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| 00LONDON8980 | UNITED KINGDOM: 2000 ANNUAL TERRORISM REPORT [...] THE UNITED KINGDOM CONTINUED ITS AGGRESSIVE EFFORTS AGAINST DOMESTIC AND INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM IN 2000. IT PASSED A NEW TERRORISM LAW THAT GIVES THE GOVERNMENT EXPANDED POWERS TO FIGHT BOTH DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN TERRORISM, AND IT CONTINUED ITS CLOSE COOPERATION WITH THE UNITED STATES TO BRI [...] |
2000-12-28 17:06:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER UK |
| 01LONDON5780 | TFUS01: EMBASSY LONDON SITREP 11, 09/28/01 [...] (U) PM TONY BLAIR MET SEPTEMBER 27 WITH A DIVERSE GROUP OF BRITISH MUSLIM LEADERS AT DOWNING STREET AND ANNOUNCED, "JUST AS WE HAVE BUILT A POLITICAL AND MILITARY COALITION FOLLOWING THE EVENTS IN AMERICA, NOW WE HAVE ALSO TO BUILD A HUMANITARIAN COALITION TO DEAL WITH THE HUMANITARIAN CRISIS [...] |
2001-09-28 17:53:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL PGOV US UK |
| 01LONDON7384 | UNITED KINGDOM: 2001 ANNUAL TERRRORISM REPORT [...] POST HAS KEYED ITS RESPONSES TO REFTEL PARAGRAPHS. A) DESCRIBE SIGNIFICANT ACTIONS TAKEN TO SUPPORT THE ANTI-TERRORISM COALITION, PARTICULARLY IN ACTIONS TAKEN AGAINST AL-QAEDA AND THE TALIBAN. THE UNITED KINGDOM HAS AN EXCEPTIONALLY STRONG RECORD OF ACTIONS TO COUNTER THE TERRORIST THREA [...] |
2001-12-21 16:23:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER UK |
| 02LONDON8320 | UNITED KINGDOM: 2002 ANNUAL TERRORISM REPORT [...] (U) THIS TELEGRAM CONTAINS EMBASSY LONDON'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE 2002 "PATTERNS OF GLOBAL TERRORISM" REPORT. EMBASSY INPUT IS KEYED TO REFTEL QUESTIONS. 2. (U) SIGNIFICANT ACTIONS TAKEN BY THE UK TO SUPPORT THE GLOBAL COALITION AGAINST TERRORISM, PARTICULARLY LAW ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS TAKEN [...] |
2002-11-25 10:59:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | EI PGOV PINR PREL PTER UK |
| 03LONDON9572 | UNITED KINGDOM - 2003 ANNUAL TERRORISM REPORT [...] (U) This telegram contains Embassy London's contributions to the 2003 "Patterns of Global Terrorism" Report. Embassy input is keyed to reftel questions. 2. (U) A) SIGNIFICANT ACTIONS TAKEN BY HOST GOVERNMENTS TO SUPPORT THE GLOBAL COALITION AGAINST TERRORISM, PARTICULARLY LAW ENFORCEMENT A [...] |
2003-11-26 17:34:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PINR PREL PGOV UK |
| 04LONDON3070 | PREVENTING TRAVEL TO POSSIBLE KONGRA-GEL [...] No summary [...] |
2004-04-23 17:47:00 | Embassy London | SECRET | PTER PREL PINS IZ TU EU SY JO UK |
| 05LONDON1257 | TAKING ACTION AGAINST HEZBOLLAH AND HAMAS [...] (S) SUMMARY: The Prime Minister's commitment to the Secretary to proscribe the political wings of Hezbollah and Hamas coupled with the March 1 London meeting to support the Palestinian leadership provide us with our best opportunity in three years to leverage significant change in HMG policy t [...] |
2005-02-11 15:31:00 | Embassy London | SECRET | PGOV PINR PREL PTER UK XF |
| 05LONDON4981 | IMO SECGEN REPORTS ON HIS TRIP TO THE KOREAN PENINSULAR [...] (C) On June 10, Efthimios Mitropoulos, Secretary General of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) briefed ESTOff on his trip the previous week to the Korean Peninsula. Even before his arrival, the North had indicated that his offer of the IMO's good offices to increase North-South maritime [...] |
2005-06-15 10:55:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EWWT JA KR PREL UK IMO PSI |
| 05LONDON793 | FUTURE OF IRAQ COALITION [...] (S) We delivered reftel points on January 28 to FCO Iraq Policy Unit DepDir for PolMil Gerard Russell. Russell was grateful for the points and exceptionally complimentary of their attention to other coalition partners. The points should help to reassure various countries that USG and HMG off [...] |
2005-01-28 12:17:00 | Embassy London | SECRET | MARR PREL MOPS UNSC IZ UK |
| 06LONDON1623 | (SBU) GUANTANAMO: LABOUR MP DISCUSSES OMAR [...] (U) Action Request - please see paragraph 7. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION: Poloffs met with Labour backbench MP Des Turner March 2 at his request, to hear his concerns about Guantanamo detainee Omar Deghayes, a Libyan national with longstanding legal residency status in UK as a refug [...] |
2006-03-03 14:15:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PTER PHUM UK |
| 06LONDON1629 | (C) ZIMBABWE: UK LOBBYING TOO AHEAD OF IMF VOTE [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to FCO Zimbabwe Section Head St. John Gould March 3, noting that DOTreasury would contact HMTreasury directly on the same topic. Gould said FCO and HMTreasury were also lobbying IMF Executive Board member states against restoring Zimbabwe's voting rights [...] |
2006-03-03 16:25:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PREL ZI UK |
| 06LONDON1735 | (C) SUDAN: UK IN SYNCH ON UN RE-HATTING OF AMIS [...] No summary [...] |
2006-03-07 15:48:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO NATO SU UK |
| 06LONDON2020 | (C) SUDAN: UK PUSHES RE-HATTING AND SENSITIVITY [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel points to FCO Sudan Unit Senior Political Officer Gregor Lusty March 17. Lusty said the UK agrees with those points and is also pressing appropriate African states to support quick action on re-hatting AMIS as a UN operation. He said the UK stresses the importanc [...] |
2006-03-17 17:51:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO SOCI NATO SU UK |
| 06LONDON2203 | (SBU) "LOANS FOR PEERAGES": MORE SMOKE THAN FIRE, [...] (C) SUMMARY: The British media are making much of the revelation that Prime Minister Blair nominated some wealthy individuals for peerages after they had made unpublicized loans to his Labour party. Those loans were not public knowledge, because transparency rules (introduced by Blair) appl [...] |
2006-03-24 16:39:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KDEM PINR UK |
| 06LONDON2212 | (U) SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY RICE'S VISIT TO [...] (U) Your visit to Blackburn and Liverpool represents an opportunity to allow Foreign Secretary Straw to reciprocate your hospitality during his visit to Birmingham last October. My wife and I look forward to your visit and to accompanying you and the Foreign Secretary during what promises to [...] |
2006-03-24 17:47:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | OVIP PGOV PREL MARR ECON UK |
| 06LONDON3200 | TERRORISM FINANCE: UK POSITION ON MENAFATF BEST [...] (C) Summary: The UK fully supports the MENAFATF best practices paper on charities, and there is no UK policy to relax the measures set out in the draft version of the paper. While representatives of the Charity Commission have discussed the paper with MENAFATF members, they have done so base [...] |
2006-05-05 15:06:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC KTFN PTER PREL EU UK |
| 06LONDON3207 | DEMARCHE ON EU LISTING OF THE LTTE AS A TERRORIST [...] (C) Embassy raised reftel points with Simon Bond of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's South Asia Department and Ben Lyon of the FCO's Counterterrorism Policy Department. Lyon said that the UK fully supports an EU designation of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). LTTE is already [...] |
2006-05-05 16:01:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC KTFN PREL PTER CO UK |
| 06LONDON3208 | TERRORISM FINANCE: U.S. DOMESTIC DESIGNATION OF JUD [...] (C) Embassy delivered reftel demarche to Ben Lyon in the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's Counterterrorism Policy Department and to Sean Byrne in Her Majesty's Treasury's Financial Systems and International Standards Department. Both said that the UK would be holding an internal Asset Freezin [...] |
2006-05-05 16:04:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC EFIN PTER KTFN UK |
| 06LONDON3365 | (C) TERRORISM FINANCE: EU CLEARINGHOUSE TO [...] (C/NF) Ben Lyon (please protect) of the FCO's Counterterrorism Policy Department said that the Austrian Presidency has decided to hold a snap meeting of the EU Clearinghouse on Thursday, May 18. The meeting was originally scheduled for either June 12 or 14 (ref A). Lyon said that he understo [...] |
2006-05-12 15:46:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ETTC KTFN PREL PTER CO UK |
| 06LONDON3628 | TERRORISM FINANCE: UK TO SEEK UN DESIGNATION OF [...] (C/NF) The United Kingdom intends to seek UN 1267 designation of two additional Libyan Islamic Fighting Group (LIFG) targets. According to Giles Cutler, of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's Sanctions Unit, the UK plans to seek UN designation for Sarra Properties Limited and Khalid Balaam. [...] |
2006-05-23 16:00:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | ETTC EFIN PTER KTFN UK |
| 06LONDON3853 | UK ANNOUNCES MAJOR REVAMP OF PENSION SYSTEM [...] SUMMARY: The British government announced on May 25 what Secretary of State for Work and Pensions John Hutton SIPDIS described as "the greatest renewal of our pensions system since the post-war reforms implemented by Clement Attlee's government." The changes include an increase in the ret [...] |
2006-05-31 11:07:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB ECON PGOV |
| 06LONDON3980 | HMG SET TO APPEAL HIGH COURT RULING PERMITTING [...] (C) Summary: The UK High Court May 11 overturned the 2004 Orders in Council which barred the Chagossian Islanders from resettling the islands around Diego Garcia from which they were forcibly removed in the 1960s when the U.S. sought to establish the Naval Support Facility there. HMG has conf [...] |
2006-06-06 09:30:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL MP UK IO |
| 06LONDON4022 | (C) SOMALIA: FCO SEEKS CLOSER COORDINATION [...] (U) Action Request - please see paragraph 4. 2. (C) FCO East Africa Section Head Ben Lyon told Poloff June 5 that the UK is keen to coordinate more closely with the USG on Somalia. He said Africa Director James Bevan tried to phone A/S Frazer June 2 to ask for a response to the draft "US [...] |
2006-06-07 10:22:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SO UK |
| 06LONDON4033 | (U) LIBERIAN PRESIDENT JOHNSON SIRLEAF VISITS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf's visit to London May 29-31 reflects the UK's increased commitment to Liberia as a key to stability in the sub-region. She met with the Queen, Secretary of State for International Development Hilary Benn and FCO Minister for Africa Lor [...] |
2006-06-07 11:11:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID EFIN LI UK |
| 06LONDON4184 | IRANIAN EXILE GROUP DEDICATED TO REGIME OVERTHROW [...] (C) Summary. The Iranian Solidarity Congress (ISC), an umbrella organization designed to unite disparate Iranian exile groups, held the third in a series of meetings June 3-5 in London. The ISC's stated goal is to develop a common strategy to bring about the nonviolent overthrow of the curr [...] |
2006-06-12 15:13:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM IR UK |
| 06LONDON4221 | (C/NF) LIBERIA/SIERRA LEONE: UK CONSIDERING [...] (C/NF) FCO West Africa Section Head Jason Moore told Poloff under questioning June 12 that HMG is considering UN Secretary General Annan's request that it agree to SIPDIS incarcerate former Liberian president Charles Taylor if he is convicted by the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL). M [...] |
2006-06-13 15:39:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PHUM KAWC LI SL UK |
| 06LONDON4336 | (U) UK AGREES TO TAKE CHARLES TAYLOR IF CONVICTED [...] (U) Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett announced June 15 that, subject to Parliament passing the necessary legislation, the UK would allow the former President of Liberia, Charles Taylor, to serve his sentence in the UK should he be convicted by the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL). Thi [...] |
2006-06-16 09:53:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL |
| 06LONDON4338 | UK OPEN TO FINANCIAL MEASURES AGAINST IRAN [...] (S) Undersecretary of Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Stuart Levey met with UK officials on June 7 to discuss possible financial measures that could be used to increase pressure on Iran. In meetings at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Her Majesty's Treasury, and the Bank of En [...] |
2006-06-16 10:23:00 | Embassy London | SECRET | ETTC EFIN PTER PREL UK IR |
| 06LONDON4563 | UK MPs REGISTER REACT TO GUANTANAMO SUICIDES [...] (U) Former Foreign Office Minister Keith Vaz, a Labour Member of Parliament (MP), introduced a strongly worded Parliamentary motion on June 12, criticizing press statements by USG officials following the suicide of three Guantanamo Bay inmates. Thus far the motion has received support from [...] |
2006-06-23 15:21:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PTER PGOV UK |
| 06LONDON5057 | (C) SRI LANKA: UK REVIEWING POLICY [...] (U) This is an action request - please see paragraph 4. 2. (C) FCO Sri Lanka Section Head Simon Lever told Poloff July 11 that HMG is reviewing its policy on Sri Lanka. This policy review is what is holding up its reply to the USG proposal that the UK consider chairing a contact group to a [...] |
2006-07-12 07:53:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER MARR CE UK |
| 06LONDON5097 | UK PASSENGER NAME RECOGNITION CONTINGENCY PLANNING [...] (U) This is an action request, please see paragraph 7. 2. (U) SUMMARY: The UK is in the process of developing contingency plans to ensure that airlines have legal cover to provide passenger name recognition (PNR) data to Customs and Border Protection (CBP) after September 30, even if a new [...] |
2006-07-12 14:06:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR PTER PREL EU UK |
| 06LONDON5198 | (C) TFLE01: SEEKING INFORMAL APPROVAL TO USE UK [...] (C) Embassy London discussed with FCO Cyprus Desk Officer Simon Wood on July 14 the possibility of the U.S. using British Sovereign Base Areas (SBAs) on Cyprus as staging areas for fixed and rotary aircraft to help evacuate AmCits from Lebanon. Wood told us that ultimately the decision rested [...] |
2006-07-15 13:23:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS AEMR MARR CASC KHLS LE UK |
| 06LONDON5267 | INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION (IMO): REPORT OF THE [...] SUMMARY: The 14th session of the Flag State Implementation Subcommittee (FSI 14 S/C) met at IMO Headquarters, London, UK. Mrs. Tatjana Krilic of Croatia chaired the meeting. The meeting was attended by seventy members, two associate members, one United Nations specialized agency, two intergover [...] |
2006-07-18 14:57:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC IMO EWWT PHSA SENV KTIA UK |
| 06LONDON5371 | IRAQ: HMG EXPRESSES HOPE FOR IRAQ COMPACT AND [...] (C) Summary: In a July 18 meeting in London, FCO and MOD officials told Assistant Secretary of State for Political Military Affairs John Hillen they were disappointed in the deteriorating security situation in Iraq and that they supported using the Iraq Compact as a mechanism for obtaining exp [...] |
2006-07-20 16:30:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MOPS UK IZ |
| 06LONDON5471 | UK GOVERNMENT ENERGY REVIEW: MORE SECURITY, FEWER [...] No summary [...] |
2006-07-26 11:36:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | ENRG SENV UK |
| 06LONDON5476 | CONDEMNATION OF DPRK MISSILE LAUNCHES AT IMO [...] Summary. USDel delivered the statement contained in Ref A at the July 19 meeting of the IMO NAV 52 conference. USDel's statement followed the Japanese intervention which condemned the DPRK missile launches and was joined by statements of concern from the Russian Federation, HMG, France, Italy [...] |
2006-07-26 13:10:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | EWWT PHSA PARM MOPS MCAP KN KS JA UK IMO |
| 06LONDON5498 | HMG PLANS RELEASE OF CLIMATE CHANGE REPORT AT G8 [...] No summary [...] |
2006-07-27 08:42:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | SENV UK |
| 06LONDON5500 | TERRORISM FINANCE: IIRO PRENOTIFICATION [...] No summary [...] |
2006-07-27 09:15:00 | Embassy London | SECRET | ETTC EFIN PTER LVPR CVIS KTFN UK |
| 06LONDON5503 | TERRORISM FINANCE: MONTREUX INITIATIVE ON ISLAMIC [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (C) Summary and Action Request: The Montreux Initiative is a non-governmental project designed to promote cooperation in removing unjustified obstacles to the effective operation of legitimate Islamic charities. The initiative, whi [...] |
2006-07-27 10:28:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC KTFN PTER PREL EU UK |
| 06LONDON5533 | UK: POCS FOR NNSAB INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION [...] Post has identified POCs within HMG and in the research community who are interested in engaging with the NSABB on the potential for the misuse of life sciences research and conveyed the points in reftel to the HMG. Within the HMG the Home Office is responsible for monitoring the possible mis [...] |
2006-07-28 08:17:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO UK |
| 06LONDON5547 | INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION (IMO): REPORT OF THE [...] SUMMARY: The International Maritime Organization (IMO, or "the Organization") held meetings in London from June 13 through June 23, 2006, consisting of the Technical Co-operation Committee's fifty-sixth session (TCC56) and the Council's ninety-sixth session (C96). Significant agenda items dur [...] |
2006-07-28 15:46:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHSA EWWT ECPS MOPS AORC IMO KTIA US UK KE XA |
| 06LONDON5615 | INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION (IMO): REPORT OF THE [...] ROUTING OF SHIPS, SHIP REPORTING AND RELATED MATTERS: The S/C approved all proposals on the agenda, with amendments as appropriate. The S/C noted, at Ecuador's request, but did not consider or approve two traffic separation schemes (TSS) because the U.S. intervened to clarify that these TSS's [...] |
2006-08-01 15:10:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | IMO PSHA SENV PBTS KSCA UK |
| 06LONDON5746 | (C)UK ON BURMA: NO THAI REMORSE FOR VISIT; FINNS [...] (C) We met August 4 with British Foreign Office officials responsible for Burmese affairs. Head of section Nick Alexander had seen our demarche (ref a) over concern that the Finns have invited the Burmese Foreign Minister to ASEM, as it had been shared by a representative of an unspecified E [...] |
2006-08-07 10:54:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV UN BM UK |
| 06LONDON5861 | (C) UK FOREIGN SECRETARY PESSIMISTIC ON LEBANON [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett is pessimistic enough about the future of the draft Lebanon Security Council resolution that she planned to travel early this morning (August 10) to New York to do what she could to help the negotiations, Middle East/North Africa Director (NEA [...] |
2006-08-10 11:58:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER MOPS UN IS LE UK |
| 06LONDON5956 | TERRORISM FINANCE: UK DOES NOT INTEND TO REQUEST [...] (C) Summary: The UK does not intend to request a UN 1267 designation in the short term for the nineteen suspects associated with the failed aircraft terror plot whose assets were frozen by the Bank of England on August 11 (reftel). According to HM Treasury officials, the decision not to pursue [...] |
2006-08-14 17:03:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC KTFN PTER PREL EU UK |
| 06LONDON5958 | (U) TENSIONS RISE BETWEEN BRITISH MUSLIMS AND HMG [...] (C) SUMMARY: Frustrated by the bruising that their community has taken after 24 UK-born Muslims were arrested in connection with the recently-thwarted air terrorist plot (reftels), prominent British Muslims sent an open letter to PM Tony Blair August 12 blaming his policy on Iraq and the Middle Eas [...] |
2006-08-14 17:17:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PTER KISL UK |
| 06LONDON6053 | INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION (IMO): REPORT OF THE [...] SUMMARY: The thirty-third session of the IMO FAL met in London from 3-7 July 2006, under the chairmanship of Mr. C. Abela (Malta). The session was attended by delegations from sixty-six Member Governments, two Associate Member Governments, three Intergovernmental Organizations, and fourteen N [...] |
2006-08-17 14:13:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | IMO AORC ASEC UK |
| 06LONDON6059 | TERRORISM FINANCE: UK REVIEW OF TERRORIST ABUSE OF [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 7. 2. (C) Summary. The Home Office and Her Majesty's Treasury are conducting an in-depth review of the UK's regulatory and law enforcement structure for combating terrorist financing in the charity sector. Home Office officials are deepl [...] |
2006-08-17 15:30:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | ETTC KTFN PTER PREL EU UK |
| 06LONDON6113 | UK: "NOT NOW" FOR G8 BTEX FOOD DEFENSE EXERCISE [...] According to Post's contacts at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, HMG's Food Standards Agency (FSA) feels it is too early for HMG to effectively participate in the G8 BTEX exercise outlined in Reftel. The FSA currently plans on holding its own exercise this autumn and will not be able to c [...] |
2006-08-21 09:08:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER TBIO PINS EAGR EUN UK |
| 06LONDON6133 | (C) UK NOT SENDING DELEGATIONS TO SYRIA AND IRAN [...] No summary [...] |
2006-08-21 15:23:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS IR SY LE UK |
| 06LONDON6159 | COUNTERDRUG: ONDCP DIRECTOR WALTERS IN LONDON [...] Summary. The Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy John Walters was in London August 8-9 to present at an international demand reduction conference entitled: "The Future of Drug Policies Globally - UNGASS 2008 and Beyond: Reconciling Research with Reality, Rights with Respon [...] |
2006-08-22 13:07:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR UK |
| 06LONDON6160 | ONDCP DIRECTOR WALTERS AND INL A/S PATTERSON MEET [...] (C) SUMMARY: ONDCP Director Walters and INL A/S Patterson met August 9 in London with Afghanistan,s Counter Narcotics (CN) Minister Habibullah Qaderi. The Minister said Afghanistan's CN Strategy is good but needs to be implemented fully; he agreed that more needs to be done on public outreac [...] |
2006-08-22 13:12:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR AF UK |
| 06LONDON6164 | (S/NF) TERRORISM FINANCE: CHARITY COMMISSION TO [...] (S/NF) The Charity Commission of England and Wales intends to issue a temporary asset freeze either late August 22 or early August 23 on a UK-based charity with possible ties to the August 10 foiled terror plot. According to Stuart Young of the Home Office, the Charity Commission will temporar [...] |
2006-08-22 15:59:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ETTC KTFN PTER PREL EU UK |
| 06LONDON6196 | (U) GUANTANAMO: POLOFFS MEET WITH MP'S AND [...] (U) Action request - please see paragraph 3. 2. (C) At the request of Labour backbench MP Desmond Turner, Poloffs met August 22 with Turner and a group of activists to discuss Guantanamo. Most of the activists were campaigners on behalf of Guantanamo detainee Omar Deghayes, whose family [...] |
2006-08-23 16:37:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER PHUM UK |
| 06LONDON6199 | LONDON BLUE LANTERN ACTION OFFICER [...] No summary [...] |
2006-08-23 17:26:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC KOMC UK |
| 06LONDON6261 | (U) CENTRAL ASIAN NUCLEAR-WEAPON-FREE ZONE [...] No summary [...] |
2006-08-25 15:50:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR KNNP PARM PREL UN |
| 06LONDON6272 | (C) KAZAKHSTAN: UK AGREES ON DELAYING OSCE [...] (C) In response to reftel demarche, FCO Head of International Organizations Department Tim Morris told Poloff August 25 that the UK agrees with the U.S. position and considers the timing "ideal." The EU will meet at working level on September 8 and the UK is prepared to block any attempt to [...] |
2006-08-25 16:03:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM PGOV PHUM OSCE KZ |
| 06LONDON6324 | UK TRADE UNIONS CONFERENCE WILL OFFER SNEAK [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Delegates to the upcoming TUC Conference will greet PM Blair with the question "When are you leaving?", Trades Union Congress (TUC) International Relations Department Head Owen Tudor told Lab Couns and ECON Asst Aug 30. The TUC will also debate recent moves to privatize parts [...] |
2006-08-30 17:08:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PGOV PREL UK |
| 06LONDON6325 | (C) DARFUR: UK KEEN ON JOINT DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...] |
2006-08-31 06:06:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL DPKO UNSC SU UK |
| 06LONDON6433 | (C) UK SUPPORTS PUTTING BURMA ON THE UNSC AGENDA [...] No summary [...] |
2006-09-06 09:20:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNSC BM UK |
| 06LONDON6445 | (C) UK WILL NOT ATTEND INR CONFERENCE ON GENOCIDE [...] No summary [...] |
2006-09-06 14:48:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR KACW UK |
| 06LONDON6448 | INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION (IMO): REPORT OF THE [...] SUMMARY: The International Maritime Organization's (IMO) Sub-Committee (S/C) on Stability and Load Lines and on Fishing Vessels Safety (SLF) held its 49th session at IMO headquarters in London from July 24-28, 2006, under the chair of Mr. Rob Gehling (Australia). 59 Member Governments, 1 Associ [...] |
2006-09-06 15:04:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | IMO AORC ASEC UK |
| 06LONDON6559 | (C) SRI LANKA CONTACT GROUP MEETING 9/27 [...] (U) Action Request - please see paragraph 3. 2. (C) The UK still supports the Sri Lanka Contact Group in principle but would like more detail about it - i.e., what are the expected inputs and the anticipated outputs/results? FCO Sri Lanka and Bangladesh Section Head Simon Lever told Polof [...] |
2006-09-11 15:32:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PHUM PINS PREL PTER CE UK |
| 06LONDON6591 | UK AGREES TO LIMITED LOBBYING FOR GUATEMALA'S UNSC [...] (C) The FCO agreed to our request to lobby Ghana, Kenya, Namibia and Singapore in support of Guatemala's bid for the Latin American and Caribbean Group (GRULAC) seat on the UN Security Council. FCO Director for International Security Stephen Pattison told DCM September 9 that the UK supported [...] |
2006-09-12 13:30:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC GT VE UK |
| 06LONDON6661 | UK UPDATE: PANDEMIC FLU PREPAREDNESS [...] No summary [...] |
2006-09-14 15:07:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU UK |
| 06LONDON6714 | FOREIGN SECRETARY BECKETT UNABLE TO ATTEND UNGA [...] (U) Ambassador Tuttle wrote to Foreign Secretary Beckett on September 12 inviting her to participate in Secretary Rice's Coalition Against Wildlife Trafficking (CAWT) press event on the margins of the UNGA on September 22. HMG contacts tell us that Barry Gardiner, the junior minister responsib [...] |
2006-09-15 15:50:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | SENV UK |
| 06LONDON6761 | UK TRADE UNIONS ALTERNATELY PURSUE ENLIGHTENED AND [...] (SBU) Summary: The British trades union movement's annual convention was an exposition of both the broad and narrow visions of its members. At times it pursued the lofty goals of workplace equality, better conditions, skills training and opportunity. At others, its members called for the p [...] |
2006-09-19 11:10:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB PGOV UK |
| 06LONDON6843 | HMG AND OES/ETC CONDUCT LONDON CAWT BRIEFING [...] Summary. HMG's Department for Food, Environment and Rural Affairs (Defra) hosted a briefing on the Coalition Against Wildlife Trafficking (CAWT) on September 19 in London. Representatives from the South African, Brazilian, Czech, German and Canadian embassies attended along with a represent [...] |
2006-09-21 16:09:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV UK |
| 06LONDON6844 | HMG AND OES CONDUCT LONDON CAWT BRIEFING [...] Summary. HMG's Department for Food, Environment and Rural Affairs (Defra) hosted a briefing on the Coalition Against Wildlife Trafficking (CAWT) on September 19 in London. Representatives from the South African, Brazilian, Czech, German and Canadian embassies attended along with a represent [...] |
2006-09-21 16:09:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV UK |
| 06LONDON6853 | "LARGEST HEALTH SERVICE STRIKE IN 20 YEARS" MORE [...] (U) Unionized workers at the UK's National Health Service's supply arm, NHS Logistics, began the first of two 24 hour strikes late on September 21 to protest the sale of the public sector entity to the German logistics giant, DHL. NHS Logistics supplies thousands of non-pharmaceutical suppli [...] |
2006-09-22 09:34:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ELAB UK GE |
| 06LONDON7035 | (SBU) BLAIR'S AFRICA PROGRESS PANEL IS TAKING SHAPE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Blair has decided to convene an Africa Progress Panel to ensure that the promises on Africa made at G8 and UN Summits are kept. Kofi Annan has agreed to chair it; Bob Geldof, President Obasanjo, Michel Camdessus, Graca Machel and Peter Eigan (founder of Transpa [...] |
2006-09-29 16:14:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL EAID |
| 06LONDON7036 | (C) SUDAN: FCO THOUGHTS ON INCENTIVES AND [...] (C) In keeping with the Secretary's speech of September 27, the UK is thinking about possible incentives if the Government of Sudan does the right thing on Darfur, and possible disincentives if it does not. FCO-DFID Sudan Unit Deputy Head James Thornton shared UK thoughts with Poloff Septemb [...] |
2006-09-29 16:17:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR EAID ETTC SU UK |
| 06LONDON7078 | (SBU) BLAIR, BROWN BOTH STRONGER AFTER LABOUR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Tony Blair and Chancellor Gordon Brown both emerged stronger from the Labour Party's annual conference (September 24-28) in Manchester. It was Blair's last as Prime Minister and party leader and his speech was a "magnificent valedictory," as guest-speaker form [...] |
2006-10-02 16:04:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR UK |
| 06LONDON7080 | (C) SUDAN: UK AWAITS EU ENVOY'S REPORT ON [...] No summary [...] |
2006-10-02 16:07:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PINS KDEM SU ER UK |
| 06LONDON7107 | MAURITIAN HICOM PRESSES AGAIN FOR CHAGOS TREATY [...] (U) This is an action request; see para 4. 2. (C) The Mauritian High Commissioner in London has approached the Ambassador again asking the U.S. to press the UK to negotiate a treaty with Mauritius that would give sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago's outer islands (i.e. not Diego Garcia) [...] |
2006-10-03 15:43:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL MP UK IO |
| 06LONDON7124 | (C) SUDAN: UK AGREES TO DELETION OF LRA LANGUAGE [...] (U) Action Request; please see paragraph 3. 2. (C) The UK agrees "somewhat reluctanctly" to accept a UNSCR on UNMIS without reference to the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). FCO-DFID Sudan Unit Deputy Head James Thornton told Poloff this in response to reftel demarche, adding that the UK wo [...] |
2006-10-04 12:11:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNSC KPKO SU UK |
| 06LONDON7136 | (C) ZIMBABWE: FCO CONVENES U.S., CANADA, [...] (U) Action Request; please see paragraph 11. 2. (C) SUMMARY: FCO Zimbabwe Section convened a meeting with London-based political officers from U.S., Canada, Australia and New Zealand October 4. The UK's priority on Zimbabwe is to ensure renewal of EU sanctions in February; it expects r [...] |
2006-10-04 15:34:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM ZI UK |
| 06LONDON7206 | (U) S/CRS HERBST MEETS WITH DFID AND FCO OFFICIALS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: S/CRS Ambassador John Herbst met in London October 5 with the UK's Department for International Development (DFID) and Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). In both meetings, the two sides updated each other on their respective efforts to improve coordination of the civilian [...] |
2006-10-06 16:55:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL EAID UK |
| 06LONDON7225 | INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION (IMO): REPORT OF THE [...] SUMMARY: The eleventh session of the International Maritime Organization's Subcommittee (S/C) on Dangerous Goods, Solid Cargoes and Containers (DSC) met in London from 11 - 15 September 2006, under the chairmanship of Mrs. Olga Pestel-Lefevre (France). The session was attended by delegations [...] |
2006-10-10 14:39:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | IMO AORC EWWT UK |
| 06LONDON7250 | (C) UK-INDIA SUMMIT: BUILDING ON THE STRATEGIC [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: Prime Ministers Blair and Singh met in London October 10 for the third annual UK-India summit since the bilateral strategic partnership was launched in 2004. This was not intended as a summit of breakthrough agreements, but rather of building on the multi-faceted relationship. [...] |
2006-10-11 16:05:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL KNNP ETRD PTER IN AF UK |
| 06LONDON7253 | (SBU) SOUTHERN SUDAN: UK CHANNELING AID THROUGH [...] (U) Action Request; please see paragraph 4. 2. (SBU) The UK has contributed some 40 million British Pounds Sterling (BPS) to the Common Humanitarian Fund for Sudan (CHF) this fiscal year (April-March); it is up to UN Humanitarian Coordinator Manuel da Silva to disburse it as he sees fit. [...] |
2006-10-12 07:46:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | PREF PHUM PREL SU UK |
| 06LONDON7287 | ALL QUIET IN TEHRAN AS ARRESTED DISSIDENT [...] (C) Summary. Foreign Office and London-based expat sources confirm media reports that hundreds of security personnel in central Tehran clashed violently on October 7 and 8 with as many as a thousand supporters of dissident Ayatollah Boroujerdi. Iranian security forces managed in the early [...] |
2006-10-12 18:42:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | MCAP MNUC PGOV PREL IR |
| 06LONDON7308 | (C) DRC: OKITUNDU ASSAULTED IN LONDON; FCO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Leonard She Okitundu, chief of staff to DRC President Kabila, was assaulted in London October 11 by Congolese expatriates whose affiliation is not yet clear. He was beaten, stripped and robbed, and photos of his possessions were posted on the internet. He and his companions ha [...] |
2006-10-13 14:18:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM CG UK |
| 06LONDON7311 | (C) PAKISTAN: ARD CHAIRMAN IN LONDON [...] (C) The Chairman of Pakistan's Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy (ARD), Makhdum Amin Fahim, is visiting London and met with Poloff October 13. He said former Prime Ministers Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif (whose parties, PPP and ML/N respectively, are the main components of ARD) wil [...] |
2006-10-13 14:35:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KDEM PK UK |
| 06LONDON7400 | (C) TERRORISM FINANCE: UK TO BEGIN USING [...] (U) Chancellor Gordon Brown announced October 10 that Her Majesty's Treasury -- on the advice of law enforcement agencies -- had agreed to use "closed source evidence" (i.e. classified materials) in asset freezing cases where there are strong operational reasons to impose a freeze, but insuffi [...] |
2006-10-17 16:09:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ETTC KTFN PREL PTER CO UK |
| 06LONDON7531 | UK ANTICIPATES UK AND EU OPPOSITION TO UNGA [...] (C) The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) has issued instructions to UKUN to vote against the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) resolutions, as currently drafted, on "The Situation of the Lebanese Children" and "Consequences of the Israeli Invasion on the Human Rights Situation in Lebanon" in the [...] |
2006-10-23 17:04:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PTER UNGA LE IS UK |
| 06LONDON7623 | (C) CENTRAL ASIA: SCA DAS FEIGENBAUM'S [...] (C) SUMMARY: SCA DAS Evan Feigenbaum met in London October 23 with officials of the UK's Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) and the Department for International Development (DFID), to exchange views on policy and programs in Central Asia. Key policy points: - Both countries seek to bol [...] |
2006-10-26 16:24:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL ECON EAID ZK KZ KG TI TX UZ |
| 06LONDON7626 | PRO UNION MP SEEKS DEPUTY LABOUR PARTY POST [...] (SBU) Summary: Two term Labour MP Jon Cruddas is part of a crowded field seeking the post of Deputy Party Leader (DPL) when the incumbent (and Deputy PM) John Prescott steps down with PM Blair. Cruddas believes Labour has lost its progressive character and its ties to the working class, and [...] |
2006-10-26 16:33:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV ELAB SCUL UK |
| 06LONDON7670 | (C) COTE D'IVOIRE: UK SHARES U.S. CONCERNS BUT [...] (C) The UK shares U.S. concerns about the French draft UNSCR on Cote d'Ivoire (reftel) but wants to avoid being seen to lobby against France in the UNSC, according to FCO West Africa Section Head Jason Moore. He told Poloff October 30 that UKUN is working closely with USUN, hoping to reach an [...] |
2006-10-30 16:14:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNSC KPKO IC UK |
| 06LONDON7672 | (C) SOMALIA: FCO DOUBTS UGANDA CAN DEPLOY [...] (C) Uganda is "unclear" about its willingness to deploy an "IGASOM" force to Somalia under the aegis of IGAD, and the UK doubts whether it has the capability even if it wanted to, according to FCO East Africa and Horn Section Head Ben Lyon. He told Poloff October 30 that the UK wants to seek [...] |
2006-10-30 17:00:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR SO UK |
| 06LONDON7695 | INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION (IMO): REPORT OF THE [...] SUMMARY: The 55th Session of IMO's MEPC convened 9-13 October 2006 under the chairmanship of Mr. A. Chrysostomou (Cyprus). The meeting was attended by 86 members, one associate member, one country not a member of IMO (Cook Islands), six United Nations agencies, eight intergovernmental organi [...] |
2006-10-31 16:45:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | IMO AORC UK EWWT PHSA SENV KTIA ASEC |
| 06LONDON7815 | (C) UK BELIEVES EASIER TO PASS SUDAN RESOLUTION IN [...] No summary [...] |
2006-11-06 16:56:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNGA SU UK |
| 06LONDON7822 | (C) UK SUPPORTS COUNTRY SPECIFIC HUMAN RIGHTS [...] No summary [...] |
2006-11-06 18:01:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KTIA UN UK |
| 06LONDON7856 | TERRORISM FINANCE: UK REQUESTS URGENT US SUPPORT [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. 2. (S/NF) The UK has urgently requested U.S. support for a UN 1267 designation of UK citizen Mohammed Al Ghabra. According to Giles Cutler of the FCO Sanctions Unit, the UK is seeking the earliest possible UN designation of Al Ghabra. [...] |
2006-11-07 17:12:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | ETTC EFIN PTER LVPR CVIS KTFN UK |
| 06LONDON7916 | INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION (IMO) REPORT OF THE [...] SUMMARY: The International Maritime Organization (IMO) Legal Committee held its 92nd session in Paris, France at UNESCO, October 16-20 (LEG 92), under the chairmanship of Professor Lee-Sik Chai (Republic Of Korea). The Legal Committee discussed, among other issues, the Draft Wreck Removal Co [...] |
2006-11-13 11:50:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | IMO EWWT AORC ASEC UK PTER |
| 06LONDON7939 | (C) UK WILL SUPPORT U.S. CANDIDATE FOR [...] (C) Foreign and Commonwealth Office's UN Desk Officer Tony Kay informed us November 1 that HMG would follow precedent among the P5 under which each votes for the other's candidates to the International Law Commission. As long as the U.S. voted for the UK candidate, the U.S. should expect the [...] |
2006-11-14 19:05:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | ILC UNGA UK |
| 06LONDON7974 | TERRORISM FINANCE: UPDATE ON AL GHABRA 1267 [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 5. 2. (S/NF) The UK intends to prenotify P-5 partners November 24 of its intent to request a UN 1267 designation of UK citizen Mohammed Al Ghabra. According to Giles Cutler of the FCO Sanctions Unit, the UK plans to submit the request to [...] |
2006-11-16 16:35:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | ETTC EFIN PTER LVPR CVIS KTFN UK |
| 06LONDON8002 | TERRORISM FINANCE: TERRORIST FACILITATORS AND [...] No summary [...] |
2006-11-20 15:34:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | ETTC EFIN PTER LVPR CVIS KTFN UK |
| 06LONDON8004 | (U) PAKISTAN: PM BLAIR MEETS MUSHARRAF IN LAHORE [...] (C) SUMMARY: November 19 talks between PM Blair and President Musharraf focused on counter-terrorism, Afghanistan, and Islamic extremism, according to Kate English of FCO's Pakistan Section (based on a preliminary read-out from the UK High Commission in Islamabad). Musharraf complained to B [...] |
2006-11-20 17:14:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER EAID PK AF UK |
| 06LONDON8032 | ACCREDITATION AMENDMENT - IMO - MARINE SAFETY [...] Embassy London has requested accreditation amendment to the US Delegation attending the Eighty-Second Session of IMO's Marine Safety Committee to be held in Istanbul, Turkey from November 29 - December 8, 2006. Advisors Leslie Fleming and Phillip Warker and Private Sector Advisor Denise McCaf [...] |
2006-11-21 14:22:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC ASEC |
| 06LONDON8039 | (C) AFGHANISTAN: DAS GASTRIGHT'S MEETING WITH FCO [...] (C) SUMMARY: SCA DAS John Gastright discussed Afghanistan November 14 with FCO, MOD and Cabinet Office officials. On the upcoming NATO summit in Riga, the UK argued that pressing for use of the term "counter-insurgency" in the summit communiqu would invite unhelpful perceptions of a split i [...] |
2006-11-21 17:11:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | AF EAID MARR PREL SNAR UK |
| 06LONDON8066 | (C) SOMALIA: MUSEVENI TELLS A/S FRAZER UGANDAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Uganda's President Museveni told AF A/S Frazer November 21 that he is ready to send a battalion to Baidoa to protect the Somali Transitional Federal Institutions, provided there is a clear UNSCR, adequate funding and a tacit agreement with Ethiopia. He was expecting Ethiopia to [...] |
2006-11-22 15:17:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PTER UNSC SO UG ET |
| 06LONDON8073 | DEMARCHE ON UNSC ACTION ON IRAN: HMG IN FULL [...] (CO) UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office Iran Team Leader Ben Fender expressed full agreement with U.S. views reftel, both as to the implications of the November 14 AIEA report as well as to the urgent need to move quickly on a UNSC resolution; he also said the UK strongly opposes any IAEA tec [...] |
2006-11-22 16:41:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | MNUC IR UK |
| 06LONDON8074 | (SBU) AFGHANISTAN: HAJJ TRANSPORT DEMARCHE [...] No summary [...] |
2006-11-22 16:53:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV EAID EAIR AF |
| 06LONDON8097 | (C) OSCE MINISTERIAL: UK EXPECTS RUSSIAN [...] (C) Charge met November 24 with Stephen Pattison, International Security Director in the FCO, to discuss prospects for taking a unified approach to the Georgia/Moldova conflicts at the December 4-5 OSCE ministerial meetings in Brussels (reftel). Mr. Pattison did not expect the OSCE to reach [...] |
2006-11-24 18:21:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR RU UK GG MD UP |
| 06LONDON8106 | (C) A/S FRAZER DISCUSSES SUDAN AND SOMALIA WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: In meetings with FCO Minister for Africa Lord Triesman November 21 and Secretary of State for International Development Hilary Benn the next day, AF A/S Frazer stressed the need to adopt a UNSCR on Somalia flexible enough that frontline states could play a positive role. She al [...] |
2006-11-27 15:29:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR UNSC SU SO ER ET KE UK |
| 06LONDON8144 | INCSR PART III FOR UK [...] Following is part III of the INCSR for the UK. As previously notified to the Dept, the UK agency responsible for precursor monitoring, the Home Office Drugs Branch, has declined to supply the embassy with specific information about precursor production and exports. An official at the Home Of [...] |
2006-11-29 17:17:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR UK |
| 06LONDON8157 | TERRORISM FINANCE: UK REQUESTS URGENT JOINT [...] (U) This is an urgent action request. See paragraph 3. 2. (S/NF) According to Giles Cutler of the FCO Sanctions Unit, the Chinese have indicated to the UK that they intend to place a hold on an eventual UK submission to the UN 1267 Committee of Mohammed Al Ghabra. The UK, which is convince [...] |
2006-11-30 14:08:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | ETTC EFIN PTER LVPR CVIS KTFN UK |
| 06LONDON8162 | HMG TO PLEDGE ADDITIONAL ASSISTANCE AT BAMAKO [...] (SBU) ESTOff delivered reftel demarche to Jo Newstead, the lead officer on pandemic flu at HMG's Department of Health. Newstead told ESTOff on November 30 that HMG will make an additional pledge of GBP 10 million at the December 6-8 avian and pandemic influenza conference in Bamako, Mali. Br [...] |
2006-11-30 17:14:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR KFLU TBIO PREL EAID MA UK |
| 06LONDON8178 | UK AGREES TO EXTEND SOME TRAINERS AT JORDAN [...] No summary [...] |
2006-12-01 14:24:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM IZ JO UK |
| 06LONDON8207 | SECRETARY PAULSON'S LUNCH WITH CHANCELLOR BROWN [...] (C/NF) Summary: Chancellor Gordon Brown hosted visiting Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson for lunch November 28 SIPDIS at Number 11 Downing Street. They discussed climate change, advance market commitments to provide vaccines in developing countries, the future of the Doha Round, and [...] |
2006-12-04 17:21:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EFIN ETRD EAID SENV UK |
| 06LONDON8212 | UK AGREES ON NEED FOR VIGOROUS CRITIQUE OF IRAN [...] (C) Summary. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office welcomes USG plans to publicly critique the undemocratic, unaccountable nature of Iran's Assembly of Experts election and the UK will be making a similar public statement, perhaps as early as December 5. The FCO noted, however, that due to co [...] |
2006-12-05 12:24:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM PGOV PREL IR EU UK |
| 06LONDON8247 | TERRORISM FINANCE: NEXT STEPS ON THE TFTP [...] (C) Summary: The UK is extremely concerned that the Terrorist Finance Tracking Program, and SWIFT's involvement in it, is being treated by the European Commission purely as a privacy issue when it should be "rooted in a national security debate." While HM Treasury officials are currently prep [...] |
2006-12-07 15:50:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ETTC EFIN PTER KTFN ECON EU UK |
| 06LONDON8249 | POLONIUM SITREP [...] (C) SUMMARY: Post provided reftel A information on polonium-210 to HMG to assist in its investigation and public response. UK health authorities continue to contact those individuals who may have stayed in rooms at the Millennium Hotel that tested positive for radiation; CA/OCS continues to [...] |
2006-12-07 17:17:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL CASC PTER RU UK |
| 06LONDON8254 | (C) UK DISLIKES UN HRC LEBANON COMMISSION [...] No summary [...] |
2006-12-07 19:05:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM EUN LE UK |
| 06LONDON8279 | UK VIEWS ON DECEMBER EU FOREIGN MINISTERS MEETING [...] (SBU) The UK expects Turkey and the China Arms Embargo to be the most "difficult" issues at the upcoming December GAERC meeting, according to Martin Sherman, head of the FCO's EU Coordination Office. PolCouns discussed the upcoming GAERC with Sherman on December 7, who confirmed Foreign Secre [...] |
2006-12-08 17:24:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM KPAL EUN YI SR BK IS LE IR |
| 06LONDON8292 | TERRORIST LISTS: UNITED KINGDOM [...] No summary [...] |
2006-12-11 11:44:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | EFIN KFTN PREL PGOV EUN EU UK |
| 06LONDON8326 | DOE-MOD DECEMBER 4-7 NUCLEAR SECURITY DISCUSSIONS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A delegation of security experts from the Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) visited counterparts at HMG Ministry of Defense (MOD) and at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE) for discussions on nuclear security matters. The AWE is a collecti [...] |
2006-12-13 13:45:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG TRGY KNNP UK |
| 06LONDON8361 | (U) BLAIR INTERVIEWED BY POLICE IN "LOANS FOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: PM Blair was interviewed by the Police December 14 as part of the investigation into the so-called "loans for peerages" or "cash for honors" affair (reftel). This had been widely expected - indeed it was all but inevitable given Blair's personal involvement both in approving [...] |
2006-12-15 12:58:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PINR UK |
| 06LONDON8372 | U.S. JOURNALIST: TEHRAN MAN IN THE STREET LOVES [...] Summary: (C) An American journalist just back from her third working visit to Iran reports a paradox in popular feeling in Tehran: the man in the street has a positive view of America and hates the current high level of political oppression, but at the same time takes great patriotic pride i [...] |
2006-12-15 17:51:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KISL KPRP PHUM IR UK |
| 06LONDON8394 | NEXT STEPS ON THE TFTP: UK BUILDING COALITION [...] (C/NF) Summary and Action Request: The UK sees the emergence of a "coalition of the constructive," EU member states willing to work together to develop solutions to safeguard the terrorism finance tracking program (TFTP). The UK intends to work with Sweden, the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany ( [...] |
2006-12-19 10:21:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ETTC EFIN PTER KTFN ECON EU UK |
| 06LONDON8438 | INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION (IMO): [...] SUMMARY: The Maritime Safety Committee (MSC) of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) held its 82nd session at the Polat Renaissance Istanbul Hotel in Istanbul, Turkey from 29 Nov ? 8 Dec 2006. The meeting was chaired by MSC vice chairman Mr. N. Ferrar (Philippines) as the Acting Ch [...] |
2006-12-21 08:52:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC IMO UK EWWT PHSA SENV KTIA ASEC ORTA |
| 06LONDON8441 | INITIAL UK REACTION TO NIYAZOV'S DEATH [...] (C) Summary. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office intends a "correct, but very restrained" response to the death of Turkmen President Niyazov: No senior FCO official will travel to Sunday's planned funeral; the UK will likely be represented by the UK Ambassador and a short condolence message [...] |
2006-12-21 11:35:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | EPET CASC PHUM PREL TX UK |
| 07LONDON104 | ADDITIONAL IRAN DESIGNATIONS UNDER EO 13382: [...] (S/NF) Summary: The UK views the U.S. designation of Bank Sepah under Executive Order 13382 as a "significant ratcheting up of pressure on Iran" and supports our view that the designation is consistent with the language of UNSCR 1737. The UK would appreciate information on how the designatio [...] |
2007-01-10 15:34:00 | Embassy London | SECRET | PREL KNNP KN PARM EFIN FR GE IT UK |
| 07LONDON1047 | ACCREDITATION - IMO - 34TH SESSION OF THE [...] Embassy London has requested accreditation and is pleased to grant UK country clearance to the following delegation members from March 26 - 30, 2007 for the International Maritime Organization's Thirty-fourth Session of the Committee on Facilitation: Howard L. Hime, Representative Jaideep Si [...] |
2007-03-19 14:10:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC ASEC IMO UK |
| 07LONDON1062 | BTEX FORENSIC EPIDEMIOLOGY WORKSHOP CATALYZES G8 EFFORTS AGAINST BIOTERRORISM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The UK and Germany co-hosted, with U.S. co-sponsorship, the G8 "Forensic Epidemiology Workshop," in London March 13-15, 2007 (Ref A). Although the U.S. was the primary source for workshop design and facilitation, all three nations worked collaboratively to plan and execute the [...] |
2007-03-20 11:09:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER TBIO CA FR GM IT JA RS UK EUN |
| 07LONDON1142 | UK OPPOSED TO PERMANENT EXTENSION OF THE OCCUPIED [...] No summary [...] |
2007-03-23 17:15:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNHCR UK |
| 07LONDON1196 | UK VIEWS IN ADVANCE OF THE MARCH 30-31 FOREIGN [...] (U) UK priorities for the upcoming GYMNICH meeting are maintaining EU unity in support of 1) Ahtisaari's Kosovo plan; 2) a "middle ground" approach to the new Palestinian Unity Government, and 3) moving forward on EU-specific Iran sanctions. Martin Shearman, the Foreign Office's European Corr [...] |
2007-03-28 15:32:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPAL EUN XG IS IR ZI FI UK |
| 07LONDON120 | RESPONSE TO FY 2007 PEDOPHILIA CERTIFICATION [...] In response to reftel, a careful review was conducted of the 66 NGOs with consultative status with the International Maritime Organization (IMO). This list is current as of January 2007. 2. In October 2005, ESTOff received a letter from Olga Bosquez, Senior Deputy Director, Sub-Division fo [...] |
2007-01-11 13:56:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC PHUM SOCI UK |
| 07LONDON1206 | INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION (IMO): REPORT OF THE [...] SUMMARY: The 50th session of the IMO DE S/C met in London 5-9 March 2007, chaired by Mrs. A. Jost (Germany). The session was attended by delegations from 60 member states, one associate member, one non-member state, one intergovernmental organization, and observers from 24 non-governmental o [...] |
2007-03-29 11:46:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | IMO AORC ASEC UK |
| 07LONDON1239 | USG CONCERNS ABOUT IMPLEMENTATION OF UNSCR 1747 [...] No summary [...] |
2007-04-02 15:57:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN PARM KNNP IR UK |
| 07LONDON1254 | IMO - INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WRECK REMOVAL, [...] Embassy London has presented to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) the letter from George M. White, Director, Office of International Conferences, Bureau of International Affairs, regarding the U.S. Delegation appointed to attend the International Conference on Wreck Removal to be [...] |
2007-04-03 12:05:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC ASEC IMO UK |
| 07LONDON1265 | CHANCELLOR BROWN'S REPUTATION FOR FINANCIAL [...] (C) Summary: Gordon Brown's expected procession from 11 to 10 Downing Street hit a pothole over the weekend. "The Times" newspaper won a long Freedom of Information battle and published documents showing Brown had been warned by Treasury staff against removing tax breaks favorable to pension [...] |
2007-04-03 15:41:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PGOV UK |
| 07LONDON1279 | ONDCP DIRECTOR WALTERS REVIEWS AFGHAN AND OTHER CN ISSUES WITH UK [...] No summary [...] |
2007-04-04 14:08:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | SNAR AF UK |
| 07LONDON1332 | POINTS OF CONTACT FOR AVIAN AND PANDEMIC INFLUENZA [...] No summary [...] |
2007-04-11 14:20:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | KFLU MARR MASS CASC UK |
| 07LONDON1346 | ACCREDITATION - IMO - ELEVENTH SESSION OF THE [...] Embassy London has requested accreditation and is pleased to grant UK country clearance to the following delegation members from 16 - 20 April, 2007 for the International Maritime Organization's Eleventh Session of the Sub-Committee on Bulk Liquids and Gases: Richard Raksnis, Representative [...] |
2007-04-12 12:10:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC ASEC IMO UK |
| 07LONDON14 | UK "NOT OVERLY CONCERNED" BY PROPOSED UN [...] SUMMARY: The UK's initial assessment of ref talking points is that dronabinol - synthetic THC - is virtually unknown in the UK, and likely to remain so. As a consequence, they are not "overly concerned" by the WHO recommendation to move it from Schedule II to III of the 1971 Convention. Th [...] |
2007-01-03 17:33:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | SNAR UNCND UNCRIME UK |
| 07LONDON140 | IRANIAN HUMAN RIGHTS ADVOCATES CLAIM OFFICIAL [...] (C) Poloff has received, via London contacts, e-mails from several Iranian human rights activists who allege (citing evidence of film which Poloff has not seen) a pattern of beatings, extortion, and sexual assault by officials in Van, Turkey, against Kurdish Iranian refugees seeking protected [...] |
2007-01-12 15:54:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREF PHUM IR TU UK |
| 07LONDON1420 | (C) HMG UNLIKELY TO PARTICIPATE IN GLOBAL NUCLEAR [...] (SBU) This is an action request. See para 6. 2. (C) SUMMARY: HMG is unlikely to attend the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) Ministerial on May 21 in Washington. Given the pending HMG decision on the expansion of nuclear technology, HMG believes that attending the GNEP meeting wo [...] |
2007-04-17 12:54:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG TRGY KNNP IAEA AORC UK |
| 07LONDON1625 | NO FURTHER UK INFORMATION ON IDENTIFIERS -- FINAL [...] (CO) Embassy delivered list of entities and persons named in ref A points on April 25 to Mark Peters, Iran Team Leader at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. Peters said the UK Government has no identifier information related to the entities listed reftel. 2. (CO) Poloff noted that, per [...] |
2007-05-01 17:35:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN EXIM MNUC OECD PREL UNSC AA UK |
| 07LONDON1658 | COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED - IMO DELEGATION-(ISRWG) [...] Embassy London is pleased to grant UK country clearance to the following delegation members from INTERSESSIONAL MEETING OF THE WORKING GROUP ON SHIP RECYCLING (ISRWG), LONDON, UK, MAY 6-13, 2007: Representative Constance C. Arvis Deputy Director Office of Oceans Affairs Bureau of Oce [...] |
2007-05-02 16:05:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC ASEC IMO UK |
| 07LONDON1666 | HMG RESPONSE TO INTERNATIONAL WHALING COMMISSION [...] No summary [...] |
2007-05-03 09:12:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | SENV EFIS KSCA PREL IWC ETRD UK |
| 07LONDON1703 | HMG TO REVIEW CITES DOCUMENTS [...] No summary [...] |
2007-05-04 13:25:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV ETRD KSCA UK |
| 07LONDON1763 | UK SUPPORT FOR MALARIA PROGRAMS [...] Summary. The UK maintains active programs to combat malaria with specific countries and through international organizations. It also funds malaria research. It marked World Malaria Day through a press release and by the visit by International Development Secretary Hilary Benn to malaria rel [...] |
2007-05-10 10:58:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | TBIO SENV UK |
| 07LONDON1784 | UK RESPONSE: OECD ENLARGEMENT DEMARCHE AND [...] No summary [...] |
2007-05-11 10:50:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON OECD UK |
| 07LONDON1828 | (S/NF) BANK SEPAH INTERNATIONAL: ASSETS PROMPTLY [...] (S/NF) The Bank of England, acting as an agent of Her Majesty's Treasury, froze the assets of Bank Sepah International "within minutes" of the approval of UNSCR 1747, according to Patrick Guthrie, Head of the Financial Sanction Unit at HM Treasury. Simultaneously with the freeze of Bank Sepah [...] |
2007-05-14 14:15:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | EFIN KNNP IR PARM PREL UK |
| 07LONDON1835 | (S/NF) UK CONDUCTING STUDY OF IMPACT OF IRANIAN [...] (S/NF) Summary. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office is doing a Top Secret study -- likely to get widespread attention within Her Majesty's Government -- of the real impact of Iranian financial measures. The study, which is intended to draw upon both open and closed sources, is intended to in [...] |
2007-05-14 16:13:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | EFIN PARM PTER ETTC IR UK |
| 07LONDON1873 | (C) SUDAN: FCO ON NEXT STEPS ON DARFUR [...] (C) The UK agrees with the thrust of reftel and is delivering supportive messages to the African Union (AU), according to Bruce Bucknell, Deputy Head of the FCO Sudan Unit. He told Poloffs May 16 that the British ambassador in Addis Ababa had spoken with AU Commission Chair Konare on May 14; [...] |
2007-05-16 15:41:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPKO SU UK |
| 07LONDON1893 | (C) ROSUKRENERGO: HM TREASURY TO ALERT REGULATORS [...] (C) Embassy delivered reftel demarche to the head of HM Treasury's Financial Crime Team Sean Byrne and to Foreign and Commonwealth Office desk officer Jasper Thornton. Byrne said that issues surrounding a possible initial public offering (IPO) for RosUkrEnergo "resonate well here," noting that [...] |
2007-05-18 09:14:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN KCRM PREL UP UK |
| 07LONDON1947 | BROWN'S ECONOMIC PRIORITIES AND CHALLENGES [...] (C) Gordon Brown is the longest continuously serving Chancellor of the Exchequer since 1823. During his ten year reign, Brown has enjoyed tremendous authority and autonomy in managing the UK's economy. As a result, Brown is expected to continue the economic and financial policies he developed [...] |
2007-05-21 13:47:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON PREL EFIN PGOV PBIO UK |
| 07LONDON1991 | ECONOMIC SNAPSHOT OF EU ENLARGEMENT FOR UK [...] Since Romania and Bulgaria formally joined the European Union (EU) on January 1, 2007, we have witnessed increased reference to economic activity between the UK and the new member states, ranging from high level visits to various UK contacts indicating they have purchased vacation property in [...] |
2007-05-23 14:42:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON PREL EU UK |
| 07LONDON2063 | ACCREDITATION - IMO - FIFTEENTH SESSION OF THE [...] Embassy London has requested accreditation and is pleased to grant UK country clearance to the following delegation members from the U.S. for the International Maritime Organization's Fifteenth Session of the Subcommittee on Flag State Implementation, London, June 4 - 8, 2007: Representativ [...] |
2007-05-30 15:07:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC IMO |
| 07LONDON2076 | ACCREDITATION - IMO - FIFTY-SEVENTH SESSION OF [...] Embassy London has requested accreditation and is pleased to grant UK country clearance to the following delegation members from June 18 - 21, 2007 for the International Maritime Organization's Fifty-Seventh Session of the Technical Cooperation Committee: Head of Delegation Laurence Tobe [...] |
2007-05-31 12:05:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC IMO |
| 07LONDON2077 | ACCREDITATION - IMO - NINETY-EIGHTH SESSION OF THE [...] Embassy London has requested accreditation and is pleased to grant UK country clearance to the following delegation members from June 25 - 29, 2007 for the International Maritime Organization Council's Ninety-Eighth Session: Head of Delegation Laurence Tobey Transportation Affairs Office [...] |
2007-05-31 12:05:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC IMO |
| 07LONDON2182 | UK SHARES CONCERNS ON THE GROWING IRAN-VENEZUELA [...] (C) HMG is "on the same page" regarding growing Iran-Venezula ties, FCO Venezuela Desk Officer Peter Kay told us May 17. Kay, who had visited Caracas the previous week, had discussed the Iran-Venezuela relationship with numerous interlocutors; he noted Venezula at that point had just announc [...] |
2007-06-06 17:08:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ENRG KPRP PGOV PHUM IR UK VE LG |
| 07LONDON2318 | UK CALLS ON EU TO INVESTIGATE U.S. BIODIESEL SUBSIDIES [...] Summary: The UK Government has associated itself with its biodiesel industry in asking the EU to investigate whether US subsidies on biodiesel are trade distorting and should give rise to countervailing duties. HMG has "no appetite for a fight" about this, and wants to continue importing bio [...] |
2007-06-15 14:57:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ENRG EAGR UK |
| 07LONDON2340 | CUBA SOLIDARITY GROUP MAY FORCE SANCTIONS SHOWDOWN [...] Summary: Hilton Hotels in the UK believes its efforts to obey US sanctions on Cuba, while simultaneously respecting UK law banning discrimination based on nationality, will soon be tested by a pro-Cuban government NGO. The NGO will seek to check a Cuban delegation into a Hilton hotel in the U [...] |
2007-06-19 07:34:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC ELAB CU UK |
| 07LONDON2396 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON ADDITIONAL DESIGNATIONS OF [...] (SBU) On June 20 Poloff delivered the nonpaper conveyed in reftel to Foreign Office Iran Multilateral Team Leader Will Gelling and to his colleague Christian Turner, who is slated to be the UK's DCM in Tehran later this year. 2. (SBU) Gelling noted with approval that USG is also notifying [...] |
2007-06-21 13:12:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KNNP PARM IR EUN UK |
| 07LONDON2420 | (C) AMERICAN CITIZENS DETAINED IN IRAN: UK [...] (C) In response to poloff's June 12 demarche (ref A), FCO's Iran Team Leader Will Gelling and Iran human rights officer Marian Kalloor on June 20 said UK pressure and lobbying in Tehran was an important element behind the EU Presidency's demarche (reported ref B) on the Iranian Foreign Minist [...] |
2007-06-22 17:07:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | CASC PHUM PREL IR UK |
| 07LONDON2457 | IRAN NUCLEAR ISSUE: UK FEEDBACK ON SOLANA-LARIJANI [...] Summary (CO) EU's Solana saw no movement during June 23 talks with Larijani on suspension and rebuffed Larijani's suggestion to link next steps on the nuclear issue in any way to the upcoming visit to Iran by IAEA chief El Baradei, according to the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office. The UK [...] |
2007-06-26 17:59:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL EU IR IZ UK |
| 07LONDON2461 | GORDON BROWN TAKES OVER AS PRIME MINISTER [...] (SBU) Gordon Brown is the UK's new Prime Minister. Right on schedule, Tony Blair submitted his resignation to the Queen shortly after 1:00 p.m. today June 27. Within minutes, the Queen had summoned Brown to Buckingham Palace and invited him to form a Government, as Leader of the party that [...] |
2007-06-27 14:10:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV UK |
| 07LONDON2488 | (U) PRIME MINISTER GORDON BROWN NAMES HIS CABINET [...] (U) A day after taking over as Prime Minister, Gordon Brown has named his Cabinet. As expected, this is the biggest reshuffle since the Labour Party came to power in 1997. It includes several realignments, and has the maximum number of paid Cabinet Ministers permitted by law (22). While p [...] |
2007-06-28 16:04:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PINR UK |
| 07LONDON249 | UK PREVIEW OF THE JANUARY GAERC [...] (C) Summary. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) expects Kosovo and Iran to be major issues of discussion at the January GAERC. UK goals are to 1) keep "wobbly" EU Members on board with the need to resolve Kosovo's status as soon as possible after the Serbian elections and 2) keep the [...] |
2007-01-22 17:40:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ENRG EAID MARR YI SR BK IS SO IR |
| 07LONDON2491 | IRAN IN IRAQ: IRANIAN DEMARCHES UK ON IRAN'S GOOD [...] (CO/NF) Summary: The Iranian Ambassador conveyed a pro-forma summary of its own benign intentions in Iraq during a June 22 demarche at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). The demarche was intended to provide an Iranian version of the May 28 U.S.-Iran talks in Baghdad, according to fe [...] |
2007-06-28 17:44:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PHUM PREL IR IZ UK |
| 07LONDON2510 | ACCREDITATION - IMO - INTERSESSIONAL MEETING OF [...] Embassy London has requested accreditation and is pleased to grant UK country clearance to the following delegation members from July 9-13, 2007 for the International Maritime Organization's Intersessional Meeting of the Working Group on Long-Range Identification and Tracking of Ships: Curtis [...] |
2007-07-02 09:59:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC IMO |
| 07LONDON2534 | (U) BROWN'S GOVERNMENT IN PLACE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Gordon Brown has moved fast to put his stamp on the UK Government and the results have been positive for his poll ratings and media coverage. The latest Guardian/ICM poll gives Labour the lead (39 percent to 35 percent) over the Conservatives, Labour's first le [...] |
2007-07-02 16:01:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV UK |
| 07LONDON2575 | ACCREDITATION - IMO - 56TH SESSION OF THE MARINE [...] Embassy London has requested accreditation and is pleased to grant UK country clearance to the following delegation members for the International Maritime Organization's 56th Session of the Marine Environment Protection Committee: Jeffrey Lantz, Head of Delegation Victoria Huyck, Alternativ [...] |
2007-07-05 11:04:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC IMO |
| 07LONDON2587 | DFID'S "COST" INITIATIVE: MORE QUESTIONS THAN [...] (SBU) Summary: Participants from government, industry and the private sector agreed that transparency is a concern in the construction sector but questioned the value added by DFID's Construction Sector Transparency Initiative (CoST). Econoff raised reftel concerns widely at a June 20, DFID- h [...] |
2007-07-06 09:06:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EIND ETRD EFIN PINS KCOR UK |
| 07LONDON2588 | UK WILL NOT BLOCK PARTERNERSHIP FOR DEMOCRATIC [...] No summary [...] |
2007-07-06 09:15:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID OECD UK |
| 07LONDON2595 | THE UK'S AGING POPULATION STRAINS THE SOCIAL [...] (U) Summary: The UK is grappling with the booming growth of its elderly population. There were 20 million Britons aged 50 and over in 2003, a 45 percent increase since 1951. This number is projected to increase by a further 36 percent by 2031, to 27.2 million, or 42 percent of the population. [...] |
2007-07-06 14:13:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | SOCI ECON TBIO UK |
| 07LONDON2596 | GROWING UK ISLAMIC FINANCE IS GOOD POLITICS AND [...] (C) SUMMARY The UK government has a high priority goal to make London a center of Islamic finance to both assimilate the indigenous Muslim UK community(ies) and capture a niche market of high net worth Muslims internationally. The world market for Islamic finance grew from about $150 billion in [...] |
2007-07-06 15:45:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN KISL UK |
| 07LONDON263 | HMG REQUESTS POLONIUM TESTING FEEDBACK FROM CDC; [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 6. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The UK Health Protection Agency requests the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention provide laboratory test results on the U.S. residents potentially exposed to polonium in London. The UK Health Protection Agency de [...] |
2007-01-23 13:15:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL CASC PTER UK |
| 07LONDON2785 | UK SUPPORTS BARRING NORTH KOREAN AQUISITION OF [...] (S) On July 11, Poloff delivered reftel demarche apprising the British government of North Korean efforts to acquire the machinery and equipment to produce fraudulent U.S. currency. Foreign Office officials Kim Clarke, head of the Korea division, and Korea desk officer Kathy Heal were apprec [...] |
2007-07-19 15:04:00 | Embassy London | SECRET | PREL KNNP MNUC KH KS UK |
| 07LONDON2834 | INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORG SEEKS UNSC SUPPORT ON [...] (SBU) International Maritime Organization Secretary General Mitropoulos sent a letter on July 18 SIPDIS to Ambassador Tuttle expressing appreciation for the USG support at the last IMO Council meeting to address the worsening situation of piracy and armed robbery against ships in the water [...] |
2007-07-23 15:49:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR MOPS SO UK |
| 07LONDON2883 | HMG TO RESPOND DIRECTLY TO WASHINGTON ON SINGAPORE [...] No summary [...] |
2007-07-26 10:39:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | TBIO KFLU AORC WHO PREL UK |
| 07LONDON2907 | UK SEEKS FLOOD RELIEF ASSISTANCE FROM US [...] This is an action request. 2. Andy Shields of the UK Civil Contingencies Secretariat within the Cabinet Office informed Embassy July 27 that the UK Government will shortly issue a formal request to the USG for portable toilet chemicals, known as WAG Bags, in response to this week's floods [...] |
2007-07-27 18:40:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREL UK |
| 07LONDON2943 | UK VIEWS ON US ICAO SAFETY PAPER [...] Post received the following comments in response to ref cable, from Adrian Sayce at the UK Mission in Montreal, via Glenn Cronin of the UK Dept for Transport: Agenda Item 13 Vision for the future of USOAP. This WP proposes the application of a system safety approach to the future USOAP. [...] |
2007-08-01 08:02:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ICAO UK |
| 07LONDON2965 | (S) IRAN'S BANK MELLI INVOLVEMENT IN PROLIFERATION [...] (S) SUMMARY: Demarche and non-paper were delivered July 31, 2007 to Patrick Guthrie, Head of Financial Sanctions Unit, HM Treasury (HMT) by Econoff. Guthrie said HMT would promptly consider and respond to the material and our request for UK information on Bank Melli that could be shared with [...] |
2007-08-02 06:25:00 | Embassy London | SECRET | ETTC KNNP PARM PREL IR UK |
| 07LONDON2984 | (S) TERRORIST FINANCE:UK SUPPORTS USG SUBMISSION [...] (S) Econoff delivered reftel demarche and non-paper July 31, 2007 to Clive Hughes, Desk Officer Multilateral and Strategic Allies Section Counter Terrorism Policy Department at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). Hughes said the UK favors co-sponsoring U.S. submissions to the UN 1518 a [...] |
2007-08-03 06:30:00 | Embassy London | SECRET | EFIN FI IZ JO KTFN PREL PTER SA UK UNSC |
| 07LONDON2994 | (S) BANK MELLI NON-PAPER CONVEYED TO FCO [...] No summary [...] |
2007-08-03 14:25:00 | Embassy London | SECRET | ETTC KNNP PARM PREL IR UK |
| 07LONDON314 | INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION (IMO): [...] SUMMARY: The Maritime Safety Committee (MSC) of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) held its 82nd session at the Polat Renaissance Istanbul Hotel in Istanbul, Turkey from 29 Nov ? 8 Dec 2006. The meeting was chaired by MSC vice chairman Mr. N. Ferrar (Philippines) as the Acting Ch [...] |
2007-01-25 15:18:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC IMO UK EWWT PHSA SENV KTIA ASEC ORTA |
| 07LONDON3141 | HMG DOES NOT SEE EYE-TO-EYE WITH USG ENVIRONMENTAL [...] (U) Action Request: Post received the comments at para 2 in response to ref A, from Danny Powers, Head of the International Branch, Aviation Environment Division, UK Department for Transport. HMG requests USG support and endorsement of its position as set out in para 2. 2. (SBU) Begin HM [...] |
2007-08-14 16:14:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR ETRD SENV KGHG ECON UK |
| 07LONDON317 | INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION (IMO): [...] SUMMARY: The International Maritime Organization (IMO) met at Central Hall Westminster in London, UK from 06-09 November 2006, to hold the ninety-seventh session of the Council (C97) chaired by Mr. Johann Franson (Sweden). Topics of significant interest included: Condolences for the recent pa [...] |
2007-01-25 16:18:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHSA EWWT ECPS MOPS AORC IMO KTIA |
| 07LONDON3175 | IRAN: BROTHER OF IRGC'S SAFAVI SAYS A U.S. TERROR [...] (C) Summary. xxxxxxxxxxxx Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) xxxxxxxxxxxx told London Iran Watcher xxxxxxxxxxxx that Iran's cooperation on security in Iraq, though not yet evident, would be forthcoming, but in the same breath argued that a U.S. terrorist designation of the IRGC would prevent any [...] |
2007-08-17 08:34:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KPRP PGOV PHUM PREL BA KU IR IS UK |
| 07LONDON3228 | BRITISH AGREE TO COSPONSOR TO 1518 COMMITTEE, BUT [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 6. 2. (S) The British are seeking Ministerial approval to co-sponsor to the 1518 Committee names 2-7 in State 104666, according to Sarah Bennett and James Smith of the Sanctions Team, International Organizations Department, Foreign and Commonwea [...] |
2007-08-20 17:35:00 | Embassy London | SECRET | EFIN KTFN UK UNSC |
| 07LONDON3283 | (S) BRITISH QUESTION TWO NAMES ON PROPOSED 1518 [...] (S) Two of the names on Ref E's proposed listings to the UN's 1518 Committee "might be promising" participants in the Iraq Reconciliation process, according to the FCO's James Smith, Desk Officer Iraq Directorate, and Sarah Bennett, Sanctions Team, International Organizations Department. The [...] |
2007-08-24 15:24:00 | Embassy London | SECRET | EFIN KTFN UK UNSC |
| 07LONDON3285 | PARTNERSHIP FOR DEMOCRATIC GOVERNANCE: UK DECLINES [...] No summary [...] |
2007-08-24 16:06:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID KDEM UK |
| 07LONDON3338 | SENATOR BOXER HEARS POSITIVE VIEWS ON CARBON [...] Summary: Senator Barbara Boxer heard strongly positive views from HMG, heavy industry and the investment community on the UK,s experience with carbon cap-and-trade systems as a tool for addressing climate change. Many of HMG officials who handle climate change are new to their portfolios, and [...] |
2007-08-31 12:19:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | OREP SENV KGHG PREL UK IZ AF SU |
| 07LONDON3356 | HMG PARTICIPATION REMAINS UNDECIDED FOR THE MAJOR [...] No summary [...] |
2007-09-04 12:53:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV ENRG KGHG UK |
| 07LONDON3362 | IRAN DEPFORMIN WILL VISIT LONDON TO PITCH [...] (S) Summary: The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) today told London Iran Watcher (Poloff) that Iran,s Deputy Foreign Minister Saeed Jalili will visit London Friday September 7 to push Iran,s recent agreement with the IAEA as Iran,s preferred means of addressing the nuclear issue, but th [...] |
2007-09-04 16:07:00 | Embassy London | SECRET | PREL KNNP MNUC IR UK |
| 07LONDON3369 | HMG TO OBSERVE GNEP MEETING IN VIENNA BELOW THE [...] (SBU) Malcolm Wicks, Minister of State for Energy, will not attend the September 16 Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) meeting in Vienna, according to a letter from Wicks to Secretary of Energy Bodman (text at para 2). Dr. Mel Draper, Director of Nuclear Nonproliferation at the Depart [...] |
2007-09-04 17:46:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG TRGY KNNP IAEA PINR UK |
| 07LONDON3370 | HMG TO OBSERVE GNEP MEETING IN VIENNA BELOW THE [...] (SBU) Malcolm Wicks, Minister of State for Energy, will not attend the September 16 Global Nuclear Energy Partnership (GNEP) meeting in Vienna, according to a letter from Wicks to Secretary of Energy Bodman (text at para 2). Dr. Mel Draper, Director of Nuclear Nonproliferation at the Depart [...] |
2007-09-05 08:18:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG TRGY KNNP IAEA PINR UK |
| 07LONDON3415 | UK SELDOM INTERVENES IN FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT [...] No summary [...] |
2007-09-06 16:39:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | EINV UK |
| 07LONDON3422 | UK GOALS FOR SEPTEMBER INFORMAL EU FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary. According to the Foreign Office, the key agenda items at the September Gymnich meeting are Kosovo, the Inter-Governmental Conference on EU Reform, the Middle East, and a review of EU strategic partnerships with a focus on Russia. As is practice at informal Gynmich meetings, the UK [...] |
2007-09-07 11:47:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EUN RS YI IR UK |
| 07LONDON3519 | IRAN'S JALILI IN LONDON: REBUFFED AS EXPECTED [...] (C) Summary: In a September 7 meetng, UK officials rebuffed Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Jalili's promotion of the IRI-IAEA Work Plan as a way to resolve the nuclear issue and reiterated the UK's firm commitment to the E3 3 and UNSCR process. End summary. 2. (C) Per ref (a), Iran Mul [...] |
2007-09-13 13:02:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP MNUC IR UK |
| 07LONDON3522 | IRANIAN ARMS FLOWS TO AFGHANISTAN: HOW THE UK [...] (S) Summary: To most effectively pressure Iran, and discourage the flow of lethal aid from Iran to insurgents in Afghanistan, the UK plans to pass its newest evidence of such flows to the Karzai governments and to Tehran before such evidence becomes public, according to the FCO. There is HMG [...] |
2007-09-13 16:39:00 | Embassy London | SECRET | PREL KNNP MNUC PINS AF IR UK |
| 07LONDON3525 | LONDON - LESSONS LEARNED FROM PANDEMIC INFLUENZA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Post held a Pandemic Influenza Tabletop Exercise (PI TTX) on September 7 with members of the Embassy's Pandemic Influenza Working Group (PIWG) and officials from the U.S. Department of Defense's (DOD) 3rd Air Force in the UK, and U.S. Air Force Europe (USAFE), located at Ramste [...] |
2007-09-14 08:33:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KFLU CASC TBIO AMED AMGT UK |
| 07LONDON3539 | SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY PAULSON'S VISIT TO [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION: Your visit is much welcomed. You come to London at a critical moment. The UK is adjusting to the change in leadership from Tony Blair to Gordon Brown, who has displayed calm confidence in addressing key domestic challenges in the short period he has been Prime [...] |
2007-09-14 16:08:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ECON EFIN PREL UK |
| 07LONDON3571 | UK WORRIED ABOUT IRAN, THEY TELL TREASURY A/S [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: British officials told Patrick O'Brien, A/S for Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes, Treasury, on September 6, that they are very worried about Iran. Both sides agreed we should continue to turn up the pressure on Iran within the context of the United Nations Security Cou [...] |
2007-09-17 18:16:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | EFIN KTFN PTER IR LY UK |
| 07LONDON3608 | UK QUIETLY SUPPORTS U.S. ICAO COUNCIL CANDIDACY; [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The UK will support the U.S. ICAO Council candidacy, but their internal regulations prohibit them from giving us an official response. They have not given their views on the ICAO Split-Currency Assessments. Transport officials emphasized that the UK must see progress on Stage [...] |
2007-09-19 12:03:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | EAIR ICAO AORC UK |
| 07LONDON3657 | UK HEALTH PROTECTION AGENCY PROPOSES FORMAL [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: UK Health Protection Agency (HPA) Chief Advisor to the Chief Executive Dr. Nigel Lightfoot proposed to visiting U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officials and EmbOffs that a formal liaison be established between HPA and CDC. During discussions of lessons l [...] |
2007-09-21 15:51:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CASC PREL UK |
| 07LONDON3662 | CROCKER/PETRAEUS MEETINGS WITH UK DEFENSE [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: With Prime Minister Gordon Brown set to deliver a widely-anticipated statement on HMG's policy in Iraq to Parliament on or about October 10, the UK needs the USG to define clearly its expectations for the British presence in Iraq as soon as possible, UK Defence Secretary Des Br [...] |
2007-09-21 16:25:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV MOPS MCAP IZ UK |
| 07LONDON3674 | UK SHARES USG PRIORITIES FOR COMMUNITY OF [...] (SBU) The UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office generally shares U.S. priorities for the upcoming Community of Democracies ministerial meeting (ref), but is still reviewing its position on a CD Secretariat, according to Nick Abbott, of the Foreign Office's Democracy and Human Rights Office. Abbo [...] |
2007-09-24 18:23:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL UK UNGA |
| 07LONDON3675 | UK Welcomes MEM Forum; Will Seek Targets, Cap and Trade; [...] (SBU) Summary: DEFRA's Henry Derwent, Director of the Climate Change Office, told ESTH Counselor on September 21 that the UK strongly welcomes the Major Economies Meeting (MEM), is "delighted" by the focus on technology and technology transfer, and is pleased with the engagement of private bus [...] |
2007-09-25 07:46:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV KGHG UK |
| 07LONDON3679 | IRAN'S BANK MARKAZI: DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO UK [...] (S) Embassy on September 24 delivered ref demarche on the opening of a Bank Markazi account at Bank Saderat UK to HM Treasury and to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. 2. (S) According to FCO Iran Multilateral Team leader Will Gelling, HMG agrees that, even in the absence of a specific U [...] |
2007-09-25 09:53:00 | Embassy London | SECRET | KNNP MNUC IR BO FR IT UK |
| 07LONDON3712 | Bio Information on UK Delegation to Major Economies [...] (U) Following is biographic information on the five members of the UK delegation to the September 27-28 Major Economies Meeting in Washington DC on climate change and energy security. The five people are Phil Woolas (Environment Minister at DEFRA), Michael Jacobs (Advisor to the Prime Ministe [...] |
2007-09-26 16:51:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | PINR SENV UK |
| 07LONDON374 | UK PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE HEARS POSITIVE VIEWS ON [...] (SBU) Summary: The Defense Select Committee of the UK House of Commons met with five experts in nuclear arms and defense policy on January 23 to hear views on HMG's recent white paper endorsing a renewal of the UK's existing submarine-based nuclear deterrent. Although the MPs heard some voice [...] |
2007-01-29 17:17:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MNUC PARM MOPS UK |
| 07LONDON3760 | EPA, DEFRA Seek Work-Sharing on Chemicals [...] (SBU) Summary: On September 18, EPA Assistant Administrator for Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances Jim Gulliford discussed with DEFRA's Chemicals Director John Roberts ways that EPA can share work with the UK on assessments and characterizations of chemicals. Implementation of REA [...] |
2007-10-02 12:38:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EAGR TSPL UK |
| 07LONDON3766 | BRITISH AGREE TO CO-SPONSOR ALL 1518 COMMITTEE [...] No summary [...] |
2007-10-02 16:20:00 | Embassy London | SECRET | EFIN KTFN UK UNSC |
| 07LONDON3824 | HMG DEPT OF HEALTH CHIEF SCIENTIST TO ATTEND [...] (U) Dr. David Harper, Chief Scientist and Director General of Health Protection, International Health and Scientific Development, at the Department of Health (DH) will represent HMG at the October 22 Ministerial forum "All Against Tuberculosis" in Berlin. ESTOff delivered reftel demarche to [...] |
2007-10-05 14:21:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID TBIO PINR GR UK |
| 07LONDON3915 | UK EXPECTATIONS FOR GAERC MEETING; AGREEMENT TO [...] (C) In response to ref a points, Tom Burn of the Foreign Office's EU Section provided Poloff with the following readout of UK expectations for next week's GAERC: 2. (C) Iran: Burn shared the agreed upon language to be included in the text of the GAERC conclusions: "The Council agreed t [...] |
2007-10-12 14:49:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EUN ETRD ETTC KPAL YI RS LY IZ IR |
| 07LONDON3923 | XXXXXXXXXXXX ARGUES TIME IS RIPE FOR [...] (C) Summary. XXXXXXXXXXXX told London Iran Watcher (Poloff) that Islamic republic of Iran decision-makers lack the confidence to initiate an offer to the West to soften Iran's nuclear or regional posture, but are now, due to internal political conditions, hoping for a Western-initiated proposal on [...] |
2007-10-12 16:44:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP MNUC IR UK |
| 07LONDON3924 | IRAN DEMARCHE TO EU MEMBER STATES AHEAD OF OCTOBER [...] (C/NF) Summary: London Iran Watcher (Poloff) delivered reftel nonpaper to FCO Iran Multilateral team leader Will Gelling, who said that at the GAERC HMG will be focused on autonomous sanctions only, and is confident the EU will quickly endorse this aim. Gelling added that HMG opposes trying [...] |
2007-10-12 16:59:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV IR XF EUN UK |
| 07LONDON3938 | GORDON BROWN TO ISSUE LETTER TO G7 AND IFIS ON [...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Gordon Brown is considering sending a letter to G-7 participants, China, India, the IMF and the World Bank on how to support democracy in Burma. The London-based newspaper the Independent erroneously reported October 15 that the Prime Minister had already sent suc [...] |
2007-10-15 16:05:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM EAID BM UK |
| 07LONDON3940 | ANTARCTIC FISHERIES/CCAMLR MEETING ) UK DRESSED TO [...] UK Foreign Office Polar Regions Unit Chief Jane Rumble met ESTH Counselor on October 11 to discuss October 22 ) November 2 meeting in Hobart of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) (reftel). Rumble said that the HMG supports the substance of USG p [...] |
2007-10-16 08:04:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV EFIS KGHG UK |
| 07LONDON3983 | AMBASSADOR THANKS IRAN DEMOCRACY ADVOCATES FOR [...] (C) Summary: Per reftel request for Chiefs of Mission worldwide to underscore U.S. support for democracy advocates, Ambassador met October 11 with two UK-based Iranian expatriate journalists to thank them for their years of advocacy for human rights and democracy in Iran and to lead their dis [...] |
2007-10-19 12:14:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNNP MNUC PHUM IR UK |
| 07LONDON4045 | EUR SENIOR ADVISOR PANDITH AND S/P ADVISOR COHEN’S [...] (C) Summary. EUR Senior Advisor for Muslim Engagement Farah Pandith and S/P Member Jared Cohen met with a wide range of UK government leaders, community activists, think tanks, artists, and Muslim youth during their October 9-14 visit to the UK. Government officials stressed that the UK's probl [...] |
2007-10-25 16:38:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KISL PTER SCUL UK |
| 07LONDON4082 | FCC COMMISSIONER COPPS EXPLORES UK'S DIGITAL TV TRANSITION [...] (U) SUMMARY: The UK's transition to digital TV is progressing smoothly thanks in large part to an impressive BPS 200 Million ($400 Million) public awareness campaign and a BPS 600 Million ($1.2 Billion) Help Scheme, according to HMG officials. The analog BBC TWO signal in the small town of Whit [...] |
2007-10-30 13:03:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ECON UK |
| 07LONDON4102 | UK AGREES WITH US APPROACH TO UPCOMING WHO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: UK delegates from HMG Department of Health (UK DH) and the UK Intellectual Property Office (UK IPO) agree broadly with the US on the upcoming World Health Organization (WHO) intergovernmental working group (IGWG) on public health, innovation, and intellectual property. Both UK DH [...] |
2007-11-01 11:45:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECPS ETRD ECON UK |
| 07LONDON4126 | (C) UK INTERESTED IN CUBAN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) Summary. Chris Wood, Head of the Foreign Office's Americas Directorate, told the Charge that the UK shares the goal of promoting democratic change in Cuba and is interested in several of the U.S. proposals for cooperation in Cuba (ref B), but it will take more U.S. lobbying in EU capitals [...] |
2007-11-02 12:32:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM UNGA ETRD UN CU EU AR UK |
| 07LONDON414 | AMERICAN-IRANIAN UNIVERSITY PARTNERSHIP [...] SUMMARY: A recent UK-based Iranian participant in the International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP), Ali Pedram, has developed a proposal for an "American-Iranian University Partnership." It calls for expanding U.S. university partnerships with Middle East institutions to include Iran. The [...] |
2007-02-01 12:19:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | OEXC SCUL IR UK |
| 07LONDON4189 | FINSBURY PARK MOSQUE -- AFTER THE STORM [...] (C) Summary. A visit to the Finsbury Park Mosque -- once the home of the notorious extremist Imam Abu Hamza al-Masri and formerly exhibit A in the case for the threat from "homegrown" British radicalization -- found the Mosque apparently cleansed of its extremist past and working hard to counter ra [...] |
2007-11-08 17:24:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER SCUL KISL PGOV UK |
| 07LONDON4297 | PM Brown Announces "Marshall Plan" on Climate [...] (SBU) Summary: In a November 19 speech, Prime Minister Gordon Brown reaffirmed the UK's commitment to 60% cuts in carbon emissions by 2050 and 20% of energy in the EU from renewable sources by 2020, and called for a "Marshall Plan" on climate to assist developing countries. He pledged $2.74 [...] |
2007-11-20 12:21:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV KGHG UK |
| 07LONDON4310 | INCSR VOL II FOR UK [...] Following is post draft of Volume II of the UK INCSR for 2008. POC is Econ Couns John McNamara (mcnamarajf@state.gov) 2. (SBU) Begin Text: United Kingdom The United Kingdom (UK) plays a leading role in European and world finance and remains attractive to money launderers because of [...] |
2007-11-20 18:47:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KCRM EFIN KTFN SNAR UK |
| 07LONDON4311 | POSSIBLE NUCLEAR SMUGGLING INCIDENT/OFFER OF [...] (SBU) Post wishes to alert the Department and Washington agencies per reftel that it has received a report indicating a potential incident of illicit trafficking in and possible offer of nuclear and/or radiological materials. This report came to post's attention via call-in and email. Inform [...] |
2007-11-21 08:54:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC KCRM KNNP MNUC PARM PREL PTER UK |
| 07LONDON4327 | DHS SECRETARY CHERTOFF'S MEETING WITH HOME [...] (C/NF) Home Secretary Jacqui Smith told Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff about her concern about turbulence SIPDIS in Pakistan and explained the future use of biometrics at UK borders at their meeting November 14 in London. The two also conferred about ways to counter radicaliz [...] |
2007-11-21 16:01:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | PINS PTER PK UK |
| 07LONDON4328 | (C/NF) UK SHARES U.S. GOALS ON IRAN; WE SHOULD RE-FOCUS UK DOMESTIC EFFORTS AND INCREASE COORDINATION REF: A. STATE 156409 B. STATE 157039 LONDON 00004328 001.2 OF 006 [...] No summary [...] |
2007-11-21 16:16:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL MNUC EFIN PTER KTFN IR UK |
| 07LONDON434 | INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION (IMO): REPORT OF THE [...] SUMMARY: The 38th session of the IMO STW S/C met in London 22-26 January 2007, chaired by Rear Admiral Peter Brady (Jamaica). The session was attended by delegations from 79 member states, 2 associate members, and 22 observers from inter-governmental organizations and non-governmental organiz [...] |
2007-02-02 14:43:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | IMO AORC ASEC UK |
| 07LONDON435 | INTERNATIONAL WHALING COMMISSION SUMMARY OF [...] No summary [...] |
2007-02-02 15:36:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | SENV EFIS KSCA PREL IWC ETRD UK |
| 07LONDON438 | (C) DARFUR: UK MULLING TOUGHER MEASURES [...] (U) Action Request - please see paragraph 4. 2. (C) FCO is drafting a strategy for Darfur that will probably go to ministers next week. HMG continues to support the Addis Ababa and Abuja agreements but "patience is running out" over their non-implementation, according to Paul Norris of th [...] |
2007-02-02 16:38:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR UNSC SU UK |
| 07LONDON4389 | A/S SULLIVAN DISCUSSES UK DEVELOPMENT POLICY [...] (SBU) Summary: UK development official Shriti Vadera expressed an interest in closer cooperation with MCC and PEPFAR in a meeting with EEB A/S Sullivan. She also said she has been reaching out to private sector companies such as Coca-Cola and Vodafone (and next Wal-Mart) to use their systems [...] |
2007-11-28 16:22:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID KHIV UK |
| 07LONDON4442 | UK'S KEY BALI OBJECTIVES [...] (SBU) The following are points from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's Climate Security Team regarding the United Kingdom's key objectives for the Bali Summit on Climate Change. HMG has targeted goals for aviation and maritime emissions and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) targe [...] |
2007-12-03 16:39:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV ENRG KGHG UK |
| 07LONDON4454 | U.S. NATIONAL INTELLIGENCE ESTIMATE ON IRAN'S [...] (S/NF) Summary: Per instructions reftel, DCM delivered reftel points December 3 to Permanent Under Secretary of State Peter Ricketts. Ricketts, who was accompanied by FCO's Iran Coordinator Antony Phillipson, appeared not to have been previously aware of the NIE or its contents. Nevertheles [...] |
2007-12-04 13:10:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | KNNP MNUC IR PARM UK |
| 07LONDON4465 | IRAN: UK GOVERNMENT APPEALS MEK DE-LISTING ORDER [...] (C) Summary: The FCO told Embassy London Iran Watcher (Poloff) that the Mujaheddin-e-Khalk (MEK) will continue to be listed as a terrorist organization under UK law, and its UK accounts frozen, until the outcome of HMG,s appeal of the administrative order issued by the UK's Prohibited Organi [...] |
2007-12-04 16:30:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER IR UK |
| 07LONDON4472 | SCENESETTER FOR SECRETARY PETERS’ DECEMBER 7 VISIT [...] (SBU) Summary: Your December 7-8 visit to London comes after Prime Minister Gordon Brown has finished putting his own stamp on the government, following this summer's transition from Tony Blair's tenure, and begins focusing on governing. It also comes at a time during which major infrastruc [...] |
2007-12-05 11:58:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EAIR ICAO ECON SENV ELTN UK |
| 07LONDON4512 | UK OFFICIALS TELL U/S LEVEY THAT WILL ON IRAN IS [...] (C/NF) Summary: Senior UK officials told Treasury Under Secretary Stuart Levey November 30 that international action SIPDIS against Iran has increased pressure on the regime and made life "significantly uncomfortable" for Iranian leadership, but has not so far succeeded in changing Iran's nu [...] |
2007-12-10 12:24:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EFIN KTFN PREL MNUC PTER IR UK |
| 07LONDON455 | AVIAN INFLUENZA HITS THE UK; CURRENTLY NO PUBLIC [...] (C) SUMMARY: HMG officials confirmed on February 3 that the highly pathogenic Asian strain of H5N1 avian influenza killed turkeys on a factory farm. Restrictive zones have been put in place to limit poultry movement and to prevent the spread of the outbreak. No human illness has been report [...] |
2007-02-05 16:00:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | TBIO KFLU EAGR CACS AMED UK |
| 07LONDON4632 | ENERGY SECRETARY BODMAN AND UK ENERGY MINISTER WICKS [...] (SBU) Summary: Energy Secretary Bodman met his UK counterpart Malcolm Wicks to discuss Caspian energy, climate change and nuclear energy issues on November 20. The two agreed on the need for coordinated engagement in the region - particularly with Turkmenistan. End Summary Caspian Energy [...] |
2007-12-19 17:01:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EPET ENRG UK |
| 07LONDON4680 | IRAN: ALLEGED EX-IRGC MEMBER LISTS QUDS FORCE [...] (S/NF) Summary. Mohammed Ali Khatami (please protect), claiming to have been in the past a long-term operative for the Iranian Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), provided London Iran Watcher (Poloff) detailed written allegations concerning long-term IRGC-Quds Force involvement in de-stabilizing Ira [...] |
2007-12-28 15:41:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | EFIN KTFN PREL MNUC PTER IR UK |
| 07LONDON4688 | (SBU) PAKISTAN: UK URGES ELECTIONS WITHOUT [...] (SBU) HMG "agrees completely" with the USG that Pakistan's elections should proceed on schedule if possible, and if not, the postponement should be to a specified new date, according to Laura Guy, Head of FCO's Pakistan Section. Responding to reftel, Guy said HMG is keen on "as much electio [...] |
2007-12-31 11:26:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV KDEM PTER PK UK |
| 07LONDON473 | FY-2007 TEACHING AREA STUDIES, 11/15-12/2/06: EVALUATION BY [...] SUMMARY/RESULTS-IMPACT ------------------------- A). Ali Pedram found this an interesting and informative program on all fronts, academically, professionally and personally. It destroyed the preconceived ideas he had of the United States and its culture as well as its foreign policy toward th [...] |
2007-02-06 17:29:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OEXC SCUL IR UK |
| 07LONDON515 | TERRORIST FINANCE: HUMAN APPEAL INTERNATIONAL [...] (S/NF) Summary. Embassy London believes that HMG would object to a UN listing of the Human Appeal International (HAI) in its entirety unless we were able to provide it with specific information linking the UK branch to al Qaida or demonstrating that HAI-UK operated under the direction of HAI [...] |
2007-02-09 15:29:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | KTFN EFIN PTER ETTC PREL ECON |
| 07LONDON519 | TERRORISM FINANCE: REQUEST FOR POSTS ASSISTANCE IN [...] (S/NF) In response to reftel, Embassy contacted officials in the international organizations and counterterrorism policy departments at the Foreign Office to request feedback on the first tranche of terrorist facilitators and inciters designations. Both officials with whom we spoke commented that, [...] |
2007-02-09 16:22:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER UK |
| 07LONDON52 | UK CONSIDERING BANK SADERAT OPTIONS [...] (S/NF) Summary: An HMG intra-agency group met with U.S. Treasury officials to review new "evidence" of illicit activities by Bank Saderat Iran and its London-based subsidiary, Bank Saderat PLC. HMG officials requested further information indicating the London subsidiary is controlled by the [...] |
2007-01-05 18:04:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | EFIN KTFN PREL PTER ETTC IR UK |
| 07LONDON6 | TERRORIST FINANCE: DOCKRAT PRENOTIFICATION [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. 2. (S) Embassy delivered reftel prenotification to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on December 22. On January 3, Rod Mackenna of the FCO's Counter Terrorism Policy Department notified us that the UK will support a UN 1267 designat [...] |
2007-01-03 15:17:00 | Embassy London | SECRET | EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER ZU UK |
| 07LONDON640 | (C) AFGHANISTAN: UK WILL URGE ICELAND TO KEEP [...] No summary [...] |
2007-02-20 15:02:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL IC AF UK NATO |
| 07LONDON644 | UK TAKES NO POSITION ON CND VOTE ON DRONABINOL [...] The UK intends to go into the Commission on Narcotic Drugs meetings in March with no set position on deferring the vote on dronabinol. Gabriel Denvir, in the Home Office's Drugs Legislation Section, the lead office in the UK for the CND, responded to LabCouns presentation of ref (A) points by [...] |
2007-02-20 16:25:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC SNAR UNCND UK |
| 07LONDON660 | INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION (IMO): REPORT OF THE [...] SUMMARY: The 51st session of the IMO FP S/C met at the Royal Horticultural Halls in London 5-9 January 2007, chaired by Mr. Juan Carlos Cubisino (Argentina). The session was attended by delegations from 43 member states, one associate member, one state not a member, one intergovernmental org [...] |
2007-02-21 13:47:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | IMO AORC ASEC UK |
| 07LONDON667 | UK WILL NOT EXTEND TRAINERS AT JIPTC [...] No summary [...] |
2007-02-21 17:06:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | KCRM SNAR UK IZ JO |
| 07LONDON679 | ACCREDITATION REQUESTED - IMO - FIFTIETH SESSION [...] Embassy London has requested accreditation and is pleased to grant UK country clearance to the following delegation members from March 5 - 9, 2007 for the International Maritime Organization's Fiftieth Session of the Sub-Committee on Ship Design and Equipment (DE): Captain Patrick E. Little, [...] |
2007-02-22 14:25:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC ASEC IMO UK |
| 07LONDON704 | UK TRADE UNIONS FEAR LOSS OF POLITICAL CLOUT FROM [...] Summary: UK trade unions are anxiously following the deliberations of a commission exploring reforms to political party funding. The trade unions darkly suspect that some in the Labour Party would like to use the commission to break the unions' financial hold on Labour. At present, a handful [...] |
2007-02-23 16:23:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB PGOV UK |
| 07LONDON71 | TERRORIST FINANCE: REVIVAL OF ISLAMIC HERITAGE [...] (S/NF) Summary: Unless the U.S. has compelling information which either: a) demonstrates that the London branch of the Revival of Islamic Heritage Society (RIHS) is under the operational control of Kuwait-based headquarters or b) shows a clear linkage between the London branch and al-Qaida, we [...] |
2007-01-09 14:02:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | ETTC KTFN PTER PREL EFIN UK |
| 07LONDON764 | HILTON HOTELS CAUGHT BETWEEN US CUBA SANCTIONS AND [...] No summary [...] |
2007-02-27 17:16:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC ELAB CU UK |
| 07LONDON780 | HILTON HOTELS CAUGHT BETWEEN US CUBA SANCTIONS AND [...] Summary and action request: Hilton Hotels International, faced with a conflict between US sanctions on Cuba and UK law banning discrimination, has instructed its employees not to violate local UK law, putting them on a potential collision course with US law. Post would welcome any guidance W [...] |
2007-02-28 18:00:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | ETTC ELAB CU UK |
| 07LONDON788 | SURVEYING EU MEMBERS ON THEIR IRAN CIVIL SOCIETY [...] (C) The Foreign and Commonwealth Office's Iran Team Human Rights Leader, Stephen Hickey, described to Poloff several overlapping project areas, centering on media outreach, judicial reform and human rights, in which UK Government is supporting democratic reform in Iran. Hickey provided this [...] |
2007-03-01 14:15:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | KDEM KPAO PGOV PREL EUN IR UK |
| 07LONDON794 | UK ANNOUNCES TERRORISM FINANCE STRATEGY [...] (S/NF) Summary and Comment: The UK's new strategy to tackle financial crime and terrorism does not represent a dramatic point of departure, but rather confirms an evolutionary trend towards a more aggressive approach to countering terrorism finance. The strategy, announced by Economic Secreta [...] |
2007-03-01 16:21:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | ETTC KTFN PTER EFIN UK |
| 07LONDON798 | IRAQ MND-SE UPDATE: UK TO BE OUT OF BASRA PALACE [...] (C) SUMMARY: The entire UK presence at Basra Palace, both military and civilian, will be transferred to Basra Air Station by August, UK MOD officials told Embassy London March  [...] |
2007-03-01 17:50:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MCAP IZ UK |
| 07LONDON809 | UK EXPECTATIONS FOR MARCH EU GAERC MEETING [...] (C) The UK Government expects Iran and Bosnia to be issues of focus at the March General Affairs and External Relations Council (GAERC) meeting. Martin Sherman, FCO's EU External Affairs head, provided Poloff on March 1 with a readout of UK expectations for the GAERC in response to ref non-p [...] |
2007-03-02 15:26:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EUN KPAL PGOV BK YI IS IR AF SU UZ UK |
| 07LONDON892 | INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION (IMO): REPORT OF THE [...] SUMMARY: COMSAR 11 was attended by 70 administrations and 1 Associate Member, 2 Specialized Agencies, and 19 non- governmental organizations. COMSAR considered the Global Maritime Distress and Safety System (GMDSS), Review of the ITU radio communications matters, Satellite Services (COSPAS-SARS [...] |
2007-03-07 16:45:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | IMO ITU IMSO AORC ASEC UK |
| 07LONDON894 | INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION (IMO): REPORT OF THE [...] SUMMARY: The combined annual meeting for both the 1972 London Convention on the Prevention of Marine Pollution by Dumping of Wastes and Other Matter (the 'London Convention') and the 1996 Protocol to the London Convention (the 'London Protocol') took place in London, October 30 to November 3, [...] |
2007-03-07 17:45:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | IMO PHSA SENV AORC ASEC UK |
| 08EFTOLONDON2883 | MINURCAT/EUFOR: EARLY UK VIEWS ON THE MANDATE [...] (SBU/NF) Foreign Office contacts have informally told us that the UK continues to question the need for a United Nations peacekeeping presence in the Central Africa Republic (CAR) and plans to advocate for the smallest force possible in the extension of the MINURCAT mandate, even as the UN for [...] |
2008-11-17 16:02:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KPKO MASS PINR CD CT SU FR UK |
| 08LONDON1001 | A COLLECTIVE YAWN GREETS HMG’S FIRST NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY [...] (C/NF) Summary. Criticism and indifference from British political leaders, foreign policy analysts, and media greeted the publication of HMG's first National Security Strategy (NSS), an initial reaction echoed in many of the Whitehall ministries to which the NSS was directed. UK opposition lead [...] |
2008-04-08 12:05:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PTER EAID ECON UK |
| 08LONDON1013 | UK ON ENCOURAGING GREATER REGIONAL ENGAGEMENT WITH [...] No summary [...] |
2008-04-09 14:03:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL IZ UK |
| 08LONDON1014 | (C) HMG CONSIDERING OPTIONS IN AFTERMATH OF [...] (C) Foreign Office Zimbabwe Section Chief Ben Llewellyn-Jones confirmed to Poloff on April 7 that Prime Minister Brown had urged South African president Thabo Mbeki to use his influence in an effort to bring a positive end to Zimbabwe's political crisis when the two men meet on April 6. Llewe [...] |
2008-04-09 14:41:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EC PGOV PREL SA UK EU UNSC ZI |
| 08LONDON1017 | HMG LOOKING FORWARD TO BUILDING ON GAINS OF NATO [...] (C/NF) According to FCO Deputy Director for Security Policy Chris Holtby, HMG shares U.S. views that the results of the NATO Bucharest Summit were better than expected going in, and looked forward to working closely with us to move forward soon on the outcomes which fell short of expectation [...] |
2008-04-09 15:46:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV NATO EU UK |
| 08LONDON103 | (S) IRAN: UK READOUT ON EL BARADEI'S LONDON [...] (S) Summary. IAEA Head Mohammed El Baradei raised no new points during his January 7 meetings in London with Foreign Secretary Miliband and other senior UK officials, ahead of El SIPDIS Baradei's visit later this week to Tehran. Per ref, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) told London Ir [...] |
2008-01-10 17:41:00 | Embassy London | SECRET | PREL KPRP PGOV PHUM IR UK |
| 08LONDON1087 | UNITED KINGDOM BEGINS RELOCATION OF SOME IRAQI [...] (C) Summary. The first three participants in HMG's program to relocate selected Iraqi employees who worked for the British Government in Iraq arrived in the UK on April 8. According to John Burran, head of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) Office on Assistance to Iraqi Locally Employ [...] |
2008-04-16 13:22:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PREF PHUM EU IZ UK |
| 08LONDON1091 | LONDON MAYORAL ELECTION: A NATIONAL BELLWEATHER? [...] (SBU) Summary. On May 1 Londoners go to the polls to elect a new Mayor. The incumbent, Labour's Ken Livingstone, is looking to win his third successive term in office but faces a tough challenge from the Conservative candidate, Boris Johnson. At present the race is too close to call. A lot i [...] |
2008-04-16 16:42:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL UK |
| 08LONDON111 | MISSILE DEFENSE: HMG CONCERNED POLAND WILL [...] (C) This is a State action request -- see para 9. 2. (C) Summary. HMG is concerned that public statements by Warsaw since the Polish elections are causing other NATO Allies to begin to question whether NATO should approve MD work at the Bucharest summit in April. HMG suggests the U.S. Gov [...] |
2008-01-11 12:56:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | MARR PREL NATO UK PO |
| 08LONDON1112 | HMG WILL CONTINUE TO ENGAGE WITH ATHENS AND SKOPJE [...] (C) HMG has been engaging, and will continue to engage with, senior Greek leadership to encourage Athens to be more flexible in its position on the Macedonia name issue. FCO Balkans Group Deputy Director Adam Bye said that the British Ambaasador (HMA) to Greece had met with Foreign Minister [...] |
2008-04-18 14:00:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NATO EU MK GR UK |
| 08LONDON1113 | PROPOSALS FOR AMBASSADOR’S CT FUND [...] (U) Embassy London welcomes the offer made by S/CT Ambassador Dailey for S/CT to consider granting funds of up to 50,000 USD to support projects to counter violent extremist ideology. Embassy London submits the following two proposals: 2. (C) REVERSE RADICALISM: Working with Her Majesty's Gov [...] |
2008-04-18 14:03:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER UK |
| 08LONDON1115 | HMG OUTLINES NEW PROCEDURES FOR REQUESTING INTEL [...] (S/NF) Summary and Action Request. The UK Ministry of Defense summoned PolMilOff April 15 to receive the letter in para 2 on new procedures for requesting HMG permission to use UK territory to launch intelligence flights. This letter, evidently what DG Mariot Leslie was referring to in her April 14 [...] |
2008-04-18 15:31:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | MOPS MARR PINR PREL UK |
| 08LONDON1116 | UK REACTION TO IRAN SANCTIONS DEMARCHES [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY The UK is actively considering its options in its efforts to contain Iranian nuclear proliferation, and appreciates the information we provided on Banks Melli, Saderat and Mellat, according to Patrick Guthrie, Head of the Financial Sanctions Unit of HM Treasury, and his Deputy, P [...] |
2008-04-18 15:42:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | ECON EFIN KNNP IR UK |
| 08LONDON1135 | (C) AN UPDATE ON HMG EXPECTATIONS AND PREDICTIONS [...] (C) Summary. The head of the Foreign Office's Zimbabwe section indicated on 21 April that time is running out for Robert Mugabe. Ineffective African mediation efforts may still yield positive results if all interested parties, including the African Union and the United Nations, coordinate with [...] |
2008-04-22 12:31:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PHUM PREL UN UK EU SA CH ZI |
| 08LONDON1146 | HMG REQUESTS FORMAL CONSULTATIONS REGARDING [...] (SBU) Summary and Action Request. Following up on ref a request for informal consultations, PolMiloff received a letter and non-paper April 22 from HMG requesting formal consultations on renewing the 2003 HMG-USG Agreement concerning the use of Wideawake Airfield on Ascension Island. Embassy [...] |
2008-04-23 14:30:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MOPS MARR PREL UK |
| 08LONDON1151 | (C) BP PREFERS TO MANAGE CHINESE PRESSURE OVER [...] (C) SUMMARY The Chinese government has threatened action against BP assets on the mainland if the company does not halt new projects in disputed South China Sea waters. BP would like to keep any reactions to Chinese pressure over the company's activities in the South China Sea within commercia [...] |
2008-04-23 15:54:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ENRG PBTS PGOV PREL CA VN UK |
| 08LONDON1157 | HMG EXPECTS LITTLE IMMINENT CHANGE IN CUBA BUT [...] (C/NF) Summary. Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) officials told Cuba Transition Coordinator Caleb McCarry they detected little real change since Raul Castro assumed power, but they firmly believed the only means of exploiting any possible openings with the regime was to remain engaged. [...] |
2008-04-24 10:12:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PHUM KDEM UK CU EUN |
| 08LONDON1159 | HMG AND DOD INTEL FLIGHTS: HOUSTON, WE HAVE A [...] (S/NF) Summary and action request. According to FCO and MOD contacts, HMG ministers are adamant that future requests to use UK territory to conduct DOD intel flights must be made "government-to-government" in "formal" (policy) channels, rather than through the working-level mil-mil channels c [...] |
2008-04-24 11:14:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | MARR MOPS PINR PREL UK |
| 08LONDON116 | EUROPEAN SUMMIT ON FINANCIAL INSTABILITY SET [...] (SBU) Last October, France, Germany, and the UK agreed to a Summit to discuss current financial market problems. Italy and the EU will join that meeting, in London on January 29. In advance of that summit, the respective finance ministers will meet on January 17. A Cabinet Office source told [...] |
2008-01-11 17:54:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN UK |
| 08LONDON1160 | REPORTS THAT BRITAIN IS IMPORTING PAKISTANI IMAMS [...] (C) Summary. The British press has reported that Home Secretary Jacqui Smith announced that Britain would launch a SIPDIS new initiative to bring "moderate Pakistani Imams" to preach in Britain. Poloff spoke April 24 with the Head of the Home Office's Prevent Unit Paul Morrison who said the ini [...] |
2008-04-24 13:58:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PTER KISL PK UK |
| 08LONDON1163 | IRAN: DEMOCRACY SMALL GRANTS PROPOSALS RECOMMENDED [...] (C/NF) Summary: Per Department guidance for the Iran Democracy Small Grants program (refs a and b), Embassy London supports and forwards for Department review, and approval and funding, six project proposals submitted to Iran Watcher (Poloff) by Iranian contacts in the UK. Per Department guidan [...] |
2008-04-24 14:56:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL KDEM KPAO PHUM IR UK |
| 08LONDON1170 | COURT KNOCKS DOWN TERRORIST ASSET-FREEZING POWERS: [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: A UK court ruled on April 24 that the UK had illegally frozen the assets of five individuals accused of terrorism finance. The ruling found fault with the fact that the UK did not engage in parliamentary debate in its implementation of UN Security Council Resolutions on Al-Qae [...] |
2008-04-25 11:56:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ECON KTFN UK |
| 08LONDON1171 | STEALING THE SHOW -- PRIVATE INDUSTRY ANTI-PIRACY EFFORTS [...] (U) Summary: Participants at a seminar on industry's efforts to stop film piracy broadly agreed on the need to outlaw camcording of films in cinemas. The industry is working with law enforcement to prosecute the organized crime families who produce counterfeit DVD's. Previous public outreach c [...] |
2008-04-25 13:38:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON KIPR UK ECPS |
| 08LONDON1172 | UK EXPECTS THE BALKANS TO DOMINATE APRIL GAERC [...] (C) Summary. The UK expects the Balkans to be the key discussion item at the April 27-28 GAERC; the UK is still pushing to have a Stabilization and Association Agreement (SSA) with Bosnia signed at this GAERC, but expects it will slip to the May GAERC. According to Martin Shearman, EU Corres [...] |
2008-04-25 14:05:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EUN ZL PK ZI IR IS CH BM UK |
| 08LONDON1176 | UK FOOD SUMMIT HIGHLIGHTS PM BROWN'S CONCERN [...] (SBU) Summary: At an April 22, PM Brown-hosted meeting to address increases in food prices, participants disagreed about future trends and the impact of biofuels, agreed that action needed to be taken both for immediate social protection and longer-term agricultural investment, and that care s [...] |
2008-04-25 16:40:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID EAGR PGOV UK |
| 08LONDON1183 | WESTERN SAHARA: UK UNDECIDED ABOUT UN STATEMENT [...] (C) The UK has not yet decided whether to make a statement at the April 29 UNSC meeting on the renewal of the mandate for the UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO), FCO North Africa Team Leader Robert Dixon told us in response to reftel demarche. If the UK does decide to [...] |
2008-04-28 13:52:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PBTS UK FR MO AG WI UNSC |
| 08LONDON1204 | IRAN: UK PUSHES BACK ESTIMATED DATE OF EU'S [...] (C) Summary. The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) told Embassy there is "an eighty percent chance" the EU will vote to designate Bank Melli and 34 other persons and entities at the "next available" EU-level ministerial meeting. FCO was optimistic a text on designations will be f [...] |
2008-04-29 15:40:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN KTFN PREL MNUC PTER EU IR UK |
| 08LONDON1223 | VIGILANCE REGARDING BANK SADERAT'S BRANCH IN ATHENS [...] (S/NF) We delivered reftel points on April 28 to HM Treasury's Patrick Guthrie, head of Financial Sanctions Unit, who said he would share within HMT and with the Financial Services Authority (banking regulator.) Guthrie appreciated receiving the information and agreed Greece had a lax enforce [...] |
2008-05-01 11:41:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | ECON KNNP MNUC IR UK |
| 08LONDON1224 | CODEL SMITH DISCUSSES IRAQ AND COUNTERTERRORISM [...] (S/NF) Summary. On the heels of their trip to Afghanistan and Pakistan, Codel Smith traveled to London April 29 for meetings with senior officials at the Ministry of Defense (MOD), MI-6, and Department for International Development (DfID). The MOD and MI-6 talks focused on counterterrorism and coun [...] |
2008-05-01 11:56:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PTER PREL AF PK IZ UK |
| 08LONDON1241 | MAY 1 ELECTIONS: BROWN IS BLUE AND CAMERON [...] (C/NF) Summary. Prime Minister Gordon Brown is facing heavy losses in his first electoral test since becoming Prime Minister. With two thirds of the results counted from yesterday's local council elections in England and Wales, projections put Labour at just 24 percent of the total vote; th [...] |
2008-05-02 17:12:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV UK |
| 08LONDON126 | MDG CALL TO ACTION: MORE UK THINKING [...] (SBU) Summary: In recent meetings at DFID and FCO, UK interlocutors raised PM Brown's Millennium Development Goals (MDG) Call to Action. We were told the Call to Action is intended mesh with existing development initiatives, but bring in a private sector component that the others lack. More d [...] |
2008-01-14 18:06:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EAID UN UK |
| 08LONDON1265 | EMBASSY LONDON PLANS FOR DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH [...] Action request for Department. Embassy London plans to mark the May 21 "Day of Solidarity with the Cuban People" by placing an op-ed in a local newspaper. We request that WHA provide the text for this placement. 2. In addition, Embassy London is working with the NGO "English PEN" to mark [...] |
2008-05-06 16:31:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KDEM PHUM EUN CU UK |
| 08LONDON1277 | UK STATEMENT ON BURMA'S FLAWED CONSTITUTIONAL [...] No summary [...] |
2008-05-07 10:58:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM BM UK |
| 08LONDON1285 | UK MORTGAGE LENDERS OK FOR NOW; HOUSING PRICES FALLING [...] (SBU) Recent announcements of lenders withdrawing mortgage products from the market incorrectly suggest that UK mortgage lenders are in crisis. As a group, mortgage lenders are solvent with significant equity cushions in their mortgage portfolios and default rates remain low. Building societ [...] |
2008-05-07 16:35:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN UK |
| 08LONDON1287 | EMBASSY LONDON'S OUTREACH TO DEMOCRACY ACTIVISTS [...] Summary. In response to the President's democracy outreach initiative, the Ambassador has led an active Embassy effort, sustained throughout 2007 and 2008 and primarily with an Iranian focus, to demonstrate support and build bridges to democratic activists, including a personal meeting by the [...] |
2008-05-08 10:50:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL IR BM UK |
| 08LONDON129 | TERRORISM FINANCE: UK TO CO-SPONSOR LET-4 [...] No summary [...] |
2008-01-15 15:15:00 | Embassy London | SECRET | KTFN EFIN PTER PREL UK |
| 08LONDON1292 | IRAN: DESPITE UK COURT RULING, HMG WILL KEEP ITS [...] (C) Summary. The UK Court of Appeals ruled May 7 unambiguously in favor of the Iran oppositionist group Mujahadeen e Khalq (MEK, aka MKO aka NCRI) on its long-standing petition to be de-listed as a terrorist group under UK domestic law (ref). The UK Government, which had fought the MEK's pe [...] |
2008-05-08 17:37:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETTC PTER IR IZ UK |
| 08LONDON130 | TERRORIST FINANCE: UK AGREES TO UN DESIGNATION OF [...] (S) The UK agrees to support U.S. designation of Badran Turki Hishan Al Mazidih and members of his network, the five individuals in Ref A, according to Giles Cutler, 1267 Committee expert, International Organizations Department, Foreign Office. However, they have not yet decided whether to co [...] |
2008-01-15 15:18:00 | Embassy London | SECRET | EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC IZ SY UK |
| 08LONDON1300 | ICI: UK FOREIGN SECRETARY WILL PROBABLY ATTEND [...] (SBU) UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband will probably lead the UK delegation to the May 29 International Compact with Iraq (ICI) Ministerial in Stockholm, Miliband's Chief of Staff Matthew Gould told us May 9. The UK is not planning any deliverables for the meeting, FCO Iraq Group officers [...] |
2008-05-09 13:30:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN EINV PGOV PREL IZ UK |
| 08LONDON1302 | LEBANON: UK TO ISSUE PUBLIC STATEMENT, WILL [...] (C) HMG in general, and Foreign Secretary David Miliband in particular, are very concerned about the situation in Lebanon, Miliband's Chief of Staff Matthew Gould told us May 9. Miliband is planning to issue a statement the afternoon of May 9 reflecting the points in reftel; he will also cal [...] |
2008-05-09 14:17:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER CASC LE SY RU TU UK |
| 08LONDON1303 | USAID, DFID AGREE ON COLLABORATION PROJECTS [...] (SBU) Summary: UK Secretary of State for International Development, Douglas Alexander, sought USAID Administrator Henrietta ForeQs support for DFIDQs planned September 25 meeting on the Millennium Development Goals in New York. Douglas agreed to co-author an op-ed piece with Fore on why develop [...] |
2008-05-09 14:42:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID PREL KHDP ECON UK |
| 08LONDON1311 | UK REAFFIRMS LONG-TERM PRESENCE IN IRAQ; PRAISES [...] (S/NF) Summary. During their meetings with Secretary of State for Defense Des Browne and FCO Political Director Mark Lyall Grant, U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker and the Commanding General of MNF-I General David Petraeus were reassured that the UK was in Iraq "long-term" and had temporari [...] |
2008-05-09 16:18:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL MARR IZ AF UK |
| 08LONDON132 | HORMUZ STRAITS INCIDENT: ALLEGEDLY AN IRGC [...] (S/NF) Summary. A long-time Embassy contact, reportedly relaying information from a close friend who is an active duty member of the Iranian military, told Poloff the Deputy Commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (Naval Forces) independently planned and led the January 6 feint by [...] |
2008-01-15 17:43:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | KPRP PGOV PHUM PREL IS IR LE SY UK KR |
| 08LONDON1327 | TERRORISM FINANCE: CO-SPONSORSHIP AND [...] No summary [...] |
2008-05-12 16:59:00 | Embassy London | SECRET | KTFN EFIN PTER PINR PREL UK |
| 08LONDON1328 | ACTION REQUEST ON U.S. 60-DAY REPORT TO UN [...] No summary [...] |
2008-05-12 17:01:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP EFIN AORC ETRD TRGY UNSC UK |
| 08LONDON1338 | (C) UK RESPONSE TO DEMARCHES ON GERMAN OBSTINACY [...] (C) In response to refs a and b, Andrew Ford, Head of the International Security and Arms Control Security Group at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), reiterated HMG's position that the USG's unwillingness to participate in the Oslo process has been an impediment to a successful agre [...] |
2008-05-13 16:28:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL MOPS PGOV NATO GM UK |
| 08LONDON1350 | HMG RAISES THE BAR ON INTEL FLIGHTS [...] (S/NF) Summary and Recommendation. FCO contacts explained May 14 that HMG's May 1 approval (ref C) for CEDAR SWEEP flights had been widely considered at MOD and FCO, with some departments flagging concerns about the information provided by the USG. HMG is concerned that the request for reconnai [...] |
2008-05-14 15:06:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | MARR MOPS PINR PREL LE UK |
| 08LONDON1352 | IRANIAN BANKING IN LONDON: UK PLANS AND CONCERNS [...] No summary [...] |
2008-05-14 15:16:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | EFIN KTFN MNUC IR UK |
| 08LONDON1386 | SURVEY: IMPACT OF RISING FOOD/AGRICULTURAL [...] No summary [...] |
2008-05-16 14:51:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID ETRD ECON PGOV PREL |
| 08LONDON1394 | UPDATE ON EMBASSY LONDON PLANS FOR DAY OF [...] Per ref A, "The Daily Telegraph" has agreed to run the Department-cleared op-ed under the Ambassador's signature in its online version on May 21. 2. In addition, Embassy London is working with the NGO "English PEN" to mark the occasion. PEN advocates for freedom of expression around the wor [...] |
2008-05-19 15:07:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL KDEM PHUM EUN CU UK |
| 08LONDON1396 | IRAN: EU BANK MELLI DESIGNATION PUSHED TO MID/LATE [...] (S) Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) working level contacts on May 19 told Embassy London Iran Watcher (Poloff) that, although the EU has agreed politically to designate Bank Melli, the EU has pushed the expected designation date, previously set for May 19 (ref), back to mid- or late [...] |
2008-05-19 16:21:00 | Embassy London | SECRET | EFIN KTFN PREL MNUC PTER EU IR UK |
| 08LONDON1397 | (C) UK PREPARING TO DESIGNATE MILITARY WING OF [...] (C/NF) Summary. The UK government is preparing to designate the military wing of Hizballah as a terrorist organization in the next two to three weeks, FCO Middle East and North Africa Director (NEA A/S-equivalent) John Jenkins told DCM May 19. The UK recognizes that the USG would like it to [...] |
2008-05-19 16:50:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PTER IR SY LE IZ UK |
| 08LONDON1406 | UNITED KINGDOM: REPORT ON FORCED LABOR AND CHILD LABOR IN [...] (U) There is no record of forced or child labor in the production of legal goods in the UK. The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) informed Post that it does not collate information on goods produced with child labor and that it is not aware of any private research in this area. Its most [...] |
2008-05-20 13:30:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI UK |
| 08LONDON1411 | UK LARGELY WITH US ON UN SYSTEM OF INTERNAL JUSTICE [...] (C) ON May 19, PolOff delivered Ref A on reforming the UN system of Internal Justice. HMG is in full agreement that the implementation of the new Internal Justice system is a top priority and agreed that any contentious issues should be left to further review after implementation, according [...] |
2008-05-20 16:39:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL AORC APER UNGA UK |
| 08LONDON1412 | DOD INTEL FLIGHTS: FCO CLARIFIES [...] (S/NF) Summary. U.S.-UK talks on clearances for DOD intel flights had become "unnecessarily confrontational," FCO Director General for Defence and Intelligence Mariot Leslie told Acting U/S John Rood May 16. After reiterating the political sensitivities surrounding the Sovereign Base Areas (SBA) on [...] |
2008-05-20 18:08:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | MARR MOPS PINR PREL LE UK |
| 08LONDON1424 | UK SHARES U.S. OBJECTIVES FOR BURMA CONFERENCE BUT [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel on the Burma donors conference to Nigel Boud, Burma Director in the British Foreign Office, on May 21. Boud said HMG's objectives for the conference "tally exactly" with those of the USG. HMG's overall goal is to gain immediate access for humanitarian assistance [...] |
2008-05-21 16:39:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM EAID BM UK |
| 08LONDON1426 | THE UK AND AFRICA: WHAT THE FCO'S STRATEGY REFRESH [...] (C/NF) Summary. Following the FCO's recent "strategy refresh" of its priorities, FCO and Africa Directorate leadership have held extensive internal discussions on what the new strategy will mean for Africa. FCO plans to develop a more comprehensive foreign policy for Africa -- not just a deve [...] |
2008-05-22 07:13:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL XA UK |
| 08LONDON1433 | IRAN: UK GRANTS ASYLUM TO VICTIM OF TEHRAN [...] (C) Summary: Reversing an earlier decision, and in the wake of considerable coverage in the UK press, the Home Office on May 20 granted asylum to a gay Iranian teenager who had claimed persecution by Iranian authorities. The HMG decision was not a finding of systematic persecution of homosex [...] |
2008-05-22 12:38:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PHUM PREF PREL EU IR NL UK |
| 08LONDON1449 | UK BY-ELECTION RESULTS PORTEND BIG PROBLEMS FOR [...] (C/NF) Summary. For the first time in 30 years, the UK's Conservative Party has taken back a parliamentary seat from the Labour Party, winning a huge upset victory in the May 22 Crewe and Nantwich by-election. By giving David Cameron's Tories 49 percent of the vote - as opposed to 31 percent [...] |
2008-05-23 13:21:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL UK |
| 08LONDON1452 | IRAN: FOREIGN SECRETARY SAYS UK TO LEAD FINANCIAL [...] (C) Foreign Secretary Milliband is "very aware" of the centrality of financial measures, both multilateral and bilateral, to the creation of effective pressure on Tehran, and has told the FCO that HMG will be "at the forefront" of international financial efforts against Iran and will push its EU pa [...] |
2008-05-23 13:58:00 | Embassy London | SECRET | ECON ETTC KNNP PARM PGOV PHUM PREL IR PK UK |
| 08LONDON1456 | UK EXPECTATIONS FOR THE MAY 26-27 FOREIGN [...] No summary [...] |
2008-05-23 17:51:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL PGOV EU UK |
| 08LONDON1457 | BANKS STOPPING UK SUB-PRIME LENDING [...] (SBU) Over the last few months the UK has seen the virtual closure of its sub-prime market. Market conditions and action by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) against brokers for poor lending practices may have caused some banks to withdraw from the sub-prime market. The Financial Service [...] |
2008-05-27 07:17:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN UK |
| 08LONDON1459 | UK AND SOMALIA: CAUTIOUSLY SUPPORTIVE OF UN PKO [...] (C/NF) Summary. The UK is cautiously supportive of deploying a United Nations Peacekeeping Operation (PKO) in Somalia, when the conditions are right, FCO counterparts tell us. HMG sees clan leader buy-in of a UN presence and increased UN engagement, including moving the Political Office to M [...] |
2008-05-27 10:37:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL KPKO UNSC XW SO UK |
| 08LONDON1465 | UK COUNTRY CLEARANCE IS GRANTED TO DOS/VCI [...] Embassy London is pleased to grant country clearance to Rongsong Jih to visit London June 2-5 to attend the Quadripartite Annual Conference in Seismology (QUACS) held June 3-4, 2008, at the Atomic Weapons Establishment (AWE), Blacknest, United Kingdom. 2. ----------------- Visit offic [...] |
2008-05-27 14:12:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | OTRA UK AA |
| 08LONDON1468 | IRAN: UK EXPECTS EU WILL SOON DE-LIST THE MEK [...] (C) HMG will formally notify its EU partners at a May 30 experts' meeting of the UK's impending removal (reftel) of the Mujaheddin-E-Khalq (MEK) from the UK's domestic terrorist list (reftel), FCO contacts told London Iran Watcher (Poloff) May 23. Such notification will trigger an EU process [...] |
2008-05-27 15:47:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETTC PTER IR IZ UK |
| 08LONDON1477 | LIBERTAD ACT: UK INPUT [...] (C) The following pertains to the UK's involvement in and relations with Cuba, keyed to questions posed in reftel: 2. (C) Has the UK worked to promote the advancement of democracy and human rights in Cuba? -- The UK's policy toward Cuba is consistent with the EU Common Policy, which was [...] |
2008-05-28 15:32:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL CU UK |
| 08LONDON1478 | UK ON CARIBBEAN SECURITY EFFORTS [...] (C) In response to reftel request, Embassy assesses that HMG has shown long-standing support for Caribbean regional integration to tackle transnational crime, terrorism and natural disasters, believing that Caribbean countries are more likely to build effective capacity together than separatel [...] |
2008-05-28 15:35:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | MOPS PREL PTER UK XL MASS |
| 08LONDON1485 | UK AND LIBERIA/FRANCE: UK SUPPORTIVE OF [...] (C) The United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL) should be drawn down based "on conditions on the ground" and the current UN plan for a gradual down-sizing has the UK's full support, Peacekeeping Team Leader Nicola Murray said on May 28. The UK is "quietly positive" on UNMIL. While there ma [...] |
2008-05-29 11:38:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL KPKO UNSC XY LI FR UK |
| 08LONDON1505 | SUDAN: UK SUPPORTS DESIGNATION OF REFTEL [...] (C) HMG supports sanctioning all four individuals in reftel A, FCO Sudan Unit Senior Political Officer Rachel Edis said May 30. If other UNSC members oppose the entire list, however, sanctioning Justice and Equality Movement (JEM) leader Khalil Ibrahim and Doussa Deby would be the preferred o [...] |
2008-05-30 16:24:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ETTC PREL EFIN KTFN PTER UNSC SU UK |
| 08LONDON1506 | HM TREASURY OFFICIALS ON TEC AND DOHA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: HM Treasury officials worry the French may use their EU Presidency to slow Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform and may even try to use labor clauses in free trade agreements to impose some of their own labor market rigidities. They are also concerned by signs of protecti [...] |
2008-05-30 16:25:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EAGR UK |
| 08LONDON1509 | IRAN'S EX-AMBASSADOR TAJIK: UK MAY EXTRADITE AS [...] (C) The UK says it intends to extradite ex-Iranian ambassador Nosratullah Tajik to the United States no later than June 11, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) contacts told London Iran Watcher (Poloff) on May 29. the Tajik case has been a significant bilateral irritant between the UK and [...] |
2008-06-02 10:49:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | CJAN PINS PREL PTER IR UK |
| 08LONDON1535 | INTERNATIONAL SECURITY DISCUSSIONS WITH HMG [...] (C/NF) Summary. FCO and Treasury officials said that HMG was taking steps to restrict Iranian banking activity in the UK but is restricted by the legal tools available to it. FCO PolDir Mark Lyall Grant, FCO Director General for Defense and Intelligence Mariot Leslie, and HMT International and [...] |
2008-06-03 16:21:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | PARM MARR PREL IR SY UK |
| 08LONDON1552 | EDELMAN AND MOD HOLD PAKISTAN ROUNDTABLE [...] (C) Summary. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Eric Edelman, UK counterpart Ministry of Defense Policy Director Desmond Bowen, and their staffs held a wide-ranging roundtable discussion on Pakistan May 30. (Participants in para 6.) Bowen described Pakistan as "vital strategic ground," a [...] |
2008-06-04 15:47:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER MARR PINS PK UK |
| 08LONDON1553 | UK FEELS U.S. PAIN BUT OFFERS LITTLE LOVE ON [...] (C) The UK does not itself strongly object to the proposed U.S. language on Cuba and Venezuela in the U.S.-EU Summit document, but is bowing to the "significant" opposition of other EU Members and will not break rank on including U.S. language. Polcounselor delivered ref message on June 3 to [...] |
2008-06-04 16:06:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM EUN UK |
| 08LONDON1555 | UK OFFICIAL PESSIMISTIC ON TRADE AGENDA [...] (SBU) Summary: A UK trade official told Econoff the UK is worried that the Doha Development Agreement round of trade talks will not succeed, which would be a serious blow. He said the U.S. and others need to offer more. On TEC, he said member states, not well briefed by the EU Commission, te [...] |
2008-06-05 08:15:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETRD EAGR UK EU |
| 08LONDON1562 | ZIMBABWE: UK CONTRIBUTION TO THE UN TRUST FUND FOR [...] (SBU) Zimbabwe Team Leader Ben Llewellyn-Jones said June 5 the UK plans to contribute GBP 100,000 (approx. 200,000 USD) to the UN Trust Fund for Electoral Assistance and is likely to finalize the letter of commitment today (June 5). HMG had initially intended to contribute GBP 200,000, but upo [...] |
2008-06-05 11:07:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM PREL AA UN XA ZI UK |
| 08LONDON1566 | UK WELCOMES SEXUAL VIOLENCE DEBATE, BUT LEVEL OF [...] (U) On June 4, PolOff delivered reftel demarche to Michael Cotterall of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), who is the Head of the Peacekeeping Unit of the International Organizations Bureau. Cotterall said HMG is looking forward to working with the USG on the issue of Sexual Violence [...] |
2008-06-05 13:13:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PHUM AORC KWMN UN UNSC UK |
| 08LONDON1567 | UK UNDECIDED ON IOM VOTE [...] No summary [...] |
2008-06-05 14:28:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PREF SMIG AORC UK |
| 08LONDON1568 | UK AND SOUTH AFRICA: JULY UK-RSA FORUM OPPORTUNITY [...] (C/NF) Summary. South Africa (RSA) will host Foreign Secretary David Miliband and a high-level HMG delegation in Pretoria for the 8th bi-annual UK-RSA Bilateral Forum July 7 - 8. FCO officials describe the UK's relations with President Mbeki as "the worst the UK has had in recent history" -- [...] |
2008-06-05 14:28:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL ECON KDEM SMIG ZU SF UK |
| 08LONDON1574 | PAKISTAN: UK VIEWS ON DEALS WITH TRIBAL GROUPS IN [...] (C) Summary. The UK is giving the Government of Pakistan (GOP) "space to try making peace" in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) through deals with tribal groups because the new government needs to be seen in Pakistan as "in charge of security," but London is "under no illusion th [...] |
2008-06-06 12:29:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER MCAP PINR PINS PK UK |
| 08LONDON1577 | HOME SECRETARY SELLS THE COUNTER-TERRORISM BILL; [...] No summary [...] |
2008-06-06 14:10:00 | Embassy London | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PK UK |
| 08LONDON1580 | IRAN: UK INTENDS TO GO FORWARD ON TAJIK [...] (C) Summary: Taking a strong pro-extradition line, the UK still expects to extradite former Iranian Ambassador Tajik as soon as remaining medical-legal aspects of his case are resolved. Foreign and Commonwealth contacts underline, however, that HMG takes Iranian threats related to the Tajik c [...] |
2008-06-06 16:18:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | CJAN PINS PREL PTER IR UK |
| 08LONDON1586 | U/S JEFFERY AND A/S O’BRIEN PRESS UK ON IRANIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: State Under Secretary Reuben Jeffery and Treasury Assistant Secretary Patrick O'Brien met with UK banking regulators on May 15 to urge increased scrutiny and tougher actions against Iranian banks operating in London. O'Brien and State Acting Assistant Secretary Patricia McNerne [...] |
2008-06-09 10:58:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | EFIN KTFN ECON IR UK |
| 08LONDON1593 | IRAN: UK MAY DE-LIST MEK BY EARLY JULY BUT WILL [...] (C) Summary. The UK's domestic de-listing of the Mujaheddin e Khalq (MEK) may occur as soon as early July or even late June, Foreign and Commonwealth contacts told London Iran Watcher (Poloff) June 6, moving up their earlier estimates (ref) by two to three weeks as to when Parliament is like [...] |
2008-06-09 15:59:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL ETTC PTER IR UK |
| 08LONDON1595 | IRAN: UK EXPECTS A FOURTH UNSCR WILL BE NECESSARY [...] (C) Summary: FCO working level contacts in informal conversations argue the likelihood that Iran will not respond in a useful fashion to Javer Solana's scheduled offer June 14 on behalf of the P5 1 will make a fourth UNSC resolution on Iran necessary. FCO contacts argue that whether a fourth [...] |
2008-06-10 11:48:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL MNUC KNNP UN IR UK |
| 08LONDON1597 | (S) UK MEASURES TO STEM BANK MELLI'S ASSET FLIGHT [...] No summary [...] |
2008-06-10 15:26:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | ECON EFIN IR KTFN MNUC UK |
| 08LONDON160 | (C) UK ON ESDP DEPLOYMENT TO CHAD AND C.A.R. [...] No summary [...] |
2008-01-17 15:51:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EUN MARR CD UK |
| 08LONDON1606 | DESPITE GRIM MILESTONE, HMG VOWS TO STAY THE [...] (C) Summary. UK media gave extensive coverage to the killing of three paratroopers by a suicide bomber as they were conducting a routine foot patrol in Helmand province on June 8. The incident pushed the total number of soldiers killed over the seven years of British military presence in Af [...] |
2008-06-11 17:22:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV MARR AF UK |
| 08LONDON1619 | TORY SHADOW HOME SECRETARY DAVID DAVIS RESIGNS [...] (U) Conservative Party "Shadow" Home Secretary David Davis, and one time rival to David Cameron for the Conservative Party leadership, has unexpectedly resigned in protest of the House of Commons vote June 11 authorizing the detention without charge of British citizen and foreign terror suspe [...] |
2008-06-12 16:40:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PHUM PTER UK |
| 08LONDON1620 | USUN AMB KHALILZAD REVIEWS IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN, [...] (S) SUMMARY: Amb Khalilzad told UK national security advisor McDonald that he was realistic about the difficulties of completing a SOFA and strategic framework agreement with Iraq by July, but saw some progress on the ground. In Afghanistan, he believed the SGSR needed to fill key slots and [...] |
2008-06-12 16:40:00 | Embassy London | SECRET | PREL PGOV AF IZ IR |
| 08LONDON1623 | UK ON CUBA, IRAN AND OTHER ISSUES AT THE JUNE GAERC [...] (SBU) Foreign Office officials provided to Poloffs on June 12 the responses below to ref points on key GAERC agenda items, as well as a general readout of UK expectations for the June GAERC meeting. Cuba ---- 2. (C) The UK supports lifting the EU's Restrictive Measures on Cuba at the Jun [...] |
2008-06-13 13:06:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM PGOV ETRD EAID ZL ZK IR IZ IS CU |
| 08LONDON1627 | UK SHARES USG CONCERNS RE ISO 26000 DRAFT [...] The UK shares the concerns outlined in the reftel non-paper. They have just received a new working draft 4.2 of ISO 26000. It has not yet been reviewed by the government or discussed with the UK ISO Working Group, but it appears to raise the same concerns as the prior draft. This is the draft [...] |
2008-06-13 17:07:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD WTRO EFIN UK |
| 08LONDON1632 | UK "DISAPPOINTED" WITH USG DECISION ON POLICY [...] (C) Summary: The British Government is "disappointed with the USG decision to 'disengage'" with the UNHRC. Poloff delivered reftel demarche June 12 to Foreign Office Head of Human Rights, Democracy and Governance Group Susan Hyland and Human Rights UN officer Paul Edwards. The British Gover [...] |
2008-06-16 15:32:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PHUM UN UK |
| 08LONDON1633 | UK SUPPPORT AND ATTENDANCE AT BERLIN CONFERENCE IN [...] (C) The UK will not announce new significant money for Palestinian rule-of-law programs at the June 24 Berlin Conference, but will describe what additional programs and plans it intends to further support using already pledged, but undisbursed, funds, the Foreign Office's Middle East Unit tol [...] |
2008-06-16 15:50:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KWBG PBTS PHUM IS EUN UK |
| 08LONDON1643 | UK AND UGANDA: NEXT STEPS ON THE LRA [...] (S) The UK Government has adopted a "harder edge" policy to "isolate and marginalize" the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in the face of LRA leader Kony's continued refusal to sign the Final Peace Agreement (FPA), according to FCO Northern Uganda Desk Officer Sheena Lavery. With the Juba Peace P [...] |
2008-06-17 15:37:00 | Embassy London | SECRET | PREL MOPS KPKO UNSC SU UG UK |
| 08LONDON1645 | IRAN: FCO READOUT ON SOLANA IN TEHRAN AND PM [...] (S/NF) Summary: Although Iran did not provide an immediate response to the P5 1 refreshed offer, Iran NSC Secretary Jalili unexpectedly agreed to "study the offer carefully," and also agreed it is now up to Iran, rather than the P5 1, to respond (ref a). A reference by Prime Minister Gordon [...] |
2008-06-17 16:41:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL ECON EFIN KTFN MNUC PINS IR UK |
| 08LONDON1646 | UK WILL NOT ISSUE A BILATERAL STATEMENT ON US-EU [...] The UK will not issue its own bilateral statement in London or at the UN regarding the U.S.-EU Prisoners of Conscience Declaration (ref), according to Sharon Moore of the FCO's UN Office. In line with UK policy, as the Declaration is a EU initiative, the EU will release a statement on behalf [...] |
2008-06-18 10:48:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL UK |
| 08LONDON1647 | IAEA: UK RESPONSE TO REQUEST RELATED TO THE [...] (U) PolMilOff delivered reftel and on June 13, 2008, received the response below from the Foreign & Commonwealth Office's Counter Proliferation Department. 2. (U) Begin Text of HMG Response: June 13, 2008 (Complimentary opening), (Regarding) the non-paper on CSC that you provided. O [...] |
2008-06-18 12:00:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | KNNP TRGY ENRG KSTC IAEA PARM UK |
| 08LONDON1648 | SOMALIA: POLITICAL SOLUTIONS REQUIRED FOR SHIPPING [...] (C) Summary. Discussing French efforts to establish secure maritime supply chains for humanitarian aid for Somalia at a June 12 think-tank event in London, French MFA and Defense Ministry representatives were met with strong demands from shipping industry leaders for the international communi [...] |
2008-06-18 13:22:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINS EWWT PHSA UNSC KPKO SO XW UK |
| 08LONDON1649 | AFRICOM: FCO AND DFID INTERESTED BUT IN [...] (C/NF) Summary. FCO and DFID officials report they are in a "wait-and-see" mode on AFRICOM and have allowed the MOD to take the UK Government lead in engaging the USG on AFRICOM. Saying they have been "kept well informed" as USG thinking on AFRICOM develops, MOD officials have said they get th [...] |
2008-06-18 15:47:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL MASS KPKO MOPS PINS XA UK |
| 08LONDON1655 | UK SPECIAL LIQUIDITY FACILITY IS A SUCCESS [...] (U) By ensuring broad participation, including the UK's five largest banks, and by ensuring strict confidentiality, the Bank of England's (BOE's) Special Liquidity Facility (SLF) has eliminated the stigma associated with borrowing from the BOE. Because of this, BOE contacts told Econoff that t [...] |
2008-06-19 09:39:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN UK |
| 08LONDON1666 | SOMALIA: UN SPECIAL REP CALLS FOR INTERNATIONAL [...] (U) UN Special Representative for Somalia Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah called for the international community's support for the Djibouti Agreement between the Somali Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and the Alliance for Re-Liberation of Somalia (ARS) at a June 19 think-tank event in London. Def [...] |
2008-06-20 14:47:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PINS UNSC KPKO SO XW UK |
| 08LONDON1678 | UK RED LINES ON UN ACTION ON ZIMBABWE, POSSIBLE [...] (C) HMG has the following red lines for any UN statement on Zimbabwe, FCO Zimbabwe Desk Officers Ben Llewellyn-Jones and Jason Moore told us June 23 in response to Ref A: -- the statement must emphasize that the Mugabe regime is no longer legitimate, since the will of the people of Zimbabwe [...] |
2008-06-23 17:55:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM UNSC ZI UK |
| 08LONDON1688 | IRAN WANTS QUIET DISCUSSIONS WITH U.S. ON AFGHAN REFUGEES, XXXXXXXXXXXX CLAIMS [...] No summary [...] |
2008-06-24 15:57:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PINF PREL IR UK XF ZP ZR |
| 08LONDON1690 | UK PLEASED WITH U.S. DRAFT TEXT UNSCR TO RENEW [...] (SBU) Foreign Office officials Angus Stewart, Susie Kitchens and Will Taylor, of the International Organisations Department, told us June 24 the British government is "pleased" with the U.S. draft 1267 Monitoring Team renewal. HMG agrees with the need to keep the focus on stopping the flow of [...] |
2008-06-24 16:36:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN KTFN ETTC PREL PTER UNSC UK |
| 08LONDON1703 | MAJOR UK RETAILER'S CHILD LABOR PROBLEM [...] SUMMARY: Retail giant Primark dropped three suppliers after a BBC investigation revealed they were using unauthorized home workers, including child labor, in India. Primark usually learns of abuse through either its own auditors or their independent auditor. If Associated British Foods, Prima [...] |
2008-06-25 17:28:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | ELAB PHUM ETRD UK IN |
| 08LONDON1709 | (C/NF) UK CHIEF OF DEFENCE STAFF, PM FOREIGN [...] (SBU) UK Chief of Defense Staff Sir Jock Stirrup's June 24 public assertion that the concurrent deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan are severely taxing the capabilities of the British military provoked heavy media criticism of HMG's ability to effectively fight both conflicts. Stirrup told [...] |
2008-06-26 10:37:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV MARR MCAP AF IZ UK |
| 08LONDON1710 | CODEL HASTINGS - JUNE 27 - JULY 8, 2008 [...] Embassy London is pleased to grant country clearance to CODEL Hastings to visit London June 27-28, 2008. 2. Visit Officer will be Jim Donegan who can be reached at work 44-20-7894-0114, fax 44-20-7894-0117, home 44-20-7259-6066, mobile phone 44-7801-670-694. If calling from within the UK r [...] |
2008-06-26 15:08:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN AU FR GM IT JP KZ PK UK |
| 08LONDON1745 | ZIMBABWE: UK SUPPORTS UNSC CHAPTER VII RESOLUTION [...] No summary [...] |
2008-07-01 11:47:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM UNSC ZI UK |
| 08LONDON1746 | MALAYSIA'S HINDRAF LEADER SEEKS POLITICAL ASYLUM [...] (C/NF) Summary: Waytha Moorthy, director of the Hindu Rights Action Force (HINDRAF), told us on June 25 that he is NOT seeking asylum in the U.S., but is seeking asylum in the UK. He said that his application process is currently stalled, however, and he speculated that HMG may not grant him [...] |
2008-07-01 13:17:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PHUM MY UK |
| 08LONDON1749 | FCO INFORMS USA THE UAE RATIFIES BIO WEAPON [...] No summary [...] |
2008-07-01 14:52:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM KTIA OPDC CWC OPCW UK |
| 08LONDON1758 | ZIMBABWE: UK CONTINUES TO SUPPORT U.S. DRAFT UNSC [...] (C) HMG continues to support the current U.S. draft UNSC resolution on Zimbabwe, according to FCO Zimbabwe Desk Officer Jason Moore. Moore reported that in a July 2 ministerial meeting FCO Minister for Africa Lord Malloch-Brown said the UK should continue to pursue sanctions, though a prematu [...] |
2008-07-02 12:56:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM KDEM UNSC ZI UK |
| 08LONDON1761 | CWS/BWC: CLOSE ALLIES MEETING, JUNE 17-18, 2008 [...] No summary [...] |
2008-07-02 14:28:00 | Embassy London | SECRET | PARM AORC CWC OPCW GM FR IZ UK |
| 08LONDON1763 | HMG WILL JOIN U.S. IN DEMARCHING GOVERNMENTS TO [...] (SBU) The UK concurs with the U.S. view that recent progress of Pristina government and international community stabilization efforts presents another opportunity to lobby those countries that have not already done so to recognize Kosovo's independence. FCO Balkans Deputy Director Adam Bye [...] |
2008-07-02 15:23:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNMIK PGOV KPKO UNAUS YI EU KVPR UK |
| 08LONDON1771 | LIBERAL DEMOCRAT LEADER NICK CLEGG OUTLINES THE [...] (SBU) Summary. Nick Clegg, MP and leader of the Liberal Democrats, called for the UK to adopt the UN's "Responsibility to Protect" doctrine in his first major foreign policy address. In his speech, titled "Terms of Intervention" and delivered at Chatham House on June 23, Clegg enumerated criter [...] |
2008-07-03 09:48:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PINR PREL UK |
| 08LONDON1777 | FOREIGN SECRETARY MILIBAND SUBMITS RENDITION [...] (S/NF) Foreign Office Director for Defence and Strategic Threats Simon Manley informed Poloff July 2 that the Foreign Office would submit Foreign Secretary Miliband's written statement on rendition to Parliament July 2, for entry into Parliamentary records July 3. Manley said the statement (see [...] |
2008-07-03 11:28:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PTER UK |
| 08LONDON1794 | DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO UK: MAJOR ISSUES AT [...] The UK supports the U.S. positions in reftel. Econoff delivered demarche and diplomatic note on Monday, June 23 to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), who then relayed the message to the Royal Mail. The Royal Mail will represent the UK at the UPU. The FCO says the Royal Mail has also se [...] |
2008-07-07 13:41:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC ECON ETRD WTRO UK |
| 08LONDON1814 | ONLINE COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT -- NO DEAL YET [...] (C) SUMMARY: British internet service providers (ISP,s) and copyrighted content providers have not yet reached an agreement on how to handle online copyright infringers. HMG is still threatening to impose legislation by the end of the summer if no deal is reached and will release a consultation [...] |
2008-07-08 15:30:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ECPS KIPR UK |
| 08LONDON1821 | FINDING A ROLE FOR THE OECD -- SECRETARY-GENERAL [...] (C) Summary: Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) Secretary-General Gurria,s recent visit was designed to strengthen the relationship between the OECD and the UK. A broad swathe of UK government ministers met Gurria to express the UK,s commitment to the organization. Gurria [...] |
2008-07-09 13:18:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC ECON UK |
| 08LONDON1823 | ZIMBABWE: UK OPTIMISTIC ON UNSC RESOLUTION [...] (C) Per reftel, the Charge spoke on July 9 with FCO Minister for Africa Lord Malloch-Brown, who was optimistic there would be sufficient votes to pass the current UNSC draft resolution on Zimbabwe. Malloch-Brown suggested progress had been made with Moscow and Beijing in New York and at the G-8 Su [...] |
2008-07-09 16:04:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNSC ZI UK |
| 08LONDON1824 | UK ON ARAB GROUP DRAFT UNSCR ON ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS [...] (C) HMG agrees that the Arab Group draft text on a UNSCR on Israeli settlement activity is not acceptable, FCO Near East Group Head Rob Timline told us July 9 in response to reftel demarche. The UK embassy in Tripoli raised the issue with Libyan Secretary for Arab Affairs Mohammed Siala on July 7 [...] |
2008-07-09 16:50:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL UNSC KPAL IS UK |
| 08LONDON1837 | FOREIGN OFFICE SEES BROWN-MEDVEDEV TALKS LEADING [...] (C) Summary. Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev used their first one-on-one meeting at the G8 summit to build a friendly rapport rather than "score points" on smaller contentious issues, said the Foreign Office (FCO) to members of the diplomatic community. According t [...] |
2008-07-10 16:38:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV ECON ENRG PREL UK RS |
| 08LONDON1841 | SUDAN/ICC: UK PREPARED TO REMAIN INITIALLY [...] (C/NF) In the wake of yesterday's call by Chinese and Russian PermReps in New York to suspend the ICC investigations that may lead to the July 14 indictment of Sudanese President Bashir and other regime higher-ups, the Foreign Office has decided to remain flexible on its strong support for the ICC. [...] |
2008-07-11 14:45:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL KPKO UNSC SU UK |
| 08LONDON1842 | FOREIGN OFFICE "CAUTIOUSLY OPTIMISTIC" THAT HMG [...] (C/NF) Summary. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) is "cautiously optimistic" that the Law Lords will grant HMG's final appeal and block the court-ordered resettlement of Chagossian islanders seeking to return to their ancestral home. Though the Lords' decision is not expected before late [...] |
2008-07-11 16:36:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | IO MARR MP PGOV PREL UK |
| 08LONDON1850 | HMG SUPPORTS REFERRING THE HUMAN RIGHTS FOUNDATION [...] (U) PolOff delivered reftel demarche to Bridget Brody of the FCO's International Organizations Department who is the department's ECOSOC coordinator. On July 14, Brody notified PolOff that HMG will instruct its ECOSOC delegation to support the USG in asking ECOSOC to send the application of [...] |
2008-07-14 14:46:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM AORC NGO UK |
| 08LONDON1852 | UK AND SUDAN: S/E WILLIAMSON'S JUNE 30 VISIT TO [...] (C) Summary. Presidential Special Envoy for Sudan Richard Williamson held June 30 wide-ranging discussions with UK officials on the way forward on Sudan and attended a P3 lunch with French and British colleagues. UK officials told Williamson that Ban Ki-Moon's impending appointment of a new media [...] |
2008-07-15 10:56:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM UNSC SU UK |
| 08LONDON1853 | ZIMBABWE: UK LOOKS FOR WAY FORWARD, TURNS TO EU [...] (C/NF) The Foreign Office continues to treat the situation in Zimbabwe as a crisis. After the July 11 defeat of the U.S. draft UNSCR on Zimbabwe, FCO Zimbabwe Team Leader Ben Llewellyn-Jones said July 14 HMG will "give Zimbabwe a break in the Security Council for a little while," especially since [...] |
2008-07-15 11:02:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PHUM UNSC KDEM ZI ZU UK |
| 08LONDON1856 | UK SUPPORTS INDIA-IAEA SAFEGUARDS AGREEMENT [...] (C/NF) In response to reftel demarche on the India-IAEA Safeguards Agreement, FCO Security Policy Group Officer Derek Griffiths said that the UK welcomes the agreement and supports the U.S. approach. HMG agrees that the discussions should be technical, as opposed to political, and that the INFCIRC [...] |
2008-07-15 13:23:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PARM PREL ETTC IN UK |
| 08LONDON1862 | SUDAN/ICC: UK STRATEGY WITH POTENTIAL BASHIR ICC [...] (C/NF) Summary. Following Foreign Secretary Miliband's July 9 visit to Sudan, ICC Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo's July 14 request for indictment of Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, and Sudanese Foreign Minister Deng Alor's July 14 assurances to the UK that the GoS will "engage legally" wit [...] |
2008-07-15 16:06:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL UNSC KPKO PHUM SU UK |
| 08LONDON1870 | UK SUPPORT FOR IMPLEMENTATION OF UNSCR 1816 ON [...] No summary [...] |
2008-07-16 14:38:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EWWT KCRM KCRS KJUS PHSA PREL SO XW UK |
| 08LONDON1873 | UK AND UGANDA/LRA: CONTINUED SUPPORT FOR THE PEACE [...] (C/NF) FCO Minister for Africa Lord Malloch-Brown "continues to support the peace process for the time being" between the Government of Uganda (GoU) and the Lord's Resistance Army, according to East Africa Desk Officers Gill Atkinson and Sheena Lavery. Atkinson provided poloff on July 15 HMG's pre [...] |
2008-07-16 16:00:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL KDEM PHUM UG UK |
| 08LONDON1876 | UK WELCOMES U.S. MESSAGE ON VIGILANCE OF IRISL CARGOES; BACKS TOUGHER EU ACTION REF: A. STATE 69339 [...] (S) The UK Government welcomed the U.S. message urging increased vigilance of ships and cargoes belonging to Iran Air Cargo and the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL) and is advising relevant companies in the UK-based shipping industry of the need for due diligence when engaged with ei [...] |
2008-07-16 16:37:00 | Embassy London | SECRET | PARM PINR PREL KNNP EUN UK |
| 08LONDON1886 | UK'S LIBERAL DEMOCRATS: LOOKING FOR INFLUENCE NOT [...] (C/NF) Summary. Britain's third party, the Liberal Democrats, launched July 17 their "Make It Happen" campaign to communicate the party's core values and vision for the UK. In what is clearly Lib Dem Leader Nick Clegg's latest attempt to build an ideologically consistent platform for a party often [...] |
2008-07-18 14:23:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PINR UK |
| 08LONDON1887 | PAKISTAN: UK SEES KASHMIR SOLUTION AS KEY TO [...] (S) Summary. The UK sees resolving Kashmir as central to changing the dynamic in Pakistan's long-term security cooperation with the West, according to FCO contacts. Improving relations between Pakistan and India through a solution to Kashmir will allow the Pakistani Army to reduce its focus on Ind [...] |
2008-07-18 16:15:00 | Embassy London | SECRET | PREL PTER PBTS PINS IN PK UK |
| 08LONDON1888 | BAE JUDICIAL REVIEW: HOUSE OF LORDS HEARS HMG [...] (SBU) Summary: On July 7-8 the Law Lords of the House of Lords heard HMG's appeal of the High Court ruling that Serious Fraud Office (SFO) Director Wardle acted unlawfully when he abandoned the anti-corruption investigation into BAE Systems' dealings in Saudi Arabia. HMG argued that Wardle ha [...] |
2008-07-18 16:26:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | KCOR EFIN OECD UK |
| 08LONDON189 | EL BARADEI ON HIS TEHRAN VISIT: SEES IRANIANS AS [...] (C/NF) Summary. IAEA Head Mohammed El Baradei told UK Foreign Secretary Miliband January 17 that during El Baradei's visit to Tehran last week Iranian officials appeared "very relaxed" and seemed to be feeling no pressure on the nuclear file. Miliband's conversation with El Baradei reported [...] |
2008-01-18 18:22:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL KPRP PGOV PHUM IR UK |
| 08LONDON1898 | HMG CONSIDERING UPGRADES TO NATO AND BILATERAL [...] (U) Request for Guidance; see para 3. 2. (C) HMG is currently engaged in a cross-departmental discussion on its training commitments in Iraq, the results of which should become clearer by the end of July. According to MOD Joint Commitments officer Dan Hughes and FCO NTM-I officer Ian Living [...] |
2008-07-21 13:52:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR NATO IZ UK |
| 08LONDON1901 | SYRIAN IAEA BOARD CANDIDACY: U.K. AGREES WITH [...] (S) HMG concurs with the U.S. assessment of Syria's candidacy to the IAEA Board of Directors and will do what it can to support Kazakhstan's candidacy, FCO Counter Proliferation Officer George Sherriff told poloff on July 21. Sherriff said that his counterparts in Vienna "agree on (the USG) course [...] |
2008-07-21 15:47:00 | Embassy London | SECRET | IAEA PREL KZ SY UK AROC KNNP |
| 08LONDON1916 | NIGERIA: PRESIDENT YAR'ADUA'S "USEFUL" LONDON [...] (C) Summary. Nigerian President Yar'Adua's "useful" July 16 - 17 visit to London focused on Nigeria-UK migration issues, corruption and the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), and the Niger Delta, according to FCO Nigeria Desk Officers Catherine Inglehearn and Fiona Grant. In addition [...] |
2008-07-23 11:03:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL EFIN EINV SMIG NI UK |
| 08LONDON1917 | SQUEEZED IN THE JAWS OF THE CREDIT CRUNCH -- UK ECONOMY [...] No summary [...] |
2008-07-23 12:30:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD UK EINV |
| 08LONDON1919 | SUDAN/CPA: AEC CHAIR ON ABYEI, MID-TERM REPORT, [...] (C/NF) Summary. Assessment and Evaluation Commission (AEC) Chair Sir Derek Plumbly is cautiously optimistic about the Abyei Roadmap and reiterated the need for the international community's support for pushing the NCP and SPLM ahead with arbitration. He said Sudanese President Bashir was pleased [...] |
2008-07-23 12:42:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PINR SU UK |
| 08LONDON1921 | SQUEEZED IN THE JAWS OF THE CREDIT CRUNCH -- UK ECONOMY [...] (SBU) Summary: The British economy will slow dramatically in 2008 and 2009 after leading the G7 with GDP growth of three percent in 2007. Ernst and Young predict GDP growth to fall to only 1.5 percent in 2008, the OECD forecasts 1.8 percent, and Oxford Economics says 1.6 percent. Inflation is [...] |
2008-07-23 13:00:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD UK EINV |
| 08LONDON1922 | UK WELCOMES DEMARCHE ON PREVENTING IRAN'S [...] No summary [...] |
2008-07-23 15:26:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP IR MNUC PARM TRGY ENRG EMIN ETTC UK |
| 08LONDON1923 | 2008 REPORT ON UK INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND [...] (U) SUMMARY: Post is unaware of any relevant disputes against the Government of the UK. Post is aware of one outstanding claim of United States persons against the Government of the British Virgin Islands (GBVI). Claimant A reports they were never compensated for a time share vacation club [...] |
2008-07-23 16:03:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KIDE EINV ECON UK |
| 08LONDON1924 | CENTRAL ASIA/TURKMENISTAN: UK PRIORITIES IN [...] (C) The head of Turkmenistan's National Institute of Democracy and Human Rights in the Office of the President, Shirin Ahmedova, and the Turkmen Deputy Minister of Justice's early July visit to the UK was a result of HMG's long-term strategy to gradually increase engagement with Turkmenistan as it [...] |
2008-07-23 16:38:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL IAEA PGOV ZK UK |
| 08LONDON1933 | UNMEE: UK AGREES WITH USG THINKING ON MANDATE'S FUTURE [...] No summary [...] |
2008-07-24 15:17:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL UNSC KPKO PBTS ET ER UK |
| 08LONDON1939 | A POLITICAL BODY BLOW TO GORDON BROWN AS LABOUR [...] (C) Summary. The Scottish National Party's 365 vote victory in yesterday's Glasgow East by-election over Labour is another body blow to Gordon Brown's political fortunes and, in the immediate aftermath, has fueled speculation that Brown could face a leadership challenge this fall, when [...] |
2008-07-25 11:45:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PINR UK |
| 08LONDON196 | FOLLOW-UP: BANK MELLI ATTEMPT TO PURCHASE A [...] (S/NF) HM Treasury appreciates the information contained in reftel and promised to look into evidence of any Bank Melli activity in London and possible measures the UK could take to disrupt the Turkish transaction, according to Patrick Guthrie, Head of Financial Sanctions Unit, HMT. However, [...] |
2008-01-22 15:52:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | KNNP MNUC EFIN ETTC |
| 08LONDON1967 | IRAQ: UK LIKELY TO ASSUME ROLE OF "PRIME [...] No summary [...] |
2008-07-29 15:45:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR NATO IZ UK |
| 08LONDON1972 | SPECIAL ENVOY WOLCOTT'S NUCLEAR ENERGY SUPPLY [...] (C) Summary. On July 22, Ambassador Jackie Wolcott, Special Envoy for Nuclear Nonproliferation, and Special Assistant Marc Humphrey traveled to London to meet with Simon Manley (Director for Defense and Strategic Threats at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, FCO). The purpose of this meeting w [...] |
2008-07-30 12:41:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG TRGY KNNP PREL ETTC IAEA FR UK |
| 08LONDON1988 | UK RESPONSE TO ADDITION OF TWO NEW PARTNERS TO [...] No summary [...] |
2008-07-30 16:20:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL PTER KGIC KNNP MR UZ UK |
| 08LONDON1991 | (C/NF) WHO WOULD REPLACE GORDON BROWN AS UK PRIMEREF: A. LONDON 1939 B. LONDON 1704 [...] (C/NF) Summary. As Gordon Brown lurches from political disaster to disaster, Westminster is abuzz with speculation about whether he will be replaced as Prime Minister and Labour Parxty leader, and, if so, by whom. Right now, Foreign Secretary David Miliband and Justice Secretary Jack Straw are the [...] |
2008-07-31 10:30:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PINR UK |
| 08LONDON1992 | SURVEY OF U.S./UK LAW ENFORCEMENT COOPERATION [...] (C/NF) Summary: U.S./UK law enforcement cooperation is wide ranging and robust. It is beset, however, by the sort of complications found in most international programs, compounded perhaps by a false assumption on both sides that "they are just like us." Embassy London's Law Enforcement Working [...] |
2008-07-31 15:02:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | KCRM CJUS UK |
| 08LONDON1997 | UK AGREES ON NEED TO HELP COLOMBIAN GOVERNMENT [...] (C) HMG is "100 percent on the same page as the United States" regarding FARC and the need to aggressively combat narcotics trafficking, Tony Kay, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's Colombia and Venezuela Desk Officer told us July 31 during a discussion of reftel demarche. Kay stressed that UK [...] |
2008-08-01 10:15:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL SNAR PTER CO UK VE |
| 08LONDON2005 | IRAN: TAJIK EXTRADITION - FURTHER DELAYS AND [...] (C) HMG will take no final decision or action on the extradition of former Iranian Ambassador Tajik before 1 September because the Home Secretary, who reportedly wants to personally review all decisions on the case, will be on holiday until then, FCO Iran Bilateral Team Leader Margaret Tongue on J [...] |
2008-08-01 14:28:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | CJAN PINS PREL PTER IR UK |
| 08LONDON2008 | UK UNGA ATTENDEES [...] No summary [...] |
2008-08-01 15:38:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL OTRA OVIP KSEP UNGA UK |
| 08LONDON2025 | (C/NF) SUDAN/UNAMID: UK "PERPLEXED" OVER USG [...] (C/NF) UK Special Representative for Sudan Michael O'Neill and other FCO contacts intimated to us August 4 that HMG is "perplexed" at the USG's decision to abstain in the UNSC's recent vote on the UNAMID mandate renewal (reftel A). They said that the USG's abstention put the U.S. out in front of H [...] |
2008-08-04 15:51:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL UNSC KPKO MOPS SU UK |
| 08LONDON2027 | U.S. FIRMS WELCOME ENHANCED USG SUPPORT OF UK [...] (U) Summary: State Special Representative for Commercial Affairs Frank Mermoud and Commerce DAS Jamie Estrada visited the UK July 17-18 to discuss upcoming events in the UK,s nuclear industry. HMG is aggressively moving forward with plans for new nuclear power plants. Government contacts poin [...] |
2008-08-04 16:17:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG TRGY IAEA UK |
| 08LONDON2028 | UK LIKELY TO JOIN EU CONSENSUS ON LIFTING KARADZIC [...] No summary [...] |
2008-08-04 16:36:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETTC KAWC ICTY BK EU UK |
| 08LONDON2029 | ENERGY'S ECONOMIC AND POLITICAL IMPACT ON THE UK [...] (SBU) Summary. The UK faces two major energy challenges: a rise in fuel poverty and decreasing domestic oil and gas production. Current estimates put the number of households suffering from fuel poverty at 4.5 million according to the National Energy Action, an independent charity. Additionall [...] |
2008-08-04 17:28:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG EPET PREL PGOV ECON SENV UK |
| 08LONDON2035 | IMO: FLAG STATE IMPLEMENTATION SUB-COMMITTEE - [...] SUMMARY: The International Maritime Organization (IMO) 16th Session of the Flag State Implementation Sub- Committee (FSI 16) met at IMO Headquarters, London, UK. Mrs. Tatjana Krilic of Croatia chaired the meeting. The meeting was attended by eighty members, three associate members, one state n [...] |
2008-08-05 11:52:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC EWWT PHSA UK TU JA |
| 08LONDON2036 | IMO: SUB-COMMITTEE ON SAFETY OF NAVIGATION, [...] SUMMARY: The 54th session of the Sub-Committee (S/C) on Safety of Navigation (NAV 54) was held from June 30 to July 4 2008, under the chairmanship of Mr. K. Polderman (Netherlands). The session was attended by 65 member governments, one associate member government, one IMO non-member, and 25 U [...] |
2008-08-05 11:52:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC EWWT PHSA SENV UK KTIA |
| 08LONDON2053 | UK REQUESTS U.S. INFORMATION ON TERRORIST FINANCE [...] Action request, see Paragraph 4. 2. (SBU) HM Treasury has passed us names of individuals and groups for which it is requesting any and all updated information, identifiers and statements of cases (SOCs) in order to comply with it's 2007 policy to conduct yearly reviews of all designated par [...] |
2008-08-06 14:47:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL UNSC UK |
| 08LONDON2055 | UK PLEASED WITH FIRST MONTH OF FRENCH PRESIDENCY; [...] (C) Summary. France has "listened to" London during the first month of the French Presidency of the EU, especially on issues of current importance to the UK such as Zimbabwe and Iran, and the FCO tells us HMG is optimistic about prospects for the remainder of the Presidency. Despite initial concer [...] |
2008-08-06 15:27:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ECON PGOV EUN ETRD IR UP FR UK |
| 08LONDON2060 | IRAN: UK SAYS LEGAL BASIS FOR EU LISTING OF MEK IS [...] (C) Summary: The EU's continued anti-terror listing of the Mujaheddin e Khalq (MEK) depends on the existence of an active French investigation of the group, according to the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). The FCO is uncertain whether the investigation, and the listing, will contin [...] |
2008-08-07 14:19:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PTER EU IR FR UK |
| 08LONDON2070 | UK DOESN'T EXPECT STRONG NEW BURMA SANCTIONS FROM [...] No summary [...] |
2008-08-08 09:26:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV ETRD UK BM |
| 08LONDON2080 | KENYA/CT: UK RECONSIDERS CT TRAINING PROGRAM FOLLOWING ACCUSATIONS OF HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS Classified By: Political Counselor Richard Mills, reasons 1.4 (b/d). [...] (S) Following a July 30 Human Rights Watch report and brief UK media interest alleging human rights violations by the Kenyan military, HMG is "reconsidering" its counter-terrorism (CT) training to 20 Para, a parachute regiment in the Kenyan army, FCO CT Officer Lydia Strachan and Kenya Desk Officer [...] |
2008-08-08 12:20:00 | Embassy London | SECRET | PREL MOPS PTER PHUM PINR XW KE UK |
| 08LONDON2084 | SOMALIA: BEHIND THE SCENES OF UK SUPPORT TO [...] (C/NF) Following his mid-June visit to Somaliland, FCO Minister of State Kim Howells began questioning HMG's decision not to recognize Somaliland and started advocating internally for HMG to give greater support to Somaliland, according to FCO Somalia Research Analyst Cedric Barnes. Barnes said on [...] |
2008-08-08 15:59:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PBTS PINR SO UK |
| 08LONDON2100 | UK STEPS, SO FAR, TO WIN SUPPORT FOR THE NUCLEAR SUPPLIERS GROUP (NSG) DRAFT EXCEPTION TEXT FOR INDIA [...] No summary [...] |
2008-08-12 17:06:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PREL ETTC AORC UK |
| 08LONDON2101 | IRANIAN PUGWASH PARTICIPANTS CLAIM TEHRAN [...] (S) Summary: Iranian government advisers at the most recent "Pugwash" Conference on Iran reportedly argued during the August 2-3 seminar that: -- Iran wants direct flights to the United States addressed before any talks on a U.S. interest section in Tehran; -- sanctions do not affect Iran's le [...] |
2008-08-12 18:01:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | PARM PINS PREL AG IR IS IZ LE UK |
| 08LONDON2107 | GEORGIA: HMG PREDICTS TOUGH DIPLOMATIC ROAD AHEAD [...] (C/NF) FCO Georgia Task Force Director (and South Caucuses Office Director) Louise Savile predicted a tough diplomatic struggle ahead to return the situation in Georgia to the status quo ante August 6. As an example, she cited part of an August 13 telephone exchange between FM Miliband and Russian [...] |
2008-08-13 14:00:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV RU GG UK |
| 08LONDON2112 | TFGG01: HMG AGREES ON NEED TO PRESSURE RUSSIA TO [...] (S/NF) FCO Georgia Task Force Director (and Head of International Organizations Department) Nick Hopton expressed appreciation for points reftel and noted HMG concurrence with U.S. view that Russia needs to comply with its agreement to remove its forces from Georgia, and to allow OSCE and other obs [...] |
2008-08-14 13:54:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | MOPS PREL PHUM OSCE UNAUS GG RS UK |
| 08LONDON2143 | PAKISTAN: UK SEES MUSHARRAF'S DEPARTURE AS A 'GOOD THING' BUT NOT A SOLUTION REF: A. STATE 88734 B. ISLAMABAD 2750 LONDON 00002143 001.2 OF 002 [...] No summary [...] |
2008-08-19 09:22:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PINR PTER PK UK |
| 08LONDON2159 | TFGGO1: FM MILIBAND'S AUGUST 27 VISIT TO KYIV DESIGNED TO SHOW UK SOLIDARITY WITH UKRAINE [...] (C/NF) FM Miliband will travel to Kyiv on August 27 to reinforce support for Ukraine's European and Transatlantic aspirations, and to demonstrate British solidarity with the Ukrainian people during a difficult period, as he did with the Georgians during his August 20 visit to Tbilisi (septel). The [...] |
2008-08-20 15:49:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PHUM MOPS GG RU UP UK |
| 08LONDON2169 | IRAN: EXPAT SOURCE'S INFORMATION AND VIEWS ON [...] (S) Summary: Mojtaba Khamenei, son of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, reportedly is widely viewed within the regime as a capable and forceful leader and manager who may someday succeed to at least a share of national leadership; his father may also see him in that light. A close ally of Tehran Mayor Q [...] |
2008-08-21 15:10:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | PINR PGOV PTER PHUM IR UK |
| 08LONDON2170 | BELARUS TELLS UK IT'S LOOKING FOR REWARDS FOR [...] (C/NF) The Belarus government perceives that its release of political prisoners Syarhey Parsyukevich, Andrey Kim, and Alyaksander Kazulin - long sought by the EU and U.S. - warrants a significant signal from the west indicating an "improved climate." The Belarusian DCM Zoya Kolontai told the Head o [...] |
2008-08-21 16:31:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PHUM BO UK |
| 08LONDON2171 | TFGG01:FM MILIBAND TELLS GEORGIANS UK WILL PROVIDE [...] (C) During his August 19/20 visit to Georgia, FM Miliband pledged to government interlocutors and publicly that the UK will support Georgia's sovereignty, territorial integrity and Transatlantic aspirations, and will work bilaterally and through the EU to address short term humanitarian needs and l [...] |
2008-08-21 17:38:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL GG RU UK |
| 08LONDON2178 | UK SUPPORT FOR AFGHANISTAN'S IAEA BOARD OF GOVERNORS CANDIDACY [...] No summary [...] |
2008-08-22 14:21:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | IAEA PREL PARM KNNP MNUC IR SY AF UK |
| 08LONDON2179 | HMG'S ENDORSEMENT OF THE DESIGNATION OF ADDITIONAL IRANIAN ENTITIES AND INDIVIDUALS UNDER E.O. 13382 REF: STATE 88759 [...] No summary [...] |
2008-08-22 14:24:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP MNUC PREL PARM EFIN IR UK |
| 08LONDON2180 | (C) WESTERN SAHARA: UK SUPPORTS VAN WALSUM [...] No summary [...] |
2008-08-22 14:59:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | UNSC PREL PGOV PBTS MO WI UK |
| 08LONDON2181 | AFGHANISTAN: BROWN URGES KARZAI TO KEEP HELMAND [...] (C/NF) During what was described by FCO Afghanistan Desk Officer Tom Burns as a mainly "morale boosting" trip to Afghanistan on August 21, Prime Minister Gordon Brown met with UK and Afghan military commanders and Governor Mangal in Helmand, and with President Karzai and UNSYG Special Representativ [...] |
2008-08-22 15:03:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL MARR PTER AF UK |
| 08LONDON2182 | UK FOLLOW-UP: BLUE LANTERN CASE NUMBER 05-1014531 [...] Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs Office (HMRC) has provided the responses to the questions posed by the Department for G.I.K. International Trade Ltd., a United Kingdom Company, per reftel. The text of the response follows at para. 2 2. Begin text of UK response to questions posed by the [...] |
2008-08-22 15:13:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | PARM ETTC KOMC SA UK |
| 08LONDON2185 | UK RESPONSE TO MTCR SMALL GROUP PROPOSAL: AGREEMENT "IN PRINCIPLE" BUT SOME QUESTIONS REF: STATE 85940 [...] (U) This is an action request for State ISN/MTR. Please see paragraph 5. 2. (C) Summary. Although the UK supports "in principle" the U.S. proposal for Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) outreach to non-MTCR countries, HMG has posed several questions regarding the implementation and potentia [...] |
2008-08-22 16:28:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | MTCRE ETTC KSCA PARM PREL AU FR GM JA UK |
| 08LONDON2186 | IRAN: CHINESE EMBASSY ASKS WHETHER GEORGIA CRISIS AFFECTS P5+1'S IRAN POSTURE REF: BEIJING 3034 [...] (C) Summary: Chinese Embassy counterparts asked informally whether the Georgia crisis means in U.S. eyes a suspension or slowdown in multilateral efforts on Iran nuclear. London Iran Watcher (Poloff) said this is not the case; international equities on Iran are too urgent and well-defined, and Iran [...] |
2008-08-22 16:31:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM PINS PREL PTER CH IR UK |
| 08LONDON2188 | SOMALIA: UK-BASED DIASPORA AND ITS ECONOMIC IMPACT [...] (SBU) Summary. Known as the "invisible community," the UK's Somali Diaspora has historic roots in Britain but has surged significantly in the last twenty years to an estimated 250,000 to 380,000. With recent immigration increases attributed to family reunification and re-location of other EU [...] |
2008-08-26 08:41:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ATFN SOCI EAID SO UK |
| 08LONDON2195 | SUDAN: P-3 DISCUSSIONS ON SUDAN - ICC ISSUES [...] No summary [...] |
2008-08-27 12:08:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PHUM KAWC SU UK |
| 08LONDON2196 | DRC SANCTIONS: UK APPRECIATES INFORMATION, KEEN TO [...] No summary [...] |
2008-08-27 13:22:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER UNSC ZF CG RW UK |
| 08LONDON2197 | UK COUNTRY CLEARANCE IS GRANTED TO DEPUTY NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR FOR IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN DOUGLAS E. LUTE REF: WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON DC 481 [...] (C) Embassy London is pleased to grant country clearance to Deputy National Security Advisor Douglas E. Lute and delegation to visit London September 18-20 for meetings with UK officials. 2.(U) ----------------- Visit officer ----------------- XXXXXXXXXXXX If calling from within the UK replace 44 [...] |
2008-08-27 15:34:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | OTRA UK |
| 08LONDON2204 | WALES: WHO WILL REPLACE FIRST MINISTER MORGAN WHEN [...] (C) Speculation is rife in the Welsh media and among Welsh political insiders as to whom the Labor Party would "parachute in" to rescue the party in Wales and replace Welsh Assembly First Minister Rhodri Morgan, who has announced he will resign as First Minister in 2009, but retain his seat in [...] |
2008-08-28 12:41:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV UK |
| 08LONDON2211 | UK WILL CONTINUE TO SUPPORT GEORGIA; “ON THE SAME [...] (C) Summary. The United Kingdom agrees that South Ossetian and Abkhazian representatives should not participate in UN Security Council (UNSC) meetings on Georgia, according to Mariot Leslie, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) Director General (DG) for Defense and Intelligence. Leslie told th [...] |
2008-08-28 17:13:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EAID UNSC PREL PGOV FR GG UK UP |
| 08LONDON2217 | UK SLIDING TOWARDS RECESSION [...] (SBU) Summary: The economic news is not good for Great Britain or its Prime Minister. GDP growth was 0.0 per cent in the second quarter of 2008, the worst quarter in 16 years. Inflation hit 4.4% in July, and the Bank of England predicts it will rise to 5% by the end of the year. Employment numb [...] |
2008-08-29 12:25:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV UK |
| 08LONDON2218 | UK PERSPECTIVE ON NATO MEDITERRANEAN DIALOGUE [...] No summary [...] |
2008-08-29 12:55:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO PREL PGOV MARR UK |
| 08LONDON2233 | (S/NF) UK CONSIDERING ENGAGEMENT WITH HIZBALLAH MINISTER, POLITICAL OFFICIALS REF: A. NEA/ELA-EMBASSY LONDON EMAILS B. LONDON 1396 C. LONDON 1292 D. LONDON 1968 [...] (S/NF) The UK is considering granting authorization to the British Embassy in Beirut to meet with Lebanese Minister of Labor Mohammad Fneish, a member of Hizballah, and other Hizballah party officials, FCO Levant Group Head Benjamin Saoul and Cabinet Office Desk Officer Brian Jones told us separate [...] |
2008-09-02 15:56:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL PTER PGOV SY LE IZ UK |
| 08LONDON2242 | UK COUNTRY CLEARANCE IS GRANTED TO NATIONAL DRUG CONTROL POLICY DIRECTOR JOHN P. WALTERS AND STAFF [...] No summary [...] |
2008-09-04 08:33:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | OTRA UK |
| 08LONDON2243 | PAKISTAN: UK ASSESSMENT AND MEDIUM-TERM THINKING, SUPPORT FOR FRIENDS OF PAKISTAN GROUP REF: LONDON 2143 Classified By: Political Counselor Richard Mills, reasons 1.4 (b/d). [...] No summary [...] |
2008-09-04 08:44:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PINR PTER PK UK |
| 08LONDON2261 | BARONESS SCOTLAND WILL ATTEND SECRETARY'S WOMEN [...] (U) Baroness Scotland, Attorney General to Her Majesty's Government, in a response to the Secretary's invitation, has notified Post she will join the Secretary at the Women Leaders' Working group at UNGA. 2. (U) Baroness Scotland said that she is looking foward to participating in discuss [...] |
2008-09-08 10:10:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PHUM KWMM UNGA UK |
| 08LONDON2282 | A MIXED UK RESPONSE TO UNGA THIRD COMMITTEE DEMARCHE REF: A. STATE 95334 B. STATE 61034 C. PARIS 1446 [...] No summary [...] |
2008-09-09 15:53:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PHUM PREL UNGA UK |
| 08LONDON2283 | IRAN: UK'S INFORMAL COMMENTS ON EU DYNAMICS AND IRAN SANCTIONS PROSPECTS REF: A. SECSTATE 95257 B. SEPT 2 LONDON EMAIL (GAYLE) TO NEA/IR [...] (C) Summary: Recent Embassy conversations on Iran with regular Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) contacts suggest the UK's approach on Iran nuclear policy will continue to be tough-minded and practical, favoring direct engagement if feasible, but not optimistic on prospects either for broad EU [...] |
2008-09-09 16:06:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL KNNP IR UK |
| 08LONDON2294 | SCENE SETTER FOR VISIT OF DEPUTY SECRETARY OF [...] (SBU) Embassy London welcomes the visit of Deputy Secretary Jeffrey Kupfer on September 15-17. Issues of the economy and security of energy supply have come to the fore in the UK, and the conflict between Russia and Georgia has served to highlight that an increasing amount of the UK,s natural [...] |
2008-09-11 13:41:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KERG |
| 08LONDON2304 | COMMONWEALTH: NEW SYG BRINGS NEW ENERGY, SCOPE FOR LINKAGES WITH COMMUNITY OF DEMOCRACIES [...] No summary [...] |
2008-09-12 10:14:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL KDEM PGOV PHUM FJ RW UK |
| 08LONDON2363 | (C/NF) NICK CLEGG TRIES TO GIVE UK VOTERS A REASON TO VOTE LIB DEM REF: A. LONDON 1886 B. LONDON 732 Classified By: Minister Political Counselor Greg Berry, reasons 1.4 (b/ d). [...] No summary [...] |
2008-09-18 16:16:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PINR UK |
| 08LONDON2384 | READOUT OF DEPUTY SECRETARY KUPFER MEETINGS WITH JOHN HUTTON AND JONATHAN PORTES ON ENERGY SECURITY AND LONDON SUMMIT [...] (C) Summary: During his visit to the UK on September 16th and 17th, Acting Deputy Secretary of Energy Kupfer met separately with Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR) John Hutton and the Prime Minister,s Special Envoy for Energy Jonathan Portes to discuss energy s [...] |
2008-09-19 10:21:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG TRGY UK |
| 08LONDON240 | (U) HAIN RESIGNATION TRIGGERS LIMITED CABINET [...] (C/NF) Summary: Peter Hain resigned on January 24 as Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and for Wales after SIPDIS the Electoral Commission referred to the police his failure to report donations to his 2007 campaign for Deputy Leader of the Labour Party. The Hain resignation came o [...] |
2008-01-25 17:30:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PINR UK |
| 08LONDON2420 | LUTE DELEGATION'S DISCUSSIONS ON AFGHANISTAN AND PAKISTAN [...] No summary [...] |
2008-09-22 15:42:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR MCAP AF PK UK |
| 08LONDON2441 | NTMI: UK WILL PROVIDE ADDITIONAL RESOURCES BUT WILL BE SHORT ON SPECIFICS AT SEPTEMBER 26 MANPOWER COORDINATION CONFERENCE REF: A) LONDON 1967 B) STATE 99701 [...] (C) The UK supports in principle U.S. views that NATO Allies and Partners should provide additional resources to the Nato Training Mission in Iraq (NTM-I) and HMG will make a significant contribution. However, according to MOD Deputy Director for Joint Commitments Daniel Hughes, internal decision m [...] |
2008-09-25 09:43:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PEL MARR MOPS NATO IZ UK |
| 08LONDON2443 | FRANCE'S EDF BUYS BRITISH ENERGY, TAKING THE FIRST [...] (U) Summary: French utility Electricite de France (EDF) will purchase the UK,s nuclear energy firm British Energy (BE) for a reported USD23 billion (USD 14.40 per share), making HMG's 36% stake worth an estimated USD 8.3 billion. The long-discussed entry of EDF, with its financial and technica [...] |
2008-09-25 09:43:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ENRG UK |
| 08LONDON2451 | UK PM GORDON BROWN REASSERTS HIS LEADERSHIP AT LABOUR PARTY CONFERENCE, BUT DAVID CAMERON LOOMS REF: A. LONDON 2163 B. LONDON 2010 C. LONDON 623 D. LONDON 1991 [...] (C/NF) Summary and comment. Gordon Brown succeeded in reestablishing his authority at the Labour Party's Fall Conference in Manchester September 20-24, cutting the Conservative Party's lead in half in post-conference polling and buying himself some time against a serious leadership challenge. Brown [...] |
2008-09-25 16:43:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL UK |
| 08LONDON2460 | London Financial Experts Anxious for Conclusion of U.S. [...] (SBU) Uncertainty about the fate of the USG proposed $700 billion support facility has paralyzed UK financial markets, senior HMT officials told Econoffs on September 25. There is no inter-bank lending at the moment, and all the big players are waiting for news about the plan before making sig [...] |
2008-09-26 14:54:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD ENRG IR EINV UK |
| 08LONDON2474 | IRAN: TAJIK EXTRADITION - UK DITHERING, MAY HAVE COLD FEET REF: A. E-MAILS EMBASSY (GAYLE) TO NEA/IR 9/3/08 AND PREVIOUS B. LONDON 2005 [...] (C/NF) Summary: The Foreign and Commonwealth Office has not formally retreated from its earlier stated intention to extradite ex-Iranian Ambassador Tajik, and says the Tajik file is now on the desk of the Home Secretary for final decision. FCO is noticeably vague, however, on when a decision might [...] |
2008-09-29 14:03:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | CJAN PINS PREL PTER IR UK |
| 08LONDON2477 | AFRICA AND UK: NEW FCO AFRICA DIRECTOR ADAM WOOD AND CHANGES TO THE AFRICA DIRECTORATE [...] No summary [...] |
2008-09-29 16:39:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PINR XA UK |
| 08LONDON2486 | SCENESETTER FOR CODEL SHELBY'S OCTOBER 10-12 VISIT TO [...] (SBU) The UK economy is reeling from the effects of the global economic crisis, with housing prices falling even faster and further than in the United States. The UK economy continues to slide into recession with negative GDP growth forecast for the second semester of 2008. Inflation, fueled b [...] |
2008-09-30 14:26:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN KTFN UK |
| 08LONDON2494 | New Chief Regulator Faces Baptism by Fire in Month of [...] (SBU) Summary: The global financial crisis, which has hit the UK particularly hard, has turned the spotlight on Britain's recently appointed financial regulator, Jonathan Adair Turner, who succeeded Callum McCarthy as Chairman of the Financial Services Authority. Turner's appointment was well [...] |
2008-10-01 15:32:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV UK |
| 08LONDON2496 | DAVID CAMERON USES HIS PARTY SPEECH TO DEFINE HIMSELF AND REBUT LABOUR CLAIM THAT NOW IS NO TIME FOR A NOVICE REF: STATE 2451 [...] (C) Summary and Comment. Conservative Leader David Cameron used his lengthy, sober speech to the Tory Conference today to rebut Prime Minister Brown's charge that "now is not the time for a novice" to move into Downing Street (ref). Cameron told conference delegates that in a time of financial cris [...] |
2008-10-01 16:55:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UK |
| 08LONDON2498 | SOMALIA: UK CONFUSED BY USG POLICY ON PEACEKEEPING IN SOMALIA [...] No summary [...] |
2008-10-02 12:20:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL KPKO UNSC MOPS SO UK |
| 08LONDON2499 | WEST AFRICA: UK PRIORITIES, COUNTER-NARCOTICS AND ELECTIONS REF: A. LONDON 2487 B. FREETOWN 336 C. LONDON 1916 [...] No summary [...] |
2008-10-02 12:36:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL SNAR PINR KDEM PTER KCRM XY UK |
| 08LONDON2525 | GORDON BROWN RESHUFFLES CABINET TO FOCUS ON ECONOMIC DIFFICULTIES [...] No summary [...] |
2008-10-03 16:26:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PINR UK |
| 08LONDON2542 | PM BROWN DOES THE UNEXPECTED IN ADDRESSING [...] (SBU) Summary: The past 72-hours have seen dramatic political maneuvering in London to confront the deepening economic crisis. The first surprise was PM Brown's appointment of his long-time nemesis, the highly controversial figure, Peter Mandelson as business secretary, followed by the creati [...] |
2008-10-06 14:22:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EINV PGOV UK |
| 08LONDON2548 | UK AGREES IN PRINCIPLE WITH U.S VIEWS ON [...] (SBU) The UK agrees with the U.S. fully on the substantive issues involving the Serbian proposal to refer the question of Kosovo's declaration of independence to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) (reftel). According to FCO Balkans Office Deputy Head Adam Bye, the resolution is "undes [...] |
2008-10-06 16:50:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNGA UNAUS KVPR UK |
| 08LONDON2556 | GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS STEALS THE THUNDER FROM [...] Summary and comment. (C) The Conservative Party's fall conference, which closed the UK political party conference season on October 1, ended with a whimper rather than the expected bang. Turmoil in the world's financial markets overshadowed Tory leader David Cameron's attempts to portra [...] |
2008-10-07 12:10:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UK |
| 08LONDON2565 | DELEGATION PRESENTS PETITION TO EMBASSY ADVOCATING [...] (C) A four person delegation representing the "Cuba Solidarity Campaign," a UK-based pressure and advocacy group, presented a petition to Polcouns and the Department of Justice Attache October 7 on behalf of two Cuban women requesting permission to visit their imprisoned husbands, operatives [...] |
2008-10-07 17:38:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PINR PREL PHUM CVIS CU UK KCRM |
| 08LONDON2574 | UK COUNTRY CLEARANCE IS GRANTED TO LUTE AND DELEGATION, OCT 21-23, 2008 REF: WHITE HOUSE WASHINGTON DC CABLE [...] No summary [...] |
2008-10-09 12:13:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | OREP AMGT ASEC OVIP AFIN UK |
| 08LONDON2589 | SOMALIA: UK SUPPORTS USG COMPROMISE LANGUAGE IN SANCTIONS UNSC RESOLUTION REF: STATE 108662 [...] No summary [...] |
2008-10-10 12:40:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER UNSC XW SO UK |
| 08LONDON2600 | IRAN: UK CURRENT POSTURE -- FCO FORMAL AND INFORMAL VIEWS [...] (S) Please see Department information request at paragraph4. 2. (S/NF) Summary: Foreign and Commonwealth Office working contacts told London Iran Watcher (Poloff) October 14 that: -- Foreign Secretary Miliband pressed his Chinese counterpart to have China re-engage in the P5 1, with little resul [...] |
2008-10-14 19:04:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | CJAN PINS PREL PTER GE FR IT IR UK |
| 08LONDON2603 | BROWN RECEIVES BOUNCE FROM BAIL-OUT PLAN; [...] (SBU) Summary: The U.K. government's agreement to pump GBP 37 billion into three of Britain's largest banks, along with similarly dramatic moves undertaken in the U.S. and in the rest of Europe, buoyed, at least temporarily, London's stock markets, with minor gains posted in the first t [...] |
2008-10-15 14:03:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV PGOV UK |
| 08LONDON2621 | IMO: SUB-COMMITTEE ON DANGEROUS GOODS, [...] SUMMARY: The 13th session of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) Sub-Committee (S/C) on Dangerous Goods, Solid Cargoes and Containers (DSC) met in London from September 22-26, 2008 under the chairmanship of Mrs. Olga Pestel-Lefevre (France). The session was attended by delegations fr [...] |
2008-10-17 12:13:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC EWWT PHSA SENV UK |
| 08LONDON2627 | UK COUNTRY CLEARANCE IS GRANTED TO STAMILIO, LTC [...] Embassy London is pleased to grant country clearance to Mr. Mark Stamilio, LTCOL John Havranek, and LTC James Dodson to visit London October 19-20 to attend working level meetings on ISAF detention policies and practices. 2. ---------------- Visit Officer ---------------- D [...] |
2008-10-17 16:00:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | AMGT |
| 08LONDON2629 | PARLIAMENT'S TREASURY COMMITTEE CLEARS CALENDAR FOR BANKING [...] (SBU) On October 14, the Treasury Committee of the Parliament announced an urgent inquiry into the banking crisis. "The inquiry will take a fundamental look at the causes of the present banking crisis, the current responsibilities of the banks, and the Government to the taxpayer, and the futur [...] |
2008-10-17 16:36:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN UK |
| 08LONDON2642 | UK FULLY SUPPORTS FRIENDS OF PAKISTAN [...] No summary [...] |
2008-10-20 14:51:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM PK UK |
| 08LONDON2643 | UK/RUSSIA RELATIONS: HARD-HEADED ENGAGEMENT [...] (C) Summary. FCO Russia, Caucasus and Central Asia Director Michael Davenport told DCM that HMG was conducting "parallel exercises" involving Cabinet, Intelligence and Foreign Office principals, designed to give PM Brown a clearer picture of Russian foreign policy making processes and recommendatio [...] |
2008-10-20 15:11:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV RU UK |
| 08LONDON2651 | USDP EDELMAN’S OCTOBER 15 MEETINGS IN LONDON [...] (S/NF) Summary. The UK is pessimistic about Pakistan, especially in light of President Zardari's poor leadership and the bad economy, although they praise efforts by Pakistani President Zardari to cooperate with Afghan President Karzai, UK senior officials at the Ministry of Defense (MOD), Fore [...] |
2008-10-21 17:03:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | PGOV PREL PINR UK ECON KNNP MOPS PTER AF FR |
| 08LONDON2655 | AFGHANISTAN: HMG SUPPORTS ELECTIONS AS SCHEDULED; UNLIKELY TO INCREASE TROOP NUMBERS ABOVE CURRENT DEPLOYMENT [...] (C) Summary. SCA DAS Pat Moon and INL PDAS Bill McGlynn exchanged views on the way ahead in Afghanistan with FCO South Asia Director Adam Thomson and Afghanistan Team Leader Matthew Lodge, as well as MOD Joint Commitments Policy Director Jeff Garrett and Director-Political Peter Watkins. Moon brief [...] |
2008-10-22 07:30:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR AF UK |
| 08LONDON2673 | PAN AM 103 BOMBER HAS INCURABLE CANCER; LIBYANS [...] (C/NF) Summary. Convicted Pam Am 103 bomber Abdelbasset al-Megrahi has inoperable, incurable cancer, but it is not clear how long he has to live, according to two separate medical opinions obtained by officials at Greenock prison near Glasgow, where Megrahi is currently serving a life sentence. Pre [...] |
2008-10-24 06:45:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PTER LY UK |
| 08LONDON2683 | HMG ACKNOWLEDGES UK ECONOMY ENTERING RECESSION [...] (SBU) Summary: This week, officials publicly acknowledged that the UK is likely to be entering a recession. For months, prominent public figures refused to mention the 'R' word, in favor of talking up the underlying strength of the UK's economic position. However, Mervyn King, Governor of t [...] |
2008-10-24 09:40:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV UK |
| 08LONDON2688 | Lord Kerr on the U.S. - EU Transatlantic Dialogue [...] (SBU) Lord John Kerr, Deputy Chairman, Royal Dutch Shell, Advisory Council Member of Business for New Europe (BNE), and former UK Ambassador to the U.S. shared views on the changing nature of the transatlantic dialogue and climate change at a recent BNE-sponsored event. Transatlantic Dialogu [...] |
2008-10-24 14:22:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EAIR MARR ETRD PINR EU UK |
| 08LONDON2689 | UK AGREES WITH IMPORTANCE OF SADC ENGAGEMENT ON [...] No summary [...] |
2008-10-24 15:02:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ZI UK |
| 08LONDON2691 | IRAN: SAFAVI CLAIMS KHAMENEI WILL HOLD HARD LINE, [...] (S/NF) Summary: Senior Iranian cleric and IRGC figure Salman Safavi told a private dinner, attended by Embassy London Iran watcher (Poloff), that Supreme Leader Khamenei will ease or harden the tone of Iran's nuclear policies based on who wins the U.S. presidential election. Safavi gave no s [...] |
2008-10-24 18:14:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | KPRP PGOV PHUM PREL IS IA IR LE UK |
| 08LONDON2702 | UK WILL NOT PARTICIPATE IN IRAN'S NUCLEAR CONFERENCE, WILL DISCOURAGE OTHERS FROM ATTENDING REF: STATE 112229 [...] No summary [...] |
2008-10-27 15:56:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC IR MNUC TRGY UK |
| 08LONDON272 | IRAN: UK SAYS EU DESIRE FOR THIRD UNSCR MEANS NO [...] (C) Summary: The UK expects no new EU steps on autonomous measures against Iran before a March 10-11 GAERC ministerial, due to the desire of most EU governments to have the legal and political cover of an approved third UN Security Council Resolution in place before any further EU action, ac [...] |
2008-01-29 18:44:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KPRP PGOV PHUM IR UK |
| 08LONDON2735 | UK WILL LOBBY IN EU FOR ROBUST EU APPROACH TOWARDS BOSNIA; NEW UK AMBASSADOR TO BOSNIA TO ARRIVE SOON REF: A) STATE 113894 B) DONEGAN/FOOKS EMAIL 10/17 [...] (C) The UK concurs with the U.S. view (ref a) that political progress in Bosnia has either stopped or is moving in the wrong direction, and will use the time remaining before the November 10 GAERC to lobby its EU partners for a strong statement on Bosnia. According to FCO Bosnia Team Leader Daisy O [...] |
2008-10-28 17:53:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL BK EU UK |
| 08LONDON2757 | SUMMIT ON FINANCIAL MARKETS AND THE WORLD ECONOMY [...] No summary [...] |
2008-10-31 12:07:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN |
| 08LONDON276 | INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION (IMO): [...] SUMMARY: The 52nd session of the IMO FP S/C met at Central Hall Westminster in London 14-18 January 2008, chaired by Mr. Juan Carlos Cubisino (Argentina). The session was attended by delegations from 58 member states, one associate member, one state not a member, two intergovernmental organ [...] |
2008-01-30 09:48:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED | IMO AORC ASEC UK |
| 08LONDON2760 | ECONOMIC CRISIS RX - VIEW FROM THE CITY [...] No summary [...] |
2008-10-31 13:47:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV UK |
| 08LONDON2765 | CONSERVATIVE PARTY CAUGHT FLAT-FOOTED BY BROWN’S [...] (C) PM Brown's relatively deft performance (ref b) in handling the economic crisis over the past month has caught the Conservative Party off-guard, and the Tories' response to the crisis has been regrettably tepid, Michael Fallon, Tory MP and senior Tory member of the Treasury Committee, Ho [...] |
2008-10-31 15:33:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EINV PGOV UK |
| 08LONDON2766 | UK APPEALS COURT UPHOLDS ASSET-FREEZING REGIME [...] (SBU) Summary: The UK Court of Appeals supported the British government's asset-freezing regime after it had been struck down in an April High Court ruling, in an October 30 decision. HM Treasury was largely pleased with the outcome, although they will have to make modifications to UK regulati [...] |
2008-10-31 16:57:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON KTFN UK |
| 08LONDON2770 | COMMONWEALTH: NEW SYG LOOKING TO STEP UP ENGAGEMENT WITH USG REF: A. COLOMBO 982 B. LONDON 2304 Classified By: Ambassador Robert Tuttle, reasons 1.4 (b/d). [...] (C) "The Commonwealth is a strategic partner for most of what the USG wants," new Commonwealth Secretary General Kamalesh Sharma told the Ambassador in an October 29 courtesy call. Sharma said the USG "should not confuse the Commonwealth's low-key approach as ineffective," pointing out that he wou [...] |
2008-11-03 11:42:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL KDEM EAID PINR UK |
| 08LONDON2778 | IRANIAN IMPORTERS/EXPORTERS: HAVING MORE PROBLEMS [...] (S/NF) Summary: Iranian importers and exporters are encountering ever-greater problems, in all regions including China, in obtaining trade financing due to USG-led international financial measures, according to statements by an Iran banking contact to Embassy London Iran Watcher (poloff). End su [...] |
2008-11-03 15:59:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | CJAN ECON EFIN PINS PREL PTER KFIN IR UK |
| 08LONDON2783 | ECONOMIC RECOVERY A LONG WAY OFF SAY BANKERS [...] (SBU) The UK economy will not begin to recover until the end of 2009 at the earliest, and the road back to health will be slow, said Stephen King, Group Chief Economist at HSBC Bank plc and Melanie Baker, Vice President at Morgan Stanley. High loan burdens for banks, rising unemployment, and [...] |
2008-11-03 16:52:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EINV UK |
| 08LONDON2784 | FINANCIAL CRISIS AND UK DEVELOPMENT PRIORITIES [...] (U) Summary: Despite the economic crisis, HMG has no intention of cutting back on assistance and indeed, will move forward to increase funding, UK Development Secretary Douglas Alexander told Parliament on October 30. In response to a parliamentary inquiry, Alexander stated that he plans to pus [...] |
2008-11-03 17:04:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAID ECON EFIN UK |
| 08LONDON2785 | BOSNIA, EU-RUSSIAN RELATIONS, AND DRC ARE ON THE UK'S AGENDA AT NOVEMBER GYMNICH AND GAERC MEETINGS [...] (C) Summary. Foreign Secretary Miliband intends to impress on his EU counterparts that worsening trends in Bosnia require a unified EU message, and to highlight the need for political action in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), during the November Gymnich and GAERC meetings. The UK Governm [...] |
2008-11-03 17:47:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD PGOV EUN GA IR IZ CG RS UK |
| 08LONDON2789 | IRAN: FURTHER READOUT ON GHALIBAF VISIT TO JAPAN [...] (S/NF) Summary: Tehran Mayor and possible 2009 Iranian Presidential candidate Mohammad-Baqer Ghalibaf while on a mid-October visit to Tokyo made comments suggesting he may support a marginally less confrontational approach to the nuclear issue, according to informal readout provided London Iran W [...] |
2008-11-04 13:15:00 | Embassy London | SECRET//NOFORN | KNNP PGOV PREL UK JA IR |
| 08LONDON2798 | (C) UK'S POTENTIAL NEW FINANCIAL TOOL AGAINST IRAN Classified By: KATHLEEN DOHERTY, ECON COUNSELOR FOR REASONS 1.4 B & D [...] (C/NF) Summary. The British government amended the Counter-Terrorism Bill (CT Bill) on November 3, which would potentially give HMG stronger financial powers against Iran and other rogue nations. If approved by Parliament, HM Treasury would obtain power to impose measures on private entities doing [...] |
2008-11-04 16:59:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EFIN KTFN MNUC IR UK |
| 08LONDON2802 | HMG SEES OPPORTUNITY IN BURMA'S GLOBAL FUND APPLICATION REF: STATE 115494 Classified By: Economic Counselor Kathleen Doherty for Reasons 1.4 (b) and (d) [...] (C) In response to reftel points, FCO Burma Coordinator/Deputy Head of South East Asia and Pacific Group Nicholas Alexander, told Poloff that HMG agreed with the substance of our position on Burma's application to re-engage the Global Fund but advised caution on the tactics we might use to apply i [...] |
2008-11-04 17:30:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD PHUM BM UK |
| 08LONDON2814 | POC FOR NODEL SANDERS (NOV 9-13) [...] (SBU) The Point Of Contact (POC) for NODEL Sanders is Warren Chane, Economic Officer. Contact details follow: Warren Chane Economic Officer Office: +44 (0) 20 7894 0492 Home: +44 (0) 20 7722 6527 Mobile: +44 (0) 77 1516 7459 FAX: +44 (0) 20 7409 1637 Email: chanegw@state.gov TUTTL [...] |
2008-11-07 10:19:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN UK |
| 08LONDON2821 | FCO PLEASED WITH U.S./UK ALIGNMENT ON AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) Summary: INL Assistant Secretary David Johnson visited London October 31, to review Afghan counter-narcotics efforts (CN) with British counterparts. Johnson shared observations from his visit to Helmand, noted the importance of Afghan National Army CNIK protection for eradication, and noted th [...] |
2008-11-07 16:43:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KNAR PTER AF UK |
| 08LONDON2822 | DRC: UK FOCUSING ON POLITICAL SOLUTION, MAKING [...] (C) Parliament is pressing HMG for deployment of additional troops to MONUC, but the Foreign Office is concentrating on a political solution to the crisis and increased MONUC flexibility, FCO Great Lakes Team Leader David Hall and DRC Desk Officer Oliver Craven told us November 7. HMG will not sup [...] |
2008-11-07 16:53:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR PINR PREF PINS KPKO RW CG UK |
| 08LONDON2828 | SOUTHERN AFRICA/MAURITIUS: UK ON VISA WAIVER, [...] (C) From a November 7 round up of UK policy and priorities in Southern Africa, imposing new visa requirements may cause some tension in the region for the UK, according to FCO Head of Southern Africa Section Sarah Riley. The UK Borders Agency is reviewing its visa regimes on South Africa, Lesotho, [...] |
2008-11-10 11:44:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PINR EAID ZU MP |
| 08LONDON2829 | HMG ACCUSED OF SEEING NO BLAME, HEARING NO BLAME, AND [...] (SBU) Summary: The Treasury Select Committee held an unprecedented evidence session November 3 in which the Tripartite Committee authorities responded to Parliamentary questions and to questions emailed to the Committee by the general public. In their responses, the Chancellor of the Excheque [...] |
2008-11-10 11:58:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV UK |
| 08LONDON2833 | CTF-150/SOMALIA: OUTBRIEF FROM CANADIAN SHIP [...] (C/NF) Summary. The Canadian vessel HMCS Ville de Quebec escorted five WFP vessels in and out of Mogadishu between August and October 2008, and the vessel's commanding officer noted that there is clear evidence of collusion between Somalia's Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and pirates in Som [...] |
2008-11-10 14:56:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR MOPS NATO PTER SO CA UK |
| 08LONDON2837 | SOMALILAND/SOMALIA: SECURITY AND DEVELOPMENT, UK [...] (SBU) In a November 8 discussion on U.S. policy in Somalia, Somaliland Diaspora leaders representing over twenty UK-based Somali organizations said that security and development in Somaliland are their main concerns. They offered the following political and development policy suggestions: [...] |
2008-11-10 16:31:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PBTS EAID PREF PINR SO UK |
| 08LONDON2853 | PAKISTAN: UK ON FATA INTEGRATION, AF-PAK [...] No summary [...] |
2008-11-13 15:21:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL MASS EAID PK AF UK |
| 08LONDON2858 | AFRICA/CHINA: MORE ENGAGEMENT IS A TWO-SIDED COIN [...] (C//REL TO FIVE EYES) China's increasing engagement with African governments is a two-sided coin. China more readily works on its Africa partners' behalf in the United Nations (sometimes in unhelpful ways for the West), and it also provides significant direct investment and infrastructure cr [...] |
2008-11-13 16:39:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PINR EAID XA CA NZ AS CH TW UK |
| 08LONDON2860 | ALCHEMY FOR RECOVERY - RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE G20 SUMMIT FROM SOME OF THE UK'S TOP ECONOMISTS [...] No summary [...] |
2008-11-14 11:37:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | ECON EINV UK |
| 08LONDON2882 | NIGERIA: UK ON EFCC AND PRESIDENT YAR A'DUA [...] (C/NF) Summary. The UK's relationship with Nigeria is "static," FCO Nigerian Team Leader Catherine Inglehearn said November 14. Cooperation with Nigeria's Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has largely stalled, pending a letter from new chair Waziri about HMG engagement with the Comm [...] |
2008-11-17 15:45:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL KCOR KCRM PINR NI UK |
| 08LONDON2898 | HORN OF AFRICA PIRACY - HMG SHARES ADDITIONAL [...] (C/NF) FCO Deputy Head Security Policy Chris Holtby (strictly protect) confirmed that HMG is satisfied with the progress in establishment of Operational Headquarters (OHQ) in Northwood UK, and afloat Force Headquarters (FHQ) for the EU counter-piracy mission "Atalanta." Holtby admitted that Gree [...] |
2008-11-19 15:37:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EUN EWWT PHSA PTER PREL UK |
| 08LONDON2899 | COTE D'IVOIRE: UK ON ELECTIONS, DDR, AND [...] (C) Summary. The UK "does not buy into" the French view that Cote d'Ivoire's elections were delayed for technical reasons, and HMG thinks elections could have taken place on time, albeit with some technical problems, had there been the political will, FCO West Africa Team Leader Jonathan Drew told [...] |
2008-11-19 15:48:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KDEM PGOV IV FR UK |
| 08LONDON2909 | APOLOGIES, EXCUSES, AND GLOOM - TESTIMONY OF EXECUTIVES OF [...] (SBU) Summary: The executive teams of the UK's two nationalized banks, Bradford & Bingley (B&B) and Northern Rock (NR), were quizzed by MPs on the Treasury Committee November 18. B&B executives gave a gloomy outlook for the bank's mortgage books, with GBP 600-800 million losses expected from [...] |
2008-11-20 14:28:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV UK |
| 08LONDON2917 | NIGERIA: HMG TO CHALLENGE RULING ON IBORI EVIDENCE [...] (C) The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and the Metropolitan Police plan to appeal the November 19 London Court decision ruling that the evidence submitted by the Nigerian Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) to the court in the on-going corruption investigation of former Nigeria Delta St [...] |
2008-11-21 16:20:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL KCOR KCRM PINR NI UK |
| 08LONDON2960 | AFGHAN NATIONAL ARMY - UK WILL CONTRIBUTE TO [...] (C/NF) The UK concurs with U.S. views (reftel) that the NATO Afghanistan National Army (ANA) Trust Fund mandate should be broad and flexible enough to allow contributions from both NATO and non-Nato nations alike. FCO NATO/ESDP Team Leader Chris Holtby added that the disbursal system should be s [...] |
2008-11-28 13:03:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL NATO MOPS MARR AF UK |
| 08LONDON2961 | PAKISTAN: UK ON MID-DECEMBER DONORS CONFERENCE [...] (C/NF) The UK is generally on board with a donors conference on Pakistan, though there is some hesitation over the timing, according to FCO Pakistan Team Leader Laura Hickey. That said, it is likely that a UK Minister will attend. Both Foreign Secretary David Miliband and Development Secretary Do [...] |
2008-11-28 14:29:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | EAID ECON EFIN IBRD IMF PK UK |
| 08LONDON2964 | AFGHANISTAN: PRESIDENT KARZAI NOT CONFIDENT ON [...] (C/NF) Summary: During a November 25 meeting in Kabul, Afghan President Karzai told FS Miliband that it would be difficult or impossible to hold a credible Presidential election. He said that Afghanistan's USD 13.4b of reserves, were the &best in the world." Miliband commented to Karzai that, a [...] |
2008-11-28 15:46:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV MARR PTER AF UK |
| 08LONDON2968 | PAKISTAN: MILIBAND'S "POSITIVE" NOVEMBER 25 VISIT [...] (C) Summary. UK Foreign Secretary David Miliband had a "positive" November 25 trip to Pakistan, FCO Pakistan Team Leader Laura Hickey told us November 28. The two main objectives of the trip were outreach on counter radicalization efforts and support for the Government of Pakistan's (GOP) ownersh [...] |
2008-11-28 16:32:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PTER IN PK UK |
| 08LONDON2970 | Spending Sprees And Tax Hikes: The Highs And Lows Of The [...] (SBU) Summary: The November 24 2008 UK Pre-budget report (PBR) announces a GBP 20 billion stimulus package and deficit financing to respond to the recession brought on the global financial crisis. Government debt will double to GBP 1 trillion over the next few years before declining, and the [...] |
2008-11-28 16:47:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ETRD EINV UK |
| 08LONDON2972 | UK RESPONSE TO EU BIOFUELS SUSTAINABILITY [...] (SBU) Post delivered ref A points to the host government on November 21 regarding the EU's biofuels sustainability proposals under consideration for a vote by the European Parliament in its "20-20-20" Energy and Climate Legislation. In response to USG comments on the amendments, the UK Head of [...] |
2008-11-28 18:04:00 | Embassy London | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KGHG EAGR SENV ENRG TRGY EUN EU |
| 08LONDON2976 | DRC:UK SUPPORTS EITI INCLUSION IN MONUC MANDATE, EXTENDED ARMS EMBARGO, FDLR SANCTIONS IMPOSITION SOONEST [...] (C/NF) Summary. The UK supports inclusion of an Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) paragraph in the MONUC renewal mandate, continuation of the arms embargo in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for 12 months, and imposition of the Democratic Liberation Forces of Rwanda (FDLR) [...] |
2008-12-01 11:24:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL EMIN UNSC KPKO PARM CG RW UK |
| 08LONDON3001 | EU/PAKISTAN: HMG REQUESTS USG INFLUENCE THE SWEDES [...] (C/NF) HMG wants to hold an EU-Pakistan Summit under the EU's Swedish presidency in the second half of 2009, but is having trouble convincing the Swedes that a summit would add significant value to what the international community is trying to accomplish in Pakistan, according to FCO Pakistan [...] |
2008-12-02 10:12:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV PREL ETRD PK SW UK |
| 08LONDON3038 | SOMALIA: UNDERSTANDING AND COUNTERING UK OPPOSITION TO A PEACEKEEPING OPERATION REF: A. STATE 127595 B. [...] (C/NF) Summary. At senior levels, HMG characterizes its opposition to a peacekeeping operation in Somalia as "realistic." It has two main strands of thought: one political regarding the peace process and one technical regarding peacekeeping operations. Sharing information about USG engagement with [...] |
2008-12-04 13:28:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL KPKO PHUM SO UN UK |
| 08LONDON3041 | LONDON P3 CONSULTATIONS ON UNSCR 1540 COMMITTEE [...] (C) Summary: During a P3 working discussion hosted in London November 10 by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), both the British and French participants stressed that their countries remain committed to UNSCR 1540 Committee goals, but agreed that the Committee needs to be more focused and mo [...] |
2008-12-04 16:53:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL | KNNP MNUC PGOV PREL PARM UK |
| 08LONDON3042 | (U) QUEEN OPENS PARLIAMENT WITH A THIN LABOUR [...] (C/NF) Summary. The Queen laid out Gordon Brown's legislative plans for the coming year in the annual Queen's Speech at the December 3 State Opening of Parliament, but most of the political and media attention was not on PM Brown's legislative agenda (much of which had been released already) but on [...] |
2008-12-04 16:57:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV ECON PREL PINR UK |
| 08LONDON305 | IRAN: NAMES PROPOSED BY UK AND FRANCE FOR EU ASSET [...] (C/NF) Providing further details of UK efforts to obtain autonomous EU sanctions against Iran (see ref), the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on January 30 gave London Iran Watcher (Poloff) a list of 18 entities and 14 individuals that the FCO says the UK and France have jointly proposed to EU [...] |
2008-01-31 17:07:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL KPRP PGOV ETTC IR UK |
| 08LONDON3062 | PAKISTAN: LYALL GRANT AND BOUCHER AGREE ON [...] (C) Summary. Assistant Secretary Boucher and Foreign Office Political Director Lyall Grant agreed on the need for Pakistan, and especially General Kayani, to close down Lashkar e Taiba operations and move on to reform of the intelligence service. Lyall Grant observed there would be less political [...] |
2008-12-08 16:51:00 | Embassy London | SECRET | PREL PGOV PTER PINR IN PK CH UK |
| 08LONDON3079 | HMG SEEKS U.S. PARTICIPATION IN ESTABLISHING [...] (U) Guidance request. See para 4. 2. (C/NF) HMG will announce early in January 2009 an interagency initiative on international regulation of Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs). The announcement will be in the form of a written ministerial statement, which will include an invit [...] |
2008-12-09 16:48:00 | Embassy London | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV MARR PTER DS UK |