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| Identifier | Subject | Date | Office | Classification | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 09ATHENS1201 |
GREEK FIU: IMPROVED FUNCTIONALITY, BUT MORE NEEDED TO MAKE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. In a meeting on July 9, Stelios Grozos, the Chairman of the Hellenic Anti-Money Laundering Committee (aka the Greek Financial Intelligence Unit or FIU), told A/EconCouns that he largely agreed with the problems and recommendations identified in the FATF's Fifth Follow-Up Report [...] |
2009-07-13 09:48:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECIN KTFN MK PREL EFIN ECON GR |
| 09ATHENS1233 |
U.S.-Russia Summit Results Demarche Delivered: Greek MFA [...] No summary [...] |
2009-07-15 13:01:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL GR RS |
| 09ATHENS1255 |
A View From the Chamber: New Democracy MPs Discuss Early [...] (C) Summary. In an effort to take the pulse of the governing New Democracy (ND) party, Polcouns and Poloff on 13 July met with two junior deputies, Apostolos Tzitzikostas and Christos Staikouras, and a vice-president of the Parliament, Elsa Papadimitriou, to discuss the government's agenda. [...] |
2009-07-17 11:23:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PGOV ECON GR |
| 09ATHENS1257 |
DEPUTY SECRETARY STEINBERG'S MEETING WITH GREEK FOREIGN [...] (C) Greek Foreign Minister and OSCE Chair-in-Office Theodora Bakoyannis told Deputy Secretary Steinberg May 15 that although she had stopped negotiations on an OSCE mandate in Georgia, her last proposal remained on the table in case Russia were to reconsider its position. She agreed that Russ [...] |
2009-07-17 11:33:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV OVIP GR |
| 09ATHENS1261 |
DEPUTY SECRETARY STEINBERG'S MAY 15 MEETING WITH GREEK PM [...] (C) SUMMARY: In his May 15 meeting with Greek PM Karamanlis (accompanied by FM Bakoyiannis), Deputy Secretary Steinberg outlined our strategic vision for broadening the U.S.-Greece relationship. The Deputy Secretary reviewed key global challenges where we could work more closely together, i [...] |
2009-07-17 13:22:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV OVIP GR |
| 09ATHENS1263 |
RECALL 09 ATHENS 1263 [...] No summary [...] |
2009-07-17 14:15:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EIND GR |
| 09ATHENS1265 |
Aegean Issues: Thoughts on CBMs, Preparing for Turkish [...] (C) Embassy Athens welcomes the interagency focus on Aegean issues reflected in the sub-IPC reported informally in ref. We recognize that it will be important for Greece to contribute to an improved atmosphere in the Aegean that can diffuse the tension and create an opportunity for more subs [...] |
2009-07-17 14:29:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PREL TU GR |
| 09ATHENS1267 |
RECALL 09 ATHENS 1267 [...] No summary [...] |
2009-07-17 14:40:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EIND GR |
| 09ATHENS1269 |
Greek Views on July 2009 GAERC [...] (C) On July 17, Poloff delivered ref points on U.S. positions on the July 27-28 GAERC to Evgenios Kalpyris, Head of the European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP) Division of the MFA. Kalpyris had no comment on Iran issues. On Somalia, he said Greece fully supported the Transitional Federal [...] |
2009-07-17 16:15:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN GR PREL PGOV |
| 09ATHENS1271 |
TITAN CEMENT EXECUTIVE DISCUSSES IMPACT OF THE ECONOMIC [...] (SBU) The global economic crisis, which continues to have a significant impact around the world, has not spared even the most robust businesses in Greece. The global credit crunch has significantly affected the liquidity position of Greek companies, regardless of how strong their capital base [...] |
2009-07-20 07:09:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN EIND GR |
| 09ATHENS1277 |
GoG On Latest Nimetz Proposals, Language Issue [...] (C) SUMMARY: Greece's chief negotiator in the UN-led talks on the Macedonia name issue, Adamantios Vassilakis, briefed NATO and EU ambassadors July 17 on the GoG reaction to mediator Matthew Nimetz's most recent proposals. Nimetz visited Athens July 7-9 and met separately with FM Dora Bakoyia [...] |
2009-07-20 15:20:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GR MK |
| 09ATHENS1311 |
Greek Views on July 2009 GAERC (Follow-Up) [...] (C) On July 23, in a follow-up meeting, Poloff delivered ref A points on U.S. positions on the July 27-28 GAERC to Niki Kamba, MFA European Correspondent. (Post had reported on initial Greek reactions, from MFA ESDP Division Head Evgenios Kalpyris, in reftel B.) On Georgia, Kamba said that G [...] |
2009-07-24 14:28:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EUN GR |
| 09ATHENS1313 |
GREECE: MUTUAL LEGAL ASSISTANCE (MLA) PROTOCOL AND [...] (SBU) We delivered reftel points and texts July 24 to Greek MFA Legal Advisor Maria Telalian, proposing a ceremony in the near future to exchange Instruments of Ratification for the MLA Protocol and the Extradition Protocol. Telalian responded very positively, saying she would immediately begi [...] |
2009-07-24 14:28:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | CJAN PTER PREL GR |
| 09ATHENS1331 |
Greek-U.S. Partnership in Afghanistan and Pakistan [...] (C) The Government of Greece continues to respond positively to USG requests for increasing military and civilian assistance to Afghanistan and Pakistan, despite its dire fiscal realities. According to Hellenic Aid (HA), Greece's development agency, the GoG has pledged 3.7 million euro to Afgha [...] |
2009-07-27 07:20:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO PREL MOPS MARR AF PK EAID GR SNAR CA UK |
| 09ATHENS1347 |
Greece: Demarche Delivered on OSCE HumDim Meeting [...] No summary [...] |
2009-07-29 12:58:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV PHUM OSCE GR |
| 09ATHENS1349 |
GREECE DEPORTS IRAQI INSURGENT COMMANDER WHO ENTERED AS [...] (S) Greek authorities deported Iraqi citizen Mu'ammar Latif Karim (a.k.a. Abu Sajjad), accused of being a Shia insurgent commander responsible for IED and other attacks in Iraq, on July 21. We understand he was arrested by Iraqi authorities on his arrival by plane in Irbil July 22. Greek aut [...] |
2009-07-29 13:25:00 | Embassy Athens | SECRET | PTER PREL KCRM ASEC ABLD IZ GR |
| 09ATHENS1365 |
OSCE CiO S/R Discusses Tbilisi Bureau, Seeks Guidance on [...] (C) Summary: OSCE CiO Special Representative for Protracted Conflicts Charalampos Christopoulos met with Ambassador Speckhard July 28 to discuss intentions to open a CiO Special Representative Bureau in Tbilisi, the OSCE's role in Georgia and developments in Moldova. S/R Christopoulos gave Amb [...] |
2009-07-30 16:13:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV OSCE GR RS GG |
| 09ATHENS138 |
NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION TREATY (NPT): GREECE POCS [...] (SBU) Post provides in paragraph 2 contact information for Embassy Athens and the Greek government for issues related to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT). Post will transmit by septel a substantive response to other reftel requests for information prior to the February 20 deadline. I [...] |
2009-02-02 14:16:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA |
| 09ATHENS1389 |
GREECE H1N1 FLU UPDATE: 730 CONFIRMED CASES; NATIONAL ACTION [...] SUMMARY. As of July 29, according to the Greek Ministry of Health, there have been 730 confirmed H1N1 cases in Greece. Although there have been no fatalities so far, three serious cases of flu implications are being treated in the intensive care units of Greek hospitals. Health Minister Dim [...] |
2009-07-31 15:20:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC CASC KFLO KFLU AEMR TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL PINR |
| 09ATHENS1393 |
AS 2009 FIRE SEASON COMMENCES, CONCERNS CONTINUE OVER LEVEL [...] No summary [...] |
2009-08-03 13:07:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID PREL SENV SOCI GR |
| 09ATHENS141 |
NEW JUSTICE MINISTER SIGNS OFF ON U.S.-EU MUTUAL [...] (C) During an introductory call by the Ambassador January 27, new Greek Justice Minister Nikos Dendias confirmed that he had recently signed out to Parliament a legislative package for Greek ratification of the U.S.-EU Mutual Legal Assistance (MLA) and Extradition agreements. Securing ratific [...] |
2009-02-02 15:32:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KCRM KTIP CVIS KJUS GR |
| 09ATHENS1419 |
Initial thoughts on new Greek CHOD Giagkos [...] (S) SUMMARY. The August 6 replacement of Greek CHOD General Dimitris Grapsas with Chief of the Air Force General Ioannis Giagkos (YAH gos) set off a round of speculation in the press, but appears consistent with general personnel practices. Further, Giagkos at first glance appears to be more [...] |
2009-08-10 12:31:00 | Embassy Athens | SECRET//NOFORN | PREL MARR GR TU |
| 09ATHENS1425 |
GOG RELEASES STATEMENT CONDEMNING AUNG SAN SUU KYI [...] (C) PolOff delivered reftel points August 12 on the conviction of Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi to Ambassador Dimitrios Anninos, the acting Director of the Asia bureau at the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Ambassador Dimitrios commended the statements made by President Obama a [...] |
2009-08-12 15:04:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV BM GR |
| 09ATHENS1429 |
Demarche Delivered: UNESCO Director-General Election [...] No summary [...] |
2009-08-13 14:35:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNESCO GR |
| 09ATHENS1431 |
Greece: IAEA General Conference [...] (C) SUMMARY. Greece agrees with us that a single resolution on the Middle East is a smart goal for the IAEA General Conference, but is skeptical about Arab flexibility, given the previous year's close vote. Greece hopes for a unified EU position at the GC, and along with other EU members is p [...] |
2009-08-18 13:17:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC PREL PARM KNNP IAEA GR |
| 09ATHENS1435 |
Greece: Decision on G-8 BMENA Forum for the Future [...] No summary [...] |
2009-08-21 12:55:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL KMPI KPAO KDEM GR |
| 09ATHENS1439 |
Greek FM Set to Attend G-8 BMENA Forum for the Future [...] No summary [...] |
2009-08-25 15:13:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL KMPI KPAO KDEM GR |
| 09ATHENS1441 |
AUSTRALIA GROUP: NON-PAPERS DELIVERED [...] (SBU) Post delivered reftel non-papers upon receipt to the Greek MFA's Disarmament Sub-Section Head Loukas Tsokos, whose office has responsibility for Greece's Australia Group participation. In a follow-up discussion on August 26, Tsokos appreciated the papers and our request for comment, and [...] |
2009-08-26 12:33:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ETTC PARM GR |
| 09ATHENS1443 |
GREEK VIEWS ON PIRACY CONTACT GROUP PARTICIPATION [...] (C) MFA Counselor Dimitrios Papandreou commended U.S. efforts to resolve the impasse over participation in the Contact Group for Piracy Off the Coast of Somalia, agreed with excluding North Korea and Iran from participation, and labeled our reftel message "a nice compromise." He noted his und [...] |
2009-08-26 14:04:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | EWWT MARR PGOV PHSA PHUM PREL SO GR |
| 09ATHENS1445 |
SCENESETTER FOR EUR DAS KAIDANOW'S VISIT TO GREECE [...] (U) Dear Tina, 2. (SBU) It's my pleasure to welcome you to Greece. The last twelve months have been marked by a succession of crises for the government of Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis, who has managed to hold onto his one-seat majority in Parliament through the global financial cri [...] |
2009-08-26 17:12:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON OTRA GR |
| 09ATHENS1451 |
Prime Minister's Economic Advisor on the Greek Economy & [...] (C) In a frank conversation with A/EconCouns, the Prime Minister's Economic Advisor, Apostolis Philippopoulos, recently discussed his views on the impact of the financial crisis on the Greek economy, Greek economic policy in response to the crisis, and the government's capacity to take on tough [...] |
2009-08-28 16:05:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON ECIN PREL GR EFIN |
| 09ATHENS1455 |
NEW NATO SYG GETS MIXED REVIEWS IN GREECE [...] (C) Greek government and media reaction to the August 26-27 visit of new NATO Secretary General Rasmussen has been moderately negative. While Greeks were pleased to have the opportunity to brief Rasmussen on their positions on the Aegean, the new NATO strategic concept, and other issues, they [...] |
2009-09-02 15:14:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO MARR PREL CY TU GR |
| 09ATHENS1457 |
GREECE: CONTACT GROUP FOR PIRACY OFF THE COAST OF SOMALIA [...] (SBU) On August 31 we delivered reftel message to Greek MFA D1 Directorate (UN and International Organizations Affairs) Counselor Dimitris Papandreou, inviting Greece to join other countries that are among the 20 largest ship registries to sign the Commitment to Best Management Practices to Avo [...] |
2009-09-03 13:47:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EWWT KCRM PHSA PHUM PREL UNSC SO GR |
| 09ATHENS1459 |
GREEK PRIME MINISTER PROCLAIMS NEW ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Following Greek Prime Minister Karamanlis's September 2 call for new parliamentary elections, it was announced September 3 that Greek President Papoulias would dissolve Parliament on September 7 and schedule new elections for October 4. As the campaign begins, Karamanlis's center-right N [...] |
2009-09-03 14:39:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV GR |
| 09ATHENS1461 |
GREEK VIEWS IN ADVANCE OF SEPTEMBER GYMNICH [...] (SBU) On September 2 PolOff delivered reftel Gymnich backgrounder and points to Niki Kambas of the Greek MFA Directorate for Common Foreign and Security Policy. Kambas noted that, overall, she does not foresee any big changes from the "usual positions" for issues on the agenda and said Greece [...] |
2009-09-04 12:30:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN GR PGOV PREL |
| 09ATHENS1463 |
Greek MFA on Jewish Cemetery Issues, Athens Mosque [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On August 28, the director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) E2 Directorate for Religious and Ecclesiastical Affairs, Amb. Christodoulos J. Lazaris, described GoG actions to address increased anti-Semitic vandalism, the current status of property restitution negotiations [...] |
2009-09-09 14:33:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF KISL GR |
| 09ATHENS1465 |
DAS Kaidanow's Sept. 1-2 visit to Athens Features Turkey, [...] (C) SUMMARY: DAS Tina Kaidanow visited Athens September 1-2, meeting with FM Bakoyannis, PASOK Party president George Papandreou, Deputy FM Valinakis, Deputy MOD Tasoulas, Interior Ministry SecGen for Public Order Bitsios, Finance Ministry SecGen Sideropoulos, and Parliament External Affairs [...] |
2009-09-11 09:59:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV CVIS MARR MOPS |
| 09ATHENS1467 |
Greek Views on September 2009 GAERC, Sri Lanka [...] (C) On September 10, Poloff discussed ref A points on U.S. positions on the September 14-15 GAERC with Niki Kamba, European Correspondent in the MFA A11 Security and Defense Policy (ESDP) Division. Kamba that Iran and Afghanistan would be the only two external relations items on the September [...] |
2009-09-11 13:33:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EUN GR CE |
| 09ATHENS147 |
GREECE/NATO: ACCESSION PROCESS STATUS UPDATE [...] (C) Per ref A request, we have further followed-up with GOG officials on the status of the protocols of accession of Albania and Croatia to NATO (ref B). The protocols are now pending in the Parliament, and various contacts have confirmed that the Parliament is expected to approve them in "Fe [...] |
2009-02-03 10:34:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | KTIA MARR NATO PARM PREL HR AL GR |
| 09ATHENS1471 |
MFA ON TURKISH INVOLVEMENT IN EU FRONTEX AND OLYMPIC AIR [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Greek MFA told us September 10 that the recent warning by Turkish air control to a Latvian air force helicopter flying an EU Frontex mission in Greek airspace over Farmakonisi to "leave Turkish airspace immediately" was only one in a series of such actions directed at Frontex [...] |
2009-09-11 14:20:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM EAIR GR TU EUN LG |
| 09ATHENS1479 |
GREECE WILL FOLLOW EU CONSENSUS ON MIDDLE EAST ISSUES AT [...] (C) Pol-Mil Chief delivered Reftel A points to the MFA's Disarmament Sub-Section Head Loukas Tsokos on September 16. Tsokos reiterated the Greek position, as detailed in Reftel B, noting that Greece continues to believe that a single Middle East resolution is desirable, and that Greece will [...] |
2009-09-16 11:29:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC PARM PREL KNNP IAEA GR |
| 09ATHENS1483 |
AMBASSADOR AND FM FOCUS ON VWP, TURKEY, IRAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Looking ahead to Foreign Minister Bakoyannis' meeting in New York with the Secretary, Ambassador Speckhard reminded the FM that the earliest the U.S. could announce approval of the Visa Waiver Program for Greece would most likely be the end of October 2009, encouraged Greek good [...] |
2009-09-18 13:18:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL CVIS KNNP GR TU UN IR OSCE |
| 09ATHENS1485 |
PASOK Official Foreshadows Foreign Policy Priorities [...] (C) PolCouns and PolOff met with PASOK International Secretary Paulina Lampsa September 10 for a wide-ranging discussion on the October 4 elections and PASOK ambitions for Greek foreign and economic policy. With PASOK currently polling ahead of Prime Minister Karamanlis' ND party, Lampsa rev [...] |
2009-09-18 14:14:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV TU CY SENV GR RS PTER FMC SMIG IMO ECON |
| 09ATHENS1487 |
GREEK RESPONSE TO U.S. MISSILE DEFENSE PLAN [...] (C) On September 18, Post delivered reftel points to the Greek MFA's NATO Directorate. They viewed the President's announcement in general terms as a positive recalibration of U.S. efforts, and queried as to the location of any future radar or launcher sites, given recent speculation in the G [...] |
2009-09-21 10:22:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL NATO MARR GR |
| 09ATHENS1489 |
Greece: UNGA Walkout Redline Demarche Delivered [...] No summary [...] |
2009-09-22 12:01:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL UNGA GR |
| 09ATHENS1491 |
EUROPE 2010: ATHENS PARTICIPATION [...] (SBU) The following individuals from Embassy Athens will attend the Europe 2010 Conference in Brussels September 30 - October 1. Both hold valid NATO clearances. Hotel information is included directly below the personal data of each traveler. -- Ambassador Daniel Vern Speckhard DO [...] |
2009-09-22 13:19:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR OTRA PARM NATO GR |
| 09ATHENS1497 |
YOUR VISIT TO ATHENS [...] (C) Admiral Stavridis: Welcome to Greece. Your visit comes at a time of political fervor and uncertainty, with early national elections called by an embattled Prime Minister on October 4 in which he and his party are widely expected to lose to the opposition center-left PASOK party. Beyond po [...] |
2009-09-23 14:08:00 | Embassy Athens | SECRET | PREL PGOV MARR MASS NATO GR |
| 09ATHENS1501 |
GREEK RESPONSE ON URGENT SUPPORT NEEDED FOR HUMANITARIAN [...] (SBU) DepEconCouns delivered reftel points on September 18 to Dr. Nike-Catherine Koutrakou, Director of Emergency Humanitarian and Food Aid Programs at Hellenic Aid (HA). On September 23, Dr. Koutrakou advised DepEconCouns that the GoG has made Ethiopia and Somalia two of its highest priority [...] |
2009-09-23 15:10:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID PREF EAGR ET KE SO EUN GR |
| 09ATHENS1503 |
SECOND FRONTEX INCIDENT IN AEGEAN VIEWED CALMLY, BUT [...] (C) SUMMARY. The Greek MFA informed us September 18 that they had transcripts and photos from an EU Frontex mission in the Aegean of a Turkish Coast Guard vessel assisting illegal immigrants enter Greek territorial waters and land on the Greek-inhabited island of Farmakonisi. This September [...] |
2009-09-24 06:43:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL EUN SMIG GR TU |
| 09ATHENS1511 |
Embassy Athens Engages with GoG on Iran [...] (C) SUMMARY: Embassy Athens' Front Office and Political Section have engaged with our Greek partners from the highest levels to the working level at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in order to expand our dialogue on Iran. Characterizing the Iranian regime as weak, Greek interlocutors maintain [...] |
2009-09-25 14:15:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV UNGA IAEA KPAL IR IS GR |
| 09ATHENS1513 |
Likely Scenarios for Greek Elections/Impact on USG interests [...] (C) Summary: All indications point to PASOK winning narrowly; the vote is more a protest against ND than a vote for PASOK and its policies. An interregnum leading to a second round of elections in November resulting in a stronger PASOK government is also possible. A PASOK government is unlik [...] |
2009-09-25 14:31:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PGOV PREL ECON EFIN MK TU GR |
| 09ATHENS1515 |
Greece's Surging Far-Right LAOS Party Inches Towards Center [...] (C) SUMMARY: In the aftermath of their unprecedented success in European Parliament elections in June, the leaders of Greece's surging, far-right Popular Orthodox Rally (LAOS) expect to win 6 to 7 percent of the vote and up to 20 parliamentary seats in October 4 domestic elections and are pre [...] |
2009-09-28 15:51:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL PHUM SMIG KIRF GR |
| 09ATHENS1517 |
BURMA POLICY REVIEW DEMARCHE RESPONSE: GREEKS ON SAME SIDE, [...] No summary [...] |
2009-09-29 16:04:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GR BM |
| 09ATHENS1519 |
GREECE ARRESTS SUSPECTED MEMBERS OF DOMESTIC TERRORIST GROUP [...] (SBU) In the most high-profile arrests of domestic terrorist suspects since 2003, Greek police raided two houses in the Athens districts of Halandri and Galatsi on September 23, and arrested four individuals who were subsequently charged September 25, in connection with three bombings carried o [...] |
2009-09-30 07:26:00 | Embassy Athens | SECRET | PTER PREL ASEC ABLD GR |
| 09ATHENS1523 |
GREECE -- STAFFDEL TURNER (OCTOBER 8-13) [...] Embassy warmly welcomes the visit to Greece of CSCE Congressional Staff Delegation members Alex Johnson and Winsome Packer from October 8-13 in order to join CODEL Cardin for the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly Meeting in Athens. 2. Embassy has assigned Political Counselor George H. Frowic [...] |
2009-10-01 13:29:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN GR |
| 09ATHENS1525 |
GREEK ELECTION ENTERS HOMESTRETCH [...] (SBU) As all Greek parties finish their parliamentary election campaigns today, October 2, it remains too close to call whether the main opposition PASOK party led by George Papandreou will win enough seats October 4 to form a government on its own. Although we have entered a campaign blackout [...] |
2009-10-02 14:43:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL GR |
| 09ATHENS1529 |
Opposition PASOK Wins Greek Parliamentary Elections [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an unexpectedly strong victory in Greece's October 4 Parliamentary elections, George Papandreou's Pan Hellenic Socialist Union (PASOK) opposition party defeated incumbent Costas Karamanlis' New Democracy Party by a spread of more than ten percentage points. -- Winning 44 [...] |
2009-10-05 11:57:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV ECON GR |
| 09ATHENS1531 |
H1N1: GREECE WILLING TO PROVIDE ADVICE, NOT VACCINES [...] SUMMARY: In a response to reftel demarche, the Greek Ministry of Health indicated that it was not in a position to contribute vaccines to the US-led World Health Organization effort to aid developing countries ahead of the anticipated autumn flu season. The Ministry did offer technical and sc [...] |
2009-10-05 15:04:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL KFLU WHO AORC |
| 09ATHENS1533 |
Opposition PASOK Wins Greek Parliamentary Elections [...] (C) SUMMARY: In an unexpectedly strong victory in Greece's October 4 Parliamentary elections, George Papandreou's Pan Hellenic Socialist Union (PASOK) opposition party defeated incumbent Costas Karamanlis' New Democracy Party by a spread of more than ten percentage points. -- Winning 44 [...] |
2009-10-06 10:31:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV ECON GR |
| 09ATHENS1535 |
WHO'S WHO IN THE NEW GREEK GOVERNMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: As expected after his comfortable win in the October 4 Greek parliamentary election, PM George Papandreou has named a government consisting of some PASOK old guard, with a liberal helping of fresh new faces, many of whom have substantial international experience, if not govern [...] |
2009-10-07 15:16:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR ECON GR PGOV |
| 09ATHENS1539 |
Papandreou's First Cabinet Meeting: Move Fast, Move Smart, [...] (SBU) On October 7, after a brief swearing in ceremony for the new cabinet, PM George Papandreou convened the first cabinet meeting to outline his policy priorities. He stressed that the new government must focus on moving the country away from "stagnation and decline." Our job, he said, is to [...] |
2009-10-08 14:26:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON GR |
| 09ATHENS154 |
GREECE: NEW TERRORIST ATTACK ON POLICE [...] (U) At about 0400 local time on February 3, at least three unidentified people reportedly threw a hand grenade and fired more than nineteen rounds from a 9 mm sub-machine gun at the police station in Korydallos, a western suburb of Athens. The grenade -- reportedly manufactured in "an East Euro [...] |
2009-02-03 16:03:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV ASEC GR |
| 09ATHENS1541 |
PM PAPANDREOU SHARES GOALS WITH AMBASSADOR AND FORMER DEPSEC [...] (C) SUMMARY: New PM Papandreou took on the Foreign Ministry job in order to inject "new dynamism" into Greece's regional challenges, he told Ambassador Speckhard and Brookings Institution President (and former Deputy Secretary) Strobe Talbott on October 12. He pointed to his October 9 snap [...] |
2009-10-14 16:05:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL GR TU EUN ZL MK |
| 09ATHENS1543 |
64th UNGA: CANDIDATE FLOGAITIS [...] (SBU) In response to reftel request for information about Spyridon Flogaitis, Greek candidate for the UN Fifth Committee International Civil Service Commission (ICSC), Flogaitis is a long-time contact of Embassy Athens and Post hasn't encountered any disqualifying information. Flogaitis i [...] |
2009-10-15 05:57:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC UNGA PINR GR |
| 09ATHENS1544 |
FIRES IN GREECE: AUGUST 24 SITREP [...] (SBU) Over the weekend of August 21-23, over 80 wildfires broke out throughout Greece. The worst of these hit northeast of the greater Athens area, fueled by strong winds and evoking images of Greece's devastating 2007 fire season. In response, Post issued a Warden message. While the worst o [...] |
2009-08-24 16:59:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID PREL SENV SOCI GR |
| 09ATHENS1547 |
GREEK MINISTERIAL RECONFIGURATIONS [...] (U) Prime Minister Papandreou's first organizational act after taking office October 6 was to reconfigure government ministries in accordance with his campaign promises to create a "tight, economical, job oriented" ministry scheme. Papandreou merged the Culture and Tourism ministries; resurrec [...] |
2009-10-15 15:05:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL GR |
| 09ATHENS1549 |
ATHENS LAY OF THE LAND FOR PM A/S SHAPIRO [...] (C) Andrew: Welcome to Greece. Your visit comes at a time of calm between two storms; the first being the recently concluded Parliamentary elections in which PM Papandreou scored a decisive victory over the moribund Karamanlis administration, and the second being Greece's dismal economic sit [...] |
2009-10-15 15:38:00 | Embassy Athens | SECRET | PREL PHSA PGOV EWWT MARR MASS GR |
| 09ATHENS1551 |
SEDM: GREECE WELCOMES U.S. POSITION [...] (SBU) Post delivered reftel to the Greek MFA's Southeastern Europe Directorate the morning of October 16. Greece supports the membership of both Serbia and Montenegro in the Southeastern Europe Defense Ministerial and welcomed our message, calling it a most positive development. The MFA will [...] |
2009-10-16 09:36:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR GR RO TU SR UP SI MW IT BU HR |
| 09ATHENS1553 |
CLIMATE CHANGE: GREECE LOCK-STEP WITH EU, BUT SYMPATHETIC TO [...] No summary [...] |
2009-10-16 11:12:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | SENV KGHG ENRG TRGY GR |
| 09ATHENS1555 |
GREECE SUPPORTS U.S. IMO CANDIDACY, EXPECTS SAME [...] (SBU) On October 2, we delivered reftel demarche and diplomatic note to the MFA's D1 Office, responsible for the UN and other international organizations and conferences. On October 16, we followed up with Director Emannouil Papadorgiorgakis, who assured us of Greek support for the United Sta [...] |
2009-10-16 12:28:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC IMO EWWT PHSA GR |
| 09ATHENS1559 |
Ambassador's Call on New ALt-FM Droutsas [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador paid his initial call on incoming Alternate Foreign Minister Dimitri Droutsas October 15. Droutsas emphasized the new GoG's active foreign policy agenda, pointing to the PM's recent trip to Istanbul as a "conscious signal that the immediate neighborhood is our highes [...] |
2009-10-19 13:31:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV OSCE GR |
| 09ATHENS1560 |
FIRES IN GREECE: AUGUST 26 SITREP [...] (SBU) Wildfires in towns north of Athens subsided on 25 August after four days of destruction. No casualties were reported, but press reports indicate about 50,000 acres of land had been burnt and 50 homes destroyed. Following an "emergency" cabinet meeting on August 25, the Government of Gree [...] |
2009-08-26 15:58:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAGR EAID PREL SENV SOCI GR |
| 09ATHENS1563 |
MOD VENIZELOS LAYS OUT VIEWS BEFORE PARLIAMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY. New Minister of Defense Evangelos Venizelos recently told Parliament that he will take an "extremely cautious" view towards NATO's Strategic Concept, that he wants to avoid Aegean tensions but will resist flagrant Turkish violations of international law and threats of violence, an [...] |
2009-10-23 10:50:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MASS GR |
| 09ATHENS1565 |
Greek Views on October 2009 GAERC [...] (C) On October 23, Poloff discussed ref points on U.S. positions on the October 26-27 GAERC with Niki Kamba, European Correspondent in the MFA A11 Security and Defense Policy (ESDP) Division. Kamba said the EU paper on Afghanistan/Pakistan had already been approved by all member states at the [...] |
2009-10-23 11:30:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL EUN GR CE GV |
| 09ATHENS1567 |
Greece: Demarche Response on UN International Civil Service [...] (C) On October 23, Poloff raised reftel A points on U.S. ICSC candidate Lucretia Myers and provided Myers' bio to Evaghelia Kamariotou, the officer in charge of UN candidatures in the MFA D1 Directorate of UN and International Organizations. Kamariotou confirmed that Greece fully supported th [...] |
2009-10-23 12:42:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL AORC UNGA KUNR GR |
| 09ATHENS1569 |
Greece: Geographical Indications and CBD Patent Disclosure [...] (SBU) EconOff delivered reftel demarche on October 23 to Panayiotis Dermentzoglou, First Secretary for Economic and Commercial Affairs, and Nikolaos Doukas, AttachC) for Economic and Commercial Affairs, in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). 2. (SBU) Doukas and Dermentzoglou took th [...] |
2009-10-23 13:30:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EUN KIPR GR |
| 09ATHENS157 |
17 NOVEMBER APPEALS TRIAL POSTPONED TO OCTOBER [...] No summary [...] |
2009-02-04 15:26:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV PREL KJUS GR |
| 09ATHENS1571 |
GREECE/GICNT: UPDATE ON EFFORTS TO ENHANCE IMPLEMENTATION [...] (U) On October 20, Poloff and Russian Third Secretary Dmitriy V. Novikov delivered ref A demarche to Greek MFA D1 Political Counselor for International Security Issues, Dimitrios Papandreou. Delivery of the demarche was delayed because the Russian side did not receive its instructions from Mosc [...] |
2009-10-23 13:33:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PARM PREL PTER KGIC GR |
| 09ATHENS1573 |
G-8 BMENA Forum for the Future: New Greek Alternate Foreign [...] (SBU) On October 21, the Ambassador encouraged Greek Alternate Foreign Minister Dimitris Droutsas to attend the 2009 G-8 BMENA Forum for the Future and noted, per ref. A, that Secretary Clinton is planning to attend. Droutsas expressed interest in the event and asked for more information. Pos [...] |
2009-10-23 15:45:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL GR ECON KPAO KMPI |
| 09ATHENS1575 |
Greek Response to UNGA Third Committee Demarche [...] (SBU) On October 26, Poloff raised reftel points on the UN General Assembly Third Committee with Elias Photopoulos, Director of the MFA D4 Directorate of Human Rights, and with Loukas Tsokos, Second Counselor in the MFA D1 Directorate for the UN and International Organizations. On no-action m [...] |
2009-10-26 12:45:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM UNGA GR |
| 09ATHENS1577 |
Greece on Iran: Wants More Information on Additional [...] (C) In the latest in a series of meetings on Iran, PolCouns and PolOff met 10/16 with representatives from the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs A6 Middle East and D1 International Organization directorates to give a readout of the P5+1 October 1 meeting, underscore the need for vigilance in mo [...] |
2009-10-26 13:43:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PARM PREL PGOV ENRG IR GR UNGA IAEA RS PHUM |
| 09ATHENS1581 |
Greece: Government Manages to Suspend Port Strike, But For [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Confronting its first major challenge since taking office, Greece's new PASOK government negotiated a temporary suspension to a dockworkers' strike on October 17. Latching onto PM Papandreou's pre-election promises to re-examine privatization agreements, dockworker unions at t [...] |
2009-10-27 11:31:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL ECON ELAB GR CH |
| 09ATHENS1583 |
SENIOR GREEK BANKER COMMENTS ON GREEK ECONOMY, NEW [...] (SBU) In a recent conversation with DepEconCouns, Nikolaos B. Karamouzis, the Deputy Chief Executive Officer of Eurobank EFG, Greece's second largest private bank in terms of both deposits and assets, discussed his views on Greece's economic and budget situation, the new PASOK government and it [...] |
2009-10-27 15:15:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECIN PREL GR EFIN |
| 09ATHENS1585 |
ACTION REQUEST: GREECE TO U.S.: "HELP US HELP YOU IN [...] (U) This is an action request; see paragraph 4. 2. (SBU) In a meeting with DepEconCouns and USAID/E&E representatives on October 22, Ambassador Karafotias, the Director-General of Hellenic Aid (HA), made a very pointed request-the latest in a long line of requests-for specific projects [...] |
2009-10-27 17:35:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL GR EAID AF |
| 09ATHENS1587 |
Greece: Uncertainty Reigns as Main Greek Opposition Party [...] No summary [...] |
2009-10-29 12:59:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GR |
| 09ATHENS1589 |
SCENESETTER FOR ADM ROUGHEAD'S VISIT TO GREECE [...] (C) Admiral Roughead: Welcome to Greece. You are the first and most senior flag officer to visit Greece since the October 4 national elections. Admiral Stavridis (as SACEUR) and Admiral Fitzgerald (as NAVEUR) visited Athens in late September. Your visit comes as newly elected PM George Papa [...] |
2009-10-30 09:38:00 | Embassy Athens | SECRET//NOFORN | MARR MASS PREL PGOV NATO GR |
| 09ATHENS1591 |
GREEK DOMESTIC TERRORISTS STRIKE POLICE STATION [...] (SBU) A group of six unidentified individuals carried out an attack with automatic weapons on the police station in the Athens suburb of Agia Paraskevi, eight kilometers north of the Embassy, on the evening of October 27, wounding six police officers, one of them seriously. In addition to firi [...] |
2009-10-30 15:35:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV ASEC ABLD GR |
| 09ATHENS1593 |
CITIZENS' PROTECTION MINISTER CHRYSOCHOIDIS AND PM A/S [...] (C) PM A/S Andrew Shapiro stressed U.S. counter-piracy objectives in an October 23 meeting with new Greek Minister of Citizens' Protection Mihalis Chrysochoidis, urging Greece to build on its current counter-piracy actions by signing the New York Declaration on best practices for vessel self-pr [...] |
2009-11-04 12:45:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER SMIG KCRM MARR GR |
| 09ATHENS1595 |
GREECE: GOLDSTONE REPORT DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] (SBU) PolOff delivered reftel points on the Goldstone Report and debate at the UN General Assembly to Loukas Tsokos of the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs D1 Directorate for International Organizations and Stelios Gavriil of the A6 Directorate for Middle East Affairs. Counselor Gavriil thank [...] |
2009-11-04 13:40:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNGA IS KPAL GR |
| 09ATHENS1597 |
NEW GOVERNMENT WANTS TO DEEPEN U.S-GREECE STRATEGIC [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a cordial October 22 meeting with Alternate Minister of Defense Panos Beglitis, A/S Shapiro urged Greece to deepen its partnership with the U.S. on counterpiracy, sign the New York Declaration on Best Practices, follow through on its commitment to move its ISAF engineering batt [...] |
2009-11-04 14:12:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHSA PGOV MARR MASS EWWT GR |
| 09ATHENS1599 |
ALT/MFA DROUTSAS OPTIMISTIC ON BALKANS, TURKEY WITH A/S [...] (C) SUMMARY: PM A/S Shapiro used an October 22 meeting with Alternate Foreign Minister Dimitri Droutsas to encourage closer U.S.-Greek cooperation in counter-piracy, urging Greece to sign the New York Declaration on best practices and to try piracy suspects in Greek courts. He also thanked th [...] |
2009-11-04 14:17:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHSA PGOV MARR MASS EWWT GR |
| 09ATHENS1601 |
GREECE: MARINE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AUTHORIZATIONS [...] No summary [...] |
2009-11-05 08:45:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | TPHY KRVC EWWT GR |
| 09ATHENS1605 |
MOD VENIZELOS: POSITIVE SIGNS, BUT SOME TOUGH ISSUES [...] (C) SUMMARY: New Minister of Defense Evangelos Venizelos expressed his commitment to a strong bilateral defense relationship in the Ambassador's first one-on-one meeting with him November 4. Well-briefed on Afghanistan, he said Greece would keep its medical teams (there for the elections suppo [...] |
2009-11-05 17:29:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR MASS GR AF TU |
| 09ATHENS1609 |
GREECE -- STAFFDEL PACKER (NOVEMBER 27-DECEMBER 3) [...] Embassy Athens warmly welcomes the visit to Greece of CSCE Congressional Staff Delegation member Winsome Packer from November 27 to December 3, 2009, in order to attend the 17th OSCE Ministerial Council and the OSCE PA Meeting in Athens. 2. Embassy has assigned Political Counselor Geor [...] |
2009-11-09 12:39:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | OREP AMGT ASEC OTRA AFIN OSCE GR |
| 09ATHENS1611 |
PIRACY: GREEK HEARTBURN WITH THE NEW YORK DECLARATION [...] (C) SUMMARY. PolMil Chief met at MFA November 3 to establish Greek views on signing the New York Declaration at the upcoming Plenary of the Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia (CGPCS) in January 2010. While the MFA values our overall cooperation on counterpiracy, they have conti [...] |
2009-11-09 13:25:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHSA EWWT GR |
| 09ATHENS1613 |
Ambassador's Call on Parliament President Petsalnikos [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador called on Parliament President Fhilippos Petsalnikos November 4 accompanied by DCM and POLOFF. On the Macedonia name issue Petsalnikos followed standard GoG lines, emphasizing the compound name used erga omnes, but also the Greek desire to move all of the Western Balkan [...] |
2009-11-09 15:37:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KTIP ECON EFIN GR |
| 09ATHENS1619 |
Greece Remains Wedded to EC position on Doha, Geographical [...] (SBU) Following the October 23 demarche delivery to the MFA, EconOff re-delivered reftel demarche on November 10 to Tassos Protopappas, Director for International Trade Policy, and Nikos Georgopoulos, Director General for International Economic Relations, with the Directorate for International [...] |
2009-11-12 16:09:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EUN KIPR GR |
| 09ATHENS1621 |
GREECE: Ambassador's Call on Minister of Economy Katseli [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a 90-minute tour d'horizon of the Greek economy, Ambassador Speckhard's November 6 courtesy call on newly-appointed Minister for Economy, Competitiveness, and Shipping Louka Katseli revealed the challenges confronting the new Greek government. Katseli described her newly-fo [...] |
2009-11-12 16:10:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON EFIN EAID |
| 09ATHENS1623 |
SCENESETTER FOR ASD VERSHBOW'S VISIT TO GREECE [...] (C) Welcome to Greece. Your visit is an important one and reinforces efforts by recent high-level USG visitors (SACEUR ADM Stavridis, COMNAVEUR ADM Fitzgerald, PM A/S Shapiro, and CNO ADM Roughead) to demonstrate to the Greeks that we are serious about our Alliance and about working with them [...] |
2009-11-12 17:08:00 | Embassy Athens | SECRET | PREL PGOV MARR MASS NATO GR AF TU |
| 09ATHENS1627 |
MFA VIEWS ON NATO ENLARGEMENT, NRC, CFE, OSCE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Greece supports our goal at the December Foreign Ministerial of MAP for Montenegro, and agrees BiH is not ready. On NATO-Russia, he noted that the SecGen's draft ministerial tasking to begin a joint review of common threats may be a bit overly ambitious, but that it was importan [...] |
2009-11-13 15:46:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV NATO MARR GR AF |
| 09ATHENS1629 |
ISAF: GREEKS WON'T GO TO RC-WEST AFTER ALL, NEW GOVERNMENT [...] (SBU) As foreshadowed by MOD Venizelos in his November 4 meeting with the Ambassador, Greek press reports that the Government Council of Foreign Affairs and Defense (KYSEA), Greece's NSC equivalent, decided November 13 to reverse the previous government's commitment to re-deploy the Greek ISAF [...] |
2009-11-13 15:48:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NATO MARR GR AF |
| 09ATHENS1631 |
Greek Views on November 2009 GAERC [...] (C) On November 10, Poloffs discussed ref points on U.S. positions on the November 16-17 GAERC with Niki Kamba, European Correspondent in the MFA A11 European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP) Division, and Vassilis Tselios, Deputy Head of the MFA C1 Directorate for EU External Relations. Ka [...] |
2009-11-16 12:12:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EUN GR |
| 09ATHENS1633 |
Greece Supports EU Renewal of Belarus Sanctions and [...] (C) PolOff met November 10 with Vassilis Tselios, Deputy Head of the C1 EU External Relations Directorate, to discuss a coordinated Belarus sanctions policy. Tselios - the Greek MFA's point person for EU- Eastern partner affairs - noted that Greece does not have an embassy in Minsk and therefo [...] |
2009-11-16 14:11:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PHUM BO GR EUN |
| 09ATHENS1637 |
GREEK RESPONSE: PROPOSED NORTH KOREAN ENTITIES AND [...] (SBU) On November 12, PolOffs delivered reftel points to Paulina Chotzoglou of the MFA's A10 Directorate, North Korea desk. Poloffs underscored the importance of sharing information and designating entities and individuals associated with DPRK proliferation efforts and expressed hope that the [...] |
2009-11-17 13:45:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN PARM KN ETTC EUN UNSC GR KNNP |
| 09ATHENS1639 |
GREECE: DEMARCHE OPPOSING UNGA RESOLUTIONS WITH ANTI-ISRAEL [...] No summary [...] |
2009-11-18 14:10:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL UNGA KPAL IS GR |
| 09ATHENS1641 |
FRONTEX PRESENCE GROWING TO CONFRONT GREECE'S MIGRATION WAVE [...] (SBU) In keeping with one of its main social (and now security) challenges - the growing tide of illegal migrants arriving by sea after transiting Turkey - Greece has sought greater support from the EU, and has found a partner in FRONTEX, the EU's border security agency. FRONTEX has become inc [...] |
2009-11-19 13:16:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL SMIG KCRM PTER EUN GR |
| 09ATHENS1643 |
Ambassador's Meeting with Minister of Citizens' Protection [...] (C) SUMMARY: Greek Minister of Citizens' Protection Michalis Chrysochoidis provided Ambassador Speckhard with an outline on November 12 of his ambitious plan to reorganize and energize all of Greece's civilian security agencies, including the national police, the domestic intelligence servi [...] |
2009-11-19 13:54:00 | Embassy Athens | SECRET | PREL PGOV SOCI PTER KCRM KTIP SMIG GR |
| 09ATHENS1649 |
ASD/ISA VERSHBOW'S PARTICIPATION IN THE HIGH LEVEL [...] (C) SUMMARY. The desire for an upgraded and substantive strategic partnership was a recurring theme of the Greek side when Assistant Secretary of Defense (ASD) for International Security Affairs Alexander Vershbow met with Greek Alternate Minister of Defense Panos Beglitis for the 14th U.S-Gr [...] |
2009-11-20 14:51:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR NATO GR TU MK AF ZL |
| 09ATHENS165 |
UNKNOWN GREEK TERROR GROUP CLAIMS RESPONSIBILITY [...] A previously unknown group calling itself "Sect of Revolutionaries" has claimed responsibility for the February 3 shooting and hand grenade attack on the Korydallos police station in suburban Athens (reftel). An anonymous call to the Ta Nea newspaper led police to discover a CD containing the [...] |
2009-02-05 16:34:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER PGOV ASEC GR |
| 09ATHENS1651 |
ASD VERSHBOW'S GREEK BILATS: AEGEAN/TURKEY, NATO, ISAF, [...] (C) SUMMARY: In separate meetings November 16 with the Prime Minister's Diplomatic Advisor Dimitris Paraskevopoulos and MFA Secretary General Ioannis-Alexis Zepos following his participation in the High Level Consultative Committee (reftel), Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Sec [...] |
2009-11-20 15:27:00 | Embassy Athens | SECRET | PREL PGOV MARR NATO GR TU MK ZL AF RS IR |
| 09ATHENS1653 |
AMBASSADOR'S CALL ON MINISTER OF FINANCE PAPAKONSTANTINOU [...] (SBU) Ambassador Speckhard's November 16 courtesy call on newly-appointed Minister of Finance George Papakonstantinou underscored the challenges confronting the new Greek government as it seeks to shore up deteriorating Greek public finances, bridge a credibility gap created by the misreporting [...] |
2009-11-25 10:23:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECIN PREL GR EFIN |
| 09ATHENS1655 |
AMBASSADOR AND DROUTSAS DISCUSS MACEDONIA, IRAN, TURKEY, [...] (C) SUMMARY. Ambassador Speckhard called on Alternate FM Droutsas November 23 for a tour d' horizon prior to the December 1-2 Athens OSCE Ministerial, focusing on Macedonia, Iran, and Turkey. The Ambassador urged Droutsas to stay engaged and push for a solution to the Macedonia name issue in [...] |
2009-11-25 16:06:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR OSCE KPIR GR MK TU IR |
| 09ATHENS1657 |
SCENESETTER FOR THE DEPUTY SECRETARY'S VISIT TO GREECE [...] (C) Welcome to Greece. There have been a lot of changes here since you last visited in June. We are now building on the opportunities presented by new Administrations in both Washington and Athens to cement a partnership that can confront common strategic challenges beyond the regional issue [...] |
2009-11-25 16:34:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON MARR NATO GR AF TU MK |
| 09ATHENS1659 |
Greece: Lacking a Fire Prevention Strategy Despite US [...] (SBU) Despite significant U.S. cooperation programs, Greece continues to lack a comprehensive fire prevention policy and does not have a wildfire prevention strategy. The Greek Government has sought to leverage any investment the U.S. is willing to provide in wildfire prevention and emergency [...] |
2009-11-25 16:42:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | EAGR EAID PREL SENV SOCI GR |
| 09ATHENS1661 |
THE PAPANDREOU GOVERNMENT: OLD VS. NEW [...] (C) Seven weeks after it was brought to power in Greek parliamentary elections, the government of George Papandreou has come under criticism from the Greek public and international markets for an erratic start in implementing its sweeping governmental reform. In many ways this is to have been [...] |
2009-11-27 10:54:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GR |
| 09ATHENS1665 |
GREECE WILL LOOK AT ISAF OMLTS, BUT NOT KEEN ON FURTHER [...] (C) Ambassador Speckhard drew on reftel A points in a November 27 discussion with Minister of Defense Venizelos, emphasizing the importance of Greek solidarity with the President's upcoming Afghanistan announcement both in the form of a public statement by the Prime Minister and at the upcomin [...] |
2009-11-27 15:16:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MARR NATO GR AF |
| 09ATHENS1669 |
Greek Response to Burma Dialogue Demarche [...] (SBU) On December 1, Poloff discussed ref points on U.S. dialogue with Burma with Ambassador Charalambos Dafaranos, Director of the MFA A10 Directorate for Asia and Oceania. Dafaranos said Greece fully agreed with U.S. views on the necessity of a legitimate 2010 election, for dialogue between [...] |
2009-12-01 13:40:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL GR BM |
| 09ATHENS1672 |
THEFT OF 692 BLANK GREEK RESIDENT PERMITS [...] Summary: The Greek recently press reported that, during the weekend of 15/16 August 2009, the Office of Immigration and Aliens Affairs at Kavala in northern Greece was robbed. A small safe containing government documents, including blank alien registration cards, blank provisional legal resid [...] |
2009-09-16 12:25:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | KFRD CVIS CMGT ASEC GR |
| 09ATHENS1673 |
NATO: GREEK UNEASE AT UPCOMING NATO CAOC AND CC-AIR COMMAND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Greek interlocutors, including Minister of Defense Venizelos and Chief of Defense Giagkos, have increasingly and more stridently expressed to us that NATO's new "Flags-to-Posts" (FTP) arrangement agreed by CHODs in May 2009 is not acceptable to the new Papandreou government, citi [...] |
2009-12-04 11:31:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV NATO MARR GR TU |
| 09ATHENS1675 |
Greek Response to DPRK Universal Periodic Review Demarche [...] (SBU) On December 4, Poloff discussed ref points on U.S. views on the DPRK Universal Periodic Review with Elias Photopoulos, Director of the MFA D4 Directorate of Human Rights. Photopoulos said Greece fully agreed with U.S. views and that he had instructed the Greek mission to the UN to ask s [...] |
2009-12-04 13:24:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL UN GR KN |
| 09ATHENS1677 |
GREECE: ENGAGEMENT ON OUR AFGHANISTAN MESSAGE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Embassy Athens took advantage of the Deputy Secretary's October 1-2 visit to press the Greek government for greater contributions in Afghanistan, and reinforce with the media the themes in the President's December 1 announcement. In a bilateral meeting October 2 with Greek PM Pa [...] |
2009-12-04 14:12:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV KPAO NATO MARR GR AF |
| 09ATHENS1679 |
GREEK COURT OVERTURNS CONVICTIONS OF ELA TERRORIST GROUP [...] (SBU) On December 3, 2009, a Greek appeals court threw out the 2004 convictions of three members of the People's Revolutionary Struggle (ELA) terrorist organization, ruling there was insufficient evidence. A fourth defendant died in June 2009. The ELA members were cleared of all charges for w [...] |
2009-12-04 15:21:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PREL PGOV GR |
| 09ATHENS168 |
IRAQI FM, IRANIAN DFM BOTH SEEK GREATER COOP WITH [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a recent visit to Athens, Iraqi FM Zebari discussed a wide range of topical issues with Greek FM Bakoyannis, thanked Greece for its decision to open a commercial office in northern Iraq, and urged Bakoyannis to make good on her long-standing promise to visit Iraq. Following [...] |
2009-02-06 09:07:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON IZ IR GR EAID ENRG |
| 09ATHENS1681 |
Greek Views on December 2009 FAC [...] (C) On December 4, Poloff discussed ref points on U.S. positions on the December 8 FAC (Foreign Affairs Council) with Alexandros Ioannidis, European Correspondent in the MFA A11 Security and Defense Policy (ESDP) Division. Ioannidis said the FAC's agenda would focus on the Middle East peace p [...] |
2009-12-04 15:47:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EUN GR |
| 09ATHENS1683 |
DEPUTY SECRETARY STEINBERG'S MEETING WITH GREEK PRIME [...] (C) In a meeting on December 2, Deputy Secretary Steinberg and Greek Prime Minister, Foreign Minister, and OSCE Chair-in-Office George Papandreou discussed the President's announcement on the way forward in Afghanistan, the Macedonia name issue, bilateral relations with Turkey, the Cyprus issue [...] |
2009-12-04 15:57:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV OVIP GR |
| 09ATHENS1685 |
Greece: New Government Tackles Migration and Asylum Issues [...] (C) SUMMARY: Greece's new PASOK-led government has placed migration and asylum policy reform high on its agenda, announcing new measures to combat organized human smugglers, ease naturalization requirements for immigrants born in Greece, provide status to illegal economic migrants, and transfer Gre [...] |
2009-12-04 16:07:00 | Embassy Athens | SECRET | PGOV PREL PHUM PREF PTER SMIG KCRM GR |
| 09ATHENS1691 |
HEAD OF HELLENIC AID: AFGHANISTAN IS OUR TOP ASSISTANCE [...] (SBU) In response to the GoG's request (see reftel E), DepEconCouns delivered to Ambassador Karafotias, the Director-General of Hellenic Aid, a list of USG-suggested projects in Afghanistan to which Greece may contribute funds (see reftel D). Per the GoG's previously expressed interest, the lis [...] |
2009-12-08 17:02:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PREL GR EAID AF |
| 09ATHENS1693 |
PIRACY: GREECE WANTS CGPCS CHAIR, WILL CONSIDER NY [...] (U) This cable contains an action request, please see paragraph 6. 2. (C) SUMMARY. The MFA formally requests to chair a future Plenary of the Contact Group for Piracy off the Coast of Somalia (CGPCS), MFA D1 Directorate Head Franciscos Verros and Counselor Dimitris Papandreou told Po [...] |
2009-12-11 11:07:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PHSA KPIR PREL PGOV GR |
| 09ATHENS17 |
GREEK CABINET RESHUFFLE: CONTINUITY IN FM AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 7, PM Karamanlis announced a fairly widespread Cabinet reshuffle. FM Bakoyannis and DefMin Meimarakis remain, but key personnel at the various economic ministries were replaced or shifted, including the Minister of National Economy and Finance and the Minister of Devel [...] |
2009-01-07 16:10:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON GR |
| 09ATHENS1705 |
GREEK PM CONFRONTS DEFICIT: BIG ON COMMITTMENT, SHY ON [...] (SBU) In a nationally-televised speech on December 14, Greece's Prime Minister of just two months, George Papandreou, walked a tightrope between maintaining public support and appeasing impatient European partners and international markets as he set out to bridge a credibility gap and potential [...] |
2009-12-15 16:22:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECIN PREL GR EFIN |
| 09ATHENS1707 |
GREECE: 2009 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM [...] Embassy Athens submits the draft below for the Greece section of the 2009 Country Reports on Terrorism. Begin text: 2. Greece and the United States have a strong record of counterterrorism cooperation. Domestic terrorism and extremist violence increased significantly in 2009, fol [...] |
2009-12-16 09:48:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER ASEC EFIN KCRM KHLS PINS PREL AEMR GR |
| 09ATHENS1711 |
NEW GREEK GOVERNMENT'S COUNTERTERRORISM STEPS [...] (U) Minister of Citizens' Protection Michalis Chrysochoidis recently announced that he had re-opened the investigation into the November 17 (N17) terrorist organization, seven years after the 2002 arrests of N17 members during Chrysochoidis's previous tenure as Minister of Public Order. Chryso [...] |
2009-12-18 07:59:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV ASEC ABLD GR |
| 09ATHENS1717 |
INFORMAL ADVISOR TO PAPANDREOU SHEDS LIGHT ON GOG INTERNAL [...] (C) PolCouns and PolOff met December 3 with Paulina Lampsa, head of the PASOK International Secretariat, to discuss internal dynamics and key players in the Papandreou Administration and the current state of play in Cyprus and Turkey. Lampsa discussed her role and that of other semi-official a [...] |
2009-12-20 22:05:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV GR TU MK CY |
| 09ATHENS1719 |
GREEK A/FM DROUTSAS' MEETING WITH P-5 AMBASSADORS [...] (S) Summary: In a lunch today for P-5 Ambassadors, Greek Alternate Foreign Minister Droutsas shared Greek views on Cyprus, the name issue, Turkey, and the economic crisis. On Cyprus, he pressed his belief that EU aquis communitaire could be the source of solutions for the differences that div [...] |
2009-12-22 11:07:00 | Embassy Athens | SECRET | PREL GR ECON |
| 09ATHENS1721 |
Russia Looks to Court New GoG Officials, Displays Interest [...] (C) In recent weeks Russian officials, including Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, have reached out to Greek officials and the Greek public, in an effort to display reinvigorated Russian-Greek ties and paint a picture of close cooperation with the Greece on economic, political and cultur [...] |
2009-12-22 11:20:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON ENRG OSCE RS BU GR |
| 09ATHENS1723 |
Ambassador Advocates for U.S. Interests and Mosque with [...] (C) Summary: In a December 17 call on Minister of Education and Religious Affairs Anna Diamantopoulou , Ambassador Speckhard lobbied for American educational institutions operating in Greece, specifically with regard to licensing , recognition of degrees and the granting and vocational rights [...] |
2009-12-22 15:10:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | SCUL PGOV PHUM GR |
| 09ATHENS1725 |
University Asylum in Greece: When Democracy Goes Awry [...] (C) Summary: A series of violent attacks against Greek academics in both Athens and Thessaloniki during the past month has fueled public debate over whether the university asylum law should be repealed to allow police officers to enter university grounds absent a formal request from university au [...] |
2009-12-23 08:54:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV OEXC SOCI GR |
| 09ATHENS175 |
CHOD GRAPSAS ON TURKEY AND AEGEAN, AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) In a February 4 lunch at the Ambassador's reQence, the Chief of the Hellenic National Defense General Staff, General of the Army Demitrios Grapsas, termed recent Turkish behavior in the Aegean "childish" and made clear that the perception of the Turkish threat drives Greek military procur [...] |
2009-02-06 15:46:00 | Embassy Athens | SECRET | PREL PGOV MASS MARR TU AF GR |
| 09ATHENS1774 |
FRAUD SUMMARY ATHENS [...] Over the past 20 years Greece has seen a remarkable improvement in its standard of living. This is primarily due to the long-term convergence plan of the European Union for socioeconomic uniformity among member states. This, together with its geographic location, has made Greece an attractiv [...] |
2009-09-30 13:14:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | KFRD CVIS CPAS CMGT ASEC GR |
| 09ATHENS18 |
GREEK PRESIDENT AND FM CONDEMN TURKISH ACTIONS IN [...] No summary [...] |
2009-01-07 16:18:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL TU GR MOPS PARM |
| 09ATHENS1816 |
GREECE H1N1 FLU UPDATE: 7,000 STUDENTS OUT OF SCHOOL; MASS [...] SUMMARY. The number of confirmed H1N1 cases has exceeded 2,100 in Greece in the period May-October 2009 but the unrecorded infections are estimated at 20 to 30 times that number. Greece had 12 serious cases and 3 fatalities from H1N1 infection to date, however 95 percent of patients have ful [...] |
2009-10-06 09:44:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | ASEC CASC KFLO KFLU AEMR TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL PINR |
| 09ATHENS184 |
GREECE/BOSNIA: FORMAL REQUEST TO SUPPORT [...] (C) In a February 10 meeting at his request with Pol-Mil Chief, Haris Lalacos, Director of the MFA A11 Directorate for Common Foreign and Security Policy, formally requested that the USG support the candidacy of Greek Ambassador to the United States, Alexandros P. Mallias, to serve as the EU [...] |
2009-02-10 15:55:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV BK GR |
| 09ATHENS19 |
FM BAKOYANNIS ON GAZA, AEGEAN ISSUES, OSCE, [...] (C) In a January 7 meeting with Ambassador Speckhard, FM Bakoyannis led off by expressing concern about the situation in Gaza, and emphasizing the need for a "humanitarian truce," and a UN Security Council Resolution. The Ambassador responded that the U.S. was also deeply concerned about the [...] |
2009-01-07 17:17:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM OSCE GG GR RS TU CVIS CJAN |
| 09ATHENS191 |
THE SORRY STATE OF THE GREEK EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM: [...] (C) Summary: This is the first of two cables on the challenges created by the Greek educational system for U.S. public diplomacy in Greece. This cable will describe the state of the sector and current attempts to reform it. The second cable will describe how we are reaching out to Greek y [...] |
2009-02-13 08:15:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV KAPO OPRC OEXC SCUL GR |
| 09ATHENS1920 |
Greece: 2009-2010 INCSR, Part 1 [...] (U) Greece's submission for the 2009-2010 INCSR, Part 1: Greece 2009-2010 INCSR Part I: Drugs and Chemical Control I. Summary Greece is a "gateway" country in the transit of illicit drugs and contraband. Although not a major transit country for drugs headed for the United St [...] |
2009-10-30 16:31:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV SNAR KCRM GR |
| 09ATHENS203 |
Greece: 2009 TIP Report Submission - Part 1 of 4 [...] (U) This document is Sensitive But Unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (U) This is the first of four cables. After the Summary, the cable text is keyed to REFTEL paragraphs 23 (THE COUNTRY'S TIP SITUATION) and 24 (SETTING THE SCENE FOR THE GOVERNMENT'S ANTI-TIP EFFORTS). ---- [...] |
2009-02-17 14:38:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KTIP PREF ASEC KCRM KFRD KWMN SMIG ELAB GR |
| 09ATHENS2038 |
Greeks Host Third Global Forum on Migration and Development [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Greece hosted the 2009 Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) in Athens November 2-5. For the first time, a U.S. delegation attended the Forum, led by PRM/PIM Office Director Suzanne Sheldon and including officers from U.S. Mission Geneva, U.S. Embassy Athens, and DH [...] |
2009-11-16 17:07:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PREF EAID SMIG GR |
| 09ATHENS204 |
Greece: 2009 TIP Report Submission - Part 2 of 4 [...] (U) This document is Sensitive But Unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (U) This is the second of four cables. The cable text is keyed to REFTEL paragraph 25 (INVESTIGATION AND PROSECUTION OF TRAFFICKERS). -------------------------------------------- INVESTIGATION AND PROSECU [...] |
2009-02-17 14:43:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KTIP PREF ASEC KCRM KFRD KWMN SMIG ELAB GR |
| 09ATHENS205 |
Greece: 2009 TIP Report Submission - Part 3 of 4 [...] (U) This document is Sensitive But Unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (U) This is the third of four cables. The cable text is keyed to REFTEL paragraph 26 (PROTECTION AND ASSISTANCE TO VICTIMS). ------------------------------------ PROTECTION AND ASSISTANCE TO VICTIMS ----- [...] |
2009-02-17 14:46:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KTIP PREF ASEC KCRM KFRD KWMN SMIG ELAB GR |
| 09ATHENS206 |
Greece: 2009 TIP Report Submission - Part 4 of 4 [...] (U) This document is Sensitive But Unclassified. Please protect accordingly. 2. (U) This is the last of four cables. The cable text is keyed to REFTEL paragraphs 27 (PREVENTION), 28 (TIP HEROES), and 29 (TIP BEST PRACTICES). TIP point of contact information and an estimate of hours spe [...] |
2009-02-17 14:47:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PHUM KTIP PREF ASEC KCRM KFRD KWMN SMIG ELAB GR |
| 09ATHENS2064 |
Greek Shippers Drowning in the Wake of Economic Pressures [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. A seafaring nation for millennia, the resilience of the Greek shipping industry is being tested seriously for the first time since it rose to modern prominence in the 1960s. As the global economic crisis continues, and the demographics of international trade shift, the Greek sh [...] |
2009-11-20 16:11:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON PHSA KPIR CH GR |
| 09ATHENS207 |
PASOK LEADER PAPANDREOU READY TO ASSIST ON GLOBAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a February 12 meeting with Ambassador, main Greek opposition PASOK President George Papandreou offered his assistance to the new U.S. Administration on Iran, the Middle East Peace Process, Pakistan/Afghanistan, and other critical global issues. Citing his special status as he [...] |
2009-02-18 05:03:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GR PTER MOPS SOCI IS IR NATO AFIN |
| 09ATHENS209 |
GREECE: POINTS DELIVERED ON DURBAN REVIEW [...] (SBU) Per REFTEL, on February 18 Poloff informed Elias Photopoulos, Director of the Greek MFA D4 Directorate of Human Rights, of our points on the Durban Review Conference Working Group Session. Photopoulos stated that Greece will follow the EU consensus at the Working Group Session. He not [...] |
2009-02-18 09:30:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL UNHRC GR |
| 09ATHENS210 |
GREECE: POINTS DELIVERED ON PROSECUTION OF [...] No summary [...] |
2009-02-18 12:33:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | PHSA PBTS EWWT KCRM PTER MOPS PREL GR |
| 09ATHENS215 |
NEW DOMESTIC TERRORIST ATTACKS IN GREECE [...] (SBU) There have been several significant new attacks in Athens in recent days, including a shooting attack on a television station, a bomb placed outside offices of Citibank, and a series of bombings targeting prominent anti-terrorism figures. While no one was killed in these incidents, they [...] |
2009-02-19 09:49:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER ASEC ABLD PGOV PREL GR |
| 09ATHENS216 |
NEW GREEK FINANCE MINISTER ON GLOBAL FINANCIAL [...] (SBU) In a February 13 courtesy call, the Ambassador discussed the global financial crisis and its impact on the Greek economy with Ioannis Papathanasiou, Greece's new Minister of Economy and Finance. The new Minister summarized his recent EcoFin meetings in Brussels, the revisions to the Gre [...] |
2009-02-19 13:44:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN GR |
| 09ATHENS2192 |
GREEK PARLIAMENT ADOPTS 2010 BUDGET: TARGETS AMIBTIOUS, BUT [...] (SBU) The Greek budget for 2010, which was passed by Greek Parliament on December 23, is an attempt to bring order to Greece's public finances and restore its badly-dented credibility with foreign investors, international credit ratings agencies, and the European Union. The budget aims to red [...] |
2009-12-28 15:33:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ECIN EFIN PREL GR |
| 09ATHENS2202 |
US Treasury Meetings in Greece: Despite Credibility Gap, [...] (SBU) In December 18 and 21 meetings in Athens with visiting Treasury Representative for Europe Mathew Haarsager, Greek government and bank officials expressed the common view that the main challenge facing the GoG was undertaking a reform program that would restore credibility in Greek econom [...] |
2009-12-31 11:52:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ECIN PREL GR |
| 09ATHENS224 |
OLYMPIC AIR PRIVATIZATION: 7TH TRY THE CHARM? [...] (U) SUMMARY: On February 5, the Greek press reported that the sixth tender issued over the course of the past 15 years for the privatization of Olympic Airlines (OA) had once again failed, due to lack of conforming bids. Finance Minister Papathanassiou announced the development, together [...] |
2009-02-20 09:50:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EINV ELAB EAIR GR |
| 09ATHENS226 |
TURKISH EMBASSY'S VIEWS ON MIGRANT READMISSIONS [...] (C) According to an official at the Turkish Embassy in Athens, there are two reasons why Turkey is unwilling to permit Greece to return third-country illegal migrants to Turkey at the port of Izmir, as called for in a 2001 bilateral protocol and which the Greeks believe would greatly reduce th [...] |
2009-02-20 12:52:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PBTS PHUM PTER TU GR |
| 09ATHENS228 |
MAURITANIA: GREECE AGREES "100 PERCENT" WITH U.S. [...] (SBU) DepPolCouns delivered reftel demarche on EU policy toward Mauritania to MFA A9 Africa Directorate deputy head Taxiarchis Christopoulos. Christopoulos said Greek diplomats from Brussels would attend the February 20 EU meeting in Paris. He also said that Mauritania was a regular topic of [...] |
2009-02-20 13:39:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREL GR EUN MR |
| 09ATHENS230 |
GREECE AND NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION TREATY (NPT) [...] (SBU) We discussed ref B points and request for information on Greek views on the current Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) review cycle with the Greek POC on NPT matters, MFA D1 Directorate Second Counselor Loukas Tsokos (contact information in ref A), on February 2 and again on February [...] |
2009-02-20 14:40:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC CDG ENRG KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV PREL UNGA |
| 09ATHENS232 |
GREEK VIEWS ON FEBRUARY GAERC ISSUES [...] (C) DepPolCouns delivered ref points on U.S. positions on the February 23-24 GAERC to MFA European Correspondent Niki Kamba. Kamba said the agenda for the GAERC included: Afghanistan, the Middle East, the Western Balkans, and the Eastern Partnership. On Sudan, she said that no discussion wa [...] |
2009-02-20 15:35:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EUN |
| 09ATHENS234 |
TERRORISM FINANCE: GREECE RESPONSE TO PROPOSAL TO [...] (S) On February 20, EconOff delivered reftel points to Ioannis Sidiropoulos, Secretary General of the Ministry of Economy and Finance; Panagiotis Thomopoulos, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Greece (BG); and Panagiotis Kyriakopoulos, Director of Monetary Policy of Banks of the Bank of Greece. T [...] |
2009-02-20 16:53:00 | Embassy Athens | SECRET | KTFN EFIN ETRD ETTC GR |
| 09ATHENS235 |
FOREIGN MINISTER BAKOYIANNIS' VISIT TO WASHINGTON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Greek FM Dora Bakoyiannis will use her visit to Washington to define, publicly and privately, Greece's relations with the Obama administration. A charismatic yet practical politician, Bakoyiannis relishes her job as Foreign Minister, and will offer to work with us on a broad r [...] |
2009-02-23 05:52:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GR MK |
| 09ATHENS240 |
MFA PRESSES U.S. TO WITHDRAW FROM NAVAL EXERCISE [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: On February 23, MFA Secretary General Agathocles summoned Ambassador Speckhard to tell him that, in the GOG's view, the U.S. should not to participate in the upcoming naval exercise "Egemen." Non-participation would send an important signal to Turkey that it needed [...] |
2009-02-24 05:29:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR PREL PARM TU GR |
| 09ATHENS241 |
GREEK RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON U.S. PLANS FOR MARCH [...] (SBU) Hellenic Aid has informed Post that the GoG has made no decisions on attendance and a pledge for the upcoming Donors, Conference for the Palestinian Authority (PA). EconOff delivered reftel points on February 19 to Dr. Nike-Catherine Koutrakou, Hellenic Aid, Director of Emergency Humani [...] |
2009-02-24 09:23:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KPAL KWBG EFIN PGOV EAID PTER PHUM GR GZ |
| 09ATHENS243 |
UN APPEALS TRIBUNAL: AMCIT NOMINATION DEMARCHE [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to George Panagiotidis, Embassy Attache in the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs, UN Directorate, on 23 February. Panagiotidis indicated that it would be given due consideration, but we have not yet received a response. MCCARTHY [...] |
2009-02-24 14:23:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | AORC APER PREL UNGA KAWC KJUS KUNR |
| 09ATHENS245 |
EU BIOTECH CORN VOTE: GREECE NOT READY TO TALK [...] No summary [...] |
2009-02-26 06:17:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | ETRD ECON EAGR TBIO GR |
| 09ATHENS248 |
"SECT OF REVOLUTIONARIES" CLAIMS TV STATION [...] (SBU) On February 21, the Greek newspaper Ta Nea published the text of a letter it reportedly received the day before from the "Sect of Revolutionaries" claiming responsibility for the February 17 attack against the Alter TV station. In that attack, four assailants fired at vehicles and threw [...] |
2009-02-26 09:32:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV ASEC ABLD GR |
| 09ATHENS249 |
SENATOR DURBIN DISCUSSES CYPRUS, TURKEY, VISA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a cordial and very substantive discussion during his visit to Athens, Senator Richard Durbin told Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis about his impressions of the chances for a settlement of the Cyprus issue following his visit to Nicosia and underscored the new administration's [...] |
2009-02-26 11:04:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP PREL CVIS ECON ENRG PTER PGOV TU CY GR |
| 09ATHENS250 |
CODEL DURBIN'S MEETING WITH GREEK OPPOSITION [...] (SBU) In a wide-ranging discussion February 18, Senator Durbin and main opposition PASOK party president George Papandreou shared views on the global economic crisis, Cyprus, Greek-Turkish relations, Afghanistan, and other issues. They agreed that the international goodwill surrounding the ne [...] |
2009-02-26 11:06:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL PGOV ECON OVIP ENRG TU GR |
| 09ATHENS252 |
CODEL DURBIN FOCUSES ON CYPRUS IN MEETING WITH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In their February 18 meeting with PM Karmamanlis, Senator Durbin and Illinois state treasurer Giannoulias focused primarily on how to achieve progress on Cyprus this year. PM Karamanlis noted improvement in Greek-Turkish relations in many areas, but not on "heavy political i [...] |
2009-02-26 12:24:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | OVIP CVIS PHUM NATO UNFCYP GR TU MK CY |
| 09ATHENS253 |
GREECE/NATO: PARLIAMENT RATIFIES CROATIA AND [...] (SBU) On February 17, the Greek Parliament formally ratified the protocols of accession of Albania and Croatia to join NATO. Although Parliamentary approval is the last political step, the protocols must still be signed by the President of the Republic and published in the "Official Gazette. [...] |
2009-02-26 15:28:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | KTIA MARR NATO PARM PREL AL HR GR |
| 09ATHENS266 |
OSCE CIO/GREEK FM BAKOYANNIS ORGANIZING IRAQ VISIT [...] (C) During a discussion of ref A points on the review of U.S. policy in Iraq, MFA A6 Directorate for Middle East Affairs Counsellor Gregory Karahalios, who has responsibility for Iraq, told DepPolCouns that FM Dora Bakoyannis, who is also currently OSCE CiO, is trying to organize a visit to Ir [...] |
2009-03-03 11:45:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL ECON MOPS IZ GR |
| 09ATHENS270 |
GREECE/NATO: GREECE SUPPORTS CONTINUATION OF THE [...] (C) Pol-Mil Chief met March 3 with MFA D2 NATO Department Deputy Director Theodoros Daskarolis and his staff to review reftel points on continued support for the NATO Training Mission-Iraq. Reftel points had been shared with the MFA prior to the February 27 Policy Coordination meeting at NATO [...] |
2009-03-03 15:03:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS NATO PREL IZ GR |
| 09ATHENS272 |
GREECE/AFGHANISTAN: VIEWS ON "ENGAGING ALLIES AND [...] (C) Pol-Mil Chief met March 3 with MFA D2 NATO Department Deputy Director Theodoros Daskarolis and his staff to review reftel points on engaging Allies and Partners on Afghanistan. Daskarolis thanked us for the paper (which had been provided previously), terming it a "very positive paper." H [...] |
2009-03-03 16:09:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO PREL MOPS MARR AF GR |
| 09ATHENS282 |
GREEK ANARCHISTS BURN ATHENS TRAIN [...] (SBU) At about 0100 local time March 3, a group of 15 to 20 young people ejected the driver and passengers from a train at the commuter station in the northern Athens suburb of Kifissia and then set fire to the train with Molotov cocktails. Eight train cars were completely destroyed. All of [...] |
2009-03-05 14:15:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER ASEC ABLD PGOV GR |
| 09ATHENS283 |
2009 SPECIAL 301 REVIEW - GREECE [...] (SBU) The Greek Government - particularly the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) - responded to Greece's placement on the U.S. Special 301 Watch List in 2008 with a genuine effort to understand and begin addressing USG concerns. It has welcomed enhanced dialogue with a range of USG agencies, [...] |
2009-03-05 16:58:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON ETRD GR KIPR |
| 09ATHENS286 |
GREECE/OSCE: BAKOYIANNIS MEETING WITH OSCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Rabbi Andrew Baker, the OSCE Personal Representative for Combating Anti-Semitism (and International Jewish Affairs Director for the American Jewish Committee) told Polofs that the OSCE Chairmanship was focused on security issues, and had not developed an agenda or active plan fo [...] |
2009-03-09 10:39:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGO PHUM GR KIRF |
| 09ATHENS287 |
GREECE/NATO: RATIFICATION OF CROATIA AND ALBANIA [...] The Government of Greece has completed the process to ratify the NATO accession of Croatia and Albania. Law 3753 -- the Parliament's ratification of the accession protocols for Croatia and Albania -- was published in the "Official Gazette" and became official on March 4, 2009. MFA sources h [...] |
2009-03-09 13:01:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | KTIA MARR NATO PARM PREL AL HR GR |
| 09ATHENS315 |
GREECE: NEW WAVE OF MIGRANT PROTESTS ON POLICE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In the latest incident in a series of violent immigrant-police confrontations, police clashed with approximately 70 illegal migrants in the port town of Patras on March 3. Media reported that an illegal migrant was injured attempting to stow away on a truck bound for Italy. W [...] |
2009-03-13 13:51:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PHUM PREF KCRM GR SMIG |
| 09ATHENS318 |
GREECE TRIES TO COPE WITH HEIGHTENED DOMESTIC [...] (C) New terrorist attacks continue to rock Greece with a frequency not seen since 2000, unnerving the country's political and professional elite. A number of violent far-left groups -- some previously unknown -- have claimed responsibility for bombings, shootings, and arson incidents, and thi [...] |
2009-03-16 05:35:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER ASEC ABLD PGOV PREL GR |
| 09ATHENS326 |
GREEK TOURISM:RECESSION AND SECURITY THREATEN, BUT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: During a call by Ambassador February 23, new Minister of Tourism Constantinos Markopoulos expressed high hopes for U.S.-Greek relations with the new Administration, acknowledged that Greece's tourism sector faces difficult challenges in 2009 due to the drastic fall off in book [...] |
2009-03-16 12:42:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL ECON EFIN ETRD GR |
| 09ATHENS327 |
KARAMANLIS DEFENDS FOREIGN POLICY AGAINST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a March 12 unscheduled Parliamentary debate, PM Karamanlis defended his government's foreign policy, noting that its "red lines" on the Macedonia name issue remained unchanged, as did its insistence that Turkey must comply fully with all EU obligations for accession. Main opp [...] |
2009-03-16 12:52:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV MOPS TU GR |
| 09ATHENS336 |
GREECE AGREES "COMPLETELY" WITH U.S. ON RUSSIA, [...] (C) DepPolCouns discussed reftel points on Russia recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia and basing plans with OSCE Special Envoy for Protracted Conflicts Greek Ambassador Charalambos Christopoulos and, separately, with MFA A5 Directorate for CIS Countries Counselor Lambros Kakissis. Both [...] |
2009-03-18 14:40:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV OSCE GR RS GG BO |
| 09ATHENS338 |
FM BAKOYIANNIS PLANS CALL TO SECRETARY SEEKING [...] (C) SUMMARY: At a March 17 dinner, Foreign Minister Bakoyiannis told Ambassador Speckhard that, in her capacity as OSCE Chairperson in Office, she wanted to speak with the Secretary to discuss two linked issues: her plans to move forward on OSCE's mission in Georgia and her proposal to host [...] |
2009-03-18 17:00:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV GR TU OSCE |
| 09ATHENS339 |
GREEK RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE TO EU MEMBER STATES ON [...] (C) The Ambassador delivered reftel points to Minister of Economy and Finance John Papathanassiou on March 13. The Minister fully agreed that it is critical for the U.S. and EU countries to work together to address difficulties the global crisis is causing in Central and Eastern Europe in orde [...] |
2009-03-19 08:03:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | ECIN ECON EFIN PREL GR |
| 09ATHENS341 |
FURTHER INFORMATION ON GREECE'S 5 MILLION USD [...] (U) EconOff delivered reftel points on March 6 to Dr. Nike-Catherine Koutrakou, Director of Emergency Humanitarian and Food Aid Programs, Hellenic Aid. On March 18, Koutrakou advised EconOff that the $5 million pledged by the GoG at the March 2 conference would be used for various reconstruct [...] |
2009-03-19 13:23:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAM KWBG EFIN PGOV PHUM PTER GR EAID |
| 09ATHENS349 |
GREECE: BOMB ATTACK AT GOVERNMENT REAL ESTATE [...] (SBU) At approximately 2130 on March 19, a bomb went off near the entrance of the Hellenic Public Real Estate Corporation (KED), heavily damaging a nearby parked car. No injuries or deaths were reported. According to police contacts and media reporting, the bomb was placed in a plastic bag [...] |
2009-03-20 14:37:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PTER ASEC KCRM GR |
| 09ATHENS350 |
GREECE ALREADY SUBMITTED HCOC AD, URGES U.S. TO [...] (C) PolOff delivered reftel demarche on boosting the number of HCOC Annual Declarations (ADs) received this year to Second Counselor Loukas Tsokos and Counselor-Expert on Disarmament Issues Pantelis Margaris at the MFA D1 Directorate for UN and International Organizations. In response, Margar [...] |
2009-03-20 14:49:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MNUC ETTC TSPA KSCA GR |
| 09ATHENS366 |
GREECE/KOSOVO: GOG SUPPORTS "IN TOGETHER OUT [...] No summary [...] |
2009-03-23 16:17:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL MARR NATO KPKO KV GR |
| 09ATHENS371 |
GOG IMPLEMENTS THIRD ROUND OF AUSTERITY MEASURES [...] (SBU) In a move to boost market and EU confidence in the government's commitment and ability to contain public finances, the GoG on March 18 implemented a third series of measures to cut spending and boost revenues, including a wage freeze affecting approximately 70 percent of public sector em [...] |
2009-03-24 15:41:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN ECIN PREL GR |
| 09ATHENS376 |
GREEK SHIPPERS HURTING, LOOKING TO USG [...] SUMMARY: On March 10, incoming President of the Hellenic Shipowners Association (HSA), Theodore Veniamis and two major ship owners and former presidents of the HSA, George Gratsos and John Lyras, told Econoff that Greek ship owners were suffering from a severe drop in trade financing and from [...] |
2009-03-26 13:16:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EFIN ETRD SENV GR |
| 09ATHENS40 |
GREECE ASSURING LNG-BASED GAS SUPPLIES FROM [...] (C) Summary. Greece's natural gas company (DEPA) has contracted LNG deliveries to supply the country through January 20 and is close to finalizing LNG supplies through the end of the month. Observers remain uncertain how Gazprom's gas cut off will affect Greek energy policy. One senior of [...] |
2009-01-13 17:00:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | ENRG ECON PREL GR IT AJ RS BU |
| 09ATHENS407 |
Greek Education Reform Expert Wants U.S. Help [...] (C) Summary: In a March 26 meeting with PAO and CAO, Greek education reform expert Babiniotis shared GoG plans and timelines, and enthusiastically welcomed U.S. assistance on implementing a national university entrance exam system based on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). End summary. [...] |
2009-03-31 08:39:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV OPRC OEXC SCUL GR |
| 09ATHENS417 |
Hellenic Aid Director on Greek Assistance to Afghanistan [...] (C) Deputy Chief of Mission met March 31 with Hellenic Aid Director Mercurios Karafotias to discuss the USG's new Afghanistan strategy, among other subjects. As she passed Karafotias the USG's White Paper on Afghanistan and Pakistan, she noted the push for stability in this region is of c [...] |
2009-03-31 11:47:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | EAID AF |
| 09ATHENS419 |
GREECE REJECTS ROM PROPOSALS AS DISTRACTION FROM REAL ISSUE [...] (C) In a letter dated March 24, 2009, to Republic of Macedonia (ROM) Foreign Minister Milososki, Greek FM Dora Bakoyannis rejected Milososki's March 13 initiatives for signing a declaration of friendship, establishing a joint committee on education and history issues, and a framework proposal f [...] |
2009-03-31 13:47:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PGOV PREL GR MK |
| 09ATHENS435 |
GREECE: Response to Afghanistan-Pakistan Stragegic Review [...] (C) POLCouns delivered ref a points to the Greek MFA's NATO on March 26 and to the MFA's Asian Affairs Department on March 27. MFA Counsellor Caterina Dimakis noted that, as the Hague conference was not a pledging conference - FM Bakoyiannis did not plan to make specific proposals for addition [...] |
2009-04-01 10:20:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV AF NATO |
| 09ATHENS445 |
GREECE FACES NEW ROUND OF BOMBINGS [...] (SBU) In a sign of the continuing escalation of activity by domestic terrorist and anarchist groups (reftels), a series of firebombings and other violent attacks occurred in Athens and Thessaloniki March 27-31. In the most coordinated attack, gas canister bombs exploded at ten banks and luxu [...] |
2009-04-01 14:16:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PTER PGOV ASEC ABLD PREL GR |
| 09ATHENS45 |
GREEKS TIGHT-LIPPED ON EU-SYRIA AGREEMENT [...] (C) DepPolCouns delivered reftel points on the EU-Syria Association Agreement to MFA C1 Directorate for EU External Relations Counselor Katerina Varvarigou. Varvarigou said Greece would take a "balanced approach," which would be in line with the common EU position. An EU working group -- not [...] |
2009-01-14 13:43:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN PGOV PREL GR SY |
| 09ATHENS461 |
RECALL 09 ATHENS 461 [...] No summary [...] |
2009-04-03 11:57:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PTER MOPS GR |
| 09ATHENS467 |
GREEK FRIGATE COMPLETES EU ANTI-PIRACY MISSION [...] The Hellenic Navy frigate Psara is winding down a 4-month deployment in the Gulf of Aden as part of a European Union naval force battling piracy off Somalia. April 4 marks the end of Greek Commodore Andionios Papaioannou's four-month tenure as the first tactical commander of the EU's first nava [...] |
2009-04-03 13:41:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | PGOV PREL PTER MOPS GR |
| 09ATHENS471 |
Greek Contributions to Afghanistan [...] (C) SUMMARY: In response to ref A instruction to urge Allies and partners to provide specific support for Afghanistan, Post has reached out to a range of Greek contacts in the MFA and MOD. Ambassador spoke on April 2 with Ambassador Kostas Chalastanis, Chief of the Foreign Minister's Diplomati [...] |
2009-04-03 14:54:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | NATO PREL MOPS MARR GR |
| 09ATHENS497 |
MFA POSITIVE ON AFGHANISTAN, VISA WAIVER NEGOTIATIONS, POTUS [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador discussed ref A points on Afghanistan and Pakistan with head of the Foreign Minister's Diplomatic Cabinet, Ambassador Kostas Chalastanis, noting the issue was not only a top priority for the U.S. but also a critical one for Greece, which had recently seen Afghani migrant [...] |
2009-04-06 09:42:00 | Embassy Athens | SECRET | PGOV PREL IR AF MOPS GR |
| 09ATHENS509 |
GREECE -- RESPONSE TO NORTH KOREAN TAEPO-DONG 2 LAUNCH [...] (S) Poloff delivered reftel points and presidential statement to LouQsokos, Second Counselor in the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), D1 Directorate, on April 6, on the issue of the North Korean Taepo-Dong 2 Launch. Tsokos expressed thanks for the information but made no substantive res [...] |
2009-04-07 07:43:00 | Embassy Athens | SECRET | PREL PARM KNNP KN GR |
| 09ATHENS513 |
GREECE SUPPORTS US CANDIDACY FOR UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [...] (U) On April 6, Poloffs delivered reftel points on the U.S. candidacy for the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to Ambassador Tryphon S. Paraskevopoulos, Director of UN and International Specialized Organizations and Conferences at the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and George Panagiot [...] |
2009-04-07 08:52:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL GR UN |
| 09ATHENS515 |
GREECE - RESPONSE TO NORTH KOREAN TAEPO-DONG 2 LAUNCH [...] (S) Poloff delivered reftel points and presidential statement to Loukas Tsokos, Second Counselor in the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), D1 Directorate, on April 6, on the issue of the North Korean Taepo-Dong 2 Launch. Tsokos expressed thanks for the information but made no substantive [...] |
2009-04-07 12:06:00 | Embassy Athens | SECRET | PREL PARM KNNP KN GR |
| 09ATHENS519 |
PAVILIDIS AFFAIR PAINFUL, BUT NOT FATAL, TO RULING ND [...] No summary [...] |
2009-04-07 13:39:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL GR |
| 09ATHENS523 |
GREECE -- ENLARGING WITH STATES ON ICJ ADVISORY OPINION ON [...] No summary [...] |
2009-04-08 06:54:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | AORC PREL ICJ KV GR |
| 09ATHENS53 |
GREECE: PARLIAMENT RATIFIES ALBANIA-EU [...] (U) The Greek Parliament ratified the EU/Albania Stabilization and Association Agreement (SAA) January 14. The ruling New Democracy party and main opposition party, PASOK, (who collectively hold 253 of the 300 seats in Parliament) both backed the agreement. Deputy Foreign Minister Yiannis Va [...] |
2009-01-15 14:45:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | GR PGOV PREL AL |
| 09ATHENS541 |
EMBASSY ATHENS RESPONSE: FY09 PROHIBITION ON ASSISTANCE TO [...] (U) The GoG is expected to receive $100,000 in International Military Education and Training (IMET) funding in FY 2009 in order to continue to professionalize Greece's military. Therefore, Greece is covered by Section 7088(c)(1) of the Department of State, Foreign Operations, and Related Progr [...] |
2009-04-08 11:41:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON PREL GR |
| 09ATHENS551 |
GREECE LOOKS TO SUPPORT CYPRUS JOINING CONTACT GROUP ON [...] The leading Greek MFA participant in the Contact Group on Somali Piracy (CGSP), Ambassador Tryphon Paraskevopoulos, has asked us to find a way to bring Cyprus into the CGSP in spite of Turkish objections. Paraskevopoulos argued that Cyprus met the criteria for membership, and that a rejection [...] |
2009-04-09 13:48:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MOPS PREL PTER GR CY |
| 09ATHENS58 |
FY 2009 Request for Sustaining Funds-American Corners [...] Introduction and Summary: Embassy Athens requests $58,340 in FY09 funds to strengthen programs at the six American Corners (ACs) in Greece: Xanthi (northeastern Greece), Veria (northwestern Greece), Sparta (southern Greece), Corfu (western Greece), the Hellenic American Union (HAU) in central [...] |
2009-01-16 12:50:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | KPAO OIIP KIRC GR |
| 09ATHENS591 |
Greece reiterates support for the U.S. candidacy to the UN [...] (U) On April 15, poloff delivered reftel points on the formal announcement of United States candidacy to the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) to George Panagiotidis, Embassy AttachC) for the UN Directorate at the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). In response, Panagiotidis reiterated Greece' [...] |
2009-04-15 14:18:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL GR |
| 09ATHENS593 |
Consulting With Greece on the Burma Policy Review [...] (C) On April 10, pol off delivered reftel points on the subject of the ongoing Burma Policy Review to Dora Giovanni, Counselor in the A10 Division for Asia-Oceania. Giovanni appreciated the information and expressed her concern for the situation in Burma, especially in the area of human right [...] |
2009-04-15 14:45:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV BM GR |
| 09ATHENS595 |
Envoy Kennedy Presses Greeks on Holocaust Restitution, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Ambassador J. Christian Kennedy, Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues, visited Athens March 28-31 to discuss progress on Holocaust property restitution and combating anti-Semitism with Greek officials, the Greek Orthodox Church, and local Jewish community leaders. Ministry of Ec [...] |
2009-04-16 07:05:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF GR |
| 09ATHENS62 |
GREEKS ALERTED TO SIGNING OF U.S.-ISRAEL [...] (C) DepPolCouns delivered reftel demarche on the signing of the U.S.-Israel Anti-Smuggling MOU to MFA A6 Directorate for Middle East Affairs deputy head Maria Zisi. Zisi was grateful for the information but had no substantive comment. 2. (C) It was the opinion of the Embassy Country Team th [...] |
2009-01-16 15:55:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR MASS PARM PREL PBTS PHUM KWBG IS GR |
| 09ATHENS64 |
DEMARCHE DELIVERED: BEEF HORMONES CASE [...] (SBU) Econ Counselor delivered points and background in reftel on January 16 via telephone to Paul Pezaros, Director, Agriculture Policy Division, Ministry of Agriculture. Econ Counselor informed Mr. Pezaros of our new tariffs and the reason behind the change, stressing this action was taken i [...] |
2009-01-20 10:42:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON ETRD EUN EAGR |
| 09ATHENS647 |
Greece Welcomes U.S. Candidacy to the UN Human Rights [...] (U) On April 23, Embassy received a Note Verbale from the D1 Directorate of UN and International Organizations and Conferences at the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) expressing its support for the U.S. candidacy to the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) for the 2009-2012 term. Greece "warmly [...] |
2009-04-23 12:36:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PREL GR |
| 09ATHENS65 |
GREECE: UPDATE ON RATIFICATION OF NATO ACCESSION [...] (C) MFA Secretary General Agathocles told Ambassador Speckhard 1/15 that the NATO accession protocols for Croatia and Albanian are pending in Parliament and should be approved "soon." Although contacts in the MFA NATO Department and the Office of the President of the Parliament report that A [...] |
2009-01-20 13:38:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | GR PGOV PREL HR AL |
| 09ATHENS651 |
Greek Views on April GAERC Issues [...] (C) DepPolCouns and PolOff delivered ref points on U.S. positions on the April 27-28 GAERC to MFA European Correspondent Niki Kamba. Kamba said the agenda for the GAERC included: the Middle East, the Eastern Partnership, the May 6 EU-Canada summit, and following up on the EU-Obama meeting. Sh [...] |
2009-04-23 14:25:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EUN GR |
| 09ATHENS657 |
Re-Shaping the U.S.-Greece Relationship [...] (C) SUMMARY: The overwhelming positive attitudes of the Greek public toward the new Administration offers an opportunity to reshape U.S.-Greece bilateral relations, moving Greece from a reluctant to reliable and proactive partner. To achieve this, we need to move the focus of our relationsh [...] |
2009-04-24 12:40:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL GR PGOV NATO AF KNNP MK UN OSCE |
| 09ATHENS683 |
GREEK LAW ENFORCEMENT FACES BIG HURDLES IN MEETING TERRORIST [...] (C) As domestic terrorist groups and violent anarchist gangs continue the heightened level of activity that they initiated following the December 2008 riots, Greek law enforcement is looking for help. At the request of the Greek Ministry of Interior, Scotland Yard recently conducted an assessm [...] |
2009-04-28 14:27:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER ASEC ABLD PREL KCRM GR |
| 09ATHENS685 |
VISA WAIVER PROGRAM: A TOP PRIORITY IN U.S.-GREECE BILATERAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Greece's entry into the U.S. Visa Waiver Program (VWP) is a top priority in U.S.-Greece bilateral relations. As the U.S. and Greece "reset" relations after several difficult years and the advent of a new American Administration, Secretary Clinton and Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyann [...] |
2009-04-29 05:36:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV DHS CVIS GR |
| 09ATHENS689 |
GREECE URGES EARLY RETURN TO CONSTITUTIONAL RULE IN [...] (C) On April 27 poloff delivered reftel points urging a return to constitutional rule in Madagascar to Stefanos Ioannides, Counselor for Sub-Saharan Africa in the A9 Division of the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). While Greece believed a return to constitutional order in Madagascar wa [...] |
2009-04-29 10:53:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | AORC EAID PGOV GR MA |
| 09ATHENS695 |
Ambassador, FM on Resetting Bilateral Relations, [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with FM Bakoyiannis on April 30, Ambassador Speckhard outlined our strategy for re-focusing the U.S.-Greece bilateral relationship toward common strategic challenges, and away from the more narrow parochial interests that have defined our relationship in recent year [...] |
2009-04-30 16:04:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PTER MOPS TU AF GR |
| 09ATHENS707 |
RECALL 09 ATHENS 707 [...] No summary [...] |
2009-05-05 14:02:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC ABLD PTER PREL KCRM GR |
| 09ATHENS725 |
GREEK DEVELOPMENT AID TO THE BALKANS: BUSINESS AS USUAL [...] (U) Since 2001, Greece has given a consistent level of assistance to the Balkans, albeit not up to the level one might expect from a country with such regional leadership potential. In 2007, Greece programmed 83.3 million euro of official direct assistance (ODA) for development in the Balkans [...] |
2009-05-06 13:57:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | EAID ECON PGOV GR EU |
| 09ATHENS727 |
GREEK PRIVACY RULES THWART INVESTIGATIONS [...] (SBU) According to a May 5 article in the newspaper Eleftheros Typos, Greek police utilizing video evidence have "positively" identified three hooded vandals who were among the forty who took part in a midday rampage in the upscale Kolonaki Square area of Athens on March 13. The attackers use [...] |
2009-05-06 14:03:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | ASEC ABLD PREL PTER KCRM GR |
| 09ATHENS735 |
GREEK VIEWS ON CONTACT GROUP ON PIRACY OFF THE COAST OF [...] (SBU) We delivered ref A points on U.S. goals for the urgent meting of the Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia (CGPCS) to the senior Greek participant in the CGPCS, Ambassador Tryphon Paraskevopoulos, MFA D1 (UN and International Organizations Affairs) Director, on May 6. As on pr [...] |
2009-05-07 14:41:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | MARR ECON PREL PTER GR |
| 09ATHENS747 |
EMBASSY ATHENS WELCOMES STAFFDEL JOHNSON (MAY 17-22) [...] Embassy Athens welcomes STAFFDEL Johnson to Athens, Greece, from May 17-22 for the 17th OSCE Economic and Environmental Forum. 2. The Administrative Point of Contact (Control Officer) for STAFFDEL Johnson is: David Muehlke, Political Officer Office: (30) 210-720-2551 Mobile: (30) 69 [...] |
2009-05-08 14:54:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | OREP AMGT ASEC AFIN GM GR |
| 09ATHENS751 |
INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANIZATION (IMO) SHIP RECYCLING [...] (SBU) On May 8, A/EconCouns and Julienne Hince, Deputy Chief of Mission for the Australian Embassy in Greece, discussed reftel points with Captain Elias Sabatakakis, Directorate for the Protection of the Sea Environment, Greek Ministry of Mercantile Marine, Aegean Sea & Island Policy. Sabataka [...] |
2009-05-11 10:23:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EIND ETRD EWWT IMO KTIA PREL SENV GR |
| 09ATHENS757 |
Scenesetter: Deputy Secretary Steinberg's Visit to Athens, [...] (C) SUMMARY: We are delighted to welcome you to Greece. Your visit provides crucial support to our efforts to re-shape the U.S.-Greece bilateral relationship. Building on the overwhelmingly positive attitudes in Greece to the new administration, we are working to focus on common strategic [...] |
2009-05-11 14:53:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV OVIP GR MK TU |
| 09ATHENS799 |
GREEK TERRORISTS BLOW UP BANK [...] No summary [...] |
2009-05-14 12:43:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | PTER ASEC ABLD PGOV GR |
| 09ATHENS80 |
TERRORISM FINANCE: GREECE PRE-NOTIFIED OF UPCOMING [...] (C) On January 21, A/Economic Counselor delivered reftel points to Ioannis Sidiropoulos, Secretary General of the Ministry of Economy and Finance; Panagiotis Thomopoulos, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Greece (BG); and Panagiotis Kyriakopoulos, Director of Monetary Policy of Banks of the Bank [...] |
2009-01-21 14:16:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | GR EFIN PTER PINR PREL |
| 09ATHENS807 |
Greek Views on May GAERC [...] (C) On May 14, PolOff delivered ref points on U.S. positions on the May 18-19 GAERC to MFA European Correspondent Niki Kamba. Kamba said the agenda for the GAERC would include: the May 21-22 EU-Russia summit, Moldova, Iran, Georgia, the Atalanta anti-piracy mission, Sri Lanka, and Operation Alt [...] |
2009-05-15 12:10:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EUN GR |
| 09ATHENS81 |
TERRORISM FINANCE: GREECE PRE-NOTIFIED OF [...] (C) On January 21, A/Deputy Economic Counselor delivered reftel points to Ioannis Sidiropoulos, Secretary General of the Ministry of Economy and Finance; Panagiotis Thomopoulos, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Greece (BG); and Panagiotis Kyriakopoulos, Director of Monetary Policy of Banks of the [...] |
2009-01-21 14:21:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | GR EFIN ETTC PINR PREL PTER IR |
| 09ATHENS83 |
GREEK VIEWS ON JANUARY GAERC ISSUES [...] (C) DepPolCouns discussed ref A and B GAERC issues with newly arrived MFA European Correspondent Niki Kamba. Kamba said the Czech EU Presidency had decided on a policy of downsizing GAERC agendas and focusing more intently on one or two issues. Thus, they had eliminated most of the issues co [...] |
2009-01-22 13:32:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | EUN PREL PGOV ZL AFIN SU ZI UP BO GR |
| 09ATHENS835 |
MGSF01: GREECE CONFIRMS FIRST CASE OF H1N1 [...] (SBU) Contacts at the Hellenic National Health Operations Center (EKEPY) told EconOff on May 19 that Greece has confirmed its first case of H1N1 in a Greek who returned to Athens to New York on Olympic Airlines flight #412 on Saturday, May 16. EKEPY confirmed that the individual is study [...] |
2009-05-19 15:01:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ASEC CASC KFLO KFLU AEMR TBIO KSAF KPAO PREL PINR |
| 09ATHENS841 |
Greece: Cuba Libertad Act Response [...] (C) Per reftel request, Embassy Athens offers the following information on the general state of Greece-Cuba relations as they pertain to the Libertad Act. 2. (C) We assess that Greece will continue to follow the EU common position to support the development of democracy and human rights [...] |
2009-05-20 11:57:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL ETRD ETTC CU GR |
| 09ATHENS875 |
DEMARCHE DELIVERED - GREEK PROSECUTION OF SUSPECTED M/V [...] (C) We delivered reftel message inquiring about possible Greek interest in exercising jurisdiction over 17 suspects in U.S. Navy custody on May 21 to MFA D1 (UN and International Organizations Affairs) Counselor Dimitios Papandreaou. Papandreou took note of the details of the case, including o [...] |
2009-05-28 08:38:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | ECON EWWT KCRM MARR PBTS PGOV PHSA PREL GR EG |
| 09ATHENS9 |
GREEK FM CALLS FOR IMMEDIATE CEASEFIRE IN GAZA; [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Greek FM Dora Bakoyannis -- who became Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE on January 1 -- has also taken an activist role in the EU response to the Gaza crisis. On January 4, she issued a statement criticizing Israeli ground operations in Gaza, calling for an immediate ceasefire, an [...] |
2009-01-05 13:16:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL PTER MOPS SOCI GR IS |
| 09ATHENS901 |
Greece: Muslim Migrants Protest in Athens, Radicalization [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Violent demonstrations and riots involving Muslim migrants rocked downtown Athens throughout the month of May, bringing relations between migrants and the Greek government to a new nadir and fueling fears of Islamic radicalization in Greece. Muslim community leaders and media re [...] |
2009-05-29 13:04:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | PHUM PTER GR KIRF ASEC ABLD PREF SMIG |
| 09ATHENS925 |
GREECE ON VOTING FOR KOSOVO'S WORLD BANK MEMBERSHIP -- [...] (U) On June 1, PolCouns delivered reftel points to Ms. Agnostopoulou, Counselor, A3 Directorate for the Balkans, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Agnostopoulou stated that, as with the vote on Kosovo's IMF membership, the MFA has instructed Greece's World Bank Governor (the Governor of Greece's ce [...] |
2009-06-01 13:51:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN KV PREL GR |
| 09ATHENS933 |
Terrorism Finance: Greek Response on UN Designation of Abdul [...] (SBU) On May 21, EconOff delivered reftel points to Ioannis Sidiropoulos, Secretary General of the Ministry of Economy and Finance; Ioannis Papadakis, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Greece (BG); and Panagiotis Kyriakopoulos, Director of Monetary Policy of Banks of the Bank of Greece. EconOff f [...] |
2009-06-02 10:32:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EFIN KTFN PTER ETTC PHUM EAID CH GR |
| 09ATHENS935 |
UNSC 1718 COMMITTEE DESIGNATION OF DPRK ENTITIES SUBJECT TO [...] (S) On May 21, EconOff delivered reftel points to Ioannis Sidiropoulos, Secretary General of the Ministry of Economy and Finance; Ioannis Papadakis, Deputy Governor of the Bank of Greece (BG); and Panagiotis Kyriakopoulos, Director of Monetary Policy of Banks of the Bank of Greece. EconOff fol [...] |
2009-06-02 10:33:00 | Embassy Athens | SECRET | EFIN ETTC KNNP PREL PARM XE ZO KN GR |
| 09ATHENS937 |
Pakistan: No Requested Air Assets in Greek Inventory [...] No summary [...] |
2009-06-02 13:55:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | PREL PK GR SMIG PARM |
| 09ATHENS943 |
URGENT FOLLOW-UP DEMARCHE: VOTING FOR KOSOVO'S WORLD BANK [...] (SBU) On June 1, PolCouns delivered reftel points to Ms. Agnostopoulou, Counselor, A3 Directorate for the Balkans, Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Agnostopoulou stated that, as with the vote on Kosovo's IMF membership, the MFA has instructed Greece's World Bank Governor (the Governor of Greece's [...] |
2009-06-03 11:35:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON EFIN KV PREL GR |
| 09ATHENS975 |
GREECE: NATO'S LONG-TERM COUNTER-PIRACY OPERATIONS IN THE [...] No summary [...] |
2009-06-10 14:11:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | MARR NATO PGOV PREL GR |
| 09ATHENS979 |
Greece: Cuba Libertad Act Response II [...] (C) Per reftel A request and as a supplement to response reftel B, Embassy Athens offers the following additional information on Greece-Cuba relations in the areas of trade and investment. 2. (C) According to the Cuba Desk at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), the bilateral legal fra [...] |
2009-06-11 08:13:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | ETRD ETTC PREL CU GR |
| 09ATHENS985 |
GREECE'S RULING PARTY FARES POORLY IN EURO ELECTIONS [...] (SBU) Greece tallied the highest voter abstention rate (47.4 percent) in the country's history in the June 7 election of Greece's Members of European Parliament (MEPs). New Democracy (ND), the incumbent party of Prime Minister Kostas Karamanlis, lived down to expectations that it would suffer [...] |
2009-06-12 05:57:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PREL EUN GR |
| 09ATHENS997 |
Anarchists and Universities in Athens: XXXXXXXXXXXX Telling [...] (C) Summary: University of Athens XXXXXXXXXXXX told PAO and CAO on June 9 that student discontent with the Greek educational system, the economy, and lack of jobs, has led to increased violence even among traditionally mainstream student groups. He complained about preferred police tactic [...] |
2009-06-16 08:32:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV SCUL GR |
| 10ATHENS107 |
GREECE/HAITI: NO MINUSTAH FORCES, BUT AID [...] (SBU) Discussing reftel with Pol-Mil Chief on February 16, Emmanuel Papadoyorgakis, Deputy Director of the Greek MFA's UN and International Organizations Directorate, said that Greece had offered 30 soldiers to MINUSTAH following the Security Council's January 18 authorization to expand the mi [...] |
2010-02-16 14:03:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR KPKO EAID HA GR |
| 10ATHENS109 |
GREECE/HAITI: NO MINUSTAH FORCES, BUT AID [...] (SBU) Discussing reftel with Pol-Mil Chief on February 16, Emmanuel Papadoyorgakis, Deputy Director of the Greek MFA's UN and International Organizations Directorate, said that Greece had offered 30 soldiers to MINUSTAH following the Security Council's January 18 authorization to expand the mi [...] |
2010-02-16 20:37:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PREL MARR KPKO EAID HA GR |
| 10ATHENS113 |
Papandreou Cabinet Insider Pamboukis on Managing the [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador called on Minister of State Haris Pamboukis February 1 to gain a better understanding of the GoG's internal deliberations on reforms, the economic crisis and domestic stability, and on regional foreign policy priorities. Pamboukis, a constitutional lawyer who esc [...] |
2010-02-18 08:41:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV ECON EFIN PTER GR PINR |
| 10ATHENS115 |
Greek Views on February 2010 FAC [...] (C) On February 18, Poloff discussed Ref A points on U.S. positions on the February 22 FAC (Foreign Affairs Council) with Alexandros Ioannidis, European Correspondent in the MFA A11 Security and Defense Policy (ESDP) Division. Ioannidis said the FAC's agenda would focus on Iran, Ukraine (over [...] |
2010-02-18 15:53:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV EUN GR |
| 10ATHENS117 |
GREECE: LAW ENFORCEMENT AND COUNTERTERRORISM [...] (C) Summary: Greeks are concerned about the privacy of data involved in law enforcement and counterterrorism information sharing with the U.S., as would be expected in a country with privacy laws that are significantly stronger than the European norm. Nevertheless, it is possible to engage in [...] |
2010-02-18 17:30:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER KTFN KCRM KHLS ECPS ECON PREL KPAO KTIA EUN GR |
| 10ATHENS119 |
GREEK SECURITY INCIDENTS AT 20-YEAR HIGH -- POLICE YET TO [...] (SBU) Greece has seen a steep increase over the past ten years in security incidents related to domestic terrorists, extremists, and anarchists. This increase has been especially dramatic in recent years. The Embassy recorded over 430 security incidents in 2009, defined to include incendiary and [...] |
2010-02-18 18:09:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PTER PGOV ASEC ABLD GR |
| 10ATHENS133 |
GREECE: VIEWS ON IRAN TRR AND RECENT EU FAC; SYRIA DEMARCHE [...] (C) SUMMARY. MFA interlocutors welcomed points explaining our position on the Tehran Research Reactor, and appreciated our interest in addressing the humanitarian issues facing Iran. They stated that due to a great divergence of views among members, the EU had not yet decided if it will appl [...] |
2010-02-25 09:46:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PARM KNNP MNUC IAEA IR SY GR |
| 10ATHENS135 |
CITES COP 15: Greece Looking to Common EU Position [...] No summary [...] |
2010-02-25 10:59:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | SENV GR |
| 10ATHENS137 |
GREECE: VIEWS ON EU CHINA ARMS EMBARGO [...] (C) SUMMARY. Greek interlocutors conveyed that a review or a possible lifting of the European Union's China arms embargo is not on the agenda in Brussels, to the best of their knowledge. They stated that since the replacement of the EU's political "Code of Conduct on Arms Exports" in Decembe [...] |
2010-02-25 13:43:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PARM CH EUN GR |
| 10ATHENS139 |
Greeks on Goldstone Report Follow-Up [...] (C) On February 25, Poloff discussed Ref points on U.S. positions on the upcoming UNGA vote on the Goldstone Report with Stelios Gavriil, MFA A6 Directorate for Arab Countries and the Middle East. Gavriil stated that Greece intended to abstain in the upcoming vote. 2. (C) According t [...] |
2010-02-25 14:07:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV PHUM UNGA GR |
| 10ATHENS141 |
Greek Intelligence Dir. Bikas on Proposed Reorganization [...] (C/NF) SUMMARY: During a one-hour meeting on February 8, EYP Director General Bikas told Ambassador Speckhard that he accepted the ambassador's proposal for regular dialogue between the embassy and the leadership of EYP and the HNP on counterterrorism. Bikas commented briefly on the challe [...] |
2010-02-25 14:32:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN | PREL PGOV PTER GR |
| 10ATHENS142 |
Nomination for Relationship Fraud Conference [...] No summary [...] |
2010-02-01 13:26:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS KFRD CMGT |
| 10ATHENS143 |
Greece: Post Telecommunications Officer [...] No summary [...] |
2010-02-26 10:11:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | ECPS ECON GR |
| 10ATHENS150 |
Visa Revocation - Papatheodorou, Asimina/Valiraki, Assimina [...] (U) In accordance with reftel and Colyvas-VO/L/C e-mails, post contacted Asimina Papatheodorou (aka Valiraki, Assimina) and asked that she appear at the Embassy with her passport. CONOFF physically cancelled Ms. Papatheodorou's B1B2 visa in her tourist passport (passport number AB6523665). Sh [...] |
2010-02-03 13:08:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS |
| 10ATHENS152 |
Visa Revocation - TRITSIBIDAS, Panayotis (DPOB: 26-Apr-1990) [...] Post was advised that Panayotis TRITSIBIDAS had attempted to travel to the U.S. with his valid F1 student visa on XXX. His visa was revoked by DHS at pre-departure inspection at London's Heathrow Airport. Post had not been notified of the visa revocation to advise him in advance of his travel [...] |
2010-02-03 13:39:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS |
| 10ATHENS162 |
Greece - Demarche on U.S.-EU Second Stage Air Transport [...] (SBU) EconOff delivered reftel demarche to George Patsiavos, Director of the International Affairs Division in the Ministry of Infrastructure, Transportation, and Networks on February 3. Patsiavos took the points on board, but noted that Greece is not involved in the February 15-17 negotiations [...] |
2010-02-04 15:26:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | EAIR EUN KTIA GR |
| 10ATHENS164 |
Greece - Demarche on Distracted Driving [...] (SBU) EconOff delivered reftel demarche on distracted driving to Nicolaos Hatzivasdekis, Director of Road Safety and Environment in the Ministry of Infrastructure, Transportation, and Networks on February 3. Hatzivasdekis stressed that the Government of Greece takes this issue very seriously, [...] |
2010-02-04 15:26:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON SOCI UNDP UNGA GR |
| 10ATHENS18 |
Greece: Engagement on Women's Issues [...] (U) This report is a response to reftel information request and is a joint cable with Consulate General Thessaloniki. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Mission Greece closely integrates women's issues into public diplomacy programming, human rights outreach, commercial outreach, and partnerships with [...] |
2010-01-08 17:24:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | PGOV PHUM PREF SMIG KWMN KTIP GR |
| 10ATHENS198 |
GREECE???"New Directions in the U.S-Greece Economic [...] Post is seeking to recruit senior level Administration officials to participate in a mid-March (likely March 17-19) strategic economic dialogue with Greek counterparts. The United States-Greece Economic and Commercial Cooperation Commission (ECCC) re-established in 2007 to channel senior [...] |
2010-02-10 14:16:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | ECON EAID ETRD ENRG GR |
| 10ATHENS206 |
Visa Revocation - STERGIOU, Vasileios (DPOB: 04-Nov-1979, [...] In accordance with reftel, post reached Vasileios STERGIOU (DPOB: 04-Nov-1979, Greece) on February 5, 2010 to advise him that he could not travel with the B1B2 visa issued into passport number AB5724024. He appeared with his passport at the Embassy on February 11, 2010 at which time the visa [...] |
2010-02-11 14:24:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED | CVIS |
| 10ATHENS208 |
Greece: AmCham Engages Government and Private Sector on IPR [...] (SBU) On January 26, the American-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce held a conference on "Intellectual Property: Rights, Protection, and Legal Framework." In addition to attracting a large audience of more than 100, the conference succeeded in showcasing a diversity of participants and speakers fro [...] |
2010-02-11 16:49:00 | Embassy Athens | UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY | ECON KIPR GR |
| 10ATHENS21 |
Greek Engagement with Cuba [...] (C) On January 13, Poloff raised REF A points with Anastopoulos Chanos, Second Secretary in the MFA A8 Directorate for South America and the Caribbean. Econoff also raised points with Ioannis Klonias, MFA B5 Directorate for Economic Relations with Central and South America, Sub-Saharan Africa [...] |
2010-01-14 14:53:00 | Embassy Athens | CONFIDENTIAL | PREL PGOV |