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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 PINOCHET 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 THOMAS THOMMA 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 ALIREZA 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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07MANILA359 | NEW SECDEF EBDANE TO CONTINUE DEFENSE REFORM [...] (U) President Arroyo's spokesman announced the appointment of Hermogenes Ebdane as the new Secretary of National Defense on January 31. The spokesman stated that "an important criteria in choosing the Department of National Defense Chief is the ability to implement or to continue what (Presi [...] | 2007-01-31 09:42:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL PGOV RP |
07MANILA3595 | PHILIPPINES 2007-2008 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS [...] The following text is keyed to questions posed in the 2007-2008 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report, Part I, Drugs and Chemical Control (ref). I. SUMMARY 2. The Government of the Philippines (GRP) attributes a reported decline in the number of users of illicit drugs to co [...] | 2007-11-05 09:23:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR PGOV RP |
07MANILA3605 | DCM visit to Davao spotlights youth, business and [...] (U) Summary: During an October 24-25 visit to Mindanao's largest city, the Deputy Chief of Mission joined local government leaders and U.S. businesses to inaugurate the ninth annual Davao Trade Expo, featuring the largest number of U.S. companies ever to participate. The DCM also spoke to a [...] | 2007-11-07 05:46:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD PREL APEC CASC BTIO BEXP EAIR ECON RP |
07MANILA3608 | PHILIPPINES CIVAIR: FAA REQUESTING IMMEDIATE FINAL [...] On October 29, 2007 EconCouns separately met with Edward Pagunsan, Undersecretary of Department of Transportation and Communication (DOTC),Daniel Dimagiba, Executive Director of Air Transportation Office (ATO) and Ray Carandang, Assistant Secretary for American Affairs, Department of Foreign A [...] | 2007-11-07 06:26:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON RP |
07MANILA3615 | PHILIPPINE VIEWS ON M/V GOLDEN NORI PIRACY [...] (S) As relayed to Department via ref B telcon, poloff on November 2 delivered to the Department of Foreign Affairs reftel C points regarding the actions of U.S. naval vessels that responded to the Panamanian tanker M/V Golden Nori's call for assistance off the coast of Somalia. The DFA was u [...] | 2007-11-07 08:38:00 | Embassy Manila | SECRET | EWWT IMO KCRM PBTS PGOV PHSA PM PREL RP SO |
07MANILA3619 | MEGAPORTS DETECTS RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL IN MANILA [...] No summary [...] | 2007-11-08 05:50:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP ASEC ENGR RP |
07MANILA3620 | PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT PLEASED TO ATTEND COMMUNITY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a November 6 meeting, Department of Foreign Affairs Director for United Nations and International Organizations Leah Ruiz told poloff that the Philippine government would participate in the 4th Community of Democracies ministerial meeting November 14-17, and in the Asia Paci [...] | 2007-11-08 06:01:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM KDEM PREL UNGA MG RP |
07MANILA3637 | PHILIPPINES -- GREAT WHITE FLEET COMMEMORATION [...] (C) After lengthy discussion of the strategic and political impact that the Great White Fleet commemoration initiative could have on bilateral relations, Post declines participation in the commemoration and recommends against a visit to the Philippines. The United States and the Philippines [...] | 2007-11-13 08:11:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL RP KPAO MASS MPOS |
07MANILA3640 | Scenesetter for Philippine Agriculture Secretary Yap's [...] (SBU) Summary. Philippine Agriculture Secretary Arthur Cua Yap has an impressive range of agricultural, environmental, trade and political goals for his brief November 15-16 visit to Washington. With nearly two-thirds of Filipinos engaged in agriculture - and farm families suffering the highe [...] | 2007-11-13 09:43:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAGR PGOV OVIP RP |
07MANILA3643 | MANILA PATHOGEN SECURITY LEGAL WORKSHOP 9/27-28 [...] The State Department Office of Chemical and Biological Weapons Threat Reduction (CB),Bureau of International Security and Non-proliferation (ISN),led a two-day workshop on legal issues associated with the implementation of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) and pathogen security practice [...] | 2007-11-14 05:15:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM PREL TBIO RP |
07MANILA3645 | Ambassador Applauds Staff Retention Efforts at Dell Call [...] SUMMARY: On November 8, the Ambassador visited the Dell Philippines Call Center in Pasay City, Metro Manila to assess developments in the booming contact center business. The visit was followed by a tour of the country's largest retail establishment, the SM Mall of Asia, including the newly l [...] | 2007-11-14 06:32:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON FCS ECPS ETRD EINV RP |
07MANILA3646 | PHILIPPINES CIVAIR: LETTER FROM PHILIPPINE AIRLINES [...] On November 6, 2007 we met with the Philippine public-private task force which was formed in response to the FAA summary report regarding aviation safety oversight. 2. We subsequently received a letter dated November 8 from task force member and Philippine Airline President Jaime Bautista [...] | 2007-11-14 07:33:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON RP |
07MANILA3647 | AMBASSADOR ENGAGES FOREIGN SECRETARY ON BURMA AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a frank and open discussion November 11 with the Ambassador, Philippine Foreign Secretary Alberto Romulo stressed his government's continued strong commitment to press for democratic change in Burma, but said it is difficult to assess whether recent actions on the part of the [...] | 2007-11-14 08:03:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL RP |
07MANILA3649 | DEATH OF A CONGRESSMAN: BASILAN'S COMPLEX CURRENTS [...] (C) Summary: The death of controversial Basilan Congressman Wahab Akbar in an explosion outside the Congressional building November 13 was perhaps least a surprise to him. While a powerful politician with strong public support on his island province, he also acknowledged that he had many en [...] | 2007-11-14 08:15:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PINS RP |
07MANILA3662 | FIRST VETERANS DAY CEREMONY AT BAGUIO RESIDENCE SMASH [...] SUMMARY. Ambassador visited Baguio City November 5-7 to host the first Veterans Day Ceremony at the U.S. Embassy Residence in Baguio, the place where Japanese forces surrendered the Philippines at the end of World War II. In addition to honoring American and Filipino vets in the region, Ambass [...] | 2007-11-15 06:02:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL VA RP FCS |
07MANILA3667 | PHILIPPINES: DEMARCHE ON U.N. RESOLUTION ON RAPE [...] Poloff met with Attorney Ana Hernandez of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA),representing the Office of United Nations and International Organizations, and pressed for Philippine support for the anti-rape resolution without amendments, as cited in reftel A. Ms. Hernandez said that the [...] | 2007-11-15 08:52:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC KWMN PHUM SOCI UNGA RP |
07MANILA3669 | CORRUPTION IN THE PHILIPPINES: CHALLENGES AND PROGRESS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Corruption, both real and perceived, remains an ongoing challenge in the Philippines. The recent conviction for plunder of former president Joseph Estrada has highlighted the corruption issue, as have continuing corruption allegations involving a range of government officials [...] | 2007-11-15 09:14:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV KCOR PINR RP |
07MANILA3675 | PHILIPPINES CIVAIR: VERSION 9 OF THE PHILIPPINE CIVIL [...] (SBU) We received a copy of Version 9 of the CAAP Bill dated November 13, 2007. It includes language from ICAO's Model Civil Aviation Law and addresses the missing features pointed out by the Federal Aviation Administration during their latest assessment of the Philippines. The bill will be [...] | 2007-11-15 09:25:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR PREL ECON RP |
07MANILA3676 | MUSLIM INSURGENT CHAIRMAN, MALAYSIAN FACILITATOR [...] (C) Summary: In the first ever official USG meeting with the leader of the Muslim insurgent organization engaged in peace talks with the government, Chairman Murad asked DCM if the U.S. would consider a more formal role in supporting the implementation of an eventual peace agreement with the [...] | 2007-11-15 09:54:00 | Embassy Manila | SECRET | PREL PGOV PINS RP |
07MANILA3693 | SECURITY FORCES TAKE OUT TERRORISTS SUSPECTED IN [...] (S) Summary: Acting swiftly on information from internal and external sources, Philippine security forces raided an Abu Sayyaf terrorist safe house in Metro Manila November 15 and killed or captured six individuals suspected in the bomb assassination of Congressman and local warlord of the s [...] | 2007-11-16 08:31:00 | Embassy Manila | SECRET | PTER MOPS PINS RP |
07MANILA3694 | Philippine Delegation List to Washington International [...] Per ref A request for invitees from the Philippine government to WIREC 2008, the Department of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines has suggested that invitations be sent to the following individuals: - Department of Foreign Affairs, 2330 Roxas Blvd., Pasay City, Philippines Secretary A [...] | 2007-11-16 09:10:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ENRG EPET SENV SOCI TRGY KPAO KGHG KSCA RP |
07MANILA3707 | PHILIPPINE RSM 1267 NOMINATION [...] (S) Summary: Philippine National Intelligence Coordinating Agency (NICA) Director General Cesar Garcia told emboffs at a November 16 meeting that the Philippines had submitted three months ago its nomination package to the United Nations 1267 Committee to designate the Rajah Solaiman Movemen [...] | 2007-11-19 08:29:00 | Embassy Manila | SECRET | EFIN ETTC PTER UNSC RP |
07MANILA3709 | PHILIPPINE FOREIGN SECRETARY HONORS U.S. VETERANS [...] Summary: The November 11 Veterans Day ceremony at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial vividly demonstrated the strength of the partnership and ties between the Philippines and the United States. The Manila offices of the American Battle Monuments Commission and the Department of Vetera [...] | 2007-11-19 10:04:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL RP |
07MANILA3710 | UNGA HUMAN RIGHTS RESOLUTIONS: PHILIPPINES WILL [...] (SBU) As requested reftel, Pol/C urged Evan Garcia, A/Sec for the Office of United Nations and Other International Organizations of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA),to support votes in favor of four UN Third Committee resolutions (reftel). Pol/C underscored the high priority that the [...] | 2007-11-19 22:42:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | UNGA PHUM UN PREL |
07MANILA3728 | MINDANAO PEACE PROCESS MOVES FORWARD [...] (C) Summary. The Philippine government has made important progress on each side of its dual-track peace discussions with Muslim groups in Mindanao, increasing the likelihood that both sets of talks will return to formal negotiations early in the new year. During preparatory talks in Kuala L [...] | 2007-11-20 09:09:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS KISL RP |
07MANILA3758 | EMBASSY MANILA PREPARED FOR TYPHOON MITAG [...] Embassy Manila remains well-prepared and coordinated with local authorities to respond to Typhoon Mitag. Typhoon MITAG pronounced as: "me-tok" has dramatically slowed down while heading on a temporary WSW drift but still endangers the Bicol Region. Communities along the Eastern Provinces of C [...] | 2007-11-23 09:04:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | ABLD AMGT ASEC KSAF MMED RP |
07MANILA3770 | PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT FINDS IRAN NOT COMPLYING [...] (C) As requested (ref A),Post met on November 26 with Leah Ruiz, Director of the DFA's Office of United Nations and International Organizations, as part of an ongoing effort (ref B) to encourage the Philippine government, as a member of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board of [...] | 2007-11-27 04:10:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNGA PARM KNNP IR RP MNUC IAEA AORC |
07MANILA3771 | PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT TO SUPPORT U.S. CANDIDATE [...] (SBU) Leah Ruiz, Executive Director for the Department of Foreign Affairs' Office of United Nations and International Organizations, told poloff that the Philippine Mission to the United Nations intends to support the candidacy of Mr. Pierre-Richard Prosper for the UN Committee on the Elimina [...] | 2007-11-27 04:12:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM UNGA UN RP |
07MANILA3775 | UNANIMOUS PRAISE FOR PRESIDENT'S OUTSPOKEN BURMA [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Arroyo took a bold stance on Burma at the ASEAN Summit in Singapore, plainly warning that the Philippine Congress would likely not ratify the ASEAN Charter if Burma did not release Aung San Suu Kyi and other political prisoners, and pursue rapid democratic reform. Arroy [...] | 2007-11-27 08:06:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL RP BM |
07MANILA3777 | PHILIPPINE EARTHQUAKE - 6.O RICHTER SCALE [...] Manila experienced a 6.0 magnitude earthquake at 12:27 PM (04:27 UCT) today, November 27, 2007. Post immediately communicated with offices and conducted building assessments, per established action plans. There were no reported injuries or structural damages to USG staff or facilities, nor w [...] | 2007-11-27 08:43:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | ABLD AMGT ASEC CASC KSAF RP |
07MANILA379 | GENERAL SANTOS CITY WILL WELCOME USS BLUE RIDGE [...] (U) South Cotabato provincial governor Daisy Avance-Fuentes and General Santos City Mayor Pedro Acharon, Jr., in separate meetings on January 31 with an Embassy delegation composed of Pol/C, JUSMAG chief, and DATT, voiced enthusiastic support for the February 17-18 visit of the USS Blue Ridge [...] | 2007-02-01 09:12:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MARR RP |
07MANILA3795 | RECOMMENDATIONS FOR FY 2007 EAP/RSP WOMEN'S ISSUES FUND [...] In response to the FY 2007 EAP/RSP Women's Issues Fund proposal solicitation, Embassy Manila received ten grant proposals from Philippine non-governmental organizations (NGOs),aimed at promoting women's political participation and economic independence, and contributing to women's freedom from [...] | 2007-11-29 04:50:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM EAID KWMN KPAO SOCI RP |
07MANILA3797 | SENATOR AND FORMER COUP PLOTTER WALKS OUT OF COURT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Senator Antonio Trillanes, a former military officer on trial for his role in leading the failed July 2003 Oakwood Mutiny against the Philippine government, and Brigadier General Danilo Lim, organizer of the February 2006 failed coup attempt, walked out of court proceedings in t [...] | 2007-11-29 08:08:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | CASC MARR MCAP PREL RP MASS |
07MANILA38 | MARINE CASE UPDATE 01/05/07 [...] (U) Lance Corporal Daniel J. Smith, back in U.S. custody on Chancery grounds since December 29 (reftel),is in good health and spirits and settling into a daily routine, including exercise. He is detained in the same quarters where he spent the last year. As before his conviction, represent [...] | 2007-01-05 10:18:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR CASC KCRM RP |
07MANILA3800 | STANDOFF WITH FORMER COUP PLOTTERS ENDS PEACEFULLY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Approximately three hours after a Philippine government deadline to surrender, Senator Antonio Trillanes, a former military officer, along with coup plotter Brigadier General Danilo Lim and other supporters, turned themselves over to Philippine authorities at the Manila Peninsul [...] | 2007-11-29 10:37:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | CASC MARR MCAP PREL RP MASS |
07MANILA3804 | PHILIPPINES-CUBA ECONOMIC TIES ARE MINIMAL [...] (C) Below are Post's responses to Department's questions about Philippine economic policies and actions with respect to Cuba. The following paragraph numbers are keyed to the points in paragraph 5 of reftel: A. (C) Post is not aware of any investments in Cuba by Philippine businesses. [...] | 2007-12-03 02:57:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL RP CU |
07MANILA3816 | GOVERNMENT UNRATTLED AFTER FAILED PLOT TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: In the aftermath of Senator Antonio Trillanes's failed attempt to destabilize the Arroyo government on November 29, Philippine President Gloria Arroyo expressed confidence in the security forces' handling of the situation, a gesture which was reinforced tangibly when she resumed [...] | 2007-12-03 09:20:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MCAP PREL RP MASS |
07MANILA3819 | Progress Against Smuggling in Subic Freeport [...] (SBU) A visit by about 40 representatives of business chambers, associations, companies, and foreign embassies spurred Subic Freeport authorities to announce aggressive action on the problem of vehicle and fuel smuggling (reftel) during meetings on November 8. The anti-smuggling measures incl [...] | 2007-12-04 02:17:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV PGOV RP |
07MANILA3847 | Engaging The Philippines On Climate Change In The Run-Up To [...] Summary: Ambassador and country team have conveyed, publicly and privately, U.S. positions on climate change and the importance of the Bali meetings with senior officials and key audiences. Longstanding USG environmental programs and public diplomacy in support of the environment provide a re [...] | 2007-12-05 08:27:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON SENV ENRG KGHG RP |
07MANILA3852 | METHODICAL PROGRESS IN MINDANAO PEACE TALKS [...] (C) Summary: The government continues to ake important progress in peace talks with Muslis on Mindanao, according to government officialsclose to the twin negotiation tracks. In recentdiscussions with the DCM, chief government negotiator Rodolfo Garcia expressed strong optimism that he gover [...] | 2007-12-06 07:52:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS KISL RP |
07MANILA3857 | PHILIPPINES: CHILD LABOR UPDATE 2007 [...] Summary: This cable provides input requested for the Secretary of Labor's annual report to Congress on the implementation of commitments to eliminate the Worst Forms of Child Labor (reftel a). It updates information provided by Post in 2006 (reftel c) regarding child labor laws and regulations [...] | 2007-12-06 09:49:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI RP |
07MANILA3875 | DEMARCHE: PHILIPPINES TO CONSIDER A STRONGER STAND [...] (SBU) As requested in reftels A and B, polcouns met on December 5 with Department of Foreign Affairs Acting A/S Grace Princesa to urge the Philippines to support four UN resolutions condemning human rights situations in Burma, Iran, Belarus, and the DPRK. Polcouns noted that the UNGA Plenary [...] | 2007-12-07 09:23:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | UNGA PHUM UN RP PREL PGOV UG |
07MANILA388 | Manila Airport Showcases Security Improvements to [...] Ambassador toured the Ninoy Aquino International Airport on February 1. The Manila Airport Authority described and pointed out its recent security enhancements to ensure secure, efficient, and comfortable passenger travel. The Authority started charging an additional four dollar (200 peso) s [...] | 2007-02-02 00:39:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ECON EINV ETRD RP |
07MANILA3881 | EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLINGS DECLINE IN 2007 [...] (C) Summary: Intensified domestic and international attention to the problem of extrajudicial killings and disappearances in the Philippines appears to be having a measurable impact, with government agencies and human rights NGOs reporting a significant decline in the number of extrajudicial k [...] | 2007-12-10 04:35:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL RP |
07MANILA3891 | UPDATING INFORMATION FOR TERRORISM FINANCE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-11 01:06:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | KTFN EFIN ETTC PTER |
07MANILA3909 | DCM VISIT HIGHLIGHTS U.S. COMMITMENT TO PEACE IN MINDANAO [...] (SBU) Summary. Visiting Muslim Mindanao's cultural and religious hub in Marawi City, DCM spoke at Peace Week opening ceremonies, highlighting the American people's commitment to the ongoing peace process and U.S. interest in helping Mindanao achieve a peaceful and prosperous future. He reiterat [...] | 2007-12-13 02:01:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM MASS EAID KISL RP |
07MANILA3918 | PHILIPPINES CIVAIR SAFETY: ON THE FAST TRACK [...] Summary: The newly appointed Executive Director of the Air Transportation Office told us that the government will attempt to resolve all FAA safety concerns within three months, in order to bring the Philippines back to Category 1 as soon as possible. On November 28, the Philippine House of R [...] | 2007-12-14 00:20:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON RP |
07MANILA393 | MARINE CASE UPDATE 02/02/2007 [...] (U) Lance Corporal Daniel J. Smith remains in U.S. custody on Chancery grounds and continues to be in good health and spirits. He receives regular visits from his Philippine pastors and his lawyers, and is able to exercise on the Embassy grounds. Four members of his family hope to visit in [...] | 2007-02-02 09:10:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MARR KCRM CASC RP |
07MANILA3932 | RESCHEDULED VILLAGE ELECTIONS SET FOR DECEMBER 15 [...] (SBU) Summary: Special elections will be held on December 15 in 360 villages that were unable to carry out regular voting during the nationwide elections on October 29 in 42,000 villages. The Commission on Elections declared "failures of election" in these areas for various reasons, including [...] | 2007-12-14 06:21:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL RP |
07MANILA3947 | ABU SAYYAF CONVICTIONS UNDERSCORE DETERMINATION TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: A Philippine judge handed out multiple life sentences this month to 14 Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) members convicted of kidnapping 20 persons, including U.S. citizens Gracia and Martin Burnham and Guillermo Sobero, from a resort in May 2001. The decision underscored the government's [...] | 2007-12-17 09:10:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | KJUS MOPS PINS PTER RP |
07MANILA3948 | AMBASSADOR EMPHASIZES ENVIRONMENTAL AND CULTURAL [...] Summary: The Ambassador visited three provinces in Northern Luzon December 5 to 7 and spoke to enthusiastic crowds principally on the theme of preservation. She presented the Embassy's International Woman of Courage award to Isabela Provincial Governor Grace Padaca, delivered an address to 6 [...] | 2007-12-17 09:39:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID EAGR ECON EIND PGOV PHUM OEXC SENV RP AGR |
07MANILA3963 | PHILIPPINES WELCOMES INFORMATION ON IRAN'S NUCLEAR [...] (C) Per reftel B, Post shared key assessments from the U.S. National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran's nuclear program December 5 with Acting A/S Grace Princesa and Director Leah Ruiz, both of the Department of Foreign Affairs' (DFA) Office of United Nations and Other International Organ [...] | 2007-12-18 08:24:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNGA PARM KNNP IR RP MNUC IAEA AORC |
07MANILA3964 | AMBASSADOR ENGAGES PHILIPPINE FOREIGN SECRETARY ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a December 17 private breakfast, the Ambassador and Philippine Foreign Secretary Alberto Romulo discussed Burma, assessed the peace process in Mindanao, and explored opportunities to strengthen U.S.-Philippine ties. Romulo, who was frank and relaxed, inquired about the prospec [...] | 2007-12-18 09:02:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL RP BM |
07MANILA3966 | Philippines Finally Sells TransCo for $3.95 Billion [...] (SBU) Summary: With a bid of $3.95 billion a Philippine/Chinese consortium won the fifth (and hopefully final) round of bidding for the 25 year concession to operate the Philippine National Transmission Company, TransCo, which operates the electric grid of the Philippines. The consortium must [...] | 2007-12-19 01:33:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENRG EINV RP |
07MANILA3994 | PHILIPPINES: 2007 COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM [...] (U) Summary: The Philippines, one of the earliest supporters in the global coalition against terrorism, continues to cooperate with the United States on bilateral and multilateral counterterrorism efforts. In 2007, eight of 140 bombings that occurred in the Philippines were ascribed to terr [...] | 2007-12-20 08:52:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER ASEC RP |
07MANILA4 | THE PHILIPPINES: YEAR IN REVIEW 2006 [...] (C) SUMMARY. President Arroyo has emerged in a stronger position at the end of 2006, but faces challenges ahead in preserving control of the House in the May 2007 bi-elections. Arroyo has been helped by a buoyant economy in 2006, but the country will have to deal with power privatization and [...] | 2007-01-03 01:21:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PTER ECON EAID MOPS PHUM RP |
07MANILA4015 | MARINE CASE UPDATE: APPEALS COURT DECISION NO [...] (U) Lance Corporal Daniel J. Smith remains in U.S. custody on the Chancery grounds and continues to receive regular visits from his Philippine pastors and lawyers. He is in good physical condition and follows a daily exercise routine. 2. (SBU) Commander Gary Hoyt, a psychiatrist, and Ch [...] | 2007-12-21 09:41:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR KCRM CASC RP |
07MANILA4016 | SNAG IN MILF PEACE TALKS [...] (C) Summary: In the aftermath of postponed peace negotiations between the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in Kuala Lumpur last weekend, the Ambassador spoke with key Cabinet officials December 20-21 to underscore USG support for the Mindanao peace process an [...] | 2007-12-21 10:03:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS KISL RP |
07MANILA4022 | PHILIPPINES CIVAIR SAFETY: PUBLIC NOTIFICATION OF THE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-12-26 07:31:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON RP |
07MANILA407 | MNLF FREES "GUESTS" IN EXCHANGE FOR TRIPARTITE [...] (SBU) Elements of the Moro National Liberation Front under Commander Habier Malik on February 4 released Brigadier General Benjamin Dolorfino (commander of the Armed Forces' National Capital Region command and the highest ranking Muslim army officer),Undersecretary for the Peace Process Gen [...] | 2007-02-05 08:22:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER MARR RP |
07MANILA408 | POSSIBLE OPPORTUNITY FOR INCREASED U.S. ENGAGEMENT [...] (C) Our experience with the Philippines' hosting of the ASEAN and East Asia summits last month indicates that USG attendance at the Assistant Secretary-level in future summits is worth consideration. We cannot tell how other hosts might act, but the Philippine President and Foreign Secretary [...] | 2007-02-05 08:54:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECIN XE RP |
07MANILA411 | U/S HUGHES VISIT ENERGIZES US-RP TIES [...] SUMMARY: Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Karen Hughes visited the Philippines January 24-27 to survey Mission's multi-agency, multi-disciplinary public diplomacy programs and projects. She met with a wide range of Filipinos, including President Arroyo, adult and [...] | 2007-02-05 09:23:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO PREL SCUL RP |
07MANILA458 | PROGRESS AGAINST POLITICAL KILLINGS [...] (SBU) Summary. Philippine police have succeeded in filing additional cases in politically-related killings, leading to at least four convictions and dismissals of two police officials. They continue to investigate a large number of other deaths of leftists and journalists claimed by various [...] | 2007-02-09 02:13:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL KCRM RP |
07MANILA465 | NEAR PASSAGE OF MAJOR COUNTER-TERRORISM LEGISLATION [...] (U) Summary. Passage of long-awaited counterterrorism legislation moved closer to adoption with the approval on February 8 by a bicameral committee of an agreed-upon version. The lower House will have to vote on it when Congress resumes in June, and the President, who expressed delight at t [...] | 2007-02-09 08:30:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PREL KCRM RP |
07MANILA467 | MARINE CASE UPDATE 02/09/2007 [...] (U) Lance Corporal Daniel J. Smith remains in U.S. custody on Chancery grounds and continues to be in good health and spirits. He receives regular visits from his Philippine pastors and his lawyers, and is able to exercise on the Embassy grounds. 2. (SBU) Department of Interior and Local [...] | 2007-02-09 09:11:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR KCRM CASC RP |
07MANILA468 | MELO COMMISSION CALLS FOR COMMAND RESPONSIBILITY [...] (C) Summary. The Melo Commission's report to President Arroyo emphasized the need to ensure command responsibility over errant military elements, and suggested some practical ways to do this. The Commissioners see their role as essentially over, with no additional budget or offices, apart [...] | 2007-02-09 09:25:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL KCRM MOPS RP |
07MANILA473 | Congressman Salceda on Politics and Economic Policy [...] (U) Summary: Over dinner on February 5, Representative Joey Salceda, a close advisor to President Arroyo, predicted the passage of the Roxas bill on pharmaceuticals and the eventual presidency of its sponsor, Senator Manuel Roxas. Salceda argued that the GRP has done what was necessary to sta [...] | 2007-02-12 00:19:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD KIPR RP |
07MANILA518 | AMBASSADOR APPLAUDS US COMPANY INVESTMENTS IN RENEWABLE [...] Ambassador highlighted USG promotion and American firm investment in alternative fuels during her February 7 visit to solar cell manufacturer SunPower and to a Ford plant, the sole manufacturer of biofuels capable vehicles in the Philippines. These two U.S. companies are at the forefront of p [...] | 2007-02-14 09:41:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENRG EAID EINV RP |
07MANILA519 | PHILIPPINES LAUDS SIX PARTY TALKS OUTCOME [...] (U) After Pol/C conveyed reftel points to Assistant Secretary of Foreign Affairs for Asia and the Pacific Romeo SIPDIS Manalo on February 14, Foreign Secretary Alberto G. Romulo issued the following statement; quote We join the international community in welcoming the Six-Party agree [...] | 2007-02-14 09:53:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PARM KNNP KN RP |
07MANILA520 | PHILIPPINE REQUEST FOR SUPPORT FOR UNESCO [...] (U) The Philippine government has formally requested that the U.S. support its candidacy for the UNESCO Executive Board. (Full text in para 2.) Please advise of any response. 2. (U) Text No. 07-474 The Department of Foreign Affairs presents its compliments to the Embassy of the Uni [...] | 2007-02-14 10:07:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL SCUL RP |
07MANILA531 | Promoting Biofuels to Reduce Imports, Boost Local [...] The newly-signed Biofuels Act of 2006 mandates oil companies in the Philippines to blend minimum levels of biofuels into gasoline and diesel and offers financial incentives for investment in and production of biofuels. The bill aims to reduce the Philippines' dependence on imported fuel, gene [...] | 2007-02-15 08:20:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG SENV EINV RP |
07MANILA533 | SCENESETTER FOR THE VISIT OF CONGRESSMAN CHABOT [...] (U) Congressman Chabot, a warm welcome to the Philippines! The relationship and spirit of partnership between the United States and the Philippines remain strong. The unique bond shared between U.S. and Philippine veterans further strengthens our ties, as the memory of our partnership in Wor [...] | 2007-02-15 10:25:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP PREL EAID PTER MARR MASS MOPS MCAP RP |
07MANILA552 | Philippines: 2007 Special 301 Report [...] (SBU) Summary. Embassy recommends retaining the Philippines on the Special 301 Watch List. The GRP continued to devote attention to intellectual property protection during 2006, increasing its enforcement actions, especially against optical disk piracy. While the total number of seizures was [...] | 2007-02-20 07:50:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD ECON RP |
07MANILA553 | CO-CHAIRS' SUMMARY REPORT OF THE SECOND MEETING OF THE [...] The Department of Foreign Affairs has requested that Embassy forward to relevant U.S. authorities the summary report from the ARF EEP meeting in Manila. Full text in para 3. 2. Cover letter: quote Department of Foreign Affairs Republic of the Philippines 12 February 2007 Dear C [...] | 2007-02-20 08:03:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL RP |
07MANILA560 | CONGRESS PASSES MAJOR COUNTER-TERRORISM LEGISLATION [...] (U) In a special session called by President Arroyo, the House of Representatives on February 19 approved the bicameral conference version of the Human Security Act of 2007, major counter-terrorism legislation that gives the Philippine government greater ability to investigate and prosecute t [...] | 2007-02-20 09:23:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PREL KCRM RP |
07MANILA561 | USS BLUE RIDGE VISIT CATALYST FOR EMBASSY OUTREACH TO THE [...] SUMMARY: The February 11th-14th visit of the USS Blue Ridge to Cebu provided an opportunity for a coordinated, Mission-wide outreach to the Philippine's second largest metro area. Cebu's importance extends beyond its "second city" status, as its central location in the Philippine archipelago ma [...] | 2007-02-20 09:25:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL ECON EAID RP |
07MANILA573 | UN SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR EXAMINES EXTRAJUDICIAL [...] (C) Summary. The UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial killings views the Philippine government in a "state of denial" about who is responsible for these killings here, while crediting its leadership with its willingness to arrange meetings for him as well as its creation of Task Force Usi [...] | 2007-02-21 08:34:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL RP |
07MANILA59 | MARINE CASEUPDATE 03/23/2007 [...] (U) Lance Corporal Daniel J. Smith remains inU.S. custody on Chancery grounds and continues t be in good health and spirits. He continues toreceive regular visits from his Philippine pastos and lawyers, and is able to exercise on the Embssy grounds. 2. (SBU) Smith's parents arrived n Man [...] | 2007-03-23 09:21:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR KCRM CASC RP |
07MANILA593 | PHILIPPINES CONTEMPLATING NEXT STEPS ON BURMA [...] (C) In a meeting with Ambassador on February 22, Foreign Secretary Romulo welcomed the latest U.S. thinking on Burma SIPDIS (ref a) and pledged to continue to use Philippine chairmanship of ASEAN through August to encourage the Burmese regime to take meaningful steps on its roadmap, as Pre [...] | 2007-02-22 06:47:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNSC BM RP |
07MANILA594 | MILF WELCOMES US ASSISTANCE BUT WANTS HELP ON [...] (C) Summary. In a meeting in Sultan Kudarat with Embassy delegation led by DCM on February 15, MILF Central Committee members expressed appreciation for U.S. assistance programs in Mindanao, including our military's civil-humanitarian and medical programs and ship visits. However, they unde [...] | 2007-02-22 07:00:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EAID MOPS MA RP |
07MANILA596 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR EAP/MST OFFICE DIRECTOR SCOT MARCIEL [...] Post warmly welcomes the February 27 to March 4, 2007, visit of Scot Marciel traveling to the Philippines for consultations with Embassy staff. Point of contact for this visit will be ConOff Ben Reames. He can be reached at (63)-(2)-528-6300, ext. 2171 and at ReamesBN@state.gov 2. Post [...] | 2007-02-22 08:05:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA JA RP |
07MANILA599 | NEW COUNTERTERRORISM LEGISLATION NOT PERFECT, BUT [...] (C) The "Human Security Act of 2007," which President Arroyo will soon sign into law following its recent passage by the Philippine Congress (ref a),reflects the Philippine government's determination to improve its arsenal of tools in going after terrorists who continue to inhabit or transit [...] | 2007-02-22 09:03:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PHUM RP |
07MANILA608 | CONGRESSMAN CHABOT HELPS KICK OFF BALIKATAN 07 [...] (U) Summary. During his February 18-20 visit to the Philippines, U.S. Congressman Steve Chabot (R-OH) joined Ambassador, Philippine Secretary of National Defense Ebdane, and high ranking U.S. and Philippine military officials at the Opening Ceremony of Balikatan 2007, the annual U.S.-Philip [...] | 2007-02-23 06:34:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP EINV BEXP PREL MCAP RP |
07MANILA609 | MELO COMMISSION REPORT SPARKS NEW EFFORTS AGAINST [...] (U) Summary: Lost in much of the media hype about the initial reluctance of Malacanang publicly to release the Melo Commission's report, the strong denials of culpability by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP),and the public criticism by the UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Kill [...] | 2007-02-23 06:44:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL RP |
07MANILA625 | STRATEGIC SPEAKER INITIATIVE - EMBASSY MANILA [...] In the framework of the Strategic Speaker Initiative, Embassy Manila requests a speaker who will be able to argue effectively that law enforcement agencies and civil society activists have a common interest in modifying laws and administrative procedures that block access to information and som [...] | 2007-02-26 08:50:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO SCUL OIIP RP |
07MANILA630 | USS BLUE RIDGE VISIT HIGHLIGHTS U.S.-PHILIPPINE PARTNERSHIP [...] SUMMARY: The USS Blue Ridge port call to General Santos City in Mindanao on February 17 and 18 highlighted the active partnership and long-standing USG investment in the Mindanao region and the General Santos City area, specifically. In addition to participating in community relations events w [...] | 2007-02-26 09:39:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MOPS EAID RP EAGR |
07MANILA64 | MARINE CASE: NEW MOTION TO SUPREME COURT AND [...] (U) The private prosecutor in the case of Lance Corporal Daniel J. Smith (refs) on January 8 filed a petition with the Philippine Supreme Court requesting that it "nullify" the Philippine government's December 29 transfer of Smith to U.S. custody and declare Article V paragraph 6 of the Visiti [...] | 2007-01-09 09:00:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL MARR CASC KCRM RP |
07MANILA645 | PHILIPPINES ASKS FOR HELP ON EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLINGS [...] (SBU) The Department of Foreign Affairs has shared with Embassy copies of letters dated January 31 to the resident Ambassadors of Finland, Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Spain, Sweden, and the Netherlands, requesting technical assistance as the Philippine government investigates and tries to [...] | 2007-02-27 08:41:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PHUM EAID RP GM FI UK SP IT NO SW NL |
07MANILA646 | INFORMAL U.S./AUSTRALIA/PHILIPPINE DEFENSE DIALOGUE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Philippine Department of National Defense invited U.S. Embassy representatives to participate in a February 22 "informal discussion" with Australian officials on defense issues. Australia expects to sign a status of forces agreement with the Philippines in 2007 and hopes t [...] | 2007-02-27 09:31:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MASS MOPS MCAP PREL PHUM AU RP |
07MANILA649 | AMBASSADOR REES ADVOCATES U.S. HUMAN DIGNITY AGENDA [...] (SBU) Summary. During his February 14-15 visit to the Philippines, Ambassador Grover Joseph Rees, Special Representative for Social Issues, advocated the U.S. Government human dignity agenda in meetings with the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs, members of the Philippine House of Re [...] | 2007-02-27 09:38:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL BM RP |
07MANILA682 | Telecom Policy Workshop Inspires Participants [...] Summary: At a telecommunication workshop for Malaysian and Filipino participants, U.S. experts discussed the regulatory and financial innovations used to deliver broadband to remote parts of the United States. The benefits of universal broadband motivated policy-makers to approach legislators a [...] | 2007-03-01 06:48:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ECPS ETRD EINV RP |
07MANILA683 | HELPING THE PHILIPPINES COMBAT UNLAWFUL KILLINGS [...] (U) In a letter to Ambassador dated February 28, Foreign Secretary Alberto G. Romulo expressed "sincerest appreciation SIPDIS of the Philippine Government and people for your words of support and encouragement for our efforts to address the issue of unexplained killings," and welcomed an o [...] | 2007-03-01 08:34:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL EAID RP |
07MANILA688 | PHILIPPINES -- SEVENTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN [...] (U) Mission's seventh annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report follows below. The report covers the period from April 2006 to March 2007. Point of contact (POC) is Political Officer Barry Fullerton, FullertonTB@State.Gov, (632) 528-6300 x2350, fax (632) 523-1195. Rank of TIP action offic [...] | 2007-03-01 11:20:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KCRM KWMN SMIG KFRD PREF ELAB RP |
07MANILA699 | PHILIPPINES LIKELY TO JOIN GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO [...] (SBU) The Philippines will likely become a partner nation in the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (reftel),according to Alan Deniega, Department of Foreign Affairs' (DFA) Director for International Political, Legal, and Security Affairs in the Office of United Nations and Intern [...] | 2007-03-02 08:44:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP MCAP PARM PINR PINS PREL PTER RP |
07MANILA708 | PHILIPPINES BACKS USG ON ITA DUTY-FREE COVERAGE [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-05 08:05:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD WTO RP |
07MANILA717 | PHILIPPINE VIEWS ON HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL ISSUES [...] (C) The Philippines is "very concerned" that the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) may table a potentially stronger resolution on defamation of religion at the fourth regular session of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC),according to Noel Servigon, Department of Foreign Affairs' (DFA) [...] | 2007-03-06 08:58:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNHRC RP |
07MANILA72 | ARROYO SHOWCASES US-PHILIPPINE PARTNERSHIP ON JOLO [...] (SBU) President Arroyo invited Charge Jones to accompany her on a January 8 trip to the southern island of Jolo, where the Philippine military, with the help of U.S. Joint Special Operations Task Force-Philippines (JSOTF-P) and USAID, continues to battle terrorists of the Abu Sayyaf Group and [...] | 2007-01-09 09:33:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PREL EAID MOPS MARR RP |
07MANILA748 | ENGAGING ASEAN: RECONSIDERING THE TREATY OF AMITY [...] (C) President Arroyo and Foreign Secretary Romulo, as Chair of ASEAN, have requested that the U.S. accede to the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia (TAC). They note that most of ASEAN's other partners have signed the treaty, that the treaty is largely a generic expression of p [...] | 2007-03-08 05:01:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECIN RP |
07MANILA752 | PRESIDENT ARROYO SIGNS LANDMARK COUNTERTERRORISM [...] (U) At a highly publicized ceremony featuring half the Cabinet, Congressional leaders, senior military and police officials, and the diplomatic corps at Malacanang Palace on March 6, President Arroyo signed the final version of the "Human Security Act of 2007," long-awaited counterterrorism [...] | 2007-03-08 08:11:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PREL PHUM KCRM RP |
07MANILA753 | REACTIONS TO THE HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT ON THE [...] (U) Presidential press spokesman Ignacio R. Bunye on March 8 welcomed the State Department's Country Report on the Philippines in the annual human rights report to Congress as a "constructive criticism from a time-honored ally," admitting that "the Philippines has had a history of violence o [...] | 2007-03-08 08:44:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL RP |
07MANILA764 | IPR Enforcement Targeting Mall Managers [...] (U) The Philippine National Police raided a major shopping center in downtown Manila, arresting over a dozen stall owners and seizing 13,000 counterfeit items. The police will press charges against both the managers of the mall and stall owners as part of a new IPR enforcement strategy announc [...] | 2007-03-09 00:43:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD ECON RP |
07MANILA777 | COMBATING UNLAWFUL KILLINGS [...] (C) Summary. Embassy continues actively to engage the Philippine government to encourage more effective action to bring to justice those involved in unlawful killings, and to seek additional ways in which the USG can be helpful. End Summary. 2. (C) In a March 5 meeting with the membe [...] | 2007-03-09 07:48:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL RP |
07MANILA779 | MARINE CASE UPDATE 03/09/2007 [...] (U) Lance Corporal Daniel J. Smith remains in U.S. custody on Chancery grounds and continues to be in good health and spirits. He continues to receive regular visits from his Philippine pastors and his lawyers, and is able to exercise on the Embassy grounds. 2. (SBU) Philippine governmen [...] | 2007-03-09 07:55:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR KCRM CASC RP |
07MANILA781 | TERRORISM FINANCE: PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT READY TO [...] (U) This is an action message -- see para 8. 2. (S) SUMMARY. The Philippine government is ready to move soon on listing the Rajah Solaiman Movement and a selected number of its members with the UN 1267 Sanctions Committee. The National Intelligence Coordinating Agency has prepared a sepa [...] | 2007-03-09 08:25:00 | Embassy Manila | SECRET | PTER EFIN ETTC PREL KTFN RP |
07MANILA782 | LAND DISPUTE TRIGGERS MILF-GRP ARMED CLASHES [...] (C) Summary: The International Monitoring Team, GRP-MILF Coordinating Committee for the Cessation of Hostilities, and the NGO Bantay Ceasefire played key roles in restoring order following March 5-6 armed skirmishes in North Cotabato between elements of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front and th [...] | 2007-03-09 08:27:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS KISL RP |
07MANILA783 | AMBASSADOR SIGNS MOU ON EARTH SCIENCE COOPERATION [...] The Ambassador and Department of Energy Secretary Rafael Lotilla signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on March 7, 2007 at the Philippine Department of Energy. The U.S. Geological Survey negotiated this MOU which provides the legal framework for scientific and technical cooperation in ea [...] | 2007-03-09 08:35:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON TPHY KSCA SENV RP |
07MANILA785 | TENTATIVE PHILIPPINE SUPPORT FOR ARF DISASTER [...] (SBU) Deputy POL/C shared reftel points on March 7 with Department of Foreign Affairs Special Assistant to the Undersecretary for Policy Maria Austria and North American Affairs Director Ed De Vega, as well as with Department of National Defense (DND) Assistant Secretary for International Def [...] | 2007-03-09 08:37:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ARF EAID MARR MOPS RP |
07MANILA787 | GOVERNMENT NEGOTIATOR: PEACE TALKS ON TRACK, [...] (C) Summary: Government peace negotiator Secretary Afable told DCM and visiting EAP/MTS Director Marciel March 1 that territorial differences between the government and MILF had narrowed considerably, thanks to the visit and intervention of Malaysian negotiator Othman. Afable sought quiet [...] | 2007-03-09 10:05:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID MY PINS PREL RP |
07MANILA809 | DEFENSE SECRETARY EBDANE -- AN ARROYO LOYALIST IN [...] (C) SUMMARY. New National Defense Secretary Hermogenes "Jun" Ebdane lacks the sophistication and polish of his predecessor, Avelino Cruz. Nonetheless, he is a committed Arroyo loyalist whom many believe President Arroyo hand-picked to "manage" the 2007 Congressional elections before returni [...] | 2007-03-13 00:10:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PINR MARR PREL RP |
07MANILA828 | ARROYO DIRECTS MILITARY TO ADVANCE MILF PEACE [...] (C) Summary. President Arroyo on March 12 directed closer cooperation between the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) and established peace process mechanisms with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). This new directive, which followed months of sporadic skirmishing between AFP and M [...] | 2007-03-14 00:46:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PINS KISL RP |
07MANILA850 | AMBASSADOR VISITS NORTHERN LUZON TO DEEPEN US PHILIPPINE [...] SUMMARY. Ambassador Kristie Kenney visited Cabanatuan, Tarlac, and Baguio in the northern Luzon provinces of Nueva Ecija, Tarlac and Benguet March 8-9. Ambassador Kenney focused on deepening relations with northern Luzon interlocutors and highlighting historical and cultural ties between the [...] | 2007-03-15 08:41:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL EAGR OEXC SCUL KPAO RP |
07MANILA854 | PHILIPPINES' CHINESE SCHOOLS: A BATTLEGROUND FOR [...] (C) Summary: The People's Republic of China is playing an increasingly prominent role in promoting Chinese language/cultural education in the Philippines, primarily by engaging with Filipino-Chinese schools - historically pro-Taiwan institutions. Since 2003, the PRC has sent over 100 stude [...] | 2007-03-15 09:41:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SCUL SOCI XE CH TW RP |
07MANILA855 | PUSHING THE PHILIPPINES TO DO MORE ON KILLINGS [...] (SBU) Summary. Philippine media covered extensively the U.S. Senate hearings on unlawful killings in the Philippines. Ambassador and senior Embassy officials continue active outreach to underscore U.S. concern and to plan additional initiatives to support Philippine efforts to bring culprit [...] | 2007-03-15 09:57:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PINS PREL RP |
07MANILA856 | USG AND PHILIPPINE MILITARY STAND [...] (U) The top brass of the Philippine military joined U.S. Ambassador on the southern Philippine island of Jolo for ceremonies marking the end of "Balikatan" (shoulder-to-shoulder),the annual set of joint military exercises between the U.S. and the Philippines that has occurred since 1981. Alt [...] | 2007-03-15 10:13:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MARR MASS MOPS MCAP PREL EAID RP |
07MANILA863 | VISITING EAP/MTS OFFICE DIRECTOR URGES PHILIPPINES TO MAKE [...] (SBU) Summary. EAP/MTS Office Director Marciel highlighted need for progress on solving and stopping unlawful killings in a series of meetings with Philippine officials during the week of February 26. He also expressed the USG's appreciation for success in counterterrorism efforts and on d [...] | 2007-03-16 01:43:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL RP |
07MANILA864 | PHILIPPINES LOOKING FOR WAYS TO NUDGE BURMA TOWARD [...] (SBU) Summary: In a meeting at the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on March 2, EAP/MTS Director Marciel underscored the USG's concern with the Burmese government's record on democracy and rights and urged the Philippines, while chairing ASEAN, to press for a unified, regional voice to seek [...] | 2007-03-16 01:43:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL RP BM |
07MANILA876 | PHILIPPINES TO CONSIDER U.S. POINTS ON [...] (C) The Philippines has no position at this time on proposed reforms to the internal system of Administration of Justice, according to Gunther Sales, Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Assistant Director for the Political, Security, and International Law Division in the Office of the United [...] | 2007-03-16 07:46:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AORC UNGA RP |
07MANILA879 | PHILIPPINES TO RELAY U.S. CONCERNS ON SUDAN, [...] (C) Poloff on March 16 communicated in strong terms U.S. points (ref b) regarding the no-action motion on the Sudan Assessment Team report in the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) to Charmaine Serna, Department of Foreign Affairs' Assistant Director for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs in the [...] | 2007-03-16 09:08:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | UNHCR PHUM PREL ZI SU RP |
07MANILA881 | SCENESETTER FOR GENERAL WILLIAM WALLACE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. General Wallace, welcome to the Philippines! I know your visit is short, but I am sure you will find it productive. You are coming to the Philippines at an important time. The Armed Forces of the Philippines is demonstrating impressive combat prowess in ongoing operations a [...] | 2007-03-16 09:30:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MASS MOPS MCAP PREL RP |
07MANILA882 | AMBASSADOR'S DEPARTURE FROM POST [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-19 00:47:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | APER RP |
07MANILA909 | PHILIPPINES NOTES U.S. CONCERNS ON ZIMBABWE [...] (C) Charmaine Serna, Department of Foreign Affairs' Assistant Director for Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs in the Office of United Nations and International Organizations (UNIO),noted U.S. concerns regarding Zimbabwe. She stated she would communicate our points to the Philippine Missi [...] | 2007-03-20 07:02:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL ZI RP |
07MANILA923 | MISUARI REGISTERS CANDIDACY FOR SULU GOVERNOR [...] (C) Summary: Jailed Moro National Liberation Front (MNLF) Chairman Nur Misuari personally registered his candidacy in Jolo on March 20 for the Sulu Gubernatorial election. Misuari, who has become increasingly desperate to gain his freedom, entered the race against well financed traditional [...] | 2007-03-21 07:22:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS KISL RP |
07MANILA931 | PHILIPPINES SUPPORTS IN PRINCIPLE U.S. ARF [...] (C) According to Hans Siriban, Department of Foreign Affairs' Special Assistant to the Undersecretary for Policy, the Philippines supports in principle the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) Statement Supporting National Implementation of the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1540 and the e [...] | 2007-03-22 03:00:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | ARF PREL MARR XB EAID PARM RP |
07MANILA952 | PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR ON PEACE IN MINDANAO [...] (S) Summary: Presidential Peace Process Advisor Dureza told Charge that he welcomed increased Embassy engagement with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF),local and national leaders in support of the peace process. Separately, chief government negotiator Afable said the Cabinet would co [...] | 2007-03-23 06:49:00 | Embassy Manila | SECRET | PREL PINS KISL RP |
07MANILA962 | PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR COMMENTS ON UNLAWFUL KILLINGS [...] (C) Presidential Peace Process Advisor and cabinet member "Jess" Dureza raised the issue of unlawful killings with Charge and poloff March 20 after discussing the peace process (septel). The recent telephone call from D/NSA Crouch to Philippine NSA Gonzales, together with U.S. Congressional h [...] | 2007-03-23 09:35:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PINS RP |
07MANILA965 | EXTENSION OF THE OCCUPIED TERRITORIES MANDATE AT [...] (SBU) In a meeting on March 23 with Julius Torres, the Executive Director of the Department of Foreign Affairs' Office of United Nations and International Organizations, Acting Pol/C conveyed reftel points regarding the review of the mandate of the Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Territori [...] | 2007-03-26 02:44:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | UNHRC PREL PHUM RP |
07MANILA967 | AMBASSADOR'S RETURN TO POST [...] No summary [...] | 2007-03-26 03:02:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | APER RP |
07MANILA969 | Structural Problems Delay Manila Airport Opening [...] (SBU) Summary: The Manila international airport terminal (NAIA-3),expropriated in 2002 but never opened, will remain closed indefinitely due to safety concerns from structural defects. The Government still faces legal and financial squabbles over its expropriation. Lucio Tan's Asian Emergi [...] | 2007-03-26 06:07:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON EINV ETRD RP |
07MANILA977 | SCENESETTER FOR GENERAL BRYAN BROWN [...] (SBU) General Brown, welcome back to the Philippines! A lot has changed since you visited in 2005. The Armed Forces of the Philippines is demonstrating impressive combat prowess in ongoing operations against Abu Sayyaf and Jemaah Islamiyah terrorists on the island of Jolo. You will have a ch [...] | 2007-03-26 08:39:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MASS MOPS MCAP PREL RP |
07MANILA99 | PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS ENHANCE DEVELOPMENT EFFORTS IN [...] Summary: USG agencies have been establishing partnerships between public and private organizations to maximize the reach of development programs in Mindanao. Such collaborations have proven very successful and serve as a means to enhance capital, creativity, and technical expertise. Public-p [...] | 2007-01-10 08:35:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN ELAB EINV EAID PGOV RP |
08MANILA10 | 2007 a Good Year for Philippine Economy, and for USG [...] (SBU) Embassy Manila's long-term efforts to promote economic reforms and improved governance are one factor behind the increased performance and resilience of the Philippine economy. Although statistics for the entire year are not yet available the economy is on track to grow at around seven [...] | 2008-01-02 09:20:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV PGOV ENRG SENV TPHY RP |
08MANILA1030 | PHILIPPINE MILITARY CONDUCTS STRIKE AGAINST [...] (C) SUMMARY: In the early morning hours of April 30, the Armed Forces of the Philippines launched an artillery strike against a terrorist redoubt on the island of Jolo and followed up with a ground assault. Information on the success of the operation against the terrorist groups Abu Sayyaf [...] | 2008-04-30 11:01:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MCAP PREL PTER RP MASS |
08MANILA1031 | IMPACT OF RISING PHILIPPINE FOOD PRICES [...] Summary: Rising international food prices will hurt the Philippine economy and most Filipinos because of widespread poverty and dependence on grain imports. The Philippine government's intervention to make rice available for low-income families at subsidized prices has prevented major public [...] | 2008-04-30 11:03:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR ECON RP |
08MANILA104 | PRESIDENT ARROYO MEETS REP. ADAM SMITH [...] (SBU) Summary: In a meeting January 10, President Arroyo and Rep. Adam Smith praised Philippine-U.S. counterterrorism cooperation and agreed on the need to combine military action with development assistance. President Arroyo has ordered her forces to focus on senior terrorist figures and beli [...] | 2008-01-14 09:49:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PTER MOPS ECON EFIN RP |
08MANILA1050 | Hunger and Poverty Worsen in the Philippines [...] (U) Summary: Recently-released Philippine government statistics indicate poverty increased in 2006 to engulf a third of the population. There has been little progress in reducing poverty or addressing the uneven distribution of incomes. The recent surge in the price of rice will push even m [...] | 2008-05-02 04:47:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN PGOV RP |
08MANILA1083 | PHILIPPINES RECOGNIZES FLAWS WITH BURMESE [...] (SBU) The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) is acutely aware of the planned May 10 constitutional referendum in Burma and agrees with our assessment of its flaws. President Arroyo publicly chastised the Burmese junta March 9 for not allowing international observers at the planned referendum [...] | 2008-05-06 08:32:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL RP BM |
08MANILA1091 | CONSTITUTIONAL PROCESS REMAINS KEY ISSUE FOR MILF [...] (C) During an April 30 visit to Cagayan de Oro, the Ambassador and President Gloria Arroyo discussed the impasse in peace negotiations, and the impending withdrawal of the Malaysia-led International Monitoring Team (IMT) from Mindanao. The Ambassador again emphasized U.S. support for a negot [...] | 2008-05-07 09:37:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS KISL RP |
08MANILA1105 | PHILIPPINES RESPONDS TO TRAGEDY IN BURMA [...] SUMMARY: In the wake of the devastating destruction wrought May 2-3 by Cyclone Nargis in Burma, the Philippine government and the country's Red Cross affiliate are moving to offer assistance, while national media have called on the ruling Burmese military junta to cease its resistance to int [...] | 2008-05-08 07:55:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREL RP BM |
08MANILA1108 | PREPARING FOR MERCY DEPLOYMENT IN LANAO DEL NORTE [...] (U) Summary: During an April 28 visit to Iligan City and Lanao del Norte province in the southern Philippines, Embassy officers and a U.S. Navy planner consulted with senior Philippine civil and military officials regarding the upcoming visit of USNS MERCY. Polcouns highlighted the importance [...] | 2008-05-08 08:57:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER RP |
08MANILA1123 | PHILIPPINES ENCOURAGED TO SUBMIT 60-DAY REPORT [...] Per reftel request, poloff on May 9 met with the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) to stress the importance of timely submission of a 60-day report on steps the Philippines has taken to implement UNSCR 1803. Poloff informed Director for Security and Legal Matters Leah Ruiz of th [...] | 2008-05-09 09:06:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP PREL IR MNUC RP UNSC |
08MANILA1125 | FOREIGN SECRETARY CRITICIZES BURMA'S INACTION ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a conversation with the Ambassador May 9, Foreign Secretary Alberto Romulo lamented the Burmese regime's truculent stance against international involvement in relief efforts, and outlined how the junta's resistance to cooperation is affecting Philippine efforts to assist victi [...] | 2008-05-09 09:41:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL RP BM |
08MANILA1144 | PRESIDENT PARDONS MUTINEERS, NEW ARMED FORCES [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a change of command ceremony for the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces on May 12, President Arroyo announced she would pardon nine military officers for their involvement in the July 2003 Oakwood mutiny, a recommendation made by outgoing Armed Forces Chief General Hermo [...] | 2008-05-13 09:01:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS MCAP PREL RP |
08MANILA115 | TERRORIST FINANCE: DOMESTIC DESIGNATION OF FOUR [...] We delivered reftel demarche to Anti-Money Laundering Council Executive Director Vicente Aquino on January 15. Aquino said that per standard its practice in such cases, his office would notify us if any financial transactions involving the designated entities were found. KENNEY [...] | 2008-01-15 09:03:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | KTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PREL |
08MANILA1164 | The Philippines' Humanitarian Response to Cyclone Nargis [...] Per reftel request, Mission contacted the Philippine National Disaster Coordinating Council, which stated that the Philippine Department of Health formed a 15-person medical staff, to immediately go to Burma once Burmese government officials allow the team to enter. Further, the Philippine go [...] | 2008-05-14 09:03:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID SOCI PREL RP |
08MANILA1177 | PACOM COMMANDER AND AMBASSADOR CALL ON NEW ARMED [...] (C) SUMMARY: Meeting with new Chief of the Philippine Armed Forces Alexander Yano on May 14, the Ambassador emphasized that Philippine counterterrorism successes had won attention from senior U.S. policymakers, and that the USG stood ready to continue with assistance. Commander of the U.S. [...] | 2008-05-15 09:29:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS MCAP PREL RP |
08MANILA1178 | AMBASSADOR ENGAGES FOREIGN SECRETARY ON BURMA; [...] (C) SUMMARY: Post is continuing its close engagement with the Philippine government regarding the worsening humanitarian crisis in Burma, U.S. efforts in disaster relief, and coordination of international assistance. The Ambassador outlined for Foreign Secretary Alberto Romulo U.S. relief e [...] | 2008-05-15 09:31:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL RP BM |
08MANILA1188 | SCENESETTER FOR ADMIRAL CROWDER'S VISIT TO THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Admiral, welcome back to the Philippines! President Arroyo maintains her strong political position, in part due to robust economic growth. The Philippine armed forces continue to score successes against terrorists in the southern Philippines, while supporting the Philippine go [...] | 2008-05-19 03:57:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PINS PREL PTER RP |
08MANILA1192 | FORMER MILITARY CHIEF TO HEAD PEACE PROCESS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Following weeks of widespread speculation about a cabinet reshuffle, President Gloria Arroyo named former Armed Forces chief General Hermogenes Esperon as her new presidential advisor on the peace process, replacing Jesus Dureza, who was named press secretary. Esperon, who reti [...] | 2008-05-19 10:15:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS MCAP PREL PINS KISL RP |
08MANILA1201 | PHILIPPINES: CAUTIOUS REACTION TO BURMESE OPENING [...] (C) SUMMARY: News that the Burmese junta may offer limited concessions to the entry of international assistance are being received with caution by the Philippine government, media, and civil society. Department of Foreign Affairs officials held out hopes that the junta's May 19 agreement to [...] | 2008-05-20 10:27:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREL RP BM |
08MANILA1212 | MILF VICE CHAIR FOR MILITARY AFFAIRS SUPPORTS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Meeting in a remote base camp in the southern Philippines May 9, DCM urged the Vice Chairman for Military Affairs of the Muslim insurgency to persevere with the peace process and remove remaining terrorists from its territories. The Vice Chair stressed the Muslim insurgency's o [...] | 2008-05-21 09:33:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS KISL RP |
08MANILA123 | SCENESETTER FOR CODEL INOUYE [...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy warmly welcomes Senator Inouye and Senator Stevens back to the Philippines! The relationship and spirit of partnership between the United States and the Philippines are strong. U.S. interests in this major non-NATO ally center on strengthening democracy, fostering eco [...] | 2008-01-16 05:34:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN RP KS |
08MANILA1255 | SCENESETTER FOR ADMIRAL MULLEN'S VISIT TO THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Admiral, we appreciate your engagement with Philippine officials at Shangri-La and your subsequent visit to the Philippines. The Philippines has undergone many positive changes since the last visit of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs to the Philippines in 2002, many as a result o [...] | 2008-05-23 07:57:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PINS PREL PTER RP |
08MANILA1260 | BURMA RELIEF: PHILIPPINES FOCUSED ON A SUCCESSFUL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Per reftels, Ambassador, polcouns, and poloffs have underscored demarche points with Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) officials, from Foreign Secretary Alberto Romulo to working-level contacts. DFA is busy preparing for the May 25 UN-ASEAN co-sponsored conferenc [...] | 2008-05-23 08:13:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL RP BM |
08MANILA1281 | AMBASSADOR HIGHLIGHTS U.S. INVOLVEMENT IN MINDANAO [...] (U) SUMMARY: On May 19 and 20, the Ambassador traveled to the economically-booming Davao with the Agricultural Counselor, USAID Mission Director, Joint U.S. Military Assistance Officer, and econoff to spotlight our multifaceted engagement in Mindanao. Visits to educational, environmental, and c [...] | 2008-05-28 23:42:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ECON EAID EAGR SENV MARR RP |
08MANILA1287 | SHAPING PRESIDENT ARROYO'S WHITE HOUSE VISIT [...] (C) Summary: President Gloria Arroyo is keenly anticipating her planned June 24 meeting in Washington with President Bush, and her top advisors are focusing intensively on preparations for those talks and other expected events during her visit. In recent discussions with the Ambassador, top C [...] | 2008-05-29 08:34:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RP |
08MANILA1288 | PHILIPPINES: UPDATES TO NAMES, TITLES AND CONTACT NUMBERS [...] Country: Republic of the Philippines Date: May 30, 2008 Head of Government: Last/Family Name: MACAPAGAL-ARROYO First/Middle Names: GLORIA Conventional Usage: PRESIDENT ARROYO Formal Title: President of the Republic of the Philippines Office Telephone Numbers: (632) 736-8622; (632) 7 [...] | 2008-05-29 08:34:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR PREL |
08MANILA1343 | IAEA/IRAN: PHILIPPINES WILL VOICE CONCERNS ABOUT [...] (SBU) The Philippine government has committed to make a clear statement regarding the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report on Iran at the IAEA Board of Governors Meeting June 2-6. Per reftel request, we met June 2 with Department of Foreign Affairs Director for Political, Legal, a [...] | 2008-06-03 09:31:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP MNUC PARM PREL IR RP IAEA |
08MANILA1352 | BASILAN UNREST MIRRORS UNSETTLED PEACE PROCESS [...] (C) SUMMARY: While the Philippine government continues to reiterate its commitment to the Mindanao peace process, and a ceasefire is largely holding in conflict-affected areas of Mindanao, Malaysian-facilitated peace talks between government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) have b [...] | 2008-06-04 09:54:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PINS RP |
08MANILA1353 | Ambassador Kicks Off Pacific Partnership Philippines 2008 [...] SUMMARY: On May 30, 2008, Ambassador Kenney kicked off the two-week visit of the USNS MERCY to the Philippines, a Pacific Partnership 2008 initiative which brings together personnel from the U.S. military, Armed Forces of the Philippines, Philippine government, partner militaries from other a [...] | 2008-06-05 00:36:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER RP |
08MANILA1354 | DCM Emphasizes Close Ties, Partnerships in Northern [...] (U) SUMMARY: The DCM reached out to officials, key civic leaders and consular wardens in the two most Northern provinces of the Philippines to highlight U.S. commitment to the region through donation of law enforcement equipment and engagement with local leaders. On the two-day trip to citie [...] | 2008-06-05 01:33:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL CASC ASEC BTIO BEXP EAIR PGOV ECON EAID RP |
08MANILA1383 | PHILIPPINES: FORCED LABOR AND EXPLOITATIVE CHILD LABOR IN [...] SUMMARY: This cable provides input for the Department of Labor's request for information on forced labor and exploitative child labor in the production of goods as mandated by the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2005 (ref A). Post's point of contact for child labor and fo [...] | 2008-06-10 10:39:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI RP |
08MANILA1384 | JCS CHAIRMAN VIEWS COUNTERTERROR EFFORTS, MEETS [...] (C) SUMMARY: During his visit to the Philippines June 1-2, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen greeted U.S. Special Forces troops in the Southern Philippines, met with his Philippine counterpart, laid a wreath at the Manila American Cemetery and Memorial, spoke to Emba [...] | 2008-06-10 23:53:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS MCAP PREL RP |
08MANILA1399 | TOP BROADCAST JOURNALIST ABDUCTED IN MINDANAO [...] (C) SUMMARY: A popular Philippine television journalist was reportedly kidnapped by the terrorist Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) on June 8, in an isolated area of Jolo Island, southern Philippines, while en route to a putative interview with ASG leader Radulan Sahiron. President Arroyo immediately or [...] | 2008-06-11 08:57:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PINS RP |
08MANILA141 | RECORD YEAR FOR U.S. NAVY SHIP VISITS UNDERSCORES [...] (C) SUMMARY: The year 2007 brought a dramatic rise in U.S. Navy ship visits to the Philippines, as 81 U.S. Navy vessels visited 9 ports throughout the Philippines -- the most since the closure of U.S. military bases in 1992 -- and underscored our strong bilateral relationship, making the Philip [...] | 2008-01-17 22:17:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MAS MCAP PREL RP |
08MANILA1417 | Senators Tell Foreign Investors to "Get Out" [...] (U) Summary: A Philippine Senate committee grilled representatives of foreign chambers of commerce, including the AmCham on June 6 regarding a letter the chambers had sent to Philippine President Arroyo opposing a legislative initiative. Though the business leaders were poorly treated by the S [...] | 2008-06-13 00:29:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EINV ENRG PREL PGOV RP |
08MANILA1429 | NOMINATION FOR CORPORATE EXCELLENCE AWARD: DOLE [...] Embassy Manila is pleased to nominate Dole Philippines, a subsidiary of Dole Food Company, the world's largest producer and marketer of fresh fruit, vegetables, and flowers. Dole's plantations in North and South Cotabato, Davao City, and the provinces of Bukidnon, Compostela Valley, Davao del N [...] | 2008-06-13 08:30:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP EINV ELAB ETRD KSEP SENV RP |
08MANILA1432 | MILITARY CHIEF YANO DISCUSSES KEY CHALLENGES WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a June 11 private breakfast with the Ambassador, Philippine Armed Forces Chief of Staff General Alexander Yano cited as major challenges over the next three months the stalled peace process with Muslim insurgents, a recent increase in violence and bombings, upcoming election [...] | 2008-06-13 09:15:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MAS MCAP PREL RP |
08MANILA1443 | SCENESETTER FOR ADMIRAL WILLARD'S VISIT TO THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Admiral Willard, welcome back to the Philippines! President Arroyo maintains her strong political position, in part due to positive economic growth. The Philippine Armed Forces continue to score successes against terrorists in the southern Philippines, while supporting the Ph [...] | 2008-06-16 09:18:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PINS PREL PTER RP |
08MANILA1460 | BROADCAST JOURNALIST FREED BY KIDNAPPERS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Kidnappers have released well-known broadcast journalist Ces Drilon and three members of her crew, after 10 days of captivity on Jolo Island. Drilon and her colleagues were abducted on June 8 on Jolo Island in southern Mindanao. While most media sources and government officials ha [...] | 2008-06-18 08:47:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PINS PHUM RP |
08MANILA1461 | KEY GOALS FOR PRESIDENT ARROYO'S VISIT [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo remains one of our staunchest allies in southeast Asia. Despite difficulties in creating effective governance and fighting endemic corruption, President Arroyo has been a reliable pro-democracy advocate, particularly in pressing for change in Bu [...] | 2008-06-18 09:24:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RP |
08MANILA1463 | NEW PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR SEEKS RESUMPTION OF MILF [...] (C) Summary: In a one-on-one breakfast with Ambassador on June 18, President Arroyo's new top advisor on the peace process -- retired Armed Forces of the Philippines Chief of Staff Hermogenes Esperon -- said he is working to end a six-month impasse in negotiations with the Moro Islamic Liber [...] | 2008-06-18 10:54:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS KISL RP |
08MANILA1464 | DNA RESULTS NEGATIVE FOR SUPPOSED DULMATIN REMAINS [...] (C) Summary: DNA testing by FBI laboratories confirmed on June 18 that a corpse unearthed on Tawi-Tawi Island in the course of an operation by the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) is not the remains of Dulmatin, a prominent Jemaah Islamiyah terrorist who masterminded the Bali bombings in [...] | 2008-06-18 10:58:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | CASC KJUS MCAP MOPS PINS PTER RP |
08MANILA1491 | PHILIPPINE RESPONSE TO ARF DISASTER RELIEF [...] (U) The Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on June 17 welcomed the U.S. non-paper (reftel) that encourages an ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) Statement on Regional Disaster Preparedness. DFA Undersecretary for Policy Principal Assistant Leah Carada Rodriguez said that interest in her [...] | 2008-06-20 05:42:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL ARF EAID ASEAN RP |
08MANILA1492 | PHILIPPINES REVIEWS THE P5+1 PACKAGE FOR IRAN [...] (SBU) Officials at the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) were pleased to receive reftel non-paper on June 17. Legal, Political, and Security Affairs Director Leah Ruiz of the DFA's Office of United Nations and International Organizations (UNIO) said that the Philippine Mission in [...] | 2008-06-20 06:41:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM IR KNNP MNUC PREL RP IAEA |
08MANILA1496 | Civair Safety in the Philippines: Discussion with ICAO [...] (U) Please see paragraph 8 for an action request. 2. (SBU) Summary: Our meetings with Philippine government officials, airline owners and managers, and other involved persons suggest that little progress has been made on the return to Category  [...] | 2008-06-20 08:45:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON RP |
08MANILA1504 | RAPID RESPONSE TO TYPHOON FRANK [...] Summary: Typhoon Fengshen (called Frank under Philippine naming conventions) hit the Philippines on June 21, with a current death toll of at least 229 dead, 800 missing, and damage of property in 20 Philippine provinces. The death toll is expected to rise significantly due to the sinking of t [...] | 2008-06-23 10:44:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID SOCI EAGR SENV RP |
08MANILA1519 | PHILIPPINES POSITION ON MERCURY ISSUES FOR OCTOBER 2008 [...] Philippines Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) officials told Econ staff that the Philippine government has two United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP)-sponsored projects to address mercury issues: a study for small-scale gold mines and the Mercury Inventory Toolkit, des [...] | 2008-06-25 09:09:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC EAGR ECON ETRD SENV RP |
08MANILA1521 | NEXT STEPS IN ASSISTING TYPHOON FRANK VICTIMS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-06-25 09:54:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CASC EAGR EAID RP SOCI |
08MANILA154 | CATHOLIC PRIEST SLAIN IN APPARENT KIDNAPPING ON [...] (C) Summary: The murder of a Catholic priest and abduction of a school principal and fisherman in Tawi-Tawi, a remote island along a terrorist transit line in the southern Philippines, has sent shock waves through this usually peaceful island. Security officials believe a group of 10 armed [...] | 2008-01-18 08:40:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL KISL RP |
08MANILA1543 | U.S. AGENCIES DELIVER CRITICAL HELP [...] Summary: U.S. recovery and relief efforts have had a huge impact in the aftermath of Typhoon Frank, which ravaged the Philippines June 21-22. The rising death toll from the typhoon itself is at least 629 and more than 287 missing. Only 57 people have survived from the capsized ferry Princess [...] | 2008-06-27 09:22:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID SOCI EAGR SENV RP |
08MANILA1560 | AMBASSADOR INSPECTS TYPHOON RELIEF EFFORTS [...] Summary: Joined by key Philippine officials, including the heads of the Philippine armed forces and Red Cross, Ambassador Kenney viewed typhoon relief operations carried out by the USS REAGAN carrier group on Sunday, June 29, in Iloilo, the epicenter of devastation caused by Typhoon Frank, wh [...] | 2008-06-30 09:34:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID SOCI EAGR SENV RP |
08MANILA1563 | FIRST TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS CONVICTION IN 2008 [...] SUMMARY: On June 30, a regional trial court in Batangas City convicted and sentenced a human trafficker to life imprisonment. The trial judge also fined the defendant 20 million pesos (USD 446,000) in criminal penalties and ordered her to pay 100,000 pesos (USD 2,230) in civil damages to the [...] | 2008-07-01 08:56:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KCRM KWMN EAID RP |
08MANILA1565 | COURT CONVICTS MURDERER OF PEACE CORPS VOLUNTEER [...] (U) SUMMARY: On June 30, a Banaue regional trial court convicted Juan Donald Duntugan for the April 2007 murder of Peace Corps volunteer Julia Campbell and sentenced Duntugan to "reclusion perpetua," or up to 40 years in prison -- essentially a life sentence. The judge also ordered the defend [...] | 2008-07-01 09:28:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL CASC ASEC RP |
08MANILA1582 | RELIEF PHASE OF TYPHOON FRANK EFFORTS COMPLETED [...] Summary. The phase of intense and immediate support for the victims of Typhoon Frank is complete, and the Philippines will now concentrate on the long-term rebuilding of its devastated provinces. President Arroyo has personally thanked the Mission and USS REAGAN commander for the United State [...] | 2008-07-02 10:05:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID SOCI EAGR SENV RP |
08MANILA1610 | Mindanao: An Economic Overview [...] (SBU) Introduction and Summary: Misconceptions abound, both inside and outside the Philippines, about the large southern Philippine island of Mindanao, where the USG focuses its development and counterterrorism activities in the Philippines. In particular, it is easy to over-generalize about [...] | 2008-07-08 09:11:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV PGOV RP |
08MANILA1618 | Philippines Weighs Open Skies Options [...] (SBU) Summary: Philippine Transportation and Communication Secretary Leandro Mendoza has announced that the ASEAN Open Skies agreement that ASEAN transportation ministers will sign in Manila in December will obviate the need for the proposed executive order to provide a "pocket open-skies" reg [...] | 2008-07-09 09:04:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ETRD BEXP RP |
08MANILA1619 | PHILIPPINE CIVIL AVIATION UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: Immediately upon the return to the Philippines from the U.S. of President Arroyo, the Government of the Philippines established a new Civil Aviation Administration of the Philippines in order to fast track its effort to remedy civil aviation safety concerns identified by the USG [...] | 2008-07-09 09:04:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ETRD BEXP RP |
08MANILA1624 | USG ASSISTANCE SAVES LIVES AFTER TYPHOON FRANK [...] Summary: Coordinated U.S./Philippine efforts during a critical two-week period following the landfall of Typhoon Frank saved many people from thirst and hunger in the ten areas of greatest devastation. Our assistance also generated tremendous good will and emphasized for Filipinos once again [...] | 2008-07-10 02:36:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID SOCI EAGR SENV RP |
08MANILA1656 | AES' PHILIPPINE INVESTMENT: BUYER'S REMORSE? [...] (SBU) Summary: Officials of U.S. energy giant AES alleged in a meeting with Embassy officers on July 1 that the Philippine state-owned National Power Corporation was abusing its market power, and the Energy Regulatory Commission was violating its own guidelines in order to lower the wholesale [...] | 2008-07-14 03:26:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EFIN EXIM RP |
08MANILA167 | AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH DEFENSE SECRETARY TEODORO [...] (C) Summary: In a January 14 private breakfast with the Ambassador, Philippine Secretary of National Defense Gilberto Teodoro voiced his confidence in the Philippine government's efforts against Muslim terrorist groups and communist insurgents, the military's reform program, and the peace p [...] | 2008-01-22 09:59:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS MCAP PREL RP |
08MANILA1674 | AES' Philippine Investment: Buyer's Remorse? (CORRECTED [...] (U) This is the corrected copy with the addition of paragraph 7. 2. (SBU) Summary: Officials of U.S. energy giant AES alleged in a meeting with Embassy officers on July 1 that the Philippine state-owned National Power Corporation was abusing its market power, and the Energy Regulatory Co [...] | 2008-07-14 09:30:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EFIN EXIM RP |
08MANILA1675 | TROUBLED MANILA AIRPORT TERMINAL MAY OPEN SOON [...] Summary: In June, Philippine President Arroyo ordered that the long-delayed Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3 (NAIA-3) open for domestic commercial flights before the end of July and created a task force to ensure the opening. Two Philippine airlines are already committed to start [...] | 2008-07-14 09:32:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ETRD BEXP RP |
08MANILA1696 | LOCAL ELECTIONS IN MUSLIM MINDANAO IMPACT PEACE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Provincial and local elections in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) elections are scheduled for August 11, even as an array of key Muslim groups urges that they be postponed until after the Philippine government signs a final peace agreement with Muslim insurgents [...] | 2008-07-17 08:41:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PINS PGOV PHUM RP |
08MANILA1701 | STRONG PAST, PRESENT TIES IN THE "CITY OF GENTLE PEOPLE" [...] SUMMARY. The Ambassador underscored the positive effect of dedicated U.S. Government assistance to the province of Negros Oriental in the Philippine's central Visayas region, during a trip to Dumaguete City, the "City of Gentle People." Beginning the visit with a speech to Silliman University [...] | 2008-07-18 07:50:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KISL KPAO RP EAID |
08MANILA1706 | RAMPING UP INVESTIGATION AND PROSECUTION OF LABOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Philippine Government is ramping up the investigation and prosecution of labor killings following intense discussion between various Mission officials and key Philippine government leaders, even as the country witnesses a downward trend in extrajudicial killings (EJKs) for the [...] | 2008-07-18 08:24:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL RP |
08MANILA1709 | AMBASSADOR ENGAGES FOREIGN SECRETARY ON PEACE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a wide-ranging conversation over lunch with Foreign Secretary Alberto Romulo, Ambassador discussed a broad array of key bilateral subjects, including ASEAN, North Korea, the Philippine peace process, and labor issues. Romulo welcomed the planned ASEAN Regional Forum disaster [...] | 2008-07-18 09:13:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RP |
08MANILA1720 | PHILIPPINES CONSIDERS THE INDIA-IAEA SAFEGUARDS [...] (SBU) Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Office of United Nations and International Organizations (UNIO) Director for Political, Legal, and Security Matters Leah Ruiz on July 14 welcomed our thoughts (per reftel) on the India-IAEA Safeguards Agreement. We explained why we conside [...] | 2008-07-21 09:07:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL ETTC RP IN |
08MANILA1721 | PHILIPPINES CAUTIOUS ON NAM MEETING AND IRAN/IAEA [...] (SBU) Post on July 14 conveyed to the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs' Legal, Political and Security Affairs Director for United Nations and Other International Organizations (UNIO) Leah Ruiz our concerns with Iran's anticipated maneuvering at the upcoming Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) [...] | 2008-07-21 09:10:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KNNP PARM RP TRGY MNUC PREL IR UR |
08MANILA1722 | PHILIPPINE RESPONSE TO WOMEN LEADERS WORKING GROUP [...] (SBU) Though there is no final confirmation yet, President Arroyo will most likely attend the 2008 UN General Assembly (UNGA),and therefore Malacanang Palace will give full consideration to her participation in the Women Leaders Working Group, according to Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) [...] | 2008-07-21 09:15:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KWMN UNGA PHUM KPAO RP |
08MANILA1747 | PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT WORKING OUT DETAILS OF ARF [...] No summary [...] | 2008-07-23 06:06:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RP |
08MANILA1748 | PHILIPPINES RECEIVES DESIGNATION OF ADDITIONAL [...] (SBU) The Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) on July 17 received reftel A non-paper that describes the designation of an additional 11 Iranian entities and individuals under E.O. 13382 ("Blocking the Property of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferators and their Supporters"). DF [...] | 2008-07-23 06:35:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN PARM PREL MNUC KNNP IR RP |
08MANILA175 | GOVERNOR OF JOLO SEEKS POLICE ASSISTANCE; GRATEFUL [...] (C) Summary: The Governor of the southern island of Jolo - where Philippine Armed Forces track high-value terrorists with direct assistance from U.S. Special Forces - expressed deep appreciation for USG development and military assistance, which he said is helping rejuvenate the remote isla [...] | 2008-01-23 10:09:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PINS RP |
08MANILA1758 | SCENESETTER FOR ADMIRAL BIRD'S VISIT TO THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Admiral Bird, welcome back to the Philippines! The U.S. 7th Fleet is an important player in our interagency engagement to promote U.S. interests in the Philippines. The Philippine Armed Forces continue to score successes against terrorists in the southern Philippines, even a [...] | 2008-07-23 08:18:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PINS PREL RP |
08MANILA1759 | COURT CONVICTS SOLDIER FOR DISAPPEARANCES [...] (U) SUMMARY: A regional trial court July 18 convicted an Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) corporal for abduction and illegal detention of six civilians who disappeared in October 2000, sentencing the defendant to a minimum of 54 years in prison. In the absence of physical evidence, inclu [...] | 2008-07-23 08:56:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL ELAB RP |
08MANILA1763 | PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT WORKING OUT DETAILS OF ARF [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with U.S. officials in Manila July 17, Philippine officials confirmed their commitment to co-host with the United States an ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) Disaster Relief Exercise in Manila during 2009, but said they have many hurdles to overcome internally before a dat [...] | 2008-07-24 06:41:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RP |
08MANILA1764 | BUILDING CONFIDENCE FOR PEACE IN THE SOUTHERN PHILIPPINES [...] SUMMARY. The Ambassador continued to focus attention on U.S. assistance in conflict-affected areas in the Southern Philippines during a visit to Zamboanga City and Basilan Province to observe U.S.-funded development projects and meet with local Basilan business leaders. Recently-appointed Pr [...] | 2008-07-24 07:55:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KISL KPAO RP EAID |
08MANILA1775 | GRP RESPONSE TO RISING FOOD AND FUEL PRICES [...] (SBU) Summary: Rising food and fuel prices in the Philippines have pushed up consumer price inflation to a fourteen-year high. The Philippine government continues to provide cheap rice for the poor and has scrapped duties on fuel, granted tax relief to personal income taxpayers, and postponed [...] | 2008-07-25 04:54:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EAGR EPET ENRG RP |
08MANILA1779 | PHILIPPINE NATIONALS DEPORTED FROM MALAYSIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: The southern Philippines is bracing for a massive influx of deported Filipinos following the Malaysian government's June 25 announcement of an immigration crackdown against undocumented foreign workers in Sabah, East Malaysia. Hundreds of thousands of Filipinos, many of whom hai [...] | 2008-07-25 08:31:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS KISL MY RP |
08MANILA1780 | BUILDING CONFIDENCE FOR PEACE IN THE SOUTHERN PHILIPPINES [...] (U) SUMMARY. The Ambassador continued to focus attention on U.S. assistance in conflict-affected areas in the Southern Philippines during a visit to Zamboanga City and Basilan Province to observe U.S.-funded development projects and meet with local Basilan business leaders. Recently-appointed [...] | 2008-07-25 08:45:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KISL KPAO EAID RP |
08MANILA1784 | AMBASSADOR ENGAGES PHILIPPINE SENATE PRESIDENT ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador on July 24 engaged Philippine Senate President Manuel "Manny" Villar in a broad-ranging discussion over a private breakfast of issues likely to come up soon after the Senate reconvenes July 28. Villar described how, for very different reasons, the road ahead looke [...] | 2008-07-28 06:26:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL RP |
08MANILA1788 | PRESIDENT FOCUSES ON ECONOMY IN STATE OF THE [...] (U) In her penultimate State of the Nation Address (SONA),Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo highlighted her administration's efforts to improve the country's economy and help the poor cope with rising food and fuel costs. The President called for legislation to implement a peace a [...] | 2008-07-28 11:46:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PINS PINR SOCI PTER ECON KPAO ASEC |
08MANILA1790 | Davao: A Mindanao Success Story [...] (SBU) Summary: Davao, located in the southeastern section of Mindanao, is now one of the Philippines' major economic hubs, with rich natural resources, good infrastructure, an educated labor pool, strong local government support for business, and a pro-active business sector. The city has ga [...] | 2008-07-29 02:40:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV PGOV RP |
08MANILA1793 | USAID-Funded Project Helps Bring the Philippine Judiciary [...] (U) SUMMARY: On July 23, 2008, the Philippine Supreme Court launched the USAID-funded Automated Case Management-Information System (CMIS) to address the backlog that has been plaguing the court system. The CMIS aims to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the four appellate courts wit [...] | 2008-07-29 06:50:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV CASC BTIO BEXP EAIR ECON RP |
08MANILA1795 | THE NEW PEOPLE'S ARMY: DOWN BUT NOT OUT [...] (U) SUMMARY: Thirty-nine years after its founding as the armed wing of the Philippine Communist Party, the New People's Army (NPA) has lost much of its ability to conduct sustained military operations but remains capable of sporadically disrupting public security and business operations in cer [...] | 2008-07-29 07:51:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PTER RP |
08MANILA1800 | SCENESETTER FOR STAFFDEL WEIL [...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy Manila warmly welcomes Staffdel Weil to the Philippines! The relationship and spirit of partnership between the United States and the Philippines are strong. U.S. interests in this major non-NATO ally center on strengthening democracy, fostering economic growth, fightin [...] | 2008-07-29 23:06:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP PREL KPAO RP |
08MANILA1801 | SCENESETTER FOR STAFFDEL WEIL [...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy Manila warmly welcomes Staffdel Weil to the Philippines! The relationship and spirit of partnership between the United States and the Philippines are strong. U.S. interests in this major non-NATO ally center on strengthening democracy, fostering economic growth, fightin [...] | 2008-07-29 23:06:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP PREL KPAO RP |
08MANILA1802 | RO-RO: AN ECONOMIC SUCCESS STORY [...] (SBU) Summary: USG policy advocacy and foreign assistance has been instrumental in bringing down the cost of inter-island transportation in the Philippines, a key constraint to competitiveness in this archipelagic country. As a result of the liberalization of port policies and promotion of "ro [...] | 2008-07-30 01:54:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON RP |
08MANILA1818 | HEALTH AND POPULATION IN THE PHILIPPINES [...] (SBU) Summary: In the aftermath of the July 11 World Population Day ceremonies in Manila, many civil society and legislators have expressed their opinions on the country's need and ability to extend family planning services more widely. There has been a vigorous public debate, extensively [...] | 2008-07-31 07:19:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | RP |
08MANILA1819 | PHILIPPINE APPRECIATION FOR U.S. HUMANITARIAN [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In response to USG humanitarian assistance provided in the wake of the June 21-22 Typhoon Frank, Philippine Foreign Secretary Alberto G. Romulo sent a warm, expansive letter of thanks to the Ambassador. The Foreign Secretary underscored the Philippines' heartfelt gratitude fo [...] | 2008-07-31 08:03:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL PTER RP |
08MANILA1825 | PRESIDENT ARROYO NAMES NEW NAVAL CHIEF [...] (U) Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo approved the designation of Rear Admiral Ferdinand Golez as the new Flag Officer-in-Command for the Philippine Navy, effective August 2. The appointment was announced by Secretary of National Defense Gilberto Teodoro July 29. Golez will repla [...] | 2008-08-01 01:16:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS MCAP PREL RP |
08MANILA1833 | PHILIPPINE PARTICIPATION AT 63RD UN GENERAL [...] (SBU) The Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) conveyed to Post on July 31 that its New York Mission reported that President Arroyo is slated to be the fourth speaker on September 23, the opening day of the General Debate, as had been expected (ref B). Office of United Nations and [...] | 2008-08-01 06:35:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNGA RP |
08MANILA1837 | AMBASSADOR, NATIONAL POLICE CHIEF DISCUSS HUMAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Over a July 31 working breakfast with Philippine National Police (PNP) Director, Gen. Avelino "Sonny" Razon, Ambassador discussed extrajudicial killings (EJKs),the peace process in the southern Philippines, and the challenges that lie ahead for the Philippines' police force. R [...] | 2008-08-01 08:08:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PGOV PHUM PINR PINS PREL PTER RP SNAR |
08MANILA1838 | CONTROVERSY OVER SPRATLY ISLANDS TERRITORIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Recent steep increases in the cost of petroleum and pending deadlines associated with the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) have kept the six-nation territorial dispute over the Spratly Islands in the eye of public debate in the Philippines. The underlying controvers [...] | 2008-08-01 08:26:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PBTS PGOV PREL RP TW VM CH PG |
08MANILA1844 | MILF CONTINUES TO SUPPORT PEACE PROCESS, [...] (C) Summary: In a July 30 meeting with the Deputy Chief of Mission at the Moro Islamic Liberation Front's (MILF) Camp Simuay, Vice Chairman Ghazali Jafaar discussed the MILF's outlook on the upcoming elections in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM),the peace process, and the post-p [...] | 2008-08-04 06:21:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EAID PINR PREL PHUM KISL RP |
08MANILA1848 | Floundering Philippine Shipping [...] (SBU) Summary: Despite its 7,000 islands, the Philippines has a small and uncompetitive domestic shipping industry. Restrictive maritime policies and inflexible financial regulations suit special interests, but block opportunities for growth and modernization of the sector. Initiatives to im [...] | 2008-08-04 07:25:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EWWT EINV RP |
08MANILA1855 | ELECTRIC POWER STRUGGLE OR FAMILY FUED? [...] (SBU) Summary: Philippine analysts predict a protracted struggle between the Lopez family and the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS, the government employees' pension fund) for control of the Manila Electric Company (MERALCO). This conflict, which some analysts see as a feud between t [...] | 2008-08-05 07:11:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EFIN EXIM RP |
08MANILA1860 | ALL DETERMINED TO MOVE PEACE PROCESS FORWARD AFTER [...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador encouraged Philippine, Malaysian, and NGO leaders, gathered in Kuala Lumpur for the signing of a key agreement with Philippine Muslim insurgents, to keep the peace process moving forward after the Philippine Supreme Court temporarily halted the formal signing. Overc [...] | 2008-08-05 12:35:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS KISL RP |
08MANILA1875 | PHILIPPINE MILITARY PREPARED BUT RESTRAINED IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Responding to increased attacks on civilians by radical hardliners allegedly linked to the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) in the North Cotabato province of Mindanao, the Armed Forces of the Philippines have placed their forces on heightened alert and prepared a contingenc [...] | 2008-08-06 08:49:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MCAP PREL PTER RP MASS |
08MANILA1885 | THE PHILIPPINE MILITARY FIVE YEARS AFTER OAKWOOD: [...] (C) SUMMARY: Five years after a small group of Philippine military personnel seized an apartment complex in Manila, demanding an end to the corruption and neglect they believed was crippling the armed forces, the Philippine military has made significant progress in its efforts to retrain, reequ [...] | 2008-08-08 06:08:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC PTER RP |
08MANILA1886 | Mining in Mindanao: Not Meeting Its Potential [...] (SBU) Summary: The mining sector holds great promise for the economic development of Mindanao. However, reputable mining companies currently operating in this region face many challenges, including lawlessness, insurgent violence, encroachments by small-scale miners, populist resistance, corr [...] | 2008-08-08 06:23:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | EMIN SENV ECON EINV PGOV RP CM |
08MANILA1887 | MANILA RESPONSE TO APEC FOOD DEFENSE PILOT PROJECTS [...] (SBU) Summary: Post offers pros and cons for including the Philippines as pilot area for the APEC Food Defense Projects. The Philippines is a willing partner with a great deal of bilateral trade in food and food products, but at times has issues with program follow-through. 2. (U) The Ph [...] | 2008-08-08 06:23:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER TBIO APECO EAGR RP |
08MANILA1890 | Once a Leader, Philippine Education Falls Behind [...] (SBU) Summary: The quality of education has deteriorated across the Philippines. Inadequate budgets, supply shortages, meagerly paid and poorly educated teachers, and lagging enrollments are producing results that may jeopardize Philippine economic competitiveness and lock Filipinos into pover [...] | 2008-08-08 06:30:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD SOCI RP |
08MANILA1929 | PHILIPPINE MILITARY IN CONTROL IN CENTRAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: As fighting between the Philippine military and elements of Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) forces entered its third day on August 12, government forces appeared to be re-gaining control over seized villages in central Mindanao, with two key Muslim insurgent units retreati [...] | 2008-08-12 08:31:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MCAP PREL PTER RP MASS |
08MANILA1930 | FIRST EVER AUTOMATED ARMM ELECTIONS PEACEFUL, [...] (C) SUMMARY. Thanks to new automated voting procedures, the regional elections in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) August 11 turned out more peaceful, clean, and efficient than previous polls and an estimated 60 percent of the 1.5 million registered voters turned out to cast thei [...] | 2008-08-12 09:13:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER MOPS PINS PGOV PHUM RP |
08MANILA1940 | ARMED FORCES CHIEF DISCUSSES MINDANAO CLASHES, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Armed Forces Chief of Staff Gen. Alexander Yano told the Ambassador August 13 that Philippine military forces had largely expelled rogue Muslim insurgent units from villages they had occupied in central Mindanao, and forecast that thousands of displaced villagers would soon be re [...] | 2008-08-13 08:53:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MAS MCAP PGOV PREL PTER RP |
08MANILA1949 | Ninoy Aquino International Airport - Terminal 3 [...] (SBU) Summary: Manila's Ninoy Aquino International Airport Terminal 3 (NAIA T3) began handling flights on July 22, 2008, six years of legal battles after its construction was completed. Some aspects of the new terminal are still not functioning properly, causing problems that have delayed and [...] | 2008-08-14 09:00:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON EINV ETRD RP |
08MANILA1953 | POTENTIAL TRADE PROSPECTS IN MINDANAO: THE BIMP-EAGA [...] (U) Summary: This cable describes an international policy initiative designed to promote links between the southern Philippines and peripheral regions of neighboring countries known as the Brunei Darussalam-Indonesia-Malaysia-Philippines East ASEAN Growth Area (BIMP-EAGA). Supporters believe [...] | 2008-08-15 07:45:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID ETRD ECIN EINV PGOV RP |
08MANILA1956 | GOVERNOR AMPATUAN REELECTED IN AUTOMATED ARMM [...] (C) Summary: Incumbent Governor Zaldy Ampatuan won his reelection bid in the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) with 93 percent of total votes, a huge margin over the second place finisher, who garnered only 1.7 percent, according to the official results from the Commission on Electio [...] | 2008-08-15 08:39:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM RP |
08MANILA1958 | SCENESETTER FOR LTG MAPLES VISIT TO THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Welcome to the Philippines! You are coming to the Philippines at an important time. With U.S. support, the Armed Forces of the Philippines continues to score successes against terrorists in the southern Philippines, even as it reforms itself and controls extrajudicial killings. [...] | 2008-08-15 10:23:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PINS PREL PTER RP |
08MANILA1959 | SCENESETTER FOR STAFFDEL HIGGINS [...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy Manila warmly welcomes to the Philippines professional staff members Craig Higgins and Steven Marchese of the House Committee on Appropriations, Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs. The relationship and spirit of partnership between the United [...] | 2008-08-15 10:47:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP PREL RP |
08MANILA1960 | SCENESETTER FOR LTG MAPLES VISIT TO THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Welcome to the Philippines! You are coming to the Philippines at an important time. With U.S. support, the Armed Forces of the Philippines continues to score successes against terrorists in the southern Philippines, even as it reforms itself and controls extrajudicial killings. [...] | 2008-08-15 10:56:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PINS PREL PTER RP |
08MANILA1962 | NEW CLASHES IN MINDANAO, ARMY REACTS QUICKLY BUT [...] (C) Summary: Just days after the Philippine armed forces drove insurgent Muslim fighters out of villages they had occupied in central Mindanao, fighting flared anew August 17-18 farther north on the troubled island as Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) forces attacked an Army convoy and seve [...] | 2008-08-18 10:16:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ASEC MARR MCAP PTER RP |
08MANILA1964 | DUE DILIGENCE FOR DOLE NOMINATION FOR CORPORATE EXCELLENCE [...] Post is pleased to learn that Dole Philippines, Inc. is on the short list for the Secretary's 2008 Award for Corporate Excellence and submits the following: There is no pending litigation against Dole and Mission members involved in Dole's nomination do not have financial interest in the compa [...] | 2008-08-19 06:38:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | BEXP EINV ELAB ETRD KSEP SENV RP |
08MANILA197 | MANILA HAS NO FUNDS TO SUPPORT DELEGATES TO ATTEND WIREC [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-24 08:25:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ENRG SENV TRGY EPET EAID SOCI KSCA KGHG KPAO |
08MANILA1975 | PHILIPPINES IPR TO ADDRESS FLICKER PIRACY [...] (U) Summary: Illegal recording of movies in cinemas, known as "flicker piracy," is becoming an intellectual property rights concern for both local and foreign film industry players in the Philippines. Specific legislation to address the problem is in the Lower House of the Philippine legislat [...] | 2008-08-20 02:16:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIPR ETRD ECON RP |
08MANILA1980 | PHILIPPINES: COUNTERING TERRORIST USE OF THE [...] (SBU) Following consultation with post's Law Enforcement Working Group (LEWG),post has no objection to S/CT's proposed "countering terrorist use of the internet" training program, to be implemented by DS/ATA with FY 2008 regional NADR funds. 2. (SBU) We suggest that the order of the prog [...] | 2008-08-20 07:03:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC CT PGOV PREL PTER RP |
08MANILA1981 | PHILIPPINES CONCURS WITH U.S. VIEWS REGARDING UN [...] (SBU) Officials at the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Office of United Nations and Other International Organizations (UNIO) welcomed our thoughts on the Pacific Small Island Developing States (PSIDS) proposed resolution on Climate Change that would call for a UN Security Counc [...] | 2008-08-20 07:41:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNGA SENV AORC KGHG RP EUN |
08MANILA1997 | GOVERNMENT PURSUES NEW PEACE PROCESS STRATEGY [...] (C) SUMMARY. Faced in the last few weeks with serious legal and political challenges to its arduously negotiated Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) on territory with the Moro Islamic Liberation Front, the Arroyo government is moving rapidly -- albeit with some confusion -- to cobble together a mor [...] | 2008-08-22 09:28:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EAID PINR PREL PHUM KISL RP |
08MANILA1998 | SCENESETTER FOR PEACE CORPS DIRECTOR TSCHETTER'S VISIT TO [...] (SBU) Welcome to the Philippines! You are coming at an interesting and challenging time. Increasing food and energy prices have put the economy and the social situation under strain, increasing the incidence of poverty. Legal challenges before the Philippine Supreme Court aborted the long-a [...] | 2008-08-22 09:28:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL RP |
08MANILA1999 | VIOLENCE IN MINDANAO CONTINUES BUT NOT "ALL OUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: As fighting between Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) forces and the Philippine military enters its second week, the Philippine Armed Forces continue to score successes against the MILF, and the MILF insurgents appear to have miscalculated their own military capabilities and [...] | 2008-08-22 09:42:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MCAP PREL PTER RP MASS |
08MANILA202 | PHILIPPINES CIVAIR: FAA MEETING WITH DEPARTMENT OF [...] (SBU) Summary: Regional U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) representatives met with Philippine Department of Transportation Secretary Leandro Mendoza on January 23-24 to discuss how to improve air safety in the Philippines and regain a Category 1 safety rating for Philippine civil avia [...] | 2008-01-25 05:02:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON RP |
08MANILA2022 | PRESIDENT DETERMINED TO STOP ATTACKS, BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY. At a meeting at Malacanang Palace August 27, President Gloria Arroyo underscored to Ambassador the Philippine government's commitment to the peace process, but made it clear that a stable security situation was a prerequisite to returning to peace talks with Muslim insurgents. C [...] | 2008-08-28 10:37:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EAID PINR PREL PHUM KISL RP |
08MANILA2035 | PHILIPPINE STAKEHOLDERS UNITE AGAINST HUMAN [...] SUMMARY: On August 20, Ambassador joined civil society groups, as well as Philippine government and private sector partners, to inaugurate an aggressive campaign against human trafficking. The event, held at Manila's North Harbor, attracted a diverse crowd to mark a renewed and expanded init [...] | 2008-08-29 09:35:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM KCRM KWMN ELAB RP |
08MANILA2049 | RAJAH SOLAIMAN MOVEMENT TERRORIST DEPORTED TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ruben Omar Pestano Lavilla, Jr., a key leader of the Philippine terrorist group Rajah Solaiman Movement, was deported to Manila on August 30, after he was arrested on July 24 in Bahrain. The deportation was an important success for Philippine officials, who worked through the U [...] | 2008-09-03 08:43:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC CT PGOV PREL PTER RP |
08MANILA2051 | PEACE PROCESS AT A CROSSROADS [...] (C) SUMMARY: The events of the last few weeks -- the Supreme Court's cancellation of the signing of the Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) on territory, the fighting in various parts of central Mindanao, the government's declaration that it would no longer sign the MOA irrespective of the Supreme [...] | 2008-09-03 10:47:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EAID PINR PREL PHUM KISL RP |
08MANILA207 | TERRORISM FINANCE MANILA UPDATE JANUARY 2008 [...] (S) Legatt and Econ officers met with Philippine Anti-Money Laundering Council (AMLC) Executive Director Vicente Aquino on January 25 to discuss terror finance issues raised in ref A related to Rajah Solaiman Movement listing by the UN 1267 Committee, and to deliver the talking points and bac [...] | 2008-01-25 08:49:00 | Embassy Manila | SECRET | RP KTFN EFIN PTER PREL ETTC |
08MANILA2072 | PRESIDENTIAL ADVISOR DISCUSSES PEACE PROCESS WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a wide-ranging discussion with the Ambassador September 3,Presidential Peace Advisor Hermogenes Esperon made it clear that the Philippine government is still searching for an appropriate way forward in peace process negotiations with Muslim insurgents in Mindanao. A key miles [...] | 2008-09-05 08:51:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV EAID PINR PREL PHUM KISL RP |
08MANILA2074 | "Mindanao still open for business" [...] (U) SUMMARY. Signifying the USG's continuing commitment to economic prosperity and stability for Mindanao, the Acting Deputy Chief of Mission (A/DCM) visited the Mindanao province of Zamboanga del Norte where he: delivered the keynote address at the annual Mindanao Business Conference; formal [...] | 2008-09-05 09:53:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PGOV KISL KPAO RP EAID |
08MANILA208 | PHILIPPINE RESPONSE ON KOSOVO STATUS [...] No summary [...] | 2008-01-25 09:27:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EU PGOV UN UNMIK YI |
08MANILA2103 | DEMONSTRATING COMMITMENT TO STOP EXTRAJUDICIAL [...] (C) Summary: The Philippine government continues to take steps against extrajudicial killings (EJKs) through continued engagement with civil society actors and increased vigilance at the highest levels of the police and military. The Philippine Department of Justice (DOJ) is closely monitoring [...] | 2008-09-10 09:41:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL RP |
08MANILA2115 | Philippine Civil Aviation Safety Developments [...] Summary: Newly appointed Director General (DG) of the Civil Aviation Authority of the Philippines (CAAP) Ruben Ciron led a delegation of Philippine civil aviation officials in mid-August to Washington D.C. to finalize an agreement with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on a plan to re [...] | 2008-09-11 05:25:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ECON EINV ETRD RP |
08MANILA2130 | PHILIPPINES: LOOKING AHEAD TO THE TRILATERAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy Manila provides the following for use with the upcoming Trilateral Strategic Dialogue (TSD) to be held in Washington. The Philippine government has been an active partner in trilateral and bilateral counterterrorism cooperation, and continues to achieve significant pro [...] | 2008-09-12 09:14:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER RP JA AS |
08MANILA2133 | SENATE RATIFICATION OF PHILIPPINES-JAPAN FREE TRADE [...] Summary. (SBU) The Japan-Philippines Economic Partnership Agreement (JPEPA),signed in September 2006, remains under review in the Philippine Senate. Philippine and Japanese government officials have varying estimates on the timeframe for its ratification. Some Senators still have constitution [...] | 2008-09-15 01:32:00 | Embassy Manila | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EINV ECON PGOV PREL RP |
08MANILA2135 | PHILIPPINE STATE-OWNED FINANCIAL INSTITUTION IN [...] (SBU) Summary: EconCouns met with Secretaries of Finance, Trade and Agriculture to express concern about the failure of a Philippine state owned enterprise to make required principal payments on its bonds, $20 million of which are held by GE Moneybank. GE is requesting that the government e [...] | 2008-09-15 01:47:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EFIN PGOV PREL RP |
08MANILA2163 | MARINE CASE UPDATE: SUPREME COURT TO HEAR CUSTODY [...] (C) SUMMARY. The case of U.S. Marine LCpl Daniel Smith, whom a trial court found guilty of rape, remains under appeal. Separate from the substance of the case, the Supreme Court is set to hear oral arguments September 19 regarding whether the Philippine government erred in transferring custo [...] | 2008-09-16 10:12:00 | Embassy Manila | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR KCRM CASC RP |