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06DJIBOUTI473	DJIBOUTI, THE UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL, AND AFRICAN [...] On April 16, Ambassador Ragsdale and Poloff (notetaker) delivered letter reftel A from Secretary Rice and reftel B talking points to Foreign Minister Mahmoud Ali Youssouf. 2. Ambassador Ragsdale encouraged the Government of Djibouti not to support candidacies for UN Human Right Council memb [...]	2006-04-19 13:35:00	Embassy Djibouti	UNCLASSIFIED	OPDC PREL PHUM DJ UN

06DJIBOUTI554	DJIBOUTI RESPONSE: SYRIA-LEBANON RESOLUTION IN UN [...] On May 10, Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Nasser Mohammed Hassan, the Assistant Director for Bilateral Affairs in charge of America and Europe at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Poloff explained that this was an urgent matter, and Hassan replied that he would forward the information imme [...]	2006-05-10 11:48:00	Embassy Djibouti	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL UNSC SY LE DJ
06DJIBOUTI555	DJIBOUTI ON IRAN'S HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL CANDIDACY [...] (C) 1. Poloff delivered demarche per reftel to Nasser Mohammed Hassan, the Assistant Director for Bilateral Affairs in charge of America/Europe at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Hassan said he could not give an official response, as all other Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials are current [...]	2006-05-10 11:50:00	Embassy Djibouti	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL DJ
06DJIBOUTI556	DJIBOUTI RESPONSE ON SMALLPOX DEMARCHE [...] On May 10, Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Nasser Mohammed Hassan, the Assistant Director for Bilateral Affairs in charge of American and Europe at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Poloff explained that the World Health Assembly would convene in Geneva later this month, and asked for Djibo [...]	2006-05-10 12:07:00	Embassy Djibouti	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL AORC TBIO WHO DJ
06DJIBOUTI558	DJIBOUTI ON PSI ENDORSEMENT [...] Poloff delivered reftel demarche on May 10 to Nasser Mohammed Hassan, the Assistant Director for Bilateral Affairs in charge of Europe and America at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Hassan said he could not make an official response, but said he would pass on the information to the Foreign Mi [...]	2006-05-10 12:49:00	Embassy Djibouti	CONFIDENTIAL	MNUC PARM PGOV PHSA PREL KNNP DJ
06DJIBOUTI798	DJIBOUTI: TIP TIER 2 WATCH LIST ACTION PLAN [...] (U) On July 5, Poloff and Polasst delivered TIP Tier 2 Watch List Action Plan non-paper to Youssouf Aden Moussa, the Deputy Director of Bilateral Relations in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Poloff explained that the United States is committed to working with Djibouti to combat trafficking in [...]	2006-07-06 13:43:00	Embassy Djibouti	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM PHUM PREL DJ
06DOHA1265	QATARI AMIR: AFTER ARAB "VICTORY," TIME TO TALK [...] (U) Qatari Amir Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani made the first visit to Lebanon by an Arab leader after the end of the recent fighting. Following a tour of bombed-out areas of southern Beirut, he held a press conference with Lebanese President Lahoud carried live on Al Jazeera, in which he said "t [...]	2006-08-22 15:37:00	Embassy Doha	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL IS LE QA
06DOHA1603	DEMOCRACIES CONFERENCE DOES NOT MEET EXPECTATIONS; [...] (SBU) Summary. The International Conference of New or Restored Democracies did not meet the Qatari hosts' greater expectations and a range of participants felt that international representation was at a low level. The Israeli FM's plans to attend and then cancellation left the conference organ [...]	2006-11-02 15:07:00	Embassy Doha	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM KPAL IS QA
06DUBAI1455	HEAD OF DUBAI WOMEN'S SHELTER NOT INTIMIDATED BY CRITICS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Sharla Musabih, head of an independent women's shelter in Dubai, dismissed recent public criticism of her shelter by a prominent Sunni cleric, saying it was not a threat to her operation. She said she was trying to schedule a meeting with him to discuss the matter further. The D [...]	2006-03-14 14:11:00	Consulate Dubai	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV SOCI AE
06DUBAI2598	UNODC OFFICIAL DISCUSSES DRUGS, POLITICS IN IRAN [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-09 13:59:00	Consulate Dubai	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SNAR IR SOCI
06DUBLIN1078	GOI OPEN TO INFORMATION EXCHANGE ON SHANNON MILAIR [...] (C) This is an action request. See para 5. 2. (C) As a follow-up to Post's September August 30 meeting with the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) regarding emerging constraints on U.S. milair transits at Shannon Airport (reftel),DATT, pol/econ chief, and poloff met with Irish Departme [...]	2006-09-15 11:48:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS PREL EAIR PTER EI
06DUBLIN1384	IRAN'S FLAWED ELECTIONS [...] (C) POLOFF delivered reftel demarche to Stephen Dawson, Deputy Director of Middle East Affairs, Department of Foreign Affairs, on December 4. Dawson agreed that the political equation in Iran is fundamentally skewed and undemocratic, though Ireland would not view the election of the Assembly [...]	2006-12-04 16:56:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PREL PGOV IR IE
06DUBLIN1395	IRELAND'S VIEWS ON DECEMBER GAERC [...] (C) POLOFF delivered Ref A - D demarches on December 7 to Mary Connery, Deputy European Correspondent, Department of Foreign Affairs. Ireland continues to support work aimed at lifting the arms embargo on China, though does not expect a relaxation of the current embargo to emerge from the GAE [...]	2006-12-08 16:01:00	Embassy Dublin	CONFIDENTIAL	IS PREL PGOV PHUM IE
06DUSHANBE1027	TAJIKISTAN'S POWER POLITICS: DEPUTY PM GHULOMOV REMAINS [...] (SBU) Tajikistan is the most attractive country in Central Asia for hydro power investment, according to Deputy Prime Minister Ghulomov, and he intends to demonstrate that to investors and suppliers alike at the "Energy Without Borders" conference in Istanbul June 12-14. In a 45-minute meeti [...]	2006-06-02 11:46:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ENRG ECON EAID AF TI
06DUSHANBE1067	TURKISH EMBASSY WANTS BETTER INVESTMENT CLIMATE IN [...] (C) Turkey supports U.S. efforts to develop Tajikistan's energy sector and other infrastructure projects, but Turkish Embassy Chargi d' Affaires Askin Cakmak suggested that for those projects to succeed, donor countries need to send the Tajik government a strong message to improve the investm [...]	2006-06-07 07:15:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON ENRG EINV EAID TI TU
06DUSHANBE1174	TAJIKISTAN: HELSINKI COMMISSION COUNSEL'S FIRST VISIT [...] (U) SUMMARY: H. Knox Thames, Counsel for the U.S. Commission for Security and Cooperation in Europe, also known as the Helsinki Commission, visited Tajikistan June 14-17 for the first time. During his trip, he met with political party representatives, religious leaders, government officials, [...]	2006-06-26 05:53:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF KISL KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE1176	TAJIKISTAN: RUSSIA AND CHINA INTERESTED IN RESULTS OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: "So the United States plans to invest a billion dollars in Tajik hydropower this year?" asked Zheng Wei, political officer at the Chinese Embassy in Dushanbe. As a result of local press coverage of the U.S.-sponsored energy conference in Istanbul, Chinese and Russian diplomats [...]	2006-06-26 06:06:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON ENRG EINV EAID RS CH TI
06DUSHANBE1178	RUSSIAN BUSINESSES IN TAJIKISTAN: "WE HAVE A LOT OF TROUBLE [...] (C) According to Vasiliy Beldugin, the Russian Embassy's Economic Counselor in Dushanbe, Russian companies experience the same problems with corruption and bureaucracy that frustrate other foreign investors. "Some people assume that because of the strategic partnership, Russian companies coul [...]	2006-06-26 06:29:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON EINV EAID PREL TI RU
06DUSHANBE1222	RAO UES AND WORLD BANK PRESSING TAJIK ENERGY MINISTRY [...] (C) The World Bank is advocating that Russian energy giant RAO UES be the official sponsor of an international energy meeting in Dushanbe, but Tajik energy officials are unsure of the signal that will send to other investors, and hope to get a "more neutral" sponsor, such as the Asian Develop [...]	2006-06-30 13:01:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON ENRG EINV RS TI
06DUSHANBE1223	TAJIK PRESIDENT HELPS DEDICATE NEW EMBASSY [...] (C) SUMMARY: After giving remarks at the June 29 dedication ceremony for Dushanbe's new Embassy, Tajik President Emomali Rahmonov spent twenty minutes in a private meeting with CdA and OBO Director Williams discussing Tajikistan's future and the influx of new investment and infrastructure pr [...]	2006-06-30 13:09:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON ENRG RS CH TI
06DUSHANBE1283	TAJIKISTAN: MODERATE IRPT DEPUTY REFUSES PARTY CHAIRMANSHIP [...] (C) Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan's (IRPT) First Deputy Chairman, Muhiddin Kabiri refused to accept the party's chairmanship. Kabiri told PolOff at the Embassy's July 4th celebration that the party's current chairman, Said Abdullo Nuri, asked Kabiri to be the next IRPT head, but Kabi [...]	2006-07-06 09:10:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KIRF KISL TI
06DUSHANBE1294	LET THEM EAT SOMETHING OTHER THAN CAKE! DUSHANBE'S MAYOR [...] (SBU) A letter from the French Ambassador asking the Dushanbe city government to halt street construction during an outdoor Bastille Day celebration has led to the temporary closure of a popular Dushanbe restaurant and highlighted just how risky it is to invest in Tajikistan, or even more dan [...]	2006-07-12 08:47:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL EINV EAID ECON TI
06DUSHANBE1314	TAJIK AIR STILL DOESN'T GET IT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Five months after taking the helm of Tajikistan State Airlines (TSA),Director Hakimsho Tilloyev declined to identify any improvements or changes under his leadership and instead complained about Turkish Air stealing TSA's passengers to Istanbul. He informed PolOff July 12 tha [...]	2006-07-13 12:23:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON EAIR EINV TI
06DUSHANBE1315	TAJIKISTAN: RESPONSE TO NORTH KOREAN MISSILE LAUNCHES [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-13 13:31:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PARM KN KNNP TI
06DUSHANBE1329	TAJIKISTAN'S SDPT CHAIRMAN SUFFERS STROKE, ALLEGES FOUL [...] (C) Rahmatullo Zoyirov, Chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Tajikistan (SDPT) met with PolOff July 13 after suffering a minor stroke two weeks earlier. Zoyirov, an energetic opposition politician, was noticeably absent during the Embassy's official opening on June 28 and the July 4 r [...]	2006-07-14 13:18:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE1353	TAJIKISTAN: DPT'S ISKANDAROV SAFE IN PRISON, FOR NOW [...] (U) Democratic Party of Tajikistan's (DPT) Deputy Chairman, Rahmatullo Valiev assured PolOff July 12 that the DPT's Chairman Mahmmadruzi Iskandarov is not being maltreated in prison, and discussed the emergence of the "Vatan" (Motherland) faction of the DPT. 2. (U) Valiev reported that [...]	2006-07-18 11:29:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE1354	TAJIKISTAN: JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES UNDER SCRUTINY [...] (U) Tajik media reported that Murodullo Davlatov, Chairman of the State Committee for Religious Affairs (SCRA),in a press conference July 13, singled out the Jehovah's Witnesses and said that the group's proselytizing activities "arouse public indignation." Valery Dudaev, Tajikistan's Jehov [...]	2006-07-19 09:38:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KIRF TI
06DUSHANBE1423	AMBASSADOR'S FAREWELL CALL ON TAJIK FM TALBAK NAZAROV [...] (C) SUMMARY: In his July 17 official farewell call on Tajik Foreign Minister Talbak Nazarov, the Ambassador summed up the progress in the U.S.-Tajik relationship over the past three years, including increased border assistance, a new U.S. Embassy and U.S. involvement in hydropower and infra [...]	2006-07-25 11:08:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON MARR KDEM IR RS TI
06DUSHANBE1424	TAJIK INDUSTRY MINISTER WANTS U.S. JOINT VENTURE TO FLY [...] (SBU) An antimony mining joint venture with New Jersey-based COMSUP has been so successful, according to Minister of Industry Zaid Saidov, the Tajik government would prefer the U.S. firm own one hundred percent of the operation, rather than 49%. In a July 18 meeting with PolOff, Saidov expl [...]	2006-07-25 11:09:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON EINV TI
06DUSHANBE1465	TAJIKISTAN: U.S. EMBASSY PROVIDES ASSISTANCE TO EARTHQUAKE [...] Two earthquakes, ranging from 5.0 to 6.0 on the Richter scale, struck southern Tajikistan's Qumsangir district July 29. The earthquakes affected over 1,600 households and nearly 9,000 people. Officially, three deaths were reported, all of them children. The media reported approximately 20 pe [...]	2006-08-01 13:05:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL EAID TI
06DUSHANBE1470	TAJIKISTAN'S POLITICAL PARTIES CONSIDER BOYCOTTING ELECTION [...] (C) SUMMARY: The three main opposition political parties are considering boycotting Tajikistan's presidential election as a statement of protest. Knowing Rahmonov will win handily and worried legitimate opposition candidates may not even have a chance to run, the Democratic Party of Tajikis [...]	2006-08-02 12:33:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE1498	RADIO SILENCE CONTINUES FOR BBC IN TAJIKISTAN [...] (SBU) Tajikistan's State Radio and Television Committee (SRTC) announced August 2 it refused to give BBC a license to broadcast in Tajiki/ Farsi on FM radio. Margaret Belof, the British DCM, told PolOff August 3 the committee based its refusal on two grounds: the BBC is still not properly re [...]	2006-08-04 11:51:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM TI
06DUSHANBE1545	WIIL ROGUN EVER GET BUILT? TAJIKISTAN AND RUSAL ENGAGE IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Is RusAl on the verge of abandoning Rogun, or merely posturing to hasten its acquisition of Tajik state-owned aluminum smelter TadAZ? In the past week, Tajik and regional news agencies have published several articles on Rogun and other Russian-Tajik investments, questioning the [...]	2006-08-11 06:33:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON ENRG EFIN TI AF IR
06DUSHANBE1549	THE END OF AN ERA FOR TAJIKISTAN'S ISLAMIC PARTY [...] SUMMARY: Chargi d'Affaires attended Said Abdullo Nuri's funeral held in Dushanbe August 10. Nuri, the Chairman of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT) passed away August 9 (reftel) after a long battle with cancer. The funeral was well-attended by prominent officials and leader [...]	2006-08-11 10:04:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KDEM KISL TI
06DUSHANBE1576	INDIAN EXPECATIONS FOR TAJIKISTAN POSITIVE, BUT REALISTIC [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: India will continue to assist Tajikistan through exchanges, grants, military cooperation and targeted investment, but the memoranda signed during President Rahmonov's August 6-10 state visit to India only "legalized" initiatives already underway. G. Balusubramanian, [...]	2006-08-17 06:07:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON EAID IN TI
06DUSHANBE1587	TAJIKISTAN: KABIRI LEADS ISLAMIC PARTY AFTER NURI'S DEATH [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan elected Muhiddin Kabiri as its acting-chairman after Nuri's death. The press and some political analysts speculate the party will split without Nuri's leadership and it will not elect Kabiri as the chairman because, as a moderate, he is [...]	2006-08-18 11:46:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KISL KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE1594	REGIONAL INTEGRATION: TAJIKISTAN'S FIRST PRIVATE-PUBLIC [...] (C) SUMMARY: Pamir Energy, Tajikistan's first private-public energy joint venture, manages at best 40% cost recovery and faces a local government that refuses to enforce collection. In a theatrical August 19 site visit with cameras rolling and an audience including Deputy Assistant Secretar [...]	2006-08-21 13:06:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON ENRG EFIN TI AF
06DUSHANBE1597	TAJIKISTAN: DEMONSTRATIONS IN AUTONOMOUS REGION A SIGN OF UNREST [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Two demonstrations in front of the Gorno-Badakshan Autonomous Oblast governor's office August 18-19 illustrate increasing unrest in the economically downtrodden remote area also known as the Pamirs. The several hundred strong crowd protested against the central government and [...]	2006-08-22 12:12:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON AF TI SNAR
06DUSHANBE16	RUSSIA PLEASED WITH BILATERAL RELATIONS WITH TAJIKISTAN [...] (C) The year 2005 was very fruitful for Russia in Tajikistan, according to the Russian DCM Viacheslav Svetlichny. He highlighted the realization of long-standing commitments, particularly those made by President Putin in October 2004 to withdraw Russian border forces and increase economic ass [...]	2006-01-03 10:58:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON ENRG TI RS
06DUSHANBE1600	TAJIKISTAN: WARM TEMPERATURES RAISE LAKE SAREZ'S WATER [...] Two recent earthquakes that damaged thousands of homes in southern Tajikistan offered a bracing reminder that this mountainous country remains seismically very active (Reftel). In 1911, a strong earthquake rocked Tajikistan's Pamir mountains, triggering a massive landslide that created the Uso [...]	2006-08-23 12:44:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL SENV TI
06DUSHANBE1608	TAJIK GOVERNMENT SETS LOOSE THOUSANDS OF PRISONERS [...] (U) Tajikistan's parliament adopted an amnesty law August 17 that would free 4,000 prisoners and reduce the terms of 11,000. All women above the age of 55, children under the age of 18, first time offenders, along with other designated groups will be eligible for amnesty. Families will be g [...]	2006-08-28 07:37:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE1613	TEN WEEKS TO ELECTIONS, TAJIKISTAN MOVING SLOWLY TO [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ten weeks out from the November Presidential election, Tajik authorities are moving very slowly to implement improvements to the electoral process. After a significant step forward in May, when Tajik authorities presented donors with a the first government plans to address previ [...]	2006-08-28 12:30:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE1620	REGIONAL INTEGRATION: TAJIK ENERGY MINISTER SAYS "DON'T [...] (C) A rumored Russian-led hydropower consortium will not threaten a U.S. company's plans to export Tajik electricity to Afghanistan. Energy Minister Asadullo Yerov told PolOff August 28 that the "informal discussions" at the August 15-17 Eurasian Economic Community (EurasEC) meeting in Sochi [...]	2006-08-29 12:48:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON ENRG
06DUSHANBE1623	TAJIKISTAN: SDPT CHAIRMAN RETURNS FROM MEDICAL TREATMENT IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Social Democratic Party of Tajikistan's (SDPT) Chairman, Rahmatullo Zoyirov met with PolOff August 28 after returning from treatment in Moscow and Switzerland following his stroke. Zoyirov appeared healthy and reinvigorated, and discussed the upcoming presidential election [...]	2006-08-30 05:19:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM TI RS
06DUSHANBE1650	CHINESE MAKING BIG FOOTPRINT ON TAJIKISTAN'S INFRASTRUCTURE [...] (C) SUMMARY: With $637 million in low-interest credits for roads, a tunnel and high voltage transmission lines, China has positioned itself as Tajikistan's biggest and fastest-moving foreign investor. By funding key infrastructure projects, China seeks to strengthen its ties with Tajikistan [...]	2006-09-05 11:02:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON EAID EFIN ENRG TI CH
06DUSHANBE1661	TAJIKISTAN CONSIDERS NUCLEAR FREE ZONE TREATY "OPEN AND [...] (C) Deputy Foreign Minister Yatimov said that Tajikistan had not made a final decision about signing the Central Asian Nuclear Weapons Free Zone (CANWFZ) agreement in Kazakhstan September 8, and that they regarded the treaty as "open." In a 90-minute meeting with DCM and PolOff September 6 ( [...]	2006-09-07 10:18:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PARM MARR KNNP UN TI
06DUSHANBE1662	IRPT CONFIRMS KABIRI AS CHAIRMAN IN EMOTIONAL CONGRESS [...] (U) SUMMARY: The Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT) confirmed Muhiddin Kabiri as its chairman during an emotional political party congress with members still mourning the loss of former chairman Said Abdullo Nuri. The IRPT delegates presented a united front and members gave impa [...]	2006-09-07 10:27:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KISL KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE1720	TAJIK SYNAGOGUE AND ORTHODOX CHURCH SUFFERS ANOTHER MOLOTOV [...] (U) Assailants threw Molotov cocktails onto the premises of the Jewish synagogue and Russian Orthodox Church September 14. The assailants and their motives are unknown but synagogue members verified that two young Tajik men ages 17-20 threw three Molotov cocktails into the synagogue. Two Mo [...]	2006-09-18 07:05:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF TI
06DUSHANBE1723	EIGHT WEEKS OUT: CCER ISSUING DECREES LEFT AND RIGHT [...] Tajikistan's Central Committee on Elections and Referenda (CCER) signed a new decree September 15 addressing candidates' usage of mass media during the presidential campaign, establishing polling stations and forming a working group to deal with international observers. The decrees are a smal [...]	2006-09-19 08:05:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE1744	SEVEN WEEKS OUT: LET THE GAMES BEGIN, TAJIK ELECTION [...] (U) Five political parties officially announced their candidates for president during congresses held September 16-17. The candidates thus far are all chairmen of their parties, have little nationwide popular support and are weak politicians. With the exception of Narziev's Socialist Party o [...]	2006-09-22 10:05:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE175	TAJIKISTAN'S SOUTH SHOWS LITTLE SIGN OF DEVELOPMENT [...] SUMMARY: Kulob, the President's home region and nearby Qurghon-Teppa face the same corruption, high unemployment, and political and free press restrictions that plague the rest of the country. In meetings with PolOff January 23-24, journalists, NGOs and community leaders from Kulob, Qurghon [...]	2006-01-27 09:20:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ECON KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE1841	TAJIK PRESIDENT TELLS BOUCHER ELECTION SHOULD MEET [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a two-hour meeting with Assistant Secretary Richard Boucher October 6, Tajikistan's President SIPDIS Emomali Rahmonov stressed the positive bilateral relationship with the United States. Stating he wanted to deepen contacts at every level, Rahmonov thanked the United Stat [...]	2006-10-07 08:24:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM EAID EINV ENRG TI
06DUSHANBE1931	DESPITE THE CHAMPAGNE, NOT MUCH TO CELEBRATE IN TAJIKISTAN'S [...] (U) INTRODUCTION: During an October 17 visit to Shahrinau -- Persian for "New City" -- PolOffs found nothing new in tours of a wineless winery, a school with no electricity and talks with local government officials. The district, located 25 kilometers east of Dushanbe and 25 km west of the Uz [...]	2006-10-20 05:58:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV ECON EAID ENGR ETRD TI
06DUSHANBE1935	THREE WEEKS OUT: OBSERVER MISSION DEPLOYING WITH MORE VIGOR [...] (C) Three weeks out, Tajikistan shows few visible signs of an impending presidential election. Aside from a two-story poster of President Rahmonov (resplendent with five by two foot eyebrows) on Dushanbe's main boulevard, campaign materials are conspicuously absent in the capital. PolOffs sa [...]	2006-10-23 06:27:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE1950	"FAIR AND ACCURATE" INFORMATION THE KEY TO GOOD U.S.-UZBEK [...] (C) SUMMARY: The key to improved U.S.-Uzbek relations is to provide leadership with "true, accurate and fair information," according to Mirodil Abdurazzakov, the Uzbek Ambassador in Dushanbe. In an Oct. 19 meeting with PolOff, Abdurazzakov described Uzbek democracy as "more diplomatic" than [...]	2006-10-26 09:00:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON ETRD TI UZ
06DUSHANBE1998	ONE WEEK OUT: RAHMONOV'S PR CAMPAIGN STRENGTHENS, DPT DRAMA [...] (C) SUMMARY: With six days to go before the election, the pocket party candidates have hit the campaign trail and look more like public relations agents campaigning for Rahmonov than candidates in their own right. The Democratic Party of Tajikistan's (DPT) drama continues with the remnant DP [...]	2006-10-31 12:41:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE2	TAJIKISTAN'S TOP EXPORT, COTTON, CONTINUES TO DECLINE [...] SUMMARY: Tajikistan's cotton harvest continues to decline since the fall of the Soviet Union due to lack of farm capital, poor land management, and detrimental financing options. The government acknowledges a need to change policies to resuscitate the cotton industry, but real reform has bee [...]	2006-01-03 05:41:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	EAGR ECON ETRD PGOV PREL TI
06DUSHANBE2019	DUSHANBE ELECTRICITY CONFERENCE PRODUCES MEMORANDUM OF [...] (SBU) INTRODUCTION: Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, and Tajikistan moved three steps closer to establishing a regional transmission system and electricity market at the Second Central and South Asia regional electricity market conference. During the October 26-28 conference in Dushanbe, [...]	2006-11-03 07:07:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	ECIN PGOV PREL ECON ENRG EFIN TI AF KG PK
06DUSHANBE2020	TAJIK POLITICAL PARTIES FEAR SITUATION WILL DETERIORATE [...] (C) SUMMARY: With the Tajik presidential election a foregone conclusion, Tajik political parties try to plan for after the election, but from their perspective, the future looks bleak. Political party leaders predict that the government will clamp down on political activity. Some are runni [...]	2006-11-03 07:08:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE2033	TAJIK PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION REPORT #1 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The polls have yet to close, but Tajikistan's presidential election seems to suffer from many of the same problems as the 2005 parliamentary election. The pre-election period did witness positive cooperation between international organizations (especially the United Nations a [...]	2006-11-06 14:02:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE2038	RAHMONOV WINS TAJIK PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION WITH 79.3 PERCENT [...] (U) SUMMARY: President Rahmonov won a third term with 79.3 percent of the vote, according to preliminary results. Embassy observers deployed throughout Tajikistan witnessed the gamut of election practices from completely transparent tabulation processes to blatant ballot stuffing by commissi [...]	2006-11-07 12:26:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE204	NDI LOCAL DIRECTOR DEPARTS [...] (U) National Democratic Institute (NDI) local Director Gegham Sargsyan left Tajikistan on Wednesday morning, February 1, after a final unannounced police check and brief detention on the evening of January 31. The NDI Director had been wrangling with authorities for the past week or so, sinc [...]	2006-02-01 10:39:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM PINR TI
06DUSHANBE2050	TAJIK ELECTION NUMBERS SHOW SURPRISING REGIONAL DIFFERENCES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Rahmonov's re-election to a third term November 6 indicates his genuine popularity among Tajiks and reflects the people's recognition that Rahmonov's years as president have coincided with a period of relative stability in the country. Many in fact were surprised Rahmonov did [...]	2006-11-09 13:10:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE208	TAJIK PRISON FACILITIES IN POOR CONDITION [...] (U) PolOff visited a youth detention center and Tajikistan's central penitentiary medical facility January 31. Both facilities are in poor condition and lack adequate medical supplies and equipment. Deputy Minister of Justice, Izzatullo Sharipov, granted EmbOffs access in hopes the United St [...]	2006-02-01 11:37:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM TI
06DUSHANBE2084	DEMARCHE ON BELARUS ANTI-U.S. RESOLUTION DELIVERED, USUN [...] (C) PolOff discussed talking points per reftel on the demarche on Belarus' anti-U.S. United Nations resolution with Ismatullo Nasredinov, Head of the Department of European and American Countries at Tajikistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs November 15. 2. (C) Nasredinov acknowledged Bel [...]	2006-11-15 11:22:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL BO TI
06DUSHANBE2111	PRESIDENT RAHMONOV CELEBRATES THIRD TERM WITH PRECIOUS [...] SUMMARY: President Rahmonov was sworn in to his third term on November 18, a warm sun-filled day. The festivities were low key, but expensive, filled with precious jewels, flag waving patriots, a military parade, and one shiny new car. Embassy sources estimate inauguration costs amount from [...]	2006-11-22 05:16:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE2147	DEMONSTRATORS CHARGE ILLEGAL DETENTION AND VIOLATION OF [...] (C) SUMMARY: Three Democratic Party of Tajikistan members were released November 19 after serving 15 days in prison for organizing a demonstration. Khairiddin Gulyaev and Temur Toshev (also known as Temur Iskandarov),two of the imprisoned members, met with Poloff November 22 to assert thei [...]	2006-11-28 11:56:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE2153	VISIT TO TAJIK BORDER GUARD TRAINING CENTER [...] (SBU) Summary: A Russian-run training facility for Tajik troops has some modern conveniences, but the training program relies on Soviet educational methods to teach under-educated Border Guards the basics. PolOff and Office of Defense Cooperation (ODC) representative visited the Leninsky Trai [...]	2006-11-29 12:42:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR SNAR TI AF
06DUSHANBE2186	COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS IMAM RETURNS FROM U.S. TO PREACH [...] (U) Badriddin Karimov, a local Tajik imam who participated in the USAID-sponsored Community Connections Program, "Religion in a Secular Society," returned to Tajikistan inspired by the pluralism and tolerance he observed in the United States. On the 20-day program to the United States, Karim [...]	2006-12-07 06:35:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KDEM KIRF KPAO EAID TI
06DUSHANBE2226	HUMAN RIGHTS DAY EVENTS IN TAJIKISTAN [...] SUMMARY: Embassy Dushanbe commemorated International Human Rights Day/Week with a variety of events: having students paint a mural on the Embassy walls, showing a Human Rights related movie followed by a discussion group, and hosting a number of public speaking events focused on the theme "De [...]	2006-12-19 12:52:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM KPAO KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE2228	HOW WE CAN HELP THE TAJIK ELECTION COMMISSION PREPARE FOR [...] (U) This is an Action cable. See Paragraphs 5 and 9. 2. (U) Without the pressure of an upcoming election and with the international spotlight shining elsewhere, we have an unusual opportunity to engage Tajikistan's Central Commission for Elections and Referenda. The CCER would like to ma [...]	2006-12-20 11:07:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KPOA KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE227	TAJIK PRISON FACILITIES IN POOR CONDITION [...] (U) This message replaces REFTEL A, adding TAG: CASC. 2. (U) PolOff visited a youth detention center and Tajikistan's central penitentiary medical facility January 31. Both facilities are in poor condition and lack adequate medical supplies and equipment. Deputy Minister of Justice, Izz [...]	2006-02-03 03:27:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM CASC TI
06DUSHANBE250	DPT ACTING LEADER: "WE DON'T FEEL YOUR SUPPORT" [...] (C) The Ambassador and PolOff met for an hour on February 6 with Deputy Chairman of the Democratic Party of Tajikistan (DPT),Rahmatullo Valiyev. The imprisoned Mahmadruzi Iskandarov is still the DPT's titular head. The meeting was within the context of a DPT effort, as evidenced by its Febr [...]	2006-02-07 04:07:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE275	TADAZ CLAIMS POLLUTION HAS DECREASED [...] (U) SUMMARY: Central Asia's Regional Environment, Science, Technology and Health Officer (REO) and PolOff visited the Tajikistan Aluminum (TadAZ) plant in Tursun-Zoda near the Uzbekistan border February 9. Uzbekistan blames the Tajik government for allowing TadAZ to pollute the environment, [...]	2006-02-10 12:35:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON EIND ETRD SENV RS TI
06DUSHANBE301	CHINA WANTS TO BE A GOOD, BUT DISCREET, NEIGHBOR TO [...] (SBU) China shares the United States' desire to see an economically stable Tajikistan, but is keeping its specific investment and trade priorities close hold. Chinese Trade Representative Wan Shungan told PolOff and BISNIS representative February 13 that China regards infrastructure and hydr [...]	2006-02-14 11:44:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON EAID EINV
06DUSHANBE302	TAJIK TRANSPORT MINISTER PLEASED WITH BRIDGE [...] On his first visit to the U.S.-funded bridge construction site at Nizhniy Pyanzh, Transportation Minister Ashurov expressed great satisfaction and offered to get involved personally if problems arise regarding the cement supply or customs. During the February 13 visit with PolOff and a visit [...]	2006-02-14 12:33:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ELTN ECON TI AF
06DUSHANBE326	HYDROPOWER 101: A GUIDE TO TAJIKISTAN'S PROSPECTS, PROJECTS, [...] (U) Tajikistan's mountains and rivers provide it an estimated four percent of the world's hydropower resources. The Tajik government has no shortage of promises and offers to help develop this natural resource, and is currently balancing competing interests and priorities to maximize the fina [...]	2006-02-21 11:46:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ENRG ECON PREL TI AF
06DUSHANBE327	TAJIK HYDROPOWER 201: ADVANCED GAME THEORY [...] (C) In Tajik hydropower, a new conventional wisdom is emerging. If we want the Central Asian Infrastructure Initiative to succeed in Tajikistan, we need to consider the following: 2. (C) The United States is behind the curve on hydropower. Russia is building Sangtuda I and has first grab [...]	2006-02-21 11:54:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ENRG ECON PREL TI AF
06DUSHANBE328	TAJIKISTAN'S NATIONAL PARKS SEEK U.S. COOPERATION [...] SUMMARY: Central Asian Regional Environment, Science, Technology and Health Officer (REO),and Environmental Specialist and Embassy PolOff, visited the Tigrovaya Balka National Reserve February 8. Officials from State Committee on Environmental Protection (SCEP) accompanied EmbOffs. The g [...]	2006-02-21 14:12:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ECON EIND SENV TI
06DUSHANBE329	DUSHANBE CITY GOVERNMENT FINALLY ACTS AND DEMOLISHES HALF OF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: City authorities tore down half of Dushanbe's synagogue February 8 along with several private homes remaining in the largely cleared vicinity to build a road leading to the new Presidential Palace. The synagogue has known about this planned demolition for at least three years [...]	2006-02-21 14:34:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV SOCI KIRF TI
06DUSHANBE33	TAJIK MFA SUDDENLY YANKS IVLP PARTICIPANTS [...] The Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent a diplomatic note informing the Embassy that two participants selected for the International Visitor's Leadership Program "The Government of the States and the Local Government" will no longer be able to participate due to a "great workload." The sudden de [...]	2006-01-04 18:22:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV TI
06DUSHANBE337	TAJIKISTAN: FINANCING NEEDED TO PROTECT URANIUM STORAGE [...] SUMMARY: Central Asian Regional Environment, Science, Technology and Health Officer (REO),Regional Environmental Specialist and Embassy PolOff visited three of ten uranium waste sites in Tajikistan's northern Sughd region where processed uranium waste has been stored since 1942, the start of [...]	2006-02-23 05:29:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL ECON EIND SENV TI
06DUSHANBE396	TAJIK GOVT DELAYS PUBLICATION OF OPPOSITION PAPER [...] A local Dushanbe court has dragged its feet reviewing Mukhtor Boqizoda's case, thereby further preventing the publication of Boqizoda's "Neru-i Sukhan," an independent newspaper critical of President Rahmonov's administration and perceived by the government as "opposition." The government sh [...]	2006-02-28 13:03:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM KPAO TI
06DUSHANBE408	TAJIKISTAN: IRPT LEADER CLOSELY WATCHED [...] (C) Muhiddin Kabiri, First Deputy Chairman of the Islamic Renaissance Party (IRPT) will travel to the United States March 8 to deliver a speech at Columbia University on the state of religion and politics in Tajikistan after the wave of "color revolutions" in other post-Soviet countries. Kab [...]	2006-03-02 05:15:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KISL KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE419	CHINESE AMBASSADOR TO TAJIKISTAN: "WHY NOT COOPERATE IN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Chinese Ambassador to Tajikistan Li Huilai said China shared many of the United States' priorities in Tajikistan, including economic growth, counter-terrorism and border stability. In a very frank and open 90-minute meeting with Ambassador Hoagland, Li suggested there was room f [...]	2006-03-04 06:47:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SNAR ECON EINV EAID ENRG TI CH
06DUSHANBE44	TAJIK ENERGY MINISTRY RELUCTANT TO WORK WITH MEHRON OIL [...] (C) SUMMARY: Deputy Energy Minister Emomiddin Aslov reported the Tajik government would only allow a $20 million oil refinery project if the investors assume 100 percent of the risk and make no claims on the Tajik Government, should the project fail. The actions and background of Mehron Oil [...]	2006-01-05 12:45:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	ENRG ETRD PGOV TI
06DUSHANBE464	U.S. GETS BUSY SIGNAL FROM TAJIK TELECOM [...] SUMMARY: Despite the striking success of Indigo, a U.S.-Tajik cellular service joint venture, China has taken the lead in developing Tajikistan's telecom sector. Meetings with Tajikistan's key telecom decision makers highlighted the growing role of China and the European Bank for Reconstruct [...]	2006-03-09 10:24:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON EINV CH TI
06DUSHANBE468	U.S. GETS BUSY SIGNAL FROM TAJIK TELECOM [...] SUMMARY: Despite the striking success of Indigo, a U.S.-Tajik cellular service joint venture, China has taken the lead in developing Tajikistan's telecom sector. Meetings with Tajikistan's key telecom decision makers highlighted the growing role of China and the European Bank for Reconstruct [...]	2006-03-10 02:30:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON EINV CH TI
06DUSHANBE474	TAJIKISTAN INTERNATIONAL DONORS PREPARE FOR AVIAN FLU [...] Although Tajikistan's government agencies are taking steps to prevent Avian Influenza and control an outbreak, they lack technical expertise and need assistance from international organizations. At a poorly attended donor's meeting, representatives from the United Nations Food and Agriculture [...]	2006-03-13 05:53:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KFLU ECON EAGR EAID TBIO SENV KSTH WHO
06DUSHANBE489	KAZAKHSTAN LOOKING, BUT NOT JUMPING INTO TAJIK ENERGY [...] (C) Kazakhstan is not yet serious about the Tajik energy sector. Deputy Energy Minister Akhram Suleimanov told PolOff that despite a press release quoting the Kazakhstani Ambassador to Tajikistan saying Kazakhstan might invest in Sangtuda I, "Sangtuda is for the Russians only." Suleimanov o [...]	2006-03-14 08:43:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ENRG ECON RS CH KZ TI
06DUSHANBE50	TAJIKISTAN STRENGTHENS ANTI-TIP EFFORTS WITH U.S. [...] SUMMARY: Tajikistan has made significant progress on combating trafficking-in-persons (TIP) violations, but efforts remain hindered by lack of extradition agreements, ineffective coordination, and deep-rooted social issues. The government and the International Organization for Migration (IOM [...]	2006-01-09 04:39:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM SMIG KWMN TI
06DUSHANBE511	TAJIKISTAN: LEGAL ADVISOR TO TELL RABBI HE HAS NO LEGAL [...] Rabbi Mikhail Abdurahmonov continues to hold out hope the government of Tajikistan will spare the Dushanbe synagogue and has sought legal advice from Dushanbe's Civil Society Support Center. When PolOff asked the Rabbi about the future of the synagogue, he refused to think about what concrete [...]	2006-03-17 10:49:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PROP KIRF SOCI TI
06DUSHANBE513	TAJIKISTAN'S FOREIGN MINISTER MEETS WITH CUBAN DELEGATION [...] (U) Foreign Minister Talbak Nazarov met with Deputy Foreign Minister Eumelio Rodriguez on March 17 in Dushanbe along with Cuba's regional Ambassador from Almaty. Ismatullo Nasredinov, Head of the Department of European and American Countries, and Sherali Jononov, Head of Tajikistan's MFA Leg [...]	2006-03-17 11:58:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL CU TI
06DUSHANBE53	TAJIK GOVT CORRUPTS HAJJ, MAINTAINS TIGHT CONTROL OVER [...] (U) SUMMARY: On December 23, the first of more than 20 planeloads of Tajik hajjis, Muslim pilgrims journeying to Mecca, left Dushanbe for Saudi Arabia. These hajjis are the lucky, well-connected or wealthy few. For the majority of Tajiks, government restrictions, corruption and expensive br [...]	2006-01-09 09:48:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KISL KIRF TI
06DUSHANBE535	TAJIKISTAN'S WOMEN'S COLONY, PRISON OR PARADISE? [...] (U) Nestled in the mountains near the Nurek dam, one hour from Dushanbe, Tajikistan's sole women's prison is far more sanitary and progressive than men's prisons. The manicured gardens, relatively clean buildings, holiday activities and good management attempt to mask the sub-standard condit [...]	2006-03-23 12:09:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM EAID KWMN KIRF SOCI SNAR TI
06DUSHANBE55	FIRE IN TAJIK ORPHANAGE RAISES QUESTIONS [...] (U) At least 13 disabled children died when a fire destroyed Chorbogh orphanage early January 8. Neighbors pulled children out of the burning Dushanbe facility, home to almost 100 mentally and physically disabled children. Many victims were bedridden and unable to escape. Metal bars on the [...]	2006-01-09 14:28:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM TI
06DUSHANBE566	TAJIKISTAN'S FARKHAR DISTRICT STRUGGLES [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-29 07:11:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ECON EAGR SOCI TI
06DUSHANBE576	CORRUPTION, TAJIK STYLE: "WE PAY FOR EVERYTHING BUT THE AIR [...] (SBU) During EmbOff's March visit to southwestern agrarian Farkhar district, Mahmadali Hakimov, head of "Zamin," a successful conglomerate with businesses in farming, textiles, construction, banking, and hotels, philosophized about the high price of doing business in Tajikistan. "We pay for e [...]	2006-03-30 12:27:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ECON SOCI TI
06DUSHANBE582	GAZPROM SLOWLY STEPS INTO TAJIKISTAN [...] (C) After three years, and three days of intensive meetings, Gazprom signed an agreement March 28 with the Government of Tajikistan to create a joint venture to explore Tajikistan's southern gas and oil reserves. Deputy Minister of Energy Aslov told PolOffs the Memorandum of Understanding est [...]	2006-03-31 13:19:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON ENRG TI

06DUSHANBE626	KHUJAND'S NEW AIRPORT TERMINAL: AIR TRANSPORT GONE WRONG [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Tajikistan's northern industrial hub Khujand's airport is outdated and lacks adequate security features, but corrupt government officials refuse to open an existing two-year old modern terminal next door. The spacious, light-filled terminal with computerized processing and fir [...]	2006-04-10 09:36:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON EAIR SOCI KCOR TI
06DUSHANBE629	IRPT LEADER SAYS TAJIKS SHOULD LOOK TO WEST TO LEARN ABOUT [...] (SBU) Muhiddin Kabiri, Deputy Chairman of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT) suggested that Tajiks need to travel to the West to learn about Islam in an April 6 meeting with U.S. Speaker Ahmed Younis and PolOff. Younis, the National Director of the Muslim Public Affairs Counc [...]	2006-04-10 12:01:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KIRF TI
06DUSHANBE648	TAJIKISTAN: IRPT SAYS RAHMONOV WILL USE LIBEL SUIT AS [...] (C) Muhiddin Kabiri, the Deputy Chairman of the Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan (IRPT) told PolOff April 6 President Rahmonov likely will stop the lawsuit filed by Dushanbe Vodokanal against IRPT Chairman Said Abdullo Nuri closer to the election in November. 2. (U) Dushanbe Vo [...]	2006-04-11 10:12:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KISL KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE668	TAJIKISTAN'S HYDRO ENERGY PRICING DILEMMA [...] (U) SUMMARY: Tajikistan faces critical choices to increase its hydropower exports and streamline domestic consumption and production. However, as long as the government provides cheap-or free-electricity, reforming the existing system will prove extremely difficult. Some simple steps to redu [...]	2006-04-12 07:07:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON EENG EINV AF PK TI
06DUSHANBE673	TAJIKISTAN'S TELECOM SECTOR: PROMISING, BUT NOT [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Tajikistan's mobile and Internet telecommunications market is one of the most dynamic and competitive sectors of the economy. The mobile sector could grow 10-20 percent monthly since only 5% of the market currently have cell phones. Internet growth also will increase with the [...]	2006-04-12 10:15:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON EINV EINT SOCI CH IR TI
06DUSHANBE698	TAJIKISTAN'S TRANSPORTATION SECTOR: BY PLANE, TRAIN, OR [...] (U) SUMMARY: Improving Tajikistan's air, rail, and road transportation network supports Secretary Rice's Infrastructure Integration Initiative for Greater Central Asia. Creating a cohesive transportation network passable throughout the year decreases transportation costs and promotes trade th [...]	2006-04-13 10:06:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON EINV EAID ELTN ETRD AF PK TI
06DUSHANBE703	TAJIK GOVERNMENT ENACTS HOUSEHOLD EXCESS ELECTRICITY RATE [...] (U) According to media reports, the Tajik Anti-Monopoly Committee approved on April 11 an excess electricity consumption rate above 250 kWh per month for private households retroactive to the beginning of April. The base electricity rate remains the same at 0.5 cent. Per reftel, the 0.5 cent [...]	2006-04-14 05:44:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON EINV SOCI AF PK TI
06DUSHANBE705	TAJIKISTAN: WHY MOUNTING CORRUPTION MATTERS [...] (U) SUMMARY: Tajikistan's mounting corruption exacerbates growing income inequalities and degrades the relatively high human capital left from Soviet times. Pervasive corruption limits local and international investment, distorts donor and government development strategies, and undermines ec [...]	2006-04-14 07:20:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV ECON EINV KCOR SOCI TI
06DUSHANBE722	TAJIKISTAN'S CRA CHAIRMAN ON NEW DRAFT RELIGION LAW: [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: EmbOffs met with Chairman of the Committee on Religious Affairs (CRA),Murodullo Davlatov, on April 12 and April 14 to discuss an ACCELS/USAID Community Connections program for religious leaders and a regional religion conference organized by the Tajik government's Center for [...]	2006-04-18 08:53:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PHUM KIRF TI
06DUSHANBE745	BADAKHSHAN TO BADAKHSHAN: TAJIKS REACHING ACROSS THE BORDER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: "We consider Afghanistan like our own." Ayubek Bekmurodov, Deputy to the Governor of Tajikistan's remote Gorno-Badakhshan autonomous region said his government was looking at ways to increase trade, the power supply, and food and humanitarian aid to the Afghan regions across th [...]	2006-04-21 04:36:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ENRG ECON EAID AF TI
06DUSHANBE748	TAJIKISTAN'S NEW MAGIC WORD? DAST-I-ZHUM! [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Want to take a helicopter ride with the Deputy Prime Minister and three of Tajikistan's most influential energy players? Say "Dast-i-Zhum"-- a proposed 4000 MW hydropower station on the Tajik-Afghan border - and the Tajik government pays attention, rallying busy ministers and [...]	2006-04-21 08:59:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ENRG ECON EAID AF TI
06DUSHANBE781	TAJIK SECURITY SERVICES DETAIN NDI'S ACTING DIRECTOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Ministry of Interior officers detained National Democratic Institute (NDI) Acting Director Nurul Rahimbekov April 26 as he was attempting to board a domestic flight to Khujand to conduct a training program for political parties. Contacts in the Ministry of Security, which has ta [...]	2006-04-27 10:59:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM TI
06DUSHANBE789	A LITTLE FOOD AID GOES A LONG WAY IN TAJIKISTAN'S RASHT [...] SUMMARY: In a place where a covered pit latrine is considered a sanitary leap forward, USAID's Food for Peace/Development Assistance Program (DAP) provides more than 3,800 poor families in Tajikistan's isolated Rasht valley with supplemental food, and nutrition and hygiene education. Through [...]	2006-04-28 08:29:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV EAGR EAID TI
06DUSHANBE799	TAJIKISTAN'S SEQUOIAS, FROM CALIFORNIA TO DUSHANBE [...] A recent letter from a 75-year-old amateur historian William Allen in California shows Tajikistan is not totally unknown. Allen wanted to know if sequoia trees, native to California's Sierra Nevada, were thriving in Tajikistan and attached a copy of a 1964 news article that reported Dushanbe i [...]	2006-04-28 12:03:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL EAGR SENV TI
06DUSHANBE802	NEW ENERGY MINISTER, SAME ENERGY POLICY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In his third day on the job, Energy Minister Yorov reported Tajikistan's energy policy would continue to focus on attracting foreign investment for key infrastructure projects. He cited the reforms of the past five years, notably in improved fee collection, as evidence that Ta [...]	2006-05-02 11:33:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ENRG ECON EAID AF TI
06DUSHANBE827	TAJIKISTAN'S MOST ISLAMIC REGION FEELS MOST NEGLECTED [...] SUMMARY: Rasht Valley, one of Tajikistan's most isolated and devoutly Islamic districts, feels left behind. The economic boom evident elsewhere in Tajikistan has yet to reach this agricultural area. NGO and civil society leaders observe that while international organizations are active, mor [...]	2006-05-03 13:25:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM ECON EAID SOCI TI
06DUSHANBE834	TAJIKISTAN'S RELIGIOUS LEADERS REACT TO DRAFT LAW ON [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please handle accordingly. Not for public Internet. 2. (U) SUMMARY: In a series of meetings with PolOff April 12-25, religious leaders unanimously expressed grave concerns with the State Committee on Religious Affairs' (SCRA) new draft law on religion. [...]	2006-05-04 16:49:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KIRF TI
06DUSHANBE835	TAJIK DEPUTY PM OUTLINES VISION FOR HYDROPOWER SECTOR [...] (U) Sensitive but unclassified. Please handle accordingly. Not for public Internet. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Although the Chinese have made the Tajiks an offer too good to refuse on a South-North transmission line project, according to Deputy Prime Minister Asadullo Ghulomov, many energy proje [...]	2006-05-04 17:47:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ECON ENRG AF TI
06DUSHANBE836	TAJIKISTAN: NDI IN WASHINGTON WANTS SHOWDOWN MEETING WITH [...] (U) National Democratic Institute (NDI) President Ken Wallach and the Ambassador spoke by telephone May 5. Wallach thanked the Ambassador and Embassy Dushanbe for continuous support and advocacy for NDI. 2. (C) Wallach said he had spoken by telephone with Nurul Rakhimbekov, NDI's former [...]	2006-05-05 09:34:00	Embassy Dushanbe	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR EAID KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE864	TAJIKISTAN: 2006 SPECIAL 301 DESIGNATION DELIVERED [...] Pol/Econ Chief delivered talking points per reftel on May 4 to Ismatullo Nasredinov, Head of the Department of European and American Countries at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA). Nasredinov passed the points onto the MFA's International Organizations department. On May 8, Nasredinov tol [...]	2006-05-10 13:13:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON ETRD KIPR TI
06DUSHANBE880	TAJIKISTAN: WHA SMALLPOX TALKING POINTS DELIVERED [...] PolOff delivered talking points per reftel to Ismatullo Nasredinov, Head of the Department of European and American Countries at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) May 8. Naredinov promised to pass the information on the U.S. position support continued retention of official smallpox stocks. [...]	2006-05-16 02:24:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL AORC TBIO KPAO SENV WHO TI
06DUSHANBE881	TAJIKISTAN: ROLL-OUT OF U.S. PLAN FOR PANDEMIC INFLUENZA [...] PolOff delivered talking points on the U.S. implementation plan for the national strategy for pandemic influenza per reftel to Ismatullo Nasredinov, Head of the Department of European and American Countries at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs May 13. 2. Nasredinov said he would deliver the [...]	2006-05-16 02:27:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL TBIO KFLU KPAO SENV WHO TI
06DUSHANBE899	TAJIKISTAN: SDPT LEADER QUESTIONED BY GENERAL PROSECUTOR'S [...] (U) Chairman of the Socialist Democratic Party of Tajikistan (SDPT),Rahmatullo Zoyirov, was questioned four times by the General Prosecutor's office. Zoyirov told PolOff the General Prosecutor's office summoned him repeatedly to interrogate him on his recent statement claiming Tajikistan's [...]	2006-05-17 10:13:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM TI
06DUSHANBE977	TAJIKISTAN: LAND DEBT RESOLUTION SLOW GOING: MORE DONOR [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Tajikistan's impoverished farmers owe over $292 million in land and cotton debt. The government, international financial institutions and NGOs have long recognized the problem and that solving it takes political will. Conflicting interests in the government have slowed refor [...]	2006-05-25 11:02:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL ECON EAGR TI
06DUSHANBE986	TAJIKISTAN: A RESOLUTION TO THE SYNAGOGUE'S PROBLEMS? [...] Local Tajik news sources have reported that Alexsandr Mashkevich, president of the Euro-Asian Jewish Congress (EAJC) and Kazakh oligarch, agreed to fund the construction of a new synagogue in the center of Dushanbe. The existing synagogue has already been partly demolished along with other bu [...]	2006-05-26 07:45:00	Embassy Dushanbe	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL KIRF KISM TI
06FREETOWN1007	MIXED REACTIONS TO BLOOD DIAMOND MOVIE IN SIERRA [...] (SBU) Sierra Leonean reactions to the soon-to-be released Blood Diamond movie set in Sierra Leone are mixed. Due for release on December 8, the movie comes amidst an upsurge in public awareness about the conflict diamond trade and has drawn increasing attention to the African diamond mining [...]	2006-12-11 10:05:00	Embassy Freetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON EFIN EAID ETRD EMIN SL
06FREETOWN1042	SPECIAL COURT UPDATE: COURT PRESIDENT TO TRAVEL TO [...] (C) President of the Special Court for Sierra Leone Justice George Gelaga King informed the Ambassador December 22 that he planned to travel to New York to meet with the Court's Management Committee on January 22. He also requested Post's assistance to arrange meetings on January 23-24 at t [...]	2006-12-27 17:12:00	Embassy Freetown	CONFIDENTIAL	KJUS PREL PGOV PHUM SL
06FREETOWN322	Sierra Leoneans React to Human Rights Report [...] On April 13, the Parliamentary Human Rights Committee hosted its second annual workshop on the status of human rights in Sierra Leone and used the State Department's Country Report on Human Rights Practices as its basis for discussion. Human Rights Committee Chairman Dr. Alusine Fofana used t [...]	2006-04-19 17:11:00	Embassy Freetown	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM ELAB KDEM KSEP PGOV PREL SL
06FREETOWN325	ON EVE OF TRIP TO UK AND US, ALL PEOPLE'S CONGRESS [...] (U) The opposition All People's Congress (APC) Party Chairman and 2007 presidential nominee Ernest Bai Koroma departs for the UK and the U.S. about April 24 to meet with diaspora APC supporters and raise money for the 2007 presidential and parliamentary elections. In the U.S. beginning May 4, [...]	2006-04-20 10:18:00	Embassy Freetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SL
06FREETOWN400	LARGELY U.S.-OWNED SIERRA RUTILE OFF TO GOOD [...] (C) Sierra Rutile (SR) just exported the first shipment of mined product since 1995. Board members, including Chairman Walter Kansteiner, witnessed the re-entry of the US.-owned company into world markets. Up until the mid-1990s when the mining equipment was destroyed by rebels, SR was the wo [...]	2006-05-17 15:32:00	Embassy Freetown	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EMIN ETRD EFIN PREL BEXP SL
06FREETOWN460	NEW SPECIAL COURT PRESIDENT FAVORS TAYLOR [...] (C) On June 5, Ambassador and PolOff met with the new presiding judge of the Special Court for Sierra Leone Appeals Chamber (and President of the Special Court),Justice George Gelaga King, who just took up a one-year term of office. King thanked the Ambassador for the U.S. financial contribut [...]	2006-06-05 17:46:00	Embassy Freetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KAWC SL NL
06FREETOWN484	SPECIAL COURT WANTS MORE MONEY, SUPPORT [...] (C) On June 9, visiting AF/W Director Phillip Carter and PolOff met separately with three principal officials at the Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL): Registrar Lovemore Munlo, Acting Chief Prosecutor Christopher Staker, and Principal Defender Vincent Nmehielle. There appeared to be cons [...]	2006-06-13 12:56:00	Embassy Freetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KAWC SL NL
06FREETOWN496	Liberians Riot At Freetown UNHCR Office [...] On June 12, a small contingent of disgruntled Liberian refugees, including ex-combatants who were recently refused refugee status, led an assault on the Freetown UNHCR office. Police arrested 61 people, but only after approximately $50,000 worth of damage was done to UNHCR vehicles and ground [...]	2006-06-19 17:01:00	Embassy Freetown	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PREL PINS ASEC SL LI
06FREETOWN514	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SIERRA LEONE HAS NO DESIRE TO [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-23 14:03:00	Embassy Freetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL SL
06FREETOWN530	LIBERIAN REFUGEES VOICE COMPLAINTS AT UNHCR WORLD [...] The June 12 riot at UNHCR offices in Freetown was addressed by several panelists at the World Refugee Day event on June 20. GoSL officials condemned the action and chastised supporters of the urban refugees that led the riot. An urban refugee representative responded to these comments with [...]	2006-06-30 09:18:00	Embassy Freetown	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF PREL PINS ASEC SL LI
06FREETOWN537	TIP TASK FORCE: UP BUT NOT QUITE RUNNING [...] On June 22, the Minister of Social Welfare met with PolOff to discuss the progress of the Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Task Force. The minister voiced concerns over the contents of the 2005 TIP Report, but was committed to the establishment of the Task Force. In its first meeting, the Task [...]	2006-07-03 09:18:00	Embassy Freetown	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM PREL KCRM KWMN SMIG SL
06FREETOWN603	TFLE01: LEBANESE IN SIERRA LEONE APPEAL TO U.S. [...] SUMMARY: On July 25, five representatives from the Lebanese community in Sierra Leone met with the Ambassador and PolOff to present a letter asking for strong U.S. action to broker a ceasefire with Israel. The President of the Lebanese Community in Sierra Leone said that the bombings are out [...]	2006-07-26 08:52:00	Embassy Freetown	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL CASC ASEC MOPS SL LE IS
06FREETOWN617	SPECIAL COURT REGISTRAR DISCUSSES COMPLETION OF [...] (U) Special Court for Sierra Leone Registrar Lovemore Munlo met with Ambassador and PolOff on July 26 to discuss a number of issues the Court faces, including its completion strategy (discussed in reftel). Munlo stood by the draft completion calendar forwarded to the Management Committee that [...]	2006-07-31 14:40:00	Embassy Freetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KAWC SL SG
06FREETOWN681	RIGGED CHIEFDOM ELECTIONS: A WORRYING SIGN FOR 2007 [...] (C) On August 12, a new Mandingo paramount chief was crowned in the predominantly Limba Biriwa Chiefdom. The election was preceded by a dispute over eligible electors, a court injunction, a refusal by the National Electoral Commission (NEC) to oversee the elections, and Limba-Mandingo violenc [...]	2006-08-18 15:51:00	Embassy Freetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM SL
06FREETOWN702	SIERRA LEONE STILL UNDECIDED ON UNSC VOTE, BUT [...] (C) On August 24, PolOff met with Director General of Foreign Affairs Ambassador Umaru Wurie. Wurie said that he is expecting a Venezuelan envoy to arrive on September 3 to discuss his country's candidacy for the UN Security Council. Wurie said Sierra Leone's permanent representative to the UN [...]	2006-08-28 09:06:00	Embassy Freetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC UNGA SL GT VE
06FREETOWN707	SIERRA LEONE'S VOTE FOR INTERNATIONAL LAW [...] (C) On August 28, Director General of Foreign Affairs Umaru Wurie told the Ambassador that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has recommended to their mission at the UN to vote in favor of Michael Matheson's candidacy to the UN International Law Commission. 2. (C) On an earlier occasion, Wurie [...]	2006-08-29 07:44:00	Embassy Freetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNGA SL US
06FREETOWN709	FREETOWN REPLY: U.S. CANDIDATE FOR THE UN HUMAN [...] (C) On August 28, Director General of Foreign Affairs Umaru Wurie told the Ambassador that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has recommended to their mission at the UN to vote in favor of Ruth Wedgewood's candidacy to the UN Human Rights Committee. 2. (C) On an earlier occasion, Wurie told Po [...]	2006-08-29 07:45:00	Embassy Freetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL SL US
06FREETOWN716	IRANIAN DELEGATION LEAVES SIERRA LEONE [...] (U) On August 22, Sierra Leone's state broadcasting network reported the previous day's visit of an Iranian delegation to Sierra Leone. According to the report, Iranian Minister of Agriculture Mohammed Reza Eskanderi led a 27-man delegation that included the Deputy Ministers of Defense, Energ [...]	2006-08-31 09:31:00	Embassy Freetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SL IR
06FREETOWN755	SIERRA LEONE: LOSING THE BATTLE AGAINST CORRUPTION? [...] (C) Summary: On August 24, the High Court of Sierra Leone acquitted six defendants accused of procuring an overvalued, non-functional forklift for the Sierra Leone Port Authority for lack of evidence. The acquittal in this case, which was the only corruption case involving high-level governmen [...]	2006-09-11 18:37:00	Embassy Freetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KCOR UK SL
06FREETOWN776	SIERRA LEONE'S RULING PARTY THREATENS RIVALS [...] (C) During a recent trip to ruling Sierra Leone People's Party (SLPP) strongholds in southern and eastern Sierra Leone to gauge the popularity of Charles Margai's SLPP breakaway party, the People's Movement for Democratic Change (PMDC),PolOff found a disturbing pattern of manipulation, intimi [...]	2006-09-15 16:49:00	Embassy Freetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PHUM SL
06FREETOWN840	SIERRA LEONE LAUNCHES YOUTH EMPLOYMENT SCHEME [...] (U) On October 9, Charge and PolOff attended the launching of the GoSL's Youth Employment Scheme (YES). Vice President Solomon Berewa gave the keynote address. Many ministers and a few donor agencies' representatives attended the event. Berewa announce that the government had earmarked 1 [...]	2006-10-12 18:00:00	Embassy Freetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL EFIN ECON SL
06GABORONE737	PROSPECTS IMPROVE FOR DIALOGUE OVER CKGR [...] (U) SUMMARY: As the court case between the San relocated from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve and the Government of Botswana nears its end, a group of local NGOs has established a coalition to resume dialogue between the San and the Government. Regardless of the High Court's decision, exp [...]	2006-06-06 05:08:00	Embassy Gaborone	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM BC
06GENEVA1468	JUNE 15 HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL INFORMAL CONSULTATIONS [...] (C) President-designate de Alba circulated a revised agenda for first session of the Human Rights Council (HRC) during June 15 informal consultations. Delegates complained of a lack of transparency regarding the agenda item "pressing human rights issues" and demanded to see a precise list of [...]	2006-06-16 04:11:00	US Mission Geneva	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM UNHRC
06GENEVA2030	INSIDE THE HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL \ [...] (C) The newly established Human Rights Council (HRC) \ within the space of two months held an inaugural session \ (June 19-30) and two special sessions (July 5-6 and August \ 11) both focused on condemning Israel. As the U.S. \ Government debates whether or not to seek election to the \ Council n [...]	2006-08-23 05:21:00	US Mission Geneva	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM UNHRC PREL
06GENEVA3142	GREENTREE AGREEMENT FOLLOW-UP COMMITTEE MEETING IN [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-15 16:26:00	US Mission Geneva	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL CM NI
06GEORGETOWN1135	OAS AMBASSADOR MAISTO VISITS GUYANA: TALKS [...] (U) SUMMARY: Ambassador John Maisto, U.S. Permanent Representative to the Organization of American States (OAS),visited Georgetown October 18-20, meeting government and opposition leaders, addressing local media, and encouraging the pursuit of democracy and development. He also used his tr [...]	2006-10-31 14:52:00	Embassy Georgetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KDEM OAS GY
06GEORGETOWN1162	AFC ALLEGES MISCOUNT, CLAIMS PRIME MINISTER'S SEAT [...] (SBU) Summary: The Alliance for Change (AFC) alleges that several ballot boxes were left off of the total tally in Region Ten, costing the party a seat in parliament. In a press conference, AFC leaders called on the ruling People's Progressive Party/CIVIC (PPP/C) to voluntarily relinquish th [...]	2006-11-06 15:06:00	Embassy Georgetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM GY
06GEORGETOWN1303	GUYANA'S TROUBLED FORESTRY SECTOR [...] (C) Summary: Amid recent public outcry over unscrupulous business practices in Guyana's poorly monitored forestry sector, the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) has announced an investigation into allegations of transfer pricing. Despite some companies' official agreements with the GOG on provi [...]	2006-12-15 19:42:00	Embassy Georgetown	CONFIDENTIAL	SENV EAGR EAID PGOV KCOR KFRD XB CH GY
06GEORGETOWN151	GUYANA ASSUMES CHAIR OF RIO GROUP [...] (U) SUMMARY. Guyana has assumed chairmanship of the Rio Group from Argentina. At the handing over ceremony FonMin Insanally emphasized that the group will focus on democracy and human rights, poverty alleviation, and multilateralism under Guyana's stewardship. Guyana has a proud history of l [...]	2006-02-13 20:39:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ECON EU HA XM XL GY UN
06GEORGETOWN235	JAGDEO TAKING CAMPAIGN TO LOW ROAD: ELECTION [...] (C) President Jagdeo summoned Ambassador as well as the British and Canadian High Commissioners to his home on short notice Saturday March 4. Jagdeo wanted to discuss the elections and security. He said that he has started his campaign. (Note: Jagdeo has not yet been officially designated th [...]	2006-03-13 16:17:00	Embassy Georgetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS PHUM SNAR KDEM GY
06GEORGETOWN267	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON OAS CICTE VI [...] PolOff delivered demarche March 20 per reftel to Audrey Waddell, Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Director of Americas and Asia Department. Waddell will be Guyana's head of delegation to the OAS Inter-American Committee Against Terrorism (CICTE) sixth regular session in Bogota. No one else from [...]	2006-03-21 20:20:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER GY OAS
06GEORGETOWN300	INCSR PROMPTS GREATER SCRUTINY OF FOREST [...] The Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) is taking steps to prevent narco-traffickers from gaining control of timber concessions in Guyana. This is a direct reaction to the 2006 International Narcotics Control Strategy Report (INCSR),which stated that the GFC "granted a State Forestry Explorator [...]	2006-03-30 20:00:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	SNAR EAGR PGOV KCRM KPAO GY
06GEORGETOWN371	GUYANA ELECTION DELAYED, PROESS IN DISARRAY: [...] U) SUMMARY. The Guyana Elections Commission (GECO) says it cannot deliver elections by the Auust 4 constitutional due date and will not be ready before August 30. This raises thorny constitutional questions about Guyana's governance after August 4. GECOM has also failed to set a new election [...]	2006-04-24 15:26:00	Embassy Georgetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINS KDM OAS GY
06GEORGETOWN45	FLOODS PLAGUE GUYANA, AGAIN [...] SUMMARY. Since late December, flooding has plagued coastal Guyana, particularly the centers of agricultural production. After initially dismissing the magnitude of the flooding, the GOG has begun a massive public relations and relief spending effort. The GoG's initial underestimate of the magn [...]	2006-01-13 21:28:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED	SENV PGOV EAGR EAID ECON GY ASEC CASC
06GEORGETOWN493	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SEEKING PUBLIC SUPPORT FOR NEW [...] (SBU) PolOff delivered demarche per reftel May 24 to Ambassador Elizabeth Harper, Director General (and number two) at Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Harper does not believe the GoG has had any communication or interaction with the new Iraqi government. Although providing assistance is out of [...]	2006-05-25 18:52:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PREL PGOV KPAO IZ GY
06GEORGETOWN494	DEMARCHE DELIVERED IN ADVANCE OF NAM MINISTERIAL [...] (C) PolOff delivered demarche per reftel May 24 to Ambassador Elizabeth Harper, Director General (and number two) at Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Harper was unaware of any movement afoot to include a statement in support of Iran at the NAM Ministerial. Nor had she read such language in the d [...]	2006-05-25 18:54:00	Embassy Georgetown	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL AORC AIEA KNNP UNSC IR GY
06GEORGETOWN562	GUYANA NARCO-RUMORS: ACETONE IMPORTS, STALLED HOTEL [...] (U) PolOff's recent conversations with prominent locals yielded noteworthy comments about developments in Guyana's narco-trade. 2. (C) PolOff spoke June 7 with Stanley Ming (protect),vice-chairman of the opposition PNC/R party and prominent Guyanese businessman. He is a large importer by [...]	2006-06-15 16:20:00	Embassy Georgetown	CONFIDENTIAL	SNAR PGOV PINR KCRM GY
06GEORGETOWN594	GUYANA VOTER LIST IN LEGAL LIMBO: ELECTION PREVIEW [...] (U) SUMMARY. The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) is progressing with its work to prepare a final voter list for the upcoming national elections. But Guyanese disagree whether registered electors must reside in Guyana to have the right to vote. Because emigration rates are so high, this i [...]	2006-06-19 20:47:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM GY
06GEORGETOWN597	GUYANA RESPONSE: UNHRC - ANTICIPATED OIC ASSAULT [...] (SBU) PolOff delivered points orally June 19 per reftel to Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Director of Multilateral and Global Affairs, Jacqueline Hamer. She said that Guyana would not be represented at the UN Human Rights Council session. Nevertheless, she agreed in principle that the HRC [...]	2006-06-20 17:50:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM GY
06GEORGETOWN63	CARICOM SYG DISCUSSES MINISTERIAL MEETING AGENDA [...] (U) SUMMARY. Ambassador met with CARICOM SYG Carrington January 17 to discuss proposed ministerial between Secretary and CARICOM FonMins. Carrington suggested postponing the meeting until the week of March 27. CARICOM is in general agreement with the five broad agenda topics, but requested [...]	2006-01-19 12:26:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL XL CARICOM
06GEORGETOWN673	GUYANA: RESPONSE TO NORTH KOREAN MISSILE LAUNCHES [...] (SBU) PolOff delivered message and statement July 7 per reftel to Ministry of Foreign Affairs' acting director for Department of Americas and Asia, Audrey Waddell. Waddell did not have a response to the points about North Korea's missile launches and did not seem very familiar with the issue. [...]	2006-07-10 20:26:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PARM KNNP KN GY
06GEORGETOWN787	GUNMEN KILL NEWSPAPER WORKERS IN GEORGETOWN [...] (U) SUMMARY. Guyana is aghast at the brutal killing of six men August 8 by roving gunmen. The main target of the operation was the complex where the independent Kaieteur News is printed, located in Eccles along the road connecting Georgetown to the airport. The killings are reminiscent of a [...]	2006-08-09 18:46:00	Embassy Georgetown	CONFIDENTIAL	PINS PGOV ASEC KCRM GY
06GEORGETOWN815	(U) GUYANA ELECTION PREPARATIONS (C-AL6-01121) [...] (U) Post presents response to ref A. 2. (C) WHAT IS THE CURRENT STATE OF AFFAIRS WITHIN THE GUYANA ELECTIONS COMMISSION (GECOM)? HOW IS CHAIRMAN STEVE SURUJBALLY VIEWED WITHIN GECOM? (C) The much-maligned GECOM has withstood constant criticism and is on track to deliver free and fair el [...]	2006-08-14 17:42:00	Embassy Georgetown	SECRET	PINR PGOV SNAR GY
06GEORGETOWN828	SECURITY FEARS MAR RUN-UP TO GUYANA ELECTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY. One week after the August 8 execution-style killing of five Kaieteur News printery employees (ref A),we take stock of the consequences for Guyana and the August 28 elections. Uncertainty remains over the gunmen's motive, but the front-running theory of conspiracy-minded Guyanese [...]	2006-08-16 21:32:00	Embassy Georgetown	SECRET	PINS PGOV ASEC CASC KCRM GY
06GEORGETOWN855	GUYANA ELECTION STATUS REPORT: AUGUST 29 [...] (U) SUMMARY: Georgetown remained quiet overnight as the consensus solidified that the August 28 national and regional elections proceeded better than expected on a technical level. OAS A/SYG Albert Ramdin made a statement to this effect after the polls closed. Field reports from Embassy pers [...]	2006-08-29 18:50:00	Embassy Georgetown	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM OAS GY
06GUANGZHOU13564	Migrant Labor and Rural Disputes in Guangdong: [...] (SBU) Summary: Migrant labor and land issues headed the agenda of the recent visit by two human rights officers to Guangdong province. The trip was an excellent opportunity to probe some of Southern China's most sensitive issues: migrant laborer discrimination and corruption in land compensa [...]	2006-04-28 09:33:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV ELAB EAGR SOCI CH
06GUANGZHOU14013	The Rights Protection Movement Leadership in South [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Edward Dong. Reason 1.4 (d). Summary -------- 2. (C) The rights protection movement in China, a QvirtualQ network of democracy activists throughout the mainland, is gaining force and membership. This is the vision optimistically espoused by Guo Feixion [...]	2006-05-11 07:33:00	Consulate Guangzhou	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV ECON SOCI CH
06GUANGZHOU14820	Corruption and Customer-Service: Improving CCP [...] (SBU) Summary: In the wake of countless land protests throughout Guangdong Province, the Guangdong Communist Party School wants to eliminate the corruption and management failures of its cadres and civil servants. Besides increased anti-corruption training, assessments of leaders are increasi [...]	2006-05-17 09:18:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR CH
06GUANGZHOU17422	Shut Up Erin Brokovich!: China's Fear of Popular [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Edward Dong. Reason 1.4 (d). Summary -------- 2. (C) The Chinese government cannot allow rising political personalities to develop without its control. Zou Tao, a Shenzhen-based businessman with connections to the "Rights Protection Movement", single-ha [...]	2006-06-13 01:53:00	Consulate Guangzhou	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV ECON SOCI CH
06GUANGZHOU18191	GUANGDONG HUMANISTIC ASSOCIATION BEGINS PRIVATE, [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Edward Dong. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) Summary. China's first-ever privately-funded magazine has recently been launched in Guangdong Province. According to its publisher, Hao Yuanwen, the monthly magazine, entitled Citizen ("Shimin"),was designed to lay th [...]	2006-06-22 01:30:00	Consulate Guangzhou	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV ECON SOCI CH
06GUANGZHOU18749	Guangdong Muslims: Few but Increasing (C-DI5-01546) [...] (SBU) Summary. The Guangdong Muslim population is small but rapidly increasing. The increasing numbers are due mostly to economic reasons (Guangdong's booming manufacturing economy attracts domestic and foreign Muslims) rather than religious ones (South China has no Islamic institution of h [...]	2006-06-23 08:36:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR SCUL SOCI CH
06GUANGZHOU20888	Rise in Number of Middle Easterners: Threat or [...] (SBU) Summary. Over the past five years, the number of Middle Eastern businessmen in Guangdong Province has exploded to an estimated 7,000 (the majority coming from Yemen, Jordan and Syria). Additionally, during the Canton Trade Fair, as many as 11,000 Middle Eastern visitors flood the city [...]	2006-07-05 23:27:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR PREL SCUL SOCI CH
06GUANGZHOU21213	House Church Registration in South China: Few [...] (U) Classified by Acting Consul General William Martin. Reason 1.4 (d). Summary -------- 2. (SBU) While crackdowns against house churches in South China seem on the decline, nevertheless, registration seems a daunting task to many groups. Throughout the Consular district, the only tr [...]	2006-07-13 07:54:00	Consulate Guangzhou	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV CH
06GUANGZHOU21650	Hunan Walk-in: Tiananmen Era Protestor's Ideals [...] (U) Classified by Acting Consul General William Martin. Reason 1.4 (d). Summary -------- 2. (C) A former imprisoned protestor from the Tiananmen Square era recently approached the Consulate with information of his personal history and continued harassment from the Chinese government. [...]	2006-07-17 06:38:00	Consulate Guangzhou	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV SOCI CH
06GUANGZHOU29575	South China Lawyer Detained in Guangzhou -- Law [...] (U) Classified by Acting Consul General James Turner. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) On September 6, labor rights lawyer and China Labor Watch employee, Tang Jingling, was detained at the Guangzhou East Train station while proceeding through passport control to board a train to Hong Kong. TangQs [...]	2006-09-08 06:18:00	Consulate Guangzhou	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV SOCI CH
06GUANGZHOU30533	Leading Member of "Rights Protection Movement" [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert X Goldberg. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) Summary: On September 14, Guo Feixiong, a leading figure in the "Rights Protection Movement," a nation-wide virtual network of activists, was arrested in Guangzhou on charges of "illegal business operation". This [...]	2006-09-22 08:35:00	Consulate Guangzhou	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV SOCI CH
06GUANGZHOU30534	Shenzhen Independent "Candidates" Zou Tao and [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert X Goldberg. Reason 1.4 (d). Summary -------- 2. (C) A PSB-led effort to crackdown on dissidents appears to have thwarted efforts by democracy activists to run as candidates in upcoming Shenzhen elections. Shenzhen-based activists Zou Tao and Jian [...]	2006-09-22 08:36:00	Consulate Guangzhou	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV SOCI CH
06GUANGZHOU30900	Taiwan Businesses in Dongguan: Well Organized and [...] (SBU) Summary: Dongguan's Taiwan Business Association (TBA) leaders told Econ/Poloffs September 26 that their focus was on business and community issues, not politics; like other Taiwan businesspeople in China, they prefer to keep their politics to themselves, even declining to comment on a rec [...]	2006-09-28 05:58:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON PREL CH TW
06GUANGZHOU31041	GHA 4: Citizen Magazine Chooses Self-Censorship [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) Summary and comment: "Citizen" will hold back the magazine's tenth issue till next year due to government pressure--including blacklistings, electronic surveillance and direct warnings--put on the group since August. [...]	2006-10-06 06:12:00	Consulate Guangzhou	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV SOCI CH
06GUANGZHOU31565	South China's Taiwan Scholars Concerned about Chen, but [...] SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Taiwan research centers throughout South China are concerned about Chen Shui-bian's strategy for constitutional reform and the impact it could have on cross-Strait ties. They also worry that the anti-Chen campaign could have a significant negative impact on Taiwan's econo [...]	2006-10-20 00:12:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV SOCI CH TW
06GUANGZHOU32161	Fujian Dissident Calls for Efforts on Behalf of [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) SUMMARY: Former Tiananmen-era activist and dissident writer Lin Xinyu discussed with poloffs his efforts, along with other activists, to pressure the Chinese government for the release of detained activists Gao Zhi [...]	2006-11-06 01:44:00	Consulate Guangzhou	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV SOCI CH
06GUANGZHOU32173	Limited Constitutional Reform OK, say Xiamen [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) SUMMARY: In October 30 meetings with U.S. officers, Xiamen-based Taiwan experts, city officials and Taiwan businessmen were upbeat about cross-Strait ties, touted increased economic and cultural exchanges and said th [...]	2006-11-06 07:42:00	Consulate Guangzhou	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SOCI CH TW
06GUANGZHOU32263	Labor Law Implementation and CSR Cynicism are Key [...] (U) Summary: Despite China's many international labor commitments, migrant workers remain poorly trained, overworked and underpaid, according to experts at a recent conference on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) in Shenzhen. Many legal experts said that China's labor laws are theoretical [...]	2006-11-13 08:28:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED	ELAB SOCI CH
06GUANGZHOU32264	Guangdong Villagers Clash with 1,000 Police: [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT: Western and Hong Kong media sources reported that on November 8, villagers protesting in Shunde, Guangdong, (one hour southwest of Guangzhou) detained around 300 officials and foreign dignitarie [...]	2006-11-13 08:29:00	Consulate Guangzhou	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SOCI CH
06GUANGZHOU32273	Five Shenzhen Judges Arrested on Corruption: An [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) SUMMARY: Guangdong's Party Secretary Zhang Dejiang, although a Jiang Zemin appointee, is not expected to be affected by the November 10, arrest of five Shenzhen judges - including a rising star - on corruption charg [...]	2006-11-15 08:50:00	Consulate Guangzhou	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KJUS CH
06GUANGZHOU32306	Dongzhou Crackdown II: No Blood, but Amcit [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) SUMMARY: On November 18, in a scene reminiscent of the violent clash on December 6, 2005 in the same village, up to 2,000 armed police, using tear gas and flash bullets, secured the release of eight local officials [...]	2006-11-21 08:20:00	Consulate Guangzhou	CONFIDENTIAL	CASC DENNIS DANFUNG PGOV PHUM SOCI CH
06GUANGZHOU32321	Religious Round-up: Amcit Missionaries Denied [...] (U) Classified by Consul General Robert Goldberg. Reason 1.4 (d). 2. (C) SUMMARY: Several recent incidents may highlight the Guangzhou's Religious Affairs Bureau (RAB) intent to make a religiously restrictive environment for Christian missionaries. Four Amcit Protestant "tentmaker" mis [...]	2006-11-27 08:49:00	Consulate Guangzhou	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM CH
06GUANGZHOU9084	AI Update: Guangdong Authorities Coming Clean? [...] SUMMARY: Guangdong provincial health and veterinary officials are showing increased levels of openness and cooperation. On March 29, officials hosted a private information meeting for Guangzhou foreign consulates about the March 2 human avian influenza (AI) death and subsequent health polici [...]	2006-03-30 08:48:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFLU TBIO EAGR PGOV CH
06GUANGZHOU9166	AI Update: Guangdong Authorities Coming Clean? [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Guangdong provincial health and veterinary officials are showing increased levels of openness and cooperation. On March 29, officials hosted a private information meeting for Guangzhou foreign consulates about the March 2 human avian influenza (AI) death and subsequent health [...]	2006-04-03 03:28:00	Consulate Guangzhou	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KFLU TBIO EAGR PGOV CH
06GUATEMALA1106	GUATEMALA: DEMARCHE ON RESETTLEMENT OF CUBAN [...] (C) PolOff delivered reftel talking points to Guatemalan Foreign Ministry U.S. Desk Officer Sandra Jovel on May 31 and met June 2 with MFA Deputy Director for North American Affairs Jorge Figueroa to further discuss the points. Figueroa expressed GOG willingness to be helpful on the issue but [...]	2006-06-05 21:30:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	PREF SMIG GT CU
06GUATEMALA1386	GUATEMALA: DEMARCHE ON OAS MLAT OPTIONAL PROTOCOL [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel talking points on the OAS MLAT (mutual legal assistance treaty) Optional Protocol July 13 to Luis Carranza, Deputy Director for UN and OAS Affairs in the Guatemalan Foreign Ministry's Multilateral Relations Directorate. Carranza said Guatemalan ratification of th [...]	2006-07-18 20:07:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KJUS OAS GT
06GUATEMALA2005	GUATEMALA: RESPONSE TO NORTH KOREAN NUCLEAR TEST [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-12 19:12:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KNNP PREL PARM KN GT
06GUATEMALA2099	GUATEMALA SUPPORTS UN DECLARATION ON RIGHTS OF [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-25 22:18:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL KTIA UN GT
06GUATEMALA2100	GUATEMALA: UNGA RESOLUTIONS ON THE SITUATIONS OF [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-25 22:19:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	UNGA PHUM PREL PTER GT LE IS
06GUATEMALA2200	GUATEMALA: UNSCR 1718 OBLIGATIONS ON DPRK [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-03 18:22:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM KSTC KN GT

06GUATEMALA2201	GUATEMALA: DEMARCHE ON CUBA AND THE IBERO-AMERICAN [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-03 18:22:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM KDEM CU GT
06GUATEMALA2202	GUATEMALA: DEMARCHE ON OPPOSING THE CUBA EMBARGO [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-03 18:23:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PRL UNGA UN CU GT
06GUATEMALA2204	GUATEMALA: OPPOSING ANTI-ISRAEL BIAS [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-03 18:33:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL UNGA IS GT
06GUATEMALA2244	GUATEMALA: INTERNATIONAL LAW COMMISSION ELECTION [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-08 18:39:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ODIP ILC UNGA GT
06GUATEMALA2245	GUATEMALA: DEMARCHE ON COUNTRY SPECIFIC HUMAN [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-08 18:40:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL KTIA UN GT
06GUATEMALA2246	GUATEMALA: CWC DEMARCHE ON U.S. REQUEST TO EXTEND [...] (C) In a follow up to October 30 delivery of reftel demarche, Poloff met November 3 with Luis Carranza, Deputy Director for UN Affairs in the Foreign Ministry's Multilateral Affairs Directorate, and again on November 7 to seek further clarification. During the November 3 meeting, Carranza opi [...]	2006-11-08 18:41:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PREL CBW CWC OPCW GT
06GUATEMALA2247	GUATEMALA: DEMARCHE ON CWC NATIONAL IMPLEMENTATION [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-08 18:45:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM PREL PTER CBW CWC OPCW OAS GT
06GUATEMALA2452	GUATEMALA: 2007 UAE/UN-HOSTED GLOBAL TIP CONFERENCE [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-15 17:49:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM PHUM KWMN ELAB SMIG GT
06GUATEMALA2486	GUATEMALAN WOMEN'S GROUP REPORTS DECLINE IN [...] Summary: According to a recent study by Grupo Guatemalteco de Mujeres (GGM),only 11 percent of the total number of murders of women in Guatemala should be labeled "femicide," which GGM considers the most extreme manifestation of violence against women. Based on investigations conducted over [...]	2006-12-21 22:00:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM KJUS EAID SNAR KCRM KDEM GT
06GUATEMALA2514	GUATEMALA: UNSCR 1737 SANCTIONS ON IRAN [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-28 18:06:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	MNUC KNNP GT
06GUATEMALA28	GUATEMALAN EFFORTS TO SECURE UNSC SEAT [...] (C) Summary: Guatemala's efforts to secure a United Nations Security Council seat are well underway. Foreign Minister Jorge Briz welcomed USG support and looks forward to a visit by Department of State officials to coordinate lobbying activities. Within the hemisphere, Briz foresees the nee [...]	2006-01-06 17:17:00	Embassy Guatemala	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL GT UNSC
06GUATEMALA421	GUATEMALA'S TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT SUBMISSION [...] Embassy Guatemala's point of contact for trafficking in persons (TIP) is Labor Attache Troy Fitrell, [502]2326-4635, and fax [502]2334-8474. Troy Fitrell (FS-2) spent 10 hours on the preparation of this report. PolOff Sarah Palaia (FS-4) spent 25 hours on the preparation of this report. PolS [...]	2006-03-01 15:50:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED	KCRM PHUM KWMN SMIG KFRD ASEC PREF ELAB GT
06GUATEMALA654	GUATEMALA-BELIZE RELATIONS IMPROVING DESPITE [...] (SBU) Summary. On March 23 and 24 in Antigua, Guatemala, delegates from Guatemala, Belize, and Honduras met to begin negotiating maritime boundaries in the Gulf of Honduras. Following the meeting, the parties issued a public statement expressing their satisfaction in having concluded a cordial [...]	2006-04-03 17:48:00	Embassy Guatemala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PREF EAID PBTS OAS BH GT
06HANOI1112	RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN THE NORTH PART I: POLOFF [...] (SBU) At the recommendation of Protestants in Hanoi, an Embassy team visited Lao Cai Province in the third week of April to investigate allegations of district-level abuse against Protestant groups. The team was able to discuss with officials several serious allegations made against Lao Cai p [...]	2006-05-10 09:41:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KIRF PGOV SOCI PHUM VM
06HANOI1113	RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN THE NORTH PART II: POLOFF [...] (SBU) At the recommendation of Protestants in Hanoi, an Embassy team visited Ha Giang Province in the third week of April to investigate allegations of district-level abuse against Protestant groups. The team was able to discuss with officials several serious allegations made against Ha Giang [...]	2006-05-10 09:56:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KIRF PHUM PGOV SOCI VM
06HANOI1135	VIETNAM CONSIDERING SUA PROTOCOL RATIFICATION [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-12 04:02:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KNNP MNUC PARM PHSA PREL VM
06HANOI1232	BAPTISTS MEET IN VIETNAM, HIGHLIGHT THEIR SITUATION [...] (SBU) Summary: The Baptist World Alliance - an international umbrella group for some (perhaps 30 million, according to their President),but not all, of the world's Baptists - visited Vietnam May 16-21 to meet with the GVN and hold a large meeting of Baptists in Ho Chi Minh City. The delegati [...]	2006-05-22 09:38:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KIRF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM VM
06HANOI1235	VIETNAM SUPPORTIVE OF NEW GOVERNMENT IN IRAQ [...] (SBU) Summary: The GVN will publicly congratulate the new Government of Iraq and will re-extend its invitation to senior Iraqi officials to visit Vietnam, including the Minister of Trade. Vietnam says it has a long history of friendly relations with Iraq and would like to get them back on tra [...]	2006-05-22 23:46:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KPAO IZ PREL KDEM VM
06HANOI1245	VIETNAM'S PARTY CONGRESS: CONSERVATIVES AND [...] (SBU) Analysis of the new membership of the Communist Party of Vietnam's Central Committee and Politburo following the April National Party Congress indicates a barely perceptible victory of conservative over progressive elements within the Party (although Party insiders now say that the prog [...]	2006-05-24 04:13:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KCOR VM
06HANOI1252	UN REFORM NAM/G77: VIETNAM [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Ministry of Foreign Affairs International Organizations Expert Pham Vinh Quang on May 25. More senior officials (Deputy Director General and Director General/Assistant Minister) in the International Organizations Department were unavailable to receive [...]	2006-05-25 08:32:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KUNR PREL UNGA VM
06HANOI1255	IRAN/NAM: Demarche Delivered to Vietnam [...] (SBU) Senior Ministry of Foreign Affairs officials have been completely tied up with the visit of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, so Poloff delivered reftel demarche January 20 to Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Arms Control Expert Vu Van Mien. Mien is responsible for drafting the pap [...]	2006-05-25 09:39:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KNNP AORC TRGY ENRG IAEA IR VM
06HANOI1320	VIETNAMESE DISSIDENTS ANNOUNCING A NEW PARTY; [...] (C) Summary: On May 29, a meeting convened by prominent Hanoi dissident Hoang Minh Chinh to prepare documents in advance of a planned June 1 declaration of the re-establishment of the Democracy Party of Vietnam (DPV),was raided by police. A member of the new party called a public meeting wit [...]	2006-05-30 11:59:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	HUMANR PHUM PGOV PREL VM
06HANOI1324	VIETNAM: WEDGEWOOD/UNHRC DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-31 07:23:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM US UNHRC VM
06HANOI1338	VIETNAMESE DISSIDENTS ANNOUNCE NEW PARTY; GVN [...] (SBU) Summary: The DPV made the public announcement today of the reestablishment of the long-defunct DPV, and there was no overt reaction by the GVN. The MFA did, however, call in representatives of the Embassies who met with the DPV leadership on May 30 to protest foreign involvement in "il [...]	2006-05-31 10:55:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	HUMANR PREL PGOV PHUM VM
06HANOI1368	SITREP: VIETNAMESE NEW PARTY DISSIDENT [...] (SBU) Summary: Activists report that following the June 1 announcement of the re-establishment of the Democratic Party of Vietnam (DPV) police have harassed some of its members. The activists have publicly called for help. Other western diplomats are cautious about maintaining contact with t [...]	2006-06-05 00:23:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	HUMANR PREL PGOV PHUM VM
06HANOI1369	Vietnam/TIP: DEMARCHE DELIVERED, RECEIVED WELL [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel demarche and an advance copy of the Vietnam language in the TIP report to Americas Desk Section Chief Le Chi Dzung June 5. Dzung was well briefed on the main TIP issues of concern regarding Vietnam in the report. He said that Vietnam appreciates the overall bala [...]	2006-06-05 00:23:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KCRM PHUM KWMN PREL PGOV SMIG VM
06HANOI1389	FURTHER VIETNAMESE NEW PARTY DISSIDENT [...] (SBU) Summary: On June 6, Poloff delivered a verbal message to a representative of the Democracy Party of Vietnam (DPV) representative that we will continue to meet with dissidents, but this should not be misconstrued as active support presaging intervention with the GVN. Police harassment of [...]	2006-06-06 10:15:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	HUMANR PREL PGOV PHUM VM
06HANOI1412	VIETNAMESE CATHOLICS SEE SOME PROGRESS, SOME [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On June 6, the Hanoi Archbishop updated Poloff on conditions for Catholics in the North. Despite some overall progress, conditions for believers in provinces in the mountainous border regions remain difficult. There is also an apparent slackening of local level officials' effo [...]	2006-06-07 09:57:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KIRF PHUM PGOV HUMANR VM
06HANOI1454	DISSIDENTS PUSH HARD WITH LITTLE BACKLASH SO FAR [...] (U) The reporting and comment in this cable is by Consulate General Ho Chi Minh City, with additional reporting and commentary by Embassy Hanoi. 2. (C) Summary: Dissidents in Ho Chi Minh City, including Dr. Nguyen Dan Que, report that they are receiving increased attention but that harassme [...]	2006-06-14 10:38:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV HUMANR VM
06HANOI1466	VIETNAM PLANS TO REGISTER A FEW PROTESTANTS, RELIGIOUS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Although the GVN Religious Affairs authorities are non-committal about future Embassy visits to monitor religious freedom developments in the North, they have begun a pilot project for registering eight ethnic minority Protestant congregations in three provinces. In addition, th [...]	2006-06-15 09:14:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KIRF PHUM PGOV HUMANR VM
06HANOI1503	VIETNAM RECEIVES ADDITIONAL GENEVA PROTOCOL DEMARCHES [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-19 10:44:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC ICRC PHUM PREF IS SZ VM
06HANOI1520	THANH HOA PROTESTANTS REPORT BEATING BY POLICE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On June 20, Poloffs met with a Protestant individual from Thanh Hoa Province who provided a credible report that he and another Protestant had been beaten by police on June 18 after they were taken from their house church. Poloffs presented this information, including graphic ph [...]	2006-06-20 12:51:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KIRF PHUM PGOV HUMANR VM
06HANOI1535	VIETNAMESE PROTESTANTS WARY OF / EXPEL POLITICAL [...] (S) SUMMARY. In early June, Hanoi Protestants expelled activist political dissident Lawyer Dai Nguyen from their church executive board because of concerns that his recent political activities would damage church interests. They also suspect that, at the worst, he may be a GVN agent provocate [...]	2006-06-22 07:21:00	Embassy Hanoi	SECRET	PGOV PHUM HUMANR VM
06HANOI1554	SOME PROGRESS FOR QUANG NINH PROTESTANTS [...] (SBU) On June 16, Poloff met Quang Ninh Province religious affairs officials and visited a Ha Long City Protestant house church. Poloff was allowed to participate in a frank dialogue between provincial officials and congregants at the church concerning the group's one year delayed registration [...]	2006-06-23 07:30:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KIRF PHUM PGOV HUMANR RELFREE VM
06HANOI166	VIETNAM A STAUNCH BUT SLOW SUPPORTER OF EAS [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: Vietnam, originally opposed to the East Asian Summit (EAS) because of fears it would dilute ASEAN's influence, has become a strong supporter of the new edifice in East Asian regional architecture. Vietnam views the EAS now as a way to strengthen Asian unity and brin [...]	2006-01-19 09:25:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ASEAN VM
06HANOI1666	PROTESTANT BEATING: EMBASSY INVESTIGATES REPORT FROM THANH [...] (SBU) On June 29 Poloff met with provincial, district and district police officials in Thanh Hoa Province to look into the alleged June 18 beating of un-registered Protestants by police in Thieu Vien Commune (reftel). Although some provincial officials attempted to pass off the beatings as the [...]	2006-07-06 10:36:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KIRF PHUM PGOV HUMANR VM
06HANOI1678	POLOFF VISITS BAC GIANG, MEETS WITH LOCAL BAPTISTS AND [...] (SBU) On June 19, Poloff met with provincial officials in Bac Giang Province and sat in on a heated exchange between Baptist believers and local commune officials. Provincial officials acknowledge that the province does not plan to register the group anytime soon under the GVN's framework on r [...]	2006-07-06 10:38:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KIRF PHUM PGOV HUMANR VM
06HANOI169	IRAN/UNSC: Demarche Delivered to Vietnam [...] (SBU) In the absence of available higher-level officials without a lengthy wait for an appointment, Poloff delivered reftel demarche January 20 to Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Arms Control Expert Vu Van Mien. Poloff made the point that this is an exceedingly important issue not just [...]	2006-01-19 10:29:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KNNP AORC TRGY ENRG IAEA IR VM
06HANOI179	Codel Gillmor Discusses WTO, Human Rights, Fullest [...] (U) Summary and Comment: Members of Codel Gillmor met January 17 with National Assembly (NA) Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Vu Mao, Deputy Prime Minister Vu Khoan and National Assembly President Nguyen Van An to discuss bilateral relations, including Vietnam's WTO aspirations, trade relat [...]	2006-01-20 10:22:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KIRF PHUM ECON OVIP VM
06HANOI188	Central Highlands: UNHCR, Protestant Pastor Discuss [...] (SBU) Summary: UNHCR representatives traveled to Dak Lak and Kon Tum provinces January 17-20 to meet with local officials and ethnic minority returnees. In both provinces, UNHCR interviewed a number of returnees in private. There were no allegations of mistreatment by the authorities. Howev [...]	2006-01-23 10:41:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM PREF VM CB
06HANOI1880	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES PROTESTANT ISSUES IN THREE NORTHERN [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: During a July 5-7 provincial outreach trip, the Ambassador discussed Protestant issues with the leaders of Thai Nguyen, Bac Giang and Lang Son provinces. Thai Nguyen officials were open-minded about the issue of registration, but tightlipped about their future plans. [...]	2006-07-25 07:31:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM KIRF VM
06HANOI1897	(SBU) MFA CONFIRMS DISSIDENT'S RELEASE UNDER CONSIDERATION; [...] (SBU) On July 25, the MFA confirmed to the Ambassador that prominent dissident Dr. Pham Hong Son will (likely) be released September 2, but requested we keep this information close-hold within the USG until the GVN makes their final decision in August. The GVN has not decided if it will release [...]	2006-07-26 07:11:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KIRF PHUM PGOV HUMANR VM
06HANOI1916	AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES HIV/AIDS, TIP, LABOR EXPORT LAW AND [...] (SBU) On July 20, the Ambassador met with the Chairwoman of the National Assembly (NA) Social Affairs Committee to encourage legislation supporting HIV/AIDS programs, assisting counter-trafficking in persons efforts, establishing labor export oversight and establishing better foreign adoption c [...]	2006-07-28 09:32:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM HUMANR TIP HIV AIDS ETRD EINV ECON VM
06HANOI2083	VIETNAMESE MFA VIEWS THAKSIN VISIT TO BURMA AS [...] (C) On August 16, Poloff met with MFA ASEAN Department Senior Officer Duong Tri Hien to discuss Thai Prime Minister Thaksin's recent visit to Burma. (Note: The meeting finally came after a week of MFA postponements and reschedulings. End Note.) In response to reftel points, Hien said Thaksin [...]	2006-08-16 08:36:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV BM TH VM
06HANOI2084	VIETNAM MFA NONCOMMITTAL ON U.S. CANDIDATE FOR UN HUMAN [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-16 10:13:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM UNHRC VM
06HANOI2102	MFA SAYS IAEA ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL IN THE WORKS, BUT OFFERS [...] (SBU) On August 16, Poloff met with MFA International Organizations Department Desk Officer Nguyen Hai Luu and asked for an update regarding Vietnam's progress in regards to the IAEA Additional Protocol. Luu responded that his government is "seriously preparing" to sign the Additional Protocol [...]	2006-08-17 10:00:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM KNNP PREL VM
06HANOI2103	VIETNAM - CONSULTATION ON NUCLEAR FUEL SUPPLY ASSURANCES [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-17 10:00:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PARM KNNP VM
06HANOI2164	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON U.S. NOMINEE FOR UN INTERNATIONAL LAW [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-25 06:04:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	UNGA PREL VM
06HANOI2170	THANH HOA PROVINCE PROTESTANT DEVELOPMENTS [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On August 24, Poloff met again with Protestants from Thanh Hoa Province who report having been involved in recent police beating and harassment incidents (reftels). Police harassment and physical abuse continue, but they now also report that provincial officials are intervening [...]	2006-08-25 07:54:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KIRF PHUM PGOV HUMANR VM
06HANOI2185	GVN MAKING PROGRESS ON UN CONVENTIONS ON TERRORISM [...] (SBU) On August 25, Poloff met with MFA International Law and Treaties Department Desk Officer Vu Thi Mai Lien and asked for an update regarding Vietnam's progress concerning the four UN conventions against terrorism to which Vietnam has not become a party. Lien said the GVN is taking final st [...]	2006-08-28 07:13:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER UNTERR PREL VM
06HANOI2245	VIETNAM RELIGIOUS FREEDOM UPDATE [...] (SBU) This cable summarizes religious freedom developments in Vietnam during the week ending September 1. This summary was coordinated with ConGen Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC). Hanoi Developments ------------------ 2. (SBU) Religious prisoner Ma Van Bay's impending National Day amnesty and r [...]	2006-09-01 08:49:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KIRF PREL PGOV VM
06HANOI2303	NAM SUMMIT DEMARCHE DELIVERED: GVN WILL SUPPORT NAM [...] (SBU) On September 7, Poloff met with GVN MFA officials to deliver Ref A's points for NAM summit attendees. These officials indicated that the GVN will support the Guatemalan candidacy. On the issue of terrorism, the GVN opposes any type of terrorist act against civilians. Concerning democra [...]	2006-09-08 06:32:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	UNGA PREL PTER PHUM CU VM
06HANOI2321	POLOFF VISITS THANH HOA FULL GOSPEL PROTESTANTS, PROVINCE [...] (SBU) On September 8, Poloff visited the Thanh Hoa community in which members of the Full Gospel Protestant Church have recently suffered police harassment and beatings. Poloff met at the church with one church member and his neighbors. During a separate meeting with Poloff, provincial offici [...]	2006-09-11 09:26:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KIRF PHUM PGOV HUMANR VM
06HANOI2328	AMBASSADOR HANFORD MEETS WITH HANOI PROTESTANTS [...] (C) Summary: IRF Ambassador John Hanford met with Protestant leaders in Hanoi on August 16. They noted that the overall environment for religion in the north and Northwest Highlands is "significantly less threatening" than in the past, as the number of arrests, attempted forced renunciations [...]	2006-09-12 06:35:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KIRF PGOV VM
06HANOI2352	NAM SUMMIT POINTS ON DARFUR AND IRAN DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-15 06:15:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	UNSC PREL PTER PHUM KPKO IAEA IR SU VM
06HANOI2399	COMMITTEE FOR RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS UPDATES DCM ON RELIGIOUS [...] (SBU) On September 15, Chairman Ngo Yen Thi of the GVN's Committee for Religious Affairs (CRA) briefed the DCM on recent religious freedom developments in Vietnam. The CRA reports that eighteen congregations have been chosen in five out of 19 northern provinces for "pilot registration." These [...]	2006-09-19 10:39:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KIRF PREL PGOV VM
06HANOI242	EAP A/S HILL MEETS SENIOR COMMUNIST PARTY OFFICIAL [...] (SBU) Summary: On January 13, EAP Assistant Secretary Christopher R. Hill met with Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) External Relations Commission Director Nguyen Van Son to discuss the U.S.-Vietnam bilateral relationship and regional issues of mutual interest. In addition to upcoming high-le [...]	2006-02-06 06:51:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM ETRD ECON CB KN VM
06HANOI244	A/S HILL DISCUSSES BURMA, CAMBODIA, LAOS, CHINA [...] Summary: In a frank lunch meeting January 13 with visiting EAP Assistant Secretary Christopher R. Hill, senior GVN diplomats said that Vietnam is worried about China's increasing influence in Southeast Asia, particularly Burma, Cambodia and Laos, and urged the United States to engage more wit [...]	2006-02-06 06:55:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PHUM CB BM LA VM
06HANOI2617	HANOI'S NEW CIVIL SOCIETY LAW IN LIMBO [...] (C) Summary: The GVN in late September pulled the 11th version of the draft Law on Associations (LOA) from the National Assembly's (NA) upcoming agenda. The Politburo, which has ultimate say over legislation put forward to the NA, probably is foot-dragging because it fears the law,s potential [...]	2006-10-12 09:12:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PHUM PREL PGOV ECON VM
06HANOI2649	GVN INFORMED ABOUT UNSCR 1718 [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-17 09:51:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PARM KNNP VM KN
06HANOI2663	NEW DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE FORMS [...] (SBU) This message was coordinated with ConGen Ho Chi Minh City. 2. (C) Summary and Comment: Using strong language, local activists announced on October 18 the establishment of an umbrella alliance of democratic organizations with the aim of pushing for a multi-party system in Vietnam. Th [...]	2006-10-19 08:15:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM VM
06HANOI2727	ASSISTANT SECRETARY LOWENKRON DISCUSSES HUMAN RIGHTS WITH [...] (SBU) On October 19, Assistant Secretary for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor Barry Lowenkron told Vice Foreign Minister Le Van Bang that, while the United States recognizes there have been positive human rights developments in Vietnam, we will continue to urge the release of the two remaining [...]	2006-10-26 03:41:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL PGOV OTRA ECON VM
06HANOI2833	DEMARCHES ON CUBA EMBARGO RESOLUTION DELIVERED [...] (SBU) On November 8, Poloff discussed reftel points on the Cuba embargo resolution and the Australian amendment with MFA International Organizations Department Deputy Director Vu Anh Quang. Mr. Quang said the GVN position is consistent with the majority of countries that support the Cuba embar [...]	2006-11-08 10:31:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	UNGA PREL PHUM UN CU VM
06HANOI2842	DEMARCHES ON COUNTRY-SPECIFIC HUMAN RIGHTS RESOLUTIONS [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-10 02:40:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PHUM UNHCR UN VM
06HANOI2916	EUROPEAN DIPLOMATS VISIT PHAM HONG SON [...] (C) Summary and Comment: European diplomatic representatives in Hanoi were able to visit Pham Hong Son in his home on November 23. However, the meeting -- in which Son described his democratic beliefs, explained his unwillingness to join forces with newly formed activist groups in Vietnam an [...]	2006-11-29 09:45:00	Embassy Hanoi	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM VM
06HANOI2940	VIETNAM: WOMEN EMPOWERMENT CONTACTS [...] On November 28, Poloff shared reftel fact sheet on recommendations from the Women's Empowerment Working Session with Nguyen Thi Minh Quy, Director of the National Committee for the Advancement of Women. After discussing the sheet with her colleagues, Quy will send us ideas on possible projects [...]	2006-12-01 09:02:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	KWMN PHUM PREL RP UNGA
06HANOI3004	LETTER TO AMBASSADOR HANFORD FROM VICE MINISTER OF PUBLIC [...] (SBU) On December 8, Ministry of Public Security contacts passed a letter to Poloff from Vice Minister Nguyen Van Huong to Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom John Hanford (unofficial translation below). Our contacts noted that lifting Vietnam's Country of Particular Concer [...]	2006-12-13 01:39:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KIRF PHUM PGOV HUMANR VM
06HANOI3059	COMMITTEE FOR RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS AND PROTESTANT ORGANIZATION [...] (SBU) The Government Committee on Religious Affairs (CRA) told Poloff on December 19 that it will issue recognition certificates to two previously unrecognized church organizations on December 23. The CRA also confirmed the existence of a controversial training manual on Protestantism. The man [...]	2006-12-22 08:52:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KIRF PREL PGOV VM
06HANOI429	VIETNAM: Palestine, and Iraq Bombings [...] (SBU) Nguyen Diep Ha, desk officer in the Foreign Ministry's West Asia and Africa Department, told Poloff February 23 that Vietnam "respects the decision of the Palestinian people's choice to elect Hamas" and predicted that Hamas will "represent the Palestinian people well and will act in thei [...]	2006-02-23 10:55:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PTER IZ PA VM
06HANOI453	RUSSIA AND VIETNAM KEEP UP THE ILLUSION OF A [...] (SBU) Summary: Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Ephimovich Fradkov was Vietnam's first high-ranking foreign visitor since Tet, the Vietnamese New Year. The February 16-17 visit was the third by a Russian Prime Minister to Vietnam since 1997. The primary purposes of this visit were to strengthe [...]	2006-02-24 10:50:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL RU VM
06HANOI549	CONDITIONS FACING ETHNIC MINORITY PROTESTANTS IN [...] (SBU) An Embassy and DRL/IRF team recently visited the Northwest provinces of Lao Cai and Yen Bai to examine social conditions for ethnic minorities and to advocate for the rapid registration of ethnic minority Protestant groups. Protestant leaders from the region reported that local officials [...]	2006-03-09 10:35:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KIRF PHUM VM
06HANOI614	VIETNAM LIKELY TO SAY NOTHING ABOUT U.S.-INDIA [...] (SBU) On March 10, Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Ministry of Foreign Affairs International Organizations Department senior expert Vu Van Mien, a frequent and close contact on nonproliferation issues. Mien said he appreciated the briefing on the initiative, and noted that Vietnam was sur [...]	2006-03-16 08:44:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ENRG KSCA PARM KNNP ETTC IN VM
06HANOI615	VIETNAM AND PALESTINE [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered Ref A demarche March 10 to Nguyen Diep Ha, desk officer in the Foreign Ministry's West Asia and Africa Department. Ha said there has been no change in Vietnamese policy or the situation regarding Vietnam's relations with Palestine (Refs B and C). No one from the Palest [...]	2006-03-16 08:52:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PTER PA VM
06HANOI625	VIETNAM: WILL LIKELY APPROVE ADDITIONAL GENEVA [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-17 02:58:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC ICRC PHUM PREF IS SZ VM
06HANOI670	AMBASSADOR AND VFM LE VAN BANG DISCUSS WTO, HUMAN [...] (SBU) Summary: The Ambassador focused on Vietnam's WTO entry, practical developments in our human rights discussions, possible Congressional visits and developments in the bilateral relationship over the next six months during a March 21 lunch with Vice Foreign Minister Le Van Bang. VFM Bang [...]	2006-03-22 23:19:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ETRD APEC PHUM AMGT OVIP CVIS CASC VM
06HANOI683	VIETNAM FOREIGN POLICY EXPERTS ON CHINA, THE UNITED [...] (SBU) Summary: During a frank discussion with visiting Deputy NIO Terrence Markin and Poloff, senior officials at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' Institute for International Relations (IIR) encouraged the United States to stay closely engaged in Southeast Asia, but avoid making Southeast Asia [...]	2006-03-24 08:42:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL APEC ASEAN CH VM
06HANOI771	CORRUPTION IN VIETNAM: MINISTER FALLS, PARTY GETS [...] (SBU) Summary: The media is gleefully reporting a sensational corruption scandal involving millions of dollars in graft that has cost the Minister of Transportation his job. The case amplifies the recent wave of calls for anti- corruption reform that has dominated recent public discussion of [...]	2006-04-04 07:28:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KCOR VM
06HANOI782	VIETNAM: PSI ENDORSEMENT UNLIKELY SOON [...] (SBU) Summary: Heavy Embassy pressure on the GVN has forced the issue of the Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI) all the way to the Prime Minister's office, where we are told the decision has been made to authorize Vietnam's participation in PSI-related activities on a case-by-case basis, [...]	2006-04-05 06:36:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KNNP MNUC PARM PHSA PREL VM
06HANOI797	VIETNAM AND PALESTINE [...] (SBU) In response to news articles quoting Hamas Foreign Minister Mahmud al-Zahar saying he plans to visit China and "tour other countries in East Asia," Poloff contacted Nguyen Diep Ha, desk officer in the Foreign Ministry's West Asia and Africa Department. Ha said there has been no change in [...]	2006-04-05 07:45:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PTER PA VM
06HANOI802	UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-06 05:15:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED	KUNR UNCHR PHUM PREL UNGA VM
06HANOI815	VIETNAM, ASEAN FM MEETING, BURMA [...] (SBU) Summary: Vietnam will send an Assistant Minister to the Bali ministerial and is withholding judgment on what to do about Burma until it hears what Malaysian FM Hamid has to say. Vietnam is generally not inclined to support external intervention in Burma, but seems willing to go along w [...]	2006-04-10 09:53:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ARF BM VM
06HANOI823	VIETNAM'S EVENTUAL PKO PARTICIPATION LIKELY, BUT [...] (SBU) Summary: The MFA is in charge of preparing the political ground for Vietnam's eventual participation in international peacekeeping operations, which means winning internal consensus and gaining public opinion support. Neither task is complete yet, and the internal consensus- building wil [...]	2006-04-11 10:44:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL SU PKO MOPS VM
06HANOI833	Vietnam Tackling Abusive Export Labor Firms [...] (SBU) Summary: Confronted with problems related to a burgeoning export labor industry, the Government of Vietnam (GVN) is taking action to regulate the industry and protect workers from potential abuse. In an effort to mitigate unemployment and develop its pool of skilled workers, the Governm [...]	2006-04-12 10:20:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB PGOV PHUM KCRM PINS VM TIP
06HANOI848	Party Facing Turmoil on Eve of 10th Congress [...] (SBU) The Communist Party of Vietnam's (CPV) Central Committee has scheduled an unusual 15th plenum to nail down still undecided senior leadership positions and address a widening corruption scandal. With a number of senior GVN officials implicated in the affair, the Party is scrambling to en [...]	2006-04-14 10:03:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR VM
06HANOI872	RELIGIOUS FREEDOM: HANOI AUTHORITIES FACILITATING [...] (SBU) An expatriate Amcit who is a Jehovah's Witness informed Poloff on April 14 that representatives of the small congregation of witnesses in Hanoi recently were called in by local Committee on Religious Affairs (CRA) officials and given two application forms for official registration as a P [...]	2006-04-18 05:54:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KIRF PHUM VM
06HANOI894	RELIGIOUS FREEDOM: PROTESTANT EFFORTS TO REGISTER; [...] (SBU) House church leaders affiliated with the Evangelical Church of Vietnam (ECVN) recently updated Poloff on their efforts to officially register the activities of their congregations in Vietnam's northern provinces. Progress in registration and other improvements in conditions for Protestan [...]	2006-04-20 09:25:00	Embassy Hanoi	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL KIRF PHUM VM
06HARARE1010	CURRENCY CHANGEOVER SPARKS CONFUSION [...] (C) With five business days remaining until the currency conversion deadline of August 21, business contacts tell us the country is woefully unprepared for the expiration of the old bearer checks. Most businesses have suspended or significantly reduced sales, chiefly of imports, rather than [...]	2006-08-11 13:13:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC ECON PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
06HARARE112	GOZ INTENSIFIES ATTACK ON ZIMBABWE LAWERS FOR [...] (C) According to several Embassy sources in civil society, the GOZ,s crackdown on the independent radio station Voice of the People (VOP) is actually directed at the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) and its head Arnold Tsunga. Tsunga and other ZLHR employees, as VOP trustees, have been [...]	2006-02-02 13:21:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
06HARARE1162	GOZ BRUTALLY REACTS TO NCA MARCHES [...] (SBU) The National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) staged marches in key cities across Zimbabwe on September 20 triggering a violent police and ZANU-PF youth militia reaction in Mutare and, to a lesser extent, Harare. Smaller numbers of NCA supporters also marched in Gweru and Masvingo, where [...]	2006-09-21 14:04:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
06HARARE1164	STEVENSON ATTACK COMMISSION POINTS FINGER AT GOZ [...] (SBU) Anti-Senate leader Morgan Tsvangirai held a Press Conference September 20 to announce the findings of the commission appointed by the anti-Senate MDC to investigate the July 2 attack on pro-Senate MDC MP Trudy Stevenson. According to Tsvangirai, the commission concluded that GOZ securit [...]	2006-09-21 15:07:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC ECON PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
06HARARE1235	ZANU-PF WINS BY-ELECTIONS AMID LOW TURNOUT, [...] (C) As expected, ruling party candidates held on to two rural parliamentary seats, in Chikomba and Rushinga, in October 7 by-elections. The elections were peaceful but were marred by low voter turnout. Elections for rural district councils in the two constituencies were also held, with the [...]	2006-10-10 13:46:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ZI
06HARARE125	ZANU-PF SENATOR/FINANCIER PURSUES ENHANCED [...] (C) Aguy Georgias, a recently appointed ZANU-PF aligned Senator and CEO of Trinity Engineering, on January 31 sought Embassy participation in an informal dialogue he hoped to set up with a to-be-named interlocutor selected by President Mugabe. He asserted that in Zimbabwe's dysfunctional pol [...]	2006-02-06 13:53:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON ZI ZANU PF
06HARARE1262	MDC SUSPENDS TROUBLESOME MP [...] (U) The anti-Senate faction of the MDC on October 15 suspended Tafara-Mabvuku MP Timothy Mubawu from his official party positions due to his connection to the attack on pro-Senate MDC MP Trudy Stevenson (ref B) and his sexist remarks in Parliament (ref A). MDC Secretary General Tendai Biti o [...]	2006-10-18 12:59:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KWMN PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
06HARARE136	URBAN LAND SEIZED IN LATEST AFFRONT TO PRIVATE [...] (C) The GOZ in mid-December 2005 seized Gletwyn property, an urban-zoned development area within Harare,s city limits, marking the GOZ's first formal taking of urban land apart from legal eminent domain proceedings. The Police Housing Cooperative and Divine Homes, a housing development compan [...]	2006-02-08 15:01:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
06HARARE1490	UPDATE OF WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR [...] (C) Summary. Recent developments in the GOZ's efforts to combat trafficking are encouraging, but we remain guarded that they have the political will and resources to follow through on stated plans. Since April, the government has established an inter-ministerial taskforce, a woman was sentenc [...]	2006-12-20 12:20:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI USAID
06HARARE1491	UPDATE OF WORST FORMS OF CHILD LABOR [...] (C) Summary. Recent developments in the GOZ's efforts to combat trafficking are encouraging, but we remain guarded that they have the political will and resources to follow through on stated plans. Since April, the government has established an inter-ministerial taskforce, a woman was sentenc [...]	2006-12-20 14:56:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB EIND ETRD PHUM SOCI USAID ZI
06HARARE1493	CONFERENCE PAVES WAY FOR EXTENDING MUGABE'S TERM, [...] (C) In a well-scripted development, the December 14-17 ZANU-PF conference adopted a resolution recommending that the ruling party unify the presidential and parliamentary elections in 2010. The recommendation, which will require amending the constitution in Parliament, must first be approved [...]	2006-12-21 07:15:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ZI
06HARARE1500	UPDATE ON EFFORTS TO COMBAT TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS [...] Retransmission of Harare 1490 with correct subject line. (C) Summary. Recent developments in the GOZ's efforts to combat trafficking are encouraging, but we remain guarded that they have the political will and resources to follow through on stated plans. Since April, the government has esta [...]	2006-12-28 07:00:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM ELAB USAID ZI
06HARARE160	MP ON "PRO-SENATE" FACTION ACTIVITIES, PLANS [...] (C) MDC pro-senate faction MP Priscilla Misihairabwa-Mushonga told poloff February 2 that little progress had been made in resolving the dispute that had split the MDC, though the tone was improving. She said the biggest challenge facing her faction was selecting a national leader. She repo [...]	2006-02-14 05:01:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ECON PHUM ZI
06HARARE177	WHERE'S THE LOVE? - VALENTINE'S DAY ARRESTS [...] (U) On February 14, approximately 300 members of women's activist group Women of Zimbabwe Arise! (WOZA) marched in Harare, demanding affordable food and social justice. Police arrested around 250 of the women along with their lawyer, Tafadzwa Mugabe of Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights. The p [...]	2006-02-16 05:45:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ASEC ZI

06HARARE187	PARLIAMENT RESUMES, BUT FOR HOW LONG? [...] (C) Zimbabwe,s Parliament resumed on February 7, marking the first sitting of the Senate since that body was abolished in 1990. However, the legislative agenda is very thin and MPs could be sent home any day. Although two bills were introduced into the Senate, the supposedly august house rec [...]	2006-02-21 04:20:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
06HARARE210	ZIMBABWE SHAKEN BUT NOT STIRRED IN MOZAMBIQUE [...] (U) According to the United States Geological Survey, an earthquake registering 7.5 on the Richter Scale hit 140 miles southwest of Beira, Mozambique at 12:19 AM Central Africa Time (CAT) on 23 February 2006. The epicenter was at Espungabera, a small town right on Zimbabwe's eastern border wi [...]	2006-02-23 09:57:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SENV TPHY PREL ASEC CASC ZI
06HARARE215	FORMER STUDENT LEADER EMERGES AS PRO-SENATE [...] (C) On February 19, former student leader Arthur Mutambara, who now resides in South Africa, announced his decision to run for president of the pro-senate faction of the MDC. A number of pro-senate MDC MPs expressed strong support for Mutambara and said he would breathe new life into the part [...]	2006-02-23 13:42:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ZI MDC
06HARARE227	STUDENTS PROTEST IN RESPONSE TO COLLEGE TUITION [...] (C) Massive tuition increases at state colleges have triggered student unrest as the academic year resumes this month. The GOZ announced in early February that tuition for the coming year would jump from between Z$6 and Z$9 million to between Z$30 and Z$45 million. Upset that scholarships w [...]	2006-02-24 09:30:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV PHUM SOCI PREL ZI
06HARARE252	ZIMBABWE ANTI-TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT [...] (SBU) Zimbabwe is a country of origin and transit for trafficked persons. This year there were also two cases of girls trafficked to Zimbabwe from South Africa. Most of the information about the scope of trafficking remains anecdotal, however, the government and the police investigate and tra [...]	2006-03-02 09:53:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SMIG ASEC PREF ELAB ZI KWMN KFRD
06HARARE263	MUTAMBARA ELECTED PRO-SENATE FACTION LEADER, [...] (C) Arthur Mutambara was elected President of the Pro-Senate faction of the MDC during its Congress on February 25. In his speech accepting the post, Mutambara praised Morgan Tsvangirai as a Zimbabwean hero but chastised him for becoming a "little Mugabe." Speaking primarily to a domestic [...]	2006-03-02 16:50:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV PREL ZI
06HARARE298	GOZ EYING CONTROL OF MINING SECTOR [...] (C) Minister of Mines Amos Midzi announced on March 3 that Cabinet had approved in principle amendments to the Mines and Minerals Act that would force foreign-owned mining companies to hand over 51 percent of their shares to the GOZ. The GOZ is preparing to present the legislation to Parliamen [...]	2006-03-08 17:29:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EMIN ECON EFIN PREL PHUM ZI
06HARARE300	GOZ EYING CONTROL OF MINING SECTOR [...] (C) Minister of Mines Amos Midzi announced on March 3 that Cabinet had approved in principle amendments to the Mines and Minerals Act that would force foreign-owned mining companies to hand over 51 percent of their shares to the GOZ. The GOZ is preparing to present the legislation to Parliamen [...]	2006-03-09 10:13:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EMIN PGOV PREL ZI
06HARARE308	EDUCATION BILL PASSES AS SCHOOLS CRY FOUL [...] (C) The widely unpopular Education Bill passed Parliament on February 28, enhancing GOZ powers to interfere with the operations of private schools. In consultation with school groups, the GOZ amended many of the more objectionable provisions. However, according to Jameson Timba, the chairma [...]	2006-03-10 12:40:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV PREL ZI
06HARARE317	ARMS CACHE SUSPECTS CHARGED, LINKED TO [...] (SBU) The GOZ on March 11 charged eight suspects connected to last week,s arms seizure in Mutare (reftel). The eight were charged under Public Order and Security Act (POSA) prohibitions against processing weapons to commit banditry, sabotage, or terrorism. Appearing in a Mutare court to be c [...]	2006-03-14 16:53:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
06HARARE321	CIVIL SOCIETY LEADER DISSES MDC FACTIONS AND [...] (C) The chairman of the National Constitutional Assembly (NCA),Lovemore Madhuku, told poloffs March 13 that the opposition MDC was failing to exploit Zimbabweans' deepening economic frustration and that civil society would take the lead if necessary. Madhuku said ZANU-PF was doing a better j [...]	2006-03-15 17:00:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
06HARARE355	CONGRESS REAFFIRMS TSVANGIRAI'S GRASSROOTS [...] (C) Despite GOZ pressure, an estimated 15,000 enthusiastic delegates, many of whom traveled at their own expense, attended the MDC anti-Senate faction's Congress on March 17-19 and reaffirmed their support for Morgan Tsvangirai, who was unanimously reelected president. MPs SIPDIS Thokozan [...]	2006-03-21 16:49:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
06HARARE372	MOYO ON POLITICAL LANDSCAPE, AVENUES FOR CHANGE [...] (C) Independent MP Jonathan Moyo told poloff March 22 that the growing proximity of Mugabe's departure and economic collapse were increasing a national impetus for political change. In this uncertain environment, securocrats were the only ones focusing on policy and stability, and they were [...]	2006-03-24 12:44:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ZI
06HARARE43	ZIMBABWE AVIAN FLU UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: Contrary to earlier indications (Ref B),the GOZ has not yet lifted its general ban on the export of poultry and poultry products following the discovery of type H5N2 avian influenza (AI) in Zimbabwe late last year. The GOZ is investigating the phyto-sanitary capabilities of ex [...]	2006-01-13 05:23:00	Embassy Harare	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	TBIO SENV ECON ETRD EAGR EAID PREL ZI
06HARARE434	NEW LEGISLATION WOULD TIGHTEN GOZ'S GRIP [...] (C) The GOZ in recent weeks has put forward several bills to Parliament, many of which would bolster the state's security apparatus. The Suppression of Foreign and International Terrorism Bill would update Zimbabwe's counterterrorism laws, and the Interception of Communications Bill would al [...]	2006-04-13 14:30:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER ASEC PINR EAGR TBIO PGOV ECPS PHUM PREL
06HARARE583	"OPERATION ROUND-UP" SO FAR LARGELY ILLUSORY [...] (U) The GOZ-controlled Herald daily reported in a front-page story on May 15 that Harare police last week had picked up 10,000 "squatters, vagrants and street youths" for relocation to rural areas after "screening." According to the article, the exercise was part of "Operation Round-Up", an [...]	2006-05-17 16:55:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ASEC ZI
06HARARE586	IMPROVEMENTS NEEDED AT REFUGEE CAMP [...] (C) During poloff's May 10 visit to the remote Tongogara Refugee Camp, home to approximately 2,300 of the 12,300 refugees Zimbabwe hosts, UNHCR officials lamented budget challenges to camp operations and outlined areas of need, such as water distribution and opportunities for self-sufficiency. [...]	2006-05-18 14:02:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREF EAID ZI
06HARARE670	ZVOBGO ON STASIS, PROSPECTS FOR CHANGE IN ZANU-PF [...] (C) ZANU-PF businessperson and provincial official Eddie Zvobgo told poloff June 1 that the ruling party would remain in disarray and paralyzed by succession tensions until Mugabe passed from the scene. However, he did not believe Mugabe intended to leave office any time soon. Moreover, neit [...]	2006-06-07 14:15:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ZI
06HARARE683	BITI ON MDC PLANS, INTER-PARTY ENGAGEMENT [...] (C) MDC anti-senate faction Secretary General Tendai Biti on June 7 told poloff that resource constraints would probably delay faction plans to get people on the streets. He reported that ZANU-PF's Mnangagwa and Mujuru factions each were making pitches to faction President Morgan Tsvangirai, w [...]	2006-06-12 07:30:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ASEC PREL ZI
06HARARE7	DESPITE GOZ RHETORIC, COOPERATION WITH UN ONGOING [...] (C) In the month since UN Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Jan Egeland visited Zimbabwe, the GOZ has continued its vitriolic attacks against the envoy and the UN, especially over the issue of shelter for the victims of Operation Murambatsvina. [...]	2006-01-04 13:38:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID PHUM PGOV PREL ZI
06HARARE721	MURAMBATSVINA ECHOES CONTINUING [...] (C) On June 15, officials from the International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported that municipal police burned down the houses and possessions of approximately 100 families in the Harare suburb of Glen Norah early that day. City officials had served an eviction notice to the families [...]	2006-06-15 15:40:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ASEC ZI
06HARARE724	US SUBSIDIARY CONFESSES SANCTIONS SINS [...] (C) The Managing Director of the Zimbabwe branch of Greif, an Ohio-based packaging company, told poloff on June 14 that his branch had been knowingly violating US financial sanctions for several years by providing services to Robert Mugabe and other specially designated nationals (SDNs). Tich [...]	2006-06-15 17:32:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KFPC PREL ZI
06HARARE725	MADHUKU ON NCA PLANS, ATMOSPHERICS FOR CIVIL [...] (C) National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) Chairperson Lovemore Madhuku on June 14 told poloff that his organization would organize street demonstrations in the capital within three weeks, with or without collaboration from the opposition MDC and others in civil society. The NCA planned to e [...]	2006-06-16 09:22:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ZI
06HARARE74	HUMAN RIGHTS LAWYERS LATEST GOZ TARGET [...] (C) The GOZ has stepped up its pressure against the prominent local NGO Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR). Police attempted to arrest the NGO,s Executive Director and reportedly are still searching for him and another lawyer involved with the independent radio station Voice of the Peop [...]	2006-01-24 11:43:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
06HARARE764	FORMER ZANU-PF OFFICIAL LAUNCHES NEW OPPOSITION [...] (U) Daniel Shumba, a former ZANU-PF provincial chairman for Masvingo, officially launched the United People,s Party (UPP) on June 24 in Harare before a smaller than advertised crowd of approximately 800 supporters. (N.B. Shumba was one of the six provincial chairmen forced out of the ruling pa [...]	2006-06-27 15:33:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM ASEC ZI
06HARARE77	TRIPARTITE NEGOTIATING FORUM YIELDS LITTLE [...] (U) The GOZ-controlled Herald newspaper reported in its headlines on January 20 that the Tripartite Negotiating Forum (TNF) had agreed to a Prices and Income Stabilization Protocol. The article noted, however, that the major sticking point of tying wages to the Poverty Datum Line remained unr [...]	2006-01-24 14:11:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB PGOV PREL ECON ZI
06HARARE770	NO STABILITY IN SIGHT FOR ZIMBABWE'S LAND REFORM [...] (C) Commercial Farm Union Vice President Trevor Gifford on June 27 updated poloff on the GOZ's latest 99-year lease form, which would vest in the GOZ unfettered authority to repossess any properties distributed in its ongoing chaotic land reform process. Gifford said the form offered insuffi [...]	2006-06-28 15:26:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	EAGR PGOV ASEC EINV PHUM PREL ECON ZI
06HARARE791	PRO-SENATE MDC MP LLEGEDLY ATTACKED BY ANTI-SENATE FACTION [...] (SBU)MDC pro-Senate faction MP Trudy Stevenson was severely assaulted on July 2 along with four other pro-Senate faction officials. Stevenson, who was reportedly attacked with a machete and rocks, has alleged that youths aligned to the anti-Senate MDC faction of Morgan Tsvangirai carried out [...]	2006-07-05 16:19:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL ZI ASEC PGOV
06HARARE946	LATEST CLEAN UP OPERATION TARGETS MBARE MARKET [...] (SBU) Officials from the International Organization for Migration (IOM) on July 21 reported to post that police on July 14 and 15 demolished the Magaba informal marketplace in Harare's high-density suburb of Mbare. Magaba venders told an Embassy local staff member on July 24 that police on h [...]	2006-07-27 11:08:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL ZI
06HARARE964	GOZ HYPING CHINA'S ROLE IN ZIMBABWE,S ECONOMY [...] (C) Despite GOZ attempts to hype supposed dividends from its relationship with China including the June visit of Vice President Joyce Mujuru to Beijing, business sector contacts tell us that promised Chinese investments have largely failed to materialize. The only major industry in which Chin [...]	2006-08-01 07:44:00	Embassy Harare	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON ZI CH
06HAVANA11234	CUBA HUMAN RIGHTS ROUNDUP [...] (C) Summary: The health of hunger-striking dissident Guillermo Farinas has taken a turn for the worse, and he is threatening to leave his hospital to "go home to die." The "Ladies in White" are to be awarded Human Rights First's annual prize. Activists reacted positively to their May 24 con [...]	2006-05-26 21:12:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA11629	CUBA CRACKING DOOR OPEN TO MORE CATHOLIC CLERGY [...] (C) Summary: The Cuban Government has eased its strict limits on issuing work permits to foreign Catholic clergy. The GOC has long adhered to a policy of approving new applicants only to the extent that they replace clergy who have stopped working in Cuba. However, since June 2005, the GOC ha [...]	2006-06-05 17:08:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM SOCI CU
06HAVANA12488	BRITISH POLOFF ANALYZES "COMMON POSITION" ON CUBA [...] (C) Summary: The UK's human rights officer in Havana shared with us June 15 her thoughts on the European Council's recently released draft conclusions on the EU's "Common Position" toward Cuba. (The draft states, among other things, the EU's commitment to seeking dialogue with both the Cuban G [...]	2006-06-16 15:25:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA13740	CUBA HUMAN RIGHTS ROUNDUP: JULY 5, 2006 [...] (C) Summary: The number of documented political prisoners in Cuba dropped by four percentage points over the past six months, as the Cuban Government stepped up its use of less-scrutinized forms of control, including warnings, beatings and "acts of repudiation." Government-directed thugs hel [...]	2006-07-05 14:50:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA13782	IN HAVANA, A (MOSTLY) HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY [...] (C) Summary: Baseball trumped politics in Havana on July 4, with nearly 600 people attending USINT Havana's baseball-themed Independence Day celebration at the Chief of Mission's Residence. Civil-society figures, including Cuba's most prominent dissidents, mingled with third-country diplomat [...]	2006-07-05 20:20:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA14841	CUBA HUMAN RIGHTS ROUNDUP JULY 21, 2016 [...] (C) Summary. Within a 24-hour period, Cuban authorities arrested, tried, convicted and sentenced to four years dissident Alexander Santos Hernandez for "dangerousness." Another dissident, Camilo Cairo Falcon, was sentenced to one year of correctional work for "public disorder," following his p [...]	2006-07-21 20:23:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA15749	ANTI-DISSIDENT ACTIVITIES CONTINUE IN CUBA [...] (C) Summary: Cuban regime agents continue to carry out "acts of repudiation" and other aggressive actions against pro-democracy activists, but to no greater or lesser extent than before the July 31 announcement of Fidel Castro's temporary withdrawal. Since then, at least five anti-dissident i [...]	2006-08-09 11:49:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM PREL SOCI CU
06HAVANA16023	CUBA HUMAN RIGHTS ROUNDUP AUGUST 11, 2006 [...] (C) Summary: Cuba's "Ladies in White" expressed concern that their weekly march outside Havana's Santa Rita church on Sunday, April 13, will be their most dangerous ever, as it coincides with the 80th birthday of Fidel Castro and could prompt a counter-protest by regime supporters. Elsewhere i [...]	2006-08-11 20:45:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA16609	CUBA HUMAN RIGHTS ROUNDUP AUGUST 18, 2006 [...] (C) Summary: The Catholic Church's senior official in Cuba, Cardinal Jaime Ortega, celebrated a mass for recently deceased pro-democracy activist Gustavo Arcos on August 17, with diplomats, activists and journalists in attendance. For an hour, at least, Arcos got his dying wish of a unified o [...]	2006-08-18 19:55:00	US Interests Section Havana	SECRET	PHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA16698	DEATH THREAT FOR CUBAN ACTIVIST ROQUE [...] (C) Summary: Cuban pro-regime thugs held a late-night "act of repudiation" August 19-20 outside the home of pro-democracy activist Martha Beatriz Roque and brandished a pistol while inviting her to "step outside so we can kill you." Roque, head of the Assembly to Promote Civil Society (APSC),[...]	2006-08-21 20:46:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA17059	RUMOR CONTROL: FIDEL SAID TO UNDERGO NEW OPERATION [...] (C) Summary: As would be expected, Havana is awash in rumors over the health of Fidel Castro. One, from a dissident who has provided accurate information in the past, says Castro underwent follow-up surgery between August 24 and 26, but that no other details are available. Our suspicion that [...]	2006-08-29 12:12:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA17683	CUBAN FARINAS ENDS HUNGER STRIKE AFTER SEVEN MONTHS [...] (C) Summary: Cuban dissident Guillermo Farinas ended his hunger strike August 31 after surviving on IV fluids for seven months in a campaign for internet access for all Cubans. The independent journalist decided to end the hunger strike following a joint appeal by three leading women dissiden [...]	2006-09-01 18:55:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA21636	CUBAN MILITANTS PUMMEL INDEPENDENT LIBRARIANS [...] (C) Summary: Cuban communist militants brutally attacked two dissidents in Villa Clara province on October 10, the opening day of an extended "Congress" of independent librarians. The attack, which lasted more than an hour and involved forcibly transporting the dissidents from one city to ano [...]	2006-10-19 22:32:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA23546	LANDMARK FORUM BRINGS TOGETHER YOUNG CUBAN [...] (C) Summary: An unprecedented opposition youth forum brought together young Cuban pro-democracy activists and counterparts from Monterrey, Mexico on November 24 in Havana. The three-hour-long event, held at the PAO Residence, saw participants engage in open debate after watching an inspiration [...]	2006-11-27 19:37:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA23578	PAYA ON RAUL SPEECH: FREEDOM NEEDED, NOT SHOW OF [...] (C) Summary: Leading Cuban human rights activist Oswaldo Paya of the Christian Liberation Movement (MCL) has responded to General Raul Castro's December 2 speech by saying the Cuban people need basic freedoms, not a show of military force. Paya, founder of the Varela Project signature drive f [...]	2006-12-06 22:27:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA23582	ON HUMAN RIGHTS DAY, CUBAN MOB ATTACKS ACTIVISTS [...] (C) Summary: A large group of Cuban communist militants and State Security officials broke up a Human Rights Day march by 12 peaceful activists, throwing several to the ground in front of UNESCO's Havana office. The activists, led by Dr. Darsi Ferrer Ramirez, were pushed, kicked and punched, [...]	2006-12-11 21:11:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA9060	ROQUE ROUGHED UP, BLOCKED FROM ATTENDING USG EVENT [...] (C) Summary: Leading Cuban pro-democracy activist Marta Beatriz Roque was recovering on April 26 after being roughed up by Communist militants who prevented her from leaving her neighborhood to attend a USG-organized event. Roque was not alone in being blocked; Elsa Morejon, the wife of polit [...]	2006-04-26 21:42:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KDEM SOCI CU
06HAVANA9846	ROADTRIP BY CANADIAN POLOFF YIELDS HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) Summary: Canadian Poloff Ram Kamineni, who covers human rights, briefed us May 5 on his recent weeklong road-trip to the cities of Camaguey, Las Tunas, Manicaragua, Puerto Padre, Santa Clara and Santiago. Kamineni met dozens of pro-democracy activists and "Ladies in White" (relatives of [...]	2006-05-08 20:18:00	US Interests Section Havana	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL KDEM SOCI CU
06HELSINKI1050	EU PRESIDENCY WAITING FOR UNSC ACTION ON NORTH [...] (U) PolOff met with Foreign Ministry Director for Asia Pekka Metso and North Korea Desk Officer Jari Sinkkari Oct. 12 to discuss reftel. Metso had not yet seen reftel due to official travel but Sinkkari had received it prior to the meeting. ALL EYES ON THE UNSC -------------------- 2. (C [...]	2006-10-16 07:20:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL
06HELSINKI110	FINLAND: REACTION TO TURKISH INITIATIVE ON CYPRUS [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered reftel demarche to officials from the MFA's Southeast Europe and EU Affairs offices. The Finns expressed disappointment with the rapidity of the Cypriot government's rejection of the Jan. 24 Turkish proposal; however, the GoF was not surprised by the Cypriot rejection [...]	2006-02-07 13:45:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV CY TU FI
06HELSINKI1131	EU-RUSSIA SUMMIT: PREPARATIONS UNDERWAY [...] (C) SUMMARY: POLOFF on 6 November met with Finnish MFA Counselor for Russia Paivi Laine to discuss the Nov. 3 EU-Russia foreign affairs PPC and preparations for the EU-Russia summit on 24 November. The PPC had "gone well" and Northern Dimension preparations are "on track"; however, the Presi [...]	2006-11-07 09:07:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL EUN PGOV ETRD ENRG PL FI RU
06HELSINKI149	FINLAND: REACTION TO AL- ASKARIYA SHRINE BOMBING [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered statements in reftel to the MFA's Middle-East bureau. The Director for Middle-East Affairs said that Finland was playing an active role in intra-EU deliberations on the Al-Askariya shrine bombing, and that she believed an EU statement condemning the attack might be re [...]	2006-02-23 08:46:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	IZ KDEM KPAO PREL PGOV PTER FI
06HELSINKI467	FINLAND: THE FAR LEFT SLOWLY IMPLODES [...] (U) Summary: Finland's only far-left party, the Left Alliance (LA),is struggling in the wake of the resignation of its popular chairperson, Suvi-Anne Siimes. An extraordinary congress elected a radical labor leader as the new chairperson, alienating some party leaders and leading to the r [...]	2006-05-26 10:25:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV FI
06HELSINKI63	FINLAND'S PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: SUDDENLY, IT'S A [...] (SBU) Summary: Incumbent Tarja Halonen made an impressive showing in the first round of Finland's presidential election, besting her nearest rival, Conservative Sauli Niinisto, by more than 21 percentage points. However, Halonen was unable to secure a first round victory and, for the first ti [...]	2006-01-25 13:31:00	Embassy Helsinki	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL FI
06HELSINKI733	TFLEO1: AMBASSADOR DISCUSSES LEBANON CRISIS WITH [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador Ware met with Finland's Foreign Minister, Erkki Tuomioja, on July 31. Tuomioja said that his just-completed trip to the Middle-east confirmed his view that Israel could not achieve its military goals, and that an immediate cease-fire followed by a comprehensive settl [...]	2006-07-31 15:45:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM MEPP EUN FI
06HELSINKI786	FINLAND: VIEWS ON UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL SPECIAL [...] (SBU) Poloff spoke with Johanna Suurpaa, Director of the MFA's Human Rights Unit, about the proposed Special Session of the Human Rights Council (HRC) on Lebanon. Poloff emphasized that at this critical point in the Lebanon crisis (reftel),any HRC Special Session would be an unhelpful dist [...]	2006-08-09 12:57:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PHUM PREL PTER IS LE FI
06HELSINKI854	FINNS TELL SYRIA TO HONOR UNSCR 1701; SYRIANS [...] (C) SUMMARY: On Aug. 23 in Helsinki, Finnish FM Tuomioja told Syrian FM Al-Moallem that the EU expected the Government of Syria (GOS) to support the ceasefire in Lebanon and wider peace in the Middle East by respecting all provisions of UNSCR 1701; by honoring the arms embargo in Lebanon; and b [...]	2006-08-24 13:50:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS PGOV MARR FI SY LE
06HELSINKI903	GYMNICH [...] (SBU) Summary: EU Foreign Ministers held informal consultations in Finland Sept. 1-2, focusing on the Middle East, Iran and Russia. In response to a press report that alleged an EU Presidency call for increased contacts with Hamas, Finnish FM Tuomioja and others made several very strong state [...]	2006-09-08 06:26:00	Embassy Helsinki	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PARM FI IR IS RU EU
06HOCHIMINHCITY1056	AUGUST 14-16 VISIT OF AMBASSADOR HANFORD TO HCMC: MEETINGS [...] (C) Summary: Protestant leaders representing the GVN-recognized Southern Evangelical Church of Vietnam (SECV) and unregistered house church groups told Ambassador Hanford that they see continuing improvement in religious freedom conditions, even in the Northwest Highlands. Some complained of [...]	2006-09-15 10:58:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL KIRF PINR VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY1145	ERO PROTESTS AMBASSADOR'S REMARKS [...] (SBU) On October 6, the Deputy Chief of the Consular Section of the HCMC External Relations Office -- one of our most reliable contacts in the office - called in PolOff to protest the Ambassador's interview with Radio Free Asia on October 2. He told us that the GVN is "upset" that the Ambassado [...]	2006-10-06 07:25:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY1185	SEPARATISM AND RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN THE CENTRAL HIGHLANDS [...] (SBU) Summary: During an October 10-12 visit to the province of Gia Lai, officials told us that U.S.-based activists continue to foment separatism in the Central Highlands and flight to Cambodia. Officials are concerned about what they believe are new efforts to organize anti-GVN activities b [...]	2006-10-17 09:10:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREF SOCI PREL KIRF PGOV VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY1186	MONITORING VISIT TO ETHNIC MINORITY RETURNEES AND VISAS-93 [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: During a visit to the Central Highlands province of Gia Lai from October 10-12, PolOff, accompanied by the French Polcouns, met with 10 ethnic minority returnees and the families of two others in their homes. No government officials participated in our visits with r [...]	2006-10-17 10:55:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREF SOCI PREL KIRF PGOV VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY1236	GVN REACTS TO CROSS BORDER MIGRATION TO CAMBODIA [...] (SBU) During an October 27 meeting to review the results of our recent refugee monitoring visit to the Central Highlands (reftel),our counterparts in the HCMC External Relations Office told PolOff that they were instructed to express GVN concern over the continued outflow of ethnic minority in [...]	2006-10-27 10:22:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREF SOCI PREL KIRF PGOV VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY1391	HONG KONG CARDINAL VISITS HCMC [...] (SBU) On December 13, PolOff met with the Vicar General of the HCMC Archdiocese to discuss the December 3 visit of the Bishop of Hong Kong, Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze Kiun, to Ho Chi Minh City. This was the first visit of Cardinal Zen to Vietnam since his investiture in February 2006 and only his [...]	2006-12-13 11:11:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF PREF VM CH HK
06HOCHIMINHCITY1483	HCMC REFUSES TO DISCUSS OR TO PROVIDE ACCESS TO ACTIVIST [...] (U) This is an action request: Please see Paragraph 6. 2. (SBU) On December 5, PolOff met with working-level HCMC External Relations officials to discuss the case of Bui Kim Thanh, a HCMC-based land rights activist involuntarily committed to the national mental hospital in neighboring Dong [...]	2006-12-22 09:59:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PGOV KIRF PREF VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY1485	HUMAN RIGHTS CASE OF DOAN VAN DIEN AND DOAN HUY CHUONG [...] (C) Summary. Following up on reftel reports of a series of dissident arrests prior to the APEC Leaders' Summit, ConGen was able to confirm the detention of Doan Van Dien and Doan Huy Chuong -- father and son -- in HCMC. They appear to have been targeted for their peaceful political and socia [...]	2006-12-26 03:56:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PINR PHUM SOCI KIRF PGOV PREL VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY18	VISIT TO ETHNIC MINORITY MINORITY RETURNEES IN DAK LAK [...] (SBU) Summary: During a January 4-5 visit to the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak, PolOff met with four ethnic Jarai voluntary returnees from Cambodia and the family of a fifth. Government officials reported -- and other returnees confirmed -- that a sixth returnee was killed in a late De [...]	2006-01-06 11:23:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREF PREL PHUM KIRF SOCI EAID VM ETMIN HUMANR RELFREE
06HOCHIMINHCITY230	VIETNAM CENTRAL HIGHLANDS: ETHNIC MINORITY ISSUES IN DAK [...] (SBU) Summary: EAP/MLS Desk Officer and Poloff visited Dak Nong February 24-26. Officials emphasized their commitment to religious freedom and economic and social development of the large ethnic minority community. Leaders of the GVN-recognized Southern Evangelical Church of Vietnam (SECV) a [...]	2006-03-03 11:12:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM PREF KIRF SOCI EAID VM ETMIN HUMANR RELFREE
06HOCHIMINHCITY29	DAK LAK: ENCOURAGING SIGNS ON RELIGIOUS FREEDOM [...] (SBU) Summary: The atmosphere for religious freedom in the hitherto intransigent Central Highlands province of Dak Lak appeared much improved during a ConGen visit in early January. In contrast to past visits, provincial officials told us that they now are prepared to implement Vietnam's legal [...]	2006-01-10 02:59:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KIRF SOCI PHUM VM RELFREE HUMANR ETMIN
06HOCHIMINHCITY395	NEW INTERVIEWS WITH VISAS-93 APPLICANTS SHOW GRADUAL [...] (SBU) Summary. In March, ConGen conducted private interviews with 12 VISAS-93 (family reunification) Central Highlands ethnic minority beneficiary families in HCMC. These interviews show that conditions for ethnic minority families -- including religious freedom -- continue to improve gradual [...]	2006-04-18 10:02:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM SOCI PREL PREF PGOV VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY437	HCMC POLICE DISCUSS RECENT TIP RING BUST [...] (SBU) Summary: On April 18, PolOffs met with HCMC Ministry of Public Security officials to review details of a late March police sweep against an international Trafficking in Persons ring that operated in HCMC and the Mekong Delta. Police confirmed that 39 young women from southern Vietnam res [...]	2006-04-25 12:56:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL CVIS KWMN TIP ELAB SMIG SOCI TW VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY466	EASTER AND THE PROTESTANT COMMUNITY IN SOUTHERN AND CENTRAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Protestant Easter celebrations generally were peaceful throughout Central and Southern Vietnam, including in the Central Highlands. Unregistered house churches were told to apply for permission to hold Easter services, but largely were not prevented from celebrating the holida [...]	2006-05-05 11:12:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL PGOV KIRF VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY491	HUMAN RIGHTS OFFICERS VISIT TWO VIETNAMESE PRISONS [...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: As a follow-up to USG requests made at the February 2006 Human Rights Dialogue in Hanoi, on May 9 and 10, HCMC and Hanoi PolOffs visited two prisons in southern Vietnam; An Phuoc and Z30A. We had requested access to the Z30A, which reportedly also housed a number of [...]	2006-05-11 10:10:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL SOCI PGOV VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY72	PROBLEMS WITH RETURNEE TREATMENT IN KONTUM PROVINCE [...] (C) Summary: The visit of a joint Hanoi/HCMC team to Kontum Province's Sa Thay district revealed problems with treatment of at least some ethnic minority returnees from Cambodia. Although we were promised free access to returnees and their families in their homes, in practice the plainclothes [...]	2006-01-20 06:50:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM SOCI ECON KIRF PREF CB VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY732	THICH QUANG DO COMES TO DINNER [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Venerable Thich Quang Do, President of the banned Unified Buddhist Church of Vietnam, attended a small dinner hosted by the Consul General July 10 -- despite the monk's ongoing pagoda arrest. He welcomed the opportunity to talk at length about the need for political change i [...]	2006-07-12 12:40:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PINR SOCI PREL KIRF PGOV VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY740	DAKLAK: INVESTIGATING MINORITY ABUSE CHARGES [...] (SBU) On July 7, CG and Poloff visited the ethnic minority hamlet of Buon Cuor Knia in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak. The purpose of the visit was to assess allegations made by Human Rights Watch and the Montagnard Human Rights Organization that at least two ethnic minority individ [...]	2006-07-13 08:22:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREF PREL KIRF VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY741	DAK LAK: GRADUAL PROGRESS ON RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND FAMILY [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-13 08:54:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL KIRF PTER PGOV VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY82	VIETNAM'S ISLAMIC COMMUNITY [...] (SBU) Summary: Southern and central Vietnam's 30,000- to 50,000-member Sunni Muslim community does not appear to face significant restrictions in its ability to worship. Unlike Vietnam's five other recognized religious organizations, the Muslim community does not have a national leadership to [...]	2006-01-24 03:24:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM KISL KIRF PGOV SOCI PREL SA CB LY EG VM ETMIN RELFREE
06HOCHIMINHCITY917	POLICE BRUTALITY RISING; CENTRAL HIGHLANDS DEATH CONFIRMED [...] (C) On August 7, the Montagnard Foundation issued a press release from the United States reporting that an ethnic minority individual, Y Ngo Adrong, was tortured to death while in police custody in Ea H'leo district of Dak Lak province in the Central Highlands. Two ConGen contacts from the pro [...]	2006-08-17 07:28:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREF KIRF VM
06HOCHIMINHCITY972	HCMC ARCHDIOCESE ENCOUNTERS RESISTANCE AS IT TRIES TO EXPAND [...] (SBU) On August 28, HCMC CDCRep and PolOff met with Father John Dinh Toai, head of the HCMC Catholic Archdiocese "Pastoral Care" HIV/AIDS network to review the status of cooperation with local authorities. Toai told us that the church is able to conduct its HIV/AIDS activities with the tacit, [...]	2006-08-29 05:45:00	Consulate Ho Chi Minh City	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL SNAR SOCI ELAB ECON VM
06HONGKOG2054	MNUSCRIPT OF ZHAO ZIYANG CONVERSATIONS LEAKED TO [...] (C) Summary: On May 15, Liu Baopu, the son of Zhao Ziyang's aide Bao Tong, discussed with poloff the recent controversy over a leaked manuscript about Zhao written by Zong Fengming, Zhao's qigong meditation coach. Zong, 86, recently complained to the media that portions of his manuscript, ba [...]	2006-05-18 03:29:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH
06HONGKONG1072	ARTICLE 45 CONCERN GROUP FORMS HONG KONG'S NEWEST [...] (C) Summary: On March 19, Hong Kong's Article 45 Concern Group plans to announce the formal inauguration of its new political party, the "Civic Party," with Article 45 co-founder and Legislative Councilor Audrey Eu as the party's first parliamentary leader. Two independent democrats in the L [...]	2006-03-15 09:26:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL CH HK
06HONGKONG1284	NPC DELEGATES DISCUSS HONG KONG'S ROLE IN CHINA [...] (C) Summary: During a March 24 lunch with the Consul General, seven Hong Kong delegates to the PRC National People's Congress (NPC) and/or the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) discussed the role of Hong Kong in the PRC's Eleventh Five-Year Plan. Several delegates sa [...]	2006-03-27 09:56:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CH HK
06HONGKONG1362	CARDINAL ZEN OPTIMISTIC ON SINO-VATICAN RELATIONS; [...] (C) Summary: On March 30, newly appointed Cardinal Joseph Zen Ze-kiun said he was optimistic about the restoration of ties between the Holy See and Beijing. According to Zen, the Pope had made clear that he wanted to visit the mainland. During a special Vatican ceremony for the new cardinals o [...]	2006-03-31 10:27:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH
06HONGKONG1656	UPDATE ON COVERT SURVEILLANCE AND WIRETAPPING [...] (C) Summary: As committee debate continues in the Legislative Council (Legco) on the Government's bill to regulate covert surveillance and wiretapping, critics of the legislation say they want to amend several troubling aspects of the legislation. Two prominent legal groups recently issued re [...]	2006-04-20 09:11:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL HK CH PINR MC
06HONGKONG1744	CIVIC PARTY: SEEKING FUNDS AND SUPPORT [...] (C) Summary: More than one month after its inauguration as Hong Kong's newest political party, the Civic Party (CP) continues to promote itself and its platform to the public and to seek financial support for its activities. On April 22, CP Chairman Kuan Hsin-chi and party leader Audrey Eu mi [...]	2006-04-26 10:05:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH
06HONGKONG1816	BEIJING BASIC LAW "GUARDIANS" SET CONDITIONS FOR [...] (C) Summary: On April 27, the Hong Kong press reported comments by PRC members of the Hong Kong Basic Law Committee at a Beijing forum. Basic Law drafter Xu Chongde challenged the value and usefulness of democracy, while recently appointed Hong Kong Basic Law Committee member and Tsinghua Uni [...]	2006-05-02 09:45:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL CH HK
06HONGKONG1817	CHINA ORDAINS BISHOP AGAINST VATICAN'S WISHES, [...] (C) Summary: On April 30, the Catholic Diocese of Kunming ordained a new bishop at a ceremony organized by the government-sanctioned Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association (CCPA) and ignored appeals from the Holy See to postpone the ordination ceremony of Father Ma Yinglin, who had not been ap [...]	2006-05-02 10:06:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH VT
06HONGKONG1818	ILLEGAL WORKERS PROMPT MAY DAY PROTESTS IN MACAU [...] (C) Summary: On May 1, an estimated 1,500-2,000 Macau residents participated in anti-immigrant labor demonstrations that turned violent, resulting in four arrests and injuries to 25 police officers. The main theme of the march was "drive out illegal workers, cut imported labor." Many of the [...]	2006-05-02 10:08:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ELAB SOCI CH HK MC
06HONGKONG1861	HONG KONG TRANSITION PROJECT POLL FINDS SUPPORT [...] (SBU) During a May 3 press conference, Researcher Michael DeGolyer announced the results of a poll conducted by the Hong Kong Transition Project and commissioned by the National Democratic Institute (NDI),a U.S. NGO. The poll, &Parties, Policies and Political Reform in Hong Kong,8 was conduct [...]	2006-05-04 10:21:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH
06HONGKONG1862	FORMER JUSTICE SECRETARY ELSIE LEUNG TO LEAD [...] (C) Summary: On May 7-18, former Hong Kong Secretary for Justice Elsie Leung, will lead a "Better Hong Kong Foundation" (BHKF) delegation to the U.S. to explain implementation of the "One Country, Two Systems" principle in Hong Kong since the 1997 handover to the PRC, as well as other politic [...]	2006-05-04 10:55:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL CH HK
06HONGKONG1863	ARTICLE 23 NATIONAL SECURITY DEBATE REAPPEARS IN [...] (C) Summary: On April 27, Professor Wang Zhenmin, a PRC member of the Hong Kong Basic Law Committee, publicly listed six prerequisites for implementation of universal suffrage in Hong Kong, one of which was enactment of Article 23 national security legislation (ref a). Reaction in Hong Kong t [...]	2006-05-04 11:25:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV CH HK
06HONGKONG1941	HONG KONG PRIVACY COMMISSION TO INVESTIGATE [...] (C) Summary: On May 2, Hong Kong's Privacy Commissioner confirmed to poloff that the Commission was investigating whether information provided by Yahoo! regarding mainland journalist Shi Tao, had violated the territory's Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance. Although Shi is not a Hong Kong resi [...]	2006-05-10 09:37:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH
06HONGKONG1957	HONG KONG LEGCO PASSES MINIMAL ELECTION BILL [...] (C) Summary: On May 10, the Hong Kong Legislative Council (Legco) passed legislation providing minimal, technical changes to election procedures for the 2007 Chief Executive (CE) election and the 2008 Legco election. The bill was passed with 31 votes in favor and 21 opposed, with one abstent [...]	2006-05-11 09:48:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL CH HK
06HONGKONG2054	MANUSCRIPT OF ZHAO ZIYANG CONVERSATIONS LEAKED TO [...] (C) Summary: On May 15, Liu Baopu, the son of Zhao Ziyang's aide Bao Tong, discussed with poloff the recent controversy over a leaked manuscript about Zhao written by Zong Fengming, Zhao's qigong meditation coach. Zong, 86, recently complained to the media that portions of his manuscript, ba [...]	2006-05-18 03:29:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH
06HONGKONG2210	WATCH THIS SPACE: ANSON CHAN AND THE ELECTION OF [...] (C) Summary: On May 25, in her first public speech in more than three months, former Chief Secretary Anson Chan told a media awards dinner that at this time she was "not willing to disclose" her future plans regarding the 2007 Chief Executive election; instead, she instructed the press to "ju [...]	2006-05-26 09:46:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR CH HK
06HONGKONG2239	VICTORY FOR DONALD TSANG: LEGCO SUBCOMMITTEE [...] (C) Summary: On May 29, the Legislative Council (Legco) Public Works Subcommittee voted in favor of the Hong Kong Government's long-contested HKD 5.1 billion (USD 660 million) proposal to construct a new Government headquarters complex at the Tamar waterfront site. If, as expected, the Legco [...]	2006-05-30 10:04:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR CH HK
06HONGKONG2452	CHING CHEONG DETENTION: HONG KONG JOURNALIST [...] (C) On August 5, 2005, the PRC issued formal charges of espionage against "Straits Times" journalist Ching Cheong. On June 12, 2006, Johnny Lau, a former colleague of Ching's and a veteran China analyst, told poloff that since then there has been no satisfactory progress on Ching's case (i.e. [...]	2006-06-13 09:51:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	CH HK PGOV PHUM PINR PREL
06HONGKONG2513	DEMOCRATIC PARTY RESISTS REVEALING MEMBERSHIP [...] (C) Summary: The Democratic Party (DP) is the only one of Hong Kong's four largest political parties which has failed to comply with a long-existing but only recently publicized legal requirement to release its membership roster. While the DP initially announced that it would publish its list [...]	2006-06-16 08:40:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL PINR CH HK
06HONGKONG2587	CPPCC CHAIRMAN JIA QINGLIN VISIT TO HONG KONG: [...] (C) Summary: Chairman Jia Qinglin of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) will visit Hong Kong June 27-29 to attend the "Mainland, Hong Kong and Macau Trade and Economic Cooperation Forum," which will mark the third anniversary of the signing of the Hong Kong-PRC Clos [...]	2006-06-22 09:42:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PINR CH HK

06HONGKONG2638	ANSON CHAN JOINS WITH DEMOCRATS IN URGING PUBLIC [...] (C) Summary: On July 25, former Chief Secretary Anson Chan announced that she would join the July 1 pro-democracy march and urged Hong Kongers to turn out for the rally. Appearing in a joint press conference with fourteen democratic legislators, Chan denied that her decision to participate in [...]	2006-06-26 10:09:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH
06HONGKONG2908	HONG KONG CONTACTS DISCUSS THE MEANING OF "WEI [...] (C) Summary: According to Consulate contacts, the Chinese term "wei quan" is being used with increasing frequency to describe a broad range of protests occurring in China, as well as the work of a group of mainland lawyers and citizens/activists involved in these protests. While there is no d [...]	2006-07-17 09:36:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH
06HONGKONG2949	NO ADDITIONAL ILLICIT BISHOP ORDINATIONS PREDICTED [...] (C) Summary. On July 18, Monsignor Eugene Nugent, the papal representative in Hong Kong, told poloff that he did not expect any illicit Chinese bishop ordinations in the coming weeks and predicted a quiet summer. The Pope, said Nugent, at Cardinal Joseph Zen's suggestion and urging, hoped to [...]	2006-07-19 08:44:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL CH HK VT
06HONGKONG2966	FORMER SECRETARY FOR SECURITY REGINA IP RETURNS TO [...] (C) Summary: On July 18, following a well-choreographed return to Hong Kong, former Secretary for Security Regina Ip launched the Savantas Policy Institute, a think tank which will focus on how to transform Hong Kong into a knowledge-based economy and develop the city into the mainland's platf [...]	2006-07-20 10:17:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH
06HONGKONG2981	MACAU ECONOMIC GROWTH ACCELERATING [...] (C) Summary: Macau's economy is again picking up steam as GDP growth surged 18.8 percent in the first quarter of 2006. Growth is being driven largely by the booming tourism and gaming sectors, and by massive investment in a number of large-scale casino and infrastructure projects. Tax receipt [...]	2006-07-21 10:47:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM PREL HK CH PINR MC
06HONGKONG3120	HONG KONG NEWSPAPERS REPORT POSSIBLE LEADERSHIP [...] (SBU) ON AUGUST 2, THE "ORIENTAL DAILY" AND ITS SISTER PUBLICATION "THE SUN" REPORTED THAT GAO SIREN, DIRECTOR OF THE CENTRAL GOVERNMENT LIAISON OFFICE (CGLO) IN HONG KONG, WOULD RETIRE BY THE END OF YEAR. GAO, 62, BEGAN WORKING AT THE CGLO IN JANUARY 2000 AS ONE OF EIGHT DEPUTY DIRECTORS, TH [...]	2006-08-02 08:29:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH
06HONGKONG3207	PROMINENT HONG KONG PROTESTANT DISCUSSES [...] (C) Summary and Comment. On July 31, Reverend Chan Kim-kwong, Executive Secretary of the Hong Kong Christian Council (HKCC) told poloff that the issue of Sino-Vatican relations had moved beyond the State Council's purview and was currently being deliberated by the General Office of the Centra [...]	2006-08-09 11:23:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH VT
06HONGKONG3208	PROMINENT HONG KONG PROTESTANT DISCUSSES ELECTIONS [...] (C) SUMMARY. ON JULY 31, REVEREND CHAN KIM-KWONG, EXECUTIVE SECRETARY OF THE HONG KONG CHRISTIAN COUNCIL (HKCC) AND FORMER CHIEF EXECUTIVE (CE) ELECTION COMMITTEE MEMBER, PREDICTED TO POLOFF THAT IN THE UPCOMING CE ELECTION, 26 OF THE 40 VOTES FROM THE RELIGIOUS SUB-SECTOR WOULD GO TO THE CAN [...]	2006-08-09 11:30:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH KCRM SMIG
06HONGKONG3271	HONG KONG JOURNALISTS ASSOCIATION AND LOCAL MEDIA [...] (C) SUMMARY: "STRAITS TIMES" JOURNALIST CHING CHEONG IS SCHEDULED TO APPEAR IN THE BEIJING SECOND INTERMEDIATE PEOPLE'S COURT ON AUGUST 15 FOR A TWO-DAY HEARING, THE INDEPENDENT HONG KONG DAILY "MING PAO" REPORTED AUGUST 14. THE NEWSPAPER SPECULATED THAT THE TRIAL WOULD BE CLOSED TO THE PUBLI [...]	2006-08-14 11:22:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PHUM PGOV PINR PREL HK CH
06HONGKONG3400	DEMARCHE TO MACAU ON TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS [...] (C) On August 15, poloffs delivered Ref demarche on trafficking in persons (TIP) to Deputy Director Patricia Ferreira of Macau's International Law Office. Ferreira reacted positively to the recommendations contained in the nonpaper about how Macau could improve its TIP tier rating and agreed [...]	2006-08-23 10:03:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PHUM PINR PGOV HK CH KCRM KWMN PREL SMIG MC
06HONGKONG3872	ANSON CHAN RULES OUT RUNNING FOR TOP POLITICAL [...] (C) Summary: In a move undoubtedly welcomed in Beijing, former Hong Kong Chief Secretary Anson Chan announced on September 23 that she would not contest the 2007 Chief Executive (CE) election, removing the most serious complication for incumbent CE Donald Tsang's reelection bid. Chan told the [...]	2006-09-27 09:45:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH
06HONGKONG3970	G/SENK VISIT TO HONG KONG AND MACAU [...] (C) Summary: Christian Whiton, Senior Advisor to Special Envoy for Human Rights in North Korea Jay Lefkowitz (G/SENK),during a September 29-30 visit briefed Hong Kong Legislative Council members and NGO representatives on United States policies toward North Korean refugees and the implication [...]	2006-10-06 03:55:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PHUM PGOV HK CH MC KN
06HONGKONG4535	MFA COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE PROTESTS U.S.-CHINA [...] (C) Deputy Director General of the MFA Commissioner's Office Kuang Rongjian called Poloff (in the absence of the Economic/Political Chief) on November 21 to convey PRC "opposition" to statements pertaining to Hong Kong as detailed in the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission's 200 [...]	2006-11-22 08:48:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH
06HONGKONG4610	CHINA ORDAINS THIRD "ILLICIT" BISHOP OF THE YEAR; [...] (C) Summary: Monsignor Eugene Nugent, the papal representative in Hong Kong, told us on December 1 that the installation of Wang Renlei, the Vicar General of the Xuzhou Diocese in Jiangsu Province, as the auxiliary bishop of the diocese was "quite worrying" and "provocative." The participati [...]	2006-12-01 11:15:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH VT
06HONGKONG4666	UNOFFICIAL MARCH 25 REFERENDUM TO ASSESS VIEWS ON [...] (C) Summary: Former legislator Cyd Ho, Co-Convenor of "Project Civil Referendum", recently discussed her plans for a large-scale unofficial referendum in Hong Kong on March 25, 2007 -- the same day as the Chief Executive (CE) election by the 800-member CE Election Committee. Ho and the other [...]	2006-12-07 03:01:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH
06HONGKONG4884	MAINLAND "HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDERS" GATHER IN HONG [...] (C) Summary: Nine mainland activists gathered in Hong Kong to network and share experiences regarding their weiquan ("rights protection") activities during a two-day conference. Amnesty's original intent in bringing these activists to Hong Kong was to provide them with a safe place outside of [...]	2006-12-29 09:10:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM PINR PREL HK CH
06HONGKONG686	HONG KONG NEWSPAPERS REPORT A READJUSTMENT OF [...] (C) Summary and Comment: The "Oriental Daily" and its sister publication "The Sun" reported on February 17 that during a January 6 Politburo Standing Committee meeting, members reviewed and readjusted policy towards Hong Kong. Beijing concluded that the failure of the reform package last Decem [...]	2006-02-17 10:44:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL HK CH PINR PHUM
06HONGKONG755	BISHOP ZEN ELEVATED TO CARDINAL [...] (C) Summary and Comment: On February 22, Pope Benedict XVI named 15 new cardinals, among them Bishop Joseph Zen Ze-kiun, head of the Hong Kong Catholic Diocese, and an outspoken defender of religious freedom on the mainland as well as a leading figure in the democracy movement in Hong Kong. Ze [...]	2006-02-23 12:22:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL	CH HK PGOV PHUM PINR PREL VT
06HONGKONG817	2006 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT: HONG KONG [...] (SBU) Hong Kong is in compliance with the standards described in Ref A for the elimination of trafficking in persons. There has been further improvement over the past year in those areas that have, for the past five years, justified Hong Kong's inclusion on the Department's "Tier 1" list. Th [...]	2006-02-28 06:23:00	Consulate Hong Kong	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PINR PGOV HK CH KCRM KWMN SMIG KFRD
06HONGKONG818	2006 TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS REPORT: MACAU [...] (SBU) Macau, a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the People's Republic of China (PRC),is not a source of trafficked persons, but it is a destination and transit point for illegal immigration and prostitution. There are no good estimates of how many of these illegal migrants and prostitu [...]	2006-02-28 06:53:00	Consulate Hong Kong	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PINR PGOV HK CH KCRM KWMN SMIG KFRD
06HONGKONG943	BEIJING LEADERS, YET AGAIN, REAFFIRM SUPPORT FOR [...] (C) Summary: On March 6, Chief Executive (CE) Donald Tsang concluded a five-day trip to Beijing to attend the fourth session of the 10th National People's Congress (NPC) in Beijing -- his first time as CE. In recent weeks, Tsang has been dogged by speculation, prompted by dissatisfaction among [...]	2006-03-07 11:59:00	Consulate Hong Kong	CONFIDENTIAL	CH HK PGOV PHUM PINR PREL
06ISLAMABAD10237	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UNGA AIDS DECLARATION [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-02 11:49:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PK PREL UNGA KHIV
06ISLAMABAD10554	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON NAM STATEMENT ON IRAN [...] (C) On June 3, Poloff delivered reftel demarache points to the Ministry of Foreign Affair's UN Director, Imran Siddiqui. Siddiqui explained that for many delegations the preoccuption with the potential use of force against Iran drove the NAM's statement in support of Iran. Siddiqui said that [...]	2006-06-06 12:30:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL AORC IAEA KNNP UNSC IR PK
06ISLAMABAD10555	PAKISTAN OBJECTION TO NAM STATEMENT ON AFGHANISTAN [...] (C) On June 3 Poloff meet with Ministry of Foreign Affairs UN Director, Imran Siddiqui. After delivering demarche points on the NAM's statement on Iran (reftel B),Poloff asked Siddiqui to explain why the Pakistani delegation objected to a paragraph in the final document at the NAM's Minister [...]	2006-06-06 12:30:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	AF PK IN PREL
06ISLAMABAD10740	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: DECLARATION ON THE RIGHTS OF [...] (C) On June 7, 2006, poloff joined Australian Deputy High Commissioner Jason Robertson in delivering demarche points and non-papers (Ref A) on the Chair's text of the Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples to MFA Director General (UN) Tasneem Aslam. (Note: Both the Australian High [...]	2006-06-07 12:46:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PHUM PREL UN PK
06ISLAMABAD11103	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: FISSILE MATERIAL CUTOFF TREATY [...] (C) On June 12, poloff delivered ref A points to MFA Director (Disarmament Cell) Mohammad Kamran Akhtar, stressing the U.S. desire to avoid "linkages" in fissile Material Cutoff Treaty (FMCT) negotiations at the Conference on Disarmament (CD). Akhtar responded that the Government of Pakist [...]	2006-06-13 04:31:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PK PREL PARM MNUC KNNP CDG
06ISLAMABAD11148	GOP READY TO RECEIVE BTIF DETAINEES [...] (C) At the June 6 Tripartite Commission meetings in Rawalpindi, GOP MFA Afghanistan Director, Aamir Shouket, told Poloff that he spoke with the Pakistani Ambassador to Kabul regarding the transfer of the four Pakistani detainees at Bagram Theater Internment Facility (BTIF). The Ambassador h [...]	2006-06-13 12:44:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PK PREL PTER
06ISLAMABAD11267	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [...] (C) On June 14, poloff delivered Ref A points on the Human Rights Council (HRC) to MFA (UN) Director Shafqat Ali Khan. Khan responded by saying that the Government of Pakistan (GOP) also wants the HRC to get off to a strong start. To that end, the GOP agrees that this initial session of t [...]	2006-06-15 03:41:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PK PREL UN PHUM
06ISLAMABAD11546	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: OIC MINISTERIAL IN BAKU [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-19 11:06:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	IR PK PREL
06ISLAMABAD12211	AFGHAN AMBASSADOR ON FM SPANTA'S JUNE 23 VISIT TO [...] (C) Summary and Introduction: On June 25, Afghan Ambassador Tarzi offered poloff a read-out of foreign Minister Spanta's June 23 visit to Pakistan, his first bilateral foreign travel since assuming office. While in Islamabad, Spanta was received by President Musharraf, Prime Minister Aziz [...]	2006-06-27 06:37:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PK PREL AF IN
06ISLAMABAD12265	CONSENSUS ON ELECTION AND RECONCILIATION BEGINS [...] (C) Summary. The visit of elections expert Andrew Raucci provided a rare opportunity for a frank dinner discussion between senior representatives from most of Pakistan's key political parties: PML, PPP, PML-N/ARD, MQM and ANP. Raucci's comment about the critical need for credibility in the el [...]	2006-06-27 11:17:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PK PREL PGOV
06ISLAMABAD12319	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: BIOSAFETY AND PATHOGEN [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-29 07:16:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	PK PREL PTER TBIO
06ISLAMABAD12389	FATA: TALKS AND TRUCES ON THE TABLE IN NORTH [...] (C) Summary. Militants in North Waziristan on June 25 offered a one-month "cease-fire" on their deadly attacks on security forces and pro-government elders, if the Government of Pakistan (GOP) acquiesces on five demands. North Waziristan tribal elders re-iterated these demands during a June 27 [...]	2006-06-30 02:25:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PK PREL PGOV
06ISLAMABAD12688	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: G-77 AND UN MANAGEMENT REFORM [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-05 13:28:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	PK PREL PGOV
06ISLAMABAD12689	PAKISTAN MANPADS COLLECTION PROGRAM: JULY 3 FIELD [...] (U) This cable contains an action request: please see paragraph 5. 2. (S) On July 3, 2006, poloff and PM/WRA Kabul-based EOD contractor Drew Prater flew to Quetta, Balochistan to assist Government of Pakistan (GOP) Ministry of Interior (MOI) program manager COL Abbas and field manager [...]	2006-07-05 13:34:00	Embassy Islamabad	SECRET	PK PREL PGOV MASS
06ISLAMABAD12829	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: GUANTANAMO ADMINISTRATIVE [...] (C) On July 6, Poloff delivered reftel points to the MFA Director for Americas, Diyar Khan. Khan recognized the name of the Pakistani detainee (RABBANI, ABDUL AL-RAHIM GHULAM, US9PK-001460DP) and said that Rabbani has been identified as a Pakistani national. Khan took note of the thirty day [...]	2006-07-07 05:45:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PK PREL PTER
06ISLAMABAD13344	WOMEN'S RIGHTS: ONE STEP FORWARD, MORE IN THE [...] (C/NF) Summary. Minister of Women's Development Sumaira Malik's campaign to improve the state of women's rights in Pakistan won its second battle on June 8, when President Musharraf signed an Ordinance into law that will release nearly 1300 women from prison. The Ordinance orders women current [...]	2006-07-12 09:39:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PK PREL PGOV
06ISLAMABAD13677	JIRGA CALLED TO NEGOTIATE PEACE IN WAZIRISTAN [...] (C) Summary. NWFP Governor Jan Mohammad Orakzai on July 16 announced the convening of a 45 member grand jirga to bring peace to Waziristan (and FATA at-large). The jirga of FATA notables--comprised of MNAs, Senators and mostly JUI-F local politicians from 6 of the 7 agencies--will be tasked wi [...]	2006-07-18 02:05:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PK PREL PGOV
06ISLAMABAD14096	EMBASSY ASSESSMENT OF SUNDAY TIMES JUD TRAFFICKING [...] (SBU) Summary: On May 21, London,s Sunday Times published a story written by Marie Colvin that detailed a slavery ring run by a member of a USG designated terrorist organization, Jamaat-ud-Daawa (JuD). The story follows a Pakistani Christian named 'Amir', whose real name is Pervaiz Yaqoob (pl [...]	2006-07-21 14:18:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC PTER PHUM PK KCRM KWMN SMIG ELAB KFRD
06ISLAMABAD14190	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON P5+1 INCENTIVE PACKAGE FOR [...] (C) On July 21, Poloff delivered ref A demarche points to the MFA Acting-Director for Americas, Abdul Hameed. Hameed accepted demarche points and said he would forward them to the appropriate parties. On July 22, Poloff followed up with MFA Director for Disarmament, Wasim Ashraf. Ashraf sa [...]	2006-07-24 10:09:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP PARM PREL IR EU AORC PK
06ISLAMABAD14910	REQUEST FOR INFORMATION ON UPCOMING GOP VISIT TO [...] (U) This is an action request; see paragraph 3. 2. (C) On July 31, Poloff met with MOI LtCol Imran Yaqoob, who said that only two GOP officials plan to travel to Guantanamo to visit detainees of Pakistani nationality -- himself and MOI Operations Officer, Major Khalid Mahmood Khan. Yaq [...]	2006-08-02 02:32:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	KAWC PHUM PINR PK PREL PTER
06ISLAMABAD15302	CONFIRMATION OF GOP VISIT TO GTMO [...] (S) On August 4, poloff delivered Ref A points in separate meetings with National Crisis Management Center (NCMC) Operations Director LTC Imran Yaqoob and MFA (Americas) Hameed Abdul. 2. (S) LTC Imran said that poloff's points track with the Government of Pakistan's (GOP) understanding [...]	2006-08-04 11:50:00	Embassy Islamabad	SECRET//NOFORN	PK PREL PTER PHUM PINR KAWC
06ISLAMABAD15567	POST CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR TRAVEL TO KARACHI AND [...] Embassy requests post clearance for Poloff C. Gordon Bonin to travel to Karachi and onward to Quetta for a series of meetings with Balochistan political figures. This will be a continuation of a visit to Balochistan with Ambassador Crocker. Itinerary is as follows: 2 August 11 -- arrive in [...]	2006-08-07 13:17:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT ASEC SNAR OTRA PK
06ISLAMABAD16302	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: SOLITICITING UNIFIL [...] (U) This cable contains an action request; please see para. 5. 2. (C) On August 18, poloff presented reftel points to MFA (UN) Director Haider Shah. Poloff also asked about the accuracy of August 18 reports in the Pakistani press quoting Foreign Minister Kasuri, traveling in the Middle [...]	2006-08-18 11:56:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	IS LE MARR MOPS PK PREL UN
06ISLAMABAD16434	POST CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR STAFFDEL SANOK VISIT TO [...] Embassy requests post clearance for Staffdel Sanok, Poloff Gordon Bonin, ODRP Major Benjamin Janes, ODRP Colonel Ronald Huther and FPD Greg Carter to visit Pakistan Air Force Mushaf Airbase, Sargodha, Punjab, on August 26. Travel to/from Mushaf Airbase is to be provided by PAF. No assistance [...]	2006-08-22 04:33:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT ASEC SNAR OTRA PK
06ISLAMABAD16721	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON INTERNATIONAL LAW COMMISSION [...] (U) On August 23, poloff delivered reftel demarche and diplomatic note to Ministry of Foreign Affairs (UN-I) Director Haider Shah. Shah said that, in recent weeks, the MFA's missions around the world had received requests from other countries for support of their candidates to the Internation [...]	2006-08-24 01:58:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	UNGA PK
06ISLAMABAD16956	HUDOOD AMENDMENTS MOVED TO COMMITTEE AS ASSEMBLY [...] (C) Summary and Introduction: After a initial failure to convene a quorum on August 18, the Pakistan Muslim League-led (PML) government of Prime Minster Shaukat Aziz introduced a bill during the August 21 National Assembly session proposing amendments to the Hudood Ordinance, the draconian 19 [...]	2006-08-28 13:20:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PK PGOV KWMN KDEM PHUM
06ISLAMABAD16962	BALOCHISTAN (2): THE GRIEVANCES [...] (C) Summary. While the Government of Pakistan (GOP) undertakes projects to develop Balochistan, in part to turn the province into a transit point linking Pakistan to western Afghanistan and the Central Asian states, it faces a distrustful and resentful provincial population. This wariness and [...]	2006-08-29 04:03:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PK PREL PGOV KTER PINR
06ISLAMABAD17255	DEATH OF NAWAB BUGTI CONTINUES TO ROIL THE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Protests over the government's killing of Baloch leader Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti continued into the third day, August 29. Demonstrations, road blockages, riots and even several bombings appear to have been in reaction to the Nawab's death. The apparent inability of the government t [...]	2006-08-30 13:10:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PK PREL PGOV KTER
06ISLAMABAD17256	NO CONFIDENCE VOTE ON PM AZIZ FAILS [...] (C) Summary: The government easily defeated an August 29 no-confidence vote against Prime Minster Shaukat Aziz. Opposition leaders admitted they tabled the motion knowing it could not pass, but said the vote was intended to stake out a position against the government as an opening move in th [...]	2006-08-30 13:10:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PK
06ISLAMABAD17257	NO CONFIDENCE VOTE ON PM AZIZ FAILS [...] (C) Summary: The government easily defeated an August 29 no-confidence vote against Prime Minster Shaukat Aziz. Opposition leaders admitted they tabled the motion knowing it could not pass, but said the vote was intended to stake out a position against the government as an opening move in th [...]	2006-08-30 13:10:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER PK
06ISLAMABAD17546	BALOCHISTAN (5): THE PASHTUNS -- BALOCHISTAN'S [...] (C) Summary/Introduction: In Balochistan, violent Baloch tribal leaders and vociferous Baloch nationalists grab the headlines, while the Pashtuns interests and issues are buried on the inside pages. Like the Baloch, the Pashtuns share deep-seated anger toward the federal government for Islama [...]	2006-09-04 07:23:00	Embassy Islamabad	SECRET//NOFORN	PK PREL PGOV PTER PINR
06ISLAMABAD17547	BALOCHISTAN (6): THE NATIONALIST INSURGENCY [...] (C) Summary/Introduction: Despite widespread disillusionment with Islamabad, the most recent tribal uprising led by Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti is a localized insurrection, in which the Nawab had rhetorical support from Baloch nationalists, but little concrete backing in the province-at-large. The [...]	2006-09-04 07:31:00	Embassy Islamabad	SECRET//NOFORN	PK PREL PGOV PTER PINR
06ISLAMABAD17548	BALOCHISTAN (7): FINDING A SOLUTION [...] (C) Summary: To bring peace to the restive province of Balochistan, Islamabad must overcome pervasive distrust and skepticism toward the central government and its proposed development projects by ensuring the people of the province -- Baloch and Pashtun alike -- are the first and main benefic [...]	2006-09-04 07:38:00	Embassy Islamabad	SECRET//NOFORN	PK PREL PGOV PTER PINR
06ISLAMABAD17908	DEMARCHE ON NAM SUMMIT DELIVERED [...] (C) Summary: On September 5, poloff delivered reftel demarche to Ministry of Foreign Affairs (UN-I) Director Haider Shah. Poloff and Shah discussed the issues that might be discussed during the NAM summit in Havana: the UN Security Council race between Guatemala and Venezuela, an internationa [...]	2006-09-08 11:53:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNGA PTER PHUM CU PK
06ISLAMABAD18707	LAHORE POST CLEARANCE REQUEST MOHAMMED MOTIWALA [...] Embassy requests post clearance for Poloff, Mohammed Motiwala, for personal travel to Lahore from September 30 to October 1. 2. Mr. Motiwala's itinerary is as follows: Arrive Lahore September 30 at 8:50 am via PK 385 Depart Lahore October 1 at 8:00 pm via PK 388 3. Mr. Motiwala request [...]	2006-09-21 13:10:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT ASEC SNAR OTRA PK
06ISLAMABAD18778	OPTIMISTIC VIEW ON PAK-AFGHAN RELATIONS FROM MFA [...] (C) Summary: The MFA Afghanistan Director told PolOff September 20 that high level engagement between Pakistani and Afghan leaders would continue through the autumn and was, he hoped, becoming institutionalized. The official reported that Presidents Karzai and Musharraf would meet on Septem [...]	2006-09-22 08:32:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	AF EAID PK PREL
06ISLAMABAD18788	GOP REQUEST FOR HELP ON SATELLITE COORDINATION [...] (U) This cable contains an action request; see para 3. 2. (SBU) On September 22, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) Disarmament-Director, Imran Haider, called in Poloff to pass diplomatic note Dismnt-1/9/06 dated September 22, 2006. The Government of Pakistan (GOP) is requesting the Depa [...]	2006-09-22 10:47:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PK FCC ITU ECPS
06ISLAMABAD18997	DEMARCHES DELIVERED ON UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL [...] (SBU) On September 26, poloff delivered ref A and B demarche points to Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Human Rights and Security Council) Assistant-Director Wajit Hashmi. Hashmi said he would take demarche points under advisement and would forward them to his superiors. BODDE [...]	2006-09-27 07:11:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM UN PREL PK
06ISLAMABAD19125	PAKISTAN ELECTIONS (5): MUSHARRAF'S COALITION [...] (C) Summary and introduction: Pervez Musharraf has three options for ensuring a solid political foundation for his moderate and progressive agenda as he prepares for 2007 elections. He can stand by the present Pakistan Muslim League (PML) coalition and leadership; stick with the PML, but di [...]	2006-09-27 13:26:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KDEM PGOV PINR PK PREL
06ISLAMABAD20669	DEMARCHES DELIVERED: GOP REACTION TO DPRK NUCLEAR [...] (U) This cable contains an action request -- please see para. 6. 2. (C) Summary: The Government of Pakistan has condemned the nuclear tests conducted by North Korea and is in the process of preparing administrative notices necessary for UNSCR 1718 to take effect in Pakistan. Despite t [...]	2006-10-20 06:29:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KN KNNP PK PREL UN
06ISLAMABAD21073	PAK-AFGHAN JIRGAS: THE VIEW FROM PAKISTAN [...] (C/NF) Summary and Comment: Pakistani officials have been tasked to coordinate a border region jirga to which Afghan President Karzai would be invited, but are proceeding at a measured pace. The Pakistan approach reflects a consensus that such an event must be organized with great care to [...]	2006-10-27 14:53:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PK PREL PTER AF PGOV
06ISLAMABAD22024	VOX POPULI: REACTIONS TO BAJAUR MADRASSA ATTACK [...] (C) Summary: The Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) public remains exercised over the October 30 Pak-Mil attack on an extremist madrassa in Bajaur Agency and the November 9 retaliatory suicide bombing at Dargai Fort. In the rest of Pakistan, neither event has resonated outside of the commu [...]	2006-11-16 11:33:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PK PREL PTER
06ISLAMABAD22057	BOMBINGS AND SUICIDE ATTACKS: A PLAGUE ON BOTH [...] (C) A November 17 suicide bomb attack on a police van in Peshawar that killed the bomber and seriously injured two police officers is another reminder that the recent spike in suicide bombings in Afghanistan is now mirrored on this side of the Pak-Afghan border. The November 8 suicide bomb a [...]	2006-11-17 11:52:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	AF PK PREL PTER
06ISLAMABAD22070	TRIBAL AREAS: VIOLENCE CONTINUES IN THE [...] (S/NF) Summary: The jury is still out on the September 5 North Waziristan Agency (NWA) Jirga Agreement. Violations of the agreement continued during October 29 to November 12 period. However, cross-border attacks against coalition forces in Afghanistan's Paktika province appear to have decre [...]	2006-11-20 08:23:00	Embassy Islamabad	SECRET//NOFORN	MOPS PGOV PK PREL PTER
06ISLAMABAD22237	PAKISTAN KEEN ON GPOI, SEEKS MORE INFO [...] (U) This cable contains an action request -- please see para 6. 2. (SBU) On November 28, PolOff met MFA Director (UN I) Haider Shah to follow up on reftel USG proposal for Pakistan to participate in the Global Peace Operations Initiative (GPOI). Shah said that Pakistan is amenable to takin [...]	2006-11-30 05:07:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KPKO MARR MASS PK
06ISLAMABAD22290	PROTECTION OF PAKISTANI WOMEN: NOW, IT'S THE LAW [...] (U) Summary: On December 1st, President Pervez Musharraf signed the Women's Protection Bill (WPB) into law, marking the first time in three decades that a Pakistani government has successfully rolled back laws that have stood virtually untouched since the institution of the Hudood Ordinance [...]	2006-12-04 10:10:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	KWMN PGOV PHUM PK PREL
06ISLAMABAD22303	SENIOR PAKISTAN SENATOR WANTS TO REACH OUT TO [...] (C) During a December 1 meeting with poloffs, Pakistan Muslim League Secretary General and Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Mushahid Hussain Sayed discussed his desire to begin a regular parliamentary exchange with his counterparts in Afghanistan. He said that he discussed hi [...]	2006-12-05 03:52:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	AF PK PREL
06ISLAMABAD22317	GLOBAL PEACE OPERATIONS INITIATIVE: PAKISTAN'S [...] This cable contains an action request -- please see para 3. 2. On December 4, MFA Director (UN I) Haider Shah delivered to Poloff the Government of Pakistan's written response to the U.S. proposal for Pakistan to participate in the Global Peace Operations Initiative (GPOI) (ref B). Pakistan [...]	2006-12-06 09:11:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	KPKO MARR MASS PK
06ISLAMABAD22365	GOP ARRESTS BALOCH POLITICAL LEADERS TO STOP LONG [...] (U) On November 27, police raided Baloch National Party (BNP) President Sardar Akhtar Mengal's office and put him under house arrest. The arrest was the most prominent of a series that have occurred since the announcement of a "long march" from Gwadar to Quetta to protest President Musharraf's [...]	2006-12-08 03:08:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PHUM PK PREL
06ISLAMABAD22479	VERBAL ATTACKS BY AFGHAN PRESIDENT WEARING ON [...] (U) Summary: A series of public statements by Afghan President Karzai accusing Pakistan of fomenting instability and violence in Afghanistan have deeply irritated Pakistani officials and popular opinion generally. Although official statements in response have thus far been restrained, Pakis [...]	2006-12-15 11:37:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	AF MOPS PK PREL PTER
06ISLAMABAD22499	LEADING PAKISTANI PASHTUN BROADCASTER TROUBLED [...] (C) Summary and introduction: According to Hassan Khan, editor of Pakistan's leading Pashtun language foreign affairs television program on Khyber TV, Afghan President Karzai seemed "confused about many things" during their lengthy meeting in early December meeting. Khan, who described his [...]	2006-12-18 10:56:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	AF PK PREL PTER NATO
06ISLAMABAD22572	POSTURING OVER WOMEN'S RIGHTS LEGISLATION REFLECTS [...] (C) With no fanfare and in the privacy of his office, President Musharraf signed the Women's Protection Bill (WPB) into law on December 1. The bill,s contentious journey through Parliament cast into sharp relief the cleavages within and between Pakistan's major political parties. The Pakista [...]	2006-12-23 05:54:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KWMN PK
06ISLAMABAD3684	PAKISTAN CONSIDERS NEW SOFA TO BE IN FORCE AS OF [...] (C) On March 2, poloff delivered to MFA Americas Desk Director Diyar Khan the diplomatic note (text ref A) confirming USG acceptance of the SOFA language in the earlier GOP note, reported ref B. Director Khan confirmed to poloff on March 7 that the GOP has no objections to the USG note and co [...]	2006-03-07 09:15:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MOPS PREL KTIA PK
06ISLAMABAD3804	CARTOONS FAIL TO UNITE OPPOSITION [...] (C) Summary: For a brief moment, Pakistan's political opposition appeared poised to transform popular anger over the Danish cartoon issue into protests against the Musharraf government. In the end, however, self-interest and government inducements have combined to split the divergent parties [...]	2006-03-08 13:36:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KISL KDEM PK
06ISLAMABAD4767	ANP AND PPP MOVING TOWARDS ACCOMMODATION WITH THE [...] (S) Summary: In recent separate meetings, Awami National Party (ANP) Chairman Senator Asfandyar Wali Khan and Pakistan People's Party Parliamentarians (PPPP) Chairman Makhdoom Amin Fahim delivered closely coordinated messages to the Embassy. Both leaders were prepared to support an alliance o [...]	2006-03-22 05:59:00	Embassy Islamabad	SECRET	PGOV PTER MOPS PK
06ISLAMABAD5070	MFA SEEKS INFORMATION ON 1267 COMMITTEE [...] (S) Summary: On March 24, MFA Director Tasneem Aslam advised DCM that the GOP seeks "hard evidence" from the USG that could be used in domestic legal proceedings on the implemenation of terror financing sanctions against organizations designated by the UN 1267 Committee. Aslam claimed that [...]	2006-03-27 10:55:00	Embassy Islamabad	SECRET	EFIN ETTC PK PREL PTER KTFN
06ISLAMABAD5307	PRESIDENT BUSH'S VISIT TO PAKISTAN [...] (C) Summary. President Bush's March 3-4 visit to Pakistan inspired a range of opinions on the state of the US-Pakistan relationship. Government officials, such as President Musharraf, PM Aziz, and FM Kasuri expressed satisfaction with the visit and its outcomes, including the launching of a [...]	2006-03-29 12:52:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PK PREL PGOV
06ISLAMABAD5357	TERRORIST FINANCE: LET AMENDMENT - EMBASSY [...] (U) This message contains action requests; please see Para. 5. 2 (S) Post has had several opportunities in the past week to update the Government of Pakistan (GOP) on the USG intention to request that the UN 1267 Committee amend the designation of Lashkar-e-Tayyba (LET) to include Jammat-u [...]	2006-03-30 12:46:00	Embassy Islamabad	SECRET	PK PREL PTER KTFN UN
06ISLAMABAD5723	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: NEVADA TEST SITE [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-05 04:37:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREL KTBT PK
06ISLAMABAD5724	GOP WILL CONSIDER U.S. CANDIDATE FOR INCB [...] No summary [...]	2006-04-05 04:38:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL UN PK SNAR
06ISLAMABAD5767	YASIN MALIK TELLS KASHMIRI MILITANTS "GIVE PEACE A [...] (S) Introduction: Srinagar-based Kashmiri separatist leader Yasin Malik has told post that he has used his extended March-April 2006 visit to Pakistan to reach out to Kashmiri militant leaders, counseling them to lay down their arms and give the peace process a chance. In between highly-pub [...]	2006-04-05 13:09:00	Embassy Islamabad	SECRET	PREL PK PGOV PTER IN
06ISLAMABAD5887	TERROR FINANCE: INFORMATION DELIVERED ON 1267 [...] (S) On April 5, Poloff delivered Ref A talking points and background papers on Laskhar-e-Tayyba (LET) and Al-Akhtar Trust to MFA (UN) Director Imran Siddiqui. Poloff pressed Siddiqui of the importance the U.S. places on full and vigorous implementation of UN 1267 Committee terror finance sa [...]	2006-04-06 12:52:00	Embassy Islamabad	SECRET	PREL KTFN PTER ETTD PK EFIN
06ISLAMABAD5931	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: POSSIBLE GOP TROOP [...] (C) On April 5, poloff presented reftel demarche points to MFA (UN) Director Imran Siddiqui. Siddiqui said that the Government of Pakistan (GOP) was aware of the text of UNSCR 1663, but had not yet received a request from UN/DPKO to contribute troops or logistical support for a Darfur peacek [...]	2006-04-07 04:59:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PK KPKO UN MASS
06ISLAMABAD7537	BALLISTIC MISSILE TEST NOTIFICATION [...] (S) On April 28, 2005, MFA Disarmament Cell Director Muhammad Kamran Akhtar notified poloff that Pakistan would conduct a ballistic missile test on April 29-30 over the Arabian Sea. Akhtar said that the GOP has sent written notification to the Government of India regarding this missile test [...]	2006-04-28 11:01:00	Embassy Islamabad	SECRET	KNNP MCAP PK PREL
06ISLAMABAD8327	D-8 DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-09 05:58:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	BG EG ID IR IS IZ MOPS MY NI PGOV PK PREL
06ISLAMABAD8391	TERROR FINANCE: JI-4 AND JUD DOMESTIC DESIGNATION [...] (C) On April 28, 2005, poloff presented to MFA (UN) Deputy Director Shazia Ashraf Qazi non-papers containing the notice of the UN 1267 Committee designation of four members of Jemaah Islamiya (Ref A) and notice of the U.S. domestic designation of Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JUD) (Ref B). On May 4, polo [...]	2006-05-09 16:04:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PK PREL PTER KFIN ECON UN
06ISLAMABAD9098	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: US TO TABLE FMCT DRAFT [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-18 11:58:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	KNNP MNUC PARM PK PREL
06ISLAMABAD9358	PAKISTANI COMMENTS ON UPCOMING SIACHEN-SIR CREEK [...] (U) Summary. The Pakistani press has cast reports on the upcoming Composite Dialogue talks on Siachen glacier (May 23-24) and Sir Creek (May 25-26) in a lackluster light, mostly by lifting bylines from the Indian press. There has been little discussion on what proposals the GOP will bring [...]	2006-05-22 13:16:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	IN PK PREL
06ISLAMABAD9704	FREE, FAIR, AND ISI: THE PML ELECTION STRATEGY [...] (C/NF) Summary: According to PML Secretary General Mushahid Hussain, the party's goal in the upcoming elections is a plurality in the National Assembly. He identified urban areas in central Punjab (Lahore, Gujranwala, Faisalabad) as the chief battlegrounds, predicted a strong PML victory in [...]	2006-05-25 11:52:00	Embassy Islamabad	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV KDEM PREL PTER MOPS PK AF IR
06ISLAMABAD9705	PAK-SINO RELATIONS: â€œHIGHER THAN THE HIMALAYAS, DEEPER THAN THE SEAâ€ [...] (C) Summary. At a May 23 conference celebrating 55 years of Pakistan-China relations, Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz characterized the Sino-Pak relationship as a model bilateral relationship, in which both countries are committed to peaceful co-existence, sovereign equality, and non-i [...]	2006-05-25 11:57:00	Embassy Islamabad	CONFIDENTIAL	CH IN PK PREL
06ISLAMABAD9709	DEMARCHE DELIVERED TO NAM/G-77 ON UN REFORM [...] (SBU) On May 25, Poloff delivered reftel demarche points on UN reform at the upcoming Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) Ministerial-level meeting to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs's UN-I Director, Imran Siddiqui. Having recently served at Pakistan's Permanent Mission to the UN in New York and well [...]	2006-05-26 01:36:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AMGT AORC UNGA PK
06ISLAMABAD9890	PARTIES PREPARE THEIR ELECTORAL STRATEGIES [...] (S/NF) Summary: Electoral strategies for Pakistan's major parties are coalescing in advance of the likely late 2007/early 2008 national and provincial elections. At this stage, most parties, save the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N),have adopted a go-it-alone strategy. The ruling Pakist [...]	2006-05-30 08:10:00	Embassy Islamabad	SECRET//NOFORN	PGOV KDEM PREL PK
06ISLAMABAD9911	GOP RESPONSE TO PROPOSED EXBS PROGRAMMING [...] (U) Post appreciates the comprehensive programming that ISN/ECC has laid out for Pakistan between July 2006 nd January 2007 (ref A). The Government of Pakistan (GOP),through the MFA Disarmament Cell, has indicated that it wishes to participate in all of the proposed programs and is committ [...]	2006-05-30 10:54:00	Embassy Islamabad	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KNNP PGOV PK PREL
06JAKARTA10041	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: LEBANON SECURITY COUNCIL [...] Poloff delivered reftel demarche to Foreign Ministry North American Affairs Director Harry Purwanto on August 7. We explained the draft resolution was consistent with the U.S. requirement for a sustainable ceasefire and stressed U.S. goal was a cessation of hostilities by no later than August [...]	2006-08-09 12:47:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PTER MOPS UN IS
06JAKARTA10218	DEMARCHE ON UN SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION [...] Poloff called Indonesian MFA North America Affairs Director Harry Purwanto at 18:30 local time (07:30 Washington time) on August 12 to deliver reftel demarche. Delivery of the demarche was reported to the Ops Center the same day. A nonpaper with U.S. points, a copy of the resolution and the [...]	2006-08-14 10:29:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PTER MOPS UNSC NSC IS LE ID
06JAKARTA11214	KEITH LUSE'S MEETING WITH INDONESIAN MOD DEFENSE [...] (C) Summary: Senate SFRC Senior Professional Staff Member Keith Luse met with Indonesian Defense Ministry Director General for Defense Strategy Major General Dadi Susanto on August 28 in Jakarta. Susanto characterized U.S.-Indonesian relations and military cooperation as positive. Susanto w [...]	2006-09-11 10:01:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MASS PGOV PHUM ID
06JAKARTA11376	CRUCIAL 2007 JAKARTA GOVERNOR,S RACE TAKING SHAPE [...] (C) Approximately one year before Jakarta holds its first ever directly elected Governor's race, behind the scenes political maneuvering is already in full swing, reflecting the high stakes involved in what will be the most significant Indonesian election prior to the 2009 Legislative and Pres [...]	2006-09-13 08:56:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KISL ID
06JAKARTA11921	AHMADIYAHS SAY THEIR SITUATION REMAINS PRECARIOUS [...] (C) Summary: In the face of intimidation by Islamic fundamentalists, Ahmadiyah leaders characterized their situation in Indonesia as precarious (Reftel). They noted that the Ahmadiyah community continues to experience sporadic acts of violence: in recent months a mob ransacked an Ahmadiyah mo [...]	2006-09-27 08:54:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL SCUL KISL KIRF ID
06JAKARTA12161	TIMIKA TRIAL: DEFENDANTS REFUSE TO TESTIFY [...] (SBU) The trial of the suspects in the 2002 murder of two Americans and one Indonesian near Timika, Papua resumed on October 3. The opening of the session was delayed by an hour because the head judge in the Timika case also served in the morning session of a circus-like, high-profile corrupti [...]	2006-10-03 11:39:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV ASEC CASC KJUS PHUM ID

06JAKARTA12296	HIDAYATULLAH WILL RUN REJOINDER TO ATTACK ON THE [...] (C) Summary. In an October 2 meeting, a Muhammadiyah Youth official told Poloff that the hard-line Islamist group Hidayatullah will publish a Muhammadiyah response to Hidayatullah's written attack on The Asia Foundation (TAF). Hidayatullah's concession came after more than two weeks of inten [...]	2006-10-06 07:30:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL ASEC CASC KISL ID
06JAKARTA12300	CONVICTION IN MUNIR MURDER OVERTURNED [...] (C) Summary. On October 4, the Indonesian Supreme Court overturned the murder conviction of Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto, acquitting him in the September 2004 poisoning of prominent Indonesian human rights activist Munir Thalib. The case is widely considered a litmus test of the Indonesian [...]	2006-10-06 10:47:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PINR PGOV KCRM ID
06JAKARTA12494	MUHAMMADIYAH YOUTH CONCERNED ABOUT EXTREMISM AMONG [...] (C) Summary. On October 2 and 3, Poloff made courtesy calls on Muhammadiyah Youth Chairman Izzul Muslimin and Secretary General Gunawan Hidayat. As part of its six-month SIPDIS strategic plan, the Muhammadiyah Youth Central Board will carry out a "census" of local Muhammadiyah Youth leade [...]	2006-10-13 01:05:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PTER SOCI KISL PHUM ID
06JAKARTA12782	THE TWO PAPUAS: A CONSUL GENERAL'S VIEW [...] (C) Summary. Papua New Guinea,s Consul General in Jayapura, Papua shared his views on the often prickly relations between Indonesia and his government in an October 12 meeting. He charged that the Indonesian Armed Forces (TNI) were involved in both illegal logging and drug smuggling in PNG. [...]	2006-10-20 11:55:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PREF PHUM ID PP
06JAKARTA12783	THE TWO PAPUAS: A CONSUL GENERAL'S VIEW [...] (C) Summary. Papua New Guinea,s Consul General in Jayapura, Papua shared his views on the often prickly relations between Indonesia and his government in an October 12 meeting. He charged that the Indonesian Armed Forces (TNI) were involved in both illegal logging and drug smuggling in PNG. [...]	2006-10-20 12:24:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PREF PHUM ID PP
06JAKARTA12787	NORTH SUMATRA POLICE: NEW SENSITIVITY TO HUMAN [...] (C) Summary: The Head of Police Intelligence for North Sumatra, Herman Effendi, described the Indonesian police as increasingly focused on human rights during an Oct.3 meeting in Medan. He attributed this positive development partly to widespread human rights training that has reached the low [...]	2006-10-23 03:27:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KJUS ID
06JAKARTA12800	PAPUA: HUMAN RIGHTS ACTIVISTS DENOUNCE ABEPURA [...] (C) Summary. A church-affiliated task force has asked Indonesia's National Committee on Human Rights (KomnasHAM) to open an investigation into the conviction and sentencing of 23 men charged in connection with a March 16 riot in Abepura, Papua that led to the death of three unarmed policemen a [...]	2006-10-23 08:52:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV ID
06JAKARTA13181	NEW ZEALAND DCM CALLS ON JI'S POLITICAL WING [...] (C) Summary. New Zealand's Deputy Head of Mission briefed us about his meeting with Irfan Awwas, the leader of Majelis Mujahidin Indonesia (MMI),Jemaah Islamiyah's political wing (his reporting cable has been sent by classified email to EAP/MTS and INR/EAP). Awwas spoke about MMI's goal of p [...]	2006-11-13 07:09:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PREL PGOV KISL SOCI ID
06JAKARTA13198	INDONESIAN MPS PRAISE INTL VISITOR PROGRAM, CITE [...] (SBU) Summary. Poloffs recently debriefed four members of the Indonesian House of Representatives who participated in the International Visitor Leadership Program, &The U.S. Political System,8 from August 7 ) 25, 2006. In their visits to cities and towns throughout the United States, the par [...]	2006-11-14 02:49:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OEXC SCUL KPAO KISL PREL ID
06JAKARTA13216	FOREIGN MINISTRY READY TO OPEN MLAT NEGOTIATIONS [...] (SBU) The GOI is ready to move forward with negotiations on a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT) with the U.S. On November 15, Director of the Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU) Directorate for Treaties on Political, Security, and Territorial Affairs Arif Havas Oegroseno told Poloff and [...]	2006-11-15 10:29:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KTIA PGOV PREL PTER ID
06JAKARTA13308	GPOI FUNDING: INDONESIAN PLANS FOR A TRAINING [...] (C) Poloff and ODC Chief met with Department of Foreign Affairs officer for International Security and Disarmament Yonatri Rilmania on November 14 to learn more about a planned Indonesian center for peacekeeping training and to explain U.S. funding possibilities for this and other potential ne [...]	2006-11-27 10:37:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	KPKO MARR MASS PREL ID
06JAKARTA13329	INTER-EMBASSY POLITICAL ISLAM CONTACT GROUP'S [...] (C) Summary. On November 9, representatives from the British, Canadian, Japanese, New Zealand, Dutch, Singaporean and U.S. embassies in Jakarta met to establish a political Islam contact group; representatives from the Australian and German embassies will participate in future meetings. Most [...]	2006-11-28 23:50:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PTER KISL ID
06JAKARTA13392	SBY'S CT RECORD AFTER TWO YEARS: A MIXED BAG [...] (C) Two years into the Yudhoyono Administration, Jakarta remains stalwart in its commitment to identify, arrest, and convict terrorist operatives. The combination of strong political support for tactical CT operations and substantial international assistance has enabled Indonesian law enforce [...]	2006-12-04 10:04:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV PREL KJUS ASEC KISL ID
06JAKARTA13454	AGO TASK FORCE BECOMES OPERATIONAL AS POSO TRIALS [...] (SBU) Summary: Less than four months after the group's official inauguration, the Attorney General's Terrorism and Transnational Crime Task Force is now becoming operational. In October, Post delivered $100,000 worth of computers and other office equipment to the Task Force's newly-renovated [...]	2006-12-08 11:26:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER PGOV KJUS ASEC ID
06JAKARTA13476	CONSTITUTIONAL COURT RULES INSULTING THE PRESIDENT [...] (U) Summary: A divided Constitutional Court on December 7 struck down three articles of the Criminal Code which made insulting the President or Vice President a criminal act. The instant case involved an appeal brought by two political activists being tried for insulting President Yudhoyono [...]	2006-12-14 07:27:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL PGOV ID
06JAKARTA13478	TERRORISM FINANCE: ABAS SIGNS TERMS OF REMOVAL [...] (SBU) On December 8, 2006, Jakarta's Assistant Legal Attache (ALAT) and POLOFF met with Nasir Abas at the Embassy regarding Ref A letter confirming his acceptance of the terms and conditions for his removal from the United States Department of the Treasury OFAC list of Specially Designated Gl [...]	2006-12-14 08:01:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ETFN PREL PTER ID
06JAKARTA13564	CWC: STATUS OF INDONESIAN IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION [...] POLOFF met with Daniel Simanjuntak of the Directorate of International Security and Disarmament at the Indonesian Department of Foreign Affairs on December 13 to present reftel points and discuss the status of Indonesia's implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). Simanjuntak sai [...]	2006-12-21 11:20:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM PREL CWC OPCW CBW ID
06JAKARTA3246	SUEBU, ATURURI LIKELY WINNERS IN CONTROVERSIAL [...] (C) Summary: Preliminary results indicate that Barnabas "Bas" Suebu and Alex Hesegem were elected as governor and vice governor of Papua province on Friday, March 10. On the following day, incumbent Abraham Atururi and Rahimin Katjong won in neighboring West Irian Jaya province, prevailing ov [...]	2006-03-13 12:24:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINS ID
06JAKARTA4407	VOTE COUNTS FINAL IN PAPUAN GUBERNATORIAL RACES [...] (SBU) Summary: The Provincial Election Commissions of Papua and West Irian Jaya have announced final vote tabulations in direct elections for governor held on March 10 and March 11 respectively. On March 22, the Electoral Commission of West Irian Jaya certified incumbent Bram Atururi as the v [...]	2006-04-05 07:23:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINS KDEM ID
06JAKARTA4511	ConGen Meets with Solo Leaders [...] (C) Summary: ConGen Surabaya Principal Officer Pierangelo and Econ/PolOff Williams traveled to the Central Java city of Solo (also known as Surakarta) on Wednesday April 5, meeting with Mayor Joko Widodo, Solo Chief of Police Yotje Mende, and with Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta (UMS) re [...]	2006-04-07 09:30:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER ASEC PGOV KISL ID
06JAKARTA4515	AFTER ELECTIONS, PAPUAN LEADERS FOCUS ON FREEPORT [...] (C) Summary: Following the March 10 and 11 elections in Papua and West Irian Jaya provinces, Papuan leaders have opted against staging a confrontation with the Indonesian central government, at least for the time being. Instead, in the wake of anti-Freeport demonstrations in Jayapura and els [...]	2006-04-07 11:17:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV EINV EMIN ID
06JAKARTA4755	INDONESIA PREVIEWS BALI ASEAN MINISTERIAL [...] (C) Summary. On April 13, we urged Indonesia, together with its ASEAN partners, to press Burma on human rights and democratization at the upcoming ASEAN Ministerial Meeting Retreat in Bali. We urged further that ASEAN make its concerns on these issues public, as it did at its Kuala Lumpur su [...]	2006-04-13 10:42:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ASEAN PHUM BM ID
06JAKARTA5703	IRANIAN PRESIDENT'S ENGAGEMENT WITH INDONESIAN [...] (C) House of Representatives Chairman Agung Laksono plans to engage in a friendly manner with Iranian President Ahmadi-Nejad during Ahmadi-Nejad's upcoming visit, according to one of Agung's closest associates. Agung's positive view of the Iranians appears to stem at least in part from his pe [...]	2006-05-05 11:24:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KNNP ENRG EMIN IR ID
06JAKARTA5789	ASD RODMAN'S MEETING WITH INDONESIAN FOREIGN [...] (C) Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs Peter Rodman met Department of Foreign Affairs Secretary General Imron Cotan on April 12. Both expressed strong interest in expanding military ties. Imron pressed for USG training for Indonesian Special Forces (Kopassus); [...]	2006-05-09 06:23:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS MASS MARR PHUM KDEM KAWC TT BM TW
06JAKARTA7556	TIMIKA TRIAL LIKELY IN MID-JULY [...] (C/NF) Summary. A senior official in the General Crimes division of the Attorney General's Office (AGO) assured us on June 14 that the prosecution of seven persons in connection with the August 31, 2002 killings of two Americans in Timika, Papua, is still on track. The prosecution's dossiers [...]	2006-06-14 10:32:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ASEC CASC KJUS PHUM ID
06JAKARTA7909	TIMIKA CASE: PROSECUTION DOSSIERS COMPLETED, SENT [...] (U) Summary. Indonesian prosecutors June 21 turned over the dossiers of Anthonious Wamang and six co-conspirators in the August 31, 2002 murders of two Amcits and one Indonesian to the Central Jakarta District Court. We expect the court within ten days to set a trial date and appoint a panel [...]	2006-06-23 05:36:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ASEC CASC KJUS PHUM ID
06JAKARTA8064	ACEH LAW INCHING CLOSER TO PASSAGE [...] (C) The Indonesian House of Representatives (DPR),moving along at a characteristically glacial pace, continues to deliberate the finer points of the draft law on Governing Aceh at the Committee level. The principle remaining issue involves fund transfers from the central government. While [...]	2006-06-27 09:38:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KISL KDEM ID
06JAKARTA8117	TRIAL OF TIMIKA SUSPECTS TO BEGIN JULY 4 [...] (SBU) Legatt, poloff, and conoff met June 28 with Abdul Hakim Ritonga, Acting Deputy Attorney General for General Crimes, who advised us that the trial of Anthonious Wamang and his co-conspirators would begin on July 4 in Central Jakarta District Court. Wamang faces charges including premedit [...]	2006-06-28 10:46:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ASEC CASC KJUS PHUM ID
06JAKARTA8249	INDONESIA EXPELS TWO AMCITS FROM PAPUA [...] (C) Summary. The Indonesian government's detention and expulsion of two Amcits who had planned to attend a Papuan indigenous group's conference illustrates Jakarta's increasing sensitivity about alleged foreign support for separatism. This suspicion has increased markedly since the Australia [...]	2006-06-30 11:30:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ASEC CASC AS ID
06JAKARTA8958	TIMIKA TRIAL OPENS [...] (SBU) Anthonious Wamang, Agustinus Anggaibak and five other co-conspirators appeared in Jakarta Central Court on July 18 to face charges in connection with the 2002 murders of two Amcits in Timika, Papua. The three-hour July 18 session was administrative in nature, devoted to identifying the [...]	2006-07-18 10:37:00	Embassy Jakarta	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV ASEC CASC KJUS PHUM ID
06JAKARTA9161	PAPUAN POLITICAL ROUND-UP, JULY 2006 [...] (C) Introduction and summary. This messages provides a survey of recent developments in Papuan politics. During a July 10 - 15 visit to Jayapura, poloff found the Papuan scene in a holding pattern. Barnabas "Bas" Suebu, the winner of the March 10 direct elections for governor, had still not [...]	2006-07-21 11:20:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ID
06JAKARTA9861	PAPUA: GOVERNORS SWORN IN, SBY VISITS [...] (SBU) Summary. The directly-elected governors of West Irian Jaya and Papua were sworn in without incident on July 24 and 25, respectively. The inaugurations mark the end of a long period of strife over the partition of Papua and the outcome of the March 10 direct elections. President Yudhoy [...]	2006-08-04 10:01:00	Embassy Jakarta	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM PP ID
06JEDDAH101	MOSQUE SERMONS FROM SAUDI ARABIA: DENMARK BASHING [...] (U) For the second straight week, cartoons run in Danish and Norwegian newspapers allegedly "vilifying" the Prophet Muhammad took center stage at Friday sermons in Saudi Arabia. On January 28, the Jeddah-based "Arab News" reported that "imams of mosques across the Kingdom yesterday denounced [...]	2006-02-01 14:48:00	Consulate Jeddah	CONFIDENTIAL	KISL PTER PREL SA
06JEDDAH102	JEDDAH JOURNAL 4: PRESERVING THE ARAB FAMILY [...] (U) On January 23 at the French Consulate General, local consultant and business adviser to the elite, Mr. Zaher S. Al Munajjed, gave a lecture titled "Saudi Family Companies, challenges of the future," describing a theoretical model for the long term stability of a family business. Al Munajj [...]	2006-02-04 08:55:00	Consulate Jeddah	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KISL SA
06JEDDAH128	SAUDI YOUTH: LESSONS FROM JEDDAH'S "SHABBAB" [...] (C) SUMMARY. After more than one year of spending time with Jeddah's "shabbab" (roughly, guys or young men),Poloff has noted some consistent themes common to many of the city's youth. Over the course of numerous road trips to places like Mecca, Medina, Taif, and al-Hada, visits to college cl [...]	2006-02-08 14:52:00	Consulate Jeddah	CONFIDENTIAL	KISL CVIS PTER SCUL PREL SA
06JEDDAH198	"LA DOLCE VITA:" JEDDAWI ELITE NOSTALGIC FOR LOST [...] (C) SUMMARY In conversations with the Consul General over the last eight months, Saudi Consulate contacts of the "baby-boomer" generation frequently reminisce about a lost heyday of openness and frivolity in Jeddah during the 1970s. These elites attribute the change to a conservative backlash [...]	2006-03-08 10:08:00	Consulate Jeddah	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SA SCUL SOCI
06JEDDAH199	SAUDI FOOD GIANT PIONEERS ISLAMIC BUSINESS ETHICS [...] (C) SUMMARY. Savola Group, Saudi Arabia's leading foods supplier and the country's second largest industrial enterprise, has developed a code of professional ethics and values that blend Western business standards with indigenous Islamic traditions. In a time when the country's work force i [...]	2006-03-08 11:02:00	Consulate Jeddah	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ELAB SA SCUL SOCI
06JEDDAH302	FAREWELL KSA: WEALTHY WESTERN WIVES' UNREALIZED [...] (C) SUMMARY AND COMMENT. Over the course of her tenure here in Jeddah, the Consul General has had the opportunity to speak with a number of Western expatriate women who are married to wealthy Saudi businessmen. Their story is always the same: they dream of leaving Saudi Arabia behind to settl [...]	2006-04-17 14:04:00	Consulate Jeddah	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SOCI SA
06JEDDAH437	JEDDAH MAYOR PRESENTS DEVELOPMENT PLANS; CONSUL [...] SUMMARY: On June 19, the Consul General, Pol/Econ Chief, Commercial Officer , PolOff and EconOff attended the June General Meeting of the American Businessmen of Jeddah (ABJ). The keynote speaker was Mayor of Jeddah, Adel Fakeih who described the city's ambitious new redevelopment plan to tr [...]	2006-07-01 07:30:00	Consulate Jeddah	UNCLASSIFIED	ECON KISL PREL SA
06JEDDAH449	AMBASSADOR KHALILZAD DISCUSSES IRAN, DETAINEES AND [...] (U) PARTICIPANTS: U.S. ---- Ambassador Khalilzad Ambassador Oberwetter Consul General Gfoeller Special Assistant Hutchings PolOff Dale (notetaker) Saudi Arabia ------------ Prince Saud Al Faisal, Foreign Minister 2. (S) Summary: During their June 27 meeting, Ambassador to Iraq Z [...]	2006-07-05 04:04:00	Consulate Jeddah	SECRET	PGOV PINR PREL PTER SA
06JEDDAH450	AMBASSADOR KHALILZAD MEETS WITH SAUDI CROWN PRINCE [...] (U) PARTICIPANTS: Meeting with King Abdullah U.S. ---- Ambassador Khalilzad Ambassador Oberwetter Consul General Gfoeller Special Assistant Hutchings PolOff Dale (notetaker) Saudi Arabia ------------ King Abdullah Prince Saud Al Faisal, Foreign Miister Prince Bandar bin Sultan, Sec [...]	2006-07-05 04:04:00	Consulate Jeddah	SECRET	PGOV PINR PREL PTER SA
06JEDDAH454	A WOMAN'S VIEW ON BEING A LAWYER IN SAUDI ARABIA [...] SUMMARY: Recent press reports that the Saudi Ministry of Justice is considering allowing women to become fully licensed lawyers and judges have raised the hopes of women who are already working as legal consultants in the Kingdom. One female legal consultant in Jeddah told PolOff that she [...]	2006-07-05 09:07:00	Consulate Jeddah	CONFIDENTIAL	KISL KWMN PGOV PINR PREL SA SCUL
06JEDDAH459	WAMY OFFICIAL UPSET ABOUT FUNDING AND CRITICAL OF [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-08 14:19:00	Consulate Jeddah	CONFIDENTIAL	KISL PGOV PINR PREL SA SOCI
06JEDDAH460	SAUDI LAWYER CASTS DIM HOPE FOR REFORM [...] (C) SUMMARY: ConGenOffs met with a prominent Saudi lawyer who cast a very dim light on social reforms underway in the Kingdom. He explained that multi-level resistance to reform, including opposition from within the King's inner circle, insufficient public infrastructure, and general attitude [...]	2006-07-08 14:26:00	Consulate Jeddah	CONFIDENTIAL	KISL PGOV PINR PREL SA SOCI
06JEDDAH474	POSITIVE FIRST MEETING WITH NEW OIC DIRECTOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Director General of Political Affairs held a positive introductory meeting with ConGenOffs. He outlined the OIC's 10-year action plan that emerged from the organization's extraordinary summit held in Mecca in December 2005, and no [...]	2006-07-12 12:11:00	Consulate Jeddah	CONFIDENTIAL	KISL PGOV PINR PREL SA SOCI TSPL
06JEDDAH486	MINISTER OF LABOR TELLS RELIGIOUS POLICE ONLY MOL [...] (C) SUMMARY: The religious police, or Mutawwa denied that it was responsible for the recent firing of 69 saleswomen at cosmetic and lingerie department stores in Jeddah. The Mutawwa ordered the stores closed after accusing the saleswomen of mingling with men, and criticized them for not coveri [...]	2006-07-19 14:35:00	Consulate Jeddah	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR SA KISL
06JEDDAH493	ISLAMIC SCHOLAR CALLS FOR INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL [...] (C) SUMMARY: PolOff held a productive discussion about Islam and the need for greater dialogue with Dr. Hamid Al-Rifaie, an internationally recognized religious scholar who lives in Jeddah. He said that he is focused on opening stable channels of communication that allow Muslims to talk am [...]	2006-07-24 11:29:00	Consulate Jeddah	CONFIDENTIAL	KISL PGOV PINR PREL SA SOCI
06JEDDAH494	A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF BUSINESS REGISTRATION IN JEDDAH [...] (U) On July 10 Pol/EconOffs and FCSOffs met Mr. Muhammad Atiq Al Harby, Director General of the Ministry of Commerce in Jeddah. During the brief meeting Al Harby gave an outline of the procedures for women to register their businesses in Jeddah. The Ministry's female section is only one year [...]	2006-07-25 05:22:00	Consulate Jeddah	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON KWMN PINR SA PGOV
06JEDDAH505	HEJAZI SCHOLARS SHARE VIEWS ON RELIGION AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Consul General and ConGenOffs reached out to religious scholars, including the liberal religious scholar Dr. Sami M. Angawi, in Jeddah to hear their views on the status of Islam in the Kingdom and how it is practiced in the nation's traditionally diverse Hejaz region. The scholars focu [...]	2006-07-29 04:05:00	Consulate Jeddah	CONFIDENTIAL	KISL PGOV PREL SA SOCI
06JEDDAH643	IIRO SECRETARY-GENERAL TALKS OF SAUDI PROGRAMS AND [...] (S/NF) SUMMARY: In a meeting at the headquarters of the International Islamic Relief Organization (IIRO) on September 18, Secretary-General Dr. Adnan Khalil Basha told PolOffs that IIRO headquarters in Jeddah has administrative and budgetary control of all 28 country branches and receives no [...]	2006-10-09 07:52:00	Consulate Jeddah	SECRET	PGOV PREL PINR KISL SA
06JEDDAH658	VISITING DESK OFFICER MET WITH OIC DG OF POLITICAL [...] (C) Poloff and visiting NEA/ARP Desk Officer met with Director General of Political Affairs for the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Mahdy Fathallah, on October 10. Fathallah laid out the reasons why the U.S. would benefit from closer relations with the OIC. He pointed to the pot [...]	2006-10-16 11:58:00	Consulate Jeddah	CONFIDENTIAL	KISL PINR PREL SA
06JEDDAH769	IRF OFFICER MEETS WITH CHRISTIAN LEADERS [...] (S) Summary. In a visit to Jeddah and Dhahran, DRL/IRF officer Kate Lurie met with various leaders of the Christian communities. In Jeddah, Lurie and Poloff held several meetings with leaders of Christian congregations. In Dhahran, Lurie met with three Americans, two Protestants and one Ca [...]	2006-12-19 15:56:00	Consulate Jeddah	SECRET	KIRF SOCI SA
06JEDDAH98	YOUNGEST MEMBER OF CHINA DELEGATION PROVIDES [...] (C) SUMMARY. Poloff met on January 29 the youngest member of the delegation of Saudi private citizens that accompanied King Abdullah on his much-heralded recent visit to China. Sultan al-Attar, who turned 25 on the trip, was effusive in his praise for King Abdullah, highlighting the King's abi [...]	2006-02-01 14:26:00	Consulate Jeddah	CONFIDENTIAL	KISL PTER PREL SA
06JEDDAH99	"REAL PEOPLE TOUR": STUDENTS PROVIDE TOUR OF [...] (C) SUMMARY. As Post previously reported, Poloff visited on January 22 the central campus of Um al-Qura University, known as a center of Islamic learning in the Kingdom, in the heart of the Islamic holy city of Mecca and met with University Rector Dr. Nasir A. al-Saleh and several administrat [...]	2006-02-01 14:34:00	Consulate Jeddah	CONFIDENTIAL	KISL CVIS PTER SCUL PREL SA
06JERUSALEM1046	HAMAS POLITICAL 'GUIDELINES' FIRM ON RESISTANCE, [...] (SBU) Palestinian press March 12 carried excerpts of Hamas' political "guidelines" for the next cabinet, first published on a Hamas website, which outline the movement's positions on Palestinian resistance, the inviolability of the "right of return," and parameters for maintaining the "tahd [...]	2006-03-13 15:42:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL IS
06JERUSALEM1106	FATAH LEGISLATORS SEE ISRAELI ACTIONS, [...] (C) Summary. During a March 13 meeting in Bethlehem, four Fatah Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) members asserted that Israeli policies had played a deciding factor in the Hamas victory in the January 25 legislative elections. These mid-level Fatah leaders, who are close to Fatah's g [...]	2006-03-17 14:48:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS KWBG KPAL KDEM IS
06JERUSALEM1119	JERICHO RAID: POLITIAL IMPLICATIONS FOR KEY [...] (C)SUMMARY: The March 14 Israeli raid on the Jericho prison has hurt President Abbas, (Abu Mazen) standng among Palestinians and bolstered the perceptin that his administration is vacillating and oftn incompetent. Criticism from the HAMAS leadershp has been focused on the U.S. and U.K., rather [...]	2006-03-17 17:06:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PAL PGOV ASEC IS
06JERUSALEM114	PALESTINIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ELECTIONS SITREP [...] (C) Summary. Central Elections Commission (CEC) officials January 9 reported to the Consul General that the Ministry of Interior (MOI) has provided conflicting messages on its ability to provide Election Day security. The MOI has agreed to abide by CEC procedures for early voting for the [...]	2006-01-09 18:33:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KWBG PBTS IS KPAL KDEM
06JERUSALEM1153	JOB-SEEKING MILITANTS ATTACK PA OFFICIALS, OFFICES [...] (C) SUMMARY: A series of intense gun battles erupted on March 20 in Gaza between armed gunmen and Palestinian Authority Security Forces (PASF). During the fracas, Civil Police Chief BG Ala'a Husni's motorcade was attacked and at least twelve people were injured. PA Ministry of Interior (MOI) [...]	2006-03-21 16:17:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC KPAL IS
06JERUSALEM1262	PLC APPROVES HAMAS-LED CABINET, GOVERNMENT PLATFORM [...] (C) Summary. Following two-days of debate, the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) March 28 approved the Hamas government platform and 24-member Palestinian cabinet. The vote was 71 in favor, 36 against, with two abstentions. Fatah and Third Way PLC members led the opposition to the gove [...]	2006-03-28 17:14:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL KDEM IS
06JERUSALEM1319	EVICTION FINALLY COMES FOR EAST JERUSALEM FAMILY [...] (C) Summary. An East Jerusalem Palestinian family, engaged in a protracted legal battle with the Government of Israel (GOI) to maintain ownership of their home in Silwan, was summarily evicted March 29. According to an attorney involved in the case, privately hired Israeli security guards [...]	2006-03-30 16:28:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KWBG KPAL IS
06JERUSALEM139	PALESTINIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ELECTIONS SITREP [...] (C) Summary. Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmud Abbas (Abu Mazen) January 11 appealed for independent Fatah candidates running in the district races to withdraw their candidacies. Palestinian contacts suggest that this request will have minimal effect on most of these candidates. [...]	2006-01-12 10:41:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KWBG PBTS IS KPAL KDEM
06JERUSALEM1501	PALESTINIAN FACTIONS DIVVY UP PLC COMMITTEES [...] (C) The Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) formally approved member assignments to 12 PLC committees following negotiations between Hamas, Fatah, and the other factions in the Council. Hamas is slated to control six of the 12 committees, Fatah four, and one each for Salam Fayyad's Third [...]	2006-04-12 13:04:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL KDEM IS
06JERUSALEM1524	TAXI PERMIT DISPUTE PRECIPATES AL-AQSA ATTACK ON [...] (C) SUMMARY: Fatah-affiliated militants attacked the offices of the PA Prime Minister Isma'il Hanniyah and Transportation Minister Ziad Thatha on April 13 in response to the HAMAS-led government,s decision not to disburse taxi permits that PA officials have used in the past to co-opt armed Fat [...]	2006-04-14 14:53:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAL KWBG PREL IS
06JERUSALEM1621	GREEKS, ARMENIANS PREDICTING CALM DURING HOLY FIRE [...] (C) Summary. Jerusalem religious officials from the Greek and Armenian Patriarchates are cautiously optimistic that the April 22 Holy Fire celebration in Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulcher will pass without incident. Greek Patriarchate officials April 21 were confident that deposed [...]	2006-04-21 16:21:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL KDEM IS
06JERUSALEM1748	JERUSALEM CATHOLIC HOSPICE DESCRIBES PROBLEMS FROM [...] (SBU) Summary. During an April 25 meeting with ConGen Poloff, the lead attorney for the Hospice Saint Vincent de Paul -- a Vatican-supported institution situated near the Old City of Jerusalem -- appealed for USG intervention with the Government of Israel (GOI) in response to the constructi [...]	2006-05-02 10:21:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL KDEM IS
06JERUSALEM1853	PA FINANCIAL CRUNCH HAS LOCAL CONSEQUENCES [...] (C) Summary. In a sign that the Hamas-led government's financial difficulties are trickling downward, a somber Hani al-Hayek -- Fatah mayor since May 2005 of the Bethlehem-area town of Bayt Sahur (population 13,000) -- informed ConGen Poloff May 5 that his municipality faced a serious finan [...]	2006-05-09 15:51:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL IS
06JERUSALEM1918	SETTLER HARASSMENT OF PALESTINIAN SCHOOLCHILDREN [...] SUMMARY. Settlers from Ma'on and Hill 833 outpost in the southern Hebron Hills have waged an ongoing campaign of harassment against Palestinian schoolchildren traveling from Um Tuba to their school in al-Tuwani, according to Christian Peacemaker Teams (CPT). CPT believes that settlers attack [...]	2006-05-12 16:15:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PHUM KWBG IS
06JERUSALEM2028	SECURITY FORCES DEPLOYED IN PARALLEL AS EGYPT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Security forces under President Abbas' (Abu Mazen) control deployed throughout Gaza on May 17 and 18 in response to the HAMAS-led government's deployment of a new security force composed of militants from factions loyal to HAMAS. Egyptian officials hosted a meeting between high-l [...]	2006-05-18 16:10:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAL KWBG MOPS PREL IS
06JERUSALEM2060	UNRWA OFFICIALS OUTLINE CONTACT POLICY WITH PA, [...] (SBU) Summary. During a May 12 meeting with IO Assistant Secretary Kristen Silverberg, UNRWA Deputy Commissioner-General Filippo Grandi said that his agency would maintain "minimal" contact with the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority. Grandi argued that some technical interaction is necessar [...]	2006-05-22 13:51:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PREF PGOV KWBG KPAL KDEM IS
06JERUSALEM2098	RELATIVE CALM RETURNS TO GAZA [...] (C) SUMMARY: Gaza was relatively calm on May 23 after senior Fatah and HAMAS officials agreed to take steps to prevent further violence. However, rival armed groups continue to patrol the streets and a potential remains for a return of violent clashes. PA government spokesman Ghazi Hamad tol [...]	2006-05-23 15:26:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAL KWBG PREL IS ASEC CASC
06JERUSALEM2151	DIVERGENT REACTIONS TO ABU MAZEN'S NATIONAL [...] (C) Summary. Hamas has yet to articulate a consistent position on Abu Mazen's intention to hold a national referendum proposal. Fatah officials have noted the discrepancy in statements from Hamas, a division which they hope to exploit in the coming 10-day discussion period. Meanwhile, the [...]	2006-05-26 15:58:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL KDEM IS
06JERUSALEM2246	ABU MAZEN, HAMAS HEADING TOWARD SHOW-DOWN OVER [...] (C) Summary. A show-down between Abu Mazen and Hamas is looming as the midnight June 5 deadline to reach consensus on the prisoners' initiative nears. Absent an agreement, Abu Mazen intends to proceed with a presidential decree to hold a referendum on the initiative within the next 40 days [...]	2006-06-05 15:57:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL KDEM IS
06JERUSALEM2274	ABBAS DELAYS ISSUANCE OF REFERENDUM DECREE [...] (C) Summary. Following June 6 consultations between President Abbas (Abu Mazen) and the PLO Executive Committee (PLO-EC) in Ramallah, spokesmen for the president announced that he intends to delay for several days issuing a decree on holding a national referendum. The delay reportedly stem [...]	2006-06-06 16:19:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL KDEM IS
06JERUSALEM2406	PLC POSTPONES DECISION ON REFERENDUM; CEC PREPARES [...] (C) SUMMARY: During an emergency session of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) on June 12, HAMAS legislators challenged the legality of President Abbas' (Abu Mazen) decree calling for a July 26 referendum on the prisoners' initiative. After several hours of heated debate, the PLC ag [...]	2006-06-13 15:03:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	KPAL KWBG PREL PGOV IS
06JERUSALEM257	PALESTINIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ELECTIONS SITREP [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Central Elections Committee (CEC) published the finalized procedures for East Jerusalem voting on January 19. President Abbas signed a decree advancing the voting period for members of the PASF by one day to begin on January 21. Dozens of East Jerusalem residents clashed wit [...]	2006-01-20 16:17:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KWBG PGOV PINS PTER KPAL IS PBTS KDEM
06JERUSALEM2821	PALESTINIAN ELECTIONS COMMISSION SUSPENDS [...] (C) Ammar Dweik, the Chief Electoral Officer for the Palestinian Central Elections Commission (CEC),on July 5 confirmed to ConGen Poloff that the CEC had received a two-sentence letter from Abu Mazen's Chief of Staff Rafiq Husseini requesting that the CEC suspend preparations for the July [...]	2006-07-05 15:55:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL KDEM IS
06JERUSALEM3316	ISRAELI HIGH COURT TO ALLOW TEMPLE MOUNT FAITHFUL [...] (C) Jerusalem attorney Danny Seidemann confirmed to ConGen Poloff an August 1 decision by the Israeli High Court to grant entry by the Temple Mount Faithful -- an extreme right-wing Israeli group dedicated to rebuilding the Jewish temple on the site of the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount in the [...]	2006-08-01 15:27:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL KWBG PHUM IS
06JERUSALEM3357	ISRAELI POLICE PREPARING FOR POSSIBLE CLASHES IN [...] (C) Israeli police in Jerusalem are preparing for possible confrontations with Jewish and Muslim protesters on August 3 in the wake of the August 2 Israeli High Court decision to allow members of the Temple Mount Faithful (TMF) to enter the Haram al-Sharif/Temple Mount (reftel). Visitation [...]	2006-08-02 14:54:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL KWBG PHUM IS
06JERUSALEM3358	IMPENDING HOME DEMOLITION DRAWS APPEALS FROM [...] (C) SUMMARY: Israeli and international human rights activists have appealed to the Jerusalem municipality to prevent the scheduled demolition of an East Jerusalem home. The municipality has so far rejected the appeals to cancel the demolition order, arguing that the house was built illegall [...]	2006-08-02 14:56:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM IS
06JERUSALEM338	PALESTINIAN LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS: ELECTION DAY [...] (C) Con Gen election observers report elections proceeding smoothly in Jerusalem and Ramallah in the first hours of voting. PA President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen),speaking to the media, commended the ongoing polling and described the events as "an election festival." Three polling stations i [...]	2006-01-25 09:33:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KWBG PBTS IS KPAL KDEM
06JERUSALEM340	PALESTINIAN LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS: ELECTION DAY [...] (C) As of 12:30 pm local time, Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) elections continued to go smoothly. There was media coverage of PA President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) and Hamas leader Mohammed Zahar casting votes in their respective locations. There continued to be reports of some votin [...]	2006-01-25 12:01:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS KWBG KPAL KDEM IS
06JERUSALEM345	PALESTINIAN LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS: ELECTION DAY [...] (C) As of 2:30 pm local time, PLC elections continued to go smoothly with 45 percent voter turnout in both the West Bank and Gaza Strip after seven and a half hours of voting. CEC Chairman Hanna Nasser estimated that voter turnout would be 75-80 percent by the end of the day and predicted that [...]	2006-01-25 14:19:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS KDEM KPAL KWBG IS
06JERUSALEM347	PALESTINIAN LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS: ELECTION DAY [...] (C) As of 6:00 pm local time, Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) elections continued to go smoothly with only sporadic reports of violence. The Central Elections Commission reported voter turnout at 64.7 percent with 810,000 voting in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Slow lines at East Jerusa [...]	2006-01-25 17:00:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS ASEC KDEM KPAL KWBG IS
06JERUSALEM348	PALESTINIAN LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS: ELECTION DAY [...] (C) As of 9:00 pm local time, Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) elections continued to go smoothly in most areas, with nearly 81 percent voter turnout in the West Bank and Gaza Strip after over 12 hours of voting. The CEC determined that there would not be an overall extension of the votin [...]	2006-01-25 20:37:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ASEC IS KDEM KPAL KWBG PBTS PGOV
06JERUSALEM349	PALESTINIAN LEGISLATIVE ELECTIONS: ELECTION DAY [...] (C) SUMMARY: As of midnight on Election Day, the Central Elections Commission (CEC) was counting votes with preliminary results not expected until later on January 26. Polls in Jerusalem closed at 2100L, two hours after the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The election was notably free of serious vo [...]	2006-01-25 22:43:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC IS KDEM KPAL KWBG PBTS PGOV PREL
06JERUSALEM3635	SEPARATION BARRIER ROUTE REVISED, BUT PALESTINIAN [...] (C) SUMMARY: Following a July 2006 report from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA),Palestinian and NGO contacts have informed ConGen that despite revisions, the route of the separation barrier will cut off tens of thousands of Palestinians from Palestinian-o [...]	2006-08-17 07:36:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM KWBG IS
06JERUSALEM3800	MGGZ01 - JERUSALEM AUGUST 23 SITREP [...] (SBU) Summary. IDF shelling August 22 targeted Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) members, killing three near Khan Younis while injuring another seven Palestinians. One IDF soldier sustained injuries from an anti-tank rocket in the northern Gaza Strip. An Israeli operation into the Shijayah [...]	2006-08-23 14:52:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL ASEC CASC KPAL KWBG PHUM
06JERUSALEM3804	EREKAT OUTLINES NEXT STEPS TO CODEL SHAYS [...] (C) Summary. During an August 19 meeting in Jericho, PLO Chief Negotiator Sa'eb Erekat told Codel Shays that the conflict in Lebanon resulted in a defeat for political moderation. Erekat maintained that extremist forces such as Hamas and Hezbollah have gained as a result of the violence, [...]	2006-08-23 15:48:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPAL KWBG PHUM IS
06JERUSALEM4029	WIDE PARTICIPATION AS GENERAL STRIKE ENTERS FIFTH [...] Summary: A general strike by PA employees in protest of non-payment of salaries since March (see ref) entered its fifth day, September 6. Union leaders have estimated 80-90 percent PA employee participation. Although the strike is more comprehensive in the West Bank than in Gaza, it has br [...]	2006-09-06 14:44:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ELAB PGOV PHUM EFIN KWGB
06JERUSALEM4346	EU-BAM CHAIRS SECOND COORDINATION AND EVALUATION [...] (C) Summary: In a productive second meeting of the Coordination and Evaluation Committee on the Rafah crossing chaired by the European Union Border Assistance Mission (EU-BAM),Israeli and Palestinian delegations, with a USG delegation present as observers, reviewed the Rafah crossing operati [...]	2006-09-29 14:25:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV PBTS PTER ETRD KWBG IS EG
06JERUSALEM458	HAMAS EMPHASIZING UNITY AND MODERATION; FATAH AND [...] (C) SUMMARY: Hamas leaders inside the West Bank and Gaza continue to emphasize unity and moderation in their public statements, while the ConGen has received reports that senior PASF and Fatah officials are growing increasingly fearful of the impending transfer of governmental authority. Hamas [...]	2006-02-01 16:00:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	ASEC IS KDEM KPAL KWBG PBTS PGOV PREL
06JERUSALEM4747	STRIKING TEACHERS AGREE TO RETURN TO WORK; RISK OF [...] (SBU) REPRESENTATIVES FROM PRESIDENT ABBAS'S OFFICE, THE GENERAL UNION OF TEACHERS AND THE PA MINISTRIES OF FINANCE, LABOR AND HIGHER EDUCATION REACHED AN AGREEMENT NOVEMBER 6 ENDING A TEACHERS' STRIKE LAUNCHED AT THE START OF THE SCHOOL YEAR IN PROTEST OF NON-PAYMENT OF PA EMPLOYEE SALARIES. [...]	2006-11-07 15:58:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	EFIN ELAB PGOV KWBG
06JERUSALEM4757	PROPOSED FIFTH MINARET RENEWS DEBATE OVER [...] (C) SUMMARY: A JORDANIAN PROPOSAL TO BUILD A FIFTH MINARET FOR THE AL AQSA MOSQUE ON OF THE HARAM A-SHARIF/TEMPLE MOUNT HAS RENEWED CALLS BY RIGHT-WING ISRAELIS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SYNAGOGUE IN THE SAME AREA. JORDANIAN KING ABDULLAH ANNOUNCED A CONTEST FOR THE DESIGN OF THE MINARET IN OCT [...]	2006-11-08 15:04:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV ECON ETRD KWBG KPAL IS
06JERUSALEM4760	PALESTINIAN CEC DISCUSSES CURRENT SITUATION [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: CONGEN REPS MET WITH HANA NASSER, THE CHAIRMAN OF THE PALESTINIAN CENTRAL ELECTION COMMISSION (CEC),AND ALSO Q-CHAIRED A MEETING OF THE CEC-ELECTION REFORM SUPPORT GROUP (ERSG) ON NOVEMBER 7 IN RAMALLAH. PRIVATELY, NASSER CRITICIZED FATAH'S LACK OF DISCIPLINE DURING THE PLC E [...]	2006-11-08 16:22:00	Consulate Jerusalem	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM KPAL KWBG
06JERUSALEM4799	DEMOLITION OF EAST JERUSALEM HOMES DELAYED [...] (C) SUMMARY: TWO HOMES IN THE EAST JERUSALEM NEIGHBORHOOD OF ISAWIYYAH RECEIVED A 10-DAY STAY OF DEMOLITION NOVEMBER 14, A DAY BEFORE THEIR PREVIOUS STAY WAS TO EXPIRE. RABBIS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS HAS TOLD CONGEN THAT THE JERUSALEM MUNICIPALITY SENT SURVEYORS ON NOVEMBER 13 TO MAP AND PHOTOGRAPH [...]	2006-11-15 16:20:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV ECON ETRD KWBG KPAL IS
06JERUSALEM4833	PROPOSAL WOULD EVACUATE SOME OUTPOSTS AND LEGALIZE [...] (C) Summary: The Yesha Council has rejected a proposal (REFTEL A) to evacuate fifteen illegal outposts in the West Bank in exchange for "legalizing" eight others, saying it is too early for such negotiations. This proposal, from Israeli MK Otneil Schneller would also create a new settlement ne [...]	2006-11-22 11:14:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV ECON ETRD KWBG KPAL IS
06JERUSALEM4835	FORMER PA MINISTER SURVIVES ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT [...] (C) SUMMARY: FORMER PA MINISTER AND CURRENT MEMBER OF THE FATAH REVOLUTIONARY COUNCIL (FRC) ABD-AL-AZIZ SHAHIN (ABU ALI) WAS SHOT BY UNKNOWN GUNMEN NOVEMBER 21. SHAHIN, A CLOSE ALLY OF PLC MEMBER MOHAMAD DAHLAN, WAS MODERATELY WOUNDED IN THE ATTACK. SHAHIN IS IN GAZA'S AL-SHIFA HOSPITAL IN MODE [...]	2006-11-22 15:18:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV KWBG KPAL IS
06JERUSALEM4909	SIGNIFICANT INFRASTRUCTURE WORK UNDERWAY NEAR NEW [...] (C) Summary: A Palestinian foreman working at the construction site of the new Israeli police station located in the E-1 area east of Ma'ale Adumim told poloff December 6 that he had seen plans for the construction of a 600-unit housing complex adjacent to the police station. The foreman said [...]	2006-12-06 15:42:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV ECON ETRD KWBG KPAL IS
06JERUSALEM4917	SEPARATION BARRIER AND THE VILLAGE OF SHEIKH SA'AD [...] (C) Summary: Palestinians living in the Sheikh Sa'ad neighborhood, just southeast of the Jerusalem municipal boundary, are awaiting a ruling from the Israeli High Court regarding the route of the separation barrier. The separation barrier was erected in September 2002 and cuts through the nei [...]	2006-12-07 14:14:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV ECON ETRD KWBG KPAL IS

06JERUSALEM4920	THREE EAST JERUSALEM HOMES AND ONE BUSINESS [...] (C) SUMMARY: AN EAST JERUSALEM BUSINESS WAS DEMOLISHED DECEMBER 5 AND THREE EAST JERUSALEM HOMES WERE DEMOLISHED OR PARTIALLY DEMOLISHED DECEMBER 6. ALL OF THE AFFECTED STRUCTURES HAD RECEIVED ORDERS OF DEMOLITION FOR LACKING BUILDING PERMITS, THOUGH AT LEAST TWO OF THE THREE HOMES WERE PARTIA [...]	2006-12-08 15:34:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV ECON KWBG KPAL IS
06JERUSALEM4933	EFFORTS TO PREVENT DEMOLITION OF DARI HOME IN EAST [...] (C) Summary: Ahmed Dari's home in the Issawiyah neighborhood of East Jerusalem was demolished December 11 after efforts by the Israeli NGOs Rabbis for Human Rights and the Israeli Committee Against Home Demolitions to stop the demolition failed. Rabbis for Human Rights told ConGen PolOff on De [...]	2006-12-11 15:52:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV ECON KWBG KPAL IS
06JERUSALEM5065	MASKIYYOT: NEW SETTLEMENT DEVELOPMENT OPPOSITE [...] (C) Summary. During a visit to the Maskiyyot pre-army school on December 29, students told Poloff that houses for 30 families evacuated from Gush Katif would be constructed in a separate, uncleared area, opposite the highway from the school. Peace Now's chief settlement watcher told Poloff [...]	2006-12-29 14:25:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KWBG PBTS KPAL IS
06JERUSALEM666	MOI DG SALAMAH: HAMAS WILL NOT COLLAPSE QUICKLY [...] (S) SUMMARY: PA Interior Ministry Director General Ibrahim Salamah told Poloff and USSC staff during a February 13 meeting that he disagreed with predictions of a rapid collapse of a HAMAS-led government. Salamah said HAMAS is capable of enduring international pressure for quite some time tha [...]	2006-02-14 16:10:00	Consulate Jerusalem	SECRET	ASEC KPAL IS
06JERUSALEM67	PALESTINIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ELECTIONS SITREP [...] (C) Summary. The Central Elections Commission (CEC) January 4 delivered a letter to Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmud Abbas (Abu Mazen) requesting that the commission be "relieved of its duties" for the January 25 Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) elections. CEC Chief Elector [...]	2006-01-05 17:09:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KWBG PBTS IS KPAL KDEM
06JERUSALEM720	INCOMING FATAH PLC MEMBERS TAKE 'WAIT AND SEE' [...] (C) Summary. In separate February 15 meetings with ConGen Poloff, newly elected Fatah Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) members Dr. Emile Jarjou'i and Dr. Bernard Sabella, urged caution from both Fatah and the international community in its approach toward the incoming Hamas-led govern [...]	2006-02-17 11:09:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KWBG PBTS IS KPAL KDEM
06JERUSALEM80	PALESTINIAN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL ELECTIONS SITREP [...] (C) Summary. Hamas January 5 endorsed a Code of Conduct for the January 25 Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) elections that it had earlier refused to sign in October. The Chief Electoral Officer for the Central Elections Commission (CEC),Ammar Dweik, reported that Abu Mazen had yet t [...]	2006-01-06 18:01:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KWBG PBTS IS KPAL KDEM
06JERUSALEM903	FORMER JERUSALEM PLC MEMBER ASSESSES HAMAS, ABU [...] (C) Summary. During a March 2 meeting with ConGen Poloff, former Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) member Ziad Abu Zayyad (Jerusalem, independent) provided his assessment of the challenges confronting the Palestinian Authority (PA) and the new PLC. On Hamas forming the next Palestinia [...]	2006-03-03 17:01:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PBTS KWBG KPAL KDEM IS
06JERUSALEM974	PLC SUSPENDS PROCEEDINGS AMIDST FATAH/HAMAS RANCOR [...] (C) SUMMARY: Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) Speaker Aziz Dweik suspended PLC sessions for two weeks following a rancorous March 6 session that featured a Fatah walkout and the passage of a HAMAS-sponsored resolution that revoked a series of expanded presidential powers and bureaucratic [...]	2006-03-08 16:37:00	Consulate Jerusalem	CONFIDENTIAL	KPAL PGOV IS
06KABUL107	PRT/TARIN KOWT: SUICIDE BOMB TARGET UNCLEAR; PRT [...] (SBU) Summary. Contrary to media reports, the January 5 suicide bombing in Tarin Kowt, Uruzgan, did not take place in proximity to Ambassador Neumann and was probably intended as an attack on senior police officials ) although the actual motive is not yet known. A final casualty count of app [...]	2006-01-09 14:20:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER ASEC PGOV AF
06KABUL1133	GOA PROPOSES AUXILIARY POLICE, REQUESTS USG FUNDING [...] (C) Summary: The Afghan Ministry of Interior has developed a plan for 9,210 &auxiliary police8 to supplement the 62,000 policemen authorized for the Afghan National Police force. It is looking for U.S. funding to support the plan, at a cost of at least USD 25 million for the first year. Th [...]	2006-03-16 14:50:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR SNAR PREL EFIN AF
06KABUL1211	NEW GOVERNOR OR URUZGAN PROVINCE TAKES OFFICE [...] (C) SUMMARY: Malawi Hakim MONIB, President Karzai's appointee as new Governor of Uruzgan province in southern Afghanistan, arrived in Tarin Kowt on the morning of March 18 nearly three weeks after his appointment. Outgoing Governor Jan Mohammed Khan greeted Monib graciously, pledging support [...]	2006-03-19 13:36:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SOCI AF
06KABUL1281	KARZAI PROPOSES NEW CABINET [...] (U) SUMMARY. On March 22, President Karzai presented his new Cabinet to Parliament for approval. The new Cabinet does not represent a significant departure from the previous one. The most important change was the replacement of Dr. Abdullah as Foreign Minister with Karzai advisor Dr. Spanta. Other [...]	2006-03-23 17:58:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF
06KABUL1285	PRT/LASHKAR GAH - HELMAND VIOLENCE: CAUSES [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Over the past year, as the insurgency has gained momentum in Helmand province, security has deteriorated. Causes are varied, complicated, and intertwined. They include: Some blurring of tribal/drug trafficking boundaries; growing Anti-Coalition Militia (ACM) strength; the [...]	2006-03-24 13:44:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER ASEC AF
06KABUL1324	1267 SANCTIONS LIST MONITORING TEAM WILL URGE CASE [...] (C) Summary: The focus of the upcoming UN 1267 Sanctions List Monitoring Team visit will be to facilitate the delisting of the new governor of Uruzgan, Abdul Hakim Monib. UNAMA officials have been instructed that until delisting has occurred, they are legally barred from supporting any pro [...]	2006-03-26 13:26:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER EFIN ASEC PGOV PREL AF
06KABUL1328	PRT/TARIN KOWT - NEW GOVERNOR OF URUZGAN PROVINCE [...] (C) SUMMARY. Abdul Hakim Monib, who took office as Governor of Afghanistan's Uruzgan province on March 18 (reftel),is making a cautious and thoughtful start. Monib is an outsider -- appointed by President Karzai to replace a corrupt and ineffective predecessor -- and he is moving systemati [...]	2006-03-26 14:30:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER AF
06KABUL1341	1267 SANCTIONS LIST MONITORING TEAM WILL URGE CASE [...] (C) Summary: The focus of the upcoming UN 1267 Sanctions List Monitoring Team visit will be to facilitate the delisting of the new governor of Uruzgan, Abdul Hakim Monib. UNAMA officials have been instructed that until delisting has occurred, they are legally barred from supporting any proj [...]	2006-03-27 11:07:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER EFIN ASEC PGOV PREL AF
06KABUL1353	PRT/LASHKAR GAH - MOUSA QALA DISTRCT CHIEF [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Mousa Qala district chief Mohammed Wali and tribal elders told visiting UK PRT liaison officer, poloff, Poppy Elimination Program (PEP) officer, and USAID representative on March 23 that they are looking forward to better security when UK and Afghan National Army troops deplo [...]	2006-03-28 04:30:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PTER EAID PREL ASEC AF
06KABUL1440	CORRECTED COPY: KARZAI PROPOSES NEW CABINET [...] (U) SUMMARY. On March 22, President Karzai presented his new Cabinet to Parliament for approval. The new Cabinet does not represent a significant departure from the previous one. The most important change was the replacement of Dr. Abdullah as Foreign Minister with Karzai advisor Dr. Spanta. [...]	2006-03-30 11:12:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF
06KABUL1545	PROGRESS ON UN 1267 SANCTIONS DELISTING REQUEST [...] (C/REL NATO/ISAF/AUS/NZ) Summary: The Afghan National Security Council is preparing dossiers on the 20 individuals for whom they have requested removal from the 1267 Sanctions list. The UN Team has also requested information from CFC-A, particularly with regard to Uruzgan governor Monib, a [...]	2006-04-06 12:25:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER EFIN ASEC PGOV PREL AF
06KABUL1554	THE ROOTS OF CONFLICT: AFGHAN VS AMERICAN BELIEFS [...] (C) Summary: Afghanistan is in flux, fully exposed to a barrage of new concepts, economic and social change after decades of war, with a populace that both welcomes many changes and yet can react negatively and forcefully when new ideas and events seem to threaten the fragile social structur [...]	2006-04-08 03:50:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PREL PGOV PTER AF
06KABUL1791	AFGHAN PARLIAMENT APPROVES 20 OF 25 MINISTERS [...] (C) SUMMARY. On Thursday, April 20, the Afghan National Assembly approved the majority of President Karzai's nominated Cabinet Ministers. Significant confirmations included Engineer Zarar as Minister of Interior and Spanta as Minister of Foreign Affairs. Minister of Culture Raheen and Mini [...]	2006-04-20 15:20:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF
06KABUL18	NATIONAL ASSEMBLY MOVES FORWARD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The tone of the second week for Afghanistan's National Assembly (NA) has been positive, with members of parliament open to new ideas and mostly constructive debate. The NA spent the week finalizing its leadership and discussing its rules of procedure. The formation of caucuse [...]	2006-01-02 13:23:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF
06KABUL1976	20 MINISTERS SWORN IN; WOLESI JIRGA REVIEWS THE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. On May 1 and 2, the lower house of the Afghan Parliament reviewed the GOA budget, posing extensive questions to Minister of Finance Ahadi about the government's finances. During debate, the Wolesi Jirga (WJ) emphasized two points: first, it has the right to closely review the [...]	2006-05-02 14:05:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF
06KABUL2037	PRT/HELMAND - HELMAND PROVINCIAL COUNCIL [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-07 04:12:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PTER AF
06KABUL2186	PRT/HELMAND: HELMAND GOVERNOR DAUD VOICES [...] (C) SUMMARY: At a weekly security meeting on April 17, Helmand Governor Mohammed Daud told PRT officials that the security situation in the province was becoming more critical. In late April, the Governor moved poppy eradication forces to the northern districts, not only to eradicate, but al [...]	2006-05-15 06:45:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER SNAR AF
06KABUL2386	BILATERAL DETAINEE AGREEMENTS WITH THE GOA [...] (C) Summary: Four nations ) Canada, Denmark, the Netherlands, and the U.K. ) have signed bilateral agreements with the Government of Afghanistan concerning the transfer of detainees. With the exception of Denmark, these nations are already engaged in military action as part of OEF or are lo [...]	2006-05-25 06:54:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR PGOV PTER PREL AF
06KABUL24	MP BIO: ALEMI BALKHI [...] (U) This is the first in a series of biographic reporting cables on Afghanistan's newly elected Parliamentarians. Additional reports will be sent as PolOffs continue to meet personally with new MPs during the coming weeks. 2. (U) SUMMARY: The striking feature of PolOff's December 31 meeting [...]	2006-01-03 07:37:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PINR KDEM AF
06KABUL2473	PARLIAMENT REACTS TO CONVOY CRASH [...] (C) SUMMARY. Both houses of the Afghan Parliament resumed debate on security in closed session on Tuesday, May 30. According to MPs, the US military convoy vehicle accident of May 29 was discussed, but debate quickly moved to larger security issues. No statements were made calling into quest [...]	2006-05-30 14:26:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR PINS AF
06KABUL275	AFGHAN NATIONAL ASSEMBLY: UPCOMING AGENDA [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Afghan National Assembly (NA) will resume session on Saturday, January 21. On the immediate agenda are continued discussion on rules of procedure and the formation of political groups and committees. Debate on approving the Cabinet and transitional laws will most likely [...]	2006-01-19 12:31:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF
06KABUL276	PRT/TARIN KOWT: DOING HARD TIME IN URUZGAN PROVINCE [...] (SBU) Summary: A USG team visiting Uruzgan Provincial Prison found that the warden and prison guards, although untrained, were paid regularly and were interested in receiving training and improving the facility. The prison and administrative buildings were largely crumbling mud-brick structu [...]	2006-01-19 12:41:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KJUS AF
06KABUL2787	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: ANTICIPATED OIC ASSAULT ON [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-20 11:59:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL UN AF
06KABUL3059	AFGHANISTAN:RESPONSE TO NORTH KOREAN MISSILE [...] No summary [...]	2006-07-09 03:38:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PARM KNNP KN AF
06KABUL3135	DISSATISFACTION IN THE PROVINCES [...] (C) SUMMARY: : On 10 July, Poloff met with Arif Khan, a member of the Paktika Provincial Council who has been in Kabul trying to meet with GOA officials to express his concerns over poor governance, corruption and deteriorating security in Paktika. His efforts to have government meetings had [...]	2006-07-13 11:16:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER AF
06KABUL3179	DEPT FOR THE PREVENTION OF VICE AND THE PROMOTION [...] (C) The feared Department of the Prevention of Vice and Promotion of Virtue that existed during and before the Taliban era may resurface again if Acting Supreme Court Chief Justice Shinwari has his way. Two months ago, at a meeting of the National Ulema Council for Afghanistan, Shinwari and [...]	2006-07-17 08:11:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SOCI PINR AF
06KABUL3198	KARZAI: A LAME DUCK PRESIDENT? [...] (C) SUMMARY: With the Middle East again in turmoil, Washington does not need a leadership crisis involving President Karzai ) and the good news is that he is not in immediate danger of political collapse. The bad news, however, is that public confidence has eroded badly in recent weeks, as hi [...]	2006-07-17 16:29:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER ASEC PINS AF
06KABUL3320	HUNDREDS OF KOREAN CHRISTIANS PLAN RALLY IN KABUL [...] (C) SUMMARY: The Embassy is tracking a potential rally of up to 2000 Christians flying in from Korea. The Korean Embassy has verified that Koreans involved with the group have already arrived in advance of the event slated for August 5-7. END SUMMARY. 2. (C) In April Embassy Kabul received [...]	2006-07-27 14:20:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PREL KIRF AF
06KABUL3455	KOREAN RALLY UPDATE - 08-02-2006 [...] (SBU) Post continues to track a group of approximately 1150 Koreans in country to participate in a peace rally and relief work. News reports characterize the groups as "Christian Evangelicals" and there has already been one Afghan demonstration in Mazar-e-Sharif to protest this event and the s [...]	2006-08-02 14:39:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CASC PGOV PHUM PREL PTER AF KS
06KABUL3479	KOREAN RALLY UPDATE, THURSDAY 08-03-2006 [...] (C) SUMMARY: President Karzai has ordered the "protection" of the estimated 1,200 ethnic Koreans in Afghanistan as part of the Institution of Asian Culture and Development,s (IACD) and Millennium Pacific Icon (MPIG) groups' planned August 5-7 peace rallies (reftels). According to Gen. Akhbar [...]	2006-08-03 16:28:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	CASC PGOV PHUM PREL PTER AF KS
06KABUL3508	Korean Rally Update, Sunday 08-06-2006 [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: There have been no incidents of violence in connection with the Korean rally participants so far. Hundreds of participants have left Kabul over the last two days, including many Americans. The situation appears to have largely been defused and the remaining Koreans are mostly [...]	2006-08-06 16:56:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	CASC PREL PGOV PTER PHUM AF KS
06KABUL351	POSSIBLE APPOINTMENT OF FORMER TALIBAN OFFICAL AS [...] (C) Summary. President Karzai has informally indicated that he will appoint Mullah Abdul Hakim Munib as the new governor of Uruzgan. Munib is a former high-ranking Taliban official who has reconciled with the government of Afghanistan. Karzai mentioned the decision in passing during a meeting [...]	2006-01-26 05:45:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL
06KABUL3608	WALKOUT FROM AFGHAN PARLIAMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY: Begin summary: A group estimated at 80 MPs walked out of Parliament on 12 August, ostensibly to protest what they view as discriminatory ethnic policy by the Karzai administration. Led by the Uzbek MPs, the protesters included representatives from at least nine provinces. They [...]	2006-08-14 06:05:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER AF
06KABUL378	PRT/HELMAND PROVINCIAL COUNCIL MOVING FORWARD [...] No summary [...]	2006-01-27 10:53:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PTER SNAR AF
06KABUL405	PRT/HELMAND HELMAND RELIGIOUS SCHOOL [...] No summary [...]	2006-01-30 08:06:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PTER AF
06KABUL4066	GOA NOTIFIED OF SECOND ROUND OF GUANTANAMO [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered the notifications in reftels A and B on September 10 to National Security Council staff member Jamil Bahramy. Mr. Bahramy had no comment upon receiving the notifications. NEUMANN [...]	2006-09-11 09:40:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PTER PINR PREL KAWC AF
06KABUL417	DEBATE BUT NO ACTION IN PARLIAMENT [...] (C) SUMMARY. The National Assembly's first week in session after a holiday recess was marked by heated debate over procedures for approval of the Cabinet and travel by Members of Parliament overseas. After initially agreeing to approve the Cabinet Minister by Minister, the Wolesi Jirga (lowe [...]	2006-01-30 14:10:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF
06KABUL429	DEMARCHES DELIVERED: GUANTANAMO BAY JAN [...] (U) This is an action request. Please see action request in paragraph 2. 2. (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarches regarding Guantanamo Bay-held detainees to Jamil Bahramy, an NSC official, on 31 January. Poloff also reviewed talking points in refs A and D and left them behind as a nonpa [...]	2006-01-31 13:02:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PTER KAWC PREL AF
06KABUL443	CABINET DOWNSIZING: WILL THE AFHAN MINISTRY OF [...] (C) SUMMARY. During a January 25 meeting with A/DCM and POLOFFs, Minister of Women's Affairs Massouda Jalal expressed concern that the Ministry of Women's Affairs might not survive a possible upcoming cabinet reorganization. Karzai has indeed said that he would like to streamline his Cabinet [...]	2006-02-01 12:28:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KWMN AF
06KABUL453	PRT HELMAND: GOVERNOR OPTIMISTIC ON POPPY [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Helmand provincial Governor Engineer Daud told PRT officers on January 30 that he is optimistic his poppy eradication plan will succeed. Along with eradication, there must also be significant assistance to poor farmers, especially in the far north of the province. The Govern [...]	2006-02-01 13:53:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	SNAR PREL PGOV PTER PINR AF
06KABUL467	THE AFGHAN TWILIGHT ZONE: PROPOSAL FOR A NEW PRIME [...] (C) SUMMARY: Several well-known members of Parliament (MPs),including Qanooni, Rabbani, and Fahim, have allegedly begun discussing the creation of the position of Prime Minister. The proposal has not yet been brought to the floor of the Parliament and the MPs' motives are still unclear, but [...]	2006-02-03 11:24:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF
06KABUL490	QANOONI DENIES INTEREST IN PRIME MINISTRY [...] (C) SUMMARY. In a February 4 meeting with DCM and POLOFFs, Wolesi Jirga Speaker Yunus Qanooni denied interest in creating the post of Prime Minister. He reiterated his interest in a close relationship with President Karzai and the United States and stated that the Parliament had higher prio [...]	2006-02-05 11:32:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF
06KABUL539	INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY DEBATES ACTION ON AFGHAN [...] (C) SUMMARY. Poloff attended a January 18 meeting to discuss the possibility of a shake up in the Supreme Court and how the international community should react. Beyond general agreement that they would support a transparent process and qualified candidates, viewpoints diverged on how best to [...]	2006-02-07 12:21:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF
06KABUL5398	SON OF SLAIN AFGHAN WOMEN'S RIGHTS ACTIVIST MAKES [...] (SBU) Naqibullah (No Last Name),the 18-year-old son of Safia Ama Jan, the Director of Women's Affairs in Kandahar province, who was gunned down outside her home in September (see reftel),contacted post to report threats against himself and violent acts against his father since the murder of [...]	2006-11-07 12:35:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREF PREL PTER PK AF
06KABUL5435	PRT KHOST: NEW ABP COMMANDER OPTIMISTIC DESPITE [...] (C) Summary: Despite inheriting a demoralized force on the heels of a 200- to 250-man walkout (a fifth of the force),incoming acting Afghan Border Police (ABP) Commander Kasim Khil is optimistic he can bring back and improve troop strength and effectiveness. In what appears to be a model app [...]	2006-11-12 13:13:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PTER ASEC MARR AF
06KABUL5843	PRT/PANSHJIR: WOMEN'S AGENDA ADVANCING, DESPITE [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The PRT is working to create opportunities for the women of Panjshir to improve their levels of education, as well as their economic mobility and access to health care. A weak Director of Women's Affairs, however, represents a major stumbling block. The PRT strategy has been [...]	2006-12-14 03:24:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PREL PGOV AF
06KABUL5871	DEMARCHE DELIVERED - GOA PARTICIPATION IN UAE [...] (U) On December 11, POLOFF delivered reftel demarche seeking GOA representation at the international conference on trafficking in persons hosted by the UAE and UN Office on Drugs and Crime. According to a contact at the MFA?s Office of UN Affairs, the MFA had received an invitation to the co [...]	2006-12-17 04:53:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MCAP PREL PGOV PTER PHUM AF
06KABUL5928	PRT/CHAGHCHARAN: FOOD SHORTAGE IN WESTERN [...] SUMMARY: (U) World Food Program (WFP) and Afghan government officials alike recognize the current vulnerability to food shortages faced particularly ) though not exclusively ) by Afghanistan's western provinces. The onset of winter is now exacerbating the effects of the lengthy drought. Ba [...]	2006-12-23 07:00:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL AF
06KABUL5939	SAYYAF UNDER SIEGE: LAND DEALS AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN [...] (SBU) Begin summary: Member of Parliament and former warlord Abdulrab al-Rasul Sayyaf has come under serious attack in the media because of allegations of land-grabbing as well as for his role in the civil war that almost destroyed Kabul. Truth and facts in Afghanistan are always difficult to [...]	2006-12-24 05:42:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PINR PINS PREL SOCI AF
06KABUL5964	THE AFGHAN PARLIAMENT AFTER ONE YEAR [...] (U) BEGIN SUMMARY: Celebrating it's first anniversary on December 19, the Afghan Parliament has established a strong foothold as a powerful force in Afghan politics. With members representing the last many decades of diverse philosophies and all sides of the various conflicts and coups which t [...]	2006-12-27 10:45:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PINR PINS PREL AF
06KABUL5965	MEETING WITH GENERAL DOSTUM [...] (C) BEGIN SUMMARY: Uzbek factional leader General Abdul Rashid Dostum is feeling increasingly frustrated over his lack of a significant role in Afghan decision making and his lack of contact with the Palace. Once a respected (even feared) force in national politics, he has been side-lined from [...]	2006-12-27 10:51:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PINR PINS PREL AF
06KABUL5973	PRT BAMYAN - GOVERNMENT TAKES FIRST STEP TOWARD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Bamyan Provincial Justice Conference (PJC),held in the provincial capital November 20-21, brought together Afghan leaders and experts to find the means to improve justice in Bamyan. Stakeholders discussed their concerns in break-out sessions on police, prosecutors, judges [...]	2006-12-27 13:21:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM AF
06KABUL64	HAZARAJAT FEELING NEGLECTED AGAIN; ACTING DAI [...] (U) SUMMARY: Acting Governor of Dai Kundi Province Ahmadullah Nawid and Hazara political activist Zulfiqar Omid were pleased on January 5 to once again voice their complaints to a USG PolOff about the lack of development attention being given to the Hazarajat region. Describing the region as [...]	2006-01-05 13:15:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF
06KABUL686	POLITICAL GROUPS IN PARLIAMENT FAIL TO TAKE HOLD [...] (SBU) SUMMARY. The Wolesi Jirga (lower house of the Afghan National Assembly) has decided to defer formation of political groups and move directly to committee membership selection. The Meshrano Jirga (upper house),which announced its formal political groups last week, is considering disba [...]	2006-02-15 05:08:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF
06KABUL725	ISAF RESPONSE TO ANTI-CARTOON RIOTS: "RESTRAINT," [...] Summary: Last week,s cartoon-related demonstrations, several of them violent and with loss of life, provide an opportunity to assess ISAF,s capability and willingness to respond to violent confrontations in its current areas of responsibility (RACs North and West, and Kabul). In Maimana, the [...]	2006-02-17 11:49:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR MOPS AF
06KABUL778	MEDIA CLIMATE CAUTIOUS AS "UN-ISLAMIC" TV STATION [...] (U) SUMMARY: Afghan officials continue to fine or warn Afghan media outlets against broadcasting programming which is counter to Afghan culture or law. This month, the government fined Afghan TV $1000 for broadcasting "un-Islamic" material; Governor Joma Khan Hamdard of Jowzjan warned two loca [...]	2006-02-23 04:06:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	ECPS PGOV PINR SCUL AF
06KABUL813	CORRECTED COPY: POLITICAL GROUPS IN PARLIAMENT [...] (SBU/REL ISAF) SUMMARY. The Wolesi Jirga (lower house of the Afghan National Assembly) has decided to defer formation of political groups and move directly to committee membership selection. The Meshrano Jirga (upper house),which announced its formal political groups last week, is consideri [...]	2006-02-25 05:14:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF
06KABUL839	PRT FARAH - GOVERNOR WASIFI SINGS ECONOMIC [...] (C) Summary. Farah Province,s Governor Isatollah Wasifi met with officials of Bejend and Meshand in the city of Bejend in the province of South Khorasan in northern Iran December 20-27. They discussed joint border control, economic expansion and construction, cultural, and education project [...]	2006-02-27 06:30:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF
06KABUL851	PRT FARAH - GOVERNOR WASIFI SINGS ECONOMIC [...] (C) Summary. Farah Province,s Governor Isatollah Wasifi met with officials of Bejend and Meshand in the city of Bejend in the province of South Khorasan in northern Iran December 20-27. They discussed joint border control, economic expansion and construction, cultural, and education project [...]	2006-02-27 09:08:00	Embassy Kabul	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF
06KABUL855	PRT FARAH - ASSESSMENT OF 10 FEBRUARY ATTACK [...] (C) Summary. PRT Farah was attacked by rockets and mortar rounds, followed by small arms fire, in the early morning of February 10. Although no injuries or damage occurred, the well-coordinated attack demonstrated the growing sophistication of anti-Coalition elements. This and similar even [...]	2006-02-28 04:02:00	Embassy Kabul	SECRET	PGOV PREL PINR PTER AF
06KABUL874	PRT/LASHKAR GAH - NAW ZAD PROSECUTOR SAYS [...] (SBU) Summary: Helmand's northern Naw Zad district suffers from both a lack of governance and security. District leadership appears to be engaged in drug trafficking. According to the district's prosecutor, after four years citizens are running out of patience and their loyalty to the gove [...]	2006-03-01 15:46:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV SNAR KJUS PTER AF
06KABUL875	PRT/LASHKAR GAH - CITIZENS SEE BOOTS ON THE [...] (SBU) As the PRT continues its transition to the UK, an advance group of British soldiers has begun dismounted patrols in Helmand Province's capital, Lashkar Gah. Early indications appear positive. Up to the arrival of the UK troops, there have been no such patrols, as US forces use mounted [...]	2006-03-01 15:47:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV MARR PTER AF
06KABUL91	MP BIO: ABDUL RASUL SAYYAF [...] (U) This is the second in a series of biographic reporting cables on Afghanistan's newly elected Parliamentarians. Additional reports will be sent as EMBOFFS continue to meet personally with new MPs during the coming weeks. 2. (SBU) Summary: Amb and POLOFF met with Abdul Rasul Sayyaf on 3 J [...]	2006-01-08 10:43:00	Embassy Kabul	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL PINR KDEM AF
06KAMPALA1488	NORTHERN UGANDA: LOCAL VIEWS ON PEACE, [...] (SBU) Summary: Government officials, international organizations, human rights groups, and local residents in Gulu expressed cautious optimism about the prospects for resolution to the war in Northern Uganda. Most reservations are associated with the mental stability of Lord's Resistance A [...]	2006-08-04 12:30:00	Embassy Kampala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL PGOV EAID UG SU
06KAMPALA1512	UGANDA: LEBANON SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION [...] No summary [...]	2006-08-08 10:24:00	Embassy Kampala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MOPS PREL PTER UN UG IS
06KAMPALA1514	UGANDA: PROGRESS ON GSP/AGOA ISSUES [...] (C) Summary: The Government of Uganda, Textile Unions, and Textile Manufacturers Association have made significant progress toward resolving the outstanding issues in the AFL-CIO GSP case. The Government,s passage of the new labor laws in May has been followed up with the signing of the impl [...]	2006-08-08 13:34:00	Embassy Kampala	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON ENRG ETRD PGOV PHUM ELAB UG
06KAMPALA1534	MORE NORTHERN UGANDAN OFFICIALS GOING TO JUBA [...] (SBU) Summary: Ugandan officials view this week's back-and-forth by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) delegation as nervous "antics" rather than a threat to the peace process and continue to support confidence-building efforts by northern Ugandans. A group of five northern Ugandan parliame [...]	2006-08-11 12:47:00	Embassy Kampala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREF PREL PGOV UG SU
06KAMPALA1540	NORTHERN UGANDA: GOU PRESENTS CEASE-FIRE PROPOSAL, [...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Uganda formally presented its position paper on disarmament, amnesty, repatriation, demobilization, and re-integration of the Lord's Resistance Army on August 11 at the peace talks in Juba. Key provisions include the assembly of LRA forces within 14 days of [...]	2006-08-14 10:55:00	Embassy Kampala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREF PREL PGOV UG SU
06KAMPALA1573	POSTCARD FROM MASAKA: MULTIPARTY OPPORTUNITIES AT [...] (SBU) Summary: Internal party conflict between national and local NRM officials is an important trend in Uganda's new multiparty system. On August 14, poloffs visited Masaka, a large rural district located southwest of Kampala notable for its diversity of political party representation at b [...]	2006-08-18 11:54:00	Embassy Kampala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM EAID UG
06KAMPALA1613	NORTHERN UGANDA: RETURNS OF DISPLACED PERSONS [...] (SBU) Summary: In northern Uganda, humanitarian organizations are reporting increases in the numbers of internally displaced persons returning to their land. The process of "decongestion" of the camps has led to the spontaneous movement of IDPs from more crowded camps to areas where they can [...]	2006-08-25 12:34:00	Embassy Kampala	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM EAID PREF UG SU
06KHARTOUM1008	SUDAN: TOO EARLY TO SET DATE OF EASTERN FRONT TALKS [...] (C) Summary: In an April 25 meeting, Dr. Hassan Haj Ali, National Congress Party (NCP) Deputy General Secretary for External Relations, said that President Bashir and First Vice President Kiir would determine in early May the date of the GNU-Eastern Front negotiations and the composition of th [...]	2006-04-27 13:01:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ER SU
06KHARTOUM1018	POLITICAL DIMENSIONS OF EAST SUDAN: VISIT TO [...] (C) Summary: From April 11-13, Poloff and AF/SPG DeskOff met with government officials, opposition parties, tribal leaders, NGOs, and UNMIS to discuss the political and humanitarian situation in Eastern Sudan. This is the first of two cables to discuss the political and tribal dimensions of [...]	2006-04-30 08:56:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ER SU
06KHARTOUM1019	TRIBAL/OPPOSITIONAL DIMENSIONS OF EAST SUDAN: [...] (C) Summary: From April 11-13, Poloff and AF/SPG DeskOff met with government officials, opposition parties, tribal leaders, NGOs, and UNMIS in Kassala to discuss the political and humanitarian situation in Eastern Sudan. This is the second of two cables (see reftel) to discuss the political [...]	2006-04-30 09:07:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ER SU
06KHARTOUM1024	SUDAN: VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN/NGO ACT: NO PROGRESS [...] (C) Summary: On April 26 the Sub-Joint Implementation Mechanism (SUB-JIM) met to discuss Sudan's progress on combating violence against women (VAW). Overall, the Government of National Unity (GNU) believes that it has almost fulfilled its legal obligation to combat violence against women. T [...]	2006-05-01 07:06:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM PREL SOCI KWMN SU
06KHARTOUM1029	A CONVERSATION WITH KHARTOUM MONITOR EDITOR ALFRED [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-01 14:21:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KPAO SCOM SU
06KHARTOUM1164	D-DAY: DARFUR PEACE AGREEMENT UPDATE [...] (U) Summary: The following cable outlines current activities and events relating to the implementation of the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA): -- DPA: D-Day and the First Week -- INGOs Consider Pulling Out of West Darfur -- Kutum Sees First Janjaweed Attack Since DPA -- CDA Hosts Diplomatic C [...]	2006-05-16 15:56:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV MOPS KPKO PREF UN AU SU
06KHARTOUM1209	SUDAN: EASTERN FRONT - GNU NEGOTIATION PREPARATIONS [...] (C) In a May 21 meeting with Charge Hume, Yassir Arman said that he and Director of the National Security and Intelligence Services (NISS),Salah Gosh, planned to travel to Asmara on May 24 to discuss preparations for GNU-Eastern Front negotiations. Arman estimated that the negotiations would [...]	2006-05-23 07:40:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ER SU
06KHARTOUM1256	NATIONAL ASSEMBLY AND THE CONSTITUTIONAL COURT [...] (C) Summary: Poloff met with the Minister of Parliamentary Affairs, Joseph Okelo who outlined the procedures for passing laws in the National Assembly. The National Assembly is currently hearing testimony from each Ministry about their previous and future activities. However, Okelo doubted thi [...]	2006-05-26 07:51:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ER SU
06KHARTOUM1282	SITREP 12: DARFUR PEACE AGREEMENT UPDATE [...] (U) Summary: The following cable outlines current activities and events relating to the implementation of the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA): -- Kiir,s Mini-Summit: June 2 -- Minawi Tours North Darfur -- AU Describes Needs for Peace Secretariat -- UNMIS Outlines Thinking on Transition -- DL [...]	2006-05-31 09:57:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL SU MOPS KPKO AU
06KHARTOUM1301	DEMARCHE DELIVERED FOR PROFESSOR RUTH WEDGWOOD'S [...] (U) On June 1, PolOff delivered reftel demarche points to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the candidacy of Professor Ruth Wedgwood for re-election to a seat on the United Nations Human Rights Committee. The government had no comment. STEINFELD [...]	2006-06-05 10:24:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM US UNHRC SU
06KHARTOUM1341	SUDAN: TIP DEMARCHE DELIVERED [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-06 10:59:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PHUM SU
06KHARTOUM1367	SUDAN/DARFUR: FM LAM AKOL ON IMPLEMENTATION, THE [...] (C) Summary: FM Lam Akol told Charge and USAID director on June 7 that, within the context of trilateral consultations among the GNU, UN, and AU, discussions would now proceed on a transition to UN peacekeeping. Sudan had always said there could be role for the UN after a peace agreement w [...]	2006-06-09 12:14:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SU PGOV
06KHARTOUM1539	ABDULWAHID NUR MAY BE READY TO SIGN DARFUR PEACE [...] (C) Summary: SLA/M leader Abdulwahid Nur may be ready to sign the Darfur Peace Agreement, his father-in-law, Abdulgassem Seif al-Din, told CDA Hume on June 29. Abdulwahid ha7 Q:"Tr U.S. support in flying to Asmara to meet Abdulwahid as early as July 1; Post is working with USAID/OTI to make [...]	2006-06-29 10:35:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPKO SU AU UN
06KHARTOUM1637	Darfur: Update on Korma Attacks and Rape Allegations [...] (SBU) Summary: Media accounts and a UN Sudan Situation Report detail hostilities in several areas of North Darfur State during the July 5-10 timeframe, resulting in perhaps 80 deaths and thousands of IDPs. In addition, the Report contains IDP accusations that members of the SLM/Minni Minawi f [...]	2006-07-11 17:40:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV MOPS KPKO PREF UN AU SU
06KHARTOUM1644	Southern Sudan: UNHCR Has Successes, Faces Challenges [...] The Director of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) in Southern Sudan, Bhairaja Panday, said that returns from Uganda, Kenya, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) were now proceeding smoothly. However, he explained that returns from the Central African Republic ( [...]	2006-07-12 11:54:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED	PREF UN CT CG ET CD UG KE SU
06KHARTOUM1808	Unaligned SSDF Lay Out Conditions for Peace [...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On July 19, Embassy PolOff was invited to meet the leaders of the South Sudan Defense Force (SSDF) militia groups that did not align with the Sudanese Peoples' Liberation Movement (SPLM) and will not be integrated into the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF). The meeting including all [...]	2006-07-27 13:01:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV MOPS SU
06KHARTOUM1877	CENSUS ON TRACK BUT SANCTIONS COULD CAUSE PROBLEMS [...] Summary: The technical preparations for a national census are moving forward on schedule. The Director of the UNFPA office reports that UN agencies have raised the idea of a delay of one year to allow more southerners to return home (we argued against such a delay). The assistance provided b [...]	2006-08-08 07:30:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PGOV PREF SU
06KHARTOUM1919	Distributions of Sudan's Oil Revenue [...] Summary: Net revenue accruing to Sudan from oil production for the first five months of 2006 totaled $1,086.9 million. Of this total, $685.3 million was allocated to the North and $391.6 million to the GOSS. In addition, $234.1 million was transferred to the Oil Revenue Stabilization Accoun [...]	2006-08-13 15:41:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV EFIN EPET ECON EAID SU
06KHARTOUM1921	Distributions of Sudan's Oil Revenue [...] Summary: Net revenue accruing to Sudan from oil production for the first five months of 2006 totaled $1,086.9 million. Of this total, $685.3 million was allocated to the North and $391.6 million to the GOSS. In addition, $234.1 million was transferred to the Oil Revenue Stabilization Accoun [...]	2006-08-14 05:25:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PGOV EFIN EPET ECON EAID SU
06KHARTOUM1928	DARFUR POLITICS IN FLUX SAYS MUDAWI; AU [...] (C) Summary: The Darfur peace process is approaching an inflection point, prominent Sudan human rights activist Mudawi Adam Ibrahim told Embassy officials on August 10. The DPA has become the predominant issue in the region's politics, as various factions begin to define themselves through t [...]	2006-08-14 12:57:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF PHUM SU AU
06KHARTOUM1943	JURY STILL OUT ON IMPLICATIONS OF SLA-ABDEL WAHID OUSTER [...] (SBU) Summary: Several Fur activists in South Darfur, including an SLA commander, justify Abdel Wahid's ouster as Chairman on the basis of his lack of leadership and increasing distance from Darfurian popular opinion. The SLA faction now led by Ahmed Abdul Shafi is organizing itself in Asmara [...]	2006-08-16 04:15:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KPKO SOCI AU UN US SU

06KHARTOUM2044	DARFUR: SLOVENIAN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] (C) Slovenian/Australian human rights activist and presidential envoy Tomo Kriznar has faced "harsh treatment" since his July arrest in Darfur, Slovenian Consul from Cairo Andrej Dernovscek told Con/Poloff on August 28 in Khartoum. A court in El Fashir, North Darfur, convicted Kriznar on Augus [...]	2006-08-29 15:23:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM CASC SU SI AS
06KHARTOUM207	EASTERN FRONT AGREES TO TALK IN LIBYA [...] (SBU) Summary: Dr. Amna Dirar, Vice President of the Eastern Front confirmed that the Eastern Front has agreed to February 7 negotiations with the Sudanese government in Tripoli and confirmed that humanitarian access to Hamesh Koreib through Sudan would be discussed. Dirar added that the Suda [...]	2006-01-26 14:25:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM PGOV SU
06KHARTOUM2193	SUDAN: ATTENDEES FOR UNGA [...] (SBU) In a September 11 phone call with Poloff, MFA Acting Deputy Director for the Americas Magdi Al Mofadal provided a list of Sudanese delegates to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). This list supersedes the one provided in Ref A. 2. (SBU) The following delegates will attend t [...]	2006-09-12 12:18:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL OVIP OTRA UNGA SU
06KHARTOUM2227	Juba: Laws Needed So Legislature Puts Off Anti-Corruption [...] (SBU) Summary. On September 6, the second session of the Southern Sudan Legislative Assembly (SSLA) opened with speeches by Speaker James Wani Igga and Government of Southern Sudan President Salva Kiir. While Kiir's speech officially kicked off the 200-day plan (septel),James Wani Igga focu [...]	2006-09-14 14:20:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KCOR SU
06KHARTOUM2277	IN SUDAN, EGYPT PREFERS THE DEVIL IT KNOWS [...] (C) In a September 16 meeting with Poloff, Egyptian DCM Osama Shaltout expressed his government's concern for Sudan's political stability in light of recent public unrest, the looming collision between the Sudanese government and the international community on Darfur, and the beheading of jour [...]	2006-09-18 13:58:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PTER SU EG US
06KHARTOUM2341	EC'S BARROSO TO UNDERLINE SUPPORT FOR AU [...] EC contacts confirm that EC President Jose Manuel Barroso and European Commissioner for Development and Humanitarian Aid Louis Michel will arrive in Sudan on September 30. Barroso and Michel will travel to El Fasher the same day to meet with AMIS commanders and the humanitarian assistance com [...]	2006-09-25 12:04:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KPKO PHUM AU EU SU
06KHARTOUM235	SUDAN - RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON GATHERING [...] (C) Per Ref A, post has gathered all available information and AU reporting regarding individuals listed; new information on most individuals was limited. Post will send separately four DLO IIR logs that may facilitate review of relevant material. These include lists of the AMIS reports that [...]	2006-01-30 15:58:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SU
06KHARTOUM2419	EC'S BARROSO PUSHES FOR A UN FORCE IN BASHIR MEETING [...] (SBU) EC President Jose Manuel Barroso departed Sudan on the evening of October 1 after two days of visits in Khartoum and El Fasher. Barroso met with President Bashir for two hours on September 30, including a half hour one-on-one session; however, EC contacts reported Bashir did not budge on [...]	2006-10-02 14:20:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV PHUM KPKO KPAO UN EU SU
06KHARTOUM2442	DARFUR: EGYPTIAN ENGAGEMENT IN HIGH GEAR [...] (C) Summary: Egyptian engagement with the Sudanese government on the Darfur crisis has moved into high gear. The GoE Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a 90-day Action Plan for Darfur to its embassies, which resembles USG proposals for advancing peace in the region, and the Egyptian ambassador [...]	2006-10-03 16:16:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPKO PINR SU EG UN
06KHARTOUM2493	ABDULWAHID ALONE; FUR LOOKING FOR ALTERNATIVES TO [...] (C) Support for SLM/A leader Abdulwahid Nur has eroded so much in the five months since he refused to sign the Darfur Peace Agreement that his own family no longer backs his leadership, prominent Fur National Assembly member Abdulgassem Seif al-Din told Poloffs on October 11. "First he lost M [...]	2006-10-12 16:15:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM SU AU UN
06KHARTOUM2598	SE NATSIOS MTG WITH MINAWI: NCP IMPEDES PROGRESS [...] (C) SUMMARY: In a meeting with Special Envoy Andrew Natsios, Senior Assistant to the President and leader of the SLM Minni Minawi described the efforts of the National Congress Party (NCP) to delay the implementation of the Transitional Darfur Regional Authority (TDRA),foreign influence on o [...]	2006-11-01 14:48:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SU UN CD ER
06KHARTOUM2636	Southern Sudan: MoF Officials Investigated for Corruption [...] Summary: Five high-ranking officials in the Government of Southern Sudan (GoSS) Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning (MoF),including both under secretaries, have been suspended pending a corruption investigation into procurement irregularities and possible embezzlement of customs duties [...]	2006-11-08 08:46:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ETRD SU
06KHARTOUM265	GNU-BEJA TALKS: NO OBSERVERS, NO TRANSPORTATION [...] (C) On February 1, PolOff spoke with Dr. Amna Dirar, Vice President of the Eastern Front, about the scenario for the Tripoli talks slated to begin on February 7. Dirar said that she expected international observers to be present, as it was a precondition for talks in Tripoli. This is contrary [...]	2006-02-03 11:36:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL LY UN SU
06KHARTOUM2682	SOUTHERN SUDAN: SOLDIER KILLED IN ATTACK ON SPLA [...] (C) A Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) soldier died November 12 in an attack on SPLA barracks at a village just east of Juba, according to the head of SPLA military intelligence. Brig. Gen. Malual Majok told PolOff another soldier and three civilians were injured in the incident. Malual [...]	2006-11-15 15:47:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV CASC MARR SU
06KHARTOUM2687	CHAD MAY ACCEPT UN FORCES TO PREVENT WIDER WAR [...] (S) Summary: Blaming Sudan for the deteriorating security situation in his country, Chadian Embassy Security Chief Mohamad Tahir Tordjok (strictly protect) said the Chadian government would accept United Nations peacekeeping forces in Chad to secure its eastern border. Tordjok claimed that 30 [...]	2006-11-16 12:01:00	Embassy Khartoum	SECRET	PREL PGOV PTER PINR KPKO SU CD NG SO UN
06KHARTOUM2697	DESPITE OPTICS ON FM VISIT, NO NEW FRENCH [...] (C) Summary: Despite the positive coverage in both the Western and Sudanese press of French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy's recent trip to Khartoum and reports of a French initiative to resolve the Darfur crisis, French Political Counselor Francois Colas characterized the visit as an [...]	2006-11-19 12:25:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPKO SU FR CD
06KHARTOUM2700	SOUTHERN SUDAN: CLASH BETWEEN SPLA AND ARMED [...] (U) A November 16 shooting on the edge of Juba resulted in two persons dying and approximately five being wounded in the latest incident of violence in Southern Sudan. The incident involved a Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) unit and another unidentified military or para-military unit. S [...]	2006-11-19 16:08:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV CASC MARR SU
06KHARTOUM2701	SUDAN/UGANDA/DRC: LAWYER BRIEFS LRA,S KONY ON ICC [...] (C) Ugandan human rights lawyer Barney Afako held a detailed one-hour discussion with LRA leader Joseph Kony November 14 about the role of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the legal consequences of ICC indictments. Afako is a consultant to the UN mediation team assisting peace talks [...]	2006-11-19 16:17:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV CASC MARR SU CG UG
06KHARTOUM273	SUDAN SANCTIONS - MORE ON RAIL/BARGE SPARE PARTS [...] (U) This is an action request for EB/EPC - see para 4. 2. (U) In reply to the letter dated January 16, requesting assistance in securing imports of railway parts(reftel),the Charge replied to First Vice President Salva Kiir on January 29. Text of the letter follows. (Begin text) Tha [...]	2006-02-06 11:43:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ELTN ETTC EAID PHUM OPDC US SU
06KHARTOUM2730	DENG ALOR: BASHIR BACKING DOWN IN OPPOSITION TO UN [...] (C) In a November 21 conversation with AID Mission Director and Poloff, Minister of Cabinet Affairs Deng Alor said that President Bashir had begun to "back down" in his opposition to United Nations (UN) intervention in Darfur. He based this assessment on a cabinet briefing that Bashir had giv [...]	2006-11-22 16:55:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV KPKO AU SU UN
06KHARTOUM2764	DPA: WAITING FOR CHANGE [...] (SBU) Over six months after the signing of the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA),frustration and anger about the agreement were common themes across discussions with groups in El Fasher. In a series of meetings in November, Poloff spoke with members of the Fur and Tunjur communities, the Head of [...]	2006-11-30 09:46:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AU SU UN
06KHARTOUM2767	MINAWI DISCUSSES NCP APPROACH TO DARFUR, [...] (C) Summary: In a November 29 meeting, Special Assistant to the President and SLM leader Minni Minawi described the stalled implementation of the Transitional Darfur Regional Authority (TDRA) and the division of labor within the National Congress Party (NCP) on Darfur, which has left Presiden [...]	2006-11-30 15:44:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KISL SU CD CT SO
06KHARTOUM2780	COUNTRY CLEARANCE REQUEST FOR POLOFF NATHAN HOLT [...] (SBU) Nathan Holt, Embassy Khartoum Political Officer, requests country clearance to visit Embassy Nairobi for consultations with KUSLO on December 5. The purpose of the travel is to hold discussions with KUSLO, Kenya Department of Defense (KDOD) personnel, and representatives of the Sudan Peo [...]	2006-12-03 03:44:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	OTRA PREL SU KE
06KHARTOUM2807	MINAWI CONSIDERS WITHDRAWAL FROM DPA [...] (C) Senior Assistant to the President and leader of the Sudan Liberation Movement (SLM) Minni Minawi is considering how to respond to the recent Janjaweed attacks in El Fasher and whether to remain within the framework of the Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA). In a December 6 meeting with AID Miss [...]	2006-12-06 15:18:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL AU SU
06KHARTOUM2867	SE NATSIOS' VISIT TO ABYEI [...] (C) Summary: During SE Natsios' December 11 to visit Abyei, UN officials and local leaders outlined the myriad problems facing the area as a result of territorial disputes between the Dinka and Massriya tribes, which international observers suggest make it the next potential flashpoint to dera [...]	2006-12-18 14:57:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL SU UN
06KHARTOUM2916	SOUTHERN SUDAN: VIOLENCE FLARES BEFORE LRA TALKS [...] (C) Summary: The weeks prior to the December 15 resumption of peace talks between the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and the Government of Uganda (GOU) saw an upsurge in violence east and south of Juba that claimed the lives of about 40 civilians in a half-dozen incidents in late November/early [...]	2006-12-27 16:06:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MOPS PREF PHUM SU
06KHARTOUM2926	Darfur: North Darfur Violence against Women Campaign [...] Summary: With the deteriorating security situation in Darfur, women and children are increasingly the victims of rape and abuse. Sudanese Government representatives admit the social and educational marginalization of women, especially internally displaced persons (IDPs),but deny the worsenin [...]	2006-12-31 06:14:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM KWMN SCUL SOCI SU
06KHARTOUM304	SUDAN CENSUS: GOOD PROGRESS [...] (U) Summary: In a meeting on February 6, 2006, the deputy director of the Sudan UNFPA office provided an update of the progress on the national census. The census is mandated by the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) and will be the first full, participatory census in Sudan since 1956. P [...]	2006-02-08 14:57:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ECON PGOV SU
06KHARTOUM317	SUDAN: MISSERYA OFFER DINKA ABYEI ADMINISTRATION [...] (C) Summary: Misserya tribal leaders from Muglad recently traveled to Abyei to offer the Ngok Dinka all Abyei administration positions in return for not demanding implementation of the Abyei Boundaries Commission (ABC) finding, according to UNMIS contacts. The proposal follows weeks of mutua [...]	2006-02-09 16:16:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREF SOCI SU
06KHARTOUM350	SUDAN/DARFUR: NO IMPLEMENTATION OF VAW PLAN OF [...] (SBU) A visit to the field reveals there is little real progress to date in the implementation on the ground of the Plan of Action to Combat Violence Against Women. Government officials had recently (reftel A) cited some human rights training for the police, the stationing of female police off [...]	2006-02-13 13:30:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KWMN PHUM PREL SOCI SU
06KHARTOUM356	SUDAN OIL PRODUCTION FALLING SHORT OF PROJECTIONS [...] (C) Summary: Oil production in Sudan has not reached levels originally targeted for early 2006, with current output running closer to 300,000 barrels per day rather than the 500,000 bpd anticipated. A major pipeline has yet to start operations. High prices have to some extent offset the l [...]	2006-02-14 07:51:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	EPET PGOV PREL SU
06KHARTOUM364	SLA COMANDERS CALL FOR A SINGLE LEADER [...] (C) (Note: this is a re-transmission of 05 Khartoum 01654 to reflect redrafting and reclassification of para 4 per AF/SPG request. End note.) Summary: The lack of a clearly defined leader at the top of the SLA has left field commanders with divided loyalties, hungry forces, and time on the [...]	2006-02-14 15:18:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	MASS MCAP PREL SU
06KHARTOUM367	Southern Sudan: Justice Ministry Sets Agenda [...] SUMMARY: The Ministry for Legal Affairs will address the full range of rule of law issues, with a focus on regulating southern lawyers, and on writing, disseminating, and prosecuting the laws passed by the Southern Legislative Assembly. In a meeting on February 9, Dr. William Kon Bior, Unde [...]	2006-02-14 19:06:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV ASEC SU
06KHARTOUM573	GOS MOBILIZES PDF [...] (C) Local Arabic language press reported that the Ministry of the Interior had mobilized the Popular Defense Forces across Darfur in order to "confront foreign intervention." The move can be seen as a continuation of the full court press put on by the NCP against blue-hatting the African Union [...]	2006-03-06 15:13:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS MASS PGOV SU
06KHARTOUM579	U.N. SPECIAL RAPPORTEUR FOR HUMAN RIGHTS VISITS [...] (C) SUMMARY: United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Sudan, Dr. Sima Samar, briefed diplomats yesterday in Khartoum at the end of her week-long visit to Sudan. Though Samar reported little progress on national security reform or the creation of national human rights institutions, [...]	2006-03-07 06:54:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV PINR SU UN
06KHARTOUM583	SUDAN: NOTIFICATION OF 2ND ROUND GTMO ARB [...] (SBU) This is an action request ) see para 4. 2. (SBU) Poloff met with MFA Americas desk officer Magdi el-Mofadi on March 1 to discuss the case of Yakub Mohammed per reftel. Poloff asked that the Sudanese Government, within 30 days, confirm the nationality of Yakub Mohammed, notify any kno [...]	2006-03-07 08:52:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER KAWC PINR PREL US SU
06KHARTOUM627	SSDF UNIT ATTACKS SPLA NEAR ABYEI [...] (C) According to multiple sources, a Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) patrol moving between camps was attacked on March 8 leaving at least ten SPLA fighters dead. SPLM (Northern Sector) Political Secretary Agok Makur said that an SPLA patrol made up of integrated former South Sudan Defens [...]	2006-03-09 15:50:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS MASS SU
06KHARTOUM661	SRSG PRONK DISCUSSES EAST SUDAN WITH ERITREAN [...] (C) On March 14, Poloff spoke with Judith Goetz, UN Political Officer, who confirmed that on March 13, Special Representative for the Secretary General of the UN, Jan Pronk, along with Sr. Political Advisor Taye Zerihoun, met with Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki in Massawa, Eritrea, to re-en [...]	2006-03-15 14:16:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ER SU
06KHARTOUM669	GNU, UN, AND DONOR JOINT VISIT TO NYALA TO ASSESS [...] (C) Summary: From March 6-8, Poloff traveled to Nyala, Darfur, with the Government of National Unity (GNU) representative for Violence Against Women, Dr. Attiyat Mustafa, and UNMIS Human Rights Chair (UNMIS-HR) Ravindrian Daniel to assess the South Darfur State Committee to Combat Gender-Base [...]	2006-03-16 08:33:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM KWMN PGOV PREL SU
06KHARTOUM708	SPLM VIEW OF THE GNU-EAST NEGOTIATIONS [...] (C) Poloff spoke with Malik Agar, Minister of Investment and SPLM member of the GNU-East negotiating team about the stalemate in negotiations between the GNU and the Eastern Front. Agar said the GNU needed to accomplish four things: acknowledge the marginalization of the East, present a negot [...]	2006-03-20 12:37:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ER SU
06KHARTOUM755	CHARGE TRAVELS TO SOUTH DARFUR TO DISCUSS VIOLENCE [...] (C) Summary: On March 19-20, Charge Steinfeld and Poloffs traveled to Nyala to urge the local government to implement the Plan of Action to combat violence against women. The government representatives recognized the importance of combating it, but lamented that a lack of resources hampered [...]	2006-03-26 12:21:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KWMN PHUM SU
06KHARTOUM756	SOUTH DARFUR VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN: UN AND NGOS [...] (SBU) Summary: On March 19, Charge Steinfeld traveled to Nyala to urge local government officials to implement the Plan of Action (reftel). While in Nyala, the UN and NGOs briefed the Charge on the status of violence against women (VAW),highlighting that the State Committee had done little [...]	2006-03-26 12:37:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KWMN PHUM SU
06KHARTOUM774	SPLM WALKS OUT OF NEGOTIATIONS FOR KHARTOUM [...] (U) SUMMARY: The ongoing debate over the status of Khartoum as a national capital or a northern state has intensified over the past week, and the Sudanese People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) delegation to the negotiations has walked out of the proceedings over what it characterizes as Nation [...]	2006-03-27 14:44:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV SU
06KHARTOUM778	GHAZI SULEIMAN: SAF SHAKE-UP ISOLATES VP TAHA [...] (C) In a meeting with POLOFF on March 21, well-known human rights lawyer and SPLM advisor Ghazi Suleiman explained that the recent shake-up in the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) was a move by President Bashir to further isolate Vice President Ali Osman Taha. According to Suleiman, Taha is now c [...]	2006-03-28 09:24:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MOPS MASS PINR SU
06KHARTOUM780	POLITICS IN THE EASTERN FRONT [...] (C) On March 22, Poloff spoke with Dr. Amna Dirar, Vice President of the Eastern Front, who stated that the Sudanese government is trying to divide the Eastern Front along ethnic lines. Dr. Amna named Mohamed Tahir Eli, Wali of the Red Sea State, as the main perpetrator, who she said had launc [...]	2006-03-28 13:46:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ER SU
06KHARTOUM791	DARFUR/ARAB LEAGUE: RESOLUTION PASSED TO [...] (C) Summary and comment: In the Arab League resolution adopted on Sudan and Darfur at the Khartoum Summit on March 29, the AL decided to increase support for AMIS, and "to bear the AU forces' expenditures in Darfur from six months starting from 10/01/06." Preambular language includes referen [...]	2006-03-29 14:50:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL PHUM KPKO SU AU UN
06KHARTOUM897	Sudan Update: Chad, East, Intervention, [...] Sudanese Armed Forces claim they have driven all Chadian rebel forces out of West Darfur. There have been skirmishes along the Sudan-Chad border for two days, and MILOBS report hearing artillery firing on the morning of April 13. NGO workers confirm the reports, adding they believe the arti [...]	2006-04-13 11:22:00	Embassy Khartoum	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV SU
06KHARTOUM923	GNU RELATIONS WITH ERITREA AND UNMIS [...] (C) Summary: In an April 13 meeting, Deputy National Congress Party External Relations Officer, Dr. Hassan Haj Ali, told Poloff that the Sudanese government had &no official8 objection to Asmara hosting GNU-Eastern Front negotiations, provided that the bilateral relationship with Eritrea is n [...]	2006-04-17 08:25:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM UN ER SU
06KHARTOUM934	SUDAN: DEPUTY SPEAKER ON SPLM NORTHERN SECTOR [...] (C) Summary: The National Assembly Deputy Speaker believes the greatest chance for national unity is for the SPLM to win a plurality in the 2008-09 national elections; the SPLM is shoring up its northern elements in preparation. The SPLM is studying the National Congress Party closely, and be [...]	2006-04-18 15:04:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR SU
06KHARTOUM952	NO ASMARA-MEDIATED TALKS WITHOUT ERITREAN [...] (C) In an April 20 conversation with Dr. Hassan Al Haj, National Congress Party (NCP) Deputy to Kamal Obied, Chair of the East Committee, he confirmed that the government had agreed initially to Asmara hosting talks between the GNU and the Eastern Front. However, he added that the GNU had req [...]	2006-04-20 13:27:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM UN ER SU
06KHARTOUM996	SUDAN/CHINA: UNSC VOTE ON DARFUR SHOWS LIMITS OF [...] (C) China decided to abstain from the April 25 vote on UNSC Resolution 1672, imposing a travel ban and financial sanctions on four Sudanese individuals for war crimes in Darfur, because going against a majority of the Council's members would have been "unthinkable," Chinese Defense Attache Li [...]	2006-04-26 13:34:00	Embassy Khartoum	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM KPKO SU CH UN
06KIEV1128	UKRAINE: IN THIS CORNER! EX-CHAMPION KLYCHKO RUNS [...] (SBU) Summary: In a March 22 meeting with TDY PolOff, Volodymyr Bondarenko, head of Kiev mayoral candidate (and recent world boxing champion) Vitaliy Klychko's campaign, described campaign impediments including incumbent Mayor Omelchenko's use of administrative resources and biased media cove [...]	2006-03-23 15:49:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PHUM SOCI
06KIEV1185	UKRAINE: POTENTIAL JOINT MANPADS EVENT: GOU [...] (S) PolOff and Army Attache provided ref A information on a potential joint MANPADS event March 28 to Oleksiy Melnyk, First Assistant to Defense Minister Hrytsenko. Melnyk noted the weeks of May 1 and May 8 could be problematic due to the number of holidays. (Note: May 1 and 2 are official [...]	2006-03-28 12:17:00	Embassy Kyiv	SECRET	MARR MOPS PREL PARM
06KIEV1711	UKRAINE: SOMBER TYMOSHENKO DOWN ON ORANGE [...] (C) Summary: A subdued PM-hopeful Yuliya Tymoshenko told Ambassador April 28 that the scant progress in Orange coalition talks in recent days was much less significant than Our Ukraine efforts with Party of Regions to form local coalitions across the country. News during the meeting that Our [...]	2006-04-28 15:31:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PARM UP
06KIEV1772	UKRAINE: FM TARASYUK, NSAU CHIEF ALEXEYEV PRESS [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Borys Tarasyuk and National Space Agency of Ukraine (NSAU) Director Yuri Alekseyev urged greater U.S.-Ukraine cooperation on ballistic missile defense during an April 26 meeting at MFA with U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Director Lt Gen (USAF) Trey Obering III [...]	2006-05-05 15:00:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	MARR MCAP PREL PINR US UP
06KIEV1773	UKRAINE: WAITING FOR YUSHCHENKO: LACK OF COALITION [...] (C) Summary: While much of Ukraine takes off the first week in May between the May Day and Victory in Europe holidays, work on possible Rada majority coalition policy agreements inched forward, even as the question remained open as to which coalition, if any, would ultimately emerge. In May [...]	2006-05-05 15:17:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PARM UP
06KIEV2039	UKRAINE: DEFENSE MINISTER GETS AHEAD OF FOREIGN [...] (C) Summary: In a May 22 meeting with EUR DAS Kramer, Foreign Minister Tarasyuk said a meeting of the presidents of Ukraine and Belarus might be possible if Belarus were to make favorable decisions on issues of importance to Ukraine. Tarasyuk added that the Ukrainian government was preparing t [...]	2006-05-26 08:45:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS PHUM EAID NATO MARR PINR BO UP
06KIEV2065	UKRAINE/TRANSNISTRIA: FM TARASYUK'S FRUSTRATION [...] (C) Summary: In a May 22 meeting with EUR DAS Kramer, Foreign Minister Tarasyuk said Russia was reinforcing Transnistrian leader Smirnov's resistance to procedures required under the Ukraine-Moldova customs agreement. Furthermore, the Russians were refusing to agree to join a five-plus-two me [...]	2006-05-26 16:05:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM OSCE PINR RS MD UP
06KIEV2278	UKRAINE: ENCOURAGING GREATER SUPPORT TO BELARUSAN [...] (C) Summary: During a June 8 meeting with DFM Khandohiy, U.S. Ambassador to Belarus Krol encouraged Ukraine to develop contacts with Belarus at a level below cabinet minister and suggested that Ukraine could use such contacts to promote more responsible Belarusan government behavior. He also [...]	2006-06-09 15:26:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PINR BO UP
06KIEV2297	UKRAINE: FM TARASYUK ON COALITION NEGOTIATIONS, [...] (C) Summary: During Ambassador's June 13 presentation of a copy of his credentials, Foreign Minister Tarasyuk said President Yushchenko's Our Ukraine bloc could not accept Socialist Party of Ukraine leader Moroz as parliamentary speaker, despite Moroz' insistence that this was his condition f [...]	2006-06-13 16:09:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MARR AMGT PGOV PINR UP
06KIEV2477	UKRAINE: LAUNCH OF NATO PFP TRUST FUND PROJECT FOR [...] (U) Summary: The NATO PfP Trust Fund project to eliminate MANPADS, small arms/light weapons, and excess munitions began June 20 with the ceremonial destruction of two MANPADS before an audience of government officials and media. Actual operations are expected to begin at the Shostka site in [...]	2006-06-23 12:56:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM MARR NATO PGOV UP
06KIEV382	UKRAINE: FM TARASYUK WARNS KOSOVO INDEPENDENCE [...] (C) Summary: Foreign Minister Borys Tarasyuk said, during a January 30 meeting with visiting Project for Transitional Democracies Head Bruce Jackson and Ambassador, that the Ukrainian government did not favor Kosovo independence. Such an outcome would destabilize the political situation in S [...]	2006-01-30 15:08:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PBTS KDEM PINR YI UP UNMIK OSCE
06KIEV400	UKRAINE: PRESIDENTIAL ADVISER SEES POSSIBILITIES [...] (C) Summary: During a January 31 conversation with visiting Project for Transitional Democracies President Bruce Jackson and PolOff, Presidential Security Policy Adviser and National Security Institute Chairman Volodymyr Horbulin said the electoral list of ex-PM Yanukovych's Party of Regions, [...]	2006-01-31 16:38:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM UP
06KIEV456	UKRAINE: OLIGARCH PINCHUK ON NIKOPOL FERROALLOY [...] (C) Summary: Oligarch Viktor Pinchuk suggested, in a February 1 conversation with visiting Project for Transitional Democracies President Bruce Jackson and PolOff, that he would not appeal his case to a European court after the Ukrainian Supreme Court refused January 20 to hear his appeal aga [...]	2006-02-02 11:03:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	EINV PGOV
06KIEV461	UKRAINE: GONGADZE CASE AND ELECTION POLITICS [...] (C) Politicians and the judge associated with the Gongadze case, wielding both implied carrots and sticks, have sought the public silence of Myroslava Gongadze -- widow of slain journalist Heorhiy Gongadze -- in the run-up to parliamentary elections in March, according to Myroslava's lawyer Val [...]	2006-02-02 13:55:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM
06KIEV471	UKRAINE: MOROSE MOROZ: SOCIALIST LEADER UNHAPPY [...] (C) Summary: Socialist Party Leader Olexander Moroz vented frustration with the gas deal with Russia, President Yushchenko, ex-PM Yuliya Tymoshenko, and a perceived lack of recent U.S. attention to the Socialist Party February 1 to Bruce Jackson, President, Project for Transitional Democracie [...]	2006-02-03 12:08:00	Embassy Kyiv	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV
06KIEV936	UKRAINE: REGIONS' CONSULTANTS WARN DEFICIENCIES [...] (SBU) Summary: Party of Regions' U.S. campaign consultants Paul Manafort, Phil Griffin, and Catherine Barnes called on DCM and poloff March 10 to share Regions' concerns about election organizational problems that they feared could call the legitimacy of the March 26 election into question. M [...]	2006-03-10 17:56:00	Embassy Kyiv	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV PREL PHUM
06KIGALI1026	LEBANON DEMARCHE AND WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT FACTS [...] On 25 October poloff delivered women's empowerment fact sheet (ref A) and demarche and talking points (ref B) to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Amercia Division Officer Augustin Rutikara. Rutikara had no comment on the fact sheet or talking points but agreed that the GOR and Israel have a posit [...]	2006-10-27 06:01:00	Embassy Kigali	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL PTER UNGA KWMN IS LE RW
06KIGALI1027	AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH MONUC AND UN GROUP OF EXPERTS [...] (U) On 20 October Ambassador had separate meetings with the Chairman of the UN DRC Group of Experts (GOE) Ambassador Ibra Ka and MONUC Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General (DSRSG) Haile Menkerios. Ka and Menkerios SIPDIS updated Ambassador on the status of their respective [...]	2006-10-27 10:49:00	Embassy Kigali	CONFIDENTIAL	MCAP PREL MCC RW CG UG UNSC
06KIGALI1073	CUBA EMBARGO AND UNGA 3RD COMMITTEE DEMARCHES [...] No summary [...]	2006-11-09 06:16:00	Embassy Kigali	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL UNGA UNHRC KTIA UN CU RW
06KIGALI1111	NO IMMEDIATE ANSWER FROM GOR MFA ON BELARUS AND [...] (C) Ministry of Foreign Affaris Americas Desk Officer Augustin Rutikara did not have an immediate response to talking points (reftels). When pressed on how the USG can ensure its positions are thoroughly communicated to the Rwandan UN delegation, Rutikara said direct lobbying by USUN official [...]	2006-11-17 12:58:00	Embassy Kigali	CONFIDENTIAL//NOFORN	PHUM PREL UNGA IS BO RW
06KIGALI1119	UK ASSISTS GOR IN GENOCIDAIRE EXTRADITION REQUEST [...] (C) Summary. There are two British investigators in Rwanda working with the Rwandan Justice Ministry and Prosecutor's Office to build extradition requests of four suspected genocidaires living in the UK that will withstand the scrutiny of the British legal system. Because the UK does not hav [...]	2006-11-21 12:22:00	Embassy Kigali	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PHUM ASEC UK RW
06KIGALI1130	RWANDA CONTEMPLATES BREAKING RELATIONS WITH FRANCE [...] (C) Ambassador Richard Sezibera (protect),Great Lakes Special Envoy for the Rwandan Government, called Ambassador early on the morning of November 24 to report that the GOR was "moving toward breaking relations with France," as a result of the French issuance of international arrest warrant [...]	2006-11-24 11:11:00	Embassy Kigali	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KAWC RW
06KIGALI1171	GOR:NKUNDA FIGHTING FARDC NOT FDLR [...] (C) According to Rwanda Defense Forces (RDF) spokesman Major Jill Rutaremara the recent fighting in North Kivu (reftel) is between the forces of renegade General Laurent Nkunda and the Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo (FARDC). At 1530 local time 6 December Rutaremara told polo [...]	2006-12-07 05:51:00	Embassy Kigali	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS PREL RW
06KIGALI1176	GOR DEMARCHED ON HRC SUDAN SPECIAL SESSION [...] No summary [...]	2006-12-08 11:01:00	Embassy Kigali	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL KTIA UN SU RW
06KIGALI184	GOR GROUNDS SN BRUSSELS PASSANGER PLANE [...] (U) On 21 February the Rwandan Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) grounded an SN Brussels Airlines passenger plane for violating saftey standards. Flight 463, from Kigali to Brussels with one stop in Nairobi, had over 200 passengers, including at least two Amcits. The CAA claimed: -- The safety be [...]	2006-02-24 14:36:00	Embassy Kigali	CONFIDENTIAL	EAIR PGOV PREL BE KY RW
06KIGALI228	HOTEL RWANDA MANAGER NO HERO TO GOR [...] (C) Summary. There has been an ongoing public campaign to discredit Paul Rusesabagina, the former manager of Hotel des Mille Collines during the 1994 genocide and current hero in the US and Europe due to the film 'Hotel Rwanda', in Rwanda. The efforts to damage the reputation of Mr. Rusesabagin [...]	2006-03-08 06:45:00	Embassy Kigali	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PHUM PINR RW BG
06KIGALI238	FOREIGN MINISTER ON HOTEL RWANDA, HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT AND NEPAD [...] (C) Summary. In a 9 March meeting with Foreign Minister Murigande, Ambassador delivered the 2005 Human Rights Report (HRR),discussed Paul Rusesabagina and inquired about the NEPAD Peer Review Report. Upon receipt of the HRR, Minister Murigande was defensive but also appreciative of the Ambass [...]	2006-03-13 10:51:00	Embassy Kigali	CONFIDENTIAL	NOTAG RW
06KIGALI270	US AMBASSADOR TO DRC VISITS RWANDA [...] (C) Summary. US Ambassador Meece visited Rwanda March 2-4. Highlights of the visit included a stop at Mutobo Demobilization Camp; a meeting with National Security Service (NSS) Secretary General Ndahiro; and a meeting with Foreign Minister Murigande and Ambassador Sezibera, Special Envoy for t [...]	2006-03-21 12:09:00	Embassy Kigali	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL RW CG KE XA
06KIGALI277	AMIS RE-HAT AND 3RD PROTOCOL DEMARCHES TO GOR [...] (SBU) On 21 March, poloff delivered demarche and talking points (ref A) to Augustin Rutikara, America's desk officer in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Rutikara was noncommittal when asked if the GOR would remain in Darfur if and when it becomes a UN mission. He acknowledged the questionable [...]	2006-03-23 13:40:00	Embassy Kigali	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL SOCI AORC ICRC PHUM PREF SZ SU RW
06KIGALI283	AJELLO VISIT TO RWANDAN DEMOBILIZATION CENTER [...] (U) Summary. On 17 March Ambassador Aldo Ajello, EU Special Envoy for the Great Lakes, visited Mutobo Demobilization and Reintegration Center. Poloff accompanied the EU delegation to a special site visit set up by the Rwanda Demobilization and Reintegration Commission (RDRC) to introduce Ajell [...]	2006-03-24 12:12:00	Embassy Kigali	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MOPS PGOV PREL CG RW
06KIGALI291	GOR Discusses Human Rights Report, Promises [...] (SBU) Summary: During a candid meeting March 22 with Ambassador and Embassy poloffs and PD officer on the 2005 Human Rights Report, senior GOR officials raised several issues, including what they characterized as the report's accusatory tone and lack of context. Officials also voiced concern [...]	2006-03-29 10:12:00	Embassy Kigali	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV PREL KDEM KJUS RW
06KIGALI334	PRESIDENT KAGAME MEETS WITH A/S FRAZER [...] (SBU) Summary. On 6 April, A/S Frazer met with President Kagame at his office on the presidential compound. Also in attendance were Ambassador Arietti, Foreign Minister Murigande, Chef du Cabinet Kabija, National Security Service Director Ndahiro, AF Special Assistant Gaither and poloff. Kaga [...]	2006-04-12 10:25:00	Embassy Kigali	CONFIDENTIAL	KPKO PGOV PREL RW CG SU
06KIGALI340	GOR RESPONSE TO ARREST OF FDLR PRESIDENT IN GERMANY [...] (SBU) On 11 April poloff met with German DCM to discuss the recent arrest of the president of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR),Ignace Murwanashyaka, by German authorities in Mannheim, Germany. According to Hans Von Schroeder, Murwanashyaka will be detained for approxi [...]	2006-04-12 16:24:00	Embassy Kigali	CONFIDENTIAL	KPKO PREF PREL MONUC RW CG BY UG GE BE
06KIGALI354	GOR RECEIVES USG POSITION ON UN HUMAN RIGHTS [...] In a 10 April meeting with Ambassador Amri-Sued Ismael, Advisor to the President on Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Ambassador Arietti discussed the USG position on the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) per ref B. On 17 April, poloff delivered talking points and the Secretary's message from ref B [...]	2006-04-17 15:21:00	Embassy Kigali	UNCLASSIFIED	OPDC PHUM PREL UNGA KUNR RW
06KIGALI407	FORMER PRESIDENT ASKS KAGAME FOR A PARDON [...] (U) Summary. Ex-President Pasteur Bizimungu recently submitted a handwritten letter to President Kagame requesting a pardon for his 2004 conviction for incitement of civil disobedience, formation of a criminal association and embezzlement of public funds. In the letter, Bizimungu maintains th [...]	2006-04-28 12:24:00	Embassy Kigali	CONFIDENTIAL	AFSN KDEM KJUS PHUM PREL RW
06KIGALI445	RWANDANS IN BURUNDI: ASYLUM SEEKERS BEGIN RETURNING [...] (U) In an 8 May meeting with poloff, UNHCR External Relations Officer Beatriz Garcia reported that the flow of Rwandans departing for Burundi has stopped and that there are unconfirmed reports that several hundred Rwandans have left northern Burundi and returned to southern Rwanda. UNHCR has [...]	2006-05-10 17:17:00	Embassy Kigali	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREF PREL UNHCR RW BY
06KIGALI449	World Health Assembly: Smallpox Demarche [...] No summary [...]	2006-05-11 13:21:00	Embassy Kigali	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL AORC TBIO WHO RW
06KIGALI595	FRENCH REPORTER ORDERED TO LEAVE RWANDA [...] (U) Summary. Radio France International (RFI) correspondent, French citizen Sonia Rolley, left Kigali on June 10 after the GOR refused to renew her visa. Rolley had worked on and off in Rwanda since October 2004 but the visa renewal request was rejected by Rwandan Immigration and she was di [...]	2006-06-22 14:30:00	Embassy Kigali	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PHUM PREL RW
06KIGALI614	PRESSING GOR ON AMIS TRANSITION TO UN [...] On 27 June poloff delivered demarche (reftel) to Ministry of Foreign Affairs desk officer Daniel Mutezintare in order to reiterate Ambassador's earlier discussions with Foreign Minister Murigande on the USG position on the re-hatting of AMIS to a UN peacekeeping operation. Poloff emphasized t [...]	2006-06-28 09:14:00	Embassy Kigali	UNCLASSIFIED	KPKO MARR PINS PREL SOCI SU RW
06KIGALI653	GOR SOLICITED ON SUPPORT FOR GUATEMALA [...] On 30 June, poloff discussed talking points (reftel) with Daniel Mutezintare, the focal point for UN issues in the Minstry of Foreign Affairs. Mr. Mutezintare said that the GOR was currently not committed to supporting either Guatemala or Venezuela, but he would brief Foreign Minister Muriga [...]	2006-07-06 11:39:00	Embassy Kigali	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL UNSC UNGA GT VE RW
06KIGALI667	GOR RESPONSE TO NORTH KOREAN MISSILE LAUNCHES [...] On 10 July, poloff delivered talking points and White House Statement (reftel) to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Desk Officer Augustin Rutikara. Rutikara agreed with the USG position that the missile launches were a negative development for the world and that the international community should [...]	2006-07-10 14:58:00	Embassy Kigali	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL KN PARM KNNP RW
06KIGALI687	FORMER INTEL CHIEF KAREGEYA SENTENCED FOR [...] (U) Summary. On 13 July a Rwandan Military Tribunal ruled that Col. Patrick Karegeya was guilty of insubordination and desertion and sentenced him to a prison term of one year and eight months. Both the prosecution and defense intend to appeal the verdict at the Military High Court. End summ [...]	2006-07-13 16:00:00	Embassy Kigali	CONFIDENTIAL	KJUS PGOV PHUM RW UG
06KIGALI716	MILITARY PROSECUTOR DISCUSSES HIGH PROFILE CASES [...] (U) Summary. On 19 July poloff met with Major Christophe Bizimungu, Rwandan Defense Force (RDF) Chief Prosecutor, to discuss the status of three high profile cases currently being handled by his office. Bizimungu presented a detailed case against Colonel Patrick Karegeya, former head of the [...]	2006-07-21 10:47:00	Embassy Kigali	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KAWC KJUS PGOV RW
06KIGALI724	IRAN INCENTIVE AND HIGH LEVEL DIALOGUE ON [...] On 27 July poloff delivered the "P5 1 Incentive Package for Iran" and "High Level Dialogue on International Migration and Development" demarches (reftels) to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Desk Officer Augustin Rutikara. Rutikara had no immediate comment on the subjects but assured poloff the t [...]	2006-07-28 10:22:00	Embassy Kigali	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC EAID KNNP PARM PREF UNGA RW IR EU
06KIGALI726	GOR ON RELATIONS WITH CIVIL SOCIETY [...] (U) Summary. On July 5 Emboffs met with GOR officials to discuss the relationship between civil society and the GOR. The meeting provided an opportunity for the GOR to clarify its relationship with NGOs, religious organizations, and political parties operating in the country, and to address a [...]	2006-07-29 10:35:00	Embassy Kigali	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PHUM RW
06KIGALI731	GOR'S POSITION ON AU SUMMIT, AMIS AND TANZANIAN [...] (U) Summary. On 25 July Rwandan foreign affairs and defense officials briefed diplomatic corps on a variety of issues including the African Union (AU) Summit, the GOR's position on The Great Lakes Conference, the African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) and the African Peer Review Mechanism (APR [...]	2006-08-01 14:14:00	Embassy Kigali	CONFIDENTIAL	ECIN KPKO KSUM MOPS PREF PREL AU RW TZ SU
06KIGALI790	'UMUCO' EDITOR BONAVENTURE BIZUMUREMYI REFUSES [...] (U) SUMMARY. More than one week after being served with a summons to be questioned by the criminal investigation division of the Rwandan National Police, Bonaventure Bizumuremyi, editor of the Kinyarwanda language fortnightly 'Umuco,' remains unwilling to appear for questioning and is on the r [...]	2006-08-14 11:41:00	Embassy Kigali	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	KDEM PGOV PHUM RW
06KIGALI804	GOR POSITION ON AMIS RE-HAT [...] (C) On 16 August Ambassador reiterated USG position on the UN re-hatting of the African Union Mission in Sudan (AMIS) (Ref A) to Rwandan Minister of State in Charge of Cooperation at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Rosemary Museminari. Musemenari had accompanied President Kagame to the Afric [...]	2006-08-17 15:40:00	Embassy Kigali	CONFIDENTIAL	KPKO PREL UNSC SU RW
06KIGALI842	PRESS FREEDOM IN RWANDA: CHARGES OF HARASSMENT AND [...] (U) During August, there have been several incidents of alleged threats, and one physical attack, against Rwandan journalists by unknown perpetrators. Two journalists have left the country, although one may return soon. GOR officials vehemently deny any official GOR involvement in negative [...]	2006-08-30 15:45:00	Embassy Kigali	CONFIDENTIAL	KDEM PGOV PHUM RW

06KIGALI987	RWANDA STILL UNDECIDED ON GUATEMALA [...] (C) This is an action request for A/S Frazer. Please see paragraph 3. 2. (C) On 13 October Charge delivered demarche (ref B) to Foreign Minister Murigande emphasizing that the USG considered the vote to be one of the most important decisions the UNGA would make this year. Murigande noted [...]	2006-10-13 12:00:00	Embassy Kigali	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC VE GT
06KINGSTON1045	DEMARCHE IN ADVANCE OF MAY 27 NAM MINISTERIAL [...] (S) On May 26, P/E Couns and Poloff delivered reftel points to Angella Brown, Deputy Director, Multilateral Affairs Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade (MFAFT). Given staffing gaps on the Ministry, this was the earliest the meeting could be scheduled. Brown read the poi [...]	2006-05-26 20:22:00	Embassy Kingston	SECRET	PREL AORC IAEA KNNP UNSC IR JM
06KINGSTON1085	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ENCOURAGING JAMAICA TO [...] On May 26, P/ECouns and PolOff met with and conveyed reftel points to Angella Brown, Deputy Director, International Organizations Department, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade (MFAFT). 2. Brown noted that out of the Caribbean countries only Guyana and Haiti had signed an [...]	2006-06-02 15:24:00	Embassy Kingston	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL MNUC ETTC TSPA KSCA
06KINGSTON1103	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON AMBASSADORS MEETING IN GENEVA [...] (U) On May 4, Poloff faxed Ref A talking points to Angella Brown, Assistant Director, International Organizations Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade (MFAFT),and asked that the GOJ vote yes to amend the statutes of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement in Geneva on Jun [...]	2006-06-05 19:16:00	Embassy Kingston	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC PHUM PREL PREF ICRC SZ JM
06KINGSTON1195	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON UN REFORM [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-16 19:02:00	Embassy Kingston	UNCLASSIFIED	AMGT AORC UNGA JA
06KINGSTON1199	CONTROVERSIAL POLICE OFFICER BACK ON THE FORCE [...] (U) Senior Superintendent Renato Adams, the controversial former head of the disbanded Crime Management Unit (CMU),has been reinstated to the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF). Adams was taken off active duty in 2004 pending the outcome of the trial in which he and five other members of the CMU [...]	2006-06-16 20:44:00	Embassy Kingston	CONFIDENTIAL	KCRM PGOV PHUM CVIS JM
06KINGSTON1209	DEMARCHES DELIVERED REGARDING MDA AND THE ANNUAL [...] No summary [...]	2006-06-19 19:51:00	Embassy Kingston	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC PHUM PREF PREL ICRC SZ JM
06KINGSTON1439	DEMARCHE DELIVERED REGARDING NORTH KOREAN MISSILE [...] (U) On July 6, 2006, Political Section delivered reftel points and the White House statement to the Deputy Director, International Organizations Department, Angella Brown, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade. 2. (U) ON July 24, 2006, PolOff followed up with Brown who stated [...]	2006-07-24 18:03:00	Embassy Kingston	UNCLASSIFIED	JM KN KNNP PARM PREL
06KINGSTON1498	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: 61ST UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY: [...] (U) On July 20, 2006, Political Section discussed reftel with Angella Brown, Deputy Director, International Organizations Department, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade. 2. (U) On July 28, 2006, PolOff followed up with Brown who stated that the GOJ has not yet decided who [...]	2006-07-31 20:46:00	Embassy Kingston	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL OTRA OVIP KSEP UNGA JM
06KINGSTON1499	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: P5 + 1 INCENTIVE PACKAGE FOR [...] (U) On July 24, 2006, PolOff delivered reftel talking points to Angella Brown, Deputy Director of International Organizations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade. 2. (U) On July 28, Poloff followed up with Brown who said she was preparing briefing materials for the GOJ del [...]	2006-07-31 21:01:00	Embassy Kingston	UNCLASSIFIED	KNNP PARM PREL IR EU AORC JM
06KINGSTON1526	DEMARCHE DELIVERED REGARDING OAS MLAT AND OPTIONAL [...] (U) In a letter dated July 24, 2006, addressed to Joy Wheeler, Director Caribbean and Americas Department with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade (MFAFT),Acting Pol/Econ Counselor urged the GOJ to sign and ratify the Optional Protocol to the Convention at the earliest possible [...]	2006-08-03 20:45:00	Embassy Kingston	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL JM
06KINGSTON1546	OPPOSITION LEADER TAUNTS PRIME MINISTER TO BRING [...] (C) SUMMARY: Bruce Golding, the opposition leader for the Jamaica Labor Party (JLP) continues to dare Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller (PSM),the leader of the ruling Peoples National Party (PNP),to call general elections now. The JLP has swept over all parts of the island in a vigorous [...]	2006-08-04 21:47:00	Embassy Kingston	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV JM
06KINGSTON1592	VENEZUELA/JAMAICA: USD 563 MILLION ASSISTANCE [...] (SBU) On August 14, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, accompanied by Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro and Energy and Petroleum Minister Raphael Ramirez, made a one-day stop in Jamaica during which he signed agreements with the GOJ totaling USD 563.3 million. Of that figure, USD 290 million pur [...]	2006-08-15 19:47:00	Embassy Kingston	CONFIDENTIAL	EAID ECON EPET PGOV PREL JM VE
06KINGSTON1624	UNSC VOTE: JAMAICA "UNDECIDED"? [...] (C) On August 18, Poloff met with XXXXXXXXXXXX, Deputy Director of the International Organizations Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade (MFAFT),who reported that Jamaica was "undecided" regarding the UNSC seat vote and that Jamaica would make its decision based on "national in [...]	2006-08-18 18:27:00	Embassy Kingston	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL JM VE
06KINGSTON1637	US CANDIDATE FOR UN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE [...] On August 18, Poloff delivered reftel Diplomatic Note to Angella Brown, Deputy Director, International Organizations Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade. Ms. Brown stated that she would recommend supporting Wedgwood's candidacy and she expected that Jamaica would be able [...]	2006-08-21 15:19:00	Embassy Kingston	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM PREL UNHCR JM
06KINGSTON1644	DEMARCHE DELIVERED: UN HIGH LEVEL DIALOGUE ON [...] On July 31, 2006, PolOff delivered the reftel talking points related to International Migration to Claudia Barnes, Director of Economic Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade (MFAFT) and to Angella Brown, Deputy Director of International Organizations at MFAFT. 2. Neit [...]	2006-08-21 20:13:00	Embassy Kingston	UNCLASSIFIED	EAID PREF SMIG UNGA JM
06KINGSTON1769	JAMAICA: DEMARCHE DELIVERED FOR ATTENDEES OF NAM [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-08 18:55:00	Embassy Kingston	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNGA PTER PHUM CU JA
06KINGSTON1826	JAMAICA: POINTS DELIVERED OUTLINING KEY ELEMENTS [...] No summary [...]	2006-09-14 17:02:00	Embassy Kingston	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREL PTER KPAO JA
06KINGSTON1978	DEMARCHE DELIVERED RE: UNSC RACE [...] (SBU) On October 4, PolOff met with and conveyed reftel points to Angella Brown, Deputy Director, International Organizations Department, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade (MFAFT),and left a copy of the Non-Paper on President Chavez' Statements. 2. (SBU) Brown stated tha [...]	2006-10-04 20:35:00	Embassy Kingston	CONFIDENTIAL	UNSC GT VE JM
06KINGSTON2021	JAMAICA: A TRAFIGURA SCANDAL PRIMER [...] (SBU) The six-month old administration of People's National Party (PNP) Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller faces embarrassing and intense scrutiny over its acceptance of JMD 31 million (approximately USD 475,000) from a Dutch-based oil trading firm. The firm, Trafigura Beheer BV, holds the [...]	2006-10-12 12:30:00	Embassy Kingston	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EINV PGOV PINR PREL SOCI KCOR JM
06KINGSTON2022	JAMAICA: A TRAFIGURA SCANDAL PRIMER [...] (SBU) The six-month old administration of People's National Party (PNP) Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller faces embarrassing and intense scrutiny over its acceptance of JMD 31 million (approximately USD 475,000) from a Dutch-based oil trading firm. The firm, Trafigura Beheer BV, holds the [...]	2006-10-12 12:30:00	Embassy Kingston	CONFIDENTIAL	ECON EFIN EINV PGOV PINR PREL SOCI KCOR JM
06KINGSTON2065	JAMAICA: GOVERNMENT DEFEATS NO-CONFIDENCE MOTION [...] (U) On October 17, Parliament debated for eight hours a no-confidence motion brought by Bruce Golding, leader of the opposition Jamaica Labor Party (JLP),against the ruling People's National Party (PNP),in response to the controversy surrounding the USD 500K in political funding donated to t [...]	2006-10-18 20:45:00	Embassy Kingston	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ECON KCOR JM
06KINGSTON2145	DEMARCHE DELIVERED RE: UNGA RESOLUTIONS ON THE [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-31 14:50:00	Embassy Kingston	UNCLASSIFIED	UNGA LE IS PHUM PREL PTER JM
06KINGSTON2146	DEMARCHE DELIVERED RE: ISRAEL AT UNGA - OPPOSING [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-31 14:51:00	Embassy Kingston	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL UNGA IS JM
06KINGSTON2147	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT: [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-31 14:52:00	Embassy Kingston	UNCLASSIFIED	KWMN PHUM PREL UNGA JM
06KINGSTON2150	JAMAICA: OPPOSITION PARTY'S ORIENTATION ON KEY [...] No summary [...]	2006-10-31 20:29:00	Embassy Kingston	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL ECON EFIN EINV PGOV PINR PTER SOCI CPAS
06KINGSTON2251	JAMAICA: OPPOSITION JAMAICAN LABOUR PARTY STAGES [...] (C) With music blaring and clouds of ganga floating in the air, the Jamaican Labour Party (JLP) staged its 63rd Annual Conference November 18-19 at the National Arena in Kingston. Local media estimated the crowd of green-clad supporters in the "tens of thousands," with the vast majority watchin [...]	2006-11-20 16:27:00	Embassy Kingston	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV EDU PINR SOCI XL XK JM
06KINGSTON2313	PNP CAGEY OVER LOCAL ELECTION DATE [...] (C) The ruling People's National Party (PNP) continues its evasiveness on when elections will finally be called. During two recent private meetings with Emboffs, however, PNP officials strongly suggested that local elections would be held in January. General elections would be held, contacts [...]	2006-11-29 19:32:00	Embassy Kingston	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV PINR JM XL
06KINGSTON2427	JAMAICA: 1540 CONSULTATIVE WORKSHOP [...] Per Reftel (B),in a private conversation of Dec. 22 with Chief Legal Counsel of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade (MFAFT) Michelle Walker, PolOff extended thanks to the MFAFT for offering to host a CARICOM-wide consultative workshop to strengthen member states' capacity to ful [...]	2006-12-22 18:33:00	Embassy Kingston	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC EFIN KPAO OAS OSCE PARM PGOV PREL UNSC
06KINGSTON294	RECENT ALLEGED HOMOPHOBIC VIOLENCE DEFIES EASY [...] (C) In November and December 2005, two murders in Jamaica were labeled by some gay activists as homophobic hate crimes, although senior police contacts described the killings as resulting from common robberies. On November 30, 2005, a leading HIV/AIDS activist, Lenford "Steve" Harvey, was fou [...]	2006-02-10 20:19:00	Embassy Kingston	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL PGOV SNAR KCRM SOCI JM PHUM
06KINGSTON513	DEMARCHE ON OAS CICTE VI DELEGATION PREPARATION [...] (U) This message is Sensitive But Unclassified. Please treat accordingly. 2. (SBU) On March 10, P/ECouns and PolOff met with and conveyed reftel points (without leaving points behind) to Joy Wheeler, Director, Caribbean and Americas Department, and A'Dale Robinson, Americas Desk Officer, a [...]	2006-03-14 17:40:00	Embassy Kingston	UNCLASSIFIED	PTER OAS JA
06KINGSTON558	DEMARCHE FORWARDED: OAS COUNTERTERRORISM [...] No summary [...]	2006-03-20 20:43:00	Embassy Kingston	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL PTER ECON MARR MASS CVIS OAS VE JM
06KINGSTON563	GOJ'S RESPONSE TO POTENTIAL US-CARICOM MINISTERIAL [...] (SBU) March 16, Poloff delivered reftel talking points via facsimile to Joy Wheeler, Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade. On March 20, Poloff received a response from Karl Hamilton, Ministry of National Security, through Claudette Francis, Ministry of Foreign Affairs [...]	2006-03-21 14:55:00	Embassy Kingston	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETTC MASS OAS PARM PREL XL JM
06KINGSTON772	GOJ RESPONSE TO DIPLOMATIC NOTE SENT REGARDING [...] On March 28, poloff sent Diplomatic Note 093/06 to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade (MFAFT) announcing the U.S. candidacy for the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Council and requesting the GOJ's support for election to the ITU Council. As requested in reftel, polo [...]	2006-04-20 18:46:00	Embassy Kingston	UNCLASSIFIED	ECPS AORC
06KINSHASA1008	TWO MONUC PEACEKEEPERS RELEASED FROM CAPTIVITY [...] (C) MONUC-Bunia Head of Office Charles Gomis confirmed that two of the seven MONUC Nepalese peacekeepers being held hostage by Peter Karim (reftels) were released unharmed at 3am local time June 27. Gomis said the two were in "good condition," and reported that the five remaining peacekeepers [...]	2006-06-27 11:04:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPKO CG
06KINSHASA101	FARDC INSURGENTS ATTACK IN NORTH KIVU [...] (C) Summary: A crisis in North Kivu caused by attacks by insurgents on several towns north of Goma seems now to be under control. The attackers are most likely FARDC insurgents, not yet integrated into the Congolese army, not General Nkunda or his supporters as widely reported. By January 23 [...]	2006-01-23 14:21:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPKO CG
06KINSHASA1019	ITURI UPDATE: STATUS OF EFFORTS TO RELEASE MONUC [...] (C) Summary: The June 27 release of two MONUC Nepalese peacekeepers held by militia leader Peter Karim (ref A) comes after a series of intense negotiations between the militia leader and GDRC officials. According to MONUC and Congolese military officials in Bunia, efforts are still underway to [...]	2006-06-28 09:21:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPKO CG
06KINSHASA1028	GDRC REITERATES SUPPORT FOR GUATEMALA'S CANDIDACY [...] (C) PolOff delivered June 29 reftel demarche to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Chief of Staff Jacques Djoli. Djoli reiterated that the GDRC will definitely vote in favor the candidacy of Guatemala to the UNSC because of its support to MONUC's peacekeeping operations in the DRC. MEECE [...]	2006-06-29 10:38:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL UNSC UNGA CG VT GE
06KINSHASA105	EIGHT UN SOLDIERS, 14 LRA KILLED IN FIRE FIGHT [...] (U) As reported reftel, MONUC Director of Information Kemal Saiki confirmed that eight Guatemalan peacekeepers were killed January 23 in an operation against the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in Garamba National Park near the Sudanese border. 2. (C) In a separate conversation January 23, MON [...]	2006-01-23 17:23:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS KPKO CG UG SU GT UN
06KINSHASA1064	JUNE 30 IN DRC PASSES WITHOUT MAJOR INCIDENT [...] (U) The DRC celebrated June 30 its 46th anniversary of independence without major security problems despite expectations of civil disturbances from political opposition parties protesting the continuation of the country's transitional government. The DRC's National Day, which coincided with th [...]	2006-07-03 15:14:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS
06KINSHASA1068	ITURI UPDATE: MILITIA RETAKES CONTROL OF TCHEI [...] (C) Summary: The militia group Front for Patriotic Resistance in Ituri (FRPI) has retaken control of the village of Tchei south of Bunia, nearly six weeks after the Armed Forces of the DRC (FARDC) and MONUC had driven the militia out of the location. As has happened in prior military encounter [...]	2006-07-05 10:29:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPKO MOPS CG
06KINSHASA107	DRC NON-COMMITTAL ON FUTURE AU PRESIDENT [...] (C) At a January 23 meeting with Minister of Foreign Affairs Raymond Ramazani (septel),the Ambassador raised the issue of Sudanese President Bashir's potential selection as president of the African Union. Ramazani reported that the DRC's delegation at the Khartoum summit is being headed by a [...]	2006-01-24 11:39:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL SU AU CG AF
06KINSHASA1077	FARDC COMMANDER DIES SUDDENLY OF UNKNOWN CAUSES [...] (C) General Sylvain Buki, the deputy chief of the Armed Forces of the DRC (FARDC),died suddenly the evening of July 4 of unknown causes. According to military sources, Buki had reportedly been sick for the past two weeks with what was believed to be malaria and had been self-medicating for the [...]	2006-07-06 10:39:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MARR KPKO KDEM CG
06KINSHASA108	LRA UPDATE: MONUC CONTINUES INVESTIGATION [...] (C) MONUC military spokesman Hans-Jakob Reichen told PolOff January 24 that MONUC has pulled all of its troops from the Garamba National Park area, and that no search-and-cordon operations are currently being conducted against suspected LRA forces. Reichen said the only MONUC forces near Garam [...]	2006-01-24 12:17:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL MOPS KPKO SU UG GT CG
06KINSHASA1080	NORTH KATANGA: THE WEAKEST SECURITY LINK IN THE [...] (SBU) Summary: The north Katangan region of Tanganyika, larger in size than North Kivu, South Kivu, or Ituri district but also volatile, is the final geographic piece of the eastern border of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Plagued by insecurity, Tanganyika nevertheless receives far [...]	2006-07-06 11:43:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KPKO CG
06KINSHASA1082	ECONOMICS ALONG THE UGANDAN BORDER: ITURI [...] (SBU) Summary. EconOff and PolOff visited the major towns of the troubled Ituri District in Eastern DRC - Bunia, Aru and Mahagi - May 6 through 10. As in the Grand Nord region of neighboring North Kivu, legal and illegal cross-border trade, the absence of national government control and a st [...]	2006-07-06 13:04:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ETRD ECON EMIN PGOV CG UG
06KINSHASA1091	ITURI UPDATE: NEARLY 2,700 MILITIA MEMBERS HAVE [...] (C) Summary: According to MONUC reports, nearly 2,700 militia members in Ituri have voluntarily surrendered and turned in their weapons, including one high-level militia commander. Several factors are apparently motivating militia members to come out of the bush, including the desire to partic [...]	2006-07-07 09:55:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPKO CG
06KINSHASA1093	UN PROTECTION CLUSTER WORKS TO STABILIZE NORTH AND [...] (SBU) Summary: During a June 17-18 visit to Kalemie, Katanga, Poloff held meetings with humanitarian groups represented in the UN protection cluster, a newly formed channel for addressing violence against populations. The protection cluster in Kalemie faces particular challenges dealing wi [...]	2006-07-07 10:24:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PREF PGOV KPKO CG
06KINSHASA1094	TANGANYIKA DISTRICT ADMINISTRATOR SEEKS INVESTMENT [...] (SBU) Summary: In a June 17 meeting with Poloff, Tanganyika District Administrator Jean Rigobert Tshimanga decried the underdevelopment of the giant Katanga district, which is bigger than either South Kivu or North Kivu province. He described the major challenges the district faces in impr [...]	2006-07-07 10:40:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ECON EIND PGOV CG
06KINSHASA1101	SOUTHERN ITURI BECOMING INCREASINGLY VOLATILE [...] (C) Summary: Since the June 30 capture of Tchei in southern Ituri District by the Patriotic Force of Resistance in Ituri (FRPI),militia activity has increased markedly in the area south of Bunia. The renewed fighting has led to the desertion of several villages and towns just outside Bunia an [...]	2006-07-10 11:15:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPKO CG
06KINSHASA1102	FORMER UDPS OFFICIAL GEARING UP FOR LEGISLATIVE [...] (C) Summary: Former UDPS member Eve Bazaiba -- the only publicly-declared member of the opposition party running in the DRC's elections -- has officially begun her campaign for a seat in the National Assembly, despite threats being made against her. Bazaiba, running as an independent, said she [...]	2006-07-10 11:17:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM PINR CG ELECTIONS
06KINSHASA1124	CAMPAIGN UPDATE: BEMBA'S MLC [...] (C) Summary: With the presidential campaign well underway, Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba's campaign as the Movement for the Liberation of the Congo (MLC)'s candidate is among the most visible in Kinshasa. The theme of Bemba's campaign posters, as well as his party literature, is "securit [...]	2006-07-12 10:24:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS
06KINSHASA1131	MOBUTISTS CLAIM SECRET TO DRC GOVERNANCE: PAYOFFS [...] (C) Summary. During a June 7 meeting with poloff officials of the Popular Movement for the Revolution (MPR),one of two self-proclaimed Mobutist groups, demanded American support and claimed they alone held the secret to successfully governing the DRC. Following a lengthy rant against alle [...]	2006-07-13 10:52:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM CG ELECTIONS
06KINSHASA1145	ITURI UPDATE: DEMOBILIZATION DEADLINE PASSES; MORE [...] (C) Summary: More than 3,500 militia members have voluntarily surrendered in Ituri in the District's latest round of demobilization. Although the deadline for surrendering passed July 15, small numbers of militia members continue to turn in their weapons and join demobilization programs. Altho [...]	2006-07-17 15:58:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPKO CG
06KINSHASA1153	DRC ELECTIONS: LAST-MINUTE ANNOUNCEMENTS ADDING TO [...] (SBU) Summary: The Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) announced July 15 that it has been able to verify some 24.4 million legitimately registered voters in the DRC, a number slightly below the original figure of 25.7 million. The CEI has estimated, however, that those 1.27 million "missing" [...]	2006-07-19 09:15:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS
06KINSHASA1155	SHOOTOUT AT NORTH KIVU ELECTIONS RALLY [...] (C) Violence erupted at an elections rally for Independent National Assembly candidate Jean-Luc Mutokambali in Rugarama, North Kivu on June 17. Mutokambali, a Hutu from a prominent area family, had attracted a crowd of 100-200 supporters in the town (bordering Uganda) in North Kivu's volati [...]	2006-07-19 10:00:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PHUM ELECTIONS CG
06KINSHASA1161	PPRD: EVEN IF KABILA WINS, CAN HIS PARTY SURVIVE? [...] (C) Summary: Although President Kabila is one of the most visible and strongest presidential candidates in the DRC's upcoming election, his ostensible party, the PPRD, is in organizational disarray and showing structural flaws which could pose serious concerns for the future. Unless the par [...]	2006-07-20 09:50:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS
06KINSHASA1165	ITURI UPDATE: KARIM AGREES TO DISARM MILITIA, [...] (C) Summary: Peter Karim, leader of the Ituri-based Front for National Integration (FNI),has agreed to disband his militia in exchange for the promise to be integrated in the Armed Forces of the DRC (FARDC) and given the rank of colonel. In addition, all militia members from the FNI who volun [...]	2006-07-21 07:21:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPKO CG
06KINSHASA1179	PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFUL NYAMWISI THROWS VOTES TO [...] (SBU) Presidential candidate Mbusa Nyamwisi confirmed in an interview July 23 with Radio France Internationale (RFI) that he was urging his supporters to vote for incumbent President Joseph Kabila. The interview confirmed growing speculation that the one-time RCD-K/ML rebel leader's lacklus [...]	2006-07-25 12:52:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS
06KINSHASA1181	DRC ELECTIONS: KASAIANS HOLDING THEIR BREATH AS [...] (C) Summary: As the DRC's July 30 presidential and legislative elections draw closer, the prevailing attitude among Kasaians towards the electoral process is largely one of profound mistrust. Fueled by the belief that their region has been ignored and exploited by the central government for ye [...]	2006-07-25 13:20:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS
06KINSHASA1185	DRC ELECTIONS: UDPS A WANING THREAT IN THE KASAIS [...] (C) Summary: The opposition Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS) -- which continues to boycott the DRC's July 30 elections -- remains a dominant presence in its traditional strongholds of Western and Eastern Kasai provinces. UDPS support and influence, however, are slowly declining i [...]	2006-07-26 10:07:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS
06KINSHASA1186	ITURI UPDATE: MONUC SUSPENDS OPS FOR ELECTIONS; [...] (C) Summary: One week before the DRC's presidential and legislative elections, MONUC peacekeepers have suspended all offensive operations in Ituri District to focus on providing security and logistical support to election workers. Meanwhile, militia leader Peter Karim, who agreed earlier this [...]	2006-07-26 10:10:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPKO CG
06KINSHASA1195	BEMBA'S SECURITY FORCES FIRE WEAPONS DURING VP'S [...] (C) As Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba made his way on foot from Kinshasa's airport to the city's soccer stadium for an anticipated political rally, his security forces reportedly fired their weapons into the air as jet aircraft flew overhead. The planes, dispatched by Air Force Chief of Staf [...]	2006-07-27 14:04:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS
06KINSHASA1200	ITURI UPDATE: MRC MILITIA SIGNS CEASE-FIRE [...] (C) Militia leader Mattheiu Ngonjolo and the GDRC signed a cease-fire agreement in Ituri District July 26, bringing a possible end to the conflict between the GDRC and the Congolese Revolutionary Movement (MRC). According to a joint communique, the MRC and the GDRC concluded an accord to put a [...]	2006-07-27 16:26:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPKO CG
06KINSHASA1206	DRC ELECTIONS: SECURITY CONCERNS IN THE KASAIS [...] (C) Summary: Western and Eastern Kasai provinces have long been political flashpoints in the DRC due largely to the influence of the Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS). Rallies and demonstrations in both provinces have in the past often devolved into violent clashes between politic [...]	2006-07-28 09:01:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS
06KINSHASA1208	DRC ELECTIONS: POLITICAL LEADERS URGE CALM AFTER [...] (C) The atmosphere in Kinshasa is largely calm two days before the scheduled July 30 presidential and legislative elections, despite several outbreaks of violence in the city July 27. As reported reftel, some security forces of Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba (Movement for the Liberation of C [...]	2006-07-28 13:54:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS
06KINSHASA1212	DRC ELECTIONS SITREP 4: VOTING ENDS, COUNTING [...] According to reports from international elections observers countrywide, voting officially ended in all polling stations on time and with few reported problems. While the voting process itself has benefited from a variety of "lessons learned" from the constitutional referendum in December 20 [...]	2006-07-30 19:14:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS
06KINSHASA1236	DRC ELECTIONS: CEI PROMISES INVESTIGATION AFTER [...] (C) Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) President Abbe Apollinaire Malu Malu promised August 4 that the Commission will investigate the burning of an unknown number of marked ballots and vote tally sheets at an election liaison office in Kinshasa. In a meeting with the Ambassador and Repres [...]	2006-08-04 13:10:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS
06KINSHASA1251	DRC ELECTIONS: KASHALA SEES HIMSELF AS CONGO'S NEW [...] (C) Summary: Oscar Kashala is declaring himself an "emerging leader" and "power broker" capable of deciding the eventual winner of the Congo's presidency. Basing his claims on an apparently strong showing in the Kasai provinces and in Kinshasa, Kashala said he will come in third behind Presiden [...]	2006-08-08 08:52:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS
06KINSHASA1255	DRC ELECTIONS: MARKETING BEMBA [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador and U.S. Congressman Donald Payne met with Vice President (and presidential candidate) Jean-Pierre Bemba on August 3. During the meeting, Bemba disingenuously said all the right things and gave all the right responses as he pretended to distance himself from the effo [...]	2006-08-09 11:20:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS
06KINSHASA1256	DRC ELECTIONS: RUBERWA STILL CRYING FOUL [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador and U.S. Congressman Donald Payne met with Vice President (and presidential candidate) Azarias Ruberwa on August 2. During the meeting, Ruberwa repeated his allegations of "widespread fraud" and promised to pursue his complaints through the appropriate legal channels [...]	2006-08-09 11:31:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS
06KINSHASA1257	DRC ELECTIONS: KABILA LEADING BEMBA IN EASTERN [...] (SBU) With just five percent of all electoral districts nationwide having reported their ballot counts, incumbent President Joseph Kabila has taken a large and early lead over Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba. Six of the eight districts reporting, however, are in eastern DRC, where Kabila was [...]	2006-08-09 11:45:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS
06KINSHASA1260	NORTH KIVU FIREFIGHT SPOTLIGHTS PROBLEM OF [...] (C) Summary: On August 5, a firefight in Sake, North Kivu broke out between two Congolese army (FARDC) battalions, one integrated and one non-integrated. Both battalions suffered casualties -- at least three soldiers died and thirty-two were wounded, according to MONUC. Twenty-two civilia [...]	2006-08-10 08:07:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MOPS KPKO CG
06KINSHASA1264	DRC ELECTIONS: AN INSIDE LOOK AT KINSHASA'S [...] (U) Summary: Following the enormous logistical challenge of organizing the DRC's July 30 presidential and legislative elections comes an equally daunting task: the collection, compilation and verification of tens of millions of ballots from some 50,000 polling stations nationwide. In Kinshasa, [...]	2006-08-11 07:55:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS
06KINSHASA1265	DRC ELECTIONS: KABILA CONFIDENT, UPBEAT [...] (C) Summary: Ambassador and U.S. Congressman Donald Payne met with President (and presidential candidate) Joseph Kabila on August 5. Kabila noted that managing the responses of losing candidates and the high expectations from the Congolese people will be the most important challenges for th [...]	2006-08-11 08:39:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS
06KINSHASA1267	DRC ELECTIONS: OBSERVATION IN THE KIVUS [...] (U) Summary: The July 30 elections saw high turnout among North Kivu's 2.5 million and South Kivu's 1.6 million registered voters. Reports from EmbOffs who served as observers in the east indicate that despite logistical and voter education problems, elections in the Kivus were generally w [...]	2006-08-11 10:40:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS
06KINSHASA1268	UPDATE ON DRC'S LEADING LABOR UNION [...] (SBU) The DRC's leading labor union continues to exert little impact on workplace or political matters. EconOff and PolOff met with Symphorien Dunia, President of the Confederation Syndicale Du Congo (CSC),the DRC's leading labor organization (reftel) August 7. 2. (SBU) Dunia reviewed som [...]	2006-08-11 11:11:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	ELAB ECON EMIN PGOV CG
06KINSHASA129	SUPPORTING HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY REPORT [...] Per reftel, post submitted the Supporting Human Rights and Democracy (SHRD) report by unclassified email on January 26. Point of contact for the report is poloff Tracy Naber. MEECE NNNN [...]	2006-01-26 10:06:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED	PHUM CG
06KINSHASA1309	URANIUM SHIPMENT RUMORS UNFOUNDED [...] (C) Summary. Press reports of a possible enriched uranium shipment from the DRC to Iran are unfounded. The DRC has no capability to produce enriched uranium, and Post has no evidence of organized mining at the Shinkolobwe uranium mine. The story likely was planted as a dirty trick designed to [...]	2006-08-18 12:59:00	Embassy Kinshasa	SECRET//NOFORN	ENRG EMIN ETRD PREL PGOV IAEA CG IR
06KINSHASA1310	DRC ELECTIONS: GIZENGA AN EMERGING FORCE [...] (C) Summary: Antoine Gizenga, secretary general of the Unified Lumumbist Party (PALU),met with the Ambassador August 17. The long-time opposition figure, who almost certainly will likely place third in the first round of presidential voting and is the potential kingmaker in a second round, sa [...]	2006-08-18 15:28:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PINR KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS
06KINSHASA1316	DRC SITREP 1: KINSHASA FIGHTING [...] (C) Active fighting broke out in the Gombe neighborhood of Kinshasa around 4pm local time apparently between elements of the Presidential Republican Guard (GSSP),Congolese police, and security forces of Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba's MLC party. The fighting is apparently a continuation of [...]	2006-08-21 16:37:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC CASC KPKO CG
06KINSHASA1317	SITREP 2: KINSHASA FIGHTING [...] (C) At approximately 5:15pm local time, the Ambassador called with an update of the situation from Vice President Bemba's residence (reftel). The Ambassador reported hearing occasional explosions, perhaps from rocket propelled grenades or tanks. MONUC forces sent to the Bemba compound had not [...]	2006-08-21 16:53:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC CASC KPKO CG
06KINSHASA1318	SITREP 3: KINSHASA FIGHTING [...] (C) At 1800 local time, RSO spoke to MONUC head of security who reported that he and "half a MONUC detachment" were at the Palais de Justice. The MONUC officer said that he was using the location as an operations base and was "going in (to Bemba's residence) to do an extraction." The intent he [...]	2006-08-21 17:19:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC CASC KPKO CG
06KINSHASA1319	SITREP 4: KINSHASA FIGHTING [...] (C) The Ambassador called DCM at 1840 local time from Bemba's residence to report that MONUC Force Commander General Babacar Gaye had arrived at the compound around 1820 to discuss arrangements to extricate CIAT ambassadors. Gaye said he had arrived with four APCs, but it was unclear if those [...]	2006-08-21 18:50:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC CASC KPKO CG
06KINSHASA1320	SITREP 5: KINSHASA FIGHTING [...] (C) FARDC Chief of Staff General Kisempia announced on national television that all soldiers are prohibited from carrying arms in the city of Kinshasa, and that they have been ordered to return to their barracks and remain there. Kisempia said General Nabiola, commander of the Unite de Defense [...]	2006-08-21 19:23:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC CASC KPKO CG
06KINSHASA1322	SITREP 7: KINSHASA FIGHTING [...] (C) The Ambassador called DCM at 2115 to report that the CIAT ambassadors had all safely arrived at MONUC headquarters from Bemba's residence. The Minister of Budget (and MLC member) Francois Mwamba, plus some members of Bemba's family, were in the MONUC convoy as well. CIAT ambassadors are cu [...]	2006-08-21 20:18:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC CASC KPKO CG
06KINSHASA1323	SITREP 8: KINSHASA FIGHTING [...] (C) The Ambassador called DCM around 2220 local time to report that he had safely returned to his residence after leaving MONUC headquarters via a convoy organized by MONUC security. The Ambassador reported that the convoy drove down Boulevard 30 Juin through the center of Gombe, where much of [...]	2006-08-21 22:29:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC CASC KPKO CG
06KINSHASA1324	SITREP 9: KINSHASA FIGHTING (8/22 0800 LOCAL TIME) [...] (C) As dawn broke in Kinshasa August 22, isolated gunfire and small explosions were heard in the downtown Gombe area of the city. The Ambassador called DCM from his residence at 0635 to report gunfire, some apparently from heavy arms, from the direction of the Palais de la Nation (the president [...]	2006-08-22 07:06:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC CASC KPKO CG
06KINSHASA1326	SITREP 11: KINSHASA FIGHTING (8/22 1030 LOCAL TIME) [...] (C) The Ambassador called DCM at 0900 local time to report that the CIAT ambassadors will meet with President Kabila at his riverside residence at 1130 August 21. 2. (C) PolCouns called around 0900 to report that presidential diplomatic adviser Augustin Katumba is proposing a meeting of the [...]	2006-08-22 09:34:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC CASC KPKO CG
06KINSHASA1327	SITREP 13: KINSHASA FIGHTING (8/22 11:15 LOCAL [...] (C) CIAT Ambassadors are assembling as of 11:00 local time, under MONUC protective cover, in advance of their transport to a meeting scheduled with President Kabila at 11:30. 2. (C) At 10:55 local time, scattered gunfire was heard in the vicinity of the Embassy's JAO compound. 3. (C) [...]	2006-08-22 10:39:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC CASC KPKO CG
06KINSHASA1330	SITREP 15: KINSHASA FIGHTING (8/22 13:30 LOCAL [...] (C) CIAT Ambassadors began their meeting with President Kabila at the President's riverside residence/office at around noon local time, after convoying with security provided by MONUC. 2. (C) A Dutch diplomat told EconOff that his Embassy's security firm reported that the situation around B [...]	2006-08-22 12:31:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC CASC KPKO CG
06KINSHASA1333	SITREP 18: KINSHASA FIGHTING (8/22 1730 LOCAL TIME) [...] (C) The Canadian Embassy's security chief told RSO that at about 1315, he drove from the Canadian Embassy down Boulevard 30 Juin toward the center of town. He said that he saw heavy "GSSP" presence near DRC government buildings along the Boulevard, but that the troops were in the process of pu [...]	2006-08-22 16:44:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC CASC KPKO CG
06KINSHASA1334	SITREP 19: CIAT MEETING WITH PRESIDENT KABILA [...] (C) The Ambassador called DCM from his residence at 1350 local time to report that the noon CIAT meeting with President Kabila had ended. All members of CIAT were present except for the representatives of the African Union, Angola, South Africa, and Zambia. Among the Congolese participants, as [...]	2006-08-22 18:00:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC CASC KPKO CG
06KINSHASA1335	SITREP 20: KINSHASA RETURNING TO NORMAL (8/23 0700 [...] (C) At daybreak August 23, downtown Kinshasa is calm. There were no reports of gunfire or violence overnight. The downtown area and all of Gombe were peaceful throughout the evening, and remain so this morning. RSO is presently conducting reconnaissance patrols in the city center and on the ai [...]	2006-08-23 06:10:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC CASC KPKO CG
06KINSHASA1340	SITREP 23: PEACEKEEPERS INCREASED, SECURITY [...] (C) MONUC reports that an additional company of South African troops has been dispatched from Lubumbashi to reinforce the three MONUC battalions already deployed in Kinshasa. 2. (C) The DATT confirmed that around 200 troops were dispatched from Gabon to supplement the 1000 present in Kin [...]	2006-08-23 13:46:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV ASEC CASC KPKO CG
06KINSHASA1387	ITURI UPDATE: KARIM STALLING ON INTEGRATION, [...] (C) Summary: Militia leader Peter Karim, who agreed in mid-July to disarm his Front for National Integration (FNI) militia and integrate his forces into the Congolese military (ref A),is refusing to honor the agreement he signed with the GDRC. Since the accord was reached, Karim has charged t [...]	2006-08-31 15:25:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPKO CG
06KINSHASA139	ITURI UPDATE: OPERATIONS CONTINUE AGAINST MILITIAS [...] (C) Summary: Following a series of military operations against armed militias in Ituri District (reftels),MONUC and the Armed Forces of the DRC (FARDC) launched Operation Ituri Encourager January 12 to eliminate remaining militia elements in the region. To date, the joint operations have resul [...]	2006-01-27 10:51:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MOPS KPKO CG UG
06KINSHASA141	ITURI UPDATE: OPERATIONS CONTINUE AGAINST MILITIAS [...] (C) Summary: Following a series of military operations against armed militias in Ituri District (reftels),MONUC and the Armed Forces of the DRC (FARDC) launched Operation Ituri Encourager January 12 to eliminate remaining militia elements in the region. To date, the joint operations have resul [...]	2006-01-27 11:47:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MOPS KPKO CG UG
06KINSHASA1423	DRC: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON ILC CANDIDACY [...] (U) PolOff delivered September 11 reftel diplomatic note and biography of Michael Matheson to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Chief of Staff Jacques D'Joli. While offering no substantive comment on the note, D'Joli said he would pass it to the GDRC mission in New York for review. Post will report [...]	2006-09-11 16:03:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED	UNGA CG
06KINSHASA1485	GIZENGA'S PARTY MAKES COMMON CAUSE WITH KABILA IN [...] (C) Summary: Antoine Gizenga's Unified Lumumbist Party (PALU) announced September 21 it would join a parliamentary coalition of the Kabila-affiliated Alliance for the Presidential Majority (AMP),and will support President Kabila in the October 29 presidential run-off. While such an alliance [...]	2006-09-22 11:41:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS

06KINSHASA1487	UDPS STRUGGLING TO SAVE ITS FUTURE IN LATEST [...] (C) Summary: Senior officials of the Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS) have been quietly negotiating with representatives of both President Joseph Kabila and Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba since DR Congo's July 30 first-round elections. They say talks with Kabila's People's Pa [...]	2006-09-22 12:42:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS
06KINSHASA1505	DRC'S BEMBA FORMS NEW ALLIANCE TO COUNTER KABILA [...] (SBU) Summary: DR Congo Vice President Bemba announced September 23 the creation of a new political alliance, the Union for the Nation (UN). It appears unlikely to bolster significantly his electoral prospects in the October 29 presidential vote. End summary. 2. (U) Congolese Vice Presid [...]	2006-09-27 16:12:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS
06KINSHASA1535	INTER-MILITIA CLASHES THREATEN ITURI,S SECURITY [...] (C) Summary: Rival FNI and MRC militia forces clashed last month in DR Congo's Ituri District. Precise reasons remain unknown, but appear to encompass elements of turf war, militia recruitment and ethnic protection. For now, the fighting is limited in area, but risks disturbing the delicate [...]	2006-10-03 14:30:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPKO ASEC CG
06KINSHASA1540	OSCAR KASHALA -- NOT THE FORCE HE THOUGHT HE WAS [...] (C) Summary: Former DR Congo presidential candidate (and American citizen) Oscar Kashala, who once claimed to be the next "power broker" in Congolese politics (reftel),has proven little more than a flash in the pan. He won less than four percent of the vote in the July 30 presidential elect [...]	2006-10-05 15:34:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS
06KINSHASA1552	NORTH KOREAN NUCLEAR TEST DEMARCHE DELIVERED IN [...] (U) Embassy Kinshasa delivered reftel talking points and President Bush's statement regarding North Korea's nuclear test announcement. 2. (C) Raymond Ramazani Bayi, Minister of Foreign Affairs, condemned North Korea's actions and said he would make a formal statement at a later date. P [...]	2006-10-10 15:25:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KN PARM KNNP CG
06KINSHASA1567	ITURI MILITIA LEADERS AWARDED RANK OF COLONEL IN [...] (C) Summary: Ituri militia leaders Peter Karim of the Front for National Integration (FNI) and Mathieu Ngonjolo of the Congolese Revolutionary Movement (MRC) will be named as colonels by the GDRC after they agreed earlier this year to surrender their weapons and demobilize their respective mil [...]	2006-10-12 13:46:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPKO CG
06KINSHASA1574	ITURI UPDATE: FRPI ATTACKS FARDC POSITIONS, BUT [...] (C) Summary: A series of clashes between the Congolese military and the Patriotic Force of Resistance in Ituri (FRPI) militia has heightened security concerns in the southern part of Ituri District. Two Bangladeshi MONUC peacekeepers were wounded in the latest round of fighting, which resulted [...]	2006-10-13 12:50:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPKO CG
06KINSHASA1578	DRC ELECTIONS: SECOND-ROUND PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN [...] (U) Campaigning for the DRC's second-round presidential race officially begins at midnight local time October 13. President Joseph Kabila and Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba, the top two finishers among the 32 contenders in the first round on July 30, will have just fifteen days for their cam [...]	2006-10-13 19:32:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS
06KINSHASA1591	EASTERN KASAI GOVERNOR REJECTS ASSEMBLY SEAT: [...] (C) Summary: Dominique Kanku, the governor of Eastern Kasai province, has declined to take his seat in the DRC's new National Assembly, opting instead to remain in his current position. Kanku is the first high-level GDRC official elected to parliament on July 30 to make it known he intends to [...]	2006-10-17 11:38:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KCOR CG ELECTIONS
06KINSHASA160	DRC RESPONSE ON INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL [...] (U) PolOff delivered January 30 reftel diplomatic note and curriculum vitae to Jacques Djoli, Chief of Staff of Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Djoli said the GDRC would support Ambassador Levitsky's re-election to the Board and would not nominate its own candidate. MEECE NNNN [...]	2006-01-31 14:21:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL AORC CG UNCND UN
06KINSHASA161	DRC RESPONSE TO DEMARCHE ON REPORTING IRAN TO UNSC [...] (C) PolOff delivered January 30 reftel demarche and talking points to Jacques Djoli, Chief of Staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Djoli said the GDRC shared USG and international community concerns over Iran developing nuclear weapons. Djoli also said maximum pressure should be applied o [...]	2006-01-31 15:28:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PARM KNNP PREL IR CG
06KINSHASA1622	DRC CAMPAIGN ELECTION UPDATE [...] (SBU) Summary: Representatives of President Joseph Kabila and Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba have signed an agreement detailing the code of conduct for the presidential campaign. There is not yet agreement, however, regarding the adoption of a post-electoral accord providing certain guarantee [...]	2006-10-20 11:15:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS
06KINSHASA1642	DRC ELECTIONS: KASAIANS SHOWING GREATER [...] (C) Summary: With the DRC's second-round presidential elections taking place October 29, attitudes towards the electoral process in the provinces of Western and Eastern Kasai are changing. Kasaian in the strongholds of the Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS) have been to some degree [...]	2006-10-25 08:46:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS
06KINSHASA1652	DRC ELECTIONS: KASAIAN VOTES WILL BE KEY FOR [...] (C) Summary: Western and Eastern Kasai provinces are a key battleground in the October 29 presidential election. The over two million voters who abstained in the July 30 first round could be crucial to victory for President Joseph Kabila or Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba. Neither obtained a [...]	2006-10-25 18:54:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS
06KINSHASA1663	DRC ELECTIONS: SECURITY CONCERNS MINIMAL IN THE [...] (C) Summary: Western and Eastern Kasai provinces witnessed acts of politically-related violence before and during the July 30 elections. The potential for isolated incidents remains, but security and political officials in the region do not foresee problems that could derail the October 29 ele [...]	2006-10-27 10:14:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS
06KINSHASA1664	NZANGA MOBUTU RETURNS TO KINSHASA AFTER VIOLENCE [...] (C) Summary: Nzanga Mobutu is reportedly safe and en route to Kinshasa following violence October 26 in Gbadolite in Equateur province. Congolese military forces and MONUC peacekeepers re-established order after some looting and civil unrest in the late afternoon. Gbadolite is calm on October [...]	2006-10-27 11:50:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KPKO CG
06KINSHASA1668	DRC ELECTIONS: PALU CONFIDENT ITS MEMBERS WILL [...] (C) Summary: Close advisers to Antoine Gizenga, the Secretary General of the Unified Lumumbist Party (PALU),said SIPDIS they are confident the party's supporters will vote for President Joseph Kabila in the October 29 run-off election. They confirmed that Gizenga himself will not campaign f [...]	2006-10-28 09:34:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS
06KINSHASA1669	DRC ELECTIONS: MLC LEADERS ON CAMPAIGN AND [...] (C) Summary: Key officials of Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba's Movement for the Liberation of Congo (MLC) say they are confident that Bemba will hold key strongholds in the October 29 presidential election and increase his tally elsewhere. They complain that MLC supporters are being harassed [...]	2006-10-28 13:07:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS
06KINSHASA1679	DRC ELECTIONS: MLC POST-ELECTION PRIORITIES [...] (C) Summary: Senior officials of Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba's Movement for the Liberation of Congo (MLC) party said before the October 29 election that a Bemba-led government would work closely with President Kabila's PPRD. They say the immediate focus would be on reform of the security [...]	2006-10-31 08:17:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS
06KINSHASA1683	DRC ELECTIONS: BALLOT COMPILATION UNDERWAY WITH [...] (U) Summary: AF DAS Yamamoto emphasized to the Congolese press strong U.S. interest in working with a freely-elected Congolese government after heading the U.S. observer team for the October 29 DRC elections. One of two Kinshasa television stations owned by Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba is a [...]	2006-10-31 15:57:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS
06KINSHASA1718	DRC DIPLOMATIC NOTE CONCERNING NORTH KOREA [...] (C) The DRC Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent Embassy Kinshasa a diplomatic note regarding its position on nuclear tests by North Korea. This followed condemnation of North Korea's nuclear test by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and by the Presidency's Diplomatic Adviser (reftels A and B). [...]	2006-11-07 12:18:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KNNP KNEP PARM KN CG
06KINSHASA1732	DRC ELECTIONS: BEMBA ALLEGES DISCREPANCIES IN VOTE [...] (U) Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba has charged that the vote counts for the October 29 election being released by the Independent Electoral Commission (CEI) differ significantly from those provided by his MLC party's witnesses. In a November 8 letter to CEI President Apollinaire Malu Malu, [...]	2006-11-10 09:53:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS
06KINSHASA1736	DRC ELECTIONS: VOTE COUNT NEARLY COMPLETE [...] (U) As of November 13, preliminary figures released by the DRC's Independent Electoral Commission (CEI),accounting for 90 percent of the country's electoral districts, place President Joseph Kabila ahead of Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba by 58.8 to 41.2 percent. Approximately 2.5 million vo [...]	2006-11-13 15:37:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS
06KINSHASA174	MLC NOMINATES BEMBA FOR PRESIDENT, ADOPTS PLATFORM [...] (U) Summary: The Movement for the Liberation of Congo (MLC) held its party congress January 27-29 in Kinshasa in advance of national elections in 2006. The MLC unanimously nominated the party's chairman, Jean-Pierre Bemba, as its presidential candidate and adopted a national campaign platform. [...]	2006-02-01 17:25:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM CG
06KINSHASA1753	GOVERNMENT TARGETS STREET GANGS FOR "NATIONAL [...] (SBU) Summary: Government authorities plan to transport several hundred allegedly criminal homeless adults and children to rural areas for agricultural work or schooling following their detention in the aftermath of November 11 violence in Kinshasa (reftel). The Minister of the Interior outl [...]	2006-11-15 15:51:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PHUM PGOV KDEM CG
06KINSHASA1768	ITURI UPDATE: GDRC SIGNS NEW DEAL WITH KARIM, WITH [...] (C) Summary: The GDRC has signed a follow-up agreement with Ituri militia leader Peter Karim aimed at accelerating the demobilization and surrender of his Front for National Integration (FNI) forces. The latest deal promises the FNI will begin disarming by November 27, but stipulates that an a [...]	2006-11-20 16:00:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPKO CG UG
06KINSHASA1769	ITURI UPDATE: GDRC HAS FIRST MEETING WITH FRPI [...] (C) A GDRC delegation charged with negotiations with Ituri District militia groups and led by Vice Minister of Defense Yves Mena held its first official meeting with the Front for Patriotic Resistance in Ituri (FRPI) November 18. FRPI leader Cobra Matata was not present, but was represented by [...]	2006-11-20 16:01:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL CG UG
06KINSHASA178	FARDC SECOND BRIGADE TO MOVE TO NORTH KIVU [...] (C) Following the FARDC Fifth Brigade's ignominious flight in the face of insurgent attacks in Rutshuru, North Kivu (reftel),the Second Integrated Brigade has been ordered to North Kivu from Kinshasa. According to MONUC Goma Poloff, approximately 150 troops had arrived at Goma airport by Feb [...]	2006-02-02 12:01:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPKO CG
06KINSHASA1780	BEMBA ADVISER PREDICTS COURT LOSS, PROVINCIAL WINS [...] (SBU) Summary: Delly Sesanga, a key member of Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba's Movement for the Liberation of the Congo (MLC),expects Bemba's Supreme Court challenge of the October 29 presidential vote will not succeed. He claimed that early vote tallies indicated the MLC will control at [...]	2006-11-24 09:46:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM CG ELECTIONS
06KINSHASA1793	ITURI UPDATE: GDRC SAYS "NO GUARANTEES" FOR [...] (C) Summary: Vice Minister of Defense Bernard Mena, who recently headed a GDRC delegation to meet with the region's militia leaders in Ituri District (reftels),characterized the meetings as "positive." Mena said he believed the militias were ready to disarm because their operations have been [...]	2006-11-28 12:26:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPKO CG
06KINSHASA1794	AREAS AROUND SAKE UNDER CONTROL OF MONUC, FARDC [...] (SBU) Summary: Areas around the North Kivu town of Sake were retaken late November 27 by joint forces of the Congolese military (FARDC) and MONUC peacekeepers. Locations on the outskirts of Sake had briefly fallen under control of non-integrated FARDC troops loyal to dissident General Laurent [...]	2006-11-28 13:14:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPKO MOPS CG
06KINSHASA1802	DRC ELECTIONS: BEMBA PLEDGES TO LEAD POLITICAL [...] (U) Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba said November 28 he will remain a member of the DRC's political opposition. In a nationally televised address November 28, Bemba said in the larger interest of the nation and of the necessity to preserve peace and prevent violence, he will undertake the res [...]	2006-11-29 13:00:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPKO KDEM CG ELECTIONS
06KINSHASA1803	NORTH KIVU UPDATE: SITUATION TENSE BUT UNDER [...] (C) Summary: The North Kivu town of Sake remains under the combined control of the Congolese military (FARDC) and MONUC peacekeepers as of November 29. A MONUC military official described the situation as fluid and tense, but under control. Small skirmishes erupted between elements of the non- [...]	2006-11-29 14:09:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPKO MOPS CG
06KINSHASA1808	ITURI UPDATE: FRPI MILITIA AGREES TO JOIN [...] (C) Summary: The Patriotic Front for Resistance in Ituri (FRPI) militia led by Cobra Matata has agreed to demobilize. The agreement follows November 18 discussions between the GDRC and the FRPI that the militia's future participation in the program (reftel). The FRPI has placed some conditions [...]	2006-11-30 07:28:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPKO CG
06KINSHASA1809	ITURI UPDATE: KARIM REFUSING TO BEGIN MILITIA [...] (C) Ituri militia leader Peter Karim is refusing to begin sending his Front for National Integration (FNI) force to demobilization sites despite signing an agreement November 17 to do so (reftel). 2. (C) A MONUC disarmament mission to Doi, some 35 miles north of Bunia, was denied access Nov [...]	2006-11-30 07:29:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPKO CG
06KINSHASA1816	MANDATE OVER, EUFOR TROOPS BEGIN PULLING OUT OF DRC [...] (C) Summary: The four-month mandate of the European Union force (EUFOR) deployment to the DRC officially ended at midnight November 30. The first flight of troops left Kinshasa for Gabon the same evening, and EUFOR has ended its security patrols in the capital. EUFOR officials said the majorit [...]	2006-12-01 11:25:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPKO MOPS ASEC CG
06KINSHASA1826	ITURI UPDATE: MILITIAS SIGN COMMON PEACE ACCORD, [...] (C) Summary: Representatives of Ituri District's main militias agreed to a common peace accord with the GDRC November 29 in Bunia. The common accord details obligations and establishes a timeline for demobilization. Karim insists on amnesty before surrendering. End summary. 2. (U) The GDRC [...]	2006-12-04 16:25:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPKO CG
06KINSHASA1828	KABILA MEETS WITH NORTH KIVU COMMUNITY LEADERS [...] (C) President Joseph Kabila concluded his unannounced visit to North Kivu December 2. The visit, which began November 30 (ref A),included meetings with the Barazza interethnic regional council, community leaders, and residents of Sake, which had seen fighting between the FARDC and forces lo [...]	2006-12-05 12:04:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPKO CG
06KINSHASA1831	ELEVEN SOLDIERS LEAVE NKUNDA'S FORCES IN NORTH KIVU [...] (C) Eleven soldiers loyal to General Laurent Nkunda, including two top officers, have left the renegade general's forces to be integrated into the Congolese military (FARDC),according to MONUC military officials. MONUC peacekeepers in North Kivu launched a secret mission December 4 to extract [...]	2006-12-05 16:59:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPKO MOPS ASEC CG
06KINSHASA1832	NKUNDA LOYALISTS, FARDC CLASH IN NORTH KIVU BORDER [...] (C) Summary: Non-integrated troops loyal to renegade general Laurent Nkunda clashed with integrated forces of the Congolese military (FARDC) December 5 at the DRC border post of Bunagana. Elements of the non-integrated 83rd Brigade captured Bunagana and the nearby towns of Runyoni and Jomba. I [...]	2006-12-07 11:55:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPKO MOPS ASEC CG UG
06KINSHASA1834	FARDC CHANGES COMMANDERS IN NORTH KIVU AFTER SAKE [...] (C) Summary: The Congolese military (FARDC) has made a series of high-level changes in its leadership in North Kivu province following the November 25-27 fighting in Sake (reftels). The heads of two Integrated Brigades which had performed poorly against pro-Nkunda forces were relieved of comma [...]	2006-12-07 15:01:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPKO MOPS ASEC CG
06KINSHASA1835	FORMER NKUNDA OFFICERS PROVIDE INSIGHT INTO [...] (C) Summary: MONUC military officials in North Kivu December 4 debriefed former top lieutenants to Laurent Nkunda after the two abandoned the renegade general's ranks earlier that day (ref A). Colonel Bernard Mbyamungu and Major Dieudonne Kabika told MONUC interrogators the November 25 fightin [...]	2006-12-07 15:27:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPKO MOPS ASEC CG RW UG
06KINSHASA1846	NORTH KIVU UPDATE: FARDC LAUNCHES FAILED OFFENSIVE [...] (C) Summary: Integrated units of the Congolese military (FARDC) attacked positions of non-integrated troops loyal to renegade general Laurent Nkunda near Runyoni and Sake in North Kivu province December 8 and 9. Neither offensive was successful. Divisions appear to be emerging in the FARDC's m [...]	2006-12-11 11:41:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPKO MOPS ASEC CG
06KINSHASA1861	ITURI UPDATE: OBSTACLES DELAYING MILITIA [...] (C) Summary: Approximately 100 Ituri District militia members have voluntarily disarmed since peace agreements were signed in October between the GDRC and three of the District's militia groups. Congolese military officials had expected nearly 5,000 militia members to sign on by the end of the [...]	2006-12-15 11:41:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPKO ASEC EAID CG
06KINSHASA1870	FARDC BUILDING UP FORCE LEVELS IN NORTH KIVU [...] (C) Summary: The Congolese military (FARDC) has begun a substantial build-up in North Kivu province following clashes beginning in late November between elements of its integrated and non-integrated brigades. At least seven brigades have been deployed in and around the provincial capital of Gom [...]	2006-12-18 11:15:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPKO MOPS ASEC CG
06KINSHASA1882	OPPOSITION LAWYER CHARGED WITH INSURRECTION, ARMS [...] (C) Summary: Marie-Therese Nlandu Mpolo-Mene, a senior official during the Mobutu regime and an ally of Jean-Pierre Bemba, was charged by a military court December 11 with incitement to overthrow the government and with possession of illegal firearms. Kinshasa Special Police had arrested Nl [...]	2006-12-20 14:15:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PHUM PGOV KDEM CG
06KINSHASA1889	NORTH KIVU UPDATE: SITUATION CALM, NEGOTIATIONS [...] (C) Behind-the-scenes negotiations with forces loyal to renegade General Laurent Nkunda continued December 19 (reftel). According to MONUC, FARDC 8th Military Region Commander General Ngizo organized a meeting with Nkunda-loyalist 81st and 83rd Brigade battalion commanders at Kilolirwe. Ng [...]	2006-12-21 15:07:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS KPKO CG
06KINSHASA1930	PRE-EMPTIVE ATTACK BY NKUNDA FORCES UNSUCCESSFUL [...] (SBU) Three relatively calm weeks between pro-Nkunda and FARDC forces in North Kivu ended December 27 with an early morning pre-emptive attack by the former. According to MONUC, pro-Nkunda forces began firing at 3am on FARDC soldiers of the 1st Reserve Brigade in the hills outside Runyoni, [...]	2006-12-28 13:01:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	MOPS DPKO CG
06KINSHASA1938	NORTH KIVU UPDATE: CONTINUED FIGHTING, RENEGADE [...] (SBU) Fighting re-erupted at Runyoni, North Kivu early in the morning of December 28 when forces loyal to renegade General Nkunda attacked the FARDC post at Bugusa. According to MONUC, the incident began when the FARDC 94th Battalion tried to attack renegade troop positions at Bisiza. The r [...]	2006-12-29 09:47:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MOPS DPKO CG
06KINSHASA23	UDPS, TSHISEKEDI ASSERT CHANGE IN DIRECTION [...] (SBU) Summary: In an ostensible reversal of its political strategy, the Union for Democratic and Social Progress (UDPS) announced it will participate in the DRC's 2006 elections, with UDPS leader Etienne Tshisekedi running as a candidate for president. As with previous messages from Tshisekedi [...]	2006-01-05 13:39:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS
06KINSHASA247	UDPS MOVES TOWARDS ELECTIONS KICKING AND SCREAMING [...] (C) Summary: In a series of meetings, Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS) officials said the long-time opposition party will participate in the upcoming national DRC elections and is planning to hold a national congress in February. These same officials, however, complained bitterly [...]	2006-02-14 16:17:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS
06KINSHASA265	ITURI UPDATE: FARDC MOVING INTO POSITION AGAINST [...] (C) Following a three-week delay due to logistical problems in previously planned military operations against the Patriotic Force of Resistance in Ituri (FRPI),the Armed Forces of the DRC (FARDC) is moving commando troops from their base in Aba to Tchei (with the help of MONUC),where remnant [...]	2006-02-16 16:02:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV MOPS KPKO CG
06KINSHASA340	DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON MEETINGS WITH HAMAS [...] (SBU) PolOff delivered Feburary 16 reftel demarche and talking points to Jacques Djoli, Chief of Staff of the Ministry of Forign Afairs. Djoli agreed that Hamas must renounce violence and recognize the right of Israel to exist. He expressed hope that the responsibilities of government would [...]	2006-03-01 15:18:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL CG
06KINSHASA341	FARDC LEADS MILITARY OPERATION IN SOUTH KIVU [...] (SBU) For the first time, the Congolese military (FARDC) has played the lead role in planning a joint MONUC-FARDC mission against the FDLR in South Kivu. The FARDC Third Integrated Brigade and the FARDC First Reserve Brigade supplied the majority of the troops -- more than 1,000 to MONUC's 30 [...]	2006-03-01 15:22:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PREL KPKO CG UN
06KINSHASA346	TRIPARTITE-PLUS FUSION CELL HOLDS GRADUATION [...] (U) Summary. The Tripartite-Plus Fusion Cell held a "graduation" in Kisangani for its initial trainees on 25 February. The brief ceremony was attended by MONUC officials, several Congolese political representatives including Governor of Province Orientale Jean-Pierre Lola Kisanga, and Nation [...]	2006-03-02 08:24:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV MARR KPKO CG MONUC
06KINSHASA369	DRC: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON CONDEMNATION OF [...] (SBU) PolOff delivered March 3 reftel demarche and statements to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Chief of Staff Jacques Djoli. Djoli said the GDRC deplored the attack on the Al-Askariya shrine as well as any acts of violence in Iraq. He added that the USG must find a solution to the violence or ri [...]	2006-03-06 10:26:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL PGOV KDEM KPAO PTER IZ CG
06KINSHASA37	DRC: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON AMIS REHAT [...] (SBU) PolOff delivered reftel demarche and talking points January 6 to Jacques Djoli, the new chief of staff at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Djoli said the crisis in Darfur required continued attention and security assistance from the African Union and other interested parties. 2. (SBU) [...]	2006-01-09 10:37:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM PINS PREL KPKO SU CG
06KINSHASA370	DRC: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON SUPPORTING U.S.-INDIA [...] (U) PolOff delivered reftel demarche and talking points March 3 to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Chief of Staff Jacques Djoli. Djoli said he welcomed the new initiative and its goal of controlling nuclear proliferation. He said the GDRC would need to study the partnership more closely before maki [...]	2006-03-06 10:27:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED	PREL ENRG KSCA IN PARM KNNP ETTC CG
06KINSHASA371	DRC: DEMARCHE ON THIRD ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL [...] (U) PolOff delivered March 3 reftel demarche and talking points to Jacques Djoli, Chief of Staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Djoli said the GDRC was pleased to see the Third Additional Protocol had passed, and it would work to ensure that MDA could join the ICRC Movement. Djoli added t [...]	2006-03-06 10:28:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED	AORC ICRC PHUM PREF PREL SZ CG
06KINSHASA372	DRC: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON IAEA IRAN REPORT [...] (U) PolOff met March 3 with Ministry of Foreign Affairs Chief of Staff Jacques Djoli and delivered reftel statements and talking points. Djoli said the GDRC was very interested in what the IAEA would report to the UNSC, and hoped it would spur Iran to curtail its nuclear ambitions. Djoli agreed [...]	2006-03-06 10:29:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED	PARM KNNP PREL IR EU AORC CG
06KINSHASA373	DRC: DEMARCHES ON SECURITY COUNCIL, SECRETARY [...] (SBU) PolOff met March 3 with Ministry of Foreign Affairs Chief of Staff Jacques Djoli to discuss a variety of subjects, including the upcoming elections of new members to the UN Security Council (reftel A) and of a new UN Secretary General (reftel B). Djoli said in light of Guatemala's contri [...]	2006-03-06 10:33:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL UN UNSC GT VE CG
06KINSHASA378	FIGHTING CONTINUES IN ITURI, MUTINEERS TO BE [...] (C) Despite the suspension of Operation Ituri Engraver (reftel),fighting between militia elements and the Armed Forces of the DRC (FARDC) continues in Ituri District. Elements of the Patriotic Forces for Resistance in Ituri (FRPI) March 5 attacked MONUC and FARDC positions in Kagaba (approxim [...]	2006-03-07 12:08:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPKO MOPS CG
06KINSHASA38	DRC SATISFIED WITH ICJ RULING, STILL CONSIDERING [...] (C) While delivering demarche January 6 to new Ministry of Foreign Affairs Chief of Staff Jacques Djoli (septel),PolOff and Djoli discussed the December 19 International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling against Uganda. The Court ruled that Uganda "violated the principles of non-use of force in [...]	2006-01-09 10:55:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPKO KJUS CG UG
06KINSHASA380	WESTERN KASAI: CALM, BUT UNPREDICTABLE [...] (C) Summary: PolOff and EconOff February 21-23 visited Kananga, the capital of Eastern Kasai province. During the visit, PolOff met with a variety of local political representatives and civil society actors to gauge the province's preparedness for national elections in 2006 and the potential f [...]	2006-03-07 12:08:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KPKO CG
06KINSHASA381	"ESCAPED" OPPOSITION LEADER TAKES REFUGE AT SOUTH [...] (SBU) Following a March 2 Supreme Court hearing regarding the legality of his detention, Pastor Ngoy, a minor but vocal opposition leader, managed to elude his police guard to take refuge at the South African embassy. He had been jailed at Kinshasa Central Prison since December 31 for "offendi [...]	2006-03-07 12:16:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV PHUM KDEM CG
06KINSHASA404	KASAIAN ECONOMY LACKS ENERGY [...] (U) Summary. The two Kasai provinces offer a clear example of the economic tragedy of the Congo, with fertile, diamond-studded soil juxtaposed with an impoverished population unable to pull themselves out of their economic despair. Western Kasai seems slightly more prosperous than Eastern Kas [...]	2006-03-09 16:06:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	ENRG ECON EMIN ELAB EAGR CG
06KINSHASA405	EASTERN KASAI: UDPS FANS TENSIONS [...] (C) Summary: PolOff and EconOff conducted a two-day visit February 23-24 to Mbuji-Mayi, the capital of Eastern Kasai province. During the trip, emboffs met with a variety of local officials, political party representatives and MONUC staff to assess the political, economic and security situatio [...]	2006-03-09 16:45:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KPKO CG
06KINSHASA410	ELECTORAL LAW PROMULGATED; FIRST ROUND OF [...] (U) President Joseph Kabila signed the DRC's long-awaited electoral law the evening of March 8 and officially promulgated the document March 9. The electoral law lays out the conditions under which the DRC will hold its first national democratic elections in more than 40 years. With its promul [...]	2006-03-10 12:25:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KPKO CG
06KINSHASA411	ITURI: MILITIAS CONTINUE TO ATTACK FARDC POSITIONS [...] (C) According to MONUC officials, elements of the Patriotic Force for Resistance in Ituri (FRPI) militia continue to attack positions of the Armed Forces of the DRC (FARDC) in Ituri District. Although Operation Ituri Engraver ceased activities over a week ago (reftel),FARDC and MONUC troops a [...]	2006-03-10 12:32:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPKO MOPS CG UG
06KINSHASA422	UDPS OFFICIAL RELEASED FROM DETENTION [...] (C) Following his arrest March 10 during a demonstration in Kinshasa (reftel),Union for Democracy and Social Progress (UDPS) Secretary General Remy Masamba was released from police custody after being held for approximately two hours. Masamba told PolCouns March 11 he was treated "like a cele [...]	2006-03-13 14:10:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM CG
06KINSHASA435	ITURI: FARDC AND MONUC SEAL OFF BUNIA FROM MILITIAS [...] (C) The Armed Forces of the DRC (FARDC),with support from MONUC peacekeepers, have sealed off Bunia to prevent the infiltration of militia forces into the city. Following the cessation of Operation Ituri Engraver (reftels),militias have continued sporadic attacks against the FARDC and MONUC [...]	2006-03-14 16:39:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPKO MOPS CG UG
06KINSHASA442	FARDC BEGINS REINFORCING TROOPS IN ITURI [...] (C) The Armed Forces of the DRC (FARDC) have begun transferring elements of the 2nd Integrated Brigade in Beni to Bunia to assist existing FARDC troops in their fight against militia forces. According to MONUC-Bunia Head of Office Sharouh Sharif, more than 700 new FARDC troops have arrived in [...]	2006-03-15 13:17:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPKO MOPS CG
06KINSHASA447	CHINESE ECONOMIC OUTREACH IN THE KASAIS [...] (C) During a February 21-24 visit to Western and Eastern Kasai by EconOff and PolOff, the Chinese ambassador to the DRC, Fan Zhenshui, also visited the region. According to MONUC and other sources in the provinces, the Chinese ambassador met with a variety of local business and political leade [...]	2006-03-16 06:21:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL ETRD EMIN ECON CG CH
06KINSHASA467	GUEHENNO ASSESSES DRC POLITICAL LANDSCAPE [...] (U) UN Undersecretary General for Peacekeeping Operations Jean-Marie Guehenno completed his 9-day visit to the DRC with a press briefing March 15, urging the Congolese and their political leaders to continue moving towards free and democratic elections. Guehenno, on his fifth trip to DRC with [...]	2006-03-20 17:31:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPKO KDEM CG
06KINSHASA478	ITURI: INSECURITY ON THE RISE [...] (C) Summary: The security situation in the DRC's northeastern Ituri District is worsening as various militia groups continue their attacks on the Armed Forces of the DRC (FARDC) and MONUC troops. Elements of the Patriotic Front for Resistance in Ituri (FRPI) and the Congolese Revolutionary Mov [...]	2006-03-22 17:01:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPKO MOPS CG UG
06KINSHASA481	MILITARY SITUATION IN THE KASAIS: STABLE, FOR NOW [...] (C) Summary: During a February 21-24 visit to Western and Eastern Kasai provinces, PolOff met with a variety of local political actors (reftels) and with the commanders of the DRC's 4th and 5th Military Regions. Neither province has been subject to violence and militia activity as have the DRC' [...]	2006-03-23 15:46:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPKO CG
06KINSHASA485	KOFI ANNAN'S VISIT TO DRC CONTINUES INTERNATIONAL [...] (U) Summary: Continuing to promote the international theme of a steady march toward peaceful elections and conflict-free governmental transition, U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan completed his two-day trip to Kinshasa and left for Kisangani the morning of March 23. During his meetings with DRC [...]	2006-03-23 17:27:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPKO KDEM CG
06KINSHASA516	DRC: DEMARCHE ON CHARLES TAYLOR DELIVERED [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered March 25 reftel a demarche and talking points to Jacques Djoli, Chief of Staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs just prior to news of Taylor's capture being announced March 29. Djoli said that the DRC has enough problems with armed groups without Charles Taylor being [...]	2006-03-31 11:58:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL UNSC LI NI KAWC XA XY CG
06KINSHASA517	DRC: DEAMRCHE ON INTERNATIONAL NARCOTICS CONTROL [...] (SBU) Poloff delivered March 27 reftel demarche and talking points to Jacques Djoli, Chief of Staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs March 29. Poloff reminded Djoli of previously pledged Congolese support for U.S. candidate to the International Narcotics Control Board Melvyn Levitsky, and D [...]	2006-03-31 12:05:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL SNAR AORC UN CG
06KINSHASA544	KAMITATU DECIDES TO ABIDE BY SUPREME COURT RULING [...] (U) In a carefully worded statement, Olivier Kamitatu announced April 3 that he will "abide by" the February Supreme Court decision requiring him to abandon his post as President of the National Assembly so that he "does not constitute an obstacle" to the business of the Assembly in the months [...]	2006-04-06 13:51:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM CG
06KINSHASA574	ITURI UPDATE: MONUC MAY REVIEW ITS RELATIONSHIP [...] (C) Summary: Senior MONUC military officials are expressing frustration regarding joint Armed Forces of the DRC (FARDC)-MONUC military operations in Ituri. Faced with logistical roadblocks impeding the FARDC's ability to respond quickly to situations and the general unprofessionalism of the Co [...]	2006-04-12 17:21:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPKO MOPS CG
06KINSHASA583	DRC: DEMARCHES ON HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL DELIVERED [...] (SBU) PolOff delivered April 13 talking points and letter from Secretary Rice (reftel A) to Ambassador Oscar Matondo, director of the Office of International Organizations at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Matondo said he welcomed the clarification of the USG vote against the creation of the [...]	2006-04-14 11:34:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PREL OPDC PHUM KUNR CG
06KINSHASA631	ITURI UPDATE: NEW ANTI-MILITIA CAMPAIGN IMMINENT [...] (C) Summary: MONUC and the Armed Forces of the DRC (FARDC) are making final preparations for a new anti-militia campaign in Ituri District. While no date for the operation has been set, MONUC commanders believe fighting will begin soon. Meanwhile, militia forces of the Congolese Revolutionary [...]	2006-04-20 16:58:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KPKO MOPS CG
06KINSHASA640	ITURI UPDATE: MONUC, FARDC ADVANCE ON MILITIAS [...] (C) According to internal reports from MONUC's Eastern Division military headquarters, MONUC forces conducted joint operations with the Armed Forces of the DRC (FARDC) April 21-23 to seize several towns in Ituri District from militia control. The recent operations were meant to prepare the gro [...]	2006-04-24 16:13:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPKO MOPS CG
06KINSHASA643	GDRC OFFICIAL: NO TO UGANDA'S CALL FOR HOT PURSUIT [...] (C) During an April 20 demarche, MFA Chief of Staff Jacques Djoli raised with PolOff Uganda's recent call for the right of "hot pursuit" into the DRC to chase elements of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) in Garamba National Park. Djoli said the GDRC would never agree to such a request, and aske [...]	2006-04-25 14:45:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPKO CG UG
06KINSHASA656	DRC: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON SUBSCRIBING TO HCOC [...] (SBU) PolOff delivered April 26 reftel talking points and non-paper to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Chief of Staff Jacques Djoli. Djoli said the GDRC shares USG concerns about the spread of ballistic missiles and their associated technologies. Djoli pointed out, however, that the DRC does not p [...]	2006-04-27 11:20:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	MTCRE PREL MNUC KSCA ETTC TSPA
06KINSHASA657	DRC: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON THIRD ADDITIONAL [...] (SBU) PolOff delivered April 26 reftel demarche and talking points to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Chief of Staff Jacques Djoli. Djoli said the GDRC delegation would vote again in support of the Third Additional Protocol and the inclusion of Magem David Adom into the International Red Cross and [...]	2006-04-27 11:21:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	AORC PHUM PREL PREF ICRC CG SZ
06KINSHASA658	DRC: DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON NATO ASSISTANCE TO AMIS [...] (C) PolOff delivered April 26 reftel demarche and talking points to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Chief of Staff Jacques Djoli. Djoli said the GDRC would welcome any assistance NATO could provide the AU, particularly in the form of logistical support. Djoli added that the AU does not have the mea [...]	2006-04-27 11:23:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	AU EUN MARR NATO PREL CG SU
06KINSHASA661	UPDF FORCES REPORTEDLY CLASH WITH LRA, FARDC [...] (C) MONUC Eastern Division commanders report that elements of the Ugandan People's Defense Forces (UPDF) clashed April 26 with suspected rebels of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) near the DRC border post of Lasso (approximately 12 miles northeast of Aba). MONUC commanders also told PolOff that [...]	2006-04-27 14:25:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPKO MOPS CG SU UG
06KINSHASA676	DRC ELECTIONS: BALLOTS TO BE PRINTED IN SOUTH [...] (SBU) The electoral commissions of the DRC and South Africa signed an agreement April 27 which will provide for the printing of the DRC's presidential and legislative electoral ballots in South Africa. The GRSA will fund the paper for the ballots as well as the transportation of the finished b [...]	2006-04-28 12:43:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY	PGOV KDEM KPKO CG SF
06KINSHASA681	DRC ELECTIONS SET FOR JULY 30 [...] (U) The Independent Electoral Commission announced April 30 that the first round of presidential and legislative elections will be held July 30. During an evening press conference April 30 attended by PolOff, CEI President Abbe Apollinaire Malu Malu said the vote was delayed from the previousl [...]	2006-05-01 09:19:00	Embassy Kinshasa	UNCLASSIFIED	PGOV KDEM KPKO CG
06KINSHASA686	A/S FRAZER MEETING WITH NORTH KIVU GOVERNOR [...] (SBU) Summary: During an April 4 meeting, North Kivu Governor Eugene Serufuli told A/S Frazer and the Ambassador that the biggest problems facing North Kivu were continued insecurity, a lack of economic progress, and the challenge of establishing a democratic culture. End summary. 2. (C) S [...]	2006-05-02 14:47:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPKO CG
06KINSHASA696	ITURI UPDATE: FARDC SEIZES AMMUNITION CACHE, [...] (C) According to internal MONUC Eastern Division situation reports, elements of the Armed Forces of the DRC (FARDC) intercepted April 30 an illegal arms shipment destined for militias operating in Ituri District. MONUC security officials in Bunia had received reports from FARDC sources that a [...]	2006-05-04 09:04:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPKO MOPS CG
06KINSHASA697	FDLR ACTIVITY MOUNTING [...] (C) In the volatile eastern Congo region, both North and South Kivu are once again facing unrest. MONUC sources report that recent combined operations against the FDLR have resulted in fifteen deaths, including eight civilians, six suspected FDLR militia members, and at least one FARDC sold [...]	2006-05-04 10:37:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KPKO MOPS CG
06KINSHASA700	MONUC INVESTIGATES UPDF INCURSIONS INTO DRC [...] (C) Summary: Following the reported April 25 incursion of Ugandan Peoples Defense Forces (UPDF) troops into the DRC near Aba (reftel),MONUC dispatched a joint verification mission to the area to investigate. The MONUC team concluded that elements of the UPDF had infiltrated DRC territory, but [...]	2006-05-04 15:51:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PREL KPKO MOPS CG SU UG
06KINSHASA762	ITURI UPDATE: FARDC, MONUC LAUNCH NEW ANTI-MILITIA [...] (C) The Armed Forces of the DRC (FARDC),backed by MONUC peacekeepers, launched May 9 a new military operation in Ituri District with the aim of eliminating militias from the Congolese Revolutionary Movement (MRC) in Djugu territory near Lake Albert. Operation Ituri Ember, which is composed of [...]	2006-05-12 11:53:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPKO MOPS CG
06KINSHASA772	ITURI UPDATE: MILITIA ATTACK FARDC POSITIONS IN [...] (C) Militias believed to be associated with Peter Karim and the Congolese Revolutionary Movement (MRC) May 13-14 attacked positions of the Armed Forces of the DRC (FARDC) near the town of Nioka (approximately 50 miles northeast of Bunia). According to FARDC spokesman Capt. Olivier Mputu, the m [...]	2006-05-15 12:34:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPKO MOPS CG
06KINSHASA777	ITURI UPDATE: OPERATION EMBER ENDS; FARDC [...] (C) MONUC Ituri Brigade Commander General Mahboob Haider Khan announced May 15 the end of Operation Ituri Ember, which had been launched May 9 to eliminate militia control in certain areas of Djugu territory in Ituri District (ref A). The operation, which General Mahboob said had been a success [...]	2006-05-16 10:45:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KPKO KDEM MOPS CG
06KINSHASA783	ITURI UPDATE: FARDC CAPTURES NOTORIOUS MILITIA [...] (C) According to MONUC Head of Office Sharouh Sharif, soldiers from the Armed Forces of the DRC (FARDC) on May 16 captured militia commander General Innocent Kayinga (code-named "Indian Queen"). Kayinga was a leader of the Union of Congolese Patriots (UPC) and one of the most wanted militia me [...]	2006-05-17 10:26:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KPKO MOPS CG
06KINSHASA785	EASTERN DRC VOTERS REJECT MONSENGWO'S CALL FOR NEW [...] (C) During a May 4-10 visit to several towns in eastern DRC, PolOff discovered strong disagreement to the appeal by Archbishop Laurent Monsengwo to launch a new national political dialogue in order to achieve a "consensus" on the DRC's political calendar (ref A) -- if, in fact, such a dialogue [...]	2006-05-18 08:46:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV KDEM KPKO CG ELECTIONS

06KINSHASA788	ELECTIONS: ITURI POLITICS NOT YET IN FULL BLOOM [...] (SBU) Summary: In contrast to the open displays of political showmanship elsewhere in the DRC, Ituri District has yet to see much public electoral campaigning within its borders. Political parties freely operate in the region, but the practice of politics remains largely out of public view, as [...]	2006-05-18 16:23:00	Embassy Kinshasa	CONFIDENTIAL	PGOV PREL KDEM KPKO CG UG ELECTIONS

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