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ABLD BUILDING AND GROUNDS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The acquisition, management, and operation of U.S.-owned or-leased facilities and sites both domestic and foreign. (Replaces RCHB file categories: BG, ES)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acquisition
* AIEP
* Allotment
* Antenna
* Antiques
* Appraisals
* Architecture
* Asbestos
* Audit
* Bid Results
* Breathing Device
* Building
* Building Design
* Building Management
* Carpet
* Chancellery
* Construction Management
* Construction Security
* Consulate
* Contract Amendment Contract Award Contract Renewal Contract Termination Contractor
* Core Area
* DCR
* Deed
* Descent Device
* Electrical System
* Elevator
* Embassy
* EMR
* Energy Conservation
* EURMAC
* Fire Alarm
* Fire Detection System
* Fire Prevention
* Fire Safety
* Furnishings
* Generator
* Geotechnical
* Gift
* Hazardous Material
* Housing
* HVAC
* Improvement
* Inventory
* Lease
* Legation
* Maintenance
* Mechanical System
* NOB
* Parking
* PCC
* Post Opening
* Property Exchange
* Property Sales
* Public Access Control
* Real Property
* Reciprocity
* REMS
* Renovation
* Safety & Health Designee
* Safety Program
* Security Enhancement
* Seismology
* SHEMC
* Shielded Enclosure
* Site
* Space Management
* Survey
* WASHMAC
* Water Analysis
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AEMR EMERGENCY PLANNING AND EVACUATION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Measures and actions implemented to protect U.S. personnel, citizens, property and information; especially related to crisis situations. (Replaces RCHB file category: EP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Citizen Protection
* Contingency Plan EAP
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Property
* Protection
* Records Destruction
* Rescue
* Safehaven
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AFIN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
The fiscal operations of the Department, Foreign Service posts, and other Federal agencies. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, FMGT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accounting
* Allowance
* Annuity Check
* Antideficiency
* Appropriation
* Audit
* Authentication Bank
* Account Bonding
* CAPPS
* Cash
* Cash Management
* Cashier
* Central Claim
* Commercial Claim
* Compensation
* Debt Collection
* Deficit
* Disallowances
* Disbursement
* Employee Claim
* ESF
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Management System
* Fiscal
* Fiscal Irregularities
* Foreign Currency
* FSCADP
* Fund Allotment
* Funding
* GBL
* General Ledger
* GTR
* Home Leave
* ICASS
* Leave
* Liquidation
* Local Currency
* Nonreceipt
* Over Obligation
* Pay Advance
* Pay Record
* Payment
* Payroll
* Payroll Deduction
* PCS
* Per Diem
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Post MGT
* Premium Pay
* Prompt Payment
* Reimbursement
* Relocation
* Reprogramming
* Retirement
* Security Enhancement
* Taxes
* TDY
* Time & Attendance
* Transportation Request
* Travel Advance
* Travelers Checks
* Treasury Check
* Vendor
* Vouchers
* Vulnerability Assessment
* Wages
* Working Capital Fund
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AMGT MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The management and organization of the Department and posts abroad and other U.S. agencies. (Replaces RCHB file category: ORG)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Administration
* Audit
* Authorities
* Background Information
* Bureau Organization
* Commissary
* Congressional Report
* Delegation of Authority
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Employee Association
* FCS
* FTE
* Geneva Group
* GORI
* Information System
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* Internal Control
* JAO
* Management Initiative
* Management Issues
* Mission Closure
* Mission Opening
* Occupational Safety
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Office Procedures
* Organization
* Overseas Post
* PCS
* Post Closing
* Post MGT
* Post Opening
* Post Operating Plan
* Reciprocity
* Recreation
* Reorganization
* Scheduling
* Staffing
* Support Services
* Survey
* Task Force
* Workload
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AORC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES
Effective from January 1983
The structure and management of international or regional organizations and conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL and Organization Name)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Administration
* Application
* Budget
* Candidate
* Chairman
* Charter
* Congressional Reports
* Constitution
* Donor
* Election Results
* Financial Contribution
* Geneva Group
* Host Government
* Information System
* Infrastructure
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* International Organization
* International Organization Official
* Meeting Agenda
* Meeting Delegation
* Meeting Observer
* Meeting Venue
* Membership
* NGO
* Nomination
* Nonparticipation
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Participation
* PERMREP
* Referendum
* Reform
* Regional Organization
* Regional Organization Official Reorganization
* Resignation from Office Seating
* Secession Secretary General Specialized Agency
* Sponsorship
* Staffing
* Vacancy Announcement
* Veto
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
* Voting
* Wages
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APER PERSONNEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administration and support of the Department's Civil and Foreign
Service personnel. (Replaces RCHB file category: PER)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Adoption
* Affirmative
* Action
* Ambassador
* Appeal
* Award
* Backpay
* Benefit Plan
* Bilateral Work Agreements
* Blood Donor
* Boarding School Career Development Career Mobility
* CFC
* Civil Service
* Civil Service Reform Act
* Class Action Suit
* CLO Program
* Community Liaison Office
* Coordinators
* Compensation
* Complaint
* Complement
* Consultation
* Continuing Education
* Contract Employee
* Conversion
* CSR
* Death
* Demotion
* Dependent
* Dependent Education
* Dependent Employment
* Discipline
* Divorce
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Employee Association
* Employee Benefit
* Employee Relations
* Employee Service
* Employee Status
* Employee Training
* Employment
* Equal Employment Opportunity
* Family Life
* Family Separation
* Family Support Services
* Fellowship
* FERS
* Foreign Born Spouses
* Foreign Service
* Foreign Service Act
* FSPS
* FTE
* Functional Training
* Grade Retention
* Grievance
* Health
* Injury
* Insurance
* International School
* Interns
* Interview
* Job Title
* Leave
* Library
* Merit Pay
* Merit Promotion
* Military Furlough
* Military Reserve
* Nomination
* Nonsensitive Critical Position
* Open Assignments
* Orientation
* Overcomplement
* Pay Record
* Performance Evaluation
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Personnel
* Personnel Action
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Assignment
* Personnel Classification
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Promotion
* Personnel Reassignment
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Photographer
* PIT
* Position Classification
* Position Description
* Premium Pay
* Presidential Executive Exchange Program
* Private School
* Probation
* Promotion Panel
* PSC
* Public School
* Recall
* Recruitment
* Reentry
* Relocation
* Remains Disposition
* Reprogramming
* Retired Annuitant
* Retirement
* RIF
* Sabbatical
* Savings Bond
* School Admissions
* SEF
* Selection Board
* Selection Out
* Senior Foreign Service
* SES
* Severance Pay
* Sexual Harassment
* Skill Codes
* Spouse
* Staffing
* Staffing Pattern
* Survey
* Tandem Couple
* TDY
* Tenure Board
* Termination
* Time & Attendance
* Upward Mobility
* U.S. Family Member
* Vacancy Announcement
* Wages
* Work Requirements
* Workload
* Workmen Compensation
* Workweek
* Youth Programs
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ASEC SECURITY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The development, coordination, or administration of security policies and programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SY)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AIASA
* Airport Access Procedures
* Antifraud
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Armored Vehicle
* Assault
* Bugging
* Building
* Contract Guard Program
* Counterintelligence
* Debriefing
* Debugging
* Demolition
* Detection Equipment
* Dismantling
* Electronic Security Device
* Emergency Response Team
* Explosives
* Fraud
* Host Country Guards
* Host Country Police
* Identification Systems
* Information Security
* Local Guard Program
* Maps
* Mission Takeover
* Monitoring
* MSG
* Name Check
* NSU
* Personnel Protection
* Physical Security
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Property Protection
* Protective Security
* Public Access Control
* Regional Security
* Riot Control
* RSO
* Scheduled Reporting
* Security Assessment
* Security Clearance
* Security Crisis
* Security Enhancement
* Security Survey
* Security Violation
* Special Support Program
* Suitability
* Technical Security
* Telephone
* Tempest
* Terrorism
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Unit Security Procedures
* Warning System
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BEXP TRADE EXPANSION AND PROMOTION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts to promote trade and other commercial activities, including specific proposals and inquiries to establish trade relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: TP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Best Prospect
* Bid
* Business Firm
* Businessmen
* CMP
* Commercial Action
* Commercial Association
* Consultation
* Cooperatives
* Country Commercial
* Exhibit
* Exposition
* Foreign Agent
* Foreign Market
* Target Industry
* Targeting
* Trade Fair
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Visit
* WITS
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BTIO TRADE AND INVESTMENT
OPPORTUNITIES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Administrative and operational reporting on opportunities for U.S. businesses. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, TP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agribusiness
* Bid
* Business Firm
* FGT
* Foreign Markets
* GPC Implementation
* Joint Venture
* Patent
* PTO
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CASC ASSISTANCE TO CITIZENS
Effective from May 1977 (Revised January 1983)
Consular services provided by the United States to citizens of the United States or any other country. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CON, PS)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Adoption
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Alien
* AMCIT
* Arrest Assault
* Attorney List
* Authorities
* Automation
* Child Custody
* Children Compensation
* Complaint
* Consular Assistance
* Consular Package
* Cult
* Custody
* Death Report
* Deportation
* Detention
* Direct Relay
* Drivers License
* Emergency Evacuation
* Estate
* Family
* FIMED
* Fraud Identification
* Lawyer
* Legal
* Medical Care
* Missing Person
* Murder Offenses
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Property
* Property Protection
* Release
* Remains Disposition
* Repatriation
* Seamen
* Ship Detention
* Ship Registry
* Spouse
* Third Country Representation
* Travel Advisory
* Trial
* Trust Account
* Trust Account Refund
* Welfare & Whereabouts
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CJAN JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE AND NOTARIAL SERVICES
Effective from May 1983
Matters pertaining to Notarial Services and International Judicial Assistance, including the service of judicial and extra-judicial documents and obtaining evidence. (Replaces RCHB file categories: LEG, PS)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acknowledgment
* Affidavit
* Attorney List
* Authentication
* Automation
* Deed
* Deposition
* Documentation
* Evidence
* Extradition
* Fraud
* FSIA
* Judicial Assistance
* Letters Rogatory
* Notarial
* Oath
* Official Travel
* Prisoner Transfer
* Process Serving
* Subpoena
* Testimony
* Tort Claim
* Witness
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CMGT CONSULAR ADMINSTRATION AND MANAGEMENT
Effective from August 1983
The administrative and operational management of Consular Affairs activities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, CON, FMGT,ORG, PER)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antifraud
* Automation
* CAS
* Consular Agent
* Consular Agreement
* Consular Conference
* Consular Equipment
* Consular Package
* Consular Service
* Consular Supplies
* Consular Treaty
* CSS
* ECR
* Fee
* Fraud
* ICARS
* IVACS
* Legislation
* MRP
* NIVCAPS
* Office Procedures
* Personnel
* PFM
* PIT
* Publication
* Space Management
* Supplies
* Support Services
* TDIS
* Third Country Representation
* Word Processor
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CVIS VISAS
Effective from May 1973 (Revised January 1993)
Operational, procedural, and administrative functions of visa operations. (Replaces RCHB file category: V)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AA 1 Adoption
* Advisory Opinion AIDS
* Alien
* Alien Previously Deported
* Alien Smuggler
* Allocation
* Application
* Appointment
* Arrival Notice
* Athlete Automation
* Bearer Insert
* BUSVIS
* Centralized Visa Processing
* Chargeability
* CHINEX
* CLASS
* Clearance
* CONGRINT
* Consular Package
* Crew List
* Crewman
* Crime
* Data
* Defector
* Denial
* Departure Notice
* Dependent
* Deportation
* Derivatives
* Diversity Immigrant
* DNC
* Documentation
* DV 1DVACS
* Employment Based Preference
* Employment Creation
* Entertainer
* Entitlement
* Exchange Visitor
* Exclusion
* Extraordinary Ability
* Family Preference
* Fiance
* Fiancee
* Files
* Foreign Policy Exclusion
* Forms
* Fraud
* Health Related Grounds
* ICARS
* Immediate Relative
* Immigrant
* Intercompany Transferee
* International Child Abduction
* Interview
* Issuance
* IVACS
* Labor Certification
* LB 1
* Legislation
* Medical Examination
* Moral Turpitude
* MRV
* Name Check
* Narcotics Traffic
* News Media Representative
* NIV
* NIVCAPS
* Nonimmigrant
* Numerical Control
* NVC
* Operations
* Other Worker
* Out of District Applicant
* Parole
* Permanent Resident
* Polygamist
* Portsmouth Consular Center
* Priority Date
* Private Bill
* Procedures
* Public Charge
* Reciprocity
* Refugee
* Refusal
* Religious Worker
* Renewal
* Revocation
* SAO
* Skilled Worker
* SPLEX
* Student
* Supplies Temporary Worker
* Terrorist
* 30 60 Rule
* TIVPC
* Totalitarian Party Membership
* Transfer
* Transit
* Travel Agents
* Treaty Investor
* Treaty Trader
* TTYREP
* Validity Visa
* Visa Clearance
* Visa Photograph
* Visitor for Business
* VLOB
* Waiver
* Waiver of Ineligibility
* Walk Ins
* Workload
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EAGR AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Cultivating the soil and forest, raising livestock, and producing crops. (Replaces RCHB file category: AGR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Production
* Agricultural Program
* Agricultural Worker
* Agriculture
* Animal Disease
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Corn
* Cotton
* Crop Destruction
* Crops
* Dairy Products
* Desalinization
* Disease Control
* Drought
* Erosion
* Famine
* Farm Equipment
* Farming
* Fertilizer
* Food Shortages
* Forestry
* Fruit
* Fungicide
* Grain
* Harvest
* Herbicide
* Husbandry
* Insect
* Irrigation
* Jute
* Land Conservation
* Land Management
* Land Reform
* Livestock
* Natural Fiber
* Nuts
* Oilseeds
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Plant Disease
* Poultry
* Preservation
* Quarantine
* Rainfall
* Rice
* Rubber
* Seeds
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soybean
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Timber
* Tobacco
* Tropical Forest
* Vegetable
* Water Analysis
* Weather
* Wheat
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EAID FOREIGN ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Foreign economic and technical assistance provided by governments, international organizations, institutions, or private individuals. (Replaces RCHB file category: AID)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Agreement
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Program Airlift
* Bank
* Congressional Presentation
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Credit
* Debt
* Development Loan
* Development Program
* Disaster Relief
* Donor
* Economic Adviser
* Economic Assistance
* Economic Development
* Economic Support Fund
* Farm Equipment
* Financial Contribution
* Food
* Foreign Assistance Agreement
* Funding
* Grant
* Industrial Development
* Industrialized Nation
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* LLDC
* Loan
* Medical Care
* Medical Equipment
* North South Dialogue
* Paris Club
* PL 480
* PL 480 Title I
* PL 480 Title II
* PL 480 Title III
* Relief Effort
* Self Help
* Technical Assistance
* Water Analysis
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EAIR CIVIL AVIATION
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
Commercial and private aircraft and air operations, domestic as well as international. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AV, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Access
* Air Cargo
* Air Fare
* Air Safety
* Air Traffic
* Air Transportation
* Aircraft
* Aircraft Accident
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Airline
* Airport
* Airport Fee
* Airport Security
* Airspace
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Aviation Agreement
* Cargo Handling
* Charter Flight
* CIVAIR
* Commercial Aircraft
* Emergency Landing
* Flight Clearance
* Flight Manual
* Hazardous Cargo
* Helicopter
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Landing Rights
* Maintenance
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Manifest
* Pilot Training
* Private Aircraft
* Refueling
* Rescue
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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ECON ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The status of a nation's economy. (Replaces RCHB file category: E)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Development
* Antiinflationary Program
* Black Market
* Capital Investment
* Cost of Living
* Depression
* Economic Agreement
* Economic Assessment
* Economic Conditions
* Economic Crisis
* Economic Development
* Economic Forecast
* Economic Growth
* Economic Indicators
* Economic Program
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Reform
* Economic Report
* Economic Stability
* Economic Trend
* EEC 1992
* Employment
* Financial Profits
* GDP
* GNP
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Reform
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* National Debt
* NIEO
* Price Index
* Recession
* Stock Market
* Tax Law
* Unemployment
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ECPS COMMUNICATIONS AND POSTAL SYSTEMS
Effective from March 1983
The efforts of governments, the private sector, or international organizations to manage, regulate, develop, apply, or monitor the methods and means of telecommunication, international communication policy, and the informational aspects of communication. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INF, MP, PO, PPB, PR, RAD, SP, TEL, TV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Broadcasting
* Cable TV
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* Fiber Optics
* Frequency Allocation
* Frequency Interference
* Frequency Spectrum
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Frequency
* lnformatics Information Access
* Information Center
* Information Flow
* Information Media
* Jamming
* Light Communication
* Networking
* NWICO
* Orbit
* Postal System
* Prior Consent
* Radio
* Satellite
* Telecommunication
* Telecommunication Agreement
* Telegraph
* Telephone
* Television
* Transborder Data Flow
* Transmitters
* Undersea Cable
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EFIN FINANCIAL AND MONETARY AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Domestic and international financial affairs of governments and private institutions. (Replaces RCHB file category: FN)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accounting
* Audit
* Bank
* Bank Account
* Bankruptcy
* Blocked Assets
* BOP
* Budget
* Buffer Stock
* Capital Flow
* CFF
* Commodities Exchange
* Credit
* Currency Shortage
* Debt
* Debt Equity Swap
* Debt Relief
* Debt Repayment
* Debt Repudiation
* Debt Rescheduling
* Deficit
* Devaluation
* Donor
* Drawing Rights
* Economic Growth
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Trend
* EFF
* EMS
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Agreement
* Financial Contribution
* Financial Control
* Financial Crisis
* Financial Market
* Financial Profits
* Financial Program
* Financial Reform
* Financial Reserve
* Financial Stability
* Foreign Currency
* Foreign Currency Control
* Foreign Currency Exchange
* Foreign Market
* Gold
* Grant
* IMF Standbys
* Income Tax
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* Loan Default
* Local Currency
* London Club
* National Income
* Overpayment
* Paris Club
* Payment
* Revaluation
* Sales Tax
* SDR
* Securities
* Securities Exchange
* Stock Shares
* Tax Haven
* Tax Law
* Taxation Treaties
* Treasury
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EFIS COMMERCIAL FISHING AND FISH PROCESSING
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The breeding and catching of fish and other marine life for commercial purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aquaculture
* Catch
* Quota Cod
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive Economic
* Zone Fish
* Fisheries
* Aid Fishery
* Fishing Agreement
* Fishing Concession
* Fishing Dispute
* Fishing Ground
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Fishing Vessel
* Fishing Vessel
* Detention Halibut
* Herring Joint
* Venture
* Quota Salmon
* Shellfish
* Shrimp
* TEDS
* Tuna
* Whaling Industry
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EIND INDUSTRY AND MANUFACTURING
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The commercial production of goods and services, including the processing of raw materials into manufactured goods. (Replaces RCHB file category: TEL, INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aerospace Industry
* Alloy
* Aluminum
* Antitrust
* Automotive Industry
* Bankruptcy
* Business Firm
* Capital Investment
* Chemical Industry
* Clothing Industry
* Commercial Association
* Communications Industry
* Complaint
* Construction Industry
* Consumer Goods
* Cooperatives
* Copyright Agreement
* Copyright Claim
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Dairy Industry
* Data Processing Industry
* Defense Industry
* Development Program
* Drug Industry
* Dyeing Industry
* Economic Growth
* Electronic Industry
* Espionage
* Factory
* Fertilizer Industry
* Finishing Industry
* Fishing Industry
* Food Contamination
* Food Industry
* Foreign Agent
* Fraud
* Garment Industry
* Garment Production
* Garment Workers
* Industrial Accident
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Production
* Industrial Reform
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insurance
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber Industry
* Machine Tool Industry
* Manmade Fiber
* Manufactured Product
* Merger
* Metal Industry
* Monopoly
* Nationalization
* Paper Industry
* Parastatal
* Patent
* Petroleum Industry
* Piracy
* Plastic Industry
* Power Looms
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Processing
* Product Safety
* Product Standards
* Product Testing
* Production
* Production Control
* Public Sector
* Railroad Industry
* Ramie
* Raw Materials
* Recall
* Registration
* Rubber Industry
* Sabotage
* Salvage
* Service Industry
* Shipbuilding Industry
* Silk
* Spinning Machinery
* Steel Industry
* Stockpile
* Subsidiary
* Subsidy
* Textile Industry
* Textile Production
* Tobacco Industry
* Tourism
* Trademark
* Vegetable Fiber
* Weaving Industry
* Wood Products Industry
* Wool
* Yarns
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EINT ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL INTERNET
Effective from October 1997
Economic and commercial programs, policies, and issues relating to the Internet.
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agreement
* Censorship
* Competition
* Connectivity
* Content
* Copyright
* Data
* Democracy
* Economic Conditions
* Domain Names
* Electronic Commerce
* Encryption
* Free Flow of Information
* Information Availability
* Interconnectivity
* Internet
* Meeting
* Monopoly
* Piracy
* Policy
* Pornography
* Privacy
* Private Sector
* Reporting
* Trademark
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EINV FOREIGN INVESTMENTS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
Foreign investments made by governments or private enterprises for commercial gain. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bank
* Bid
* BIT
* Business Firm
* Business Loss
* Business Merger
* Capital Flow
* Capital Investment
* Compensation
* Credit
* Credit Guarantee
* Disinvestment
* Economic Growth
* Foreign Investment
* Fraud
* Garment Investment
* Insurance Risk
* Investment Climate
* Investment Control
* Investment Disputes
* Investment Guarantee
* Investment Incentive
* Investment Law
* Investment Opportunity
* Joint Venture
* Loan
* Multinational Corporation
* Nationalization
* Parastatal
* Private Investment
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Public Sector
* Subsidiary
* Textile Investment
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ELAB LABOR SECTOR AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised May 1995)
The labor sector, labor actors, and national labor policies and their effect on domestic and international systems and relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LAB)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Arbitration
* Benefits
* Bonded Labor
* Child Labor
* Collective Bargaining
* Compulsory Labor
* Dock Workers
* Employee Ownership
* Employee Rights
* Employer Organization
* Employment
* Equal Pay for Equal Work
* Forced Labor
* Foreign Worker
* GSP (Worker Rights)
* Illegal Worker
* International Labor Secretariat
* Job Creation
* Job Discrimination
* Job Security
* Job Training
* Labor Agreement
* Labor Code
* Labor Competition
* Labor Confederation
* Labor Cooperative
* Labor Costs
* Labor Courts
* Labor Disputes
* Labor Federation
* Labor Law
* Labor Leader
* Labor Market
* Labor Migration
* Labor Movement
* Labor Organization
* Labor Relations
* Labor Rights
* Labor Sector
* Labor Settlement
* Labor Standards
* Labor Union
* Layoffs
* Lockout
* Manpower
* Mediation
* NAFTA Labor Cooperation
* Occupational Health
* Occupational Safety
* Pension
* Prison Labor
* Privatization
* Right of Association
* Right to Organize Slave Labor
* Social Clause (WTO)
* Social Net
* Social Security
* Strike
* Trade
* Union
* Underemployment
* Unemployment
* Unemployment Insurance
* Vocational Training
* Wages
* Work Force
* Work Permit
* Worker Rights Workers
* Working Conditions
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ELTN LAND TRANSPORTATION
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
All aspects of land transportation. (Replaces RCHB file categories: IT, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Automobile
* Bridge
* Bus
* Cargo Handling
* Detention
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Highway
* Highway Access
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Land Transportation
* Maintenance
* Overland Cargo
* Public Transportation
* Railroad
* Railroad Accident
* Railway Access
* Rescue
* Schedule
* Traffic Accident
* Traffic Safety
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
* Truck
* Tunnel
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EMIN MINERALS AND METALS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The exploration, discovery, and extraction of minerals and metals. (Replaces RCHB file category: INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bauxite
* Bid
* Chromite
* Coal
* Cobalt
* Copper
* Drilling
* Excavation
* Exclusive Economic Zone
* Exploration
* Factory
* Gems
* Gold
* Iron
* Magnesium
* Manganese
* Metal
* Mine
* Mineral
* Mineral Reserve
* Mining
* Mining Accident
* Mining Concession
* Nickel
* Offshore Mining
* Ore
* Quarry
* Silver
* Tin
* Tungsten
* Uranium
* Uranium Enrichment
* Zinc
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ENRG ENERGY AND POWER
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Government and private commercial activities in acquiring and providing energy services from all types of sources. For petroleum and natural gas, see EPET. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, FSE)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Coal
* Dam
* Decontamination
* Electric Energy
* Electric Power Plant
* Energy Conservation
* Energy Consumption
* Energy Reserve
* Energy Shortage
* Factory
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Fuel Shortage
* Generator
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Hydroelectric Power Plant
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
* Nuclear Power Plant
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Power Line
* Public Utility
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Reexport
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* Stockpile
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Thermal Power Plant
* Transformer
* Uranium Enrichment
* Wind Energy
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EPET PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)
Government and private sector activities in the exploration and extraction of petroleum and natural gas. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FSE, PET)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bid
* Drilling
* Exploitation
* Exploration
* LPG
* Natural Gas
* Natural Gas Pipeline
* Natural Gas Production
* Natural Gas Reserve
* Offshore Drilling
* Offshore Drilling Platform
* Offshore Oil
* Oil Field
* Petroleum
* Petroleum Concession
* Petroleum Pipeline
* Petroleum Production
* Petroleum Reserve
* Petroleum Shortage
* Refinery
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ETRD FOREIGN TRADE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Exchange of goods between nations. (Replaces RCHB file category: FT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alcoholic Beverage
* Aluminum
* Animal Hides
* Antidumping
* Antitrust
* Apparel Trade
* Arms
* Arms Traffic
* Barter
* BOP
* Boycott
* Buffer Stock
* Chemical
* Clothing
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Commercial Aircraft
* Commodity
* Commodity Market
* Communications Equipment
* Computer
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Countertrade
* Countervailing Duty
* Cross Border Trade
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Clearance
* Customs Court
* Customs Fine
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Official
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Dairy Products
* Debt
* Development Program
* Dispute Settlement
* Diversion
* Duty Free Entry
* East West Trade
* Economic Cooperation
* EEC 1992
* EEP
* Electronic Equipment
* Exhibit
* Export
* Fair Trade
* Farm Equipment
* FCN
* Fertilizer
* Fish
* Food
* Food Contamination
* Food Inspection
* Footwear
* Foreign Market
* Free Trade Zone
* Garment Exports
* Garment Imports
* Government Procurement
* GSP
* Harmonized System
* Helicopter
* Import
* Industrialized Nation
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Intervention
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* Leather
* License
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber
* Machine Tool
* Manmade Fiber
* Market Access
* Meat
* Meat Inspection
* Medical Equipment
* Merger
* Metal
* MFN
* MIC
* Monopoly
* Multifiber Arrangement
* NAFTA
* Natural Fiber
* Newly Industrialized Countries
* Nonalcoholic Beverage
* Nontariff Barriers
* North South Dialogue
* Oils
* Oilseeds
* Perishable Commodities
* Petroleum Products
* Pharmaceuticals
* Plastics
* Poultry
* Private Sector
* Product Standards
* Public Sector
* Quota
* Railroad Equipment
* Ramie
* Reexport
* Rice
* Rubber
* Sanction
* Shellfish
* Silk
* Smuggling
* Soybean
* Steel
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Synthetic Fiber
* Synthetic Rubber
* Tariff
* Tariff Barriers
* Tariff Relief
* Television
* Textile Exports
* Textile Imports
* Textiles
* Tin
* Tobacco
* Trade Agreement
* Trade Balance
* Trade Complaint
* Trade Control
* Trade Concession
* Trade Discrimination
* Trade Dumping
* Trade Fair
* Trade Law
* Trade Liberalization
* Trade Opportunity
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Protectionism
* Trade Relations
* Trade Visit
* Tuna
* VAT
* Vegetable
* Vegetable Fiber
* Vegetable Oil
* Wheat
* Wine
* Wood Products
* Wool
* Yarns
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ETTC TRADE AND TECHNOLOGY CONTROLS
Effective from April 1984
Government efforts to control the transfer of goods (i.e., equipment),services, or technologies. This includes foreign policy trade controls, strategic (National Security) trade controls, munitions controls, general West to East technology transfer issues, and efforts to circumvent U.S. or COCOM controls. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FT, STR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Arms Traffic
* Blocked Assets
* Boycott
* COCOM Case
* COCOM List Review
* Computer
* Data Bases
* Data Processing Equipment
* Digital Switching
* Diversion
* EAA
* East West Trade
* Economic Warfare
* Electronic Equipment
* Embargo
* End Use Check
* End User
* Enforcement
* Espionage
* Exception List
* EXCON
* Export
* Export Control
* GSOIA
* GSOMIA
* High Technology Equipment
* IEEPA
* Illegal Trade
* Import Control
* ITAR
* Laboratory Equipment
* License
* Manufacturing Agreement
* Military Applications
* Military Critical Technologies
* Military Equipment
* Military Services
* Munitions Control
* NDPC
* Nonmarket Economy
* Origin Certificate
* Reexport
* Research & Development
* Sanction
* Security Survey
* Semiconductors
* SNEC
* Software
* Stockpile
* Strategic Material
* Strategic Trade Control
* Superconductor
* TCDC
* Technical Assistance Agreement
* Technology Acquisition Efforts
* Technology Gap
* Technology Transfer
* Transaction Check
* Turnkey Plant
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EWWT WATERBORNE TRANSPORTATION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Movement of commercial and private vessels over high seas and inland waterways. (Replaces RCHB file categories: OS, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antiterrorism
* Measures Canal
* Cargo Handling
* Coast Guard
* Containerization
* Dock Workers
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Insurance
* Load Line
* Maintenance
* Marine Cargo
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Maritime Flag
* Maritime Law
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Ship
* Patrol Boat
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Port Congestion
* Private Ship
* Refueling
* Registration
* Rescue
* River
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule Ship Accident
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Detention
* Ship Harassment
* Ship Movement
* Ship Registry
* Shipyard
* SOLAS
* Strait
* Tonnage Measurement
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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KACT: Strategic Arms Control (ACS) Treaties
Effective from August 2000 (Revised August 2004)
Use for all documents relating to specific, interrelated strategic (nuclear) arms control treaties and their implementation:
* ABM (i.e., anti-ballistic missile) treaty and its implementation body the SCC (Standing Consultative Commission);
* INF (i.e., Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) Treaty and its implementation body, the SVC (Special Verification Commission);
* START (i.e., Strategic Reductions Treaty) and its implementation body, the JCIC (Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission); and the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT) or the Moscow Treaty and its implementing body, the BIC (Bilateral Implementation Commission).
Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NP/EX)
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KAWC: Atrocities and War Crimes
Effective from July 2001
Use for all documents relating to atrocities, massacres, and war crimes, including allegations, reports, investigations, and prosecutions of genocide, crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, and violations of the laws or customs for war. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau, Info: S/WCI)
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KCFE: Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
Effective from August 1989
Use on all documents between U.S. Vienna and the Department pertaining to CFE negotiations; documents pertaining to conventional forces in Europe including both Eastern and Western forces, their structure, posture, changes, etc.; documents pertaining to allied and Warsaw Pact conventional arms control positions, plans and related internal political situations, documents referring to the High Level Task Force (HLTF) or its subgroups; and all documents discussing congressional delegation visits to Europe that will address conventional arms control issues. (Action: EUR/RPM)
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KCIP: Critical Infrastructure Protection
Effective from August 2001
Use for all documents reporting on critical infrastructure protection (CIP) issues, which are defined as vulnerabilities and threats, both physical and cyber, to systems and assets (particularly interconnected information systems and networks) so vital to a nation that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on national security, national economic security, and/or national public health and safety. Use for reporting of CIP issues both as they affect host country and as they impact the United States. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOM: Chief of Mission
Effective from March 2004
Use for all documents addressed for action to the chief of a U.S. mission in a foreign location (e.g., ambassadors, chargés d’affaires, consuls general, or principal officers). Use KCOM in conjunction with generic PASS instructions to chiefs of mission in Department telegrams. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOR: Corruption and Anti-Corruption
Effective from August 2001
Use for all documents relating to corruption and anti-corruption, dishonesty, and unethical behavior among public officials representing local, provincial, and national governments. This would include linkages with justice, economic, social and political entities. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCRM: Criminal Activity
Effective from April 1994 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to criminal organizations and activities, the threat they pose to U.S. interests and/or friendly governments, and host country and U.S. Government programs to combat them. This includes international criminal organizations; money laundering and other financial crimes; illicit trafficking including alien smuggling and gun running; international stolen property theft and fencing rings; international frauds and commercial crimes; UN crime meetings and anti-crime programs; and interaction with international and regional organizations on these issues. U.S. assistance covers training of host country judicial and law enforcement agencies. Use this K TAGS with the Subject TAGS SOCI. Distinguish the use of this TAGS from AID-funded administration of justice programs in Latin America (KJUS),anti-narcotics issues and programs (SNAR),and anti-terrorism issues and programs (PTER). (Action: INL/ENT)
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KDEM: Democratization
Effective from May 1991
Use on all documents dealing with democratization in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Encouraging democratization constitutes an essential component of U.S. policy. The U.S. Government is devoting significant resources to monitor and promote regional trends away from autocratic rule and toward political pluralism. Programs designed to encourage democratization are diverse, and often are cross-discipline in nature, requiring the involvement of several U.S. Government agencies. Also use the appropriate Subject and Geo-Political TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KDRG: Detainee Repatriation from Guantanamo Bay
Effective from December 2007
Use for all documents addressing issues connected to the repatriation and transfer of detainees in U.S. Government custody at the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to their countries of origin or to third countries. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/WCI)
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KFRD: Fraud Prevention Programs
Effective from August 1986
Use on all reporting that refers to efforts and activities pertaining to the prevention of fraud and deceptive practices in the issuance of visas, passports, the issuance of Federal benefits to U.S. citizens and others, and to active measures developed by the Department to oversee their legality and for reporting upon the results of antifraud and prevention measures in consular matters. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: CA/FPP)
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KGHG: Global Climate Change
Effective from May 2007
Use for all documents addressing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and global climate change (also referred to as global warming). This includes, but is not limited to, the economic, energy, environmental, geographic, health, scientific, social, and political linkages of global climate change. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: OES/EGC)
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KGIC: Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism
Effective from September 2006
Use for all documents relating to the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. The Global Initiative works toward the prevention, detection, and response to acts of nuclear terrorism. Also use appropriate Subject Tags. (Action: ISM/WMDT)
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KHIV: Emerging Infectious Diseases and HIV/AIDS Program
Effective from June 2000
Use for all documents relating to actual and prospective activities by the U.S. Government, alone or in conjunction with or through other entities, to combat HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. Also use Appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: S/GAC)
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KHLS: Homeland Security
Effective from August 2006
Use for all documents relating to all aspects of homeland security issues, including acts of terrorism directed at the U.S. homeland, its citizens, or interests; planning and support for such acts of terrorism; capabilities of terrorist groups; activities of institutions, groups, or individuals that support such terrorism; acts of terrorism that transcend national boundaries due to the support network or nationality of the perpetrator, victim, or facility or conventional, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) terrorism; terrorist travel; actions of the host government, institutions, or individuals related to support for or opposition to U.S. Government homeland security or counter-terrorism initiatives; actions of the host government or multilateral organizations related to the establishment of host country or regional security, bureaucratic, physical, or cyber infrastructure; homeland security implications and effects of border protection, immigration, and customs policies; transportation (e.g., seaports, civil air) security; host government travel document control and standards; emergency, preparedness, and response; biodefense, science and technology development related to the above areas; reactions of host government, media, etc., to homeland security-related programs and activities in the United States, or of the U.S. Government. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/CT, CA, OES, A/OEM)
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KIPR: Intellectual Property Rights
Effective from December 1988 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to intellectual property rights which include patents, trademarks, copyrights, semiconductor designs (mask works),industrial designs, trade secrets, appellations of origin and other forms of protection to reward and encourage innovation and creativity. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/TPP/MTA/IPC)
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KIRF: International Religious Freedom
Effective from January 1999
Use on all documents relating to all issues of religious freedom and persecution, including civil unrest where religion is a precipitating factor; changes to or enforcement of laws affecting freedom of religion; religious aspects of movements, parties or persons seeking governmental change; governmental repression of religious minorities, movements or leaders; religion playing a role in reconciling conflicts; and changes in religious demographics that may produce societal changes. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: DRL/IRF)
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KISL: Islamic Issues
Effective from November 1988 (Revised April 2000)
Use on documents treating government involvement in recognition of or approaches to Islam; political and economic activities undertaken by private Islamic organizations or prominent individuals; and fundamentalism. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS.
(Action: NEA/PPR, AF/RA, EAP/RA)
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KJUS: Administration of Justice
Effective from May 1986 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with the administration of justice in host countries, particularly as it relates to U.S. objectives of promoting democracy and just economic and social development. This includes judicial reforms, political reporting on personalities and institutions involved in the administration of justice, judicial infrastructure development, criminal investigation capabilities, penal systems, legal training, and assistance and exchange programs in this field. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: WHA/PPC)
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KMCA: Millennium Challenge Account
Effective from August 2004
Use for documents relating to all aspects of the Millennium Challenge Account, a U.S. new foreign assistance account, or the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the independent government corporation recently established to manage and oversee this assistance. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: MCC/IT)
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KMDR: Media Reaction Reporting
Effective From October 1999
Use on all documents dealing with setting post ―Watching Briefs and on all post reporting concerning editorial content and media reaction. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: INR/R)
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KNNP: Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Effective from April 1984
Use on all documents on U.S. policy for preventing the spread of nuclear weapons to other countries, the transfer of nuclear material, equipment of technology, agreements for cooperation on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, matters concerning multilateral discussions on the uses of nuclear energy including the activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and activities in other countries related to the acquisition of nuclear explosives. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KOLY: Olympic Games Reporting
Effective from February 1984
Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. Note: KOLY will be used in the above prescribed manner for all subsequent winter and summer Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KPAL: Palestinian Affairs
Effective from August 1983 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with the Palestinian people, as a group or in part, or the area known as Palestine. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. (Action: NEA/PA)
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KPAO: Public Affairs Office
Effective from May 2000
Use on all documents intended for Public Affairs sections abroad, and should be used by field Public Affairs sections abroad on all documents coming into the Department which relate to Public Diplomacy Programs. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: ECA/EX/PR)
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KPIN: Political Internationals
Effective from November 1984
Use on all documents relating to the activities and policies of the four major Political Internationals: Socialist International, Christian Democratic International, Liberal International, and the International Democratic Union. This includes reporting on the attitudes of member parties towards the Internationals, the interaction between member parties of the Internationals, and the activities of the Internationals themselves. In addition, this TAGS should be used on all documents relating to the policies of the German (FRG) political foundations: Friederich Ebert, Konrad Adenauer, Hanns Seidel, and Friederich Naumann. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: P)
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KPKO: United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
Effective from August 1996
Use on all documents relating to existing or potential United Nations peacekeeping activities, including proposals for and negotiations with other countries on peacekeeping activities, military support, sanctions monitoring, elections and humanitarian activities, as well as interaction with international and regional organizations on peacekeeping. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KPWR: Power Support Program
Effective from March 1993
Use on all documents dealing with the Department’s electrical power support requirements. The program provides consolidated funding for generators, central uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, and PCB transformer abatement projects. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OBO/PE/DE)
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KRAD: Radioactive Contamination of the Environment
Effective from May 1997 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with radioactive contamination of the environment from whatever source—military or civilian use, transportation, storage, or disposal of nuclear material Appropriate Subject Terms to use with this TAGS would include nuclear contamination, radiation, radioactive material and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) emergency notification. In connection with accidental or deliberate contamination, appropriate Terms to use with this TAGS include radioactive material transfer, radioactive waste disposal, radioactive waste management, industrial/medical radiography, medical isotope, and transfer of fissile material. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES/OA)
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KSCA: Science Counselors and Attachés
Effective from February 1983
Use on all documents drafted by or sent to Science Counselors and Science Attachés. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES). Note: KSCA replaces the Organization SCSA.
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KSPR: Strategic, Performance and Resource Planning
Effective from October 1997
Use on all documents dealing with the strategic planning process for all foreign affairs agencies or agencies with operations and programs abroad as well as the Department’s own strategic planning activities. This includes all resource allocation processes when associated with the Mission Performance Plan (MPP),namely: budget formulation, the Financial Plan (FINPLAN),and the field budget plan. Technical and operational messages that are purely budget-focused should only use ABUD. Use KSPR on messages regarding personnel planning in connection with the annual MPP exercises, and subjects relating to the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993. Operational personnel requests (e.g., new positions, classification actions, conversions of positions from FSN to PIT, etc.) should still only use APER. Suggested terms to use with KSPR are program planning, Mission Performance Plan (MPP),Resource Allocations and Budget Integration Tool (RABIT) and Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: M/P)
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KSUM: Summit Meetings
Effective from January 1983 (Revised November 1987)
Use on all documents concerning Summit Meetings. This includes substantive and administrative arrangements for meetings, records of meetings and reports on actions by participants as a result of meetings, including preparatory meetings. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KTFN: Terrorism Finance Traffic
Effective from July 2004
Use for documents relating to all aspects of terrorism financing; sanctions; designations of individuals under Executive Orders (E.O.) dealing with terrorism finance such as E.O. 13224; related UN resolutions; denial of funds to terrorists; and other related aspects of terrorism financing. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/ESC)
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KTIA: Treaties and International Agreements
Effective from June 1984
Use on all documents concerning treaties, including conventions, protocols, or other International Agreements, such as exchange of notes, exchange of letters and memoranda of understanding, as well as requirements of the Case Act (11 FAM 724; 1 U.S.C. 112B). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: L/T)
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KTIP: Trafficking in Persons
Effective from September 2008
Use for all cables related to the topics of trafficking in persons, human trafficking, slavery, involuntary servitude, forced labor, labor migration, illegal migration, commercial sexual exploitation, prostitution, sex tourism, forced marriage, child labor, debt bondage, peonage, and child soldiering. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: G/TIP)
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KUNR: UN Reform
Effective from November 1995
Use on all documents dealing with all efforts to reform and restructure the United Nations. Some of the reforms are: the UN budget and/or ceiling, security council expansion, managerial improvements, and strengthening the role of the UN. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KWBG: West Bank and Gaza
Effective from December 1993 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with the implementation of the Israeli-PLO Declaration of Principles, including Palestinian interim self-rule, economic development and development assistance to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Also, use for Israeli-PLO negotiations on implementing the agreement and political developments in the West Bank and Gaza including elections for a Palestinian Council. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NEA/IPA)
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KWMN: Women Issues
Effective from June 1995
Use on all documents relating to the Fourth World Conference on Women and any future World Conferences on Women. Also use this TAGS on issues concerning women’s human rights, women’s political participation, women-in-development, and any discussions of women in the United Nations or any other international organizations. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: G/CS, IO, and DRL)
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MARR MILITARY AND DEFENSE ARRANGEMENTS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts to establish and maintain collective security or other international military cooperation. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Alliance
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* CFE
* Collective Security
* DECA
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Ground Forces
* Home Porting
* Host Government
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Lease
* Military Advisor
* Military Agreement
* Military Base
* Military Cooperation
* Military Exercise
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Visit
* Minesweeping
* Monitoring
* National Security
* Naval Forces
* Overflight Clearance
* Peace Plan
* Peacekeeping Forces
* Refueling
* Security Assessment
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Movement
* SOFA
* Tracking Station
* Troop Contribution
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Truce Observer
* Weapons Deployment
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MASS MILITARY ASSISTANCE AND SALES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The Govemment to Govemment transfer, sale, or loan of military equipment, advisers, or services. (Replaces RCHB file categories DEF, FT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Airlift
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Bomber Aircraft
* CAT
* Congressional Presentation
* Credit
* Debt
* Debt Repayment
* Diversion
* Donor
* Economic Support Fund
* Fighter Aircraft
* FMS
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* IMET
* Loan
* Maintenance
* MAP
* Military Adviser
* Military Agreement
* Military Aircraft
* Military Assistance
* Military Procurement
* Military Training
* Military Vehicle
* Missile
* Reexport
* Salvage
* Spare Parts
* Surplus Weapons Disposal
* Technical Assistance
* Technology Transfer
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MCAP MILITARY CAPABILITIES
Effective from March 1973 to June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The nonnuclear offensive and defensive ability of the military establishment of a nation or international organization. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Bomber Aircraft
* Burden sharing
* Cargo Aircraft
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon
* Control Civil Defense
* Coast Guard
* Conscription
* Contingency Plan
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon
* Control Court Martial
* Defense Industry
* Demobilization
* Fighter Aircraft
* Ground Forces
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* Infrastructure
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Logistics
* Military Aircraft
* Military Balance
* Military Budget
* Military Buildup
* Military Capability
* Military Communication
* Military Equipment
* Military Exercise
* Military Leader
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Reserve
* Missile
* Mobilization
* National Guard
* Naval Forces
* Naval Ship
* Ordnance
* Radar
* RDF
* Security Assessment
* Strategic Plan
* Submarine
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
* Warning System
* Weapons Deployment
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MNUC MILITARY NUCLEAR APPLICATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The development and use of nuclear technology for military purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Artillery
* Counterforce
* Decontamination
* Delivery Vehicle
* Fissionable Material
* Guidance System
* INF
* LRTNF
* Military Capability
* Missile
* Missile Site
* Monitoring
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Powered Ship
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Winter
* Plutonium
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Radioactive Waste Management
* Spent Fuel
* Strategic Plan
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
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MOPS MILITARY OPERATIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Declared or undeclared war involving two or more nations. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aggression
* Air Alert
* Air Forces
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Blockade
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Ceasefire
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* Combat
* Concentration Camp
* CONTRA
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Escalation
* Explosives
* Ground Forces
* Guerrilla
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intervention
* Invasion
* KIA
* Landing Rights
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* MIA
* Military Balance
* Military Buildup
* Military Plan
* Minesweeping
* Naval Forces
* No Fly Zone
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Occupied Area
* Peace Plan
* POW
* Repatriation
* Reprisal
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Ship Movement
* Surrender
* Threat
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* War
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ODIP U.S. DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATION
Effective from January 1983
Official representational and ceremonial activities of U.S. diplomats and U.S. Government officials; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by U.S. officials. (Replaces RCHB file categories: PER, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Agrement
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Anniversary
* Assault
* Attache
* Ceremonial Representation
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* Personnel Conduct
* Real Property
* Social Reception
* Tax Exemption
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OEXC EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL
EXCHANGE OPERATIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
The administration and operation of educational and cultural exchange programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: EDX)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* American Studies
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Community
* Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Exchange Program
* Designation Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* FLEX Program
* Foreign Leader Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange Grant
* Humphrey Program
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Nomination
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* Scientist
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* U.S. Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Youth Exchanges
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OFDP FOREIGN DIPLOMATS AND FOREIGN MISSIONS
Effective from January 1983
Administrative, representational, and ceremonial matters related to non-U.S. diplomatic personnel and foreign missions; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by non-U.S. diplomats. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Assault
* Attache
* Building Design
* Ceremonial Representation
* Consul
* Consulate
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Embassy
* Envoy
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* NOB
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Post Closing
* Post Opening
* Real Property
* Recall
* Social Reception
* Staffing
* Tax Exemption
* Third Country Counterparts
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OIIP INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION PROGRAMS
Effective from October 1999
Administrative and operational aspects of international information programs, products, and services that increase international support for U.S. policies and understanding of U.S. society.
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advance Documents Service
* Article Alert
* Book Donations
* Book Fairs
* Book Reprints
* Book Translations
* Books and Documents List
* Computer
* Cooperative Agreements
* Copyright
* Design Services
* DVC
* Electronic Journal
* Grant
* Graphic Design
* I-Bucks
* IRC
* IRO
* Listserv
* Paper Shows
* PDQ
* Photo Coverage
* Photo Rights
* Photo Requests
* Public Diplomacy
* Publication
* Reference Requests
* Speaker
* Technology Partnerships
* Teleconference
* Translation Requests
* Washington File
* Websites
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OPDC DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE
Effective from January 1983
Correspondence and ceremonial messages between prominent leaders and principal officers. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acknowledgment
* Anniversary
* Appreciation Message
* Commemorative Message
* Condolence Message
* Congratulatory Message
* Invitation
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OPRC PUBLIC RELATIONS AND CORRESPONDENCE
Effective from January 1983
Correspondence to and from the public commenting on U.S. policy and foreign incidents, requesting information and speaking engagements, and any other public relations activities. This TAGS includes routine constituent's correspondence such as employment opportunities, requests for photographs, autographs, etc. Also includes press summaries and press conferences, public opinion polls, and the administrative arrangements for press conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: PR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Authentication
* Autograph
* Constituents Mail
* Employment
* Interview
* Invitation
* Journalist
* Photo Request
* Photograph
* Poll
* Press Relations
* Public Diplomacy
* Public Information Publication
* Speaker
* Translation
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OREP U.S. CONGRESSIONAL TRAVEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Administrative and operational aspects of travel by Congressmen, congressional staffers, and delegations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LEG)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* CODEL
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protective Security
* Staffdel
* Support Services
* Travel Advisory
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OSCI SCIENCE GRANTS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administration of grants and disbursal of funds of U.S. Government sponsored research programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Foreign Currency
* Grant
* Science Grant
* Scientific Exchange
* Scientist
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OTRA TRAVEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Routine and operational aspects of travel and visits by other than prominent individuals and Congressmen. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL, TP, TRV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Businessmen
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Dependent
* Itinerary
* Journalist
* Official Travel
* Scientific Visit
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
* Travel Locator Messages
* Travel Orders
* Travel Report
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OVIP VISITS AND TRAVEL OF PROMINENT INDIVIDUALS AND LEADERS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administrative and operational aspects of visits or travel of U.S. and foreign leaders and prominent individuals. Use for assistant secretary level and above or foreign equivalent. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Envoy
* Hotel
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protection Technical Services
* Protective Security
* Secretarys Detail
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
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PARM ARMS CONTROLS AND DISARMAMENT
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts by governments to control the acquisition, development, and production of nuclear, biological, chemical, and other advanced weaponry. Also includes the control of efforts by countries to develop nuclear capabilities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, FT, POL, STR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* ABM Treaty
* Advance Notification
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aerial Inspection
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Arms Buildup
* Arms Control
* Arms Control Agreement
* Arms Control Impact Statement
* Arms Talks
* Arms Traffic
* Associated Measures
* Biological Warfare Convention
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* CDE
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* CNEA
* Compliance
* Confidence Building Measures
* Constraints
* Consultation
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* Conventional Weapon Freeze
* Cooperative Measures
* Counterforce
* Counting Rule
* CST
* CTB
* Deterrence
* Disarmament
* Diversion
* East West Relations
* Electronic Weapons Systems
* Emerging Technologies
* ENMOD
* Entry Exit Points
* Fissionable Material
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hotline
* Implementation
* INF
* IOZP
* Laser Fusion
* Launchers
* Limited Test Ban Treaty
* LRTNF
* Military Budget Reduction
* Military Expenditures
* Missile
* Monitoring
* Moratorium
* Napalm
* National Guidelines Area
* No First Use
* Nonproliferation
* Nonuse of Force
* NPT
* NRR
* NTEM
* NTM
* Nuclear Agreements
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Enrichment Process
* Nuclear Equipment
* Nuclear Free Zone
* Nuclear Material
* Nuclear Proliferation
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Technical Assistance
* Nuclear Technology
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Weapon Free Zone
* Nuclear Weapon Freeze
* Particle Beam
* Peace Movement
* Plutonium
* Political Concession
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* SCC
* SDI
* Simulations
* SNEC
* Spent Fuel
* START
* Stockpile
* Strategic Policy
* Technology Transfer
* Telemetry
* Tlatelolco Treaty
* Troop Level
* TTBT
* Unconventional Weapon
* Verification
* Warhead
* Weapon Destruction
* Weapon Systems Deactivation
* Weapons Deployment
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PBTS NATIONAL BOUNDARIES, TERRITORIES, AND SOVEREIGNTY
Effective from January 1983
A territory over which dominion is exercised. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Alert
* Airspace
* Annexation
* Arbitration
* Archipelago
* Border Control
* Border Crossing
* Border Dispute
* Border Incident
* Boundary
* Boundary Claim
* Boundary Determination
* Canal
* Cession
* Coast Guard
* Continental Shelf
* Court Decision
* Dependency
* Dispute Settlement
* Island
* Island Claim
* Land Settlement
* Landlocked Country
* Maritime Boundary
* Mediation
* Occupied Area
* Overflight
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Province
* River
* Seabed
* Ship Detention
* Sovereignty
* Strait
* Survey
* Territorial Claim
* Territorial Reversion
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Unification
* Territorial Waters
* Trust Territory
* Water Boundary Agreement
* Water Boundary Claim
* West Bank
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PGOV INTERNAL GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised June 1983)
The form, structure, and organization of local, provincial, and national governments. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Absentee Ballot
* Administration of Justice
* Alliance
* Antigovernment
* Arbitration
* Berlin Access
* Berlin Wall
* Cabinet
* Cabinet Meeting
* Campaign
* Candidacy Support
* Candidate
* Charter
* Church State Relations
* Coalition Government
* Colonialism
* Communism
* Confederation
* Constitution
* Constitutional Law
* Corruption
* Court
* Court Decision
* Death
* Democracy
* Dictatorship
* Election
* Election Forecast
* Election Irregularities
* Election Law
* Election Observer
* Election Reform
* Election Results
* Extremist
* Federation
* First Lady
* Glasnost
* Government Agency
* Government Budget
* Government Media Relations
* Government Official
* Government Reform
* Governor
* Impeachment
* Inauguration
* Influence
* Infrastructure
* Interim Government
* Judicial Reform
* Judiciary
* Junta
* King
* Legislation
* Legislator
* Legislature
* Martial Law
* Mayor
* Minister
* Minority
* Municipal
* Nationalism
* Opposition
* Opposition Party
* Party Faction
* Party Leader
* Party Line
* Party Meeting
* Party Stability
* Party Strength
* Party Unity
* Patronage
* Perestroyka
* Political Adviser
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Crisis
* Political Leader
* Political Military Relations
* Political Party
* Political Trend
* Poll
* President
* Prime Minister
* Progovernment
* Province
* Queen
* Reconciliation
* Referendum
* Reorganization
* Resignation from Office
* Reunification
* Royal Family
* Ruling Party
* Self Government
* Socialism
* Special Interest Group
* State of the Union Message
* Succession
* Tenure of Office
* Totalitarian
* Trial
* Trust
* Territory
* Veto
* Vice President
* Voting
* Voting Rights
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PHSA HIGH SEAS AFFAIRS
Effective from January 1983
Activities on the high seas, outside a country's national jurisdiction. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Continental Shelf
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive
* Economic Zone
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Freedom of Navigation
* Hazardous Cargo
* Innocent Passage
* International Waters
* LOS
* Marine Mammal
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Natural Resources
* Ocean Dumping
* Piracy
* Seabed
* Seabed Mining
* Ship Accident
* Ship Detention
* Ship Movement
* Strait
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Waters
* Transit Passage
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PHUM HUMAN RIGHTS
Effective from January 1985
The violation of rights attributable to human beings. (Replaces RCHB file categories: POL, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Abuse
* Amnesty
* Antisemitic
* Apartheid
* Asylum
* Asylum Request
* Capital Punishment
* Childrens Rights
* Civil Rights
* Concentration Camp
* Court Decision
* Death Squad
* Deportation
* Detainee
* Detection Equipment
* Detention Development Rights
* Discrimination
* Economic Rights
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Ethnic Group
* EVD
* Execution
* Exile
* Family
* Forced Labor
* Harassment
* Human Rights
* Humane
* Imprisonment
* Indigenous Peoples
* Individual Rights
* Internal Exile
* Internee
* Mass Migration
* Massacre
* Minority
* Minority Rights
* Missing Person
* Mistreatment
* Murder
* Persecution
* Police Equipment
* Political Disappearance
* Political Prisoner
* Political Repression
* Political Rights
* Poverty
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Welfare
* Proselytize
* Psychiatric Abuse
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Returnees
* Rights of Peoples
* Security Forces
* Sponsorship
* Torture
* Walk In Procedures
* Women
* Womens Rights
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PINR INTELLIGENCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The gathering and reporting of intelligence information, including biographic and background data. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INT, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aerial Reconnaissance
* Biographic Information
* Contacts
* Counterintelligence
* Covert Operations
* Disinformation
* Espionage
* Film
* Humint Collection Plan
* Information Security
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intelligence Collection
* Intelligence Services
* Maps
* Monitoring
* Olive Harvest
* PLPPR
* Remote Sensing
* Satellite
* Ship Movement
* Surveillance Aircraft
* Tracking Station
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PINS NATIONAL SECURITY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
A regime's stability, control, or efforts to maintain itself in power, as well as activities and efforts to disrupt or overthrow the established regime by other than normal political activity. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Assassination
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Censorship
* Church State Relations
* Civil War
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Contingency Plan
* CONTRA
* Counterinsurgency
* Coup
* Court Decision
* Court Martial
* Death Squad
* Defector
* Demobilization
* Detention
* Dissident
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Escalation
* Ethnic Group
* Execution
* Exile
* Exiled Government
* Exit Permit
* Expulsion
* Extremist
* General Strike
* Guerrilla
* Harassment
* Hostility
* Hunger Strike
* Impeachment
* Infiltration
* Insurgency
* Intelligence Assessment
* Internal Control
* Intervention
* Land Reform
* Law Enforcement
* Liberation Front
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* Mercenary
* Minority
* Missing Person
* National Security
* Occupied Area
* Persona Non Grata
* Plot
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Political Assessment
* Political Crisis
* Political Military Relations
* Political Prisoner
* Political Settlement
* Political Stability
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Release
* Propaganda
* Property Protection
* Religious Group
* Repression
* Reprisal
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Sabotage
* Seizure
* Surrender
* Threat
* Travel Document
* Travel Restriction
* Treason
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Violence
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PREF REFUGEES
Effective from January 1985 (Revised March 1995)
People who move across borders because of danger to life or fear of persecution. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Admissions
* Allocation
* Asylum Policy
* Early Warning
* Emergency Response
* ESLCO
* Family Reunification
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Internally Displaced Persons
* Letter of Introduction
* ODP
* Prevention
* Refugee Camp
* Refugee Protection
* Refugee Relief
* Refugee Resettlement
* Refugee Settlement
* Refugee Status
* Repatriation
* Safe Country of Origin and Transit
* Safe Haven
* Sponsorship
* Temporary Protection
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
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PREL EXTERNAL POLITICAL RELATIONS
Effective from January 1983
The political relations between countries, international or regional organizations both bilateral and multilateral, that assess intentions, objectives, plans, or possible courses of interaction. (Replaces RCHB file category: CSM, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alliance
* Ambassador
* Amity
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antisoviet
* Bilateral Cooperation
* CBI
* Cold War
* Commitment
* Condemnation
* Consular Service
* Demarche
* Detente
* Deterrence
* Diplomatic Protest
* East West Relations
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Expulsion
* Extradition Treaty
* Foreign Commitment
* Foreign Relations
* Front Line States
* Government Reaction
* Hegemony
* Industrialized Nation
* Influence
* International Organization
* Intervention
* LDC
* Lobbying
* NAM
* National Security
* Neutrality
* No Fly Zone
* Nonaggression
* Nonaligned Nations
* Nonparticipation
* North South Dialogue
* Open Skies Treaty
* Opposition
* Participation
* Peace
* Peace Plan
* Persona Non Grata
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Initiative
* Political Settlement
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Exchange
* Prisoner Transfer
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Relations
* Reciprocity
* Recognition
* Reconciliation
* Regional Organization
* Relations Establishment
* Relations Interruption
* Reprisal
* Sanction
* Secession
* Signatory
* Sister City
* Third Country Representation
* Third World
* Threat
* War Claims
* West Bank
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PROP PROPAGANDA AND PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The spreading of ideology, information, or rumor for the purpose of supporting or defaming nations, institutions, causes, peoples, or persons. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CSM, CUL, INF, MP, POL, PPB, RAD, TV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Active Measures
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antinuclear
* Antisoviet
* Brain Drain
* Brainwashing
* Broadcasting
* Campaign
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Disinformation
* Frequency Interference
* Harassment
* Influence
* Jamming
* Lobbying
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Propaganda
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Disclosure
* Public Information
* Public Relations
* Publication
* Repression
* Slander
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PTER TERRORISTS AND TERRORISM
Effective from March 1981 (Revised January 1983)
All aspects of terrorism which transcend national boundaries due to the nationality of the perpetrator, victim, place, or the incident. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acts of Terrorists
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Antiterrorist Forces
* Assassination
* Assault
* Bomb Threat
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Hijacking
* Hostage
* Hostility
* Infiltration
* Kidnapping
* Kidnapping Threat
* Mission Takeover
* Piracy
* Plot
* Proterrorism
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Small Arms
* Surrender
* Terrorism
* Terrorist Activities
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Violence
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SCUL CULTURAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
Any part or totality of a nation's behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, or sociology. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CUL, EDU, MP, PPB, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* American Studies
* Anthropology
* Archaeology
* Artifact
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Commemorative Celebration
* Community Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Presentation
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Education
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Ethnic Group
* Excavation
* Exchange Program Designation
* Exhibit
* Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* Fine Arts
* FLEX Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange
* History
* Holiday
* Humphrey Program
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Language
* Library
* Magazine
* Memorial
* Missionary
* Museum
* National Flag
* Newspaper
* Olympics
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Piracy
* Place of Worship
* Pope
* Publication
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Religious Leader
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* School
* Social Custom
* Social Reform
* Sports
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* University
* US Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Women
* Youth
* Youth Exchanges
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SENV ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The preservation, deterioration, and conservation of natural and animal resources, the air, water, land, and space environments. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AGR, CUL, E, HLTH, INCO, OS, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acid Rain
* Air Pollution
* Animal Conservation
* Animal Hides
* Atmosphere
* Biodiversity
* CITES
* Crop
* Destruction
* Dam
* Desertification
* Drought
* Earthquake
* Ecology
* Endangered Species
* Environment
* Erosion
* Exploitation
* Famine
* Fire
* Fish
* Flood
* Flora
* Forestry
* Fungicide
* Habitat
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Herbicide
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insect
* Land Conservation
* Marine
* Mammal
* Migratory Animals
* Monsoon
* National Park
* Natural Disaster
* Natural Resources
* Noise Pollution
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Winter
* Ocean Dumping
* Oil Spill
* Ozone
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Pollution Control
* Preservation
* Rainfall
* Seabed
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sludge
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soil Pollution
* Species Protection
* Storm
* Tidal Wave
* Transboundary Pollution
* Tropical Forest
* Volcanic Eruption
* Waste
* Waste Disposal
* Water
* Water Analysis
* Water Conservation
* Water Pollution
* Water Supply System
* Weather
* Whales
* Wildlife
* Yellow Rain
* Zoo
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SMIG MIGRATION
Effective from March 1995
The legal or illegal movement of people across borders, border control, and the treatment of aliens by receiving states. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alien Interdiction
* Border Control
* Cross Border Migration
* Economic Migration
* Emigration
* Environmental Migration
* Family Reunification
* Illegal Migration
* Immigration
* Labor Migration
* Migration
* Migration and Development Policy
* Nationality and Citizenship
* Readmission Agreements
* Remittances
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SNAR NARCOTICS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 2008)
The illegal production, distribution, and use of narcotic drugs. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aircraft Registry
* Cocaine
* Crop Destruction
* Crop Substitution
* Crops
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Demand Reduction
* Detection
* Equipment
* Eradication
* Exhibit
* Foreigners
* Hashish
* Herbicide
* Heroin
* Illicit
* Immigration
* Interdiction
* Law Enforcement
* Legal
* Marijuana
* Money Laundering
* Morphine
* Narcotics
* Narcotics Abuse
* Narcotics Control
* Narcotics Detection
* Narcotics Seizure
* Narcotics Traffic
* Opium
* Patrol Boat
* Psychotropic Drugs
* Seizure
* Ship Registry
* Smuggling
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SOCI SOCIAL CONDITIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The conditions and factors that affect the social welfare of a community. (Replaces RCHB file category: HLTH, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Abortion
* Administration of Justice
* Adoption
* AIDS
* Birth Rate
* Black Market
* Census
* Child
* Custody
* Children
* Civil Disobedience
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Consumer Protection
* Crime
* Crime Control
* Cult
* Demography
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Divorce
* Educational Reform
* Elderly
* Epidemic
* Family
* Family Planning
* Food
* Fugitive
* Genocide
* Glasnost
* Health
* Housing
* Housing Shortage
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Hunger Strike
* Illegal Alien
* Immigrant
* Immigration Control
* Infant
* Infrastructure
* Inoculation
* Insurance
* Law Enforcement
* Life Expectancy
* Marriage
* Medical Care
* Medical Facility
* Mental Health
* Minority
* Modernization
* Mortality Rate
* Murder
* Penal System
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Population
* Population Growth
* Pornography
* Prison
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Prostitution
* Public Safety
* Public Transportation
* Public Welfare
* Quarantine
* Recall
* Reform
* Rehabilitation
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Rural Area
* Sanitation
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sex Ratio
* Sexual Crime
* Sexual Harassment
* Social Development
* Social Reform
* Social Security
* Social Service
* Social Trend
* Special Interest Group
* Standard of Living
* Sterilization
* Theft
* Urban Area
* Violence
* Volunteers
* Water Supply System
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TBIO BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL SCIENCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The anatomy, physiology, chemistry, and psychology that affect living organisms and the mechanisms of their expression. (Replaces RCHB file categories: HLTH, SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AIDS
* Animals
* Biology
* Biotechnology
* Chemistry
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Eradication
* Food
* Genetic Engineering
* Hormones
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Medical Science
* Nuclear Contamination
* Parapsychology
* Pest Control
* Pharmaceuticals
* Quarantine
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* STRIDE Technology
* Technology
* Transfer
* Vaccine
* Zoology
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TPHY PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development in any of the physical sciences. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Atmosphere
* Chemistry
* Geodesy
* Geology
* Hydrology
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Maps
* Materials Science
* Meteorology
* Metrology
* Microwave
* Minerology
* Ocean Drilling
* Oceanography
* Physics
* Research & Development
* Research Vessel
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Scientific Visit
* Seismology
* STRIDE
* Survey
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Volcanology
* Weather
* Weather Station
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TRGY ENERGY TECHNOLOGY
Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development of energy sources. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF, FSE, PET, SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Electric Energy
* Energy Conservation
* Exploration
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Magnetic
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Petroleum
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* SSC
* STRIDE
* Synthetic Fuel
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Transmitters
* Wind Energy
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TSPA SPACE ACTIVITIES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development leading to and resulting in the exploration and utilization of outer space. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, SP, TEL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Astronaut
* Astronomy
* Communications Satellite
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* ELV
* Exploration
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Technology Equipment
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Landing Rights
* Navigational Aid
* Orbit
* Outer Space
* Outer Space Commercialization
* Peaceful Use of Outer Space
* Reentry
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Salvage
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Space Agreement
* Space Fragment
* Space Law
* Space Liability
* Space Program
* Space Station
* Spacecraft
* Spacecraft Recovery
* Spaceflight
* STRIDE
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Telecommunication
* Tracking Station
* UFO
CONFIDENTIAL
CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN
SECRET
SECRET//NOFORN
UNCLASSIFIED
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
By year:
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ABLD BUILDING AND GROUNDS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The acquisition, management, and operation of U.S.-owned or-leased facilities and sites both domestic and foreign. (Replaces RCHB file categories: BG, ES)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acquisition
* AIEP
* Allotment
* Antenna
* Antiques
* Appraisals
* Architecture
* Asbestos
* Audit
* Bid Results
* Breathing Device
* Building
* Building Design
* Building Management
* Carpet
* Chancellery
* Construction Management
* Construction Security
* Consulate
* Contract Amendment Contract Award Contract Renewal Contract Termination Contractor
* Core Area
* DCR
* Deed
* Descent Device
* Electrical System
* Elevator
* Embassy
* EMR
* Energy Conservation
* EURMAC
* Fire Alarm
* Fire Detection System
* Fire Prevention
* Fire Safety
* Furnishings
* Generator
* Geotechnical
* Gift
* Hazardous Material
* Housing
* HVAC
* Improvement
* Inventory
* Lease
* Legation
* Maintenance
* Mechanical System
* NOB
* Parking
* PCC
* Post Opening
* Property Exchange
* Property Sales
* Public Access Control
* Real Property
* Reciprocity
* REMS
* Renovation
* Safety & Health Designee
* Safety Program
* Security Enhancement
* Seismology
* SHEMC
* Shielded Enclosure
* Site
* Space Management
* Survey
* WASHMAC
* Water Analysis
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AEMR EMERGENCY PLANNING AND EVACUATION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Measures and actions implemented to protect U.S. personnel, citizens, property and information; especially related to crisis situations. (Replaces RCHB file category: EP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Citizen Protection
* Contingency Plan EAP
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Property
* Protection
* Records Destruction
* Rescue
* Safehaven
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AFIN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
The fiscal operations of the Department, Foreign Service posts, and other Federal agencies. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, FMGT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accounting
* Allowance
* Annuity Check
* Antideficiency
* Appropriation
* Audit
* Authentication Bank
* Account Bonding
* CAPPS
* Cash
* Cash Management
* Cashier
* Central Claim
* Commercial Claim
* Compensation
* Debt Collection
* Deficit
* Disallowances
* Disbursement
* Employee Claim
* ESF
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Management System
* Fiscal
* Fiscal Irregularities
* Foreign Currency
* FSCADP
* Fund Allotment
* Funding
* GBL
* General Ledger
* GTR
* Home Leave
* ICASS
* Leave
* Liquidation
* Local Currency
* Nonreceipt
* Over Obligation
* Pay Advance
* Pay Record
* Payment
* Payroll
* Payroll Deduction
* PCS
* Per Diem
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Post MGT
* Premium Pay
* Prompt Payment
* Reimbursement
* Relocation
* Reprogramming
* Retirement
* Security Enhancement
* Taxes
* TDY
* Time & Attendance
* Transportation Request
* Travel Advance
* Travelers Checks
* Treasury Check
* Vendor
* Vouchers
* Vulnerability Assessment
* Wages
* Working Capital Fund
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AMGT MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The management and organization of the Department and posts abroad and other U.S. agencies. (Replaces RCHB file category: ORG)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Administration
* Audit
* Authorities
* Background Information
* Bureau Organization
* Commissary
* Congressional Report
* Delegation of Authority
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Employee Association
* FCS
* FTE
* Geneva Group
* GORI
* Information System
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* Internal Control
* JAO
* Management Initiative
* Management Issues
* Mission Closure
* Mission Opening
* Occupational Safety
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Office Procedures
* Organization
* Overseas Post
* PCS
* Post Closing
* Post MGT
* Post Opening
* Post Operating Plan
* Reciprocity
* Recreation
* Reorganization
* Scheduling
* Staffing
* Support Services
* Survey
* Task Force
* Workload
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AORC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES
Effective from January 1983
The structure and management of international or regional organizations and conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL and Organization Name)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Administration
* Application
* Budget
* Candidate
* Chairman
* Charter
* Congressional Reports
* Constitution
* Donor
* Election Results
* Financial Contribution
* Geneva Group
* Host Government
* Information System
* Infrastructure
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* International Organization
* International Organization Official
* Meeting Agenda
* Meeting Delegation
* Meeting Observer
* Meeting Venue
* Membership
* NGO
* Nomination
* Nonparticipation
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Participation
* PERMREP
* Referendum
* Reform
* Regional Organization
* Regional Organization Official Reorganization
* Resignation from Office Seating
* Secession Secretary General Specialized Agency
* Sponsorship
* Staffing
* Vacancy Announcement
* Veto
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
* Voting
* Wages
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APER PERSONNEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administration and support of the Department's Civil and Foreign
Service personnel. (Replaces RCHB file category: PER)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Adoption
* Affirmative
* Action
* Ambassador
* Appeal
* Award
* Backpay
* Benefit Plan
* Bilateral Work Agreements
* Blood Donor
* Boarding School Career Development Career Mobility
* CFC
* Civil Service
* Civil Service Reform Act
* Class Action Suit
* CLO Program
* Community Liaison Office
* Coordinators
* Compensation
* Complaint
* Complement
* Consultation
* Continuing Education
* Contract Employee
* Conversion
* CSR
* Death
* Demotion
* Dependent
* Dependent Education
* Dependent Employment
* Discipline
* Divorce
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Employee Association
* Employee Benefit
* Employee Relations
* Employee Service
* Employee Status
* Employee Training
* Employment
* Equal Employment Opportunity
* Family Life
* Family Separation
* Family Support Services
* Fellowship
* FERS
* Foreign Born Spouses
* Foreign Service
* Foreign Service Act
* FSPS
* FTE
* Functional Training
* Grade Retention
* Grievance
* Health
* Injury
* Insurance
* International School
* Interns
* Interview
* Job Title
* Leave
* Library
* Merit Pay
* Merit Promotion
* Military Furlough
* Military Reserve
* Nomination
* Nonsensitive Critical Position
* Open Assignments
* Orientation
* Overcomplement
* Pay Record
* Performance Evaluation
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Personnel
* Personnel Action
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Assignment
* Personnel Classification
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Promotion
* Personnel Reassignment
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Photographer
* PIT
* Position Classification
* Position Description
* Premium Pay
* Presidential Executive Exchange Program
* Private School
* Probation
* Promotion Panel
* PSC
* Public School
* Recall
* Recruitment
* Reentry
* Relocation
* Remains Disposition
* Reprogramming
* Retired Annuitant
* Retirement
* RIF
* Sabbatical
* Savings Bond
* School Admissions
* SEF
* Selection Board
* Selection Out
* Senior Foreign Service
* SES
* Severance Pay
* Sexual Harassment
* Skill Codes
* Spouse
* Staffing
* Staffing Pattern
* Survey
* Tandem Couple
* TDY
* Tenure Board
* Termination
* Time & Attendance
* Upward Mobility
* U.S. Family Member
* Vacancy Announcement
* Wages
* Work Requirements
* Workload
* Workmen Compensation
* Workweek
* Youth Programs
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ASEC SECURITY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The development, coordination, or administration of security policies and programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SY)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AIASA
* Airport Access Procedures
* Antifraud
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Armored Vehicle
* Assault
* Bugging
* Building
* Contract Guard Program
* Counterintelligence
* Debriefing
* Debugging
* Demolition
* Detection Equipment
* Dismantling
* Electronic Security Device
* Emergency Response Team
* Explosives
* Fraud
* Host Country Guards
* Host Country Police
* Identification Systems
* Information Security
* Local Guard Program
* Maps
* Mission Takeover
* Monitoring
* MSG
* Name Check
* NSU
* Personnel Protection
* Physical Security
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Property Protection
* Protective Security
* Public Access Control
* Regional Security
* Riot Control
* RSO
* Scheduled Reporting
* Security Assessment
* Security Clearance
* Security Crisis
* Security Enhancement
* Security Survey
* Security Violation
* Special Support Program
* Suitability
* Technical Security
* Telephone
* Tempest
* Terrorism
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Unit Security Procedures
* Warning System
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BEXP TRADE EXPANSION AND PROMOTION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts to promote trade and other commercial activities, including specific proposals and inquiries to establish trade relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: TP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Best Prospect
* Bid
* Business Firm
* Businessmen
* CMP
* Commercial Action
* Commercial Association
* Consultation
* Cooperatives
* Country Commercial
* Exhibit
* Exposition
* Foreign Agent
* Foreign Market
* Target Industry
* Targeting
* Trade Fair
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Visit
* WITS
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BTIO TRADE AND INVESTMENT
OPPORTUNITIES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Administrative and operational reporting on opportunities for U.S. businesses. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, TP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agribusiness
* Bid
* Business Firm
* FGT
* Foreign Markets
* GPC Implementation
* Joint Venture
* Patent
* PTO
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CASC ASSISTANCE TO CITIZENS
Effective from May 1977 (Revised January 1983)
Consular services provided by the United States to citizens of the United States or any other country. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CON, PS)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Adoption
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Alien
* AMCIT
* Arrest Assault
* Attorney List
* Authorities
* Automation
* Child Custody
* Children Compensation
* Complaint
* Consular Assistance
* Consular Package
* Cult
* Custody
* Death Report
* Deportation
* Detention
* Direct Relay
* Drivers License
* Emergency Evacuation
* Estate
* Family
* FIMED
* Fraud Identification
* Lawyer
* Legal
* Medical Care
* Missing Person
* Murder Offenses
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Property
* Property Protection
* Release
* Remains Disposition
* Repatriation
* Seamen
* Ship Detention
* Ship Registry
* Spouse
* Third Country Representation
* Travel Advisory
* Trial
* Trust Account
* Trust Account Refund
* Welfare & Whereabouts
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CJAN JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE AND NOTARIAL SERVICES
Effective from May 1983
Matters pertaining to Notarial Services and International Judicial Assistance, including the service of judicial and extra-judicial documents and obtaining evidence. (Replaces RCHB file categories: LEG, PS)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acknowledgment
* Affidavit
* Attorney List
* Authentication
* Automation
* Deed
* Deposition
* Documentation
* Evidence
* Extradition
* Fraud
* FSIA
* Judicial Assistance
* Letters Rogatory
* Notarial
* Oath
* Official Travel
* Prisoner Transfer
* Process Serving
* Subpoena
* Testimony
* Tort Claim
* Witness
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CMGT CONSULAR ADMINSTRATION AND MANAGEMENT
Effective from August 1983
The administrative and operational management of Consular Affairs activities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, CON, FMGT,ORG, PER)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antifraud
* Automation
* CAS
* Consular Agent
* Consular Agreement
* Consular Conference
* Consular Equipment
* Consular Package
* Consular Service
* Consular Supplies
* Consular Treaty
* CSS
* ECR
* Fee
* Fraud
* ICARS
* IVACS
* Legislation
* MRP
* NIVCAPS
* Office Procedures
* Personnel
* PFM
* PIT
* Publication
* Space Management
* Supplies
* Support Services
* TDIS
* Third Country Representation
* Word Processor
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CVIS VISAS
Effective from May 1973 (Revised January 1993)
Operational, procedural, and administrative functions of visa operations. (Replaces RCHB file category: V)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AA 1 Adoption
* Advisory Opinion AIDS
* Alien
* Alien Previously Deported
* Alien Smuggler
* Allocation
* Application
* Appointment
* Arrival Notice
* Athlete Automation
* Bearer Insert
* BUSVIS
* Centralized Visa Processing
* Chargeability
* CHINEX
* CLASS
* Clearance
* CONGRINT
* Consular Package
* Crew List
* Crewman
* Crime
* Data
* Defector
* Denial
* Departure Notice
* Dependent
* Deportation
* Derivatives
* Diversity Immigrant
* DNC
* Documentation
* DV 1DVACS
* Employment Based Preference
* Employment Creation
* Entertainer
* Entitlement
* Exchange Visitor
* Exclusion
* Extraordinary Ability
* Family Preference
* Fiance
* Fiancee
* Files
* Foreign Policy Exclusion
* Forms
* Fraud
* Health Related Grounds
* ICARS
* Immediate Relative
* Immigrant
* Intercompany Transferee
* International Child Abduction
* Interview
* Issuance
* IVACS
* Labor Certification
* LB 1
* Legislation
* Medical Examination
* Moral Turpitude
* MRV
* Name Check
* Narcotics Traffic
* News Media Representative
* NIV
* NIVCAPS
* Nonimmigrant
* Numerical Control
* NVC
* Operations
* Other Worker
* Out of District Applicant
* Parole
* Permanent Resident
* Polygamist
* Portsmouth Consular Center
* Priority Date
* Private Bill
* Procedures
* Public Charge
* Reciprocity
* Refugee
* Refusal
* Religious Worker
* Renewal
* Revocation
* SAO
* Skilled Worker
* SPLEX
* Student
* Supplies Temporary Worker
* Terrorist
* 30 60 Rule
* TIVPC
* Totalitarian Party Membership
* Transfer
* Transit
* Travel Agents
* Treaty Investor
* Treaty Trader
* TTYREP
* Validity Visa
* Visa Clearance
* Visa Photograph
* Visitor for Business
* VLOB
* Waiver
* Waiver of Ineligibility
* Walk Ins
* Workload
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EAGR AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Cultivating the soil and forest, raising livestock, and producing crops. (Replaces RCHB file category: AGR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Production
* Agricultural Program
* Agricultural Worker
* Agriculture
* Animal Disease
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Corn
* Cotton
* Crop Destruction
* Crops
* Dairy Products
* Desalinization
* Disease Control
* Drought
* Erosion
* Famine
* Farm Equipment
* Farming
* Fertilizer
* Food Shortages
* Forestry
* Fruit
* Fungicide
* Grain
* Harvest
* Herbicide
* Husbandry
* Insect
* Irrigation
* Jute
* Land Conservation
* Land Management
* Land Reform
* Livestock
* Natural Fiber
* Nuts
* Oilseeds
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Plant Disease
* Poultry
* Preservation
* Quarantine
* Rainfall
* Rice
* Rubber
* Seeds
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soybean
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Timber
* Tobacco
* Tropical Forest
* Vegetable
* Water Analysis
* Weather
* Wheat
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EAID FOREIGN ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Foreign economic and technical assistance provided by governments, international organizations, institutions, or private individuals. (Replaces RCHB file category: AID)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Agreement
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Program Airlift
* Bank
* Congressional Presentation
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Credit
* Debt
* Development Loan
* Development Program
* Disaster Relief
* Donor
* Economic Adviser
* Economic Assistance
* Economic Development
* Economic Support Fund
* Farm Equipment
* Financial Contribution
* Food
* Foreign Assistance Agreement
* Funding
* Grant
* Industrial Development
* Industrialized Nation
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* LLDC
* Loan
* Medical Care
* Medical Equipment
* North South Dialogue
* Paris Club
* PL 480
* PL 480 Title I
* PL 480 Title II
* PL 480 Title III
* Relief Effort
* Self Help
* Technical Assistance
* Water Analysis
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EAIR CIVIL AVIATION
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
Commercial and private aircraft and air operations, domestic as well as international. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AV, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Access
* Air Cargo
* Air Fare
* Air Safety
* Air Traffic
* Air Transportation
* Aircraft
* Aircraft Accident
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Airline
* Airport
* Airport Fee
* Airport Security
* Airspace
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Aviation Agreement
* Cargo Handling
* Charter Flight
* CIVAIR
* Commercial Aircraft
* Emergency Landing
* Flight Clearance
* Flight Manual
* Hazardous Cargo
* Helicopter
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Landing Rights
* Maintenance
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Manifest
* Pilot Training
* Private Aircraft
* Refueling
* Rescue
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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ECON ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The status of a nation's economy. (Replaces RCHB file category: E)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Development
* Antiinflationary Program
* Black Market
* Capital Investment
* Cost of Living
* Depression
* Economic Agreement
* Economic Assessment
* Economic Conditions
* Economic Crisis
* Economic Development
* Economic Forecast
* Economic Growth
* Economic Indicators
* Economic Program
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Reform
* Economic Report
* Economic Stability
* Economic Trend
* EEC 1992
* Employment
* Financial Profits
* GDP
* GNP
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Reform
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* National Debt
* NIEO
* Price Index
* Recession
* Stock Market
* Tax Law
* Unemployment
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ECPS COMMUNICATIONS AND POSTAL SYSTEMS
Effective from March 1983
The efforts of governments, the private sector, or international organizations to manage, regulate, develop, apply, or monitor the methods and means of telecommunication, international communication policy, and the informational aspects of communication. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INF, MP, PO, PPB, PR, RAD, SP, TEL, TV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Broadcasting
* Cable TV
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* Fiber Optics
* Frequency Allocation
* Frequency Interference
* Frequency Spectrum
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Frequency
* lnformatics Information Access
* Information Center
* Information Flow
* Information Media
* Jamming
* Light Communication
* Networking
* NWICO
* Orbit
* Postal System
* Prior Consent
* Radio
* Satellite
* Telecommunication
* Telecommunication Agreement
* Telegraph
* Telephone
* Television
* Transborder Data Flow
* Transmitters
* Undersea Cable
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EFIN FINANCIAL AND MONETARY AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Domestic and international financial affairs of governments and private institutions. (Replaces RCHB file category: FN)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accounting
* Audit
* Bank
* Bank Account
* Bankruptcy
* Blocked Assets
* BOP
* Budget
* Buffer Stock
* Capital Flow
* CFF
* Commodities Exchange
* Credit
* Currency Shortage
* Debt
* Debt Equity Swap
* Debt Relief
* Debt Repayment
* Debt Repudiation
* Debt Rescheduling
* Deficit
* Devaluation
* Donor
* Drawing Rights
* Economic Growth
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Trend
* EFF
* EMS
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Agreement
* Financial Contribution
* Financial Control
* Financial Crisis
* Financial Market
* Financial Profits
* Financial Program
* Financial Reform
* Financial Reserve
* Financial Stability
* Foreign Currency
* Foreign Currency Control
* Foreign Currency Exchange
* Foreign Market
* Gold
* Grant
* IMF Standbys
* Income Tax
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* Loan Default
* Local Currency
* London Club
* National Income
* Overpayment
* Paris Club
* Payment
* Revaluation
* Sales Tax
* SDR
* Securities
* Securities Exchange
* Stock Shares
* Tax Haven
* Tax Law
* Taxation Treaties
* Treasury
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EFIS COMMERCIAL FISHING AND FISH PROCESSING
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The breeding and catching of fish and other marine life for commercial purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aquaculture
* Catch
* Quota Cod
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive Economic
* Zone Fish
* Fisheries
* Aid Fishery
* Fishing Agreement
* Fishing Concession
* Fishing Dispute
* Fishing Ground
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Fishing Vessel
* Fishing Vessel
* Detention Halibut
* Herring Joint
* Venture
* Quota Salmon
* Shellfish
* Shrimp
* TEDS
* Tuna
* Whaling Industry
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EIND INDUSTRY AND MANUFACTURING
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The commercial production of goods and services, including the processing of raw materials into manufactured goods. (Replaces RCHB file category: TEL, INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aerospace Industry
* Alloy
* Aluminum
* Antitrust
* Automotive Industry
* Bankruptcy
* Business Firm
* Capital Investment
* Chemical Industry
* Clothing Industry
* Commercial Association
* Communications Industry
* Complaint
* Construction Industry
* Consumer Goods
* Cooperatives
* Copyright Agreement
* Copyright Claim
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Dairy Industry
* Data Processing Industry
* Defense Industry
* Development Program
* Drug Industry
* Dyeing Industry
* Economic Growth
* Electronic Industry
* Espionage
* Factory
* Fertilizer Industry
* Finishing Industry
* Fishing Industry
* Food Contamination
* Food Industry
* Foreign Agent
* Fraud
* Garment Industry
* Garment Production
* Garment Workers
* Industrial Accident
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Production
* Industrial Reform
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insurance
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber Industry
* Machine Tool Industry
* Manmade Fiber
* Manufactured Product
* Merger
* Metal Industry
* Monopoly
* Nationalization
* Paper Industry
* Parastatal
* Patent
* Petroleum Industry
* Piracy
* Plastic Industry
* Power Looms
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Processing
* Product Safety
* Product Standards
* Product Testing
* Production
* Production Control
* Public Sector
* Railroad Industry
* Ramie
* Raw Materials
* Recall
* Registration
* Rubber Industry
* Sabotage
* Salvage
* Service Industry
* Shipbuilding Industry
* Silk
* Spinning Machinery
* Steel Industry
* Stockpile
* Subsidiary
* Subsidy
* Textile Industry
* Textile Production
* Tobacco Industry
* Tourism
* Trademark
* Vegetable Fiber
* Weaving Industry
* Wood Products Industry
* Wool
* Yarns
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EINT ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL INTERNET
Effective from October 1997
Economic and commercial programs, policies, and issues relating to the Internet.
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agreement
* Censorship
* Competition
* Connectivity
* Content
* Copyright
* Data
* Democracy
* Economic Conditions
* Domain Names
* Electronic Commerce
* Encryption
* Free Flow of Information
* Information Availability
* Interconnectivity
* Internet
* Meeting
* Monopoly
* Piracy
* Policy
* Pornography
* Privacy
* Private Sector
* Reporting
* Trademark
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EINV FOREIGN INVESTMENTS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
Foreign investments made by governments or private enterprises for commercial gain. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bank
* Bid
* BIT
* Business Firm
* Business Loss
* Business Merger
* Capital Flow
* Capital Investment
* Compensation
* Credit
* Credit Guarantee
* Disinvestment
* Economic Growth
* Foreign Investment
* Fraud
* Garment Investment
* Insurance Risk
* Investment Climate
* Investment Control
* Investment Disputes
* Investment Guarantee
* Investment Incentive
* Investment Law
* Investment Opportunity
* Joint Venture
* Loan
* Multinational Corporation
* Nationalization
* Parastatal
* Private Investment
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Public Sector
* Subsidiary
* Textile Investment
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ELAB LABOR SECTOR AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised May 1995)
The labor sector, labor actors, and national labor policies and their effect on domestic and international systems and relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LAB)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Arbitration
* Benefits
* Bonded Labor
* Child Labor
* Collective Bargaining
* Compulsory Labor
* Dock Workers
* Employee Ownership
* Employee Rights
* Employer Organization
* Employment
* Equal Pay for Equal Work
* Forced Labor
* Foreign Worker
* GSP (Worker Rights)
* Illegal Worker
* International Labor Secretariat
* Job Creation
* Job Discrimination
* Job Security
* Job Training
* Labor Agreement
* Labor Code
* Labor Competition
* Labor Confederation
* Labor Cooperative
* Labor Costs
* Labor Courts
* Labor Disputes
* Labor Federation
* Labor Law
* Labor Leader
* Labor Market
* Labor Migration
* Labor Movement
* Labor Organization
* Labor Relations
* Labor Rights
* Labor Sector
* Labor Settlement
* Labor Standards
* Labor Union
* Layoffs
* Lockout
* Manpower
* Mediation
* NAFTA Labor Cooperation
* Occupational Health
* Occupational Safety
* Pension
* Prison Labor
* Privatization
* Right of Association
* Right to Organize Slave Labor
* Social Clause (WTO)
* Social Net
* Social Security
* Strike
* Trade
* Union
* Underemployment
* Unemployment
* Unemployment Insurance
* Vocational Training
* Wages
* Work Force
* Work Permit
* Worker Rights Workers
* Working Conditions
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ELTN LAND TRANSPORTATION
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
All aspects of land transportation. (Replaces RCHB file categories: IT, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Automobile
* Bridge
* Bus
* Cargo Handling
* Detention
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Highway
* Highway Access
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Land Transportation
* Maintenance
* Overland Cargo
* Public Transportation
* Railroad
* Railroad Accident
* Railway Access
* Rescue
* Schedule
* Traffic Accident
* Traffic Safety
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
* Truck
* Tunnel
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EMIN MINERALS AND METALS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The exploration, discovery, and extraction of minerals and metals. (Replaces RCHB file category: INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bauxite
* Bid
* Chromite
* Coal
* Cobalt
* Copper
* Drilling
* Excavation
* Exclusive Economic Zone
* Exploration
* Factory
* Gems
* Gold
* Iron
* Magnesium
* Manganese
* Metal
* Mine
* Mineral
* Mineral Reserve
* Mining
* Mining Accident
* Mining Concession
* Nickel
* Offshore Mining
* Ore
* Quarry
* Silver
* Tin
* Tungsten
* Uranium
* Uranium Enrichment
* Zinc
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ENRG ENERGY AND POWER
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Government and private commercial activities in acquiring and providing energy services from all types of sources. For petroleum and natural gas, see EPET. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, FSE)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Coal
* Dam
* Decontamination
* Electric Energy
* Electric Power Plant
* Energy Conservation
* Energy Consumption
* Energy Reserve
* Energy Shortage
* Factory
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Fuel Shortage
* Generator
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Hydroelectric Power Plant
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
* Nuclear Power Plant
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Power Line
* Public Utility
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Reexport
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* Stockpile
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Thermal Power Plant
* Transformer
* Uranium Enrichment
* Wind Energy
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EPET PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)
Government and private sector activities in the exploration and extraction of petroleum and natural gas. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FSE, PET)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bid
* Drilling
* Exploitation
* Exploration
* LPG
* Natural Gas
* Natural Gas Pipeline
* Natural Gas Production
* Natural Gas Reserve
* Offshore Drilling
* Offshore Drilling Platform
* Offshore Oil
* Oil Field
* Petroleum
* Petroleum Concession
* Petroleum Pipeline
* Petroleum Production
* Petroleum Reserve
* Petroleum Shortage
* Refinery
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ETRD FOREIGN TRADE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Exchange of goods between nations. (Replaces RCHB file category: FT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alcoholic Beverage
* Aluminum
* Animal Hides
* Antidumping
* Antitrust
* Apparel Trade
* Arms
* Arms Traffic
* Barter
* BOP
* Boycott
* Buffer Stock
* Chemical
* Clothing
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Commercial Aircraft
* Commodity
* Commodity Market
* Communications Equipment
* Computer
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Countertrade
* Countervailing Duty
* Cross Border Trade
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Clearance
* Customs Court
* Customs Fine
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Official
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Dairy Products
* Debt
* Development Program
* Dispute Settlement
* Diversion
* Duty Free Entry
* East West Trade
* Economic Cooperation
* EEC 1992
* EEP
* Electronic Equipment
* Exhibit
* Export
* Fair Trade
* Farm Equipment
* FCN
* Fertilizer
* Fish
* Food
* Food Contamination
* Food Inspection
* Footwear
* Foreign Market
* Free Trade Zone
* Garment Exports
* Garment Imports
* Government Procurement
* GSP
* Harmonized System
* Helicopter
* Import
* Industrialized Nation
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Intervention
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* Leather
* License
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber
* Machine Tool
* Manmade Fiber
* Market Access
* Meat
* Meat Inspection
* Medical Equipment
* Merger
* Metal
* MFN
* MIC
* Monopoly
* Multifiber Arrangement
* NAFTA
* Natural Fiber
* Newly Industrialized Countries
* Nonalcoholic Beverage
* Nontariff Barriers
* North South Dialogue
* Oils
* Oilseeds
* Perishable Commodities
* Petroleum Products
* Pharmaceuticals
* Plastics
* Poultry
* Private Sector
* Product Standards
* Public Sector
* Quota
* Railroad Equipment
* Ramie
* Reexport
* Rice
* Rubber
* Sanction
* Shellfish
* Silk
* Smuggling
* Soybean
* Steel
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Synthetic Fiber
* Synthetic Rubber
* Tariff
* Tariff Barriers
* Tariff Relief
* Television
* Textile Exports
* Textile Imports
* Textiles
* Tin
* Tobacco
* Trade Agreement
* Trade Balance
* Trade Complaint
* Trade Control
* Trade Concession
* Trade Discrimination
* Trade Dumping
* Trade Fair
* Trade Law
* Trade Liberalization
* Trade Opportunity
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Protectionism
* Trade Relations
* Trade Visit
* Tuna
* VAT
* Vegetable
* Vegetable Fiber
* Vegetable Oil
* Wheat
* Wine
* Wood Products
* Wool
* Yarns
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ETTC TRADE AND TECHNOLOGY CONTROLS
Effective from April 1984
Government efforts to control the transfer of goods (i.e., equipment),services, or technologies. This includes foreign policy trade controls, strategic (National Security) trade controls, munitions controls, general West to East technology transfer issues, and efforts to circumvent U.S. or COCOM controls. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FT, STR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Arms Traffic
* Blocked Assets
* Boycott
* COCOM Case
* COCOM List Review
* Computer
* Data Bases
* Data Processing Equipment
* Digital Switching
* Diversion
* EAA
* East West Trade
* Economic Warfare
* Electronic Equipment
* Embargo
* End Use Check
* End User
* Enforcement
* Espionage
* Exception List
* EXCON
* Export
* Export Control
* GSOIA
* GSOMIA
* High Technology Equipment
* IEEPA
* Illegal Trade
* Import Control
* ITAR
* Laboratory Equipment
* License
* Manufacturing Agreement
* Military Applications
* Military Critical Technologies
* Military Equipment
* Military Services
* Munitions Control
* NDPC
* Nonmarket Economy
* Origin Certificate
* Reexport
* Research & Development
* Sanction
* Security Survey
* Semiconductors
* SNEC
* Software
* Stockpile
* Strategic Material
* Strategic Trade Control
* Superconductor
* TCDC
* Technical Assistance Agreement
* Technology Acquisition Efforts
* Technology Gap
* Technology Transfer
* Transaction Check
* Turnkey Plant
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EWWT WATERBORNE TRANSPORTATION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Movement of commercial and private vessels over high seas and inland waterways. (Replaces RCHB file categories: OS, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antiterrorism
* Measures Canal
* Cargo Handling
* Coast Guard
* Containerization
* Dock Workers
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Insurance
* Load Line
* Maintenance
* Marine Cargo
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Maritime Flag
* Maritime Law
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Ship
* Patrol Boat
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Port Congestion
* Private Ship
* Refueling
* Registration
* Rescue
* River
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule Ship Accident
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Detention
* Ship Harassment
* Ship Movement
* Ship Registry
* Shipyard
* SOLAS
* Strait
* Tonnage Measurement
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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KACT: Strategic Arms Control (ACS) Treaties
Effective from August 2000 (Revised August 2004)
Use for all documents relating to specific, interrelated strategic (nuclear) arms control treaties and their implementation:
* ABM (i.e., anti-ballistic missile) treaty and its implementation body the SCC (Standing Consultative Commission);
* INF (i.e., Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) Treaty and its implementation body, the SVC (Special Verification Commission);
* START (i.e., Strategic Reductions Treaty) and its implementation body, the JCIC (Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission); and the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT) or the Moscow Treaty and its implementing body, the BIC (Bilateral Implementation Commission).
Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NP/EX)
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KAWC: Atrocities and War Crimes
Effective from July 2001
Use for all documents relating to atrocities, massacres, and war crimes, including allegations, reports, investigations, and prosecutions of genocide, crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, and violations of the laws or customs for war. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau, Info: S/WCI)
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KCFE: Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
Effective from August 1989
Use on all documents between U.S. Vienna and the Department pertaining to CFE negotiations; documents pertaining to conventional forces in Europe including both Eastern and Western forces, their structure, posture, changes, etc.; documents pertaining to allied and Warsaw Pact conventional arms control positions, plans and related internal political situations, documents referring to the High Level Task Force (HLTF) or its subgroups; and all documents discussing congressional delegation visits to Europe that will address conventional arms control issues. (Action: EUR/RPM)
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KCIP: Critical Infrastructure Protection
Effective from August 2001
Use for all documents reporting on critical infrastructure protection (CIP) issues, which are defined as vulnerabilities and threats, both physical and cyber, to systems and assets (particularly interconnected information systems and networks) so vital to a nation that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on national security, national economic security, and/or national public health and safety. Use for reporting of CIP issues both as they affect host country and as they impact the United States. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOM: Chief of Mission
Effective from March 2004
Use for all documents addressed for action to the chief of a U.S. mission in a foreign location (e.g., ambassadors, chargés d’affaires, consuls general, or principal officers). Use KCOM in conjunction with generic PASS instructions to chiefs of mission in Department telegrams. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOR: Corruption and Anti-Corruption
Effective from August 2001
Use for all documents relating to corruption and anti-corruption, dishonesty, and unethical behavior among public officials representing local, provincial, and national governments. This would include linkages with justice, economic, social and political entities. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCRM: Criminal Activity
Effective from April 1994 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to criminal organizations and activities, the threat they pose to U.S. interests and/or friendly governments, and host country and U.S. Government programs to combat them. This includes international criminal organizations; money laundering and other financial crimes; illicit trafficking including alien smuggling and gun running; international stolen property theft and fencing rings; international frauds and commercial crimes; UN crime meetings and anti-crime programs; and interaction with international and regional organizations on these issues. U.S. assistance covers training of host country judicial and law enforcement agencies. Use this K TAGS with the Subject TAGS SOCI. Distinguish the use of this TAGS from AID-funded administration of justice programs in Latin America (KJUS),anti-narcotics issues and programs (SNAR),and anti-terrorism issues and programs (PTER). (Action: INL/ENT)
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KDEM: Democratization
Effective from May 1991
Use on all documents dealing with democratization in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Encouraging democratization constitutes an essential component of U.S. policy. The U.S. Government is devoting significant resources to monitor and promote regional trends away from autocratic rule and toward political pluralism. Programs designed to encourage democratization are diverse, and often are cross-discipline in nature, requiring the involvement of several U.S. Government agencies. Also use the appropriate Subject and Geo-Political TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KDRG: Detainee Repatriation from Guantanamo Bay
Effective from December 2007
Use for all documents addressing issues connected to the repatriation and transfer of detainees in U.S. Government custody at the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to their countries of origin or to third countries. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/WCI)
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KFRD: Fraud Prevention Programs
Effective from August 1986
Use on all reporting that refers to efforts and activities pertaining to the prevention of fraud and deceptive practices in the issuance of visas, passports, the issuance of Federal benefits to U.S. citizens and others, and to active measures developed by the Department to oversee their legality and for reporting upon the results of antifraud and prevention measures in consular matters. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: CA/FPP)
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KGHG: Global Climate Change
Effective from May 2007
Use for all documents addressing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and global climate change (also referred to as global warming). This includes, but is not limited to, the economic, energy, environmental, geographic, health, scientific, social, and political linkages of global climate change. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: OES/EGC)
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KGIC: Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism
Effective from September 2006
Use for all documents relating to the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. The Global Initiative works toward the prevention, detection, and response to acts of nuclear terrorism. Also use appropriate Subject Tags. (Action: ISM/WMDT)
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KHIV: Emerging Infectious Diseases and HIV/AIDS Program
Effective from June 2000
Use for all documents relating to actual and prospective activities by the U.S. Government, alone or in conjunction with or through other entities, to combat HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. Also use Appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: S/GAC)
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KHLS: Homeland Security
Effective from August 2006
Use for all documents relating to all aspects of homeland security issues, including acts of terrorism directed at the U.S. homeland, its citizens, or interests; planning and support for such acts of terrorism; capabilities of terrorist groups; activities of institutions, groups, or individuals that support such terrorism; acts of terrorism that transcend national boundaries due to the support network or nationality of the perpetrator, victim, or facility or conventional, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) terrorism; terrorist travel; actions of the host government, institutions, or individuals related to support for or opposition to U.S. Government homeland security or counter-terrorism initiatives; actions of the host government or multilateral organizations related to the establishment of host country or regional security, bureaucratic, physical, or cyber infrastructure; homeland security implications and effects of border protection, immigration, and customs policies; transportation (e.g., seaports, civil air) security; host government travel document control and standards; emergency, preparedness, and response; biodefense, science and technology development related to the above areas; reactions of host government, media, etc., to homeland security-related programs and activities in the United States, or of the U.S. Government. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/CT, CA, OES, A/OEM)
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KIPR: Intellectual Property Rights
Effective from December 1988 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to intellectual property rights which include patents, trademarks, copyrights, semiconductor designs (mask works),industrial designs, trade secrets, appellations of origin and other forms of protection to reward and encourage innovation and creativity. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/TPP/MTA/IPC)
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KIRF: International Religious Freedom
Effective from January 1999
Use on all documents relating to all issues of religious freedom and persecution, including civil unrest where religion is a precipitating factor; changes to or enforcement of laws affecting freedom of religion; religious aspects of movements, parties or persons seeking governmental change; governmental repression of religious minorities, movements or leaders; religion playing a role in reconciling conflicts; and changes in religious demographics that may produce societal changes. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: DRL/IRF)
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KISL: Islamic Issues
Effective from November 1988 (Revised April 2000)
Use on documents treating government involvement in recognition of or approaches to Islam; political and economic activities undertaken by private Islamic organizations or prominent individuals; and fundamentalism. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS.
(Action: NEA/PPR, AF/RA, EAP/RA)
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KJUS: Administration of Justice
Effective from May 1986 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with the administration of justice in host countries, particularly as it relates to U.S. objectives of promoting democracy and just economic and social development. This includes judicial reforms, political reporting on personalities and institutions involved in the administration of justice, judicial infrastructure development, criminal investigation capabilities, penal systems, legal training, and assistance and exchange programs in this field. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: WHA/PPC)
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KMCA: Millennium Challenge Account
Effective from August 2004
Use for documents relating to all aspects of the Millennium Challenge Account, a U.S. new foreign assistance account, or the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the independent government corporation recently established to manage and oversee this assistance. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: MCC/IT)
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KMDR: Media Reaction Reporting
Effective From October 1999
Use on all documents dealing with setting post ―Watching Briefs and on all post reporting concerning editorial content and media reaction. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: INR/R)
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KNNP: Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Effective from April 1984
Use on all documents on U.S. policy for preventing the spread of nuclear weapons to other countries, the transfer of nuclear material, equipment of technology, agreements for cooperation on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, matters concerning multilateral discussions on the uses of nuclear energy including the activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and activities in other countries related to the acquisition of nuclear explosives. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KOLY: Olympic Games Reporting
Effective from February 1984
Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. Note: KOLY will be used in the above prescribed manner for all subsequent winter and summer Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KPAL: Palestinian Affairs
Effective from August 1983 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with the Palestinian people, as a group or in part, or the area known as Palestine. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. (Action: NEA/PA)
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KPAO: Public Affairs Office
Effective from May 2000
Use on all documents intended for Public Affairs sections abroad, and should be used by field Public Affairs sections abroad on all documents coming into the Department which relate to Public Diplomacy Programs. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: ECA/EX/PR)
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KPIN: Political Internationals
Effective from November 1984
Use on all documents relating to the activities and policies of the four major Political Internationals: Socialist International, Christian Democratic International, Liberal International, and the International Democratic Union. This includes reporting on the attitudes of member parties towards the Internationals, the interaction between member parties of the Internationals, and the activities of the Internationals themselves. In addition, this TAGS should be used on all documents relating to the policies of the German (FRG) political foundations: Friederich Ebert, Konrad Adenauer, Hanns Seidel, and Friederich Naumann. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: P)
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KPKO: United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
Effective from August 1996
Use on all documents relating to existing or potential United Nations peacekeeping activities, including proposals for and negotiations with other countries on peacekeeping activities, military support, sanctions monitoring, elections and humanitarian activities, as well as interaction with international and regional organizations on peacekeeping. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KPWR: Power Support Program
Effective from March 1993
Use on all documents dealing with the Department’s electrical power support requirements. The program provides consolidated funding for generators, central uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, and PCB transformer abatement projects. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OBO/PE/DE)
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KRAD: Radioactive Contamination of the Environment
Effective from May 1997 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with radioactive contamination of the environment from whatever source—military or civilian use, transportation, storage, or disposal of nuclear material Appropriate Subject Terms to use with this TAGS would include nuclear contamination, radiation, radioactive material and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) emergency notification. In connection with accidental or deliberate contamination, appropriate Terms to use with this TAGS include radioactive material transfer, radioactive waste disposal, radioactive waste management, industrial/medical radiography, medical isotope, and transfer of fissile material. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES/OA)
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KSCA: Science Counselors and Attachés
Effective from February 1983
Use on all documents drafted by or sent to Science Counselors and Science Attachés. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES). Note: KSCA replaces the Organization SCSA.
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KSPR: Strategic, Performance and Resource Planning
Effective from October 1997
Use on all documents dealing with the strategic planning process for all foreign affairs agencies or agencies with operations and programs abroad as well as the Department’s own strategic planning activities. This includes all resource allocation processes when associated with the Mission Performance Plan (MPP),namely: budget formulation, the Financial Plan (FINPLAN),and the field budget plan. Technical and operational messages that are purely budget-focused should only use ABUD. Use KSPR on messages regarding personnel planning in connection with the annual MPP exercises, and subjects relating to the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993. Operational personnel requests (e.g., new positions, classification actions, conversions of positions from FSN to PIT, etc.) should still only use APER. Suggested terms to use with KSPR are program planning, Mission Performance Plan (MPP),Resource Allocations and Budget Integration Tool (RABIT) and Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: M/P)
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KSUM: Summit Meetings
Effective from January 1983 (Revised November 1987)
Use on all documents concerning Summit Meetings. This includes substantive and administrative arrangements for meetings, records of meetings and reports on actions by participants as a result of meetings, including preparatory meetings. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KTFN: Terrorism Finance Traffic
Effective from July 2004
Use for documents relating to all aspects of terrorism financing; sanctions; designations of individuals under Executive Orders (E.O.) dealing with terrorism finance such as E.O. 13224; related UN resolutions; denial of funds to terrorists; and other related aspects of terrorism financing. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/ESC)
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KTIA: Treaties and International Agreements
Effective from June 1984
Use on all documents concerning treaties, including conventions, protocols, or other International Agreements, such as exchange of notes, exchange of letters and memoranda of understanding, as well as requirements of the Case Act (11 FAM 724; 1 U.S.C. 112B). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: L/T)
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KTIP: Trafficking in Persons
Effective from September 2008
Use for all cables related to the topics of trafficking in persons, human trafficking, slavery, involuntary servitude, forced labor, labor migration, illegal migration, commercial sexual exploitation, prostitution, sex tourism, forced marriage, child labor, debt bondage, peonage, and child soldiering. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: G/TIP)
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KUNR: UN Reform
Effective from November 1995
Use on all documents dealing with all efforts to reform and restructure the United Nations. Some of the reforms are: the UN budget and/or ceiling, security council expansion, managerial improvements, and strengthening the role of the UN. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KWBG: West Bank and Gaza
Effective from December 1993 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with the implementation of the Israeli-PLO Declaration of Principles, including Palestinian interim self-rule, economic development and development assistance to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Also, use for Israeli-PLO negotiations on implementing the agreement and political developments in the West Bank and Gaza including elections for a Palestinian Council. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NEA/IPA)
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KWMN: Women Issues
Effective from June 1995
Use on all documents relating to the Fourth World Conference on Women and any future World Conferences on Women. Also use this TAGS on issues concerning women’s human rights, women’s political participation, women-in-development, and any discussions of women in the United Nations or any other international organizations. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: G/CS, IO, and DRL)
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MARR MILITARY AND DEFENSE ARRANGEMENTS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts to establish and maintain collective security or other international military cooperation. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Alliance
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* CFE
* Collective Security
* DECA
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Ground Forces
* Home Porting
* Host Government
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Lease
* Military Advisor
* Military Agreement
* Military Base
* Military Cooperation
* Military Exercise
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Visit
* Minesweeping
* Monitoring
* National Security
* Naval Forces
* Overflight Clearance
* Peace Plan
* Peacekeeping Forces
* Refueling
* Security Assessment
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Movement
* SOFA
* Tracking Station
* Troop Contribution
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Truce Observer
* Weapons Deployment
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MASS MILITARY ASSISTANCE AND SALES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The Govemment to Govemment transfer, sale, or loan of military equipment, advisers, or services. (Replaces RCHB file categories DEF, FT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Airlift
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Bomber Aircraft
* CAT
* Congressional Presentation
* Credit
* Debt
* Debt Repayment
* Diversion
* Donor
* Economic Support Fund
* Fighter Aircraft
* FMS
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* IMET
* Loan
* Maintenance
* MAP
* Military Adviser
* Military Agreement
* Military Aircraft
* Military Assistance
* Military Procurement
* Military Training
* Military Vehicle
* Missile
* Reexport
* Salvage
* Spare Parts
* Surplus Weapons Disposal
* Technical Assistance
* Technology Transfer
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MCAP MILITARY CAPABILITIES
Effective from March 1973 to June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The nonnuclear offensive and defensive ability of the military establishment of a nation or international organization. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Bomber Aircraft
* Burden sharing
* Cargo Aircraft
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon
* Control Civil Defense
* Coast Guard
* Conscription
* Contingency Plan
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon
* Control Court Martial
* Defense Industry
* Demobilization
* Fighter Aircraft
* Ground Forces
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* Infrastructure
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Logistics
* Military Aircraft
* Military Balance
* Military Budget
* Military Buildup
* Military Capability
* Military Communication
* Military Equipment
* Military Exercise
* Military Leader
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Reserve
* Missile
* Mobilization
* National Guard
* Naval Forces
* Naval Ship
* Ordnance
* Radar
* RDF
* Security Assessment
* Strategic Plan
* Submarine
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
* Warning System
* Weapons Deployment
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MNUC MILITARY NUCLEAR APPLICATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The development and use of nuclear technology for military purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Artillery
* Counterforce
* Decontamination
* Delivery Vehicle
* Fissionable Material
* Guidance System
* INF
* LRTNF
* Military Capability
* Missile
* Missile Site
* Monitoring
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Powered Ship
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Winter
* Plutonium
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Radioactive Waste Management
* Spent Fuel
* Strategic Plan
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
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MOPS MILITARY OPERATIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Declared or undeclared war involving two or more nations. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aggression
* Air Alert
* Air Forces
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Blockade
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Ceasefire
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* Combat
* Concentration Camp
* CONTRA
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Escalation
* Explosives
* Ground Forces
* Guerrilla
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intervention
* Invasion
* KIA
* Landing Rights
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* MIA
* Military Balance
* Military Buildup
* Military Plan
* Minesweeping
* Naval Forces
* No Fly Zone
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Occupied Area
* Peace Plan
* POW
* Repatriation
* Reprisal
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Ship Movement
* Surrender
* Threat
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* War
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ODIP U.S. DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATION
Effective from January 1983
Official representational and ceremonial activities of U.S. diplomats and U.S. Government officials; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by U.S. officials. (Replaces RCHB file categories: PER, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Agrement
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Anniversary
* Assault
* Attache
* Ceremonial Representation
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* Personnel Conduct
* Real Property
* Social Reception
* Tax Exemption
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OEXC EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL
EXCHANGE OPERATIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
The administration and operation of educational and cultural exchange programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: EDX)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* American Studies
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Community
* Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Exchange Program
* Designation Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* FLEX Program
* Foreign Leader Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange Grant
* Humphrey Program
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Nomination
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* Scientist
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* U.S. Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Youth Exchanges
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OFDP FOREIGN DIPLOMATS AND FOREIGN MISSIONS
Effective from January 1983
Administrative, representational, and ceremonial matters related to non-U.S. diplomatic personnel and foreign missions; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by non-U.S. diplomats. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Assault
* Attache
* Building Design
* Ceremonial Representation
* Consul
* Consulate
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Embassy
* Envoy
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* NOB
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Post Closing
* Post Opening
* Real Property
* Recall
* Social Reception
* Staffing
* Tax Exemption
* Third Country Counterparts
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OIIP INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION PROGRAMS
Effective from October 1999
Administrative and operational aspects of international information programs, products, and services that increase international support for U.S. policies and understanding of U.S. society.
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advance Documents Service
* Article Alert
* Book Donations
* Book Fairs
* Book Reprints
* Book Translations
* Books and Documents List
* Computer
* Cooperative Agreements
* Copyright
* Design Services
* DVC
* Electronic Journal
* Grant
* Graphic Design
* I-Bucks
* IRC
* IRO
* Listserv
* Paper Shows
* PDQ
* Photo Coverage
* Photo Rights
* Photo Requests
* Public Diplomacy
* Publication
* Reference Requests
* Speaker
* Technology Partnerships
* Teleconference
* Translation Requests
* Washington File
* Websites
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OPDC DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE
Effective from January 1983
Correspondence and ceremonial messages between prominent leaders and principal officers. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acknowledgment
* Anniversary
* Appreciation Message
* Commemorative Message
* Condolence Message
* Congratulatory Message
* Invitation
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OPRC PUBLIC RELATIONS AND CORRESPONDENCE
Effective from January 1983
Correspondence to and from the public commenting on U.S. policy and foreign incidents, requesting information and speaking engagements, and any other public relations activities. This TAGS includes routine constituent's correspondence such as employment opportunities, requests for photographs, autographs, etc. Also includes press summaries and press conferences, public opinion polls, and the administrative arrangements for press conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: PR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Authentication
* Autograph
* Constituents Mail
* Employment
* Interview
* Invitation
* Journalist
* Photo Request
* Photograph
* Poll
* Press Relations
* Public Diplomacy
* Public Information Publication
* Speaker
* Translation
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OREP U.S. CONGRESSIONAL TRAVEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Administrative and operational aspects of travel by Congressmen, congressional staffers, and delegations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LEG)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* CODEL
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protective Security
* Staffdel
* Support Services
* Travel Advisory
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OSCI SCIENCE GRANTS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administration of grants and disbursal of funds of U.S. Government sponsored research programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Foreign Currency
* Grant
* Science Grant
* Scientific Exchange
* Scientist
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OTRA TRAVEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Routine and operational aspects of travel and visits by other than prominent individuals and Congressmen. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL, TP, TRV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Businessmen
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Dependent
* Itinerary
* Journalist
* Official Travel
* Scientific Visit
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
* Travel Locator Messages
* Travel Orders
* Travel Report
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OVIP VISITS AND TRAVEL OF PROMINENT INDIVIDUALS AND LEADERS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administrative and operational aspects of visits or travel of U.S. and foreign leaders and prominent individuals. Use for assistant secretary level and above or foreign equivalent. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Envoy
* Hotel
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protection Technical Services
* Protective Security
* Secretarys Detail
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
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PARM ARMS CONTROLS AND DISARMAMENT
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts by governments to control the acquisition, development, and production of nuclear, biological, chemical, and other advanced weaponry. Also includes the control of efforts by countries to develop nuclear capabilities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, FT, POL, STR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* ABM Treaty
* Advance Notification
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aerial Inspection
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Arms Buildup
* Arms Control
* Arms Control Agreement
* Arms Control Impact Statement
* Arms Talks
* Arms Traffic
* Associated Measures
* Biological Warfare Convention
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* CDE
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* CNEA
* Compliance
* Confidence Building Measures
* Constraints
* Consultation
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* Conventional Weapon Freeze
* Cooperative Measures
* Counterforce
* Counting Rule
* CST
* CTB
* Deterrence
* Disarmament
* Diversion
* East West Relations
* Electronic Weapons Systems
* Emerging Technologies
* ENMOD
* Entry Exit Points
* Fissionable Material
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hotline
* Implementation
* INF
* IOZP
* Laser Fusion
* Launchers
* Limited Test Ban Treaty
* LRTNF
* Military Budget Reduction
* Military Expenditures
* Missile
* Monitoring
* Moratorium
* Napalm
* National Guidelines Area
* No First Use
* Nonproliferation
* Nonuse of Force
* NPT
* NRR
* NTEM
* NTM
* Nuclear Agreements
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Enrichment Process
* Nuclear Equipment
* Nuclear Free Zone
* Nuclear Material
* Nuclear Proliferation
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Technical Assistance
* Nuclear Technology
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Weapon Free Zone
* Nuclear Weapon Freeze
* Particle Beam
* Peace Movement
* Plutonium
* Political Concession
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* SCC
* SDI
* Simulations
* SNEC
* Spent Fuel
* START
* Stockpile
* Strategic Policy
* Technology Transfer
* Telemetry
* Tlatelolco Treaty
* Troop Level
* TTBT
* Unconventional Weapon
* Verification
* Warhead
* Weapon Destruction
* Weapon Systems Deactivation
* Weapons Deployment
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PBTS NATIONAL BOUNDARIES, TERRITORIES, AND SOVEREIGNTY
Effective from January 1983
A territory over which dominion is exercised. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Alert
* Airspace
* Annexation
* Arbitration
* Archipelago
* Border Control
* Border Crossing
* Border Dispute
* Border Incident
* Boundary
* Boundary Claim
* Boundary Determination
* Canal
* Cession
* Coast Guard
* Continental Shelf
* Court Decision
* Dependency
* Dispute Settlement
* Island
* Island Claim
* Land Settlement
* Landlocked Country
* Maritime Boundary
* Mediation
* Occupied Area
* Overflight
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Province
* River
* Seabed
* Ship Detention
* Sovereignty
* Strait
* Survey
* Territorial Claim
* Territorial Reversion
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Unification
* Territorial Waters
* Trust Territory
* Water Boundary Agreement
* Water Boundary Claim
* West Bank
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PGOV INTERNAL GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised June 1983)
The form, structure, and organization of local, provincial, and national governments. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Absentee Ballot
* Administration of Justice
* Alliance
* Antigovernment
* Arbitration
* Berlin Access
* Berlin Wall
* Cabinet
* Cabinet Meeting
* Campaign
* Candidacy Support
* Candidate
* Charter
* Church State Relations
* Coalition Government
* Colonialism
* Communism
* Confederation
* Constitution
* Constitutional Law
* Corruption
* Court
* Court Decision
* Death
* Democracy
* Dictatorship
* Election
* Election Forecast
* Election Irregularities
* Election Law
* Election Observer
* Election Reform
* Election Results
* Extremist
* Federation
* First Lady
* Glasnost
* Government Agency
* Government Budget
* Government Media Relations
* Government Official
* Government Reform
* Governor
* Impeachment
* Inauguration
* Influence
* Infrastructure
* Interim Government
* Judicial Reform
* Judiciary
* Junta
* King
* Legislation
* Legislator
* Legislature
* Martial Law
* Mayor
* Minister
* Minority
* Municipal
* Nationalism
* Opposition
* Opposition Party
* Party Faction
* Party Leader
* Party Line
* Party Meeting
* Party Stability
* Party Strength
* Party Unity
* Patronage
* Perestroyka
* Political Adviser
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Crisis
* Political Leader
* Political Military Relations
* Political Party
* Political Trend
* Poll
* President
* Prime Minister
* Progovernment
* Province
* Queen
* Reconciliation
* Referendum
* Reorganization
* Resignation from Office
* Reunification
* Royal Family
* Ruling Party
* Self Government
* Socialism
* Special Interest Group
* State of the Union Message
* Succession
* Tenure of Office
* Totalitarian
* Trial
* Trust
* Territory
* Veto
* Vice President
* Voting
* Voting Rights
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PHSA HIGH SEAS AFFAIRS
Effective from January 1983
Activities on the high seas, outside a country's national jurisdiction. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Continental Shelf
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive
* Economic Zone
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Freedom of Navigation
* Hazardous Cargo
* Innocent Passage
* International Waters
* LOS
* Marine Mammal
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Natural Resources
* Ocean Dumping
* Piracy
* Seabed
* Seabed Mining
* Ship Accident
* Ship Detention
* Ship Movement
* Strait
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Waters
* Transit Passage
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PHUM HUMAN RIGHTS
Effective from January 1985
The violation of rights attributable to human beings. (Replaces RCHB file categories: POL, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Abuse
* Amnesty
* Antisemitic
* Apartheid
* Asylum
* Asylum Request
* Capital Punishment
* Childrens Rights
* Civil Rights
* Concentration Camp
* Court Decision
* Death Squad
* Deportation
* Detainee
* Detection Equipment
* Detention Development Rights
* Discrimination
* Economic Rights
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Ethnic Group
* EVD
* Execution
* Exile
* Family
* Forced Labor
* Harassment
* Human Rights
* Humane
* Imprisonment
* Indigenous Peoples
* Individual Rights
* Internal Exile
* Internee
* Mass Migration
* Massacre
* Minority
* Minority Rights
* Missing Person
* Mistreatment
* Murder
* Persecution
* Police Equipment
* Political Disappearance
* Political Prisoner
* Political Repression
* Political Rights
* Poverty
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Welfare
* Proselytize
* Psychiatric Abuse
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Returnees
* Rights of Peoples
* Security Forces
* Sponsorship
* Torture
* Walk In Procedures
* Women
* Womens Rights
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PINR INTELLIGENCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The gathering and reporting of intelligence information, including biographic and background data. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INT, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aerial Reconnaissance
* Biographic Information
* Contacts
* Counterintelligence
* Covert Operations
* Disinformation
* Espionage
* Film
* Humint Collection Plan
* Information Security
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intelligence Collection
* Intelligence Services
* Maps
* Monitoring
* Olive Harvest
* PLPPR
* Remote Sensing
* Satellite
* Ship Movement
* Surveillance Aircraft
* Tracking Station
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PINS NATIONAL SECURITY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
A regime's stability, control, or efforts to maintain itself in power, as well as activities and efforts to disrupt or overthrow the established regime by other than normal political activity. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Assassination
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Censorship
* Church State Relations
* Civil War
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Contingency Plan
* CONTRA
* Counterinsurgency
* Coup
* Court Decision
* Court Martial
* Death Squad
* Defector
* Demobilization
* Detention
* Dissident
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Escalation
* Ethnic Group
* Execution
* Exile
* Exiled Government
* Exit Permit
* Expulsion
* Extremist
* General Strike
* Guerrilla
* Harassment
* Hostility
* Hunger Strike
* Impeachment
* Infiltration
* Insurgency
* Intelligence Assessment
* Internal Control
* Intervention
* Land Reform
* Law Enforcement
* Liberation Front
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* Mercenary
* Minority
* Missing Person
* National Security
* Occupied Area
* Persona Non Grata
* Plot
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Political Assessment
* Political Crisis
* Political Military Relations
* Political Prisoner
* Political Settlement
* Political Stability
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Release
* Propaganda
* Property Protection
* Religious Group
* Repression
* Reprisal
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Sabotage
* Seizure
* Surrender
* Threat
* Travel Document
* Travel Restriction
* Treason
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Violence
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PREF REFUGEES
Effective from January 1985 (Revised March 1995)
People who move across borders because of danger to life or fear of persecution. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Admissions
* Allocation
* Asylum Policy
* Early Warning
* Emergency Response
* ESLCO
* Family Reunification
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Internally Displaced Persons
* Letter of Introduction
* ODP
* Prevention
* Refugee Camp
* Refugee Protection
* Refugee Relief
* Refugee Resettlement
* Refugee Settlement
* Refugee Status
* Repatriation
* Safe Country of Origin and Transit
* Safe Haven
* Sponsorship
* Temporary Protection
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
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PREL EXTERNAL POLITICAL RELATIONS
Effective from January 1983
The political relations between countries, international or regional organizations both bilateral and multilateral, that assess intentions, objectives, plans, or possible courses of interaction. (Replaces RCHB file category: CSM, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alliance
* Ambassador
* Amity
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antisoviet
* Bilateral Cooperation
* CBI
* Cold War
* Commitment
* Condemnation
* Consular Service
* Demarche
* Detente
* Deterrence
* Diplomatic Protest
* East West Relations
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Expulsion
* Extradition Treaty
* Foreign Commitment
* Foreign Relations
* Front Line States
* Government Reaction
* Hegemony
* Industrialized Nation
* Influence
* International Organization
* Intervention
* LDC
* Lobbying
* NAM
* National Security
* Neutrality
* No Fly Zone
* Nonaggression
* Nonaligned Nations
* Nonparticipation
* North South Dialogue
* Open Skies Treaty
* Opposition
* Participation
* Peace
* Peace Plan
* Persona Non Grata
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Initiative
* Political Settlement
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Exchange
* Prisoner Transfer
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Relations
* Reciprocity
* Recognition
* Reconciliation
* Regional Organization
* Relations Establishment
* Relations Interruption
* Reprisal
* Sanction
* Secession
* Signatory
* Sister City
* Third Country Representation
* Third World
* Threat
* War Claims
* West Bank
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PROP PROPAGANDA AND PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The spreading of ideology, information, or rumor for the purpose of supporting or defaming nations, institutions, causes, peoples, or persons. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CSM, CUL, INF, MP, POL, PPB, RAD, TV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Active Measures
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antinuclear
* Antisoviet
* Brain Drain
* Brainwashing
* Broadcasting
* Campaign
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Disinformation
* Frequency Interference
* Harassment
* Influence
* Jamming
* Lobbying
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Propaganda
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Disclosure
* Public Information
* Public Relations
* Publication
* Repression
* Slander
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PTER TERRORISTS AND TERRORISM
Effective from March 1981 (Revised January 1983)
All aspects of terrorism which transcend national boundaries due to the nationality of the perpetrator, victim, place, or the incident. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acts of Terrorists
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Antiterrorist Forces
* Assassination
* Assault
* Bomb Threat
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Hijacking
* Hostage
* Hostility
* Infiltration
* Kidnapping
* Kidnapping Threat
* Mission Takeover
* Piracy
* Plot
* Proterrorism
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Small Arms
* Surrender
* Terrorism
* Terrorist Activities
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Violence
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SCUL CULTURAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
Any part or totality of a nation's behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, or sociology. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CUL, EDU, MP, PPB, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* American Studies
* Anthropology
* Archaeology
* Artifact
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Commemorative Celebration
* Community Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Presentation
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Education
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Ethnic Group
* Excavation
* Exchange Program Designation
* Exhibit
* Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* Fine Arts
* FLEX Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange
* History
* Holiday
* Humphrey Program
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Language
* Library
* Magazine
* Memorial
* Missionary
* Museum
* National Flag
* Newspaper
* Olympics
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Piracy
* Place of Worship
* Pope
* Publication
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Religious Leader
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* School
* Social Custom
* Social Reform
* Sports
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* University
* US Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Women
* Youth
* Youth Exchanges
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SENV ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The preservation, deterioration, and conservation of natural and animal resources, the air, water, land, and space environments. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AGR, CUL, E, HLTH, INCO, OS, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acid Rain
* Air Pollution
* Animal Conservation
* Animal Hides
* Atmosphere
* Biodiversity
* CITES
* Crop
* Destruction
* Dam
* Desertification
* Drought
* Earthquake
* Ecology
* Endangered Species
* Environment
* Erosion
* Exploitation
* Famine
* Fire
* Fish
* Flood
* Flora
* Forestry
* Fungicide
* Habitat
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Herbicide
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insect
* Land Conservation
* Marine
* Mammal
* Migratory Animals
* Monsoon
* National Park
* Natural Disaster
* Natural Resources
* Noise Pollution
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Winter
* Ocean Dumping
* Oil Spill
* Ozone
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Pollution Control
* Preservation
* Rainfall
* Seabed
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sludge
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soil Pollution
* Species Protection
* Storm
* Tidal Wave
* Transboundary Pollution
* Tropical Forest
* Volcanic Eruption
* Waste
* Waste Disposal
* Water
* Water Analysis
* Water Conservation
* Water Pollution
* Water Supply System
* Weather
* Whales
* Wildlife
* Yellow Rain
* Zoo
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SMIG MIGRATION
Effective from March 1995
The legal or illegal movement of people across borders, border control, and the treatment of aliens by receiving states. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alien Interdiction
* Border Control
* Cross Border Migration
* Economic Migration
* Emigration
* Environmental Migration
* Family Reunification
* Illegal Migration
* Immigration
* Labor Migration
* Migration
* Migration and Development Policy
* Nationality and Citizenship
* Readmission Agreements
* Remittances
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SNAR NARCOTICS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 2008)
The illegal production, distribution, and use of narcotic drugs. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aircraft Registry
* Cocaine
* Crop Destruction
* Crop Substitution
* Crops
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Demand Reduction
* Detection
* Equipment
* Eradication
* Exhibit
* Foreigners
* Hashish
* Herbicide
* Heroin
* Illicit
* Immigration
* Interdiction
* Law Enforcement
* Legal
* Marijuana
* Money Laundering
* Morphine
* Narcotics
* Narcotics Abuse
* Narcotics Control
* Narcotics Detection
* Narcotics Seizure
* Narcotics Traffic
* Opium
* Patrol Boat
* Psychotropic Drugs
* Seizure
* Ship Registry
* Smuggling
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SOCI SOCIAL CONDITIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The conditions and factors that affect the social welfare of a community. (Replaces RCHB file category: HLTH, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Abortion
* Administration of Justice
* Adoption
* AIDS
* Birth Rate
* Black Market
* Census
* Child
* Custody
* Children
* Civil Disobedience
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Consumer Protection
* Crime
* Crime Control
* Cult
* Demography
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Divorce
* Educational Reform
* Elderly
* Epidemic
* Family
* Family Planning
* Food
* Fugitive
* Genocide
* Glasnost
* Health
* Housing
* Housing Shortage
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Hunger Strike
* Illegal Alien
* Immigrant
* Immigration Control
* Infant
* Infrastructure
* Inoculation
* Insurance
* Law Enforcement
* Life Expectancy
* Marriage
* Medical Care
* Medical Facility
* Mental Health
* Minority
* Modernization
* Mortality Rate
* Murder
* Penal System
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Population
* Population Growth
* Pornography
* Prison
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Prostitution
* Public Safety
* Public Transportation
* Public Welfare
* Quarantine
* Recall
* Reform
* Rehabilitation
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Rural Area
* Sanitation
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sex Ratio
* Sexual Crime
* Sexual Harassment
* Social Development
* Social Reform
* Social Security
* Social Service
* Social Trend
* Special Interest Group
* Standard of Living
* Sterilization
* Theft
* Urban Area
* Violence
* Volunteers
* Water Supply System
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TBIO BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL SCIENCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The anatomy, physiology, chemistry, and psychology that affect living organisms and the mechanisms of their expression. (Replaces RCHB file categories: HLTH, SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AIDS
* Animals
* Biology
* Biotechnology
* Chemistry
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Eradication
* Food
* Genetic Engineering
* Hormones
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Medical Science
* Nuclear Contamination
* Parapsychology
* Pest Control
* Pharmaceuticals
* Quarantine
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* STRIDE Technology
* Technology
* Transfer
* Vaccine
* Zoology
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TPHY PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development in any of the physical sciences. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Atmosphere
* Chemistry
* Geodesy
* Geology
* Hydrology
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Maps
* Materials Science
* Meteorology
* Metrology
* Microwave
* Minerology
* Ocean Drilling
* Oceanography
* Physics
* Research & Development
* Research Vessel
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Scientific Visit
* Seismology
* STRIDE
* Survey
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Volcanology
* Weather
* Weather Station
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TRGY ENERGY TECHNOLOGY
Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development of energy sources. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF, FSE, PET, SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Electric Energy
* Energy Conservation
* Exploration
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Magnetic
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Petroleum
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* SSC
* STRIDE
* Synthetic Fuel
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Transmitters
* Wind Energy
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TSPA SPACE ACTIVITIES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development leading to and resulting in the exploration and utilization of outer space. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, SP, TEL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Astronaut
* Astronomy
* Communications Satellite
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* ELV
* Exploration
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Technology Equipment
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Landing Rights
* Navigational Aid
* Orbit
* Outer Space
* Outer Space Commercialization
* Peaceful Use of Outer Space
* Reentry
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Salvage
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Space Agreement
* Space Fragment
* Space Law
* Space Liability
* Space Program
* Space Station
* Spacecraft
* Spacecraft Recovery
* Spaceflight
* STRIDE
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Telecommunication
* Tracking Station
* UFO
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GARCIA GASPAR GATT GAZA GAZPROM GB GBSLE GC GCC GCCC GE GEF GEORGE GERARD GESKE GF GG GH GI GIPNC GIWI GJ GKGIC GL GLOBAL GM GN GO GOG GOI GON GOVPOI GPGOV GPI GPOI GPOV GR GREGG RENE WALTER GRQ GS GT GTIP GTMO GTREFTEL GU GUAM GUANTANAMO GUIDANCE GUILLERMO GUTIERREZ GV GWI GY GZ GZIS HA HARRIET HARRY HAWZ HCOPIL HDP HE HEAVEN HEBRON HELGERSON HERCEGOVINA HG HHS HI HIGHLIGHTS HIJAZI HILARY HILLARY HILLEN HIPC HIV HIZ HK HKSX HL HLSX HN HNCHR HO HOA HOSTAGES HPKO HR HRC HRCS HRICTY HRIGHTS HRKSTC HSI HSTC HSWG HT HTCG HTSC HU HUD HUM HUMAN HUMANITARIAN HUMANR HUMANRIGHTS HUMOR HUMRIT HUNRC HURI HURRICANE HYDE HYLAND HYMPSK HZ IA IACHR IACI IACO IACW IADB IAEA IAES IAHRC IAIE IAII IASA IATTC IAZ IBB IBD IBET IBPCA IBRB IBRD IC ICAC ICAO ICC ICCAT ICCROM ICES ICJ ICRC ICRS ICSCA ICTR ICTY ID IDA IDB IDLI IDLO IDP IDR IE IEA IEAB IEF IF IFAD IFC IFIN IFM IFO IFR IFRC IG IGAD IGF IHO IICA IINS IIP IK IL ILAB ILC ILEA ILO IMC IMET IMF IMMIGRATION IMO IMSO IMTS IN INAUGURATION INCB IND INDO INF INFLUENZA INL INMARSAT INNP INPFC INR INRA INRB INRD INRO INRPAZ INS INSC INT INTEL INTELLECTUAL INTELSAT INTERNAL INTERPOL INV INVI IO IOC IOM IP IPET IPGRI IPK IPPC IPR IPROP IQ IQNV IR IRAN IRAQ IRAQI IRAQI FREEDOM IRC IRCE IRDB IRE IRL IRLE IRM IRMO IRNB IRPE IRS IS ISA ISAAC ISAF ISCA ISCON ISLAMISTS ISLE ISN ISNV ISO ISPA ISPL ISRAEL ISRAEL RELATIONS ISRAELI ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS ISSUES ISTC IT ITA ITALIAN ITALY ITECIP ITEIND ITELTN ITER ITF ITIA ITRA ITRD ITU IUCN IV IVIANNA IWC IWI IX IZ IZAORC JA JAM JAMES JAPAN JAT JAWAD JCIC JE JEFFERY JEFFREY JHR JI JIMENEZ JIMENEZ CHILDREN JK JKUS JM JN JO JOHANNS JOHNNIE JOSE NEY MILA ESPINOSA JOSE RAMOS HORTA JOSEPH BIDEN JP JS JSRP JUAN JULIAN RENE KIRCHOFF JUS JY KA KACP KACT [+] KACW KADM KAID KALM KALR KANSOU KAPO KARIM WADE KATRINA KAUST KAWC [+] KAWK KAWL KAWS KAWX KAYLA KBCT KBDS KBEM KBIO KBNC KBTC KBTR KBTS KBWG KCCP KCEM KCERS KCFC KCFE [+] KCGC KCHG KCIP [+] KCIS KCM KCMA KCMR KCOG KCOM [+] KCOR [+] KCPS KCRCM KCRI KCRIM KCRM [+] KCRN KCRO KCROM KCROR KCRP KCRS KCRT KCSA KCSI KCSY KCUL KCUM KCVM KCWI KDCM KDDEM KDDG KDE KDEM [+] KDEN KDET KDEV KDGOV KDGR KDHS KDM KDMR KDP KDRG [+] KDRL KDTB KDUM KE KEAI KEBG KECF KEDEM KEDM KEDU KEIM KEM KEMPI KEMR KEMS KEN KENV KERF KERG KESO KESP KESS KEVIN KFAM KFCE KFE KFEM KFGM KFIN KFIU KFLD KFLO KFLU KFOR KFPC KFRD [+] KFRP KFSC KFTFN KFTN KG KGCC KGCN KGHA KGHG [+] KGIC [+] KGICKS KGIT KGIV KGKG KGLB KGOR KGOV KH KHDP KHGH KHIB KHIV [+] KHJUS KHLS [+] KHMN KHOURY KHPD KHSA KHSL KHUM KI KIBL KICA KICC KICCPUR KICR KICT KID KIDE KIF KIFR KIIC KIIP KIL KILS KIMMITT KIMT KIND KINF KINL KINP KINR KINT KIPR [+] KIPT KIRC KIRF [+] KIRL KIRP KIS KISC KISK KISL [+] KISM KISR KITA KIVP KIVR KJAN KJRE KJU KJUS [+] KJUST KJWC KK KKIV KKNP KKOR KKPO KLAB KLAP KLBO KLEG KLFLO KLFU KLHS KLIG KLIP KLPM KLSO KLTN KM KMAC KMAR KMCA [+] KMCC KMCR KMDR [+] KMEPI KMFO KMGT KMIG KMNP KMOC KMPF KMPI KMPIO KMPL KMPP KMPT KMRD KMRS KMSG KMVP KMWN KN KNAO KNAP KNAR KNDP KNEI KNEP KNET KNMP KNN KNNA KNNB KNNC KNNF KNNO KNNP [+] KNNR KNOP KNP KNPP KNPPIS KNPR KNPT KNRG KNRV KNSD KNUC KNUP KO KOC KOCI KOCM KOEM KOGL KOLY [+] KOM KOMC KOMCCO KOMCSG KOMH KOMO KOMS KOR KOSOVO KOUYATE KPA KPAD KPAI KPAK KPAL [+] KPALAOIS KPAM KPAO [+] KPAS KPBT KPDD KPEM KPEO KPER KPET KPIN [+] KPIR KPKO [+] KPKP KPLS KPMI KPMO KPO KPOA KPOKO KPOL KPOP KPOV KPOW KPPAO KPPD KPRD KPRM KPRO KPROG KPRP KPRV KPSC KPTD KPTS KPWG KPWR [+] KQ KQM KQRDQ KR KRAD [+] KRAL KRCIM KRCM KRCS KRD KRDP KREC KREF KREL KRF KRFD KRFR KRG KRGY KRIC KRIF KRIM KRKO KRM KRMS KRV KRVC KS KSA KSAC KSAF KSCA [+] KSCI KSCS KSCT KSEAO KSEC KSEI KSEO KSEP KSI KSIA KSKN KSLG KSMT KSOC KSOCI KSPA KSPR [+] KSRE KSTC KSTCC KSTCPL KSTH KSTS KSTT KSUM [+] KSUP KT KTAO KTBD KTBT KTCRE KTDB KTDD KTDM KTER KTEX KTFIN KTFM KTFN [+] KTFR KTFS KTIA [+] KTIP [+] KTLA KTNBT KTNF KTPN KTRD KTRF KTSC KTSD KTTB KTTC KTTP KU KUAE 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 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 MB MBM MC MCA MCAP [+] MCAPARR MCAPN MCAPP MCAPS MCAT MCC MCCONNELL MCCP MCRM MCTRE MD MDA MDC MDO ME MEA MED MEDIA 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 MOHAMMAD MOLINA MONTENEGRO MONUC MONY MOOPS MOP MOPP MOPPS MOPS [+] 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 MURRAY MV MW MX MY MZ NA NAC NACB 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 NEI NELSON NEPAD NERG NET NEW NFATC NFMS NFSO NG NGO NGUYEN NH NI 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 OASCC OASS OAU OBAMA OBS OBSP OCBD OCEA OCED OCHA OCII OCRA OCS OCSE ODAG ODC ODIP [+] ODPC OECD OECS OECV OES OESC OEXC [+] OEXP OF OFDA OFDC OFDP [+] OFDPQIS OFFICIALS OFPD OFSO OGAC OGIV OHCHR OHI OHIP OI OIC OICCO OIE OIF OIG OIIP [+] OIL OIM OLY OLYAIR OLYMPICS OM OMB OMIG OMS ON ONA OPAD OPBAT OPC OPCD OPCR OPCW OPDAT OPDC [+] OPDP OPEC OPET OPIC OPID OPOC OPPC OPRC [+] OPREC OPREP OPS OPSC OPVIP ORA ORC ORCA ORECD ORED OREG OREP [+] ORGANIZED ORP ORTA ORUE OSAC OSCE OSCI [+] OSD OSEC OSHA OSIC OSTA OSTRA OTA OTAR OTP OTR OTRA [+] OTRABL OTRAO OTRAZ OTRC OTRD OUALI OVIP [+] OVP OXEC OXEM OZ PA PAARM PAC PACE PAGE PAGR PAHO PAIGH PAK PAL PALESTINIAN PAMQ PAN PANAM PAO PAR PARALYMPIC PARCA PAREL PARK PARLIAMENT PARM [+] PARMS PARN PARP PARR PARTIES PARTM PARTY PAS PASS PATRICK WARREN MAHURIN PATTY PAUM PB PBGT PBIO PBK PBOV PBPTS PBS PBT PBTS [+] PCI PCON PCOR PCRM PCUL PD PDA PDD PDEM PDIP PDOV PDRG PE PEACE PEACEKEEPINGFORCES PEDRO PEL PELOSI PEMEX PENA PENV PEPFAR PEPR PER PEREZ PERL PERM PERSONS PET PETER PETERS PETR PETRAEUS PETROL PF PFIN PFLP PFOR PFOV PG PGGOC PGIC PGIV PGKV PGO PGOC PGOF PGOG PGON PGOR PGOT PGOV [+] PGOVE PGOVQL PGPV PGREL PGREV PGV PH PHALANAGE PHARM PHAS PHEM PHIM PHM PHSA [+] PHU PHUH PHUM [+] PHUMHUPPS PHUN PHUS PHYTRP PI PIA PICES PIF PIN PINB PIND PINER PINF PING PINL PINO PINOCHET PINR [+] PINS [+] PINT PINV PIR PIRF PIRN PJUS PK PKAO PKBL PKFK PKISL PKK PKMN PKNP PKO PKPA PKPAL PKPO PKPRP PKST PL PLAB PLAN PLEC PLN PLO PLUM PM PMAR PMAT PMDL PMIG PMIL PMIN PMR PMUC PN PNAT PNET PNG PNIR PNNL PNR PNRG PNS PNUC PNUK PNUM PO PODC POG POGV POINS POL POLG POLI POLICY POLINT POLITICAL POLITICS POLM POLMIL POLS POLUN POREL PORG POSTS POTUS POUS POV POWELL PP PPA PPAO PPD PPEF PPEL PPKO PPOL PQL PQM PRC PRE PREC PRED PREF [+] PREG PREJ PREK PREL [+] PRELEVU PRELM PRELPLS PRELTBIOBA PREM PREO PREP PRER PRES PRESIDENT PRESL PREV PREZ PRF PRFE PRFL PRGO PRGOV PRIL PRL PRLE PRM PRO PROB PROCESS PROG PROL PROLIFERATION PROP [+] PROPERTY PROTECTION PROTESTS PROV PROVE PRT PRTER PRWL PS PSA PSCE PSEC PSEPC PSHA PSI PSNR PSO PSOC PSOCI PSOE PT PTBS PTE PTEL PTEP PTER [+] PTGOV PTIA PTR PTRD PU PUAS PUBLIC PUNE PUNR PUOS PV PVIP PVOV PVPR PVTS PWBG PWMN PY QA QADRI QEL QI QIZ QM QT QU QUAN QUOC RA RAED RAID RAS RATIFICATION RBI RCA RCMP RE REA REACTION REALTIONS RECIN REF REFORM REFPAN REFUGEE REFUGEES REGION REGIONAL REID REIN REINEMEYER REL RELAM RELATIONS RELFREE RELIGIOUS REMON RENAMO RENE PREVAL REO REPORT REUBEN RF RFE RFIN RFREEDOM RGOV RGY RHUM RI RICE RICHARD RIGHTS RIGHTSPOLMIL RIMC RIVERA RL RLA RM RMA RO ROK ROME ROSS ROW ROY RP RPEL RPTS RQ RR RRB RREL RS RSO RSOX RSP RSZ RTT RU RUEHZO RV RW RWANDA SA SAAD SAARC SACU SADC SAFE SAIR SAIS SAMA SAN SANC SANR SAO SARB SARGSIAN SARS SASC SASEC SB SBA SC SCA SCCC SCE SCENESETTER SCHUL SCI SCIENCE SCNV SCOI SCOL SCOM SCPR SCRM SCRS SCRSERD SCUL [+] SCVL SD SE SEC SECDEF SECI SECRET SECRETARY 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 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 SOCIS SOCISZX SOCR SOCY SOE SOFA SOI SOIC SOLI SOLIC SOM 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 SU SUCCESSION SULLIVAN SUMMIT SUR 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 TNDG TNGD TO TOPEC TORRIJOS TOURISM TP TPHY [+] TPKO TPP TPSA TPSL TR TRAD TRADE TRAFFICKING TRBIO TRBY TRD TREAS TREASURY TREATY TREL TRG TRGV TRGY [+] TRIO TRSY TRT TRV TRY TRYG TRYS TS TSA TSLP TSPA [+] TSPL TSRL TSRY TSY TT TTFN TU TURKEY TV TVBIO TW TWRO TX TY TZ TZBY UA UAE UAID UAM UB UDEM UE UEU UG UGA UK UKR UKRAINE UM UMIK UN UNA UNAF UNAIDS UNAMA UNAMSIL UNAORC UNAUS UNBRO UNC UNCC UNCDF UNCDN UNCHC UNCHR UNCHS UNCITRAL UNCND UNCOPUOS UNCRED UNCRIME UNCSD UNCSW UNCTAD UNDC UNDEF UNDOF UNDP UNECE UNEF UNEP UNESCO UNFA UNFC UNFCYP UNFF UNFICYP UNFIYCP UNFPA UNGA UNGAPL UNGO UNHCR UNHRC UNICEF UNIDCP UNIDO UNIDROIT UNIFEM UNIFIL UNION UNKIK UNM UNMEE UNMIC UNMIK UNMIKI UNMIKV UNMIL UNMIN UNMOVIC UNO UNODC UNOMIG UNOPS UNP UNPAR UNPUOS UNRCCA UNRCR UNREST UNRWA UNSC UNSCAPU UNSCD UNSCE UNSCER UNSCR UNSCS UNSD UNSE UNTAC UNTERR UNTZ UNUS UNVIE UNYI UP UPU UPUO UR US USAID USAU USCC USCG USDA USDELFESTTWO USEU USG USGS USMS USNC USOAS USOP USPS USPTO USSC USTA USTDA USTR USTRD USTRIT USTRPS USTRUWR USUN UUNR UV UX UY UZ VA VANG VAT VC VE VELS VEN VENZ VETTING VI VINICIO VIP VIS VISIT VM VN VO VOA VT VTEG VTFR VTIS VTPREL VTTBIO VTWCAR VXY VY VZ WA WAEMU WAKI WAR WB WBEG WBG WCAR WCI WCL WCO WE WEBG WEBZ WEET WEF WEOG WET WEU WFA WFP WFPAORC WFPO WGC WGG 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AA AADP AALC ABER ABLD [+] ABLDG ABLG ABMC ABT ABUD AC ACABQ ACAO ACCOUNT ACDA ACEC ACKM ACOA ACOTA ACS ACTION ADANA ADB ADCO ADCP ADEL ADEP ADIP ADM ADMIRAL ADPM ADRC AE AEC AECL AEGR AEIR AEM AEMED AEMR [+] AER AESC AF AFARI AFDB AFDIN AFFAIRS AFGHANISTAN AFIN [+] AFL AFLU AFOR AFR AFSA AFSI AFSN AFU AFZAL AG AGAO AGENDA AGENGA AGIT AGMT AGOA AGR AGS AGUIRRE AI AIAG AID AIDAC AIDS AIEA AIHRC AIN AINF AINFCY AINR AINT AISG AIT AJ AK AL AL-1 ALAB ALBE ALEXANDER ALI ALIREZA ALJAZEERA ALL ALNEA ALOW ALOWAR AM AMAT AMB AMCHAMS AMCT AME AMED AMEDI AMEMR AMER AMERICAS AMEX AMG AMGE AMGMT AMGT [+] AMIA AMLB AMPR AMT AMTC AMTG AN ANARCHISTS ANC AND ANDREW LEE WATKINS ANET ANTITERRORISM AO AOCR AODE AOIC AOMS AOPR AORC [+] AORD AOREC AORG AORL AOWC AP APCS APDC APEC APECO APER [+] APR APRC APRM AQ AR ARAB ARABBL ARABL ARABLEAGUE ARAS ARC ARCH ARENA AREP ARF ARG ARM ARMITAGE ARMS AROC ARR ARRMZY ARSO AS ASA ASAC ASC ASCC ASCE ASCEC ASCH ASE ASEAN ASEC [+] ASECARP ASECE ASECM ASECSI ASECVE ASED ASEDC ASEG ASEK ASES ASEX ASFC ASIC ASIG ASIR ASJA ASO ASOC ASPA ASR ASSEMBLY ASSK ASUP AT ATFN ATPDEA ATRA ATRD ATRN AU AU-1 AUC AUNR AUSGR AUSTRALIAGROUP AV AVERY AVIAN AVIANFLU AVIATION AW AX AY AZ AZE B. BA BAGHDAD BAIO BAKOYANNIS BALKANS BAPOL BARACK BASHAR BATA BB BBG BBSR BC BCW BCXP BD BE BEAN BEN BERARDUCCI BESP BEXB BEXP [+] BEXPC BEXPPLM BEXT BF BFIF BFIN BFIO BG BGD BGMT BH BHUM BI BIC BIDOON BIH BILAT BIMSTEC BINR BIO BIOS BIOTECH BIOTECHNOLOGY BIT BITO BK BL BLR BLUE BLUNT BM BMENA BMGT BMOT BN BNUC BO BOIKO BOL BOND BOQ BORDER BOSNIA BOU BOUCHAIB KAKA BOUTERSE BP BPIS BPTS BR BRIAN BRPA BRUSSELS BS BSSR BT BTA BTC BTIO [+] BTIU BTRA BTT BU BUD BULGARIA BURMA BUSH BV BW BWC BX BXEP BY BZ CA CAC CACM CACS CAFTA CAIO CAJC CAMBODIA CAN CAPC CARC CARE CARIB CARICOM CARSON CAS CASA CASC [+] CASCC CASCR CASE CASTILLO CAVO CB CBC CBD CBE CBG CBIS CBM CBSA CBTH CBW CCSR CCY CD CDB CDC CDCC CDCE CDG CDI CE CEA CEC CEDAW CEN CENTCOM CENTRIC CEUDA CF CFE CFED CFG CFIS CFSP CG CGEN CGOPRC CH CHAD CHALLENGE CHAO CHELIDZE CHENEY CHERTOFF CHG CHIEF CHN CHR CHRISTIAN CHRISTOF CHRISTOPHER CI CIA CIAT CIC CICTE CIDA CIO CIP CIS CITEL CITES CITIBANK CITT CIVAIR CIVS CJ CJAN [+] CJUS CK CKGR CKOR CL CLEARANCE CLINTON CLMT CLO CLOK CM CMAE CMFT CMGT [+] CMP CMT CN CNAR CNARC CNC CNO CO CODEL COE COL COLIN COLLECTIVE COLOMBO COM COMESA COMMERCE CON CONAWAY CONDOLEEZZA CONDOLEEZZA RICE CONEAZ CONG CONGO CONGRINT CONS CONSULAR CONTROL CONTROLS CORRUPTION COSI COUNTER COUNTER TERRORISM COUNTERTERRORISM COUNTRY COUNTRYCLEARANCE CP CPA CPAS CPC CPCTC CPPT CPUOS CQ CR CRIM CRIME CRIMES CRISTINA CRM CROATIA CROS CRS CRUZ CS CSCE CSEP CSIS CSW CT CTBT CTER CTERR CTM CTR CTRYCLR CU CUCO CUIS CUL CV CVIA CVIC CVIS [+] CVISU CVPR CVR CW CWC CWCM CWG CX CY CYP CYPRUSARMS CZ DA DAC DAFR DAN DANFUNG DANIEL DAO DARFR DARFUR DAVID DAVID LEE HOWES DAVID WELCH DAVID WILLIAM RAY DB DC DCDG DCG DCHA DCI DCM DCOM DCRM DE DEA DEAX DEFENSE DEFENSEREFORM DELTAVIOLENCE DEM DEMARCHE DEMETRIOS DEMOCRATIC DENNIS DEOC DEPT DEPT FOR DS COMMAND CENTER DESI DHA DHLAKAMA DHLS DHRF DHS DHSX DIEZ DIPLOMACY DISENGAGEMENT DJ DK DKEM DMIN DMINE DO DOC DOD DOE DOJ DOMC DOMESTIC DOMESTICPOLITICS DONALD RUMSFELD DOT DPAO DPKO DPM DPOL DPRK DR DRC DRIP DRL DS DSR DSS DTFN DTRA DTRO DU DVC DY EAC EAD EADI EADM EAG EAGER EAGR [+] EAI EAIC EAID [+] EAIDB EAIDCIN EAIDEGZ EAIDMG EAIDNI EAIF EAIG EAIO EAIR [+] EAIS EAIT EAOD EAP EAPC EAR EARI EASS EATO EAUD EAVI EB EBEXP EBRD EBUD EC ECA ECCP ECCT ECE ECHEVARRIA ECIN ECIP ECLAC ECN ECOIN ECOM ECON [+] ECONCS ECONEGE ECONOMIC ECONOMICS ECONOMY ECONOMY AND FINANCE ECOR ECOS ECOSOC ECOWAS ECPC ECPN ECPO ECPS [+] ECPSN ECRM ECTRD ECUN ED EDA EDEV EDRC EDU EDUC EE EEB EEC EENG EENV EEOC EET EETC EFI EFIC EFIM EFIN [+] EFIS [+] EFLU EFN EFND EFNI EFQ EFTA EG EGAD EGAR EGEN EGHG EGOV EGOVSY EH EI EIAD EIAID EIAR EIB EICN EID EIDE EIDN EIFN EIN EIND [+] EINDIR EINF EING EINN EINO EINR EINT [+] EINV [+] EINZ EIPR EIQ EISL EISNLN EITC EITI EIVN EK EL ELA ELAB [+] ELAD ELAINE ELAM ELAN ELAP ELB ELBA ELBR ELEC ELECTIONS ELF ELIN ELN ELND ELNT ELTD ELTM ELTN [+] ELTRN EMAIL EMED EMI EMIN [+] EMN EMS EMW EN END ENDURING ENEG ENER ENERG ENERGY ENFR ENG ENGR ENGRD 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07YEREVAN1364 | TER-PETROSYAN READY TO RESIGN IN THREE YEARS IF ELECTED [...] (SBU) Former President Levon Ter-Petrosyan (LTP),who is emerging as PM Serzh Sargsyan's primary rival for the February 2008 presidential polls, drew thousands of supporters to downtown Yerevan November 16 for a second rally. LTP apologized to the people for past mistakes of his former adminis [...] | 2007-11-19 14:22:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AM |
07YEREVAN1365 | PRO-OPPOSITION YOUTH ACTIVIST SEVERELY BEATEN [...] (SBU) On Thursday November 15 Narek Galstian, a student activist, was attacked by three men and severely beaten. The attack came two days after police reportedly detained him for posting leaflets advertising the upcoming Levon Ter-Petrosian rally on Friday, November 16. Galstian and oppositio [...] | 2007-11-19 14:29:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV KDEM AM |
07YEREVAN1376 | RENEWING THE MESSAGE ON IRAN CONCERNS [...] (C) SUMMARY: CDA conveyed Ref A points to the Foreign Minister, Energy Minister, and presidential chief of staff, while A/DCM conveyed to senior staff of the prime minister (Ref B). All interlocutors insisted Armenia had no intention to build infrastructure capable of exporting Iranian gas [...] | 2007-11-26 14:37:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETTC EFIN ENRG KNNP IR TU AM |
07YEREVAN1383 | THE TER-PETROSSIAN SCENARIO: A LONG SHOT, BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ex-president Levon Ter-Petrossian (LTP) has become the leading opposition candidate for president. His chances of success -- whether at the ballot box or with a street protest strategy after the fact -- remain small, but he should not be dismissed prematurely. LTP enjoys unique [...] | 2007-11-27 16:08:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PHUM ASEC KDEM AM |
07YEREVAN1384 | MIXED, LARGELY SANGUINE REACTIONS TO ARMENIA'S ELECTORAL [...] (SBU) With the presidential election set for February, parliament swiftly enacted electoral code changes that took effect November 20. Over the course of two day-long readings, the parliament amended almost one third of the articles of Armenia's electoral code. IFES and other election monitor [...] | 2007-11-28 04:24:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KJUS AM |
07YEREVAN1394 | ANOTHER BROADSIDE FROM THE PRESIDENT'S OFFICE ON [...] (C) Presidential Chief of Staff Armen Gevorkian called in CDA November 27 to renew Kocharian's visceral objections to Radio Liberty (RL) programming which, according to Gevorgian, has been "turned into a mouthpiece for (former President) Levon Ter-Petrossian (LTP) by the director of the RL Arme [...] | 2007-11-30 09:35:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KPAO KDEM AM |
07YEREVAN1404 | ARMENIA: UNLIKELY TO CHANGE VOTES IN FAVOR OF UNGA [...] (SBU) Poloff met with Armenian MFA Director for International Organizations Dziunik Aghajanian on November 29 to communicate reftel demarche regarding upcoming UNGA votes to renew Anti-Israeli biased resolutions. Given Armenia's 2006 votes on the three resolutions (Yes on 61/22 and 61/116, an [...] | 2007-12-05 05:54:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNGA IS AM |
07YEREVAN1405 | ARMENIAN PARTICIPATION IN THE DECEMBER 4-6 [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-05 05:58:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR KFLU EAID TBIO PREL XX AM |
07YEREVAN1412 | SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES REPORT-ODC ARMENIA-November 2007 [...] EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Letter of Agreement (LOA) totaling $6.8M in FMF for Peacekeeping equipment and radios signed by ARM MOD; Letter of Agreement for Excess Defense Articles (EDA) approved; Letter of Request (LOR) received from ARM MOD requesting additional EDA trucks forwarded to USASAC; ARM M [...] | 2007-12-07 06:00:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | MCAP KCFE XG AM |
07YEREVAN1413 | ARMENIA'S PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE SLATE NOW SET [...] (SBU) December 6 was the nomination deadline for Armenian presidential candidates. Nine persons have been nominated to participate in the February 19, 2008 election. In addition to Prime Minister Serzh Sargsian and ex-president Levon Ter-Petrossian, the widely acknowledged front-runners, the [...] | 2007-12-11 06:17:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM AM |
07YEREVAN1416 | ARMENIA: NO SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENTS IN WORST FORMS OF [...] (SBU) In 2007 there were no significant developments to report with respect to worst forms of child labor in Armenia. As previously reported (ref B),Armenia has adopted all international agreements on children's rights, as well as a list of occupations considered hazardous for children. Both [...] | 2007-12-12 05:54:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI AM |
07YEREVAN1420 | NUCLEAR SMUGGLING OUTREACH INITIATIVE: INITIAL [...] Varduhi Asaturian, Ministry of Foreign Affairs 2. Liudmila Shahinyan, Export Control Commission 3. Vahe Demirchyan, Ministry of Justice 4. Sona Avanesyan, Ministry of Justice 5. Aida Avetisyan, Armenian Nuclear Regulatory Authority 6. Alexander Stepanyan, Armenian Nuclear Regulatory Autho [...] | 2007-12-13 02:48:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC KNNP KSTC MNUC PARM PREL AM |
07YEREVAN1423 | BOMB ROCKS OUTSPOKEN OPPOSITION PAPER IN YEREVAN [...] (C) An outspoken opposition newspaper was bombed in the early hours on December 13. Nobody was in the offices of the stridently pro-Ter-Petrossian &Chorrord Ishkhanutyun8 (Fourth Estate) newspaper when the bomb went off, and no injuries were reported. The editor-in-chief suggested the author [...] | 2007-12-14 11:09:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL AM |
07YEREVAN1431 | TER-PETROSSIAN APPEALS TO OLIGARCHS FOR SUPPORT WHILE [...] (SBU) Addressing approximately 15,000-20,000 citizens gathered at his third public rally in Yerevan on December 8, ex-President Levon Ter-Petrossian (LTP) urged oligarchs and businessmen to throw off "the yoke" of the Kocharian regime and support his candidacy. LTP also responded to Kocharian' [...] | 2007-12-17 11:44:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL AM |
07YEREVAN1437 | ARMENIA ADOPTS NEW ANTI-TRAFFICKING NATIONAL ACTION PLAN [...] On December 6, Armenia's government approved the new 2007-2008 National Plan of Action (NPA) on Combating Trafficking in Persons (TIP). Armen Baiburtyan, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, presented the NPA on behalf of the government, and said the new NPA will focus more on the implement [...] | 2007-12-18 03:18:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KTIP KCRM HSTC AM |
07YEREVAN1438 | CEC CHAIRMAN BRUSHES OFF KEY PARTS OF U.S. [...] (C) SUMMARY: CDA, accompanied by AIDoff and Polchief, called on Central Election Commission Chairman Garegin Azaryan in a bid to persuade Azaryan not to refuse key elements of USAID implementer IFES' election assistance program. Azaryan was stubborn, smug, and unmoved. He suggested, speciou [...] | 2007-12-18 03:18:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EAID PREL PHUM KDEM AM |
07YEREVAN1439 | BRIEFING THE PRESIDENCY ON EXIT POLLS, IFES/CEC [...] (C) SUMMARY: USAID briefed presidential aide Vigen Sargsian, at government request, about plans for a USAID/IRI-sponsored exit poll for the upcoming presidential election. Sargsian pressed for more details about the methods and partners involved, and expressed great skepticism both personall [...] | 2007-12-18 03:18:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID PGOV PHUM KDEM KPAO OSCE AM |
07YEREVAN1445 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON MISSING AMCIT ROBERT LEVINSON [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-18 11:34:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS CASC PGOV PHUM PREL IR AM |
07YEREVAN1446 | ARMENIA HUMAN RIGHTS ROUND-UP (NOVEMBER-DECEMBER) [...] (U) Headlines in this round-up: -- MONITORING OF PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION COVERAGE -- CIVIL PROTEST OVER INFORMATION POLICY OF PUBLIC TV -- CONTINUING REPORTS OF MEDIA CLAMPDOWN -- THE ONGOING TRAVAILS OF GALA TV -- TER-PETROSSIAN'S PRE-ELECTION MONITORING REPORTS -- HOUSING CERTIFICATES FOR 1 [...] | 2007-12-18 12:02:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL ASEC SOCI ELAB KDEM KJUS KWMN HSTC |
07YEREVAN1448 | CDA RAISES DEMOCRACY PROGRAM CONCERNS WITH PRIME [...] (C) SUMMARY: CDA and polchief called on the PM December 4 to discuss our ongoing election assistance programs (highlighting IRI plans to conduct an exit poll),raise concern about residence permits for USAID anti-corruption program staff, and to review the Radio Liberty (RL) issue with the PM [...] | 2007-12-18 12:24:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM PGOV EAID KDEM KPAO AM |
07YEREVAN1460 | ARMENIA: DEMARCHE CONCERNING DECEMBER 18 UNGA [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-20 07:18:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL UNGA AM |
07YEREVAN1467 | ARMENIA: PRESIDENCY STILL UNDECIDED ABOUT IRI [...] (C) Although less hostile to the idea of an exit poll during the upcoming presidential election than he was a week ago, Presidential aide Vigen Sargsian still expressed significant concerns about the poll's format and possible fall-out. After being briefed by IRI staff on the poll's technical [...] | 2007-12-21 13:42:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID PGOV PHUM KDEM KPAO OSCE AM |
07YEREVAN1471 | ARMENIA'S GROWING INSURANCE SECTOR [...] Despite the rapid growth of Armenia's banking sector and GDP over the past several years, other financial services, including insurance, have developed more slowly. Insurance remains a small part of the financial sector and plays a minor role in financial intermediation. Encouragingly, the tr [...] | 2007-12-27 06:31:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN AM |
07YEREVAN1472 | SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES REPORT-ODC ARMENIA-DECEMBER 2007 [...] EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Joint Visual Inspection for Excess Defense Article (EDA) trucks conducted; EMEDS IPR conducted in San Antonio; ARM MOD cancels EDA UH-1H helicopter request; Dec SPP event postponed until Jan 08. 2. SIGNIFICANT EVENTS A. On 17-18 Dec 07 the ODC Chief and two repr [...] | 2007-12-27 12:51:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | MCAP KCFE XG AM |
07YEREVAN1482 | OPPOSITION LEADER DECRIES BIASED OPINION POLL, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Presidential candidate Artur Bagdasaryan invited the Charge to lunch to voice his deepening concerns about the upcoming presidential election. He complained that overwhelmingly biased media coverage, the combination of expensive air time and campaign spending limits, and "black [...] | 2007-12-28 13:18:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM AM |
07YEREVAN149 | ARMENIAN REPLY TO TURKEY ON COMMISSIONS STILL IN [...] (C) CDA and Pol/Econ chief met February 8 with DFM Kirakossian to ask whether/when Armenia would respond to the GOT's latest proposal on bilateral dialogue (i.e. the "commissions" proposal). Kirakossian noted that the recent Erdogan-Saakashvili-Aliyev meeting to celebrate their deal to build [...] | 2007-02-09 12:27:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL TU AM |
07YEREVAN150 | NOMINEE FOR CONFERENCE IN EUROPEN ON MODERN [...] 1. Post would like to nominate Armen Yedigarian, Director of the Arms Control and National Security Department at the MFA (roughly U.S. Assistant Secretary equivalent),for the Marshall Center European conference on insurgency March 26-27. Yedigarian is a knowledgeable, effective, and influen [...] | 2007-02-12 13:07:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PINS PREL PROP PTER NATEU MARR MOPS KISL |
07YEREVAN151 | PALESTINIAN UNITY GOVERNMENT POINTS DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2007-02-12 13:07:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KISL KPAL KWBG IS AM |
07YEREVAN162 | MAJOR TRAFFICKING RECRUITER SENT TO PRISON [...] (SBU) Four TIP defendants were convicted January 31, after a four-month hearing. The defendants had been accused in connection with a case involving the three witnesses (reftels) who complained of misconduct by an investigator in the prosecutor general's office the previous summer. This case [...] | 2007-02-15 12:09:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KTIP KCRM KWMN HSTC AM |
07YEREVAN164 | GOAM DISPATCHES INVITATION TO ODIHR ELECTION [...] (C) DFM Armen Baibourtian phoned CDA on February 15 to confirm that the invitation for OSCE's ODIHR to monitor elections had been signed and was being sent over immediately to the OSCE Office in Yerevan. Baibourtian said that the letter was signed on February 14 by FM Oskanian and would be se [...] | 2007-02-15 12:46:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AM |
07YEREVAN165 | ANALYSTS WORRIED, GOVERNMENT UNCONCERNED ABOUT [...] (C) GOAM officials' mild public statements about the finalizing of the Kars-Akhalkalki-Baku railway agreement (ref A) belie the significant resentment and frustration they feel about it. Newspapers have been abuzz with analysts' gloomy predictions of further Armenian isolation, and harsh crit [...] | 2007-02-15 13:25:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GG TU AM |
07YEREVAN167 | FUNDING REQUEST FOR AI HEALTH AWARENESS PSAS [...] Per ref A announcement, Embassy Yerevan would like to request USD 50,000 for the development and broadcast of television Public Service Announcements (PSAs) on health and food safety issues related to Avian Influenza. While UNICEF and others have produced posters and leaflets targeted at chil [...] | 2007-02-15 13:37:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | AM KFLU KPAO |
07YEREVAN182 | ARMENIA: COMMENTS FOR 2007 SPECIAL 301 REVIEW [...] (SBU) Summary: Post recommends that Armenia remain off the Special 301 Watch List for 2007. Music and video piracy does exist and there are look-alike products and store fronts, but industry losses in the Armenian market are probably small. The IPR Enforcement Unit within the Organized Crime [...] | 2007-02-21 14:26:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON PGOV PREL KIPR USTR AM |
07YEREVAN186 | DASD MACDOUGALL'S MEETING WITH DEFMIN SARGSIAN, [...] (C) During a February 16 meeting with Armenian Defense Minister Sargsian, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Jim MacDougall praised Armenia's progress in defense reform, thanked Armenia for its contribution to coalition operations in Iraq, and encouraged Sargsian to consider sending a conti [...] | 2007-02-22 10:27:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AM |
07YEREVAN192 | PROSPEROUS ARMENIA PARTY CONGRESS A SUCCESS, REAL [...] (C) Prosperous Armenia (PA),the new oligarch-founded party that has taken Armenia's political scene by storm (but whose agenda is still unclear),held its long-awaited pre-election congress on February 15. The congress hall was packed, and also drew a number of sour-faced senior government o [...] | 2007-02-23 11:37:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM AM |
07YEREVAN194 | STAFFDEL TILLEMANN FOCUSES ON DEMOCRATIZATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: SFRC Majority Staffmember Tomicah Tillemann visited Yerevan February 18-20, with an eye on Armenia's May elections and MCC eligibility under the "Ruling Justly" category. In a range of meetings with GOAM officials, he made clear that, despite Armenia's many friends on the Hill, [...] | 2007-02-23 14:06:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL OTRA AM |
07YEREVAN202 | CUSTOMS GIANT FALLS AMID RUMORS OF SMUGGLING AND [...] (SBU) On February 19, Head of Customs for Cargo at Zvartnots Airport Karen Janoyan was fired along with four colleagues reportedly for smuggling mobile phones into Armenia. The dismissal has sparked some speculation that it may herald a new era of customs reform in Armenia, but most observers [...] | 2007-02-26 13:45:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EAIR PREL PINR AM |
07YEREVAN209 | JOURNALIST WINS COURT CASE ON FREEDOM OF [...] The head of Armenia's independent Asparez Press Club won a freedom of information case against several village mayors in the Shirak region on February 23. The mayors had denied press club director Levon Barseghyan's requests for copies of the village budgets. The court ruled that the mayors h [...] | 2007-02-27 13:02:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM AM |
07YEREVAN21 | PRESIDENT KOCHARIAN'S NEW YEAR'S EVE REMARKS [...] SUMMARY: President Kocharian's New Year's Eve remarks reiterated his call for free and fair parliamentary elections in 2007, and for deepening Armenia's political and economic reforms, especially for competitive markets, judicial reform, and anti-corruption. He said that government-paid salari [...] | 2007-01-08 11:43:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM AM |
07YEREVAN211 | ARMENIA SHARES USG CONCERN OVER ILLICIT CASH COURIERS [...] (SBU) Post delivered reftel demarche to Armenian Central Bank (CBA) Financial Monitoring Center Methodologist Armen Malkhasyan and Analyst Aram Zakaryan on February 22. Malkhasyan said that Armenia was very concerned about bulk cash transfers and was working to improve its compliance with rela [...] | 2007-02-27 13:34:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETTC PREL PTER KTFN AM |
07YEREVAN242 | OPPOSITION CALLS COURT RULING ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO [...] (SBU) In response to an application submitted by President Robert Kocharian, the Armenian Constitutional Court has ruled as unconstitutional a law requiring Public TV and Radio to broadcast parts of National Assembly sessions. The opposition claims that, after recent announcements of what the [...] | 2007-03-02 13:45:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV OPRC AM KPAO |
07YEREVAN250 | EMBASSY YEREVAN'S 2007 TIP REPORT INPUT [...] (U) This cable represents Embassy Yerevan's submission for the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. Please see paragraph 5 for responses keyed to reftel request. 2. (SBU) The government of Armenia has made progress in its efforts to combat trafficking since the release of the 2006 TIP Repo [...] | 2007-03-05 06:26:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM PREF ASEC ELAB KFRD KCRM KWMN |
07YEREVAN251 | HOW LONG CAN THIS GO ON? ARMENIA'S CONTINUED DOUBLE- [...] Armenia's economy continued its significant expansion in 2006, with GDP up by 13.4 percent, the fifth consecutive year of double-digit growth. As in previous years, construction, much of which is funded by remittances, was the primary driver of growth, up by 37 percent and accounting for 26 pe [...] | 2007-03-05 06:28:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EAID |
07YEREVAN256 | ELECTIONS LIKELY TO BRING A SUBSTANTIAL INCREASE [...] (SBU) One relative bright spot on the political stage when party lists were released March 1: the potential for a 100-percent increase in the number of parliamentary seats held by women. A National Democratic Institute (NDI) analysis of the lists shows that women make up an average of 22 per [...] | 2007-03-06 11:29:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KWMN KDEM AM |
07YEREVAN260 | CONCERNS RAISED OVER POLITICAL ADVERTISING AS ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Candidate access to broadcast media and the rising cost of airing political advertisements have emerged as issues of concern as the pre-election period gets underway in Armenia. Opposition leaders complain that the rise in prices since the 2003 election is a government plot to limit thei [...] | 2007-03-07 06:43:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KPAO AM |
07YEREVAN265 | ARMENIA CONCERNED ABOUT IRAN, BUT RELUCTANT TO [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-07 13:51:00 | Embassy Yerevan | SECRET | IAEA TRGY ENRG MNUC PARM PREL KNNP IR AM |
07YEREVAN266 | KOCHARIAN'S CHIEF OF STAFF SEEKS TO EJECT NDI FROM [...] (C) Armen Gevorgian, President Kocharian's Chief of Staff, told NDI Country co-Directors on March 6 that NDI should shut down their operations until after the May 12 elections. Gevorgian, assuming that NDI Armenia had arranged for a senior oppositionist to visit Washington in February, said [...] | 2007-03-07 14:55:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID AM |
07YEREVAN272 | CONCERN OVER PROPOSED IFC LOAN TO ARMAVIA [...] (C) Econoff recently met with local International Finance Corporation (IFC) head Nerses Karamanukian to raise post's concern about a proposed USD 11 million loan to Armenian national air carrier Armavia. Over the past year, Armavia has been plagued by financial problems and the company is ow [...] | 2007-03-09 13:47:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAIR PGOV AM |
07YEREVAN273 | IRAQ NEIGHBORS CONFERENCES [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-09 13:49:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OIC UN IZ AM |
07YEREVAN274 | KURDS' PRO-OCALAN PROTEST LUKEWARM [...] (C) About a dozen dilapidated buses bearing posters of Kurdish militant Abdullah Ocalan pulled into the capital March 9 to protest Ocalan's imprisonment. The passengers were Yezidis from villages not far from Yerevan. The National Security Service (NSS) was aware of the protest, but was unab [...] | 2007-03-09 14:02:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC PTER AM |
07YEREVAN300 | ARMENIA: MEDIA REACTION ON MCC VP JOHN HEWKO'S VISIT [...] MCC Vice President for Operations John Hewko visited Armenia March 7-9. As part of his visit, Hewko held a press conference that was covered extensively by the major television stations, three newspapers, and a number of news agencies. Press reports focused on Hewko's statement that the MCC [...] | 2007-03-14 14:09:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | OPRC AM KMDR KPAO |
07YEREVAN305 | PROMISE OF PROSPERITY RESONATES WITH VILLAGERS IN [...] (SBU) The crocuses are blooming in Yerevan, but it is still winter in the remote villages of Armenia's Shirak province. Though construction dust has displaced the February slush in the relatively well-heeled capital city, Shirak villagers are still burning dried bars of cow dung for heat and [...] | 2007-03-15 08:01:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM AM |
07YEREVAN307 | MCC VP HEWKO DRIVES HOME COST OF BAD ELECTIONS [...] (C) During his March 8-9 visit to Yerevan, MCC Vice President for Operations John Hewko praised Armenia's implementation of the MCC Compact while sending a clear message that in order to remain eligible for funding, elections in May must be a "significant improvement towards full compliance wi [...] | 2007-03-15 09:29:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KMCA AM |
07YEREVAN320 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UN INTERNAL ADMINISTRATION OF [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-16 12:37:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | ACABQ AORC APER PREL UNGA AM |
07YEREVAN323 | IRAN-ARMENIA PIPELINE DEMARCHE--FM OSKANIAN FINDS [...] (C) SUMMARY: CDA delivered reftel points March 15 to a surprised and non-plussed FM Oskanian. Oskanian hoped Washington would understand Armenia's difficult neighborhood, and thus its imperative to obtain Iranian gas as an alternative to the unreliable supply line of Russian gas. Oskanian pr [...] | 2007-03-16 13:17:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC PREL ENRG EPET EINV IR AM |
07YEREVAN328 | IRAN-ARMENIA GAS PIPELINE: GOAM REPLIES TO OUR [...] (C) SUMMARY: The MFA called in CDA March 19 to present Armenia's reply to Ref A demarche (see para 5 for full text of MFA non-paper),three hours before Presidents Kocharian and Ahmadinejad formally opened the pipeline. The most significant point in their reply is that "there is no more imp [...] | 2007-03-19 12:19:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC PREL ENRG EPET EINV IR AM |
07YEREVAN331 | ARMENIAN GAS COMPANY COMMENTS ON IRAN-ARMENIA [...] (C) On March 16, we met with ArmRusGasProm (ARGP) General Director Karen Karapetyan to discuss the Iran-Armenia pipeline, Russian ownership of ARGP and future developments in the Armenian energy sector. Karapetyan reported that the "second phase" of the Iran-Armenia pipeline would be complete [...] | 2007-03-19 13:50:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG PREL EPET ETTC EINV IR AM |
07YEREVAN332 | ARMENIA CELEBRATES NATO WEEK (WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM ITS [...] (SBU) Embassy Yerevan provided key support to ensure that Armenia's first "NATO Week," held March 12-16, was a success. The Week was launched with the NATO - Armenia Youth Educational Rally, featuring the departure of a NATO bus that traveled from one end of Armenia to the other giving present [...] | 2007-03-19 14:36:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM KPAO NATO AM |
07YEREVAN339 | LOW-KEY MEDIA COVERAGE OF IRAN-ARMENIA PIPELINE CEREMONY [...] The March 20 Iran-Armenia pipeline inauguration ceremony, led by Presidents Kocharian and Ahmadinejad, offered surprisingly little fodder for Armenian media. The ceremony was short. The two presidents did not deliver their prepared remarks, apparently because of bad weather at the outdoor si [...] | 2007-03-20 13:57:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC PREL ENRG EPET EINV IR AM |
07YEREVAN343 | FM OSKANIAN BRIEFS US ON IRANIAN PRESIDENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: FM Oskanian called in CDA to provide a readout of the Iran-Armenia pipeline opening, and the presidents' bilateral meeting on the margins. Oskanian said that the GOAM had kept the event "as low-key as possible" and that Ahmadinejad had also been restrained in his remarks. Presid [...] | 2007-03-22 08:08:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC PREL ENRG EINV EPET MNUC IAEA IR AM |
07YEREVAN344 | FM OSKANIAN SKEPTICAL OF TURKISH INTENTIONS WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: FM Oskanian told us March 21 that a deputy culture minister would lead the GOAM's delegation to the Aktamar church opening March 29. He said the Catholicos would also send representatives of the Armenian church from Echmiadzin, as perhaps would the Armenian Patriarch in Istanbul [...] | 2007-03-22 08:16:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM TU AM |
07YEREVAN349 | ARMENIA GRANTS LEGAL STANDING TO THE ARMENIAN CHURCH [...] The Armenian Church, which counts among its fold the vast majority of Armenians both in the homeland and in the diaspora, until earlier this month had no legal standing in Armenia. A law signed March 14 by the president granted legal standing, but did not grant the Church status as the only st [...] | 2007-03-23 07:57:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM AM |
07YEREVAN351 | NEW STAFF OF THE ANTI-TIP UNIT A WELCOME CHANGE [...] (SBU) Four months into the staff changes that took effect in the Anti-Trafficking Unit of the Prosecutor General's Office in December, 2006 (reftel),Armenia's premier anti-TIP NGO, Hope and Help, reports a great new spirit of mutual cooperation with the unit's new staff. The unit's new lead i [...] | 2007-03-23 13:02:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KTIP KWMN KCRM HSTC AM |
07YEREVAN356 | CABINET DISSOLVED WITH PM MARGARIAN'S DEATH, [...] (C) SUMMARY: The prime minister's sudden death March 25 automatically dissolved the cabinet. Sources tell us that President Kocharian will appoint an acting PM--possibly Serzh Sargsian--to lead a caretaker government. The constitutional timeframe for replacing a deceased prime minister in th [...] | 2007-03-26 13:02:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV AM |
07YEREVAN358 | SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES REPORT-ODC ARMENIA-MARCH 2007 [...] EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: ODC Armenia conducted Bilateral Country Planning Conference in Yerevan; LOA for AM-B-UAB Harris radio case for 12th Peacekeeping BN signed and returned 27 Mar; LOA for AM-B-OAA blanket training case signed and returned 27 Mar. New Budget Analyst/Admin Assistant hired. 2. [...] | 2007-03-27 08:08:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | MCAP KCFE XG AM |
07YEREVAN361 | ARMENIA-TURKEY: PM FUNERAL AND AKTAMAR CHURCH [...] (C) SUMMARY: DFM Kirakossian told us March 27 that Deputy Culture Minister's delegation to Aktamar Church opening departed by bus early March 27 in order to reach the March 29 ceremony in time. GOT offers to allow a direct air link did not arrive in time for this to be a viable option. Sep [...] | 2007-03-27 12:46:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL TU AM |
07YEREVAN362 | UNSCR 1747 DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO DFM KIRAKOSSIAN [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-27 13:04:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL EFIN MNUC TRGY AORC KNNP UNSC IAEA |
07YEREVAN373 | CIVIL AVIATION SECURITY AGREEMENT - CORRECTED TEXT [...] (SBU) On December 7, 2006, the GOAM submitted a Diplomatic Note to the Embassy with proposed changes to the draft Civil Aviation Security Agreement initiated by the USG in August 2006 (ref A). Unfortunately, post incorrectly transcribed the text of the Diplomatic Note and the text reported in [...] | 2007-03-29 12:17:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIT PREL KTIA AM |
07YEREVAN383 | IMPLEMENTATION OF UNSCR 1747 WITH RESPECT TO BANK [...] (C) On March 30, Pol/Econ Chief and EconOff met with Armenian Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) director Nerses Yeritsyan to discuss GOAM implementation of UNSCR 1747 (ref A). We mentioned that EUR DAS Bryza has raised our Iran concerns March 28 with President Kocharian and FM Oskanian (septel [...] | 2007-03-30 13:01:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PARM KNNP IR AM |
07YEREVAN385 | PRESIDENT KOCHARIAN DISCUSSES IRAN, TURKEY, AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Armenian President Kocharian met for over an hour with EUR DAS Bryza following the funeral of PM Margarian on March 28. On Iran, Kocharian explained that Armenia, in its precarious geopolitical situation, must carefully think through the consequences of every step it takes with it [...] | 2007-03-30 13:22:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM IR AJ AM |
07YEREVAN386 | ARMENIAN MEDIA, PUBLIC CRITICAL OF CEREMONY MARKING THE [...] (SBU) Armenian media outlets varied from semi-critical to extremely critical in their coverage of the March 29 Holy Cross (Aktamar Island) Church re-opening ceremony. Most claimed that the opening was a propaganda move and berated Turkey for placing Turkish flags and a portrait of Ataturk on th [...] | 2007-03-30 13:22:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL OPRC AM KMDR KPAO |
07YEREVAN397 | THREE KILLED IN AMBUSH OF GYUMRI MAYOR [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-04 03:06:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM KCRM AM |
07YEREVAN398 | THREE KILLED IN AMBUSH OF GYUMRI MAYOR [...] (SBU) Unknown gunmen wounded the Gyumri mayor, Vartan Ghukasian, and deputy mayor, Gagik Manukian, in a bold highway attack that killed three in the two-car convoy, including Ghukasian's driver. Gyumri is Armenia's second largest city. The mayor and his entourage were attacked from two ca [...] | 2007-04-04 05:40:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM KCRM AM |
07YEREVAN400 | A DECENT BET: PROPOSED OPIC FINANCING FOR FIRST [...] (SBU) The following information, provided per reftel, concerns OPIC's proposal to provide a USD 5 million loan to First Mortgage Company (FMC). Post believes that FMC is a strong prospective partner and that there is significant potential within the Armenian mortgage market. Any loan agreeme [...] | 2007-04-04 11:11:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON AM |
07YEREVAN405 | ARMENIA JOINS THE GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT [...] Post met with Head of Global Security at the MFA Arshak Manukyan to discuss the Global Initiative to Combat Acts of Nuclear Terrorism (GICANT) and conference scheduled for June 11-15, 2007 (refs). Manukyan confirmed that Armenia fully supports GICANT and the Statement of Principles. According [...] | 2007-04-04 12:04:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER KNNP MCAP PARM PREL AM |
07YEREVAN406 | ARMENIA REQUESTS UZBEK HELP TO LOCATE ESCAPED [...] (C) The Armenian Police has renewed its request for assistance from Uzbek law enforcement in locating a convicted trafficker who escaped from an Armenian prison in early 2006. The trafficker, Anush Zakharyants, is an ethnic Armenian citizen of Uzbekistan, who is believed to be hiding in Samar [...] | 2007-04-04 13:06:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | HSTC PHUM PREL PGOV KCRM KWMN SMIG AM |
07YEREVAN409 | HOLY CROSS OPENING - ARMENIA MORE POSITIVE AS THINGS COOL [...] (SBU) Following local media criticism of Turkey's decision to reopen the ancient Armenian Holy Cross Church as a museum (refs),the GOAM delegation that took part in the ceremony tried to focus on the positive aspects of the renovation. During a press conference, Deputy Culture Minister Gagik [...] | 2007-04-05 11:16:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL OPRC KMDR KPAO AM |
07YEREVAN412 | NO SURPRISES HERE - DEFMIN SARGSIAN NAMED PRIME [...] (U) In a widely anticipated move, President Kocharian announced April 5 that Defense Minister Serzh Sargsian would replace Prime Minister Andranik Margarian, who died suddenly on March 25 (ref A). Sargsian stepped down from his position as defense minister, where he has served for approximatel [...] | 2007-04-05 12:39:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AM |
07YEREVAN417 | ARMENIA: ELECTION UPDATE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Armenia's 35-day long "official" campaign period for the May 12 parliamentary election kicks off on April 8, and so far, the government has kept its commitments to hold better elections. ODIHR observers are in place and report that the legal preconditions for fair elections have [...] | 2007-04-06 12:49:00 | Embassy Yerevan | SECRET | PGOV PHUM AM |
07YEREVAN419 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: RIBBON CUTTING AT THE NATANZ [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-09 12:03:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL MNUC AORC KNNP IAEA UNSC IR AM |
07YEREVAN44 | ARMENIA INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT, 2007 [...] (U) Following is our submission per reftel for the 2007 Investment Climate Statement for Armenia. ---------- BEGIN TEXT ---------- Foreign investment in Armenia has steadily increased from USD 70 million in 2001 to USD 297 million as of September 2006, according to data from the National [...] | 2007-01-12 12:47:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV OPIC USTR AM |
07YEREVAN442 | ARMENIA JOINS INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION ON PROTECTION AND [...] Armenia joined the International Convention on Protection and Promotion of Rights and Dignity of Disabled Persons March 30, the first day of its signing. (NOTE: The convention was adopted by the UN General Assembly in December. END NOTE.) Armenia also signed the Optional Protocol. The conv [...] | 2007-04-12 11:26:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM AM |
07YEREVAN443 | BOOM! EXPLOSIONS MARK THE FIRST WEEK OF ARMENIA'S [...] (C) Early in the morning on April 12, two bombs exploded in close succession at Prosperous Armenia offices in Yerevan's Avan and Kanaker neighborhoods. President Kocharian's office quickly condemned the bombings, which caused physical damage but no injuries, and Yerevan police are investigati [...] | 2007-04-12 11:33:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV AM |
07YEREVAN45 | ARMENIA BACKS OUR IRAQ POLICY, AND WILLING TO DO A [...] (C) SUMMARY: Armenia's Foreign and Defense Ministers each expressed solid support for our Iraq policy, and for the President's announced changes in Iraq strategy. Both agreed that our Iraq strategy cannot be allowed to fail, and reaffirmed Armenia's commitment to sustain its troop deployment [...] | 2007-01-12 13:56:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MASS KPAO AM IR IZ AF GR YI |
07YEREVAN451 | IVANOV'S ARMENIA VISIT: STUMPING FOR SARGSIAN? [...] (U) Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Sergey Ivanov's visit to Yerevan April 10-11 generated many of the routine media reports about economic cooperation and and Armenia's views on NATO that typically follow Russian visits to Armenia. Ivanov's meetings with new Prime Minister Serzh Sargsian [...] | 2007-04-13 11:25:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL AM |
07YEREVAN452 | TOWARDS A TOBACCO FREE ARMENIA? [...] (U) The Coalition for a Tobacco Free Armenia, including American University of Armenia's Public Health Department and 25 NGOs, recently marked the second anniversary of the passage of a law restricting the sale and use of tobacco. At the event, the Coalition introduced public awareness materia [...] | 2007-04-13 12:54:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SOCI EAID AM |
07YEREVAN457 | NIGHT OF 1000 DINNERS RECEPTION RAISES FUNDS FOR NGO'S [...] (U) Summary: At a fundraising reception held as part of the Night of 1000 Dinners (reftel),Post helped raise over 4,000 USD for the Armenian Red Cross Society, a local NGO working to reduce landmine casualties through a Mine Risk Education program. The event drew more than 70 guests, includi [...] | 2007-04-16 12:40:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | DMIN PHUM KMDR KPAO EAID KHDP MASS PARM PREL AM |
07YEREVAN459 | HARD TIMES FOR AGRC LEAVES OTHER INVESTORS WORRIED [...] (C) The Armenian Gold Recovery Company (AGRC),plagued by allegations of tax evasion and failure to report profits, appears to be the latest casualty of rising gold prices and a possible Russian push to increase economic ties with Armenia. After a difficult confrontation with the Ministry of [...] | 2007-04-16 13:04:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV ECON PREL AM |
07YEREVAN46 | ARMENIA: GOOD COVERAGE OF PRESIDENT BUSH'S SPEECH AND [...] (SBU) In addition to engaging with senior GOAM leaders (reftel),on January 11 the Charge d'Affaires held an interview on the President's new strategy in Iraq with three major Armenian media outlets we invited to participate--Armenian Public TV (Armenia's national television station),Kentron T [...] | 2007-01-12 14:09:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OPRC AM KMDR KPAO |
07YEREVAN47 | FONMIN OSKANIAN CONFIRMS MAY 12 ELECTION DATE; [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a January 12 meeting to update the Foreign Minister on Iraq strategy (septel),CDA and Pol/Econ Chief were able to cover a range of issues, including election planning, Nagorno-Karabakh, the Ambassador-designate Hoagland's nomination, Armenia-Turkish relations, and Iran. As of [...] | 2007-01-12 14:11:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM PBTS AM AJ IR |
07YEREVAN471 | A REAL LIVE CAMPAIGN SEASON, AS BOMBINGS SEEM QUICKLY [...] (SBU) Armenia's campaign environment has ratcheted into high gear, with a vibrant rainbow of political ads posted everywhere you look. The April 12 bombings of two Prosperous Armenia (PA) offices (ref A) seem quickly to have disappeared from political relevance, after virtually all parties con [...] | 2007-04-19 04:00:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KDEM AM |
07YEREVAN485 | AMID ELECTORAL IMPROVEMENTS, VIOLENCE PUNCTUATES SCENE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Campaign events around Armenia this week have been largely uneventful; several parties - including opposition -- successfully staged rallies without government interference, garnering modest attendance despite poor weather. The Police announced significant progress in their wo [...] | 2007-04-20 12:58:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM AM |
07YEREVAN486 | AS ELECTIONS APPROACH, BROADCAST MEDIA BECOME [...] (SBU) As Armenia's May 12 parliamentary elections approach, Armenian broadcast media have begun giving more air time to opposition figures. While opposition politicians had previously complained about unequal access to the broadcast media and presidential control of television stations (ref A [...] | 2007-04-20 13:00:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KMDR KPAO AM |
07YEREVAN490 | NEWSPAPER PUBLISHES OPPOSITION CONVERSATION WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: On April 21, Golos Armenii a government-leaning Russian language newspaper, published a transcript of a clandestinely-recorded conversation between an opposition leader and a British diplomat. The piece claimed that the opposition politician -- former parliament speaker and Ori [...] | 2007-04-23 12:23:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM AM |
07YEREVAN502 | ARMENIA: POINTS OF CONTACT FOR GLOBAL INITIATIVE [...] Post delivered reftel points to MFA Global Security and Non-Conventional Issues Division chief Arshak Manoukian on April 20. 2. Armenian Government points of contact for Global Initiative issues are: Primary: Arshak Manoukian, Global Security and Non-Conventional Issues Division Chief, [...] | 2007-04-25 12:38:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PARM ETTC PREL KGIC AM |
07YEREVAN504 | INTERIM CABINET COMPLETED 19 DAYS BEFORE ELECTIONS [...] (U) President Kocharian appointed Chief of the General Staff Colonel-General Mikayel Harutyunyan to serve as Armenia's interim defense minister on April 24, two weeks after he had appointed the rest of the cabinet. Harutyunyan succeeds former Defense Minister Serzh Sargsian, who became Prime M [...] | 2007-04-25 12:46:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL MARR AM |
07YEREVAN508 | EXERCISING AVIAN FLU RESPONSE PLANS IN ARMENIA [...] (U) This cable, a response to reftel, details the GOAM's recent actions to improve avian influenza (AI) preparedness, test existing response plans and improve diagnostic and response capacity. On March 27, the World Health Organization (WHO) and Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO),with f [...] | 2007-04-25 13:30:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KFLU AM EAGR |
07YEREVAN510 | ARMENIA UNLIKELY TO PARTICIPATE IN NUCLEAR [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-26 06:20:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP MNUC ASEC ENRG PARM AM |
07YEREVAN520 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: NPT PREPCOM [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-26 12:14:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | MNUC PARM PREL AM ENRG KNNP |
07YEREVAN522 | ELECTION HOMESTRETCH -- WITH SIXTEEN DAYS LEFT, WE [...] (C) SUMMARY: We called on President Kocharian to deliver some messages for the final stage of the pre-election campaign. We urged him to galvanize prosecutors against electon-related fraud. We also protested sharply the apparent clandestine taping, and subsequent publishing, of a British d [...] | 2007-04-26 13:27:00 | Embassy Yerevan | SECRET | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM AM |
07YEREVAN525 | ARMENIA/OSCE EXTRA BUDGETARY-PROJECTS [...] (SBU) Per ref B e-mail, Embassy Yerevan supports funding for proposed project 1300107 - Monitoring Places of Detention. Most prison monitoring in Armenian is done by two groups of NGOs (one convened under the Ministry of Justice and one under the police). We understand that there have been q [...] | 2007-04-27 06:28:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PGOV PHUM AM |
07YEREVAN526 | NEW WAY FORWARD ON IRAQ [...] No summary [...] | 2007-04-27 09:40:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | MARR MASS MOPS PREL PTER AM |
07YEREVAN528 | YEZIDI PROTEST AT EMBASSY [...] (S) About 15 Yezidis protested in front of the Embassy April 27, carrying Armenian-language signs that read "Stop the genocide of Yezidis" and "23 killed in Mosul." They were protesting the deaths of 23 Yezidi workers who were shot in Mosul, Iraq, on April 22. The protest was the first in re [...] | 2007-04-27 12:33:00 | Embassy Yerevan | SECRET | PGOV PTER PHUM IR AM |
07YEREVAN532 | ARMENIA: MEDIA REACTION TO HRR AMENDMENTS [...] (SBU) On April 27, 28 almost all TV stations and five newspapers referred to the amendments made in the Human Rights Report (HRR) regarding Nagorno-Karabakh. Commentary from Armenian media outlets varied from critical to extremely critical, claiming that the last change made in the HRR called [...] | 2007-04-30 12:44:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OPRC PREL PGOV KMDR KPAO AM |
07YEREVAN534 | ARMENIA: USING USG ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS TO LEVERAGE [...] (C) Our assistance programs aimed at helping Armenia achieve cleaner elections are big news here. Thanks to a strong Public Diplomacy effort, we have largely dispelled early concerns about whether Armenians should be suspicious that we seek to foment a "color revolution" and have built under [...] | 2007-05-02 11:57:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EAID PHUM AM |
07YEREVAN551 | ARMENIA JOINS EUROGIRO MONEY TRANSFER NETWORK [...] (U) On April 27, the Armenian National Postal Operator "Haypost" signed a membership agreement with the Eurogiro Network, allowing Haypost offices to provide electronic money transfer services to and from more than 60,000 post offices across Europe. Under this agreement, accountholders will b [...] | 2007-05-03 04:03:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV PTER KTFN AM |
07YEREVAN555 | ODIHR MISSION HEAD DISCUSSES PRE-ELECTION [...] (C) CDA met May 2 with Ambassador Boris Frlec, the head of OSCE/ODIHR,s Election Observation Mission (EOM) for a discussion on the pre-election period in Armenia. Frlec evaluated the pre-election period as broadly competitive, despite flaws. He saw a relatively even playing field, albeit wh [...] | 2007-05-03 10:34:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM OSCE AM |
07YEREVAN556 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-03 11:45:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM AM |
07YEREVAN559 | ARMENIA POLITICAL PARTY PRIMER [...] (C) SUMMARY: This cable provides a basic reference to the political parties in the May 12 parliamentary race. Out of seventy-four registered political parties in Armenia only 24 parties and one bloc registered to participate in the parliamentary election, and two have since dropped out. END [...] | 2007-05-04 03:09:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM AM |
07YEREVAN560 | KOCHARIAN ACCUSES BAGHDASSARIAN OF BETRAYAL [...] (U) President Kocharian blasted opposition leader Artur Baghdassarian during an address to local university students on April 27, accusing him of "betrayal." "I don't want to use legal terms. For me, this is a real manifestation of betrayal," Kocharian told students at Yerevan State Universi [...] | 2007-05-04 03:09:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM AM |
07YEREVAN564 | ARMENIA ELECTIONS: KOCHARIAN CONVOKES OSCE CHIEFS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On May 3, President Kocharian convoked all Chiefs of Mission of OSCE Member States resident in Yerevan regarding the upcoming parliamentary elections. He sought to convey to the dip corps that his administration was doing all it could to ensure an election process which should me [...] | 2007-05-04 12:39:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM OSCE AM |
07YEREVAN566 | SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES REPORT-ODC ARMENIA-April 2007 [...] EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: ODC Armenia conducted visit of Defense Reutilization Management Office and Excess Defense Article stockyard in Kaiserslautern; FY08 Counter Terrorism Fellowship Program plan developed at TPMR; Letter of Request for equipping Nuclear Biological and Chemical defense platoon se [...] | 2007-05-07 09:54:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | MCAP KCFE XG AM |
07YEREVAN571 | VAYOTS DZOR REPUBLICANS STRONG FOR ELECTION DAY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: An Embassy pre-election trip to the sparsely-populated Vayots Dzor province on 27 April found an electoral calm much attributed to the popularity of the Republican marzpet (governor) headquartered in Yeghanadzor and the relatively favorable image he exudes of the Republican Par [...] | 2007-05-07 11:37:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM AM |
07YEREVAN572 | CDA CALLS ON NEW DEFMIN [...] (C) Charge d'affaires and DATT paid a courtesy visit to new Defense Minister Mikayel Harutyunian on May 4, the first such visit since the former chief of staff had assumed the post (reftel). The DefMin expressed his dissatisfaction with the new Human Rights Report language on Nagorno-Karabakh [...] | 2007-05-07 11:57:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR AM |
07YEREVAN585 | GEGHARKUNIK MARZ PREPARES FOR ELECTIONS [...] (C) Post dispatched two officers on April 26 and 27 to the Gegharkunik region, which wraps around Armenia's largest body of water -- Lake Sevan. Gegharkunik region, like every other region of Armenia outside of the capitol, is in dire economic straits. Summer tourism to Lake Sevan, potato far [...] | 2007-05-08 12:27:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | AM KDEM PGOV PHUM |
07YEREVAN586 | ARMENIAN ELECTIONS: VIEWS FROM ARAGOTSOTN [...] (C) SUMMARY. Characterizing the pre-election campaigning as "boring," governmental, non-governmental, political party and international observers in the Aragotsotn region of Armenia foresee a parliamentary election devoid of significant fraud in their area. Interlocutors tell us that there [...] | 2007-05-08 12:40:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM AM |
07YEREVAN587 | INCREASING TENSIONS EXPECTED IN LORI, MORE [...] (C) Embassy officers on May 4 visited Vanadzor (Lori Region),the largely-impoverished third-largest city of Armenia to examine pre-election conditions. Typically, pro-government officials claimed there were no problems in the run-up to 12 May while opposition and NGO figures noted otherwise [...] | 2007-05-09 11:29:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM ASEC AM |
07YEREVAN588 | FM OSKANIAN DEFENDS VISA REFUSAL OF TURKISH OSCE [...] (C) CDA and the German Ambassador each protested (during a scheduled meeting with CDA and EU chiefs of mission late May 8),Armenia's refusal to grant visas to Turkey's contigent of seconded OSCE/ODIHR Election Observation Mission short-term observers (STOs). Each associated themselves with [...] | 2007-05-09 11:57:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM OSCE TU AM |
07YEREVAN591 | CHARGE'S ASSESSMENT ON UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [...] (C) Based on conversations with foreign ministry officials and Armenia's previous voting record on Belarus, we expect that Armenia will support Belarus' candidacy even once Bosnia enters the race. Dzunik Aghadjanian, head of the MFA's International Organizations Department, told us May 10: "It [...] | 2007-05-10 12:19:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNHRC AM |
07YEREVAN592 | PRO-GOVERNMENT NEWSPAPERS EXPRESS RULING ELITE'S [...] (C) In the weeks leading up to the May 12 parliamentary election, two pro-government newspapers regularly published articles highly critical of the United States and other Western missions and NGOs. Hayots Ashkhar and Golos Armenii newspapers have denounced the United States for interfering i [...] | 2007-05-10 12:55:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KPAO AM |
07YEREVAN594 | ARMENIA'S SOUTHERNMOST REGION ON ELECTIONS: SO [...] (C) In a late April visit to Syunik marz, the most remote and one of the poorest of Armenia's regions, Poloffs learned that the voting public is engaged and is generally looking forward to the May 12 polls. This despite a widespread sense of intimidation amongst the populace and trepidation to [...] | 2007-05-11 06:46:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM AM |
07YEREVAN603 | ARMENIA SLOW TO IMPLEMENT BANK SEPAH ASSET FREEZE [...] (S) Per ref A, on May 8 we met with Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) Head at the Armenian Central Bank Nerses Yeritsyan to discuss what steps Armenia had taken to implement UNSCR 1747 and specific actions taken against Sepah Bank. Yeritsyan confirmed that Sepah Bank maintains correspondent [...] | 2007-05-11 11:49:00 | Embassy Yerevan | SECRET | EFIN PARM KNNP IR AM |
07YEREVAN604 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON KEY U.S. OBJECTIVES AT THE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-11 12:14:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO AORC PREL KFLU WHO AM |
07YEREVAN607 | ARMENIAN ELECTION SCENESETTER [...] (C) The stage is set for this election to go far better than other recent polls in Armenia, but we have not, by a long shot, seen a fundamental change in political culture here, and things could still go very wrong on Election Day. We are cautiously optimistic that Armenia's parliamentary ele [...] | 2007-05-11 13:17:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL ASEC KDEM AM |
07YEREVAN608 | OPPOSITION FIGURE'S ARREST DRAWS PROTEST MARCHERS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The May 7 arrest of a minor oppostion personality led to a protest march on the National Security Service headquarters May 9. Police were poorly prepared for the unscheduled event. When several officers unwisely interposed themselves in front of -- then got swallowed by -- the c [...] | 2007-05-11 13:27:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM ASEC AM |
07YEREVAN609 | OBSERVERS GIVE ARMENIA'S ELECTION A PASSING GRADE, [...] (C) Armenia's Parliamentary elections took place on May 12. Preliminary results show a strong victory by PM Sargsian's Republican Party. These same early results show that the new oligarch-led "Prosperous Armenia" party ran a distant second and three other parties -- including two oppositi [...] | 2007-05-13 14:13:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE KDEM AM |
07YEREVAN639 | HCOC INREACH: ARMENIA WILL MAKE ITS DECLARATION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-16 10:43:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA MTCRE AM |
07YEREVAN640 | JUDGING ARMENIA'S ELECTIONS - GOOD ENOUGH, BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: We judge Armenia's May 12 election an improvement over previous elections, although this is faint praise. The combined International Election Observation Mission has issued an upbeat preliminary assessment. ODIHR seemed to feel keenly the institutional pressures. If the Europe [...] | 2007-05-16 11:15:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM AM |
07YEREVAN642 | PM SARGSIAN'S REPUBLICANS STRENGTHEN HOLD ON POWER [...] (C) Armenia's ruling Republican Party, led by PM Serzh Sargsian, is set to have a slim majority in the new National Assembly to be seated May 31. Results will not be made official until May 19, but it seems clear that the Republicans will take 68 out of 131 seats of the new parliament. Runn [...] | 2007-05-16 12:54:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ASEC KDEM AM |
07YEREVAN646 | ARMENIA: ENTRY INTO FORCE OF THE AGREEMENT ON THE [...] According to Armenian Diplomatic Note 16/05822 dated May 14, 2007 and received at the Embassy on May 17, 2007, Armenia has completed the formalities required for entry into force of the agreement on the exchange of technical information and cooperation in nuclear safety matters. 2. The sub [...] | 2007-05-17 11:37:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ENRG ECON AM |
07YEREVAN649 | WITNESS DIES DURING INTERROGATION [...] (C) On May 12 Levon Ghulyan died under controversial circumstances while being questioned by the police as a presumed witness of a deadly gunfight on May 9 near the restaurant he owned. The police initially claimed that, during the interrogation, Ghulyan fell to his death while trying to esca [...] | 2007-05-18 11:12:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV AM |
07YEREVAN65 | KOCHARIAN SCOLDS TAX AND CUSTOMS OFFICIALS [...] (U) President Kocharian took an unusually hard stance with Customs and Tax officials during an annual January meeting with key government officials. He said the tax and customs services lacked the will to combat the shadow economy and described their work as "unsatisfactory." Despite some suc [...] | 2007-01-17 13:02:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN PGOV KCOR AM |
07YEREVAN653 | ARMENIA WILL PARTICIPATE IN OSCE PPP CONFERENCE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-18 12:33:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | OSCE PREL PTER ABUD AFIN RS SP AM |
07YEREVAN658 | PM SARGSIAN HOPES FOR "BIG TENT" COALITION [...] (C) PM Sargsian told CDA on May 17 that he plans to form as large a coalition as he can, to include the new pro-government Prosperous Armenia (PA) party as well as former coalition partner ARF-Dashnaktsutyun (the Dashnaks). Armenia's constitution gives him until the end of June to propose his [...] | 2007-05-21 13:00:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM AM |
07YEREVAN659 | GLOBAL GOLD MINING: A YEAR OF... [...] (C) Global Gold Corporation (GGC) is an international gold mining company with operations in Armenia and principal offices in Connecticut. For the past few years, GGC has been involved in an at-times hostile dispute with the GOAM and more specifically with the Armenian Minister of Nature Protection [...] | 2007-05-22 03:37:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV ECON PGOV OPIC AM |
07YEREVAN660 | BIO REPORT FOR NERSES YERITSYAN, ACTING HEAD OF [...] (C) Nerses Yeritsyan is the Senior Advisor to the Chairman of the Central Bank (CBA) and has been acting head of the Bank's Financial Intelligence Unit since its founding in 2005. He served for two terms on the CBA Board and still plays a leading role in many of the bank's non-FIU initiative [...] | 2007-05-22 03:50:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR ECON INRB AM |
07YEREVAN661 | TRAFFICKING VICTIMS HELD IN GEORGIA RETURNED TO [...] (C) Two alleged Armenian trafficking victims who had been held in a Georgian jail for six months returned to Armenia May 17, and are in the care of an active anti-trafficking NGO. Anti-trafficking activists hailed the return of Anna Harutyunyan and Lianna Krasnova as a textbook case of good c [...] | 2007-05-22 11:34:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KWMN KCRM HSTC GG AM |
07YEREVAN662 | "WE ARE NOT BORN YESTERDAY": OSCE/ODIHR OBSERVER [...] (C) SUMMARY: OSCE/ODIHR Election Observation Mission (EOM) chief of mission, Ambassador Frlec, and deputy COM, Ian Gorvin, were markedly more sour on Armenia's May 12 election in a dinner at CDA's residence, and less-markedly so in the semi-public forum of their last OSCE member state chiefs [...] | 2007-05-23 05:09:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM OSCE AM |
07YEREVAN677 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: RUSSIAN DRAFT OF OSCE "CHARTER" [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-25 07:11:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | OSCE PREL KTIA PGOV AM |
07YEREVAN688 | DEMARCHES DELIVERED: NEW GLOBAL INITATIVE PARTNERS [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-30 04:05:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KGIT PARM PREL PTER IC NO SZ AM |
07YEREVAN689 | ARMENIA WILL SUBMIT UNSCR 1747 IMPLEMENTATION [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-30 04:06:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM ETTC UNSC IR AM |
07YEREVAN691 | CDA'S LUNCH WITH DEPUTY PG AND ANTI-TIP WORKERS [...] (C) We gathered together post's most reliable anti-TIP interlocutors in the Armenian government for a May 29 lunch at the CDA's residence. The guest list included Deputy Prosecutor General Gevorg Danielyan and two other members of the PG's staff, as well as the heads of the MFA's Internationa [...] | 2007-05-30 07:38:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM KWMN KCRM HSTC AM |
07YEREVAN692 | ARSON AGAINST OPPOSITION PARLIAMENTARY CANDIDATE [...] (SBU) On May 28, Larisa Paremuzyan, regional chairwoman of Stepan Demirchian's People's Party of Armenia (PPA),survived a late night arson attack on her apartment in the northern town of Alaverdi (Shirak Region). Paremuzyan blamed the attack on Karen Saribekian from the governing Republican P [...] | 2007-05-30 08:32:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM KCRM AM |
07YEREVAN696 | FIRST PARLIAMENT SESSION POSTPONED [...] (SBU) Parliament staffers and political party sources tell us that the scheduled May 31 inaugural session of the new National Assembly has been postponed until June 7. It is expected that the inaugural session will see the election of the new parliament chairman (or speaker),two deputy chair [...] | 2007-05-30 11:01:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM AM |
07YEREVAN698 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: NEW WORLD BANK PRESIDENT [...] No summary [...] | 2007-05-30 12:10:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN IBRD AM |
07YEREVAN699 | MARKING FOURTH ANNIVERSARY OF PSI WITH AN OP-ED [...] Post concluded the best way to accomplish reftel goals was to place an op-ed from the CDA in the governmental newspaper Hayastan Hanrepetutyun, which we also conveyed as a courtesy to the MFA's International Security Department. The op-ed ran on May 30. Complete text follows. 2. TEXT OF [...] | 2007-05-30 12:16:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL MNUC KNNP XG AM |
07YEREVAN70 | ARMENIA: LAW ENFORCEMENT COOPERATION WITH U.S. [...] (SBU) Law enforcement cooperation with Armenia continued to improve in 2006, with concrete key successes despite a complex environment and the lack of a formal bilateral legal framework. Fugitive investigations continued to be the most fruitful area of cooperation, but GOAM cooperation in an [...] | 2007-01-19 07:00:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ASEC SOCI PINS AM |
07YEREVAN701 | GOAM APPROVES A THREE-YEAR TAX SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM [...] (U) SUMMARY: On May 24, 2007, the GOAM approved a Strategic Development Program for the tax system that, over the next three years, will make significant structural, legislative and technological changes within the State Tax Service (STS). The STS has benefited from the help of USAID's Tax Imp [...] | 2007-05-31 07:47:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV EFIN ETRD EAID AM |
07YEREVAN709 | ELECTION FRAUD COMPLAINTS PROCEED ON SEVERAL TRACKS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Four opposition parties have filed election complaints with the Constitutional Court, calling for the May 12 elections to be voided. Their contention is that sufficient irregularities occurred to invalidate the election. The Constitutional Court hearing is scheduled to begin Jun [...] | 2007-05-31 12:31:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KCRM AM |
07YEREVAN711 | SFRC STAFFDEL TAKES IN THE PANOPLY OF US ASSISTANCE TO [...] (U) From May 22 to 26, SFRC stafdel Paul Foldi and Marik String visited Armenia. After four days of briefings, meetings, presentations and site visits, Foldi and String -- accompanied to most meetings by just a driver and interpreter, per their request -- reported that they were pleased with [...] | 2007-06-01 03:41:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID OTRA AM |
07YEREVAN713 | HR DEFENDER GIVES US GHULYAN DEATH CASE UPDATE [...] (C) The government-appointed Human Rights Defender (or ombudsman) Armen Harutyunyan told us at a May 31 meeting that the Yerevan city prosecutor had responded to his inquiry regarding the Ghulyan case (death in police custody, see reftel). Harutyunyan had asked prosecutors, after our May 17 i [...] | 2007-06-01 03:54:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV AM |
07YEREVAN720 | HR DEFENDER'S OFFICE CREATES MILITARY POSITION [...] The Armenian government has created a new position within the office of Human Rights Defender (ombudsman) Armen Harutyunyan intended to follow up complaints of human rights abuses in the ranks of the Armenian military. The Ministry of Defense proposed the position to the ombudsman in late 200 [...] | 2007-06-01 09:37:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM MARR AM |
07YEREVAN723 | ARMENIA'S YEZIDI KURDISH MINORITY: A SMALL BUT [...] (S) The mayors of two Yezidi Kurdish villages, spoke openly to us during a May 31 visit about the fact of PKK (KGK) presence in Armenia, telling us that wounded PKK fighters from neighboring countries receive medical treatment in Armenia. We also discussed the complicated issue of Yezidi Kurd [...] | 2007-06-01 11:54:00 | Embassy Yerevan | SECRET | PREL ASEC PTER PHUM AM |
07YEREVAN735 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: GLOBAL INITIATIVE [...] (U) We delivered reftel information to Arshak Manukyan, head of the MFA's Division of Non-Conventional Arms and Global Security, who thanked us for the update. GODFREY [...] | 2007-06-05 10:25:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER KGIC PARM PREL FI PL PO SW AM |
07YEREVAN748 | ARMENIA'S NEW PARLIAMENT CONVENES WITHOUT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Armenia's newly-elected parliament convened for the first time on June 7, after a coalition arrangement was signed on June 6. PM Sargsian's Republican Party will lead a "two plus one" coalition, with the tycoon-led "Prosperous Armenia" as a coalition partner and the ARF-Dashna [...] | 2007-06-07 12:09:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KDEM AM |
07YEREVAN754 | LAWYERS: DEATH IN CUSTODY CASE PROCEEDING FAIRLY [...] (C) Lawyers for defenestrated businessman Levon Ghulyan told us June 6 that the case seemed to be proceeding fairly, and that they did not have any concerns regarding the pre-investigation process thus far. Results of an independant autopsy by international experts are still not available, ho [...] | 2007-06-08 10:33:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM AM |
07YEREVAN755 | CDA RAISES ENERGY SECURITY,NUCLEAR POWER, AND IRAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: We met with Energy Minister Movsissian June 1 to explore Armenia's current plans and thinking with regard to replacing the Soviet-era Armenian Nuclear Power Plant (ANPP). Press reports had suggested Armenia had made deals with Russia for the construction of a new nuclear plant, [...] | 2007-06-08 11:02:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID ENRG ETTC PARM ETRD AM IR |
07YEREVAN764 | PRESIDENT NAMES NEW CABINET, A LOT LIKE THE OLD ONE [...] (U) President Robert Kocharian named the new cabinet in a decree published late June 8; well ahead of the Constitutional deadline. The Constitution requires that the new cabinet must submit its program to the National Assembly within 20 days, i.e. by June 28. the parliament will then have fi [...] | 2007-06-11 13:15:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM AM |
07YEREVAN77 | OPENING THE TURKISH-ARMENIAN BORDER: BUSINESSES AND [...] On January 13 and 14 the Armenian International Policy Research Group (AIPRG),with funding from USAID, the British Embassy, and the Eurasia Foundation, held a conference on "The Economic and Social Consequences of Opening the Armenia-Turkish Border." While the caliber of the papers was mixed, [...] | 2007-01-23 06:49:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD EINV ELNT PGOV PREL TU GG AM |
07YEREVAN777 | KOCHARIAN PLEDGES CONTINUED REFORM TO MCC'S [...] (C) In a June 12 meeting with President Kocharian, Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) CEO Ambassador John Danilovich said that the good progress toward international standards shown during Armenia's May 12 parliamentary elections was good news for MCC and would certainly be welcomed by MC [...] | 2007-06-14 13:10:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID KDEM AM |
07YEREVAN779 | CIVAIR: REVISED TEXT OF U.S.-ARMENIAN AVIATION SECURITY [...] On June 8, 2007, we delivered reftel talking points and the revised draft U.S.-Armenian security agreement to the Director General of Civil Aviation, Artyom Movsesyan, and the Deputy Director General of Civil Aviation for Security, Arsen Poghosyan. 2. Movsesyan indicated that all the propose [...] | 2007-06-15 11:02:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR KTIA AM |
07YEREVAN782 | FM OSKANIAN ON PUTIN'S GABALA STATION MISSILE [...] (U) Several Armenian media outlets quoted Foreign Minister Oskanian's comments on the Gabala idea during his interview on Kentron television. Oskanian commented that he saw no physical danger to Armenia from the proposed project, noting that the facility would only be a radar station, not an [...] | 2007-06-15 12:00:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL KMDR AM AJ RU |
07YEREVAN783 | CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFORM RESTRUCTURES INVESTIGATIVE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Armenian law enforcement is grappling with a major restructuring that strips the powerful Prosecutor General's or "Procuracy" organization of all its investigative functions and staff, transferring the investigators themselves into police agencies. The reform is an excellent one [...] | 2007-06-15 12:47:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL ASEC KJUS KCRM KDEM KTIP HSTC |
07YEREVAN785 | SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES REPORT-ODC ARMENIA-May 2007 [...] The Letters of Request (LOR) for two FMF cases designed to enhance the Armenian EMEDS were forwarded to DSCA and SAF/IA on 23 May. One case is an amendment to the existing AM-D-EAA equipment case. This amendment will acquire additional medical and deployment equipment that will improve the capa [...] | 2007-06-18 02:45:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | MCAP KCFE XG AM |
07YEREVAN788 | KOCHARIAN DEAD SET AGAINST ATTENDING BSEC SUMMIT [...] (C) On June 16, Charge raised the issue of Armenia's attendance at the upcoming BSEC Summit with President Kocharian. Kocharian said that there was "absolutely no way" he would consider attending. In fact, he would have preferred that FM Oskanian also skip the event, but relented under Oska [...] | 2007-06-18 09:16:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NATO OSCE TU AM |
07YEREVAN794 | ARMENIAN COURTS RULE ON ELECTION VIOLATION CASES [...] (C) SUMMARY: Armenian courts continue to deliver verdicts for election fraud, with a total of six cases, affecting 15 individual defendants, now adjudicated. Verdicts have now been announced in five more cases. Three persons were sentenced to imprisonment for one or two years; one person wa [...] | 2007-06-18 13:14:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KJUS AM |
07YEREVAN81 | ARMENIANS REMEMBER HRANT DINK WITH VIGILS, MARCHES [...] Bearing signs that read "We are all Hrants," in acknowledgment of similar slogans borne by protesters in Istanbul, several thousand Armenians attended a January 23 memorial gathering for slain Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink at Yerevan's Freedom Square. Event organizers, a small ad hoc [...] | 2007-01-24 10:42:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM PGOV TU AM |
07YEREVAN815 | IRAN-ARMENIA PIPELINE DEMARCHE; MEDIA REPORT U.S. [...] (C) CDA and Pol/Econ chief delivered Ref A demarche points to FM Oskanian June 13. CDA also emphasized the continuing diplomatic and public relations disaster that Armenia's Iran engagement represents, given the context of UNSCRs and international consensus on the need to isolate Iran. He po [...] | 2007-06-22 13:16:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ETTC PREL KMDR IR AM |
07YEREVAN827 | NATO OFFICIAL UPBEAT ON ARMENIA'S IPAP PROGRESS [...] (C) SUMMARY: NATO's special Caucasus representative found much to praise after his June 21-22 visit. Top Armenian officials affirmed strong political commitment to defense reform goals and the NATO relationship, and IPAP benchmarks are on or ahead of schedule. END SUMMARY 2. (C) TOU [...] | 2007-06-27 11:03:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM MARR NATO AM |
07YEREVAN829 | RADIO LIBERTY MAY BE FORCED OFF THE AIR [...] (SBU) The National Assembly appears poised to enact a pair of laws that seem aimed directly at forcing RFE/RL off the airwaves. One provision will block state radio from airing the broadcasts, while a companion amendment in another law will impose hefty taxes on any commercial broadcaster airin [...] | 2007-06-27 13:35:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM OPRC KMDR KPAO AM |
07YEREVAN840 | PRESSING THE CASE AGAINST LAW AIMED AT RADIO [...] (SBU) CDA worked the phones June 27-28 to raise our concerns about pending legislation that appears aimed at shutting down RFE/RL broadcasts in Armenia. He spoke with president chief of staff Armen Gevorgian, twice with State and Legal Affairs Committee chair David Harutyunian, and finally w [...] | 2007-06-29 01:46:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM KPAO AM |
07YEREVAN862 | ARMENIAN BANKING SECTOR GETS SERIOUS [...] (U) Steady macroeconomic growth, stable inflation, a strong local currency and inspired, independent leadership at the Central Bank have given Armenia's banking sector room to grow. According to new data, the sector grew by more than 20 percent last year. Western banks, led by HSBC ten years [...] | 2007-07-03 07:33:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ECON EAID AM |
07YEREVAN870 | RADIO LIBERTY REPRIEVE: PARLIAMENT VOTE FAILS FOR [...] (SBU) Controversial draft amendments to the Radio and TV Law and State Duty Law (reftels),apparently aimed at RFE/RL, died in the National Assembly when the chamber failed to maintain a quorum. Sixty-six votes were necessary for the drafts to pass, the chamber was one voting-member shy, as a [...] | 2007-07-06 12:29:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM AM |
07YEREVAN884 | NEW CHALLENGE TO RADIO LIBERTY BROADCASTS [...] SUMMARY: Radio Liberty's Armenian Service is again in jeopardy, as the state radio service gave 30 days notice of its intent to pull Radio Liberty off the air. The notice implies that the reason is Radio Liberty's unpaid bills to the public radio service, which now amount to either $76,000 ( [...] | 2007-07-10 12:36:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM KPAO AM |
07YEREVAN888 | NEW CDA CALLS ON DFM KIRAKOSSIAN: RADIO LIBERTY, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Charge d'Affaires met Deputy Foreign Minister Kirakossian for initial GOAM courtesy call, (with FM Oskanian abroad),which then delved into substance. Kirakossian said he and his minister fully agreed with us on Radio Liberty, but urged CDA to raise it at higher levels. Kirakoss [...] | 2007-07-12 05:53:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM HSTC KTIP AM TU |
07YEREVAN893 | SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES REPORT-ODC ARMENIA-June 2007 [...] EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Bilateral Defense Consultations (BDC) held in Wash DC; South Caucasus and Moldova Clearing House (SCMCH) conducted in Tbilisi; U.S. Assessment of Armenian English language program concluded; ODC escorts key MOD leaders to DLI in San Antonio; Letter of Agreement for Nuclear, [...] | 2007-07-13 05:51:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | MCAP KCFE XG AM |
07YEREVAN896 | PRIME MINISTER ENCOURAGING ON RADIO LIBERTY; NOT [...] (C) CDA paid an introductory courtesy call on Prime Minister Serzh Sargsian July 12, accompanied by DCM and pol/econ chief. Sargsian joked that he had expected to get a permanent U.S. Ambassador, but failing that, he was very pleased to see CDA in Yerevan again. CDA affirmed that Washingto [...] | 2007-07-13 10:06:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM MOPS MASS EAID KDEM AM IR |
07YEREVAN901 | CDA DISCUSSES PARLIAMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS IN [...] (C) CDA's introductory courtesy call on National Assembly Chairman Tigran Torossian focused, after initial pleasantries, on the embassy's plans for a new phase of assistance to the newly-elected parliament. Torossian allowed that he had not been completely satisfied with the previous iteratio [...] | 2007-07-16 07:11:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EAID AM |
07YEREVAN902 | MFA ENGAGED ON POSSIBLE RESETTLEMENT OF [...] (C) Emboffs informally sounded out MFA International Organizations Director, Dziunik Aghajanian, July 11 about Armenia's attitude toward the possibility of resettling Iraqi-Armenians in Armenia, as mentioned ref A. We noted our understanding that the UNHCR was in preliminary discussions about [...] | 2007-07-16 11:27:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PREL SMIG EAID AM IZ XF |
07YEREVAN906 | ARMENIA GETS FIRST FEMALE GOVERNOR, YET GOAM REMAINS HIGHLY [...] (SBU) On July 11 the GOAM appointed Armenia's first ever female governor to run the region of Shirak; despite this unexpected move, Armenian executive and legislative bodies remain starkly underrepresented by women. END SUMMARY. ------------------ A FEMALE GOVERNOR! ------------------ [...] | 2007-07-17 03:02:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL KWMN PINR AM |
07YEREVAN914 | FM OSKANIAN DISCUSSES RADIO LIBERTY, NDI, IRAN, [...] (C) SUMMARY: In his initial call July 16, CDA renewed our concerns about forced stoppage of Radio Liberty (RL) broadcasts, but mentioned that the Prime Minister's reply had been somewhat encouraging on this. He highlighted ongoing Washington concerns about Armenia's relationship with Iran, [...] | 2007-07-17 13:49:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM KPAO AM TU IR |
07YEREVAN926 | PRIME MINISTER UNDERSCORES COMMITMENT TO U.S. [...] (C) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Sargsian hosted CDA and DCM to a private dinner July 18, for a long evening of vodka toasts and frank conversation, by way of welcome to CDA and farewell to DCM. The overarching message of the event was the Prime Minister's clear intent to sustain a close working r [...] | 2007-07-20 10:15:00 | Embassy Yerevan | SECRET | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM AM |
07YEREVAN93 | CHARGE CLEARS THE AIR ON ELECTION ASSISTANCE, MCA CRITERIA, [...] (SBU) On January 24, the Charge d'Affaires, accompanied by the MCC Armenia Country Director, held a press conference that received wide-spread coverage. During the press conference, the Charge focused on U.S. assistance programs, including the Millennium Challenge program and the Embassy's USD [...] | 2007-01-29 09:43:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OPRC KMDR KPAO AM |
07YEREVAN935 | KOCHARIAN ON RADIO LIBERY, NDI, HR CASES, IRAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an almost 90 minute introductory call by the CDA, President Kocharian defended his positions on Radio Liberty, NDI, and human rights cases in a friendly but unbending manner. He was determined to move Radio Liberty broadcasts from state radio to a private network, but emphat [...] | 2007-07-23 14:03:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM KPAO AM IR |
07YEREVAN939 | IRANIAN FM VISIT PROMPTS WEAK DEFENSE FROM FM [...] (C) SUMMARY: Iranian FM Mottaki was received by Armenia's president, prime minister, and foreign minister, and energy minister during his July 20 visit to Yerevan to take part in the 7th annual Armenian-Iranian inter-governmental economic commission. Armenian leaders were unhelpfully positive [...] | 2007-07-24 14:13:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KMDR IR AM |
07YEREVAN97 | TERRORIST FINANCE: U.S. DOMESTIC DESIGNATION OF DOCKRATS - [...] No summary [...] | 2007-01-30 09:15:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC PTER EFIN KTFN PREL AM |
07YEREVAN984 | SURVEY SHOWS HERITAGE PARTY THE BIG WINNER OF THE MAY 12 [...] (SBU) A recent USAID-funded poll has found that Raffi Hovannisian and his Heritage party gained the greatest increase in recognition and popularity following the May 12 Armenian Parliamentary elections. The poll further showed that the vast majority of the Armenian electorate has very little c [...] | 2007-08-03 10:40:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV AM |
07YEREVAN998 | SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITIES REPORT-ODC ARMENIA-July 2007 [...] EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Large FMF equipment shipment for 12th Peacekeeping Battalion arrives; Received Defense Language Institute assessment of Armenian English language training programs; Armenian OIF contingent deploys; Awaiting Letter of Agreement for Excess Defense Articles (EDA) to be approved [...] | 2007-08-07 10:32:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | MCAP KCFE XG AM |
08YEREVAN100 | ARMENIA INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT 2008 [...] (U) Per reftel, Embassy Yerevan, Armenia submits the following as its 2008 Investment Climate Statement. ---------- BEGIN TEXT ---------- 2. According to data from the National Statistical Service (NSS),foreign investment in Armenia has steadily increased from USD 70 million in 2001 to [...] | 2008-02-08 03:16:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB PGOV KTDB OPIC USTR AM |
08YEREVAN1002 | INSTANT REPLAY: NO VENUE YET FOR OPPOSITION [...] (SBU) On December 12, Levon Zurabian, a top LTP aide and coordinator of the ANC, publicly threatened to hold a planned conference in Tbilisi should the ANC not receive permission by December 15 to hold it at the Government Sessions Hall. Having applied on December 3, Zurabian said that absent a [...] | 2008-12-15 14:13:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM AM |
08YEREVAN1006 | FROM SURVIVAL TO REVIVAL - EMBASSY EVENTS MARK 2OTH [...] Two photo exhibits, a Speaker's Program, a message from President Bush and a U.S. military flight bringing humanitarian aid served to recall the devastating earthquake that struck northern Armenia in 1988 and the leading role the USG played as part of the international response. The exhibits [...] | 2008-12-16 12:58:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAO SCUL AM |
08YEREVAN1010 | AMBASSADOR'S INTRODUCTORY CALL WITH NEW CASSATION [...] (C) On December 2, the Ambassador had an introductory meeting with Judge Arman Mkrtumian, the newly appointed President of Armenia's Cassation Court, and Karen Matevosian, Head of the Judicial Department of the Court. The judicial officials briefed the Ambassador on planned reforms to the Cas [...] | 2008-12-16 14:10:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KJUS AM |
08YEREVAN1011 | AUTHORITIES OFFICIALLY DENY VENUE FOR OPPOSITION [...] (C) The Armenian Government has officially denied permission for Armenia's largest political opposition group to hold its December 21 party congress in a publicly-owned facility commonly used for such events. The Armenian National Congress (ANC),led by former President Levon Ter-Petrossian ( [...] | 2008-12-16 16:20:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM AM |
08YEREVAN1012 | ARMENIA TO BACK EGYPT'S CULTURE MINISTER FOR [...] (C) Acting Pol-Econ Chief delivered reftel demarche on December 16 to Tziunik Aghajanian, Director of International Organizations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Aghajanian said Armenia has long committed to supporting the candidacy of Egyptian Culture Minister Farouk Hosni to be the next [...] | 2008-12-16 16:38:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNESCO AM |
08YEREVAN1013 | DASHNAK LEADERS TELL AMBASSADOR VIEWS ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Top Dashnaksutyun party leaders called on the Ambassador to broaden their contacts with USG. The Dashnaks fretted about the rights and welfare of Georgia's Armenian minority, which they portrayed as a dangerous crisis with the potential to deteriorate into irredentist conflict. T [...] | 2008-12-17 06:24:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PBTS CVIS KIRF KDEM TU RU GG |
08YEREVAN1014 | AMBASSADOR'S INTRODUCTORY MEETING WITH CENTRAL [...] (C) In their introductory meeting December 8, Central Bank of Armenia (CBA) Chairman Arthur Javadyan stressed to the Ambassador the high priority the CBA places on maintaining monetary stability and preventing panic among Armenian depositors. He insisted that Armenia's banking system is in so [...] | 2008-12-17 07:56:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PROV PREL ECON EFIN EINV AM RU |
08YEREVAN1015 | CENTRAL BANK CHAIRMAN DEFENDS SUSPENSION OF [...] (C) Meeting with the Ambassador on December 8, Central Bank of Armenia (CBA) Chairman Arthur Javadyan defended the CBA's August decision to expel Western Union from Armenia in response to its decision to close its branches in Nagorno-Karabakh under pressure from the Government of Azerbaijan (G [...] | 2008-12-17 12:06:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON EFIN EINV AM RU |
08YEREVAN1018 | GOAM TO AUCTION SEIZED ASSETS OF OPPOSITION [...] (SBU) The GOAM announced on December 9 that the Bjni mineral water bottling plant--one of the key parts of fugitive opposition oligarch Khachatur Sukiasian's SIL Group business holdings--will be put up for auction December 19. The announcement follows the October 23 seizure of the Bjni facilit [...] | 2008-12-18 13:06:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AM |
08YEREVAN102 | BAGHDASSARIAN RALLY DRAWS GOOD CROWD; FEATURES [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-08 13:28:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM AM |
08YEREVAN1020 | AUTHORITIES DROP COUP CHARGES AGAINST FOUR [...] (C) On December 17, Armenia's Special Investigative Service (SIS) announced it was dropping its charges against four prominent opposition politicians who supported Levon Ter-Petrossian in February's disputed presidential election. A senior SIS official said he dropped the charges due to a lack [...] | 2008-12-18 14:37:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM KJUS AM |
08YEREVAN1022 | PRESIDENT SARGSIAN THANKS PRESIDENT BUSH FOR [...] At the December 17 annual MFA holiday reception, featured guest President Sargsian handed the Ambassador a letter addressed to President Bush thanking the United States for its assistance to Armenia in the aftermath of the 1988 Gyumri-Spitak earthquake. What follows is the unofficial transla [...] | 2008-12-19 11:10:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | OPDC AM |
08YEREVAN1028 | TURKISH PERFORMERS WOW ARMENIAN AUDIENCE [...] The Turkish folk group Kardes Turkuler and the Armenian Sayat Nova Choir, both from Istanbul, gave a moving performance at the Yerevan opera house as part of the Eurasia Partnership Foundation "Music Bridge" project funded by USAID. Playing to a full hall, the groups sang to traditional instr [...] | 2008-12-22 12:37:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO SCUL AM |
08YEREVAN103 | PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE PROFILE: ARTUR [...] No summary [...] | 2008-02-08 13:37:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PINR KDEM AM |
08YEREVAN1032 | AMBASSADOR YOVANOVITCH PAYS COURTESY CALL ON [...] (SBU) Ambassador Yovanovitch paid a courtesy call December 3 on Yerevan Mayor Yervand Zakharyan at City Hall. The Mayor described his administration's accomplishments and plans for the city of Yerevan, particularly in alleviating traffic congestion and in maintaining the city's economic stabil [...] | 2008-12-23 12:24:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON PHUM SENV KDEM AM |
08YEREVAN1033 | AMBASSADOR'S INTRODUCTORY MEETING WITH MINISTER OF [...] (C) In the Ambassador's December 10 introductory meeting with Minister of Agriculture Aramayis Grigorian, the Minister outlined the GOAM's priorities in the agriculture sector, and assured that planned changes to safety standards on poultry imports were not intended to exclude imports in violat [...] | 2008-12-23 12:26:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAGR EAID AM |
08YEREVAN1034 | HOTELS CONFIRM GOAM PRESSURE TO DENY VENUES FOR [...] (C) Two western hotels operating in downtown Yerevan confirmed that the National Security Service (NSS) continues to pressure them to deny rented meeting space to organizations that seek to hold events of a political nature (reftel). Both the Armenian-American-owned "Marriott Armenia Yerevan" [...] | 2008-12-23 14:08:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM AM |
08YEREVAN1035 | ARMENIA: 2008 COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: There have been no major terrorism-related developments in Armenia in 2008. Armenia continued to be a constructive partner of the United States in the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT). The Armenian Government (GOAM) made measured progress in implementing border security and an [...] | 2008-12-24 08:21:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER ASEC EFIN KCRM KHLS AEMR AM |
08YEREVAN1038 | OPPOSITIONISTS' "COUP" TRIAL OFF TO CHAOTIC START [...] (C) The controversial trial of seven prominent opposition figures charged with an attempted coup d'etat during Armenia's post-election unrest has gotten off to a chaotic start. After a relatively peaceful first hearing on December 19, the second hearing on December 22 nearly erupted into fist [...] | 2008-12-24 14:57:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM KJUS AM |
08YEREVAN1046 | EMBASSY PRESSES GOAM ON "CASE OF SEVEN" [...] (C) The Ambassador spoke with a presidential adviser and met with the Prosecutor General to register USG concerns over the GOAM's handling of the "Case of Seven," which has gotten off to a tumultuous start (reftel). In observing the first three hearings of the trial so far, Emboffs have witnes [...] | 2008-12-30 15:35:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM KJUS AM |
08YEREVAN1049 | ARMENIA'S CIVIL NUCLEAR ENERGY PLANS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-12-31 09:30:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG TRGY BEXP BTIO |
08YEREVAN1051 | HARSH REACTION FROM GOAM TO DEPUTY SECRETARY'S [...] (S) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: On December 30, the Ambassador met separately with Foreign Minister Nalbandian and Presidential Foreign Policy Advisor Sargsian, who both expressed the President,s anger over the Deputy Secretary,s letter to President Sargsian. They both stated that the U.S. had t [...] | 2008-12-31 11:21:00 | Embassy Yerevan | SECRET | ETTC PARM PGOV PREL IR BU AM |
08YEREVAN106 | ELECTION SEASON HUMAN RIGHTS ROUND-UP (JANUARY-FEBRUARY) [...] (SBU) In light of the current presidential election in Armenia, scheduled for Tuesday, February 19, this issue of Yerevan's Human Rights Round-up is exclusively dedicated to reported and alleged election-related violations. Reports are organized chronologically. This issue's headlines: [...] | 2008-02-11 12:08:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL EAID SOCI KDEM KPAO KJUS KWMN AM |
08YEREVAN108 | ARMENIA ON POST-2008 PLANS IN IRAQ (C-DI7-02264) [...] (S) In response to reftels, the Defense Attache (DATT) and two PolOffs met February 5 with Armen Yedigarian, Head of the Department of Arms Control and International Security at the Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to inquire about GOAM intentions in Iraq after the eventual expiration of th [...] | 2008-02-11 12:27:00 | Embassy Yerevan | SECRET//NOFORN | PINR PREL MARR MOPS IZ AM |
08YEREVAN109 | DASHNAKS DRAW 10,000 IN FIRST MAJOR YEREVAN RALLY [...] (SBU) On February 8, presidential candidate Vahan Hovannisian of the Armenian Revolutionary Federation (Dashnaktsutyun) held his first major rally in Yerevan, drawing approximately 8,000-10,000 supporters whom the party bussed in from around the country . Under a heavy police presence, consid [...] | 2008-02-11 13:10:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AM |
08YEREVAN110 | FEB 9 TER-PETROSSIAN RALLY THE BIGGEST SO FAR THIS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ter-Petrossian proved February 9 that he can still bring out a truly large crowd (40,000) of supporters, at least for a rally. His speech hit hard against the current rulers for allegedly being ready to sell out Armenian land in the south -- and thus, Armenia's vital national [...] | 2008-02-12 03:07:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM AM |
08YEREVAN112 | NO ARMENIAN FIRST-WAVE RECOGNITION OF KOSOVO -- [...] (C) Polchief met with the savvy and plugged-in director of the MFA Americas Department, Armen Yeganian, to deliver points from reftels. We left a slightly-slimmed down version of the two cables' talking points -- redacted somewhat in consultation with EUR/CARC to downplay Nagorno-Karabakh (N [...] | 2008-02-13 11:27:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS OSCE UNMIK YI SR AM |
08YEREVAN113 | PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE PROFILE: ARTUR [...] (C) Ex-parliament speaker and 39-yr-old presidential hopeful Artur Baghdassarian of the centrist-opposition Orinats Yerkir (Rule of Law) party continues to run a consistent second in mission-sponsored polls. The only challenger with double digit poll numbers, the charismatic Baghdassarian al [...] | 2008-02-13 11:32:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL PINR KDEM AM |
08YEREVAN117 | LIKELIHOOD OF STREET PROTESTS, POSSIBLE VIOLENCE, [...] (C) The Armenian political scene is growing more, rather than less, unpredictable as Election Day draws near. It is clear to us that both ex- President Levon Ter-Petrossian's (LTP) and PM Serzh Sargsian's camps are each "all in" on this election outcome. Neither will be prepared to accept a [...] | 2008-02-13 15:17:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ASEC CASC AM |
08YEREVAN118 | ARMENIA: PRE-ELECTION TOUR OF ARARAT MARZ [...] (C) SUMMARY: On February 6, Embassy Officers traveled to Ararat Marz (region) to meet with local political leaders and opposition party representatives to discuss the Presidential election campaign scheduled for February 19. Emboffs visited key population centers of the region including Arta [...] | 2008-02-13 16:28:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM AM |
08YEREVAN125 | ARMENIA'S SOUTH RELATIVELY QUIET BEFORE [...] (C) Blanketed by feet of snow, residents of Armenia's southern regions of Syunik and Vayats Dzor seem more interested in their crops, the weather and even the U.S. presidential campaign than in their own presidential elections slated for February 19. Opposition activists are having trouble ge [...] | 2008-02-14 12:57:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM AM |
08YEREVAN127 | THE DVD WAR: THE RULING PARTY STRIKES BACK, [...] (C) Levon Ter-Petrossian's (LTP) campaign has for weeks been distributing campaign DVDs, featuring the former president's campaign speeches and rallies. This technique has been somewhat effective, not only as a medium to reach voters in the absence of fair television coverage, but also as a [...] | 2008-02-15 03:40:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM AM |
08YEREVAN140 | BITTER LEMONS: ELECTION TENSION TURNS FUNERAL [...] (C) During a pre-election regional reporting trip to the northwestern city of Stepanavan, PolOff uncomfortably watched a funeral gathering degenerate into a tense shouting match between friends and family when discussion turned to Armenia's approaching February 19 presidential election. Forget [...] | 2008-02-15 14:30:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PROG PREL KDEM AM |
08YEREVAN141 | ARMENIA: VISIT OF E.U. TROIKA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: An EU Troika delegation met with senior GOAM officials as part of a 3-day visit to the South Caucasus February 4-6. The delegation discussed, among other things, issues related to Armenia's upcoming presidential elections, Nagorno-Karabakh conflict settlement, as well as other [...] | 2008-02-15 14:38:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM CVIS SMIG KDEM AM |
08YEREVAN142 | ON EVE OF ELECTION, KOCHARIAN AND SARGSIAN ON [...] (C) With Armenian voters set to elect a new president February 19, outgoing President Robert Kocharian and his most likely successor, Prime Minister Serzh Sargsian, appear to be on diverging paths that reflect both their perceived political interests and their differing visions for Armenia's f [...] | 2008-02-18 13:30:00 | Embassy Yerevan | SECRET | PGOV PREL KDEM AM |
08YEREVAN144 | VOTERS FOR SERZH SARGSIAN -- ARMENIA'S MOST [...] (C) Although he is the front-runner in Armenia's February 19 presidential election, Prime Minister Serzh Sargsian nevertheless remains little known by the Armenian electorate. While many despise him and accuse him of being sinfully corrupt, countless others respect him as an experienced mili [...] | 2008-02-19 14:15:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PINR PHUM ASEC KDEM AM |
08YEREVAN145 | ARMENIA: PRE-ELECTION TOUR OF ARAGATZOTN REGION [...] (C) While characterizing the pre-election campaigning as "routine to date," governmental, non-governmental, political party and international observers in the Aragatzotn region of Armenia nevertheless highlighted a growing undercurrent of widely suspected fraud, particularly vote buying, in th [...] | 2008-02-19 14:42:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM ASEC AM |
08YEREVAN150 | PM SARGSIAN DECLARED WINNER OF PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) Armenia's Central Election Commission announced preliminary results from yesterday's presidential election showing PM Sargsian as the winner with 52.8 percent of the vote. The PM's margin ensures that he will (barely) escape a runoff with second-place finisher and former president Levon T [...] | 2008-02-20 15:37:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PREL AM |
08YEREVAN154 | ARMENIA ELECTION AFTERMATH: TER-PETROSSIAN PASSES [...] (C) "URGENT MESSAGE": Presidential candidate Levon Ter-Petrossian's (LTP) adviser, Levon Zurabian, requested an urgent meeting with PolChief February 21. Suggesting the possibility of electronic eavesdropping, Zurabian passed PolChief a note (text at para 5),which he said was directly from [...] | 2008-02-21 12:43:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC CASC KDEM AM |
08YEREVAN156 | MFA, PRESIDENCY RAISE CONCERNS ABOUT USG ELECTION [...] (C) In back-to-back meetings on February 21, and as a major opposition protest was getting underway just blocks away, Foreign Minister Oskanian and Presidential Chief of Staff Armen Gevorkian expressed to the Charge their concerns about the Department's planned statement on Armenia's February [...] | 2008-02-21 16:48:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM AM |
08YEREVAN159 | ARMENIAN'S WAIT-AND-SEE SUPPORT OF KOSOVO [...] (C) CDA delivered Ref A demarche to FM Oskanian February 21. We had earlier telegraphed the main substance, while awaiting the chance to see the FM during the hectic Armenian election period. CDA emphasized US view that Kosovo was a unique case and that its declaration of independence did no [...] | 2008-02-22 14:51:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS UN UNMIK GG RU SR YI AM |
08YEREVAN16 | ARMENIAN PM CONTRADICTS PRESIDENCY: EXIT POLL [...] (C) In a hastily called meeting, Armenian Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan told Charge that he still favors the holding of a USAID-funded exit poll during the upcoming presidential election, as long as a key condition be met. Contradicting the presidential administration, which has privately oppo [...] | 2008-01-08 13:00:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID KDEM OSCE KPAO AM |
08YEREVAN160 | ARMENIAN DEMOCRACY LOOKING SHABBIER EVERY DAY [...] (C) SUMMARY: While most of Armenia gets on with life, a significant core of Yerevan's population -- especially the more educated -- remain bitterly unreconciled to the election outcome. And not without reason: while it is impossible to know how the election would have turned out if it had b [...] | 2008-02-25 15:44:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM AM |
08YEREVAN161 | ARMENIAN RECOUNT CONFIRMS SARGSIAN VICTORY, BUT IS [...] (C) Recounts of ballots cast in last week's presidential election in most disputed precincts concluded on the afternoon of February 24. The recounts did not produce significant changes to the preliminary results announced by the Central Election Commission on February 20. But the process, wh [...] | 2008-02-26 03:07:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PREL AM |
08YEREVAN163 | PM STAFF PLEA FOR U.S. SUPPORT IN CANDID CHAT [...] (C) SUMMARY: CDA and polchief met with two of the PM's closest advisers over drinks late February 26 to compare notes. PM staff probed for our political assessment. We expressed concerns over arrests of opposition politicians, voting infractions we had seen, the conduct of the recounts, and [...] | 2008-02-27 14:33:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR KDEM AM |
08YEREVAN164 | LTP AND SARGSIAN HOLD DUELING RALLIES; LTP WINS [...] (C) Ex-president Levon Ter-Petrossian and president-elect Prime Minister Serge Sargsian held competing rallies blocks away from each other in downtown Yerevan the afternoon of February 26. While Sargsian's first post-election rally drew approximately 60,000 to 70,000 bussed-in supporters, LTP' [...] | 2008-02-28 04:14:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM AM |
08YEREVAN167 | ARMENIA INCREASINGLY CONCERNED ABOUT "FALSE" PKK [...] (C) During a February 21 meeting with CDA, FM Oskanian expressed increasing GOAM concerns about reports alleging the expansion into Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh of militant cells from Turkey's Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK). He asked that Washington help "put an end" to such reports, which he [...] | 2008-02-28 13:31:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER ASEC AJ TU AM |
08YEREVAN168 | MR. KOCHARIAN'S WORLD: WHERE THE GOVERNMENT NEVER [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Kocharian called in CDA February 28 to discuss election-related violations, recent opposition arrests, and the possible use of force to clear the square. He alleged that the recent arrests were necessary to deter oppositionists from bringing firearms to the square, and s [...] | 2008-02-28 15:18:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM ASEC KDEM AM |
08YEREVAN173 | EMBASSY OFFERS TO ACT AS GO-BETWEEN [...] (C) Implementing a strategy informally agreed with the Department (EUR),post has floated an offer to the Prime Minister to serve as go-between to the opposition movement led by former President Levon Ter-Petrossian (LTP). Polchief sought a brief meeting with PM adviser Levon Martirosian, dur [...] | 2008-02-29 11:57:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM AM |
08YEREVAN176 | FM OSKANIAN URGES REJECTION OF UN RESOLUTION ON N-K [...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified. Not for internet distribution. 2. (SBU) In a meeting with all Yerevan chiefs of mission at the MFA February 29, Foreign Minister Oskanian urged countries to reject a draft UN resolution being circulated by Azerbaijan regarding the situation i [...] | 2008-02-29 12:19:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNGA AM AJ |
08YEREVAN178 | RULING PARTY OFFICIAL OFFERS INSIGHTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Republican Party official Samvel Nikoyan offered confidential, personal insights on the political standoff. He reported that President Kocharian and President-elect/PM Sargsian have very different strategies, with Kocharian favoring a "get tough" approach, and Sargsian preferin [...] | 2008-02-29 15:08:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ASEC KDEM AM |
08YEREVAN179 | ARMENIA SITREP: VIOLENT PROTESTS AFTER DAWN RAID [...] (C) Riot police drove opposition squatters from Freedom Square at about 06:45 local time on March 1. Former President Levon Ter-Petrossian (LTP) was taken home, and apparently placed under house arrest. Police established perimeter around Freedom Square, and forcefully dispersed media, would [...] | 2008-03-01 13:22:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ASEC CASC PREL PHUM KDEM AM |
08YEREVAN186 | ARMENIA SITREP: ARMY CALLED IN TO RESTORE ORDER; [...] (C) Calm prevailed in Yerevan March 3, after pitched battles between opposition protesters and security forces ended in the early hours of March 2. Official GOAM reports state that eight people died in the armed clashes, 33 police were injured, and 100-200 injured overall, although a higher d [...] | 2008-03-03 14:42:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ASEC CASC PREL PHUM KDEM AM |
08YEREVAN187 | ARMENIA DECLARES STATE OF EMERGENCY AFTER [...] (U) SUMMARY: On March 1, Armenian President Robert Kocharian signed a decree declaring a state of emergency in the city of Yerevan. The state of emergency is to last until March 20, unless extended. It prohibits or limits any opposition political activity, independent news reporting, and ce [...] | 2008-03-03 14:46:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV ASEC CASC PREL PHUM KDEM AM |
08YEREVAN190 | PRESIDENCY PROVIDES OFFICIAL VERSION OF YEREVAN [...] (C) In briefings for selected diplomats including CDA during and immediately following the violent events in Yerevan on March 1-2, Presidential Chief of Staff Armen Gevorkian provided the official version of events. Gevorkian asserted that "all political responsibility" for the violence rests [...] | 2008-03-04 16:42:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM AM |
08YEREVAN194 | HOW THE STATE OF EMERGENCY IS AFFECTING NGOS AND [...] (C) With a GOAM-enforced State of Emergency (SoE) in Yerevan in effect until March 20 (reftel),many local and international NGOs have been forced to curtail their activities. USG assistance implementers, especially those working on Democracy and Governance (DG),have not been spared this fat [...] | 2008-03-05 14:00:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID PHUM PGOV KDEM AM |
08YEREVAN197 | ARMENIA: OSCE POST-ELECTION WORKING GROUP MEETING [...] (SBU) On March 3, 2008 embassy officers attended the first OSCE Post-Election Working Group (PEWG) meeting hosted by OSCE Deputy Head of Mission Mark Bojanic. Present were representatives of the European Commission, several diplomatic missions, and a number of NGOs and civil society groups. [...] | 2008-03-07 12:45:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM AM |
08YEREVAN199 | ARMENIAN SUPREME ALLEGES FIXED DECISION AGAINST LTP [...] (S) Late on March 6, Valery Poghossian, one of Armenia's nine Constitutional Court justices, secretly approached the Embassy for an urgent meeting at his home. Poghossian alleged to Emboffs that President Kocharian has fixed the court's upcoming March 8 decision to decide against the complain [...] | 2008-03-07 14:00:00 | Embassy Yerevan | SECRET | PGOV PREL PHUM ASEC KDEM KJUS AM |
08YEREVAN200 | ARMENIAN GOVERNMENT CRACKDOWN INTENSIFIES [...] (C) Rejecting dialogue with the opposition it used lethal force to subdue on March 1-2 following Armenia's disputed February 19 presidential election, the Armenian government in the last five days has taken extraordinary measures to clamp down on any would-be dissent and isolate opposition lead [...] | 2008-03-07 14:33:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ASEC KDEM AM |
08YEREVAN202 | PRESIDENTIAL ADVISER PESSIMISTIC THAT CRACKDOWN [...] (S) SUMMARY: Presidential national security adviser Garnik Isagulian conceded to polchief March 9 that the March 1 morning crackdown was authorized by President Kocharian the day before, contrary to the government's official line. Isagulian believes that PM Sargsian -- bolstered by hardline ad [...] | 2008-03-10 13:32:00 | Embassy Yerevan | SECRET | PGOV PREL PHUM ASEC KDEM AM |
08YEREVAN203 | ARMENIA: IMPLEMENTATION OF THE BERLIN DECLARATION [...] Pursuant to reftel request, post reports the following on the status of implementation in Armenia of the Berlin Declaration on Tuberculosis. 2. On 27 February Embassy Officers attended a meeting with the National Tuberculosis Program Manager Vahan Pogosian and his deputy Tatevik Kostanian [...] | 2008-03-10 14:57:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO WHO AM |
08YEREVAN204 | ARMENIA'S POLITICAL FUTURE -- WHERE DO WE GO FROM [...] (C) SUMMARY: Mounting evidence -- including the latest ODIHR interim report -- has called into question the government's claim that PM Serzh Sargsian won a legitimate first-round majority on February 19. This result, combined with the subsequent heavy-handed use of force and declared State o [...] | 2008-03-10 14:58:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ASEC KDEM AM |
08YEREVAN208 | ARMENIAN GOVERNMENT DETAINING 97 PERSONS FOLLOWING [...] (C) The GOAM began arresting political opponents even before the disputed February 19 Presidential election, though the pace accelerated during the ten days of demonstrations at Freedom Square and again following the March 1 crackdown. While many detainees were quickly released, as of March 10 [...] | 2008-03-11 13:09:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ASEC CASC PREL PHUM KDEM AM |
08YEREVAN209 | VOICES FROM ARMENIA'S FREEDOM SQUARE: IT'S NOT [...] (U) This cable was mostly drafted late February 29, before police cleared the protesters from Freedom Square March 1, and the subsequent chaos. After some thought, we have decided to transmit it anyway, as a small window into what continues to be an important constituency. ------- SUMMARY [...] | 2008-03-12 02:35:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM AM |
08YEREVAN213 | OSCE/ODIHR POST-ELECTION INTERIM REPORT ON [...] (SBU) OSCE/ODIHR released another interim report on Armenia's February 19 election on March 7. Cloaked in bland ODIHR language, the report documents some serious problems that have come to light since the February 20 Preliminary Statement. Characteristically, some of the most provocative find [...] | 2008-03-12 13:05:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ASEC KDEM AM |
08YEREVAN214 | THE UGLY--AND UNUSUAL--SPECTER OF ANTI-SEMITISM [...] (C) SUMMARY: Armenia's presidential election period bizarrely featured an unwelcome guest: anti-Semitism. A government-affiliated national television network aired a despicable, hour-long "documentary" of hate speech, that labeled the leading opposition candidate a "Zionist Jew" in cahoots wi [...] | 2008-03-12 13:15:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KIRF KDEM AM |
08YEREVAN218 | EUR DAS BRYZA MEDIATES POLITICAL CRISIS IN YEREVAN [...] (C) EUR DAS Matthew Bryza visited Yerevan March 6-8 to consult with key leaders on Armenia's post-election political crisis. He met the President, Prime Minister (twice),Foreign Minister Oskanian, opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrossian (LTP),and a range of other politicians, civil society [...] | 2008-03-13 07:02:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM AM |
08YEREVAN221 | RADIO LIBERTY RE-AIRING IN ARMENIA'S REGIONS [...] (C) In spite of stringent media restrictions imposed by the March 1 state of emergency, Radio Liberty (RL) began re-airing March 7 in Armenia's regions where the emergency decree does not apply. According to the local broadcaster Radio Hay (Armenian Radio),the station began re-airing RL broa [...] | 2008-03-13 16:09:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL ASEC KDEM AM |
08YEREVAN226 | ARMENIA'S CONSTITUTIONAL COURT UPHOLDS [...] (SBU) In a March 8 decision, Armenia's Constitutional Court found that while there were irregularities in the conduct of the February 19 presidential election, they were not sufficient to alter the outcome of the vote won by Prime Minister Serzh Serzh Sargsian. The plaintiffs in the court cas [...] | 2008-03-14 14:11:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL KJUS KDEM AM |
08YEREVAN227 | GOAM RATCHETS UP THE PRESSURE UNDER STATE OF [...] (C) Despite recent conciliatory public statements from President-elect Sargsian, the authorities appear to be ratcheting up their pressure on opposition supporters with one week left to the state of emergency. Foreign election observers who stayed to observe Constitutional Court proceedings r [...] | 2008-03-14 14:46:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ASEC KDEM AM |
08YEREVAN228 | GOAM'S SPIN CYCLE UNDER STATE OF EMERGENCY [...] (C) The suspension of independent media in Armenia following the March 1 imposition of a State of Emergency has allowed the GOAM to construct its own narrative of recent events without the inconvenience of opposition challenge or independent scrutiny. Not surprisingly, the GOAM has used this [...] | 2008-03-14 15:08:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL ASEC KDEM KJUS AM |
08YEREVAN229 | ARMENIA - MACROECONOMIC OVERVIEW FOR 2007 [...] Armenia's economy continued its double-digit growth trend of the past five years, again driven primarily by the construction and service sectors. The gap between import and export of goods and services continued to increase, and year-end inflation was 6.6 percent. The Armenian Dram appreciated [...] | 2008-03-17 02:43:00 | Embassy Yerevan | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EAID AM |
08YEREVAN238 | GOAM'S MCC POINT OF CONTACT ASKS FOR PATIENCE [...] (C) On March 13 MCC resident country director (RCD) and acting Polchief met with Minister of Trade and Economic Development Nerses Yeritsian to convey USG concerns about Armenia's ongoing political crisis, warn about its potential impact on continued funding of MCC programs, and urge the GOAM [...] | 2008-03-19 05:49:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PROV PREL PHUM EAID ASEC KDEM AM |
08YEREVAN240 | ARMENIAN OPPOSITIONISTS DEVELOP UNDERGROUND [...] (C) Supporters of opposition leader Levon Ter-Petrossian and others disillusioned with Armenia's post-election crackdown are engaged in a spirited technological battle with the authorities to maintain access to independent news sources in the face of the near-total media ban imposed under the [...] | 2008-03-19 12:54:00 | Embassy Yerevan | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM KPAO PREL AM |
08YEREVAN241 | NEW LAW ON DEMONSTRATIONS GIVES GOVERNMENT BROAD [...] (U) Armenia's National Assembly on March 17 passed a new Law on Rallies and Marches, in a hurry-up procedure that compressed into one day a legislative process that normally unfolds |