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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Service personnel. (Replaces RCHB file category: PER)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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KCOM: Chief of Mission
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Effective from March 2004

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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KSCA: Science Counselors and Attachés
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Effective from February 1983

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Astronaut
* Astronomy
* Communications Satellite
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* ELV
* Exploration
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Technology Equipment
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Landing Rights
* Navigational Aid
* Orbit
* Outer Space
* Outer Space Commercialization
* Peaceful Use of Outer Space
* Reentry
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Salvage
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Space Agreement
* Space Fragment
* Space Law
* Space Liability
* Space Program
* Space Station
* Spacecraft
* Spacecraft Recovery
* Spaceflight
* STRIDE
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Telecommunication
* Tracking Station
* UFO
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05WARSAW1057 Poland Still Lobbying EU on Open Pension Fund
[...] (SBU) Summary: Poland is concerned that it will not be able to meet the 2007 target date agreed with the EU for meeting the Maastricht criteria on the road to adopting the Euro if the EU does not change the way it counts pension fund assets. In 2004, the EU's statistical agency, Eurostat, dec [...]
2005-02-25 11:21:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON PREL PL EUN
05WARSAW1117 Poland: 2005 Special 301 Submission - Gradual
[...] (SBU) Poland's efforts to improve its IPR protection continued through the fourth quarter of 2004, with increased activities by customs and police authorities to curb IPR violations in the optical disc area. It is clear that copyright and trademark protection is significantly better than se [...]
2005-03-02 08:37:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDETRD KIPR PL
05WARSAW1122 Poland: 2005 Special 301 Submission - Gradual
[...] (SBU) Poland's efforts to improve its IPR protection continued through the fourth quarter of 2004, with increased activities by customs and police authorities to curb IPR violations in the optical disc area. It is clear that copyright and trademark protection is significantly better than sev [...]
2005-03-02 09:08:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDETRD KIPR PL
05WARSAW1126POLISH PREMIER WEIGHS JOINING NEW PARTY, PREDICTS
[...] (SBU) In an interview published March 2, Polish Prime Minister Marek Belka signaled that he is considering an offer to join a new, centrist political party (the "Democratic Party," or PD) being formed by the liberal Freedom Union (UW),disaffected politicians from the governing SLD, and other [...]
2005-03-02 12:40:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PINR PL
05WARSAW1168 POLAND: FIFTH ANNUAL (2005) TRAFFICKING IN
[...] (SBU) Following are responses keyed to questions in paragraphs 18-21 of REFTEL A. Embassy point of contact is POLOFF Tom Yeager (telephone: 48-22-504-2676, fax 48- 22-504-2613, e-mail yeagerta@state.gov). POLOFF (FP- 04) spent 65 hours collecting data and compiling report; Two POLFSNs spent [...]
2005-03-02 15:08:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF KWMN PL KRCM
05WARSAW1201LOW-COST AIRLINES FACE CHALLENGES WITH POLISH
[...] (SBU) Low-cost airlines continue to expand their operations in Poland. During this rapid growth, air carriers have encountered difficulties dealing with the Polish airport authority, PPL. SkyEurope, in particular, has publicly announced that it will not increase its Warsaw operations due to [...]
2005-03-03 11:24:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR ECON PREL PL
05WARSAW1204POLISH PM PRESSES FOR JUNE ELECTIONS, DEFERS
[...] (SBU) In a much-anticipated address March 3, Polish Prime Minister Marek Belka underscored his determination to seek the dissolution of parliament May 5, clearing the way for new elections June 19, but said that he would not decide on his own political future (i.e., whether to abandon the gover [...]
2005-03-03 14:19:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PINR PL
05WARSAW1205POLISH OPPOSITION LEADER LAYS OUT PROSPECTIVE
[...] (C) Summary: Jan Rokita, the head of Poland's leading opposition party (PO - Platforma Obywatelska/Civic Platform),and the man expected to be the country's next Prime Minister outlined the key planks of his economic policy at a March 1 meeting of the American Chamber of Commerce. Rokita said [...]
2005-03-03 14:19:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN ETRD PGOV PREL PL
05WARSAW1225FOREIGN JEWISH NGOS PROTEST LACK OF CONSULTATIONS
[...] (SBU) In Warsaw on February 16-17, a World Jewish Restitution Organization delegation discussed private property restitution with the Ambassador, SLD party leader Jozef Oleksy, opposition leader Jan Maria Rokita, Treasury Minister Jacek Socha and Sejm Speaker Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz. The dele [...]
2005-03-04 14:09:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALEFIN PHUM KNAR PL
05WARSAW1267IRAQ TAKES STEPS TO BUILD ITS CIVIC RELATIONSHIP
[...] (SBU) During a meeting on other issues, the Iraqi Ambassador to Poland, Hussein Shialtagh, commented that the Iraqi Embassy in Poland is trying to build closer military, commercial, and civic relations with Poland. He said that while the military relationship is already quite robust due to Po [...]
2005-03-07 13:38:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON PREL IZ PL
05WARSAW1273POLISH FISHING INDUSTRY: THE HAPPY UNEMPLOYED
[...] Per EU requirements, Poland is in the middle of restructuring its Baltic fishing fleet to meet EU requirements. Part of that process includes the reduction of the fleet by scrapping vessels and compensating the vessel owners and operators. The Restructuring Agency responsible for implementin [...]
2005-03-07 14:21:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDEFIS ECON PL EU
05WARSAW1282POLISH PIPELINE COMPANY FINALIZING A BUSINESS PLAN
[...] (C) As promised, PM Belka met with his Ukrainian counterpart PM Tymoshenko early in her tenure to discuss practical steps the two sides could take to deepen their bilateral ties. The two Prime Ministers agreed to form a bilateral committee to accelerate work on linking the Odessa-Brody oil pi [...]
2005-03-08 11:17:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALEPET ENRG EINV PREL PL
05WARSAW1283POLISH COMPANY FEARS IRAQ WILL CANCEL SIGNIFICANT
[...] (C) In December 2004, Poland's defense holding company, Bumar, signed a number of contracts with the Iraqi Ministry of Defense to provide military supplies and equipment to Iraq (reftel). Prominent among these deals were two contracts to deliver several large Russian-built cargo/transport hel [...]
2005-03-08 13:37:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON PREL PGOV IZ PL
05WARSAW13 Further Press Stories on Alleged Polish Bribery
[...] (U) Summary: Polish papers continue to follow allegations that a shadowy Polish tycoon, Marek Dochnal, bribed a parliamentarian related to the privatization sale of a steel mill. There are also allegations that Dochnal was involved in the campaign by Russian companies to buy shares in Poland' [...]
2005-01-03 14:48:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETRD PARM PREL PL
05WARSAW1320 Poland Cautiously Optimistic EcoFin Will Loosen
[...] (U) Polish papers widely reported that EU Finance Ministers came to no final conclusions at their March 8 EcoFin meeting on loosening the Stability and Growth Pact procedures for calculating deficits. For Poland, this means that EcoFin has yet to make a final decision on how to classify the [...]
2005-03-09 13:26:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON PREL PL
05WARSAW1358POLISH DEPUTY PM HAUSNER SUBMITS OFFERS TO RESIGN,
[...] (U) Polish Deputy PM and Minister of Economy and Labor Jerzy Hausner submitted his resignation to Polish PM Marek Belka on March 9. It is now up to Belka to decide if he will accept Hausner's resignation, and if so, when it will be effective. 2. (C) Sources in the PM's Chancery were unsur [...]
2005-03-09 15:05:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN ELAB PGOV
05WARSAW1369LOT AIRLINES CEO DISCUSSES BOEING'S OFFER
[...] (SBU) The CEO of LOT Airlines met with the Ambassador to discuss the LOT tender for wide-body aircraft. LOT still does not know when the final decision on which aircraft it will purchase will be made. The CEO expects, however, that if the decision is postponed past the middle of April the en [...]
2005-03-10 14:06:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR ECON PREL PL
05WARSAW1371 Poland: Debate on Film Act Heating Up
[...] (SBU) Legislation being drafted by the Polish Parliament (Sejm) to impose a tax on foreign broadcasts into Poland is being hotly debated in the government. Sejm deputies want to use the collected revenue to subsidize the domestic film industry. Although the Ministry of Culture sees no prob [...]
2005-03-11 10:58:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDETRD EFIN KIPR PL
05WARSAW1395 Polish Finance Minister Requests Formal Agreement
[...] (SBU) On March 10, the Embassy received a letter from Finance Minister Gronicki (dated March 1) expressing appreciation for U.S. acceptance in principle of Poland's offer to repay its outstanding Paris Club debt early. Per the Paris Club Secretariat's instructions to Poland to seek formal agr [...]
2005-03-14 07:54:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN PREL PL
05WARSAW1396BRUSSELS CUTS TWO BILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF CO2
[...] (SBU) On March 8, the European Commission issued its much- delayed decision on national CO2 allotments under the EU's Emissions Trading Scheme. The EU conditionally accepted Poland's National Allocation Plan, but cut its proposed emissions by 16.5 percent (from 286 to 239 million tons). Altho [...]
2005-03-14 08:30:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ENRG ECON PREL PL EUN
05WARSAW1469GEORGIA BORDER MONITORING ORGANIZATION AND THE EU:
[...] (C) Pol-Mil Chief delivered Ref A demarche on the EU and Georgia Border Monitoring on March 14 to Mieczyslaw Kuzinski, Counselor in the Security Policy Department, who handles all security issues related to Georgia. Kuzinski responded on March 15, indicating that the GOP position on Border Mo [...]
2005-03-16 11:08:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS GG RS ZJ PL EUN OSCE
05WARSAW1520POLAND SUBMITS DETAILS OF IRAQ'S DEBT
[...] (C) The Iraqi Embassy in Warsaw provided us with a copy of a letter Finance Minister Gronicki sent to his Iraqi counterpart, Adil Abdul Mahdi, detailing Iraq's outstanding debt to Poland. According to the Ministry of Finance (MOF),Iraq owes Poland USDOLS 786,225,209.93 (including USDOLS 30 [...]
2005-03-17 13:44:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALEFIN EAID PREL PL
05WARSAW1521POLISH HELICOPTERS YET AGAIN
[...] (C) Summary. The Polish state-owned holding company, Bumar, continues to work with the Iraqi Ministry of Defense on helicopter contracts. Bumar understands that the contracts were amended at the insistence of U.S. military advisors, who Bumar believes were pressured to do so by American and [...]
2005-03-17 13:48:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL MASS MCAP PARM ECON IZ PL
05WARSAW1522POLISH PM BELKA AND HIS PARTY AT ODDS
[...] (U) A March 16 meeting between PM Marek Belka and the leadership of the governing Democratic Left Alliance (SLD),ended with disagreement over Belka's plan to resign this spring and the leadership's announced desire for fall elections. Belka stuck to his position that he will resign on May 5, [...]
2005-03-17 13:59:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV PL
05WARSAW1895 Poland to Host Visegrad Meeting of Environment
[...] (U) On April 7-8, the Polish Minister of Environment will host his counterparts from Hungary and the Czech and Slovak Republics in Krakow. MinEnvironment officials report that the primary focus of the agenda will be to coordinate their approaches to a variety of environmental issues within the [...]
2005-04-05 13:46:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV ECON ENRG ETRD PREL PL EUN
05WARSAW206 Poland Pleasantly Surprised at Upturn in
[...] (SBU) Summary: Polish and Russian firms had feared that Poland's EU accession would disrupt trade, in part because the EU required Poland to abrogate its bilateral trade agreement with Russia. Despite problems in some sectors, trade has expanded significantly. Polish exports were up more [...]
2005-01-11 13:32:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON ENRG EPET PREL PL
05WARSAW2061PRIVATE PROPERTY COMPENSATION BILL ADVANCES TO
[...] (U) Following a sharp debate April 15, the Polish Parliament voted by an overwhelming majority of 303 to 105 to send to committee a government bill that would provide cash compensation for property nationalized after the Second World War. Although in the debate, the opposition Civic Platform [...]
2005-04-20 14:51:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN KNAR PGOV PHUM PL IS
05WARSAW2164PROPOSED WARSAW CONFERENCE ON DISABILITIES IN IRAQ
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Polish government sent a letter to USAID Administrator Natsios on April 6 stating that while it supports the idea of an international conference on Iraqi disabled issues in principle, it sees many obstacles to moving ahead with such a conference in Poland at this time due to [...]
2005-05-04 14:51:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREL ECON IZ PL
05WARSAW2252 Polish Finance Ministry Releases Annual Report on
[...] (SBU) Summary and Introduction: The Polish Ministry of Finance's Financial Intelligence Unit (the General Inspectorate for Financial Information, or GIIF),released an annual report in April on its activities in 2004 to combat money laundering and terrorism finance. The Polish Government has [...]
2005-05-13 13:22:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON PREL PL
05WARSAW2265HOLOCAUST ISSUES SPECIAL ENVOY EDWARD O'DONNELL IN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During his May 4-7 visit to Poland Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues Ambassador Edward O'Donnell discussed with key Polish officials and leaders of the Jewish community Poland's ChairmRmQqMQnd plans for the Museum of the History of Polish Jews (MHPJ). ITC discussions centered o [...]
2005-05-16 11:18:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALEFIN KNAR PGOV PHUM PL BE BO EZ HU IS UP WJRO
05WARSAW2467Polish Finance Ministry Hopes Higher Taxes Excise
[...] (U) On June 1, the Polish Ministry of Finance announced that it would increase the excise tax on imported heating oil and liquefied gas used for cars (autogas) by mid-June. Under the proposal, the excise tax on heating oil would be raised from 233 Zloty ($68.70) per 1000 liters to 1028 Zloty ( [...]
2005-06-06 15:14:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG EFIN EPET ECON PREL PL
05WARSAW2496Poland Continues to Chip Away at its Budget Deficit
[...] (U) In early June, the Ministry of Finance released its initial assumptions for the 2006 budget, officially kicking off the six month budget drafting season. The Ministry of Finance purposely proposed conservative estimates for growth (4%) and inflation (1.5%). Finance also set the budget de [...]
2005-06-09 08:58:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ETRD PREL PL
05WARSAW2598ENGAGING THE IRAQ COALITION: NO CHANGE IN POLISH
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Poland plans to reduce its military contingent in Iraq by roughly 300 for its fifth rotation that will begin in mid-July 2005, leaving approximately 1,400 Polish troops in the Multinational Division Center South (MND-CS). These troops will increasingly focus on training missions [...]
2005-06-17 13:21:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS PREL IZ PL
05WARSAW26 Polish Parliament Enacts 2005 Budget with Lower
[...] (SBU) Summary: Just before Christmas, the Polish Government completed work on a 2005 budget which has a lower deficit for the first time in three years (forecast at 3.7% of GDP compared to 4.8% in 2004). In drafting the 2005 budget, the GOP built on its success in 2004 in revitalizing the pri [...]
2005-01-05 06:21:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON PREL PL
05WARSAW2711DELIVERY OF DEMARCHE ON UN REFORM
[...] (SBU) Ambassador spoke to Polish Foreign Minister Daniel Rotfeld on June 30 to urge him to support the U.S. agenda for reform of the UN. Drawing on Reftels A and B, Ambassador emphasized the importance the Secretary attaches to broad reform, and emphasized that this goes farther than UNSC re [...]
2005-07-01 08:37:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKUNR PREL PGOV AORC PL UNSC
05WARSAW2779LARGEST POLISH TEACHERS UNION BACKS
[...] (U) In a surprise move, the Union of Polish Teachers (ZNP) announced on July 6 that it would support the Social Democracy of Poland (SdPl) in fall elections. ZNP followed the far-left Union of Labor (UP) and minuscule Greens 2004 Party, which had earlier signed election alliances with the SdP [...]
2005-07-07 15:30:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALELAB PGOV PL
05WARSAW2814G-4 RESOLUTION ON UN REFORM: POLAND CAN'T SAY "NO"
[...] (C) The Polish government has decided to co-sponsor the Group of Four (G-4) framework resolution based on its long-standing commitment, dating back to the early 1990's, to support Germany's bid for a permanent seat on the Security Council. Reviewing the Polish position, MFA Deputy Director fo [...]
2005-07-12 13:42:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PL UNSC
05WARSAW2846POLAND: IRAQI DEBT FORGIVENESS AND PARTICIPATION
[...] (C) Summary. The head of the Polish MFA's Iraq Task Team relayed that Poland's Embassy in Amman will most likely represent Poland at the upcoming Donors' Meeting at the Dead Sea, and that Poland is not planning on committing any funds to Iraq reconstruction in the immediate future, but is co [...]
2005-07-14 14:16:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON EFIN PREL IZ JO PL
05WARSAW2887EUR ASSISTANT SECRETARY FRIED LUNCH WITH LAW AND
[...] (C) EUR A/S Dan Fried met July 11 for lunch with center-right Law and Justice (PiS) leader and presidential candidate, Lech Kaczynski. They reviewed the bidding in the upcoming parliamentary and presidential elections, with Kaczynski saying differences between PiS and expected coalition partn [...]
2005-07-20 09:55:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR PGOV ECON PL
05WARSAW2889EUR ASSISTANT SECRETARY FRIED BREAKFAST WITH CIVIC
[...] (C) EUR A/S Dan Fried held a breakfast meeting July 11 with Jan Rokita, the head of the centrist Civic Platform (PO). Rokita, who is likely to become Prime Minister should PO lead a coalition government after the September 2005 parliamentary elections, reviewed the political state of play in [...]
2005-07-20 09:58:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR PL
05WARSAW2912ELECTION SEASON IN FULL SWING WITH PARLIAMENTARY
[...] (C) With just over two months until parliamentary elections and just under three months until the first round of presidential elections, the election season in Poland is in full swing. The presidential race is still fluid. Parliamentary speaker Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz, who entered the race s [...]
2005-07-22 14:38:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PL
05WARSAW3010PRESS REPORTS WRONG: POLAND AND IRAQ HAVE NOT
[...] (SBU) On the heels of Prime Minister Marek Belka's July visit to Baghdad, several Polish press outlets reported that Belka promised the Iraqi government forgiveness of 80 percent of Iraqi debt, in line with the Paris Club's agreement. However, Poland's Iraq Task Team at the Ministry of Foreign [...]
2005-08-03 10:18:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALEFIN PREL IZ PL
05WARSAW3044IRAQ-POLAND: JONES-SMITH CONSULTATIONS WITH GOP
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Ambassador Richard Jones Senior Adviser to the Secretary and Coordinator for Iraq Policy (S/I) led an interagency delegation to Warsaw July 28-29 to consult with senior GOP officials and encourage continued substantial Polish participation in the Iraq Coalition and the Multi-Nati [...]
2005-08-05 11:46:00Embassy WarsawSECRETPREL MOPS MARR PL IZ
05WARSAW3104RENEWAL OF ISAF'S U.N. MANDATE - POLAND NOT AN
[...] (C) PolMil Chief shared Ref A views on the ISAF mandate with Jakub Urbanik, action officer for Afghanistan/Iraq operations in the MFA Department of Security Policy, who was familiar with the U.S. intentions for revising the NATO operational plan. After discussing the issue with the Polish NAT [...]
2005-08-12 11:04:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR AF PL NATO UNSC
05WARSAW3111NEW TENSIONS IN POLISH-RUSSIAN RELATIONS WITH
[...] (U) The Polish government has expressed concern and Polish politicians and media outrage over the past week's beatings in Moscow of three members of the staff of the Polish Embassy (one Russian employee, one Polish technical staff member, and one Polish diplomat) and one journalist for the P [...]
2005-08-12 14:30:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PL
05WARSAW3151 Economic Impact of EU Accession on Poland
[...] (SUB) Sixteen months after Poland's EU accession, post surveyed a number of government officials and economic experts on the impact of accession. Despite some caveats, there appears to be consensus that Poland has adapted smoothly to the EU's common market. Dramatic export growth has fuele [...]
2005-08-19 09:10:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN PL EUN
05WARSAW3161RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON PRESIDENT BUSH'S DEMOCRACY
[...] Polcouns delivered reftel demarche August 19 to Katarzyna Katsperczyk, who handles Community of Democracy issues in the MFA's Department of Policy Planning. Katsperczyk said that Poland, as a convener and strong supporter of the Community of Democracies and the UN Democracy Fund, will be makin [...]
2005-08-22 10:20:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL PL UNGA
05WARSAW3178 POLAND: U.S. PROVIDER SEEKS TO OFFER VOICE
[...] (SBU) California TOK, a Delaware-registered firm, is making ambitious plans to enter the Polish telecoms market with inexpensive international voice services. Although the service will rely on an individual customer's existing broadband connection, the company eschews labeling its service v [...]
2005-08-23 11:47:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDETRD PL ECCP
05WARSAW3194SUPPORTING TURKEY'S EU ACCESSION PROCESS: POLAND
[...] (C) Post delivered reftel demarche to the Polish MFA's European department, underscoring our concern about possible attempts to impose additional pre-conditions for Turkish EU accession negotiations. Polish MFA desk officer for Turkey Patrycja Ozcan assured us that the Polish government fully [...]
2005-08-24 11:52:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL TU PL EUN
05WARSAW3210MTCR POINTS DELIVERED TO POLISH MFA
[...] No summary [...]
2005-08-25 14:54:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL PL MTCRE
05WARSAW3234POLISH APPROACH TO SEPTEMBER 1-2 EU GYMNICH
[...] (C) Responding to reftel points, Polish MFA Director for CFSP Beata Kolecka confirmed that Poland will hold a firm line against any new conditions for the start of Turkish accession talks, resist efforts to soften ICTY conditionality for Croatia, and maintain positions complementary to the U.S. [...]
2005-08-30 14:02:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM TU PL EUN
05WARSAW3242POLISH STATEMENT WELCOMES IRAQI DRAFT CONSTITUTION
[...] (SBU) Following our approach (Ref B),the Polish MFA late August 29 released a public statement in support of Iraq's draft constitution. Unofficial embassy translation of the original Polish-language text follows. 2. (U) Begin text of Polish MFA statement. "Poland welcomes the completion [...]
2005-08-31 09:19:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM IZ PL
05WARSAW3249Poland: Economic Relations with Ukraine
[...] (U) Sensitive But Unclassified. Not for Internet Distribution. 2. (U) Ukraine is Poland's second largest CIS trade partner, after the Russian Federation (due mainly to energy imports). Improving trade statistics demonstrate the increasing significance of Ukraine to the Polish economy, with [...]
2005-08-31 13:48:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDETRD PREL EINV PL
05WARSAW3250ISOLATING SYRIA AT THE UNGA: POLAND
[...] (C) Polish MFA Deputy Director for the Middle East and Africa Wojciech Bozek assured us August 31 that neither Polish Foreign Minister Daniel Rotfeld nor President Aleksander Kwasniewski has any plans to meet with Al-Asad in New York, for both reasons of policy and scheduling. Bozek indicated [...]
2005-08-31 13:54:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER SY PL UNGA
05WARSAW3270Polish Economy not yet Hurt by Rising Oil Prices
[...] (SBU) Rapidly increasing oil prices have had a limited effect on the rate of inflation in Poland to date. Over the past 12 months, the average zloty price of oil has increased 12 percent, while the consumer price index rose only 1.3 percent and producer prices remained unchanged. Nevertheless [...]
2005-09-02 12:25:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON PREL PL
05WARSAW3277POLAND DEFERS DECISION ON IRAQI DEBT TO NEXT
[...] (U) This cable contains an action request - see para 4. ------- Summary ------- 2. (C) Polish Finance Ministry Under Secretary Wieslaw Szczuka told us September 1 that, despite press reports, the Polish Government still has taken no decision regarding a write-off of Iraqi debt. At [...]
2005-09-02 15:31:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALEFIN PREL PL IZ
05WARSAW3286POLAND: FRENCH WANT MORE TELECOMS STOCK
[...] No summary [...]
2005-09-06 09:12:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDETRD EINV PL ECCP
05WARSAW3287 Poland's Monetary Policy Council Continues
[...] (SBU) Poland's Monetary Policy Council (MPC) cut interest rates for the fifth time in 2005, reducing all by 25 basis points (bp) except for the rediscount rate, which dropped by 50bp. As of September 1, basic Central Bank rates are: lombard rate 6.0 percent, rediscount rate 4.75 percent, r [...]
2005-09-06 13:41:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON PREL PL
05WARSAW3298CENTRIST CIVIC PLATFORM SURGES IN PRE-ELECTION
[...] (SBU) Summary: The centrist Civic Platform (PO) has moved into a strong first-place position in the latest opinion surveys, with just a few weeks remaining before Polish parliamentary and presidential elections. PO's recent surge suggests that the party will dominate a coalition government fo [...]
2005-09-07 13:39:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ECON PL
05WARSAW3300POLAND: PROBLEMS WITH SAUDI WTO ACCESSION
[...] (SBU) Econoff spoke with Sara Riley from the U.K. Embassy regarding the WTO accession of Saudi Arabia. Riley noted concerns with regard to certain EU member states, including Poland, stemming from dual fuel pricing regimes (one for domestic, one for export). According to Riley, the Poles are [...]
2005-09-07 13:59:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD PL SA WTO
05WARSAW3305MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME (MTCR) "SYRIA
[...] No summary [...]
2005-09-08 10:40:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALMNUC PARM PREL PL MTCRE
05WARSAW3360WHAT'S AT STAKE IN POLISH ELECTIONS
[...] (C) Summary: With just a few weeks remaining in the Polish parliamentary and presidential election campaigns, all signs indicate that the new government and head of state will be ones committed to advancing long-standing principles of Polish foreign and economic policy. September 25 parliamen [...]
2005-09-14 13:58:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON PL
05WARSAW3361POLAND: Government Announces Antipiracy Strategy
[...] (U) During the September 13, Council of Ministers meeting in Warsaw, the interagency group approved a strategy for combating intellectual property rights (IPR) piracy. The report focuses several strategic goals and emphasizes the importance of the "public-private sector partnership" to achiev [...]
2005-09-14 15:36:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDETRD KIPR PL
05WARSAW3387POLAND WEIGHS UKRAINIAN ROLE IN ADDRESSING
[...] (C) Polish officials confirmed to us September 16 that they are likely to respond positively to a Ukrainian proposal to host a meeting at the NSA-equivalent level between Poland and Belarus. Slawomir Kaminski, a deputy director in Polish National Security Adviser Jerzy Bahr's office, explained [...]
2005-09-16 11:41:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV BO UP PL
05WARSAW3393POLISH ELECTIONS UPDATE: PO, PIS MAINTAIN LEAD
[...] (SBU) Summary: The centrist Civic Platform (PO) and center-right Law and Justice (PiS) continue to dominate the party preference polls with little more than a week before Polish parliamentary elections September 25. The latest surveys indicate that PO still far outpaces PiS, and that, togethe [...]
2005-09-16 14:05:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PL
05WARSAW3410POLISH RESPONSE REGARDING WEAPONS SALES TO
[...] (S) SUMMARY. Embassy delivered reftel demarche to Ministry of Economy (MOE) and MFA officials responsible for export controls. Both ministries confirmed that there was an agreement with Indonesia for sale of the Kobra air defense system to Indonesia, but there were as yet no applications for [...]
2005-09-19 13:03:00Embassy WarsawSECRETPARM PREL ETTC MASS PL LY IN
05WARSAW3422POLISH MINISTRY OF ECONOMY UNCONCERNED ABOUT
[...] (C) Summary. Polish government officials responsible for energy security are unconcerned about the recent agreement between Germany and Russia to construct a gas pipeline under the Baltic Sea despite almost daily news articles about the proposed project. Our contacts concede that the proje [...]
2005-09-20 13:35:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALENRG PREL PL GM RS
05WARSAW3423POLISH NSA REQUESTS MEETING ON BELARUS
[...] (C) Following up on reftel conversations concerning our interest in close coordination with Poland on Belarus, Polish National Security Advisor Jerzy Bahr has requested a meeting with the Ambassador in advance of a planned September 29 meeting in Kiev with Bahr's Belarusian counterpart. The A [...]
2005-09-20 13:52:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV BO UP PL
05WARSAW3427POLISH PARLIAMENTARY RACE TIGHTENS
[...] (SBU) Summary: With just days to go before September 25 Polish parliamentary elections, latest opinion polls indicate a tightening race between the front-running Civic Platform (PO) and its likely coalition partner, the center-right Law and Justice (PiS). In contrast to the inconclusive elect [...]
2005-09-21 08:57:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PL
05WARSAW3429 CHILDREN OF MARTIAL LAW AND YOUTHFUL POLITICS IN
[...] (U) Summary: A survey of the youth wings of Poland's political parties and discussions with young voters give a picture of a generation raised in post-communist Poland fairly disengaged from the political process. While dedicated individuals in and out of the party structure try to reverse thi [...]
2005-09-21 10:23:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ECON PL
05WARSAW3447 OSCE: HDIM OPENING FOCUSES ON OSCE REFORM
[...] Summary: The opening session of the 2005 Human Dimension Implementation Meeting gave participants a chance to set out their views of the OSCE, against the backdrop of reform discussions ongoing in Vienna. Poland, the U.S., and Kyrgyzstan voiced strong support for OSCE's human rights work and [...]
2005-09-23 09:45:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL PL OSCE
05WARSAW3456LIKELY COALITION PARTNERS NECK-AND-NECK ON EVE OF
[...] (SBU) Summary: National opinion surveys on the last day of the Polish parliamentary election campaign show the centrist Civic Platform (PO) and center-right Law and Justice (PiS) running roughly even (albeit with a slight edge to PO),highlighting the fierce contest for first place between the [...]
2005-09-23 14:41:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PL
05WARSAW3465POLISH RIGHT VICTORIOUS IN PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION
[...] (SBU) Summary. Preliminary results and exit polling from Poland's September 25 parliamentary elections indicate a convincing victory for the center-right Law and Justice (PiS) and Civic Platform (PO),who are expected to begin formal coalition negotiations as early as September 27. PiS's nar [...]
2005-09-26 10:13:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PL
05WARSAW3469POLAND: COMBATING EXTREMISM
[...] (U) Summary: Muslim extremism is not perceived to be an issue of concern in Poland; the Muslim community is very small and the population is 96 percent Roman Catholic. However, the Embassy and ConGen Krakow closely monitor the media for any indications of rising extremist threats. Given the co [...]
2005-09-27 09:47:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM KPAO EAID PHUM KMPI PL
05WARSAW3473OSCE: HDIM ELECTION ISSUES
[...] (U) Summary. Election issues were the focus of three early events at this year's Human Dimension Implementation Meeting (HDIM)in Warsaw. During the first HDIM Working Session, the clear fault line that separates most NGOs and participating States, including the United States, from Russia and [...]
2005-09-27 12:26:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL PL OSCE
05WARSAW3477FINAL ELECTION RESULTS ANNOUNCED IN POLAND
[...] (SBU) Summary: The final results of Polish parliamentary elections confirmed a narrow first-place finish for the center-right Law and Justice (PiS),followed by its anticipated coalition partner, the Civic Platform (PO). The latest forecasts for parliamentary seat distribution indicate that P [...]
2005-09-27 14:04:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PL
05WARSAW3494JAROSLAW KACZYNSKI UNEXPECTEDLY WITHDRAWS AS PM
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a surprise move September 27, Law and Justice (PiS) party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski named Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz as the party's candidate to be Prime Minister. Kaczynski's decision to remove himself from the running is widely interpreted as a bid to improve his twin brothe [...]
2005-09-28 15:00:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PL KJRE
05WARSAW3545TIME TO THINK SOFA FOR POLAND
[...] (U) This is an action message. Please see para 10. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Embassy Warsaw recommends that the USG begin negotiations for a bilateral Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) with Poland as soon as possible. In the context of both NATO obligations and bilateral programs, U.S. military per [...]
2005-10-05 07:31:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALKTIA MARR PREL MASS PL NATO
05WARSAW3557TUSK STILL LEADS IN TIGHTENING PRESIDENTIAL RACE
[...] (U) Summary: Civic Platform (PO) candidate Donald Tusk remains the odds-on favorite to replace Aleksander Kwasniewski as Poland's next President, although the race with his principal rival, Law and Justice (PiS) candidate Lech Kaczynski is tightening in the final days before the October 9 el [...]
2005-10-05 14:17:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PL
05WARSAW3575PRESIDENTIAL PRE-ELECTION SNAPSHOT
[...] Summary: Civic Platform's (PO's) Donald Tusk remains in the lead for the October 9 first round of the Polish presidential race, with today's final pre-election polls showing his edge over Law and Justice (PiS) challenger, Lech Kaczynski varying from just one to eight points. Other candidate [...]
2005-10-07 13:32:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PL
05WARSAW3578TUSK EDGES OUT KACZYNSKI IN FIRST PRESIDENTIAL
[...] (SBU) Summary: As predicted, Civic Platform's (PO's) Donald Tusk prevailed in the first-round of Poland's presidential election on October 9, and will face Lech Kaczynski in a second round of balloting on October 23. Despite only a three point margin over his rival, Tusk has bounced in post- [...]
2005-10-11 13:56:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PL
05WARSAW3608SURROGATE MUD-SLINGING BACKFIRES ON KACZYNSKI
[...] (C) The presidential campaign of Law and Justice (PiS) candidate Lech Kaczynski seems to have suffered a blow when a surrogate's false attack on Civic Platform (PO) rival Donald Tusk backfired. PiS's self-described "bull terrier," Jacek Kurski charged publicly that Tusk's grandfather voluntee [...]
2005-10-14 14:30:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PL
05WARSAW3613POLAND: U.S. POLICY TOWARD BELARUS
[...] (C) We shared reftel (A) demarche points with Polish MFA officials October 12 and 13, highlighting the results of our policy review and our determination to coordinate closely with partners in support of Belarusian democracy. Polish officials indicated that Poland shares the broad outlines of [...]
2005-10-17 14:08:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM BO PL
05WARSAW3615POLISH PRIME MINISTER CANDIDATE EMPHASIZES DESIRE
[...] (C) Summary: Ambassador met for about 30 minutes October 14 with Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, Law and Justice's (PiS) candidate for prime minister. Marcinkiewicz emphasized the importance PiS and its coalition partner Civic Platform (PO) attached to the U.S. relationship, raised offsets and mili [...]
2005-10-17 15:40:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MASS MARR PL
05WARSAW3625POLISH MFA REQUESTS U.S. SUPPORT FOR CANDIDATE FOR
[...] (C) Pol-Mil Chief was called in to MFA October 17 by Deputy Director for Security Policy Tadeusz Chomicki to discuss the upcoming selection of a new chairman for the Zangger Committee. Chomicki explained that the Polish delegation had provided to the British Mission in Vienna, which acts as s [...]
2005-10-18 14:41:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPARM ETTC KNNP PL EUN
05WARSAW3627POLISH MFA STATEMENT ON IRAQ REFERENDUM
[...] In response to reftel demarche, the Polish MFA released October 18 the following public statement in support of the Iraqi constitutional referendum. 2. Begin text of embassy translation of statement. "Poland has welcomed a nationwide referendum on the new constitution that was conducted o [...]
2005-10-18 15:18:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV KDEM IZ PL
05WARSAW3632POLAND RESPONDS TO AVIAN FLU OUTBREAKS
[...] Summary. In response to the confirmed outbreak of H5N1 avian influenza in Romania and Turkey, the GOP has taken several steps to prepare for a potential outbreak on Polish soil. An emergency anti-epidemic committee has been formed that cuts across key ministries and agencies, including Heal [...]
2005-10-19 12:21:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO ECON PREL PL KSTH WHO
05WARSAW3642POLAND/CUBA: MFA SENIOR OFFICIAL MEETS ONLY WITH
[...] (C) This is an action request for WHA/CCA and USINT Havana. See paragraph 8. 2. (C) Summary: MFA Director for the Americas Henryk Szlajfer gave PolCouns a read-out on his recent visit to Cuba, where he met only with opposition figures, and was completely boycotted by the government. H [...]
2005-10-20 08:47:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM KPAO OIIP PL CU
05WARSAW3650POTENTIAL ASYLUM REQUEST FROM IRAQI DIPLOMAT IN
[...] CONOFF was visited on October 19, 2005 by Mohammed N. Muthanna, Third Secretary and Consul for the Iraqi Embassy in Warsaw, in connection with a potential asylum request by Mr. Muthanna. Muthanna told CONOFF that he believes that he has been targeted for assasination by either "Baathists" or " [...]
2005-10-20 15:24:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALCVIS PHUM PINR PL PREL IZ
05WARSAW3661LECH KACZYNSKI ELECTED PRESIDENT OF POLAND
[...] Summary: Lech Kaczynski snatched victory in Poland's presidential election on October 23, in a surprising come from behind win against Donald Tusk. Elections results will be announced officially this afternoon, but with well over 90 percent of the votes tallied, Kaczynski secured his election [...]
2005-10-24 10:45:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL MARR ECON PL
05WARSAW3694DEFMIN CANDIDATES TELL EUR DAS PEKALA NEW GOP WILL
[...] (C) SUMMARY. In a brief October 20 visit to Warsaw, EUR DAS Mark Pekala met separately with the three leading candidates for Defense Minister in the expected coalition government of Law and Justice (PiS) and Civic Platform (PO). Although perspectives and tones differed, Bronislaw Komorowski ( [...]
2005-10-26 13:06:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR MARR PL
05WARSAW3700POLISH GOVERNMENT COALITION TALKS BREAK DOWN
[...] (C) Summary: Coalition negotiations between Law and Justice (PiS) and Civic Platform (PO) collapsed October 26 following PiS's decision to put forward its own candidate for parliamentary speaker, who was quickly elected with the support of radical opposition parties. PiS and PO leaders were u [...]
2005-10-26 15:13:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PL
05WARSAW3732POLAND CONDEMNS IRANIAN PRESIDENT'S INCREASING
[...] (U) Poland reacted very quickly and strongly to Iranian President Ahmadi-Nejad's October 25 statement that Israel should be "wiped off the map" (reftel). The Polish MFA spokesman issued on October 27 a strong condemnation of Ahmadi-Nejad's remarks. Text follows in para 3 below. 2. (C) Pol [...]
2005-10-31 13:07:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PHUM IR PL
05WARSAW3734MARCINKIEWICZ NAMES POLISH GOVERNMENT
[...] Summary: Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz named his new cabinet on October 31, with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs going to career diplomat Stefan Meller and Defense to Radek Sikorski. Reaching out to moderates like Zbigniew Religa as Minister of Health and Teresa Lubinska at Finance suggests that de [...]
2005-10-31 14:07:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PL
05WARSAW3762POLISH RESPONSE ON BELARUS PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
[...] (C) Acting Polcouns delivered reftel demarche to Beata Kolecka, Deputy Director of the EU Department of the Polish MFA. Kolecka welcomed the U.S. perspectives, which she said very closely paralleled Poland's own policy on Belarus. She noted the ongoing excellent bilateral and regional cooper [...]
2005-11-04 14:49:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM PGOV BO EUN
05WARSAW3794NEW POLISH DEFMIN SIKORSKI HOPES TO VISIT
[...] (C) SUMMARY. In his introductory meeting with Ambassador Ashe, new Defense Minister Radek Sikorski expressed his desire to visit Washington during the week of November 28 for official meetings with Secretary Rumsfeld and other senior officials. In a focused half-hour discussion, Sikorski also [...]
2005-11-09 15:44:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR MASS PL
05WARSAW3795NEW POLISH FOREIGN MINISTER EMPHASIZES IMPORTANCE
[...] (C) During Ambassador's initial call, Poland's newly named Foreign Minister Stefan Meller said he would travel back to Moscow (where he served as Ambassador until his October 31 appointment) on November 13 to arrange his move back to Warsaw, but also to meet with Foreign Minister Lavrov and, h [...]
2005-11-09 15:48:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR PL
05WARSAW3806POLISH PM MARCINKIEWICZ SET TO WIN CONFIDENCE VOTE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Polish Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz presented his government's program to parliament November 10, confident of prevailing in a vote of confidence later that day. Both the populist Self-Defense (SO) and the right-wing League of Polish Families (LPR) parties have given [...]
2005-11-10 14:29:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PL
05WARSAW3825POLISH MILITARY PREPARES TO REMAIN IN IRAQ, BUT
[...] (C) SUMMARY. During the November 8-9 Force Generation Conference in Warsaw for the sixth rotation of the Multinational Division Center-South (MND-CS) in Iraq, the Chief of Strategic Planning for the Polish General Staff outlined plans for a continued, albeit reduced Polish presence in Iraq. [...]
2005-11-14 15:38:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MASS PL
05WARSAW3826NEW POLISH GOVERNMENT LISTS MISSILE DEFENSE IN
[...] (U) In a published addendum to his November 10 expose to the Sejm (Parliament) in advance of the first vote of confidence in his newly formed government (reftel),PM Marcinkiewicz included a specific statement on missile defense cooperation with the United States. The statement listed as one [...]
2005-11-14 16:22:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALMARR PREL PGOV PARM PL
05WARSAW3872POLISH APPROACH TO NOVEMBER 21 EU GAERC
[...] (SBU) Post delivered reftel demarche upon receipt and reviewed with Polish MFA Director CFSP Beata Kolecka November 18. Kolecka provided the following outline of the Polish government's approach to the November 21 GAERC. 2. (C) Defense Issues: Poland is in full accord with our position an [...]
2005-11-18 14:22:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON PGOV PL EUN
05WARSAW3903POLAND: UPDATED INFORMATION ON AVIAN AND PANDEMIC
[...] Summary. Post has reported extensively on our positive relationship with the GOP in its effort to prepare for a potential avian influenza outbreak (see refs b - e). Polish officials are actively preparing for the appearance of the disease, which they expect will occur in the Spring. Rather [...]
2005-11-23 14:50:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO SENV ECON EAGR EAID PREL PL
05WARSAW3909POLISH RESOLVE REINFORCED ON CUBA POLICY
[...] (C) Summary: The transition to a center-right government in Poland and the Polish MFA Latin America director's recent visit to Havana appear to have strengthened Polish determination to promote democratic reform in Cuba, both through the European Union and bilaterally. We view this developmen [...]
2005-11-25 10:06:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV CU PL EUN
05WARSAW3914DEPUTY PM STRESSES LAW, VISAS IN MEETING WITH
[...] (U) SUMMARY: In Ambassador Ashe's November 23 introductory call on Deputy Prime Minister and Interior Minister, Ludwik Dorn, discussion focused on law and order issues but also included visas as well as next-generation national leadership. The Ambassador underscored his desire to host a lunch [...]
2005-11-25 16:06:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KCRM CVIS PL
05WARSAW3954NAC COMMUNIQUE: POLAND SUPPORTS STRONG LANGUAGE
[...] No summary [...]
2005-12-01 16:45:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL KCFE PL NATO
05WARSAW4009POLISH VIEWS ON DECEMBER 12 GAERC
[...] (C) Post delivered ref (A) demarche upon receipt and reviewed with Polish MFA Director for CFSP Beata Kolecka December 8. Points on Balkans issues were delivered separately and Polish views were reported in Ref (B). 2. (C) The December 12 GAERC and the subsequent European Council meetings [...]
2005-12-08 14:56:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON PL EUN
05WARSAW4020LAW AND JUSTICE IN THE DRIVER'S SEAT
[...] (C) Summary: Governing Law and Justice (PiS) officials are pursuing a strategy of dividing and conquering right-wing and nationalist Polish parties, and pondering whether to call early elections -- perhaps as soon as early 2006 -- to strengthen their position. The main opposition, PiS's woul [...]
2005-12-09 15:49:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PL
05WARSAW4025 POLAND'S 2005-2006 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS
[...] No summary [...]
2005-12-12 15:07:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR PL EUN
05WARSAW4030POLISH FOREIGN MINISTER MELLER'S VISIT TO
[...] (C) Summary: Polish Foreign Minister Stefan Meller travels to Washington next week as the representative of a new center-right government that pledges continuity in foreign policy and sustained engagement in support of democracy throughout the world. Meller is expected to bring a positive mes [...]
2005-12-13 10:17:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR MOPS ECON PL
05WARSAW4037IRAQ: POLES SIGNAL READINESS TO STAY, BUT PRESS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Polish officials and parliamentarians who met with Robert Deutsch, Deputy Senior Advisor for Iraq, on December 8 in Warsaw suggested that Poland will likely remain in Iraq past January 2006, but in reduced numbers, and with an eye to withdrawing by the end of 2006. Because Polish [...]
2005-12-13 16:15:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL MOPS MARR IZ PL
05WARSAW4045POLAND'S CIVIC PLATFORM -- THE JILTED BRIDE
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Poland's leading opposition party, the Civic Platform (PO),hopes to cast itself as the only viable political alternative to the ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS),although its sudden metamorphosis from would-be coalition leader to outspoken critic has led some Poles, including [...]
2005-12-14 12:52:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PL
05WARSAW4050Lepper undergoes a transformation on economics
[...] (SBU) In a recent interview for business daily "Puls Biznesu" Andrzej Lepper, the leader of Samoobrona (Self Defense) the third largest party in the Polish Parliament, presents himself as a social-liberal as opposed to his portrayal as a dedicated socialist during the election period. His vie [...]
2005-12-15 09:46:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON PREL PGOV PL
05WARSAW40582006 HAGUE COMPLIANCE REPORT PREPARATION -- POLAND
[...] (SBU) We welcome the opportunity to provide comments related to Poland's compliance with The Hague Convention provisions. Although we generally agree with the negative portrayal of Poland's compliance efforts, we believe that Poland has made some small progress in its handling of Hague cases [...]
2005-12-15 17:07:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCASC KOCI PL
05WARSAW4065POLAND: AMBASSADOR'S COURTESY CALL ON NEW
[...] (U) Ambassador called on new Minister of Transport and Construction, Jerzy Polaczek, on December 9 to discuss the new government's plans for speeding up infrastructure development. Minister Polaczek commenting that his first priority was to ensure that he spent the government's resources wi [...]
2005-12-16 15:31:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN EAIR ECPS ELTN PREL PL
05WARSAW4067POLAND 2005-2006 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL
[...] Poland's geographic location places it directly along one of the main routes between the former Soviet Union republics and Western Europe used by narcotics-traffickers and organized crime groups. According to Polish government estimates, narcotics-trafficking, organized crime activity, auto th [...]
2005-12-16 16:18:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR KTFN PL
05WARSAW4075POLAND: THE IRAQI AIR FORCE MEETS WITH BUMAR, BOTH
[...] (S) On 14 December 2005 Econoff and ODC Warsaw personnel met with Iraqi Air Force generals and then observed a meeting hosted by Bumar and attended by five Iraqi Air Force generals. The participants discussed, sometimes heatedly, the 36 helicopters covered in Bumar's multifacted contract to [...]
2005-12-20 12:38:00Embassy WarsawSECRETEAID ECON MARR PGOV PREL IZ PL
05WARSAW4079PIS MAKES PLAY FOR PUBLIC MEDIA
[...] (U) On December 16th Law and Justice (PIS) moved to change the National Broadcasting law and effectively seize political and, consequently, editorial control of Polish Public Television (TVP) and Radio (PR). The amendment was fast-tracked through Parliament (same day reading and voting with n [...]
2005-12-20 14:50:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDECPS KPAO PGOV PREL PL
05WARSAW4113Update on GOP's Anti-Trafficking Policies
[...] Our discussions with Polish government officials, NGOs, and academic institutions reveal that the GOP has taken significant steps to combat trafficking in persons (TIP) in Poland. For the first time ever, the GOP has allocated funds from the state budget for the implementation of the Nationa [...]
2005-12-23 08:28:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM PREF KCRM KJUS PL
05WARSAW4124DRAFT POLISH DEFENSE BUDGET, MORE FOR
[...] SUMMARY: Poland's Parliamentary Defense Committee offered a glimpse of future defense spending when it approved the $5.6 billion draft defense budget for 2006 on December 15. This represents a 3.3% increase (adjusted for inflation) over 2005. Significant elements of the draft include $1 billi [...]
2005-12-28 15:53:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV ECON PREL PTER PARM PL
05WARSAW58 Markets Show Increasing Appreciation for the
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Zloty appreciated the most of any convertible currency against the Dollar, growing 20% in 2004. Most observers attribute this rise to a mix of factors, including greater political stability under the current technocratic government, Poland's entry into the EU in May, and t [...]
2005-01-06 06:27:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON PREL PL
05WARSAW742 Polish Government Appreciates USG Acceptance of
[...] (U) On January 28, Econ Counselor delivered the news that the USG creditor agencies would participate in Poland's offer to prepay its Paris Club debt to Finance U/S Szczuka. Econoff subsequently followed up with MOF technical experts. During these conversations, we took the opportunity to expl [...]
2005-02-08 15:02:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN PREL PL
05WARSAW794SECURITY PROBLEMS AT WARSAW'S AIRPORT HIT THE PRESS
[...] (SBU) Summary. In late January 2005, the European Union conducted an airport security assessment at Warsaw's Okecie airport. The EU assessors identified a number of deficiencies at the airport, including two important security problems related to passenger/baggage screening and maintaining th [...]
2005-02-11 05:15:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR ECON PREL PL
05WARSAW924 Polish Government Declares Half a Loaf on Public
[...] (U) On February 1, the Council of Ministers issued a communiqu claiming that provisions implemented to date of the government's fiscal reform plan (the "Hausner plan," named after its chief architect, Economy Minister Jerzy Hausner) would save 25.4 billion Zloty ($8.2 billion) between 2004-7. [...]
2005-02-18 07:49:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON PREL PL
05WARSAW959 Defeat of Health Care Bill Prompts Health Minister
[...] (SBU) Summary: On 17 February, the Sejm rejected a long awaited bill on restructuring of public health care units. The bill, prepared as part of the government's public finance reform package, was designed to write off up to $3 billion in local hospital debts in exchange for reforms, including [...]
2005-02-22 05:09:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON ELAB PREL PL
05WARSAW966 Polish Ministry of Finance Reorganizes Debt
[...] (U) At the end of January, the Ministry of Finance reorganized its debt department, creating a unified department from two formerly separate units, one for foreign debt and one for domestic debt. Pawel Kowalewski, the new head of the unified department, explained to Econoffs that this unifica [...]
2005-02-22 11:24:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON PREL PL
05WARSAW985BOEING CEO MEETS WITH POLISH MINISTER OF TREASURY
[...] (SBU) Boeing CEO, Harry Stonecipher, met with the Polish Minister of State Treasury, Jacek Socha, on February 18, to discuss Boeing's activities in Poland. The meeting centered on LOT's tender for long-haul aircraft and also touched on Boeing's plans to cooperate with Polish companies for tool [...]
2005-02-24 13:17:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR ETRD EFIN PREL PL
06WARSAW1011POLAND - Letter Delivered on Health Ministry Price
[...] (SBU) DCM, accompanied by Econoff, called on Deputy Health Minister Boleslaw Piecha and delivered a letter from Ambassador Ashe to Health Minister Zbigniew Religa (see para 7). At issue is the May 18 announcement by the Ministry of Health to cut prices for imported pharmaceuticals, ostensibly [...]
2006-06-01 05:41:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDETRD EINV KIPR PL
06WARSAW107POLAND: SENIOR ADVISOR FOR AGRICULTURAL
[...] (SBU) Summary. Senior Advisor for Agricultural Biotechnology Madelyn Spirnak visited Warsaw on November 29 and 30, 2005 to discuss the USG position on genetically modified organisms (GMO's),with GOP officials, members of the academic community, and the media. While the current GOP and much [...]
2006-01-25 13:36:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO SENV ETRD EAGR KSCA ECIN PL
06WARSAW1098POLAND: AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE - JUNE 8, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-06-08 14:43:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDKFLU TBIO SENV ECON EAGR PREL PL
06WARSAW111BUDGET IS PASSED; ELECTIONS STILL POSSIBLE
[...] Voting well past midnight on January 25, the Polish Parliament passed the budget proposed by the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party by a vote of 269 to 180. Voting was protracted owing to 225 proposed amendments, each considered and voted individually. The budget was passed by a party-line v [...]
2006-01-25 14:22:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PL
06WARSAW1142SENIOR DOS AGRICULTURAL BIOTECH ADVISOR SPIRNAK'S
[...] (SBU) Summary. Madelyn Spirnak, State Department Senior Advisor for Agricultural Biotechnology, attended meetings in Warsaw on May 22 and 23, and in Krakow on May 24, 2006. Her visit came at a crucial time in the new GOP's legislative assault on agricultural biotechnology. In March the GOP [...]
2006-06-12 09:36:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO ECON EAGR ETRD PL
06WARSAW1159POLISH CANDIDATE UP FOR RE-ELECTION TO UNHRC WITH
[...] No summary [...]
2006-06-13 11:22:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM UNHRC PL
06WARSAW1161POLAND'S ECOFUND: CRISIS OR MISUNDERSTANDING?
[...] (SBU) Action request for State, EB/IFD/OMA and OES/ENV, paragraph 10. 2. (SBU) Summary. Internal disputes at Ecofund discussed in Ref A have grown worse, threatening to disrupt the operations of the Fund. At the heart of the matter is the role that the Polish Treasury Ministry is play [...]
2006-06-13 14:28:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID SENV KSCA PL
06WARSAW1167POLAND: UPDATE ON ENERGY SECURITY
[...] (C) The Government of Poland continues to pursue its goal of diversifying energy resources. On May 31, the Cabinet of Ministers approved a resolution prioritizing construction of a gas pipeline from Norway, liquified natural gas (LNG) terminal, and extension of the Odessa-Brody oil pipeline [...]
2006-06-13 14:39:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALENRG EPET GG PO PREL RS SA SL UR AJ EZ
06WARSAW1169ARE THE KACZYNSKIS WOBBLY ON DEMOCRACY?
[...] (C) Summary: One month into the political marriage of convenience which delivered a long-sought parliamentary majority, the Kaczynski brothers are moving forward with their agenda to beat back the last vestiges of Polish Communism by means that their critics charge are anti-democratic. Thei [...]
2006-06-14 09:21:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON PL PREL
06WARSAW1171POLISH MILITARY INTELLIGENCE REFORM: CASTING OUT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On June 9, President Lech Kaczynski signed into law three bills that will liquidate Poland's existing Military Information Services (WSI) on September 30, 2006 in order to create two new services on October 1, 2006, the Military Intelligence Service (SWW) and the Military Counte [...]
2006-06-14 12:07:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMASS MCAP PGOV MARR PL
06WARSAW1172POLAND WILL SUPPORT MDA, CONTEMPLATING ADDITIONAL
[...] No summary [...]
2006-06-14 13:06:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PREL PHUM ICRC PL
06WARSAW1202DELIVERY OF DEMARCHE ON VENEZUELAN ANTI-NGO LAW
[...] No summary [...]
2006-06-19 15:33:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM PGOV PL
06WARSAW1220U.S. MISSION - POLAND EMERGENCY ACTION COMMITTEE
[...] (SBU) In response to reftel guidance, both Embassy Warsaw and Consulate General Krakow convened a joint meeting (via digital video conferencing) of core EAC members at both posts on June 20, 2006 to discuss security planning for the four official American Independence Day celebrations sponso [...]
2006-06-21 12:42:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC AEMR KSAC PL
06WARSAW1223POLAND: Health Ministry Moves Forward on Foreign
[...] (SBU) According to a pharmaceutical LAWG group member, the Ministry of Health has published its ordinances for cutting official prices for imported pharmaceuticals by 13 percent. The ordinances were published in the Polish language Journal of Law no. 101, on 19 June 2006. The publication of [...]
2006-06-21 13:38:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EINV PL
06WARSAW131ASSISTANT SECRETARIES FRIED AND FLORY MEETING WITH
[...] (C) State Department Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Dan Fried, and Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy Peter Flory, accompanied by Ambassador, EUR DAS Mark Pekala, NSC Senior Director Damon Wilson, and Polcouns, met January 25 with Prime Mi [...]
2006-01-27 14:57:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ENRG MASS MARR EINV PL
06WARSAW1314GOP REQUESTS US CONTACT SLOVAK GOVERNMENT ABOUT
[...] (C) This cable contains an action request, para 2. (C) Summary: During a meeting with visiting S/P Director Stephen Krasner, officials at the Ministry of Economy requested U.S. assistance in contacting the government of Slovakia about Polish interest in acquiring from Yukos its 49 perc [...]
2006-06-28 13:59:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALENRG EPET PL UR RS KZ LH LO EZ PGOV
06WARSAW134CIVIC PLATFORM AND LAW AND JUSTICE INSIDERS SEE
[...] (C) Summary: In separate meetings Law and Justice (PiS) and Civic Platform (PO) leaders and insiders told Ambassador and Poloffs that early elections are increasingly likely, despite the Sejm's passage of the budget January 24. After a late night January 26 Sejm session in which PiS once agai [...]
2006-01-27 16:06:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PL
06WARSAW1341POLAND: WEIGHING IN ON PHARM PRICE CUTS
[...] (U) This contains an action request (see paragraph 6). 2. (C) The Ministry of Health,s decision to impose a 13 percent cut in the official price for imported pharmaceutical products was implemented on July 1, 2006. The draft regulations to impose the price cuts were published on the Minist [...]
2006-07-03 14:56:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALETRD PL WTO
06WARSAW1445POLAND ON MISSILE DEFENSE: NO PRECONDITIONS, NO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with the CDA on July 17, two senior MFA officials, Americas Director Henryk Szlajfer and International Security Policy Director Robert Kupiecki, reiterated Poland's continuing strategic interest in negotiating a bilateral agreement on Missile Defense (MD) with no prec [...]
2006-07-17 15:46:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL MARS MASS PL
06WARSAW146AMBASSADOR ASHE'S COURTESTY CALL ON NEW MINISTER
[...] Ambassador Ashe paid a courtesy call to Poland's Minister of the Environment Jan Szyszko on January 27. Ambassador Ashe began by talking of his admiration of Poland's national parks systems and his dedication to increasing the green spaces of Knoxville during his tenure as Mayor of the city. [...]
2006-01-31 16:03:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDECON SENV PREL PL
06WARSAW148U.S.-POLAND STRATEGIC DIALOGUE II - ENERGY SECURITY
[...] (C) Begin Summary. Septel reports on security and defense issues discussed by EUR A/S Dan Fried and ASD/ISP Peter Flory at the Third U.S.-Polish Strategic Dialogue (SD) January 25 in Warsaw and provides a list of the principal U.S. and Polish participants. This cable reports on the Energy [...]
2006-01-31 18:29:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALENRG ECON PGOV PREL PL UP RS NO AJ TX
06WARSAW1489ANTI-SEMITISM AND THE POLISH GOVERNMENT
[...] (C) Summary: Poland's ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS) is stung by criticism that it is anti-Semitic, gutting Holocaust education, and too slow to act on long delayed private property restitution, but does not have a strategy to deal with these problems. PiS points to its heretofore good [...]
2006-07-20 14:03:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KNAR PL
06WARSAW149RESPONDING TO POLISH NON-PAPER REQUESTING
[...] (C) Summary. Post received January 24 a non-paper apparently prepared personally by DefMin Sikorski, revising the non-paper he had handed to Secretary Rumsfeld December 7 in Washington. Unless otherwise instructed Embassy intends to use talking points at para. 7 in responding to GOP official [...]
2006-01-31 19:00:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MCAP MASS PGOV OVIP PL
06WARSAW1514THE (LAST?) BATTLE FOR PUBLIC MEDIA IN POLAND
[...] (U) Journalists and media observers continue to bemoan the perceived loss of independence for public media. While Polish Public media has ebbed and flowed with majority politics since 1989 never has the division between politicians and media been drawn in such sharp relief. The dust is settl [...]
2006-07-25 14:17:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO PL
06WARSAW1515POLAND: DEMARCHE RESPONSE ON CONTRIBUTIONS FOR
[...] On July 18, Econoff delivered reftel demarche points to Mr. Jerzy Pomianowski, Director of Development Co-operation Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Mr.Pomianowski sent the following response dated July 21, 2006. 2. Begin text. Thank you for the information on U.S. assistanc [...]
2006-07-25 15:44:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON EFIN EUN PL
06WARSAW1523THE (LAST?) BATTLE FOR PUBLIC MEDIA IN POLAND
[...] (SBU) Journalists and media observers continue to bemoan the perceived loss of independence for public media. While Polish Public media has ebbed and flowed with majority politics since 1989 never has the division between politicians and media been drawn in such sharp relief. The dust is set [...]
2006-07-26 13:09:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO PL
06WARSAW1529POLAND'S EURO ADOPTION A DISTANT PROSPECT
[...] (SBU) Begin Summary. Poland has not yet set a target date for Eurozone entry even though it must eventually adopt the Euro. The Euro convergence issue, however, is being actively debated among economists and politicians in Poland. Bankers, as expected, support fast Euro adoption, while most [...]
2006-07-27 11:59:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON PREL PL
06WARSAW1551LEBANON - TAPPING INTO POLAND'S POTENTIAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY. According to senior officials in the MFA and the presidential chancellery, the Polish government is prepared to contribute to the planned stabilization force in Lebanon. In addition, the GOP wants very much to participate in future meetings of the Lebanon Core Group, particularly [...]
2006-07-28 14:18:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR EAID LE PL
06WARSAW1552IRAN: DEMARCHE ON P5+1 INCENTIVE PACKAGE DELIVERED
[...] (C) Acting PolCouns delivered reftel demarche to MFA Acting Director for Middle East/Africa Amb. Maciej Kozlowski on July 25. Kozlowski was grateful for the information, which he said matched internal documents received from the EU-3. He asked, however, if there was any assistance the GOP co [...]
2006-07-28 14:28:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL KNNP IR PL EU
06WARSAW1553POLISH MFA U/S KOMOROWSKI TO LEAD POLISH
[...] (SBU) Upon receipt of reftel, Acting PolCouns provided talking points on Lebanon force generation conference to MFA Americas Director Henryk Szlajfer. After consultation with MFA senior leadership, Szlajfer notified Acting PolCouns that MFA U/S Stanislaw Komorowski would lead the Polish delega [...]
2006-07-29 12:09:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KPKO LE PL
06WARSAW1570OPERATION PROMISED LAND - ITALIANS AND POLES TAKE
[...] Summary: On July 18, Polish and Italian police made simultaneous arrests of 25 individuals allegedly involved in the trafficking and forced labor of an estimated 1000 Polish citizens in the Apulia region of southern Italy. PolOff and LegAtt met with the Polish police officers involved in the [...]
2006-08-02 08:49:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM KJUS KCRM PGOV PL
06WARSAW1574LEBANON - POLISH VIEWS IN ADVANCE OF RESCHEDULED
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Polish U/S Komorowski's delegation has returned to Warsaw and will not be able to attend the rescheduled Lebanon force meeting on August 3, but senior Polish leaders remain committed to significant participation in the process. The MFA believes that the August 1 GAERC discussion [...]
2006-08-02 13:07:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL KPKO LE PL
06WARSAW1580CASTRO SUCCESSION: POLAND SUGGESTS A "FRESH START"
[...] (C) SUMMARY. The GOP has not yet developed a policy on Castro succession, but Henryk Szlajfer, the senior MFA official dealing with Cuba, suggested that the best approach would be to "set aside" the existing record on Cuba and make a fresh start at reaching a trans-Atlantic consensus with the [...]
2006-08-03 09:47:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV PHUM CU PL EU
06WARSAW159VISIT OF POLISH PRESIDENT LECH KACZYNSKI TO
[...] (C) Polish President Lech Kaczynski's determination to make his second foreign trip (after the Vatican) to Washington, with less than two months in office, is testament to our close partnership and to the deep admiration the new president has for the United States. A longtime activist in the [...]
2006-02-01 16:08:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR ECON MARR PL
06WARSAW1592DEPARTMENT ENERGY ADVISER HELLMAN'S ENERGY
[...] (C) Economics Ministry State Secretary Piotr Naimski told visiting State Department Energy Advisor Steve Hellman August 1 that Poland is very concerned by the cut-off of Russian oil shipments to Lithuania's Mazeikiu Nafta refinery due to alleged 'accidents and technical difficulties.' The Pole [...]
2006-08-04 08:59:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALENRG EPET LH PL PREL
06WARSAW1595U.S. AIR MARSHALS TRAIN POLISH BORDER GUARDS
[...] SUMMARY: In July 2006, sixteen Polish Border Guards (BG) attended two weeks of airport/border security training at the Federal Air Marshal Training Facility in Atlantic City, NJ. The Program provided Polish air marshals with the skills and capabilities necessary to provide security aboard Pol [...]
2006-08-04 12:35:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PINS PARM PREL ECON PTER PL
06WARSAW160A/S FRIED AND FLORY DISCUSSIONS WITH POLISH
[...] (C) Summary: A/S Fried's January 24 and 25 discussions with senior officials of President Kaczynski's staff reviewed issues likely to be on the agenda during President Kaczynski's February 9 meeting with President Bush. A/S Fried and Ambassador Ashe also had a separate breakaway meeting wit [...]
2006-02-02 11:42:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL ENRG OVIP MASS PL UP RS
06WARSAW1600POLISH ROADS: ROOT PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS FOR
[...] (SBU) Poland's highway system remains practically non-existent. Though Prime Ministers Marcinkiewicz and Kaczynski have both made highway building centerpieces of their initial public addresses, systemic problems remain. Despite the availability of EU reimbursement funds, sources within the [...]
2006-08-04 13:43:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEWWT ELTN EU PL
06WARSAW1601 POLAND: AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE - AUGUST 4, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-08-04 14:34:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDKFLU TBIO SENV ECON EAGR PREL PL
06WARSAW1610NEW HEAD OF CHANCELLERY A LOYAL KACZYNSKI
[...] (C) SUMMARY. 43-year-old Aleksander Szczyglo is a Lech Kaczynski protege and one of the President's closest confidantes. Szczyglo's appointment as Head of the Presidential Chancellery will assure a loyal staff operation, but may not necessarily affect policy formulation. Though a member of t [...]
2006-08-07 13:24:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL PL
06WARSAW1611 POLAND - PRICE CUTS ON REFUNDABLE DRUGS LIST
[...] (U) On July 22, 2006 Embassy received a copy of a letter from Polish Health Deputy Minister Boleslaw Piecha to Pawel Zelewski, President of the Innovative Pharmaceutical Companies Association (IPCA). The letter is the Ministry of Health's response to IPCA's concerns with regard to a 13 percent [...]
2006-08-07 13:33:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDETRD KIPR TBIO EINV PL
06WARSAW1630NEW HEAD OF CHANCELLERY A LOYAL KACZYNSKI
[...] (C) SUMMARY. 43-year-old Aleksander Szczyglo is a Lech Kaczynski protege and one of the President's closest confidantes. Szczyglo's appointment as Head of the Presidential Chancellery will assure a loyal staff operation, but may not necessarily affect policy formulation. Though a member of t [...]
2006-08-07 15:09:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL PL
06WARSAW1632Poland: Frank Mermoud's Visit
[...] (SBU) Frank Mermoud, Special Representative for Commercial and Business Affairs, visited Warsaw July 14 to urge the Polish government to change its position on the 13% reduction in reimbursement prices for imported drugs that became effective July  [...]
2006-08-08 06:51:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON ENRG PREL PL
06WARSAW1646JAROSLAW KACZYNSKI TAKES CHARGE
[...] (C) SUMMARY. END SUMMARY. 2. (C) Speaking non-stop for an hour and forty minutes without break, and only rarely looking at his notes, PM Jaroslaw Kaczynski delivered on August 4 an impressive tour d'horizon of Polish government policies, making clear that he is solidly in charge of the gov [...]
2006-08-09 07:10:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR MARR PL
06WARSAW1664LEBANON: POLAND OPTIMISTIC ABOUT UNIFIL-PLUS
[...] No summary [...]
2006-08-11 12:18:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALIS LE MOPS PREL PTER UN PL
06WARSAW1676MISSILE DEFENSE: STRONG POLITICAL WILL IN POLAND
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Public opposition to hosting a U.S. MD site in Poland is, as the opposition to the Iraq War, thin and not strongly felt. All major political parties on the left and the right continue to support an MD site, and the government leadership is committed to the project. There is no do [...]
2006-08-11 14:46:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MASS PL
06WARSAW1679POLAND: GOVERNMENT PLAN TO CARVE CHANNEL ON POLISH
[...] (U) Summary. Reftel describes the intermittent quarrels between the GOP and the Kaliningrad authorities and Moscow over ship access to the Baltisk Strait, which is the only point of entry into the Vistula Bay, and is located in Russian territory. As a result, the Polish city of Elblag and [...]
2006-08-11 14:55:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EWWT SENV PREL RS PL
06WARSAW1683Emigration Tightens Poland's Labor Markets: "Will the Last
[...] That Poles are leaving Poland in search of jobs and higher wages in other countries is nothing new. For Poland this is merely dj vu, yet another wave of emigration, another generation of young Poles leaving the country in search of better opportunities elsewhere. Past migrations of Poles hav [...]
2006-08-12 10:06:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDCVIS ELAB SOCI PREL SMIG PL XG XH
06WARSAW1684UNSCR 1701: POLAND GRATIFIED AT UNIFIED POSITION
[...] (U) Charge shared Ref A points on UNSCR 1701 with Acting Foreign Minister Pawel Kowal, who stated that MFA U/S Witold Waszczykowski was in the process of drafting a public statement on the resolution. Waszczykowski told Charge separately that the MFA statement would welcome the passage of UNS [...]
2006-08-12 14:24:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER MOPS UN UNSC IS LE
06WARSAW1687LEBANON UPDATE: POLISH PUBLIC STATEMENT SUPPORTING
[...] (U) As previewed Ref A, The Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued the following public statement on UNSCR 1701 on August 12: BEGIN TEXT The Ministry of Foreign Affairs welcomes with pleasure the unanimous passage by the UN Security Council of the resolution regarding the cessation of [...]
2006-08-14 10:28:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PTER MOPS UN UNSC IS LE
06WARSAW1721WORKING WITH THE KACZYNSKI BROTHERS - GO STRAIGHT
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Now that PM Jarek Kaczynski has consolidated power domestically, the Polish government is starting to re-consider its position in the world. Jarek Kaczynski has very little foreign affairs experience, but he has also chosen to take foreign policy decision-making authority on him [...]
2006-08-17 15:36:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR OVIP PL
06WARSAW1734POLAND - JULY 2006 SINGAPORE OPERATIONAL EXPERTS
[...] Poloff delivered reftel points on the Singapore OEG to Lukasz Zielinski, PSI point of contact in the MFA Security Policy Department. Zielinski responded that he had attended the OEG and the GOP had found it very fruitful. He noted with some pride that many delegations had the success of the [...]
2006-08-19 08:22:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MOPS PREL LE PL
06WARSAW174POLAND REQUESTS USG SUPPORT FOR UNCHR CANDIDACY
[...] The Polish MFA delivered January 30 a diplomatic note containing a message for the Secretary from Foreign Minister Stefan Meller. As anticipated in reftel, the Poles request our support to secure a spot on the United Nations Commission on Human Rights (UNCHR) from 2007-2009. Text at paragraph [...]
2006-02-03 14:10:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KUNR ADCO PHUM PL UN
06WARSAW1746POLAND: SOLICITING CONTRIBUTIONS FOR UNIFIL
[...] (C) Acting PolCouns delivered reftel points on UNIFIL contributions to MFA Middle East Africa Director and MFA Americas Acting Director on August 17. DCM also raised the issue in a previously scheduled meeting with Acting Foreign Minister Pawel Kowal on August 18. Kowal indicated that Poland [...]
2006-08-22 06:45:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALMARR MOPS PREL LE PL
06WARSAW1758POLAND: SOLICITING SUPPORT FOR ROBUST UNIFIL-PLUS
[...] (C) Pol External Chief delivered Ref A points August 22 to Krzysztof Plominski, MFA Director for ME-Africa. Plominski said that FM Fotyga was to meet at 1200 with DefMin Sikorski to review GOP plans for UNIFIL-plus in advance of the August 23 meeting of selected EU foreign ministers in Brussel [...]
2006-08-22 14:43:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALMARR MOPS PREL LE PL
06WARSAW176U.S.-POLAND STRATEGIC DIALOGUE III: EU FOREIGN
[...] (C) Summary: Septel reports on security and defense issues discussed by EUR A/S Dan Fried and ASD/ISP Peter Flory at the Third U.S.-Polish Strategic Dialogue (SD) January 25 in Warsaw and provides a list of the principal U.S. and Polish participants. This cable covers the SD sessions on East [...]
2006-02-03 15:03:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PL UP BO RU
06WARSAW1763POLAND: URGING IRAN-SYRIA TO RESPECT ARMS EMBARGO
[...] (C) Pol External Chief delivered reftel demarche August 22 to Krzysztof Plominski, MFA Director for ME-Africa. Plominski acknowledged the points and agreed that Iran and Syria had to be held to their obligation under UNSCR 1701. He also said that the GOP planned no delegations to either Tehera [...]
2006-08-22 15:23:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALMARR MOPS PREL LE PL
06WARSAW177POLISH GOVERNING PARTY SIGNS COOPERATION ACCORD
[...] (SBU) Summary: Poland's governing Law and Justice (PiS) party concluded a "stabilization pact" February 2 with opposition protest parties Self-Defense (SO) and the League of Polish Families (LPR),committing the parties to cooperate on a detailed legislative agenda but stopping short of a form [...]
2006-02-03 15:20:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PL
06WARSAW178POLAND: DOE OFFICIALS DISCUSS SPENT REACTOR FUEL
[...] Econoff attended a meeting of DOE officials Michael Tyacke and Igor Bolshinsky and GOP officials from the National Atomic Energy Agency (PAA),State Treasury, and Radioactive Waste Management Authority on 26 January 2006. Tyacke and Bolshinsky presented information on the DOE's Russian Resea [...]
2006-02-03 15:37:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDTRGY KNNP ECON ENRG PL IAEA
06WARSAW1796 TEXTILES AND APPAREL SECTOR - POLAND
[...] (U) In response to reftel, post provides the following information regarding the Polish textile and apparel sector, all data from end-year 2005: Total production: in textiles 8.96 billion PLN (2.89 billion USD); in apparel 4.47 billion PLN (1.44 billion USD)(Note: revenues from activities w [...]
2006-08-25 15:00:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD KTEX PL
06WARSAW1798NEW DEPUTY DEFMINS: MACIEREWICZ STIRS UP
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Newly appointed MOD U/S Antoni Macierewicz, responsible for transformation of the military intelligence services (REF A),has triggered an uproar by accusing "most former Polish foreign ministers" of being Soviet agents. PM Kaczynski who forced the appointment over DefMin Sikorsk [...]
2006-08-26 05:00:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR PL
06WARSAW180POLAND'S COMMENTS ON RUSSIA-UKRAINE GAS
[...] (U) This cable contains an action request - see para 2. Summary and Action Request -------------------------- 2. (C) Poland's Ministry of Economy and MFA expressed support for the U.S. proposal on an approach to Ukraine but seek clarification on several questions. Poland requests fu [...]
2006-02-03 17:26:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALENRG ECON PINR PREL UP RS PO AU EU CZ
06WARSAW1886IMSO: POLAND SUPPORT U.S. CANDIDATE
[...] (C) Deputy Econ Counselor provided reftel diplomatic note and campaign materials to Mr. Bogdan Rozycki, Counselor, in the Polish Ministry of Transport. Mr. Rozycki stated that Poland decided in early August to support Mr. Lett's candidacy to be head of the International Mobile Satellite Org [...]
2006-09-06 17:26:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALAORC ECPS EU EWWT IMO INMARSAT KHLS PL
06WARSAW1890NEW EXXON-MOBIL TECHNOLOGY OFFERS POLAND POTENTIAL
[...] (C) Summary. ExxonMobil Exploration (EM) executives briefed Acting Economic Counselor on discussions with the GOP to explore Poland's willingness to work with EM to utilize new gas technology that could unlock tight gas supplies. If EM decides to pursue the project, it plans to work with th [...]
2006-09-07 09:21:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALECON ENRG NO PL
06WARSAW2008POLAND'S PKN ORLEN DISCUSSES MAZEIKIU NAFTA,
[...] (C) PKN Orlen's (PKNO) Deputy President Cezary Filipowicz requested information from the USG on whether Yukos International is considering a proposal to put the Mazeikiu Nafta (MN) refinery shares into escrow to further protect them from Yukos Finance. Poland is attempting to gain support fr [...]
2006-09-15 14:21:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALENRG ECON ETRD PL AJ KZ RS ES LG LH PREL
06WARSAW203POLES NOTE DETERIORATION OF ATMOSPHERE IN TEHRAN,
[...] (C) Summary: Polish Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Witold Waszczykowski, told us that his attitude toward Iran had "completely changed" during his January 30-31 visit to Iran. He now believes Tehran is determined to acquire nuclear weapons. In a separate read-out MFA Director [...]
2006-02-09 09:03:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM KNNP PL IR AORC
06WARSAW2057(C) MISSILE DEFENSE AND POLAND: REQUEST FOR AN
[...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 7. 2. (C) As reported reftel, public debate in Poland over Missile Defense is intensifying even as the Polish government prepares itself for an expected U.S. offer on MD. A critical element of both processes is the perceived reaction and/or th [...]
2006-09-21 15:27:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR PL
06WARSAW2063SO LEADER LEPPER FORCED OUT OF GOVERNMENT AMID
[...] (SBU) Summary: Polish PM Jaroslaw Kaczynski on the evening of September 19 forced out his Agriculture Minister, Andrzej Lepper, in a surprise move that has many speculating that early elections will be called for November. Kaczynski gave as an explanation only that Lepper had been a disrupti [...]
2006-09-22 13:59:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PROG PL
06WARSAW2064POLAND: SECOND ROUND OF PRICE REDUCTIONS FOR
[...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified/NOT for internet distribution 2. (SBU) At a September 15 meeting, Piotr Blaszczyk, the Acting Director of the Drug Policy and Pharmacy Department of the Polish Ministry of Health, issued a second round of price cuts to 27 pharmaceutical companies. The price [...]
2006-09-22 15:38:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD KIPR ECON PL
06WARSAW207POLAND: 2005/2006 ALLIED CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Over the last two years, Poland has been a staunch ally of the United States. According to the General Staff of the Polish Armed Forces, Poland spent about 1,213,151,800 Zloty ($370,994,434) and committed 4,122 troops to Iraq-coalition and NATO operations in 2005. In 2004, Polan [...]
2006-02-09 12:54:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDPREL MCAP PM KS KU QA SA US PL TC NATO
06WARSAW2091POLAND SUPPORTS U.S. ARMS TRANSFER POLICY TO
[...] No summary [...]
2006-09-27 14:56:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS PARM PREL VE PL
06WARSAW2104DELIVERY OF DEMARCHE ON UNSC RACE: POLAND URGES
[...] (C) Political Counselor orally delivered paragraph four points of reftel demarche to Beata Baranska, Director of the Political Division in the MFA's UN Department, emphasizing that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's UNGA speech was further evidence of that Venezuela was not an appropriate cand [...]
2006-09-29 09:56:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL UNSC PL
06WARSAW2106 POLAND: AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE - September 29, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-09-29 10:05:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDKFLU TBIO SENV ECON EAGR PREL PL
06WARSAW2111MISSILE DEFENSE: POLAND OPEN TO SHARING WITH
[...] (C) Splitting Missile Defense assets between Poland and the Czech Republic is a good idea according to Robert Kupiecki, Director of MFA Security Policy and Chairman of Poland's interagency working group on Missile Defense. On September 29, he told DCM that he and his counterpart in the Czech [...]
2006-09-29 13:41:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR PL
06WARSAW2113A/S FRIED'S MEETING WITH POLISH PM JAROSLAW
[...] (C) Summary: Assistant Secretary Dan Fried met with Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski on September 8, 2006 and discussed Ukraine, Belarus, and energy security, all topics that we expect the PM to raise when he travels to Washington next week. Fried also discussed the chilly state of [...]
2006-09-29 14:45:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON OVIP
06WARSAW2115TURBULENT POLITICAL SCENE CONTINUES AS PM
[...] (C) Summary: Poland's seemingly endless political turbulence continues to follow twists and turns that lead to constant speculation and disagreement about whether there will be early elections, whether Law and Justice (PiS) can form a new majority, and whether the opposition can cobble toget [...]
2006-09-29 15:30:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON PL
06WARSAW2152POSSIBLE NORTH KOREAN NUCLEAR TESTS
[...] (U) DCM delivered reftel points on possible North Korean nuclear tests to MFA U/S Witold Wasczykowski on October 5, adding the suggestion that any public statements by the GOP in support of the U.S. position would be welcomed. DCM and U/S Waszczykowski will discuss the issue further in a prev [...]
2006-10-05 14:02:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KN PARM KNNP
06WARSAW2159A/S FRIED'S MEETINGS WITH FM FOTYGA, MFA AND MOD
[...] (C) Summary: (C) A/S Fried met September 8 with MFA and MOD officials to discuss a range of bilateral issues, and was hosted at dinner later that evening by Foreign Minister Fotyga. An extensive part of both conversations focused on Ukraine, and how to encourage the Ukrainian government to c [...]
2006-10-05 14:58:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON OVIP
06WARSAW2168 POLAND: AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE - October 6, 2006
[...] No summary [...]
2006-10-06 14:39:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDKFLU TBIO SENV ECON EAGR PREL PL
06WARSAW2176NORTH KOREAN NUCLEAR TEST ANNOUNCEMENT: POLAND
[...] (C) In the course of a previously scheduled meeting October 9 with MFA U/S Witold Waszczykowski, DCM delivered the substance of Ref A. Waszczykowski indicated that the GOP fully supported the U.S. position on the North Korean announcement of a nuclear test. MFA Director for East Asia & Pacif [...]
2006-10-11 10:06:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL KN PARM KNNP PINR PL
06WARSAW2188RUSSIAN FM LAVROV IN POLAND: A SOFT TOUCH, EXCEPT
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Russian FM Sergei Lavrov met October 5 with President Lech Kaczynski, PM Jarek Kaczynski and FM Anna Fotyga during a one-day visit to Warsaw. According to senior officials from the MFA and presidential chancellery, the overall tone of the visit was positive, although little was a [...]
2006-10-12 15:51:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR PL RS GG IR
06WARSAW2197DELIVERY OF TRIPARTITE DEMARCHE REQUEST ON THE UN
[...] No summary [...]
2006-10-13 14:14:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL UNGA PL
06WARSAW2199POLAND WAITING FOR ANSWERS ON MAZEIKIU FIRE
[...] (C) Cezary Filipowicz, PKN Orlen (PKNO) Deputy President told Deputy Econ Counselor that while he can't say with 100 percent certainty that the PKNO purchase of Mazeikiu Nafta oil refinery (MN) will proceed following the October 12 fire, it is PKNO's intention to complete the purchase. A tea [...]
2006-10-13 15:49:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALENRG EPET PREL LH RS PO
06WARSAW2218BACK TO THE FUTURE: ANDRZEJ LEPPER RETURNS TO
[...] (C) Summary: In a late night meeting October 16, away from the glare of the press, Andrzej Lepper and his Self-Defense (SO) party returned to the coalition government led by Law and Justice (PiS) PM Jaroslaw Kaczynski, who had dumped Lepper a scant four weeks ago. Lepper was restored to his [...]
2006-10-17 15:22:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PL
06WARSAW2222REQUEST TO POLAND TO SPONSOR AMENDMENT TO CUBA
[...] (C) DCM met October 19 with MFA Under Secretary Witold Waszczykowski to request that Poland sponsor an amendment to the annual Cuba Embargo Resolution at the UN General Assembly. (Note: PolCouns had raised the issue with UN Acting Director Miroslaw Luczka October 13. End Note.) Waszczykows [...]
2006-10-18 13:34:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM UNGA PL
06WARSAW2224NORTH KOREA: POLISH MFA ASKS FOR INTENSIFIED
[...] (C) SUMMARY. MFA East Asia Pacific Department Director Jacek Najder invited Pol External Chief in for a lengthy discussion of Polish policy on North Korea, which culminated in a request for intensified bilateral consultations. Poloff took advantage of the opportunity to deliver Ref A demarche [...]
2006-10-18 14:37:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM KNNP PL KN
06WARSAW2238POLAND ON LAHTI DINNER: ENERGY POLICY KEY, "NO
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Poland looks forward to both the internal EU meetings and dinner with Russian President Putin October 20 in Lahti, Finland. The GOP considers Lahti an important venue for discussing renewal of the Russian Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA),but believes that there is no [...]
2006-10-20 12:54:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL ENRG ETRD PL EUN RS
06WARSAW2246DELIVERY OF DEMARCHE - PRESERVING LEBANESE PM
[...] (S) Pol External Chief delivered reftel talking points on Syrian efforts to destabilize the Lebanese political situation October 20 to MFA Middle East & Africa Department Director Krzysztof Plominski. According to Plominski, MFA U/S Witold Waszczykowski (de facto PolDir) was planning to visit [...]
2006-10-20 15:01:00Embassy WarsawSECRETPREL PGOV PTER KDEM PLN LE SY
06WARSAW2257 MEETING SUMMARY FOR STAFFDEL FOLDI IN POLAND
[...] This cable has been cleared by Staffdel Foldi. MINISTRY OF LABOR AND SOCIAL POLICY - THE RULES AND REGS 2. For the governmental perspective, Staffdel Foldi met with Krzysztof Wieckiewicz, Director of the Department of the Public Benefit at the MOL. The 2003 Law on the Organizations of Pub [...]
2006-10-24 13:56:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDOREP PHUM PL
06WARSAW2259POLISH RESPONSE ON UNGA RESOLUTIONS ON THE
[...] (C) PolCouns October 24 delivered reftel demarche to MFA UN Department officer Agnieszka Wyznikiewicz, urging that Poland oppose Third Committee agenda items on "The Situation of the Lebanese Children," and "Consequences of the Israeli Invasion on the Human Rights Situation in Lebanon." On th [...]
2006-10-24 14:24:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALUNGA PHUM PREL PTER PL
06WARSAW2283POLAND: DELIVERY OF DEMARCHE ON OPPOSING
[...] (C) PolCouns October 24 delivered reftel demarche to Beata Baranska at the MFA's UN Division, stressing the importance of Poland continuing to abstain or possibly vote against three the three resolutions which would continue the mandate of institutions that are biased against Israel, and stre [...]
2006-10-27 10:58:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALUNGA PREL PL
06WARSAW2286REVIVAL OF JEWISH LIFE IN POLAND, BUT CHALLENGES
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Twentieth century Poland's history of Jewish relations has made many Jews see Poland solely as a Jewish cemetery and hotbed of anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism persists, but is no worse than most European countries, and rejection of anti-Semitism is on the rise, notwithstanding th [...]
2006-10-27 13:21:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALKNAR PGOV PHUM PREL PL
06WARSAW231POLISH FOREIGN MINISTER MELLER TO RESIGN
[...] (SBU) Polish Foreign Minister Stefan Meller all but confirmed during a February 13 press conference that he intends to resign his post, citing frustration over his diminishing authority over Polish foreign policy. Meller denied press speculation that he might step down for health or family rea [...]
2006-02-14 11:52:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PL
06WARSAW2312MFA DEMORALIZED AND WEAKENED UNDER FM FOTYGA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: President Lech Kaczynski's tight grip on foreign policy has squeezed out his own Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) with a corresponding loss of effectiveness in European institutions and overall quality in Polish foreign policy. The politicization of top and mid-level positions, [...]
2006-11-02 16:16:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PL
06WARSAW2322UPCOMING LOCAL ELECTIONS VIEWED AS A BAROMETER OF
[...] (U) Summary: Poles will vote in municipal and regional elections nationwide on November 12, in what is cast as a referendum on the Kaczynski government, and a barometer of their political strength in the wake of the latest series of domestic political troubles. The race for mayor in Warsaw i [...]
2006-11-03 15:17:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALQEL PGOV PL
06WARSAW2323READOUT OF CENTCOM,S IRAQ CONFERENCE IN WARSAW 3-5
[...] (U) SUMMARY. CENTCOM,s Coalition conference in Warsaw 3-5 Oct 2006 successfully gathered both military and civilian participants from current and prospective Coalition countries to provide an overview of Coalition planning for the next 12-18 months. All presentations and some keynote speeches [...]
2006-11-03 15:23:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALMARR MOPS IZ PL
06WARSAW2333CWC: POLAND SUPPORTS U.S. REQUEST FOR EXTENSION OF
[...] (C) Post provided reftel talking points November 2 to Janusz Wawrzyniuk, CWC action officer in the MFA Security Policy Department. Wawrzyniuk responded on November 6, stating that the MFA was prepared to support fully the U.S. request for an extension to April 29, 2012 of the CWC 100 percent [...]
2006-11-06 11:54:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL PL CWC OPCW
06WARSAW2339GOP AGREES COMPLETELY WITH U.S. CONCERNS OVER
[...] (C) Pol External Chief delivered reftel demarche (as amended by refmail) on November 3 to Mieczyslaw Kuzinski, action officer for Security Threats and Eurasian Conflicts in the MFA Security Policy Department. Kuzinski confirmed that GOP fully shares U.S. concerns over the Russian shutdown of [...]
2006-11-06 16:29:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS ELTN RS MD UP
06WARSAW2354AFGHANISTAN: POLISH PRESIDENT FORMALLY APPROVES
[...] (C) During a previously scheduled meeting November 7, FM Fotyga informed Ambassador that President Kaczynski had formally approved the deployment of approximately additional Polish troops to Afghanistan in 2007. As reported reftel, DefMin Radek Sikorski announced in Washington that Poland wou [...]
2006-11-08 13:32:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR PL AF
06WARSAW2359BRIEFING THE POLES ON WHY KOSOVO IS NOT A
[...] (C) Pol External Chief delivered reftel demarche November 3 to Mieczyslaw Kuzinski, action officer for Security Threats and Eurasian Conflicts in the MFA Security Policy Department. Kuzinski stated that the GOP agreed wholeheartedly with the U.S. position that the resolution of the status of K [...]
2006-11-08 15:52:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPBTS PREL AJ AM GG MD SR
06WARSAW2360POLAND STRONGLY SUPPORTS CONTINUING UKRAINE REFORM
[...] (C) DCM delivered reftel demarche October 31 to Amb. Andrzej Krawczyk, Foreign Policy Adviser to President Lech Kaczynski. Krawczyk responded that Ukraine was a key bilateral partner of Poland and a high priority in Polish foreign policy to which President Kaczynski attaches great importance. [...]
2006-11-08 15:55:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS UP PL NATO
06WARSAW2370POLAND WILL FOLLOW EU COMMON POSITION ON CUBA
[...] (C) Pol External Chief delivered reftel demarche November to Mariusz Lewicki of the MFA UN Department. After consulting widely within the MFA and contacting the Polish Mission in New York, Lewicki responded late in the evening that the GOP had decided the "highest priority was to maintain the [...]
2006-11-09 15:48:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM UNGA CU PL
06WARSAW2372POLISH OPPOSITION RUNNING STRONG IN URBAN AREAS
[...] In the final days before Poles vote in local and regional elections, opposition candidates are poised to capture a majority of Polish cities and are running ahead of the ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS) in regional assemblies (sejmiks). With multiple candidates running in most mayoral races [...]
2006-11-09 15:48:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PL
06WARSAW2388POLAND ON THE GAERC: NO IMMEDIATE FEEDBACK, BUT
[...] (C) Pol External Chief provided reftel points November 7 by fax to Pawel Herczynski, Deputy Director of the MFA EU Department. Herczynski responded by phone November 8, indicating that he would not be able to provide feedback before the November 13-14 GAERC. He explained that the internal co [...]
2006-11-14 14:35:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL EU PL
06WARSAW2389INCUMBENTS AND OPPOSITION CLAIM VICTORY IN LOCAL
[...] Summary. Poles voted in municipal and regional elections nationwide on November 12, with many incumbents sailing to re-election, and the opposition Civic Platform (PO) running strong in provincial assemblies. The center piece of the election, the race for Warsaw mayor, will see a run off on [...]
2006-11-14 14:57:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PL
06WARSAW2390POLAND BLOCKS GAERC ON LAUNCHING NEW PCA
[...] (C) SUMMARY. FM Fotyga announced at the November 13 GAERC that Poland would continue its opposition to the EU opening negotiations for a new Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA) with Russia in advance of the November 24 EU-Russia Summit, absent Russian ratification of the European Energ [...]
2006-11-14 15:36:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL ENRG ETRD EAGR PL EU
06WARSAW2394POLAND SUPPORTS FULLY MATHESON CANDIDACY TO THE ILC
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-15 14:24:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALILC UNGA PL
06WARSAW2399POLAND SUPPORTS U.S. POSITION ON COUNTRY SPECIFIC
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Pol External Chief delivered reftel demarches upon receipt to Miroslaw Luczka, Deputy Director of the MFA UN Department. Luczka confirmed that, consistent with the EU common position, Poland would oppose procedural efforts to block consideration of Canadian, EU and U.S.-sponsore [...]
2006-11-15 15:53:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL UNHRC BO
06WARSAW240Poland's Stabilization Pact - What it means for the
[...] (SBU) On February 2, the ruling conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party signed a stabilization pact with two opposition parties - Self Defense (SO) and the League of Polish Families (LPR). The pact includes a list of bills the parties agree to support, and a shorter list of those they will d [...]
2006-02-15 10:18:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON PREL PL
06WARSAW2404TRANSNISTRIA: POLAND SUPPORTIVE ON EU PEACE
[...] (C) Pol External Chief delivered reftel points to Mieczyslaw Kuzinski, action officer for global threats and the Eurasian conflicts in the MFA Security Policy Department. Kuzinski noted that Poland continued to support strongly efforts to develop an EU Peace Consolidation Mission (PCM) for Mo [...]
2006-11-16 15:53:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALOSCE EUN PREL PL
06WARSAW2405TERRORIST FINANCE: TERRORIST FACILITATORS AND
[...] No summary [...]
2006-11-16 15:58:00Embassy WarsawSECRETEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL
06WARSAW2411POLAND - DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON GPS-GALILEO, POLAND
[...] (U) Econoff delivered reftel points to MFA America's Desk Director Andrzej Jaroszynski and Jacek Losik, Director of the Telecommunications Department in the Ministry of Transportation. Initial reaction shows that all is on track and Poland plans to ratify the agreement soon. The U.S.- EU GPS [...]
2006-11-17 10:59:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDECON TSPA SENV ECPS PL
06WARSAW2412POLAND ON NOVEMBER 17 EMERGENCY SPECIAL SESSION OF
[...] (C) Pol External Chief delivered reftel points November 17 to Beata Baranska, Political Affairs Chief in the MFA UN Department. Baranska responded that she understood from the Polish delegation in New York that, following EU consultations on November 16, the Finnish EU presidency had received [...]
2006-11-17 12:09:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL UNGA EU PL
06WARSAW2415TOUGH TIMES FOR THE LEAGUE OF POLISH FAMILIES
[...] (C) Summary. Only six months after joining the ruling Polish government coalition, the ultra-Catholic League of Polish Families (LPR) was the big loser in last weekend's regional elections, and faces an uncertain future. Party leader Roman Giertych has been a lightning rod for criticism, an [...]
2006-11-17 15:00:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PL
06WARSAW2418POLAND FINALIZES GAS DEALS WITH ROSUKRENERGO AND
[...] (U) Polish Oil and Gas Company PGNIG signed a contract with RosUkrEnergo for gas imports beginning January 1, 2007. The contract is for 2.5 BCM of gas per year for three years with the possibility of prolonging the deal for another two. The price is based on the price of oil derivative produc [...]
2006-11-20 10:55:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG EPET ECON PO RS UR
06WARSAW2420POLAND: PKN ORLEN PRESIDENT WEATHERS A STORM
[...] (C) Summary: PKN Orlen President Igor Chalupec has been under intense scrutiny over the past few months by the Polish government and press. Monthly press reports speculate that he will be replaced. Recent press articles include detailed accounts and biographies on potential replacements. C [...]
2006-11-20 12:36:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALECON ENRG PO LI PREL
06WARSAW2425POLAND STEADFAST ON NATO'S PROMISE TO AFGHANISTAN
[...] (C) Charge and Pol External Chief delivered reftel points November 17 to Robert Kupiecki, Director of MFA Security Policy Department. Charge stressed U.S. appreciation for Poland's exemplary commitment to ISAF and OEF, both through its planned deployment of 1200 troops in early 2007 and for i [...]
2006-11-20 14:43:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MOPS NATO PL AF
06WARSAW2433POLAND OPTIMISTIC ON DRAFT UNSCR TEXT ON IRAQ
[...] (C) Pol External Chief and British counterpart delivered Ref B points jointly November 20 to Amb. Krzysztof Plominski, Acting Director of the MFA Middle East Africa Department. PolExtChief also took the opportunity to share Ref A text of Secretary Rice's letter to the UNSC President. SIPDIS [...]
2006-11-22 07:32:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL UNSC MOPS MARR PL IZ
06WARSAW2434POLAND ON TURKEY EU ACCESSION
[...] (C) DCM and PolCouns conveyed U.S. concerns about the prospect of EU sanctions on Turkey (reftel) to Deputy FM Pawel Kowal on November 21. Kowal acknowledged the concerns but had no substantive response. 2. (C) PolExt Chief discussed the issue in greater detail later the same day with Pawe [...]
2006-11-22 08:45:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALEUN NATO PL
06WARSAW2459POLAND SUPPORTS UNIFIED APPROACH ON
[...] (C) PolExt Chief delivered reftel points November 22 to Grzegorz Jazowski, Counselor in the MFA Security Policy Department responsible for OSCE Ministerial preparations. After consulting with his Department Director and others, Jazowski confirmed that Poland approaches the Georgia/Moldova conf [...]
2006-11-27 14:10:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PBTS OSCE GG MD RS
06WARSAW2460POLAND: PKN ORLEN WANTS TO BUY CONOCO UNIPETROL
[...] (C) PKN Orlen Deputy President told Econoff that PKN Orlen is interested in purchasing the Unipetrol refinery assets Conoco Phillips recently announced it is selling to Lukoil. Filipowicz emphasized that Orlen, as majority owner, has right of first refusal to purchase the assets, and wants [...]
2006-11-27 15:08:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALECON ENRG PO CZ PREL RS
06WARSAW2470OPPOSITION CAPTURES WARSAW MAYORALTY
[...] Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz from the opposition Civic Platform (PO) will become Warsaw's first woman mayor on Saturday, December 2. Gronkiewicz-Waltz won a decisive victory against former PM Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, the acting Mayor, in run off elections held on November 26. Gronkiewicz-Waltz ca [...]
2006-11-28 16:08:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PL
06WARSAW2475POLAND: RESPONSE FOR LIBERTAD ACT
[...] (C) Post provides the following in response to reftel questions. 2. (C) According to Jan Przegalinski, Cuba Specialist at the Ministry of Economy, Poland has no investments in Cuba. However, there is a small amount of trade. Poland expoQs approximately USD 14 million worth of goods to C [...]
2006-11-29 15:10:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALECON CU ETRD ETTC PREL PL
06WARSAW2478POLAND-IRAQ: GOP PREPARING TO CONFIRM TROOP
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Senior MFA officials stated privately that the Council of Ministers would shortly forward to President Kaczynski a decision extending the Polish deployment to Iraq through December 31, 2007, consistent with the newly passed UNSCR 1723, while MOD and the General Staff confirmed pl [...]
2006-11-30 11:18:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL UNSC MOPS MARR PL IZ
06WARSAW2479POLAND-IRAQ: GOP PREPARING TO CONFIRM TROOP
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Senior MFA officials stated privately that the Council of Ministers would shortly forward to President Kaczynski a decision extending the Polish deployment to Iraq through December 31, 2007, consistent with the newly passed UNSCR 1723, while MOD and the General Staff confirmed pl [...]
2006-11-30 11:19:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL UNSC MOPS MARR PL IZ
06WARSAW2491POLISH ATTITUDES TOWARD INVOLVEMENT IN AFGHAN DRUG
[...] No summary [...]
2006-12-01 13:15:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPINR EAID EUN SNAR PL
06WARSAW2511POLAND: GOVERNMENT STEPS UP EFFORTS VS. FORCED
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In the months since stories broke of Poles trafficked to Spain and Italy for forced labor (Reftel) the Polish government has stepped up efforts in the fight against human trafficking. The Polish National Police (PNP) has supplemented the five person Central Anti-Trafficking Uni [...]
2006-12-06 15:45:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM KJUS KCRM PGOV IT PL SP SW UK
06WARSAW2514POLAND'S RESPONSE TO US-EU AIR TRANSPORT AGREEMENT
[...] (U) Econoff delivered reftel demarche on December 6 to Sylwia Ciszewska, Director of the Air Transport Department and Malgorzata Alberti, Head of the International Agreements Division, both with the Civil Aviation Office (CAO). The CAO had learned about the U.S. announcement from the European [...]
2006-12-06 15:45:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDECON EAIR EI EUN KTIA PL
06WARSAW2525WHY POLAND DOESN'T WANT A GAS INTERCONNECTION TO
[...] (C) EconOff discussed Poland's lack of enthusiasm for building a new gas interconnection to Germany with Pawel Konzal, PGNiG Board Advisor and Krzystof Rogala of the Office of Oil and Gas Supply Diversification in the Ministry of Economy. Konzal explained that Poland opposed the constructio [...]
2006-12-07 13:59:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALENRG EPET ECON PL GM RS NO
06WARSAW2542POLAND'S RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON UNGA EMERGENCY
[...] (C) PolExt Chief delivered reftel points December 1 to Beata Baranska, Political Affairs Chief in the MFA UN Department. Baranska responded that Poland shares the U.S. view that any resolution on a Register of Damages should be entirely consistent with the report of the UNSYG. The GOP concu [...]
2006-12-08 15:42:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL UNGA PL
06WARSAW2545POLAND'S RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON IRAN'S FLAWED
[...] (C) PolExt Chief delivered reftel demarche December 1 to Krzysztof Plominski, Acting Director of MFA Middle East/Africa Department. Plominski acknowledged the U.S. position and expressed similar concerns over the undemocratic candidate selection process for Assembly of Experts and the "circu [...]
2006-12-08 15:55:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM IR PL
06WARSAW2546POLAND'S RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON PRESERVING THE
[...] (C) PolExt Chief delivered Ref A demarche December 1 to Krzysztof Plominski, Acting Director of MFA Middle East Africa Department. Plominski responded that the GOP was watching closely the situation in Lebanon following the assassination of Pierre Gemayel. Poland continued to support the de [...]
2006-12-11 08:57:00Embassy WarsawSECRETPREL PGOV PTER KDEM MOPS PL
06WARSAW2564POLAND: AMBASSADOR'S INTRO CALL ON NEW
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified, not for internet distribution. 2. (U) The Ambassador paid an introductory call on new Minister of Construction, Andrzej Aumiller on December 7. During the meeting, Aumiller explained his hope to build 3 million housing units in Poland over the next eight year [...]
2006-12-13 15:41:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON SOCI PL
06WARSAW2606MSP COORDINATOR AND BACKUP COORDINATOR FOR POLAND
[...] As provided by email earlier, the designated MSP coordinator for Embassy Warsaw is Political Internal Chief David Van Cleve (vanclevedhl@state.gov) and the backup coordinator is David Morris, Political External Chief (morrisdt@state.gov). HILLAS [...]
2006-12-19 10:47:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDKSPR AMGT KSEP KICA AFIN ABUD PL
06WARSAW2608LOT POLISH AIRLINES VIEW ON INCLUSION OF AVIATION
[...] (C) In a follow up to reftels, EconOff met with Edyta Michalak and Rafal Szalc of LOT Polish Airlines legal department to discuss inclusion of international aviation in the European Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). LOT lawyers explained to EconOff that LOT is currently embroiled in a domesti [...]
2006-12-19 14:54:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALECON EAIR EINV SENV PL
06WARSAW2609POLISH COALITION FINDS FACE-SAVING EXITS FROM
[...] (C) Summary: Poland's ruling coalition continues to lurch along, after two weeks of political distraction spurred by revelations of a sex scandal in Samoobrona (SO) and renewed accusation of neo-Nazi activity by the League of Polish Families (LPR) youth wing. While both junior partners foun [...]
2006-12-19 15:20:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PL
06WARSAW2610NO RESPONSE YET ON DEMARCHE: WHO RECOMMENDATIONS
[...] Poloff delivered reftel points December 8 to Jaroslaw Strejczek, officer in the MFA UN Department. Strejczek responded that this was the first he had heard of the issue and would confer with other offices within the GOP, including the Ministry of Interior's (MOI) Narcotics Department. 2. [...]
2006-12-19 15:24:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR UNCND UNCRIME PREL PL
06WARSAW2611S/CT CRUMPTON HEARS POLISH PERSPECTIVES OF THE GWOT
[...] No summary [...]
2006-12-19 15:49:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER PL
06WARSAW2614POLAND'S RESPONSE TO GLOBAL PURSUIT OF TERRORIST
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Through various interviews with GOP officials, Post obtained the following responses to reftel questions on databases, watchlists, information sharing and biometrics. In response to reftel question, given the information below, Poland appears to be a valid partner for data shar [...]
2006-12-19 16:16:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKVPR PTER PREL PGOV PINR CVIS ASEC KHLS PL
06WARSAW2636S/CT CRUMPTON HEARS POLISH PERSPECTIVES OF THE GWOT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In separate meetings on December 13, Deputy Foreign Minister, Witold Waszczykowski, and Chief of the National Security Bureau, Wladyslaw Stasiak, conveyed their thoughts on counterterrorism to Ambassador Henry Crumpton, State Department Coordinator for Counterterrorism. In his si [...]
2006-12-22 09:52:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER PL
06WARSAW2653SPOT REPORT: SLUBICE, POLISH BORDER TOWN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Poloff went to Slubice, which sits on the Polish-German border, to investigate labor disputes and a longstanding issue concerning the town's Jewish cemetery. Despite its location in a special economic zone, unemployment hovers near 30%, higher than the surrounding province. One [...]
2006-12-29 11:56:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL ELAB PL
06WARSAW2654SPOT REPORT: SLUBICE, POLISH BORDER TOWN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Poloff went to Slubice, which sits on the Polish-German border, to investigate labor disputes and a longstanding issue concerning the town's Jewish cemetery. Despite its location in a special economic zone, unemployment hovers near 30%, higher than the surrounding province. One [...]
2006-12-29 11:56:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL ELAB PL
06WARSAW2655SPOT REPORT: SLUBICE, POLISH BORDER TOWN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Poloff went to Slubice, which sits on the Polish-German border, to investigate labor disputes and a longstanding issue concerning the town's Jewish cemetery. Despite its location in a special economic zone, unemployment hovers near 30%, higher than the surrounding province. One [...]
2006-12-29 11:56:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL ELAB PL
06WARSAW269POLISH FM MELLER TO REMAIN UNTIL A SUCCESSOR CAN
[...] (C) The Polish president and prime minister declined to act on Foreign Minister Stefan Meller's reported resignation, offering instead some general words of support and indications that Meller's concerns about his position (notably his absence from the National Security Council) will be addres [...]
2006-02-17 15:31:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PL
06WARSAW280POLAND: Embassy Warsaw Special 301 Input
[...] (SBU) Despite lingering problems in enforcement and, particularly, in judicial adjudication of optical disc (OD) piracy cases, there has been slow, but nonetheless steady, progress in Poland's handling of IPR violations, warranting maintenance of Poland's position on the Watch List. And while [...]
2006-02-22 12:51:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD KIPR PL
06WARSAW296POLES WILL NOT MEET WITH HAMAS
[...] (C) Polcouns met February 23 with Krzysztof Plominski, MFA Director for Africa and the Middle East, to deliver reftel demarche on meetings with Hamas. Plominski said that Hamas had not made a request to send a delegation, and that Poland would not accept such a Hamas delegation even if aske [...]
2006-02-23 15:27:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PL
06WARSAW297POLES ISSUE STATEMENT CONDEMNING BOMBING OF THE
[...] (C) Polcouns met February 23 with Krzysztof Plominski, MFA Director for Africa and the Middle East, and as per reftel requested that Poland issue a statement condemning the bombing of the al-Askariya Shrine in Samarra. Plominski said that a statement was under preparation that would condemn t [...]
2006-02-23 15:49:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM KPAO PTER IZ PL
06WARSAW308POLAND: Comment on Pharma's Special 301 Input
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Not for distribution outside USG. 2. (SBU) Pharma's call for Priority Foreign Country (PFC) status for Poland is understandable. The industry has indeed faced many challenges in dealing with the Polish government prior to accession, and some of these issues [...]
2006-02-24 15:47:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD KIPR PL
06WARSAW312POLAND DELIVERS NON-PAPER ON ENERGY SECURITY TREATY
[...] (SBU) Summary: Late Friday, February 24 the office of Prime Minister Marcinkiewicz delivered a letter addressed to President Bush with an accompanying non-paper outlining Poland's proposed European Energy Security Treaty. An unofficial translation of the letter to President Bush is included [...]
2006-02-24 17:05:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOPDC ENRG ECON EU PL NATO
06WARSAW325UKRAINIAN PRIME MINISTER FAILS TO CLARIFY GAS
[...] (C) Energy issues dominated the discussions during the February 16-17 visit to Poland by Ukrainian Prime Minister Yuriy Yekhanurov and the separate February 21 visit by Anatolij Kinach, Secretary of the Ukrainian Office of National Security and Defense. According to the MFA, however, the Po [...]
2006-02-27 14:47:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EPET ENRG PL UP
06WARSAW329YASTRZHEMBSKY VISIT HAILED AS SIGNALING WARMING IN
[...] (C) Summary: Polish officials told us they hope the January 20 visit to Poland by Sergei Yastrzhembsky, an advisor to Russian President Vladimir Putin, will signal the end of the "mini cold war" between Russia and Poland. Yastrzhembsky discussed a potential meeting between Putin and Polish [...]
2006-02-27 15:48:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PL RU
06WARSAW339 POLAND: SIXTH ANNUAL (2006) TRAFFICKING IN
[...] (SBU) Following are responses keyed to questions in paragraphs 21-25 of REFTEL. Embassy point of contact is Political Officer Katharine Read (telephone: 48-22- 504-2676, fax 48-22-504-2613, e-mail ReadKM@state.gov). POLOFF (FO-03) spent 45 hours collecting data and compiling report; one polit [...]
2006-03-01 06:42:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF KWMN PL KRCM
06WARSAW341DEFENDING ODIHR ELECTION MONITORING
[...] (C) Polish MFA Deputy Director for Security Policy (OSCE Affairs) Marek Ziolkowski assured us February 28 that the Polish government shares our concerns about Belgian FM (and OSCE Chairman-in-Office) De Gucht's proposal to send his own representatives to observe the elections monitoring process [...]
2006-03-01 10:27:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM BE BY PL OSCE
06WARSAW347POLAND AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE: CROSS AGENCY
[...] (SBU) Summary. Econoffs recently discussed GOP contingency preparations for an outbreak of avian influenza (AI) with the Polish Ministry of Health. Polish Health Ministry officials believe that AI is still primarily a threat to Polish agriculture, but stressed that the GOP has planned thoro [...]
2006-03-01 15:47:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDKFLU TBIO SENV ECON EAGR PREL PL
06WARSAW348POLAND WILL PROPOSE POSTPONEMENT OF EIB LOAN TO
[...] (C) Begin Summary. Poland's MFA reported that it will recommend postponing a final decision on the EIB loan to the Syrian government until after a report on Syria's cooperation on the Rafiq Hariri assasination is provided to the UNSC in late March. Poland is uncertain that the postponement [...]
2006-03-01 16:19:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALEFIN ETRD PREL PGOV SY PL
06WARSAW35POLISH GOVERNMENT REPLACES FINANCE MINISTER TERESA
[...] (C) In a surprise move, Prime Minister Marcinkiewicz has replaced Finance Minister Teresa Lubinska with ex-Civic Platform Party (PO) insider and budget expert Zyta Gilowksa. In addition, Gilowska will hold the rank of Deputy Prime Minister. From September 2001 to May 2005 Gilowska was a membe [...]
2006-01-10 13:08:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN PL PREL
06WARSAW353POLISH PRESIDENT CAUTIONS YUSHCHENKO ON GAS DEAL
[...] (C) In the course of his February 28-March 1 visit to Ukraine, Polish President Lech Kaczynski delivered a strong message to Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko on the January gas deal with Russia, expressing concern about the consequences of the agreement for Ukraine's economy and its abili [...]
2006-03-02 13:47:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL ENRG PGOV UP PL
06WARSAW358 POLAND: SIXTH ANNUAL (2006) TRAFFICKING IN
[...] (SBU) Following are responses keyed to questions in paragraphs 21-25 of REFTEL. Embassy point of contact is Political Officer Katharine Read (telephone: 48-22- 504-2676, fax 48-22-504-2613, e-mail ReadKM@state.gov). POLOFF (FO-03) spent 45 hours collecting data and compiling report; one polit [...]
2006-03-03 06:47:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM ELAB SMIG ASEC KFRD PREF KWMN PL KRCM
06WARSAW36POLISH GOVERNMENT REPLACES FINANCE MINISTER TERESA
[...] (C) In a surprise move, Prime Minister Marcinkiewicz has replaced Finance Minister Teresa Lubinska with ex-Civic Platform Party (PO) insider and budget expert Zyta Gilowksa. In addition, Gilowska will hold the rank of Deputy Prime Minister. From September 2001 to May 2005 Gilowska was a membe [...]
2006-01-10 15:11:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN PL PREL
06WARSAW363POLAND: Netia (Now P4) Chooses Chinese Firm for 3G
[...] (U) According to a recent Netia/P4 press release, Chinese telecoms equipment vendor Huawei won a contract to build third-generation (3G) infrastructure. P4, formerly known as Netia, won a license last year for a Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS) license. UMTS services are des [...]
2006-03-03 09:41:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDECPS EINT EINV PL
06WARSAW380POLAND'S PROPOSED EUROPEAN ENERGY SECURITY TREATY
[...] (C) Poland continues to consult with EU partners on its proposed European Energy Security Treaty. Deputy Minister of Economy Naimski requests a meeting with Under Secretary for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns March 20 or 21 to discuss mechanisms in the NATO Treaty that can be transferred to [...]
2006-03-03 16:25:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALENRG EPET PREL PL
06WARSAW381INFIGHTING CONTINUES AMONG STABILIZATION PACT
[...] (SBU) Summary: While the Stabilization Pact signed February 2 between Poland's governing Law and Justice Party (PiS) the League of Polish Families (LPR) and Self Defense (SO) helped stave off early elections, it has not stopped political battling among the partners, nor guaranteed the smooth [...]
2006-03-03 16:26:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PL
06WARSAW48POLISH PROTEST PARTIES FACE CHALLENGES IN BACKING
[...] (SBU) Since coalition talks with Civic Platform (PO) fell apart in late October, the minority Law and Justice (PiS) government has relied on the support of two protest parties in parliament: Andrzej Lepper's populist, agrarian Self Defense (SO) and the extreme right-wing League of Polish Fami [...]
2006-01-12 13:05:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PL
06WARSAW481FHWA ASSOCIATE ADMINISTRATOR VISITS POLAND,
[...] (U) Summary. Poland's lack of a quality road infrastructure presents serious problems for economic development, road safety, and quality of life. In continuing to investigate this problem and encourage GOP action, Embassy Warsaw Public Affairs and Econ Sections collaborated to bring King Ge [...]
2006-03-16 08:48:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDECIN ECON ELTN PL
06WARSAW487POLISH PRESIDENT KACZYNSKI'S FIRST VISIT TO
[...] (C) Summary: Polish government and German embassy officials judged Polish President Lech Kaczynski's March 8-9 visit to Berlin (his first-ever visit to Germany, "besides the Frankfurt airport," as he put it) a success, although low expectations and an evident sense of relief that it had not go [...]
2006-03-16 13:32:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ENRG PHUM GM PL
06WARSAW497POLISH DEFENSE TRANSFORMATION AT A STRATEGIC
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Despite its position as a minority government and ongoing domestic political battles, the Marcinkiewicz government is beginning to define the future strategic direction of the Polish military. In the coming months, the parliament will consider bills that would radically reorganiz [...]
2006-03-17 09:54:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV MCAP PREL MARR MASS PL
06WARSAW50POLAND: Scenesetter for CODEL Duncan Visit, January
[...] (U) Poland with an area of 313,000 square kilometers is about the size of New Mexico. Poland's population of 38.6 million (2004 est.) is 96 percent ethnically Polish and almost entirely Roman Catholic. However, there are also small German, Belarussian, Roma, Ukrainian, Jewish and Russian min [...]
2006-01-12 13:40:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDPREL EFIN ECON PL CVIS ETRD
06WARSAW504POLAND MOVES TO ACCELERATES MILITARY MODERNIZATION
[...] SUMMARY: Polish President Lech Kaczynski and Defense Minister (DefMin) Sikorski announced their shared intention to accelerate modernization of the Polish military at a press conference following the annual meeting of Defense Ministry and Armed Forces leadership on March 13. Their plan include [...]
2006-03-17 14:29:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV MCAP PREL MARR MASS PL
06WARSAW518IN FRUSTRATION, POLISH GOVERNING PARTY CALLS FOR
[...] (SBU) Declaring "no other way out" of Poland's ongoing political stalemate, governing Law and Justice (PiS) leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski announced March 18 that his party will seek to dissolve parliament and hold new elections in May, prior to Pope Benedict XVI's scheduled visit to Poland at the [...]
2006-03-20 16:02:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM PL
06WARSAW525POTENTIAL AREAS OF ENERGY SECURITY COOPERATION
[...] (C) The Government of Poland continues to consider energy security a top priority. Deputy Minister of Economy Naimski plans to travel to the U.S. in mid-April to discuss energy topics with USG officials. Naimski told us that the GOP is flexible with regard to the content, form and scope of i [...]
2006-03-21 13:17:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALENRG EPET PL PREL
06WARSAW53POLISH BUDGET ROW HIGHLIGHTS GOVERNING PARTY'S
[...] (SBU) Poland's Law and Justice (PiS) minority government set off an uproar January 11 among opposition parliamentary groups, including those supporting the government, when it backed off from scheduling a budget vote this weekend, reviving suspicions that PiS plans to use a budget delay to cal [...]
2006-01-12 15:43:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PL
06WARSAW541DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON AL-MANAR TV, LEBANESE MEDIA
[...] (S) Poloff delivered reftel demarche March 22 to Grzegorz Majewski, POC for terrorism issues in the MFA Security Policy Department. Majewski noted that Poland would have to act in concert with the European Union, and therefore had to seek EU consensus before acting on the U.S. request to decla [...]
2006-03-23 16:42:00Embassy WarsawSECRETASEC ETTC KPAO PTER
06WARSAW547CONSTITUTIONAL TRIBUNAL STRIKES DOWN PORTIONS OF
[...] (SBU) On March 23 the Constitutional Tribunal of Poland (Supreme Court equivalent) ruled that four articles of the new media law rammed through Parliament in late December last year (Reftels A and B) were unconstitutional. As a result the operations of the National Broadcasting Council (KRRiT) [...]
2006-03-24 13:23:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO PGOV PREL PL
06WARSAW554MISSILE DEFENSE: POLAND EAGER TO RENEW TALKS ON
[...] (C) SUMMARY. MFA Americas Director Henryk Szlajfer told DCM March 23 that the GOP is eager to renew formal discussions on hosting U.S. ballistic missile defense (BMD) assets and welcomes the visit of ASD Flory's delegation for that purpose. MFA U/S Waszczykowski and MOD U/S Koziej are prepar [...]
2006-03-24 14:46:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALMARR PREL PL
06WARSAW555POLAND: DCM MEETING IN MINISTRY OF ECONOMY ON AIG
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified - not for internet distribution. 2. (SBU) DCM met with Andrzej Kaczmarek of the Ministry of Economy March 23 to follow up Embassy's March 14 meeting (reftel) with Gmina Raszyn Mayor and Vice-Mayor. AIG Lincoln Residential Director Christopher Sweeney als [...]
2006-03-24 14:52:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDEINV ECON PL
06WARSAW563POLAND: Counterfeiting Poses Problem for U.S. Firm
[...] (U) In order to clarify issues related to Levi's Special 301 submission, Econoff met with Zbigniew Trendak, Brand Protection and Security Manager for Levi Strauss. Trendak reiterated the charges made in Levi's Special 301 brief, noting that prosecution of counterfeit cases has dropped 28 perc [...]
2006-03-27 13:07:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDETRD KIPR PL
06WARSAW579POLAND: EU INTEGRATION OFFICE LUMBERS ON
[...] (C) According to Director for Analyses and Strategies, Piotr Serafin (protect) at the Office of the Committee for European Integration (UKIE),integration of the Office,s functions into the Foreign Ministry is &going nowhere.8 With this third and latest attempt at disbanding UKIE in almost as [...]
2006-03-28 13:48:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALECON PREL PL
06WARSAW581KACZYNSKI TWINS PRESS FOR ELECTIONS OR COALITION
[...] (C) Summary: The political drama in Warsaw continues unabated with President Lech Kaczynski on March 23 joining in calls for early parliamentary elections this spring. Unconvinced, the Polish parliament voted down a proposal by the governing Law and Justice (PiS) party intended as a first st [...]
2006-03-28 14:44:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PL
06WARSAW595DEMARCHE ON IRAQ DEBT REDUCTION
[...] (C) Polish Finance Ministry Director of Foreign Policy Dr. Jacek Tomorowicz indicates that the Marcinkiewicz Government has not yet considered the matter of writing off Iraq's debts to Poland. Up to now, Poland and Iraqi officials have been trying to come to an agreement as to the amount of [...]
2006-03-31 14:36:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALEFIN IZ PL
06WARSAW597POLAND: AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE - MARCH 31, 2006
[...] Very little has changed this week in the spread of AI throughout Poland. Two additional outbreaks have been detected. One is in Bydgoszcz, where five swans been confirmed for H5N1. This brings the total number of outbreaks for Bydgoszcz to three. The other new outbreak site is at Lake Rza [...]
2006-03-31 14:43:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDKFLU TBIO SENV ECON EAGR PREL PL
06WARSAW633POLAND LOOKING INTO USG CONCERNS ON AARHUS
[...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified. Not for internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Econoff discussed USG concerns about Aarhus Convention guidelines on public participation in international fora with Anna Grupinska, Director of the Department of the United Nations System and Global Affairs of th [...]
2006-04-05 14:45:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTIA SENV XG ECE UNAUS
06WARSAW634POLAND: GOP PREPARES FOR FATF EVALUATION
[...] (SBU) Contacts at Poland's Ministry of Finance reported to Econoff that the Ministry is preparing for a Financial Action Task Force evalution that will occur in May. Ministry of Finance contacts stated that they expect results to be issued within six months of the visit, and that the Ministr [...]
2006-04-05 14:46:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN KCRM PTER PREL PL
06WARSAW7Poland's new Treasury Minister Resigns amid
[...] (SBU) Begin Summary. On the evening of January 3, Prime Minister Marcinkiewicz accepted the resignation of Treasury Minister Andrzej Mikosz. Mikosz's resignation was forced by an article published in the daily "Rzeczpospolita" detailing a loan worth US $300,000 which Mikosz's wife gave to a [...]
2006-01-04 15:22:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON PREL PL
06WARSAW760CUBA: POLAND LIBERTAD ACT RESPONSE
[...] (U) As far as post is aware, there is no Polish investment in Cuba, and trade in goods is very small. In 2005 Poland exported $14.1 million in merchandise to and imported $6.5 million from Cuba. There are no government-sponsored exchange programs between Poland and Cuba. 2. (C) Successive [...]
2006-04-25 11:31:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALETRD ETTC PREL
06WARSAW789DUTCH ENERGY CONFERENCE - POLISH RESPONSE
[...] (SBU) Econ Counselor and Dutch Econ Officer jointly demarched Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director for North America Ambassador Henryk Szlajfer per reftel instructions. Szlajfer stated that Foreign Minister Meller is considering attending the dinner on the evening of May 17 and the first hou [...]
2006-04-28 09:55:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDENRG EPET ECON PREL NL PL EUN
06WARSAW790POLAND: REQUEST FOR INFORMATION AND POCS REGARDING
[...] No summary [...]
2006-04-28 09:57:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO PTER EAGR PARM PREL PL CBW UNGA
06WARSAW791POLAND FAST-TRACKING IEA MEMBERSHIP
[...] (C) Pawlel Konzal, Advisor to Minister of Economy told us on April 28 that Poland is fast-tracking IEA membership. The GOP recently held discussions with the IEA's Deputy Executive Director Bill Ramsey concerning membership requirements, telling him that Poland would like to become a full m [...]
2006-04-28 10:05:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALENRG ECON EPET PL
06WARSAW792IAEA/HEU MINIMIZATION: POLAND CONCERNED OVER GTRI
[...] (SBU) Summary. Polish National Atomic Energy Agency (PAA) staff confirmed the GOP is concerned about the increasing costs associated with the GTRI project. PAA President Jerzy Niewodniczanski estimates that the provision of 25 fresh fuel elements will cost between USD 1.5 - 2 million, mone [...]
2006-04-28 10:06:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAORC ENRG KNNP TRGY PL IAEA
06WARSAW793POLAND: AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE - APRIL 28, 2006
[...] There have been no new outbreaks of AI in Poland during the past week. The infected and surveillance zones in Swinoujscie and Torun have been lifted, and the areas have been declared free of AI. 2. Between April 18-22 the Polish Veterinary Service, with the assistance of police, fire, mi [...]
2006-04-28 10:26:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDKFLU TBIO SENV ECON EAGR PREL PL
06WARSAW795POLAND SUPPORTS EU RESOLUTION ON UN MANAGEMENT
[...] No summary [...]
2006-04-28 12:16:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALAORC PREL PL UNGA UN
06WARSAW809FM MELLER SUBMITS RESIGNATION
[...] Widely anticipated, Polish Foreign Minister Stefan Meller submitted his resignation on April 28. Meller said at a press conference that he does not believe that the proposed coalition between the governing Law and Justice party, Self Defense and a break away group from the League of Polish F [...]
2006-05-02 10:08:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PL
06WARSAW819INTERNATIONAL TRACING SERVICE: POLAND SUPPORTS
[...] As requested reftel, Poloff delivered demarche request to the Polish MFA on April 27. Poland's representative to the upcoming meetings in Luxembourg will be the MFA's Witold Spirydowicz. Given the movement of the Germans on the issue of access to the Bad Arolsen archives, we proceeded with t [...]
2006-05-04 14:23:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDAORC KNAR PREL PL MFA
06WARSAW833IRAQ: POLAND CONFIRMS MND-CS CONTINGENT WILL STAY
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-05 14:20:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALMARR MOPS PREL PL IZ
06WARSAW862MINISTER OF DEFENSE SIKORSKI ON F-16 PROGRAM, IRAQ
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-10 08:40:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALMARR MOPS MCAPS PREL PL IZ
06WARSAW920ISRAELI AMBASSADOR RAISES CONCERNS ABOUT GIERTYCH
[...] (C) Summary: Israeli Ambassador to Poland David Peleg called on President Lech Kaczynski May 17 to express his government's concern over the appointment of Roman Giertych as Minister of Education, given Giertych's anti-Semitic associations and his new responsibility for Holocaust education p [...]
2006-05-18 15:08:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PL
06WARSAW931POLAND: WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY: SMALLPOX DEMARCHE
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-19 15:25:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDPREL AORC TBIO PL WHO
06WARSAW943POLAND: AVIAN INFLUENZA UPDATE - MAY 22, 2006
[...] There have been no new outbreaks of AI in Poland during the past week. The only existing outbreak site is in Warta Village recorded on May 4, 2006 and is still under quarantine. The General Veterinary Inspectorate office stated that bird migration is due to end shortly, reducing risk of new [...]
2006-05-22 14:47:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDKFLU TBIO SENV ECON EAGR PREL PL
06WARSAW944POLISH STATEMENT IN SUPPORT OF IRAQI GOVERNMENT
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-22 14:53:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV KDEM IZ PL
06WARSAW953POLISH PRESIDENT'S MEETINGS WITH UKRAINIAN, GERMAN
[...] (C) Summary: The Ukrainian and German presidents paid reciprocal visits to Polish President Lech Kaczynski in mid-May, marking the importance of those bilateral relationships and the slow warming of personal contacts between the apprehensive Polish leader and his colleagues next door. With Yu [...]
2006-05-23 10:16:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV GM UP PL
06WARSAW980POLAND'S ORLEN ANXIOUS FOR COURT DECISION IT CAN
[...] (C) Summary: PKN Orlen's Wojciech Wroblewski, told us that PKN Orlen is waiting for U.S. court approval of the sale by YUKOS of its controlling stake in the Mazeikiu refinery for the purchase to go through. PKN Orlen aggressively pursued the sale both as a strategic asset and as a way to b [...]
2006-05-25 15:16:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALENRG ECON EPET PREL PGOV ETRD LH PL RS KZ
07WARSAW1071DEMARCHE ON KEY US OBJECTIVES AT THE WORLD HEALTH
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-09 12:01:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO AORC PREL KFLU ECON WHO PL
07WARSAW1072CITES DEMARCHES DELIVERED
[...] No summary [...]
2007-05-09 12:02:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDSENV ETRD KSCA ECON PL
07WARSAW109POLAND: SIX INFLUENTIAL WOMEN
[...] This is Mission Poland's (Embassy Warsaw and ConGen Krakow) response to reftel on identifing the six influential Polish women. PolOff David Van Cleve is Post's officer responsible for tracking women's issues (Tel: 48 22 504-2720. Fax: 48 22 504 2613. Email: VanCleveDHL@state.gov). 2. Post h [...]
2007-01-18 14:26:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDKWMN PHUM PREL PL
07WARSAW1097FM FOTYGA OUTLINES POLISH FOREIGN POLICY PRIORITIES
[...] Summary: FM Anna Fotyga outlined the government's foreign policy priorities in a two hour report to the Polish Parliament on May 11. Fotyga repeatedly stressed the need for greater energy security, referring to it as the "flagship issue" of Poland's foreign policy. She did little to amelio [...]
2007-05-11 15:30:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PL
07WARSAW1098YOUR JUNE 8 VISIT TO POLAND AND MEETING WITH
[...] (C) Mr. President. The Polish people and government, as well as I and my entire staff, are looking forward to your June 8 visit as a sign of the importance you attach to our close partnership with Poland, and for the boost it will give the relationship as we embark on negotiations to place a [...]
2007-05-11 16:28:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR ECON MARR PL
07WARSAW110POLAND: SIX INFLUENTIAL WOMEN
[...] This is Mission Poland's (Embassy Warsaw and ConGen Krakow) response to reftel on identifying six influential Polish women. PolOff David Van Cleve is Post's officer responsible for tracking women's issues (Tel: 48 22 504-2720. Fax: 48 22 504 2613. Email: VanCleveDHL@state.gov). 2. Post has [...]
2007-01-18 14:28:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDKWMN PHUM PREL PL
07WARSAW1117Polish On-line Consumers: Promising Growing Market
[...] With high speed internet access becoming ever more common in Poland, the proportion of those with access making purchases increasing, and buyers overwhelmingly reporting positive online experiences, it comes as no surprise that the Polish consumer online market is doing well. U.S. companies s [...]
2007-05-15 08:08:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDECPS ECON EINT EINV PL
07WARSAW1131AVON POLAND: EXAMPLE OF SUCCESS
[...] (SBU) Avon Cosmetics Poland is a proven success story of American investment in Poland. Avon began operations in Poland in 1992 and in 15 years has expanded to include Avon's largest manufacturing facility in the world, 11 representative support centers, and more than 250,000 direct sales repr [...]
2007-05-15 13:26:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EINV PL
07WARSAW1147POLAND'S NAIMSKI TELLS DAS BRYZA KRAKOW SUMMIT
[...] (C) Summary: Poland's Deputy Minister of Economy Piotr Naimski told visiting DAS Bryza that the Krakow Summit had four important results: The governments reached a political decision that a Caspian-Odessa-Brody-Plock-Gdansk (COBPG) oil pipeline should be constructed and that an Intergovernme [...]
2007-05-16 08:53:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALENRG EPET ECON PREL PO KZ UR LI AJ GG RS
07WARSAW1162POLAND-KOSOVO: GOP STRONGLY IN FAVOR OF PROMPT
[...] (C) Pol External Chief on May 15 delivered reftel demarche on Kosovo UNSC action to Piotr Siebeneichen, Balkans Unit Chief in the MFA European Department. Siebeneichen reiterated his government's strong support for the Ahtisaari Report and an expeditious resolution of the Kowovo status questi [...]
2007-05-17 13:18:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PL YI
07WARSAW1163POLAND-IRAQ: INFORMING THE GOP OF LEADERSHIP
[...] (C) DCM delivered reftel demarche during the week of May 14 in separate meetings with MFA U/S Witold Waszczykowski, PM's foreign policy adviser Amb. Andrzej Sados and Presidential Chief of Staff Elzbieta Jakubiak. The Polish side expressed appreciation for the political message on transfer of [...]
2007-05-17 13:48:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MARR PL IQ GG
07WARSAW1165POLAND: DELIVERY OF DEMARCHE ON THE GROWING
[...] (C) Political Counselor delivered reftel on May 17 to Jacek Hinz, Deputy Director of the America,s Division responsible for Latin America at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. PolCouns reviewed U.S. concerns over increasing ties between Iran and Venezuela, emphasizing growing economic and poli [...]
2007-05-17 14:05:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR PHUM MASS ECON PTER IR VE PL
07WARSAW1178POLAND - RESPONSE TO CITES DEMARCHES
[...] Per ref C, Econoff delivered reftel demarches on the upcoming CITES COP 14 to the Department of the Washington Conference in the Ministry of Environment. A written response was received on May 18 from Krzysztof Lissowski, Deputy Director of the Department of Forestry, Nature Conservation and [...]
2007-05-21 14:12:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDSENV ETRD KSCA ECON PL
07WARSAW1179POLAND COMPLAINS ABOUT NEW CO2 LIMIT, BUT WILL
[...] The Government of Poland is upset that the EU approved a CO2 emissions limit 1/3 lower than the GOP requested. Although the approved limit is close to Poland's current emission level, and Poland lowered CO2 emissions 18% since 1990, the GOP fears that such a cut-back in emissions will slow fu [...]
2007-05-21 14:47:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDECON SENV EINV ETRD PL
07WARSAW1204POLAND: LIBERTAD ACT RESPONSE
[...] (C) Post is not aware of any Polish investment in Cuba and bilateral trade is very small. In the first eleven months of 2006 Poland exported $18.0 million in goods to Cuba and imported $0.2 million from Cuba. Exports for the first 11 months of 2005 were $10.4 million while imports were $3.2 [...]
2007-05-24 10:31:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALETRD ETTC PREL PO CU
07WARSAW121POLES WILL PURSUE TRANSPETROL STAKE
[...] (C) Summary. Polish oil pipeline operator PERN will make a last ditch effort to negotiate a deal with Yukos International to purchase its share of Transpetrol in Slovakia. The GOP fully supports PERN's efforts, as control of Transpetrol by a non-Russian entity is a major energy security go [...]
2007-01-19 15:34:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALENRG EPET PL SO RS PREL
07WARSAW1218START OF MISSILE DEFENSE NEGOTIATIONS IN POLAND:
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On May 24, A/S John C. Rood's U.S. delegation began negotiations on a Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) agreement with Poland's team headed by Deputy Foreign Minister, Witold Waszczykowski. The Poles outlined specific concerns with the U.S. draft BMD agreement. However, they stres [...]
2007-05-25 10:54:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALMARR PREL PL
07WARSAW1221POLAND-IRAQ: FOREIGN MINISTER EXPRESSES CONCERN
[...] (C) Polish Foreign Minister Anna Fotyga called Ambassador in on Friday, May 25, to discuss the changes in the leadership structure of the Multi-National Division Center South (MND-CS) in Iraq, in particular the decision to create a new command (MND-C) that would assume command of MND-CS elemen [...]
2007-05-25 15:35:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MARR PL IQ GG
07WARSAW1237TIP ISSUES GRAB POLISH HEADLINES
[...] (U) Summary. Polish media has recently highlighted a number of instances where law enforcement mishandled and deported TIP victims. Interior Minster Kaczmarek seized on the bad press to highlight the seriousness of the problem to the public and launched an internal investigation, and the Huma [...]
2007-05-30 09:46:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREF KCRM KJUS PL
07WARSAW1265POLES ADVISED AGAINST MANPADS TO GEORGIA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Polcouns delivered reftel demarche, advising that Poland not sell MANPADS to Georgia, to Ambassador Tadeusz Chomicki on May 29. Chomicki appreciated hearing the U.S. position, but politely cautioned that, "This decision rests with the highest authorities in Poland." As if to pre [...]
2007-05-31 14:31:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPARM MASS ETTC PGOV PREL GG PL
07WARSAW1279POLAND SUES EU OVER CO2 LIMITS
[...] No summary [...]
2007-06-01 12:15:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDECON SENV EINV ETRD PL
07WARSAW1281INCREASE IN WALK-IN TRAFFIC TO WARSAW'S CONSULAR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In the last year Warsaw,s consular section has seen an increase in both the number and diversity of walk-ins seeking asylum or refugee status in the United States. The majority of cases continue to come from neighboring countries, primarily Belarus. However, recent applicants ar [...]
2007-06-01 14:32:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALCMGT PREF PHUM ASEC RSOX PL
07WARSAW1295POLES OPPOSE RUSSIAN AGENDA FOR CFE EXTRAORDINARY
[...] (C) In response to reftel demarche by poloff, Polish MFA's expert on the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) treaty, Mieczyslaw Kozinski, labeled Russia's agenda "a non-starter," and called for "NATO solidarity" to oppose Russian goals for the 12-15 June Extraordinary Conference under t [...]
2007-06-04 14:21:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALKCFE NATO PARM PREL PL
07WARSAW1331CFE EXTRA CONFERENCE: U.S. THINKING POINTS
[...] On the morning of June 6, Poloff delivered reftel demarche on CFE Extraordinary Conference Preparations to Mieczyslaw Kuzinski, Head of Regional Security Policy, MFA. As per instructions contained in Calvin Peterson's June 5 e-mail with subject line "Urgent: Instructions to NATO posts for del [...]
2007-06-06 14:18:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDKCFE NATO PARM PREL
07WARSAW1332POLAND MAKES PLANS TO HOST EURO 2012
[...] (U) Since Poland and Ukraine won the rights to host the UEFA European Football Championship in 2012 (EURO 2012),all SIPDIS parts of the Polish Government have been discussing plans to improve infrastructure in time to cope with the crowds. The GOP anticipates around 21 million tourists i [...]
2007-06-06 14:24:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNECON EINV ELTN EAIR PL
07WARSAW1338WILL POLAND USE ITS VETO ON THE EU CONSTITUTIONAL
[...] (C) Warsaw has had a slew of EU leaders pay a visit on the eve of the June 21 EU Summit in Berlin on a constitutional convention. Last week Italian PM Prodi had brutally frank talks with the Polish President and PM. According to a senior Italian diplomat, Prodi called his meeting with PM Kac [...]
2007-06-08 11:46:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PL
07WARSAW1359POLAND'S FOREIGN ASSISTANCE DIRECTOR WANTS TO
[...] (SBU) Begin Summary. Jerzy Pomianowski, Director of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs Development Cooperation Department (Polish AID) would like to meet with his US counterparts while in Washington June 25 and 26 for meetings with the World Bank. Pomianowski is the GOP equivalent of t [...]
2007-06-12 13:36:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREL PO
07WARSAW1382POLAND-EU: GOP THOUGHTS ON THE JUNE 18-19 GAERC
[...] (C) Pol External Chief delivered reftel GAERC demarche June 14 to Pawel Herczynski, Deputy Director, MFA EU Department. Please find below Herczynski's responses on individual agenda items. 2. (C) Cuba: Herczynski noted that the PSC had decided June 13 after a long and bitter discussion to [...]
2007-06-15 13:56:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL EUN PL
07WARSAW1383MISSING/DETAINED AMCITS IN IRAN: POLAND UNDERTAKES
[...] (U) This is an action message. Please see para 4. 2. (C) After Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Juliusz Gojlo, MFA Head of the Iraqi Task Group, PolCouns was asked to meet June 15 with Gojlo and Iran Deskoff Andrzej Lysiak to discuss a related demarche made by the Iranian Embassy. Ly [...]
2007-06-15 14:14:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM IR PHUM EUN PL
07WARSAW1384POLAND ON REQUEST TO DEMARCHE SCO MEMBER STATES
[...] (S) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Krzysztof Ciebien, Minister-Counselor in the MFA Asia Pacific Department. Ciebien carefully reviewed the U.S. position and promised to consult with colleagues in the Security Policy Department and the Eastern Policy Department (which handles Central Asia) [...]
2007-06-15 14:24:00Embassy WarsawSECRETPREL MARR MOPS AF KS PL
07WARSAW1398GIERTYCH ATTACKS ON SOCIAL ISSUES, BUT KACZYNSKIS
[...] (U) Summary. The far-right Catholic nationalist League of Polish Families (LPR) party has been using controversial wedge issues such as abortion and gay rights in an attempt to re-capture the support of voters who largely chose Law and Justice (PiS) in the 2005 election. But LPR head Roman [...]
2007-06-18 13:46:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PINR PL
07WARSAW1423POLAND: CORPORATE EXCELLENCE NOMINATION FOR 3M POLAND
[...] Summary. Embassy Warsaw nominates 3M Poland for the Corporate Excellence Award in the U.S. multinational corporation category. 3M Poland began operations in Poland in the 1960's and began investing in the country in 1991. Through acquisitions and growth 3M Poland now employs 850, with plans [...]
2007-06-20 15:58:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ECON EINV ETRD PL
07WARSAW1428IRANIANS TELL POLES THAT SITUATION OF DETAINED
[...] (C) MFA Iraq Task Force Chief Juliusz Gojlo informed PolCouns June 21 that he had met the previous day with a counselor from the Iranian Embassy to inquire about the status of American citizens detained in Iran (Ref A) and to provide Iran our views on the "Irbil Five"--the Iranians detained i [...]
2007-06-21 10:02:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM IR PHUM EUN PL
07WARSAW1430MISSILE DEFENSE: POLAND'S PLAN FOR JUNE 25 TALKS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 21, Robert Kupiecki, Director of Security Policy, Polish MFA, briefed DCM and Poloff on Poland's plan for the June 25 Missile Defense (MD) negotiations in Washington D.C. Kupiecki cautioned that, despite earlier indications, Poland would not present counter drafts of the [...]
2007-06-21 17:14:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALMARR PREL PL
07WARSAW1438POLAND: ANNUAL INVESTMENT DISPUTE REPORT
[...] (SBU) Post is unaware of any ongoing expropriation disputes involving Poland and U.S. companies or citizens. However, on April 29, 2004, Cargill filed a request for arbitration with the Polish Government relating to its investment in an isoglucose plant in Wroclaw. In 1995, Cargill invested [...]
2007-06-22 12:36:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV CASC KIDE OPIC PGOV PL
07WARSAW1440POLAND JOINS SKANLED CONSORTIUM SOLVING GAS PUZZLE
[...] (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified, not for internet distribution 2. (U) Being Summary: On June 20, Polish Oil and Gas Company PGNiG joined the Skanled Consortium which is developing the Skanled gas pipeline from Karsto, Norway to Sweden and Denmark. Poland acquired a 15% [...]
2007-06-22 17:37:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG ETRD EINV PREL PO
07WARSAW1457AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES HAGUE CONVENTION, MIELEC
[...] (SBU) Summary. Ambassador met with Minister of Justice Ziobro to discuss Hague Convention on International Child Abduction enforcement and the investigation of corruption in the privatization of the Mielec aircraft factory. Minister Ziobro promised to look into the handling of the Szuta cas [...]
2007-06-25 15:08:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCASC EINV ECON PREL PL
07WARSAW1493Polish consumer e-commerce: Considerations for new
[...] Leading Polish internet players have a recipe for success in the Polish and other central European internet markets. New entrants following the lead of these players should consider online infrastructure, logistics, consumer market characteristics and online consumer behavior when making the [...]
2007-06-28 14:40:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDECPS ECON EINT EINV PL
07WARSAW1521POLAND PROBABLY NOT IN A POSITION TO PROVIDE AMMO
[...] No summary [...]
2007-07-06 11:42:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALMASS MARR MOPS PGOV PREL LE NZ AS NATO EU PL
07WARSAW1549INITIAL POLISH REACTION TO AMBASSADOR SWING
[...] Per reftel, Pol External Chief provided bio and press announcement of Amb. William Swing's IOM candidacy on July 9 to Dariusz Manczyk of MFA International Organizations Department, and also briefed Manczyk orally on the U.S. position regarding current DG McKinley's independent candidacy. Manc [...]
2007-07-10 16:19:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDAORC EUN PREF PREL SMIG PL
07WARSAW1581POLAND: POC FOR DHS/CBP C-TPAT COUNTRY CLEARANCES
[...] The US Embassy Warsaw POC for C-TPAT Country Clearances and visits is: Kasia Dragan, Political Assistant Telephone: 48 22 504 2536 Fax: 48 22 504 2678 Email: DraganKE@state.gov PIASCIK [...]
2007-07-13 14:59:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDETRD PL
07WARSAW163KOSOVO STATUS TIMELINE: POLAND FULLY ON BOARD
[...] (C) Pol External Chief delivered reftel demarche on the Kosovo status timeline on January 18 to Piotr Siebeneichen, Chief of the Balkans Division in the MFA Europe Department. Siebeneichen said the Polish and U.S. positions were nearly identical; Poland strongly supported Un Special Envy Ahtis [...]
2007-01-26 10:26:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL UN UNMIK PGOV EU PL
07WARSAW165POLISH FM ON AFGHANISTAN AND INFORMAL NATO
[...] (C) Per reftels, Ambassador met January 25 with FM Fotyga to discuss Poland's engagement in Afghanistan. (Reftel demarches were delivered to the MFA Security Policy Department upon receipt, but the Polish response was deferred until FM Fotyga herself could meet with Ambassador.) Given Poland [...]
2007-01-26 11:04:00Embassy WarsawSECRETNATO PREL MARR MOPS AF PL
07WARSAW166POLISH FM ON AFGHANISTAN AND INFORMAL NATO
[...] (C) Per reftels, Ambassador met January 25 with FM Fotyga to discuss Poland's engagement in Afghanistan. (Reftel demarches were delivered to the MFA Security Policy Department upon receipt, but the Polish response was deferred until FM Fotyga herself could meet with Ambassador.) Given Poland [...]
2007-01-26 11:06:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALNATO PREL MARR MOPS AF PL
07WARSAW1664WITH COALITION IN TATTERS AFTER ONE YEAR OF PM
[...] (C) Summary: With his coalition in tatters Prime Minister Jarek Kaczynski on July 27 pulled back -- at least for the moment -- from calling early elections. Many PiS leaders discount opinion polls and believe they could once again come out ahead in elections. More importantly, Kaczynski ma [...]
2007-07-27 15:51:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR PL
07WARSAW1699MISSILE DEFENSE: POLES PROPOSE SEPTEMBER FOR NEXT
[...] (C) In an August 2 meeting with Charge and poloff, Poland's lead Missile Defense (MD) negotiator, Witold Waszczykowski, indicated that the next round of MD negotiations should occur on September 10, agreeing with his principle advisor, Robert Kupiecki, who said this was a "realistic meeting d [...]
2007-08-03 09:22:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALMARR PREL PL
07WARSAW1715CORRECTED COPY: MISSILE DEFENSE: POLES PROPOSE
[...] (C) In an August 2 meeting with Charge and poloff, Poland's lead Missile Defense (MD) negotiator, Witold Waszczykowski, indicated that the next round of MD negotiations should occur on September 10, agreeing with his principle advisor, Robert Kupiecki, who said this was a "realistic meeting d [...]
2007-08-07 10:15:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALMARR PREL PL
07WARSAW1721WARSAW STOCK EXCHANGE BOOMING BUT FACES CHALLENGES
[...] No summary [...]
2007-08-08 11:42:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV ETRD PL
07WARSAW1723WARSAW STOCK EXCHANGE BOOMING BUT FACES CHALLENGES
[...] (U) Summary: Until a long-expected correction in July 2007, Warsaw Stock Exchanges (WSE) indices have been breaking new records and reaching new highs for over three years. The WSE is central Europe's leader in IPOs with 39 in less than 7 months. The number of foreign companies on the WSE [...]
2007-08-08 14:54:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV ETRD PL
07WARSAW1726WARSAW STOCK EXCHANGE CREATES NEW SMALLER EXCHANGE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-08-09 08:40:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDZFR ECON EINV ETRD PL
07WARSAW1728POLAND: PROMOTION OF STANDING COMMITTEE CANDIDATE
[...] (SBU) PolOff delivered reftel points to Mariusz Lewicki, MFA Head of the Economic and Social Division of the UN Department, to seek support for Steve Carr,s candidacy to the International Red Cross and Red Crescent,s Standing Committee. Lewicki responded that the MFA would review the informat [...]
2007-08-09 12:04:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PL PREF PREL ICRC
07WARSAW1731INTERIOR MINISTER LOBS ACCUSATIONS AFTER BEING
[...] (U) Summary: The firing of Interior Minister Janusz Kaczmarek August 8 caught the political world by surprise and revealed perhaps greater internal disarray in the governing Law and Justice (PiS) party than was suspected even when insider Ludwig Dorn resigned as Interior Minister six months [...]
2007-08-09 14:44:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PL
07WARSAW1743WARSAW STOCK EXCHANGE CREATES NEW SMALLER EXCHANGE
[...] Summary. The Warsaw Stock Exchange's (WSE's) new trading platform NewConnect will be launched on August 30, 2007. NewConnect will be dedicated to Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) with high growth potential. The new exchange has less restrictive listing and capitalization requirements. T [...]
2007-08-10 12:03:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDECON EINV ETRD PL
07WARSAW1745PIS INSIDER SAYS ELECTIONS "PROBABLE" AFTER
[...] (C) In the wake of the August 8 firing of Interior Minister Janusz Kaczmarek, part of the fallout of the July firing of Deputy Prime Minister Andrzej Lepper, there is once again serious talk of early elections, but there has yet to be any concrete action to set the process in motion. As expe [...]
2007-08-10 14:15:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR PL
07WARSAW1748POTENTIAL POLISH MANPADS SALE TO GEORGIA
[...] (S) Summary: In three separate meetings August 10, Charge and Polcouns conveyed reftel demarche to Robert Draba, the President's acting Chief of Staff, who oversees the presidential-level Polish-Georgian commission; Adam Lipinski, Chief of the Prime Minister's Political Cabinet and advisor on [...]
2007-08-13 09:41:00Embassy WarsawSECRETPARM MASS ETTC PGOV PREL GG PL
07WARSAW1755KACZYNSKIS END TURBULENT COALITION AND PREDICT
[...] (SBU) President Lech Kaczynski and his brother Prime Minister Jarek Kaczynski put an end August 13 to a turbulent 15-month coalition government, saying early elections were inevitable and would take place toward the end of October. Prime Minister Kaczynski fired all ministers from the League [...]
2007-08-13 15:40:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR PL
07WARSAW1759GETTING READY FOR SEPTEMBER 6-7 TALKS ON MISSILE
[...] (C) In an August 14 meeting with DCM and Pol Intern, Robert Kupiecki -- principal advisor to Poland,s lead Missile Defense (MD) negotiator Witold Waszczykowski -- promised a Polish draft text on an MD basing agreement in a few days. Kupiecki assured us that the Polish draft text on security c [...]
2007-08-14 15:23:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR PL
07WARSAW1760POSSIBLE ELECTIONS: INITIAL OUTLOOK AND PROGNOSIS
[...] (C) Summary: Early elections now seem more likely than at any other time since Law and Justice (PiS) won the parliamentary and presidential elections in 2005, but are still not completely certain. No action will be taken in moving forward on a resolution to dissolve the Sejm until Septembe [...]
2007-08-14 15:24:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON MARR PL
07WARSAW1764DELIVERY OF DEMARCHE ON KOSOVO'S NEXT STEPS
[...] No summary [...]
2007-08-16 12:49:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALKV YI UN PGOV EU PREL PL
07WARSAW1786SCENE-SETTER FOR CONGRESSIONAL VISITS TO POLAND
[...] Your visits to Warsaw come at a somewhat turbulent political time in Poland, with the governing Law and Justice (PiS) party leadership having just dissolved a fractious coalition with two extremist junior partners and declared they will seek elections in the fall. The elections could be stave [...]
2007-08-17 14:06:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PINR ECON MARR PL
07WARSAW1793MISSILE DEFENSE: POLES DELIVER DRAFT SITE AGREEMENT
[...] (C) On August 20, Andrzej Kremer, Director of the Legal and Treaty Department, Polish MFA, delivered Poland's counter-draft of the Missile Defense basing agreement along with amplifying comments to DCM. He was careful to describe how this document fits into the broader scope of our bilateral [...]
2007-08-20 15:02:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALMARR PREL PL
07WARSAW181POLAND-EU: POLISH FM FOTYGA'S VIEWS ON JANUARY
[...] (C) PolExt Chief delivered Ref B and C pre-GAERC demarches January 17 to Pawel Herczynski, Deputy Director of the MFA EU Department. Herczynski was unable to coordinate a response within the MFA before the January 22 GAERC. However, Post provides below post-GAERC comments by FM Fotyga at a Ja [...]
2007-01-26 16:10:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM ENRG EUN PL
07WARSAW1814DEFMIN TELLS REP TURNER THAT POLES AIM TO "BUY"
[...] (C) While speaking on Missile Defense issues, Defense Minister Aleksander Szczyglo expressed Poland's desire to purchase "modern" air defense missile systems from the U.S. in a meeting with Congressman Michael Turner, member of the HASC, on August 17. Ambassador, DATT and Ministry of Defense [...]
2007-08-22 15:41:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALMARR MAS PREL PL
07WARSAW1817POLISH INSIGHT ON THE NEW AFGHANISTAN
[...] (C) In response to reftel demarche by poloff on August 9, Krzysztof Debnicki, Afghanistan Desk Officer at Polish MFA, expressed support for the new U.S. policy and, to assist our preparation, offered the following rhetorical questions: - When compensating farmers who forsake poppy production, [...]
2007-08-23 15:20:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALNATO PINS PREL MARR MOPS SNAR AF
07WARSAW1820DEMARCHE REQUEST: POLAND SUPPORTS U.S. CANDIDACY
[...] Embassy Economic counselor presented reftel points on August 23 to Darek Manczyk, official responsible for aviation affairs in the Polish Foreign Ministry Office of UN System and Global Affairs. Manczyk said that Poland has a policy of supporting EU and NATO members for the boards of interna [...]
2007-08-24 10:28:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDECON EAIR EINV PL
07WARSAW1821MANPADS SOLD TO GEORGIA BY POLAND ACCORDING TO
[...] No summary [...]
2007-08-24 10:49:00Embassy WarsawSECRETPARM MASS ETTC PGOV PREL GG PL
07WARSAW1826RUMORS FLY AS CALENDAR IS SET FOR DISSOLVING
[...] (C) Summary. Political turmoil continues in Poland as three separate motions for dissolving parliament are under consideration. Sejm Marshall Ludwik Dorn set the vote on dissolution for September 7. With a razor thin majority, the motion may pass, setting the stage for October elections; al [...]
2007-08-27 05:18:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR MASS PL
07WARSAW1843LOT AIRLINE MANAGEMENT ON CHALLENGING POLISH
[...] No summary [...]
2007-08-28 13:24:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALEAIR ECON PL
07WARSAW1867POLISH AVIATION OFFICIAL: "WE HAVE SURRENDERED OUR
[...] (U) Econoff met with Grzegorz Kruszynski, president of the Polish Civil Aviation Office on August 28 to discuss the upcoming International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) General Assembly. Kruszynski said he would be a delegate to the General Assembly, taking place in Montreal, Canada, [...]
2007-08-31 12:34:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALEAIR ECON ETRD PL
07WARSAW1870POLAND: RUSSIAN RESEARCH REACTOR FUEL RETURN
[...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified - not for Internet distribution. 2. (U) Econcoff met with Anna Mank, a director in the Polish Ministry of the State Treasury (MST) and Ivan Bolshinsky, a senior technical advisor with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE),on August 27 to discuss the status [...]
2007-08-31 13:24:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ENRG IAEA KNNP KTIA PARM PL RS
07WARSAW1886POLAND AHEAD OF U.S. ON SUPPORTING GEORGIA AT OSCE
[...] (C) On September 5, Poloff demarched Elzbieta Beziuk of Polish MFA on supporting Georgia at the September 6 OSCE meeting (ref a). After offering Poland's complete cooperation at the September 6 meeting, Beziuk turned the tables and expressed three Polish aspirations on Georgia issues. One, [...]
2007-09-05 13:23:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS OSCE PL
07WARSAW1897POLAND TO SUPPORT CANDIDACY OF FELICE GAER FOR UN
[...] As a follow up to Reftel demarche, Embassy received a diplomatic note informing that Poland will support the candidacy of Felice Gaer for re-election to a seat in the United States Committee against Torture at the October 8 election in Geneva. Original diplomatic note will be pouched to Wash [...]
2007-09-06 13:37:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL UNGA PL
07WARSAW1901POLISH BUSINESSMEN STAYING ABROAD WHILE KRAUZE
[...] (C) Summary: David Ensor told us that the Polish investors in his company, Mercuria Energy, are staying out of Poland while the GOP investigates Polish businessman Richard Krauze. Ensor stated that the company is afraid that during the likely upcoming election campaign that PiS will use a [...]
2007-09-06 14:40:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALENRG EPET PREL PO ES RS GM
07WARSAW1916PARLIAMENT DISSOLVED, MINISTERS FIRED, ELECTIONS
[...] (U) Summary: The Polish Parliament voted to dissolve itself by a wide majority on September 7, setting the stage for early elections. President Kaczynski as expected set the election date for October 21. The political fur is already flying in what is expected to be a brutal campaign. Civic [...]
2007-09-10 15:04:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MARR PL
07WARSAW1918NEED PIRATED MUSIC? FILMS? WARSAW STADIUM STILL
[...] (U) Summary: The "Russian market" at the Warsaw Stadium, for years the most visible symbol of intellectual property theft in Poland, was supposed to close at the beginning of July to make way for construction of a new stadium needed for the 2012 European Soccer championship (reftel). However [...]
2007-09-11 08:23:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON KIPR PL
07WARSAW1930POLAND-NATO/GEORGIA: GOP AN ACTIVE PROPONENT OF
[...] (C) On the margins of September 6-7 U.S.-Polish Missile Defense negotiations, Pol External Chief shared reftel points on the NAC visit to Georgia (including points intended for "cool" and cold" posts) with MFA Security Policy Director Robert Kupiecki, who fully agreed with the U.S. position tha [...]
2007-09-12 13:05:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL NATO GG PL RS
07WARSAW1932POLAND'S MARITIME MINISTRY: ADRIFT AT SEA
[...] (U) Classified by Economic Counselor Richard Rorvig, reasons 1.4 b, d 2. (C) Ambassador Ashe, accompanied by econoff, paid a courtesy call on new Minister of Economy Grobarczyk on September 5. During the meeting, Grobarczyk seemed unfamiliar with basic facts about Polish shipping. He [...]
2007-09-12 15:14:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALEWWT ETRD PREL PO PINR
07WARSAW1934DEMARCHE REQUEST: POLAND WILLING TO SCAN SHIP
[...] Econoff presented Reftel points on August 29 to Tadeusz Gorecki, assistant director of the Department of Maritime Transportation. While noting that Poland shipped almost 38,000 containers directly to the U.S. in the year ending April 30, Gorecki said he foresaw no problems with Poland's abli [...]
2007-09-13 05:38:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDETRD EWWT PL PTER
07WARSAW1938POLAND:MISSILE DEFENSE NEGOTIATIONS, ROUND THREE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A/S John C. Rood's U.S. delegation conducted a productive third round of negotiations on Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) with Poland's team headed by Deputy Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski on September 6-7 in Warsaw. The two sides exchanged views on the strategic context of [...]
2007-09-13 08:15:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALMARR PREL PL
07WARSAW1944POLES THINK IT'S TOO EARLY FOR AN EU BORDER
[...] No summary [...]
2007-09-13 14:33:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SY IS LE EUN
07WARSAW1974DEMARCHE: POLAND WILL VOTE WITH EU ON ICAO
[...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified. This cable is not for Internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Post sent a copy of the demarche on split currency assesments, per reftel, to the Polish Civil Aviation Office (PCAO). However, econoff was unable to make an appointment at PCAO to discuss the demarc [...]
2007-09-19 13:34:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR ICAO PL
07WARSAW1975POLAND AND NORDSTREAM TALKING PAST EACH OTHER
[...] (C) Summary: Polish interlocutors continue to tell post that they oppose the construction of the proposed Nordstream gas pipeline from Russia to Germany. They complain that the Nordstream company announces information to the press rather than discussing it with the Ministry of Economy. Oppo [...]
2007-09-19 14:35:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALENRG ECON EPET ETRD PL RS EN XH XG PREL
07WARSAW1981POLAND ENERGY: PIPELINES, MERGERS, STORAGE, GAS
[...] (C) Summary: Poland continues to pursue the construction of the Odessa-Brody Plock oil pipeline and GOP officials will meet with counterparts from Georgia, Ukraine, and Azerbaijan in Tbilisi on September 26. The Ministry of Economy opposes the merger of PKN Orlen and Lotos Refinery because [...]
2007-09-20 13:52:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALENRG ECON EPET ETRD PL PREL
07WARSAW1988POLAND CAN NOT CONTRIBUTE TO SPECIAL TRIBUNAL FOR
[...] (C) Acting Econ Counselor delivered reftel talking points to Olga Zawadzka-Kucharska of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Department of Development Assistance (Polish AID). Ms. Zawadzka-Kucharska explained that her department had already allocated all of its voluntary contributions for the 200 [...]
2007-09-21 14:48:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALUNSC LE PL PTER
07WARSAW2003AFGHANISTAN AND IRAQ AT ISSUE IN POLAND'S NATIONAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Polish military participation in Afghanistan and Iraq has become an issue in the snap elections set for October 21 (REF A),with leading opposition party Civic Platform (PO) expressing doubts about continuing deployments. Defense Minister Aleksander Szczyglo has recommended that [...]
2007-09-25 12:49:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALMARR PREL PL
07WARSAW2006POLAND: DELIVERY OF DEMARCHE ON U.S. PRIORITIES
[...] (SBU) Polcouns met September 25 with Beata Baranska, MFA Deputy Director for UN Affairs, to review U.S. priorities for the 62nd UNGA. Baranska said that Poland generally would have the same goals for UNGA as last year. Poland wants to see the reform process speeded up, especially on financi [...]
2007-09-25 14:44:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL UNGA PL
07WARSAW2011POLAND: DELIVERY OF DEMARCHE ON U.S. DRAFT
[...] (SBU) Polcouns delivered reftel demarche to Beata Baranska, MFA Deputy Director for UN Affairs, providing her with a copy of the draft resolution and reviewing orally with her reftel talking points. Baranska said she would immediately forward to her colleagues in New York and Geneva the dra [...]
2007-09-26 12:42:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL UNGA PL
07WARSAW2033RACE TIGHTENS IN CLOSING WEEKS
[...] (C) Summary. With elections in three weeks, the Kaczynski political machine is humming, effectively sidelining its main opposition and counting on its strength in rural areas to deliver what would be an electoral first in post-communist Poland: re-election. The Kaczynskis have managed to s [...]
2007-10-01 15:21:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PL
07WARSAW2043KEEPING PRESSURE ON THE BURMESE REGIME
[...] (SBU) Poloff met October 2 with Beata Stoczynska, Acting Director, and Krzysztof Ciebien, Minister Counsellor from the Asia-Pacific Department of the MFA to deliver reftel points on Burma. Stoczynska confirmed that Poland is pushing within the framework of the EU to keep pressure on the Burmes [...]
2007-10-02 15:47:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM BM PL
07WARSAW2052POLAND TO SUPPORT CANDIDACY OF STEVE CARR FOR
[...] No summary [...]
2007-10-03 15:59:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PL PREF PREL ICRC
07WARSAW2059POLAND SEEKS US SUPPORT FOR UN SECURITY COUNCIL
[...] (SBU) On Thursday, October 4, Andrzej Sados, Under Secretary of State for International Relations called in the SIPDIS DCM to request US support in reqeusting that the UN Security Council issue a statement condemning the October 3 attack on the Polish Ambassador to Iraq. The DCM was handed [...]
2007-10-04 15:38:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL IZ PL UNSC
07WARSAW2063POLES SUPPORT U.S. OPPOSITION TO DE-ALERTING OF
[...] No summary [...]
2007-10-05 13:57:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPARM MNUC UNGA
07WARSAW2082KRAKOW,S PO LEADER PREDICTS PO LOSS
[...] (U) This cable was drafted by ConGen Krakow. 2. (C) Summary: Krakow,s PO leader (and lead candidate on the PO list),Senator Jaroslaw Gowin, told Poloff on October 5 that his party will probably lose the coming parliamentary elections, both in Krakow and the nation. In Gowin,s view, the [...]
2007-10-10 13:42:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PL
07WARSAW2091POLAND: MFA OFFICIAL REVIEWS GAERC AGENDA;
[...] (C) Summary: PolCouns met October 11 with Pawel Herczynski, MFA Deputy Director for EU Affairs, to review reftel issues in advance of the October 15-16 EU Foreign Ministers meeting. While most of his comments were predictable, Herczynski added a new twist on Poland's approach to EU-Russia [...]
2007-10-11 14:19:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALEUN PREL PGOV ETRD ETTC KPAL WTO PL
07WARSAW2101TUSK COMING ON STRONG, BUT IS IT TOO LITTLE TOO
[...] (U) Summary: With polls flip flopping between the ruling Law and Order (PiS) and main opposition Civic Platform (PO),the October 12 debate between PM Kaczynski and PO's Donald Tusk may prove decisive in a tight race. After weeks of running an anemic and lackluster campaign, Tusk came out s [...]
2007-10-15 14:11:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PL
07WARSAW2104CFE: POLAND SUPPORTS PARALLEL ACTION, BUT DOUBTS
[...] (C) Poland supports the U.S. proposal for parallel action on the A/CFE but has noted that since the Russians labeled it "insufficient" there is no basis for Poland to pursue ratification at this time. On October 11, in the wake of the of the informal CFE seminar held by all 30 state parties O [...]
2007-10-16 09:35:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM NATO KCFE PL
07WARSAW2128MUD-SLINGING CAMPAIGN DRAWS TO A CLOSE WITH
[...] (C) Summary: Poles will go to vote this Sunday with increasingly stark campaign ad messages of "disaster" in the health sector, a fresh corruption scandal carefully timed for maximum political impact, and a dash of anti-Semitism to add to the campaign. The final week has seen spirited mud-s [...]
2007-10-19 10:15:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MARR PL
07WARSAW2129GET OUT THE VOTE EFFORTS TARGET PRO-PO YOUNG
[...] (U) With youth vote possibly delivering the election to the opposition Civic Platform (PO),turn out of students in this weekend's parliamentary elections will be a crucial factor. Students are more energized this year than in previous rounds, particularly in 2005 when many opted to sit out. [...]
2007-10-19 12:38:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PL
07WARSAW2131POLISH SUPPORT FOR DEMOCRACY MOVEMENT IN BURMA
[...] (SBU) On October 18, PolOff delivered reftel demarche to Krzysztof Ciebien, Minister Counselor for MFA,s Asia department. Ciebien stated that in addition to Poland,s statement expressing concerns over the developments in Burma, the Government of Poland has raised the issue with va [...]
2007-10-19 12:48:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYBM PGOV PHUM RREL PL
07WARSAW2136URBAN VOTERS DELIVER LANDSLIDE VICTORY TO CIVIC
[...] (C) Summary: The opposition Civic Platform (PO) won a decisive victory over ruling Law and Justice (PiS),as urban and youth voters, motivated apparently by PO leader Donald Tusk's decisive debate with PM Jarek Kaczynski, and by PiS's over-the-top campaign tactics, turned out in high numbers. [...]
2007-10-22 14:06:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EFIN MARR PL
07WARSAW2142CIVIC PLATFORM GOVERNMENT LIKELY TO LEAVE IRAQ,
[...] (C) Summary: With their victory clear, Civic Platform (PO) leaders are making public statements on a wide range of foreign policy objectives, including their party's position on Polish deployment in Iraq. Reflecting widespread popular dissatisfaction with the Iraq war, PO consistently has ca [...]
2007-10-23 14:44:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EFIN ECON MARR PL
07WARSAW2148POLAND'S VIEWS ON THE UPCOMING UNGA THIRD COMMITEE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 22, PolOff met with Mariusz Lewicki, Head of the Human Rights Section in the MFA,s UN Department, to discuss reftel issues to be tabled at the UN Third Committee next month. Lewicki reaffirmed that Poland will continue to support country specific resolutions, which [...]
2007-10-24 14:21:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL UNHCR UN PL
07WARSAW2149WARSAW STADIUM CLOSES (SORT OF)
[...] (U) Summary: On October 1, government authorities closed the "crown" of the Warsaw Stadium, where most trade in pirated goods had taken place. The periphery of the Stadium is still open to traders. Counterfeit goods can still be found, although the quantity seems to be less, and the goods a [...]
2007-10-25 07:49:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON KIPR EINV PL
07WARSAW2154ACTION REQUEST: LETTER FROM MFA PROPOSES
[...] (C) ACTION REQUEST: Post requests that the Department respond positively to the Polish government's invitation to participate in a Polish-U.S. seminar on export controls in Tbilisi, Georgia as outlined in the letter text quoted below. END ACTION REQUEST. 2. (C) Background: Ambassador re [...]
2007-10-26 09:46:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPARM MASS ETTC PGOV PREL GG PL
07WARSAW2155POLAND'S RESPONSE ON BURMA SANCTIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2007-10-26 11:58:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL PL BM
07WARSAW2157CUBA EMBARGO RESOLUTION -- POLAND TO SUPPORT THE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-10-26 12:48:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYUNGA ETRD PHUM UNAUS CU PL
07WARSAW2171POLAND: DESIGNATIONS OF IRANIAN ENTITIES AND
[...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified/NOT for internet distribution. 2. (SBU) On October 29, post delivered reftel points to Mieczyslaw Kuzinski and Marian Siemakowicz of the Security Policy Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA),and to Elzbieta Frankow-Jaskiewicz of the Department [...]
2007-10-31 13:41:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL KNNP IR PARM EFIN KTFN ECON PL
07WARSAW2173POLAND WILL MAKE DECISION ON NOV.2 REGARDING IAAC
[...] No summary [...]
2007-10-31 13:42:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL AORC UNGAPL PL
07WARSAW2180POLAND WELCOMES PROPOSAL ON CUBA, AWAITING EU
[...] (SBU) PolOff delivered reftel points to Mariusz Lewicki, Head of the Human Rights Section in the MFA,s UN Department. He welcomed and was very satisfied with the U.S decision to refrain from introducing a Cuba resolution at the current UNGA and to drop its call for a vote on the HRC package whi [...]
2007-11-02 13:12:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL UNGA PL
07WARSAW2181POLAND TO SUPPORT SWISS CANDIDATE FOR IIAC
[...] No summary [...]
2007-11-02 13:36:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL AORC UNGA PL
07WARSAW2185FROM BIALE MIASTECZKO TO THE BALLOT BOX, HEALTH
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: While leaders of the Doctors and Nurses Unions claim to have avoided the politicization of health care in the latest elections, the presiding Law and Justice (PiS) party used the threat of privatization of hospitals in a last minute bid to influence swing voters in the campaign [...]
2007-11-02 15:48:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ELAB PGOV PL PREL TBIO
07WARSAW2188POLAND'S IRAQ DEPLOYMENT REQUIREMENTS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Poland faces significant political and legal obstacles to continuing its Iraq deployment beyond 2008, especially without an applicable United Nations Security Council Resolution (UNSCR). Civic Platform (PO),which won the October 21 parliamentary elections and is certain to form [...]
2007-11-02 16:04:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALMARR MOPS PREL IZ PL
07WARSAW221GOP REQUEST USG SUPPORT POLISH CANDIDIATE FOR OECD
[...] During a phone call between Polish Minister of Economy Wozniak and Secretary of Commerce Gutierrez on January 31, Wozniak asked the USG to support a Polish candidate for the position of OECD Deputy Secretary General. Deputy Minister of Economy Naimski subsequently informed CDA of the request. [...]
2007-02-02 11:05:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDECON OECD ETRD PL
07WARSAW2212POLISH PHARMACEUTICALS: PROGRESS AT LAST
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Ministry of Health finally issued an update to its list of drugs eligible for reimbursement from the National Health Service. The list was great news for the industry. Twenty-one innovative active substances were added. Also, a new law that went into effect on September [...]
2007-11-08 14:40:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALECON KIPR TBIO ETRD PL
07WARSAW2224TUSK DESIGNATED AS NEW POLISH PM
[...] (U) Summary. President Lech Kaczynski designated Donald Tusk as Poland's next prime minister on November 9, as expected. Tusk promised to unveil his recommended cabinet tomorrow, November 10. Presidential advisor Michal Kaminski confirmed that the cabinet should be sworn into office on Fri [...]
2007-11-09 17:12:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PL
07WARSAW2230 POLISH PEOPLEQS PARTY (PSL) IN GOVERNING COALITION RAISES
[...] (U) Civic Platform (PO) led by Prime Minister-designate Donald Tusk will establish a coalition with the Polish PeopleQs Party (PSL) in order to form a new government. PO won PolandQs October Parliamentary election with 41.5 percent of the vote, with PSL garnering 9 percent. In November PSL wi [...]
2007-11-14 06:52:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR ECON ETRD PGOV PL
07WARSAW2231POLISH IPR ADVANCEMENT: TRAINING FOR ALL
[...] Summary: The Polish government has issued a higher education guideline calling for all Polish university students to receive instruction in intellectual property rights (IPR). To our knowledge, this is the first time such a step has been taken anywhere in the world. The President of the Po [...]
2007-11-14 09:04:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECON KIPR PL
07WARSAW2233POLAND: DEMARCHE RESPONSE: EU PROGRESS ON BIOTECH
[...] (SBU) Summary: Post has delivered reftel demarche to the Polish Ministries of Economy, Environment and Agriculture. Poland is in the process of forming a new government, and consequently its capacity to engage on the issue before November 21 is limited. Although it appears unlikely that Pol [...]
2007-11-14 10:37:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR ETRD EUN PL
07WARSAW2243ADDRESSING POLISH DISAPPOINTMENT OVER GAGOR'S NATO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Although reactions vary in intensity, Poland,s foreign and security affairs community is clearly disappointed over the November 14 defeat of Polish Chief of the General Staff Gen. Franciszek in his bid to become Chairman of the NATO Military Committee (CMC). A significant minorit [...]
2007-11-15 16:39:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALMARR NATO PREL PL
07WARSAW2246NEW POLISH FM SIKORSKI AND MOD KLICH LIKELY TO
[...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel non-paper on November 15 to Pawel Herczynski in the MFA's EU Department, in anticipation of the November 19-20 GAERC in Brussels. Herczynski said he was "99% sure" that Poland would be represented by new FM Radek Sikorski, who would be accompanied by new Minister o [...]
2007-11-16 11:38:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALEUN PREL PGOV PL
07WARSAW2265POLAND: BIOTECH POLICY UNCERTAIN-POSITIVE CHANGE
[...] (U) On 21 November AgAtt Kate Snipes delivered ref. A demarche on the EU discussion regarding a tolerance level for low level presence of unapproved biotech products to Dr. Andzej Wojtyla, Head of Sanitary Inspection and Emilia Kalinska, Specialist on GM Food at the Polish Ministry of Health a [...]
2007-11-23 11:07:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR ETRD EUN TBIO PL
07WARSAW2266POLES FORMULATING PLAN FOR JOINT EXPORT CONTROL
[...] No summary [...]
2007-11-23 11:31:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL ETTC MASS PGOV GG PL
07WARSAW2272ASYLUM SEEKERS IN POLAND- PART 1: THE BASICS
[...] (U) Poland,s accession to the Schengen area, permitting open travel within much of Europe, and its geographical location on the Eastern border of the European Union, have had a large influence on the number of Eastern Europeans (especially Chechens) seeking asylum in Poland. As the number of [...]
2007-11-27 15:35:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL PREF PL
07WARSAW2273POLAND'S MINORITY ROMA FACE UPHILL BATTLES DESPITE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. While Poland's Roma population is not as large or significant as those in nearby countries, it remains a community which faces significant challenges. The GOP has recognized the distressing situation of the Roma minority in Poland. In 2001 it created the Pilot Program for the [...]
2007-11-27 16:12:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL SCUL PL
07WARSAW2274PM TUSK WINS VOTE OF CONFIDENCE IN PARLIAMENT
[...] (C) Summary: As expected, PM Donald Tusk won a vote of confidence in the Polish Sejm on November 24, winning 238 votes (230 are necessary). Tusk presented his governmental expose to the Sejm on November 23, outlining an ambitious agenda that includes health sector reform, infrastructure imp [...]
2007-11-27 16:31:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PL
07WARSAW2289MFA OFFICIAL PESSIMISTIC ON CHANGE IN CUBA
[...] (C) Emboffs met with Daniel Gromann, Deputy Director of the MFA's Americas Division, and until August 2007, Poland's Charge d'Affaires in Havana. Gromann spent six years in Havana, and was Charge for his final two years. He played an instrumental role with respect to setting up the video co [...]
2007-11-29 14:32:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PHUM PREL CU PL
07WARSAW231POLAND: MOE ATTEMPT TO STOP OIL TANKER LOADING
[...] (C) Summary: J&S Executives report that Minister of Economy Wozniak requested that the company not load an oil tanker during the recent Druzba oil pipeline shutoff, a request the company denied. J&S currently supplies 50% of Poland's crude, but is diversifying in Europe, the U.S. and Canad [...]
2007-02-02 15:23:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALENRG ECON EPET PL RS UR NO
07WARSAW2313 AMBASSADOR MEETS POLAND'S NEW AG.
[...] (SBU) Summary. Dec. 3, Ambassador Ashe called on new AgMinister Marek Sawicki, accompanied by AgCounselor. As reported reftel, Sawicki is a member of Poland's minority party, PSL, in the new governing coalition with PO that came to office after parliamentary elections Oct. 21. Minister Saw [...]
2007-12-04 14:36:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR ECON ETRD TBIO PGOV PL
07WARSAW2338POLAND TO SUPPORT UNGA PLENARY VOTES ON
[...] (U) On December 7, PolOff delivered reftel points regarding the votes on country specific resolutions in the upcoming UNGA Plenary to Mariusz Lewicki, Head of the Human Rights Section in the MFA,s UN Department. Mr. Lewicki assured us that Poland will attend the Plenary and reiterated Poland, [...]
2007-12-07 14:10:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PGOV PREL UNGA PL
07WARSAW2339POLAND WILL SUPPORT PROSPER'S CANDIDACY FOR UN CERD
[...] No summary [...]
2007-12-07 14:13:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL UNGA PL
07WARSAW234POLAND: ENERGY UPDATE
[...] (U) This is an action cable, see paras 5, 7, 8 2. (C) Summary. The GOP continues to pursue the purchase of Transpetrol assets from Yukos International. The GOP remains concerned that the government of Slovakia will not support a GOP purchase. The GOP started negotiating a contract fo [...]
2007-02-05 07:44:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALEPET ENRG ECON PREL PO RS UP KZ AG GM
07WARSAW2341POLES TO FOCUS ON KOSOVO, EASTERN DIMENSION AT
[...] (C) POLOFF passed reftel talking points to Pawel Herczynski, in the MFA's EU Department. Herczynski said the December 9-10 GAERC will focus primarily on Kosovo and EU Neighbors policy. Herczynski said that the GOP will be very disappointed if the EU fails to speak in one voice with respect [...]
2007-12-07 15:14:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PL
07WARSAW2347POLAND TO ATTEND PARIS DONORS CONFERENCE
[...] (SBU) PolCouns met December 10 with Wieslaw Kucel, Counselor in the MFA's Middle East and Africa Department to deliver reftel demarche. Kucel, who accompanied Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski to the Annapolis conference, said that Poland would be represented by at least Deputy Foreign Minist [...]
2007-12-10 14:26:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV KWBG KPAL IS PL
07WARSAW2349UPDATING INFORMATION FOR TERRORISM FINANCE
[...] (U) Post provides the following information in response to reftel. Post's TFCO is Economic Counselor, Richard A. Rorvig. His office phone number is (48)(22)504-2711, cell number (48)(22)0608-338-330. His classified e-mail address is RorvigRA@state.class and unclassified RorvigRA@state.gov. [...]
2007-12-10 15:52:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC PTER KTFN PO
07WARSAW2355NEW ENERGY CZAR WANTS MORE ECONOMIC LIBERALISM IN
[...] (C) Adam Szejnfeld, the newly appointed Secretary of State in the Economics Ministry responsible for energy affairs, told the DCM that he wants to bring more economic liberalism into Poland's energy policy. Szejnfeld said he will review over the next three months the various energy projects p [...]
2007-12-11 14:54:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALECON ENRG EPET EINV PL
07WARSAW2361AMBASSADOR THOMAS SCHWEICH'S DECEMBER 3 MEETINGS
[...] (SBU) On 3 December, Ambassador Thomas Schweich, United States Coordinator for Afghan Counternarcotics and Justice Reform and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in International Narcotics and Law Enforcement, briefed a roundtable of Polish government officials on the new U.S. five pillar st [...]
2007-12-12 12:33:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAF KNAR PGOV PL PREL
07WARSAW2362WTO/GAMBLING: POLAND LIKELY TO STAY OUT OF THE GAME
[...] (SBU) EconOff delivered reftel demarche regarding the WTO dispute settlement proceeding on gambling and betting services to Mieczyslaw Nogaj, Director of the Trade Policy Department at the Polish Ministry of Economy, and to Joanna Katner-Pruszynska, Counselor to the Minister of Economy. She [...]
2007-12-12 15:06:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD WTRO PL
07WARSAW2368CLUSTER MUNITIONS: POLES WANT TO COUNTER OSLO
[...] (C) In response to Poloff's deliver of reftel demarche, Andrzej Suda of the Security Policy Department at the MFA, underscored Poland's support for the Convention on Conventional Weapons (CCW) and urged immediate action to counter the growing momentum of the Oslo process. Suda noted that Oslo [...]
2007-12-13 14:36:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL NATO
07WARSAW2369RUSSIA LIFTS BAN ON POLISH MEAT
[...] (SBU) Summary: Polish and Russian Ministers of Agriculture have announced that next week the two-year old Russian ban on imports of fresh meat from Poland will be lifted, removing a major trade irritant. Thanks to strong demand, trade levels should quickly rebound. The Russian embargo on [...]
2007-12-13 14:44:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR ETRD ECON PREL PL RU
07WARSAW2379HIV-AIDS PATIENTS IN POLAND
[...] According to a panel of experts who met in Warsaw November 29, 22 years after the first HIV cases were noted in Poland, Poles continue to stigmatize and discriminate against HIV positive persons. The panel, made up of Polish doctors, nurses, and social workers from NGO's, met to mark World AI [...]
2007-12-17 13:02:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDSOCI TBIO PL
07WARSAW2381POLAND'S REACTOR FUEL RETURN PROGRAM: REACHING
[...] (C) Summary: Poland's stalled reactor fuel return program may finally be getting underway, thanks to an executive order establishing a new inter-ministry coordinating group. However, the Poles estimate transferring their reactor fuel waste to Russia could take until 2016 or 2017, beyond the [...]
2007-12-17 13:25:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALKNNP KTIA TRGY ENGR PARM PL
07WARSAW2387POLAND - TAKING ACTION ON VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN
[...] (U) In an effort to recognize the recent 16 Days of Activism against Gender Violence Campaign and the International Day for Elimination of Violence against Women, Post held a Digital Video Conference (DVC) with U.S. and Polish experts to assess major challenges related to the eradication of do [...]
2007-12-18 09:33:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKWMN PREL KPAO PHUM PL
07WARSAW2388POLAND BIO: MACIEJ NOWICKI, MINISTER OF ENVIRONMENT
[...] (U) Maciej Nowicki was named Poland's Minister of Environment on November 16, 2007. He is widely considered one of Poland's most respected environmentalists. Since 1992, he has been the president of Ekofundusz, an organization he founded to provide financial support for environmental prote [...]
2007-12-18 12:12:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPINR SENV ECON PGOV PL
07WARSAW2392POLISH NOMINEES FOR THE ONDCP/INL 23-24 JANUARY
[...] To follow up on our interim response to Ref A text, the following individuals have been identified for participation in the January 23-24, 2008 Regional Drug Demand Reduction seminar to be held in Budapest, Hungary. a) Mr. Michal Sztyk, Chief Specialist from the Ministry of Health, Depart [...]
2007-12-18 14:19:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDOTAR SNAR PL
07WARSAW2395POLAND'S PRACTICAL APPROACH TO RECONCILIATION WITH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: For practical reasons, the new Polish government is committed to improving relations with Russia (ref A) without abandoning core principles on democracy and energy security. Prime Minister Donald Tusk's decision to stop opposing Russian OECD membership was the first in a series o [...]
2007-12-19 10:36:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ENRG ETRD KDEM PL RS
07WARSAW2399POLAND'S ENTRY INTO THE SCHENGEN ZONE
[...] On December 21, 2007, Poland will join the European Union's Schengen area along with seven other Central European nations and Malta. After months of preparation and coordination with other EU members, Poland is ready to enter the Schengen zone and, with its 1185 km eastern frontier, defend the [...]
2007-12-19 16:22:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDPBTS PREL PREF SMIG PGOV EU PL
07WARSAW24092007 COUNTERTERRORISM REPORT - POLAND
[...] SUMMARY: There have been no reported terrorist groups or incidents in Poland. Despite this, Poland addresses counterterrorism issues domestically and internationally and is a firm partner of the United States in this sphere. Overseas, Poland provides about 1200 troops to the International Sec [...]
2007-12-31 10:19:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDPTER ASEC EFIN KCRM KHLS AEMR PL
07WARSAW246DEMARCHE TO GOP ON DEPUTY PM LEPPER'S VISIT TO
[...] (C) Charge delivered the points from reftel to MFA Americas Director Andrzej Jarosinski, saying that the United States did not intend to interfere in the GOP's internal politics, but that we were concerned and saddened that Deputy PM and Minister of Agriculture Andrzej Lepper would receive an [...]
2007-02-05 15:53:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PL
07WARSAW247DEPARTURE OF DEFMIN RADEK SIKORSKI: RESIGNATION OR
[...] (C) SUMMARY. PM Jaroslaw Kaczynski accepted February 5 the resignation of DefMin Radek Sikorski, only hours after the MOD spokesman announced that Sikorski had submitted it. Although it will not be clear how Sikorski's departure might affect U.S. interests until a successor is named, the chang [...]
2007-02-05 16:05:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR PL
07WARSAW258NEW DEFMIN ALEKSANDER SZCZYGLO, A LOYAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: 44-year-old Aleksander Szczyglo, Head of the Presidential Chancellery and a loyal protege and confidante of President Lech Kaczynski (Ref A),will succeed Radek Sikorski (Ref B) February 7 as Poland's Minister of Defense. By acknowledging Sikorski's concerns over the control of mi [...]
2007-02-06 15:54:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL PL
07WARSAW308"THIRD TWIN" RESIGNS FROM INTERIOR; REPLACED BY
[...] (U) The uproar over Ludwik Dorn's unexpected departure from government continued as his replacement, Janusz Kaczmarek, was sworn in February 8 as the new Minister of Interior (MSWiA). As reported reftel, Dorn's departure from MSWiA may signal a crack in the PiS inner circle, a group long dist [...]
2007-02-08 15:51:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PL
07WARSAW31Poland: GOP Unconcerned about Druzba Oil Cut
[...] (U) Polish Deputy Minister of Economy Piotr Naimski confirmed that oil supply to Poland through the Druzba oil pipeline from Belarus was cut on January 7 at approximately 2200, reinstated at 0300, then cut it again at approximately 0600 on January 8. One hundred percent of Polish oil supply [...]
2007-01-08 13:32:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG ECON PREL PGOV PL RS BO UP GM
07WARSAW315POLISH FM ON HALTING EXPORT CREDITS TO IRAN
[...] (C) Ambassador delivered Reftel demarche on Iran Export Credits to Polish FM Anna Fotyga on January 25. Fotyga responded that the GOP took the Iran sanctions very seriously and would make every effort to ensure compliance with UNSCR 1737. She could not promise at present that Poland would t [...]
2007-02-09 13:20:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL EFIN MNUC PL IR EXIM UNSC OECD
07WARSAW316POLAND-EU: FM FOTYGA REQUESTS THAT U.S. MONTHLY
[...] (C) SUMMARY. According to MFA officials, FM Anna Fotyga has requested that her briefing book for every GAERC include the text of the monthly U.S. pre-GAERC demarches. Fotyga has become fully engaged in Poland's relations with the EU and clearly values U.S. views, and our cooperation with MFA [...]
2007-02-09 14:02:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM ETRD EUN PL
07WARSAW317POLAND: DELIVERY OF LETTER TO ENCOURAGE V-10
[...] (C) Political External Chief delivered Ref B letter from PDAS Volker and DAS DiCarlo February 9 to MFA European Department Director for forwarding to MFA U/S Krzysztof Szczerski, who is both the current Political Director and the U/S supervising EU and European issues. Chmielewski indicated t [...]
2007-02-09 14:50:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EUN YI PL
07WARSAW319FATAH-HAMAS GOVERNMENT: POLAND STRONGLY SUPPORTS
[...] (C) Pol External Chief delivered reftel demarche on the Fatah-Hamas national unity government on February 9 to Pawel Herczynski, MFA EU Department Deputy Director. Herczynski commented that the U.S.views were fully consistent with Quartet principles, and therefore they reflected EU policy as [...]
2007-02-09 15:34:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALKISL KPAL KWBG PREL IS PL
07WARSAW320POLAND'S ECONOMY STARTS TO HIT ITS STRIDE
[...] (U) Poland's GDP rose 5.8 percent in 2006 to $337 billion, according to the National Statistics Agency, the best performance since 1996. Growth was propelled by a 5.8 percent rise in domestic demand, sharply increased EU funds inflows, and surging investment (up 16.7 percent). Profiting from [...]
2007-02-09 15:43:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN PL
07WARSAW321POLAND: SURVEYING EU MEMBERS ON THEIR IRAN CIVIL
[...] (C) Post apologizes for the delay in responding to Reftel demarche on Iran Civil Society and Democracy programming. Due to internal reorganization and a near 100 percent turnover in staff, The Polish MFA Department for Africa & Middle East was unable to meet with us over the past several weeks [...]
2007-02-09 15:45:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM KPAO EUN PL
07WARSAW33Poland: GOP Unconcerned about Druzba Oil Cut
[...] (U) Polish Deputy Minister of Economy Piotr Naimski confirmed that oil supply to Poland through the Druzba oil pipeline from Belarus was cut on January 7 at approximately 2200, reinstated at 0300, then cut it again at approximately 0600 on January 8. One hundred percent of Polish oil supply [...]
2007-01-08 14:15:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG ECON PREL PGOV PL RS BO UP GM
07WARSAW355KACZYNSKIS SEEK TO SOLDIER ON DESPITE CRACKS IN
[...] (C) Summary. There is a crisis atmosphere within the government as President and Prime Minister Kaczynskis' most loyal political lieutenants are squabbling publicly. Even for the Kaczynskis, who have overseen a government buffeted by crisis (much of their own making),the resignations last [...]
2007-02-14 16:11:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PL
07WARSAW372POLAND: SHOWING OF AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH AND HIGHLIGHTING
[...] (U) SUMMARY. Post co-sponsored the Polish premiere of Al Gore's movie on global warming, "An Inconvenient Truth," and used the occasion to articulate U.S. policy on climate change and to highlight USG efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The screening, at an environmental and clean en [...]
2007-02-16 10:11:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDECON SENV EINV ETRD PL
07WARSAW387POLAND: ENSURING EFFECTIVE IMPLEMENTATION OF UN
[...] (C) Political External Chief delivered Ref A talking points February 9 to Juliusz Gojlo, Iran/Iraq Team Chief in the MFA Middle East Africa Department. Gojlo undertook to distribute the U.S. views to the Polish interagency for comment, but warned that it could take some time to provide a resp [...]
2007-02-20 09:01:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALKNNP EFIN PL
07WARSAW395POLAND (QUIETLY) ENDING NORTH KOREAN LABORER
[...] (C) On February 16, Poloff met with Piotr Mierecki, Director of the Department of Migration Policy at the Ministry of Interior. Mierecki indicated that the GOP has taken a decision internally to end the North Korean work program, under which 25 North Korean welders are working at the Gdansk S [...]
2007-02-21 09:12:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM ELAB EZ KN PL
07WARSAW431POLAND: RESPONDING TO RUSSIAN THREATS AGAINST
[...] (C) Charge shared reftel points February 22 with MFA U/S Witold Waszczykowski, explaining that this was the approach the USG was taking to inform allied and friendly European governments of our Missile Defense plans and to reassure them in the wake of strongly negative Russian rhetoric in recen [...]
2007-02-23 15:26:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALEZ MARR PREL PL
07WARSAW433NO RESPONSE ON REQUEST FOR POLAND'S SUPPORT TO
[...] No summary [...]
2007-02-23 15:56:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDAORC SNAR UNCND PL
07WARSAW498PM KACZYNSKI AIMS TO PASS RESTITUTION LAW IN 2007
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (the Conference) held its annual meeting in Warsaw from February 26-28, in part to press the GOP for passage of a law for restitution or compensation for property taken by the Nazi and Communist regimes. In meetings with t [...]
2007-03-01 14:42:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREL PL
07WARSAW500POLAND-EU: DELIVERY OF DEMARCHE IN ADVANCE OF THE
[...] (C) SUMMARY. According to MFA EU Department Deputy Director Pawel Herczynski, the March 5-6 GAERC will be heavily focused on energy and climate issues, in advance of the March 8-9 European Council (EC) meeting. Emissions standards will be the most difficult part of the discussion. Herczynski [...]
2007-03-01 15:56:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM ETRD EUN ENRG PL IR
07WARSAW538 POLAND: SEVENTH ANNUAL (2007) TRAFFICKING IN
[...] (SBU) Following are responses keyed to questions in paragraphs 27-31 of REFTEL. Embassy point of contact is Political Officer Daniel Gedacht (telephone: 48-22- 504-2621, fax 48-22-504-2613, e-mail GedachtDC@state.gov). POLOFF (FO-04) spent 45 hours collecting data and compiling report; one p [...]
2007-03-06 16:18:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB
07WARSAW563POLAND: ENVIRONMENT AND SCIENCE INITIATIVES
[...] In response to ref A, post takes the opportunity to highlight post initiatives in environment and science. Various initiatives are already underway and post is planning for continued and increased cooperation in these areas. The Ambassadorplays a significant role in many of the environmental [...]
2007-03-08 13:45:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDECON SENV KPAO ENRG PL
07WARSAW582ACTION REQUEST AND BACKGROUND: USG PRIORITIES FOR
[...] No summary [...]
2007-03-09 15:45:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM UNHRC HUMAN
07WARSAW583YUSHCHENKO AND KACZYNSKI DISCUSS ENERGY, EU: TALK
[...] (C) Summary: Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko and Polish President Lech Kaczynski focused on the Odessa-Brody pipeline project as well as Ukrainian aspirations for greater engagement with the EU during their March 7 meetings in Plock, Poland. Yushchenko's subsequent call for dialogue wi [...]
2007-03-09 15:45:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON SENV EINV ETRD EAGR PL
07WARSAW593POLAND: POC FOR MISSILE DEFENSE PUBLIC DIPLOMACY
[...] Embassy Warsaw POC for overall Missile Defense issues is Political External Chief David Morris, (48)(22)504-2657 or IVG 8-628-2657, e-mail MorrisDT@state.gov. POC for Public Diplomacy efforts is Information Officer Andrew Schilling, (48)(22)504-2331 or IVG 8-628-2331, e-mail SchillingAJ@state [...]
2007-03-12 16:08:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV MARR PL EZ RU
07WARSAW595POLAND: PHARMACUETICAL DATA EXCLUSIVITY UPDATE
[...] (SBU) According to representatives of the Employer's Union of Innovative Pharmaceutical Companies (INFARMA),Poland has adopted the "8+2+1" data exclusivity system for drugs centrally registered in the European Union (EU) through the European Medicines Agency (EMEA). This means that innovative [...]
2007-03-12 16:29:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD KIPR PL
07WARSAW610POLAND QUIETLY SUPPORTS US-EU OPEN SKIES AGREEMENT
[...] (C) Econoff delivered reftel demarche to Malgorzata Alberti, Head of the International Agreements Division of the Civil Aviation Office. Pawel Moniak, a specialist in the International Agreements Division, and the Polish representative during the most recent negotiations in Brussels was als [...]
2007-03-13 16:15:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALECON EAIR KTIA PREL EU PL
07WARSAW648POLAND-OSCE: GOP REQUESTS U.S. SUPPORT FOR HCNM
[...] (C) MFA Security Policy Director Robert Kupiecki informed DCM on March 14 that Poland had formally nominated former Polish Foreign (Adam) Daniel Rotfeld to the position of OSCE High Commissioner for National Minorities (HCNM). Noting Rotfeld's close association and cooperation with the U.S. f [...]
2007-03-15 16:09:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM OSCE PINR PL
07WARSAW688POLAND: COMPETITION INCREASING IN TELCOM SECTOR
[...] Competition in Poland's telecommunications sector is increasing rapidly due to the strong new policies of the telcom regulator. By forcing the monopoly telcom company, TPSA, to lease its lines to other telcom providers, consumers finally can choose which voice and internet services they use. [...]
2007-03-20 15:21:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDECON ECPS EINT PL
07WARSAW691POLAND-GERMANY: (C-RE7-00514) MERKEL'S SPRING
[...] (U) German Chancellor Angela Merkel's March 16-17 visit to Poland was deemed a great success by both sides, and could prove an important step in warming previously frosty bilateral relations (reftel). By declaring opposition to the claims of German WWII expellees on Polish land Merkel earned [...]
2007-03-20 15:46:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV PINR ENRG PL GM
07WARSAW729FRONTEX: A PRIMER ON THE EU'S BORDER CONTROL AGENCY
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Headquartered in Warsaw, the EU's external border control agency, FRONTEX, focuses on EU-level coordination of "intelligence driven operational cooperation" to strengthen security at the EU's external borders. In a meeting with Pol-Mil Officer, FRONTEX External Relations Officer [...]
2007-03-23 15:38:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PTER KNNP KSTCPL PL
07WARSAW735Polish e-commerce: Challenges, but Solid Fundamentals.
[...] Poland's e-commerce sector appears to be doing well although some challenges remain in the level of internet access, business IT investment, and government e-commerce initiatives. The business-to-consumer segment of the market has already reached 4 billion zloty ($1.4 billion) annually, while [...]
2007-03-26 08:05:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDECPS ECON EINT EINV PL
07WARSAW748POLAND SUPPORTS AHTISAARI'S PLAN, BUT EXPRESSES
[...] (C) DCM met March 27 with Krzysztof Szczerski, Under Secretary of State for Europe at Polish MFA, to deliver SIPDIS reftel Demarche on Kosovo. (Note: Neither Minister nor Deputy Minister were available.) Szczerski stated "Poland is for the Ahtisaari plan," but then went on to outline "a f [...]
2007-03-27 14:33:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV UNMIK UN YI EU PL
07WARSAW755AVIAN AND PANDEMIC INFLUENZA; STATE-DOD CONTACTS
[...] No summary [...]
2007-03-29 11:29:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDKFLU ECON MARR MASS CASC EAGR PL
07WARSAW764POLES PONDER ACCEPTING GUANTANAMO DETAINEES
[...] (C) Witold Waszczykowski, Under Secretary of State Polish MFA, indicated that Poland may be prepared to consider accepting Guantanamo detainees in response to DCM delivery of reftel demarche on March 28. Waszczykowski asked how many detainees we might want Poland to take and when. Without m [...]
2007-03-30 06:46:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PHUM PINR KAWC XG PL
07WARSAW797POLISH FOREIGN MINISTER CONSIDERING GUANTANAMO
[...] No summary [...]
2007-04-04 14:38:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PHUM PINR KAWC XG PL
07WARSAW810POLAND'S PERM REP WILL SIGN US-EU OPEN SKIES PLUS
[...] No summary [...]
2007-04-05 11:25:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDECON EAIR KTIA PREL EU PL
07WARSAW855DEMARCHE ON ANTARCTIC TREATY CONSULTATIVE MTG
[...] No summary [...]
2007-04-12 07:58:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDECON SENV AOCR AY KSCA KTIA PL
07WARSAW86POLAND: DAS BRYZA'S MEETING WITH DEPUTY ECONOMICS
[...] (C) Summary: EUR DAS Bryza and Polish Deputy Minister of Economy Naimski discussed a deal for gas for Azerbaijan and Georgia that would relieve both countries of their dependence on Russian gas, and exchanged views on the political situation in Georgia. Naimski restated his opposition to t [...]
2007-01-12 15:59:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALENRG ECON PREL RS GG AJ KZ LH LG EN LO PL
07WARSAW865FM FOTYGA DECLINES TO TAKE TO-BE FREED GUANTANAMO
[...] No summary [...]
2007-04-13 11:52:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PHUM PINR XG PL
07WARSAW908WMO QUADRENNIAL CONGRESS DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] No summary [...]
2007-04-19 12:18:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDECON SENV TPHY WMO PL
07WARSAW935TWO POLAND SUBMISSIONS FOR G/TIP-MANAGED FY 2007
[...] Two Polish NGOs prepared proposals for G/TIP funded projects in response to Reftel. Post has already submitted the full proposals for the projects to the G/TIP Programs Section regional officer for EUR. Summary information for each project follows: 2. PROJECT PROPOSAL ONE: COMBATING HUM [...]
2007-04-23 12:54:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDASEC ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG PL
07WARSAW937POLAND-IRAQ: GOP REAFFIRMS MND-CS COMMITMENT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 30, an interagency delegation met with GOP officials to press for a GOP commitment to maintain Polish troops and bases in Iraq through the end of 2007 (del list in para 2). The common Polish position was a commitment to keep Polish troops in Iraq throughout 2007 with a p [...]
2007-04-23 13:30:00Embassy WarsawSECRETMARR PGOV PREL PL
07WARSAW958POLISH FOREIGN MINISTER TO ATTEND MAY 3 ICI MEETING
[...] (SBU) Foreign Minister Fotyga informed visiting Secretary of Defense Gates April 25 that she will attend the SIPDIS May 3 ICI meeting. She also said that she was endeavoring to do what she could on Iraq debt, but repeated several times that debt forgiveness would be very difficult given P [...]
2007-04-25 15:08:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL EAID EFIN PGOV PL
07WARSAW976POLAND: DELIVERY OF INVITATION TO THE COALITION
[...] (SBU) In response to Reftel, we have been informed that Polish attendees at the Iraq Coalition Conference in Tampa, FL April 30-May 2 will be Juliusz Jacek Gojlo (Chief of the Iraqi Task Group, Department of Africa and the Middle East, Ministry of Foreign Affairs) and Brigadier General Witold [...]
2007-04-27 15:05:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR MASS MOPS PREL PTER PL
07WARSAW979POLAND-MISSILE DEFENSE: DELIVERY OF DRAFT BMD
[...] (C) DCM delivered draft Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) agreement text (Ref A) on April 26 to MFA U/S Witold Waszczykowski, along with previously provided site map attachments originally provided to the GOP on January 25 (Ref B). Waszczykowski acknowledged receipt of the draft and undertook t [...]
2007-04-27 17:05:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR PL
07WARSAW982EMBASSY WARSAW CELEBRATES EARTH DAY
[...] In celebration of Earth Day and the 10th anniversary of the GLOBE program in Poland, the Ambassador and other Embassy officers participated in a variety of events promoting increased protection of the environment. The GLOBE program (Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment) [...]
2007-04-30 08:37:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDECON SENV PL
08WARSAW1004DPM/ECONMIN PAWLAK PROPOSES CAP REFORM
[...] (U) This message is an action request - see para 3. 2. (SBU) Embassy Warsaw is receiving more signals that the GoP - or elements within it - sees the failure of Doha Round negotiations as a point of departure for deeper U.S.-EU economic integration and liberalization. In Ref B meeting with [...]
2008-08-27 12:34:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ENRG ETRD EUN PGOV PL TBIO WTO
08WARSAW1009POLAND REJECTS RUSSIAN RECOGNITION OF SOUTH
[...] (C) MFA Director for Eastern Policy Jaroslaw Bratkiewicz told us that the Polish Foreign Minister's public statement of August 27 makes clear the GoP's rejection of Russian recognition of Georgia's breakaway regions. Bratkiewicz noted in particular that Russian actions are in violation of t [...]
2008-08-28 14:46:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV GG RU PL
08WARSAW101UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL DRAFT RESOLUTION ON GAZA
[...] POLOFF delivered reftel talking points on the proposed Human Rights Council draft resolution on Gaza to Ambassador Maciej Kozlowski at the MFA's Africa and Middle East Division on January 24. He had no immediate reaction. ASHE [...]
2008-01-24 16:10:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL PL
08WARSAW1010CODEL LIEBERMAN URGES UNITED SUPPORT FOR GEORGIA
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Codel Lieberman met separately August 21 with Polish FM Sikorski and PM Tusk to express solidarity over events in Georgia. FM Sikorski said Western Europeans were starting to understand the nature of the Russian threat, although he warned of Russian "purchases" of leading Europ [...]
2008-08-28 15:19:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR ECON ENRG GG PL
08WARSAW1018POLISH MFA OFFERS NO RESPONSE TO MED-D SOFA
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-29 12:08:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALNATO PREL EUN PL
08WARSAW102POLAND: SECOND SURVEY OF IRAQ DEPLOYMENT
[...] (C) In accordance with ref A, poloff engaged Polish diplomats, Juliusz Gojlo, Iraq Desk, and Piotr Erenfeicht, NATO Operations Action Officer, on the future of Polish engagement in Iraq, its legal basis and the possibility of a Defense Cooperation Agreement. The Polish government has declared [...]
2008-01-24 16:11:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MOPS IZ PL
08WARSAW1032POLISH VIEWS ON GEORGIA IN ADVANCE OF THE
[...] (C) The GOP stated officially that it was pleased with the results of the September 1 special EU Foreign Ministers' summit on Georgia and Russia, but in private, Poles express disappointment that more was not done. In response to reftel demarche, Tomasz Orlowski of the Polish MFA Department of [...]
2008-09-03 12:08:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EUN GG PL
08WARSAW1037UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE: POLAND STILL SUPPORTIVE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-04 14:52:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM UNGA PL
08WARSAW1039POLES SUPPORT AFGHAN NATIONAL ARMY EXPANSION
[...] (C) Deputy Defense Minister Stanislaw Komorowski thanked DCM September 4 for reftel information about plans to increase the capabilities of the Afghan National Army, and expressed support for the effort. Komorowski reminded that Poland has been seeking to join the Joint Coordination Board. [...]
2008-09-05 07:34:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR AF PL
08WARSAW1053BELARUS/POLAND - FM SIKORSKI TO ANNOUNCE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA officials told AmEmbassy Minsk Charge Moore that Belarusian authorities are "terrified" about the implications that Russia's recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia has for Belarus. FM Sikorski reportedly sees recent developments in Belarus, including the release of politic [...]
2008-09-09 16:22:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV BO PL
08WARSAW1055POLISH VIEWS ON SEPTEMBER 15-16 GAERC AND
[...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA EU Correspondent Cyryl Kozaczewski told us the GoP has avoided responding "emotionally" on Georgia, notwithstanding the severity of the crisis. The GoP will not press for strong EU measures against Russia, preferring to give Russia time to reflect on developments. Although i [...]
2008-09-11 09:17:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV EUN ZL ZI SO YI TU GG RS PL
08WARSAW1060RUSSIAN FM LAVROV OPEN TO MD CONFIDENCE-BUILDING
[...] (C) The fact alone that FM Lavrov followed through on a planned visit to Warsaw September 11 spoke volumes about Russia's and Poland's ability to talk to each other despite major differences over Missile Defense (MD) and the Caucasus. The respectful atmospherics were as important as the visi [...]
2008-09-12 11:35:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL RS GG PL
08WARSAW1069RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE: SUPPORTING AMENDMENT OF THE
[...] (C) Summary. GOP will consider guarded support for amendment of the ISAF oplan to expand CN authorities, provided actions resulting from amendment do not have a negative impact on safety of Polish troops. However, the Poles believe that the priority should be training Afghans to take on thei [...]
2008-09-15 14:52:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALNATO PREL MOPS MARR AF PL
08WARSAW1073GEORGIA - POLAND TO TAKE "BALANCED APPROACH" TO
[...] (C) Poloffs delivered reftel demarche September 15 to MFA Georgia Desk Officer Tomasz Orlowski. Orlowski said Poland agrees with U.S. views that Russia appears to be pushing harder in international fora on allegations that Georgia committed acts of genocide in South Ossetia during the conflic [...]
2008-09-16 11:08:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL CG RS XG XH PL
08WARSAW1074BELARUS/POLAND - MFA CONTINUES TO LOBBY FOR
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Polish MFA officials told us that Belarusian FM Martynov took a "soft, friendly" tone in his September 12 meeting with FM Sikorski. They attributed the meeting's success -- and Belarus' apparent warming to the West -- as a reaction to Russian actions in Georgia and a growing Bel [...]
2008-09-16 12:32:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV BO PL
08WARSAW1075UNAIDS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-16 15:29:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDKHIV EAID PL
08WARSAW108POLISH MFA'S RUSSIA EXPERT SEES CHANGE IN RUSSIAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The MFA's newly-appointed Eastern Policy Director, Jaroslaw Bratkiewicz, described the atmosphere during FM Radek Sikorski's recent visit to Russia as warm, but doubted it reflected any fundamental change in Russian outlooks. He said the Russians now say publicly that they acknow [...]
2008-01-25 14:45:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ENRG ETRD KDEM PL RS
08WARSAW1081POLISH MFA: RUSSIAN FM LAVROV SENT MIXED MESSAGE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: At a briefing for European and US diplomats, MFA Director for Eastern Policy Jaroslaw Bratkiewicz characterized Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov's visit to Poland on September 10-11 as a "mixed message" to Warsaw regarding Russia's policy towards its neighbors. The Russian [...]
2008-09-17 16:17:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL RS CG PL
08WARSAW1086NO TO IRAN DEAL FOR NOW; BUT WHAT NEXT ON ENERGY
[...] (SBU) EEB DAS Doug Hengel met the week of September 8 with government officials and leadership of the state-controlled oil and gas company (PGNiG) and was assured that no energy deal with Iran was imminent. All agreed on the importance of ensuring that Iran did not develop nuclear weapons and [...]
2008-09-18 11:25:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALENRG ECON EPET ETTC IR PREL PL
08WARSAW1093THE END OF A SUCCESSFUL IRAQ MISSION: EVALUATING
[...] (C) SUMMARY. On October 15, Poland will bring to a close her five-year mission in Iraq. On balance, the Polish military presence in Iraq must be seen as a success. The deployment dates from the earliest days of the coalition in 2003; it survived two changes in government in Warsaw; and the [...]
2008-09-19 10:04:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MARR PL
08WARSAW1098MISSILE DEFENSE: WHAT THE LOCALS WANT
[...] Paragraph 3 contains the text of a petition presented to Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk by the inhabitants of Redzikowo, the small town near Slupsk where a U.S. missile interceptor site (part of the "anti-missile shield) is to be located. Tusk received the petition during his visit to Slups [...]
2008-09-19 14:42:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS PREL PGOV PL
08WARSAW1099POLES CONSIDERING REQUEST FOR INCREASED
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-22 05:53:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MOPS NATO IZ PL
08WARSAW1104POLAND/DPRK - GROWING INTEREST IN PROMOTING HUMAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY. The Polish Government is very interested in the humanitarian and human rights situation in North Korea (DPRK). MFA officials told Deputy Special Envoy for Human Rights in North Korea Christian Whiton that they are exploring ways to take effective action. The Poles expressed inte [...]
2008-09-23 05:51:00Embassy WarsawSECRETPHUM PREL KN PL
08WARSAW1105POLAND CONCERNED ABOUT VENEZUELA AND BOLIVIA; SEES
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The GoP is concerned about the political situation in Bolivia and Venezuela -- particularly after the expulsions of the U.S. Ambassadors to both countries. MFA Deputy Director Daniel Gromann indicated that Poland supports the EU position of "constructive engagement" with both cou [...]
2008-09-23 05:51:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALASEC KDEM PGOV PREL ENRG BL VE PL
08WARSAW1108A POTENTIAL ALLY ON CHINESE PROLIFERATION
[...] (C) Econ and Political Officers discussed points and passed on non-paper to officials at the Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Foreign Affairs respectively (REF A). Polish officials were supportive of the message and agreed with the importance of engaging the Chinese on weapons proliferation [...]
2008-09-23 12:14:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNECON EFIN KNNP PARM PTER IR PL
08WARSAW1112POLES AGREE THERE SHOULD BE NO BUSINESS AS USUAL
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-24 05:46:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALNATO PREL GG RS PL
08WARSAW1114 POLAND AG BIOTECHNOLOGY PROGRESS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Polish debate on biotechnology is heating up, with nudging from the Embassy. From April to September, an industry coalition supporting biotech has coalesced, and we are starting to see local leaders following their constituents in countering negative propaganda and demanding ac [...]
2008-09-24 07:46:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR ECON ETRD TBIO PGOV PL
08WARSAW1117RECOMMENDATION FOR PRESIDENTIAL DELEGATION TO
[...] (SBU) Embassy Warsaw recommends that a presidential delegation at the highest possible level represent the United States at commemoration ceremonies in Warsaw on November 11 marking the 90th anniversary of Poland's regaining its independence. This is a tremendously significant milestone for t [...]
2008-09-24 10:11:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PL
08WARSAW1128POLAND ON COMMUNITY OF DEMOCRACIES AND ESC VOTE
[...] (C) Embassy Warsaw delivered ref A points to the Polish MFA. Miroslaw Luczka, Deputy Director of the MFA's Department of UN and Human Rights, informed us on September 24 that Poland would most likely abstain if the ESC were brought to vote because of external political factors. Luczka expla [...]
2008-09-25 16:17:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALKDEM PGOV PHUM PREL UNGA PL
08WARSAW1129PSL LEADERS SEE FUTURE CLOSELY TIED TO CIVIC
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Polish People's Party (PSL) has largely linked its short-term future to the success of its senior coalition partner, Civic Platform (PO). According to PSL's Parliamentary Caucus Chair Stanislaw Zelichowski and PSL Deputy Party Chairman Jan Bury (also a Deputy Treasury Minist [...]
2008-09-26 07:11:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV EFIN PL
08WARSAW113BAD AROLSEN ARCHIVES AND SECOND PROTOCOL PROCEDURE
[...] In a January 23, 2008 meeting with EUR/OHI's Ambassador J. Christian Kennedy, the MFA Legal Department's Krzystof Kocel said that all partner countries involved in the International Tracing Service (ITS) had completed their internal requirements for passage, and that the Second Protocol gove [...]
2008-01-28 16:02:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDKJRE PREL PGOV PL
08WARSAW1138GOP TO PUT FORWARD DRAFT PRIVATE PROPERTY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Polish Treasury Vice Minister Krzysztof Laszkiewicz told visiting Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues Ambassador J. Christian Kennedy September 12 that draft legislation on compensation for WWII and Communist-era confiscations is ready to be introduced to the Sejm (the lower house [...]
2008-09-29 11:09:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL PL
08WARSAW1140POLAND WRESTLING WITH CIVILIAN CONTRIBUTIONS FOR
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Poland begins its fourth Afghanistan rotation November 1 with the consolidation of 1,450 soldiers in Ghazni province. The GoP agreed to take sole responsibility for operations in Ghazni in March 2008, and began detailed military planning at that time -- particularly to secure t [...]
2008-09-29 14:06:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL MAPP AF PL
08WARSAW1141 Animal Cloning Attitudes in Poland
[...] (SBU) Summary. This cable reports a round table discussion Sept. 19 in Warsaw on the subject of scientists' views on animal cloning and the food supply. January's announcement of deregulation for clones by FDA has sparked controversy, with a vote by the European Parliament against the techn [...]
2008-09-29 14:25:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR ECON ETRD TBIO PGOV PL
08WARSAW1142ASSISTANCE TO GEORGIA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] (U) EmbOffs delivered reftel demarche regarding the upcoming Georgia donors conference in Brussels to Tomasz Orlowski, Georgia desk officer at the Polish MFA, as well as Barbara Gronowska and Joanna Poplawska in the MFA's Development Cooperation Department on September 22. The MFA is working [...]
2008-09-29 15:07:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EFIN KCRS EUMEM PREL GG RS PL
08WARSAW1144POLISH MFA: CONTINUE DIALOGUE WITH BELARUS AFTER
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-30 13:28:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM PGOV BO PL
08WARSAW1147POLISH MFA: CONTINUE DIALOGUE WITH BELARUS AFTER
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. A Polish MFA official told us that the GoP agrees with the U.S. and OSCE assessment that the September 28 parliamentary elections in Belarus were neither free nor fair. The MFA saw some "minor improvements" in the election process and will seek to continue a dialogue with Bel [...]
2008-09-30 14:51:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM PGOV BO PL
08WARSAW1170POLAND TO CONTINUE STRICT IMPLEMENTATION OF UNSCR
[...] (C) The GOP considers the potential threat posed by Iran to be among the world's "highest concerns," according to Piotr Kozlowski, Iran desk officer in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Political External Chief made reftel demarche 3 October with Kozlowski and left copies of UNSC Resolution [...]
2008-10-03 15:28:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL KNNP IR MNUC PARM PL
08WARSAW1171OPIC SUPPORT FOR GREEN EMERGY MARKETS FUND - DUE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-06 11:51:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN EINV ECON PL
08WARSAW1173POLES DEEPEN AFGHANISTAN ENGAGEMENT DESPITE PUBLIC
[...] (C) SUMMARY. On November 1, Poland will increase its military presence and take on new responsibilities in Afghanistan. Polish forces will consolidate control over military operations in Ghazni province, and a Polish civilian contingent will replace its U.S. PRT counterpart over the course [...]
2008-10-07 06:02:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL AF PL MAPP
08WARSAW1175POLAND TO ABSTAIN ON KOSOVO ICJ RESOLUTION
[...] (C) Poland will abstain on Serbia's UNGA resolution to refer a question on the legality of Kosovo's independence to the International Court of Justice (ICJ),according to MFA Political Director Witold Sobkow. In response to reftel demarche, Sobkow, who is responsible for EU foreign policy an [...]
2008-10-07 10:22:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL UN UNGA KV PL
08WARSAW1176RATIFICATION OF US-EU EXTRADITION AND MUTUAL LEGAL
[...] (SBU) DCM and Legatt delivered reftel demarche to Lukasz Redziniak, Under Secretary of State at the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) October 3. 2. (SBU) DCM took the opportunity to raise our disappointment in the outcome of a Polish court case involving Randy Craig Levine, who allegedly committed [...]
2008-10-07 12:00:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCJAN EUN KCRM KJUST KTIA PGOV PREL BE EI GR
08WARSAW1183SECOND SOFA PLENARY CONCLUDES AMID POSITIVE
[...] (SBU) U.S. and Polish delegations convened in Warsaw October 6-8 for the second plenary round of negotiations on the supplemental bilateral SOFA. Deputy Defense Minister Stanislaw Komorowski and Deputy Foreign Minister Andrzej Kremer led the Polish delegation. PM Senior Advisor Ambassador J [...]
2008-10-09 06:11:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR PL
08WARSAW1185US CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT OF THE THIRD REVIEW
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-09 06:41:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAORC ENRG IAEA KNNP OTRA TRGY PL
08WARSAW1188GAERC - POLISH VIEWS ON OCTOBER 13 EU FOREIGN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA European Correspondent Cyryl Kozaczewski told us October 9 that while Belarusian elections were flawed and there has been no significant improvement in terms of democracy and human rights, Poland will support a temporary suspension of the travel ban. The ban should be lifted, [...]
2008-10-10 06:54:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM EUN BO GC RS UZ ZI PL
08WARSAW1195UNGA FIRST COMMITTEE SESSION: POLAND TO ABSTAIN
[...] (C) Despite the U.S. request to do so, Poland will not oppose any of the four resolutions of interest to NATO during the current session of the UNGA First Committee. Lukasz Zielinski and Monika Lipert of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Security Policy Department told us October 10 that join [...]
2008-10-14 15:23:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPARM MNUC UNGA PL
08WARSAW1205POLAND NON-COMMITTAL ON ACCEPTANCE OF PALESTINIAN
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-16 12:49:00Embassy WarsawSECRETPREL PGOV MOPS PTER PHUM KAWK KISL KPAO PL
08WARSAW1217POLISH FINANCIAL SECTOR OK; THE REAL WORRY IS THE
[...] (SBU) Summary: After months of denial that worsening global economic conditions would have a significant impact here, Poland,s economic elite is wakening to increased risk. Poland does not appear to share the immediate risk to its bank balance sheets that is crippling global finance, though p [...]
2008-10-17 15:07:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PL
08WARSAW1218POLISH MFA WORKING WITH FINANCE MINISTRY ON
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-17 15:30:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EFIN GG PREL RS EUMEM KMCA KCRS PL
08WARSAW1225MISSION POLAND'S NOMINATION FOR SECRETARY'S WOMEN
[...] U.S. Embassy Warsaw nominates Stana Buchowska, the Co-Founder and National Coordinator for La Strada Poland (Foundation Against Trafficking in Human Beings and Slavery) for the 2009 Secretary's Award for International Women of Courage. Stana Buchowska was notified by U.S. Embassy Warsaw of he [...]
2008-10-20 12:52:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDKWMN PREL KPAO PHUM POL
08WARSAW1236EXPERTS LEVEL ECONOMIC/COMMERCIAL DIALOGUE(ECD) CONTINUES
[...] Commerce/ITA DAS for Europe Paul Dyck held a series of meetings Oct. 1-2 in Warsaw with U.S. industry and the Ministry of Economy as a part of continuing our Bilateral Economic and Commercial Dialogue (ECD) with the Polish government. He was accompanied by Commerce/ITA Director for European Cou [...]
2008-10-23 13:59:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD EINV ECON BEXP PL
08WARSAW124COHABITATION TENSIONS CONTINUE AS PRESIDENT SEEKS
[...] (C) Summary: President Lech Kaczynski's often-clumsy efforts to assert the power and role of the presidency have created a bumpy record at "cohabitation" with PM Donald Tusk's government, and done nothing to increase the president's influence or his party's popularity. President Kaczynski a [...]
2008-01-30 11:30:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MARR PL
08WARSAW1250AMBASSADOR'S OCTOBER 28 MEETING WITH SEJM SPEAKER
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During an October 28 meeting with the Ambassador, Speaker of the Sejm (lower house of parliament) Bronislaw Komorowski expressed satisfaction with lessons learned by the Polish military in Iraq. Discussing the November 1 Polish takeover of responsibilities in Afghanistan's Ghazn [...]
2008-10-29 07:02:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MOPS PGOV PHUM AF IZ PL
08WARSAW1258POLAND AGREES THAT ATTENDANCE AT IRAN'S NUCLEAR
[...] (C) Warsaw has no intention of participating in the November 30 nuclear conference in Iran. Juliusz Gojlo, Deputy Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Department of Africa and the Middle East, said October 29 that Poland fully respected its obligations under various UNSC resolutions [...]
2008-10-29 17:20:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALAORC MNUC TRGY IR PL
08WARSAW1259COMBATTING NUCLEAR TERRORISM: POLISH MFA
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) indicated that it might host Exercise Planning Group (EPG) activities of the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism in 2010, but could not do so in 2009 due to internal staffing concerns. END SUMMARY. 2. (SBU) Poloff delive [...]
2008-10-29 17:27:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMCAP PARM PINR PINS PREL PTER PL
08WARSAW1264UNESCO MEETING ON HUMAN CLONING DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-30 13:46:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDECON TBIO UNESCO PL
08WARSAW1271POLAND INTENSIFIES EMISSIONS DIPLOMACY
[...] (U) Summary: Recent robust Polish diplomacy on climate change issues has raised the country's profile in the EU's internal energy and climate debate and spotlighted its role as host of the 14th Annual Conference of the Parties to the UNFCCC (COP-14) in December. In visits to Madrid, Paris, Be [...]
2008-11-03 16:56:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDECIN EMIN ENRG SENV PL
08WARSAW1274SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY GUTIERREZ' VISIT TO POLAND - 90TH ANNIVERSARY OF INDEPENDENCE
[...] Mr. Secretary, you are coming to Poland at an exciting time, following several high-profile bilateral successes: the August signing of the Missile Defense Agreement; the successful conclusion of a five-year Polish deployment in Iraq; and the simultaneous strengthening of support for the NATO [...]
2008-11-04 15:29:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PREL ETRD KIPR PL PGOV
08WARSAW1278BLUE LANTERN SITE VISIT TO WB ELECTRONICS POST
[...] SUMMARY: Staff from Embassy Warsaw, including Political Officer Duncan Walker, DHS/ICE official Glenn Spindel, and ODC representative Lt. Marek Strosin, accompanied Blue Lantern team on site visit to WB Electronics (WBE). Team met with WBE representative Justyna Dytrych who verified order, pr [...]
2008-11-06 11:44:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDETTC KOMC PL
08WARSAW1280DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER WELCOMES OBAMA'S ELECTION
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Prime Minister Grzegorz Schetyna told the Ambassador the November 4 elections in the U.S. recalled the excitement of Poland's own November 2007 general elections, and said Poles are counting on President-elect Obama to bring about a more open U.S. foreign policy. Schetyn [...]
2008-11-06 14:37:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM MARR PTER PL
08WARSAW1281MDA VISIT ADVANCES PROSPECTS FOR RATIFYING MISSILE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During an October 28-30 visit to Poland, Missile Defense Agency Director Obering and Incoming Director O'Reilly described the benefits of the planned interceptor Missile Defense (MD) interceptor site to Slupsk area residents and, in Warsaw, reviewed U.S.-Russian consultations o [...]
2008-11-06 15:32:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MCAP PL
08WARSAW1285POLISH VIEWS ON NOVEMBER 3 GYMNICH AND NOVEMBER
[...] (C) SUMMARY: According to MFA European Correspondent Cyryl Kozaczewski, Poland will oppose the unconditional resumption of negotiations on a Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA) with Russia, but will take a "careful" approach at the November 10-11 EU Foreign Ministers Meeting (GAERC). B [...]
2008-11-07 06:55:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM EUN GA RS BK AF SY IZ PL
08WARSAW1289LETTER OF CONGRATULATIONS FROM PRIME MINISTER TUSK
[...] Post has been informed that the following letter of congratulations from Polish Prime Minister Tusk has been delivered by the Polish Embassy in Washington to President-elect Obama. A scanned copy of the letter is posted on the Prime Minister's website (www.premier.gov.pl). 2. Begin English [...]
2008-11-10 06:25:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDOPDC PREL OVIP PL
08WARSAW1295POLAND SUPPORTS RESTARTING OF EU-RUSSIA
[...] (C) SUMMARY. An MFA official told us November 12 that the GoP had shifted policy and now supported the November 10 EU decision to re-initiate negotiations with Russia on a new partnership agreement, despite Russia's failure to meet its commitments in Georgia. The official denied press reports [...]
2008-11-12 15:06:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV GG RS PL
08WARSAW1301WARSAW EMPATHIZES WITH U.S. ON DEA EXPULSION BUT
[...] (C) Warsaw agrees that the suspension of Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) operations in Bolivia could have a serious impact on the level of narcotics, particularly cocaine, entering the European market. The Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) was aware of the DEA suspension and fea [...]
2008-11-14 07:29:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM SNAR BL PL
08WARSAW1312FORMER POLISH PRESIDENT WALESA STILL INTENDS TO
[...] (C) Post appreciates and concurs with Embassy Caracas' reporting (reftel) on the aborted visit of former Polish President Lech Walesa to Venezuela. Although they were not responsible for arranging Walesa's visit, MFA officials downplayed "exaggerated" Polish press coverage of the visit cance [...]
2008-11-17 14:11:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV PL VE
08WARSAW1327INCSR/POLAND - POST INPUT FOR 2008-2009
[...] (SBU) Per ref A guidance, the following is Embassy Warsaw's submission for Part I of the 2008-2009 International Narcotics Strategy Report (INCSR). Post's submission for Part II will follow septel. 2. (SBU) Begin text: ---------- I. Summary ---------- Poland has traditionally bee [...]
2008-11-20 06:47:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR PGOV PREL KCRM KJUS PL
08WARSAW1334GOVERNMENT ACTS QUICKLY TO AVERT POTENTIAL
[...] (SBU) Poland's two coalition parties -- Civic Platform (PO) and the Polish People's Party (PSL) -- acted quickly to resolve what Prime Minister Tusk characterized as a "misunderstanding" between himself and Labor Minister Jolanta Fedak (PSL). Controversy erupted November 17 when Fedak unexpec [...]
2008-11-20 15:42:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV ELAB ECON PL
08WARSAW1338POLAND TO SIDE WITH EU ON UNGA RESOLUTIONS WITH
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-24 07:48:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL UNGA PL IS PA LE SY
08WARSAW134 FUNDING REQUEST FOR FY2008 EEB BIOTECHNOLOGY OUTREACH IN
[...] Summary. Post requests USD $34,000 to fund agricultural biotechnology programs in FY 2008. Funds are targeted at key issues where USG investments can have the greatest impact. This year, prospects are brighter to influence Polish decision-makers with a new, more pro-business government in pl [...]
2008-01-31 06:43:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR ECON ETRD TBIO PGOV PL
08WARSAW1346USEU AMBASSADOR SILVERBERG DISCUSSES RUSSIA,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Polish officials told USEU Ambassador Kristen Silverberg that Poland reluctantly agreed to support resumption of negotiations on the EU-Russia Partnership and Cooperation Agreement after the French Presidency made clear no consensus was needed to move forward. The decision not to [...]
2008-11-25 15:07:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV PHUM ENRG SENV KGHG ECON EAGR EUN
08WARSAW1350POLAND: PRESIDENT'S SECURITY ADVISOR HIGHLIGHTS
[...] (C) SUMMARY. During a November 26 meeting with DCM, Wladyslaw Stasiak, the Head of the Polish President's National Security Bureau, highlighted the Presidential Administration's policy towards Poland's Eastern neighbors, emphasizing President Kaczynski's desire to revive Europe's waning inter [...]
2008-11-26 15:12:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV AJ BO GG UP PL
08WARSAW1365WARSAW WILL NOT SIGN CLUSTER MUNITIONS CONVENTION
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-01 14:31:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPARM NATO MOPS PREL PL
08WARSAW1366POLAND ON POTENTIAL PAKISTAN DONORS CONFERENCE
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Polish government is keenly aware of the challenges in Pakistan and the importance of managing them successfully. Provided that it can muster a meaningful donation, Poland is likely to attend the proposed conference, although no information is available regarding the leve [...]
2008-12-01 16:29:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON EFIN IBRD IMF PK PL
08WARSAW1374POLAND SHARES U.S. CONCERNS ON OSCE MINISTERIAL
[...] (C) The U.S. can rely on Polish support on the major issues of concern at the December 4-5 Helsinki ministerial meeting -- the Russian European security treaty initiative, Georgia, and the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty (CFE). Jacek Emmel in the MFA Security Policy Department told us th [...]
2008-12-03 17:47:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALOSCE PREL KDEM GG RS PL PHUM
08WARSAW1378GAERC - POLISH VIEWS ON DECEMBER 8-9 EU FOREIGN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Poland is "90 percent satisfied" with the EU Commission's report on the Eastern Partnership, despite the fact that the Commission failed to appoint a Special Coordinator for the project and had committed only 400 million euros, 200 million less than the sum originally proposed by [...]
2008-12-04 14:37:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM EUN ZL IS PK CG TU PL
08WARSAW1382POLISH ISAF STRATEGY UNCLEAR ON CIVILIAN ROLE
[...] (C) SUMMARY. The GOP has engaged in a continuing interagency review to determine its long-term strategy in Afghanistan. The strategic planning process has gained little traction, stalling on the question of how long to plan for a Polish presence. On the other hand, the GOP has taken near-t [...]
2008-12-05 13:37:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL AF PL MAPP
08WARSAW1386USDA TRAINS VETS IN PULAWY WITH EMERGING MARKETS FUNDS
[...] SUMMARY: USDA's Animal Plant Health Inspection Service provided training to 22 veterinarians and scientists of the Ukrainian Veterinary Service at Poland's Pulawy National Institute for Veterinary Science December 1-5, 2008. Poland's vets invited USDA to take part in an EU-sponsored event alr [...]
2008-12-08 11:07:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ECON ETRD PL
08WARSAW1387STAFFDEL YOUNG: POLES LOOKING FOR DEFENSE AID IF
[...] (C) StaffDel Young told GoP interlocutors November 26 that the new U.S. administration's review of missile defense (MD) effectiveness could take longer than 8-10 months. In response, working-level officials from the Ministries of Defense and Foreign Affairs replied that a long delay or cance [...]
2008-12-08 12:44:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALMARR PREL MCAP PL
08WARSAW1391POLAND: NO OBJECTIONS TO U.S. CRITERIA-BASED
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-09 07:05:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG ETTC KNNP MNUC PARM TRGY PL
08WARSAW1392POLAND/GERMANY - ALL SMILES, BUT HALTING PROGRESS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On the eve of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's visit here, GoP officials are pointing to an improved Polish-German relationship as one of the top accomplishments of the government's first year in office. However, despite the Germans' poorly hidden preference for Prime Minister Tu [...]
2008-12-09 07:05:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL ECON EPET SENV PL
08WARSAW1393OPEN SKIES TREATY REIMBURSEMENT FOR POLAND
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-09 07:05:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDOSCE PREL PL
08WARSAW1394SCENESETTER FOR THE UN CONFERENCE ON CLIMATE CHANGE
[...] (SBU) Summary. Poland's government recognizes that the on-going Fourteenth United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Poznan (due to enter its High Level segment later this week) is largely a waypoint on the road to next year's Fifteenth UN Conference in Copenhagen. It nonetheless views [...]
2008-12-09 07:05:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV PGOV PREL ETRD KIPR PL
08WARSAW1395POLISH FM A LOCAL FAVORITE IN NATO RACE
[...] (SBU) Polish media place Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski on a short list of international favorites to succeed de Hoop Scheffer as NATO Secretary General. Besides Sikorski's individual merits, analysts here believe the Polish option stands out because other powers have had a recent turn [...]
2008-12-09 11:10:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR PGOV PL
08WARSAW1405CUBA - LIBERTAD ACT RESPONSE FROM POLAND
[...] (U) Post provides the following in response to ref A questions. 2. (U) Promotion of democracy and human rights in Cuba: Poland has an excellent track record with respect to supporting freedom and democracy in Cuba, and believes that its experience in the Solidarity trade movement and it [...]
2008-12-10 14:51:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ETTC PREL CU PL
08WARSAW1408POLISH LEFTIST LEADER OUTLINES RECOVERY STRATEGY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Grzegorz Napieralski, Chairman of the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD),blasted the intransigence of the ruling Civic Platform (PO) party, a stance that has forced the SLD into tactical alliances with President Kaczynski and the Law and Justice (PiS) party on some votes. Despite [...]
2008-12-11 13:23:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR PL
08WARSAW1409POLAND: A NATURAL U.S. ALLY ON EASTERN POLICY
[...] (S) SUMMARY: Like us, Poland seeks to draw key countries on the eastern boundary of Europe, like Ukraine and Georgia, towards Western institutions. An increasingly active regional player, Poland has evolved since 1989 from aid-recipient to donor, helping us to spur reforms in the region. Warsaw [...]
2008-12-12 06:45:00Embassy WarsawSECRETPREL PHUM PGOV BO GG UP RS PL
08WARSAW1418POLAND UNLIKELY TO CONTRIBUTE FINANCIALLY TO
[...] (S) The GoP is leery about taking on additional financial commitments in the Middle East, including support for the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL). In addition to the possibility of cuts in the GoP's overall foreign affairs budget next year, Stanislaw Gulinski of the MFA's Africa and Mid [...]
2008-12-15 14:39:00Embassy WarsawSECRETPREL PTER UNSC LE SY PL
08WARSAW1419POLAND - UN HARMONIZATION OF SERVICES DEMARCHE
[...] (SBU) While not familiar with the U.S. proposal for the harmonization of conditions of service at the UN, MFA UN Department Counselor Dariusz Manczyk told poloff December 15 he is familiar with the current system's problems. Manczyk was pessimistic about the prospects for a quick solution. De [...]
2008-12-15 14:42:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAMGT AORC APER PL PREL UNGA
08WARSAW1425Poland - 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence
[...] (U) Summary. Mission Poland actively participated in the 2008 international campaign "16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence" by raising awareness of the problem through a series of profiles posted on Embassy Warsaw's website of individuals and institutions actively working against g [...]
2008-12-16 13:07:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKWMN PREL KPAO PHUM SCUL PL OIIP
08WARSAW1428POLES EAGER FOR DEBRIEF ON FRIED-ANTONOV MEETING
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-16 15:30:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALKCFE PREF PARM NATO PL
08WARSAW1435POLISH MFA ON MANPADS: RUSSIA CAPITALIZING ON
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Polish MFA attributed Russia's alleged October discovery of Polish-made GROM MANPADS in Chechnya (originally delivered to Tbilisi) to Georgia's unprofessional handling of the weapons. The Russians, in turn, capitalized on the discovery to "discredit Poland and Georgia." The M [...]
2008-12-18 14:24:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALETTC MCAP PREL PTER MASS GG RS PL
08WARSAW1437CODEL SCHWARTZ/POLAND - NATO, EU MUST DO MORE ON
[...] (C) Polish National Security Advisor Wladyslaw Stasiak and prominent Polish MPs, including Sejm Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Krzysztof Lisek, told CODEL Schwartz that NATO must do more to address Georgia's security problems. If NATO does not offer MAP, it must offer something tangible to r [...]
2008-12-19 11:27:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PGOV CG PL
08WARSAW1446FOURTH SOFA PLENARY CONCLUDES AMID STEADY PROGRESS
[...] (SBU) U.S. and Polish delegations convened in Warsaw December 16-18 for the fourth plenary round of negotiations on the supplemental bilateral SOFA. Deputy Defense Minister Stanyslaw Komorowski and Deputy Foreign Minister Andrzej Kremer led the Polish delegation. PM Senior Advisor Ambassado [...]
2008-12-23 09:14:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR PL
08WARSAW1448POLAND MIGHT RE-EVALUATE TROOP LEVELS IN
[...] (S) Warsaw fully recognizes the importance of next year's presidential election in Afghanistan and will do its best to maintain the security and integrity of the electoral process, especially in Ghazni Province, where approximately 1600 Polish troops are stationed. Roman Strzemiecki and Domin [...]
2008-12-23 13:33:00Embassy WarsawSECRETNATO PREL MOPS MARR PL
08WARSAW1450POLAND'S PLANS FOR A CIVIL NUCLEAR PROGRAM
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Polish government has committed to develop a nuclear power sector, driven by CO2 emissions constraints and reluctance to rely on imported energy. Prime Minister Tusk recently announced his intention to have two reactors up and running by 2020; an ambitious target for a coun [...]
2008-12-23 15:50:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ENRG EINV TRGY BEXP BTIO PL
08WARSAW1452INVITATION TO GLOBAL INITIATIVE PLENARY DELIVERED
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-24 10:30:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKGIT PARM PINR PINS PREL PTER PL
08WARSAW150POLAND: RRRFR DIP NOTE RECEIVED
[...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified, and not for Internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Post received the following diplomatic note from the Polish Government. 3. (SBU) (Begin text) DPB 10-9-08 (Complimentary opening) in order to facilitate the provision of technical assis [...]
2008-02-04 14:30:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP KTIA TRGY ENGR PARM PL
08WARSAW153POLAND: TERRORIST FINANCE: PRE-NOTIFICATION OF
[...] (C) On February 1, Econoff shared reftel points with the Polish government regarding USG plans to submit the names of four Syria-based terrorist facilitators to the UN 1267 Sanctions Committee. Econoff met separately with Elzbieta Frankow-Jaskiewicz from the Polish Ministry of Finance's Depa [...]
2008-02-05 09:32:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALEFIN PTER PREL ETTC KTFN PL
08WARSAW160POLAND TO ATTEND UN.GIFT CONFERENCE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-06 14:37:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG PL
08WARSAW165POLAND SEEKS TO BE EUROPEAN IPR LEADER
[...] (U) Summary: Poland's Minister of Culture has ambitious plans to introduce cutting edge EU-wide legislation regarding intellectual property rights (IPR) during Poland's EU presidency in 2011. The first step is an update to Polish legislation, at the end of 2008. At the same time, a consens [...]
2008-02-07 10:15:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ITRD KIPR PL
08WARSAW189POLAND: SMOOTH SAILING AHEAD FOR COAST GUARD PORT
[...] (U) Sensitive but Unclassified. Not for Internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Econoff accompanied a team of U.S. Coast Guard officers to a meeting on January 29 with Polish officials to discuss an upcoming port facility visit under the International Port Security Program (IPSP). The Polish [...]
2008-02-11 15:11:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEWWT PREL PGOV PL
08WARSAW199POLAND REQUESTS USG SUPPORT FOR FATF MEMBERSHIP
[...] (C) On February 11, the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) called in the embassy to ask that the USG support Polish membership at the upcoming February 25-29 plenary meeting of the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). The MFA indicated that achieving FATF membership is a top priority for [...]
2008-02-12 14:35:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALECON PL KTFN EFIN PREL PTER
08WARSAW223POLAND SIGNS REACTOR FUEL RETURN CONTRACT
[...] (C) Summary. Wlodzimierz Tomczak, chief of Poland's Radioactive Waste Management Plant (RWMP),signed a preliminary contract with Battelle Energy Alliance, a U.S. Department of Energy contractor, on February 8, putting into motion Poland's long-stalled participation in the Russian Reactor R [...]
2008-02-19 13:49:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALKNNP KTIA PARM PL RS TRGY ENGR
08WARSAW2372008 SPECIAL 301 REVIEW: REMOVE POLAND FROM WATCH
[...] (SBU) Summary: Poland made notable progress in protecting intellectual property rights (IPR) in 2007. The Warsaw Stadium closed. Poland implemented the EU's Enforcement Directive, closed a major legal loophole, called for IPR education for all university students, and began working to crea [...]
2008-02-21 11:03:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON KIPR PL
08WARSAW243PM TUSK AND ADVISERS CONFIRM PUBLICLY THAT POLAND
[...] (C) Per Refs B and C, during the week of February 18 Charge demarched MFA U/S Witold Waszczykowski and Presidential Chief of Staff Anna Fotyga urging prompt Polish recognition of Kosovo. Following a February 20 meeting with President Lech Kaczynki, PM Donald Tusk told the media February 21 th [...]
2008-02-22 14:09:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM PBTS SR KV PL
08WARSAW244POLAND INPUT FOR ENERGY REPORT TO CONGRESS
[...] Poland produces limited quantities of oil and gas for domestic consumption and serves as a transit route for Russian gas pipelines to Western Europe. Poland has significant coal reserves which are used to produce 90% of its electricity. In response to reftel request, post is pleased to prov [...]
2008-02-22 14:44:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG SENV APER ABUD PL
08WARSAW245POLISH FM BRIEFS DIPLOMATIC CORPS ON PM'S VISIT TO
[...] (U) Summary: Polish PM Donald Tusk's February 8 trip to Moscow accomplished little in concrete terms, but the political symbol of renewed dialogue with the Russians was viewed positively by the majority of Poles. FM Radek Sikorski briefed foreign mission representatives February 19 on Tusk' [...]
2008-02-22 15:27:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPL PREL ENRG ETRD RS LI LO
08WARSAW250POLAND: AMBASSADOR AND MIN FINANCE DISCUSS FATF,
[...] (C) Summary and Action Request. In an introductory courtesy call on new Minister of Finance Jacek Rostowski on February 14, Rostowski told Ambassador that Poland's Financial Action Task Force (FATF) membership is an important GOP priority. He explained that the Ministry is currently amendi [...]
2008-02-26 09:01:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON PREL PL
08WARSAW258PGNIG MOU COULD LEAD TO $2 MILLION INVESTMENT IN
[...] (C) Summary. PGNiG Executives told post that the agreement recently signed with Iran's Offshore Oil Company is a Memorandum of Understanding to discuss future cooperation in gas exploration and development. The next step would be another agreement to invest up to $2 million in seismic surv [...]
2008-02-28 14:30:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALENRG EPET ETTC IR PL PREL
08WARSAW277SCENESETTER FOR YOUR MEETING MARCH 10 WITH POLISH
[...] (C) Mr. President, your meeting on March 10 with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk will underscore Poland's importance as a key ally of the United States, one which has stood shoulder to shoulder with us in Iraq, is stepping up its commitments in Afghanistan, and is the potential host for mis [...]
2008-03-03 16:24:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MASS OVIP PL
08WARSAW285 POLAND: EIGHTH ANNUAL (2008) TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT
[...] (SBU) Following are responses keyed to questions in paragraphs 27-31 of REFTEL. Embassy point of contact is Political Officer Andrea Gorog (telephone: 48-22-504-2621, fax 48-22-504-2613, e-mail GorogA@state.gov). POLOFF (FO-04) spent 45 hours collecting data and compiling report; one political [...]
2008-03-04 15:01:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB PL
08WARSAW309POLISH RESPONSES TO THE MARCH 10 GAERC
[...] (C) Acting PolCouns met with Pawel Herczynski of the MFA's EU Department on March 7 to discuss the March 10 GAERC. Owing to FM Sikorski accompanying PM Tusk to Washington that day, the Polish delegation will be led by MFA Undersecretary Grazyna Bernatowicz. Herczynski said the GOP's top prio [...]
2008-03-10 06:56:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EUN PL
08WARSAW314MISSILE DEFENSE AND POLISH MILITARY MODERNIZATION
[...] (C) Summary: A State-DOD delegation led by PM Acting Assistant Secretary Stephen Mull met with Polish counterparts February 29, in Warsaw to propose a way forward on U.S.-Polish collaboration in support of Poland,s defense modernization as related to U.S.-Polish Missile Defense negotiations. [...]
2008-03-10 15:00:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL MCAP MARR PL RS
08WARSAW361DOMESTIC POLITICAL SQUABBLE DELAYS LISBON TREATY
[...] (C) Summary: Prospects for ratifying the EU's Lisbon Treaty in the Polish parliament are anything but clear, as the treaty has taken center stage in a domestic political ruckus pitting PM Tusk against the Kaczynski brothers. After hard-headed negotiating by President Kaczynski over Poland's [...]
2008-03-19 16:04:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PL
08WARSAW370POLAND'S RESPONSE TO BURMA REFERENDUM DEMARCHE
[...] (C) On March 19, PolOff delivered reftel demarche to MFA,s Burma desk officer Sebastian Domzalski. Domzalski stated that the GOP shares the U.S. concerns regarding the planned May referendum on the Burmese constitution. He noted that although Poland is unlikely to make a bilateral statement [...]
2008-03-21 15:16:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PL BM
08WARSAW388POLISH NON-PAPER ON MD NEGOTIATIONS
[...] (C) Ambassador Ashe met with Polish FM Radek Sikorski on March 27 to receive the GOP's non-paper with respect to the Missile Defense initiative and modernization of Polish defenses. The text of that paper is provided in paragraph 4. FM Sikorski said that the paper would not be delivered in [...]
2008-03-27 16:09:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL MCAP MARR PL RS
08WARSAW390MINDEF KLICH APOLOGIES FOR MD PRESS LEAK
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-28 11:17:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR PL
08WARSAW391FM SIKORSKI ON PROPOSAL FROM CUBA ON PRISONER
[...] (C) On the margins of a meeting to pass a non-paper on Polish cooperation with the United States on the Missile Defense initiative, Polish FM Radek Sikorski raised a proposal for releasing political prisoners passed by Cuban authorities to the United States through Poland. The substance of t [...]
2008-03-28 11:18:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PL CU
08WARSAW392POLISH FM ON BELARUS JOINT COMMUNIQUE AND
[...] (C) On the margins of a meeting to pass a non-paper on Polish cooperation with teh United States on the Missile Defense initiative, Polish FM Radek Sikorski raised two additional issues with respect to possible collaboration on a joint U.S./EU communique on Belarus and U/S Paula Dobriansky's [...]
2008-03-28 11:19:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PL BL
08WARSAW393CODEL BOUCHER'S MEETINGS WITH POLISH MINISTRIES OF
[...] (U) Summary: On March 20, a visiting delegation of six U.S. Members of Congress met with Rafal Baniak, Under Secretary in the Polish Ministry of Economy, and with SIPDIS Minister of Environment Maciej Nowicki. Given Poland's heavy dependence on coal, the Polish government is scrambling t [...]
2008-03-28 12:58:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD ENRG SENV EU PL
08WARSAW443POLAND'S MINISTER OF REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT JUGGLING
[...] (C) Summary: Minister of Regional Development Bienkowska told Ambassador that the EU funds Poland will receive in 2007 to 2013 will not be sufficient to meet all of Poland's needs. Infrastructure development is her Ministry's main priority. The Tusk government devolved responsibility fo [...]
2008-04-09 11:22:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALEINV PREL PL
08WARSAW446POLAND'S MINISTER OF REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT JUGGLING
[...] (C) Summary: Minister of Regional Development Bienkowska told Ambassador that the EU funds Poland will receive in 2007 to 2013 will not be sufficient to meet all of Poland's needs. Infrastructure development is her Ministry's main priority. The Tusk government devolved responsibility fo [...]
2008-04-09 14:00:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALEINV PREL PL
08WARSAW457SCENESETTER FOR VISIT OF UNDERSECRETARY DOBRIANSKY
[...] Welcome to Poland. You are coming to Poland at a time when the Polish government is eagerly looking forward to hosting the 14th session of the United Nations Conference on Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP 14). More than 10,000 participants from over 190 countries are expected to [...]
2008-04-10 14:46:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDOVIP SENV ECON ENRG PREL PL
08WARSAW468POLAND ON INTERNATIONAL SUPPORT CONFERENCE ON
[...] (SBU) Summary: So far Polish officials have not begun to discuss whether to make a pledge at the Afghanistan Conference in Paris in June, let alone the possible amount. Like other European governments, they have been thinking of the Conference in purely political terms. Nevertheless, Afgha [...]
2008-04-14 08:14:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON EFIN KDEM NATO PGOV PREL AF PL
08WARSAW512POLAND: U/S DOBRIANSKY MEETING WITH MFA SIKORSKI
[...] (C) Summary: Minister of Foreign Affairs Radek Sikorski told Under Secretary for Global Affairs Dobriansky that Poland has selected a head for the Secretariat of the Community of Democracies, although the name is not yet public. Minister Sikorski believes the U.S. should do more to support [...]
2008-04-23 08:39:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALOVIP PREL PGOV KDEM PL
08WARSAW519ACTION REQUEST: APPROVAL OF WITNESS PROTECTION
[...] This is an action request for INL/AE. Please see para 3-5. ----------- Background ----------- 2. In November 2002, the U.S. signed a Letter of Agreement (LOA) with the GOP on "Financing the Activities Aimed at Preventing and Combating Crime in Poland." There were five projects outlined p [...]
2008-04-24 09:22:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDAFIN ABUD PL
08WARSAW529POLAND'S AGREES WITH USG ON ZIMBABWE CHAIR OF CSD
[...] (SBU) Econoff raised reftel points on Zimbabwe chairing the Commission on Sustainable Development with Mariusz Lewicki, Head of the Department of United Nations System and Global Affairs in the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Lewicki stated that Poland's thinking on the Zimbabwe chairmans [...]
2008-04-28 11:34:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAORC EAGR EAID ECON EUN PREL SENV
08WARSAW532U/S DOBRIANSKY MEETS WITH POLISH MINISTERS OF
[...] This cable contains a guidance request. See para. 8. 2. (SBU) On April 14, Under Secretary of State Paula Dobriansky met with Polish Minister of Environment Maciej Nowicki and Minister of Economy Waldemar Pawlak to discuss the upcoming United Nations Framework on Climate Change's fourte [...]
2008-04-29 12:09:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOVIP SENV ECON ENRG PREL PL
08WARSAW538IMPACT OF RISING FOOD/COMMODITY PRICES - POLAND
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Overall food prices in Poland have risen about 7 percent in the past year, but are not reflected in lower rates of consumption as wage increases topped 10 percent in the same period. A continuing increase in prices could affect at-risk populations in poorer regions. Rising food [...]
2008-04-30 13:20:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR EAID ECON ETRD PGOV PL PREL
08WARSAW578POLAND ON WIPO DIRECTOR GENERAL ELECTION
[...] (C) On May 9, EconOff delivered reftel demarche to (1) Alicja Adamczyk, President of the Polish Patent Office (and one of the candidates for WIPO Director General),(2) Zbigniew Barszcz, from the Department of Economic Development at the Economy Ministry, and (3) Karina Kostrzewa, Deputy Dire [...]
2008-05-09 14:29:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALAORC WIPO KIPR ETRD PREL PL
08WARSAW579DEMARCHE DELIVERED: POLISH HUMANITARIAN RESPONSE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-09 14:31:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREL BM PL
08WARSAW588DEMARCHE DELIVERED: PLEDGING AT THE PARIS SUPPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-13 12:16:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON EFIN KDEM PGOV PREL PL AG
08WARSAW594PHARMACEUTICALS: NEW REIMBURSEMENT LIST LEAVES
[...] (C) Summary: On May 14, Polish Health Minister Ewa Kopacz announced a draft update to the list of drugs eligible for reimbursement from the National Health Fund. As expected, the list contains only generics. The new list is sure to raise the frustration level of U.S. producers of innovativ [...]
2008-05-14 14:45:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD KIPR PL
08WARSAW596DEMARCHE DELIVERED: PARTICIPATION IN INT'L COMPACT
[...] (SBU) EconOff delivered reftel demarche on May 13 2008 to Juliusz Gojlo, head of the Polish MFA,s Iraqi Task Force. Gojlo said that MFA Undersecretary Ryszard Schnepf would head the Polish Delegation to the May 29 International Compact with Iraq (ICI) Ministerial Meeting in Stockholm, though he [...]
2008-05-15 14:26:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON EFIN EINV PGOV PREL IZ PL
08WARSAW597POLAND-MISSILE DEFENSE: MILITARY MODERNIZATION
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In support of USG commitments to work with Poland on the latter,s military modernization, and to secure Poland,s earliest return to missile defense (MD) talks, PM AA/S Stephen Mull led an interagency team (including DASD Fata and EUCOM BG Mayville and BG Carr) to a bilateral Secur [...]
2008-05-15 15:20:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MASS MCAP PL
08WARSAW603MAY 21 -- CUBA SOLIDARITY DAY
[...] Embassy Warsaw is working with the Government and local NGO's on outreach efforts related to Cuba Solidarity Day, described in reftels. Poland has an excellent track record with respect to supporting freedom and democracy in Cuba, and believes that its experience in the Solidarity trade movem [...]
2008-05-16 12:13:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDKDEM PHUM PREL CU PL
08WARSAW604MAY 21 -- CUBA SOLIDARITY DAY
[...] Embassy Warsaw is working with the Government and local NGO's on outreach efforts related to Cuba Solidarity Day, described in reftels. Poland has an excellent track record with respect to supporting freedom and democracy in Cuba, and believes that its experience in the Solidarity trade movem [...]
2008-05-16 12:16:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDKDEM PHUM PREL CU PL
08WARSAW608POLAND'S NATIONAL BANK GENERALLY SYMPATHETIC TO
[...] (C) National Bank of Poland (NBP) President Slawomir Skrzypek told us May 15 that he is generally sympathetic to Turkey's desire to change its status at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) from that of a donor country to that of a 'country of operation.' Skrzypek said h [...]
2008-05-16 16:19:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN PREL PL EAID TU
08WARSAW614DELIVERY OF DEMARCHE ON LEBANON
[...] (C) In absence of Ambassador and of senior Middle East officials at the MFA, Political Counselor delivered reftel demarche May 19 to Boguslaw Ochodek, First Counselor in the Africa and Middle East Department. After PolCouns reviewed points urging Poland to make private and public statements, [...]
2008-05-19 13:04:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL LE PL
08WARSAW631FRENCH PRESIDENT SIGNS STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP ON
[...] (C) French President Nicolas Sarkozy visited Poland on May 28, signing a "strategic partnership" agreement with Poland that is more symbol than substance. The French DCM admitted to Poloffs on May 29 that they were relieved that the trip, cancelled three times since the first proposed date i [...]
2008-05-30 14:44:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PL
08WARSAW643POLAND - MISSILE DEFENSE: FINDING A WAY FORWARD?
[...] (C-NF) After a lengthy hiatus, there are high expectations in Warsaw that Ballistic Missile Defense Agreement (BMDA) negotiations will resume soon. As irritating as the pause has been, Polish positions on defense modernization have softened in the interim, and we may actually be better positi [...]
2008-06-04 12:53:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL MARR MASS PL RS IR
08WARSAW674REQUEST FOR GUIDANCE: SINGLE IMPORTS OF VEHICLES
[...] (U) This cable contains a request for guidance regarding a proposed Polish law that could threaten several hundred million dollars of U.S. trade in vehicles. ------------------------ Background: Homologation ------------------------ 2. (U) Polish law specifies three procedures applic [...]
2008-06-11 09:14:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD BEXP PL
08WARSAW687POLAND: 2008 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND
[...] (U) In response to reftel, post provides the following information, in the format requested in reftel para. 15. 2. (U) Post is aware of two (2) claims of U.S. Claimants that may be outstanding against the Government of Poland. 3. (SBU) (A). Claimant designation: Claimant A. (B) A [...]
2008-06-16 06:57:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV KIDE PL
08WARSAW702POLAND SEEKS ADVICE ON OIL EXPLORATION IN IRAQI
[...] (U) This cable contains an action request - see para 3. 2. (C) Former PKN Orlen VP for Exploration and Development Cezary Filipowicz told EconOff that state-owned PKN Orlen is interested in on-shore oil exploration in Iraqi Kurdistan. Filipowicz noted that Orlen had long experience in Ir [...]
2008-06-19 09:17:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALENRG EPET PREL PL IZ
08WARSAW709POLAND ENERGY SECURITY UPDATE
[...] (C) Summary: Poland's concern about its energy security heightened with the Russian shut-offs of gas to Ukraine, oil to Belarus, and oil to the Mazeikiu refinery through the Druzba pipeline in the last few years. The previous PiS-led government developed a plan and began to take steps to i [...]
2008-06-23 13:28:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALENRG EPET PL PREL
08WARSAW710HELPING POLAND HELP ITSELF ON ENERGY SECURITY
[...] (C) Summary: Poland continues to look to the USG to work with it to ensure its energy security in view of what it considers a significant threat from the government of Russia and Russian energy companies. Continuing a dialogue on energy security issues with Poland and the EU will assist the [...]
2008-06-23 13:29:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALENRG EPET PL PREL
08WARSAW731POLAND ENERGY SECURITY UPDATE
[...] (C) Summary: Poland's concern about its energy security heightened with the Russian shut-offs of gas to Ukraine, oil to Belarus, and oil to the Mazeikiu refinery through the Druzba pipeline in the last few years. The previous PiS-led government developed a plan and began to take steps to i [...]
2008-06-26 06:49:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALENRG EPET PL PREL
08WARSAW732HELPING POLAND HELP ITSELF ON ENERGY SECURITY
[...] (C) Summary: Poland continues to look to the USG to work with it to ensure its energy security in view of what it considers a significant threat from the government of Russia and Russian energy companies. Continuing a dialogue on energy security issues with Poland and the EU will assist the [...]
2008-06-26 06:49:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALENRG EPET PL PREL
08WARSAW74POLAND READIES AIR MARSHALL AGREEMENT WITH U.S.
[...] (SBU) William Gaches, Assistant Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA),and Paul Rodgers, TSA Representative in Brussels, visited Warsaw December 6-7. While in Warsaw, Gaches and Rodgers met with officials from Poland's Civil Aviation Office to discuss a proposed [...]
2008-01-17 15:08:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAIR PL PTER
08WARSAW746POLAND: GLOBAL MARITIME PARTNERSHIPS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-27 08:01:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDEWWT EAID ECIN ECON EFIS MARR MASS MCAP
08WARSAW75POLAND BIO: BARBARA KUDRYCKA, MINISTER OF SCIENCE
[...] Barbara Kudrycka was appointed Minister of Science and Higher Education on November 16, 2007. Prior to her appointment, Kudrycka served since 2004 as a deputy to the European Parliament in Brussels. She also served as rector of the Bialystok School of Public Administration from 1998-2007. [...]
2008-01-17 15:11:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDPINR PL SCUL TSPL
08WARSAW794DEMARCHE DELIVERED:POLAND AND THE UPU CONGRESS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-03 12:28:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDAORC ECON ETRD WTRO PL
08WARSAW806PGNIG ON REPORTED GAS DEAL WITH IRAN
[...] (C) Summary: The president of Poland's state-owned gas company, PGNiG, confirmed that his company is in discussions with Iran to develop the Lavan gas field. However, contrary to press reports, he stated the company is not on the verge of signing a deal. End summary. 2. (C) On June 30 [...]
2008-07-07 15:32:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALECON ENRG EPET PGOV PREL PL IR
08WARSAW81A/S FRIED MEETINGS WITH NEW POLISH GOVERNMENT
[...] (C) Summary: A/S for European and Eurasian Affairs Dan Fried during his January 16-17 visit discussed Missile Defense (MD),Iraq, and Afghanistan during his meetings with President Lech Kaczynski, Prime Minister Donald Tusk, Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski, Deputy Defense Minister Stanislaw [...]
2008-01-18 16:21:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MASS PL
08WARSAW812NEW FRIENDS OF GEORGIA CALL FOR MAP, LESS RUSSIA,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On June 25, DAS Bryza participated in the "New Friends of Georgia" (NFG) conference along with Foreign Ministers, State Secretaries or Special Representatives from Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, NATO, Romania, Slovakia, Sweden and the EU Council [...]
2008-07-09 09:57:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL GA PL
08WARSAW813POLAND AND MISSILE DEFENSE: 95 PERCENT DONE OR 95
[...] (S) As Washington sits down to lunch today, President Kaczynski will be trying to cajole/pressure Prime Minister Tusk into concluding negotiations with the US on Missile Defense (MD). Kaczynski will draw on an agreement privately reached between the two last March in Urata, when, according t [...]
2008-07-09 10:39:00Embassy WarsawSECRETPREL MARR MASS PL RS IR
08WARSAW823 POLAND MAY AVOID GM ANIMAL FEED BAN
[...] (U) Summary. Legislation to delay a ban on genetically modified crops in animal feed until 2012 will likely be signed by President Kaczynski soon after he receives it from the Parliament. The Sejm (parliament) and Senate gave final approval to the legislation July 11 and will send the draft [...]
2008-07-11 13:11:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR ECON ETRD TBIO PGOV PL
08WARSAW828EU Ends Excessive Deficit Procedure
[...] (U) Summary: On July 8, EU Finance Ministers formally ended a four-year old excessive deficit procedure (EDP) regarding Poland. This lifts a cloud over some EU subsidies, brings Poland closer to Euro adoption, and gives the Polish government more breathing room for decisions on aid programs and [...]
2008-07-14 13:21:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PREL PGOV PL
08WARSAW837RECENT POLISH PROGRESS ON IRAQI DEBT
[...] (C) EconOffs met on July 10 with Wojciech Rzasiecki, Deputy Director of the Guarantees Department in the Polish Ministry of Finance, to get the latest readout on Iraqi debt. According to Rzasiecki, Finance Minister Jan Vincent Rostowski had recently held interministerial meetings with the Mi [...]
2008-07-15 09:04:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON PREL PGOV IZ PL
08WARSAW845POLAND'S ENERGY CZAR ON GAS DEAL WITH IRAN
[...] (C) Summary: According to the Polish Prime Minister's top energy advisor, if PGNiG were to abandon its discussions with Iran regarding the Lavan gas field, PGNiG would expect U.S. help -- and deals with U.S. companies -- to obtain natural gas elsewhere in the Middle East. In addition, the [...]
2008-07-16 15:45:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALECON ENRG EPET PGOV PREL IR PL
08WARSAW86 AMBASSADOR HONORS POLISH PROFESSOR FOR DISTINGUISHED
[...] (U) Summary. January 17, Ambassador Victor Ashe presented an award to Professor Henryk Jasiorowski, acknowledging his scientific work and leadership to develop Polish and global agriculture. The award, a post-initiated project of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA),recognizes Jasiorows [...]
2008-01-22 15:13:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR ECON ETRD TBIO PGOV PL
08WARSAW870POLES SKEPTICAL ABOUT CUBAN INTEREST IN EU DIALOGUE
[...] (C) PolCouns told the MFA's Deputy Director for American Affairs Daniel Gromann (who served as Polish Charge D'affaires in Havana from 2005-2007) that the U.S. welcomes the US-EU Summit declaration's call for the unconditional release of all political prisoners in Cuba. He urged the GoP to [...]
2008-07-22 10:49:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALEUN CU PGOV PREL PHUM
08WARSAW871POLAND: MAKTOUM FOUNDATION ENTREPRENEURS CONFERENCE
[...] (SBU) Post regrets that it does not have any names meeting criteria contained in reftels to recommend for the Maktoum Foundation Entrepreneurs Conference. Ref A requested that discussion of the event and potential invitees be restricted to USG only. If that restriction were removed, post mi [...]
2008-07-22 13:38:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PGOV PREL PL
08WARSAW889UPU CONGRESS: POLAND WANTS US SUPPORT, BACKS US
[...] (SBU) Ref A requested post demarche the Polish government seeking support for U.S. candidates at the upcoming Congress of the Universal Postal Union. When the demarche was delivered, Poland had no candidates of its own (see ref B). However, on July 18 post received a diplomatic note stating [...]
2008-07-24 14:57:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAORC ECON ETRD WTRO PL
08WARSAW909ANTARCTIC TREATY: POLAND MAKING PROGRESS ON
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-29 15:36:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAORC ECON KSCA KTIA SENV TPHY PL
08WARSAW910INVESTMENT IN POLAND
[...] Summary: Inflows into Poland from foreign direct investment continue at sustained, high levels. In 2007, FDI was estimated at USD 18.5 billion. EU funds accounted for another USD 10.1 billion, and remittances for USD 4.3 billion. Poland continues to be attractive to investors, although some [...]
2008-07-30 05:48:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN PREL PGOV PL
08WARSAW923POLAND TO JOIN EU CONSENSUS ON LIFTING KARADZIC
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-05 15:35:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL ETTC EU ICTY PL BK
08WARSAW934DEMARCHE DELIVERED: NEW BURMA SANCTIONS: POLAND
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-06 13:07:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV ETRD BM PL
08WARSAW937POLAND CONTINUES TO SUPPORT EU ACCESSION FOR TURKEY
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-06 15:26:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPTER PGOV TU EUN PL
08WARSAW940BIOTECH: MINISTRY OF ECONOMY ENGAGING
[...] (SBU) Polish Economy Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Waldemar Pawlak (PSL) August 6 signaled to Charge that he regarded Poland's hard-line stance on agricultural biotechnology as a relic of the previous government's tactic of deploying conflict and fear - in this case against GMOs. Quoting [...]
2008-08-07 14:06:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR ECON ETRD TBIO PGOV PL
08WARSAW941POLAND/IRAN: DEPUTY PM OPPOSES POLISH INVESTMENT
[...] (C) In a meeting August 6 with Charge, Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economy Waldemar Pawlak expressed in clear terms his opposition to Polish state-owned gas company PGNiG's discussed $2 billion investment in Iran's Lavan gas field. He said he would express his opposition to th [...]
2008-08-07 14:45:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALECON ETTC EPET ENRG PREL PL IR
08WARSAW945POLISH ASSISTANCE TO AFGHANISTAN
[...] (C) Summary: Plans are still being developed for a proposed Polish-Spanish-Emirati Agricultural Training School in Afghanistan. Poland's USD 1.3 million pledge at the Paris Support Conference will be used for a 2008 donation to the Afghan Reconstruction Trust Fund. The Poles remain keenly [...]
2008-08-11 14:11:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALECON NATO MARR EAID PL AF
08WARSAW947GOP RALLIES NEIGHBORS, EU TO CONDEMN RUSSIAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Poland has taken on a surprisingly forceful leadership role during the Georgia conflict. President Kaczynski has coordinated regional demonstrations of solidarity with Tbilisi -- including a planned August 11 joint trip to Tbilisi along with the Ukrainian and Baltic presidents -- and l [...]
2008-08-11 16:46:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM NATO KCFE RU GG PL
08WARSAW949TFGG01: POLES SUPPORT GEORGIA, PREDICT RUSSIAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Foreign Minister Andrzej Kremer told Charge August 12 that the GoP welcomes the Russian announcement of a cease-fire, and hopes for early Russian-Georgian talks. Kremer said President Kaczynski's visit to Georgia today is aimed at gathering information, and demonstratin [...]
2008-08-12 18:03:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM NATO KCFE RU GG PL
08WARSAW95POLAND: LET OPERATIVES PRENOTIFICATION DELIVERED
[...] (C) On January 18, Econoff shared reftel points with the Polish government regarding USG plans to submit the names of four LeT operatives to the UN 1267 sanctions committee. Econoff met seperately with representiatives from the Polish Ministry of Finance's Department of Financial Information, [...]
2008-01-23 14:54:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALEFIN PTER PREL ETTC KTFN PL
08WARSAW953TFGG01: POLAND'S CHOD ON GEORGIA, UKRAINE, AND
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-13 12:33:00Embassy WarsawSECRETPREL MARR PARM NATO KCFE RU GG PL
08WARSAW963MISSILE DEFENSE AGREEMENT INITIALLED AD REF
[...] (C) After two days of talks between Polish and U.S. delegations, Deputy Foreign Minister Andrzej Kremer and Under Secretary John Rood initialled ad referendum a Missile Defense agreement and a bilateral Declaration of Strategic Cooperation on August 14. FM Sikorski, who took part in two one [...]
2008-08-14 20:51:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPEL MARR MASS MCAP PL
08WARSAW973 POLAND'S UNCOMMON AGRICULTURAL POLICY
[...] (SBU) Summary. This cable outlines the upcoming crisis in Polish agriculture. The rural economy enjoys significant subsidies from the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP),but the CAP, drought, and a failure of leadership from the Ministry of Agriculture, are creating the circumstances under w [...]
2008-08-20 14:12:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR ECON ETRD TBIO PGOV PL
08WARSAW974POLAND: SECRETARY RICE, FM SIKORSKI SIGN MISSILE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-20 15:20:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MASS MCAP PL
08WARSAW984POLAND ASKING WHAT'S NEXT? RESPONSE TO GEORGIA
[...] (C) Summary. In an August 22 meeting with DCM, Polish National Security Advisor Wladyslaw Stasiak commended the creation of the NATO Commission on Georgia as "a good first step," but had little to offer in terms of Polish thinking on follow-up, despite President Kaczynski demonstrated flair for [...]
2008-08-25 15:54:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALMARR PREL RU GG PL
08WARSAW99POLISH PHARMACEUTICALS: U.S. COMPANIES UPBEAT
[...] (C) Summary: The November 2, 2007 update to Poland's reimbursement list represents a dramatic breakthrough on market access to Poland for the U.S. research pharmaceuticals industry. At least six major pharmaceutical companies saw key products added to the list, a change which will mean subst [...]
2008-01-24 14:17:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALECON KIPR TBIO ETRD PL
09WARSAW1004POLISH GOVERNMENT PUBLICLY EXPRESSES CONCERN OVER
[...] (C) The GoP fully agrees with the approach outlined in reftel, according to MFA Iran desk officer Piotr Kozlowski. Poland continues to support full, comprehensive, and transparent negotiations between P5 plus 1 members and Iran. In bilateral exchanges with Iranian officials, the GoP will stre [...]
2009-09-29 15:54:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALKNNP MNUC PARM PREL IR PL
09WARSAW1005POLAND WELCOMES TRILATERAL MIDDLE EAST MEETING
[...] (C) GoP officials were pleased that U.S., Israeli, and Palestinian leaders met last week. Although the Poles discerned little progress, they saw the symbolic talks as establishing a precedent for more detailed discussions in coming months and, more importantly, demonstrating a renewed U.S. c [...]
2009-09-29 15:59:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KPAL IS PL
09WARSAW1006POLAND ON OUTCOME OF U.S. BURMA POLICY REVIEW
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-29 16:00:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV BM PL
09WARSAW1018IRANIAN WOMEN'S RIGHTS ACTIVISTS: CHALLENGES AND
[...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy Berlin Iran Watcher and Embassy Warsaw Public Affairs Counselor attended a "Women's Solidarity for Democracy" conference organized by the Warsaw-based Permanent Secretariat of the Community of Democracies. The conference topic was the Iranian civil rights movement and [...]
2009-09-30 16:46:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM IR PL
09WARSAW1027POLAND APPROVES INAUGURAL FLIGHT OF U.S.-RUSSIA
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-02 15:24:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL RU KZ KG UA PL
09WARSAW1028SCENESETTER FOR THE VICE PRESIDENT'S VISIT TO
[...] (C) Your visit to Warsaw is an opportunity to reset relations with Poland, a loyal ally. Poles have long aspired to building a special relationship with the U.S., on par with what we have with the UK, but they believe the U.S. has not always shown the same enthusiasm. To an extent, many Poles [...]
2009-10-05 11:14:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM ENRG ECON PL
09WARSAW1029SUPPORT FOR POLAND'S ASPIRING NUCLEAR POWER PROGRAM
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Polish government requests US assistance in launching a nuclear power program. PM Tusk's goal of generating nuclear power by 2020 is optimistic. However, simultaneously meeting Poland's carbon emissions commitments and addressing its energy security concerns will require d [...]
2009-10-05 14:23:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ENRG EINV TRGY BEXP BTIO PL
09WARSAW1037POLAND'S POTENTIAL SHALE GAS INVESTMENTS
[...] (SBU) Summary: The success of companies in the U.S. at extracting gas from shale and other unconventional sources has generated some excitement in Poland. Several majors and mid-majors have applied for exploration licenses over the past year and performed broader market and investment climat [...]
2009-10-07 14:04:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ENRG EINV PL
09WARSAW1039PM TUSK RESHUFFLES CABINET IN WAKE OF CORRUPTION
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In an effort to "ensure public trust" in his government and in the ruling Civic Platform (PO),PM Tusk announced October 7 the resignations of Deputy PM / Interior Minister Grzegorz Schetyna, Justice Minister Andrzej Czuma, and Deputy Economy Minister Adam Szejnfeld. Tusk said he [...]
2009-10-07 16:25:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KCOR KJUS PL
09WARSAW1049POLAND: STILL ON BOARD WITH TWO-TRACK APPROACH TO
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Poland remains solidly behind the double-track approach towards Iran. While encouraged by the outcome of the P5 1 talks, MFA officials told us they are "prudently skeptical" about Tehran's intentions and will continue to support tougher measures if Iran fails to fulfill its com [...]
2009-10-09 16:09:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALIR KNNP MNUC PARM PL UK
09WARSAW105LETTER OF CONGRATULATIONS TO PRESIDENT-ELECT OBAMA
[...] Embassy Warsaw has received a letter of congratulations to President-elect Obama from Janusz Sniadek, President of the Polish Independent and Self-Governing Trade Union "Solidarnosc". 2. Begin text: Dear Mr. President, On behalf of the Polish Independent and Self-Governing Trade Union [...]
2009-01-30 14:31:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDOPDC PREL OVIP
09WARSAW1063REPLY DEMARCHE BIOTECH VOTES.
[...] Poland will vote against biotech variety approvals reftel at the Agriculture Council and the Standing Committee on Food Chain meetings scheduled October 19. This vote conforms to the Polish Council of Minister's decision of December 2008 to vote against all biotech events at the EU level, con [...]
2009-10-16 13:38:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ECON ETRD EUN TBIO SP
09WARSAW1065PM TUSK PLACES SAFE BETS IN VACANT CABINET POSTS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: PM Tusk's appointees to replace cabinet ministers dismissed in the wake of Poland's "Gambling-gate" scandal (ref A) reflect a preference for continuity, stability, and expertise over big names or Civic Platform (PO) party insiders. On October 14, Tusk tapped Malopolska Governor [...]
2009-10-19 06:55:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KCOR KJUS KCRM PTER PL
09WARSAW1066GICNT: POLAND LIKELY TO PARTICIPATE IN COBALT AND
[...] (C) Poland is likely to participate in the Global Initiative's November COBALT exercise and the January 2010 Exercise Planning Group meeting, according to the Polish MFA. Poloff and a Russian Embassy official delivered reftel demarche to Szymon Bochenski of the MFA's security policy departmen [...]
2009-10-19 09:47:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL PTER KGIC PL
09WARSAW1068PM TUSK REMAINS MAN TO BEAT DESPITE SCANDAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: After nearly two years in office and in the midst of a corruption scandal and the global economic crisis, PM Tusk's public approval has held steady at around 50 percent, a feat unprecedented since 1989. By dismissing ministers implicated in the "Gamble-gate" scandal, even absent [...]
2009-10-19 12:41:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KCOR PL
09WARSAW1069FM SIKORSKI PITCHES U.S.-POLISH TEAMWORK ON
[...] (C) SUMMARY: FM Sikorski told visiting DRL A/S Posner that it is in the U.S. and Polish "national DNA" to share the benefits of liberty with the world. He said that together, U.S. resources and Poland's transformational experience could reinvigorate the Community of Democracies (CD). Sikorsk [...]
2009-10-19 12:51:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KDEM PGOV PL
09WARSAW107POLAND'S DIVIDED LEFT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: There is strong consensus among Poland's left-wing parties that they could garner as much as 25 percent of the vote in June 2009 European Parliament elections by running a unified list. Although the left pays dearly for its division, its leaders cannot decide how, and under whos [...]
2009-01-30 16:59:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PL
09WARSAW1071HLDG: CONSTRUCTIVE PROGRESS ON U.S. BMD AND
[...] (S) SUMMARY. Ambassador Alexander Vershbow, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, led a U.S. delegation to Warsaw for the first ever U.S.-Poland High Level Defense Group (HLDG). Polish Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Stanislaw Komorowski led the Polish dele [...]
2009-10-20 08:21:00Embassy WarsawSECRETPREL MARR PL
09WARSAW1087POLISH VIEWS ON OCTOBER 26-27 GAERC
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Poland largely shares U.S. views on the Western Balkans, Afghanistan/Pakistan and the Middle East. Poland supports a sustained EU operational presence in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as visa liberalization regimes for both Albania and Bosnia and Herzegovina. Poland appreciates [...]
2009-10-26 15:55:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PL
09WARSAW1091BALTIC ENERGY BRIDGE: POLAND CHEERS FROM THE
[...] (C) Summary. The Polish government (GoP) views Baltic energy security as important to its regional diplomatic efforts, particularly to building EU energy solidarity and managing EU-Russian relations. However, the GoP does not believe that connecting Baltic energy markets to Poland or other [...]
2009-10-27 14:56:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALENRG ECON EINV PREL PL
09WARSAW1093POLISH FM SIKORSKI'S MISSION TO MIDDLE EAST:
[...] (C) SUMMARY. A Polish MFA official characterized FM Sikorski's October 19-20 trip to Israel and the Palestinian territories as an "information gathering" mission to help Poland prepare for its EU presidency in the second half of 2011. Although Poland will continue to engage Israelis and Pal [...]
2009-10-28 06:59:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV IR IS PL PREL
09WARSAW1096POLAND SUPPORTS U.S. UNGA PRIORITIES, OFFERS A FEW
[...] (U) THIS MESSAGE CONTAINS AN ACTION REQUEST. PLEASE SEE PARA 6. 2. (SBU) Poland will support UNGA Third Committee country-specific resolutions on Iran, Burma, and the DPRK. Although some states argue that the resolutions cross into the domain of the UN Human Rights Council, MFA UN and Huma [...]
2009-10-29 10:26:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL UN PL
09WARSAW1100POLES ON BOARD FOR COORDINATED APPROACH ON
[...] (C) MFA officials welcomed reftel suggestion to engage in a coordinated approach to the Afghan Government on gubernatorial appointments. Ambassador Jerzy Wieclaw, Chief of the MFA's South Asia Division, said he would encourage the Polish Embassy to reach out to the U.S. mission in Kabul to b [...]
2009-10-30 13:28:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL NATO PL AF
09WARSAW1112POLES FATALISTIC ABOUT UKRAINIAN ELECTIONS
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Poland shares our desire to integrate Ukraine into Western institutions, but many in the GoP view the upcoming Ukrainian presidential election in zero-sum terms: a likely victory for Russia and loss for Poland -- no matter which candidate wins. Many Poles believe that for five ye [...]
2009-11-02 16:49:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PL UP RS
09WARSAW1113GAMBLING SCANDAL SHOWS LIMITS OF GOP'S
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The recent "Gamble-gate" scandal reminded Poles that the Tusk Government has failed to make good on anti-corruption pledges, including a vow to create a "shield" against abuse of privatization and public tenders. Nor has the government passed promised laws to curb undue business [...]
2009-11-03 09:56:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV KCOR KJUS KCRM PHUM PL
09WARSAW1120POLAND AGREES WITH U.S. POSITION ON GOLDSTONE
[...] (C) Although MFA experts will review U.S. arguments in more detail, Poland will likely support the U.S. position if and when a resolution comes up for a vote. Josef Osas, Minister-Counselor in the MFA's Africa and Middle East Department, said Poland's assessment of a possible Arab Group reso [...]
2009-11-04 16:04:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PTER KPAL ISPL PL
09WARSAW1121POLAND: UNGA ICSC ELECTION DEMARCHE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-04 16:06:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALAORC APER KAWC KJUS KUNR PREL UNGA PL
09WARSAW1122POLAND TO SIGN LONG-TERM GAS DEAL WITH RUSSIA
[...] (SBU) Summary. Prime Minister Tusk's energy committee is expected to approve today, November 4, a new agreement with Russia on gas and transit through 2037. The deal will then go to the Council of Ministers for final approval, probably on Tuesday, November 10. The contract includes a reduce [...]
2009-11-05 07:16:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALENIV ENRG ETRD PGOV PL
09WARSAW113POLAND - PRIME MINISTER TO FUND TIP VICTIMS SHELTER
[...] (SBU) Summary. Following front-page media coverage about the potential closure of Poland's only shelter providing specialized assistance for victims of trafficking in Poland (reftel),Prime Minister Tusk offered public assurances January 13 that the GoP would provide the funds necessary to kee [...]
2009-02-02 15:54:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB PL
09WARSAW1130"BE PREPARED" -- WARSAW AND KRAKOW CONSULAR SECTIONS COMMIT
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Consular Sections at U.S. Embassy Warsaw and U.S. Consulate General in Krakow launched their year-long commitment to crisis management training by holding a full-day crisis management exercise using air crash and H1N1 pandemic scenarios. American Citizen Service (ACS) Units i [...]
2009-11-05 16:35:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCASC CMGT ASEC PL
09WARSAW1135H1N1 IN POLAND: QUIET FOR NOW
[...] (SBU) Summary: Poland's Chief Sanitary Inspectorate reports no deaths related to H1N1 and no major outbreaks. While Polish officials are watching the situation closely, they do not plan to implement extraordinary measures absent a dramatic change in the disease's behavior, despite substantial [...]
2009-11-06 16:29:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCASC ECON GM PREL SOCI TBIO
09WARSAW1136POLAND: 2009-10 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY
[...] (SBU) Mission Poland's submission for the 2009-2010 INCSR Part I follows: Begin Text: I. Summary Poland has traditionally been a transit country for drug trafficking. As economic conditions improve, it is increasingly a more significant consumer of narcotics and producer of amphetamine [...]
2009-11-10 08:19:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV SNAR KCRM PL
09WARSAW1137POLAND: KEEP BELARUS SANCTIONS, BUT HOW?
[...] (C) SUMMARY. The GoP supports a rollover of the current EU sanctions mandate set to expire in March 2010, as well as extending the suspension of travel restrictions against EU officials, which expires on December 15, 2009. However, according to MFA officials, Poland still cannot commit to a [...]
2009-11-10 15:46:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM EUN BO PL
09WARSAW1138POLES ACCEPT U.S. RATIONALE FOR NATO ENLARGEMENT
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-10 15:52:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL NATO PARM MARR KTIA PL
09WARSAW1139HLDG: CONSTRUCTIVE PROGRESS ON U.S. BMD AND
[...] This corrected cable replaces WARSAW 01071. 2. (S) SUMMARY. Ambassador Alexander Vershbow, Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, led a U.S. delegation to Warsaw for the first-ever U.S.-Poland High Level Defense Group (HLDG). Polish Undersecretary of Defense for Policy [...]
2009-11-12 07:06:00Embassy WarsawSECRETPREL MARR PL
09WARSAW1140POLISH FOREIGN MINISTER CRITICIZES RUSSIAN
[...] (SBU) The controversy sparked by FM Sikorski's reported call for U.S. troops in Poland "as a shield against Russian aggression," although subsequently retracted by Interfax, was widely covered in the media and distracted from an otherwise disciplined and positive trip for the FM to Washington. [...]
2009-11-12 07:06:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV PL PREL RS
09WARSAW1150POLAND SUPPORTS EXTENSION OF EUFOR MISSION IN
[...] (C) Poland favors UN Security Council renewal of the EUFOR mandate in Bosnia. Tomasz Lekarski, Deputy Director of the MFA Security Policy Department, said he did not expect any major obstacles to renewal when UNSC considers the issue November 18. However, he described the EU's position on E [...]
2009-11-17 17:16:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EU BK PL
09WARSAW1153NO DAYLIGHT BETWEEN POLISH, U.S. POSITIONS ON
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Poland agrees that Afghanistan's partners need to urge the GoA to tackle a few top priorities, such as improving good governance, fighting corruption, and bolstering Afghan security forces. MFA officials told us the West should make clear to President Karzai that continued sup [...]
2009-11-19 10:26:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV AF PL
09WARSAW1163POLISH FOREIGN MINISTER LOOKS FOR "STRATEGIC
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski told the Ambassador on November 20 that negotiations over the U.S.-Polish Supplemental SoFA Agreement are "done." The Foreign Minister did not mention Prime Minister Tusk having approved the SoFA text, as required, but left the strong impress [...]
2009-11-24 17:32:00Embassy WarsawSECRETPREL MARR PHUM ECON ENRG PL
09WARSAW1164POLISH FOREIGN MINISTER LOOKS FOR "STRATEGIC
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski told the Ambassador on November 20 that negotiations over the U.S.-Polish Supplemental SoFA Agreement are "done." The Foreign Minister did not mention Prime Minister Tusk having approved the SoFA text, as required, but left the strong impress [...]
2009-11-25 07:17:00Embassy WarsawSECRETPREL MARR PHUM ECON ENRG PL
09WARSAW1170AMBASSADOR MORNINGSTAR IN POLAND
[...] (C) Summary. Ambassador Morningstar traveled to Poland November 12-14 to meet with government, opposition and business officials on a wide range of regional energy security topics. The visit followed Vice President Biden's commitment in Warsaw to further cooperation on energy security and t [...]
2009-11-25 16:56:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALENRG ECON EINV PREL PL
09WARSAW1178FRAUD SUMMARY - POLAND
[...] (U) Although the Polish economy is slowing due to the global economic crisis, it has proven to be more resilient than other European economies. After 2008's 4.9 percent growth, Eurostat predicts Poland's GDP will drop to 1.2 percent in 2009. In comparison, the EU as a whole is expected to se [...]
2009-12-01 07:05:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKFRD CVIS CPAS CMGT ASEC PL
09WARSAW1185POLISH MFA: MIXED PROGRESS WITH EASTERN NEIGHBORS
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Poland's engagement with Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus is yielding mixed results, according to Jaroslaw Bratkiewicz, Director of the MFA's Eastern Department. What Bratkiewicx described as a "pragmatic approach" toward Russia has led to some movement on historical issues and broug [...]
2009-12-02 16:03:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV PL PREL
09WARSAW1187POLAND'S POLDIR ON AFGHANISTAN, MIDDLE EAST, IRAN,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Poland will respond positively to a U.S. troop increase in Afghanistan and, after interministerial consultations, hopes to announce its own increase soon, according to MFA Political Director Witold Sobkow. Poland prides itself on being a pro-Israel voice within the EU, Sobkow sa [...]
2009-12-02 16:51:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV KNNP EFIN IR PL
09WARSAW1188POLAND SUPPORTS US AFGHANISTAN STRATEGY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Initial Polish reactions to the newly announced Afghanistan strategy have been supportive nearly across the board. In a morning interview, Prime Minister Tusk said Poland should respond to the U.S. call as a manifestation of "Allied solidarity". Previewing the December 1 call [...]
2009-12-02 16:55:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL MCAP NATO KPAO PL
09WARSAW1195POLES AGREE WITH U.S. POSITION ON BURMA
[...] (C) Poland fully agrees with the U.S. position on Burma, as outlined in Ref A, and will press the EU to support democratic reform in Burma. Danuta Bolimowska, First Counselor in the MFA's Asia-Pacific Department, said Poland had limited influence bilaterally, but she thought U.S. re-engageme [...]
2009-12-07 11:40:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV BM PL
09WARSAW1197POLISH VIEWS ON DECEMBER 7-8 EU FOREIGN AFFAIRS
[...] (SBU) PolOff delivered ref points December 3 to MFA EU Correspondent Cyryl Kozaczewski, who responded with a summary of Poland's positions for this first EU Foreign Affairs Council (FAC). With a view to establishing the EU as a global actor, Poland endorses all activities aimed at strengtheni [...]
2009-12-07 18:26:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM EUN PL
09WARSAW1198POLES WELCOME U.S. APPROACH ON NORTH KOREA
[...] (C) The GOP appreciates the U.S. approach to the December 7 meeting of the UN Human Rights Council, per reftel, as well as Washington's broader engagement strategy with North Korea. Urszula Rasnowiecka of the MFA's Asia-Pacific Department said she hoped that such recent developments would stim [...]
2009-12-07 18:31:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPHUM AORC SOCI UNGA KN PL
09WARSAW1200SCENESETTER FOR U/S TAUSCHER'S DECEMBER 10-11
[...] (C) Welcome. Since your visit to Warsaw in mid-September, much has changed for the better in the bilateral relationship, although clean-up may be needed in light of Polish government statements on Patriot missiles following the December 4 meeting between the Secretary and Foreign Minister Sik [...]
2009-12-08 18:39:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR PGOV RS PL
09WARSAW1204POLAND SEEKS TO BUILD CSDP AS CREDIBLE PARTNER FOR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: As one of the goals of its 2011 EU Presidency, Poland aims to give life to the European Union Common Security and Defense Policy. To that end, Polish PM Tusk and French President Sarkozy issued a Declaration on Security and Defense on November 5 in Paris. Polish MFA officials [...]
2009-12-09 14:02:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL MCAP MARR NATO EU PL
09WARSAW121POLISH SENATORS TO AMBASSADOR: POLAND DESERVES DUE
[...] (C) SUMMARY. In a February 2 meeting with the Ambassador, members of the Polish Senate's Foreign Affairs Committee urged that progress on building a Polish-U.S. strategic partnership not slow or stop, regardless of the current U.S. Administration's decision on the Ballistic Missile Defense Ag [...]
2009-02-03 16:52:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV RS PL
09WARSAW1211POLAND: OUT OF CYCLE REVIEW OF INTELLECTUAL
[...] (SBU) Summary and Comment. We assess the Polish Government's (GoP's) November 23 Out-of-Cycle review (OCR) submission as credible. The GoP has tightened its efforts to fight IPR violations, particularly with regard to internet piracy, to strengthen public awareness of the value of IP, and to [...]
2009-12-10 18:01:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD KIPR PL
09WARSAW122UKRAINE, POLAND, CZECH REPUBLIC SUMMIT ON GAS,
[...] (C) SUMMARY. President Lech Kaczynski's January 28 meeting in Wroclaw with Ukrainian President Yushchenko and Czech Prime Minister Topolanek, representing the EU presidency, produced only an inconclusive assessment of the Ukraine-Russia gas agreement. Officials from President Lech Kaczynski' [...]
2009-02-04 06:19:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL ENRG RS CZ BO UP PL
09WARSAW1220U.S.-POLISH COUNTERTERRORISM WORKING GROUP FOCUSES
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The U.S.-Polish Counterterrorism Working Group met December 11 to review ongoing bilateral counterterrorism cooperation, primarily between U.S. and Polish law enforcement, homeland security, and crisis management agencies. Visiting S/CT officials provided a briefing on the Obama [...]
2009-12-16 16:22:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL PGOV KCRM PL
09WARSAW1222GOP ENGAGEMENT DE-ESCALATES STANDOFF WITH CHECHEN
[...] (SBU) Summary: Polish border guards December 15 stopped a train carrying more than 150 mostly Chechen refugees en route to Dresden, Germany. The refugees said they were on their way to Strasbourg to protest poor conditions for refugees in Poland. However, they did not have permission to travel [...]
2009-12-17 18:14:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREF PL
09WARSAW1228POLAND COULD ACCEPT "COMPLEMENTARY" CONTINGENCY PLANNING FOR POLAND AND BALTIC STATES
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-18 14:36:00Embassy WarsawSECRETNATO MCAP MARR PREL PL
09WARSAW1231POLAND: 2009 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM
[...] In response to reftel, post submits the following narrative for Poland's 2009 Country Report on Terrorism. Embassy POC is Amy Walla, Political Officer, WallaAC@state.gov. 2. Begin Text: Poland The Polish Ministry of Internal Affairs and Administration assesses the terrorist threat lev [...]
2009-12-22 14:48:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PTER ASEC PL
09WARSAW125POLAND'S SZCZYGLO: TROOP INCREASES FOR AFGHANISTAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a February 4 meeting with the Ambassador, newly-appointed Chief of Poland's National Security Bureau, Aleksander Szczyglo said that in light of the military's increasingly dire funding picture, he no longer knew if it would be possible to add to Poland's 1,600 troops in Afgh [...]
2009-02-04 14:49:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALMARR PREL AF IS LE PL
09WARSAW1250SEJM SPEAKER KOMOROWSKI ON U.S.-POLISH RELATIONS
[...] (C) In his first meeting with Sejm Speaker Bronislaw Komorowski (Civic Platform - PO),Ambassador Feinstein heard that the Speaker sought U.S. help building public support for Poland's troop increase in Afghanistan. Komorowski also agreed that NATO contingency planning was a positive developm [...]
2009-12-31 14:03:00Embassy WarsawSECRETNATO MARR MCAP PREL PGOV PL
09WARSAW136KACZYNSKI'S NEW CLOTHES: LAW AND JUSTICE'S
[...] (C) SUMMARY. The opposition Law and Justice Party (PiS) stands to benefit from growing Polish economic anxieties, and party chair Jaroslaw Kaczynski has criticized the government's unwillingness to undertake deficit spending to provide an economic stimulus. Otherwise, PiS's "new" anti-crisis [...]
2009-02-06 16:35:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PL
09WARSAW139POLAND ON EU CLIMATE PACKAGE, ENERGY SECURITY AND
[...] (C) Piotr Serafin, Under Secretary of the Office of the Committee for European Integration (UKIE) recently briefed EconCouns and ESTOff on: 1) Polish tactics and outcome of the December 12, 2008 EU climate package; 2) a new EUR 3.5 billion allocation for European energy and power interconnecti [...]
2009-02-10 06:04:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALKGHG SENV EPET ENRG EUN PL
09WARSAW14STATUTORY AND POLITICAL CONSTRAINTS ON POLISH
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Statutory limitations and a general political culture that straightjackets large-scale military acquisition projects are impeding the GoP,s ability to advance its defense modernization program. The Polish Ministry of Defense (MoD) was obligated to return approximately USD 350 m [...]
2009-01-07 12:05:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PMAT PL
09WARSAW144POLAND APPROVES ANTARCTIC TREATY MEASURES
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-10 13:42:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDEINV KSCA KTIA AORC SENV TPHY PL
09WARSAW146POLAND/RUSSIA: MOVING FORWARD IN CHOPPY WATERS
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Vladimir Putin's proposed spring visit to Warsaw has not yet been scheduled, but Polish officials tell us that energy security will likely top the agenda. Prime Minister Tusk's staff said the media accurately described Tusk's January 29 meeting with Putin in Davos as a discussion [...]
2009-02-10 14:16:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PL RS
09WARSAW15POLAND APPRECIATES ADVANCE NOTICE OF NUCLEAR
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-07 16:35:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP MNUC PARM PREL PL
09WARSAW16POLISH VIEWS ON WAY FORWARD ON SEPARATIST REGIONS
[...] (C) Polish Deputy FM Andrzej Kremer told DCM that the GoP fully agrees with U.S. strategic objectives, but is concerned about the tactics outlined in reftel. For instance, the EU could find itself in a legal bind (and it's legal commitment to defend Georgian territorial integrity called into [...]
2009-01-08 08:06:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALGG PL PREL RS
09WARSAW166MINISTER HAILS POLISH FOREIGN POLICY PRAGMATISM,
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Foreign Minister Sikorski's annual report to parliament highlighted improved relations with Germany, a pragmatic conversation with Russia, new influence within the EU, and expectations of strategic cooperation with the U.S. Poland's EU initiatives over the last year produced [...]
2009-02-13 14:15:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL MARR RS PL
09WARSAW170POLAND WANTS LIVE PATRIOTS, “NOT POTTED PLANTS”
[...] (S) SUMMARY. GOP officials are not privy to the full range of U.S. planning and thinking with regard to the prospective Patriot battery rotation here, but they do have expectations -- some naive, some tactical -- that they are making increasingly clear. For example, when told last autumn that the P [...]
2009-02-13 15:14:00Embassy WarsawSECRETPREL MAPP PL
09WARSAW18Poland/TIP - Continued Forward Progress, But ...
[...] (SBU) Summary. Poland has continued to make strides in its efforts to combat trafficking in persons. Poland ratified the 2005 Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings on November 17. It will enter into force on March 1, 2009. The Polish government and Interna [...]
2009-01-08 12:22:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB PL
09WARSAW181POLAND SUPPORTS STRONGER MEASURES AGAINST
[...] (C) Ewa Zalewska, the Desk officer for Mauritania at the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told us that Poland fully supports having the EU impose stronger sanctions against Mauritania's military junta, including visa denials, travel restrictions, and the freezing of assets. Zalewska emphas [...]
2009-02-18 15:53:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM EUN AA MR PL
09WARSAW182POLAND MONITORING U.S. IMPACT ON DURBAN REVIEW
[...] (C) The Polish government was surprised by the USG decision to participate in the Durban Review working group in Geneva. Miroslaw Luczka, Deputy Director of the MFA's Department of United Nations and Human Rights, asked whether the U.S. has a plan coordinated with some of the key countries, a [...]
2009-02-18 16:16:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPHUM PL PREL
09WARSAW183POLISH ENERGY PRIORITIES: GAS SECURITY STRATEGY
[...] (C) Poland's new energy security strategy has still not been released from the Prime Minister's Office, but after over a year in power, PM Tusk has announced most of his key priorities. In an important policy change, the government is embracing gas interconnections -- including to the German [...]
2009-02-18 16:50:00Embassy WarsawSECRETKGHG SENV EPET ENRG EUN PL
09WARSAW185SCENESETTER FOR YOUR FEBRUARY 25 MEETING WITH
[...] (C) At the top of Foreign Minister Radoslaw "Radek" Sikorski's agenda when you meet next week will be securing an symbolically important early White House meeting for Prime Minister Donald Tusk. The Poles want an early summit -- preferably by April -- to signal that the new administration [...]
2009-02-19 06:54:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL OVIP MARR US PL
09WARSAW186POLISH RESPONSE TO U.S. PLANS FOR MARCH 2
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-19 06:54:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALEFIN PGOV PTER PHUM KPAL KWBG PREL PL
09WARSAW191AUTO WEAKNESS MANAGABLE, BUT EU-15 PROTECTIONISM
[...] (U) Summary. Poland,s relatively well balanced economy has shielded Poles from the worst of the global financial crisis and recession, but weakening exports are finally bringing the global recession home. Automobile manufacturing, Poland,s largest export industry, began to weaken in September [...]
2009-02-19 16:10:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD EINV PGOV PL
09WARSAW192ANTI-SEMITISM IN POLAND: AN UP-CLOSE LOOK
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Members of Poland's Jewish community, as well as Jewish and Catholic religious leaders and community activists, question the utility of two recent attitude surveys suggesting a rise in anti-Semitism in Poland. More accurate indicators are the low incidence of anti-Semitic violen [...]
2009-02-19 16:25:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL PL
09WARSAW199BIOTECHNOLOGY CORN EVENT DEMARCHE
[...] FAS Agricultural Counselor delivered reftel demarche on Pioneer and Syngenta GMO corn hybrid approvals at the Ministry of Environment, February 20, 2009, meeting with New Technologies Department Director, Agnieszka Dalbiak. Dalbiak said Poland has not decided how it will vote on February 25 i [...]
2009-02-23 13:06:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ECON ETRD PL
09WARSAW2POTENTIAL GAS SUPPLY DISRUPTIONS FROM RUSSIA TO
[...] (C) Summary. Reporting from the Polish Embassy in Kyiv, conveyed to us by MFA's Economic Department, confirms reports from Embassy Berlin and Kyiv (Refs B and C) that the Ukrainians have found a way to pay gas debts to Gazprom and will avert a shutoff on January 1. That said, Polish authorit [...]
2009-01-01 13:44:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALENRG EPET PREL RU PL
09WARSAW20POLES SKEPTICAL OF RUSSIAN INTENTIONS ON CFE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-08 14:57:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALKCFE NATO PARM PREL RS PL
09WARSAW205POLISH MFA ON AFGHANISTAN STRATEGIC REVIEW
[...] (C) Summary. In a February 23 meeting with Charge to discuss reftels, Deputy Foreign Minister Jacek Najder suggested that the U.S. strategic review of Afghanistan/Pakistan policy should seek ways to empower Afghanistan's governors, the key to building stability outside the major cities. Najd [...]
2009-02-24 14:21:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALNATO PREL MOPS MARR AF PL
09WARSAW210POLAND WILL SUPPORT U.S. CANDIDATE FOR UN APPEALS
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-25 15:07:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAORC APER KAWC KJUS KUNR PREL UNGA
09WARSAW212POLAND: CANNOT TAKE LEAD IN NTM-I BORDER SECURITY
[...] (C) In response to retel demarche, Lucyna Golc-Kozak, the Head of the Operations and Crisis Management Section at the Polish MFA, told us that Poland will not take the lead as the Principal Coordinating Nation for a border security program within the NATO training mission in Iraq. Golc-Kozak s [...]
2009-02-25 15:35:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALMARR MOPS NATO PREL IZ PL
09WARSAW217POLAND - 2009 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Poland is a country of origin, transit, and destination for victims of trafficking in persons (TIP). The majority of victims were trafficked to work in the sex industry, but Poland is increasingly becoming a destination country for forced labor. Government officials at the hig [...]
2009-02-27 15:22:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF
09WARSAW218POLAND ON THE G-20 PROCESS
[...] (C) Summary. The Poles are concerned about the evolving composition of the G-20. While they like the G-20 as a forum for coordinating, they are worried that the current composition does not reflect the variety of perspectives needed to comprehensively meet the challenge. They have also not [...]
2009-02-27 16:05:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALKFIN ECON PL
09WARSAW22CODEL TAUSCHER VISIT TO POLAND
[...] (C) SUMMARY: CODEL Tauscher emphasized to Polish interlocutors December 17 that the U.S. remained committed to missile defense (MD),but insisted that the long-range component must be realistically tested and certified effective before deployment. In the meantime, Tauscher said Congress woul [...]
2009-01-08 15:27:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALOREP PREL MARR MCAP NATO PL CZ RS
09WARSAW225POLAND: 2009 SPECIAL 301 REVIEW: POST
[...] (SBU) Summary: Post recommends that Poland be removed from the Special 301 Watch List. In 2008, Poland consolidated and extended the major advances it made during 2007 in protecting intellectual property rights (IPR). Improved enforcement was highlighted in February, when Polish police raid [...]
2009-03-02 15:01:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON KIPR PL
09WARSAW227POLAND: GET NPT BACK ON TRACK
[...] (C) Summary. In response to reftel questions, Szymon Bochenski of the Polish MFA's Security Policy Department told us February 19 that Warsaw's top priority for the current Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) review cycle was to strengthen unity among NPT participants and bolster the treaty [...]
2009-03-02 16:04:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALAORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA
09WARSAW23CODEL TAUSCHER'S MEETING WITH POLISH FM SIKORSKI
[...] (C) SUMMARY. In a December 16 conversation visiting CODEL Tauscher and Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski discussed Missile Defense, including Russian views of MD in Europe, Georgia and Afghanistan. On Missile Defense, Congresswoman Tauscher described Congressional plans to seek a strategic pa [...]
2009-01-08 15:36:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALOVIP PL PREL
09WARSAW231POLAND - HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL, DURBAN REVIEW, HRR
[...] (C) Summary. The GoP is pleased with the USG decision to be an active observer at the Human Rights Council (HRC). Poland intends to run for a seat on the HRC in 2010. The GoP will remain part of the Durban Review process despite having little hope for the draft text. The Country Report on Hum [...]
2009-03-03 09:40:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL PL
09WARSAW238POLAND:CI/KR RESPONSE FOR S/CT
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-04 09:44:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPTER PGOV ASEC EFIN ENRG PL
09WARSAW24POLAND/TIP - LACK OF FUNDS IMPERILS POLAND'S ONLY
[...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST FOR G/TIP AND DRL. PLEASE SEE PARA 7. 2. (C) SUMMARY. Although Poland continues to make strides in combating trafficking in persons (reftel),a funding shortage could prompt the NGO LaStrada to close Poland's only shelter providing specialized assistance to T [...]
2009-01-08 15:54:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALASEC ELAB KCRM KFRD KWMN PHUM PREF SMIG PL
09WARSAW253POLAND'S ECONOMY HOLDS STEADY: FORTUNE FAVORS THE
[...] (SBU) Summary. Poland's economy is slowing amidst global weakness, but thanks to good timing and good policy, it is not in crisis. Poles are sheltering behind the prudent fiscal, monetary, and regulatory policy of recent years; the relative immaturity of Poland's consumer credit market; and [...]
2009-03-09 13:12:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PL
09WARSAW257POLAND AND ODIHR - NEW MATERIAL TO COMBAT
[...] (SBU) Summary. On March 5, the Polish Ministry of Education and the OSCE Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) launched a set of teaching tools to combat anti-Semitism. The materials are specifically aimed at middle-school age (gymnazium) students. Discussions are underw [...]
2009-03-10 14:38:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV PREL PL
09WARSAW258POLAND/GERMANY - WHO'S AFRAID OF ERIKA STEINBACH,
[...] (C) SUMMARY. PM Tusk and PM-Advisor Bartoszewski have been criticized by the opposition and media commentators for failing to communicate the extent of Polish opposition to the establishment of a German documentation center for expellees. In the view of these critics, the withdrawal of German [...]
2009-03-10 15:50:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL GM PL
09WARSAW259SPECIAL 301 REVIEW: SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION FOR
[...] (SBU) Summary: Removing Poland from the Special 301 Watch List now would acknowledge progress on traditional intellectual property rights (IPR) issues, and -- if the USG decides in the future to use the Special 301 process to draw attention to market access issues like those troubling the in [...]
2009-03-10 16:15:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON KIPR PL
09WARSAW26POLAND AND RUSSIA TO HOLD REGULAR SECURITY MEETINGS
[...] (C) Poland and Russia have agreed to a regular dialogue to discuss a wide range of security issues, including the Conventional Forces in Europe Treaty, NATO-Russia relations, non-proliferation, and missile defense (MD). The decision occurred in the context of a December 19 meeting between Po [...]
2009-01-08 16:33:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALMCAP PREL MARR RS PL
09WARSAW260POLISH VIEWS ON MARCH 16-17 GAERC
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Poland believes the EU will reach a general consensus on extending -- for another six months -- suspension of the EU's travel ban on Belarusian officials. Poland views as a positive initiative the Belarusian Deputy Foreign Minister's March 6 visit to Warsaw to address Polish conc [...]
2009-03-10 16:24:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EUN AF TU PL
09WARSAW261SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY NAPOLITANO'S MARCH 15
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Deputy Prime Minister/Interior Minister Minister Grzegorz Schetyna is interested in expanding cooperation with the new Obama administration. Your meeting with Schetyna is an opportunity to extend already strong U.S.-Polish security cooperation to other spheres, including countert [...]
2009-03-11 10:23:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER PHUM KJUS KCRM PL
09WARSAW277POLAND - NO REPORTS OF FORCED CHILD LABOR IN
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-17 13:58:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDEIND ELAB ETRD PHUM SOCI KTIP PL
09WARSAW279POLES INTERESTED IN ATTENDING AFGHANISTAN
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-18 07:41:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL AF PK IR UN PL
09WARSAW288POLISH FINANCIAL SECTOR: WILL THEY NEED THE IMF?
[...] (C) Summary. Poland's financial sector continues to look sound, with adequate liquidity and access to global markets. However, potentially serious vulnerabilities have been exposed by the prolonged strain on European parent banks, the deepening economic downturn, and the steep decline in the [...]
2009-03-19 17:36:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON PL
09WARSAW294POLAND: INTERNAL BATTLE LEADS TO DISMISSAL OF
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-20 13:10:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL BO PL
09WARSAW296POLAND: GLOBAL INITIATIVE ATTENDANCE UNCERTAIN
[...] (SBU) Accompanied by Russian and South Korean diplomats, we jointly delivered Ref A invitation on March 17 to Szymon Bochenski of the MFA's Security Policy Department, who said there was a 50/50 chance that a Polish police representative would attend the April 14-16 Global Initiative Exercise [...]
2009-03-20 13:42:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMNUC PARM PREL PTER KGIC KS MCAP PINR PINS PL
09WARSAW297POLES INTEND TO REMAIN IN KFOR FOR THE LONG HAUL
[...] (C) Warsaw has no plans to reduce or withdraw its forces from NATO's KFOR mission in Kosovo. Jan Szopozniak of the MFA's Security Policy Department told us March 19 that NATO missions had the highest priority among all military operations requiring the deployment of Polish troops abroad. He [...]
2009-03-20 13:44:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR NATO KV PL
09WARSAW298POLAND: ARE WE SINCERE?
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Polish political leaders have largely recovered from initial misgivings about recent U.S. overtures to Russia. The President's public clarification of his letter to President Medvedev, as well as the meeting between FM Sikorski and Secretary Clinton, have set aside for now Poli [...]
2009-03-20 14:45:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PM PL
09WARSAW3POTENTIAL GAS SUPPLY DISRUPTIONS FROM RUSSIA TO
[...] (C) Summary. Reporting from the Polish Embassy in Kyiv, conveyed to us by MFA's Economic Department, confirms reports from Embassy Berlin and Kyiv (Refs B and C) that the Ukrainians have found a way to pay gas debts to Gazprom and will avert a shutoff on January 1. That said, Polish authorit [...]
2009-01-01 13:45:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALENRG EPET PREL RU PL
09WARSAW301POLAND: INTERNAL BATTLE LEADS TO DISMISSAL OF
[...] (C) SUMMARY. The March 17 dismissal of Agnieszka Rozmaszewska-Guzy as the director of Polonia TV and U.S.-funded Belsat appears to reflect an internal political battle over financial resources and control of the Polish media rather than a shift in GoP policy towards Belarus. Our contacts say [...]
2009-03-23 10:36:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL BO PL
09WARSAW309POLAND LIKELY TO INCREASE ISAF DEPLOYMENT IN
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-24 08:36:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL NATO AF PK PL
09WARSAW314POLAND SUPPORTS US ON SOUTH OSSETIA AND ABKHAZIA
[...] (C) SUMMARY. The Polish MFA is encouraged by the new U.S. administration's firm stance on Georgia's territorial integrity. Tomasz Orlowski, Head of the Central Asia and South Caucasus Section at the Polish MFA, told us that Poland and the U.S. appear to be "on the same page." Orlowski said Po [...]
2009-03-24 12:46:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS PBTS RS BO GG PL
09WARSAW32LECH WALESA CALLS FOR NEW ERA OF U.S. LEADERSHIP
[...] (C) Nobel Laureate and former Polish President Lech Walesa told the Ambassador January 10 that the United States -- while still a military and economic power -- is no longer the moral or political leader it once was. After the fall of communism, Walesa said, the world needs to be "rearranged." [...]
2009-01-12 16:54:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PL
09WARSAW323POLISH MFA: ENGAGE BELARUS BUT PROTECT MINORITY
[...] (C) SUMMARY. The Polish MFA continues to push for EU and U.S. engagement with Belarus to keep it out of Russia's clench, but insists that such engagement should not be at the expense of the Polish minority in Belarus. An MFA official told us the Union of Poles in Belarus held a successful ele [...]
2009-03-26 13:44:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL BO PL
09WARSAW328POLAND: ISRAELI AMBASSADOR PESSIMISTIC ON
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Outgoing Israeli Ambassador David Peleg lamented Polish disengagement from Mideast peacekeeping missions due to the focus on Afghanistan and suggested that the Poles should keep a more open mind about the incoming Israeli government. In his view, Prime Minister Tusk may have l [...]
2009-03-27 15:32:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM IS XF PL
09WARSAW33FORMER POLISH PM KACZYNSKI MEETING WITH AMBASSADOR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a January 9 meeting with the Ambassador, a subdued and reflective Jaroslaw Kaczynski -- former Prime Minister and current chair of the opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party -- characterized the U.S.-Georgia charter as an important development given Georgia's precarious politic [...]
2009-01-12 16:57:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM ECON PL
09WARSAW339YOUR MEETING WITH POLAND'S LEADERSHIP IN PRAGUE
[...] (C) Your April 5 meeting with Poland's leadership (which is likely to be both President Lech Kaczynski and Prime Minister Donald Tusk) is much anticipated in Warsaw. If you meet with them together, which I expect to be the case, it will be the first time these two political rivals have met jo [...]
2009-03-31 08:01:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL OVIP PHUM MARR ECON ENRG CVIS PGOV PL
09WARSAW345POLAND'S "TRUTH-TELLER" CANDIDATE FOR COE
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Poland's candidate for Council of Europe (COE) Secretary General has done it all. Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz has served as prime minister, foreign minister, justice minister, and parliamentary speaker; he has also run twice for president. A moderate social democrat, he is one of t [...]
2009-04-01 07:20:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM COE PL
09WARSAW351SCENESETTER FOR CODEL ROGERS VISIT TO WARSAW,
[...] (SBU) Mission Poland warmly welcomes your upcoming visit to Warsaw. Your meetings will occur one day after President Obama meets with the Polish leadership on the margins of the U.S.-EU Summit in Prague, which will likely be with both Prime Minister Donald Tusk and President Lech Kaczynski. [...]
2009-04-01 14:46:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PINR OREP ENRG MARR RS PL
09WARSAW360POLAND IN NATO: LOOKING FOR RESPECT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: "Nothing about us without us" has become the clarion call of Poland's security strategy in the post-communist era. Poles are determined to have a say in security arrangements that affect them, having suffered all too often as the pawn of larger powers. Because Poles see NATO a [...]
2009-04-03 16:18:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL MCAP MARR NATO PL
09WARSAW361POLISH VIEWS ON U.S. HRC CANDIDACY, DURBAN REVIEW
[...] (C) As reported ref B, the Polish MFA positively assesses U.S. re-engagement with the Human Rights Council (HRC). When discussing the U.S.-announced candidacy for the HRC (ref A),the acting deputy director of the MFA's Department for United Nations and Human Rights, Jerzy Baurski, said the GO [...]
2009-04-03 16:22:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV PL
09WARSAW365DAIRY GENETICS SUCCESS
[...] Summary: This cable outlines 18 months of diplomatic work and USDA programs that resulted in a new market opening for U.S. farm exports to the European Union's largest new member, Poland. April 1 the Holstein Association USA and the Polish Federation of Cattle Breeders and Dairy Milk Producer [...]
2009-04-06 13:05:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ECON ETRD PL
09WARSAW368POLAND TO FILE ICJ BRIEF IN SUPPORT OF KOSOVO
[...] (C) Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski has given the political-level green light to the MFA Legal Department to proceed with a "written statement" to the International Court of Justice supporting independence for Kosovo. According to the MFA's Marek Madej, who was involved in drafting the do [...]
2009-04-07 13:36:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL AORC ICJ KV PL
09WARSAW371NATO SUMMIT A MIXED BAG FOR POLAND
[...] (C) Former Polish Ambassador to NATO Jerzy Nowak told the Ambassador April 6 that the results of the recently concluded NATO Summit meeting were mixed for Warsaw. Poland welcomed decisions on beefing up the NATO-led force in Afghanistan, cooperation with Russia, and agreement to begin work on [...]
2009-04-07 16:04:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL MCAP MARR NATO PINR PL
09WARSAW377POLAND: SNAPSHOT OF BIALYSTOK, NEAR THE BELARUS
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Local and regional officials in Poland's northeastern Podlaskie Province -- located along the Belarusian border -- told us April 1-3 that residents still viewed the U.S. as Poland's main security guarantor but have been shifting their focus towards the EU over the past five years. [...]
2009-04-09 13:15:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM ECON SOCI PL BO
09WARSAW378POLAND OUTRAGED OVER NORTH KOREAN LAUNCH
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-09 13:18:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM KNNP KN PL
09WARSAW383Mission Poland and International Roma Day
[...] (U) Mission Poland maintains regular contact with the various Romani and government leaders on Roma issues. We celebrated International Roma Day at the largest known event taking place in the country on April 8. We also posted Secretary Clinton's video clip and message on our website with a P [...]
2009-04-10 11:54:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAPER PHUM KPAO PL
09WARSAW384POLAND'S PM USING FINANCIAL CRISIS TO ADVANCE
[...] (C) Summary. PM Tusk advisor and confidant Michal Boni told Charge and EconCouns April 7 that Tusk is using the economic crisis as an opportunity to advance his restructuring agenda, aimed at producing a harder-working, more innovative Polish economy. U.S. investors and economists here broad [...]
2009-04-10 12:38:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALECON EINV PL
09WARSAW385DISAFFECTED CIVIC PLATFORM LEADERS SPEAK OUT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Poland's ruling political party Civic Platform (PO) has lost the drive for change that brought it to power and has become increasingly focused on political goals (namely, capturing the Presidency for Tusk),at least according to two Krakow-based PO EU Parliamentarians who found t [...]
2009-04-10 13:10:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PL
09WARSAW387 LEGACY USDA LOCAL CURRENCY FUNDS
[...] Summary. The cable requests approval from FAS/W for use of zloty-denominated funds remaining from a series of Section 416(b) commodities' grants from 1989-1993. U.S. Department of Agriculture commodity assistance from that period totaled roughly $194 million, and some $62 million in zloty eq [...]
2009-04-10 13:29:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ECON ETRD PGOV PL
09WARSAW388POLAND STEPS UP IN AFGHANISTAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Foreign Minister Jacek Najder April 9 confirmed GoP plans to increase Poland's contribution to ISAF and noted: -- Polish President Lech Kaczynski had good meetings with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and other senior leaders during a visit to Afghanistan April 8. -- K [...]
2009-04-10 14:05:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL NATO MCAP MOPS AF PL
09WARSAW389POLES FACE EC DELAY, DIVISION ON EASTERN
[...] (C) SUMMARY. We reviewed developments in Poland's Eastern neighborhood in separate meetings with Witold Sobkow, MFA Acting Political Director, and Jacek Cichocki, Secretary of State in the Polish Prime Minister's Chancellery. They noted that: -- The EU is still divided on the issue of invit [...]
2009-04-10 14:48:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PL GG AJ AM UP BO
09WARSAW39NOTICE OF SANCTIONS AGAINST KHAN ASSOCIATES
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-13 16:38:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP MNUC PREL PARM EFIN PL
09WARSAW393POLISH BUDGET MEETS TRANSPARENCY REQUIREMENTS FOR
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-14 08:59:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON PREL
09WARSAW394POLAND/BELARUS - IS DIALOGUE WORKING?
[...] (U) SUMMARY: At an April 2 conference on EU-Belarus relations, panel participants representing the GOP, parliament, and think-tanks agreed that the EU's earlier policy of isolation failed, but disagreed on the extent to which the EU and Poland should "conditionalize" dialogue with Belarus. MP [...]
2009-04-14 09:32:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM BY PL
09WARSAW397POLISH SOLIDARITY UNION BLASTS GOP "NEOLIBERAL"
[...] (C) Janusz Sniadek, President of Solidarity Trade Union, told the Ambassador April 8 that Poland is only starting to feel the effects of the global financial crisis, but said the GoP should prepare for the worst case. The government is doing virtually nothing, he argued, to mitigate the effe [...]
2009-04-14 14:33:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALELAB PGOV PL
09WARSAW405POLAND: SUPPORTS US ON MADAGASCAR
[...] (C) Benedykt Pasik, a counselor in the MFA's Department of Africa and the Middle East, told us that Poland generally backs U.S. policy on Madagascar. While refraining from officially labeling Andry Rajoelina's actions a coup, Pasik said the GOP supports halting all EU assistance to the curren [...]
2009-04-15 14:07:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALEAID PGOV AORC SZ FR NO MA PREL PL
09WARSAW418POLAND: KOSOVO'S IMF AND WORLD BANK MEMBERSHIP BID
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-17 12:54:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PREL KV PL
09WARSAW420POLAND'S AID TO AFGHANISTAN
[...] (SBU) Summary: Poland plans to spend EUR 8 million on bilateral assistance to Afghanistan in 2009. The dearth of NGOs in Ghazni province, where Polish assistance is focused, is forcing the Poles to change their style of providing aid. Eight Polish civilians are currently posted in Afghanist [...]
2009-04-17 14:54:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD EAID PGOV PREL AF PL
09WARSAW424POLAND: BURMA SANCTIONS SHOULD BE BETTER TARGETED
[...] (C) The Polish MFA supports the concept of "better-targeted" U.S. and EU sanctions against Burma and strengthening diplomatic engagement with the regime. On April 17, Danuta Bolimowska, First Counselor at the MFA's Africa-Pacific Department, told us that she was encouraged by the U.S. review [...]
2009-04-20 14:03:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ETRD BM PL
09WARSAW427BACK FROM EXILE, POLAND'S PISKORSKI HAS A PLAN AND
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Three years after being dismissed by the center-right Civic Platform's (PO) governing council for responding ambiguously to conflict of interest allegations, now-independent MEP and former mayor of Warsaw Pawel Piskorski has re-surfaced in Poland and taken the reins of the Democr [...]
2009-04-23 12:01:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PL
09WARSAW428BELARUSIAN VISA APPLICANTS SPEAK OUT ON
[...] (C) As the post responsible for processing IVs for Belarusians, and one of the posts designated for Belarusian NIV interviews, Embassy Warsaw regularly interacts with Belarusians of all walks of life. We took the opportunity to ask several Belarusian IV and NIV applicants about their views on [...]
2009-04-23 13:34:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALBY CVIS ECON PHUM PL PREL SOCI
09WARSAW431POLISH VIEWS ON APRIL EU FOREIGN MINISTERS MEETING
[...] (C) SUMMARY. The Polish MFA's EU Correspondent defended the Czech Presidency's decision to invite Belarusian President Lukashenka to the May 7 Eastern Partnership, and predicted that Lukashenka would indeed attend. Poland will use the release of the Commission's report on the European Neighb [...]
2009-04-24 09:38:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PL
09WARSAW433SIXTH SOFA PLENARY MAKES SIGNIFICANT PROGRESS
[...] (SBU) The parties achieved significant progress in round six of U.S.-Poland SOFA negotiations held in Warsaw April 21-23. Deputy Defense Minister Stanislaw Komorowski, Deputy Foreign Minister Andrzej Kremer, and Deputy Finance Minister Jacek Dominik led the Polish delegation. Ambassador Jac [...]
2009-04-24 11:53:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PM MAPP PL
09WARSAW438SEJM FOREIGN AFFAIRS CHIEF HERALDS FURTHER POLISH
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Krzysztof Lisek, Chairman of the Sejm Foreign Affairs Committee (FAC),told the Ambassador that he and other Civic Platform (PO) candidates would do well in the June Euro Parliamentary elections, leading to a consolidation of Polish Euro deputies among fewer parties. That cons [...]
2009-04-27 15:05:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV RS PL
09WARSAW442POLAND WILL PARTICIPATE IN GLOBAL INITIATIVE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-29 08:01:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM KNNP RS NL PREL PTER MNUC KGIC PL
09WARSAW443RIGHT-WING RADICALS CONTROL POLISH PUBLIC
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Piotr Farfal, a former skinhead affiliated with the nationalistic League of Polish Families (LPR) , remains in control of Polish Public Television (TVP) -- opinions remain divided on just how long he will manage to stay in office. Barring a serious Farfal misstep, the only mecha [...]
2009-04-29 14:04:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL PL
09WARSAW456POLAND SUPPORTS U.S. CANDIDACY FOR HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (U) Post received the following Diplomatic Note response from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in response to ref A diplomatic note announcing United States' candidacy for the UN Human Rights Council. 2. (SBU) BEGIN TEXT: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland presents [...]
2009-04-30 15:41:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL PL
09WARSAW46HEALTH MINISTRY UPDATES REIMBURSEMENT LIST
[...] (SBU) Summary: Poland's Ministry of Health has released an update to its reimbursement list. The updated list contains about 10 innovative drugs that do not have generic competitors, and some of those are manufactured by U.S. companies. U.S. companies will also benefit from reductions in req [...]
2009-01-14 17:11:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALECON TBIO ETRD KIPR PL
09WARSAW466POLISH DEPUTY DEFENSE MINISTER DISCUSSES MISSILE
[...] (C) Summary: Poland,s Deputy Defense Minister, Stanislaw Komorowski, said the decision to host the Missile Defense (MD) site was not an easy one and they hoped it would be fulfilled. Poland is counting on the Patriot deployment and he did not consider it a replacement for MD. He expressed [...]
2009-05-06 12:20:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR ORP RS PL CZ NATO
09WARSAW467POLAND - CODEL LEVIN DISCUSSES MISSILE DEFENSE,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In meetings with CODEL Levin, the Polish Prime Minister's chief of staff, the President's deputy national security advisor, and the speaker of the Polish parliament expressed unanimous support for a large U.S. military footprint in Poland to bolster Article 5 guarantees. PM chief of s [...]
2009-05-07 05:17:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR OREP RS PL
09WARSAW468POLISH FM SIKORSKI TO CODEL LEVIN: WE WANT "REAL"
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Polish FM Sikorski told CODEL Levin that Poland "would not suffer" but "would look silly" if the U.S. decided not to pursue Missile Defense and is open to alternatives that would ease Russian concerns. Sikorski stressed that Poland's ultimate aim is to have an increased U.S. and [...]
2009-05-07 05:17:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR OREP RS PL
09WARSAW477RUSSIAN, POLISH FOREIGN MINISTERS KEEP FOCUS NARROW
[...] (C) Despite the tense regional dynamics surrounding the visit (NATO explusions, Georgian coups and the launch of the EU's Eastern Partnership) the May 6 meeting in Moscow between Russian FM Sergey Lavrov and Polish FM Radoslaw Sikorski focused mainly on bilateral issues, according to the MFA's [...]
2009-05-11 05:35:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON ETRD PL RS GG MD
09WARSAW490DAVID LIPTON IN WARSAW: EUROPEAN FINANCIAL
[...] (C) Summary: NSC Senior Director David Lipton and Treasury,s Eric Meyer were in Warsaw April 28-29. They met with government and private sector finance officials to discuss the crisis, as well as with Finance Minister Rostowski and Foreign Minister Sikorski regarding the situation in Ukrain [...]
2009-05-12 07:55:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN PREL PL
09WARSAW500POLISH VIEWS ON MAY 18-19 GAERC
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Poland shares U.S. views on Russia with respect to both concerns and opportunities. Although differences remain, the improved tone of Polish-Russian relations bodes well for U.S.-Russian and EU-Russian relations. Poland will press for more EU-U.S. coordination on Georgia, Moldo [...]
2009-05-14 16:15:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM EFIN KNNP IR PK KS PL
09WARSAW501A/S JACOBS VISIT TO POLAND
[...] Summary: Assistant Secretary for Consular Affairs Janice L. Jacobs visited Consulate General Krakow and Embassy Warsaw May 3-7 to attend the EUR Consular Leadership Development Conference (CLDC) and to observe Mission Poland's consular operations. In addition, A/S Jacobs met with resident Amer [...]
2009-05-15 12:45:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDCVIS CASC PL
09WARSAW507KOSOVO/WORLD BANK: POLAND WILL SEND NOTICE OF
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-18 11:43:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PREL KV PL
09WARSAW511PAKISTAN/IDP CRISIS: POLAND DONATING EUR 300,000
[...] (SBU) EconOff delivered reftel demarche May 19 to Krzystof Buzalski from the Polish MFA's Department of Economic Cooperation. On May 17, the Polish government announced an immediate transfer of EUR 300,000 through the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The Polish Embassy in Isl [...]
2009-05-19 09:42:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PHUM PREF PK PL
09WARSAW512PAKISTAN/IDP CRISIS: POLAND DONATING EUR 300,000
[...] (SBU) EconOff delivered reftel demarche May 19 to Krzystof Buzalski from the Polish MFA's Department of Economic Cooperation. On May 17, the Polish government announced an immediate transfer of EUR 300,000 through the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). The Polish Embassy in Isl [...]
2009-05-19 09:42:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PHUM PREF PK PL
09WARSAW521CUBA - LIBERTAD ACT RESPONSE FROM POLAND
[...] (U) Post provides the following in response to ref A questions. 2. (U) Promotion of democracy and human rights in Cuba: Poland has an excellent track record with respect to supporting freedom and democracy in Cuba, and believes that its experience in the Solidarity trade movement and it [...]
2009-05-22 14:28:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALETRD ETTC PREL CU PL
09WARSAW522EURO ELECTIONS: POLES SEEK MORE OF A GOOD THING
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Poland's love affair with the European Union colors the message of its European Parliament (EP) candidates, who largely focus on maintaining EU largesse and maximizing Polish influence within the EU. The expected post-election consolidation of Polish deputies inside only three [...]
2009-05-22 14:55:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EUN PL
09WARSAW525POLAND'S ROMA: MIXED REACTION TO EU REPORT
[...] (SBU) Summary: Mixed reactions to the recent EU Agency for Fundamental Rights report, which concludes that Poland's Roma suffer some of the worst discrimination in Europe, reflect strong rivalry and division among the Roma groups themselves, particularly where access to state and EU funding i [...]
2009-05-26 13:04:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PL
09WARSAW538LETTER OF THANKS AND MEETING REQUEST FOR SECRETARY
[...] Embassy Warsaw received a letter from Stanislaw Stankiewicz, President of the International Romani Union in Poland, addressed to Secretary Clinton expressing thanks for her Roma Day statement and requesting a meeting. The original letter will be sent by pouch to S/ES-CR. 2. Post received t [...]
2009-05-29 13:09:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDOPDC PREL OVIP PHUM PL
09WARSAW54KACZYNSKI AND YUSHCHENKO DISCUSS UKRAINE-RUSSIA
[...] (C) During his January 14 meeting with President Kaczynski in Wisla, Poland, Ukrainian President Yushchenko was reportedly agitated and adamant about the need for EU support. According to advisors in the Presidential Chancellery, the most important outcome was Czech FM Topolanek and European [...]
2009-01-16 08:57:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL ENRG EPET UP PL
09WARSAW550POLAND'S RESPONSE: KOSOVO PARTICIPATION IN RCC
[...] (C) On June 1, the Ambassador delivered reftel demarche to Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Andrzej Kremer. On June 2, Kosovo desk officer Grzegorz Szopinski responded to EconOff that the Poles had considered the U.S. position, and decided that they would be represented at the Regional Coopera [...]
2009-06-02 11:34:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID ECON PL KV
09WARSAW552JERZY BUZEK: POLAND'S KINDER, GENTLER FACE IN THE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Soft-spoken and respected in Strasbourg and Brussels, former Polish PM Jerzy Buzek is a leading candidate to become European Parliament president after the June 7 elections. Buzek's conciliatory, intellectual approach -- widely considered his greatest liability during four years [...]
2009-06-02 16:04:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EUN PL
09WARSAW553POLAND - THE STRUGGLE FOR SOLIDARITY
[...] (C) SUMMARY. June 4 celebrations marking the 20th anniversary of free elections were supposed to highlight Poland's prominent role in toppling communism in Europe in 1989. Instead, plans for a media extravaganza in Gdansk have devolved into competing events in multiple cities amid mutual ch [...]
2009-06-03 06:01:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM ELAB PL
09WARSAW562POLAND CONSIDERING REQUEST FOR MI-17 HELICOPTERS
[...] (C) Poland will consider the request for additional air support for Pakistan and get back to us within a few days. Maciej Falkowski of the MFA's Security Policy Department said Warsaw understood the urgent need but pointed out that the Ministry of National Defense (MND) had the lead on such o [...]
2009-06-03 15:28:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL SMIG PARM PHUM PL PK
09WARSAW563POLES HOST DALAI LAMA, RILE CHINESE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jie Chi warned Polish Foreign Minister Sikorski on May 26 that Polish support for the Dalai Lama could impede the improvement of bilateral ties. The Chinese appear to be holding off on senior visits to Poland this year. The Polish government beli [...]
2009-06-03 15:43:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PL CH
09WARSAW564POLISH EXPECTATIONS: FROM PATRIOT TO SOFA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a June 2 meeting with DCM, Deputy Defense Minister Stanislaw Komorowski reiterated his government's belief (articulated in writing for the first time in reftel A) that it had been promised an operational U.S. Patriot battery. Referring to the public back and forth on the Pat [...]
2009-06-04 06:02:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALMARR PREL PL
09WARSAW574EURO ELECTIONS: CIVIC PLATFORM HEADED FOR BIG
[...] (C) SUMMARY. As expected when the campaign began, the ruling Civic Platform (PO) should win around half the votes in June 7 elections for European Parliament, according to opinion polls issued in the campaign's final days. The opposition Law and Justice (PiS) will finish a distant second, wi [...]
2009-06-05 10:43:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EUN PL
09WARSAW579POLAND SUPPORTS U.S. CANDIDATE FOR ICSC
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-08 12:53:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALAORC APER KAWC KJUS KUNR PREL UNGA PL
09WARSAW58U.S.-POLAND STRATEGIC COOPERATION - RESPONSE TO
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-16 15:39:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDMARR MASS MCAP PL
09WARSAW584POLAND'S GROWING INFLUENCE IN THE EU
[...] (C) SUMMARY. After five years in the European Union, Poland is increasingly skilled at "navigating" the EU, but still far from guru status. While Poland is tactically more effective, a lack of strategic vision, internal coordination, and active engagement in European capitals has hindered Po [...]
2009-06-09 11:00:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON SENV PHUM EUN PL
09WARSAW586POLES TO CONSIDER NATO COUNTER-PIRACY SUPPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-09 15:29:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALMARR NATO PREL PL
09WARSAW59POLAND: INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT 2009
[...] The 1923 Geneva Protocol on Arbitration Clauses 2. The 1958 New York Convention on the Recognition and Enforcement of International Arbitration Awards 3. The 1961 Geneva European Convention on International Trade Arbitration 4. The 1972 Moscow Convention on Arbitration Resolution of Civ [...]
2009-01-20 07:59:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDEIQ EFIN ETRD OPIC USTR KTDB PL
09WARSAW594POLAND BACKS U.S. APPROACH TO MEDVEDEV SECURITY
[...] (C) The U.S. and Polish positions on Russian President Dmitriy Medvedev's European security initiative are virtually identical. Iwona Pawlikowska of the MFA Security Policy Department told us that the GoP fully supported the proposed U.S. approach (Ref A) for the OSCE informal ministerial on [...]
2009-06-10 15:27:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL OSCE EU NATO PL
09WARSAW596POLISH VIEWS ON JUNE 15-16 GAERC
[...] (C) SUMMARY. In advance of the June 15-16 GAERC, MFA European Correspondent Cyryl Kozaczewski said Poland will press for close coordination with the U.S. on the Middle East and oppose efforts to condition the upgrade of EU-Israel relations on progress in the peace process. Poland views the E [...]
2009-06-12 10:48:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM EFIN KNNP IR PK KS PL
09WARSAW597POLAND: MOVING FORWARD ON EASTERN PARTNERSHIP
[...] (C) SUMMARY. A month after the formal launching of the EU's Eastern Partnership (EaP),Polish officials are determined to maintain the initiative's momentum in the face of upcoming Union leadership changes, a lukewarm reception by beneficiary countries, and possible Russian hostility. The MFA [...]
2009-06-12 13:21:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL BO GC UP AJ AM MD PL
09WARSAW603POLISH RESOLVE IN AFGHANISTAN STILL STRONG
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Poland is a leading troop contributor in the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan, and senior Polish officials voice strong support for the effort. But Poland, like many other NATO allies, is not immune to the effects of a long campaign that has not enj [...]
2009-06-12 16:09:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL NATO MCAP MOPS MARR PL AF
09WARSAW604SEVENTH US-POLISH SOFA PLENARY MAKES MODEST
[...] (SBU) U.S. and Polish delegations made some progress in round seven of U.S.-Poland SOFA negotiations held in Warsaw June 8-10, but fell short of the ambitious agenda articulated by the Polish side. Deputy Defense Minister Stanislaw Komorowski, Deputy Foreign Minister Andrzej Kremer, and Dep [...]
2009-06-12 16:32:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PM MAPP PL
09WARSAW62POLAND/GAERC - JANUARY 26-27 EU FOREIGN MINISTERS
[...] (C) SUMMARY. In response to reftel points, MFA EU Correspondent Cyryl Kozaczewski told us the GAERC would focus on the situation in Gaza and implications for the Middle East Peace Process. EU ministers will discuss possible EU monitoring of the Egypt-Gaza border and humanitarian assistance. [...]
2009-01-20 12:55:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM EUN BO UP SU EG IS PL
09WARSAW626WOMEN'S ISSUES IN POLAND - SCENESETTER FOR AMBASSADOR VERVEER'S JUNE 20-22 VISIT TO WARSAW
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The political and economic transformation in Poland over the last two decades has brought considerable improvement in the lives of Polish women. Nevertheless, women continue to face a number of challenges, including underrepresentation in political life, discrimination in the la [...]
2009-06-17 15:00:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKWMN PREL KPAO PHUM SCUL ELAB PL OIIP
09WARSAW638POLAND AGREES CCIT SHOULD NOT WEAKEN EXISTING
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-22 12:22:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PTER PL
09WARSAW643SCENESETTER FOR CODEL BEN NELSON TO WARSAW, JUNE
[...] (SBU) Mission Poland warmly welcomes your upcoming visit to Warsaw. Your focus, Missile Defense, is front and center in our on-going conversation with the Poles, along with the rotation of a Patriot battery to Poland and on-going Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) Supplemental negotiations. Pre [...]
2009-06-23 15:39:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR OREP PGOV PREL PL
09WARSAW648PROPERTY RESTITUTION AND REAL PROPERTY MARKET IN
[...] (U) Summary: "Clouds" on title associated with property confiscations related to the Holocaust and post-war Communist upheavals have several effects on the Polish real estate market. Property may be kept off the market by unclear title or a pending restitution claim, sometimes driving up the [...]
2009-06-25 05:31:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON GM ODIP PREL XG XH XT PL
09WARSAW660POLAND - INPUT FOR OSCE HUMAN DIMENSION MEETING
[...] (U) Embassy Warsaw looks forward to once again hosting the delegates from Washington and the US Mission to the OSCE for the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting (HDIM). Embassy Warsaw is providing the following input in response to Ref A request for information about host country progress an [...]
2009-06-26 10:26:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOSCE PHUM PREL PGOV PL
09WARSAW662POLAND WELCOMES U.S. APPROACH TO AFGHAN ELECTIONS
[...] (C) Poland appreciates the U.S. approach to the August 20 presidential elections in Afghanistan, as outlined in President Obama's June 16 statement (reftel). Dominik Malek of the MFA's Asia and Pacific Department told us that U.S. views were similar to Poland's approach and paralleled the po [...]
2009-06-26 14:15:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV NATO AF PL
09WARSAW684LETTER FROM SECRETARY CLINTON ON PATRIOTS
[...] DCM Pam Quanrud delivered reftel letter to Polish Deputy Foreign Minister Jacek Najder. Najder promised to deliver the Secretary's letter to Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski, whom he was to see immediately after. Najder declined comment on the letter. ASHE [...]
2009-07-01 15:10:00Embassy WarsawSECRETMARR PGOV PREL PL
09WARSAW688POLAND STILL WORKING OUT FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS OF
[...] (C) GoP authorities will do their best to implement fully the inspection provisions of UN Security Council Resolution 1874 but are unsure how to proceed on some of the financial implications of the new measures. Urszula Raznowiecka of the MFA's Asia-Pacific Department told us that legal exper [...]
2009-07-02 13:04:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM MNUC MTCR KN PL
09WARSAW694POLAND-CODEL NELSON WITH MINISTER KOMOROWSKI
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-06 14:54:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALMARR OREP PGOV PL PREL RS
09WARSAW695CODEL NELSON: POLAND EXPECTS THE U.S. TO HONOR ITS
[...] (U) This message is SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED -- not for Internet distribution. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Poland expects the United States to honor commitments made in August 2008 agreements on Missile Defense (MD) and security cooperation. Foreign policy advisors to President Kaczysnki and PM Tu [...]
2009-07-06 14:58:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV OVIP OTRA PHUM RS PL
09WARSAW701AUSTRALIA GROUP: POLAND PLANS TO PARTICIPATE IN
[...] (C) Lukasz Zielinski, head of the MFA's WMD Non-Proliferation Section, told us that Poland plans to participate in the September 21-25 Australia Group plenary meeting in Paris. He added that it is unclear which agencies will participate because the government has tightened its budget. Typica [...]
2009-07-07 13:05:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL ETTC CBW PL
09WARSAW702POLAND LIKELY TO SUPPORT NGO INVOLVEMENT AT UNITED
[...] (C) Warsaw will support ECOSOC consultative status for the Democracy Coalition Project (DCP) and will likely support the U.S. position on the Dynamic Christian World Mission Foundation (DCWMF). Elzbieta Gryzio of the MFA's UN and Human Rights Department told us Poland generally supported the [...]
2009-07-07 13:09:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PL
09WARSAW704CODEL NELSON: POLISH FM PRESSES FOR RESPONSE ON
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Foreign Minister Sikorski told Senator Nelson the GoP still hoped the Missile Defense (MD) agreement would be implemented, and said he was awaiting clarity regarding Patriot missiles. He said the Patriots should be deployed as originally intended -- not as a "sales promotion" [...]
2009-07-08 13:15:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV OVIP OTRA PHUM RS PL
09WARSAW710POLISH JUDICIARY BRACES FOR NEEDED REFORM
[...] (SBU) Summary. Amid growing criticism of Poland's judicial system, Justice Minister Czuma has focused on the inefficiency of the EU's most expensive court system, on a per capita basis. Czuma has also sought to take on the perceived lack of integrity among Polish prosecutors and judges -- tho [...]
2009-07-09 11:58:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KJUS PREL PINR PHUM KCRM PL
09WARSAW718POLES WELCOME U.S.-RUSSIA SUMMIT RESULTS
[...] (C) GoP officials welcomed the results of the U.S.-Russia Summit and were cautiously optimistic that it would lead to a substantial improvement in U.S.-Russian relations. Marek Szczygiel of the MFA's Security Policy Department said Poland appreciated, in particular, that the U.S. had not sacr [...]
2009-07-10 14:30:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM MCAP MARR NATO RS PL
09WARSAW720POLAND: INCREASING FRUSTRATION WITH SITUATION IN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: MFA officials told us that Warsaw remained committed to Ukraine's rapid Euro-Atlantic integration, but programs like the Eastern Partnership (ref C) can only do so much given the disruptive political infighting in Kyiv. The infighting had led to disappointing results during the " [...]
2009-07-10 15:25:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PL UP
09WARSAW73POLAND/GAERC: ADDITIONAL INPUT FOR JAN 26-27 EU FM
[...] (C) SUMMARY. In response to reftel A points, MFA Political Director Witold Sobkow told the DCM January 22 that the GAERC would focus heavily on the EU role in resolving the Gaza conflict and on energy security issues. Sobkow accused Germany of undermining efforts to develop a common EU energy [...]
2009-01-23 08:46:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALAF BO GG IS PL PREL SY UP
09WARSAW738AMBASSADOR MULL BRIEFS MOSCOW SUMMIT TO POLES;
[...] (S) SUMMARY: Ambassador Stephen Mull reassured senior GOP officials July 8 that President Obama had protected U.S. redlines during the Moscow Summit and bartered neither European missile defense (MD) plans nor future NATO enlargement to gain Russian cooperation on ballistic missile defense. [...]
2009-07-17 09:52:00Embassy WarsawSECRETPGOV MAPP MARR PL
09WARSAW76PM TUSK'S NEW SHERIFF - JUSTICE MINISTER ANDRZEJ
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Unlike his bookish predecessor, Poland's new Justice Minister, Andrzej Czuma -- one of the fathers of Poland's early anti-Communist movements and a former U.S. resident (1986-2005) -- is expected to take on the Polish judiciary,s daunting challenges in a more visible, determined a [...]
2009-01-23 15:41:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS PREL PINR PL
09WARSAW763POLISH VIEWS ON 27-28 JULY GAERC
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In advance of this month's meeting of the EU General Affairs and External Relations Council, MFA European Correspondent Cyryl Kozaczewski said Poland intended to: -- Advocate for the extension of the EU Monitoring Mission (EUMM) in Georgia; -- Support tougher sanctions agai [...]
2009-07-23 14:57:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PARM IR GG PL
09WARSAW768POLES CONCERNED ABOUT POSSIBILITY OF RIGGED
[...] (C) Poland is prepared to consider increased assistance for Afghanistan after the August presidential elections, but the GoP is worried that the 20 August contest might already be rigged in favor of incumbent President Hamid Karzai. Roman Strzemiecki of the MFA's Asia and Pacific Department s [...]
2009-07-24 12:23:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL NATO MOPS MARR PL AF
09WARSAW78AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL CALL ON SEJM SPEAKER
[...] (C) SUMMARY. In a January 22 meeting, Sejm (lower house of parliament) Speaker Bronislaw Komorowski asked about the possible timing of an Administration decision on Missile Defense and expressed confidence that the U.S.-Polish relationship would continue to flourish. Komorowski expressed regr [...]
2009-01-23 16:23:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KJUS PHUM PL
09WARSAW782POLISH PARLIAMENTARY LEADER: "COMMUNICATION" KEY
[...] (C) Newly elected Chairman of the Sejm Foreign Affairs Committee Andrzej Halicki (Civic Platform, PO) told the Ambassador July 28 that communication between the U.S. and Poland was key to maintaining excellent bilateral relations. His remark came in the context of prospective ratification of [...]
2009-07-29 15:00:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MARR PHUM PINR PL
09WARSAW788POLAND'S INITIATIVES TO COUNTER TORTURE
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Polish government and non-governmental organizations actively engage in activities which aim at preventing torture and protecting victims both in country and abroad. The GOP's initiative on counter-torture activities notwithstanding, allegations about the existence of CIA secret [...]
2009-07-31 12:02:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL PGOV EUN PL
09WARSAW79POLISH DEFENSE BUDGET UNDER PRESSURE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Falling government revenues and GDP projections, overdue payments to defense contractors, and uncertainty over the effects of the global economic situation have combined to put Poland's defense budget under considerable pressure. Although defense funding for 2009 represents si [...]
2009-01-23 16:31:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL MCAP MARR NATO PL
09WARSAW798POLAND: MTCR PLENARY PARTICIPATION UNCERTAIN
[...] (C) Monika Lipert, First Secretary in the MFA's Nonproliferation and Disarmament Division told us it was uncertain whether the GOP would send a representative from Warsaw to participate in the November 9-13 Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) plenary in Rio. Due to increasingly tight bud [...]
2009-08-05 12:55:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALMTCRE PARM PREL MNUC ETTC KSCA TSPA PINR PL
09WARSAW803POLISH ATTENDANCE AT 64TH UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-06 13:35:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL OTRA OVIP KSEP CVIS UNGA PL
09WARSAW805GAY RIGHTS IN POLAND: LONG ROAD AHEAD
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The greater part of Polish society remains negatively disposed toward homosexuality. Mainstream and extremist media, the educational system, and the Catholic Church all contribute in some form to homophobia in Polish society. Gays and lesbians face discrimination in the educa [...]
2009-08-07 06:47:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV PL
09WARSAW81POLISH FOREIGN MINISTER'S KYIV "BUSINESS" VISIT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The media mischaracterized FM Radoslaw Sikorski's January 15-16 trip to Ukraine as an effort to resolve the Russia-Ukraine gas dispute, according to an MFA read-out. It was instead a long-planned trip to resolve "thorny" bilateral issues, particularly in the economic area. The [...]
2009-01-26 11:26:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON RS UK PL
09WARSAW82LAW AND JUSTICE (PIS) TO PRESENT "NEW FACE" AT
[...] SUMMARY: With a new media strategy and a new platform designed to present a "complete party" to Polish voters, members of the opposition Law and Justice (PiS) are increasingly confident about their prospects for success in June 2009 elections to the European Parliament -- widely advertised a [...]
2009-01-26 11:59:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PL
09WARSAW833POLAND TO CONSIDER NATIONAL STATEMENT CONDEMNING
[...] (C) The Polish government will consider issuing a national statement condemning this week's conviction of Aung San Suu Kyi (ASSK). Danuta Bolimowska of the MFA's Asia-Pacific Department said Poland had strongly endorsed the EU's statement but thought a separate statement would convey more fu [...]
2009-08-13 14:21:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL BM PL
09WARSAW853POLAND INTERESTED IN BIOTERRORISM EXERCISE IN
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-20 13:56:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDPTER KBIO NATO PL
09WARSAW854POLISH PROPERTY COMPENSATION LEGISLATION STALLED
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The GoP is unlikely to introduce promised private property compensation -- including to Holocaust survivors -- any time soon. Ambassador Maciej Kozlowski, the MFA's liaison to the Jewish community, continues to repeat the surprising argument that Polish compensation legislation [...]
2009-08-20 14:24:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV PL
09WARSAW855NINTH US-POLISH SOFA PLENARY MAKES PROGRESS,
[...] (SBU) U.S. and Polish delegations made good progress during Round Nine of U.S.-Poland SOFA negotiations held in Warsaw August 18-20, and addressed in-depth core differences in areas of taxation, criminal jurisdiction, claims, and burden-sharing. Deputy Defense Minister Stanislaw Komorowski a [...]
2009-08-21 06:59:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PM MAPP MARR PL
09WARSAW860POLAND - LACK OF VISION IN FIGHTING CORRUPTION?
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Since taking office in November 2007, the Tusk Government has been faulted by the opposition, NGOs, and the media for not making the fight against corruption a top priority. Recent surveys suggest Poles are as concerned as ever about corruption, despite notable progress over the [...]
2009-08-21 12:27:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM ECON KCOR PL
09WARSAW873POLES APPRECIATE BRIEFING ON U.S.-COLOMBIA DEFENSE
[...] (C) Ewa Kinast, Deputy Director of the MFA's Americas Department, appreciated reftel clarification of the U.S.-Colombia Defense Cooperation Agreement, but otherwise had no comment. 2. (C) In general, Kinast said Warsaw was impressed with the "evident" progress that Colombia had made under [...]
2009-08-27 16:15:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALMARR PREL CO PL
09WARSAW875SCENESETTER FOR PRESIDENTIAL DELEGATION TO POLAND
[...] (SBU) Mission Poland warmly welcomes your upcoming visit to Poland to commemorate the outbreak of World War II 70 years ago. Your trip comes at a key moment as Poland, Germany, Russia, and their neighbors work to put behind them controversial historical memories that have mired their relations [...]
2009-08-28 11:37:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV RS UP GM PL
09WARSAW876RETHINKING U.S. FORCE REDUCTIONS IN EUROPE: VIEW
[...] (S) SUMMARY: Embassy Warsaw believes there would be a strong, negative Polish reaction to major U.S. force reductions in Europe. From Poland,s perspective, a big drawdown would be seen as evidence that the U.S. is less committed to European security at a time of heightened concern over the int [...]
2009-08-28 12:25:00Embassy WarsawSECRET//NOFORNMARR MOPS NATO PINS PREL PTER PL
09WARSAW879POLISH MFA OPTIMISTIC ABOUT PUTIN VISIT AND
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Despite controversy sparked by a recent Russian documentary about Poland's alleged alliance with Nazi Germany in the run-up to World War II, the Polish MFA appears to be upbeat about Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's scheduled visit to Poland for the September 1 commemoration in Gda [...]
2009-08-28 14:48:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPL PREL RS
09WARSAW881POLAND WELCOMES EFFORTS TO ENHANCE GICNT
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-28 15:29:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDPARM PREL PTER KGIC PL
09WARSAW894POLISH DEFENSE MINISTER PLACES CONDITIONS ON
[...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. While at the International Defense Trade Show in Kielce August 31, Polish Defense Minister Bogdan Klich pointedly told U.S. vendors that Poland and the United States needed to improve their political relationship, or Poland would look to Europe and other suppliers su [...]
2009-09-02 11:04:00Embassy WarsawSECRETPREL MAPP MARR PL
09WARSAW896POLAND UNDECIDED ON WHETHER TO FILE ORAL ICJ BRIEF
[...] (C) Polish MFA is divided on the issue of filing an oral ICJ brief in support of Kosovo. Legal Department advisors are arguing in favor of the U.S. position, while the Central and South Europe and Eastern Departments want to take relations with regional partners such as Serbia and Russia int [...]
2009-09-02 19:34:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL AORC ICJ KVIR PL
09WARSAW897POLAND: CONCERNED ABOUT MIDDLE EAST AND IAEA
[...] (C) Szymon Bochenski of the Polish MFA's Security Department told us on August 25 that Poland shares U.S. concerns that the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) General Conference (GC) is becoming mired in an overly politicized Arab-Israeli debate on the Middle East issue which is distrac [...]
2009-09-02 19:38:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALAORC PREL PARM KNNP IAEA EG IS
09WARSAW912POLISH VIEWS ON SEPTEMBER 4-5 GYMNICH
[...] (C) SUMMARY. In the run-up to the September 4-5 EU Gymnich meeting, Cyryl Kozaczewski, the Deputy Director of the MFA's EU Department, told us that Poland will advocate increased EU coordination with the U.S. on the Isaeli-Palestinian peace process and targeted assistance to Afghanistan. Polan [...]
2009-09-04 14:15:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM EFIN EAID AF IS PK IR
09WARSAW915POLAND'S VIEW ON UNAPPROVED BIOTECH VARIETIES IN U.S.
[...] Summary. Poland likely supports, or will abstain from voting, on suspended U.S. soybean shipments due to the EU zero tolerance for unapproved biotech varieties -- if the September 7 Ag Ministers Council meeting discusses the issue. End summary. 2. August 28, Ag Counselor delivered reftel [...]
2009-09-04 15:00:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ECON ETRD PL
09WARSAW916PUTIN-TUSK MEETING CONCILIATORY BUT AWKWARD
[...] (C) SUMMARY. A Polish MFA official described Russian Prime Minister Putin's September 1 visit to Gdansk as generally positive, but added that there were occasional "cumbersome moments," particularly during Tusk's bilateral meeting with Polish PM Tusk. Although Putin told Tusk that the killin [...]
2009-09-04 15:34:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL RS PL
09WARSAW930POLES INTENT ON SHAPING NATO'S REVISED STRATEGIC
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Poland has high expectations for the upcoming revision of NATO's Strategic Concept (SC). Since joining NATO ten years ago, Poles believe they have paid their expeditionary dues in the Balkans and Afghanistan, and will insist that the Alliance now focus more attention on its tra [...]
2009-09-10 13:14:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL MCAP MARR NATO PL
09WARSAW931POLAND INTERESTED IN COORDINATED APPROACH TO SRI
[...] (C) Anna Krzak-Danel, Sri Lanka desk officer in the MFA's Asia-Pacific Department, welcomed reftel points on IDP freedom of movement and said they would be helpful in developing Poland's position for the upcoming EU debate. To this end, Krzak-Danel said Sri Lanka had fallen off next week's G [...]
2009-09-10 15:30:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PREF PTER MASS SOCI EAID CE PL
09WARSAW932POLISH APPROACH TO CFE SIMILAR TO U.S.
[...] (C) Officials at the MFA Security Policy Department appreciated reftel debriefing on bilateral U.S.-Russia CFE discussions and look forward to a more detailed discussion at next week's High Level Task Force (HLTF) meeting. GOP views on resolving the current impasse with Russia parallel U.S. [...]
2009-09-10 15:44:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALKCFE PARM PREL NATO PL
09WARSAW934POLISH VIEWS ON SEPTEMBER 14-15 GAERC
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Poland strongly supports increased EU engagement in Afghanistan, including more resources for civilian reconstruction and the EUPOL police training mission. The Poles appreciate the Swedish Presidency's efforts to elaborate a comprehensive, far-reaching EU strategy for Afghanist [...]
2009-09-11 10:53:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM EFIN EAID KNNP IR PK AF CE PL
09WARSAW938POLAND SUPPORTS U.S. ON NONPROLIFERATION ISSUES
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Poland strongly backs the U.S. administration's efforts to strengthen nuclear nonproliferation mechanisms and move forward on arms control negotiations. In particular, Polish MFA officials view the 2010 Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference as an opportunity to strengthe [...]
2009-09-11 13:50:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALAORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA
09WARSAW940 POLISH FORMIN OUTLINES EVOLVING RELATIONS WITH U.S.
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In recent remarks to the media, FM Sikorski suggested that Poland is a regional partner of the U.S., but only the EU has the scale and resources to be America's strategic partner. Sikorski argued that Poland should support deeper EU integration, Lisbon Treaty ratification, and a [...]
2009-09-12 07:03:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PARM NATO PL
09WARSAW950SCENESETTER FOR JUSTICE SCALIA'S SEPTEMBER 23-25
[...] (SBU) Mr. Justice, Mission Poland warmly welcomes your September 23-25 visit to Warsaw. Your trip comes on the heels of ceremonies in Gdansk marking the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of World War II -- one of many important commemorations this year, including the 20th anniversary of 1989 e [...]
2009-09-15 14:27:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PHUM KJUS PL
09WARSAW966POLAND READY TO EXPAND THE CHORUS ON IRAN
[...] (C) The GoP fully agrees with reftel views and believes that Iranian authorities are running out of time to engage in a substantive, comprehensive dialogue with the West. MFA Iran desk officer Piotr Kozlowski told us Poland would do what it could to persuade Iran to be more forthcoming rega [...]
2009-09-18 15:16:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALKNNP MNUC PARM IAEA PREL AORC IR PL
09WARSAW97BEEF HORMONES: POLES LOOKING FOR A DEAL
[...] (U) This is an action request. See para 10. 2. (C) Summary: On instructions from the government of Prime Minister Tusk, officials from the Polish Agriculture Ministry asked EMBOFFS January 29 what concrete steps Poland could take to have its products removed from the retaliation list in [...]
2009-01-29 16:53:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD EUN EAGR PL EU
09WARSAW971POLAND: UNGA WALKOUT REDLINES
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-21 15:53:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL UNGA PL
09WARSAW983POLES CAUTIOUS BUT OPEN-MINDED ON U.S. MD PROPOSAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY. In the face of overwhelmingly negative press coverage, Polish officials' initial skepticism regarding the new U.S. offer on Missile Defense (MD) has evolved slightly to a posture of wait-and-see (but not too long). Both FM Sikorski and PM Tusk have issued guardedly encouraging p [...]
2009-09-23 16:18:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR PL
09WARSAW985REPAIRING U.S.-POLISH RELATIONS
[...] (C) As I conclude my five years as U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Poland, I offer some final thoughts on how to put U.S.-Polish relations back on an upward trajectory after several weeks of bumps. It is worth the effort. The Poles are like family - not shy about pointing out perceived sl [...]
2009-09-24 08:53:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CVIS PL
10WARSAW100NO DECISION ON POLISH PEACEKEEPERS IN HAITI
[...] (C) Poland has not yet decided to deploy peacekeeping or law enforcement personnel to Haiti. A GOP decision will probably not occur earlier than next week and will likely be made within the broader context of EU initiatives related to Haiti assistance efforts. Iwona Krzeszewska and Katarzyna [...]
2010-02-17 07:35:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL MCAP MARR EFIN EAID HA PL
10WARSAW109AMBASSADOR MEETS GENERAL STAFF CHIEF GAGOR
[...] (C) Summary: Chief of the General Staff Franciszek Gagor emphasized the importance to Poland that the first Patriot missile battery rotation take place in April in a February 19 meeting with the Ambassador. Gagor said it was his judgment that after the first rotation in Morag, it made militar [...]
2010-02-22 15:55:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MOPS PGOV PL
10WARSAW110AMBASSADOR MEETS DEFENSE MINISTER KLICH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Defense Minister Bogdan Klich told the Ambassador on February 18 that Poland is eager to see the fruits of bilateral defense cooperation, which he described as based on a solid political foundation. He emphasized the importance to Poland of an April arrival of the first Patriot battery [...]
2010-02-22 16:12:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MOPS PGOV PL
10WARSAW111POLISH EXPECTATIONS ON BELARUS "TORPEDOED"
[...] (C) SUMMARY. MFA officials say that Polish expectations for improved relations with Minsk were "torpedoed" by Belarus's recent seizure of a Polish cultural center in Iwieniec and the detention of several dozen Polish activists. One official characterized FM Sikorski's February 12 tete-a-tete [...]
2010-02-22 17:52:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALBO PGOV PHUM PL PREL
10WARSAW112POLAND - CIVIC PLATFORM PRIMARY GIVES SIKORSKI A
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Civic Platform's (PO) decision to break with longstanding Polish tradition and hold primary elections to decide the party's nominee for president has created an opening for FM Radoslaw Sikorski, one of two declared candidates for the nomination. While the majority of party membe [...]
2010-02-22 18:24:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PL
10WARSAW113POLAND TO CONSIDER NEGATIVE VOTE ON GOLDSTONE
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-22 18:25:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL UNGA IO PL
10WARSAW116POLAND LIKELY TO INCREASE CONTRIBUTION TO AFGHAN
[...] (C) Warsaw plans to step up its contribution for training Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) but has not cleared with the interagency an announcement for the February 23 extraordinary force generation conference at SHAPE. Ambassador Jerzy Wieclaw of the MFA Asia-Pacific Department said a [...]
2010-02-23 10:55:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALMASS MCAP NATO PREL AF PL
10WARSAW117POLES BELIEVE EU ARMS EMBARGO AGAINST CHINA WILL
[...] (C) The GoP believes that the EU's arms embargo against China will remain intact despite recent comments suggesting that the Spanish EU Presidency might be interested in changing it (reftel). Pawel Milewski of the MFA's Asia-Pacific Department discounted reports that the EU position would ch [...]
2010-02-23 13:42:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM EU CH PL
10WARSAW121POLES AGREE WITH US APPROACH ON TEHRAN RESEARCH
[...] (C) Poland supports the U.S. approach on the Tehran Research Reactor (reftel),but questions how long the international community must continue to wait for Iranian authorities to respond more positively to Western engagement on the nuclear issue. Grzegorz Olszak, Chief of the MFA's Arab Stat [...]
2010-02-24 15:32:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALKNNP MNUC PARM PINR IR PL
10WARSAW15SENATE SPEAKER BORUSEWICZ: U.S. CAN COUNT ON
[...] (C) SUMMARY. In his first meeting with Senate Speaker Bogdan Borusewicz (Civic Platform, PO),Ambassador Feinstein heard that the Speaker believes that U.S.-Polish relations had entered a new phase and stressed that the United States could "count on Poland" in Afghanistan. "It is immensely i [...]
2010-01-07 12:43:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PL
10WARSAW17POLAND - WILL PM TUSK RUN FOR PRESIDENT?
[...] (C) SUMMARY: PM Donald Tusk has said his Civic Platform (PO) party will not decide until March on its candidate for the fall 2010 presidential elections. Although he is the overwhelming favorite, Tusk is seen to be buying time to help assure victory, having lost the presidential election in [...]
2010-01-07 17:24:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREF PL
10WARSAW28REPLY TO FREEDOM OF INFORMATION REQUEST ACT 200904008
[...] In response to the FOIA Request for copies of documents from September 1, 2004 to August 31, 2008, relating to the extradition of a Polish citizen, Mariusz David Malyszczycki, Embassy Warsaw and Consulate General Krakow searched their respective files and found no such documents. The search too [...]
2010-01-13 10:10:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDAINF PL
10WARSAW38POLES INSIST CONDITIONALITY KEY TO SUCCESSFUL
[...] (C) Polish officials firmly believe that Afghan military and law enforcement personnel must be fully capable of assuming responsibility for security during upcoming transitions before ISAF forces depart. Tomasz Lekarski, Deputy Director of the MFA's Security Policy Department, said he would [...]
2010-01-15 15:38:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALMARR MOPS NATO PREL AF PL
10WARSAW43PM-ADVISOR BARTOSZEWSKI DISCUSSES PLANS FOR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a January 19 meeting with Ambassador Feinstein, Wladyslaw Bartoszewski, PM Tusk's Plenipotentiary for Polish-Jewish Dialogue and chair of the International Auschwitz Council, confirmed that Polish President Kaczynski, Polish PM Tusk, European Parliament President Buzek, and Is [...]
2010-01-19 18:00:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PL
10WARSAW48FORMER PM BIELECKI ON U.S.-POLAND ECONOMIC
[...] (SBU) Former PM Jan Bielecki met with Ambassador Feinstein to discuss Poland's economy, its progression through the financial crisis, and its transition over the past twenty years. At the Ambassador's urging, Bielecki also assessed the U.S. role in Poland's economic transformation, and the p [...]
2010-01-21 11:20:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALEINV ECON EFIN PL
10WARSAW51POLAND'S ASSOCIATION WITH THE COPENHAGEN ACCORD
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-21 17:42:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG PL KGHG SENV
10WARSAW52POLAND: REQUEST FOR THE TEMPORARY TRANSFER OF
[...] On January 20, 2010, Post delivered reftel demarche to the Department of Consular Affairs at the Polish Ministry of the Foreign Affairs, in the form of a Diplomatic Note No. C-00420, together with the supporting documents received via FedEX. A scanned copy of the dipnote was sent by email to [...]
2010-01-22 08:03:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDCJAN CVIS SNAR KCRM
10WARSAW54INVITATION TO PRT CONFERENCE IN PRAGUE PASSED TO
[...] Poland does not officially have a counterpart to the Deputy Special Representative for Afghanistan/Pakistan, but Ambassador Jerzy Wieclaw of the MFA's Asia-Pacific Department would be a rough equivalent. Ambassador Wieclaw would very much like to take part in the Deputy SRAP meeting, and aske [...]
2010-01-22 15:41:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDPREL MCAP NATO AF PL
10WARSAW55POLES SUPPORT US GOALS FOR LONDON CONFERENCE ON
[...] (C) The Polish Government fully supports U.S. objectives for the London Conference on Afghanistan, according to Ambassador Jerzy Wieclaw, of the MFA's Asia-Pacific Department. Wieclaw told PolCouns that international media may indeed distort the transition planning process to suggest that I [...]
2010-01-22 17:10:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON EFIN PL
10WARSAW58POLISH VIEWS ON JANUARY 25-26 EU FOREIGN AFFAIRS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Poland's EU Correspondent predicted the January 25-26 Foreign Affairs Council would focus mainly on EU assistance to Haiti, an area where new HighRep Ashton seems to have carved out a leading role. Poland supports Spanish Presidency plans to enhance EU engagement with Afghanista [...]
2010-01-25 15:46:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM EUN PL
10WARSAW62POLAND'S PM TUSK - NOT RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT
[...] (C) In a hastily arranged press conference this morning, Prime Minister Donald Tusk (Civic Platform, PO) announced he will not run for president. Pundits and party insiders had speculated for some time that Tusk was reconsidering a second run for the presidency (reftel),after his defeat to i [...]
2010-01-28 17:39:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL PL
10WARSAW65POLISH MFA ON UKRAINIAN ELECTION: MIXED
[...] (C) SUMMARY. A Polish MFA official assessed the first round of Ukraine's presidential election as a "stunning success," but emphasized that Tymoshenko and Yanukovych must still be pressed to "respect the democratic process" in the second round. She also criticized Ukrainian President Yushchenk [...]
2010-02-01 07:04:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPGOV PL PREL UP
10WARSAW67POLAND SUPPORTS INCREASED PRESSURE ON IRAN
[...] (C) Poland is prepared to increase pressure on Tehran in a bid to thwart Iran's efforts to build an indigenous nuclear weapons capability. Stanislaw Gulinski, filling in for regular MFA Iran desk officer Piotr Kozlowski, agreed with points in reftel demarche that it was time to step up the pr [...]
2010-02-03 10:54:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL UNSC PL IR
10WARSAW7POLAND: VICE PRESIDENT BIDEN'S ROUNDTABLE WITH
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In an October 21 meeting with the Vice President, a diverse group of Polish civil society representatives, including organizations active in promoting democratic transformation and empowerment of women and minorities, emphasized Poland's efforts to share its successful transform [...]
2010-01-05 12:07:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM KDEM PL
10WARSAW72POLAND: RECOMMENDATIONS FOR IRAN UNIVERSAL
[...] (C) In advance of Iran's February 15 Universal Periodic Review (UPR),Poland submitted a list of four written questions to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. The questions, copied below, cover the violence surrounding the June 12 elections, detainees' access to legal representation, an [...]
2010-02-04 15:29:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL UN IR PL
10WARSAW90POLAND/ISRAEL - PM NETANYAHU VISIT REINFORCES
[...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: Israeli Embassy officials were impressed with the strong personal chemistry between Tusk and Netanyahu during the latter's January 26-27 visit to Poland. The Israeli PM reportedly left with a much deeper understanding of extensive Polish-Israeli security cooperation. Netanyah [...]
2010-02-09 18:02:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PHUM KNNP EFIN PGOV IR IS PL
10WARSAW94U/S TAUSCHER MEETS FM SIKORSKI, MOD KLICH
[...] (C) SUMMARY. During February 8 meetings with Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Ellen Tauscher and Ambassador Lee Feinstein, Foreign Minister Sikorski and Defense Minister Klich said they were pleased with the successful completion of the protocol amending the Ball [...]
2010-02-10 14:13:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALAF CH IR IZ MARR NATO PARM PL PREL RS
10WARSAW9665TH ANNIVERSARY OF AUSCHWITZ LIBERATION
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Polish government officials addressed Jewish and Polish suffering in ceremonies marking the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau. FCC Chairman Julius M. Genachowski, who led the U.S. Presidential Delegation, participated in a Holocaust education conference [...]
2010-02-12 17:20:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL PGOV IS PL
10WARSAW97POLISH RESPONSE TO DISTRACTED DRIVING DEMARCHE
[...] On February 4, Econ Officer spoke with Andrzej Grzegorczyk, Director of the National Council of Traffic Safety within the Ministry of Infrastructure to deliver reftel demarche. Mr. Grzegorczyk offered general information regarding road safety in Poland and recognized that distracted driving [...]
2010-02-16 08:27:00Embassy WarsawUNCLASSIFIEDECON EUN SOCI UNDP UNGA PL
10WARSAW98OSCE/ODIHR TO S.E. ROSENTHAL: USE ASTANA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Officials from OSCE's Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR) in Warsaw told visiting Special Envoy Hannah Rosenthal that high-level U.S. participation in the OSCE High-Level Conference on Tolerance and Non-Discrimination in June 2010 in Astana would help to r [...]
2010-02-16 15:17:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPHUM OSCE PREL PL
10WARSAW99ANTI-SEMITISM IN POLAND: GRADUAL PROGRESS, BUT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A range of interlocutors told U.S. Special Envoy for Monitoring and Combating Anti-Semitism Hannah Rosenthal during her January 28-29 visit that anti-Semitism in Poland is on the decline, though not as quickly as they hoped. They cited a low incidence of anti-Semitic violence and [...]
2010-02-16 16:34:00Embassy WarsawCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL OSCE IS PL
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