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| Identifier | Subject | Date | Office | Classification | Tags |
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| 05KIEV5150 |
UKRAINE: PRESS COVERAGE OF THE GAS DISPUTE WITH RUSSIA [...] Summary: Most Ukrainian media have described Russia's intention to hike Ukraine's gas prices as politically motivated. Many press reports also highlighted the assertion from Ukrainian leaders that this is a step in Ukraine's transition from patriarchal to pragmatic relations with Russia. Depen [...] |
2005-12-23 10:56:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO EPET ENRG PREL PGOV RS UP |
| 06KIEV1015 |
UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO'S MARCH 14 remarks ON FREE AND [...] (U) Summary: On March 14, shortly after the Rada (parliament) had passed a series of amendments designed to address technical problems regarding the administration of the March 26 elections (reftel), President Yushchenko held a press-conference devoted to the election campaign and the domesti [...] |
2006-03-15 14:43:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM UP |
| 06KIEV1020 |
UKRAINE/MOLDOVA/TRANSNISTRIA: GOU BLAMES TIRASPOL [...] (C) Summary: In a March 15 briefing of OSCE member state reps, GOU officials accused Transnistrian authorities of purposefully engineering the ongoing border standoff and refusing GOU attempts to discuss the situation. GOU officials appealed to EU states to advise their shippers to avoid tra [...] |
2006-03-15 15:42:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PINR OSCE |
| 06KIEV1021 |
UKRAINE/MOLDOVA/TRANSNISTRIA: EUR DAS KRAMER [...] (C) Summary: During March 13 meetings in Kiev, EUR DAS David Kramer praised the Ukrainian government's decision to implement a customs protocol to control the flow of goods across its border with Moldova/Transnistria. Drawing on reftel, Kramer told PM Yuri Yekhanurov, Deputy Minister of Defe [...] |
2006-03-15 15:54:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS MD UP OSCE |
| 06KIEV1022 |
UKRAINE: PARTY OF REGIONS ELECTION STRATEGY: A NEW [...] (C) Summary: Ukrainians and outside observers are currently contemplating the increasing possibility that Party of Regions, led by Viktor Yanukovych, may return to power as part of a coalition emerging from the March 26 elections in which Regions will by all accounts win a plurality (an estim [...] |
2006-03-15 17:05:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM |
| 06KIEV1025 |
GUAM: Azerbaijan Remains the Dissenting Voice on a [...] (SBU) On March 15, Yevhen Koziy, Executive Director of the GUAM Information Office, informed INLOff that experts from GUAM member states (Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Moldova), and not the National Coordinators (NCs) as stated in ref A, participated in the March 13-14 meeting in Kiev to final [...] |
2006-03-16 08:32:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KDEM ENRG GUAM |
| 06KIEV1036 |
UKRAINE: EURO-ATLANTIC INTEGRATION BEFORE AND [...] (C) Summary: Various interlocutors assessed the prospects for Ukraine's drive toward NATO membership after the March 26 parliamentary elections during visits to Kiev by EUR DAS David Kramer's March 13 and by Project for Transitional Democracies head Bruce Jackson March 4-8. Deputy Foreign Mi [...] |
2006-03-16 15:51:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL NATO UP |
| 06KIEV1039 |
UKRAINE: CENTRAL ELECTION COMMISSION CHAIRMAN ON [...] (SBU) Summary: Central Election Commission (CEC) Chairman Yaroslav Davydovych told Charge March 16 that Ukrainian authorities were working hard to address the organizational concerns that have arisen regarding the administration of March 26 elections, specifically staffing of polling station [...] |
2006-03-16 15:51:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM |
| 06KIEV1040 |
UKRAINE: ELECTION OBSERVERS OSCE/ODIHR AND ENEMO ON PROCEDURAL PROBLEMS IN RADA ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: In a March 16 meeting with Charge, OSCE/ODIHR Ambassador Lubomir Kopaj said he thought the Central Election Commission was making efforts to deal with electoral procedural problems, but that election day would still be problematic, particularly due to precinct overcrowding. Kopa [...] |
2006-03-16 17:09:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | NOTAG UP |
| 06KIEV1051 |
Ukraine's TIP Prosecution Numbers Up, But Most [...] (SBU) Summary: From 2003 to 2005, convictions for trafficking in persons (TIP) have increased from 29 to 85 a year, but only a third of the convicted traffickers were given jail time. The structure of the General Prosecutor's Office (GPO) and its reluctance to specialize suggests that convic [...] |
2006-03-17 12:35:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM PHUM SMIG PREF |
| 06KIEV1055 |
UKRAINE: ZAPORIZHZHYA PRE-ELECTION SNAPSHOT -- [...] (SBU) Summary: In 2004, the abuse of administrative resources by a coordinated "Blue" power "vertikal" and an extra 100,000 dead souls voting in the city of Melitopol delivered 70 percent of Zaporizhzhya oblast to Viktor Yanukovych. In 2006, the absence of administrative pressure from an "Or [...] |
2006-03-17 14:28:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM |
| 06KIEV1061 |
UKRAINE: AMBASSADOR'S INTERFAITH DIALOGUE [...] (SBU) At a February 27 lunch hosted by Ambassador (that included prominent clergymen, M.P.s, think- tankers and journalists), participants in a recent International Visitors Leadership Program on interfaith dialogue praised the quality of their program. They had been impressed, in particular, [...] |
2006-03-17 15:12:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KIRF PGOV SOCI |
| 06KIEV1062 |
UKRAINE/BELARUS/RUSSIA: GOU VIEWS ON RUSSIA [...] (C) Summary: During EUR DAS David Kramer's March 13 meetings in Kiev, Deputy Defense Minister Polyakov said that while security issues in the Ukraine-Russia relationship were secondary to political and military aspects, his Ministry (MoD) tried to play a "good cop" role by reinforcing a produ [...] |
2006-03-17 15:23:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR KDEM PHUM PINR RS BO UP |
| 06KIEV1073 |
UKRAINE: SIXTH ELECTION ROUNDTABLE [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 14, Charge hosted a roundtable discussion with NGOs on the March 26 Rada (parliament) and local government elections. One NGO representative predicted long lines at polling stations, and attributed the poor organization of the elections to a lack of government meddlin [...] |
2006-03-20 13:33:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KDEM OSCE |
| 06KIEV1081 |
UKRAINE: MOROZ AND THE SOCIALIST PARTY: ANOTHER [...] (C) Summary: Most of the attention on the failure of the "Maidan" coalition to form a coherent, effective government team in office in 2005 justifiably focused on the bitter falling out of the two main Orange parties, President Yushchenko's Our Ukraine and Yuliya Tymoshenko's eponymous bloc ( [...] |
2006-03-20 15:31:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM ETRD PARM NATO |
| 06KIEV1082 |
EXBS: Ukraine Advisor Monthly Reporting Cable [...] On October 1, 2004, ExBS Advisor requested that the Department of Homeland Security's Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) de-obligate fiscal year 2004 ExBS operational funds for use in fiscal year 2005. Despite numerous written and oral requests since then, the funds remain unavaila [...] |
2006-03-21 08:06:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC MNUC PARM PREL |
| 06KIEV1083 |
UKRAINE: PRE-ELECTION SNAPSHOT: LVIV AT SECOND [...] (SBU) Summary: A return visit to the western city of Lviv March 17-18 indicated that campaigning in city and surrounding areas has moved into a higher gear the final week before the March 26 parliamentary and local elections, as politicians scramble to maintain their base and win over the dwi [...] |
2006-03-21 09:57:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM |
| 06KIEV1084 |
UKRAINE: PRESIDENT SIGNS TWO OF THREE AMENDMENTS [...] (SBU) Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko signed into law March 17 two of the three bills passed by the Rada March 14, amending parliamentary and local election laws (reftel). The bills Yushchenko signed (now known as law No. 3519-IV) included provisions allowing District Election Commissions [...] |
2006-03-21 11:41:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KDEM UP OSCE |
| 06KIEV1088 |
UKRAINE: KAZAKHSTAN AND THE 2009 OSCE [...] (C) Summary: During a March 2 meeting with U.S. Ambassador to the OSCE Julie Finley, DFM Volodymyr Khandohiy said Ukraine would not actively lobby for the 2009 OSCE Chairmanship in Office, but might consider advancing its candidacy if Kazakhstan were to voluntarily withdraw its bid. End summ [...] |
2006-03-22 05:23:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS PHUM OSCE UP KZ |
| 06KIEV1107 |
UKRAINE: DELIVERABLES FOR GUAM SUMMIT, NSDC AND [...] (C) Summary: According to a National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) staff official, the May GUAM summit aims to feature agreements to enhance regional energy security and cooperation in solving "frozen conflicts." The official opined that NSDC Secretary Kinakh's visit to Moscow might ha [...] |
2006-03-22 15:52:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM EUN ENRG PGOV PINR RS AZ GG MD UP |
| 06KIEV1108 |
UKRAINE: POSSIBLE ELECTION DAY AND POST-ELECTION [...] (C) With Ukraine's pivotal March 26 parliamentary (and local) election day drawing closer, claims by all sides continue that their opponents are abusing or plan to abuse administrative resources to influence election results at various levels. NGOs and international election observation missi [...] |
2006-03-22 15:54:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR SOCI |
| 06KIEV1109 |
UKRAINE: REGIONS PARTY CONSULTANT ON ELECTION [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 17, AmCit Catherine Barnes (please protect), a member of the consulting team from U.S. political consulting firm Davis-Manafort working for the opposition Party of Regions, told USAIDOff that Regions officials had expressed concern over the potential for "substantial f [...] |
2006-03-22 16:17:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KDEM OSCE |
| 06KIEV1110 |
UKRAINE: INTERIOR MINISTER ON UPCOMING ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: At a March 20 meeting, Minister of Interior (MVS) Yuri Lutsenko told DCM and former Ambassador to Ukraine Miller that the March 26 elections would go smoothly and election day would likely be calm, despite technical problems with election administration. His Ministry would not [...] |
2006-03-23 04:42:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM |
| 06KIEV1111 |
UKRAINE: IN FAR WESTERN ZAKARPATTYA, LOCAL LEADERS [...] (SBU) Summary. In March 9 meetings in the far western oblast capital Uzhhorod, local government, party and NGO representatives noted the relative peace between political factions in the oblast and attributed it to Zakarpattya's long history of political, cultural, and ethnic diversity. All se [...] |
2006-03-23 04:42:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL |
| 06KIEV1123 |
UKRAINE: DEFENSE MINISTER ON NATO, JOB SECURITY [...] (C) During a March 22 meeting with Ambassador, Defense Minister Anatoly Hrytsenko said that he was in the process of reorganizing his general staff to meet the NATO "J-System" requirement. He added that he hoped a Membership Action Plan (MAP) for Ukraine could be approved at the next NATO defe [...] |
2006-03-23 14:32:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PGOV PINR NATO |
| 06KIEV1127 |
UKRAINE: GOU REQUEST FOR SUPPORT/UNDERSTANDING ON [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 4. 2. (SBU) During a March 13 meeting between EUR DAS Kramer and Defense Minister Anatoliy Hrytsenko, and in a follow-up discussion between DATT and Deputy Defense Minister Leonid Polyakov March 17, the MoD officials requested U.S. assistance [...] |
2006-03-23 15:38:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM MOPS |
| 06KIEV1128 |
UKRAINE: IN THIS CORNER! EX-CHAMPION KLYCHKO RUNS [...] (SBU) Summary: In a March 22 meeting with TDY PolOff, Volodymyr Bondarenko, head of Kiev mayoral candidate (and recent world boxing champion) Vitaliy Klychko's campaign, described campaign impediments including incumbent Mayor Omelchenko's use of administrative resources and biased media cove [...] |
2006-03-23 15:49:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM SOCI |
| 06KIEV1135 |
UKRAINE/MOLDOVA/TRANSNISTRIA: YUSHCHENKO ON [...] (C) In a March 23 meeting, President Yushchenko told Ambassador that the Ukrainian government had learned March 21 that Russia planned to ship humanitarian assistance to the Transnistrians. He had spoken to Russian Ambassador Chernomyrdin and said the Russian shipment was an unfriendly act be [...] |
2006-03-24 07:27:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PHUM PINR OSCE |
| 06KIEV1136 |
UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO ON ELECTIONS, COALITIONS [...] (S) Summary: In a March 23 meeting with Ambassador, President Yushchenko expressed confidence that problems in staffing polling stations would be fixed in time for the March 26 elections, but said that he would not sign a Rada-passed bill allowing citizens to be added to the voter list on ele [...] |
2006-03-24 07:54:00 | Embassy Kyiv | SECRET | PGOV PINR KDEM PHUM RU |
| 06KIEV1154 |
UKRAINE: MARCH 26 PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS -- CAN [...] (C) Summary: The March 26 parliamentary elections are lining up to be judged free and fair, despite flaws. The campaign was marred by none (or very, very few) of the Kuchma government behavior that seriously eroded confidence in how the fall 2004 presidential elections would be conducted. Ad [...] |
2006-03-24 14:24:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETRD |
| 06KIEV1157 |
MANAFORT ON ELECTION PROBLEMS [...] (SBU)Summary: Party of Regions (PoR) political consultant Paul Manafort (AmCit, please protect) called on the Ambassador March 21 to express his continuing concern about the possible disenfranchisement of "hundreds of thousands" of Ukrainian voters unless President Yushchenko signed into law [...] |
2006-03-24 15:20:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PINR PHUM |
| 06KIEV1158 |
UKRAINE: TARASYUK AND TYMOSHENKO REP REPORT NO [...] (C) Tymoshenko adviser Hryhoriy Nemyrya denied to Ambassador and DCM March 24 that any agreement had been reached among Our Ukraine, Tymoshenko,s eponymous bloc BYuT, and Socialists, although he acknowledged that talks were taking place between Tymoshenko,s Deputy Oleksandr Turchynov and Our U [...] |
2006-03-24 15:32:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR PHUM |
| 06KIEV1159 |
UKRAINE: TYMOSHENKO RALLIES FAITHFUL ON THE MAIDAN [...] (SBU) Summary: During a rally March 23 on Kiev's Independence Square (Maidan Nezalezhnosti), the geographical and spiritual center of the late 2004 Orange Revolution, former PM Yuliya Tymoshenko strived to recreate the spirit of the November-December 2004 protests that broke the Kuchma regime [...] |
2006-03-24 15:37:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM KDEM UP |
| 06KIEV1160 |
UKRAINE/MOLDOVA/TRANSNISTRIA: RUSSIAN AID CONVOY, [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 6. Maintaining the new customs regime ----------------------------------- 2. (C) Ambassador delivered ref A points on Ukraine's Transnistria-related customs proposal to Foreign Minister Borys Tarasyuk March 24. Tarasyuk asked whether we wan [...] |
2006-03-24 15:47:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR PBTS OSCE |
| 06KIEV1162 |
UKRAINE/BELARUS: GOU STATEMENTS ON BELARUSAN [...] (SBU) On March 24 DCM relayed concerns (ref A) regarding a March 21 MFA statement calling the international isolation of Belarus ineffective (ref B) to MFA Second Territorial Department Deputy Director Ihor Prokopchuk. DCM characterized the March 21 statement by GOU spokesman Filipchuk as unh [...] |
2006-03-24 16:34:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV PINR KDEM |
| 06KIEV1163 |
UKRAINE: ELECTION DAY REPORT -- ORANGE MAJORITY [...] (C) Summary: Election day has proceeded without problems on a national scale that should affect the outcome of the vote, despite a variety of adminstrative deficiencies in many polling stations and allegations by all sides of wrongdoing by their opponents. Main concerns going in to election d [...] |
2006-03-26 20:32:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM PHUM |
| 06KIEV1169 |
UKRAINE: ORANGE COALITION TALKS STALL [...] (C) Summary: On the basis of exit polls projecting a surprisingly strong second-place showing in the March 26 parliamentary elections for her eponymous bloc, Yuliya Tymoshenko is driving to close a deal that will reunite the original Orange coalition and return her to the PM slot. Oleksandr M [...] |
2006-03-27 10:35:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KDEM ETRD |
| 06KIEV1177 |
UKRAINE: POST-ELECTION DAY DEVELOPMENTS [...] (SBU) Summary: Ballot counting for the March 26 national parliamentary vote (ref B) proceeded without significant incident throughout the night and into the morning of 27 March, with official results slowly coming in through the day and approaching the exit polling results by the national con [...] |
2006-03-27 14:59:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM RU |
| 06KIEV1185 |
UKRAINE: POTENTIAL JOINT MANPADS EVENT: GOU [...] (S) PolOff and Army Attache provided ref A information on a potential joint MANPADS event March 28 to Oleksiy Melnyk, First Assistant to Defense Minister Hrytsenko. Melnyk noted the weeks of May 1 and May 8 could be problematic due to the number of holidays. (Note: May 1 and 2 are official [...] |
2006-03-28 12:17:00 | Embassy Kyiv | SECRET | MARR MOPS PREL PARM |
| 06KIEV1186 |
UKRAINE: ELECTION SNAPSHOT: ON THE BATTLEFIELDS OF [...] (SBU) Summary: Yuliya Tymoshenko's bloc (BYuT) and Party of Regions ran the best-organized campaigns and received the top vote shares March 26 in the central Ukrainian oblast of Poltava, where in recent years the Socialist Party had held sway. BYuT's success in the more recent campaign was bu [...] |
2006-03-28 12:17:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM |
| 06KIEV1192 |
UKRAINE: IN ORANGE RIVNE OBLAST, TYMOSHENKO [...] (C) The March 26 elections in western Ukraine's Rivne Oblast were the cleanest in the region's post-independence history, according to NGO representatives, OSCE election monitors and local media reports. There were administrative glitches that lengthened both the voting and counting. The OSC [...] |
2006-03-28 15:18:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PINR SOCI |
| 06KIEV1194 |
UKRAINE: RADA ELECTION TALLY AT 83 PERCENT; KIEV [...] (C) Summary: Official results continued to come in slowly but steadily through the day March 28, with relative percentages holding steady at Yanukovych 30, Tymoshenko 22 and Our Ukraine 15. Most parties have not voiced any significant complaints about the election, but Tymoshenko's bloc cont [...] |
2006-03-28 16:03:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM RU |
| 06KIEV1241 |
UKRAINE: SOCIALIST MOROZ ON COALITION [...] (C) Summary: Socialist Party of Ukraine (SPU) leader Oleksandr Moroz told Ambassador and DCM March 29 that a reunited "Maidan" coalition of Our Ukraine, Yuliya Tymoshenko Bloc (BYuT), and the Socialists was the only feasible option, and that he had told this to President Yushchenko during the [...] |
2006-03-29 14:30:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM |
| 06KIEV1243 |
UKRAINE: ELECTION RESULTS OVER 97 PERCENT; PARTIES [...] (C) Summary: With over 97 percent of the national parliamentary vote tallied by 6 pm March 29, opposition Party of Regions continued to lead with 31.8 percent of the vote, followed by Yuliya Tymoshenko's Bloc (BYuT) at 22.4 percent, and President Yushchenko's Our Ukraine at 14.1 percent. Five [...] |
2006-03-29 15:45:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM PHUM RU |
| 06KIEV1245 |
UKRAINE: DEMOCRACY TAKES ROOT IN BREZHNEV'S [...] (SBU) Summary: In a check of 12 polling stations and while observing opening and closing procedures at two others in Dniprodzerzhynsk (Dnipropetrovsk oblast), an Embassy election monitoring team participating with the OSCE/ODIHR election mission found few irregularities March 26-27. The vast [...] |
2006-03-29 16:00:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KDEM OSCE |
| 06KIEV1247 |
UKRAINE: ELECTION SNAPSHOT OF SEVERODONETSK, HOST [...] (SBU) Summary: We observed Ukraine's March 26 Rada and local elections in the city of Severodonetsk, Luhansk Oblast, site of the infamous November 28, 2004 separatist rally held at the height of the late 2004 Orange Revolution, at which then-PM Yanukovych, many Party of Regions backers from e [...] |
2006-03-29 16:06:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KDEM OSCE |
| 06KIEV1258 |
UKRAINE ELECTION SNAPSHOT: REGIONS PARTY TAKES [...] (SBU) Summary: In an election in which the status of Russian language and ties with Russia figured heavily in the local political agenda, voters in Ukraine's Autonomous Republic of Crimea delivered the majority of their votes to Viktor Yanukovych's Party of Regions in voting for the national [...] |
2006-03-30 12:56:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL KDEM |
| 06KIEV1261 |
UKRAINE ELECTION 2006: WINNERS, LOSERS, TRENDS [...] (C) Summary: While the results of Ukraine's March 26 parliamentary and local elections are not yet final, and negotiations to form a majority Rada coalition have not yet concluded, it is already clear that the elections highlighted a number of winners and losers, as well as trends in Ukraine's deve [...] |
2006-03-30 14:51:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM UP |
| 06KIEV1282 |
UKRAINE/MOLDOVA/TRANSNISTRIA: APPLYING POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: MFA Romania and Moldova Division Counselor Cornelia Luskalova told us March 30 that the Ukrainian government (GOU) was planned to combine political and economic levers to return cross-border trade between Ukraine and Moldova/Transnistria to normal. The GOU would urge the Moldova [...] |
2006-03-31 16:01:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PINR PGOV ETRD PREF OSCE MD UP RS |
| 06KIEV1313 |
UKRAINE ELECTION SNAPSHOT: IN TERNOPIL, TYMOSHENKO [...] (SBU) Summary: We observed Ukraine's March 26 Rada and local elections in Ternopil city, capitol of the eponymous western oblast that voted 96% for Viktor Yushchenko in Ukraine's 2004 presidential election and 69% for Our Ukraine in the 2002 parliamentary elections. In 2006 voting for the pa [...] |
2006-04-03 16:12:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KDEM OSCE |
| 06KIEV1314 |
UKRAINE: LOOKING TOWARD A RENEWED ORANGE COALITION [...] (C) Summary: Amid increasing signs that Ukraine might see a renewed Orange "Maidan" coalition in the wake of March 26 elections, there have been calls by some for a recount of the election results. Most of the pressure comes from a handful of parties that failed to reach the three-percent thr [...] |
2006-04-03 17:00:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM |
| 06KIEV1353 |
UKRAINE: REGIONS PARTY RADA DEPUTY SAYS REGIONS [...] (C) Summary: During an April 4 meeting, Party of Regions parliamentary (Rada) deputy and former Deputy PM Andriy Klyuyev told Ambassador that Regions was ready to join a coalition with the pro-presidential Our Ukraine bloc. He dismissed the possibility that Regions was looking to force a new [...] |
2006-04-05 14:37:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR UP |
| 06KIEV1354 |
UKRAINE: MFA DIRECTOR BELASHOV ON BLACK SEA [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 8. 2. (C) Summary: During an April 5 meeting called at his request, MFA Military-Technical Cooperation and Arms Control Department Director Volodymyr Belashov asked us for the USG position regarding the Turkish-sponsored Operation Black Sea Harmony, [...] |
2006-04-05 14:37:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM MARR MOPS PREL NATO UP |
| 06KIEV1444 |
UKRAINE: NSDC SECRETARY ON TRANSNISTRIA, BELARUS, [...] (C) Summary: In an April 11 meeting, National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) Secretary Kinakh told Ambassador the Ukrainian government was concerned that Transnistrian authorities might provoke an armed confrontation at one of Transnistria's "border crossings" with Moldova. The Russians [...] |
2006-04-11 15:25:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS ENRG ETRD PINR OSCE MD BO RS UP |
| 06KIEV1445 |
UKRAINE: NSDC SECRETARY KINAKH: STABLE [...] (C) Summary: In an April 11 meeting, National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) Secretary Anatoliy Kinakh told Ambassador that a stable majority coalition in Parliament (Rada) and the formation of a new government had to happen quickly in order to address critical economic issues. In order [...] |
2006-04-11 15:30:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON EINV UP |
| 06KIEV1480 |
UKRAINE: CODEL FRIST MEETING WITH YULIYA TYMOSHENKO [...] (C) In an April 13 meeting with CODEL Frist, former Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko averred that Ukraine's March 26 elections showed the desire of the Ukrainian people for a renewed Orange coalition government. Thanking Senator Frist for encouraging Team Orange reconciliation, Tymoshenko str [...] |
2006-04-13 17:41:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PINR SOCI PREL ECON ETRD ENRG OREP |
| 06KIEV1481 |
UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO AND CODEL FRIST DISCUSS [...] (C) Summary: President Yushchenko discussed Rada majority coalition possibilities, bilateral U.S.-Ukrainian issues, and his vision for Ukraine's future April 13 with a delegation led by Senator Majority leader Bill Frist (R-TN) and including Senators Judd Gregg (R-NH) and Richard Burr (R-NC). [...] |
2006-04-13 17:46:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OREP PGOV PARM UP |
| 06KIEV1530 |
UKRAINE: YANUKOVYCH TO CODEL FRIST: ORANGE [...] (C) Summary: Former Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych told CODEL Frist and Ambassador April 13 that the pro-presidential Our Ukraine (OU) bloc needed to form a coalition with his Party of Regions in order to overcome the east-west split within the country. A union of the previous ruling coalit [...] |
2006-04-14 14:23:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ETRD NATO OREP PINR US UP |
| 06KIEV1531 |
UKRAINE: INTERIOR MINISTER ORDERED TO ARREST [...] (C) Interior Minister Yuriy Lutsenko told Ambassador on April 14 that he had been ordered by the Prosecutor General (PG) to arrest senior Tymoshenko Bloc politicians Oleksandr Turchynov and Andriy Kozhemyakin for illegally destroying Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) files on the January gas deal w [...] |
2006-04-14 14:24:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PINR SOCI UP |
| 06KIEV1540 |
UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO'S PARTY "ENDORSES" PREVIOUS [...] (C) Summary: President Yushchenko's Hamlet-like dance over whether or when to endorse ex-Premier Yuliya Tymoshenko's claim on returning to her old job in the "Coalition of Democratic Forces" continued April 14 when the Executive Council of the People's Union Our Ukraine (PUOU) party's Politic [...] |
2006-04-14 15:13:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM UP |
| 06KIEV1552 |
UKRAINE: KERCH -- VERY LITTLE ORANGE IN THIS [...] (SBU) Summary: Kerch, one of the most ancient cities of Ukraine and a key industrial center for the Crimean peninsula during the Soviet period, now finds itself a remote backwater of independent Ukraine, famous recently only because in late 2003 a territorial dispute between Ukraine and Russia [...] |
2006-04-18 07:40:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON SCUL UP |
| 06KIEV1561 |
UKRAINE: DEMARCHE ON VENEZUELA'S UN SECURITY [...] (C) We discussed Venezuela's bid for a seat on the UN Security Council with Andriy Beshta from the MFA United Nations directorate April 18, reiterating ref C demarche points and drawing on information from ref A. Beshta said that his office had used our previous demarche to formulate a propos [...] |
2006-04-18 13:45:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER UNSC VE GT UP |
| 06KIEV1587 |
UKRAINE: PRESIDENT YUSHCHENKO'S OUR UKRAINE [...] (SBU) Summary. For several weeks in the wake of the March 26 elections in which it was soundly defeated by Yuliya Tymoshenko's Bloc (BYuT), Our Ukraine (OU) bloc leaders offered primarily positive public commentary, with reservations, about the formation of an Orange Rada majority coalition a [...] |
2006-04-20 14:57:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV UP |
| 06KIEV1639 |
UKRAINE: DNSA CROUCH'S NATO-THEMED DINNER INCLUDES [...] (C) At an April 19 NATO-themed dinner in honor of Deputy National Security Adviser Crouch, Defense Minister Hrytsenko and Foreign Minister Tarasyuk politely disagreed over the attitudes toward NATO of PM-hopeful Yuliya Tymoshenko, the Socialist Party, and Party of Regions. They also disagreed [...] |
2006-04-26 08:27:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM UP |
| 06KIEV1662 |
UKRAINE: RADA MAJORITY COALITION TALKS RESUME; [...] (C) Summary: After a ten-day hiatus, coalition negotiations between President Yushchenko's Our Ukraine, the Yuliya Tymoshenko Bloc (BYuT) and the Socialists resumed April 25, deputy Socialist Party leader Iosyp Vinsky told Ambassador April 27. Our Ukraine's Roman Zvarych, Tymoshenko (standin [...] |
2006-04-27 16:00:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM UP |
| 06KIEV1663 |
UKRAINE: BAPTISTS CAUGHT IN MIDDLE OF RADA [...] (C) In an April 27 meeting with Ambassador, the longtime head of the All-Ukraine Baptist Union, Gregoriy Komendant, asked for help in stopping the Prosecutor General's Office from seizing the Union's downtown Kiev headquarters building. Beginning in November 2005, the PGO has accused the Union [...] |
2006-04-27 16:14:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PINR SOCI SCUL UP |
| 06KIEV1693 |
UKRAINE: PARTY OF REGIONS LEADER YANUKOVYCH'S [...] (C) Party of Regions leader Viktor Yanukovych told Ambassador April 27 that working-level negotiations with President Yushchenko's Our Ukraine bloc continued. While many issues had been worked out, Yanukovych would need to meet with Yushchenko to resolve key issues. Yanukovych implied that R [...] |
2006-04-28 13:23:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ENRG NATO EPET PINR ZK ZJ AJ BO |
| 06KIEV1698 |
UKRAINE: OUR UKRAINE'S ZVARYCH ON AGREEMENTS, [...] (C) Summary: In an April 28 meeting with Ambassador, Our Ukraine legal department chief Roman Zvarych confirmed that, in ongoing Rada majority coalition negotiations between Our Ukraine (OU), Yuliya Tymoshenko's Bloc (BYuT) and the Socialists, two documents had been signed April 25, one on co [...] |
2006-04-28 13:51:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM PHUM UP |
| 06KIEV1706 |
UKRAINE: OUR UKRAINE INSIDER POROSHENKO ON RADA [...] (C) During an April 28 meeting with Ambassador, Our Ukraine (OU) insider Petro Poroshenko emphatically denied he was using his influence with the Prosecutor General to put pressure on Tymoshenko lieutenant Oleksandr Turchynov (refs A and B). Coalition talks with the Tymoshenko Bloc (BYuT) were [...] |
2006-04-28 14:35:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PINR SOCI UP |
| 06KIEV1711 |
UKRAINE: SOMBER TYMOSHENKO DOWN ON ORANGE [...] (C) Summary: A subdued PM-hopeful Yuliya Tymoshenko told Ambassador April 28 that the scant progress in Orange coalition talks in recent days was much less significant than Our Ukraine efforts with Party of Regions to form local coalitions across the country. News during the meeting that Our [...] |
2006-04-28 15:31:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM UP |
| 06KIEV1772 |
UKRAINE: FM TARASYUK, NSAU CHIEF ALEXEYEV PRESS [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Borys Tarasyuk and National Space Agency of Ukraine (NSAU) Director Yuri Alekseyev urged greater U.S.-Ukraine cooperation on ballistic missile defense during an April 26 meeting at MFA with U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Director Lt Gen (USAF) Trey Obering III [...] |
2006-05-05 15:00:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MCAP PREL PINR US UP |
| 06KIEV1773 |
UKRAINE: WAITING FOR YUSHCHENKO: LACK OF COALITION [...] (C) Summary: While much of Ukraine takes off the first week in May between the May Day and Victory in Europe holidays, work on possible Rada majority coalition policy agreements inched forward, even as the question remained open as to which coalition, if any, would ultimately emerge. In May [...] |
2006-05-05 15:17:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM UP |
| 06KIEV1851 |
UKRAINE: UPDATES FROM BEZSMERTNY AND TYMOSHENKO - [...] (C) Summary: A downbeat and cynical Roman Bezsmertny and a more relaxed Yuliya Tymoshenko separately assessed the current stated of play in coalition negotiations with Charge May 11-12; their characterizations largely tracked, though not completely. Both said that Yushchenko's attitude toward [...] |
2006-05-15 08:07:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 06KIEV1912 |
UKRAINE/RUSSIA: NO PROGRESS ON BLACK SEA FLEET [...] (C) Summary: First Deputy Foreign Minister Volodymyr Ohryzko told Kiev-based diplomats May 12 that the May 4 second meeting of the Ukraine-Russia sub-commission on the Russian Black Sea Fleet made no progress. The Ukrainians have asked to conduct a joint inventory of real property occupied a [...] |
2006-05-17 15:39:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PINR RS UP |
| 06KIEV1913 |
UKRAINE: FORMER NSDC SECRETARY KINAKH ON [...] (C) Summary: In Ambassador's May 17 farewell call on outgoing National Secretary and Defense Council Secretary Anatoliy Kinakh, who has resigned in order to take up a seat in the new parliament (Rada), Kinakh detailed Ukrainian thinking on Transnistria, Belarus, and the deteriorating Ukraine- [...] |
2006-05-17 15:53:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM UP |
| 06KIEV1921 |
MTAG/UKRAINE: UKRAINIAN EXPORT ACTIVITY TO IRAN [...] (S) Stressing the importance of this issue, Ambassador passed ref A talking points to Foreign Minister Borys Tarasyuk during his May 17 farewell call. Tarasyuk said he would pass the information to the relevant officials in his ministry and pay personal attention to the preparation of a respo [...] |
2006-05-18 13:01:00 | Embassy Kyiv | SECRET | PARM PREL ETTC MTCRE MNUC IR UP |
| 06KIEV1937 |
UKRAINE: DEFENSE MINISTER ON COALITION TALKS, [...] (C) Summary: Defense Minister Hrytsenko opined to Ambassador May 18 that Orange coalition prospects were growing as President Yushchenko was resigning himself to ex-Prime Minister Yuliya Tymoshenko's return to the prime ministership. He agreed with Ambassador's listing of honest government o [...] |
2006-05-19 12:09:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PARM MARR NATO BO UP |
| 06KIEV1940 |
UKRAINE: KINAKH AND FM TARASYUK ON COALITION [...] (C) Summary: In Ambassadorial farewell calls May 17 on outgoing National Security Defense Council (NSDC) Secretary Anatoliy Kinakh and Foreign Minister Borys Tarasyuk, Kinakh and Tarasyuk, both of whom lead minor parties that contested the March 26 elections as part of President Yushchenko's O [...] |
2006-05-19 12:13:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM UP |
| 06KIEV1992 |
UKRAINE: FAREWELL CALL ON PM-HOPEFUL TYMOSHENKO ON [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador paid his farewell call on PM-aspirant Yuliya Tymoshenko May 24, the day prior to the opening of the new parliament (Rada) May 25. Tymoshenko said she and her team had stayed up "all night" analyzing the completely new coalition proposal Our Ukraine (OU) had sprung on [...] |
2006-05-24 14:49:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 06KIEV1994 |
UKRAINE: KRAMER-WOOD 5/22 MEETING WITH FORMER [...] (C) In a May 22 meeting with visiting EUR DAS David Kramer, OVP Deputy NSA Joseph Wood, and Ambassador, former State Secretary Oleksandr Zinchenko stressed that Ukraine's next prime minister should be a politically independent technocrat -- not a politician. Zinchenko had advised President Yu [...] |
2006-05-24 15:13:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR SOCI ECON PREL UP RS |
| 06KIEV1995 |
UKRAINE: DARFUR PEACE AGREEMENT DEMARCHE [...] (C) Ambassador delivered reftel talking points on the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA) to Foreign Minister Borys Tarasyuk during a May 17 farewell call. Tarasyuk promised to review the issue carefully and to pay personal attention to it. He observed that the current Ukrainian government had been [...] |
2006-05-24 15:15:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID PHUM SOCI SU UP |
| 06KIEV1996 |
UKRAINE: AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL CALL ON EX-PM [...] (C) During Ambassador's May 23 farewell call, Party of Regions chief Viktor Yanukovych said he bore Ambassador "no ill will" over the events of the Orange Revolution, commenting that the two had "worked well together." Yanukovych spoke in great detail about his "problems with the law," explain [...] |
2006-05-24 15:17:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR SOCI UP |
| 06KIEV2038 |
UKRAINE: EUR DAS KRAMER AND OVP DNSA WOOD'S 5/23 [...] (C) In a lengthy May 23 discussion with Ambassador, EUR DAS David Kramer, and OVP Deputy NSA Joseph Wood, Our Ukraine's (OU) lead negotiator in the coalition formation talks predicted that an "Orange variant" would soon prevail and that a new government would be in place by mid-July. The new [...] |
2006-05-26 08:45:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR SOCI UP |
| 06KIEV2039 |
UKRAINE: DEFENSE MINISTER GETS AHEAD OF FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary: In a May 22 meeting with EUR DAS Kramer, Foreign Minister Tarasyuk said a meeting of the presidents of Ukraine and Belarus might be possible if Belarus were to make favorable decisions on issues of importance to Ukraine. Tarasyuk added that the Ukrainian government was preparing t [...] |
2006-05-26 08:45:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PHUM EAID NATO MARR PINR BO UP |
| 06KIEV2065 |
UKRAINE/TRANSNISTRIA: FM TARASYUK'S FRUSTRATION [...] (C) Summary: In a May 22 meeting with EUR DAS Kramer, Foreign Minister Tarasyuk said Russia was reinforcing Transnistrian leader Smirnov's resistance to procedures required under the Ukraine-Moldova customs agreement. Furthermore, the Russians were refusing to agree to join a five-plus-two me [...] |
2006-05-26 16:05:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM OSCE PINR RS MD UP |
| 06KIEV2068 |
UKRAINE/GUAM: U.S.-GUAM BILATERAL MEETING [...] (U) Summary: The U.S. delegation of EUR DAS Kramer and Vice-Presidential Deputy National Security Adviser Wood met with GUAM (Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Moldova) representatives May 22. GUAM representatives favorably noted strong U.S.-GUAM past and present cooperation. Kramer congratulat [...] |
2006-05-30 07:38:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM ETRD EAID AORC UNMIK PINR YI AZ GG |
| 06KIEV2123 |
UKRAINE: GOVERNMENT'S POINT MAN ON RELIGION OFFERS [...] (SBU) The Ukrainian government's point man on religious issues, the State Department for Religious Issues (SDRI) chief Ihor Bondarchuk, told us June 1 that, for a variety of reasons, he had tendered his resignation. Bondarchuk criticized the Yushchenko administration's "unprofessional" handli [...] |
2006-06-01 14:54:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PINR SOCI SCUL KIRF UP |
| 06KIEV2124 |
UKRAINE SUPPORTS U.S. INITIATIVE ON IRAN [...] (C) Charge delivered reftel demarche to Deputy Foreign Minister Volodomyr Khandohiy May 31. Khandohiy said he had watched Secretary Rice's press conference on television; this was clearly a very important initiative. He promised to convey our message to the Foreign Minister and to look into [...] |
2006-06-01 14:59:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM ENRG MNUC IR UP |
| 06KIEV2166 |
UKRAINE: CODEL BLUNT'S 5/29 MEETING WITH PRESIDENT [...] (SBU) During a May 29 meeting with CODEL Blunt, President Yushchenko characterized Ukraine's economic growth as "strong" and predicted that a new Orange coalition government would be formed "in a couple of days." Negotiations over top leadership positions had begun May 29 and should be complet [...] |
2006-06-05 09:55:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP PGOV PHUM PINR SOCI PREL ECON CASC KOCI |
| 06KIEV2190 |
UKRAINE: OPPOSITION CREATES TEMPEST OVER "SEA [...] (SBU) Summary: Anti-Orange Revolution forces are using the occasion of a joint U.S.-Ukraine mil-mil cooperative exercise in Crimea to stir up anti-NATO sentiment in the majority ethnic Russian peninsula and smear the Ukrainian government. Demonstrators outside GOU-administered compounds in t [...] |
2006-06-06 16:43:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR NATO PINR RS UP |
| 06KIEV2207 |
UKRAINE: QUICK GOU FIX TO "SEA BREEZE" LIMBO [...] (C) Summary: The Ukrainian parliament (Rada) resumed June 7 and, without addressing the issue of foreign military participation in joint exercises in Ukraine, ended its session almost immediately, adjourning until June 14. A possible special session of the Rada could come before June 14, but [...] |
2006-06-07 17:38:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MARR PREL NATO PINR UP |
| 06KIEV2208 |
UKRAINE: RADA CONVENES, COALITION FORMATION GETS [...] (C) Nearly 11 weeks after national parliamentary and local elections, Ukraine remains without a Rada majority coalition. A June 7 Rada session opened and closed quickly, with 227 Orange MPs voting to adjourn until June 14. Deputies from the Party of Regions and the Communist Party stayed on t [...] |
2006-06-07 17:44:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PINR SOCI SCUL MARR UP |
| 06KIEV2246 |
UKRAINE: EXTRAORDINARY RADA SESSION UNLIKELY [...] (SBU) The Rada's five-member Provisional Presidium on June 8 voted down a motion by 176 opposition MPs to hold a special Rada session that would likely have focused on the situation in Crimea (reftels). The three "Orange" presidium members, who voted "no," dismissed the opposition's appeal as [...] |
2006-06-08 15:57:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR SOCI MARR UP |
| 06KIEV2247 |
UKRAINE: SEA BREEZE JUNE 8 UPDATE [...] (C) Summary: Defense Minister Hrytsenko defended his ministry's preparations for the U.S.-Ukraine bilateral military exercise Sea Breeze and determined, with the UK Embassy Defense Attache, that the joint Ukraine-UK Lone Knot exercise would need to be cancelled. Parliament's provisional pres [...] |
2006-06-08 16:11:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MARR PREL NATO PINR UP |
| 06KIEV2278 |
UKRAINE: ENCOURAGING GREATER SUPPORT TO BELARUSAN [...] (C) Summary: During a June 8 meeting with DFM Khandohiy, U.S. Ambassador to Belarus Krol encouraged Ukraine to develop contacts with Belarus at a level below cabinet minister and suggested that Ukraine could use such contacts to promote more responsible Belarusan government behavior. He also [...] |
2006-06-09 15:26:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR BO UP |
| 06KIEV2281 |
UKRAINE: TYMOSHENKO SAYS COALITION TALKS ARE [...] (C) Yuliya Tymoshenko told DCM on June 12 that talks on forming an Orange coalition were deadlocked over Socialist Party leader Oleksander Moroz' insistence on being made Rada Speaker. Tymoshenko had tried to reason with Moroz, but he was dug in, knowing that this would be his "political swan [...] |
2006-06-12 20:33:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PINR SOCI PREL RS UP |
| 06KIEV2293 |
UKRAINE: FINANCE MINISTER ON TAXES, BUDGET, AND [...] (U) This message contains a guidance request, see paragraph 9. 2. (C) Summary. In a June 6 meeting with DCM, Minister of Finance Viktor Pynzenyk discussed his concerns about budget performance and energy supplies. He denied the Ministry of Finance had asked the State Tax Administration to [...] |
2006-06-13 14:55:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN EPET UP |
| 06KIEV2296 |
UKRAINE: WHAT MAY HAPPEN AT WEDNESDAY'S (JUNE 14) [...] (C) With no Orange coalition formed as of 1800 local time, two aides to senior Orange politicians have told us that the Party of Regions may essentially take charge of the coalition formation process at the June 14 Rada session. According to our interlocutors, Communist MP Martynyuk, who is sl [...] |
2006-06-13 16:04:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR SOCI UP |
| 06KIEV2297 |
UKRAINE: FM TARASYUK ON COALITION NEGOTIATIONS, [...] (C) Summary: During Ambassador's June 13 presentation of a copy of his credentials, Foreign Minister Tarasyuk said President Yushchenko's Our Ukraine bloc could not accept Socialist Party of Ukraine leader Moroz as parliamentary speaker, despite Moroz' insistence that this was his condition f [...] |
2006-06-13 16:09:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR AMGT PGOV PINR UP |
| 06KIEV2316 |
UKRAINE: AT THE RADA, SIGNS OF AN ORANGE-BLUE [...] (C) At the June 14 parliament (Rada) session, Socialist Party leader Oleksandr Moroz attempted to revive talks to form an Orange coalition by dropping his demand to become Rada Speaker. In return, he asked Our Ukraine (OU) to divide all government posts, down to district chiefs, among the Ora [...] |
2006-06-14 15:57:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR SOCI MARR UP |
| 06KIEV2329 |
UKRAINE: AT THE RADA, PARTY OF REGIONS UPBEAT [...] (C) The action at the June 15 Rada session was not at the rostrum, but on the floor and in the hallways, where Party of Regions leader Viktor Yanukovych shook hands, slapped backs and assured reporters that Regions would sign a coalition agreement on June 20 -- when the Rada reconvenes. Our U [...] |
2006-06-15 15:25:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR SOCI MARR UP |
| 06KIEV2331 |
UKRAINE: OUR UKRAINE INSIDER ZVARYCH ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Our Ukraine (OU) negotiator Roman Zvarych updated DCM June 14 regarding ongoing OU-Party of Regions talks on forming a Rada (parliament) majority coalition, trying to put a positive spin on OU's possible about-face. An Orange-Blue coalition could be in place by June 20, since dif [...] |
2006-06-15 15:55:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM SOCI MARR ETRD UP |
| 06KIEV2358 |
UKRAINE/ROMANIA/BLACK SEA FORUM: FRIENDLY [...] (SBU) Summary: Ukraine and Romania have enjoyed markedly warmer relations post-Orange Revolution, according to Romanian Embassy counselor Stanciu, with Romanian President Basescu visiting Kiev three times. MFA Romania desk officer Popyk told us three areas continued to be irritants in the bi [...] |
2006-06-16 15:04:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS ETRD SENV KDEM RO UP |
| 06KIEV2359 |
UKRAINE: ORANGE-BLUE COALITION TALKS ALLEGEDLY [...] (C) A coalition agreement between the Party of Regions and Our Ukraine (OU) could be reached tonight (June 16), according to Regions MP and de facto shadow foreign minister Leonid Kozhara. In a conversation with DCM, Kozhara dismissed OU's public distinction between "consultations" and "negot [...] |
2006-06-16 16:54:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR SOCI MARR UP |
| 06KIEV2403 |
UKRAINE: ANOTHER RADA SESSION ENDS WITHOUT A [...] (C) The Rada (parliament) held two short sessions June 20 but adjourned until June 21 without forming a majority coalition. Before the morning session, Our Ukraine (OU) MP Roman Zvayrch claimed to us that talks with OU's Orange partners were deadlocked over Yuliya Tymoshenko's refusal to acce [...] |
2006-06-20 15:58:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR SOCI MARR UP |
| 06KIEV2436 |
UKRAINE: ORANGE COALITION DEAL "UNDER THREAT" - OR [...] (C) Ukraine's coalition drama continued June 21, inching closer to an Orange Coalition, but also featuring a potential obstacle -- Petro Poroshenko as Our Ukraine's Rada Speaker nominee -- that could possibly cause the deal to unravel or create discord in the months to come. The Rada met brief [...] |
2006-06-21 15:26:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR SOCI UP |
| 06KIEV2451 |
UKRAINE: BILATERAL NONPROLIFERATION WORKING GROUP: [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 4. 2. (U) In a letter dated June 19, received by the Embassy June 22, MFA Arms Control and Military-Technical Cooperation Department Director Volodymyr Belashov transmitted the Government of Ukraine (GOU)'s proposed agenda for the July 11-12 U.S.-Ukr [...] |
2006-06-22 12:33:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA TSPA PINR UP |
| 06KIEV2452 |
UKRAINE: PROGRESS ON SCUDS INVENTORY BY JULY NPWG [...] (S) We delivered reftel's talking points on the need for a SCUDS inventory and a proposed timeline for a USG assessment team visit June 22 to MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Counselor Serhiy Kucherenko. Kucherenko noted the topic had been raised in a recent meeting between [...] |
2006-06-22 12:36:00 | Embassy Kyiv | SECRET | ETTC PARM PREL MTCRE MNUC UP |
| 06KIEV2453 |
UKRAINE: YEMENI ARMS BROKERS SEEKING [...] (S) We delivered reftel's talking points with information on Yemeni arms brokers efforts to obtain weapons and ammunition June 22 to MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Counselor Serhiy Kucherenko. Kucherenko said he would relay the information to other Ukrainian government of [...] |
2006-06-22 13:01:00 | Embassy Kyiv | SECRET | ETTC PARM PREL YM UP |
| 06KIEV2461 |
UKRAINE: COALITION OF DEMOCRATIC FORCES FINALLY [...] (C) Nearly three months after the March 26 elections, Yuliya Tymoshenko's Bloc (BYuT), Our Ukraine (OU), and the Socialist Party (SPU) finally created a parliamentary majority of the "Coalition of Democratic Forces" mid-day June 22 by presenting a coalition agreement with the signatures of 239 [...] |
2006-06-22 17:06:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR SOCI UP |
| 06KIEV2462 |
UKRAINE: SPURNED REGIONS VOWS TO "PAINT FENCES" [...] (C) Following the June 22 formation of parliamentary majority of the Tymoshenko Bloc (BYuT), Our Ukraine (OU), and the Socialists, the direction of the spurned Party of Regions was being taken over by party "radicals," according to moderate Regions deputy leader Volodymyr Makeyenko. Bombastic [...] |
2006-06-22 17:42:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR SOCI UP |
| 06KIEV2477 |
UKRAINE: LAUNCH OF NATO PFP TRUST FUND PROJECT FOR [...] (U) Summary: The NATO PfP Trust Fund project to eliminate MANPADS, small arms/light weapons, and excess munitions began June 20 with the ceremonial destruction of two MANPADS before an audience of government officials and media. Actual operations are expected to begin at the Shostka site in [...] |
2006-06-23 12:56:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM MARR NATO PGOV UP |
| 06KIEV2500 |
UKRAINE: REGIONS LEADER YANUKOVYCH ON NEW [...] (SBU) In a lengthy June 23 meeting with an American Jewish Committee (AJC) delegation, Party of Regions leader Viktor Yanukovych claimed that anti-Semitic violence was infrequent in Ukraine and repeated the Soviet-era canard that such violence primarily occurred in "radical" western oblasts. Y [...] |
2006-06-26 14:21:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PINR SOCI SCUL KIRF UP |
| 06KIEV2523 |
UKRAINE: YEMENI ARMS BROKERS SEEKING [...] (U) This is an action request. Please advise how to respond to MFA inquiry in para 3. 2. (S) MFA Arms Control and Military-Technical Cooperation Counselor Serhiy Kucherenko requested clarification of the following point contained in our demarche of June 22 (taken from ref B) regarding arms [...] |
2006-06-29 09:49:00 | Embassy Kyiv | SECRET | ETTC PARM PREL YM UP |
| 06KIEV2526 |
UKRAINE: FM TARASYUK ON COALITION AGREEMENT, [...] (SBU) Summary: In a June 23 meeting with the American Jewish Committee (AJC), Acting Foreign Minister Tarasyuk said Ukraine would not join moves against Israel in the new UN Council for Human Rights and undertook to examine the possibility of withdrawing Ukrainian membership in the UN Committ [...] |
2006-06-29 13:37:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL AORC KCRM PINR IZ UP |
| 06KIEV2530 |
UKRAINE: AMBASSADOR TAYLOR'S FIRST MEETING WITH [...] (C) In his first meeting with Ambassador Taylor, Party of Regions leader Viktor Yanukovych criticized President Yushchenko for caving in to USG pressure to spurn Regions and bless the formation of an Orange coalition. The Orange team was deeply divided and may not even be able to get its cand [...] |
2006-06-29 17:15:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR SOCI MARR ECON PREL RS UP |
| 06KIEV2589 |
UKRAINE: BILATERAL NONPROLIFERATION WORKING GROUP [...] (S) We delivered USG response (ref A) July 5 to the Ukrainian government's (GOU) proposed agenda for the July 11-12 nonproliferation working group (NPWG) meetings to MFA Arms Control and Military-Technical Cooperation Counselor Serhiy Kucherenko. Kucherenko nodded understanding when we highli [...] |
2006-07-05 15:06:00 | Embassy Kyiv | SECRET | PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA TSPA PINR UK PL UP |
| 06KIEV2590 |
UKRAINE: ACTING NSDC SECRETARY ON ENERGY, RUSSIA [...] (C) Summary: In a free-wheeling conversation during Ambassador's July 3 introductory call, Acting National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) Secretary Volodomyr Horbulin focused on Russia and Russia's manifold impact on Ukraine. In contrast to its obvious behavior during the 2004 president [...] |
2006-07-05 15:18:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG EPET ETRD MARR PGOV NATO RS UP |
| 06KIEV2651 |
UKRAINE: MOROZ AS SPEAKER; [...] (SBU) Summary: In a maneuver which stunned Our Ukraine (OU) and Tymoshenko Bloc (BYuT) only hours after they had reached agreement with Party of Regions on a division of responsibilities between the majority and opposition forces in the Rada (parliament) to end Regions' 10-day blockade of the [...] |
2006-07-07 15:24:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM UP |
| 06KIEV2678 |
UKRAINE: ORANGE OPTIONS IN THE WAKE OF THE [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador met with Presidential Chief of Staff Rybachuk, former PM Tymoshenko, Our Ukraine (OU) Party leaders Roman Bezsmertny and Roman Zvarych, and OU Political Council member and former National Security and Defense Council Secretary Anatoliy Kinakh July 8 and Acting Foreign M [...] |
2006-07-10 17:45:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 06KIEV2855 |
UKRAINE: THE POLITICAL CHESS GAME: VIEWS FROM THE [...] (C) Summary. Conversations with key deputy party leaders from Our Ukraine (OU), Regions, and the Socialists over the week of July 17-21 revealed a complicated political chess game underway in Ukrainian politics. Regions' Volodymyr Makeyenko and Socialists Mykola Rudkovsky and Yaroslav Mendus [...] |
2006-07-21 15:37:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM UP |
| 06KIEV2900 |
UKRAINE: WAYS OUT OF THE POLITICAL IMPASSE: FOUR [...] (C) Summary: With the window for a Presidential decision to disband the Rada now open and the "Anti-Crisis Coalition" nomination of Viktor Yanukovych for PM on his desk, Yushchenko and Ukraine face four scenarios: accept Yanukovych as PM; reject Yanukovych's nomination but not dissolve the Rad [...] |
2006-07-25 15:29:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV UP |
| 06KIEV2932 |
UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO-LED ROUNDTABLE POINTS TOWARD [...] (SBU) Summary. President Yushchenko moderated an extraordinary six-hour marathon roundtable July 27 involving all Ukrainian political leaders and additional eminent figures to discuss a way out of the current political impasse. Yushchenko ended the session at 10 pm with a plea for the parti [...] |
2006-07-28 08:49:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM UP |
| 06KIEV2962 |
UKRAINE: DAS KRAMER'S NATO-RELATED DISCUSSIONS [...] (C) Summary. Ukraine's relations with NATO in the context of ongoing domestic political roundtable discussions and fading chances for a Membership Action Plan (MAP) invitation at the Riga Summit were discussed in EUR Deputy Assistant Secretary (DAS) David Kramer's July 28 meetings with Actin [...] |
2006-07-31 14:45:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM UP |
| 06KIEV2964 |
UKRAINE/MOLDOVA/TRANSNISTRIA: EUR DAS KRAMER URGES [...] (C) Summary: In July 28 meetings with Party of Regions leader Viktor Yanukovych, Socialist Party leader Oleksandr Moroz, and Deputy Foreign Minister (and special negotiator on Transnistria Issues) Andriy Veselovsky, EUR DAS David Kramer praised Ukraine's leadership in resolving problems arisin [...] |
2006-07-31 14:47:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS OSCE PINR RO MD UP |
| 06KIEV3021 |
UKRAINE: FOLLOW UP ON MANPADS COUNTERMEASURES [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 6 2. (S) We met August 1 with Defense Minister First Assistant Oleksiy Melnyk regarding next steps on MANPADS countermeasures development, as agreed during our July 14 meeting with Melnyk and other Ukrainian officials (ref A). Melnyk said he had repo [...] |
2006-08-03 13:03:00 | Embassy Kyiv | SECRET | MARR MOPS PREL PARM NATO PINR US UP |
| 06KIEV3029 |
UKRAINE: TALE OF TWO VIKTORS: YUSHCHENKO NOMINATES [...] (C) Summary. In another last minute decision crucial to the political future of Ukraine, President Viktor Yushchenko initiated the procedures required for dissolution of the Rada (parliament) August 2, only to agree in the middle of the night instead to endorse Regions' leader Viktor Yanukovyc [...] |
2006-08-04 06:46:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM UP |
| 06KIEV3041 |
UKRAINE: FOREIGN POLICY OF A REGIONS-LED GOVERNMENT [...] (C) Summary: In an August 3 meeting, parliamentary deputy and Party of Regions foreign-policy expert Kozhara was sketchy on the details of how a Regions-led government might modify Ukraine's foreign policy approaches. He affirmed that Regions would work to pass WTO-related legislation, but al [...] |
2006-08-04 14:28:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ETRD WTO NATO OREP PINR RS UP |
| 06KIEV3128 |
UKRAINE: ENERGY MINISTERS ON NEW GOVERNMENT'S [...] (C) Summary. In August 10 meetings with Ambassador, Deputy Prime Minister Andriy Kluyev and Minister of Fuels and Energy Yuriy Boyko made clear that the new GOU was determined to reach a good outcome in dealings with Russia and Turkmenistan on natural gas supplies. Boyko was confident that [...] |
2006-08-11 13:27:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET ENRG PREL PGOV PBIO RS TX UP |
| 06KIEV3129 |
UKRAINE: FIRST DEPUTY PM AZAROV COMMITTED TO WTO [...] (C) Summary: First Deputy PM and Finance Minister Azarov told the Ambassador that by the end of 2006, Ukraine would join the WTO. He pledged that the government would have a careful and well-balanced policy in place to deal with Ukraine's large negative trade balance. On the energy situati [...] |
2006-08-11 13:45:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ECON EFIN MCC UP |
| 06KIEV3130 |
UKRAINE: PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE? "ORANGE" MINISTERS [...] (C) Summary. Interior Minister Yuri Lutsenko, who repeatedly vowed publicly in July that he would never serve under Viktor Yanukovych, revealed his continuing ambivalence in an August 11 press conference to explain why he had remained Interior Minister in Yanukovych's government, stating that [...] |
2006-08-11 14:41:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM UP |
| 06KIEV3185 |
UKRAINE: POSSIBLE CONTRIBUTIONS TO UNIFIL FACE [...] (C) Summary. The Government of Ukraine (GOU) is actively considering what contribution Ukraine might offer to the expanded UNIFIL mission and has conducted consultations in New York with UN Assistant Secretary General for Peacekeeping Operations Annabi but faces an August 17 deadline from UN [...] |
2006-08-16 14:23:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PREL LE UP |
| 06KIEV3256 |
(C) UKRAINE: DELIVERY OF DEMARCHE ON U.S. CONCERNS [...] No summary [...] |
2006-08-21 14:03:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNHRC UP |
| 06KIEV333 |
UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO DISCUSSES ENERGY, RUSSIA, [...] (C) Summary: In a January 23 meeting with EUR Assistant Secretary Fried, EB Assistant Secretary Wayne, Assistant SIPDIS Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy Flory, SIPDIS NSC Director Wilson, and Ambassador, President Yushchenko Yushchenko said energy issues were at the [...] |
2006-01-25 15:07:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG EPET ETRD MARR MCAP RS UP |
| 06KIEV3332 |
UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO'S INDEPENDENCE DAY SPEECH [...] (C) Summary. During subdued Independence Day celebrations August 24, President Yushchenko stressed that the western-focussed policies adopted after the Orange Revolution (i.e., pursuing EU and NATO membership) would be continued by Ukraine's new government led by Viktor Yanukovych that he des [...] |
2006-08-29 10:58:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR KDEM PHUM MARR UP |
| 06KIEV335 |
UKRAINE: YANUKOVYCH DISCUSSES GAS DEAL, RELATIONS [...] (C) Summary: In a January 24 meeting with opposition Party of Regions leader Viktor Yanukovych and Rada Deputy Taras Chornovil, EUR A/S Fried told Yanukovych the U.S. supported Ukraine and would work with whatever democratically-elected government the people of Ukraine chose. The U.S. would [...] |
2006-01-26 08:12:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR KDEM ETRD ENRG EPET UP WTO |
| 06KIEV336 |
UKRAINE: BILATERAL COORDINATION GROUP TALKS: NATO, [...] (C) Summary: In Bilateral Coordination Group talks January 24, ASD/ISP Flory and EUR A/S Fried noted U.S. support for Ukraine's NATO aspirations, but emphasized the importance of Ukraine demonstrating that it shared the political, economic, and social values required to meet the performance-b [...] |
2006-01-26 08:12:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PINR YI IZ MD BO UP OSCE NATO |
| 06KIEV337 |
UKRAINE: OUR UKRAINE'S BEZSMERTNY ON WHY THE [...] (C) Summary: In a January 19 meeting with Ambassador, Roman Bezsmertny, campaign chief for President Yushchenko's party People's Union Our Ukraine, spun the January 4 Ukraine-Russia gas agreement as an advantageous deal for Ukraine. On a macro level, the higher prices would force necessary r [...] |
2006-01-26 08:14:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG EPET PREL PGOV RS UP |
| 06KIEV3370 |
UKRAINE: MTCR PROPOSALS WITH SUPPLEMENTAL [...] (C-Rel to MTCR) On August 31, we provided MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Counselor Serhiy Kucherenko with the texts contained reftels of U.S. proposals for the October 2-6 MTCR Plenary Meeting in Copenhagen. Kucherenko thanked us for the information but had no substantive [...] |
2006-08-31 14:26:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | MTCRE ETTC PARM MNUC KSCA TSPA FR UP |
| 06KIEV3371 |
UKRAINE: SCENESETTER FOR A/S FRIED'S SEPT 6-7 [...] (C) Summary: Your visit comes at a critical moment in Ukraine's post-Orange Revolution political development. While the primary gains of the Orange Revolution in societal attitudes, freedom of the press, and foreign and security policy remain, the orange-dominated political season is definiti [...] |
2006-08-31 15:01:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM ETRD ENRG UP |
| 06KIEV340 |
Ukraine: Bilateral Coordination Group Talks: [...] (U) In Bilateral Coordination Group talks January 24 (see septels for other issues discussed), the U.S. side pointed out that progress in combating trafficking in persons (TIP) was important not only because it protected Ukrainian citizens, but also because Ukraine was currently on the Tier Tw [...] |
2006-01-26 09:59:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV KCRM SMIG KFRD PREF ELAB KWMN UP |
| 06KIEV341 |
UKRAINE: BILATERAL COORDINATION GROUP TALKS: [...] (SBU) During Bilateral Coordination Group talks January 24, the U.S. side raised the year-long inability of the Embassy to dispatch diplomatic pouches by air given a Ukrainian law requiring x-ray inspection. 2. (SBU) As Acting Chair for the U.S. side, EB A/S Tony Wayne noted that the Ukrain [...] |
2006-01-26 10:26:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMGT ADPM ADCO PREL KREC ASEC KRIM UP |
| 06KIEV3425 |
UKRAINE: ORANGE VS BLUE CASE STUDY: THE STRUGGLE [...] (C) Summary. The political struggle between Orange and Blue to define policy and make decisions in a government of uneasy cohabitation will unfold in the coming weeks and months on an issue by issue basis, particularly in areas and ministries currently controlled by "Orange" Ministers loyal t [...] |
2006-09-06 12:49:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM UP |
| 06KIEV346 |
UKRAINE: GOU TELLS A/S WAYNE OF CONTINUED IPR [...] (U) SUMMARY: Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs E. Anthony Wayne met on January 24 with Acting Minister of Education and Science Borys Zhebrovskiy and other GOU officials involved in intellectual property (IPR) rights protection. A/S Wayne told the officials that, [...] |
2006-01-26 13:22:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON KIPR ETRD UP |
| 06KIEV3463 |
UKRAINE: A/S FRIED AND PM YANUKOVYCH DISCUSS NATO, [...] (C) Summary: Assistant Secretary Fried highlighted USG willingness to work with PM Yanukovych's government and our belief that Ukraine needed to move at a speed it sets towards NATO membership. Fried also stressed the importance of Ukraine developing as an open, democratic, prosperous societ [...] |
2006-09-08 15:37:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON ENRG PGOV NATO UP |
| 06KIEV3464 |
UKRAINE: EUR A/S FRIED VISIT: THE FOREIGN POLICY [...] (C) Summary: While acknowledging PM Yanukovych's inevitable influence in shaping Ukrainian foreign policy, FM Tarasyuk asserted to EUR A/S Fried during their September 6 dinner that President Yushchenko could still maintain his primacy on foreign policy, as established in the Constitution, b [...] |
2006-09-08 15:57:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS MD GG PL UP |
| 06KIEV3489 |
UKRAINE: PRESIDENT YUSHCHENKO FOCUSED ON A NATO [...] (C) Summary: President Yushchenko told the Ambassador that NATO membership was an internal question for the country, but that he was working with PM Yanukovych to make a good case for a MAP during his September 14 visit to Brussels. On energy, if Ukraine could liberalize and diversify the s [...] |
2006-09-11 14:36:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM ECON ENRG UP |
| 06KIEV3532 |
UKRAINE: MFA OFFICIAL WORRIES THAT KOSOVO [...] (C) Polcouns updated MFA Acting Director General for Political Affairs Olexander Tsvietkov September 12 on the situation with respect to Kosovo, drawing on information from ref b. Knowing that the situation in Kosovo was to be discussed, Tsvietkov presented us with a non-paper, text in para 4 [...] |
2006-09-14 14:39:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS KDEM UNMIK PGOV UN YI MD UP |
| 06KIEV3552 |
UKRAINE: A/S FRIED'S DISCUSSIONS OF ECONOMIC [...] (C) Summary: Speaker of Parliament Moroz told A/S Fried the parliament (Rada) had begun work on remaining WTO legislation, but notably made no predictions about when it would pass. Opposition leader Tymoshenko, on the other hand, expected Yanukovych's government to significantly slow down th [...] |
2006-09-18 12:45:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ENRG EPET UP |
| 06KIEV3553 |
UKRAINE: EUR A/S FRIED'S NATO-RELATED DISCUSSIONS [...] (C) Summary. Ukraine-NATO relations was a primary theme in EUR Assistant Secretary Fried's meetings September 6-7 with FM Borys Tarasyuk, Defense Minister Anatoliy Hrytsenko, and PM Viktor Yanukovych. Holdover "orange" Ministers Tarasyuk and Hrytsenko have been the two staunchest advocates [...] |
2006-09-18 12:46:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM UP |
| 06KIEV3569 |
UKRAINE: PM YANUKOVYCH ADVANCES RELATIONS WITH EU [...] (C) Summary: While media attention had focused on PM Yanukovych's comments regarding a NATO Membership Action Plan during his September 14 visit to Brussels, MFA European Union Department acting director Dir argued that Yanukovych had made significant statements and substantial progress on EU [...] |
2006-09-18 14:58:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECIN ETRD EPET EUN UP |
| 06KIEV3570 |
UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO MIFFED ON MAP? KIEV'S REACTION [...] (SBU) Summary. Despite the positive dynamics of PM Yanukovych's September 14 visit to NATO HQ (ref A), Yanukovych's declaration that Ukraine was not ready for a Membership Action Plan (MAP) drew swift public complaints from FM Tarasyuk and Defense Minister Hrytsenko September 15, followed by [...] |
2006-09-18 15:04:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM UP |
| 06KIEV363 |
UKRAINE: PSI SHIPBOARDING NEGOTIATIONS - U.S. [...] (SBU) We provided the U.S. response to Ukrainian views on the draft text of the PSI Shipboarding Agreement, with accompanying Ukrainian language translation, to MFA Arms Control Department Counselor Ruslan Nymchynsky January 27. Nymchynsky promised to study our views, provided in the form of n [...] |
2006-01-27 14:47:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP MNUC PARM PREL UP |
| 06KIEV365 |
UKRAINE/TRANSNISTRIA: MFA DEFENDS DELAY IN CUSTOMS [...] (C) Summary: Briefing EU/G7 representatives January 27, Deputy Foreign Minister Veselovsky claimed the Ukrainian government had delayed implementation of the May 15, 2003, customs protocol with Moldova because the GOM's implementation of simplified registration procedures for Transnistrian bu [...] |
2006-01-27 15:19:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PARM PINR MD UP OSCE |
| 06KIEV367 |
UKRAINE: WHO ARE THE PEACEMAKERS? BUILDING [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: The public political posturing about potential post-election coalitions kicked off in earnest January 24 with President Yushchenko's party Our Ukraine releasing a letter calling for the forces of the Maidan -- Our Ukraine, Tymoshenko's bloc (BYuT), Moroz' Socialists [...] |
2006-01-27 17:03:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM UP |
| 06KIEV3672 |
UKRAINE/MTCR: VENEZUELA ARMS SALES POLICY BRIEFED, [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 5. 2. (S) On September 22, we relayed ref A points on changes in USG policy regarding arms sales to Venezuela and MTCR papers in other reftels to MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Department Counselors Igor Kyzym and Oles Belakoles [...] |
2006-09-22 13:54:00 | Embassy Kyiv | SECRET | PREL ETTC MTCRE PARM MNUC KSCA TSPA FR DA KN |
| 06KIEV3674 |
UKRAINE: NEW PRESIDENTIAL CHIEF OF STAFF READY TO [...] (C) Summary: Newly-appointed head of the Presidential Administration Viktor Baloha told the Ambassador September 19 that he was ready to engage with the U.S. to ensure that the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Threshold Anti-Corruption Project was a success and was eager to get started [...] |
2006-09-22 14:12:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UP |
| 06KIEV368 |
UKRAINE: BILATERAL COORDINATION GROUP TALKS: [...] (SBU) Summary: In the final session of the January 24 Bilateral Coordination Group talks, the Ukrainian side reviewed GOU judicial reform and anti-corruption efforts and pledged to respond soon to OPIC's urgent request for resolution of the issues stemming from OPIC's payment of a $17-million [...] |
2006-01-28 08:08:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV PREL KCRM UP |
| 06KIEV3710 |
UKRAINE: OFFICIALS DENY THAT KOLCHUGAS SOLD TO IRAN [...] (U) The Jane's Defense Weekly, dated September 27, 2006, carried a story, strangely datelined Bangkok, reporting that Ukraine had recently delivered or was imminently preparing to deliver an unknown number of Kolchuga systems to Iran for an estimated price of USD25 million per system. As accur [...] |
2006-09-26 14:32:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL ETTC PINR IR UP |
| 06KIEV374 |
UKRAINE: BILATERAL COORDINATION GROUP TALKS: TRADE [...] (SBU) Summary: In Bilateral Coordination Group (BCG) talks January 24, EB A/S E. Anthony Wayne said restoration of Ukraine's access to the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) was due to the GOU's good work on amending the optical disc law and implementing the new legislation. GOU official [...] |
2006-01-30 09:38:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON KIPR PREL UP |
| 06KIEV3750 |
UKRAINE: GOU SAYS NO EVIDENCE OF KOLCHUGA SALES TO [...] (C) We followed up September 28 with MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Department Director General Volodymyr Belashov regarding the Jane's Defense Weekly report that Ukraine had recently delivered or was imminently preparing to deliver an unknown number of Kolchuga systems to [...] |
2006-09-28 13:28:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL ETTC PINR IR UP |
| 06KIEV3751 |
UKRAINE: POTENTIAL SALE OF CIVIL AIRCRAFT TO [...] (C) On September 28, we met with MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Department Director General Volodymyr Belashov and Counselors Igor Kyzym and Oles Belakoles at Belashov's request. Belashov thanked us for the briefing on USG policy on arms transfers to Venezuela (ref A). H [...] |
2006-09-28 13:31:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM MARR MASS ETTC VE UP |
| 06KIEV3755 |
UKRAINE: ENGAGING THE NEW UKRAINIAN REALITY AFTER [...] (SBU) Note: In preparation for senior-level consideration of our Ukraine policy, this cable assesses the political and economic developments under the new government. 2. (C) Summary. 50 days after Viktor Yanukovych returned to the premiership he vacated in December 2004 in the wake of the [...] |
2006-09-28 14:18:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM ETRD KDEM UP |
| 06KIEV3758 |
UKRAINE: RADA ROLLS BACK UTILITY PRICES, BUT WILL IT [...] (SBU) Summary. The Verkhovna Rada (parliament) on September 22 overrode an April presidential veto to pass a law rolling back residential natural gas and electricity prices to January 1, 2006 levels and putting a moratorium on future increases. The law, if it comes into effect, would cancel [...] |
2006-09-29 13:30:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG PGOV PREL RS TX UP |
| 06KIEV380 |
UKRAINE: PRIME MINISTER YEKHANUROV WARNS RUSSIANS [...] (S) Summary: Ukrainian Prime Minister Yuriy Yekhanurov told Ambassador on January 28 that Russia was threatening to cut off shipments of Turkmen gas to Ukraine as early as February 1 because of the GOU's delay in implementing the January 4 agreement between Russia's GazProm and Ukraine's Naft [...] |
2006-01-30 14:39:00 | Embassy Kyiv | SECRET | EPET ENRG PGOV PREL RS UP |
| 06KIEV382 |
UKRAINE: FM TARASYUK WARNS KOSOVO INDEPENDENCE [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Borys Tarasyuk said, during a January 30 meeting with visiting Project for Transitional Democracies Head Bruce Jackson and Ambassador, that the Ukrainian government did not favor Kosovo independence. Such an outcome would destabilize the political situation in S [...] |
2006-01-30 15:08:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS KDEM PINR YI UP UNMIK OSCE |
| 06KIEV384 |
UKRAINE: INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT 2006 [...] Below is text requested reftel of the 2006 Investment Climate Statement for Ukraine. Begin Text: Investment Climate Statement 2006 -- Ukraine A.1. Openness to Foreign Investment GOVERNMENT'S ATTITUDE TOWARDS FOREIGN INVESTMENT When President Yushchenko took office in January 2005, he [...] |
2006-01-30 15:11:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV UP |
| 06KIEV386 |
UKRAINE: Gas Pipeline Technical Capabilities [...] (SBU) Summary. Post met with Ukrainian technical experts at Naftohaz and UkrTransGaz following the January 1-3 gas shut-off to learn operational aspects of the gas crisis. Interlocutors provided background on the gas system's capabilities and parameters, and in detail described on which lines [...] |
2006-01-30 15:12:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG RS UP |
| 06KIEV3862 |
UKRAINE: PM YANUKOVYCH -- DEFENDER OF THE [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych stressed with EUR DAS Kramer and Ambassador October 4 that constitutional reform had created a new governing framework in which Parliament (Rada) established government policy, and President Yushchenko together with Yanukovych and the cabinet of mi [...] |
2006-10-05 07:10:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR UP |
| 06KIEV3865 |
UKRAINE: SUPREME COURT RULES AGAINST PROPORTIONAL [...] (SBU) Summary. The Commercial Chamber of Ukraine's Supreme Court ruled on October 3 in favor of a lower court's finding that mobile phone operator KyivStar's shareholders are entitled to equal representation on the company's Board of Directors, regardless of how many company shares each share [...] |
2006-10-05 10:37:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS EINV RS UP |
| 06KIEV3866 |
UKRAINE: OUR UKRAINE MOVES INTO OPPOSITION - OR NOT [...] (C) Summary: After months of negotiations over whether or not to enter the governing coalition, President Yushchenko's Our Ukraine coalition announced October 4 that it would not join the coalition, but would formally join the opposition in parliament. OU's Roman Bezsmertniy told the press [...] |
2006-10-05 12:04:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UP |
| 06KIEV3884 |
UKRAINE OPPOSES POSSIBLE NORTH KOREAN NUCLEAR TEST [...] (C) On October 5, Ambassador passed reftel points on the USG position regarding a possible North Korean nuclear test to Presidential Deputy Chief of Staff for Foreign Policy Oleksandr Chaliy. Ambassador praised the October 4 MFA statement (see para 2) regarding a possible North Korean nuclear [...] |
2006-10-06 11:03:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM KNNP KN UP |
| 06KIEV3905 |
UKRAINE: PM YANUKOVYCH PROMISES CONTINUITY ON WTO, [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych assured EUR DAS Kramer and Ambassador October 4 that he would continue to make progress on WTO membership and European and Euro-Atlantic integration. Funding for a NATO information campaign was part of the 2007 draft budget. With the support of t [...] |
2006-10-10 16:11:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV MARR ETRD ENRG EPET OVIP PREL PINR PL |
| 06KIEV3906 |
UKRAINE: YANUKOVYCH ECONOMIC POLICY RECORD MIXED [...] (C) Summary: After eight weeks in power, the Yanukovych government's record on economic policy in a number of areas has not been as bad as some expected, nor as good as others hoped. The conventional wisdom among the foreign business community has swung from "let's give them a chance" to "dej [...] |
2006-10-10 16:16:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ETRD EFIN EINV POL PREL UP |
| 06KIEV3919 |
UKRAINE: OVERHAULING THE PRESIDENT'S MEN - [...] (C) Summary. With the appointment of Industrial Union of the Donbas (IUD) executive Vitaly Haiduk as National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) Secretary October 10, the overhaul of President Yushchenko's team which started September 16 with the appointment of Viktor Baloha as Presidential [...] |
2006-10-11 15:50:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV UP |
| 06KIEV3923 |
UKRAINE: WHAT IF FOREIGN MINISTER TARASYUK GOES? [...] (C) Summary: With rumors rife that Foreign Minister Tarasyuk will leave the Cabinet -- either by resigning with his Our Ukraine colleagues or being voted out of his job by the Rada, pundits tout current Presidential Secretariat Deputy Chief of Staff for foreign policy Oleksandr Chaliy as the l [...] |
2006-10-12 14:17:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR NATO PINR UP |
| 06KIEV3933 |
UKRAINE: Rada Reviews Natural Gas Sector; Allows Price Rise [...] (SBU) Summary. The Verkhovna Rada (parliament) reviewed on October 4 the preliminary results of its investigatory commission on NaftoHaz and the natural gas sector. The commission reported multiple instances of mismanagement, malfeasance, and possible criminal acts within state-owned oil and [...] |
2006-10-13 11:45:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG PGOV SOCI RS UP |
| 06KIEV3936 |
UKRAINE: ORANGE MINISTERS FATE UNDECIDED [...] (SBU) Summary: Rumors continue to swirl in Kiev as to the fate of the "orange" ministers in the Ukrainian Government. On October 11, an aide to Our Ukraine's Roman Bezsmertniy told us that all "orange" ministers in the Cabinet had submitted letters of resignation, later confirmed publicly by [...] |
2006-10-13 14:53:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 06KIEV398 |
Ukraine: Prosecutors Weak Link in Combating TIP [...] Summary. In trafficking in persons (TIP) criminal cases, prosecutors are the weak link in the law enforcement chain due to the negative stereotypes many prosecutors hold of TIP victims, a lack of aggressive prosecution for fear of losing a case, and the difficulty in obtaining evidence in tim [...] |
2006-01-31 15:33:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV KCRM SMIG KFRD PREF ELAB KWMN UP |
| 06KIEV400 |
UKRAINE: PRESIDENTIAL ADVISER SEES POSSIBILITIES [...] (C) Summary: During a January 31 conversation with visiting Project for Transitional Democracies President Bruce Jackson and PolOff, Presidential Security Policy Adviser and National Security Institute Chairman Volodymyr Horbulin said the electoral list of ex-PM Yanukovych's Party of Regions, [...] |
2006-01-31 16:38:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM UP |
| 06KIEV404 |
UKRAINE ADOPTIONS: YUSHCHENKO SIGNS LAW ON [...] (U) SUMMARY: On Tuesday January 31, President Yushchenko signed the law giving interim adoption authority to the National Adoption Center (NAC), clearing the way for prospective adoptive parents to process their adoptions to conclusion. The NAC has a plan in place to prioritize appointments [...] |
2006-02-01 09:52:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CASC CVIS KOCI PREL PGOV UP |
| 06KIEV406 |
UKRAINE: INL-Funded TIP Training Seminar [...] Summary: On January 23-25, Embassy Kiev and the Prosecutors' Academy of Ukraine co-sponsored a first ever training seminar on trafficking in persons (TIP) that brought more than 70 members of the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office (PGO), both prosecutors and investigators, as well as local [...] |
2006-02-01 11:38:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV KCRM SMIG KFRD PREF ELAB KWMN UP |
| 06KIEV408 |
UKRAINE: SHIFTING SANDS AND POST-ELECTION [...] (C) Summary and Comment: Conversations with Media watchdog-turned-PORA politician Serhiy Taran, website editor-turned-Tymoshenko Bloc PR director Oleh Medvedev, and independent-minded Regions MP Volodymyr Makeyenko January 25-27 provided three views on the shifting ground in Ukrainian politic [...] |
2006-02-01 12:20:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM UP |
| 06KIEV456 |
UKRAINE: OLIGARCH PINCHUK ON NIKOPOL FERROALLOY [...] (C) Summary: Oligarch Viktor Pinchuk suggested, in a February 1 conversation with visiting Project for Transitional Democracies President Bruce Jackson and PolOff, that he would not appeal his case to a European court after the Ukrainian Supreme Court refused January 20 to hear his appeal aga [...] |
2006-02-02 11:03:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | EINV PGOV |
| 06KIEV459 |
UKRAINE: EX-ORANGE COALITION TALKING DEAL, BUT [...] (C) Summary: In a February 1 meeting with Ambassador, Our Ukraine legal department head and ex-Minister of Justice Roman Zvarych indicated that President Yushchenko's party was doing increasingly well in the polls, which were showing 20-percent support for Our Ukraine, as opposed to 12-13 per [...] |
2006-02-02 12:46:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV |
| 06KIEV461 |
UKRAINE: GONGADZE CASE AND ELECTION POLITICS [...] (C) Politicians and the judge associated with the Gongadze case, wielding both implied carrots and sticks, have sought the public silence of Myroslava Gongadze -- widow of slain journalist Heorhiy Gongadze -- in the run-up to parliamentary elections in March, according to Myroslava's lawyer Val [...] |
2006-02-02 13:55:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM |
| 06KIEV471 |
UKRAINE: MOROSE MOROZ: SOCIALIST LEADER UNHAPPY [...] (C) Summary: Socialist Party Leader Olexander Moroz vented frustration with the gas deal with Russia, President Yushchenko, ex-PM Yuliya Tymoshenko, and a perceived lack of recent U.S. attention to the Socialist Party February 1 to Bruce Jackson, President, Project for Transitional Democracie [...] |
2006-02-03 12:08:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV |
| 06KIEV473 |
UKRAINE: EXTREME MAKEOVER FOR THE PARTY OF REGIONS? [...] (C) As part of an effort to transform itself its image into that of a democratic political force, Ukraine's Party of Regions -- long a haven for Donetsk-based mobsters and oligarchs -- is in the midst of an "extreme makeover." The effort enlists the help and advice of veteran K Street politic [...] |
2006-02-03 12:16:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV |
| 06KIEV477 |
UKRAINE: MFA OFFICIAL ON OSCE REFORM, PROJECT [...] (C) Summary: MFA OSCE Department Counselor Volodymyr Tolkach expressed to us January 18 the Ukrainian government's support for OSCE reform. OSCE reform should include some provision that ensures a single country cannot block an OSCE decision. At the same time, Tolkach argued, there should be [...] |
2006-02-03 15:18:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OSCE |
| 06KIEV479 |
UKRAINE: TYMOSHENKO LIEUTENANT TURCHYNOV ON GAS [...] (C) Summary: Ex-PM Tymoshenko lieutenant Oleksandr Turchynov told Ambassador February 3 that he thought the Tymoshenko Bloc (BYuT) would obtain the additional unpublicized documents related to the January 4 gas deal and the newly arranged joint venture by the end of the day; he thought the do [...] |
2006-02-03 16:23:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV |
| 06KIEV480 |
UKRAINE: LOCAL AND INTERNATIONAL OBSERVERS PREPARE [...] (SBU) Summary: In preparation for Ukraine's March 26 parliamentary elections, the independent Committee of Voters of Ukraine (CVU) and the OSCE/ODIHR Election Observation Mission recently held briefings on their findings and plans. The CVU noted that while there some abuse of administrative r [...] |
2006-02-03 16:25:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV |
| 06KIEV481 |
UKRAINE: THIRD ELECTION ROUNDTABLE [...] (SBU) Summary: At an Ambassador-hosted roundtable discussion January 25, NGO representatives felt that the recent gas and government crises could hurt ex-PM Tymoshenko in the elections. One observer expressed doubt that a Rada majority coalition would be formed after the March 26 elections, [...] |
2006-02-03 16:26:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV |
| 06KIEV483 |
UKRAINE/MOLDOVA/TRANSNISTRIA: TKACH ON CUSTOMS [...] (C) Summary: In a February 3 briefing, Ukrainian Special Envoy Tkach said the February 1 Ukraine-Moldova meeting had failed to make progress, but a second round would occur at the level of Ministers of Economy in the hope of resolving Ukraine's objections to Moldovan government registration p [...] |
2006-02-03 17:10:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL OSCI OSCE |
| 06KIEV520 |
UKRAINE: LOOKING TOWARD AND BEYOND THE MARCH [...] (C) Summary: A majority in the new Rada elected by the March 26 parliamentary elections will select a new Prime Minister, who will take the lead on forming a new Cabinet (with the exception of Defense and Foreign Ministers). Poll results have for months consistently suggested that at least t [...] |
2006-02-07 15:36:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV |
| 06KIEV521 |
UKRAINE: PROSECUTOR GENERAL SEES LIMITED ROLE IN [...] (SBU) Summary. Ambassador recommended to Prosecutor General Oleksandr Medvedko on 3 February that he create administrative divisions devoted to anti-money laundering (AML) and to fighting trafficking in persons (TIP). In both areas, Medvedko deflected blame for the low level of convictions b [...] |
2006-02-07 15:41:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN |
| 06KIEV553 |
UKRAINE: YOU TAKE THE LOW ROAD AND I'LL TAKE THE [...] (C) Summary: Circus-like farce impinged on serious statecraft at the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian Parliament) the morning of February 9. President Yushchenko delivered an hour-long "State of the Nation" address to the Rada, reviewing the accomplishments of the past year since his inauguration an [...] |
2006-02-09 16:41:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV |
| 06KIEV558 |
UKRAINE: MAJOR REFUGEE NGO ON CHECHENS, UZBEKS [...] (C) Two senior interlocutors from a major refugee-assistance NGO, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), told us February 1 that Ukrainian authorities were continuing to refoul Chechen asylum seekers in violation of international law. Our HIAS contacts warned of a surge in the number of Uzb [...] |
2006-02-10 14:40:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | NOTAG UP |
| 06KIEV565 |
DEPUTY ENERGY MINISTER PROVIDES ADDITIONAL DETAILS [...] (C) Meeting with U.S.-funded energy adviser Elkind (protect) and Econ Counselor February 8, Deputy Energy Minister Valeriy Yasyuk defended the January 4 Ukraine-Russia gas deal as the best that Ukraine could achieve at the time. He noted a framework agreement and six other agreements had been [...] |
2006-02-10 16:06:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET |
| 06KIEV574 |
Ukraine: Energizing GUAM [...] (SBU) Summary: The Foreign Ministry acknowledges GUAM (Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Moldova) is not yet a functioning regional organization, but is committed to getting Ukraine's house in order on the issue first, and then energizing GUAM. Ukraine, Moldova, and Georgia are in agreement on h [...] |
2006-02-13 13:23:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL GUAM |
| 06KIEV578 |
UKRAINE: ODESA CATHOLICS CONTEMPLATING HUNGER [...] (C) The Roman Catholic Bishop of the Odesa-Simferopol diocese, Bronislav Bernatsky, told us February 8 that "hundreds" of his parishioners will begin a hunger strike March 1 to protest what he described as "the strangulation of the Catholic Church" by the Odesa city government. The bishop cla [...] |
2006-02-13 15:29:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM |
| 06KIEV579 |
UKRAINE: SOCIALIST LEADER MOROZ ON ELECTIONS, [...] (C) Summary: In a February 13 meeting with Ambassador, Socialist Party leader Oleksandr Moroz opined that new Constitutional Court judges would not be selected until after the March 26 parliamentary elections because of concerns that the court would otherwise revisit constitutional reform. Mo [...] |
2006-02-13 15:53:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV |
| 06KIEV583 |
UKRAINE: IN THE MIDDLE OF ODESA, A PRESBYTERIAN [...] (C) Two leaders of Odesa's small Presbyterian community asserted to us February 8 that the local actors guild had enlisted political help in an effort to seize the city's historic Presbyterian church. The actors wanted to turn the church, which has just gone through a 1.2 million USD renovati [...] |
2006-02-14 07:45:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM |
| 06KIEV589 |
UKRAINE: PRE-ELECTION PROVINCIAL SNAPSHOT: [...] (SBU) Summary: The north-central province of Chernihiv offers a snapshot of the changed Ukraine and of the fluid political dynamics between the 2004 Presidential contest and the upcoming March parliamentary (Rada) and local elections. In 2004, Chernihiv witnessed heavy administrative resource [...] |
2006-02-14 13:10:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV |
| 06KIEV593 |
UKRAINE: RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR HOLDS CTAG, DISCUSSES [...] (C) Summary: Russian Ambassador Viktor Chernomyrdin told a G-8(ish: see para 2) Counter-Terrorism Action Group gathering February 13 that he assessed the terrorist threat in Ukraine as low, but the Russian government had some concern over the presence of Chechen separatists on the Crimean pen [...] |
2006-02-14 14:24:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL |
| 06KIEV604 |
UKRAINE ON THE ROAD TO NATO: A STATUS REPORT [...] (C) Summary: Ukraine's 2004 Orange Revolution revitalized Ukraine's aspirations to join Euro-Atlantic institutions such as NATO and the EU, but significant challenges in transforming the institutions, conditions, and mentalities inherited from the Soviet Union at independence in 1991 remain. [...] |
2006-02-15 13:36:00 | Embassy Kyiv | SECRET | PREL NATO |
| 06KIEV610 |
UKRAINE: WORKING TO SECURE RADA APPROVAL FOR [...] (C) Summary: In the aftermath of the February 9 failure of the Rada (parliament) to approve the measure authorizing foreign troops to participate in military exercises in Ukraine in 2006 (ref A), Defense Minister Hrytsenko asked Ambassador late February 14 to approach Party of Regions leader [...] |
2006-02-15 15:46:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV |
| 06KIEV641 |
UKRAINE: REGIONS' BOSS YANUKOVYCH ON WTO, ELECTION [...] (C) Party of Regions' leader Viktor Yanukovych told Ambassador on February 15 that Ukraine had to coordinate its WTO entry with Russia and said that President Yushchenko would be making a "huge mistake" if he formed an "Orange Coalition" with ex-PM Yuliya Tymoshenko before or after the March p [...] |
2006-02-16 15:57:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PINR ECON |
| 06KIEV656 |
UKRAINE: FOURTH ELECTION ROUNDTABLE [...] (SBU) Summary: At an Ambassador-hosted roundtable on the March 26 Rada (Parliament) and local government elections February 14, NGO representatives felt that while most voters were aware of the shift to elections based on party lists, this awareness dropped off significantly in rural areas. N [...] |
2006-02-17 14:33:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM |
| 06KIEV659 |
UKRAINE: UPDATE ON REFOULEMENT OF UZBEKS [...] (C) On February 17, Ambassador passed Foreign Minister Tarasyuk a non-paper on Ukraine's February 14 refoulement of a group of Uzbek asylum seekers. Tarasyuk said that he became aware of incident through media reports and had asked for an explanation from the Ukrainian law enforcement communi [...] |
2006-02-17 16:39:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV |
| 06KIEV713 |
UKRAINE: YANUKOVYCH STILL BITTER ABOUT THE [...] (C) As of December 2005, Yanukovych still expressed bitterness about what he saw as the December 2004 "putsch" denying him the Presidency, according to Lithuanian Embassy Political Counselor Darius Vitkauskas. Vitkauskas told us February 21 that when the Lithuanian Ambassador saw Yanukovych i [...] |
2006-02-21 14:04:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV LH |
| 06KIEV718 |
UKRAINE/GUAM: ENERGIZING GUAM MEMBER STATES [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 4. 2. (SBU) EUR/ACE FSA Director in December 2005 advised GUAM Embassy representatives that the USG would not wish to continue funding the U.S.-GUAM framework project or supporting GUAM Secretariat development unless member states themselves f [...] |
2006-02-21 16:37:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV GUAM |
| 06KIEV738 |
UKRAINE: TALES OF SEVASTOPOL, A HERO CITY [...] (C) Summary: The presence of the Russian Black Sea Fleet pervades the historic Crimean city of Sevastopol, which is one of two municipalities in Ukraine directly administered by the central government. Relations between President Yushchenko-appointed city administrator Serhiy Ivanov and the [...] |
2006-02-23 13:23:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM RS UP |
| 06KIEV743 |
UKRAINE: MFA DEFENDS DEPORTATION OF UZBEKS, LABELS [...] (S) In a written response to our February 17 non-paper about Ukraine's refoulement of a group of Uzbek asylum seekers (refs A and B), MFA asserted that the Uzbeks had been deported in accordance with domestic and international law, dismissed the Uzbeks' asylum claims as "manifestly unfounded," [...] |
2006-02-23 17:05:00 | Embassy Kyiv | SECRET | PHUM PGOV PINR SOCI PREF PREL PTER UP UZ |
| 06KIEV781 |
UKRAINE: EX-PM TYMOSHENKO ON DOMESTIC POLITICS, [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador met ex-PM Yuliya Tymoshenko February 26 to deliver concerns about her comments on a contract by U.S. company Holtec to build a nuclear waste storage facility in Ukraine (septel). The conversation turned to domestic politics and the natural gas supply/transit deal with [...] |
2006-02-27 15:55:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG RS UP |
| 06KIEV869 |
Ukraine: Submission for the 2006 TIP Report [...] (U) Embassy Kiev's responses to the 2006 TIP report questionnaire are presented below. Answers are keyed to questions in ref A. Overview (Ref A Para 21) ------------------------ 2. (SBU) (21A) Ukraine is a country of origin for internationally trafficked men, women and children. The p [...] |
2006-03-06 15:32:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM PHUM KWMN |
| 06KIEV936 |
UKRAINE: REGIONS' CONSULTANTS WARN DEFICIENCIES [...] (SBU) Summary: Party of Regions' U.S. campaign consultants Paul Manafort, Phil Griffin, and Catherine Barnes called on DCM and poloff March 10 to share Regions' concerns about election organizational problems that they feared could call the legitimacy of the March 26 election into question. M [...] |
2006-03-10 17:56:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PHUM |
| 06KIEV947 |
Ukraine: International Anticorruption and [...] (SBU) In 2004, the Ukrainian people radically changed Ukraine's political landscape by standing up for their rights and successfully demanding that the results of the Presidential election reflect their will in what was known as the "Orange Revolution." In a watershed decision that demonstrate [...] |
2006-03-13 09:39:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR KCRM |
| 06KIEV957 |
UKRAINE: USOSCE AMBASSADOR FINLEY'S VISIT TO [...] (SBU) Summary: U.S. Ambassador to the OSCE Julie Finley visited Kiev February 28-March 2 and met with OSCE, Central Election Commission (CEC), and political party representatives to get a better sense of how the run-up to the March 26 elections was proceeding. She noted repeatedly that the U [...] |
2006-03-13 18:02:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM KDEM OSCE |
| 06KIEV965 |
UKRAINE: DFM KHANDOHIY, U/S DOBRIANSKY DISCUSS FM [...] (C) Summary: In a March 3 meeting with Under Secretary Dobriansky and Ambassador, DFM Volodymyr Khandohiy pushed for a Presidential drop-by during FM Tarasyuk's March 9 meeting with the Vice President in Washington. Dobriansky and Ambassador frankly described the poor timing (in view of the u [...] |
2006-03-14 09:25:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KFLU NATO |
| 06KIEV986 |
UKRAINE: MFA ON MAUP-RELATED VISA CASE [...] (C) MFA Director General Borys Bazylevsky told Consul General March 14 that the Ukrainian Government was considering banning the entry into Ukraine of AMCIT David Duke. The move would be part of a broader GOU effort to rein in the activities of the anti-Semitic Inter-Regional Academy of Perso [...] |
2006-03-14 15:30:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PINR SOCI |
| 06KIEV987 |
UKRAINE: RADA ADDRESSES ELECTION-RELATED CONCERNS, [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 14, the Rada (parliament) addressed election-related concerns about deficiencies in Polling Station Commission (PSC) staffing and in the voters' lists voiced by Central Election Commission Chair Davydovych, NGOs, and political parties in recent days (refs A-B) by passi [...] |
2006-03-14 17:18:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM |
| 06KYIV3998 |
UKRAINE'S NATURAL GAS STORAGE: TANKS ARE FULL BUT WHO OWNS [...] (SBU) Energy Minister Yuriy Boyko announced on October 11 that Ukraine had pumped 25.5 billion cubic meters (bcm) of natural gas into its underground storage facilities. The amount, according to Boyko, was sufficient to both guarantee steady gas transit to Europe and meet increased domestic d [...] |
2006-10-18 09:20:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG PREL RS TX UP |
| 06KYIV4021 |
UKRAINE: WHO WERE THE FATHERLAND'S DEFENDERS? THE [...] (SBU) Summary. The Orthodox feast day of Pokrova (October 14), marked for centuries to honor defenders of the fatherland, occasioned three dueling marches in downtown Kyiv between elderly veterans of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (UPA) and nationalist supporters on the one hand and Communists [...] |
2006-10-18 10:23:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM ASEC UP |
| 06KYIV4028 |
UKRAINE: LIKELY GOU ABSTENTION ON UNGA VOTE ON [...] (U) On October 16 we delivered reftel demarche regarding the upcoming UNGA vote on the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples to Andriy Beshta of the MFA UN Directorate. Neither Australia nor New Zealand have an embassy in Kyiv. 2. (C) While making our points, poloff noted that th [...] |
2006-10-18 12:42:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KTIA UN UP |
| 06KYIV4062 |
UKRAINE: GUAM STATEMENT CRITICIZES RUSSIAN ACTIONS [...] (U) The Organization for Democracy and Economic Development - GUAM issued a statement dated October 16 on Russia-Georgia tension on the margins of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) Council of Foreign Ministers in Minsk. The press reported that Ukrainian delegation head First Deputy [...] |
2006-10-20 16:25:00 | Embassy Kyiv | SECRET | PREL KDEM YI RS AZ GG MD UP |
| 06KYIV4063 |
UKRAINE: PREPARATIONS ON TRACK FOR EU SUMMIT [...] (C) Summary: With just a week to go, the EU and Ukraine are still working to finalize a key document to be initialed at the October 27 Ukraine-EU summit in Helsinki -- a visa facilitation agreement and an associated readmission agreement. Ukrainians are insisting that the provisions of the r [...] |
2006-10-20 16:39:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECIN ETRD CVIS EUN UP |
| 06KYIV4089 |
UKRAINE GETS $130 NATURAL GAS FOR 2007 WITH [...] (SBU) Summary. Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych confidently announced October 24 that he had just received word from Moscow that Ukraine in 2007 would receive 55 billion cubic meters of imported natural gas at a price no greater than $130 per thousand cubic meters. All that remained, he said [...] |
2006-10-25 15:14:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG PGOV PREL RS TX UP |
| 06KYIV4106 |
UKRAINE WILL PROBABLY ABSTAIN ON UPCOMING [...] (U) On October 26, 2006, we delivered points in reftels to Andriy Beshta of the MFA UN directorate. 2. (C) Mr. Beshta said Ukraine would "not support" the UNGA resolutions on the situation of human rights and children in Lebanon described in reftel A. 3. (C) Mr. Beshta also stated that U [...] |
2006-10-26 15:40:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | UNGA LE IS PHUM PREL PTER UP |
| 06KYIV4132 |
UKRAINE: MINISTER DZHARTY ON VANCO PSA NEGOTIATIONS [...] (SBU) Ambassador called on Environment Minister Vasyl Dzharty October 26 to advocate for foreign investment in Ukraine's off-shore and to request an update on the GOU's Production Sharing Agreement (PSA) talks with U.S. company Vanco. Dzharty stated he favored foreign investment for developin [...] |
2006-10-27 15:26:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET ENRG UP |
| 06KYIV4138 |
UKRAINE: OUR UKRAINE HAMPERED BY DISORGANIZATION [...] (C) Summary: President Yushchenko has begun to respond to attempts by the Yanukovych/Regions team to tip the balance of power in its favor. He has brought in a more professional senior team to the Presidential Secretariat and taken steps to counter policies he does not support. However, the [...] |
2006-10-30 15:49:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 06KYIV4149 |
UKRAINE IN AGREEMENT ON UNSCR 1718 OBLIGATIONS ON DPRK CONVENTIONAL ARMS [...] (C) On October 31, PolCouns delivered the points in reftel A and a copy of the letter in reftel B to Vasyl Pokotylo, Head of Division, MFA Arms Control Department. (Note: As requested, we also forwarded a copy of the letter ref B through official channels addressed to Deputy Foreign Minister [...] |
2006-10-31 16:48:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP PREL PHSA EWWT EAIR PBTS UP PARM |
| 06KYIV4154 |
UKRAINE: AIRLINE TICKET PAYMENT SYSTEM UNDER THREAT FROM [...] (SBU) Summary. The Kyiv representative office of the International Air Transport Association (IATA) informed member airlines on October 24 that Ukrainian government agencies were trying to prevent IATA from implementing its billing and settlement plan (BSP) -- the industry-standard clearing [...] |
2006-11-01 11:30:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR EFIN BEXP KCOR UP |
| 06KYIV4156 |
UKRAINE REMAINS DOUBTFUL THAT KOSOVO INDEPENDENCE [...] (C) Ambassador and FM Tarasyuk discussed Transnistria and Kosovo, among other issues, October 31 (septel to follow). Tarasyuk, hewing to the line he has maintained since December 2005 (ref B), said the U.S. line on Kosovo independence not being a precedent for frozen conflicts such as Transnist [...] |
2006-11-01 17:28:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SR UP |
| 06KYIV4175 |
UKRAINE: TARASYUK ON COORDINATING FOREIGN POLICY [...] (C) Summary. A tired FM Borys Tarasyuk saw Ambassador late October 31 after returning from Estonia and Finland. He diagrammed the current players in Ukrainian foreign policy formulation, stating that his role as the fulcrum was to prevent encroachment by PM Yanukovych's team onto Presidenti [...] |
2006-11-03 14:32:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM UP |
| 06KYIV4183 |
UKRAINE MAKES PROGRESS ON WTO LEGISLATION [...] Summary: Ukraine's Parliament adopted on November 2 two laws identified as required for WTO accession. Parliament made further progress on legislation November 2-3, passing another eight WTO-related laws in the first reading, with significantly large majorities. Parliamentary "hearings" on [...] |
2006-11-03 17:00:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD WTRO ECON PGOV UP |
| 06KYIV4187 |
UKRAINE: PM YANUKOVYCH ON COOPERATION OR [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador met with a confident PM Viktor Yanukovych Nov. 2 to discuss Yanukovych's planned trip to Washington in December and the current domestic political situation. Yanukovych centered the conversation around two options going forward vis-a-vis President Yushchenko - cooper [...] |
2006-11-03 17:26:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 06KYIV4196 |
UKRAINE: POTENTIAL SALE OF CIVILIAN AIRCRAFT TO [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 4. 2. (C) We provided ref A talking points November 6 to MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Department Counselor Igor Kyzym, who said the information was timely since he would be able to relay the USG position to the interagency Pres [...] |
2006-11-06 16:27:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETTC EAIR ETRD PARM MARR MASS VE UP |
| 06KYIV4216 |
UKRAINE'S WTO NEGOTIATOR REQUESTS CONSULTATIONS IN [...] (U) This message contains a request for guidance. Please see para 3. 2. (SBU) Econ Counselor met on November 7 with Valeriy Pyatnytskiy, Deputy Minister of Economy and Ukraine's lead WTO negotiator. Pyatnytskiy briefed on recent progress with outstanding WTO-related legislation (ref B) and [...] |
2006-11-08 10:00:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD WTRO UP |
| 06KYIV4229 |
UKRAINE: GO SLOW APPROACH POSSIBLY COMPLICATING [...] (C) Summary. Ukraine is increasingly willing to use the Organization for Democracy and Economic Development - GUAM as a policy coordination vehicle, covering everything from joint declarations by GUAM members on regional issues to economic, military and scientific cooperation. However, Ukrain [...] |
2006-11-09 14:54:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM MARR RS AZ GG MD UP |
| 06KYIV4232 |
UKRAINE: AMBASSADOR URGES RAPID WTO ACCESSION [...] (C) Ambassador delivered ref A points urging rapid WTO accession to Mykola Azarov, First Deputy Prime Minister, in the context of a broad ranging meeting on November 3. Ambassador emphasized that Washington would be watching the status of Ukraine's accession very closely and would consider it [...] |
2006-11-09 15:22:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD PREL WTRO UP |
| 06KYIV4237 |
UKRAINE'S WTO ACCESSION: 11/9 UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: The key outstanding tasks for Ukraine to accede to the WTO remain concluding its two remaining bilateral Market Access Agreements, passing WTO-related legislation, and reaching agreement in multilateral negotiations on agricultural support levels. The GOU has made no substantia [...] |
2006-11-13 05:30:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD WTRO ECON PGOV UP |
| 06KYIV4251 |
UKRAINE: YANUKOVYCH LAYS MARKERS FOR COOPERATION [...] (C) Summary. During a long Sunday afternoon lunch with Ambassador November 12, Prime Minister Yanukovych said that while President Yushchenko held up general, vague concepts like the guarantee of Ukrainian independence as the benchmark for cooperation with the Yanukovych government, the Prime [...] |
2006-11-13 15:21:00 | Embassy Kyiv | SECRET | PGOV PREL UP |
| 06KYIV4285 |
UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO, YANUKOVYCH MAKE ONE MORE TRY [...] (C) Summary. The Rada's November 15 decision not to vote for now on dismissing Foreign Affairs Minister Tarasyuk and Defense Minister Hrytsenko following an 8-hour marathon meeting between President Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yanukovych November 13 suggests the two sides are still making a [...] |
2006-11-15 16:04:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 06KYIV4290 |
UKRAINE: THE LONG ROAD TO REFORMING CONSTITUTIONAL [...] (SBU) Summary. Constitutional reform bill 4180 (now known by its Ministry of Justice number 2222) shifting powers from the President to the Prime Minister-led Cabinet of Ministers and Rada majority was adopted December 8, 2004 as part of the package to solve the political crisis ensuing from t [...] |
2006-11-17 07:23:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 06KYIV4295 |
UKRAINE: EMBATTLED FM SUPPORTS ENGAGEMENT WITH [...] (C) Summary: "Orange" and embattled Foreign Minister Borys Tarasyuk told visiting EUR A/S Fried that the U.S. approach to PM Yanukovych and the Party of Regions coalition was correct, arguing that Yanukovych had changed for the better. He noted that the PM's upcoming U.S. visit, and his des [...] |
2006-11-17 12:58:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UP |
| 06KYIV4298 |
UKRAINE: DEFMIN HRYTSENKO ON YUSHCHENKO, [...] (C) Summary. Defense Minister Hrytsenko told visiting EUR A/S Fried and Ambassador November 16 that President Yushchenko's remote style interfered with his effectiveness, that PM Yanukovych was the most reasonable of the Regions' team in office and that the U.S. was right to seek to work with [...] |
2006-11-17 15:39:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PARM UP |
| 06KYIV4299 |
UKRAINE: PRESIDENT YUSHCHENKO FOCUSED ON KEEPING [...] (C) Summary: In a 40-minute meeting November 17, President Yushchenko told visiting EUR A/S Fried that he was optimistic about making cohabitation work and his ability to move his relationship with PM Yushchenko and his team from coexistence to cooperation. He expressed concern about several [...] |
2006-11-17 15:40:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM UP |
| 06KYIV4301 |
UKRAINE: HIGH-PROFILE RUSSIANS BANNED ENTRY INTO [...] (SBU) Chief of the Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) Ihor Drizhchany told journalists November 6 that the SBU had blacklisted 131 foreigners thus far in 2006 for "activities damaging national security interests." When we inquired, an SBU official advised that the SBU does not release names of [...] |
2006-11-17 15:57:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ASEC PINR RS UP |
| 06KYIV4302 |
UKRAINE: PM YANUKOVYCH TELLS A/S FRIED: UKRAINE'S [...] (C) Summary. PM Yanukovych told visiting EUR A/S Fried and Ambassador November 16 that he was determined to bring Ukraine to Europe, meaning the WTO soon, and eventually into the EU and NATO. The latter would take time, both to change currently ambivalent public opinion and also to strengthe [...] |
2006-11-17 16:08:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UP |
| 06KYIV4304 |
11/17 WTO UPDATE: UKRAINE MAKES GREAT STRIDES ON [...] (SBU) Summary: Parliament made remarkable progress on outstanding legislation for WTO accession during this week, and has now adopted 12 out of 21 required laws. GOU leaders clearly had given orders to move forward on the legislation, likely in order to help smooth the way for PM Yanukovych's [...] |
2006-11-17 16:24:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD WTRO ECON PGOV UP |
| 06KYIV4305 |
UKRAINE: LITHUANIAN MFA U/S PAVILIONIS AND A/S [...] (SBU) Summary: Lithuanian MFA Under Secretary Zygimantas Pavilionis and A/S Fried discussed developments in the region and measures needed to address recent Russian assertiveness. Paviolionis said that the Lithuanian, Polish, and Ukrainian Presidents formed an effective "troika" in working tog [...] |
2006-11-17 16:47:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV BO UP RS GG TU PL LH |
| 06KYIV4313 |
UKRAINE: ENGAGING YANUKOVYCH, THE MAN OF THE MOMENT [...] (C) Summary. Love him or hate him, the Ukrainian political elite and intelligentsia agree that Prime Minister Yanukovych is the man to deal with right now. Four months ago Yanukovych was painted variously as a puppet of oligarch Rinat Akhmetov, the Party of Regions, or the Kremlin, but he ha [...] |
2006-11-20 15:22:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 06KYIV4315 |
EXPLAINING UKRAINE'S BURST OF ENERGY ON WTO [...] (C) Summary: Ukraine's recent progress on WTO-related legislation does not mark a shift in GOU policy, but rather demonstrates that fears of the GOU's lack of commitment to prompt WTO accession were overblown. A fortuitous alignment of several political factors may have accelerated the proces [...] |
2006-11-20 15:48:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD WTRO ECON PGOV UP |
| 06KYIV4362 |
UKRAINE: "ORANGE" RIFTS DEEPENING TWO YEARS AFTER [...] (C) Summary. On the second anniversary of the Orange Revolution, November 22, a crowd of 500 or so gathered on the Maidan to commemorate the rise of democracy in Ukraine. Few leaders of the Maidan were there to share in the event. Disheartened by the failure to form a new "orange" government [...] |
2006-11-22 16:25:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 06KYIV4375 |
UKRAINE: COALMINE METHANE-1 PROJECT - OPIC RESPONSE [...] Summary. The following information is sent in response to reftel action request for embassy comments and clearance on OPIC financing for a coalbed methane project involving Ukrainian companies EnergoCapital, EnergoImpex, and Gorlovsky. Post was unable to ascertain definitive ownership informa [...] |
2006-11-28 12:56:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | EPET ENRG EINV PGOV UP |
| 06KYIV4383 |
UKRAINE: VOTERS LOOKING FOR SOMETHING DIFFERENT IN [...] (SBU) Summary. The Embassy, representatives from several USG-funded NGO's (NDI, IRI, Freedom House and IOM) and monitors from ENEMO (European Network of Election Monitoring Organizations) observed four repeat mayoral elections this month, all in the central Ukraine heartland which gave plural [...] |
2006-11-29 09:56:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL UP |
| 06KYIV4386 |
TELECOM REGULATOR DENIES 3G LICENSES TO MOBILE OPERATORS; [...] (U) Ukraine's National Communications Regulatory Commission (NCRC) on November 2 denied applications to issue next-generation, 3G licenses to Ukraine's top four mobile phone operators. With the NCRC refusal, state fixed-line monopolist UkrTelecom remains the sole operator in Ukraine with a 3G [...] |
2006-11-29 13:01:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS PGOV UP |
| 06KYIV4407 |
UKRAINE/POLAND: PM KACZYNSKI'S VISIT SIGNALS [...] (C) Summary: Both the Ukrainian and Polish sides hailed the November 15 visit of Polish PM Jaroslaw Kaczynski to Kyiv as a solid sign of continuity in Poland's working relationship with the government of Ukrainian PM Yanukovych. During his one-day visit, Kaczynski met with Yanukovych, Preside [...] |
2006-11-30 12:53:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ENRG PL UP |
| 06KYIV4413 |
UKRAINE: INFORMAL POLITICAL DIRECTORS' MEETING - [...] (C) Summary: In what the Ukrainian MFA would like to see morph into a regular informal gathering, political directors from select EU countries and countries of the "Baltic-Black-Caspian seas" region, along with EUR A/S Fried, discussed Ukraine's relationship with the EU and NATO and exchanged [...] |
2006-11-30 15:56:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NATO EUN XH ZB ZK UP |
| 06KYIV4414 |
UKRAINE: THE HOLODOMOR AND THE POLITICS OF [...] (SBU) Summary. In the aftermath of moving commemorations November 25 of the 73rd anniversary of the holodomor ("Great Famine"), Stalin's man-made famine 1932-33 that led to the death of an estimated 5-10 million Ukrainians in Ukraine and the Russian Kuban region, the Rada passed in a single rea [...] |
2006-11-30 16:15:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM UP |
| 06KYIV4415 |
11/30 UKRAINE WTO UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: Ukraine's Parliament continued its progress on outstanding legislation for WTO accession during this week, adopting five additional laws, four of which related to the agricultural sector. Parliament has now adopted 17 out of the 21 required laws. On the eve of PM Yanukovych's [...] |
2006-11-30 16:29:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD WTRO ECON PGOV UP |
| 06KYIV4425 |
UKRAINE/RUSSIA: DEFENDING NATIONAL INTERESTS [...] (C) Summary/comment: PM Yanukovych came to office on a campaign promise to improve relations with Russia, but, although he has toned down the rhetoric towards Russia, like his predecessors, he must find the right balance between close ties to Moscow and protecting Ukrainian sovereignty. While [...] |
2006-12-01 14:02:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PBTS PINR RS UP |
| 06KYIV4432 |
UKRAINE: ADDITIONAL MANPADS AND SCUDS INVENTORY: [...] (S) Summary: Deputy Defense Minister Volodymyr Tereshchenko told us November 22 that Ukraine would be willing to provide an additional 1,713 MANPADS, a mix of SA-7s and SA-14s, for destruction in the NATO PfP Trust Fund project. An official notification of this offer was under preparation and [...] |
2006-12-01 16:33:00 | Embassy Kyiv | SECRET | MARR MOPS PREL PARM NATO PINR US UP |
| 06KYIV4466 |
EU MAKES BELARUS AN OFFER, AWAITING RESPONSE [...] (C) Summary: EU European Commission official Jean-Eric Holzapfel told us December 4 that the initial Belarusan government reaction was noncommittal to the November 21 delivery of an EU non-paper stating its readiness to assist Belarus if the government implemented democratic reforms. The timi [...] |
2006-12-05 14:48:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM PHUM EAID EUN BO UP |
| 06KYIV4468 |
UKRAINE/MTCR: U.S. VIEWS ON CONTROLLING [...] (C) We relayed reftel points on a U.S. proposal to revise the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) approach to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs)/cruise missiles December 5 to MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Department Counselors Igor Kyzym and Oleh Belokoles. We stressed [...] |
2006-12-05 15:28:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | MTCRE PARM PREL ETTC KSCA UP |
| 06KYIV4469 |
UKRAINE/NIAG 6167: PAKISTAN HEAVY WATER PURCHASE [...] (S) We relayed inquiries regarding Ukrainian State Enterprise Ecoantilid's potential sale of heavy water to the Karachi Nuclear Power Plant in Pakistan (ref A) and Ukrainian Yuzhnoye company's potential cooperation with Chinese 11 Institute on development of the RD-120 liquid rocket engine (re [...] |
2006-12-05 16:12:00 | Embassy Kyiv | SECRET | ETTC MNUC PARM PREL KNNP MTCRE CH PK UP |
| 06KYIV4470 |
UKRAINE: AVIATION TRAINING FOR NORTH KOREA [...] (C) We relayed reftel inquiry for clarification on Ukrainian plans to provide radio electronics training for civil aircraft to two North Koreans during a December 5 meeting with MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Department Counselors Igor Kyzym and Oleh Belokoles. Kyzym said [...] |
2006-12-05 16:13:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP ETTC EAIR PARM PREL KN UP |
| 06KYIV4478 |
UKRAINE: STAND BY YOUR MEN: YUSHCHENKO RAISES THE [...] (SBU) Summary. President Yushchenko raised the stakes in the accelerating power struggle between his circle and that of PM Yanukovych December 5 by issuing a decree reinforcing Tarasyuk's status as Foreign Minister, notwithstanding the December 1 vote by the Rada to dismiss Tarasyuk. For its [...] |
2006-12-06 15:42:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 06KYIV4484 |
UKRAINE: NAFTOHAZ PAYS DEBT TO ROSUKRENERGO; STILL OWES [...] (U) On December 4, Ukraine's state oil and gas monopolist NaftoHaz paid off its $306 million debt to RosUkrEnergo (RUE) for 1Q2006 natural gas supplies, according to NaftoHaz Deputy Chairman Aleksandr Kovalko. In a December 7 press interview, Kovalko said NaftoHaz paid the debt with part of a [...] |
2006-12-07 13:11:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EPET EFIN PINR RS TX UP |
| 06KYIV4489 |
UKRAINE: THE RUSSIA FACTOR IN CRIMEA - UKRAINE'S [...] (C) Summary. Discussions with a wide range of contacts in Crimea November 20-22 and officials in Kyiv discounted recent speculation that a return of pro-Russian separatism in Crimea, which posed a real threat to Ukrainian territorial integrity in 1994-95, could be in the cards. However, nearl [...] |
2006-12-07 15:49:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL RU UP |
| 06KYIV4491 |
UKRAINE: FM TARASYUK'S LEGAL LIMBO [...] (SBU) Summary: Foreign Minister Tarasyuk called in EU and NATO ambassadors and charges December 7 to confirm his position as Minister of Foreign Affairs. He reported that he had filed a suit to block the Rada's move to dismiss him on the basis of three procedural errors. The court would hold [...] |
2006-12-07 16:19:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM UP |
| 06KYIV4531 |
12/8 UKRAINE WTO UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: While Prime Minister Yanukovych and Ukrainian trade negotiators held talks with USTR during a visit to Washington, Dec 4-7 Ukraine's Rada (parliament) passed one more WTO-related law. This brings the total number of laws adopted to 18 out of the proposed 21. One more law remain [...] |
2006-12-08 16:33:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD WTRO ECON PGOV UP |
| 06KYIV4537 |
UKRAINE/LITHUANIA: ADAMKUS LOBBIES FOR [...] (C) Summary: Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus' three-day state visit to Ukraine -- his fourth trip here this year -- was intended to demonstrate a willingness to work with the new Yanukovych government, promote bilateral trade and investment ties, and facilitate cooperation in the energy s [...] |
2006-12-11 16:05:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV NATO UP LH |
| 06KYIV4542 |
UKRAINE: UPDATE OF CHILD LABOR INFORMATION FOR TDA [...] As requested reftel, below Post provides updated information on child labor in Ukraine, for use in the preparation of the 2006 report Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor. Post has chosen to answer each of the questions posed in reftel as "Indicators" under the five topical headings. [...] |
2006-12-13 13:03:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM UP |
| 06KYIV4558 |
UKRAINE: LAND, POWER, AND CRIMINALITY IN CRIMEA [...] (C) Summary. Land issues dominate the Autonomous Republic of Crimea's local agenda, according to a wide range of Crimean officials, journalists, and community leaders we talked to November 20-22 in the Crimean capitol of Simferopol, the separately administered city of Sevastopol, and Bakhchis [...] |
2006-12-14 09:31:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON PREL PHUM UP |
| 06KYIV4576 |
12/15 UKRAINE WTO UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ukrainian Rada (parliament) this week adopted another WTO-related law, on scrap metal and steel, bringing the total number of adopted laws to 19 out of the 21 considered necessary for accession. Local media, however, fueled by some GOU officials, are erroneously reporting th [...] |
2006-12-15 12:02:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD WTRO ECON PGOV UP |
| 06KYIV4597 |
UKRAINE: POSSIBLE RESOLUTION OF FOREIGN MINISTER [...] (C) Summary. Party of Regions MPs forcibly prevented Foreign Minister Borys Tarasyuk from attending the weekly cabinet meeting December 20, initiating a scuffle at the Cabinet of Ministers' building with several Our Ukraine (OU) MPs who had arrived in support of Tarasyuk. Yushchenko's repre [...] |
2006-12-20 15:30:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 06KYIV4600 |
UKRAINE: OUR UKRAINE REGROUPING [...] (C) Summary. The People's Union Our Ukraine (PUOU) party, the dominant party inside the Our Ukraine bloc, is cleaning house in a move to reenergize itself, bring the party back under the President's wing, and possibly to regroup for new elections. The biggest shake-ups came in the party leade [...] |
2006-12-22 07:01:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 06KYIV4647 |
UKRAINE/BELARUS: PLANNING A POSSIBLE PRESIDENTIAL [...] (C) Summary/comment: According to the MFA, Ukrainian Presidential Secretariat Chief of Staff Baloha's December 14 visit to Minsk was intended to maintain momentum toward a possible meeting between the Ukrainian and Belarusan presidents in the February-March 2007 timeframe. The meeting, if it [...] |
2006-12-22 10:57:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS MNUC PINR BO UP |
| 06KYIV4648 |
12/22 UKRAINE WTO UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: Ukrainian WTO negotiators held consultations with Working Party members in Geneva on December 18. The GOU is anxious for feedback on its recently passed legislation, although anticipates having to make some additional legislative fixes to ensure WTO conformity. A law on biotec [...] |
2006-12-22 11:00:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD WTRO ECON PGOV UP |
| 06KYIV4660 |
UKRAINE: MR. PUTIN COMES TO KYIV [...] (SBU) Summary. Russian President Vladimir Putin made a compressed one-day visit to Kyiv December 22, his first since March 2005 and the second since Ukraine's November-December 2004 Orange Revolution. Putin and Yushchenko met for two-and-a-half hours alone, without notetakers. After the for [...] |
2006-12-27 16:01:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RU UP |
| 06KYIV4679 |
UKRAINE: FIGHT OVER NATO/SINGLE ECONOMIC SPACE [...] (C) Summary. The Central Election Commission (CEC) announced on December 29 that more than four million valid signatures had been collected in support of a proposed nationwide referendum on NATO membership and the Single Economic Space (SES), as a result of aggressive pushing from referendum [...] |
2006-12-29 13:12:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR UP |
| 06KYIV4681 |
UKRAINE: CONFRONTATION AND COMPROMISE--A TALE OF [...] (C) Summary. Two years after the Orange Revolution and Yushchenko's election victory and almost five months into the prime ministership that has marked Yanukovych's triumphant return to the political center stage, the relationship between the two Viktors is rocky and full of mistrust. Althoug [...] |
2006-12-29 13:18:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR UP |
| 07KYIV1023 |
UKRAINE: CONFERENCE ON DISARMAMENT [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 4. 2. (C) We met April 20 with MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Department Deputy Director Pokotilo to discuss the May 15 next session of the UN Conference on Disarmament (CD) at MFA's request. Counselor Oleksandr Bondarenko and a [...] |
2007-04-27 13:02:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL UNGA CDG UP |
| 07KYIV1027 |
UKRAINE: LITTLE POLITICAL OR LEGAL PROGRESS, BOTH [...] (C) Summary. With President Yushchenko on a one-day trip to Poland April 27 and the ruling coalition trying to decide on its strategy in the face of the new decree ordering Rada elections for June 24, little progress was made on April 27 toward resolving the political crisis. The Constitutiona [...] |
2007-04-27 15:26:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 07KYIV1036 |
UKRAINE: YUSHCHENKO PUSHING, REGIONS NOT BACKING [...] (C) Summary. During what normally would have been a quiet, five-day holiday weekend, the presidential and Rada/government teams were hard at work upping the ante in the current political crisis, with neither side appearing ready yet to relinquish hardball tactics and return to negotiations. [...] |
2007-05-03 14:37:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 07KYIV1051 |
UKRAINE: PRESIDENT AND PM REACH GENERAL AGREEMENT [...] (SBU) Summary. President Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yanukovych on May 4 finally reached a preliminary agreement to hold early Rada elections, after more than a week when the two leaders did not speak. At a press conference after the meeting, Yushchenko announced that a working group would [...] |
2007-05-04 14:45:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 07KYIV1064 |
(S) UKRAINE/MTCR: TRAINING TO CHINA FOURTH ACADEMY [...] (S) We relayed reftel points May 4 to MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Department Counselor Oleh Belokolos. Although we were prepared with if-asked guidance to respond to possible arguments that MTCR was not intended to impede space development or that the RD-120 preparation [...] |
2007-05-07 14:34:00 | Embassy Kyiv | SECRET | ETTC PARM PREL MTCRE MNUC TSPA CH UP |
| 07KYIV1066 |
UKRAINE/AUSTRALIA GROUP: PLENARY INFO EXCHANGE AND [...] (C) We transmitted reftel points May 4 to MFA Arms Control and Military Technical Cooperation Department Counselor Oleh Belokolos. Belokolos, who is directly responsible for MTCR and the Wassenaar Arrangement, thanked us for the information and said he would provide our non-paper to his collea [...] |
2007-05-07 14:35:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL CBW UP |
| 07KYIV1076 |
UKRAINE: GAS PIPELINE EXPLODES--SUPPLIES TO E.U. STABLE [...] On May 7 a large explosion hit the Urengoy-Pomary-Uzhgorod natural gas pipeline in the Tarashcha Region, about 100 km south of Kyiv, at 14:12 p.m. The explosion took out 30 m of the pipeline built in 1983, which is capable of shipping more than 30 billion cubic meters of Russian gas annually t [...] |
2007-05-08 10:48:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG EPET ECON UP |
| 07KYIV1085 |
UKRAINE 2007 SPECIAL 301 NOTIFICATION DELIVERED [...] Deputy Econ Counselor delivered ref B points and Special 301 report language to Volodymyr Zharov, Deputy Chairman of the State Department of Intellectual Property, on May 8. Zharov thanked the USG for its recognition of progress made in recent years, and said he hoped the GOU's further efforts [...] |
2007-05-08 14:03:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD KIPR UP |
| 07KYIV1088 |
UKRAINE: ELECTION DATE HOLDING UP COMPROMISE [...] (C) Summary. Negotiations may be almost complete on the "small package" of laws considered necessary to resolve Ukraine's six-week political crisis, but continued wrangling over whether the elections should be held in the summer or fall have slowed the pace of compromise. The working group n [...] |
2007-05-08 14:53:00 | Embassy Kyiv | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL UP |
| 07KYIV1092 |
Ukraine: Struggle for Nikopol Ferroalloy Works Nearing [...] (U) Pitting oligarch against oligarch and featuring surprising plot twists and turns, the two-year struggle over the ownership of Ukraine's Nikopol Ferroalloy Works (NFW) makes for nearly as good drama as the country's prolonged political crisis. The State Property Fund (SPF) has been trying s [...] |
2007-05-10 07:38:00 | Embassy Kyiv | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | |