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ABLD BUILDING AND GROUNDS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The acquisition, management, and operation of U.S.-owned or-leased facilities and sites both domestic and foreign. (Replaces RCHB file categories: BG, ES)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acquisition
* AIEP
* Allotment
* Antenna
* Antiques
* Appraisals
* Architecture
* Asbestos
* Audit
* Bid Results
* Breathing Device
* Building
* Building Design
* Building Management
* Carpet
* Chancellery
* Construction Management
* Construction Security
* Consulate
* Contract Amendment Contract Award Contract Renewal Contract Termination Contractor
* Core Area
* DCR
* Deed
* Descent Device
* Electrical System
* Elevator
* Embassy
* EMR
* Energy Conservation
* EURMAC
* Fire Alarm
* Fire Detection System
* Fire Prevention
* Fire Safety
* Furnishings
* Generator
* Geotechnical
* Gift
* Hazardous Material
* Housing
* HVAC
* Improvement
* Inventory
* Lease
* Legation
* Maintenance
* Mechanical System
* NOB
* Parking
* PCC
* Post Opening
* Property Exchange
* Property Sales
* Public Access Control
* Real Property
* Reciprocity
* REMS
* Renovation
* Safety & Health Designee
* Safety Program
* Security Enhancement
* Seismology
* SHEMC
* Shielded Enclosure
* Site
* Space Management
* Survey
* WASHMAC
* Water Analysis
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AEMR EMERGENCY PLANNING AND EVACUATION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Measures and actions implemented to protect U.S. personnel, citizens, property and information; especially related to crisis situations. (Replaces RCHB file category: EP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Citizen Protection
* Contingency Plan EAP
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Property
* Protection
* Records Destruction
* Rescue
* Safehaven
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AFIN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
The fiscal operations of the Department, Foreign Service posts, and other Federal agencies. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, FMGT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accounting
* Allowance
* Annuity Check
* Antideficiency
* Appropriation
* Audit
* Authentication Bank
* Account Bonding
* CAPPS
* Cash
* Cash Management
* Cashier
* Central Claim
* Commercial Claim
* Compensation
* Debt Collection
* Deficit
* Disallowances
* Disbursement
* Employee Claim
* ESF
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Management System
* Fiscal
* Fiscal Irregularities
* Foreign Currency
* FSCADP
* Fund Allotment
* Funding
* GBL
* General Ledger
* GTR
* Home Leave
* ICASS
* Leave
* Liquidation
* Local Currency
* Nonreceipt
* Over Obligation
* Pay Advance
* Pay Record
* Payment
* Payroll
* Payroll Deduction
* PCS
* Per Diem
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Post MGT
* Premium Pay
* Prompt Payment
* Reimbursement
* Relocation
* Reprogramming
* Retirement
* Security Enhancement
* Taxes
* TDY
* Time & Attendance
* Transportation Request
* Travel Advance
* Travelers Checks
* Treasury Check
* Vendor
* Vouchers
* Vulnerability Assessment
* Wages
* Working Capital Fund
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AMGT MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The management and organization of the Department and posts abroad and other U.S. agencies. (Replaces RCHB file category: ORG)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Administration
* Audit
* Authorities
* Background Information
* Bureau Organization
* Commissary
* Congressional Report
* Delegation of Authority
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Employee Association
* FCS
* FTE
* Geneva Group
* GORI
* Information System
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* Internal Control
* JAO
* Management Initiative
* Management Issues
* Mission Closure
* Mission Opening
* Occupational Safety
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Office Procedures
* Organization
* Overseas Post
* PCS
* Post Closing
* Post MGT
* Post Opening
* Post Operating Plan
* Reciprocity
* Recreation
* Reorganization
* Scheduling
* Staffing
* Support Services
* Survey
* Task Force
* Workload
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AORC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES
Effective from January 1983
The structure and management of international or regional organizations and conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL and Organization Name)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Administration
* Application
* Budget
* Candidate
* Chairman
* Charter
* Congressional Reports
* Constitution
* Donor
* Election Results
* Financial Contribution
* Geneva Group
* Host Government
* Information System
* Infrastructure
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* International Organization
* International Organization Official
* Meeting Agenda
* Meeting Delegation
* Meeting Observer
* Meeting Venue
* Membership
* NGO
* Nomination
* Nonparticipation
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Participation
* PERMREP
* Referendum
* Reform
* Regional Organization
* Regional Organization Official Reorganization
* Resignation from Office Seating
* Secession Secretary General Specialized Agency
* Sponsorship
* Staffing
* Vacancy Announcement
* Veto
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
* Voting
* Wages
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APER PERSONNEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administration and support of the Department's Civil and Foreign
Service personnel. (Replaces RCHB file category: PER)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Adoption
* Affirmative
* Action
* Ambassador
* Appeal
* Award
* Backpay
* Benefit Plan
* Bilateral Work Agreements
* Blood Donor
* Boarding School Career Development Career Mobility
* CFC
* Civil Service
* Civil Service Reform Act
* Class Action Suit
* CLO Program
* Community Liaison Office
* Coordinators
* Compensation
* Complaint
* Complement
* Consultation
* Continuing Education
* Contract Employee
* Conversion
* CSR
* Death
* Demotion
* Dependent
* Dependent Education
* Dependent Employment
* Discipline
* Divorce
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Employee Association
* Employee Benefit
* Employee Relations
* Employee Service
* Employee Status
* Employee Training
* Employment
* Equal Employment Opportunity
* Family Life
* Family Separation
* Family Support Services
* Fellowship
* FERS
* Foreign Born Spouses
* Foreign Service
* Foreign Service Act
* FSPS
* FTE
* Functional Training
* Grade Retention
* Grievance
* Health
* Injury
* Insurance
* International School
* Interns
* Interview
* Job Title
* Leave
* Library
* Merit Pay
* Merit Promotion
* Military Furlough
* Military Reserve
* Nomination
* Nonsensitive Critical Position
* Open Assignments
* Orientation
* Overcomplement
* Pay Record
* Performance Evaluation
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Personnel
* Personnel Action
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Assignment
* Personnel Classification
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Promotion
* Personnel Reassignment
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Photographer
* PIT
* Position Classification
* Position Description
* Premium Pay
* Presidential Executive Exchange Program
* Private School
* Probation
* Promotion Panel
* PSC
* Public School
* Recall
* Recruitment
* Reentry
* Relocation
* Remains Disposition
* Reprogramming
* Retired Annuitant
* Retirement
* RIF
* Sabbatical
* Savings Bond
* School Admissions
* SEF
* Selection Board
* Selection Out
* Senior Foreign Service
* SES
* Severance Pay
* Sexual Harassment
* Skill Codes
* Spouse
* Staffing
* Staffing Pattern
* Survey
* Tandem Couple
* TDY
* Tenure Board
* Termination
* Time & Attendance
* Upward Mobility
* U.S. Family Member
* Vacancy Announcement
* Wages
* Work Requirements
* Workload
* Workmen Compensation
* Workweek
* Youth Programs
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ASEC SECURITY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The development, coordination, or administration of security policies and programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SY)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AIASA
* Airport Access Procedures
* Antifraud
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Armored Vehicle
* Assault
* Bugging
* Building
* Contract Guard Program
* Counterintelligence
* Debriefing
* Debugging
* Demolition
* Detection Equipment
* Dismantling
* Electronic Security Device
* Emergency Response Team
* Explosives
* Fraud
* Host Country Guards
* Host Country Police
* Identification Systems
* Information Security
* Local Guard Program
* Maps
* Mission Takeover
* Monitoring
* MSG
* Name Check
* NSU
* Personnel Protection
* Physical Security
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Property Protection
* Protective Security
* Public Access Control
* Regional Security
* Riot Control
* RSO
* Scheduled Reporting
* Security Assessment
* Security Clearance
* Security Crisis
* Security Enhancement
* Security Survey
* Security Violation
* Special Support Program
* Suitability
* Technical Security
* Telephone
* Tempest
* Terrorism
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Unit Security Procedures
* Warning System
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BEXP TRADE EXPANSION AND PROMOTION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts to promote trade and other commercial activities, including specific proposals and inquiries to establish trade relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: TP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Best Prospect
* Bid
* Business Firm
* Businessmen
* CMP
* Commercial Action
* Commercial Association
* Consultation
* Cooperatives
* Country Commercial
* Exhibit
* Exposition
* Foreign Agent
* Foreign Market
* Target Industry
* Targeting
* Trade Fair
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Visit
* WITS
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BTIO TRADE AND INVESTMENT
OPPORTUNITIES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Administrative and operational reporting on opportunities for U.S. businesses. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, TP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agribusiness
* Bid
* Business Firm
* FGT
* Foreign Markets
* GPC Implementation
* Joint Venture
* Patent
* PTO
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CASC ASSISTANCE TO CITIZENS
Effective from May 1977 (Revised January 1983)
Consular services provided by the United States to citizens of the United States or any other country. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CON, PS)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Adoption
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Alien
* AMCIT
* Arrest Assault
* Attorney List
* Authorities
* Automation
* Child Custody
* Children Compensation
* Complaint
* Consular Assistance
* Consular Package
* Cult
* Custody
* Death Report
* Deportation
* Detention
* Direct Relay
* Drivers License
* Emergency Evacuation
* Estate
* Family
* FIMED
* Fraud Identification
* Lawyer
* Legal
* Medical Care
* Missing Person
* Murder Offenses
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Property
* Property Protection
* Release
* Remains Disposition
* Repatriation
* Seamen
* Ship Detention
* Ship Registry
* Spouse
* Third Country Representation
* Travel Advisory
* Trial
* Trust Account
* Trust Account Refund
* Welfare & Whereabouts
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CJAN JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE AND NOTARIAL SERVICES
Effective from May 1983
Matters pertaining to Notarial Services and International Judicial Assistance, including the service of judicial and extra-judicial documents and obtaining evidence. (Replaces RCHB file categories: LEG, PS)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acknowledgment
* Affidavit
* Attorney List
* Authentication
* Automation
* Deed
* Deposition
* Documentation
* Evidence
* Extradition
* Fraud
* FSIA
* Judicial Assistance
* Letters Rogatory
* Notarial
* Oath
* Official Travel
* Prisoner Transfer
* Process Serving
* Subpoena
* Testimony
* Tort Claim
* Witness
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CMGT CONSULAR ADMINSTRATION AND MANAGEMENT
Effective from August 1983
The administrative and operational management of Consular Affairs activities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, CON, FMGT,ORG, PER)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antifraud
* Automation
* CAS
* Consular Agent
* Consular Agreement
* Consular Conference
* Consular Equipment
* Consular Package
* Consular Service
* Consular Supplies
* Consular Treaty
* CSS
* ECR
* Fee
* Fraud
* ICARS
* IVACS
* Legislation
* MRP
* NIVCAPS
* Office Procedures
* Personnel
* PFM
* PIT
* Publication
* Space Management
* Supplies
* Support Services
* TDIS
* Third Country Representation
* Word Processor
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CVIS VISAS
Effective from May 1973 (Revised January 1993)
Operational, procedural, and administrative functions of visa operations. (Replaces RCHB file category: V)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AA 1 Adoption
* Advisory Opinion AIDS
* Alien
* Alien Previously Deported
* Alien Smuggler
* Allocation
* Application
* Appointment
* Arrival Notice
* Athlete Automation
* Bearer Insert
* BUSVIS
* Centralized Visa Processing
* Chargeability
* CHINEX
* CLASS
* Clearance
* CONGRINT
* Consular Package
* Crew List
* Crewman
* Crime
* Data
* Defector
* Denial
* Departure Notice
* Dependent
* Deportation
* Derivatives
* Diversity Immigrant
* DNC
* Documentation
* DV 1DVACS
* Employment Based Preference
* Employment Creation
* Entertainer
* Entitlement
* Exchange Visitor
* Exclusion
* Extraordinary Ability
* Family Preference
* Fiance
* Fiancee
* Files
* Foreign Policy Exclusion
* Forms
* Fraud
* Health Related Grounds
* ICARS
* Immediate Relative
* Immigrant
* Intercompany Transferee
* International Child Abduction
* Interview
* Issuance
* IVACS
* Labor Certification
* LB 1
* Legislation
* Medical Examination
* Moral Turpitude
* MRV
* Name Check
* Narcotics Traffic
* News Media Representative
* NIV
* NIVCAPS
* Nonimmigrant
* Numerical Control
* NVC
* Operations
* Other Worker
* Out of District Applicant
* Parole
* Permanent Resident
* Polygamist
* Portsmouth Consular Center
* Priority Date
* Private Bill
* Procedures
* Public Charge
* Reciprocity
* Refugee
* Refusal
* Religious Worker
* Renewal
* Revocation
* SAO
* Skilled Worker
* SPLEX
* Student
* Supplies Temporary Worker
* Terrorist
* 30 60 Rule
* TIVPC
* Totalitarian Party Membership
* Transfer
* Transit
* Travel Agents
* Treaty Investor
* Treaty Trader
* TTYREP
* Validity Visa
* Visa Clearance
* Visa Photograph
* Visitor for Business
* VLOB
* Waiver
* Waiver of Ineligibility
* Walk Ins
* Workload
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EAGR AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Cultivating the soil and forest, raising livestock, and producing crops. (Replaces RCHB file category: AGR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Production
* Agricultural Program
* Agricultural Worker
* Agriculture
* Animal Disease
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Corn
* Cotton
* Crop Destruction
* Crops
* Dairy Products
* Desalinization
* Disease Control
* Drought
* Erosion
* Famine
* Farm Equipment
* Farming
* Fertilizer
* Food Shortages
* Forestry
* Fruit
* Fungicide
* Grain
* Harvest
* Herbicide
* Husbandry
* Insect
* Irrigation
* Jute
* Land Conservation
* Land Management
* Land Reform
* Livestock
* Natural Fiber
* Nuts
* Oilseeds
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Plant Disease
* Poultry
* Preservation
* Quarantine
* Rainfall
* Rice
* Rubber
* Seeds
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soybean
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Timber
* Tobacco
* Tropical Forest
* Vegetable
* Water Analysis
* Weather
* Wheat
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EAID FOREIGN ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Foreign economic and technical assistance provided by governments, international organizations, institutions, or private individuals. (Replaces RCHB file category: AID)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Agreement
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Program Airlift
* Bank
* Congressional Presentation
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Credit
* Debt
* Development Loan
* Development Program
* Disaster Relief
* Donor
* Economic Adviser
* Economic Assistance
* Economic Development
* Economic Support Fund
* Farm Equipment
* Financial Contribution
* Food
* Foreign Assistance Agreement
* Funding
* Grant
* Industrial Development
* Industrialized Nation
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* LLDC
* Loan
* Medical Care
* Medical Equipment
* North South Dialogue
* Paris Club
* PL 480
* PL 480 Title I
* PL 480 Title II
* PL 480 Title III
* Relief Effort
* Self Help
* Technical Assistance
* Water Analysis
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EAIR CIVIL AVIATION
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
Commercial and private aircraft and air operations, domestic as well as international. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AV, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Access
* Air Cargo
* Air Fare
* Air Safety
* Air Traffic
* Air Transportation
* Aircraft
* Aircraft Accident
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Airline
* Airport
* Airport Fee
* Airport Security
* Airspace
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Aviation Agreement
* Cargo Handling
* Charter Flight
* CIVAIR
* Commercial Aircraft
* Emergency Landing
* Flight Clearance
* Flight Manual
* Hazardous Cargo
* Helicopter
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Landing Rights
* Maintenance
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Manifest
* Pilot Training
* Private Aircraft
* Refueling
* Rescue
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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ECON ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The status of a nation's economy. (Replaces RCHB file category: E)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Development
* Antiinflationary Program
* Black Market
* Capital Investment
* Cost of Living
* Depression
* Economic Agreement
* Economic Assessment
* Economic Conditions
* Economic Crisis
* Economic Development
* Economic Forecast
* Economic Growth
* Economic Indicators
* Economic Program
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Reform
* Economic Report
* Economic Stability
* Economic Trend
* EEC 1992
* Employment
* Financial Profits
* GDP
* GNP
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Reform
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* National Debt
* NIEO
* Price Index
* Recession
* Stock Market
* Tax Law
* Unemployment
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ECPS COMMUNICATIONS AND POSTAL SYSTEMS
Effective from March 1983
The efforts of governments, the private sector, or international organizations to manage, regulate, develop, apply, or monitor the methods and means of telecommunication, international communication policy, and the informational aspects of communication. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INF, MP, PO, PPB, PR, RAD, SP, TEL, TV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Broadcasting
* Cable TV
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* Fiber Optics
* Frequency Allocation
* Frequency Interference
* Frequency Spectrum
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Frequency
* lnformatics Information Access
* Information Center
* Information Flow
* Information Media
* Jamming
* Light Communication
* Networking
* NWICO
* Orbit
* Postal System
* Prior Consent
* Radio
* Satellite
* Telecommunication
* Telecommunication Agreement
* Telegraph
* Telephone
* Television
* Transborder Data Flow
* Transmitters
* Undersea Cable
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EFIN FINANCIAL AND MONETARY AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Domestic and international financial affairs of governments and private institutions. (Replaces RCHB file category: FN)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accounting
* Audit
* Bank
* Bank Account
* Bankruptcy
* Blocked Assets
* BOP
* Budget
* Buffer Stock
* Capital Flow
* CFF
* Commodities Exchange
* Credit
* Currency Shortage
* Debt
* Debt Equity Swap
* Debt Relief
* Debt Repayment
* Debt Repudiation
* Debt Rescheduling
* Deficit
* Devaluation
* Donor
* Drawing Rights
* Economic Growth
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Trend
* EFF
* EMS
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Agreement
* Financial Contribution
* Financial Control
* Financial Crisis
* Financial Market
* Financial Profits
* Financial Program
* Financial Reform
* Financial Reserve
* Financial Stability
* Foreign Currency
* Foreign Currency Control
* Foreign Currency Exchange
* Foreign Market
* Gold
* Grant
* IMF Standbys
* Income Tax
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* Loan Default
* Local Currency
* London Club
* National Income
* Overpayment
* Paris Club
* Payment
* Revaluation
* Sales Tax
* SDR
* Securities
* Securities Exchange
* Stock Shares
* Tax Haven
* Tax Law
* Taxation Treaties
* Treasury
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EFIS COMMERCIAL FISHING AND FISH PROCESSING
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The breeding and catching of fish and other marine life for commercial purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aquaculture
* Catch
* Quota Cod
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive Economic
* Zone Fish
* Fisheries
* Aid Fishery
* Fishing Agreement
* Fishing Concession
* Fishing Dispute
* Fishing Ground
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Fishing Vessel
* Fishing Vessel
* Detention Halibut
* Herring Joint
* Venture
* Quota Salmon
* Shellfish
* Shrimp
* TEDS
* Tuna
* Whaling Industry
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EIND INDUSTRY AND MANUFACTURING
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The commercial production of goods and services, including the processing of raw materials into manufactured goods. (Replaces RCHB file category: TEL, INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aerospace Industry
* Alloy
* Aluminum
* Antitrust
* Automotive Industry
* Bankruptcy
* Business Firm
* Capital Investment
* Chemical Industry
* Clothing Industry
* Commercial Association
* Communications Industry
* Complaint
* Construction Industry
* Consumer Goods
* Cooperatives
* Copyright Agreement
* Copyright Claim
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Dairy Industry
* Data Processing Industry
* Defense Industry
* Development Program
* Drug Industry
* Dyeing Industry
* Economic Growth
* Electronic Industry
* Espionage
* Factory
* Fertilizer Industry
* Finishing Industry
* Fishing Industry
* Food Contamination
* Food Industry
* Foreign Agent
* Fraud
* Garment Industry
* Garment Production
* Garment Workers
* Industrial Accident
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Production
* Industrial Reform
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insurance
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber Industry
* Machine Tool Industry
* Manmade Fiber
* Manufactured Product
* Merger
* Metal Industry
* Monopoly
* Nationalization
* Paper Industry
* Parastatal
* Patent
* Petroleum Industry
* Piracy
* Plastic Industry
* Power Looms
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Processing
* Product Safety
* Product Standards
* Product Testing
* Production
* Production Control
* Public Sector
* Railroad Industry
* Ramie
* Raw Materials
* Recall
* Registration
* Rubber Industry
* Sabotage
* Salvage
* Service Industry
* Shipbuilding Industry
* Silk
* Spinning Machinery
* Steel Industry
* Stockpile
* Subsidiary
* Subsidy
* Textile Industry
* Textile Production
* Tobacco Industry
* Tourism
* Trademark
* Vegetable Fiber
* Weaving Industry
* Wood Products Industry
* Wool
* Yarns
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EINT ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL INTERNET
Effective from October 1997
Economic and commercial programs, policies, and issues relating to the Internet.
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agreement
* Censorship
* Competition
* Connectivity
* Content
* Copyright
* Data
* Democracy
* Economic Conditions
* Domain Names
* Electronic Commerce
* Encryption
* Free Flow of Information
* Information Availability
* Interconnectivity
* Internet
* Meeting
* Monopoly
* Piracy
* Policy
* Pornography
* Privacy
* Private Sector
* Reporting
* Trademark
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EINV FOREIGN INVESTMENTS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
Foreign investments made by governments or private enterprises for commercial gain. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bank
* Bid
* BIT
* Business Firm
* Business Loss
* Business Merger
* Capital Flow
* Capital Investment
* Compensation
* Credit
* Credit Guarantee
* Disinvestment
* Economic Growth
* Foreign Investment
* Fraud
* Garment Investment
* Insurance Risk
* Investment Climate
* Investment Control
* Investment Disputes
* Investment Guarantee
* Investment Incentive
* Investment Law
* Investment Opportunity
* Joint Venture
* Loan
* Multinational Corporation
* Nationalization
* Parastatal
* Private Investment
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Public Sector
* Subsidiary
* Textile Investment
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ELAB LABOR SECTOR AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised May 1995)
The labor sector, labor actors, and national labor policies and their effect on domestic and international systems and relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LAB)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Arbitration
* Benefits
* Bonded Labor
* Child Labor
* Collective Bargaining
* Compulsory Labor
* Dock Workers
* Employee Ownership
* Employee Rights
* Employer Organization
* Employment
* Equal Pay for Equal Work
* Forced Labor
* Foreign Worker
* GSP (Worker Rights)
* Illegal Worker
* International Labor Secretariat
* Job Creation
* Job Discrimination
* Job Security
* Job Training
* Labor Agreement
* Labor Code
* Labor Competition
* Labor Confederation
* Labor Cooperative
* Labor Costs
* Labor Courts
* Labor Disputes
* Labor Federation
* Labor Law
* Labor Leader
* Labor Market
* Labor Migration
* Labor Movement
* Labor Organization
* Labor Relations
* Labor Rights
* Labor Sector
* Labor Settlement
* Labor Standards
* Labor Union
* Layoffs
* Lockout
* Manpower
* Mediation
* NAFTA Labor Cooperation
* Occupational Health
* Occupational Safety
* Pension
* Prison Labor
* Privatization
* Right of Association
* Right to Organize Slave Labor
* Social Clause (WTO)
* Social Net
* Social Security
* Strike
* Trade
* Union
* Underemployment
* Unemployment
* Unemployment Insurance
* Vocational Training
* Wages
* Work Force
* Work Permit
* Worker Rights Workers
* Working Conditions
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ELTN LAND TRANSPORTATION
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
All aspects of land transportation. (Replaces RCHB file categories: IT, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Automobile
* Bridge
* Bus
* Cargo Handling
* Detention
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Highway
* Highway Access
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Land Transportation
* Maintenance
* Overland Cargo
* Public Transportation
* Railroad
* Railroad Accident
* Railway Access
* Rescue
* Schedule
* Traffic Accident
* Traffic Safety
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
* Truck
* Tunnel
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EMIN MINERALS AND METALS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The exploration, discovery, and extraction of minerals and metals. (Replaces RCHB file category: INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bauxite
* Bid
* Chromite
* Coal
* Cobalt
* Copper
* Drilling
* Excavation
* Exclusive Economic Zone
* Exploration
* Factory
* Gems
* Gold
* Iron
* Magnesium
* Manganese
* Metal
* Mine
* Mineral
* Mineral Reserve
* Mining
* Mining Accident
* Mining Concession
* Nickel
* Offshore Mining
* Ore
* Quarry
* Silver
* Tin
* Tungsten
* Uranium
* Uranium Enrichment
* Zinc
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ENRG ENERGY AND POWER
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Government and private commercial activities in acquiring and providing energy services from all types of sources. For petroleum and natural gas, see EPET. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, FSE)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Coal
* Dam
* Decontamination
* Electric Energy
* Electric Power Plant
* Energy Conservation
* Energy Consumption
* Energy Reserve
* Energy Shortage
* Factory
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Fuel Shortage
* Generator
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Hydroelectric Power Plant
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
* Nuclear Power Plant
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Power Line
* Public Utility
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Reexport
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* Stockpile
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Thermal Power Plant
* Transformer
* Uranium Enrichment
* Wind Energy
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EPET PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)
Government and private sector activities in the exploration and extraction of petroleum and natural gas. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FSE, PET)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bid
* Drilling
* Exploitation
* Exploration
* LPG
* Natural Gas
* Natural Gas Pipeline
* Natural Gas Production
* Natural Gas Reserve
* Offshore Drilling
* Offshore Drilling Platform
* Offshore Oil
* Oil Field
* Petroleum
* Petroleum Concession
* Petroleum Pipeline
* Petroleum Production
* Petroleum Reserve
* Petroleum Shortage
* Refinery
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ETRD FOREIGN TRADE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Exchange of goods between nations. (Replaces RCHB file category: FT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alcoholic Beverage
* Aluminum
* Animal Hides
* Antidumping
* Antitrust
* Apparel Trade
* Arms
* Arms Traffic
* Barter
* BOP
* Boycott
* Buffer Stock
* Chemical
* Clothing
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Commercial Aircraft
* Commodity
* Commodity Market
* Communications Equipment
* Computer
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Countertrade
* Countervailing Duty
* Cross Border Trade
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Clearance
* Customs Court
* Customs Fine
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Official
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Dairy Products
* Debt
* Development Program
* Dispute Settlement
* Diversion
* Duty Free Entry
* East West Trade
* Economic Cooperation
* EEC 1992
* EEP
* Electronic Equipment
* Exhibit
* Export
* Fair Trade
* Farm Equipment
* FCN
* Fertilizer
* Fish
* Food
* Food Contamination
* Food Inspection
* Footwear
* Foreign Market
* Free Trade Zone
* Garment Exports
* Garment Imports
* Government Procurement
* GSP
* Harmonized System
* Helicopter
* Import
* Industrialized Nation
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Intervention
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* Leather
* License
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber
* Machine Tool
* Manmade Fiber
* Market Access
* Meat
* Meat Inspection
* Medical Equipment
* Merger
* Metal
* MFN
* MIC
* Monopoly
* Multifiber Arrangement
* NAFTA
* Natural Fiber
* Newly Industrialized Countries
* Nonalcoholic Beverage
* Nontariff Barriers
* North South Dialogue
* Oils
* Oilseeds
* Perishable Commodities
* Petroleum Products
* Pharmaceuticals
* Plastics
* Poultry
* Private Sector
* Product Standards
* Public Sector
* Quota
* Railroad Equipment
* Ramie
* Reexport
* Rice
* Rubber
* Sanction
* Shellfish
* Silk
* Smuggling
* Soybean
* Steel
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Synthetic Fiber
* Synthetic Rubber
* Tariff
* Tariff Barriers
* Tariff Relief
* Television
* Textile Exports
* Textile Imports
* Textiles
* Tin
* Tobacco
* Trade Agreement
* Trade Balance
* Trade Complaint
* Trade Control
* Trade Concession
* Trade Discrimination
* Trade Dumping
* Trade Fair
* Trade Law
* Trade Liberalization
* Trade Opportunity
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Protectionism
* Trade Relations
* Trade Visit
* Tuna
* VAT
* Vegetable
* Vegetable Fiber
* Vegetable Oil
* Wheat
* Wine
* Wood Products
* Wool
* Yarns
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ETTC TRADE AND TECHNOLOGY CONTROLS
Effective from April 1984
Government efforts to control the transfer of goods (i.e., equipment),services, or technologies. This includes foreign policy trade controls, strategic (National Security) trade controls, munitions controls, general West to East technology transfer issues, and efforts to circumvent U.S. or COCOM controls. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FT, STR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Arms Traffic
* Blocked Assets
* Boycott
* COCOM Case
* COCOM List Review
* Computer
* Data Bases
* Data Processing Equipment
* Digital Switching
* Diversion
* EAA
* East West Trade
* Economic Warfare
* Electronic Equipment
* Embargo
* End Use Check
* End User
* Enforcement
* Espionage
* Exception List
* EXCON
* Export
* Export Control
* GSOIA
* GSOMIA
* High Technology Equipment
* IEEPA
* Illegal Trade
* Import Control
* ITAR
* Laboratory Equipment
* License
* Manufacturing Agreement
* Military Applications
* Military Critical Technologies
* Military Equipment
* Military Services
* Munitions Control
* NDPC
* Nonmarket Economy
* Origin Certificate
* Reexport
* Research & Development
* Sanction
* Security Survey
* Semiconductors
* SNEC
* Software
* Stockpile
* Strategic Material
* Strategic Trade Control
* Superconductor
* TCDC
* Technical Assistance Agreement
* Technology Acquisition Efforts
* Technology Gap
* Technology Transfer
* Transaction Check
* Turnkey Plant
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EWWT WATERBORNE TRANSPORTATION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Movement of commercial and private vessels over high seas and inland waterways. (Replaces RCHB file categories: OS, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antiterrorism
* Measures Canal
* Cargo Handling
* Coast Guard
* Containerization
* Dock Workers
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Insurance
* Load Line
* Maintenance
* Marine Cargo
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Maritime Flag
* Maritime Law
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Ship
* Patrol Boat
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Port Congestion
* Private Ship
* Refueling
* Registration
* Rescue
* River
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule Ship Accident
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Detention
* Ship Harassment
* Ship Movement
* Ship Registry
* Shipyard
* SOLAS
* Strait
* Tonnage Measurement
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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KACT: Strategic Arms Control (ACS) Treaties
Effective from August 2000 (Revised August 2004)
Use for all documents relating to specific, interrelated strategic (nuclear) arms control treaties and their implementation:
* ABM (i.e., anti-ballistic missile) treaty and its implementation body the SCC (Standing Consultative Commission);
* INF (i.e., Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) Treaty and its implementation body, the SVC (Special Verification Commission);
* START (i.e., Strategic Reductions Treaty) and its implementation body, the JCIC (Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission); and the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT) or the Moscow Treaty and its implementing body, the BIC (Bilateral Implementation Commission).
Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NP/EX)
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KAWC: Atrocities and War Crimes
Effective from July 2001
Use for all documents relating to atrocities, massacres, and war crimes, including allegations, reports, investigations, and prosecutions of genocide, crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, and violations of the laws or customs for war. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau, Info: S/WCI)
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KCFE: Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
Effective from August 1989
Use on all documents between U.S. Vienna and the Department pertaining to CFE negotiations; documents pertaining to conventional forces in Europe including both Eastern and Western forces, their structure, posture, changes, etc.; documents pertaining to allied and Warsaw Pact conventional arms control positions, plans and related internal political situations, documents referring to the High Level Task Force (HLTF) or its subgroups; and all documents discussing congressional delegation visits to Europe that will address conventional arms control issues. (Action: EUR/RPM)
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KCIP: Critical Infrastructure Protection
Effective from August 2001
Use for all documents reporting on critical infrastructure protection (CIP) issues, which are defined as vulnerabilities and threats, both physical and cyber, to systems and assets (particularly interconnected information systems and networks) so vital to a nation that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on national security, national economic security, and/or national public health and safety. Use for reporting of CIP issues both as they affect host country and as they impact the United States. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOM: Chief of Mission
Effective from March 2004
Use for all documents addressed for action to the chief of a U.S. mission in a foreign location (e.g., ambassadors, chargés d’affaires, consuls general, or principal officers). Use KCOM in conjunction with generic PASS instructions to chiefs of mission in Department telegrams. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOR: Corruption and Anti-Corruption
Effective from August 2001
Use for all documents relating to corruption and anti-corruption, dishonesty, and unethical behavior among public officials representing local, provincial, and national governments. This would include linkages with justice, economic, social and political entities. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCRM: Criminal Activity
Effective from April 1994 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to criminal organizations and activities, the threat they pose to U.S. interests and/or friendly governments, and host country and U.S. Government programs to combat them. This includes international criminal organizations; money laundering and other financial crimes; illicit trafficking including alien smuggling and gun running; international stolen property theft and fencing rings; international frauds and commercial crimes; UN crime meetings and anti-crime programs; and interaction with international and regional organizations on these issues. U.S. assistance covers training of host country judicial and law enforcement agencies. Use this K TAGS with the Subject TAGS SOCI. Distinguish the use of this TAGS from AID-funded administration of justice programs in Latin America (KJUS),anti-narcotics issues and programs (SNAR),and anti-terrorism issues and programs (PTER). (Action: INL/ENT)
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KDEM: Democratization
Effective from May 1991
Use on all documents dealing with democratization in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Encouraging democratization constitutes an essential component of U.S. policy. The U.S. Government is devoting significant resources to monitor and promote regional trends away from autocratic rule and toward political pluralism. Programs designed to encourage democratization are diverse, and often are cross-discipline in nature, requiring the involvement of several U.S. Government agencies. Also use the appropriate Subject and Geo-Political TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KDRG: Detainee Repatriation from Guantanamo Bay
Effective from December 2007
Use for all documents addressing issues connected to the repatriation and transfer of detainees in U.S. Government custody at the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to their countries of origin or to third countries. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/WCI)
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KFRD: Fraud Prevention Programs
Effective from August 1986
Use on all reporting that refers to efforts and activities pertaining to the prevention of fraud and deceptive practices in the issuance of visas, passports, the issuance of Federal benefits to U.S. citizens and others, and to active measures developed by the Department to oversee their legality and for reporting upon the results of antifraud and prevention measures in consular matters. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: CA/FPP)
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KGHG: Global Climate Change
Effective from May 2007
Use for all documents addressing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and global climate change (also referred to as global warming). This includes, but is not limited to, the economic, energy, environmental, geographic, health, scientific, social, and political linkages of global climate change. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: OES/EGC)
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KGIC: Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism
Effective from September 2006
Use for all documents relating to the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. The Global Initiative works toward the prevention, detection, and response to acts of nuclear terrorism. Also use appropriate Subject Tags. (Action: ISM/WMDT)
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KHIV: Emerging Infectious Diseases and HIV/AIDS Program
Effective from June 2000
Use for all documents relating to actual and prospective activities by the U.S. Government, alone or in conjunction with or through other entities, to combat HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. Also use Appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: S/GAC)
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KHLS: Homeland Security
Effective from August 2006
Use for all documents relating to all aspects of homeland security issues, including acts of terrorism directed at the U.S. homeland, its citizens, or interests; planning and support for such acts of terrorism; capabilities of terrorist groups; activities of institutions, groups, or individuals that support such terrorism; acts of terrorism that transcend national boundaries due to the support network or nationality of the perpetrator, victim, or facility or conventional, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) terrorism; terrorist travel; actions of the host government, institutions, or individuals related to support for or opposition to U.S. Government homeland security or counter-terrorism initiatives; actions of the host government or multilateral organizations related to the establishment of host country or regional security, bureaucratic, physical, or cyber infrastructure; homeland security implications and effects of border protection, immigration, and customs policies; transportation (e.g., seaports, civil air) security; host government travel document control and standards; emergency, preparedness, and response; biodefense, science and technology development related to the above areas; reactions of host government, media, etc., to homeland security-related programs and activities in the United States, or of the U.S. Government. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/CT, CA, OES, A/OEM)
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KIPR: Intellectual Property Rights
Effective from December 1988 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to intellectual property rights which include patents, trademarks, copyrights, semiconductor designs (mask works),industrial designs, trade secrets, appellations of origin and other forms of protection to reward and encourage innovation and creativity. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/TPP/MTA/IPC)
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KIRF: International Religious Freedom
Effective from January 1999
Use on all documents relating to all issues of religious freedom and persecution, including civil unrest where religion is a precipitating factor; changes to or enforcement of laws affecting freedom of religion; religious aspects of movements, parties or persons seeking governmental change; governmental repression of religious minorities, movements or leaders; religion playing a role in reconciling conflicts; and changes in religious demographics that may produce societal changes. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: DRL/IRF)
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KISL: Islamic Issues
Effective from November 1988 (Revised April 2000)
Use on documents treating government involvement in recognition of or approaches to Islam; political and economic activities undertaken by private Islamic organizations or prominent individuals; and fundamentalism. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS.
(Action: NEA/PPR, AF/RA, EAP/RA)
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KJUS: Administration of Justice
Effective from May 1986 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with the administration of justice in host countries, particularly as it relates to U.S. objectives of promoting democracy and just economic and social development. This includes judicial reforms, political reporting on personalities and institutions involved in the administration of justice, judicial infrastructure development, criminal investigation capabilities, penal systems, legal training, and assistance and exchange programs in this field. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: WHA/PPC)
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KMCA: Millennium Challenge Account
Effective from August 2004
Use for documents relating to all aspects of the Millennium Challenge Account, a U.S. new foreign assistance account, or the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the independent government corporation recently established to manage and oversee this assistance. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: MCC/IT)
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KMDR: Media Reaction Reporting
Effective From October 1999
Use on all documents dealing with setting post ―Watching Briefs and on all post reporting concerning editorial content and media reaction. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: INR/R)
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KNNP: Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Effective from April 1984
Use on all documents on U.S. policy for preventing the spread of nuclear weapons to other countries, the transfer of nuclear material, equipment of technology, agreements for cooperation on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, matters concerning multilateral discussions on the uses of nuclear energy including the activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and activities in other countries related to the acquisition of nuclear explosives. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KOLY: Olympic Games Reporting
Effective from February 1984
Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. Note: KOLY will be used in the above prescribed manner for all subsequent winter and summer Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KPAL: Palestinian Affairs
Effective from August 1983 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with the Palestinian people, as a group or in part, or the area known as Palestine. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. (Action: NEA/PA)
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KPAO: Public Affairs Office
Effective from May 2000
Use on all documents intended for Public Affairs sections abroad, and should be used by field Public Affairs sections abroad on all documents coming into the Department which relate to Public Diplomacy Programs. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: ECA/EX/PR)
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KPIN: Political Internationals
Effective from November 1984
Use on all documents relating to the activities and policies of the four major Political Internationals: Socialist International, Christian Democratic International, Liberal International, and the International Democratic Union. This includes reporting on the attitudes of member parties towards the Internationals, the interaction between member parties of the Internationals, and the activities of the Internationals themselves. In addition, this TAGS should be used on all documents relating to the policies of the German (FRG) political foundations: Friederich Ebert, Konrad Adenauer, Hanns Seidel, and Friederich Naumann. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: P)
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KPKO: United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
Effective from August 1996
Use on all documents relating to existing or potential United Nations peacekeeping activities, including proposals for and negotiations with other countries on peacekeeping activities, military support, sanctions monitoring, elections and humanitarian activities, as well as interaction with international and regional organizations on peacekeeping. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KPWR: Power Support Program
Effective from March 1993
Use on all documents dealing with the Department’s electrical power support requirements. The program provides consolidated funding for generators, central uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, and PCB transformer abatement projects. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OBO/PE/DE)
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KRAD: Radioactive Contamination of the Environment
Effective from May 1997 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with radioactive contamination of the environment from whatever source—military or civilian use, transportation, storage, or disposal of nuclear material Appropriate Subject Terms to use with this TAGS would include nuclear contamination, radiation, radioactive material and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) emergency notification. In connection with accidental or deliberate contamination, appropriate Terms to use with this TAGS include radioactive material transfer, radioactive waste disposal, radioactive waste management, industrial/medical radiography, medical isotope, and transfer of fissile material. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES/OA)
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KSCA: Science Counselors and Attachés
Effective from February 1983
Use on all documents drafted by or sent to Science Counselors and Science Attachés. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES). Note: KSCA replaces the Organization SCSA.
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KSPR: Strategic, Performance and Resource Planning
Effective from October 1997
Use on all documents dealing with the strategic planning process for all foreign affairs agencies or agencies with operations and programs abroad as well as the Department’s own strategic planning activities. This includes all resource allocation processes when associated with the Mission Performance Plan (MPP),namely: budget formulation, the Financial Plan (FINPLAN),and the field budget plan. Technical and operational messages that are purely budget-focused should only use ABUD. Use KSPR on messages regarding personnel planning in connection with the annual MPP exercises, and subjects relating to the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993. Operational personnel requests (e.g., new positions, classification actions, conversions of positions from FSN to PIT, etc.) should still only use APER. Suggested terms to use with KSPR are program planning, Mission Performance Plan (MPP),Resource Allocations and Budget Integration Tool (RABIT) and Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: M/P)
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KSUM: Summit Meetings
Effective from January 1983 (Revised November 1987)
Use on all documents concerning Summit Meetings. This includes substantive and administrative arrangements for meetings, records of meetings and reports on actions by participants as a result of meetings, including preparatory meetings. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KTFN: Terrorism Finance Traffic
Effective from July 2004
Use for documents relating to all aspects of terrorism financing; sanctions; designations of individuals under Executive Orders (E.O.) dealing with terrorism finance such as E.O. 13224; related UN resolutions; denial of funds to terrorists; and other related aspects of terrorism financing. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/ESC)
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KTIA: Treaties and International Agreements
Effective from June 1984
Use on all documents concerning treaties, including conventions, protocols, or other International Agreements, such as exchange of notes, exchange of letters and memoranda of understanding, as well as requirements of the Case Act (11 FAM 724; 1 U.S.C. 112B). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: L/T)
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KTIP: Trafficking in Persons
Effective from September 2008
Use for all cables related to the topics of trafficking in persons, human trafficking, slavery, involuntary servitude, forced labor, labor migration, illegal migration, commercial sexual exploitation, prostitution, sex tourism, forced marriage, child labor, debt bondage, peonage, and child soldiering. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: G/TIP)
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KUNR: UN Reform
Effective from November 1995
Use on all documents dealing with all efforts to reform and restructure the United Nations. Some of the reforms are: the UN budget and/or ceiling, security council expansion, managerial improvements, and strengthening the role of the UN. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KWBG: West Bank and Gaza
Effective from December 1993 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with the implementation of the Israeli-PLO Declaration of Principles, including Palestinian interim self-rule, economic development and development assistance to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Also, use for Israeli-PLO negotiations on implementing the agreement and political developments in the West Bank and Gaza including elections for a Palestinian Council. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NEA/IPA)
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KWMN: Women Issues
Effective from June 1995
Use on all documents relating to the Fourth World Conference on Women and any future World Conferences on Women. Also use this TAGS on issues concerning women’s human rights, women’s political participation, women-in-development, and any discussions of women in the United Nations or any other international organizations. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: G/CS, IO, and DRL)
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MARR MILITARY AND DEFENSE ARRANGEMENTS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts to establish and maintain collective security or other international military cooperation. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Alliance
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* CFE
* Collective Security
* DECA
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Ground Forces
* Home Porting
* Host Government
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Lease
* Military Advisor
* Military Agreement
* Military Base
* Military Cooperation
* Military Exercise
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Visit
* Minesweeping
* Monitoring
* National Security
* Naval Forces
* Overflight Clearance
* Peace Plan
* Peacekeeping Forces
* Refueling
* Security Assessment
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Movement
* SOFA
* Tracking Station
* Troop Contribution
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Truce Observer
* Weapons Deployment
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MASS MILITARY ASSISTANCE AND SALES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The Govemment to Govemment transfer, sale, or loan of military equipment, advisers, or services. (Replaces RCHB file categories DEF, FT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Airlift
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Bomber Aircraft
* CAT
* Congressional Presentation
* Credit
* Debt
* Debt Repayment
* Diversion
* Donor
* Economic Support Fund
* Fighter Aircraft
* FMS
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* IMET
* Loan
* Maintenance
* MAP
* Military Adviser
* Military Agreement
* Military Aircraft
* Military Assistance
* Military Procurement
* Military Training
* Military Vehicle
* Missile
* Reexport
* Salvage
* Spare Parts
* Surplus Weapons Disposal
* Technical Assistance
* Technology Transfer
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MCAP MILITARY CAPABILITIES
Effective from March 1973 to June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The nonnuclear offensive and defensive ability of the military establishment of a nation or international organization. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Bomber Aircraft
* Burden sharing
* Cargo Aircraft
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon
* Control Civil Defense
* Coast Guard
* Conscription
* Contingency Plan
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon
* Control Court Martial
* Defense Industry
* Demobilization
* Fighter Aircraft
* Ground Forces
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* Infrastructure
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Logistics
* Military Aircraft
* Military Balance
* Military Budget
* Military Buildup
* Military Capability
* Military Communication
* Military Equipment
* Military Exercise
* Military Leader
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Reserve
* Missile
* Mobilization
* National Guard
* Naval Forces
* Naval Ship
* Ordnance
* Radar
* RDF
* Security Assessment
* Strategic Plan
* Submarine
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
* Warning System
* Weapons Deployment
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MNUC MILITARY NUCLEAR APPLICATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The development and use of nuclear technology for military purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Artillery
* Counterforce
* Decontamination
* Delivery Vehicle
* Fissionable Material
* Guidance System
* INF
* LRTNF
* Military Capability
* Missile
* Missile Site
* Monitoring
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Powered Ship
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Winter
* Plutonium
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Radioactive Waste Management
* Spent Fuel
* Strategic Plan
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
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MOPS MILITARY OPERATIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Declared or undeclared war involving two or more nations. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aggression
* Air Alert
* Air Forces
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Blockade
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Ceasefire
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* Combat
* Concentration Camp
* CONTRA
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Escalation
* Explosives
* Ground Forces
* Guerrilla
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intervention
* Invasion
* KIA
* Landing Rights
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* MIA
* Military Balance
* Military Buildup
* Military Plan
* Minesweeping
* Naval Forces
* No Fly Zone
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Occupied Area
* Peace Plan
* POW
* Repatriation
* Reprisal
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Ship Movement
* Surrender
* Threat
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* War
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ODIP U.S. DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATION
Effective from January 1983
Official representational and ceremonial activities of U.S. diplomats and U.S. Government officials; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by U.S. officials. (Replaces RCHB file categories: PER, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Agrement
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Anniversary
* Assault
* Attache
* Ceremonial Representation
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* Personnel Conduct
* Real Property
* Social Reception
* Tax Exemption
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OEXC EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL
EXCHANGE OPERATIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
The administration and operation of educational and cultural exchange programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: EDX)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* American Studies
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Community
* Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Exchange Program
* Designation Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* FLEX Program
* Foreign Leader Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange Grant
* Humphrey Program
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Nomination
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* Scientist
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* U.S. Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Youth Exchanges
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OFDP FOREIGN DIPLOMATS AND FOREIGN MISSIONS
Effective from January 1983
Administrative, representational, and ceremonial matters related to non-U.S. diplomatic personnel and foreign missions; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by non-U.S. diplomats. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Assault
* Attache
* Building Design
* Ceremonial Representation
* Consul
* Consulate
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Embassy
* Envoy
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* NOB
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Post Closing
* Post Opening
* Real Property
* Recall
* Social Reception
* Staffing
* Tax Exemption
* Third Country Counterparts
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OIIP INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION PROGRAMS
Effective from October 1999
Administrative and operational aspects of international information programs, products, and services that increase international support for U.S. policies and understanding of U.S. society.
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advance Documents Service
* Article Alert
* Book Donations
* Book Fairs
* Book Reprints
* Book Translations
* Books and Documents List
* Computer
* Cooperative Agreements
* Copyright
* Design Services
* DVC
* Electronic Journal
* Grant
* Graphic Design
* I-Bucks
* IRC
* IRO
* Listserv
* Paper Shows
* PDQ
* Photo Coverage
* Photo Rights
* Photo Requests
* Public Diplomacy
* Publication
* Reference Requests
* Speaker
* Technology Partnerships
* Teleconference
* Translation Requests
* Washington File
* Websites
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OPDC DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE
Effective from January 1983
Correspondence and ceremonial messages between prominent leaders and principal officers. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acknowledgment
* Anniversary
* Appreciation Message
* Commemorative Message
* Condolence Message
* Congratulatory Message
* Invitation
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OPRC PUBLIC RELATIONS AND CORRESPONDENCE
Effective from January 1983
Correspondence to and from the public commenting on U.S. policy and foreign incidents, requesting information and speaking engagements, and any other public relations activities. This TAGS includes routine constituent's correspondence such as employment opportunities, requests for photographs, autographs, etc. Also includes press summaries and press conferences, public opinion polls, and the administrative arrangements for press conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: PR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Authentication
* Autograph
* Constituents Mail
* Employment
* Interview
* Invitation
* Journalist
* Photo Request
* Photograph
* Poll
* Press Relations
* Public Diplomacy
* Public Information Publication
* Speaker
* Translation
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OREP U.S. CONGRESSIONAL TRAVEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Administrative and operational aspects of travel by Congressmen, congressional staffers, and delegations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LEG)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* CODEL
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protective Security
* Staffdel
* Support Services
* Travel Advisory
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OSCI SCIENCE GRANTS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administration of grants and disbursal of funds of U.S. Government sponsored research programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Foreign Currency
* Grant
* Science Grant
* Scientific Exchange
* Scientist
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OTRA TRAVEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Routine and operational aspects of travel and visits by other than prominent individuals and Congressmen. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL, TP, TRV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Businessmen
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Dependent
* Itinerary
* Journalist
* Official Travel
* Scientific Visit
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
* Travel Locator Messages
* Travel Orders
* Travel Report
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OVIP VISITS AND TRAVEL OF PROMINENT INDIVIDUALS AND LEADERS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administrative and operational aspects of visits or travel of U.S. and foreign leaders and prominent individuals. Use for assistant secretary level and above or foreign equivalent. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Envoy
* Hotel
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protection Technical Services
* Protective Security
* Secretarys Detail
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
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PARM ARMS CONTROLS AND DISARMAMENT
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts by governments to control the acquisition, development, and production of nuclear, biological, chemical, and other advanced weaponry. Also includes the control of efforts by countries to develop nuclear capabilities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, FT, POL, STR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* ABM Treaty
* Advance Notification
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aerial Inspection
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Arms Buildup
* Arms Control
* Arms Control Agreement
* Arms Control Impact Statement
* Arms Talks
* Arms Traffic
* Associated Measures
* Biological Warfare Convention
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* CDE
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* CNEA
* Compliance
* Confidence Building Measures
* Constraints
* Consultation
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* Conventional Weapon Freeze
* Cooperative Measures
* Counterforce
* Counting Rule
* CST
* CTB
* Deterrence
* Disarmament
* Diversion
* East West Relations
* Electronic Weapons Systems
* Emerging Technologies
* ENMOD
* Entry Exit Points
* Fissionable Material
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hotline
* Implementation
* INF
* IOZP
* Laser Fusion
* Launchers
* Limited Test Ban Treaty
* LRTNF
* Military Budget Reduction
* Military Expenditures
* Missile
* Monitoring
* Moratorium
* Napalm
* National Guidelines Area
* No First Use
* Nonproliferation
* Nonuse of Force
* NPT
* NRR
* NTEM
* NTM
* Nuclear Agreements
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Enrichment Process
* Nuclear Equipment
* Nuclear Free Zone
* Nuclear Material
* Nuclear Proliferation
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Technical Assistance
* Nuclear Technology
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Weapon Free Zone
* Nuclear Weapon Freeze
* Particle Beam
* Peace Movement
* Plutonium
* Political Concession
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* SCC
* SDI
* Simulations
* SNEC
* Spent Fuel
* START
* Stockpile
* Strategic Policy
* Technology Transfer
* Telemetry
* Tlatelolco Treaty
* Troop Level
* TTBT
* Unconventional Weapon
* Verification
* Warhead
* Weapon Destruction
* Weapon Systems Deactivation
* Weapons Deployment
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PBTS NATIONAL BOUNDARIES, TERRITORIES, AND SOVEREIGNTY
Effective from January 1983
A territory over which dominion is exercised. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Alert
* Airspace
* Annexation
* Arbitration
* Archipelago
* Border Control
* Border Crossing
* Border Dispute
* Border Incident
* Boundary
* Boundary Claim
* Boundary Determination
* Canal
* Cession
* Coast Guard
* Continental Shelf
* Court Decision
* Dependency
* Dispute Settlement
* Island
* Island Claim
* Land Settlement
* Landlocked Country
* Maritime Boundary
* Mediation
* Occupied Area
* Overflight
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Province
* River
* Seabed
* Ship Detention
* Sovereignty
* Strait
* Survey
* Territorial Claim
* Territorial Reversion
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Unification
* Territorial Waters
* Trust Territory
* Water Boundary Agreement
* Water Boundary Claim
* West Bank
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PGOV INTERNAL GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised June 1983)
The form, structure, and organization of local, provincial, and national governments. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Absentee Ballot
* Administration of Justice
* Alliance
* Antigovernment
* Arbitration
* Berlin Access
* Berlin Wall
* Cabinet
* Cabinet Meeting
* Campaign
* Candidacy Support
* Candidate
* Charter
* Church State Relations
* Coalition Government
* Colonialism
* Communism
* Confederation
* Constitution
* Constitutional Law
* Corruption
* Court
* Court Decision
* Death
* Democracy
* Dictatorship
* Election
* Election Forecast
* Election Irregularities
* Election Law
* Election Observer
* Election Reform
* Election Results
* Extremist
* Federation
* First Lady
* Glasnost
* Government Agency
* Government Budget
* Government Media Relations
* Government Official
* Government Reform
* Governor
* Impeachment
* Inauguration
* Influence
* Infrastructure
* Interim Government
* Judicial Reform
* Judiciary
* Junta
* King
* Legislation
* Legislator
* Legislature
* Martial Law
* Mayor
* Minister
* Minority
* Municipal
* Nationalism
* Opposition
* Opposition Party
* Party Faction
* Party Leader
* Party Line
* Party Meeting
* Party Stability
* Party Strength
* Party Unity
* Patronage
* Perestroyka
* Political Adviser
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Crisis
* Political Leader
* Political Military Relations
* Political Party
* Political Trend
* Poll
* President
* Prime Minister
* Progovernment
* Province
* Queen
* Reconciliation
* Referendum
* Reorganization
* Resignation from Office
* Reunification
* Royal Family
* Ruling Party
* Self Government
* Socialism
* Special Interest Group
* State of the Union Message
* Succession
* Tenure of Office
* Totalitarian
* Trial
* Trust
* Territory
* Veto
* Vice President
* Voting
* Voting Rights
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PHSA HIGH SEAS AFFAIRS
Effective from January 1983
Activities on the high seas, outside a country's national jurisdiction. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Continental Shelf
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive
* Economic Zone
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Freedom of Navigation
* Hazardous Cargo
* Innocent Passage
* International Waters
* LOS
* Marine Mammal
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Natural Resources
* Ocean Dumping
* Piracy
* Seabed
* Seabed Mining
* Ship Accident
* Ship Detention
* Ship Movement
* Strait
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Waters
* Transit Passage
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PHUM HUMAN RIGHTS
Effective from January 1985
The violation of rights attributable to human beings. (Replaces RCHB file categories: POL, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Abuse
* Amnesty
* Antisemitic
* Apartheid
* Asylum
* Asylum Request
* Capital Punishment
* Childrens Rights
* Civil Rights
* Concentration Camp
* Court Decision
* Death Squad
* Deportation
* Detainee
* Detection Equipment
* Detention Development Rights
* Discrimination
* Economic Rights
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Ethnic Group
* EVD
* Execution
* Exile
* Family
* Forced Labor
* Harassment
* Human Rights
* Humane
* Imprisonment
* Indigenous Peoples
* Individual Rights
* Internal Exile
* Internee
* Mass Migration
* Massacre
* Minority
* Minority Rights
* Missing Person
* Mistreatment
* Murder
* Persecution
* Police Equipment
* Political Disappearance
* Political Prisoner
* Political Repression
* Political Rights
* Poverty
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Welfare
* Proselytize
* Psychiatric Abuse
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Returnees
* Rights of Peoples
* Security Forces
* Sponsorship
* Torture
* Walk In Procedures
* Women
* Womens Rights
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PINR INTELLIGENCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The gathering and reporting of intelligence information, including biographic and background data. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INT, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aerial Reconnaissance
* Biographic Information
* Contacts
* Counterintelligence
* Covert Operations
* Disinformation
* Espionage
* Film
* Humint Collection Plan
* Information Security
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intelligence Collection
* Intelligence Services
* Maps
* Monitoring
* Olive Harvest
* PLPPR
* Remote Sensing
* Satellite
* Ship Movement
* Surveillance Aircraft
* Tracking Station
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PINS NATIONAL SECURITY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
A regime's stability, control, or efforts to maintain itself in power, as well as activities and efforts to disrupt or overthrow the established regime by other than normal political activity. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Assassination
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Censorship
* Church State Relations
* Civil War
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Contingency Plan
* CONTRA
* Counterinsurgency
* Coup
* Court Decision
* Court Martial
* Death Squad
* Defector
* Demobilization
* Detention
* Dissident
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Escalation
* Ethnic Group
* Execution
* Exile
* Exiled Government
* Exit Permit
* Expulsion
* Extremist
* General Strike
* Guerrilla
* Harassment
* Hostility
* Hunger Strike
* Impeachment
* Infiltration
* Insurgency
* Intelligence Assessment
* Internal Control
* Intervention
* Land Reform
* Law Enforcement
* Liberation Front
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* Mercenary
* Minority
* Missing Person
* National Security
* Occupied Area
* Persona Non Grata
* Plot
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Political Assessment
* Political Crisis
* Political Military Relations
* Political Prisoner
* Political Settlement
* Political Stability
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Release
* Propaganda
* Property Protection
* Religious Group
* Repression
* Reprisal
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Sabotage
* Seizure
* Surrender
* Threat
* Travel Document
* Travel Restriction
* Treason
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Violence
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PREF REFUGEES
Effective from January 1985 (Revised March 1995)
People who move across borders because of danger to life or fear of persecution. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Admissions
* Allocation
* Asylum Policy
* Early Warning
* Emergency Response
* ESLCO
* Family Reunification
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Internally Displaced Persons
* Letter of Introduction
* ODP
* Prevention
* Refugee Camp
* Refugee Protection
* Refugee Relief
* Refugee Resettlement
* Refugee Settlement
* Refugee Status
* Repatriation
* Safe Country of Origin and Transit
* Safe Haven
* Sponsorship
* Temporary Protection
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
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PREL EXTERNAL POLITICAL RELATIONS
Effective from January 1983
The political relations between countries, international or regional organizations both bilateral and multilateral, that assess intentions, objectives, plans, or possible courses of interaction. (Replaces RCHB file category: CSM, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alliance
* Ambassador
* Amity
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antisoviet
* Bilateral Cooperation
* CBI
* Cold War
* Commitment
* Condemnation
* Consular Service
* Demarche
* Detente
* Deterrence
* Diplomatic Protest
* East West Relations
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Expulsion
* Extradition Treaty
* Foreign Commitment
* Foreign Relations
* Front Line States
* Government Reaction
* Hegemony
* Industrialized Nation
* Influence
* International Organization
* Intervention
* LDC
* Lobbying
* NAM
* National Security
* Neutrality
* No Fly Zone
* Nonaggression
* Nonaligned Nations
* Nonparticipation
* North South Dialogue
* Open Skies Treaty
* Opposition
* Participation
* Peace
* Peace Plan
* Persona Non Grata
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Initiative
* Political Settlement
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Exchange
* Prisoner Transfer
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Relations
* Reciprocity
* Recognition
* Reconciliation
* Regional Organization
* Relations Establishment
* Relations Interruption
* Reprisal
* Sanction
* Secession
* Signatory
* Sister City
* Third Country Representation
* Third World
* Threat
* War Claims
* West Bank
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PROP PROPAGANDA AND PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The spreading of ideology, information, or rumor for the purpose of supporting or defaming nations, institutions, causes, peoples, or persons. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CSM, CUL, INF, MP, POL, PPB, RAD, TV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Active Measures
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antinuclear
* Antisoviet
* Brain Drain
* Brainwashing
* Broadcasting
* Campaign
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Disinformation
* Frequency Interference
* Harassment
* Influence
* Jamming
* Lobbying
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Propaganda
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Disclosure
* Public Information
* Public Relations
* Publication
* Repression
* Slander
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PTER TERRORISTS AND TERRORISM
Effective from March 1981 (Revised January 1983)
All aspects of terrorism which transcend national boundaries due to the nationality of the perpetrator, victim, place, or the incident. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acts of Terrorists
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Antiterrorist Forces
* Assassination
* Assault
* Bomb Threat
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Hijacking
* Hostage
* Hostility
* Infiltration
* Kidnapping
* Kidnapping Threat
* Mission Takeover
* Piracy
* Plot
* Proterrorism
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Small Arms
* Surrender
* Terrorism
* Terrorist Activities
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Violence
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SCUL CULTURAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
Any part or totality of a nation's behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, or sociology. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CUL, EDU, MP, PPB, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* American Studies
* Anthropology
* Archaeology
* Artifact
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Commemorative Celebration
* Community Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Presentation
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Education
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Ethnic Group
* Excavation
* Exchange Program Designation
* Exhibit
* Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* Fine Arts
* FLEX Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange
* History
* Holiday
* Humphrey Program
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Language
* Library
* Magazine
* Memorial
* Missionary
* Museum
* National Flag
* Newspaper
* Olympics
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Piracy
* Place of Worship
* Pope
* Publication
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Religious Leader
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* School
* Social Custom
* Social Reform
* Sports
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* University
* US Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Women
* Youth
* Youth Exchanges
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SENV ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The preservation, deterioration, and conservation of natural and animal resources, the air, water, land, and space environments. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AGR, CUL, E, HLTH, INCO, OS, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acid Rain
* Air Pollution
* Animal Conservation
* Animal Hides
* Atmosphere
* Biodiversity
* CITES
* Crop
* Destruction
* Dam
* Desertification
* Drought
* Earthquake
* Ecology
* Endangered Species
* Environment
* Erosion
* Exploitation
* Famine
* Fire
* Fish
* Flood
* Flora
* Forestry
* Fungicide
* Habitat
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Herbicide
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insect
* Land Conservation
* Marine
* Mammal
* Migratory Animals
* Monsoon
* National Park
* Natural Disaster
* Natural Resources
* Noise Pollution
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Winter
* Ocean Dumping
* Oil Spill
* Ozone
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Pollution Control
* Preservation
* Rainfall
* Seabed
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sludge
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soil Pollution
* Species Protection
* Storm
* Tidal Wave
* Transboundary Pollution
* Tropical Forest
* Volcanic Eruption
* Waste
* Waste Disposal
* Water
* Water Analysis
* Water Conservation
* Water Pollution
* Water Supply System
* Weather
* Whales
* Wildlife
* Yellow Rain
* Zoo
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SMIG MIGRATION
Effective from March 1995
The legal or illegal movement of people across borders, border control, and the treatment of aliens by receiving states. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alien Interdiction
* Border Control
* Cross Border Migration
* Economic Migration
* Emigration
* Environmental Migration
* Family Reunification
* Illegal Migration
* Immigration
* Labor Migration
* Migration
* Migration and Development Policy
* Nationality and Citizenship
* Readmission Agreements
* Remittances
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SNAR NARCOTICS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 2008)
The illegal production, distribution, and use of narcotic drugs. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aircraft Registry
* Cocaine
* Crop Destruction
* Crop Substitution
* Crops
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Demand Reduction
* Detection
* Equipment
* Eradication
* Exhibit
* Foreigners
* Hashish
* Herbicide
* Heroin
* Illicit
* Immigration
* Interdiction
* Law Enforcement
* Legal
* Marijuana
* Money Laundering
* Morphine
* Narcotics
* Narcotics Abuse
* Narcotics Control
* Narcotics Detection
* Narcotics Seizure
* Narcotics Traffic
* Opium
* Patrol Boat
* Psychotropic Drugs
* Seizure
* Ship Registry
* Smuggling
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SOCI SOCIAL CONDITIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The conditions and factors that affect the social welfare of a community. (Replaces RCHB file category: HLTH, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Abortion
* Administration of Justice
* Adoption
* AIDS
* Birth Rate
* Black Market
* Census
* Child
* Custody
* Children
* Civil Disobedience
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Consumer Protection
* Crime
* Crime Control
* Cult
* Demography
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Divorce
* Educational Reform
* Elderly
* Epidemic
* Family
* Family Planning
* Food
* Fugitive
* Genocide
* Glasnost
* Health
* Housing
* Housing Shortage
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Hunger Strike
* Illegal Alien
* Immigrant
* Immigration Control
* Infant
* Infrastructure
* Inoculation
* Insurance
* Law Enforcement
* Life Expectancy
* Marriage
* Medical Care
* Medical Facility
* Mental Health
* Minority
* Modernization
* Mortality Rate
* Murder
* Penal System
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Population
* Population Growth
* Pornography
* Prison
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Prostitution
* Public Safety
* Public Transportation
* Public Welfare
* Quarantine
* Recall
* Reform
* Rehabilitation
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Rural Area
* Sanitation
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sex Ratio
* Sexual Crime
* Sexual Harassment
* Social Development
* Social Reform
* Social Security
* Social Service
* Social Trend
* Special Interest Group
* Standard of Living
* Sterilization
* Theft
* Urban Area
* Violence
* Volunteers
* Water Supply System
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TBIO BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL SCIENCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The anatomy, physiology, chemistry, and psychology that affect living organisms and the mechanisms of their expression. (Replaces RCHB file categories: HLTH, SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AIDS
* Animals
* Biology
* Biotechnology
* Chemistry
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Eradication
* Food
* Genetic Engineering
* Hormones
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Medical Science
* Nuclear Contamination
* Parapsychology
* Pest Control
* Pharmaceuticals
* Quarantine
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* STRIDE Technology
* Technology
* Transfer
* Vaccine
* Zoology
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TPHY PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development in any of the physical sciences. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Atmosphere
* Chemistry
* Geodesy
* Geology
* Hydrology
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Maps
* Materials Science
* Meteorology
* Metrology
* Microwave
* Minerology
* Ocean Drilling
* Oceanography
* Physics
* Research & Development
* Research Vessel
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Scientific Visit
* Seismology
* STRIDE
* Survey
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Volcanology
* Weather
* Weather Station
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TRGY ENERGY TECHNOLOGY
Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development of energy sources. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF, FSE, PET, SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Electric Energy
* Energy Conservation
* Exploration
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Magnetic
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Petroleum
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* SSC
* STRIDE
* Synthetic Fuel
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Transmitters
* Wind Energy
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TSPA SPACE ACTIVITIES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development leading to and resulting in the exploration and utilization of outer space. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, SP, TEL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Astronaut
* Astronomy
* Communications Satellite
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* ELV
* Exploration
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Technology Equipment
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Landing Rights
* Navigational Aid
* Orbit
* Outer Space
* Outer Space Commercialization
* Peaceful Use of Outer Space
* Reentry
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Salvage
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Space Agreement
* Space Fragment
* Space Law
* Space Liability
* Space Program
* Space Station
* Spacecraft
* Spacecraft Recovery
* Spaceflight
* STRIDE
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Telecommunication
* Tracking Station
* UFO
CONFIDENTIAL
CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN
SECRET
SECRET//NOFORN
UNCLASSIFIED
UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY
By year:
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ABLD BUILDING AND GROUNDS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The acquisition, management, and operation of U.S.-owned or-leased facilities and sites both domestic and foreign. (Replaces RCHB file categories: BG, ES)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acquisition
* AIEP
* Allotment
* Antenna
* Antiques
* Appraisals
* Architecture
* Asbestos
* Audit
* Bid Results
* Breathing Device
* Building
* Building Design
* Building Management
* Carpet
* Chancellery
* Construction Management
* Construction Security
* Consulate
* Contract Amendment Contract Award Contract Renewal Contract Termination Contractor
* Core Area
* DCR
* Deed
* Descent Device
* Electrical System
* Elevator
* Embassy
* EMR
* Energy Conservation
* EURMAC
* Fire Alarm
* Fire Detection System
* Fire Prevention
* Fire Safety
* Furnishings
* Generator
* Geotechnical
* Gift
* Hazardous Material
* Housing
* HVAC
* Improvement
* Inventory
* Lease
* Legation
* Maintenance
* Mechanical System
* NOB
* Parking
* PCC
* Post Opening
* Property Exchange
* Property Sales
* Public Access Control
* Real Property
* Reciprocity
* REMS
* Renovation
* Safety & Health Designee
* Safety Program
* Security Enhancement
* Seismology
* SHEMC
* Shielded Enclosure
* Site
* Space Management
* Survey
* WASHMAC
* Water Analysis
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AEMR EMERGENCY PLANNING AND EVACUATION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Measures and actions implemented to protect U.S. personnel, citizens, property and information; especially related to crisis situations. (Replaces RCHB file category: EP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Citizen Protection
* Contingency Plan EAP
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Property
* Protection
* Records Destruction
* Rescue
* Safehaven
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AFIN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
The fiscal operations of the Department, Foreign Service posts, and other Federal agencies. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, FMGT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accounting
* Allowance
* Annuity Check
* Antideficiency
* Appropriation
* Audit
* Authentication Bank
* Account Bonding
* CAPPS
* Cash
* Cash Management
* Cashier
* Central Claim
* Commercial Claim
* Compensation
* Debt Collection
* Deficit
* Disallowances
* Disbursement
* Employee Claim
* ESF
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Management System
* Fiscal
* Fiscal Irregularities
* Foreign Currency
* FSCADP
* Fund Allotment
* Funding
* GBL
* General Ledger
* GTR
* Home Leave
* ICASS
* Leave
* Liquidation
* Local Currency
* Nonreceipt
* Over Obligation
* Pay Advance
* Pay Record
* Payment
* Payroll
* Payroll Deduction
* PCS
* Per Diem
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Post MGT
* Premium Pay
* Prompt Payment
* Reimbursement
* Relocation
* Reprogramming
* Retirement
* Security Enhancement
* Taxes
* TDY
* Time & Attendance
* Transportation Request
* Travel Advance
* Travelers Checks
* Treasury Check
* Vendor
* Vouchers
* Vulnerability Assessment
* Wages
* Working Capital Fund
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AMGT MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The management and organization of the Department and posts abroad and other U.S. agencies. (Replaces RCHB file category: ORG)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Administration
* Audit
* Authorities
* Background Information
* Bureau Organization
* Commissary
* Congressional Report
* Delegation of Authority
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Employee Association
* FCS
* FTE
* Geneva Group
* GORI
* Information System
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* Internal Control
* JAO
* Management Initiative
* Management Issues
* Mission Closure
* Mission Opening
* Occupational Safety
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Office Procedures
* Organization
* Overseas Post
* PCS
* Post Closing
* Post MGT
* Post Opening
* Post Operating Plan
* Reciprocity
* Recreation
* Reorganization
* Scheduling
* Staffing
* Support Services
* Survey
* Task Force
* Workload
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AORC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES
Effective from January 1983
The structure and management of international or regional organizations and conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL and Organization Name)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Administration
* Application
* Budget
* Candidate
* Chairman
* Charter
* Congressional Reports
* Constitution
* Donor
* Election Results
* Financial Contribution
* Geneva Group
* Host Government
* Information System
* Infrastructure
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* International Organization
* International Organization Official
* Meeting Agenda
* Meeting Delegation
* Meeting Observer
* Meeting Venue
* Membership
* NGO
* Nomination
* Nonparticipation
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Participation
* PERMREP
* Referendum
* Reform
* Regional Organization
* Regional Organization Official Reorganization
* Resignation from Office Seating
* Secession Secretary General Specialized Agency
* Sponsorship
* Staffing
* Vacancy Announcement
* Veto
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
* Voting
* Wages
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APER PERSONNEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administration and support of the Department's Civil and Foreign
Service personnel. (Replaces RCHB file category: PER)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Adoption
* Affirmative
* Action
* Ambassador
* Appeal
* Award
* Backpay
* Benefit Plan
* Bilateral Work Agreements
* Blood Donor
* Boarding School Career Development Career Mobility
* CFC
* Civil Service
* Civil Service Reform Act
* Class Action Suit
* CLO Program
* Community Liaison Office
* Coordinators
* Compensation
* Complaint
* Complement
* Consultation
* Continuing Education
* Contract Employee
* Conversion
* CSR
* Death
* Demotion
* Dependent
* Dependent Education
* Dependent Employment
* Discipline
* Divorce
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Employee Association
* Employee Benefit
* Employee Relations
* Employee Service
* Employee Status
* Employee Training
* Employment
* Equal Employment Opportunity
* Family Life
* Family Separation
* Family Support Services
* Fellowship
* FERS
* Foreign Born Spouses
* Foreign Service
* Foreign Service Act
* FSPS
* FTE
* Functional Training
* Grade Retention
* Grievance
* Health
* Injury
* Insurance
* International School
* Interns
* Interview
* Job Title
* Leave
* Library
* Merit Pay
* Merit Promotion
* Military Furlough
* Military Reserve
* Nomination
* Nonsensitive Critical Position
* Open Assignments
* Orientation
* Overcomplement
* Pay Record
* Performance Evaluation
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Personnel
* Personnel Action
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Assignment
* Personnel Classification
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Promotion
* Personnel Reassignment
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Photographer
* PIT
* Position Classification
* Position Description
* Premium Pay
* Presidential Executive Exchange Program
* Private School
* Probation
* Promotion Panel
* PSC
* Public School
* Recall
* Recruitment
* Reentry
* Relocation
* Remains Disposition
* Reprogramming
* Retired Annuitant
* Retirement
* RIF
* Sabbatical
* Savings Bond
* School Admissions
* SEF
* Selection Board
* Selection Out
* Senior Foreign Service
* SES
* Severance Pay
* Sexual Harassment
* Skill Codes
* Spouse
* Staffing
* Staffing Pattern
* Survey
* Tandem Couple
* TDY
* Tenure Board
* Termination
* Time & Attendance
* Upward Mobility
* U.S. Family Member
* Vacancy Announcement
* Wages
* Work Requirements
* Workload
* Workmen Compensation
* Workweek
* Youth Programs
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ASEC SECURITY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The development, coordination, or administration of security policies and programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SY)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AIASA
* Airport Access Procedures
* Antifraud
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Armored Vehicle
* Assault
* Bugging
* Building
* Contract Guard Program
* Counterintelligence
* Debriefing
* Debugging
* Demolition
* Detection Equipment
* Dismantling
* Electronic Security Device
* Emergency Response Team
* Explosives
* Fraud
* Host Country Guards
* Host Country Police
* Identification Systems
* Information Security
* Local Guard Program
* Maps
* Mission Takeover
* Monitoring
* MSG
* Name Check
* NSU
* Personnel Protection
* Physical Security
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Property Protection
* Protective Security
* Public Access Control
* Regional Security
* Riot Control
* RSO
* Scheduled Reporting
* Security Assessment
* Security Clearance
* Security Crisis
* Security Enhancement
* Security Survey
* Security Violation
* Special Support Program
* Suitability
* Technical Security
* Telephone
* Tempest
* Terrorism
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Unit Security Procedures
* Warning System
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BEXP TRADE EXPANSION AND PROMOTION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts to promote trade and other commercial activities, including specific proposals and inquiries to establish trade relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: TP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Best Prospect
* Bid
* Business Firm
* Businessmen
* CMP
* Commercial Action
* Commercial Association
* Consultation
* Cooperatives
* Country Commercial
* Exhibit
* Exposition
* Foreign Agent
* Foreign Market
* Target Industry
* Targeting
* Trade Fair
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Visit
* WITS
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BTIO TRADE AND INVESTMENT
OPPORTUNITIES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Administrative and operational reporting on opportunities for U.S. businesses. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, TP)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agribusiness
* Bid
* Business Firm
* FGT
* Foreign Markets
* GPC Implementation
* Joint Venture
* Patent
* PTO
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CASC ASSISTANCE TO CITIZENS
Effective from May 1977 (Revised January 1983)
Consular services provided by the United States to citizens of the United States or any other country. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CON, PS)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Adoption
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Alien
* AMCIT
* Arrest Assault
* Attorney List
* Authorities
* Automation
* Child Custody
* Children Compensation
* Complaint
* Consular Assistance
* Consular Package
* Cult
* Custody
* Death Report
* Deportation
* Detention
* Direct Relay
* Drivers License
* Emergency Evacuation
* Estate
* Family
* FIMED
* Fraud Identification
* Lawyer
* Legal
* Medical Care
* Missing Person
* Murder Offenses
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Property
* Property Protection
* Release
* Remains Disposition
* Repatriation
* Seamen
* Ship Detention
* Ship Registry
* Spouse
* Third Country Representation
* Travel Advisory
* Trial
* Trust Account
* Trust Account Refund
* Welfare & Whereabouts
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CJAN JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE AND NOTARIAL SERVICES
Effective from May 1983
Matters pertaining to Notarial Services and International Judicial Assistance, including the service of judicial and extra-judicial documents and obtaining evidence. (Replaces RCHB file categories: LEG, PS)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acknowledgment
* Affidavit
* Attorney List
* Authentication
* Automation
* Deed
* Deposition
* Documentation
* Evidence
* Extradition
* Fraud
* FSIA
* Judicial Assistance
* Letters Rogatory
* Notarial
* Oath
* Official Travel
* Prisoner Transfer
* Process Serving
* Subpoena
* Testimony
* Tort Claim
* Witness
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CMGT CONSULAR ADMINSTRATION AND MANAGEMENT
Effective from August 1983
The administrative and operational management of Consular Affairs activities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, CON, FMGT,ORG, PER)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antifraud
* Automation
* CAS
* Consular Agent
* Consular Agreement
* Consular Conference
* Consular Equipment
* Consular Package
* Consular Service
* Consular Supplies
* Consular Treaty
* CSS
* ECR
* Fee
* Fraud
* ICARS
* IVACS
* Legislation
* MRP
* NIVCAPS
* Office Procedures
* Personnel
* PFM
* PIT
* Publication
* Space Management
* Supplies
* Support Services
* TDIS
* Third Country Representation
* Word Processor
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CVIS VISAS
Effective from May 1973 (Revised January 1993)
Operational, procedural, and administrative functions of visa operations. (Replaces RCHB file category: V)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AA 1 Adoption
* Advisory Opinion AIDS
* Alien
* Alien Previously Deported
* Alien Smuggler
* Allocation
* Application
* Appointment
* Arrival Notice
* Athlete Automation
* Bearer Insert
* BUSVIS
* Centralized Visa Processing
* Chargeability
* CHINEX
* CLASS
* Clearance
* CONGRINT
* Consular Package
* Crew List
* Crewman
* Crime
* Data
* Defector
* Denial
* Departure Notice
* Dependent
* Deportation
* Derivatives
* Diversity Immigrant
* DNC
* Documentation
* DV 1DVACS
* Employment Based Preference
* Employment Creation
* Entertainer
* Entitlement
* Exchange Visitor
* Exclusion
* Extraordinary Ability
* Family Preference
* Fiance
* Fiancee
* Files
* Foreign Policy Exclusion
* Forms
* Fraud
* Health Related Grounds
* ICARS
* Immediate Relative
* Immigrant
* Intercompany Transferee
* International Child Abduction
* Interview
* Issuance
* IVACS
* Labor Certification
* LB 1
* Legislation
* Medical Examination
* Moral Turpitude
* MRV
* Name Check
* Narcotics Traffic
* News Media Representative
* NIV
* NIVCAPS
* Nonimmigrant
* Numerical Control
* NVC
* Operations
* Other Worker
* Out of District Applicant
* Parole
* Permanent Resident
* Polygamist
* Portsmouth Consular Center
* Priority Date
* Private Bill
* Procedures
* Public Charge
* Reciprocity
* Refugee
* Refusal
* Religious Worker
* Renewal
* Revocation
* SAO
* Skilled Worker
* SPLEX
* Student
* Supplies Temporary Worker
* Terrorist
* 30 60 Rule
* TIVPC
* Totalitarian Party Membership
* Transfer
* Transit
* Travel Agents
* Treaty Investor
* Treaty Trader
* TTYREP
* Validity Visa
* Visa Clearance
* Visa Photograph
* Visitor for Business
* VLOB
* Waiver
* Waiver of Ineligibility
* Walk Ins
* Workload
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EAGR AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Cultivating the soil and forest, raising livestock, and producing crops. (Replaces RCHB file category: AGR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Production
* Agricultural Program
* Agricultural Worker
* Agriculture
* Animal Disease
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Corn
* Cotton
* Crop Destruction
* Crops
* Dairy Products
* Desalinization
* Disease Control
* Drought
* Erosion
* Famine
* Farm Equipment
* Farming
* Fertilizer
* Food Shortages
* Forestry
* Fruit
* Fungicide
* Grain
* Harvest
* Herbicide
* Husbandry
* Insect
* Irrigation
* Jute
* Land Conservation
* Land Management
* Land Reform
* Livestock
* Natural Fiber
* Nuts
* Oilseeds
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Plant Disease
* Poultry
* Preservation
* Quarantine
* Rainfall
* Rice
* Rubber
* Seeds
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soybean
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Timber
* Tobacco
* Tropical Forest
* Vegetable
* Water Analysis
* Weather
* Wheat
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EAID FOREIGN ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Foreign economic and technical assistance provided by governments, international organizations, institutions, or private individuals. (Replaces RCHB file category: AID)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Agreement
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Program Airlift
* Bank
* Congressional Presentation
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Credit
* Debt
* Development Loan
* Development Program
* Disaster Relief
* Donor
* Economic Adviser
* Economic Assistance
* Economic Development
* Economic Support Fund
* Farm Equipment
* Financial Contribution
* Food
* Foreign Assistance Agreement
* Funding
* Grant
* Industrial Development
* Industrialized Nation
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* LLDC
* Loan
* Medical Care
* Medical Equipment
* North South Dialogue
* Paris Club
* PL 480
* PL 480 Title I
* PL 480 Title II
* PL 480 Title III
* Relief Effort
* Self Help
* Technical Assistance
* Water Analysis
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EAIR CIVIL AVIATION
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
Commercial and private aircraft and air operations, domestic as well as international. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AV, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Access
* Air Cargo
* Air Fare
* Air Safety
* Air Traffic
* Air Transportation
* Aircraft
* Aircraft Accident
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Airline
* Airport
* Airport Fee
* Airport Security
* Airspace
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Aviation Agreement
* Cargo Handling
* Charter Flight
* CIVAIR
* Commercial Aircraft
* Emergency Landing
* Flight Clearance
* Flight Manual
* Hazardous Cargo
* Helicopter
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Landing Rights
* Maintenance
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Manifest
* Pilot Training
* Private Aircraft
* Refueling
* Rescue
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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ECON ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The status of a nation's economy. (Replaces RCHB file category: E)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agricultural Development
* Antiinflationary Program
* Black Market
* Capital Investment
* Cost of Living
* Depression
* Economic Agreement
* Economic Assessment
* Economic Conditions
* Economic Crisis
* Economic Development
* Economic Forecast
* Economic Growth
* Economic Indicators
* Economic Program
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Reform
* Economic Report
* Economic Stability
* Economic Trend
* EEC 1992
* Employment
* Financial Profits
* GDP
* GNP
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Reform
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* National Debt
* NIEO
* Price Index
* Recession
* Stock Market
* Tax Law
* Unemployment
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ECPS COMMUNICATIONS AND POSTAL SYSTEMS
Effective from March 1983
The efforts of governments, the private sector, or international organizations to manage, regulate, develop, apply, or monitor the methods and means of telecommunication, international communication policy, and the informational aspects of communication. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INF, MP, PO, PPB, PR, RAD, SP, TEL, TV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Broadcasting
* Cable TV
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* Fiber Optics
* Frequency Allocation
* Frequency Interference
* Frequency Spectrum
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Frequency
* lnformatics Information Access
* Information Center
* Information Flow
* Information Media
* Jamming
* Light Communication
* Networking
* NWICO
* Orbit
* Postal System
* Prior Consent
* Radio
* Satellite
* Telecommunication
* Telecommunication Agreement
* Telegraph
* Telephone
* Television
* Transborder Data Flow
* Transmitters
* Undersea Cable
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EFIN FINANCIAL AND MONETARY AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Domestic and international financial affairs of governments and private institutions. (Replaces RCHB file category: FN)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accounting
* Audit
* Bank
* Bank Account
* Bankruptcy
* Blocked Assets
* BOP
* Budget
* Buffer Stock
* Capital Flow
* CFF
* Commodities Exchange
* Credit
* Currency Shortage
* Debt
* Debt Equity Swap
* Debt Relief
* Debt Repayment
* Debt Repudiation
* Debt Rescheduling
* Deficit
* Devaluation
* Donor
* Drawing Rights
* Economic Growth
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Trend
* EFF
* EMS
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Agreement
* Financial Contribution
* Financial Control
* Financial Crisis
* Financial Market
* Financial Profits
* Financial Program
* Financial Reform
* Financial Reserve
* Financial Stability
* Foreign Currency
* Foreign Currency Control
* Foreign Currency Exchange
* Foreign Market
* Gold
* Grant
* IMF Standbys
* Income Tax
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* Loan Default
* Local Currency
* London Club
* National Income
* Overpayment
* Paris Club
* Payment
* Revaluation
* Sales Tax
* SDR
* Securities
* Securities Exchange
* Stock Shares
* Tax Haven
* Tax Law
* Taxation Treaties
* Treasury
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EFIS COMMERCIAL FISHING AND FISH PROCESSING
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The breeding and catching of fish and other marine life for commercial purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aquaculture
* Catch
* Quota Cod
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive Economic
* Zone Fish
* Fisheries
* Aid Fishery
* Fishing Agreement
* Fishing Concession
* Fishing Dispute
* Fishing Ground
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Fishing Vessel
* Fishing Vessel
* Detention Halibut
* Herring Joint
* Venture
* Quota Salmon
* Shellfish
* Shrimp
* TEDS
* Tuna
* Whaling Industry
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EIND INDUSTRY AND MANUFACTURING
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The commercial production of goods and services, including the processing of raw materials into manufactured goods. (Replaces RCHB file category: TEL, INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aerospace Industry
* Alloy
* Aluminum
* Antitrust
* Automotive Industry
* Bankruptcy
* Business Firm
* Capital Investment
* Chemical Industry
* Clothing Industry
* Commercial Association
* Communications Industry
* Complaint
* Construction Industry
* Consumer Goods
* Cooperatives
* Copyright Agreement
* Copyright Claim
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Dairy Industry
* Data Processing Industry
* Defense Industry
* Development Program
* Drug Industry
* Dyeing Industry
* Economic Growth
* Electronic Industry
* Espionage
* Factory
* Fertilizer Industry
* Finishing Industry
* Fishing Industry
* Food Contamination
* Food Industry
* Foreign Agent
* Fraud
* Garment Industry
* Garment Production
* Garment Workers
* Industrial Accident
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Production
* Industrial Reform
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insurance
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber Industry
* Machine Tool Industry
* Manmade Fiber
* Manufactured Product
* Merger
* Metal Industry
* Monopoly
* Nationalization
* Paper Industry
* Parastatal
* Patent
* Petroleum Industry
* Piracy
* Plastic Industry
* Power Looms
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Processing
* Product Safety
* Product Standards
* Product Testing
* Production
* Production Control
* Public Sector
* Railroad Industry
* Ramie
* Raw Materials
* Recall
* Registration
* Rubber Industry
* Sabotage
* Salvage
* Service Industry
* Shipbuilding Industry
* Silk
* Spinning Machinery
* Steel Industry
* Stockpile
* Subsidiary
* Subsidy
* Textile Industry
* Textile Production
* Tobacco Industry
* Tourism
* Trademark
* Vegetable Fiber
* Weaving Industry
* Wood Products Industry
* Wool
* Yarns
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EINT ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL INTERNET
Effective from October 1997
Economic and commercial programs, policies, and issues relating to the Internet.
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Agreement
* Censorship
* Competition
* Connectivity
* Content
* Copyright
* Data
* Democracy
* Economic Conditions
* Domain Names
* Electronic Commerce
* Encryption
* Free Flow of Information
* Information Availability
* Interconnectivity
* Internet
* Meeting
* Monopoly
* Piracy
* Policy
* Pornography
* Privacy
* Private Sector
* Reporting
* Trademark
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EINV FOREIGN INVESTMENTS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
Foreign investments made by governments or private enterprises for commercial gain. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bank
* Bid
* BIT
* Business Firm
* Business Loss
* Business Merger
* Capital Flow
* Capital Investment
* Compensation
* Credit
* Credit Guarantee
* Disinvestment
* Economic Growth
* Foreign Investment
* Fraud
* Garment Investment
* Insurance Risk
* Investment Climate
* Investment Control
* Investment Disputes
* Investment Guarantee
* Investment Incentive
* Investment Law
* Investment Opportunity
* Joint Venture
* Loan
* Multinational Corporation
* Nationalization
* Parastatal
* Private Investment
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Public Sector
* Subsidiary
* Textile Investment
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ELAB LABOR SECTOR AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised May 1995)
The labor sector, labor actors, and national labor policies and their effect on domestic and international systems and relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LAB)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Arbitration
* Benefits
* Bonded Labor
* Child Labor
* Collective Bargaining
* Compulsory Labor
* Dock Workers
* Employee Ownership
* Employee Rights
* Employer Organization
* Employment
* Equal Pay for Equal Work
* Forced Labor
* Foreign Worker
* GSP (Worker Rights)
* Illegal Worker
* International Labor Secretariat
* Job Creation
* Job Discrimination
* Job Security
* Job Training
* Labor Agreement
* Labor Code
* Labor Competition
* Labor Confederation
* Labor Cooperative
* Labor Costs
* Labor Courts
* Labor Disputes
* Labor Federation
* Labor Law
* Labor Leader
* Labor Market
* Labor Migration
* Labor Movement
* Labor Organization
* Labor Relations
* Labor Rights
* Labor Sector
* Labor Settlement
* Labor Standards
* Labor Union
* Layoffs
* Lockout
* Manpower
* Mediation
* NAFTA Labor Cooperation
* Occupational Health
* Occupational Safety
* Pension
* Prison Labor
* Privatization
* Right of Association
* Right to Organize Slave Labor
* Social Clause (WTO)
* Social Net
* Social Security
* Strike
* Trade
* Union
* Underemployment
* Unemployment
* Unemployment Insurance
* Vocational Training
* Wages
* Work Force
* Work Permit
* Worker Rights Workers
* Working Conditions
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ELTN LAND TRANSPORTATION
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
All aspects of land transportation. (Replaces RCHB file categories: IT, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Automobile
* Bridge
* Bus
* Cargo Handling
* Detention
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Highway
* Highway Access
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Land Transportation
* Maintenance
* Overland Cargo
* Public Transportation
* Railroad
* Railroad Accident
* Railway Access
* Rescue
* Schedule
* Traffic Accident
* Traffic Safety
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
* Truck
* Tunnel
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EMIN MINERALS AND METALS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The exploration, discovery, and extraction of minerals and metals. (Replaces RCHB file category: INCO)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bauxite
* Bid
* Chromite
* Coal
* Cobalt
* Copper
* Drilling
* Excavation
* Exclusive Economic Zone
* Exploration
* Factory
* Gems
* Gold
* Iron
* Magnesium
* Manganese
* Metal
* Mine
* Mineral
* Mineral Reserve
* Mining
* Mining Accident
* Mining Concession
* Nickel
* Offshore Mining
* Ore
* Quarry
* Silver
* Tin
* Tungsten
* Uranium
* Uranium Enrichment
* Zinc
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ENRG ENERGY AND POWER
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Government and private commercial activities in acquiring and providing energy services from all types of sources. For petroleum and natural gas, see EPET. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, FSE)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Coal
* Dam
* Decontamination
* Electric Energy
* Electric Power Plant
* Energy Conservation
* Energy Consumption
* Energy Reserve
* Energy Shortage
* Factory
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Fuel Shortage
* Generator
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Hydroelectric Power Plant
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
* Nuclear Power Plant
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Power Line
* Public Utility
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Reexport
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* Stockpile
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Thermal Power Plant
* Transformer
* Uranium Enrichment
* Wind Energy
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EPET PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)
Government and private sector activities in the exploration and extraction of petroleum and natural gas. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FSE, PET)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Bid
* Drilling
* Exploitation
* Exploration
* LPG
* Natural Gas
* Natural Gas Pipeline
* Natural Gas Production
* Natural Gas Reserve
* Offshore Drilling
* Offshore Drilling Platform
* Offshore Oil
* Oil Field
* Petroleum
* Petroleum Concession
* Petroleum Pipeline
* Petroleum Production
* Petroleum Reserve
* Petroleum Shortage
* Refinery
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ETRD FOREIGN TRADE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Exchange of goods between nations. (Replaces RCHB file category: FT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alcoholic Beverage
* Aluminum
* Animal Hides
* Antidumping
* Antitrust
* Apparel Trade
* Arms
* Arms Traffic
* Barter
* BOP
* Boycott
* Buffer Stock
* Chemical
* Clothing
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Commercial Aircraft
* Commodity
* Commodity Market
* Communications Equipment
* Computer
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Countertrade
* Countervailing Duty
* Cross Border Trade
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Clearance
* Customs Court
* Customs Fine
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Official
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Dairy Products
* Debt
* Development Program
* Dispute Settlement
* Diversion
* Duty Free Entry
* East West Trade
* Economic Cooperation
* EEC 1992
* EEP
* Electronic Equipment
* Exhibit
* Export
* Fair Trade
* Farm Equipment
* FCN
* Fertilizer
* Fish
* Food
* Food Contamination
* Food Inspection
* Footwear
* Foreign Market
* Free Trade Zone
* Garment Exports
* Garment Imports
* Government Procurement
* GSP
* Harmonized System
* Helicopter
* Import
* Industrialized Nation
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Intervention
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* Leather
* License
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber
* Machine Tool
* Manmade Fiber
* Market Access
* Meat
* Meat Inspection
* Medical Equipment
* Merger
* Metal
* MFN
* MIC
* Monopoly
* Multifiber Arrangement
* NAFTA
* Natural Fiber
* Newly Industrialized Countries
* Nonalcoholic Beverage
* Nontariff Barriers
* North South Dialogue
* Oils
* Oilseeds
* Perishable Commodities
* Petroleum Products
* Pharmaceuticals
* Plastics
* Poultry
* Private Sector
* Product Standards
* Public Sector
* Quota
* Railroad Equipment
* Ramie
* Reexport
* Rice
* Rubber
* Sanction
* Shellfish
* Silk
* Smuggling
* Soybean
* Steel
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Synthetic Fiber
* Synthetic Rubber
* Tariff
* Tariff Barriers
* Tariff Relief
* Television
* Textile Exports
* Textile Imports
* Textiles
* Tin
* Tobacco
* Trade Agreement
* Trade Balance
* Trade Complaint
* Trade Control
* Trade Concession
* Trade Discrimination
* Trade Dumping
* Trade Fair
* Trade Law
* Trade Liberalization
* Trade Opportunity
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Protectionism
* Trade Relations
* Trade Visit
* Tuna
* VAT
* Vegetable
* Vegetable Fiber
* Vegetable Oil
* Wheat
* Wine
* Wood Products
* Wool
* Yarns
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ETTC TRADE AND TECHNOLOGY CONTROLS
Effective from April 1984
Government efforts to control the transfer of goods (i.e., equipment),services, or technologies. This includes foreign policy trade controls, strategic (National Security) trade controls, munitions controls, general West to East technology transfer issues, and efforts to circumvent U.S. or COCOM controls. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FT, STR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Arms Traffic
* Blocked Assets
* Boycott
* COCOM Case
* COCOM List Review
* Computer
* Data Bases
* Data Processing Equipment
* Digital Switching
* Diversion
* EAA
* East West Trade
* Economic Warfare
* Electronic Equipment
* Embargo
* End Use Check
* End User
* Enforcement
* Espionage
* Exception List
* EXCON
* Export
* Export Control
* GSOIA
* GSOMIA
* High Technology Equipment
* IEEPA
* Illegal Trade
* Import Control
* ITAR
* Laboratory Equipment
* License
* Manufacturing Agreement
* Military Applications
* Military Critical Technologies
* Military Equipment
* Military Services
* Munitions Control
* NDPC
* Nonmarket Economy
* Origin Certificate
* Reexport
* Research & Development
* Sanction
* Security Survey
* Semiconductors
* SNEC
* Software
* Stockpile
* Strategic Material
* Strategic Trade Control
* Superconductor
* TCDC
* Technical Assistance Agreement
* Technology Acquisition Efforts
* Technology Gap
* Technology Transfer
* Transaction Check
* Turnkey Plant
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EWWT WATERBORNE TRANSPORTATION
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Movement of commercial and private vessels over high seas and inland waterways. (Replaces RCHB file categories: OS, TR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Antiterrorism
* Measures Canal
* Cargo Handling
* Coast Guard
* Containerization
* Dock Workers
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Insurance
* Load Line
* Maintenance
* Marine Cargo
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Maritime Flag
* Maritime Law
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Ship
* Patrol Boat
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Port Congestion
* Private Ship
* Refueling
* Registration
* Rescue
* River
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule Ship Accident
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Detention
* Ship Harassment
* Ship Movement
* Ship Registry
* Shipyard
* SOLAS
* Strait
* Tonnage Measurement
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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KACT: Strategic Arms Control (ACS) Treaties
Effective from August 2000 (Revised August 2004)
Use for all documents relating to specific, interrelated strategic (nuclear) arms control treaties and their implementation:
* ABM (i.e., anti-ballistic missile) treaty and its implementation body the SCC (Standing Consultative Commission);
* INF (i.e., Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) Treaty and its implementation body, the SVC (Special Verification Commission);
* START (i.e., Strategic Reductions Treaty) and its implementation body, the JCIC (Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission); and the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT) or the Moscow Treaty and its implementing body, the BIC (Bilateral Implementation Commission).
Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NP/EX)
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KAWC: Atrocities and War Crimes
Effective from July 2001
Use for all documents relating to atrocities, massacres, and war crimes, including allegations, reports, investigations, and prosecutions of genocide, crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, and violations of the laws or customs for war. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau, Info: S/WCI)
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KCFE: Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
Effective from August 1989
Use on all documents between U.S. Vienna and the Department pertaining to CFE negotiations; documents pertaining to conventional forces in Europe including both Eastern and Western forces, their structure, posture, changes, etc.; documents pertaining to allied and Warsaw Pact conventional arms control positions, plans and related internal political situations, documents referring to the High Level Task Force (HLTF) or its subgroups; and all documents discussing congressional delegation visits to Europe that will address conventional arms control issues. (Action: EUR/RPM)
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KCIP: Critical Infrastructure Protection
Effective from August 2001
Use for all documents reporting on critical infrastructure protection (CIP) issues, which are defined as vulnerabilities and threats, both physical and cyber, to systems and assets (particularly interconnected information systems and networks) so vital to a nation that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on national security, national economic security, and/or national public health and safety. Use for reporting of CIP issues both as they affect host country and as they impact the United States. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOM: Chief of Mission
Effective from March 2004
Use for all documents addressed for action to the chief of a U.S. mission in a foreign location (e.g., ambassadors, chargés d’affaires, consuls general, or principal officers). Use KCOM in conjunction with generic PASS instructions to chiefs of mission in Department telegrams. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOR: Corruption and Anti-Corruption
Effective from August 2001
Use for all documents relating to corruption and anti-corruption, dishonesty, and unethical behavior among public officials representing local, provincial, and national governments. This would include linkages with justice, economic, social and political entities. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCRM: Criminal Activity
Effective from April 1994 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to criminal organizations and activities, the threat they pose to U.S. interests and/or friendly governments, and host country and U.S. Government programs to combat them. This includes international criminal organizations; money laundering and other financial crimes; illicit trafficking including alien smuggling and gun running; international stolen property theft and fencing rings; international frauds and commercial crimes; UN crime meetings and anti-crime programs; and interaction with international and regional organizations on these issues. U.S. assistance covers training of host country judicial and law enforcement agencies. Use this K TAGS with the Subject TAGS SOCI. Distinguish the use of this TAGS from AID-funded administration of justice programs in Latin America (KJUS),anti-narcotics issues and programs (SNAR),and anti-terrorism issues and programs (PTER). (Action: INL/ENT)
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KDEM: Democratization
Effective from May 1991
Use on all documents dealing with democratization in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Encouraging democratization constitutes an essential component of U.S. policy. The U.S. Government is devoting significant resources to monitor and promote regional trends away from autocratic rule and toward political pluralism. Programs designed to encourage democratization are diverse, and often are cross-discipline in nature, requiring the involvement of several U.S. Government agencies. Also use the appropriate Subject and Geo-Political TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KDRG: Detainee Repatriation from Guantanamo Bay
Effective from December 2007
Use for all documents addressing issues connected to the repatriation and transfer of detainees in U.S. Government custody at the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to their countries of origin or to third countries. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/WCI)
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KFRD: Fraud Prevention Programs
Effective from August 1986
Use on all reporting that refers to efforts and activities pertaining to the prevention of fraud and deceptive practices in the issuance of visas, passports, the issuance of Federal benefits to U.S. citizens and others, and to active measures developed by the Department to oversee their legality and for reporting upon the results of antifraud and prevention measures in consular matters. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: CA/FPP)
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KGHG: Global Climate Change
Effective from May 2007
Use for all documents addressing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and global climate change (also referred to as global warming). This includes, but is not limited to, the economic, energy, environmental, geographic, health, scientific, social, and political linkages of global climate change. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: OES/EGC)
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KGIC: Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism
Effective from September 2006
Use for all documents relating to the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. The Global Initiative works toward the prevention, detection, and response to acts of nuclear terrorism. Also use appropriate Subject Tags. (Action: ISM/WMDT)
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KHIV: Emerging Infectious Diseases and HIV/AIDS Program
Effective from June 2000
Use for all documents relating to actual and prospective activities by the U.S. Government, alone or in conjunction with or through other entities, to combat HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. Also use Appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: S/GAC)
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KHLS: Homeland Security
Effective from August 2006
Use for all documents relating to all aspects of homeland security issues, including acts of terrorism directed at the U.S. homeland, its citizens, or interests; planning and support for such acts of terrorism; capabilities of terrorist groups; activities of institutions, groups, or individuals that support such terrorism; acts of terrorism that transcend national boundaries due to the support network or nationality of the perpetrator, victim, or facility or conventional, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) terrorism; terrorist travel; actions of the host government, institutions, or individuals related to support for or opposition to U.S. Government homeland security or counter-terrorism initiatives; actions of the host government or multilateral organizations related to the establishment of host country or regional security, bureaucratic, physical, or cyber infrastructure; homeland security implications and effects of border protection, immigration, and customs policies; transportation (e.g., seaports, civil air) security; host government travel document control and standards; emergency, preparedness, and response; biodefense, science and technology development related to the above areas; reactions of host government, media, etc., to homeland security-related programs and activities in the United States, or of the U.S. Government. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/CT, CA, OES, A/OEM)
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KIPR: Intellectual Property Rights
Effective from December 1988 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to intellectual property rights which include patents, trademarks, copyrights, semiconductor designs (mask works),industrial designs, trade secrets, appellations of origin and other forms of protection to reward and encourage innovation and creativity. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/TPP/MTA/IPC)
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KIRF: International Religious Freedom
Effective from January 1999
Use on all documents relating to all issues of religious freedom and persecution, including civil unrest where religion is a precipitating factor; changes to or enforcement of laws affecting freedom of religion; religious aspects of movements, parties or persons seeking governmental change; governmental repression of religious minorities, movements or leaders; religion playing a role in reconciling conflicts; and changes in religious demographics that may produce societal changes. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: DRL/IRF)
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KISL: Islamic Issues
Effective from November 1988 (Revised April 2000)
Use on documents treating government involvement in recognition of or approaches to Islam; political and economic activities undertaken by private Islamic organizations or prominent individuals; and fundamentalism. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS.
(Action: NEA/PPR, AF/RA, EAP/RA)
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KJUS: Administration of Justice
Effective from May 1986 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with the administration of justice in host countries, particularly as it relates to U.S. objectives of promoting democracy and just economic and social development. This includes judicial reforms, political reporting on personalities and institutions involved in the administration of justice, judicial infrastructure development, criminal investigation capabilities, penal systems, legal training, and assistance and exchange programs in this field. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: WHA/PPC)
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KMCA: Millennium Challenge Account
Effective from August 2004
Use for documents relating to all aspects of the Millennium Challenge Account, a U.S. new foreign assistance account, or the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the independent government corporation recently established to manage and oversee this assistance. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: MCC/IT)
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KMDR: Media Reaction Reporting
Effective From October 1999
Use on all documents dealing with setting post ―Watching Briefs and on all post reporting concerning editorial content and media reaction. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: INR/R)
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KNNP: Nuclear Non-Proliferation
Effective from April 1984
Use on all documents on U.S. policy for preventing the spread of nuclear weapons to other countries, the transfer of nuclear material, equipment of technology, agreements for cooperation on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, matters concerning multilateral discussions on the uses of nuclear energy including the activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and activities in other countries related to the acquisition of nuclear explosives. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KOLY: Olympic Games Reporting
Effective from February 1984
Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. Note: KOLY will be used in the above prescribed manner for all subsequent winter and summer Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KPAL: Palestinian Affairs
Effective from August 1983 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with the Palestinian people, as a group or in part, or the area known as Palestine. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. (Action: NEA/PA)
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KPAO: Public Affairs Office
Effective from May 2000
Use on all documents intended for Public Affairs sections abroad, and should be used by field Public Affairs sections abroad on all documents coming into the Department which relate to Public Diplomacy Programs. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: ECA/EX/PR)
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KPIN: Political Internationals
Effective from November 1984
Use on all documents relating to the activities and policies of the four major Political Internationals: Socialist International, Christian Democratic International, Liberal International, and the International Democratic Union. This includes reporting on the attitudes of member parties towards the Internationals, the interaction between member parties of the Internationals, and the activities of the Internationals themselves. In addition, this TAGS should be used on all documents relating to the policies of the German (FRG) political foundations: Friederich Ebert, Konrad Adenauer, Hanns Seidel, and Friederich Naumann. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: P)
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KPKO: United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
Effective from August 1996
Use on all documents relating to existing or potential United Nations peacekeeping activities, including proposals for and negotiations with other countries on peacekeeping activities, military support, sanctions monitoring, elections and humanitarian activities, as well as interaction with international and regional organizations on peacekeeping. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KPWR: Power Support Program
Effective from March 1993
Use on all documents dealing with the Department’s electrical power support requirements. The program provides consolidated funding for generators, central uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, and PCB transformer abatement projects. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OBO/PE/DE)
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KRAD: Radioactive Contamination of the Environment
Effective from May 1997 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with radioactive contamination of the environment from whatever source—military or civilian use, transportation, storage, or disposal of nuclear material Appropriate Subject Terms to use with this TAGS would include nuclear contamination, radiation, radioactive material and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) emergency notification. In connection with accidental or deliberate contamination, appropriate Terms to use with this TAGS include radioactive material transfer, radioactive waste disposal, radioactive waste management, industrial/medical radiography, medical isotope, and transfer of fissile material. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES/OA)
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KSCA: Science Counselors and Attachés
Effective from February 1983
Use on all documents drafted by or sent to Science Counselors and Science Attachés. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES). Note: KSCA replaces the Organization SCSA.
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KSPR: Strategic, Performance and Resource Planning
Effective from October 1997
Use on all documents dealing with the strategic planning process for all foreign affairs agencies or agencies with operations and programs abroad as well as the Department’s own strategic planning activities. This includes all resource allocation processes when associated with the Mission Performance Plan (MPP),namely: budget formulation, the Financial Plan (FINPLAN),and the field budget plan. Technical and operational messages that are purely budget-focused should only use ABUD. Use KSPR on messages regarding personnel planning in connection with the annual MPP exercises, and subjects relating to the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993. Operational personnel requests (e.g., new positions, classification actions, conversions of positions from FSN to PIT, etc.) should still only use APER. Suggested terms to use with KSPR are program planning, Mission Performance Plan (MPP),Resource Allocations and Budget Integration Tool (RABIT) and Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: M/P)
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KSUM: Summit Meetings
Effective from January 1983 (Revised November 1987)
Use on all documents concerning Summit Meetings. This includes substantive and administrative arrangements for meetings, records of meetings and reports on actions by participants as a result of meetings, including preparatory meetings. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KTFN: Terrorism Finance Traffic
Effective from July 2004
Use for documents relating to all aspects of terrorism financing; sanctions; designations of individuals under Executive Orders (E.O.) dealing with terrorism finance such as E.O. 13224; related UN resolutions; denial of funds to terrorists; and other related aspects of terrorism financing. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/ESC)
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KTIA: Treaties and International Agreements
Effective from June 1984
Use on all documents concerning treaties, including conventions, protocols, or other International Agreements, such as exchange of notes, exchange of letters and memoranda of understanding, as well as requirements of the Case Act (11 FAM 724; 1 U.S.C. 112B). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: L/T)
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KTIP: Trafficking in Persons
Effective from September 2008
Use for all cables related to the topics of trafficking in persons, human trafficking, slavery, involuntary servitude, forced labor, labor migration, illegal migration, commercial sexual exploitation, prostitution, sex tourism, forced marriage, child labor, debt bondage, peonage, and child soldiering. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: G/TIP)
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KUNR: UN Reform
Effective from November 1995
Use on all documents dealing with all efforts to reform and restructure the United Nations. Some of the reforms are: the UN budget and/or ceiling, security council expansion, managerial improvements, and strengthening the role of the UN. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KWBG: West Bank and Gaza
Effective from December 1993 (Revised April 2000)
Use on all documents dealing with the implementation of the Israeli-PLO Declaration of Principles, including Palestinian interim self-rule, economic development and development assistance to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Also, use for Israeli-PLO negotiations on implementing the agreement and political developments in the West Bank and Gaza including elections for a Palestinian Council. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NEA/IPA)
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KWMN: Women Issues
Effective from June 1995
Use on all documents relating to the Fourth World Conference on Women and any future World Conferences on Women. Also use this TAGS on issues concerning women’s human rights, women’s political participation, women-in-development, and any discussions of women in the United Nations or any other international organizations. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: G/CS, IO, and DRL)
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MARR MILITARY AND DEFENSE ARRANGEMENTS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts to establish and maintain collective security or other international military cooperation. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Alliance
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* CFE
* Collective Security
* DECA
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Ground Forces
* Home Porting
* Host Government
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Lease
* Military Advisor
* Military Agreement
* Military Base
* Military Cooperation
* Military Exercise
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Visit
* Minesweeping
* Monitoring
* National Security
* Naval Forces
* Overflight Clearance
* Peace Plan
* Peacekeeping Forces
* Refueling
* Security Assessment
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Movement
* SOFA
* Tracking Station
* Troop Contribution
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Truce Observer
* Weapons Deployment
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MASS MILITARY ASSISTANCE AND SALES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The Govemment to Govemment transfer, sale, or loan of military equipment, advisers, or services. (Replaces RCHB file categories DEF, FT)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Airlift
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Bomber Aircraft
* CAT
* Congressional Presentation
* Credit
* Debt
* Debt Repayment
* Diversion
* Donor
* Economic Support Fund
* Fighter Aircraft
* FMS
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* IMET
* Loan
* Maintenance
* MAP
* Military Adviser
* Military Agreement
* Military Aircraft
* Military Assistance
* Military Procurement
* Military Training
* Military Vehicle
* Missile
* Reexport
* Salvage
* Spare Parts
* Surplus Weapons Disposal
* Technical Assistance
* Technology Transfer
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MCAP MILITARY CAPABILITIES
Effective from March 1973 to June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The nonnuclear offensive and defensive ability of the military establishment of a nation or international organization. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Bomber Aircraft
* Burden sharing
* Cargo Aircraft
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon
* Control Civil Defense
* Coast Guard
* Conscription
* Contingency Plan
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon
* Control Court Martial
* Defense Industry
* Demobilization
* Fighter Aircraft
* Ground Forces
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* Infrastructure
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Logistics
* Military Aircraft
* Military Balance
* Military Budget
* Military Buildup
* Military Capability
* Military Communication
* Military Equipment
* Military Exercise
* Military Leader
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Reserve
* Missile
* Mobilization
* National Guard
* Naval Forces
* Naval Ship
* Ordnance
* Radar
* RDF
* Security Assessment
* Strategic Plan
* Submarine
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
* Warning System
* Weapons Deployment
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MNUC MILITARY NUCLEAR APPLICATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The development and use of nuclear technology for military purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Artillery
* Counterforce
* Decontamination
* Delivery Vehicle
* Fissionable Material
* Guidance System
* INF
* LRTNF
* Military Capability
* Missile
* Missile Site
* Monitoring
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Powered Ship
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Winter
* Plutonium
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Radioactive Waste Management
* Spent Fuel
* Strategic Plan
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
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MOPS MILITARY OPERATIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Declared or undeclared war involving two or more nations. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aggression
* Air Alert
* Air Forces
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Blockade
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Ceasefire
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* Combat
* Concentration Camp
* CONTRA
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Escalation
* Explosives
* Ground Forces
* Guerrilla
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intervention
* Invasion
* KIA
* Landing Rights
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* MIA
* Military Balance
* Military Buildup
* Military Plan
* Minesweeping
* Naval Forces
* No Fly Zone
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Occupied Area
* Peace Plan
* POW
* Repatriation
* Reprisal
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Ship Movement
* Surrender
* Threat
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* War
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ODIP U.S. DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATION
Effective from January 1983
Official representational and ceremonial activities of U.S. diplomats and U.S. Government officials; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by U.S. officials. (Replaces RCHB file categories: PER, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Agrement
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Anniversary
* Assault
* Attache
* Ceremonial Representation
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* Personnel Conduct
* Real Property
* Social Reception
* Tax Exemption
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OEXC EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL
EXCHANGE OPERATIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
The administration and operation of educational and cultural exchange programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: EDX)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* American Studies
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Community
* Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Exchange Program
* Designation Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* FLEX Program
* Foreign Leader Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange Grant
* Humphrey Program
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Nomination
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* Scientist
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* U.S. Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Youth Exchanges
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OFDP FOREIGN DIPLOMATS AND FOREIGN MISSIONS
Effective from January 1983
Administrative, representational, and ceremonial matters related to non-U.S. diplomatic personnel and foreign missions; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by non-U.S. diplomats. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Assault
* Attache
* Building Design
* Ceremonial Representation
* Consul
* Consulate
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Embassy
* Envoy
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* NOB
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Post Closing
* Post Opening
* Real Property
* Recall
* Social Reception
* Staffing
* Tax Exemption
* Third Country Counterparts
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OIIP INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION PROGRAMS
Effective from October 1999
Administrative and operational aspects of international information programs, products, and services that increase international support for U.S. policies and understanding of U.S. society.
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Advance Documents Service
* Article Alert
* Book Donations
* Book Fairs
* Book Reprints
* Book Translations
* Books and Documents List
* Computer
* Cooperative Agreements
* Copyright
* Design Services
* DVC
* Electronic Journal
* Grant
* Graphic Design
* I-Bucks
* IRC
* IRO
* Listserv
* Paper Shows
* PDQ
* Photo Coverage
* Photo Rights
* Photo Requests
* Public Diplomacy
* Publication
* Reference Requests
* Speaker
* Technology Partnerships
* Teleconference
* Translation Requests
* Washington File
* Websites
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OPDC DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE
Effective from January 1983
Correspondence and ceremonial messages between prominent leaders and principal officers. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acknowledgment
* Anniversary
* Appreciation Message
* Commemorative Message
* Condolence Message
* Congratulatory Message
* Invitation
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OPRC PUBLIC RELATIONS AND CORRESPONDENCE
Effective from January 1983
Correspondence to and from the public commenting on U.S. policy and foreign incidents, requesting information and speaking engagements, and any other public relations activities. This TAGS includes routine constituent's correspondence such as employment opportunities, requests for photographs, autographs, etc. Also includes press summaries and press conferences, public opinion polls, and the administrative arrangements for press conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: PR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accreditation
* Authentication
* Autograph
* Constituents Mail
* Employment
* Interview
* Invitation
* Journalist
* Photo Request
* Photograph
* Poll
* Press Relations
* Public Diplomacy
* Public Information Publication
* Speaker
* Translation
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OREP U.S. CONGRESSIONAL TRAVEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Administrative and operational aspects of travel by Congressmen, congressional staffers, and delegations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LEG)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* CODEL
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protective Security
* Staffdel
* Support Services
* Travel Advisory
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OSCI SCIENCE GRANTS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administration of grants and disbursal of funds of U.S. Government sponsored research programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Foreign Currency
* Grant
* Science Grant
* Scientific Exchange
* Scientist
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OTRA TRAVEL
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Routine and operational aspects of travel and visits by other than prominent individuals and Congressmen. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL, TP, TRV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Businessmen
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Dependent
* Itinerary
* Journalist
* Official Travel
* Scientific Visit
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
* Travel Locator Messages
* Travel Orders
* Travel Report
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OVIP VISITS AND TRAVEL OF PROMINENT INDIVIDUALS AND LEADERS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The administrative and operational aspects of visits or travel of U.S. and foreign leaders and prominent individuals. Use for assistant secretary level and above or foreign equivalent. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Envoy
* Hotel
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protection Technical Services
* Protective Security
* Secretarys Detail
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
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PARM ARMS CONTROLS AND DISARMAMENT
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Efforts by governments to control the acquisition, development, and production of nuclear, biological, chemical, and other advanced weaponry. Also includes the control of efforts by countries to develop nuclear capabilities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, FT, POL, STR)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* ABM Treaty
* Advance Notification
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aerial Inspection
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Arms Buildup
* Arms Control
* Arms Control Agreement
* Arms Control Impact Statement
* Arms Talks
* Arms Traffic
* Associated Measures
* Biological Warfare Convention
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* CDE
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* CNEA
* Compliance
* Confidence Building Measures
* Constraints
* Consultation
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* Conventional Weapon Freeze
* Cooperative Measures
* Counterforce
* Counting Rule
* CST
* CTB
* Deterrence
* Disarmament
* Diversion
* East West Relations
* Electronic Weapons Systems
* Emerging Technologies
* ENMOD
* Entry Exit Points
* Fissionable Material
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hotline
* Implementation
* INF
* IOZP
* Laser Fusion
* Launchers
* Limited Test Ban Treaty
* LRTNF
* Military Budget Reduction
* Military Expenditures
* Missile
* Monitoring
* Moratorium
* Napalm
* National Guidelines Area
* No First Use
* Nonproliferation
* Nonuse of Force
* NPT
* NRR
* NTEM
* NTM
* Nuclear Agreements
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Enrichment Process
* Nuclear Equipment
* Nuclear Free Zone
* Nuclear Material
* Nuclear Proliferation
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Technical Assistance
* Nuclear Technology
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Weapon Free Zone
* Nuclear Weapon Freeze
* Particle Beam
* Peace Movement
* Plutonium
* Political Concession
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* SCC
* SDI
* Simulations
* SNEC
* Spent Fuel
* START
* Stockpile
* Strategic Policy
* Technology Transfer
* Telemetry
* Tlatelolco Treaty
* Troop Level
* TTBT
* Unconventional Weapon
* Verification
* Warhead
* Weapon Destruction
* Weapon Systems Deactivation
* Weapons Deployment
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PBTS NATIONAL BOUNDARIES, TERRITORIES, AND SOVEREIGNTY
Effective from January 1983
A territory over which dominion is exercised. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Air Alert
* Airspace
* Annexation
* Arbitration
* Archipelago
* Border Control
* Border Crossing
* Border Dispute
* Border Incident
* Boundary
* Boundary Claim
* Boundary Determination
* Canal
* Cession
* Coast Guard
* Continental Shelf
* Court Decision
* Dependency
* Dispute Settlement
* Island
* Island Claim
* Land Settlement
* Landlocked Country
* Maritime Boundary
* Mediation
* Occupied Area
* Overflight
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Province
* River
* Seabed
* Ship Detention
* Sovereignty
* Strait
* Survey
* Territorial Claim
* Territorial Reversion
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Unification
* Territorial Waters
* Trust Territory
* Water Boundary Agreement
* Water Boundary Claim
* West Bank
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PGOV INTERNAL GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised June 1983)
The form, structure, and organization of local, provincial, and national governments. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Absentee Ballot
* Administration of Justice
* Alliance
* Antigovernment
* Arbitration
* Berlin Access
* Berlin Wall
* Cabinet
* Cabinet Meeting
* Campaign
* Candidacy Support
* Candidate
* Charter
* Church State Relations
* Coalition Government
* Colonialism
* Communism
* Confederation
* Constitution
* Constitutional Law
* Corruption
* Court
* Court Decision
* Death
* Democracy
* Dictatorship
* Election
* Election Forecast
* Election Irregularities
* Election Law
* Election Observer
* Election Reform
* Election Results
* Extremist
* Federation
* First Lady
* Glasnost
* Government Agency
* Government Budget
* Government Media Relations
* Government Official
* Government Reform
* Governor
* Impeachment
* Inauguration
* Influence
* Infrastructure
* Interim Government
* Judicial Reform
* Judiciary
* Junta
* King
* Legislation
* Legislator
* Legislature
* Martial Law
* Mayor
* Minister
* Minority
* Municipal
* Nationalism
* Opposition
* Opposition Party
* Party Faction
* Party Leader
* Party Line
* Party Meeting
* Party Stability
* Party Strength
* Party Unity
* Patronage
* Perestroyka
* Political Adviser
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Crisis
* Political Leader
* Political Military Relations
* Political Party
* Political Trend
* Poll
* President
* Prime Minister
* Progovernment
* Province
* Queen
* Reconciliation
* Referendum
* Reorganization
* Resignation from Office
* Reunification
* Royal Family
* Ruling Party
* Self Government
* Socialism
* Special Interest Group
* State of the Union Message
* Succession
* Tenure of Office
* Totalitarian
* Trial
* Trust
* Territory
* Veto
* Vice President
* Voting
* Voting Rights
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PHSA HIGH SEAS AFFAIRS
Effective from January 1983
Activities on the high seas, outside a country's national jurisdiction. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Continental Shelf
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive
* Economic Zone
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Freedom of Navigation
* Hazardous Cargo
* Innocent Passage
* International Waters
* LOS
* Marine Mammal
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Natural Resources
* Ocean Dumping
* Piracy
* Seabed
* Seabed Mining
* Ship Accident
* Ship Detention
* Ship Movement
* Strait
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Waters
* Transit Passage
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PHUM HUMAN RIGHTS
Effective from January 1985
The violation of rights attributable to human beings. (Replaces RCHB file categories: POL, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Abuse
* Amnesty
* Antisemitic
* Apartheid
* Asylum
* Asylum Request
* Capital Punishment
* Childrens Rights
* Civil Rights
* Concentration Camp
* Court Decision
* Death Squad
* Deportation
* Detainee
* Detection Equipment
* Detention Development Rights
* Discrimination
* Economic Rights
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Ethnic Group
* EVD
* Execution
* Exile
* Family
* Forced Labor
* Harassment
* Human Rights
* Humane
* Imprisonment
* Indigenous Peoples
* Individual Rights
* Internal Exile
* Internee
* Mass Migration
* Massacre
* Minority
* Minority Rights
* Missing Person
* Mistreatment
* Murder
* Persecution
* Police Equipment
* Political Disappearance
* Political Prisoner
* Political Repression
* Political Rights
* Poverty
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Welfare
* Proselytize
* Psychiatric Abuse
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Returnees
* Rights of Peoples
* Security Forces
* Sponsorship
* Torture
* Walk In Procedures
* Women
* Womens Rights
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PINR INTELLIGENCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The gathering and reporting of intelligence information, including biographic and background data. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INT, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aerial Reconnaissance
* Biographic Information
* Contacts
* Counterintelligence
* Covert Operations
* Disinformation
* Espionage
* Film
* Humint Collection Plan
* Information Security
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intelligence Collection
* Intelligence Services
* Maps
* Monitoring
* Olive Harvest
* PLPPR
* Remote Sensing
* Satellite
* Ship Movement
* Surveillance Aircraft
* Tracking Station
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PINS NATIONAL SECURITY
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
A regime's stability, control, or efforts to maintain itself in power, as well as activities and efforts to disrupt or overthrow the established regime by other than normal political activity. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Assassination
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Censorship
* Church State Relations
* Civil War
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Contingency Plan
* CONTRA
* Counterinsurgency
* Coup
* Court Decision
* Court Martial
* Death Squad
* Defector
* Demobilization
* Detention
* Dissident
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Escalation
* Ethnic Group
* Execution
* Exile
* Exiled Government
* Exit Permit
* Expulsion
* Extremist
* General Strike
* Guerrilla
* Harassment
* Hostility
* Hunger Strike
* Impeachment
* Infiltration
* Insurgency
* Intelligence Assessment
* Internal Control
* Intervention
* Land Reform
* Law Enforcement
* Liberation Front
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* Mercenary
* Minority
* Missing Person
* National Security
* Occupied Area
* Persona Non Grata
* Plot
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Political Assessment
* Political Crisis
* Political Military Relations
* Political Prisoner
* Political Settlement
* Political Stability
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Release
* Propaganda
* Property Protection
* Religious Group
* Repression
* Reprisal
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Sabotage
* Seizure
* Surrender
* Threat
* Travel Document
* Travel Restriction
* Treason
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Violence
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PREF REFUGEES
Effective from January 1985 (Revised March 1995)
People who move across borders because of danger to life or fear of persecution. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Admissions
* Allocation
* Asylum Policy
* Early Warning
* Emergency Response
* ESLCO
* Family Reunification
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Internally Displaced Persons
* Letter of Introduction
* ODP
* Prevention
* Refugee Camp
* Refugee Protection
* Refugee Relief
* Refugee Resettlement
* Refugee Settlement
* Refugee Status
* Repatriation
* Safe Country of Origin and Transit
* Safe Haven
* Sponsorship
* Temporary Protection
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
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PREL EXTERNAL POLITICAL RELATIONS
Effective from January 1983
The political relations between countries, international or regional organizations both bilateral and multilateral, that assess intentions, objectives, plans, or possible courses of interaction. (Replaces RCHB file category: CSM, POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alliance
* Ambassador
* Amity
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antisoviet
* Bilateral Cooperation
* CBI
* Cold War
* Commitment
* Condemnation
* Consular Service
* Demarche
* Detente
* Deterrence
* Diplomatic Protest
* East West Relations
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Expulsion
* Extradition Treaty
* Foreign Commitment
* Foreign Relations
* Front Line States
* Government Reaction
* Hegemony
* Industrialized Nation
* Influence
* International Organization
* Intervention
* LDC
* Lobbying
* NAM
* National Security
* Neutrality
* No Fly Zone
* Nonaggression
* Nonaligned Nations
* Nonparticipation
* North South Dialogue
* Open Skies Treaty
* Opposition
* Participation
* Peace
* Peace Plan
* Persona Non Grata
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Initiative
* Political Settlement
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Exchange
* Prisoner Transfer
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Relations
* Reciprocity
* Recognition
* Reconciliation
* Regional Organization
* Relations Establishment
* Relations Interruption
* Reprisal
* Sanction
* Secession
* Signatory
* Sister City
* Third Country Representation
* Third World
* Threat
* War Claims
* West Bank
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PROP PROPAGANDA AND PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS
Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)
The spreading of ideology, information, or rumor for the purpose of supporting or defaming nations, institutions, causes, peoples, or persons. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CSM, CUL, INF, MP, POL, PPB, RAD, TV)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Active Measures
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antinuclear
* Antisoviet
* Brain Drain
* Brainwashing
* Broadcasting
* Campaign
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Disinformation
* Frequency Interference
* Harassment
* Influence
* Jamming
* Lobbying
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Propaganda
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Disclosure
* Public Information
* Public Relations
* Publication
* Repression
* Slander
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PTER TERRORISTS AND TERRORISM
Effective from March 1981 (Revised January 1983)
All aspects of terrorism which transcend national boundaries due to the nationality of the perpetrator, victim, place, or the incident. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acts of Terrorists
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Antiterrorist Forces
* Assassination
* Assault
* Bomb Threat
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Hijacking
* Hostage
* Hostility
* Infiltration
* Kidnapping
* Kidnapping Threat
* Mission Takeover
* Piracy
* Plot
* Proterrorism
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Small Arms
* Surrender
* Terrorism
* Terrorist Activities
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Violence
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SCUL CULTURAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)
Any part or totality of a nation's behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, or sociology. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CUL, EDU, MP, PPB, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* American Studies
* Anthropology
* Archaeology
* Artifact
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Commemorative Celebration
* Community Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Presentation
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Education
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Ethnic Group
* Excavation
* Exchange Program Designation
* Exhibit
* Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* Fine Arts
* FLEX Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange
* History
* Holiday
* Humphrey Program
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Language
* Library
* Magazine
* Memorial
* Missionary
* Museum
* National Flag
* Newspaper
* Olympics
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Piracy
* Place of Worship
* Pope
* Publication
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Religious Leader
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* School
* Social Custom
* Social Reform
* Sports
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* University
* US Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Women
* Youth
* Youth Exchanges
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SENV ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The preservation, deterioration, and conservation of natural and animal resources, the air, water, land, and space environments. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AGR, CUL, E, HLTH, INCO, OS, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Acid Rain
* Air Pollution
* Animal Conservation
* Animal Hides
* Atmosphere
* Biodiversity
* CITES
* Crop
* Destruction
* Dam
* Desertification
* Drought
* Earthquake
* Ecology
* Endangered Species
* Environment
* Erosion
* Exploitation
* Famine
* Fire
* Fish
* Flood
* Flora
* Forestry
* Fungicide
* Habitat
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Herbicide
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insect
* Land Conservation
* Marine
* Mammal
* Migratory Animals
* Monsoon
* National Park
* Natural Disaster
* Natural Resources
* Noise Pollution
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Winter
* Ocean Dumping
* Oil Spill
* Ozone
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Pollution Control
* Preservation
* Rainfall
* Seabed
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sludge
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soil Pollution
* Species Protection
* Storm
* Tidal Wave
* Transboundary Pollution
* Tropical Forest
* Volcanic Eruption
* Waste
* Waste Disposal
* Water
* Water Analysis
* Water Conservation
* Water Pollution
* Water Supply System
* Weather
* Whales
* Wildlife
* Yellow Rain
* Zoo
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SMIG MIGRATION
Effective from March 1995
The legal or illegal movement of people across borders, border control, and the treatment of aliens by receiving states. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Alien Interdiction
* Border Control
* Cross Border Migration
* Economic Migration
* Emigration
* Environmental Migration
* Family Reunification
* Illegal Migration
* Immigration
* Labor Migration
* Migration
* Migration and Development Policy
* Nationality and Citizenship
* Readmission Agreements
* Remittances
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SNAR NARCOTICS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 2008)
The illegal production, distribution, and use of narcotic drugs. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Aircraft Registry
* Cocaine
* Crop Destruction
* Crop Substitution
* Crops
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Demand Reduction
* Detection
* Equipment
* Eradication
* Exhibit
* Foreigners
* Hashish
* Herbicide
* Heroin
* Illicit
* Immigration
* Interdiction
* Law Enforcement
* Legal
* Marijuana
* Money Laundering
* Morphine
* Narcotics
* Narcotics Abuse
* Narcotics Control
* Narcotics Detection
* Narcotics Seizure
* Narcotics Traffic
* Opium
* Patrol Boat
* Psychotropic Drugs
* Seizure
* Ship Registry
* Smuggling
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SOCI SOCIAL CONDITIONS
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The conditions and factors that affect the social welfare of a community. (Replaces RCHB file category: HLTH, SOC)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Abortion
* Administration of Justice
* Adoption
* AIDS
* Birth Rate
* Black Market
* Census
* Child
* Custody
* Children
* Civil Disobedience
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Consumer Protection
* Crime
* Crime Control
* Cult
* Demography
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Divorce
* Educational Reform
* Elderly
* Epidemic
* Family
* Family Planning
* Food
* Fugitive
* Genocide
* Glasnost
* Health
* Housing
* Housing Shortage
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Hunger Strike
* Illegal Alien
* Immigrant
* Immigration Control
* Infant
* Infrastructure
* Inoculation
* Insurance
* Law Enforcement
* Life Expectancy
* Marriage
* Medical Care
* Medical Facility
* Mental Health
* Minority
* Modernization
* Mortality Rate
* Murder
* Penal System
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Population
* Population Growth
* Pornography
* Prison
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Prostitution
* Public Safety
* Public Transportation
* Public Welfare
* Quarantine
* Recall
* Reform
* Rehabilitation
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Rural Area
* Sanitation
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sex Ratio
* Sexual Crime
* Sexual Harassment
* Social Development
* Social Reform
* Social Security
* Social Service
* Social Trend
* Special Interest Group
* Standard of Living
* Sterilization
* Theft
* Urban Area
* Violence
* Volunteers
* Water Supply System
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TBIO BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL SCIENCE
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
The anatomy, physiology, chemistry, and psychology that affect living organisms and the mechanisms of their expression. (Replaces RCHB file categories: HLTH, SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* AIDS
* Animals
* Biology
* Biotechnology
* Chemistry
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Eradication
* Food
* Genetic Engineering
* Hormones
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Medical Science
* Nuclear Contamination
* Parapsychology
* Pest Control
* Pharmaceuticals
* Quarantine
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* STRIDE Technology
* Technology
* Transfer
* Vaccine
* Zoology
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TPHY PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development in any of the physical sciences. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Atmosphere
* Chemistry
* Geodesy
* Geology
* Hydrology
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Maps
* Materials Science
* Meteorology
* Metrology
* Microwave
* Minerology
* Ocean Drilling
* Oceanography
* Physics
* Research & Development
* Research Vessel
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Scientific Visit
* Seismology
* STRIDE
* Survey
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Volcanology
* Weather
* Weather Station
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TRGY ENERGY TECHNOLOGY
Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development of energy sources. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF, FSE, PET, SCI)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Electric Energy
* Energy Conservation
* Exploration
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Magnetic
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Petroleum
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* SSC
* STRIDE
* Synthetic Fuel
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Transmitters
* Wind Energy
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TSPA SPACE ACTIVITIES
Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)
Research and development leading to and resulting in the exploration and utilization of outer space. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, SP, TEL)
Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:
* Astronaut
* Astronomy
* Communications Satellite
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* ELV
* Exploration
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Technology Equipment
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Landing Rights
* Navigational Aid
* Orbit
* Outer Space
* Outer Space Commercialization
* Peaceful Use of Outer Space
* Reentry
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Salvage
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Space Agreement
* Space Fragment
* Space Law
* Space Liability
* Space Program
* Space Station
* Spacecraft
* Spacecraft Recovery
* Spaceflight
* STRIDE
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Telecommunication
* Tracking Station
* UFO
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GC GCC GCCC GE GEF GEORGE GERARD GESKE GF GG GH GI GIPNC GIWI GJ GKGIC GL GLOBAL GM GN GO GOG GOI GON GOVPOI GPGOV GPI GPOI GPOV GR GRQ GS GT GTIP GTMO GTREFTEL GU GUAM GUANTANAMO GUIDANCE GUILLERMO GUTIERREZ GV GWI GY GZ GZIS HA HARRIET HARRY HAWZ HCOPIL HDP HE HEAVEN HEBRON HELGERSON HERCEGOVINA HG HHS HI HIGHLIGHTS HIJAZI HILARY HILLARY HILLEN HIPC HIV HIZ HK HKSX HL HLSX HN HNCHR HO HOA HOSTAGES HPKO HR HRC HRCS HRICTY HRIGHTS HRKSTC HSI HSTC HSWG HT HTCG HTSC HU HUD HUM HUMAN HUMANITARIAN HUMANR HUMANRIGHTS HUMOR HUMRIT HUNRC HURI HURRICANE HYDE HYLAND HYMPSK HZ IA IACHR IACI IACO IACW IADB IAEA IAES IAHRC IAIE IAII IASA IATTC IAZ IBB IBD IBET IBPCA IBRB IBRD IC ICAC ICAO ICC ICCAT ICCROM ICES ICJ ICRC ICRS ICSCA ICTR ICTY ID IDA IDB IDLI IDLO IDP IDR IE IEA IEAB IEF IF IFAD IFC IFIN IFM IFO IFR IFRC IG IGAD IGF IHO IICA IINS IIP IK IL ILAB ILC ILEA ILO IMC IMET IMF IMMIGRATION IMO IMSO IMTS IN INAUGURATION INCB IND INDO INF INFLUENZA INL INMARSAT INNP INPFC INR INRA INRB INRD INRO INRPAZ INS INSC INT INTEL INTELLECTUAL INTELSAT INTERNAL INTERPOL INV INVI IO IOC IOM IP IPET IPGRI IPK IPPC IPR IPROP IQ IQNV IR IRAN IRAQ IRAQI IRAQI FREEDOM IRC IRCE IRDB IRE IRL IRLE IRM IRMO IRNB IRPE IRS IS ISA ISAAC ISAF ISCA ISCON ISLAMISTS ISLE ISN ISNV ISO ISPA ISPL ISRAEL ISRAEL RELATIONS ISRAELI ISRAELI PALESTINIAN AFFAIRS ISSUES ISTC IT ITA ITALIAN ITALY ITECIP ITEIND ITELTN ITER ITF ITIA ITRA ITRD ITU IUCN IV IVIANNA IWC IWI IX IZ IZAORC JA JAM JAMES JAPAN JAT JAWAD JCIC JE JEFFERY JEFFREY JHR JI JIMENEZ JIMENEZ CHILDREN JK JKUS JM JN JO JOHNNIE JOSE NEY MILA ESPINOSA JOSE RAMOS HORTA JOSEPH BIDEN JP JS JSRP JUAN JUS JY KA KACP KACT [+] KACW KADM KAID KALM KALR KANSOU KAPO KARIM WADE KATRINA KAUST KAWC [+] KAWK KAWL KAWS KAWX KAYLA KBCT KBDS KBEM KBIO KBNC KBTC KBTR KBTS KBWG KCCP KCEM KCERS KCFC KCFE [+] KCGC KCHG KCIP [+] KCIS KCM KCMA KCMR KCOG KCOM [+] KCOR [+] KCPS KCRCM KCRI KCRIM KCRM [+] KCRN KCRO KCROM KCROR KCRP KCRS KCRT KCSA KCSI KCSY KCUL KCUM KCVM KCWI KDCM KDDEM KDDG KDE KDEM [+] KDEN KDET KDEV KDGOV KDGR KDHS KDM KDMR KDP KDRG [+] KDRL KDTB KDUM KE KEAI KEBG KECF KEDEM KEDM KEDU KEIM KEM KEMPI KEMR KEMS KEN KENV KERF KERG KESO KESP KESS KEVIN KFAM KFCE KFE KFEM KFGM KFIN KFIU KFLD KFLO KFLU KFOR KFPC KFRD [+] KFRP KFSC KFTFN KFTN KG KGCC KGCN KGHA KGHG [+] KGIC [+] KGICKS KGIT KGIV KGKG KGLB KGOR KGOV KH KHDP KHGH KHIB KHIV [+] KHJUS KHLS [+] KHMN KHOURY KHPD KHSA KHSL KHUM KI KIBL KICA KICC KICCPUR KICR KICT KID KIDE KIF KIFR KIIC KIIP KIL KILS KIMMITT KIMT KIND KINF KINL KINP KINR KINT KIPR [+] KIPT KIRC KIRF [+] KIRL KIRP KIS KISC KISK KISL [+] KISM KISR KITA KIVP KIVR KJAN KJRE KJU KJUS [+] KJUST KJWC KK KKIV KKNP KKOR KKPO KLAB KLAP KLBO KLEG KLFLO KLFU KLHS KLIG KLIP KLPM KLSO KLTN KM KMAC KMAR KMCA [+] KMCC KMCR KMDR [+] KMEPI KMFO KMGT KMIG KMNP KMOC KMPF KMPI KMPIO KMPL KMPP KMPT KMRD KMRS KMSG KMVP KMWN KN KNAO KNAP KNAR KNDP KNEI KNEP KNET KNMP KNN KNNA KNNB KNNC KNNF KNNO KNNP [+] KNNR KNOP KNP KNPP KNPPIS KNPR KNPT KNRG KNRV KNSD KNUC KNUP KO KOC KOCI KOCM KOEM KOGL KOLY [+] KOM KOMC KOMCCO KOMCSG KOMH KOMO KOMS KOR KOSOVO KOUYATE KPA KPAD KPAI KPAK KPAL [+] KPALAOIS KPAM KPAO [+] KPAS KPBT KPDD KPEM KPEO KPER KPET KPIN [+] KPIR KPKO [+] KPKP KPLS KPMI KPMO KPO KPOA KPOKO KPOL KPOP KPOV KPOW KPPAO KPPD KPRD KPRM KPRO KPROG KPRP KPRV KPSC KPTD KPTS KPWG KPWR [+] KQ KQM KQRDQ KR KRAD [+] KRAL KRCIM KRCM KRCS KRD KRDP KREC KREF KREL KRF KRFD KRFR KRG KRGY KRIC KRIF KRIM KRKO KRM KRMS KRV KRVC KS KSA KSAC KSAF KSCA [+] KSCI KSCS KSCT KSEAO KSEC KSEI KSEO KSEP KSI KSIA KSKN KSLG KSMT KSOC KSOCI KSPA KSPR [+] KSRE KSTC KSTCC KSTCPL KSTH KSTS KSTT KSUM [+] KSUP KT KTAO KTBD KTBT KTCRE KTDB KTDD KTDM KTER KTEX KTFIN KTFM KTFN [+] KTFR KTFS KTIA [+] KTIP [+] KTLA KTNBT KTNF KTPN KTRD KTRF KTSC KTSD KTTB KTTC KTTP KU KUAE KUIR KUM KUNA KUNC KUNH KUNP KUNR [+] KUS KUWAIT KV KVBL KVIP KVIR KVIS KVPR KVRC KVRP KW KWAC KWAK KWAWC KWBC KWBG [+] KWBW KWCI KWCR KWGB KWHG KWIC KWIM KWIR KWKN KWM KWMJN KWMM KWMN [+] KWN KWNM KWNN KWOMN KWPA KWPB KWPG KWPR KWRC KWRF KWRG KWUN KWWT KWWW KX KY KZ LA LAB LABOR LANSANA LANTERN LARREA LARS LAS LAURA LAVIN LAW LB LBAR LBY LE LEAGUE LEB LEBIK LEGAT LEGATT LEIS LEON LEVINE LEW LG LGAT LH LI LIB LICC LIMA LINE LK LMS LN LO LOG LORAN LOTT LOVE LR LS LT LTG LTTE LU LV LVPR LY LZ MA MAAR MACEDONIA MACP MANUEL MAP MAPP MAPS MAR MARAD MARIE MARINO MARITIME MARK MARQUEZ MARR [+] MARS MARTIN MARV MAS MASC MASS [+] MATT MB MBM MC MCA MCAP [+] MCAPARR MCAPN MCAPP MCAPS MCAT MCC MCCONNELL MCCP MCRM MCTRE MD MDA MDC MDO ME MEA MED MEDIA MEP MEPI MEPN MEPP MERCOSUR MESUR MEX MF MFA MFO MG MGL MGMT MGOV MGT MGTA MH MHUC MI MIAH MIC MICHAEL MICHEL MIGUEL VARGAS MALDONADO MIK MIL MILI MILITANTS MILITARY MILLENNIUM MINURSO MINUSTAH MITCHELL MJ MK ML MLS MMAR MMED MN MNLF MNNC MNNUC MNU MNUC [+] MNUCH MNUCWA MNUM MNUN MNUR MNUS MNVC MO MOHAMAD MOHAMMAD MOLINA MONTENEGRO MONUC MONY MOOPS MOP MOPP MOPPS MOPS [+] MORG MOROCCO MORS MOS MOTO MOTT MP MPOL MPOS MPP MPS MQADHAFI MR MRCRE MRRR MRS MRSEC MS MSG MSIG MT MTAA MTAG MTCAE MTCR MTCRA MTCRE MTRCE MTRE MTRRE MTS MU MUC MUCN MUKASEY MULLEN MUNC MURRAY MV MW MX MY MZ NA NAC NACB NAFTA NAM NAMSA NANCY NAR NARC NARCOTICS NARR NAS NASA NAT NATEU NATGAS NATIONAL NATO NATOAFGHAN NATOBALKANS NATOIRAQ NATOOPS NATOPOLICY NATSIOS NAVO NB NBTS NBU NC NCCC NCD NCT NCTC NDI NDP NE NEA NEC NEI NELSON NEPAD NERG NET NEW NFATC NFMS NFSO NG NGO NGUYEN NH NI NICOLE NIH NIPP NK NKWG NL NLD NLIAEA NLO NMFS NMNUC NMUC NNPT NO NOAA NOI NOK NON NONE NORAD NOTAG NOVO NP NPA NPG NPT NR NRC NRG NRR NRRC NS NSC NSF NSFO NSG NSSP NT NTDB NTSB NTTC NU NUC NUIN NV NW NZ NZUS OA OAO OARC OAS OASC OASCC OASS OAU OBAMA OBS OBSP OCBD OCEA OCED OCHA OCII OCRA OCS OCSE ODAG ODC ODIP [+] ODPC OECD OECS OECV OES OESC OEXC [+] OEXP OF OFDA OFDC OFDP [+] OFDPQIS OFFICIALS OFPD OFSO OGAC OGIV OHCHR OHI OHIP OI OIC OICCO OIE OIF OIG OIIP [+] OIL OIM OLY OLYAIR OLYMPICS OM OMB OMIG OMS ON ONA OPAD OPBAT OPC OPCD OPCR OPCW OPDAT OPDC [+] OPDP OPEC OPET OPIC OPID OPOC OPPC OPRC [+] OPREC OPREP OPS OPSC OPVIP ORA ORC ORCA ORECD ORED OREG OREP [+] ORGANIZED ORP ORTA ORUE OSAC OSCE OSCI [+] OSD OSEC OSHA OSIC OSTA OSTRA OTA OTAR OTP OTR OTRA [+] OTRABL OTRAO OTRAZ OTRC OTRD OUALI OVIP [+] OVP OXEC OXEM OZ PA PAARM PAC PACE PAGE PAGR PAHO PAIGH PAK PAL PALESTINIAN PAMQ PAN PANAM PAO PAR PARALYMPIC PARCA PAREL PARK PARLIAMENT PARM [+] PARMS PARN PARP PARR PARTIES PARTM PARTY PAS PASS PATTY PAUM PB PBGT PBIO PBK PBOV PBPTS PBS PBT PBTS [+] PCI PCON PCOR PCRM PCUL PD PDA PDD PDEM PDIP PDOV PDRG PE PEACE PEACEKEEPINGFORCES PEDRO PEL PELOSI PEMEX PENA PENV PEPFAR PEPR PER PEREZ PERL PERM PERSONS PET PETER PETERS PETR PETRAEUS PETROL PF PFIN PFLP PFOR PFOV PG PGGOC PGIC PGIV PGKV PGO PGOC PGOF PGOG PGON PGOR PGOT PGOV [+] PGOVE PGOVQL PGPV PGREL PGREV PGV PH PHALANAGE PHARM PHAS PHEM PHIM PHM PHSA [+] PHU PHUH PHUM [+] PHUMHUPPS PHUN PHUS PHYTRP PI PIA PICES PIF PIN PINB PIND PINER PINF PING PINL PINO PINR [+] PINS [+] PINT PINV PIR PIRF PIRN PJUS PK PKAO PKBL PKFK PKISL PKK PKMN PKNP PKO PKPA PKPAL PKPO PKPRP PKST PL PLAB PLAN PLEC PLN PLO PLUM PM PMAR PMAT PMDL PMIG PMIL PMIN PMR PMUC PN PNAT PNET PNG PNIR PNNL PNR PNRG PNS PNUC PNUK PNUM PO PODC POG POGV POINS POL POLG POLI POLICY POLINT POLITICAL POLITICS POLM POLMIL POLS POLUN POREL PORG POSTS POTUS POUS POV POWELL PP PPA PPAO PPD PPEF PPEL PPKO PPOL PQL PQM PRC PRE PREC PRED PREF [+] PREG PREJ PREK PREL [+] PRELEVU PRELM PRELPLS PRELTBIOBA PREM PREO PREP PRER PRES PRESIDENT PRESL PREV PREZ PRF PRFE PRFL PRGO PRGOV PRIL PRL PRLE PRM PRO PROB PROCESS PROG PROL PROLIFERATION PROP [+] PROPERTY PROTECTION PROTESTS PROV PROVE PRT PRTER PRWL PS PSA PSCE PSEC PSEPC PSHA PSI PSNR PSO PSOC PSOCI PSOE PT PTBS PTE PTEL PTEP PTER [+] PTGOV PTIA PTR PTRD PU PUAS PUBLIC PUNE PUNR PUOS PV PVIP PVOV PVPR PVTS PWBG PWMN PY QA QADRI QEL QI QIZ QM QT QU QUAN QUOC RA RAED RAID RAS RATIFICATION RBI RCA RCMP RE REA REACTION REALTIONS RECIN REF REFORM REFPAN REFUGEE REFUGEES REGION REGIONAL REID REIN REINEMEYER REL RELAM RELATIONS RELFREE RELIGIOUS REMON RENAMO RENE PREVAL REO REPORT REUBEN RF RFE RFIN RFREEDOM RGOV RGY RHUM RI RICE RICHARD RIGHTS RIGHTSPOLMIL RIMC RIVERA RL RLA RM RMA RO ROK ROME ROSS ROW ROY RP RPEL RPTS RQ RR RRB RREL RS RSO RSOX RSP RSZ RTT RU RUEHZO RV RW RWANDA SA SAAD SAARC SACU SADC SAFE SAIR SAIS SAMA SAN SANC SANR SAO SARB SARGSIAN SARS SASC SASEC SB SBA SC SCA SCCC SCE SCENESETTER SCHUL SCI SCIENCE SCNV SCOI SCOL SCOM SCPR SCRM SCRS SCRSERD SCUL [+] SCVL SD SE SEC SECDEF SECI SECRET SECRETARY SECSTATE SECTOR SECURITY SEMAAN GABY EID SEN SENC SENG SENS SENU SENV [+] SENVQGR SENVSPL SENVSXE SEP SERBIA SERZH SETTLEMENTS SEVN SEXP SF SFNV SG SGNV SGWI SH SHANNON SHI SHUM SI SIMS SIPDI SIPDIS SIPR SIPRNET SIPRS SIUK SK SKCA SKEP SKI SKSAF SL SLM SLOVAK SM SMAR SMI SMIG [+] SMIL SMIT SMITH SMRT SN SNA SNAP SNAR [+] SNUC SO SOC SOCI [+] SOCIA SOCIETY SOCIS SOCISZX SOCR SOCY SOE SOFA SOI SOIC SOLI SOLIC SOM SOPN SORT SOSI SOVIET SOWGC SP SPAS SPC SPCE SPCVIS SPECI SPECIALIST SPILL SPP SPSTATE SR SREF SRIT SRS SRYI SSA SSH ST STAG START STATE STC STEINBERG STET STP STR SU SUCCESSION SULLIVAN SUMMIT SUR SV SW SWHO SWMN SX SXG SY SYAI SYMBOL SYR SYRIA SYSI SYTH SZ TA TAGS TALAL TAUSCHER TAX TB TBI TBID TBIO [+] TBIOZK TBKIO TBO TC TCOR TCSENV TD TDA TE TECH TECHNOLOGY TER TERAA TERFIN TERR TERROR TERRORISM TF TFIN TG TGRY TH THANH THE THERESE THIRDTERM THKSJA THOMAS THPY TI TIA TIBO TIFA TINT TIO TIP TITI TIUZ TJ TK TL TM TN TNDG TNGD TO TOPEC TORRIJOS TOURISM TP TPHY [+] TPKO TPP TPSA TPSL TR TRAD TRADE TRAFFICKING TRBIO TRBY TRD TREAS TREASURY TREATY TREL TRG TRGV TRGY [+] TRIO TRSY TRT TRV TRY TRYG TRYS TS TSA TSLP TSPA [+] TSPL TSRL TSRY TSY TT TTFN TU TURKEY TV TVBIO TW TWRO TX TY TZ TZBY UA UAE UAID UAM UB UDEM UE UEU UG UGA UK UKR UKRAINE UM UMIK UN UNA UNAF UNAIDS UNAMA UNAMSIL UNAORC UNAUS UNBRO UNC UNCC UNCDF UNCDN UNCHC UNCHR UNCHS UNCITRAL UNCND UNCOPUOS UNCRED UNCRIME UNCSD UNCSW UNCTAD UNDC UNDEF UNDOF UNDP UNECE UNEF UNEP UNESCO UNFA UNFC UNFCYP UNFF UNFICYP UNFIYCP UNFPA UNGA UNGAPL UNGO UNHCR UNHRC UNICEF UNIDCP UNIDO UNIDROIT UNIFEM UNIFIL UNION UNKIK UNM UNMEE UNMIC UNMIK UNMIKI UNMIKV UNMIL UNMIN UNMOVIC UNO UNODC UNOMIG UNOPS UNP UNPAR UNPUOS UNRCCA UNRCR UNREST UNRWA UNSC UNSCAPU UNSCD UNSCE UNSCER UNSCR UNSCS UNSD UNSE UNTAC UNTERR UNTZ UNUS UNVIE UNYI UP UPU UPUO UR US USAID USAU USCC USCG USDA USDELFESTTWO USEU USG USGS USMS USNC USOAS USOP USPS USPTO USSC USTA USTDA USTR USTRD USTRIT USTRPS USTRUWR USUN UUNR UV UX UY UZ VA VANG VAT VC VE VELS VEN VENZ VETTING VI VINICIO VIP VIS VISIT VM VN VO VOA VT VTEG VTFR VTIS VTPREL VTTBIO VTWCAR VXY VY VZ WA WAEMU WAKI WAR WB WBEG WBG WCAR WCI WCL WCO WE WEBG WEBZ WEET WEF WEOG WET WEU WFA WFP WFPAORC WFPO WGC WGG WHA WHITMER WHO WHTI WI WILCOX WIPO WIR WJRO WM WMD WMDT WMN WMO WOMEN WPO WRTO WS WSIS WTO WTRD WTRO WTRQ WW WWARD WWBG WWT WZ XA XAAF XB XC XD XE XF XFNEA XG XH XI XJ XK XL XLUM XM XO XP XQ XR XS XT XTAG XU XV XW XX XXX XY XZ YE YEH YI YL YM YMCS YS YU YURIY ZA ZANU ZB ZC ZCTU ZEALAND ZF ZFR ZH ZI ZIM ZJ ZK ZKGM ZL ZM ZN ZO ZP ZR ZS ZT ZU ZW ZXA
AA AADP AALC ABER ABLD [+] ABLDG ABLG ABMC ABT ABUD AC ACABQ ACAO ACCOUNT ACDA ACEC ACKM ACOA ACOTA ACS ACTION ADANA ADB ADCO ADCP ADEL ADEP ADIP ADM ADMIRAL ADPM ADRC AE AEC AECL AEGR AEIR AEM AEMED AEMR [+] AER AESC AF AFARI AFDB AFDIN AFFAIRS AFGHANISTAN AFIN [+] AFL AFLU AFOR AFR AFSA AFSI AFSN AFU AFZAL AG AGAO AGENDA AGENGA AGIT AGMT AGOA AGR AGS AGUIRRE AI AIAG AID AIDAC AIDS AIEA AIHRC AIN AINF AINFCY AINR AINT AISG AIT AJ AK AL AL-1 ALAB ALBE ALEXANDER ALI ALJAZEERA ALL ALNEA ALOW ALOWAR AM AMAT AMB AMCHAMS AMCT AME AMED AMEDI AMEMR AMER AMERICAS AMEX AMG AMGE AMGMT AMGT [+] AMIA AMLB AMPR AMT AMTC AMTG AN ANARCHISTS ANC AND ANET ANTITERRORISM AO AOCR AODE AOIC AOMS AOPR AORC [+] AORD AOREC AORG AORL AOWC AP APCS APDC APEC APECO APER [+] APR APRC APRM AQ AR ARAB ARABBL ARABL ARABLEAGUE ARAS ARC ARCH ARENA AREP ARF ARG ARM ARMITAGE ARMS AROC ARR ARRMZY ARSO AS ASA ASAC ASC ASCC ASCE ASCEC ASCH ASE ASEAN ASEC [+] ASECARP ASECE ASECM ASECSI ASECVE ASED ASEDC ASEG ASEK ASES ASEX ASFC ASIC ASIG ASIR ASJA ASO ASOC ASPA ASR ASSEMBLY ASSK ASUP AT ATFN ATPDEA ATRA ATRD ATRN AU AU-1 AUC AUNR AUSGR AUSTRALIAGROUP AV AVERY AVIAN AVIANFLU AVIATION AW AX AY AZ AZE B. BA BAGHDAD BAIO BAKOYANNIS BALKANS BAPOL BARACK BASHAR BATA BB BBG BBSR BC BCW BCXP BD BE BEAN BEN BERARDUCCI BESP BEXB BEXP [+] BEXPC BEXPPLM BEXT BF BFIF BFIN BFIO BG BGD BGMT BH BHUM BI BIC BIH BILAT BIMSTEC BINR BIO BIOS BIOTECH BIOTECHNOLOGY BIT BITO BK BL BLR BLUE BLUNT BM BMENA BMGT BMOT BN BNUC BO BOIKO BOL BOND BOQ BORDER BOSNIA BOU BOUCHAIB KAKA BOUTERSE BP BPIS BPTS BR BRIAN BRPA BRUSSELS BS BSSR BT BTA BTC BTIO [+] BTIU BTRA BTT BU BUD BULGARIA BURMA BUSH BV BW BWC BX BXEP BY BZ CA CAC CACM CACS CAFTA CAIO CAJC CAMBODIA CAN CAPC CARC CARE CARIB CARICOM CARSON CAS CASA CASC [+] CASCC CASCR CASE CASTILLO CAVO CB CBC CBD CBE CBG CBIS CBM CBSA CBTH CBW CCSR CCY CD CDB CDC CDCC CDCE CDG CDI CE CEA CEC CEDAW CEN CENTCOM CENTRIC CEUDA CF CFE CFED CFG CFIS CFSP CG CGEN CGOPRC CH CHAD CHALLENGE CHAO CHELIDZE CHENEY CHERTOFF CHG CHIEF CHN CHR CHRISTIAN CHRISTOF CHRISTOPHER CI CIA CIAT CIC CICTE CIDA CIO CIP CIS CITEL CITES CITIBANK CITT CIVAIR CIVS CJ CJAN [+] CJUS CK CKGR CKOR CL CLEARANCE CLINTON CLMT CLO CLOK CM CMAE CMFT CMGT [+] CMP CMT CN CNAR CNARC CNC CNO CO CODEL COE COL COLIN COLLECTIVE COLOMBO COM COMESA COMMERCE CON CONAWAY CONDOLEEZZA CONDOLEEZZA RICE CONEAZ CONG CONGO CONGRINT CONS CONSULAR CONTROL CONTROLS CORRUPTION COSI COUNTER COUNTER TERRORISM COUNTERTERRORISM COUNTRY COUNTRYCLEARANCE CP CPA CPAS CPC CPCTC CPPT CPUOS CQ CR CRIM CRIME CRIMES CRM CROATIA CROS CRS CRUZ CS CSCE CSEP CSIS CSW CT CTBT CTER CTERR CTM CTR CTRYCLR CU CUCO CUIS CUL CV CVIA CVIC CVIS [+] CVISU CVPR CVR CW CWC CWCM CWG CX CY CYP CYPRUSARMS CZ DA DAC DAFR DAN DANFUNG DANIEL DAO DARFR DARFUR DAVID DAVID LEE HOWES DAVID WELCH DAVID WILLIAM RAY DB DC DCDG DCG DCHA DCI DCM DCOM DCRM DE DEA DEAX DEFENSE DEFENSEREFORM DELTAVIOLENCE DEM DEMARCHE DEMOCRATIC DENNIS DEOC DEPT DEPT FOR DS COMMAND CENTER DESI DHA DHLAKAMA DHLS DHRF DHS DHSX DIEZ DIPLOMACY DISENGAGEMENT DJ DK DKEM DMIN DMINE DO DOC DOD DOE DOJ DOMC DOMESTIC DOMESTICPOLITICS DONALD RUMSFELD DOT DPAO DPKO DPM DPOL DPRK DR DRC DRIP DRL DS DSR DSS DTFN DTRA DTRO DU DVC DY EAC EAD EADI EADM EAG EAGER EAGR [+] EAI EAIC EAID [+] EAIDB EAIDCIN EAIDEGZ EAIDMG EAIDNI EAIF EAIG EAIO EAIR [+] EAIS EAIT EAOD EAP EAPC EAR EARI EASS EATO EAUD EAVI EB EBEXP EBRD EBUD EC ECA ECCP ECCT ECE ECIN ECIP ECLAC ECN ECOIN ECOM ECON [+] ECONCS ECONEGE ECONOMIC ECONOMICS ECONOMY ECONOMY AND FINANCE ECOR ECOS ECOSOC ECOWAS ECPC ECPN ECPO ECPS [+] ECPSN ECRM ECTRD ECUN ED EDA EDEV EDRC EDU EDUC EE EEB EEC EENG EENV EEOC EET EETC EFI EFIC EFIM EFIN [+] EFIS [+] EFLU EFN EFND EFNI EFQ EFTA EG EGAD EGAR EGEN EGHG EGOV EGOVSY EH EI EIAD EIAID EIAR EIB EICN EID EIDE EIDN EIFN EIN EIND [+] EINDIR EINF EING EINN EINO EINR EINT [+] EINV [+] EINZ EIPR EIQ EISL EISNLN EITC EITI EIVN EK EL ELA ELAB [+] ELAD ELAINE ELAM ELAN ELAP ELB ELBA ELBR ELEC ELECTIONS ELF ELIN ELN ELND ELNT ELTD ELTM ELTN [+] ELTRN EMAIL EMED EMI EMIN [+] EMN EMS EMW EN END ENDURING ENEG ENER ENERG ENERGY ENFR ENG ENGR ENGRD ENGRG ENGY ENIV ENLT ENNP ENR ENRC ENRG [+] ENRL ENTG ENV ENVI ENVIRONMENT ENVR ENVT EON EOXC EP EPA EPAT EPCS EPE EPEC EPECO EPET [+] EPIN EPIT EPPD EPRT EPSC EPTE EPTED EPWR EQ EQRD ER ERA ERD EREL ERGR ERICKSON ERIN ERTD ES ESA ESCAP ESCI ESDP ESENV ESF ESLCO ESOC ESOCI ESPS ESS ESSO ESTH ESTN ESTRADA ET ETA ETAD ETC ETCC ETD ETDR ETEL ETER ETEX ETFN ETIC ETIO ETLN ETMIN ETR ETRA ETRAD ETRB ETRC ETRD [+] ETRDECD ETRG ETRK ETRN ETRO ETRP ETT ETTC [+] ETTD ETTF ETTN ETTR ETTRD ETTW ETZ EU EUC EUCOM EUE EUEAID EUFOR EUM EUMEM EUN EUR EUREM EURM EURN EV EVENTS EVN EWRG EWT EWTR EWWT [+] EX EXBS EXEC EXIM EXO EXPORT EXTERNAL EZ FA FAA FAC FAGR FAO FARC FARM FAS FATAH FBI FCC FCS FCSC FCSCEG FCUL FDA FDIC FEDULOV FEMA FERNANDO FGM FI FIN FINANCE FINE FINR FINREF FINV FIR FISO FJ FK FKFLO FKLU FLU FM FMC FMGT FMLN FMS FO FOI FOOKS FOR FORCE FORCES FOREIGN FORWHA FP FPC FR FRA FRANCIS FRANCISCO RODENAS RUIZ FRB FREDOM FREEDOM FRELIMO FRIED FRN FRU FSC FSI FT FTA FTAA FWS GA GAERC GAMES GAO GARCIA GASPAR GATT GAZA GAZPROM GB GBSLE GC GCC GCCC GE GEF GEORGE GERARD GESKE GF GG GH GI GIPNC GIWI GJ GKGIC GL GLOBAL GM GN GO GOG GOI GON GOVPOI GPGOV GPI GPOI GPOV GR GRQ GS GT GTIP GTMO GTREFTEL GU GUAM GUANTANAMO GUIDANCE GUILLERMO GUTIERREZ GV GWI GY GZ GZIS HA HARRIET HARRY HAWZ HCOPIL HDP HE HEAVEN HEBRON HELGERSON HERCEGOVINA HG HHS HI HIGHLIGHTS HIJAZI HILARY HILLARY HILLEN HIPC HIV HIZ HK HKSX HL HLSX HN HNCHR HO HOA HOSTAGES HPKO HR HRC HRCS HRICTY HRIGHTS HRKSTC HSI HSTC HSWG HT HTCG HTSC HU HUD HUM HUMAN HUMANITARIAN HUMANR HUMANRIGHTS HUMOR HUMRIT HUNRC HURI HURRICANE HYDE HYLAND HYMPSK HZ IA IACHR IACI IACO IACW IADB IAEA IAES IAHRC IAIE IAII IASA IATTC IAZ IBB IBD IBET IBPCA IBRB IBRD IC ICAC ICAO ICC ICCAT ICCROM ICES ICJ ICRC ICRS ICSCA ICTR ICTY ID IDA IDB IDLI IDLO IDP IDR IE IEA IEAB IEF IF IFAD IFC IFIN IFM IFO IFR IFRC IG IGAD IGF IHO IICA IINS IIP IK IL ILAB ILC ILEA ILO IMC IMET IMF IMMIGRATION IMO IMSO IMTS IN INAUGURATION INCB IND INDO INF INFLUENZA INL INMARSAT INNP INPFC INR INRA INRB INRD 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| 09HANOI1006 | Request for Leahy Vetting for Vietnam Marine Police to [...] (SBU) Post proposes the following Vietnam Marine Police (VMP) officers for the Department of State's clearance to attend the Maritime Law Enforcement Boarding Officer Course conducted by the United State Coast Guard scheduled from October 12 - 16, 2009, and October 19 - 23, 2009. The training [...] | 2009-09-24 09:50:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PINR PREL VM |
| 09HANOI101 | VIETNAM ON THE SECURITY COUNCIL: MORE CONFIDENT, [...] (C) SUMMARY: As Vietnam enters its second year on the UN Security Council, few here anticipate significant changes in policy or approach. Contacts in the MFA, Party, and think tank community express satisfaction that Vietnam was able to acquit itself professionally in its first year and had [...] | 2009-02-10 06:01:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV USUN ECON VM |
| 09HANOI1016 | REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING TO PARTICIPATE IN IPR [...] (SBU) Post proposes the following Vietnamese security officials for the Department of State's clearance to participate in the IPR enforcement training conferences in Vietnam: Oct. 15-16, 2009 in Hai Phong and Oct. 19-20 in Ho Chi Minh City (septel for third conference Oct. 22-23 in Danang). The [...] | 2009-09-25 09:35:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PINR PREL VM |
| 09HANOI1020 | FOURTH ANNUAL JAC: STRONG PROGRESS ON THE ENVIRONMENT, LESS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-28 09:02:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SENV TBIO KPAO VM |
| 09HANOI1024 | Demarche Delivered: U.S. CANDIDACY FOR INTERNATIONAL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-30 03:58:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC IMO PREL EWWT PHSA VM |
| 09HANOI103 | AVIAN INFLUENZA SPREADS IN VIETNAM: NEW HUMAN INFECTION AND [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-10 08:58:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO AMED EAGR PINR KFLU VM |
| 09HANOI104 | TOUR D'HORIZON WITH VIETNAM'S MFA [...] (C) Summary: At a February 9 lunch with MFA Americas Director General Nguyen Ba Hung, DCM covered a full range of bilateral issues including senior-level GVN visits to the U.S. for the coming year, the requested visit to Vietnam by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, and th [...] | 2009-02-10 09:57:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | AMGT ECON KIRF PGOV PREL VM |
| 09HANOI1050 | POST PROMOTES BIOTECH WHILE GVN CONSIDERS MORE RESTRICTIVE [...] SUMMARY: Ambassador sent Minister-Chairman of the Office of Government Phuc a letter on September 28 requesting that the Government of Vietnam (GVN) remove provisions in current draft food and biosafety legislation that require mandatory labeling of all genetically modified food and agricultu [...] | 2009-10-02 09:38:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO EAGR ETRD EAID ECON VM |
| 09HANOI1060 | REQUEST FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING TO PARTICIPATE IN THE IPR [...] (SBU) Post proposes the following Vietnamese security officials for the Department of State's clearance to participate in the IPR enforcement training conferences in Vietnam: for third conference Oct. 22-23 in Danang. (REF A for first two conferences Oct. 15-16, 2009 in Hai Phong and Oct. 19-20 [...] | 2009-10-05 10:15:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PINR PREL VM |
| 09HANOI1070 | Request for Leahy Vetting for candidates from the Vietnam [...] (SBU) Embassy Hanoi requests the Department's assistance in screening the following candidates from the Vietnam Ministry of Public Security nominated to attend a two-week course at ILEA Bangkok. The training will be conducted in Bangkok, Thailand on November 9-20, 2009. Initial vetting done [...] | 2009-10-08 10:31:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PINR PREL KTIP VM |
| 09HANOI1072 | Vietnam's Inspector General Expresses Interest in [...] (U) This is an Action Request. Please see paragraph 10. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The Ambassador and Inspector General Tran Van Truyen explored anti-corruption cooperation during their September 16 meeting. Truyen requested cooperation in two areas: ethics training for inspectors, and identifying [...] | 2009-10-08 10:31:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL ECON VM |
| 09HANOI1084 | Nine Dissidents Convicted for "Anti-State Propaganda" [...] (SBU) SUMMMARY: In four separate trials October 6-9, nine dissidents affiliated with the banned political movement Bloc 8406 were sentenced to jail terms ranging from two to six years for "conducting propaganda against the State." Seven of the nine had displayed banners in Hanoi, Haiphong and [...] | 2009-10-14 10:51:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL VM |
| 09HANOI1088 | PRIME MINISTER TO LEAD VIETNAMESE COPENHAGEN DELEGATION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-14 11:27:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG ECON KGHG VM |
| 09HANOI1090 | Vietnam Supports Candidacy of Mrs. Lucretia Myers for ICSC [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-15 09:49:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC VM |
| 09HANOI1092 | GOLDSTONE REPORT DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-15 09:51:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL UNSC UNHRC KPAL IS VM |
| 09HANOI1098 | Ambassador Visits Father Ly in Prison [...] (SBU) SUMMMARY: Meeting with the Ambassador October 14, jailed political dissident Father Nguyen Van Ly reported that that he was "95 percent recovered" from his July 12 stroke. Ly said he remains isolated from other inmates but receives daily medical check-ups from prison physicians and main [...] | 2009-10-16 07:48:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV PREL VM |
| 09HANOI1100 | Government of Vietnam Responds to November and December [...] (SBU) This is an Action Request. See Paragraph 3. 2. (SBU) During a working lunch with the DCM on October 15, MFA/Americas Department Director General Ba Hung said that PM Dung was "positively considering" the President's invitation to attend the April summit meeting in Washington. However [...] | 2009-10-16 10:07:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC ENRG PREL PTER TRGY IAEA PINR KNNP VM |
| 09HANOI111 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UNSCR 1540 COMMITTEE PROGRAM OF WORK [...] (SBU) In a February 11 discussion with the MFA IO officer responsible for non-proliferation matters, Vu Tran Phong, Deputy PolCouns urged Vietnam to support efforts to develop a more robust Program of Work (POW) for the UNSCR 1540 Committee. Per reftel, he emphasized that the draft POW submit [...] | 2009-02-11 07:45:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL AORC KPAO PTER UNSC VM |
| 09HANOI1116 | AMBASSADOR'S MESSAGE TO UNDERSECRETARY HORMATS ON OUR [...] (SBU) INTRODUCTION: I strongly believe that we have an unprecedented window of opportunity today to influence the outcome of Vietnam's fast transformation through our economic engagement. Few will dispute that our work here over the last 20 years has had a profound effect in Vietnam. Politic [...] | 2009-10-21 03:40:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD VM XD BEXP ECON EAGR EFIN |
| 09HANOI112 | VIETNAM'S VIEWS ON THE NPT [...] (SBU) In a February 11 discussion with the MFA IO officer responsible for non-proliferation matters, Vu Tran Phong, Deputy PolCouns outlined U.S. priorities for the NPT in anticipation of the third Preparatory Committee meeting in May prior to the NPT Review Conference in 2010. He emphasized [...] | 2009-02-11 07:50:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM AORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PREL PGOV UNGA IAEA |
| 09HANOI1148 | Promoting IPR Protection in Vietnam [...] (U) This cable is Sensitive but Unclassified. For official use only, not for dissemination outside USG channels or posting on the internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: Post hosted a series of two-day workshops for 200 officials of GVN agencies as part of ongoing efforts to boost Vietnam's prote [...] | 2009-10-28 02:10:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD KIPR SOCI PGOV VM |
| 09HANOI1156 | VIETNAM RESPONSE ON PARTNERING FOR GLOBAL HUNGER AND FOOD [...] (U) Summary. U.S. Embassy Hanoi officers met with officials from the Ministries of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) on Tuesday, October 27, to gauge the Ministries' initial reaction and response to Secretary of State Clinton's letter and proposal, "Partnering [...] | 2009-10-28 11:58:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAID ETRD |
| 09HANOI116 | HANOI MEASLES OUTBREAK [...] (U) Summary: Despite a comprehensive national vaccination program since the early 1990s, Hanoi is suffering from a measles (German measles, Rubeola virus infection) outbreak in which unusual numbers of patients are exhibiting severe symptoms. The Government of Vietnam (GVN) is considering res [...] | 2009-02-12 09:04:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO AMED AMGT CASC EAGR PINR VM |
| 09HANOI1182 | Vietnam Human Rights Dialogue Scenesetter [...] (SBU) U.S. ties and engagement with Vietnam have advanced significantly since the last Human Rights Dialogue meeting in May 2008. Cooperation on trade, health and education, coupled with high-level visits and regular dialogues on defense, security and policy planning, have moved relations to [...] | 2009-11-05 07:06:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL PGOV VM |
| 09HANOI1184 | Vietnam - 2009 International Narcotics Control Strategy [...] The Government of Vietnam (GVN) continued to make progress in its counternarcotics efforts during 2009. Specific actions included: sustained efforts of counternarcotics law enforcement authorities to pursue drug traffickers; increased attention to interagency coordination; continued cooperati [...] | 2009-11-05 08:27:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SNAR VM |
| 09HANOI1186 | VIETNAM'S ECONOMY Q3 2009: STRONG RECOVERY, CONTINUING RISKS [...] (U) Summary. Vietnam's economic growth during the third quarter continued to accelerate, aided by the Vietnamese Government's (GVN) economic stimulus program. Growth of gross domestic product (GDP) for the first nine months was up 4.6% and is now expected to reach 5.2% for 2009, which will ma [...] | 2009-11-05 09:33:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV KTDB VM |
| 09HANOI119 | ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF VIETNAM'S CRAFT VILLAGES [...] (U) Summary: Vietnamese craft villages play an important economic role, particularly in the country's north and employ 14 million people. However, older, less-efficient technologies with limited pollution control equipment in these villages discharge massive amounts of waste directly into the [...] | 2009-02-13 03:56:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV TBIO ECON SOCI VM |
| 09HANOI1196 | U.S.-Vietnam Defense Dialogues [...] (SBU) Summary. The U.S. and Vietnam currently conduct two annual defense-related dialogues with Vietnam: the U.S.-Vietnam Political, Security, and Defense Dialogue (State-led),and the U.S.-Vietnam Bilateral Defense Dialogue (U.S. Pacific Command-led). Both are relatively new, starting in 20 [...] | 2009-11-06 07:16:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR VM |
| 09HANOI1198 | U.S. Coast Guards Begins Training the Vietnam Marine Police [...] (U) Summary. The United States Coast Guard (USCG) kicked off its partnership program with the Vietnam Marine Police (VMP) under the Export Control and Related Border Security (EXBS) program by conducting two sessions of the Maritime Law Enforcement Boarding Officer course in Haiphong and Phu [...] | 2009-11-06 07:29:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL SNAR KNNP MASS VM |
| 09HANOI1202 | OOG Minister Phuc and Ambassador Discuss Human Rights, [...] (SBU) Summary. The Ambassador expressed concern about the deteriorating human rights situation in an October 23 meeting with Minister Chairman of the Office of the Government (OOG) Phuc, but also noted positive areas of the bilateral relationship. The Ambassador urged the GVN to remove mandat [...] | 2009-11-07 11:21:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM TBIO EAGR ENRG SENV CVIS ASEAN VM |
| 09HANOI1206 | IMET: Positive Results, Tiny Impact [...] (SBU) Summary: The International Military Education and Training (IMET) program continues to be an integral component of U.S. engagement with Vietnam, providing opportunities to improve the professionalism of the Vietnamese military, as well as to expose a young generation of officers to the [...] | 2009-11-09 07:26:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MASS PREL PGOV VM |
| 09HANOI121 | VIETNAM'S PROVINCIAL COMPETIVENESS SLIPS IN 2008 [...] (U) Summary: The latest regional competitiveness survey showed a "systematic" deterioration in the business environment throughout Vietnam. According to the 2008 Provincial Competitive Index, a survey of thousands of Vietnamese businesses, provincial governments were less effective in 2008 in [...] | 2009-02-13 09:13:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAID EFIN EINV KCOR KPRV PGOV VM |
| 09HANOI1216 | GVN Officials, NGOs Assess TIP issues in Workshop on VN's [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On October 22, Deputy Prime Minister Truong Vinh Trong chaired a workshop to evaluate the GVN's implementation of its "National Plan of Action (NPA) against Trafficking in Women and Children 2004-2010" and to discuss prospects for the future. The workshop's reports will affect [...] | 2009-11-12 09:49:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KTIP KCRM PHUM PREL ELAB VM |
| 09HANOI122 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: ANIMAL OUTBREAKS SPREAD INTO SEVEN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-13 09:53:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO AMED EAGR PINR KFLU VM |
| 09HANOI127 | AVIAN INFLUENZA: THIRD CONFIRMED HUMAN CASE IN PAST TWO [...] (U) In a conversation this afternoon with Health and Human Services officials at the U.S. Embassy, Dr. Nguyen Huy Nga, Director General of the Vietnam Administration of Public Medicine (VAPM),confirmed media reports that a 32 year old male patient in Kim Tan commune, Kim Son district, Ninh Bin [...] | 2009-02-17 09:43:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO AMED EAGR PINR KFLU VM |
| 09HANOI1298 | Embassy Hanoi Delivers Iran Demarche [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-03 10:01:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MNUC KNNP PARM IR VM |
| 09HANOI1302 | VIETNAM REQUESTS MEETING BILATERAL MEETING BETWEEN PRESIDENT [...] (U) The Government of Vietnam (GVN) officially has requested a bilateral meeting between President Obama and Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung at the upcoming Conference of the Parties under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 15) in Copenhagen later this mont [...] | 2009-12-03 10:35:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV ENRG KGHG VM |
| 09HANOI1308 | Keep on Movin': Ambassador Promotes U.S. Companies to meet [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador advocated on behalf of U.S. businesses in a November 30 meeting with Vietnam's Minister of Transportation, emphasizing that U.S. companies' technology and experience could play an important role in the development of Vietnam's transportation sector. Ambassador al [...] | 2009-12-04 11:22:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EAIR EFIN EINV ELTN ECON VM |
| 09HANOI1314 | (Vodka) Shots Reported Across the China-Vietnam Border [...] (SBU) On November 18, Vietnam and China signed a series of accords to implement the historic 2008 agreement demarcating Vietnam's 1,400-kilometer land border with China (ref A). According to contacts familiar with the negotiations, the agreement was hastily concluded December 31, 2008 to meet [...] | 2009-12-08 04:18:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON PBTS ECIN CH VM |
| 09HANOI1316 | Vietnam Likely to Support Defamation of Religion Resolution [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-08 08:49:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL UNGA UN VM |
| 09HANOI1318 | Vietnam Postpones Megaports MOU Signing over "Technical [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-08 11:18:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ENRG KNNP VM |
| 09HANOI134 | UNEVENTFUL, UNPUBLICIZED, BUT NOT UNNOTICED: 30TH [...] (SBU) The thirtieth anniversary of Vietnam's short but bloody war with China passed without incident February 17. There were no public protests and only a light police presence in Lenin Park opposite the Chinese Embassy, site of large anti-China demonstrations in December 2007. Vietnam's sta [...] | 2009-02-18 10:05:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM ECON CH VM |
| 09HANOI1360 | Embassy Monitoring of Montagnard Returnees in Gia Lai [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On December 10, Poloff visited three recent Montagnard returnees in Gia Lai province. All three affirmed that they traveled to Cambodia for economic reasons with the long-term goal of resettlement in the U.S. None reported harassment by local officials prior to fleeing Cambodi [...] | 2009-12-15 12:27:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF UNHCR CB VM |
| 09HANOI137 | IMPORT LICENSING: A HALF-HEARTED DEFICIT-BUSTING SCHEME [...] (U) Summary: Vietnam's import licensing regime was implemented in response to the unprecedented rise in imports that caused a record $18 billion trade deficit in 2008. Although potentially burdensome, the licensing scheme has not inhibited U.S. exports to date and its scope is much narrower t [...] | 2009-02-19 06:29:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID EFIN EINV KCOR KPRV PGOV VM |
| 09HANOI1370 | (SBU) Applying Comments on the Draft Strategy of the [...] (U) Summary. Embassy Hanoi??????s inter-agency health team believes that the President??????s Global Health Initiative (PGHI) principles will advance our health diplomacy efforts in Vietnam, particularly PGHI??????s emphasis on health systems strengthening HANOI 00001370 004 OF 026 (HS [...] | 2009-12-17 08:49:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO SOCI EAID KWMN KHIV VM |
| 09HANOI1374 | (SBU) PEPFAR supports Vietnam's Deputy Prime Minister [...] (U) Summary. With support from the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR),Deputy Prime Minister Trong of Vietnam visited the United States on November 5-14, 2009 to explore medication-assisted therapy (MAT) for heroin addiction, including the manufacturing of methadone. The visi [...] | 2009-12-17 11:05:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO EAID SOCI SNAR KHIV VM |
| 09HANOI1378 | Canadians to offer Father Ly a home in Canada [...] No summary [...] | 2009-12-18 04:28:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL VM |
| 09HANOI138 | GVN ROLLS OUT STIMULUS PACKAGE [...] (SBU) Summary. The GVN is in the process of implementing its stimulus package. The package consists of three main parts; USD 1 billion in interest rate subsidies, one-time payments to poor families, and reductions in the value-added, corporate and personal income taxes. Additional measures [...] | 2009-02-19 09:56:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON VM |
| 09HANOI139 | GVN PROTESTS RFA POSTING ON CRITICAL BIOGRAPHY OF HO CHI [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-19 10:28:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV VM |
| 09HANOI1392 | VIETNAM'S NATIONAL ASSEMBLY SESSION SHOWS INCREASING BUT [...] (SBU) Summary and comment. The 12th National Assembly's (NA) 6th month-long legislative session, closing at the end of November, set Vietnam's key social and economic targets, including for the 2010 State Budget. The legislature passed seven laws, including the Law on Royalty Tax and the Law [...] | 2009-12-18 09:01:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINT KTDB VM |
| 09HANOI1394 | Donors Boost Aid While Highlighting Continuing Development [...] (SBU) Summary. At the December 3-4 annual Consultative Group meeting of donors, Vietnam received praise for its recent fiscal and monetary policy steps to address growing macroeconomic imbalances, including the devaluation of the dong and the decision not to extend short-term commercial [...] | 2009-12-18 09:04:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV EAID SENV KGHG VM |
| 09HANOI1398 | Government to evict Plum Village monks again by the end of [...] (SBU) Summary: Vietnamese officials in Hanoi and the Central Highlands continue to assert that Plum Village monks and nuns must return to their home provinces and seek residence at local Vietnamese Buddhist Sangha (VBS)-affiliated temples despite our latest round of protests. The head of the [...] | 2009-12-18 09:18:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF VM |
| 09HANOI1400 | (SBU) Vietnam's seventh PEPFAR-supported Methadone Clinic [...] (U) Summary. The Ministry of Health of Vietnam (MOH) in conjunction with the Hanoi Peoples Committee opened a medication-assisted therapy (MAT) "Methadone Clinic" in Hanoi on World AIDS Day. U.S.-led innovations, such as the provision of MAT (including treatment with methadone which is curren [...] | 2009-12-18 10:29:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO EAID PGOV PHUM SNAR KHIV VM |
| 09HANOI1404 | TWO NEW AVIAN INFLUENZA POULTRY OUTBREAKS AND UPDATE ON [...] (SBU) Summary: Earlier this week, Vietnam reported two poultry outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI),confirmed to be with the viral strain A/H5N1, in southernmost Ca Mau province and northern Thai Nguyen province. We have not seen any reports of human infections in these provin [...] | 2009-12-21 09:33:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO EAGR EAID PREL KFLU VM |
| 09HANOI1406 | TPP Country Representatives Looking to Melbourne for Answers [...] (SBU) Summary: At a December 21 dinner hosted by the Ambassador, Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) country representatives inquired about the goals and objectives of the United States at the upcoming Melbourne meeting March 15-19, including the shape and content of the agreement to make it a 21s [...] | 2009-12-22 06:52:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD ECON ECIN EINV PREL VM |
| 09HANOI1418 | Vietnam Considers Price and Import Controls to Manage [...] (SBU) Summary and comment: The Government of Vietnam (GVN) is considering new measures to address increasing inflation and the worsening trade deficit. The Ministry of Industry and Trade will try to control imports of non-essential items such as cars and cell phones by retracting incentives o [...] | 2009-01-02 02:00:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN ECON EINT VM |
| 09HANOI142 | Vietnam Shelves Local Elections for Other Local Government [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Although a long-stated goal of the Communist Party of Vietnam is to move toward direct election of local officials, the National Assembly and the Politburo have decided to shelve this goal indefinitely in favor of other changes designed to streamline local government. These new [...] | 2009-02-23 02:53:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL VM |
| 09HANOI1422 | Letter to NSA Jones from DPM/FM Pham Gia Khiem [...] After work hours December 24, Post received an electronic copy of a letter to National Security Advisor Jones from Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Pham Gia Khiem, which we sent to EAP/MLS to be forwarded to the NSC staff. Text of the letter is as follows: 2. Begin text: [...] | 2009-12-28 06:55:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV ECON ASEAN VM |
| 09HANOI1426 | Setting the scene for CODEL Faleomavaega's visit to Vietnam [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: U.S.-Vietnamese relations have advanced significantly over the past three years and are arguably at their most productive since relations were reestablished in 1995. We are Vietnam's largest export market, its third-largest trading partner, and one of its largest foreign invest [...] | 2009-12-29 08:27:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP PREL PGOV PHUM MARR ECON SENV VM |
| 09HANOI1436 | National Standing Committee on TIP Reflects on 2009 and [...] (SBU) Summary: In a December 10 meeting with the Political Counselor, Colonel Le Van Chuong, the chair of Vietnam's coordinating agency on trafficking, National Committee 130, reviewed his country's efforts over the past year to combat human trafficking. The Ministry of Public Security report [...] | 2009-12-30 05:29:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL PGOV KWMN SOCI VM |
| 09HANOI1438 | Redefining Domestic Violence in VN by Challenging Accepted [...] (SBU) Summary: Vietnam's government has taken significant positive steps in recent years to begin to address domestic violence. The National Assembly passed a Law on Domestic Violence in 2007, domestic violence was highlighted for the first time as an area of concern in Vietnam's most recent [...] | 2009-12-30 09:01:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL PGOV KWMN VM |
| 09HANOI1440 | VIETNAM OK WITH COP 15 [...] (SBU) Summary: The Vietnamese climate change negotiating team is pleased with the results of the Conference of the Parties-15 (COP-15) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Copenhagen and will recommend to the Prime Minister that Vietnam officially support the Copenhagen [...] | 2009-12-31 04:51:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG ECON KGHG VM |
| 09HANOI158 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UN APPEALS TRIBUNAL NOMINATION [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-24 09:38:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC APER KAWC KJUS KUNR PREL UNGA VM |
| 09HANOI160 | Vatican Discuses Normalizing Relations, Raises Papal Visit [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Monsignor Pietro Parolin, Holy See Under-Secretary for Relations with States, travelled to Vietnam February 15-22 at the invitation of the GVN to begin bilateral discussions on normalization of relations under the rubric of a Joint Working Group. During the visit, P [...] | 2009-02-24 10:09:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KIRF PGOV PREL VM |
| 09HANOI165 | JAPAN RESUMES SUSPENDED ASSISTANCE TO VIETNAM [...] (C) Summary: Not unexpectedly, Japan announced the resumption of its suspended assistance to Vietnam when Vietnamese Minister of Planning and Investment Vo Hong Phuc met Japanese Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone in Tokyo on February 23. Japanese DCM Koichi Abioshi told DCM that the resumptio [...] | 2009-02-25 09:44:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID ECON JA PREL VM |
| 09HANOI166 | VIETNAM OPENS FIRST REFINERY, ENDS RELIANCE ON IMPORTS [...] (U) Summary: Vietnam celebrated the long-awaited opening of its first oil refinery on February 22. The new facility, located in central Quang Ngai Province, in one of Vietnam's poorest regions, ends the country's reliance on imported fuel and will allow Vietnam to curtail fuel imports by 30 pe [...] | 2009-02-25 10:16:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON SENV ENRG TRGY VM |
| 09HANOI172 | GVN NOMINATION FOR DRUG ADVISORY PROGRAMME OF THE COLOMBO [...] Post relays below the text of Diplomatic Note 91/NG-DNA dated February 25, 2009 regarding Vietnam's nomination of Mr. Nguyen Cuu Duc for the post of Director, Drug Advisory Program of the Colombo Plan. In presenting the Diplomatic Note on February 26, the GVN also provided a CV for Mr. Duc, wh [...] | 2009-02-26 10:09:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV VM |
| 09HANOI178 | 2009 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT - VIETNAM - PART 1 of [...] (U) Per the instructions in refels, post provides the following responses to the reporting questions asked in paragraphs 23-27 of ref. A, taking into account the additional guidance and reporting requirements required by the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act [...] | 2009-02-27 10:13:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB VM |
| 09HANOI179 | 2009 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT - VIETNAM - PART 3 of [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-27 10:13:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB VM |
| 09HANOI18 | PM ANNOUNCES PLAN TO COMBAT EFFECTS OF GLOBAL ECONOMIC [...] (U) Summary: In response to the global economic downturn, Prime Minister Dung has just released a five part plan aimed at maintaining economic growth in 2009. The plan focuses on boosting exports, stimulating investment and consumption, ensuring social security, creating effective monetary a [...] | 2009-01-08 08:12:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON VM |
| 09HANOI180 | 2009 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT - VIETNAM - PART 2 of [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-27 10:13:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB VM |
| 09HANOI181 | JAPANESE AMBASSADOR ON ROLE OF CHINA IN SOUTHEAST [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-01 23:56:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | CH ECON JA PGOV PREL VM |
| 09HANOI184 | VIETNAM SHOULD REMAIN ON THE 2009 SPECIAL 301 WATCH LIST [...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Vietnam (GVN) has continued to take significant steps to implement an effective legal regime to protect intellectual property rights (IPR),reduce IPR violations and raise awareness. However, enforcement remains weak, piracy and counterfeiting are rampant and [...] | 2009-03-02 09:50:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD KIPR ECON VM |
| 09HANOI185 | Vietnam Supportive but Cautious on GPOI [...] (SBU) Summary: Meeting with Ministry of Defense and Foreign Affairs counterparts February 12, U.S. Pacific Command officials encouraged Vietnam to participate more actively in international peacekeeping operations through the GPOI program and reiterated the invitation for Vietnam to participat [...] | 2009-03-02 09:55:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPKO MARR MASS VM |
| 09HANOI191 | VIETNAM OBJECTS TO BASHIR INDICTMENT, STILL CONSIDERING [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-03 09:20:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNSC PHUM SU XA XW VM |
| 09HANOI192 | CHARGE AND MFA DISCUSS BURMA, NORTH KOREA, DARFUR; [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a wide-ranging lunch discussion March 2, the CDA and the MFA's Director General for International Organizations, Le Hoai Trung, exchanged views on Burma, North Korea, and Darfur; Vietnam's territorial claims under the Law of the Sea; and nonproliferation. The CDA urged DG T [...] | 2009-03-03 09:51:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV ECON MNUC PARM UNSC NPT BM CH |
| 09HANOI202 | DAS MARCIEL'S HANOI MEETINGS [...] (C) In a wide-ranging set of meetings in Hanoi February 25, EAP Deputy Assistant Secretary Scot Marciel emphasized the continued progress in U.S.-Vietnam relations. His counterparts, including VFM Pham Binh Minh, AFM Bui Thanh Son, and Office of Government DG Buy Hui Hung, voiced enthusiasm [...] | 2009-03-06 10:07:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM ECON ETRD UNSC MNUC BM VM |
| 09HANOI205 | SUMMER IS SINK-OR-SWIM TIME FOR VIETNAM'S LEADING [...] (SBU) Summary: Orders for most of Vietnam's leading exports are down across the board, by about 25% or higher, according to industry representatives. At this point, exporters are not panicking because they still have orders to keep them active for this quarter. Some are even hoping to expand [...] | 2009-03-09 06:33:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EAGR EFIS ELAB ECON KTDB KTEX PGOV VM |
| 09HANOI21 | VIETNAM'S FIRST HUMAN AVIAN INFLUENZA INFECTION OF 2009 [...] (U) Summary: Local officials confirmed a recent human infection with H5N1, Vietnam's first since March 2008. The victim, an eight year old girl who resided in a rural, mountainous village in northern Vietnam, consumed sick poultry prior to becoming ill. Her 13 year old sister died on January [...] | 2009-01-08 10:15:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO AMED EAGR PINR KFLU VM |
| 09HANOI211 | PLAN TO DEREGULATE VIETNAM'S POWER SECTOR LAGS DESPITE [...] (U) Summary: The Government of Vietnam (GVN) raised retail electricity rates by an average of around 9 percent from March 1 to reflect higher costs of power generation and encourage private investment in Vietnam's underfunded power sector. Vietnam expects electricity demand to rise sharply ove [...] | 2009-03-10 08:22:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON ENRG TRGY VM |
| 09HANOI215 | WHAT USE ARE LIPS AND TEETH? VIETNAM'S AMBIVALENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Vietnam's foreign policy, normally pragmatic to a fault, betrays a certain tension when it comes to North Korea. Influential voices in the Party speak of ideological affinity and historical bonds, while others in Vietnam's foreign policy establishment advocate a more sober asses [...] | 2009-03-10 09:54:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ETRD ECON UNSC CH KS KN VM |
| 09HANOI227 | AMBASSADOR URGES VIETNAM TO PASS NGO LAW, CARRY OUT LOCAL [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador met with Minister of Home Affairs (MOHA) Tran Van Tuan on March 6, 2009. MOHA oversees all Government of Vietnam (GVN) personnel appointments, public administration reform (PAR),government records and archives, and Vietnam's 2 million civil servants and public s [...] | 2009-03-12 10:11:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINT ECON EFIN PGOV PREL VM |
| 09HANOI23 | OFFICIALS TOUT VIETNAM-CHINA BORDER DEMARCATION COMPLETION [...] (SBU) Summary: While Vietnam and China continue to dispute sovereignty over the South China Sea, the two sides recently completed the process of demarcation of their land border. On a recent trip to the border province of Lang Son, DCM was informed by local officials that Chinese Prime Ministe [...] | 2009-01-09 08:27:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PBTS PREL PGOV ECON VM |
| 09HANOI232 | VIETNAM WILL BE HARD PRESSED TO REPEAT TRADE NUMBERS LIKE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-13 08:17:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EAGR EIND EPET ECON KTDB KTEX PGOV VM |
| 09HANOI233 | VIETNAM WILL BE HARD PRESSED TO REPEAT TRADE NUMBERS LIKE [...] (U) SUMMARY: Vietnam's trade was running at full speed when the global economic crisis hit in the second half of 2008, slowing what would have been a remarkable year for Vietnam. The positive trend was so strong that despite lower fourth-quarter numbers, Vietnam's total trade in goods for 200 [...] | 2009-03-13 08:42:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EAGR EIND EPET ECON KTDB KTEX PGOV VM |
| 09HANOI241 | FINANCIAL CRISIS CAUSING INCREASED UNEMPLOYMENT; FULL [...] (SBU) Summary: The global economic slowdown and declining Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is increasingly affecting Vietnam's economy, including employment levels. The Government of Vietnam (GVN) says unemployment is rising and labor officials predict that up to 400,000 workers in the formal [...] | 2009-03-16 10:24:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON EAID EINV ELAB VM |
| 09HANOI251 | INVITING VIETNAM TO PARTICIPATE IN GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO [...] (SBU) On April 13, PolCouns joined representatives from the Australian, Russian and Japanese Embassies in a rare four-party demarche to urge Vietnam to consider participating in the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GI). As the senior member of the group, Australian DCM Vanessa W [...] | 2009-03-18 08:16:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM ENRG MNUC PREL PGOV IAEA NPT VM |
| 09HANOI252 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SEEKING ADDITIONAL SUPPORT FOR AMISOM [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-18 08:47:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KPKO UNSC SO VM |
| 09HANOI253 | NO CHANGE IN VIETNAM'S POLICY TOWARD ABKHAZIA AND [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-18 09:07:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS PBTS GG RS VM |
| 09HANOI260 | NEW HUMAN AVIAN INFLUENZA CASE IN MEKONG DELTA PROVINCE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-03-19 10:23:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO AMED EAGR PINR KFLU VM |
| 09HANOI262 | VIETNAM'S BUDGET SQUEEZE [...] (SBU) Summary: In light of the global economic downturn, the GVN is in the process of revising its 2009 budget to reflect decreasing revenues and increasing expenditures. Although the budget deficit is not yet public, the GVN plans to finance the shortfall through increased bond issuances and [...] | 2009-03-20 06:53:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON VM |
| 09HANOI269 | VIETNAM ECON HIGHLIGHTS: IRAQ CANCELS VIETNAM OIL DEAL, [...] (SBU) The Iraqi Oil Ministry cancelled negotiations with state-run PetroVietnam in early March 2009 on a $300 million contract signed under former President Saddam Hussein's reign. The Iraqi side said it called off the final round of talks because PetroVietnam "was not committed to the require [...] | 2009-03-24 10:15:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON VM |
| 09HANOI27 | CIVAIR: VIETNAM APPROVES NORTHWEST AIRLINES APPLICATION TO [...] In a January 6, 2009 letter to Northwest Airlines (NWA),Mr. Lai Xuan Thanh, Deputy Director General of the Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam (CAAV),approved NWA's November 8, 2008 application to begin daily, blind sector service between Tokyo and Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) on or about Jun [...] | 2009-01-12 08:03:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ECON KTIA VM |
| 09HANOI272 | A REVIEW OF SWITZERLAND'S HUMAN RIGHTS DIALOGUE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Vietnam and Switzerland held the seventh round of their bilateral human rights dialogue March 13-18 in Vietnam. Reviewing the formal discussions, the Swiss Embassy official responsible for the talks said that Vietnam takes the UN Universal Periodic Review process seriously and s [...] | 2009-03-25 07:10:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF VM |
| 09HANOI273 | MFA SAYS THAT VIETNAM WILL APPROACH BURMA ON TCG [...] (SBU) On March 23, Deputy PolCouns met with the MFA's Deputy DG for Southeast Asia, Ta Duy Chinh, to reiterate U.S. support for the Tripartite Core Group (TCG) on Burma and to voice concerns over recent steps by the government of Burma to further restrict the activities of international organi [...] | 2009-03-25 07:11:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM BM VM |
| 09HANOI278 | WORLD TB DAY CELEBRATIONS HIGHLIGHT CHALLENGES IN VIETNAM [...] (U) Summary. In commemoration of World TB Day, Vietnam celebrated the lives and stories of people affected by tuberculosis (TB). The United States Government (USG) joined in GVN events and highlighted our commitment to prevention and control of the spread of this major global public health pr [...] | 2009-03-26 09:15:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO AMED SOCI KPAO VM |
| 09HANOI286 | HANOI COURT REJECTS CATHOLICS' APPEAL [...] (SBU) Summary: With hundreds of Roman Catholics rallying outside the courthouse and a very heavy police presence, a Hanoi court on March 27 upheld the December 2008 convictions of eight Thai Ha parishioners on charges of property damage and disturbing public order during vigils in protest over [...] | 2009-03-30 09:18:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | KIRF PHUM VM |
| 09HANOI287 | AMBASSADOR'S MESSAGE TO THE SECRETARY ON THE ECONOMIC [...] (SBU) INTRODUCTION FOR THE SECRETARY: I strongly believe that we have an unprecedented window of opportunity today to influence the outcome of Vietnam's fast transformation through our economic engagement. Few will dispute that our work here over the last 20 years has had a profound effect in [...] | 2009-03-30 10:04:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV ECON PGOV VM |
| 09HANOI290 | AMBASSADOR'S MESSAGE TO COMMERCE SECRETARY LOCKE ON THE [...] (SBU) INTRODUCTION FOR SECRETARY LOCKE: I strongly believe that we have an unprecedented window of opportunity today to influence the outcome of Vietnam's fast transformation through our economic engagement. Few will dispute that our work here over the last 20 years has had a profound effect [...] | 2009-03-31 01:18:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV ECON PGOV VM |
| 09HANOI291 | AMBASSADOR'S MESSAGE TO USTR KIRK ON THE ECONOMIC CRISIS [...] (SBU) INTRODUCTION FOR USTR KIRK: I strongly believe that we have an unprecedented window of opportunity today to influence the outcome of Vietnam's fast transformation through our economic engagement. Few will dispute that our work here over the last 20 years has had a profound effect in Vie [...] | 2009-03-31 01:18:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV ECON PGOV VM |
| 09HANOI292 | AMBASSADOR'S MESSAGE TO AGRICULTURE SECRETARY VILSACK ON [...] (SBU) INTRODUCTION FOR SECRETARY VILSACK: I strongly believe that we have an unprecedented window of opportunity today to influence the outcome of Vietnam's fast transformation through our economic engagement. Few will dispute that our work here over the last 20 years has had a profound effec [...] | 2009-03-31 01:20:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV ECON PGOV VM |
| 09HANOI293 | AMBASSADOR'S MESSAGE TO LABOR SECRETARY SOLIS ON THE [...] (SBU) INTRODUCTION FOR SECRETARY SOLIS: I strongly believe that we have an unprecedented window of opportunity today to influence the outcome of Vietnam's fast transformation through our economic engagement. Few will dispute that our work here over the last 20 years has had a profound effect [...] | 2009-03-31 03:22:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV ECON PGOV VM |
| 09HANOI294 | AMBASSADOR'S MESSAGE TO COMMERCE SECRETARY LOCKE ON THE [...] (SBU) INTRODUCTION FOR SECRETARY GEITHNER: I strongly believe that we have an unprecedented window of opportunity today to influence the outcome of Vietnam's fast transformation through our economic engagement. Few will dispute that our work here over the last 20 years has had a profound effe [...] | 2009-03-31 03:22:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV ECON PGOV VM |
| 09HANOI297 | SCENESETTER FOR CODEL MCCAIN'S VISIT TO VIETNAM [...] (SBU) Your April 6-8 visit to Vietnam comes at an opportune moment. Our bilateral relationship with Vietnam has progressed much since your last visit to Hanoi in April 2000 and is arguably at its highest point since relations were normalized in 1995. Propelled by a series of senior bilateral [...] | 2009-03-31 07:58:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM ECON ETRD MARR VM |
| 09HANOI299 | AMBASSADOR'S MESSAGE TO TREASURY SECRETARY GEITHNER ON THE [...] (SBU) INTRODUCTION FOR SECRETARY GEITHNER: I strongly believe that we have an unprecedented window of opportunity today to influence the outcome of Vietnam's fast transformation through our economic engagement. Few will dispute that our work here over the last 20 years has had a profound effe [...] | 2009-04-01 02:38:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV ECON PGOV VM |
| 09HANOI301 | VIETNAM TRADE MINISTER INVITES USTR KIRK TO LEAD TIFA [...] (U) On April 1, 2009, Embassy Hanoi received a letter from Minister Vu Huy Hoang, of the Vietnam Ministry of Industry and Trade, congratulating United States Trade Representative Ron Kirk on his appointment. Minister Hoang also invited USTR Kirk to come to Vietnam in June to hold ministerial- [...] | 2009-04-01 10:02:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON PGOV VM |
| 09HANOI302 | VIETNAM TRADE MINISTER'S MESSAGE TO COMMERCE SECRETARY [...] (U) On April 1, 2009, Embassy Hanoi received a letter from Minister Vu Huy Hoang, of the Vietnam Ministry of Industry and Trade, congratulating Department of Commerce Secretary Gary Locke on his appointment. In the letter, Minister Hoang also expressed his hopes to continue his Ministry's clo [...] | 2009-04-01 10:03:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON PGOV VM |
| 09HANOI304 | VIETNAM'S LABOR MINISTER CONGRATULATES LABOR SECRETARY [...] (U) Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Ngan, of the Vietnam Ministry of Labor, Invalids, and Social Affairs, has sent congratulations to Department of Labor Secretary Hilda Solis on her appointment. In the letter, Minister Ngan also expressed her hopes for continued cooperation between her Ministry and [...] | 2009-04-02 02:34:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EAID EINV WTRO ETRD ECON VM |
| 09HANOI306 | AMBASSADOR'S MESSAGE TO AGRICULTURE SECRETARY VILSACK ON [...] (SBU) INTRODUCTION FOR SECRETARY VILSACK: I strongly believe that we have an unprecedented window of opportunity today to influence the outcome of Vietnam's fast transformation through our economic engagement. Few will dispute that our work here over the last 20 years has had a profound effec [...] | 2009-04-02 06:51:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV ECON PGOV VM |
| 09HANOI308 | JAPAN RESUMES ODA TO VIETNAM [...] (U) Japan has officially resumed ODA loans to Vietnam following a corruption scandal that forced the Japanese to suspend 2008 lending to the GVN (reftels). Representatives of both governments signed loan agreements and exchanged notes in Hanoi and Tokyo on March 31, the last day of the Japanes [...] | 2009-04-02 09:09:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON VM |
| 09HANOI31 | 2008-2009 INCSR PART I -- VIETNAM [...] (U) The following is Embassy Hanoi's submission for the narcotics section of the 2008-2009 INCSR. 2. (U) Begin INCSR text: Vietnam I. Summary The Government of Vietnam (GVN) continued to make progress in its counternarcotics efforts during 2008. Specific actions included: sustai [...] | 2009-01-12 10:36:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR VM |
| 09HANOI310 | VIETNAM ON PLANNED DPRK MISSILE LAUNCH [...] (C) Summary and Comment: In an April 2 meeting, the MFA Americas Deputy Director General shared Vietnam's views on promoting peace and stability in Northeast Asia. He said Vietnam has approached the DPRK directly to express concerns about its planned missile launch, but did not have informati [...] | 2009-04-02 09:38:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | KN KS PARM VM |
| 09HANOI311 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE APPROVAL FOR CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION [...] Embassy Hanoi warmly welcomes and grants country clearance for Senators John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and Amy Klobuchar and delegation to travel to Vietnam, April 6-8, 2009 per reftel. 2. Hanoi Control Officer: Brian Aggeler, Political Counselor Tel: (84-4)3850-5000 ext. 5119 Cell: (84)(090 [...] | 2009-04-02 11:00:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AMGT OVIP PREL PGOV VM |
| 09HANOI319 | BUDGET TRANSPARENCY REPORT UPDATE FOR VIETNAM [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-07 11:23:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN EAID ECON PREL VM |
| 09HANOI32 | VIETNAM WORKS TO STRENGTHEN IPR ENFORCEMENT [...] (U) Summary: Vietnam continues to make progress in strengthening efforts and capacity to protect intellectual property rights (IPR). Although IPR enforcement in Vietnam remains weak and piracy is extensive, the Government of Vietnam (GVN) continues to take significant steps to bolster its enf [...] | 2009-01-13 01:01:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON KIPR EAID ETRD VM |
| 09HANOI320 | VIETNAM AWARDS FOUR 3G WIRELESS LICENSES [...] (SBU) Summary: Vietnam's Ministry of Information & Communications (MIC) awarded long-awaited licenses for 3G mobile networks to four state-run carriers on April 2, 2009. The move provides an immediate benefit to two U.S. companies, Qualcomm and Motorola, which sell 3G wireless network hardware [...] | 2009-04-08 04:13:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ETRD ECON KPRV VM |
| 09HANOI324 | DPRK MISSILE LAUNCH: VIETNAM'S UN POSITION REMAINS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Despite early indications that it would simply hew to China and Russia's line, Vietnam's position on a possible UN Security Council resolution in fact remains undecided. In an April 8 conversation, the MFA's International Organizations Official responsible for Security Council m [...] | 2009-04-08 10:54:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP UNSC PGOV KN VM |
| 09HANOI328 | VIETNAM REJECTS SUBSIDIES FOR THE TEXTILE INDUSTRY [...] (U) This is Post's response to Reftel A. RECENT REPORTS OF TEXTILE SUBSIDIES ----------------------------------- 2. (U) The news reports cited in Reftel A are incorrect. The Government of Vietnam (GVN) has not proposed or adopted an export subsidy for the textile and garment industry. T [...] | 2009-04-09 09:25:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD KTEX VM |
| 09HANOI329 | VIETNAM POVERTY REDUCTION SURVIVING ECONOMIC DOWNTURN [...] (U) Summary: Despite high inflation and the global economic crisis, Vietnam managed to bring down poverty levels in 2008 to 13.1% from 14.7% the previous year. Vietnam has made dramatic strides in poverty reduction since it began to adopt market economy policies. As the global financial cri [...] | 2009-04-09 10:10:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID ETRD EINV ELAB PGOV SOCI VM |
| 09HANOI330 | IDEOLOGY RESURGENT? THE GENERAL SECRETARY'S NEW [...] (C) SUMMARY: Those with the patience to read General Secretary Nong Duc Manh's recent pronouncements may have noticed something new. Alongside the usual utterances about "peaceful evolution," there is now a further admonition: Cadres must be on guard against the evils of "self-evolution." [...] | 2009-04-10 02:29:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON VM |
| 09HANOI336 | CODEL McCain Visit to Vietnam [...] (SBU) Summary: In their April 6-8 visit to Vietnam, CODEL McCain covered a wide range of issues with the Vietnamese leadership, including the recent DPRK missile test, the need for a new bilateral agreement on adoptions, the GVN's desire for market economy status and the need for greater respec [...] | 2009-04-13 10:09:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PREL ECON ETRD SENV PHUM CASC VM |
| 09HANOI337 | DPRK DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO GVN [...] No summary [...] | 2009-04-13 10:37:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KN UNSC VM |
| 09HANOI339 | VIETNAM'S 1st QUARTER NUMBERS BRING REALITY AND NEW [...] Summary: Vietnam's economic growth in the first quarter of 2009 was 3.1 percent, down by more than half from 7.49 percent for the same period last year. Committed FDI came in at USD 6 billion, 40.4 percent lower year-on-year. First quarter 2009 exports grew modestly at 2.4 percent, but import [...] | 2009-04-13 11:20:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV KTDB VM |
| 09HANOI35 | 2008 ANNUAL OVERSEAS SECURITY ADVISORY COUNCIL [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-13 09:32:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC AMGT APER |
| 09HANOI354 | Vietnam's Agriculture and Rural Development Minister to [...] (U) SUMMARY. Vietnam's Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat and a delegation of 10 will visit the United States April 20-23, beginning with visits to the University of California-Davis and ending with meetings in Washington, D.C. that include calls on USDA Secretary Vilsa [...] | 2009-04-15 09:44:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD WTRO TBIO EAGR PINR SOCI USTR EAID VM |
| 09HANOI362 | ASEAN-CHINA NEGOTIATIONS ON SOUTH CHINA SEA [...] (C) SUMMARY: ASEAN and China have made progress in developing "guidelines" to supplement the 2002 Declaration of Conduct of Parties in the South China Sea (DOC),according to MFA and think tank contacts. The parties remain deadlocked, however, on a key point: whether follow-on discussions, i [...] | 2009-04-17 10:26:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON VM |
| 09HANOI363 | UNHCR on Montagnards, Naturalization of Khmer Rouge Era [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: UNHCR continues to have an extremely active presence in the Central Highlands, conducting regular trips to the region to meet with Montagnard returnees from Cambodia. In the past month, UNHCR traveled to Gia Lai province and met with 78 returnees one-on-one and without accompan [...] | 2009-04-20 08:55:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL PGOV VM |
| 09HANOI364 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL ELECTION & UPR [...] (SBU) In a April 17 conversation with Director General of MFA's International Organizations Department, Le Hoai Trung, PolCouns passed on the diplomatic note regarding U.S. candidacy for the UN Human Rights Council as well as a copy of the U.S. human rights pledge (Ref A). PolCouns encouraged [...] | 2009-04-20 08:55:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL VM |
| 09HANOI367 | UPDATE ON BLOC 8406 DETAINEES ARRESTED LAST FALL [...] (C) The Ministry of Public Security (MPS) has provided additional information about thirteen political dissidents arrested since September 2008. The update comes in response to a joint letter to VFM Pham Binh Minh from the Ambassador, the Group of Four (Canada, New Zealand, Norway and Switzer [...] | 2009-04-21 03:37:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL VM |
| 09HANOI368 | VIETNAM ON NORTH KOREA'S MISSILE LAUNCH [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an April 17 conversation with PolCouns, the MFA's DG for MFA International Organizations Director General, Le Hoai Trung, described Vietnam's efforts to urge the DPRK to "show restraint" and remain engaged in the Six-Party Talks. Prior to the April 5 missile launch, Vietnam's [...] | 2009-04-21 05:43:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV VM |
| 09HANOI37 | VIETNAM'S ECONOMY 2008: SLOWER ECONOMIC GROWTH, RECORD FDI, [...] (U) Summary: Vietnam's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth slowed to 6.2 percent in 2008, the lowest since 2000. Inflation rose sharply, with the 2008 average monthly Consumer Price Index (CPI) rising 23 percent compared to the 2007 monthly average, though price rises slowed toward the end of [...] | 2009-01-14 03:51:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON VM ETRD |
| 09HANOI372 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: VIETNAM CONSIDERS DPRK [...] (C) In an April 21 meeting with VFM Pham Binh Minh, the Ambassador urged Vietnam to work with the United States at the DPRK Sanctions Committee and to support a U.S.-proposed list of goods/entities connected to the DPRK's ballistic missile program. Per ref A, he emphasized the importance of [...] | 2009-04-21 10:47:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL UNSC KNNP ECON KN VM |
| 09HANOI378 | BLOGGING AND POLITICAL DISSENT IN VIETNAM [...] (C) SUMMARY: The internet continues to revolutionize political communication and dissent in Vietnam. Blogs routinely provide an alternative channel for print journalists to publish information they know would not get past state censors or newspaper self-censorship. The GVN estimates there a [...] | 2009-04-22 10:18:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV ECON VM |
| 09HANOI38 | CONGRESSMAN FALEOMAVAEGA MEETING WITH VIETNAMESE NATIONAL [...] (SBU) Visiting Congressman Eni Faleomavaega held a January 10 meeting in Hanoi with Vietnamese National Assembly Foreign Affairs Committee Vice Chairman Ngo Quang Xuan. Accompanied by Ambassador Michalak, Faleomavaega reviewed the increasing exchange of high-level visits and possibilities to t [...] | 2009-01-14 07:51:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON VM |
| 09HANOI388 | Footloose in Vietnam? [...] (SBU) Summary: In its latest attempt to clamp down on illegal behavior at karaoke bars, the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (MOCST) has drafted a decree that would ban dancing at the popular singing clubs. The proposed regulations were posted on MOCST's website, which says it is tryin [...] | 2009-04-24 05:46:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTIP KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB VM |
| 09HANOI398 | AMBASSADOR LOFTIS REVIEWS VIETNAMESE RESPONSE TO AVIAN [...] (U) Summary: In meetings with the Embassy avian influenza team, other donors, USAID implementing partners, and the Government of Vietnam (GVN),Ambassador Loftis discussed the GVN response to avian influenza, its successes, and how the response might be improved. Ambassador Loftis informed the [...] | 2009-04-28 03:33:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO AMED EAGR PINR KFLU VM |
| 09HANOI403 | MGSF01: HANOI SWINE FLU RESPONSE [...] (SBU) On April 27, the DCM convened a meeting of the Avian Influenza Working Group (AIWG) and the Emergency Action Committee (EAC)in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City to review current information on swine flu outbreaks and to review tripwires associated with influenza outbreaks in Vietnam in response [...] | 2009-04-28 10:32:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO AMED AEMR AMGT CASC EAGR PINR MG KFLU KFLO |
| 09HANOI408 | VIETNAM SUPPORTS CAPITAL INCREASE FOR ADB [...] This is in response to State 41663. 2. Post delivered the points contained in reftel on April 29, 2009 to the General Economics Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA). MOFA informed us that the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV),as the lead agency on this matter, had just delivered [...] | 2009-04-29 06:36:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN EAID ECON PREL VM |
| 09HANOI413 | IN VIETNAM, CHINA AND BAUXITE DON'T MIX [...] (C) Summary: Planned Chinese involvement in bauxite exploitation projects in the Central Highlands, especially the use of Chinese laborers, has triggered an unusually high-profile "open" public policy debate. Prominent Vietnamese, including famed war hero General Vo Nguyen Giap, have called [...] | 2009-04-29 10:09:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EMIN EINV ESTH SENV CM VM |
| 09HANOI417 | VIETNAM'S PLANS FOR BAUXITE EXPLOITATION [...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Vietnam (GVN) has spent several years developing plans to exploit Vietnam's massive bauxite reserves, estimated as the world's fourth or fifth largest. Despite environmental and national security concerns, and popular anxiety over Chinese participation, the hi [...] | 2009-04-29 10:35:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EMIN SENV ECON PREL EINV VM |
| 09HANOI418 | AVIAN INFLUENZA CASE NUMBER 111, FOURTH THIS YEAR, ALL [...] (SBU) Summary. On April 24, 2009, the MOH reported a fatal human case of highly pathogenic avian influenza A (HPAI) of the H5N1 strain in a 23 year-old woman in northern Vietnam. This is the fourth case reported from Vietnam in 2009, all of them fatal. Reporting to CDC Hanoi and the World Hea [...] | 2009-04-29 10:36:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO AMED PINR KFLU VM |
| 09HANOI424 | Back to Basics: Vietnam Discusses Peacekeeping at APCSS [...] (SBU) Summary: In an effort to further encourage Vietnam to participate in UN peacekeeping operations (PKO),the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS),an academic institute linked with U.S. Pacific Command, joined with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA)-affiliated think tank an [...] | 2009-05-04 08:06:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPKO MARR MASS VM |
| 09HANOI436 | VIETNAM TRADE MINISTER'S LETTER TO SECRETARY LOCKE [...] On May 08, 2009, Embassy Hanoi received a letter from Minister Vu Huy Hoang, of the Vietnam Ministry of Industry and Trade, regarding the anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigation against polyethylene retail carrier bags imported from Vietnam. 2. The Ministry of Industry and Trade [...] | 2009-05-08 09:57:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | EIND ECON ETRD VM |
| 09HANOI437 | VIETNAM TRADE MINISTER'S LETTER TO SECRETARY LOCKE [...] On May 08, 2009, Embassy Hanoi received a letter from Minister Vu Huy Hoang, of the Vietnam Ministry of Industry and Trade, regarding the anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigation against polyethylene retail carrier bags imported from Vietnam. 2. The Ministry of Industry and Trade [...] | 2009-05-08 10:00:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | EIND ECON ETRD VM |
| 09HANOI438 | VIETNAM TRADE MINISTER'S LETTER TO USTR KIRK [...] On May 08, 2009, Embassy Hanoi received a letter from Minister Vu Huy Hoang, of the Vietnam Ministry of Industry and Trade, regarding the anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigation against polyethylene retail carrier bags imported from Vietnam. 2. The Ministry of Industry and Trade [...] | 2009-05-08 10:01:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | EIND ECON ETRD VM |
| 09HANOI439 | VIETNAM "CONCERNED" ABOUT DUMPING INVESTIGATION, READY FOR [...] (U) This cable is Sensitive but Unclassified. For official use only, not for dissemination outside USG channels or posting on the internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: Vietnam's Trade and Investment Minister said Vietnam is "very concerned" that the ongoing countervailing and anti-dumping investigat [...] | 2009-05-08 10:53:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EIND ECON ETRD VM |
| 09HANOI442 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR USCIRF DELEGATION TO VISIT [...] Embassy Hanoi warmly welcomes and grants country clearance for the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) delegation to travel to Hanoi, May 11-22, 2009. 2. Hanoi Control Officer: Christian Marchant, Political Officer Tel: (84-4)850-5000 ext. 5096 Cell: (090) 484-1023 [...] | 2009-05-12 03:54:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OTRA PHUM PREL VM |
| 09HANOI444 | Demarche to Vietnam on Aung San Suu Kyi [...] (SBU) DCM delivered reftel demarche to MFA Americas Director General Nguyen Ba Hung on May 12, emphasizing that, while we are reviewing our policy on how best to promote human rights in Burma, the continued imprisonment of Aung San Suu Kyi casts doubt on the Burmese regime's commitment to meani [...] | 2009-05-12 09:36:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL BM VM |
| 09HANOI446 | VIETNAM "CONSIDERING" JOINING HAGUE CODE OF CONDUCT, BUT [...] (SBU) On May 13, Deputy PolCouns met with the MFA International Organization Department's lead official on non-proliferation issues, Pham Hai Anh, to urge Vietnam to subscribe to the Hague Code of Conduct Against Missile Proliferation (HCOC). Per reftel, he noted that 130 countries now subscr [...] | 2009-05-13 10:07:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MTCRE MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA VM |
| 09HANOI45 | VIETNAM - RESPONDING TO THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS; [...] Summary: This cable is in response to STATE 00134905. As previously reported, the global economic downturn is already having effects in Vietnam and will continue to do so until there is an improvement in key export and credit markets. The GVN's ability to forecast and respond to economic in [...] | 2009-01-16 04:09:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ECON VM ETRD |
| 09HANOI450 | DEMARCHE - VIETNAM AFFIRMS SUPPORT FOR NEW 1718 DPRK [...] (SBU) On May 13, Deputy PolCouns met with the MFA International Organization Department's lead official on nonproliferation-related UNSC issues, Pham Hai Anh, to provide information, per reftel, on the three DPRK entities designated by the UNSC 1718 Sanctions Committee pursuant to the Security [...] | 2009-05-15 01:40:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETTC KNNP PREL PARM KN VM |
| 09HANOI451 | DEMARCHE DELOVERED - DESIGNATION OF ABDUL HAQ [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-15 04:29:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN ETTC KTFN PTER PREL EAID CH VM |
| 09HANOI456 | VIETNAM-CUBA: TITLE III OF THE LIBERTAD ACT [...] (C) Embassy contacts at the MFA and MFA-affiliated Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam insist that Vietnam and Cuba continue to enjoy warm "fraternal" relations. Absent fundamental change in either country, there is little prospect that Vietnam will substantially support U.S. priorities for Cuba, [...] | 2009-05-15 10:01:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC ECON PREL PGOV CU VM |
| 09HANOI459 | BURMA: VIETNAM REQUESTS INFORMATION ON NEXT STEPS IN [...] (SBU) Ambassador delivered reftel demarche to Vice Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh on May 18. Minh responded that Vietnam would take the U.S. request for support for action in the UN Security Council into consideration, but would need more information on what specific steps are being contempla [...] | 2009-05-18 10:49:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNSC BM VM |
| 09HANOI46 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SUPPORT VOICED FOR THE TRIPARTITE CORE [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-16 07:54:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ETRD PHUM BM VM |
| 09HANOI466 | DCM MEETING WITH MINISTRY OF PUBLIC SECURITY [...] (C) Summary: In a May 18 meeting with Ministry of Public Security (MPS) Deputy Director of the General Security Division General To Lam, DCM covered a range of issues including the expanded HCMC consular district and delays in approval for staff expansion, cooperation in the upcoming bilateral [...] | 2009-05-19 09:32:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL VM |
| 09HANOI467 | VIETNAM COMPETITION COURT LANDS FIRST PUNCH ON SOE [...] (U) Summary: The first decision by Vietnam's new anti-trust court delivered a knock-down punch to a state-owned company, slapping the airline fuel monopoly with a $168,000 fine for refusing fuel service to a private airline. That the first decision by the newly-formed Vietnamese Competition C [...] | 2009-05-20 01:26:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAID EFIN EINV KCOR KPRV PGOV VM |
| 09HANOI469 | VIETNAM'S LEADERS VOW TO PURSUE GROWTH AND MACROECONOMIC [...] (U) Summary: The fifth session of the twelfth National Assembly began on May 20, 2009, with remarks by the Chairman of the National Assembly, the Deputy Prime Minister and the Chairman of the Fatherland Front. The primary goals for the rest of the year, according to the speakers, are to promo [...] | 2009-05-20 09:45:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN POL VM |
| 09HANOI479 | VIETNAM "OPEN" TO PROPOSAL ON EXPORT LICENSING [...] (U) SUMMARY. Post delivered joint demarche with representatives from Japan and Chinese Taipei on May 22, 2009, drawing on Reftel points. Vietnam, through an official from the Multilateral Trade Policy Department of the Trade and Industry Ministry, responded that it was "open" to the proposal b [...] | 2009-05-22 08:38:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ETRD VM |
| 09HANOI481 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED: US-PHILIPPINES ARF WORKSHOP ON [...] No summary [...] | 2009-05-22 10:15:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL TBIO ARF VM |
| 09HANOI483 | VIETNAM'S AGRICULTURE MINISTER DISCUSSES BEEF ACCESS, NEW [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On May 19, Ambassador Michalak met with Vietnamese Minister for Agriculture and Rural Development Cao Duc Phat to discuss the Minister's recent visit to the United States. The Minister said he was pleased with the visit. It gave him a great opportunity to interact with his U.S. [...] | 2009-05-27 03:54:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD WTRO TBIO EAGR PINR SOCI USTR EAID VM |
| 09HANOI486 | VIETNAM CONSIDERING KOSOVO MEMBERSHIP IN WORLD BANK [...] (SBU) Post delivered talking points in reftel on May 22, 2009 to Pham Tien Phong, Director of the World Bank Division at the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV). Phong replied that, following our meeting, his division would prepare a recommendation on the issue for the Governor of the SBV. He was no [...] | 2009-05-28 00:20:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PREL KV VM |
| 09HANOI496 | VIETNAM'S HEALTH MINISTER CONGRATULATES HEALTH AND HUMAN [...] (U) Minister Nguyen Quoc Trieu, of the Vietnam Ministry of Health, has sent a letter of congratulations to Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on her appointment. In the letter, Minister Trieu also expressed his hopes for continued cooperation between his Minist [...] | 2009-06-01 10:01:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO SOCI KPAO VM |
| 09HANOI497 | WAY FORWARD ON DEFENSE COOPERATION WITH VIETNAM [...] (C) Summary: The United States and Vietnam are moving to a new level of defense cooperation not previously seen in our bilateral relationship. While progress in some areas is slower than we would like, we have now expanded our engagement to the point where setting priorities will be key to ou [...] | 2009-06-01 10:01:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | KPKO MARR MASS MOPS PREL PGOV OTRA VM |
| 09HANOI500 | USCIRF Meets Imprisoned Dissidents Father Nguyen Van Ly and [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom delegation led by Vice Chairman Cromartie, accompanied by PolOff, met with two of Vietnam's most prominent political prisoners, dissident attorney Nguyen Van Dai and Father Nguyen Van Ly, on May 13 at Nam Ha Prison. Both ap [...] | 2009-06-02 02:50:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF VM |
| 09HANOI51 | Vietnam's Tet Amnesty is Largest Ever [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: At a well attended press conference on January 16, President Triet's office announced Vietnam's largest Tet amnesty ever for 15,140 convicts currently serving prison sentences. The list includes 36 foreigners, but no American citizens. The only three individuals actually named [...] | 2009-01-20 04:04:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL VM |
| 09HANOI512 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON GUIDELINES ON U.S. SHIPS CONDUCTING [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-03 08:23:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR VM |
| 09HANOI517 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED - SUPPORT FOR U.S. CANDIDATE TO ICSC [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-04 06:31:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC APER KAWC KJUS KUNR PREL UNGA VM |
| 09HANOI52 | 2008 RECAP OF THE SINO-VIETNAM SOUTH CHINA SEA [...] (C) Summary: Despite final land border demarcation and progress settling the maritime boundary beyond the Gulf of Tonkin, 2008 ended without evident progress in the Sino-Vietnam territorial dispute in the South China Sea. In November, BP gave notice that it would seek to terminate its leases [...] | 2009-01-20 05:34:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET PBTS PREL VM |
| 09HANOI520 | A BEHIND-THE-SCENES LOOK AT VIETNAM'S UPR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Vietnam's recent Universal Periodic Review (UPR) before the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva was a lesson in the manipulation of process, according to the Canadian lead for the "troika" that coordinated Vietnam's UPR. The GVN clearly understood that only 60 countries would be ab [...] | 2009-06-05 03:07:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL VM |
| 09HANOI524 | GAZPROM SEEKS TO EXPAND ITS VIETNAM PORTFOLIO [...] No summary [...] | 2009-06-05 10:09:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG EPET PBTS PREL VM |
| 09HANOI532 | VIETNAM NOMINATIONS FOR 2009 AWARD FOR CORPORATE [...] Summary: Mission Vietnam is pleased to nominate Intel Vietnam and Boeing Corporation in the multinational enterprise category, and the Protec Helmet Company in the small-to-medium enterprise category, for the 2009 Secretary of State's Award for Corporate Excellence (ACE). End Summary. --- [...] | 2009-06-10 00:55:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON BEXP AMGT VM |
| 09HANOI534 | VIETNAM SEEKS POSITION ON UNESCO EXECUTIVE BOARD [...] Post is relaying the unofficial translation text of GVN Diplomatic Note No. 272/NG-VHDN-UNESCO. Originals will be sent via email and pouch. 2. Begin text: The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam presents its compliments to the Embassy of United States of Amer [...] | 2009-06-10 06:51:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV UNESCO VM |
| 09HANOI536 | VIETNAM'S DEPUTY PM EMBRACES U.S.-VN ECONOMIC AGENDA; [...] (SBU) Summary: In a June 2 meeting with the Ambassador, Deputy Prime Minister (DPM) Hoang Trung Hai encouraged movement on the U.S.-Vietnam economic agenda, particularly on GSP, TPP, and catfish. Hai was optimistic about completing pricing agreements for large AES and Chevron projects in Viet [...] | 2009-06-11 03:49:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EINT ECON EFIN PGOV PREL VM |
| 09HANOI537 | BAUXITE CONTROVERSY PRODUCES LEADERSHIP DIVISIONS, [...] (C) SUMMARY: The highly charged -- and unusually open -- public debate over plans to develop bauxite in the Central Highlands has led to spirited discussions in the National Assembly (NA),Vietnam's historically quiescent semiannual legislature, with some deputies openly questioning government [...] | 2009-06-11 06:19:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON ESTH EMIN EINV SENV CM VM |
| 09HANOI545 | DPRK DRAFT RESOLUTION - VIETNAM LIKELY TO SUPPORT, [...] (C) Charge delivered reftel demarche to MFA Director General for International Organizations Le Hoai Trung June 12. Vietnam shares our concerns about DPRK actions, Trung said. He complained, however, that the MFA had received the draft resolution only 24 hours before and required approval [...] | 2009-06-12 09:48:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL PGOV UNSC KN VM |
| 09HANOI546 | TFLU01: IN VIETNAM, INFLUENZA INFECTIONS GROWING, THOUGH [...] (U) Summary: Vietnam continues to report new A/H1N1 infections, now totaling 23. However, secondary transmission remains minimal, with only three instances of infection of family members. At this time, the Government of Vietnam (GVN) is continuing preventive measures, including airport screen [...] | 2009-06-12 09:53:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO AMED EAGR PINR KFLU VM |
| 09HANOI550 | VIETNAM SUBMISSION OF THE 2009 REPORT ON INVESTMENT [...] (U) Mission Vietnam is not aware of existing or new investment disputes or expropriation claims. 2. (U) This telegram was coordinated with ConGen HCMC and FCS. PALMER [...] | 2009-06-15 07:01:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | CASC EINV KIDE OPIC PGOV VM |
| 09HANOI558 | REVIEW OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN VACCINES [...] (SBU) Summary. On Monday, June 8, the Ministry of Health (MOH) hosted experts from around the world at a conference reviewing research and development of human vaccines against influenza. Chaired by MOH Vice Minister Nguyen Thi Kim Tien, the meeting contributed needed momentum to identify and t [...] | 2009-06-17 08:42:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO AMED EAGR PINR KFLU VM |
| 09HANOI559 | Vietnam TIP Report Delivered to GVN [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 16, poloff delivered copies of the Vietnam 2009 Trafficking in Persons Report to Mr. Le Van Chuong, Head of the Central Coordination Office of the National Steering Committee Against Trafficking and Mr. Doan The Vinh, Deputy Head of Anti-Women and Children Trafficking Dep [...] | 2009-06-18 03:13:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTIP KCRM PHUM PREL ELAB VM |
| 09HANOI562 | CHEVRON ONE STEP CLOSER TO BEING LARGEST U.S. INVESTOR IN [...] (U) This cable is Sensitive but Unclassified. For official use only, not for dissemination outside USG channels or posting on the Internet. 2. (SBU) Summary: Chevron and PetroVietnam (PVN) have reached a milestone in long-running negotiations for a $5-billion gas-to-power project. [Ref. A] [...] | 2009-06-18 06:39:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV EPET ENRG ECON EFIN PGOV VM |
| 09HANOI564 | VIETNAM'S EXPORTERS BEATING THE SUMMER CRUNCH [...] (SBU) Summary: Vietnam's most important export sectors are bouncing back after a tough, but much shorter than expected, period. None are expecting big drops in export numbers compared to 2008, and some are holding on for the possibility that 2009 may even surpass the last year's record-settin [...] | 2009-06-18 09:11:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EAGR EFIS ELAB ECON KTDB KTEX PGOV VM |
| 09HANOI567 | VIETNAM ECON HIGHLIGHTS: RETAILERS OK WITH FOREIGN [...] (U) The domestic retail sector is doing just fine, despite its earlier fears that it would be unable to compete with foreign penetration when the sector opened in January 2009. In fact, a majority of local businesses in Vietnam say that they welcome foreigners in the sector, according to a sur [...] | 2009-06-19 04:39:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON VM |
| 09HANOI569 | RED TAPE GRIPES AGAIN DOMINATE VIETNAM'S DISCUSSIONS WITH [...] (U) Summary: At a semi-annual meeting between the Government and the private sector, local and international businesses criticized Vietnam's multiple administrative hurdles, inefficient tax regime, and lack of transparency as they recommended ways to speed up investment in the banking, mining [...] | 2009-06-19 09:23:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV ETRD ECON KCOR VM |
| 09HANOI570 | VIETNAM PROTESTS U.S. STATEMENT ON JAILED LAWYER, [...] (U) Please see action request para 10. 2.(C) Summary: Charge met with Major General To Lam of the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) on June 18 to discuss the recent arrest of lawyer Le Cong Dinh (reftels). Lam protested at length the State Department statement on Dinh as "U.S. interference [...] | 2009-06-19 10:12:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL VM |
| 09HANOI571 | VIETNAM WILL SUPPORT IMPLEMENTATION OF RESOLUTION [...] (C) Charge delivered reftel demarche to MFA Americas Director General Nguyen Ba Hung on June 22. Hung said Vietnam will honor its commitments to implementation of the Resolution, but did not commit specifically to supporting an ASEAN statement. Vietnam continues to engage the DPRK in an eff [...] | 2009-06-22 10:32:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | KN MNUC PARM VM |
| 09HANOI578 | PEPFAR VIETNAM, SUCCESSES AND CHALLENGES [...] (SBU) Summary: Warm congratulations on your appointment from me and the entire PEPFAR team here at Mission Vietnam. I wanted to personally congratulate you and spend a little time giving you my perspective on what I believe is a somewhat unique component of your PEPFAR community. Before you [...] | 2009-06-22 11:28:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO PGOV PROP SOCI EAID SNAR KHIV VM |
| 09HANOI581 | MFA PROTESTS U.S. STATEMENT ON JAILED LAWYER [...] (C) Summary: Charge was called in to MFA on June 22 to receive an official protest of the U.S. statement condemning the arrest of prominent lawyer Le Cong Dinh and "evidence" of Dinh's guilt from MFA North Americas Division Director General Ba Hung. Charge pushed back, asserting that Vietnam s [...] | 2009-06-23 10:13:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL VM |
| 09HANOI582 | BUILDING VIETNAM'S MILITARY DETERRENT WITH RUSSIAN [...] (C) Summary. Increasingly concerned about China's assertive behavior in the South China Sea, the Government of Vietnam (GVN) is pressing ahead with its military modernization program. To better defend its territorial claims and economic interests and present a more potent deterrent to Chine [...] | 2009-06-23 10:31:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | MCAP PINR PINS PREL RS VM |
| 09HANOI595 | USCIRF Visits Vietnam Again [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In their fourth visit to Vietnam since 2002, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF) repeated familiar criticisms of Vietnam's protections of religious freedom. In official meetings with high-ranking GVN officials, including Deputy Prime Minister/Foreign M [...] | 2009-06-26 09:50:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF VM |
| 09HANOI60 | FEW SURPRISES AT THE NINTH PARTY PLENUM [...] (C) SUMMARY: Vietnam's Ninth Central Committee (CC) Plenum concluded without major personnel or policy changes. According to Party insiders, the primary focus of the midterm Plenum remained Vietnam's economic situation and plans for a stimulus package. In what some consider a nod to conserv [...] | 2009-01-22 07:57:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON ETRD VM |
| 09HANOI609 | USCIRF's Travels in Northwest Vietnam [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Three USCIRF staff and PolOff traveled to Son La and Dien Bien provinces from May 18-21 to meet with Catholic and Protestant congregations in two provinces that are well-known for difficulties in implementing the national law on belief and religion. In Son La province, while no [...] | 2009-06-30 11:18:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF VM |
| 09HANOI614 | VIETNAMESE MILITARY REQUEST FOR LEAHY VETTING TO VISIT THE [...] (SBU) Post proposes the following Vietnamese military officials for the Department of State's clearance to pay a working visit to the United States Coast Guard scheduled from July 24 to August 1, 2009. The visit is funded by the United States Government through the Export Control and related B [...] | 2009-07-01 08:57:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PINR PREL VN |
| 09HANOI615 | Vietnam's Mid Year Consultative Group Meeting [...] (SBU) Summary: The 2009 Mid Year Informal Consultative Group (CG) meeting between donors and the GVN in the Central Highlands city of Ban Ma Thuot June 8-9 provided 2009 GDP growth rate estimates ranging from 3.5 to 5 per cent. Donors stressed the need for continued SOE equitization and povert [...] | 2009-07-01 10:17:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PGOV EAID SENV KGHG VM |
| 09HANOI619 | UNSCR 1874 DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-02 08:54:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON POL EFIN PARM PREL KNNP |
| 09HANOI623 | GVN THREATENS BOYCOTT OF NATIONAL DAY OVER INVITEE [...] (C) Summary: The GVN threatened to boycott Embassy Hanoi's National Day celebration at the last minute over the inclusion on the guest list of prominent dissident Pham Hong Son. The Ambassador strongly protested the incident and has followed up with a letter to Deputy Prime Minister/Foreign M [...] | 2009-07-06 08:47:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL VM |
| 09HANOI631 | VIETNAMESE LEGISLATURE TACKLES IPR, CHIDES GOVERNMENT OVER [...] (U) SUMMARY. Vietnam's National Assembly enacted substantial reforms to its IPR regime in its first session of the year from May to June, 2009, amending its IPR Law, Criminal Code and Cinema Law. The reforms should provide greater market access for U.S. films and penalized commercial-scale IPR [...] | 2009-07-07 11:01:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON KIPR PGOV PHUM VM |
| 09HANOI632 | LETTER FROM VIETNAM'S MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE AND RURAL [...] (U) On July 06, 2009, Embassy Hanoi received a letter from Minister Cao Duc Phat of Vietnam's Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development regarding Vietnam's decision on the import of U.S. beef from cattle older than 30 months. In the letter, Minister Phat gave approval for import of U.S. b [...] | 2009-07-07 11:04:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD WTRO TBIO EAGR PINR SOCI USTR EAID VM |
| 09HANOI633 | Vietnam Arrests Two More High Profile Dissidents [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Adding to the five other individuals arrested at the end of May and throughout June, including prominent lawyer Le Cong Dinh, the GVN arrested two additional high profile dissidents on July 7 - Viet Youth for Democracy leader Nguyen Tien Trung and Bloc 8406 leader Tran Anh Kim. [...] | 2009-07-07 11:04:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL VM |
| 09HANOI634 | VIETNAMESE MILITARY/SECURITY REQUEST FOR LEAHY VETTING TO [...] (SBU) Post proposes the following Vietnamese military and security officials for the Department of State's clearance to participate in the Weapon of Mass Destruction nonproliferation training course titled "INTERDICT/RADACAD" in Washington from July 27-31, 2009. The visit is funded by the Unite [...] | 2009-07-08 07:54:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PINR PREL VN |
| 09HANOI635 | Vietnam Objects to Senate Letter on Father Ly [...] (SBU) Summary: A letter from 37 U.S. Senators to President Triet asking for the early release of Father Nguyen Van Ly drew sharply opposing responses from the Vietnamese Communist Party and the opposition Bloc 8406. The Party newspaper Nhan Dan ran a highly critical editorial condemning the S [...] | 2009-07-09 00:14:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL VM |
| 09HANOI639 | THE CASE FOR INCREASED EPA ENGAGEMENT IN VIETNAM [...] (U) Summary: Over the past several years, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) experts have provided critical assistance to U.S.-Vietnamese cooperation on Agent Orange/dioxin legacy issues and to the development of Vietnamese capacity to manage growing industrial pollution. Increased EPA [...] | 2009-07-09 10:17:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV TBIO ECON SOCI VM |
| 09HANOI64 | Vietnam-China Border Issues in Lang Son Province [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Following the recent announcement of the completion of border demarcation between China and Vietnam (Ref A),the DCM visited the Chinese border province of Lang Son January 7 - 8. Provincial officials emphasized expanding trade relations with China while admitting a growing tra [...] | 2009-01-23 06:16:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PGOV TIP KWMN KCRM SNAR VM |
| 09HANOI640 | EXXON, PETROVIETNAM INK CONTRACT FOR PRODUCTION [...] (C) ExxonMobil (EM) and state-run PetroVietnam (PVN) quietly signed a production sharing contract (PSC) on June 30 for two sets of blocks in the South China Sea that lie well within China,s line of demarcation. The deal makes EM the largest offshore acreage holder in Vietnam, with 14 million [...] | 2009-07-10 02:40:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN EINV ENRG EPET PREL VM |
| 09HANOI646 | DPRK DESIGNATION DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...] | 2009-07-10 10:38:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | UNSC PREL PARM KM VM |
| 09HANOI65 | UPDATE ON VIETNAM'S LATEST HUMAN AVIAN INFLUENZA INFECTION [...] (U) Summary: Confirmed case number 107, an 8-year-old girl from Thanh Hoa province infected with the H5N1 strain clade 2.3.4 of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) was discharged from the hospital and will be counted towards the total number of human infections for 2008. The girl's 13-yea [...] | 2009-01-23 06:17:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO AMED EAGR PINR KFLU VM |
| 09HANOI653 | Local Authorities Stand By As Internecine Dispute at Bat [...] (SBU) Summary: Post has received scores of calls from American Buddhists, Congressman Peter Welch and former Ambassador Andrew Young about ongoing mob violence against 400 monks from the Plum Village Lang Mai order. The violence is the culmination of a dispute that surfaced last fall and can [...] | 2009-07-14 07:52:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF VM |
| 09HANOI67 | VIETNAM CELEBRATES - AND EDITS - INAUGURATION OF PRESIDENT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-01-23 07:19:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC SCUL PHUM PREL PGOV VM |
| 09HANOI670 | VIETNAM FLEXIBLE ON CLIMATE CHANGE NEGOTIATIONS [...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Vietnam (GVN) will send a high-level delegation to the fifteenth Conference of the Parties under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP 15) in Copenhagen this December. While the GVN plans a flexible approach to the COP, it is somewhat [...] | 2009-07-21 00:22:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG ECON KGHG VM |
| 09HANOI672 | BEHIND VIETNAM'S LATEST CRACKDOWN [...] (C) Summary: The recent arrests of several pro-democracy activists and a prominent lawyer, coupled with a tightening on the press and blogs, clearly represent a serious move against freedom of expression and association. What is less clear is the motivation. Well-placed contacts discount sp [...] | 2009-07-21 10:35:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL VM |
| 09HANOI677 | AMBASSADOR RAISES DETAINED AMCIT, RECENT POLITICAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a tense exchange July 20, the Ambassador pressed VFM Pham Binh Minh to grant consular access to detained American Citizen Kevin Huan Vo, arguing that it would be "unacceptable" to announce the opening of a consulate in Houston while a U.S. citizen remains in jail incommunicado [...] | 2009-07-22 09:04:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL ECON CASC VM |
| 09HANOI682 | GVN TO CONTINUE ECONOMIC STIMULUS AS INFLATION CONCERNS [...] (SBU) Summary: Vietnamese financial officials told visiting Treasury Department Director of South & Southeast Asia Malachy Nugent on July 15 that the government's economic stimulus plan had helped buffer the impact of the global downturn. They said the GVN for now had decided to continue its s [...] | 2009-07-23 01:59:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV KTDB VM |
| 09HANOI683 | DG FOR INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS COMMENTS ON VIETNAM'S [...] (C) Summary: Over lunch July 21, MFA Director General for International Organizations Le Hoai Trung commented on the evolving role of the Communist Party in overseeing government operations and said Vietnam's leaders understood that the current crackdown, including arrests of American citizens [...] | 2009-07-23 09:35:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV UNSC VM |
| 09HANOI694 | DCM Raises Buddhist and Catholic Disputes, Other Issues, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On July 22, the DCM met with Committee for Religious Affairs (CRA) Vice Chairman Nguyen Thanh Xuan to press for a resolution to the ongoing dispute between Buddhist sects at the Bat Nha Pagoda in Lam Dong Province, express concern over the reported beating of Catholic parishione [...] | 2009-07-27 09:59:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF VM |
| 09HANOI695 | DCM, MPS DISCUSS VIOLENCE IN LAM DONG AND QUANG BINH [...] (SBU) On July 22, the DCM met with the Deputy Director General of the Ministry of Public Security (MPS) General Security Department, Major General To Lam to discuss a range of operational issues and to reiterate U.S. concerns over violence affecting religious devotees in two locations: the Bat [...] | 2009-07-27 10:04:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF VM |
| 09HANOI698 | Vietnam's Police Discuss TIP and Child Sex Crimes [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On July 23, the Deputy Director of the Criminal Police Department in the Ministry of Public Security (MPS),Colonel Ho Sy Tien, discussed trends in human trafficking, including labor exploitation of men and the manipulation of tourist visas and fraudulent marriages for cross-bor [...] | 2009-07-28 08:51:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTIP KCRM PHUM PREL ELAB VM |
| 09HANOI702 | VIETNAM WANTS DARFUR PKO EXTENDED BUT SUPPORTS REFERENCE TO [...] (SBU) On July 28, Acting PolCouns met with the MFA International Organizations Division's lead official for UN Security Council affairs, To Anh Tuan, to urge Vietnam not to support Libya's efforts to complicate a resolution extending the mandate of the UN-AU Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) by inclu [...] | 2009-07-28 09:50:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNSC PHUM KPKO SU VM |
| 09HANOI703 | VIETNAMESE OFFICIALS POSITIVE ABOUT TRADE TIES DESPITE [...] (SBU) Summary. In meetings with visiting Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Demetrios Marantis, Deputy Prime Minister Hai and other senior Vietnamese officials were enthusiastic and positive about the rapid development of bilateral trade relations. The Vietnamese officials pledged to agree on d [...] | 2009-07-29 02:26:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD ECIN EINV VM |
| 09HANOI704 | VIETNAM'S FIRST HALF WEAK, BUT SHOWING SIGNS OF RECOVERY [...] (U) Summary: Vietnam's economic growth in the first half of 2009 was 3.9 percent year-over-year (yoy). Exports were $27.6 billion, 10.1 percent lower yoy, while imports fell more drastically, by 34 percent, to $29.7 billion. The trade deficit was $4.6 billion, excluding the re-export of gold. [...] | 2009-07-29 08:09:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EINV KTDB VM |
| 09HANOI71 | VIETNAM ECON HIGHLIGHTS: FORECASTS OF LOWER TRADE, TAX [...] (U) The Government of Vietnam's (GVN) preliminary trade estimates for January 2009 show a significant drop in trade. The GVN expects imports to be 45% lower than for the same period of 2008, and exports to fall down by 24%. The silver lining is that the trade deficit for January 2009 is expec [...] | 2009-01-23 08:01:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON VM |
| 09HANOI72 | CONGRATULATORY LETTER TO SECRETARY CLINTON [...] Post is relaying the text of a letter of congratulations dated January 22, 2009 to Secretary Clinton from the Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Foreign Affairs of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Pham Gia Khiem. 2. Begin Text: Dear Madam Secretary, On behalf of the Government of Vi [...] | 2009-01-28 02:48:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV VM |
| 09HANOI722 | VIETNAM MOVING FROM CONTAINMENT TO QUENCHING SOUTHERN [...] (SBU) Summary. As of August 2, 2009, Vietnam's Ministry of Health (MOH) reported a total of 936 cases of pandemic influenza A/H1N1 2009. Initially, H1N1 cases increased steadily, but almost exclusively, among persons entering Vietnam from known outbreak areas and their close contacts in count [...] | 2009-08-03 10:16:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO AMED EAGR PINR KFLU VM |
| 09HANOI730 | ECONOMIC HIGHLIGHTS: VIETNAM EXPORTS DOWN, TRADE DEFICIT [...] (U) The GVN has lowered its export target by nearly 5 percent to $61 billion for 2009 as it continues to feel the effects of the global downturn. For the first seven months of this year, Vietnam's exports declined by 13.4 percent. DESPITE EXPORT DECLINE TRADE DEFICIT NARROWS --------------- [...] | 2009-08-05 10:32:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON VM |
| 09HANOI737 | VIETNAM: AGRICULTURAL EXPORTS CONTINUE TO GROW [...] (U) SUMMARY. Vietnam's agricultural exports continue to show strong growth and Vietnam is now one of the world's leading exporters of a number of agricultural commodities like rice, pepper, cashews, and coffee. It is also beginning to focus on other products with higher margins. Ironically, [...] | 2009-08-05 23:57:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD EAGR ECON VM |
| 09HANOI740 | SCENESETTER FOR SENATOR WEBB'S AUGUST VISIT TO VIETNAM [...] (SBU) Senator Webb: Your return to Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City comes at an important moment in the U.S.-Vietnam relationship. Overall, bilateral ties have advanced significantly over the past two-three years, and are arguably at their highest point since relations were reestablished in 1995. Th [...] | 2009-08-06 09:28:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM ECON ETRD MARR VM |
| 09HANOI741 | VIETNAM'S NEW BIODIVERSITY LAW: A GOOD IDEA, BUT TOO FEW [...] (SBU) Summary: On July 1, 2009, the Government of Vietnam (GVN) announced the implementation of its new Biodiversity Law, which had been ratified by the National Assembly in November 2008. The Vietnamese biodiversity law is the first of its kind in Southeast Asia. While biodiversity advocates [...] | 2009-08-06 09:29:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV SOCI EAGR VM |
| 09HANOI758 | REQUEST FOR LEAHY VETTING TO PARTICIPATE IN THE "COMPLEX [...] (SBU) Post proposes the following Vietnamese banking officials, and two alternates, for the Department of State's clearance to participate in the training course titled "COMPLEX FINANCIAL INVESTIGATIONS" in Bangkok from October 5-9, 2009. The visit is funded by the International Law Enforcement [...] | 2009-08-11 10:08:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PINR PREL SNAR VN |
| 09HANOI759 | VIETNAM NOT YET READY TO COMPLETE DALAT NUCLEAR REACTOR [...] (SBU) Summary: During an August 10 meeting with Ambassador Michalak, Minister of Science and Technology Hoang Van Phong confirmed that the Government of Vietnam (GVN) was not yet ready to sign an agreement with the United States to complete conversion of the Dalat nuclear research reactor and t [...] | 2009-08-12 04:29:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG ECON VM |
| 09HANOI76 | NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION TREATY: VIETNAM CONTACTS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-02 10:21:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA IAEA |
| 09HANOI767 | Response: Due Diligence on Hanoi's Nominee for the [...] (SBU) Mission Vietnam is pleased to provide the additional information about Protec Helmet Company, nominee in the SME category, in response to REF: A) Post found no negative aspects or risk of U.S. embarrassment that could result from the potential selection of Protec, Post's nominee. B [...] | 2009-08-13 10:26:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON AMGT BEXP ELAB ETRD KSEP SENV VM |
| 09HANOI771 | VATICAN RELATIONS IMPROVE AS ARCHBISHOP KIET CONSIDERS HIS [...] (C) SUMMARY. With President Nguyen Minh Triet scheduled to visit the Holy See in November, Vatican officials have told the Hanoi Archdiocese that they are bullish about normalizing relations. Local Catholic leaders are less than fully elated at the prospect, however, voicing suspicion over t [...] | 2009-08-14 08:03:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF VT VM |
| 09HANOI773 | AMBASSADOR'S MEETING WITH POLITBURO MEMBER AND PARTY CHIEF [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a warm and cordial meeting August 13, Hanoi Party Secretary Pham Quang Nghi and the Ambassador expressed mutual support for strong bilateral relations. Nghi, who sits on the Politburo, assured the Ambassador that whatever personnel changes occur at the next Party Congress in 2 [...] | 2009-08-14 09:07:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM ECON SENV VM |
| 09HANOI779 | VIETNAM COOL TO MALAYSIAN PROPOSAL FOR ASEAN FM MEETING ON [...] (SBU) On August 14, Acting PolCouns met with the Director of the MFA ASEAN Department's Political and Security Division, Duong Tri Hien, to reiterate our strong opposition to the August 11 conviction of Aung San Suu Kyi and to urge Vietnam to support a Malaysian proposal to convene an urgent m [...] | 2009-08-14 09:48:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM PGOV BM VM |
| 09HANOI784 | Khmer Krom Religious Freedom in Mekong Delta [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Vietnam's leadership continues to pay close attention to the country's Khmer Krom community, and has spent considerable resources to build new Theravada Buddhist pagodas, a Pali-language high school, and a university-level Theravada Buddhist Institute. Contrary to reports from [...] | 2009-08-17 08:54:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF VM |
| 09HANOI79 | Defrocked Monks and Dissidents Released During Tet Amnesty [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In addition to former Thanh Nien journalist Nguyen Viet Chien, four defrocked Khmer Krom monks, a member of the For the People's Party and a land rights activist were released as part of Vietnam's Tet Amnesty. While we are still awaiting the release of the formal list of those [...] | 2009-02-04 00:17:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KIRF PGOV PREL VM |
| 09HANOI801 | RECALL 09 HANOI 801 [...] No summary [...] | 2009-08-27 07:28:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM ECON ETRD KIRF SENV BM VM |
| 09HANOI803 | SENATOR WEBB'S AUGUST 19-20 MEETINGS IN HANOI [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a short, but substantively very productive set of meetings in Hanoi, August 19-20, Senator Jim Webb emphasized the need to continue building on the remarkable progress that the two countries had made since the Senator first re-engaged with Vietnam as a civilian in 1991. The [...] | 2009-08-27 09:38:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV KIRF ECON ETRD BM VM |
| 09HANOI805 | Hanoi Blogger Arrested [...] (C) SUMMARY: Prominent dissident blogger Bui Thanh Hieu -- better known by his pen name "Nguoi Buon Gio" ("Wind Trader") -- was formally arrested August 30 after three days of pretrial detention. Well known for views sharply critical of Vietnam's policies toward China, Hieu's arrest was preci [...] | 2009-08-31 10:43:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV |
| 09HANOI807 | Police Detain Journalist Affiliated with Arrested Hanoi [...] (C) A journalist and editor from the popular online news website VietNamNet, Pham Doan Trang, was taken into police custody August 29 for activities connected with Hanoi blogger Bui Thanh Hieu's plot to print T-shirts with anti-China slogans (reftel). VietNamNet's owner, Nguyen Anh Tuan was in [...] | 2009-09-01 10:12:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV VM |
| 09HANOI809 | 2011 LEADERSHIP TRANSITION: LEADING CONTENDERS FOR GENERAL SECRETARY AND PRIME MINISTER [...] (C) SUMMARY: Preparations are already underway for major leadership changes in Vietnam as the Communist Party gears up for its Eleventh Party Congress in January 2011. As many as six of the Politburo's fifteen members are expected to retire, including the General Secretary, State President, and [...] | 2009-09-10 07:19:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON ETRD VM |
| 09HANOI819 | DEMARCHE RESPONSE: IRAN CHORUS [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-18 07:47:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV IR VM |
| 09HANOI820 | MPS NOTCHES UP CRITICISM OF U.S. "THREAT" ON NATIONAL TV [...] (SBU) SUMMMARY: On August 19, as part of its nightly national newscast, Vietnam National Television (VTV) aired a 20-minute segment outlining how local activists, overseas Vietnamese and "external hostile forces" had conspired to overthrow the government. The segment -- the fourth in a broadcast [...] | 2009-08-21 07:35:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL VM |
| 09HANOI823 | INSTITUTIONAL RAMIFICATIONS OF THE 2011 PARTY CONGRESS: A [...] (C) SUMMARY: Persistent talk among Vietnam's political elite of a China-style "fused executive" notwithstanding, the January 2011 Party Congress could leave power at the apex of Vietnam's Party-state system less centralized. Most political observers believe the Eleventh Party Congress may res [...] | 2009-09-23 04:00:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON CH KN VM |
| 09HANOI827 | Reformist Public Policy Think Tank is the First/Primary [...] (SBU) SUMMARY/COMMENT: A Prime Ministerial Decree placing severe restrictions on independent scientific research and preventing organizations from criticizing the GVN claimed its first casualty: the Institute for Development Studies (IDS),a public policy think tank formed by reform-minded advi [...] | 2009-09-23 10:53:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM ECON VM |
| 09HANOI829 | North Korean Asylum Seekers Enter Danish Embassy [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-24 09:43:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PREF VM KN |
| 09HANOI839 | ACTION REQUEST: Lang Mai Monks and Nuns Forcibly Evicted By [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph six. 2. (C) SUMMARY: The situation for the Lang Mai monks and nuns turned violent on September 27 and 28, as police and a group of angry locals attempted to forcibly evict the monks and nuns from Bat Nha pagoda in Lam Dong province. Acc [...] | 2009-09-29 05:08:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM VM |
| 09HANOI843 | DEPUTY SECRETARY STEINBERG'S SEPTEMBER 27, 2009 CONVERSATION [...] (SBU) September 27, 2009; 3:30 pm; Home of Dr. Pham Hong Son; Hanoi 2. (SBU) Participants: U.S. ---- The Deputy Secretary Ambassador Michael Michalak, U.S. Embassy, Hanoi Scot Marciel, EAP Deputy Assistant Secretary Christian Marchant, Political Officer (Notetaker) VIETNAM ------ [...] | 2009-09-29 08:04:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PREL PGOV PHUM ECON KN VM |
| 09HANOI845 | Deputy Secretary Steinberg's September 27, 2009 Conversation [...] (SBU) September 27, 2009; 10:40 am; The Office of Government; Hanoi 2. (SBU) Participants: U.S. ---- The Deputy Secretary Ambassador Michael Michalak Joseph Donovan, EAP Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Scot Marciel, EAP Deputy Assistant Secretary Rear Admiral Charles Leidig, Jo [...] | 2009-09-29 08:07:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PREL PGOV PHUM ECON ETRD KN CH VM |
| 09HANOI846 | SETTING THE SCENE FOR U.S.-VIETNAM POLICY PLANNING TALKS, [...] (SBU) Director Slaughter: Your Policy Planning Talks with the Vietnamese, the second since discussions were inaugurated last October, comes at an important moment in the bilateral relationship. Overall, ties between our two countries have advanced significantly over the past two-three years, and [...] | 2009-08-26 06:18:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM ECON ETRD MARR VM |
| 09HANOI847 | DEPUTY SECRETARY STEINBERG'S SEPTEMBER 27, 2009 MEETING WITH [...] (SBU) September 27, 2009; 2:15 p.m.; The Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Hanoi. 2. (SBU) Participants: U.S. ---- The Deputy Secretary Ambassador Michalak Joseph Donovan, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Scot Marciel, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, EAP Rear Admiral Ch [...] | 2009-09-30 08:40:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PREL PGOV PHUM ECON ASEAN KN BM VM |
| 09HANOI848 | President Triet Assures Ambassador that Relations Good, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a cordial meeting August 18, State President Nguyen Minh Triet assured the Ambassador that Vietnam's leadership remained committed to deepening reform and viewed its relationship with the United States as positive and improving. Noting that Vietnam would chair ASEAN in 2010, [...] | 2009-08-26 06:38:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM ECON ETRD BM VM |
| 09HANOI851 | DEPUTY SECRETARY STEINBERG'S SEPTEMBER 27, 2009 MEETING WITH [...] (SBU) September 27, 2009; 2:15 p.m.; The Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Hanoi. 2. (SBU) Participants: U.S. ---- The Deputy Secretary Ambassador Michalak Joseph Donovan, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State Scot Marciel, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, EAP Rear Admiral Ch [...] | 2009-09-30 09:40:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PREL PGOV PHUM ECON ETRD ASEAN BM KN VM |
| 09HANOI858 | Demarche Delivered: Vietnam Positive on September 24 UNSC [...] (SBU) Post delivered the invitation letter addressed to President Nguyen Minh Triet to the September 23 UNSC Summit meeting on August 27. The Deputy Director General of the Americas Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported that it was "99 percent" certain that President Triet w [...] | 2009-08-27 08:02:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PARM MNUC UNSC KSUM KNNP VM |
| 09HANOI859 | Vietnam Supports U.S. Burma Policy Review, but Insists ASSK [...] (C) SUMMARY: Vietnam strongly supports a more "flexible" U.S. approach to Burma and is willing to facilitate contact with the Burmese regime, according to the Deputy Director General of the MFA's Southeast Asia Division, Ta Duy Chinh. Chinh asserted, however, that U.S policy remained too focu [...] | 2009-10-07 09:52:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR BM VM |
| 09HANOI861 | Vietnam's "Track II" Engagement with Burma - U.S. Urged to [...] (C) SUMMARY: Vietnam sees 2010 as a promising year to engage with Burma but is nervous that election-related unrest there could derail efforts to host a successful ASEAN summit, according to Dang Dinh Quy, Vice President of the Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam (DAV). Quy, who recently met with [...] | 2009-10-07 09:59:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR ECON ASEAN BM VM |
| 09HANOI862 | REQUEST FOR LEAHY VETTING TO PARTICIPATE IN "COMPLEX [...] (SBU) Post proposes the following additional Vietnamese government officials for the Department of State's clearance to participate in the training course titled "COMPLEX FINANCIAL INVESTIGATIONS" to be held in Bangkok from October 5-9, 2009. Four other training candidates have already been su [...] | 2009-08-27 09:17:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PINR PREL SNAR VM |
| 09HANOI863 | Vietnam's Reaction to P5+1 Discussions in Geneva [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-08 06:36:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL KNNP MNUC IR VM |
| 09HANOI873 | Bat Nha Pagoda Violence - Lam Dong Officials, Buddhist [...] (SBU) Summary: Meeting ConGenOff October 9, Lam Dong provincial officials were at pains to frame tensions at the Bat Nha monastery as an internal struggle between Bat Nha's head monk and the Lang Mai monks and nuns. Echoing comments from officials in Hanoi, provincial authorities denied that [...] | 2009-10-15 08:55:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM VM |
| 09HANOI875 | New U.S. Approach toward Southeast Asia Opens Possibilities [...] No summary [...] | 2009-10-15 09:40:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PINR ECON ASEAN BM VM |
| 09HANOI877 | PM DUNG TO ATTEND NUCLEAR SUMMIT MEETING IN APRIL 2010 [...] (SBU) MFA Director General for International Organizations Trung told the DCM October 20 that PM Dung would attend the Summit meeting in Washington in April 2010 because he recognizes the importance of the issue internationally and the potential it holds for future U.S.-Vietnamese cooperation. [...] | 2009-10-21 08:04:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KNNP PGOV VM |
| 09HANOI88 | Prime Minister's Edict on Religion-Related Land and [...] (SBU) In the wake of sustained land-use protests involving Catholic parishioners throughout 2008, PM Nguyen Tan Dung recently issued a four-page edict concerning "religion-related land and facilities." (See paragraph four for an unofficial translation.) The edict specifies that government age [...] | 2009-02-05 08:58:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF VM |
| 09HANOI880 | Blue Lantern Response: Application 050183563 [...] (SBU) Summary: Per reftel, the Embassy made inquiries to assess the end use of items stated on the license request and conducted a site visit to Electronics Informatics Chemical Company (ELINCO) to assess its business operations, on-site security, and general reliability as a recipient of Unit [...] | 2009-08-31 08:00:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC VM MASS |
| 09HANOI881 | The Contenders: How Elite Cadre Advance, Prospects for 2011 [...] (C) SUMMARY: Decision-making at the top of Vietnam's Communist Party structure is broader based and more consensus driven than in China, and the full Politburo and Central Committee take an active role in policy and personnel matters. While the most fervid speculation about the January 2011 P [...] | 2009-10-22 09:23:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR ECON VM |
| 09HANOI883 | Vietnam's Long Term View on PKO Participation [...] (C) The DCM used a working lunch with Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director General for International Organizations Le Hoai Trung on October 20 to discuss current GVN thinking on Vietnam participating in global peacekeeping operations. Trung offered that following a two-year review directed by [...] | 2009-10-23 09:00:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO MARR VM |
| 09HANOI889 | Ambassador, VFM Minh Discuss Human Rights, Nuclear MOU, [...] (U) This cable contains an action request. Please see paragraph eight. 2. (C) SUMMARY: On October 30, the Ambassador met with Vice Foreign Minister Pham Binh Minh to reiterate U.S. concerns about the conviction of political dissidents and the forced expulsion of Lang Mai followers fr [...] | 2009-11-03 10:03:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KNNP KIRF UNSC ECON CVIS ASEAN BM IR |
| 09HANOI89 | ASEAN POINT OF CONTACT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-02-05 09:11:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV ECIN EAID ASEAN VM |
| 09HANOI895 | Deputy Secretary Steinberg's September 27, 2009 Conversation [...] (SBU) September 27, 2009; 9:30 a.m.; Ministry of Defense, Hanoi, Vietnam. 2. (SBU) Participants: U.S. ---- The Deputy Secretary Ambassador Michael Michalak, U.S. Embassy Hanoi Joseph Donovan, Principal Deputy Assistance Secretary, EAP Scot Marciel, Deputy Assistant [...] | 2009-11-10 04:25:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PREL PGOV MARR MASS VM |
| 09HANOI897 | Deputy Secretary Steinberg's September 27, 2009 Luncheon [...] (U) September 27, 2009; 12:30 p.m.; The Ambassador's Residence; Hanoi 2. (SBU) Participants: U.S. ---- The Deputy Secretary Ambassador Michael Michalak Joseph Donovan, EAP Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary Scot Marciel, EAP Deputy Assistant Secretary Rear Admir [...] | 2009-11-10 04:37:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PREL PGOV PHUM ECON KPAO KN VM |
| 09HANOI899 | Internal CPV directive warns of U.S.-led "peaceful [...] (C) SUMMARY: An internal CPV directive briefly posted online warns that "hostile forces" are infiltrating Vietnamese society and threaten to destroy Vietnam's socialist system. USG-sponsored programs in education and governance, and organizations such as USAID, Peace Corps, and Fulbright, are [...] | 2009-11-12 08:00:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR ECON AID VM |
| 09HANOI90 | VIETNAMESE SECURITY FORCE REQUEST FOR LEAHY VETTING (DATT, [...] (SBU) Post proposes the following Vietnamese Armed Forces members for Department clearance for participation in USSOCOM exercise Sovereign Challenge. Hanoi Post did not find any credible evidence of gross violations of human rights by the following individuals. The approximate cost for this tr [...] | 2009-02-05 09:12:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PINR PREL VN |
| 09HANOI901 | Embassy Requests that Dissident Father Ly be released from [...] (C) Summary: Dissident Father Nguyen Van Ly suffered his second stroke in four months in prison on November 14. He is partially paralyzed and has been transferred to a Ministry of Public Security hospital in Hanoi. Prison authorities notified Father Ly's family of the stroke and transfer that [...] | 2009-11-18 10:01:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV VM |
| 09HANOI91 | SCENESETTER FOR A/S JACOBS VISIT TO VIETNAM [...] (C) Summary: Post welcomes your visit to Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. Coming at a time when the GVN,s overall desire to attract tourism and investment has created a window of opportunity for deepening our relations and improving the ability for U.S. citizens to live and work here, your visit c [...] | 2009-02-06 04:33:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | CMGT CASC PREL VM |
| 09HANOI919 | Father Ly Health Update [...] (C) Dissident priest Father Nguyen Van Ly continues to recuperate in a Ministry of Public Security (MPS) Hospital in Hanoi following his recent stroke on November 14 (reftel). Father Ly's health continues to improve, according to family members who have been visiting him daily since they arri [...] | 2009-12-03 11:14:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV VM |
| 09HANOI92 | AMBASSADOR AND ARCHBISHOP OF HANOI DISCUSS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a meeting with the Ambassador immediately before the week-long Lunar New Year holiday (Tet),the Archbishop of Hanoi, Joseph Ngo Quang Kiet, stressed the need for the GVN to enhance political rights such as freedom of speech and private property rights. He also declared tha [...] | 2009-02-06 05:34:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF VM |
| 09HANOI921 | Controversial Pastor Accused of Rape [...] (C) On December 2, Protestant Pastor Nguyen Cong Chinh was detained for police questioning in connection with at least one rape case in Gia Lai Province. According to Pastor Siu Y Kim (strictly protect),an Executive Board member of the Southern Evangelical Church of Vietnam South and the mos [...] | 2009-12-04 10:16:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM KIRF PREL PGOV VM |
| 09HANOI925 | Vietnam's 2010 ASEAN Chairmanship [...] (C) SUMMARY: Vietnam considers its turn as ASEAN chair to be the leading foreign policy priority for 2010. Substantively, Vietnam's leadership wants to be seen as a responsible member of the international community -- professional and well-briefed, acting as an "honest broker" when possible - [...] | 2009-12-11 07:39:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM ECIN ASEAN SENV KFLU BM KN VM |
| 09HANOI926 | Blogger and Journalist Released [...] (SBU) Prominent blogger Bui Thanh Hieu (penname "Wind Trader") and VietNamNet journalist Pham Doan Tran were released from police custody September 6. As reported in reftels, the two had been arrested in connection with efforts to print a sizeable quantity of T-shirts with anti-Chinese slogan [...] | 2009-09-08 10:16:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL VM |
| 09HANOI927 | Preliminary Assessment of Politburo Bad Boy To Huy Rua [...] (C) Following is Post's evaluation of To Huy Rua, Chairman of the CPV Propaganda and Education Commission, whom many identify as a leading hard-line voice within the Politburo. We welcome comment from INR/B and other analysts. 2. (C) The Politburo's newest member, To Huy Rua, is consi [...] | 2009-12-15 02:43:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM PINR ECON EAID MARR VM |
| 09HANOI931 | War hero/dissident sentenced to 5.5 years; Le Cong Dinh [...] (SBU) Following a half-day trial December 28, former army Lt. Colonel and democracy activist Tran Anh Kim was sentenced by a court in Thai Binh to five and a half years in prison, followed by three years of probation. Although Kim was convicted under the more serious Article 79 (subversion),[...] | 2009-12-29 09:56:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL VM |
| 09HANOI94 | VISIT OF JAPAN,S CROWN PRINCE TO VIETNAM - [...] (C) Summary: In considering the resumption of new assistance to Vietnam, which was suspended last August due to a bribery scandal, Japan seems to be lowering its expectations for "meaningful" steps by the GVN from prosecution of the well-connected Vietnamese official who accepted the bribes to [...] | 2009-02-06 08:22:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | JA PGOV PREL VM |
| 09HANOI956 | FINAL NOMINATIONS TO PARTICIPATE IN "COMPLEX FINANCIAL [...] (SBU) Post nominates the following Vietnamese government officials to participate in the training course titled "COMPLEX FINANCIAL INVESTIGATIONS" to be held in Bangkok from October 5-9, 2009. The visit is funded by the International Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA) in Bangkok, Thailand. Both [...] | 2009-09-16 03:44:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL PINR PTER SNAR VM TH |
| 09HANOI966 | KICKOFF MEETING FOR THE NUCLEAR SECURITY SUMMIT [...] No summary [...] | 2009-09-17 03:20:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KNNP |
| 09HANOI968 | BUILDING FOUNDATION FOR A NEW BEGINNING IN DEFENSE TRADE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Since Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung's visit to the U.S. in June 2008, which included an unprecedented meeting at the Pentagon, both the Vietnamese Ministry of Defense (MOD) and Ministry of Public Security (MPS) have demonstrated previously unseen interest in buying non-lethal [...] | 2009-09-17 04:54:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | BEXP ECON EINT ETRD MARR PARM |
| 09HANOI97 | Vietnam Religious Freedom Update [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The number of religious adherents in Vietnam continues to grow, as does the number of religious groups receiving official registration and recognition. At the beginning of 2009, the GVN reported 23 million religious faithful. An additional nine new religious organizations were [...] | 2009-02-10 00:50:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF VM |
| 09HANOI972 | Vietnam Response on UNSC Summit [...] On September 16, Foreign Ministry Assistant Director General Mai Phan Dzung delivered to PolChief a letter from Vietnamese President Nguyen Minh Triet to POTUS confirming Triet's attendance at the UNSC Summit on nuclear non-proliferation. In his letter (see paragraph two for informal tra [...] | 2009-09-18 05:11:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KNNP |
| 09HANOI978 | Setting the Scene for Deputy Secretary Steinberg's September [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: U.S.-Vietnamese relations have advanced significantly over the past three years and are arguably at their highest point since relations were reestablished in 1995. We are Vietnam's largest export market, its third-largest trading partner, and one of its largest foreign investor [...] | 2009-09-18 10:33:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV PHUM ECON ETRD KIRF SENV MARR KHIV KHDP BM |
| 09SECTION0QF05HANOI297 | SCENESETTER FOR CODEL MCCAIN'S VISIT TO VIETNAM [...] (SBU) Your April 6-8 visit to Vietnam comes at an opportune moment. Our bilateral relationship with Vietnam has progressed much since your last visit to Hanoi in April 2000 and is arguably at its highest point since relations were normalized in 1995. Propelled by a series of senior bilateral [...] | 2009-03-31 07:58:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM ECON ETRD MARR VM |
| 10HANOI1 | Violent Demolition of Crucifix Overshadows Progress on [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-12 10:08:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF VM |
| 10HANOI104 | VIETNAM CONSIDERING US SPECIES PROPOSALS FOR CITES COP 15 [...] (SBU) Summary: The head of the Vietnamese CITES Management Office stated that the Government of Vietnam (GVN) had not yet met to review the U.S. proposals (reftel),but thought they looked good in principle, particularly as he felt they had little relationship to Vietnam. The GVN will hol [...] | 2010-01-28 07:58:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV KSCA AORC UNEP VM |
| 10HANOI106 | Joint Demarche Delivered on Preparations for Third Sherpa [...] (SBU) On January 27, PolOff, together with the Dutch Charge Collett, met with MFA International Organizations Assistant Director General Do Hung Viet to deliver reftel A demarche regarding the Third Sherpa Meeting in the Hague on February 9-11. PolOff and Collett highlighted the importance of t [...] | 2010-01-29 03:38:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM EAID TBIO IAEA AORC CDG ENRG MNUC PGOV PREL VM |
| 10HANOI11 | How much influence does China have over Vietnam's internal [...] (C) SUMMARY: Animosity toward China, heartfelt and pervasive in the most routine of times, appears to have taken on an added urgency in the wake of sensitive border negotiations, protracted controversy over Chinese investment in bauxite mining projects in the Central Highlands, and China's imp [...] | 2010-01-27 02:55:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM ECON SENV MARR CH VM |
| 10HANOI112 | Another Dissident Convicted for "Anti-State Propaganda" [...] (SBU) Following a half-day trial in Haiphong January 29, Ms. Pham Thanh Nghien was sentenced to four years imprisonment followed by three years administrative probation for "conducting propaganda against the State." Nghien -- the 15th dissident convicted since October 2009 -- was arrested in S [...] | 2010-01-29 10:10:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL HURI VM |
| 10HANOI114 | RECALL 10 HANOI 114 [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-29 10:20:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL HA VM |
| 10HANOI116 | Prime Minister Approves USD 50,000 for Haiti [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-29 10:52:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREL HA VM |
| 10HANOI124 | Codel Faleomavaega Touts Engagement during January 4-5 Visit [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-02 03:51:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP PHUM PGOV PREL VM |
| 10HANOI128 | VIETNAM PROJECT NOMINATION FOR 2010 BIOTECHNOLOGY OUTREACH [...] (SBU) Summary: Mission Vietnam is pleased to submit a two part project proposal for consideration by EEB as part of the 2010 Biotech Outreach Strategy (Reftels A and B). Vietnam is at a critical stage in its development of biotechnology. Although the Government of Vietnam (GVN) says it plan [...] | 2010-02-02 09:19:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO EAGR ETRD ECON EAID VM |
| 10HANOI154 | VIETNAM HAS NOT YET CONSIDERED DISTRACTED DRIVING DEMARCHE [...] (U) On January 27, Embassy delivered the distracted driving demarche to the Ministry of Transportation. In several follow up conversations, the Ministry of Transportation stated that it had not yet reviewed the demarche in detail, nor had it determined who in the Ministry eventually would resp [...] | 2010-02-08 10:20:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON SOCI ELTN UNDP UNGA VM |
| 10HANOI164 | Prominent Dissident Writer Tran Khai Thanh Thuy Convicted of [...] (SBU) Summary: Prominent political dissident and writer Tran Khai Thanh Thuy was sentenced to 42 months in jail on February 5 for assault. Thuy's husband received a two-year suspended sentence. Thuy argued she was being persecuted for her outspoken views and for attempting to attend dissiden [...] | 2010-02-09 09:43:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PGOV PREL VM |
| 10HANOI168 | Treasury Visit to Hanoi: Macroeconomic Uncertainty, Tax [...] (SBU) Summary. During Treasury Financial Attach???? Seth Bleiweis' January 21-22 trip to Hanoi, Vietnamese economic officials acknowledged the recent policy shift towards fiscal and monetary tightening that began in November 2009, focusing on the control of inflation which has now risen for f [...] | 2010-02-10 09:25:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EFIN EINV EINT VM ASEAN |
| 10HANOI17 | Vietnam's Impressions of the ASEAN Foreign Ministers Retreat [...] (C) SUMMARY: The first major ASEAN meeting of Vietnam's chairmanship, an informal foreign ministers retreat, focused primarily on internal efforts to implement ASEAN's new charter and on aspirations to build an ASEAN Community by 2015, according to officials from the MFA's ASEAN Department. A [...] | 2010-02-04 04:53:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM ECON MARR ASEAN BM VM |
| 10HANOI18 | SETTING THE SCENE FOR CODEL BOND VISIT TO VIETNAM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: U.S.-Vietnamese relations have advanced significantly over the past three years and are arguably at their most productive since relations were reestablished in 1995. We are Vietnam's largest export market, its third- largest trading partner, and one of its largest fore [...] | 2010-01-06 10:29:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP PREL PGOV PHUM MARR ECON SENV VM |
| 10HANOI188 | 2010 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT - VIETNAM - PART 1 of 3 [...] (U) Post provides the following responses to the questions in paragraphs 25-33 of ref A, taking into account the additional guidance and reporting requirements required by the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA of 2008). Post's responses cover the re [...] | 2010-02-12 08:39:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KTIP KCRM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB |
| 10HANOI190 | 2010 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT - VIETNAM - PART 2 of 3 [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-12 08:48:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KTIP KCRM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB VM |
| 10HANOI196 | Vietnam's Nomination for S/GWI Project Proposal 2010 [...] (SBU) Summary: Mission Vietnam is pleased to submit two distinct project proposals for consideration by S/GWI as part of the 2010 Small Grants Initiative (ref A). Domestic violence is a serious problem in Vietnam - one that is of growing concern to the Vietnamese government and public. The 2 [...] | 2010-02-12 09:29:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL PGOV KWMN VM |
| 10HANOI200 | Information on the Nuclear Security Summit [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-12 09:52:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM EAID TBIO IAEA AORC CDG ENRG MNUC PGOV PREL VM |
| 10HANOI214 | Is Vietnam Blocking BBC.com? [...] (SBU) There is mounting, though inconclusive, evidence that access to the BBC's Vietnamese-language internet news site is becoming more difficult in Vietnam. According to a UK Political Officer, the British Embassy began to receive reports during last week's Tet Holiday suggesting that the BB [...] | 2010-02-23 10:19:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PGOV PREL VM |
| 10HANOI218 | SCENESETTER FOR VISIT BY OES ASSISTANT SECRETARY JONES TO [...] (SBU) Mission Vietnam looks forward to welcoming you to Hanoi. Your visit will be an important signal to the Vietnamese of continued U.S. engagement on health and environmental issues. Your meetings with the Government of Vietnam (GVN),the United Nations (UN),and the European Union will allo [...] | 2010-02-24 10:38:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV TBIO SOCI PREL ECON KGHG KHIV VM |
| 10HANOI220 | TWO FIRST HUMAN CASES OF INFLUENZA A/H5N1 IN VIETNAM IN [...] (U) Summary: Vietnam reported its first two Influenza A/H5N1 infections of 2010, one of them apparently fatal. Consistent with seasonal trends, Vietnam also has experienced several outbreaks in flocks of chickens and ducks throughout the country. End Summary. First Human Infection of I [...] | 2010-02-26 11:03:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO AMED EAGR PINR KFLU VM |
| 10HANOI23 | EAP DAS Marciel and MFA DG for the Americas Exchange Views [...] No summary [...] | 2010-02-10 06:43:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PHUM PGOV AMGT APER ECON KNNP MNUC CH VM AF BM |
| 10HANOI25 | DAS MARCIEL REBUTS ALLEGATIONS OF U.S. DISENGAGEMENT IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: During an at times contentious discussion with EAP DAS Marciel, Ministry of Public Security (MPS) Vice Minister General Nguyen Van Huong criticized the "lack of U.S. engagement" in Southeast Asia in contrast to China's rising power and influence. Gen. Huong said China was focused [...] | 2010-02-11 06:45:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM ASEAN VM |
| 10HANOI27 | DAS MARCIEL DISCUSSES REGIONAL ARCHITECTURE WITH GVN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Vietnam continues to push for a U.S. Presidential visit in 2010 and, less forcefully, for the United States to join the East Asia Summit (EAS). In separate conversations with EAP DAS Marciel, Vietnam's Senior Official for ASEAN and the influential Vice President of Vietnam's Dipl [...] | 2010-02-11 07:05:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ASEAN MARR MOPS CH RS VM |
| 10HANOI29 | CDA Encourages Vietnam to Step Up Participation in GPOI [...] (C) Summary: MFA DG for IO Affairs Le Hoai Trung told Charge February 12 that after reviewing its tenure as a UNSC member, Vietnam was likely to be more active in multilateral fora addressing global issues such as counter-terrorism, piracy, non-proliferation, and climate change. Charge encoura [...] | 2010-02-12 10:33:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL KPKO PGOV MARR VM |
| 10HANOI3 | Ambassador cautions Vice Foreign Minister that deteriorating [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador used his January 13 working lunch with VFM Pham Binh Minh to discuss managing the overall relationship this year in the context of deteriorating human rights situation, the 15th anniversary of re-normalization of bilateral relations, and the lead-up to the Party Cong [...] | 2010-01-15 09:32:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV AMGT APER ABLD |
| 10HANOI31 | Tour D' Horizon with Vice Minister of Public Security [...] (C) Summary: Over dinner with the Ambassador February 8, powerful vice Minister of Public Security Nguyen Van Huong expressed serious concern about the success of China's "soft power" campaign to increase its influence in the region and challenged the U.S. commitment to Asia, saying ASEAN nati [...] | 2010-02-12 12:13:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM ASEAN |
| 10HANOI32 | Education Reform in Vietnam: Everyone Being Left Behind [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: This cable is the first of two reports on Vietnam's stalled education reform. Education reform is key to Vietnam's political and economic development, yet three years after Deputy Prime Minister Nhan announced his intent to overhaul the education system, little real [...] | 2010-01-13 04:13:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OEXC KPAO PGOV VM |
| 10HANOI33 | Father Ly Health and Possibility of Medical Parole Update [...] (C) Father Nguyen Van Ly's health is not improving, according to his sister, who last visited the prominent political dissident in Nam Ha prison February 7. She informed us that although he recovered well from his fist stroke in July 2009 (Ref A & B),his second stroke in November 2009 has le [...] | 2010-02-25 09:46:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV VM |
| 10HANOI4 | Setting the Scene for CODEL Bond Visit to Vietnam [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: U.S.-Vietnamese relations have advanced significantly over the past three years and are arguably at their most productive since relations were reestablished in 1995. We are Vietnam's largest export market, its third-largest trading partner, and one of its largest foreign invest [...] | 2010-01-05 10:11:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP PREL PGOV PHUM MARR ECON SENV VM |
| 10HANOI5 | Bat Nha Wrap-up: VN government makes its case while Lang Mai [...] (C) Summary: For months, Lang Mai followers in Lam Dong province have been cajoled, harried, and harassed into dispersing to their home provinces throughout Vietnam. The last of the Lang Mai adherents -- a group of nine nuns -- left Phuoc Hue pagoda on December 29 in advance of the GVN-impos [...] | 2010-01-15 10:19:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV PREL TH VM |
| 10HANOI54 | Vietnam Considers Aid to Haiti [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-20 03:20:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREF PREL PHUM PGOV EAID UN HA VM |
| 10HANOI58 | VIETNAM LIKELY TO ASSOCIATE WITH COPENHAGEN ACCORD BUT NEEDS [...] No summary [...] | 2010-01-21 03:31:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG ECON KGHG VM |
| 10HANOI64 | Mission Urges Vietnam to Contribute to Haiti [...] (SBU) A/DCM telephoned MFA/Americas Deputy Director Le Huy Hoang January 22 to urge Vietnam again to contribute assistance to Haiti, and to convey ref A points on developments in Haiti. A/DCM noted that many other nations in Southeast Asia already had contributed assistance and encouraged Viet [...] | 2010-01-22 09:15:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KDEM EAID ECON PREF OIIP KPAO HA VM |
| 10HANOI68 | Vietnamese Border Guards' role in Combating Human [...] (SBU) Summary: In a January 7 meeting, the Deputy Chief of the Ministry of Defense's Border Guards Division, Bui Quang An, stated criminal activity, including human trafficking, was on the rise. The northern border provinces of Lang Son, Lao Cai and An Giang registered the largest number of TI [...] | 2010-01-22 10:19:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KTIP KCRM PHUM PREL ELAB VM |
| 10HANOI7 | Vietnam Religious Freedom Update - The Case Against CPC [...] (C) SUMMARY: Vietnam's poor handling of the situations at the Plum Village Community at the Bat Nha Pagoda and the Dong Chiem Catholic parish last week "” particularly the excessive use of violence "” is troublesome and indicative of a larger GVN crackdown on human rights in the run-up to the J [...] | 2010-01-20 09:54:00 | Embassy Hanoi | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PGOV KIRF HURI PREL VM |
| 10HANOI70 | Vietnam's plans for the Mekong Initiative against [...] (SBU) Summary: Poloff and USAID project manager met with the Regional Project Manager for the UN's Interagency Project on Human Trafficking (UNIAP) on January 5 to obtain a briefing on progress under UNIAP's USAID-funded grant and discuss Vietnam's participation in the Coordinated Mekong Minis [...] | 2010-01-22 10:26:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV KTIP KCRM PHUM PREL ELAB VM |
| 10HANOI90 | Many Vietnamese Youth Trust Big Brother to Monitor the [...] (SBU) Summary: During a wide-ranging discussion at the American Center in Hanoi following the airing of the Secretary's speech on internet freedom (Ref A) several participants parroted the Party line that the internet could be used to spread information that is harmful to Vietnamese society an [...] | 2010-01-27 03:28:00 | Embassy Hanoi | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM EINT PGOV SOCI VM |