficulties in Peru and to coordinate efforts to improve the investment climate. Consensus among the companies is that radical forces [...] | 2005-08-19 18:20:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EMIN ETRD SNAR PTER ECON EINV PGOV PE |
05LIMA3687 | PERU BUYS BACK $1.5 BILLION IN PARIS CLUB DEBT [...] (U) Summary. The Peruvian Government on August 16 issued a $1.5 billion buyback of its Paris Club debt, sending checks to 13 Paris Club countries. The GOP expects the buyback to lighten the government's service burden over the next few years by an average of $360 million annually during the [...] | 2005-08-25 16:35:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PREL PE ENIV |
05LIMA3794 | ELI LILLY STRUGGLING WITH PATENT PIRACY [...] (SBU) Summary. Eli Lilly, one of the ten pharmaceutical companies that hold patents in Peru, continues to combat the piracy of one of its best selling products, Zyprexa. According to Eli Lilly representatives, two local distributors, Ozone and PharmaIndustria, are selling copies of Zyprexa o [...] | 2005-09-01 21:40:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD KIPR PE |
05LIMA3888 | THE TOLEDO-URIBE MEETING AND PERU'S GAME PLAN FOR [...] (SBU) Summary: In separate meetings with the Ambassador the Ministers of Trade, Foreign Relations and Production described Toledo's one-day trip to Colombia as productive. The GOP believes Uribe was not previously aware of how much Colombia's FTA team is out of sync with Peru's. Peruvian bus [...] | 2005-09-08 20:57:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EINV PGOV PREL PE |
05LIMA3923 | THREE PRESIDENTS INAUGURATE INTEROCEANIC HIGHWAY [...] (SBU) Summary. The Presidents of Peru, Bolivia and Brazil met in Madre de Dios, Peru on September 8, to inaugurate the $810 million Interoceanic Highway project, which will connect Brazil's Atlantic coast to Peru's Pacific coast. The governments expect the highway to be completed by 2010. [...] | 2005-09-09 22:02:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTEX ETRD ECON PGOV PREL PE |
05LIMA3983 | Eradication and Interdiction Program Status - [...] (SBU) With a backdrop of increased coca hectarage and cocaine production in Peru, NAS is facing challenges to step up eradication levels in a more conflictive environment. There have been two distinct phases in eradication and interdiction efforts this year. From January until the end of Ma [...] | 2005-09-14 15:28:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PE KPRP |
05LIMA4023 | DEMARCHE URGING SUPPORT FOR SUA NONPROLIFERATION [...] No summary [...] | 2005-09-16 16:09:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP MNUC PARM PREL KTIA PHSA EWWT PE |
05LIMA4024 | IRAN/IAEA: SEEKING SUPPORT FOR EU3 EFFORTS TO [...] No summary [...] | 2005-09-16 16:12:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP PARM PREL TRGY MNUC IR EU PE IAEA |
05LIMA4033 | ANOTHER ATPDEA DISPUTE NEAR RESOLUTION [...] (SBU) Summary. According to GOP's Commercial Dispute Coordinator, Aurelio Loret de Mola, the Luz del Sur/PSEG dispute should be resolved shortly, pending SUNAT valuation of any back taxes owed by the company. The remaining ATPDEA cases -- Engelhard, Princeton Dover, and LeTourneau -- are st [...] | 2005-09-16 19:19:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON ETRD PGOV PE |
05LIMA4108 | GOP TO HEAR PUBLIC COMMENTS ON MOBILE TERMINATION [...] (SBU) Summary. On July 20, Osiptel, Peru's telecommunications regulator, published its model for the reduction of mobile termination rates. After a 40-day public comment period, Osiptel will hold a public hearing, scheduled for September 26, where companies will have the opportunity to reac [...] | 2005-09-21 15:56:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ETRD EINV ECON PE |
05LIMA4130 | SUPREME COURT DECIDES THAT REBEL LEADER ANTAURO [...] (U) SUMMARY. Peru's Supreme Court ruled 9/21 that Ethno-Cacerist leader Antauro Humala and his followers should be tried in Andahuaylas, the site of their murderous January uprising, and not in Lima. The National Director of Prisons said he would not comply with the Court's ruling on transfe [...] | 2005-09-22 19:08:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINS PE |
05LIMA4179 | EMBASSY AND EVANGELICALS: BREAKING NEW GROUND [...] (U) This is the third in a three-part series on Peru,s Evangelical Christians. Reftels described the history and contemporary political strategy of this key emerging group. This cable discusses Embassy outreach. -------- Summary: -------- 2. (U) Peru,s rapidly-growing population of [...] | 2005-09-26 20:15:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINR PHUM PGOV PE |
05LIMA4184 | PERU: UPDATED TEXTILE AND APPAREL INFORMATION [...] (SBU) Summary. Peru's textile and apparel sectors have grown rapidly in the past few years, due primarily to benefits under the Andean Trade Promotion and Drug Eradication Act (ATPDEA). While textile and apparel exports values increased from $823 million in 2003 to $1.09 billion in 2004, thi [...] | 2005-09-27 13:56:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTEX ETRD ECON EINV PE |
05LIMA4226 | PUBLIC COMMENTS ON PERU'S MOBILE TERMINATION [...] (SBU) Summary. On September 26, Osiptel, Peru's telecommunications regulator, hosted a public audience to hear comments on its model for the reduction of mobile termination rates. Osiptel officials began the conference by explaining how the model was derived and justified the need for a thr [...] | 2005-09-28 20:12:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ETRD EINV ECON PE |
05LIMA4228 | ANOTHER ATPDEA DISPUTE RESOLVED [...] (SBU) Summary. The General Manager of Luz del Sur (owned by New Jersey-based PSEG and Californian Sempra Energy) informed us that the company's dispute with Peru's tax authority, SUNAT, is fully resolved. SUNAT determined that Luz del Sur owed 929,000 soles (approximately $282,000) in back ta [...] | 2005-09-28 20:23:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON ETRD PGOV PE |
05LIMA4273 | TRADE MINISTER FORESHADOWS FTA RED LINES [...] (SBU) Summary: In meetings with the Ambassador, Trade Minister Ferrero and Peru's Chief FTA Negotiator de la Flor highlighted two red lines for Peru in the U.S.-Andean FTA negotiations. They warned that Peru's Congress would not accept an FTA that permitted the importation of used clothing o [...] | 2005-09-30 20:42:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EINV PGOV PREL PE |
05LIMA4278 | GOP JUSTIFIES USED CLOTHING LAW [...] (SBU) Summary. In a meeting on September 27 with the DCM, Vice Minister of Industry Antonio Castillo cited three arguments to justify Peru's ban on the imports of used clothing imports, Law 28514. First, the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes, to [...] | 2005-10-03 13:43:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTEX ETRD ECON EINV PE |
05LIMA4370 | CONGRESS PASSES EXXON-MOBIL TAX AMENDMENT [...] (SBU) Summary. After almost a year of anticipation, the Congressional Plenary voted on October 6 in favor of the Ministry of Finance (MEF) amendment to the tax law, thereby granting Exxon-Mobil a $15 million credit over the next three years. Under Peruvian law, President Toledo must approve [...] | 2005-10-11 18:01:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EFIN ECON EPET KIDE PE |
05LIMA4441 | COCALEROS INCREASINGLY RADICAL BUT STILL FRACTURED [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Fifteen hundred cocaleros met in Ayacucho at the fourth Congress of the National Confederation of Agriculture Producers of the Coca Valleys of Peru (CONPACCP) in another failed attempt to create a unified national movement. Supporters of the Humala brothers tried to participat [...] | 2005-10-13 22:06:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PGOV PINS PE |
05LIMA4548 | NEW LABOR MINISTER [...] (U) President Alejandro Toledo, on 10/7, swore in Carlos Alberto Almeri Veramendi as Minister of Labor and Job Promotion. A bio for Minister Almeri follows. 2. (U) Almeri was elected to Congress in 2001 as a representative from Loreto Department for the ruling Peru Posible (PP) party. In [...] | 2005-10-21 16:44:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PE |
05LIMA4566 | ISRAEL AT UNGA - II: OPPOSING ANTI-ISRAEL BIAS [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-24 16:49:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PE UNGA |
05LIMA4596 | PUBLIC DEBATE IN PERU OVER CONTRACTING OF SECURITY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Peruvians going to Iraq to work as contract security specialists for a U.S. company have become the focus of wide-spread media and official interest. Several hundred Peruvians have signed contracts with Peruvian representatives of the U.S. firm Triple Canopy Inc. The President [...] | 2005-10-25 21:28:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM KPAO PE |
05LIMA4599 | REQUEST FOR GUIDANCE IN RESPONDING TO DIPLOMATIC [...] (U) This is an action request. Post requests guidance on how to respond to the Foreign Ministry's Diplomatic Note (DGL/CJE) 6-3/367 of October 13, 2005 regarding a request from the Superior Court of Justice of Lima (Corte Superior de Justicia de Lima) to the Peruvian Foreign Ministry concernin [...] | 2005-10-25 21:54:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KJUS PE |
05LIMA4629 | SUCCESSFUL IPR CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS BORDER [...] (SBU) Summary. Post, in collaboration with the U.S. Patent and Trade Office and U.S. Customs and Border Protection, hosted a two-day conference October 24-25, highlighting the urgent need for Peru to better protect intellectual property rights. During the conference, 70 officials from Peruv [...] | 2005-10-27 21:28:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ECON EINV ETRD PE |
05LIMA4654 | FOREIGN MINISTER RAISES ISSUE OF CONSULAR SERVICES [...] (U) Action Request in paragraph 3. 2. (SBU) Foreign Minister Oscar Maurtua, during a 10/28 breakfast hosted by the Ambassador, said that during his attendance at Congress the previous day, many legislators had approached him with concerns over how the Foreign Ministry intends to safegua [...] | 2005-10-28 21:17:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MOPS PE |
05LIMA4721 | MANIFEST REVIEW UNIT ALERT RESULTS IN FURTHER [...] (SBU) Lima NAS/DEA Manifest Review Unit (MRU) and NAS US Customs and Border Protection (USCBP) Officers, working at the Port of Callao, continue to provide illicit narcotics alerts to US Law Enforcement entities leading to seizures and controlled deliveries of cocaine originating from Peru. [...] | 2005-11-04 18:16:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PE |
05LIMA4732 | ECONOMIC EXPANSION BEGINNING TO REDUCE POVERTY [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-04 21:24:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EINV PGOV PREL PE |
05LIMA4777 | PERU'S CHIEF FTA NEGOTIATOR ON FINAL ISSUES [...] (SBU) Summary: Peru's Chief FTA Negotiator Pablo de la Flor told the Ambassador that Peru is ready to conclude the U.S.-Andean FTA negotiations by Thanksgiving, pending resolution of specific IPR and Agriculture concerns. De la Flor warned that Peru's Health Minister would resign -- creating [...] | 2005-11-08 21:26:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EINV PGOV PREL PE |
05LIMA478 | CHINESE VICE PRESIDENT ZENG QINGHONG'S VISIT TO [...] (U) Chinese Vice President Zeng Qinghong, accompanied by a delegation of 124 persons, paid an official visit to Peru on January 26 to 28. The visit here was the second leg of a five-nation sojourn within Latin America and the Caribbean, which also includes Mexico, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobag [...] | 2005-01-28 18:07:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ETRD ECON PE CH |
05LIMA4784 | AID CONTRACTORS ABDUCTED AND RELEASED BY SENDERO [...] Summary: On Sunday, November 6, 2005, 10 employees of AID alternative development contractor, Chemonics, were abducted and briefly held by a heavily armed group of Sendero Luminoso operatives near the village of Santa Rosa de Yanajanca, in the department of San Martin. After being forced to m [...] | 2005-11-08 23:16:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PE |
05LIMA4848 | LAUNCHING PHASE II OF THE DIGITAL FREEDOM [...] (SBU) Summary. The Ambassador and Peruvian Minister of Production David Lemor signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on November 8 to launch Phase II of the Digital Freedom Initiative (DFI) as well as underscore the GOP's renewed interest in the program. Both the Minister and the Ambass [...] | 2005-11-15 18:04:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ETRD EINV ECON PE |
05LIMA4867 | PERUVIAN CONGRESS REAFFIRMS SUPPORT FOR [...] (SBU) Summary. After a month of delay and renewed Embassy advocacy, the Congressional Plenary voted on November 10 to reaffirm its support a law granting Exxon- Mobil a $15 million credit over the next three years. Under Peruvian Congressional procedure, the law, which dealt with economic i [...] | 2005-11-16 14:24:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EFIN ECON EPET KIDE PE |
05LIMA4889 | PERU: INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-17 18:50:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC EWWT PHSA KTIA PE IMO |
05LIMA4897 | PERU: NARCOTICS AFFAIRS SECTION, OCTOBER 2005 [...] (SBU) The eradication/interdiction juggernaut moved to San Gaban on October 4 and we are well on our way to surpassing our 8,000 hectare goal for this year. Opposition continues to be light thanks to a large contingent of PNP drug police (DIRANDRO) and a proactive community outreach program [...] | 2005-11-17 21:34:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR KCRM ASEC PREL PE |
05LIMA4910 | PERU: DEMARCHE CONCERNING CCAMLR TOOTHFISH ISSUES [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-18 15:46:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AY EFIS SENV ETRD PE |
05LIMA4925 | PERU: DEMARCHE ON NEW REQUIREMENTS SWORDFISH AND [...] (U) SUMMARY: Econoff delivered Reftel demarche in English and Spanish to the GOP Foreign Ministry and Fisheries section of the Production Ministry on November 5, and met with the GOP fisheries team on November 16. Industry and government contacts contend that Peruvian vessels comply with IATT [...] | 2005-11-18 22:13:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EFIS SENV PE IATTC |
05LIMA4969 | PERU SIGNS "PARTIAL" FTA WITH THAILAND [...] (U) Summary. After over a year of negotiations, the GOP signed an "early harvest" free trade agreement with Thailand on November 19 during the APEC Conference in Busan, South Korea. The agreement covers approximately 70 percent of products exported by the two countries, but does not cover s [...] | 2005-11-22 20:26:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EAGR PGOV PREL PE |
05LIMA4985 | SENDERO THREATENS ALTERNATIVE DEVELOPMENT PARTNER [...] (SBU) Summary: Sendero Luminoso (SL) remnants in the Upper Huallaga have threatened five communities either to reject Alternative Development (AD) or suffer the consequences. This follows the kidnapping of AD USG contractors on 11/6 (reftel). Post is curtailing AD operations in the immediate [...] | 2005-11-23 14:06:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PE PGOV PTER SNAR AID |
05LIMA5011 | KINGPIN ZEVALLOS ARRESTED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING AND [...] (U) Summary: OFAC-designated Kingpin Fernando Zevallos was arrested in Chosica on charges of drug trafficking, three counts of murder, attempted murder, and three counts of coercion of witnesses on 11/19. The arrest warrant issued in the early morning was executed by the Peruvian National Pol [...] | 2005-11-23 19:52:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR PGOV PE |
05LIMA5031 | OPENING OF NEW POLICE BASE AT PALMA PAMPA [...] Summary: The new NAS-sponsored police base at Palma Pampa was inaugurated November 16, although airborne interdiction operations began in July. The base is in the heart of the Apurimac/Ene Valley (VRAE) that is one of the main source zones for coca cultivation -- around 14,000 hectares -- a [...] | 2005-11-28 15:26:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMGT PE PREL SNAR |
05LIMA5073 | TELECOMS REGULATOR PUBLISHES IMPROVED MOBILE [...] (SBU) Summary. The Peruvian telecommunications regulator, OSIPTEL, published its new mobile termination rate on November 24. The new rate is based on cost factors including the value of a company's network investment and the spectrum value. Under the new plan, OSIPTEL will lower the mobile [...] | 2005-11-29 21:37:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ETRD EINV ECON PE |
05LIMA5198 | PERU: NARCOTICS AFFAIRS SECTION, NOVEMBER 2005 [...] (SBU) On November 13, the GOP eradication team passed the 8,000-hectare mark, its 2005 goal. By the end of November, eradication totaled 8,512 hectares as operations in San Gaban continue. They are scheduled to end on December 15. The GOP's proposed 2006 Eradication Plan is awaiting final [...] | 2005-12-07 18:48:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR KCRM ASEC PREL PE |
05LIMA5254 | LIMA FRAUD PREVENTION UPDATES JULY-SEPTEMBER [...] (U) During the July-September 2005 reporting period, Lima's Fraud Prevention Unit (FPU) worked closely with airline security personnel and the Peruvian National Police (PNP) in the detection and arrest of multiple document vendors and brokers of false U.S., Spanish, and Mexican travel documen [...] | 2005-12-12 20:12:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFRD CVIS KCRM ASEC CMGT CJAN CPAS PE |
05LIMA5267 | REQUEST FOR STATUS ASSESSMENT OF LIMA AIRPORT [...] (U) This cable is an action request. Please see para 9. 2. (SBU) Summary. The Peruvian Government and its private airport Concession holder, Lima Airport Partners, continue to press the U.S. Embassy to pay its outstanding bill dating back to 2001 for landing, parking, and other user fees [...] | 2005-12-13 20:53:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON EFIN ETRD EINV PGOV PE |
05LIMA5322 | TOLEDO CRITICIZES CHAVEZ IN ARMY DAY SPEECH [...] (U) President Alejandro Toledo clearly, albeit indirectly, criticized Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez during his Army Day speech on 12/9. In his remarks, President Toledo recalled that Army Day commemorates the Battle of Ayachucho, where an army made up of recruits from many nations defeate [...] | 2005-12-16 15:21:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINR PE |
05LIMA5333 | PERUVIANS WANT QUICK CONGRESSIONAL VOTE ON U.S. [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOP and supporters of the Peru Trade Promotion Agreement believe it is imperative that the current Peruvian Congress vote on the agreement before the new Congress and President are inaugurated in July 2006. The current Congressional Members are familiar with and are favorab [...] | 2005-12-16 18:19:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EINV EFIN KIPR PGOV PREL PE |
05LIMA5343 | PERU: 1377 TELECOM TRADE AGREEMENTS REVIEW [...] (SBU) Summary. After several years of anticipation and prolonged prodding by Post, Peru's telecommunications regulator Osiptel issued resolution No. 70 on November 21, 2005, which establishes a new mobile termination rate for calls made from pay phones and mobile phones. Under the new regul [...] | 2005-12-19 17:45:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ECON ETRD EINV PE |
05LIMA5486 | PERU: NARCOTICS AFFAIRS, DECEMBER 2005 [...] (SBU) The Government of Peru (GOP) eradicated close to 9,000 hectares of coca in 2005, far surpassing its goal of 8,000 hectares. This achievement was accomplished through the strong commitment of the Ministry of Interior's eradication force (CORAH) and the drug police (DIRANDRO) that provid [...] | 2005-12-30 19:39:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR KCRM ASEC PREL PE |
05LIMA5487 | AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES HUMAL, DEVELOPMENT ISSUES IN [...] (SBU) Summary. On the fringes of the Third Annual Regional Agricultural Conference in Arequipa, November 27-28, the Ambassador met with local dignitaries to discuss a variety of issues, including regional development, the visit of presidential candidate Ollanta Humala to Arequipa, the recent [...] | 2005-12-30 20:53:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV PREL PE |
05LIMA68 | Textile Industry Fears End of MultiFiber Agreement [...] (SBU) Summary. The Peruvian Government fears that the termination of the World Trade Organization's MultiFiber Agreement (MFA) on January 1 will limit the Peruvian textile industry's ability to compete on both the domestic and international markets. The textile industry accounted for approxi [...] | 2005-01-05 20:22:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTEX ETRD ECON PGOV PREL PE |
05LIMA976 | AMBASSADOR'S TRIP TO AYACUCHO [...] (SBU) Ambassador visited Ayacucho February 17-19, as part of a series of trips aimed at raising public awareness throughout Peru regarding potential benefits of a free trade agreement with the U.S. In the course of contacts with public officials and opinion leaders in Ayacucho, this trip also [...] | 2005-03-01 19:04:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON EAID PE |
05LIMA992 | Mexican Summary of Meeting on Mexican HR Initiative [...] (SBU) Post transmits verbatim text received from the Peruvian Foreign Affairs Ministry of a summary, prepared by the Mexican Foreign Ministry, of the GRULAC working meeting in Mexico regarding Mexico's proposal to develop an informal mechanism for cooperation among GRULAC countries on human r [...] | 2005-03-02 17:31:00 | Embassy Lima | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL CU MX PE UNHCR |
05LJUBLJANA116 | SLOVENIA PROVIDES DETAILS OF NEW BIOMETRIC PASSPORT [...] (U) The Government of Slovenia anticipates being able to begin issuing a new biometric passport by the October 26, 2005, deadline imposed by the Enhanced Border Security and Visa Entry Reform Act (EBSVERA). The new passport will incorporate a number of new classical security upgrades in additi [...] | 2005-02-18 06:12:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CMGT PREL KPAO SI |
05LJUBLJANA118 | SLOVENIA: COM AND NEW LABOR MINISTER DISCUSS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a 16 February courtesy call, new Labor Minister Janez Drobnic told COM that combatting unemployment is his top priority, with a focus on introducing programs to help the disabled, the elderly, and first-time job-seekers. Drobnic also listed improving MoL's IT base as a key [...] | 2005-02-18 11:15:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ELAB PINR PHUM SI |
05LJUBLJANA170 | SUPPORTING ISRAEL IN WIPO AND ILO: SLOVENIA [...] (SBU) Econoff delivered reftel talking points to Dr. Biserka Strel, Director of the Slovenian Intellectual Property Office at the Ministry of the Economy, and to Jana Lovsin, Head of the Department for International Cooperation and European Affairs at the Ministry of Labor, Family and Social A [...] | 2005-03-15 11:32:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR AORC ELAB IS SI |
05LJUBLJANA178 | SLOVENIA LIKELY TO CO-SPONSOR CUBA CHR RESOLUTION [...] (SBU) Pol/Econ chief met with Jasna Lhotka of the MFA's Office of UN affairs on March 17, 2005 to discuss reftel. Slovenia co-sponosored last year's Cuba resolution. Lhotka said that, barring any unforseen obstacles, Slovenia was likely to co-sponsor the CHR resolution on Cuba put forth by [...] | 2005-03-17 10:53:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CU PHUM SI |
05LJUBLJANA194 | URGENT DEMARCHE ON OSCE ROLE IN KYRGYZSTAN - [...] (SBU) COM spoke March 30 with Foreign Minister Rupel shortly before Rupel,s departure for Bishkek, using reftel talking points to urge him to find a continuous senior OSCE presence on the ground in Kyrgyzstan. Ambassador emphasized that the Secretary had asked him to call and noted that we w [...] | 2005-03-30 05:23:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OPDC PGOV PREL KG SI |
05LJUBLJANA206 | SLOVENIA: "WE DON'T HAVE WHALES, BUT WE WANT TO [...] (SBU) Econoff and Econ Specialist delivered reftel talking points 30 March to Emil Ferjancic, Post's chief interlocutor at the Ministry of the Environment (MOE). Ferjancic stated Slovenia is considering joining the International Whaling Commission (IWC) and ratifying the Convention. He said t [...] | 2005-03-31 11:04:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIS SENV SI |
05LJUBLJANA224 | SLOVENIA: ZLSD RE-ELECTS PAHOR AND CHANGES ITS NAME [...] (U) SUMMARY: On Saturday, April 2, 2005, the United List of Social Democrats (ZLSD) held its Party Congress and elected its leadership for the next four years. Members of the Youth Wing won important positions, which will likely move the party away from the center and more to the left. The p [...] | 2005-04-05 10:08:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR ECON SI |
05LJUBLJANA247 | GOVT. OF SLOVENIA FINDS RESOURCES TO KEEP TIP NGO [...] No summary [...] | 2005-04-13 07:04:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL SI |
05LJUBLJANA271 | SLOVENIA RESPONSE TO APRIL 25 GAERC DEMARCHE [...] (U) Pol/Econ Chief delivered reftel points to Peter Grk and Vesna Hojnik, of the MFA's office for EU affairs. On Iraq, MEPP, and Lebanon, Grk said the Government of Slovenia (GOS) and EU views tracked closely with the United States. He expected that a decision on the Iraq conference would be [...] | 2005-04-21 06:50:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAL PREL SI |
05LJUBLJANA402 | SLOVENES SUPPORTIVE OF SWISS CIRCULAR NOTE AND [...] (SBU) Pol-Miloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA Legal Department staffer Ondina Blokar on 15 June. Blokar said that an interministerial working group on international human rights law issues had been requested to issue an opinion on the Swiss Circular Note and the Third Additional Protocol. [...] | 2005-06-15 23:36:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC PHUM PREF PREL IS SZ SI ICRC |
05LJUBLJANA407 | SLOVENIA: PORTALS IMPLEMENTING AGREEMENT ENTERS [...] (U) The Department of Energy's Second Line of Defense Portals Implementing Agreement (the "Agreement") between the U.S. and Slovenia entered into force on May 23, 2005. The Agreement (full text in para 3, below) was signed by both parties on April 4, 2005. The U.S. diplomatic note (see reft [...] | 2005-06-17 08:49:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ETTC KNNP MNUC PARM PREL KTIA SI |
05LJUBLJANA483 | SLOVENIA: NEW GENERAL PROSECUTOR LOOKING AT WHITE [...] (SBU) Summary. COM met July 7 with Barbara Brezigar, recently appointed General State Prosecutor for Slovenia. Brezigar, just back from Eurojust in Brussels is focused on combating white-collar crime and is interested in cooperating with the USG to build prosecutorial capacity in Slovenia. B [...] | 2005-07-13 08:21:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SOCI PINR KPAO SI |
05LJUBLJANA523 | COM MEETS WITH INTERIOR MINSTER ON TIP, ANTI [...] (U) Summary. In a meeting with Minister of Interior Dragutin Mate, COM discussed USG concern about the continuing delay by the GOS to fund the NGO Kljuc which Mate insisted he wanted to do, but was being slowed down because of a new law which severely prescribes awarding government contracts t [...] | 2005-07-27 03:08:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM CMGT SI |
05LJUBLJANA549 | SLOVENIA: UNHCR COUNTRY DIRECTOR MEETS WITH COM [...] (U) Summary: On July 21, UNHCR Director for Slovenia Greg Garras met with COM to discuss the state of Slovenian asylum policy at the end of his three and a half year tenure. Garras lamented that Slovenia,s asylum policies have continued to regress under the current center-right government - a [...] | 2005-08-03 08:37:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREF SI |
05LJUBLJANA569 | GUANTANAMO POINTS DISSEMINATED IN SLOVENIA [...] (SBU) Post delivered reftel points to U.S. Desk Officer Marjana Prvinsek-Bokal August 5. Prvisnek will share the points with other relevant offices, many of which are minimally staffed during this heavy vacation month. PAO also delivered the points to the Foreign Minister's press officer, M [...] | 2005-08-09 07:20:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KISL KPAO PGOV PREL |
05LJUBLJANA688 | Response to CY2006 Compensation Questionnaire -- [...] Below please find Embassy Ljubljana's response to the CY2006 FSN Compensation Questionnaire. These answers have been approved by Post Management and the ICASS Council. 2. (SBU) Questionnaire --------------------------------------------- ------ Competitive Compensation Position ----------- [...] | 2005-09-29 01:51:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AFSN AMGT KICA |
05LJUBLJANA737 | SLOVENE PRESIDENT PROPOSES KOSOVO CONFIDENCE [...] (SBU) Summary. On October 19, Slovene President Janez Drnovsek invited Contact Group (CG) Ambassadors in Ljubljana to lunch to lay out his idea of an "informal meeting" to be held in Slovenia to launch status negotiations on Kosovo. The invited would include Presidents, Prime Ministers and P [...] | 2005-10-20 00:24:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SI YI |
05LJUBLJANA758 | DRNOVSEK'S NINE POINT PLAN FOR KOSOVO [...] (SBU) Per Reftels following is the text of the letter and nine-point plan Slovenian President Janez Drnovsek delivered to Contact Group Ambassadors October 20. It has previously been faxed to the Department, US Office Pristina and Embassy Belgrade. Begin Text: Dear Sir, You probably agr [...] | 2005-10-26 09:03:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SI YI |
05LJUBLJANA840 | REFERENDUM INITIATIVE KEEPS ANTI-CORRUPTION [...] (SBU) Summary: A last ditch attempt to call a referendum on this issue has delayed the Government's plan to abolish Slovenia's independent Anti-Corruption Commission and transfer oversight responsibilities for government corruption to the parliament. The Government claims the Commission is t [...] | 2005-12-07 08:32:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCOR SI |
05LJUBLJANA847 | TIP: GOVT. OF SLOVENIA PAYS NGO FOR WORK AND PLANS [...] (SBU) Summary: After nearly 12 months of promises, and regular and persistent inquiries from the Embassy, the GOS has finally committed to paying the anti-trafficking NGO Kljuc for the shelter and other services it has provided to trafficking victims in 2005. For 2006, the GOS plans to issu [...] | 2005-12-13 07:50:00 | Embassy Ljubljana | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SI |
05MADRID1104 | EU PARLIAMENTARIAN SALAFRANCA ON UNDP CANDIDACY [...] (SBU) Spanish EU Parliamentarian for the Popular Party (PP) Jose Ignacio Salafranca visited Charge on March 18 to solicit USG support for his bid to replace Malloch Brown as UNDP director. Salafranca said he wanted to clarify to the USG that although he had the support of the Spanish Governme [...] | 2005-03-21 16:37:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SP UNDP |
05MADRID1117 | SPAIN COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR EUR DEPUTY SECRETARY [...] (SBU) Embassy warmly welcomes and grants country clearance to Deputy Secretary of State Robert B. Zoellick; Acting Assistant Secretary for Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs Robert Bradtke; Executive Assistant Ross Wilson; Special Assistants Christine Davies, Campbell Marshall and Gene [...] | 2005-03-22 15:52:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMGT OVIP ZOELLICK ROBERT |
05MADRID1308 | SPAIN REGISTERS CONCERN WITH HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT [...] The Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs requested a meeting to discuss GOS concerns with this year's Human Rights Report. Poloffs met March 29 with Manuel de la Camara Hermoso, MFA Deputy Director of North American Affairs, and Jose Antonio de Ory Peral, MFA Director General of Human Rights. [...] | 2005-04-06 10:46:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL SP |
05MADRID1346 | SPAIN CONFIRMS NEED FOR DIPLOMATIC CLEARANCE [...] (U) ECONCOUNS and ESTHOFF made reftel points April 7 to MFA International Economic Affairs Director General (A/S equivalent) Emilio Fernandez-Castano, urging Spain to not/not require a formal diplomatic clearance for 3U Technologies or other future U.S. commercial enterprise vessels operating [...] | 2005-04-07 10:26:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KRVC KTIA PHSA SENV SP |
05MADRID1495 | BASQUE ELECTIONS: ETA SUPPORTERS GAIN SEATS [...] (U) The moderate Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) won its eighth straight regional election, but lost four seats in the 75-seat Basque Parliament to the radical leftist Communist Party of the Basque Lands (EHAK),which had the explicit support of ETA front-group Batasuna. The Marxist-Leninist E [...] | 2005-04-18 16:13:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER SP |
05MADRID1687 | SPAIN NOT SUPPORTIVE ON WHO INTERNATIONAL HEALTH REGULATIONS [...] (U) ESTHOFF passed reftel points April 21 to appropriate MFA and Health Ministry contacts. POLMILOFF passed reftel points that same day to the Defense Ministry. The MFA contacted ESTHOFF to inform the Embassy that it would deliver the combined GOS response to our demarche. This response was [...] | 2005-04-29 15:05:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO PREL PTER SP WHO |
05MADRID1803 | SPAIN: SOCIALIST DEPUTY'S VIEWS ON ENERGY ISSUES [...] (SBU) ESTHOFF met with Socialist Party (PSOE) Congresswoman and Industry Commission spokesperson Arantza Mendizabal Gorostiaga May 11 to discuss nuclear and renewable energy-related issues. Mendizabal made several interesting comments that tended to confirm our previous reporting (reftels) [...] | 2005-05-11 14:46:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG SP |
05MADRID2084 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR MAP PROCUREMENT MISSION [...] Embassy Madrid welcomes and grants country clearance to Judith Monte and Brian Weyand, INR/I/M Geographic Specialists, to travel to Madrid, Bilbao and A Coruna, July 2-15, for map collection as well as for Ms. Monte's attendance at the International Cartographic Association Conference in A Cor [...] | 2005-06-01 17:00:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AINR OTRA SP |
05MADRID2109 | SPAIN RAISES ECONOMIC GROWTH FORECAST FOR 2005 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Spain raised its growth projections for 2005 to between 3.2 and 3.4 percent. The Ministry of Economy attributes the revision to strong performance in the first quarter. However, methodological changes on the part of the National Statistics Institute account for the numerical r [...] | 2005-06-03 07:23:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EU SP |
05MADRID2344 | SPAIN: AMBASSADOR O'DONNELL ENGAGES SPAIN ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On June 10, following the OSCE's Conference in Cordoba on Anti-Semitism and other forms of intolerance, Ambassador Edward O'Donnell, U.S. Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues, met with Ambassador Ana Salomon Perez, the Spanish envoy for Jewish Affairs, to discuss Spanish membership [...] | 2005-06-17 08:01:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SP |
05MADRID2363 | CLIFFHANGER IN THE GALICIAN ELECTIONS: IS IT THE [...] (SBU) In a high turnout election, the opposition Popular Party (PP) appears to have lost the absolute majority it has held in the Galician Regional parliament since 1989. Though the PP won the popular vote in Galicia comfortably, taking approximately 45%, with all votes counted it has won only [...] | 2005-06-20 13:48:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SP PSOE |
05MADRID2437 | AMCHAM REPORTS GROWING CORPORATE PESSIMISM TOWARD [...] No summary [...] | 2005-06-23 15:54:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD SP |
05MADRID2465 | BLUE LANTERN END-USE CHECK ON DDTC LICENSE NO. [...] No summary [...] | 2005-06-28 08:28:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KOMC ETTC SP |
05MADRID2479 | SPAIN: FINAL GALICIA VOTE--END OF AN ERA FOR PP, [...] (SBU) Summary: After a week of some suspense in Spain as emigrant votes came in and were counted, final results of the Galician regional elections confirm that PP,s grand old man, Manuel Fraga, has lost his position as regional governor after 16 years in power. This loss of a longtime PP st [...] | 2005-06-28 15:56:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SP PSOE |
05MADRID2523 | DRUG TRAFFICKING AND POSSESSION TRENDS CHALLENGE [...] (SBU) The Government of Spain's National Drug Plan (PND) latest Annual Statistical Report on Drugs reports increases in total drug seizures (29%),trafficking arrests (11%),and arrests for drug possession (22%) between 2003 and 2004. Officials consider these statistics to be an indication tha [...] | 2005-07-05 10:49:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SNAR KSEP PINR PGOV PREL SP |
05MADRID2576 | SPAIN'S HIGH-LEVEL ATTENDANCE AT THE 60TH UN [...] (SBU) The Government of Spain intends to send the following delegation to the UN High Level Event (HLE) and/or General Assembly in September: A. --Head of State: King Juan Carlos will NOT attend. B. --Head of Government: Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, President --Plans to attend the S [...] | 2005-07-08 08:45:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KSEP PREL OTRA OVIP SP UNGA |
05MADRID2608 | SPAIN'S POSITION ON THE COMPREHENSIVE CONVENTION [...] No summary [...] | 2005-07-12 09:34:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER SP UNGA |
05MADRID2680 | SPAIN: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON DEFEATING THE G-4 [...] No summary [...] | 2005-07-19 01:15:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KSEP PREL OTRA OVIP SP UNGA |
05MADRID2792 | DHS U/S BEARDSWORTH MEETS WITH SPANISH OFFICIALS [...] (SBU) Summary. DHS Acting Under Secretary for Border and Transportation Security visited Madrid July 19 to brief Spanish Ministry of Interior and MFA officials on DHS discussions with EU interlocutors regarding the value of Passenger Name Record (PNR) data as a tool for enhancing border secur [...] | 2005-07-29 08:32:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER EAIR SP EUN |
05MADRID2833 | CORRECTED COPY: DHS U/S BEARDSWORTH MEETS WITH [...] (SBU) Summary. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Acting Under Secretary for Border and Transportation Security Randy Beardsworth visited Madrid July 19 to brief Spanish Ministry of Interior (MOI) and Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) officials regarding the value of Passenger Name Record [...] | 2005-08-02 14:35:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER EAIR SP EUN |
05MADRID2943 | SPAIN: AFGHANISTAN TRAGEDY OFFERS OPPORTUNITY FOR [...] (SBU) The tragic loss of 17 Spanish military personnel in the helicopter crash in Afghanistan offers the opportunity for the US to reach out to the Spanish public through their senior leadership as we express our condolences on the loss of life and our support for Spain's continued commitment t [...] | 2005-08-17 07:31:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SP MARR |
05MADRID3251 | SPAINISH AUTHORITIES DISRUPT CHINESE HUMAN [...] (U) On September 9, the Spanish National Police (SNP) arrested 14 Chinese citizens, five of them women, in connection with a human smuggling ring whose goal was to transfer women from China to South Africa and the Western Hemisphere for prostitution. The smuggling ring transferred Chinese wom [...] | 2005-09-14 15:31:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWMN PHUM PGOV SP |
05MADRID3266 | Due Diligence for the Secretary of State's 2005 [...] (SBU) I see no downside or embarrassment if GE Spain is selected as one of this year's awardees for the Secretary of State's Award for Corporate Excellence. In fact, such recognition would highlight the contributions of a very responsible corporate citizen that contributes to both United St [...] | 2005-09-15 14:56:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BEXP EINV ELAB ETRD SENV SP |
05MADRID3528 | "SPANISH TALIBAN" SENTENCED TO SIX YEARS IN PRISON [...] (U) Spain's High Court sentenced Spanish national Hamed Abderrahman Ahmed to six years in prison for "membership in a terrorist organization." Abderrahman, who was transferred to Spain from the U.S. base at Guantanamo in February 2004, is known in the press as the "Spanish Taliban" because he [...] | 2005-10-06 11:52:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL SP |
05MADRID3642 | SPAIN: URGING PA AUTHORITY PRESIDENT ABBAS ON [...] (SBU) Spanish Foreign Minister Moratinos intends to reinforce the Quartet message and points similar to those in reftel to PA Authority President Mahmoud Abbas during Abbas' October 18-19 visit to Madrid, according to MFA Director for the Middle East and Africa Alvarro Iranzo. Iranzo said Mo [...] | 2005-10-18 13:28:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SP |
05MADRID3649 | SPAIN AND BMENA: PINNING DOWN FOUNDATION [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-18 14:48:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PGOV PHUM PREL SP |
05MADRID3684 | SPAIN UNVEILS BUOYANT 2006 BUDGET [...] (U) SUMMARY: Second Vice President and Minister of Economy Pedro Solbes Mira presented the Socialist government's general state budget to Congress on September 27. The budget prioritizes increasing productivity and reducing public debt. The five pillars of the budget are research, development, [...] | 2005-10-21 11:28:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN SP |
05MADRID3784 | INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS (IPR) ROUNDTABLE IN [...] (U) Summary: U.S. Commerce Deputy Assistant Secretary Eric Stewart and Spain's Under Secretary of Culture presided over a day-long U.S.-Spain IPR Roundtable in Madrid on September 28. This event stemmed from former Commerce Assistant Secretary William Lash's February 27 Roundtable proposal t [...] | 2005-10-27 15:26:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD KIPR SP |
05MADRID3793 | SPANISH PAKISTAN EARTHQUAKE RELIEF EFFORTS [...] (SBU) ESTHOFF made reftel points October 24 to Spanish Agency for International Cooperation (AECI) Technical Cabinet Director Dolores Martin Villalba, asking for information on earthquake-related assistance already provided to Pakistan and encouraging Spain to announce further contributions a [...] | 2005-10-28 11:42:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PHUM PREL PK SP |
05MADRID4009 | LETTER TO SECRETARY FROM FM MORATINOS [...] (SBU) During the November 16 visit to Madrid of EUR Assistant Secretary Daniel Fried, Deputy Foreign Minister Bernardino Leon gave A/S Fried a letter to Secretary Rice from Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Angel Moratinos. The letter discusses the Spanish government,s positive view of the stat [...] | 2005-11-17 15:30:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SP |
05MADRID4022 | SPAIN: RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-18 14:59:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO SENV ECON EAGR EAID PREL SP |
05MADRID4037 | SPAIN ON U.S. INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-21 16:48:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC EWWT PHSA KTIA SP IMO |
05MADRID4053 | SPAIN: GOS APPROVAL SLIPS TO LOWEST LEVEL SINCE [...] SUMMARY. Recent poll data shows GOS at lowest level of popular support since coming to office in 2004. A massive protest on November 12, organized mainly to protest GOS's proposed reform of the Education Law drew between 400,000-2 million. This also reflects discontent with recent GOS policies [...] | 2005-11-22 17:19:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SP |
05MADRID4059 | SUCCESSFUL TERORRISM FINANCE CONFERENCE HOSTED IN [...] (U) SUMMARY: From November 14-16, the Fundacion Jose Ortega y Gasset hosted a conference entitled Terrorism Finance: What Control is Possible? The conference was attended by a diverse mix of government officials, academics, journalists, and students. The Embassy contributed by providing speak [...] | 2005-11-23 09:58:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN KTFN PTER KPAO SP |
05MADRID4068 | SPAIN'S SUPPORT FOR THE OAS MISSION IN COLOMBIA [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-23 15:17:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PTER SP CO |
05MADRID4075 | SPAIN: AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH MINISTER OF [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-23 17:45:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON SP |
05MADRID517 | SPAIN OFFERS AMNESTY TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS [...] (SBU) Spain's illegal immigrant population has multiplied three-fold over the last five years, from 300,000 to nearly one million. Now, new Spanish immigration measures taking effect February 7 through May 7 could grant amnesty to as many as one million illegal immigrants currently working in [...] | 2005-02-10 08:01:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SMIG CMGT CASC CVIS KFRD SP |
05MADRID549 | SPAIN: LEADING GOVERNMENT FIGURES' NAMES AND [...] This message is sensitive but unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Pursuant to reftel, here are the names and contact information for the Government of Spain and the Government of Andorra. COUNTRY: The Kingdom of Spain DATE: 11 February 2005 HEAD OF GOVERNMENT LAST N [...] | 2005-02-11 11:56:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SP |
05MADRID572 | PERSONAL PROTECTION REQUEST FOR SPANISH [...] (SBU) RSO has received a letter from the Spanish Ministry of Interior, Secretary of State for Security, requesting that the Diplomatic Security Service provide protective security services for Spanish Anti-Terrorism Judge Baltasar Garzon. Judge Garzon will be a long-term guest lecturer at New [...] | 2005-02-14 09:59:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC |
05MADRID623 | SECURITY ENVIRONMENTAL PROFILE QUESTIONNAIRE [...] (U) As directed in REFTEL, the following responses constitute the SEPQ for Mission Spain. The responses will directly correlate in sequence with the questions asked. All questions and responses have been coordinated with the Emergency Action Committee (EAC) and the Consulate General in Barce [...] | 2005-02-16 11:49:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC PTER |
05MADRID625 | SPAIN: PM/DTTC COUNTRY BRIEFING ON THE BLUE [...] (SBU) Summary: A team from the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (PM/DTTC) provided a background briefing February 10 on the Blue Lantern Program to an official from the Spanish Ministry of Defense's (MOD) Technology Transfers and Transactions Unit and mission's Commercial Service Office [...] | 2005-02-16 15:34:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KOMC ETTC SP |
05MADRID633 | SPAIN SUPPORTS USG INITIATIVE TO STRENGTHEN IAEA [...] No summary [...] | 2005-02-16 16:44:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP PARM TRGY SP IAEA |
05MADRID8 | BASQUE PARLIAMENT APPROVES PLAN TO SEEK GREATER [...] (U) Summary. The Basque Regional Parliament surprised Spanish political observers by narrowly approving a proposal by the ruling Basque Nationalist Party (PNV) to seek increased autonomy from the national government. Known as "Plan Ibarretxe," the proposal falls short of calling for an indep [...] | 2005-01-03 15:34:00 | Embassy Madrid | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER SP |
05MANAGUA1604 | PRESSURE INCREASES ON NICARAGUA TO RESOLVE IMF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. A strong message from European donors has increased the pressure on the GON to take action to awaken the "dormant" IMF program or jeopardize losing USD 120 million in aid, including direct budget support. This echoes similar comments from Carlos Castaneda, IDB Executive Direct [...] | 2005-05-30 16:01:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN NU IMF |
05MANAGUA2100 | NICARAGUA NOTIFIED ON USG POSITION ON G-4 [...] No summary [...] | 2005-07-20 22:19:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL NU UNSC |
05MANAGUA2112 | ANNIVERSARY OF SANDINISTA REVOLUTION DRAWS A [...] (U) Summary: Sandinistas celebrated the 26th anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution on July 19 in Managua after civil society organizations held another march, this time in Granada, to protest the Liberal (PLC) and Sandinista (FSLN) political pact. FSLN leader Daniel Ortega used the opportu [...] | 2005-07-21 22:41:00 | Embassy Managua | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM SOCI NU |
05MANAMA1164 | PROPOSED CRISIS MANAGEMENT EXERCISE (CME) [...] (SBU) Post would welcome the proposed Crisis Management Exercise for Manama, Bahrain during the 1Q of FY06. However, due to a previously scheduled visit by the Office of the Inspector General, several Muslim holidays and two significant conferences that will include high-level U.S. delegation [...] | 2005-08-10 13:14:00 | Embassy Manama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AEMR ASEC BA OTRA KCOM |
05MANAMA1314 | BAHRAIN: INTERNATIONAL PARTNERSHIP ON AVIAN AND [...] No summary [...] | 2005-09-12 09:10:00 | Embassy Manama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID ECON KSCA PREL SOCI TBIO BA |
05MANAMA1315 | BAHRAIN: DECLARATION ON INNOVATIVE SOURCES OF [...] (SBU) Pol/Econ chief September 11 delivered reftel demarche concerning U.S. views of the "Declaration on Innovative Sources of Financing for Development" to MFA Director for International Organization Affairs Ghassan Shaikho. Shaikho was surprised to hear about this initiative and wondered a [...] | 2005-09-12 09:12:00 | Embassy Manama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN EAIR EAID EFIN BA UNGA |
05MANAMA1385 | OECD-MENA INVESTMENT PROGRAM: BAHRAIN MEETING OF [...] (SBU) Summary: Working Groups 1 (Open and Transparent Investment Policies - WG 1) and 2 (Investment Promotion Agencies and Business Associations as Drivers of Reform - WG 2) of the OECD-MENA Investment initiative met in Bahrain September 12-14 to review and approve their contributions to a sto [...] | 2005-09-26 08:41:00 | Embassy Manama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD BA OECD |
05MANAMA1429 | BAHRAIN: U.S. UNGA FIRST COMMITTEE RESOLUTION ON [...] (SBU) Pol/Econ chief October 2 delivered reftel demarche concerning the U.S. UNGA First Committee resolution on compliance to MFA Director for International Organization Affairs Ghassan Shaikho. Shaikho said that Bahrain supports all non-proliferation goals and objectives, including the decl [...] | 2005-10-03 13:07:00 | Embassy Manama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL BA CDG UNGA |
05MANAMA1484 | MFA CONVENES G-8 TO DISCUSS FORUM FOR THE FUTURE, [...] (SBU) The MFA convened G-8 Ambassadors and Charges October 7 to outline Forum for the Future (Forum) conference plans and discuss support for the Center for Entrepreneurial Excellence in Bahrain (CEEB). MFA Assistant Under Secretary for Coordination and Follow Up and meeting chair Shaikh Abdu [...] | 2005-10-12 15:44:00 | Embassy Manama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KDEM PHUM KMPI KPAO BA |
05MANAMA1529 | BAHRAIN: HOLOCAUST REMEMBRANCE RESOLUTION [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-19 11:42:00 | Embassy Manama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL BA IS UNGA |
05MANAMA1530 | BAHRAIN: URGENT DEMARCHE ON UNESCO CULTURAL [...] (SBU) Pol/Econ chief October 19 delivered Ref A urgent demarche on the UNESCO cultural diversity convention vote to MFA Director for International Organization Affairs Ghassan Shaikho. Shaikho said his office was currently in the midst of contacts with the Bahraini mission in Paris and GCC an [...] | 2005-10-19 11:42:00 | Embassy Manama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PHUM SCUL BA UNESCO |
05MANAMA1553 | ARTICLES ALLEGE SEXUAL HUMILIATION, HUNGER STRIKE, [...] (U) This is an action request; please see para 7. 2. (U) Sister newspapers Arabic daily Akhbar Al Khaleej and English daily Gulf Daily News October 19 and 20 published two articles alleging the sexual humiliation of Juma Al Dossary and the advanced hunger strike of Issa Al Murbati, both B [...] | 2005-10-23 11:59:00 | Embassy Manama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KAWC PTER ASEC PREL KPAO BA |
05MANAMA1562 | BAHRAIN: APPEAL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO PAKISTAN [...] (SBU) Pol/Econ chief October 23 delivered reftel demarche concerning contributions to Pakistan earthquake relief and rehabilitation to MFA Assistant Under Secretary for Coordination and Follow Up Shaikh Abdul Aziz bin Mubarak Al Khalifa. Shaikh Abdul Aziz was grateful for information on the [...] | 2005-10-24 12:18:00 | Embassy Manama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PHUM PREL BA PK |
05MANAMA1580 | CREEPING CONSERVATISM HITS HOTELS DURING RAMADAN [...] (SBU) Bahrain's Tourism Directorate issued instructions to five-star hotels in early October directing them to stop serving alcohol in their bars and restaurants during the holy month of Ramadan, an unprecedented development. Compliance was spotty at first but by mid-month all hotels had imp [...] | 2005-10-29 14:26:00 | Embassy Manama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON KISL BA |
05MANAMA1608 | MFA BRIEFS AMBASSADORS ON FORUM ARRANGEMENTS [...] (SBU) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs October 31 held a meeting with ambassadors from countries expected to attend the November 11-12 Forum for the Future conference in Manama and presented them with copies of the agendas for the November 11 Senior Officials meeting and November 12 Ministers [...] | 2005-11-01 14:19:00 | Embassy Manama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KDEM KMPI PHUM ECON BA |
05MANAMA1623 | BAHRAIN: WTO DOHA ROUND EUROPEAN AGRICULTURE [...] (U) EconOff November 2 delivered reftel demarche to Ministry of Industry and Commerce Director of Foreign Trade Relations Abdul Razak Zainalabedin concerning the need to encourage greater flexibility from the EU in the wake of the October 28 EU agriculture proposal. He expressed familiarity w [...] | 2005-11-02 14:21:00 | Embassy Manama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EAGR EU BA |
05MANAMA1656 | BAHRAIN: UN THIRD COMMITTEE RESOLUTIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-09 16:58:00 | Embassy Manama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL BA UNHRC |
05MANAMA1827 | IRAQ: SEEKING PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR DEC. 15 ELECTION [...] (SBU) In separate meetings with Deputy Prime Minister Shaikh Mohammed bin Mubarak and Minister of Information/Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Dr. Mohammed Abdul Ghaffar, the Ambassador discussed the December 15 elections in Iraq, conveyed reftel talking points, and urged that the Governm [...] | 2005-12-12 07:41:00 | Embassy Manama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KDEM KPAO IZ BA REGION |
05MANAMA298 | BAHRAIN: ENCOURAGING ADDITIONAL COUNTRIES TO [...] (SBU) PolEcon chief February 28 delivered reftel demarche on encouraging additional countries to subscribe to the Hague Code of Conduct Against Ballistic Missile Proliferation (HCOC) to MFA Director for Bilateral Affairs Dhafer Al Umran. Al Umran wondered aloud why the other GCC countries and [...] | 2005-03-02 13:20:00 | Embassy Manama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA BA MTCRE |
05MANAMA429 | BAHRAIN: WOLFOWITZ NOMINATION FOR WORLD BANK [...] No summary [...] | 2005-03-21 15:20:00 | Embassy Manama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EINV PREL BA TAGS |
05MANAMA446 | REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE TO IMPROVE BAHRAIN SATELLITE [...] This is an action paragraph, please see para 6. 2. (SBU) Summary: Bahrain's new Minister of Information and Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Dr. Muhammad Abdul Ghaffar, has requested assistance from MEPI to improve Bahrain satellite television and radio. The Ambassador and NEA/PI [...] | 2005-03-26 08:34:00 | Embassy Manama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OIIP PREL KPAO KMPI BA |
05MANAMA455 | BAHRAIN: MENA-OECD INVESTMENT AND GOVERNANCE [...] (SBU) Investment Program: Per reftel, Economic Development Board (EDB) Deputy Chairman Zakaria Hejres told the Ambassador March 23 that Bahrain established its Country Economic Team for the MENA-OECD Investment program in September 2004. The team includes representatives from the government [...] | 2005-03-27 07:18:00 | Embassy Manama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EINV KCRM PGOV BA |
05MANAMA575 | BAHRAIN: ENCOURAGING CONSTRUCTIVE PARTICIPATION [...] No summary [...] | 2005-04-18 15:20:00 | Embassy Manama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PREL BA |
05MANAMA684 | MENA FATF PLENARY - OFF TO A GOOD START [...] (U) Summary. The first plenary meeting of the newly created Middle East and North African Financial Action Task Force (MENA FATF) was held in Manama, Bahrain April 11-14. The United States is an observer country to the MENA FATF and Treasury DAS Glaser attended as the USG representative. Repr [...] | 2005-05-14 05:30:00 | Embassy Manama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER KTFN EFIN ETTC BA |
05MANAMA705 | FORUM FOR THE FUTURE MAY 10 STEERING COMMITTEE [...] (SBU) Bahrain hosted a meeting of the G8/Broader Middle East and North Africa (BMENA) Forum for the Future (FfF) Steering Committee May 10 that included representatives of the U.S., UK, Russia, Morocco, Jordan, and Egypt. The parties discussed preparations for the FfF meeting, to be co-chair [...] | 2005-05-17 11:29:00 | Embassy Manama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON KMPI ECIN BA XF XG CA JA |
05MANAMA788 | BAHRAIN: GARNERING SUPPORT FOR ESTABLISHMENT OF [...] No summary [...] | 2005-06-01 12:38:00 | Embassy Manama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PHUM PREL BA |
05MANAMA88 | SAUDI COUNTERTERRORISM CONFERENCE -- BAHRAIN [...] No summary [...] | 2005-01-18 13:04:00 | Embassy Manama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL BA SA |
05MANAMA881 | BAHRAIN: ADDITIONAL SUGGESTIONS FOR TANGIBLE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-06-20 10:42:00 | Embassy Manama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID ECON BA IZ |
05MANAMA983 | DEMARCHE REQUEST: G-4 FRAMEWORK RESOLUTION ON UN [...] (SBU) Ambassador delivered reftel demarche June 9 to Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Dr. Mohammad Abdul Ghaffar, stressing our desire to delay a vote on the G-4 proposal. Abdul Ghaffar said he agreed with our position, saying that Bahrain did not believe there was a consensus now and th [...] | 2005-07-11 10:08:00 | Embassy Manama | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL BA UNSC |
05MANILA106 | MADRASAH TEACHER TRAINING PROJECT UNDERWAY IN THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A $400,000 DRL-sponsored "Madrasah Teacher Training Project" is now underway in the Philippines to train 28 madrasah educators in U.S. educational practices and values. Upon their return to the Philippines, they are expected to share what they learned via specified local proj [...] | 2005-01-10 06:11:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER SOCI RP |
05MANILA1061 | RECRUITMENT COMPANIES AND TRAFFICKING [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: Recruiting Filipinos to work abroad is an important national industry in the Philippines. The GRP regulates and licenses recruitment companies through the Philippine Overseas Employment Agency [...] | 2005-03-07 08:31:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KWMN PHUM KCRM KCOR ELAB ECON RP |
05MANILA1098 | MARAWI CITY: ISLAMIC PRIDE IN THE TROUBLED SOUTH [...] (U) Summary. Marawi, the capital of Lanao del Sur Province in Central Mindanao, is officially an "Islamic city" under municipal law, the only such city in the Philippines. The city of 125,000 is 96-percent Muslim. The main campus of Mindanao State University, located in Marawi, is a nonethe [...] | 2005-03-09 09:23:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KISL PINS KCRM SNAR SA RP |
05MANILA1199 | PNP STORMS PRISON ENDING ASG TAKEOVER [...] (SBU) Philippine National Police (PNP) anti-terrorist and SWAT forces stormed the Metro Manila District Jail at 9:15 a.m. (local time) on March 15 after a negotiated agreement with Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) inmates broke down late the previous evening. PNP National Capital Region Director Aveli [...] | 2005-03-15 06:39:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER CASC KCRM PREL RP |
05MANILA1350 | PHILIPPINES ANNOUNCES ARREST OF INDONESIAN JI [...] (SBU) The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) announced at a March 22 press conference its units had captured Rohmat (aka Zaki aka Zaky aka Hamdan aka Akil aka Jeji),an Indonesian suspected of serving as a Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) liaison to the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG). According to the AFP, [...] | 2005-03-23 08:30:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL ASEC PINS RP |
05MANILA1506 | LAW ENFORCEMENT CORRUPTION IN THE PHILIPPINES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The nexus of law enforcement corruption in the Philippines lies in four key areas: 1) bribery in recruitment and extortion in training; 2) ineffectual and politically manipulated Internal Affairs; 3) financial mismanagement; and, 4) procurement and resource mismanagement. PNP [...] | 2005-04-01 06:19:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINS KCRM KCOR KJUS ASEC RP |
05MANILA1529 | Preparations for August 8 ARMM elections [...] (SBU) Summary: Over 1.1 million people are registered for the August 8 election in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM). Election officials hope for the first time to use automated counting machines, originally purchased for the May 2004 nationwide elections but subsequently impou [...] | 2005-04-04 00:07:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM EAID SOCI RP |
05MANILA1543 | Strong reaction to death of Pope John Paul II [...] (U) Summary: The Philippines has reacted with deep sorrow to news of the death of Pope John Paul II. President Arroyo announced an official mourning period that will last until the Pope's funeral, which she plans to attend. The Catholic Church will hold a requiem mass in honor of Pope John [...] | 2005-04-04 05:51:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SOCI RP VT |
05MANILA1716 | BUILDING A BRIDGE ON TAWI-TAWI [...] (U) SUMMARY. Embassy believes the number one USPACOM FY05/FY06 humanitarian assistance objective in the Philippines should be the Tawi-Tawi bridge project. The project will have a strategic impact on the "rat-line" terrorists use to enter and leave the Philippines. Although much smaller in [...] | 2005-04-14 05:49:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER MOPS MARR PREL PINS EAID RP |
05MANILA1774 | LATEST VIGILANTE KILLINGS IN CEBU - NO END IN SIGHT [...] (U) Summary: Summary executions of suspected criminals by "death squads" in Cebu are continuing at an alarming rate. According to media reports, suspected vigilantes have killed at least 41 people since December 2004. Civil society groups have condemned the extrajudicial killings, but much [...] | 2005-04-18 23:09:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PINR SOCI RP |
05MANILA1792 | STREAMLINING TERRORISM PROSECUTIONS IN THE [...] (U) This is an action request -- please see paras 7-8. 2. (SBU) Summary. One of the key tasks facing the Philippines (GRP) in its struggle against terrorism is streamlining the currently excessive length and unwieldy number of defendants in terrorism trials. The Mission's Law Enforcemen [...] | 2005-04-19 08:51:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL PGOV PINS KCRM KJUS ASEC RP |
05MANILA1808 | The "Masa" as a Political Force [...] (SBU) Summary: The underprivileged and impoverished "masa" remains a potentially significant but largely unorganized political force. The once-influential Pwersa ng Masang Pilipino (PMP) party of former President Estrada has claimed success in renewing the party's membership and effectivenes [...] | 2005-04-20 08:58:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI RP |
05MANILA1815 | NEW TIP-RELATED ARRESTS AND PROSECUTION [...] (U) Summary. Four new TIP criminal cases are in the works, following a raid on a suspected brothel in what the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) described as a new series of TIP-related raids. The DoJ has issued unequivocal instructions to prosecutors to give "preferential attention" [...] | 2005-04-21 02:53:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KWMN KCRM RP |
05MANILA1839 | VAT PROPOSALS THREATHEN POWER SECTOR REFORMS [...] (U) Summary: Value Added Tax (VAT) proposals filed in both Houses of Congress contain provisions detrimental to the government's efforts to strengthen and restructure the power sector. In particular, replacing the current "zero rating" for power generating firms with a value added tax (VAT [...] | 2005-04-22 01:59:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ENRG PGOV EAID RP |
05MANILA1840 | Senate Passes Value Added Tax Bill [...] (U) Summary: The Philippine Senate approved on April 13 proposed amendments to the value-added tax law. Bicameral conference committee hearings are deliberating over the House and Senate proposals, with a reconciled bill targeted for signing by President Macapagal-Arroyo on April 30. The ex [...] | 2005-04-22 02:02:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV PGOV RP |
05MANILA1909 | PROPOSED MOU FOR THE "MAPP" [...] (U) This is an action request -- see para 4. 2. (U) Noting that the Philippine National Police (PNP) -- at the instigation of Philippine Ambassador to Washington Del Rosario -- was now interested in pursuing a "Management Assessment of the Philippine Police" with the USG that would parall [...] | 2005-04-27 08:37:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KCRM SOCI KCOR PTER PGOV PINS ASEC RP |
05MANILA1955 | JOLO LOCALS WELCOME US ATTENTION [...] (SBU) Summary. Ambassador's April 22 visit to Jolo Town, the capital of Sulu Province, centered on handover ceremonies for several USAID-funded assistance programs including road projects, village electrification, and Internet-linked computers for an elementary school. USAID Manila Mission [...] | 2005-04-29 08:53:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PTER KISL PGOV PHUM PINS PREL MOPS RP |
05MANILA1961 | COTABATO MAYOR PROTESTS USAID PROJECT SUSPENSION [...] (SBU) Cotabato City Mayor Muslimin Sema has attempted to instigate a local media and public outcry against the US, and specifically USAID activities in his municipality. His agitation is in response to a letter from USAID Mission Director Yates, at the direction of Ambassador, informing the [...] | 2005-04-29 10:55:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER EAID KISL PINS ASEC CASC RP |
05MANILA1987 | EMBRACING THE DRAGON: THE PHILIPPINES DEEPENS [...] (SBU) With the visit of Chinese President Hu Jintao, the Philippines has taken stock of its expanding economic relationship with China and deepened its relationship with its dominant neighbor with respect to investment, trade and economic assistance. The glow of bilateral friendship encourage [...] | 2005-05-02 07:27:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON KIPR PREL RP |
05MANILA2167 | Bill Gives President VAT Increase Authority [...] (U) Summary: Congress ratified final language this week that keeps the value added tax (VAT) rate at 10% but mandates the President to raise the VAT rate to 12% in 2006. President Arroyo will sign the legislation next week and promised to approve the VAT hike in January. The bill eliminat [...] | 2005-05-12 05:41:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV PGOV RP |
05MANILA2172 | ENLISTED OAKWOOD MUTINEERS COP A PLEA [...] (SBU) Summary. On May 11, an Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) military tribunal accepted a plea bargain for about 190 enlisted men who participated in the failed July 2003 "Oakwood" mutiny. They will return to active duty status but with demotions and loss of pay. They will likely be [...] | 2005-05-12 08:14:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AADP ASEC MOPS PGOV PINR PREL RP PINS PTER |
05MANILA2241 | MORE JOURNALISTS SLAIN [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: Two more journalists have been slain in the Philippines in the past two weeks. This brings to five the number of killings of journalists this year, according to most sources. Police appear t [...] | 2005-05-16 07:08:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINS KPAO RP |
05MANILA2332 | GRP PREPARATIONS FOR THE AUGUST REGIONAL ELECTIONS [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: With just over two months to go until the August 8 elections in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM),there are indications that the Commission on Elections (COMELEC) may not be able [...] | 2005-05-20 07:29:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINR EAID PHUM RP |
05MANILA2359 | ILLEGAL "JUETENG" LOTTERY POTENTIALLY THREATENS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The illegal lottery known as "jueteng" played a prominent role in the downfall of former President Estrada, and a newly brewing scandal related to jueteng could potentially have a similar impact on the Arroyo Administration. Despite Malacanang's vows to crack down on jueteng, [...] | 2005-05-23 07:42:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCOR KCRM ASEC RP |
05MANILA249 | NORTH KOREAN REFUGEES IN THE PHILIPPINES [...] (U) North Koreans have access to the same international protection offered other refugee groups in the Philippines. The Philippines is the only country in Southeast Asia to have signed the 1951 UN Convention on Refugees and to have an institutionalized regime of refugee protection. The Depar [...] | 2005-01-14 08:43:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM KN KS RP |
05MANILA2599 | TIP: PHILIPPINES BRIEFED ON 2005 REPORT [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Acting Polcouns on June 3 reviewed the Philippine portion of the 2005 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report with Ruth Morales Prado, Executive Director of the Office of American Affairs at the Department o [...] | 2005-06-03 05:42:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM OPRC KPAO KWMN RP |
05MANILA2660 | TIP: GRP BEGINNING TO FOCUS ON CYBERSEX DANGERS [...] (U) This cable is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: The Philippine government is slowly beginning to react to reports that cybersex is an increasing contributor to the trafficking in persons (TIP) problem in the Philippines. Most cybersex dens op [...] | 2005-06-08 08:06:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KCRM ELAB KOCI TINT RP |
05MANILA2675 | MILF VALIDATING WANTED TERRORIST LIST FROM GRP [...] (SBU) Below is a list of 53 suspected militants provided to the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) from the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) (a copy has been faxed to EAP/PMBS). MILF officials have publicly stated they are in the process of "validating" the list, and the names will form [...] | 2005-06-09 06:35:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PINR PINS ASEC PREL ID MY RP |
05MANILA2757 | TIP: PHILIPPINE REACTION TO THE RELEASE OF THE [...] (U) This cable is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: Local reaction to the Philippine narrative of the 2005 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report has been mixed, though basically positive. The media response -- aided by Mission's extensive outreach [...] | 2005-06-16 06:28:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KWMN ELAB PHUM RP |
05MANILA2969 | SEVEN ABU SAYYAF MEMBERS SENTENCED TO DEATH [...] (U) This message is Sensitive But Unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Seven members of the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG),a US-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) since 1997, received death sentences on June 22 from the Basilan District Court for their role in the 2001 [...] | 2005-06-28 07:28:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PINS PREL KCRM RP |
05MANILA3045 | LITTLE ECONOMIC IMPACT SO FAR FROM ARROYO'S WOES [...] (SBU) Summary. The Peso broke the PhP56/$1 mark on June 29, but has marginally recovered. The stock market continued to slide lower on concerns about the President's future, but most local analysts said that the situation remains manageable. The Philippine business community appears to be [...] | 2005-07-01 08:23:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV PGOV RP |
05MANILA3156 | PHILIPPINE MARKET JITTERS HEIGHTENING [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite the Philippine Supreme Court's July 5 decision to move up the date of a hearing on the implementation of the recently-passed Expanded Value Added Tax (EVAT),the country's currency, equities, and bond markets remain shaky. Markets are showing increasing signs of strain [...] | 2005-07-08 09:57:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV PGOV RP |
05MANILA3161 | ARROYO ANNOUNCES SHE HAS NO PLANS TO RESIGN [...] (U) Summary: In a brief pre-recorded statement delivered July 8 on radio, President Arroyo responded to her critics and stated that she had no plans to resign. She said she plans to focus on getting the economy moving and on the delivery of social services. Her remarks will not diminish th [...] | 2005-07-08 11:10:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINS PREL KPAO RP |
05MANILA3188 | MARKETS CAUTIOUS AS TRADING WEEK OPENS [...] (SBU) Summary: Markets opened the trading week on July 11 shaky on resurgent fears of protracted political controversies and escalating concern that the political turmoil will distract and/or paralyze President Arroyo's ability to move her Administration's reform agenda forward. Recent reac [...] | 2005-07-11 09:32:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV PGOV RP |
05MANILA3231 | ARROYO OPPOSITION FAILS TO PRODUCE MASSIVE [...] (SBU) Summary: A July 13 opposition rally in Manila's central business district produced only an estimated 15-20,000 demonstrators as of 1600 hrs local, although numbers may grow somewhat with speakers like FPJ widow Susan Roces later on. Police appear to have blocked busloads of would-be pr [...] | 2005-07-13 08:52:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINS PGOV ASEC RP |
05MANILA3370 | CALMER WEEK ON POLITICAL FRONT PROVIDES RESPITE [...] (SBU) Summary: A relatively calmer week on the political front and positive fiscal news gave currency, stock, and bond markets some breathing space to partially recoup lost gains. The peso traded above the 56 pesos/$1 level throughout the July 18-22 trading week, but ended the week down sl [...] | 2005-07-22 09:36:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV PGOV RP |
05MANILA3397 | ARROYO GIVES STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS, WHILE [...] (U) This message is Sensitive But Unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: President Arroyo gave her State of the Nation Address (SONA) late July 25. In a short speech, she claimed that her government had made great strides in strengthening the economy and she promise [...] | 2005-07-25 10:05:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINS PINR ECON ASEC RP |
05MANILA3421 | PHILIPPINE FINANCIAL MARKETS POST-SONA [...] (U) Summary: Peso, stock, and bond markets have not reacted negatively to President Arroyo's State of the Nation Address on July 25. Her promise to forge ahead with economic and fiscal reforms, whatever the political cost, helped send a positive signal (Ref A). The stock market closed firm [...] | 2005-07-26 11:20:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV PGOV RP |
05MANILA3500 | TIP Update; Latest on Prosecutions; Municipalities [...] (U) This message is Sensitive But Unclassified - Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The International Justice Mission (IJM) reports that it continues to press forward with 15 Trafficking in Persons (TIP)-related prosecutions. We have asked the Department of Justice (DoJ) to conf [...] | 2005-08-01 08:42:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KWMN ELAB KCRM ECON RP |
05MANILA3655 | ELECTIONS IN MUSLIM AUTONOMOUS REGION PROCEED IN [...] (U) This message is Sensitive But Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: The August 8 elections in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) have proceeded in largely an orderly fashion as of the close of polls at 1500 hrs local. Mission observers on the groun [...] | 2005-08-08 09:23:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL KISL ASEC EAID RP |
05MANILA3657 | JULY 27-AUGUST 5 UPDATE: PHILIPPINE FINANCIAL [...] (SBU) Summary: President Arroyo and her new economic team went on a media offensive shortly after the President's July 25 State of the Nation Address (SONA) to assure investors, creditors and other Philippine observers that the Administration remains focused on managing the economy and pursu [...] | 2005-08-08 10:24:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV PGOV RP |
05MANILA3677 | COUNTING OF VOTES CONTINUES IN MUSLIM AUTONOMOUS [...] (U) This message is Sensitive But Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: Officials continue to count votes cast in the August 8 Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) elections. Results are due to be released within the next 24 hours. Only minor problems have [...] | 2005-08-09 07:54:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL KISL ASEC KPAO RP |
05MANILA3811 | USGS DISCUSSES JOINT MINERAL RESOURCES ASSESSMENT [...] (SBU) In meetings in Manila with senior GRP officials, USGS Acting Director Leahy confirmed the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) intentions to develop a work plan with the GRP to conduct the first phase of a mineral resources assessment of the Philippines. Department of Environment and Natura [...] | 2005-08-18 09:57:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EMIN SENV EINV ECON BEXP RP |
05MANILA3955 | NEW TERMINAL FACES LEGAL AND FINANCIAL HURDLES TO [...] (SBU) Eight months after government took possession, the new airport terminal in Manila continues to languish unopened. A temporary restraining order issued by the Supreme Court at the GRP's request continues to block a lower court order on the GRP to begin paying "just compensation" to the [...] | 2005-08-25 08:56:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON RP |
05MANILA4109 | CHARGE CALLS ON KEY GRP FINANCIAL OFFICIALS [...] (SBU) In separate meetings with the Charge, both Central Bank Governor Tetangco and the Finance Secretary Teves described what they see as good prospects for steady economic growth, financial stability, and continued progress on fiscal reforms. Tetangco, in particular, downplayed recent "po [...] | 2005-09-01 08:34:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ENRG PREL EINV RP |
05MANILA4111 | TRADE SECRETARY FAVILA SUPPORTS MORE CONSISTENT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During a courtesy call by Charge, Secretary of Trade and Industry Peter Favila expressed SIPDIS support for more consistent and transparent policies to promote trade and investment. The Charge raised questions regarding inconsistent customs and tax policies as well as court [...] | 2005-09-01 08:59:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EFIN BEXP RP WTRO JP |
05MANILA4112 | Supreme Court Upholds Expanded VAT Law [...] (SBU) Summary: On September 1, the Philippine Supreme Court upheld the legality of the Expanded Value Added Tax (EVAT) law but has yet to lift the temporary restraining order. The TRO that the Court issued on July 1 will remain in place for at least another fifteen days. During that interv [...] | 2005-09-01 09:35:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV PGOV RP |
05MANILA4338 | GROWING FRENZY TO MITIGATE RISING OIL PRICE [...] (SBU) In its latest scramble to temper the impact of escalating oil prices (reftel),the Philippine Government has stepped up its campaign to conserve energy, promote bioethanol as a gasoline additive, and push passage of a renewable energy bill to reduce the country's dependence on imported [...] | 2005-09-14 09:45:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EINV ECON RP |
05MANILA4395 | IPR ROUNDTABLE 2: IMPROVED PROSECUTION OF IPR CASES [...] (U) Summary: On September 13, Embassy conducted its second IPR roundtable to review IPR issues with US company reps and GRP officials. Roundtable participants praised the government for recent initiatives, notably its crackdown on pirated optical media goods, but stressed the need to prosecu [...] | 2005-09-19 00:15:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD KIPR PGOV PREL BEXP RP |
05MANILA4417 | FILIPINO REACTION TO ESPIONAGE CASE AGAINST FBI [...] (U) This message is Sensitive But Unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: The announcement of the arrest of a former Philippine police official and an FBI employee on espionage charges in the U.S. has generated mixed reaction in the Philippines. Several national poli [...] | 2005-09-19 09:15:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PINS RP |
05MANILA4421 | Aviation Safety Raised with Transport Secretary [...] (SBU) During the Charge's call, Department of Transportation and Communications (DOTC) Secretary Mendoza addressed concerns on aviation safety, pledged continued support for transportation security initiatives, and expressed commitment to infrastructure construction. Mendoza admitted that t [...] | 2005-09-20 01:28:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR PGOV EINV RP |
05MANILA4488 | INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN THE PHILIPPINES: A SNAPSHOT [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: The approximately six million plus indigenous persons in the Philippines are marginalized and lag far behind the general population in most social and economic indicators. They also suffer dis [...] | 2005-09-22 07:49:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM SOCI PGOV ECON EAID PINR PINS PREF RP |
05MANILA4503 | PHILIPPINES: SLOW PACE OF ECONOMIC REFORM [...] (SBU) Summary: Philippine government and private sector leaders told U.S. Senior Official for APEC Michael Michalak that the Philippines continues to face problems with inefficient courts and corruption in general. Poor implementation and unpredictable enforcement of laws remain disincentive [...] | 2005-09-22 09:35:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PREL KIPR TBIO TSPL RP APEC WTRO |
05MANILA4528 | Proposed 2006 Budget: A Taxing Proposition [...] (SBU) Summary: President Arroyo's proposed 2006 budget call for a 30 percent increase in funds for infrastructure, health, and education while continuing to reduce the budget deficit for a fourth consecutive year. The 1.05-trillion peso ($18.8 billion) budget proposal represents 7.5% year-on [...] | 2005-09-25 09:55:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV PGOV RP |
05MANILA4631 | PHILIPPINE MARINES CAPTURE SEVEN ASG TERRORISTS ON [...] (U) In a September 21 early morning raid on a safe house in Panjogan village near Bongao, Tawi-Tawi, Philippine Marines captured Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) commander Jundan Jamalu, a.k.a. Jundan Jain a.k.a. "Black Killer," and six other ASG terrorists. Jamalu had been wanted by Philippine author [...] | 2005-09-28 06:57:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER MOPS PINS ID MY RP |
05MANILA4669 | PHILIPPINES: VIETNAMESE REFUGEES LEAVE LIMBO AT [...] (SBU) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified; please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary. The final group of refugees who fled Vietnam for the Philippines 15-30 years ago began resettling in the U.S. this week. A projected 1600 refugees will ultimately be resettled; the fate of 400 [...] | 2005-09-29 07:12:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM PREF VM RP IOM |
05MANILA4693 | KEY FIGURE IN GRP FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION [...] (U) This message is Sensitive But Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: On September 30, GRP Ombudsman Simeon Marcelo announced that he would resign effective November 30 due to health reasons. Marcelo is widely respected as a highly effective anti-corruption crus [...] | 2005-10-02 07:38:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KCOR ECON RP |
05MANILA4750 | PHILIPPINES TIGHTENS SECURITY AFTER BALI BOMBINGS [...] (U) This message is Sensitive But Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary. In the aftermath of the October 1 bombings in Bali, Indonesia, Philippine President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo expressed her condolences to the victims' families, tightened security measures, and [...] | 2005-10-04 08:39:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL MOPS PINS PGOV KISL ID RP |
05MANILA4785 | PHILIPPINE REACTION TO LATEST REVELATIONS ABOUT [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified; Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) The Philippine media is covering in an extensive fashion an October 5 report by ABC News that recently-arrested FBI analyst Leandro Aragoncillo may have stolen classified US documents from the office of th [...] | 2005-10-06 07:18:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PINS KPAO RP |
05MANILA4810 | PHILIPPINES: DEMOCRACY PROMOTION STRATEGIES [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (U) This message is in response to the action request contained in "Democracy Promotion Strategies for EAP Focus Countries" (ref a). Responses are keyed to specific informational requests contained in ref a, p [...] | 2005-10-10 09:25:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINR PINS ECON KDEM RP |
05MANILA4814 | Air Traffic Controller Staffing "Not Unsafe" [...] (SBU) Summary. Our most recent discussions and observations indicated no aviation safety threat at this time due to air traffic controller (ATC) staffing. In a meeting October 6 with DCM, econoffs, and a senior U.S. FAA rep, GRP officials acknowledged a staffing deficit but provided credibl [...] | 2005-10-11 01:06:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR PGOV EINV RP |
05MANILA4831 | MISSION PRESSES GRP FOR EXPEDITIOUS PROGRESS ON [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: Mission recently held several meetings with high-level GRP officials working to combat human trafficking to discuss problem areas identified in the 2004 TIP Report. We stressed the seriousness [...] | 2005-10-11 08:38:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM KWMN ELAB KCRM ECON SMIG RP |
05MANILA4929 | GRP TAKES STEP TO REDISTRIBUTE LARGE ESTATE OWNED [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: Taking steps to resolve a long-standing labor dispute, the Philippine government has ordered that the large "Hacienda Luisita" estate owned in part by former president Corazon Aquino be redistri [...] | 2005-10-17 08:57:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON ELAB PHUM SOCI PINS RP |
05MANILA4935 | Supreme Court Clears Expanded VAT Law [...] (SBU) The Philippine Supreme Court upheld the legality of the Expanded Value Added Tax (EVAT) law, the key element in President Arroyo's revenue-enhancement agenda, boosting the credibility of her economic reform efforts. This measure could reduce debt accumulation and fund increases in soc [...] | 2005-10-18 10:01:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EINV PGOV RP |
05MANILA4971 | ANTI-ARROYO RALLY SPONSORED BY LEFT DRAWS 10,000 [...] (U) This message is Sensitive But Unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: About 10,000 leftist anti-President Arroyo protesters convened at a site near Malacanang Palace on October 21. In scuffles with police, several people were injured. This latest rally is part o [...] | 2005-10-20 07:54:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINS PINR ASEC RP |
05MANILA4984 | TIP: USG-FUNDED TRAINING AIMS TO ASSIST HUMAN [...] (U) This message is Sensitive But Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: GRP prosecutors and NGO lawyers continue to make limited headway in prosecuting traffickers under anti-trafficking laws. The slow pace of progress is due in part to inadequate training of loca [...] | 2005-10-23 07:29:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM KWMN ELAB KCRM ECON RP |
05MANILA499 | INTERNATIONAL TEAM INVESTIGATES SLAYINGS OF [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: A fact-finding team organized by the Brussels-based International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) January 24-31 investigated recen [...] | 2005-02-01 08:24:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PINS PINR SOCI KPAO RP |
05MANILA5012 | SEARCH FOR NEXT OMBUDSMAN -- GRP'S KEY ANTI- [...] (U) This message is Sensitive But Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: The GRP's Judicial and Bar Council is reviewing possible candidates to replace Ombudsman Simeon Marcelo, who is resigning on November 30. Favored candidates include Presidential Legal Counsel [...] | 2005-10-25 03:35:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KCOR ECON EAID PINR RP |
05MANILA5059 | AVIAN INFLUENZA - LIMITED SURVEILLANCE AND [...] (U) This is the third of a series of reports on the Philippines' preparedness to avert a highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) outbreak (Refs C and D). This report focuses on stages 1 and 2 of the Philippines' Avian Influenza Protection Program: HPAI prevention and the establishment of co [...] | 2005-10-27 02:40:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PINR SOCI EAGR SENV TBIO TSPL RP |
05MANILA5130 | THE INC AND EL SHADDAI: TWO PHILIPPINE RELIGIOUS [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: The Iglesia ni Cristo (INC) and the charismatic El Shaddai Catholic group are politically active and their leaders retain significant influence on national politics. This influence was highli [...] | 2005-11-02 09:13:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PINS SOCI KDEM RP |
05MANILA5133 | Clark Firms Mull Closure with Huge Tax Burden [...] (SBU) Businesses in the Clark Special Economic Zone face huge new financial liabilities after a recent Supreme Court decision nullified their tax incentives. U.S. company executives complain that the ruling replaces their 5% gross income tax with the standard 32% corporate income tax and ot [...] | 2005-11-02 09:28:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV PGOV EFIN RP |
05MANILA5138 | MANAGING THE IMPACT OF THE ALLEGED RAPE CASE [...] (SBU) Embassy's proactive consultations with Department of Foreign Affairs officials, briefing of political leaders, and interactions with media appear to have focused political and media attention constructively on cooperation between U.S. and Filipino authorities, according to the Visiting [...] | 2005-11-03 01:12:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR PHUM RP |
05MANILA5261 | CALL ON PRESIDENT ARROYO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a meeting with President Arroyo on November 7, USAID Assistant Administrator for the Asia Near East Bureau (AA/ANE) James R. Kunder and US Embassy Charge d'Affaires (CDA) Paul W. Jones highlighted how the USG's development assistance program carried out by USAID supports Phi [...] | 2005-11-08 05:47:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KMCA EFIN EINV PREL PHUM RP |
05MANILA5276 | Philippine Airlines Eyes Boeing Purchase [...] (SBU) Philippine Airlines (PAL) plans to re-fleet to remain competitive and fulfill expansion plans. PAL is now considering the purchase of up to twelve wide-body Boeing 777s. The sticking point appears to be a $114 million deposit on aircraft that PAL forfeited when it canceled a Boeing p [...] | 2005-11-08 09:31:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD BEXP EINV EAIR ECON RP |
05MANILA5287 | PHILIPPINES TAKES REACTIVE STANCE TOWARD APEC [...] (SBU) Summary. The GRP views the APEC agenda positively. The GRP's overarching approach to the upcoming APEC meetings is to wait and see what other members put on the table and then react according to RP interests. With respect to WTO Doha Round issues, senior officials express hope for bal [...] | 2005-11-09 07:11:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EPET EAGR PREL RP APEC WTO |
05MANILA5364 | A VIEW FROM MANILA'S STREETS: GENERAL PESSIMISM [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please protect accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: Poloff and Pol FSN visited a poor neighborhood in Manila on November 14 to canvass views about residents' lives, politics and the U.S. Filipinos on the streets were generally pessimistic abou [...] | 2005-11-16 07:41:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PINS KDEM SOCI PREL KPAO RP |
05MANILA5382 | Manila Port Readies for Nuclear Detection [...] (SBU) Port operators and government officials implementing the USDOE Megaports Initiative are eager to see the program operational by mid-2006. Megaports is designed to place equipment at major international ports to scan all incoming containers for the detection of radioactive materials and [...] | 2005-11-17 04:07:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EWWT PTER RP |
05MANILA5447 | PHARMACEUTICAL PATENT PROTECTION ON THE CHOPPING [...] (SBU) Senator Manuel Roxas, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Economic Affairs and the Committee on Trade and Commerce, introduced a bill last month proposing amendments to the RP's Intellectual Property Code (IP) that could significantly weaken intellectual property rights protection for [...] | 2005-11-22 03:12:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD KIPR BEXP RP |
05MANILA5459 | UNEVENTFUL PRELIMINARY HEARING IN SUBIC RAPE CASE [...] (SBU) This is an action request by OOB November 25 -- see para 8. 2. (SBU) Summary. The preliminary hearing in the case of six Marines allegedly involved in the rape of a 22-year old Filipina at the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority (SBMA) began November 23 at the Olongapo City Prosecuto [...] | 2005-11-03 01:12:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR ASEC PHUM PGOV KCRM CASC RP |
05MANILA5505 | FINANCE SECRETARY NONCOMMITAL ON DOHA ROUND; [...] (SBU) Finance Secretary Teves acknowledged to Charge that the GRP needs to do more to address public skepticism over the benefits of lower tariffs and progress in the WTO Doha Round. Teves was grateful for U.S. assistance and advice on improving the efficiency of revenue collection, a key are [...] | 2005-11-28 09:38:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ENRG PREL EINV RP |
05MANILA5507 | FIVE OF SIX MARINES SUBMIT COUNTER-AFFIDAVITS [...] (SBU) Summary. Five of the six Marines accused of involvement in the alleged rape of a Filipina submitted counter-affidavits in the second preliminary hearing on November 29. The attorney for the sixth, LCPL Smith, said his client wanted to know the nature and consequences of the complaint [...] | 2005-11-03 01:12:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR ASEC PHUM PGOV KCRM CASC RP |
05MANILA5519 | Turning Bad Loans into Good Assets [...] (SBU) The Philippine Central Bank (BSP) has cleaned up 19% of the non-performing assets (NPAs) in the banking system through the Special Purposes Vehicle (SPV) law. Although the BSP target was 50%, it reduced the amount of NPAs to 9% of total bank assets. By forming an SPV, companies can bu [...] | 2005-11-30 07:12:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EINV RP |
05MANILA5633 | GRP CONVICTS FIRST TRAFFICKERS UNDER ANTI-TIP LAW [...] (U) This message is Sensitive But Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: A court in Batangas City, Luzon recently convicted the first three individuals under a 2003 anti- trafficking law. The defendants, facing a serious charge with the potential for a long jail te [...] | 2005-12-02 08:46:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM KWMN ELAB KCRM RP |
05MANILA5688 | PRESIDENT ARROYO APPOINTS NEW OMBUDSMAN TO LEAD [...] (U) This message is Sensitive But Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: President Arroyo has named her Chief Legal Counsel, Maria Merceditas "Mercy" Gutierrez, as the new Ombudsman for the Philippines. Gutierrez, a 1995 participant in the State Department's Intern [...] | 2005-12-06 08:50:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KCOR KWMN ECON EAID PINR RP |
05MANILA5710 | TIP: TWO DEFENDANTS SENTENCED TO LIFE [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (U) Summary: On December 5, a regional court in Zamboanga City, Mindanao, sentenced two members of a trafficking syndicate to life imprisonment for recruiting a victim and selling her to a brothel in Malaysia [...] | 2005-12-07 09:02:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL KWMN ELAB KCRM RP MY |
05MANILA5749 | CONVICTION IN MEDIA KILLING, BUT SLAYINGS CONTINUE [...] (U) This message is Sensitive But Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: A Philippine court has sentenced a former policeman to life imprisonment for murdering a journalist, the first such conviction since 2000. The Philippines, however, remains a very dangerous pl [...] | 2005-12-09 07:27:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PINS KCOR KPAO RP |
05MANILA5755 | PROSECUTOR CONCLUDES PRELIMINARY HEARINGS IN SUBIC [...] (SBU) Summary: The prosecutor presiding over alleged rape case hearings involving six US Marines announced that the December 9 preliminary investigation hearing would be the last. He gave all parties a deadline of December 19 to submit all memoranda, after which he will determine whether th [...] | 2005-11-03 01:12:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR ASEC PHUM PGOV KCRM CASC RP |
05MANILA5781 | G/TIP AMBASSADOR MILLER'S DECEMBER 3-6 VISIT: [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (U) Summary: G/TIP Director Ambassador John Miller visited the Philippines December 3-6 to evaluate GRP progress in addressing serious problems that resulted in its Tier Two Watch List rating in 2004 and 2005 [...] | 2005-12-12 08:14:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL KWMN ELAB KCRM RP MY JP |
05MANILA5790 | GRP WILL SUPPORT U.S. AT MONTREAL PROTOCOL MEETING [...] (SBU) Charge met with Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) Secretary Defensor on December 7 and delivered points in ref A. Defensor said he would instruct the GRP's delegation to support approval of a critical use exemption for the United States (26.4 percent) in accordance [...] | 2005-12-13 04:17:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV AORC EAGR ETRD PREL PINS EMIN RP |
05MANILA5806 | SEARCH FOR NEW SUPREME COURT CHIEF JUSTICE NARROWS [...] (U) This message is Sensitive But Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: The GRP's Judicial and Bar Council has submitted to President Arroyo its "short list" -- consisting of the three most senior associate justices -- to succeed current Supreme Court Chief Justice [...] | 2005-12-14 03:33:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCOR PREL ECON EAID ETRD PINR RP |
05MANILA5838 | RECOMMENDATION TO REMOVE PHILIPPINES FROM SPECIAL [...] (SBU) Summary. Embassy recommends removing the Philippines from USTR's Special 301 Priority Watch List and placing it on the Watch List. The GRP has responded to the Special 301 out-of-cycle review by stepping up IPR protection. While there is still much to be done, it is important that th [...] | 2005-12-15 07:50:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD KIPR RP |
05MANILA5839 | POWERFUL LOBBY AND QUESTIONABLE LOBBY BACK [...] (SBU) Econ Counselor met with Department of Health Undersecretary Padilla on December 12 to urge GRP to consult fully with industry representatives before signing the Revised Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRRs) of the Philippines "Milk Code" into law. Padilla provided a copy of the lat [...] | 2005-12-15 08:19:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON RP |
05MANILA5877 | FORMER DEFENSE SECRETARY RELEASED AFTER BEING [...] (U) This message is Sensitive But Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: Former defense secretary Fortunado Abat and three members of his self-proclaimed "Revolutionary Transition Government" were released on December 16 -- a day after police detained them for quest [...] | 2005-12-19 09:09:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINS PREL PINR RP |
05MANILA5914 | PRESIDENT ARROYO APPOINTS NEW SUPREME COURT CHIEF [...] (SBU) Summary: On December 20, President Arroyo appointed Associate Justice Artemio V. Panganiban, 69, as the next Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Philippines. Panganiban is a well-respected, articulate jurist and is expected to continue the judicial reforms begun by his predecess [...] | 2005-12-21 09:21:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCOR PREL ECON EAID ETRD PINR RP |
05MANILA5922 | NEW FORD ENGINE PLANT TO FUEL EXPORT MARKET [...] (SBU) Ford announced plans to invest USD 30 million in the Philippines to build a flexible fuel engine plant during a meeting with President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, Trade and Industry Secretary Peter Favila, and the Charge on December 20,. The plant will make the Philippines Ford's third l [...] | 2005-12-22 03:08:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EAGR ECON KIPR RP WTRO |
05MANILA5924 | KRAFT SOUR OVER TANG TARIFF DISPUTE [...] (SBU) Kraft Foods Philippines Inc. (KFPI) is frustrated by a 2004 tariff reclassification that effectively raised the tariff rate on imported powdered beverage products Tang and Kool-Aid from three percent to 48 percent. The ruling is currently being contested in the courts, but if upheld, [...] | 2005-12-22 03:15:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD BEXP RP |
05MANILA5927 | PHILIPPINES 2005 INSCR PART II: FINANCIAL [...] (U) The following text is the proposed International Narcotics Control Strategy Report, Part II, Financial Crimes and Money Laundering, for the Philippines for 2005- 2006. Post used the questions in reftel as the basis for collecting information and assessing the current situation for the [...] | 2005-12-22 04:08:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN KTFN PTER SNAR KCRM KSEP RP |
05MANILA5937 | Boeing eyes Cape Town Treaty benefits for airplane [...] (SBU) Boeing Sales Representative Ray Lau updated emboffs on the status of his proposal to Philippine Airlines (PAL) and confided that he is making progress toward the sale of up to 12 wide body aircraft. Lau said it would greatly benefit all Philippine airlines if the GRP ratified the Cape [...] | 2005-12-23 02:38:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ETRD BEXP RP |
05MANILA5951 | Banking System More Stable But Still Vulnerable [...] (SBU) The Philippine Government is working to overcome the reputation of the banking sector as weak and inefficient with insufficient oversight. Although it remains fragmented, the central bank has successfully encouraged consolidation and has introduced many reforms to strengthen banks and [...] | 2005-12-23 08:02:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON PGOV EINV RP |
05MANILA5964 | MAKING THE MOST OUT OF THE "MERCY" [...] (SBU) Summary. A visit by the USNS Mercy to the Philippines could contribute significantly to our program of civil-military operations (CMO) in the Sulu Archipelago and have a positive impact our counterterrorism efforts there. Some additional support, e.g., medium-lift helicopters, may be n [...] | 2005-12-27 09:30:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR MOPS PHUM RP |
05MANILA5966 | PROSECUTOR FILES CHARGES AGAINST FOUR MARINES IN [...] (SBU) Summary. The Olongapo City Prosecutor filed charges on December 27 against four of the six Marines under investigation for the alleged rape of a Filipina. In comments to the media, the prosecutor said he intended to seek custody of the four Marines once the court had issued arrest war [...] | 2005-11-03 01:12:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR ASEC PHUM PGOV KCRM CASC RP |
05MANILA5987 | TWO MARINES EXIT THE PHILIPPINES [...] (SBU) Corporal Corey Burris and Lance Corporal Albert Lara departed the Philippines via US military aircraft at 4:40 p.m. local time on December 28, following the dismissal by the Olongapo City prosecutor the previous day of the complaint against them in the case of the alleged November 1 rap [...] | 2005-12-28 09:40:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR ASEC PHUM PGOV KCRM CASC RP |
05MANILA5988 | GRP ORDERS LARGE SUGAR PLANTATION TO DISTRIBUTE [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: The GRP has upheld a recommendation by the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR) to expropriate the "Hacienda Luisita" sugar plantation located in Tarlac, north of Manila, and distribute it to farm [...] | 2005-12-28 09:58:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON ELAB PHUM SOCI PINS RP |
05MANILA682 | MILF DISTANCES SELF FROM JOLO FIGHTING AS [...] (SBU) Summary. The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) has clearly distanced itself from the ongoing fighting in Sulu Province and has now offered to broker a cease-fire. The Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) leadership has also called for restraint, as fighting stretched into the fifth [...] | 2005-02-11 08:15:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PINS PREL MOPS RP |
05MANILA705 | SITREP Ol: NEAR SIMULTANEOUS BOMBS ROCK THREE [...] (SBU) Three near simultaneous explosions rocked Manila and two cities in the southern Philippines around 7:OO pm local time February 14. Dozens of casualties are reported but no firm figurcs are yet available. No Amcits are reported injured or killed. Media reports link the Abu Sayyaf Grou [...] | 2005-02-14 13:26:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL ASEC PINS RP |
05MANILA724 | GRP PREPARES FOR AUGUST ELECTIONS IN MINDANAO AND [...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: Executive branch and Commission on Elections (COMELEC) sources confirm that regional assembly (ARMM) elections in Mindanao are on track to take place in August 2005. Nationwide neighborhood (b [...] | 2005-02-15 07:35:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PINR EAID SOCI RP |
05MANILA9 | PHILIPPINES/TIP: INTERIM ASSESSMENT REPORT [...] (SBU) Dep Pol/C and poloff reviewed the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Interim Assessment Report (ref a) for the Philippines in a meeting with Department of Foreign Affairs' (DFA) Americas Division Director Marc De Borja on January 3. Dep Pol/C noted that the report had flagged areas of progres [...] | 2005-01-03 08:05:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM ELAB KWMN KCRM SMIG RP JA |
05MANILA971 | PHILIPPINES: FIFTH ANNUAL ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN [...] (U) Mission,s fifth annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report follows below. The report covers the period from March 2004 through March 2005. Point of contact (POC) is Political Officer David C. Maness, ManessDC@State.Gov, (632) 528-6300 x5165, fax (632) 523-1195. Rank of TIP action offic [...] | 2005-03-01 08:25:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KWMN KCRM SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB RP |
05MAPUTO1 | MOZAMBIQUE - DECEMBER ECONOMIC WRAP-UP [...] (U) The Mozambique monthly economic cable is jointly produced by the Embassy and USAID. -------- BUSINESS -------- 2. (U) KPMG's annual ranking of the top 100 revenue- producing companies in Mozambique found Mozal, the Australian-owned aluminum smelter, again to be number one. Mozal's re [...] | 2005-01-03 11:05:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EINV ETRD MZ |
05MAPUTO1059 | LAST AGOA GARMENT EXPORTER IN MOZAMBIQUE TO CLOSE [...] (U) Belita, the only remaining garment factory in Mozambique exporting to the U.S. under AGOA, has announced it will close its operations on September 17. The closure will result in the loss of nearly 600 jobs in the city of Beira, Sofala province. Palmar Group, Belita's parent company located [...] | 2005-08-22 14:26:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EAID EINV MZ AGOA |
05MAPUTO1060 | MOZAMBIQUE: SUPPORT AT SEPTEMBER 12 - 13 MDA [...] No summary [...] | 2005-08-22 14:44:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PHUM PREL IS MZ ICRC |
05MAPUTO1099 | BIO INFORMATION ON NEW SADC EXECUTIVE SECRETARY [...] (U) Under former President Chissano, Tomas Salomao served as Mozambique's Minister of Transport and Communication (2000-2005) and Minister of Planning and Finance (1994-1999). Salomao is a member of the powerful 15-person FRELIMO Political Commission. In the December 2004 general elections he [...] | 2005-08-26 08:34:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINR PGOV PREL MZ SADC |
05MAPUTO113 | MOZAMBICAN ELECTIONS: CONSTITUTIONAL COUNCIL [...] (U) Summary: Mozambique's Constitutional Council, the review body charged with validating election results, formally declared Armando Guebuza, the FRELIMO (ruling party) candidate, the winner of the race for president. Additionally, the Council validated FRELIMO's win of 160 seats in the Natio [...] | 2005-01-24 14:45:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM MZ |
05MAPUTO1138 | MOZAMBIQUE: MINISTER SACKS HEAD OF NATIONAL [...] (U) On August 3, Mozambican Labor Minister Helena Taipo dismissed Elina Mafuiane Gomes as Director General of the Social Security National Institute (INSS -- Mozambique's social security agency). Gomes had headed INSS since 2001. More than a dozen other senior INSS officials have either been d [...] | 2005-09-01 16:26:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCOR PGOV PREL MZ |
05MAPUTO1158 | MOZAMBIQUE - ONE DOZEN KILLED IN POLITICAL [...] (SBU) Summary: On September 6 violence broke out in the small town of Mocimboa da Praia in northern Mozambique between the police and supporters of the main opposition party, RENAMO, resulting in 12 deaths and nearly 50 wounded. Order has since been restored, but several RENAMO figures from th [...] | 2005-09-08 16:15:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PHUM SOCI MZ RENAMO |
05MAPUTO1176 | MOZAMBIQUE - AUGUST ECONOMIC DIGEST [...] (U) The following is a brief summary of significant economic issues in Mozambique in August 2005. We provide it as a supplement to our other reporting. 2. (U) Index: - Labor Arbitration Centers Planned by End of Year - Government Reorganizes Anti-Corruption Office - Audit of Alleged Crimin [...] | 2005-09-14 06:08:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ELAB KCRM KCOR ETRD SENV KHIV EINV MZ |
05MAPUTO1297 | CHINESE TIES WITH MOZAMBIQUE [...] (U) Summary: China has extensive political, economic, and military ties with Mozambique, and its visibility appears to be growing. Mozambique,s President and Prime Minister have each met with their Chinese counterparts in the last two months. End Summary. ------------------- Political Relat [...] | 2005-10-05 13:13:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREF PREL CH MZ |
05MAPUTO1332 | U.S. - MOZAMBIQUE TIFA TALKS [...] (U) Summary: Assistant United States Trade Representative Florizelle Liser led an interagency visit to Mozambique October 1 to October 5. During the visit, the delegation met with government officials to conduct bilateral consultative talks under the Trade and Investment Framework Agreement (T [...] | 2005-10-12 15:45:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV ETRD EAID MZ TIFA |
05MAPUTO1334 | MOZAMBIQUE: NEW CHIEF FOR RESTRUCTURED [...] (SBU) Summary: On September 9 the controversial head of Mozambique's Anti-Corruption Unit, Assistant Attorney General Isabel Rupia, was removed and replaced by her colleague, Assistant Attorney General Rafael Sebastiao. The GRM explained the move as part of a restructuring process of the Unit [...] | 2005-10-13 11:52:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCOR PGOV PREL MZ |
05MAPUTO1343 | MOZAMBIQUE AND ZAMBIA SIGN AGREEMENT WAIVING [...] (U) On October 7 Mozambican Foreign Minister Abreu and Zambian Labor Minister Nalumango signed an agreement waiving the requirement of visitor visas for nationals traveling between the two countries. The agreement is expected to go into effect by the end of 2005. Speaking after the signing, FM [...] | 2005-10-14 09:37:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS PGOV PREL SMIG ZA MZ |
05MAPUTO1424 | MOZAMBIQUE: WEALTHY BUSINESSMAN'S SON KIDNAPPED; [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please treat accordingly. Not for internet distribution. 2. (U) According to reports in the press, Gafur Hassan, son of prominent Indo-Mozambican businessman Gulamo Hassan, was kidnapped in the evening of October 27 in the city of Nacala, Nampula province, [...] | 2005-11-01 14:27:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM KCOR SNAR PHUM MZ |
05MAPUTO146 | MOZAMBIQUE: PARLIAMENT INAUGURATED; CABINET [...] (U) On January 31 the members of Mozambique's new parliament, the National Assembly (Assembly),were invested for a five-year term in a ceremony presided over by outgoing President Chissano. All 250 parliamentarians took their seats, including RENAMO-Electoral Union's 90 members, who only a mo [...] | 2005-01-31 15:48:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM MZ RENAMO |
05MAPUTO1481 | MOZAMBIQUE: GOVERNMENT REVOKES CONCESSION FOR US [...] (U) Summary: The Government of Mozambique's (GRM) recent decision to revoke a large tobacco concession held by a US company without transparency, documentation or the steps required by Mozambican law is causing considerable concern in Mozambique's business community and could damage Mozambique' [...] | 2005-11-10 11:56:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ETRD EINV MZ |
05MAPUTO149 | COUNTRY FRAUD PROFILE: MOZAMBIQUE [...] (SBU) Consular Fraud Summary: Mozambique's porous borders, underpaid and ill-equipped border security forces, and lack of technological infrastructure make it an inviting transit country for mala fide travelers, immigrant smugglers and immigrant traffickers. Mozambican passports and residency [...] | 2005-02-01 09:11:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS KFRD MZ KCRM |
05MAPUTO150 | MOZAMBIQUE: WHO IS INCOMING PRESIDENT GUEBUZA? [...] (U) The following is a brief sketch of incoming Mozambican president Armando Guebuza, who will be inaugurated on February 2 to succeed President Joaquim Chissano. This analysis was drawn by our political LES. We offer it as a preliminary glance at Guebuza, only part of a composite picture we w [...] | 2005-02-01 15:17:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MZ |
05MAPUTO1520 | MOZAMBIQUE: IRAN RESOLUTION THIRD COMMITTEE VOTE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-11-17 13:38:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IR MZ PHUM UNHCR |
05MAPUTO1555 | MOZAMBIQUE: FIVE ESCAPE FROM MAPUTO POLICE [...] (U) On November 26 five prisoners, including a suspect in the October 21 murder of then-Director of the Maputo Central Prison Jorge Microsse (ref A),escaped from high-security holding cells at the Maputo City Police Command, according to media sources. On November 30 independent daily fax ne [...] | 2005-12-02 05:34:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM CKOR PGOV MZ |
05MAPUTO158 | MOZAMBIQUE: GUEBUZA INAUGURATED AS PRESIDENT [...] (U) On February 2 FRELIMO secretary general Armando Guebuza was inaugurated as President of the Republic of Mozambique. Several southern African heads of state, numerous foreign dignitaries and a large local crowd were on hand to witness the accession to power of Mozambique second democraticall [...] | 2005-02-02 16:17:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM MZ |
05MAPUTO1599 | MOZAMBIQUE: DEMARCHE RESPONSE ON SEEKING PUBLIC [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-13 13:11:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KDEM KPAO MZ |
05MAPUTO1600 | MOZAMBIQUE: DEMARCHE RESPONSE ON UNGA THIRD [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-13 13:13:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM UNGA UNHRC MZ |
05MAPUTO1631 | MOZAMBIQUE: GUEBUZA LEADS FRELIMO CENTRAL [...] (U) On December 18, the Central Committee of Mozambique's ruling party, FRELIMO, concluded a four-day meeting that gathered its 175 members to debate a wide range of issues, including plans for the upcoming electoral cycle, achievements under the new FRELIMO government, the HIV/AIDS pandemic, [...] | 2005-12-20 08:40:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM MZ |
05MAPUTO1653 | MOZAMBIQUE: NATIONAL ANTI-CORRUPTION STRATEGY [...] (SBU) The Ministry of State Administration presented a draft of Mozambique's National Anti-Corruption Strategy at a December 7 - 9 seminar held in Maputo. The event was designed to build consensus around the anti-corruption strategy and identify challenges in its implementation, and brought [...] | 2005-12-27 05:38:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCOR PGOV PREL MZ |
05MAPUTO173 | SCENE-SETTER FOR VISIT OF DEPUTY SECRETARY MOSELEY [...] (SBU) Introduction and Summary: Your visit to Mozambique will provide an opportunity to gain a better understanding of IBFAN-funded Reencontro's activities on infant feeding feeding and nutrition in Mozambique, the U.S. contribution in the fight against HIV/AIDS under the President's Emergency [...] | 2005-02-08 12:54:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KHIV ECON ETRD MZ EAGR |
05MAPUTO184 | MOZAMBIQUE: BIODATA ON NEW GUEBUZA CABINET (PART I) [...] (U) This message provides biographical data for key cabinet ministers sworn in on February 5 by President Guebuza. Biodata on additional cabinet members will be provided in septels. Sources include official ministerial biographies, local media reports, and information obtained from Embassy con [...] | 2005-02-09 14:56:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINR PGOV MZ |
05MAPUTO208 | MOZAMBIQUE: BIODATA ON NEW GUEBUZA CABINET (PART II) [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please handle accordingly. Not for internet distribution. ------------ Introduction ------------ 2. (U) This message reports biographical data for key ministers recently appointed by President Guebuza. The message follows biodata presented in reftel A. Biod [...] | 2005-02-15 12:19:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINR PGOV MZ |
05MAPUTO232 | MOZAMBIQUE: SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF ASSISTANT [...] (SBU) Introduction and Summary: Your visit to Mozambique will give you an opportunity to meet leading members of the new Guebuza government and convey to the government and the public our support for Mozambique's development and HIV/AIDS efforts. You also may wish to encourage continued movemen [...] | 2005-02-18 10:39:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MZ |
05MAPUTO25 | MEETING WITH PRESIDENT-ELECT GUEBUZA ON OPIC- [...] (SBU) Summary: OPIC-supported investor Dave Herbert continues to be under threat from a claimant to the land on which his Nyati Beach Lode is located. It appears that plans by the claimant to take possession of the lodge and evict guests on December 31 were frustrated when the Minister of Inte [...] | 2005-01-06 07:55:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV MZ OPIC |
05MAPUTO257 | MOZAMBIQUE: BIODATA ON NEW GUEBUZA CABINET (PART III) [...] (U) This is the third message in a series of biographical reports on cabinet ministers recently appointed by President Guebuza. Sources include official ministerial biographies, local media reports, and information obtained from Embassy contacts. ----------------- Table of Contents ------- [...] | 2005-02-25 09:18:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINR PGOV MZ |
05MAPUTO322 | MOZAMBIQUE: HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT PROVOKES MOSTLY [...] (U) The recently released 2004 Human Rights Report chapter on Mozambique has received mostly favorable attention in the local press and provoked considerable discussion in the media over human rights concerns in the country. On March 4 the state-run daily Noticias ran a story over an interview [...] | 2005-03-09 15:39:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL MZ |
05MAPUTO329 | ARMED ASSAULT ADJACENT TO AMERICAN EMBASSY MAPUTO [...] On 03/10/05 at approximately 0037 hours, an armed home invasion robbery attempt was committed against the residence located on the SE corner of Faria de Sousa and Damiao de Gois Rua. This location is directly across from the primary vehicle entrance to the American Embassy at an approximate di [...] | 2005-03-10 13:19:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC |
05MAPUTO388 | MOZAMBIQUE: SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF STAFFDEL [...] (SBU) Introduction and Summary: Your visit to Mozambique will provide you an opportunity to gain a better understanding of issues surrounding port and coastal security in Mozambique, as well as insight into Mozambique's Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) proposal. The trip will also give you i [...] | 2005-03-23 15:53:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV MZ |
05MAPUTO395 | MOZAMBIQUE: ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN CHILDREN LAW [...] (SBU) Summary. On March 24 Ambassador LaLime and USAID Director Jay Knott, accompanied by visiting SFRC committee staffer Heather Flynn, paid a courtesy call to Mozambique's new Minister of Justice, Esperanca Machavela. The visit addressed a series of subjects, including the need for anti-traf [...] | 2005-03-24 16:19:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KWMN SMIG MZ |
05MAPUTO421 | MOZAMBIQUE: STAFFDEL FLYNN AND STAFFDEL CHAKA [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please handle accordingly. Not for internet distribution. Summary ------- 2. (U) Senate Foreign Relations Committee Minority Staff Member Heather Flynn (March 23-28) and House International Relations Committee Majority and Minority Staff Members Malik Chaka [...] | 2005-04-01 06:39:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON MZ |
05MAPUTO434 | MOZAMBIQUE: POLICE ARREST MEN SELLING A YOUNG BOY, [...] Sensitive But Unclassified - not for placement on the Internet. 2. (SBU) Summary. Mozambique continued to take steps in March 2005 to detain potential traffickers and toward upgrading its laws to expressly prohibit trafficking. On March 21 Mozambican police arrested two Mozambican men for t [...] | 2005-04-04 16:38:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KWMN SMIG MZ |
05MAPUTO617 | ALLEGED CHILD TRAFFICKING FROM MOZAMBIQUE TO SOUTH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A South African NGO, Amazing Grace Children's Center, based in the town of Malelane near the border with Mozambique, is sheltering half a dozen children that appear to have been trafficked from Mozambique into South Africa. This Center says it has been working with trafficking v [...] | 2005-05-17 15:30:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB KFRD KCRM KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG MZ SF WZ |
05MAPUTO653 | MOZAMBIQUE - RIVAL AIRLINES VIE FOR DOMESTIC MARKET [...] (SBU) Summary. The ongoing fare war between government-owned Linhas Aereas de Mocambique (LAM) and upstart private airline Air Corridor has quickly turned Mozambique from one of the most expensive places in Africa for domestic flights to one of the cheapest. While consumers benefit, the highly [...] | 2005-05-26 09:49:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ETRD MZ |
05MAPUTO681 | MOZAMBIQUE: FRELIMO WINS MAYORAL BY-ELECTION; [...] (U) The ruling Frelimo party came out ahead of Renamo, the lead opposition party, in the May 21 by-election for mayor in the northern town of Mocimboa da Praia, Cabo Delgado province. According to official results released on May 26 the Frelimo candidate, Amadeu Pedro, won with 53 percent (5,2 [...] | 2005-05-31 08:04:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM PHUM PREL MZ RENAMO FRELIMO |
05MAPUTO7 | SCENE-SETTER FOR VISIT OF STAFFDEL MCLEAN TO [...] (SBU) Introduction and Summary: Your visit to Mozambique will provide an opportunity to gain a better understanding of the U.S. contribution in the fight against HIV/AIDS and Mozambique's Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) concept paper. You are arriving just after presidential and legislative [...] | 2005-01-04 12:11:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KHIV KMCA ECON ETRD MZ MCC |
05MAPUTO702 | MOZAMBIQUE: SCENESETTER FOR PRESIDENT GUEBUZA'S [...] (SBU) Newly elected Mozambican President Armando Emilio Guebuza is one of five African heads of state to visit Washington on June 13 to participate in a joint meeting with President Bush. We understand the Department is considering a separate meeting for President Guebuza with Secretary Rice. [...] | 2005-06-06 15:41:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PREL ETRD ECON MZ |
05MAPUTO725 | MOZAMBIQUE: ENHANCING COOPERATION WITH BRAZIL IN [...] Sensitive but unclassified. Not for internet distribution. Summary ------- 2. (SBU) Brazil has played a more active role in Mozambique since President Lula da Silva took office in January 2003. Brazilian assistance in Mozambique focuses on technical support and training, primarily in the h [...] | 2005-06-10 13:36:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREL BR MZ |
05MAPUTO726 | MOZAMBIQUE - PETROLEUM EXPLORATION RIGHTS INTEREST [...] (SBU) Summary: The GRM will open a bidding round in July for deepwater exploration rights off the coast of the northern province of Cabo Delgado. Two American companies, Anadarko and Vanco, have indicated to the Embassy and the GRM that they believe the region may have oil, and plan to enter b [...] | 2005-06-10 13:43:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EMIN ENRG EPET ETRD EINV MZ |
05MAPUTO742 | MOZAMBIQUE - ICAO LEADERSHIP DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-06-13 08:41:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ASEC MZ ICAO |
05MAPUTO783 | MOZAMBIQUE - REFORMING THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (SBU) On June 21 emboff delivered demarche and talking points to Faruque Faquira, Chief of Department for United Nations issues at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Faquira was familiar with the issue at hand and had recently been briefed by his Ministry on the U.S. consultations with the Afric [...] | 2005-06-21 17:05:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM KUNR MZ UNGA UNCHR |
05MAPUTO859 | MOZAMBIQUE: RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON G-4 FRAMEWORK [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please treat accordingly. Not for internet distribution. 2. (U) On July 8, Charge met with Cesar Gouveia, Director of the Department of International Organizations and Conferences (DOIC) at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to deliver reftel talking points expr [...] | 2005-07-08 14:17:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MZ UNSC |
05MAPUTO909 | MOZAMBIQUE: AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES MOZAMBICAN ACOTA [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please treat accordingly. Not for internet distribution. 2. (U) Ambassador and Defense Attache met July 25 with Minister of Defense Dai, Chief of the Armed Forces General Lidimo, and Defense Foreign Liaison Officer Brigadier General De Castro for the formal a [...] | 2005-07-25 14:34:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MASS MARR PGOV PREL MZ ACOTA |
05MAPUTO932 | MOZAMBIQUE RESPONSE ON UNSC REFORM SUPPLEMENTAL [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please treat accordingly. Not for internet distribution. 2. (SBU) On July 28 Ambassador discussed Ref A demarche points with Mozambican Foreign Minister Alcinda Abreu. The Ambassador told Abreu that the USG supports expansion of the UNSC, but she emphasized t [...] | 2005-07-29 09:39:00 | Embassy Maputo | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KUNR MZ UNSC UNGA |
05MASERU176 | MFA STRESSES POSITIVE U.S.-LESOTHO RELATIONS TO AF/S [...] (U) SUMMARY: During his familiarization visit to Lesotho, AF/S Director Dan Mozena met April 4 with Minister of Foreign Affairs Monyane Moleleki. Ambassador Perry and DCM (notetaker) accompanied. Topics covered included the upcoming local elections, Zimbabwe, Swaziland, HIV/AIDS, Article 98 [...] | 2005-04-08 12:00:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ETRD KDEM KHIV WZ ZI LT KICC HIV MCC |
05MASERU311 | LESOTHO DISCUSSES UN REFORM MATTERS [...] (SBU) Ambassador discussed UN reform and USG priorities with the GOL Minister of Foreign Affairs during June 20 meeting. Minister Moleleki concurred with the overall message that the U.S. strongly supports a developing focus for the high level events and he reiterated his government's agreem [...] | 2005-06-24 12:28:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KUNR AORC PHUM LT UNSC |
05MASERU327 | LESOTHO'S POSITION ON THE AFRICAN UNION AND UN REFORM [...] (SBU) Ambassador delivered Ref (A) points concerning UN Security Council Reform with Lesotho's Minister of Foreign Affairs June 29. MFA stated the GOL was very comfortable with the U.S. position and stated they particularly recognized the approach the U.S. was taking in regards to establishin [...] | 2005-06-29 13:37:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL LT UNSC UN |
05MASERU355 | G-4 FRAMEWORK DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (SBU) Government of Lesotho Minister of Foreign Affairs Moleleki assured Ambassador during July 11 meeting that his government concurred with the U.S. on the G-4 Framework Resolution. He was open to the idea of deferring UN discussion of this resolution until a later date. The Minister of Fo [...] | 2005-07-12 10:38:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL LT UNSC |
05MASERU364 | WAY-AHEAD FOR CREATING THE UN PEACEBUILDING COMMISSION [...] (SBU) Ambassador delivered key points on the UN Peacebuilding Commission and discussed in detail the three (3) proposed resolutions with Lesotho's Minister of Foreign Affairs (MFA). Minister Moleleki said that his government supported the idea of such a Commission. He went on to state his co [...] | 2005-07-15 12:15:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KUNR KPKO UNSC UNGA ECOSOC |
05MASERU365 | DISCUSSION OF HIGH LEVEL ISSUES WITH MFA [...] (SBU) Ambassador briefed Minister of Foreign Affairs Moleleki on the brief private visit of Former President Clinton and announced that OGAC Coordinator Ambassador Randall Tobias was expected in country soon for an official visit. The Minister was pleased with the detailed coordination betwee [...] | 2005-07-15 12:26:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL LT OVIP HIV |
05MASERU371 | FORMER PRESIDENT CLINTON VISITS LESOTHO TO PROMOTE PEDIATRIC [...] (U) Former U.S. President William J. Clinton visited Lesotho on Monday, 18 July 2005, his second stop on a week-long six-nation Africa tour to promote the work of the Clinton Foundation's HIV/AIDS Initiative. The former President's messages resonated with USG policy, PEPFAR concepts, and post [...] | 2005-07-21 12:17:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KHIV EAID PGOV LT HIV |
05MASERU478 | LESOTHO: CHINA'S INFLUENCE IN AFRICA [...] (SBU) Lesotho's relationship with China appears to be deepening as visits by dignitaries from both countries increase and China's involvement in projects large and small expands. The political aspect of the relationship is based on Lesotho's acceptance of a "one china/two systems" policy pala [...] | 2005-09-27 10:28:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL CH LT UN |
05MASERU532 | URGENT DEMARCHE ON UNESCO CULTURAL DIVERSITY VOTE [...] (SBU) Ambassador delivered reftel demarches October 18 and 19 to Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs Sekatle. As Minister for Local Government, Dr. Sekatle was not fully aware of our October 7 discussion on the Cultural Diversity Convention with Foreign Minister Moleleki (although she had rece [...] | 2005-10-19 15:11:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PREL SCUL LT UNESCO |
05MASERU551 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: INTERNATIONAL REACTION TO THE IRAQI [...] (SBU) Ambassador delivered Secretary's statement on the constitutional referendum in Iraq. She took the opportunity to thank the Minister for Lesotho's support concerning the tribunal process in Iraq as discussed with Acting Foreign Minister Dr. Pontso Sekatle on October 18 (Ref B). It had b [...] | 2005-10-28 11:58:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KDEM KPAO LT |
05MASERU563 | MINISTER OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND MCC ISSUES. [...] (SBU) Ambassador took advantage of October 18 and 25th meetings with the Minister of Local Government (then Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs) to raise not only multilateral issues but to seek her thinking on the consultative process essential to the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) process [...] | 2005-11-01 15:48:00 | Embassy Maseru | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV EAID LT |
05MILAN519 | Subject: Multiethnic Milan -- Caritas [...] (U) Summary: Caritas Ambrosiana recently held a conference to present Caritas' annual report on immigration. While the report included national statistics, the focus of the presentation in Milan was on the Lombardy Region in general and Milan specifically. Almost a quarter of Italy's immigrant [...] | 2005-11-17 05:38:00 | Consulate Milan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SMIG SOCI ELAB PGOV ASEC IT EUN |
05MINSK1022 | Resuscitating the Soviet Idelogical Machine [...] (U) Summary: Under Presiden Lukashenko, Belarus has adopted an "official Belrusian ideology," which in many respects is remiiscent of that promulgated under communism. The oficial ideology is to be taught in schools, univrsities and workplaces, through the media and th Orthodox Church. Belar [...] | 2005-08-31 10:41:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SOCI PHU ECON BO |
05MINSK1054 | IISEPS in Trouble Again [...] (SBU) On September 2 Oleg Manaev, head of the deregistered polling agency IISEPS, discussed IISEPS' latest troubles with the authorities with Poloff. Belarus' Supreme Court revoked IISEPS' registration in April (reftel). Maneav subsequently registered IISEPS in Lithuania. In July, the Minist [...] | 2005-09-06 14:44:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV BO |
05MINSK1055 | Media Polling: Most Watch, Distrust State News [...] (SBU) Summary: On September 2 the head of the IISEPS polling service provided polling results for a June poll ISEPS conducted on media access in Belarus. The poll found that a minority of Belarusians have access to satellite TV or the internet, and that over 80% watch Belarusian state televis [...] | 2005-09-06 14:44:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR BO |
05MINSK1079 | Would You Go on Holiday in Belarus? [...] (U) Summary: President Lukashenko decided this year that tourism in Belarus must increase, and the GOB issued a number of new laws to ensure that it does. Lukashenko also wants stricter enforcement of hunting legislation. Agro and eco tourism are slowly taking off in rural regions, but thos [...] | 2005-09-08 13:26:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL BO |
05MINSK1107 | Tourism Part II: An Examination of Agrotourism [...] Summary: (U) The GOB has a two-part program for tourism: to increase tourism within Belarus by Belarusians and to increase the number of foreign tourists to Belarus. On September 3 and 4, Emboffs set off to test the tourism waters, starting with an overnight at an agrotourism farm. They also [...] | 2005-09-15 07:06:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL BO |
05MINSK1159 | Minsk Wants Bilateral WTO Negotiations [...] (U) Summary: Econoff met September 13 with MFA representatives Anton Kudasov, Deputy Director of the Directorate of Foreign Trade, and Sergey Gulevich, Deputy Head of the Division of Foreign Trade Policy, to discuss Belarus' accession to the World Trade Organization. Kudasov argued strongly fo [...] | 2005-09-23 05:34:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON ECIN WTRO BO |
05MINSK1167 | Protestant Churches Pressured [...] (SBU) Summary: The New Life Church has employed numerous techniques to protest the GOB's denial of its re- registration, but thus far without success. The latest meeting between the church and the GOB has proven unfruitful and neither side will yield its position; thus a cooperative resolutio [...] | 2005-09-26 08:11:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KIRF BO |
05MINSK1192 | New Poll - Lukashenko Already Winning [...] (U) Summary: NOVAK released the results of its August - September survey and presented an analysis to Pol Chief on September 27. Lukashenko's rating jumped 5 percentage points while the leading opposition contenders' ratings remained below one percent. However, the percentage of those who di [...] | 2005-09-29 13:22:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL BO |
05MINSK1193 | Narodnaya Volya Hits Rock Bottom [...] (SBU) Summary: A district court froze independent newspaper Narodnaya Volya's bank account and assets on September 27. The court also demanded it pay BYR 100 million damages awarded to a government official in a June lawsuit. With its account frozen and little time to collect the needed sum, [...] | 2005-09-30 05:44:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM BO |
05MINSK1305 | Importing Barley A "Treasonous" Act [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOB has been trying to promote domestic beer production since 2003. Though Belarusian beer is cheap and sold in half-liter or larger bottles, the low quality of the barley used in brewing has resulted in even worse tasting beer and the industry's loss in competitiveness on [...] | 2005-10-26 11:36:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR PGOV ECON BO |
05MINSK1323 | Minsk Expects Big Profit from Kyoto Protocol [...] (U) Summary: On September 23, Econoff met with Deputy Minister of Natural Resources Aleksandr Apatskiy to discuss Belarus' plans after acceding to the Kyoto Protocol, and its plans in general to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. President Lukashenko signed the Kyoto Protocol into law in August, [...] | 2005-10-31 06:39:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG ETRD ECON PGOV BO |
05MINSK1324 | Belarus Cozies Up to Iran [...] (SBU) Summary: In recent months Belarus and Iran have greatly increased their contacts and friendly rhetoric, including an invitation for Belarusians to work on the Iranian nuclear program and improve trade ties. Belarusian factories are being founded in Iran, and Iranian businessmen are sear [...] | 2005-10-31 08:45:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ETRD BO IR |
05MINSK1328 | MFA Arms Control Raises Old Issues [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 14, Ambassador Krol met with MFA Arms Control and International Security Director Alexander Baichorov before Baichorov's trip to the U.S. to participate in the UN First Committee. Baichorov provided the Ambassador with information on a proposed First Committee Resol [...] | 2005-10-31 13:01:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PARM KNNP MNUC BO |
05MINSK1355 | Minsk Fails to Defend Confiscation Record [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 25, State Customs Committee (SCC) officials attempted to defend their government's confiscation practices to Econoff. Their main arguments were that the SCC used to confiscate much more, even though current levels remain high, and that confiscations `were not their id [...] | 2005-11-08 11:04:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD PGOV WTRO BO |
05MINSK1359 | Belarus Reneges on SA/LW Destruction; De-mining on Track [...] (SBU) Summary: Minsk previously asked the OSCE for help securing stockpiles of excess Small Arms and Light Weapons (SA/LW),and in their destruction. Several OSCE missions, following the UK's lead, were ready to contribute. Now, however, Minsk has withdrawn its offer to destroy excess SA/LW, [...] | 2005-11-08 13:42:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PGOV MASS OSCE NATO BO |
05MINSK1363 | Extreme Extremist Law Passes First Reading [...] (SBU) Summary: On October 26 Belarus' parliament passed the first reading of a bill to combat extremism. The bill specifically mentions political parties, NGOs, mass media, and religious organizations as potential sources of extremism. A senior BKGB officer introduced the law to parliament, a [...] | 2005-11-09 12:09:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM BO |
05MINSK1383 | Re-Nationalization of Industry Continues [...] (SBU) Summary: Reftel describes how the GOB has been using the Golden Share to nationalize a number of companies. Over the summer the GOB invoked the Golden Share to take temporary control of several firms. The GOB then ordered these companies to issue large numbers of severely undervalued sh [...] | 2005-11-15 11:10:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV PGOV WTRO BO |
05MINSK1384 | Belarusian TV Accuses U.S. Diplomats of Revolutionary [...] (U) Summary: Belarus' national television channel aired exposes on November 4 and 13 accusing U.S. intelligence agencies of using NGOs and the human rights/democracy campaign as covers for spreading revolutions around the world. The hosts of the two programs proposed that Emboffs were partic [...] | 2005-11-15 11:58:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL BO |
05MINSK1391 | Mozyr Refinery Highly Profitable [...] (SBU) Summary: Belarus has two oil refineries, in Mozyr and Novopolotsk. The GOB owns the Novopolotsk refinery and 43% of the Mozyr refinery, but is trying to take ownership of another 12% from an employee association. The Mozyr Oil Refinery (MOR) can refine 10 million tons of oil per year. [...] | 2005-11-16 14:20:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG ECON ETRD BO |
05MINSK1405 | Lukashenko Forming an Obedient Electorate Ahead of the [...] (SBU) Summary: Since the beginning of September, Lukashenko has stepped up populist efforts to buy the people's support for his election. At the same time, he has intensified his campaign to liquidate opposition forces within the media, youth, and workforce in order to prevent what he portray [...] | 2005-11-22 06:32:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL BO |
05MINSK1410 | Empty Victory for Narodnaya Volya [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 17, the Minsk City Economic Court ordered the state-run publishing house, Krasnaya Zvezda (KZ),to begin publishing the independent newspaper Narodnaya Volya (NV) again after KZ broke its contract with the paper. However, it is unlikely KZ will actually print any is [...] | 2005-11-22 11:42:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM BO |
05MINSK1419 | Day of Solidarity Numbers Don't Add Up [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 16, opposition activists hosted the second "Day of Solidarity" with those who have been persecuted by the GOB. While the organizers reported extremely high levels of participation, embassy observations suggest their numbers were inflated. End summary. 2. (U) On [...] | 2005-11-23 07:38:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV BO |
05MINSK1422 | MFA Begs for WTO Help [...] (SBU) Summary: One week after publicly lambasting the U.S. for "blocking" Belarus' WTO application for political reasons, Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhnevich summoned Ambassador to complain about the USG position and ask for assistance in moving forward. Ambassador replied it was the GOB, not US [...] | 2005-11-23 10:49:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD WTRO PGOV USTR BO |
05MINSK1499 | Lukashenko to Rule Economy [...] (U) Summary: In recent months President Lukashenko has issued several presidential decrees that put vast powers over the economy into his hands. Most egregiously, Decree 520 specifically gives Lukashenko expansive authorities, and baldly states that any legislation that contradicts the decree [...] | 2005-12-14 13:07:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV WTRO PGOV USTR BO |
05MINSK1525 | WORLD BANK IN BELARUS: FUTURE ENGAGEMENT RESTS ON [...] SUMMARY: Increasing GOB impediments to the provision of foreign assistance and further resistance to outside advice call into question the future of World Bank operations in Belarus. The Bank is pinning its hopes on realization of a proposed $50 million project in energy conservation and gas [...] | 2005-12-22 07:38:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EAID ENRG SENV UNDP BO |
05MINSK780 | INTERNATIONAL CHERNOBYL REHABILITATION PROGRAM: [...] No summary [...] | 2005-07-15 05:47:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID AORC SENV UNDP BO |
05MINSK922 | Belarus IPR Update [...] (SBU) Summary: A Belarusian state agency "protects" musicians' copyrights by collecting royalties on their behalf from all Belarusian restaurants, radio stations, clubs and bars. This agency recently muscled in on the local cable TV market, with the effect of stopping payments to many foreign [...] | 2005-08-05 13:18:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD KIPR BO |
05MINSK923 | The "Best" Harvest Ever [...] (SBU) Summary: The 2005 harvest campaign is in full swing in Belarus and, like in years past, Lukashenko expects an unattainable yield. During his annual conference on the "battle for the harvest", Lukashenko rattled off his demands and listened to exceptional progress reports from nervous a [...] | 2005-08-05 13:22:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR PGOV ECON BO |
05MINSK992 | Few Protest German Radio Plans [...] (SBU) Summary: Deutsche Welle recently won a bid to broadcast 30 minutes of radio news to Belarus daily. However, their announcement proved controversial because DW plans to broadcast in the Russian language. Belarus' nationalist opposition protested loudly in local and international press, b [...] | 2005-08-23 12:56:00 | Embassy Minsk | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV SOCI BO |
05MONTREAL1196 | FRENCH PROPOSAL TO TAX AIRLINE TICKETS - USICAO [...] (SBU) Summary. The Acting US Representative to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) met with the representatives of Canada, Austria, Saudi Arabia, Japan, Korea, Russia and Egypt to notify them of the demarche (reftel) being delivered in their capitals and to request their sup [...] | 2005-09-09 15:07:00 | Consulate Montreal | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECIN EAID EFIN UNGA ICAO |
05MUMBAI188 | BANERJEE STATES GODHRA FIRE MAY HAVE BEEN ACCIDENT - BJP [...] (U) Justice U.C. Banerjee released an interim report in New Delhi on January 17, 2005, which claimed that the February 27, 2002 fire in car S-6 of the Sabarmati Express just outside Godhra might have erupted "in the coach itself without any external input." Union Railway Minister Lalu Prasad Y [...] | 2005-01-18 10:52:00 | Consulate Mumbai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL IN |
05MUMBAI1931 | GUJARAT: PEACEFUL ON THE SURFACE, YET STATE GOVERNMENT [...] (SBU) The riots of 2002 belong to history, and communal harmony now reigns in Gujarat, business leaders and the state's Chief Secretary told the Consul General during his September 8-9 visit to Ahmedabad. The Chief Secretary criticized the USG for continuing to probe into the judicial aftermat [...] | 2005-09-22 08:09:00 | Consulate Mumbai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KIRF PINR CVIS PREL PGOV KISL IN |
05MUMBAI200 | RESPONSE TO ULEMA COUNCIL - ACTION REQUEST [...] (SBU) On January 15, 2005, ConGen Mumbai received a letter from Maulana Mehmood Daryabadi, General Secretary for the All India Ulema Council. The letter requested that the USG allow members of the All India Ulema Council to lead and organize a delegation in coordination with other Islamic Orga [...] | 2005-01-19 07:12:00 | Consulate Mumbai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER PHUM IN |
05MUMBAI2076 | BJP TROUBLES CONTINUE AS IN-FIGHTING ERUPTS OVER LEADERSHIP [...] (SBU) Firebrand politician Uma Bharati, the deposed former chief minister of Madhya Pradesh (MP),has launched a public fight to return to power, embarrassing her Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the process and dividing its MP members into two camps. Bharati succeeded in getting the support o [...] | 2005-10-20 12:15:00 | Consulate Mumbai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ECON PINR PREL IN |
05MUMBAI2093 | NGO: OVER 16,000 CHILD LABORERS RESCUED IN MAHARASHTRA [...] (U) A dramatic upsurge in Government of Maharashtra (GOM) attention to child labor issues and a series of coordinated raids in Mumbai resulted in the rescue of over 16,000 children working in hazardous industries in recent months. Police, in coordination with the newly created child labor task [...] | 2005-10-22 09:46:00 | Consulate Mumbai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PHUM ECON KCRM KWMN EAID IN |
05MUMBAI2192 | DO NO HARM? THE FIGHT AGAINST CHILD LABOR IN MAHARASHTRA [...] (U) Following the rescue of thousands of underage children from Mumbai workshops (reftel),some child welfare activists debate whether the children are now better or worse off. The Government of Maharashtra's (GOM) program "Education For All" attempts to address gaps in educational facilities, [...] | 2005-11-16 06:41:00 | Consulate Mumbai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PHUM ECON KCRM KWMN EAID IN |
05MUMBAI2199 | SHIV SENA FACES STIFF CHALLENGE IN NOVEMBER 19 BY-ELECTION [...] (SBU) Maharashtra state parliament by-elections scheduled for November 19 may represent a defining moment for Bal Thackeray's Marathi-based Hindu nationalist Shiv Sena movement. In the Malvan district of southwestern Maharashtra, erstwhile Shiv Sena leader Narayan Rane is standing for re-elect [...] | 2005-11-16 12:54:00 | Consulate Mumbai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL IN |
05MUMBAI2251 | SHIV SENA ROCKED BY RAJ THACKERAY'S RESIGNATION AS PARTY [...] (SBU) Raj Thackeray, nephew of Shiv Sena founder Bal Thackeray, rocked the Mumbai political establishment on November 27 by announcing his resignation from all Shiv Sena party leadership posts over differences with his cousin and party executive president Uddhav Thackeray. Raj's announcement [...] | 2005-11-28 08:59:00 | Consulate Mumbai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL IN |
05MUMBAI2252 | MADHYA PRADESH: FIREBRAND BHARTI SIDELINED AS BJP NAMES NEW [...] (SBU) On November 26, the BJP national leadership replaced Madhya Pradesh (MP)Chief Minister Babulal Gaur with state party President Shivraj Singh Chauhan. The action was a blow to former MP chief minister Uma Bharti, a controversial and boisterous politician who had lobbied heavily behind the [...] | 2005-11-28 09:00:00 | Consulate Mumbai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINR PGOV PREL IN |
05MUMBAI370 | CONGRESS REAINS POWER IN GOA AFTER CONSTITUTIONALLY [...] (SBU) A Congressled coalition assumed power in the small Indian sate of Goa on February 2 after some constitutionally questionable maneuvering by politicians from both Congress and the BJP. Goa Governor S.C. Jamir asked Goa's Congress leader Pratapsinh Rane to form a new state government after [...] | 2005-02-03 16:20:00 | Consulate Mumbai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL IN |
05MUMBAI756 | GUJARAT BJP PARLIAMENTARIANS OPENLY CHALLENGE CM MODI [...] (SBU) Some of our contacts in Gujarat tell us that BJP Chief Minister (CM) Narendra Modi is facing the most serious challenge to his power yet, as a growing number of BJP Members of the Legislative Assembly (MLAs) are openly speaking out against him. The MLAs are criticizing what they consider [...] | 2005-03-15 11:52:00 | Consulate Mumbai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL ECON PHUM IN GOI |
05MUMBAI876 | GUJARAT CHIEF MINISTER MODI SURVIVES, FOR NOW [...] (U) Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has successfully fended off another attempt by dissidents within his own party to dislodge him. The leadership of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP),headed by party president LK Advani, met with a delegation of Modi's opponents in the Gujarat BJP on Marc [...] | 2005-03-31 14:19:00 | Consulate Mumbai | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL ECON PHUM IN |
05MUSCAT1013 | SHOOTING AT EDUCATION MINISTRY KILLS TWO [...] (SBU) Summary: Muscat is reeling from a June 27 shooting by a disgruntled former teacher at the Ministry of Education, leaving two persons dead and at least four others in serious condition. The shooter, a religious studies teacher fired for unethical behavior, committed suicide following a pol [...] | 2005-06-27 12:10:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM SOCI ASEC MU |
05MUSCAT1027 | CSI TARGETS PORT SALALAH FOR EXPANSION [...] (U) On June 17, at the request of Omani Minister of Commerce and Industry Maqbool bin Ali Sultan, an assessment team for the Container Security Initiative (CSI) program arrived in Oman to meet with government contacts and officials from Salalah Port Services (SPS) to discuss Oman's potential p [...] | 2005-06-29 12:52:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EWWT PARM PHSA PREL MU |
05MUSCAT1045 | OMAN RATIFIES ILO FORCED LABOR AND MINIMUM AGE [...] (U) A royal decree of July 3 ratified International Labor Organization (ILO) Conventions 105 and 138, Abolition of Forced Labor and Minimum Age of Employment. The new decree followed the recent return of Oman's National Committee representatives from the ILO General Conference in Geneva. In l [...] | 2005-07-05 07:38:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB ETRD PREL SOCI MU |
05MUSCAT1051 | FONMIN ON REGIONAL ISSUES, STRIKES DOMESTIC CHORD [...] (SBU) Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusuf bin Alawi gave a wide-ranging interview to a UAE-based newspaper in late-June that garnered an unusual reaction. Speaking on foreign policy issues, the Minister defended USG support for Palestine and security efforts in Iraq, as well as U.S. [...] | 2005-07-06 07:36:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER SOCI KISL ETRD OPRC XF MU |
05MUSCAT1062 | DONTVISITOMAN.COM OUTRAGES OMANIS [...] (SBU) An AmCit arrested in March and deported in May for illegally collecting meteorites has recounted his trying legal experience in Oman on a provocative website: dontvisitoman.com. The website has received widespread commentary from Omani citizens, who are stunned at its malicious characte [...] | 2005-07-06 12:05:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CASC EIND SOCI PREL MU |
05MUSCAT1109 | NOBEL PEACE PRIZE NOMINEE JAILED [...] (SBU) An outspoken elected former Shura Council deputy and current Nobel Prize nominee was sentenced July 13 by a Muscat court for insulting government officials in connection with the controversial arrests of Ibadhi activists charged by the government of belonging to an illegal organization. [...] | 2005-07-16 02:20:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL SOCI PINR MU |
05MUSCAT1139 | INVESTORS POUR $1.2B INTO TELECOMS IPO [...] (SBU) More than 163,000 citizens contributed more than $1.2 billion to the oversubscribed and long-anticipated initial public offering of the state-owned Oman Telecommunications Company (Omantel). The most popular IPO in Oman's history opened at $3.10 a share; prices are expected to surge whe [...] | 2005-07-19 08:36:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS KPRV ETRD ECON EINV EFIN MU |
05MUSCAT1141 | INSIGHTS INTO OMAN'S GENERAL RESERVE FUND [...] (U) This cable contains business proprietary information; please protect. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) A royal official working for the State General Reserve Fund recently revealed to a private sector investment broker rare insights into the investment habits of the SGRF. A quart [...] | 2005-07-20 03:05:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EINV ECON EPET PGOV MU |
05MUSCAT1199 | TOURISM PROJECTS PROLIFERATE [...] (U) With Oman aggressively marketing itself as an environmentally conscious tourist destination, international investors are taking advantage of significant improvements in local infrastructure to develop ambitious new tourist projects. U.S. construction and financial firms are joining a slew [...] | 2005-07-30 08:39:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON EIND MU |
05MUSCAT1203 | TAYBAH AL-MA'WALI AWAITS SENTENCING [...] (SBU) On July 30, a Muscat court released Taybah al-Ma'wali on bail until a verdict on her appeal is announced around August 3. According to family members, al-Ma'wali had been in hiding since she was sentenced in absentia on July 13 to one and a half years in prison. On July 30, however, al [...] | 2005-07-30 11:34:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL SOCI PINR MU |
05MUSCAT1218 | OMAN ONLINE: THREATS AGAINST FOREIGNERS; KING FAHD'S [...] (U) Summary: The Omani Internet message boards "al-Sablah" and "al-Majarra" are the liveliest and most comprehensive Arabic- language fora for political and social discourse in the country, touching on issues and personalities rarely addressed in the conventional media. While not totally free [...] | 2005-08-03 07:28:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAO SOCI MU |
05MUSCAT1238 | TAYBAH AL-MA'WALI SENTENCE REDUCED TO 6 MONTHS [...] No summary [...] | 2005-08-07 11:07:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM SOCI PREL PINR MU |
05MUSCAT1253 | FM POSITIVE ON IRAQ, GAZA [...] (U) Local and regional media gave wide coverage to Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusuf bin Alawi's August 7 press comments on Iraq and Palestine. Meeting his Egyptian counterpart and Arab League SecGen Moussa to discuss the postponed AL summit, Bin Alawi said that Iraqi political f [...] | 2005-08-10 12:04:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL OPRC XF MU |
05MUSCAT1277 | ILO, UNICEF KUDOS FOR OMANI CAMEL RACING REFORM [...] (SBU) The regional directors for UNICEF and the ILO met on August 14 with Sports Minister Ali al-Sunaidi to discuss Omani camel racing reforms. The government is not only gradually raising jockey age limits from 14 to 18 years, but is also setting minimum age standards for camels because matu [...] | 2005-08-17 08:37:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM ELAB KOCI SCUL ETRD PREL MU |
05MUSCAT1302 | EMBASSY MUSCAT EAC - 08/24/2005 [...] (SBU) The Ambassador chaired a meeting of the Emergency Action Committee (EAC) on August 24 to review the Embassy's security posture prior to the local weekend. Members noted no substantive changes in the local security environment since the last meeting. Accordingly, the EAC agreed that th [...] | 2005-08-24 14:36:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AEMR ASEC AMGT PTER CASC KHLS MU EAC |
05MUSCAT1327 | OMAN OFFERS OVERSTAYERS AN EASY EXIT [...] (SBU) In an effort to spur the exit of expatriates who have overstayed their visas, the Royal Oman Police (ROP) eased departure regulations and urged all persons on expired visas to pay a one-time fee of $655 USD and depart the country without hindrance by August 19. The offer did not apply t [...] | 2005-08-30 08:52:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PHUM SMIG SOCI PREL MU |
05MUSCAT1363 | EMBASSY MUSCAT EAC - 09/07/2005 [...] (SBU) The Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM) chaired a meeting of the Emergency Action Committee (EAC) on September 7 to review the Embassy's security posture prior to the local weekend. Members noted no substantive changes in the local security environment since the last meeting. Accordingly, [...] | 2005-09-10 11:02:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AEMR ASEC AMGT PTER CASC KHLS MU EAC |
05MUSCAT1463 | OMAN PINS TEXTILE HOPES ON FTA [...] (SBU) Government statistics point to a continuing decline in Omani textile production in terms of value and employment. Manufacturers are pinning their hopes on the pending U.S.-Oman Free Trade Agreement to at least slow this trend. End Summary. -------------------- STATISTICAL SNAPSHOT - [...] | 2005-10-01 13:44:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTEX ECON ETRD MU |
05MUSCAT1473 | SULTAN'S ANNUAL ADDRESS [...] (SBU) Sultan Qaboos' October 1 annual address to the Majlis Oman, lasting under 15 minutes, focused almost entirely on the human resource development, making only a brief reference to foreign affairs and offering little in the way of new initiatives or reforms. Popular hopes that long-unchang [...] | 2005-10-03 14:23:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON ELAB MU |
05MUSCAT148 | ARRESTS SPARK CONTROVERSY, SEND SIGNAL [...] (SBU) Omani chat-rooms and dinner conversations have been dominated in recent weeks by widely held rumors that the security services have arrested a dozen Omani citizens in late-night raids spread across three separate regions. While the government has not publicly acknowledged the arrests d [...] | 2005-01-26 13:13:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PINS SCUL ASEC MU |
05MUSCAT1488 | OMAN PASSES ON AVIAN FLU PARTNERSHIP [...] (SBU) Summary. A Ministry of Health official said that Oman will not participate in the International Partnership on Avian and Pandemic Influenza (IPAPI),or in the October 6-7 senior officials meeting. However, he outlined the steps that Oman has already undertaken steps to prepare for a po [...] | 2005-10-05 05:59:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KSCA EAGR ECON PREL SOCI MU ESTH |
05MUSCAT1500 | OMANTEL PRESIDENT TALKS BUSINESS, BOYCOTT [...] (U) Summary: A meeting between Omantel's Executive President, Embassy and U.S. Department of Commerce officials produced positive results in removing boycott language from company documents. The company's president also stressed the importance of streamlining procurement decisions to Omantel's [...] | 2005-10-05 13:26:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BEXP ECON ECPS KBCT MU |
05MUSCAT1501 | OMAN PORT EXPANSIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: Two of Oman's principal ports, Sohar and Salalah, are aggressively moving forward on expansion of their respective operations. The Sohar Industrial Port Company is holding a November conference to introduce itself to the region, while Salalah Port Services is pitching expansio [...] | 2005-10-05 13:39:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EIND EWWT EINV MU |
05MUSCAT1513 | OMAN AFFIRMS NO BOYCOTT OF ISRAEL [...] (SBU) On September 28, 2005, the Minister of Commerce and Industry, Maqbool bin Ali Sultan, transmitted a letter, via facsimile, to the Embassy for transmission to Robert Portman, United States Trade Representative. (Begin letter text) Please accept my congratulations on your recent appoin [...] | 2005-10-11 03:38:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KBCT ETRD ECON PGOV IS MU |
05MUSCAT1514 | NEW OMANI AMBASSADOR IS ALL BUSINESS [...] (U) Summary: In a meeting with U.S. and Omani business executives, Oman's new ambassador-designate to the U.S. Hunaina al-Mughairy expressed optimism over the bilateral economic relationship and elicited the assistance of the business community in identifying project opportunities -- and obst [...] | 2005-10-11 03:40:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BEXP ECON PREL PINR MU |
05MUSCAT1533 | TFPK01: OMAN GRANTS BLANKET OVERFLIGHT CLEARANCE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-13 07:20:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AEMR ASEC MARR PREL AMGT CASC PK |
05MUSCAT1564 | MAKING WAVES IN OMAN [...] (U) Summary: In a move that surprised many observers, the Ministry of Information has granted television and radio broadcasting licenses to two private Omani companies. While this will effectively end the government's broadcasting monopoly, the licensees anticipate having to work closely wit [...] | 2005-10-18 12:45:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECPS EINT PHUM PGOV MU |
05MUSCAT1578 | EMBASSY MUSCAT EAC - 10/19/2005 [...] (SBU) The Ambassador chaired a meeting of the Emergency Action Committee (EAC) on October 19 to review the Embassy's security posture prior to the local weekend. Members noted no substantive changes in the local security environment since the last meeting. Accordingly, the EAC agreed that t [...] | 2005-10-19 13:24:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AEMR ASEC AMGT PTER CASC KHLS MU EAC |
05MUSCAT1582 | WINDFALL FOR SOME, INFLATION FOR ALL [...] (U) Summary: Increasing oil prices have provided a windfall for the Omani government, even as its production declines. Consumer prices have risen accordingly, however, and some question whether the benefit of higher oil revenues is reaching the general public. End summary. --------------- [...] | 2005-10-23 12:19:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ENRG EPET PGOV SOCI MU |
05MUSCAT17 | USG CALL FOR DONOR SUPPORT TO TSUNAMI VICTIMS: OMAN [...] No summary [...] | 2005-01-04 12:34:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AEMR EAID PGOV PREL MU |
05MUSCAT1874 | UNION-RELATED STRIKE SHUTS SALALAH PORT [...] (SBU) Port Salalah, Oman's leading container transshipment facility, was shut down December 11-12 following an impromptu employees walk-out spurred, apparently, by management's decision to fire the popular head of the workers' committee. Though strikes are not unprecedented in Oman, this walk-o [...] | 2005-12-17 03:34:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB EWWT PGOV ETRD ECON PREL MU |
05MUSCAT1939 | HOUSE CALL ON GENETIC RESEARCH [...] (SBU) On December 13, the Ambassador received a delegation of four geneticists from Harvard Medical School and their colleague from the Omani Ministry of Health. The group discussed their collaborative research into the genetic mutations that are causing such a high incidence of neurological [...] | 2005-12-31 13:15:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO SCUL SOCI TSPL MU ESTH |
05MUSCAT210 | COMMERCE U/S ON FTA, TRADE ISSUES (C-NE4-01168) [...] (SBU) In a February 5 introductory call by the Ambassador, new Ministry of Commerce and Industry Under Secretary Ahmed al-Dheeb offered an optimistic outlook on impending U.S.-Omani Free Trade Agreement talks. Noting that labor issues under the FTA will require some work, he likewise laid dow [...] | 2005-02-08 04:32:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV ECON KIPR TBIO PINR MU |
05MUSCAT229 | EMBASSY MUSCAT EAC - 02/09/2005 [...] (SBU) The Ambassador chaired a meeting of the core Emergency Action Committee February 9 to reassess the Embassy's security posture prior to the local holiday weekend, as well as to discuss security for upcoming events. The Committee concluded that there has been no change in the local secur [...] | 2005-02-09 12:23:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AEMR ASEC AMGT PTER CASC KHLS MU EAC |
05MUSCAT241 | COUNTER-TERRORISM ACTION GROUP (CTAG) MEETING [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Muscat Counter-Terrorism Action Group (CTAG) met on February 2 to outline, in preparation for the April 29 CTAG meeting in London, key Omani counter-terrorism(CT) needs, and to share details of completed and planned CT assistance from G8 states. The CTAG agreed on a list of [...] | 2005-02-13 12:30:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER ASEC PREL MU |
05MUSCAT242 | EB SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE MERMOUD TALKS BUSINESS [...] (SBU) Summary: During recent meetings with senior State Department official Frank Mermoud, Omani government officials and members of the local and American business communities provided valuable insights into the upcoming free trade agreement (FTA) talks and the issues facing American companie [...] | 2005-02-13 13:11:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BEXP ETRD KTDB EINV CVIS ELAB MU |
05MUSCAT243 | OMAN OFFICIAL ON PRIVATIZATION, FTA HOPES [...] (SBU) In a meeting on February 1, National Economy Under Secretary Abdul Malik al-Hinai outlined the Omani SIPDIS government's privatization strategy for a visiting USG official in the power, water, telecommunications and transport sectors. He predicted the sale of 30 percent of state-owne [...] | 2005-02-13 13:12:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON KPRV EIND ETRD ECPS KTEX PREL MU |
05MUSCAT244 | IRI FINALLY BREAKS DOWN THE DOOR TO OMANI [...] (SBU) The International Republican Institute finally succeeded this month in carrying out a training program for elected Omani parliamentarians that the Majlis' President had vowed for five years would never be permitted. Twelve deputies and a senior staffer participated in a 3-day workshop o [...] | 2005-02-13 13:14:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KMPI PREL EAID MU |
05MUSCAT257 | OMAN GOES PUBLIC WITH FTA PLANS [...] This is an action request for USTR. Please see para 5. --------------------------------------------- ---- Commerce Minister Publicly Touts FTA Negotiations --------------------------------------------- ---- 2. On February 13, in an annual address to celebrate the achievements of Oman i [...] | 2005-02-16 03:35:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON KPRV EIND ETRD PREL OPRC KPAO MU |
05MUSCAT298 | BECHTEL SNAGS BILLION DOLLAR PROJECT IN OMAN [...] (SBU) Summary: Bechtel's Regional Manager has informed the Ambassador that Bechtel won the construction contract for a large aluminum smelter in the city of Sohar. This $1.3 billion project, scheduled to be completed by 2008, will eventually employ around 2000 people and marks another milesto [...] | 2005-02-22 02:46:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BEXP EINV EIND EMIN ELAB MU |
05MUSCAT313 | 2005 ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT: OMAN [...] (SBU) The following responses are keyed to relevant sections of reftel paras 18-21. ----------------- PARA 18: OVERVIEW ----------------- A. Oman is not a country of origin, transit, or destination for internationally trafficked men, women or children. ------------------- PARA 19: [...] | 2005-02-23 11:13:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB MU |
05MUSCAT314 | RESPONSE TO ANNUAL CRIME EVALUATION QUESTIONNAIRE [...] (SBU) The following responses, which reflect Emergency Action Committee consensus, are keyed to paragraph 6 of the Annual Crime Evaluation Questionnaire (reftel): --------------------------------------------- I. Crime Mobility (Into Emboff Neighborhoods) ---------------------------------- [...] | 2005-02-23 11:14:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC MU EAC |
05MUSCAT317 | PALESTINIAN AMBASSADOR PRAISES PRESIDENT'S REMARKS [...] No summary [...] | 2005-02-25 19:36:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL OPRC KWBG KPAL IS MU |
05MUSCAT34 | IAEA COMPREHENSIVE SAFEGUARDS STATUS [...] (SBU) Following the Ambassador's December 27 discussion with Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusuf bin Alawi to encourage Oman's bringing into force its IAEA safeguards agreement and approving the Additional Protocol (ref A),A/DCM also raised the matter in a January 5 meeting on othe [...] | 2005-01-05 14:35:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP PARM TRGY PREL AORC OPDC XF MU ESTH |
05MUSCAT365 | INVITING WOMEN LEADERS TO FORUM ON POLITICAL [...] (SBU) The Sultan's Foreign Policy Advisor Dr. Omar al-Zawawi and Minister Responsible for Foreign Affairs Yusuf bin Alawi both assured the Ambassador of the delivery and acceptance of the invitations to Higher Education Minister Dr. Rawya al-Busaidi and oil company executive Ms. Asillah al-Har [...] | 2005-03-02 09:56:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KWMN PHUM PGOV KMPI PINR MU |
05MUSCAT367 | OMAN: FTA INFORMATION ON ENVIRONMENTAL MATTERS [...] (SBU) Embassy Muscat is pleased to provide additional information regarding environmental matters in Oman to assist USG negotiators for the upcoming free trade agreement talks. The following responses are keyed to questions (a - t) in paragraph 5 of reftel. a. The Law on Conservation of The [...] | 2005-03-02 10:54:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON SENV MU ESTH |
05MUSCAT479 | OMAN CONDEMNS QATAR TERROR ATTACK [...] (U) The March 19 VBIED attack on a theater in Doha provoked swift condemnation by the Omani government. A Foreign Ministry statement (most likely penned by Under Secretary Sayyid Badr al-Busaidi) released on March 20 SIPDIS pledged the Sultanate's support for Qatar's security and its prote [...] | 2005-03-22 12:31:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL OPRC XF MU |
05MUSCAT506 | SALALAH: PORT EXPANDS, FREE ZONE PENDING [...] (U) This cable contains business proprietary information - please protect. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) In a call on the Ambassador, former Salalah Port Services Co. CEO Jack Helton and his successor Tiemen Meester (please protect both) privately questioned the government's commitm [...] | 2005-03-27 11:50:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EWWT ETRD ELAB EINV MU |
05MUSCAT541 | OMANIZATION: JOB CREATION, NOT REPLACEMENT [...] (SBU) During labor consultations with Deputy Under Secretary for Labor Arnold Levine, the Ministry of Manpower SIPDIS (MOM) reaffirmed its position that Omanization will not come at the expense of performance and productivity. In clarifying the practical aspects of Omanization, MOM officia [...] | 2005-04-03 04:53:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ELAB PREL MU |
05MUSCAT581 | QABOOS PUBLICLY HAILS NEW IRAQI PRESIDENT [...] (U) Sultan Qaboos sent a congratulatory cable of greetings on April 8 to Jalal Talabani on the occasion of his election as president of Iraq, "wishing him good health and success in fulfilling the aspirations of the people of Iraq for stability, progress and prosperity," according to the Oman [...] | 2005-04-09 14:53:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EAID IZ MU |
05MUSCAT591 | OMAN SURVEY BY TIP ACTIVIST COMES UP EMPTY [...] (SBU) Regional human rights and anti-trafficking activist Ansar Burney made a short-notice visit to Oman April 8-9 in a quest to locate suspected trafficked Pakistani child camel jockeys he believes are missing from camps in the UAE. In his first visit with Embassy personnel, Burney accompanie [...] | 2005-04-11 03:46:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM ELAB ETRD KOCI SOCI PREL MU |
05MUSCAT607 | OMAN SETS MINIMUM CAMEL RACING AGE AT 14 [...] (U) In an unexpected turn of events April 11, the Chairman of the Oman Equestrian and Camel Association issued a decision mandating a minimum age of 14 years for camel racing jockeys. His Highness Sayyid Asaad bin Tariq al-Said, head of Oman's camel racing association and first cousin of Sulta [...] | 2005-04-12 12:45:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM ETRD ELAB PREL KOCI SCUL MU |
05MUSCAT616 | UNICEF ASSISTS UAE ON CAMEL RACING ISSUE [...] (SBU) The United Nations International Children's Fund (UNICEF) regional office in Muscat has recently been working with the United Arab Emirates in developing comprehensive new legislation that will cover the monitoring and implementation of the announced ban on the use of child camel jockeys [...] | 2005-04-13 10:07:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM SOCI PREL ELAB MU |
05MUSCAT674 | OMAN: TELECOMS UPDATE [...] (U) Summary: A series of local press reports in mid- April outlined three noteworthy developments in Oman's telecommunications sector. The launching of the Falcon submarine cable project will transform Oman into a regional hub for broadband and advanced telecom services. The project will co [...] | 2005-04-25 05:09:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ETRD MU |
05MUSCAT682 | WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION PLEADS FOR MEPI PROGRAMS [...] (SBU) The provincial head of an Omani Women's Association chapter in Salalah is hungry for greater MEPI engagement that might better train the women of that region for jobs in a modern, diverse environment. Highlighting the cultural differences between Dhofari women and those in Muscat, she i [...] | 2005-04-25 13:31:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI KMPI KWMN SCUL PGOV ELAB MU MEPI |
05MUSCAT70 | EMBASSY MUSCAT EAC - 01/12/2005 [...] (SBU) The Ambassador chaired a meeting of the core Emergency Action Committee January 12 to review the Embassy's security posture prior to the local holiday weekend. Members of the EAC noted no substantive changes in the local security environment since the last meeting. Accordingly, the EA [...] | 2005-01-13 16:23:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AEMR ASEC AMGT PTER CASC KHLS MU EAC |
05MUSCAT741 | SECOND DEMONSTRATION LEADS TO ARRESTS [...] (SBU) A May 3 protest march that turned into a sit-in at a mosque was allegedly forcibly dispersed by police, reportedly leading to numerous arrests. First-hand accounts cite the number of protesters between 200-500, while other unconfirmed sources claim the numbers were closer to a thousand o [...] | 2005-05-04 13:52:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SOCI PHUM PINS ASEC MU |
05MUSCAT761 | OMAN RATIFIES WOMEN'S RIGHTS CONVENTION [...] (SBU) A royal decree May 7 ratified Oman's joining the UN Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, although reportedly with some reservations. The step came on the eve of Oman's participation in the May 7-10 NAM Ministerial on the Advancement of Women taking place in Mal [...] | 2005-05-11 11:39:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KWMN MU |
05MUSCAT763 | "NO OBSTACLES" TO MEPI PARTNERSHIP [...] (U) Alina Romanowski, Director of the Office of the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI),visited Oman May 3-4 to meet with top officials in the Ministries of Social Development, Higher Education, Education, and Foreign Affairs regarding MEPI programming. The positive tone of each meeting [...] | 2005-05-11 13:15:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KMPI KPAO SCUL SENV MU MEPI |
05MUSCAT765 | ENCOURAGING SUPPORT FOR THE IRAQ TRANSITIONAL [...] (U) This is an action request for IIP, NEA/PPD - see para 6. 2. (SBU) Summary: Omani Foreign Minister Bin Alawi offered in a May 11 meeting with the Ambassador to give an interview in Muscat to the Al Hurra channel to voice public support for the new Iraqi Transitional Government. He expr [...] | 2005-05-11 13:36:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OPRC PREL OIIP IZ MU |
05MUSCAT831 | OMAN ADOPTS IAEA'S CODE OF CONDUCT ON THE SAFETY [...] No summary [...] | 2005-05-22 11:39:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP TRGY ENRG KSTC PARM PREL MU ESTH |
05MUSCAT836 | OMAN RATIFIES WOMEN'S RIGHTS CONVENTION [...] (SBU) A royal decree May 7 ratified Oman's joining the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW),but with four reservations on Convention articles deemed potentially contrary to Omani legislation, and a catch-all reservation against anything that mi [...] | 2005-05-22 13:44:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KWMN SOCI MU |
05MUSCAT853 | FEEDBACK: LEGAL REGULATORY WORKSHOP IN OMAN [...] (SBU) The Export Control and Related Border Security (EXBS) program sponsored an Export Control Legal-Regulatory Workshop in Muscat May 15-18, 2005. Over 25 officials attended the 4-day event and shared comments on the current state of export controls in Oman. While the course provided an aw [...] | 2005-05-25 13:28:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC PARM KNNP KSTC TSPL MU |
05MUSCAT863 | CAMEL RACING TRANSFERRED TO MINISTRY OF SPORTS [...] (U) In an unexpected move May 24, authority over Oman's Camel and Equestrian Association (OCEA) was transferred by royal directive to the Ministry of Sports Affairs (MSA). Addressing camel owners at the association's new premises outside of Barka, royal family member Sayyid Asa'ad bin Tariq al [...] | 2005-05-30 05:50:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM ETRD ELAB PREL KOCI PINR MU |
05MUSCAT864 | POLIO: OMANI RE-INOCULATIONS, ARAB FUND-RAISING [...] (SBU) The local UNICEF representative offered details of Omani and GCC efforts to confront the potential polio threat emanating from the outbreak in neighboring Yemen. The Ministry of Health is embarking on the revaccination of all children under age five, and is participating in GCC fund-rai [...] | 2005-05-30 06:13:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO AMED EAID PREL XF MU ESTH |
05MUSCAT887 | 2005 TIP REPORT DELIVERED TO OMAN [...] (SBU) Given the Thursday-Friday local weekend (ref B),A/DCM conveyed the 2005 Trafficking in Persons report on Oman (ref A) to Humaid al-Maani, Political Advisor to the MFA Under Secretary, during a pre-arranged June 1 meeting to discuss Oman's critique of our Human Rights Report. Based on a [...] | 2005-06-01 13:05:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OPRC KCRM KWMN PHUM PREL SMIG MU |
05MUSCAT900 | SOHAR FIRE: BURNING INFRASTRUCTURE QUESTIONS [...] (SBU) A major fire destroyed roughly half of a polypropylene factory in the rapidly industrializing port city of Sohar on May 29. Authorities needed more than eight hours to contain the blaze, drawing on fire-fighting resources from over 240 km away. The incident has raised a crescendo of cr [...] | 2005-06-05 03:50:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EIND EINV EWWT MU |
05MUSCAT904 | US-EU IRAQ CONFERENCE: DELIVERABLES [...] (SBU) Summary: Oman's attendance at the US-EU International Conference on Iraq will be determined upon the return of the Foreign Minister, perhaps during the week of June 11. The MFA's Arab Affairs chief indicated to the Dutch (EU representative) that Oman would like to see the draft communiq [...] | 2005-06-06 03:19:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID EIND ECON IZ MU |
05MUSCAT930 | TAKING SHARIA OUT OF LAW SCHOOL? [...] (SBU) The Dean of the College of Sharia and Law has confirmed rumors that the government will split up his institution, folding the law college into Sultan Qaboos University while the Sharia students will be sent to a religious institute. While the Dean expects the organizational shift to be [...] | 2005-06-11 02:29:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SCUL KMPI KISL PGOV ECON MU |
05MUSCAT932 | U.S. COAST GUARD ENGAGES OMANI GOVERNMENT ON ISPS [...] (U) A representative of the United States Coast Guard (USCG) International Port Security Program initiated a dialogue with the government of Oman on efforts to comply with the International Ship and Port Security (ISPS) Code. The visit revealed important developments in Omani maritime security [...] | 2005-06-11 06:57:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM ETTC EWWT KSTC ETRD MU |
05MUSCAT997 | OMAN: DIPLOMATIC PRESENCE IN IRAQ, SUPPORT FOR ITG [...] (U) In further response (refs B and C) to our demarche on ref A points encouraging Omani support for the Iraqi government and re-establishing a diplomatic presence in Baghdad, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent a Note Verbale to the Embassy dated June 20. 2. (SBU) In its communication, th [...] | 2005-06-22 04:25:00 | Embassy Muscat | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL IZ MU |
05NAIROBI1591 | CJTF-HOA BRINGS EDUCATION TO DISADVANTAGED MUSLIM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On April 6, DCM, accompanied by COL Wendy Fontela, Political Advisor, CJTF-HOA, dedicated the new girls' secondary school in Bute, Wajir North constituency, in Kenya's under-developed and almost exclusively Muslim Northeastern Province. This school was the local MP and the co [...] | 2005-04-14 13:58:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON PREL PTER PHUM SOCI KGHA KISL KPAO MOPS KE |
05NAIROBI1668 | THE PORT OF MOMBASA: DETERIORATION, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Port of Mombasa is the largest port in the Horn of Africa, and is the economic lifeblood for the entire East Africa region. It is managed by a wholly- owned government parastatal, the Kenya Ports Authority (KPA). The Port is currently overwhelmed by a growing trade volume, [...] | 2005-04-20 10:47:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON ETTC EINV ELTN EWWT AMGT ABLD ASUP ATRN PREL PTER SNAR KSTC KE |
05NAIROBI1756 | BUDGET REFORM: A KEY TO BETTER GOVERNANCE IN KENYA [...] (U) This is a joint State-USAID cable. 2. (SBU) Summary: Kenya's system for allocating its scarce national resources though the national budget process is broken and has long been a factor in the country's slow economic decline. Recognizing this, the government, spearheaded by the Minist [...] | 2005-04-26 13:09:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EFIN KCOR PGOV KE |
05NAIROBI2583 | SOMALIA -- PUBLIC STATEMENT IN RECOGNITION OF CIVIL [...] (SBU) Reftels outline recent events in the attempts of the Somali Transitional Federal Institutions (TFIs) to relocate from Kenya to Somalia. Notable among these has been a surge to the fore of civil society players in Mogadishu, including members of the business community, NGOs, women's orga [...] | 2005-06-23 05:15:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MOPS SO KE UNSC |
05NAIROBI2651 | KENYA'S IMF PROGRAM: PROGRESS HINGES ON [...] This is a Joint Embassy-USAID message. 2. (SBU) Summary: Kenya performed reasonably well in meeting the quantitative and structural targets of its IMF program during the current, second review period, and the government and the IMF have reached broad agreement for targets in the next revi [...] | 2005-06-28 15:08:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EFIN KCOR PGOV KE |
05NAIROBI2691 | KENYA'S BUDGET: MORE SPENDING, BUT BETTER FOCUSED [...] (U) This is a joint State-USAID cable 2. (SBU) Summary: Kenya's new budget for the fiscal year beginning July 1 foresees a 34% nominal increase in spending, but proposes to spend proportionally more money in areas deemed crucial to economic development and poverty reduction, namely healt [...] | 2005-06-30 12:50:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV EAID KMCA KE |
05NAIROBI3072 | KENYA HOPES TO SAVE AGOA APPAREL GAINS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Apparel and garment exports to the United States under AGOA have been one of Kenya's few economic bright spots in recent years. However, faced with new competition stemming from the end of the Multi Fiber Agreement, an estimated 11,000-plus jobs have already been lost. The G [...] | 2005-08-01 09:35:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EAID EINV ELAB PREL TBIO KE AGOA |
05NAIROBI3129 | IMF BRIEFS KENYA'S "LIKE MINDED" POLITICAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Kenya IMF Resident Representative Jurgen Reitmeier briefed a small gathering of "Like-Minded Donors/Political" (LiMiD/P) on July 12. In addition to outlining Kenya's progress on its PRGF, as reported in reftel, Reitmeier offered a guardedly optimistic assessment of Kenya's cu [...] | 2005-08-04 04:53:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV EAID EFIN KCOR KE |
05NAIROBI3287 | KENYA PASSES TWO MAJOR ECONOMIC REFORM BILLS [...] (U) This is a Joint Embassy-USAID message. 2. (SBU) Summary: Kenya's Parliament has passed two pieces of economic reform legislation, the Public Procurement Bill and the Privatization Bill. Both are important in the long march towards a stronger, faster growing economy and improved gover [...] | 2005-08-12 08:13:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EFIN KCOR PGOV KE |
05NAIROBI3575 | SOMALIA -- SELF-DECLARED INDEPENDENT SOMALILAND [...] (SBU) The Minister of the Interior of the self-declared independent Republic of Somaliland committed his "government" to full cooperation with the USG should there ever be a need to deport a Somaliland "national" from the United States. He expressed confusion on learning that Somaliland offic [...] | 2005-09-02 06:09:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL CVIS KPAO SO KE |
05NAIROBI3600 | KENYA'S PRESIDENT GOES TO CHINA - AND WHAT IT MEANS [...] (SBU) Summary: Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki's August state visit to China was clearly aimed at further developing a bilateral economic relationship which, while small, is growing rapidly. Trade and tourism are especially robust. Investment by Chinese firms in Kenya has yielded less-spectacu [...] | 2005-09-05 05:39:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EAIR ECIN ECON EFIN ELAB EINV ETRD PREL CH KE |
05NAIROBI3847 | CONSTITUTIONAL REFERENDUM: ELECTORAL COMMISSION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Following a day of disrupted civic education events on September 14, Samuel Kivuitu, Chairman of the Electoral Commission of Kenya, called for a moratorium on constitutional referendum campaigning until October 21, the beginning of the designated campaign period. Kivuitu argue [...] | 2005-09-16 08:32:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM KE |
05NAIROBI3863 | KENYA CONSTITUTION: VIOLENCE MARS THE YES CAMPAIGN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Supporters of the proposed constitution launched their "Yes" campaign with three planned rallies September 16-18. As violence marred several pro-draft events, the message from both sides of the debate shifted to denounce violence and stress the importance of preventing the de [...] | 2005-09-19 15:11:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM PINS PHUM KE |
05NAIROBI4023 | East African Community Customs Union: Just Teething [...] (SBU) Summary: The East African Community Customs Union, established at the start of 2005, is experiencing teething problems - and in the minority view, may be unraveling. A slew of problems, ranging from tariff rates for pharmaceuticals to rules of origin for vehicles assembled locally by G [...] | 2005-09-27 06:29:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECIN ECON KE TZ |
05NAIROBI4421 | Export Processing Zone Faces Competitive Pressures [...] (SBU) Summary: Kenya's Export Processing Zones (EPZ) face rising wage and energy costs, poor transportation infrastructure, and constraining government regulations that make it difficult to attract investors and compete with Asian exporters. Nevertheless, the EPZ Authority (EPZA) believes it [...] | 2005-10-25 11:09:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON ETRD EFIN KE |
05NAIROBI4470 | REACTION TO TRAVEL BAN ON DR. CHRIS MURUNGARU [...] (U) Summary. Following an apparent leak from within the Kenyan government, news of the U.S. travel ban on Kenyan Transport Minister Dr. Chris Murungaru (reftel) spread quickly late on Tuesday October 25, becoming the top news item on all of the major television news reports that evening. The [...] | 2005-10-28 02:59:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAO PREL CVIS KCOR KE |
05NAIROBI4506 | GIFTING AMBOSELI FOR VOTES - A BAD ENVIRONMENTAL, [...] (SBU) Summary: Hoping to create support among the Maasai community for Kenya's draft constitution, on September 28, Kenya's Ministry of Tourism and Wildlife degazetted (declassified) Kenya's renowned Amboseli National Park and handed over administrative control to the local county council. [...] | 2005-10-31 07:18:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV SENV PREL EAID ECON KCOR KE |
05NAIROBI4507 | KENYA/NEPAD: KENYA COMPLETES APRM SELF-ASSESSMENT [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-31 07:37:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECIN ECON PGOV SOCI KE NEPAD APRM |
05NAIROBI4599 | IMF BRIEFS DONORS ON KENYA'S ECONOMY AND PRGF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: IMF Mission Chief for Kenya Godfrey Kalinga briefed donors on the results of a 10-day IMF mission examining Kenya's progress on the second review of its three-year $326.7 million Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility (PRGF). Kalinga was generally optimistic on Kenya's near-te [...] | 2005-11-07 11:28:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV EAID EFIN KCOR KE |
05NAIROBI4781 | WFP: POLITICS, ECONOMICS HINDER KENYA'S FIGHT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: World Food Program (WFP) officials briefed Ambassador and Emboffs on the November 2nd appeal for donor support for Kenya's continuing food emergency, which will likely keep more than 1.2 million people at risk until at least February. WFP Country Director Tesema Negash expres [...] | 2005-11-17 12:44:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR EAID ETRD PGOV PREL TBIO KCOR |
05NAIROBI4829 | KENYA INFORMATION ON AVIAN AND PANDEMIC [...] (U) Mission Nairobi responses to reftel follow: A) Preparedness/Communication ----------------------------- 2. (SBU) The Kenyan government has established an inter- ministerial taskforce to create an action plan to address the threat of avian flu. The taskforce is nominally headed by Mr [...] | 2005-11-18 07:22:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO SENV ECON EAGR EAID PREL PGOV KE |
05NAIROBI4949 | KENYA: EU APPEARS TO HOLD SWAY ON KENYA'S POSITION [...] (SBU) Econ/C raised ref A points regarding Kenya's position on Geographical Indications (GI) with Ministry of Trade Permanent Secretary David Nalo on November 30, and pointed out that Kenya's position in favor of the EU's proposal on extending GIs (ref B) appeared at odds with Kenya's economi [...] | 2005-11-30 11:35:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EAGR KIPR KE WTRO |
05NAIROBI4983 | WTO - KENYA, WITH THE EU, PREPARES FOR HONG [...] (U) This report includes an action request for State, USTR, and USDA; please see paragraph 9. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Despite the fact that it does not have a sitting Trade Minister, Kenya hopes to play a leadership role in developing a consensus among African countries at the upcoming WTO Ho [...] | 2005-12-01 12:30:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EAGR EAID PREL PGOV WTRO KE |
05NAIROBI5030 | WTO - KENYA'S PROTECTIONIST TAKE ON HONG KONG [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: As Kenyan Trade officials prepare to depart for the WTO Ministerial in Hong Kong, it is clear that their main goal, and perhaps for most African countries, is to promote "flexibility" in market access, protect existing preferences (through new compensation measures),and ensur [...] | 2005-12-06 07:35:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON EAGR EAID PREL PGOV WTRO KE |
05NAIROBI5102 | Kenya and Uganda Privatize the Railroad [...] (SBU) Summary: Kenya and Uganda are at last moving to revive the storied 1,500 mile rail line from Mombasa to Kampala by concessioning the railroad on both sides of the border to a private sector consortium led by a South African firm. This form of privatization is a welcome attempt to fix a [...] | 2005-12-13 08:56:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPRV EAID ELAB ECON KE UG |
05NAIROBI5177 | GOVERNMENT OF KENYA'S PREPARATIONS FOR AVIAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Kenya has started a comprehensive response to the threat of avian influenza. A multi- sectoral National Task Force has been established with high-level representation from the ministries responsible for human and animal health. Many of Kenya's international partners are repre [...] | 2005-12-20 01:40:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMED SEC EAID PREL CASC CMGT KHIV TBIO ECON |
05NAIROBI5184 | GSP/AGOA LABOR COMPLAINT ON UGANDA [...] (SBU) Summary: Ugandan officials, unions, and some employers are anxious to address the worker rights issues raised in the GSP complaint against Uganda to protect AGOA trade benefits. President Museveni and the Cabinet sent four labor reform bills to Parliament and the GOU referred plant mana [...] | 2005-12-20 03:23:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB AGOA ECON ETRD PHUM PGOV UG |
05NAIROBI660 | DONORS: NO BUSINESS AS USUAL FOR KENYA'S [...] (SBU) Summary: On February 8, World Bank Kenya hosted the quarterly meeting of the Donor Coordination Group (DCG) at which near consensus was expressed that the planning for the April 11-12 annual Consultative Group Meeting (CG) for Kenya could not be "business as usual" in light of the resi [...] | 2005-02-14 12:10:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON KCOR KMCA PGOV KPAO KE |
05NAIROBI868 | KENYA LAUNCHES SELF-ASSESSMENT ON GOVERNANCE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-02-25 09:20:00 | Embassy Nairobi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECIN ECON PGOV SOCI KE NEPAD |
05NASSAU408 | FIFTH ANNUAL TIPS REPORT - BAHAMAS [...] (SBU) There have been no substantiated reports indicating that the Bahamas is a country of origin or destination for trafficking in persons. There have, however, been unconfirmed reports of women being trafficked through Bahamian waters on the way to the United States, possibly for prostitut [...] | 2005-03-01 16:08:00 | Embassy Nassau | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB BF |
05NDJAMENA1011 | A VISIT WITH CHADIAN GRAND IMAM AND THE [...] (SBU) Summary: During a visit with the High Council for Islamic Affairs June 20, Chad's Grand Imam welcomed the Embassy's support for English classes at Muslim schools, responded positively to statements about charges of abuse of the Koran at Guantanamo, urged Washington to consider eventua [...] | 2005-06-27 06:41:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV OIIP KPAO KIRF PHUM KWMN CD |
05NDJAMENA1122 | CHADIAN RESPONSE TO UN REFORM DEMARCHE [...] (SBU) Per reftels, Ambassador Wall met with Chadian Foreign Minister Nagoum Yamassoum on July 11 to discuss the UN reform. In outlining the U.S. position on UN reform, the Ambassador emphasized our desire for overall reform, not just UN Security Council expansion. He noted that G-4 proposal [...] | 2005-07-13 16:18:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL CD UNSC |
05NDJAMENA1150 | IFI'S WELCOME TREASURY ADVISOR, DISCUSS OIL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The World Bank and International Monetary Fund resident representatives in Chad welcomed the prospect of a resident Treasury Advisor for the Revenue Management College during meetings with a visiting Treasury team, which included the prospective candidate for the mission. The [...] | 2005-07-20 17:35:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ENRG EPET PGOV CD |
05NDJAMENA1151 | TREASURY TEAM MEETS WITH OIL REVENUE COLLEGE, GOC [...] (SBU) Summary: The candidate for the Treasury Advisor position in Chad and accompanying Treasury officials were warmly welcomed at the Oil Revenue Management College and government ministries during their visit to Chad from July 10 to 14. The mission was designed to introduce the prospective [...] | 2005-07-20 17:44:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ENRG EPET PGOV CD |
05NDJAMENA1262 | CHAD: MEETING WITH NEW FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (SBU) Summary: In a wide-ranging meeting with the newly installed Minister of Foreign Affairs, Allam-mi Ahmad (former diplomatic advisor to the President),the Minister commented on the current state of the Darfur peace process and the need for the rebel movements to "improve representivity." [...] | 2005-08-17 08:27:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CD PREL PREF KUNR |
05NDJAMENA1356 | CHAD-CAMEROON PIPELINE PROJECT: OVERVIEW OF HUMAN [...] (SBU) Summary: With oil flowing, the Chad-Cameroon pipeline project and the conventions that govern it are now being tested. Human rights groups in Chad and their international partners continue to monitor and raise compensation, environmental, social, and security issues. While recognizin [...] | 2005-09-03 07:33:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ENRG EPET PGOV PHUM CD |
05NDJAMENA1378 | EIGHTH JOINT COMMISSION MEETING: JUMP-STARTING THE [...] (SBU) Summary. The Joint Commission on the Darfur Humanitarian Cease-fire met September 8-9, taking advantage of a visit by the African Union's Special Envoy for Darfur, Dr. Salim Ahmed Salim. The agenda was devoid of any overtly controversial issues and focused on a report by the Cease-fi [...] | 2005-09-10 17:52:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREF KAWC CD SU |
05NDJAMENA1418 | CHAD: REQUEST FOR ASSISTANCE FOR REGIONAL MILITARY [...] (SBU) Summary: Post seeks Department support for a military contribution for the Chadian-hosted regional military exercise Bahr El-Gazel from November 10-23, possibly through ACOTA or another State-funded program. The exercise was developed to respond to the African Union's call on each of t [...] | 2005-09-19 16:01:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM MARR MOPS CD |
05NDJAMENA1492 | CHINA'S LIMITED INFLUENCE IN CHAD [...] (SBU) Summary: Since 1997, N'Djamena's official recognition of Taiwan has limited Chinese influence in Chad. Chinese firms, however, are interested in becoming involved in Chad's oil sector. Chad is not taking the People's Republic of China up on recent overtures. End Summary. 2. (SBU) [...] | 2005-10-04 13:57:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON CD EFIN EMIN ENRG ETRD ETTC PREL SENV AF CH ENIV |
05NDJAMENA1546 | NEXT STEPS ON DARFUR: CHADIAN VIEWS ON REPARING [...] (SBU) Summary: In a meeting with the Ambassador on October 15 to share USG ideas on organizing an all-inclusive conference for the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM),Foreign Minister Allam-mi Ahmad welcomed U.S. assistance for the conference and said Chad already is working on the preparation [...] | 2005-10-17 10:28:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL PREF CD SU |
05NDJAMENA1547 | NINTH JOINT COMMISSION MEETING: WIDESPREAD [...] (SBU) Summary: The Joint Commission (JC) on the Darfur Humanitarian Cease-fire met October 13-14 in N'Djamena. The key agenda item, strengthening the cease-fire, was never completely covered, but participants vowed to rejuvenate the JC and reaffirmed their commitments to participate regularl [...] | 2005-10-17 11:32:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREF KAWC CD SU |
05NDJAMENA1592 | CHAD: PRIME MINISTER ANNOUNCES PROPOSED OIL [...] (U) Summary: Prime Minister Pascal Yoadimnadji convoked the diplomatic corps and representatives of international organizations October 21 to announce that the Government of Chad (GOC) intended to submit a 2006 budget to the National Assembly which would reflect changes to the oil revenue man [...] | 2005-10-27 14:47:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PREF EFIN ECON EPET CD |
05NDJAMENA1593 | CHAD: PRIME MINISTER ANNOUNCES PROPOSED OIL [...] (U) Summary: Prime Minister Pascal Yoadimnadji convoked the diplomatic corps and representatives of international organizations October 21 to announce that the Government of Chad (GOC) intended to submit a 2006 budget to the National Assembly which would reflect changes to the oil revenue man [...] | 2005-10-27 14:48:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PREF EFIN ECON EPET CD |
05NDJAMENA1649 | CHAD: REQUEST FOR UN ELECTORAL ASSISTANCE [...] (SBU) Summary: The final version of a UN report on Chad's electoral needs released to donors November 4 concluded that the national institutions responsible for managing elections lacked independence, that the most recent electoral census was not credible and that the recent amendments to t [...] | 2005-11-08 16:37:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM CD |
05NDJAMENA1684 | CHADIAN PRIME MINISTER ANNOUNCES ELECTION PLANS [...] (SBU) Summary: On November 18, Chadian Prime Minister Pascal Yoadminadji outlined plans for the 2006 elections in a meeting originally billed as the installation of the national independent electoral commission. Yoadminadji may have scuttled the installation after political opposition parti [...] | 2005-11-23 15:58:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM |
05NDJAMENA1690 | CHAD: UPDATE ON OIL REVENUE LAW REVISIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: The Government's proposed revisions to the oil revenue management law are moving through the legislative process. The National Assembly originally planned to debate them on December 14, but a dispute within the majority group in the legislature may slow down the process. In [...] | 2005-11-28 10:27:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM |
05NDJAMENA1706 | DEMARCHE ON COTTON EVENT AT WTO HONG KONG [...] (SBU) The Ambassador spoke with Minister of Commerce Ngarmbatina December 5 to convey points in ref on our concerns over the event on cotton planned for December 12 at the WTO Ministerial in Hong Kong. The Ambassador highlighted U.S. interest in working with Chad on a mutually beneficial ou [...] | 2005-12-05 16:52:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON ETRD CD USTR WTO |
05NDJAMENA1737 | CHADIAN COTTON NEGOTIATOR ON HONG KONG MINISTERIAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Chad's influential cotton negotiator sought to allay concerns about the Cotton-4 event at the Hong Kong WTO Ministerial in a meeting with us December 5. He also urged concrete actions to cut the domestic subsidy programs that hurt Africa's cotton producers. END SUMMARY 2 [...] | 2005-12-07 14:40:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EAGR PGOV ETRD CD WTO |
05NDJAMENA1852 | CHAD: SLM REPORTS CHAD REBELS REGROUPING [...] (SBU) Summary: SLM General Coordinator Adam Shogar warned Charge that the Sudanese government was arming and supporting Chadian rebels in the Darfur region and that movement of new vehicles and arms indicated that the rebels were gearing up for a new attack. Shogar stated that SLM was tryin [...] | 2005-12-27 17:16:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV CD SU |
05NDJAMENA1871 | CHAD: SLM REPORTS CHAD REBELS REGROUPING [...] (SBU) Summary: SLM General Coordinator Adam Shogar warned Charge that the Sudanese government was arming and supporting Chadian rebels in the Darfur region and that movement of new vehicles and arms indicated that the rebels were gearing up for a new attack. Shogar stated that SLM was tryin [...] | 2005-12-29 09:22:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV CD SU |
05NDJAMENA308 | CATTLE, CAMELS, ELEPHANTS, AND REFUGEES: SKETCHES [...] (U) Pressures on the land are multiplying in southern Chad. Cattle and camel herds are expanding as nomads migrate further south and stay longer. Clashes with local farmers are breaking out as livestock trample crops and drain water reserves. Refugees from the Central African Republic (CAR [...] | 2005-03-01 14:48:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID ECON PGOV PHUM PREL SENV CD SU |
05NDJAMENA326 | FALTERING CROPS AND A FRAGILE STATE: TROUBLES ON [...] (SBU) Cash crops and the industries based on them should be thriving in southern Chad, the wettest, greenest part of this drought-prone country. Cotton, textiles, and sugar had at one time been sources of prosperity for millions in the region. But now cotton production is stagnant, and the [...] | 2005-03-03 11:55:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID ECIN ETRD PGOV PHUM PREL SENV CD |
05NDJAMENA329 | FALTERING CROPS AND A FRAGILE STATE: TROUBLES ON [...] (SBU) Cash crops and the industries based on them should be thriving in southern Chad, the wettest, greenest part of this drought-prone country. Cotton, textiles, and sugar had at one time been sources of prosperity for millions in the region. But now cotton production is stagnant, and the [...] | 2005-03-03 14:14:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID ECIN ETRD PGOV PHUM PREL SENV CD |
05NDJAMENA330 | FALTERING CROPS AND A FRAGILE STATE: TROUBLES ON [...] (SBU) Cash crops and the industries based on them should be thriving in southern Chad, the wettest, greenest part of this drought-prone country. Cotton, textiles, and sugar had at one time been sources of prosperity for millions in the region. But now cotton production is stagnant, and the [...] | 2005-03-03 14:14:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID ECIN ETRD PGOV PHUM PREL SENV CD |
05NDJAMENA454 | NEW FINANCE MINISTER ON FUTURE OIL REVENUE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Chad would like to use new oil revenues to enhance public security and protect vulnerable groups as well as reduce poverty, according to Chad's newly-appointed Minister of Finance. In a meeting with the Ambassador March 25, the new Minister also supported an independent panel [...] | 2005-03-29 06:23:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ENRG EPET PGOV PREL CD |
05NDJAMENA542 | SUDANESE REFUGEES IN CHAD REPORT ONGOING VIOLENCE [...] (SBU) Summary: Sudanese refugees crossing the border into eastern Chad say violence continues to rage in Darfur, a claim backed by workers from international and non-governmental organizations and African Union monitors based in Chad and Sudan. Refugees described combined attacks involving S [...] | 2005-04-05 10:33:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREF KAWC CD SU |
05NDJAMENA559 | EXECUTIVE INTERFERENCE AND REPRISALS UNDERMINE [...] (U) Summary: In an apparent act of reprisal for their refusal to hand down the ruling favored by the Executive branch in a long-disputed property sale case, the Minister of Justice has demoted and reassigned the three Appeals Court justices involved in the case. The Union of Magistrates, the [...] | 2005-04-08 07:29:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM EAID CD LY PJUS |
05NDJAMENA666 | EVICTING FORMER AMBASSADOR SOUBIANE [...] (U) This is an action cable (see last para.) 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The former Chadian Ambassador to the US continues to occupy the official Residence in Washington and has maintained control of the official vehicle despite the arrival of the new Ambassador, Chad's Foreign Minister and Presid [...] | 2005-04-27 13:48:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ODIP AMGT CD |
05NDJAMENA73 | SENATOR FEINGOLD TALKS ABOUT ANTI-CORRUPTION WITH [...] (SBU) Summary: Senator Russell Feingold met with Mariam Ali, the newly-appointed Minister of Public Control and Ethics who also serves as an inspector general for government operations, and members of the Oil Revenue Management College to discuss transparency measures and mechanisms to contro [...] | 2005-01-20 13:03:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM EPET ECON CD VIP |
05NDJAMENA866 | CHAD'S OIL REVENUE MANAGEMENT: DEALING WITH THE [...] (SBU) Summary: In a meeting with visiting Treasury advisors May 23, Chad's Minister of Finance explained his commitment to implementing Chad's oil revenue management system, but expressed concerns over the need to designate new priority sectors eligible for oil revenue financing. He welcom [...] | 2005-05-31 06:54:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ENRG EPET PGOV CD |
05NDJAMENA867 | CHAD'S OIL REVENUE MANAGEMENT COLLEGE UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: Based on the assessment of visiting Treasury advisors, Chad's Oil Revenue Management College (the College) is working as intended and even in some cases has succeeded in exercising a stronger role than mandated. During their visit to N'Djamena May 15-26, Ken Torp and Eileen B [...] | 2005-05-31 06:55:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ENRG EPET PGOV CD |
05NDJAMENA884 | SENATOR BIDEN MEETS REFUGEES AND REBELS, URGES [...] (SBU) Summary: Senator Joseph Biden delivered a strong message of U.S. support for the resolution of the crisis in Darfur, tempered by a frank discourse on the USG limitations, during his visit to Chad from May 31 to June 1. Biden traveled to Oure Cassoni Refugee Camp near Bahai, where he m [...] | 2005-06-02 16:02:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREF KAWC CD SU VIP |
05NDJAMENA887 | LIFTING TERM LIMITS: CENI READY FOR REFERENDUM [...] (SBU) Summary: As the ruling party goes all out to drum up votes and opposition parties call for a boycott, Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) President Djimtibaye Lapia Neldjita is confident that the public referendum to amend the constitution, including lifting presidential te [...] | 2005-06-03 14:58:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM CD |
05NDJAMENA946 | GOVERNMENT AND PRESS WRANGLING [...] (SBU) Summary: Several incidents of press harassment over the past two months are raising concerns about the government's commitment to freedom of the press. Each case is different but a combination of jitters over the public referendum and overzealous government officials have created the a [...] | 2005-06-17 11:50:00 | Embassy Ndjamena | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM KPAO CD |
05NEWDELHI1223 | INDIA FOR ARF MD SEMINAR, IF EVERYONE ELSE IS [...] (SBU) In response to reftel points and concept paper regarding an ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) seminar on missile defense (MD),MEA Director (Disarmament and International Security) Venu Rajamony told us on February 15 that the GOI would support it and would be interested in attending, as long [...] | 2005-02-16 10:41:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL IN ASEAN |
05NEWDELHI1248 | INDIA READY FOR REGIONAL RADIOLOGICAL SECURITY [...] (SBU) Summary: In a trilateral meeting with USG and IAEA officials on February 9, the GOI agreed to join the Regional Radiological Security Partnership (RRSP); identified a lead technical contact within the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE); offered to serve as a venue for radiological securi [...] | 2005-02-17 09:04:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL TRGY KNNP KRAD IN NSSP |
05NEWDELHI1520 | GOI UPBEAT ON CYBER-COOPERATION, SERIOUS ABOUT [...] (SBU) Summary: In a brief February 22 meeting, National Security Council Secretariat Joint Secretary Arvind Gupta and Deputy Director (Information Security) Commander Mukesh Saini were upbeat on US-India cybersecurity cooperation, clarified the objective of the upcoming April 18-19 Cybersecuri [...] | 2005-02-28 12:52:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCIP TINT KCRM PREL PGOV IN GOI |
05NEWDELHI1662 | WARM WELCOME FOR SENATOR CLINTON [...] (SBU) Summary: Senator Hillary R. Clinton received an enthusiastic welcome during her unofficial February 17 - 23 visit to New Delhi. Her stay in India included a call on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, meals offered in her honor by Foreign Minister Natwar Singh and Agriculture Minister Shara [...] | 2005-03-03 12:38:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL IN |
05NEWDELHI2116 | DEPUTY SECRETARY OF LABOR LAW'S INDIA VISIT [...] (SBU) Summary: Deputy Secretary of Labor Steven J. Law's February 21-27 visit to India to review progress on the DOL- sponsored INDUS Child Labor effort and other DOL-sponsored projects was well received by GOI officials, project managers, and participants. The highest-ranking Labor Departme [...] | 2005-03-21 08:56:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PHUM ECON KCRM KWMN EAID IN US |
05NEWDELHI2220 | PM SINGH ALIGNS INDIA'S FOREIGN POLICY PRIORITIES [...] (SBU) Summary: Signalling a break from India's traditional view of the world, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh declared in a February 25 speech that democracy and open economies are now the core of India's foreign policy values, replacing non-alignment, solidarity with developing countries, and [...] | 2005-03-23 11:02:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KDEM IN US |
05NEWDELHI2410 | SAARC: NO SUMMIT IN SIGHT, SAFTA ON TRACK [...] (SBU) Summary: Prospects for a rescheduled SAARC Summit in 2005 are diminishing amidst scheduling difficulties and Indian concerns over the coup in Nepal and instability in Bangladesh. In a March 30 meeting with USAIDoff and Poloff, MEA Joint Secretary (SAARC) V. Ashok expressed optimism, ho [...] | 2005-03-31 11:47:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECIN PREL IN PK NP BG SAARC |
05NEWDELHI2507 | GOI RESPONSE: PRIORITIZING INDIAN ASSISTANCE TO [...] (SBU) On April 4, the DCM delivered Ambassador Jones' message (reftel) suggesting that the GOI could help build capacity in the Iraqi judiciary system to MEA Joint Secretary (Americas) S. Jaishankar. Jaishankar agreed to pass along the request, but asked that the DCM convey to Ambassador Jon [...] | 2005-04-04 13:34:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KJUS KCRM PREL IN IZ |
05NEWDELHI2511 | Scenesetter for Transportation Secretary Mineta's [...] (SBU) Mr. Secretary, I want to welcome you to India, a vibrant, diverse, multiethnic, multifaceted democracy that is emerging as an economic powerhouse and has growing global ambitions. Your visit comes close on the heels of an extraordinarily successful visit of Secretary Rice, who unveiled [...] | 2005-04-04 13:42:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR BEXP ECON IN US |
05NEWDELHI2567 | ELECTION ASSISTANCE FOR AFGHANISTAN: INDIA WILL [...] (SBU) MEA Joint Secretary (Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran) Dilip Sinha told PolCouns on April 6 that while India had not received any specific request from Kabul for assistance with the September 8 parliamentary elections, New Delhi was willing to look favorably at our request. Sinha emphasized [...] | 2005-04-06 09:42:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREL KDEM AF IN |
05NEWDELHI2929 | INDIA TO OPPOSE GUANTANAMO RESOLUTION [...] (U) In a meeting with SA A/S Rocca and MEA Joint Secretary (Americas) S. Jaishankar on April 18, Charge SIPDIS delivered our demarche regarding Cuba's resolution before the CHR about the treatment of detainees in Guantanamo (Reftel). Charge requested that India oppose this resolution. Jais [...] | 2005-04-19 11:47:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM |
05NEWDELHI3242 | EXBS: EXPORT CONTROL SYSTEM STANDARDS FOR INDIA [...] (SBU) Export Control System Standards for India, in response to Ref A. The GOI is in the process of introducing new legislation aimed at licensing and controlling the export of WMD and their delivery systems. MEA contacts have stated that they expect to introduce and seek approval of the legi [...] | 2005-04-29 10:20:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC KSTC PARM PREL IN GOI |
05NEWDELHI3366 | DEMARCHE ON RECOMMENDATIONS TO ELIMINATE SEXUAL [...] (SBU) Following up on discussion at the most recent US-India Peacekeeping Joint Working Group (Ref B),PolCouns and Poloff discussed India's efforts to encourage high standards of conduct for troops participating in UN peacekeeping operations (PKO) with MEA Joint Secretary (UN Political) Hamid [...] | 2005-05-04 12:48:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KCRM KPKO MARR IN |
05NEWDELHI353 | INDIA TSUNAMI UPDATE: JANUARY 13 [...] (SBU) Summary: Consular officers in Chennai continue to work to resolve the fewer than 20 remaining missing persons inquiries in India. The USAID/DART team that conducted assessments in Andhra Pradesh has found that there is not an emergency need for shelter, food and water in the state. The [...] | 2005-01-13 12:35:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL CASC AEMR EAID MASS SOCI EAGR ID CE MV IN |
05NEWDELHI36 | GOI DISCOURAGES CODEL TRAVEL TO TSUNAMI-AFFECTED [...] (SBU) Summary: Responding to requests for US Congressional travel to tsunami-devastated areas of South India, Foreign Secretary Saran expressed gratitude on January 3 for the many expressions of condolence and support, but asked that US Codels not/not travel to South India. Saran, who is Ind [...] | 2005-01-03 13:21:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN TH CE IN |
05NEWDELHI3645 | INDIAN PRIORITIES FOR MAY ARF SOM [...] (SBU) MEA Deputy Secretary (Disarmament and International Security) Naveen Srivastava told us on May 13 that Additional Secretary Meera Shankar (International Security) will lead SIPDIS the Indian delegation to the May 19-10 ARF Senior Official's Meeting in Vientiane. He noted that India i [...] | 2005-05-13 12:49:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR IN ARF |
05NEWDELHI38 | INDIA TSUNAMI SITREP JANUARY 3 [...] (SBU) Summary: India-wide, consular officers have amassed a database of 500 missing persons inquiries to which they are responding, but still have no reported Amcit casualties in India. Mission engagement with the GOI on tsunami relief for India and the region continued with the Ambassador's [...] | 2005-01-03 13:29:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL CASC AEMR EAID MASS SOCI EAGR ID CE MV IN |
05NEWDELHI4590 | FM WILL ATTEND BRUSSELS CONFERENCE [...] No summary [...] | 2005-06-16 12:37:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID EIND IN IZ |
05NEWDELHI4633 | INDIA PROPOSES INDIA-US GLOBAL DEMOCRACY INITIATIVE [...] The world's oldest democracy and the world's largest democracy have an obligation to the global community to strengthen values, ideals and practices of freedom, pluralism and rule of law. 2. As developed democracies, they must assist other societies in transition to become more open and d [...] | 2005-06-17 13:54:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM IN US |
05NEWDELHI5355 | INDIAN PARTICIPATION AT DEAD SEA CONFERENCE [...] (U) Responding to points in Ref A, MEA Joint Secretary (Gulf) Sanjay Singh told PolMilOff on July 12 that he and the Indian Charge in Baghdad, Mr. S. Sharma, would attend the July 18-19 Dead Sea Conference on Iraq. 2. (SBU) He also confirmed that the GOI had disbursed the full amount of t [...] | 2005-07-13 01:16:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID ECON JO IZ IN |
05NEWDELHI5814 | INDIA AND NEPAL TO TEST BORDER CONTROLS [...] (SBU) Summary: India and Nepal have agreed to a pilot program to check documents at only one border crossing as an experiment in increasing security along the 1,750 km open border. MEA officials downplayed the significance of the decision with us, pointing out that any substantial control ov [...] | 2005-07-27 12:25:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER PGOV PBTS IN NP |
05NEWDELHI5964 | MHA WILLING TO PONDER DEPORTEE DOCUMENTATION FIX [...] (SBU) Summary and Action Request: Ministry of Home Affairs Special Secretary Kanwar Pratap Singh told Charge, Consul General and Poloff on August 1 that MHA would be willing to meet with DHS representatives to explore developing a mechanism to speed up the process of documenting Indian nation [...] | 2005-08-02 10:04:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CVIS PREL KCRM IN US |
05NEWDELHI6181 | MUKHERJEE AGAIN UNDERLINES VALUE OF US-INDIA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In an otherwise uneventful August 8 Parliamentary debate on the US-India Defense Framework, Defense Minister Pranab Mukherjee signaled strong support for burgeoning Indo-American military ties. Mukherjee responded to politically motivated BJP complaints and the usual litany o [...] | 2005-08-09 12:50:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MNUC ENRG EINV KNNP MASS IN |
05NEWDELHI6310 | MANMOHAN SINGH A TRUE STATESMAN IN REACTING TO [...] (SBU) Summary: Doing what no Indian leader in 20 years has been willing to do, Manmohan Singh apologized to the nation for government inaction during the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. The apology preempted BJP efforts to capitalize on the report, which named two high-profile Congress leaders as cons [...] | 2005-08-12 13:15:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM KJUS KIRF IN |
05NEWDELHI6311 | PUNJAB WORRIED ABOUT DRUGS AND JOBS, NOT TERRORISM [...] (SBU) Summary: In response to media reports warning of a resurgence in Khalistani terrorism in Punjab and northern India, Poloff traveled to Chandigarh August 4-5 to interview government, business, police, civil society and political leaders. They were uniformly unperturbed by reports of mil [...] | 2005-08-12 13:47:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER PHUM ECON EAGR SNAR ELAB EINV IN PK |
05NEWDELHI6725 | GOI WANTS AGRICULTURE MEETING IN OCTOBER [...] (U) This is an Action Request. Please see para 4. 2. (SBU) MEA Joint Secretary (Americas) S Jaishankar told A/DCM on August 31 that while the Agriculture Initiative would be the most difficult of the new US-India undertakings to fulfill, it would be pushed through the Indian side quickly [...] | 2005-09-01 10:48:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAGR EAID IN |
05NEWDELHI6809 | TFUS01: INDIA SEEKS USG OK TO SEND MORE AID [...] (U) SEE URGENT ACTION REQUESTS AT PARA 6. 2. (SBU) A/DCM conveyed Refs A and B points to MEA Joint Secretary (Americas) Jaishankar late evening on September 4. SIPDIS Jaishankar indicated he understood the bureaucratic issues regarding sending a medical team and offering Indian pharmace [...] | 2005-09-05 14:04:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AEMR PREL EAID MOPS MASS AMGT MARR US |
05NEWDELHI6837 | CRICKET CONCERNS: GOI'S PROPOSED SATELLITE TV [...] (SBU) Summary: Minister of Information and Broadcasting Jaipal Reddy told A/DCM on September 2 that US broadcasters' concern on proposed new GOI restrictions on satellite uplink policies (reftel) was misplaced, as New Delhi's only interest was in ensuring that India's rural poor would have acc [...] | 2005-09-06 12:14:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS EINV PREL IN |
05NEWDELHI7159 | ECONOMIC INTERVIEWS IN BHUTAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Econoff traveled to Bhutan in late August to interview several Ministry officials at the working level and to establish additional contacts with non-governmental organizations (NGOs). The three day visit, which included over 15 meetings around Thimphu, resulted in a number o [...] | 2005-09-14 12:15:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD IN BT |
05NEWDELHI7346 | INDIA QUICK TO COMMEND AFGHAN ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) The MEA released a supportive statement on September 19 welcoming the Parliamentary and provincial elections in Afghanistan, calling the polls "an important stage in Afghanistan's journey towards a peaceful, stable and prosperous society," and a demonstration of the population's choice [...] | 2005-09-20 13:12:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KDEM EAID IN AF |
05NEWDELHI74 | INDIA TSUNAMI SITREP: JANUARY 4 [...] (SBU) Summary: India Consular officers have been focusing on unaccounted for American citizens through an ongoing effort to respond to inquiries, and have been successful in resolving about 170 cases. In a January 4 session with members of the local media, the Ambassador highlighted the US r [...] | 2005-01-04 13:34:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL CASC AEMR EAID MASS SOCI EAGR ID CE MV IN |
05NEWDELHI7417 | BHUTAN: GOOD GOVERNANCE LEADS TO HEALTHY MOUNTAIN [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite its isolation, low income and rugged terrain, Bhutan has created an effective system of state-provided medical care that is delivering a healthier population and outpacing others in South Asia. The Government continues to invest heavily in the medical sector, with dono [...] | 2005-09-23 10:14:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM SCUL EAID IN BT NP UN |
05NEWDELHI7436 | RE-TOOLING THE HTCG: EMBASSY'S THOUGHTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. As we plan for the December 1-2 meeting of the High Technology Cooperation Group (HTCG) in New Delhi, the Embassy HTCG working group -- Econ, Pol, Sci, FAS, ODC, FCS - met on September 20. The consensus of our group is that the focus of the HTCG in the post-NSSP era should u [...] | 2005-09-23 11:53:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETTC EINT EINV ETRD PREL EAGR IN HTCG |
05NEWDELHI7880 | TFPK01: INDIA ANALYZING ITS NEEDS, ACKNOWLEDGES US [...] (U) Please see Action Request in Para 4 below. 2. (SBU) In a meeting October 10 with Indian Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran (other topics reported septel),the SIPDIS Ambassador conveyed to India the condolences of the United States for the loss of life and injuries sustained as a result o [...] | 2005-10-10 09:50:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AEMR ASEC KISL PREL PGOV EAID PBTS PK IN US |
05NEWDELHI8006 | THE LEFT GROOMS A NEW GENERATION OF REFUSENIKS [...] (SBU) Summary: Although the growing strength of Congress and BJP student unions suggests that the student body has become more tolerant of centrist and right wing views, the left continues to dominate student politics at New Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU),one of the country's pre- [...] | 2005-10-14 12:43:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL SCUL ECON IN |
05NEWDELHI8008 | MEA ESTIMATES ZARANJ-DELARAM ROAD COMPLETION BY [...] (SBU) Further to Ref A demarche, PolCouns and Poloff met on October 14 with MEA Joint Secretary (Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran) Dilip Sinha, who reiterated that, because of delays in procuring supplies and fuel for the Zaranj-Delaram road project from Iran, the completion date has slipped from [...] | 2005-10-14 12:49:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ELTN EAID IN AF |
05NEWDELHI8035 | AMBASSADOR CROCKER'S MEETINGS WITH DELHI DEFENSE [...] (SBU) Summary: Ambassador Crocker's October 4 meeting with strategists focused largely on Indian concerns that Musharraf is continuing Pakistani polices that foster intolerance, a hawkish stance on India, and cross-border terrorism. With business leaders, the emphasis was on recent increment [...] | 2005-10-17 10:51:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER PGOV ETRD IN PK INDO PAK |
05NEWDELHI8061 | GROWING FEARS OF AN INDECISIVE OUTCOME AS BIHAR [...] (SBU) Summary: Bihar goes to the polls tomorrow, October 18, in its second set of State elections in less than nine months. Over 500 candidates made their last efforts over the past weekend to sway voters, in what all observers believe will be a close election. However, the Rashtriya Jana [...] | 2005-10-18 09:51:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV IN |
05NEWDELHI8150 | IRAQ: SEEKING PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR REFERENDUM [...] No summary [...] | 2005-10-20 10:51:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KDEM KPAO IN |
05NEWDELHI8163 | USG QUAKE ASSISTANCE CAN HELP BUILD GOODWILL IN J&K [...] (SBU) Summary: The October 8 earthquake that carved a path of destruction through Kashmir continues to claim lives as the death toll continues to rise. A USAID/OFDA team completed a rapid assessment in J&K (Ref A) and reports more extensive damage and a slower humanitarian assistance respons [...] | 2005-10-20 12:50:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV EAID AEMR KISL PTER PBTS IN PK US |
05NEWDELHI8194 | RE-EXAMINATION OF MUMBAI CONTAINER [...] (SBU) DCM met with MEA (Americas) Joint Secretary Jaishankar to present reftel demarche. DCM underlined the importance of this issue to Washington and indicated DOE's interest in sending a team immediately to re-examine the container. Jaishankar reported that the GOI will need to consult the [...] | 2005-10-21 13:07:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IN KNNP PARM ENRG |
05NEWDELHI8254 | INDIA EMPHASIZES SUPPORT FOR NON-PROLIFERATION IN [...] (SBU) Summary: In a landmark October 24 speech aimed at an elite group of strategic analysts, Foreign Secretary Sham Saran forcefully defended the India-US civil nuclear framework, offered helpful interventions on NSG and MTCR harmonization, and highlighted India's vigorous support for the glo [...] | 2005-10-24 14:45:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KNNP MNUC PREL ENRG IN NSSP |
05NEWDELHI8266 | INDIA'S SHAME: LINGERING BIGOTRY AFFLICTS 200 [...] (SBU) Summary: India,s 200 million Hindu and Christian Dalits (formerly &untouchables8) constitute approximately 21-25% of the population. Dalit leaders argue, and our Human Rights Report agrees, that Dalits are subject to sporadic cases of human rights abuses, including rape, trafficking, an [...] | 2005-10-25 09:36:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PINR ECON ELAB KDEM KIRF SCUL IN |
05NEWDELHI8628 | INDIA AND THE KABUL AGENDA [...] (SBU) Poloff shared Ref A points with MEA Under Secretary (Afghanistan) Acquino Vimal on October 8, reiterating USG appreciation for India's contributions to Afghan reconstruction and urging continued commitment in the next phase of assistance. Vimal reported that the GOI intends to continue [...] | 2005-11-09 12:45:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PREL EAID ECON EFIN IN AF |
05NEWDELHI9249 | GOI DESIRE TO EXPAND CYBER RELATIONSHIP [...] (U) This is an Action Request for PM. Please see para 9. 2. (SBU) Summary: The GOI would like to see measurable progress on the creation of a joint Indo-US Cybersecurity fund and joint training opportunities, and welcomes Washington comments on how to proceed on these issues. Of particu [...] | 2005-12-08 09:03:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR KCIP TINT PTER EFIN ECPS KTFN IN |
05NEWDELHI9260 | GOI UPDATES ON EXPORT CONTROLS DURING HTCG [...] (SBU) Summary: MEA officials used the Strategic Trade session of the High Technology Cooperation Group meetings held in New Delhi December 1 to respond to USG questions about India's export controls, stating that the Indian regime "completely covers" MTCR and NSG requirements. The GOI presen [...] | 2005-12-08 12:13:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ETRD ETTC KNNP KSTC PARM TSPA MTCRE IN |
05NEWDELHI9261 | INDIA REITERATES SUPPORT FOR RED CROSS PROTOCOL [...] No summary [...] | 2005-12-08 12:32:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC PHUM PREF PREL IN |
05NEWDELHI9296 | INDIAN NGOS THAT ASSIST VICTIMS OF TERRORISM: [...] (SBU) India suffers from three major strains of terrorism -- jihadi separatism in Jammu and Kashmir (that also of late spills into Delhi); Maoist/Naxalite terrorism that has spread through 12 states in the West, Central, and South regions of the country; and ethno-linguistic separatism in the [...] | 2005-12-09 11:08:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV PHUM IN |
05NEWDELHI9400 | "GOOD ENGAGEMENT" IS COMMON REFRAIN AT U.S.-INDIA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: U.S. Under Secretary of Commerce David McCormick and GOI Foreign Secretary Shyam Saran led U.S. and Indian delegations in the fourth meeting of the High Technology Cooperation Group (HTCG) in New Delhi on November 30 - December 1. The HTCG was formed in November 2002 to provide [...] | 2005-12-14 11:31:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ETTC KSTC OTRA PREL KNNP PARM TSPA IN |
05NEWDELHI9414 | TENTATIVE AGREEMENT FOR JAN 24 CTJWG WITH INDIA [...] (U) PolCouns and Poloff made an introductory call on new Additional Secretary (UN and International Security) KC Singh on December 15, and discussed plans for the next round of the US-India Counter-terrorism Joint Working Group (CTJWG),which Singh enthusiastically supported. PolCouns reviewe [...] | 2005-12-15 05:29:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER PINR EAIR EFIN TBIO KTFN IN |
05NEWDELHI9754 | TIBETANS IN INDIA BRIEF VISITING STAFFDEL SZYMANSKI [...] (U) Summary: Members of the Tibetan government-in-exile in Dharamsala, including the chief executive of the Central Tibetan Authority and the Dalai Lama, told visiting professional staff of the House Small Business Committee during a December 11-12 visit that although human rights conditions [...] | 2005-12-28 05:23:00 | Embassy New Delhi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM KDEM PREF IN CH |
05OTTAWA1029 | MAKING THE ECONOMIC CASE FOR CANADA: [...] (SBU) Having invested a decade of their top talent in an effort to win Quebecers to the federalist cause, the GOC's national-unity strategists now find themselves in a changed landscape. Provincial governments have grown bolder and more effective in asserting themselves on fiscal issues (re [...] | 2005-04-07 15:48:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON SOCI EFIN PGOV CA |
05OTTAWA1104 | SCENESETTER: CANADA AND THE SPP [...] (U) This is the first in a series of cables offering Mission views and background information on elements of the Security and Prosperity Partnership. This cable outlines some political and economic factors in Canada that may affect progress toward SPP goals. 2. (SBU) Summary: The Security [...] | 2005-04-13 11:57:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD ECIN PREL CA |
05OTTAWA1105 | CANADIAN OFFICIALS SUGGEST THAT MINISTER LAPIERRE'S [...] (SBU) Emboffs met on April 6 with Chief of Staff to Minister of Transport Jean Lapierre, Leslie Swartman, and Lapierre's Senior Policy Advisor, Paul Stothart, to discuss the Government of Canada's (GOC) slow steps toward air liberalization discussions. When Lapierre and Secretary of Transport [...] | 2005-04-13 13:20:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECIN EINV CA |
05OTTAWA1172 | CANADA'S PRIORITIES FOR THE ST. JOHN'S CONFERENCE [...] Sensitive but Unclassified. 2. (SBU) Summary: As the host of the Conference on the Governance of High Seas Fisheries and the UN Fish Stocks Agreement, May 1-5 in St. John's, Newfoundland, the Government of Canada will be pursuing recommendations for concrete measures to strengthen Regio [...] | 2005-04-18 19:22:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EFIS PGOV CA |
05OTTAWA1203 | DETAILS EMERGE ON CANADA'S CLIMATE CHANGE STRATEGY [...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified. 2. (U) This is an action message. Please see paragraph 12. 3. (SBU) Summary: According to a senior official at Environment Canada, the GOC's recently unveiled climate change strategy (reftel) reflects an attempt to meet Canada's Kyoto targets while [...] | 2005-04-20 19:22:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG CA |
05OTTAWA1244 | MISSION CANADA 90 DAY GOALS - 3RD QUARTER [...] Summary - Over the next three months, Mission Canada commits to supporting the SPP, finalizing our budget and continuing our enhancement of our SIPRnet site. In this next period, we also expect to prepare for the arrival of a new Ambassador and to follow-up on our project to design an emerge [...] | 2005-04-26 12:05:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMGT PREL PGOV CASC ECON CA ETRA |
05OTTAWA1248 | CANADA: RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON COMMUNITY OF [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered the demarche (per ref a) outlining a USG initiative to develop universal election standards that will be presented at the April 28-30 Community of Democracies (CD) Ministerial in Santiago, to Jessica Blitt, Policy Advisor in the Peacebuilding and Human Security Division [...] | 2005-04-26 14:27:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PREL CA |
05OTTAWA1258 | CANADA: FOREIGN MINISTER TO TRAVEL TO SANTIAGO TO [...] (SBU) Further to reftel, contacts at Foreign Affairs Canada have just advised us that Foreign Minister Pierre Pettigrew is now scheduled to attend the CD Ministerial in Santiago, April 28-30. 2. (SBU) Canada's Chief Elections Officer, Jean-Pierre Kingsley, remains undecided because of the [...] | 2005-04-26 17:59:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PREL CA |
05OTTAWA1283 | HARPER SUGGESTS POINT OF NO RETURN ON ELECTIONS [...] No summary [...] | 2005-04-27 21:57:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CA PGOV NDP |
05OTTAWA1305 | Canada's Response to the 2005 Special 301 Report [...] (SBU) Summary: Economic officers met with Doug George, director of IPR issues, and other officials at International Trade Canada (ITCAN) to inform them of the Special 301 decision and deliver reftel points. While rejecting the Special 301 process as a whole and disappointed with this year's r [...] | 2005-04-29 19:48:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD KIPR CA |
05OTTAWA1318 | CANADA WILL VOICE SUPPORT FOR THE IRAQI [...] No summary [...] | 2005-05-02 19:29:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | IZ PGOV PREL FAC |
05OTTAWA1364 | Security and Prosperity Partnership in Canada - A [...] (SBU) Summary - From a distance Mission Canada is heartened by the effect and attention given to the SPP in Washington, throughout our government. We are hearing from Canadians most affected that this is precisely what is needed. Because of the political situation now in Canada, we can affor [...] | 2005-05-05 19:16:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EFIN EIND ELTN ECON PGOV PREL CA MX |
05OTTAWA1368 | CANADIAN SUPPORT FOR LIBERIAN SECURITY REFORM [...] (SBU) In response to ref a, poloff followed up with Andrew Armstrong, Manager of Fleet Policies and Standards at Canadian Coast Guard (CCG) Headquarters. Armstrong stated that he would advise CCG management of our interest in using these boats as part of a nascent Liberian Coast Guard, but a [...] | 2005-05-06 12:00:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MASS PREL MARR EAID LI CA FAC |
05OTTAWA1373 | CANADA: RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON AN UNMANDATED [...] (SBU) Poloff discussed the reftel demarche concerning a 2005 Commission on Human Rights (CHR) resolution establishing a five-day working group in Geneva to discuss CHR reform, with Henri-Paul Normandin, Director of the Human Rights Division at Foreign Affairs Canada, on May 5. Normandin stat [...] | 2005-05-06 18:12:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM CA UNCHR UNGA |
05OTTAWA1412 | CANADA: RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON OAS WORKING GROUP [...] (U) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Pamela Moore, Senior Policy Officer at Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC),on May 5. Moore thanked us for the points, and advised that she would review the demarche with her colleagues at FAC, including Marie Gervais-Vidricaire, Director General of the Glob [...] | 2005-05-10 20:43:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM AORC CA USOAS |
05OTTAWA1459 | CANADA: ATTORNEY GENERAL GONZALES' MAY 18 VISIT [...] (SBU) As you prepare for your first meeting with Canada's Deputy Prime Minister Anne McLellan and Minister of Justice Irwin Cotler, I want to extend my welcome and offer the Embassy's continuing support for the range of issues, initiatives, and processes that form the core of the Department o [...] | 2005-05-13 18:29:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER KCRM CA |
05OTTAWA1460 | OTTAWA'S CHARGE CALLED TO MEET TRADE MINISTER [...] (SBU) On May 12, Charge John Dickson met with International Trade Minister Peterson at the Minister's request to discuss U.S. designation of Caribe Sol and Hola Sun as Specially Designated Nationals under the Cuban Assets Control Regulations (comment: Minister Peterson also included Internet [...] | 2005-05-13 18:43:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON CU CA |
05OTTAWA1461 | CANADA: PARALYSIS IN PARLIAMENT -- WHO'S RUNNING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Canada's House of Commons came to a grinding standstill on May 12, when the opposition Conservative Party and Bloc Quebecois flexed their muscle by adjourning the daily session of Parliament, to the surprise of the ruling Liberal Party. In the wake of a controversial "confiden [...] | 2005-05-13 18:50:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV CA NDP |
05OTTAWA1472 | VOIP: CANADA CONFIRMS IT WILL REGULATE INTERNET- [...] Canada's communications regulator has confirmed a decision which it foreshadowed in April 2004 (reftel): that its existing telecoms regulatory framework will cover "voice over Internet protocol" services when VOIP is used for local calling. (The decision, by the Canadian Radio-Television a [...] | 2005-05-16 14:43:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ETRD CA |
05OTTAWA1516 | NO NEWS IS GOOD NEWS FOR ALASKA GAS PRODUCERS [...] (SBU) Summary: Representatives of the Alaska North Slope natural gas producers now hope that the GOC may be reconsidering its options regarding a permitting authority for the Alaska Natural Gas Pipeline. A GOC decision that the 1,300 mile Canadian portion of the proposed pipeline could be pe [...] | 2005-05-19 19:54:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ETRD EPET CA |
05OTTAWA1571 | IPR FILESHARING APPEAL: RIGHTS-HOLDERS LOST A [...] (SBU) Summary: The Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) is claiming a victory in an Appeals Court's rejection of last year's decision by Judge von Finkenstein that filesharing does not constitute infringement. CRIA and the other rights-holding plaintiffs (the largest musical provid [...] | 2005-05-26 18:46:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD KIPR CA |
05OTTAWA1604 | CANADA: RESPONSE TO DEMARCHES ON ILO ELECTIONS AND [...] (U) Poloff discussed refs (a) (Cuban candidacy for the ILO Governing Body) and (b) (ILO's proposed budget for 2006-2007) with Wendy Drukier, Senior Policy Advisor at Foreign Affairs Canada (FAC),on May 24. Drukier thanked us for the points, and requested some time so that she could pass the [...] | 2005-05-27 19:50:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL AORC ELAB CA ILO |
05OTTAWA1615 | DEMARCHE REQUEST ON OSCE CORDOBA DECLARATION [...] (SBU) Post delivered demarche points to Foreign Affairs Acting Director for North American and Euro-Atlantic Security and Defence Relations, Isabelle Poupart, the morning of May 31. In a follow-up discussion, Poupart said that the matter had been resolved earlier in the day in Vienna with agr [...] | 2005-05-31 19:55:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM CA OSCE |
05OTTAWA1656 | DEMARCHE: SA/LW NEGOTIATIONS ON MARKING AND TRACING [...] (SBU) Post delivered reftel demarche points to Deputy Director Shawn Barber in the Peacebuilding and Human Security Division (AGP) at Foreign Affairs oin May 31. A copy was conveyed to the Ambassador Anton Thalmann as well. 2, (SBU) Barber provided the following response on June 2: Begin [...] | 2005-06-02 20:33:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL CA |
05OTTAWA1725 | INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ACTION PLAN: ENGAGING GOC ON [...] (SBU) Summary and Action Request: Following the Special 301 decision requiring an out of cycle review for Canada (OCR),we urge Washington agencies to engage directly with Canadian officials to clarify the issues and assess how much progress can be expected during the review period. Following [...] | 2005-06-07 20:41:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD KIPR CA |
05OTTAWA1780 | SPP: Enhancing Canadian Law Enforcement Presence on [...] (SBU) Summary: The President of Canada's Customs Officers' Union (CEUDA) has made the case before a Parliamentary committee that Canada needs an enhanced armed presence along the border between official ports of entry (POEs),and more generally that Customs officers need to have better acces [...] | 2005-06-13 14:18:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ELTN ASEC CA PTBS |
05OTTAWA1802 | GOC LIKELY TO SURVIVE VOTE ON BUDGET BILLS [...] (U) Summary: Barring a voting glitch that could bring down the government, Canada's basic budget measures are expected to receive final approval by the House of Commons tonight. Members will vote late tonight on Bill C-43, the legislation implementing proposals in the February 23 budget (ref [...] | 2005-06-14 20:57:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EAID PGOV CA |
05OTTAWA1829 | CANADA ON UN REFORM: REQUEST TO CONVEY USG [...] No summary [...] | 2005-06-16 22:31:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KUNR PREL PGOV AORC CA UNSC |
05OTTAWA1869 | CANADIAN REQUEST FOR TRANSIT RIGHTS THROUGH U.S. [...] (U) This is an action request: see paragraph 5. 2. (SBU) Embassy Ottawa received a diplomatic note dated June 20, 2005 from Foreign Affairs Canada. The note provides details of Canadian plans to deploy three joint RCMP/Canadian Coast Guard vessels on the Great Lakes and the Saint Lawrence [...] | 2005-06-21 17:58:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM EWWT PBTS PHSA PREL CA |
05OTTAWA1894 | CANADA: TUNISIA HOPING FOR G-8 PUBLICITY FOR THE [...] (SBU) Tunisia's Ambassador to Canada, Khalifa El Hafdhi, demarched Charge on the forthcoming United Nations World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS),to be held in Tunisia from November 16-18. Ambassador El Hafdhi briefly reviewed the background of the WSIS, noting that phase I of the [...] | 2005-06-22 20:45:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECPS TS CA |
05OTTAWA1910 | Canadian Border Patrol idea gains support from Senate [...] (SBU) Summary: The National Security and Defence Committee of the Senate of Canada suggests that a Canadian Border Patrol might be necessary. The committee also supports arming all Customs Officers at ports of entry. The backing of this Senate committee provides a high visibility boost to [...] | 2005-06-23 18:25:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ELTN ASEC PBTS CA |
05OTTAWA1947 | BIO -- GARY FILMON [...] (U) Canadian Prime Minister Paul Mrtin recently named Gary Filmon as Chairman of the country's Security Intelligence Review Committee (SIRC),which oversees the Canadian Security Intelligence Service. Filmon had served on the committee for about four years before his appointment at chairman. [...] | 2005-06-27 18:33:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PINR PGOV CA |
05OTTAWA1960 | CANADA'S BUDGET BILLS PASS THE HOUSE OF COMMONS IN [...] (SBU) In an unexpected parliamentary maneuver, the Liberal Party, with strong support from the New Democrats and acquiesence by the Bloc Quebecois, passed bill C-48, the C$4.6 billion in supplemental spending that will provide additional funding for post-secondary education, low-income housin [...] | 2005-06-28 14:24:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON CA |
05OTTAWA1968 | CANADIAN TO HEAD FINANCIAL ACTION TASK FORCE FROM [...] (SBU) Frank Swedlove, Assistant Deputy Minister for Financial Sector Policy at the Department of Finance, will assume the presidency of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) in July 2006. The announcement was made during the FATF meeting in Singapore earlier this month. In his press relea [...] | 2005-06-28 19:21:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON KTFN PTER CA |
05OTTAWA1972 | INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY COMMITS TO MAINTAIN [...] (SBU) Summary: Approximately 90 senior level officials from Haiti, international organizations, and donor governments met June 17 in Montreal to discuss the future of Haiti. The conference's key theme was the importance of maintaining momentum in the lead-up to the November elections. Partic [...] | 2005-06-29 14:00:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | HA MOPS PGOV PREL KPKO CA |
05OTTAWA1989 | HEALTH MINISTER ANNOUNCES STRATEGY ON CROSS-BORDER [...] (U) Summary: Health Minister Dosanjh announced that the GOC will take three steps to address the cross-border drug trade: 1) create a drug supply monitoring network, including input from both public and private stakeholders, to determine whether there are drug shortages or threats to the Can [...] | 2005-06-30 13:59:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON SOCI CA |
05OTTAWA1990 | CANADIAN COPYRIGHT AMENDMENT LEGISLATION: NOT [...] (SBU) Summary and Action Request: As predicted (ref Ottawa 1725),the GOC has now tabled draft legislation amending the Copyright Act. The amendments are intended to implement the provisions of the WIPO Copyright Treaty and the WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty; however, industry commen [...] | 2005-06-30 14:25:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD KIPR CA WIPO |
05OTTAWA2042 | CANADIAN HEALTH CARE: [...] (U) THIS MESSAGE IS SENSITIVE, BUT UNCLASSIFIED. NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION OUTSIDE USG CHANNELS. 2. (SBU) A Supreme Court of Canada ruling on June 9 has opened up and accelerated Canada's national debate on health care reform. The court struck down a Quebec provincial prohibition on private he [...] | 2005-07-07 17:27:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON SOCI EFIN PGOV CA |
05OTTAWA2047 | U.S./CANADA ENVIRONMENTAL DISCUSSIONS AND CEC [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for distribution outside USG channels. 2. (SBU) Summary: On the margins of the 12th annual meeting of the Council of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) in Quebec City June 21-22, EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson reviewed a wide rang [...] | 2005-07-07 19:29:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG CA MX |
05OTTAWA2057 | AMBASSADOR MEETS MANITOBA PREMIER GARY DOER TO TALK [...] SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED -- HANDLE ACCORDINGLY. 2. (SBU) Ambassador Wilkins took advantage of a transit stop in Winnipeg to meet with Manitoba Premier Gary Doer in the airport transit lounge. Other than a brief discussion of the BSE crisis (where the Ambassador reminded the Premier of t [...] | 2005-07-08 11:31:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SENV CA |
05OTTAWA2071 | DEMARCHE: SECURITY SECTOR SUPPORT FOR THE [...] (SBU) Post delivered reftel points to the Regional Security and Peacekeeping Division (IDC) at Foreign Affairs Canada on June 30, just prior to the Canada Day long week-end. In a follow-up discussion on July 7, desk officer Emi Furuya informed polmiloff that a Canadian Coast Guard/RCMP team i [...] | 2005-07-08 18:19:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MASS PREL KWBG KPAL IS CA FAC |
05OTTAWA2076 | OTTAWA: DEMARCHE TO MEMBERS OF THE ITU COUNCIL ON [...] (SBU) Econ staff responsible for the Telecom portfolio met with Industry Canada's Director of International Telecommunications Policy and Coordination Bill Graham and staffers Janis Doran and Jim Mackenzie to discuss the documents provided in reftel, which we had previously faxed to Industry C [...] | 2005-07-08 18:49:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS |
05OTTAWA2078 | U.S.-CANADA ENERGY CONSULTATIVE MECHANISM: [...] (U) Sensitive, but unclassified. Not for distribution outside USG channels. 2. (U) Canada is the United States' largest foreign supplier of energy, and (when its oil sands are considered) the world's second largest holder of petroleum reserves. While high energy prices are boosting Canad [...] | 2005-07-08 18:55:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON SOCI EFIN PGOV CA |
05OTTAWA2081 | FOREIGN MINISTRY BRIEFING ON HAITIAN ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) FAC briefed members of the Haitian election observer's steering committee July 8 to help shore up their commitment to supporting the observation mission. Participants were told that the process is largely on track but requires continued coordination and close cooperation if it is to be s [...] | 2005-07-08 20:25:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CA HA PGOV PREL KPKO |
05OTTAWA2082 | Possible shift in GoC position on Canadian Border [...] (U) Summary: According to reports from the Customs Officers' union, CEUDA, the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Anne McLellan and her senior staff are warming to the idea of enhancing Customs Officers' law enforcement role and presence at and between ports of entry. If accu [...] | 2005-07-08 20:29:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ELTN ASEC PBTS CA |
05OTTAWA2097 | DEMARCHE REQUEST: G-4 FRAMEWORK RESOLUTION ON UN [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOC supports us in opposing the G-4 proposal. Canada instead supports a model of Security Council reform which would provide for no new permanent seats but instead create a new category of eight four-year renewable seats and one new two-year non-permanent (and non-renewable [...] | 2005-07-12 12:46:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL CA UNSC |
05OTTAWA2113 | CANADA: PUBLIC SAFETY MINISTER SPEAKS OUT ON [...] (SBU) Summary: On July 11 Deputy Prime Minister Anne McLellan gave a speech that the Ottawa Citizen described as one of the most forceful ever by a Canadian minister on terrorism. She stated "we have perhaps for too long thought that these were things that happened somewhere else. But Canad [...] | 2005-07-12 20:14:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CA PGOV PREL PTER |
05OTTAWA2119 | IRAQ: DEAD SEA DONORS' MEETING JULY 18-19 - CANADA [...] Sensitive but unclassified, please protect accordingly. 2. The Iraq staff at Canada's International Development Agency are optimistic about the upcoming Iraq Donors' meeting, saying things are going remarkably well so far and they are receiving excellent support from Jordan. They are try [...] | 2005-07-13 10:34:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN PREL IZ JO CA |
05OTTAWA228 | CANADA: PM MARTIN'S SEEKS TO STRENGTHEN COMMERCIAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: PM Paul Martin traveled to Thailand, Sri Lanka, India, Japan and China January 15-23 on a whirlwind tour that mixed tsunami relief with commercial relations. Some of the stops were photo ops or courtesy calls and critics questioned whether anything could be accomplished in such [...] | 2005-01-24 22:38:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL CA |
05OTTAWA229 | PATRIOT ACT: CANADA LOOKING FOR LOW-KEY DIALOGUE [...] (SBU)Summary and Action Request: As reported reftels, there is growing concern among certain consumer and union groups in Canada about the privacy effects of certain elements of the Patriot Act, primarily Section 215. While GoC experts believe that Patriot Act procedures are not incompatibl [...] | 2005-01-25 12:56:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ETRD EINV PINS CA FAC |
05OTTAWA2320 | ENVIRONMENT CANADA'S DISMAY OVER ONTARIO'S [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for distribution outside USG channels. 2. (SBU) Summary: ESTOFFs met July 27 with officials from Environment Canada regarding Ontario's Transboundary Air Pollution Report (refs B and C),which attempted to estimate costs to the province of air pollu [...] | 2005-08-02 18:35:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG PGOV CA |
05OTTAWA2331 | CANADA: MARIJUANA DECRIMINALIZATION BILL LOSING [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The marijuana decriminalization bill (C-17),which began the Parliamentary term as the potential next big issue on the Liberal agenda, appears to have lost steam. Opinion on C-17 is split between activists who suggest it does not go far enough, and prohibitionists who say it go [...] | 2005-08-02 21:26:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CA PGOV PREL SNAR SOCI |
05OTTAWA2344 | CANADA GIVES POSITIVE SOUNDINGS ON GREAT LAKES [...] (SBU) Summary: After meeting with a U.S. Shiprider team on July 28 and offering positive soundings on a way to move forward on the two-week proof of concept phase of the program, GOC lawyers and operators met August 2 and agreed to continue joint planning for a possible program in September-O [...] | 2005-08-03 20:54:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PREL EWWT PBTS CA MOPS |
05OTTAWA2364 | INTERAGENCY DEFENSE OFFSETS TEAM INVITATION TO [...] (SBU) Political section passed reftel to DAO and FCS offices in the Mission. 2. (SBU) Though post has no feedback to offer on the discussion questions at this time, we note that "Industrial Regional Benefits (IRBs)" (Canadian equivalent of "offsets") figure prominently in federal government [...] | 2005-08-04 21:03:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON MASS CA |
05OTTAWA2370 | U.S.-CANADA FISHERIES BILATERALS [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. 2. (U) Summary: The United States and Canada held annual bilateral fisheries consultations July 29 in Ottawa. The two sides reviewed a wide range of fisheries and oceans issues, including Canada's ocean action plan, bilateral fishing treaties, internatio [...] | 2005-08-05 18:33:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIS SENV CA |
05OTTAWA2413 | ENRON HITS CANADA: CIBC PAYS RECORD $2.4 BILLION [...] (U) For official use only. Not for Internet distribution. 2. (U) The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) announced August 2 that it is paying US$2.4 billion to settle the class action suit brough on behalf of purchasers of Enron securities. The settlement, the largest ever paid b [...] | 2005-08-10 15:05:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN CA |
05OTTAWA2422 | CANADA: FOLLOW-UP TO SEA ISLAND ACTION PLAN [...] (SBU) Following confirmation from the Italian Embassy that Italy's demarche on assistance to COESPU had been delivered, on August 4 polmiloff provided reftel points and web site information to Foreign Affairs (FAC) International Security Bureau (IDD) Director General Paul Chapin. An informatio [...] | 2005-08-10 20:29:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPKO MASS MARR CA |
05OTTAWA2430 | NAFTA CHAPTER 11: METHANEX -- THE IMPORTANCE IS [...] (U) A NAFTA Chapter 11 tribunal on June 10 dismissed Methanex Corporation's claim against the U.S. on both jurisdictional grounds and on the merits, ordering Methanex to pay the State Department $3 million in legal fees and to pay the tribunal $1 million in costs. (Note: this is more than h [...] | 2005-08-11 20:53:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD SENV CA NAFTA |
05OTTAWA2446 | U.S.-CANADIAN COOPERATION IN STOPPING GUN [...] (SBU/NF) Summary: A spate of gang-related killings in Toronto has left Ontario Premier McGuinty and Toronto Mayor David Miller under pressure to act. McGuinty shifted the focus from the internal problems with gangs in Toronto to the notion that many of the guns used in the killings originated [...] | 2005-08-12 22:07:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM KJUS PTER SNAR CA |
05OTTAWA2617 | DEMARCHE REQUEST: SUMMIT OF THE AMERICAS [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Sarah Fountain-Smith, Director of the Brazil, Southern Cone, and Summit Coordination Office at Foreign Affairs Canada. Fountain-Smith said that Canada takes the summit process very seriously and Peter Boehm, Assistant Deputy Minister for Latin America [...] | 2005-09-01 19:20:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KSUM ECON PGOV CA |
05OTTAWA2638 | TFUS01 - CANADA: SURGE OF ASSISTANCE OFFERS IN [...] (SBU) Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath have captured Canadian headlines and triggered heart-felt offers of assistance (list from paragraph 5). The Mission has received an outpouring of sympathy and offers of assistance from governments at all levels as well as from individual officials and [...] | 2005-09-02 17:54:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON AEMR ASEC CASC MARR AMGT US CA |
05OTTAWA2642 | CANADA - TERRORISM FINANCE: YASIN AL-QADI - STATUS [...] No summary [...] | 2005-09-02 19:49:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN KTFN PTER PGOV PREL SA CA UN |
05OTTAWA2649 | CANADA'S VIEWS ON DEVELOPMENT ISSUES IN TEH UN [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOC shares our views on the problems of length, coherence, and balance in the draft "outcome" document, as well as our commitment to reform and opposition to creative financing measures for ODA. We differ on the goal of 0.7% of GDP, with Canada still thinking it is an imp [...] | 2005-09-02 20:56:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECIN PREL CA UNGA |
05OTTAWA2669 | TFUS01 - CANADA: STATUS OF ASSISTANCE REPORT 2, [...] (SBU) After the long weekend and initial confused flurry, things seem to be running smoothly. We will direct most future offers of Canadian assistance to the GOC for coordination. Deputy Prime Minister Anne McClellan told the Ambassador this afternoon that the USG should let her know of any [...] | 2005-09-06 21:20:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON AEMR ASEC CASC MARR AMGT US CA |
05OTTAWA2673 | CANADA REMAINS COOL TO JORDAN,S REQUEST TO RAISE [...] (SBU) Finance Canada tells us that the GOC believes Jordan benefitted from exit treatment (that is, it was not expected back at the Paris Club) and does not need more debt assistance. On debt swaps more generaly, Finance officials are concerned that swaps are often used for trade distortion a [...] | 2005-09-07 17:31:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN KTIA CA JA GM |
05OTTAWA268 | PLACING A NEW NORTH AMERICAN INITIATIVE [...] THIS MESSAGE IS SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED. NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION OUTSIDE USG CHANNELS. 2. (SBU) An incremental and pragmatic package of tasks for a new North American Initiative (NAI) will likely gain the most support among Canadian policymakers. Our research leads us to conclude that [...] | 2005-01-28 15:56:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV CA |
05OTTAWA2688 | CANADIAN VIEWS OF HURRICANE KATRINA ENERGY SUPPLY [...] (U) This message is sensitive, but unclassified. Not for distribution outside USG channels. SUMMARY/INTRODUCTION -------------------- 2. (SBU) In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the Government of Canada (GOC) has pledged its support through the International Energy Agency to increase o [...] | 2005-09-07 20:47:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG ECON EPET CA |
05OTTAWA2689 | TFUS01 - CANADA: STATUS OF ASSISTANCE 3 - [...] We continue to receive offers of assistance and are referring all Canadian donors, public and private, to: Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness Canada (PSEPC) at 1-800-929-1705 or 613-991-7000; goc-cog@psepc-sppcc.gc.ca 2. PSEPC suggests that corporations that are interested in sellin [...] | 2005-09-07 21:08:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON AEMR ASEC CASC MARR AMGT US CA |
05OTTAWA2690 | CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): URGING CANADA [...] (U) Following ref A exchanges, and modified guidance, polmiloff met on September 6 with Canadian National Authority Coordinator for the CWC, Bob Brooks, and Senior Advisor Adrian Ghita-Duminica, to discuss USG concerns regarding captive use of Schedule I chemicals. Polmiloff left revised poin [...] | 2005-09-07 21:28:00 | Embassy Ottawa | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL CA |