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ABLD BUILDING AND GROUNDS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The acquisition, management, and operation of U.S.-owned or-leased facilities and sites both domestic and foreign. (Replaces RCHB file categories: BG, ES)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acquisition
* AIEP
* Allotment
* Antenna
* Antiques
* Appraisals
* Architecture
* Asbestos
* Audit
* Bid Results
* Breathing Device
* Building
* Building Design
* Building Management
* Carpet
* Chancellery
* Construction Management
* Construction Security
* Consulate
* Contract Amendment Contract Award Contract Renewal Contract Termination Contractor
* Core Area
* DCR
* Deed
* Descent Device
* Electrical System
* Elevator
* Embassy
* EMR
* Energy Conservation
* EURMAC
* Fire Alarm
* Fire Detection System
* Fire Prevention
* Fire Safety
* Furnishings
* Generator
* Geotechnical
* Gift
* Hazardous Material
* Housing
* HVAC
* Improvement
* Inventory
* Lease
* Legation
* Maintenance
* Mechanical System
* NOB
* Parking
* PCC
* Post Opening
* Property Exchange
* Property Sales
* Public Access Control
* Real Property
* Reciprocity
* REMS
* Renovation
* Safety & Health Designee
* Safety Program
* Security Enhancement
* Seismology
* SHEMC
* Shielded Enclosure
* Site
* Space Management
* Survey
* WASHMAC
* Water Analysis
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AEMR EMERGENCY PLANNING AND EVACUATION
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Measures and actions implemented to protect U.S. personnel, citizens, property and information; especially related to crisis situations. (Replaces RCHB file category: EP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Citizen Protection
* Contingency Plan EAP
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Property
* Protection
* Records Destruction
* Rescue
* Safehaven
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AFIN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

The fiscal operations of the Department, Foreign Service posts, and other Federal agencies. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, FMGT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accounting
* Allowance
* Annuity Check
* Antideficiency
* Appropriation
* Audit
* Authentication Bank
* Account Bonding
* CAPPS
* Cash
* Cash Management
* Cashier
* Central Claim
* Commercial Claim
* Compensation
* Debt Collection
* Deficit
* Disallowances
* Disbursement
* Employee Claim
* ESF
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Management System
* Fiscal
* Fiscal Irregularities
* Foreign Currency
* FSCADP
* Fund Allotment
* Funding
* GBL
* General Ledger
* GTR
* Home Leave
* ICASS
* Leave
* Liquidation
* Local Currency
* Nonreceipt
* Over Obligation
* Pay Advance
* Pay Record
* Payment
* Payroll
* Payroll Deduction
* PCS
* Per Diem
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Post MGT
* Premium Pay
* Prompt Payment
* Reimbursement
* Relocation
* Reprogramming
* Retirement
* Security Enhancement
* Taxes
* TDY
* Time & Attendance
* Transportation Request
* Travel Advance
* Travelers Checks
* Treasury Check
* Vendor
* Vouchers
* Vulnerability Assessment
* Wages
* Working Capital Fund
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AMGT MANAGEMENT OPERATIONS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The management and organization of the Department and posts abroad and other U.S. agencies. (Replaces RCHB file category: ORG)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Administration
* Audit
* Authorities
* Background Information
* Bureau Organization
* Commissary
* Congressional Report
* Delegation of Authority
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Employee Association
* FCS
* FTE
* Geneva Group
* GORI
* Information System
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* Internal Control
* JAO
* Management Initiative
* Management Issues
* Mission Closure
* Mission Opening
* Occupational Safety
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Office Procedures
* Organization
* Overseas Post
* PCS
* Post Closing
* Post MGT
* Post Opening
* Post Operating Plan
* Reciprocity
* Recreation
* Reorganization
* Scheduling
* Staffing
* Support Services
* Survey
* Task Force
* Workload
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AORC INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS AND CONFERENCES
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Effective from January 1983

The structure and management of international or regional organizations and conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL and Organization Name)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Administration
* Application
* Budget
* Candidate
* Chairman
* Charter
* Congressional Reports
* Constitution
* Donor
* Election Results
* Financial Contribution
* Geneva Group
* Host Government
* Information System
* Infrastructure
* Inspection Report
* Inspection Team
* International Organization
* International Organization Official
* Meeting Agenda
* Meeting Delegation
* Meeting Observer
* Meeting Venue
* Membership
* NGO
* Nomination
* Nonparticipation
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Participation
* PERMREP
* Referendum
* Reform
* Regional Organization
* Regional Organization Official Reorganization
* Resignation from Office Seating
* Secession Secretary General Specialized Agency
* Sponsorship
* Staffing
* Vacancy Announcement
* Veto
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
* Voting
* Wages
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APER PERSONNEL
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administration and support of the Department's Civil and Foreign

Service personnel. (Replaces RCHB file category: PER)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Adoption
* Affirmative
* Action
* Ambassador
* Appeal
* Award
* Backpay
* Benefit Plan
* Bilateral Work Agreements
* Blood Donor
* Boarding School Career Development Career Mobility
* CFC
* Civil Service
* Civil Service Reform Act
* Class Action Suit
* CLO Program
* Community Liaison Office
* Coordinators
* Compensation
* Complaint
* Complement
* Consultation
* Continuing Education
* Contract Employee
* Conversion
* CSR
* Death
* Demotion
* Dependent
* Dependent Education
* Dependent Employment
* Discipline
* Divorce
* Emergency
* Evacuation
* Employee Association
* Employee Benefit
* Employee Relations
* Employee Service
* Employee Status
* Employee Training
* Employment
* Equal Employment Opportunity
* Family Life
* Family Separation
* Family Support Services
* Fellowship
* FERS
* Foreign Born Spouses
* Foreign Service
* Foreign Service Act
* FSPS
* FTE
* Functional Training
* Grade Retention
* Grievance
* Health
* Injury
* Insurance
* International School
* Interns
* Interview
* Job Title
* Leave
* Library
* Merit Pay
* Merit Promotion
* Military Furlough
* Military Reserve
* Nomination
* Nonsensitive Critical Position
* Open Assignments
* Orientation
* Overcomplement
* Pay Record
* Performance Evaluation
* Personal Property
* Personal Travel
* Personnel
* Personnel Action
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Assignment
* Personnel Classification
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Promotion
* Personnel Reassignment
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Photographer
* PIT
* Position Classification
* Position Description
* Premium Pay
* Presidential Executive Exchange Program
* Private School
* Probation
* Promotion Panel
* PSC
* Public School
* Recall
* Recruitment
* Reentry
* Relocation
* Remains Disposition
* Reprogramming
* Retired Annuitant
* Retirement
* RIF
* Sabbatical
* Savings Bond
* School Admissions
* SEF
* Selection Board
* Selection Out
* Senior Foreign Service
* SES
* Severance Pay
* Sexual Harassment
* Skill Codes
* Spouse
* Staffing
* Staffing Pattern
* Survey
* Tandem Couple
* TDY
* Tenure Board
* Termination
* Time & Attendance
* Upward Mobility
* U.S. Family Member
* Vacancy Announcement
* Wages
* Work Requirements
* Workload
* Workmen Compensation
* Workweek
* Youth Programs
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ASEC SECURITY
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The development, coordination, or administration of security policies and programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SY)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AIASA
* Airport Access Procedures
* Antifraud
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Armored Vehicle
* Assault
* Bugging
* Building
* Contract Guard Program
* Counterintelligence
* Debriefing
* Debugging
* Demolition
* Detection Equipment
* Dismantling
* Electronic Security Device
* Emergency Response Team
* Explosives
* Fraud
* Host Country Guards
* Host Country Police
* Identification Systems
* Information Security
* Local Guard Program
* Maps
* Mission Takeover
* Monitoring
* MSG
* Name Check
* NSU
* Personnel Protection
* Physical Security
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Property Protection
* Protective Security
* Public Access Control
* Regional Security
* Riot Control
* RSO
* Scheduled Reporting
* Security Assessment
* Security Clearance
* Security Crisis
* Security Enhancement
* Security Survey
* Security Violation
* Special Support Program
* Suitability
* Technical Security
* Telephone
* Tempest
* Terrorism
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Unit Security Procedures
* Warning System
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BEXP TRADE EXPANSION AND PROMOTION
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts to promote trade and other commercial activities, including specific proposals and inquiries to establish trade relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: TP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Best Prospect
* Bid
* Business Firm
* Businessmen
* CMP
* Commercial Action
* Commercial Association
* Consultation
* Cooperatives
* Country Commercial
* Exhibit
* Exposition
* Foreign Agent
* Foreign Market
* Target Industry
* Targeting
* Trade Fair
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Visit
* WITS
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BTIO TRADE AND INVESTMENT
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OPPORTUNITIES

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Administrative and operational reporting on opportunities for U.S. businesses. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, TP)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agribusiness
* Bid
* Business Firm
* FGT
* Foreign Markets
* GPC Implementation
* Joint Venture
* Patent
* PTO
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CASC ASSISTANCE TO CITIZENS
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Effective from May 1977 (Revised January 1983)

Consular services provided by the United States to citizens of the United States or any other country. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CON, PS)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Adoption
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Alien
* AMCIT
* Arrest Assault
* Attorney List
* Authorities
* Automation
* Child Custody
* Children Compensation
* Complaint
* Consular Assistance
* Consular Package
* Cult
* Custody
* Death Report
* Deportation
* Detention
* Direct Relay
* Drivers License
* Emergency Evacuation
* Estate
* Family
* FIMED
* Fraud Identification
* Lawyer
* Legal
* Medical Care
* Missing Person
* Murder Offenses
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Property
* Property Protection
* Release
* Remains Disposition
* Repatriation
* Seamen
* Ship Detention
* Ship Registry
* Spouse
* Third Country Representation
* Travel Advisory
* Trial
* Trust Account
* Trust Account Refund
* Welfare & Whereabouts
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CJAN JUDICIAL ASSISTANCE AND NOTARIAL SERVICES
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Effective from May 1983

Matters pertaining to Notarial Services and International Judicial Assistance, including the service of judicial and extra-judicial documents and obtaining evidence. (Replaces RCHB file categories: LEG, PS)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acknowledgment
* Affidavit
* Attorney List
* Authentication
* Automation
* Deed
* Deposition
* Documentation
* Evidence
* Extradition
* Fraud
* FSIA
* Judicial Assistance
* Letters Rogatory
* Notarial
* Oath
* Official Travel
* Prisoner Transfer
* Process Serving
* Subpoena
* Testimony
* Tort Claim
* Witness
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CMGT CONSULAR ADMINSTRATION AND MANAGEMENT
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Effective from August 1983

The administrative and operational management of Consular Affairs activities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: ACC, BUD, CON, FMGT,ORG, PER)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antifraud
* Automation
* CAS
* Consular Agent
* Consular Agreement
* Consular Conference
* Consular Equipment
* Consular Package
* Consular Service
* Consular Supplies
* Consular Treaty
* CSS
* ECR
* Fee
* Fraud
* ICARS
* IVACS
* Legislation
* MRP
* NIVCAPS
* Office Procedures
* Personnel
* PFM
* PIT
* Publication
* Space Management
* Supplies
* Support Services
* TDIS
* Third Country Representation
* Word Processor
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CVIS VISAS
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Effective from May 1973 (Revised January 1993)

Operational, procedural, and administrative functions of visa operations. (Replaces RCHB file category: V)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AA 1 Adoption
* Advisory Opinion AIDS
* Alien
* Alien Previously Deported
* Alien Smuggler
* Allocation
* Application
* Appointment
* Arrival Notice
* Athlete Automation
* Bearer Insert
* BUSVIS
* Centralized Visa Processing
* Chargeability
* CHINEX
* CLASS
* Clearance
* CONGRINT
* Consular Package
* Crew List
* Crewman
* Crime
* Data
* Defector
* Denial
* Departure Notice
* Dependent
* Deportation
* Derivatives
* Diversity Immigrant
* DNC
* Documentation
* DV 1DVACS
* Employment Based Preference
* Employment Creation
* Entertainer
* Entitlement
* Exchange Visitor
* Exclusion
* Extraordinary Ability
* Family Preference
* Fiance
* Fiancee
* Files
* Foreign Policy Exclusion
* Forms
* Fraud
* Health Related Grounds
* ICARS
* Immediate Relative
* Immigrant
* Intercompany Transferee
* International Child Abduction
* Interview
* Issuance
* IVACS
* Labor Certification
* LB 1
* Legislation
* Medical Examination
* Moral Turpitude
* MRV
* Name Check
* Narcotics Traffic
* News Media Representative
* NIV
* NIVCAPS
* Nonimmigrant
* Numerical Control
* NVC
* Operations
* Other Worker
* Out of District Applicant
* Parole
* Permanent Resident
* Polygamist
* Portsmouth Consular Center
* Priority Date
* Private Bill
* Procedures
* Public Charge
* Reciprocity
* Refugee
* Refusal
* Religious Worker
* Renewal
* Revocation
* SAO
* Skilled Worker
* SPLEX
* Student
* Supplies Temporary Worker
* Terrorist
* 30 60 Rule
* TIVPC
* Totalitarian Party Membership
* Transfer
* Transit
* Travel Agents
* Treaty Investor
* Treaty Trader
* TTYREP
* Validity Visa
* Visa Clearance
* Visa Photograph
* Visitor for Business
* VLOB
* Waiver
* Waiver of Ineligibility
* Walk Ins
* Workload
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EAGR AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Cultivating the soil and forest, raising livestock, and producing crops. (Replaces RCHB file category: AGR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Production
* Agricultural Program
* Agricultural Worker
* Agriculture
* Animal Disease
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Corn
* Cotton
* Crop Destruction
* Crops
* Dairy Products
* Desalinization
* Disease Control
* Drought
* Erosion
* Famine
* Farm Equipment
* Farming
* Fertilizer
* Food Shortages
* Forestry
* Fruit
* Fungicide
* Grain
* Harvest
* Herbicide
* Husbandry
* Insect
* Irrigation
* Jute
* Land Conservation
* Land Management
* Land Reform
* Livestock
* Natural Fiber
* Nuts
* Oilseeds
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Plant Disease
* Poultry
* Preservation
* Quarantine
* Rainfall
* Rice
* Rubber
* Seeds
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soybean
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Timber
* Tobacco
* Tropical Forest
* Vegetable
* Water Analysis
* Weather
* Wheat
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EAID FOREIGN ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Foreign economic and technical assistance provided by governments, international organizations, institutions, or private individuals. (Replaces RCHB file category: AID)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Agreement
* Agricultural Development
* Agricultural Program Airlift
* Bank
* Congressional Presentation
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Credit
* Debt
* Development Loan
* Development Program
* Disaster Relief
* Donor
* Economic Adviser
* Economic Assistance
* Economic Development
* Economic Support Fund
* Farm Equipment
* Financial Contribution
* Food
* Foreign Assistance Agreement
* Funding
* Grant
* Industrial Development
* Industrialized Nation
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* LLDC
* Loan
* Medical Care
* Medical Equipment
* North South Dialogue
* Paris Club
* PL 480
* PL 480 Title I
* PL 480 Title II
* PL 480 Title III
* Relief Effort
* Self Help
* Technical Assistance
* Water Analysis
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EAIR CIVIL AVIATION
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

Commercial and private aircraft and air operations, domestic as well as international. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AV, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Access
* Air Cargo
* Air Fare
* Air Safety
* Air Traffic
* Air Transportation
* Aircraft
* Aircraft Accident
* Aircraft Detention
* Aircraft Registry
* Airline
* Airport
* Airport Fee
* Airport Security
* Airspace
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Aviation Agreement
* Cargo Handling
* Charter Flight
* CIVAIR
* Commercial Aircraft
* Emergency Landing
* Flight Clearance
* Flight Manual
* Hazardous Cargo
* Helicopter
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Landing Rights
* Maintenance
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Manifest
* Pilot Training
* Private Aircraft
* Refueling
* Rescue
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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ECON ECONOMIC CONDITIONS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The status of a nation's economy. (Replaces RCHB file category: E)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agricultural Development
* Antiinflationary Program
* Black Market
* Capital Investment
* Cost of Living
* Depression
* Economic Agreement
* Economic Assessment
* Economic Conditions
* Economic Crisis
* Economic Development
* Economic Forecast
* Economic Growth
* Economic Indicators
* Economic Program
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Reform
* Economic Report
* Economic Stability
* Economic Trend
* EEC 1992
* Employment
* Financial Profits
* GDP
* GNP
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Reform
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* National Debt
* NIEO
* Price Index
* Recession
* Stock Market
* Tax Law
* Unemployment
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ECPS COMMUNICATIONS AND POSTAL SYSTEMS
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Effective from March 1983

The efforts of governments, the private sector, or international organizations to manage, regulate, develop, apply, or monitor the methods and means of telecommunication, international communication policy, and the informational aspects of communication. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INF, MP, PO, PPB, PR, RAD, SP, TEL, TV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Broadcasting
* Cable TV
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* Fiber Optics
* Frequency Allocation
* Frequency Interference
* Frequency Spectrum
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Frequency
* lnformatics Information Access
* Information Center
* Information Flow
* Information Media
* Jamming
* Light Communication
* Networking
* NWICO
* Orbit
* Postal System
* Prior Consent
* Radio
* Satellite
* Telecommunication
* Telecommunication Agreement
* Telegraph
* Telephone
* Television
* Transborder Data Flow
* Transmitters
* Undersea Cable
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EFIN FINANCIAL AND MONETARY AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Domestic and international financial affairs of governments and private institutions. (Replaces RCHB file category: FN)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accounting
* Audit
* Bank
* Bank Account
* Bankruptcy
* Blocked Assets
* BOP
* Budget
* Buffer Stock
* Capital Flow
* CFF
* Commodities Exchange
* Credit
* Currency Shortage
* Debt
* Debt Equity Swap
* Debt Relief
* Debt Repayment
* Debt Repudiation
* Debt Rescheduling
* Deficit
* Devaluation
* Donor
* Drawing Rights
* Economic Growth
* Economic Recovery
* Economic Trend
* EFF
* EMS
* Exchange Rate
* Financial Agreement
* Financial Contribution
* Financial Control
* Financial Crisis
* Financial Market
* Financial Profits
* Financial Program
* Financial Reform
* Financial Reserve
* Financial Stability
* Foreign Currency
* Foreign Currency Control
* Foreign Currency Exchange
* Foreign Market
* Gold
* Grant
* IMF Standbys
* Income Tax
* Inflation
* Interest Rate
* Loan Default
* Local Currency
* London Club
* National Income
* Overpayment
* Paris Club
* Payment
* Revaluation
* Sales Tax
* SDR
* Securities
* Securities Exchange
* Stock Shares
* Tax Haven
* Tax Law
* Taxation Treaties
* Treasury
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EFIS COMMERCIAL FISHING AND FISH PROCESSING
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The breeding and catching of fish and other marine life for commercial purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aquaculture
* Catch
* Quota Cod
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive Economic
* Zone Fish
* Fisheries
* Aid Fishery
* Fishing Agreement
* Fishing Concession
* Fishing Dispute
* Fishing Ground
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Fishing Vessel
* Fishing Vessel
* Detention Halibut
* Herring Joint
* Venture
* Quota Salmon
* Shellfish
* Shrimp
* TEDS
* Tuna
* Whaling Industry
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EIND INDUSTRY AND MANUFACTURING
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The commercial production of goods and services, including the processing of raw materials into manufactured goods. (Replaces RCHB file category: TEL, INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aerospace Industry
* Alloy
* Aluminum
* Antitrust
* Automotive Industry
* Bankruptcy
* Business Firm
* Capital Investment
* Chemical Industry
* Clothing Industry
* Commercial Association
* Communications Industry
* Complaint
* Construction Industry
* Consumer Goods
* Cooperatives
* Copyright Agreement
* Copyright Claim
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Dairy Industry
* Data Processing Industry
* Defense Industry
* Development Program
* Drug Industry
* Dyeing Industry
* Economic Growth
* Electronic Industry
* Espionage
* Factory
* Fertilizer Industry
* Finishing Industry
* Fishing Industry
* Food Contamination
* Food Industry
* Foreign Agent
* Fraud
* Garment Industry
* Garment Production
* Garment Workers
* Industrial Accident
* Industrial Development
* Industrial Growth
* Industrial Production
* Industrial Reform
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insurance
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber Industry
* Machine Tool Industry
* Manmade Fiber
* Manufactured Product
* Merger
* Metal Industry
* Monopoly
* Nationalization
* Paper Industry
* Parastatal
* Patent
* Petroleum Industry
* Piracy
* Plastic Industry
* Power Looms
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Processing
* Product Safety
* Product Standards
* Product Testing
* Production
* Production Control
* Public Sector
* Railroad Industry
* Ramie
* Raw Materials
* Recall
* Registration
* Rubber Industry
* Sabotage
* Salvage
* Service Industry
* Shipbuilding Industry
* Silk
* Spinning Machinery
* Steel Industry
* Stockpile
* Subsidiary
* Subsidy
* Textile Industry
* Textile Production
* Tobacco Industry
* Tourism
* Trademark
* Vegetable Fiber
* Weaving Industry
* Wood Products Industry
* Wool
* Yarns
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EINT ECONOMIC AND COMMERCIAL INTERNET
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Effective from October 1997

Economic and commercial programs, policies, and issues relating to the Internet.

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Agreement
* Censorship
* Competition
* Connectivity
* Content
* Copyright
* Data
* Democracy
* Economic Conditions
* Domain Names
* Electronic Commerce
* Encryption
* Free Flow of Information
* Information Availability
* Interconnectivity
* Internet
* Meeting
* Monopoly
* Piracy
* Policy
* Pornography
* Privacy
* Private Sector
* Reporting
* Trademark
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EINV FOREIGN INVESTMENTS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

Foreign investments made by governments or private enterprises for commercial gain. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FN, INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bank
* Bid
* BIT
* Business Firm
* Business Loss
* Business Merger
* Capital Flow
* Capital Investment
* Compensation
* Credit
* Credit Guarantee
* Disinvestment
* Economic Growth
* Foreign Investment
* Fraud
* Garment Investment
* Insurance Risk
* Investment Climate
* Investment Control
* Investment Disputes
* Investment Guarantee
* Investment Incentive
* Investment Law
* Investment Opportunity
* Joint Venture
* Loan
* Multinational Corporation
* Nationalization
* Parastatal
* Private Investment
* Private Sector
* Privatization
* Public Sector
* Subsidiary
* Textile Investment
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ELAB LABOR SECTOR AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised May 1995)

The labor sector, labor actors, and national labor policies and their effect on domestic and international systems and relations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LAB)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Arbitration
* Benefits
* Bonded Labor
* Child Labor
* Collective Bargaining
* Compulsory Labor
* Dock Workers
* Employee Ownership
* Employee Rights
* Employer Organization
* Employment
* Equal Pay for Equal Work
* Forced Labor
* Foreign Worker
* GSP (Worker Rights)
* Illegal Worker
* International Labor Secretariat
* Job Creation
* Job Discrimination
* Job Security
* Job Training
* Labor Agreement
* Labor Code
* Labor Competition
* Labor Confederation
* Labor Cooperative
* Labor Costs
* Labor Courts
* Labor Disputes
* Labor Federation
* Labor Law
* Labor Leader
* Labor Market
* Labor Migration
* Labor Movement
* Labor Organization
* Labor Relations
* Labor Rights
* Labor Sector
* Labor Settlement
* Labor Standards
* Labor Union
* Layoffs
* Lockout
* Manpower
* Mediation
* NAFTA Labor Cooperation
* Occupational Health
* Occupational Safety
* Pension
* Prison Labor
* Privatization
* Right of Association
* Right to Organize Slave Labor
* Social Clause (WTO)
* Social Net
* Social Security
* Strike
* Trade
* Union
* Underemployment
* Unemployment
* Unemployment Insurance
* Vocational Training
* Wages
* Work Force
* Work Permit
* Worker Rights Workers
* Working Conditions
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ELTN LAND TRANSPORTATION
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

All aspects of land transportation. (Replaces RCHB file categories: IT, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antiterrorism Measures
* Automobile
* Bridge
* Bus
* Cargo Handling
* Detention
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Highway
* Highway Access
* Hijacking
* Insurance
* Land Transportation
* Maintenance
* Overland Cargo
* Public Transportation
* Railroad
* Railroad Accident
* Railway Access
* Rescue
* Schedule
* Traffic Accident
* Traffic Safety
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
* Truck
* Tunnel
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EMIN MINERALS AND METALS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The exploration, discovery, and extraction of minerals and metals. (Replaces RCHB file category: INCO)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bauxite
* Bid
* Chromite
* Coal
* Cobalt
* Copper
* Drilling
* Excavation
* Exclusive Economic Zone
* Exploration
* Factory
* Gems
* Gold
* Iron
* Magnesium
* Manganese
* Metal
* Mine
* Mineral
* Mineral Reserve
* Mining
* Mining Accident
* Mining Concession
* Nickel
* Offshore Mining
* Ore
* Quarry
* Silver
* Tin
* Tungsten
* Uranium
* Uranium Enrichment
* Zinc

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ENRG ENERGY AND POWER
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Government and private commercial activities in acquiring and providing energy services from all types of sources. For petroleum and natural gas, see EPET. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, FSE)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Coal
* Dam
* Decontamination
* Electric Energy
* Electric Power Plant
* Energy Conservation
* Energy Consumption
* Energy Reserve
* Energy Shortage
* Factory
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Fuel Shortage
* Generator
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Hydroelectric Power Plant
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Fuel Reprocessing
* Nuclear Power Plant
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Power Line
* Public Utility
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Reexport
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* Stockpile
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Thermal Power Plant
* Transformer
* Uranium Enrichment
* Wind Energy
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EPET PETROLEUM AND NATURAL GAS
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Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)

Government and private sector activities in the exploration and extraction of petroleum and natural gas. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FSE, PET)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Bid
* Drilling
* Exploitation
* Exploration
* LPG
* Natural Gas
* Natural Gas Pipeline
* Natural Gas Production
* Natural Gas Reserve
* Offshore Drilling
* Offshore Drilling Platform
* Offshore Oil
* Oil Field
* Petroleum
* Petroleum Concession
* Petroleum Pipeline
* Petroleum Production
* Petroleum Reserve
* Petroleum Shortage
* Refinery
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ETRD FOREIGN TRADE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Exchange of goods between nations. (Replaces RCHB file category: FT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alcoholic Beverage
* Aluminum
* Animal Hides
* Antidumping
* Antitrust
* Apparel Trade
* Arms
* Arms Traffic
* Barter
* BOP
* Boycott
* Buffer Stock
* Chemical
* Clothing
* Cocoa
* Coffee
* Commercial Aircraft
* Commodity
* Commodity Market
* Communications Equipment
* Computer
* Construction Equipment
* Cooperatives
* Corruption
* Cotton
* Countertrade
* Countervailing Duty
* Cross Border Trade
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Clearance
* Customs Court
* Customs Fine
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Official
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Dairy Products
* Debt
* Development Program
* Dispute Settlement
* Diversion
* Duty Free Entry
* East West Trade
* Economic Cooperation
* EEC 1992
* EEP
* Electronic Equipment
* Exhibit
* Export
* Fair Trade
* Farm Equipment
* FCN
* Fertilizer
* Fish
* Food
* Food Contamination
* Food Inspection
* Footwear
* Foreign Market
* Free Trade Zone
* Garment Exports
* Garment Imports
* Government Procurement
* GSP
* Harmonized System
* Helicopter
* Import
* Industrialized Nation
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Intervention
* Laboratory Equipment
* LDC
* Leather
* License
* Linen
* Litigation
* Lumber
* Machine Tool
* Manmade Fiber
* Market Access
* Meat
* Meat Inspection
* Medical Equipment
* Merger
* Metal
* MFN
* MIC
* Monopoly
* Multifiber Arrangement
* NAFTA
* Natural Fiber
* Newly Industrialized Countries
* Nonalcoholic Beverage
* Nontariff Barriers
* North South Dialogue
* Oils
* Oilseeds
* Perishable Commodities
* Petroleum Products
* Pharmaceuticals
* Plastics
* Poultry
* Private Sector
* Product Standards
* Public Sector
* Quota
* Railroad Equipment
* Ramie
* Reexport
* Rice
* Rubber
* Sanction
* Shellfish
* Silk
* Smuggling
* Soybean
* Steel
* Stockpile
* Subsidy
* Sugar
* Synthetic Fiber
* Synthetic Rubber
* Tariff
* Tariff Barriers
* Tariff Relief
* Television
* Textile Exports
* Textile Imports
* Textiles
* Tin
* Tobacco
* Trade Agreement
* Trade Balance
* Trade Complaint
* Trade Control
* Trade Concession
* Trade Discrimination
* Trade Dumping
* Trade Fair
* Trade Law
* Trade Liberalization
* Trade Opportunity
* Trade Promotion
* Trade Protectionism
* Trade Relations
* Trade Visit
* Tuna
* VAT
* Vegetable
* Vegetable Fiber
* Vegetable Oil
* Wheat
* Wine
* Wood Products
* Wool
* Yarns
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ETTC TRADE AND TECHNOLOGY CONTROLS
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Effective from April 1984

Government efforts to control the transfer of goods (i.e., equipment),services, or technologies. This includes foreign policy trade controls, strategic (National Security) trade controls, munitions controls, general West to East technology transfer issues, and efforts to circumvent U.S. or COCOM controls. (Replaces RCHB file categories: FT, STR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Arms Traffic
* Blocked Assets
* Boycott
* COCOM Case
* COCOM List Review
* Computer
* Data Bases
* Data Processing Equipment
* Digital Switching
* Diversion
* EAA
* East West Trade
* Economic Warfare
* Electronic Equipment
* Embargo
* End Use Check
* End User
* Enforcement
* Espionage
* Exception List
* EXCON
* Export
* Export Control
* GSOIA
* GSOMIA
* High Technology Equipment
* IEEPA
* Illegal Trade
* Import Control
* ITAR
* Laboratory Equipment
* License
* Manufacturing Agreement
* Military Applications
* Military Critical Technologies
* Military Equipment
* Military Services
* Munitions Control
* NDPC
* Nonmarket Economy
* Origin Certificate
* Reexport
* Research & Development
* Sanction
* Security Survey
* Semiconductors
* SNEC
* Software
* Stockpile
* Strategic Material
* Strategic Trade Control
* Superconductor
* TCDC
* Technical Assistance Agreement
* Technology Acquisition Efforts
* Technology Gap
* Technology Transfer
* Transaction Check
* Turnkey Plant
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EWWT WATERBORNE TRANSPORTATION
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Movement of commercial and private vessels over high seas and inland waterways. (Replaces RCHB file categories: OS, TR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Antiterrorism
* Measures Canal
* Cargo Handling
* Coast Guard
* Containerization
* Dock Workers
* Fee
* Hazardous Cargo
* Insurance
* Load Line
* Maintenance
* Marine Cargo
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Maritime Flag
* Maritime Law
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Navigational Aid
* Passenger Ship
* Patrol Boat
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Port Congestion
* Private Ship
* Refueling
* Registration
* Rescue
* River
* Route
* Salvage
* Schedule Ship Accident
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Detention
* Ship Harassment
* Ship Movement
* Ship Registry
* Shipyard
* SOLAS
* Strait
* Tonnage Measurement
* Transportation Development
* Transportation Industry
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KACT: Strategic Arms Control (ACS) Treaties
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Effective from August 2000 (Revised August 2004)

Use for all documents relating to specific, interrelated strategic (nuclear) arms control treaties and their implementation:

* ABM (i.e., anti-ballistic missile) treaty and its implementation body the SCC (Standing Consultative Commission);
* INF (i.e., Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces) Treaty and its implementation body, the SVC (Special Verification Commission);
* START (i.e., Strategic Reductions Treaty) and its implementation body, the JCIC (Joint Compliance and Inspection Commission); and the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (SORT) or the Moscow Treaty and its implementing body, the BIC (Bilateral Implementation Commission).

Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NP/EX)
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KAWC: Atrocities and War Crimes
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Effective from July 2001

Use for all documents relating to atrocities, massacres, and war crimes, including allegations, reports, investigations, and prosecutions of genocide, crimes against humanity, grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, and violations of the laws or customs for war. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau, Info: S/WCI)
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KCFE: Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
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Effective from August 1989

Use on all documents between U.S. Vienna and the Department pertaining to CFE negotiations; documents pertaining to conventional forces in Europe including both Eastern and Western forces, their structure, posture, changes, etc.; documents pertaining to allied and Warsaw Pact conventional arms control positions, plans and related internal political situations, documents referring to the High Level Task Force (HLTF) or its subgroups; and all documents discussing congressional delegation visits to Europe that will address conventional arms control issues. (Action: EUR/RPM)
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KCIP: Critical Infrastructure Protection
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Effective from August 2001

Use for all documents reporting on critical infrastructure protection (CIP) issues, which are defined as vulnerabilities and threats, both physical and cyber, to systems and assets (particularly interconnected information systems and networks) so vital to a nation that their incapacity or destruction would have a debilitating impact on national security, national economic security, and/or national public health and safety. Use for reporting of CIP issues both as they affect host country and as they impact the United States. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)

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KCOM: Chief of Mission
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Effective from March 2004

Use for all documents addressed for action to the chief of a U.S. mission in a foreign location (e.g., ambassadors, chargés d’affaires, consuls general, or principal officers). Use KCOM in conjunction with generic PASS instructions to chiefs of mission in Department telegrams. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KCOR: Corruption and Anti-Corruption
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Effective from August 2001

Use for all documents relating to corruption and anti-corruption, dishonesty, and unethical behavior among public officials representing local, provincial, and national governments. This would include linkages with justice, economic, social and political entities. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)

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KCRM: Criminal Activity
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Effective from April 1994 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to criminal organizations and activities, the threat they pose to U.S. interests and/or friendly governments, and host country and U.S. Government programs to combat them. This includes international criminal organizations; money laundering and other financial crimes; illicit trafficking including alien smuggling and gun running; international stolen property theft and fencing rings; international frauds and commercial crimes; UN crime meetings and anti-crime programs; and interaction with international and regional organizations on these issues. U.S. assistance covers training of host country judicial and law enforcement agencies. Use this K TAGS with the Subject TAGS SOCI. Distinguish the use of this TAGS from AID-funded administration of justice programs in Latin America (KJUS),anti-narcotics issues and programs (SNAR),and anti-terrorism issues and programs (PTER). (Action: INL/ENT)
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KDEM: Democratization
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Effective from May 1991

Use on all documents dealing with democratization in Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. Encouraging democratization constitutes an essential component of U.S. policy. The U.S. Government is devoting significant resources to monitor and promote regional trends away from autocratic rule and toward political pluralism. Programs designed to encourage democratization are diverse, and often are cross-discipline in nature, requiring the involvement of several U.S. Government agencies. Also use the appropriate Subject and Geo-Political TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KDRG: Detainee Repatriation from Guantanamo Bay
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Effective from December 2007

Use for all documents addressing issues connected to the repatriation and transfer of detainees in U.S. Government custody at the military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to their countries of origin or to third countries. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/WCI)
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KFRD: Fraud Prevention Programs
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Effective from August 1986

Use on all reporting that refers to efforts and activities pertaining to the prevention of fraud and deceptive practices in the issuance of visas, passports, the issuance of Federal benefits to U.S. citizens and others, and to active measures developed by the Department to oversee their legality and for reporting upon the results of antifraud and prevention measures in consular matters. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: CA/FPP)
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KGHG: Global Climate Change
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Effective from May 2007

Use for all documents addressing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and global climate change (also referred to as global warming). This includes, but is not limited to, the economic, energy, environmental, geographic, health, scientific, social, and political linkages of global climate change. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: OES/EGC)
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KGIC: Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism
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Effective from September 2006

Use for all documents relating to the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. The Global Initiative works toward the prevention, detection, and response to acts of nuclear terrorism. Also use appropriate Subject Tags. (Action: ISM/WMDT)
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KHIV: Emerging Infectious Diseases and HIV/AIDS Program
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Effective from June 2000

Use for all documents relating to actual and prospective activities by the U.S. Government, alone or in conjunction with or through other entities, to combat HIV/AIDS and other infectious diseases. Also use Appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: S/GAC)
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KHLS: Homeland Security
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Effective from August 2006

Use for all documents relating to all aspects of homeland security issues, including acts of terrorism directed at the U.S. homeland, its citizens, or interests; planning and support for such acts of terrorism; capabilities of terrorist groups; activities of institutions, groups, or individuals that support such terrorism; acts of terrorism that transcend national boundaries due to the support network or nationality of the perpetrator, victim, or facility or conventional, biological, radiological, or nuclear (CBRN) terrorism; terrorist travel; actions of the host government, institutions, or individuals related to support for or opposition to U.S. Government homeland security or counter-terrorism initiatives; actions of the host government or multilateral organizations related to the establishment of host country or regional security, bureaucratic, physical, or cyber infrastructure; homeland security implications and effects of border protection, immigration, and customs policies; transportation (e.g., seaports, civil air) security; host government travel document control and standards; emergency, preparedness, and response; biodefense, science and technology development related to the above areas; reactions of host government, media, etc., to homeland security-related programs and activities in the United States, or of the U.S. Government. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: S/CT, CA, OES, A/OEM)

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KIPR: Intellectual Property Rights
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Effective from December 1988 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to intellectual property rights which include patents, trademarks, copyrights, semiconductor designs (mask works),industrial designs, trade secrets, appellations of origin and other forms of protection to reward and encourage innovation and creativity. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/TPP/MTA/IPC)
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KIRF: International Religious Freedom
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Effective from January 1999

Use on all documents relating to all issues of religious freedom and persecution, including civil unrest where religion is a precipitating factor; changes to or enforcement of laws affecting freedom of religion; religious aspects of movements, parties or persons seeking governmental change; governmental repression of religious minorities, movements or leaders; religion playing a role in reconciling conflicts; and changes in religious demographics that may produce societal changes. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: DRL/IRF)
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KISL: Islamic Issues
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Effective from November 1988 (Revised April 2000)

Use on documents treating government involvement in recognition of or approaches to Islam; political and economic activities undertaken by private Islamic organizations or prominent individuals; and fundamentalism. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS.

(Action: NEA/PPR, AF/RA, EAP/RA)
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KJUS: Administration of Justice
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Effective from May 1986 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with the administration of justice in host countries, particularly as it relates to U.S. objectives of promoting democracy and just economic and social development. This includes judicial reforms, political reporting on personalities and institutions involved in the administration of justice, judicial infrastructure development, criminal investigation capabilities, penal systems, legal training, and assistance and exchange programs in this field. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: WHA/PPC)
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KMCA: Millennium Challenge Account
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Effective from August 2004

Use for documents relating to all aspects of the Millennium Challenge Account, a U.S. new foreign assistance account, or the Millennium Challenge Corporation, the independent government corporation recently established to manage and oversee this assistance. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: MCC/IT)
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KMDR: Media Reaction Reporting
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Effective From October 1999

Use on all documents dealing with setting post ―Watching Briefs and on all post reporting concerning editorial content and media reaction. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: INR/R)
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KNNP: Nuclear Non-Proliferation
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Effective from April 1984

Use on all documents on U.S. policy for preventing the spread of nuclear weapons to other countries, the transfer of nuclear material, equipment of technology, agreements for cooperation on the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, matters concerning multilateral discussions on the uses of nuclear energy including the activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and activities in other countries related to the acquisition of nuclear explosives. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KOLY: Olympic Games Reporting
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Effective from February 1984

Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. Note: KOLY will be used in the above prescribed manner for all subsequent winter and summer Olympic games. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KPAL: Palestinian Affairs
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Effective from August 1983 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents relating to issues, reports, or activities concerned with the Palestinian people, as a group or in part, or the area known as Palestine. Also use appropriate Subject, Country, and Organization TAGS. (Action: NEA/PA)
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KPAO: Public Affairs Office
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Effective from May 2000

Use on all documents intended for Public Affairs sections abroad, and should be used by field Public Affairs sections abroad on all documents coming into the Department which relate to Public Diplomacy Programs. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: ECA/EX/PR)
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KPIN: Political Internationals
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Effective from November 1984

Use on all documents relating to the activities and policies of the four major Political Internationals: Socialist International, Christian Democratic International, Liberal International, and the International Democratic Union. This includes reporting on the attitudes of member parties towards the Internationals, the interaction between member parties of the Internationals, and the activities of the Internationals themselves. In addition, this TAGS should be used on all documents relating to the policies of the German (FRG) political foundations: Friederich Ebert, Konrad Adenauer, Hanns Seidel, and Friederich Naumann. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: P)
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KPKO: United Nations Peacekeeping Operations
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Effective from August 1996

Use on all documents relating to existing or potential United Nations peacekeeping activities, including proposals for and negotiations with other countries on peacekeeping activities, military support, sanctions monitoring, elections and humanitarian activities, as well as interaction with international and regional organizations on peacekeeping. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KPWR: Power Support Program
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Effective from March 1993

Use on all documents dealing with the Department’s electrical power support requirements. The program provides consolidated funding for generators, central uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems, and PCB transformer abatement projects. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OBO/PE/DE)
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KRAD: Radioactive Contamination of the Environment
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Effective from May 1997 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with radioactive contamination of the environment from whatever source—military or civilian use, transportation, storage, or disposal of nuclear material Appropriate Subject Terms to use with this TAGS would include nuclear contamination, radiation, radioactive material and International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) emergency notification. In connection with accidental or deliberate contamination, appropriate Terms to use with this TAGS include radioactive material transfer, radioactive waste disposal, radioactive waste management, industrial/medical radiography, medical isotope, and transfer of fissile material. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES/OA)

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KSCA: Science Counselors and Attachés
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Effective from February 1983

Use on all documents drafted by or sent to Science Counselors and Science Attachés. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: OES). Note: KSCA replaces the Organization SCSA.
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KSPR: Strategic, Performance and Resource Planning
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Effective from October 1997

Use on all documents dealing with the strategic planning process for all foreign affairs agencies or agencies with operations and programs abroad as well as the Department’s own strategic planning activities. This includes all resource allocation processes when associated with the Mission Performance Plan (MPP),namely: budget formulation, the Financial Plan (FINPLAN),and the field budget plan. Technical and operational messages that are purely budget-focused should only use ABUD. Use KSPR on messages regarding personnel planning in connection with the annual MPP exercises, and subjects relating to the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993. Operational personnel requests (e.g., new positions, classification actions, conversions of positions from FSN to PIT, etc.) should still only use APER. Suggested terms to use with KSPR are program planning, Mission Performance Plan (MPP),Resource Allocations and Budget Integration Tool (RABIT) and Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: M/P)
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KSUM: Summit Meetings
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Effective from January 1983 (Revised November 1987)

Use on all documents concerning Summit Meetings. This includes substantive and administrative arrangements for meetings, records of meetings and reports on actions by participants as a result of meetings, including preparatory meetings. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: Appropriate Bureau)
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KTFN: Terrorism Finance Traffic
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Effective from July 2004

Use for documents relating to all aspects of terrorism financing; sanctions; designations of individuals under Executive Orders (E.O.) dealing with terrorism finance such as E.O. 13224; related UN resolutions; denial of funds to terrorists; and other related aspects of terrorism financing. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: EEB/ESC)
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KTIA: Treaties and International Agreements
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Effective from June 1984

Use on all documents concerning treaties, including conventions, protocols, or other International Agreements, such as exchange of notes, exchange of letters and memoranda of understanding, as well as requirements of the Case Act (11 FAM 724; 1 U.S.C. 112B). Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: L/T)
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KTIP: Trafficking in Persons
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Effective from September 2008

Use for all cables related to the topics of trafficking in persons, human trafficking, slavery, involuntary servitude, forced labor, labor migration, illegal migration, commercial sexual exploitation, prostitution, sex tourism, forced marriage, child labor, debt bondage, peonage, and child soldiering. Also use appropriate Subject and Country TAGS. (Action: G/TIP)
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KUNR: UN Reform
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Effective from November 1995

Use on all documents dealing with all efforts to reform and restructure the United Nations. Some of the reforms are: the UN budget and/or ceiling, security council expansion, managerial improvements, and strengthening the role of the UN. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: IO)
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KWBG: West Bank and Gaza
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Effective from December 1993 (Revised April 2000)

Use on all documents dealing with the implementation of the Israeli-PLO Declaration of Principles, including Palestinian interim self-rule, economic development and development assistance to the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza. Also, use for Israeli-PLO negotiations on implementing the agreement and political developments in the West Bank and Gaza including elections for a Palestinian Council. Also use the appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: NEA/IPA)
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KWMN: Women Issues
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Effective from June 1995

Use on all documents relating to the Fourth World Conference on Women and any future World Conferences on Women. Also use this TAGS on issues concerning women’s human rights, women’s political participation, women-in-development, and any discussions of women in the United Nations or any other international organizations. Also use appropriate Subject TAGS. (Action: G/CS, IO, and DRL)
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MARR MILITARY AND DEFENSE ARRANGEMENTS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts to establish and maintain collective security or other international military cooperation. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Alliance
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* CFE
* Collective Security
* DECA
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Ground Forces
* Home Porting
* Host Government
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Lease
* Military Advisor
* Military Agreement
* Military Base
* Military Cooperation
* Military Exercise
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Visit
* Minesweeping
* Monitoring
* National Security
* Naval Forces
* Overflight Clearance
* Peace Plan
* Peacekeeping Forces
* Refueling
* Security Assessment
* Ship Clearance
* Ship Movement
* SOFA
* Tracking Station
* Troop Contribution
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Truce Observer
* Weapons Deployment
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MASS MILITARY ASSISTANCE AND SALES
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The Govemment to Govemment transfer, sale, or loan of military equipment, advisers, or services. (Replaces RCHB file categories DEF, FT)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Airlift
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Bomber Aircraft
* CAT
* Congressional Presentation
* Credit
* Debt
* Debt Repayment
* Diversion
* Donor
* Economic Support Fund
* Fighter Aircraft
* FMS
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* IMET
* Loan
* Maintenance
* MAP
* Military Adviser
* Military Agreement
* Military Aircraft
* Military Assistance
* Military Procurement
* Military Training
* Military Vehicle
* Missile
* Reexport
* Salvage
* Spare Parts
* Surplus Weapons Disposal
* Technical Assistance
* Technology Transfer
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MCAP MILITARY CAPABILITIES
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Effective from March 1973 to June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The nonnuclear offensive and defensive ability of the military establishment of a nation or international organization. (Replaces RCHB file category: DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Air Defense
* Air Forces
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Artillery
* AWACS
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Bomber Aircraft
* Burden sharing
* Cargo Aircraft
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon
* Control Civil Defense
* Coast Guard
* Conscription
* Contingency Plan
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon
* Control Court Martial
* Defense Industry
* Demobilization
* Fighter Aircraft
* Ground Forces
* Guidance System
* Helicopter
* Infrastructure
* Intelligence Assessment
* Landing Rights
* Logistics
* Military Aircraft
* Military Balance
* Military Budget
* Military Buildup
* Military Capability
* Military Communication
* Military Equipment
* Military Exercise
* Military Leader
* Military Personnel
* Military Plan
* Military Reserve
* Missile
* Mobilization
* National Guard
* Naval Forces
* Naval Ship
* Ordnance
* Radar
* RDF
* Security Assessment
* Strategic Plan
* Submarine
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
* Warning System
* Weapons Deployment
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MNUC MILITARY NUCLEAR APPLICATIONS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The development and use of nuclear technology for military purposes. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Artillery
* Counterforce
* Decontamination
* Delivery Vehicle
* Fissionable Material
* Guidance System
* INF
* LRTNF
* Military Capability
* Missile
* Missile Site
* Monitoring
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Powered Ship
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Winter
* Plutonium
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Radioactive Waste Management
* Spent Fuel
* Strategic Plan
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Warhead
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MOPS MILITARY OPERATIONS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Declared or undeclared war involving two or more nations. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advanced Weaponry
* Aggression
* Air Alert
* Air Forces
* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Artillery
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Biological Warfare
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* Blockade
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Ceasefire
* Chemical Warfare
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* Combat
* Concentration Camp
* CONTRA
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* DMZ
* Emergency Evacuation
* Escalation
* Explosives
* Ground Forces
* Guerrilla
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intervention
* Invasion
* KIA
* Landing Rights
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* MIA
* Military Balance
* Military Buildup
* Military Plan
* Minesweeping
* Naval Forces
* No Fly Zone
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Occupied Area
* Peace Plan
* POW
* Repatriation
* Reprisal
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Ship Movement
* Surrender
* Threat
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Level
* Troop Reduction
* Troop Withdrawal
* War
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ODIP U.S. DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATION
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Effective from January 1983

Official representational and ceremonial activities of U.S. diplomats and U.S. Government officials; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by U.S. officials. (Replaces RCHB file categories: PER, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Agrement
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Anniversary
* Assault
* Attache
* Ceremonial Representation
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* Personnel Conduct
* Real Property
* Social Reception
* Tax Exemption
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OEXC EDUCATIONAL AND CULTURAL
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EXCHANGE OPERATIONS

Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

The administration and operation of educational and cultural exchange programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: EDX)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* American Studies
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Community
* Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Exchange Program
* Designation Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* FLEX Program
* Foreign Leader Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange Grant
* Humphrey Program
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Nomination
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* Scientist
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* U.S. Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Youth Exchanges
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OFDP FOREIGN DIPLOMATS AND FOREIGN MISSIONS
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Effective from January 1983

Administrative, representational, and ceremonial matters related to non-U.S. diplomatic personnel and foreign missions; includes all aspects of privileges and immunities. Use for ceremonial activities hosted by non-U.S. diplomats. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Ambassador
* Ambassador Designate
* Assault
* Attache
* Building Design
* Ceremonial Representation
* Consul
* Consulate
* Credentials Presentation
* Diplomat
* Diplomatic Consular List
* Diplomatic Privileges
* Drivers License
* Embassy
* Envoy
* Funeral
* Gift
* Guest List
* Honorary Consul
* Invitation
* NOB
* Office Closure
* Office Establishment
* Personnel Appointment
* Personnel Conduct
* Personnel Resignation
* Personnel Separation
* Post Closing
* Post Opening
* Real Property
* Recall
* Social Reception
* Staffing
* Tax Exemption
* Third Country Counterparts
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OIIP INTERNATIONAL INFORMATION PROGRAMS
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Effective from October 1999

Administrative and operational aspects of international information programs, products, and services that increase international support for U.S. policies and understanding of U.S. society.

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Advance Documents Service
* Article Alert
* Book Donations
* Book Fairs
* Book Reprints
* Book Translations
* Books and Documents List
* Computer
* Cooperative Agreements
* Copyright
* Design Services
* DVC
* Electronic Journal
* Grant
* Graphic Design
* I-Bucks
* IRC
* IRO
* Listserv
* Paper Shows
* PDQ
* Photo Coverage
* Photo Rights
* Photo Requests
* Public Diplomacy
* Publication
* Reference Requests
* Speaker
* Technology Partnerships
* Teleconference
* Translation Requests
* Washington File
* Websites
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OPDC DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE
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Effective from January 1983

Correspondence and ceremonial messages between prominent leaders and principal officers. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acknowledgment
* Anniversary
* Appreciation Message
* Commemorative Message
* Condolence Message
* Congratulatory Message
* Invitation
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OPRC PUBLIC RELATIONS AND CORRESPONDENCE
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Effective from January 1983

Correspondence to and from the public commenting on U.S. policy and foreign incidents, requesting information and speaking engagements, and any other public relations activities. This TAGS includes routine constituent's correspondence such as employment opportunities, requests for photographs, autographs, etc. Also includes press summaries and press conferences, public opinion polls, and the administrative arrangements for press conferences. (Replaces RCHB file category: PR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accreditation
* Authentication
* Autograph
* Constituents Mail
* Employment
* Interview
* Invitation
* Journalist
* Photo Request
* Photograph
* Poll
* Press Relations
* Public Diplomacy
* Public Information Publication
* Speaker
* Translation
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OREP U.S. CONGRESSIONAL TRAVEL
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Administrative and operational aspects of travel by Congressmen, congressional staffers, and delegations. (Replaces RCHB file category: LEG)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* CODEL
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protective Security
* Staffdel
* Support Services
* Travel Advisory
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OSCI SCIENCE GRANTS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administration of grants and disbursal of funds of U.S. Government sponsored research programs. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Foreign Currency
* Grant
* Science Grant
* Scientific Exchange
* Scientist
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OTRA TRAVEL
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Routine and operational aspects of travel and visits by other than prominent individuals and Congressmen. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL, TP, TRV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Businessmen
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Dependent
* Itinerary
* Journalist
* Official Travel
* Scientific Visit
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
* Travel Locator Messages
* Travel Orders
* Travel Report
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OVIP VISITS AND TRAVEL OF PROMINENT INDIVIDUALS AND LEADERS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The administrative and operational aspects of visits or travel of U.S. and foreign leaders and prominent individuals. Use for assistant secretary level and above or foreign equivalent. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Accommodation
* Arrival Notice
* Arrival Speech
* Departure Notice
* Departure Speech
* Envoy
* Hotel
* Itinerary
* Passenger Manifest
* Protection Technical Services
* Protective Security
* Secretarys Detail
* Support Services
* Trade Visit
* Travel Advisory
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PARM ARMS CONTROLS AND DISARMAMENT
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Efforts by governments to control the acquisition, development, and production of nuclear, biological, chemical, and other advanced weaponry. Also includes the control of efforts by countries to develop nuclear capabilities. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, FT, POL, STR)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* ABM Treaty
* Advance Notification
* Advanced Weaponry
* Aerial Inspection
* Antinuclear
* Arms
* Arms Buildup
* Arms Control
* Arms Control Agreement
* Arms Control Impact Statement
* Arms Talks
* Arms Traffic
* Associated Measures
* Biological Warfare Convention
* Biological Weapon
* Biological Weapon Control
* CDE
* Chemical Weapon
* Chemical Weapon Control
* CNEA
* Compliance
* Confidence Building Measures
* Constraints
* Consultation
* Conventional Weapon
* Conventional Weapon Control
* Conventional Weapon Freeze
* Cooperative Measures
* Counterforce
* Counting Rule
* CST
* CTB
* Deterrence
* Disarmament
* Diversion
* East West Relations
* Electronic Weapons Systems
* Emerging Technologies
* ENMOD
* Entry Exit Points
* Fissionable Material
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hotline
* Implementation
* INF
* IOZP
* Laser Fusion
* Launchers
* Limited Test Ban Treaty
* LRTNF
* Military Budget Reduction
* Military Expenditures
* Missile
* Monitoring
* Moratorium
* Napalm
* National Guidelines Area
* No First Use
* Nonproliferation
* Nonuse of Force
* NPT
* NRR
* NTEM
* NTM
* Nuclear Agreements
* Nuclear Capability
* Nuclear Enrichment Process
* Nuclear Equipment
* Nuclear Free Zone
* Nuclear Material
* Nuclear Proliferation
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Technical Assistance
* Nuclear Technology
* Nuclear Weapon
* Nuclear Weapon Control
* Nuclear Weapon Free Zone
* Nuclear Weapon Freeze
* Particle Beam
* Peace Movement
* Plutonium
* Political Concession
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* SCC
* SDI
* Simulations
* SNEC
* Spent Fuel
* START
* Stockpile
* Strategic Policy
* Technology Transfer
* Telemetry
* Tlatelolco Treaty
* Troop Level
* TTBT
* Unconventional Weapon
* Verification
* Warhead
* Weapon Destruction
* Weapon Systems Deactivation
* Weapons Deployment
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PBTS NATIONAL BOUNDARIES, TERRITORIES, AND SOVEREIGNTY
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Effective from January 1983

A territory over which dominion is exercised. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Air Alert
* Airspace
* Annexation
* Arbitration
* Archipelago
* Border Control
* Border Crossing
* Border Dispute
* Border Incident
* Boundary
* Boundary Claim
* Boundary Determination
* Canal
* Cession
* Coast Guard
* Continental Shelf
* Court Decision
* Dependency
* Dispute Settlement
* Island
* Island Claim
* Land Settlement
* Landlocked Country
* Maritime Boundary
* Mediation
* Occupied Area
* Overflight
* Piracy
* Port
* Port Access
* Province
* River
* Seabed
* Ship Detention
* Sovereignty
* Strait
* Survey
* Territorial Claim
* Territorial Reversion
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Unification
* Territorial Waters
* Trust Territory
* Water Boundary Agreement
* Water Boundary Claim
* West Bank
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PGOV INTERNAL GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised June 1983)

The form, structure, and organization of local, provincial, and national governments. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Absentee Ballot
* Administration of Justice
* Alliance
* Antigovernment
* Arbitration
* Berlin Access
* Berlin Wall
* Cabinet
* Cabinet Meeting
* Campaign
* Candidacy Support
* Candidate
* Charter
* Church State Relations
* Coalition Government
* Colonialism
* Communism
* Confederation
* Constitution
* Constitutional Law
* Corruption
* Court
* Court Decision
* Death
* Democracy
* Dictatorship
* Election
* Election Forecast
* Election Irregularities
* Election Law
* Election Observer
* Election Reform
* Election Results
* Extremist
* Federation
* First Lady
* Glasnost
* Government Agency
* Government Budget
* Government Media Relations
* Government Official
* Government Reform
* Governor
* Impeachment
* Inauguration
* Influence
* Infrastructure
* Interim Government
* Judicial Reform
* Judiciary
* Junta
* King
* Legislation
* Legislator
* Legislature
* Martial Law
* Mayor
* Minister
* Minority
* Municipal
* Nationalism
* Opposition
* Opposition Party
* Party Faction
* Party Leader
* Party Line
* Party Meeting
* Party Stability
* Party Strength
* Party Unity
* Patronage
* Perestroyka
* Political Adviser
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Crisis
* Political Leader
* Political Military Relations
* Political Party
* Political Trend
* Poll
* President
* Prime Minister
* Progovernment
* Province
* Queen
* Reconciliation
* Referendum
* Reorganization
* Resignation from Office
* Reunification
* Royal Family
* Ruling Party
* Self Government
* Socialism
* Special Interest Group
* State of the Union Message
* Succession
* Tenure of Office
* Totalitarian
* Trial
* Trust
* Territory
* Veto
* Vice President
* Voting
* Voting Rights
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PHSA HIGH SEAS AFFAIRS
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Effective from January 1983

Activities on the high seas, outside a country's national jurisdiction. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Continental Shelf
* Dispute Settlement
* Exclusive
* Economic Zone
* Fishing Limit
* Fishing Rights
* Freedom of Navigation
* Hazardous Cargo
* Innocent Passage
* International Waters
* LOS
* Marine Mammal
* Marine Safety
* Marine Transportation
* Maritime Agreement
* Merchant Ship
* Minesweeping
* Natural Resources
* Ocean Dumping
* Piracy
* Seabed
* Seabed Mining
* Ship Accident
* Ship Detention
* Ship Movement
* Strait
* Territorial Sea Limit
* Territorial Waters
* Transit Passage
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PHUM HUMAN RIGHTS
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Effective from January 1985

The violation of rights attributable to human beings. (Replaces RCHB file categories: POL, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Abuse
* Amnesty
* Antisemitic
* Apartheid
* Asylum
* Asylum Request
* Capital Punishment
* Childrens Rights
* Civil Rights
* Concentration Camp
* Court Decision
* Death Squad
* Deportation
* Detainee
* Detection Equipment
* Detention Development Rights
* Discrimination
* Economic Rights
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Ethnic Group
* EVD
* Execution
* Exile
* Family
* Forced Labor
* Harassment
* Human Rights
* Humane
* Imprisonment
* Indigenous Peoples
* Individual Rights
* Internal Exile
* Internee
* Mass Migration
* Massacre
* Minority
* Minority Rights
* Missing Person
* Mistreatment
* Murder
* Persecution
* Police Equipment
* Political Disappearance
* Political Prisoner
* Political Repression
* Political Rights
* Poverty
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Welfare
* Proselytize
* Psychiatric Abuse
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Returnees
* Rights of Peoples
* Security Forces
* Sponsorship
* Torture
* Walk In Procedures
* Women
* Womens Rights
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PINR INTELLIGENCE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The gathering and reporting of intelligence information, including biographic and background data. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INT, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aerial Reconnaissance
* Biographic Information
* Contacts
* Counterintelligence
* Covert Operations
* Disinformation
* Espionage
* Film
* Humint Collection Plan
* Information Security
* Intelligence Assessment
* Intelligence Collection
* Intelligence Services
* Maps
* Monitoring
* Olive Harvest
* PLPPR
* Remote Sensing
* Satellite
* Ship Movement
* Surveillance Aircraft
* Tracking Station
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PINS NATIONAL SECURITY
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

A regime's stability, control, or efforts to maintain itself in power, as well as activities and efforts to disrupt or overthrow the established regime by other than normal political activity. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Amnesty
* Armed Forces
* Arms
* Assassination
* Assault
* Atrocity
* Censorship
* Church State Relations
* Civil War
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Contingency Plan
* CONTRA
* Counterinsurgency
* Coup
* Court Decision
* Court Martial
* Death Squad
* Defector
* Demobilization
* Detention
* Dissident
* Emigration
* Emigration Control
* Escalation
* Ethnic Group
* Execution
* Exile
* Exiled Government
* Exit Permit
* Expulsion
* Extremist
* General Strike
* Guerrilla
* Harassment
* Hostility
* Hunger Strike
* Impeachment
* Infiltration
* Insurgency
* Intelligence Assessment
* Internal Control
* Intervention
* Land Reform
* Law Enforcement
* Liberation Front
* Martial Law
* Massacre
* Mercenary
* Minority
* Missing Person
* National Security
* Occupied Area
* Persona Non Grata
* Plot
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Political Assessment
* Political Crisis
* Political Military Relations
* Political Prisoner
* Political Settlement
* Political Stability
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Release
* Propaganda
* Property Protection
* Religious Group
* Repression
* Reprisal
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Sabotage
* Seizure
* Surrender
* Threat
* Travel Document
* Travel Restriction
* Treason
* Troop Deployment
* Troop Withdrawal
* Violence
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PREF REFUGEES
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Effective from January 1985 (Revised March 1995)

People who move across borders because of danger to life or fear of persecution. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Admissions
* Allocation
* Asylum Policy
* Early Warning
* Emergency Response
* ESLCO
* Family Reunification
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Internally Displaced Persons
* Letter of Introduction
* ODP
* Prevention
* Refugee Camp
* Refugee Protection
* Refugee Relief
* Refugee Resettlement
* Refugee Settlement
* Refugee Status
* Repatriation
* Safe Country of Origin and Transit
* Safe Haven
* Sponsorship
* Temporary Protection
* VOLAG
* Volunteers
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PREL EXTERNAL POLITICAL RELATIONS
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Effective from January 1983

The political relations between countries, international or regional organizations both bilateral and multilateral, that assess intentions, objectives, plans, or possible courses of interaction. (Replaces RCHB file category: CSM, POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alliance
* Ambassador
* Amity
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antisoviet
* Bilateral Cooperation
* CBI
* Cold War
* Commitment
* Condemnation
* Consular Service
* Demarche
* Detente
* Deterrence
* Diplomatic Protest
* East West Relations
* Embassy Closing
* Embassy Opening
* Expulsion
* Extradition Treaty
* Foreign Commitment
* Foreign Relations
* Front Line States
* Government Reaction
* Hegemony
* Industrialized Nation
* Influence
* International Organization
* Intervention
* LDC
* Lobbying
* NAM
* National Security
* Neutrality
* No Fly Zone
* Nonaggression
* Nonaligned Nations
* Nonparticipation
* North South Dialogue
* Open Skies Treaty
* Opposition
* Participation
* Peace
* Peace Plan
* Persona Non Grata
* Political Concession
* Political Cooperation
* Political Initiative
* Political Settlement
* Political Trend
* Prisoner Exchange
* Prisoner Transfer
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Relations
* Reciprocity
* Recognition
* Reconciliation
* Regional Organization
* Relations Establishment
* Relations Interruption
* Reprisal
* Sanction
* Secession
* Signatory
* Sister City
* Third Country Representation
* Third World
* Threat
* War Claims
* West Bank
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PROP PROPAGANDA AND PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS
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Effective from June 1974 (Revised January 1983)

The spreading of ideology, information, or rumor for the purpose of supporting or defaming nations, institutions, causes, peoples, or persons. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CSM, CUL, INF, MP, POL, PPB, RAD, TV)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Active Measures
* Antiamerican
* Anticommunism
* Antinuclear
* Antisoviet
* Brain Drain
* Brainwashing
* Broadcasting
* Campaign
* Censorship
* Clandestine Broadcast
* Disinformation
* Frequency Interference
* Harassment
* Influence
* Jamming
* Lobbying
* Proamerican
* Procommunism
* Propaganda
* Prosoviet
* Prowest
* Public Disclosure
* Public Information
* Public Relations
* Publication
* Repression
* Slander
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PTER TERRORISTS AND TERRORISM
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Effective from March 1981 (Revised January 1983)

All aspects of terrorism which transcend national boundaries due to the nationality of the perpetrator, victim, place, or the incident. (Replaces RCHB file category: POL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acts of Terrorists
* Antiterrorism Measures
* Antiterrorist Forces
* Assassination
* Assault
* Bomb Threat
* Bombing
* Casualty
* Hijacking
* Hostage
* Hostility
* Infiltration
* Kidnapping
* Kidnapping Threat
* Mission Takeover
* Piracy
* Plot
* Proterrorism
* Rescue
* Sabotage
* Small Arms
* Surrender
* Terrorism
* Terrorist Activities
* Threat
* Threat Assessment
* Violence
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SCUL CULTURAL AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

Any part or totality of a nation's behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, or sociology. (Replaces RCHB file categories: CUL, EDU, MP, PPB, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* American Studies
* Anthropology
* Archaeology
* Artifact
* Artist
* Athlete
* Business for Russia Program
* Citizen Exchanges
* College and University Affiliation Program
* Commemorative Celebration
* Community Connections
* Creative Arts Exchanges
* Cultural Exchange
* Cultural Heritage
* Cultural Presentation
* Cultural Property
* Cultural Specialists (Aculspecs)
* Education
* Educational Exchange
* EFL Fellows
* ETF Fellows
* Ethnic Group
* Excavation
* Exchange Program Designation
* Exhibit
* Festival Fund
* Film Programs
* Fine Arts
* FLEX Program
* Fulbright Alumni Association
* Fulbright American Studies Institutes
* Fulbright Commissions
* Fulbright Junior Staff Development Program (JSD)
* Fulbright Scholar Program
* Fulbright Scholar in Residence Program
* Fulbright Student Program
* Fulbright Teachers Exchange
* History
* Holiday
* Humphrey Program
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* International Visitor Program
* J Visa Program
* J William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board
* Jazz Ambassadors
* Language
* Library
* Magazine
* Memorial
* Missionary
* Museum
* National Flag
* Newspaper
* Olympics
* Performing Arts Calendar
* Piracy
* Place of Worship
* Pope
* Publication
* Religion
* Religious Group
* Religious Leader
* Ron Brown Fellowship Program
* School
* Social Custom
* Social Reform
* Sports
* Student
* Student Advising
* Study of the US
* Teacher
* The Film Service
* University
* US Artists Abroad
* Voluntary Visitor Program
* Women
* Youth
* Youth Exchanges
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SENV ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The preservation, deterioration, and conservation of natural and animal resources, the air, water, land, and space environments. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AGR, CUL, E, HLTH, INCO, OS, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Acid Rain
* Air Pollution
* Animal Conservation
* Animal Hides
* Atmosphere
* Biodiversity
* CITES
* Crop
* Destruction
* Dam
* Desertification
* Drought
* Earthquake
* Ecology
* Endangered Species
* Environment
* Erosion
* Exploitation
* Famine
* Fire
* Fish
* Flood
* Flora
* Forestry
* Fungicide
* Habitat
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Herbicide
* Industrial Waste Disposal
* Insect
* Land Conservation
* Marine
* Mammal
* Migratory Animals
* Monsoon
* National Park
* Natural Disaster
* Natural Resources
* Noise Pollution
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Winter
* Ocean Dumping
* Oil Spill
* Ozone
* Pest Control
* Pesticide
* Pollution Control
* Preservation
* Rainfall
* Seabed
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sludge
* Snowfall
* Soil
* Soil Pollution
* Species Protection
* Storm
* Tidal Wave
* Transboundary Pollution
* Tropical Forest
* Volcanic Eruption
* Waste
* Waste Disposal
* Water
* Water Analysis
* Water Conservation
* Water Pollution
* Water Supply System
* Weather
* Whales
* Wildlife
* Yellow Rain
* Zoo
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SMIG MIGRATION
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Effective from March 1995

The legal or illegal movement of people across borders, border control, and the treatment of aliens by receiving states. (Replaces RCHB file category: REF)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Alien Interdiction
* Border Control
* Cross Border Migration
* Economic Migration
* Emigration
* Environmental Migration
* Family Reunification
* Illegal Migration
* Immigration
* Labor Migration
* Migration
* Migration and Development Policy
* Nationality and Citizenship
* Readmission Agreements
* Remittances
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SNAR NARCOTICS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 2008)

The illegal production, distribution, and use of narcotic drugs. (Replaces RCHB file categories: INCO, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Aircraft Registry
* Cocaine
* Crop Destruction
* Crop Substitution
* Crops
* Customs Agreement
* Customs Inspection
* Customs Regulation
* Customs Seizure
* Demand Reduction
* Detection
* Equipment
* Eradication
* Exhibit
* Foreigners
* Hashish
* Herbicide
* Heroin
* Illicit
* Immigration
* Interdiction
* Law Enforcement
* Legal
* Marijuana
* Money Laundering
* Morphine
* Narcotics
* Narcotics Abuse
* Narcotics Control
* Narcotics Detection
* Narcotics Seizure
* Narcotics Traffic
* Opium
* Patrol Boat
* Psychotropic Drugs
* Seizure
* Ship Registry
* Smuggling
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SOCI SOCIAL CONDITIONS
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The conditions and factors that affect the social welfare of a community. (Replaces RCHB file category: HLTH, SOC)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Abortion
* Administration of Justice
* Adoption
* AIDS
* Birth Rate
* Black Market
* Census
* Child
* Custody
* Children
* Civil Disobedience
* Community Relations
* Concentration Camp
* Consumer Protection
* Crime
* Crime Control
* Cult
* Demography
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Divorce
* Educational Reform
* Elderly
* Epidemic
* Family
* Family Planning
* Food
* Fugitive
* Genocide
* Glasnost
* Health
* Housing
* Housing Shortage
* Humanitarian Assistance
* Hunger Strike
* Illegal Alien
* Immigrant
* Immigration Control
* Infant
* Infrastructure
* Inoculation
* Insurance
* Law Enforcement
* Life Expectancy
* Marriage
* Medical Care
* Medical Facility
* Mental Health
* Minority
* Modernization
* Mortality Rate
* Murder
* Penal System
* Police Force
* Police Investigation
* Population
* Population Growth
* Pornography
* Prison
* Prisoner
* Prisoner Release
* Prisoner Transfer
* Prisoner Welfare
* Prostitution
* Public Safety
* Public Transportation
* Public Welfare
* Quarantine
* Recall
* Reform
* Rehabilitation
* Riot
* Riot Control
* Rural Area
* Sanitation
* Sewage
* Sewage System
* Sex Ratio
* Sexual Crime
* Sexual Harassment
* Social Development
* Social Reform
* Social Security
* Social Service
* Social Trend
* Special Interest Group
* Standard of Living
* Sterilization
* Theft
* Urban Area
* Violence
* Volunteers
* Water Supply System
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TBIO BIOLOGICAL AND MEDICAL SCIENCE
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

The anatomy, physiology, chemistry, and psychology that affect living organisms and the mechanisms of their expression. (Replaces RCHB file categories: HLTH, SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* AIDS
* Animals
* Biology
* Biotechnology
* Chemistry
* Disease
* Disease Control
* Eradication
* Food
* Genetic Engineering
* Hormones
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Medical Science
* Nuclear Contamination
* Parapsychology
* Pest Control
* Pharmaceuticals
* Quarantine
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* STRIDE Technology
* Technology
* Transfer
* Vaccine
* Zoology
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TPHY PHYSICAL SCIENCES
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development in any of the physical sciences. (Replaces RCHB file category: SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Atmosphere
* Chemistry
* Geodesy
* Geology
* Hydrology
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Maps
* Materials Science
* Meteorology
* Metrology
* Microwave
* Minerology
* Ocean Drilling
* Oceanography
* Physics
* Research & Development
* Research Vessel
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Scientific Visit
* Seismology
* STRIDE
* Survey
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Volcanology
* Weather
* Weather Station
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TRGY ENERGY TECHNOLOGY
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Effective from July 1980 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development of energy sources. (Replaces RCHB file categories: AE, DEF, FSE, PET, SCI)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Electric Energy
* Energy Conservation
* Exploration
* Fissionable Material
* Fuel
* Geothermal Energy
* Hazardous Waste Disposal
* Hydroelectric Energy
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Laboratory Equipment
* Magnetic
* Nuclear Accident
* Nuclear Contamination
* Nuclear Energy
* Nuclear Reactor
* Nuclear Safeguard
* Nuclear Test
* Petroleum
* PUNE
* Radiation
* Radioactive Material
* Radioactive Material Transfer
* Radioactive Waste Disposal
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Solar Energy
* Spent Fuel
* SSC
* STRIDE
* Synthetic Fuel
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Thermal Energy
* Transmitters
* Wind Energy
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TSPA SPACE ACTIVITIES
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Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

Research and development leading to and resulting in the exploration and utilization of outer space. (Replaces RCHB file categories: DEF, SP, TEL)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Astronaut
* Astronomy
* Communications Satellite
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* ELV
* Exploration
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Technology Equipment
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Landing Rights
* Navigational Aid
* Orbit
* Outer Space
* Outer Space Commercialization
* Peaceful Use of Outer Space
* Reentry
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Salvage
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Space Agreement
* Space Fragment
* Space Law
* Space Liability
* Space Program
* Space Station
* Spacecraft
* Spacecraft Recovery
* Spaceflight
* STRIDE
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Telecommunication
* Tracking Station
* UFO
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05ABIDJAN1003COTE D'IVOIRE: PRIVATE SCHOOLS TO REOPEN, STUDENTS
[...] (U) Based on a gentlemen's agreement between the school owners and the Minister of Higher Education, Ivoirian private schools will reopen on June 20. The owners have kept the schools closed since May 17 to protest the USD 44 million in arrears owed them by the government (reftel). The Ministr [...]
2005-06-16 16:15:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PGOV ELAB IV
05ABIDJAN1861COTE D'IVOIRE: ICCAT CHAIRMANSHIP AND NEW
[...] On October 7, econoff delivered ref A and B demarches to Seraphin Dedi Nadje, Director of Fishery Production, Ministry of Animal Production and Fishery Resources. 2. In response to ref A demarche, Mr. Dedi Nadje replied that Cote d'Ivoire would be interested in supporting Dr. Hogarth's ca [...]
2005-11-09 10:23:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDEFIS ETRD PHSA SENV AORC IV ICCAT IATTC
05ABIDJAN1864COTE D'IVOIRE INTENDS TO KEEP WEST AFRICAN CENTRAL
[...] (U) The term of Charles Konan Banny, the current governor of the Central Bank of West African States (BCEAO),will expire in December 2005. The BCEAO is the common central bank for the eight West African Economic Monetary Union (WAEMU) countries. The BCEAO governor is appointed by the Council [...]
2005-11-09 14:53:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN PGOV IV
05ABIDJAN1871TOGO NOT READY FOR REFUGEE RETURNS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: RefCoord met UN and government agencies in Lome and Accra from November 8-10 to discuss the Government of Togo's proposed National Repatriation Plan (NRP) and the UN's 2006 Consolidated Appeal (CAP) for Togo. UN and EU representatives stated security conditions in Togo were not [...]
2005-11-16 07:44:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL PHUM TO GH BE
05ABIDJAN487COTE D'IVOIRE -- OUTSIDE LEGAL EXPERTS REVIEW
[...] (C) Summary. A panel of legal experts from Burundi and Rwanda, led by the Advisor to South African President Thabo Mbeki, has issued an analysis of the Linas-Marcoussis legislation, and determined that many of the bills are not in compliance with either the letter or spirit of the Linas-Marc [...]
2005-03-25 08:53:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV KPKO IV SA
05ABIDJAN695 COTE D'IVOIRE: ADDRESSING PROTECTION CONCERNS
[...] (SBU) The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is conducting training sessions for militia groups, as well as the National Armed Forces of Cote d'Ivoire (FANCI) and the Armed Forces of the Forces Nouvelles (FAFN) in International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and the Geneva Conventions. [...]
2005-04-27 08:29:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREF IV LI PHUM WFP
05ABIDJAN716WE DON'T NEED NO EDUCATION - STRIKING TEACHERS IN
[...] (U) SUMMARY. The Union of Secondary School Teachers (SYNESCI) is staging a 48-hour strike starting April 28 to protest non-payment of 2004 exam-correction allowances. This strike comes just two weeks after a 72-hour strike by primary school teachers on April 11-13, also to protest non-payment [...]
2005-04-28 19:16:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ELAB IV
05ABIDJAN944COTE D'IVOIRE: CLOSED PRIVATE SCHOOLS, WORRIED
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Since May 17 the owners of secondary- and university-level private schools have kept their institutions closed in protest over nonpayment of government subsidies. According to the owners, the government owes them a total of USD 37 million for the years 2003 through 2005. On Jun [...]
2005-06-07 18:08:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PGOV ELAB IV
06ABIDJAN1004COTE D'IVOIRE: TOXIC WASTE SCANDAL UNFOLDS
[...] (U) Summary. The illegal dumping of toxic waste at eleven open-air garbage sites around the city of Abidjan has reportedly left three people dead and led some 1,500 others to seek treatment for symptoms of nausea, rashes, fainting, diarrhea and headaches. The dumping has generated public pro [...]
2006-09-08 17:44:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV SENV ASEC IV
06ABIDJAN1005COTE D'IVOIRE: POLITICAL REACTIONS TO
[...] (C) Reactions to the resignation: Minister of Cooperation and African Integration Albert Mabry Toikeuse told the Ambassador in a private meeting yesterday that Prime Minister Banny did not tell his ministers before he announced their resignation on September 7 (reftel). New Forces spokes [...]
2006-09-08 17:51:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV IV
06ABIDJAN1006COTE D'IVOIRE: POLITICAL REACTIONS TO
[...] (C) Opposition UDPCI party leader and Minister of Cooperation and African Integration Albert Mabri Toikeuse told the Ambassador that Prime Minister Banny did not consult with his ministers before he announced the cabinet's resignation on September 7 (reftel). New Forces (NF) spokesman Sid [...]
2006-09-08 18:28:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV IV
06ABIDJAN1027COTE D'IVOIRE: VISIT BY AFRICAN UNION CHAIRMAN
[...] (U) Sassou Nguesso, President of the Republic of Congo and current Chairman of the African Union (AU),visited Abidjan September 10-12. He met individually with each of the five principal Ivoirian political leaders: President Gbagbo, principal opposition party leaders Bedie and Ouattara, a [...]
2006-09-12 15:14:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ASEC IV
06ABIDJAN1036COTE D'IVOIRE: TENTH MEETING OF THE INTERNATIONAL
[...] (C) Summary. The tenth meeting of the International Working Group (IWG) produced a somewhat bolder than usual communique challenging the African Union (AU) and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to devise new, better transition arrangements to take effect after October. T [...]
2006-09-14 11:02:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ASEC IV
06ABIDJAN1037THE CYCLES OF THE IVOIRIAN POLITICAL CRISIS
[...] (C) Cote d'Ivoire is currently at an impasse, which is the most vulnerable point in the cycle that characterizes the political crisis. The cycle is composed essentially of four stages. First, the principal political actors sign a new agreement to relaunch the political process. Secondly, the [...]
2006-09-14 16:26:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL IV
06ABIDJAN1042COTE D'IVOIRE SITREP 15 SEPTEMBER 2006, 1430 GMT
[...] (U) A number of roadblocks were established in Abidjan on the morning of September 15. By early afternoon, some of these had been dismantled although roadblocks remained primarily in the Riviera district of Abidjan, where the Embassy is located. A group of about 50 protesters gathered in the [...]
2006-09-15 15:56:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ASEC SENV CASC IV
06ABIDJAN1043GBAGBO HARDENS RHETORIC ON PEACE PROCESS
[...] (U) In a September 14 speech to senior officers and other members of the Ivoirian Defense and Security Forces (FDS) that was later televised, President Gbagbo delivered a hard-line, uncompromising message on the peace process. Gbagbo averred that he had made numerous compromises (including 23 [...]
2006-09-15 16:10:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL IV
06ABIDJAN1050COTE D'IVOIRE: PRIME MINISTER FORMS A NEW
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Banny has formed a new cabinet, replacing the former Ministers of Transport and Environment, dividing the Ministries of Justice and Interior in twoministries each, and naming two new Secretaries of State, a rank slightly below that of minister. Thus, the new cabin [...]
2006-09-18 16:35:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KPKO ASEC IV
06ABIDJAN1069USITC STUDY ON SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA: FACTORS
[...] Per reftel instructions, post is making inquiries with the Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Animal Husbandry, the Ministry of the Environment, and industry sources for available publications and will advise when we have a response, probably by early October. Please refer to ABIDJAN 3 [...]
2006-09-22 16:51:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDETRD IV
06ABIDJAN1070COTE D'IVOIRE: EVENTS AND RHETORIC HEATING UP AS
[...] (C) Summary. Events and rhetoric are heating up but proceeding largely as expected as October 31 approaches. The local press is reporting that the September 20 meeting in New York chaired by Secretary General Annan and attended by key African leader and all the key Ivoirian political leaders [...]
2006-09-22 16:52:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KPKO ASEC IV
06ABIDJAN1083IVOIRIAN AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS LAUNCH SURPRISE
[...] All air traffic at Abidjan airport was halted September 26 when Cote d'Ivoire's national air traffic controllers, the local branch of ASECNA, launched a strike. Union contacts told us the strike was called to protest "inappropriate working conditions", which included outdated radar equipment [...]
2006-09-26 16:25:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDCI EAIR ECON ELAB FAA PREL
06ABIDJAN1084COTE D'IVOIRE: BANK EMPLOYEES GO ON STRIKE
[...] On September 27, the National Union of Employees of the Banking and Financial Establishments in Cote d'Ivoire (SYNABEFA-CI) went on strike for 72 hours, making good on a threat issued on July 25 (reftel A). To maximize the impact, the strike was evidently timed to coincide with the monthly d [...]
2006-09-27 13:39:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDELAB EFIN PGOV IV
06ABIDJAN1088COTE D'IVOIRE: UPDATE ON AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS',
[...] Air Traffic Controllers: As of 1500 GMT September 27th, the strike of the 27 Ivorian employees of the Agency for Aeronautical Security in Africa (ASECNA),which operates air traffic control at Abidjan's airport, was suspended for one month, allowing a full resumption of both domestic and inte [...]
2006-09-28 14:03:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDEAIR ELAB PREL ASEC IV ECON
06ABIDJAN1093COTE D'IVOIRE'S PALM OIL SECTOR
[...] Summary. Cote d'Ivoire's palm oil production has increased steadily in recent years, and its exports have nearly doubled. However, it still accounts for only one percent of world production and half of one percent of world exports. Palm oil also directly accounted for less than 1 percent o [...]
2006-09-29 16:39:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ETRD ECON IV
06ABIDJAN1094COTE D'IVOIRE'S PALM OIL SECTOR
[...] Summary. Cote d'Ivoire's palm oil production has increased steadily in recent years, and its exports have nearly doubled. However, it still accounts for only one percent of world production and half of one percent of world exports. Palm oil also directly accounted for less than 1 percent o [...]
2006-09-29 16:39:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ETRD ECON IV
06ABIDJAN1099COTE D'IVOIRE: WORLD BANK'S CHIEF OF MISSION
[...] (C) Summary. The World Bank's Chief of Mission Doffonsou told EconChief September 28 that the Ivorian Government has failed to make headway on its $348 million (m) in arrears to the Bank, and that without action, that sum continues to steadily mount. While the government has been offered the [...]
2006-10-02 15:49:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALEFIN PREL ECON IV ASEC
06ABIDJAN1105GBAGBO AND SUPPORTERS ADOPT A TOUGHER LINE IN
[...] (C) Summary. Tensions are running higher in Abidjan as President Gbagbo's mandate nears its end and in the run-up to the October 6 ECOWAS meeting on Cote d'Ivoire. President Gbagbo and his supporters, particularly FPI President N'Guessan, have adopted a tougher, uncompromising stance, and t [...]
2006-10-03 16:50:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ASEC IV
06ABIDJAN1108COTE D'IVOIRE: CUSTOMS AGENTS RELEASED
[...] (SBU) In the afternoon of October 3, 2006, three Customs Agents who were arrested in connection with the toxic waste pollution scandal on September 7 (reftel A) were released on bail after a strike, threatened since September 26, commenced on the morning of October 3. 2. (SBU) The strike [...]
2006-10-04 10:31:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDELAB EAIR PREL IV ECON ASEC
06ABIDJAN1113COTE D'IVOIRE: ABIDJAN-BASED REGIONAL
[...] (U) Summary. The Abidjan-based regional stock market (BRVM) recently hosted the EconChief to discuss the current expansion of the bourse, its potential, limitations, and its place in the evolution of the market economy in Francophone West Africa. Reflecting the regional understanding that Co [...]
2006-10-04 17:28:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN IV
06ABIDJAN1114ABIDJAN-BASED REGIONAL STOCK MARKET
[...] (U) Summary. The Abidjan-based regional stock market (BRVM) recently hosted the EconChief to discuss the current expansion of the bourse, its potential, limitations, and its place in the evolution of the market economy in Francophone West Africa. Reflecting the regional understanding that Co [...]
2006-10-05 08:57:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN IV
06ABIDJAN112GBAGBO USES ARTICLE 48 POWERS TO EXTEND NATIONAL
[...] (SBU) Summary: The January 27 extension by Presidential decree of the Mandate of the National Assembly (NA) has further weakened Prime Minister Banny, and continued President Gbagbo's challenge to the International Community. The New Forces, who do not have any deputies in the assembly, have [...]
2006-02-01 15:51:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KPKO ASEC IV
06ABIDJAN1133COTE D'IVOIRE: TEXTILE AND APPAREL PRODUCTION
[...] (U) Per REF A request, Post provides the following information on Cote d'Ivoire's textile and apparel production sector. 2. (U) The National Statistical Institute's (INS) Division of National Accounts (INSAE) provided the following statistics on total industrial production and total text [...]
2006-10-06 17:27:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD KTEX IV
06ABIDJAN1134COTE D'IVOIRE: USITC STUDY ON SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA
[...] Per reftel B instructions, post has compiled information on the below industries. Please refer to Ref C for information on the Stock Market Exchange with regard to the request for information on financial services. Included in this cable is information on the banking sector. 2. Banking: [...]
2006-10-06 18:26:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDETRD IV
06ABIDJAN1150COTE D'IVOIRE: FORCES NOUVELLES COMMUNICATIONS
[...] (C) Summary: FN Spokesman Lobognon expressed deep disappointment at the outcome of the Abuja Summit on Cote d'Ivoire, suggesting it would allow President Gbagbo to drag his feet on the identification process for yet another year. Lobognon added that Gbagbo acted to obstruct the consensus adop [...]
2006-10-12 15:48:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPREL ASEC IV
06ABIDJAN1153EXXONMOBIL TELLS GOV'T IT INTENDS TO SELL
[...] (SBU) ExxonMobil Regional Director John A.C. Bell, along with Regional Manager Frederic Dauvergne and local Director General Manar Sall met with EconChief on October 10 to discuss the company's announcement to the government of Cote d'Ivoire that it intends to sell its stake in its Ivorian f [...]
2006-10-13 15:10:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG EINV ASEC PREL IV ECON
06ABIDJAN1173GOVERNMENT CREATES 133 JUDGESHIPS TO RESUME AND
[...] (U) President Gbagbo has signed a decree creating 133 judgeships throughout Cote d'Ivoire, in areas controlled by both the government and the New Forces. The decree was signed on October 5 but only published on October 17, on the eve of the AU Peace and Security Council meeting on Cote d'Ivoi [...]
2006-10-18 17:29:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ASEC KPKO IV
06ABIDJAN1190TRADE AGREEMENT COMPLIANCE AND MONITORING
[...] The Economic Section and the Foreign Commercial Section at Post jointly monitor trade agreements and respond to foreign trade barrier complaints. The Section's two Economic Officers determine responsibilities for specific cases as they emerge, working in concert with the regional FCS Officer [...]
2006-10-25 09:45:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD
06ABIDJAN1206PREPARATION OF 2007 NATIONAL TRADE ESTIMATE REPORT
[...] TRADE SUMMARY: The U.S. trade deficit with Cote d,Ivoire was $1.1 billion in 2005, an increase of $477 million from $597 million in 2004. U.S. goods exports in 2005 were $124 million, up 4.9 percent from the previous year. Corresponding U.S. imports from Cote d,Ivoire were $1.2 billion, up 6 [...]
2006-10-30 12:50:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDETRD ECON EFIN IV
06ABIDJAN1207COTE D'IVOIRE - TENSE BUT CALM AND LIKELY TO
[...] (C) Cote d'Ivoire remains tense on the eve of the end of the current one-year mandate of President Gbagbo and Prime Minister Banny and a new UNSC resolution for the country. While there is no doubt that both Gbagbo and Banny's terms will be extended, doubts and fears linger over the relative a [...]
2006-10-30 14:27:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KPKO UNSC IV
06ABIDJAN1212LIBERIAN REFUGEE REPATRIATION ENTERS NEW PHASE
[...] (U) Summary: Abidjan-based Refugee Coordinator (RefCoord) for West Africa traveled to Liberia from October 10-19 to discuss ongoing Liberian refugee repatriation efforts. UNHCR figures show that a total of 80,617 Liberian refugees returned between November 2004 and September 28, 2006 and th [...]
2006-10-31 15:12:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL PHUM LI IV
06ABIDJAN1216DEMARCHE ON CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION, NATIONAL IMPLEMENTATION OBLIGATIONS
[...] No summary [...]
2006-10-31 17:14:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYIV NOTAG
06ABIDJAN1217DEMARCHES ON UNGA RESOLUTIONS REGARDING THE
[...] No summary [...]
2006-10-31 17:18:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYUNGA LE IS PHUM PREL PTER IV
06ABIDJAN1228COTE D'IVOIRE: INITIAL REACTIONS OF POLITICAL
[...] (C) Summary. The streets of Abidjan were calm in the wake of the adoption of UNSCR 1721 (reftel) and the business of the country's economic capital went on without incident. Ambassador Hooks and Emboffs sought out the initial impressions of major political groups and figures, and found amon [...]
2006-11-03 16:58:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPREL IV
06ABIDJAN1234COTE D'IVOIRE: UN HIGH REP FOR ELECTIONS DISCUSSES
[...] (C) SUMMARY. Gerard Stoudmann, UN High Representative for Elections, is cautiously optimistic that elections in Cote d'Ivoire will happen in 2007, but that positive scenario will require all the parties to exhibit substantially more political will than they have shown heretofore. He caution [...]
2006-11-06 16:00:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPREL IV
06ABIDJAN1237PRESIDENT GBAGBO: FULLY COMMITTED TO ELECTIONS
[...] (C) President Gbagbo invited the Ambassador on November 6 to the Presidential Residence to express appreciation for the support of the United States in protecting the Constitution of Cote d'Ivoire during the negotiation of Resolution 1721 in the UN Security Council. President Gbagbo also said [...]
2006-11-07 14:01:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL IV
06ABIDJAN1242APPRECIATION AND GRATITUDE FROM PRESIDENT GBAGBO
[...] Following is the unofficial translation of a letter dated November 2, 2006 addressed to President Bush from President Laurent Gbagbo. A copy of the letter was sent by fax to Embassy Abidjan from the office of the Secretary General of Cote d'Ivoire. Begin translation: From the President of t [...]
2006-11-08 08:20:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDOPDC IV
06ABIDJAN1250OPPOSITION PARTIES UNHAPPY WITH UNSCR 1721; PM
[...] (C) Summary. The Ivorian political class continues to react to UNSCR 1721 and the President's ongoing efforts to shape the political terrain to his liking. Both the Forces Nouvelles (NF) and major unarmed opposition parties expressed disappointment with 1721, specifically the decision to av [...]
2006-11-09 14:05:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL IV UN
06ABIDJAN1251RESIDENTS OF YOPOUGON ROUT PRO-GOV'T MILITIA
[...] (SBU) On November 3, residents of the Azito neighborhood in the populous Yopougon suburb of Abidjan engaged in a daylong battle with members of a pro-government militia, the Groupe des Patriotes pour la Paix (GPP),and eventually succeeded in ejecting them entirely. Long-simmering tensions e [...]
2006-11-09 14:32:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALASEC IV MARR PREL
06ABIDJAN1253FRENCH ECONOMIC COUNSELOR ADDRESSES COTE
[...] (SBU) Econ Chief met with French Economic and Commercial Counselor Jean Dolle at the French Embassy on November 8. Dolle began by discussing French economic interests in Cote d'Ivoire, which, despite the political crisis and its resultant effects on the economy, remain strong. Economic act [...]
2006-11-09 14:52:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON IBRD IV PREL
06ABIDJAN1255GOVERNMENT $144M IN ARREARS ON WAR BONUSES,
[...] (SBU) While the payment of regular salaries is current for both civil servants and military personnel (which includes the FANCI, the Gendarmerie and the National Police) as of October 31, 2006, according to sources within the Ministry of Defense, the Government of Cote d'Ivoire is 12 months o [...]
2006-11-09 17:05:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR PGOV PREL EFIN IV
06ABIDJAN1256COTE D'IVOIRE: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON DPRK ENTITY
[...] (S) On November 8, Econ Chief delivered talking points in reftel to Ambassador Bernard TANOH BOUTCHOUE, Director of United Nations and Specialized Institutions Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 2. (S) TANOH indicated that Cote d'Ivoire takes its UN obligations seriously and op [...]
2006-11-09 17:15:00Embassy AbidjanSECRETPARM PREL IV
06ABIDJAN1257COTE D'IVOIRE: DEMARCHE RE U.S. HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (C) On November 8, Econ Chief delivered relevant talking points from reftels to Ambassador Bernard TANOH BOUTCHOUE, Director of the Office of United Nations and Specialized Institutions Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 2. (C) Speaking frankly, and drawing upon his eight years [...]
2006-11-09 17:16:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL UNGA CU IV
06ABIDJAN1258COTE D'IVOIRE: DEMARCHE ON COUNTRY SPECIFIC HUMAN
[...] (C) On November 8, Econ Chief delivered relevant talking points from reftels to Ambassador Bernard TANOH BOUTCHOUE, Director of the Office of United Nations and Specialized Institutions Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 2. (C) Speaking frankly, and drawing upon his eight years [...]
2006-11-09 17:18:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL KTIA UNHCR IV UNGA
06ABIDJAN1263IVORIAN POULTRY INDUSTRY CRIES FOWL AS GOVERNMENT
[...] On November 2, 2006, the Ministry of Animal Husbandry and Fisheries announced a plan to slash the tariff on poultry imports by 50% (from 22.5% to 11.5%). The announcement followed the October 31 Council of Ministers, which recommended taking &all necessary measures to supply the poultry mark [...]
2006-11-13 16:19:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDETRD EIND ELAB EAGR IV
06ABIDJAN1276UNION OF STATE-OWNED NEWSPAPER THREATENS STRIKE
[...] (SBU) Summary: On October 30, 2006 the board of influential government-owned newspaper Fraternite Matin (FratMat) dismissed Director General Honore De Yedagne (close to the FPI) and replaced him with Leon Lebry Francis, an ally of PM Banny. On November 6 the union for employees at FratMat, [...]
2006-11-16 15:55:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ELAB IV
06ABIDJAN1277DEMARCHE ON ANTI-U.S. RESOLUTIONS
[...] (C) POL/ECON Counselor delivered ref A demarche to Ambassador Bernard Tanoh Boutchoue,Director of the Office of United Nations and Specialized Institutions Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on November 16. We strongly urged Cote d'Ivoire to vote against the three anti-U.S. resolutio [...]
2006-11-16 17:25:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPREL BO IV PHUM
06ABIDJAN1300 COTE D'IVOIRE: AMBASSADOR'S DECLARATION FOR
[...] During the last year, both disarmament of former combatants from the 2002 rebellion and the identification and registration of voters failed to materialize. As such, Cote d'Ivoire remains divided into three parts: the government-held south, the rebel- held north, and the UN controlled Zone o [...]
2006-11-24 10:37:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PHUM PREF IV
06ABIDJAN1303COTE D'IVOIRE: AMBIGUOUS ROLE OF THE SECURITY
[...] (C) Summary. The armed forces are playing a very ambiguous role in Cote d'Ivoire's political process. No one trusts the security forces: not President Gbagbo, not Prime Minister Banny, and not the public. FANCI (Armed Forces of Cote d'Ivoire) Chief of Staff Mangou's loyalty to Gbagbo goes w [...]
2006-11-24 14:36:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALMARR PGOV PREL ASEC IV
06ABIDJAN1306NINE TURKEYS DIE OF H5N1 AVIAN INFLUENZA JUST IN
[...] On November 20, the National Institute for Public Hygiene in Cote d'Ivoire (INHP) confirmed results by the National Laboratory for Agricultural Development (LANADA) on November 17 of another instance of H5N1 Avian Influenza (AI) in Cote d'Ivoire. Culling began November 21, as 76 birds were s [...]
2006-11-24 17:07:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO EAGR EMED CONS IV
06ABIDJAN1314STATE PRIMARY SCHOOLS SHUT DUE TO TEACHERS' STRIKE
[...] On November 9, 2006, the Primary School Teachers, Movement for the Defense of their Rights, known as Mouvement des Instituteurs pour la Defense de leurs Droits (MIDD),launched a strike to protest the government's failure to grant USD 80 (CFAF 40,000) per month in housing allowances for prima [...]
2006-11-28 11:45:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDELAB PREL KPKO IV
06ABIDJAN1316GBAGBO HEADED FOR COLLISION COURSE WITH OPPOSITION
[...] (C) Summary: President Gbagbo unexpectedly reinstated three senior officials who were implicated in the toxic waste disaster but are stalwarts in Gbagbo's FPI (Ivoirian Popular Front) party. He also sacked the director general of the state-owned newspaper, Fraternite Matin, for carrying a r [...]
2006-11-28 18:02:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SENV ASEC IV
06ABIDJAN1317PM BANNY: THE TANDEM WITH GBAGBO IS BROKEN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Prime Minister Banny told the Ambassador on November 28 that Cote d'Ivoire is again in crisis: the tandem with President Gbagbo has not been working well since UN Resolution 1721 was adopted November 1 and is now broken. The PM said he was not even informed of the decrees that [...]
2006-11-29 12:11:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALIV PGOV
06ABIDJAN1323UN TRYING TO SORT OUT RECENT VIOLENCE IN DUEKOUE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Francois Sonon, Head of the Duekoue Field Office for the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA),confirmed five deaths as a result of ethnic clashes between local Guere and Burkinabe in several villages just north of Duekoue in the Zone of Confidence (ZOC). [...]
2006-11-29 17:29:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREF IV
06ABIDJAN1331PRESIDENT GBAGBO WILL NOT DISMISS PRIME MINISTER
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with the Ambassador on November 30, President Gbagbo made the following points: -- he will not fire Prime Minister Banny, although he did not appreciate the PM's communiqu7 dealing with presidential decrees; instead, he fired the Director of the radio and televi [...]
2006-12-04 15:38:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALIV PGOV
06ABIDJAN1334AMBASSADOR VISITS FN-HELD NORTHEAST; QUIET, BUT
[...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Hooks led a small delegation of Emboffs and the DATT on a tour of northeastern towns Bondoukou and Bouna. While government-held Bondoukou and FN-held Bouna are peaceful compared to other areas of the country, Bondoukou is notably more prosperous and Bouna's administ [...]
2006-12-04 17:10:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON CONS IV
06ABIDJAN134COTE D,IVOIRE'S TRANSITION: STRUGGLING TO GET OFF
[...] (C) Summary. The October 6 decision by the African Union (AU) that President Gbagbo should remain as head of state and a new Prime Minister be appointed to bring the country to disarmament and elections has failed to generate the hoped-for momentum among the Ivoirian actors. The peace proces [...]
2006-02-08 14:32:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KPKO ASEC EFIN IV
06ABIDJAN1342SUDAN: URGING COTE D'IVOIRE'S ABSENCE FROM AFCARPAC
[...] No summary [...]
2006-12-06 15:10:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINS SOCI SU IV
06ABIDJAN1343PROPOSAL FOR UN SECURITY COUNCIL PERMREPS TO VISIT
[...] (C) I believe it would be most useful for the Permreps or acting Permreps of the P-5 to come to Abidjan, to deliver in person a message of support for UN Security Council Resolution 1721. Though he nominally welcomed UNSCR 1721, President Gbagbo has said from the outset that it contains attac [...]
2006-12-06 15:14:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV UNSC ASEC IV
06ABIDJAN1345COTE D'IVOIRE: FINANCE MINISTRY OFFICIALS SIGNAL
[...] (C) Summary. Finance Ministry officials are telling us that Cote d'Ivoire does not intend to pay the balance of the arrears Cote d'Ivoire owes the World Bank. Bank staff tell us the Bank would be willing to accept partial repayment, but will not resume normal assistance until it receives th [...]
2006-12-07 07:28:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN IMF IV PGOV PREF
06ABIDJAN1346COTE D'IVOIRE: FINANCE MINISTRY OFFICIALS SIGNAL
[...] (C) Summary. Finance Ministry officials are telling us that Cote d'Ivoire does not intend to pay the balance of the arrears Cote d'Ivoire owes the World Bank. Bank staff tell us the Bank would be willing to accept partial repayment, but will not resume normal assistance until it receives th [...]
2006-12-07 07:29:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN IMF IV PGOV PREF
06ABIDJAN1347COCOA STRIKE ENDS WITH HARDLY A WHIMPER,
[...] (C) Summary. The strike in the cocoa sector has come to a quiet, almost stealthy end although most of the putative demands made by strikers remain unaddressed. The harvest is proceeding, and a good crop is expected. According to industry observers, the government was essentially able to b [...]
2006-12-07 07:31:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALEAGR ECON AID PREL IV
06ABIDJAN1349GBAGBO ROCKING THE BOAT; OPPOSITION STICKS TOE IN
[...] (U) After a tumultuous week in the political landscape with Gbagbo's takeover of both the State-owned newspaper Fraternite Matin and state Radio and Television (RTI),and his reinstatement of three senior offials who were implicated in the toxic waste disaster but are Gbagbo cronies, this week [...]
2006-12-07 16:52:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL IV UN
06ABIDJAN1351ARMY CHIEF OF STAFF PLAYING THE ROLE OF MEDIATOR?
[...] (U) Today the local press widely reported that Armed Forces of Cote d'Ivoire (FANCI) Chief of Staff General Philippe Mangou met with lead opposition leader Professor Alphonse Djedje Mady on December 6th. Mangou reportedly wants to calm the increasingly acrid political environment in Abidjan b [...]
2006-12-07 17:05:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UN IV
06ABIDJAN1355ELEVENTH MEETING OF THE INTERNATIONAL WORKING GROUP
[...] (C) Summary. At the eleventh meeting of the International Working Group (IWG),Prime Minister Banny sought to persuade the group that significant progress has been made to implement UN Security Council Resolution 1721, especially on re-launching identification, returning civil servants to the [...]
2006-12-08 14:20:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ASEC UNSC IV
06ABIDJAN136MORE ON VIOLENCE IN GUIGLO AND VULNERABILITY OF
[...] (C) The humanitarian community is still reeling from the violent attacks that took place mid-January in Guiglo against their offices and staff. Providing basic emergency assistance to the camps of refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Guiglo is the top priority, but security ov [...]
2006-02-08 16:30:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALEAID PREF PHUM WFP IV LI
06ABIDJAN1360TERRORIST LISTS
[...] No summary [...]
2006-12-11 09:18:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ETTC KTFN KVPR PREL PTER
06ABIDJAN1364MEDIATION TEAM TO BRIEF ECOWAS AND AU LEADERS ON
[...] (C) General Jean Marie Michel Mokoko, the Special Representative for the Presidency of the African Union, informed the Ambassador on December 11 that the Mediation Group, composed of himself, D/SRSG Abou Moussa, HRE Gerard Stoudmann and ECOWAS Chairman Chambas will be meeting this week with [...]
2006-12-12 16:51:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALIV PGOV
06ABIDJAN1372COTE D'IVOIRE: MILITARY REPORTS ALLEGED COUP PLOT
[...] (C) Summary. On December 12 the press spokesman of the defense and security forces announced that a coup plot had been uncovered, involving the assassination of President Gbagbo, the armed forces chief of staff, and several other top security force commanders. The man accused of being the ma [...]
2006-12-13 12:26:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALMARR PGOV ASEC PREL IV
06ABIDJAN1376COTE D'IVOIRE: POLITICAL PROCESS DRIFTING
[...] (C) Summary. Well into the second month of Cote d'Ivoire's second year of transition to postponed elections, the political process continues to drift. President Gbagbo is essentially ignoring UN Security Council Resolution 1721 and defying the peace process, and the political opposition has [...]
2006-12-14 14:28:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ASEC IV
06ABIDJAN1377OPPOSITION ACKNOWLEDGES IMPOTENCE IN THE FACE OF
[...] (C) In a meeting with the Ambassador December 11, Alphonse Djedje Mady, spokesman for the RHDP (Rally of Houphouetists for Democracy and Peace) coalition of opposition parties, acknowledged the opposition's frustration and lack of resolve to fight against President Gbagbo and his FPI (Ivoiria [...]
2006-12-14 14:31:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UN IV
06ABIDJAN1393COTE D'IVOIRE: 2006 COUNTRY REPORT ON TERRORISM
[...] General Assessment: Cote d'Ivoire does not engage in any major counterterrorism efforts as terrorist groups are not known to be present and thus terrorist activity is not a percieved threat in this country. Cote d'Ivoire has been in the throes of a political-military crisis since 2002 which [...]
2006-12-19 16:53:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PTER ASEC PGOV IV
06ABIDJAN1400COTE D'IVOIRE - UPDATE ON THE WORST FORMS OF CHILD
[...] No summary [...]
2006-12-20 11:20:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI USAID IV
06ABIDJAN1402GBAGBO OFFERS PROPOSALS, NOT SOLUTIONS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a speech made December 19 evening, President Gbagbo offered five proposals designed to bring the country out of crisis: (1) direct talks with the Forces Nouvelles (FN) rebels aimed at encouraging them to disarm and free the country; (2) elimination of the Zone of Confidence; ( [...]
2006-12-21 09:18:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UN IV
06ABIDJAN1404EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK, SOLENTA DHL
[...] Econ Chief visited Solenta DHL at Abidjan airport as requested in reftel to inquire into application number D366138 registered on 10/26/2006 (OEA/532 M.Hames/Doris Johnson) for a attitude inertial sensor, model 7003360-946. 2. Econ Chief spoke to Business Development Manager Helen Bergoun [...]
2006-12-21 10:22:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDBEXP ETRD ETTC IV
06ABIDJAN1405COTE D'IVOIRE: FN LEADER SORO PUSHES FOR BANKS TO
[...] (C) Summary. Forces Nouvelles leader Guillaume Soro took surprise advantage of a December 11 courtesy call by Econ Chief and Econ/Pol JO to FN HQ in Bouake to make a very public push to reopen the banking sector in FN-held territory. Soro also sharply criticized President Gbagbo for his un [...]
2006-12-21 11:28:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON EFIN IV
06ABIDJAN1406DIAMOND MINING IN COTE D'IVOIRE'S NORTH-CENTRAL
[...] (C) Summary: In the north-central region of Cote d'Ivoire near Korhogo, diamonds are mined using traditional methods of searching riverbeds with sieves. The yield from this particular region is small--perhaps a few hundred stones a month collectively--and offers a subsistence living for the [...]
2006-12-21 16:15:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALEMIN IV
06ABIDJAN1417IRAN --INFORMATION REGARDING UNSCR 1737
[...] No summary [...]
2006-12-27 11:02:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDMNUC KNNP IV
06ABIDJAN1430COTE D'IVOIRE: GBAGBO GAMBLES WHILE THE POLITICAL
[...] (C) As 2006 comes to an end, the Cote d,Ivoire peace process continues to drift. President Gbagbo is waiting for rebel FN (New Forces) leader Guillaume Soro to respond to the five "proposals" he unveiled December 20 (Reftel). The pro-opposition newspaper Le Patriote reported December 27 that [...]
2006-12-28 16:15:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UNSC ASEC IV
06ABIDJAN150COTE D'IVOIRE: MOVING THE PEACE PROCESS FORWARD
[...] (C) Since 2002, the Cote d'Ivoire peace process has gone through multiple mediators and mediations including Lome, Linas-Marcoussis, Accra, and Pretoria. Each has petered out in turn, leaving Cote d'Ivoire far short of reunification, disarmament, and elections. Per reftel, the new government [...]
2006-02-12 08:03:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KPKO ASEC IV
06ABIDJAN179ECHOES OF ARETHA FRANKLIN: THE REBELS WANT RESPECT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador made a three-day trip to Bouake and Korhogo, in New Forces (FN) territory in the North, to urge the ex-rebels to help move the political process forward. We found a relatively relaxed security environment and a population whose most pressing concerns were not the [...]
2006-02-17 10:30:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KPKO ASEC IV
06ABIDJAN190COTE D'IVOIRE: FOURTH MEETING OF THE INTERNATIONAL
[...] (C) Summary. Prime Minister Banny briefed the fourth meeting of the International Working Group (IWG) on his plans to adopt the IWG's road map as his government's work plan. In light of the four days of street disturbances in reaction to the previous IWG's stance on the National Assembly, it [...]
2006-02-22 14:45:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV UNAUS IV
06ABIDJAN199COTE D'IVOIRE: SORO AND GBAGBO TO MEET FEBRUARY 27
[...] (C) On February 22, Sidike Konate, spokesperson for the New Forces (NF),called on the Ambassador to inform him that a meeting between President Gbagbo and NF Secretary General Guillaume Soro is scheduled to take place February 27. There will also be a second meeting between Gbagbo and all thr [...]
2006-02-23 16:27:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KPKO ASEC IV
06ABIDJAN217COTE D'IVOIRE: POLITICAL LEADERS' SUMMIT MEETING
[...] (U) The meetings that were scheduled to take place February 27 between President Gbagbo and New Forces Secretary General Guillaume Soro; and between Gbagbo, Soro, former Prime Minister Ouattara and former President Bedie (reftel) did not happen, because of a disgreement over security arrangeme [...]
2006-02-28 14:06:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ASEC KPKO IV
06ABIDJAN226COTE D'IVOIRE: 2006 TIP REPORT
[...] (SBU) Since a September 2002 coup attempt that evolved into a civil war, Cote d'Ivoire has been partitioned in two with the government maintaining control of the south and the ex-rebel New Forces controlling the north. Tensions between the two sides have lessened since the appointment of a new [...]
2006-03-01 16:49:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB IV
06ABIDJAN227COTE D'IVOIRE: ILO-UNHCR TO PUBLISH REPORT ON
[...] (SBU) Summary: ILO and UNHCR will publish a report on the exploitation of refugee and displaced children in Cote d'Ivoire almost two years after its completion. ILO-UNHCR identified labor and sexual exploitation as the two main forms of exploitation for refugee and displaced children in Cot [...]
2006-03-01 16:50:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PHUM PREL EAID SOCI IV
06ABIDJAN228COTE D'IVOIRE: POLITICAL LEADERS HOLD SUMMIT
[...] (C) Summary. Cote d'Ivoire's five principal political leaders met in Yamoussoukro February 28, the first such meeting since the current crisis began in 2002. They reaffirmed their commitment to the Pretoria Agreement and to holding elections as scheduled, and agreed on six sets of issues: im [...]
2006-03-01 16:50:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ASEC IV
06ABIDJAN238COTE D'IVOIRE: TRANSPORTATION MINISTER PROMISES
[...] (U) On March 1 the Minister of Transport, Innocent Anaky Kobanan (who is from the opposition Movement of Forces for the Future (MFA) party),announced the introduction of a new "single ticket" system for public transportation (mini-busses and taxis). In addition to the single ticket system, th [...]
2006-03-03 14:25:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV ASEC IV
06ABIDJAN246COTE D'IVOIRE: FRENCH FORCES CONFRONT IVOIRIAN
[...] (U) Most newspapers reported March 3 the French Defense Minister's official letter of protest to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan regarding recent incursions of Ivoirian military forces into the Zone of Confidence (ZC) separating the government-controlled south from the rebel-controlled north. [...]
2006-03-06 14:15:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ASEC CI
06ABIDJAN255ALASSANE OUATTARA RESTRUCTURES THE RDR
[...] (U) On March 4-5, presidential candidate and former Prime Minister Alassane Ouattara's political party, the RDR (Rally of Democratic Republicans),met at the UN-protected Golf Hotel in Abidjan, to restructure the party and increase the number of leadership positions at the top. More than 700 [...]
2006-03-08 15:22:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KPKO ASEC IV
06ABIDJAN261COTE D'IVOIRE: ELECTORAL COMMISSION DEADLOCK IS
[...] (U) On March 7, the outgoing executive board of the Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) met with the incoming board, to officially hand over governance of the board. 2. (U) This formalizes the agreement that was reached at the February 28 Yamoussoukro summit of Cote d'Ivoire's four princ [...]
2006-03-09 16:50:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOVE PREL ASEC IV
06ABIDJAN284REBEL LEADER GUILLAUME SORO RETURNS TO ABIDJAN
[...] (U) New Forces (FN) leader Guillaume Soro arrived in Abidjan from the northern rebel capital of Bouake on March 14 around 1100, via UN helicopter. He met with President Gbagbo around noon, immediately after arriving, and then met with Prime Minister Charles Banny. In the evening he met with [...]
2006-03-15 17:20:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KPKO ASEC IV
06ABIDJAN315COTE D'IVOIRE: VISIT OF DEPUTY ASSISTANT SECRETARY
[...] (C) Deputy Assistant Secretary Linda Thomas-Greenfield made a very productive visit to Abidjan March 15-17. She met with leaders and top officials from all parts of the political spectrum. Her Ivoirian interlocutors praised highly the intensity of U.S. engagement here, and appealed for even [...]
2006-03-23 16:57:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL IV
06ABIDJAN316SUBJECT: COTE D'IVOIRE: IVOIRIAN WORKERS, PARTY
[...] (C) On March 20, PIT (the Ivoirian Workers, Party) suspended its participation in the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC),to protest the fact that the highest-ranking position it was given on the IEC's Executive Board was Deputy Treasurer. In the previous IEC, PIT held the position of Tre [...]
2006-03-23 16:57:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV ASEC IV
06ABIDJAN317COTE D'IVOIRE: EXAMS FINALLY HELD IN THE NORTH
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On February 27 children in the New Forces (NF) controlled zone finally started taking the exams that will allow them to progress to the next level of their education. Since February 2004 the pro-Gbagbo Minister of Education had been refusing to allow the exams to be held unti [...]
2006-03-23 16:57:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KPKO ASEC IV
06ABIDJAN320COTE D'IVOIRE: FIFTH MEETING OF THE INTERNATIONAL
[...] (C) Summary. The International Working Group (IWG) held a largely uneventful fifth meeting March 17. Prime Minister Banny, UN High Representative for Election (HRE) Monteiro, and the new Chairman of Cote d'Ivoire's Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) gave presentations. Some element of dr [...]
2006-03-24 16:21:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KPKO ASEC IV
06ABIDJAN332COTE D'IVOIRE: PEACE IS IN THE AIR, FOR THE MOMENT
[...] (C) Summary. Peace is in the air. Prime Minister Banny has an impressive list of accomplishments, and political leaders seem to have set their minds on elections. Still, there is a daunting list of tasks yet to be completed, including issuing national identification cards and registering vo [...]
2006-03-30 15:43:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV ASEC IV
06ABIDJAN339COTE D'IVOIRE: EXAMS FINALLY HELD IN THE NORTH
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On February 27 children in the New Forces (NF) controlled zone finally started taking the exams that will allow them to progress to the next level of their education. Since February 2004 the pro-Gbagbo Minister of Education had been refusing to allow the exams to be held unti [...]
2006-03-31 14:12:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KPKO ASEC IV
06ABIDJAN361OIL SPILL OFF IVORY COAST
[...] (C) Summary. An oil spill off the coast of Ivoiry Coast caused by the Canadian oil company CNR has largely been cleaned up. However, the Minister of Environment told the Ambassador he was unhappy with uncommunicativeness from CNR and alleged that Ivoirians close to the Presidency who are [...]
2006-04-04 08:37:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALSENV ENRG EPET
06ABIDJAN368COTE D'IVOIRE: TROUBLED COCOA SECTOR
[...] (C) Summary. Cote d'Ivoire's 2005-2006 cocoa harvest looks to be up slightly from last year. The share of the world market price that is going to the farmers is higher than last year but still only 50 percent. Another 37 percent goes in taxes and fees to the government and to four cocoa sup [...]
2006-04-06 10:51:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALEAGR EIND PGOV IV
06ABIDJAN369COTE D'IVOIRE: THE UPS AND DOWNS OF THE PEACE
[...] (C) Summary. As expected, The peace process is going through ups and downs. Pro-Gbagbo militias are threatening to take to the streets as they did in January, this time over the sequencing of identification vis a vis disarmament. Preliminary results indicate that only about 20 percent of st [...]
2006-04-06 15:40:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ASEC IV
06ABIDJAN395COTE D'IVOIRE: AVIAN INFLUENZA FALSE ALARM
[...] Several animals were found dead with symptoms similar to Avian flu in the north of Cote d'Ivoire the week of April 6; sixteen chickens, two ducks, and two dogs that apparently ate the carcasses of the dead poultry. A World Health Organization (WHO) satellite office in Bouake, the northern ca [...]
2006-04-19 07:56:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO ECON IV
06ABIDJAN409COTE D'IVOIRE: PRIME MINISTER'S UPCOMING VISIT TO
[...] (C) Summary. Prime Minister Banny told the Ambassador that the primary objective for his upcoming visit to Washington is to request assistance for Cote d'Ivoire's peace process from the World Bank and the IMF. The Ambassador underscored the urgency of moving forward with identification and d [...]
2006-04-21 14:19:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID ASEC IV
06ABIDJAN414COTE D'IVOIRE: SIXTH MEETING OF THE INTERNATIONAL
[...] (C) At the sixth meeting of the International Working Group (IWG),the group was alarmed to hear from a series of senior Ivoirian officials in charge of various aspects of the peace process that the political process is once again at an impasse and that hardly any progress has been made toward [...]
2006-04-21 16:38:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ASEC IV
06ABIDJAN417COTE D'IVOIRE: CONTROVERSY OVER IDENTIFICATION
[...] (C) Summary. A bitter dispute over how to identify who is an Ivoirian lies at the heart of Cote d'Ivoire's current political crisis. No new identifications have been registered since 2003, and no identity cards have been issued since 1999. Prime Minister Banny has made resuming the identifi [...]
2006-04-24 15:59:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL ASEC IV
06ABIDJAN428COTE D'IVOIRE: STUDENT UNION STAGES STREET PROTESTS
[...] (SBU) The Cote D'Ivoire Federation of University and High School Students (FESCI) staged street demonstrations in Abidjan April 25 to demand an end to the current teachers strike. The government-owned but generally factual newspaper Fraternite Matin estimated the number of protesters at 1500. [...]
2006-04-26 15:15:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV ASEC PREL IV
06ABIDJAN433COTE D'IVOIRE: SUSPECTED CASES OF AVIAN FLU
[...] Several birds found dead in Abidjan have been tested at the state-owned Institute Pasteur in Abidjan for H5N1 Avian Flu. However, officials have not yet confirmed the presence of the virus in Cote d'Ivoire. Additional samples were sent for testing to a lab in Italy on April 24. The cases were [...]
2006-04-27 11:54:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDAMED EAGR IV TBIO
06ABIDJAN442COTE D'IVOIRE: PRESENCE OF AVIAN FLU ALL BUT
[...] Initial results from several birds found dead in Abidjan have tested positive for H5N1 Avian Influenza (AI). Screening for the virus was performed by two labs, the Insitut Pasteur in Abidjan and in Paris. Ministry officials are waiting for final confirmation from the United Nations Food and [...]
2006-04-28 16:58:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO EAGR EMED IV
06ABIDJAN447COTE D'IVOIRE: GBAGBO ISSUES COMBATIVE STATEMENT
[...] (C) On April 25 President Gbagbo issued a statement through his press spokesman laying out his views on how the country should move forward toward elections. The statement was typical of Gbagbo: combative, defensive, disingenuous and hardly presidential. Gbagbo denied that he had agreed at th [...]
2006-05-03 16:41:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ASEC IV
06ABIDJAN458FORMER PRESIDENT BEDIE: EVERYTHING DEPENDS ON THE
[...] (C) Former President Henri Konan Bedie, who was ousted in a coup in 1999, has little strategy for negotiating an end to the political crisis in Cote d'Ivoire beyond demanding that the international community asssume responsibility for security and for organizing new elections. He recognizes [...]
2006-05-05 14:17:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV IV
06ABIDJAN460COTE D'IVOIRE: RECENT ATTACKS IN THE WEST PROVE
[...] (C) Summary: UN agencies are concerned by a continuing series of inter-ethnic attacks that have occurred in recent weeks in western Cote d'Ivoire, mostly around the town of Bangolo. The attacks have resulted in several deaths, injuries, and some internal population displacement. The UN rep [...]
2006-05-05 16:31:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF KPKO PHUM IV
06ABIDJAN473YOUNG PATRIOT LEADER BLE GOUDE: DRESSING UP HIS
[...] (C) In a meeting with the Ambassador on May 8, Charles Ble Goude, President of the Young Patriot movement, stressed that he is trying to convert the Young Patriots into a more mature political force. He explained that he is now the President of COJEP, a coalition of patriotic forces, and he [...]
2006-05-09 16:31:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV IV
06ABIDJAN475COTE D'IVOIRE: SIXTH MEETING OF THE INTERNATIONAL
[...] (C) At the sixth meeting of the International Working Group (IWG),the group was alarmed to hear from a series of senior Ivoirian officials in charge of various aspects of the peace process that the political process is once again at an impasse and that hardly any progress has been made toward [...]
2006-05-09 17:11:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ASEC IV
06ABIDJAN483THE FPI AFTER SIX YEARS IN POWER
[...] (C) Summary. President Gbagbo,s ruling FPI party is feeling defensive, with little to show after almost six years in power. The party came into office in the flawed 2000 elections with a sweeping agenda of socialist reform. It has achieved few of them while failing to address the fundamenta [...]
2006-05-11 16:55:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KPKO ASEC IV
06ABIDJAN493COTE D'IVOIRE: THIRTY-SIX CONVICTED FOR JULY 2005
[...] (U) Summary: On May 5, an Ivoirian Military Tribunal convicted and sentenced 36 individuals to terms ranging from two to 15 years for their role in the July 2005 attacks on Agboville and Anyama, two towns located respectivly 70 and 7 KM North of downtown Abidjan. During the attacks, 24 people [...]
2006-05-12 16:42:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV KPKO ASEC AEMR IV
06ABIDJAN495GOCI TO LAUNCH PILOT IDENTIFICATION PROGRAM ON MAY
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Prime Minister,s office and a New Forces (FN) representative have told us that on May 18 the government will begin a pilot population identification program at seven locations in government and FN territory and in the Zone of Confidence. End summary. 2. (SBU) Francois K [...]
2006-05-12 16:58:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KPKO ASEC PREL IV
06ABIDJAN500PRIME MINISTER DISCUSSES IDENTIFICATION
[...] (U) SUMMARY. On May 14, Prime Minister Charles Konan Banny addressed the nation on the televised evening news and confirmed reports that the Ministry of Justice will begin pilot identification programs on May 18. Banny also announced that identification and disarmament (DDR) would occur sim [...]
2006-05-15 13:33:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KPKO ASEC IV
06ABIDJAN504COTE D'IVOIRE: MORE VIOLENCE IN WEST
[...] No summary [...]
2006-05-15 17:24:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ASEC KPKO IV
06ABIDJAN51COTE D'IVOIRE: GBAGBO SHOWS BANNY WHO'S BOSS
[...] (C) While the pretext for the current unrest is the International Working Group's recommendation that the mandate of the National Assembly not be extended, it is clear that the real aim is to undermine Prime Minister Banny. We have indeed heard that the National Assembly's mandate is a "red l [...]
2006-01-18 16:29:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV ASEC IV
06ABIDJAN515MORE DETAILS ON PILOT IDENTIFICATION PROGRAM
[...] (U) Summary: More details about the pilot identification process emerged on May 15, during a press conference by the Minister of Justice, Mamadou Kone. The pilot identification program will target anyone over 13 years of age who is without documents. Once the pilot phase has ended, the Mini [...]
2006-05-17 15:31:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ASEC KPKO IV
06ABIDJAN523PILOT ID PROGRAM GETS OFF TO A GLACIAL START IN
[...] (C) The pilot identification program got off to an inauspicious start with only one petitioner appearing in the Port Bouet district of Abidjan on the morning of May 18, the first day of the program. About thirty Young Patriots showed up around 9:00, along with sanctioned Young Patriot leader [...]
2006-05-18 15:01:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ASEC KPKO IV
06ABIDJAN526PRELIMINARIES TO DISARMAMENT PROCESS TO BEGIN SOON
[...] (SBU) The Chiefs-of-Staff of the New Forces (FAFN) and Ivoirian (FANCI) militaries agreed on May 17 to start assembling troops in preparation for a disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR) program. The NF will gather troops at two sites (at Botro, in the far northeast, and Bouna, [...]
2006-05-19 16:09:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ASEC KPKO EFIN IV
06ABIDJAN532COTE D'IVOIRE: STATUS OF PILOT ID PROGRAM
[...] Summary: The second and third day of the pilot identification program ran smoothly in all seven sites both north and south. After the first day, pro-Gbagbo militias ceased their disruptive activities against the program in the south and the population appears to be gaining confidence in the [...]
2006-05-23 10:49:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL ASEC KPKO IV
06ABIDJAN549YOUNG PATRIOTS CONTINUE TO OCCUPY HIGH SCHOOL
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Congress of Young Patriots (COJEP),the leading faction of the Young Patriots youth militia and headed by Ble Goude, continues to occupy the headquarters of the Secondary School Teacher,s Union (SYNESCI). Despite complaints to the Ivorian government, COJEP remains in place [...]
2006-05-24 16:25:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNELAB PGOV ECON EFIN IV
06ABIDJAN55COTE D'IVOIRE: OBASANJO AND GBAGBO ISSUE
[...] (U) Nigerian President Obasanjo made a brief visit to Abidjan the evening of January 18, and met at the airport with President Gbagbo. Also present were Prime Minister Charles Konan Banny, UN Special Representative of the Secretary General Pierre Schori, South African Special SIPDIS Repres [...]
2006-01-19 15:42:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ASEC IV
06ABIDJAN554COTE D'IVOIRE: SEVENTH MEETING OF THE
[...] (C) Summary. The International Working Group (IWG) held a largely uneventful seventh meeting on May 19. Prime Minister Banny, UN High Representative for Elections (HRE) Studeman, Ivoirian Chief of Staff General Mangou, and New Forces Chief of Staff Bakayoko, along with the head of the Elect [...]
2006-05-26 09:57:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ASEC IV
06ABIDJAN560UNION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS REMAIN ON STRIKE
[...] (U) Summary: The National University Teachers' Union (Coordination Nationale des Enseignants du Superieur et des Chercheurs, CNEC) has been on strike since March 14, with the exception of a two-week truce from April 28 through May 12 while the union met with members of the Prime Minister's of [...]
2006-05-26 15:38:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALELAB PGOV ECON EFIN IV
06ABIDJAN568COTE D'IVOIRE: PILOT IDENTIFICATION PROGRAM
[...] (U) Summary: From May 18 through 24, 4810 applicants were interviewed at seven sites in the pilot identification program. A total of 2601 birth certificates and 2188 certificates of nationality were approved after interviews averaging 40 minutes per person. The pilot identification program [...]
2006-05-30 16:48:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ASEC KPKO IV
06ABIDJAN583COTE D'IVOIRE: PILOT IDENTIFICATION PROGRAM
[...] (U) Summary: From May 18 through 24, 4810 applicants were interviewed at seven sites in the pilot identification program. A total of 2601 birth certificates and 2188 certificates of nationality were approved after interviews averaging 40 minutes per person. The pilot identification program [...]
2006-06-02 09:36:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ASEC KPKO IV
06ABIDJAN589COTE D'IVOIRE: UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS CALL
[...] (U) The coordination of university professors known as Coordination Nationale des Enseignants du Superieur et des Chercheurs (CNEC),has called a two-week truce after meeting with Prime Minister Banny on May 29. While the Prime Minister was not able to promise a salary increase, which is CNE [...]
2006-06-02 16:35:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDELAB PGOV ECON EFIN IV
06ABIDJAN590COTE D'IVOIRE: UNION OF PUBLIC SECTOR HEALTH
[...] (U) On May 31, the union of senior public sector health personnel, Syndicat National des Cadres Superieurs de la Sante de Cote d,Ivoire (SYNACASS-CI),threatened to go on strike on June 15 if their demands regarding salary and rank within the civil service are not met. The SYNACASS-CI consis [...]
2006-06-02 16:37:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDELAB PGOV ECON EFIN IV
06ABIDJAN60COTE D'IVOIRE: THIRD MEETING OF THE INTERNATIONAL
[...] (C) Summary. The subject that came in for the most discussion at the January 15 meeting of the International Working Group (IWG) was the future of the National Assembly, whose mandate expired December 16. Heads of delegation reached an initial consensus to recommend that the Assembly remain [...]
2006-01-20 16:34:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ASEC IV
06ABIDJAN606COTE D'IVOIRE: ACOTA COORDINATOR VISIT SUMMARY
[...] (U) Summary: ACOTA Program and Policy Coordinator, Chip Beck (Coordinator),visited Abidjan 13-14 May 2006 for a visit to, and an exchange of information with, the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Cote d'Ivoire (UNOCI) Headquarters Staff. He received a general briefing from the Senior [...]
2006-06-07 14:46:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV MASS IV
06ABIDJAN613COTE D'IVOIRE: FINAL NUMBERS FROM PILOT ID PROGRAM
[...] (U) The Ivorian government announced the official figures for the pilot identification process which ended on May 27. The official figures are: 5003 applicants were interviewed, 3907 birth certificates were granted, and 3137 certificates of nationality were approved. The analysis of the pilo [...]
2006-06-08 15:20:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ASEC KPKO IV
06ABIDJAN616FESCI UNDER SERGES KOFFI: THE FIRST YEAR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: FESCI (Federation of High School and University Students of Cote d'Ivoire) was created by President Gbagbo and other professors in 1992 at the birth of Cote d'Ivoire's multi-party system to give students a voice in the new political environment. It rapidly degenerated into a maf [...]
2006-06-09 14:09:00Embassy AbidjanSECRET//NOFORNKPKO PREL PGOV ASEC IV
06ABIDJAN623COTE D'IVOIRE: ELECTORAL COMMISSION STRUGGLES
[...] (C) Summary: Four months away from the October date by which Cote d'Ivoire's postponed presidential elections are supposed to be held, the CEI (Independent Electoral Commission) has ambitious, probably unrealistic plans to carpet the country with thousands of polling stations and train tens o [...]
2006-06-09 17:45:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ASEC IV
06ABIDJAN627COTE D'IVOIRE: INFORMATION ON OHCHR FIELD PRESENCE
[...] (SBU) Summary: The UN's High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is represented in Cote d'Ivoire by the Division of Human Rights (HR),which is part of the larger UN Operation in Cote d'Ivoire (UNOCI). Its overarching mission is to promote human rights in Cote d'Ivoire. The HR works in a [...]
2006-06-12 14:08:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL IV
06ABIDJAN633COTE D'IVOIRE: UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS RESTART
[...] (U) The group of university professors known as Coordination Nationale des Enseignants du Superieur et des Chercheurs (CNEC) has again commenced an unlimited strike after a two-week truce in which it considered the options put forth by the Council of Ministers (ref A). On June 9, the members [...]
2006-06-13 17:10:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB PGOV ECON EFIN IV
06ABIDJAN647COTE D'IVOIRE: START OF DISARMAMENT MAY BE DELAYED
[...] No summary [...]
2006-06-16 14:54:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALKPKO PGOV PREL IV
06ABIDJAN648COTE D'IVOIRE: PRIMARY AND SECONDARY PUBLIC
[...] (U) Summary: On June 15, primary and secondary public school teachers began unlimited strikes to protest the lack of government response to their demands for a housing allowance and salary increases. The government did not respond to a three-day strike held from June 6 to June 8 by the Coll [...]
2006-06-16 14:54:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB PGOV ECON EFIN IV
06ABIDJAN649COTE D'IVOIRE WILL SUPPORT NEW RED DIAMOND EMBLEM
[...] No summary [...]
2006-06-16 14:58:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PREL PHUM ICRC IV
06ABIDJAN652DEMARCHES ON NAM AND OIC STATEMENTS ABOUT IRAN'S
[...] (C) POL/ECON Counselor and Deputy POL/ECON Counselor delivered a demarche June 16 to Ambassador Bernard Tanoh Boutchoue, Director for the United Nations and Specialized Agencies at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, expressing U.S. disappointment with the statement on Iran's nuclear program that [...]
2006-06-16 15:37:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPREL AORC KNNP UNSC IV IR
06ABIDJAN658COTE D'IVOIRE: DISARMAMENT OF WESTERN MILITIAS
[...] (C) Despite assurances we were given June 16 by Director of Operations for Disarmament Jean-Paul Malan that there were just a few obstacles left to mediate and that disarmament of the western militias would likely begin on June 17 (reftel),the militias continue to refuse to begin even the firs [...]
2006-06-19 15:59:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV KPKO PREL IV
06ABIDJAN686COTRE D'IVOIRE: EIGHTH MEETING OF THE
[...] (C) Summary. At the eighth meeting of the International Working Group (IWG),Prime Minister Banny gave a long, evasive presentation seeking to reassure the group that he is determined to succeed in bringing the country to elections, while IWG members tried to pin him down on why so little pro [...]
2006-06-28 15:23:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KPKO IV
06ABIDJAN688OPPOSITION DEPUTIES RETURN TO NATIONAL ASSEMBLY
[...] (C) Summary. Opposition deputies agreed to return to the National Assembly on June 23 in order to receive salaries that had been withheld for three months by the FPI president of the Assembly. The denouement of what should have been a relatively minor affair is a victory for President Gbagbo [...]
2006-06-29 13:27:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL IV
06ABIDJAN691UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS END STRIKE, SECONDARY
[...] (SBU) Summary. Close on the heels of his success in resolving the impasse over the return of opposition deputies to the National Assembly (reftel),President Gbagbo reinforced his standing as a decisive leader by persuading striking university professors (reftels) to return to work. Secondar [...]
2006-06-29 17:52:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALELAB PGOV IV
06ABIDJAN694COTE D'IVOIRE: PRIME MINISTER,S PEACE TRAIN STUCK
[...] (C) Summary. Prime Minister Banny's peace train is stuck for the moment at the disarmament station. The Armed Forces of Cote d'Ivoire (FANCI) say they have completed the initial, pre-regroupment phase of the disarmament, where combatants are assembled at designated sites under their own comma [...]
2006-06-30 11:29:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KPKO EFIN IV
06ABIDJAN713NEW FORCES PREVENTED FROM MEETING PRESIDENT
[...] (U) On July 4, a delegation of New Forces (NF) soldiers led by Chief-of-Staff General Soumailo Bakayoko was refused entry to the Prime Minister's office (Primature) prior to a scheduled meeting with President Gbagbo. Gbagbo wrote the NF last week, inviting the NF military (FAFN) to meet with h [...]
2006-07-05 17:33:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALASEC PGOV PREL KPKO IV
06ABIDJAN718COTE D'IVOIRE: UN SECRETARY GENERAL CHAIRS
[...] (C) Summary. UNSYG Annan chaired a mini-summit on Cote d'Ivoire in which participants set several deadlines to accelerate key elements of the peace process, including identification, DDR, and organization of elections. There was no discussion of possible scenarios if presidential elections [...]
2006-07-06 18:16:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KPKO ASEC IV
06ABIDJAN723UNHCR CLOSES TABOU TRANSIT CENTER
[...] SUMMARY: RefCoord traveled to Tabou, Cote d'Ivoire, on June 27-30 to meet with UNHCR officials regarding their repatriation efforts and the pending closure of the Tabou Transit Center (TC). RefCoord also traveled to several surrounding villages and met with refugee representatives. Although [...]
2006-07-07 12:49:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PHUM PREL IV
06ABIDJAN731PRIME MINISTER ON PLANS FOR REGISTRATION OF
[...] (C) Summary. Prime Minister Banny, accompanied by his Justice Minister, convoked ECOWAS ambassadors and several members of the International Working Group (IWG) to Yamoussoukro on July 9 for a hastily-scheduled meeting on his government's plans to launch a program, scheduled to begin on July [...]
2006-07-11 07:44:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KPKO IV
06ABIDJAN758LATEST ON CORA DE COMSTAR U.S. BUSINESS DISPUTE
[...] (SBU) The Ivoirian Telecommunications Agency (ATCI) announced last week that it had revoked Cora de Comstar's cell phone license because of non-use of the license by Cora. The unexpected decision follows the signing of a draft, non-binding agreement in February 2006 between Western Wireless an [...]
2006-07-14 16:32:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD IV EINV
06ABIDJAN759COTE D'IVOIRE: IDENTIFICATION PROCESS OFF TO A
[...] (C) Summary: The launching of itinerant courts to document the approximately four million unregistered people in Cote d'Ivoire has gotten off to a shaky start. On top of administrative problems, the leader of President Gbagbo's Ivoirian Popular Front (FPI) party has called upon Gbagbo's fo [...]
2006-07-14 16:53:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV ASEC IV
06ABIDJAN760COTE D'IVOIRE: THE EFFECTIVENESS OF UN EFFORTS TO
[...] (U) Sylvain Roy, Chief Conduct and Discipline Officer at the UN Operation in Cote D'Ivoire (ONUCI),briefed us July 12 on ONUCI's efforts to combat sexual abuse and exploitation (SEA). He explained that the Conduct and Discipline Team (CDT) is a newly formed unit; he himself arrived in Decembe [...]
2006-07-14 17:21:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPREL KPKO IV
06ABIDJAN771COTE D'IVOIRE: TEACHERS RESUME STRIKE
[...] (SBU) Primary and secondary school teachers, who suspended their strike June 20 after meeting with President Gbagbo (ref A),are threatening to resume the strike July 18. The teachers said at the time that their demands had not been met but that they would suspend the strike to allow for furth [...]
2006-07-18 13:09:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV ELAB ASEC KPKO IV
06ABIDJAN778COTE D'IVOIRE: PRO-GBAGBO MILITIAS CONTINUE TO
[...] (C) The local press July 18 was full of reports of incidents throughout the government-controlled areas of the country where pro-Gbagbo Young Patriots militias successfully blocked the "audiences foraines" -- itinerant courts -- from going forward with the identification process (reftel),inc [...]
2006-07-18 16:06:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV ASEC IV
06ABIDJAN779COTE D'IVOIRE: GOVERNMENT MISSES DEADLINE TO CLEAR
[...] (U) Cote d'Ivoire missed a July 17 deadline to clear its arrears with the World Bank in time for the Bank to approve its USD 100 million contribution to the funding for Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR) at its July 27 Board meeting. 2. (C) Cote d'Ivoire's arrears with the [...]
2006-07-18 16:14:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON IBRD KPKO ASEC IV
06ABIDJAN782COTE D'IVOIRE: SITUATION REPORT: YOUNG PATRIOTS
[...] (C) Beginning early this morning at about 0600 local, Young Patriot militias erected a series of roadblocks at main road and intersections throughout Abidjan to protest the mobile identification teams launched by Prime Minister Banny. The roadblocks, which increased in size and number throu [...]
2006-07-19 14:54:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV ASEC CASC IV
06ABIDJAN783COTE D,IVOIRE SITUATION REPORT - 1700 GMT JULY 19,
[...] (SBU) As of late afternoon, roadblocks in the Abidjan districts of Riviera (where Embassy is located),Cocody, and Deux Plateaux, where most Embassy personnel reside, have been dismantled or shut down. The airport remains open and we understand that Air France is flying tonight. An Embassy v [...]
2006-07-19 17:00:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ASEC IV
06ABIDJAN788COTE D'IVOIRE: NINTH INTERNATIONAL WORKING GROUP
[...] (C) Summary. The International Working Group (IWG) held a largely uneventful ninth meeting July 20. The Prime Minister sought to reassure the group that his peace train is on track and moving forward, but once again he was long on promises and short on specifics. The communique from this m [...]
2006-07-21 15:35:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KPKO ASEC IV
06ABIDJAN789COTE D'IVOIRE: TEACHERS' STRIKE WIDELY IGNORED
[...] (SBU) The strike by elementary and secondary school teachers that was supposed to resume on July 18 (ref A) was widely ignored. While Mamadou Soro, the leader of the teacher,s group calling for the strike, was quoted in the newspapers as saying over 70 percent of teachers boycotted, all othe [...]
2006-07-21 16:07:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALELAB PREL KPKO IV
06ABIDJAN804SEVERAL PEOPLE KILLED IN CLASHES OVER ID PROCESS
[...] (SBU) Summary. Several people were killed and more than twenty injured over the weekend in Divo during violent confrontations at protests aimed at blocking the "audiences foraines" -- itinerant hearings -- from going forward with the identification process. Opposition party leaders are enco [...]
2006-07-24 16:24:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV ASEC PREL KPKO IV
06ABIDJAN810PRIME MINISTER BANNY ATTEMPTS TO ADDRESS CONCERNS
[...] (C) Summary. The Prime Minister spoke to the nation last night on the mobile identification process, addressing concerns raised by the President's FPI party and its supporters intent on disrupting the process. The PM made clear that the mobile teams are essential to the peace process and the [...]
2006-07-25 15:38:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV ASEC PREL KPKO IV
06ABIDJAN812COTE D'IVOIRE: BANK EMPLOYEES REPORTEDLY POSTPONE
[...] (C) On July 25, leaders of the union representing all bank employees in Cote d'Ivoire told us they had postponed a three-day strike that the union had threatened to start on July 26. This decision was reportedly made after the banking sector employers' association offered fresh talks. Union [...]
2006-07-25 16:09:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALELAB EFIN PGOV ASEC KPKO IV
06ABIDJAN819CORA INVESTMENT DISPUTE NEAR RESOLUTION?
[...] (SBU) Summary. A joint delegation of representatives of Cora shareholders and the Ivoirian government expressed strong optimism to the Ambassador July 26 that the Cora dispute is very close to a final resolution. They will meet with the Prime Minister about this July 27. The Ambassador welc [...]
2006-07-26 15:51:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV ETRD PREL IV
06ABIDJAN820PRIME MINISTER: HELP KEEP PRESIDENT GBAGBO ON
[...] (C) On July 25 Prime Minister Banny asked the Ambassador to use his influence to help keep President Gbagbo in the political process, especially on the issue of identification of citizens. The PM asserted that he never takes a decision without consulting with President Gbagbo and getting Gba [...]
2006-07-26 16:23:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALIV PGOV PREL
06ABIDJAN832UN CLOSELY FOLLOWING IDENTIFICATION PROCESS
[...] (C) Summary. The United Nations is monitoring the progress of the registration of undocumented Ivoirians, in preparation for elections, and gave a briefing for embassies and international organizations July 25. Reportedly, almost all of the teams sent into rebel-held areas in the north are o [...]
2006-07-27 17:00:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ASEC KPKO IV
06ABIDJAN837FPI WANTS CONSULTATIONS, NOT CONFRONTATION
[...] (C) Senior members of President Gbagbo's FPI party have met twice with the Ambassador in the past week to discuss the issue of identification. They emphasized that they want to resolve their differences with Prime Minister Banny through consultations, not confrontation in the streets. They [...]
2006-07-28 15:11:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALIV PGOV
06ABIDJAN838NEW UNHCR REPRESENTATIVE TAKES UP DUTIES IN COTE
[...] (C) Summary: Saber Azam, UNHCR's new Representative to Cote d'Ivoire, met with Ambassador Hooks on July 21. Azam stated his main objective will be to complete the Liberian repatriation process by June 2007. Ambassador Hooks affirmed U.S. support for the humanitarian community in Cote d'Ivo [...]
2006-07-28 15:21:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALREF PHUM PREL IV
06ABIDJAN839MODEST START TO DISARMAMENT OF WESTERN MILITIAS;
[...] (U) On July 26, the disarmament/dismantling of ex-combatant, pro-Gbagbo militias got underway in the western town of Guiglo in the presence of Prime Minister Banny, DDR Commission (PNDDR) chief Ouassenan Kone, and UN officials. Approximately 150 militias reported to the demobilization site to [...]
2006-07-28 17:02:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ASEC KPKO IV
06ABIDJAN854COTE D'IVOIRE: SECURITY AND MILITIA FORCES WAGE
[...] (U) On the morning of Monday, July 31, national security forces of the Command Center for Security Operations (CECOS) fought a battle with members of the armed, pro-Gbagbo Patriotic Group for Peace (GPP) and Young Patriots militia in the busy downtown district of Plateau in Abidjan, after the [...]
2006-08-01 17:31:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALASEC PGOV ELAB EFIN IV
06ABIDJAN857WESTERN MILITIAS DISARMAMENT UPDATE
[...] No summary [...]
2006-08-01 18:59:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KPKO ASEC IV
06ABIDJAN86COTE D'IVOIRE: ONE WEEK LATER
[...] (C) SUMMARY. One week after protesters and the Young Patriots took over the streets of Abidjan, the city has ostensibly returned to normal. President Gbagbo's Ivoirian Popular Front (FPI) party has withdrawn its threat to quit the government, businesses are open again, and the city almost f [...]
2006-01-26 14:48:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON IV
06ABIDJAN874COTE D'IVOIRE: UN BRIEFS AGAIN ON IDENTIFICATION
[...] (C) Summary: The UN Operation in Cote d'Ivoire (ONUCI) reports that in the first two weeks of the current identification operation, there were just over 35,000 applications for registration in one form or another, from the estimated four million undocumented Ivoirians and foreigners born her [...]
2006-08-03 16:47:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ASEC KPKO IV
06ABIDJAN876COTE D'IVOIRE: PARTIAL DISMANTLEMENT OF MILITIAS
[...] (C) Summary. The dismantling of pro-Gbagbo militias in western Cote d'Ivoire continues to experience problems. It appears that only a fraction of the militia members are included in this program, and very little real disarmament has yet taken place. End Summary. 2. (C) The dismantling of [...]
2006-08-04 11:25:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV KPKO ASEC IV
06ABIDJAN883COTE D'IVOIRE: AVIAN INFLUENZA IN SAN PEDRO
[...] On June 10, five chickens and a wild bird were discovered dead in an industrial rubber plantation near the port city of San Pedro, 500 km southwest of Abidjan. According to a July 20 report published by the Ministry of Animal Husbandry, the specimens tested on June 28 by the National Agricult [...]
2006-08-07 15:06:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDTBIO EAGR EMED IV
06ABIDJAN885COTE D'IVOIRE: UN SUSPENDS DISMANTLEMENT OF
[...] (C) Summary: The UN confirms reports that it has halted the dismantlement of militias in Guiglo over the weekend. A UN official told us that tension in Guiglo remained high as some 1000 militia members from other towns continued their protests over the weekend. Although officially the UN cl [...]
2006-08-08 18:19:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV KPKO ASEC IV
06ABIDJAN903COTE D'IVOIRE: GBAGBO REINS IN IDENTIFICATION
[...] (C) Summary. President Gbagbo has declared that the mobile courts carrying out the identification process can only issue birth certificates, not a second category of identification document that provisionally establishes Ivoirian nationality. In reaction, the rebel New Forces suspended their [...]
2006-08-10 12:36:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV KPKO ASEC IV
06ABIDJAN906HOPE SPRINGS ETERNAL FOR LIBERIAN REFUGEES IN
[...] (U) Summary: Abidjan-based Refugee Coordinator (RefCoord) visited Guiglo from August 1-3 to meet with UNHCR field representatives and visit the Nicla Refugee Camp for Liberian refugees. There are approximately 10,500 Liberian refugees in the northern Refugee Welcome Zone (ZAR),of which 5,987 [...]
2006-08-11 15:16:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPREF PHUM PREL IV
06ABIDJAN911COTE D'IVOIRE: TENSIONS CONTINUE WITHIN MARITIME
[...] (U) On August 8, Maritime Police officers announced in a press conference that on August 4 Minister of Transport Anaky Kobenan (leader of the MFA, an opposition party) had issued the payment of bonus arrears in the amount of USD 234,000 (CFAF 117 million) and suspended Director General for M [...]
2006-08-11 18:55:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ASEC ELAB EFIN
06ABIDJAN926COTE D'IVOIRE: PEACE TRAIN SLOWS TO A CRAWL
[...] (C) The Cote d'Ivoire peace train has slowed to a barely perceptible crawl. Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration (DDR),dismantling of militias, and identification of Ivoirian nationals are supposed to be proceeding concomitantly but instead they are bogging down concomitantly. DDR [...]
2006-08-18 10:40:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KPKO ASEC IV
06ABIDJAN927COTE D'IVOIRE: TEACHERS WITHHOLD EXAM
[...] (U) As of August 18, public secondary school teachers in the government-controlled zone are refusing to release results from the baccalaureate exam (required for entry to university) until they are paid for grading them. (Note: Exams in the rebel-controlled zone are scheduled to start Augus [...]
2006-08-18 17:04:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB PGOV IV
06ABIDJAN928COTE D'IVOIRE: NEW FORCES AND POLITICAL
[...] (U) On August 17, leaders of the political opposition and the rebel New Forces (FN) met in Daoukro (home of ex-president Bedie) to consult on the current political situation. All the major party leaders were present: ex-president Henri Konan Bedie, leader of the PDCI (Democratic Party of Cot [...]
2006-08-18 17:09:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KPKO ASEC IV
06ABIDJAN947COTE D'IVOIRE: GETTING THE PEACE PROCESS BACK ON
[...] (C) Summary. What can the United States do to try to break the current gridlock in the Cote d'Ivoire peace process? We suggest that the United States consult with France and the UK and together with those governments jointly approach the African Union (AU) to urge that African leaders re-en [...]
2006-08-24 10:48:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPREL KPKO PGOV ASEC IV
06ABIDJAN955COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR MS. CILIA DE COCK
[...] Post warmly welcomes the visit of Ms. Cilia De Cock and grants country clearance for travel to Abidjan from AUGUST 29, 2006 TO SEPTEMBER 02, 2006. 2. The purpose of the trip is to visit cashew processors in the southern parts of Cote d'Ivoire (OLAM in Dimbokro) and to participate in the Ca [...]
2006-08-25 09:14:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDIV
06ABIDJAN963COTE D'IVOIRE: INTERNATIONAL WORKING GROUP MEETING
[...] (U) The next meeting of the International Working Group (IWG) has been postponed from September 1 to September 8. In his letter notifying IWG members of the change, Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) Pierre Schori explained that it was made at the request of Prime Minster [...]
2006-08-25 15:51:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KPKO ASEC IV
06ABIDJAN964COTE D'IVOIRE: EXAM RESULTS ANNOUNCED, STRIKING
[...] On August 22, 2006, the Ministry of Education announced the results of the baccalaureate exam (required for entry from secondary school to university) held July 25-28 in the government-controlled zones. Out of 119,256 students who took the exam, 48,168 students passed. The Ministry was only [...]
2006-08-25 16:13:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDELAB PGOV IV
06ABIDJAN991COTE D'IVOIRE: UPCOMING SUMMITS IN YAMOUSSOUKRO
[...] (C) Summary. So far President Gbagbo is saying he will not attend the Secretary General's September 20 mini-summit on Cote d'Ivoire in New York, but he might change his mind under pressure from the Secretary General and his African counterparts. Prime Minister Banny and all the opposition le [...]
2006-09-01 16:50:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPREL KPKO PGOV ASEC IV
06ABIDJAN992COTE D'IVOIRE: INTERIOR MINISTER REFUSES BRIBE,
[...] (U) On Thursday August 24, General Adolphe Babi, the Ivorian Police Inspector General, announced at a press conference the arrest of Sergeant Zie Guillaume, who was charged with offering a bribe of approximately USD 226,000 (CFAF 113 million) to the Interior Minister in exchange for acceptin [...]
2006-09-01 16:59:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL IV
06ABIDJAN997COTE D'IVOIRE: GOVERNMENT RESIGNS OVER ILLEGAL
[...] (U) On September 6, Prime Minister Banny publicly submitted the resignation of his government and President Gbagbo publicly accepted it. Banny said that he felt obliged to resign because of mounting public anger over the illegal dumping of toxic wastes at several sites around Abidjan. The was [...]
2006-09-07 12:20:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SENV IV
07ABIDJAN1003 COTE D IVOIRE FINES STRIKING PHYSICIANS
[...] (U) The Government of Cote d Ivoire decided on September 20 to suspend the September salary of the leaders of the union representing physicians, the Syndicat National des Cadres Superieurs de la Santede Cote d Ivoire (SYNACASS-CI),which organized a strike by public sector physicians September [...]
2007-09-27 15:04:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ELAB PGOV IV
07ABIDJAN1006COTE D'IVOIRE: COMPAORE'S SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE
[...] (C) Summary. Boureima Badini, Special Representative of Ouagadougou Political Accord (OPA) Facilitator Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaore, told Charge on September 27 that both President Gbagbo and Prime Minister Soro are committed to OPA implementation, but that there is a lack of trust [...]
2007-09-28 15:07:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL IV UV
07ABIDJAN1011ABIDJAN: AMBASSADOR'S ARRIVAL AT POST
[...] No summary [...]
2007-10-02 12:59:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT APER OTRA CI
07ABIDJAN10172006 COTE D IVOIRE TEXTILE STATISTICS, ANALYSIS
[...] (U) Cote d Ivoire - 2005 statistics on textile sector, as of 2005 (the last year for which detailed statistics are available): -- Total industrial production was USD 3.4 billion for 2005. -- Textile and apparel's share in overall industrial production is 5.77 percent -- Textile and apparel' [...]
2007-10-03 16:55:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD KTEX IV
07ABIDJAN1018COTE D IVOIRE 2007 AGOA ELIGIBILITY RECOMMENDATION
[...] Below is the text of Post's Eligibility Recommendation Input as emailed to EEB Janet Potash and USTR Connie Hamilton October 2nd: Country: COTE D'IVOIRE Current AGOA Status: Ineligible, Benefits Withdrawn January 1, 2005 Country Background Summary: Cote d'Ivoire's economy has struggled [...]
2007-10-03 16:57:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD XA IV
07ABIDJAN1019COTE D'IVOIRE: PM SPOKESMAN OPTIMISTIC, BUT
[...] (C) Summary. Alain Lobognon, Spokesman for the Prime Minister, told Emboffs on October 2 that Interior Minister Desire Tagro is trying to stall the "audiences foraines" (tribunals that will issue birth certificates to those who never had them) process. According to Lobognon, the delay in the [...]
2007-10-03 17:24:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UN IV
07ABIDJAN1033COTE D'IVOIRE: UN INVESTIGATION INTO ATTACK ON PM
[...] (C) SUMMARY. A four-member UN team is visiting Cote d,Ivoire in response to President Gbagbo,s request to the Secretary General for an independent investigation into the SIPDIS June 29 attack on Prime Minister Soro,s plane in Bouake. The team, headed by Terseli Loial, is spending a week in [...]
2007-10-05 17:50:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV UN IV
07ABIDJAN1036IFIS, DONORS DISCUSS FISCAL GOVERNANCE AND
[...] (C) Summary. International Financial Institutions (IFIs) staff convened top bilateral donors September 28 to discuss their negotiations with the Government of Cote d'Ivoire (GOCI) on fiscal controls and next steps. Cote d'Ivoire is staying current with the July 2007 arrears financing packa [...]
2007-10-07 10:27:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALEFIN IMF ECON PGOV PREL EMIN EAGR ENRG EPET
07ABIDJAN1042"L'AFFAIRE FULTON" - THE UPSTATE NY CHOCOLATE
[...] (C) Summary. A September 18 letter to World Bank President Zoellick alleging President Gbagbo and a quasi-governmental cocoa regulatory body have manipulated the purchase of a Fulton, New York chocolate factory for fraudulent purposes has generated substantial interest locally (reftel a). T [...]
2007-10-11 07:51:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALECON IBRD IMF EFIN EINV EAGR PGOV IV
07ABIDJAN108AU CHARTER ON DEMOCRACY, ELECTIONS AND GOVERNANCE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-01-30 10:43:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDKDEM PREL IV
07ABIDJAN1080OPA LIMPING ALONG
[...] (C) Summary. United Nations Operation in Cote d'Ivoire (UNOCI) officials told TDY State/INR analyst and Pol/Econ Chief that, while Ivorians support the Ouagadougou Political Accord (OPA),their optimism could wane if they do not begin to see concrete steps on its implementation. However, ther [...]
2007-10-24 14:03:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALMARR PGOV IV
07ABIDJAN1084COTE D'IVOIRE ROLLS OUT PRELIMINARY COCOA-CHILD
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Prime Minister's interministerial taskforce rolled out preliminary results of its industry-funded survey of child labor in the cocoa sector on Oct. 12. It found that 22 percent of children in the region are involved in cocoa production, and a majority of them are involved [...]
2007-10-24 14:34:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDECON EAGR PREL PGOV EAID ELAB EIND IV
07ABIDJAN1094THE COUNTERFEIT DOLLAR AFFAIR - GBAGBO ENTOURAGE
[...] (C) Summary. On October 11, police and prosecutors made public allegations that a counterfeit US dollar ring had been broken up in Abidjan. Three high-level officials close to the President were implicated by the accused owner of the premises in which the evidence had been found. The next [...]
2007-10-26 07:49:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALECON PGOV PREL KCRM IV
07ABIDJAN1110COTE D' IVOIRE SCENESETTER FOR D VISIT
[...] (C) Embassy Abidjan warmly welcomes your visit to Cote d,Ivoire. You will be the highest ranking USG official to visit Abidjan since 2005 when AF Assistant Secretary Connie Newman visited to discuss the peace process. We believe your visit will be viewed as a sign of increased USG interest i [...]
2007-10-31 18:11:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL IV
07ABIDJAN1111TERRORISM FINANCE: GOVERNMENT OF COTE D'IVOIRE
[...] (SBU) On October 25, Embassy Abidjan notified the government of Cote d'Ivoire that three Saudi individuals have been added to the UNSC 1267 Santions List (reftel) by diplomatic note. NESBITT [...]
2007-11-02 07:07:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PREL SA IV
07ABIDJAN1112COTE D'IVOIRE DEMARCHED ON GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO
[...] No summary [...]
2007-11-02 07:07:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER KNNP MCAP PINR PINS PARM PREL IV
07ABIDJAN1113TERRORISM FINANCE: GOVERNMENT OF COTE D'IVOIRE
[...] (SBU) Embassy Abidjan received a diplomatic note from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs dated October 24 acknowledging receipt of Embassy Abidjan's diplomatic note of September 5 conveying the USG's decision to name the Al-Salah Society as a supporter of terrorism (reftel). The Ivorian diplom [...]
2007-11-02 07:08:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKTFN EFIN PREL PTER IV
07ABIDJAN1116COTE D'IVOIRE DEMARCHED ON GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO
[...] No summary [...]
2007-11-02 15:56:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER KNNP MCAP PINR PINS PARM PREL IV
07ABIDJAN1132EMBASSY ABIDJAN DELIVERS POINTS ON FAFT STATEMENT
[...] (SBU) Emboff delivered translated talking points drawn from reftel para three to the MFA's Office of United Nations and International Organizations Affairs on November 8. MFA had no comments, but post will report any follow-on substantive host government reactions. NESBITT [...]
2007-11-08 18:48:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM PREL MNUC ECON IV
07ABIDJAN1133COTE D'IVOIRE DECLINES TO TAKE 2007 U.S. SUGAR
[...] (U) Citing a temporary deficit associated with the political crisis affecting the country since 2002, the Ivorian Association of Sugar Industries informed Embassy Abidjan on October 19 that Cote d'Ivoire will be unable to guarantee sugar deliveries to the U.S. under the quota allocated by th [...]
2007-11-09 07:27:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ETRD ECON IV
07ABIDJAN1135COTE D'IVOIRE: PM'S OFFICE TOUTS OPA PROGRESS AND
[...] (U) Summary. The Prime Minister's spokesman, Meite Sindou, held a press conference November 6 to discuss the status of government efforts to move beyond the current crisis. The most interesting new bits of information he gave: the PM and the President make joint decisions; the President will m [...]
2007-11-09 11:01:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV IV
07ABIDJAN114COTE D'IVOIRE APPARENTLY SPENT WORLD BANK ARREARS
[...] (C) World Bank Chief of Mission Peter N'Gomba and Senior Economist Richard Donffonso told EconChief January 26 that an ongoing IMF audit of Ivorian governmental finances is pointing strongly to the conclusion that Cote d'Ivoire has spent the USD 160 million it had borrowed to cover part of it [...]
2007-01-31 11:12:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN PGOV PREL IV
07ABIDJAN1157DEPUTY SECRETARY NEGROPONTE'S TRIP TO COTE D'IVOIRE
[...] ( C ) Summary: The Deputy Secretary and AF Assistant Secretary Jendayi Frazer were well-received by government and SIPDIS opposition leaders as well as UN officials during their November 10-11 visit to Abidjan. In all of his meetings, the Deputy explained that the purpose of his visit was t [...]
2007-11-16 16:09:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL OVIP IV
07ABIDJAN1176DOES LACK OF DONOR ASSISTANCE EXPLAIN SLOW
[...] (C) Summary: During a number of recent public events, President Gbagbo and Prime Minister Soro have blamed slow implementation of the Ougadougou Peace Agrement (OPA) on a lack of international donor assistance. The Prime Minister and President both made this assertion in meetings with the [...]
2007-11-26 16:12:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALEFIN EAID PGOV PREL IBRD IMF IV
07ABIDJAN1180COTE D'IVOIRE ADOPTS PLAN AGAINST CHILD
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Government of Cote d'Ivoire has adopted a National Plan of Action Against Child Trafficking and Labor that will run from September 2007 through December 2009. The plan's overall objectives are: to adopt laws specifically prohibiting these practices, to determine the scope of [...]
2007-11-27 16:22:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB PGOV SMIG SOCI IV
07ABIDJAN1181AUDIENCES FORAINES PROCEEDING CLUMSILY, BUT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The audiences foraines process is proceeding clumsily but without violence. Less than a quarter of the planned tribunals have been deployed since the process was launched on September 25 and public awareness remains low. Political parties are closely monitoring the proceedings [...]
2007-11-27 17:43:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UN IV
07ABIDJAN1183PARTIES HAMMERING OUT CODE OF CONDUCT FOR ELECTIONS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Political parties participated in a forum November 13-14 during which they finalized the language on a code of conduct for elections. The text calls upon signatories to take steps to ensure democratic, free, open and transparent elections. Ruling FPI party leaders declined to [...]
2007-11-28 09:51:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UN IV
07ABIDJAN1186DEMARCHE ON ELECTION FOR THE COMMITTEE ON THE
[...] (SBU) Ministry of Foreign Affairs United Nations and International Organizations Deputy Director Etienne Kindia told Pol/Econ Chief November 28 that he foresees no reason why Cote d'Ivoire will not be able to support the reelection of Pierre-Richard Prosper to the United Nations Committee on [...]
2007-11-28 17:13:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PHUM UNGA IV
07ABIDJAN1187COTE D'IVOIRE: OPA IMPLEMENTATION AT CRITICAL STAGE
[...] (C) Summary. Modalities to carry out the identification process were the main subject of the November 18-22 meeting of the OPA Evaluation and Monitoring Committee (CEA). The parties' positions were so irreconcilable that Interior Minister Tagro reportedly abandoned the meeting along with his d [...]
2007-11-28 18:46:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM IV
07ABIDJAN12COTE D'IVOIRE: EDUCATION IN THE FN-HELD NORTH
[...] (U) Summary: The efforts to administer the New Forces (NF)-held north by the Ministry of Education are viewed by the FN and academics in the region with suspicion bordering on contempt. EconOfficers visited Bouake and Korhogo, and found that the ongoing public primary school teacher's strike [...]
2007-01-05 15:53:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALECON ELAB IV PGOV KISL USAID
07ABIDJAN120COTE D'IVOIRE: PARAMEDICS END DEBILITATING STRIKE
[...] (U) Cote d'Ivoire's "paramedics" (public health workers excluding doctors, who have pursued their own pay grievances independently) ended a 3-week old strike on January 29, following government commitments to give them two thirds of the pay increase they were demanding. This agreement, incre [...]
2007-02-01 11:51:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDELAB ECON PGOV IV
07ABIDJAN1208GROWTH OF RESOURCE NATIONALISM - COTE D'IVOIRE
[...] Summary. Because of its lucrative potential, Cote d'Ivoire's oil and gas sector is vulnerable to resource nationalism and signs of the government's willingess to abuse its position are evident. U.S. firm Devon Energy reports the parastatal PETROCI has attempted to strong-arm it into selling [...]
2007-12-07 15:06:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALEPET EINV ECON PGOV IMF IV
07ABIDJAN1209COTE D'IVOIRE: GOVERNMENT MEETING 2007 BUDGET
[...] (C) Summary. A Joint International Monetary Fund, World Bank and African Development Bank team briefed the donor community on its initial findings on November 26. The assessment team was broadly complimentary of the government's efforts to remain within budget targets and to adopt more tra [...]
2007-12-07 17:55:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON EAID PREL PGOV IMF IBRD IV
07ABIDJAN1219COTE D'IVOIRE'S UPDATE ON THE WORST FORMS OF CHILD
[...] (U) Per reftel instructions, Post submits the following updated information on the elimination of the worst forms of child labor (WFCL) in Cote d'Ivoire. POC for this report is Economic Chief Ervin Massinga. A) Laws and Regulations Proscribing the Worst Forms of Child Labor --------- 2 [...]
2007-12-12 12:41:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI IV
07ABIDJAN1227SCENESETTER FOR HARKIN CODEL JANUARY 7-9 VISIT TO
[...] (SBU) Embassy Abidjan warmly welcomes your visit to Cote d'Ivoire. Yours will be the second recent visit of high-level U.S. government officials, following the November visit of Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte. We believe your visit will be viewed as a sign of increased USG intere [...]
2007-12-14 17:49:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAGR PREL PGOV EAID ELAB EIND IV
07ABIDJAN1236PRESIDENT GBAGBO VISITS NEW FORCES STRONGHOLD;
[...] (SBU) Summary: From November 28-30, President Gbagbo visited the north of Cote d'Ivoire for the first time since becoming head of state. Press reports were favorable and key Gbagbo aides noted that large crowds welcomed the President. The visit demonstrated that the general public is anxious f [...]
2007-12-18 16:44:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EAID ECON UN IV
07ABIDJAN1238SCENESETTER FOR HARKIN CODEL JANUARY 7-9 VISIT TO
[...] (SBU) Embassy Abidjan warmly welcomes your visit. Yours will be the first visit by a Congressional delegation to Cote d'Ivoire in many years. Senator Harkin and Representative Engle's roles in developing and implementing the international public/private accord (the "Harkin-Engle Protocol" [...]
2007-12-18 18:02:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAGR PREL PGOV EAID ELAB EIND IV
07ABIDJAN1241SPECIAL REP BADINI OPTIMISTIC ABOUT OPA; FOCUS
[...] (C) Summary: Ambassador discussed recent developments with the Ouagadougou Political Accord with the Facilitator,s special representative, Boureima Badini, on December 14. Badini confirmed that the complementary accords were meant to keep pressure on the parties, but said he was satisfied tha [...]
2007-12-20 07:19:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EAID MARR IV
07ABIDJAN1245OPPOSITION LEADER OUATTARA STILL DOUBTS GBAGBO'S COMMITMENT TO
[...] (C) Summary: In a December 20, conversation with Ambassador, RDR par leader Ouattara expressed concern about ongoing delays in the deploymen audiences foraines teams, the lack of precision about the identificatio process and the role of technical operator SAGEM. The RDR will be prepa a presiden [...]
2007-12-21 16:53:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM EAID IV
07ABIDJAN1265EFFORTS TO COMBAT WEST AFRICAN DRUG TRAFFICKING
[...] (SBU) The Government of Cote d'Ivoire has the will to combat drug trafficking, but lacks the capacity. Also, as it concentrates on steering the country out of its five-year political crisis, its attention is focused on other priorities. The Inter-ministerial Committee to Combat Drug Traffick [...]
2007-12-31 16:33:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNEAID KCRM PREL SOCI SNAR IV
07ABIDJAN128COTE D'IVOIRE: PEACE EFFORTS CONTINUE BUT REAL
[...] (C) Summary. Peace efforts here continue but it is far from clear whether they will bear fruit. Burkina Faso President Compaore, as new Chairman of ECOWAS, has moved quickly to take on a central mediating role in the upcoming direct dialogue between President Gbagbo and rebel New Forces (FN) [...]
2007-02-05 15:13:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ASEC IV
07ABIDJAN135COTE D'IVOIRE'S BANKING SECTOR
[...] (SBU) Summary: The performance of Cote d'Ivoire's banking system in the government-controlled south has stabilized since the beginning of the political crisis in 2002. Profitability is relatively strong and the total asset base has recently grown modestly. However, these results mask a tr [...]
2007-02-06 13:17:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ETRD IV
07ABIDJAN14COTE D'IVOIRE 2007 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT
[...] Summary: Cote d,Ivoire,s economy is projected to increase by 2 percent in 2007, slightly higher than 1.8 percent in 2006. The main contributors of the growth are higher export earnings from oil and refined products, cocoa revenues and proceeds from the telecommunications sector. Despite the [...]
2007-01-05 16:39:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDOPIC USTR KTDB ECON ETRD
07ABIDJAN141COTE D'IVOIRE'S DIRECT DIALOGUE UNFOLDS;
[...] Summary. Direct talks between the President's representatives and their New Forces counterparts kicked off in Ouagadougou on February 5. No substantive negotiations were held, but despite this, participants and observers were upbeat. Apparently an agenda for the much-anticipated direct Gba [...]
2007-02-07 14:41:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALIV PGOV PREL
07ABIDJAN147ABIDJAN'S STRUGGLE TO CONTROL GARBAGE SITUATION
[...] (U) After more than four weeks, on January 25th, Prime Minister Banny brokered an agreement with community groups located near Abidjan's municipal dump at Akouedo, permitting the resumption of discharge of the city's waste stream. Prior to this breakthrough, the city had become increasingly f [...]
2007-02-08 13:12:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ENIV PREL IV
07ABIDJAN162DIRECT DIALOGUE WRESTLING WITH IDENTIFICATION ISSUE
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Following last week's widely publicized kick off of direct talks between the President's representatives and their New Forces (FN) counterparts, this week the cracks are beginning to surface as the talks wrestle with the issue of identification. Although there have been some press [...]
2007-02-14 16:56:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UN ASEC IV
07ABIDJAN168COTE D'IVOIRE: GBAGBO PROMISES TO INTEGRATE
[...] (C) In a controversial but not entirely unexpected move, President Gbagbo announced February 13 that the 4000 "New Recruits" would be hired into the military. This move came after on February 1-2, New Recruits fired automatic weapons in the air in several towns in government-held territory to [...]
2007-02-15 11:31:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV ASEC PREL IV
07ABIDJAN169COTE D'IVOIRE'S GOVERNMENT ON PALESTINIAN NATIONAL
[...] (C) EmbOff spoke to Ambassador Boutchoue, Director of the Office of International Organizations and United Nations, as well as a frequent Embassy interlocutor on a wide range of international relations concerns regarding points in reftel. Although he expressed some uncertainty as to whether th [...]
2007-02-16 09:54:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALKISL KPAL KWBG PREL IV
07ABIDJAN174COTE D'IVOIRE: POSTAL WORKERS ON STRIKE
[...] (U) Workers from the Ivorian state postal company &Poste de Cote d,Ivoire8 led by the main union, the National Post and Telecommunications Union (SYNAPOSTEL) went on strike on February 9 in opposition to a court ruling reinstating the former Director General Sebastien ZEHI, who had been sacked [...]
2007-02-16 15:25:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALELAB PGOV ECON ASEC IV
07ABIDJAN175COTE D'IVOIRE MINISTRY OF FINANCE DISCUSSES
[...] EconOff spoke with the Ministry of Finance's Director of Cabinet Ahoutou about points raised in reftel. Ahoutou said the government of Cote d'Ivoire takes the matter seriously, and government agencies charged with enforcing limits on international cash transfers are well trained and vigilant. [...]
2007-02-16 15:54:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDKTFN EFIN ETTC PREL PTER
07ABIDJAN187TFGV01: UNHCR CONFIRMS REFUGEES IN GUINEA CAMPS
[...] (SBU) Prior to the current crisis in Guinea, UNHCR had predicted that large-scale population displacements would not result from civil disturbances in Guinea. However, the dynamics of the crisis have UNHCR officials on edge and they remain vigilant should the situation change. UNHCR offices [...]
2007-02-21 17:05:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPREF PHUM PREL USAID GV LI CI
07ABIDJAN200COTE D'IVOIRE: IDENTIFICATION PROCEEDING SLOWLY
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The identification process continues to proceed at a snail's pace. Two courts in Abidjan are issuing both birth certificates and certificates of nationality despite the lack of political agreement on Prime Minister Banny's revised procedures which call for issuing these two docum [...]
2007-02-23 14:42:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UN IV
07ABIDJAN203COTE D'IVOIRE:SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS STRIKE
[...] (U) On February 19, Ivorian police arrested five members, including the secretary general, of the secondary school teachers, coordination, &Coordination des Enseignants du Second Degre de Cote d,Ivoire8, CES-CI. Since February 6 this informal, unrecognized labor movement has been leading a se [...]
2007-02-23 16:49:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDELAB PGOV ASEC IV
07ABIDJAN225$190 MILLION SETTLEMENT BY TRAFIGURA OF TOXIC
[...] (SBU) Summary. The widely-reported February 13 "amicable" settlement of $190 million between the government of Cote d'Ivoire and the Dutch-based oil trading firm Trafigura to end current and future litigation and criminal proceedings against the firm and its subsidiaries continues to reverb [...]
2007-03-01 12:01:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALECON PGOV IV
07ABIDJAN226COTE D'IVOIRE: NO VISIBLE PROGRESS IN OUAGADOUGOU
[...] (C) Summary. There are no signs of significant progress in the Gbagbo-proposed "direct talks" with rebel New Forces (FN) leader Soro that President Compaore of Burkina Faso is trying to mediate. There has been no face-to-face meeting between the two principals and even their representatives a [...]
2007-03-01 15:42:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ASEC IV
07ABIDJAN227COTE D'IVOIRE: 2007 TIP REPORT
[...] (SBU) Since a September 2002 coup atempt that evolved into a civil war, Cote d'Ivoir has been partitioned in two with the governmentmaintaining control of the south and the rebel Nw Forces controlling the north. Tensions between he two sides have lessened through internationalmediation effort [...]
2007-03-02 07:35:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDKRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB
07ABIDJAN234CHINESE INFLUENCE IN COTE D'IVOIRE - AN UPDATE
[...] (SBU) Summary. China plays a passive role in the political scene in Cote d'Ivoire, and typically proffers the rhetoric of non-interference in national affairs with regards to the Ivorian political crisis. China is not a supplier of military hardware or training to either faction. China is [...]
2007-03-02 19:40:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON ENRG EFIN XA IV
07ABIDJAN237COTE D'IVOIRE: DEMARCHE ON IRAN
[...] (C) The Ambassador raised the talking points in reftel with Foreign Minister Bakayoko on March 5. Minister Bakayoko said that his government shared the growing concern about Iran's nuclear program. He stated that Cote d'Ivoire would join a consensus of the international community to sanctio [...]
2007-03-05 14:54:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALKNNP IR IV
07ABIDJAN240COTE D'IVOIRE: DEMARCHE ON THE CRISIS IN GUINEA
[...] (C) The Ambassador reiterated the talking points in reftel to Foreign Minister Bakayoko on March 5. Minister Bakayoko confirmed that the Government of Cote d'Ivoire, particularly the Presidency, had made a number of demarches to President Conte urging him to find a peaceful solution to the [...]
2007-03-05 16:53:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALGV PGOV PREL IV
07ABIDJAN242PEACE ACCORD IN OUAGADOUGOU - OBSERVERS, POLITICAL
[...] (C) Confounding the expectations of many, (reftel b),President Compaore brokered an ambitious peace accord over the evening of Saturday, March 3rd. Signed by both President Gbagbo and Forces Nouvelles leader Soro in Ouaga, the agreement is both detailed and vague: attempting to overcome the [...]
2007-03-06 10:57:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON IV
07ABIDJAN243SORO'S COMMENTS ON THE OUAGA AGREEMENT
[...] (C) Forces Nouvelles leader Guillaume Soro told the Ambassador on March 3 that he was cautiously optimistic that the Ouaga Agreement will move Cote d'Ivoire out of crisis. He noted that, while the agreement dealt with the familiar issues addressed in previous agreements, the Ouaga Agreement [...]
2007-03-06 11:02:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALIV PGOV
07ABIDJAN245BEDIE, OUATTARA, AND BANNY REACTIONS TO THE OUAGA
[...] (C) Former President Bedie, former Prime Minister Ouattara, and current Prime Minister Banny told the Ambassador on March 5 that they are cautiously optimistic concerning the Ouaga Agreement signed the previous day. They all noted, however, that the agreement raises as many questions as it [...]
2007-03-06 11:57:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALIV PGOV
07ABIDJAN247COTE D'IVOIRE - WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT, FOLLOW UP TO
[...] On February 21, Post received a diplomatic note from the Ministry of Family and Social Affairs responding to Post's September 23, 2006 diplomatic note outlining questions presented in reftel. 2. Minister Jeanne Peuhmond indicated that the Government of Cote d'Ivoire is in the process of d [...]
2007-03-06 16:54:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDKWMN PHUM PREL UNGA IV
07ABIDJAN252LETTER FROM PRESIDENT GBAGBO TO PRESIDENT BUSH
[...] Following is the unofficial English translation of a letter dated March 5, 2007, addressed to President George Walker Bush from President Laurent Gbagbo. Embassy Abidjan received a copy of the letter by fax from the office of President Gbagbo. Begin translation: From the President of the [...]
2007-03-07 14:42:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDOPDC IV
07ABIDJAN256COTE D'IVOIRE: UNEVENTFUL THIRTEENTH INTERNATIONAL
[...] (C) Summary. The International Working Group (IWG) held its 13th meeting in Abidjan March 2. Perhaps the most dramatic moment came when the Communications Minister Delegate briefed the group on the growing pro-Gbagbo bias in the state-owned media since Gbagbo replaced the leadership of both [...]
2007-03-08 16:49:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ASEC IV
07ABIDJAN263MONITORING AND EVALUATION REPORT FOR CVT LIBERIA:
[...] Summary: This monitoring and evaluation (M&E) report is based on Refugee Coordinator's (RefCoord) visits to the Center for Victims of Torture's (CVT) field offices in Liberia in October 2006 and January 2007. CVT is on target to meet its objectives in the PRM-funded program, "Promoting Com [...]
2007-03-12 17:13:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PHUM USAID UNHCR CI LI
07ABIDJAN281PRESIDENT GBAGBO ON THE OUAGA PEACE AGREEMENT
[...] (C) In a meeting with the Ambassador on March 14, President Gbagbo made the following points concerning the Ouaga Peace Agreement (OPA): -- Gbagbo and Soro signed the Ouaga Peace Agreement and therefore all those associated with Gbagbo and Soro are committed to its implementation. -- [...]
2007-03-15 16:16:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALIV PGOV PREL
07ABIDJAN290COTE D'IVOIRE: DEMARCHE ON SUDAN PRESIDENT
[...] (C) EmbOff delivered demarche to Ambassador Bernard Tanoh-Boutchoue on March 16, and left text of key points for further MFA consideration. Tanoh-Boutchoue promised the MFA would review U.S. concerns related to President Bashir's rejection of key Heavy Support Package elements prior to the [...]
2007-03-16 18:11:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPREL CD CT UNSC KPKO IV
07ABIDJAN293COTE D'IVOIRE: UNHCR PREPARING FOR JUNE DEADLINE
[...] Summary: The Abidjan-based Refugee Coordinator (RefCoord) for West Africa traveled with Lou Mazel, DCM Monrovia, and Mohamud Osman, USAID/FFP Dakar, from February 25 to March 3 to visit WFP and UNHCR offices in Cote d'Ivoire (Tabou, Guiglo) and Liberia (Harper) and to meet with refugees and [...]
2007-03-19 09:57:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PHUM EAID UNHCR SOCI LI IV
07ABIDJAN297COTE D'IVOIRE: DEMARCHE ON UN REFORM, INTERNAL
[...] EmbOff demarched Ambassador Bernard Tanoh-Boutchoue, MFA Director of the Office of UN and International Organizations, concerning the U.S. position opposing certain elements of the UN General Assembly Fifth and Sixth Committees' recommendations on reform measures for the UN's internal system [...]
2007-03-20 19:08:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDACABQ AORC PREL UNGA IV
07ABIDJAN298COTE D'IVOIRE: DEMARCHE ON BUILDING SUPPORT FOR
[...] (C) EmbOff demarched Ambassador Bernard Tanoh-Boutchoue, Director of the MFA Office of UN and International Organizations, on U.S. concerns related to the deteriorating situation in Zimbabwe as described in reftel. Ambassador Boutchoue and the Ivorian government were well aware of the situat [...]
2007-03-20 19:08:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPREL PHUM ZI IV
07ABIDJAN304COTE D'IVOIRE PEACE AGREEMENT: ALL EYES STILL ON
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Political actors in Abidjan are still looking ahead to what round two of the Ouagadougou Peace Accord (OPA) will bring as NF leader Guillaume Soro and President Gbagbo negotiate the powers of the Prime Minister. In the meantime, Soro is under pressure to accept the Premiership. [...]
2007-03-22 07:26:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UN IV
07ABIDJAN305COTE D'IVOIRE - MFA TO MOVE CAUTIOUSLY AGAINST
[...] (C) Ivorian Ambassador Bernard Tanoh Boutchoue, Director of the Office of UN and International Organizations, called EmbOff March 21 to inform that the Minister of Foreign Affairs had agreed that the situations in both Sudan and Zimbabwe were shocking, and that Africa collectively must act. [...]
2007-03-22 10:46:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPREL UNSC KPKO PHUM ZI CT CD IV
07ABIDJAN312AUTHORITIES EXPEL LEBANESE-IVORIAN IN VAT TAX
[...] (C) Summary. Lebanese-Ivorian trader Ibrahim Reda was expelled from Cote d'Ivoire for inciting other traders to violate the VAT tax laws, prompting an ongoing shutdown of a part of the important Lebanese-owned commercial sector. Senior ONUCI officials have been approached by Reda's wife for [...]
2007-03-23 13:49:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALECON IV PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PTER
07ABIDJAN314TEACHERS, PROFESSORS, MEDICAL WORKERS END STRIKES;
[...] (U) Summary. Within the last few weeks, striking secondary school teachers (reftel),university professors and researchers, and medical technicians and nurses all ended their strikes, bringing a measure of labor calm to the government-controlled zone (the strikes did not take place in the F [...]
2007-03-23 15:42:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELAB ECON PGOV IV
07ABIDJAN318ENGAGEMENT OF INTERNATIONAL, LOCAL FINANCIAL
[...] (C) Summary. The Ouaga Accords have forced international and private financial institutions to react. World Bank staff is anxious to find a mechanism to disburse USD 104 million in DDR funds. The IMF is equally anxious to pry open government oil, gas and cocoa accounts as a precursor to a [...]
2007-03-23 18:40:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON PREL PGOV IV
07ABIDJAN326COTE D'IVOIRE: THE LONG AND WINDING ROAD TO THE
[...] (C) Summary: The Abidjan-based Refugee Coordinator (RefCoord) and Regina Davis, USAID/OFDA's Principal Regional Advisor for West Africa (PRA),met in Abidjan with UN-OCHA, other UN agencies, NGOs, and donor Embassies to discuss opinions on UNHCR's handling of its Protection Cluster responsib [...]
2007-03-27 10:24:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPREF EAID PHUM UNHCR IV
07ABIDJAN333NEW FORCES LEADER SORO TO BECOME PRIME MINISTER;
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 26 the ex-rebel movement New Forces (NF) announced that it has reached a deal with President Gbagbo's representatives in which NF leader Guillaume Soro will become Prime Minister. Some press reports and NF sources indicate that Gbagbo will issue a decree to this effect t [...]
2007-03-28 07:25:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UNSC IV
07ABIDJAN340GBAGBO ISSUES DECREE NAMING SORO PRIME MINISTER
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a widely anticipated move, late evening March 29 President Gbagbo signed the decree naming ex-rebel New Forces (NF) leader Guillaume Soro the third Prime Minister of Cote d'Ivoire since the September 19, 2002 failed NF rebellion. The announcement has some renewed hope that [...]
2007-03-30 13:52:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UN IV
07ABIDJAN361COTE D'IVOIRE: SORO OFFICIALLY PRIME MINISTER
[...] (SBU) Ex-rebel leader Guillaume Soro officially took over the Premiership Wednesday, April 4 at a ceremony at the Prime Minister's compound that included outgoing Prime Minister Banny and most of his cabinet. Soro, who had been named Prime Minister on March 29 by presidential decree, said th [...]
2007-04-06 14:03:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL UN IV
07ABIDJAN379GOVERNMENT, REBELS AND IMPARTIAL FORCES DISMANTLE
[...] (SBU) Representatives of the Ivorian army, the New Forces and ONUCI and Licorne peacekeepers signed an agreement on April 11 to dismantle the zone of confidence (ZOC) starting Monday, April 16. The drawdown of the ZOC will begin at midnight in a concrete step to implement the Ouagadougou Peac [...]
2007-04-12 17:22:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL UN IV
07ABIDJAN386COTE D'IVOIRE: DEMARCHE ON ADOPTION OF UNSCR 1747
[...] No summary [...]
2007-04-16 17:32:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP EFIN IR UNSC IV
07ABIDJAN387COTE D'IVOIRE: DESIGNATION OF IRAN'S DEFENSE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-04-16 17:33:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP PREL PARM IR IV
07ABIDJAN391PRESIDENT GBAGBO WANTS TO REDUCE THE UN'S
[...] (C) During a meeting with the Ambassador on Friday, April 13, President Gbagbo emphasized that the UN should play a support role, not a lead role, in the political process in Cote d'Ivoire. He referred to President Compaore's March 27 letter to Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, which he said wa [...]
2007-04-17 14:03:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALIV KPKO PGOV
07ABIDJAN402COTE D'IVOIRE: REPORT CARD FOR WEEK 2 OF
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY After using week one to get his cabinet installed, the respectful and friendly ceremony marking the beginning of the dissolution of the Zone of Confidence (ZOC) and the opening of the Joint Integrated Command Center (ICC) has been the highlight of week two of the Soro government. [...]
2007-04-20 17:26:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL UN IV
07ABIDJAN403COTE D'IVOIRE: FOURTEENTH INTERNATIONAL
[...] No summary [...]
2007-04-20 17:30:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UNSC UN IV
07ABIDJAN422CONDOLENCE LETTER FROM PRESIDENT GBAGBO TO
[...] Following is an Embassy translation of a letter dated April 17, 2007, addressed to President Bush from President Laurent Gbagbo. The Office of the Prime Minister of Cote d,Ivoire faxed a copy of the letter to Embassy. Begin translation: From the President of the Republic to His Excellency Ge [...]
2007-04-24 11:46:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDOPDC IV
07ABIDJAN43COTE D'IVOIRE: U.S. POLICY FOR BREAKING THE
[...] (C) Summary. The continuing political stalemate in Cote d,Ivoire, as the clock winds down on any chance of elections this year, poses the question: what can the United States do to re-energize the peace process? We do not believe the United States should try to take the lead -- among other [...]
2007-01-12 11:59:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON EFIN ASEC IV
07ABIDJAN433IRAQ: NO COTE D'IVOIRE PARTICIPATION
[...] No summary [...]
2007-04-25 17:00:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALMARR MASS MOPS PREL PTER IZ IV
07ABIDJAN465COTE D'IVOIRE: FY-2007 TIP PROJECT PROPOSALS
[...] Embassy Abidjan is pleased to submit two proposals to strengthen and expand Cote d'Ivoire's efforts to combat trafficking in persons (TIP) in response to reftel. The proposed projects, listed in order of funding priority, will address key areas of concern in the fight to end trafficking in Co [...]
2007-05-04 17:54:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDASEC ELAB KCRM PHUM PREL SMIG IV
07ABIDJAN466SORO PRESIDES OVER GOV'T SEMINAR OUTLINING
[...] (SBU) Summary. On May 2nd, following a week-long "pre-seminar" dominated by technocrats, new Prime Minister Guillaume Soro presided over a "governmental seminar in Yamoussoukro to define the way forward regarding each of the elements laid out in the Ouaga Accord of March 4. This included i [...]
2007-05-04 19:22:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL IV
07ABIDJAN489SORO-GBAGBO ALLIANCE UNHINGES THE OPPOSITION,
[...] (C) Summary: Opposition RHDP parties, particularly the PDCI and RDR, led by former President Bedie and Alassane Ouattara respectively, have been widely critical in recent weeks of key New Forces leaders and by extension the Soro Prime Ministership. While the increasing rancor illustrates the [...]
2007-05-11 15:54:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UN IV
07ABIDJAN490COTE D'IVOIRE GOV'T, UNHCR LAUNCH SURPRISE REQUEST
[...] (SBU) On May 4, Foreign Minister Bakayoko, along with UNHCR country representative Saber Azam, convened a hastily planned meeting of principal UNHCR donor countries (including the European Union's country representative) to request additional funding to keep the Guiglo region's Nicla refugee [...]
2007-05-11 16:55:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPREF PHUM PREL IV
07ABIDJAN503WORLD BANK, IMF, AFDB PUSH COTE D'IVOIRE, DONORS
[...] (C) Summary. The IFIs are pressing a coordinated effort to address Cote d'Ivoire's $450 million in arrears to the World Bank in order to allow reengagement by the Bretton Woods institutions. The outlines of the deal were put forth in the recent aide memoire signed in Washington between Ivo [...]
2007-05-14 17:09:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON PREL PGOV IV
07ABIDJAN521PRIME MINISTER SORO TO PRESENT NEW ACTION PLAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with the Ambassador on May 16, Prime Minister Guillaume Soro focused on the following issues: -- it has taken time for him to get organized, but he will present an action plan, including a matrix timetable, next week; -- the timetable included in the Ouaga Agree [...]
2007-05-18 13:04:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALIV PGOV EFIN
07ABIDJAN539UNIVERSITY TEACHERS STRKE CONTINUES, PROMPTS
[...] (SBU)The public university teachers, strike, which has continued on and off for more than a year, has garered renewed attention by the recent actions aganst it by the thuggish, pro-Gbagbo students, unin, FESCI (septel). The strike, led by the Natioal Coordination of Higher-Level Teachers and [...]
2007-05-22 17:19:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ELAB IV
07ABIDJAN54TWELFTH MEETING OF THE INTERNATIONAL WORKING
[...] (C) Summary. At an unexpectedly short twelfth meeting of the International Working group (IWG),Prime Minister Banny sought to convince the group that the political situation here is not at a total impasse, but he had almost no progress to show. Rebel FN (New Forces) leader Soro stressed the [...]
2007-01-18 11:06:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV UNSC ASEC IV
07ABIDJAN544COTE D'IVOIRE: REASSESSING THE UNOCI MISSION
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The evolving political and security climate in Cote d'Ivoire in light of the Ouagadougou Political Accord (OPA) and the increasing demands on the United Nations Operation in Cote d'Ivoire (UNOCI) mission pose the question: what should UNOCI's role be in this fragile security env [...]
2007-05-23 11:53:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALKPKO PGOV PREL UN IV
07ABIDJAN551DISARMAMENT OF MILITIAS OFF TO SYMBOLIC START
[...] (U) Ivoirian government officials organized a ceremony in the town of Guiglo on May 19 to mark the resumption of the disarmament and demobilization of militias (DDM) in the volatile west of the country. At the ceremony, attended by President Gbagbo, FANCI commander General Mangou, and Acting [...]
2007-05-24 14:13:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPARM KPKO PGOV IV
07ABIDJAN555MONITORING AND EVALUATION REPORT FOR IRC COTE
[...] Summary: The Abidjan-based Refugee Coordinator (RefCoord) for West Africa conducted a monitoring and evaluation (M&E) assessment of the International Rescue Committee's (IRC) PRM-funded project, "Durable Solutions for Liberian Refugees in Cote d'Ivoire" in February and May 2007. RefCoord wa [...]
2007-05-24 18:18:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PHUM IV
07ABIDJAN557MONITORING AND EVALUATION REPORT FOR CCF LIBERIA:
[...] Summary: The Abidjan-based Refugee Coordinator (RefCoord) for West Africa conducted a monitoring and evaluation (M&E) assessment of the PRM-funded NGO, Christian Children's Fund (CCF) during a visit to Liberia from May 4-11. RefCoord visited their offices in Monrovia and Zorzor and a CCF pr [...]
2007-05-25 16:42:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PHUM IV LI
07ABIDJAN558COTE D'IVOIRE: STUDENT UNION RAID HEADQUARTERS OF
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On Monday, May 21 a mob of more than 200 youth from the Federation of Secondary and University Students of Cote d'Ivoire (FESCI) concurrently attacked the offices of two prominent Ivoirian human rights NGOs, the Ivoirian League for Human Rights (LIDHO) and the Association for the [...]
2007-05-25 21:07:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM IV
07ABIDJAN560COTE D'IVOIRE ELECTRICITY GENERATION FALTERS,
[...] (SBU) Summary. Privately-owned national electricity distribution company CIE and the Ministry of Energy and Mines continue to squabble over who is to blame for shortfalls in investments needed to boost natural gas production to meet national and regional energy needs. CIE, owned by French f [...]
2007-05-29 13:19:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALENRG ECON IV PGOV PREL
07ABIDJAN566MONITORING AND EVALUATION REPORT FOR SEARCH FOR
[...] Summary: The Abidjan-based Refugee Coordinator (RefCoord) conducted a monitoring and evaluation assessment of the PRM-funded Search For Common Ground (SFCG) project, "Mass Information in Support of Liberian Refugee Repatriation and Reintegration." SFCG's activities seem well conceived and f [...]
2007-05-30 10:07:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PHUM IV LI
07ABIDJAN580PRIME MINISTER'S ADVISERS SAY OUAGA PEACE ACCORD
[...] (C) Summary. Minister of Tourism and Prime Minister Soro confidant Sidiki Konate and the PM,s Political Counselor, Adama Bictogo, told selected Ambassadors on June 1 that the implementation of the Ouaga Peace Accord roadmap will move into high gear starting next week with the redeployment of [...]
2007-06-01 19:06:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KPKO IV
07ABIDJAN593COTE D'IVOIRE DEMARCHED ON DARFUR
[...] (SBU) Emboff delivered demarche points to Ambassador Tanoh Boutchoue, MFA Office Director of International Organizations and UN Affairs, on June 3. The MFA will relay any official reaction from the GOCI. 2. (C) Speaking informally, Boutchoue said the situation in Darfur was "intolerable [...]
2007-06-06 10:11:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPREL ETRD ETTC UNSC SU IV
07ABIDJAN594COTE D'IVOIRE DEMARCHED ON NEW WORLD BANK
[...] No summary [...]
2007-06-06 10:11:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN IV
07ABIDJAN595COTE D'IVOIRE DEMARCHED ON UNSCR 1747 (IRAN)
[...] No summary [...]
2007-06-06 10:12:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALKNNP EFIN IR UNSC AORC ETRD TRGY IV
07ABIDJAN596COTE D'IVOIRE DEMARCHED ON CLIMATE CHANGE
[...] (U) Emboff demarched MFA Director of International Organizations and United Nations Affairs Ambassador Tanoh Boutchoue on June 3 using reftel talking points. The MFA will report back any official GOCI reaction. 2. (SBU) Speaking informally, Boutchoue warmly welcomed the President's init [...]
2007-06-06 10:48:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKGHG SENV ENRG ECON IV
07ABIDJAN600THE ROCKY ROAD TO UNHCR'S JUNE 30 RETURN DEADLINE
[...] (U) Summary: The Abijan-based Refugee Coordinator for West Africa (RefCoord),traveled by road from Monrovia to Abidjan from May 1 to May 17. RefCoord passed through Gbarnga, Voinjama, Macenta, Nzerekore, Danane, Duekoue/Guiglo, and Tabou during the trip. RefCoord visited a number of villa [...]
2007-06-07 09:35:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL PHUM IV LI GU
07ABIDJAN606COTE D'IVOIRE: ASECNA AVIATION FEES
[...] (U) This cable answers questions 1, 2 and 4 of reftel, and provides a partial answer to question 3. Septel will provide the balance of the responses once they are received from host government officials. 2. (U) Questions and Answers: Question 1) Are the airports (DIAP in Abidjan, DIYO [...]
2007-06-08 13:20:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDKREC MARR MOPS PREL IV
07ABIDJAN614UNIVERSITY TEACHERS SUSPEND THEIR STRIKE,
[...] (SBU) On May 30, the university professors and researchers from the "Coordination Nationale des Enseignants et Chercheurs" (CNEC) suspended their six-week old strike, ushering in the resumption of classes nationwide and ending the looming threat of an annulled school year (reftel). CNEC too [...]
2007-06-11 15:52:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV ELAB IV
07ABIDJAN615OUAGA ACCORD AT 90 DAYS - ASSESSING ITS
[...] (C) Summary. Since the signature of the Ouaga Accord on March 4, Cote d'Ivoire has seen both successes and shortcomings in its implementation. At the 90 day mark, several key tasks remain undone, while a number of others have been accomplished (even if incompletely). The overall report ca [...]
2007-06-12 11:38:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL IV
07ABIDJAN621MONITORING AND EVALUATION REPORT FOR THE AMERICAN
[...] Summary: The Abidjan-based Refugee Coordinator (RefCoord) for West Africa traveled to Liberia from May 1-11 to conduct a monitoring and evaluation (M&E) assessment of the American Refugee Committee's (ARC) PRM-funded project, "Supporting Sustainable Return, Reintegration and Stabilization of [...]
2007-06-14 08:49:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PHUM IV LI
07ABIDJAN633COMPAORE CHAIRS OUAGA ACCORD'S FIRST "PERMANENT
[...] (C) Summary. OPA facilitator Compaore hosted the first Permanent Consultative Mechanism (CPC) on June 12, bringing together Gbagbo, Soro, Ouattara and Bedie. Members issued a brief, harmonious press statement that touched on key questions of DDR and dismantlement of the militias, as well a [...]
2007-06-18 18:59:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UNSC IV
07ABIDJAN666COTE D'IVOIRE SUPPORT FOR UNITAID
[...] (U) Cote d'Ivoire's Ministry of Finance confirms that Cote d'Ivoire is funding its commitments to UNITAD via the levy of a "solidarity tax" on airline tickets. Taxes are USD 4 (CFA 2000) per ticket for short and medium distance flights (generally flights remaining on the African continent),an [...]
2007-06-25 07:47:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID KHIV TBIO PREL
07ABIDJAN669MONITORING AND EVALUATION REPORT FOR IRC LIBERIA:
[...] Summary: The Abidjan-based Refugee Coordinator (RefCoord) for West Africa conducted a monitoring and evaluation (M&E) assessment of the International Rescue Committee's (IRC) PRM-funded project, "Integrated Protection and Assistance to Support the Reintegration of Displaced Liberian." RefCo [...]
2007-06-25 12:40:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PHUM IV LI
07ABIDJAN6762007 COTE D'IVOIRE REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND
[...] (SBU) Embassy Abidjan is aware of no new investment disputes or expropriation claims involving U.S. persons against the Government of Cote d'Ivoire. 2. (SBU) Post is pleased to report the end of the sole outstanding investment dispute reported from Cote d'Ivoire, the Cora de Comstar matter [...]
2007-06-26 11:36:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDEINV KIDE OPIC PGOV IV
07ABIDJAN677MONITORING AND EVALUATION REPORT FOR IRC GUINEA:
[...] Summary: The Abidjan-based Refugee Coordinator (RefCoord) for West Africa traveled to Guinea from May 11-14 to conduct a monitoring and evaluation (M&E) report of the International Rescue Committee's (IRC) PRM-funded project, "Facilitating Durable Solutions: Protection, Integration Assistanc [...]
2007-06-26 12:43:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PHUM IV GU
07ABIDJAN683COTE D'IVOIRE NOMINATION FOR ATTENDEE OF USDA GLOBAL
[...] No summary [...]
2007-06-27 10:04:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDEAID KHIV TBIO PREL
07ABIDJAN689COTE D'IVOIRE, WB AND IMF STAFF CONCLUDE
[...] (C) Summary. The World Bank and IMF, working in tandem, finalized a deal on June 27 that would provide financing packages for the post-conflict transition (WB) and emergency budget support (IMF) in exchange for the GoCI paying 50 percent of its WB arrears and adoption of strict fiscal contr [...]
2007-06-28 13:29:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN PREL PGOV IMF IBRD IV
07ABIDJAN691END OF JUNE ASSESSMENT OF OUAGA ACCORD
[...] (C) Summary. Implementation of the Ouaga Accord has not moved substantially since the Yamoussoukro CPC (reftel B). The Integrated Command Center is not functioning, the question of military ranks continues to bedevil efforts to begin integrating the militaries and the process of DDR, while [...]
2007-06-29 09:17:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL IV
07ABIDJAN705THREE KILLED BUT PRIME MINISTER SORO UNHURT AFTER
[...] (C) Multiple sources confirm Prime Minister and New Forces leader Guillaume Soro is alive and well after an RPG attack on an airplane in which he was traveling at Bouake airport on the morning of June 29. ONUCI Acting SRSG Abu Moussa told us that, according to UN Air Ops personnel who witnesse [...]
2007-06-29 16:39:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINS PREL KPKO IV
07ABIDJAN71PUBLIC PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS' STRIKE ENDS
[...] Primary schools in Cote d'Ivoire reopened on January 4, 2007, ending a six-week strike by primary school teachers (reftel). The teachers agreed to resume work after accepting an offer by the Government of Cote d'Ivoire (GOCI) of CFA 30,000 (USD 60) per month to increase housing allowances st [...]
2007-01-19 17:17:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDELAB IV
07ABIDJAN719WHO TRIED TO KILL SORO? THE SPECULATION IS WELL
[...] (C) Summary. Since the June 29 attack on Prime Minister Soro, the rumor mill has gone into overdrive. The facts remain scarce, adding fuel to the unending speculation. The suspects are numerous, ranging from the most obvious (disaffected members of the Forces Nouvelles) to the absurd (ONU [...]
2007-07-03 11:01:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KPKO IV
07ABIDJAN727LETTER FROM PRESIDENT GBAGBO TO PRESIDENT BUSH
[...] Following is the unofficial English translation of a letter dated July 4, 2007, addressed to President George Walker Bush from President Laurent Gbagbo. Embassy Abidjan received a copy of the letter by fax from the office of President Gbagbo. Begin translation: From the President of the [...]
2007-07-05 14:31:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDOPDC IV
07ABIDJAN732PM SORO CALLS FOR INTERNATIONAL INVESTIGATION OF
[...] Several Ambassadors accompanied acting SRSG Abou Moussa to Bouake to visit Prime Minister Soro on July 3. The meeting, which lasted about 45 minutes, devoted more time to formal expressions of sympathy and Soro's detailed account of what happened than to substantive political discussions. [...]
2007-07-06 07:51:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDIV PGOV PREL
07ABIDJAN745EFFECTIVENESS OF UN EFFORTS TO COMBAT SEXUAL
[...] (SBU) Emboff met with UN Operations in Cote d'Ivoire (ONUCI) Human Rights Affairs and Code of Conduct Affairs Offices to discuss implementation of policies to combat sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) and trafficking in persons (TIP). ONUCI officers indicated that ONUCI has a rigorous, wri [...]
2007-07-09 16:42:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKPKO PREL IV
07ABIDJAN753COTE D'IVOIRE ON EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES
[...] (C) Emboff met with Presidential diplomatic advisor Ambassador Ottra Toure on July 10 to follow up a June 19 delivery of reftel letter and points to President Gbagbo by the U.K.'s DFID. During the conversation, Ambassador Ottra Toure appeared siezed with the issue, although she said that ne [...]
2007-07-11 16:30:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALEMIN ENRG EPET PGOV PREL ECON IBRD IV
07ABIDJAN755PRESIDENT GBAGBO AGREES TO INTERNATIONAL
[...] (C) In a meeting with the Ambassador on July 11, President Gbagbo stated that he had agreed to an international investigation of the attempt on PM Soro's life "in order to make the Prime Minister happy." To have objected to the investigation would have encouraged unnecessary suspicion in th [...]
2007-07-12 11:02:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALIV PGOV PREL
07ABIDJAN764COTE D'IVOIRE'S GOVERNMENT DRIFTS AFTER ATTACK ON
[...] (C) Summary. Since the March 29 attack on the aircraft carrying Prime Minister Soro, the peace process implementation has been at a near-standstill. Soro and his small team appear knocked off stride (although he could be "playing possum" and proceeding cautiously while recovering his footi [...]
2007-07-13 15:38:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV IV
07ABIDJAN765IMF PRESSURES COTE D'IVOIRE TO ABANDON JP MORGAN
[...] (C) In a somewhat abrupt denouement to the monthlong negotiations around the debt securitization deal between JP Morgan and the Ivorian pension fund CNPS (reftel),the local IMF representative convinced the Minister of Finance Charles Diby during a July 10 videoconference to abandon the proje [...]
2007-07-16 12:50:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN IMF PGOV PREL IBRD IV
07ABIDJAN781MOROCCAN CONTINGENT IN ONUCI ACCUSED OF SEXUAL
[...] (C) The United Nations Operations in Cote d'Ivoire (ONUCI) made a surprise announcement on Friday, July 20 that the entire 732-strong Moroccan battalion would be confined to barracks due to a number of allegations of sexual misconduct with minors by Moroccan troops. The announcement did not [...]
2007-07-24 16:22:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALKPKO PREL UNSC IV
07ABIDJAN8PM BANNY: POLITICAL GRIDLOCK
[...] (C) In a meeting with the Ambassador on January 3, Prime Minister Banny stated that Cote d'Ivoire is basically in political gridlock. All the political actors are waiting to see what will happen next. He characterized President Gbagbo's five proposals for dealing with the crisis as non-pro [...]
2007-01-04 14:11:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALIV PGOV
07ABIDJAN802MOROCCO BATTALION APPEARS TO REMAIN ON DUTY; SORO
[...] (C) Emboff's security detail during a recent trip to Bouake (septel) was from the Moroccan battalion, recently the subject of controversy relating to allegations of sexual misconduct (reftel A). The security detail was professional, courteous, and well-disciplined. Emboff traveled around th [...]
2007-07-31 17:51:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALKPKO UNSC PREL IV
07ABIDJAN803SORO, FORCES NOUVELLES STAY TIGHT-LIPPED ON
[...] (C) Summary. Emboff traveled to Forces Nouvelles stronghold Bouake to meet with key aides to Prime Minister Soro concerning the investigation into who attacked Soro on June 29 (reftel D, C). Soro aide Cisse Sindou said the PM will not comment on who the authors of the attack were until an [...]
2007-08-01 07:47:00Embassy AbidjanSECRETPGOV PREL IV
07ABIDJAN804SORO, FORCES NOUVELLES STAY TIGHTLIPPED ON AUTHORS
[...] (C) Summary. Emboff traveled to Forces Nouvelles stronghold Bouake to meet with key aides to Prime Minister Soro concerning the investigation into who attacked Soro on June 29 (reftel D, C). Soro aide Cisse Sindou said the PM will not comment on who the authors of the attack were until an [...]
2007-08-01 07:47:00Embassy AbidjanSECRETPGOV PREL IV
07ABIDJAN809DEMARCHE ON COTE D'IVOIRE'S POTENTIAL ADOPTION OF
[...] (SBU) Emboff demarched Ambassador Tanoh Boutchoue, MFA Director of the Office of International Organizations and UN Affairs, on July 26 on reftel points. Emboff left relevant points with Boutchoue and will inform Department in septel of any substantive response. HOOKS [...]
2007-08-01 16:55:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDPTER KNNP MCAP PINR PINS PARM PREL IV
07ABIDJAN810DEMARCHE TO COTE D'IVOIRE ON U.S. CANDIDATE FOR
[...] (SBU) Emboff demarched Ambassador Tanoh Boutchoue, MFA Director of International Organizations and UN Affairs on July 26 on action points in reftel. As Ambassador Swing and his work with MONUC are well-known in African diplomatic circles, Boutchoue was immediately personally disposed toward [...]
2007-08-01 16:55:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDAORC EUN PREF PREL SMIG
07ABIDJAN811DEMARCHE TO COTE D'IVOIRE ON UNESCO HOLOCAUST
[...] (SBU) Emboff demarched Ambassador Tanoh Boutchoue, MFA Director of International Organizations and UN Affairs on July 26 on action points in reftel and left a copy of the draft explanatory note and proposed resolution on text. Post will report any substantive Government of Cote d'Ivoire res [...]
2007-08-01 16:55:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDUNESCO IV
07ABIDJAN812DEMARCHE TO COTE D'IVOIRE ON ROBUST
[...] (SBU) July 26, Emboff demarched Ambassador Tanoh Boutchoue, MFA Director of International Organizations and UN Affairs, on action points mentioned in reftel, stressing the mandatory nature of a UNSC 1737 report and leaving a translated version of unclassified paragraph six points as a non-pa [...]
2007-08-01 16:56:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALKNNP PARM IR IV
07ABIDJAN831COTE D'IVOIRE LIGHTS FLAME OF PEACE
[...] (C) Summary. The Government of Cote d'Ivoire held a July 30 "flame of peace" symbolic disarmament ceremony in the Forces Nouvelles stronghold of Bouake. While the ceremony was attended by 7 African heads of state or government, Ivorian opposition leaders Henri Konan Bedie, Alassane Ouattara a [...]
2007-08-09 17:23:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM IC
07ABIDJAN832COTE D'IVOIRE: UNOCI A/SRSG ANALYZES POLITICAL
[...] (C) Summary. Acting United Nations Operation in Cote d'Ivoire (UNOCI) Special Representative of the Secretary General (SRSG) Abou Moussa underscored to Charge d'Affaires and Poloff August 9 the importance of the "balance" that the U.S. provides on the Ivorian political scene. Moussa said UNOC [...]
2007-08-09 17:28:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM IV
07ABIDJAN856COTE D'IVOIRE: UPDATE ON DEMOBILIZATION,
[...] (C) Summary. Alain Michel Lobognon, Communications Director at the Prime Minister's Office, and Jean-Luc Stalon, Chief of the United Nations Operation in Cote d'Ivoire (UNOCI) Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration (DDR) Unit, told Poloff that agreement on the ranks of the Forces Nouv [...]
2007-08-16 12:11:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL IS IV
07ABIDJAN863COTE D'IVOIRE: VISIT OF STAFFDELS SMITH AND CLACK
[...] (C) Summary. Shannon Smith, Majority Professional Staff Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and Mark Clack, Foreign Relations Staff Member for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, visited Cote d'Ivoire August 10-15. Smith and Clack conducted a review of programs under the Presi [...]
2007-08-17 09:33:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALECON PREL PGOV KDEM IV
07ABIDJAN864COTE D'IVOIRE: PRESIDENT ANNOUNCES IDENTIFICATION,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a televised address to the nation on August 6, the eve of Cote d'Ivoire's anniversary of independence, President Gbagbo announced the resumption of the public identification hearings ("audiences foraines"),pledged his commitment to fair, transparent and open elections, and cal [...]
2007-08-17 10:26:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV IV KDEM
07ABIDJAN865COTE D'IVOIRE: UNHCR REPRESENTATIVE'S OVERVIEW
[...] No summary [...]
2007-08-17 16:25:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF IV LI
07ABIDJAN88COTE D'IVOIRE: GBAGBO CONTINUES TO PUSH HIS OWN
[...] (U) On January 22 President Gbagbo met with the diplomatic corps to receive their New Year,s greetings. In his speech for the occasion, Gbagbo reiterated the proposals for resolving Cote d,Ivoire,s crisis that he had first put forward December 19 (reftel). Once again, he called for direct di [...]
2007-01-25 14:56:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ASEC IV
07ABIDJAN880ASSESSING THE STRENGTH OF THE FORCES NOUVELLES,
[...] (C) Summary. An Embassy team composed of Charge Vicki Huddleston and Econ Chief Ervin Massinga to the Bouake and Korhogo regions, both under Forces Nouvelles (FN) control, and spoke to United Nations Operation in Cote d'Ivoire (ONUCI),non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and Rassamblement [...]
2007-08-21 16:55:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KPKO IV
07ABIDJAN892COTE D'IVOIRE: MINISTRY OF DEFENSE SEEKS U.S.
[...] (C) Summary. Henri Ettien Amoikon, Director of the Minister of Defense's Cabinet, told Poloff August 21 that President Gbagbo told members of the Armed Forces (FANCI - Forces Armees Nationales de Cote d'Ivoire) August 14 that the Ivorian state will pay its year-long arrears of soldiers' bonus [...]
2007-08-23 15:02:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MARR MASS IV
07ABIDJAN895ASSESSING THE POLITICAL IMPACT OF THE ONGOING
[...] (C) Summary. World Food Program, UNited Nations Operations in Cote d'Ivoire (UNOCI) and private business leaders in the "Greater West" region, which straddles the "Green Line" and encompasses the extreme western portion of the former "Zone of Confidence," concur that the situation remains v [...]
2007-08-24 12:01:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPREF EAID PREL PHUM IV
07ABIDJAN899COTE D'IVOIRE: REQUESTED INFORMATION ON AG
[...] (U) The 2006 industry reports for the following industries are published, and are available. Post will send via email the names of contacts, their telephone numbers and email addresses On August 24 to ITC analyst Yinug, as well as answers to particular analytic questions directed to Post. [...]
2007-08-24 16:36:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDOTRD ETRD ASEC IV
07ABIDJAN900COTE D'IVOIRE: VIEWS ON ELECTIONS
[...] (C) Summary. Deputy Director of the Presidential Cabinet Sarata Ottro Toure told Poloff August 23 that President Laurent Gbagbo is committed to holding elections and that it is possible to hold elections by December 2007 or January 2008. Toure said that, since the 2000 elections were the most [...]
2007-08-24 17:29:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM IV
07ABIDJAN901DEPARTURE OF TDY CHARGE
[...] No summary [...]
2007-08-27 08:54:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDAMGT PREL IV
07ABIDJAN904COTE D'IVOIRE DELEGATION TO UNGA
[...] (SBU) Ambassador Bernard Tanoh-Boutchoue, Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) United Nations and International Organizations Department, told Poloff August 27 that Minister of Foreign Affairs Youssouf Bakayoko will head Cote d'Ivoire's delegation to the United Nations General As [...]
2007-08-28 12:08:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL UNGA IV
07ABIDJAN906COTE D'IVOIRE: UDPCI SECGEN FORECASTS VIOLENCE IF
[...] (C) Summary. Alassane Salif N'Diaye, Secretary General of the opposition political party Union for Democracy and Peace in Cote d'Ivoire (Union Pour la Democratie et pour la Paix en Cote d'Ivoire - UDPCI),told Poloffs August 24 that the UDPCI supports the Ouagadougou Political Accord (OPA),but [...]
2007-08-28 13:59:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV IV
07ABIDJAN907COTE D'IVOIRE: VIEWS FROM SMALLER PARTIES
[...] (C) Summary. Poloff met separately August 27 with Robert Guei Bombet, President of the "Renaissance" party (Parti La Renaissance) and with Francis Wodie, President of the Ivorian Workers' party (Parti Ivorien des Travailleurs - PTI). Both lamented the lack of implementation of the Ouagadougou [...]
2007-08-28 13:59:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV IV
07ABIDJAN909COTE D'IVOIRE: EXPRESSED HOPE, ANXIETY FOR
[...] (SBU) Summary: At an August 18 ceremony in his honor in the far northern city of Ferkessedougou, Prime Minister Guillaume Soro announced that the audiences foraines (tribunals that will issue replacement birth certificates) will resume the beginning of September after the government's recess. [...]
2007-08-29 10:53:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UN IV
07ABIDJAN91COTE D'IVOIRE'S RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON LIBERIA
[...] No summary [...]
2007-01-25 16:42:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ECON LI IV
07ABIDJAN913WORLD BANK, EU LEAD DONORS' POST CONFLICT EFFORTS;
[...] (C) Summary. The World Bank, European Union (EU) and the United National Operation in Cote d'Ivoire (UNOCI) held two closely-related meetings in the past 10 days on post-crisis coordination, where participants were unanimous in their frustration at the slow pace of progress. Identification [...]
2007-08-29 16:54:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN IDB IV PREL
07ABIDJAN918ACTION COMPLETED: PROPOSED SUPPORT TO METHODIST
[...] (SBU) Post completed the action requested in reftel. Poloff visited the Methodist University of Cote d'Ivoire (UMCI) on August 21 and met with university rector and members of the university's Council for Education and Training (CEI). UMCI is a small institution and is only in its second year [...]
2007-08-30 15:54:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASCH IV
07ABIDJAN925COTTON, CASHEWS, TIMBER: MAINSTAYS OF THE ECONOMY
[...] (SBU) Summary. Cotton, cashews and forest products are the mainstays of the economy in the North and West, but each sector is experiencing varying levels of difficulty. Cotton production is down by 40 percent since the division of the country in 2002, and both producers and ginning enterpris [...]
2007-09-04 07:20:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDECON EAGR PGOV EAID ETRD SENV IV
07ABIDJAN927COTE D IVOIRE: OUATTARA ANNOUNCES CANDIDACY
[...] (U) Former Ivorian Prime Minister and long-time President of the Rassemblement des Republicains (RDR) party Alassane Ouattara announced his candidacy for the Ivorian presidential election during an August 25 speech in Paris to RDR supporters in Europe. (Note: the date of the election has not [...]
2007-09-04 07:45:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM IV
07ABIDJAN935ELECTIONS PLANNING IN COTE D'IVOIRE: WHO'S IN
[...] (C) Summary: The composition and responsibilities of the Independent Electoral Commission (CEI),the main body responsible for organizing elections in Cote d'Ivoire, has been highly politicized and subject to contentious infighting since the crisis erupted in 2002. The CEI is composed of memb [...]
2007-09-05 16:49:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM UN IV
07ABIDJAN95INCREASING U.S. SUPPORT FOR COTE D'IVOIRE'S
[...] (U) Post strongly supports the IFES proposal for a two-year project to expand U.S. support for the electoral process in Cote d,Ivoire. 2. (U) IFES has done excellent work in the first phase of this project. In particular, the Prime Minister,s Secretary General wrote to us that the roundtab [...]
2007-01-26 14:34:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALEAID PHUM PREL PGOV IV
07ABIDJAN955COTE D'IVOIRE: FPI THINKS ELECTIONS WILL SOLVE
[...] (C) Summary. Ivorian Popular Front (Front Populaire Ivoirien - FPI) Secretary General Sylvain Miaka Ouretto told Poloff September 7 that the FPI is not "against France," but that France should treat Cote d'Ivoire as a partner. Ouretto said elections are the solution to Cote d'Ivoire's crisis [...]
2007-09-11 16:54:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM IV
07ABIDJAN959(U) ACTION COMPLETED: IDENTIFYING "CREDIBLE
[...] (SBU) Embassy Abidjan completed action requested in reftel. Here is the biographic information on three influential Ivoirian Muslim leaders who have favorable views of the United States and offer an alternative view to Islamic extremism. 2. (SBU) El Hadj Aboubacar FOFANA Gender: Male DOB [...]
2007-09-12 18:50:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPK PO QA RP RS RW SA SF SG SL SN SO SP
07ABIDJAN962COTE D'IVOIRE: FRANCE'S VIEW
[...] (C) Summary. French Deputy Chief of Mission Sebastien Minot told Poloff September 11 that the differences in the positions of the Ivorian government and the Forces Nouvelles on disarmament and identification may be difficult to reconcile and could derail the Ouagadougou Political Accord (OPA) [...]
2007-09-13 16:41:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL IV FR
07ABIDJAN969COTE D'IVOIRE: PHYSICIANS STRIKE
[...] Public sector physicians were on strike September 4-13, demanding a two-fold wage increase. Responding to pressure from the government and public, the leader of the doctors' union (Syndicat des Cadres Superieurs de la Sante de Cote d'Ivoire - SYNACASS/CI) announced an eight-day suspension of [...]
2007-09-14 17:18:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDECON ELAB PGOV IV
07ABIDJAN995COTE D'IVOIRE: PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS BY OCTOBER
[...] (SBU) Summary: Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) President Robert Mambe announced September 13 that Cote d'Ivoire will be ready for presidential elections by October 2008. Mambe has always asserted that it would take 10-12 months to complete the identification and voter registration pro [...]
2007-09-25 15:28:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UN IV
07ABIDJAN997STATELESSNESS IN COTE D'IVOIRE
[...] (SBU) Summary. Refugee Office Program Assistant participated in a September 13 trip organized by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Ministry of Justice to the towns of Meagui and Soube in western Cote d'Ivoire. The purpose of the trip was to exami [...]
2007-09-25 17:11:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL SOCI IV
08ABIDJAN104GOVERNMENT LOOSENS CONTROL OF STATE MEDIA
[...] (SBU) Summary. President Gbagbo nominated new Boards of Directors for the state newspaper and radio and television network on January 23. The respective Boards on January 28 elected Viviane Zunon Kipre as Chairperson for the organization that publishes the newspaper and Honore Koffi Guie as C [...]
2008-02-11 17:54:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PROP KDEM IV
08ABIDJAN120PATH TO TRANSPARENT ELECTIONS FRAUGHT WITH
[...] (C) Summary. Ambassador met on February 19 with Independent Electoral Commission (Commission Electorale Independante - CEI) President Mambe to discuss the status of election preparations. Some progress has been achieved. Mambe told Ambassador all political actors have accepted the 2000 electo [...]
2008-02-21 12:13:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALKDEM PGOV IV
08ABIDJAN127COTE D'IVOIRE DEMARCHED ON SEC GENERAL OF INT'L
[...] (SBU) Econoff demarched Vincent Niagne Agnimel, Secretary General of the Ivoirian Rubber Association APROMAC SIPDIS and delivered talking points related to U.S. concerns about the tenure of Dr. Smits as International Rubber Study Group Secretary General. APROMAC is the designated Ivoirian [...]
2008-02-22 17:30:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EIND ETRD AGR IV
08ABIDJAN130PETROLEUM SECTOR IN COTE D'IVOIRE - AMBASSADOR'S
[...] (C) Summary. Ambassador met with Kassoum Fadika, Director General of state-owned PETROCI for a tour d'horizon of the energy production business in Cote d'Ivoire. Fadika discussed production problems that he says have limited oil production to 50,000 b/d and described the cost structure of [...]
2008-02-26 12:06:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALENRG EPET ECON EFIN EINV PREL PGOV IV
08ABIDJAN133CHINESE VIEWS ON COTE D'IVOIRE
[...] (C) Summary. Chinese Embassy Political Counselor Fulin Ma told Pol/Econ section chief February 25 that he thinks elections will take place in 2008, most likely between August and October. Ma believes there is a real chance for President Gbagbo to win transparent elections due to the average [...]
2008-02-28 16:34:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV IV CH
08ABIDJAN138COTE D'IVOIRE: 2008 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT
[...] (SBU) Cote d'Ivoire is beginning to emerge from a five-year crisis during which the country was divided in two, with government forces controlling the southern half of the country and rebel forces, known as the New Forces (NF),in control of the north. President Laurent Gbagbo and New Forces [...]
2008-03-03 16:13:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB PGOV
08ABIDJAN149COTE D'IVOIRE NAMES MEMBERS OF EXTRACTIVE
[...] (SBU) On January 29, the Ministry of Mines and Energy named the 26 members of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative National Committee. The group is government-heavy, and includes representatives from the Prime Minister's Office; the Ministries of Economy and Finance, Mines and [...]
2008-03-06 11:48:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EPET EITC ETRD EFIN PREL PGOV IBRD IV
08ABIDJAN166COTE D'IVOIRE PAYS WORLD BANK ARREARS; IMF SEES
[...] (C) Summary. The World Bank announced in late February that the Government of Cote d'Ivoire has paid its portion of its arrears clearance package, paving the way for renewed assistance. The IMF announced that with the arrears clearance package in hand, it will proceed aggressively with a P [...]
2008-03-12 14:20:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN PGOV PREL IMF IBRD IV
08ABIDJAN171AMBASSADOR MEETS AFDB PRESIDENT KABERUKA,
[...] (C) Summary. Ambassador met with African Development Bank (AfDB) President Donald Kaberuka on February 28th during the latter's swing through Abidjan to sign a $25 million post conflict grant and ahead of an AfDB delegation trip to Abidjan by Members of the Bank's Board of Directors. Kaberu [...]
2008-03-12 16:32:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN EAID PREL IBRD IMF AFDB IV
08ABIDJAN274RESIDENT IMF, WORLD BANK HEADS DISCUSS EARLY HIPC
[...] (C) Summary. In an April 18 meeting, IMF ResRep Phillipe Eugume defended the notion of an early HIPC Decision Point, noting Cote d'Ivoire's heavy indebtedness and already negative cash position with the IFIs, but acknowledged substantial shareholder reluctance to proceed with such a course [...]
2008-05-02 08:10:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALECON EAID IMF IBRD PGOV PREL IV
08ABIDJAN279IMPACT OF RISING FOOD PRICES IN COTE D'IVOIRE.
[...] (SBU) Summary. The global price rise in basic foodstuff commodities is having a serious impact on Cote d'Ivoire, particularly the rise in rice prices. Imported rice has become substantially more expensive compared to its local competition in the past 18 months. The government has attempted [...]
2008-05-02 14:02:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR EAID ETRD ECON PGOV PREL
08ABIDJAN286MINISTER OF PLANNING DISCUSSES HIPC, RELATIONSHIP
[...] (C) Summary: Cote d,Ivoire,s Minister of Plan has established a timetable to ensure that his country is ready to be considered for a HIPC decision point by the end of 2008. The Minister fears that Cote d,Ivoire may lose the opportunity to benefit from debt relief under the HIPC initiative if [...]
2008-05-06 15:01:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN IMF IBRD EAID PGOV PREL IV
08ABIDJAN290ELECTORAL COMMISSION LAYS OUT TIMELINE FROM NOW TO
[...] (SBU) Summary: Independent Electoral Commission President Mambe briefed Ambassador May 2 on the Commission,s timeline for meeting the November 30 election date. Voter registration will take place for a 45 day period in July-August; the time before and after will be devoted to ensuring that th [...]
2008-05-06 17:01:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM IV
08ABIDJAN296NEW CUSTOMS DIRECTOR DISCUSSES RETURN OF CUSTOMS
[...] (SBU) Summary. Cote d,Ivoire,s new Customs Director, Col. Alphone Mangly, expects the redeployment of customs officials to the north of the country to begin the week of May 12. In an April 30 meeting, Mangly told Ambassador candidly that he was not certain how the customs officials would wor [...]
2008-05-08 12:50:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD PREL PGOV IV
08ABIDJAN300WIPO DIRECTOR GENERAL ELECTION - COTE D'IVOIRE
[...] (U) Emboff presented reftel demarche points and preferred candidate lists to MFA Assistant Director for the Office of Economic and Social Issues within the UN Department, Etienne Kinda. Kinda asked if the French candidate were a preferred U.S. candidate. Emboff reiterated that the five can [...]
2008-05-09 12:48:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKIPR AORC ETRD PREL IV
08ABIDJAN301DEMARCHE ON NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY
[...] (SBU) Emboffs verbally delivered demarche points to Pierre Nemlin, Americas, Deputy Desk Officer, on April 30 and delivered a French text non-paper with key talking points (reftel) on May 6. Nemlin indicated that Cote d'Ivoire would not be sending a delegation to Geneva for PrepComIII, and [...]
2008-05-09 12:48:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKNNP ENRG MNUC PARM PREL IV
08ABIDJAN336PRESIDENT KICKS OFF 2000 SESSION OF NATIONAL
[...] (SBU) President Gbagbo presided over the April 30 opening ceremony of the first session of the 2008 National Assembly, held in the political capital of Yamoussoukro. Two hundred parliamentarians attended the ceremony. National Assembly president and ruling Ivoirian Popular Front party (Front [...]
2008-05-28 08:54:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALKDEM PGOV PREL UN IV
08ABIDJAN337OBSERVANCE OF NOVEMBER 30 ELECTION DATE FEASIBLE
[...] (SBU) Summary. AF/W Director Thomas Dougherty held meetings in Abidjan May 15-16 with representatives from across Cote d'Ivoire's political spectrum. His conversations indicate that the political will exists to observe the scheduled November 30 election date and that it is technically feasib [...]
2008-05-28 14:14:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALKDEM PGOV PREL EAID IV
08ABIDJAN346AF/W DIRECTOR DOUGHERTY DISCUSSES FINANCING THE
[...] (C) Summary: State AF/W Director Thomas Dougherty discussed the pivotal question of financing for the end of crisis package ("sortie de crise" in French) with a number of key interlocutors during his May 14-18 visit to Abidjan. Interlocutors discussed Cote d'Ivoire's Highly Indebted Poor Coun [...]
2008-05-29 16:34:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV AFDB EAID ECON IMF IBRD IV PREL
08ABIDJAN36COTE D'IVOIRE 2008 INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT
[...] OPENNESS TO FOREIGN INVESTMENT Despite the ongoing political/economic crisis, the Ivorian government actively encourages foreign investment through mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, takeovers, or startups. There are no significant limits on foreign investment nor are there generally diffe [...]
2008-01-16 14:18:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDOPIC USTR KTDB ECON ETRD
08ABIDJAN37COTE D'IVOIRE'S PORTS PLAN AMBITIOUS EXPANSION AS POLITICAL
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Port of Abidjan is West Africa's largest deep-water port, and the second largest port on the continent. According to Maersk officials, it is also one of the more efficient ports in the world. Cote d'Ivoire's second port, San Pedro, exports 10 percent of the country's expor [...]
2008-01-16 16:00:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETRD ECON ECIN ELTN EWWT IV
08ABIDJAN374GLOBAL MARITIME PARTNERSHIPS
[...] Pol/Econ Section Chief delivered talking points in reftel on June 5 to Bertin Tanoh Koffi, Deputy Director General of Maritime and Port Affairs at the Ministry of Transportation. 2. Koffi stated that the Government of Cote d'Ivoire welcomed the Global Maritime Partnerships and would be inter [...]
2008-06-06 16:16:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDEWWT EAID ECIN ECON EFIS MARR MASS MCAP MOPS
08ABIDJAN396THE NEW BLE GOUDE
[...] (C) Summary. Charles Ble Goude, leader of COJEP (PanAfrican Congress of Young Patriots),is one of three Ivorians under United Nations (UN) Security Council sanctions. However, an offensive seems to be underway, bolstered by the presidential camp, to re-shape Ble Goude's public image and portr [...]
2008-06-18 16:29:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR SOCI UN IV
08ABIDJAN397DISGRUNTLED EX-COMBATANTS PARALYZE BOUAKE OVER
[...] (U) The demobilization and disarmament of the Forces Nouvellles (FAFN) continue to be problematic for the government. One June 16, more than 1000 troops paralyzed Bouake, demanding payment of promised monies. According to pres reports, the action was organized by soldiers who were to be integ [...]
2008-06-18 17:33:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ASEC PREL EAID IV
08ABIDJAN398(C) KOUCHNER VISIT SIGNALS WARMING RELATIONSHIP,
[...] (C) Summary. The June 14-15 visit of French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner to Cote d'Ivoire is a signal of warmer bilateral relations, but full normalization will not occur until Ivorian presidential elections are held. Kouchner told President Gbagbo that France will work with whichever ca [...]
2008-06-18 17:51:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV IV FR
08ABIDJAN403COTE D'IVOIRE: COCOA SECTOR OFFICIALS ARRESTED AS
[...] (U) Summary: Twenty-three top officials of the cocoa/coffee sector were indicted on June 13 on charges of embezzlement, breach of trust, misuse of corporate assets, fraud, and forgery. As of June 23, 12 of the 23 were under arrest. Those arrested include close associates of the ruling FPI pa [...]
2008-06-25 08:51:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EIND ETRD KCOR KJUS PGOV IV
08ABIDJAN439COTE D'IVOIRE: JUSTICE FOR THE RICH AND POWERFUL
[...] (C) Summary. Cote d'Ivoire's judicial system is broken and not likely to be fixed soon. The President of the Ivorian Bar Association told Ambassador that the judiciary is filled with corrupt judges. Court decisions are not published and judges' copies of their decisions are sent to persons out [...]
2008-07-07 18:40:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALKCOR KDEM KJUS PGOV IV
08ABIDJAN441COTE D'IVOIRE EXTENDS TAX HOLIDAY ON FOODSTUFFS
[...] (U) On July 2, 2008, the Ivorian government announced a three month extension of special tax reductions on basic foodstuffs (rice, milk, palm oil, fish and tomatoes). The reductions were originally announced on March 31 and put into effect on April 1, following demonstrations against the high [...]
2008-07-08 14:38:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAGR ETRD EAID IMF IBRD PGOV IV
08ABIDJAN459NEW FORCES MUTINY IN TOWNS OF SEGUELA AND VAVOUA
[...] (C) Summary. New Forces troops in the center-west towns of Seguela and Vavoua rioted on June 28. The troops in Seguela called for the reinstatement of their former Commander, Zachariah Kone, who had been removed by Prime Minister Soro in May. The soldiers in Vavoua protested the government's [...]
2008-07-14 13:02:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALMCAP MARR PGOV IV
08ABIDJAN462POLITICAL PARTY YOUTH LEADERS OFFER LITTLE BUT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a country where over half of the population is under 25 and job opportunities for young people are scarce, political parties have had little trouble in the recent past mobilizing youth for violent ends during times of political crisis. In light of the looming November 30th [...]
2008-07-15 16:51:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL ECON IV
08ABIDJAN469EAC MEETS TO DISCUSS PLANNED GENERAL STRIKE
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador convened the Emergency Action Committee (EAC) on Wednesday, July 16, 2008, to review mission security and work posture following the announcement of a 2-day general strike beginning on Thursday, July 17, 2008 (ref a). The consensus of the EAC was that mission emplo [...]
2008-07-16 17:25:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYASEC CASC PGOV AMGT IV
08ABIDJAN475GENERAL STRIKE LARGELY SUCCESSFUL; NEGOTIATIONS
[...] (U) Summary. The members of UGTCI, the country's largest federation of unions, overwhelmingly observed its call for a general strike on July 17 and 18 to call for salary increases in response to the gas price hike, following some initial confusion. Taxi and mini-bus transporters maintained the [...]
2008-07-18 16:08:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ASEC ECON ELAB AMGT IV
08ABIDJAN486STATUS OF ELECTORAL PREPARATIONS
[...] (SBU) The Government of Cote d'Ivoire has made some progress on its preparations for the presidential election scheduled for November 30. However, much work remains to be done. Many Ivoirians, as well as members of the international community, are beginning to question whether the government [...]
2008-07-24 10:12:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNKDEM PGOV IV
08ABIDJAN492PARTIES IN FN-HELD TERRITORIES ORIENTED AROUND
[...] Summary. DCM, Econ Chief and Political Specialist traveled July 15-18 to Seguela and Bouake in Forces Nouvelles-held territory. During the course of the trip, Emboffs met with representatives of the country's three major political parties (FPI, RDR, PDCI). Discussions with party representat [...]
2008-07-25 15:31:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM IV
08ABIDJAN493STRIKE ANNOUNCED FOR JULY 31
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Union of General Workers of Cote d'Ivoire (UGTCI) has rejected as insufficient the economic measures enacted by the government on July 20 in response to the UGTCI's July 17-18 general strike and widespread discontent among transporters and consumers. The UGTCI has called fo [...]
2008-07-25 15:44:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV ASEC ECON ELAB AMGT IV
08ABIDJAN500BACKGROUND ON FN MUTINY IN SEGUELA
[...] (C) Summary. DCM, ECON Chief and Political Specialist met with senior Forces Nouvelles military leaders during a recent visit to Bouake and Seguela, flashpoint of recent FN violence. Emboffs had unusually frank meetings with FAFN Chief of Staff Bakayoko and Deputy Chief of Staff Wattao, und [...]
2008-07-29 15:41:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALMARR PREL PGOV PHUM SOCI IV
08ABIDJAN51STATUS OF IDENTIFICATION PROCESS
[...] (C) Summary. The Government of Cote d'Ivoire is moving forward on the identification process, which is a critical stage in the implementation of the Ouagadougou Political Agreement (OPA) and at the heart of the country's political crisis. All 111 audiences foraines teams that are to issue bir [...]
2008-01-23 15:54:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM IV
08ABIDJAN520FORCES NOUVELLES VIEWS ON IDENTIFICATION,
[...] (C) Summary. During a recent Embassy visit to Bouake and Seguela, senior interlocutors from the Forces Nouvelles (FN) and regional leaders of the RDR political party raised concerns about how the process of identification would proceed. FN political leaders went to great lengths to reject [...]
2008-08-04 10:37:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM SOCI IV
08ABIDJAN521LACK OF FUNDING HAMPERS DDR PROCESS
[...] (C) Summary: Senior military officers from the Forces Nouvelles (FAFN) confirmed to Emboffs during a recent trip to Bouake and Seguela that substantial progress is being made in regrouping FAFN troops but funding to ensure the smooth reintegration of former combatants is lacking. FAFN leader [...]
2008-08-04 12:30:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV MARR EAID PREL PHUM IV
08ABIDJAN522THE FORCES NOUVELLES AND THE DIAMOND TRADE IN
[...] (C) Summary. During a recent visit to Bouake and Seguela, Emboffs probed the issue of whether control of the region's diamonds was a factor in the recent clash between factions of the Forces Nouvelles (FAFN). Emboffs met with Deputy FAFN Chief Wattao, who said that the Forces Nouvelles wer [...]
2008-08-04 13:18:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALEMIN PGOV MARR KCOR PREL ECON IV
08ABIDJAN56CODEL ENGEL'S VISIT ON CHILD LABOR IN COCOA DRAWS
[...] (SBU) Summary. Representative Engel, Senator Harkin and Senator Sanders met with President Gbagbo, Prime Minister Soro and key government ministers to discuss the implementation of the Harkin Engel Protocol, a key element of which is the July 1, 2008 deadline, which aims to put in place a c [...]
2008-01-24 18:09:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV EAGR ECON EAID ELAB OREP IV
08ABIDJAN591PDCI SAYS TRANSPARENT ELECTIONS IN 2008 A MUST,
[...] (C) Summary. In a September 2 meeting, PDCI (Democratic Party of Cote d'Ivoire) Secretary General Alphonse Djedje Mady told Ambassador that Cote d'Ivoire must hold elections in 2008. If it does not, the Ouagadougou Political Agreement (OPA) will be defunct and a new government framework will [...]
2008-09-04 18:07:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM IV
08ABIDJAN611CEI SAYS VOTER REGISTRATION WILL BEGIN SEPTEMBER 15
[...] (SBU) Summary. President of the Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) Robert Mambe told Ambassador that the identification and voter registration processes will begin September 15. Although not all 11,000 sites are ready, operations will begin in those sites that are and commence in others [...]
2008-09-08 16:46:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM IV
08ABIDJAN6142008 HUMAN RIGHTS PRIORITIES
[...] (C) Ambassador delivered demarche in reftel on September 8 to Cote d'Ivoire's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Alcide Djedje, who was in Abidjan. 2. (C) Poloff delivered demarche in reftel on September 9 to Etienne Kindia, Deputy Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Dep [...]
2008-09-09 17:30:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL UN IV
08ABIDJAN62COTE D'IVOIRE ADOPTS BUDGET ON TIME; IMF, WORLD
[...] (C) Summary. Cote d'Ivoire adopted its 2008 budget in late December 2007, fulfilling a key demand from the international financial institutions engaged in ongoing assistance negotiations with the government. The budget is 8.5 percent higher than that of 2007, reflecting higher personnel co [...]
2008-01-28 16:51:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN IDA IMF PGOV PREF USTR EITI IV
08ABIDJAN63UNOCI CONCERNED ABOUT DDR PROCESS
[...] (C) Jean Marc Tafani, the new chief of the United Nations Operation in Cote d'Ivoire (UNOCI) Office of Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration (DDR) described the government's DDR plan as ambitious and fragile and noted it could increase instability. Tafani expressed concern about lack [...]
2008-01-28 17:02:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALMARR MCAP PREL PGOV IV
08ABIDJAN77AMBASSADOR MEETS FORMER PRESIDENT BEDIE
[...] (C) Summary. Ambassador met on January 31 with Henri Konan Bedie, former President of Cote d'Ivoire and current leader and presidential candidate of the Democratic Party of Cote d'Ivoire (Parti Democratique de la Cote d'Ivoire - PDCI). Bedie expressed doubt about whether President Gbagbo is tru [...]
2008-02-01 18:18:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM IV
08ABIDJAN8IMPLEMENTING PEACE AGREEMENT INCREASES TENSION IN
[...] (C) Summary: As the government of Cote d'Ivoire takes action to implement DDR-related provisions of the Ouagadougou Political Agreement (OPA),deep lying fissures are surfacing. Violent confrontations in the north over the past few weeks have exposed rifts within the Forces Nouvelles between [...]
2008-01-04 19:17:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALMARR MCAP PGOV EAID IV
08ABIDJAN810OFFICIAL CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE TO THE PRESIDENT
[...] Embassy Abidjan received a message of congratulations to the President Elect from Henri Konan Bedie, former President of Cote d'Ivoire (1993-1999) and currently leader of one of the country's three major political parties, the Democratic Party of Cote d'Ivoire, known by its French acronym, PDCI [...]
2008-11-14 14:42:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDOPDC PREL OVIP IV
08ABIDJAN811OFFICIAL CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE TO THE PRESIDENT
[...] Embassy Abidjan received a message of congratulations to the President Elect from Charles Konan Banny, former Prime Minister of Cote d'Ivoire (2005-2007). Embassy will transmit a hard copy of the message to the Department by diplomatic pouch. 2. Embassy translation of the French language m [...]
2008-11-14 14:43:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDOPDC PREL OVIP IV
08ABIDJAN813AMBASSADOR TELLS FINANCE MINISTER DEBT RELIEF
[...] (C) Summary. In a November 6 meeting, Ambassador told Economy and Finance Minister Charles Diby that Cote d'Ivoire must show stronger fiscal performance to reach the Highly Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) decision point. Diby explained extra-budgetary spending on public works projects in Yamous [...]
2008-11-14 17:57:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON PREL PGOV IV
08ABIDJAN816OFFICIAL CONGRATULATORY MESSAGE TO THE PRESIDENT
[...] Embassy Abidjan received a message of congratulations to the President Elect from Lucien Tape Mambo, President of the Forum of Civil Society of the 79 African, Caribbean, and Pacific States (ACP). The ACP is composed of African, Caribbean and Pacific nations that are signatories to the George [...]
2008-11-17 16:10:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDOPDC PREL OVIP IV
08ABIDJAN820G/TIP TIER 2 WATCH LIST INTERIM ASSESSMENT
[...] (U) SUMMARY: In response to reftel, Poloff met with NGOs and government officials working on trafficking in persons (TIP) issues, but could not obtain meetings with key ministries, specifically the Ministries of Justice and Interior, despite repeated phone calls and follow-up letters from th [...]
2008-11-19 08:26:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL PGOV SOCI SMIG KTIP KWMN KCRM IV
08ABIDJAN822PRESIDENT GBAGBO DISCUSSES ELECTION DELAY, DDR ISSUES
[...] (C) Summary: In a November 13 meeting with Ambassador, President Gbagbo said he was disappointed that elections have been postponed again but does not see what he can do to speed up the process; the Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) needs to work more quickly and effectively. He was calm a [...]
2008-11-19 15:40:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM EAID IV PGOV
08ABIDJAN870WAR OF WORDS OVER DISARMAMENT PROCESS LINKED TO
[...] (C) Summary. President Gbagbo's political party, the FPI, and Prime Minister Soro's Forces Nouvelles (FN) movement have clashed verbally over the past few weeks with the FPI insisting, once again, that disarmament be completed before elections and the Forces Nouvelles accusing the FPI of wanti [...]
2008-12-11 08:42:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM IV
08ABIDJAN879FORCES NOUVELLES SPOKESMAN DISCUSSES DISARMAMENT
[...] (C) Summary: Moussa Dosso, who headed the Forces Nouvelles (FAFN) delegation that met with President Gbagbo on Dec. 9, told Ambassador that the FPI wants a truncated disarmament process which is unacceptable to the FAFN. Dosso said that after 5-6 years of loyal service, the FAFN cannot ask its [...]
2008-12-16 17:25:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV MARR KDEM EAID IV
08ABIDJAN893UPDATE ON COCOA GOVERNANCE AND LABOR ISSUES
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Cocoa and Coffee Sector Management Committee (CGCC) named by President Gbagbo in September (ref A) has already run afoul of industry leaders. Its setting of a relatively high "indicative" farmgate price for cocoa beans led to a brief disruption of the market, and its decisi [...]
2008-12-23 10:26:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALEAGR ECON ELAB EFIN PGOV PHUM IV
08ABIDJAN90G/TIP AMBASSADOR LAGON VISIT TO COTE D'IVOIRE
[...] (U) Summary: G/TIP Ambassador Mark Lagon met with government officials, NGO leaders, and UN officials during his January 23-24 visit to Abidjan. Ambassador Lagon told his interlocutors that the USG comes in partnership to address trafficking in persons and stands ready to consult on legal and [...]
2008-02-06 18:24:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM SMIG UN IV
08ABIDJAN907U.S. TREASURY TRAINS WEST AFRICAN FINANCIAL
[...] Summary. December 15-19, advisors from the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Technical Assistance (OTA) provided training in financial investigative techniques to 55 individuals from francophone and lusophone West Africa. Ambassador delivered opening remarks. On margins of the course, eco [...]
2008-12-31 10:13:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDPTER EFIN ECON KCRM KTFN IV
08ABIDJAN97AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT BANK ON ENGAGEMENT WITH
[...] (C) Summary. African Development Bank (AfDB) Official Representative to Cote d'Ivoire Ngardinga Sangbe discussed with Embassy officials Cote d'Ivoire's recently passed 2008 budget, the country's arrears with the AfDB and the HIPC process, expressing confidence that arrears can be settled, b [...]
2008-02-08 14:35:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN IDA IMF PGOV PREF USTR EITI IV
09ABIDJAN104FORCES NOUVELLES SPOKESMAN CLARIFIES OUAGA IV
[...] (C) Summary. In a February 10 meeting, Minister of Tourism and Forces Nouvelles (FN) Spokesman Sidiki Konate confirmed that the Ouaga IV agreement returns civilian control of the north to the government but stressed that the FN will retain military control of the north until after the election. [...]
2009-02-11 12:35:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV MARR KDEM EAID IV
09ABIDJAN114COTE D'IVOIRE: UN'S UNIVERSAL PERIODIC REVIEW OF
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Per reftel, post surveyed the primary human rights organizations in Cote d'Ivoire to inquire about their participation in the United Nation's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) of Human Rights process. Cote d'Ivoire will undergo review in December 2009. In order to prepare for the [...]
2009-02-13 14:48:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM KDEM UNHRC IV
09ABIDJAN115DEMARCHE ON LIABILITY AND REDRESS UNDER THE
[...] On February 12, econoff delivered reftel demarche to two representatives of the Ministry of the Environment, Water, and Forests: Patrick Pedia, national point of contact for the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety (CPB),and Augustin Kone, national point of contact for the Biosafety Clearing-House [...]
2009-02-13 14:50:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ECON ETRD PREL TBIO KPAO IV
09ABIDJAN125ABIDJAN: ASSESSING THE NEED FOR INCREASED
[...] (U) In response to reftel A, Embassy submits the following assessment of Cote d'Ivoire's need for increased law enforcement and judicial training. Point of contact for this report is ARSO Marc Trahan (phone: 225.2249.4448 IVG 783). 2. (U) Cote d'Ivoire's non-military security forces face bo [...]
2009-02-18 10:40:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDASEC PGOV SOCI KCRM IV
09ABIDJAN129CONDOLENCE MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT GBAGBO
[...] Embassy received by fax a condolence message from President Laurent Gbagbo to President Obama regarding the airline crash that occurred near Buffalo, New York. Please find Embassy translation of the original French text in paragraph 2. 2. Begin translation of text. To His Excellency Mr [...]
2009-02-19 13:16:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDOPDC PREL OVIP IV
09ABIDJAN14NEW YEAR MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT GBAGBO
[...] Embassy received by fax a message from President Laurent Gbagbo to President Bush on the occasion of the New Year. Please find Embassy translation of the original French text in paragraph 2. 2. Begin translation of text. To His Excellency George Walker Bush President of the United State [...]
2009-01-06 16:26:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDOPDC PREL OVIP IV
09ABIDJAN166COTE D'IVOIRE: GOVERNMENT POSTPONES HANDOVER OF
[...] (C) Summary: Just hours before it was to take place, Minister of Interior Desire Tagro forced the postponement of a March 4 ceremony marking the handover of administrative powers by the Forces Nouvelles (FAFN) in Bouake to civilian government authorities. He said that without mixed brigades (j [...]
2009-03-10 16:10:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM MARR SOCI EAID IV
09ABIDJAN168COTE D'IVOIRE: TOUR D'HORIZON WITH FOREIGN
[...] (SBU) Ambassador met with Foreign Minister Bakayoko on March 10 to discuss a variety of topics including HIPC, the situation in Guinea, Sudan, Iraq, and Cote d'Ivoire's new policy regarding visas for Americans. The key points from the conversation are noted below. 2. (C) HIPC: FM Bakayoko, [...]
2009-03-12 13:03:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPREL SNAR ECON CVIS IV
09ABIDJAN171CORRUPTION ARTICLE PROVOKES DESTRUCTION OF
[...] (U) On February 28, the "Nouveau Reveil," a newspaper closely affiliated with former President Henri Konan Bedie's PDCI political party, announced it would publish an article on the theft of 4 billion CFA (approximately 8 million USD) by government officials with ties to President Gbagbo. Th [...]
2009-03-12 14:49:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV PREL SOCI IV
09ABIDJAN175IDENTIFICATION/VOTER REGISTRATION EXTENDED
[...] (SBU) Summary. The identification/voter registration process has been extended until March 30 in some regions and until early April for those persons affected by the reconstitution of civil registries. Identification/voter registration of Ivoirians living in 19 foreign countries began on Marc [...]
2009-03-17 10:00:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV EAID KDEM PREL SOCI IV
09ABIDJAN178OUATTARA SEES LACK OF WILL TO HOLD ELECTIONS
[...] (C) Summary. RDR president Ouattara told Ambassador that President Gbagbo has no political will to hold an election and is taking steps to delay the process. Ouattara said it is technically feasible to hold the presidential election in 2009 and urged the international community to send a stron [...]
2009-03-17 16:10:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PREL IV
09ABIDJAN185FACILITATOR'S REPRESENTATIVE SAYS KEEP PRESSING
[...] (C) Summary: In a March 10 conversation, Ambassador Boureima Badini (Facilitator Blaise Compaore's representative in Abidjan) urged that the US and other donors keep pressing for elections in 2009. He expressed concern that the political will to hold elections has faded as it has become incre [...]
2009-03-19 16:28:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM ECON EAID IV
09ABIDJAN186MALNUTRITION IN NORTHERN COTE D'IVOIRE UNDERSCORES
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The absence of a functioning government in the north of Cote d'Ivoire and ongoing insecurity in the west are having increasingly negative effects on the resident populations. A SMART survey conducted in July 2008 revealed that the global acute malnutrition (GAM) rate in northern [...]
2009-03-20 15:43:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDEAID PHUM PGOV PREL EAGR SOCI IV
09ABIDJAN194BETTING ON DUST: A VISIT TO AN ARTISANAL GOLD MINE
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Rural villages carry out artisanal gold mining in northwestern Cote d'Ivoire. Yields are minuscule, and mining operations are done by hand. Mines in the north are still primarily under the control of the Forces Nouvelles. Poloff visited the artisanal mining village of Zievas [...]
2009-03-24 07:32:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDEMIN ECON IV
09ABIDJAN197OPPOSITION PARTY PRESIDENT DETAINED FOR REMARKS ON
[...] (U) Summary. The national security agency (DST),at the request of the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces, detained Kobena Anaky, president of a small opposition political party, March 20-21. Anaky's detention was the result of remarks he made regarding recent events in Madagascar on a March [...]
2009-03-25 08:20:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PHUM IV
09ABIDJAN205COTE D'IVOIRE'S CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITY OFF COURSE
[...] (U) Summary. At a recent briefing for the diplomatic community, Ivorian aviation officials discussed changes in security measures at Felix Houphouet Boigny International Airport in Abidjan. In the course of their briefing, the Ivorians repeatedly confused airport security measures with aviat [...]
2009-03-27 10:58:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALEAIR ECON IV
09ABIDJAN214THE "PEACE AND ZEN" MAN: AN INSIDER'S TAKE ON
[...] (C) SUMMARY: President Gbagbo's legal advisor (and goddaughter) reveals a different side of Cote d'Ivoire's most senior statesman and political figure, painting him as a man of "peace and zen" who prefers to focus on the intellectual, theoretical side of politics and leave the everyday matte [...]
2009-03-31 14:25:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR ECON IV
09ABIDJAN22MILITARY ISSUES RESOLVED IN OUAGA IV (THE FOURTH
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Ouagadougou Political Agreement's (OPA) fourth supplementary agreement (often referred to as Ouaga IV) addresses military issues that have blocked disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR),including grades, ranks, and the establishment of a new army. This cable [...]
2009-01-12 16:32:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYMARR PGOV KDEM EAID PREL IV
09ABIDJAN220FATE OF THE COMZONES MAY BE STALLING OUAGA IV
[...] (C) Summary. Implementation of the fourth supplementary agreement (Ouaga IV) to the Ouagadougou Political Agreement (OPA) is proving challenging, particularly with regard to the fate of the comzones. The Office of the OPA Facilitator's Special Representative told Poloff that, according to Oua [...]
2009-04-02 13:43:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV MARR KDEM IV
09ABIDJAN223TEACHERS' STRIKE IN COTE D'IVOIRE REFLECTS FRAYING SOCIAL
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-02 16:27:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV SOCI ECON KPAO IV
09ABIDJAN226FPI BLOCKING OUAGA IV TO DELAY ELECTIONS?
[...] (C) Summary. Alain Lobognon, the Prime Minister's Communications Advisor, told Ambassador he believes President Gbagbo's camp is blocking implementation of the fourth supplementary agreement (Ouaga IV) to the Ouagadougou Political Agreement (OPA) in order to delay elections because they fear [...]
2009-04-06 15:35:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV MARR KDEM IV
09ABIDJAN227DIFFICULT ECONOMIC CONDITIONS IN CENTRAL-WESTERN
[...] Summary. During a March 16-19 visit to the central-western region of Cote d'Ivoire, DCM and econoff found residents and local leaders to be greatly concerned about economic conditions, despite improved security in the area. The national political crisis has hampered the area's economic progr [...]
2009-04-07 09:27:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDECON PGOV EMIN SENV EAGR EFIN EAID IV
09ABIDJAN229CREDIT HARD TO OBTAIN IN COTE D'IVOIRE
[...] Summary. The Ivoirian banking sector is made up of 18 banks, approximately half of which are undercapitalized. Banks here play a relatively small role in the economy, even when compared with banks in other low-income countries. The lack of credit is an element that impedes the expansion of th [...]
2009-04-08 10:06:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN ECON IV
09ABIDJAN239AUTOMATIC FUEL-PRICING REGIME HAS ITS FIRST IMPACT
[...] Summary. On April 14, 2009, fuel prices at the pump in Abidjan decreased approximately 4 to 7 percent in response to a GOCI mandate. The decrease was the first change in prices made in accordance with a fuel-pricing mechanism the GOCI agreed to as part of its IMF program. End summary. 2. [...]
2009-04-15 16:03:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDENRG EFIN ECON PGOV IV
09ABIDJAN244FN URGE PM TO RESIGN
[...] (U) Summary. Forces Nouvelles (FN) delegates met in Bouake April 12-13 and issued a communique on April 14 rejecting accusations that they are responsible for stalling implementation of the fourth supplementary agreement (Ouaga IV) to the Ouagadougou Political Agreement (OPA). The communique [...]
2009-04-17 07:36:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV MARR KDEM IV
09ABIDJAN246PRIME MINISTER PROMISES PROGRESS ON ELECTIONS
[...] (C) Summary: In an April 15 meeting, Prime Minister Soro told Ambassador that he has sent a draft decree containing a proposed election date to President Gbagbo for approval. With the recent USG statement on HIPC and elections clearly in mind, he sought to reassure Ambassador that the Primature [...]
2009-04-17 12:31:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM MARR EAID IV
09ABIDJAN250MEDIA REACTION: DEPARTMENT STATEMENT ON COTE D'IVOIRE'S
[...] Summary: Local press reported positively on the State Department's March 30, 2009, press statement urging Cote d'Ivoire to maintain its economic and political reform commitments under the Enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative. Most of the dailies, including pro-government a [...]
2009-04-20 11:10:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN SOCI PGOV PREL KPAO IV
09ABIDJAN265FORCES NOUVELLES WARNS OPA IN JEOPARDY IF NO
[...] (U) Summary. The FN leadership met on April 20 and issued a declaration that said elections are technically possible and must take place in 2009. The FN reserved the right to reconsider their participation in the Ouagadougou Political Agreement (OPA) after 2009. They expressed their confidenc [...]
2009-04-22 15:41:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV MARR KDEM IV
09ABIDJAN267GICNT JOINT DEMARCHE ON PROPOSED AGENDA FOR 2009
[...] (U) PolEcon Chief delivered demarche in reftel jointly with Russian Embassy Political Counselor Alexander Kravchenko on April 22 to Konan Kouadio, Cote d'Ivoire's focal point for the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism. The Netherlands does not have a diplomatic mission in Cote d'Iv [...]
2009-04-23 07:38:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDPARM KNNP PREL PTER MNUC KGIC RS NL IV
09ABIDJAN277WORKERS' PARTY SAYS OPA DEFUNCT
[...] (C) Summary. Francis Wodie, president of the small Ivoirian Workers' Party (PIT),told Ambassador that the Ouagadougou Political Agreement (OPA) is defunct and that a National Forum should be held to identify durable solutions to the country's political crisis. End Summary. PIT Says OPA De [...]
2009-04-29 12:30:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM SOCI IV
09ABIDJAN281COTE D'IVOIRE: GBAGBO SAYS HE AND SORO ON THE SAME
[...] (C) Summary: President Gbagbo was upbeat about the likelihood of elections in 2009 when I met with him on April 27. He said his key concern is no longer the identification process but achieving reunification of the country and the disarmament of the Forces Nouvelles (FAFN). Gbagbo asserted th [...]
2009-04-30 06:38:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM MARR IV
09ABIDJAN295DEMARCHE ON STATUS OF NEW PORT STATES AGREEMENT
[...] (U) Emboff delivered demarche in reftel on April 30 to Dr. Jeanson Djobo, Director of Fisheries at the Ministry of Animal Production and Fisheries. Djobo, who said he attended the second session of the FAO Technical Consultation in January 2009 in Rome, was not aware of the next round of the [...]
2009-05-05 10:18:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDEFIS SENV AORC ETRD FAO IV
09ABIDJAN299HIKE IN ELECTRICITY RATES UNLIKELY TO PRODUCE
[...] Summary. In an effort to decrease government subsidies to the electricity sector, and in line with recommendations from international financial institutions, the GOCI raised most household electricity rates by 10 percent effective April 30. Previous increases in electricity rates have not g [...]
2009-05-08 15:26:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDENRG ECON EFIN PGOV IV
09ABIDJAN300UPDATE ON THE IDENTIFICATION/VOTER REGISTRATION
[...] (SBU) Summary. The "catch up" identification/voter registration process has been extended once again. It will end in Abidjan on May 10, but has not even begun in other areas of the country. The Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) will set up approximately 1500 registration centers nation [...]
2009-05-11 12:06:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM SOCI IV
09ABIDJAN309MODEL ANTI-TIP EFFORTS IN SOUTHEASTERN COTE
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The Government of Cote d'Ivoire (GoCI)has implemented a robust and comprehensive program to combat trafficking in persons (TIP) in the southeastern part of the country, with technical and financial assistance from the German development agency GTZ. The southeast is a major tra [...]
2009-05-13 08:22:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDKTIP PHUM SOCI PGOV IV
09ABIDJAN311UPDATE ON THE IDENTIFICATION/VOTER REGISTRATION
[...] (SBU) Summary. The "catch up" identification/voter registration process has been extended once again. It will end in Abidjan on May 10, but has not even begun in other areas of the country. The Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) will set up approximately 1500 registration centers nation [...]
2009-05-13 08:22:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM SOCI IV
09ABIDJAN314PROGRESS TOWARDS REUNIFICATION BEGINS WITH
[...] (SBU) Summary. Cote d'Ivoire took another step forward in implementing the Ouagadougou Political Agreement (OPA) with the launching of mixed brigades on May 8. Composed of police and gendarmes from both the Armed Forces of the Forces Nouvelles (FAFN) and the national security forces (FDS),t [...]
2009-05-14 15:04:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV MARR MCAP IV
09ABIDJAN315PRAISE AND SKEPTICISM ACCOMPANY ANNOUNCEMENT OF
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Government of Cote d'Ivoire has announced that the first round of the presidential election will be held on November 29, 2009. This is generally considered a positive development demonstrating that pressure from the international community to hold elections bore fruit. H [...]
2009-05-18 12:18:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM IV
09ABIDJAN346IVOIRIAN WOMEN HELD BACK BY SOCIETY, POVERTY AND
[...] (U) Summary. Ivoirian jurisprudence puts women on an equal footing with men and protects their rights. However, these laws are infrequently enforced due to ignorance of the law or societal pressures. Ivoirian women from diverse sectors of society told Emboffs that Ivoirian women, especially [...]
2009-06-02 13:14:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKWMN SOCI KJUS IV
09ABIDJAN35FINANCE MINISTER DOCUMENTS PROGRESS MADE TO MEET
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-15 14:01:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDEFIN EAID PGOV PREL ECON IV
09ABIDJAN350COTE D'IVOIRE: UN CERTIFICATION OF ELECTION
[...] (U) Summary. SRSG Choi held a press conference on May 27 to counter misinformation about the UN certification of Cote d'Ivoire's election. There has been confusion among both Ivoirians and the international community about how the certification will be conducted. Choi clarified the certific [...]
2009-06-03 12:27:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KDEM UN IV
09ABIDJAN36COMMENT ON DOL DRAFT LIST FOR TVPRA
[...] (C) Embassy Abidjan believes Cote d'Ivoire should be deleted from the Department of Labor's (DOL) draft list, prepared under the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA),for production of gold using child labor. 2. (C) Gold production is concentrated in the northern, sav [...]
2009-01-15 16:01:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALEIND ELAB ETRD PHUM SOCI KTIP IV
09ABIDJAN366PRESIDENT GBAGBO FINALLY VISITS WESTERN COTE
[...] (SBU) Summary. On June 7, President Gbagbo amid tight security embarked on a ten day trip to the west and northwest of the country. His visit to the west is a political and personal triumph as he has not been able to travel to the west since the country was divided in 2002. The visit, which [...]
2009-06-10 15:34:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV IV
09ABIDJAN37REQUEST FOR CHILD LABOR INFORMATION FOR TRADE AND
[...] The information in this cable is in response to the questions under points A through E in paragraph 9 of reftel. 2. A. Cote d'Ivoire has ratified International Labor Organization (ILO) Convention 138 regarding the minimum age for employment and ILO Convention 182 regarding the worst forms o [...]
2009-01-15 16:09:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI USAID IV
09ABIDJAN382GBAGBO INTERVENES TO STOP PORT STRIKE
[...] (U) Summary. A three-week-long strike at the Port of Abidjan ended June 17 after President Gbagbo promised to resolve all of the striking dock workers' grievances and ordered the release of workers who had been jailed. The strike resulted in some violence and a major disruption of port opera [...]
2009-06-19 14:31:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDELAB EWWT ECON PGOV IV
09ABIDJAN386INVITING IRANIAN OFFICIALS TO JULY 4 EVENT
[...] (C) Iran has an embassy in Cote d'Ivoire and, per reftel, COM decided to invite the resident Iranian Ambassador. An embassy driver attempted to deliver the invitation on June 16 and again on June 18. On both occasions, Iranian embassy personnel refused to accept delivery of the invite. Embas [...]
2009-06-23 15:34:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALODIP PREL IR
09ABIDJAN391IVOIRIAN GOVERNMENT RESPONSE TO TIER 2 WATCH LIST
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Embassy has informed the Ministry of Family that Cote d'Ivoire will face sanctions in 2011 if the country continues to remain on Tier 2 Watch List status. Representatives of both the Ministry of Family and the National Committee to Fight Trafficking told Poloff that they are ham [...]
2009-06-26 13:02:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDKTIP PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI IV
09ABIDJAN402COTE D'IVOIRE: GBAGBO REVIVES ROLE OF
[...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Badini (the Facilitator's representative in Abidjan) believes that Cote d'Ivoire is entering a critical phase as the identification process ends and compilation of the electoral list begins. He anticipates a hard fought battle among the political parties that could get [...]
2009-07-01 15:23:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM SOCI IV
09ABIDJAN406ELECTIONS IN COTE D'IVOIRE: THE MYTH AND THE
[...] C) Summary: Although key figures in the Ivorian government and opposition continue to insist publicly that elections must be held as scheduled on November 29, resident diplomats are highly skeptical, as are most politically-savvy Ivorians. The gap between public pronouncements and the behind-t [...]
2009-07-02 14:30:00Embassy AbidjanSECRET//NOFORNPGOV KDEM PREL EAID IV
09ABIDJAN410IMPLEMENTATION OF UNSCR 1874 AND INFORMATION ON
[...] DCM delivered demarches in reftels and nonpaper in reftel B to Ambassador Idrissa Bayo, Director of the Americas division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). Bayo thanked DCM for the demarche and pledged the Government of Cote d'Ivoire's support in implementing UNSCR 1874. Ambassador B [...]
2009-07-06 12:24:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP ECON EFIN MNUC MTCRE PARM PREL KN IV
09ABIDJAN411IDENTIFICATION/VOTER REGISTRATION ENDS, BUT MUCH
[...] (SBU) Summary. The identification/voter registration process, which began almost one year ago, ended formally on June 30. The fact that it was carried out without violence is a major step forward in the peace process. The accuracy of the results could, however, be questioned. Accusations of [...]
2009-07-06 14:48:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM IV
09ABIDJAN417COTE D'IVOIRE: SRSG PONDERING UNOCI'S FUTURE
[...] (C) Summary: Given the increasing likelihood that elections scheduled for November 29 may be postponed, SRSG Choi has begun consulting with resident diplomats about the future of UNOCI. An extension of UNOCI's mandate through December 2009 is anticipated when the Security Council meets to revi [...]
2009-07-09 15:13:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV DPKO KDEM MARR IV
09ABIDJAN430UNOCI SAYS DDR UNLIKELY BEFORE ELECTION
[...] (C) Summary. Ouaga IV (the fourth supplementary agreement to the Ouagadougou Political Agreement (OPA)) calls for disarmament of the Forces Nouvelles (FAFN) and dismantlement of the militias to be completed two months before the presidential election, currently scheduled to be held on Novembe [...]
2009-07-16 14:51:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MARR KDEM KPKO UN IV
09ABIDJAN444PM SORO REITERATES VIABILITY OF ELECTIONS IN
[...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Soro told Ambassador July 15 that elections will be held as scheduled on November 29, despite widespread skepticism. He deplored the cost of the Independent Electoral Commission (CEI),and insisted that the process must come to an end. Unlike key political party rep [...]
2009-07-20 15:43:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM EAID PREL IV
09ABIDJAN449DEMARCHE ON RESULTS OF US-RUSSIA PRESIDENTIAL
[...] (U) Ambassador delivered reftel demarche to Minister of Foreign Affairs Youssouf Bakayoko on July 20. The Minister had recently returned from attending the Non-Aligned Movement leaders summit in Sharm el-Sheikh and said it was very reassuring to see the U.S. and Russia making an effort to res [...]
2009-07-21 15:39:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL RS IV
09ABIDJAN457GOCI LAUNCHES REMEDIATION PROGRAM TO COMBAT CHILD
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-27 06:31:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDELAB ECON SOCI PGOV PREL IV
09ABIDJAN475REQUEST FOR INCREASED ENGAGEMENT ON EFFORTS TO
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Gender-based violence (GBV) is a widespread problem in Cote d'Ivoire, particularly in regions where the conflict displaced large numbers of people. The Ivoirian government is currently implementing anti-GBV projects in 18 departments in the north, west, and center of Cote d'Ivoi [...]
2009-08-04 13:15:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDKWMN PHUM PREL IV
09ABIDJAN49GOVERNMENT CUTS GAS PRICES
[...] The Government of Cote d'Ivoire announced on January 14 a 4 to 8 percent reduction in the price of gasoline and lamp oil. This measure, which went into effect at midnight on January 16, reflects the decrease in the price of oil on the international market (USD 36.43 a barrel on January 14). [...]
2009-01-22 08:35:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV ECON SOCI IV
09ABIDJAN523PRESIDENTIAL DECREES BUY ELECTORAL COMMISSION MORE
[...] (U) SUMMARY: On August 25, President Gbagbo signed three presidential decrees that give the Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) more time to produce and post the provisional electoral list. Although the provisional electoral list was originally scheduled to be published on August 29, th [...]
2009-09-08 07:47:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM IV
09ABIDJAN550Ambassador Addresses Association of International
[...] Description of activity: On September 12, 2009, U.S. Ambassador to the Cote d'Ivoire Wanda L. Nesbitt offered remarks at a conference on development and corruption organized by the Association of International Visitors of Cote d'Ivoire (Association Ivoirienne des Visiteurs Internationaux aux U [...]
2009-09-21 13:28:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KPAO OEXC SCUL IV
09ABIDJAN571RUSSIAN BUSINESS PRESENCE IN AFRICA (C-CI9-01825)
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-02 06:48:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDPINR BBSR ECON EINV CV
09ABIDJAN576PURPORTED PROVISIONAL ELECTORAL LIST DELIVERED TO
[...] (C) On the evening of October 1, SAGEM and the National Institute for Statistics (INS) presented Prime Minister Soro with an electronic copy (on USB thumb drives) of what they claimed was a provisional electoral list. Because President Laurent Gbagbo was traveling in the west on October 1, a [...]
2009-10-05 15:38:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM IV
09ABIDJAN581COTE D'IVOIRE: CONTINGENCY PLANNING FOR GUINEAN REFUGEES
[...] (SBU) On October 6, Poloff spoke to representatives from the Ivoirian government agency for refugees (SAARA),the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR),and the UN Office for the Coordinator of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) about possible repercussions of the crisis in Guinea. All three o [...]
2009-10-06 12:42:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PHUM PREL PGOV GV IV
09ABIDJAN59MESSAGE FROM PRESIDENT GBAGBO TO PRESIDENT OBAMA
[...] Embassy Abidjan received a message by fax to President Obama from President Laurent Gbagbo of Cote d'Ivoire. 2. Embassy translation of the French language message follows: Begin Text. Mister President: Your inauguration as 44th President of the United States of America offers me the [...]
2009-01-26 12:58:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDOPDC PREL OVIP IV
09ABIDJAN592TRANSPARENCY INITIATIVE MOVES FORWARD--SLOWLY
[...] (U) Summary. Cote d'Ivoire's initial report for compliance with the Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI) is behind schedule. Nevertheless, it is still possible for the GOCI to meet the May 2010 deadline for EITI validation. End summary. 2. (U) In an October 8 meeting with [...]
2009-10-14 14:46:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON EMIN ENRG EPET PGOV PREL IV
09ABIDJAN618NEW COCOA SEASON: WHAT'S CHANGED, WHAT HASN'T,
[...] (U) Summary. October 1 marked the official start of Cote d'Ivoire's 2009-2010 cocoa season. Experts expect this year's output to be the same as or somewhat less than last year's. In keeping with recommendations of the international financial institutions (IFIs),the Cocoa and Coffee Sector [...]
2009-10-22 06:40:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALEAGR ECON EFIN IV
09ABIDJAN627IVORIAN VIEWS ON GUINEA
[...] (C) Summary: The Ivorian government shares the USG view that Dadis Camara cannot be a candidate for president and is working with Burkina Faso president Blaise Compaore to persuade Camara to abandon presidential ambitions. President Gbagbo prefers to maintain a low profile with regard to Guine [...]
2009-10-23 14:09:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPREL MARR GV IV
09ABIDJAN640RENEWED SKIRMISH OVER NATIONALITY DELAYING
[...] (C) Summary: Publication of the provisional electoral list remains stalled; key Ivorian leaders cannot agree on how to deal with 1.9 million cases in which names on the list have not been matched with a historical record. President Gbagbo reportedly favors immediate publication of a list that [...]
2009-10-30 14:13:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM SOCI IV
09ABIDJAN647FRAUD SUMMARY (REVISED) Q ABIDJAN, COTE DQIVOIRE
[...] Following is AbidjanQs fraud summary for April 2009 through August, 2009. 2. COUNTRY CONDITIONS: Cote dQIvoire has been a divided country since a 2002 failed coup attempt evolved into an armed rebellion that split the country in two. Ivorian President Laurent Gbagbo and New Forces leader G [...]
2009-11-02 13:44:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDKFRD CVIS CPAS CMGT ASEC IV
09ABIDJAN650DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON FDA REPORTABLE FOOD REGISTRY
[...] On October 26, 2009 Ambassador Nesbitt delivered reftel demarche to the Minister of Agriculture Amadou Gon coulibaly. On November 3, post delivered a follow up demarche to the Director of American Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Idrissa Bayo. NESBITT [...]
2009-11-05 07:01:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ETRD ECON IV
09ABIDJAN652DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON 64TH UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY,
[...] During the week of October 19 Ambassador Nesbitt met with Ivorian Ambassador to the UN Alcide Djedje to solicit GoCI for support for resolutions on Iran, Burma and the DPRK as outlined in reftel. In addition, on November 3, 2009 post delivered all elements of reftel demarche to Ambassador [...]
2009-11-05 07:22:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL UN IV
09ABIDJAN653DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON PARTNERING FOR GLOBAL HUNGER
[...] On November 3, 2009 post delivered the letter from Secretary Clinton and reftel details concerning the need to partner for global hunger and food security to Ambassador Idrissa Bayo, Director of American Affairs at the Cote d,Ivoire Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Ambassador Bayo was very inter [...]
2009-11-05 07:23:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR EAID ETRD IV
09ABIDJAN66PM SORO DISCUSSES ELECTION DELAY, HIPC WITH CARTER
[...] (C) Summary. The Carter Center representative in Cote d'Ivoire, Sabina Vigani, told Emboffs that former President Jimmy Carter has offered to visit Cote d'Ivoire if it would advance the peace process. According to Vigani, President Gbagbo's governing FPI party remarked that such a visit is un [...]
2009-01-28 08:34:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON EFIN PGOV PREL KDEM IV
09ABIDJAN666DISPUTE OVER PROVISIONAL ELECTORAL LIST RESOLVED
[...] (C) Summary: The three main political parties (the FPI, RDR, and PDCI) have apparently resolved their dispute, allowing publication of the provisional electoral list to move forward. An agreement to downplay nationality questions and deal "administratively" with the one million registrants who [...]
2009-11-09 11:34:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM SOCI IV
09ABIDJAN675ELECTIONS OFFICIALLY POSTPONED, NO NEW DATE SET
[...] (U) SUMMARY: On November 11, the Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) announced that presidential elections will not take place on November 29. The provisional voters' list has been printed, however, and the United Nations Operation in Cote d'Ivoire (UNOCI) has begun distributing it. Acco [...]
2009-11-13 13:47:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM SOCI IV
09ABIDJAN68PRIME MINISTER PLANS TO IMPLEMENT OUAGA IV
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Prime Minister's Office has drafted an operational program for implementation of the fourth supplementary agreement (Ouaga IV) to the Ouagadougou Polib=Xo|WPthat the PNRRC has already reconfirmed the plans of 4,000 FN troops. He noted that the FN troops will also have to be [...]
2009-01-29 17:23:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALMARR PGOV KDEM EAID PREL IV
09ABIDJAN687YOUTH VIOLENCE FEARED DURING ELECTIONS
[...] (SBU) Summary: International NGOs working on election issues, as well as Ivoirian civil society institutions are concerned about the potential for violence in the run up to elections, particularly among impoverished and unemployed youth, who have attached their economic hopes to their respe [...]
2009-11-16 13:48:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM SOCI IV
09ABIDJAN688COTE D'IVOIRE: UNGA COUNTRY SPECIFIC HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-16 14:13:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PHUM UNGA IV
09ABIDJAN70UN FIELD COVERAGE OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN COTE D'IVOIRE
[...] (U) SUMMARY: As requested in reftel, Poloff met with members of the National Human Rights Commission, civil society actors, and political party human rights representatives to assess the work of the Human Rights (HR) Division of the United Nations Operation in Cote d'Ivoire (UNOCI). In gene [...]
2009-02-02 15:17:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL IV
09ABIDJAN716NORTH-CENTRAL COTE D'IVOIRE AWAITS ECONOMIC
[...] (SBU) Summary. Poverty in northern Cote d'Ivoire has worsened during the seven-year political/military crisis. The Forces Nouvelles (FN) still exert substantial control over the northern economy, levying significant taxes on some sectors. Additionally, businesses in the north have experie [...]
2009-11-27 09:08:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAGR EFIN PGOV IV
09ABIDJAN722ELECTION DATE PASSES WITH MINOR, PEACEFUL PROTESTS
[...] (SBU) November 29, the date scheduled for presidential elections in Cote d'Ivoire, came and went with little fanfare. The GOCI made no official announcement on the postponed elections, leaving the November 11 statement (ref a) by Robert Mambe, the President of the Independent Electoral Comm [...]
2009-12-01 09:20:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDKDEM PGOV SOCI IV
09ABIDJAN732IVOIRIAN COTTON SECTOR HANGING BY A THREAD
[...] Summary. Poor management and world market factors, along with the seven-year military-political crisis, have resulted in a 63 percent reduction in Ivoirian cotton production since the late 1990s. Cotton is grown almost entirely in the Forces Nouvelles (FN)-controlled north, but the sector is s [...]
2009-12-04 13:07:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ECON ETRD IV
09ABIDJAN733IVOIRIAN COTTON SECTOR HANGING BY A THREAD
[...] Summary. Poor management and world market factors, along with the seven-year military-political crisis, have resulted in a 63 percent reduction in Ivoirian cotton production since the late 1990s. Cotton is grown almost entirely in the Forces Nouvelles (FN)-controlled north, but the sector is s [...]
2009-12-04 13:07:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ECON ETRD IV
09ABIDJAN734IVOIRIAN COTTON SECTOR HANGING BY A THREAD
[...] Summary. Poor management and world market factors, along with the seven-year military-political crisis, have resulted in a 63 percent reduction in Ivoirian cotton production since the late 1990s. Cotton is grown almost entirely in the Forces Nouvelles (FN)-controlled north, but the sector is s [...]
2009-12-04 13:07:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ECON ETRD IV
09ABIDJAN758COTE D'IVOIRE: 2009 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM
[...] (SBU) Summary: There were few changes or emerging trends regarding counterterrorism in Cote d'Ivoire in 2009. The ongoing political crisis continues to weaken police and security forces and increase the risk that foreign terrorists can use Cote d'Ivoire as an operational or financial base. P [...]
2009-12-21 13:00:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPTER ASEC IV
09ABIDJAN83UPDATE ON THE IVOIRIAN NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (U) On January 22, Poloff met with President Victorine Wodie and Executive Secretary Dr. Gervais Boga of the National Human Rights Commission (CNDHCI) to discuss the commission's activities since it officially began work in July 2008. Wodie explained that the real work of the commission wil [...]
2009-02-04 07:14:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL PGOV IV
09ABIDJAN91OUAGA IV MAY RESOLVE THE CRISIS, BUT AT A COST
[...] (S/NF) Summary: Since the Ouaga IV accord was signed in late December 2008, Embassy has noted widely varying reports about what the accord means, both in terms of what it requires each side to do, and the broader political implications. This message gives our analysis of Ouaga IV. We believe t [...]
2009-02-06 16:10:00Embassy AbidjanSECRETPREL PGOV KDEM EAID IV
09ABIDJAN92PRESIDENT FIRES SECRETARY AS FIRST STEP IN
[...] (U) On February 4, the President's spokesperson issued a communique, which he read on television, announcing that one of the President's secretaries, Emilienne Blehon Gome, was charged in court with using her position to extort 65,542,610 CFA (circa USD 131,000) from a mobile telephone company, [...]
2009-02-06 17:37:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV KCRM KDEM ECON SOCI IV
10ABIDJAN13INDEPENDENT ELECTORAL COMMISSION'S CREDIBLITY IN TATTERS
[...] (C) Summary: The credibility of the Independent Electoral Commission has been severely damaged by the admission of its president, Robert Mambe, that he authorized an internal crosschecking of data on potential voters and distributed it to some, but not all, of the key political parties. Pres [...]
2010-01-11 18:48:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV KPKO KDEM IV PREL
10ABIDJAN15PRIME MINISTER CALLS FOR CALM, SETS UP OBSERVATION
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On January 12, Prime Minister Guillaume Soro publicly declared that the current Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) scandal has not jeopardized the integrity of the voters' list. However, to ensure that there are no doubts about the integrity of the list, the four ot [...]
2010-01-13 17:10:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM IV
10ABIDJAN150Rolling Power Cuts Add to Heightened Tensions in Cote
[...] (SBU) Summary: On February 2, due to the breakdown of a large generation station, the GOCI began implementing rolling power cuts throughout the country, a situation the government predicts will last until mid-May. The GOCI is giving priority to factories, hospitals and water pumping statio [...]
2010-02-11 09:21:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYENRG ECON PREL ASEC IV
10ABIDJAN158COTE D'IVOIRE: HIGHER TOLLS AND LONGER DELAYS CHARACTERIZE
[...] Summary: Preliminary data collected by the West African Trade Hub on the Ouagadougou-Abidjan transportation corridor portray a divided country. The Forces Nouvelles (FAFN) demand approximately 2/3 more money than the Government of Cote d'Ivoire (GOCI) for permits and bribes on sections of th [...]
2010-02-11 16:09:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDASEC PGOV ECON ELTN KCOR IV
10ABIDJAN160Chinese Engagement in Cote d'Ivoire; Few Potential Areas for
[...] (SBU) On February 4, Pol/Econ Chief met with Lu Pang, Economic Commercial Counselor at the Chinese Embassy, along with first secretary Luo-Fa Yang to discuss reftel issues. Both men said that China has very few commercial activities or assistance programs in Cote d'Ivoire, citing difficulti [...]
2010-02-12 09:33:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDPREL EAID CH IV
10ABIDJAN172ABIDJAN: EMERGENCY ACTION COMMITTEE (EAC) MEETS TO REVIEW
[...] (SBU) The DCM convened the Emergency Action Committee (EAC) on Tuesday, February 16, 2010, to review security issues at post following the surprise dismissal of the cabinet and the Independent Election Commission by President Laurent Gbagbo on the evening of Friday, February 12. Situatio [...]
2010-02-17 16:10:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDASEC PINR CASC PREL IV
10ABIDJAN182Cote d'Ivoire: S/GWI Project Proposals
[...] (U) Embassy Abidjan is pleased to submit two funding requests for consideration by the Secretary's Office of Global Women's Issues' Small Grants Initiative. Post's first choice is a project submitted by an Ivoirian NGO, the Feminine Center for Democracy and Human Rights (CEFCI). CEFCI plans [...]
2010-02-22 15:20:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDPREL KWMN PHUM AID IV
10ABIDJAN19CEI COMMISSIONER PROVIDES INSIGHTS INTO SCANDAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) President Robert Mambe has remained silent while President Gbagbo's supporters have accused him of fraud and called for his resignation (reftels). Deputy CEI Spokesperson Yacouba Bamba told Poloff on January 13 that, although Mambe di [...]
2010-01-15 17:37:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM IV
10ABIDJAN190ABIDJAN TELECOMMUNICATIONS POLICY OFFICER
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-25 09:32:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDECON ECPS
10ABIDJAN21Little GOCI Progress on IMF Program Goals
[...] (C) Summary: IMF Resident Representative Philippe Egoume gave a mixed review of Cote d'Ivoire's economic performance in a meeting with Ambassador and Pol/Econ chief on January 15. While he was optimistic about the country's future economic prospects and believed President Gbagbo would hold t [...]
2010-01-20 16:17:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON EAID PREL IV
10ABIDJAN23TFHA01: ABIDJAN RESPONSE - DEMARCHE TO HOST GOVERNMENTS IN
[...] The government of Cote d'Ivoire is encouraging its citizens to donate money to the people of Haiti through the Red Cross. Although a contact at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs noted that final plans are not in place for government-to-government assistance, newspaper reports on January 20, 2010 [...]
2010-01-21 08:43:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON PGOV PREL PREF HA
10ABIDJAN27FPI HARDLINERS GAIN UPPER HAND IN ELECTORAL LIST DISPUTE
[...] (C). Summary: The Facilitator's representative believes that FPI hardliners have persuaded President Gbagbo that he is "being pushed to elections like a lamb being led to slaughter", and thereby won his approval to intensify their campaign to discredit the Independent Electoral Commission (CEI [...]
2010-01-22 09:39:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PREL IV
10ABIDJAN29Ivoirian Budget Transparency and the Extractive Industries
[...] (SBU) In response to ref A request, post reports the following: --The central government of Cote d'Ivoire currently receives funding through the FY 2010 Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations Act (SFOAA) as part of the President's Emergency Plan fo [...]
2010-01-22 12:09:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN EPET ECON PGOV PREL IV
10ABIDJAN31CARTER CENTER OBSERVATIONS ON CHALLENGES TO THE PROVISIONAL
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Observers from the Atlanta-based Carter Center who monitored the process of filing challenges to the provisional electoral list told the donor community that the nationwide distribution and posting of lists by the local independent electoral commissioners was very successfu [...]
2010-01-22 15:57:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KDEM IV
10ABIDJAN37OPPOSITION YOUTH TO HOLD MASS DEMONSTRATION ON JAN 26
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Political youth leaders from the RHDP opposition coalition have called for a mass demonstration on January 26. It will be the opposition's first major demonstration since March 2004. They plan to march on the state-owned television network in Abidjan and hold a [...]
2010-01-25 16:48:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV SOCI IV
10ABIDJAN41SORO: UN AND OTHERS MUST HELP PUSH ELECTORAL PROCESS FORWARD
[...] (SBU) Summary: PM Soro acknowledged in a January 26 meeting that the electoral process is at a standstill pending resolution of fraud allegations against CEI President Mambe. Soro agreed that the electoral process has progressed too far to be permitted to unravel and said he would look to th [...]
2010-01-28 18:48:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PREL IV
10ABIDJAN45ELECTORAL PROCESS GRINDING TO A HALT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Since the Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) fraud scandal made headlines in early January, the pace of electoral preparations has slowed to a crawl. There is still no consensus among the political parties on a way forward following the CEI scandal. The 70 observati [...]
2010-01-29 17:41:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM SOCI IV
10ABIDJAN49Finance Minister Says Election Delay Won't Impact Budget
[...] (SBU) Summary: On January 27, the Finance Minister told the Ambassador that a slight delay in elections would not have a major impact on this year's budget. He said that the USD 217 million shortfall in customs revenue was due to problems with a new computerized system, which were being rem [...]
2010-02-02 16:27:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN ETRD PREL IV
10ABIDJAN53Report on Child Labor and Forced Labor
[...] In response to ref A and in accordance with the Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act (TVPRA) of 2005 and the Trade and Development Act (TDA) of 2000, post provides the following information on child labor and forced labor in Cote d'Ivoire. --------- TVPRA --------- [...]
2010-02-03 15:02:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDELAB EAGR EIND ETRD ECON PHUM SOCI KTIP IV
10ABIDJAN57Dispute Process Extended; CEI Commissioners Protest
[...] (U) Summary: After weeks of speculation, the Prime Minister's Office and the Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) announced on February 2 that the period for filing challenges to the provisional electoral list will be reopened from February 4 through 14. The day after the announcem [...]
2010-02-08 13:38:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM IV
10ABIDJAN59Dispute Process Extended; Mambe Weakened by Dissent within
[...] (U) Summary: After weeks of speculation, the Prime Minister's Office and the Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) announced on February 2 that the period for filing challenges to the provisional electoral list will be reopened from February 4 through 14. The day after the announceme [...]
2010-02-08 18:15:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM IV
10ABIDJAN63FPI Insistent on Mambe's Resignation, CEI Reconfiguration
[...] (C) Summary: The FPI remains adamant that the current impasse over the electoral list cannot be resolved unless Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) President Robert Mambe resigns. The FPI also wants a reconfiguration of the CEI. In a February 9 meeting, Ambassador told FPI representative [...]
2010-02-11 12:26:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PREL ASEC IV
10ABIDJAN65GBAGBO EXPECTED TO DISSOLVE GOVERNMENT
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a meeting with the international community on February 12, SRSG Choi confirmed that President Gbagbo intends to announce "institutional changes" within the government in the context of the current political impasse. Although Choi did not have further details, it is wi [...]
2010-02-12 18:11:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PREL IV
10ABIDJAN69COTE D'IVOIRE: TENTH ANNUAL TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT
[...] (SBU) Per reftel instructions, post submits the following information on Cote d'Ivoire for the Tenth Annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report. POC for this report is Political Officer (FS-04) Tanya Salseth, phone: (225) 22.49.45.70, fax: (225) 22.49.40.10. Poloff spent 30 hours in the prepara [...]
2010-02-17 14:59:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KTIP KMCA ELAB IV
10ABIDJAN71SORO TO FORM NEW GOVERNMENT; OPPOSITION SPLIT
[...] (SBU) Summary: On February 12, President Gbagbo dissolved the government, charging PM Soro with naming a new cabinet and restructuring the Independent Electoral Commission (CEI). Soro continues to consult with opposition parties in an attempt to reach a compromise on a new government; repor [...]
2010-02-17 16:57:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ASEC KDEM IV
10ABIDJAN72COTE D'IVOIRE: EFFECTIVENESS OF UNOCI EFFORTS TO COMBAT
[...] (U) Per ref A, post consulted with the UN Operation in Cote d'Ivoire's (UNOCI) Conduct and Discipline Office, the Ministry of Family, and Save the Children UK on whether UNOCI is effectively preventing sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) and trafficking in persons (TIP). 2. [...]
2010-01-15 17:45:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM SOCI KWMN KPKO
10ABIDJAN73COTE d'IVOIRE: FACTORS AFFECTING FORMATION OF A NEW
[...] (C) Summary: President Gbagbo's decision to dissolve the government and the independent electoral commission (CEI) has bought him time to improve his standing with the Ivorian electorate but undermined his credibility with the opposition. This has hampered PM Soro's ability to form a new gove [...]
2010-02-18 16:33:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM EAID IV
10ABIDJAN75OPPOSITION YOUTH LEADERS VOW TO CONTINUE PROTESTS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Youth leaders from the two main opposition parties in the RHDP coalition plan to continue demonstrations against the government despite the February 22 agreement reached by their party heads. They expressed surprise at the agreement to participate in a new government and [...]
2010-02-24 10:34:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL SOCI IV
10ABIDJAN77New Government Announced; Opposition Slots Still Vacant
[...] (SBU) Summary: On February 23, the new, slightly streamlined Ivoirian government was announced; 11 ministerial slots reserved for the various opposition parties remain vacant, as the opposition has refused to participate until the Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) is reconstituted. Sixt [...]
2010-02-24 14:20:00Embassy AbidjanCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM EAID ASEC IV
10ABIDJAN79COTE D'IVOIRE: GOLDSTONE DEMARCHE DELIVERED
[...] No summary [...]
2010-02-24 17:47:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM UNGA IV
10ABIDJAN81COTE D'IVOIRE: NEW ELECTORAL COMMISSION TO BE HEADED BY
[...] (U) Summary: A slightly revised Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) was sworn-in by the President of the Constitutional Court on February 25, with former Foreign Minister Youssouf Bakayoko as its new president. The opposition has reportedly called a halt to further demonstrations and is f [...]
2010-02-26 15:55:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM EAID IV
10ABIDJAN98Cote d'Ivoire 2010 Investment Climate Statement
[...] In response to reftel request, Embassy Abidjan's Investment Climate Statement 2010 follows in paragraph 2. 2. Begin Text. Openness To Foreign Investment. In September 2002, an attempted coup in Cote d'Ivoire began a crisis that divided the country politically, militarily, and eco [...]
2010-01-22 17:42:00Embassy AbidjanUNCLASSIFIEDEINV ECON OPIC KTDB USTR IV
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