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| Identifier | Subject | Date | Office | Classification | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10THEHAGUE49 |
NETHERLANDS/YEMEN: VIEWS FOR LONDON MEETING [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Dutch welcome the January 27 London conference on Yemen, and FM Verhagen and Development Minister Koenders will encourage President Saleh to keep his promise of promoting dialogue in Yemen. END SUMMARY. 2. (C) Poloff discussed reftel points with Herman Quarles, Deputy Director for [...] |
2010-01-26 15:55:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EAID YM NL |
| 10THEHAGUE5 |
NETHERLANDS: FINANCE MINISTER BOS UNLIKELY TO BEND ON [...] The Government of the Netherlands (GONL) is unlikely to accept any solution other than full repayment of the 1.3 billion euro (USD 1.87 billion) loan it issued to the Government of Iceland in 2008. The loan was to help Iceland repay Dutch deposit holders after the bankruptcy of Internet bank Ic [...] |
2010-01-08 07:08:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN EINV PGOV NL |
| 10THEHAGUE51 |
CWC: WRAP-UP FOR THE WEEK OF JANUARY 22, 2009 [...] (SBU) The Executive Council (EC) Chairman's consultation January 21 on issues related to the final destruction deadline dominated the week's agenda as the first official meeting at the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in the new year. Delreps met with the Russian d [...] |
2010-01-27 17:31:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL KTIA OPCW CWC |
| 10THEHAGUE53 |
NETHERLANDS/IRAQ: SUPPORT USG ON CANDIDATE [...] No summary [...] |
2010-01-28 14:50:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL NL IZ |
| 10THEHAGUE54 |
NETHERLANDS: SUPPORT FOR COPENHAGEN ACCORD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Netherlands will join the EU in inscribing a conditional emissions reduction target of 30 percent if others commit to comparable efforts. The Dutch had pushed to make the 30 percent offer unconditionally. Dutch climate officials are recalibrating their negotiating strategy after [...] |
2010-01-28 15:10:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | SENV KGHG ENRG NL |
| 10THEHAGUE61 |
CWC: MEETING WITH THE OPCW DIRECTOR-GENERAL ON [...] (C) At the request of OPCW Director-General (DG) Pfirter, Delreps Beik and Granger met with him and Chief of Staff Ekwall on January 28 to discuss Iraq. The Iraqi Ambassador had asked the DG to encourage assistance from the United States and other countries for Iraq's chemical weapons (CW) d [...] |
2010-01-29 16:37:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL OPCW CWC |
| 10THEHAGUE65 |
CWC: WRAP-UP FOR THE WEEK ENDING JANUARY 29, 2010 [...] (SBU) After the positive opening meeting of the destruction deadline consultation (Ref A), delegations at the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) turned their attention to the next potentially difficult consultation on "situations not foreseen" by the Chemical Weapons [...] |
2010-02-01 17:32:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL KTIA OPCW CWC |
| 10THEHAGUE7 |
NETHERLANDS REQUEST FOR LETTER CONFIRMING [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 7. 2. (S) SUMMARY. Recent statements from Venezuela's President Chavez have spawned Dutch parliamentary queries on aerial activities operating from the Antilles. The MFA has requested a letter signed by the Ambassador confirming that the U.S. abides by [...] |
2010-01-08 07:12:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET | PGOV PREL PARM MARR MOPS XL NT VE NL |
| 10THEHAGUE72 |
NETHERLANDS/AFGHANISTAN: CABINET DECISION ON ITS [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY. A Dutch Cabinet decision on a post-2010 Afghanistan commitment is expected anytime within the next two weeks, possibly as early as February 5. Information on the specifics of the discussions is closely guarded, but all sources report that the negotiations are very delicate and [...] |
2010-02-04 16:48:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NATO AF NL |
| 10THEHAGUE73 |
AMBASSADOR VERVEER ENGAGES DUTCH ON AFGHANISTAN, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues Melanne Verveer advanced U.S. priorities in a two-day visit to the Netherlands January 13-14. With Dutch cabinet members and working-level officials, she emphasized U.S. interests in maintaining the Dutch commitment to Afghanistan w [...] |
2010-02-05 11:13:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KWMN EAID AF NL |
| 10THEHAGUE75 |
NETHERLANDS: TREASURY DAS GLASER PREPARES DUTCH [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: Treasury DAS Glaser engaged key Dutch decision makers on Iran policy across three ministries January 26. The Dutch expressed support for increasing pressure on the Tehran regime. They assured Glaser the Netherlands would support tougher sanctions within the EU, although offic [...] |
2010-02-05 12:53:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET//NOFORN | EFIN PREL KTFN IR NL |
| 10THEHAGUE79 |
CWC: MEETING WITH IRAQI AMBASSADOR ON IRAQ'S [...] (U) This contains an action request: see para 9. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Delreps met with the Iraqi Ambassador on February 3 to follow up on the trilateral technical discussions in January on amending Iraq's initial chemical weapons (CW) declaration and preparing a destruction plan for presentati [...] |
2010-02-05 15:45:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL OPCW CWC IZ |
| 10THEHAGUE8 |
HR VETTING FOR SOVEREIGN CHALLENGE CONFERENCE - [...] The following individual has been selected to attend the 5th Annual Sovereign Challenge Conference 8-11 March 2009. Consistent with Leahy Amendment vetting requirements, there is no credible evidence of gross violations of human rights by this individual. NAME - Air Commodore Antonie Debok [...] |
2010-01-08 09:27:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL KCRM SNAR KJUS ASEC NL |
| 10THEHAGUE80 |
CWC: WRAP-UP FOR THE WEEK OF FEBRUARY 5, 2010 [...] (SBU) The main meeting of the week was a three- hour marathon consultation on February 3 on "situations not foreseen" by the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). The Western European and Others Group (WEOG) regular meeting on February 2 was largely devoted to discussion of that issue, and Delr [...] |
2010-02-08 10:27:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL CWC |
| 10THEHAGUE83 |
NETHERLANDS/IRAN: PLANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [...] (C) Post delivered reftel A points to key MFA contacts on January 26. Janet Alberda and Jochem De Groot, with the Dutch MFA Human Rights Department, responded on February 9 that the Netherlands would like to raise the following issues during the UPR of Iran: free flow of information, the use [...] |
2010-02-10 10:50:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL IR NL |
| 10THEHAGUE87 |
CWC: MEETING WITH ALGERIAN DELEGATION AND OPCW TO [...] (U) On February 11, Delrep Landsman met at the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) with Algerian DCM Sid Al Branci and OPCW Technical Secretariat (TS) officials to discuss the proposed chemical terrorism conference in Algiers (refs A-C). TS officials present were Offi [...] |
2010-02-12 13:07:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AL PARM PREL PTER CWC |
| 10THEHAGUE88 |
NETHERLANDS: LATEST DUTCH VIEWS ON THE U.S.-EU [...] (U) On February 11, Econoffs delivered reftel points on the second stage of the U.S.-EU Air Transport Negotiations to Hans de Jong, Special Advisor and Chief Negotiator for aviation issues, and Janneke Kolk, Policy Advisor, at the Ministry of Transport, Public Works, and Water Management. De J [...] |
2010-02-12 15:40:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR EUN KTIA IC NO NL |
| 10THEHAGUE89 |
SCENE SETTER FOR EC-59 AND WRAP-UP FOR THE WEEK [...] (SBU) The attention of the Technical Secretariat (TS) of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and delegations turned this week to preparations for the Executive Council (EC-59) session of February 22-26. EC Chairman Lomonaco (Mexico) convened the advance consultation [...] |
2010-02-12 16:15:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL CWC |
| 10THEHAGUE9 |
NETHERLANDS: ENGAGEMENT ON WOMEN'S ISSUES [...] (U) BACKGROUND/SUMMARY: Like most of Western Europe, the Netherlands enjoys a high level of political and economic participation by women. For example, women hold forty-two per cent of the seats in the Dutch House of Representatives, and sixty-five per cent of women are employed. In addition [...] |
2010-01-08 09:44:00 | Embassy The Hague | UNCLASSIFIED | KWMN XG PHUM NL |
| 10THEHAGUE98 |
NETHERLANDS/IRAN: VIEWS ON FEBRUARY 11 EVENTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Several EU diplomats did not attend Iranian President Ahmadinejad's February 11 national day speech. The Dutch see the speech and surrounding events as a "small win for the regime" but with a "major cost" to the government in the long-term. The Dutch welcome thoughts for follow-u [...] |
2010-02-17 13:29:00 | Embassy The Hague | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM IR NL |
| 85THEHAGUE8873 |
ABU NIDAL TERRORIST ORGANIZATION [...] (S - ENTIRE TEXT.) 2. SUMMARY: EMBASSY HAS DISCUSSED ISSUE OF ABU NIDAL TERRORISM (REFTELS) WITH APPROPRIATE MFA OFFICIALS. THE INITIAL MFA RESPONSE INDICATED THE DUTCH RECOGNIZE THE DANGER OF ABU NIDAL GROUP AND ARE PREPARED TO PARTICIPATE IN A "POLITICAL DIALOGUE" WITH THE US AND OTHE [...] |
1985-12-16 16:40:00 | Embassy The Hague | SECRET | PTER NL |