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04ROME2590	ITALY WELCOMES US CONCERN OVER HUMAN RIGHTS IN [...] (C) MFA SYRIA DESK OFFICER ALESSANDRA PASTORELLI TOLD POLOFF THAT ITALY WELCOMES US CONCERNS OVER THE RECENT UPTICK IN POLITICALLY RELATED DETENTIONS IN SYRIA. THE SUBJECT HAS BEEN DISCUSSED IN DEPTH AT EU MIDDLE EAST WORKING GROUP (COMEM) MEETINGS IN BRUSSELS. AT NEXT WEEK'S COMEM, ITALY WI [...]	2004-07-02 14:08:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL SY IT HUMAN RIGHTS

04ROME2630	NIGHT OF THE LONG KNIVES ITALIAN STYLE: FINANCE [...] (C) FINANCE MINISTER GIULIO TREMONTI WAS FORCED OUT OF OFFICE JULY 2 BY DEPUTY PM FINI, WHO THREATENED TO QUIT THE GOVERNMENT ABSENT TREMONTI'S RESIGNATION. FINI'S PUSH FOR MORE POWER OVER ECONOMIC DECISION MAKING HAD BEEN STYMIED BY TREMONTI. BERLUSCONI, IN A SURPRISE MOVE, NAMED HIMSELF A [...]	2004-07-06 18:03:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ECON IT ITALIAN POLITICS
04ROME2631	ITALIAN OFFICIALS DISCUSS GLOBAL POSTURE REVIEW [...] (C) SUMMARY. A DELEGATION LED BY LINCOLN BLOOMFIELD JR., A/S FOR POLITICAL-MILITARY AFFAIRS, DISCUSSED ITALY-SPECIFIC GLOBAL POSTURE REVIEW (GPR) PROPOSALS WITH ITALIAN OFFICIALS FROM THE DEFENSE GENERAL STAFF AND THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS ON JUNE 16. CHIEF OF DEFENSE (CHOD) ADMIRAL GI [...]	2004-07-07 05:30:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL IT GLOBAL DEFENSE FORCES IN ITALY
04ROME2643	UPDATE ON WFP DEVELOPMENT EVALUATION [...] THE FIELD PHASE OF THE JOINT EVALUATION OF THE UN WORLD FOOD PROGRAM'S (WFP) ENABLING DEVELOPMENT POLICY (EDP) IS NEARLY COMPLETE. THE NEXT AND FINAL PHASE OF THE EVALUATION IS TO BE CONCLUDED IN DECEMBER 2004. DESPITE PROGRESS TO DATE ON THE EVALUATION ITSELF, AS WELL AS MISSION EFFORTS TO [...]	2004-07-07 13:26:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ADRC WFP
04ROME2653	BERLUSCONOMICS - THE RECORD UNDER TREMONTI'S [...] SUMMARY: PRIME MINISTER BERLUSCONI HAS ANNOUNCED HIS INTENTION TO STAY AT THE HELM OF ITALIAN ECONOMIC DECISION- MAKING, FOLLOWING THE FORCED RESIGNATION OF FINANCE MINISTER GIULIO TREMONTI (REF A). WHILE THERE IS PRESSURE FOR THE PM TO APPOINT A PERMANENT SUCCESSOR SOONER, BERLUSCONI HAS H [...]	2004-07-07 15:33:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN ELAB PGOV IT ITALIAN POLITICS
04ROME2657	BIOTECHNOLOGY: WFP INTERNAL GUIDANCE ON [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: IN AN INTERNAL "CORPORATE MESSAGE" RECENTLY DISTRIBUTED TO ITS STAFF WORLDWIDE, SENIOR MANAGEMENT OF THE UN WORLD FOOD PROGRAM (WFP) STRESSED THAT THE ORGANIZATION IS NEUTRAL IN THE DEBATE ON GENETICALLY MODIFIED (GM) FOODS. EMPLOYEES ARE INSTRUCTED TO EMPHASIZE THAT (1) WFP [...]	2004-07-08 07:25:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EAID ETRD SENV AORC WFP
04ROME2659	WORLD FOOD PROGRAM REPORTS ON USAID-FUNDED JUNIOR [...] FOLLOWING HER MEETING IN WASHINGTON, DC, WITH USAID FOOD FOR PEACE OFFICER CARELL LAURENT, WFP HUMAN RESOURCES OFFICER ANNA COPE REPORTED TO US PROGRESS IN WFP'S EFFORTS TO SECURE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FROM USAID TO FUND ADDITIONAL WFP JPOS. THE MEETING, WHICH OCCURRED ON JULY 1, 2004, WAS A [...]	2004-07-08 07:32:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ADRC WFP
04ROME2690	ITALIAN VIEWS ON GAERC AGENDA: IRAQ TO DOMINATE [...] (C) MFA DIRECTOR FOR EU CFSP LUIGI MATTIOLO PREDICTED THAT FMS WILL FOCUS ON IRAQ AT THE JULY 12-13 GAERC, POSSIBLY EATING INTO SOME OF THE TIME CURRENTLY ALLOCATED TO OTHER AGENDA ITEMS. HE NOTED THAT IRAQI PM ALLAWI "PLUS A HIGH LEVEL DELEGATION" FROM THE INTERIM GOVERNMENT WILL ATTEND A WO [...]	2004-07-09 15:41:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IT EUN
04ROME2692	ITALY SPEEDS PLANS FOR INTERNATIONAL GENDARME [...] The Italian government is moving quickly with plans for an international gendarme/constabulary training center and is looking for immediate US input on details such as project objectives, standards, and the numerical scope of the future training program. MFA and Carabinieri officials have conf [...]	2004-07-12 07:13:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	KPKO MARR MOPS PGOV PREL IT NATO FORCES IN ITALY
04ROME2745	ITALY - HIGH-LEVEL CONCERN RE UNSC REFORM [...] (C) This cable contains action requests. Please see para 8. 2. (C) Summary: The Government of Italy is becoming increasingly concerned about any UN reform that could result in a permanent UNSC seat for Germany and/or Japan. The Italians fear that an increase in the number of peranent U [...]	2004-07-14 15:14:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	KUNR PREL GM JA FR RS IT UNSC
04ROME2746	World Food Program Update on Opening New [...] (SBU) As requested ref A, Mission spoke 07/12 with WFP and conveyed information. WFP has not been considering the shipment of commodities from Libya (Al Kufrah) by road directly into northern Sudan down to Darfur because of serious security constraints, which would require substantive Sudanese [...]	2004-07-14 15:42:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF EAID ELTN LY CD SU WFP
04ROME2763	ITALY SAYS CURRENT ICJ/SECURITY BARRIER RESOLUTION [...] (SBU) MFA Director for Egypt, Israel and the Occupied Territories Luca Sorgi told poloff that Italy found unacceptable a number of paragraphs in the current Arab Group draft resolution calling for UNGA endorsement of the ICJ advisory opinion on the Israeli security barrier. He mentioned speci [...]	2004-07-15 14:31:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL IS IT UNGA ICJ
04ROME2765	ITALY - DOUBTS ON INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION FORCE [...] (C) Stefano Dejak, MFA East Africa Office Director, expressed doubts and concerns regarding an expanded international protection force for Darfur. He stated that introducing such a force at this stage may be premature and that internationalizing the presence on the ground may not be wise. He s [...]	2004-07-15 15:11:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PREF PARM MOPS AU SU IT HUMAN RIGHTS
04ROME2768	WFP'S VIEW ON THE PRESENT STATUS OF IRAQ'S PUBLIC [...] (SBU) US Mission/Rome met with WFP senior officials on Iraq food commodity operations on June 27 and July 2. If current ration levels are maintained, the Iraq Public Distribution System (PDS) is likely to experience shortages in a number of commodities throughout the coming months, according t [...]	2004-07-16 07:24:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID EAGR AORC IZ WFP IRAQI FREEDOM
04ROME2774	ITALY - FOLLOW UP ON INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION [...] (U) This cable includes a guidance request. Please see paragraph 5. 2. (C) After consulting on ref A demarche with MFA colleagues and the Dutch EU Presidency, Stefano Dejak, MFA East Africa Office Director, toned down the skepticism expressed in ref B by stating that Italy and the EU are pr [...]	2004-07-16 12:15:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PREF PARM MOPS AU SU IT EUN
04ROME2781	WFP BRIEFING ON DARFUR AND SOUTHERN SUDAN - JULY 13 [...] (SBU) WFP conducted a Sudan humanitarian needs briefing for Rome-based permanent representatives at its Headquarters on July 13. Security remains a profound concern, with examples of humanitarian workers being detained anywhere from a few hours to a few days. WFP estimates that 1.2 million peo [...]	2004-07-16 15:47:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID EAGR AORC PREF SU WFP UNHCR
04ROME2789	GOI PASSED PASSES A DEFICIT REDUCTION PACKAGE [...] As previously announced by PM Berlusconi, the Italian Cabinet passed on July 9 by decree law a euro 7.5 billion, or 0.6 percent of GDP deficit reduction package, as under pressure from the EU European Commission had requested. The package includes euro 4.2 billion in structural spending cuts, [...]	2004-07-19 10:07:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN ELAB PGOV IT EUN
04ROME280	PLANT GENETIC RESOURCES: TREATY COULD ENTER [...] SUMMARY: ACCORDING TO THE FAO SECRETARIAT, AS OF 26 JANUARY SOME 34-35 COUNTRIES HAD SUBMITTED RATIFICATION INSTRUMENTS FOR THE INTERNATIONAL TREATY (IT) FOR PLANT GENETIC RESOURCES FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE. THE EC IS EXPECTED TO DO SO IN MID MARCH 2004, CONCURRENTLY WITH AT LEAST A HANDFUL [...]	2004-01-27 12:00:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ETRD SENV KIPR AORC FAO
04ROME2810	RIGHT TO FOOD: INTERGOVERNMENTAL WORKING GROUP [...] (U) Summary: The third (and supposedly final) session of the Intergovernmental Working Group (IGWG) for the Elaboration of Voluntary Guidelines to Support the Progressive Realization of the Right to Adequate Food in the Context of National Food Security met in Rome from 5 to 10 July 2004. [...]	2004-07-20 12:59:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC PHUM EAGR EAID EFIN FAO
04ROME2815	ITALY: AN INTERLUDE IN THE UNENDING GOVERNMENT [...] (SBU) Italy's governing coalition may have reached a moment of respite from disagreements, which have plagued it since the spring elections. The interlude may not endure long, but as one contact joked, "Berlusconi would certainly make history if his were the first government to fall during [...]	2004-07-20 15:12:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL IT ITALIAN POLITICS
04ROME2829	U.S.-ITALY DUAL USE EXPORT CONTROL CONSULTATIONS, [...] (S) On June 23, 2004, U.S. and Italian goverment delegations held consultations on a range o export control and technology transfer issues, s a follow-up to discussions held in July 2003. Bth sides appeared satisfied with the quality of he information exchange. Discussion included the EU/China [...]	2004-07-21 14:23:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	ETTC PREL EIND PARM TSPA IT CH IR EXPORT CONTROLS
04ROME2836	Treasury DG Domenico Siniscalco Appointed New [...] (SBU) After two weeks' debate within the Coalition following former Finance Minister Tremonti's resignation, PM Berlusconi appointed Domenico Siniscalco, Treasury Department Director General since 2001, as new Finance Minister on July 16. Over this two-week period, Coalition parties could no [...]	2004-07-22 04:33:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ELAB PGOV IT ITALIAN POLITICS
04ROME2839	WFP AND FAO EFFORTS TO IMPROVE WORLDWIDE EMERGENCY [...] Summary. The recent G8 summit at Sea Island, Georgia, ended with a pledge by G8 leaders that their governments would coordinate with FAO and WFP to improve worldwide emergency assessment and response systems. FAO and WFP continue to work with stakeholders to improve emergency needs assessmen [...]	2004-07-22 10:08:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EAGR PREF UN
04ROME2845	UPDATE ON USG/WFP CARGO PREFERENCE EXEMPTION FOR [...] Summary. WFP, USAID and USDA are close to reaching an agreement on a mechanism to implement separate tracking of US cargo preference premium payments to conform to WFP auditor recommendations and ensure that WFP does not apply its indirect support cost (ISC) rate against the cargo preference [...]	2004-07-22 11:08:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EAGR AORC EWWT WFP ACABQ MARITIME
04ROME2853	RUSSIA/ITALY: LAVROV REASSURES FRATTINI ON UNSC [...] (C) SUMMARY: During their July 15 meeting in Rome, FM Frattini and Russian FM Lavrov reviewed preparations for the annual Russia-Italy Summit, which will take place in Moscow "sometime in November." Frattini underlined Russia's need to "adopt western standards" concerning business regulations [...]	2004-07-22 16:47:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IR IT UNGA RU
04ROME2854	JAPANESE DONATION OF 250,000 METRIC TONS FOR WFP'S [...] (SBU) WFP advised US Mission that Japan will donate 250,000 tons of cereals to WFP's 2004 emergency operation (EMOP) in North Korea, with delivery over the period August- September/October 2004. The value of the donation is up to U.S. $80 million. Final details of the transaction have been sen [...]	2004-07-23 04:21:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PREL PREF EAGR ECON KN KS UN
04ROME2867	WORLD FOOD PROGRAM CONSIDERS INSURANCE-BASED [...] WFP convened an informal briefing at its headquarters on the topic of hunger insurance on July 13. The purpose of the briefing was to gauge donor sentiment towards the idea of funding such insurance through premiums in an effort to shift risks associated with natural disasters away from crisi [...]	2004-07-23 14:25:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ADRC WFP
04ROME2872	World Food Program/Libya Memorandum of [...] (SBU) US Mission has received copy of the World Food Program/Libya Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) related to the transit of humanitarian assistance through Libya into Chad, Sudan and other African countries, signed in Tripoli on July 15, 2004. The MOU permits all forms of humanitarian assis [...]	2004-07-23 15:24:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF EAID ELTN LY CD SU WFP
04ROME2873	FAO DIRECTOR GENERAL ELECTION: DIOUF STACKS THE [...] (C) Summary: At the FAO Conference in November 2005, member governments will elect a Director General (DG) for a six-year term, beginning January 2006. The incumbent, Jacques Diouf (Senegal),who has been in office since 1993, as a still-unannounced candidate, has already garnered endorsem [...]	2004-07-23 15:48:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC EAGR PREL KUNR FAO
04ROME2874	SUDAN: ITALY SUPPORTS UNSC RESOLUTION DRAFT AND [...] (SBU) MFA East Africa Office Director Stefano Dejak told poloff that Italy appreciated the strong US interest in the Darfur crisis and was looking forward to continued and enhanced cooperation bilaterally and through the EU. He had reviewed the UNSC resolution draft and confirmed that Italy w [...]	2004-07-26 05:51:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM SU IT EUN
04ROME2875	ITALY WARNS AGAINST MARGINALIZATION OF THE EU IN [...] (C) Summary. The Italian MFA warned that US "acquiescence" in Israel's efforts to exclude the European Union from engagement in the peace process is undermining the EU's credibility in the region, which will impede progress on the Roadmap and serve to further the divide between the Israelis a [...]	2004-07-26 05:52:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL IS IT EU UNGA
04ROME2876	ITALY: ROBERTO CALDEROLI NEW MINISTER FOR REFORMS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: As expected, Prime Minister Berlusconi named Northern League National Coordinator and Senate Vice President Roberto Calderoli the new Minister for Reform and Devolution on July 20. Calderoli replaces League Secretary Umberto Bossi, who resigned the previous day to [...]	2004-07-26 08:49:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PINR PGOV IT ITALIAN POLITICS
04ROME2885	GOI RESPONSE TO NPT PREPCOM III [...] (C) Summary. Italy judged PrepCom III as failing to deliver on both substantive and organizational issues. The GOI welcomed US explanations of the US Article VI record, but suggests that the US now should also seek more concrete steps to convince Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) countries of its [...]	2004-07-26 12:41:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM KNNP IT NPT
04ROME2893	GOI SUPPORTS DUAL-HATTING MFN-I COMMANDER, [...] (C) Following Reftel's request, Pol-Mil Officer demarched Italian MFA NATO Office Head Giovanni Brauzzi on July 26. Brauzzi responded that Italy had already decided to fully support the US proposal to dual-hat the MNF-I commander as commander of the NATO training mission in Iraq. Italy will [...]	2004-07-26 14:51:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS IT NATO IRAQI FREEDOM
04ROME2912	ITALIAN SUGGESTIONS ON COALITION STATEMENT ON [...] (C) Embassy Rome delivered ref A message and draft statement July 27 to MFA officials Deputy PolDir Bisogniero and Director-General (A/S equivalent) for Middle East Sessa. Because both officials were occupied with the current Italian Chiefs of Mission conference, they conferred and delivered t [...]	2004-07-28 04:35:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	IT IZ MARR MOPS OPDC PREL IRAQI FREEDOM
04ROME2913	ITALY/AFGHANISTAN: MIL PLANNING FOR ELECTION [...] (C) Following the NAC decision reported in ref A, operational planning has accelerated for the deployment of one Italian NRF land battalion plus a command element to provide election security support in Afghanistan. Italian military officials have told ODC Rome that the 3rd Alpini battalion b [...]	2004-07-28 04:35:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS MARR PREL IT AFGHANISTAN
04ROME2926	FAO DIRECTOR GENERAL ELECTION: INDIA'S PERMREP FLOATS POSSIBLE INDIAN CANDIDATES [...] (U) This is an action message. See para 10 below. 2. (C) Summary: Indian Permrep Himachal Som requested a meeting with Ambassador Hall on July 26 to discuss options for a possible Indian candidacy to succeed Senegal's Jacques Diouf as Director General (DG) of FAO. Som said the GOI support [...]	2004-07-28 14:26:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC EAGR PREL KUNR IN FAO
04ROME2933	WFP'S SCHOOL FEEDING EFFORTS IN IRAQ [...] (SBU) WFP's school feeding programs in Iraq are ongoing. During the academic year 2003-2004 in the three northern governorates, WFP provided technical assistance to the local authorities to guarantee a smooth continuation of school feeding activities targeting over 700,000 students. Between Ma [...]	2004-07-29 04:33:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID EAGR AORC EFIN IZ WFP
04ROME2935	UNHCR/WFP JOINT DONOR BRIEFING [...] Summary. UNHCR and WFP held a joint donor briefing in Rome on July 22, 2004. UN staff discussed troubling funding problems that limit WFP's ability to deliver food aid to refugees in Algeria, Angola, Armenia, Bangladesh, Chad, Eritrea, Georgia, Kenya, Nepal, and elsewhere; provided an update [...]	2004-07-29 07:41:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EAGR PREF AO AF CD CG SU WFP UNHCR
04ROME2961	ITALY'S VIEWS ON NEW AGENDA [...] (C) POLMILOFF on July 29 conveyed reftel points to MFA Nonproliferation/Arms Control Office Director Filippo Formica, Formica's deputy Piero Sardi, and MFA NATO Office Director Giovanni Brauzzi. Brauzzi said he fully agreed with our point that NATO Allies should use the High Level Group (HLG) [...]	2004-07-30 14:18:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PARM PREL RS NATO UNGA
04ROME2962	FMCT: ITALY WELCOMES U.S. PROPOSAL BUT STICKLER ON [...] (C) POLMILOFF on July 29 conveyed ref A points to MFA Nonproliferation/Arms Control Office Director Filippo Formica. Formica welcomed the U.S. proposal, noting that it was an important evolution in the USG's approach to nonproliferation. He said that it was essential to move forward with neg [...]	2004-07-30 14:19:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP AORC PARM PREL TSPA IT CDG
04ROME2964	FAST BOATS TO IRAN: COMPANY PRESSES GOI [...] (S) The Italian Ministry of Productive Activities (MPA) continues to be pressed by Italian fast boat manufacturer FB Design to allow it to resume business with Iran, according to Amedeo Teti, Director General for Commercial Agreements - Foreign Trade. Teti himself contacted econoff July 28 to [...]	2004-07-30 14:53:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	ETTC EIND PREL IT IR EXPORT CONTROLS
04ROME2967	WFP EMERGENCY APPEAL FOR KENYA [...] Summary. WFP is soliciting contributions for its new emergency operation (EMOP),"Food Assistance to Drought-affected People in Kenya," covering the period from August 1, 2004 through January 31, 2005. The estimated cost of $42.9 million would provide 166,000 metric tons of commodities for 2. [...]	2004-07-30 15:23:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EAGR PREF KE WFP UNHCR
04ROME2969	WFP SCHOOL MILK PROPOSAL FOR CHINA [...] WFP plans to phase out its operations in China at the end of 2005, and remains hopeful that China will become a major food aid contributor in the future. In 2001, WFP approached USDA related to a one-time 100,000 metric ton donation of Dry Skimmed Milk powder to support Chinese school feeding [...]	2004-07-30 15:38:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID AORC PREF EAGR CH WFP UN
04ROME2993	INFORMAL PRIVACY CONFERENCE FOCUSES ON INTRA-EU [...] (SBU) On July 16, Italy,s Privacy authority hosted an informal meeting, in preparation for a formal session in Brussels this fall, to address PNR issues. Participants included EU Privacy Authorities, the European Airline Association and several European airlines. The morning conference, whi [...]	2004-08-03 09:24:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ECPS IT EUN
04ROME3024	PROJECT ONE BILLION - PATRONAGE FROM THE UN [...] This is an action request, see paragraph 4. 2. Background: Project 1 Billion (P1B) - named for the more than 1 billion persons affected by mass violence embodied in the experience of war, ethnic conflict, torture and terrorism - has been under way since an initial meeting of officials fr [...]	2004-08-05 04:38:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO KSCA IT UN
04ROME3055	ITALIAN LABOR UNIONS HAVE CONDEMNED HUMAN AND [...] (U) Italy has three primary labor union confederations, the General Confederation of Italian Labor (CGIL),the Italian Confederation of Workers' Unions (CISL),and the Italian Union of Labor (UIL). All three are more or less left-leaning, with CISL (with roots in Catholic social doctrine) t [...]	2004-08-06 14:58:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM CU IT ILO HUMAN RIGHTS
04ROME3060	JUDICIARY HAMPERS B767 ENGINE FIRE INVESTIGATIONS [...] No summary [...]	2004-08-09 10:55:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	EAIR PGOV IT ICAO AVIATION
04ROME3061	US AND ITALY MOVE AHEAD ON G-8 INTERNATIONAL [...] A State/DOD delegation, led by Acting DAS for Regional Security (PM) Elena Kim-Mitchell, visited Rome and Vicenza on July 19-21 to discuss the U.S.-Italian joint initiative for a G-8 sponsored Center of Excellence for Stability Police Units (COESPU). The delegation met with the MFA and Carabi [...]	2004-08-09 12:49:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	KPKO MARR MOPS PGOV PREL IT
04ROME307	CHR-60: ITALIANS SHOP STRATEGIES ON AFGHANISTAN, [...] (U) Italian MFA Human Rights Director Giuseppe Calvetta reviewed with us January 27 ministry thinking on several CHR-related elements following the January 21 meeting of EU human rights experts (COHOM). Iran ---- 2. (C) The Irish presidency would be contacting Tehran in the coming days [...]	2004-01-28 17:32:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM AFGHANISTAN
04ROME3092	AMBASSADOR ADVOCATES FOR U.S. FIRMS WITH INTERIOR [...] (SBU) The Ambassador met with Interior Minister Pisanu July 29 to discuss the DOE Megaports Initiative (septel). He used the occasion to advocate for three U.S. firms with business before the Ministry of Interior: Lion Apparel, Motorola, and MD Helicopters. Lion Apparel ------------ 2 [...]	2004-08-10 13:08:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	BEXP IT ECIP
04ROME3105	PLANT GENETIC RESOURCES: MATERIAL TRANSFER [...] Summary: The Expert Group on the Terms of the Standard Material Transfer Agreement (MTA) will hold its first meeting on 4-8 October in Brussels, hosted by the European Commission (EC). The standard MTA will specify the terms for access and benefit sharing under the multilateral system envis [...]	2004-08-11 12:40:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ETRD EAID SENV KIPR AORC FAO
04ROME3115	ITALY SHARES US CONCERNS OVER RISING TENSIONS IN [...] (SBU) On August 10, MFA Russia/NIS desk officer Lucia Pasquilini told poloff that Italy supports a more active EU role in addressing the growing tensions in Moldova/Transnistria. Italy supported and awaits the conclusions from EU Director General Cooper's fact finding mission to Moldova Augus [...]	2004-08-11 16:09:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM PBTS MD IT UN
04ROME3116	U/S BOLTON'S JULY 10 MEETING WITH LIBYAN OFFICIALS [...] (S) Summary. U/S Bolton July 10 told Libyan officials that Libya had to end military cooperation with Iran as a sine qua non of concluding Phase III cooperation. The Libyans responded that all ongoing activity was linked to closing out existing contracts, which would be terminated on Septemb [...]	2004-08-11 19:16:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	PARM PREL KNNP MNUC LY IAEA
04ROME3125	ITALIAN AGRICULTURE: MIXED [...] Summary. Reactions of Italian agricultural opinion leaders to the WTO framework agreement reached in Geneva July 31 were generally positive. The majority hold tenaciously to the hope that geographical indications should be addressed in the WTO. Government, farmers' organizations, political [...]	2004-08-12 14:52:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD EU IT FAO
04ROME3135	ITALIAN REACTION TO U.S. INITIATIVES FOR 59TH UN [...] No summary [...]	2004-08-13 11:54:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC ECON IT KDEM PHUM PREL UNGA UN
04ROME3136	ITALIAN VIEWS ON UNSC REFORM, WEOG ROTATION FOR [...] (C) Summary. Italy appreciates the Ref C enunciation of USG views on UN Security Council reform, which it views as a matter of vital national interest, and fully agrees that effectiveness be the standard by which reform is judged. Italy also will support the USG goal (Ref A) of reaching agree [...]	2004-08-13 15:24:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	OPDC PHUM PREL IT UNSC
04ROME3138	DEMARCHE ON US GLOBAL DEFENSE POSTURE REVIEW: [...] (C) A/DCM and Poloff delivered reftel demarche to the Italian MFA and Prime Minister's office on August 13. The MFA, which was already aware of the main elements of GDPR, urged that the President's and other USG public statements stress that decisions will be made in close consultation with [...]	2004-08-14 10:16:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL KPAO IT NATO GLOBAL DEFENSE
04ROME3153	ITALY RENOMINATES FAUSTO POCAR TO ICTY; REQUESTS [...] On August 13, Embassy received a Note Verbale (see para 2) from the MFA requesting USG support for the reelection of Prof. Fausto Pocar to the International Criminal Tribunal for the ex-Yugoslavia (ICTY). The MFA also transmitted an updated curriculum vitae for Pocar, which post has faxed to [...]	2004-08-16 14:27:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM IT ICTY
04ROME3166	ITALIAN REACTIONS TO PRESIDENT'S REMARKS ON GLOBAL [...] (U) Summary. President Bush's speech on military transformation received limited initial government reaction and media coverage in Italy. Most headlines focused on US troop reductions in Europe, with several articles commenting that the planned changes signify NATO's decreased importance in [...]	2004-08-17 13:36:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PREL KPAO IT NATO GLOBAL DEFENSE FORCES IN ITALY
04ROME3190	BLAIR-BERLUSCONI VACATION-VISIT CONTINUES - NO [...] (C) Prime Ministers Berlusconi and Blair and their wives continue to enjoy their vacation at Berlusconi's home in Sardinia. Italian press has reported extensively on their activities. Despite speculation from throughout the Italian media that the PMs discussed a role for Italy as "mediator" [...]	2004-08-18 13:43:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IZ IT IRAQI FREEDOM
04ROME3200	ITALY: EXTENSION OF DEADLINE FOR BIOMETRIC [...] Consul General informed Min. Adriano Benedetti, MFA Director General for Italians Abroad and Political Migration, July 26 that Congress had passed legislation granting a one-year extension of the Visa Waiver Program biometric passport requirement and that the bill had gone to President Bush f [...]	2004-08-19 07:54:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	CMGT PREL IT
04ROME3224	ITALY WILL ATTEMPT TO CONTACT IRAN ON OUT OF [...] (U) Post conveyed ref points in the MFA to the Office of Iranian Affairs, the Office of Under Secretary for Asia Margherita Boniver, and to Special Representative for Afghanistan Ambassador Enrico De Maio. We also delivered the points to the Prime Minister's office. 2. (C) De Maio said [...]	2004-08-20 13:28:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AF IR IT UN
04ROME3232	SINISCALCO UNVEILS ITALY'S CONTROVERSIAL FOUR-YEAR [...] The July 29 release of Italy's four-year economic blueprint opens Italy's annual budget process. The release follows the political turmoil surrounding Finance Minister Tremonti's resignation and the appointment of the new Minister Siniscalco. The DPEF, which sets budgetary guidelines for the [...]	2004-08-20 14:57:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ELAB IT KPRP
04ROME3239	ITALY ENGAGED IN TEHRAN IN EFFORTS TO SECURE OUT [...] Post received further information regarding Italy's efforts to secure Iranian cooperation for out of country voting for the upcoming elections in Afghanistan from the MFA's desk officer for Iran, Federica Ferrari Bravo, on August 23. Ferrari Bravo said that Italy is well aware of the problem [...]	2004-08-23 10:23:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV AF IR IT AFGHANISTAN
04ROME3240	ITALY SUPPORTS ASEM PARTICIPATION FOR BURMA [...] No summary [...]	2004-08-23 10:30:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM BM IT EUN
04ROME3262	Civair: Italian Response to U.S.-Linate [...] On July 23, Embassy delivered ref A talking points on U.S. carrier complaints regarding Alitalia/Air France codeshare operations at Milan's Linate Airport to Aldo Sansone, Director General for Civil Aviation in the Ministry of Transport. In Sansone's response, he denies illegitimate and disc [...]	2004-08-24 15:51:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR IT AVIATION FAA
04ROME3283	Parmalat Tussles With Major Creditors and Former [...] Following GOI approval of a restructuring plan based on a debt-to-equity swap in late July, Parmalat Commissioner Enrico Bondi opened his legal campaign in August against some of the world's largest banks for their alleged role in helping Parmalat Finanziaria (or "Parmalat," Parmalat's holding [...]	2004-08-26 15:42:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EAGR IT KPRP
04ROME3285	IAEA: ITALY AGREES TIME IS RUNNING OUT FOR IRAN [...] (C) Summary. The Italian MFA continues to prefer a strategy that avoids risking breaking off all dialogue with Iran, but at the same time acknowledges that the situation in the IAEA is getting worse. While Italy did not explicitly say it would vote against a referral to the UNSC, it does not [...]	2004-08-26 16:38:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	IR PREL IT IAEA
04ROME3381	ITALIAN VIEWS ON GYMNICH ISSUES [...] (C) Summary. Charge, accompanied by PolOff, met with MFA Director General for Multilateral Political Affairs Giampiero Massolo and NATO Office Director Giovanni Brauzzi on September 1 to convey points from Ref A demarche. Italy shares US views on most of the issues that EU Foreign Ministers w [...]	2004-09-03 04:35:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IZ IR IT EUN
04ROME3399	ITALY TALKING TOUGH ON IRAN -- WITH THE EMPHASIS [...] (C) Pol M/C discussed Ref A non-paper with Paolo Dionisi, Diplomatic Advisor to PM Berlusconi, on September 3. Dionisi, commenting that the US always delivers a tough message on Iran, said that Italy also will send a tough message to Secretary of the Iranian Supreme National Security Council R [...]	2004-09-03 16:40:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	IR PREL IT IAEA
04ROME3401	ITALIAN MILITARY OFFICIALS GENERALLY ON BOARD WITH [...] (S) Summary. In recent meetings with senior Italian military officials, Charge discussed upcoming changes in the US military footprint in Italy. Overall, the reaction was positive -- the officials agreed that the proposed changes make sense from an operational point of view. However, they [...]	2004-09-07 08:59:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	PARM PREL KPAO IT NATO FORCES IN ITALY
04ROME3465	GOVERNMENT OF ITALY OBJECTIONS TO U.S. AIR CARRIER [...] Econoff and post FAA representative met September 7 with Ente Nazionale per L'Aviazione Civile (ENAC) Deputy Director General Sciacchitano to deliver reftel points. Sciacchitano confirmed to Econoff that ENAC had "suspended" its attempts to force Delta and Northwest Airlines, among other airli [...]	2004-09-10 06:57:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR IT FAA AVIATION
04ROME3477	ITALIAN CONTRIBUTION TO GLOBAL FUND FOR AIDS [...] (SBU) Information received by the Office of the Global Fund (GFF) for AIDS has raised questions about whether the Government of Italy will fulfil its 2004 pledge of a E 100 million contribution to the fund. Post has been actively working with contacts throughout the Government to find out th [...]	2004-09-10 15:38:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID TBIO IT UN
04ROME3480	ITALIAN RESPONSE TO 9/13 GAERC DEMARCHE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. A/DCM and A/PolMinCouns discussed Ref A points with MFA Deputy Political Director Claudio Bisogniero on September 10, as did PolOff with MFA Director for EU CFSP Luigi Mattiolo on September 9. We have also raised Ref A with various other Italian government interlocutors (Refs B [...]	2004-09-13 04:36:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IT EUN
04ROME3520	ITALY: SENIOR MFA OFFICIAL PESSIMISTIC ON MIDDLE [...] (C) Summary. DCM hosted a lunch in honor of MFA Under Secretary for the Middle East and Africa Alfredo Mantica and SIPDIS his Chief of Staff Paola Imperiale, along with Pol M/C and Poloff, on September 8 . Mantica presented a fairly pessimistic outlook for the situations in Iraq, Iran, and [...]	2004-09-14 10:45:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IZ IR SU IT EUN IAEA
04ROME3527	PROPOSED SUPPORT TO JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY [...] Embassy Rome strongly supports Johns Hopkins University's request on behalf of the Johns Hopkins University Bologna Center for an FY 2005 ASHA grant of $100,000 to procure books and journals and to pay the salaries of three professors (reftel). ConGen Florence and Embassy Rome have long had a [...]	2004-09-14 14:52:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID IT
04ROME3530	ITALY ON LARGE AIRCRAFT SUBSIDIES TALKS WITH EU [...] On September 13, Economic Minister Counselor presented the demarche on large commercial aircraft subsidies to Foreign Ministry Director General for Multilateral Economic and Financial Cooperation, Giandomenico Magliano, and Office Director Diego Ungaro. EcMin also conveyed the demarche separ [...]	2004-09-14 16:47:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR ECON EIND ETRD IT EUN FAA AVIATION
04ROME354	ICAO CAEP 6: ITALIAN VIEWS [...] (SBU) SALVATORE MINEO, ITALY'S CAEP REPRESENTATIVE AND ENAC (NATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION AUTHORITY) DIRECTOR FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES, MET JANUARY 30 WITH SENIOR FAA REPRESENTATIVE AND SCIENCE COUNSELOR. MINEO IS UNABLE TO PARTICIPATE IN CAEP 6 DUE TO ILL HEALTH, BUT WILL BE REPRESENTED BY PAOLO [...]	2004-01-30 18:00:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ECON SENV IT AVIATION
04ROME3541	SPECIAL TRUST FUND FOR THE INTERNATIONAL PLANT [...] Summary and Recommendation: U.S. Mission received a letter dated 26 August 2004 from FAO's Assistant Director for Technical Cooperation, soliciting USG support for the newly established Special Trust Fund for the International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC). The concept of a voluntary f [...]	2004-09-15 13:03:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR EAID ETRD AORC ABUD IPPC FAO
04ROME3567	ITALY-ERITREA: MESSAGE ON BORDER ISSUE FALLS ON [...] (U) Fabrizio Pignatelli, MFA East Africa Office Director, briefed PolOff on the recent meeting between Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini and Eritrean Foreign Minister Ali Said Abdella. Pignatelli said that the ministers focused primarily on the peace process between Eritrea and Ethiopia [...]	2004-09-17 06:54:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ET ER IT UNMEE
04ROME3570	MAJOR DONORS DISCUSS FAO EVALUATION, KEY [...] (U) Summary: At a "Geneva Group" meeting for Rome- based representatives of major donor governments convened by the U.S. Mission on 14 September, participants strongly supported a U.S.-led proposal for an independent external review of FAO, although they expressed some differences on tactic [...]	2004-09-17 11:31:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC EAGR EAID PREL KUNR FAO
04ROME3590	IRAQ: ITALIAN PLANS FOR TOKYO DONORS' MEETING [...] (SBU) Summary: Italy may not be able to make its planned Euro 10 million disbursement to the International Reconstruction Fund Facility for Iraq (IRFFI) prior to the Tokyo meeting due to chronic budget difficulties. Our judgment is that this is a matter of timing, and that the 2004 pledge is [...]	2004-09-20 04:32:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON EFIN PREL IT IZ IRAQI FREEDOM
04ROME3591	FOLLOW UP: BLUE LANTERN PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECK [...] (SBU) Econoff contacted Agusta Westland September 9 regarding the order of helicopter spare parts for Italy. According to Paolo Colombo Speroni, the head of Agusta's spare parts sales department, there is no employee at Agusta named Mario Beretta; Agusta did not place any such order for spare [...]	2004-09-20 04:34:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC KOMC IT BLUE LANTERN
04ROME3592	REPATRIATING SPENT ELK RIVER FUEL FROM ITALY - [...] This is an action request. Please see paragraph 13. ---------------- SUMMARY ---------------- 2. This report is further to ref A report of Secretary Abraham's call on Prime Ministry Under Secretary Letta August 25. In that call, U/S Letta asked Secretary Abraham's personal help to p [...]	2004-09-20 04:43:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG PREL KNNP KSCA IT
04ROME3593	ITALY AVIATION ACCIDENT INVESTIGATIONS: ENGAGING [...] Summary: EcMin presented MFA officials with Ref. B diplomatic note seeking better cooperation on aviation incident investigations and laid out possible operational solutions. MFA officials noted that the independence of the Italian judiciary made it difficult for the MFA to prescribe a specif [...]	2004-09-20 05:43:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR IT AVIATION FAA
04ROME3642	ITALY MOVING ON EU BATTLEGROUPS WITH AN EYE TOWARD [...] No summary [...]	2004-09-21 15:48:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IT NATO EUN
04ROME3647	ICAO - ITALY'S ADDITIONAL RESPONSES TO BUDGET AND [...] Italy's civil aviation authority (Ente Nazionale per L'Aviazione Civile (ENAC)) Deputy Director Salvatore Sciacchitano provided Econoff with the following additional written responses (in English) to Ref A and B points. Embassy has edited the text for readability. 2. Begin text -We agree [...]	2004-09-22 08:33:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC EAIR IT ICAO
04ROME3666	SOMALIA: ITALY SEEKS U.S. PARTICIPATION IN JOINT [...] (U) This cable includes a guidance request. Please see paragraph 7. Summary ------- 2. (C) Bruno Cabras, MFA Director General for Sub-Saharan Africa, requested a meeting with A/DCM on September 21 to request U.S. participation in the protocol joint monitoring committee designed to supp [...]	2004-09-22 14:26:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SO IT UN
04ROME3669	Sparring with FAO over Locusts [...] (U) Summary. Over the past several weeks we have been active in promoting a better international response to the Sahel desert locust emergency. On September 10, 2004, USUN Rome invited permanent representatives of potential donor countries and countries affected by the current outbreak of d [...]	2004-09-22 15:52:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EAGR AF PREF UN FAO
04ROME3670	CWC/ITALY'S SCHEDULE 2 FACILITY AGREEMENTS: [...] (U) Summary. Most of the USG's suggestions (reftel) for improving Italy's facility agreements (FAs) were judged by Foreign Ministry technical experts to be either superfluous (because already covered by the FAs) or undesirable (because they would introduce unwanted flexibility into the conduct [...]	2004-09-22 16:08:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREL CW IT CWC
04ROME3681	Exchanging Letters with FAO over Locusts [...] (SBU) Per reftel, the text of Ambassador Hall's letter to FAO DG Diouf on September 16, 2004 follows: "I am writing to express the United States' concern over FAO's response to the locust plague in the Sahel. While I know that other donors share aspects of this concern, these views are not [...]	2004-09-23 11:15:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EAGR AF PREF UN FAO
04ROME3698	ITALY/TURKEY: CONFIDENT TURKEY WILL RECEIVE A [...] (C) On September 23, MFA Director for Turkey/Cyprus Affairs Renato Ricci told poloff that while his government was still confident that Turkey would receive a "yes" on a date to begin EU accession negotiations at the December Council, recent moves to include criminalizing adultery in the cou [...]	2004-09-24 11:58:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM IT TU EUN
04ROME3708	(C) KUDOS AND FOLLOWUP QUESTIONS ON OPPOSITION REPUBLICAN PEOPLE'S PARTY (CHP) (C-RE9-01066) [...] (C) WASHINGTON ANALYSTS GREATLY APPRECIATE THE COMPREHENSIVE REPORTING ON THE JUSTICE AND DEVELOPMENT PARTY (AKP) AND OPPOSITION BEFORE AND AFTER LOCAL ELECTIONS PROVIDED BY EMBASSY ANKARA AND CONGEN ISTANBUL. ANALYSTS HAVE USED THE REPORTING IN AN ARRAY OF CURRENT PRODUCTION AND BRIEFINGS TO P [...]	2004-09-24 14:32:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL ETTC EIND IT GLOBAL DEFENSE
04ROME3767	PEACE CORPS FAO COOPERATION: DIRECTOR GENERAL'S [...] The U.S. Mission to the UN Agencies for Food and Agriculture in Rome received a response letter to its September 10th, 2004 letter (reftel) regarding the termination of the 1962 Agreement between the United States and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on the Use of Peace Corps Volun [...]	2004-09-29 14:12:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC EAGR KTIA EAID FAO
04ROME3774	CONSULTATIONS ON GLOBAL DEFENSE POSTURE REVIEW: [...] Embassy Rome welcomes and grants country clearance for Assistant Secretary of State for Political Affairs Bloomfield, and delegation to visit Rome from October 5-6, 2004. To secure hotel accommodations, please provide fiscal data for charge purposes or credit card information for each individ [...]	2004-09-29 17:15:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREL NATO GLOBAL DEFENSE
04ROME3792	GDPR/ITALY: SCENESETTER FOR A/S BLOOMFIELD AND [...] (C) Summary. Embassy welcomes the visit of A/S Bloomfield and DASD Hoehn for consultations with Italy on the Global Defense Posture Review. While the Italians have no major concerns regarding the changes underway at Naples/Gaeta and Vicenza, they will be eager to hear the latest U.S. thinking [...]	2004-09-30 15:11:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS MARR IT NATO FORCES IN ITALY
04ROME3832	ALITALIA: RESTRUCTURING PLAN CLOSE TO APPROVAL [...] (U) Summary: Alitalia, the Italian government, and labor unions are expected to sign a final agreement soon on the restructuring of Italy's flag carrier. The airline will be split into two companies, one to continue the core flight operations, the other to take over Alitalia's ground service [...]	2004-10-04 15:50:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR ELAB EU IT KPRV PGOV FAA AVIATION
04ROME3841	30TH SESSION OF THE FAO COMMITTEE ON WORLD FOOD [...] Summary. The annual session of FAO's Committee on World Food Security (CFS) discussed the world food security situation and follow-up to the World Food Summit (WFS),noting uneven progress among countries and regions. The Committee: -- asked that a working group of experts be convened to [...]	2004-10-05 08:35:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR AORC ETRD EAID PHUM FAO

04ROME3847	EU/LIBYA ARMS EMBARGO - ITALY WON'T RISK [...] (C) MFA Director for EU CFSP Luigi Mattiol/ told poloff on October 1 that he saw "little or no chance" that the October 11 GAERC will not approve the COREPER recommendation that Qhe EU arms embargo be lifted in its entirety. Qrocess to partially l ift September in an effort tools it needed [...]	2004-10-05 10:34:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM IT EUN
04ROME3849	ITALIAN PRT/FSB ON BACK BURNER FOR NEAR FUTURE [...] (C) Summary. Facing budget cuts and with a military straining to meet its current obligations overseas, Italy will not consider deploying a PRT/FSB in the near term. However, Italy has not ruled out leading a PRT/FSB at some point in the future. Italy will keep the possibility on the back bu [...]	2004-10-05 13:11:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS MARR PREL IT AFGHANISTAN IRAQI FREEDOM
04ROME385	ITALY: STATUS OF FROZEN IRAQI ASSETS [...] (SBU) Finance Ministry officials provided Embassy with updated list of Iraqi assets frozen and held in Italy. This list was reviewed and approved by the inter-ministerial Financial Security Committee at its January 29 meeting. 2. (SBU) Information is presented below as follows: bank in Ita [...]	2004-02-04 10:21:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETTC IZ IT IRAQI FREEDOM
04ROME3862	G8 SUMMIT COMMITMENTS TO AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIVITY [...] Summary. USUN-Rome organized a panel discussion entitled, "Planting the Seeds for Africa's Future: G8 Partnerships to Raise Agricultural Productivity Through Capacity Building," on Sept. 21 in the margins of the Food and Agriculture Organization's (FAO) Committee on World Food Security (CFS). [...]	2004-10-05 15:33:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR EAID AORC ETRD KPAO KSUM XA FAO
04ROME3882	ITALY ASKS FOR AFRICAN FOCS AND FURTHER U.S. [...] No summary [...]	2004-10-06 10:50:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	KPKO MARR MOPS PGOV PREL IT
04ROME3885	30TH SESSION OF THE FAO COMMITTEE ON WORLD FOOD [...] Summary. The annual session of FAO's Committee on World Food Security (CFS) discussed the world food security situation and follow-up to the World Food Summit (WFS),noting uneven progress among countries and regions. The Committee: -- asked that a working group of experts be convened to [...]	2004-10-06 11:27:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR AORC ETRD EAID PHUM FAO
04ROME3911	ITALY: LIBYAN JEWISH COMMUNITY TO DISCUSS [...] (C) SUMMARY: A delegation of Italian Jews, expelled from Libya in 1970 and now Italian citizens, has accepted an offer to visit Tripoli October 10-14. The will discuss possible compensation for property and monies seized when Jews were expelled after 1967. Qadhafi's son Sa'adi offered the [...]	2004-10-07 16:37:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	IT KIRF LY PHUM PREL
04ROME3917	ITALY AGREES ON NEED FOR IMMEDIATE AID FOR CYPRUS, [...] (C) MFA Turkey/Cyprus Office Director Renato Ricci told Poloff on October 4 that Italy concurs with the US view (REFTEL) that increased economic development in North Cyprus will aid reunification. To that end, Italy supprts rapid disbursal of the Commission's propoed Euro 259 million aid pack [...]	2004-10-08 08:43:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM ECIN TU CY IT EUN
04ROME3927	EU GAERC - ITALY CONFIRMS MINISTERS WILL ENDORSE [...] (C) MFA Director for EU CFSP Luigi Mattiolo confirmed to poloff that EU Ministers would endorse the COREPER decision to lift completely the ban on arms exports to Libya at the October 11 GAERC. Mattiolo underlined that this would not mean a rush of sales of lethal weapons to Tripoli. There [...]	2004-10-08 13:48:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PARM IT EUN
04ROME3933	IRAQ/ITALY- ITALIAN POLITICAL DIRECTOR ON PLANS [...] (C) At their Oct. 6 meeting with Italian MFA DG Massolo, A/S Bloomfield and DASD Hoehn discussed Iran and Iraq, as well as Global Defense Posture Review (GDPR) issues (septel). Massolo underscored Italy's concern with Iranian nuclear ambitions. He sought details on the mix of MNF and Iraqi f [...]	2004-10-12 08:19:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IT IR IZ NATO EUN IRAQI FREEDOM GLOBAL DEFENSE
04ROME3955	BLUE LANTERN: POST-SHIPMENT END-USE CHECK ON [...] Summary: The Italian Coast Guard confirms receipt of focal plane arrays. End summary. 2. Per reftel this message provides information regarding post-shipment end-use check on License 05-888338 for authorizing export of twenty indium antimonide focal plane arrays to the Italian Ministry of [...]	2004-10-13 15:17:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	KOMC ETTC IT BLUE LANTERN
04ROME3958	APPROACH TO ITALIAN GOVERNMENT ON CHINA ARMS [...] (S) Summary: MFA officials told PM DAS Suchan and JCS BG Remington that while Italy is "not out in front" it will likely join EU consensus to lift the China embargo, assuming that a review of China's human rights situation shows that "the conditions are right." PM Berlusconi's diplomatic advi [...]	2004-10-13 17:05:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PARM PHUM CI IT EUN HUMAN RIGHTS
04ROME3969	ITALY DEFENDS ITS NEW IMMIGRATION POLICY [...] (C) Summary: Faced with a political imperative to stop waves of illegal immigrants, the Italian government has stepped up cooperation with Libya and adopted a policy of quickly returning to Libya immigrants who land illegally in Sicily. Responding to UN, NGO and opposition criticism, Italian [...]	2004-10-14 17:27:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PHUM PREL PREF IT LY EUN
04ROME3979	LOCUST EMERGENCY: DONORS' MEETING AT FAO, [...] Summary: At FAO Headquarters on 13 October, Director General Jacques Diouf and FAO Secretariat staff briefed representatives of donor governments and affected states on progress in bringing the locust emergency under control. FAO reported that the locust plague is "the worst in fifteen year [...]	2004-10-15 11:57:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EAGR AORC MASS SENV XI XY FAO
04ROME3985	GDPR/ITALY: ITALIANS PROPOSE WORKING GROUP TO [...] (S) Summary. In October 6 discussions with Defense Minister Martino, D/CHOD LTG Castagnetti and MFA Director General Massolo, A/S Bloomfield and DASD Hoehn explained where the Global Defense Posture Review (GDPR) process stood in the U.S. and heard from the Italians broad agreement with the U. [...]	2004-10-15 13:59:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	PREL MOPS MARR IT NATO FORCES IN ITALY
04ROME3989	IRAN: ITALY APPRECIATES US THINKING ON UNSC OPTIONS [...] (C) Poloff discussed reftel non-paper with Giovanni Iannuzzi, head of the MFA's nonproliferation office, on October 15. Iannuzzi responded very positively to the non-paper, which he had shared with MFA DG for Multilateral Political Affairs Giampiero Massolo the evening before Massolo's depart [...]	2004-10-15 16:42:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	IR PREL IT IAEA
04ROME3990	CIVAIR: ITALY STAYS FIRM ON LINATE CODESHARE [...] (U) Acting Ecmin, Econoff and Econ FSN met October 8 with Aldo Sansone, Director General for Civil Aviation in the Ministry of Transportation, to deliver Ref A follow-on demarche regarding Italian refusal to allow U.S. carriers to conduct third-country code-share operations between the U.S. an [...]	2004-10-15 17:27:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR KTIA IT AVIATION FAA
04ROME3992	MEETING OF UNIDROIT FINANCE COMMITTEE [...] Summary: the Finance Committee of the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) met on October 8 to consider the organization's 2005 budget. A draft resolution on arrears was considered but eventually dropped after lengthy discussion. U.S. did not block consensus [...]	2004-10-18 04:31:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC ABUD UNIDROIT
04ROME3998	ITALY REGARDING U.S. ACTIONS TO TERMINATE LARGE [...] (U) Post delivered ref A demarche on October 6 to senior Italian government trade officials Amedeo Teti, Director General for Commercial Agreements, Ministry of Productive Activities (MPA); Federico Eichberg, Senior Advisor to Foreign Trade Vice Minister Adolfo Urso; and Sandro Fanella, Direct [...]	2004-10-18 04:39:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD IT EUN
04ROME3999	ITALY SUPPORTS ESTABLISHING OSCE SPECIAL REP FOR [...] On October 15, MFA OSCE Office Director Fabio Cristiani told EUR/OHI Director Don Braum (in Rome for the Holocaust Education Task Force) that Italy fully supports US view that a special representative for anti-Semitism should be established in the OSCE. EU representatives met at 25 to discus [...]	2004-10-18 07:16:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM IT OSCE EUN
04ROME4000	BUREAUCRATICS WILL KEEP ITALY FROM SECONDING [...] (SBU) OSCE Office Director Fabio Cristiani told poloff that a bureaucratic complication would make it impossible for Italy to second observers to monitor upcoming elections in Ukraine. He said that Italian legislation authorizing such funds came with a string attached - money for transportatio [...]	2004-10-18 08:08:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM UP IT OSCE
04ROME401	IRAQ: ITALY AND THE IFC SMALL BUSINESS FACILITY [...] (U) IN RESPONSE TO REF B, EMBASSY REPORTED THAT THE GOI WAS NOT LIKELY TO CONTRIBUTE ITS MADRID-PLEDGED IRAQ RECONSTRUCTION FUNDS TO THE INTERNATIONAL FINANCE CORPORATION'S SMALL BUSINESS FINANCE FACILITY FOR IRAQ (REF E). WE HAVE ALSO DESCRIBED ITALY'S OVERALL RECONSTRUCTION PRIORITIES [...]	2004-02-04 17:27:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ECON EFIN IZ IT IRAQI FREEDOM
04ROME402	PM BERLUSCONI LOOKING FOR EXIT STRATEGY ON [...] (SBU) Summary. The end of Italy's EU Presidency has compelled PM Berlusconi to address longstanding demands by two junior coalition partners for more say over policy making. The painstaking attempt to appease them without a major cabinet reshuffle may finally be drawing to a close. Vice PM [...]	2004-02-04 17:43:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON IT ITALIAN POLITICS
04ROME4026	MINI PRESSURIZED LOGISTICS MODULES (MPLMs) -- [...] Action request: The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has contacted Embassy Science Section seeking the U.S. response to an Italian Note Verbale dated April 18, 2001 (see paragraph 2) that would implement the U.S.-Italy MOU on mini pressurized logistics modules, signed in Rome by the I [...]	2004-10-18 15:53:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	TSPA IT
04ROME403	ARGENTINE BONDS - ITALIAN BANKERS TAKE A TOUGH [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: All we want is for Argentina to agree to fair and equitable negotiations with foreign bondholders, Nicola Stock (please protect),president of the Global Committee of Argentina Bondholders (GCAB),told econoffs February 3. However, the GCAB seriously doubts Argentin [...]	2004-02-04 18:01:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ECON IT
04ROME4035	RSVP EXTRANCHECK PRE-LICENSE CHECK: NIKON INSTRUMENTS [...] ON OCTOBER 15, 2004 DEPUTY SENIOR COMMERCIAL OFFICER LINDA ARCHER AND COMMERCIAL SPECIALIST BARBARA LAPINI VISITED THE COMPANY NIKON INSTRUMENTS SPA AND MET WITH LORENZO VANNINI, ADMINISTRATIVE DIRECTOR, AND ENGINEER GIANCARLO CAPPANI, CONSULTANT. 2. CS ITALY OFFICIALS WERE WELL RECEIVE [...]	2004-10-19 14:31:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ETTC IT BEXT
04ROME4039	BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: CHECK ON COMPANIES [...] Per reftel request, post completed Blue Lantern checks on the following Italian defense brokers. Post can provide additional documentation on these four companies and conduct additional inquiries as needed. Please contact AmEmbassy Rome Blue Lantern Coordinator Gregory May, maygc@state.gov. [...]	2004-10-19 15:44:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	KOMC ETTC IT BLUE LANTERN
04ROME4056	ITALY SYMPATHETIC ON VENEZUELA BUT PREFERS EU TO [...] No summary [...]	2004-10-20 13:22:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL KDEM VE IT HUMAN RIGHTS
04ROME4058	FAO FINANCE COMMITTEE SEPTEMBER 2004 SESSION [...] No summary [...]	2004-10-20 15:17:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC EAID EAGR KUNR FAO WFP
04ROME4059	TRIPOLI ROLLS OUT THE RED CARPET FOR [...] (C) Summary: The delegation of Italian-Libyan Jews who visited Tripoli October 10-14 described their trip as a success and were jubilant at having seen and been welcomed in their homeland. The trip provided the Libyans with an opportunity to evaluate their visitors; the group did not meet w [...]	2004-10-20 15:25:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KIRF IT LY
04ROME4060	ITALY INSISTS CODE OF CONDUCT AND "TOOLBOX" WILL [...] (C) MFA Office Director for North Africa Pasquale D,Avino told Poloff that Italy shares the same goals and concerns as the U.S. (reftel) regarding Libya, with slight differences in approach. Rome therefore won't take any "imprudent" actions towards Tripoli in terms of providing arms, but at [...]	2004-10-20 15:31:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM PHUM LY IT EUN
04ROME4093	ITALY: IRAQ NATO MISSION AND ISAF PRT/FSB - [...] (C) In an October 22 discussion with PolMilCouns and ODC Chief, Diplomatic Advisor to the Italian Minister of Defense Francesco Trupiano and Italian J3 MG Giuseppe Marani said that at present, Italy was not considering contributing additional training assets to the NATO mission in Iraq, but wa [...]	2004-10-22 13:16:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS MARR PREL IT AF IZ NATO IRAQI FREEDOM AFGHANISTAN
04ROME4106	FAO FINANCE COMMITTEE SEPTEMBER 2004 SESSION [...] No summary [...]	2004-10-25 09:37:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC EAID EAGR KUNR FAO WFP
04ROME4141	ITALY/BIOTECH: PROPOSED COEXISTENCE DEGREE COULD [...] (C) Summary. Agriculture Minister Alemanno has once again asked the Italian Council of Ministers to approve a decree-law on the coexistence of GM and non-GM seeds planted in Italy. Like the draft that Alemanno attempted (unsuccessfully) to push through in November 2003, the vague text of the [...]	2004-10-26 15:43:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR ETRD TBIO KSCA IT
04ROME4165	CUBAN RESOLUTION AGAINST US EMBARGO: EU/ITALY WILL [...] (U) Paolo Miraglia, MFA Central America and Caribbean Office Director, told PolOff that, although highly concerned about the human rights situation in Cuba, Italy will support the EU position and vote in favor of the Cuban resolution. Miraglia stated that the Dutch presidency will deliver an e [...]	2004-10-27 15:38:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ETRD CU IT UNGA HUMAN RIGHTS
04ROME4180	ITALIAN POSITIONS ON NOVEMBER 2 GAERC AGENDA [...] (C) MFA Director for EU CFSP Luigi Mattiolo told poloff that the PSC was busy preparing documentation on Iraq for the GAERC and follow-on Council meeting. He also confirmed that Iraqi PM Allawi will have lunch with the Council at 25 plus 3 on November 5. Member States are firming up an econ [...]	2004-10-28 16:10:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IT EUN
04ROME4186	127TH FAO COUNCIL, 22-27 NOVEMBER 2004: LOOKING [...] (U) Summary: The upcoming FAO Council will provide an opportunity principally for members to review the world's food and agricultural situation, to track progress in the activities of FAO and the World Food Program (WFP),and to discuss FAO program, budget and administrative issues. The we [...]	2004-10-29 09:21:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC EAGR EAID SENV KUNR KPAO FAO
04ROME4194	The Italian Banking Sector: a Decade of [...] Since the mid-1990s, the Italian banking sector has undergone significant consolidation through mergers and acquisitions among major banks. The consolidation was the largest in Europe in terms of assets, and was driven in large part by domestic privatization efforts, Italy's entry into the Eu [...]	2004-10-29 16:21:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN ELAB IT KPRP
04ROME4198	ITALY: EU COMMON POSITION ON CUBA [...] No summary [...]	2004-11-02 09:03:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM EU CU IT HUMAN RIGHTS
04ROME4216	ITALIAN CONCEPT PAPER FOR THE INTERNATIONAL [...] (C) Summary. Pol M/C met with MFA Office Director for the Gulf States Luigi Maccotta on October 29 to discuss Iraqi PM Allawi's November 3-4 visit to Rome and the upcoming international conference on Iraq in Egypt. Maccotta had requested the meeting to present Italy's non-paper for the confe [...]	2004-11-03 08:10:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IZ IT NATO
04ROME4252	NATO/IRAQ: ITALY OPPOSED TO CAVEATS ON NATO IRAQ [...] (C) Summary. Pol-Mil Officers discussed reftel demarche with Giovanni Brauzzi, head of the MFA's NATO office, on November 4. Brauzzi said that Italy agrees with the principle that NATO member states should not impose national caveats on agreed NATO missions, but noted that in practical terms [...]	2004-11-05 11:09:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR IZ IT NATO IRAQI FREEDOM
04ROME4263	IRAQ: ITALY URGES MORE EU INVOLVEMENT, PLEDGES TO [...] (C) Summary. In their November 4 meeting in Rome, and on the eve of Iraqi PM Allawi's Brussels meeting with EU leaders, Italian PM Berlusconi and his Iraqi counterpart held a friendly meeting in which they discussed the current situation in Iraq and strategies for securing greater EU and othe [...]	2004-11-05 15:18:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR IZ IT NATO IRAQI FREEDOM
04ROME4268	TOUGH BARGAINING ON ITALIAN GOVERNMENT PORTFOLIOS [...] (C) Negotiations to fill Government positions, including that of Foreign Minister, resulting from Rocco Buttiglione's nomination and subsequent withdrawal as Italy's European Commissioner are caught up in domestic politics, especially an internal coalition struggle over the Government's tax [...]	2004-11-05 17:30:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL IT ITALIAN POLITICS
04ROME4276	ITALIAN PRT/FSB BACK IN PLAY [...] (C) Summary. In a November 4 discussion with PolMil Officers, MFA NATO Office Director said that Italy is going forward with plans to contribute to a Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) and/or Forward Support Base (FSB) in Afghanistan. He stressed, however, that Italy cannot go it alone and [...]	2004-11-08 10:11:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS MARR PREL AF IT AFGHANISTAN
04ROME4280	ITALIAN VIEWS ON ISRAELI WEOG MEMBERSHIP [...] (C) Summary. Pol M/C discussed reftel demarche with key MFA officials on November 5. While our Italian interlocutors are sympathetic to Israel's membership in consultative groups at selected UN agencies, it is unlikely to take action in the absence of EU consensus and pending the outcome of UN [...]	2004-11-08 14:50:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	OPDC PHUM PREL AORC KIPR IS IT UNEP WIPO ILO IAEA
04ROME4296	FAO COUNCIL DISCUSSIONS: COMPREHENSIVE INDEPENDENT [...] Summary. Over the past several months one of this Mission's highest priorities has been to achieve Permrep and Secretariat agreement to launch a comprehensive independent SIPDIS external evaluation of the UN's Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO). Through such an evaluation, we hope to [...]	2004-11-09 10:05:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC EAGR EAID SENV KUNR KPAO FAO
04ROME43	ENERGY U/S CARD VISIT HIGHLIGHTS BILATERAL ENERGY [...] SUMMARY: Department of Energy Undersecretary Robert Card stopped in Rome December 10 to meet with key Italian energy sector officials, en route to the COP-9 conference in Milan. Key issues discussed included generation choices, gas supply, greenhouse gas emissions, dependency on energy imports [...]	2004-01-08 10:44:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ENRG IT
04ROME430	IRAQ: UPDATE ON ITALY AND THE IFC SMALL BUSINESS [...] (C) ECONOFF MADE REF B POINTS FEBRUARY 5 TO LUIGI MACCOTTA, DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF THE MFA IRAQ TASK FORCE, URGING GOI SUPPORT FOR THE INTERNATIONAL FINANCE CORPORATION'S SMALL BUSINESS FINANCING FACILITY FOR IRAQ. MACCOTTA NOTED THAT WHILE THE GOI WOULD LIKE TO SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT OF SMALL- [...]	2004-02-06 10:26:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ECON EFIN IZ IT IRAQI FREEDOM
04ROME4313	GIANFRANCO FINI: ALMOST CERTAINLY ITALY'S NEXT [...] (C) SUMMARY: At a November 8 dinner at the Ambassador's residence, both Deputy Prime Minister Fini and Prime Minister Berlusconi's personal assistant confirmed that Fini will be named Italy's next Foreign Minister. We expect Fini to be a reliable replacement for Franco Frattini and to maint [...]	2004-11-09 16:47:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR PREL IT ITALIAN POLITICS
04ROME4320	ITALY FULLY BACKS U.S. ON THIRD COMMITTEE ISSUES [...] No summary [...]	2004-11-10 08:22:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM IT HUMAN RIGHTS
04ROME4375	ITALY'S SUPPORT FOR TURKEY'S EU ACCESSION REMAINS [...] No summary [...]	2004-11-16 14:33:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL TU IT EUN
04ROME4376	FRENCH DEFMIN AT ROME'S NATO DEFENSE COLLEGE - [...] (SBU) French Minister of Defense Michele Alliot Marie addressed the NATO Defense College in Rome November 12. She urged concerted efforts on both sides of the Atlantic to narrow the transatlantic gap, citing the urgency of our common challenges and the importance of tackling them together. A [...]	2004-11-16 14:59:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL FR IT NATO EUN
04ROME4404	EU STRATEGY ON MIDDLE EAST PEACE: ITALIAN VIEWS [...] (C) Summary: Italian MFA Middle East director outlined the state of discussion among EU members for an initiative on Israeli-Palestinian peace. Italy is seeking to insert stronger messages to the initiatives: for Israel, the need to publicly declare readiness for negotiation, and for the Pale [...]	2004-11-17 16:51:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	IS IT KPAL PREL EUN
04ROME4406	CODEL LANTOS MEETINGS IN ROME ON LIBYA [...] (C) Summary. En route to Tripoli, Congressman Lantos met with Italian officials responsible for Libya, the Italo-Libyan Jewish community, and the Israeli Ambassador to Rome. Italians reaffirmed their commitment to abide by the EU code of conduct in selling equipment to Italy and expressed [...]	2004-11-18 08:03:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PREF PHUM LI IT EUN
04ROME4412	ITALY: IMPLEMENTATION OF OVERDUE LABOR MARKET [...] Summary: The Italian Ministry of Labor has approved regulations to implement much-needed labor market reforms designed to increase flexibility and reduce illegal employmen. Through a system of public and private contract options, part-time and contract worker will now be eligible to receiv [...]	2004-11-18 11:45:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB PREL IT
04ROME4421	ITALIAN VIEWS ON SECOND ROUND OF UKRAINIAN [...] (C) Russia/CIS Office Director Marco Marsilli agreed with US views (ref a) that if activities in the run-up to and during the second round of elections do not meet OSCE/ODIHR standards, the US and EU must coordinate on raising concerns with Ukrainian officials and the Central Election Commissi [...]	2004-11-18 14:32:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM UP IT EUN
04ROME4426	GIANFRANCO FINI IS (FINALLY) ITALY,S NEW FOREIGN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Gianfranco Fini was (finally) appointed Italy's new Foreign Minister on November 18, following constant speculation on this outcome since the October 30 resignation of Rocco Buttiglione as Italy's nominee to the new European Commission and his replacement by ex-FM Franco Fratti [...]	2004-11-18 18:02:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PINR PREL PGOV IT ITALIAN POLITICS
04ROME4430	ITALY CREATES NEW OFFICE TO COMBAT RACIAL [...] (U) At a well-attended press conference November 16, Stefania Prestigiacomo, Minister for Equal Opportunity, announced the creation of a new office in her ministry to combat racial and ethnic discrimination in Italy. The Ufficio Nazionale Antidiscriminazioni Razziali (UNAR),which was found [...]	2004-11-19 10:46:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM IT HUMAN RIGHTS
04ROME4431	ITALY CONCURS ON NEED FOR VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS [...] (U) MFA Turkey/Cyprus Office Director Renato Ricci told poloff that Italy was already working with its EU partners on a "substantial" voluntary contribution for the UN Peacekeeping Mission in Cyprus (UNFICYP). Italy views this effort as part of a broader stabilization program, which includes [...]	2004-11-19 11:08:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL CY IT EUN UNFICYP
04ROME4443	ITALIAN RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON NEGOTIATIONS [...] No summary [...]	2004-11-19 17:03:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC EAGR ETRD PREL SENV IT
04ROME4444	ITALIAN VIEWS ON NOVEMBER 22 GAERC [...] (C) EU CFSP Director Luigi Mattiolo said that ministers would have an extended discussion of Middle East issues over lunch on November 22, including a wide-ranging exchange of views on how the EU should enhance its role in the Quartet post-Arafat. Italy's views on the content of the Council s [...]	2004-11-19 17:03:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IT EUN
04ROME4454	ITALY: HHS A/S HORN PROMOTES TIP INITIATIVES [...] This is an action request. G-TIP, please see para 8. 2. Summary: HHS A/S for Children and Families visited Rome to discuss pro-family initiatives and trafficking in persons with Italian and Vatican officials and NGOs. A lunch hosted by the DCM prompted several TIP initiatives, including [...]	2004-11-22 17:18:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM IT
04ROME4471	IPR: COMMERCIALIZING UNIVERSITY RESEARCH, ITALY [...] Summary: The GOI, hoping to encourage more innovation at Italian universities, is considering its own version of the Bayh-Dole Act. The Economist has described the Bayh-Dole Act as "possibly the most inspired piece of legislation to be enacted in America over the past half-century." Enacted [...]	2004-11-24 10:08:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON KIPR IT
04ROME4474	ITALY - LIBERTAD ACT TITLE III WAIVER REVIEW [...] (C) Summary. Mission believes renewing the Title III Libertad Act waiver would enhance the possibility of increased US-Italian cooperation on Cuba and have a positive impact on already strong bilateral relations with Italy. Italian policy towards Cuba follows the EU Common Position, which is b [...]	2004-11-24 11:17:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM ETTC CU IT UN
04ROME4534	ITALY AGREES IN PRINCIPLE ON OSCE MONITORING [...] (U) MFA OSCE Office Director Fabio Cristiani told poloff that an OSCE election observer mission for Iraq as proposed reftel was in line with Italy's view that the organization's expertise should be exploited for "out of theater" missions. He agreed that ODIHR could provide invaluable assistance [...]	2004-11-30 15:06:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV IZ IT OSCE
04ROME4542	ITALY HOSTS INAUGURAL MEETING OF THE DEMOCRACY [...] (U) Summary. Per reftel demarche, Poloff attended the November 25 inauguration ceremony of the Democracy Assistance Dialogue (DAD) at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Rome. The one-hour event, which drew a wide-range of Ambassadors from various Middle East and North African countri [...]	2004-11-30 16:24:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON KMPI KDEM IT UNGA
04ROME4544	IRAQI DEFENSE MINISTER TELLS ITALIANS THAT [...] (C) Summary. In November 29 meetings with Italian government officials, Iraq Defense Minister Hazim al Shalam expressed security concerns about the upcoming elections in Iraq, going so far as to advocate their postponement. Italian officials told DCM that Italy will continue to support the Ir [...]	2004-11-30 16:32:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR IZ IT NATO IRAQI ELECTIONS
04ROME4562	AFGHANISTA: ITALIANS COMMITTED ON PRT/FSB, [...] (S) Polmilcouns conveyed Ref Q and B points to MFA NATO Office Director Qrauzzi November 29, and, along with DATT, discussed them with Deputy Chief of Defense Castagnetti on November 30. Brauzzi said he would shae them with Chief of Defense DiPaola on Nov. Q0. On Brauzzi noted that ItRT force [...]	2004-12-01 14:53:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	MARR PREL MOPS AF IT NATO AFGHANISTAN
04ROME4563	CHEVRON INCIDENT REFLECTS CHANGING DYNAMICS IN [...] No summary [...]	2004-12-01 16:43:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EPET PINR KZ
04ROME4580	AFGHANISTAN: ITALIANS COMMITTED ON PRT/FSB, [...] (S) Polmilcouns conveyed Ref A and B points to MFA NATO Office Director Brauzzi November 29, and, along with DATT, discussed them with Deputy Chief of Defense Castagnetti on November 30. Brauzzi said he would share them with Chief of Defense DiPaola on Nov. 30. On the PRT and FSB, Brauzzi note [...]	2004-12-02 13:14:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	MARR PREL MOPS AF IT NATO AFGHANISTAN
04ROME4582	AMBASSADOR TONY P. HALL'S TRIP TO DARFUR [...] Ambassador Tony Hall led a delegation of staff and journalists to Sudan's Darfur states on November 18 through 20. The purpose of the visit was to witness first-hand the dire situation and to observe U.N. operations, principally those of the World Food Program (WFP) and the Food and Agricul [...]	2004-12-02 14:37:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREF EAGR PHUM AORC WFP FAO
04ROME4599	ITALY'S UNDERGROUND ECONOMY [...] The underground economy has been a consistent part of post-war Italy, and is a result of the country's systemic inefficiencies, in particular its bureaucracy, high taxation, and rigid labor market. Recent estimates place the size of the underground economy at about 15-17 percent of Italian G [...]	2004-12-03 16:48:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN ELAB PGOV IT KPRP
04ROME4620	IN THE DESERT OF LIBYA, AMBASSADOR TONY P. HALL [...] During a visit to al-Kufrah on November 22, Ambassador Tony Hall witnessed the first shipment of U.S. food assistance moving through the "Libyan Corridor" on its way to Sudanese refugees in Chad. The first 40 truckloads of an estimated 350 made their way on the 2,800 kilometer journey start [...]	2004-12-06 14:37:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREF EAGR PHUM AORC WFP FAO
04ROME4646	EU/CHINA ARMS EMBARGO; MFA PROVIDES DETAILS ON [...] (C) Summary: MFA Political Director Giulio Terzi told DCM that there was "nothing new" in what Italy said to the Chinese on the EU arms embargo during the Italo-China Summit. He said that Italy would support lifting the embargo in Brussels, but that support would be linked to positive signals [...]	2004-12-06 18:39:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM MARR IT CI EUN HUMAN RIGHTS
04ROME4648	ITALIAN REQUEST TO UPDATE NICKEL EXPORT AGREEMENT [...] Action Request -- See Paragraph 5. 2. The GOI recently contacted embassy regarding their interest in updating a 1982 agreement on issuance of certificates of origin for the export of nickel-bearing material to the U.S. The agreement was intended to ensure that such exports did not contain [...]	2004-12-07 05:50:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EMIN ETTC IT CU EXPORT CONTROLS
04ROME4673	USUN-ROME CAPTURES GLOBAL AUDIENCE ON POSITIVE [...] Summary. Facing off in a world media environment dominated by themes like Iraq and terrorism, USUN-Rome mounted a month-long blitz that promoted a positive American story. The Ambassador's tour through Sudan and Libya, coupled with several local successes in Rome, focused world media attenti [...]	2004-12-09 13:47:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KPAO OPRC EAGR AORC PHUM EAID PREF SU LY XA FAO WFP
04ROME4678	Italy: WTO Government Procurement Agreement Market [...] This message responds to reftel A request for our suggestions on possible areas for expansion of Italy's market access commitments under the World Trade Organization (WTO) Government Procurement Agreement (GPA). 2. The following are Embassy responses to questions A to D of reftel A para 5. [...]	2004-12-09 16:29:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD IT WTO
04ROME4682	ITALY ON EU GAERC/COUNCIL AGENDA: TURKEY WILL [...] (C) The MFA's Director for EU Integration, Michele Quaroni, told poloff that consensus was building around a Council conclusion with an unconditional date to begin Turkish accession negotiations. He was not sure whether the date would be during the first or second semester of 2005. France may [...]	2004-12-10 08:59:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETTC KPAL UP CO HR CG RW IT EUN
04ROME4699	ITALY: EU COMMON POSITION ON CUBA: ENCOURAGE [...] No summary [...]	2004-12-13 12:09:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM EU CU IT HUMAN RIGHTS
04ROME4719	ITALY: TIP UPDATE [...] (U) Summary. Laborcouns delivered ref a points on TIP benchmarks for 2005 to representatives of the Ministries of Justice, Interior and Equal Opportunity, stressing the importance of Washington's interest in improved statistics and expanded victims' assistance and public awareness campaigns. [...]	2004-12-14 11:52:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL PREF IT
04ROME4769	FAO/NETHERLANDS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON [...] At a Briefing Session at the FAO on December 15, 2004, member countries were invited to send participants to the "FAO/Netherlands International Conference on Water for Food and Ecosystems: Make it Happen!", to be held in The Hague,January 31 -February 5, 2005. The stated conference aim is the [...]	2004-12-16 17:10:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV EAID AORC EAGR NL FAO
04ROME4793	OPERATION BALKAN VICE V - ITALY ON BOARD WITH VISA [...] (S) MFA Balkans Office Director Andrea Orizio told Poloff on December 17 that Italy was "on board" with USG view that imposing travel entry/travel bans and freezing assets of PIFWC's and their material supporters are important tools for achieving our shared objective to stabilize the region. I [...]	2004-12-17 16:06:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL MOPS EFIN ETTC KAWC BK IT ICTY EUN
04ROME4796	FOLLOW-UP WITH ITALY AFTER MEETING OF IRAQI DONORS [...] (SBU) Summary: The GOI has disbursed approximately Euro 65 million ($86.3 million) in humanitarian and reconstruction assistance to Iraq for 2003-2004, according to Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials responsible for Iraq reconstruction aid. This total includes Italy's long-delayed 2004 paym [...]	2004-12-17 17:39:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ECON EFIN IT IZ IRAQI FREEDOM
04ROME4797	ITALY/BIOTECH: BAN ON FOUR GM CORN [...] (U) Summary. Italy's August 2000 ban on the commercialization of four biotech corn varieties was annulled on November 29, 2004, by a Lazio regional court. The ruling on the so-called Amato Decree result from a lawsuit filed in November 2000 by three multinational seed companies and an Italian b [...]	2004-12-20 05:50:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EAGR TBIO KSCA IT WTO
04ROME4809	ITALY/BIOTECH: BAN ON FOUR GM CORN [...] (U) Summary. Italy's August 2000 ban on the commercialization of four biotech corn varieties was annulled on November 29, 2004, by a Lazio regional court. The ruling on the so-called Amato Decree resulted from a lawsuit filed in November 2000 by three multinational seed companies and an Italia [...]	2004-12-20 12:42:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EAGR TBIO KSCA IT WTO
04ROME4840	ITALIAN POSITION ON EU BATTERY DIRECTIVE [...] On December 20, Franco Macor of the Italian Mandatory Consortium for Spent Batteries and Lead Waste (known by the Italian initials COBAT) responded to reftel request for information on Italy,s views regarding the EU battery directive. 2. What is Italy's position on the ban of lead/cadmium [...]	2004-12-22 09:33:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EIND ETRD EUN
04ROME4856	IRAQ: SUMMARY OF ITALIAN RECONSTRUCTION ACTIVITY [...] Luigi Maccotta, Deputy Director of the Iraq Task Force at the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, provided Econoff with the following summary, in English, of Italian humanitarian and reconstruction assistance to Iraq. This document updates a previous summary Maccotta passed to Econoff in Jan [...]	2004-12-22 14:41:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID ECON EFIN IT IZ IRAQI FREEDOM
04ROME4872	CARTAGENA PROTOCOL ON BIOSAFETY - ITALY [...] (U) SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED - NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (U) SUMMARY: Per ref A, on December 10, SCI Specialist discussed Italy's views on biosafety with Marco Vetrano, Director of the Biosafety Division of the Italian Ministry of Environment. Vetrano stated that Italy ratifi [...]	2004-12-27 06:16:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV EAGR ETRD TBIO EAID IT
04ROME4888	ITALY - NAMES TITLES AND CONTACT NUMBERS FOR [...] (U) SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED, PLEASE PROTECT ACCORDINGLY. 2. (U) Information below responds to questions and formatting instructions reftel. 3. (SBU) COUNTRY: Italian Republic DATE: 12/27/04 HEAD OF GOVERNMENT LAST NAME: Berlusconi FIRST/MIDDLE NAMES: Silvio CONVE [...]	2004-12-28 06:23:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL IT
04ROME4908	TFXO01: EARLY WFP RELIEF EFFORTS - CREATION OF [...] USUN Rome Humanitarian Affairs Counselor Earl Gast and Program Specialist Philip Lamade were briefed by senior World Food Program (WFP) management on December 28, 2004. WFP apprised USUN Rome of its active engagement in mobilizing a task force in response to the disastrous tsunami following th [...]	2004-12-29 15:11:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREF MOPS EAGR XO WFP
04ROME4915	AIREUROPE SUBSIDIARY OF BANKRUPT VOLARE GROUP [...] On November 19, Italian authorities shut down the insolvent Volare Group Airlines, including the regional budget carrier VolareWeb and the charter carrier AirEurope. On December 27, the National Civil Aviation Authority (ENAC) granted AirEurope a provisional license to commence international [...]	2004-12-29 17:25:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR IT AVIATION FAA
04ROME4922	AT ELEVENTH HOUR, ITALY APPROVES 2005 BUDGET [...] ON DECEMBER 29, PARLIAMENT PASSED THE 2005 BUDGET AFTER A LONG DEBATE TO RECONCILE THE COMPETING DEMANDS OF GOVERNING COALITION PARTNERS FOR PORK; PRIME MINISTER BERLUSCONI FOR A TAX CUT; AND FINANCE MINISTER SINISCALCO FOR A 2005 BUDGET DEFICIT BELOW THE STABILITY PACT THREE-PERCENT BUDGET [...]	2004-12-30 09:08:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN ELAB PGOV IT KPRP
04ROME540	TRILATERALISM: ITALY NOT ANNOYED, BUT, FOR NOW, [...] (C) Summary: The last thing Europe needs is a new troika. That's the consistent line taken by Italian government officials, in both public statements and conversations with Embassy Rome staff. The UK-French-German "trilateral" initiative (as described reftel) is divisive, diverts attention [...]	2004-02-13 10:16:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL FR GM UK IT ITALIAN POLITICS
04ROME548	ITALIANS SHADOWBOXING OVER UNSC REFORM [...] (C) FOR SOME AS-YET UNKNOWN REASON, THE BERLUSCONI GOVERNMENT IS ALARMED THAT UNSC REFORM EFFORTS MAY AGAIN BE GATHERING STEAM. OUTGOING MFA POLDIR GIANCARLO ARAGONA CHOSE TO OPEN A SESSION WITH VISITING U.S. G-8 POLDIR DAVIES ON PLANS FOR THE U.S. G-8 CHAIRMANSHIP (SEPTEL) WITH A LENGTHY RIF [...]	2004-02-13 14:36:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IT ITALIAN POLITICS
04ROME549	OPERATION BALKAN VICE III - ITALY ON BOARD WITH [...] (S) MFA BALKANS OFFICE DIRECTOR FERNANDO GENTILINI TOLD POLOFF ON FEBRUARY 12 THAT ITALY WAS "ON BOARD" WITH USG VIEW THAT IMPOSING TRAVEL ENTRY/TRAVEL BANS AND FREEZING ASSETS OF PIFWC'S AND THEIR MATERIAL SUPPORTERS ARE IMPORTANT TOOLS FOR ACHIEVING OUR SHARED OBJECTIVE TO STABILIZE THE REGIO [...]	2004-02-13 14:38:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL MOPS EFIN ETTC KAWC ZL IT ICTY EUN
04ROME561	ITALY: COLOMBIA NEEDS TO BE BETTER UNDERSTOOD [...] (C) SUMMARY. IN THE ITALIAN MFA'S VIEW, COLOMBIA'S PRESIDENT URIBE RETURNED TO BOGOTA WITH MIXED RESULTS FROM HIS EUROPEAN VISIT. HIS ADDRESS TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT WAS NOT WELL RECEIVED DUE TO CONTINUED EUROPEAN INSISTENCE ON BETTER PERFORMANCE ON HUMAN RIGHTS AND RULE OF LAW ISSUES. [...]	2004-02-13 16:24:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL CO IT HUMAN RIGHTS
04ROME563	ITALIAN BIOTECH POLICY [...] SUMMARY. Italian biotech policy and policy-making appears to growing less transparent and more confused. The NK603 dossier is only the latest example. The Embassy believes it is unlikely that a Feb 17 GOI interagency meeting of technical experts will develop a consensus view. In our e [...]	2004-02-13 16:41:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR TBIO ETRD EU IT ITALIAN POLITICS
04ROME568	ITALIAN VIEWS ON PROSPECTS FOR WTO TALKS IN 2004 [...] (SBU) Summary. Following the European Commission's lead, the GOI generally agrees with USTR Zoellick's initiative, as expressed in his January 11 letter to trade ministers, to ensure that 2004 not be a lost year for trade negotiations. However, Italy was disappointed that the letter made no m [...]	2004-02-17 08:24:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD IT WTO
04ROME59	SALE OF FAST BOATS TO IRAN [...] (S) ON JAN. 7 ECON COUNSELOR CALLED ON GABRIELE CHECCHIA, DIPLOMATIC ADVISOR TO MINISTER OF PRODUCTIVE ACTIVITIES (INDUSTRY) MARZANO, TO CONTINUE REFTEL A DISCUSSION OF FB DESIGN'S EXPORT TO IRAN OF FOUR FAST BOATS. ECON COUNSELOR SAID WE UNDERSTOOD TWO BOATS WERE ALREADY IN IRAN, AND THAT TH [...]	2004-01-08 18:10:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	PARM ETTC PREL EIND IR IT EXPORT CONTROLS
04ROME610	GOI PLANS TO PROVIDE LIMITED FUNDS FOR SIERRA [...] (C) SEBASTIANO FULCI, MFA WEST AFRICA OFFICE DIRECTOR INFORMED POST THAT ITALY PLANS TO PROVIDE APPROXIMATELY 150,000 EURO FROM ITS PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS BUDGET FOR THE SIERRA LEONE SPECIAL COURT. ITALY PROVIDED 180,000 EURO IN 2001 AND 260,000 EURO AT THE END OF 2003. 2. (C) FULCI EXPLAI [...]	2004-02-18 16:26:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM MARR PINS EAID SL IT KWCI UNSC

04ROME620	AD-HOC TASK FORCE ON ANIMAL FEED MEETING IN MAY [...] SUMMARY: THIS IS A BACKGROUND MESSAGE FOR THE SUBJECT MEETING THAT WILL TAKE PLACE MAY 17-19, 2004 IN COPENHAGEN. THIS TASK FORCE IS DRAFTING A CODEX CODE OF GOOD PRACTICE FOR ANIMAL FEEDING. THE LANGUAGE IN THE DRAFT CODEX DOCUMENT INCLUDES PARAGRAPHS THAT ARE NOT CONSISTENT WITH US APPROAC [...]	2004-02-19 10:39:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ETRD FAO
04ROME624	PM BERLUSCONI SAYS HE IS A CANDIDATE FOR THE [...] DURING A PRESS CONFERENCE FEBRUARY 17, ITALIAN PM BERLUSCONI SAID HE WOULD BE A CANDIDATE IN THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENTARY (EP) ELECTIONS IN JUNE, BUT THAT, WIN OR LOSE, HE WOULD REMAIN IN HIS POSITION AS PRIME MINISTER. ITALY HAS NO LAW THAT PREVENTS A MEMBER OF GOVERNMENT FROM RUNNING FOR [...]	2004-02-19 16:33:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	PINR PREL PGOV IT EUN ITALIAN POLITICS
04ROME638	ITALIAN SENATE APPROVES FUNDING FOR MILITARY [...] ON FEBRUARY 18, THE ITALIAN SENATE APPROVED THE GOVERNMENT DECREE EXTENDING UNTIL JUNE 30, 2004, FUNDING FOR ITALY'S PARTICIPATION IN ALL THE MILITARY MISSIONS IN WHICH IT IS CURRENTLY ENGAGED ABROAD, INCLUDING IRAQ. WHILE APPROVAL OF THE DECREE WAS ASSURED BY THE GOVERNING COALITION'S SOLID [...]	2004-02-20 14:43:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR PREL PGOV MOPS EAID MCAP IZ IT IRAQI FREEDOM
04ROME639	UNWRA EMERGENCY APPEAL -- ITALY STRAPPED FOR FUNDS [...] (C) POL M/C DELIVERED REFTEL DEMARCHE TO MFA OFFICE DIRECTOR FOR THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN LUCA FERRARI. FERRARI WAS NOT OPTIMISTIC THAT THE ITALIAN GOVERNMENT COULD COME UP WITH MORE FUNDS TO SUPPORT THE UNWRA, GIVEN THAT IT IS ALREADY STRAPPED TRYING TO SUPPORT NUMEROUS MISSIONS ABROAD, [...]	2004-02-20 14:43:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAL PREL IT UNRWA
04ROME647	EU-CHINA ARMS EMBARGO - ITALIANS PROCEED CAUTIOUSLY [...] (C) CHARGE, ACCOMPANIED BY POLOFFS MET WITH AND DELIVERED REF POINTS TO MFA U/S FOR ASIA AND HUMAN RIGHTS, MARGHERITA BONIVER. BONIVER AGREED THAT CHINESE PROGRESS ON HUMAN RIGHTS HAS BEEN LESS THAN SATISFACTORY AND THAT LIFTING THE EMBARGO AT THIS TIME WOULD SEND THE WRONG MESSAGE TO THE C [...]	2004-02-20 17:48:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PARM CH TW IT EUN HUMAN RIGHTS
04ROME659	IRAQI ASSETS: ASSISTANCE IN RECOVERING RAFIDAIN [...] (U) INFORMATION CONTAINED IN REF A WAS DELIVERED TO ROBERTO CICIANI, DIRECTOR OF THE OFFICE ON MONEY-LAUNDERING AND FINANCIAL CRIMES, FINANCE MINISTRY, ON FEBRUARY 20. HE INDICATED HE WOULD SHARE THIS INFORMATION WITH ITALY'S FINANCIAL INTELLIGENCE UNIT, THE UFFICIO ITALIANO DEI CAMBI (UIC). [...]	2004-02-23 13:31:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN PREL IZ IT UNSC
04ROME667	IMO BALLAST WATER TREATY: ITALIAN VIEWS [...] ITALY'S TRANSPORT MINISTRY DIRECTOR FOR MARITIME AFFAIRS, COSIMO CALIENDO, AND HIS DEPUTY, DR. GIORDANO, WHO REPRESENTED ITALY AT THE FEBRUARY 9 MEETING, TOLD SCIENCE COUNSELOR FEBRUARY 17 THAT ITALY HAD BEEN SATISFIED WITH THE RESULTS OF THE MEETING ON THE BALLAST WATER TREATY. THEY FELT THA [...]	2004-02-23 17:15:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EWWT PHSA SENV IT IMO
04ROME668	MFA U/S BONIVER ON AFGHANISTAN: PRT, RESPONSE TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a February 20 meeting with Charge, MFA U/S Boniver conveyed the GOI's irritation at the USG's last-minute request that Italy lead a PRT in Afghanistan somewhere other than Ghazni, despite months of planning prompted by a specific U.S. request. She said Italy hoped to mainta [...]	2004-02-24 05:46:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID MOPS AF IT EUN AFGHANISTAN
04ROME688	PSI: ITALY STUDYING SUA AMENDMENTS [...] No summary [...]	2004-02-24 17:49:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EWWT PREL PARM MNUC KNNP IT MARITIME
04ROME703	ITALY TO PROPOSE A NATO POLITICAL STRATEGY AT [...] (C) SUMMARY. In his speech to the NAC scheduled for March 3, Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini plans to present a comprehensive set of priorities for NATO, according to MFA contacts. Many of the points addressed in Frattini's speech, and the Italian concept paper it is based on, are li [...]	2004-02-25 14:36:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PARM IT NATO AFGHANISTAN
04ROME709	MISSION ITALY INPUT FOR 2004 SPECIAL 301 REVIEW [...] Summary: Mission Italy recommends that Italy remain on the 301 watch list. Overall frequency of copyright piracy has remained essentially stable since 2000, when Italy's copyright law was enacted. Nonetheless, total losses due to piracy are mounting, and Italy's piracy and counterfeiting ra [...]	2004-02-25 16:03:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	KIPR ECON ETRD IT
04ROME731	ITALY'S ONGOING CONCERNS REGARDING U.S. [...] Summary. GOI officials continue to raise concerns about the U.S. Bioterrorism Act (BTA),in particular the burden it places on Italian small- and medium-size exporters, whose products make up a significant portion of Italys food exports. Officials from three ministries emphasized to Embassy [...]	2004-02-26 15:27:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD EAGR ECON IT EUN EXPORT CONTROLS
04ROME740	NEW FORM OF BSE DISCOVERED IN ITALY [...] Summary. Researchers from several Italian institutions published, in the National Academy of Science, findings that they have identified a second type of mad cow brain- wasting disease, BASE. The U.S. press has given this story much more attention than the Italian press. Italian media report [...]	2004-02-27 06:57:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR EU IT
04ROME758	ITALY SUPPORTS UNDC "IMPROVEMENT SESSION" [...] (C) POLMILOFF MET WITH MFA DISARMAMENT AND NONPROLIFERATION OFFICE DIRECTOR FILIPPO FORMICA AND COUNSELOR PIERO SARDI ON FEBRUARY 28 TO DISCUSS REFTEL DEMARCHE (CONVEYED ON FEBRUARY 24). FORMICA OPENED BY EXPRESSING HIS FRUSTRATION THAT ITALY, WHICH CHAIRED THE UN DISARMAMENT COMMISSION LAS [...]	2004-02-27 14:25:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC PARM PREL IT UNDC CDG
04ROME77	ITALY POISED TO CONTRIBUTE PRT FOR GHAZNI [...] (C) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST. ITALY IS LIKELY TO STAND-UP A PROVINCIAL RECONSTRUCTION TEAM (PRT) TO COVER PARTS OF GHAZNI PROVINCE, ACCORDING TO MOD AND MFA CONTACTS, BUT WOULD PREFER TO DO SO UNDER NATO COMMAND. ITALY WOULD LIKE USG INPUT (AND WILL SEEK NATO/SHAPE INPUT AS WELL) ON THE LI [...]	2004-01-09 15:44:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS MASS AF IT AFGHANISTAN
04ROME770	ITALIAN HEALTH MINISTER POSITIVE ON PRESIDENT'S [...] IN RESPONSE TO REFTEL DEMARCHE TO SENIOR OFFICIALS OF THE ITALIAN MOH, MINISTER OF HEALTH GIROLAMO SIRCHIA WROTE TO EMBASSY SCIENCE COUNSELOR ON FEBRUARY 25, REGARDING THE PRESIDENT'S EMERGENCY PLAN FOR AIDS RELIEF. 2. BEGIN TEXT (INFORMAL TRANSLATION): I WAS PLEASED TO SEE THE RECE [...]	2004-02-27 17:57:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	KHIV EAID PREL IT
04ROME776	ITALIAN MINISTRY TRIES TO BLOCK FUTURE FAST BOAT [...] (S) SUMMARY: With FB Design's fast-boat contract with Iran effectively fulfilled, the Italian Ministry of Productive Activities has sent a stern letter to the company, warning it to do no further business with Iran without formal ministerial review. The legal force of the letter is unclear, [...]	2004-03-01 09:20:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	ETTC EIND PARM PREL IT IR EXPORT CONTROLS
04ROME792	IRAN/IAEA: ITALY (STILL) SEES THE GLASS AS HALF [...] (C) SUMMARY. ALTHOUGH ITALY HAS NOT YET FORMED A FINAL ASSESSMENT OF THE DG'S FEBRUARY 24 REPORT ON IRAN, THE HEAD OF THE MFA'S OFFICE FOR DISARMAMENT ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THERE ARE SOME "VERY DISTURBING" BREACHES. ITALY WILL CONSULT FURTHER WITH ITS EU PARTNERS BEFORE DRAWING ANY FINAL CONCLUSI [...]	2004-03-02 06:36:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PARM PREL MNUC IR IT IAEA
04ROME798	ITALY SEEKS CLARIFICATION ON PRT LOCATION [...] (C) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. See para 4. Italy has requested clarification of the USG's position regarding the location of an Italian Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT). Giovanni Brauzzi, MFA NATO Affairs Office Director, called Pol-Mil Officer on March 1 to say that comments made by State [...]	2004-03-02 11:44:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS AF IT NATO AFGHANISTAN
04ROME8	US MISSION/ROME 2003 SIGNIFICANT ACHIEVEMENTS - AS [...] (SBU) Kim: Thanks for the opportunity to lay out our past year's accomplishments. In short, it was an extraordinary year where our Mission, like many other IO posts, found ourselves in the middle of some of the most difficult challenges on our country's foreign policy agenda. In 2003 US Missio [...]	2004-01-02 14:27:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF
04ROME80	EXPANDING ITALY'S ROLE IN IRAQ: LETTER FROM FM [...] (U) SUMMARY: Following is a letter and non-paper from FM Frattini to Ambassador Sembler dated December 23, 2003. The letter emphasizes Italy's continued determination to assume a greater role in Iraqi reconstruction and tacitly refers to the GOI's prior request for a senior position in CPA (Re [...]	2004-01-09 18:48:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	KPAO ECON PREL EFIN IZ IT IRAQI FREEDOM
04ROME801	NINTH SESSION OF FAO COMMITTEE ON FISHERIES [...] SUMMARY: THE FAO COMMITTEE ON FISHERIES SUBCOMMITTEE ON FISH TRADE HELD ITS NINTH SESSION IN BREMEN, GERMANY, FEBRUARY 10-14, 2004. GREG SCHNEIDER (U.S.) WAS ELECTED TO CHAIR THE MEETING; RICHARD SISSON OF AUSTRALIA SERVED AS RAPPORTEUR. THE FAO SECRETARIAT PRESENTED A REPORT ON THE RECEN [...]	2004-03-02 13:50:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIS ETRD EAGR AORC FAO
04ROME815	FIRST REGULAR SESSION OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM [...] The WFP Board first regular session for 2004 took place against the backdrop of an unprecedented level of emergency needs. In 2003, WFP received U.S. dollars (USD) 2.6 billion in donor contributions in support of its operations worldwide (plus an additional USD 1.2 billion from the Oil- for-Fo [...]	2004-03-03 10:53:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EAGR AORC PREF KUNR KHIV WFP UNHCR
04ROME818	GEORGIAN FOOD PIPELINE CONCERNS [...] SUMMARY: WFP HAS PROVIDED A FUNDING PROPOSAL TO THE US MISSION ROME THAT PROPOSES AN EXCEPTIONAL FOOD DISTRIBUTION TO GEORGIAN HOUSEHOLDS SEVERELY AFFECTED BY RISING WHEAT FLOUR AND BREAD PRICES. WITH THE PRICE OF BREAD KEPT ARTIFICIALLY LOW AND THE SUPPLY OF SMUGGLED FLOUR DWINDLING, A SHORT [...]	2004-03-03 12:35:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EAGR PREF GG WFP
04ROME849	WFP BOARD APPROVES INDONESIA PROTRACTED RELIEF AND [...] The WFP Executive Board, at its first regular session (February 23-26),approved a Protracted Relief and Recovery Operation for Indonesia. The project 10069.1, entitled Assistance to Recovery and Nutritional Rehabilitation, is for three years (July 2004-June 2007),and covers 2.1 million benef [...]	2004-03-04 12:39:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EAGR AORC PREF KUNR WFP UNHCR
04ROME855	ITALY OPPOSES SANCTIONS FOR BURMA [...] (C) MFA SOUTHEAST ASIA OFFICE DIRECTOR, MARCO DELLA SETA, REPORTED THAT ITALY DOES NOT SUPPORT ECONOMIC SANCTIONS ON BURMA. SINCE BURMA HAS A TRADITIONAL ECONOMY AND IS NOT A MAJOR TRADING PARTNER WITH THE EU, THE GOI BELIEVES SANCTIONS WOULD HAVE LITTLE EFFECT ON THE GOVERNMENT AND INSTEAD, HU [...]	2004-03-04 15:18:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM BM IT EUN
04ROME860	AMBASSADOR BURNS REVIEWS NATO ISSUES WITH ITALIAN [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador Burns discussed the Istanbul Summit, the Greater Middle East (GME) Initiative, NATO prospects for Iraq and Afghanistan and a successor mission to SFOR during Feb. 26-27 meetings with Italian officials, journalists and academics in Rome. Italy is revising its plans to s [...]	2004-03-04 16:28:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS MARR PREL BK AF IZ IT NATO AFGHANISTAN IRAQI FREEDOM
04ROME868	WFP BOARD APPROVES ARMENIA PROTRACTED RELIEF AND [...] The WFP Executive Board, at its first regular session (February 23-26),approved a Protracted Relief and Recovery Operation for Armenia. The project 10053.1, entitled Relief and Recovery Assistance for Vulnerable Groups, is for two years (July 2004-June 2006),covering 110,000 beneficiaries pe [...]	2004-03-05 08:51:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EAGR AORC PREF KUNR WFP UNHCR
04ROME876	WFP BOARD APPROVES SUDAN (ERITREAN REFUGEES) [...] (SBU) The WFP Executive Board, at its first regular session (February 23-26),approved a Protracted Relief and Recovery Operation for Sudan (Eritrean refugees). The project 10122.1, entitled Food Assistance for Eritrean Refugees, is for two years (April 2004 - March 2006) with a total cost to [...]	2004-03-05 10:47:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID EAGR AORC PREF KUNR WFP UNHCR
04ROME879	WFP BOARD PPROVES NEPAL PROTRACTED RELIEF AND [...] The WFP Execuive Board, at its first regular session (Februar 23-26),approved a Protracted Relief and Recovery Operation for Nepal. The project 10058.3, entitle Food Assistance to Bhutanese refugees in Nepal,is for twelve months (July 2004-June 2005),and overs 99,600 beneficiaries. Total cos [...]	2004-03-05 12:40:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EAGR AORC PREF KUNR WFP UNHCR
04ROME887	BLAIR REASSURES BERLUSCONI: "NO DIRECTORATE" [...] (C) UK DEPUTY HEAD OF MISSION SCOTT WIGHTMAN TOLD POLMIN THAT WHILE REF REPORTS ON PM BERLUSCONI'S MARCH 4 LUNCH WITH PM BLAIR IN ROME ACCURATELY DESCRIBED AN AMICABLE ENCOUNTER, BERLUSCONI DID VENT HIS ANGER AT BLAIR OVER THE FRENCH-GERMAN-BRITISH "TRILATERAL" INITIATIVE TO STEER EU POLI [...]	2004-03-05 18:01:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IT UK EUN ITALIAN POLITICS
04ROME896	WFP BOARD APPROVES CAMBODIA PROTRACTED RELIEF AND [...] The WFP Executive Board, at its first regular session (February 23-26),approved a Protracted Relief and Recovery Operation for Cambodia. The project 10305.0, entitled Assisting People in Crisis, is for thirty months (July 2004- December 2006),and covers 2,491,710 beneficiaries. Total cost to [...]	2004-03-08 13:30:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EAGR AORC PREF KUNR WFP UNHCR
04ROME897	WFP BOARD APPROVES REPUBLIC OF CONGO PROTRACTED [...] The WFP Executive Board, at its first regular session (February 23-26),approved a Protracted Relief and Recovery Operation for the Republic of the Congo (ROC). The project 10312.0, entitled Assistance to Populations Affected by Conflicts, is for two years (July 2004 - June 2006) with a total [...]	2004-03-08 13:31:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EAGR AORC PREF KUNR WFP UNHCR
04ROME902	MUBARAK IN ITALY: GREATER MIDDLE EAST INITIATIVE [...] (C) Summary: The Italian PM and President urged Mubarak to take a more open stance towards the Greater Middle East Initiative, noting Italy's support and the likely endorsement of the EU and NATO for the concept. Mubarak was careful not to rule out Arab participation in the initiative, but arg [...]	2004-03-08 14:29:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	EG IT PREL XE ITALIAN POLITICS
04ROME927	ITALY/AFGHANISTAN: CONTRIBUTIONS TO ISAF EXPANSION [...] (C) SUMMARY: Italy remains fully on board with ISAF expansion. Although no formal policy decision has yet been made, the GOI (reportedly working closely with SHAPE) is focused on Herat, with the only apparent question being whether Italy will lead only a PRT, or that and a Forward Support [...]	2004-03-09 16:09:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR AF IT NATO AFGHANISTAN IRAQI FREEDOM
04ROME936	ITALIAN LOWER HOUSE SET TO APPROVE FUNDING FOR [...] No summary [...]	2004-03-10 14:10:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MARR PREL PGOV MOPS EAID MCAP IZ IT AFGHANISTAN IRAQI FREEDOM
04ROME952	WFP BOARD APPROVES BENIN DEVELOPMENT PROJECT VALUED [...] The WFP Executive Board, at its first regular session (February 23-26),approved Benin's development project 10308.0 entitled Promotion of Formal and Non-Formal Education of Children and Youth. The project is for five years (July 2004-June 2009),with a total cost to WFP of USD 16.5 million, a [...]	2004-03-11 12:09:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EAGR AORC PREF KUNR WFP UNHCR
04ROME955	WFP BOARD APPROVES THE GAMBIA DEVELOPMENT PROJECT [...] The WFP Executive Board, at its first regular session (February 23-26),approved The Gambia development project 10311.0 entitled Support to Basic Education in Rural Vulnerable Regions. The project is for three years, with a total cost to WFP of USD 6.92 million. Beneficiaries are estimated at [...]	2004-03-11 14:25:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EAGR AORC PREF KUNR WFP UNHCR
04ROME960	ITALIAN RESPONSE: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON [...] (SBU) POST DELIVERED REF A POINTS TO ITALY'S SPECIAL ENVOY FOR AFGHANISTAN, AMB. ENRICO DE MAIO, AND ALSO DISCUSSED THEM WITH ASIAN DEVELOPMENT OFFICE DIRECTOR, COUNS. ALESSANDRO GAUDIANO. WE ALSO DELIVERED THE POINTS TO THE OFFICE OF MFA UNDER SECRETARY FOR ASIA MARGHERITA BONIVER. ITALY S [...]	2004-03-11 15:31:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID PGOV AF IT NATO AFGHANISTAN
04ROME969	ITALY: FUNDS FOR MILITARY MISSIONS ABROAD APPROVED [...] AS EXPECTED, THE ITALIAN CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES MARCH 10 APPROVED EXTENDING UNTIL JUNE 30, 2004, FUNDING FOR ITALY'S PARTICIPATION IN ALL ITS MILITARY MISSIONS ABROAD, INCLUDING IRAQ (REF. B). THE CHAMBER DID NOT MAKE ANY AMENDMENTS TO THE TEXT THAT WAS APPROVED BY THE SENATE ON FEBRUARY 18 (RE [...]	2004-03-11 16:28:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR PREL PGOV MOPS EAID MCAP IZ IT IRAQI FREEDOM
04ROME973	IRAQ: WFP WARNS OF POSSIBLE BREAKS IN FOOD PIPELINE [...] (SBU) Summary: During February 26 meetings in Rome with the Coordinator for Iraq Reconstruction, Ambassador Robin L. Raphel, officials of the World Food Program (WFP) warned that difficulties in the management and coordination of food contracts and deliveries with authorities in Baghdad, if [...]	2004-03-12 07:47:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID EAGR AORC IZ WFP IRAQI FREEDOM
04ROME978	ITALY UPGRADES ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING MEASURES AND [...] The GOI approved February 13 a legislative decree implementing the EU's Anti-Money Laundering Directive (2001/97/CE). The legislative decree requires notaries, lawyers, auditors, certified public accountants, accountants, and labor advisers to report suspicious financial activity to the Uffi [...]	2004-03-12 09:39:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN ETRD IT ITALIAN POLITICS
04ROME987	CHR-60: ITALY STRONGLY SUPPORTS U.S. OBJECTIVES [...] (SBU) ITALY STRONGLY SUPPORTS AND SHARES BROADLY U.S, OBJECTIVES FOR CHR-60, MFA HUMAN RIGHTS DIRECTOR GIUSEPPE CALVETTA REITERATED TO US MARCH 11. THE U.S. DEL TO THIS YEAR'S SESSION OF THE COMMISSION WOULD SEE STRONG AGREEMENT AND SUPPORT FROM ITS ITALIAN COUNTERPART, HE PREDICTED. 2 [...]	2004-03-12 12:53:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PHUM AORC IT UNCHR HUMAN RIGHTS
04ROME994	ACTIVITY REPORT SUBMITTED BY THE POLITICAL, POL-MIL AND LABOR SECTIONS FOR THE PERIOD OF MARCH 12, 2004 [...] No summary [...]	2004-03-12 16:14:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	AMGT IT
05ROME1005	ITALY-CHINA: FINI - LI MEETING DOOMED AFTER EU [...] (C) Summary. The March 18 meeting of Foreign Ministers Fini and Li was a disappointment for both sides, according to the Italian MFA. Li made no headway in pushing for a lifting of the EU arms embargo, getting instead public and private lectures from Fini on human rights. So, he gave nothin [...]	2005-03-23 16:35:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETTC CM IT EUN EXPORT CONTROLS
05ROME1012	SOMALIA - ITALY REQUESTS USG VIEWS ON SITUATION; [...] (U) This cable includes a request for guidance. See paragraph 6. 2. (C) Summary. According to the MFA, U.S. and international concerns regarding frontline state participation in IGASOM (ref A) had been heeded by IGAD. An unofficial draft report (paragraph 7) on the March 22 core group [...]	2005-03-24 12:31:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SO IT
05ROME1018	HOLOCAUST EDUCATION: ITALY PASSES ITC GAVEL TO [...] On March 15, Italy formally passed the chairmanship of the International Task Force for Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and Research (ITF) to Poland. Attendees at the ceremony included the Polish Ambassador, representatives of the Italian Jewish communities in Rome and Milan, [...]	2005-03-24 13:18:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PHUM PO IT
05ROME1021	IRAQ: ITALIAN CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION REQUESTS - [...] (S) Summary: Ref A requests that Embassy Rome, Department and OSD discuss whether the Italian criminal investigation team looking into the March 4 shooting by US forces of Italian intelligence officer Nicola Calipari should be supported based on the terms of reference (Ref D) or other arrangem [...]	2005-03-24 15:44:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	PREL MOPS KJUS IT IZ IRAQI FREEDOM
05ROME1023	SYRIA/LEBANON: ITALY POSTPONES FM SHARA'A'S VISIT [...] (C) Summary. Italy has decided to postpone the April 6 visit of Syrian FM Shara'a. The MFA delivered the message to Syria's Ambassador in Rome on March 24, on instructions from FM Fini. End summary. 2. (C) MFA Director General for the Mediterranean and Middle East, Riccardo Sessa, phoned [...]	2005-03-24 16:48:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SY LE IT EUN
05ROME1024	IRAQ: US/ITALY JOINT INVESTIGATION - LOOKING AHEAD [...] (S) SUMMARY: We have gotten past Italian nervousness (Ref A) about participating jointly in the full range of Gen. Vangjel's investigation into the March 4 death of Nicola Calipari. PM Berlusconi's office, which is tightly managing the Italian public stance on this issue, remains concerned ab [...]	2005-03-25 06:17:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	IT IZ KJUS MOPS PREL IRAQI FREEDOM
05ROME1027	ITALIAN NGO PROPOSES NEW COLLABORATION TO REALIZE [...] This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: --------------------------- 2. On March 4, Embassy Economic and Science officers met with an Italian NGO planning a meeting in Venice on May 26- 27, 2005 to explore possible U.S.-Italian-EU-Russian cooperat [...]	2005-03-25 07:59:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	TSPA KSCA IT
05ROME1043	ITALIAN CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES APPROVES BILL TO [...] On March 4, the Chamber of Deputies approved, and sent to the Senate for consideration, the reform of Italy's fragmented financial markets oversight system. The government promised the reform one year ago in the wake of the Parmalat scandal. The current bill addresses conflict of interest b [...]	2005-03-29 08:52:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN ELAB PGOV IT KPRP
05ROME1058	ITALY'S REGIONAL ELECTIONS: THE LAUNCH OF THE [...] (C) Italians will vote April 3-4 to elect new governments in 14 of Italy's 20 regions. Most polls suggest that PM Berlusconi's center-right coalition will lose in at least two of these regions. These elections are not direct predictors for next spring's national elections for Parliament a [...]	2005-03-29 15:46:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IT ITALIAN POLITICS
05ROME1123	INDEPENDENT EXTERNAL EVALUATION OF FAO: STEADY [...] (U) Summary: In its February and March meetings, the Intersessional Working Group (ISWG) on the Independent External Evaluation (IEE) of FAO took significant steps to move the IEE process forward: (1) designation of a regionally balanced Bureau with a U.S. vice chair, (2) agreement on crite [...]	2005-04-01 15:54:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC EAGR EAID KUNR FAO
05ROME1125	ITALY: CENTER-LEFT'S PRODI NOT PREDICTING 2006 [...] (C) At a farewell dinner hosted by the Ambassador, center-left leader Romano Prodi predicted his coalition would take at least three additional regions in April 3-4 regional voting. He surprised the Ambassador by not predicting his own victory in next year's national balloting. Despite eff [...]	2005-04-01 17:06:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON IT EUN MEPP ITALIAN POLITICS ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS
05ROME1127	EU COMMISSIONER FRATTINI PREDICTS BIG CABINET [...] (C/NOFORN) During Ambassador Sembler's April 1 farewell courtesy call, EU Commissioner for Justice and Home Affairs (and former Italian FM) Franco Frattini (strictly protect) predicted that PM Berlusconi's program of tax cuts and infrastructure improvements would win his center-right coalition [...]	2005-04-04 07:42:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV IT EUN ITALIAN POLITICS ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS
05ROME1142	FAO'S AVIAN INFLUENZA ACTIVITIES [...] Summary. USUN Rome has been holding informal meetings with technical experts of the United Nations (UN) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to ascertain FAO's activities to contain Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI). Since January 2004 when the outbreaks first occurred, FAO and its [...]	2005-04-05 08:17:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EAGR PREF SENV XC UN FAO
05ROME1145	CHR 61: ITALY ON CUBA RESOLUTION [...] No summary [...]	2005-04-05 10:00:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM IT UNHCR EUN HUMAN RIGHTS
05ROME1150	ITALY'S TRADE AND INVESTMENT RELATIONS WITH CHINA: [...] There are divided views in Italy on trade and investment in China and whether China is a threat or an opportunity. Although Italian exports to China have increased recently, they pale compared to the sharp increase of Chinese imports into Italy. Italy's direct investment in China remains quit [...]	2005-04-05 12:29:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECON ELAB IT CH EXPORT CONTROLS
05ROME117	MTAG:ITALIAN FIRMS COOPERATING WITH CHINESE [...] No summary [...]	2005-01-13 16:32:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	ETTC IT PARM PREL CH MTCRE
05ROME1174	DRIFTNETS IN THE MEDITERRANEAN: WORLD [...] (U) This is an action request: please see paragraphs 8 and 9. 2. (SBU) Embassy recently received a letter from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Mediterranean Programme Office in Rome that alleged illegal driftnet activity by Morocco, Algeria, France, Italy and Turkey in the Mediterranean hi [...]	2005-04-06 19:14:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIS SENV KSCA ETRD AG FR IT MO TU ICCAT
05ROME1222	NATO-AFGHANISTAN:ITALY WILL CONSIDER DROPPING [...] (C) On April 12, PolMilOff conveyed Reftel points requesting that Italy lift its ISAF caveat to MFA NATO Office Director Giovanni Brauzzi and to MOD Diplomatic Advisor Achille Amerio. Brauzzi, who has the lead on NATO issues, immediately asked the Italian military Joint Operational Command (C [...]	2005-04-12 13:14:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR AF IT NATO AFGHANISTAN
05ROME1263	AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL CALL ON MAYOR OF ROME [...] (SBU) Summary. In his farewell call on Walter Veltroni, Mayor of Rome, the Ambassador lauded the city's handling of the Pope's funeral and its support for the Embassy over the years. On the political front, Veltroni, a member of the Democrats of the Left (DS) and potential center-left candida [...]	2005-04-14 11:03:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV IT MGMT ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS
05ROME1264	A REPORT BY USUN ROME AMBASSADOR TONY HALL [...] (U) SUMMARY: Ambassador Tony Hall, U.S. Mission to the UN Agencies in Rome, traveled to Ethiopia and Uganda from March 16 through 23, 2005, to investigate humanitarian issues in both countries. In Ethiopia Ambassador Hall visited USAID-funded projects for HIV/AIDS orphans and mothers, observ [...]	2005-04-14 11:03:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID SENV PGOV KPAO EAGR ET UG UN
05ROME1270	CALIPARI: ITALY PROPOSES SPLITTING JOINT REPORT FROM [...] (S) SUMMARY: Italian government officials tell us they will refuse signature or endorsement as a "joint report" of any MNF-I AR 15-6 inves contains the unqualified conclusion that personal responsibility for th cannot be assigned and U.S. forces did not violate their ROE. They say a political [...]	2005-04-14 15:17:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	PREL MOPS IT IZ IRAQI FREEDOM
05ROME1291	ITALY: UDC WITHDRAWS ITS MINISTERS FROM [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The centrist Union of Christian Democrats of the Center (UDC) announced on April 15 that it would withdraw its ministers from the Berlusconi Government. UDC leader Marco Follini assured the Government that his party would continue to support the majority from outside the coal [...]	2005-04-15 14:15:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IT ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS ITALIAN POLITICS
05ROME1365	MEETING OF UNIDROIT SUB-FINANCE COMMITTEE [...] Summary: the sub-Finance Committee of the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) met on April 11 to consider the first estimates for the organization's 2006 budget. Although a majority of participants favorably viewed the draft budget proposal of 2.03 million (a [...]	2005-04-21 11:40:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC ABUD UNIDROIT
05ROME1374	ITALY TO PROVIDE FIVE MILLION EURO TO UN FOR [...] No summary [...]	2005-04-21 15:13:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL EAID AF IT UNSC AFGHANISTAN
05ROME1385	ITALIAN RESPONSE TO CRITICISM ON REFUGEE TREATMENT [...] (C) Summary. In the face of criticism by UNHCR, the European Parliament and center-left politicians, the Italian Government continues to defend its policy of quickly returning illegal immigrants to Libya. Ministry of Interior officials insist the immigrants are being properly processed for [...]	2005-04-22 14:14:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF PHUM PREL SMIG IT UNHCR
05ROME1389	ITALY: ARE BERLUSCONI'S TROUBLES MORE SERIOUS [...] (S) Italian Senate President Pera alleged that President Ciampi, together with the center-left and Chamber President Casini, was plotting a "constitutional coup d'etat" against Berlusconi, attempting to force June elections. In a separate, earlier meeting, however, Casini accused PM Berlusc [...]	2005-04-22 15:45:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	PGOV PREL IZ IT ITALIAN POLITICS
05ROME1390	ITALIAN VIEWS ON APRIL 25 EU FOREIGN MINISTERS [...] (C) MFA EU CFSP Director Luigi Mattiolo told Poloff that during the April 25 EU GAERC, FMs would discuss preparations for the June US-EU conference on Iraq. Italy wants to be sure Baghdad authorities views are also incorporated into the preparation phase of the conference. ---- MEPP ---- [...]	2005-04-22 16:15:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL IZ LE ZI CG SU IT EUN
05ROME1391	ITALY: POTENTIAL SALE TO SYRIA OF AIR DEFENSE [...] (C) Prime Minister Berlusconi's diplomatic adviser, Giovanni Castellaneta, invited DCM and POL MC to his office April 22 to discuss Italian plans to sell an "Air Defense Integrated System" (ADIS) to Syria. Castellaneta said that the Italian firm Finmecannica (a defense industry conglomerate, 3 [...]	2005-04-22 16:31:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	IS IT MASS SY ETTC EXPORT CONTROLS
05ROME1392	IRAQ/ITALY: CALIPARI INVESTIGATION AND THE VIEW [...] (S) Summary: Based on what senior GOI officials have told us in the past 48 hours, we believe there is little chance that we can achieve a joint report in Baghdad on the March 4 Calipari shooting. We should prepare a public affairs strategy for that outcome now. The GOI's national security [...]	2005-04-22 16:57:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	PREL MOPS KJUS IT IZ IRAQI FREEDOM
05ROME1409	ITALY: BERLUSCONI III SWORN IN; LIKELY TO BE [...] (U) SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED -- NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) A new Berlusconi Cabinet was sworn in by President of the Republic Ciampi on April 23. If confirmed as expected by both chambers of Parliament, this will be Berlusconi's third governmen [...]	2005-04-26 15:01:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR IT ITALIAN POLITICS
05ROME1442	ITALY: BERLUSCONI ANNOUNCES MAY 2006 ELECTIONS, [...] PM Berlusconi told journalists April 26 that Italy's next national elections would be held in May 2006. Berlusconi said he had already discussed the date with President Ciampi. In fact, if the current Parliament completes its full term, Italy in 2006 will face an unprecedented situation, wit [...]	2005-04-28 14:29:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PINR IT ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS
05ROME1446	ITALY: NEW BERLUSCONI GOVERNMENT CONFIRMED [...] (U) SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED; NOT FOR INTERNET DISTRIBUTION. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The new Italian Government led by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi received its final confidence vote from the Senate on April 28. The Chamber of Deputies gave the new Government its confidence on April 2 [...]	2005-04-28 16:06:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR IT ITALIAN POLITICS
05ROME1450	SYRIA: ITALY AGREES ON NEED TO MAINTAIN PRESSURE [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 4. 2. (C) Summary. A mid-level Italian MFA official shares our view that we need to continue to maintain pressure on Syria on full compliance with UNSCR 1559. At the same time, Italy still prefers engagement and the MFA is contemplating [...]	2005-04-28 16:58:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SY LE IT EUN
05ROME1451	PESTICIDE OVERSTOCKS: FAO LETTER TO LOCUST [...] Summary. The United Nations (UN) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) alerted USUN Rome to a potential problem with pesticides overstocks in Sahelian and North African countries currently embattling desert locusts, via a letter (see below) to affected countries and the donor community to en [...]	2005-04-29 06:43:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EAGR SENV XI XY UN FAO
05ROME1452	19TH SESSION OF THE FAO COMMITTEE ON [...] Summary. The Nineteenth Session of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Committee on Agriculture (COAG) met in Rome April 13-16, 2005. The Committee reviewed and provided recommendations on FAO's program of work in the food and agriculture sector. Members supported the main progr [...]	2005-04-29 09:16:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR AORC ETRD EAID SENV FAO
05ROME1456	IRAQ: ITALIAN SUPPORT FOR THE TRANSITIONAL [...] (U) PolOff delivered reftel points to MFA Deputy Iraq Task Force Director Damiano Francovigh. The MFA had already issued a statement on the formation of the Iraq Transitional Government. An informal translation of the statement is provided below. 2. (U) Begin text. The expected confidenc [...]	2005-04-29 11:07:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL MARR MOPS IZ IT UNSC IRAQI FREEDOM
05ROME1465	REQUEST FOR PRESIDENTIAL ADVOCACY ON GE PROPULSION OFFER FOR FRENCH-ITALIAN SHIP PROJECT [...] (C) Action Request: Embassy Rome seconds Embassy Paris' recommendation (reftel) that it would be helpful to have President Bush send an advocacy letter to Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, in addition to French President Jacques Chirac, in support of General Electric's bid to provide t [...]	2005-04-29 15:00:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD BEXP PREL IT FR
05ROME1470	(S) SHIELD S33A-04: UPDATE ON POSSIBLE IRANIAN [...] No summary [...]	2005-04-29 15:54:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	PARM PREL ETTC IT EXPORT CONTROLS
05ROME1484	IRAQ: ITALIANS LEND SUPPORT TO AMB JONES' [...] (C) Summary. Senior diplomatic officials told Senior Advisor and Coordinator for Iraq Policy Ambassador Richard Jones during his April 22 visit to Rome that Italy intends to continue its engagement in stabilization efforts in Iraq. They were optimistic that the current political stalemate, th [...]	2005-05-02 11:48:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MARR MOPS IZ IT UNSC IRAQI FREEDOM
05ROME1506	IRAQ/ITALY: BERLUSCONI TRYING TO PUT CALIPARI [...] (S) Summary and Recommendation: Just prior to the May 2 release of the Italian report on the March 4 killing of intelligence officer Nicola Calipari at a U.S. checkpoint in Baghdad, Ambassador, DCM and PolMilCouns were called to PM Berlusconi's office to receive an advance copy of the report and to [...]	2005-05-03 15:18:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	PREL MOPS KJUS IT IZ IRAQI FREEDOM
05ROME1509	OHR CANDIDATE MIRACHIAN - A GOOD CHOICE FOR [...] (C) As stated ref A, Embassy Rome considers Italian diplomat Laura Mirachian a good choice to take over as HiRep when Paddy Ashdown steps down next year. Our experience with her goes back to her time as DAS equivalent for Balkans issues in the run-up to and during the military action in Kosov [...]	2005-05-03 16:14:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL BO IT
05ROME1521	FAO FORESTRY COMMITTEE 2005 AND MINISTERIAL [...] Summary. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Ministerial Meeting on Forests, which immediately preceded the Committee on Forestry, resulted in a ministerial statement calling on FAO to maintain its leadership role in the Collaborative Partnership on Forests and to report to the Un [...]	2005-05-04 10:27:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV EAGR AORC EAID FAO
05ROME1529	ITALIAN VIEWS ON "POST-STANDARDS" KOSOVO; SUPPORT [...] (C) EUR DAS Kathy Stephens, in town on April 29 for the Aspen Institute's rollout of the International Commission on the Balkans report on "The Balkans in Europe's Future" (copy emailed to EUR/SCE),discussed briefly with MFA EUR DG Giovanni Caracciolo and Deputy PolDir Claudio Bisognero Itali [...]	2005-05-04 15:43:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IT SR EUN OSCE KFOR
05ROME1572	UN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION: PREVENTING AN [...] No summary [...]	2005-05-06 14:32:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM UNCHR UNGA HUMAN RIGHTS
05ROME1588	Italian Economic Policy and Challenges Under [...] (SBU) By reluctantly agreeing to resign and form a new Government, PM Berlusconi bought himself and the governing coalition another year to convince Italian voters to re- elect them in 2006. Growing evidence indicates that a weak economy is a leading contributor to public dissatisfaction with [...]	2005-05-09 14:41:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ELAB PGOV IT EUN KPRP ITALIAN POLITICS
05ROME1591	IRANIAN FAST BOATS [...] (S) Summary. In response to Ref. A demarche, Italy's Export Control Coordinator Carol Tripepi assured us that the GOI will continue to block the export of FB Design's last fast boat under its contract with Iran, and that he was unaware of any ongoing business between the company and Iranian e [...]	2005-05-09 14:49:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	ETTC PARM IT IR EXPORT CONTROLS
05ROME1593	IRAQ/ITALY: BERLUSCONI IN PARLIAMENT ON CALIPARI- [...] (S) Summary and Recommendation: On May 5-6, PM Berlusconi spoke to both houses of Parliament about the joint investigation and separate reports of the March 4 shooting of Italian Intelligence officer Nicola Calipari by US forces near Baghdad. While Berlusconi defended the Italian report and took is [...]	2005-05-09 15:53:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	PREL MOPS KJUS IT IZ IRAQI FREEDOM
05ROME1623	ITALY,S PASSIVE APPROACH TO TRADE POLICY [...] (C) Summary. Italy defers to other EU member states, especially France and Germany, in setting the direction of EU trade policy, despite the size of the Italian economy and the importance of trade to the country's prosperity. Italian trade officials generally support U.S. views on many issues, [...]	2005-05-11 09:59:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD EAGR EAIR PREL IT EUN
05ROME1633	GDPR: ITALIAN BASING FOR SOF IN ITALIAN PRESS - [...] (S) Summary. In early May, Italian papers picked up the March Stars and Stripes story citing SACEUR General Jones' comment that US European Special Forces (SOF) would be consolidated in Sigonella, Italy or in Rota, Spain. The press coverage led opposition Parliamentarians to demand an explana [...]	2005-05-11 15:14:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	PREL MOPS MARR IT NATO
05ROME1635	IRAQ/ITALY:MORE ITALIAN GOVERNMENT STATEMENTS ON [...] (C) Summary. Following Berlusconi's recent statements on future troop withdrawals in Iraq (Ref A),both DefMin Martino and FM Fini have made statements in the past week suggesting that Italy will begin a major drawdown after the end of the year. Post views these statements, in the run-up to na [...]	2005-05-12 07:51:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS PGOV IZ IT IRAQI FREEDOM
05ROME1660	ITALY TO COORDINATE AT EU LEVEL INTERNATIONAL [...] The Government of Italy has transmitted to the Embassy a diplomatic note dated May 5 in response to Embassy Rome's diplomatic note (ref A) requesting the GOI position on the IMO long-range information and tracking of ships proposal (ref B). Italy will coordinate its position with other EU Me [...]	2005-05-13 13:08:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EWWT KTIA PHSA IT IMO MARITIME
05ROME1666	GOI WANTS LINATE DISPUTE RESOLVED [...] During a meeting with EcMin and Econoff May 6, MFA Office Director for North American Affairs Francesco Tafuri underscored the GOI desire to see a "final resolution" of the Linate codeshare dispute. Tafuri was reacting to the April 28 U.S. Department of Transportation extension of the review [...]	2005-05-13 17:07:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR KTIA IT AVIATION
05ROME1671	ITALY ON DEBT RELIEF FOR POOR COUNTRIES [...] (SBU) Summary. Italian Finance Ministry officials told Embassy Officers that Italy is carefully weighing the various proposals by G8 members and the International Monetary Fund (IMF)/World Bank for debt relief for the poorest countries. Finance Ministry officials hope that a consensus G8 propo [...]	2005-05-16 10:26:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON EFIN IT
05ROME1685	REQUEST FOR AMBASSADOR HALL TO MEET WITH FAO DG [...] The Ambassador, on May 16, delivered to FAO Director General Jacques Diouf ref A talking points regarding US support for the candidacy for Eric Bost for FAO's Deputy Director General position. The Ambassador told Diouf that Bost was a superb candidate with excellent credentials. He noted that [...]	2005-05-16 15:33:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC EAGR FAO
05ROME1722	UK VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTION TO UNIDROIT [...] Mission received the following letter on May 17 from UNIDROIT Secretary General Herbert Kronke and Finance Committee Chairman Luis Cuesta (Spain). The letter was addressed to all members of the UNIDROIT Finance Sub- Committee: Begin Text: We write to you with respect to an issue discussed [...]	2005-05-19 07:42:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC ABUD UNIDROIT
05ROME1732	ITALY ON SYRIA AND LEBANON [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 3. 2. (C) Pol MC spoke with Luca Ferrari, MFA Office Director for the Middle East, on May 19 regarding the upcoming PrepCom for the US-EU conference on Iraq. Ferrari said that FM Shara'a had asked Italy whether he could visit Rome May 24 [...]	2005-05-19 14:36:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SY LE IZ IT EUN

05ROME1734	ITALIAN VIEWS ON MAY 23 GAERC AGENDA [...] (C) MFA Director for EU CFSP told Poloff that the GAERC would begin with a Monday morning EU defense ministers meeting to discuss an ESDP progress report. He described the draft he had seen as "non-controversial," with a dozen or so chapters devoted to assessments of rapid response capabilit [...]	2005-05-19 15:04:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	CH PREL MARR MOPS IT EUN
05ROME1735	FAO FINANCE COMMITTEE: PROGRAM OF WORK AND [...] With the biennial conference scheduled for the end of 2005, one of the Finance Committee's more important discussions was over the program of work and budget for 2006/7. The Secretariat, as usual, had prepared a "Summary Programme of Work and Budget" (SPWB) document, which was intended to pr [...]	2005-05-19 15:24:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC EAGR EAID FAO WFP
05ROME1742	FAO FINANCE COMMITTEE: FAO ACTIVITIES IN IRAQ [...] Summary: At a May 11, 2005, FAO Finance Committee meeting of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO),Henri Carsalade, Assistant Director General for Technical Cooperation, provided an overview of current FAO activities in Iraq. US Deputy Permrep, coordinating with Kuwait as Near East G [...]	2005-05-20 09:20:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC EAID EAGR SENV XI XY UN FAO IRAQI FREEDOM
05ROME1765	FAO FINANCE COMMITTEE: WEAK FINANCES; SHARP [...] Summary. In addition to issues discussed Refs A- C, FAO's May 9-13 Finance Committee considered the organization's weak financial health (the organization expects to have to borrow $40 million as early as August),strongly criticized the Secretariat's tepid response to the decentralization e [...]	2005-05-23 15:26:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC EAGR EAID FAO WFP
05ROME1766	(C) REQUEST FOR SECDEF ADVOCACY ON GE PROPULSION OFFER FOR FRENCH-ITALIAN SHIP PROJECT [...] (C) Action Request: Embassy Rome agrees with Embassy Paris (ref A) that letters that we delivered from Secretaries Rice and Gutierrez to their Italian counterparts were helpful indications of high-level USG interest in General Electric's bid to provide gas tubines for the joint French-Italian [...]	2005-05-23 15:54:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	BEXP ETRD PREL IT
05ROME178	AFGHANISTAN: ITALY ON PRT/FSB RECCE TRIP - [...] No summary [...]	2005-01-19 15:59:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS MARR PREL AF IT AFGHANISTAN
05ROME1785	ITALY: CENTER RIGHT NEEDS DRASTIC CHANGES TO WIN, [...] (C) Vice Minister of Productive Activities Adolfo Urso told the Ambassador May 16 that the center-right coalition seems destined for defeat in the next national elections unless it takes drastic measures soon. Urso believes a larger, more unified center-right party needs to be created, with [...]	2005-05-25 12:36:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON IT ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS
05ROME1787	MTAG 05-96: EXPORT OF CLIMATIC CHAMBER TO IRAN [...] No summary [...]	2005-05-25 13:31:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	PARM PREL ETTC IT IR EXPORT CONTROLS
05ROME1807	Corrected Copy: Italy Rethinking Nuclear [...] A surprisingly vigorous debate has emerged in Italy on renewing nuclear power generation, following comments by Prime Minister Berlusconi and others. While Italy's geography limits sites for nuclear plant construction, Embassy energy sector contacts maintain that Italy must reconsider its 198 [...]	2005-05-26 18:09:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ENRG IT ITALIAN POLITICS
05ROME1821	RESOURCES AND THE FAO: ACHIEVING RESULTS AND [...] Ten years of zero nominal growth budgets at FAO have resulted in a greatly downsized organization. FAO is more efficient and modernized in many respects. But there is no evidence of an increased prioritization or significant improvement in the organization's effectiveness. Simply put, FAO [...]	2005-05-27 16:30:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC EAGR EAID FAO WFP
05ROME1824	ITALY/AFGHANISTAN: KIDNAPPING CHILLS ASSISTANCE [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a May 23 meeting, Italy's Special Envoy for Afghanistan, Minister Anna Della Croce, worried that the kidnapping of the Italian CARE International worker might chill humanitarian efforts in Afghanistan. Della Croce and Italy's G8 Sous-Sherpa told us Italy fully supports the [...]	2005-05-27 16:47:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS EAID MARR AF IT NATO AFGHANISTAN
05ROME1828	EC PROPOSAL TO WTO ON TRIPS AND PUBLIC HEALTH [...] (SBU) As instructed reftel, we delivered reftel points to Ferdinando Nelli Feroci, Director General for EU Integration at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Massimo Leggeri, Deputy Director General for Economic and Financial Multilateral Cooperation; and Fabrizio Piaggesi, MFA Delegate for Intel [...]	2005-05-27 19:04:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD IT KIPR
05ROME1852	TRIPS AND PUBLIC HEALTH, FURTHER ITALY RESPONSE [...] No summary [...]	2005-05-31 18:14:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ETRD KIPR IT
05ROME1859	UNDER SECRETARY BURNS' MAY 13 DISCUSSIONS IN ROME [...] (C) Summary. Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Burns exchanged views with senior Italian Foreign Ministry officials on UN Security Council reform, the Balkans, Afghanistan, Syria/Lebanon, Darfur, and Iran during his May 13 stopover in Rome. On most issues, Italian positions were [...]	2005-06-01 09:45:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	PREL MOPS SY LE AF SR IT EUN BI
05ROME1870	BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3 - 05-962303: ALENIA SPAZIO [...] This is a response to reftel A, and conveys pre-license information on application number 05-962303, on the export of fuses from AEM Inc. to Alenia Spazio for use in the Cosmo-SkyMed satellite program. 2. Econoffs met May 26 with Cosmo-SkyMed executives: Sandro Fagioli, VP and General Man [...]	2005-06-01 16:51:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETTC TSPA IT KOMC BLUE LANTERN
05ROME1873	UN FUND FOR DEMOCRACY: ITALY WILL SIGN ON [...] No summary [...]	2005-06-01 17:44:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM IT
05ROME1883	IRAQ: ITALIAN MARSH RESTORATION TO ENTER [...] (SBU) Summary: The Italian Ministry of Environment (MOE) plans to spend approximately euro 12 million through 2005 on its "New Eden" marshland restoration project in Iraq. In partnership with the Free Iraq Foundation, the GOI has funded a two-year scientific survey of the re-flooded Abu Zirig [...]	2005-06-03 12:48:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID IT IZ SENV IRAQI FREEDOM
05ROME1888	FAO COMMITTEE ON COMMODITY PROBLEMS SIXTY-FIFTH [...] Summary. The Sixty-Fifth Session of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Committee on Commodity Problems (CCP) met in Rome April 11-13, 2005. The Committee reviewed FAO reports on the state of world commodity markets and its projections of supply, demand, trade and prices. Member [...]	2005-06-03 14:26:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ETRD EAID AORC FAO
05ROME1966	A/S FRIED'S CONSULTATIONS WITH ITALIAN U/S TERZI [...] (C) Summary. A/S Fried met with Italian MFA U/S Giulio Terzi June 7 to discuss Italian reaction to the French and Dutch "no" votes on the EU Constitution (see septel). With Russian FM Lavrov and Serbian PM Kostunica due in Rome, Terzi also reviewed with Fried our policies towards Kosovo, Bos [...]	2005-06-09 17:03:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IT
05ROME1968	ITALIAN RESPONSE ON USG PROPOSED UN COPUOS STSC [...] On May 24, Science Counselor delivered the text in ref A to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Italian Space Agency (ASI),and the Italian National Research Council. On June 7, Counselor Giovanni Manfredi, Chief of Office VI (S&T Cooperation) at the MFA's Directorate General for Multilater [...]	2005-06-10 07:40:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	TSPA AORC IT UNPUOS UNGA
05ROME1976	PLEDGE TO FAO NATIONAL FOREST PROGRAM FACILITY: [...] Mission received a May 17 response from FAO to our April 15 pledge letter regarding a CY 2005 voluntary contribution of 180,000 dollars to the FAO National Forest Program Facility. Text is as follows: Excellency: I have the honor to refer to your letter of 15 April 2005 concerning the pl [...]	2005-06-10 09:30:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC EAGR KTIA EAID FAO
05ROME1979	EUR A/S FRIED'S ROME CONSULTATIONS, JUNE 6-7, 2005 [...] (C) Summary: EUR A/S Dan Fried met with Italian officials and press June 6-7 to stress our commitment to a strong U.S.-European partnership working through NATO and with the EU ready to tackle worldwide challenges. Italians viewed the "no" votes in France and the Netherlands on the EU C [...]	2005-06-10 11:15:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS IT NATO
05ROME1980	SERBIAN PRIME MINISTER KOSTUNICA IN ROME; TAKES A [...] (C) As reported ref a, on June 7, in anticipation of Serbian Prime Minister Kostunica's visit to Rome later the same day, EUR A/S Fried provided MFA POLDIR Terzi with an overview of the U.S. position on Kosovo. Fried asked that Italy try to persuade him to accept a definition of "less than in [...]	2005-06-10 13:31:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EU SR IT KOC UN NATO
05ROME1981	ITALIAN VIEWS ON JUNE 13 GAERC AGENDA; ITALY WILL [...] (C) MFA Director for EU CFSP Luigi Mattiolo told Poloff that since this is the first GAERC after the French and Dutch "no" on the Constitution, FMs will discuss, over dinner Sunday evening June 12, alternatives on the way forward for ratification and the implications of freezing the process fo [...]	2005-06-10 13:35:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	IT PREL CM IR EUN
05ROME2001	LETTER TO ITALIAN OFFICIAL ON DRIFTNETS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On June 7, Emboffs delivered letter in ref (A) to Paolo Scarpa Bonazza Buora, the Italian Under Secretary of Agriculture responsible for Fisheries. Scarpa SIPDIS emphasized that as of 2002, the GOI had "solved and stopped" the driftnet problem, and strongly opposed any ille [...]	2005-06-13 12:34:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIS SENV PHSA ETRD IT FAO
05ROME2002	ITALY: COMPETITIVENESS AND GROWTH PROGRAM, PART I [...] (SBU) Summary and Introduction: The Senate gave final approval May 12 for the first part of the 2005-2008 four billion euro plan to improve Italian competitiveness and implement EU Lisbon agenda reforms. The package will likely be the government's most significant piece of economic legislatio [...]	2005-06-13 12:35:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ELAB PGOV IT KPRP
05ROME2005	ALITALIA NON-COMPLIANCE WITH PASSENGER [...] Econoff delivered reftel diplomatic note to MFA North American Office Director Francesco Tafuri May 24. Tafuri told Econoff May 25 that the MFA's legal office would provide guidance to the Interior Ministry regarding the legal authority, based on international agreements, to prevent designate [...]	2005-06-13 14:56:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR IT AVIATION
05ROME2011	ITALY MAY ESCALATE OECD BRIBERY WORKING GROUP [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paras. 1 and 6 below. SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUESTED ---------------------------- 2. (C) Italy continues to press to delay the election of the Chairman of the OECD "Working Group Against Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Busin [...]	2005-06-13 18:03:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN IT OECD
05ROME2046	DARFUR:ITALIAN SORTIES GET NATO FLAGS [...] (C) Italy will designate all its aircraft sorties to Darfur as part of NATO's operation, according to MFA NATO Office Director Giovanni Brauzzi. In a June 15 conversation with PolMilOff, Brauzzi said that Italy will use a yet to be determined number of Boeing 707s for the mission. All Itali [...]	2005-06-15 14:43:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS MARR SU IT NATO
05ROME2049	UN WORLD FOOD PROGRAM, ROME-BASED MEDIA REACT [...] (U) Summary: Outreach to World Food Program, UN diplomats and locally based international and Italian journalists garnered positive reaction to last week's Presidential announcement of an aid package to Africa. In response to Mission efforts to highlight the Administration's initiative, WFP Ex [...]	2005-06-15 15:34:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KPAO OPRC EAGR AORC PHUM EAID PREF SU LY XA FAO WFP
05ROME2051	U.S.-EU IRAQ CONFERENCE, ITALY UNLIKELY TO [...] (SBU) Summary: Italian Foreign Minister Fini will attend the Brussels conference, but aid officials tell us Italy will not commit to new assistance for Iraq. End summary. 2. (SBU) Visiting A/S Fried discussed reftel points with Giovanni Castellaneta, Diplomatic Advisor to Prime Minister Be [...]	2005-06-16 05:06:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV EAID EIND ECON IT IZ EUN IRAQI FREEDOM
05ROME2080	NSC CUBA REVIEW REGARDING SUSPENSION OF TITLE III [...] (C) Summary: There have been no dramatic changes in Italy's approach to Cuba in the last six months. Italy continues to support the common European Union position and has also resisted changes to liberalize it in Havana's favor. Italy supported the U.S. position and played a role in helping [...]	2005-06-16 15:53:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ETTC PREL CU IT HUMAN RIGHTS
05ROME2082	UN REFORM AND THE FAO INDEPENDENT EXTERNAL [...] (SBU) If properly executed, the new initiative for an Independent External Evaluation (IEE) of FAO will produce a mechanism through which we can once and for all begin restructuring an organization that over time has become increasingly unwieldy and out of sync with the aspirations of major [...]	2005-06-17 07:11:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC EAGR EAID KUNR FAO
05ROME2083	INDEPENDENT EXTERNAL EVALUATION OF FAO: [...] (U) Summary: The Intersessional Working Group (ISWG) on the Independent External Evaluation (IEE) of FAO has reached broad consensus on the scope and objectives of the proposed evaluation. Substantive work by two hired consultants on an approach paper outlining the IEE is underway. The IS [...]	2005-06-17 08:31:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC EAGR EAID KUNR FAO
05ROME2089	ITALY'S FAILED FERTILITY REFERENDUM [...] (U) This is a joint U.S. Embassy Rome-U.S. Embassy Vatican cable. 2. (C) Summary. Although touted as Italy's biggest values vote since the approval of divorce and abortion, the June 12-13 referendums on embryo research and assisted fertility was a dud. Most (74 percent) Italians opted to a [...]	2005-06-17 14:21:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM SOCI PGOV IT HUMAN RIGHTS FAO
05ROME211	AFGHANISTAN: PRT/FSB -- ITALY URGENTLY SEEKING [...] (U) This is an action cable. See Paragraphs 2 and 5. 2. (C) Summary. Italy is firm in its commitment and poised to deploy a PRT and FSB to Herat before Afghan parliamentary elections (Reftel A). However, after receiving recent U.S. demarches on Stage II requirements, the Italians are having [...]	2005-01-21 17:02:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS MARR PREL AF IT AFGHANISTAN
05ROME2115	IRAQ/ITALY - MOD/IDGS STUDYING ISF EMBEDDING [...] (S) Ambassador discussed Engaging the Coalition message (Ref A) with DefMin Martino June 17; Army Attache and PolMilCouns, accompanied by UK counterparts, followed up with D/CHOD Castagnetti and MoD Diplomatic Advisor Amerio June 20. The Italians noted that while they would begin an internal [...]	2005-06-20 16:46:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	MARR MOPS PREL IT IZ NATO EUN IRAQI FREEDOM
05ROME2148	FRUSTRATED ITALIAN UNIONS TO SEEK MINISTRY OF [...] (U) This is an action request, please see para 10. 2. (C) Summary: Italian unions representing civilians who work for the U.S. military on Italian bases expressed to Embassy Labor Counselor extreme frustration over the inability to conclude a Conditions of Employment agreement for the l [...]	2005-06-22 11:12:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR ELAB IT
05ROME2162	UNIDROIT SUB-FINANCE COMMITTEE DISCUSSES DEPUTY [...] Summary: the sub-Finance Committee of the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) met on June 9 to discuss the hiring of a Deputy Secretary General for the organization. The meeting was a result of an April 2005 Governing Council recommendation to accept a UK-off [...]	2005-06-23 12:20:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC ABUD UNIDROIT
05ROME2178	ITALY-EU: BERLUSCONI STANDS FIRM, BUT PRODI [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified; not for Internet distribution. ------- SUMMARY ------- 2. (SBU) Italian reactions to the French/Dutch rejection of the EU Constitution are playing out in the context of national election politics, Italy's own battle with Brussels over Stability Pact bu [...]	2005-06-27 12:20:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ECON IT TU EUN ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS
05ROME2179	ITALY: SIGONELLA TA APPROVAL CRITICAL TO MIL-MIL [...] (C) Post wishes to highlight the importance to US-Italy relations of rapid approval in Washington of the just-concluded negotiations on the Sigonella Technical Arrangement. The 1995 "Shell Agreement" stipulates that the US and Italy will negotiate technical arrangements (TA) for each Italian [...]	2005-06-27 13:59:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS MARR IT NATO FORCES IN ITALY
05ROME2183	REFORMING THE UN: UNSC REMAINS ITALY'S TOP PRIORITY [...] (C) Summary. Italian interest in UN reform centers on the Human Rights Council, the Peacebuilding Commission and the Comprehensive Convention on Terrorism. In general, they will follow the EU lead but will press for a reform consensus that does not create more problems than it solves. Whil [...]	2005-06-27 15:14:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KUNR AORC IT UNSC
05ROME2194	"HUNGER BANQUETS" AND PUBLIC DIPLOMACY A [...] (U) I would like to bring to your attention a big public diplomacy success story in hopes that our experience might work as well for your mission as it did for us. It has the potential to bring broad media attention to the story of U.S. generosity -- a story that needs to be told. 2. (U) L [...]	2005-06-28 14:10:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KPAO OPRC EAGR AORC PHUM EAID PREF PREL FAO WFP
05ROME2226	POVERTY INSURANCE: ROME-BASED AGENCIES AND PERMREPS [...] Summary: On June 29, 2005, the Italian Committee of the Thomas More Institute hosted a conference at the United Nations (UN) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on poverty insurance, entitled "Reinsurance: A New Key to Development Aid." French academic Michel Vate was the featured presenter [...]	2005-07-01 13:48:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EAGR SENV UN FAO
05ROME2280	128TH SESSION OF THE FAO COUNCIL, JUNE 20-25, 2005 [...] Summary: The 128th Session of the FAO Council, held in Rome June 20-25, made progress in a collegial and positive atmosphere on a variety of substantive and institutional issues: -- Members generally endorsed the recent work of FAO's technical committees on World Food Security (CFS) Agric [...]	2005-07-07 14:00:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR AORC ETRD EAID SENV FAO
05ROME2295	ITU: ITALY SUPPORTS U.S. POSITION ON SINGLE STATE [...] No summary [...]	2005-07-08 15:17:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECPS IT ITU
05ROME2296	G-4 UNSC RESOLUTION: ITALY AGREES ON IMPORTANCE OF [...] (C) DCM delivered reftel points to Giacomo Sanfelice de Monteforte, MFA Deputy Director General for Multilateral Affairs (DG Giulio Terzi is still at the G-8 Summit in Gleneagles) and Alessandro Busacca, Director of the MFA UN Office, emphasizing Secretary Rice's view that we consider it impo [...]	2005-07-08 17:16:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IT UNSC
05ROME2308	IDLO ASSEMBLY OF STATES MEETING: JUNE 28, 2005 [...] Summary: the International Development Law Organization (IDLO) held its triennial Assembly of States meeting on June 28. Among the resolutions and recommendations adopted, one changed the frequency of meetings to biennial vice triennial, while another called upon member states to examine the [...]	2005-07-11 12:08:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID AORC KJUS KISL IDLO
05ROME2310	ITALY OPEN TO MULTILATERAL CONFERENCE ON [...] No summary [...]	2005-07-11 13:02:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	OPDC PARM PBTS PHUM PREL PGOV MD IT EUN OSCE
05ROME2346	G-8 BIOENERGY WORKSHOP, ROME, ITALY, JUNE 14-15, [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On June 14-15, 2005, the government of Italy hosted a G-8 bioenergy workshop to identify opportunities and barriers to establishing a G-8-endorsed multilateral bioenergy initiative. G-8 members plus Brazil, China, India, Mexico, South Korea, South Africa, FAO, IEA, UNCCD, UN [...]	2005-07-14 05:37:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV ENRG ECON IT AORG
05ROME2348	IRAQ: ITALIANS FOCUSED ON UN MANDATE, TROOP [...] (C) Summary. Senior Advisor and Coordinator for Iraq Policy Ambassador Richard Jones and CENTCOM Deputy Commander LTG Lance Smith led a delegation to Rome July 6-7 to discuss the way forward in Iraq with senior Italian diplomatic and military officials. The Italians stressed that Italy's con [...]	2005-07-14 06:42:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	PGOV PREL MARR MOPS IZ IT UNSC IRAQI FREEDOM
05ROME2349	IRAQ: AMBASSADOR JONES DISCUSSES ECONOMIC AND [...] (C) Summary. Senior Advisor and Coordinator for Iraq Policy Ambassador Richard H. Jones updated key Italian MFA officials on Iraqi efforts to draft a new constitution, including the increased Sunni participation in the drafting committee, and US views on UNSCR 1546 and continuing the mandate [...]	2005-07-14 06:48:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON EAID EIND IZ IT EUN IRAQI FREEDOM
05ROME2372	ITALIAN PREVIEW OF THE JULY 18-19 GAERIC [...] (C) Italian MFA EU Office Director Luigi Mattiolo provided Laborcouns July 14 with a review of the EU Political Directors meeting in Bath, England regarding the July 18-19 GAERIC and responded to reftel points. Mattiolo said the Bath meeting was held in the shadow of the London bombings wit [...]	2005-07-15 11:53:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID IR LE PREL SY TU UZ IT UN
05ROME2413	SOMALIA: ITALY REQUESTS CLOSER CONSULTATIONS [...] (C) Summary. Although we may differ on what should be addressed first--nation-building or local assistance that supports peaceful development of a national government--Italy supports U.S. goals for Somalia. In Italy's view the greatest threat Somalia faces is not renewed fighting by warlor [...]	2005-07-20 06:33:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR SO ET IT YE
05ROME2456	ITALY CONDEMNS SYRIAN-LEBANESE BORDER BLOCKAGE [...] (C) Summary. MFA officials agree that Syria's continuing blockage of its borders with Lebanon constitutes economic harassment, but they prefer to abide by a recent EU statement condemning such actions rather than make a separate public declaration. The officials also expressed Italy's disapp [...]	2005-07-22 15:52:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	EG JO PGOV PREL ECON ETRD SY IT
05ROME249	IRAQ: ITALY SENDING POSITIVE MESSAGES ON ELECTIONS [...] (C) Summary. Despite the recent death of another Italian soldier in Iraq, Italy has no intention of withdrawing its troops until asked by the new Iraqi government. Furthermore, Italian officials continue publicly to support the January 30 elections as the first step in the transition to a free [...]	2005-01-25 14:45:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IZ IT IRAQI ELECTIONS
05ROME2498	ROME RESPONSE: BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: 05-969702 [...] This is a response to reftel, and conveys pre-license information on application number 05-969702, regarding the export of CH-47 Chinook spare parts from Lee Air Company, Inc. to Italian consignee Aermeccanica. 2. We confirmed Aermeccanica's order by telephone with co-owner Aldo Pinza. M [...]	2005-07-27 08:31:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	KOMC ETTC IT ECON AVIATION BLUE LANTERN EXPORT CONTROLS
05ROME2532	DVC ON SUPPLY AND DEMAND: BEHIND THE BUSINESS OF [...] DESCRIPTION OF ACTIVITY: As a part of a series of Mission activities on trafficking issues, PA Rome and the U.S. Embassy to the Holy See organized a multipoint DVC to address the `supply' and `demand' aspects of the market of trafficking in persons. The U.S. and Italian interlocutors shared [...]	2005-07-29 09:48:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	DVC OIIP
05ROME2543	AGRICULTURAL BIOTECHNOLOGY ACTIVITY IN AFRICA: [...] Summary: USUN-Rome arranged for Dr. Michael Hall, Regional Biotechnology Advisor for USAID's Regional Economic Development Services Office (REDSO) based in Nairobi, Kenya, to meet with representatives at FAO and WFP. Hall also met with an official from the Holy See (to be covered in septel fr [...]	2005-07-29 13:46:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ETRD SENV EAID AORC XA VT FAO WFP
05ROME2545	ITALY GENERALLY SUPPORTS USG PROPOSAL ON NEW UN [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered Reftel demarche on July 29 to Minister Rosa Anna Coniglio, head of the MFA's Human Rights Office. Min. Coniglio is new to her job, but provided preliminary thoughts on the Italian position based on her previous human rights background (she previously worked for MFA U/S [...]	2005-07-29 15:03:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL IT UNGA UNHCR HUMAN RIGHTS
05ROME2555	DESERT LOCUSTS: FAO'S WORK ON PESTICIDES AND OTHER [...] Summary: In a letter dated April 16, 2005, the United Nations (UN) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Director-General Jacques Diouf alerted the international donor community to a potential problem with pesticides overstocks in Sahelian and North African countries currently embattling des [...]	2005-08-01 13:15:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EAGR SENV XI XY UN FAO
05ROME2560	DESERT LOCUSTS: JULY 21 FAO DONORS' MEETING [...] Summary: On July 21, an informal desert locusts donors' meeting was hosted by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations. Chaired by FAO Director-General (DG) Jacques Diouf, the meeting was well represented by donors and affected countries. The meeting provided informa [...]	2005-08-01 15:30:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EAGR SENV XI XY UN FAO
05ROME2565	28-th Session of the FAO/WHO Codex Alimentarius [...] The 28-th Session of the Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) was held 4-9 July 2005, in Rome, Italy. The Session was well attended with 513 representatives from 122 member countries, and 40 international intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations. 2. Members of the United Sta [...]	2005-08-02 13:44:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC EAGR ETRD FAO WHO
05ROME2569	IRAQ/ITALIAN TROOP DEPLOYMENT: PARLIAMENT EXTENDS [...] (U) Summary. On July 27, the Italian Parliament extended funding for Italy's mission in Iraq to December 31, 2005, by a wide majority. With the exception of the Union of Democrats for Europe (UDEUR),the opposition voted against. Wide differences of opinion have emerged within the opposition [...]	2005-08-02 14:31:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL PGOV MOPS EAID MCAP IZ IT IRAQI FREEDOM
05ROME2570	RSVP: EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: NATIONAL [...] (U) SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED. PROTECT ACCORDINGLY. 2. (SBU) THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT ATTACHE, ROME, INDICES CHECKS REVEALED SUBJECT, NATIONAL AIR SERVICE, AS AN ULTIMATE CONSIGNEE IN AN EXPORT VIOLATION OF AIRCRAFT AVIONIC COMPUTERS. THE S [...]	2005-08-02 15:06:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	BEXP ETRD ETTC SA KHLS HLSX
05ROME2624	ALITALIA DEFACTO COMPLIANCE WITH TSA REGULATION; [...] Alitalia has been recently implementing the DHS/TSA No-Fly/Selectee requirements, albeit without explicit Italian legal authority. An Italian citizen (Claudio DIONESALVI, DOB: 6APR71, Italian PPT: 47478963Z) on the No-Fly list attempted to board a KLM flight from Rome to Mexico City July 29, [...]	2005-08-05 15:40:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR IT AVIATION
05ROME2625	AFGHANISTAN: ITALY PLEDGES ADDITIONAL MILLION [...] (C) Italy will provide an extra 1,000,000 euros to the UN for Afghanistan's National Assembly elections, scheduled for September 18. Italian Special Envoy on Afghanistan Anna della Croce told polmiloff that DPM/FM Gianfranco Fini pledged the extra million euros to Afghan President Karzai on A [...]	2005-08-05 15:52:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID AF IT UNDP AFGHANISTAN
05ROME2629	ITALY SUPPORTS CONCEPT OF SEEBRIG DEPLOYMENT [...] Summary. Italy confirms its support for the concept of a SEEBRIG deployment as described in reftels and will work with the U.S. on details of possible implementation. End Summary. 2. On August 4, DATT delivered Reftel A talking points to LTG Fabrizio Castegnetti, newly appointed chief of th [...]	2005-08-08 07:22:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	KPKO MARR MASS AF IT NATO AFGHANISTAN
05ROME2669	RSVP: EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: NEOTECH [...] (U) SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED. PROTECT ACCORDINGLY. 2. (SBU) THE DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY, IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT ATTACHE, ROME, INDICES CHECKS REVEALED THE SUBJECT, NEOTECH SRL, IS FREE OF DEROGATORY INFORMATION. ALTHOUGH, THE FOREIGN PURCHASER, FLIR SYSTEMS, IS A PO [...]	2005-08-10 14:10:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	BEXP ETRD ETTC KHLS HLSX EXPORT CONTROLS
05ROME2679	ITALY UNABLE TO INCREASE AFRICA EMERGENCY AID [...] (SBU) Summary: Italy is unable to increase its emergency humanitarian assistance for Africa due to severe budget difficulties. Italy's overall aid spending levels will likely remain at 0.17 percent of GDP (the same level as 2004) only because of debt relief, particularly for Ethiopia. "Real" [...]	2005-08-11 14:01:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID EAGR XA IT FAO
05ROME2720	ITALY MAINTAINS STRONG SUPPORT FOR TURKEY'S EU [...] (SBU) Summary. Prime Minister Berlusconi's government continues to steadfastly support Turkey in the run-up to the expected start of EU negotiations October 3, although Italian officials acknowledge that the talks will be lengthy and difficult. Italian officials concede that EU membership for [...]	2005-08-17 12:11:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV TU IT ITALIAN POLITICS
05ROME2734	ITALY SEES NO NEED TO CHANGE ISAF'S UN MANDATE [...] (C) Acting Pol-Mil Counselor and Pol-Mil Officer met with MFA NATO Office Director Brauzzi August 17 to discuss further the renewal of ISAF's UN mandate (reftels). Brauzzi said he saw no need to change the mandate when it comes up for renewal. The real issue, he said, is NATO's OPLAN, which [...]	2005-08-18 10:29:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS MARR PREL AF IT NATO
05ROME2743	RESULTS-BASED MANAGEMENT AT FAO [...] Summary: In light of a long history of continued calls for UN reform, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) over the past seven years has implemented a Results Based Management (RBM) reform initiative. The process proceeds in three planning tiers. Supporting the Program of Work and Bud [...]	2005-08-19 09:43:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC EAGR EAID KUNR FAO
05ROME2763	PARTICULATE MATTER AIR POLLUTION IN ITALY: AN [...] SUMMARY: Air pollution is a serious and intractable problem in Italy, causes health problems, and shortens Italian life spans. Emissions levels and particulate matter (PM) concentrations are highest in Italy's northern industrial Po Valley between Bologna, Milan and Turin. While industry an [...]	2005-08-19 15:25:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV KSCA IT EU
05ROME2776	AS CHINESE FAKES INVADE ITALY, COMPANIES FEEL [...] (U) Summary: While famous Italian designers have long been a favored target of imitators world-wide, Italian business and government leaders are quickly realizing that no Italian product, no matter how mundane, is safe from Chinese counterfeiters. Unlike the big fashion houses, most Italian [...]	2005-08-22 14:34:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIPR ECON ETRD CM IT
05ROME2787	AMBASSADOR TONY P. HALL RETURNS TO ZIMBABWE [...] SUMMARY: Three years after my 2002 visit (see Ref A),I returned to Zimbabwe August 11-13 and found the country again poised for a food-security crisis. As a result of the Government of Zimbabwe's (GOZ) misguided policies, drought, hyperinflation, and the associated lack of agricultural input [...]	2005-08-23 15:40:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ETRD SENV EAID AORC XA PHUM PREL ECON ASEC SOCI ZU FAO WFP UNDP ZI SF VT
05ROME2819	WFP SECURITY COST SURGE BEGS CENTRAL UN FUNDING [...] SUMMARY. The World Food Program (WFP) has briefed USUN Rome on security activities being taken in the field to ensure that food aid is not disrupted. Those activities include augmenting field security staff and equipment, providing country security assessments, and coordinating closely with [...]	2005-08-25 09:59:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EAGR AORC WFP
05ROME2835	ITALIAN MFA REQUESTS USG ASSISTANCE IN [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 7. 2. (SBU) Summary. To ensure Italian participation in an upcoming U.S.-led military exercise in West Africa, the Italian MFA has asked for USG assistance in paving the way for Italy to conclude bilateral status of forces-type agreement [...]	2005-08-25 14:17:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MOPS PARM PREL XY IT NATO
05ROME2874	ITALY SAYS TURKEY WILL LIKELY DOMINATE SEPTEMBER [...] (C) Summary. On August 24, Poloff met separately with Sergio Mercuri of the MFA's EU office and Stefano Ravagnan of the MFA's Southern Europe office to discuss ref A demarche. Poloff also met with Raimondo De Cardona from the MFA's Balkans office on August 29. Mercuri and Ravagnan stated t [...]	2005-08-29 14:38:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL TU IT EUN
05ROME2885	IRAQ: ITALY PRAISES DRAFT IRAQI CONSTITUTION [...] (U) DCM has requested an appointment to discuss reftel demarche with the MFA's Director General for the Mediterranean and the Middle East. In the meantime, below are comments from PM Berlusconi and Deputy PM/FM Fini regarding the Iraqi constitution. 2. (U) In an August 28 press statement [...]	2005-08-30 12:01:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL MOPS PGOV IZ IT IRAQI FREEDOM
05ROME29	IRAQ: ITALY NOT ABLE TO SUPPORT INTERNATIONAL [...] (C) Poloff spoke with MFA Iraq officer Daniano Francovigh (speaking on behalf of Iraq Office Director and Task Force Director Luigi Maccotta) on January 4 regarding Ref A demarche. Francovigh said that because of time and financial restraints, Italy will not be able to support the IMIE for Ir [...]	2005-01-05 09:38:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PROP PHUM IZ IT IRAQI ELECTIONS
05ROME2915	Codex Secretary Comments on Biotech Task Force [...] In an August 30 meeting, Codex Commission Secretary, Kazuaki Miyagishima, discussed prospects for the upcoming meeting of the Codex Ad Hoc Task Force on Biotechnology with Ag MinCoun. Miyagishima expects the discussion over the Task Force's workplan to be difficult and therefore plans to att [...]	2005-09-01 10:34:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC EAGR ETRD FAO WHO
05ROME2919	SYRIA/LEBANON: ITALY WILL NOT ENGAGE SYRIA AT THE [...] (C) Summary. Italy will follow its EU partners in not engaging with Syria at the UNGA. Though sharing our concerns about Syrian failure to meet its obligations under UNSCR 1559, Rome, however, still favors engagement over isolation. The Italian MFA believes that at some point the internationa [...]	2005-09-01 16:56:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SY LE IT EUN
05ROME2920	TERMINATION OF WFP HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE IN [...] Summary. World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director (ED) James Morris told us on September 1 that WFP would end assistance to the DPRK. He related that in an August 31st meeting with North Korean Ambassador Choe Taek San, San informed him of his government's plan to terminate internatio [...]	2005-09-01 16:58:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID KN AORC PHUM PREL SOCI UN WFP
05ROME2922	BOSSI-FINI IMMIGRATION REFORM: THE RESULTS ARE IN [...] (C) Summary. Italian efforts to manage legal immigration and limit illegal immigration have met with mixed success. The Bossi-Fini law of 2002 produced a limited regularization of illegal workers but failed to establish viable long-term procedures to either encourage the legal immigration Ital [...]	2005-09-02 09:30:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ELAB IT ANTITERRORISM FORCE PROTECTION
05ROME2929	TFUS01: CONDOLENCE LETTER FROM PRESIDENT CIAMPI [...] No summary [...]	2005-09-02 14:22:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	OPDC PREL ECON AEMR US IT
05ROME2937	IRAQ: ITALY REMAINS COMMITTED ON ALL FRONTS, BUT [...] (C) Summary. Though Italian leaders publicly praised the signing of the new Iraqi constitution (Ref B),MFA officials privately told us they have deep cause for concern, especially regarding what they perceive as the lack of inclusiveness of all ethnic groups in the political process. However [...]	2005-09-02 17:07:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS PGOV IZ IT IRAQI FREEDOM
05ROME2938	TFUS01: PRIORITY AREAS LIST DELIVERED; ITALY HOPES [...] Embassy delivered ref A points on USG priorities to Agostino Miozzo, Katrina relief coordinator for the GOI's Department of Civil Protection. Ambassador Spogli personally thanked Prime Minister Berlusconi September 2 for Italy's offer of assistance. The Embassy also issued a press release Se [...]	2005-09-04 12:12:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	AEMR EAID PREL US IT AVIATION
05ROME2953	ZIMBABWE IMF: ITALY LEANING AGAINST EXPULSION IN [...] (C) Summary: The GOI is leaning towards giving Zimbabwe additional time in light of the GOZ's recent partial payment of its arrears. End summary. 2. (C) Economic Counselor and Econoff delivered reftel points August 30 to Ignazio Angeloni, Director General for International Affairs at the [...]	2005-09-06 16:18:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN PREL ZI IT IMF
05ROME296	IRAQ: ITALY ON BOARD WITH EVOLVING MNF-I MISSION [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 6. 2. (C) Summary. Italian MFA officials are well-aware of and comfortable with proposals for the MNF-I to shift some emphasis to training and increasing the capacity of Iraqi Security Forces. Italy intends to maintain its current force [...]	2005-01-28 16:10:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	PGOV PREL MARR MOPS IZ IT UNSC IRAQI FREEDOM
05ROME2979	FAO EMERGENCY PROGRAMS: AVIAN INFLUENZA AND THE RISK [...] Summary. With the potential risk that the Avian Influenza (AI) deadly sub-virus H5N1 may be transported via the migratory flyways of wild water fowl from South Asia to the Middle East and Europe, the activities of the United Nations (UN) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) to stamp out AI [...]	2005-09-09 08:34:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR EAID ECON SENV SOCI TBIO TSPL XB XC XD XE UN FAO OIE WHO
05ROME2991	ITALY: CODESHARING ON FLIGHTS TO THE RUSSIAN [...] Summary and comment. In response to reftel request, Econoffs met September 2 with GOI chief aviation negotiator Aldo Sansone, who described the Italy-Russia Air Services Agreement as "liberal." The Agreement includes a key third-country code-share provision; Sansone believed American carrier [...]	2005-09-09 15:21:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR ETRD IT RS AVIATION
05ROME2997	BOSNIA: ITALY TO PUSH MIRACHIAN CANDIDACY FOR OHR ON MARGINS OF UNGA; BELIEVES DUTCH CANDIDATE UNSUITABLE [...] (C) In DCM's introductory call on Italian MFA Political Director Terzi, Terzi made a strong pitch for the U.S. to support senior Italian diplomat Laura Mirachian to replace Paddy Ashdown as High Rep in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Terzi said the Italians learned on Sept. 8 that The Netherlands was pro [...]	2005-09-09 15:44:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV BK IT EUN PREL
05ROME2998	DEVELOPMENT FINANCE: ITALY SAYS ANY GLOBAL TAX [...] (SBU) Summary: Italy does not oppose global tax schemes to fund development assistance, provided such programs are voluntary. There are no plans here to impose a surcharge on international airline tickets, and Italy would resist efforts by the EU to imposed such a tax on member states. Italy [...]	2005-09-09 15:59:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECIN EAIR EAID EFIN IT UNGA
05ROME3050	TFUS01: KATRINA CONDOLENCE LETTER FROM CHAMBER OF [...] Embassy Rome received a letter of condolence addressed to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dennis Hastert, from Chamber of Deputies Speaker, Pier Ferdinando Casini. We faxed the message to Speaker Hastert's office (attn: Foreign Affairs Assistant Chris Walker) with the following in [...]	2005-09-14 10:50:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	OPDC PREL US IT
05ROME3068	EUR P/DAS VOLKER'S ROME CONSULTATIONS [...] (C) Summary. During his visit to Rome, EUR P/DAS Volker discussed the Fund and Foundation for the Future, NATO and EU expansion, NATO/EU cooperation, Russia, and Latin America. Overall, the GOI shares our optimism that Europe will recover from the EU constitution debacle and that Turkish [...]	2005-09-15 06:55:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM IZ IR IT NATO
05ROME3080	PROMOTING GREATER TRANSATLANTIC COOPERATION: EUR [...] (C) Summary. EUR PDAS Volker discussed BMENA, Iraq, Iran, Turkey's accession to the EU, and the Balkans with senior Italian MFA officials during his September 6 stopover in Rome. Greater transatlantic cooperation, especially in dealing with challenges outside of Europe, provided the backdrop [...]	2005-09-15 10:44:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS IR IZ IT EUN
05ROME3081	THE AMBASSADOR'S COURTESY CALL ON SENATE PRESIDENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: During a courtesy call with Ambassador Spogli, Senate President Marcello Pera (Forza Italia) said the center-left would win elections if held today. He cited intra-coalition squabbling (especially over the leadership of the coalition),poor economic performance, fall-out from the [...]	2005-09-15 10:44:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IT ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS
05ROME3088	9/11 ACTIVITIES IN ITALY [...] SUMMARY: The Embassy and Consulates General in Milan, Florence and Naples participated in thirteen September 11 commemoration events including the dedication of the World Trade Center Memorial in Padua, and a commemoration at the Parliament with Ambassador Spogli and President of the Chamber o [...]	2005-09-15 14:38:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KPAO PGOV IT ANTITERRORISM FORCE PROTECTION
05ROME3096	TFUS01: AMBASSADOR THANKS ITALY IN HIGH-LEVEL [...] (U) Summary: Ambassador Spogli publicly thanked Italy for its hurricane Katrina relief during a September 9 visit to Italy's Department of Civil Protection. In an unexpected move, Prime Minister Berlusconi, Defense Minister Antonio Martino, and many other top-level officials also attended the [...]	2005-09-16 11:44:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL AEMR OPRC IT

05ROME3107	USUN ROME HITS THE GROUND SPRINTING: A LOOK BACK ON OUR [...] Summary. Confronted by a world media environment that takes daily shots at U.S. foreign policy, USUN Rome pulled no punches during its first year with a Public Diplomacy office. The Ambassador's trips to Africa brought journalists face-to-face with U.S. assistance in action. Combined with creat [...]	2005-09-17 07:43:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	OIIP KPAO OPRC EAGR AORC PHUM EAID PREF XA FAO WFP
05ROME3146	ITALY: TOUR D'HORIZON ON EXPORT CONTROL ISSUES [...] (S) On September 14, 2005, A/ECMIN and Econoff called on Enrico Padula, MFA Non-proliferation Officer, to present demarches on India (refs A, B, and D),North Korea (ref E),and Iran, (ref C). INDIA ----- 2. (S) A/ECMIN reviewed ref B and D points on the U.S. intent to work toward ful [...]	2005-09-21 10:16:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	ENRG ETRD ETTC FR IN IR IT KNNP KSCA MNUC NL PARM PREL TRGY TSPA MTCR
05ROME3178	ITALY AND NATO ENLARGEMENT: MFA NATO DESK [...] (C) Summary: Subsequent to the Rome visit of EUR P/DAS Volker and discussions at NATO on the US two-summit strategy to advance NATO's strategic direction (reftels),Italy's new MFA NATO Director Gianni Bardini told PolMil officers on September 15 that, in his personal opinion, NATO should not [...]	2005-09-23 10:56:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IT NATO
05ROME3179	ITALY: AMBASSADOR'S TOUR D'HORIZON WITH PRODI AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador hosted lunch on September 20 for Center-Left political leaders Romano Prodi, Piero Fassino, Francesco Rutelli, and Massimo D'Alema. The four politicians were mostly in sync, willing to contradict each other politely, and were only moderately deferential to their p [...]	2005-09-23 11:22:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MARR MOPS EFIN IZ IT IRAQI FREEDOM ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS
05ROME3185	ITALIAN RESPONSE TO ENERGY SUPPLY DISRUPTIONS [...] (SBU) ECMIN and Econoff met September 9 with Director General for Energy and Mineral Resources, Sergio Garribba, of the Ministry of Productive Activities (MPA) on Hurricane Katrina's impact on energy supplies. The discussion centered on the international response to energy supply disruptions, [...]	2005-09-23 14:51:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON ENRG EPET PREL IT
05ROME3187	LEHAY HUMAN RIGHTS VETTING GUIDANCE/ACES [...] The Italian military screens the criminal and security background of all persons who join the armed forces. Service members selected as candidates to U.S. sponsored training programs undergo a rigorous selection process. There is no credible evidence that the Italian military establishment ha [...]	2005-09-23 14:57:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS PREL PHUM PINS PINR KSEP HUMAN RIGHTS
05ROME3195	ITALY: FINANCE MINISTER REPLACED BY PREDECESSOR, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy PM Giulio Tremonti was named Italy's Finance Minister on September 22 after Domenico Siniscalco resigned in protest over the government's lack of action against embattled Bank of Italy Governor Antonio Fazio. This is Tremonti's second term as Finance Minister since 2001, hi [...]	2005-09-23 16:55:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EFIN ECON PREL IT ITALIAN POLITICS
05ROME3196	POSSIBLE ITALIAN AND SWISS MRE PROVIDERS [...] No summary [...]	2005-09-23 17:31:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL EAID ETRD ECON AMGT SZ FR IT
05ROME3204	ITALY: COMBATING EXTREMISM [...] (C) Summary. Post welcomes the opportunity to strengthen programs to combat extremism, and we believe European posts have an important role to play in reaching out to Muslim audiences. To accomplish this long-term objective, we propose an outreach program aimed at Italian citizens and immi [...]	2005-09-26 13:25:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM KPAO EAID PHUM KMPI
05ROME3226	IRAQ: ITALY REASSURES IT WILL NOT CUT AND RUN [...] (C) Summary. Italian MFA officials, commenting on the recent visit to Rome by Dhi Qar province Governor Aziz Kadum Aluan Al Aghely, insist that Italy has no intention of withdrawing more troops from Iraq in the near future. As conditions permit, however, they do envision a progressive withdr [...]	2005-09-27 15:00:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS PGOV IZ IT IRAQI FREEDOM
05ROME3227	BERLUSCONI ACQUITTED YET AGAIN [...] (C) Summary. On September 26, a Milan court acquitted Italian PM Berlusconi of charges of false accounting dating back to 1999 charges that his financial company Finivest engaged in false bookkeeping from 1989-95. The acquittal was based on a ruling that the statute of limitations had expi [...]	2005-09-27 15:27:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM IT KCRIM ITALIAN POLITICS
05ROME3257	ITALY AND THE OECD BRIBERY WORKING GROUP [...] (U) Massimo Leggeri, MFA Deputy-Director General for Multilateral Economic Affairs, called Econcounselor September 23 to ask that she convey to Washington and USOECD, Italy's continuing interest in the Vice-chair position of the OECD Working Group Against Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in [...]	2005-09-29 14:22:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN IT OECD
05ROME327	MAJOR DONORS DISCUSS FAO INDEPENDENT EXTERNAL [...] (U) Summary: Rome-based representatives of the "Geneva Group" (top 14 UN contributors) met on 28 January to plan next steps in the Independent External Evaluation (IEE) of FAO. They agreed on a general approach to the organization and governance of the IEE Intersessional Working Group (ISW [...]	2005-02-01 11:40:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC EAGR EAID PREL KUNR FAO IFAD
05ROME3276	ITALY: SENATE PRESIDENT PERA WORRIED ABOUT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador met September 28 with Senate President Marcello Pera at Pera's request. Pera was pessimistic about PM Silvio Berlusconi's ability to win next year's general elections, but believes there "is still time" to pull off a victory. He criticized Berlusconi's failure to [...]	2005-09-30 13:31:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IT ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS ITALIAN POLITICS
05ROME3290	ITALY: AMBASSADOR'S LUNCH WITH CENTER-RIGHT [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador met September 28 with the four center-right Senate caucus chairmen. They discussed the evolution of the Northern League as a responsible coalition partner, and the Christian Democrats of the Center (UCD) senator spoke positively about "devolution." All were relat [...]	2005-09-30 16:22:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EFIN IT ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS ITALIAN POLITICS
05ROME3442	ITALY: CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES PASSES ELECTORAL REFORM [...] (C) SUMMARY. PM Berlusconi's Center-Right coalition moved an electoral reform bill through the important Chamber of Deputies on October 13 in a vote that ended in an opposition walkout and mass abstention. The bill is widely expected to pass the Senate next week and become law. The change her [...]	2005-10-14 12:08:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IT ITALIAN POLITICS
05ROME3465	AFGHAN ROAD CONSTRUCTION, ITALY SAYS AFGHAN [...] (SBU) Econoff delivered reftel demarche to Giuseppe Cinti, Office Director for Afghanistan at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Alessandro Modiano, Office Director for Asia and Latin America, at the MFA's Directorate for Development Cooperation (Italy's USAID equivalent). On October 12, Maia [...]	2005-10-17 11:44:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID PREL AF IT AFGHANISTAN
05ROME3467	ITALY: PRODI WINS CLEAR VICTORY IN CENTER-LEFT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Former EU Commissioner Romano Prodi confirmed his role as Center-Left party leader in a decisive victory in Italy's first ever coalition primaries on October 16. A surprisingly high 4.4 million voters gave Prodi 74.6 percent of the vote, versus 14.6 percent for his nearest rival, [...]	2005-10-17 13:17:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IT ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS
05ROME3512	ITALIANS WONDERING IF THEY'RE NEXT [...] (S) Summary. Both center-right and center-left politicians remain focused on the possibility of a major terror attack in Italy in coming months. An adviser on Middle East Affairs in the prime minister's office told us he sees a high possibility of an Al-Qaida attack somewhere in Italy duri [...]	2005-10-20 12:39:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	PREL PTER PINS ASEC IT ANTITERRORISM FORCE PROTECTION
05ROME3514	"NO FLY": ALITALIA BUMPS LEBANESE G4 VISA HOLDER [...] (SBU) After being alerted by Alitalia, Italian Border Police prevented a passenger on the TSA "No Fly" list from boarding Milan-JFK flight 413 on Saturday, October 15. The passenger, Lebanese national Mohammad Kassem HAGE (PP 30610, PDOB 24 Dec 1963, Lebanon),was attempting to travel to the [...]	2005-10-20 13:35:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR CVIS IT LE UN AVIATION
05ROME3521	FAO DG'S UPCOMING MEETINGS IN WASHINGTON [...] (SBU) Summary: FAO Director General (DG) Jacques Diouf will be in Washington October 26-27 for senior- level meetings at State, USDA and USAID. U.S. Mission Rome believes it is important that all three agencies convey a clear signal to the DG regarding USG dissatisfaction with his leadershi [...]	2005-10-21 10:20:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC EAGR EAID FAO
05ROME3536	ITALY REFUSES PERMISSION TO DOE TEAM [...] (SBU) Econoff delivered reftel request to General Alberto Ficuciello, Military Advisor to Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Ficuciello was familiar with the details of this case, and pleasantly, but firmly stated that the GOI did not need, nor would it accept at this time, DOE's offer to send [...]	2005-10-21 15:23:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA KNNP ENRG PTER GM IT
05ROME3539	ROME TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION OFFICER [...] (SBU) The Terrorism Finance Coordination Officer (TFCO) at Embassy Rome is: Scott Kilner Economic Minister-Counselor Ph: 39 06 4674-2107 Fax: 39 06 4674-2398 E-Mail: KilnerSF@State.Gov The Deputy TFCO is: Richard Boly Economic Officer Ph: 39 06 4674-2320 Fax: 39 06 4674-2663 E-Mai [...]	2005-10-24 08:10:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EFIN ETTC IT KTFN KVPR PREL PTER ANTITERRORISM FORCE PROTECTION
05ROME3547	ITALIANS SHARE USG CONCERNS ON BELARUS [...] (C) Summary. On October 24 Poloff met with Antonino Cascio, Deputy Director of the Office of Eastern European Affairs of the Italian MFA to deliver reftel points. Cascio stated that Italy and the EU share the USG opinion that pressure must be stepped up on the Lukashenko regime in advance of [...]	2005-10-24 15:29:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM EAID PGOV BO IT EUN
05ROME3585	SCENESETTER FOR PM BERLUSCONI'S OCTOBER 31 MEETING [...] (C) Summary. PM Berlusconi specifically requested this meeting, and a spring address to a joint session of Congress, to bolster his prospects in Italy's April elections. Behind in the polls and facing his toughest campaign, Berlusconi will juxtapose his proactive and pro-U.S.foreign policy with tha [...]	2005-10-26 10:29:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CVIS IT ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS ITALIAN POLITICS IRAQI FREEDOM
05ROME3591	ITALY: CHOD CALLS SIGONELLA TA "ABSOLUTE [...] (C) In an October 19 meeting with visiting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Daniel Fata, Italian Chief of Defense ADM Di Paola said that concluding the Sigonella Technical Arrangement in the near future was "an absolute necessity." Di Paola said that, if there were to be a change of gove [...]	2005-10-26 14:38:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS MARR IT NATO FORCES IN ITALY
05ROME3597	UN REFORM, IRAN: VISIT OF IO A/S SILVERBERG [...] (C) Summary. Italian officials told visiting A/S Silverberg they would look at any UNSC reform proposal except national permanent seats, such as the G4 proposal. They agree on the importance of moving forward before the end of the year on UN Secretariat reform, the Peace Building Commission, [...]	2005-10-26 16:34:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KUNR XF IT UNSC
05ROME3598	BMENA FUND FOR THE FUTURE: ITALY SAYS NO EIB [...] (SBU) Econ MinCouns discussed European Investment Bank (EIB) participation in the Fund for the Future (REF A) on October 25 with Ignazio Angeloni, Finance Ministry Director General for International Finance Relations, and Stefania Bazzoni, Office Director for EIB Affairs. Both thought that t [...]	2005-10-26 18:10:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID EFIN EINV EU IT PGOV PHUM PREL
05ROME36	US-ITALIAN WORKING GROUP MEETS ON GLOBAL DEFENSE [...] (S) SUMMARY. PM DAS Bue and OSD Strategy Director Pavel led a joint State-DOD delegation to Rome on December 7 to discuss anticipated US Global Defense Posture Review (GDPR) changes and work through details on reshaping our presence in Italy. In working group discussions with an Italian dele [...]	2005-01-05 13:18:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	PARM PREL KPAO IT GLOBAL DEFENSE
05ROME3600	SCENESETTER FOR TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY MINETA'S [...] (C) Summary. Italy has been a key U.S. ally and steadfast partner. Italy is the third largest contributor of troops to coalition forces in Iraq, the largest contributor to NATO Balkans operations, and commands international security assistance forces (ISAF) and a Provincial Reconstruction T [...]	2005-10-27 10:48:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	EAIR ELTN EWWT IT OTRA OVIP AVIATION
05ROME3609	ITALY SEEKS "PARALLELISM" TO BREAK DOHA TALKS [...] (SBU) Summary: Embassy Rome has met with senior officials in the Vice Ministry of Trade and Ministries of Agriculture and Foreign Affairs to urge the GOI to support EU Trade Commissioner Mandelson on a new EU proposal on agricultural market access within the "negotiating zone" of the USG an [...]	2005-10-28 04:30:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR ETRD IT EU WTO
05ROME3630	IRAQ: ITALY PRAISES REFERENDUM RESULTS [...] (U) The Italian government hailed the success of the Iraqi constitution as an historic step in October 25 and 26 statements from Prime Minister Berlusconi, President Ciampi, Foreign Minister Fini and Defense Minister Martino. Translations of the statements are reprinted below. 2. (U) Begin [...]	2005-10-28 17:09:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV IZ IT KDEM KPAO IRAQI FREEDOM
05ROME3631	IRAN: ITALY SENDS TOUGH MESSAGE [...] (C) Summary. Prime Minister Berlusconi publicly condemned the statements made by Iranian President Ahmadinejad. The MFA also immediately phoned the Iranian Ambassador in Rome to protest upon hearing Ahmadinejad's remarks, following up with a short public statement on its web site. The Mayor [...]	2005-10-28 17:44:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM IR IT ITALIAN POLITICS
05ROME3632	PM BERLUSCONI'S FOCUS WILL BE IRAQ TROOP LEVELS [...] (U) The Ambassador called on PM Silvio Berlusconi on the eve of Berlusconi's trip to Washington for his meeting with POTUS. Berlusconi was accompanied by Under Secretary for the Council of Ministers Gianni Letta, Special Assistant Valentino Valenti, Diplomatic Counselor Gianpaolo Scarante and [...]	2005-10-31 06:19:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	PREL PGOV MOPS IZ IT IRAQI FREEDOM
05ROME3638	AFRICA GROUP SEEKS STRONG MANDATE FOR RE- [...] (SBU) On October 31, Egyptian Ambassador Helmy Bedeir (current chair of the Africa Regional Group in Rome) and Senegalese Ambassador Papa Cheikh Saadibou Fall (representing the nominating country) called on Ambassador Hall in order to seek USG support for the re- election of Dr. Jacques Diou [...]	2005-10-31 14:40:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC EAGR EAID KUNR XA FAO
05ROME3640	CHAVEZ STEALS THE SPOTLIGHT AS LATIN AMERICAN [...] (C) Summary. Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi delivered our message on consolidating democracy and ensuring respect for human rights to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez during their meeting October 17 in Milan. Chavez was in Italy for the October 17 UN Food and Agriculture Organization's 60th Ann [...]	2005-10-31 17:17:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL XM XL IT HUMAN RIGHTS
05ROME3669	ITALY DEFERS TO EU ON ALEMAN, BOLIVIA SUPPORT GROUP [...] (C) Summary. Italy will defer to EU policies on denying safe haven to Jose Aleman (reftel A),and endorsing the Bolivia Support Group message (reftel B),according to MFA officials. Italy shares U.S. concerns about the political developments in Nicaragua, but is encouraged by what it sees as [...]	2005-11-03 16:17:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCRM BL IT EUN
05ROME3671	ITALIAN VIEWS ON NOVEMBER 7 EU FOREIGN MINISTERS' [...] (C) Summary. Post delivered ref d points to MFA interlocutors during the week of October 31. The GOI supports the US position on Middle East, Balkans, and Avian Flu issues. Progress on WTO issues, however, will depend on the whether there is movement on issues of key importance to the GOI - [...]	2005-11-03 16:47:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PREL BO KPAL ETRD IT EUN EAGER
05ROME3697	ITALIAN DEFENSE BUDGET: PM'S OFFICE SEES PROPOSED [...] (C) After hearing in the past few weeks from the Chief of the Italian Defense General Staff and the Minister of Defense that cuts envisioned by the proposed Italian defense budget for 2006 would put Italian defense spending in the range of 0.85-to-0.9 percent of GDP, jeopardizing Italian parti [...]	2005-11-04 16:05:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS MARR ECON IT NATO IRAQI FREEDOM
05ROME372	GOI OPEN TO U.S. SUGGESTIONS ON MILAN/LINATE [...] (SBU) On January 20, the MFA hosted an inter-ministerial meeting to coordinate U.S.-Italy consultations on the Linate code-sharing issue. Italy has proposed February 15-16 consultations in Washington. The GOI delegation is interested in USG views, yet remains convinced after the MFA meeting [...]	2005-02-04 08:05:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR KTIA IT AVIATION
05ROME3729	SERBIA/MONTENEGRO AMBASSADOR'S VIEWS ON RELATIONS [...] (C) Summary. On November 8, Poloff met with Amb. Darko Uskokovic, Serbia/Montenegro Ambassador to Italy to discuss his views on the bilateral relationship between SaM and Italy and a possible Montenegrin referendum for independence. Uskokovic, a politically-appointed Ambassador who is close to [...]	2005-11-09 15:15:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR IT MW SR NATO
05ROME3758	GOI: FRENCH-STYLE RIOTS NOT SHORT TERM ISSUE [...] (C) Italian politicians and the media have closely followed the riots in France, inevitably asking the question as to whether the Italian periphery could also burn. Ministry of Interior Giuseppe Pisanu told the media November 13, "The Italian peripheries are not comparable to the Parisian banl [...]	2005-01-14 17:25:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF PREL PTER IT ITALIAN POLITICS
05ROME3763	IRAQ: TALABANI IN ROME URGES NO HASTY TROOP MOVES [...] (C) Summary. During his November 7-13 visit to Italy, Iraqi President Talabani discussed current developments in Iraq and Iraqi relations with Syrian, Iran and Turkey with Embassy officials. Talabani received assurances from Italian center-left leaders that they would not withdraw Italian tr [...]	2005-11-15 10:22:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PARM PREL PGOV IZ IT UNSC IRAQI FREEDOM NATO
05ROME3765	ITALY ON SUDAN AND SOMALIA [...] (C) Summary. Italian MFA U/S Mantica will travel to Sudan November 16-21, making stops in Khartoum, Darfur, and Juba. Implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) will be at the top of the agenda. Italy is pleased with its seat on the Sudanese Assessment and Evaluation Commission [...]	2005-11-15 10:49:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SO SU IT HUMAN RIGHTS
05ROME3767	SCENESETTER FOR DHHS SECRETARY MICHAEL LEAVITT'S [...] (C) Ambassador Spogli and Minister of Health Francesco Storace warmly welcome your visit to Italy to further our already excellent relations in health cooperation. Italy has been a key U.S. ally and steadfast partner. Italy is the third largest contributor of troops to coalition forces in [...]	2005-11-15 12:54:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	IT OTRA OVIP PREL SOCI TBIO FAO
05ROME3774	GOI: FRENCH-STYLE RIOTS NOT SHORT TERM ISSUE [...] (C) Italian politicians and the media have closely followed the riots in France, inevitably asking the question as to whether the Italian periphery could also burn. Ministry of Interior Giuseppe Pisanu told the media November 13, "The Italian peripheries are not comparable to the Parisian banl [...]	2005-11-15 15:18:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF PREL PTER IT
05ROME3781	TERRORISM FINANCE: ITALIAN NAMES AND INFORMATION [...] (S/NF) This message provides Embassy Rome's reply to the NSC request for Italian names (Ref A),including radical Milan-based clerics, such as Abu Amad. We should note that we would likely enhance cooperation with key Italian officials if we could provide Milan prosecutor with information lin [...]	2005-11-16 11:27:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	EFIN IT KTFN PGOV PREL PTER ANTITERRORISM FORCE PROTECTION
05ROME3782	USUN ROME TRIP REPORT SOUTHERN AFRICA OCTOBER [...] (SBU/NOFORN) Summary. Between October 13 and 20 Michael Cleverley, DCM for USUN Rome and Richard Newberg, USAID Humanitarian Affairs Attach traveled to southern Zambia and central and southern Malawi on a fact-finding mission. The purpose of the trip was to witness the operations of WFP and F [...]	2005-11-16 11:58:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MI SF ZA WFP FAO
05ROME3787	SCENSETTER FOR NSC TOWNSEND'S VISIT TO ROME [...] (C) Summary. Your visit to Rome comes at an opportune time to press the Italians for increased detail and transparency about their security plans for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Turin. The Italian Ministry of Interior, which has been tasked with coordinating security for the Games, re [...]	2005-11-16 15:25:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	KOLY PTER PREL IT
05ROME3796	ITALY SEES NO POSSIBILITY TO DEPLOY EGF FOR [...] (C) Poloffs delivered ref demarche to MFA Central America and the Caribbean Office Director Paolo Miraglia and to Major Fabio Cairo, who handles European Gendarme Force policy for Carabinieri HQ Rome. Poloffs urged consideration of early European Gendarmerie Force (EGF) deployment, but both M [...]	2005-11-17 12:16:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL KPKO HA IT EUN
05ROME3797	OSCE/FCS: ITALY WILL NOT BLOCK PROGRESS AHEAD OF [...] (SBU) On November 16 Polmiloff received a response to Reftel demarche from Brunella Borzi, the MFA's office director for OSCE affairs. Borzi apologized for the delayed response saying she has been out of the country and wanted to first confer with the Italian delegation in Vienna before react [...]	2005-11-17 12:27:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	BE IT PARM PREL OSCE
05ROME3802	GOI SIGNS BLANKET END-USE, RETRANSFER, AND [...] (U) In May 2005, the Embassy delivered the USG verbal note transmitted in reftel to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). This note offered the GOI the opportunity to sign blanket end-use, retransfer, and security assurances for U.S.-origin defense articles, related training, or defense se [...]	2005-11-17 14:28:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	MASS IT EXPORT CONTROLS
05ROME3805	FINANCIAL ISSUES AT WORLD FOOD PROGRAM EXECUTIVE [...] Summary. At the Second Session of the World Food Program (WFP) Executive Board (EB) meeting on November 7- 11, 2005, the U.S. set into motion a series of steps to address concerns about WFP's financial management and reporting. WFP has now committed to develop for consideration reports on (1 [...]	2005-11-17 16:48:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID AORC PREF EAGR WFP
05ROME3827	ITALIANS WELCOME LEAD ROLE IN EU MISSION AT RAFAH [...] (C) Summary. NEA DAS Elizabeth Dibble held consultations with senior GOI officials on Middle East issues November 15. The GOI officials welcomed the recent agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority on reopening the Rafah crossing and noted that an Italian general would lead the EU [...]	2005-11-21 07:43:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL XF IT EUN
05ROME3828	MOI PISANU NO LONGER INTERESTED IN SAUDIS TRAINING [...] (C) Minister of Interior Pisanu told the Ambassador during the Ambassador's introductory call in late September that he had been developing a close working relationship with his Saudi Arabian counterpart (REFTEL). Pisanu spoke positively about a Saudi offer of assistance training imams operati [...]	2005-11-21 11:24:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL PGOV IT ITALIAN POLITICS
05ROME3838	CRISIS MANAGEMENT EXERCISE MISSION ITALY - DECEMBER 14 and 16, 2005. [...] (SBU) Mission Italy will host an unclassified Crisis Management Exercise (CME) on December 14 at Turin, Italy and December 16, at American Embassy Rome. The exercise will be facilitated by Douglas Kinney, Crisis Management Training Division, Leadership and Management School, Foreign Service In [...]	2005-11-21 16:51:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	DEPT OF STATE FOR DS AS DSS EX IP ITA CT EUR WE FSI LMS CMT CA OCS ACS POSTS RSO PSO
05ROME3841	OECD SECRETARY GENERAL: ITALY'S RESPONSE [...] (U) In response to reftel demarche, MFA Deputy Director General for Economic Cooperation and Multilateral Finance Massimo Leggeri November 18 told A/ECMIN and Econoff that the Government of Italy (GOI) has not yet decided whether to support the Mexican or Polish candidate. Leggeri believes t [...]	2005-11-21 17:48:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD EFIN IT OECD
05ROME3845	WITH COMPROMISE, GOI SEES HOPE FOR SUCCESSFUL HONG [...] (U) Summary: On November 8, Amadeo Teti, Vice Ministry of Trade Director General for Commercial Agreements, laid out for Acting EcMin the recipe for a successful Hong Kong Ministerial: (i) U.S. and EU compromise on key issues, (ii) collaborative work to build momentum in the negotiations, [...]	2005-11-22 09:37:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD EAGR ECON EU IT UN
05ROME3847	G-TIP AMBASSADOR MILLER'S VISIT TO ITALY [...] Summary. G-TIP Ambassador John Miller visited Rome, Turin and the Vatican October 24-29 to discuss trafficking in person issues. His meetings with government officials, NGOs and victims reaffirmed that Italy has excellent laws to combat trafficking, but implementation depends on a mixed re [...]	2005-11-22 10:16:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PHUM IT HUMAN RIGHTS
05ROME3855	SECOND REGULAR SESSION OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM [...] The Second Regular Session of the WFP Executive Board (EB) concluded with the approval of a host of administrative and programmatic matters, including: the WFP Biennial Management Plan for 2006-2007; special relief operations and projects totaling US$ 812 million; and a pilot weather insurance [...]	2005-11-22 14:55:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID AORC PREF WFP
05ROME3857	EMBASSY TOLD U.S. PARSONS WINS PROJECT MANAGEMENT CONTRACT TO OVERSEE CONSTRUCTION OF 7 BILLION DOLLAR BRIDGE (BUT WILL IT BE BUILT?) [...] Parsons Corp., a California-based engineering and construction firm, told the Embassy that it has provisionally been awarded the 120 million euro project management contract to oversee construction of the bridge to connect mainland Italy and Sicily. Italian engineering firm Impregilo had prev [...]	2005-11-22 17:25:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD EINV EIND IT
05ROME3868	ITALY: MINISTER OF JUSTICE PUBLICLY CRITICIZES [...] (SBU) On November 22, Minister of Justice Roberto Castelli took the unusual step of publicly criticizing a member of Italy's highly independent magistracy over his ability to properly handle a particular case. Castelli called Armando Spataro a "militant," meaning a communist. On November 12, [...]	2005-11-23 13:36:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IT ITALIAN POLITICS
05ROME3880	OSCE: ITALIANS FLEXIBLE ON BUDGET ISSUES, SEEKING [...] No summary [...]	2005-11-23 17:40:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	ABUD AFIN PREL EU PGOV IT OSCE
05ROME3881	ITALY JUDICIAL REFORM AND IPR, AN INITIAL [...] (SBU) Summary: GOI officials, including the Minister of Justice, have denied that the "ex- Cirielli" legislation to reform Italy's criminal justice system will have a major impact on IPR enforcement. A recently adopted amendment limits the bill's impact on current cases and reduces the like [...]	2005-11-23 18:03:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIPR ETRD EINV IT ITALIAN POLITICS
05ROME3882	ITALIAN-YEMENI COOPERATION ON BORDER CONTROL [...] (U) This is an action request: please see para 5. 2. (C) Italian Minister of Interior Giuseppe Pisanu visited Sanaa last week for talks with his Yemeni counterpart. According to Pisanu's Diplomatic Advisor, Ambassador Guido Lenzi, the most urgent bilateral issue discussed was Yemen's re [...]	2005-11-23 18:24:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER IT YE
05ROME3885	OSCE: ITALIANS FLEXIBLE ON BUDGET ISSUES, SEEKING [...] No summary [...]	2005-11-25 08:53:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	ABUD AFIN PREL EU PGOV IT OSCE
05ROME3890	TERRORIST FINANCE: ABU SSAYYAF GROUP [...] (S/NF) A/ECCOUNS and ECONOFF delivered November 23 Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) prenotification (ref A) to Cristina Collura, Director, Prevention of Financial Crimes, Ministry of Finance (MOF),and to Giampolo Cantini, MFA Office Director for G8 and Global Issues. Both MOF and MFA officials said t [...]	2005-11-25 15:43:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	EFIN ETTC IT KTFN PREL PTER ANTITERRORISM FORCE PROTECTION
05ROME3928	24TH ICCROM GENERAL ASSEMBLY [...] Summary: the 24th session of the General Assembly of the International Center for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) met November 9 - 11. The ICCROM Council recommended and the General Assembly approved the hiring of a new Director General. A real gr [...]	2005-11-30 08:43:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC AFIN KUNR ICCROM
05ROME3936	ITALY: ON IRAQ CENTER-LEFT MOVES RIGHT [...] (C) SUMMARY: DS Party Secretary Piero Fassino says that if a Center-Left government comes to power next spring it would withdraw troops from Iraq in close coordination with the Iraqi government, the U.S. and other allies. A DS Official told us that Center-Left PM candidate Romano Prodi had a [...]	2005-11-30 16:21:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MOPS IZ IT IRAQI FREEDOM ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS
05ROME3942	EXTENSION OF U.S.-ITALIAN MEMORANDUM OF [...] Mission Italy wholeheartedly endorses the proposed extension of the U.S. - Italian Memorandum of Understanding Concerning the Imposition of Import Restrictions on Categories of Archaeological Material Representing the Pre-Classical, Classical and Imperial Roman Periods of Italy, signed on Janu [...]	2005-12-01 07:41:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	OEXC SCUL KPAO IT
05ROME3949	AVIAN INFLUENZA: ENCOURAGING FAO TO DEVELOP A [...] Summary: USDA APHIS Administrator Ron DeHaven met with FAO veterinary officials Samuel Jutzi and Jan Slingenbergh on November 29 to discuss ways to improve collaboration between USDA and FAO on Avian Influenza. OIE official Alex Thiermann also participated in the meeting. FAO is currently [...]	2005-12-01 09:57:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR TBIO EAID AORC FAO OIE
05ROME3957	ITALY WANTS BROADER ROLE IN AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) Summary. MFA Director General for Asia Claudio Pacifico told the DCM on November 29 that Italy wants to play a larger role in Afghanistan and made an appeal for closer cooperation on policy with the U.S. He noted that the GOI was reassessing its participation in Afghanistan with an eye t [...]	2005-12-01 17:02:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PINR AF IT AFGHANISTAN
05ROME3961	ITALY INSISTS IT IS FIRM ON PRESSURING RUSSIA ON [...] (C) Summary. On December 1, Poloff met with Dr. Susanna Schlien of the OSCE office of the Italian MFA to discuss the US position on a possible ministerial declaration during the OSCE Ljubljana summit. Poloff noted that the USG believed that no ministerial message might be better than one whic [...]	2005-12-01 17:40:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EU PGOV IT OSCE
05ROME3976	AVIAN INFLUENZA: FAO HOLDS SPECIAL EVENT DURING [...] Summary. During the 33rd session of the FAO Conference, FAO hosted a side event on Avian Influenza on November 23rd (septel on the FAO Conference will be issued shortly). The aim was to update the membership on recent developments and the action taken by FAO as well as provide an outline for [...]	2005-12-02 15:06:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR EAID SENV SOCI TBIO FAO OIE WHO
05ROME3978	ITALY TRANSPORT MINISTER LAMENTS POOR [...] (SBU) Summary: In an introductory courtesy call with the Ambassador, Italian Minister of Infrastructure and Transport Pietro Lunardi criticized the poor state of Italy's infrastructure, and said the situation was holding back Italy's tourism industry. Lunardi was pleased with Transportation S [...]	2005-12-02 15:19:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELTN EWWT EAIR OTRA IT ITALIAN POLITICS
05ROME3980	AMBASSADOR TONY P. HALL VISITS GUATEMALA: CHRONIC [...] Six weeks after Hurricane Stan swept through Guatemala, I visited the country from November 12 to 15 to assess the food security situation and efforts to restore the nation's infrastructure. Damage to foodstocks and infrastructure has made emergency assistance challenging; reconstruction will [...]	2005-12-02 16:49:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EAGR AORC GT CONGRINT FAO WFP
05ROME3994	OLYMPIC SECURITY COORDINATOR - TURIN - MONTHLY [...] No summary [...]	2005-12-05 16:44:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC KOLY IT AMGT
05ROME3996	ELECTORAL REFORM CREATES INTRA-COALITION BATTLES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Political strategists tell us that electoral reform legislation likely to be approved by the Italian Senate in the coming weeks will force coalition members to run against each other in the 2006 electoral campaign. Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi and his centrist coalition pa [...]	2005-12-06 08:21:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV IT ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS
05ROME3998	ADVISOR ON HOMELAND SECURITY TOWNSEND'S VISIT TO [...] (C) Summary. During a series of meetings with law enforcement and intelligence officials, Advisor to the President for Homeland Security Townsend delivered a consistent message on security for the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. We respect Italian capabilities and appreciate the cooperation [...]	2005-12-06 09:50:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	KOLY PTER OVIP IT ITALIAN POLITICS
05ROME4001	AGRICULTURAL TRADE AND POVERTY HIGHLIGHED IN [...] Summary: FAO will release the 2005 State of Food and Agriculture (SOFA) Report on December 7 at 11:00 am in Geneva. It will be available at www.fao.org shortly afterwards. The special focus of this year's report is Agricultural Trade and Poverty: Can Trade Work for the Poor? The report c [...]	2005-12-06 11:58:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ETRD EAID AORC FAO WTRO
05ROME4005	RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON "CLUSTER LEADS" STRATEGY [...] Summary. This message responds to reftel query of UN agencies regarding a strategy for more effective division of labor among these agencies in the field in meeting the needs of internally displaced persons (IDPs). USUN-Rome transmitted to the World Food Program (WFP) as the sectoral lead on [...]	2005-12-06 17:06:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREF EAGR AORC UN WFP FAO
05ROME4021	POTENTIAL UAV/CRUISE MISSILE TECH TRANSFER TO IRAN [...] (S) SUMMARY: Aldo Doria, Head of the Ministry of Productive Activities' Export Control Unit, told EconOff the export of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)/cruise missile components from Italy to the Netherlands for possible re-export to Iran is likely to occur by December 20. The Italian firm i [...]	2005-12-07 16:36:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	ETTC PARM PREL IR NE IT MTCR EXPORT CONTROLS
05ROME4023	INTERIOR MINISTER ON OLYMPICS SECURITY, MUSLIM [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Minister of Interior and Chief of Police DeGennaro December 6 expressed readiness to cooperate fully with the USG on Olympics security issues. Besides the Olympics, Italian security authorities had identified 13,000 potential targets around the country and instituted measures [...]	2005-12-07 17:10:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ASEC PTER EFIN PGOV IT ANTITERRORISM FORCE PROTECTION
05ROME4027	REPORT OF THE 33ND FAO CONFERENCE, INCLUDING THE [...] At the meetings of the Conference and Council of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO),held in Rome from 16 to 28 November 2005, member governments discussed international anti-hunger, food policy and agricultural trade issues, and the key institutional questions of the organization [...]	2005-12-09 12:11:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR AORC EAID ETRD SENV KUNR FAO WFP
05ROME4028	ABU MAZEN CALLS FOR ACTIVE EU ROLE IN PEACE [...] Summary: On a two-day official visit to Italy, Abu Mazen underlined PA commitment to the Roadmap and called for a vigorous EU role in the peace process. He said Palestinians had chosen the path of democracy and called on Israel to remove all obstacles to the conduct of elections, including i [...]	2005-12-09 12:20:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL XF IS IT PLO MEPP
05ROME4029	2005 INCSR SUBMISSION FOR ITALY (PART I) [...] Summary. The Government of Italy (GOI) is firmly committed to the fight against drug trafficking domestically and internationally. The Berlusconi government continues its strong counternarcotics stand with capable and effective Italian law enforcement agencies. Italy is a consumer country [...]	2005-12-09 13:59:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR IT EUN
05ROME4046	IPR Public Education in Italy: Refining the [...] Uneven IPR enforcement by police remains a problem in Italy, but a lack of respect for intellectual property among the general public also represents a significant hurdle. Some 20 percent of Italian consumers, according to a recent poll, admit to buying fakes. The Embassy, in cooperation wit [...]	2005-12-13 08:18:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	KIPR ETRD EINV IT EUN
05ROME4047	ITALIAN FOREIGN MINISTER CONDEMNS ASSASSINATION OF [...] (U) Post delivered reftel statements to the MFA and Prime Minister's office on December 13. Foreign Minister Fini had already issued a statement condemning the assassination on December 12. Embassy translation of Fini's statement is provided below. 2. Begin text. Italy strongly condemn [...]	2005-12-13 10:14:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV PTER LE SY IT UN
05ROME4052	ITALIANS FOCUS ON LONG-TERM IN IRAQ, SEEK [...] (C) Summary. In meetings with the Deputy Senior Coordinator for Iraq Robert Deutsch, Italian government officials stressed the need for the continued involvement and commitment of the international community in Iraq. The Prime Minister's office suggested a UN Presidential statement would hel [...]	2005-12-13 15:47:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL PGOV IZ IT UNSC IRAQI FREEDOM NATO
05ROME4060	MOI EXPELS MOHAMMED DAKI: ITALY'S 13 IN 2005 [...] (C) SUMMARY: Minister of Interior Giuseppe Pisanu expelled Moroccan national and suspect terrorist Daki Mohamed on December 10, returning him to Morocco. Tunisian national and terrorist suspect Gharsellaoui Mohamed Akremi was also expelled December 10. In a December 11 press release, Pisanu [...]	2005-12-14 16:06:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV ASEC IT ANTITERRORISM FORCE PROTECTION
05ROME4064	PRODI SEES CENTER-LEFT LEAD, PLEDGES NO SURPRISES [...] (C) Center-left leader Romano Prodi December 14 called on the Ambassador at the embassy. The center-left leader broke no new ground on domestic or foreign issues and appeared to have no obvious agenda with us except to establish a dialogue. In the meeting, which took place at his initiativ [...]	2005-12-15 15:48:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IT ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS
05ROME4071	IRAQ: ITALY PRAISES IRAQI ELECTIONS [...] (U) PM Berlusconi issued a statement on December 15 praising the Iraqi elections as a further step on the road to democracy. Noting that first indications suggested a significant Sunni turnout, Berlusconi said the vote also marked a strike against the insurgents. The statement also noted It [...]	2005-12-16 14:50:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	KDEM KPAO PREL PGOV IZ IT IRAQI ELECTIONS
05ROME4072	USITC FIVE YEAR REVIEW: ANTIDUMPING AND/OR [...] (U) In response to reftel request for industry-wide data on production and export of C20000-series brass sheet and strip, Post contacted the Ministry of Productive Activities (MPA) and the National Association of Non-Ferrous Metals Industries (ASSOMET). While they were unable to provide us [...]	2005-12-16 14:58:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD OTRA ECON ASEC IT EXPORT CONTROLS
05ROME4074	ITALY: 2005 COUNTRY REPORTS ON TERRORISM [...] (U) Please find post's proposed text for the Italian section of the 2005 Country Report on Terrorism. Begin text: Italy has been a staunch ally in the war against terror. Italy works to fight terrorism within its borders, cooperates internationally, and participates with a strong military [...]	2005-12-16 16:49:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER ASEC IT EUN
05ROME4075	ITALY POSITIVE ON U.S.-EU AIR SERVICES AGREEMENT [...] Summary: Officials at the Italian Ministries of Transport and Foreign Affairs say Italy will be supportive of the U.S.-EU Air Services Agreement, provided the Department of Transportation follows through with proposed rule changes. End summary. 2. Econoff delivered reftel points to Maria Cr [...]	2005-12-19 09:32:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR ETRD ECON IT EUN AVIATION FAA
05ROME4080	ITALY: IMPACT OF AVIAN INFLUENZA ON POULTRY MARKET [...] (U) This message responds to reftel regarding the impact of avian influenza on the Italian poultry market. GOI efforts to control avian flu and the GOI's ability to respond to an influenza pandemic will be reported septel. Please note that the United States does not export poultry meat to [...]	2005-12-19 12:20:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD EAGR TBIO IT USTR
05ROME4083	AMB. TAHIR-KHELI'S VISIT PRODUCES IMMEDIATE [...] (C) Summary. Amb. Shirin Tahir-Kheli, Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State on UN Reform, had meetings with Italian FM Gianfranco Fini, senior MFA officials, and senior officials in PM Berlusconi's office December 12 and 13. Amb. Tahir-Kheli highlighted U.S. reform priorities, stressed the [...]	2005-12-19 14:13:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	KUNR IT UNGA
05ROME4092	ITALY WILL SEND ASSISTANCE TO OAS COLOMBIA MISSION [...] MFA Office Director for South America Pietro Benassi confirmed December 16 that Italy would provide support for the OAS Mission to Support the Peace Process in Colombia, as requested in Reftel A demarche. Italy had not yet decided whether it would provide monetary assistance to the mission or [...]	2005-12-20 09:03:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PTER CO IT UN
05ROME4093	INVESTING IN ITALIAN SUPPORT FOR NATO: [...] (U) Summary. On December 8-10, five Italian foreign affairs advisors to government and opposition political parties took part in a highly successful "Opinion-Makers" NATO tour with follow-on to Afghanistan. In addition to educating Italian policymakers about NATO, the tour's purpose was to de [...]	2005-12-20 09:48:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV OPRC MOPS IT AF NATO AFGHANISTAN
05ROME4107	FRATTINI TO FLOAT EU BALKANS ROADMAP [...] (SBU) Summary. The Italian MFA December 19 hosted a conference on Balkans issues attended by Albanian Foreign Minister Besnik Mustafaj, Vice President of the European Commission Franco Frattini, and members of the Italian MFA Department for Balkan Affairs. Frattini stated that on January 9, [...]	2005-12-20 15:28:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KDEM YI SR MW IT BI

05ROME4113	ITALIAN PREPAREDNESS FOR AVIAN/PANDEMIC INFLUENZA [...] (U) Information on avian/pandemic influenza preparedness in Italy is keyed to categories and questions in reftel. A) PREPAREDNESS/COMMUNICATION ----------------------------- 2. (SBU) Does the government of Italy have a preparedness plan/strategy for preventing avian flu (AI) from becomi [...]	2005-12-20 16:44:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO SENV ECON EAGR EAID PREL IT FAO
05ROME4116	ITALIANS RESPOND FOR EGF ON HAITIAN DEPLOYMENT [...] Following on Rome's initial response (Ref A) to the request for a European Gendarmerie Force (EGF) deployment in advance of the Haitian elections (Ref B),Italy, as current president, has provided a letter to Embassy Rome on behalf of the EGF affirming that the force is not yet fully operation [...]	2005-12-21 12:39:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	MARR PREL KPKO HA IT EUN
05ROME4124	TERRORISM FINANCE: FOLLOW-UP ON UNSCR 1624, ITALY [...] (S/NF) Finance Ministry DG for Financial Crimes, Giuseppe Maresca, told A/Ecoun and Econoff December 20 that the Italian Financial Security Committee (FSC -- equivalent level to USG PCC) in its December meeting considered the USG proposal to jointly propose the designation of Bouchta Bouriki ( [...]	2005-12-21 17:24:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	CVIS EFIN IT KSEP KTFN KVPR PREL PTER ANTITERRORISM FORCE PROTECTION
05ROME4125	OECD - EXPORT CREDITS; BRIBERY WORKING GROUP [...] (U) As instructed, EconOff delivered reftel demarche November 15 to Roberto Pecoraio, Director of the Legal Department for SACE, Italy's Export Credit Agency. Pecoraio said in general Italy supported the OECD Secretariat's proposed Action Statement on Measures to Deter Bribery (in granting e [...]	2005-12-21 17:51:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD EFIN IT OECD EXPORT CONTROLS
05ROME4134	UNIDROIT GENERAL ASSEMBLY MEETING OF DECEMBER 1 [...] Summary: the General Assembly of the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) met on December 1 to review the organization's work and to approve the budget for 2006 and the program of work for the upcoming triennium (2006-08). The Secretary General (SYG) provided [...]	2005-12-22 17:01:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC ABUD UNIDROIT
05ROME4155	WITH A WARY EYE ON RUSSIA AND THE MIDDLE EAST, [...] (SBU) Summary. Italy's Productive Activities Minister says Italy and the EU are too dependent on Russian energy, and that truly developed countries should be self-sufficient in energy. Italy is actively pursuing alternative energy sources, such as biomass fuel, hydrogen energy, and solar p [...]	2005-12-27 15:46:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG PGOV PREL KDEM SA IR IS IT IQ RU
05ROME4169	IRAQ - ITALY REQUESTS HELP TO DISBURSE SOFT LOANS [...] This is an action request. Please see Para 4 below. 2. (SBU) Federika Ferrari Bravo, MFA Coordinator for Economic Assistance to Iraq, asked December 6 for U.S. help to complete an Italy-Iraq loan agreement to permit Italy to disburse a five million euro soft loan to reestablish the Iraqi [...]	2005-12-29 11:52:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID EFIN PHUM PK PREL IT IZ IRAQI FREEDOM AVIATION FAA
05ROME4182	U.S. Terror Victims Accuse Italy of Siding with [...] Lawyers of the families of three U.S. victims of Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel in 1995 and 1996, to whom a U.S. Court in 2003 awarded USD 523 million in damages against Iran, have accused Italy of siding with Iran in the legal battle to collect damages from Iran's assets here. The lawyers [...]	2005-12-29 17:05:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN PGOV IR IT KPRP ANTITERRORISM FORCE PROTECTION
05ROME4186	GOI CHARTS THE WAY FORWARD AFTER WTO MINISTERIAL [...] (SBU) Summary. Amadeo Teti, Vice Ministry of Trade Director General for Commercial Agreements, views the WTO Hong Kong Ministerial as an overall success and especially as "a win" for Brazil. Teti praised Pascal Lamy's leadership of the WTO, and predicted an agreement on the Doha Development [...]	2005-12-30 10:36:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD ECON IT EXPORT CONTROLS
05ROME4188	ITALY: AVIAN INFLUENZA POST CONTINGENCY PLANNING [...] (U) In response to ref A, Embassy Rome DCM met on December 14 with representatives from the following sections/agencies: Management, Consular, Science, Health Unit, Foreign Agriculture Service, Foreign Commercial Service, and Office of Defense Cooperation (ODC/DOD). The Regional Security O [...]	2005-12-30 11:08:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AMGT ASEC AMED CASC AEMR KFLO TBIO SENV EAGR ECON PREL IT AVIAN INFLUENZA
05ROME455	INVITATION TO JOIN AD-HOC UNIDROIT ELECTION [...] Summary: Mission received a January 27 letter from the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) to join an ad-hoc committee session on February 28. The session will examine possible changes to the organization's by-laws dealing with Governing Council elections, w [...]	2005-02-11 13:12:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC UNIDROIT
05ROME458	ITALY/BIOTECH: COEXISTENCE DECREE-LAW PASSED BY [...] (U) On January 25, 2005 the Italian Senate passed legislation on the coexistence of conventional, organic and biotech crops, approving a draft that had been passed by the Chamber of Deputies earlier in the month. The decree-law requires all of the Italian regions to produce their own coexis [...]	2005-02-11 13:24:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR ETRD TBIO KSCA IT
05ROME459	FAO UPDATE ON TSUNAMI DISASTER RESPONSE [...] Summary: At a briefing on 9 February for representatives of affected states and donor countries, FAO officials provided a progress report on the agency's response to the Asian tsunami disaster. FAO has received over $30 million in donor contributions and pledges. This exceeds the organizati [...]	2005-02-11 15:27:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EFIS PREF EAGR SENV AORC XO FAO
05ROME469	ITALIAN RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON U.S. INITIATIVE TO [...] (SBU) On February 7, 2005 SCICOUNS delivered reftel demarche to Counselor Giovanni Battista Iannuzzi, Director of Office VII (National Authority for Conventions on Nuclear, Bacteriological and Chemical Disarmament) of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Directorate General for Multilateral Polit [...]	2005-02-11 18:00:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KNNP PARM TRGY AORC IT IAEA
05ROME493	GOI LINATE DELEGATION LACKS CHIEF NEGOTIATOR [...] Italy's chief civil aviation negotiator and Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure (MOTI) Director General Dr. Aldo Sansone will not participate in February 17 consultations in Washington to settle a joint complaint filed by American and United Airlines on access to Linate airport. Dr. [...]	2005-02-15 11:13:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR IT KTIA AVIATION
05ROME494	ITALIAN MINISTER OF HEALTH INVITATION TO EXPAND [...] The Embassy has received a copy of a February 11, 2005 letter sent from Italian Minister of Health Girolamo Sirchia to HHS Secretary Leavitt proposing to expand the bilateral MOU on Health and Medical Sciences (2003) to include cooperation on obesity, diabetes, and complementary and alternati [...]	2005-02-15 12:35:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO SOCI IT
05ROME510	VWP/ITALY: UPDATE ON 10/26/05 DEADLINE AND [...] Summary: The Consul General updated the GOI on the status of the U.S. biometric passport program and drew attention to the upcoming deadline for biometric passports for Visa Waiver countries at a February 14 meeting with MFA Director General for Italians Abroad and Migration Siggia. Siggia [...]	2005-02-16 14:21:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	CMGT PREL IT CPPT
05ROME537	IRAQ: ITALIAN SENATE APPROVES CONTINUED FUNDING [...] SUMMARY: The Italian Senate has approved funding for Italy's continued military mission in Iraq. We expect the Chamber to follow suit when the measure is scheduled for a vote in the lower house in the coming weeks. END SUMMARY. 2. On February 16, the Italian Senate approved financing f [...]	2005-02-17 15:14:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV MOPS MARR IT IZ IRAQI FREEDOM AFGHANISTAN
05ROME574	Italy's 2005 budget - Smoke and Mirrors [...] For the last several years, Italy has relied on extraordinary one-off revenue measures and spending deferrals to avoid bumping up against the euro zone budget deficit/GDP ceiling of three percent. Finance Minister Siniscalco, a technocrat, has sworn off tax amnesties and pursued the most chal [...]	2005-02-22 09:14:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN ELAB PGOV IT KPRP ITALIAN POLITICS
05ROME629	SPECIAL 301 REVIEW, MISSION ITALY INPUT [...] Summary: Embassy Rome recommends that Italy remain on the 301 Watch List for 2005. Piracy rates, though showing some improvement in 2004, continue to be among the worst in Western Europe. Industry losses remain unacceptably high, wide-spread street vending of pirated and counterfeit goods c [...]	2005-02-25 05:44:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD IT KIPR
05ROME669	AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH FAO DIRECTOR GENERAL DIOUF [...] Summary. During a call on the FAO Director General (DG) the Ambassador raised several issues: -- The Ambassador outlined the US position on debt relief (ref A). Diouf said he agreed personally with the points we outlined, but his organization does not officially have a position. -- The [...]	2005-02-28 16:31:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD EAID EFIN EAGR FAO UN
05ROME684	ITALIAN JUSTICE: SLOW AND INCREASINGLY [...] Summary. The uproar over a Milan justice's decision to free accused terrorists because they allegedly fit the definition of guerrilla war-fighters (reftel) is only one indicator of ongoing problems in the Italian judicial system. At the inauguration of the judicial year, the Chief Prosecuto [...]	2005-03-01 13:06:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM ELAB PGOV IT
05ROME695	(S) MTAG: ADDITIONAL GOI REACTION TO POTENTIAL [...] (S) Ref B reports on the delivery of our January 13 demarche (ref C) to the MFA's Non-Proliferation Coordinator Carlo Tripepi, in which we informed the GOI that several Chinese firms intended to engage in proliferation-related activity with several Italian firms, including Galileo Avionica, Si [...]	2005-03-01 17:20:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	ETTC PARM PREL IT CH MTCR EXPORT CONTROLS
05ROME702	ITALY AGREES WITH PUBLIC STATEMENT; BELIEVES [...] No summary [...]	2005-03-02 15:02:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SO IT
05ROME706	ITALY WILL SUPPORT THE L.27 DECLARATION ON HUMAN [...] On March 1, SCICOUNS delivered points in reftel to the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and Health, and also to the Prime Minister's office. Counselor Alessandro Busacca, Head of Office I (UN Affairs) of the MFA's Directorate General for Multilateral Political Affairs and Human Rights, responded [...]	2005-03-02 17:17:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO KSCA IT UNGA
05ROME714	ITALIAN UNIONS ON COMPETITIVENESS, IRAN AND IRAQ [...] Summary. Italian unions, led by CGIL, have proposed a new plan to promote competitiveness that addresses structural weaknesses and the need for increased investment in education, training, infrastructure and R&D. It represents another step towards unity among the trade union confederations [...]	2005-03-03 13:55:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB PREL PGOV IR IT IRAQI FREEDOM
05ROME715	WFP EMERGENCY NEEDS ASSESSMENT UPDATE [...] Summary. At its third regular Executive Board session in October 2004, WFP presented an update on actions already taken and activities to be implemented in a 30-month timeframe that will enable it to strengthen "its competencies and capacities to ensure the quality, credibility, comparability [...]	2005-03-03 13:59:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EAGR PREF AORC WFP
05ROME746	MFA ON FINI'S BALKANS VISIT; DAS STEPHENS ROME [...] (C) Summary: The MFA told us that FM Fini's February 23-25 Balkans visit had been"constructive," and that Fini reassured his interlocutors that Italy would "maintain maximum attention" to the region. In Belgrade he pointed out that ICTY cooperation remains crucial for the region's advancemen [...]	2005-03-04 17:07:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SR IT KI EUN
05ROME747	UN COMMISSIONER FOR REFUGEES: ITALIAN CANDIDATE [...] (U) Italian Radical Party leader Emma Bonino came to Embassy Rome March 4 to meet NEA DAS Carpenter. Bonino's NGO "No Peace without Justice" is managing an aspect of the USG-GOI funded "Democracy Assistance Dialogue" under the G-8 Broader Middle East and North Africa initiative. 2. (C) Aft [...]	2005-03-04 17:09:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	IO IT PREF ITALIAN POLITICS
05ROME764	FAO AND THE NEXT DESERT LOCUST INVASION [...] Summary. USUN Rome has been actively engaging the United Nations (UN) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on the desert locust emergency in Sahelian West Africa and the Maghreb to determine FAO's preparedness for the next spring and summer 2005 locust control campaign. It has learned that [...]	2005-03-08 06:17:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EAGR PREF SENV XI XY UN FAO
05ROME779	CIVAIR: GOI RESPONSE TO VIOLATION OF FAA [...] The Italian National Civil Aviation Agency (ENAC) has responded to Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Case No. 2002EA01009 concerning alleged FAA regulation violations by Captain Giorgio Silvetti, an Alitalia Airlines pilot. The FAA requested ENAC investigate the alleged U.S. airspace inf [...]	2005-03-08 17:25:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR IT AVIATION
05ROME780	AD-HOC UNIDROIT ELECTION COMMITTEE MEETING [...] Summary: an ad-hoc committee of the International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) met on February 28 to discuss changes to the organization's by- laws that would guarantee geographic representation on the Governing Council. A general consensus formed around a minimalis [...]	2005-03-08 20:01:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC UNIDROIT
05ROME781	IRAQ/ITALY: ACCIDENTAL KILLING IN BAGHDAD, [...] (S) SUMMARY: In the last 24 hours PM Berlusconi has pressed hard for the establishment of some mechanism to show that Italy was an active participant in the investigation into the killing of Italian intel officer Nicola Calipari by US forces near Baghdad, which he could use to calm criticism o [...]	2005-03-08 20:11:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	PREL MOPS IT IZ IRAQI FREEDOM
05ROME795	MGLE01: ITALY INSISTS THAT SYRIA COMPLY WITH UNSC [...] (U) Italy strongly insists, in both public and private statements, on the complete and swift withdrawal of all Syrian forces from Lebanon. FM Fini issued a public statement on March 8 (see para. 2),and our MFA interlocutors continue to press their Syrian counterparts as well. 2. (U) Begin [...]	2005-03-09 15:54:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL SY LE IT EUN
05ROME799	IRAQ/ITALY: FM FINI SPEAKS TO PARLIAMENT ON [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified, please protect accordingly. 2. (U) Summary: DPM/FM Gianfranco Fini told the Chamber of Deputies March 8 that the March 4 killing by a U.S.patrol of Italian SISMI official Nicola Calipari near Camp Victory in Baghdad was "certainly an accident" but that there [...]	2005-03-10 05:27:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MARR PREL PGOV MOPS EAID MCAP IZ IT IRAQI FREEDOM
05ROME807	ITALIAN SUPPORT FOR USG STATEMENT ON KOSOVO PM [...] (SBU) MFA Balkans Office Director Raimondo De Cardona told poloff March 7 that the elements of the US statement on Kosovo PM Haradinaj's resignation contained were excellent. He was in the process of drafting Italy's statement, and would have liked to have followed our lead and been more dire [...]	2005-03-10 11:50:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM PGOV SR YI KAWX ICTY
05ROME819	LETTER FROM ITALIAN PRESIDENT CIAMPI TO PRESIDENT [...] Please deliver following message from President Ciampi to President Bush. 2. Begin Text. Mr. President, Dear George, I appreciate the sincerity of the words of solidarity you have addressed to me after the tragic accident in Iraq which caused the death of Nicola Calipari and the woundi [...]	2005-03-10 17:17:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	OPDC PREL IT US IRAQI FREEDOM
05ROME820	IRAQ: ITALIAN ASSISTANCE TO DATE TOTALS EURO 78M [...] (U) Summary: The Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports the GOI spent Euro 78 million ($101 million) on Iraq aid in 2003-2004. For 2005, the GOI plans to disburse about Euro 30 million ($39 million) in additional reconstruction assistance, though this figure represents an estimate, rather [...]	2005-03-10 17:45:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON EFIN IT IZ IRAQI FREEDOM
05ROME821	IRAQ/ITALY: PM BERLUSCONI SPEAKS TO THE SENATE ON [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified, please protect accordingly. 2. (U) Summary: Italian PM Berlusconi stressed to the Senate March 9 the importance of the U.S.'s "unprecedented" decision to allow Italy to participate in the investigation of the circumstances that led to the March 4 killing of [...]	2005-03-11 05:18:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MARR PREL PGOV MOPS EAID MCAP IZ IT IRAQI FREEDOM
05ROME857	DEPARTING IRANIAN AMBASSADOR MAY SEEK SENIOR FAO [...] (SBU) Mohammad Saeid Noori-Naeni, who has served as Iran's Ambassador to the UN agencies in Rome since 1994, returns to his academic roots in Iran this month to become Rector of the University of Tehran. Indications are that the Iranian diplomat, who is popular in Rome, may be contemplati [...]	2005-03-14 15:48:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC EAGR KUNR PINR PREL IR FAO
05ROME858	U.S.-ITALY INVESTIGATION INTO DEATH OF ITALIAN OFFICIAL CALIPARI IN IRAQ [...] (SBU) By exchange of letters dated March 12, the Embassy concurred with the Terms of Reference (TOR) for the subject investigation as proposed by the GOI. The Italian letter containing the proposed TOR follows the text reported in para 7 of reftel and was signed by Undersecretary in the Prime [...]	2005-03-14 16:18:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL MOPS IT IZ IRAQI FREEDOM PHUM
05ROME860	ITALY WILL DONATE TO FAO EXTERNAL EVALUATION [...] No summary [...]	2005-03-14 17:23:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC EAGR IT KUNR FAO
05ROME861	ITALY ON GAERC AGENDA: NO CONSENSUS FOR CROATIA [...] (C) MFA EU-CFSP Director Luigi Mattiolo told poloff that no Member States expect Ministers to approve a start date for Croatian accession talks at the March 16 GAERC. He predicted Ministers would urge completion of the EU's own bureaucratic preparations for negotiations to start, while underli [...]	2005-03-14 17:39:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IT EUN
05ROME877	REVIEW OF FAO's EMERGENCY PROGRAMS [...] Summary. At a March 1 briefing, FAO's assistant director general for technical cooperation, Henri Carsalade gave a general review of FAO's programs in 2004 and challenges for 2005. He also provided an update on FAO's continuing efforts to control desert locusts in north and west Africa, fund [...]	2005-03-15 15:59:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EAGR PREF SENV UN FAO
05ROME878	SYRIA/LEBANON: ITALY GETS OFF THE FENCE ON [...] (C) Summary. Italian MFA officials agreed to forward our "strong and important" message on the April 6 visit of Syrian FM Shara'a to Rome to FM Fini, who will make the decision. One official argued, though, that it is in the United States' broader interest to have the meeting take place in ord [...]	2005-03-15 17:05:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	KTFN PREL SY LE IT EUN
05ROME886	IRAQ/ITALY: BERLUSCONI SAYS ITALY TO BEGIN [...] (C) On March 15, PM Berlusconi said in a TV interview that Italy would begin reducing its troop presence in Iraq in September, conditions permitting. He did not refer to any Italian draw-down in his presentations to the Senate last week and his statement caught Italian officials off-guard. De [...]	2005-03-16 11:52:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS IT IZ IRAQI FREEDOM AFGHANISTAN
05ROME897	ITALIAN AMBASSADOR TO TEHRAN SHARES INSIGHTS ON [...] (C) Summary. Italy's Ambassador to Iran believes that most Iranians favor better relations with the United States, but at the same time support Iran's efforts to obtain nuclear capabilities. The upcoming Presidential elections could help resolve this dilemma by offering prospects, if Rafsanjan [...]	2005-03-16 15:20:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PARM PREL TRGY MNUC IR IT IAEA
05ROME902	IRAQ/ITALY - TRANSCRIPT AND COMMENT ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: PM Berlusconi's comments on the March 15 edition of ""Porta a Porta,"" a popular television news/interview program, suggesting the withdrawal of Italian troops from Iraq beginning in September of this year, have made an impact in both the Italian popular press and in internatio [...]	2005-03-17 05:16:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS PGOV IT IZ IRAQI FREEDOM AFGHANISTAN
05ROME905	ITALY WILL MAKE NO COMMITMENTS TO CHINESE FM LI ON [...] (C) Drawing from points ref a, poloff reiterated with EU CFSP Office Director Luigi Mattiolo continued strong US concern over the possibility that the EU may lift its arms embargo against China within the next few months, and the damaging signal such a development could send to Beijing and to [...]	2005-03-17 08:36:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL CM IT EUN EXPORT CONTROLS
05ROME917	UNCHR 61: ITALIAN RESPONSES [...] (C) Laborcouns met 3/17 with Carlo Campanile, Director of the MFA's Human Rights Office, to deliver reftel points. Italy remains supportive of almost all U.S. positions on pending UNCHR resolutions but will continue to work primarily within the EU framework. Specific Italian concerns include [...]	2005-03-17 15:31:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL IT UNHRC
05ROME919	IRAQ/ITALY: PARLIAMENT APPROVES FUNDING FOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: On March 15, the Italian Chamber of Deputies gave final approval to extend through June 30 funding for Italy's military mission in Iraq. We expect funding to be extended for the July-December period without difficulty, given the size of the Government's majority. The subseque [...]	2005-03-17 16:44:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MOPS MARR IT IZ IRAQI FREEDOM AFGHANISTAN
05ROME921	ITALY SUPPORTS ENHANCED EU PRESENCE ON [...] (C) As reported ref b, MFA EU CFSP Director Luigi Mattiolo told poloff March 11 that the EU strategy at the moment would be to reinforce the office of the recently created EU Special Representative for the Caucuses, to include the 6 trainers mentioned in ref a. He underlined that this was an [...]	2005-03-17 17:24:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ZJ RS CG PBTS IT EUN OSCE
05ROME950	SOMALIA - ITALIANS SHARE CONCERNS OVER IGAD TROOP [...] (C) On March 18, MFA Somalia Desk Officer Stefano Dejak told PolOff that Italy shares U.S. concerns expressed reftel over possible IGAD troop deployment in Somalia. Italy has been speaking at length at high levels to the Ethiopian government, which is looking to IGAD protection of its own b [...]	2005-03-21 10:14:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SO IT
05ROME976	SYRIA/LEBANON: ITALY STILL PLANS TO HOST FM [...] (C) Summary. The Italian MFA has given serious consideration to our request that Italy postpone the April 6 visit of Syrian FM Shara'a but, barring major changes on the ground in Lebanon, still plans to go through with the visit. Rome continues to view engagement as the best way to deal with [...]	2005-03-22 11:47:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SY LE IT EUN
05ROME987	ITALY'S FOREIGN AID: LATE PAYMENTS, TSUNAMI RELIEF [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 10, the Italian parliament passed a special appropriation to: 1) allow Italy to make up its missed 2004 euro 100 million payment (euro=$1.33) to the Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, and Malaria; 2) fund a euro 70 million appropriation for tsunami-related aid; [...]	2005-03-22 17:07:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID IT
05ROME989	US-ITALIAN GOALS FOR BALKANS: "PLAYING THE SAME [...] (C) Summary. In meetings with MFA Political Director Terzi and European Affairs Director-General Caracciolo, DAS Stephens heard a strong Italian pledge of continued participation and cooperation with the US in the Balkans. Terzi said that Italy was focusing on a number of important issues, fr [...]	2005-03-22 17:17:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AL SR BS EUN HZ
06ROME1005	EUR DAS BRYZA DISCUSSES CASPIAN BASIN NATURAL GAS [...] (U) Summary: In March 17 meetings, GOI officials in the Ministries of Foreign Affairs, Productive Activities, and the Prime Minister's office concurred with EUR DAS Matthew Bryza's assessment of the risk to Italian and European energy security of Gazprom's dominance of natural gas shipments t [...]	2006-04-04 04:36:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ENRG EPET RU IR QA IT
06ROME1006	AVIAN INFLUENZA: WEEKLY UPDATE ON FAO ACTIVITIES [...] Summary: On March 28, USMISSION UN ROME met with FAO Animal Production and Health (AGA) and Emergency Operations and Rehabilitation (TCE) Divisions staff to discuss Azerbaijan; global Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) expert needs; personal protective equipment (PPE) needs in the West [...]	2006-04-04 07:16:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	KFLU EAGR EAID CASC SENV SOCI TBIO FAO WHO
06ROME1019	BERLUSCONI-PRODI DEBATE SHOWS CONTRAST: NO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Many commentators give PM Berlusconi a slight edge over challenger Romano Prodi in last night's second candidate debate. Berlusconi was more poised than in the first debate and offered a surprise proposal to eliminate local property taxes on every family's first home--a proposal [...]	2006-04-04 15:16:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON IZ IT ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS
06ROME1023	ITALY: SLOW DOWN ON ID FOR GEORGIA [...] (C) Responding to reftel demarche on April 4, MFA NATO Office Head Gianni Bardini told polmiloff that Italy considers it premature to invite Georgia into Intensified Dialogue (ID) with NATO at the April 13 meeting between Georgia and the Allies. Bardini said that, while Italy is open to think [...]	2006-04-04 15:54:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PREL GG IT NATO
06ROME1024	ITALY RESPONSE TO WHA SMALLPOX DEMARCHE [...] On March 31, per instructions in reftel, Rome delivered talking points to Dr. Vittorio Silano, Head of the Ministry of Health's Department of Innovation. On April 4, we received a reply from Dr. Maria Grazia Pompa, Head of Office V (Infectious Diseases and International Prevention) of the MO [...]	2006-04-04 17:38:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC TBIO PREL IT WHO
06ROME1025	ITALY'S FLEDGLING ISLAMIC CONSULTATIVE COUNCIL [...] (C) Summary: Interior Minister Pisanu's hand-picked Muslim Consultative Council continues to be controversial after its first two meetings. Criticism by both the right-wing Northern League Party and some members of the Muslim community convinced Pisanu to cancel the next meeting until afte [...]	2006-04-05 08:49:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	KISL PREL PGOV PTER IT HUMAN RIGHTS
06ROME1034	ITALY'S POST ELECTION LOTTO-MINISTRO [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Italy's April 9-10 national elections begin a political process that probably will not produce a new government until mid-May to mid-June. Presidents of the two legislative houses must be elected followed by a replacement for President of the Republic Carlo Azeglio Ciampi before [...]	2006-04-05 13:13:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV IT ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS
06ROME1071	VICTORY FOR GMOS HAS LITTLE POLITICAL/ECONOMIC [...] On March 17, the Italian Constitutional Court struck down a 2005 law prohibiting "coexistence," growing genetically-modified crops next to organic ones, and mandating criminal penalties for farmers violating the 2005 legal prohibitions. The law had had the practical effect of banning genetic [...]	2006-04-07 15:04:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ECON ETRD IT
06ROME1083	TRADE VICE MINISTER PLANS "COURAGEOUS" TRADE OFFER [...] (C) Summary. During an April 3 courtesy call by Ambassador Spogli, Trade Vice Minister Adolfo Urso was cautiously optimistic of a narrow center-right victory in this week's elections. He admitted that GOI positions on trade and the WTO have been driven by politics until now, but said a cent [...]	2006-04-10 16:09:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON ETRD IT ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS ITALIAN POLITICS
06ROME1090	AVIAN INFLUENZA: WEEKLY UPDATE ON FAO ACTIVITIES [...] USMISSION UN ROME staff covered the USDA/Washington April 3-6 meetings with FAO on providing U.S. experts for FAO's global efforts to combat Avian Influenza. A separate reporting cable will be issued. During some free periods this week, USMISSION UN ROME held brief discussions with FAO Anim [...]	2006-04-11 07:48:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	KFLU EAGR EAID CASC SENV SOCI TBIO FAO WHO AVIAN INFLUENZA
06ROME1093	PROTESTING THE IRANIAN REGIME'S TREATMENT OF [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-11 08:50:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PTER PHUM EUN KNNP IR IT
06ROME1107	NEXT STEPS IN ITALY'S CONTESTED ELECTION [...] (U) SUMMARY: In elections that showed Italy split down the political middle, center-left challenger Romano Prodi has apparently won a razor-thin majority over PM Silvio Berlusconi in the Italian Senate. His edge in the Chamber of Deputies was also close, but the voting bloc will be more subs [...]	2006-04-11 16:33:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IT
06ROME111	CRISIS MANAGEMENT EXERCISE FOR ROME, TURIN, MILAN [...] (SBU) On December 14 and 16, Embassy Rome, the Olympic Coordination Office in Turin, and Consulate Milan underwent a coordinated Crisis Management Exercise (CME) facilitated by the Foreign Service Institute's Office of Crisis Management Training. According to FSI, this was the first time a CME [...]	2006-01-12 15:46:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AEMR AMGT ASEC CA IT OCS ACS POSTS FOR RSO
06ROME1115	ITALY WAITS FOR VERIFIED ELECTION RESULTS: [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Opposition leader Romano Prodi has declared victory in Italy's parliamentary election while current PM Silvio Berlusconi has cautioned that infinitesimally close results call for caution until final results have been fully verified according to standard procedures. Two aspects [...]	2006-04-12 13:13:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IT
06ROME1149	AVIAN INFLUENZA: U.S. ASSISTANCE TO THE FAO/OIE [...] Summary: A USDA administrative team from FAS and APHIS visited FAO HQ in Rome April 3-6 to survey FAO resource needs and determine how best to provide personnel resources to assist with HPAI emergency response efforts. FAO is moving forward with plans to establish a Crisis Management Center [...]	2006-04-14 09:25:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	KFLU EAGR EAID CASC SENV SOCI TBIO FAO WHO AVIAN INFLUENZA
06ROME1150	BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3 CASE GC 0084-06 [...] EconOff and EconFSN visited Intermark Sistemi, SRL, headquarters April 12, and met with Administrative Director Francesco La Mesa. Founded in 1972, Intermark Sistemi recently split into two groups, Intermark Sistemi- focusing on the Italian market, and Intermark AvioSistemi (AvioSistemi)- wo [...]	2006-04-14 09:25:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC KOMC IT BLUE LANTERN
06ROME1159	COESPU AT SIX MONTHS: MAJOR ACHIEVEMENTS, U.S. [...] Summary and Action Request. The Center of Excellence for Stability Police Units (COESPU) in Vicenza, part of the larger Global Peace Operations Initiative (GPOI) (a Presidential initiative),has trained 127 gendarme peacekeepers from six countries in its first six months. New courses are se [...]	2006-04-14 12:27:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	KPKO MARR MOPS PREL PGOV IT
06ROME1162	ITALY: CERTIFIED VOTE RESULTS EXPECTED SOON [...] (C) A consensus is developing that the Italian Court of Cassation will issue certified election results next Tuesday, April 18, though reports that the recount could take a few days longer persist. UDC Party Secretary Lorenzo Cesa told the press that election results would not change, and FI [...]	2006-04-14 14:25:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IT ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS
06ROME117	ITALIAN MFA U/S MANTICA VISITS SOMALIA [...] (C) Summary. The Italian MFA's Undersecretary for Africa Alfredo Mantica met with Somali TFG PM Ali Gedi in Jowhar January 5, as Somali President Yusuf and Speaker of Parliament Hassan were signing the Aden Declaration in Yemen. According to the MFA, Gedi expressed support for the Declaratio [...]	2006-01-12 16:14:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SO IT UN
06ROME1173	GOI IN RECEIPT OF POINTS ON ELECTRIC CABLES [...] Embassy faxed reftel talking points on the EU Draft Commission Decision proposing fire safety standards for electrical cables to Amadeo Teti, Ministry of Productive Activities Director General for International Trade Agreements, on March 31. Subsequent repeated efforts to contact Mr. Teti we [...]	2006-04-18 14:40:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD
06ROME1174	ITALY SUPPORTS CURRENT EU BURMA POLICY [...] (C) Summary. Poloff delivered reftel demarche April 13 to Nicola Tassoni, MFA Deputy Southeast Asia Office Director, presenting U.S. concerns regarding some of the statements made at the EC 2006 Burma/Myanmar Forum, and highlighting the importance the U.S. places on coordinating our Burma mess [...]	2006-04-19 07:31:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	BM EAID EU PHUM PREF PREL IT
06ROME1182	ITALIAN VIEWS ON NATO GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP - [...] (C) Italy has a positive impression of the U.S. concept for a NATO Global Partnership and is interested in pursuing it further, but registered concerns about our presentation and approach, fearing we are moving too fast, without a clear enough sense of what partners want or expect, or of possib [...]	2006-04-19 15:45:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR IT NATO EUN
06ROME1183	ITALIAN CASSATION DECLARES RESULTS OFFICIAL: PRODI [...] (SBU) Italy's Court of Cassation finished verification procedures for Italy's contested parliamentary elections, confirming center-left challenger Romano Prodi's electoral victory over incumbent PM Silvio Berlusconi in the critical Chamber of Deputies. Though Berlusconi might continue to prot [...]	2006-04-19 17:10:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV IT ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS
06ROME119	IRAQ: ITALIANS WANT TO LEAD PRT, EVALUATING OTHER [...] (C) Summary. Italy would like to lead the PRT in Dhi Qar province, where it has considerable military and civilian experience. It sees this as a useful vehicle for an increasing focus on civilian activities as well as security training. Packaging the coalition's evolving role in Iraq in ter [...]	2006-01-12 17:09:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL PGOV IZ IT UNSC IRAQI FREEDOM
06ROME1194	GOI SUPPORTS USG POSITION ON RUSSIAN MEMBERSHIP IN [...] (C) Summary. Acting EcMin met April 12 with Carlo Tripepi, Senior Advisor for Non-proliferation and Trade Controls to the MFA's Director General for Economic Affairs, to deliver Refs A and C talking points and non-papers. Tripepi said the GOI position on Russian membership in the Australia G [...]	2006-04-20 12:07:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL MTCRE MNUC ETTC KSCA TSPA RS IT
06ROME1202	ITALY: BERLUSCONI STAYS MUM ON PRODI WIN [...] (C) PM Silvio Berlusconi has not yet conceded victory to opposition leader Romano Prodi even after Italy's Court of Cassation officially confirmed the electoral victory for Prodi on April 19. In the wake of the court's confirmation, congratulatory calls from world leaders began to flow into P [...]	2006-04-21 10:14:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IT
06ROME1203	ITALY: CODEL HYDE HEARS PLANS FOR A ROBUST [...] (C) Summary. Berlusconi U/S Gianni Letta told a visiting Codel Hyde delegation April 19 that, given a strong second-place showing in the elections, the center-right would play the part of a particularly robust opposition party when the new center-left government took office. He predicted t [...]	2006-04-21 10:20:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV OREP IT ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS
06ROME1207	PRODI AIDE SAYS NEW GOVERNMENT WILL FOLLOW EU [...] (C) Summary. Acting DCM told a senior Prodi advisor April 21 that the Center Left leader's phone conversation with the PA prime minister two days before had generated surprise and consternation in Washington, in view of US and EU policy against contact with senior Hamas officials. Prodi aide [...]	2006-04-21 15:39:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR KPAL PTER PGOV XF IT
06ROME1208	FAIR TREATMENT OF SEAFARERS, POINTS DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-21 16:51:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EWWT KTIA AORC ELAB UK IT IMO
06ROME1209	ITALY: PRODI ADVISER TALKS GOVERNMENT FORMATION, [...] (C) A senior adviser to Romano Prodi says President of the Republic Carlo Azeglio Ciampi has privately agreed to tap Prodi as PM-designate before Ciampi's term expires. If that happened, it could accelerate the government formation process by about two weeks, to mid-May. Levi also said he th [...]	2006-04-21 17:33:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MOPS KNNP PTER EUN IZ IR IT
06ROME122	AMBASSADOR PUTS DOWN MARKER WITH CENTER-LEFT ON [...] (C) Summary. The Ambassador on January 11 told Daisy Party leader Francesco Rutelli that the Center-Left could not begin its relationship with the United States in a worse manner than to unilaterally declare a withdrawal of Italian troops from Iraq in the event of a Center-Left victory in the [...]	2006-01-13 05:54:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IT IRAQI FREEDOM ITALIAN POLITICS ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS
06ROME1221	ITALY: PRODI ALLY LOOKS AHEAD ON IRAQ, HAMAS, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Head of the Democrats of the Left (DS) International Affairs Office adviser and newly elected member of parliament Luciano Vecchi told Poloff that Prodi would strictly follow EU policy with regards to Hamas. Vecchi also confirmed the Center-Left position on Iraq, reaffirming that [...]	2006-04-24 16:57:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MOPS KPAL IZ IT
06ROME1222	ITALY SHARES U.S. VIEWS ON UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [...] (C) April 11 PolMinCouns informed Giacomo Sanfelice, Deputy Director General for Political Multilateral Affairs, of Reftel A letter from Secretary Rice to FM Fini and explained the U.S. position on supporting candidate countries in the first UN Human Rights Council (HRC) elections. Poloff fol [...]	2006-04-24 17:17:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	KUNR OPDC PREL PHUM IT UNGA HUMAN RIGHTS
06ROME1230	ITALY BRIEFED ON U.S. KOSOVO POLICY [...] (C) April 20 Poloff briefed Raimondo de Cardona, MFA Balkans Office Director, and Maria Teresa di Maio, Kosovo Desk Officer, on U.S. Kosovo policy per reftel. De Cardona said it was useful to hear our policy laid out more comprehensively, noting that the GOI was already aware of the various c [...]	2006-04-26 11:10:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV YI EU IT
06ROME1246	ITALY ON BOARD WITH NATO'S MIDDLE EAST SECURITY [...] (C) Summary. Italy, a co-sponsor of the Middle East Security Cooperation Center (SCC) proposal, is fully on board with the concept but concerned about presentation. Italy believes the SCC must be fully co-sponsored with participating Middle East countries and does not favor launching it at t [...]	2006-04-26 13:16:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL NATO MARR IT
06ROME1261	ITALIAN POLITICIANS REACT WITH GRIEF AND [...] (C) Italian politicians reacted with grief, solidarity, and condemnation April 28 following the killing of three Italians and a Romanian in Nasiriya. PM Berlusconi said he was deeply grieved by the deaths and center-left leader Prodi called it a tragedy for all of Italy. One center-left party [...]	2006-04-28 05:10:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL UNSC PGOV EAID IZ IT
06ROME1272	MDA: ITALY REMAINS ON BOARD [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-28 09:37:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC PHUM PREF PREL IT ICRC HUMAN RIGHTS
06ROME1303	MILANO-MANHATTAN/EUROFLY: GOI HAS NOT AUTHORIZED, [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 1, Eurofly representatives told Rome TSA attache the company will start flying an all-business-class service between Milan-Linate and New York-JFK May 8, though an official at Italian aviation regulator ENAC said the agency has yet to approve the plan. Unless instructed [...]	2006-05-02 16:46:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR IT
06ROME1308	ITALY: 2005/2006 REPORT TO CONGRESS ON ALLIED [...] This unclassified cable is Embassy Rome,s contribution to the 2005 ) 2006 Report to Congress on Allied Contributions to the Common Defense. Post understands from Reftel, Paragraph 6, that DOD will secure significant quantitative data, including defense spending data, from other sources. Pos [...]	2006-05-03 08:25:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	JA KS KU MCAP PREL QA SA US MARR IT TC NATO
06ROME1317	ITALY: CHAMBER PRESIDENTS ELECTED, PRESIDENCY OF [...] (SBU) Italy's new parliament formally sat April 28 and subsequently voted Communist Renewal (RC) National Secretary Fausto Bertinotti President of the Chamber of Deputies and Daisy party leader Franco Marini President of the Senate. Both were contentious votes. As one of his first acts as Cha [...]	2006-05-03 15:48:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV IT
06ROME1322	ITALY'S INTERIM RESPONSE: NO IMMEDIATE FUNDS FOR [...] This is an action request. Please see para 4. 2. EconOff delivered reftel demarche April 14 to Maria Pia Dradi, Afghanistan Desk Officer for MFA's Office of Development Cooperation (ODC); and PolOff delivered reftel demarche April 18 to Anna Della Croce, MFA's Coordinator for Afghanistan [...]	2006-05-04 12:40:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PGOV PREL IT AF
06ROME1324	ITALY UNCERTAIN LISTING TAMIL TIGERS WILL PROMOTE [...] (C) Poloff discussed Ref demarche on May 3 with the MFA's Enrico Valvo of the counter-terrorism office and Giuseppe Cinti, Soth Asian Office Director. Both officials fully agreed that the suicide bombing last month was an abhorrent escalation and said Italy would continue denouncing all forms [...]	2006-05-04 13:03:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IT EUN
06ROME1325	ITALY WILL NOT VOTE FOR IRAN ON UN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-04 13:08:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	KUNR PHUM UNHCR PREL IT
06ROME1329	MIMA/EUROFLY, FLIGHTS WILL LIKELY GO FORWARD [...] (SBU) Summary: Italy's aviation authority appears to be acquiescing to the MiMa/Eurofly flights. ENAC's Vice Director General, Salvatore Sciacchitano, said that, barring a decision by his agency to deny permission, Eurofly could begin operating from Linate's general aviation terminal on a fl [...]	2006-05-05 04:30:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR IT

06ROME1335	GOI PARTICIPATION IN TRANSATLANTIC ENERGY [...] (C) As instructed reftel, DCM and A/Ecmin met April 28 with Dutch DCM Joost Reintjes and Senior Economic Advisor Chris Schoenmakers to discuss European energy security issues and GON plans for a May 18 Conference on Transatlantic Energy Security. DCM Reintjes requested USG assistance in dete [...]	2006-05-05 13:56:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG EPET ECON PREL IT EU
06ROME1347	IRAQ: ITALIAN MFA WARNS PRESSING TOO HARD ON QRF [...] (C) The Italian MFA does not foresee a change in Italy's policy of gradual troop reductions, in consultation with the Iraqis and coalition partners, in Iraq. Barring additional terrorist attacks, the MFA also does not expect major problems with funding renewal for the mission this summer. But [...]	2006-05-05 16:14:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL UNSC PGOV EAID IZ IT
06ROME1359	ITALY CONSIDERING APPROACH TO NORTH KOREAN FLAGS [...] (C) Econoff and Poloff delivered Reftel A points and information on the Italian vessel using a North Korean flag to Federico Failla, MFA Office Director for the Far East, April 28, and urged the GOI to consider a law or regulation to make it illegal for Italian nationals and companies to use D [...]	2006-05-08 10:47:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL KN KNNP MNUC EWWT PHSA IT
06ROME137	FM FINI'S MESSAGE TO BELGRADE LANDS ON DEAF EARS [...] (C) Summary. Italian FM Fini's recent visit to Belgrade failed to persuade Serbian PM Kostunica to accept the possibility that a decision on Kosovo's status could result in anything other than broad autonomy. Kostunica is convinced that the international community would be prevented by inter [...]	2006-01-13 16:44:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SR MW YI IT EUN
06ROME141	ITALY: ELECTORAL REFORM COULD BRING DIVIDED [...] (C) SUMMARY: In addition to impacts reported REF A and B, Italy's controversial electoral reform law introduces different systems for calculating results in the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate. In the Chamber of Deputies, the winning coalition receives a majority premium guaranteeing that [...]	2006-01-17 09:47:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IT ITALIAN POLITICS ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS
06ROME1410	ITALY: GIORGIO NAPOLITANO ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE [...] (SBU) Senator for Life Giorgio Napolitano May 10 was elected Italy's 11th President of the Republic by a simple majority in the fourth round of voting. The center-right opposition, led by caretaker PM Silvio Berlusconi, did not support Napolitano's candidacy. Two of Berlusconi's coalition al [...]	2006-05-10 16:16:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IT
06ROME1412	AMBASSADOR ADDRESSES ITALIAN BUSINESS LEADERS [...] (U) On April 27, Ambassador Spogli addressed the leaders of Confindustria, Italy's leading business association, about barriers to, and opportunities for, U.S. investment in Italy. The Ambassador spoke at the invitation of Confindustria President (and Fiat Chairman) Luca Cordero di Montezemolo [...]	2006-05-10 16:41:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN EINV IT
06ROME1413	ITALY ON USG ROLE IN WORLD BANK'S MULTILATERAL [...] EconOff delivered reftel demarche April 14 to Giorgio Guglielmino, Budget Director in MFA's Office of Development Cooperation (ODC),and highlighted the USG's role in proposing and supporting the World Bank's Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative (MDRI),as well as U.S. leadership as the single [...]	2006-05-11 04:36:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EFIN IT KPAO
06ROME1414	ITALY PLANS TO FULFILL UN DEMOCRACY FUND PLEDGE [...] (SBU) Poloff met with Gian Lorenzo Cornado, MFA Office Director for United Nations Affairs, May 10 to deliver points in reftel regarding UN Democracy Fund grand opportunities and to inquire about the status of Italy's $3 million pledge to UNDEF. Cornado noted that the GOI was aware of the grant [...]	2006-05-11 07:05:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL KDEM UNGA IT
06ROME1435	ITALIAN LABOR: BACK AT THE POLICY-MAKING TABLE [...] (SBU) Summary: The election of two former union leaders, Fausto Bertinotti of the Communist Renewal Party as President of the Chamber of Deputies, and Franco Marini of the Daisy Party as President of the Senate, will help bring Italian unions back to the table on social and economic policy f [...]	2006-05-11 15:10:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ELAB IT
06ROME1440	ITALIAN PARTICIPATION IN BMENA FORUM FOR THE [...] Minister Plenipotentiary Sergio Scarantino will represent Italy at the second planning meeting for the 2006 BMENA Forum for the Future in Moscow on May 29 - 30. Scarantino will attend both days of the meeting. 2. Scarantino told polmiloff that, at the meeting, he will present an Italian [...]	2006-05-12 09:49:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KDEM KMPI IT
06ROME1450	GOI LEADERS SAY ITALY WILL REMAIN STAUNCH ALLY [...] (C) Summary. PDAS Kurt Volker met May 8-9 with a cross-section of political and MFA representatives and stressed to elected GOI leaders the importance of continued cooperation on Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, the Balkans and other global issues. He said that Italy would remain an important ally b [...]	2006-05-12 14:43:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM IAEA IT IZ IR SR
06ROME1466	ITALY SUPPORTS EXTENSION OF CW DESTRUCTION DEADLINE [...] (SBU) Poloff on May 10 received a response to Ref demarche from Giulio Picheca, director of the MFA's Disarmament Office. Picheca said Italy understands the rationale for the USG request and noted that there were other countries, such as Japan, in similar circumstances. Picheca said his offi [...]	2006-05-15 08:29:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PREL IT CWC
06ROME1475	ITALY PARTICIPATION AT WHA PREPAREDNESS MINISTERIAL [...] (U) Per instructions in reftel, on May 15, Science Specialist delivered Secretary Leavitt's invitation to Italy's Minister of Health, plus up to two staff members, to attend the May 22 Ministerial meeting on influenza preparedness issues at the World Health Assembly (WHA). 2. (U) Italy' [...]	2006-05-16 04:31:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO KFLU IT WHO
06ROME1492	ITALY CONTINUES TO SUPPORT HUMAN RIGHTS IN SYRIA [...] (C) Political Minister Counselor met May 16 with MFA Middle East Deputy Luca Del Balzo to deliver reftel, urging that the Italians speak publicly about the need for the SARG to improve its human rights record and release detainees. Del Balzo responded that the U.S., the EU and Italy were in [...]	2006-05-17 11:31:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL SY IT HUMAN RIGHTS
06ROME1493	TERRORISM FINANCE: ITALY TO DESIGNATE FOUR [...] (U) THIS IS AN ACTION REQUEST. PLEASE SEE PARA. 4. 2. (S) Finance Ministry Director for Financial Crimes, Cristina Collura, told EconOff May 15 that the Government of Italy will pre-notify in June, 2006, the names of four individuals to the UN 1267 Sanctions Committee members for inclusion [...]	2006-05-17 12:52:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	EFIN ETTC IT KTFN PREL PTER
06ROME1518	ITALY'S COMMUNIST CHAMBER LEADER WELCOMES USG [...] (C) Communist Renewal leader Fausto Bertinotti May 17 warmly welcomed his first official contact, as Italy's new Chamber of Deputies president, with the US Ambassador. He initiated an animated discussion of Italy's economic problems, and expressed cautious optimism that the new government co [...]	2006-05-18 10:54:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	IT PGOV
06ROME1519	ITALY AND CUBA: NSC-DIRECTED REVIEW FOR LIBERTAD TITLE III SUSPENSION [...] (C) Summary. There have been few developments in Italy's relationship with Cuba in the past six months. Italy supported the EU's condemnation of recent acts of repudiation and subsequent demarches to the GOC, including protesting the harassment of dissident Martha Beatriz Roque. Italy did no [...]	2006-05-18 12:34:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC PREL IT CU ETRD
06ROME1526	PRODI RATCHETS UP RHETORIC ON IRAQ, NO NEW GROUND [...] (C) Summary. On May 18, Italian PM-designate Romano Prodi addressed the Italian Senate to lay out his government's political platform. Prodi reiterated his coalition's oft-stated opposition to the war, and said his government would propose to Parliament the return of Italian troops. He step [...]	2006-05-18 17:36:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER IT
06ROME1527	ITALY: A LOOK AT THE PRODI GOVERNMENT [...] (C) Romano Prodi and his cabinet of 25 ministers were sworn in May 17 by President of the Republic Giorgio Napolitano. Political commentators immediately called the government composition "more left than center", but the vital ministries of Foreign Affairs, Interior, Defense, Economy and Just [...]	2006-05-18 18:09:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR IT
06ROME1539	THE NOT-SO-BEAUTIFUL GAME: CORRUPTION SCANDAL [...] (SBU) Summary: A scandal over alleged match-rigging by the Turin football squad Juventus is snowballing into a broader investigation of corruption in Italy's football league. Many top soccer federation officials have resigned, and shares of publicly-traded teams have crashed. Some members of [...]	2006-05-19 14:50:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON SCUL IT
06ROME1552	ITALIANS WELCOME FORMATION OF IRAQI GOVERNMENT [...] (SBU) Summary. The GOI welcomed the formation of the new Iraqi Government and pledged to continue support for Iraqi reconstruction and democratic development. Newly elected Prime Minister Prodi, who was critical of the war, and newly-appointed Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema issued individua [...]	2006-05-22 14:21:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KDEM KPAO IZ IT
06ROME1555	COESPU: ITALIAN PROPOSALS FOR NEXT CANDIDATE [...] (U) This is an Action Request. See Paragraph 11. 2. (C) Summary: Italy recommends inviting Chile, Ghana, Nigeria, Serbia and Montenegro (SaM),and South Africa to participate in the Center of Excellence for Police Stability Units (COESPU) in Vicenza. In addition, Italy looks to the U.S. [...]	2006-05-23 07:45:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	KPKO MARR MOPS PGOV PREL IT
06ROME1580	ITALY: DEFENSE MINISTER PARISI TELLS AMB. GOI [...] (C) In the Ambassador's May 23 introductory call on new Italian Defense Minister Arturo Parisi, Parisi stressed themes of friendship with the U.S., a desire to consult closely on all issues and to deal with the most sensitive ones frankly and away from the press. He assured the Ambassador of [...]	2006-05-23 15:43:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL NATO MOPS IZ AF IT
06ROME1585	GOI INQUIRY REGARDING ITALIAN SATELLITE LAUNCH [...] (SBU) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: Embassy requests Department assistance to follow up on several pending export license requests for U.S.-origin components for the Italian Space Agency's (ASI) AGILE scientific satellite mission, which ASI would like to launch from India in October. The Min [...]	2006-05-24 11:56:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETTC TSPA KFPC ETRD IT IN
06ROME1588	ITALY WANTS TO BE MONTENEGRO'S MOST INFLUENTIAL EU [...] (C) Summary. Immediately after the Montenegrin referendum on independence, Raimondo De Cardona, director of the Balkans office of the MFA, told the Serbia and Montenegro ambassador Darko Uskokovic that Italy wants to become Montenegro's strongest EU partner and added that Montenegrin President [...]	2006-05-24 13:37:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IT MW SR YI
06ROME1590	ITALY: NEW UNDERSECRETARY TO THE PM CALLS [...] (C) Ambassador paid an introductory call May 23 on the new Undersecretary to the Prime Minister Enrico Letta (nephew of Berlusconi U/S Gianni Letta). Letta, a 1988 IV grantee and VP of Aspen Italy, has a very positive view of the U.S. and said he considers Italy's relationship with the U.S. e [...]	2006-05-24 15:43:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	PREL NATO MOPS IZ IN IT
06ROME1603	ITALY IN AGREEMENT ON DARFUR ACCORD, NOT EXPECTING [...] (C) Poloff met with Fabrizio Pignatelli, MFA Horn of Africa Office Director, May 11 to deliver Reftel A points encouraging Italy to restrict the issuance of visas to members of the Justice and Equality Movement (JEM); and May 24 to deliver Reftel B points outlining issues for follow-up to the [...]	2006-05-26 15:32:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAID SOCI PINS SU IT
06ROME1625	ITALY: PM PRODI ON CIVILIAN COMMITMENT TO IRAQ, [...] (C) In a wide-ranging meeting with Senator Allen and the Ambassador on May 30, Italian PM Prodi said Italy was firmly committed to Iraq's future, but had to figure out how to end its military engagement while continuing to contribute to reconstruction and political development. He said he was [...]	2006-05-31 14:52:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL NATO MOPS EUN IZ AF IT
06ROME163	AVIAN INFLUENZA: FAO UPDATE ON TURKEY AND THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. ON JANUARY 13, USMISSION UN ROME STAFF MET WITH JOSEPH DOMENECH, FAO CHIEF VETERINARY OFFICER, AND MEMBERS OF HIS STAFF TO DISCUSS THE CURRENT SITUATION IN TURKEY AND NEEDS THERE. ALSO DISCUSSED WAS THE OUTLOOK FOR ARMENIA, AZERBAIJAN AND GEORGIA. FOR TURKEY, DOMENECH STATE [...]	2006-01-18 11:05:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAGR EAID CASC SENV SOCI TBIO TU UP AM AJ GG FAO WHO AVIAN INFLUENZA
06ROME1630	ITALY ON U.S. STATEMENT ON IRAN [...] (C) DCM conveyed the main points of reftel demarche to MFA Chef de Cabinet Ferdinando Nelli Feroci and MFA Political Director Giulio Terzi on May 31. Terzi said the MFA had already seen the Secretary's statement, which it read with great interest, and EU High Representative Solana's reaction. [...]	2006-05-31 16:59:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IR IT
06ROME1631	IRAN SEEKS CHAIR OF IOM EXCOM [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-31 17:09:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL SMIG IR AORC IT
06ROME1635	PALESTINIAN ASSISTANCE DEMARCHE REQUEST [...] Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Luciano Pezzotti, MFA Office Director for the Eastern Mediterranean, on May 31. Pezzotti, who is following the process for the Italians, thanked poloff for U.S. views on the details of the temporary international mechanism to deliver humanitarian assistance t [...]	2006-06-01 12:05:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREL KPAL IT
06ROME1636	ITALIAN FOREIGN MINISTER ON U.S. STATEMENT ON IRAN [...] Ambassador discussed Ref A demarche with Foreign Minister D'Alema on May 31. D'Alema expressed strong support for the U.S. announcement and said the MFA was preparing its own statement, text at para. 2 below. 2. Begin text of Foreign Minister D'Alema's statement: Appreciation of Minister D [...]	2006-06-01 14:16:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV IR IT
06ROME1637	IRAQ: ITALIAN LEADERS ASSESSING ITALY'S TROOP [...] (C) Summary. Italian leaders are evaluating Italy's troop presence in Iraq and seeking ways to reconcile the need to maintain a military presence for civilian force protection with the government's commitment to complete troop withdrawal. In separate discussions with Deputy FM Rutelli and De [...]	2006-06-01 14:25:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL UNSC PGOV EAID IZ IT
06ROME1661	LINATE AIRPORT: GOI WANTS TO WAIT ON CONSULTATIONS [...] (U) Summary: In response to ref A letter from DAS John Byerly, ENAC Director General Silvano Manera stated his agency wants to wait on holding bilateral consultations until the new GOI has a chance to review Linate airport restrictions. End summary. New GOI Will Review Linate Rules -------- [...]	2006-06-05 13:52:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR IT
06ROME1662	AUSTRALIA GROUP: ITALIAN PARTICIPATION IN PLENARY [...] (S) A/EcMin delivered reftel talking points to Carlo Tripepi, MFA DAS-equivalent official responsible for Australia Group (AG) issues. Tripepi said that he will attend the Australia Group Plenary in Paris, and that the Italian delegation will come prepared to "speak, hear, and discuss." Tr [...]	2006-06-05 13:52:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	PARM PREL ETTC AG IR IT
06ROME1666	MTCR: GOI SUPPORTIVE OF UPDATED CONTROLS FOR [...] (C) A/EcMin delivered reftel letter from U/S Joseph to Carlo Tripepi, the MFA's Deputy Assistant Secretary-equivalent official in charge of Missile Technology SIPDIS Control Regime (MTCR) issues. Undersecretary Joseph's counterpart, MFA Director General for International Economic Affairs [...]	2006-06-05 15:44:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	MTCRE PARM PREL ETTC TSPA KSCA IT
06ROME1667	EDISON ITALIA OUTLINES THE WAY FORWARD FOR TURKEY-GREECE-ITALY NATURAL GAS PIPELINE [...] (SBU) Summary. A/EcMin met May 25 with Roberto Poti, Edison Italia's Vice President for Corporate Development, to discuss Edison's investment in the Turkey-Greece-Italy Interconnector pipeline designed to ship Azeri natural gas to Europe. Edison has partnered with DEPA, Greece's state-owned [...]	2006-06-06 05:10:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG EPET AZ TU GR AL IT
06ROME1680	IRAQ: ITALY CONSIDERING THREE OPTIONS: FULL PRT [...] (S) PolMilCouns met June 5 with Italian Defense Minister's Diplomatic Advisor Achille Amerio. Amerio said DefMin Parisi was at a two-day meeting of all Italy's ministers where Iraq was being discussed, and it was unclear what would come out of those discussions. That said, according to Amerio [...]	2006-06-06 09:53:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	PREL NATO MOPS IZ IT
06ROME1686	BANK OF ITALY--DRAGHI'S FIRST PERSONAL AND [...] Summary: At the Bank of Italy (BOI) annual stockholder's meeting May 31, Mario Draghi, the new central bank governor, focused primarily on the need for structural economic reforms. Emphasizing the lack of growth this decade, Draghi focused on recapturing competitiveness to achieve economic [...]	2006-06-06 15:27:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN IT
06ROME17	AFTER BLOCKING SALE TO IRAN, ITALIAN MANUFACTURER [...] (U) This is an action request, see paragraph 7. 2. (SBU) Summary. Acting on instructions from Trade Vice Minister Adolfo Urso, Director General for Commercial Agreements Amadeo Teti called on Acting EcMin December 27 to seek USG assistance in finding U.S. buyers for fast boats manufact [...]	2006-01-04 10:22:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	ETTC PARM PREL IR IT EXPORT CONTROLS
06ROME1708	TERRORISM FINANCE: ITALY - UN 1267 SANCTIONS [...] (S/NF) EconOff delivered reftel A demarche May 17 to Cristina Collura, Finance Ministry (MoF) Office Director for Financial Crimes; Giampaolo Cantini, MFA Office Director for G8 and Global Issues; and MFA Officer Stefania Fancello, on proposing Abu Imad and Nabil el-Feki for listing by the UNS [...]	2006-06-07 16:37:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	EFIN ETTC IT KTFN PREL PTER
06ROME1726	ITALIAN VIEWS ON JUNE GAERC [...] (C) Summary. The GOI is prepared to recognize Montenegro as an independent state following an EU statement on the results of the referendum but wants the international community to continue to focus on trafficking, organized crime and security issues after the dissolution of the union between [...]	2006-06-09 14:22:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EUN KPAL YI MW IZ IT
06ROME173	SCENESETTER: YOUR MEETING WITH ITALIAN FM FINI [...] (C) This meeting is an opportunity for FM Fini and the Berlusconi government to showcase Italian foreign policy successes in advance of April elections. Fini will want to show the public that Italy's engagements abroad have advanced its national interests, enhanced its international standing, [...]	2006-01-18 16:18:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	CVIS IT PGOV PREL ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS IRAQI FREEDOM ITALIAN POLITICS AFGHANISTAN UN
06ROME1737	ITALY SUPPORTS FMCT BUT NOTES CHALLENGES AHEAD [...] (C) Poloff delivered ref demarche and background materials on June 8 to Paolo Cuculi, from the MFA's Disarmament and Non-proliferation office. Cuculi took on board ref points and readily acknowledged that the Italian position fully supports the US draft text for achieving an FMCT. Ambassador [...]	2006-06-12 08:14:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP MNUC PARM PREL IT
06ROME1739	ITALIAN GRADS DISCUSS JOB SEEKING WOES [...] SUMMARY: Ambassador Spogli hosted a "garden chat" for recent alumni of Rome's Catholic University LUMSA (Free University of the Assumption of Mary Most Holy) May 31, 2006. The dozen young adults occupied a variety of private and public sector positions. One was unemployed and still seekin [...]	2006-06-12 09:06:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON SOCI EIND EINV SCUL IT
06ROME1741	AFGHANISTAN: ITALY PLANS INCREASED ISAF ROLE [...] (C) Summary. MFA Undersecretary Gianni Vernetti and other officials told the Embassy that Italy intends to increase its military presence in Afghanistan with more special operations forces, more troops for the Herat Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) and Forward Support Base (FSB),a new Trea [...]	2006-06-12 13:10:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS MARR PREL AF IT NATO
06ROME1753	IRAQ: ITALY HASN'T CLOSED THE DOOR ON PRT YET [...] (S) Senior Italian diplomatic advisors told visiting Deputy Senior Advisor for Iraq (S/I) Barbara Stephenson June 9 that Italy will withdraw all of its troops in Iraq before the end of 2006, but plans to remain engaged in reconstruction efforts. They were pessimistic about Italy continuing to [...]	2006-06-13 14:18:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	PARM PREL UNSC PGOV EAID IZ IT
06ROME1755	ITALIAN FM D'ALEMA SEEKING GOOD START TO [...] (S/NF) I met with FM D'Alema June 13 to preview his plans for his June 16 meetings with you. He wants to start the new Italian government's relations with us on a positive and constructive note. D'Alema said Italy can and will do more in Afghanistan, is willing to do more in Iraq under a NATO [...]	2006-06-13 15:21:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV OVIP MOPS IZ IT EUN NATO
06ROME1757	SCENESETTER: YOUR 6/16 MEETING WITH ITALIAN FM [...] (S/NF) FM (and Deputy PM) Massimo D'Alema is a key political powerhouse in the new Italian government, a nine-party coalition including the Greens and the Communists, with a razor-thin majority in the Senate. The Prodi government is trying to align Italy with what it believes is the EU line, [...]	2006-06-13 16:44:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PGOV NATO OVIP IT SR YI IZ IR AF
06ROME1767	ITALY WITH EU CONSENSUS ON INDIGENOUS PEOPLES [...] (SBU) New Zealand Deputy Head of Mission Adele Bryant, Australian Deputy Head of Mission Angus MacKenzie, and Poloff delivered reftel demarche to MFA Office Director for Human Rights Laura Carpini May 22, emphasizing our joint concerns with the draft UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous [...]	2006-06-15 07:00:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL IT
06ROME1770	ITALY: MOI AMATO TALKS IMMIGRATION, IRAN, MIDDLE [...] (SBU) The Ambassador and Senator George Allen met May 30 with Italy's new Minister of Interior Giuliano Amato. Allen thanked Amato for the GoI's excellent counter terrorism cooperation. Amato discussed Italy's problem with illegal aliens arriving from Libya, the challenge of containing Iran' [...]	2006-06-15 10:27:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PTER PGOV UN IZ IN IT
06ROME179	SCENESETTER FOR FBI DIRECTOR MUELLER'S VISIT TO [...] (S) Summary. Your visit will be an opportunity to visit the USG Olympics Coordination Office in Turin and review security preparations for the Winter Olympic Games. We have no current information about threats directed at Americans at the Games. Despite the presence and capability of Islam [...]	2006-01-19 10:23:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	KOLY PTER PREL IT ANTITERRORISM FORCE PROTECTION
06ROME1792	MTCR: GOI RESPONSE TO U/S JOSEPH LETTER [...] (C) Embassy received June 12 the following response to Ref B letter from U/S Joseph, signed by Giandomenico Magliano, MFA Director General for Multilateral Economic Affairs. Text of letter follows. 2. (C) Begin text of Magliano letter to U/S Joseph. May 26, 2006. Dear Under [...]	2006-06-16 13:46:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC KSCA MTCRE PARM PREL TSPA IT
06ROME1794	ITALY SHARES U.S. VIEWS ON HRC AGENDA, SEES [...] (C) June 12 Deputy Chief of Mission Anna Borg reviewed U.S. priorities and concerns in advance of the first session of the Human Rights Council (HRC) with Italian MFA Deputy Political Director Giacomo Sanfelice, as per Reftel A. The DCM highlighted the need for a procedural session and U.S. o [...]	2006-06-16 14:59:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PHUM PREL IT
06ROME18	AVIAN INFLUENZA: POST CONTINGENCY PLANNING AND [...] Embassy Rome's response (Ref A) to the Department's ref B action request regarding Avian Influenza (AI) contingency planning and tripwires includes logistical and other related plans for the entire Rome tri-mission community. This message provides US Mission UN Rome- specific considerations a [...]	2006-01-04 10:41:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT ASEC CASC AMED KFLO AEMR IO UN AVIAN INFLUENZA
06ROME1817	SCENESETTER FOR U/S LEVEY'S VISIT TO ROME, JUNE [...] (C) Embassy Rome warmly welcomes the visit of Treasury U/S for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, Stuart Levey, to Italy, at this important juncture in U.S. - Italy relations as the new center-left government takes hold. The Embassy has scheduled three, high-level meetings on Iran; we also [...]	2006-06-20 06:53:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	EFIN IR IT KTFN PGOV PREL PTER
06ROME1823	AFGHANISTAN: ITALY INCLINED TO SUPPORT DUTCH [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-20 10:16:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	NATO PREL MARR AF IT
06ROME1824	FINMECCANICA SEEKS USG VIEWS ON PROPOSED [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 6. 2. (SBU) Summary. On June 15, A/Ecmin met with Simone Bemporad, Finmeccanica Senior Vice President for Media Relations and International Affairs, and Camillo Pirozzi, Head of Public Affairs in Finmeccanica's Institutional Relations [...]	2006-06-20 11:07:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC ETRD IR IT
06ROME1849	ITALY WORKING THROUGH EU ON VENEZUELA NGO LAW [...] (C) June 19 Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Acting South America Office Director Paolo Campanini, urging Italy to communicate its concerns with the Venezuelan NGO bill to Caracas. Poloff noted that the draft legislation was vague and would give great discretion to the GOV in hindering NGO [...]	2006-06-22 14:21:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM PGOV VE EAID IT
06ROME1851	ROME VISITS HIGHLIGHT BALKAN ISSUES [...] (C) Summary. In separate visits to Rome June 20 by UN Special Envoy for Kosovo and Romanian FM Razvan Ungureanu raised the issues of Italian-Romanian cooperation in Iraq, Romanian entry into the EU and Kosovo. Italian FM D'Alema told Ungureau that Italy supported Romanian entry into the EU i [...]	2006-06-22 15:16:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IT SR YI RO
06ROME1856	ITALY TELLS IRAN TO ACCEPT EU3 PACKAGE [...] (C/NF) Summary. On June 22, visiting EUR/WE Office Director Kathy Allegrone discussed Iran, Syria, Iraq, and UN Security Council reform with MFA Political Director Giulio Terzi. On June 21 in Rome, Italian FM D'Alema told visiting Iranian FM Mottaki to accept the EU3 package and that Italy, d [...]	2006-06-23 09:15:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PTER PHUM EUN KNNP IR IT
06ROME1858	FOURTH-ANNUAL IPR RETREAT: ITALIAN JUDGES SEE [...] Summary: Mission Italy's fourth-annual IPR judicial workshop brought together judges and prosecutors from across Italy with their U.S. counterparts to discuss the investigation and prosecution of IPR crime. The U.S. delegation included two federal judges, two federal prosecutors, and Departm [...]	2006-06-23 09:47:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD EINV KIPR CH IT
06ROME1866	ITALY'S RESPONSE: TERRORIST FINANCE TRACKING [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 7. 2. (S) A/ECMIN and EconOff delivered reftel talking points June 23 to Carlos Baldocci, Ministry of Finance (MoF) Diplomatic Advisor, (senior advisor on international affairs),and Giuseppe Maresca, Director General of the MoF's Office for [...]	2006-06-23 17:34:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	EFIN IT PTER
06ROME1867	ITALY'S RESPONSE: TERRORIST FINANCE TRACKING [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 7. 2. (S) A/ECMIN and EconOff delivered reftel talking points June 23 to Carlos Baldocci, Ministry of Finance (MoF) Diplomatic Advisor, (senior advisor on international affairs),and Giuseppe Maresca, Director General of the MoF's Office for [...]	2006-06-25 11:32:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	EFIN IT PTER
06ROME187	2005-2006 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL [...] Italy is not an important regional or offshore financial center. However, money laundering is a concern both because of the prevalence of homegrown organized crime groups and the recent influx of criminal organizations from abroad, especially from Albania, Romania, and Russia. The heavy inv [...]	2006-01-19 16:46:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN KCRM KTFN PTER IT EUN UN
06ROME1870	NEW ITALIAN DEPUTY FM SENTINELLI ON AFRICA, [...] (C) Summary. June 15 DCM Anna Borg met with the new Italian Deputy Foreign Minister for Development Assistance and Sub-Saharan Africa, Patrizia Sentinelli, to discuss Italian involvement in Africa and priorities for development assistance. Sentinelli was open to working with the United States [...]	2006-06-26 09:20:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL EAID AF IT
06ROME1879	EUR/WE DIRECTOR ALLEGRONE'S VISIT TO ROME [...] (C/NF) Summary and Comment. In meetings with senior Italian political party advisors, journalists and officials in Rome June 20-23, Allegrone heard many of the new Prodi government,s multiple, often conflicting policy voices, especially on Iraq and Afghanistan. Many said this cacophony w [...]	2006-06-27 07:07:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IT
06ROME1880	ITALY VOTES NO TO BERLUSCONI-ERA CONSTITUTIONAL [...] (C) The controversial constitutional reform approved by the Berlusconi-led majority last November was defeated soundly in a public referendum by a surprisingly wide margin of 61.3 percent to 38.7 percent countrywide. Voter turnout was a high: 53.6 percent. The most well-known component of the [...]	2006-06-27 10:40:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV IT
06ROME1892	U/S LEVEY'S ROME MEETINGS, JUNE 21 [...] This is an action request. Please see para 2. Summary and Action Request -------------------------- 2. (S/NF) U/S Levey, during his June 21 Rome visit, met with the Ministries of Foreign Affairs (MFA),Justice (MOJ),Finance (MOF),and Interior (MOI),and held a press conference. Dis [...]	2006-06-28 07:01:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	EFIN PTER IT IR
06ROME1897	ITALY WANTS PROGRESS ON UN MANAGEMENT REFORM [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-28 13:40:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL UNGA EU EUN AORC AMGT IT
06ROME1900	SCENESETTER FOR U/S ADAMS' VISIT TO ROME, JULY [...] (U) Summary. Embassy Rome warmly welcomes the visit of Treasury Under Secretary for International Affairs Timothy Adams at this important juncture in U.S. - Italy relations as the new center-left government takes hold. Your meetings at the Ministry of Finance and Bank of Italy will provide u [...]	2006-06-30 09:25:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD EFIN OVIP IT
06ROME1908	Top GOI Official - IPR Protection Is Priority for the GOI [...] Special Representative for Commercial and Business Affairs Frank Mermoud met June 21 with Mauro Masi,Chief of Staff to Deputy Prime Minister Massimo D'Alema (D'Alema is also Italy's Foreign Minister) to discuss bilateral collaboration on IPR protection. Masi said that IPR protection is a GOI p [...]	2006-06-30 14:57:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD EINV KIPR CH IT
06ROME1911	ITALY CONDEMNS DPRK MISSILE LAUNCH THREAT, WILL [...] (S) Summary. June 28 Poloff and Polmiloff met with MFA Deputy Office Director for East Asia Filippo Nicosia to follow up on Ref A demarche requesting GOI regulation of DPRK flags of convenience, and to deliver Ref B points on North Korean long-range missile launch. Nicosia noted that the new [...]	2006-06-30 15:03:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	PARM PREL KN KNNP MNUC EWWT PHSA KS IT
06ROME1915	"OOPS I DID IT AGAIN" - FINMECCANICA SEEKS USG [...] This is an action request. Please see paragraph 7. 2. (U) Summary. A/Ecmin met June 26 with Camillo Pirozzi, Finmeccanica's Head of Public Affairs and Institutional Relations. Pirozzi requested the meeting to inform the USG of Finmeccanica's interest in selling naval guns to the Venezu [...]	2006-06-30 16:21:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM ETTC ETRD SP FR VE IT
06ROME1947	SERBIAN PM KOSTUNICA'S VISIT TO ROME [...] (C) Summary. Serbian PM Vojislav Kostunica visited Rome on July 6 to meet with PM Prodi, FM D'Alema, MOI Amato, President of the Chamber of Deputies Foreign Affairs Committee Ranieri, and President of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee Dini. Kostunica told the Italians that Serbia would co [...]	2006-07-06 14:21:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IT YI SR
06ROME1952	ITALY IPR: CHANGING PUBLIC PERCEPTION OF IPR AND ENGAGING [...] This is an action request. Please see para 7 below. 2. Mission Italy has been engaging Italians on the need for good IPR protection for over a decade. We have in particular, and with some success, advocated for tough criminal penalties against pirates and effective enforcement. As a direct [...]	2006-07-07 10:39:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD EINV KIPR IT
06ROME1954	ITALIANS EXPRESS INTEREST IN GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO [...] (C) On July 7 DCM and Russian Charge d'Affairs Andrey Maslov delivered reftel points to Deputy Director General for Political Affairs Giacomo San Felice, G8 Director Giampaolo Cantini, and Director for Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-proliferation Filippo Formica of the Italian MFA. San Fel [...]	2006-07-07 14:26:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	MCAP PINR PINS PTER KNNP RU IT
06ROME1957	ITALIAN RESPONSE TO NORTH KOREAN MISSILE LAUNCHES [...] (C) Summary. MFA Office Director for East Asia Federico Failla and Office Director for Non-Proliferation Filippo Formica, July 7 expressed Italy's concern over the North Korean missile launches and highlighted the GOI's commitment to the EU position, which condemned the launches and called fo [...]	2006-07-07 15:45:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KN PARM KNNP IT
06ROME1968	TERRORIST FINANCE: REQUEST URGENT REVIEW OF GOI [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 4. 2. (C) Finance Ministry Director for Financial Crimes, Cristina Collura, provided EconOff May 15 two, several hundred page pre-trial detention orders, issued by the Court of Milan, on four individuals the Government of Italy (GOI) then p [...]	2006-07-11 05:31:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	EFIN ETTC IT KTFN PREL PTER
06ROME1969	TERRORIST FINANCE, IIRO PRENOTIFICATION DELIVERED [...] (SBU) EconOff delivered reftel points July 3 to Finance Ministry Director for Financial Crimes Cristina Collura, and July 5, to MFA Multilateral Affairs DG Guiseppe Cantini. 2. (S) The Italian officials noted that they would share the information we provided with the competent authorities [...]	2006-07-11 05:32:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	EFIN ETTC IT KTFN PREL PTER
06ROME1992	ITALIANS PROMISE TO DOWNPLAY PACE RESOLUTION ON [...] (C) MFA Balkans Office Director Raimondo De Cardona told Poloff that the PACE resolution calling for the abolishment of qualified majority voting and for a review of the entity structure, while unhelpful, was entirely irrelevant to Italy's Balkan policy. According to De Cardona, the Italian C [...]	2006-07-12 14:30:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BK IT
06ROME1995	BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3 CASE 05-980351 [...] Econoff, EconFSN, and EconIntern July 11 met Laboratorio Tevere Managing Director Giovanni Braghetti, per retel instructions. According to Braghetti, the four BAE Systems gyroscopes subject to the post-shipment end-check have not yet been received by Laboratorio Tevere. Braghetti provided Ec [...]	2006-07-13 09:08:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC KOMC IT
06ROME1996	ARMS SALES TO VENEZUELA [...] (SBU) Summary. A/ECMIN met July 7 with Simone Bemporad, Finmeccanica's Senior Vice President for Media Relations and International Affairs, and Camillo Pirozzi, Head of Public Affairs and Institutional Relations, to discuss Finmeccanica's proposed sale of naval guns to the Venezuelan navy. A/ [...]	2006-07-13 09:20:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ETTC PARM SP VE IT
06ROME2006	IRAN: TEHRAN-BASED UN OFFICIAL SEES INCREASING [...] (C/NF) An Italian UN official based in Tehran says Iran is using all means at its disposal -- from support for terrorist groups to its own counter-narcotics campaign -- to boost its influence in the region. Accustomed to years of economic sanctions and international isolation, key Iranian powe [...]	2006-07-14 07:50:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PTER PHUM EUN KNNP SNAR IR IT
06ROME2013	KOFI ANNAN VISITS ITALY TO TALK AFGHANISTAN, IRAN, [...] Summary. (C) UN Secretary General Kofi Annan visited Rome July 11-12 for meetings with Italian President Giorgio Napolitano, PM Romano Prodi, FM Massimo D'Alema, President of the Senate Franco Marini, President of the Chamber of Deputies Fausto Bertinotti, and center-right leader Silvio Berlu [...]	2006-07-14 16:29:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL UN AF SU IT
06ROME2017	IRAQ COMPACT LOGISTICS INFORMATION FOR ITALY [...] (C) The Italian MFA confirms the presence of the three Italian delegates listed in reftel at the July 20 Iraq Compact and would like to accept the U.S. offer to provide transportation from Amman to the International Zone. The delegates' full information is as follows: - Minister Gianludovic [...]	2006-07-17 10:01:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ECON EINV IZ IT
06ROME2032	FINMECCANICA: NOT PURSUING ARMS SALES TO VENEZUELA [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-17 15:13:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ETTC PARM SP VE IT
06ROME2034	FINMECCANICA STILL PURSUING RADIO CONTRACT WITH [...] (C) Summary. Finmeccanica contacted Embassy officials July 14 to inform us they intend to bid on a contract to provide TETRA radios to two municipal police forces in Iran. Finmeccanica's decision is reportedly driven solely by business considerations, and was taken after delivery of Ref A ta [...]	2006-07-18 05:29:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	ETTC PARM PREL IR IT
06ROME2061	ISRAEL SEES IMPROVEMENT ON THE ITALIAN LEFT [...] (C/NF) Summary. Israel sees an improving attitude by much of the Italian left toward Israel, according to an Israeli Embassy official in Rome. In a July 18 address to Parliament, FM D'Alema said Israel's reaction to Hezbollah in Lebanon was legitimate, but "went beyond all reasonable proport [...]	2006-07-19 13:59:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL MARR LE IS IT PGOV
06ROME2072	AMBASSADOR'S PARTNERSHIP FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH - [...] (U) Summary. As part of the Ambassador's Partnership for Economic Growth, Italian and American experts met recently to discuss the opportunities and challenges for foreign private equity investment in Italy. There was broad agreement that foreign private equity investment in Italy is held bac [...]	2006-07-20 14:56:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN EINV IT
06ROME2076	SCENESETTER FOR CODEL COLE [...] Embassy Rome warmly welcomes the visit of Codel Cole. Please find below background information to serve as a scenesetter for visit. 2. U.S.-Italy relations traditionally have been strong regardless of the party in power. The Center Left's April 9-10 election victory should not significant [...]	2006-07-21 09:12:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREL UNSC PGOV EAID IZ IT
06ROME209	WFP LIST D CHAIR [...] (SBU) Summary. On January 13, Danish Ambassador Poul Skytte Christoffersen, 2005 President of the World Food Program (WFP) Executive Board and chair of WFP's List D countries (OECD),convened his last session as List D Chair. The meeting was called to appoint a new List D chair. The United [...]	2006-01-23 10:14:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC EAID WFP
06ROME2093	P5+1 INCENTIVE PACKAGE FOR IRAN: NO SURPRISE TO [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-21 14:45:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PTER PHUM EUN KNNP SNAR IR IT
06ROME2099	ICTY CHIEF PROSECUTOR CARLA DEL PONTE IN ROME [...] (C) Summary. On July 18, ICTY Chief Prosecutor Carla Del Ponte visited Rome to discuss the new Serbian action plan for compliance with the tribunal. Del Ponte told the Italians that she expected the action plan to result in the arrest and transfer of Mladic to the tribunal. The Italians urge [...]	2006-07-21 18:28:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SR YI IT
06ROME2109	ITALY'S 2005 BANKRUPTCY REFORMS: ONE STEP CLOSER [...] (U) Summary. Following Parmalat's financial crisis in December 2003, the Italian Parliament began the first comprehensive reform of Italian bankruptcy law since 1942. The bankruptcy reforms, first enacted as a Decree Law and later ratified by Parliament, bring Italian bankruptcy proceedings [...]	2006-07-24 14:21:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN IT
06ROME2117	BANK OF ITALY GOVERNOR DRAGHI MAPS WAY FORWARD ON [...] (C) Summary. In a meeting July 7 with Treasury Under Secretary for International Affairs Timothy Adams, Bank of SIPDIS Italy Governor Mario Draghi expressed his desire that USG SWIFT wire transfer monitoring continues, and proposed the G8 countries pass legislation legalizing monitoring of [...]	2006-07-25 15:27:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN IT
06ROME2156	ITALY'S COMMERCIAL AND BUSINESS PRESENCE IN IRAN [...] (U) Total two-way trade between Italy and Iran reached 5.17 billion euros in 2005, making Italy Iran's second biggest trade partner in the EU in eurodollar terms. Italian companies also have an active presence in many sectors of the Iranian economy. Paragraph 3 lists companies with investme [...]	2006-08-01 13:07:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD EFIN IR IT
06ROME2157	ITALY'S TRADE AND INVESTMENT RELATIONS WITH SOMALIA [...] The MFA reports Somalia remains a political priority for Italy (ref A),an assertion bolstered by Italy's providing over 21 million euro in foreign assistance in 2005-2006 and Italy's membership in the Somalia Contact Group. That said, aside from some foreign assistance, Italy's economic ties [...]	2006-08-01 13:09:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ETRD SO SW IT

06ROME216	OLYMPIC SECURITY COORDINATOR - PRE-GAME [...] This pre-game situational report provides information pertaining to continued efforts by RSO Rome Nancy Rolph- O'Donnell, OSC Daniel Weber, and FBI OC Ray Mey, in the USG's planning and preparations in support of the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Turin. 2. Commencing on January 4, 2006, US [...]	2006-01-23 16:26:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC KOLY IT AMGT OLYMPICS
06ROME2188	ITALY: 61ST UNGA HIGH LEVEL ATTENDANCE INITIAL [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-03 16:17:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL OTRA OVIP KSEP UNGA
06ROME2191	ITALY WIDENS THE WELCOME MAT FOR IMMIGRANTS [...] (SBU) Summary. The Prodi government has been surprisingly proactive on immigration issues since it took office in May 2006. The Council of Ministers today will introduce legislation to cut from ten to five years the time needed for immigrants to qualify for citizenship and will offer, for th [...]	2006-08-04 10:22:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ELAB SMIG IT
06ROME2192	GOI RESPONSE TO USG PROPOSALS FOR MTCR TECHNICAL [...] (U) EconOff delivered ref A and B proposals on modifications to the Missile Technology Control Regime's (MTCR) UAV/Missile criteria and the removal of Chemical Abstract Service (CAS) numbers from items in the MTCR annex to Enrico Padula, the MFA desk officer who follows MTCR issues. With res [...]	2006-08-04 10:35:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM MTCRE MNUC ETTC KSCA TSPA IT
06ROME2195	ITALY: INVITATION TO BURMESE FM AN EU EXPERIMENT [...] (C) Poloff delivered Ref A demarche to Giuseppe Mistretta, MFA Office Director for Southeast Asia, August 2, stressing U.S. disappointment with the Finnish Government's decision to invite the Burmese Foreign Minister to the September ASEM meeting in Helsinki. Mistretta responded that the invit [...]	2006-08-04 12:14:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM FI BU EUN IT
06ROME2217	ITALIAN TRADE AND INVESTMENT IN LIBYA [...] (U) The importance of Libyan oil and gas to the Italian electricity industry has ensured a steady stream of trade and investment between the two countries, notwithstanding Libya's sometimes difficult business environment. Italian trade and investment outside the energy sector is virtually no [...]	2006-08-08 08:50:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EINV ENRG ETRD LY IT
06ROME2234	ITALY OK WITH INFORMAL UN MIGRATION DIALOGUE [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-09 07:28:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PREF SMIG UNGA IT
06ROME2257	ITALY'S TRADE AND INVESTMENT RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA [...] (U) Summary. Italy and Russia are major trading partners, with the bulk of trade comprised of natural gas exports from Russia to Italy. While the GOI has expressed concern over Italy's dependence on Russian natural gas, Italy has not yet aggressively pursued alternative sources of energy. [...]	2006-08-10 15:00:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG ECON ETRD RU IT
06ROME2258	ITALY SEES HRC LEBANON SESSION AS UNPRODUCTIVE [...] (SBU) August 9 Poloff delivered reftel points to MFA Acting Office Director for Human Rights Francesco De Stefani, stressing that a UN Human Rights Council (HRC) Special Session on Lebanon would be a distraction that could undermine UN Security Council (UNSC) efforts to bring about a cessation [...]	2006-08-10 15:07:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	IS LE MOPS PHUM PREL PTER IT
06ROME2279	BUDGET 2007 ITALY: TIGHTWIRE ACT BEGINS WITH RELEASE OF [...] Summary: The public release of Italy's four-year financial plan, the DPEF, officially opens Italy's 2007 budget process. Prime Minister Prodi's coalition will formally present its draft 2007 budget by end-September. Parliament must approve the final budget by the end of December. To avoid [...]	2006-08-11 15:25:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN ELAB PGOV IT
06ROME2281	ITALIAN TRADE AND INVESTMENT IN VENEZUELA [...] (U) The presence of a large Italian community in Venezuela has allowed Italian products to occupy a privileged space on Venezuelan shelves in the past. However, the GOV's termination of a service contract held by Eni, Italy's oil and gas parastatal, to operate the Dacion oilfield has now crea [...]	2006-08-11 15:46:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ENRG ETRD IT VE
06ROME2285	DEMARCHE ON UNSCR 1701: ITALY [...] (C) Pol M/C August 12 delivered ref points to Italian Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema's vice chief of staff, Alfredo Conte. Conte noted that the Secretary and D'Alema had spoken by telephone the previous evening, shortly after agreement was reached on the draft resolution. He said the FM ha [...]	2006-08-12 11:15:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MOPS IS LE SY IT
06ROME2288	ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT MINISTER BERSANI CHARTS WAY [...] (U) Summary: In a courtesy call by Ambassador Spogli August 2, Economic Development Minister Pierluigi Bersani outlined his plans for further economic liberalization and identified barriers to reform. He expressed enthusiasm for the Ambassador's Partnership for Growth, and said Italian compa [...]	2006-08-14 09:11:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ETRD ENRG IT
06ROME2335	LEBANON: ITALY READY TO HELP WITH TROOPS, BRIDGE [...] (S) Italy is prepared to deploy up to 1,000 troops quickly to UNIFIL and up to 3,000 overall. The Foreign Minister told NEA A/S Welch the cabinet unanimously approved Italy's participation in UNIFIL during its August 18 meeting. Italy is persuaded, based on its own high-level consultations wi [...]	2006-08-18 17:34:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	PGOV PREL PTER MOPS EAID PHUM IS LE IT
06ROME237	S23B-05: GOI IN RECEIPT OF INFORMATION CONCERNING [...] (S) Econoff delivered reftel nonpaper January 23 to Enrico Padula, the MFA official responsible for Australia Group issues. Padula shares our concern over attempts by Mahamood Tavallaie to obtain research assistance regarding the clostridium botulinum toxin and attempts by other Iranian res [...]	2006-01-25 15:31:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	PARM PREL ETTC IT IR CBW
06ROME239	IRAQ: ITALY-US-UK TRILATS, JANUARY 19, 2006 [...] (C) Summary. Italy confirmed it will lead a Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Dhi Qar, for which it would provide its own security, and the UK previewed its plans for a PRT in Basra. U.S.-UK-Italy agreed on the concept for the PRTs as providing capacity-building for local authorities. [...]	2006-01-26 08:02:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL UNSC PGOV IZ IT
06ROME241	ITALY PROTESTS IRAN DECISIONMAKING PROCESS [...] (C) The GOI January 25 expressed concern about the upcoming London meeting on Iran and the emergence of a P6 format for decisionmaking on the issue. To drive home its unhappiness about being sidelined, the GOI had blocked EU agreement that same day on EU-3 draft language regarding Iran. Whil [...]	2006-01-26 15:33:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER IAEA IT IR
06ROME2429	D'ALEMA, LEBANON, AND ENGAGING ITALY [...] (C) Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema is emblematic of both the possibilities and challenges posed by Italy's center-left government. Prickly. Ex-Communist. Europeanist. Critic of Iraq war. Critic of alleged US unilateralism. Political opponent of former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. [...]	2006-08-30 14:25:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IT
06ROME2433	ITALY TO PLEDGE 30 MILLION EUROS FOR LEBANON AT STOCKHOLM [...] (U) Acting EconMinCouns and Econoff met with Federica Ferrari Bravo, Office Director for the Middle East and Balkans in the MFA's Bureau of Cooperation and Development (BCD) August 30 to deliver reftel points. 2. (U) Ferrari Bravo stated that the GOI will pledge 30 million euro at the A [...]	2006-08-30 15:34:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL EAID LE SW IT
06ROME2434	ITALIANS NOT OPPOSED TO KAZAKHSTAN'S OSCE [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-30 15:53:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	KZ KDEM PGOV PREL PHUM OSCE IT
06ROME2436	ITALY: THE DOGS BARK, AND THE PRODI CARAVAN MOVES [...] (S/NF) The main lesson for the US in PM Romano Prodi's first 100 days is that early and active engagement with this center-left government pays. The Italian reversal of position and decision to quietly maintain a civilian presence in Iraq despite military withdrawal reflected a deliberate cal [...]	2006-08-31 08:14:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL ECON MOPS PTER IZ LE SY IT
06ROME2441	TERRORISM FINANCE: UPCOMING DESIGNATIONS UNDER THE [...] (S) A/EconCouns and Econoff delivered to Maria Paola Suppa of the Finance Ministry's Office of Financial Crimes on August 28 reftel points concerning Washington's preparations for the upcoming designations of seven individuals and two entities, under UNSCR 1617 and E.O. 13224, that are facil [...]	2006-08-31 08:32:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER IT
06ROME2458	BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3 CASE 05-0976829 [...] This cable is in response to reftel A and is an update to reftel B. 2. Colonel Filippo Censori of the Italian Carabinieri Air and Maritime Services (foreign end-user) confirmed to post August 29 that the items listed in reftel A were received by Agusta SPA (foreign intermediate consignee [...]	2006-09-01 09:10:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ETTC KOMC IT
06ROME2481	ITALY SUPPORTS WEDGWOOD FOR UN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-06 10:20:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM US UNHRC
06ROME2489	ITALY URGES SYRIA TO STOP ARMS FLOW [...] (C) Summary. Prime Minister Prodi sent his diplomatic adviser to Damascus September 6 with a message for Asad urging compliance with the terms of resolution 1701 and a halt in the arms flow to Lebanon. It was the latest in a series of direct Italian messages to Syria, coming on the heels of [...]	2006-09-06 16:50:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER MOPS EAID PHUM IS LE IT
06ROME2535	ICTY: ITALY CAUTIOUSLY SUPPORTS INCREASED PRESSURE [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-08 14:46:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	ICTY PINR PGOV PREL SR YI IT
06ROME2538	IRAQ COMPACT MEETINGS: ITALY EXPRESSES INTEREST [...] Acting EcMinCouns and Econoff delivered reftel points to Ministry of Finance Director General for International Financial Relations, Ignazio Angeloni, September 7. DG Angeloni stated that the GOI would be interested in actively participating in, and contributing to, all three of the planned [...]	2006-09-11 05:38:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EFIN PREL IZ IT
06ROME2547	PRODI TO AFFIRM TO BEIJING: GOI RESPECTS ARMS [...] (C) Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi will travel to China September 13-18, stopping in Beijing, Nanjing, Canton, Shanghai, and Tianjin. In light of the upcoming trip, Poloff spoke with Assistant Diplomatic Advisor to the Prime Minister Sem Fabrizi September 7 to discuss the China arms embar [...]	2006-09-11 15:06:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM EUN ETTC ETRD CH IT
06ROME255	ITALY OPEN TO MUTUAL SUPPORT OF INCB CANDIDATES [...] (U) Poloff presented reftel dipnote and CV of Melvyn Levitsky, U.S. candidate for re-election to the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB),to Enrico Valvo, head of the MFA Counterterrorism Policy Unit January 25. Highlighting Amb. Levitsky's extensive experience, Poloff stressed that [...]	2006-01-27 16:35:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL AORC UNCND UN IT
06ROME2568	ITALIANS POSITIVE ON GLOBAL INITIATIVE TO COMBAT [...] (C) Summary. On September 7, ISN/WMDT officials Katsapis and Lehrman met with Italian MFA officials Filippo Formica, head of the nonproliferation office, Giampaolo Cantini, head of the counterterrorism office, and Carlo Mancini, a GOI expert on nuclear safety. Vladimir Proshin, Political Coun [...]	2006-09-12 13:46:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	KGIC PREL PGOV IT
06ROME2580	ITALIAN RESPONSE WEAK ON POSSIBLE WTO DISPUTE REGARDING [...] SUMMARY: A/ECMIN delivered reftel demarche to the Prime Minister's office and to the Ministry of Foreign Trade. While the GOI is broadly sympathetic to USG concerns regarding Chinese IPR violations, China's potential as a large trading partner lessens GOI enthusiasm for direct WTO action. GO [...]	2006-09-13 14:28:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD AORC KIPR EURM WTRO USTR CH IT
06ROME2582	ITALY CO-CHAIRING COMMUNITY OF DEMOCRACIES WORKING [...] Poloff delivered Ref A demarche on the Community of Democracies (CD) Ministerial September 12 to Gabriella Biondi, MFA Acting Office Director for UN Affairs, and Brunella Borzi, MFA OSCE Office Director (and CD coordinator). Poloff noted we plan to focus our participation on the success of th [...]	2006-09-13 15:50:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	UNGA PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM IT
06ROME2588	TERRORISM FINANCE: REQUEST FOR POSTS' NOMINATION [...] (S/NF) Post does not have any nominations for the second tranche of the Radical Ideologue Initiative at this time (ref A). However, we will continue to remain alert to individuals and groups which would be appropriate under this initiative. 2. (S/NF) Econoff spoke September 6 with Crist [...]	2006-09-14 08:08:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER FR IT
06ROME2593	ITALY AT NAM SUMMIT [...] (C) Italy's observer to the NAM Summit in Havana, Sebastiano Cardi, a minister in the MFA Directorate General for Political Affairs, will be in Cuba for several days, beginning September 12. In light of the Italian presence at the meeting, Poloff spoke with Alessandro Busacca, a minister in t [...]	2006-09-14 12:19:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PINS KPKO UNSC KDEM PGOV SU CU IT
06ROME2618	ITALIAN PARTICIPATION AT CONTACT GROUP FOREIGN [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-15 15:19:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL SR YI IT
06ROME2622	IRAN: ITALY'S EXPORT CREDIT AGENCY VULNERABLE TO [...] (S) Alessandro Castellano, the Director General (DG) of Italy's export credit agency (ECA),Servizi Assicurativi del Commercio Estero (SACE),told the Ambassador August 29 that he was "calm" about SACE's financial exposure to Iran, should there be UN sanctions against Tehran. Castellano note [...]	2006-09-15 16:01:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	ECON EFIN PTER IR IT
06ROME263	INVESTMENT CLIMATE STATEMENT 2006 [...] Summary. Italy continues to court foreign investors by actively seeking to implement the 2003 legal reforms designed to lift the Italian economy out of its malaise. In 2003 Italy successfully reformed its civil code and made important modifications to its Unified Rules on Financial Intermed [...]	2006-01-30 08:52:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV EFIN ETRD ELAB KTDB PGOV IT OPIC USTR
06ROME2636	LEGAL ADVISER BELLINGER MAKES CASE FOR GREATER CT [...] (C) Summary: State Department Legal Adviser John Bellinger joined the Ambassador in a series of events commemorating the September 11 attacks, urging support for the President's September 6 remarks on detainees and deeper counter-terrorism cooperation. Bellinger delivered the keynote address a [...]	2006-09-19 07:50:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PTER PGOV PREL EUN IT
06ROME2637	VOLKER DISCUSSES IRAN, LEBANON AND SYRIA WITH [...] (C/NF) On Sept. 13 in Rome, EUR PDAS Volker met PolDir Terzi and other MFA officials, and PM Deputy Diplomatic Advisors Gentilini and Carnelos. Terzi thanked the U.S. for helping get Italy included in the Berlin Iran talks and called the common U.S.-EU position on Iran a major achievement. T [...]	2006-09-19 09:04:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL NATO EUN IR UNSC SY LE IT
06ROME2653	LEGAL ADVISER BELLINGER MAKES CASE FOR GREATER CT [...] (C) Summary: State Department Legal Adviser John Bellinger joined the Ambassador in a series of events commemorating the September 11 attacks, urging support for the President's September 6 remarks on detainees and deeper counter-terrorism cooperation. Bellinger delivered the keynote address a [...]	2006-09-20 14:23:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PTER PGOV PREL EUN IT
06ROME2663	ITALY: "CAPACITY TO PAY" KEY SCALE OF ASSESSMENTS [...] (C) Summary. Poloff met with Leonardo Bencini, Acting MFA UN Office Director, and Gabriella Biondi, UN office, September 19 to discuss the upcoming UN Scale of Assessments negotiations, as per reftel. Poloff stressed that the United States would not agree to a scale that eliminated or increas [...]	2006-09-21 09:53:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	KUNR AORC UNGA IT
06ROME2672	ITALIAN RESPONSE TO USG NON-PAPERS FOR MISSILE [...] (C) Econoff delivered reftels C-N non-papers September 12 to Enrico Padula, the MFA desk officer responsible for Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) issues. During a subsequent meeting September 19, Econoff delivered reftels A and B. Padula thanked us for the package of notes and told [...]	2006-09-21 14:35:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	MTCRE PARM PREL ETTC KSCA MNUC TSPA KNNP WMD
06ROME2697	ITALIANS AGREE THAT UN HRC NEEDS TO BE EFFECTIVE [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-25 15:08:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM UN IT
06ROME2698	Edison Optimistic on Prospects of Turkey-Greece-Italy [...] In a meeting with A/Ecmin and ConGen Milan representatives, Roberto Poti, Vice President for Business Development of Edison, Italy's second largest energy company, expressed confidence that the natural gas pipeline connecting Greece and Italy will be completed by 2010. Obstacles remaining inc [...]	2006-09-25 15:36:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EPET ENRG ETRD AJ AL RS TU GR IR IT
06ROME2699	TURKEY-GREECE-ITALY PIPELINE - EDISON DISCUSSIONS [...] Roberto Poti, Edison Vice President for Business Development, called EconCounselor September 18 to relate details of his September 11 meeting with Turkish Energy Minister Hilmi Guler regarding the Turkey-Greece-Italy (TGI) pipeline construction. 2. Poti described the meeting as "very posit [...]	2006-09-25 15:45:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EPET ENRG ETRD AJ AL RS TU GR IR IT
06ROME27	GOI: BUDGET CUTS WILL NOT REDUCE AFGHANISTAN [...] (U) Summary. MFA Special Envoy to Afghanistan, Ambassador Anna della Croce told Charge January 3 that Italy will not allow budget cuts to affect its Berlin pledge of 145 million euros through end-2006. Della Croce expects a decision on GOI participation in the Afghanistan Compact next week [...]	2006-01-04 16:48:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREL PGOV AF IT AFGHANISTAN
06ROME2724	PASSENGER DATA SHARING VIEWS AS OLD AGREEMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Italy,s privacy authority reports EU member state privacy authorities are working toward a new U.S.-EU agreement on Passenger Name Records (PNR) to replace the current one expiring September 30. The new agreement reportedly will not differ in substance from the existing agreemen [...]	2006-09-27 17:23:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC EAIR PTER AORC ICAO KTIA IT
06ROME276	ITALIAN ELECTIONS: PRODI LEADING THE RACE, [...] (C) SUMMARY: Recent polls show that PM Silvio Berlusconi's center-right (CR) coalition has gained on Romano Prodi's center-left (CL) coalition. Prodi's lead has slipped from 8 percentage points last summer to 4.5 percentage points in January. In the last month, Berlusconi has set the tone of [...]	2006-01-31 12:34:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IT ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS
06ROME278	EXPROPRIATION CLAIMS AND DISPUTES [...] There is one outstanding expropriation case concerning the estate of a U.S.citizen of Italian descent against the City of Rome for expropriation of property. Two other cases appear either settled or abandoned. In the latter two cases, the Embassy/Consulate General has not been directly involv [...]	2006-01-31 13:48:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV KIDE EFIN CASC IT EUN
06ROME2780	ITALIANS NEUTRAL ON SUPPORTING AMENDMENT TO CUBA [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel points to Leonardo Bencini, Director of the UN office of the Italian MFA, on October 3. Bencini noted that the EU regularly supports the Cuba Embargo resolution and would likely do so again. Bencini said that Italy's position on support for an amendment would be for [...]	2006-10-03 15:47:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	EUN UNGA PREL PHUM UN IT
06ROME2793	COUNTRY CLEARANCE GRANTED FOR FTC - WILLIAM E. [...] Embassy Rome welcomes and grants country clearance for FTC official Mr. William E. Kovacic to travel to Florence for the period of October 12 - 15, 2006 to speak at the 10th Annual Competition Conference at the European University Institute, Fiesole. 2. Per reftel, Embassy understands tha [...]	2006-10-05 10:39:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	TPHY OTRA KSCA NSF IT
06ROME28	ITALY'S BUDGET: SQUEEZED BY ELECTION-YEAR SPENDING [...] On December 22, Parliament approved the 2006 budget which includes euro 27.5 billion in spending cuts and new revenue measures to shrink the deficit/GDP ratio to 3.8 percent (Italy's EU ceiling for 2006). Italy's budget process faced the double pressure of EU deficit ceilings, and front-loaded [...]	2006-01-04 17:05:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ELAB PGOV IT KPRP
06ROME2863	ITALY SCENESETTER FOR CODEL SMITH [...] Embassy Rome warmly welcomes the visit of Codel Smith. Please find below background information to serve as a scenesetter for visit. Summary: A Traditionally Strong Bilateral Relationship --------------------------------------------- --------- 2. U.S. - Italy relations traditionally have [...]	2006-10-12 16:09:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	OTRA OREP PREL PGOV AMGT IT
06ROME2871	ITALIANS WANT TO CONTACT GROUP DISCUSSION ON [...] (C) Summary. Serbian president Boris Tadic visited Rome on October 10 and 11 to meet with Italian President Napolitano, PM Prodi, FM D'Alema, and MOD Parisi. Tadic expressed his hope that Serbia could become part of PfP, the EU and eventually NATO but noted that Serbia had experienced signif [...]	2006-10-13 15:57:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ICTY SR YI IT
06ROME2872	NIAG 6136: ITALIANS PLEDGE FURTHER COOPERATION IN [...] (S/NF) Summary: Ecmin delivered Ref A talking points October 13 to Guilio Terzi, MFA Director General for Multilateral Political Affairs and Human Rights. Terzi pledged continued GOI support for our efforts to halt exports related to Iranian development of WMD, and said he would ask the Min [...]	2006-10-13 15:57:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PARM KNNP MNUC ETTC CH IR IT
06ROME2873	ITALY DISCUSSING TIGHTENING OF VENEZUELA ARMS SALES [...] (C) Summary. Poloff met with Francesco Talo, MFA South America Office Director, and Paolo Campanini, South America Office, September 21 to inform Italy of the U.S. arms transfer policy to Venezuela, per Ref A, urging Italy to adopt similar measures. Talo noted that arms sales to Venezuela wer [...]	2006-10-13 15:57:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MASS PARM VE PREL OTRA IT
06ROME2877	MINISTER OF TRADE: ITALY RETHINKING APPROACH TO [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraphs 9 and 12. 2. (U) Summary: In a courtesy call by Ambassador Spogli October 3, Trade Minister Anna Bonino outlined her views on Italy's trade relationship with China and the need for Italian firms to be more aggressive in promoting their brands [...]	2006-10-16 05:29:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD ETTC AF CH IT
06ROME2896	ITALY: FM D'ALEMA CALLS TO EXPLAIN ABSTENTION ON [...] (C/NF) Post received NIACT request (Ref A) on October 17 after learning that Foreign Minister had called the Secretary October 16 to discuss the balloting for the UNSC non-permanent member for Latin America. We understand from Foreign Minister's Policy Advisor and Prime Minister's Diplomatic [...]	2006-10-17 14:08:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL UNSC GT VE IT
06ROME2897	ITALY: FM D'ALEMA CALLS TO EXPLAIN ABSTENTION ON [...] (C/NF) Post received NIACT request (Ref A) on October 17 after learning that Foreign Minister had called the Secretary October 16 to discuss the balloting for the UNSC non-permanent member for Latin America. We understand from Foreign Minister's Policy Advisor and Prime Minister's Diplomatic [...]	2006-10-17 14:09:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL UNSC GT VE IT
06ROME2944	BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3 CASE 05-944510; ORDER [...] (C) Econoff spoke by phone October 17 with Donato D'Angelantonio, Director General of Supplies for Elettronica SPA (foreign consignee and end-user),regarding reftel. According to D'Angelantonio, who provided extensive supporting documents (via fax),Elettronica cancelled May 19, 2005 the or [...]	2006-10-24 13:06:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC KOMC IT
06ROME2953	ITALY: LEBANON RESOLUTIONS UNBALANCED, EU SEEKING [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-24 16:38:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PTER UNGA LE IS IT
06ROME2954	ITALY: DPRK ACTIONS UNACCEPTABLE, EU COORDINATING [...] (C) Poloff met with MFA East Asia Office Director Federico Failla October 20 to discuss the recent North Korean nuclear test and UNSCR 1718 (Refs A-D). Poloff stressed the importance of implementing all provisions in UNSCR 1718 expeditiously. Failla noted that PM Prodi and FM D'Alema had bot [...]	2006-10-24 16:38:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL KN PARM KNNP IT
06ROME2961	EGYPT SEEKS DETAILS ON FRENCH OFFER FOR MILITARY [...] (C) Summary. Under instructions from Cairo, Egyptian DCM Abu Bakr Hefny Mahnoud, called on Pol M/C Pearce and Poloff on October 24 to ask for information on a French-led initiative, in which the Italians along with several other Mediterranean countries participated, to increase military - m [...]	2006-10-25 14:54:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV XF ZP NATO IT
06ROME2965	WELCH REJECTS "AMBIGUITY" ON HAMAS RECOGNITION OF [...] (S) Italy's MFA Middle East director Riccardo Sessa says European countries want to help move the Israeli-Palestinian issue forward, but the issue is how best to do so. He said a breakthrough could require a greater degree of ambiguity on the issue of Hamas recognition of Israel. NEA A/S Welc [...]	2006-10-26 11:35:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	PREL PGOV IT XF
06ROME2982	ITALYASKS FOR HELP ON URS LOGISTICS, [...] (C) Summary. PolMinCouns met with Italian Iraq Task Force coordinator De Martino on October 27 to deliver reftel points and discuss Italian URS logistics. De Martino told PolMinCouns that Italy would be represented at the October 31 Iraq Compact Meeting in Kuwait by the Italian Ambassador to [...]	2006-10-27 15:34:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EAID NATO IZ IT
06ROME2983	ITALY HOPES MEPP DISCUSSIONS IN ALICANTE REALISTIC [...] (C) Political M/C and Poloff called on Italian MFA Near East Office Director Luciano Pezzotti October 25 to discuss Italy's upcoming participation in Middle East peace process discussions hosted by the Spanish. Pezzotti said Italy hoped to play a constructive role in focusing discussions on [...]	2006-10-27 16:12:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV XF LE UN IT
06ROME2984	ITALY SEES NK UNSCR POSSIBLE PRELUDE TO UNSC [...] (C) SUMMARY. Senator Gordon Smith met with MFA Political Affairs Director General Terzi October 16. The Italians noted the UNSCR on North Korea, though not as robust as ideally desired, left hope the UNSC might reach similar consensus on Iran. Terzi stressed the goal of UNSC action must be [...]	2006-10-27 16:28:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL IT IZ LE NP XF IR UN KNNP
06ROME2990	ITALY: ON CUBA, DAS MADISON ENCOURAGES ITALY TO [...] (C) Summary. WHA DAS Madison met with Italian officials October 23 to discuss the Cuba transition. Madison shared U.S. views and plans in light of the changing situation in Cuba. Stressing the fact that only the Cuban people could bring about change, she requested Italian help to open polit [...]	2006-10-30 13:24:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PHUM UNSC CU VZ GT IT
06ROME3006	GEORGIAN AMBASSADOR TO ITALY COMPLAINS OF [...] (C/NF) Summary. The Georgian Ambassador to Italy, Zaal Gogsadze, told poloff that he has been unable to get the GOI to focus on the tensions building in Georgia. Gogsadze stated that the GOI has become fixated on the Putin-inspired idea that Georgia is pushing for an armed confrontation. Whi [...]	2006-11-02 08:22:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV GG RU IT
06ROME3016	ITALY SEES LITTLE TRACTION IN EU FOR MORATINOS [...] (C) A senior MFA official November 2 provided Pol M/C with Italy's read on the recent Mediterranean Forum conference in Alicante, Spain. Luciano Pezzotti, director of the MFA's Middle East office, had accompanied FM D'Alema to the session. He said the GOI found the format of the meeting uns [...]	2006-11-03 10:31:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL XF IT SP
06ROME3032	ITALY: UNGA COUNTRY SPECIFIC AND CUBA EMBARGO [...] (SBU) Poloff met with MFA Human Rights Office Director Laura Carpini November 6 to deliver Ref A demarche requesting Italian support on UNGA country specific human rights resolutions for Belarus and Uzbekistan. Carpini reported that Italy had decided November 3 to co-sponsor the U.S.-sponsore [...]	2006-11-06 16:26:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL KTIA UNGA UN CU IT
06ROME3037	ITALY ON SOMALIA: ARAB LEAGUE, CIVIL SOCIETY KEY [...] (C) Summary. Poloff met with MFA Somalia Coordinator Giancarlo Izzo November 3 and with Angelo Masetti, Spokesman for the Italy-Somalia Forum, October 26 to discuss the situation in Somalia. Izzo and Masetti agreed that the TFIs were weak, and that the CIC's goals were unclear. They both beli [...]	2006-11-07 12:36:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SO IT
06ROME3040	SUBJECT: TERRORISM FINANCE COORDINATION OFFICER - [...] (C) Embassy Rome's Terrorism Finance Coordination Officer (TFCO) is Richard Boly, Deputy Economic Counselor; phone: 39-06-4674-2320; unclassified email: bolyrc@state.gov; and classified email: bolyrc@state.sgov.gov. 2. (C) Embassy Rome's Deputy TFCO is Kevin Brady, Economic Officer; ph [...]	2006-11-08 08:28:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	EFIN ETTC KTFN KVPR PREL PTER IT
06ROME3046	IRAQ: NO CURRENT ITALIAN PLANS TO FORGIVE [...] (C) Summary: Government of Italy officials informed Emboffs that the GOI was not developing any plans to forgive the remaining 20 percent of debt that Iraq owes to Italy. A Ministry of Finance official explained this was due largely to legal constraints. Additionally, the MoF official exp [...]	2006-11-08 16:41:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON EFIN IZ IT
06ROME3047	IRAQ: NO CURRENT ITALIAN PLANS TO FORGIVE [...] (C) Summary: Government of Italy officials informed Emboffs that the GOI was not developing any plans to forgive the remaining 20 percent of debt that Iraq owes to Italy. A Ministry of Finance official explained this was due largely to legal constraints. Additionally, the MoF official exp [...]	2006-11-08 16:41:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON EFIN IZ IT
06ROME3050	IRAN & HIZBALLAH: U/S LEVEY DISCUSSIONS IN ROME [...] (S/NF) In October 26 meetings with Government of Italy (GOI) officials and bankers, Treasury Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Stuart Levey pressed the GOI to ensure that its financial system was performing due diligence to prevent Iranian front companies engaged in WMD [...]	2006-11-09 12:55:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	ECON EFIN PTER IR LE IT
06ROME3051	ITALY VOTING WITH THE EU ON UN THIRD COMMITTEE, [...] (C) Summary. Poloff delivered Ref A and B points on the UN Third Committee country resolutions, No Action motions, and retaliatory resolutions November 8 to MFA Office Director for Human Rights Laura Carpini. Poloff also delivered Ref C points on the Australian amendment to the Cuba embargo r [...]	2006-11-09 12:55:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PHUM PREL XG UNHRC UNGA CU IT
06ROME3059	FASTBOATS REVISITED: ITALIAN FIRM'S SHIPMENT OF [...] (U) This is an action request. See paragraph 6. 2. (S) Summary. Embassy delivered Ref A demarche, regarding the export of marine diesel engines to Iran, to officials at the Italian Ministries of Foreign Affairs (MFA) and Foreign Trade (MFT). Both officials expressed surprise that th [...]	2006-11-09 15:30:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PARM MARR ETTC IT IR
06ROME3068	ITALY WORKING ON UNSCR 1718 OBLIGATIONS REPORT TO [...] (C) Poloffs November 8 met separately with Filippo Nicosia, MFA East Asia Office, and Filippo Formica, Office Director for Non-Proliferation to deliver Ref A points requesting countries take steps to meet their obligations under UNSCR 1718 on DPRK Conventional Arms. Nicosia noted that, while [...]	2006-11-13 15:32:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL XX KN UN IT
06ROME3097	ITALY OPEN TO U.S. ILC CANDIDATE, REQUESTS U.S. [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-15 17:00:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ILC UNGA IT
06ROME310	S59-05: GOI APPRAISED OF ATTEMPTS BY IRANIAN FIRM [...] (S) Econoff delivered reftel talking points and non paper to Aldo Doria, head of the Productive Activities Ministry's (MPA) Export Control Unit. Doria is familiar with Samamicro and with Angelantoni, the Italian company from which Samamicro's website offers to procure dual-use equipment. D [...]	2006-02-02 16:32:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	PARM PREL PINR ETTC IT IR CBW EXPORT CONTROLS
06ROME3108	DESPITE NEW GOVERNMENT, ITALY'S POSITION ON TRADE [...] (U) This cable is sensitive but unclassified. Not for internet distribution. 2. (SBU) Summary. During EcMin courtesy calls, GOI officials reiterated earlier calls for "parallelism" in WTO negotiations (ref C) and highlighted the importance of geographical indications to the GOI. They [...]	2006-11-17 12:00:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD ECON WTO IT
06ROME311	USG OLYMPIC SITUATION BOARD LAW ENFORCEMENT ON [...] The Law Enforcement On-Line (LEO) provides a secure web- based crisis management software application known as the Virtual Command Center (VCC). The VCC provides a virtual information-sharing platform where by critical, time sensitive unclassified information may be disseminated both vertica [...]	2006-02-03 11:03:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC KOLY IT AMGT OLYMPICS
06ROME3110	ITALY DISTANCES ITSELF FROM SPANISH-FRENCH MEPP [...] (C/NF) Summary. MFA Officials took pains November 17 to distance Italy from the Middle East Initiative announced by Spain. They said while the Middle East Peace Process was a top priority for Italy, it was crucial to coordinate any such initiative carefully: first within the EU, then with th [...]	2006-11-17 14:07:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV XF IT
06ROME3112	TERRORISM FINANCE: ITALY PLANS TO DESIGNATE THREE [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 4. 2. (S) Cristina Collura, Director of the Ministry of Finance's Financial Crimes Prevention Office, presented Econoff with a statement of case (SOC) and supporting documents in Italian (approximately 200 pages) November 16, bearing the names of [...]	2006-11-17 15:00:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	EFIN ETTC KTFN PTER IT
06ROME3114	ITALY: EU CONSENSUS UNLIKELY ON UNGA ISRAEL [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-17 15:30:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL UNGA IS IT
06ROME3115	ITALY PREPARING UNSCR 1718 IMPLEMENTATION REPORT [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-17 15:30:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PARM KNNP XX KN IT
06ROME3119	TRANSNISTRA: ITALIANS SUPPORT CHANGING [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-20 12:14:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	OSCE EUN PREL MD RS UP IT
06ROME3122	TERRORISM FINANCE: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON TERRORIST [...] (S) Econoff delivered reftel talking points November 16 to Cristina Collura, Director of the Ministry of Finance's Financial Crimes Prevention Office and member of the Financial Security Committee (the GOI's interagency working group which coordinates, and decides upon, terrorism finance cas [...]	2006-11-20 14:32:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	EFIN ETTC KTFN PTER IT
06ROME3128	KOSOVO: AHTISAARI, D'ALEMA AGREE TO NO FURTHER [...] (C) Summary. UN Special Envoy for Kosovo Martii Ahtisaari visited Rome to discuss the future of Kosovo with PM Prodi and FM D'Alema on November 17. D'Alema agreed with Ahtisaari that the status decision on Kosovo should not be delayed further than the end of January. D'Alema told Ahtisaari t [...]	2006-11-20 16:41:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UN YI SR IT
06ROME3130	SHARING DRAFT UNSCR TEXT ON IRAQ WITH ITALY [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-20 16:42:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL UNSC IZ IT
06ROME3131	ITALY WARNS SYRIA ON DESTABILIZING LEBANON [...] (C) Italy is concerned about possible Syrian-inspired efforts to destabilize Lebanon and PM Prodi has contacted President Bashar al-Asad with a message of warning. Despite the recent resignations of six cabinet ministers, Lebanese PM Siniora reportedly told the Italians he was confident in th [...]	2006-11-20 17:39:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV XF IR LE IT
06ROME3132	ITALY: IRAN SANCTIONS UNAVOIDABLE, BUT ESCALATION [...] (C) MFA Middle East Director Cesare Ragaglini says there is now no choice on the Iran nuclear issue but to move forward with sanctions. This is a matter for some concern, though, because it will set in motion a process of escalation whose outcome is unpredictable. We should also be looking [...]	2006-11-21 06:36:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV XF IR LE UNAUS KNNP IT
06ROME3142	ITALIAN FOREIGN MINISTER CONFIRMS FOR BMENA [...] (SBU) MFA officials report Italian FM D'Alema has decided to attend the BMENA Forum for the Future. He plans to arrive the evening of November 30th and to depart the morning of December 1, after having delivered remarks. He will be accompanied by newly appointed MFA Director General for Med [...]	2006-11-21 13:36:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KMPI IT
06ROME315	FAO EMERGENCY PROGRAMS: INFORMAL DONORS' [...] Summary and Background. On January 25, 2006, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Emergency Operations and Rehabilitation Division (TCE) held an informal donors' meeting to provide an overview of 2005 activities and special requirements for 2006. Recently appointed TCE Assistant Direc [...]	2006-02-03 11:07:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID EAGR ECON SENV UN FAO
06ROME3159	ITALIANS CLOSE-MOUTHED ON AZADEGAN PROJECT IN IRAN [...] (C) Ecmin delivered ref A points regarding possible Italian investment in Iran's Azadegan oilfield to Amadeo Teti, Ministry of Foreign Trade Director General for Commercial Agreements, and Claudio Spinedi, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Deputy Director General for Multilateral Financial and Eco [...]	2006-11-22 14:46:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC EPET PREL IR IT
06ROME3166	ITALY QUINT MEETING "DAMAGE CONTROL"; ITALY SAYS [...] (C) Summary. The DCM delivered reftel points to senior MFA officials November 22 and underscored our concern regarding the Spanish MEPP Initiative and Italy's association with it. The Italians said they see the Quint meeting, which Italy is hosting November 24, as an opportunity to do "damag [...]	2006-11-22 16:47:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV XF EUN IT
06ROME3167	ITALY SCENESETTER FOR DNSA ELLIOTT ABRAMS [...] (U) Embassy Rome warmly welcomes the visit of Deputy National Security Advisor for Global Democratization Strategy and Deputy Assistant to the President Elliott Abrams. Please find below background information to serve as a scenesetter for the visit. Country Clearance sent REFTEL A. Summary [...]	2006-11-22 17:29:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV XF AF IR IZ LE IT
06ROME3170	ITALY CONCERNED RUSSIA WON'T ACCEPT [...] (C) The DCM and poloff delivered reftel points to MFA Political Director Terzi and OSCE Office Director Brunella Borzi on November 22. Terzi expressed a desire for consensus on the best text possible but voiced concern regarding probable Russian objections to tough language, especially parts [...]	2006-11-24 12:30:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PBTS EUN NATO OSCE MO GG RU IT
06ROME3172	2006-2007 INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL STRATEGY [...] This message responds to ref B request for information on financial crimes and money laundering in Italy. Together with ref A, these reports transmit Mission Italy's submission to the 2006-07 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR). 2. Italy is not an offshore financial c [...]	2006-11-24 14:08:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN KCRM KTFN PTER IT

06ROME3202	GOI RESPONSE TO REQUEST FOR MTCR CONSULTATIONS ON [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph four. 2. (C) Econ Counselor delivered ref A talking points November 30 to Carlo Tripepi, the MFA Deputy Assistant Secretary-equivalent official in charge of Missile Technology SIPDIS Control Regime (MTCR) issues. Tripepi reiterated [...]	2006-11-30 16:39:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	MTCRE PARM PREL ETTC KSCA IT
06ROME3205	ANTI-COUNTERFEITING TRADE AGREEMENT (ACTA): ITALY [...] (SBU) The GOI is interested in further discussing a possible ACTA, but underscores that Italy is committed to working within existing multilateral organizations and arrangements (i.e., the WTO and EU),and would have to evaluate very carefully adhering to any agreement outside these arrangeme [...]	2006-12-01 09:32:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EINV KIPR PGOV IT
06ROME3213	AVIAN INFLUENZA: FAO PRESS CONFERENCE ON TURKEY AI [...] SUMMARY: FAO SENIOR VETERINARY OFFICIAL JUAN LUBROTH GAVE A PRESS BRIEFING ON MONDAY, JANUARY 16, ON HIS MISSION TO TURKEY TO ASSESS THE AVIAN INFLUENZA SITUATION. THE FAO ASSESSMENT IS MORE OPTIMISTIC THIS WEEK COMPARED TO LAST WEEK WHEN FAO WARNED AI COULD BECOME ENDEMIC TO TURKEY. THE MA [...]	2006-01-17 15:34:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO AMED EAID CASC SENV EAGR KPAO TU AVIAN INFLUENZA
06ROME3214	ABRAMS ENGAGES ITALIANS ON MEPP, IRAN AND [...] (C) Deputy National Security Advisor Elliott Abrams November 27 engaged senior MFA officials, members of the Prime Minister's Office and (on background) journalists from Italy's leading dailies on Syria/Lebanon, the Middle East Peace Process (MEPP) and Iran. On Syria and Lebanon, he noted th [...]	2006-12-01 12:27:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL XF IR LE UNAUS EUN IT
06ROME3223	SOMALIA: ITALY WANTS ANOTHER ATTEMPT AT TFI-CIC [...] (C) Poloff met with Italian MFA Somalia Coordinator Giancarlo Izzo November 30 to discuss the situation in Somalia and the possible deployment of a regional force. According to Izzo, Italy believed that the dialogue between the Transitional Federal Institutions (TFI) and the Council of Islamic [...]	2006-12-04 15:04:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SO IT
06ROME3228	ITALY: APPAREL AND TEXTILES STATISTICS AND [...] The textile and apparel industries are a small, but high-profile, part of Italy's industrial base. Although textiles and apparel accounted for only nine percent of industrial production and eleven percent of Italy's total exports and imports in 2005, names such as Dolce and Gabbana, Versace, [...]	2006-12-05 09:47:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD KTEX CH IT
06ROME323	(UPDATE) 2005 INCSR SUBMISSION FOR ITALY (PART I) [...] In accordance with Ref B instructions, Post submits an update to the INCSR report (Ref A) transmitted in December 2005. The updated text and figures below reflect the latest information from the GOI and should be included in the final draft of the INCSR. 2. Ref A cable, paragraph five. [...]	2006-02-03 13:31:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR IT EUN
06ROME324	GOI CLARIFIES SCAJOLA REMARKS ON UKRAINE-RUSSIA [...] (C) Summary. During a February 1 meeting with Econoff, Ministry of Productive Activities (MPA) Diplomatic Advisor Ambassador Gabriele Checchia backed away from MPA Minister Claudia Scajola's statement that Ukraine is "taking" Russian gas meant for Italy, and said Italy will support Ukrainian [...]	2006-02-03 13:52:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON IT UP RU
06ROME3243	ANTI-COUNTERFEITING TRADE AGREEMENT (ACTA): [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see para 4. 2. (SBU) The presumed GOI lead for ACTA, Fabrizio Pagani, Chief of Staff to the Undersecretary to the Prime Minister, has asked whether there will be an ACTA "launch" session in January. He has also asked whether Washington agencies have [...]	2006-12-07 09:33:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD EINV KIPR PGOV IT
06ROME3246	TERRORISM FINANCE: GOI REQUESTS USG VIEWS ON UNSCR [...] (U) This is an action request. See para 4. 2. (C) Cristina Collura, Director of the Ministry of Finance's Financial Crimes Prevention Office, gave Econoff November 16 the names of two naturalized Italian citizens who have petitioned the GOI for delisting from UNSCR 1267 designation. (Re [...]	2006-12-07 09:34:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ETTC KTFN PTER IT
06ROME3261	ITALY: REGISTER OF DAMAGES SHOULD HAVE TECHNICAL [...] (C) Poloffs delivered reftel points to MFA Near East Deputy Office Director Daniele Bosio December 5 and Acting UN Office Director Leonardo Bencini December 6, noting U.S. concerns with the draft resolution to establish a register of damages related to the West Bank barrier. Poloffs emphasized [...]	2006-12-07 17:10:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNGA IS IT
06ROME3269	ITALY CONSIDERING UN CTC CHAIRMANSHIP [...] Summary. DCM met with MFA Director General for Political and Multilateral Affairs Giulio Terzi on December 7 to request that Italy chair the UN Counter Terrorism Committee (CTC) when it rotates onto the UN Security Council in 2007, per reftel. Stressing that Italy could serve as chair effect [...]	2006-12-11 16:13:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PTER IT
06ROME3272	D'ALEMA TO CODEL WEXLER: MIDDLE EAST NEEDS NEW PUSH [...] (C) Summary. Foreign Minister D'Alema told visiting Congressman Wexler that the international community must press Israelis and Palestinians to kick start a new phase in peace negotiations, beginning with a genuine cease-fire and exchange of prisoners. He speculated that NATO could be a poss [...]	2006-12-12 11:26:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	AF IR IS IZ LE NATO PGOV PREL SY XF IT
06ROME3276	IRAN'S FLAWED ELECTIONS - ITALY [...] (C) Pol M/C and poloff delivered ref points December 4 and 11 to MFA Deputy Middle East Director Luca Del Balzo and Gulf Countries Office Director Bruno Campria. 2. (C) Pol M/C told Del Balzo that, as part of our effort to coordinate with Italy on Iranian issues, it would be important to [...]	2006-12-12 13:52:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM IR IT
06ROME3279	D'ALEMA MAXIMUS [...] (C/NF) Italian Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema is emerging as the most prominent and dynamic member of the Prodi Government. Barely six months into his tenure at the MFA, he appears intent on leaving his imprint on Italian foreign policy, the Italian Government, and on Italy itself. On forei [...]	2006-12-12 16:58:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL IT
06ROME328	GOI SAYS JUDICIAL REFORM WILL NOT REDUCE IPR [...] (U) Summary: The Italian Ministry of Justice, in a written reply to the Ambassador, has firmly rejected U.S. copyright industry arguments that recent judicial reforms will hamper the prosecution of intellectual property crimes. Contrary to the claims of the Recording Industry Association of [...]	2006-02-03 14:29:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KIPR ETRD EINV IT EUN
06ROME329	IRAN: ITALY STEADY ON REFERRAL, WANTS [...] (C) Italy supports the U.S. "100 percent" on the Iranian nuclear issue, including referral to the UN Security Council. MFA officials continue to stress to the Iranians the need to suspend enrichment activities to restore the confidence of the international community. While unhappy at Italy's [...]	2006-02-03 14:43:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER PHUM EUN KNNP IR IT
06ROME3295	GOI FOLLOW-UP ON EXPORT OF MARINE DIESEL ENGINES [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 5. 2. (C) During a November 30 meeting with Econ Counselor, Carlo Tripepi, MFA Office Director responsible for Italian Munitions Exports (and former Director of the Office that oversees Italian participation in the Wassenaar Arrangement) [...]	2006-12-14 15:07:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM MARR ETTC IT IR
06ROME3298	ITALY AND CUBA: NSC-DIRECTED REVIEW FOR LIBERTAD [...] (C) Summary. There have been few developments in Italy's relationship with Cuba in the past six months. The Italian Embassy in Havana continued to meet regularly with opposition leaders as part of efforts to engage in intensified dialogue with civil society. Italy did not participate in exch [...]	2006-12-14 17:29:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	CU ETRD ETTC PREL IT
06ROME3299	ITALY APPRECIATES EXAMPLES OF DPRK PROLIFERATION [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-14 17:29:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	PARM KNNP PREL PGOV KN IT
06ROME3300	GOI DOWNPLAYS POSSIBILITY OF OTO MELARA EXPORT TO [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 6. 2. (S) Econ Counselor delivered ref A demarche December 13 to Carlo Tripepi, Director of the MFA's Arms Material Authorization Unit, responsible for licensing Italian munitions exports. Tripepi had not heard of Oto Melara's possibl [...]	2006-12-15 13:17:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL PARM ETTC IR VE IT
06ROME3312	ITALIANS CAUTIOUS ON ISG RECOMMENDATIONS, PROPOSE [...] (C) Summary. Gianludovico De Martino, head of the MFA's Iraq Task Force, says many of the Iraq Study Group (ISG) recommendations, such as embedding coalition members inside police, military and institutional structures, have already been tried and found to be difficult to implement. Other rec [...]	2006-12-15 18:28:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS IZ IT
06ROME3317	PRODI HOUSE DIVIDED, BUT STILL STANDS [...] (SBU) PM Prodi's 2007 budget proposal has drawn intense criticism from across the political spectrum and fueled a heated political debate about the government's durability as well as a massive protest against him and his governing coalition. Pundits generally have predicted Prodi's government [...]	2006-12-18 10:09:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL ECON IT
06ROME3320	OLMERT REJECTS ITALIAN PUSH ON SHEBAA FARMS [...] (C/NF) Israeli PM Olmert visited Italy December 13 and talks focused on Lebanon, the Middle East peace process, and Iran. He deflected calls by both the Italian PM and FM for a gesture on Shebaa Farms to buttress embattled Lebanese PM Siniora. Olmert noted this would be seen as a nod to Syri [...]	2006-12-18 13:47:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV PREL XF IR LE IT
06ROME3331	TERRORIST LISTS - ITALY [...] Per reftel, Post reports that the Government of Italy has no independent, national list of banned terrorist entities. The GOI uses, and refers to, UN and EU lists of banned terrorist entities. BORG [...]	2006-12-19 15:55:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ETTC KTFN KVPR PREL PTER IT
06ROME3334	Italy: Changing Public Attitudes Toward [...] Italy has some of the better IPR protection laws in the EU, but enforcement is stunningly lackluster. Until 2005, Mission Italy focused a more than decade- long effort on improving enforcement, but we also began to consider how we might change Italians perceptions toward IPR as a way to suppo [...]	2006-12-19 16:42:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD EINV KIPR IT
06ROME3350	LARGEST-EVER INDIAN TRADE DELEGATION VISITS ITALY [...] The visit of a major Indian trade delegation highlighted Italian and Indian interest in increased trade. Bilateral trade reached 3.7 billion euro in the first nine months of 2006, on pace to set a new record. We believe Italy,s interest derives from its perennial bilateral trade deficit wit [...]	2006-12-21 09:45:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD EINV IN IT
06ROME3354	ITALY, UN ASSESSMENTS: EU DOESN'T WANT TO GET [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-21 14:41:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AMGT AORC PREL UNGA
06ROME3360	FINMECCANICA EXPORTS TO IRAN AND VENEZUELA: THE [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 9. 2. (S) In a December 21 meeting requested by Finmeccanica, the major Italian defense and aerospace conglomerate, company officials reviewed the status of their engagement with Iran and Venezuela. They noted that Finmeccanica is not [...]	2006-12-22 14:56:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	ETRD ETTC IR VE SP FR SZ IT
06ROME3378	IRAN'S BANK SEPAH: U/S LEVEY DISCUSSIONS IN ROME [...] (S) Treasury U/S Stuart Levey called on the Italian Ministries of Finance and Foreign Affairs and the Bank of Italy (BOI) December 20 to press Italy to close local branches of Bank Sepah. The U/S keyed his remarks to the report of a recent BOI investigation that had uncovered clear financial [...]	2006-12-27 16:37:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	ECON EFIN PTER IR LE IT
06ROME3379	ITALIAN ENERGY SUPPLIES PROJECTED TO BE ADEQUATE [...] (U) Summary. Italian officials are optimistic Italy will not experience a repeat of last winter's energy shortages. Energy analysts point to a mild winter, gas reserves higher than last year, and Italy's increased ability to switch natural gas-fired power plants to oil. Looking past Italy's [...]	2006-12-27 16:38:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ENRG EPET ECON RU IT
06ROME338	ITALY FACING AN ENERGY CRISIS? [...] (C) Summary: An unexpectedly cold winter and miscalculation of the rate at which Italy consumes natural gas may mean that Italy will not have sufficient gas reserves to generate electricity for the remainder of the winter, according to knowledgeable Embassy sources. In a worst case scenari [...]	2006-02-03 17:44:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ECON EPET IT EUN
06ROME3386	TERRORISM FINANCE: DOMESTIC USG DESIGNATION OF [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-29 08:46:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER XR IT
06ROME3387	TERRORISM FINANCE: TERRORIST FACILITATORS AND [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-29 08:48:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER KPAO IT
06ROME339	ICAO: ITALY "POSITIVE" ON VOSS CANDIDACY [...] (SBU) Econoff delivered reftel demarche to Roberto Pietrosanto and Stefano Nicoletti, two office-director-level officials in the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Directorate for Multilateral Economic and Financial Cooperation. Both said the GOI would not make a final decision on who to vot [...]	2006-02-06 07:58:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR PREL IT AVIATION FAA
06ROME3393	TERRORISM FINANCE: ITALY - REVIVAL OF ISLAMIC [...] (S/NF) Post's Law Enforcement Working Group met December 29 to discuss reftel. Post believes that there is no need for replacement charitable services in Italy, as there are no known branches of RIHS in country. Additionally, the GOI would likely support the USG designation to the UN 1267 [...]	2006-12-29 11:12:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	PTER KTFN ETTC PREL EFIN IT
06ROME3397	BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE END-USE CHECK ON [...] (SBU) Emboffs met with Mario Barbetti, General Manager of Pansystem s.r.l., in Rome December 27. (Note: Reftel lists the company's name as "Pansystems." Please note correct company name is "Pansystem s.r.l.") 2. (SBU) Barbetti began by wondering why the USG was reviewing one order (DT [...]	2006-12-29 13:27:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETTC KOMC IT
06ROME342	ITALY: CENTER-LEFT ASPIRES TO CRAFT MORE EUROPEAN [...] (C) Summary: If Italy's center-left coalition (the Union) wins this spring's national election, center left leaders are prepared to reorient Italy's foreign policy toward the EU, favor multilateral initiatives over bilateral or unilateral ones, and tone down Italy's relations with the US. R [...]	2006-02-06 11:04:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IT
06ROME343	GOI SEEKS MORE BANG FOR THE BUCK FROM SHRINKING [...] (U) Summary: Facing budget cuts and a stagnant economy, the Government of Italy (GOI) will seek to leverage its defense spending to continue to gain access to cutting edge technologies as part of a broad effort to revive the Italian economy. The amount of technology transfer and job creatio [...]	2006-02-06 11:27:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MASS PGOV EFIN IT
06ROME344	SERBIAN AMBASSADOR: ITALIAN MESSAGES ON KOSOVO [...] (SBU) Summary. Serbia and Montenegro Ambassador Darko Uskokovic told Poloff that the GOI has given a balanced message to Belgrade and Pristina as the Kosovo status talks prepare to get underway. He noted that the Italian MFA has urged both sides to remain open as during the negotiations and [...]	2006-02-06 12:03:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV SR MW YI IT EUN
06ROME346	CODEL KING DISCUSSES OLYMPIC SECURITY, [...] (U) Transmission of this cable was delayed pending CODEL clearance. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: CODEL King met January 12 with Under Secretary to the Council of Ministers Gianni Letta and SIPDIS Minister of Interior Giuseppe Pisanu. Both Letta and Pisanu described U.S.-Italian cooperation in the [...]	2006-02-06 14:51:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PREL IT
06ROME347	ITALY WILL PUSH FOR ACTION ON CARICC PROJECT [...] (SBU) Poloff took advantage of Ref demarche to approach Enrico Valvo of the MFA's Counterterrorism Policy Unit (which also covers counternarcotics issues) and gauge Italian sentiment ahead of the Feb. 7-9 meeting. Valvo said Italy fully agrees with USG goals for the CARICC meeting. The GOI b [...]	2006-02-06 17:22:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR KCRM IT EUN ANTITERRORISM FORCE PROTECTION
06ROME361	TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS -- USG SITUATION [...] (SBU/NF) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games as of 02/07/2006. 2. (SBU/NF) USG interagency Joint Operations Center (JOC) numbers (24/7) are: 39-011-55-99-793/794/564 (tel); 011- [...]	2006-02-07 16:52:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS ITALIAN POLITICS
06ROME371	ITALY: RUTELLI DISCUSSES CENTER-LEFT FOREIGN [...] (C) SUMMARY. At a February 3 lunch with Daisy Party leader Francesco Rutelli, the Ambassador stressed the importance of NATO to the Transatlantic Alliance and registered our concern that a future center-left government not look to Europe at the expense of Italy's historically strong bilateral [...]	2006-02-08 10:45:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER MOPS PGOV IZ IT ITALIAN POLITICS ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS
06ROME374	ITALY AGREES ON SOMALIA, REQUESTS USG CONTACT ON [...] (C) Summary. MFA Director General for Sub-Saharan Africa Armando Sanguini February 1 expressed his complete agreement with Reftel A points urging support for a meeting of Somalia's parliament, and briefed DCM Anna Borg on his recent trip to Asmara. Sanguini suggested more regular contact betw [...]	2006-02-08 13:55:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL XW IT
06ROME377	TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS--USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games as of 02/08/2006. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following [...]	2006-02-08 15:49:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER OLYMPICS
06ROME380	USG OLYMPIC SITUATION BOARD LAW ENFORCEMENT ON [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-09 07:20:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER OLYMPICS
06ROME383	KOSOVO: ITALIAN MFA CONCERNED ABOUT LACK OF [...] (C) Summary. The Italian MFA is concerned that US and UK messages to Belgrade regarding the final status of Kosovo may be creating high expectations among Kosovar Albanians and anxiety in Belgrade that could complicate negotiations. The Italians have the impression that US and UK messages may [...]	2006-02-09 11:38:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SR YI IT
06ROME384	ITALY,S PARLIAMENT PASSES "SARBANES-OXLEY". [...] SUMMARY. On December 23 Italy's Senate passed the financial market oversight reform bill, two years after the massive Parmalat fraud scandal and just following the resignation of Bank of Italy (BOI) Governor Fazio. The bill leaves in place the five regulatory authorities: antitrust, central [...]	2006-02-09 11:50:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ELAB PGOV IT KPRP
06ROME390	TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS--USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games as of 02/09/2006. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following [...]	2006-02-09 16:10:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER OLYMPICS
06ROME398	TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS--USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games as of 02/09/2006. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following [...]	2006-02-10 12:04:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER OLYMPICS
06ROME406	TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS--USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games as of 02/09/2006. 2. (SBU) The interagency USG Olympic Security Operations Center (OSOC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the [...]	2006-02-11 13:14:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER OLYMPICS
06ROME407	TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS--USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games as of 02/12/2006. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following [...]	2006-02-12 11:46:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER OLYMPICS
06ROME427	ITALY RECEPTIVE TO A/S SHANNON'S MESSAGE ON LATIN [...] (C) Summary. A/S Thomas Shannon February 3 outlined U.S. policy in the Western Hemisphere for Italian MFA Director General for the Americas Claudio Bisogniero and encouraged Italy to be our partner in engaging with Latin America during this delicate time for the region. Bisogniero was very r [...]	2006-02-13 10:36:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL XM HA CU CA IT
06ROME428	AVIAN INFLUENZA: FAO UPDATE ON NIGERIA [...] From February 8-10, USMISSION UN Rome staff met with Juan Lubroth, FAO Senior Veterinary Officer, to discuss the current situation in Nigeria. 2. In these discussions, Lubroth reported the following: -- Two children are suspected of having contracted the virus. A WHO assessment arrives [...]	2006-02-13 12:17:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR EAID CASC SENV SOCI TBIO NI UP AM AJ GG FAO WHO AVIAN INFLUENZA
06ROME429	TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS--USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games as of 02/09/2006. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following [...]	2006-02-13 12:17:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER OLYMPICS
06ROME430	AVIAN INFLUENZA: FAO UPDATE ON NIGERIA [...] From February 8-10, USMISSION UN Rome staff met with Juan Lubroth, FAO Senior Veterinary Officer, to discuss the current situation in Nigeria. 2. In these discussions, Lubroth reported the following: -- Two children are suspected of having contracted the virus. A WHO assessment team ar [...]	2006-02-13 12:18:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR EAID CASC SENV SOCI TBIO NI UP AM AJ GG FAO WHO AVIAN INFLUENZA
06ROME433	ITALY SUPPORTIVE OF GUATEMALA'S UNSC BID [...] (C) WHA A/S Tom Shannon met with MFA Director General for the Americas Claudio Bisogniero February 3 (see Ref A) and urged Italy to support Guatemala's UN Security Council (UNSC) candidacy (per Ref B). Shannon shared our concerns regarding Venezuela's bid for the Latin America Group (GRULAC) s [...]	2006-02-13 13:13:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UN UNSC GT VE IT
06ROME435	AVIAN INFLUENZA: FAO UPDATE ON ITALY, IRAQ, [...] Based on communications today between USMISSION UN Rome staff and Dr. Juan Lubroth, FAO Senior Veterinary Officer, FAO will conduct a press conference on February 14 at 10:30 a.m. The message that will be relayed will include the following: 2. On the Government of Italy's efforts: -- FAO [...]	2006-02-13 15:42:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	KFLU EAGR EAID CASC SENV SOCI TBIO NI IT GR BU UP AM AJ GG FAO WHO IQ AVIAN INFLUENZA
06ROME438	FRAUD SUMMARY - ROME [...] COUNTRY CONDITIONS: Italy has relatively few instances of fraud in connection with consular services. Italians, who enjoy a developed economy and access to the visa waiver program, find little reason to commit fraud to obtain visas or passports. The Italian government has a relatively secure [...]	2006-02-13 16:16:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	KFRD KCRM CVIS CPAS CMGT ASEC IT EUN
06ROME439	DISPOSITION OF ELK RIVER SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL: [...] (C) SUMMARY AND ACTION REQUEST: On February 6, the Ambassador received a letter from Gianni Letta, Under Secretary to the Council of Ministers requesting assistance SIPDIS to return to the United States 64 thorium-uranium bundles of spent nuclear fuel (SNF) originally from the Elk River, [...]	2006-02-13 17:09:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG KNNP KSTC IT ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS
06ROME443	TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS - USG SITUATION [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games as of 02/14/2006. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following [...]	2006-02-14 11:33:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER OLYMPICS
06ROME449	Italy's Parliament Passes "Sarbanes-Oxley". [...] SUMMARY. On December 23 Italy's Senate passed the financial market oversight reform bill, two years after the massive Parmalat fraud scandal and just following the resignation of Bank of Italy (BOI) Governor Fazio. The bill leaves in place the five regulatory authorities: antitrust, central [...]	2006-02-14 15:29:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN ELAB PGOV IT KPRP EUN
06ROME450	FINI-LAVROV MEETING: RUSSIA CAN PLAY A ROLE IN [...] (C) Summary. Antonio Cascio, an official in the Russia/Central Asian Department of the Italian MFA, told poloff that during a visit to Rome on February 7, Russian FM Lavrov told Italian FM Fini that Russia can play an important and constructive role in the Middle East. Lavrov told Fini the I [...]	2006-02-14 15:59:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ENRG RU IT
06ROME452	ITALY-IRAN ECONOMIC RELATIONS [...] (U) Summary: Italy is Iran's largest EU trading partner, with two-way trade totaling 2.91 billion euros in the first seven months of 2005, including 1.32 billion euros of Italian exports to Iran. Italy imports Iranian oil and gas and exports automobiles and electrical products to Iran. End [...]	2006-02-14 16:35:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	ETRD PREL IR IT
06ROME453	SCENESETTER FOR PM BERLUSCONI'S VISIT TO [...] (C) PM Berlusconi is seeking an election campaign bounce from his carefully timed visit to Washington to address a joint session of Congress and his meeting with the President. Elections are two months away and the campaign is in full gear following President Ciampi's dissolution of parliament [...]	2006-02-15 05:37:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IT IQ ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS ITALIAN POLITICS
06ROME456	TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS: USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following numbers: USG [...]	2006-02-15 10:35:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER OLYMPICS
06ROME460	ITALIAN MINISTER FLAUNTS CARTOONS IN T-SHIRTS [...] (U) On February 14, Minister for Reforms Roberto Calderoli announced he had printed t-shirts emblazoned with the Danish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad and would start wearing them. Calderoli is a member of the anti-immigrant Northern League party that is part of PM Berlusconi's center-rig [...]	2006-02-15 12:38:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER KISL ITALIAN POLITICS
06ROME461	PDAS VOLKER DISCUSSES STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP WITH [...] (C) Summary. On February 7, PDAS Kurt Volker visited Rome to meet with high-level GOI leaders to discuss Iran, Iraq, the cartoon controversy, the Ukrainian Energy Crisis, NATO, OSCE, Balkans, and UN Reform. Volker stressed the importance of Italy's contributions to global security and need fo [...]	2006-02-15 12:39:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IT NATO OSCE UN GLOBAL DEFENSE
06ROME463	24TH FAO AFRICAN REGIONAL CONFERENCE HIGHLIGHTS [...] Summary: The biennial African Regional Conference (ARC) of the UN Agency for Food and Agriculture (FAO),held in Bamako, Mali, from January 30 to February 3 highlighted the continent's lack of progress towards achieving the Millennium Development Goals for reducing hunger and poverty, and pr [...]	2006-02-15 14:54:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR AORC EAID ETRD SENV KUNR XA FAO
06ROME464	AVIAN INFLUENZA: FAO PRESS CONFERENCE PROVIDES [...] On February 14, FAO held a press conference to provide a global update on Avian Influenza. Areas highlighted were Nigeria, Azerbaijan, Iraq, Europe in general (with a primary focus on Italy),and future preparations for Latin America/Caribbean. Samuel Jutzi, Director of FAO's Animal Product [...]	2006-02-15 16:29:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	KFLU EAGR EAID CASC SENV SOCI TBIO NI IT GR BU UP AM AJ GG FAO WHO IQ AVIAN INFLUENZA
06ROME465	UN REFORM: INDEPENDENT EXTERNAL EVALUATION OF [...] (U) Summary: A Committee of the FAO Council charged with oversight of the comprehensive Independent External Evaluation (IEE) of FAO has just approved the selection of a high-caliber core team of evaluators and decided that the IEE would formally begin on March 13, subject to firm assurance [...]	2006-02-15 16:53:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC EAGR EAID KUNR FAO
06ROME466	ITALY: ELECTION FACT SHEETS AVAILABLE ON EMBASSY [...] No summary [...]	2006-02-16 08:43:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV IT ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS
06ROME471	AMBASSADOR'S PARTNERSHIP FOR GROWTH: ITALY'S [...] Italy has proven to be the best U.S. ally in continental Europe in this young millennium. Unfortunately, since 2000, Italy's economy has grown at an anemic annual rate of only 0.75 percent. To promote economic dynamism in Italy that will produce the resources for Italy to continue to join th [...]	2006-02-16 10:33:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON EFIN ELAB PGOV IT KPRP EUN
06ROME473	TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS: USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following numbers: USG [...]	2006-02-16 10:54:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER OLYMPICS
06ROME483	HAMAS: ITALY WEIGHS IN FOR ISRAEL WITH RUSSIANS [...] (C) Summary. PM Berlusconi reportedly has contacted Russian President Putin and urged that any visit of Hamas officials to Moscow be handled at as low a level as possible. Berlusconi made the call at the behest of Acting Israeli PM Olmert. End summary. 2. (C) A diplomatic advisor to Berl [...]	2006-02-16 17:36:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR KPAL PTER PGOV XF IT
06ROME487	TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS: USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following numbers: USG [...]	2006-02-17 10:28:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER OLYMPICS
06ROME494	ITALY, VENEZUELA NOT NEGOTIATING NAVAL VESSEL SALE [...] (C) PolMinCouns delivered reftel demarche to MFA Director General for the Americas Claudio Bisogniero February 15. He noted public statements by the GOV defense minister suggesting that Venezuela might look to Italy.for submarines, urged the GOI not to contemplate such sales, and reviewed USG [...]	2006-02-17 12:13:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MASS PREL PARM VE IT EXPORT CONTROLS
06ROME497	MONTENEGRIN PARLIAMENT PRESIDENT IN ROME [...] (C) Summary. On February 16, President of the Montenegrin Parliament Ranko Krivokapic visited Rome ostensibly for personal reasons. He took the opportunity, however, to lobby contacts in Italy's Center-Left opposition parties and the Vatican to oppose a possible request by EU Envoy Miroslav [...]	2006-02-17 15:30:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MW SR IT
06ROME501	ITALY: FASSINO WANTS THE FOREIGN MINISTRY [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador spoke at length with Democrats of the Left (DS) Party Secretary Piero Fassino on February 16. Fassino told the Ambassador that he thought either he or Daisy President Francesco Rutelli would be Foreign Minister in a future center-left government. The Ambassador note [...]	2006-02-17 17:29:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MOPS MARR IZ IT
06ROME502	ITALY: FASSINO WANTS THE FOREIGN MINISTRY [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador spoke at length with Democrats of the Left (DS) Party Secretary Piero Fassino on February 16. Fassino told the Ambassador that he thought either he or Daisy President Francesco Rutelli would be Foreign Minister in a future center-left government. The Ambassador note [...]	2006-02-18 10:27:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MOPS MARR IZ IT ITALIAN POLITICS ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS
06ROME503	TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS: USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following numbers: USG [...]	2006-02-18 10:54:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER OLYMPICS
06ROME504	TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS: USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following numbers: USG [...]	2006-02-19 10:47:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER OLYMPICS
06ROME506	TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS: USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following numbers: USG [...]	2006-02-20 10:24:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER OLYMPICS
06ROME507	ITALIAN MFA POLITICAL DIRECTOR VISIT TO BELGRADE [...] (C) Summary. MFA Political Director Giulio Terzi visited Belgrade on February 14 to deliver a bilateral message to the Belgrade leadership that the Contact Group was unified in its approach to the upcoming Kosovo status talks. Terzi also told PM Kostunica that both the Belgrade leadership and [...]	2006-02-20 16:19:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SR MW YI IT
06ROME510	AVIAN INFLUENZA - MIGRATORY SWANS TEST POSITIVE [...] (U) SUMMARY: Tri-Mission Avian Influenza (AI) Emergency Action Committee (AI-EAC) met on January 20 to review post contingency planning and on February 13 to discuss confirmation by the Ministry of Health February 11-12 that six migratory swans in three southern regions (Puglia, Calabria and [...]	2006-02-21 08:17:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR TBIO KFLU ASEC AMED CASC SENV FAO WHO IT
06ROME511	TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS: USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following numbers: USG [...]	2006-02-21 09:40:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER OLYMPICS
06ROME536	CARTOON-WEARING MINISTER RESIGNS [...] (C) Summary. Italy's Reforms Minister resigned February 18 following violent protests against the Italian consulate in Benghazi. The minister, Roberto Calderoli of the Northern League, had won notoriety for wearing T-shirts emblazoned with cartoons that had triggered protests in Islamic co [...]	2006-02-21 18:14:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER PHUM KISL IT ITALIAN POLITICS ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS
06ROME543	TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS: USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following numbers: USG [...]	2006-02-22 09:55:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER OLYMPICS
06ROME548	YEAR 2006 SPECIAL 301, MISSION ITALY INPUT [...] Mission Italy recommends that Italy remain on the 301 Watch List for 2006. Although Italy deserves credit for reductions in piracy rates and improved police action in 2005, industry losses, particularly for software, are still unacceptably high. While some cities, such as Florence, have made [...]	2006-02-22 14:28:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD EINV KIPR IT
06ROME550	ITALY: AN SPOKESPERSON SEES CENTER-RIGHT CLOSING [...] (C) The Ambassador met February 15 with National Alliance (AN) Party Spokesperson Andrea Ronchi. Ronchi told the Ambassador he was optimistic about the center-right's electoral chances and claimed they are only trailing the center-left by one or two percentage points. Ronchi said AN was firm [...]	2006-02-22 16:12:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IT ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS
06ROME551	FOLLOWUP: GOI SEEKS USG RESPONSE ON LEGAL [...] (S/NF) REFTEL NOTED ITALIAN MINISTER OF JUSTICE HAD APPEALED TO AMBASSADOR FOR RESPONSES ON SEVERAL OUTSTANDING BILATERAL LEGAL ASSISTANCE ISSUES. TWO INVOLVED ACTS OF TERROR IN IRAQ AGAINST ITALIAN CITIZENS; ANOTHER RELATES TO THE FATAL SHOOTING OF AN ITALIAN INTELLIGENCE OFFICER. THE MESS [...]	2006-02-22 16:37:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL IT IZ ITALIAN POLITICS
06ROME556	ITALY: 2005/2006 REPORT TO CONGRESS ON ALLIED [...] The following is Embassy Rome,s contribution to the 2005 ) 2006 Report to Congress on Allied Contributions to the Common Defense. Post understands from Reftel, Paragraph 6, that DOD will secure significant quantitative data, including defense spending data, from other sources. Post will prov [...]	2006-02-23 09:42:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	JA KS KU MCAP PREL QA SA US MARR IT TC NATO
06ROME558	TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS: USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following numbers: USG [...]	2006-02-23 10:13:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER OLYMPICS
06ROME568	TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS: USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following numbers: USG [...]	2006-02-24 09:48:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER OLYMPICS
06ROME583	ITALY'S DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE IN DECLINE [...] (U) SUMMARY: In view of Italy's extraordinary 27.6% cut in 2006 foreign assistance from 2005 levels, DCM called on Guiseppe Deodato, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Director General for Development, recently to hear his views and ensure continued good cooperation on development assistance. [...]	2006-02-24 15:35:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON EFIN IT IRAQI FREEDOM AFGHANISTAN
06ROME584	ITALY'S UNION COALITION PROGRAM: FAULT LINES ON [...] (C) Romano Prodi presented the center-left Union coalition's 281-page governing program on February 13. As opposed to establishing a concrete program for the Union coalition should it win the April 9 national elections, the document has been viewed by critics from both the right and the left [...]	2006-02-24 15:46:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON MARR PARM MOPS ELAB EINV IT ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS
06ROME585	ITALY: UN REFORM PARTNER, SUPPORTS GUATEMALA UNSC [...] (C) Summary. Italy continues to support UN Reform, including making the new Peacebuilding Commission an effective body, and creating a strong Human Rights Council. It also supports improving UN management, including a mandate review, according to MFA UN Reform Coordinator Alessandro Busacca. [...]	2006-02-24 18:23:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KUNR PHUM UNSC GT VE IT
06ROME586	TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS: USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following numbers: USG [...]	2006-02-25 10:59:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER OLYMPICS
06ROME587	TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS: USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following numbers: USG [...]	2006-02-26 09:22:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER OLYMPICS

06ROME591	FOOD SECURITY ISSUES IN MOPTI DISTRICT, MALI [...] Summary: In conjunction with official travel to attend FAO's African Regional Conference in Bamako (septel),Alternate Permanent Representative Willem Brakel, U.S. Mission to the UN Agencies in Rome, traveled to Mopti, Bandiagara and surroundings in Central Mali between January 31 and Februa [...]	2006-02-27 09:25:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID AORC EAGR ML WFP FAO IFAD
06ROME594	TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS: USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (U) This is the final sitrep from the USG office supporting U.S. participation in the Turin Winter Olympics. The Closing Ceremonies of the 2006 Winter Olympic Games concluded on a high note on 02/26/2006, as IOC officials hailed the 17-day Olympic Games as a major success. Italian security ef [...]	2006-02-27 10:27:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER OLYMPICS
06ROME599	2006 TIP REPORT: ITALY [...] Below is the 2006 Trafficking in Persons Report for Italy. Answers are keyed to questions in reftel. The Embassy point of contact is Labor Counselor Candace Putnam, telephone: 39-06-4674-2327, fax 39-06-4674-2623. OVERVIEW -------- 2. (SBU) 21.A. Italy is a country of destination an [...]	2006-02-27 15:21:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB IT HUMAN RIGHTS EUN
06ROME607	IRAQ: ITALIANS FAVOR EXPANDED NATO TRAINING ROLE [...] (C) Summary. Italy strongly supports an expanded NATO training role in Iraq, which it believes will help both to increase the political legitimacy of international efforts in Iraq and to encourage broader participation in those efforts. With Italian elections in April and a tight budget, Ital [...]	2006-02-28 08:23:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL MARR MASS MOPS PINS IZ IT
06ROME622	ITALIANS "ASTONISHED" BY PROPOSED BELGIAN TRIP TO [...] (C) Summary. The Italian MFA expressed astonishment at the proposed visit by Belgian FM De Gucht to Belarus to observe the election monitoring process. The GOI shares USG concern about the signal the trip could send regarding ODHIR,s integrity. While the GOI has no plans to publicly or form [...]	2006-03-01 12:40:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	OSCE PHUM PREL BE IT
06ROME626	AVIAN INFLUENZA: FAO DISCUSSIONS ON INCIDENT [...] Summary: In discussions over the past week, FAO Senior Veterinary Officer Juan Lubroth and Senior Operations Officer Cristina Amaral updated us on FAO activities to combat Avian Influenza (AI). FAO senior management is acting to remove management constraints by: a) instituting a special wai [...]	2006-03-01 16:52:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	KFLU EAGR EAID CASC SENV SOCI TBIO BG BM CB EG ID KE LA ML NI VM FAO WHO AVIAN INFLUENZA
06ROME638	SYRIA EIB LOAN: ITALY WILL ALLOW LOAN TO PASS [...] (C) A/ECMIN and EconOff delivered reftel demarche February 28 to Ignazio Angeloni, Ministry of Finance Director General for International Financial Relations, and Sangante Filippo, Office Director for Bilateral Affairs with non-European Union countries. Angeloni was surprised to hear a Europ [...]	2006-03-02 14:36:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID EFIN EINV EU IT PGOV PHUM PREL EUN
06ROME647	ITALIANS UNABLE TO COMMIT MORE FUNDS TO BIH WAR [...] Summary. GOI budget cutbacks will prevent Italy from pledging additional funds for the BIH War Crimes Chamber. Additionally, the GOI may have difficulty meeting its existing pledge of 1,440,000 Euros for the Chamber. End Summary. 2. Raimondo De Cardona, head of the MFA Balkans Department [...]	2006-03-02 16:42:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREL PGOV PHUM BK IT
06ROME666	WFP'S INTERIM RESPONSE TO UNHAS NEEDS IN PAKISTAN [...] As per ref A),USMISSION UN ROME shared with the UN World Food Program (WFP) issues of concern that: continued support for the UN Humanitarian Air Service (UNHAS) is not critical to ongoing humanitarian relief efforts beyond March 31, 2006; both UNHAS and the UN Joint Logistics Center (UNJLC) [...]	2006-03-03 13:01:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID AEMR ASEC MASS ECON PGOV PREL PK WFP
06ROME678	AVIAN INFLUENZA: WEEKLY UPDATE ON FAO ACTIVITIES [...] Summary: In an effort to keep all USG agencies in Washington and in the field informed on FAO activities to combat and control Avian Influenza (AI),USMISSION UN ROME has instituted this new weekly reporting cable. FAO Emergency Operations and Rehabilitation Division (TCE) and Animal Produc [...]	2006-03-03 16:58:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	KFLU EAGR EAID CASC SENV SOCI TBIO FAO WHO AVIAN INFLUENZA
06ROME692	GOI: EVERGREEN CAN'T SELF-HANDLE AT GROTTAGLIE [...] (U) In response to ref A demarche, Gennaro Bronzone, Deputy Chief of Air Regulatory Service at ENAC, Italy's aviation regulatory agency, told Econoff that the GOI cannot allow Evergreen to conduct cargo self-handling operations because, as a low-traffic airport, Grottaglie is not subject to li [...]	2006-03-06 13:24:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAIR IT FAA AVIATION
06ROME694	DESIGNATION OF AMERICAN WEST AIRLINES [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-06 14:01:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR IT AVIATION FAA
06ROME697	BLUE LANTERN LEVEL 3: PRE-LICENSE CHECK ON [...] (SBU) EconOff and FSN met Nicola Ruccia, Chief Operating Officer of Air One, and Alfredo Pozzi, Director of Research and Development of A-Technology, January 30 and February 27, respectively. Air One and A-Technology both denied knowledge of the license application 05-962149, and plans for th [...]	2006-03-06 15:46:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN IT BLUE LANTERN
06ROME698	SURVEY OF ITALIANS' VIEWS ON FOREIGN ASSISTANCE [...] Against the backdrop of April's national elections and a four-year drop in foreign assistance, Inter Press Service News Agency reported the results of a recent survey February 17 indicating most Italians favor using Italian budgetary resources to fight global poverty, rather than increasing m [...]	2006-03-07 08:45:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	EAID ECON EFIN IT ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS
06ROME699	BIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION: FRANCESCO OLIVIERI, WTO [...] (U) In January, the Italian Government appointed Francesco Olivieri as Special Adviser on WTO issues to Deputy Productive Activities Minister (Foreign Trade Minister) Adolfo Urso. Olivieri had been Ambassador to the Italian Mission to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development [...]	2006-03-07 09:50:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PINR PREL PGOV IT
06ROME71	AFGHANISTAN ASSISTANCE: ITALIAN ENVOY SUGGESTS [...] No summary [...]	2006-01-09 15:47:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EAID AF IT AFGHANISTAN
06ROME724	ITALIAN LEFT LEADER: BRIDGE TO WASHINGTON IS [...] (C) A prominent Italian center-left leader says it's time for European states to realize the days of individual state relations with the US are over. Massimo D'Alema, president of the Democrats of the Left (DS),Italy's largest center-left party, said transatlantic relations remain important [...]	2006-03-09 06:13:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IT
06ROME725	ITALY: POLLSTERS GIVE EDGE TO PRODI BUT DON'T [...] (C) SUMMARY: A collection of five Milan-based pollsters agreed that PM Berlusconi's effective campaign had closed much of the gap with opposition leader Romano Prodi, even if they were split over whether this momentum would carry Berlusconi to victory on election day. Recent polls give Prodi [...]	2006-03-09 06:13:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IT ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS
06ROME726	IMF MARCH 8 VOTE- ITALY WILL VOTE TO RESTORE [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-09 06:14:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN PREL IT
06ROME727	ITALY TAKES A WAIT-AND-SEE APPROACH ON U.S.-INDIA [...] (U) SciCouns and EconOff delivered reftel talking points to Filippo Formica, head of the MFA's Arms Control and Disarmament Office in the MFA's Directorate General for Multilateral Political Affairs and Human Rights. Formica said the GOI does not have a final position on supporting the U.S [...]	2006-03-09 06:14:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ENRG KSCA PARM KNNP ETTC IN IT
06ROME728	EU CLASSIFICATION OF BORATES: ITALY WITH THE U.S. [...] On March 3, Post sent reftel demarche to Dr. Mariano Alessi at the Ministry of Health's Prevention Directorate, to Dr. Roberto Binetti of the Higher Institute of Health's Toxic Substances Department, and to Dr. Giuliana Gasparrini of the Environment Ministry's Office of EU Affairs. On March 7 [...]	2006-03-09 07:58:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ETRD BEXP SENV KSCA IT FAO
06ROME756	ITALY FOLLOWING SUMATE JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS [...] (C) Poloff met with MFA South America Office Director Piero Benassi March 1 to deliver reftel demarche. Noting the judicial harassment of non-governmental organization (NGO) Sumate, Poloff urged Italy to speak out in defense of the accused leaders, send observers to the trial, and convey to t [...]	2006-03-10 11:42:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	EU PGOV PHUM PREL VE IT
06ROME759	TURIN 2006 PARALYMPIC GAMES - USG SITUATION [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following numbers: US [...]	2006-03-10 15:57:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER PARALYMPIC GAMES
06ROME762	ITALIAN AVIAN/PANDEMIC INFLUENZA PLAN ADOPTED [...] SUMMARY: Ref C reported on a draft version of Italy's avian/pandemic influenza preparedness plan. The final version of the plan was adopted by the Council of the State and Regions on February 9, 2006. The National Plan for Preparedness and Response to Pandemic Influenza is now available in [...]	2006-03-10 16:14:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	TBIO EAGR KFLU SENV ECON PREL KSCA IT AVIAN INFLUENZA
06ROME766	AVIAN INFLUENZA: WEEKLY UPDATE ON FAO ACTIVITIES [...] Summary: During three days of high-level and technical level discussions with FAO on March 7-9, a consensus was reached that a more robust global response was needed, with FAO, in coordination with OIE, as the global coordinator. FAO hosted the series of meetings relating to improving emerge [...]	2006-03-10 17:11:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	KFLU EAGR EAID CASC SENV SOCI TBIO FAO WHO AVIAN INFLUENZA
06ROME768	ITALIAN CENTER LEFT OFFICIAL SAYS NATO ESSSENTIAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Democrats of the Left Member of Parliament and former U/S in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Umberto Ranieri told Pol M/C that his party considers NATO an essential pillar of international security. He assured us that far left radicals would not make foreign policy in a future c [...]	2006-03-10 18:32:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON PREL IZ IT NATO ITALIAN POLITICS ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS
06ROME769	TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS: USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Paralympic Games. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following numbers: [...]	2006-03-11 11:04:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER PARALYMPIC GAMES
06ROME770	TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS: USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following numbers: USG [...]	2006-03-12 12:21:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER PARALYMPIC GAMES
06ROME771	TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS: USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following numbers: USG [...]	2006-03-13 10:22:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER PARALYMPIC GAMES
06ROME794	AIR NAVIGATION COMMON CHARGING SCHEME, ITALY [...] A/ECMIN delivered reftel demarche March 10 to Achille Vinci Giacchi, Diplomatic Advisor to Minister of Transportation Pietro Lunardi. A/ECMIN simultaneously delivered a letter from the Ambassador to Lunardi, which reiterates reftel talking points. Vinci Giacchi said the Ministry would need to [...]	2006-03-14 10:49:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAIR MARR MOPS PREL IT NATO EUN AVIATION FAA
06ROME798	ITALIAN ELECTIONS: THE SOUTHERN BATTLEGROUND [...] (C) Puglia, on Italy's southern heel, is a battleground region in Italy's April 9 elections. Although a traditional stronghold of the Center Right, it is an area where voters have handed Center Left politicians dramatic electoral gains in recent municipal and regional voting. Local pundits [...]	2006-03-14 12:00:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IT ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS
06ROME806	TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS: USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following numbers: USG [...]	2006-03-14 16:15:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER PARALYMPIC GAMES
06ROME810	TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS: USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following numbers: USG [...]	2006-03-15 10:45:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER PARALYMPIC GAMES
06ROME811	ROME SECURITY ENVIRONMENT PROFILE QUESTIONNAIRE [...] (SBU) Political Violence: A. Yes B. Yes C. Yes D. 200 individuals in front of the Embassy, but more for some sensitive issues, like the war in Iraq, can attract up to twenty thousand when the demonstration is held in the city center and then moves to the Embassy. E. Can be [...]	2006-03-15 12:52:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ASEC PTER IT ANTITERRORISM FORCE PROTECTION
06ROME824	INTERNATIONAL TRACING SERVICE: ITALY SENDS INITIAL [...] (U) Labor Counselor met February 27 and March 15 with Francesco De Stefani, Acting Director of the MFA's UN Office, to deliver reftel demarche and discuss Italy's participation in the International Tracing Service (ITS). De Stefani confirmed that MOD Colonel Sandro Tortoro has replaced Carlo [...]	2006-03-16 10:11:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	AORC PREL KNAR IT EUN
06ROME826	ITALY STAYING OUT OF ARAB LEAGUE SUDAN DECISION [...] (C) Poloff met March 3 with MFA Horn of Africa Office Director Fabrizio Pignatelli to deliver reftel demarche. Poloff urged the GOI to approach the Arab League (AL) in advance of the March 28-29 summit to note the potential consequences of a Sudanese AL presidency, especially given the GOS's h [...]	2006-03-16 10:36:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IZ SU IT
06ROME827	TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS: USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following numbers: USG [...]	2006-03-16 11:16:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER PARALYMPIC GAMES
06ROME834	SCENESETTER FOR EUR DAS BRYZA'S MARCH 17 VISIT TO [...] (C) Embassy Rome welcomes the visit of EUR DAS Matthew Bryza to Rome March 17. DAS Bryza's visit comes in the midst of a natural gas shortage here in Italy that has caused gas delivery interruptions to industrial customers and highlighted the inadequacies of Italy's energy infrastructure; an [...]	2006-03-16 13:14:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG EPET ETRD IT
06ROME839	ITALY: CL PARLIAMENTARIAN PREDICTS CONTINUITY IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Marco Minniti, a former U/S of Defense under center-left (CL) Prime Minister Massimo D'Alema, termed Berlusconi's relationship with the U.S an asset that should be built upon and said there is no European security without the U.S. Minniti continued that the center-left is now in [...]	2006-03-16 16:33:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL MOPS IS IT NATO ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS ITALIAN POLITICS
06ROME849	TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS: USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following numbers: USG [...]	2006-03-17 11:29:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER PARALYMPIC GAMES
06ROME85	ITALY'S CENTER-LEFT PLANS IRAQ PULLOUT BY END OF [...] (C) Romano Prodi's international affairs adviser and spokesperson January 10 expressed confidence in a center-left victory in Italy's elections next April. He said that a Prodi-led government would announce immediately upon winning national elections its intent to withdraw from Iraq. Ricardo [...]	2006-01-10 15:53:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV IT EUN IRAQI FREEDOM ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS
06ROME860	AVIAN INFLUENZA: WEEKLY UPDATE ON FAO ACTIVITIES [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 16, USMISSION UN ROME staff met with various members of FAO's Animal Production and Health Division (AGA) and Emergency Operations and Rehabilitation Division (TCE) for an update on Avian Influenza (AI) operations worldwide as well specific country programs. Much of t [...]	2006-03-17 16:59:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFLU EAGR EAID CASC SENV SOCI TBIO FAO WHO AVIAN INFLUENZA
06ROME862	TERRORISM FINANCE: PRENOTIFICATION OF DESIGNATION [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-17 17:29:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	KTFN EFIN PTER PREL ETTC
06ROME863	ITALIAN ELECTIONS: THE POSSIBILITIES (PART I OF [...] (C) This cable is the first of two outlining possible post-election scenarios and our engagement with the center-left on various issues. Though opposition leader Romano Prodi holds a slight lead in opinion polls, it remains unclear whether he can hang on to defeat incumbent PM Silvio Berluscon [...]	2006-03-17 17:34:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV MOPS IZ IT NATO ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS
06ROME864	ITALIAN ELECTIONS: WHAT IF THE CENTER-LEFT WINS? [...] (C) Summary. Septel outlines the possible outcomes of the April 9-10 Italian elections; as of now, the center-left has a slight edge in polling, suggesting neither the left nor the right will win with a large mandate. We predict: (1) budget constraints will challenge the next government's [...]	2006-03-17 17:35:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL IT ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS
06ROME865	TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS: USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following numbers: USG [...]	2006-03-18 11:13:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER PARALYMPIC GAMES
06ROME868	TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS: USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. 2. (SBU) The interagency Olympic Security Coordination (OSC) Office can be contacted on a 24-hour basis at the following numbers: USG [...]	2006-03-19 11:28:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER PARALYMPIC GAMES
06ROME869	TURIN 2006 WINTER OLYMPICS:USG SITUATION REPORT [...] (SBU) The following cable provides information on security, public diplomacy, and consular activities in Turin, Italy, for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games. KEY POINTS ----------------- 2. (U) This is the final Situation Report from the USG office supporting U.S. participation in the Tu [...]	2006-03-20 12:08:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ASEC CASC CMGT ECON IT KOLY OVIP PTER PARALYMPIC GAMES
06ROME87	AVIAN INFLUENZA: FAO UPDATE ON ANIMAL SITUATION IN [...] Summary. Responding to alarming media reports on the Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (H5N1) outbreaks in Turkey, on January 9, USMISSION UN Rome asked Juan Lubroth, FAO Senior Veterinary Officer (SVO),to share with us FAO's assessment of the situation in Turkey and ongoing work to control [...]	2006-01-10 16:04:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR EAID CASC SENV SOCI TBIO TU FAO WHO AVIAN INFLUENZA
06ROME903	SENDING SPENT ELK RIVER FUEL TO INDIA [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 2. 2. (U) As instructed reftel, the Ambassador wrote to Prime Ministry Under Secretary Gianni Letta February 28 that the United States could not accept the uranium-thorium spent nuclear fuel stored at the Trisaia Research Center (ITREC) in [...]	2006-03-22 15:38:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG IT KNNP KSCA EUN
06ROME904	IRAQ: ITALIAN MFA SAYS PRT MOVING AHEAD REGARDLESS [...] (C) Italy's Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) in Dhi Qar province will be fully operational by the end of April. MFA officials are confident that, barring an unexpectedly large vote for the extreme left in Italy's April 9 election, a center-left election victory will not affect the current [...]	2006-03-22 15:56:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM PREL PGOV EAID IZ IT UNSC IRAQI FREEDOM ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS
06ROME915	DEMARCHE CONCERNING PENDING ADOPTION CASES IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: In response to ref A, Conoff contacted the GOI Ministry of Foreign Affairs on March 22 to raise the issue of pending Romanian adoption cases. According to Minister Giuseppe Panocchia, the GOI agrees with the U.S. that the rigid position of the Romanian government on the outstandi [...]	2006-03-23 17:28:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	KOCI CASC CVIS PREL SOCI RO IT EUN UN
06ROME925	AVIAN INFLUENZA: WEEKLY UPDATE ON FAO ACTIVITIES [...] Summary: Three FAO documents were shared with USMISSIN UN ROME this week: -- Following meetings earlier this month with several donors, FAO and OIE (the World Organization for Animal Health) released on March 17 the jointly prepared proposal to strengthen response to Highly Pathogenic Avia [...]	2006-03-24 15:37:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	KFLU EAGR EAID CASC SENV SOCI TBIO FAO WHO AVIAN INFLUENZA
06ROME927	POLITICAL REACTION TO PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT ON ITALY [...] (C) SUMMARY: Opposition candidate Romano Prodi called the Ambassador March 23 to question the appropriateness of the timing of our recent public announcement on Italy. His likely foreign minister should Prodi win the April 9-10 election called the Ambassador later the same day to "de-dramati [...]	2006-03-24 16:15:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV CASC AMGT IT ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS
06ROME933	ITALIANS TO DAS BRYZA: RUSSIA NOT READY FOR [...] (C) Summary. On March 17, DAS Bryza met with Deputy Diplomatic Advisor to PM Berlusconi Francesco Talo and MFA Director General Giulio Terzi to discuss Caucasus security issues and Russian Australia Group (AG) membership. Bryza told his interlocutors that the USG believed that Russian member [...]	2006-03-27 12:16:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM NATO IT RU GG UP
06ROME934	G8 IPR: ITALY FLEXIBLE, BUT CONCERNED ABOUT [...] A/Ecmin delivered reftel points March 24 to Italy G8 Sous Sherpa Massimo Leggeri. Econoff received a response March 27 from Luigi De Chiara, an office director who works on G8 issues in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Directorate for Multilateral Economic Cooperation. 2. De Chiara describ [...]	2006-03-27 14:16:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON KIPR IT EUN
06ROME943	ITALY: TAKEOVERS SHAKE-UP BANKING SECTOR [...] (SBU) The December 2005 resignation of Bank of Italy (BOI) Governor Antonio Fazio, and the appointment of reformist Mario Draghi, has raised expectations that a wave of bank mergers will sweep Italy in 2006. French bank BNP-Paribas made the first move, taking over Banca Nazionale del Lavoro [...]	2006-03-28 09:13:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EFIN ELAB PGOV IT KPRP ITALIAN POLITICS
06ROME956	ITALIANS OPEN TO EU VISA BAN AGAINST LUKASHENKA, [...] (C) Summary. On March 27, Poloff met with Antonino Cascio of the Eastern European Department of the Italian MFA to deliver reftel points. Cascio said the MFA is concerned that an extended visa ban, including a ban on Lukashenka, could prove to be ineffective and could backfire if Lukashenka [...]	2006-03-29 16:05:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM CVIS EUN BO IT
06ROME957	ITALY SUPPORTS GOALS ON SUDAN FOR ARAB LEAGUE [...] (C) March 22, Poloffs delivered reftel demarche to MFA Office Director for Middle East Regional Cooperation, Antonella Uneddu, and separately provided Sudan points to MFA Horn of Africa Office Director Fabrizio Pignatelli. March 24, Pignatelli responded that the MFA had contacted all Italian [...]	2006-03-30 05:20:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IZ SU IT
06ROME979	ITALIANS URGE SLOW EXPANSION OF EU VISA BAN [...] (C) On March 31, PolMinCouns and Poloff met with Paolo Serpi, Director of the Eastern European Department of the Italian MFA, to get a readout of the measures the EU plans to implement against the Lukashenko regime. Serpi stated that the EU agreed to implement an expanded visa ban list agains [...]	2006-03-31 15:30:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KDEM CVIS BO IT
06ROME996	The Economy, But Not Economic Reform, Begins [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: Italy's electoral campaign has begun to focus almost exclusively on incumbent Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's Achilles heel: the economy. Center-left challenger Romano Prodi threw Berlusconi on the defensive during a nationally televised debate March 14 that focu [...]	2006-04-03 08:36:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON IT ITALY NATIONAL ELECTIONS
06ROME997	ITALY'S NORTHERN LEAGUE: THE CHALLENGE OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: Italy's Northern League faces two strategic challenges in the short and the long term: what to do if the pro-devolution referendum fails this summer and how to replace the party's founder and unquestioned leader Umberto Bossi, who is still weak after a devastating stroke two years [...]	2006-04-03 08:38:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV IT ITALIAN POLITICS
06ROME999	ITALIAN PARTICIPATION IN EPA'S WORKSHOP ON [...] Per reftel, we delivered talking points and shared information about the Environmental Protection Agency-sponsored "Workshop on Decontamination, Cleanup, and Associated Issues for Sites Contaminated with Biological, Chemical or Radiological Materials" with appropriate GOI offices. The offici [...]	2006-04-03 11:49:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER TBIO PINS EAGR IT
07ROME1	TERRORIST FINANCE - ITALY: DOCKRAT PRENOTIFICATION [...] (S) Econoff met with Giampaolo Cantini, Head of the Counter Terrorism Policy Unit at the MFA's Department for Multilateral Political Affairs on December 28 to discuss reftel points. Cantini stated that the GOI Financial Security Committee (FSC) would research the individuals listed in refte [...]	2007-01-03 17:19:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	EFIN ETTC KTFN PREL PTER ZU IT
07ROME1014	KOSOVO UPDATE: D'ALEMA REITERATES SUPPORT FOR [...] (C) Summary. Italy is becoming more vocal about its support for the Ahtisaari plan. This week, in an interview in the Italian weekly L'Espresso, FM D'Alema stated that Italy was for supervised independence and noted that Kosovo cannot go back to Belgrade rule. PM Prodi, who asserts he is per [...]	2007-05-14 12:40:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV NATO UNSC YI SR IT
07ROME1015	LEBANON: ITALY CAUTIOUS ON HARIRI SPECIAL TRIBUNAL [...] (C) Poloffs delivered Ref A demarche May 10 separately to MFA Near East Deputy Office Director Danielle Bosio, UN Office Director Leonardo Bencini, and the Prime Minister's Middle East Advisor Marco Carnelos, encouraging GOI support for a UNSCR to establish the Special Tribunal for Lebanon. Bo [...]	2007-05-14 14:30:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PTER UNSC LE IT
07ROME1017	ITALIAN CANDIDATE FOR OSCE HIGH COMMISSIONER ON [...] Guido Lenzi, diplomatic advisor to the Minister of Interior, met with poloff on May 10 to seek support for his candidacy as the OSCE High Commissioner on National Minorities. Lenzi, a member of the Italian diplomatic service since 1964, has significant multilateral experience with NATO, UN, E [...]	2007-05-15 10:37:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OSCE PGOV PREL IT
07ROME1029	ITALY REAFFIRMS CUBA TWO-TRACK APPROACH TO DAS [...] (C) Summary. In May 7 meetings with Italian officials, DAS Madison highlighted concerns about rising repression in Cuba and GOC efforts to create divisions in the international community, and hailed the Unity for Freedom statement. She called for the international community to focus on the r [...]	2007-05-16 09:22:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PHUM PGOV EU CU VZ IT
07ROME1030	ITALIANS SUPPORT RAPID MOVEMENT ON [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-16 10:13:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV AG MO WI IT
07ROME1036	ITALIAN REQUEST AT UN TO UNFREEZE BANK SEPAH ROME [...] (S/NF) Embassy contacted the Ministry of Finance's Office for the Prevention of Financial Crimes to learn more about the GOI proposal at the UN to unfreeze Bank Sepah Rome branch liquid assets. In particular, we inquired about plans to a) cover current expenses (e.g., utilities, legal and Ba [...]	2007-05-16 16:28:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL UNSC ECON EFIN KNNP ETTC IR IT
07ROME1069	ADDITIONAL ITALIAN VIEWS ON REQUEST AT UN TO [...] (S/NF) EcMin met May 18 with Giuseppe Maresca, Director General of the Ministry of Finance's Office for the Prevention of Financial Crimes. After EcMin strongly conveyed ref A instructions, Maresca explained that the GOI was balancing a "firm attitude" on UNSC resolutions, while being mindfu [...]	2007-05-18 11:36:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	PREL UNSC ECON EFIN KNNP ETTC IR IT
07ROME1105	ITALIANS OPPOSE RUSSIAN DRAFT OF OSCE CHARTER [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-23 14:40:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	OSCE PREL KTIA PGOV IT
07ROME1106	OIE CHINA/TAIWAN: ITALY SUPPORTS EU POSITION TO [...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel points to MFA Office Director for East Asia Giuseppe Mistretta May 21, emphasizing the need to work for consensus and delay a vote on the PRC resolution in the absence of consensus. May 22, Mistretta responded that Italy fully supported the EU position: --The World [...]	2007-05-23 14:40:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EAGR AORG TW CH IT
07ROME1109	DEMARCHE ON SUPPORT FOR LEBANON SPECIAL TRIBUNAL [...] (C) Summary. Ambassador May 23 made the points on the Special Lebanon Tribunal to FM Massimo D'Alema. D'Alema said he had spoken to both the Lebanese PM and French FM. The French were pushing hard for immediate action. However, while the GOI favored the resolution, it advocated waiting fo [...]	2007-05-23 15:26:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	UNSC PREL PTER LE IT
07ROME1110	ITALIANS OPPOSED TO OSCE BELARUS TRIP, WILL NOT [...] No summary [...]	2007-05-24 07:06:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM OSCE BO IT
07ROME1112	ITALY MONITORING IRAN-VENEZUELA RELATIONSHIP [...] (C) Poloffs conveyed Ref A points to MFA Gulf Countries Acting Office Director Lorenzo Klutzer May 10 and MFA South Africa Acting Office Director Paolo Campanini May 23, emphasizing U.S. concerns about implications of the growing Iran-Venezuela alliance for terrorism and proliferation activiti [...]	2007-05-24 10:51:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR PHUM MASS ECON PTER KNNP PARM VE
07ROME1122	ITALY ON SYRIA'S SHAM PRESIDENTIAL "REFERENDUM" [...] (C) PolMinCouns delivered reftel points to Luciano Pezzotti, Director of the MFA Office for Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Israel and the Palestinian territories. PMC urged an Italian and/or EU statement addressing Syria's pending presidential referendum. He said the Syrian Government should [...]	2007-05-24 14:59:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PREL PHUM SY EUN IT
07ROME1131	WHALES - ITALIAN RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON USG IWC [...] Per instructions in reftel, on May 4, ESTH Counselor contacted Italian IWC Commissioner Giuseppe Ambrosio to convey points on U.S. priorities in advance of the 2007 Annual Meeting of the International Whaling Commission. We also sent points to Deputy IWC Commissioner Dr. Aldo Cosentino, Direc [...]	2007-05-25 10:01:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV EFIS KSCA PREL IWC ETRD IT
07ROME1132	G-6 AND DHS SECRETARY CHERTOFF DISCUSS [...] (SBU) Summary. Italy hosted a meeting of the six larger EU nations in Venice May 11-12 to discuss strategies and share experiences on ways to better cooperate in the fight against radicalization and terrorism. Known as the "G6" meetings of EU interior ministers, this year's meeting included DH [...]	2007-05-25 12:20:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KJUS KHLS PTER CVIS PREL PGOV IT
07ROME1158	EGYPT-ITALY TRADE AND INVESTMENT INCREASE AS EGYPT [...] (U) Summary. Italy and Egypt are significant trade partners, with trade between the two countries dominated by Italy's export of machinery to Egypt and Egypt's export of crude oil to Italy. Italy is Egypt's largest EU trading partner, and is a leading source of foreign investment in Egypt. [...]	2007-05-25 14:43:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD EINV EG IT
07ROME116	ITALY IN AGREEMENT ON SOMALIA OBJECTIVES [...] (C) Summary. Italy generally agreed with the talking points on Somalia policy in Ref A, according to MFA Somalia Coordinator Giancarlo Izzo. In a January 16 meeting with poloff, Izzo noted the importance of finding consensus among the international community, and listed involving civil socie [...]	2007-01-18 12:12:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL SO IT
07ROME1163	AMB. WILLIAMSON DISCUSSES WAR CRIMES TRIBUNALS, [...] (C) Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues Clint Williamson met with MFA Balkans Office Director Raimondo De Cardona, Deputy Legal Advisor Valerio Astraldi, Director of the Great Lakes Office Orazio Guanciale and UN Coordinator Giamberto De Vito on May 21 to discuss the International Crimin [...]	2007-05-29 08:27:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KAWC PREL PGOV IT
07ROME1168	DEMARCHE: AGILE LAUNCH; PROTEST OF USML TRANSFER TO INDIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: On May 29, ECMIN delivered points regarding the launch from India of the Italian AGILE satellite, and the related, unlicensed re-export from Italy to India of USML-listed items (ref A),to the MFA official responsible for Space and Science and Technology Cooperation. The latter resp [...]	2007-05-29 16:16:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC KOMC PARM TSPA IT IN
07ROME1187	KOSOVO: TADIC CLAIMS RUSSIANS HAVE PROMISED TO [...] (C) Serbian President Boris Tadic and Foreign Minister Vuk Jeremic told PM Prodi and FM D'Alema on May 29 that Russia had promised Serbia a veto of any UNSC resolution that would separate Kosovo from Serbia, according to MFA Balkans Office Director Raimondo De Cardona. Tadic told Prodi and D'A [...]	2007-05-31 14:33:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV UNSC YI SR IT
07ROME1190	AFTER THREATENING JSF FUNDING, GOI OFFICIAL [...] (S) Summary. In a May 21 meeting with Ecmin, Alfredo Cuzzoni, the Ministry of Economic Development official responsible for the Ministry's support for Italy's defense industry, described an Italian defense procurement system constrained by political infighting and limited budgets. Cuzzoni s [...]	2007-06-01 05:47:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	ECON ETTC IR IT MARR PARM PREL
07ROME120	ITALY - DESIGNATIONS OF ADDITIONAL SYRIAN ENTITIES UNDER E.O. 13382 [...] No summary [...]	2007-01-18 16:01:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	PREL PTER KTFN KNNP EFIN ETTC SY IT PARM
07ROME1216	ITALIAN SPACE AGENCY'S AGILE LAUNCH: RATIONALE FOR [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 13. 2. (C) Summary. Separate discussions at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Universities and Research, and the Italian Space Agency (ASI) indicate that the decision to proceed with the launch of ASI's AGILE satellite from I [...]	2007-06-04 14:18:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	ETTC KOMC PARM IT
07ROME1217	ITALY IPR: POSSIBLE BREAKTHROUGH IN GOI SUPPORT [...] SUMMARY AND INTRO: On May 31, Economic Development Minister Bersani hosted Ambassador Spogli for a joint public presentation on Intellectual Property Rights (IPR). Bersani and the Ambassador emphasized the necessity of effective IPR protection to stimulate growth and innovation in knowledge [...]	2007-06-04 14:18:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV ETRD IT KIPR LAB PGOV
07ROME122	ITALY: BUSINESS AS USUAL - EXPORT CREDIT INSURANCE [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: In a discussion with Emboffs about Italy halting export credit insurance for Iran (Ref A),a Ministry of Finance official -- who also serves as the President of Italy's export credit agency (ECA) SACE -- replied that an internal review of SACE's business with Iran in 2006 had [...]	2007-01-18 17:01:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	PREL EFIN MNUC EXIM UNSC OECD IR IT
07ROME1229	ITALY 2007 REPORT ON INVESTMENT DISPUTES AND [...] In response to reftel, the Embassy is aware of four (4) claims of United States persons that may be outstanding against the Government of Italy. CLAIMS ====== 2. a. Claimant A b. 1974 - 1980 c. Claimant A, a U.S. citizen who died in September 1997, alleged that real property i [...]	2007-06-05 14:04:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EINV CASC KIDE OPIC PGOV IT
07ROME1232	ITALY TO ABSTAIN IN EU VOTE ON STACKED BIOTECH [...] No summary [...]	2007-06-05 16:37:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ETRD ECON EU IT
07ROME1233	ITALIANS HESITANT ON TOUGHER SUDAN SANCTIONS [...] (C) Poloff met June 1 with Fabrizio Pignatelli, MFA Horn of Africa Office Director, to discuss ref A points and press the GOI to support, within the UNSC, a strong sanctions resolution against Sudan. (Note: Ref A points were also delivered to MFA UN Office Director Leonardo Bencini, who of [...]	2007-06-05 16:53:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ETRD ETTC UN SU EU IT
07ROME1265	ITALIAN REACTION TO PRESIDENT BUSH'S NEW CLIMATE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Despite the Italian Minister of Environment's categorical public call for binding CO2 emission reduction targets for all countries, the Chief Climate Change Negotiator said that the GOI has not yet formulated an official reaction to President Bush's May 31 climate change framew [...]	2007-06-07 15:19:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	SENV KGHG ENRG IT
07ROME127	GOI RESPONSE TO IRANIAN ATTEMPTS TO PROCURE [...] (S) Econoff delivered ref A nonpaper on Iranian efforts to procure specialty steel for use in its ballistic missile program to Enrico Padula, the MFA working-level official responsible for MTCR issues. Padula said the GOI shares USG concerns regarding Iranian attempts to procure items contro [...]	2007-01-19 16:37:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET	ETTC MNUC MTCRE PARM PREL IR IT
07ROME1270	ITALY AND CUBA: NSC-DIRECTED REVIEW FOR LIBERTAD [...] (C) There has been little change in Italy's relationship with Cuba in the past six months. The most significant event in bilateral relations this period was a visit by Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque to Rome on March 15. In his meeting with Italian Foreign Minister Massimo D'Alema, [...]	2007-06-08 08:05:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL ETRD ETTC CU IT
07ROME1281	BANK OF ITALY PUTS BANK SEPAH ROME UNDER "SPECIAL [...] (S/NF) The Bank of Italy (BOI) regulator overseeing BOI administration of Bank Sepah Rome since passage of UNSCR 1747 informed Econoff June 8 that BOI "special administration" of the branch is now in place. The Ministry of Finance approved BOI's request to move to a special administration of [...]	2007-06-11 16:31:00	Embassy Rome	SECRET//NOFORN	KNNP PARM PREL EFIN KTFN ETTC ECON UN IR IT
07ROME129	FM D'ALEMA LOOKING FOR SOMETHING NEW TO BRING TO [...] (C) Italian MFA Lebanon Desk Officer De Parolis confirmed to Poloff on January 18 that FM Massimo D'Alema would lead Italy's delegation to the January 25 Paris III Donor Conference on Lebanon. He will be accompanied by MFA DG for Mediterranean and Middle Eastern Affairs Cesare Ragaglini; the [...]	2007-01-22 10:58:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	XF LE IT
07ROME130	ITALY'S POSITION ON OECD WORKING GROUP ON BRIBERY [...] (SBU) EcMin met January 19 with Francesco Borgomeo, Chief of Cabinet at the Ministry of Justice, to discuss Italy's views on the OECD's Working Group on Bribery (reftel). Borgomeo stated that the GOI agrees as to the effectiveness of the Working Group. He added that Italy will continue to wo [...]	2007-01-22 11:47:00	Embassy Rome	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD KCOR OECD IT
07ROME1310	UNSCR 1747/OECD: ITALY WOULD LIKELY SUPPORT UNSCR [...] (C) Econoff met June 14 with Filippo Giansante, Ministry of Finance Chief of the Paris Club Division, to discuss options to restrict export credit flows to Iran through the OECD (refs A and B). (Note: Giansante is also an advisor to Ignazio Angeloni, President of Italy's export credit agenc [...]	2007-06-14 11:45:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EFIN ETRD EXIM OECD UN EU IR IT
07ROME1312	ITALY WELCOMES INITIATIVE ON ETHIOPIA-ERITREA, [...] (C) Poloffs met with Horn of Africa Office Director Fabrizio Pignatelli June 13 to discuss the Ethiopia-Eritrea boundary impasse and next steps forward, per reftel. Poloffs emphasized the need for practical steps and sought Italian views on the current situation and a late June meeting of int [...]	2007-06-14 13:58:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV ER ET IT

07ROME1315	BOSNIA: NEW HIGH REPRESENTATIVE LAJCAK TELLS [...] (C) Miroslav Lajcak, the next High Representative for Bosnia, visited Rome on May 28 to meet with the PM's senior diplomatic advisor Stefano Sannino, MFA Director General for Political Affairs Giulio Terzi, MFA DG for European Affairs Laura Mirachian and MFA Balkans Office Director Raimondo De [...]	2007-06-14 15:05:00	Embassy Rome	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BK IT

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