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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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06STOCKHOLM1421SWEDEN'S 9/17 ELECTION: ALTERNATIVE OUTCOMES
[...] (c) Sweden's 9/17 parliamentary election remains a neck-and-neck race (ref A),too close to call. All seven parties currently in parliament appear likely to reach the 4 percent threshold; no newcomers are likely to qualify. This means that the most likely outcomes are either a return of Pri [...]
2006-09-07 14:05:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SW
06STOCKHOLM1424SWEDEN: ATTENDANCE AT NAM SUMMIT IN HAVANA
[...] No summary [...]
2006-09-08 09:30:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL PTER UNGA CU SW
06STOCKHOLM1452LEBANON DONORS CONFERENCE IN STOCKHOLM AUGUST 31
[...] (SBU) Donors pledged 942 million USD in early recovery and humanitarian aid at the August 31 Stockholm Conference for Lebanon,s Early Recovery, nearly double the 500 million target set by the Government of Sweden, which hosted the event. Representatives from 50 countries as well as UN agenci [...]
2006-09-12 13:15:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALEAID PREL LE SW
06STOCKHOLM1489SWEDEN'S SEPTEMBER 17 ELECTIONS
[...] (c) Swedes go to the polls September 17 to elect a new parliament that will decide their government for the next four years. The race has been the tightest Sweden has seen in decades, with opinion polls see-sawing, but mostly giving a slight lead to the opposition "Alliance for Sweden" over [...]
2006-09-15 14:00:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR SW
06STOCKHOLM1501SWEDEN'S ELECTIONS: CENTER/RIGHT ALLIANCE FOR
[...] (c) Sweden voted Social Democrat Prime Minister Goran Persson out of office September 17, giving the mandate to Moderate Fredrik Reinfeldt and the center/right Alliance for Sweden. Reinfeldt is the big winner, with his Moderate party earning a larger vote total than his three Alliance allies [...]
2006-09-18 13:57:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR SW
06STOCKHOLM154SWEDEN: POST-TSUNAMI POLITICS
[...] (c) More than a year after the killer tsunami struck Southeast Asia, the political ripple effects in Sweden continue. A parliamentary committee is currently conducting hearings to which key members of the government, including Prime Minister Persson and Foreign Minister Freivalds, have been [...]
2006-02-02 15:33:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SW
06STOCKHOLM1632SWEDEN'S NEW GOVERNMENT IS NAMED, MAKES POLICY
[...] (c) Fredrick Reinfeldt, who was formally elected Prime Minister by the Swedish parliament on October 5, named his cabinet and gave the new government's statement of policy on October 6. Ministers from Reinfeldt's Moderate Party will lead about half the ministries, including many of the key o [...]
2006-10-06 14:41:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR SW
06STOCKHOLM1646SWEDEN'S NEW PRIME MINISTER, FREDRIK REINFELDT
[...] (u) Fredrik Reinfeldt became Sweden,s Prime Minister October 6, following the victory of a four-party center-right coalition in September parliamentary elections. Reinfeldt,s Moderate party led the coalition; the Moderate party alone won over 26 percent of the total vote. Reinfeldt became th [...]
2006-10-11 11:45:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR SW
06STOCKHOLM180SWEDEN: CONFERENCE ON DEMOCRATIC CHANGE IN CUBA
[...] (sbu) Polcouns attended the February 6-7 Conference "Democratic Change in Cuba: Who are the Actors," which gathered about 100 representatives of NGOs, embassies, and political parties (we have requested an electronic version of the list of participants, and will forward) from around Europe. [...]
2006-02-08 09:50:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL CU SW
06STOCKHOLM189SWEDEN: DEMARCHE ON DEFEATING VENEZUELA IN THE
[...] (c) Polcouns delivered 2/8 reftel demarche in support of Guatemala's candidacy for the Latin American non-permanent seat on the UNSC to MFA Americas Director Hakan Malmquist. On 2/10, the Charge delivered the demarche by telcon to MFA Political Director Olof Skoog. Without saying how the GoS [...]
2006-02-10 12:29:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV UN UNSC GT VE SW
06STOCKHOLM1907SWEDEN: IRAN'S FLAWED ELECTIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2006-12-01 15:24:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM IR SW
06STOCKHOLM192SWEDISH GOV'T PRESSURES COMPANY TO SHUT DOWN
[...] (U) Summary. On February 9 a Swedish internet company shut down a small, right-wing political party website that featured the Jyllands-Posten Mohammed cartoons and planned to publish additional ones. The Swedish government, which beforehand had cautioned the company on the danger the image [...]
2006-02-13 10:02:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PTER SCUL ECPS EINT PINS PROP KPAO KMDR
06STOCKHOLM1921SWEDES ON 11/12 DECEMBER GAERC
[...] (c) Polcouns discussed 12/7 with MFA deputy European Correspondent Niclas Kvarnstrom the 12/11-12 GAERC topics (reftels). Responses are keyed to the agenda items. Turkey/EU Accession ------------------- 2. (c) Sweden considers itself to be one of the most enlargement-friendly countries; [...]
2006-12-08 11:04:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM UNAUS EUN VY SR BK IS LE IR
06STOCKHOLM1922SWEDEN'S GOALS FOR POST-KYOTO CLIMATE COOPERATION
[...] Summary: Ambassador Wood met with Sweden's new Minister of Environment, Mr. Andreas Carlgren, for the first time December 6. Topics of discussion included Sweden's desire to play a leadership role in setting the stage for a post-Kyoto international agreement to combat global warming, Ambassad [...]
2006-12-08 16:23:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDSENV ENRG KSCA SW
06STOCKHOLM1924IRAQI AMBASSADOR TO SWEDEN CALLS ON AMBASSADOR WOOD
[...] (C) Summary: The Iraqi Ambassador to Sweden, Ahmad Bamarni, visited Ambassador Wood and DCM on December 11 and provided a frank reaction to the Baker/Hamilton report, personal views on the interests of Iran and Syria in Iraq, comments on the sectarian violence, the role of U.S. forces, and the [...]
2006-12-11 14:09:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL SW
06STOCKHOLM196SWEDISH GOV'T PRESSURES COMPANY TO SHUT DOWN
[...] (U) Summary. On February 9 a Swedish internet company shut down a small, right-wing political party website that featured the Jyllands-Posten Mohammed cartoons and planned to publish additional ones. The Swedish government, which beforehand had cautioned the company on the danger the images [...]
2006-02-13 13:33:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PTER SCUL ECPS EINT PINS PROP KPAO KMDR
06STOCKHOLM198SWEDISH GOV'T PRESSURES COMPANY TO SHUT DOWN
[...] (U) Summary. On February 9 a Swedish internet company shut down a small, right-wing political party website that featured the Jyllands-Posten Mohammed cartoons and planned to publish additional ones. The Swedish government, which beforehand had cautioned the company on the danger the images [...]
2006-02-13 13:34:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PTER SCUL ECPS EINT PINS PROP KPAO KMDR
06STOCKHOLM214SWEDEN'S 2005 REPORTS ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN VENEZUELA
[...] (C) We reported via reftel (A) Sweden's preliminary response to our demarche on defeating Venezuela in the 2006 election for a seat on the UNSC. Sweden has not reached a decision on which candidate country to support, and has left the door open to a Venezuelan seat, depending in part on Chav [...]
2006-02-16 08:26:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL KPAL EUN KDEM VE SW
06STOCKHOLM224SWEDEN: FOREIGN POLICY PRIORITIES IN AN ELECTION
[...] (u) Foreign Minister Laila Freivalds outlined 2/15 GoS priorities during the annual plenary foreign policy session of parliament, sparking pointed exchanges with the opposition as each side sought to lay down pre-election markers. Sweden's relationship to NATO and the U.S. were prominently fe [...]
2006-02-17 16:19:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SW
06STOCKHOLM234SWEDEN ON RELATIONS WITH HAMAS
[...] (c) MFA Director for the Near East and North Africa Peter Tejler told us 2/22 that while Sweden hewed to the common line of the Quartet and the EU on the message to and contacts with Hamas, there was need for a strategy that went beyond "high-pitched" public diplomacy. Sweden's Palestinian a [...]
2006-02-22 14:59:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER SW IS
06STOCKHOLM235 SWEDEN'S IMMIGRANTS' DISPROPORTIONATELY HIGH
[...] (SBU) Summary. Two recent GoS reports show immigrants in Sweden to be overrepresented in crime and sick leave statistics, which are interpreted as being indicators of integration shortcomings. The level of attention applied to the issue of integration stands to increase as we approach the S [...]
2006-02-22 15:45:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSOCI PINS PGOV KCRM ASEC SW
06STOCKHOLM393SWEDEN: FOREIGN MINISTER FREIVALDS RESIGNS
[...] (u) Prime Minister Goran Persson announced at a press conference March 21 the resignation of Foreign Minister Laila Freivalds. Persson named Deputy Prime Minister Bosse Ringholm as her "temporary" replacement. FM Freivalds had been scheduled to meet with Secretary Rice April 21. State Secr [...]
2006-03-21 16:06:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SW
06STOCKHOLM420SWEDEN: BELARUS VISA BANS
[...] (c) Polcouns made reftel demarche on expanding travel restriction against Belarus officials to MFA Eastern Europe Director Malena Mard. Mard said that prior to the elections in Belarus, Sweden had been reluctant to play the visa card. The election and its aftermath had changed the equation, a [...]
2006-03-24 16:05:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM CVIS EUN BO SW
06STOCKHOLM426SWEDEN: JAN ELIASSON NAMED FOREIGN MINISTER
[...] (u) Prime Minister Goran Persson named 3/27 former Ambassador to the U.S. and current President of the UNGA Jan Eliasson to be the new Foreign Minister. Eliasson replaces Bosse Ringholm, who was named March 21 as the "temporary" Foreign Minister, following the resignation of Laila Freivalds [...]
2006-03-27 11:10:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SW
06STOCKHOLM427SWEDEN: JAN ELIASSON NAMED FOREIGN MINISTER
[...] No summary [...]
2006-03-27 11:10:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SW
06STOCKHOLM527SWEDEN: THE NEW POST "CIA PLANES" REALITY --
[...] (c) What could have been a routine diplomatic flight clearance for a 4/4 Department of Homeland Security deportation "ICE" flight to land briefly and refuel in Sweden enroute to final destinations in the Middle East developed into an urgent situation when late in the game Swedish authorities [...]
2006-04-18 13:32:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL EAIR MARR PGOV PINR SW
06STOCKHOLM54SWEDEN & DISAPPEARING CHINESE CHILDREN
[...] (U) Summary. Since November 2004, 120 Chinese children have disappeared from Swedish immigration centers. In all cases the children arrived in Stockholm via air from Beijing or Moscow, immediately asked for political asylum, and within days disappeared while their cases were pending. Swedi [...]
2006-01-13 15:33:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALKCRM PHUM SMIG KFRD CVIS SW
06STOCKHOLM55SWEDEN: MFA POLDIR ON REPORTING IRAN TO THE
[...] (c) Charge d'Affaires a.i. Noble delivered ref A demarche January 13 to MFA Political Director Olof Skoog, seeking Sweden's support as an IAEA Board member for a proposed emergency meeting of the Board, with the purpose of reporting Iran to the UNSC. Charge underscored that Iran had been fo [...]
2006-01-13 16:46:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALKNNP PARM PREL IR EU AORC
06STOCKHOLM59SWEDEN: MFA POLDIR ON REPORTING IRAN TO THE
[...] (c) Charge d'Affaires a.i. Noble delivered ref A demarche January 13 to MFA Political Director Olof Skoog, seeking Sweden's support as an IAEA Board member for a proposed emergency meeting of the Board, with the purpose of reporting Iran to the UNSC. Charge underscored that Iran had been fo [...]
2006-01-17 08:25:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALKNNP PARM PREL IR EU AORC
06STOCKHOLM60SWEDEN: MFA POLDIR ON REPORTING IRAN TO THE
[...] (c) Charge d'Affaires a.i. Noble delivered ref A demarche January 13 to MFA Political Director Olof Skoog, seeking Sweden's support as an IAEA Board member for a proposed emergency meeting of the Board, with the purpose of reporting Iran to the UNSC. Charge underscored that Iran had been fo [...]
2006-01-17 08:25:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALKNNP PARM PREL IR EU AORC
06STOCKHOLM913UPCOMING PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS A DEAD HEAT; LEFT
[...] (sbu) Recent opinion polls show the Social Democrats (SDP) and their Green and Left support parties have closed the gap with the opposition alliance; the parliamentary elections now look to be a dead heat. The Green and Left parties have claimed the right to a more influential role within a [...]
2006-06-21 12:23:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SW
06STOCKHOLM934SWEDEN: SUPPORT FOR NICARAGUAN PRESIDENTIAL
[...] (u) See Action Request Para 2. 2. (c) Polcouns made 6/21 reftel demarche seeking support for Nicaraguan presidential elections to MFA Desk Officer for Nicaragua Carolina Benedictsson. Sweden supports an EU election observation mission, Benedictsson said, adding that a Swedish representat [...]
2006-06-22 14:28:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALAORC KDEM NU PGOV PREL SW
06STOCKHOLM935SWEDEN: DEMARCHE REGARDING VENEZUELAN ANTI-NGO LAW
[...] No summary [...]
2006-06-22 15:29:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM VE EAID SW
06STOCKHOLM941SWEDEN: DEMARCHE ON UN REFORM AND LIFTING THE
[...] No summary [...]
2006-06-27 14:14:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL AMGT AORC EU EUN UNGA SW
06STOCKHOLM952SWEDEN: AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH MODERATE PARTY
[...] (c) Ambassador, accompanied by Polcouns, met June 26 with Moderate Party leader Fredrik Reinfeldt, the virtual shadow Prime Minister of the center-right (in the left-skewed Swedish spectrum) opposition. Reinfeldt, who took the lead in forming the opposition's Alliance for Sweden, said the Se [...]
2006-06-28 15:50:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR ELAB SW
07STOCKHOLM1008THE CASE OF RELIGIOUS PRISONER SON JONG-NAM:
[...] (c) Polcouns met August 15 with MFA Special Adviser for the Korean Peninsula Ambassador Paul Beijer regarding Son Jong-Nam. Beijer said that Sweden was aware of the case and had, more than a year ago, intervened bilaterally and through the EU on behalf of Son Jong-Nam. Sweden and various oth [...]
2007-08-21 14:02:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM KN KS EXIM PGOV SW
07STOCKHOLM1019SWEDISH VIEW ON SECURING PERMANENT OBSERVER STATUS
[...] (C) Polcouns discussed 8/17 reftel proposal to secure Permanent Observer status in the International Contact Group on Somalia (ICG) with MFA Special Adviser for the Horn of Africa Ambassador Marika Fahlen. Fahlen, who is Sweden's representative to the ICG, had no objection to the participati [...]
2007-08-22 11:53:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SW SO
07STOCKHOLM1038UPDATE ON SWEDISH FOREIGN MINISTER BILDT'S
[...] No summary [...]
2007-08-24 13:16:00Embassy StockholmSECRETPREL OVIP ASEC PGOV IZ SW
07STOCKHOLM1049BILDT AND IRAQ
[...] (s) Foreign Minister Bildt plans to visit Iraq September 1-2. Bildt is scheduled to meet with PM Maliki, President Talabani, Vice-President Hashemi, FM Zebari, and UN Rep Qazi, as well as Ambassador Crocker. As a preface to Bildt's August 28 DVC with Embassy Baghdad, we provide background an [...]
2007-08-27 14:52:00Embassy StockholmSECRETPREL OVIP ASEC PGOV IZ SW
07STOCKHOLM1055BILDT ON GEORGIA MISSILE INCIDENT FOLLOW-UP,
[...] (c) On August 28, the Ambassador raised the Georgia missile incident and Kosovo with Foreign Minister Bildt in a meeting devoted to other issues. On Georgia, Bildt speculated on the context of the incident and said we need to keep diplomatic pressure on, but that Zuzul was not the right choi [...]
2007-08-29 06:16:00Embassy StockholmSECRETPGOV PREL MOPS GG SR SW
07STOCKHOLM1091DELIVERY OF NON-PAPER ON SEPTEMBER 7-8 INFORMAL EU
[...] No summary [...]
2007-09-05 14:56:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEUN PGOV PREL YI RS CH IN SW
07STOCKHOLM1167SWEDEN ON EU BORDER MISSION FOR LEBANON
[...] No summary [...]
2007-09-18 14:48:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SW SY IS LE EUN
07STOCKHOLM1169PARTNERSHIP FOR DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE: SWEDEN'S
[...] No summary [...]
2007-09-19 09:31:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDKDEM EAID PREL PGOV SW
07STOCKHOLM1176SWEDEN SEEKS U.S. COOPERATION IN EVALUATING
[...] (s) Sweden has requested U.S. assistance in evaluating requirements for the deployment of the Sweden-led EU Nordic Battlegroup, scheduled to be operational January 1, 2008. At the MFA's request, we met September 18 with MFA Americas Director Hakan Malmqvist and a Swedish interagency group in [...]
2007-09-19 14:47:00Embassy StockholmSECRETPREL PGOV NATO MARR MASS MOPS SW
07STOCKHOLM1209AMBASSADOR'S SEPTEMBER 19 MEETING WITH JUSTICE
[...] (C) The Ambassador, accompanied by RSO and Poloff, met September 19 with Minister of Justice Beatrice Ask. Ask said Sweden has increased its budget for counterterrorism activities, noted there are good prospects for passing pending legislation on wiretapping and bugging, underscored Sweden's l [...]
2007-09-26 15:20:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALKJUS PREL ASEC SW
07STOCKHOLM1239SWEDEN'S POLITICAL DIRECTOR ON IRAQ, IRAN,
[...] (c) During an October 4 tour d'horizon, MFA Political Director Bjorn Lyrvall reviewed Sweden's meetings on the margins of the UNGA and its activities and views on key issues: -- Afghanistan. Sweden is considering a proposal from the Finns for the Finns to take over command of the Mazar e [...]
2007-10-05 15:38:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SW AF CY BM IR IZ YI SU CD
07STOCKHOLM1266DEMARCHE ON IRAN FOR OCTOBER 15-16 GAERC
[...] (c) On October 12, DCM made reftel demarche urging EU autonomous measures on Iran to MFA Political Director Bjorn Lyrvall, who said he would immediately pass our message to Foreign Minister Bildt. Lyrvall said there had been tough discussions at the level of the COREPER (Committee of Permane [...]
2007-10-12 16:10:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALEUN PGOV PREL IR XF SW
07STOCKHOLM1277SWEDEN'S DEFENSE MINISTER ON AFGHANISTAN, BUDGET
[...] (c) During a one-on-one October 15 meeting, Minister of Defense Tolgfors told Ambassador: -- Finland proposed the possibility of a rotation of the leadership of the PRT in Mazar-e-Sharif Afghanistan. Sweden did not see this as a way of removing itself from its obligation there. -- Swede [...]
2007-10-16 14:09:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALMARR MOPS PREL OTRA PGOV SW
07STOCKHOLM1311SWEDEN: SUPPORTING ARGENTINA'S REQUEST FOR
[...] No summary [...]
2007-10-26 09:04:00Embassy StockholmSECRETKJUS PTER ASEC PREL PGOV IR SW
07STOCKHOLM1316AMBASSADOR'S OCTOBER 22 MEETING WITH FM BILDT RE
[...] (c) Ambassador met October 22 with Foreign Minister Carl Bildt, reviewing the roles of Sweden and the EU in Iraq, Bildt's November 12-14 trip to the U.S.: Iraq: -- Bildt welcomed a Nov. 1 post-Bahrain MNF-I conference back-brief by NEA DAS Butler and DOD DAS Cagan. -- Sweden supports e [...]
2007-10-26 14:36:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL EUN PGOV IZ BS SR SW
07STOCKHOLM1319SWEDEN: DESIGNATION OF IRANIAN ENTITIES AND
[...] (c) DCM made reftel demarche on designations of Iranian entities, individuals, and banks October 26 to Deputy Foreign Minister Frank Belfrage, urging Sweden to support parallel steps in an EU setting, as part of the package of autonomous measures. Belfrage said Sweden would like to see anothe [...]
2007-10-26 15:39:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL KNNP PARM EFIN IR SW
07STOCKHOLM1352SWEDEN: UNVIE AMBASSADOR SCHULTE'S MEETING WITH FM
[...] (c) On October 30, Ambassador Schulte's and Ambassador Wood's 90-minute exchange with Bildt focused on the international response to Iran,s nuclear ambitions. Ambassador Schulte lunched with journalists and gave a speech hosted by two Swedish think tanks. Ambassador Schulte's disarming and fr [...]
2007-11-05 16:37:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPARM IAEA AORC KNNP PREL PGOV IR IZ SW
07STOCKHOLM1388SWEDEN ON DEMOCRACY IN VENEZUELA
[...] No summary [...]
2007-11-16 16:40:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL SW VE WHA EU
07STOCKHOLM1389SWEDEN ON NOVEMBER 19-20 FOREIGN MINISTERS MEETING
[...] No summary [...]
2007-11-16 17:09:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EUN PK SW CH BM IS LE KV SY ZI
07STOCKHOLM1400REINFELDT, BILDT, AND BORG: MAKING THE COALITION
[...] (C) As Foreign Minister Bildt heads to Washington for the Annapolis Conference -- his third visit to Washington in two months -- we want to provide the domestic context to his new activist Swedish foreign policy. It has been a difficult first year for Prime Minister Fredrick Reinfeldt and the [...]
2007-11-23 11:23:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR SW
07STOCKHOLM1439SWEDEN ON DECEMBER 10-11 EU FOREIGN MINISTERS
[...] (C) On December 7, Poloff met with MFA Deputy European Corespondent Niclas Kvarnstrom regarding December 10 EU Foreign Ministers GAERC meeting (reftel A). Kvarnstrom noted the following: --EU Enlargement and the European Neighborhood Policy (ENP). Sweden is one of the greatest supporters of [...]
2007-12-07 16:57:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SW EU
07STOCKHOLM1445SWEDISH RESPONSE TO USG QUESTIONS ON BANK SEPAH
[...] Summary: Deputy Economic Counselor met with Ambassador/Director General Andreas Ekman and Ladan Moghaddas at the Swedish Inspectorate of Strategic Products (ISP) November 29, 2007. Ekman commented that after the Government of Sweden (GOS) notified the UNSCR 1737 Sanctions Committee on Novembe [...]
2007-12-10 15:37:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP IR PREL PARM SW
07STOCKHOLM1452SWEDEN MAKING PREPARATIONS TO OPEN AN EMBASSY IN
[...] (C) Foreign Minister Bildt told the Ambassador December 11 that Sweden is making preparations to open an Embassy in Iraq, and is considering a bilateral aid mission as well. In a separate meeting with the Prime Minister's Chief of Staff H.G. Wessberg, the Ambassador was told the Finance Minis [...]
2007-12-12 16:31:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV IZ SW
07STOCKHOLM1453BILDT ON KOSOVO
[...] (C) The Ambassador and Foreign Minister Carl Bildt discussed the way forward on Kosovo on December 11. Bildt said 26 of the EU states (except Cyprus) would likely recognize Kosovo independence in some form as early as February, but there were a number of important issues that remained to be [...]
2007-12-12 16:38:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MOPS PHUM PREF YI SW
07STOCKHOLM1454BILDT ON POST-ANNAPOLIS PROCESS
[...] (C) In a December 11 meeting with the Ambassador, Foreign Minister Bildt said: -- Annapolis went better than Europeans expected. America had an opportunity but faced suspicion in taking on the role of honest broker. -- The regional context to the Palestinian/Israeli conflict affected th [...]
2007-12-12 16:40:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV IS IR KPAL
07STOCKHOLM1460PSI 5TH ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE: SAVE THE DATE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-12-14 16:25:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP KSTC PARM PREL SW
07STOCKHOLM1490SWEDEN: DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ACCOUNTABILITY OF JUBA
[...] No summary [...]
2007-12-27 11:00:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PGOV PHUM PREL UG SW
07STOCKHOLM183SWEDEN - INFO ON IRAN CIVIL SOCIETY AND DEMOCRACY
[...] (C) On February 15, Poloffs met with Dag Juhlin-Dannfelt, Deputy Director at the MFA Middle East and North Africa Department, to discuss Sweden's efforts to promote civil society and democracy in Iran. Per reftel, Poloffs shared information on U.S. democratization efforts in Iran. Ulf Lind [...]
2007-02-20 10:01:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EUN KPAO KDEM IR SW
07STOCKHOLM184SWEDEN: NON-PAPER ON ADDITIONAL DESIGNATIONS OF
[...] No summary [...]
2007-02-20 14:31:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP PARM PREL SW
07STOCKHOLM214SWEDEN: DEMARCHE ON MISSILE DEFENSE IN POLAND AND
[...] (c) Polcouns met 2/28 with MFA Deputy Director General for European and Global Security Ambassador Nils Daag regarding negotiations for Poland and the Czech Republic to host U.S. missile defense assets. Daag, whose portfolio has just been expanded to include responsibility for the United Nat [...]
2007-02-28 13:43:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR EZ PL SW
07STOCKHOLM221SWEDEN: EGYPTIAN DEPORTED IN CIA PLANE CASE MAY
[...] (u) The Swedish Government reached and published a decision March 1 overturning their decision of December 18, 2001, expelling from Sweden Mohamed Alzery, one of the Egyptians involved in the much-publicized "CIA Planes" case in Sweden. According to the terms of the decision, Alzery can now [...]
2007-03-01 11:57:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL PGOV SW
07STOCKHOLM223SWEDEN: BILDT CALLS FOR GREATER EU INVOLVEMENT IN
[...] (u) Making reference to participation by key countries in the upcoming conference on the future of Iraq, Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt said the EU and Sweden should, once the security situation improves, make greater contributions toward stabilizing Iraq and supporting the development o [...]
2007-03-01 16:16:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SW IZ
07STOCKHOLM315SWEDEN: REQUEST FOR RESETTLEMENT OF GUANTANAMO
[...] (c) DCM accompanied by Polcouns met 3/23 with MFA Political Director Olof Skoog to urge Sweden to consider resettlement of Guantanamo refugees (refs A and B). Skoog said the GoS would study the request, and noted that Sweden had received and seriously considered (but ultimately declined) a p [...]
2007-03-23 15:32:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PHUM PINR KAWC XG SW
07STOCKHOLM32SWEDEN: HOW FM BILDT'S STOCK OPTIONS AFFECT HIS
[...] (SBU) Post-holiday headlines in Sweden have focused on Foreign Minister Carl Bildt and his recent decision to exercise options in a publicly traded Swedish company, Vostok Nafta, whose main holding is shares of the Russian energy giant Gazprom. Bildt resigned from the board of Vostok Nafta [...]
2007-01-11 08:23:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR SW
07STOCKHOLM350SWEDEN INFORMED OF DESIGNATION OF IRAN'S DIO UNDER
[...] No summary [...]
2007-04-02 14:31:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP PREL PARM SW
07STOCKHOLM368SWEDEN SAYS NO TO ACCEPTING GUANTANAMO DETAINEES
[...] (c) MFA Political Director Olof Skoog told Polcouns 4/5 that the GoS had carefully considered but could not agree to the U.S. request to accept Guantanamo detainees (refs A-D). Skoog said the request had been reviewed by all relevant elements of the Swedish government, and there were compellin [...]
2007-04-05 12:50:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PINR KAWC PTER XG SW
07STOCKHOLM370SWEDEN:
[...] No summary [...]
2007-04-05 13:28:00Embassy StockholmSECRETPTER KTFN PREL PGOV TU IZ SW
07STOCKHOLM506SWEDEN: SCENE-SETTER FOR PRIME MINISTER
[...] (c) The May 15 visit of Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt provides an opportunity to strengthen ties in key areas with a Swedish government that is relatively new to office and better-disposed toward working with the U.S. than its predecessor. Reinfeldt comes from a new political generation a [...]
2007-05-04 15:26:00Embassy StockholmSECRETPREL PGOV SW
07STOCKHOLM545SWEDEN FREEZES ASSETS OF BANK SEPAH AND BANK SEPAH
[...] (S) EconOff discussed reftel demarche 9 May with MFA Iran Desk Officer Jonas Wendel and 10 May with Ms. Mira Naumanen of the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority. According to both, Swedish banks were notified April 23 by the official journal of the EU to freeze all assets in accounts affil [...]
2007-05-10 15:48:00Embassy StockholmSECRETEFIN IR KNNP PARM SW
07STOCKHOLM69SWEDEN: DEMARCHE ON KOSOVO TIMELINE
[...] (c) Polcouns made reftel demarche urging support for Ahtisaari's proposed timeline 1/19 to MFA Deputy Director General and Head of Department for Eastern Europe and Central Asia Ambassador Mats Staffansson, who was joined by Western Balkans Head Lars Wahlund. Polcouns also raised the issue w [...]
2007-01-19 15:20:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL UN UNMIK PGOV YI EU OPDC SW
07STOCKHOLM696SWEDEN DECLINES TO ACCEPT UZBEK NATIONALS SAMADOV
[...] (s) MFA Counterterrorism Coordinator Ambassador Cecilia Ruthstrom-Ruin told Polcouns June 8 that the GoS had reviewed our request to accept Uzbek nationals Yusupov and Samadov (refs A and B) and would not be able to accept them. There was no mechanism, she said, for doing so, and their rese [...]
2007-06-08 13:55:00Embassy StockholmSECRETPGOV PTER KHLS UZ PREL SW
07STOCKHOLM736SWEDEN: DEMARCHE FOR JUNE 18-19 GAERC
[...] (C) On June 13 Poloff met with Niclas Kvarnstrom, MFA Deputy European Correspondent, and conveyed USG positions on select topics in advance of the June 18-19 GAERC. Kvarnstrom's substantive responses follow. 2. (C) Cuba. Sweden opposes Spain's initiative to eliminate the EU's restrictive [...]
2007-06-13 15:34:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EUN KPAL ETRD SW
07STOCKHOLM77 EXPORT CONTROL BILATS BETWEEN SWEDEN AND DOC
[...] (C) Summary: On December 7, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration Christopher Padilla met with a Swedish interagency group to discuss a variety of export control and strategic trade issues. The two sides addressed the U.S. Government's proposed China licensing policy rule [...]
2007-01-23 09:36:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALETRD ETTC EINV KSTC SW
07STOCKHOLM8ANTI-IMMIGRATION SWEDEN DEMOCRATS ON THE RISE
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The nationalistic Sweden Democrats gained 2.9% of the national vote in September, capitalizing on anti-immigration sentiment. The party and its views on restricting immigration are treated with suspicion by the mainstream parties and media. The Sweden Democrats claim that they [...]
2007-01-04 08:40:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV SOCI PHUM SW
07STOCKHOLM957SWEDEN: NOTIFICATION OF AGREMENT FOR AMBASSADOR
[...] No summary [...]
2007-08-07 14:46:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDAGR PREL PGOV SW
07STOCKHOLM98SWEDEN: VIEWS ON CLUSTER MUNITIONS
[...] (c) Polcouns met January 26 with MFA Deputy Director General and head of International Law and Human Rights Department Bosse Hedberg in connection with the proposed February 22-23 cluster munitions conference in Oslo. Hedberg noted that he was closely involved with developments on cluster mu [...]
2007-01-26 15:30:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALMOPS PARM PREL NATO PGOV SW
07STOCKHOLM988SWEDISH MFA POLDIR ON GEORGIA MISSILE INVESTIGATION
[...] (C) Charge met Aug 14 with MFA Political Director Olof Skoog to discuss Sweden's role in the Georgia missile investigation. Skoog was joined by Foreign Minister Bildt's Staff Director Karin Olofsdotter. Skoog said the missile incident had touched Swedish reflexes to respond when a larger co [...]
2007-08-14 13:23:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SW MOPS GG
07STOCKHOLM990SWEDISH FOREIGN MINISTER CONFIRMS IRAQ TRIP
[...] (s) Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt has confirmed that he will travel to Iraq September 1-2. MFA Director for the Middle East and North Africa Peter Tejler told Polcouns that the decision was taken at an August 14 interagency meeting confirming the trip (reftel). The Swedes are holding [...]
2007-08-14 15:09:00Embassy StockholmSECRETPREL PGOV SW IZ
07STOCKHOLM998SWEDISH FOREIGN MINISTER BILDT'S FIVE DAYS IN
[...] (s) Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt will visit Baghdad and Irbil September 1-5. In Baghdad Sept. 1-2, he plans meetings with PM Maliki, President Talibani, FM Zebari, UN rep Ghazi, and is requesting a September 2 breakfast meeting with Ambassador Crocker (see proposed schedule below at p [...]
2007-08-17 15:03:00Embassy StockholmSECRETPREL OVIP ASEC PGOV SW IZ
08STOCKHOLM117MUSLIM IMMIGRANT CHALLENGES IN SWEDEN: INFORMAL
[...] (U) In Gothenburg on January 24-25, the DCM met with city officials and Muslim community leaders to discuss integration. Immigrants comprise nearly one quarter of Gothenburg's population of half a million. Most live in segregated neighborhoods on the city's northern outskirts, and crime and [...]
2008-02-14 13:33:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PINR PREL KISL KPAO ECON OIIP SW
08STOCKHOLM118SWEDISH MFA POLITICAL DIRECTOR ON KOSOVO
[...] (C) DCM Silverman met February 14 to review Kosovo issues with MFA Political Director Bjorn Lyrvall and urge early recognition. Lyrvall said: -- Sweden intended to recognize Kosovo, but internal procedures would delay the actual recognition until after a "Privy Council" meeting March 4. I [...]
2008-02-14 17:01:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SW YI
08STOCKHOLM121SWEDEN ON FEBRUARY 18-19 GAERC
[...] (C) On February 15, Poloff reviewed with MFA Deputy European Correspondent Anna Norell and Desk Officer for EU Affairs Annika Palo reftel points on the February 18-19 GAERC. Norell noted that Kosovo discussions will dominate the GAERC; most discussion on Gaza will be postponed until March; th [...]
2008-02-15 17:06:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SW EU
08STOCKHOLM122 SWEDEN: RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR INPUT FOR NEW REQUIRED
[...] (SBU) In response to reftel request, Mission is pleased to provide the following information: A: At Embassy Stockholm, the Economic Section has the lead on energy issues. The section is staffed by four full-time employees. B: The section has two FSOs, one FSN, and one EFM. The Section [...]
2008-02-19 07:15:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ENRG APER ABUD SW
08STOCKHOLM135SWEDEN DECLARES INTENTION TO RECOGNIZE KOSOVO
[...] (u) Both Prime Minister Reinfeldt and Foreign Minister Bildt made statements February 18 declaring Sweden's intention to recognize the independence of Kosovo. Because of internal political processes, formal recognition is expected to occur only following a special March 4 meeting of the Fore [...]
2008-02-20 15:01:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SW YI
08STOCKHOLM136SWEDEN PLANS TO OPEN EMBASSY IN BAGHDAD
[...] (c) Following the signing of a repatriation agreement with Iraq, Sweden has agreed to open an Embassy in Baghdad. The Embassy will not issue visas and will open after premises have been secured, security is worked out, and communications are assured: "likely after the Summer," End Summary. [...]
2008-02-21 06:57:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV IZ SW
08STOCKHOLM151SWEDEN WANTS MORE INFORMATION ON CLUSTER GROUPS
[...] (C) On February 25 poloff delivered reftel demarche to Swedish Ambassador and Special Envoy of the African Division, Marika Fahlen. Ambassador Fahlen received the same non-paper in Washington last week and gave poloff a prepared, detailed response (available from the Sweden Desk officer, Marti [...]
2008-02-25 15:13:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID SO SW
08STOCKHOLM152DEMARCHE DELIVERED: NOTIFICATION OF U.S. SATELLITE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-25 15:14:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PARM PNAT KTIA PINS TSPA TPHY ESA DCDG
08STOCKHOLM156SWEDEN RESPONSE: FIGHTING TUBERCULOSIS IN EUROPE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-02-26 12:00:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO WHO XG SW
08STOCKHOLM170THREE SOMALI-SWEDES ARRESTED FOR TERRORIST
[...] (U) On February 28, the Swedish Security Police arrested three adult males on suspicion of financing terrorist operations in Somalia. The arrests were coordinated with the Norwegian Security Police, who simultaneously arrested suspects in Oslo. The three men are Swedish citizens, but migrate [...]
2008-02-29 15:23:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPTER PREL PGOV NO SW
08STOCKHOLM176SWEDEN RESPONSE: MONTERREY CONSENSUS: BACKGROUND
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-04 10:34:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON EFIN ETRD ECIN EINV PGOV SW
08STOCKHOLM177SWEDEN RESPONSE: BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Deputy Economic Counselor visited Robert Eklund, President of Avitronics International AB on March 3. Eklund said he operates as a distributor and not a broker because he purchases the searchlights from Spectrolab Inc. and pays for them against invoice. He maintained that his o [...]
2008-03-04 14:07:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKOMC ETTC SW
08STOCKHOLM183SWEDEN ON TAIWAN'S OECD PARTICIPATION; PM TO VISIT
[...] (C) On March 5, poloff delivered reftel demarche to Peter Springfeldt, Director of the China Desk of the Asia and Pacific Division of the MFA. Springfeldt said the Government of Sweden wants Taiwan's status within the OECD to remain unchanged. He added that Sweden's policy towards Taiwan is [...]
2008-03-06 15:19:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON CM TW OECD SW
08STOCKHOLM186SWEDEN ON MARCH 10-11 GAERC
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-07 16:01:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EUN AF ZI SW
08STOCKHOLM187SWEDEN WILL INCREASE TROOPS IN AFGHANISTAN
[...] (C) On March 6, poloff and Defense Attache's Office (DAO) delivered, in parallel to the MFA and MOD, reftel demarche seeking additional Swedish support in Afghanistan. MOD's U.S. Desk Officer Karin Hevert noted that Sweden's participation in the current EU Nordic Battle Group will end in June [...]
2008-03-07 16:02:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALNATO PREL MOPS MARR AF SW
08STOCKHOLM204DEMARCHE ON CLIMATE CHANGE COOPERATION: SWEDEN
[...] (SBU) The Ambassador met with the PM's advisor on foreign policy State Secretary Nicola Clase to deliver reftel demarche on March 11. The Ambassador stressed that the President is firmly committed to joining an international agreement. Now it is time for the US and the EU to work closely to [...]
2008-03-13 07:06:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCHG SENV ECON PGOV EUN SW
08STOCKHOLM213SWEDISH GOVERNMENT PROPOSES IMAM TRAINING
[...] (C) Minister for Higher Education and Research Lars Leijonborg told EUR Senior Advisor Farah Pandith at a March 6 meeting that his controversial proposal for the Swedish state to establish and fund an imam training program was in response to concerns about radicalization in Sweden's Muslim com [...]
2008-03-13 17:47:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PINR PREL ECON OIIP KISL KPAO
08STOCKHOLM225DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON REFERENDUM IN BURMA
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-20 13:47:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM BM SW
08STOCKHOLM226DEMARCHE ON DESIGNATION OF AL-SHABAAB AS A
[...] No summary [...]
2008-03-20 14:24:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPTER ASEC PREL PGOV KCRM SO SW
08STOCKHOLM240DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON BELARUS: SWEDEN SUPPORTS
[...] (C) On March 27 poloff delivered reftel demarche on EU support for the U.S. to the current to Balkan and Caucuses Desk Officer Anna Hamarlund Blixt. She said Sweden is in line with the USG that political prisoners, including Kazulin, should be released unconditionally and permanently. Sweden [...]
2008-03-27 15:44:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALBO EU PHUM PREL SW
08STOCKHOLM257SWEDEN: RESPONSE TO DEMARCHES ON UNSCR 1803 AND ON
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-02 13:00:00Embassy StockholmSECRETKNNP EFIN ETRD PARM PREL MNUC IR SW
08STOCKHOLM260SWEDEN UNDECIDED ON CANADIAN CLUSTER WEAPONS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-04 12:37:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL MOPS PGOV SW
08STOCKHOLM265PM REINFELDT REQUESTS MAY 29 BILAT WITH SECRETARY
[...] (C) MFA Political Director Bjorn Lyrvall requested April 7 that Charge convey the request of PM Reinfeldt for a bilateral meeting with Secretary Rice on May 29, in connection with the Secretary's anticipated participation in the Stockholm conference on the International Compact with Iraq (ref [...]
2008-04-07 14:18:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL OVIP SECRETARY PGOV IZ SW
08STOCKHOLM272THREE ISSUES FOR MOD TOLGFORS APRIL 17 CALL ON
[...] (C) In connection the upcoming April 16-17 visit by Swedish Minister of Defense Sten Tolgfors to Washington, Embassy recommends raising two requests regarding specific additional contributions in Afghanistan (ref A) and Sweden's pending decision on participation in NATO's Rapid Response. We al [...]
2008-04-11 15:16:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS PINR PGOV IZ AF SW
08STOCKHOLM278SWEDEN ASKS FOR U.S. HELP ON MAY 29 IRAQ CONFERENCE
[...] (C) On April 15, MFA Political Director Bjorn Lyrvall told the DCM the Swedes look forward to working closely with the U.S. on the International Compact with Iraq (ICI),and asked for the following USG assistance: -Encouraging ICI invitees to send ministerial-level representation to the conf [...]
2008-04-16 13:30:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON IZ EU SE
08STOCKHOLM288FM BILDT ON U.S. HELP TO MAKE THE ICI A SUCCESS
[...] (C) On April 17, Ambassador met with FM Bildt in anticipation of Sweden's hosting the May 29 International Compact with Iraq (ICI) conference. Bildt was joined by MFA State Secretary Belfrage, Ambassador Christer Kumlin (in charge of conference logistics),Chief of Staff Karin Olofsdotter, Am [...]
2008-04-18 11:19:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON IZ EU SW
08STOCKHOLM29URGING SWEDEN TO DO MORE IN AFGHANISTAN
[...] (C) We should ask Sweden to plus up its ISAF operation in Afghanistan with additional manpower and resources, possibly including medevac helicopters, JAS Gripen fighters, and Operational Mentor and Liaison (OMLT) teams. Timing and developments affecting other international deployments may ma [...]
2008-01-11 16:36:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS PGOV SW
08STOCKHOLM290SWEDEN REQUESTS HELP REGARDING SWEDISH CASUALTY IN
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-21 09:27:00Embassy StockholmSECRETPREL PTER SO SW
08STOCKHOLM292DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO SWEDES: STOPPING TRAVEL TO
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-21 10:07:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALKTFN PREL PRTER IZ TU SE
08STOCKHOLM294SWEDEN: GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-04-21 14:58:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDDTRA PARM PREL PTER KGIC KNNP BA SE
08STOCKHOLM298MAYOR OF SWEDEN'S REFUGEE CAPITAL MEETS WITH
[...] (SBU) Summary: On April 18, Ambassador Wood held meetings in Sodertalje (a Stockholm suburb of 83,000 with about 26,000 Iraqi immigrants) to discuss immigration problems of Christian Iraqis. Sodertalje's Mayor said there has been a steep spike in Iraqi Christian asylum-seekers over the past t [...]
2008-04-23 11:00:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREF PREL PGOV IZ SE
08STOCKHOLM310DAS GARBER TALKS IRAQ COMPACT CONFERENCE WITH
[...] (SBU) Summary: On April 25, DAS Judy Garber, accompanied by DCM, met with State Secretary Frank Belfrage to discuss issues surrounding the International Compact with Iraq (ICI) on May 29 in Stockholm. The Swedes are pressing EU and Gulf capitals to send FMs to the ICI, and would appreciate co [...]
2008-04-28 13:17:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV ECON IQ EU SW
08STOCKHOLM316STATE SECRETARY BELFRAGE SAYS HE WAS MISQUOTED BY
[...] (SBU) State-run Iranian press source, Press TV, ran a web article on April 23, which misquoted Swedish State Secretary Frank Belfrage during his recent visit to Tehran. In a meeting on April 25 in Stockholm, the DCM showed Belfrage the article. Excerpted text: "Belfrage has praised Iran' [...]
2008-04-29 14:41:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV IR SE
08STOCKHOLM321UPDATE ON ICI PROGRESS IN STOCKHOLM
[...] (C) Summary: Belfrage said the main message to send out of the ICI is that Europe has turned the page on Iraq and is now looking forward. (He commented that while it might be difficult to get European FMs to say this publicly, their attendance would send the right signal.) At the April 29 GAE [...]
2008-04-30 13:59:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON UN EU IZ SE
08STOCKHOLM340Media Reaction - Israel and Palestinian Refugees
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-07 07:54:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PINS PHUM PREF EUN SW
08STOCKHOLM343Media Reaction - Inauguration of President Medvedev
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-08 09:13:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PINS PHUM PREF EUN SW
08STOCKHOLM350DEMARCHE DELIVERED: EU MOVING SLOWLY ON UNSCR 1803
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-09 08:32:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN AORC ETRD TRGY KNNP UNSC IR SW
08STOCKHOLM354SWEDEN PREPARED TO SUPPLY HUMANITARIAN SUPPORT FOR
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-09 15:19:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM PREL EAID BM SW
08STOCKHOLM358SWEDISH RESPONSE: TERRORISM FINANCE:
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-12 09:35:00Embassy StockholmSECRETEFIN PTER KTFN PINR PREL KU SW
08STOCKHOLM362SWEDISH RESPONSE: TERRORISM FINANCE:
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-14 12:29:00Embassy StockholmSECRETKFTN PTER PINR EFIN PREL BA QA SW
08STOCKHOLM364Media Reaction - China and Burma
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-15 07:20:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PINS PHUM PREF EUN SW
08STOCKHOLM368SCENE-SETTER FOR THE SECRETARY'S MAY 28-30 VISIT
[...] (U) This is a joint Embassy Stockholm/Embassy Baghdad message. SWEDEN 2. (C) Madame Secretary, welcome to Sweden. You are the first sitting Secretary of State to visit Stockholm since Lawrence Eagleburger in 1992. The occasion is historic: Sweden's hosting of the first post-Saddam me [...]
2008-05-19 14:59:00Embassy StockholmSECRETPREL PGOV EAID ECON SENV IZ SW
08STOCKHOLM369USAID REPRESENTATIVE IN MAZAR-I-SHARIF URGES
[...] (SBU) On May 15-16, Deputy Economic Counselor accompanied USAID Field Program Officer (FPO) from Mazar-i-Sharif to meetings at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Defense, Swedish Military Intelligence and Security Directorate, and the Swedish International Development Cooper [...]
2008-05-20 05:57:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID EFIN ECON PGOV PREL MARR MASS AF SW
08STOCKHOLM372SWEDEN AND CUBA: TITLE III COUNTRY REVIEW OF THE
[...] (C) The protection and promotion of human rights is a central tenet of Swedish foreign policy. Sweden adheres to the EU's "constructive engagement" policy toward Cuba and employs such engagement to raise human rights concerns with Havana. In a March 2008 press release, Minister for Developme [...]
2008-05-20 11:06:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALETRD ETTC PREL CU SW
08STOCKHOLM375SWEDISH NUCLEAR PLANT OSKARSHAMN PLANT CLOSED OVER
[...] (U) Local press reports that two people have been arrested on suspicion of preparing acts of sabotage at the Oskarshamn nuclear power plant in southern Sweden. According to the web news source "The Local", a Swedish contractor was stopped by the plant's security and arrested on Wednesday mornin [...]
2008-05-21 14:53:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNASEC PTER OVIP SW
08STOCKHOLM377Media Reaction - Lebanon and Hezbollah
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-22 07:28:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PINS PHUM PREF EUN SW
08STOCKHOLM379IRAQI PM MALIKI'S BILATERAL PROGRAM IN SWEDEN
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-22 15:15:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV IZ SE
08STOCKHOLM390Media Reaction - Stockholm ICI Conference
[...] No summary [...]
2008-05-29 06:11:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PINS PHUM PREF EUN SW
08STOCKHOLM391Media Reaction - Stockholm ICI Conference
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-02 06:45:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PINS PHUM PREF EUN SW
08STOCKHOLM404SWEDISH RESPONSE: CRITICAL EQUIPMENT NEEDS FOR
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-03 14:47:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP TRGY PREL PARM MNUC AORC IAEA UNSC IR SW
08STOCKHOLM407FM BILDT AND U.S. OFFICIALS DISCUSS IRAQ, IRAN
[...] (C) Summary: On May 28, the day prior to the International Compact with Iraq (ICI),Deputy Secretary of Treasury Robert Kimmitt and Amb. Ryan Crocker, accompanied by Amb. Wood, met with FM Carl Bildt and other MFA officials. Crocker briefed Bildt on the improving situation in Iraq. Bildt anno [...]
2008-06-04 08:35:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON IR IZ SW
08STOCKHOLM412A/S FRIED TALKS EU ENLARGEMENT, CYPRUS, AND KOSOVO
[...] (C) Summary: On May 29 MFA State Secretary Frank Belfrage told A/S Fried: -- Sweden, France, and the Czech Republic recently agreed on an EU tripartite presidency program that does not block further accession negotiations with Turkey and Croatia; -- Sweden is encouraging the UN to take a m [...]
2008-06-05 13:18:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON IQ EU SW
08STOCKHOLM414SWEDEN TO FOCUS ON EXISTING AGREEMENTS RATHER THAN
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-05 13:43:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDEWWT EAID ECIN ECON EFIS MARR MASS MCAP MOPS
08STOCKHOLM416SWEDEN: TREASURY DEPUTY'S CLEAN TECHNOLOGY FUND DISCUSSIONS
[...] (SBU) On May 28, Deputy Treasury Secretary Robert Kimmitt raised the Clean Technology Fund (CTF) with Gunilla Carlsson, Swedish Minister for International Development Cooperation; also in attendance were Per Jansson, State Secretary in the Ministry of Finance, and Anders Turesson, Sweden's Ch [...]
2008-06-09 08:37:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ECON ENGR ENRG SENV EAID TBIO TRGY SW
08STOCKHOLM420Media Reaction - President Bush's Trip to Europe
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-10 09:34:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PINS PHUM PREF EUN SW
08STOCKHOLM423IRANIANS INSPECT BELL HELICOPTERS IN SWEDEN
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 5. 2. (S) In early May, post received the first of three unsolicited e-mails from Arnold Sundquist, a naturalized U.S. citizen resident in Sweden and employee of Stockholm-based European Helicopter Service Sweden. The e-mails state that h [...]
2008-06-10 14:04:00Embassy StockholmSECRETETRD ETTC KOMC MCAP PARM IR SW
08STOCKHOLM431SWEDISH INSPECTORATE FOR STRATEGIC PRODUCTS ON
[...] (S) On June 11, Deputy Economic Counselor met with Magnus Danielsson, Principal Administrative Officer, the Swedish Inspectorate for Strategic Products (ISP),to discuss Mahaco, a Swedish company owned and operated by a dual Swedish/Iranian national. Danielsson commented that Mahaco, which is [...]
2008-06-13 10:30:00Embassy StockholmSECRET//NOFORNPREL PARM MNUC IAEA UNSC ETTC MTCRE IR SW
08STOCKHOLM435SUB REGIONAL PROJECT - NORDIC BALTIC REGION
[...] Embassy Stockholm requests that ECA/PE/V/R/E design a Sub-Regional Project on alternative energy for the Nordic-Baltic region. Renewable energy and energy security are already at the top of European public and governmental agendas. With the Bali roadmap to a post-Kyoto climate change regime cu [...]
2008-06-16 13:20:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOEXC KPAO SCUL SW
08STOCKHOLM436STOCKHOLM: REGIONAL SCIENCE PROJECT - OPENING SESAME STILL
[...] (U) Summary: On June 9 and 10, 2008, Sweden hosted the Twelfth Meeting of the Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East (SESAME) project. The main expected benefits are closer cooperation in the Middle East, advances in science geared toward regional issu [...]
2008-06-16 13:21:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON TSPL OSCI TNGD TPHY UNESCO SW
08STOCKHOLM442SWEDISH RESPONSE: DEMARCHE REQUEST: ATTENDANCE AND
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-19 10:58:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PGOV PREL PHUM LE UNRWA SW
08STOCKHOLM452U.S.-SWEDEN PLAN WAY FORWARD FOR ABKHAZIA CONFLICT
[...] (U) Participants: U.S. ---- Matthew Bryza, EUR Deputy Assistant Secretary Michael Carpenter, Conflicts Advisor Casey Christensen, Political Counselor Briana Olsen, Deputy Political Counselor (notetaker) Sweden ------ Carl Bildt, Foreign Minister Frank Belfrage, State Secretary Bjorn [...]
2008-06-23 11:07:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV UNSC UNMIK PBTS PINR KO RS GG XQ
08STOCKHOLM458NO SWEDISH FORCED LABOR AND CHILD LABOR IN THE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-25 12:45:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI SW
08STOCKHOLM474EMBASSY STOCKHOLM'S FEEDBACK ON ESTA
[...] SUMMARY: An initial review of ESTA among various offices at Post raised several questions, including whether we can provide a prototype of the ESTA website as part of our outreach efforts and how ESTA will interface with the Class database and airline systems. This cable also outlines Post's [...]
2008-06-30 06:14:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDCPAS CVIS CMGT PREL SW
08STOCKHOLM475Media Reaction - Mugabe and Zimbabwe
[...] No summary [...]
2008-06-30 10:34:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PINS PHUM PREF EUN SW
08STOCKHOLM482SWEDEN COMPLAINS OF EMBASSY'S PERIMETER BREACH BY
[...] (U) On July 1, Head of the Gulf Department at the MFA, Dag Juhlen-Dannfelt, contacted poloff to protest the breach of Sweden's diplomatic compound in Baghdad by KBR contractors and the U.S. Military. According to a report sent by Sweden's security contractor Control Risks, the perimeter defen [...]
2008-07-01 14:49:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV IZ SW
08STOCKHOLM485DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SHAPING POST-CYCLONE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-03 12:27:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV EAID BM EUN SW
08STOCKHOLM489SWEDISH RESPONSE: IRAN AIR CARGO AND ISLAMIC
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-07 14:53:00Embassy StockholmSECRETEFIN EWWT ERTD PARM PINR PREL KNNP EUN IR SW
08STOCKHOLM494PROPOSED RESPONSE TO SWEDISH REQUEST TO RELEASE
[...] (S) Embassy Stockholm recommends we postpone a response to the Swedish request for release of AESA radar for Swedish Gripens until after Norway's selection of its next fighter jet, currently slated for December 2008. In informing Sweden of this delay, we should consider offering U.S. support [...]
2008-07-09 14:14:00Embassy StockholmSECRETPARM MOPS MARR PREL ECON PGOV SW
08STOCKHOLM501Media Reaction - G-8 Summit Meeting
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-11 09:05:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PINS PHUM PREF EUN SW
08STOCKHOLM506IRAN SMALL GRANTS PROGRAM OPPORTUNITIES IN SWEDEN
[...] (C) Summary: Post has reached out to members of the Iranian community in Sweden over the past year. Post has not yet identified recipients for the Iran Small Grants Program, however, we continue to vet different groups and intend to nominate several candidates in the Fall. Iranian Swedes are [...]
2008-07-15 14:38:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALIR KDEM KPAO PREL SW
08STOCKHOLM51SWEDISH PARLIAMENT'S FOREIGN AFFAIRS LEADERS ON
[...] (C) Charge discussed Sweden's role in Afghanistan and Kosovo in separate meetings January 16 and 17 with Goran Lennmarker and Urban Ahlin, the government and the opposition leaders in the Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee. Lennmarker and Ahlin both saw room for increases in the number of [...]
2008-01-22 15:56:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS PGOV YI AF SW
08STOCKHOLM510EUROPEAN COURT TO REVIEW SWEDEN'S SNOOP LAW;
[...] (U) Summary: On July 14, Sweden-based Justice Center (CFR) announced it will refer Sweden's new surveillance law to the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). Liberal Party parliamentarians have heavily criticized the law's vagueness. Nordic telecommunications businesses are considering movin [...]
2008-07-17 07:24:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINT PTER PINR PGOV RU SW
08STOCKHOLM511SWEDEN NOT DELAYING BUT SUPPORTS (SOME) EU
[...] (C) Background: According to USEU Brussels sources, Sweden, among other EU members, are delaying the draft Common Position in UNSCR 1803, which transposes 1803 into an additional set of EU sanctions against Iran (reftel). End background. 2. (SBU) On July 17 Ambassador Peter Tejler, Directo [...]
2008-07-17 13:43:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALEUN PREL PINR KNNP IR BE SW
08STOCKHOLM528DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SWEDES KEEPING PRESSURE ON THE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-07-24 08:18:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALCOL VE HR EUN PTER SNAR PGOV PREL SW
08STOCKHOLM532AT EU, SWEDEN PUSHES IRAQI REFUGEES OVER
[...] (U) On June 24, the local media ran an op-ed piece by Migration Minister Tobias Billstrom calling on other EU countries to take in more Iraqi refugees. That same day at the EU Ministerial meeting, the EU did not address the issue to take in more Iraqi refugees. According to press reports, th [...]
2008-07-28 11:17:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PTER EU IZ SW
08STOCKHOLM533AT EU, SWEDEN PUSHES IRAQI REFUGEES OVER
[...] (U) On June 24, the local media ran an op-ed piece by Migration Minister Tobias Billstrom calling on other EU countries to take in more Iraqi refugees. That same day at the EU Ministerial meeting, the EU did not address the issue to take in more Iraqi refugees. According to press reports, th [...]
2008-07-28 11:17:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PREL PGOV PTER EU IZ SW
08STOCKHOLM534SWEDISH RESPONSE TO U.S. DESIGNATION OF ADDITIONAL
[...] On July 22, 2008, econoff delivered reftel demarche to Marten Frostgard, Desk Officer at the Department of Security Policy, and Ulf Samuelsson, Deputy Director of the Department of Middle East and North Africa. They thanked the United States for the information and said they would pass it to t [...]
2008-07-28 11:21:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP EFIN PARM SW
08STOCKHOLM543DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SWEDES SUPPORT TURKEY'S EU
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-01 07:50:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPTER PGOV TU EUN SW
08STOCKHOLM548STOCKHOLM REQUESTS TWO INTERNS FOR SPRING 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-04 14:27:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT APER ASEC SW
08STOCKHOLM557MUSLIM ENGAGEMENT IN SWEDEN
[...] (U) Muslim immigrants have achieved substantial but uneven success in Sweden. They represent four to five percent of Sweden's population of nine million people, comprised of Iraqis (100,000),Iranians (56,000),Bosnian Muslims (40,000),Turks (38,000),Somalis (35,000),and smaller numbers fr [...]
2008-08-08 09:00:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON KISL KPAO OIIP PGOV PHUM PINR PREL SW
08STOCKHOLM558ESTA: AN OPPORTUNITY TO ENHANCE U.S. SECURITY
[...] (SBU) Post remains concerned about threats to U.S. security from naturalized Swedes who obtain Swedish passports by fraudulent means (reftels). Post recommends that the Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA) form be amended to add a requirement for travelers to list other names, ad [...]
2008-08-08 11:27:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC CMGT CPAS CVIS KFRD KVPR PGOV PINR PREL
08STOCKHOLM559Media Reaction - Georgia/Ossetia/Russia
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-11 12:01:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PINS PHUM PREF EUN SW
08STOCKHOLM562Media Reaction - Russia
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-12 08:03:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PINS PHUM PREF EUN SW
08STOCKHOLM565TFGG01: SWEDEN SHARES U.S. POSITION ON
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-12 14:00:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV RU GG SW
08STOCKHOLM571TFGG001: DEMARCHE DELIVERED--SWEDEN CONDEMNS
[...] (C) Summary: A senior Swedish MFA official told poloff the EU is divided into two camps and the French have watered-down the GAERC conclusion. Unless the situation in Georgia worsens, the EU is unlikely to offer a stronger statement until after Sept. 6, when the foreign ministers will meet in [...]
2008-08-15 11:05:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL GG RU SW
08STOCKHOLM574TFGG01: Swedish media coverage of Georgia crisis; Embassy
[...] Over the weekend and Monday, August 16-18, Swedish media reported extensively on the crisis in Georgia, with correspondent reports from the region, analytical articles and editorials. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's visit to Tbilisi, during which a six-point peace agreement was signed, r [...]
2008-08-18 14:28:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PINS PHUM PREF EUN SW
08STOCKHOLM575TFGG01: SWEDEN CANCELS JOINT RUSSIAN MILITARY
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-19 15:36:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDMARR PREL PGOV RU GG SW
08STOCKHOLM576TFGG01: SWEDEN PUSHES EU OBSERVERS TO GEORGIA
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-19 16:20:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV RU GG SE
08STOCKHOLM579TTFGG01: SWEDEN TO SEND 2-3 OSCE MIL OBSERVERS TO
[...] (SBU) Head of the Eastern European Department, Johan Frisell, told poloff that Sweden agreed to send two to three military observers to the OSCE's 28-observer contingent that will deploy immediately to Georgia. The MFA has asked the Defense Ministry to approve adding eight more military obser [...]
2008-08-20 14:00:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV OSCE RU GG SW
08STOCKHOLM581HANDICAPPED APPLICANT'S ESTA REJECTION HIGHLIGHTS NEED FOR
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A physically handicapped applicant was required to apply for a tourist visa after having affirmatively answered to the Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA) application question regarding physical disorders. Her case, which was covered by a national paper, highlight [...]
2008-08-20 14:49:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDCPAS CVIS CMGT PREL SW
08STOCKHOLM585IRANIAN KURDISH PARTY OUTLINES GOI SUPPORT FOR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Salah Sharafi, a leading member of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (KDPI) and Hussam Heydari, a local Swedish member, met with the Charge on August 13 and underscored the importance of the KDPI chapter in Sweden. The KDPI Sweden chapter is the largest in Europe, with [...]
2008-08-22 12:35:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPTER KDEM PREL PINR SW IR
08STOCKHOLM586TFGG01: SWEDEN'S HUMANITARIAN AND OBSERVER
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-22 14:11:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV GG EU SW
08STOCKHOLM587TTFGG01: SWEDISH POLITICAL DIRECTOR ON GEORGIA
[...] (C) Summary: Sweden fully supports the US positions on Georgia, both measures to support the Georgian government and people (see ref b on their military observers and humanitarian aid to date),and measures to review relations with Russia. On the latter, MFA political director Lyrvall outline [...]
2008-08-22 15:22:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPGOV MARR PREL RU GG SW
08STOCKHOLM59SWEDEN ON HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL SPECIAL SESSION ON
[...] No summary [...]
2008-01-24 10:51:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV SW
08STOCKHOLM590TFGG01: SWEDEN'S DEPUTY FM SAYS FRENCH OPPOSE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-25 14:32:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EU GG SW
08STOCKHOLM591GEORGIA DOMINATED MERKEL'S VISIT TO SWEDEN
[...] (C) Russia's action in Georgia dominated the discussions when Merkel visited PM Reinfeldt in Stockholm, August 25. Germany and Sweden agree that Russia must withdraw its troops from Georgia and that the Russian President must not sign the referendum recognizing Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Both [...]
2008-08-26 12:36:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL ECON GG SW
08STOCKHOLM592TFGG01: Media Reaction - Georgia
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-27 07:14:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PINS PHUM PREF EUN SW
08STOCKHOLM593SWEDISH KING TO VISIT KYIV 30 SEPTEMBER
[...] King Carl XVI Gustav and Queen Silvia will pay a state visit to Ukraine on 30 September to 3 October. A Swedish business delegation will also visit during this time. 2. The visit was in the planning stages from early 2007, but was delayed by domestic turbulence in Ukrainian politics, accor [...]
2008-08-28 07:04:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV UK SW PREL
08STOCKHOLM594TFGG01: Media Reaction - Russia and Georgia
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-28 14:31:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PINS PHUM PREF EUN SW
08STOCKHOLM598(C) COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR OFFICE OF
[...] No summary [...]
2008-08-29 13:20:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALSNAR OVIP SW
08STOCKHOLM599ACTION REQUEST: GUIDANCE ON INFORMATION SHARING ON
[...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 4. 2. (C) On August 14, CDA and Poloff met with the director general of the Inspectorate of Strategic Products (ISP),Andreas Ekman, to discuss the ongoing proliferation activities of Mahaco, a Swedish-registered company owned by a Swedish citize [...]
2008-08-29 14:55:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALKNNP PARM PREL SW SP IR
08STOCKHOLM604TFGG01: Media Reaction - Russia
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-04 07:23:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PINS PHUM PREF EUN SW
08STOCKHOLM607SWEDEN ON GEORGIA IN ADVANCE OF THE SEPTEMBER 5-6
[...] (C) Summary: Swedish MFA Political Director Lyrvall told us September 4 that Sweden will emphasize the "political side" in upcoming donor conferences to highlight the need to demonstrate solidarity with Georgia and restore investor confidence. FM Bildt will work to "send a strong message" to [...]
2008-09-04 15:06:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EU GG RU SW
08STOCKHOLM609SWEDISH RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE REQUEST ON POSSIBLE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-05 14:33:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALKOMC ETTC IR SW
08STOCKHOLM610SWEDISH POLITICAL DIRECTOR ON AFGHAN NATIONAL ARMY
[...] (C) Summary: Swedish Political Director Bjorn Lyrvall told us the Sweden is committed to Afghanistan "for the long haul" and that political parties across the spectrum remain supportive of the government's Afghanistan policy. He expects no problems with respect to Afghanistan when Parliamen [...]
2008-09-08 15:16:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALSW AF PREL
08STOCKHOLM624SWEDISH MFA SAYS "WE'RE READY TO INCREASE AID TO
[...] (U) The Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP),John Walters, met with MFA State Secretary Frank Belfrage on September 8 to discuss the way forward in Afghanistan. Walters thanked Sweden for its long-term support of Afghanistan, especially for its commitment to leading [...]
2008-09-15 13:58:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL EAID AF SW
08STOCKHOLM625SWEDISH RESPONSE TO SEPTEMBER 15-16 GAERC DEMARCHE
[...] (C) Summary: Sweden thinks there is little to fear from a Serbian request to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to review the status of Kosovo, according to Hakan Emsgard, Deputy Director General of the EU Department at the MFA. The case would languish there for years, he asserted. Swed [...]
2008-09-15 14:57:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL GG SE RS EUN
08STOCKHOLM636SWEDISH RESPONSE: DESIGNATION OF ADDITIONAL
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-19 14:25:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP MNUC PREL PARM EFIN IR SW
08STOCKHOLM638Media Reaction - Financial Market Crisis
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-22 09:18:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PINS PHUM PREF EUN SW
08STOCKHOLM640Media Reaction - South Africa, Mbeki Resignation
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-23 08:59:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PINS PHUM PREF EUN SW
08STOCKHOLM646SWEDEN PAYS DAMAGES TO SECOND EXPELLED EGYPTIAN
[...] (U) On September 19, the Swedish government settled with Ahmed Agiza, an Egyptian national, to pay around USD 500,000 in damages--a large amount in Swedish courts--related to the circumstances of his deportation to Cairo. The award was not directly related to his claims of torture by U.S. agen [...]
2008-09-25 15:00:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPTER PHUM PREF PGOV PREL EG SW
08STOCKHOLM647SWEDEN: SOLICITING CONTRIBUTIONS FOR SUSTAINING
[...] No summary [...]
2008-09-26 12:49:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALAF PREL NATEU MOPS MARR SW
08STOCKHOLM648STOCKHOLM ON HSPD-6 TERRORIST
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy delivered reftel demarche September 25 and urged that Swedish officials be prepared to meet with a negotiating team to discuss implementation of Homeland Security Presidential Directive 6 (HSPD-6) in October. Swedish officials predict they will be able to assemble the r [...]
2008-09-26 14:34:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC CMGT CVIS PTER PGOV PREL SW
08STOCKHOLM653Media Reaction - Financial Crisis
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-01 10:13:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PINS PHUM PREF EUN SW
08STOCKHOLM654SWEDISH RESPONSE: US CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT OF
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-01 12:39:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP ENRG TRGY OTRA IAEA AORC SW
08STOCKHOLM657SWEDISH RESPONSE: ASSISTANCE TO GEORGIA FOLLOWING
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-02 12:05:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EFIN PREL KCRS KMCA EUMEM GG RS SW
08STOCKHOLM663STOCKHOLM DELIVERS CERTIFICATE OF REVOCATION (SIMON
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-06 08:09:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCVIS PM SW
08STOCKHOLM67APPROACHING THE EU IN ADVANCE OF THE JANUARY 28-
[...] (U) On January 25, 2008, Poloff met with Anna Norell, MFA Deputy EU Correspondent, regarding the upcoming January 28-29 EU Foreign Ministers GAERC meeting. Comments on Kosovo, Iran, and the Isreali-Palestinian peace process were highlighted: KOSOVO ------ 2. (C) Sweden felt bound by UN [...]
2008-01-25 17:38:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALEUN PHUM PREL PGOV KV IR IZ IS SU
08STOCKHOLM674SWEDISH RESPONSE:DESIGNATION OF THE ISLAMIC
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-09 08:26:00Embassy StockholmSECRETECON EFIN ERTD PARM KNNP EUN EWWT PREL IR SW
08STOCKHOLM688PANAMANIAN AMBASSADOR TO SWEDEN QUESTIONS VISA REVOCATION
[...] (SBU) Panamanian Ambassador to Sweden Cecilio Eduardo Simon English (DPOB: 01-OCT-1951, Panama) met with DCM and Consul on 14 October in reference to reftel A notice that his B1/B2 visa has been revoked under INA 212(A)(3). The visibly distressed Ambassador stated that he was not an enemy of t [...]
2008-10-17 06:52:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCVIS PREL PM SW
08STOCKHOLM693SWEDEN TO SUPPORT AFGHAN ELECTIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-17 16:37:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SW AF
08STOCKHOLM695SWEDISH SOC DEM LEADER AHLIN ON BELARUS,
[...] (C) Summary: On October 15, Urban Ahlin, the foreign policy spokesman of the opposition Social Democrats told DCM and POL counselor: -- On Afghanistan, he is working to cement Social Democratic support for the Government,s bill to expand troops, but it will be a "tough ride" for the bill. [...]
2008-10-20 10:06:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SW IR BO GG RS AF
08STOCKHOLM699STOCKHOLM REQUESTS TWO INTERNS FOR SUMMER 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-20 15:03:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT APER ASEC
08STOCKHOLM700DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SWEDEN TO PLEDGE 14 MILLION
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-20 15:10:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV GG SW
08STOCKHOLM701CORRECTED: DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SWEDEN TO PLEDGE 15
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-21 08:47:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV GG SW
08STOCKHOLM703SWEDISH CONSULAR REQUEST ON DEATH OF MOHAMMED
[...] (C) On October 16, Swedish MFA State Secretary Frank Belfrage asked DCM about the killing by U.S. troops of Mohammed Moumou, a Moroccan-born Swedish national who was second-in-command in Al-Qaeda in Iraq. DCM drew on the MNF-I press release of October 15 to describe the circumstances surroun [...]
2008-10-21 11:15:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER CASC IQ SW
08STOCKHOLM704SWEDISH SCENESETTER FOR HSPD-6 NEGOTIATING TEAM VISIT
[...] (SBU) Embassy Stockholm welcomes Peter Thompson, Mary Doetsch, Zandra Flemister, and Wynne Teel, October 22-24. We believe, based on MOJ contacts and our political analysis, that the proposed exchange of terrorist screening information is going to be a very hard sell. We should make clear to [...]
2008-10-21 12:48:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYCVIS PREL PM SW
08STOCKHOLM706SWEDISH DEP FM BELFRAGE ON AFGHANISTAN AND IRAN
[...] (C) Summary: On October 16, Swedish MFA State Secretary (deputy minister equivalent) Frank Belfrage told DCM and Pol counselor: -- On Afghanistan, Belfrage noted "strong bipartisan support" for Sweden to stay for "the long haul," even though the opposition was creating difficulties for the [...]
2008-10-21 14:35:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL AF IR SW
08STOCKHOLM707A snapshot of Swedish actions to date in light of the
[...] Summary. The Swedish financial system remains robust, owing to conservative lending practices, very high profitability in recent years, and a strong central bank. However, in response to the global financial turmoil, the following actions have been taken: -- The National Debt office has auct [...]
2008-10-21 14:55:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN PINR ECON PGOV SW
08STOCKHOLM710CORRECTED COPY: STOCKHOLM REQUESTS THREE INTERNS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-22 14:01:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT APER ASEC
08STOCKHOLM711BALTIC SEA STATE COUNCIL: A KEY PLAYER DURING
[...] On October 20, Acting Economic Counselor attended the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS) 10th anniversary of the establishment of its Secretariat in Stockholm, Sweden. The CBSS was founded in 1992 to handle environmental, economic and labor issues in the Baltic Sea region. CBSS could ass [...]
2008-10-22 14:11:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDECON ECIN EPET ENRG ETRD ELAB PHUM KNEI KOCI
08STOCKHOLM712SWEDISH MFA ON AESA RELEASIBILITY, AFGHANISTAN AND
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-23 14:49:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ETRD MARR RS SW IR AF
08STOCKHOLM716OPPORTUNITY FAIR ATTRACTS HUNDREDS OF PARTICIPANTS
[...] (U) Summary: On October 16, Sdertdlje, the Swedish town of 75,000 persons, about one third of whom are Iraqi born, collaborated with Embassy Stockholm to host the Sdertdlje Opportunity Fair "USA 2009." The fair was designed to provide information and advice on the myriad opportunities for peo [...]
2008-10-27 12:44:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL SCUL SW IQ
08STOCKHOLM717SWEDISH EXPORTS TO IRAN RISING
[...] (SBU) Summary: Swedish government agencies and official trade councils continue to encourage Swedish companies to do business with Iran. Exports to Iran in the first six months of 2008 are up 30% over the corresponding period in 2007. Sweden has also not tightened export credit guarantees for [...]
2008-10-27 13:38:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ECON ETRD IR SW
08STOCKHOLM719SWEDEN'S GEORGIA AID PACKAGE: 40 MILLION EUROS
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-27 16:49:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV GG SW
08STOCKHOLM720POTENTIAL FOR SCANIA PLANT REOPENING IN IRAQ
[...] Deputy Chief of Mission Robert Silverman and FCS Hakan Vidal visited Scania to establish the status of Scania's interest in setting up an assembly plant in Iraq. Since 1961, Scania has delivered over 31,000 commercial vehicles. Scania have two pending tenders from Iraqi Ministries and are prepa [...]
2008-10-28 14:53:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD SW IQ
08STOCKHOLM722SWEDEN ON PALESTINIAN DETAINEE AT GUANTANAMO
[...] (S) This is an action request. Please see para 7. 2. (S) Summary: The Swedish Migration Board (SMB) appears interested in learning more about Detainee 049 based on comments made in an October 27 meeting with Emboffs. A "formal" written request is more effective within the Swedish bureauc [...]
2008-10-29 15:17:00Embassy StockholmSECRETPREL PGOV PTER PHUM MOPS KAWK KISL KPAO SW
08STOCKHOLM726GYMNICH-GAERC POINTS DELIVERED TO SWEDEN
[...] No summary [...]
2008-10-30 15:36:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV EU SW
08STOCKHOLM729EU'S EASTERN PARTNERSHIP--SWEDEN'S PROPOSAL
[...] (U) The Swedish MFA Eastern European Desk met with Poloff on October 20 to discuss Sweden and Poland's joint proposal to establish an "Eastern Partnership" between the EU and Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia. Director Johan Frisell told Poloff the Partnership aims to g [...]
2008-10-31 12:52:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV EU SW
08STOCKHOLM733DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON ENGAGING THE EU ON BOSNIA
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-03 15:40:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV BK SW
08STOCKHOLM738SWEDEN -- FAST TRACK LEAHY HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING
[...] Per reftel, Post has reviewed the records of the below named Swedish military personnel and found no derogatory information: --Sweden: COL Lars-Olof Corneliusson, Naval Attache, Washington, D.C., DOB: November 9, 1959. --Sweden: LTC Michael Andersson, Senior Swedish Officer, CENTCOM (CCC),Ma [...]
2008-11-05 07:28:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDEZ PGOV PHUM PM PREL SW
08STOCKHOLM739SAAKASHVILI IN SWEDEN: "I REGRET NOTHING"
[...] On October 30-31, Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili visited Stockholm for talks with Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt (FM Bildt was in Afghanistan at the time). The visit, planned in 2007, originally was to sign a bilateral investment protection agreement to encourage Swedish investments [...]
2008-11-05 15:05:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PINR PREL ENRG GG EU ZK SW
08STOCKHOLM742SWEDISH RESPONSE: PSI: SUMMARY OF SEPTEMBER 2008
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-06 12:09:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP MNUC PARM PREL SW
08STOCKHOLM744SWEDES CONTACT EUROPEAN HELICOPTER SERVICE
[...] (C) Jan-Erik Lovgren, Deputy Director General of the Swedish Inspectorate of Strategic Products (ISP),told us on November 4 that ISP has contacted European Helicopter Service (EHP) regarding the suspected transfer of three Bell 212 helicopters, originally from Israel, but currently stored in [...]
2008-11-06 13:51:00Embassy StockholmSECRETETRD ETTC KOMC MCAP PARM IR SW
08STOCKHOLM747SWEDEN'S RESPONSE TO NOVEMBER GAERC POINTS
[...] (C) Sweden's EU Correspondent Anna Norell told poloff on November 7 the following regarding the November 10-11 GAERC: --Syria is not on the agenda. --There will not be a discussion on Iraq, just the passing of council conclusions as "A items." --The EU will take a formal decision on the anti [...]
2008-11-07 15:46:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EU SW
08STOCKHOLM748HSPD-6 TEAM VISITS TO DISCUSS TERRORIST SCREENING
[...] (S) SUMMARY: Meetings between the HSPD-6 terrorist screening information negotiation team and the Swedish MOJ and MFA reveal that the current Swedish political climate makes any formal terrorist screening information agreement highly difficult. Existing informal arrangements are working well, [...]
2008-11-07 16:32:00Embassy StockholmSECRETASEC CVIS PGOV PREL CMGT PTER SW
08STOCKHOLM749SAAKASHVILI-PM REINFELDT MEETING
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-07 17:19:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV GG SW
08STOCKHOLM750BILDT VISITS OFFICIALS AND TROOPS AFGHANISTAN
[...] (C) Swedish FM Bildt paid his first visit to Afghanistan October 29-31, 2008. On this "fact-finding" mission, he met with all levels of government in Kabul, including Foreign Minister Spanta and Minister of Interior Atmar, and with Balkh Province Governor Atta when he visited Sweden's PRT in [...]
2008-11-07 17:36:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR AF SW
08STOCKHOLM751SWEDEN LIKELY TO UP ISAF TROOPS BUT BILL DELAYED
[...] (C) Summary: Sweden has once again delayed the submission of its ISAF authorization bill to Parliament to November 17-19, citing "differences in interpretation of the wording" as the main problem. Sweden is discussing raising the number of troops in Afghanistan from 375 to around 500, by sendi [...]
2008-11-07 18:01:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALEAID MCAP MOPS PGOV PREL AF SW
08STOCKHOLM752SWEDEN LIKELY TO UP ISAF TROOPS BY 100; BILL
[...] (C) Summary: Sweden has once again delayed the submission of its ISAF authorization bill to Parliament to November 17-19, citing "differences in interpretation of the wording" as the main problem. Sweden is discussing raising the number of troops in Afghanistan from 375 to around 500, by sendi [...]
2008-11-10 07:49:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALEAID MCAP MOPS PGOV PREL AF SW
08STOCKHOLM754DEMARCHE REQUEST: EXPULSION OF DEA FROM BOLIVIA
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-10 16:31:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALKDEM PGOV PREL SNAR BL SW
08STOCKHOLM757SWEDEN ON EU-RUSSIA SUMMIT
[...] On November 10, Sweden and the United Kingdom issued a joint statement on EU-Russia relations, signed by FM Bildt and FM Miliband The statement reaffirmed support for Georgia's territorial integrity and urged Russia to fully implement the August 12 and September 8 EU-brokered peace agreements [...]
2008-11-12 17:06:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV SW
08STOCKHOLM761DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON UNGA RESOLUTION ON HUMAN
[...] No summary [...]
2008-11-13 15:59:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV UN SW
08STOCKHOLM762SWEDISH RESPONSE ON AMENDING NSG GUIDELINES FOR
[...] (SBU) On November 13, Eskil Renstrom, Senior Advisor, Department for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation, the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs (MFA),told us that Sweden is actively working on capacity-building measures regarding transit/transhipment-related activities and counter-proliferat [...]
2008-11-13 16:12:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP ENRG ETTC MNUC PARM TRGY IAEA SW
08STOCKHOLM763SWEDISH FINANCIAL SUPERVISORY AUTHORITY YET TO
[...] (S) Summary: The Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority (FI) has not yet passed on the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) warning issued on October 16 to Swedish financial institutions and banks. The warning calls for all countries to strengthen preventative measures to protect their financ [...]
2008-11-14 07:13:00Embassy StockholmSECRETPARM PREL EFIN KNNP IR SW
08STOCKHOLM764SWEDISH MFA ON IRAN, SYRIA AND IRAQ
[...] (S) Summary: Robert Rydberg, Deputy Director-General and Head of the Department of Middle East and North Africa at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs (MFA),told Emboffs that: -- Sweden is fully committed to tightening any loopholes and implementing all UN sanctions on Iran. He added t [...]
2008-11-14 07:13:00Embassy StockholmSECRETPARM PREL EFIN KNNP IR IZ SY SW
08STOCKHOLM769SWEDISH TRADE MINISTER TO LEAD BUSINESS DELEGATION
[...] Summary: Swedish Minister of Trade Eva Bjorling is leading a business delegation of major Swedish companies to Iraq. Scania Trucks is looking into opening a truck factory in Iskandaryah and service centers in Erbil and Basrah that would provide 500-600 jobs in Iraq. Embassy Stockholm facilita [...]
2008-11-14 14:04:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECIN ECON ECPS EINV ENRG EPET PGOV PREL
08STOCKHOLM770SWEDEN TO EXTEND MILITARY COMMITMENT TO AFGHANISTAN
[...] On November 13, the Alliance government approved for transmission to Parliament a bill to extend Sweden's ISAF commitment to Afghanistan by 12 months. The bill will also expand the Swedish military contribution by: -- Increasing the number of ISAF troops from 366 to approximately 500 and ra [...]
2008-11-14 15:40:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDMAAR MCAP MASS MOPS PGOV PREL AF SW
08STOCKHOLM771SWEDES INCREASE AID TO AFGHANISTAN BUT CONTINUE TO
[...] Summary: On November 13, Gunilla Carlsson, Minister for International Development Cooperation, announced that a new Afghanistan development cooperation bill had been introduced to Parliament that will: -- Focus on promoting democracy, providing education with an emphasis on increasing oppor [...]
2008-11-14 15:56:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON PGOV PREL KDEM KISL AF SW
08STOCKHOLM772SWEDES TO TRANSFER THREE BELL HELICOPTERS TO SPAIN
[...] (S) Summary: A Swedish firm in possession of three Bell 212 helicopters plans to transfer the helicopters to Spain tomorrow, November 18, without obtaining export authorization from the USG. Sweden's Inspectorate for Strategic Products say they lack any legal basis to stop the transfer. There [...]
2008-11-18 07:35:00Embassy StockholmSECRETETRD ETTC MCAP PARM KOMC IR SW SP
08STOCKHOLM777EMBASSY STOCKHOLM'S ESTA OUTREACH MATRIX
[...] Summary: Post has compiled the following list of outreach efforts undertaken over the past five months to inform contacts, stakeholders, and the public about the ESTA program. Additional information about our efforts can be found in our previous reporting located in reftels. We will have addit [...]
2008-11-19 15:19:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDCPAS CVIS CMGT PREL SW
08STOCKHOLM778UPDATE - SWEDES WILL PROHIBIT TRANSFER OF
[...] (S) Summary: Sweden's Inspectorate for Strategic Products (ISP) has determined that three helicopters that were to be shipped to Spain are, in fact, military equipment. Therefore, ISP will not allow them to be exported until and unless the USG approves. This information has been communicated [...]
2008-11-19 16:52:00Embassy StockholmSECRETETRD ETTC MCAP PARM KOMC IR SW SP
08STOCKHOLM781SWEDEN ON GUANTANAMO DETAINEES
[...] (S) This is an action request, please see para 4. 2. (S) On November 20, DCM had a pull-aside, after a meeting on other issues (septel),with MFA State Secretary Frank Belfrage on Sweden,s willingness to accept Guantanamo detainees. 3. (S) Belfrage said: --Closing Guantanamo is an imp [...]
2008-11-20 15:40:00Embassy StockholmSECRETPREL PGOV PTER PHUM MOPS KAWK KISL KPAO SW
08STOCKHOLM782 SWEDEN RATIFIES LISBON TREATY
[...] On November 20, the Swedish Parliament ratified the European Union's Lisbon Treaty, making Sweden the 25th of the 27 EU member states to approve the reform text. The debate in parliament lasted nine hours and dragged into late Thursday evening. The treaty was approved with 243 votes in favor [...]
2008-11-21 13:43:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PINR PREL SW
08STOCKHOLM786Swedish Environment Minister on Prospects for Poznan/COP-14
[...] (U) Summary. At a November 20 lunch hosted by Ambassador Wood for Swedish Environment Minister Andreas Carlgren, the two agreed that the focus of COP-14 next month should be to establish an ambitious work program for 2009, rather than attempting to reach consensus on any future carbon emission [...]
2008-11-25 14:54:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDSENV ENRG KGHG SW
08STOCKHOLM792SWEDEN ON THE EU EASTERN PARTNERSHIP AND NORDSTREAM
[...] (C) Summary: The EU Foreign Ministers will discuss the draft plan for the Eastern Partnership initiative at the December 8 GAERC, paving the way for the first Eastern Partnership summit scheduled for April 2009 in Prague, according to Swedish MFA contacts. Unique features of the Eastern Partn [...]
2008-11-28 16:39:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EU SW
08STOCKHOLM796Media Reaction - Secretary of State nomination
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-02 10:03:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PINS PHUM PREF EUN SW
08STOCKHOLM799DEMARCHE DELIVERED: CONVENTION ON CLUSTER MUNITIONS
[...] (U) On November 16, PM Reinfeldt announced that Sweden would sign the Convention on Cluster Munitions (CM) in Oslo. FM Bildt addressed the Parliament on November 28, reiterating the PM's statement, saying Sweden hopes the CM will have a positive effect on the Convention on Certain Conventional [...]
2008-12-02 15:01:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPARM NATO MOPS PREL SW
08STOCKHOLM801DEMARCHE DELIVERED: OSCE MINISTERIAL
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-02 15:24:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOSCE PREL PHUM KDEM GG RU SW
08STOCKHOLM809Sweden: Update on Impact of Financial Crisis
[...] Summary. On December 4 the Central Bank announced its largest ever steering rate cut (by 175 basis points, down to 2.00 percent). The current recession and lack of confidence in the financial markets have severely impacted businesses and households' ability to finance their activities. The O [...]
2008-12-05 13:42:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ECON PGOV SW
08STOCKHOLM814SWEDES SAY COLENCO NOT EXPORTING OR SUPPORTING
[...] (S) Swedish Radiation Safety Authority Inspector Lars Hildingsson told us December 2 that he met with Lucien Teuckens, Head of Nuclear Technology at AF-Colenco Ltd., on November 13. The purpose of the visit was to review Colenco's activities with Iran, as well as its contacts with Swiss autho [...]
2008-12-05 14:45:00Embassy StockholmSECRETMNUC PARM IR SW
08STOCKHOLM824 OPPOSITION SUPPORTS TROOP INCREASE IN AFGHANISTAN
[...] Summary: Despite internal dissent within the party, Sweden's opposition Social Democrats decided formally on December 4 to support the government's bill extending and increasing Sweden's ISAF deployment. It is, therefore, almost certain that the bill will be approved by Parliament on or abou [...]
2008-12-10 07:41:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PINR PREL SW
08STOCKHOLM827DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON REVOCATION OF IRAN"S U-TURN
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-11 13:11:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPARM PREL EFIN KNNP SW
08STOCKHOLM829DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON NICARAGUAN MUNICIPAL
[...] (C) Summary: Sweden is "worried" about the November 9 municipal elections in Nicaragua but has not yet called for a vote recount. Instead, it will follow EU consensus on the issue, expected to be reached at the EU's COLAT meeting in January. End Summary. 2. (C) On December 1, Poloff delive [...]
2008-12-11 15:03:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL NU SW
08STOCKHOLM830DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON UN HARMONIZATION OF
[...] Summary: On December 12, Conoff delivered reftel demarche to MFA Desk Officer for Security Policy and UN Affairs, Sara Dahlstein. Dahlstein stated that Sweden was not ruling out support for some elements of the U.S. proposal, but would be more inclined to support a less drastic modification o [...]
2008-12-15 10:42:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT AORC APER PREL UNGA SW
08STOCKHOLM832DEMARCHE DELIVERED: OPPOSING UNGA RESOLUTIONS WITH
[...] Summary: On December 2 and 12, emboffs delivered reftel demarche talking points to MFA officers handling UN affairs. MFA officials said they could not provide an advance decision of Sweden's vote on the UNGA resolutions with Anti-Israel Bias, but noted Sweden's abstention of the three key reso [...]
2008-12-15 11:01:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPREL UNGA SW
08STOCKHOLM833SWEDEN INDICATES CONTINUED SUPPORT FOR UN
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-15 11:02:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL UNGA KDEM
08STOCKHOLM835SWEDEN NOT LIKELY TO DONATE TO PAKISTAN-ONLY
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-15 15:37:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON EFIN AF PK SW
08STOCKHOLM836STOCKHOLM: REVIEW FOR SUSPENSION OF TITLE III OF
[...] (U) The information in this message is keyed to questions posed in reftel. 2. (C) Has Sweden worked to promote the advancement of democracy and human rights in Cuba? -- Since 1996, Sweden's Cuba policy has been to support democratic development and respect for human rights in Cuba throu [...]
2008-12-16 17:09:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALETRD ETTC PREL CU SW
08STOCKHOLM84SWEDISH MFA ON KOSOVO INDEPENDENCE AND ESDP MISSION
[...] (C) The Swedish position on Kosovo recognition appears to be starting to move in a positive direction. Sweden supported the January 30 approval of an ESDP mission. MFA contacts tell us Sweden will likely join in recognizing Kosovo, but would prefer for this to occur with substantial EU unity [...]
2008-02-01 16:20:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SW YI
08STOCKHOLM841SWEDISH MFA ON EU DISCUSSION OF CONGO, SOUTH ASIA,
[...] (C) On December 17, Poloffs met with Axel Wernhoff, Deputy Head of the Division for European Affairs at the MFA. Wernhoff said: -- The EU will increasingly focus on Afghanistan in 2009 and understands that a "regional approach" is needed to deal with the Afghan-Pakistani border; -- FM Bil [...]
2008-12-18 10:57:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EU AF PK CG CF SW
08STOCKHOLM842ASSISTANCE TO NICARAGUA FOLLOWING FRAUDULENT
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-18 12:49:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PGOV PREL
08STOCKHOLM844SYRIA AND IAEA DEMARCHE
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-19 09:13:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALKNNP MNUC PARM IAEA TRGY SY SW
08STOCKHOLM846 SWEDISH PARLIAMENT APPROVED TROOP INCREASE IN AFGHANISTAN
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-19 12:46:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PINR PREL SW
08STOCKHOLM848SWEDEN: OPPOSITION GEARS UP FOR 2010 ELECTION
[...] (C) The opposition Social Democrats (SDP),Green Party, and Left Party (formerly the Communist Party) announced in early December the formation of the &Red-Green Coalition8 for the 2010 parliamentary elections after weeks of intense negotiations. In forming the first-ever coalition bloc invol [...]
2008-12-19 13:08:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPGOV SW
08STOCKHOLM849VIOLENT UNREST OVER VACATED SWEDISH MOSQUE
[...] (U) Summary: In an immigrant neighborhood in Malmo, on December 15, police forcibly vacated three Muslim protesters for illegally squatting in an office space formerly used as an Islamic cultural center for 15 years. The youth were protesting the decision by city officials not to renew the lea [...]
2008-12-19 13:24:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PINR PGOV KISL SW
08STOCKHOLM850STOCKHOLM SWEDEN WHITE POWDER INCIDENT 12/17/2008
[...] (SBU) On December 17, 2008, local embassy staff (LES) managing the incoming mail notified ARSO that they had intercepted two suspicious envelopes addressed to the US Embassy Stockholm, one originating from Texas and the other from Sweden. Mail room staff had previously been notified of the in [...]
2008-12-22 11:41:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDASEC PTER SW
08STOCKHOLM854DEMARCHE: WORKING WITH THE EU TO IMPROVE BURMA
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-22 15:44:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN PGOV BM SW
08STOCKHOLM855TERRORISM FINANCE DEMARCHE ON LASHKAR-E-TAYYIBA
[...] No summary [...]
2008-12-22 15:48:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL UNSC PK SW
08STOCKHOLM857"EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED" DURING SWEDEN'S EU
[...] (SBU) Summary: Sweden has about six months before it assumes the EU presidency on July 1, 2009, but the government is already in overdrive preparing policy goals and restructuring governmental offices. EUR/ERA Director Bill Lucas visited Stockholm on December 4-5 to discuss priorities for th [...]
2008-12-23 11:09:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV INR EU SW
09STOCKHOLM1Media Reaction - Foreign Minister Carl Bildt op-ed
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-02 14:53:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PINS PHUM PREF EUN SW
09STOCKHOLM105SWEDEN'S EU PRESIDENCY: MIGRATION MINISTER ON
[...] (C) Summary: On February 11, Swedish Minister of Migration Tobias Billstrom discussed with us asylum and migration aspects of the "Stockholm Program." This is the planned five-year initiative that will replace the Hague Program and will aim to further harmonize EU asylum and migration policies [...]
2009-02-13 16:19:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREF PINR EU SW
09STOCKHOLM108SWEDISH COURT ACQUITS LOCAL AL-AQSA HEAD ON
[...] (U) On February 17, a Swedish court in the southern city of Malmo acquitted Khalid al-Yousef, head of the Stockholm-based al-Aqsa Spannmal Foundation, on charges of violating terrorist financing laws and violating sanctions laws. Al-Yousef had been accused of collecting nearly $500,000 throug [...]
2009-02-18 07:00:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN PTER ETTC PHUM EAID SW
09STOCKHOLM11DEMARCHE DELIVERED: NEW U.S. ARCTIC POLICY
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-09 14:24:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDECON EWWT PBTS PHSA PREL SENV KGCC KPAO SW
09STOCKHOLM110STOCKHOLM ANNUAL CRIME EVALUATION QUESTIONNAIRE
[...] (U) CRIME MOBILITY (INTO EMBOFF NEIGHBORHOODS): (B) CRIMINAL ELEMENTS GENERALLY CONCENTRATE THEIR ACTIVITIES IN HIGH-CRIME AREAS BUT SOMETIMES ENTER NEARBY NEIGHBORHOODS TO BURGLARIZE RESIDENCES. Burglars in Sweden tend to capitalize on unoccupied houses in "low crime areas" during the cou [...]
2009-02-18 12:27:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDASEC PTER
09STOCKHOLM112SWEDEN'S EU CORRESPONDENTS ON IRAN SANCTIONS,
[...] (C) Summary and Action Request: In several meetings this month, the MFA EU Correspondent's Office has offered us their views on Iran sanctions, Belarus, Turkey's EU accession, and the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference. On Iran, Sweden continues to raise concerns that "blanket" trade sanctio [...]
2009-02-18 15:40:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL ENVT EU BO TU SW
09STOCKHOLM113EX GITMO DETAINEE GETS SWEDISH RESIDENCY ON APPEAL
[...] (U) On February 18, the Swedish Migration Court, which hears appeals from petitioners unhappy with rulings from the autonomous Swedish Migration Board (SMB),granted permanent residency with refugee status to Adil Hakimjan, an ethnic Uighur and former Guantanamo detainee. The SMB denied Hakim [...]
2009-02-18 16:56:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL PHUM SW
09STOCKHOLM119STOCKHOLM'S ESTA IMPLEMENTATION (NOV 2008-FEB 2009)
[...] Summary: The January 12, 2009 mandatory implementation of the ESTA program has proceeded smoothly in Sweden. Post's media outreach resulted in a series of ESTA-related articles in the national Swedish media, and this and other outreach efforts appear to have helped inform the public at-large [...]
2009-02-20 12:56:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDCPAS CVIS CMGT PREL SW
09STOCKHOLM12DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SWEDEN OPPOSES OPPOSING IRAN
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-09 15:11:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPREF EAID IR SW
09STOCKHOLM122DEMARCHE DELIVERD: DEMOCRACY IN MAURITANIA
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-20 15:13:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDEUN MR PGOV PHUM PREL SW
09STOCKHOLM124SWEDISH AID MINISTER CARLSSON TO ATTEND SHARM
[...] Swedish MFA Desk Officer for the Middle East, Maria Velasco Ullenhag, told us February 23, that Gunilla Carlsson, Minister for International Development Cooperation, will represent Sweden at the Sharm conference on March 2. Sweden is still reviewing the amount it will pledge at the conference [...]
2009-02-23 12:45:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDKPAL KWBG EFIN PGOV PTER PHUM SW
09STOCKHOLM126SWEDEN APPOINTS SPECIAL ENVOY TO
[...] (U) In preparation for its EU presidency the Swedish government appointed Anna Karin Enestrom as Special Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan on February 20. Enestrom currently serves as ambassador to Pakistan. Bildt issued a press statement that said the appointment is a step in the government [...]
2009-02-23 15:26:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PINR AF PK SW
09STOCKHOLM128SWEDEN PROPOSES INCLUDING AVIATION ACTIVITIES IN
[...] Sweden presented a proposal on February 23 that includes aviation activities in the Emissions Trading Scheme beginning 2012. Swedish Minister for the Environment Anders Carlgren told journalists that "air transport must bear its own environmental costs" like other modes of transport. He co [...]
2009-02-24 15:03:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDEAIR ECON ETRD SENV EU SW
09STOCKHOLM131SWEDEN - SECTION 1377 TELECOM TRADE AGREEMENTS 2009 REVIEW
[...] Post has been in touch with the Post and Telecom Agency (PTS) to draw their attention to the Section 1377 review process and to encourage an official Swedish response. A summary of how PTS views its efforts to ensure a good competitive situation on the Swedish market follows: 2. On Novem [...]
2009-02-26 10:47:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDECPS ETRD USTR SW
09STOCKHOLM132Arsons connected to threats
[...] According to local press reports, in the morning of February 26, arsonists attacked four grocery stores in the Stockholm suburban city of Sodertalje. Two of the stores were set on fire with the aid of timed firebombs. Flyers posted on February 19 and again on February 25 claiming to be from an [...]
2009-02-26 11:52:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PINS PTER SW
09STOCKHOLM135NEW IRANIAN ATTEMPT TO PURCHASE USED BELL
[...] (S) On February 25, Helicopter inspector and aviation consultant Arnold Sundquist (protect source) told us that two Iranians called from Germany to inquire about purchasing a used Bell 212 helicopter that Sundquist has advertised for sale. The two men flew to Karlsborg, Sweden to meet with Su [...]
2009-02-27 09:20:00Embassy StockholmSECRETETRD ETTC KOMC MCAP PARM MY IR SW
09STOCKHOLM136STOCKHOLM REQUESTS TWO INTERNS FOR FALL 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-27 12:15:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT APER ASEC
09STOCKHOLM137UPDATE ON FINANCIAL CRISIS IN SWEDEN: CREDIT RATING DOWN
[...] Credit rating company Moody's stated in a press release January 27 that it is worried about Swedbank's exposure to the Baltic States and has decided to lower the bank's credit rating from A1 to Aa3 with negative prospects. The lowering of the rating reflects the macro economic development in [...]
2009-02-27 15:35:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN SW
09STOCKHOLM139DEMARCHE DELIVERD: UN APPEALS TRIBUNAL -
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-27 16:03:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDKAWC KJUS AORC APER PREL UNGA SW
09STOCKHOLM141SPECIAL 301 FOR SWEDEN: POST RECOMMENDATION
[...] (SBU) Summary. Embassy Stockholm recommends that Sweden continues to be placed in the Special 301 Initiative, and not be on the Watch List for 2009. We are aware of the differing recommendations of the International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA) and PhRMA. Post recommendation is bas [...]
2009-03-02 13:57:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKIPR ECON ETRD PGOV SW
09STOCKHOLM148AFGHAN AMBASSADOR TO THE NORDICS ON INCREASING
[...] (C) Summary and Action Request: Afghan Ambassador to the Nordic countries, Jawed Ludin, met with CDA on February 26 to discuss ways to boost Sweden's role in Afghanistan. He focused on development aid as Sweden's comparative advantage. He suggested that Sweden should learn from Norway in its [...]
2009-03-04 14:09:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR AF SW
09STOCKHOLM149SWEDEN'S EU MINISTER ON COOPERATING WITH U.S. ON
[...] (C) Summary: Sweden's EU Minister Cecilia Malmstrom met Charge on March 3 to discuss Sweden's upcoming EU presidency. On the Transatlantic Agenda, Malmstrom identified climate change, EU enlargement, Israeli-Palestinian talks and Afghanistan as being most important for cooperation with the US [...]
2009-03-04 16:40:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR EU AF TU SW
09STOCKHOLM153Media Reaction - Interview with Hamas leader by Swedish
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-06 09:49:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PINS PHUM PREF EUN SW
09STOCKHOLM155Media Reaction - Interview with Hamas leader by Swedish
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-06 09:49:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PINS PHUM PREF EUN SW
09STOCKHOLM16SWEDISH RESPONSE: DESIGNATION OF ADDITIONAL
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-12 14:24:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP EFIN PARM IR SW
09STOCKHOLM162 SWEDEN APPOINTS U.S.-FRIENDLY SUPREME COMMANDER
[...] On March 6, Lieutenant General Sverker Goranson was appointed the next Supreme Commander of the Swedish Armed Forces. Currently, the 54-year-old Goranson is Director of the Joint Staff, making him in principle the chief aide of current Supreme Commander Hakan Syrn. Goranson will take over Ma [...]
2009-03-06 15:56:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDMARR PGOV PINR PREL SW
09STOCKHOLM163 CORRECTED COPY: SWEDEN APPOINTS U.S.-FRIENDLY SUPREME
[...] On March 6, Lieutenant General Sverker Goranson was appointed the next Supreme Commander of the Swedish Armed Forces. Currently, the 54-year-old Goranson is Director of the Joint Staff, making him in principle the chief aide of current Supreme Commander Hakan Syren. Goranson will take over M [...]
2009-03-06 16:06:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDMARR PGOV PINR PREL SW
09STOCKHOLM169SWEDISH POLICE SEIZE LARGE QUANTITY OF PIRATED
[...] Stockholm police have seized a computer server believed to contain the largest quantity of pirated material ever discovered in Sweden. The server was located in the Brandbergen neighborhood south of Stockholm and was part of a Nordic file sharing ring known as Sunnydale, according to the Swed [...]
2009-03-11 14:11:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDKIPR ETRD EINT EIND PGOV TINT SW
09STOCKHOLM170SWEDEN ON MARCH GAERC AND GYMNICH
[...] (C) On March 10, Poloff discussed the March GAERC and GYMNICH with EU Deputy Correspondent Jonas Wendel; on March 6, POL Counselor met separately with EU Correspondent Magnus Scholdtz. Their comments follow: General Affairs Session: Afghanistan, Chad, Ireland ------------------------------- [...]
2009-03-12 07:48:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV BO MD MW BK MK SU EG EU SW
09STOCKHOLM171SWEDEN UNABLE TO SUPPORT PROPOSAL TO LIST CHINESE
[...] (S) Anette Nilsson, Deputy Director of the MFA Department for Security Policy, told post on March 10 that she has passed reftel points regarding the Chinese national Abdul Haq to other relevant Swedish agencies for their knowledge. Nilsson thanked us for this information, but stated that Swede [...]
2009-03-12 09:11:00Embassy StockholmSECRETEFIN ETRD ETTC CH SW
09STOCKHOLM172SWEDEN ON SYRIA: EU ASSOCIATION AGREEMENT "FAR
[...] (C) On March 12, Pol Counselor delivered reftel demarches to Dag Juhlin-Dannfelt, who was recently promoted to deputy of the MFA Middle East and North Africa Department. Dannfelt said the EU Association Agreement is a "long term" project and it is "far from certain" that consensus exists withi [...]
2009-03-12 17:33:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL EU SY SW
09STOCKHOLM174Media Reaction - Op-ed on Somali terrorist movement Hizbul
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-13 10:34:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PINS PHUM PREF EUN SW
09STOCKHOLM178SWEDEN ON INTEGRATING IRAQ INTO REGION
[...] (C) Summary: Sweden thinks Iraq is integrating well into the broader Middle East and that the Expanded Neighbors Process is a good vehicle. Sweden supports the International Compact with Iraq but worries that it would be hard to attract ministers to Baghdad this summer because of security con [...]
2009-03-13 17:04:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PINR IZ SW
09STOCKHOLM181SWEDEN ON AFGHANISTAN CONFERENCE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-16 15:29:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL AF SW
09STOCKHOLM182DEMARCHE: PAKISTAN DONORS CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-16 15:39:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON EFIN PK SW
09STOCKHOLM186SWEDEN PONDERING CONTRIBUTION TO PAKISTAN'S IDP
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-17 15:29:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PHUM PREF PK SW
09STOCKHOLM192SWEDEN ON AFGHANISTAN POLICY REVIEW
[...] (C) In recent weeks, CDA and Poloffs have discussed Afghanistan with a wide range of Swedish officials in the Swedish Prime Ministry, MFA, Defense Ministry and aid agency. They confirmed that: -- Sweden will in 2009 implement last December's decision to deploy additional troops (130, for a [...]
2009-03-19 17:55:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID AF SW
09STOCKHOLM193SWEDEN REPLY TO DEMARCHE: SEEKING ADDITIONAL DONOR
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-20 09:57:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV KPKO SO SW
09STOCKHOLM194SWEDEN: CI/KR RESPONSE FOR S/CT
[...] (S) In response to reftel, post would like to add Sweden's communications infrastructure to the CI/KR list. Although Sweden does not posses a direct undersea cable from the U.S., Sweden is a central European communications hub. For example, Swedish company TeliaSonera is an international car [...]
2009-03-20 13:27:00Embassy StockholmSECRETPTER PGOV ASEC EFIN ENRG KCIP SW
09STOCKHOLM195SWEDISH FINANCE MINISTER ON FINANCIAL CRISIS,
[...] (SBU) Summary: On March 16, Swedish Finance Minister Anders Borg told Treasury DAS Meyer and CDA the following regarding the financial crisis, Swedish banks and the Baltics: - Swedish banks can absorb further losses given their profitability in recent years. The Swedish financial sector i [...]
2009-03-20 15:48:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EINV ETRD PGOV EN LG LH SW
09STOCKHOLM196Launching a U.S.-EU Alternative Energy Partnership
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-23 11:39:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDENRG SENV KPAO ECON OEXC BEXP KGHG EUN SW
09STOCKHOLM201A VISIT TO SWEDEN'S BIOREFINERY COAST
[...] Summary: During a March 10-11 trip to three cities on the north east coast, embassy staff visited the heart of a traditional export industry - paper and pulp - in the process of redefining itself. These large paper and pulp mills are developing biofuels from previous waste by-products: ethano [...]
2009-03-24 10:10:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDENRG SENV KGHG PGOV EAID SW
09STOCKHOLM202LAUNCHING A U.S.-EU ALTERNATIVE ENERGY PARTNERSHIP
[...] This is a joint USEU/Embassy Stockholm cable. Action requests in para 12. Summary ======= 2. Posts propose launching a "U.S.-EU Alternative Energy Partnership" during the Swedish Presidency of the EU, July-December 2009. This partnership, based on Embassy Stockholm's successful One Bi [...]
2009-03-24 12:19:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDENRG SENV KPAO ECON OEXC BEXP KGHG PREL EUN
09STOCKHOLM204SWEDEN LOOKS TO REFORM DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE
[...] Summary: Minister for International Development Cooperation, Gunilla Carlsson, announced March 9 that Sweden is evaluating its aid to multilateral organizations and is disappointed in how several UN organizations have used Swedish development assistance, singling out the following agencies: [...]
2009-03-24 15:00:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON ECIN EFIN PGOV SW
09STOCKHOLM207 Sweden's Deputy PM Comes to Washington with climate change
[...] Summary. Sweden's Deputy Prime Minister Maud Olofsson is the pragmatic political leader of the Center Party that holds the Cabinet positions for energy, environment, industry and agriculture. She has a strong relationship with PM Reinfeldt and has worked closely with him recently to reverse [...]
2009-03-25 16:06:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PINR PREL ENRG SENV KGHG SW
09STOCKHOLM209SWEDES UNLIKELY TO ATTEND SEOUL GLOBAL INITIATIVE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-26 14:37:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALMNUC PARM PREL PTER KGIC SW
09STOCKHOLM211SWEDISH MFA CLAIMS EU FOREIGN MINISTERS TO APPROVE
[...] (C) Summary: An EU-Syria Association Agreement will be approved by EU foreign ministers meeting informally in the "Gymnich" format March 27-28, according to Sweden's senior MFA officials dealing with EU matters. Discussion at the Prague meeting is expected to be "operational" on the topic, le [...]
2009-03-26 15:55:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL EU SY SW
09STOCKHOLM212BELARUS, EASTERN PARTNERSHIP AND WESTERN BALKANS:
[...] (C) Summary: EU foreign ministers meeting informally in the "Gymnich" format March 27-28 will reach a decision on the question of Belarus' participation at the May 7 European Summit, according to Sweden's senior MFA official dealing with EU matters. A "Burma solution" that has the Belarus for [...]
2009-03-27 07:34:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL BO GG MW ZL SW
09STOCKHOLM214SWEDEN COMMITTED TO NATO KFOR MISSION THROUGH END
[...] (C) Sweden will not pull its forces out of KFOR in 2009, according to Carl Magnus Ericsson of the MFA's International Security Policy unit. Replying to demarche points (Ref A) on March 26, Ericsson explained that Parliament last fall approved a bill extending the Swedish presence in KFOR for [...]
2009-03-27 14:37:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR NATO KPKO KVIR SW
09STOCKHOLM216SWEDISH AUTO INDUSTRY ENTERS CRITICAL PHASE
[...] (SBU) Summary: Swedish State Secretary for Enterprise Joran Hagglund told CDA on March 27 that the ailing Swedish auto companies Saab and Volvo Cars are entering a critical phase; Saab is in formal restructuring. The Swedish government will not step in and take over the Swedish auto companies [...]
2009-03-27 15:40:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EIND ETRD ELTN PGOV SW
09STOCKHOLM220SWEDEN HOPES ENVIRONMENT MINISTER TO BE INCLUDED IN EU
[...] This cable contains action requests at para 8. 2. Summary. Ambassador Staffan Tillander, a senior GOS climate official, expressed concern about the lack of certainty and speed in the UNFCCC process, predicting that heavier political involvement will be required. Sweden hopes for two proces [...]
2009-04-01 11:14:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDSENV KGHG PREL SW
09STOCKHOLM221SWEDISH EMPLOYMENT MINISTER INVITES U.S. SECRETARY
[...] This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. 2. At a meeting requested by the Minister for Employment Sven Otto Littorin which occured on March 31, Littorin told CDA that he has invited Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis to attend an informal meeting of the 27 EU ministers for employment [...]
2009-04-01 12:02:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN ELAB ETRD PGOV SW
09STOCKHOLM222SWEDES WELCOME AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN WHITE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-01 15:13:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALNATO PREL MOPS MARR AF SW
09STOCKHOLM224VALIDATION STUDY OF IRANIAN B1/B2 APPLICANTS
[...] Summary: Embassy StockholmQs Fraud Prevention Unit (FPU) conducted a two stage issuance review and validation study of Iranian B1/B2 visa applicants in 2007. Results show that StockholmQs higher issuance rate reflects a relatively refined applicant pool of doctoral students and wealthy retir [...]
2009-04-02 06:19:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDCVIS CPAS CMGT ASEC KFRD SW
09STOCKHOLM227SWEDISH FINANCE MINISTER PAINTS BLEAK PICTURE FOR
[...] Summary: Swedish Minister of Finance Anders Borg predicted that Sweden's unemployment rate will hit 8.9 percent in 2009, 11.1 percent in 2010 and 11.7 percent in 2011 before slipping back to 11.3 percent in 2012. Borg alsoQredicted that deflation would emerge in 2009 with the Consumer Price I [...]
2009-04-06 07:50:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN ELAB ETRD PGOV SW
09STOCKHOLM228SWEDISH HEALTH MINISTER TO INVITE NEW U.S.
[...] Minister of Health and Social Affairs Goran Hagglund told CDA on April 6 that he would like to invite the new Secretary of Health and Human Services to Sweden. Hagglund intends to invite the HHS Secretary to the informal meeting of the 27 EU ministers for employment and social affairs (EPSCO) [...]
2009-04-06 14:41:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR EINT PGOV PREL TBIO TPHY SW
09STOCKHOLM229SWEDEN WILL NOT PLEDGE FUNDS AT PAKISTAN DONORS'
[...] On April 6, Acting Economic Counselor shared reftel points on Pakistan Donors Conference with Majeed Olerud-Khoso, Desk Officer at the MFA's Department for South Asia. Olerud-Khoso told post that Sweden will not pledge any funds at the Tokyo Donors Conference, but is instead examining if money [...]
2009-04-07 08:37:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON EFIN PK SW
09STOCKHOLM231SWEDISH VIEWS ON APRIL GAERC AGENDA
[...] (C) Summary: In an April 1 meeting, EU Deputy Correspondent Jonas Wendel discussed the problematic invitation of Pres. Lukashenko to the May 7 Eastern Partnership launch; the EU's policy plans with Israel, Syria and Iran; upcoming (and rescheduled) summits, and Montenegro. Wendel told us he a [...]
2009-04-07 16:45:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EU BO IS IR SY MW ZK BM SP SW
09STOCKHOLM233 SWEDEN SUPPORTS RAPID DRAWDOWN OF OHR AND ALTHEA IN BOSNIA
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-08 09:07:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PINR PREL SW
09STOCKHOLM234SWEDEN RESPONDS TO PAKISTAN DONORS' CONFERENCE
[...] On April 8, CDA together with the Japanese and Pakistani Ambassadors discussed the joint demarche with Minister Wilhelm Von Warnstedt, Director of the South Asian Department at the Swedish MFA. CDA and the Japanese and Pakistani Ambassadors urged that Sweden send a ministerial level represent [...]
2009-04-08 10:43:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON EFIN PK SW
09STOCKHOLM237SWEDEN'S MIGRATION MINISTER ON GUANTANAMO DETAINEES
[...] (S) Swedish Minister of Migration Tobias Billstrom asked CDA to come see him on short notice on April 8 to discuss Guantanamo detainees. Saying that Sweden strongly approved of the "general approach" the Administration has taken on detainees, Billstrom stated that if Sweden can assist, it wou [...]
2009-04-09 13:47:00Embassy StockholmSECRETKAWK PHUM MOPS PREL PTER PREF EU SW
09STOCKHOLM238SWEDEN ON SPECIFIC CONTRIBUTIONS TO AFGHANISTAN
[...] (S) On April 7, Polcouns delivered reftel demarche to Swedish MFA Deputy Director of the International Security Policy Department Carl Magnus Eriksson. Eriksson noted that the NSC recently delivered a request for a third OMLT to Sweden's Embassy in Washington, which the government "took very [...]
2009-04-09 14:26:00Embassy StockholmSECRETNATO PREL MOPS MARR AF SW
09STOCKHOLM239Media Reaction - Op-ed on the pirate standoff in Somalia
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-14 12:21:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PINS PHUM PREF EUN SW
09STOCKHOLM24DEMARCHE: URGING THE EU TO DELAY APPROVAL OF THE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-13 16:28:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALEU PREL SY SW
09STOCKHOLM240Media Reaction - Op-ed on women in Afghanistan
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-14 12:21:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PINS PHUM PREF EUN SW
09STOCKHOLM245TRIAL OF ALLEGED SWEDISH TERRORIST BEGINS IN NEW YORK
[...] On April 13, the trial began in New York of Swedish-Lebanese dual citizen Oussama Kassir. Kassir is accused of running a terrorist training camp in Oregon and hosting a web site with public access to the "The Mujahedeen Explosives Handbook." Kassir denies all charges and claims the evidence w [...]
2009-04-14 15:26:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR PINS PGOV SW
09STOCKHOLM247FRAUD SUMMARY - STOCKHOLM
[...] Summary: As Sweden prepares to take the June through December 2009 rotational European Union presidency, refugees remain a top priority for the country. Embassy Stockholm continues to deal with Sweden's large population of third country nationals, many with insufficient identification documen [...]
2009-04-15 08:54:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDCMGT CVIS KFRD ASEC CPAS SW
09STOCKHOLM248SWEDEN TO REINFORCE ISAF MISSION AND DEPLOY C-130 TO
[...] On April 3, the Ministry of Defense announced a strengthening of its ISAF mission to Afghanistan by 40 troops. Additionally, the military will deploy a C-130 for operations in Afghanistan from May to September. End Summary. Strengthening ISAF Mission -------------------------- 2. On Apri [...]
2009-04-15 13:20:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN ELAB AF SW
09STOCKHOLM249SWEDES LIKELY TO SUPPORT KOSOVO'S IMF AND WORLD
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-15 14:22:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN PREL KV SW
09STOCKHOLM253EMBASSY STOCKHOLM'S TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-16 12:33:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC PTER SW
09STOCKHOLM254DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-17 09:40:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL SW
09STOCKHOLM258DEMARCHE REQUEST: CONSULTING WITH EU ON BURMA
[...] (C) On April 24, Emboffs delivered reftel demarche to Liselott Andersson, Head of the South East Asia Unit in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Andersson confirmed that there will be a rollover of the common position at the April 27 GAERC meeting. "The position is linked to what is happening [...]
2009-04-24 16:09:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ETRD EU BM SW
09STOCKHOLM259SWEDEN ON APRIL 27-28 GAERC
[...] (C) Summary: We discussed Ref A GAERC points with Swedish MFA Political Director Bjorn Lyrvall, the EU Correspondent's office, and MFA country desks April 22-24. They told us the Czechs keep changing the GAERC agenda and Sweden wants to add a point on the possibility of the EU publishing huma [...]
2009-04-24 17:51:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EU SW
09STOCKHOLM26TERRORISM FINANCE: SWEDISH RESPONSE TO U.S.
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-14 13:46:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN KTFN ETTC PREL PINR SW
09STOCKHOLM262SWEDEN PUSHES GREATER ENERGY SECURITY FOR BALTIC
[...] (SBU) Summary: Bo Diczfalusy, Director-General for Energy at the Ministry of Enterprise, Energy and Transportation, and MFA Baltic Desk Officer Isabella Torngren, told Econoffs on April 27 that Sweden: - views energy security as a key part of its EU Presidency focus on the Baltic Sea Strate [...]
2009-04-27 13:24:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV ECON ENRG LG LH PL RS FI SW
09STOCKHOLM263SWEDEN RECALLS CDA TO SRI LANKA FOR CONSULTATIONS
[...] (C) On April 28, Sweden recalled its Charge d'Affaires to Sri Lanka for "consultations" in response to the Sri Lankan government's denial of a visa for FM Carl Bildt. FMs Bildt, Milliband and Kouchner had decided at the April 27 GAERC to travel jointly on April 29 to Colombo for talks with the [...]
2009-04-28 09:59:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EU CE SW
09STOCKHOLM264MGSF01: FIVE SWEDES TEST NEGATIVE FOR SWINE FLU
[...] (SBU) According to Todd Webber, CDC Liaison at the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control in Stockholm, Sweden has had five residents under investigation for Swine Flu as of April 27. Four returned from travel in Mexico, one from San Diego. All five tested negative. 2. (SBU) [...]
2009-04-28 14:48:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDKFLU AEMR ASEC CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO
09STOCKHOLM266SWEDISH FOREIGN MINISTER BILDT'S WASHINGTON AGENDA
[...] (S) Summary: For Bildt's May 4 visit to Washington, we recommend the following top three issues: additional contributions in Afghanistan, resettlement of Guantanamo detainees, and leadership in the EU on autonomous sanctions on Iran. Given Sweden's upcoming EU Presidency, July-December 2009, [...]
2009-04-29 15:14:00Embassy StockholmSECRETPREL PGOV EUN SW
09STOCKHOLM268SWEDEN WILL PARTICIPATE IN GICNT 2009 PLENARY
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-30 10:39:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP MNUC PARM RS PREL PTER KGIC NL SW
09STOCKHOLM27SWEDISH RESPONSE TO A.Q. KHAN AND ASSOCIATES
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-14 13:50:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP MNUC PREL PARM EFIN SW
09STOCKHOLM270SWEDISH FM BILDT WANTS BOSNIA TO BE AN EU
[...] (C) Summary: On April 28, poloff discussed FM Bildt's visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) with BiH Desk Officer Dinka Jasarevic. FM Bildt visited Sarajevo on April 8-9 for both bilateral talks and Presidency Trio discussions with BiH officials. Bildt's main goal for his visit to Sarajevo wa [...]
2009-04-30 13:05:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV BK EU SW
09STOCKHOLM274UIGHUR HAKIMJAN GRANTED PERMANENT RESIDENCY, AGAIN
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-04 13:46:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PINR PREL PHUM SW
09STOCKHOLM275TFFLU01: One Probable Case in Sweden, Per Swedish
[...] (SBU) Sweden is currently testing one resident for possible H1N1 Influenza A infection. The woman had recently visited the United States and displayed suspicious but mild flu symptoms for several days. However, because the subject was never hospitalized and has already recovered, her tested [...]
2009-05-05 06:16:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDKFLU AEMR ASEC AMED CASC KFLO TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL
09STOCKHOLM276SPECIAL 301 FOR SWEDEN: RESULTS DISCUSSED WITH GOS
[...] (SBU) Summary. A/DCM and Economic Specialist met with officials from the Swedish Ministries of Justice and Trade on April 29 to convey the results of the Special 301 review. The GOS welcomed the news that Sweden will not be on any watch list in 2009. They told us that the GOS gives priority [...]
2009-05-05 12:20:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKIPR ECON ETRD PGOV SW
09STOCKHOLM283SWEDES TO INVESTIGATE SYRIAN CONNECTION WITH
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-08 08:21:00Embassy StockholmSECRETPARM PREL MTCRE SY SW
09STOCKHOLM284SWEDEN TO PARTICIPATE IN THE MAY 13-14 ISLAMABAD
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-08 08:23:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDKPWR ECON ENRG ETRD EAGR EAID BEXP PREL AF SW
09STOCKHOLM287SWEDEN ON MAY 18-19 "SUPER GAERC"
[...] (C) Summary: On May 8, poloff met with MFA Deputy EU Correspondent Jonas Wendel to discuss the GAERC agenda for May 18-19. Wendel said it will be a "Super GAERC," to include a special meeting between the Foreign and Defense Ministers. The overall agenda would therefore be brief. Highlights o [...]
2009-05-08 16:23:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV BM IS GR GG RU EUN SW
09STOCKHOLM292DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO SWEDEN ABOUT US WASSENAAR
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-12 09:04:00Embassy StockholmSECRETKSTC ETTC PARM PREL PTER SW
09STOCKHOLM295SWEDES TO REVIEW DEMARCHE ON ARMS/SECURITY TEAMS
[...] On May 8, EmbOff delivered reftel points to Jonatan Bergstrom-Jurisoo, Desk Officer, Section for Peace Support Operations at the Swedish MFA. Bergstrom-Jurisoo told us he needed to consult with the Ministry of Justice on this issue and will contact Post once Sweden's position is clear. Post [...]
2009-05-13 06:30:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDKOMC EWWT ASEC MARR PARM PREL PHSA SW
09STOCKHOLM297Media Reaction - Op-ed on Foreign Minister Bildt's impact
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-14 07:40:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PINS PHUM PREF EUN SW
09STOCKHOLM3SWEDISH CHARTER AIRCRAFT STARTS A REGULAR FLIGHT
[...] On January 2, Nordic Airways, a Swedish private sector company, flew its first flight to Baghdad, carrying 150 passengers to Baghdad International Airport (BIA). According to Swedish press, this marks the first commercial passenger flight from Europe to the Iraqi capital since the UN imposed s [...]
2009-01-05 12:55:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDEAIR ECON PGOV IZ SW
09STOCKHOLM301SWEDES TO REVIEW DPRK BANKING RELATIONSHIPS WITH
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-18 13:26:00Embassy StockholmSECRET//NOFORNKNNP EFIN ETTC PREL PARM XE ZO KN SW
09STOCKHOLM306DEMARCHE DELIVERED REGARDING UN DESIGNATION OF
[...] (SBU) On May 15, Emboff shared reftel points with Anette Nilsson, Deputy Director, and Sofie Hillbom, Desk Officer, Security Policy Department, at the Swedish MFA. Nilsson commented that Sweden had declined to co-sponsor the designation of Abdul Haq when asked by the U.S. in April. Nilsson sa [...]
2009-05-20 13:21:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALEFIN KTFN ETTC PTER PHUM EAID CH SW
09STOCKHOLM307BLUE LANTERN POST-SHIPMENT END-USE CHECK ON
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-20 14:03:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDETTC KOMC SW
09STOCKHOLM308SWEDEN CONTRIBUTES USD 3 MILLION TO PAKISTAN'S IDPS
[...] Swedish Minister for International Development Cooperation Gunilla Carlsson told journalists on May 19 that Sweden is contributing $3 million in humanitarian assistance to help Pakistan's Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs),as follows: - $1.3 million of its total contribution through the UNH [...]
2009-05-20 14:15:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDECON EAID PHUM PREF PREL PTER PK SW
09STOCKHOLM309SWEDEN SCENESETTER FOR CODEL TANNER
[...] The U.S. Embassy in Stockholm warmly welcomes your visit to Sweden, the first Congressional delegation to travel here since Rep. Larson of Connecticut visited in September 2007. The United States and Sweden share a strong and abiding relationship built on a foundation of shared values, cultural [...]
2009-05-20 15:53:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOREP PGOV ECON SW
09STOCKHOLM31GUANTANAMO DETAINEES: SWEDES OUTLINE PROCESS, WAIT
[...] (S) Summary: Sweden will not decide "right away" whether it will accept Guantanamo detainees but will likely make a decision if it gets a "signal" from the Obama Administration, MFA State Secretary Belfrage told DCM on January 14. Sweden would need to think carefully about accepting ethnic Uig [...]
2009-01-15 17:10:00Embassy StockholmSECRETPREL PGOV PTER PHUM SW
09STOCKHOLM311Media Reaction - Editorial on Guantanamo closure
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-26 10:17:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PINS PHUM PREF EUN SW
09STOCKHOLM312Media Reaction - Editorials on DPRK nuclear testing
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-26 10:18:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PINS PHUM PREF EUN SW
09STOCKHOLM313SWEDISH RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE REQUEST ON
[...] Jonatan Bergstrom Jurisoo, Desk Officer, Security Policy Department, Peace Support Operations Section, the Swedish MFA told post on May 26 that Sweden welcomes the efforts made by the ship-owners and insurance companies regarding their work with risk awareness, lessons learned and best practice [...]
2009-05-26 12:18:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDKOMC EWWT ASEC MARR PARM PREL PHSA SW
09STOCKHOLM32SWEDISH POLDIR ON GEORGIA AND EASTERN PARTNERSHIP
[...] (C) Summary: MFA Political Director Lyrvall told us on January 15: -- Sweden sees "eye-to-eye" with the USG on Georgia and the separatist regions, but had been frustrated that a "harder line" was being resisted by other EU members who wanted to "move on"; -- Within the EU, Sweden would co [...]
2009-01-16 07:06:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL GG SW
09STOCKHOLM322 SWEDEN CONDEMNS DPRK NUCLEAR TEST
[...] On May 25, the North Korean Ambassador to Sweden, Ri Hui Chol, was summoned to the MFA where State Secretary Frank Belfrage, the number two official in the ministry, delivered an official protest against North Korea's nuclear test. Belfrage called it an escalation of the already tense situati [...]
2009-05-27 11:27:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PINR PREL NK SW
09STOCKHOLM327MALMO'S ISLAMISTS AND ENVIRONMENTALISTS CO-EXIST, UNEASILY
[...] Summary: The Charge, accompanied by the Regional Senior Commercial Officer and the Energy and Environment Outreach Assistant visited Lund and Malmo in southern Sweden May 14-15 to learn more about the Swedish side of the Oresund Region. Malmo is reinventing itself and trying to improve its re [...]
2009-05-28 14:01:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDENRG SENV KGHG KISL PGOV SW
09STOCKHOLM333Sweden on Olympic Baseball
[...] Summary. Embassy Stockholm spoke with Gunilla Lindberg, one of Sweden's three International Olympic Committee (IOC) members, to seek support for the return of baseball and softball to the Olympic Games. Lindberg asserted the independence of IOC members from governmental pressure (U.S. or Swe [...]
2009-06-02 12:02:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDKOLY KPAO PGOV SCUL SW
09STOCKHOLM337SWEDISH RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE REGARDING THE AD-HOC
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-03 14:53:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDKPAL EAID PGOV PREL SW
09STOCKHOLM338SWEDES WILL CONTINUE TO PUSH FOR A REVIEW OF 1267
[...] (SBU) Swedish MFA Sanctions Coordinator Per Saland told us on June 1 that Sweden will continue to work to improve UNSC 1267 sanctions during its EU Presidency. Saland commented that while UN 1822, which introduced narrative summaries and improved information-sharing, was a "good start," a numb [...]
2009-06-03 14:53:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON KTFN PARM PREL PHUM SW
09STOCKHOLM342009 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT: SWEDEN
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-16 12:13:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDECON EINV KIDE KSPR OPIC KTDB USTR SW
09STOCKHOLM342SWEDEN'S FOREIGN AID REFORM
[...] Summary: Swedish Minister for International Development Cooperation Gunilla Carlsson told journalists on May 7 that Swedish assistance still has a "long way to go" when she presented a comprehensive report of development assistance. She commented that Sweden must prepare and monitor programs [...]
2009-06-04 06:15:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON ECIN EFIN PGOV SW
09STOCKHOLM35SENIOR POLDIR ON IRAN AND GAZA
[...] (S) Summary: Swedish MFA Director-General for Political Affairs, Bjorn Lyrvall, told us January 15 that: -- On Iran, Sweden now backs an "intensified implementation of existing UN Security Council resolutions" that will result in EU designation of at least "one or two" more banks; -- It wo [...]
2009-01-16 17:50:00Embassy StockholmSECRETPREL PGOV IR IS SW
09STOCKHOLM353SWEDISH MFA STATE SECRETARY ON TURKEY, BOSNIA,
[...] (C) Summary: State Secretary Frank Belfrage met with Charge June 5 to discuss Turkey, Bosnia, Iran, and Afghanistan. --On Turkey, he welcomed U.S.-Swedish convergence of views and observed that the German position on Turkish EU membership is shifting. --He urged strong U.S. pressure on th [...]
2009-06-10 09:33:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL SW
09STOCKHOLM355 AARGH! SWEDISH PIRATES SET SAIL FOR BRUSSELS
[...] Summary and Comment: Sweden's two largest political parties, the ruling Moderates and opposition Social Democrats, saw little change over their 2004 levels of support in the June 7 European Parliament (EP) election here. Instead, the Greens and the pro-EU Liberal Party were the big winners -- [...]
2009-06-10 13:42:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PINR PREL ECON KIPR SW
09STOCKHOLM356CLIMATE -- SWEDEN A BIT DISAPPOINTED IN SECOND MEF; AND
[...] (SBU) Summary: The natural instinct of Sweden's climate negotiators, past and present, is to act as honest brokers - between the U.S. and Europe; between the U.S. and China; between the developed and developing world. Holding the EU Presidency will only reinforce this tendency. It is to t [...]
2009-06-10 14:16:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KGHG PREL SW
09STOCKHOLM358CLIMATE -- SWEDEN A BIT DISAPPOINTED IN SECOND MEF; AND
[...] (SBU) Summary: The natural instinct of Sweden's climate negotiators, past and present, is to act as honest brokers - between the U.S. and Europe; between the U.S. and China; between the developed and developing world. Holding the EU Presidency will only reinforce this tendency. It is to t [...]
2009-06-11 06:51:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KGHG PREL SW
09STOCKHOLM361POSITIVE SWEDISH REACTIONS TO PRESIDENT OBAMA'S
[...] (U) On Thursday, June 4, Embassy Stockholm hosted a lunch for key Muslim contacts to watch President Obama's speech to the Muslim world and discuss their initial thoughts and reactions. 2. (U) In general, the speech was well received by the Swedish Muslims. The guests highlighted appreciat [...]
2009-06-12 14:08:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PINS PTER SW
09STOCKHOLM362SWEDEN ON JUNE 15-16 GAERC
[...] (C) Summary: In preparation for the June 15-16 GAERC, Emboffs met June 11 with European Correspondent Magnus Scholdtz just prior to his meeting with Swedish Foreign Minister Bildt to review the GAERC. We also spoke earlier with Deputy Correspondent Jonas Wendel and other officials. They told [...]
2009-06-12 16:12:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV BM IS GR GG RU EUN SW
09STOCKHOLM368POST SUPPORT OF POTUS BILATERAL WITH SWEDISH PM
[...] (U) On June 16, the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs formally requested a bilateral meeting for Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt with the President on the margins of the G8 in Italy on 8-10 July. (We understand the Swedish embassy in Washington passed this request to NSC also.) [...]
2009-06-18 17:45:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON EUN IT SW
09STOCKHOLM374SAAB + KOENIGSEGG = KOENIGSSAAB?
[...] (U) Summary: On June 16, GM revealed its plans for the future of Saab Automotive as Koenigsegg Group AB confirmed the details of a memorandum of understanding for the purchase of Saab. Koenigsegg is a Swedish sports car maker, producing as few as 18 exclusive cars per year. Commentators in [...]
2009-06-23 08:31:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PGOV SW
09STOCKHOLM375SWEDISH-IRAQI TRADE INCHING FORWARD
[...] Summary: With the opening of the new Swedish embassy in Baghdad this summer, all signs point to further strengthening and deepening of the cooperative ties between Sweden and Iraq. Trade deals between Swedish companies and Iraq partners are inching forward despite financing troubles and secu [...]
2009-06-23 13:59:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECON EINV PGOV PREL IZ SW
09STOCKHOLM38Media Reaction - Swedish troops in Afghanistan
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-20 10:05:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PINS PHUM PREF EUN SW
09STOCKHOLM384SCENESETTER FOR ASSISTANT SECRETARY GORDON'S JULY
[...] (U) Embassy Stockholm warmly welcomes you to Sweden. The mood in Sweden is both eager anticipation for its turn to set the agendas and chair the EU meetings, and a bit of trepidation at the daunting list of issues, starting with the financial crisis and climate change. Bilateral relations are [...]
2009-06-24 19:08:00Embassy StockholmSECRETPREL PGOV PINR ECON SENV SW
09STOCKHOLM385SWEDISH CLIMATE OFFICIALS EAGER TO WORK WITH OUR EXPERTS
[...] (SBU) Summary: On June 17, Svante Bodin, Director at the Swedish Environment Ministry's Climate division told us the Bonn UNFCCC negotiations made progress in some areas, but more importantly did not suffer any setbacks. He appeared eager to work with Pershing and other experts to arrive at [...]
2009-06-26 12:08:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KGHG PREL ECON SW
09STOCKHOLM386Swedish views on the third MEF
[...] (SBU) Lars-Erik Liljelund, PM Reinfeldt's Director General for Climate told us on June 24 that the third MEF meeting was "much better than the Paris MEF". Liljelund is pleased with the progress on financing, adaptation, and technology transfer, but is concerned about the large gaps between p [...]
2009-06-26 14:05:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KGHG PREL ECON SW
09STOCKHOLM389SWEDISH MINDEF ON AFGHANISTAN AND SWEDISH DEFENSE REFORM
[...] Summary. On May 29, Swedish Defense Minister Sten Tolgfors told CODEL Tanner: 1) Sweden is focusing on development and army training in Afghanistan, but has concerns about the capabilities of the Afghan National Police; 2) Swedish defense reforms signal the capacity for more international coo [...]
2009-06-26 14:42:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPREL OREP MARR EUN MOPS AF SW
09STOCKHOLM390EMBASSY STOCKHOLM'S 4TH OF JULY INVITATIONS TO
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-26 15:28:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV SW
09STOCKHOLM399SWEDEN WELCOMES "NEXT BIG THING" INITIATIVE
[...] (SBU) On July 2, Swedish MFA State Secretary Frank Belfrage told CDA that the "Next Big Thing" alternative energy technology initiative (NBT),as outlined in ref c, was "good news" and "exactly the kind of hands-on transatlantic cooperation we need for the Swedish Presidency." He recommende [...]
2009-07-02 10:09:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYBEXP ECON ENRG KGHG KPAO OEXC PREL SENV SW
09STOCKHOLM4SWEDES TO PROVIDE $10 MILLION TO UNRWA'S GAZA
[...] (SBU) On January 7, Poloff and Econoff shared reftel points with Fredrik Floren, Deputy Director for Levant Affairs & North Africa, Middle East and North Africa Department, at the Swedish MFA. Floren confirmed that Sweden will donate $10 million in humanitarian and development assistance. He [...]
2009-01-07 12:55:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PGOV PREL PHUM SW
09STOCKHOLM400TOKYO DONOR CONFERENCE PLEDGES TO SUPPORT IMF
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-02 12:21:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID EFIN PK SW
09STOCKHOLM401OSCE QUESTIONNAIRE DELIVERED TO SWEDES
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-02 13:20:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOSCE PARM PREL NATO SW
09STOCKHOLM402DEMARCHE ON INTERNATIONAL PIRACY COURT DELIVERED
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-02 13:31:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDEWWT MARR PGOV PHSA PHUM PREL SW
09STOCKHOLM404SWEDISH COOPERATION FOR CONTACT GROUP FOR PIRACY
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-06 14:24:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDEWWT MARR PGOV PHSA PHUM PREL SW
09STOCKHOLM407EMBASSY STOCKHOLM REQUESTS TWO INTERNS FOR SPRING
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-07 13:20:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT APER ASEC
09STOCKHOLM408Swedes Propose Seminar to Break HLCG Redress Roadblock
[...] (SBU) Summary. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Chief Privacy Officer (CPO) Mary Ellen Callahan met with her counterparts at the Swedish Ministry of Justice (MOJ) to discuss how to make progress on the final issue relating to the High Level Contact Group's agreement on the principles for [...]
2009-07-08 05:55:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKJUS EUN PGOV PREL KCRM SW
09STOCKHOLM409SWEDES VERY PLEASED WITH PROPOSED DE-LISTINGS OF
[...] (SBU) On July 8, Acting Economic Counselor shared reftel points with Ambassador Per Saland, Sanctions Coordinator, and Sofie Hillbom, Counter-Terrorism Unit Desk Officer, at the MFA's Department for Security Policy. Saland thanked post for what he called the "very good news" that the U.S. woul [...]
2009-07-08 13:29:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN PREL PTER UNSC SW
09STOCKHOLM41Media Reaction - President-elect Barack Obama editorials
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-20 13:05:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PINS PHUM PREF EUN SW
09STOCKHOLM410TERRORISM FINANCE DEMARCHE: UN AND U.S. DOMESTIC
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-08 13:41:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN PTER ETTC PHUM EAID KTFN SW
09STOCKHOLM412SCENESETTER FOR ASSISTANT SECRETARY CARSON,S JULY
[...] (U) Introduction and Summary: The U.S. Embassy in Stockholm warmly welcomes your visit to Sweden. The mood in Sweden is both eager anticipation for its turn to set the agendas and chair the EU meetings, and a bit of trepidation at the daunting list of issues, starting with the financial crisi [...]
2009-07-08 15:05:00Embassy StockholmSECRETEUN ECON USAID MARR PREL SW
09STOCKHOLM413LEAHY VETTING FOR UPCOMING SWEDISH JCET
[...] (S) Post has reviewed electronic and other files on the Swedish unit, SSG S3, and its commander, Colonel Urban Molin, who have been invited to participate in a Joint Combined Exchange Training (JCET) in Sweden between US Naval Special Warfare Unit Two and the Swedish Special Forces to take plac [...]
2009-07-09 11:34:00Embassy StockholmSECRETMARR PREL SW
09STOCKHOLM414UPDATE ON SYRIAN EXPORT CONTROL CASE
[...] (S) Principal Administrative Officer Magnus Danielsson, Swedish Inspectorate for Strategic Products (ISP),and Deputy Director Ulf Lindell, Division for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation at the Swedish MFA, told post on July 8 that ISP and the Swedish Security Service (SAPO) had concluded thei [...]
2009-07-09 13:49:00Embassy StockholmSECRETPARM PREL MTCRE SY SW
09STOCKHOLM41564TH UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY: PRELIMINARY INFORMATION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-09 14:10:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDKSEP PREL OTRA OVIP CVIS UNGA SW
09STOCKHOLM416SWEDISH RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON NGO INVOLVEMENT AT
[...] (U) On July 9, Poloff spoke with Andreas Hilmerson, Deputy Director in the Department for Multilateral Development Cooperation, regarding NGO Involvement at the UN. Hilmerson expected a high-level EU ministerial declaration to be developed on NGO involvement at the UN in the next week or so, [...]
2009-07-09 14:10:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM SW
09STOCKHOLM417RWANDAN GENOCIDE SUSPECT TO BE EXTRADITED FROM
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-09 14:48:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDSOCI PREL PGOV RW EU SW
09STOCKHOLM418EUR A/S GORDON'S JULY 3 MEETINGS WITH THE EU
[...] (U) Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Phil Gordon met with the 27 EU Member State Political Directors in Stockholm July 3. He then met with the EU Political Directors "troika," comprising Swedish PolDir Bjorn Lyrvall, EU Council Secretariat DG Robert Cooper, EU External Re [...]
2009-07-09 16:15:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALEUN PREL PGOV IR RS SW
09STOCKHOLM423Media Reaction - Obama trip to Moscow, G8 and Ghana
[...] On July 12, the independent Stockholm morning daily "Dagens Nyheter" in a signed editorial by Peter Wolodarski opined on the Moscow visit under the headline 'Separate worlds in Moscow': "No cheering crowds met Barack Obama in Moscow. With yet another well-formulated and benevolent speech he [...]
2009-07-13 08:21:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PINS PHUM PINR PREF EUN SW
09STOCKHOLM425DEMARCHE DELIVERED: IMPLEMENTING UN SECURITY
[...] (C) Poloffs delivered refs A and B points to MFA Korea Desk officer Emma Nordlund on June 29, and Pol Counselor followed up with MFA Director General for Asia and Oceania Klas Molin on June 30. On July 13, Molin responded that Sweden is "on board" with the measures called for in UNSCR 1874 bu [...]
2009-07-14 05:54:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN EWWT EAIR PARM PREL KNNP MNUC MTRE
09STOCKHOLM426DEMARCHE DELIVERED: IMPLEMENTING UN SECURITY
[...] (C) Poloffs delivered refs A and B points to MFA Korea Desk officer Emma Nordlund on June 29, and Pol Counselor followed up with MFA Director General for Asia and Oceania Klas Molin on June 30. On July 13, Molin responded that Sweden is "on board" with the measures called for in UNSCR 1874 bu [...]
2009-07-14 05:54:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN EWWT EAIR PARM PREL KNNP MNUC MTRE
09STOCKHOLM428GAERC JULY 26-7 AGENDA: SWEDEN'S PRELIMINARY ITEMS
[...] (C) Summary: On July 14, Poloffs met with MFA Deputy EU Correspondent Jonas Wendel to discuss the July 27-8 GAERC agenda. He said that, as the Swedes intended, the agenda is short to focus discussion on the most important international issues. Currently, there are three B items: conclusions o [...]
2009-07-14 14:23:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PARM IC NK BM SO IR KE GG UN EU SW
09STOCKHOLM430SECRETARY'S REPLY TO CZECH FM FORWARDED TO SWEDISH
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-15 14:11:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP ODPC PARM MNUC PREL EEC CZ SW
09STOCKHOLM431DEMARCHE DELIVERED: HUMANITARIAN CRISIS IN
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-15 14:12:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PREF ET SOM KEN SW
09STOCKHOLM440SWEDEN TO DOUBLE CONTRIBUTION TO EUPOL IN
[...] (C) Swedish officials are working to double Sweden's contribution to the EUPOL policing mission in Afghanistan to 20 personnel by the end of the year. Nils Daag, Swedish MFA Director for Security Policy, told visiting DASD James Townsend on July 17 that more and more, Swedes understand that " [...]
2009-07-20 10:26:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM AF SW
09STOCKHOLM442SWEDES PREFER TO LET U.S. TAKE LEAD ON 1267
[...] (SBU) Summary: Swedish MFA Sanctions Coordinator Ambassador Per Saland told Emboff on July 21 that Sweden is pleased with the U.S. decision to review the 1267 list, and that Sweden looks forward to a constructive dialogue on this issue. Regarding the delisting of Al-Barakaat and Moumou, he sa [...]
2009-07-21 12:47:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN PREL PTER UNSC SW
09STOCKHOLM444MOVING FORWARD WITH UKRAINE, BELARUS, AND GEORGIA
[...] (SBU) Summary: On July 9, Poloffs and EUR/ACE Larry Silverman met with Malena Mard, Director of the Eastern Europe and Central Asian Department, and Johan Frisell, Head of the Eastern Europe Desk. Mard gave a rundown on the challenges Sweden expects during its EU Presidency between the EU and [...]
2009-07-21 14:42:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV UK BO GG EUN SW
09STOCKHOLM445JULY GAERC FOLLOW-UP WITH THE SWEDES
[...] (C) On July 17 and 20, Post followed-up on reftel GAERC demarche with Ambassador Marika Fahlen, MFA Horn of Africa Special Envoy; Johan Frisell, Georgia Desk Officer; and Magnus Scholdtz, EU Correspondent. --On Iran, they expect no "concrete steps" at the GAERC on additional sanctions until [...]
2009-07-21 16:19:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM PTER EUN ER SO IR GG SW
09STOCKHOLM446BALTIC SEA STRATEGY: A PRIORITY FOR SWEDISH EU
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Baltic Sea Strategy, a Swedish initiative that is one of its EU Presidency priorities, is a regional approach to deeper integration of environmental, economic, energy/transport, and security regulations and practices among the eight EU member states that surround the Baltic [...]
2009-07-21 16:42:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDNEI PREL ECON SENV ENRG EUR RU SW
09STOCKHOLM449SCENESETTER FOR DHS DEPUTY SECRETARY HOLL LUTE'S
[...] (U) Embassy Stockholm warmly welcomes you to Sweden. Bilateral relations are close and collaborative, and you will find good partners in Minister for Justice Beatrice Ask, Minister for Asylum and Migration Tobias Billstrom, and Minister of Defense Sten Tolgfors. Sweden's EU Presidency priorit [...]
2009-07-22 16:57:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPTER PHUM PREL EUN SW
09STOCKHOLM450Media Reaction - Guantanamo closure
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-23 06:31:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PINS PHUM PINR PREF EUN SW
09STOCKHOLM451SWEDES POSITIVE TO NEW MEMBERS JOINING THE CONTACT
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-23 08:17:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDEWWT MARR PGOV PHSA PHUM PREL SW
09STOCKHOLM452U.S.-EU JHA SENIOR LEVEL MEETING, STOCKHOLM, JULY 9-10,
[...] (SBU) Summary. U.S. and EU delegations met July 9 and 10 in Stockholm for the semiannual U.S.-EU Justice and Home Affairs Informal Senior Level Meeting. The meeting was unusually lively, substantive and outcome oriented, covering a lengthy agenda in an efficient manner. Delegates were well pr [...]
2009-07-23 10:04:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PINR PREL SW
09STOCKHOLM454SWEDEN: RECENT IMPACT OF THE FINANCIAL CRISIS
[...] Summary: Based on stress tests, the Financial Supervisory Authority stated that Sweden would be able to handle the losses incurred by its major banks on loans made to Baltic countries. The situation in Latvia became somewhat more stable when the Government was able to present its plans to re [...]
2009-07-23 14:12:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDECIN ECON EFIN PGOV SW
09STOCKHOLM456SWEDEN TO CLOSE FIVE MISSIONS IN 2009
[...] (C) On July 23, the MFA officially announced the results of a controversy that has been brewing for some time: the closure of five of its missions abroad in 2009. This includes the consulates in New York and Los Angeles. MFA State Secretary Belfrage told CDA on June 30 that the closures and [...]
2009-07-23 15:05:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SW
09STOCKHOLM457BETTER TO JOIN AL-SHABAAB THAN DRINK BEER IN THE
[...] (U) Summary: Sweden was recently the target of a recruiting visit by an al-Shabaab spiritual leader, Xasaan Xussen, and a counter-visit by the Somali Minister of Justice, Abdirahman Janaqoo. The MFA and security service are concerned about the radicalization of Swedish-Somali youth by al-Shab [...]
2009-07-23 15:13:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPTER PINR PREL SO EUN SW
09STOCKHOLM458SWEDEN INFORMED ABOUT MANAS; REPLIES THAT VIOLENCE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-23 16:10:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALNATO PREL MOPS MARR AF SW
09STOCKHOLM459Media Reaction - Consulate closures
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-24 06:31:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PINS PHUM PINR PREF EUN SW
09STOCKHOLM460SWEDISH SUPPORT FOR AFGHAN ELECTIONS
[...] (U) On July 23, Poloffs raised reftel points with Carl Magnus Eriksson, MFA Director for Peace Support Operations; Brigadier General Gunnar Karlson, MFA Military Advisor; and Karin Anderman, Deputy Director in the Department of Security Policy. Eriksson directed us to a press statement indicat [...]
2009-07-24 07:26:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV SW
09STOCKHOLM461SKIRMISH, SWEDES KILL THREE EXTREMISTS IN NORTHERN
[...] (U) On July 23 at 2100 local time, Swedish troops came under fire in the Balkh district, three kilometers west of Mazar-e-Sharif, according to press and MFA sources. According to the Swedish Armed Forces, the attack on the Swedish rifle unit continued during the night. Reinforcements were disp [...]
2009-07-24 16:03:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER AF SW
09STOCKHOLM462SWEDES TO PROPOSE PARLIAMENTARY BILL ON 2010
[...] (C) Summary: Sweden is increasing its troop presence in Afghanistan to 500 soldiers by year-end. FM Bildt has visited Afghanistan twice in recent months, including the visit July 24 with Amb. Holbrooke. Senior MFA and MOD officials tell us the government is now preparing its annual bill to [...]
2009-07-24 17:07:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALNATO PREL MOPS MARR AF SW
09STOCKHOLM464TREASURY COHEN TALKS SANCTIONS WITH THE SWEDES
[...] (U) Summary: On June 18, Treasury's Assistant Secretary (A/S) for Terrorist Financing David Cohen, along with Treasury and Embassy Stockholm officials, met with Swedish officials involved with banking and sanctions policy. The Swedish interlocutors included Deputy Minister of Finance Mats Ode [...]
2009-07-27 12:44:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALECON TERR PREL PGOV IR NK SW
09STOCKHOLM466THE FOUR MAJOR SWEDISH BANKS REPORTING MAJOR CREDIT LOSSES
[...] Summary: Sweden's banking sector is highly concentrated, with four large banking groups (Nordea, Handelsbanken, Swedbank and Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken (SEB)) accounting for roughly 80 percent of sector assets. Beginning July 17, these four major banks presented their results for the seco [...]
2009-07-27 13:11:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDECIN ECON EFIN PGOV SW
09STOCKHOLM467SWEDISH EU PRESIDENCY TALKS TURKEY LEFTOVERS
[...] (C) Summary: Following a July 19 DVC between EUR DAS Matt Bryza and Swedish MFA Director of EU Affairs Lars Wahlund (reftel),PolOff meet with Peder Spangberg, Turkey Desk Officer on July 23 for follow-up. Spangberg said his ideal outcome from the EU Presidency on December 31 is "handing ever [...]
2009-07-28 07:22:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL EUN TU SW
09STOCKHOLM470IRANIANS BANNED FROM SWEDISH UNIVERSITIES
[...] The Swedish Security Police (SAPO),along with two other agencies - the Inspectorate of Strategic Products and the Radiation Safety Administration - recently sent letters to seven Swedish universities relaying an EU Council regulation that imposed restrictions on Iranian and North Korean stude [...]
2009-07-28 14:35:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PINR PTER IR SW
09STOCKHOLM474MEK SET UP CAMP OUTSIDE OF EMBASSY, PROTEST CAMP
[...] (C) Summary: At 1600 on July 28 a group from the National Council of Resistance of Iran, or Mujahideen-e Khalq (MEK),began an unauthorized, peaceful protest directly outside the U.S. Embassy. The groups has grown and ebbed in size, averaging 90 people. The police have authorized the protest [...]
2009-07-30 10:14:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL IR IQ SW
09STOCKHOLM476SWEDISH COMMENTS ON JORDAN-ONLY RED SEA
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-31 10:32:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALKWBG SENV PREL IS JO SW
09STOCKHOLM478SWEDISH ASSISTANCE TO AFGHANISTAN TO INCREASE TO
[...] (C) Summary: Embassy Stockholm has obtained an internal Swedish-language copy of a Swedish Foreign Ministry report on its Afghanistan aid program announced in a July 9 press release but which is still not available to the general public. This is the second in a series of cables detailing this [...]
2009-07-31 12:37:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALEAID PREL MOPS MARR AF SW
09STOCKHOLM484Media Reaction - Swedish Role in Afghanistan
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-03 07:06:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PINS PINR EUN AF SW
09STOCKHOLM486SWEDES HOPEFUL WORLD BANK AND JORDAN-ONLY WATER
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-03 12:54:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALKWBG SENV PREL JO SW
09STOCKHOLM488SWEDEN HOSTS INFORMAL EU JUSTICE AND HOME AFFAIRS
[...] Summary: On July 15-17, Sweden hosted an informal EU Justice and Home Affairs (JHA) ministerial outside of Stockholm. The ministerial devoted its discussions to the future "Stockholm Program", a five year program on continued cooperation within the JHA area. The Ministers met in different se [...]
2009-08-04 13:45:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDKJUS PGOV PREF PREL EUN SW
09STOCKHOLM490REPORTING OF SWEDISH MONEY LAUNDERING CASES DOUBLES
[...] (SBU) Summary: According to recently released figures from the Swedish Financial Police, there were 13,048 cases of suspected money laundering amounting to $1.2 billion in 2008, an increase of 116 percent compared to 2007. Banks did a better job of reporting, increasing from 1,310 cases in 200 [...]
2009-08-05 12:27:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTFN EFIN PGOV PTER SW
09STOCKHOLM491SWEDEN: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON MTCR RIO PLENARY
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-05 12:28:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALKSCA PARM PREL MNUC ETTC TSPA SW
09STOCKHOLM492SUPPORT FOR TORTURE VICTIMS AND EU ANTI-TORTURE
[...] This is Embassy Stockholm's response to reftel demarche. 2. Summary: Sweden has a long-standing commitment to support and provide treatment to torture victims. As current President of the EU, Sweden also plays a strategic role in developing a common EU policy on human rights and torture [...]
2009-08-05 13:35:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM EUN SW
09STOCKHOLM495SWEDES REPORT THAT U.S. RESEARCH VESSEL VIOLATES
[...] (SBU) Acting Economic Counselor was summoned to meet Deputy Director Andreas Ekengren, Security Policy Department, the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs (MFA) on August 6 to receive a written protest from the Government of Sweden (GOS). Ekengren told Emboff that the U.S. research vessel T- [...]
2009-08-07 11:07:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEWWT KRVC PBTS TPHY PGOV PHSA SW
09STOCKHOLM496JULY GAERC DETAILS AND GYMNICH LOOKAHEAD FROM
[...] (C) Acting DCM received additional details on the July 27 General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) of the EU,s Foreign Ministers (FMs) from Hakan Emsgard, chief of the MFA's European Section, together with ambassadors from Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Switzerland, and Japan. E [...]
2009-08-07 11:07:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EU SW IR SO AF PK
09STOCKHOLM5SWEDISH OFFICIAL ON IRAN: ELECTIONS, DOMESTIC
[...] (C) Summary: In an initial call in December on the Swedes in their upcoming EU Presidency capacity (reftel),EUR/ERA Director Bill Lucas met with the MFA's Iran expert and deputy head of the Middle East and North Africa Division, Dag Juhlin-Dannfelt. Dannfelt said: -- The EU3 has the policy [...]
2009-01-07 15:55:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV IR IS SW
09STOCKHOLM500SWEDISH EU PRESIDENCY'S PLANS FOR AFGHAN ELECTION
[...] The Swedish EU Presidency is working to develop an EU statement -- "a political blessing" -- to be released in conjunction with the August 20 elections in Afghanistan, MFA Afghanistan Desk Director Mathias Otterstedt told Poloffs August 11. Otterstedt, who had accompanied FM Bildt to Afghanis [...]
2009-08-11 15:48:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV KPAO AF SW
09STOCKHOLM502EU FEELING ITS WAY AHEAD WITH PAKISTAN
[...] (C) Summary. Nearly two months after the first EU-Pakistan summit on June 17, the EU is still working to identify counterterrorism and development projects that best suit the EU's capabilities and Pakistan's needs. Swedish MFA Pakistan Desk Officer Majeed Olerud told Poloffs August 7 that the [...]
2009-08-12 09:02:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER PREL EUN PK EU
09STOCKHOLM504SWEDEN'S PLAN TO MANAGE BORDER DISPUTES BETWEEN EU
[...] (C) Summary: Frustrated by the use of EU accession as a bargaining tool in border disputes, Sweden is working on a new mechanism to solve the problem, MFA Deputy Director General for Europe Lars Wahlund told PolCouns July 19. The Swedes would like to add a "Good Neighbor Policy" as a "pseudo [...]
2009-08-12 11:42:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR NATO KPKO KVIR EUN SW
09STOCKHOLM505FUTURE SWEDISH ISAF PARTICIPATION: TIMETABLE FOR
[...] (C) Summary: The Swedish Armed Forces will submit requirements to the government for the Swedish ISAF mission in Afghanistan by August 27, after which the Ministry of Defense (MOD) will initiate interagency meetings. The MFA will have the pen for the draft legislation extending Sweden's milit [...]
2009-08-13 06:45:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALNATO PREL MOPS MARR AF SW
09STOCKHOLM507SWEDISH RESPONSE AND EU DECLARATION ON AUNG SAN
[...] (U) Summary: The news of Aung San Suu Kyi's (ASSK) conviction prompted strong reactions, both from Swedish officials and from the Swedish EU Presidency. All sources condemned the verdict and weighed in on the possible effects of sanctions on Burma and against those responsible for the verdic [...]
2009-08-13 13:49:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PGOV PREL BM SW
09STOCKHOLM509SWEDEN POC FOR NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION TREATY
[...] (U) Amembassy Stockholm POC for nuclear nonproliferation issues is Economic Officer Richard W. LaRoche. Tel: 46 8 783 5326; Mobile: 46 70 783 5326; Fax: 46 8 783 5328; E-mail: larocherw@state.gov. 2. (U) The Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs primary contact for nuclear nonproliferation is [...]
2009-08-14 08:59:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP AORC ENRG MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA SW
09STOCKHOLM51SWEDISH MFA ON JANUARY GAERC
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-23 13:42:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EU SW
09STOCKHOLM510GICNT: SWEDEN INFORMED OF UNODC OBSERVER STATUS
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-14 09:00:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPARM PREL PTER SW
09STOCKHOLM512CLIMATE -- SWEDISH PM'S CLIMATE ADVISOR EXPRESSES NEED FOR
[...] (SBU) Summary: The comparability discussion continues to be important to the Europeans, and Reinfeldt's top climate advisor thinks that the mid-term target year needs to be moved beyond 2020. The Swedes sees potential in the MEF and are curious about the prospect of a limited MEF leaders' mee [...]
2009-08-14 13:19:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KGHG PREL SW
09STOCKHOLM513 Discussion with Sweden on Next Steps to Launch the "Next
[...] (U) Summary: Swedish officials are enthusiastic about launching the "Next Big Thing," a U.S.-EU Alternative Energy Partnership modeled on the U.S.-Sweden partnership. State Secretary for Energy Ola Altera said he will contact Sweden's Perm Rep in Brussels as soon as he had reviewed this with [...]
2009-08-14 13:19:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EIND ENRG EUN EWWT KGHG SENV TPHY TRGY
09STOCKHOLM514Media Reaction - Clinton Africa visit
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-17 09:22:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PINR SW XA
09STOCKHOLM515A/S CARSON'S SWEDEN VISIT AND U.S.-EU TROIKA
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-18 15:18:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALEAID ETTC EUN MARR PREL SW
09STOCKHOLM524SWEDES FAVOR U.S. PROPOSAL REGARDING IAEA SEARCH
[...] (C) On August 20, Deputy Economic Counselor discussed reftel points with Asa Gustafsson, Deputy Director, Department for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Gustafsson immediately characterized this as a very "complicated issue." She stated that Swe [...]
2009-08-21 10:52:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALKNNP AORC PREL PARM IAEA EG IS SW
09STOCKHOLM525SWEDISH RESPONSE: IAEA NUCLEAR FUEL BANK
[...] (SBU) Deputy Economic Counselor shared reftel points regarding IAEA nuclear fuel bank with Asa Gustafsson, Deputy Director, Department for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs on August 20. Gustafsson commented that Sweden had mentioned the fuel bank pr [...]
2009-08-21 10:53:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP ENRG IAEA EU SW
09STOCKHOLM526PREVIEW OF EU TROIKA'S AGENDA FOR S/E STERN'S AUGUST
[...] (SBU) Summary: Swedish Environment Minister Carlgren, who will head the EU troika in its Washington meeting with S/E Stern, wants to talk comparability, financing, and coordination of approaches to China and other key emerging economies. DCM suggested that the EU troika be prepared to focus [...]
2009-08-21 13:30:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KGHG PREL SW
09STOCKHOLM529SWEDISH RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON SOY ISSUE AT
[...] (SBU) On August 20, Emboff shared reftel points regarding the soy issue with Carina Knorpp, Senior Advisor at the Swedish Ministry of Agriculture. Knorpp commented that she was well aware of the findings of unapproved biotech corn dust in soybean meal imports from the U.S., and added that she [...]
2009-08-24 09:27:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD TBIO SW
09STOCKHOLM54SWEDEN PREPARES FOR G-8 IN JULY AND POSSIBLY G-20
[...] (SBU) PM Reinfeldt's foreign policy advisor, State Secretary Gustav Lind, told Charge January 20 that he would be Sweden's sherpa for the July G-8 Summit in Italy. Lind explained that Reinfeldt would represent the EU Presidency, as one of the three EU leaders at the Summit (EC President Barro [...]
2009-01-23 15:51:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL ECON SW
09STOCKHOLM542SWEDISH ARTICLE ON ISRAELI ORGAN HARVESTING OF
[...] (U) An August 17 article in the largest selling Swedish tabloid "Aftonbladet" alleged that Israeli soldiers harvested organs from Palestinian youths for sale on international markets, and it tied this allegation to a NYC-based organ trafficking ring. This resulted in a diplomatic feud between [...]
2009-08-24 14:09:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL IS SW
09STOCKHOLM543SWEDEN, COLUMBIA AND THE FARC
[...] (C) Summary: Swedish Foreign Ministry officials noted their dismay with recent evidence that Swedish arms, originally sold to Venezuela, were diverted to the FARC. They said this evidence would be sufficient to prevent any future proposed arms sales from Sweden to Venezuela and promised that t [...]
2009-08-25 05:37:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL XT XM RS CO VE SW SP
09STOCKHOLM545SWEDEN ASKS ABOUT U.S. EXPECTATIONS FOR THE G-20 SUMMIT;
[...] (SBU) Summary: As EU President, Sweden has asked what sort of political success the U.S. is seeking from the G-20 Summit in Pittsburgh. State Secretary for Finance Per Jansson noted the need to show concrete progress in handling the financial crisis, and on climate change. He also discusse [...]
2009-08-25 09:39:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON SENV PGOV PREL SW
09STOCKHOLM546PIRATE BAY CLOSED AS RESULT OF COURT INJUNCTION
[...] (U) Notorious BitTorrent tracker site "The Pirate Bay" was closed down on August 24 after a court injunction. The Stockholm District Court ordered the Internet Service Provider Black Internet to stop supplying the file sharing site The Pirate Bay with capacity. Faced with a fine of 500,000 k [...]
2009-08-25 11:10:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDKIPR ECON ETRD PGOV SW
09STOCKHOLM549AUSTRALIA GROUP: DEMARCHE DELIVERED IN SWEDEN
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-26 12:40:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPARM ETTC SW
09STOCKHOLM551SWEDISH LEGAL OBSTACLES TO EXPRESSING REGRET FOR
[...] Tensions between Israel and Sweden continue over an August 17 article in Sweden's largest tabloid newspaper, Aftonbladet, which alleged that Israeli troops harvested organs from Palestinian prisoners for sale on international markets. Press reports indicate Israel is asking for the GOS to cond [...]
2009-08-26 13:40:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PINR PREL SW
09STOCKHOLM552NEW SWEDISH DEFENSE PRIORITIES: SWEDEN PUTS
[...] (C) Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO Policy (DASD) James Townsend met with Ministry of Defense (MoD) Director General for Political Affairs Johan Raeder for bilateral defense consultations (BDCs) on July 17-18, the first such talks of what is expected to be an annual [...]
2009-08-26 16:43:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALKPKO KVIR MARR NATO PREL EUN SW
09STOCKHOLM553SWEDISH RESPONSE TO NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION
[...] (C) On August 25, Emboffs discussed reftel points regarding the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) review conference with Deputy General Director Christer Ahlstrom and Deputy Director Asa Gustafsson Department for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs [...]
2009-08-28 13:25:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALKNNP AORC ENRG MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA SW
09STOCKHOLM557AMBASSADOR'S FIRST MEETING WITH FOREIGN MINISTER
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador paid his first call on Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt August 28. The tone of the meeting was very positive, yet casual, as they exchanged anecdotes about their common experiences in the world of information technology. Highlights of the meeting included: [...]
2009-08-31 15:43:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM AF TU SW
09STOCKHOLM558SWEDISH NOTES ON SEPTEMBER GYMNICH AND GAERC
[...] (C) Summary: European Foreign Ministers will discuss the Middle East, Afghanistan and Pakistan (AfPak),and improving the EU as a global actor at their informal Gymnich meeting in Stockholm 4-5 September. EU Secretariat Deputy Director Jonas Wendel and officer Wouter Vidlund, seconded from the [...]
2009-08-31 15:57:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV AF IR IZ PK IS AL CE EUN SW
09STOCKHOLM56FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES GROUND SWEDISH FLIGHTS TO
[...] On January 24, the Swedish Transport Agency (STA) revoked the operating license of Nordic Airways, a carrier operating flights between Sweden and Iraq. The Stockholm District Court turned down a request by Nordic Airways, which had been operating with a temporary license, to extend the period [...]
2009-01-27 07:28:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDEAIR ECON IZ SW
09STOCKHOLM565SWEDES OFFER MORE DETAIL ON SEPTEMBER GYMNICH
[...] (C) Sweden's MFA Political Director Bjorn Lyrvall provided Pol Counselor with details on Swedish plans for discussions of the Middle East, Afghanistan and Pakistan (AfPak),and improving the EU as a global actor at the informal gathering of EU foreign ministers ("Gymnich meeting") in Stockholm [...]
2009-09-03 13:18:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV AF IR IZ PK IS AL CE EUN SW
09STOCKHOLM567CLIMATE - ENVIRONMENT MINISTER WANTS TO KEEP PRESSURE ON
[...] Summary: On September 2, Environment Minister Carlgren told the Ambassador that the EU Troika meetings with U.S. Special Envoy Stern were very useful in increasing EU understanding of U.S. thinking. He put his public statements that the U.S. needs to do more on climate change in context by sa [...]
2009-09-04 14:27:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KGHG PREL SW
09STOCKHOLM569 SWEDISH DEPUTY PM URGES SENIOR USG VISITS TO SWEDEN DURING
[...] (SBU) Summary: On September 2, Deputy Prime Minister Olofsson pressed for the strong U.S.-Sweden cooperation in alternative technology to show results. She urged a ministerial-level U.S. official come to the October 14-16 Informal meeting of EU Competitiveness Ministers to present U.S. effor [...]
2009-09-08 05:22:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG EUN ECON EIND KGHG SENV SW
09STOCKHOLM570SWEDEN,S PLANS FOR THE G-20, CONCERNS ABOUT THE
[...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with the U.S. Ambassador, Sweden,s Finance Minister Anders Borg praised the new mind set of the U.S. Administration that has us participating in international institutions. He urged the U.S. to keep countries focused on the political need to prevent an economic coll [...]
2009-09-08 08:34:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN PGOV PREL SENV SW
09STOCKHOLM572"SWEDISH" CARS SOON CHINESE?
[...] (U) Summary. Chinese car manufacturer Geely Automobile announced on September 8 that it is still interested in purchasing Volvo, now all of it. The news hit Sweden as Koenigsegg's Saab deal receives Chinese funding, creating fear among Swedish employees and workers unions that Swedish car ma [...]
2009-09-09 13:25:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN PGOV SW
09STOCKHOLM573PRIME MINISTER REIGNS IN PUBLIC STATEMENTS ON U.S.
[...] (C) The Swedish Prime Minister's office has issued an internal directive to reign in government officials following a series of inconsistent public statements on climate change, including statements by Environment Minister Andreas Carlgren that the U.S. needs to do more. The Ambassador had rai [...]
2009-09-09 13:54:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALSENV KGHG PREL SW
09STOCKHOLM574AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES ENLARGEMENT, AFGHANISTAN WITH
[...] (C) Summary. In the Ambassador's introductory call on the Minister for EU Affairs, Cecilia Malmstrom, the minister expressed Sweden's eagerness to work together with the United States on climate issues and in Afghanistan. She cautiously said the Swedish EU presidency so far was going "okay" and [...]
2009-09-10 12:43:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPINR PREL TU SW
09STOCKHOLM576AMBASSADOR TALKS CLIMATE, GUANTANAMO WITH SWEDISH
[...] (C) Summary: On September 2, the Prime Minister's State Secretary for Foreign and EU Affairs Gustaf Lind told the Ambassador that Prime Minister Reinfeldt was looking forward to his visit to Washington for the U.S.-EU Summit and that Reinfeldt hoped for meetings that would favor substance over [...]
2009-09-10 14:05:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPHUM SENV PREL SW
09STOCKHOLM577FOREIGN MINISTERS DISCUSS AFPAK, IRAN, MEPP AT
[...] (C) Summary: At the September 4-5 informal foreign ministers' meeting (Gymnich) in Stockholm, the Swedes deliberately limited the meeting agenda to provide adequate time for more thorough discussions, and the Swedes insisted on strict anonymity in reporting, a format that was broadly praised [...]
2009-09-10 15:09:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALAF AL CE EUN IR IS IZ PGOV PK PREL SY SW
09STOCKHOLM578 INVITATION FOR SECRETARY CLINTON AND SPECIAL ENVOY STERN
[...] (SBU) Summary and Action Request: If the Secretary and Special Envoy Stern are unavailable, Post recommends Deputy Secretary Lew or a similarly high-level USG official attend EU Development Days October 22-24 in order to present U.S. development priorities to EU Development Ministers and the [...]
2009-09-11 05:11:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEUN OVIP EAID ECON EIND KGHG SENV SW
09STOCKHOLM585SWEDISH DEFENSE MINISTER INVITATION TO GEN.
[...] (C) Summary: Swedish Minister of Defense Tolgfors very much hopes ISAF Commander General McChrystal will be able to attend a working dinner in Mazar-e Sharif on September 15, according to senior MOD officials. EU Special Representative to Afghanistan Sequi will attend the dinner, and UN Specia [...]
2009-09-11 14:26:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS AF SW
09STOCKHOLM586AFGHANISTAN, IRAN, CAUCASUS AT THE SEPTEMBER GAERC
[...] (C) Summary. Foreign Ministers will address Afghanisan and Pakistan (AfPak),Iran, and the South Caucasus at the General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) September 14-15. AfPak talks will center on fleshing out the EU's new regional strategy, reaction to final election results, [...]
2009-09-11 14:57:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALAF EUN IR PREL SW
09STOCKHOLM591SWEDISH REPLY TO AUSTRALIA GROUP
[...] (U) On September 10, Econoff received a more detailed technical response to the Australia Group Plenary meeting reftels (A, B, C, D, E) from Ulf Lindell, Deputy Director, Department for Disarmament and Nonproliferation at the Swedish MFA. Lindell also noted that the Swedes will send their exp [...]
2009-09-15 12:28:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPARM ETTC SW
09STOCKHOLM592SWEDES WILL ATTEND INITIAL SEPTEMBER 15 MEETING IN
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-15 12:29:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPARM MNUC KNNP SW
09STOCKHOLM593SWEDISH MINISTER FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-16 13:50:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ETRD EAGR UNGA SW
09STOCKHOLM594SWEDEN: ATTENDANCE AND OBJECTIVES AT THE AD-HOC
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-16 14:44:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDKPAL EAID PGOV SW
09STOCKHOLM596PATH OF LEAST RESISTANCE: SWEDEN ON RUSSIAN ARMS
[...] (C) Summary: Sweden, in a bilateral manner and not as EU President, briefed EU Member States at the September 4 COARM meeting on the discovery that 1980s-era Swedish-origin missile launchers sold to Venezuela ended up in FARC arms caches in Colombia (reftel A). They also plan to issue a "stat [...]
2009-09-18 11:08:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPARM PREL XT XM RS CO VE SW SP
09STOCKHOLM597RISE IN AFGHAN AND SOMALI MINORS TO SWEDEN, NORWAY
[...] (U) Summary: A sharp rise in unaccompanied minors from Afghanistan and Somalia has been reported in Sweden, Norway and Finland, according to UNHCR's regional office in Stockholm. UNHCR explains that the teens are smuggled through Europe in order to escape deteriorating security and economic s [...]
2009-09-18 14:28:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREF PREL UNHCR EUN NO FI SW
09STOCKHOLM598SWEDISH EU PRESIDENCY CALLS FOR DELIVERY ON DONOR
[...] (C) EconOffs met with Foreign Ministry Middle East and North Africa Department officers on 18 September to follow-up on a previous demarche regarding the Ad-Hoc Liaison Committee Meeting on 22 September (reftel). The Ministry's Palestinian Affairs desk officer reiterated the urgency of a dura [...]
2009-09-21 14:00:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALKPAL EAID PGOV IS SW
09STOCKHOLM599WHO IS CARL BILDT?
[...] (C) Summary. As Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt heads to New York and Washington, we wanted to give you some background on this independent-minded individual who nevertheless wants very much to work with the United States to solve a variety of international problems. --A product of the C [...]
2009-09-21 14:08:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL AF IR RU SW
09STOCKHOLM60SWEDES SOUR ABOUT U.S. TRADE SANCTIONS ON LINGONBERRIES
[...] In a January 19 reference to the recently announced U.S. trade sanctions on a large number of European products, Swedish Minister for Trade Ewa Bjorling issued a press statement that Sweden was "disappointed that the U.S. has chosen to escalate the hormone-treated meat conflict, not least in a [...]
2009-01-28 14:28:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECON PREL SW
09STOCKHOLM600SWEDISH RESPONSE: UNGA WALKOUT REDLINES
[...] (C) On September 21, Pol Counselor delivered reftel points to Andres Jato, Chief of Staff for MFA Political Director Bjorn Lyrvall. Jato replied September 22 that Lyrvall had sent him the following message: "With respect to the Political Director's meeting, we agreed on a line of policy to ha [...]
2009-09-22 15:26:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL UNGA SW
09STOCKHOLM603Media Reaction - President's UN climate speech
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-23 13:08:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDKGHG OPRC KMDR KPAO PINR SW XA
09STOCKHOLM604SWEDEN URGES THE EU-US SUMMIT NOTE COOPERATION ON
[...] (U) Summary: Sweden's Minister of Health has urged the U.S. to support Sweden's efforts to have the Leaders Declaration from the US-EU Summit state that the US and EU will work together against the silent pandemic of antibiotic/antimicrobial resistance, especially on providing needed incentive [...]
2009-09-23 13:10:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PGOV EU SENV PREL SW
09STOCKHOLM605SWEDISH VIEWS ON RECENT TURKEY/CYPRUS DEVELOPMENTS
[...] (C) Summary: Swedish MFA officers told us September 23 that "those closest" to the on-going Cyprus talks, including UN Special Envoy Alexander Downer, were optimistic about a "break-through" in November. With regards to Turkey, the Swedes admit there is a deal in place between French Presiden [...]
2009-09-23 15:10:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV TU CY EUN SW
09STOCKHOLM606SWEDISH ENVOY TO HORN OF AFRICA TALKS ABOUT SOMALIA
[...] (C) Summary: On September 15, Emboffs met with Swedish Special Envoy to the Horn of Africa Ambassador Marika Fahlen to discuss her 12 day visit to Egypt, Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya and Djibouti. Fahlen strongly emphasized the need for a combination of a bottom-up and top-down approach to stabil [...]
2009-09-24 13:42:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALEAID PHUM PTER KECF KGHA SW
09STOCKHOLM607SWEDISH ENVOY TO HORN OF AFRICA TALKS ABOUT SOMALIA
[...] (C) Summary: On September 15, Emboffs met with Swedish Special Envoy to the Horn of Africa Ambassador Marika Fahlen to discuss her 12 day visit to Egypt, Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya and Djibouti. Fahlen strongly emphasized the need for a combination of a bottom-up and top-down approach to stabil [...]
2009-09-25 06:07:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALEAID PHUM PTER KECF KGHA SW
09STOCKHOLM609DIASPORA ENGAGEMENT IN SWEDEN
[...] Summary: Diaspora communities are vibrant and visible in Swedish life. Many of these groups arrived because of war and conflict at home. Some of the largest diaspora groups in Sweden include Iraqis (110,000),Iranians (80,000). Kurds (60,000) and Somalis (25,000). In-country outreach to imm [...]
2009-09-25 12:41:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL BEXP BITO EAID OEXC OIIP PGOV SW
09STOCKHOLM610KREMLIN COLD SHOULDER: EU-RUSSIA SUMMIT SET FOR
[...] (C) Summary: Moscow finally agreed to attend the EU-Russia Summit to be hosted by the Swedish EU Presidency in Stockholm on November 18. But the Russians are still refusing a bilateral leaders' meeting between President Medvedev and PM Reinfeldt. Comment: The agreed summit date relieves some [...]
2009-09-25 12:50:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EUN RU SW
09STOCKHOLM615"WE LOOK UNCOORDINATED": SWEDES "EMBARRASSED" BY
[...] (C) In a September 25 discussion with Poloff, Swedish Desk Officer for Iran, Ulf Samuelsson, confirmed media reports that Sweden, as EU President, did not/not walk out during Iranian Pres. Ahmadinejad's UNGA speech on September 24. He said the red lines agreed upon by the EU-27 -- the denial o [...]
2009-09-25 14:04:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV IR UN EUN SW
09STOCKHOLM616COUNCIL OF BALTIC SEA STATES SECRETARIAT CALLS FOR U.S.
[...] (U) Summary: The USG is invited to the Council of Baltic Sea States (CBSS) Annual Consultation between the Committee of Senior Officials (CSO) and the CBSS Observer States, in Stockholm on October 6. At a September 24 preparatory meeting, the CBSS Secretariat Director asked of Observer State [...]
2009-09-28 05:11:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV PGOV PREL SW
09STOCKHOLM62IRANIAN MUJAHEDIN-E-KHALAQ (MEK) PROTESTS IN SWEDEN
[...] (C) In advance of the January 25 GAERC, hundreds of exile Iranians demonstrated in downtown Stockholm to have Mujahedin-E-Khalaq (MEK, also known as the People,s Mujahedin Organization of Iran or POI) removed from the EU Terrorist list. After MEK's removal by EU foreign ministers at the Janua [...]
2009-01-29 09:26:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER PINR PREL IR SW
09STOCKHOLM620 SWEDES WORKING ON CLIMATE CHANGE TEMPTED BY THE PROSPECT
[...] (SBU) Summary: During a September 25 meeting, Swedish Environment Ministry officials continued to resist U.S. urgings that the U.S. and EU speak with one voice to pressure emerging economies on climate change, but showed some weakening in their resolve when the conversation turned to the speci [...]
2009-09-29 13:23:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KGHG PREL SW
09STOCKHOLM624SWEDISH SUPPORT TO THE AFRICAN GREAT LAKES REGION
[...] (U) Summary: During his one-day visit to Stockholm on September 3, Special Envoy to the African Great Lakes Region Howard Wolpe outlined three themes for U.S. engagement in the Great Lakes: peace consolidation, regional economic integration, and interstate cohesion on security issues. The Swe [...]
2009-09-30 11:13:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALBE EMIN MARR MCAP PGOV PHUM PREL XW ZF ZU
09STOCKHOLM625SWEDEN ASKS FOR U.S. VIEWS ON CHINESE PURCHASE OF VOLVO AND
[...] (SBU) Summary: During a meeting with the Ambassador, Swedish State Secretary for Enterprise Goran Hagglund described "very strong Chinese interest" in buying 100% of Volvo-cars, which is owned by Ford, and 30-40% of Saab which is owned by GM. He said his government had asked the companies to [...]
2009-10-01 05:17:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKIPR EINV ETRD PREL SW CM
09STOCKHOLM629SWEDISH DEFENSE MINISTER ON AFGHANISTAN: "PLEASE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In his October 2 meeting with the Ambassador, Swedish Defense Minister Tolgfors spoke primarily about Afghanistan. Highlights included: -- Security in Sweden's PRT was good during the elections but is declining overall. Swedish troops are patrolling more aggressively as a res [...]
2009-10-06 09:12:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PMIL PGOV KPAO AF SW
09STOCKHOLM63SWEDISH RESPONSE: DESIGNATION OF FOUR AL-QAIDA
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-30 13:33:00Embassy StockholmSECRETEFIN ETTC PINR PREL PTER IR SW
09STOCKHOLM630MARINE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH POC IN SWEDEN
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-06 11:12:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDKRVC TPHY EWWT SW
09STOCKHOLM631SWEDISH GOVERNMENT PUBLICALLY PRESSURES LATVIAN GOVERNMENT
[...] (U) Summary: Swedish officials publicly chastised the Government of Latvia for its inability to present a 2010 budget that would satisfy IMF and EU conditions during the annual IMF meeting this weekend. Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt and Finance Minister Andres Borg warned Riga that [...]
2009-10-07 05:21:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON ECIN PGOV SW
09STOCKHOLM632SWEDISH GOVERNMENT PUBLICALLY PRESSURES LATVIAN GOVERNMENT
[...] (U) Summary: Swedish officials publicly chastised the Government of Latvia for its inability to present a 2010 budget that would satisfy IMF and EU conditions during the annual IMF meeting this weekend. Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt and Finance Minister Andres Borg warned Riga that [...]
2009-10-07 05:22:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON ECIN PGOV SW
09STOCKHOLM64SWEDISH RESPONSE: TERRORISM FINANCE:
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-30 13:35:00Embassy StockholmSECRETEFIN PTER PINR PREL SW
09STOCKHOLM640SWEDISH DEVELOPMENT MINISTER CARLSSON INVITES
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-09 12:25:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PHUM KWMN SW
09STOCKHOLM641SWEDEN ON P5+1 IRAN TALKS: RUSSIAN TRR SUPPORT IS
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-09 15:13:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL IR SW
09STOCKHOLM649SWEDISH MFA STATE SECRETARY FRANK BELFRAGE ON USEU
[...] (C) DCM discussed U.S.-EU Summit preparations and climate change with MFA State Secretary Frank Belfrage (DepSec equivalent) on October 13, two days before Belfrage's trip to Washington for talks with NSC and State counterparts. --Sweden still agreed with A/S Gordon's views expressed at the [...]
2009-10-13 15:08:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL SENV PGOV IR SW
09STOCKHOLM65PLANNED SPRINGTIME VISITS BY SENIOR SWEDISH OFFICIALS TO
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-30 15:44:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PINR PREL OVIP SW
09STOCKHOLM653SWEDEN SUPPORTING EU-POSITION ON GOLDSTONE REPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-15 13:59:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDKPAL PREL PHUM PTER EUN SW
09STOCKHOLM654SWEDISH PREVIEW OF OCTOBER GAERC
[...] (SBU) Deputy EU Correspondent Jonas Wendel told poloff on October 16 that the October 26-7 GAERC will be done according to the "Bildt Format," which begins with a dinner on the 26th, and a full day of discussions on the 27th. The dinner topics are: --Iran non-proliferation issues, and maybe [...]
2009-10-15 15:15:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV IR AF CE ZL ZF EUN SW
09STOCKHOLM66DEFENSE MINISTER DISCUSSES ISAF, KFOR WITH CDA
[...] (S) On January 30, CDA, DAO and poloff met with Minister of Defense Sten Tolgfors. CDA thanked Sweden for its continued contributions to ISAF and KFOR and said the U.S. supports expansion of Sweden's international military operations. Tolgfors' points were: -- ISAF: Tolgfors said possible [...]
2009-01-30 16:54:00Embassy StockholmSECRETPMIL AF BK XZ ZB SW
09STOCKHOLM660SCENESETTER FOR ACTING ADMINISTRATOR FULGHAM's OCTOBER
[...] (U) Summary and Introduction: The U.S. Embassy in Stockholm warmly welcomes your visit to Sweden. The Government of Sweden is focusing its EU Presidency on several global priorities, including the financial crisis, climate change and development issues. Bilateral US-Sweden relations are close [...]
2009-10-20 06:29:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD PREL IZ IR SW
09STOCKHOLM662FRAUD SUMMARY - STOCKHOLM
[...] Summary: As Sweden hosts the Presidency of the European Union from June through December 2009, one of the top priorities at the EU and national level remains refugees. Embassy Stockholm continues to deal with Sweden's large population of third country nationals, many with insufficient identif [...]
2009-10-21 12:38:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDCMGT CVIS KFRD ASEC CPAS SW
09STOCKHOLM666DISCUSSED CONCERN OVER EC/SWISS POSITIONS ON GEOGRAPHICAL
[...] (SBU) Summary: The GOS has come to the conclusion that the Geographical Indications issue (GIs) is hugely important to some five EU Member States; it is perhaps the primary Doha issue for some MS. The GOS determination is that it can "stomach it", as a necessary component of an EU-wide comp [...]
2009-10-23 13:22:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD PREL EU SW
09STOCKHOLM667SWEDEN LEADS EU TROIKA TO NORTH KOREA
[...] (C) Poloffs met with MFA Director General for Asia Klas Molin October 22 to deliver reftel points and discuss the EU Troika's planned visit to North Korea October 27-31; we also spoke earlier with North Korea desk office Emma Nordlund. Sweden holds the rotating EU Presidency, so Molin will lead [...]
2009-10-23 14:21:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV NK EUN SW
09STOCKHOLM668SWEDEN LEADS EU TROIKA TO NORTH KOREA
[...] (C) Poloffs met with MFA Director General for Asia Klas Molin October 22 to deliver reftel points and discuss the EU Troika's planned visit to North Korea October 27-31; we also spoke earlier with North Korea desk office Emma Nordlund. Sweden holds the rotating EU Presidency, so Molin will lead [...]
2009-10-23 14:24:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV NK EUN SW
09STOCKHOLM669SWEDISH MFA: EU TESTING THE WATERS WITH BURMA
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-23 14:54:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EUN BM SW
09STOCKHOLM672SWEDEN TRIPLES ITS TOKYO PLEDGE TO PAKISTAN
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-27 07:53:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDEAID EFIN PK SW
09STOCKHOLM674COUNCIL OF BALTIC SEA STATES SEEKS MORE COLLABORATION WITH
[...] Summary: On October 6, REO and Embassy staff attended the annual consultations between the Council of Baltic Sea States and its observer states (including the U.S.). CBSS officials presented priorities for the upcoming year and highlighted successful ongoing cooperation under CBSS experts gro [...]
2009-10-27 13:49:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDSENV PGOV PREL SW
09STOCKHOLM676'SPOTIFY FOR MOVIES' PARTNERS WITH BREDBANDSBOLAGET
[...] Summary: Voddler, also known as 'the Spotify of Movies,' was launched Tuesday Oct. 27. The service which offers access to movies online using streaming instead of downloads is expected to be a great success. End summary. 2. Voddler and Bredbandsbolaget, the second largest broadband provi [...]
2009-10-28 14:06:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDKIPR ETRD ECON PREL SW
09STOCKHOLM677SCENESETTER FOR SWEDISH PRIME MINISTER REINFELDT
[...] (C) Mr. President, You will meet with Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt next week when he leads the EU Troika delegation at the U.S.-EU Summit in Washington. Reinfeldt was an early public supporter of your candidacy and strongly endorses many aspects of your global agenda, including cli [...]
2009-10-28 17:32:00Embassy StockholmSECRETPREL ECON ETRD EFIN SENV EUN SW
09STOCKHOLM678SWEDISH VIEWS OF LATVIA'S 2010 BUDGET PROPOSAL
[...] (U) Summary: Sweden is optimistic about Latvia's 2010 budget proposal, but Stockholm is concerned about the income distribution effects of the measures. Sweden's appeals to shift more of the fiscal adjustment burden from expenditure cuts to tax increases have been rejected by Riga so far. Supp [...]
2009-10-29 14:09:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN PREL ECON SW
09STOCKHOLM679WHO IS SWEDISH PRIME MINISTER FREDRIK REINFELDT?
[...] (C) Summary: As Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt heads to Washington, we wanted to give you some background on this composed and reflective individual. This cable draws on personal observations of Post personnel and a review of recent public documents, and sketches Reinfeldt's most salient pe [...]
2009-10-30 07:05:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SW
09STOCKHOLM680SWEDEN AND EU INVITE USG TO ATTEND DONOR
[...] On October 26, Post received an invitation (ref) to attend an information meeting at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs (MFA)to discuss mobilizing grant funding from donors for a support fund to help achieve greater energy efficiency and energy security in Eastern Europe. The invitation [...]
2009-10-30 07:19:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDKGHG ECON EAID EPET ECIN ENRG UK SW
09STOCKHOLM685OBAMA-REINFELDT DOMINATE HEADLINES IN SWEDEN
[...] (U) SUMMARY: All major news outlets covered the bilateral meeting between President Obama and Prime Minister Reinfeldt on November 2 and focused on the climate change discussion. Outlets relayed Reinfeldt's sentiments on the importance of an agreement at the summit in December with an understa [...]
2009-11-03 13:58:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PINR SW XA
09STOCKHOLM686OPPOSITION SOCIAL DEMS PLAN FOR 2010 ELECTIONS
[...] (U) Sweden's opposition Social Democratic Party (SDP),the largest party in Parliament, held its 36th annual conference October 28-November 1. At the conference, the party decided its future domestic and foreign policy platforms -- all with an eye on the September 2010 general elections, when [...]
2009-11-03 15:11:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PINR PREL SW
09STOCKHOLM687SWEDISH RESPONSE TO SUDAN STRATEGY
[...] (U) Poloff shared reftel points with Fredrik Folkunger, Desk Officer, Department of West Africa and the Horn of Africa on November 3. Folkunger expressed enthusiasm for the new U.S. Sudan strategy and emphasized that the Swedes "see no real divergent opinions" in the text. Sweden supports co [...]
2009-11-04 11:27:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL SU SW
09STOCKHOLM688U.S. EU SUMMIT CONTINUES TO RECEIVE MAJOR MEDIA ATTENTION
[...] (U) SUMMARY: All major Swedish news outlets covered the U.S.-EU summit on November 3, focusing on the U.S.-EU search for common ground on climate. Outlets conveyed cautions from both sides that there should be no expectation of a binding international climate agreement in Copenhagen. Media fe [...]
2009-11-04 13:27:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PINR SW XA
09STOCKHOLM69SWEDEN PREPARES TO LEAD ON CLIMATE ISSUES DURING EU
[...] This cable contains action requests at para 8. 2. Summary. The Government of Sweden is organized to actively lead the EU during its Presidency, with the climate issue as its top priority -- and no close second. In a February 2 meeting between Embassy and Sweden's top climate officials, the [...]
2009-02-04 15:18:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDSENV KGHG PREL SW
09STOCKHOLM691SWEDISH LEFT PARTY'S FOREIGN POLICY GOALS: TROOPS
[...] (C) Summary: On November 4, MP Hans Linde, the Left Party's foreign affairs spokesman, gave poloff a preview of his party's policy priorities, including on labor rights and Afghanistan -- two issues which are obstacles to consensus within the opposition Red-Green Coalition. Coalition parties [...]
2009-11-05 14:03:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINR TU EUN AF SW
09STOCKHOLM692MORE TURKEY TIDBITS
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-05 14:03:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV TU CY EUN SW
09STOCKHOLM693DEMARCHE ON USG CONCERNS ABOUT SRI LANKAN DEFENSE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-05 14:18:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON EFIN CE SW
09STOCKHOLM694SWEDEN APPROVES NORD STREAM PIPELINE
[...] Summary: On November 5, the Government of Sweden approved the request by Nord Stream AG to lay two pipelines to transport natural gas through international waters within Sweden's economic zone in the Baltic Sea. The pipeline would supply Germany with natural gas from Russia. In announcing the [...]
2009-11-06 06:38:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDENRG SENV PREL RU GM SW
09STOCKHOLM698EMBASSY STOCKHOLM REQUESTS TWO INTERNS FOR SUMMER
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-06 13:23:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT APER ASEC SW
09STOCKHOLM699SWEDES SEND BILATERAL COMMENT TO IMF CHAIR
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-06 13:30:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON EFIN CE SW
09STOCKHOLM701SWEDISH BANKING SECTOR STABLE, BUT CHALLENGES REMAIN
[...] Summary: All four major Swedish banks continued to see deteriorations to their credit portfolios in the third quarter primarily as a result of exposure to the Baltic region and Ukraine, but signs of improvement appeared in the form of decelerating credit losses. Market commentators continued t [...]
2009-11-09 06:15:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN PREL ECON SW
09STOCKHOLM702SWEDISH BANKING SECTOR STABLE, BUT CHALLENGES REMAIN
[...] Summary: All four major Swedish banks continued to see deteriorations to their credit portfolios in the third quarter primarily as a result of exposure to the Baltic region and Ukraine, but signs of improvement appeared in the form of decelerating credit losses. Market commentators continued t [...]
2009-11-09 06:15:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN PREL ECON SW
09STOCKHOLM703 SWEDEN: 2009-2010 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY
[...] Sweden is not a significant illicit drug producing country. However, police report that Sweden is increasingly becoming a transit country for illegal drugs to other Nordic countries and Eastern European states. The fight against illegal drugs is an important government priority and enjoys stro [...]
2009-11-09 13:29:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR PGOV PREL KSEP SW
09STOCKHOLM704 SWEDEN: 2009-2010 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-09 13:30:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR PGOV PREL KSEP SW
09STOCKHOLM705 SWEDEN: 2009-2010 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY
[...] Sweden is not a significant illicit drug producing country. However, police report that Sweden is increasingly becoming a transit country for illegal drugs to other Nordic countries and Eastern European states. The fight against illegal drugs is an important government priority and enjoys stro [...]
2009-11-09 14:46:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR PGOV PREL KSEP SW
09STOCKHOLM706SWEDES SAY NO BAN ON SELLING INSURANCE TO IRISL, BUT SALE
[...] (SBU) Summary. Swedish government officials said that EU rules prohibit Sweden from following the UK's ban on the sale of protection & indemnity insurance to certain Iranian entities, but note that the Nordic market insurance sellers are unlikely to sell to Iranians for business reasons. En [...]
2009-11-10 07:58:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ETTC KNNP SW
09STOCKHOLM707SOCIAL DEM LEADER SAHLIN MEETS WITH AMBASSADOR
[...] (C) Summary: On November 9, Ambassador met with Social Democratic Party (SDP) Leader Mona Sahlin. Highlights of the conversation were: SDP supports Sweden's continued mission in Afghanistan; Sahlin would like to see increased cooperation with the U.S. on environment and cultural issues; and th [...]
2009-11-10 09:44:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EUN SW
09STOCKHOLM708IRAN - STATEMENT ON EMBASSY TAKE-OVER ANNIVERSARY
[...] On November 4 representatives of "The Green Movement of the People of Iran" delivered the statement in para 2 to U.S. Embassy Stockholm. They stated that the group was delivering the same statement to thirty (30) other U.S. Embassies. Embassy Stockholm received the document without comment. [...]
2009-11-12 07:12:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL ASEC SW IR
09STOCKHOLM709SWEDEN'S STATE SECRETARY SPILLS ON IRAN, ISRAEL,
[...] (C) Summary: On November 9, DCM and acting PolCouns met with State Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Frank Belfrage, to review Swedish perspectives on the November 3-4 US-EU Summit. Belfrage relayed EU thinking on Iran (expert level groups are in constant discussions on appropriate types of sanc [...]
2009-11-12 12:16:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EUN IR AF SW
09STOCKHOLM711SWEDISH GOSSIP ON NEW EU POSITIONS
[...] (C) On November 11, Swedish Deputy EU Correspondent Jonas Wendel gave acting PolCouns the Swedish scoop on the wheeling and dealing for new positions in Brussels. Reinfeldt has already spoken with each EU Member State and the announcement of the November 19 extraordinary meeting is an indicati [...]
2009-11-12 13:15:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EUN SW
09STOCKHOLM712SWEDEN'S MENU FOR THE NOV. 16-7 SUPER GAERC
[...] (C) Summary: On November 11, Deputy EU Correspondent Jonas Wendel discussed November 16-7 Super GAERC points with Acting PolCouns. Highlights include: improving EU-NATO cooperation; deciding on a way forward with Russia; preparing for the EU-Ukraine Summit; extending sanctions on Belarus; impr [...]
2009-11-12 13:24:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EUN RU AF IS SW
09STOCKHOLM713SWEDISH SOLDIERS CRITICALLY INJURED IN AFGHANISTAN
[...] On November 11, five Swedish soldiers on patrol west of Mazar-e-Sharif were injured by an IED roadside bomb; their local interpreter died. Two of the soldiers suffered life-threatening injuries. The attack is the most serious for Swedish troops since November 2005, when two lieutenants were k [...]
2009-11-13 10:55:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PINR PREL SW
09STOCKHOLM714GOVERNMENT OF SWEDEN STIMULATES THE ECONOMY, AND VOTERS,
[...] (U) Summary: On September 21, the Swedish Government presented its Budget Bill for 2010 to Parliament. The Budget is geared to both combat the economic recession, and garner votes in 2010 national elections. According to the Swedish Government, the SEK 32 billion (USD 4.6 billion) in new spe [...]
2009-11-13 12:26:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ECON SW
09STOCKHOLM715Swedish EU Presidency Minister for Communications Visit to
[...] This is an Action Request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. Summary and Action Request: Post recommends appropriate policy-level Washington officials meet with Swedish Minister of Communications Asa Torstensson during her November 30-December 3 visit because she is seeking U.S. input into her [...]
2009-11-13 12:45:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDECPS KIPR ETRD EINT OVIP PGOV SW
09STOCKHOLM718Update on Swedish EU Presidency Minister for Communications
[...] (U) Summary: In Reftel, Post recommended appropriate policy-level Washington officials meet with Swedish Minister of Communications Asa Torstensson during her November 30-December 3 visit because she is seeking U.S. input into her efforts to "set the starting position" for discussions of the [...]
2009-11-16 13:00:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDECPS ETTC KIPR SENV EINT ETRD OVIP PGOV SW
09STOCKHOLM719SWEDEN AND EU INVITE SECRETARY CLINTON TO ATTEND
[...] Desk Officer Erik Holmqvist, Department for Eastern Europe and Central Asia, Development Division at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, told post on November 17 that Sweden has invited Secretary Clinton to attend a donor conference on Eastern Europe Energy Efficiency and Environmental P [...]
2009-11-17 12:34:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDKGHG ECON EAID EPET RECIN ENRG UK SW
09STOCKHOLM72SWEDISH GOVERNMENT ANNOUNCES ADDITIONAL MEASURES TO
[...] Summary: On February 3, the Government announced a U.S. $6 billion rescue package for the banking sector, utilizing the Stability Fund introduced in October of 2008. The package is designed to enable banks to increase lending to businesses and households. Sweden's major banks continue to st [...]
2009-02-05 10:21:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN SW
09STOCKHOLM720SWEDES ON EU-RUSSIA SUMMIT NOVEMBER 18
[...] (C) Summary: Poloffs on November 6 met with Swedish MFA Deputy Director for Eastern Europe and Central Asia Tobias Thyberg to discuss the November 18 EU-Russian Summit in Stockholm. The summit agenda will focus on climate change, the financial crisis, and energy issues. Leaders are also expec [...]
2009-11-17 13:48:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EUN RU SW
09STOCKHOLM723 MINISTER MALMSTROM ANNOUNCED AS SWEDEN'S NEW EU
[...] On November 17, PM Reinfeldt announced Cecilia Malmstrom, Minister for EU Affairs, as Sweden's new EU Commissioner. "She is a devout European with genuine academic background and experience as MEP", said Reinfeldt. Despite rumors that the position would be kept within the Moderate Party, PM [...]
2009-11-18 10:50:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PINR PREL EU SW
09STOCKHOLM724SWEDES WILL SUPPORT U.S. CANDIDACY FOR THE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-18 12:25:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDAORC EWWT PHSA UK SW
09STOCKHOLM727CHEMICAL TERRORISM CONFERENCE DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-19 08:04:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPARM PREL CWC SW
09STOCKHOLM728SWEDES DENY EGYPTIANS' ASYLUM APPEAL
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-20 09:48:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV SW
09STOCKHOLM729SWEDEN ON OUR CONCERNS WITH SERBIA'S PROPOSED ANNEX AT
[...] (U) Post relayed reftel points to Foreign Ministry desk officer for Serbia and Kosovo, Ms. Asa Pehrson. She was aware of the issue, as her Kosovo contacts have expressed concern about Serbia's proposed Annex at the ITU Study Group 2 meeting underway in Geneva. She was happy to get additional [...]
2009-11-20 10:33:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDIO PREL ECON ECPS KVPR ITU SW
09STOCKHOLM73ISRAELI AND IRAQI AMBASSADORS TALK IRAN AND
[...] (S) Summary: On February 2, at a dinner hosted by the CDA, Iraqi Ambassador Ahmad Bamarni and Israeli Ambassador Benny Dagan held a friendly and thought-provoking discussion on the Middle East. UK Ambassador Andrew Mitchell, Swedish MFA Director General for the Middle East Robert Rydberg, and [...]
2009-02-05 10:24:00Embassy StockholmSECRETPREL PINR MEPP IS IR IZ SW
09STOCKHOLM730IAEA REPORT ON SYRIA DELIVERED TO SWEDES
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-20 13:12:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALKNNP PARM IAEA SY SW
09STOCKHOLM732STOCKHOLM: RESPONSE TO REVIEW FOR SUSPENSION OF
[...] (U) The information in this message is keyed to questions posed in reftel. 2. (C) Has Sweden worked to promote the advancement of democracy and human rights in Cuba? -- The official position of the Swedish MFA is that to "support democratic forces" and to contribute to "positive changes [...]
2009-11-23 12:05:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALETRD ETTC PREL PGOV CU SW
09STOCKHOLM733SWEDEN: INTERNET PIRACY UPDATE
[...] (U) Summary: Implementation of the European Union's Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED) continues to be controversial in Sweden. During their recent party congress, the opposition Social Democrat Party decided that the legislation needs to be changed. On a positive note, [...]
2009-11-24 06:43:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDKIPR EINT ECPS ETRD PGOV SW
09STOCKHOLM734Sweden's Economic Outlook Improves, But Problems Remain
[...] (U) Summary: Sweden's economy continues to recover. Although still in recession, the 2009 fall in GDP is projected to be less at 4.6 percent. Unemployment will peak earlier than expected, and at a slightly lower level of 10.7 percent. Finance Ministry projections remain somewhat more negativ [...]
2009-11-24 06:44:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ECON PGOV PREL SW
09STOCKHOLM736CONCERNS ABOUT ACTA NEGOTIATIONS AND IPR UPDATE: IPRED,
[...] (SBU) Summary: Swedish media and the usual blogger-circles have expressed similar concerns about the on-going ACTA (Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement) negotiations as we have seen in many other countries, mostly focusing on the secrecy and the internet chapter with its reported demands for [...]
2009-11-24 12:31:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDKIPR EINT ETRD ECON PGOV SW
09STOCKHOLM738SWEDISH FM CARL BILDT ON IRAN AND SANCTIONS
[...] (S) Summary: Swedish FM Bildt is skeptical but not dogmatic about the likely effectiveness of Iran sanctions. His experts tell him sanctions on the energy sector will not be enforceable, and while sanctions on the financial sector would have an immediate effect, Iran would quickly develop "wor [...]
2009-11-25 09:32:00Embassy StockholmSECRETEUN IR PREL SW
09STOCKHOLM739SWEDISH FM CARL BILDT ON AFGHANISTAN
[...] (C) Summary: On November 24, Swedish FM Carl Bildt told the Ambassador that if EU development efforts were better coordinated, "we could have twice the effect for half the cost." The EU "will be as supportive as we can" when the results of the U.S. Af/Pak strategy review are made public in De [...]
2009-11-25 14:08:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID AF SW
09STOCKHOLM740SAAB: HOPE NOW WITH THE CHINESE AS KOENIGSEGG DEAL
[...] (U) Summary. Luxury car maker Koenigsegg announced on November 24 that they will not pursue their purchase of Saab, blaming the "time-consuming bureaucracy" of the European Commission and other major players. All hope is now with the Chinese because the Swedish government reiterated that it [...]
2009-11-25 14:09:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV EFIN EIND PGOV CH SW
09STOCKHOLM741 SWEDISH PARLIAMENT APPROVES TROOP EXTENSION IN AFGHANISTAN
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-27 06:27:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPREL EAID AF SW
09STOCKHOLM743LETTER FROM SECRETARY CLINTON DELIVERED TO SWEDISH
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-27 09:28:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOPDC PREL EAID PGOV SW
09STOCKHOLM746 TWO DPRK DIPLOMATS ARRESTED IN SWEDEN FOR SMUGGLING
[...] On November 20, all Swedish media reported that two North Korean diplomats - a man and a woman in their fifties - were arrested by Swedish customs officers for attempting to smuggle 230,000 cigarettes by ferry from Mariehamn, Finland. The couple protested and tried to claim diplomatic immuni [...]
2009-11-27 11:09:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PINR PREL SW
09STOCKHOLM747SWEDISH RESPONSE: GVA CONSULTANTS SAY THEY
[...] (C) On November 30, Emboff shared reftel points on reported investment in the Iranian oil and gas sector with Per Saland, Sanctions Coordinator, Department for Security Policy at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs (MFA),and Holger Eriksson, Managing Director of the Swedish company GVA [...]
2009-11-30 11:45:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALECON ENRG EPET ETTC PREL IR SW
09STOCKHOLM749CORRECTED COPY: SWEDISH FM CARL BILDT ON
[...] (C) Summary: On November 24, Swedish FM Carl Bildt told the Ambassador that if EU development efforts were better coordinated, "we could have twice the effect for half the cost." The EU "will be as supportive as we can" when the results of the U.S. Af/Pak strategy review are made public in De [...]
2009-11-30 14:13:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL EAID AF SW
09STOCKHOLM750SWEDEN ON ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS IN AFGHANISTAN
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 4. 2. (SBU) Summary: Parliament's smooth approval of legislation extending Sweden's military presence in Afghanistan through 2010 augurs well for a long-term troop presence, and there is strong support for a three-year, USD 170 million assistanc [...]
2009-11-30 15:37:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL NATO MOPS MARR AF EUN SW
09STOCKHOLM751SWEDISH PLAN FOR EU ADVISORY MILITARY MISSION TO
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 3. 2. (C) On November 30, Carl Magnus Eriksson, Deputy Director for the MFA International Security Policy Department, and Brigadier General Lennart Bengtsson, MFA Military Advisor, briefed Poloffs on Swedish plans for discussion of the EUFOR A [...]
2009-11-30 16:26:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL MOPS EUN NATO BK SW
09STOCKHOLM752SWEDEN PLEDGES NEARLY $560 MILLION FOR FOOD
[...] (SBU) Director for Development Policy at the Swedish Foreign Ministry (MFA) Ann Uustalu told Post on December 1 that Sweden estimates its overall assistance for food security, agriculture and rural development in support of the l'Aquila agenda at nearly 375 million Euros (roughly $560 million) [...]
2009-12-01 13:25:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON SW
09STOCKHOLM754SWEDEN CLAIMS NOTHING NEW IN DRAFT FOREIGN AFFAIRS
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-03 15:04:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL EUN IS SW
09STOCKHOLM755READOUT OF EU-RUSSIA SUMMIT
[...] (C) Summary: The EU-Russia Summit in Stockholm did not result in significant breakthroughs, but Sweden delivered on tangibles such as the launch of five cross border cooperation programs to which Russia contributed EUR 103 million ($155 million),the start of expert level talks on a framework [...]
2009-12-03 15:49:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL EUN RU SW
09STOCKHOLM756SWEDEN ON DECEMBER GAC/FAC AGENDA
[...] (SBU) Summary: Poloff discussed the December 7-8 GAC/FAC agenda with Deputy EU Correspondent Jonas Wendel on December 3. The General Affairs Council (GAC) will discuss enlargement problems regarding Turkey (slow progress on Ankara),Macedonia (name problem),and Serbia (Serbian authorities t [...]
2009-12-03 16:12:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EUN SW
09STOCKHOLM758SEARCH FOR NEXT HEAD OF UN OFFICE OF INTERNAL
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-04 14:38:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDAORC PREL AMGT
09STOCKHOLM759SCENESETTER FOR WHITE HOUSE ONDCP DIRECTOR R. GIL
[...] (U) Embassy Stockholm warmly welcomes you to Sweden. Your visit provides an opportunity to further cement close and collaborative bilateral relations with a nation and a government whose outlook on key international issues closely matches ours. For example, Sweden's foreign and defense minis [...]
2009-12-04 14:38:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDSNAR PREL PTER AF SW
09STOCKHOLM76SWEDEN'S AUTOMOBILE SUBSIDY PROGRAM
[...] Summary: The Swedish automobile industry (Volvo Cars - owned by Ford; Saab Automobile - owned by GM) has shed about 7700 jobs since the financial crisis began in September 2008. Sales are down in January 2009 by 50 percent, compared to last January. The Swedish government has issued a rescu [...]
2009-02-06 09:34:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN ETRD SENV PREL WTO SW
09STOCKHOLM765SHRAPNEL FROM SWEDEN'S AFGHAN DESK OFFICER
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-09 14:38:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR MOPS AF SW
09STOCKHOLM769SWEDEN'S RESPONSE TO CYSTIC FIBROSIS STUDY PROPOSAL
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-11 07:54:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA OSCI ABUD AFIN TBIO SW
09STOCKHOLM770DEMARCHE ON OUTREACH FOR ASSISTANCE TO WFP IN
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-11 11:54:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR EAID ECON ETRD PGOV PHUM PREF PREL PK SW
09STOCKHOLM776EU PATENT BREAKTHROUGH DURING SWEDISH PRESIDENCY AND
[...] (U) Summary: The EU Competitiveness Council, chaired by Swedish Trade Minister Ewa Bjorling, managed to broker a deal after over 40 years of efforts to agree on a unified EU patent system. Swedish Minister for Communications, Esa Torstensson discussed Swedish concerns about the ongoing ACTA [...]
2009-12-14 13:49:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKIPR EINT ETRD ECON PGOV SW
09STOCKHOLM778SWEDISH-IRANIAN ECONOMIC RELATIONS: BUSINESS AS
[...] (S) Summary: Behind the Swedish government's reluctance to support further sanctions in Iran, especially unilateral European measures, is a dynamic (though still fairly small) trade involving some of Sweden's largest and most politically well-connected companies: Volvo, Ericsson and ABB to nam [...]
2009-12-15 07:10:00Embassy StockholmSECRETECON ETRD ETTC PGOV PREL IR SW
09STOCKHOLM779SNAPSHOT OF MUSLIM COMMUNITIES IN SWEDEN
[...] (SBU) Summary: As in other European countries, Muslim communities in Sweden are fast-growing and diverse. Muslims represent between 2.7% to 4.4% of the total Swedish population of 9.2 million, some 250,000 to 450,000 persons. Prominent communities are from Iraq and other Arabic-speaking count [...]
2009-12-15 09:26:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALKISL PHUM PTER PINR PREL SW
09STOCKHOLM780SWEDEN LAUNCHES EASTERN EUROPE ENERGY EFFICIENCY
[...] (U) Summary: On NOvember 26, Sweden launched the Eastern Europe Energy Efficiency and Environment Partnership by hosting a donor conference, which raised more that EUR 90 million in pledges from European countries and the US to finance energy efficiency projects. Poloff attended donor conferen [...]
2009-12-15 11:51:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECIN ECON EIND ENRG PGOV PREL SENV SW
09STOCKHOLM782SWEDEN GRABS THE LAST OF THE TURKEY
[...] (C) Both Hakan Emsgard, MFA Director General for Europe, and Peder Spangberg, Turkey desk officer, confirmed to us today that Sweden was moving forward with the opening of Turkey's environment chapter of the EU acquis. The report is "technically finished," Spangberg said, and is currently bei [...]
2009-12-15 14:23:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL TU CY EUN SW
09STOCKHOLM784MUSLIM COMMUNITIES STRUGGLE TO INTEGRATE IN SWEDEN
[...] (SBU) Summary: Approximately 30% or 400,000 of Sweden's foreign-born population comes from a Muslim-majority country. Despite generous government-sponsored social services for newcomers, immigrants routinely face racial, ethnic and religious discrimination. Immigrants often live in segregate [...]
2009-12-16 11:49:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALKISL PHUM PTER PINR PREL SW
09STOCKHOLM785SWEDEN: DEMARCHE DELIVERED PRIORITIZING DJIBOUTI
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-16 15:02:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV SW
09STOCKHOLM787SWEDEN'S PROGRAM OF PREVENTING ISLAMIST
[...] (C) Summary: The Swedish Security Police (SAPO) have three specific areas of concern when it comes to combating Islamist radicalization and violent extremism: (1) individuals who travel from Sweden to Somalia, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq; (2) growing isolation and alienation felt by some me [...]
2009-12-18 14:28:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALKISL PHUM PTER PINR PREL SW
09STOCKHOLM790DPRK DIPLOMATS CONVICTED TO 8 MONTH IN PRISON FOR
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-22 09:01:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL SW
09STOCKHOLM791COP-15 SUMMIT REPORTING IN SWEDEN
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The domination of COP-15 in Swedish media was only temporarily broken when General Motors announced the closure of car manufacturer SAAB on December 19. All outlets relayed a sense of disappointment on the outcome of the conference, calling it a 'failure' and delivering a 'weak res [...]
2009-12-22 10:26:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDOPRC KMDR KPAO PINR SW XA
09STOCKHOLM792CORRECTED COPY: DPRK DIPLOMATS CONVICTED TO 8
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-22 11:44:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PREL SW
09STOCKHOLM793SWEDEN CONTINUES TO SUPPORT AND ENCOURAGE TRADE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-22 15:12:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD ETTC PGOV PREL IR SW
09STOCKHOLM794SWEDISH MFA POLITICAL DIRECTOR ON IRAN,
[...] (C) Summary: In a December 18 meeting, MFA Political Director Bjorn Lyrvall told CDA that: --FM Bildt's recent meeting with his Burmese counterpart offered a good opportunity to convey EU concerns. --Implementing the EU Action Plan for Afghanistan and Pakistan is a top priority, and the lo [...]
2009-12-22 15:16:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL AF IR BU UN EUN SW
09STOCKHOLM796SWEDEN'S INTERIM REPLY ON DRAFT MOU ON LIFE,
[...] (SBU) On December 21, POL Counselor delivered ref A points to Carl Magnus Ericsson, Deputy Director of the MFA International Security Policy Department, and Cecilia Helander of the MOD Security Policy Department. Ericsson stated that Sweden very much welcomes Washington's general approach of [...]
2009-12-23 10:06:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMOPS MARR PREL EAID AF SW
09STOCKHOLM797SWEDEN'S CONCERNS ON TURKISH PRT IN JOWZJAN,
[...] (C) Sweden officially welcomes the possibility of Turkey launching a PRT in Jowzjan Province (Ref A),which the Swedes currently patrol, though Stockholm is increasingly concerned over Ankara's unwillingness to take responsibility for provincial security and force protection for civilians trav [...]
2009-12-23 10:08:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL NATO MOPS MARR AF EUN SW
09STOCKHOLM799 Post Gets Clarification of Sweden's Post COP-15 Public
[...] (SBU) Summary: Charge called Prime Minister Reinfeldt's climate change advisor Lars Erik Liljelund to discuss recent public criticism of the United States by Sweden's Environment Minister Andreas Carlgren. Liljelund agreed it was wrong to criticize U.S. efforts at Copenhagen, noting that the [...]
2009-12-28 06:15:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KGHG PREL PGOV ENRG SW
09STOCKHOLM800 Post Gets Clarification of Sweden's Post COP-15 Public
[...] (SBU) Summary: Charge called Prime Minister Reinfeldt's climate change advisor Lars Erik Liljelund to discuss recent public criticism of the United States by Sweden's Environment Minister Andreas Carlgren. Liljelund agreed it was wrong to criticize U.S. efforts at Copenhagen, noting that the [...]
2009-12-28 06:16:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KGHG PREL PGOV ENRG SW
09STOCKHOLM802 ONDCP DIRECTOR KERLIKOWSKE'S STOCKHOLM VISIT
[...] (SBU) Summary: Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) Director R. Gil Kerlikowske on 8 December met with Stockholm County Police Commissioner Carin Gotblad, the Youth Chapter of the Stockholm Police Narcotic Division, Minister of Public Health Maria Larsson, and World Forum Against Dru [...]
2009-12-29 06:21:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSNAR PREL KCRM AF SW
09STOCKHOLM803GICNT PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO TERMS OF REFERENCE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-29 12:32:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPARM PREL PTER KGIC SW
09STOCKHOLM81PRESIDENT'S INTERVIEW WITH AL-ARABIYA RECEIVES
[...] Swedish media gave broad and factual coverage to the President's interview with Al-Arabiya. Number two national daily Svenska Dagbaldet provided a full page, with a screen shot of the interview. Selected quotes focused on the President's expression of respect for the Muslim world. A side-b [...]
2009-02-09 13:04:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDKPAO PREL
09STOCKHOLM83SWEDISH TRADE MINISTER ON PROTECTIONISM, TRADE WITH IRAN,
[...] This cable contains an action request at para 4. 2. On February 3, Swedish Minister for Foreign Trade, Ewa Bjorling, discussed with Charge the following issues: -- Fears of protectionism Bjorling expressed Swedish concerns about protectionist tendencies detected in the "Buy American" [...]
2009-02-09 14:42:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDETRD PREL IZ IR SW
09STOCKHOLM85TERRORIST FINANCING TRIAL IN SWEDEN SHINES LIGHT
[...] (SBU) On February 5, Acting Economic Counselor shared reftel on Countering Terrorist Abuse in the Charitable Sector with Sofie Hillbom, Desk Officer, Department for Security Policy, Counter-Terrorism Unit at the Swedish MFA. Hillbom thanked post and added that Sweden continues to scrutinize t [...]
2009-02-11 14:54:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN PTER ETTC PHUM EAID SW
09STOCKHOLM86SWEDISH OPPOSITION LEADER ON PARTY'S FUTURE, IRAN,
[...] (C) Summary: Senior career diplomat, UN mediator and Social Democratic Party (SDP) elder Jan Eliasson met with CDA on February 8 to discuss the Transatlantic Partnership, Iran, Israel, Russia and Swedish domestic politics. He made the following points: -- U.S. and EU should deepen relations [...]
2009-02-11 15:43:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EU IR IS RU SU SW
09STOCKHOLM88SWEDEN REVERSES BAN ON NEW NUCLEAR REACTORS
[...] Summary: The four center-right governing Alliance party leaders announced the removal of the ban on construction of new nuclear power reactors February 5. This is a key element of the GOS' Climate and Energy policy bill, which it will send to Parliament in March. New reactors may be built to [...]
2009-02-12 13:16:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDENRG SENV KGHG PREL SW
09STOCKHOLM91SWEDISH VIEWS ON FEBRUARY GAERC AGENDA ITEMS
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-12 15:48:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EU SW
09STOCKHOLM95SWEDEN TO JOIN PIRACY CONTACT GROUP
[...] Jonatan Bergstrom-Jurisoo, Desk Officer, Security Policy Department at the Swedish MFA, told Emboff on February 13 that Sweden will join the Piracy Contact Group (reftel). He commented that Sweden believes that joining is very important, especially since Sweden will assume the EU Presidency i [...]
2009-02-13 08:22:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDKCRM EWWT PBTS PHSA SW
10STOCKHOLM10 SWEDEN WILL PUSH OTHERS TO ASSOCIATE WITH THE COPENHAGEN
[...] (SBU) Post used REF A to follow up on the DCM's January 11 meeting (REF B) with Lars-Erik Liljelund, Prime Minister Reinfeldt's Special Envoy for Climate Change. Liljelund assured us that Sweden and the EU will also strongly encourage other countries to associate to the Copenhagen Accord. Lilj [...]
2010-01-13 13:30:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKGHG PREL SENV SW
10STOCKHOLM11SWEDEN: EUR ENGAGEMENT ON WOMEN'S ISSUES
[...] Summary: Embassy Stockholm integrates women's issues in our International Visitor Leadership Programs in support of women's health, career advancement and leadership opportunities. Post also engages the Swedes on global women's issues such as gender-based violence and women's empowerment in A [...]
2010-01-13 14:12:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDKWMN KISL KTIP SW
10STOCKHOLM12CHINESE AMBASSADOR TO SWEDEN CHEN MINGMING ON
[...] (C) During a January 13 courtesy call, Chinese Ambassador Chen Mingming told the Ambassador that the EU had "unrealistic expectations of achievements" at COP-15 and is "over optimistic about its own capacity to make things happen." In his opinion, China and the United States made "great effor [...]
2010-01-14 08:03:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALKGHG PREL PINR CH SW
10STOCKHOLM13SWEDISH FM BILDT ON AFGHAN DRUG PROBLEM,
[...] (C) Summary: A focus on "the drug issue" is essential for getting Afghanistan right, Swedish Foreign Minister Bildt told Ambassador January 12. But the upcoming London Conference does not have the topic on the agenda and it is unclear what is supposed to be achieved at the meeting. If the dr [...]
2010-01-14 09:47:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL ECON KGHG SENV CH IR SW
10STOCKHOLM14SWEDEN ON AMCIT CASES IN IRAN
[...] (C) Emboffs delivered reftel points to Gufran Al-Nadaf, Deputy Director for the Gulf Section, and Ulf Samuelsson, Iran Desk Officer, at the Swedish MFA on January 14. Al-Nadaf thanked us for the information and said that Sweden, along with the EU, had released numerous statements on the human [...]
2010-01-14 14:03:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALCASC PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PROP PTER SW
10STOCKHOLM17SWEDEN TO PROVIDE NEARLY $3 MILLION IN ASSISTANCE
[...] Working withing the UN system, Sweden contributed $60.3 million to the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF),making it the second largest contributor to the fund in 2009. Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Haiti Desk Officer Sara Rameriez told Post on January 15 that Sweden has also o [...]
2010-01-15 13:10:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDAEMR EAID HA SW
10STOCKHOLM18SWEDISH RESPONSE: UN 1267 (AL-QAIDA/TALIBAN)
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-15 14:00:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN PREL PTER SW
10STOCKHOLM19SWEDEN'S USD 25.6 MILLION MAKES IT THIRD LARGEST
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-19 08:17:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDAEMR EAID HA SW
10STOCKHOLM20IRAQ ELECTION COMMISSION TELLS SWEDES OF PRESSURE
[...] (C) Swedish Ambassador to Iraq Niclas Trouve spoke over the weekend with Faraj al-Haidari, the head of Iraq's Independent High Electoral Commission, to express concern over last week's announcement that some 500 candidates for the March 7 parliamentary elections would be banned from participat [...]
2010-01-19 14:40:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV IZ IR SW
10STOCKHOLM21SWEDISH RESPONSE TO TFHA01 DEMARCHE: SWEDISH AID
[...] On January 20, Emboff shared reftel points regarding Sweden's humanitarian assistance to Haiti with Swedish Ministry For Foreign Affairs Americas Desk Officer Sara Ramierez. Ramierez told Emboff that Sweden has provided a total of $27.1 million in post-earthquake humanitarian assistance to Ha [...]
2010-01-20 14:12:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON PGOV PREL PREF HA SW
10STOCKHOLM24DEMARCHE DELIVERED: TRANSITION TO AFGHAN LEAD
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-20 15:30:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALMARR MOPS NATO PREL AF SW
10STOCKHOLM3SWEDEN'S EU PRESIDENCY: GOOD ON AF/PAK AND
[...] (C) Summary: The Swedes pushed forward each of their Presidency priorities, from financial sector reform to climate change and institutional reform. Unlike France in August 2008 and the Czech Republic in February 2009, Sweden did not face a Russian surprise (aided by approving the Nordstream [...]
2010-01-08 08:57:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON SENV KGHG EUN SW
10STOCKHOLM32SWEDEN'S POINTS ON 25 JANUARY FAC
[...] (C) Summary: Embassy Stockholm delivered FAC demarche points on January 20 to the EU Correspondent's Office Deputy Kristin Forsgren-Bengtsson, Head of the Gulf Section Gufran Al-Nadal, and Head of the Asia and East Asia Department Klas Mohlin. Their main points were: -- The London Conferenc [...]
2010-01-21 13:10:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV AF IR BK EUN SW
10STOCKHOLM36Swedish Views on Climate Change Post-Copenhagen
[...] (SBU) Summary: Sweden has been encouraging the BASIC countries to inscribe their commitments to the Copenhagen Accord by January 31. Although he is concerned about Chinese back-tracking on verification, Sweden's Climate Ambassador welcomes news he heard that the BASIC countries agreed to sub [...]
2010-01-26 06:05:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKGHG SENV PREL PGOV ENRG SW
10STOCKHOLM38SWEDEN IS THE THIRD LARGEST DONOR TO HAITI; U.S.
[...] Summary: Swedish media reporting about USG efforts has been accurate and very positive. For instance, "The U.S. is doing the job" was the title of the lead editorial in Dagens Nyheter January 26. The Ambassador's message - on nationwide Swedish television and radio - of U.S. activism has bee [...]
2010-01-27 13:11:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDAEMR EAID ECON PGOV PREL PREF HA SW
10STOCKHOLM39DEMARCHE ON DISTRACTED DRIVING DELIVERED TO SWEDES
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-27 13:11:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDECON SOCI UNGA SW
10STOCKHOLM40DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE NUCLEAR SUMMIT AND THE
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-27 13:13:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPARM EAID TBIO IAEA AORC ENRG MNUC PGOV SW
10STOCKHOLM43SWEDES RECEIVE DEMARCHE ON CITES COP15 OUTREACH ON
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-29 09:35:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDKSCA SENV AORC ECON SW
10STOCKHOLM45SWEDEN: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON THIRD SHERPA MEETING
[...] No summary [...]
2010-01-29 13:33:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPARM EAID TBIO IAEA AORC ENRG MNUC PGOV SW
10STOCKHOLM53SWEDEN TO SEND POLICE AND PRISON OFFICERS TO
[...] On February 4, Swedish International Development Minister Gunilla Carlsson announced that Sweden will send three police officers and four prison officers to the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH). Swedish aid to Haiti totals USD 29.4 million as of February 4, excluding th [...]
2010-02-04 12:18:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDAEMR EAID ECON PGOV PREL PREF HA SW
10STOCKHOLM55SWEDISH RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON DISTRACTED DRIVING
[...] Lars Darin, Deputy Director, Department of Highway Safety, Ministry of Enterprise, Energy and Communications, told Post on February 5 that Sweden has no laws or regulations that explicitly regulate use of cell phones or texting while driving. Darin noted, however, that there are provisions in [...]
2010-02-05 12:02:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDECON SOCI UNGA EU UNDP SW
10STOCKHOLM56EMBASSY STOCKHOLM ENERGY OFFICER CONTACT
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-05 12:05:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDENRG
10STOCKHOLM58SWEDES UNWILLING TO PRESENT POSITION ON CITES
[...] (SBU) Marie Dahlstrom, Desk Officer, Division for Natural Resources, the Swedish Ministry of the Environment, told Emboff on February 11 that Sweden would not reveal its position on any of the U.S. species proposals prior to the CITES COP15 meeting, citing EU membership as the reason. Dahlstro [...]
2010-02-12 06:37:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKSCA SENV AORC ECON SW
10STOCKHOLM59ON IRAN, SWEDES LOOKING FOR "TOOLS THAT WORK"
[...] (C) Poloffs delivered reftel demarches on the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) session (ref A) and human rights (ref B) to Ulf Samuelsson, outgoing MFA Iran Desk Officer, and his replacement Carl Mikael Granz, on February 11. Samuelsson noted that the Swedes are not normally in favor of coordi [...]
2010-02-12 06:37:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL SW
10STOCKHOLM61ON IRAN, SWEDES LOOKING FOR "TOOLS THAT WORK"
[...] (C) Poloffs delivered reftel demarches on the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) session (ref A) and human rights (ref B) to Ulf Samuelsson, outgoing MFA Iran Desk Officer, and his replacement Carl Mikael Granz, on February 11. Samuelsson noted that the Swedes are not normally in favor of coordi [...]
2010-02-12 06:37:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL SW
10STOCKHOLM62SWEDEN RECEIVES U.S.-EU SECOND STAGE AIR TRANSPORT
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-12 07:56:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDKTIA EAIR ECON IC EUN SW
10STOCKHOLM64SWEDISH RELIEF EXPERTS PRAISE U.S. EFFORTS IN HAITI
[...] (SBU) Summary: On February 8, the Ambassador met with Swedish relief effort experts from government, academia, and civil society to discuss coordination of assistance efforts in Haiti. The Swedes are currently the sixth or seventh largest international donor to emergency relief efforts in Hai [...]
2010-02-12 08:40:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR EAID ECON PGOV PREL PREF HA SW
10STOCKHOLM65SWEDEN REVIEWS BILATERAL SUPPORT TO ENVIRONMENTAL
[...] Summary: Sweden, the world's largest donor per capita, is developing a new policy to incorporate climate change issues into development programs. As part of this effort, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA),analyzed its programs from 1999-09, and presented lessons [...]
2010-02-12 12:31:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON PGOV SW
10STOCKHOLM66VIOLENT PROTEST AT IRANIAN EMBASSY IN STOCKHOLM
[...] (U) About 300 Iranian-Swedes demonstrated at the Iranian Embassy in Stockholm on February 11, the 31st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution. The event became violent when 30 masked protesters tried to break through police lines, according to media reports. Two protesters were arrested for k [...]
2010-02-12 15:09:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL IR SW
10STOCKHOLM67SWEDEN FM BILDT'S EXCHANGES WITH IRANIAN FM
[...] (SBU) This is an action request. Please see para 4. 2. (SBU) During a February 11 meeting on other topics (ref A),Poloffs asked MFA Iran Desk Officer Ulf Samuelsson about FM Carl Bildt's meetings with Iranian FM Manouchehr Mottaki on the margins of the Munich Security Conference. An MFA [...]
2010-02-12 15:30:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL IR SW
10STOCKHOLM68SWEDISH REACTION TO SOLDIERS KILLED IN AFGHANISTAN
[...] Summary: Two Swedish soldiers were killed in Afghanistan on February 7, bringing total Swedish ISAF fatalities to four. The Government quickly stressed the importance of supporting the troops and their families. Party leaders across the political spectrum said Sweden's ISAF commitments would [...]
2010-02-16 12:02:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPREL MOPS AF SW
10STOCKHOLM75SWEDEN ON REINFORCEMENTS TO UN PEACEKEEPING
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-19 06:59:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDAEMR EAID ECON PGOV PREL PREF HA SW
10STOCKHOLM77ENGAGING SWEDEN TO CONCLUDE "LIFE SUPPORT" MOU IN
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-19 10:18:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALMOPS MARR PREL EAID PHUM SNAR PINR PTER AF SW
10STOCKHOLM79SWEDEN WELCOMES TURKISH "CIVILIAN PRT" BUT
[...] (C) Sweden "welcomes" the Turkish civilian PRT (refs B and C) but remains concerned about the creation of a "security vacuum," Carl Magnus Eriksson, Deputy Director of the Security Policy Department at the MFA, told Poloffs February 17 in a meeting on other topics (Ref A). Eriksson underlined [...]
2010-02-19 15:09:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL NATO MOPS MARR AF TU SW
10STOCKHOLM81GOLDSTONE FOLLOW-UP POINTS DELIVERED IN SWEDEN
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-22 13:39:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM UNGA SW
10STOCKHOLM82SWEDEN INFORMED OF E.O. 13382 DESIGNATIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-22 13:41:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP MNUC PREL PARM EFIN SW
10STOCKHOLM83SWEDEN ON NTM-A TRAINER REQUESTS
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-22 14:07:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALMARR MOPS PREL AF SW
10STOCKHOLM87NOTES
[...] Summary: Following a recent rise in attacks on the Jewish population in the Swedish city Malmo, comments made by Mayor Ilmar Reepalu, a leading figure in the opposition Social Democrats, have caused a ruckus in national media. Reepalu has been interpreted as blaming the escalation of anti-Se [...]
2010-02-26 11:13:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV SW
10STOCKHOLM89SWEDEN'S FOREIGN POLICY STATEMENT 2010 - NO MORE
[...] On February 17, Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt presented the Government's annual Foreign Policy Statement to the Parliament -- the first such statement to be delivered since the Lisbon Treaty came into force. In it, Bildt outlined a Swedish foreign policy more integrated into the EU's Com [...]
2010-02-26 14:46:00Embassy StockholmUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PINR PMDL PREL SW
10STOCKHOLM90SWEDISH MFA POLITICAL DIRECTOR ON IRAN, BALKANS,
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-26 14:53:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPREL IR SY EUN SR KV SW
10STOCKHOLM91SWEDISH SOCIAL DEMOCRATS REIN IN MALMO MAYOR'S
[...] (C) Summary: Following several attacks on the Jewish community in the Swedish city Malmo, comments by Mayor Ilmar Reepalu, a leading Social Democrat, caused a ruckus in national and international media. Reepalu reportedly blamed the anti-Semitic harassment on Malmo's Jews themselves, because [...]
2010-02-26 16:57:00Embassy StockholmCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KISL SW
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