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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Service personnel. (Replaces RCHB file category: PER)

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

Effective from March 1973 (Revised January 1983)

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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KCOM: Chief of Mission
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Effective from March 2004

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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KSCA: Science Counselors and Attachés
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Effective from February 1983

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

Effective from March 1973 (Revised April 2000)

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

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

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

Specific Subject Terms often used with this TAGS:

* Astronaut
* Astronomy
* Communications Satellite
* Direct Broadcasting Satellite
* ELV
* Exploration
* Geostationary Satellite Orbit
* High Technology Equipment
* Intellectual Property
* Intellectual Property Rights
* Landing Rights
* Navigational Aid
* Orbit
* Outer Space
* Outer Space Commercialization
* Peaceful Use of Outer Space
* Reentry
* Research & Development
* S & T Agreement
* S & T Cooperation
* S & T Development
* Salvage
* Satellite
* Scientific Cooperation
* Space Agreement
* Space Fragment
* Space Law
* Space Liability
* Space Program
* Space Station
* Spacecraft
* Spacecraft Recovery
* Spaceflight
* STRIDE
* Technology
* Technology Transfer
* Telecommunication
* Tracking Station
* UFO
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09HONGKONG2264HONG KONG CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM: END OF THE
[...] (C) Summary: The various forces in Hong Kong's debate on constitutional reform have taken their positions on the field. A motion in the Legislative Council (LegCo) calling on the people of Hong Kong to support the League of Social Democrats' (LSD) and Civic Party's resignation-as-referendum p [...]
2009-12-11 12:07:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM CH HK
09HONGKONG232MACAU ARTICLE 23 HEADS FOR FINAL VOTE WITHOUT
[...] (C) Summary: The Macau Government submitted a revised Article 23 Bill text to the Legislative Assembly February 3. The minimum sentences for treason, splittism and subversion have been lowered to ten years' imprisonment from fifteen years. However, the government and Legislative Assembly have [...]
2009-02-09 00:16:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM MC CH
09HONGKONG2321HU JINTAO SWEARS IN MACAU'S NEW CHIEF EXECUTIVE
[...] On December 20, Macau celebrated the 10th anniversary of its return to mainland China and saw the transfer of power to a new Chief Executive (CE). Chinese President Hu Jintao presided over the swearing-in ceremony of Fernando Chui Sai-on, the former Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture, a [...]
2009-12-21 10:03:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL HK MC
09HONGKONG2337U.S. POLICY TOWARDS DEMOCRATIC REFORM IN HONG KONG
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-23 06:48:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM HK CH
09HONGKONG2339U.S. POLICY TOWARDS DEMOCRATIC REFORM IN HONG KONG
[...] (C) This is an action request. Post requests Department concurrence with a set of core points and initial outreach strategy to express key U.S. interests in Hong Kong's successful transition to elections by universal suffrage in accordance with the Basic Law. Our diplomacy, both government-t [...]
2009-12-23 08:34:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM HK CH
09HONGKONG2377JANUARY 1 DEMOCRACY MARCH: THE LAST WALTZ?
[...] (C) Summary: The January 1 march for universal suffrage may be the last united appearance by the pan-democrats for several months. Meant by the Democratic Party to move public attention away from the League of Social Democrats' (LSD) and the Civic Party's plan to use resignations from the Leg [...]
2009-12-31 07:04:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM HK CH
09HONGKONG264LIBERAL PARTY: FINDING THEIR OWN ROAD FORWARD
[...] (C) Summary and comment: At the end of last year, the pro-business, pro-government, pro-Beijing Liberal Party (LP) appeared forsaken by tycoons, the Hong Kong government, the Central Government Liaison Office (CGLO) and half its Legislative Council (LegCo) delegation (ref B). Yet, the year o [...]
2009-02-11 08:53:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPGOV CH HK
09HONGKONG281DEMOCRATS AND MEDIA CONDEMN, BUT ACADEMICS
[...] (C) Summary: Chief Executive Donald Tsang's decision to delay consultation on constitutional reforms for the 2012 elections (ref b) continues to elicit mixed reviews. Opponents, including all 23 pan-democratic legislators and most independent media, condemned Tsang for breaking his promise to [...]
2009-02-13 08:46:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM HK CH
09HONGKONG283MACAU CHIEF EXECUTIVE DOWNPLAYS SIGNS OF
[...] (C) Summary: The Consul General met on February 13 with Macau's Chief Executive (CE) Edmund Ho to deliver reftel talking points and non-paper. The CE confirmed his government's commitment to a level playing field for all investors in Macau, regardless of nationality. He said anti-foreign sen [...]
2009-02-13 11:16:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON EFIN EINV ETRD HK MC
09HONGKONG295MACAU CHIEF EXECUTIVE ON ARTICLE 23, TRAFFICKING
[...] (C) During his February 13 meeting with Macau Chief Executive (CE) Edmund Ho (reftel),the CG expressed hope that the final form of the Article 23 security bill would ensure protection of Macau residents' constitutional rights and freedoms. The CE said his government is considering incorporat [...]
2009-02-18 07:10:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM KTIP KCRM KFRD MC CH
09HONGKONG333CONGRESSIONAL STAFFERS HEAR FROM HKG ON SFI
[...] (U) This is an action request. 2. (SBU) Summary: Hong Kong Trade and Industry Department Deputy Director General Vivian Lau told a visiting U.S. Senate Staff Delegation (StaffDel) on February 19, that unless the Hong Kong Government (HKG) receives notification about the Secure Freight Initi [...]
2009-02-24 06:55:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYETTC PGOV PREL HK
09HONGKONG335HONG KONG GOVERNMENT REITERATES PLEDGE TO CONSULT
[...] (C) Summary: Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Stephen Lam assured the Consul General that the Hong Kong government still intends to begin consultations on reforms for the 2012 Chief Executive and Legislative Council elections by the end of 2009. At a lunch February 20, he re [...]
2009-02-24 09:39:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM HK
09HONGKONG336HONG KONG GOVERNMENT BRIEFS CONSUL GENERAL ON
[...] (C) Summary and comment: Secretary for Constitutional and Mainland Affairs Stephen Lam told the Consul General February 20 that Hong Kong hopes to expand relations with Taiwan through its Inter-City Forum and at the same time cultivate the next generation of Taiwan leaders. Lam dismissed the [...]
2009-02-24 09:43:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV HK CH TW
09HONGKONG343HONG KONG'S 2009-10 BUDGET FOCUSES ON JOBS,
[...] Summary: Hong Kong's Financial Secretary outlined the Special Administrative Region's new budget on February 25. The Secretary reported Hong Kong's economy has been hit hard by the global economic crisis, officially falling into recession in the third quarter of 2008. With unemployment at 4. [...]
2009-02-25 10:52:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN EINV PGOV HK
09HONGKONG354MACAU PASSES ARTICLE 23 LEGISLATION WITHOUT
[...] (C) Summary and Comment: The Macau Legislative Assembly (LA) passed Macau's Article 23 Bill into law February 25 by a 24-2 vote, with one abstention; the law is expected to take effect March 3. The opposition, led by the proto-democratic New Macau Association (NMA),was able to muster only thi [...]
2009-02-26 10:07:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM MC
09HONGKONG3822009 SPECIAL 301 RECOMMENDATION FOR HONG KONG
[...] (SBU) Post recommends that Hong Kong be excluded from the 2009 Special 301 list (ref A). Hong Kong authorities with specific responsibility for intellectual property rights (IPR) administration, education and enforcement are generally responsive to rights-holders' concerns and are active and [...]
2009-03-03 08:34:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYKIPR PGOV ETRD EFIN EINV CH HK
09HONGKONG383HONG KONG DEMOCRATS READY TO DEAL ON REFORM, BUT
[...] (C) Summary and Comment: Hong Kong's Democratic Party (DPHK) told the Consul General they are ready to reach a compromise deal on reforms for 2012. During a lunch February 27, they noted certain core DPHK positions, such as the eventual elimination of the Legislative Council's functional con [...]
2009-03-03 09:18:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM HK CH
09HONGKONG40 FRENCH ASK FOR U.S. SUPPORT ON DOUBLE TAXATION
[...] (C) Summary and Action Request: The French Consul General has proposed that we approach the Hong Kong Government (HKG) together to press for adoption of amendments to Hong Kong tax law that would liberalize rules on Exchanges of Information with foreign jurisdictions. This would allow OECD me [...]
2009-01-07 10:26:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN PGOV EINV HK
09HONGKONG406LEAGUE OF SOCIAL DEMOCRATS: TRIPPING ON THEIR OWN
[...] (C) Summary: The banana-throwing antics of Hong Kong's League of Social Democrats (LSD) may have finally crossed the line, as LSD legislators have encountered widespread opprobrium for their disruption of Financial Secretary John Tsang's budget address. Unlike their antics during the Chief Ex [...]
2009-03-05 10:07:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM HK
09HONGKONG417HONG KONG, MACAU REACTIONS TO 2008 HUMAN RIGHTS
[...] (U) Hong Kong issued a largely pro-forma response to the Department's 2008 Human Rights Report on February 26. While the government did not directly dispute any of our findings, it highlighted the government's efforts to address the various social issues raised in the report such as racial di [...]
2009-03-06 08:07:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV HK MC
09HONGKONG444HK'S ENVIRONMENTAL SECRETARY ON ENVIRONMENTAL
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Hong Kong's Secretary for the Environment Edward Yau told the Consul General on March 5 that despite universal agreement that the full impact of global economic difficulties is yet to come, Hong Kong will not cut back on environmental programs and will continue funding to assist [...]
2009-03-11 09:36:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALENRG EPET PGOV SENV CH HK
09HONGKONG483MACAU (MOSTLY) LIFTS TRAVEL BAN ON PAN-DEMOCRATS;
[...] (C) Summary and comment: Weeks of mounting pressure from Hong Kong's pan-democrats, the media, the Hong Kong government (reluctantly),and perhaps even Beijing have led Macau to lift what appeared to be a blanket ban on Hong Kong democratic activists' visiting Macau. Twenty eight pan-democra [...]
2009-03-16 10:21:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM MC HK CH
09HONGKONG499MACAU CHIEF EXECUTIVE: THREE NON-CANDIDATES IN A
[...] (C) Summary and comment: In the end, Beijing will choose the next Chief Executive (CE) of Macau, due to take office December 20 this year at the end of Edmund Ho's second term. The only question is which of the three distinct options it prefers. Offering continuity, connections, social standin [...]
2009-03-18 08:26:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MC
09HONGKONG501FINANCIAL SECRETARY UNDERCUTS SUPPORT FOR HIS
[...] (C) Summary: Hong Kong economic and political observers have differing views of the Hong Kong budget Financial Secretary John Tsang presented February 25. Economic analysts applauded the government's probity and willingness to "focus on the little things" as the forces buffeting the global e [...]
2009-03-18 08:27:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN PGOV PREL HK
09HONGKONG522MACAU TO ESTABLISH ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION BUREAU
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The Macau Special Administrative Region (MSAR) is expected to formally establish a new Environmental Protection Bureau (EPB) on June 1. The EPB will fall under the direction of the Secretary for Transport and Public Works and be responsible for environmental planning, regulation [...]
2009-03-20 01:52:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPGOV SENV CH HK
09HONGKONG524HONG KONG: CI/KR RESPONSE FOR S/CT
[...] (S/NF) In response to reftel, Post concurs that the four Hong Kong assets named in the 2008 Critical Foreign Dependencies Initiative (CFDI) list meet the criteria (see below). Post also suggests listing Hong Kong assets separately from Mainland China, given a highly autonomous local governmen [...]
2009-03-20 06:31:00Consulate Hong KongSECRET//NOFORNPTER ASEC EFIN ENRG KCIP PGOV HK
09HONGKONG53HONG KONG DEMOCRATS DRAW BATTLE LINES ON UNIVERSAL
[...] (C) Summary: On January 7, Hong Kong's pan-democrats, led by Legal functional constituency (FC) legislator Margaret Ng (Civic Party),moved a resolution calling on the government to state for the record it intends to abolish the FCs as part of Hong Kong's democratic reforms. This move follows [...]
2009-01-08 09:59:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM HK
09HONGKONG558CIVIC PARTY: MOVING FROM FAN CLUB TO POLITICAL
[...] (C) Summary and comment: Hong Kong's Civic Party is unique in having been formed by a group of incumbents already in the Legislative Council, rather than by a movement which then went on to contest elections. While its legislators are among Hong Kong's most popular, the Civics have almost no [...]
2009-03-25 10:12:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM HK
09HONGKONG605RUMORED TEN-POINT AGREEMENT GIVES VOICE TO CPPCC
[...] (C) Summary: The Hong Kong government and Central Government Liaison Office (CGLO) both deny reports they struck a deal granting Hong Kong delegates to the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) a greater role in Hong Kong affairs in exchange for the Hong Kong government ha [...]
2009-04-01 08:17:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM HK CH
09HONGKONG606IMPACT OF MACAU LAW ON HONG KONG ARTICLE 23 DEBATE
[...] (C) Per reftel, post offers the following comments in response to reftel queries. 2. (C) WHO ARE THE KEY BEIJING AND HONG KONG OFFICIALS INVOLVED IN HONG KONG'S ARTICLE 23 POLICY PROCESS, AND WHAT DIFFERENCES EXIST BETWEEN THESE INDIVIDUALS IN REGARDS TO THE TIMING, SCOPE, ENFORCEMENT, AND [...]
2009-04-01 08:25:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPINR PGOV PHUM CH HK MC
09HONGKONG635CODEL MCCAIN COURTESY CALL ON CHIEF EXECUTIVE TSANG
[...] (C) Summary: Hong Kong's system, having restructured during the Asian Financial Crisis in 1997, is "resilient", Chief Executive Donald Tsang told CoDel McCain April 5, but the worst may be yet to come. He hoped the United States would not turn to protectionism. Regarding China's proposal fo [...]
2009-04-06 08:33:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON EFIN ETRD OREP HK
09HONGKONG637CODEL MCCAIN ROUNDTABLE WITH SENIOR HONG KONG
[...] (C) Summary: Former Chief Secretary Anson Chan told CoDel McCain April 5 that Hong Kong's deterioration under "one country, two systems" has more to do with the failure of the current administration to defend Hong Kong's interests than with interference from the Mainland. Executive Councilor [...]
2009-04-06 08:49:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON EFIN ETRD PHUM OREP SENV HK CH
09HONGKONG688COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR USCC VISIT TO HONG KONG,
[...] Consulate General Hong Kong warmly welcomes the visit of Chairman Bartholomew and the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) delegation to Hong Kong May 9-12 2009. Control Officer for the visit is Political Officer Benjamin Weber, office telephone:(852)2841-2110; mobile t [...]
2009-04-15 10:20:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL OREP HK
09HONGKONG742HONG KONG OBSERVERS SEE CHINA'S SOCIAL UNREST
[...] (C) Summary and Comment: Hong Kong-based China watchers assess that China's vast cash reserves will prove its most powerful tool to "buy time" and stave off large-scale discontent by the nearly 27 million unemployed migrant workers and college graduates. Beijing has aggressively adopted measu [...]
2009-04-23 07:43:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL HK CH
09HONGKONG746HONG KONG/TAIWAN: HIGH-LEVEL VISITS TO SPUR TIES
[...] (C) Summary: Hong Kong-Taiwan relations have experienced a recent surge of activity, with Hong Kong's Secretary for Home Affairs Tsang Tak-sing becoming the first senior Hong Kong official since 1997 to visit Taiwan, when he led the Hong Kong and Macau delegation to the second World Buddhist Fo [...]
2009-04-23 10:16:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL HK TW
09HONGKONG755AMENDED COUNTRY CLEARANCE FOR USCC DELEGATION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-27 02:06:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIEDOREP PGOV PREL HK
09HONGKONG793JASPER TSANG: HOW MUCH COURAGE IN HIS CONVICTIONS,
[...] (C) Summary: People across the political spectrum in Hong Kong acknowledge Legislative Council (LegCo) President Jasper Tsang Yok-sing as a man of ideas and integrity. Despite concern about his still-unacknowledged status as a Communist Party member, Tsang has proven he can run LegCo fairly, ha [...]
2009-04-30 06:49:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PINR HK CH
09HONGKONG800MONGOLIA MINING FOR MONEY IN HONG KONG
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A private conference in Hong Kong March 31 brought together top level Mongolian government officials, world class economists, some of the biggest investors in Mongolia and multinational companies to help participants identify the best investment opportunities in Mongolia and how t [...]
2009-04-30 10:26:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN PGOV PREL HK MG
09HONGKONG801 Hang Seng Recovers from Flu but Trade Volumes Still In ICU
[...] SUMMARY: Flu fears pushed down the Hang Seng early in the week, but the Index had fully recovered by April 30. The Hong Kong Monetary Authority will include flu-inspired scenarios in its next round of bank stress testing. Hong Kong's ExCo approved plans to issue up to HKD 100 billion in gove [...]
2009-04-30 11:57:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON PGOV EINV PREL HK MG
09HONGKONG841MACAU RELIGIOUS FREEDOM: REVERSION WAS ONLY THE
[...] (C) Summary and comment: According to representatives of several of Macau's major religious communities, Macau's 1999 reversion to PRC rule allowed other faiths to gain equal status with the formerly state-supported Catholic Church. The Buddhist and Protestant communities now receive governmen [...]
2009-05-07 08:04:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KIRF CH MC
09HONGKONG919HONG KONG SCENESETTER FOR CODEL PELOSI
[...] (U) We warmly welcome your delegation's May 29-30 visit to Hong Kong. Your meetings with Chief Executive Tsang, the Legislative Council and democratic politicians will help to underscore our message that the United States, particularly the Congress, maintains a key interest in Hong Kong's aut [...]
2009-05-19 10:31:00Consulate Hong KongUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV ECON ETRD OREP HK
09HONGKONG92XI JINPING VISIT TO MACAU: NO PRESENTS OR HOT TIPS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Xi Jinping, visiting Macau January 9-10 for the first time as PRC Vice President, expressed confidence Macau can weather the current economic downturn with the support of the central government and continued diligence of the Macau people. His encouraging words, however, were not [...]
2009-01-14 10:02:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL HK MC CH
09HONGKONG930U.S. CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY LAW RESHAPING TEST
[...] (C) Summary: During May 13-14 tours of three consumer product testing labs in Hong Kong and Dongguan that examine children's products bound for the United States, lab company managers said enactment of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (CPSIA) had boosted their testing r [...]
2009-05-21 06:44:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALETRD EIND TBIO EFIN EINV ECON PGOV HK CH
09HONGKONG931TWO GOVERNING TEAMS IN HONG KONG?
[...] (C) Summary and comment: Central Government Liaison Office (CGLO) Research Department Chief Cao Erbao's January 2008 Party School journal article describing "two governing teams" in Hong Kong has recently surfaced to rekindle alarm bells here about "one country, two systems." The uproar may ha [...]
2009-05-21 07:12:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM CH HK MC
09HONGKONG937MGM'S "UNSUITABLE" JOINT VENTURE PARTNER IN MACAU
[...] (U) Summary: The New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE) has designated MGM Mirage's 50/50 joint venture partner in Macau, Pansy Ho, an "unsuitable" business partner for MGM. The DGE has recommended that MGM sever its business association with Pansy Ho, based on her substantial busines [...]
2009-05-21 10:15:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN EINV ETRD PGOV MO HK CH
09HONGKONG945MACAU OBSERVERS DISMISS HONG KONG REPORTS OF A
[...] (C) Summary and comment: Macau contacts dismiss allegations by Hong Kong activists that Beijing has a "second governing team" administering Macau (reftel). Most question why the central government would feel the need: Macau's government sticks close to the central line, and Macau people are f [...]
2009-05-22 09:58:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM MC CH HK
09HONGKONG976CODEL PELOSI, ACTIVISTS DISCUSS CHINA'S LABOR
[...] (C) Summary: Prominent Hong Kong-based human rights and labor activists Han Dongfang and Robin Munro told CODEL Pelosi May 29 that a maturing grassroots rights movement in China gives them hope, though pervasive corruption remains a major obstacle to protecting Chinese citizens' rights and wel [...]
2009-05-29 13:41:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL ECON ELAB ETRD OREP PELOSI
09HONGKONG977CODEL PELOSI MEETING WITH HONG KONG CHIEF
[...] (C) Summary: In a meeting with CODEL Pelosi May 29, Chief Executive (CE) Donald Tsang stressed the close economic links and shared values between the United States and Hong Kong. He also touted Hong Kong's efforts to address climate and energy issues, including government-to-government cooperat [...]
2009-05-29 13:44:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON EFIN ETRD SENV ENRG
09HONGKONG983MACAU CHIEF EXECUTIVE ELECTION: BEIJING BLINKS?
[...] (C) Summary and Comment: Unless and until Macau Prosecutor General Ho Chio-meng throws his hat in the ring, it appears Secretary for Social Affairs and Culture Fernando Chui Sai-on has a lock on Macau's July Chief Executive election. Ho's entry would likely be a signal Beijing had decided he [...]
2009-06-01 03:22:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM CH MC
09HONGKONG984CODEL PELOSI MEETING WITH HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE
[...] (C) Summary: A far-ranging meeting May 29 between CODEL Pelosi and seventeen of Hong Kong's most active (and vocal) legislators covered a range of issues, with pan-democratic legislators calling for U.S. support on human rights in China and Hong Kong's democratic development. Pro-establishment [...]
2009-06-01 03:31:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM EFIN ETRD SENV ENRG
09HONGKONG985CODEL PELOSI MEETING WITH MARTIN LEE
[...] (C) Summary: Veteran democratic politician Martin Lee warned CODEL Pelosi May 30 that Beijing was "reneging" on its promises of elections by universal suffrage, Hong Kong people governing Hong Kong, and a high degree of autonomy in matters specified in the Basic Law. He said Hong Kong people t [...]
2009-06-01 03:42:00Consulate Hong KongCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KIRF CH HK
09HYDERABAD121TELANGANA - A HUNGER STRIKE RESUSCITATES A SEPARATIST
[...] SUMMARY: The Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh (AP) experienced civil unrest following the arrest of K. Chandrasekhar Rao, the leader of a local political party focused on winning statehood for the region. After 11 days of an indefinite hunger strike and the threat of a significant escalati [...]
2009-12-10 16:53:00American Consulate HyderabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PTER PREL PINR KDEM IN
09HYDERABAD124TELANGANA - THE REACTION
[...] SUMMARY: Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram's announcement on Telangana statehood resulted in a revolt in the Andhra Pradesh (AP) state legislature, with an en masse "resignation" of state legislators. The resignations cut across party lines as political parties backtracked from established [...]
2009-12-12 18:52:00American Consulate HyderabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PTER PREL PINR KDEM IN
09HYDERABAD137TELANGANA - THE STATEHOOD TRAP
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The escalating tensions in Andhra Pradesh (AP) over the future status of Telangana led to acts of violence overnight as buses were torched and rail transport halted. Authorities imposed a ban on public meetings until New Year's Day. The December 11 announcement of the center's sup [...]
2009-12-24 11:43:00American Consulate HyderabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PTER PINR KDEM IN
09HYDERABAD138TELANGANA - ALL CALM IN A STATE OF ANARCHY
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Longtime Congress party stalwart and underperforming Governor of Andhra Pradesh (AP) Narayan Dutt Tiwari resigned following a sex scandal involving allegedly trafficked women. Two days later, Chhattisgarh Governor ELS Narasimhan, a former Intelligence Bureau (IB) Chief and fluent [...]
2009-12-28 15:36:00American Consulate HyderabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PTER PINR KDEM IN
09HYDERABAD40BHARAT BALLOT 09: ANDHRA PRADESH CONGRESS UNLIKELY TO
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Andhra Pradesh, India's fourth largest state, is in the midst of concurrent state and national elections. The state was a bright spot for Congress in 2004; the party won an absolute majority in the state assembly and a substantial majority of Andhra Pradesh's seats in the Lok [...]
2009-04-23 09:32:00American Consulate HyderabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PTER PHUM KDEM IN
09HYDERABAD47BHARAT BALLOT 09: UNDERSTANDING ANDHRA PRADESH: THE MIM
[...] SUMMARY: In the first election after the death of its patriarch, Sultan Salahuddin Owaisi, the All India Majlis-Ittehadul-Muslimeen (MIM) faces one of its toughest challenges in years. The Old City section of Hyderabad remains a stronghold of the MIM, but this year, barely seven months after [...]
2009-05-13 11:43:00American Consulate HyderabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PTER PHUM KDEM IN
09HYDERABAD55BHARAT BALLOT 09: UNDERSTANDING ANDHRA PRADESH: THE TURNOUT
[...] SUMMARY: Voter turnout in the state of Andhra Pradesh (AP) was significantly higher than the national average during the concurrent 2009 national and state elections. Neither issues, nor sops, nor the much-hyped media and youth campaigns seemed to be the driving force behind this. It was wom [...]
2009-06-01 10:50:00American Consulate HyderabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PTER PHUM KDEM IN
09HYDERABAD56BHARAT BALLOT 09: UNDERSTANDING ANDHRA PRADESH: DEFYING
[...] SUMMARY: With voter turnout in Andhra Pradesh (AP) significantly higher than the national average, the Congress party defied the exit polls to increase its huge margin in the Lok Sabha delegation from the state and win a simple majority in the state assembly. The emergence of two new parties [...]
2009-06-01 14:35:00American Consulate HyderabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PTER PHUM KDEM IN
09ISLAMABAD1001 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MAY 11, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-11 09:10:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1007 PAKISTAN IDP CRISIS: HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE UPDATE
[...] (SBU) Summary: As of the evening of May 10, the total number of registered new caseload IDPs stood at approximately 360,000 (of whom 15 percent are in camps). According to UNHCR, outgoing Pakistan National Disaster Management Agency (NDMA) Chief General Farooq Khan continues to challenge huma [...]
2009-05-11 16:37:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV PREF PK AF EAID PREL PINR PTER ECON
09ISLAMABAD1014 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MAY 12, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-12 10:12:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1024MUMBAI PROSECUTION UPDATE: PAKISTAN LACKS EVIDENCE TO CONVICT TOP SUSPECTS
[...] (C) Summary: On May 12, the Pakistani Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) granted an extension for filing the final charge sheet until May 23. While the FIA and prosecutors have been able to use the repeated extensions to gather more evidence, time is running out, and the prosecution does not/not have eno [...]
2009-05-12 15:21:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD1025SITUATION IN SWAT: MAY 12
[...] (SBU) Summary. Prime Minister Gilani called a special session of the National Assembly to discuss the situation in Swat and surrounding areas in Malakand District as well as the humanitarian situation of the growing number of IDPs. While most of the members agreed to support the government,s [...]
2009-05-12 15:42:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNAEMR AMGT CASC KFLO PGOV PINR PK PREL
09ISLAMABAD1026 PAKISTAN IDP CRISIS
[...] (SBU) Summary: The UN High Commissioner for Refugees will be in Pakistan May 14-17. The overall IDP number is now well above 1 million, and the new caseload is above 485,000. UNHCR has a plane arriving today from Dubai with non-food items which cannot be procured locally. Embassy Islamabad' [...]
2009-05-12 15:46:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV PREF PK AF EAID CASC PREL PINR PTER ECON
09ISLAMABAD1029 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MAY 13, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-13 09:53:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1031DISASTER DECLARATION CABLE FOR INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS
[...] (U) Summary: This is an action request. In response to the large magnitude of populations displaced due to security operations by the Government of Pakistan (GOP)against militants in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP),I, the Ambassador, have [...]
2009-05-13 12:40:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON PGOV PK PINR PREL PTER
09ISLAMABAD1033 PAKISTAN IDP CRISIS: EFFORTS BY THE GOVERNMENT OF
[...] (U) Summary: On May 12 newly appointed Pakistan IDP emergency assistance coordinator Lt. General Nadeem Ahmad and Minister of State for Economic Affairs Division (EAD) Hina Rabbani Khar provided donors an overview of the GOP's new institutional arrangements and approach for dealing with the ID [...]
2009-05-13 15:00:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PGOV PREF PK EAID PREL PINR PTER
09ISLAMABAD1035 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MAY 14, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-14 11:58:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1042GENERAL NADEEM ON IDP CRISIS, PLANS AND ASSISTANCE
[...] (C) Summary: In a May 14 meeting with the Ambassador, General Nadeem, Pakistan,s newly appointed IDP coordinator, estimated that the GOP will need approximately USD 500 million for up to 1.5 million IDPs through December. Nadeem put the total IDP number at 1.27 million (of which roughly 20 p [...]
2009-05-14 17:17:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREF PREL PGOV PK EAID PTER
09ISLAMABAD1043IRI POLL: NAWAZ CONTINUES TO GAIN GROUND
[...] (C) Summary: The results of the latest International Republican Institute (IRI) poll, which was taken at the height of the lawyers' long march, unsurprisingly showed Nawaz Sharif continuing his lead over President Asif Zardari; Nawaz's approval rating stood at 75 percent compared to Zardari's [...]
2009-05-15 05:57:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR MOPS PTER PK
09ISLAMABAD1045GOP'S POLITICAL OFFENSIVE ON SWAT
[...] (C) Summary: Addressing the National Assembly May 14, PM Gilani briefed parliamentarians on the government's strategy in Swat, Northwest Frontier Province, particularly efforts to assist the displaced (IDPs) (reftels). He announced he would convene an all parties, conference on May 18; Chief o [...]
2009-05-15 11:37:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PREF MOPS EAID PK
09ISLAMABAD1046 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MAY 15, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-15 11:48:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1058 ANNOUNCEMENT PLANS FOR PAKISTAN IDP ASSISTANCE APPEALS
[...] (C) Summary: At a May 15 meeting with the GOP and donors, the UN announced it will delay official announcement of its appeal to May 22. This is to permit the GOP to launch its appeal first; donors will nonetheless receive timely information concerning the UN appeal. The GOP will ask for ful [...]
2009-05-15 18:13:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREF PREL PGOV EAID PTER PK
09ISLAMABAD106SCENESETTER FOR CENTCOM GENERAL PETRAEUS
[...] (C) Summary. Pakistan has now acknowledged the Mumbai attacker in Indian custody is a Pakistani and has begun a formal investigation designed to lead to prosecution of detained Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jamaat-ud-Dawa members here. President Zardari and Prime Minister Gilani need to be encouraged [...]
2009-01-17 12:03:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD1063UPDATE ON RESPONSE TO GOP MILITARY REQUESTS
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-17 11:49:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETPGOV PREL PTER MARR PK
09ISLAMABAD1065THE ALL PARTIES CONFERENCE GAMBLE
[...] (C) Summary. Ahead of the All Parties Conference (APC) on May 18, Ambassador called both PM Gilani and Nawaz Sharif to encourage their support for a strong political statement endorsing military action. Gilani assured the Ambassador the APC would yield a broad political consensus for action [...]
2009-05-17 12:24:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER PK
09ISLAMABAD1070 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MAY 18, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-18 09:19:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1074MODERATE RELIGIOUS LEADERS FIND THEIR VOICE
[...] (C) Summary: Bolstered by the government's new determination to combat terrorism, usually quiet moderate Pakistani religious leaders have begun publicly to condemn the Taliban. The most vocal are the Barelvi leaders who have formed a new alliance, the Sunni Ittehad Council, to counter the Ta [...]
2009-05-18 11:55:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV PHUM KISL PK
09ISLAMABAD1075FRANCE OFFERS CIVIL NUCLEAR COOPERATION TO PAKISTAN
[...] (C) Summary. Pakistani newspapers reported on May 16 that French President Nicolas Sarkozy had offered a civilian nuclear deal to Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari during their meetings in Paris on May 15. Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi quoted President Sarkozy as saying [...]
2009-05-18 12:32:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER PARM KNNP MNUC PK
09ISLAMABAD1077MUMBAI PROSECUTION UPDATE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-18 13:25:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD1078MILITARY OPERATIONS UPDATE: MAY 18
[...] (S) Summary: The Pakistani Army and Special Services Group (SSG-special forces) continue to prepare for an assault on Swat's main town of Mingora as militants reinforce and resupply their positions. The Army/SSG have lifted the curfew on Mingora several times in an attempt to empty the town [...]
2009-05-18 13:54:00Embassy IslamabadSECRET//NOFORNPREL PREF PHUM EAID PGOV PTER PK
09ISLAMABAD1079IDP CRISIS UPDATE: MEETINGS WITH GOP, G8 HEADS OF
[...] (C) Summary: At a May 18 meeting between GOP Economic Advisor Shaukat Tarin and G-8 Heads of Mission, Tarin said that while the government is focused on immediate IDP emergency needs, it also is looking at reconstruction in order to permit IDPs to return to their homes as soon as their area [...]
2009-05-18 15:10:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF PHUM EAID PGOV PTER PK
09ISLAMABAD1080IDP STRATEGIC COMMUNICATION PLAN
[...] (C) Summary and action request: The GOP,s strategic communications plan for combating extremism remains nascent, under-resourced, and uncoordinated among civilian and military players. While the government realizes the importance to its military campaign of winning the hearts and minds battle [...]
2009-05-18 15:16:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF PHUM EAID PGOV PTER PK
09ISLAMABAD1088 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MAY 19, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-19 10:59:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD109PAKISTAN BRIEFS DIPLOMATS ON MUMBAI ATTACKS
[...] (C) Summary: On January 19, Pakistani Foreign Minister Qureshi and Interior Minister Malik briefed the diplomatic corps on Pakistan's ongoing investigation of the Mumbai attacks. Malik was annoyed the MFA declined to invite the Indians to the briefing, and he followed up with a separate brief [...]
2009-01-19 14:21:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD1090UN OCHA COORDINATION WITH GOP PRIOR TO MAY 21
[...] (C) In response to questions about the extent of coordination between the GOP and the UN with regard to the GOP-organized donors' meeting scheduled for May 21 and the formal announcement of the UN appeal on May 22, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Head Manuel Bessl [...]
2009-05-19 12:38:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF PHUM PGOV EAID PTER PK
09ISLAMABAD1091UN OCHA COORDINATION WITH GOP PRIOR TO MAY 21
[...] (C) In response to questions about the extent of coordination between the GOP and the UN with regard to the GOP-organized donors' meeting scheduled for May 21 and the formal announcement of the UN appeal on May 22, UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) Head Manuel Bes [...]
2009-05-19 12:38:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF PHUM PGOV EAID PTER PK
09ISLAMABAD1093 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MAY 20, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-20 09:19:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1099RESTORED CHIEF JUSTICE LOOKS INWARD, AVOIDS
[...] (C) Summary: In the past two months since Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry was restored to the bench, he has dealt with crucial national issues through court verdicts and policy pronouncements. He has ordered the quick disposal of cases, announced the intent to withdraw judges fro [...]
2009-05-20 12:55:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR KJUS PK
09ISLAMABAD1100UNOCHA DISCUSSES IDPS AND HUMANITARIAN
[...] (C) Summary. On May 20, Ambassador met with Rashid Khalikov, the New York Director of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA),and Manuel Bessler, the Pakistan OCHA Director, to discuss the current internally displaced persons (IDP) situation. With the May 2009 revis [...]
2009-05-20 13:13:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALIO PREF PHUM PINR PK PTER PREL PGOV
09ISLAMABAD1107 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MAY 21, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-21 10:53:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1111GOP PLEDGES REHABILITATION PACKAGE AND SUPPORT FOR
[...] (SBU) Summary. In a May 21 conference with international relief organizations, diplomatic missions and donor agencies, Prime Minister Gilani announced Pakistan's three-pronged strategy for the internally displaced persons (IDPs) crisis: Relief, Return/Rehabilitation, and Reconstruction. Gilani [...]
2009-05-21 13:56:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALIO PGOV PHUM PINR PK PREF PREL PTER
09ISLAMABAD1115 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MAY 22, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-22 10:53:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1118TURKISH AMBASSADOR: THEIR TRILATERALS, FRIENDS,
[...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador, accompanied by EmbOffs, met May 20 with Turkish Ambassador Soysal and other Turkish counterparts. The Turkish Embassy, which has taken on a coordinating role for NATO in Pakistan, advocated greater cooperation with the U.S. vis-a-vis Pakistan. Soysal described Turkey's [...]
2009-05-24 06:23:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETPGOV PREF EAID MOPS PHUM MARR PREL PK TU
09ISLAMABAD1120 PAKISTAN IDP SITUATION REPORT, MAY 23, 2009
[...] (SBU) The military assault on Mingora is underway. The number of returns to Bajaur and Buner remains uncertain. Indications are that people are leaving from and returning to Buner in relatively equal numbers. Those returning are doing so to harvest their crops. Save the Children representat [...]
2009-05-25 03:57:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF EAID PGOV PK IO ECON PINR
09ISLAMABAD1122PAKISTAN MILITARY CLAIM MINGORA; PRIME MINISTER
[...] (SBU) Summary. Pakistan military operations continued on May 25, as the troops continued efforts to recapture the main Swat city of Mingora and secure major intersections and surrounding areas. Major General Athar Abbas, the Director General's Inter-Services Public Relations (DG ISPR) spokesm [...]
2009-05-25 12:05:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON IO PGOV PHUM PINR PK PREF PREL PTER
09ISLAMABAD1123CODEL LEAHY MEETS PRESIDENT ZARDARI
[...] (C) In a May 25 meeting with Codel Leahy, President Zardari described his recent trilateral meeting in Iran as being focused on controlling drug trafficking and expressed support for the Obama administration's outreach to Iran. Zardari asserted that he had political consensus for current Paki [...]
2009-05-26 01:17:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD1136Economy Stable; Growth Predictions Slow
[...] (SBU) Summary: Pakistan's economic indicators continue to remain stable, according to IMF Resident Representative Paul Ross and former Ministry of Finance official Ashfaque Hassan Khan. It is widely acknowledged that Pakistan will have problems meeting its annual IMF tax revenue target, and [...]
2009-05-26 10:31:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDECON EFIN EINV ETRD PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD1137TAX COLLECTION MISSES TARGETS; TOP OF TARIN'S AGENDA FOR
[...] (SBU) Summary: Reforming tax policy and improving revenue collection have become a policy focus of the current government. Finance Advisor Shaukat Tarin has made broadening the tax base a lynch pin of his economic strategy for the coming fiscal year. In spite of stepping up collection effor [...]
2009-05-26 10:46:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EINV PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD1138 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MAY 26, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-26 11:19:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1140PAKMIL CONTINUES TO MAKE GAINS IN SWAT; UN PUTS
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Pakistan military tightened control around Mingora on May 25 and 26. Swat Taliban leader Maulana Fazullah announced that his men would no longer fight in Mingora and pleaded for those displaced to return to the city. However, Pakistan military officials saw this announcemen [...]
2009-05-26 13:50:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON IO PGOV PHUM PINR PK PREF PREL PTER
09ISLAMABAD1141SUPREME COURT DECLARES THE SHARIFS ELIGIBLE AGAIN
[...] (C) Summary: On May 26, the Supreme Court reversed its February 25 decision and declared both Nawaz and Shahbaz Sharif eligible to run for and serve in public office. This seals the final reinstatement of Shahbaz Sharif as Chief Minister of Punjab and clears the way for Nawaz to run (and win [...]
2009-05-26 15:48:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KJUS PINR PK
09ISLAMABAD1142CJCS MAJID BRIEFS CODEL CARPER ON LATEST IN SWAT;
[...] (C) Summary: Codel Carper, accompanied by the Ambassador, met May 26 with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Majid. Majid described his wish list for U.S. assistance -- precision-targeting weapons, more helicopters, and night vision equipment. The land push was going well, but the [...]
2009-05-26 15:51:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MOPS PHUM EAID PK
09ISLAMABAD1143 UNHCR ON THE PAKISTAN IDP CRISIS
[...] (SBU) Summary: UNHCR Islamabad staff said on May 25 that UNHCR is not providing transport for returning IDPs nor is it being notified, by individual, of their return. UNHCR believes that IDPs are returning only temporarily to harvest their crops and will not return permanently until after they [...]
2009-05-26 17:23:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PGOV PHUM PK EAID PREL PINR PTER
09ISLAMABAD1145 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MAY 27, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-27 10:58:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1151UN IDP CONTINGENCY PLAN FOR WAZIRISTAN; MINGORA
[...] (SBU) Summary. On May 27, Ambassador met with representatives from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) to discuss OCHA's IDP contingency plan for the Waziristans, which will cost an additional USD 150 million over the recently launched revised UN appeal. OCHA exp [...]
2009-05-27 15:50:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON IO PGOV PHUM PINR PK PREF PREL PTER
09ISLAMABAD1152U.S. REMOVAL OF PAKISTAN RESEARCH REACTOR FUEL ON
[...] (S) XXXXXXXXXXXX, told Poloff on May 26 that the recent spate of media attention on Pakistan's nuclear security has led the GOP to delay an important nonproliferation effort, the removal of U.S.-origin highly-enriched uranium spent fuel from a Pakistani nuclear research reactor. The GOP agreed [...]
2009-05-27 16:32:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETPGOV PREL PTER PARM KNNP MNUC PK
09ISLAMABAD1158 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MAY 28, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-28 10:10:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1165PRIME MINISTER GILANI DISCUSSES SWAT, IDPS AND
[...] (C) Summary: In his meeting with Codel Carper on May 26, Prime Minister Gilani provided an update on the military's progress fighting militants in Swat and on GOP efforts to care for the approximately 2 million internally-displaced persons (IDPs) affected by the fighting. He requested the U. [...]
2009-05-28 14:48:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER PK
09ISLAMABAD1166KARACHI MAYOR PROMOTES AND PLEADS FOR HIS
[...] (C) Summary: Karachi Mayor Mustafa Kamal met May 26 with the Ambassador and Codel Carper in Islamabad. The energetic 37-year old mayor of one of the world's largest cities jumped at the chance to showcase Karachi, Pakistan's "revenue engine," he said. The five senators were particularly inte [...]
2009-05-28 14:50:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR EAID PK
09ISLAMABAD1167GILANI: "WE'RE ACHIEVING OUR TARGETS."
[...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Yousuf Gilani met May 25 with the Ambassador and Codel Leahy -- Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT),Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI),and Senator Mark Warner (D-VA). Gilani was uncharacteristically assertive, confident of the Pakistan military's success against the Swat [...]
2009-05-28 14:52:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MOPS EAID PHUM PK
09ISLAMABAD1168CODEL LEAHY FIRST TO MEET RESTORED CHIEF JUSTICE
[...] (C) Summary: On May 25, Codel Leahy -- Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT),Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI),and Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) -- and the Ambassador, paid a courtesy call on Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry. This was the first meeting by an official U.S. delegation with C [...]
2009-05-28 14:56:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KJUS MOPS EAID PINR PK
09ISLAMABAD1173MUMBAI PROSECUTION UPDATE: HEARING POSTPONED TO
[...] (C) Summary: On May 23, the Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) gave Pakistan's Federal Investigative Agency (FIA) another extension to file its final charge sheet. The FIA and GOP prosecutors appeared before new ATC judge Khadim Hussain to request additional time to organize the case against the arre [...]
2009-05-29 11:15:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD1177 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MAY 29, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-29 13:19:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1179ADB WILL CONDUCT A DAMAGE ASSESSMENT; NO
[...] (SBU) Summary. In a May 29 meeting with Ambassador, the Asia Development Bank (ADB) committed to doing a joint damage/reconstruction assessment with the World Bank of the conflict-affected areas. In order to properly conduct such a survey, ADB has requested assistance through satellite image [...]
2009-05-29 14:42:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON IO PGOV PHUM PINR PK PREF PREL PTER
09ISLAMABAD1180OCHA MEETS WITH IDP DONORS IN ISLAMABAD
[...] (C) Summary: In an informal meeting with donors, Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) officials Rashid Khalkov and Manuel Bessler, expressed concern that Bajaur and Buner are not yet ready to support IDP return. UN contingency planning for a Waziristan displacement may be mi [...]
2009-05-29 14:46:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF PHUM PGOV EAID PTER PK
09ISLAMABAD1189 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: June 1, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-01 11:20:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1194PAKISTAN IDP SITUATION REPORT, JUNE 1, 2009
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Pakistan government is moving to restore security and services to Swat, but the situation remains dangerous for humanitarian assistance provision. ICRC entered Swat on May 31 but cannot yet access Mingora. ICRC hopes to provide some health and food relief in the coming wee [...]
2009-06-01 18:53:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PREF PHUM EAID PGOV PTER PK
09ISLAMABAD1198 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: June 02, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-02 11:06:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1200PAKISTAN RECOMMENDS WORKING WITH AFRICANS ON SUDAN
[...] (C) PolOff deliver June 2 ref demarche to Pakistan MFA Director for Human Rights Imran Ahmed Siddiqui. Siddiqui remarked that as a "Coordinator" for the Organization Islamic Conference (OIC),Pakistan was likely to defer to the wishes of fellow OIC member Sudan regarding any extension of the [...]
2009-06-02 13:51:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL AORC PHUM PK
09ISLAMABAD1201MILITARY OPERATIONS AND HUMANITARIAN SITUATION
[...] (SBU) Summary: President Asif Zardari met June 2 with political, military and law enforcement chiefs for Pakistan's four provinces to discuss overall security in the country. Each province is slated to stand up anti-terrorist units. The curfew has been lifted in some of Swat district's main ci [...]
2009-06-02 15:27:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREF MOPS EAID PTER PK PINR
09ISLAMABAD1210ICRC TO LAUNCH PRELIMINARY APPEAL TO PROVIDE
[...] (SBU) Summary: The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is likely to issue at least a preliminary appeal by June 5 for not less than an additional USD 40 million to almost double its program in Pakistan. The expanded program, intended to be massive in scale but limited in time, wou [...]
2009-06-03 09:43:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL PHUM EAID PTER PGOV PINR PK
09ISLAMABAD1213PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: June 03, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-03 11:31:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD122 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JANUARY 17-20, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-20 11:12:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1222PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: June 04, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-04 11:10:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1225JUNE 4 DISPLACED PERSONS AND MILITARY SITUATION
[...] (U) Summary: Accompanied by the Ambassador, SRAP Holbrooke visited two internally displaced person camps on June 4. The visits were widely broadcast by the local media. Ambassador Holbrooke had met the previous evening with a large group of delegation heads of international agencies and NG [...]
2009-06-04 16:17:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL PHUM EAID PTER PGOV PINR PK
09ISLAMABAD1226JUNE 4 DISPLACED PERSONS AND MILITARY SITUATION
[...] (U) Summary: Accompanied by the Ambassador, SRAP Holbrooke visited two internally displaced person camps on June 4. The visits were widely broadcast by the local media. Ambassador Holbrooke had met the previous evening with a large group of delegation heads of international agencies and NG [...]
2009-06-05 03:32:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL PHUM EAID PTER PGOV PINR PK
09ISLAMABAD1227JUNE 4 DISPLACED PERSONS AND MILITARY SITUATION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-05 03:32:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL PHUM EAID PTER PGOV PINR PK
09ISLAMABAD123DCM MEETING WITH FORMER PAKISTAN AMBASSADOR TO
[...] (C) Summary. During a January 12 meeting with DCM, Rustam Shah Mohman, former Pakistan Ambassador to Afghanistan and former Chief Secretary for the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP),expressed his long-held view that most of Pakistan's problems in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) [...]
2009-01-21 04:26:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINR PK PREF PREL PTER
09ISLAMABAD1236 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: June 05, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-05 11:16:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1243 Iran-Pakistan Pipeline Moves Closer to Reality as the Two
[...] (SBU) Summary: Iran and Pakistan intend to sign a Gas Sales Purchase Agreement in Istanbul on June 5, bringing the long-debated pipeline a step closer to reality. Although India has apparently dropped out of the equation, Pakistan and Iran have agreed to a 25-year proposal for the supply of [...]
2009-06-05 14:09:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEPET ETTC ENRG EFIN EINV PGOV PREL IR PK
09ISLAMABAD1244JUNE 5 DISPLACED PERSONS AND MILITARY SITUATION
[...] (U) SUMMARY: SRAP Holbrooke's meetings with GOP officials and with Nawaz Sharif received wide coverage in Pakistan's media on June 5. Pakistan's Senate convened after a month's hiatus to debate the military operation in Swat. At a June 4 Army Corps Commanders' meeting, Chief of Staff of the [...]
2009-06-05 15:11:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL PHUM EAID PTER PGOV PINR PK
09ISLAMABAD1246JUNE 5 DISPLACED PERSONS AND MILITARY SITUATION
[...] (U) SUMMARY: SRAP Holbrooke's meetings with GOP officials and with Nawaz Sharif received wide coverage in Pakistan's media on June 5. Pakistan's Senate convened after a month's hiatus to debate the military operation in Swat. At a June 4 Army Corps Commanders' meeting, Chief of Staff of the [...]
2009-06-06 05:00:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL PHUM EAID PTER PGOV PINR PK
09ISLAMABAD1247HAFIZ SAEED'S RELEASE TO BE APPEALED
[...] (C) Summary: On June 2, Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed was ordered released from house arrest by the Lahore High Court (LHC). With no charges pending against him, the Court found no grounds for continuing Saeed's detention, which began November 26, 2008, stated the 20-page detailed ju [...]
2009-06-07 11:35:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV KJUS PK IN
09ISLAMABAD1249 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JUNE 08, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-08 09:59:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1253JUNE 8 MILITARY/SECURITY AND DISPLACED PERSONS
[...] (U) SUMMARY: During the evening of June 6 a suicide bomber and accomplices attacked a police post in Islamabad. The blast killed three police and injured several others. Police claimed taking three accomplices of the bomber into custody. Also that evening, two detained top aides to militant [...]
2009-06-08 15:08:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL PHUM EAID PTER PGOV PINR PK
09ISLAMABAD1254NWFP OFFICIALS PLANNING FOR RECONSTRUCTION OF SWAT
[...] (SBU) Summary. Northwest Frontier Province Chief Secretary Javed Iqbal and Chief Economist Shakeel Qadir told DCM and AID Mission Director that they are already planning for the reconstruction of Swat and the greater Malakand division, once hostilities end. Their concept includes an early r [...]
2009-06-08 15:33:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PGOV PINR PK PREF PREL PTER
09ISLAMABAD1261 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JUNE 09, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-09 10:12:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1266 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JUNE 10, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-10 09:04:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1267 FUNDING FOR SYMPOSIUM ON WHEAT STEM RUST FOR PAKISTAN,
[...] (SBU) The establishment of a Trilateral Board to support collaborative and applied agricultural research was agreed to at the agricultural breakout session of the May 7-8 trilateral meetings with the U.S., Afghanistan, and Pakistan. In response, the Pakistan Agricultural Research Council (PARC [...]
2009-06-10 09:04:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR ECON ETRD EAID PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1272JUNE 10 IDP UPDATE: UN PULLS PERSONNEL OUT OF
[...] (SBU) Summary: The UN has moved the majority of its personnel in Peshawar to Islamabad after the June 9 attack on the Pearl Continental hotel resulted in the deaths of two of its officials (septel). This repositioning, the duration of which has not yet been determined, will not prevent the UN [...]
2009-06-10 12:49:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPTER PREF PHUM PGOV AID PK
09ISLAMABAD1279SRAP HOLBROOKE MEETS WITH ZARDARI AND SENIOR GOP
[...] (C) Summa... [...]
2009-06-11 08:38:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD1282 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JUNE 11, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-11 10:03:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1292 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JUNE 12, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-12 10:32:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1299SRAP HOLBROOKE'S JUNE 5 MEETING WITH FM QURESHI
[...] (C) Summary: SRAP Holbrooke met with Foreign Minister Qureshi, Foreign Secretary Bashir and other Foreign Office officials on January 5. Qureshi said Pakistan was united under Zardari's civilian government, as the ongoing Pakistan military campaign to defeat the Taliban in Swat valley and n [...]
2009-06-13 09:17:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM IN UN PK
09ISLAMABAD1311ADDITIONAL DETAILS ON GOP PRIORITIES FOR U.S.
[...] (SBU) Summary: Minister of State for Economy Hina Rabbani Khar told USAID Director June 11 that the GOP has started making $312 payments to what it believes is a well-vetted list of some 1.8 million IDPs. Assistance for IDP sustainment and economic recovery in the area of conflict is estimate [...]
2009-06-15 11:11:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID EFIN ECON PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1312 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JUNE 15, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-15 11:17:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1319PAKISTAN SUPPORTS CONCEPT OF NUCLEAR FUEL BANK,
[...] (C) Summary: PolOff delivered reftel demarche soliciting support for international fuel bank proposals to Kamran Akhtar, Disarmament Director in Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on June 15. Akhtar stated that Pakistan can support the idea of a fuel bank operated by the IAEA, but has r [...]
2009-06-15 14:25:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALKNNP PREL PTER PGOV MNUC IAEA ENRG TRGY PK
09ISLAMABAD1320JUNE 15 SECURITY AND IDP REPORT
[...] (C) Summary: The announcement by the governor of the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) that the government would begin an offensive into South Waziristan Agency dominated headlines. In Malakand, military operations slowed as active resistance dwindled to pockets in Swat, Buner, and Lower Dir [...]
2009-06-15 15:20:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREF PREL PHUM EAID PTER PGOV PINR PK
09ISLAMABAD1321 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JUNE 16, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-16 10:11:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1330 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JUNE 17, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-17 09:48:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1340AMBASSADOR'S JUNE 17 VISIT TO SWABI IDP SITE
[...] (U) Summary: The Ambassador, on June 17, visited Swabi school where community volunteers support displaced families from Swat and Buner. The GOP continues registration verification of families displaced by the conflict in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and the Northwest Front [...]
2009-06-17 14:14:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PREF PHUM EAID PGOV PTER PK
09ISLAMABAD1353 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JUNE 18, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-18 11:11:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1355Budget 2009-10: Depending on Foreign Assistance
[...] (SBU) Summary: On June 13, the GOP presented a consolidated budget of $36.21 billion with a fiscal deficit of 4.9 percent, slightly higher than the 4.6 percent target previously agreed to with the International Monetary Fund. The budget is fairly expansive, with development expenditures incr [...]
2009-06-19 04:01:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EINV PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1357 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JUNE 19, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-19 12:16:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1360IDPS RETURNING TO BUNER BUT INFRASTRUCTURE STILL
[...] (U) Summary: Embassy representatives who traveled to Buner district in Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) on June 16 reported that residents are returning, with about half the shops and markets open. The representatives assessed infrastructure and reported that, while roadways were in good s [...]
2009-06-19 16:35:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF PHUM EAID PGOV PTER PK
09ISLAMABAD1364SCENESETTER FOR NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR JONES
[...] (C) Summary: Embassy Islamabad warmly welcomes your visit. Your arrival comes at a moment when Pakistan's political leaders, and its people, are united in support of the military campaign to confront extremist militants in Malakand (including the Swat valley) and South Waziristan, where the offensi [...]
2009-06-20 16:06:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETPREL PGOV PTER PHUM EAID MARR MOPS PK
09ISLAMABAD1371 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JUNE 22, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-22 11:14:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1374IDP UPDATE: MINGORA ELECTRIFIED; UNHCR GAINS
[...] (C) Summary: On June 21, Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) celebrated Pakistan's historic World Cup cricket victory: Pakistan's cricket captain dedicated the victory in London to the plight of the IDPs, and camp residents danced to and cheered the win which was televised. Services, includin [...]
2009-06-22 14:16:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV PREF PHUM EAID PK
09ISLAMABAD1380 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JUNE 23, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-23 10:35:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1385PESHAWAR: KILLING OF ANTI-BAITULLAH MILITANT
[...] (C) Summary: The June 23 assassination of Mehsud militant commander Qari Zainuddin, presumably sponsored by rival Baitullah Mehsud's Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP),removes a key element of the Pakistani government's planned campaign in South Waziristan Agency (SWA). Qari Zainuddin, who oppos [...]
2009-06-24 09:26:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALMOPS PGOV PINR PK PREL
09ISLAMABAD1386FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF
[...] (C) The government continued low-intensity fighting during the first full week in June with pockets of militants in Swat, Buner, Shangla, and Lower Dir. The latter showed that they pose a continued threat by destroying schools in Lower Dir and Buner, and resuming kidnappings of civilians in [...]
2009-06-24 09:42:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALMOPS PGOV PINR PK PREL PTER
09ISLAMABAD1387FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF
[...] (C) The Pakistani government signaled that the long-awaited offensive in the Mehsud areas of South Waziristan was imminent, but limited its action in the area to aerial and artillery bombardment. Meanwhile, its ongoing precursor action in Frontier Region Bannu drew to a close with an agree [...]
2009-06-24 10:12:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALMOPS PGOV PINR PK PREL PTER
09ISLAMABAD1389 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JUNE 24, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-24 13:29:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD139 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JANUARY 22, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-22 11:36:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD140GOP CONTINUES TO PUSH FOR BIT
[...] (SBU) Summary. Minister Saleem Mandviwalla, Chairman of the GOP Board of Investment, insists the GOP has the political will to finalize the U.S.-Pakistan Bilateral Investment Treaty (BIT) and that President Zardari and Prime Minister Gilani had recently agreed the BIT should go forward as soo [...]
2009-01-22 12:16:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDEINV EFIN ETRD PGOV PREL PG PK
09ISLAMABAD1402 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JUNE 25, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-25 12:30:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1408PAKISTAN COMMITS TO GETTING OFF TIP WATCH LIST
[...] (C) Summary: Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Director General Tariq Khosa called in A/PolCouns and PolOff June 17 -- the day after the 2009 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report placed Pakistan on the Tier 2 Watch List (WL) -- to commit Pakistan to those measures which would result in a better [...]
2009-06-26 08:58:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALKTIP PGOV PREL PHUM ELAB SMIG PK
09ISLAMABAD1409 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JUNE 26, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-26 10:24:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD141CONSEQUENCES OF A ZARDARI-NAWAZ SHOWDOWN
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-22 14:13:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PK PREL
09ISLAMABAD1411IDP UPDATE: MOI DECLARES SWAT SECURE, DEBIT CARDS
[...] (SBU) Summary. On June 24, Minister of Interior Rehman Malik announced that Swat and Malakand division were now secure from terrorists and IDPs could return home once the infrastructure was restored. Many displaced families living in IDP camps, particularly those from Buner, are beginning to [...]
2009-06-26 12:00:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON IO PGOV PHUM PINR PREF PREL PTER PK
09ISLAMABAD1413TRIAL SKILLS TRAINING FOR PAK PROSECUTORS
[...] (U) Summary: Pakistan's prosecutors, under-resourced and poorly trained, are routinely characterized as the weakest link in a criminal justice system that sees up to 70 percent of its prosecutions end in acquittal. Prosecutors seldom work with police, do little to prepare their cases for trial [...]
2009-06-27 07:49:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PREF PREL KJUS PK
09ISLAMABAD1421 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JUNE 29, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-29 09:53:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1425PROPOSAL FOR THE FY 2009 JULIA TAFT FUND
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-29 12:39:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDPREF PGOV AF PK
09ISLAMABAD1426BUNER BEGINS TO RECOVER FROM EFFECTS OF TALIBAN
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-29 12:48:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM PTER EAID MARR PK
09ISLAMABAD143USCENTCOM PETRAEUS MEETS WITH PRESIDENT ZARDARI
[...] (C) Summary: During a meeting January 20 with USCENTCOM Commander General David Petraeus and the Ambassador, President Asif Zardari welcomed the "new beginning" of the Obama Administration, urging both countries' military commanders to "revisit the map" on how to jointly fight regional extremi [...]
2009-01-23 08:48:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MOPS PTER PK
09ISLAMABAD1435 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JUNE 30, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-30 10:21:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1437PML-N WARNS NSA JONES THAT WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY
[...] (C) Summary: National Security Advisor General James Jones joined Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif and several other Pakistan Muslim League- Nawaz (PML-N) leaders for lunch on June 25. The PML-N leaders explained to NSA Jones that Pakistani public opinion currently supported the war agains [...]
2009-06-30 10:45:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD1438NSA JONES' JUNE 25 MEETING WITH PRESIDENT ZARDARI
[...] (C) Summary: In their June 25 meeting in Islamabad, National Security Advisor General James Jones and President Zardari discussed: Pakistan's military offensive against extremists; GOP capacity to fight terrorism; the nature of extremism in Pakistan; drones; Iran; Afghanistan; Zardari's conver [...]
2009-06-30 10:45:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETPREL PGOV PTER PHUM EAID PK
09ISLAMABAD1440PRIME MINISTER GILANI DISCUSSES MILITARY
[...] (C) Summary: In his meeting with U.S. National Security Advisor General James Jones on June 25, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani stressed that Pakistan is winning the war against extremists militarily, but needs to win hearts and minds to sustain gains. The country was unified in its support [...]
2009-06-30 10:45:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETPREL PTER PGOV PHUM KNNP PK
09ISLAMABAD1445IDP UPDATE: REGISTRATION INITIATED FOR WAZIRISTAN
[...] (SBU) Summary: Registration has begun for internally displaced people from South Waziristan Agency (SWA) in two districts and a frontier region east of the agency; only those whose sole residence is in SWA will be eligible. The Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) government has forbidden n [...]
2009-06-30 15:09:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID MOPS PGOV PINR PK PREF PREL
09ISLAMABAD1446IDP UPDATE: REGISTRATION INITIATED FOR WAZIRISTAN
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-30 15:09:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID MOPS PGOV PINR PK PREF PREL
09ISLAMABAD1465PAKISTAN IMPLEMENTING UN SANCTIONS ON DPRK, BUT
[...] (C) Summary. In response to reftel demarches supporting implementation of United Nations Security Council sanctions on the DPRK, Kamran Akhtar, Disarmament Director at Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, told PolOff on June 30 that Pakistan has issued a Statutory Regulatory Order to appl [...]
2009-07-01 16:16:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALKNNP PREL PTER PGOV MNUC PARM EFIN PK
09ISLAMABAD1469BUNER BEGINS TO RECOVER FROM EFFECTS OF TALIBAN
[...] (C) Summary: Several assessment missions to the Buner district of Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) by U.S. mission personnel and contractors and by United Nations (UN) personnel over the past two weeks have revealed that life there is gradually returning to normal, two months after the begi [...]
2009-07-02 09:31:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM PTER EAID MARR PK
09ISLAMABAD1470 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JULY 02, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-02 09:59:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1493 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JULY 06, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-06 10:15:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1507MUMBAI PROSECUTION UPDATE: ANTI-TERRORISM COURT
[...] (C) Summary: There has been no movement in Pakistan's Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on the Mumbai prosecution case since May 23. The ATC in Rawalpindi has not had a judge on its bench to hear the case and thus no formal indictment has been filed against the five Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) suspects in [...]
2009-07-06 13:56:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD1521 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JULY 07, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-07 10:40:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1528 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JULY 08, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-08 08:25:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD153 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JANUARY 23, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-23 11:16:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1543 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JULY 09, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-09 13:49:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD155CENTCOM GENERAL PETRAEUS MEETS WITH PAKISTAN COAS
[...] (C) U.S. CENTCOM Commander General David Petraeus, accompanied by the Ambassador, J5 Major General Robert Allardice and POLAD Michael Gfoeller, met with Pakistan Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Kayani on January 20. Kayani was accompanied by his Director General Military Operations, M [...]
2009-01-24 12:28:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER MAR MOPS PK
09ISLAMABAD1552 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JULY 10, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-10 10:40:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD156CENTCOM GENERAL PETRAEUS MEETS WITH PRIME MINISTER
[...] (C) Summary: USCENTCOM Commander General David Petraeus and the Ambassador met January 20 with Prime Minister Yousuf Gilani. The Prime Minister complained about the rolling electricity blackouts throughout the country, blaming the Musharraf administration for the lack of capacity. Businesses [...]
2009-01-24 12:29:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL MOPS PTER PK
09ISLAMABAD1562PAKISTAN'S OPTIONS ON FISSILE MATERIAL CUTOFF
[...] (C) Summary: In late June, Embassy Energy Attach was given a pre-publication draft of a paper (ref) written by Kurshid Khan, an officer formerly with the Arms Control and Disarmament Affairs Section of Pakistan's Strategic Plans Division (SPD). The paper details Pakistan's views and options [...]
2009-07-13 06:41:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALKNNP PREL PTER PGOV MNUC PK
09ISLAMABAD1567PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: July 13, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-13 13:09:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1568MEETING WITH UN U/SG JOHN HOLMES: AMBASSADOR
[...] (C) Summary: In a July 10 meeting with UN Under Secretary John Holmes, Humanitarian Coordinator Martin Mogwanja and UN staff, the Ambassador stressed the importance of getting UN humanitarian assistance into Buner and Swat as soon as possible, the need for the UN to undertake donor coordinatio [...]
2009-07-13 16:00:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF PHUM EAID PGOV PTER PK
09ISLAMABAD1574 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JULY 14, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-14 10:34:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1585 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JULY 15, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-15 12:10:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1586MUMBAI PROSECUTION UPDATE: LATEST TIME LINE
[...] (C) The next hearing date for the Mumbai attacks prosecution is July 18. The Federal Investigative Agency (FIA) and Pakistani prosecutors expect to file their formal charge sheet on July 18. The five suspects in custody, Zaki ur-Rehman Lakhvi, Hammad Ameen Sadiq, Mazhar Iqbal (aka al Qama),[...]
2009-07-15 13:11:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD1589PUNJAB WITHDRAWS ITS APPEAL AGAINST HAFIZ SAEED'S RELEASE
[...] (C) Summary: On July 14, to the surprise of the federal government, the Punjab Advocate General withdrew his province's appeal to the Supreme Court challenging the release of Jamaat-ud-Dawa leader Hafiz Saeed. Punjab provincial officials cite a lack of evidence and cooperation from the federal gov [...]
2009-07-15 13:39:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD1592 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JULY 16, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-16 10:57:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1607AQ KHAN DEFENDS PAKISTAN'S NUCLEAR WEAPONS
[...] (C) Summary: In his periodic column in the July 15 edition of Pakistan daily "The News," A.Q. Khan further tested the boundaries of his "gag order" with an expansive defense of Pakistan's nuclear weapons program. This article, like previous ones, seeks to burnish his credentials as the "fath [...]
2009-07-17 09:45:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALKNNP PREL PTER PGOV MNUC PK
09ISLAMABAD161 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JANUARY 26, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-26 12:41:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1613 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JULY 17, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-17 10:39:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1625SUPREME COURT AND GOP CLASH OVER FUEL TAX; GOP WINS FOR NOW
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-18 05:07:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ENRG EFIN PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD164 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JANUARY 27, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-27 09:19:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1642SECRETARY NAPOLITANO DISCUSSES BORDER
[...] (S//NF) Summary: In a series of meetings with President Asif Ali Zardari, Prime Minister Yousef Raza Gilani and Minister of Interior Rehman Malik July 3, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Janet Napolitano offered DHS assistance to enhance Pakistan's border security and sought GOP view [...]
2009-07-20 10:46:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETEAIR PGOV PREL PTER PK
09ISLAMABAD1652 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JULY 20, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-20 14:19:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1654INTERNAL DISPLACEMENT IN PAKISTAN: TRANSITION TO
[...] (SBU) Summary: With the exception of expected further displacement from Waziristan, the current internal displacement from conflict-affected areas in Pakistan appears close to an end. The government has signed on to principles of safe, voluntary, informed and dignified return and began on J [...]
2009-07-20 16:24:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREF PREL PHUM EAID PGOV PTER PK
09ISLAMABAD1658ZARDARI AND NAWAZ MEET IN RAIWIND
[...] (C) Summary: On July 17, President Zardari and former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif met outside of Lahore at Sharif's Raiwind estate and discussed ongoing military operations in Pakistan and potential constitutional changes in their first meeting since the Long March crisis. The relationship b [...]
2009-07-21 08:50:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD1660 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JULY 21, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-21 12:01:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1662JAPANESE SRAP FOLLOWS UP ON FODP AND IDPS
[...] (SBU) Summary. In a July 17 meeting with the Ambassador, Japan's Special Representative for Assistance to Pakistan and Afghanistan Yoshikawa revealed that Spain and Kuwait have allegedly withdrawn their pledges from the Friends of Democratic Pakistan (FODP) conference in Tokyo. He also commen [...]
2009-07-21 15:42:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EINV EAID PGOV PREL PREF PK
09ISLAMABAD1670 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JULY 22, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-22 08:08:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1671FATA: NEW ROUND OF KURRAM SECTARIAN VIOLENCE
[...] (C) Summary: The breakdown in Sunni-Shi'a relations in Kurram Agency and ensuing violence over the past three weeks has cost 120 lives and mobilized the local communities on a scale not seen for months. After the intervention of the Frontier Corps and a jirga drawn from local Sunnis and Shi [...]
2009-07-22 09:23:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETPREF EAID PGOV MOPS PK
09ISLAMABAD1674PAKISTAN WAITING FOR INDIA TO RESTART DIALOGUE
[...] (C) Summary: The GOP urged the GOI to restart Composite Dialogue talks during July 14 and 16 meetings between Foreign Secretaries and Prime Ministers in Egypt. India refused, according to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director General Afrasiab. The talks were detailed, however; and of merit o [...]
2009-07-22 10:22:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER PHUM IN PK
09ISLAMABAD1680 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JULY 23, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-23 10:39:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1684SUPREME COURT SUMMONS MUSHARRAF
[...] (C) Summary: Pakistan,s Supreme Court is hearing a case, which actually combines two separate petitions, that may be the first of several legal challenges to the constitutionality of former President Musharraf,s actions on November 3, 2007, when he suspended the constitution, declared a state [...]
2009-07-23 15:28:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1688 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JULY 24, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-24 11:36:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1712PAKISTAN LAUNCHES NEW PROGRAM TO REVERSE BRAIN DRAIN
[...] (SBU) Summary: On July 15, President Zardari launched the President's Program for Care of Highly Qualified Overseas Pakistanis (PPQP). This program plans to integrate the skills and talents of expatriate Pakistanis back into Pakistan in an attempt to "reverse the brain drain." The government [...]
2009-07-28 05:46:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EINV EAID PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD1718 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JULY 28, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-28 11:12:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1724PAKISTAN'S SUPREME COURT: ONE STEP CLOSER TO
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a partial reversal of its July 6 ruling ordering the GOP to refrain from raising the electricity tariff, the Supreme Court ruled on July 23 that the National Electric Power Regulatory Agency (NEPRA) could continue to calculate the cost recovery tariff rate for power productio [...]
2009-07-28 12:25:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN ENRG PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD1726TRANSIT TRADE ISLAMABAD ROUND: SMUGGLING STILL THE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-28 13:01:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD EAGR PGOV PREL AF PK
09ISLAMABAD1732 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JULY 29, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-29 10:37:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1737A/S SCHWARTZ'S MEETING WITH LT. GEN. NADEEM,
[...] (C) Summary: In a July 24 meeting with Assistant Secretary for Population, Migration and Refugees Eric Schwartz, Lt. General Nadeem Ahmad outlined the planned assumption by the Provincial Relief, Rehabilitation and Settlement Authority (PaRRSA) of programmatic responsibility for the GOP's co [...]
2009-07-29 12:17:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF PHUM PGOV EAID PK
09ISLAMABAD1739ICRC ON THE DISPLACED IN PAKISTAN
[...] (C) Summary: In a July 23 meeting with Assistant Secretary for Population, Refugees and Migration (PRM) Eric Schwartz, International Committee of the Red Cross Head of Delegation Pascal Cuttat expressed concern over the speed of government-facilitated IDP return from the camps and the coerci [...]
2009-07-29 12:17:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREF PHUM EAID PREL PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD1740UNHCR ON THE DISPLACED IN PAKISTAN
[...] (C) Summary: In a July 22 meeting with Assistant Secretary for Population, Refugees and Migration (PRM) Eric Schwartz, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Country Representative Guenet Guebre Christos and staff requested that the United States Government make clear to the Government of [...]
2009-07-29 12:17:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREF PHUM EAID PREL PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD1748 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JULY 30, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-07-30 12:29:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD177THE WAY FORWARD FOR PAKISTAN'S F-16 PROGRAM
[...] (C) Summary: Embassy requests that a small interagency team of decision makers visit Islamabad to chart a financial and technical way forward on the F-16 program. Ambassador confirmed January 28 with Finance Minister Tareen that the GOP would make the pending overdue payment on the purchase of n [...]
2009-01-28 08:29:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETPGOV PREL PTER MARR PK
09ISLAMABAD1770MOTIVATIONS AND CONCERNS REGARDING EXPEDITED
[...] (C) Summary: Below is an e-mail account providing a timeline of events for the expedited return of displaced persons from Yar Hussain camp, Swabi, in the Northwest Frontier Province of Pakistan. It is followed by a review, from an NGO perspective, of some of the likely considerations and mot [...]
2009-07-31 08:11:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREF PHUM EAID PREL PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD178 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JANUARY 28, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-28 10:59:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1782SUPREME COURT DECLINES TO TAKE UP TREASON APPEAL
[...] (C) Summary: Supreme Court Justice Iftikar Chaudhry said July 30 the Court would not take up an appeal to charge former President Musharraf with treason. The appeal had emerged during an ongoing case being heard by the Court which challenges the constitutionality of Musharraf's actions in [...]
2009-07-31 16:30:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD1786 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: AUGUST 03, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-03 10:15:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD180ANOTHER CABINET EXPANSION; MQM JOINS GOVERNMENT
[...] (C) Summary: President Asif Zardari swore in four more federal ministers on January 26, two from the religious Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam party (JUI-F, including Fazlur Rehman's brother) and two from the Karachi-based Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM). With this move, Zardari formally brings MQM and i [...]
2009-01-28 14:24:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR EAID MARR PK
09ISLAMABAD1803 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: AUGUST 04, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-04 11:30:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1808 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: AUGUST 05, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-05 10:32:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1809HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE COORDINATOR FOR PAKISTAN:
[...] (C) In a July 22 meeting between Ambassador Holbrooke and Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, Pakistan Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir indicated unequivocally that his government would support the appointment of a high-level UN humanitarian assistance coordinator for Pakistan. His agreement c [...]
2009-08-05 11:34:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL AORC PREF EAID PGOV UN PK
09ISLAMABAD1816HAFIZ SAEED CASE ADJOURNED FOR LACK OF EVIDENCE
[...] (C) On August 3, the Pakistani Supreme Court once again adjourned the appeal hearing concerning Hafiz Saeed. This follows the July 14 Punjab Advocate General's withdrawal of his province's appeal in the Supreme Court challenging the release of Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JUD) leader Hafiz Saeed (See Reft [...]
2009-08-05 13:18:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD182A PRIMER: PAKISTAN'S SENATE ELECTIONS
[...] (SBU) Summary: On or about March 9, Pakistan will hold indirect elections to replace 50 (of 100) members, whose terms expire this year. The process, controlled by the Election Commission, is governed by a complicated proportional system in which members of the National and the four Provincial [...]
2009-01-28 14:43:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM PK
09ISLAMABAD1823DUBAI PROCESS CONFERENCE: AF/PAK CONVERSATIONS ON
[...] (SBU) The Canadian Embassy hosted the most recent round of Dubai Process talks between Afghan and Pakistani officials from July 23-24 in Pakistan. Two of the five Dubai Process issues were covered: Movement of People and Counternarcotics. The next session, currently slated for October in Ka [...]
2009-08-06 05:42:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PINR PK PREF PREL PTER
09ISLAMABAD183UPDATE ON PAKISTAN IDP SITUATION
[...] (C) Summary. As of January 23, the population of internally displaced persons (IDPs) from the conflict-afflicted areas of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) continued to rise, with approximately 10,000 families living in the twelve establi [...]
2009-01-28 14:56:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PINR PK PREF PREL PTER MOPS
09ISLAMABAD1830 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: AUGUST 06, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-06 10:51:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1840 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: AUGUST 07, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-07 12:45:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1845MUMBAI PROSECUTION UPDATE: ABSCONDER ARRESTED
[...] (C) On August 5, the Federal Investigative Agency (FIA) arrested a sixth suspect, Jamil Ahmed, allegedly linked with the Mumbai terror attacks. Ahmed was arrested after the Government of Saudi Arabia passed information they had from an Interpol lead. Ahmed had allegedly sent money from Saudi Ara [...]
2009-08-07 13:27:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD1846PAKISTAN'S FIA ON COUNTERING TERRORIST FINANCE
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a July 22 meeting with the Treasury Advisor to the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, Federal Investigative Agency (FIA) Director General Tariq Khosa said counter-terrorist financing efforts had limited external sources of funds available to Al-Qaida and Tar [...]
2009-08-07 14:42:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPTER PREL PGOV EFIN ECON EAID KJUS AF PK
09ISLAMABAD1848NATIONAL ACCOUNTABILITY BUREAU EXPECTED TO REMAIN INTACT
[...] (SBU) Summary: Pakistan's anti-corruption agency, the National Accountability Bureau (NAB)--once one of the country's preeminent law enforcement institutions--has in the past two years become increasingly marginalized. In a 14 July meeting with NAB Chairman, Nawid Ahsan, Treasury Attach and Re [...]
2009-08-10 03:21:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EINV ETRD KCOR PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1850 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: AUGUST 10, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-10 10:06:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1859FITFUL PROGRESS: ROUND THREE OF THE AF-PAK TRANSIT
[...] (U) This is a joint Embassy Kabul/Embassy Islamabad cable. 2. (SBU) Summary: The third round of negotiations for the Afghan-Pakistan Transit Trade Agreement (APTTA) yielded progress on some outstanding issues such as arbitration, but the atmosphere frayed over interim arrangements to expedite [...]
2009-08-10 12:00:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EAGR PGOV PREL AF PK
09ISLAMABAD1873 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: AUGUST 11, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-11 11:08:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1877 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: AUGUST 12, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-12 12:06:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1884 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: AUGUST 13, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-13 11:23:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1896ZARDARI TO REFORM FATA GOVERNANCE
[...] (C) Summary: At midnight on August 14, Pakistani Independence Day, President Zardari plans to unveil a reform package significantly changing the Frontier Crimes Regulation (FCR) and extending the Political Parties Act. Zardari's new ordinance will remove some of the draconian aspects of the F [...]
2009-08-14 05:21:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD190PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JANUARY 29, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-29 09:10:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1900ZARDARI TO REFORM FATA GOVERNANCE
[...] (C) Summary: At midnight on August 14, Pakistani Independence Day, President Zardari plans to unveil a reform package significantly changing the Frontier Crimes Regulation (FCR) and extending the Political Parties Act. Zardari's new ordinance will remove some of the draconian aspects of the F [...]
2009-08-14 05:23:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD1901GOP UNVEILS NEW THREE-YEAR TRADE POLICY
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Government of Pakistan (GOP) unveiled its 2009-2012 trade policy with the primary goal of growing exports by 29 percent over the next three years. The policy focuses on making Pakistan more competitive both internationally and domestically, but covers incentives for only no [...]
2009-08-14 08:10:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EINV ETRD PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1902MANGO UPDATE
[...] (SBU) Summary: On August 6, the Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) hosted the third digital video conference (DVC) with the Pakistani Ministry of Food and Agriculture (MINFA) and USDA's office of Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) to discuss the next steps towards U.S. market ac [...]
2009-08-14 08:10:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ECON ETRD EAID PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1903GOP UNVEILS NEW THREE-YEAR TRADE POLICY
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-14 08:11:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EINV ETRD PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1904MANGO UPDATE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-14 08:11:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ECON ETRD EAID PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD191LATEST DEVELOPMENTS ON FRIENDS OF PAKISTAN
[...] (SBU) Summary. Planning for the Friends of a Democratic Pakistan is moving forward, albeit slowly. On January 27, Jean Arnault negotiated with the MFA a draft framework for his future participation as a UN advisor to the Friends under UNDP auspices. Ambassador met separately with Arnault t [...]
2009-01-29 10:21:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV EAID ECON PK
09ISLAMABAD1917RECONSTRUCTION OPPORTUNITY ZONE PREP - GAINING SOME TRACTION?
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-17 01:31:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EAID ETRD PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1930 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: AUGUST 17, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-17 11:21:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1955 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: AUGUST 18, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-18 10:26:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1976 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: AUGUST 19, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-19 09:58:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1988 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: AUGUST 20, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-20 09:48:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1992REMITTANCES LIKELY TO REMAIN HIGH, BUT MAY TRAVEL LESS
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a series of meetings in Karachi and Islamabad in early August, the Treasury Attach, Consulate EconOff, and EconOff, spoke to several Pakistani government and private sector officials to discuss Pakistan's steadily growing remittance levels. The State Bank of Pakistan reported [...]
2009-08-21 05:14:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EINV ETRD KCOR PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD1996 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: AUGUST 21, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-21 11:35:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2007PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: AUGUST 24, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-24 09:48:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD201 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JANUARY 30, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-30 13:07:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2022ENCOURAGING GULF INVESTMENT IN KARACHI'S POWER
[...] (SBU) Summary: Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC),Pakistan's only private utility, serves 18 million consumers in Karachi, the financial, industrial and commercial hub of Pakistan. Inadequate generation and out-dated transmission infrastructure have contributed to chronic load shedding [...]
2009-08-25 05:53:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV EFIN ECON EAID ENRG AE PK
09ISLAMABAD2025 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: AUGUST 25, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-25 08:49:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2036 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: AUGUST 26, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-26 09:41:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2049 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: AUGUST 27, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-27 10:04:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2056POST PROPOSED FY09 FOREIGN MILITARY FUNDS SPEND
[...] (S) Post proposes the following distribution of $300 million in FY09 Foreign Military Funds: - Pakistan Navy: $65 million for refurbishment of the Excess Defense Articles (EDA) Oliver Hazard Perry-class (OHP) Frigate. Although the Joint Staff has only allocated $58M to date in FY09 FMF to [...]
2009-08-27 13:50:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETPGOV PREL PTER MARR PK
09ISLAMABAD2062STABILIZING AND MODERNIZING PAKISTAN'S MILITARY
[...] (S) Summary: As the current five-year commitment to provide Pakistan with $300 million annually in Foreign Military Financing (FMF) ends in FY 2009 and we begin to implement our Afghanistan/Pakistan strategy, Post proposes the establishment of a new, multi-year commitment of FMF for Pakistan. [...]
2009-08-28 06:17:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETPGOV PREL PTER MARR PK
09ISLAMABAD2067 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: AUGUST 28, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-28 10:29:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2070LAHORE HIGH COURT RULING ON A.Q. KHAN
[...] (C) Summary: On August 28, The Lahore High Court (LHC) issued a show-cause notice to the federal government instructing it to justify its prevention of movements requested by nuclear scientist Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan. The court scheduled a hearing for September 4 at which the federal governmen [...]
2009-08-29 11:07:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPARM PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD2074PAKISTANI SECURITY FORCES ACCUSED OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES IN MALAKAND DIVISION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-30 12:47:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALMOPS PGOV PHUM PK PTER
09ISLAMABAD2075 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: AUGUST 31, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-31 10:11:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2093GOP ANNOUNCES REFORMS TOWARD AUTONOMY FOR THE
[...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Gilani announced August 29 changes to the governance of Pakistan's "Northern Areas." The region will now be called "Gilgit-Baltistan" and enjoy most of the political arrangements of a province, less the right to representation in the Federal Parliament. Minister [...]
2009-09-01 10:38:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETPGOV PREL PTER IN PK
09ISLAMABAD2094 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: September 01, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-01 11:29:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2102 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: SEPTEMBER 02, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-02 09:47:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2111 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: SEPTEMBER 03, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-03 10:40:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2115SRAP HOLBROOKE' AUGUST 17 MEETING WITH FINANCE
[...] (C) Summary: In their August 17 meeting, Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin told Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan Richard Holbrooke that the Ministry of Finance had missed budget targets because of large outlays for IDPs and the military, as well as a large unexpected withdrawal [...]
2009-09-03 14:28:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALECON EAID PGOV PHUM PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2131 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: SEPTEMBER 04, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-04 09:54:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2139FINANCE MINISTER ON PAKISTAN'S BUDGET WOES, TOKYO
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a September 3 meeting with the Ambassador, Finance Minister Shaukat Tarin said the GOP had included $2 billion in Tokyo Pledges in its budget but was grappling with a shortfall in actual donor assistance. He asked that the USG provide $650 million in cash through the GOP to cov [...]
2009-09-04 11:11:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV EFIN ECON EAID ENRG PK
09ISLAMABAD2140PM AND FINANCE MINISTER ON PAKISTAN'S TROUBLED
[...] (SBU) Summary: In meetings with Prime Minister Gilani and Finance Minister Tarin, NSC Senior Director for International Economics David Lipton said Pakistan needed to take a number of steps in the coming months to put its energy sector on firmer footing: resolve the remaining $3.7 billion " [...]
2009-09-04 12:23:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV EFIN ECON EAID ENRG PK
09ISLAMABAD2149 SWAT HUMANITARIAN AID CONTINUES
[...] (SBU) Summary. USAID/OFDA implementing partners, UN agencies and other humanitarian organizations continue to provide assistance to populations in Swat, Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP). Following an August 30 suicide bombing in Mingora, the capital of Swat District, international media mis [...]
2009-09-07 03:17:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON PGOV PK PINR PREL PTER PREF IO
09ISLAMABAD2159 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: SEPTEMBER 08, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-08 12:53:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2161NGOS DISCUSS ASSISTANCE AND SECURITY IN SWAT
[...] (C) Summary: In September 4 discussions, representatives from 14 international non-governmental organizations (INGOs),the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR),and the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) confirmed that humanitarian relief was being delivered in [...]
2009-09-08 13:41:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREF PHUM EAID PREL PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD2162FORMER RULING PARTY PML SPLITS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Following weeks of wrangling within the former ruling Pakistan Muslim League (PML) about the intra-party electoral process, and on the heels of the July 20 national-level party elections in which Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain was reelected unopposed as PML president, dissident part [...]
2009-09-08 13:53:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PK PREL
09ISLAMABAD217 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: FEBRUARY 02, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-02 10:14:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2173 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: SEPTEMBER 09, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-09 09:04:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2183 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: SEPTEMBER 10, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-10 11:25:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2184INTERIOR MINISTER REHMAN MALIK'S SEPTEMBER 7 MEETING WITH CODEL SMITH
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-10 12:15:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER MOPS KNNP IN AF PK
09ISLAMABAD2185ADDRESSING CONCERNS ABOUT PAKISTAN SECURITY
[...] (S/NF) A growing body of evidence is lending credence to allegations of human rights abuses by Pakistan security forces during domestic operations against terrorists in Malakand Division and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas. While it is oftentimes difficult to attribute with accuracy any res [...]
2009-09-10 14:40:00Embassy IslamabadSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PHUM PTER MOPS MASS KJUS PK
09ISLAMABAD2196 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: SEPTEMBER 11, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-11 11:10:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2200NUCLEAR SECURITY SUMMIT INFORMATION DELIVERED TO
[...] Ambassador passed reftel information on President Obama's Nuclear Security Summit to Pakistan's Minister of Foreign Affairs Shah Mahmood Qureshi on September 11, 2009, and will raise it with President Zardari at the next opportunity. Embassy PolOff followed up with MFA Director General for Di [...]
2009-09-11 11:15:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP PREL PTER PGOV MNUC PK
09ISLAMABAD2201CODEL SMITH VISITS TARBELA TRAINING CENTER; MEETS
[...] (C) Summary. During a September 5 visit to Tarbela, Codel Smith praised the quality of training provided by U.S. Special Forces for its Pakistani Army counterparts; as part of a training demonstration, the delegation fired Glock 17 pistols and AK47 assault rifles. At a later meeting with 11 [...]
2009-09-11 11:17:00Embassy IslamabadSECRET//NOFORNMASS MOPS PGOV PK PTER
09ISLAMABAD2203FOREIGN MILITARY SALE OF OLIVER HAZARD PERRY CLASS FRIGATE TO THE PAKISTAN NAVY
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-11 11:45:00Embassy IslamabadSECRET//NOFORNMARR PGOV PK PREL PTER
09ISLAMABAD2208CODEL CASEY'S AUGUST 25 MEETING WITH MINISTER OF
[...] (C) Summary: In an August 25 meeting with CODEL Casey, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Nawabzada Malik Amad Khan emphasized the need for a long-term enduring partnership between the United States and Pakistan. He argued for increased trade preferences for Pakistani goods through the lo [...]
2009-09-11 13:21:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV ETRD PREL PTER AF PK
09ISLAMABAD2209PESHAWAR: "HERE I COME AGAIN" OPERATION IN BARA
[...] (C) Summary: After just over a week of fighting under the "Here I Come Again" operation in Khyber Agency, the joint army/Frontier Corps/Frontier Constabulary/police actions in Bara tehsil appear to be drawing to a close as army and Frontier Corps troops are pulled out to concentrate on other [...]
2009-09-11 13:39:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER MOPS PK
09ISLAMABAD2218 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: SEPTEMBER 14, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-14 09:38:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2226 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: SEPTEMBER 15, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-15 09:40:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2236MEDIA REQUEST: INTERVIEW WITH FLOTUS FOR
[...] (U) Post would like to support a request by noted Pakistani journalist Jugnu Mohsin for an interview with First Lady Michelle Obama. Ms. Mohsin is one of the leading liberal secular journalists in Pakistan. She is the Managing Editor and Publisher of The Friday Times and a television presen [...]
2009-09-16 07:26:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KPAO AF PK
09ISLAMABAD2245 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: SEPTEMBER 16, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-16 10:06:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2263 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: SEPTEMBER 17, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-17 10:47:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2278 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: SEPTEMBER 18, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-18 09:45:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2285PAKISTAN WILL OBSERVE CTBT CONFERENCE, BUT
[...] (C) PolOff raised GOP participation in the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty Article XIV Conference (reftel) with MFA Disarmament Director General Irfan Yusuf Shami on September 18. Shami reported that Pakistan will be an observer at the conference, as it has been since 1998. He indicat [...]
2009-09-18 14:06:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPARM KNNP PREL KTBT PGOV MNUC PK
09ISLAMABAD2288PRIME MINISTER GILANI OUTLINES GOP PLANS ON THE
[...] (C) Summary: In an hour-long meeting September 18, Prime Minister Gilani said the Malakand campaign against extremist groups is 70 percent completed. He emphasized the need to undertake reconstruction and rehabilitation in the region, not only to help the population there but also to convi [...]
2009-09-20 09:46:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PK PTER PREL SNAR PINS PREF AMGT PHUM
09ISLAMABAD2289NATIONAL RECONCILIATION ORDINANCE MAY BE THE
[...] (C) Summary: The Supreme Court's decision to return the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) to the National Assembly for action has left the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) government with a Hobbesian choice between taking public responsibility for passage of this very unpopular legislation [...]
2009-09-21 12:07:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD229PAKISTAN'S BANKS FACE DETERIORATING CONSUMER AND SMALL
[...] (SBU) Summary. The banking sector in Pakistan has been largely shielded from the international financial crisis by a regulatory framework that has limited its foreign currency and securities exposure. Although there were no major losses in calendar year 2008, local bankers are expecting probl [...]
2009-02-03 13:08:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EINV PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2290ASSESSMENT OF PRESIDENT ZARDARI'S FIRST YEAR IN
[...] (C) Summary: When Asif Ali Zardari took oath as Pakistan's President on September 9, 2008, he inherited a series of intersecting political, economic, and security crises for which the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP)-led coalition government appeared ill-equipped. One year later, Zardari appears [...]
2009-09-21 13:55:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER PREL ECON EAID ENRG MOPS PK IN AF
09ISLAMABAD2292FINANCE MINISTER TARIN MEETS LEW, ASKS FOR US
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-22 11:40:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV PK ECON ETRD EAID EFIN
09ISLAMABAD2293ANTI-TERRORISM ACT CHANGES MAY NOT ADDRESS
[...] (S) Summary: Parliamentary Affairs Minister Babar Awan informed PolCouns that the changes his office was proposing to Pakistan's Anti-Terrorism Act were not/not designed to address the prosecution of those detained in combat operations. Instead, they were designed to ease the prosecution and [...]
2009-09-23 09:06:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETPHUM PGOV MOPS PTER PK
09ISLAMABAD2295REVIEWING OUR AFGHANISTAN - PAKISTAN STRATEGY
[...] (S/NF) Summary: In response to queries posed by the National Security Council, Embassy Islamabad believes that it is not/not possible to counter al-Qaeda in Pakistan absent a comprehensive strategy that 1) addresses the interlinked Taliban threat in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2) brings about stable, [...]
2009-09-23 15:09:00Embassy IslamabadSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL PTER PINR MOPS EAID PK
09ISLAMABAD23 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JANUARY 05, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-05 09:50:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD230ZARDARI IN NO HURRY TO CEDE HIS CONSTITUTIONAL
[...] (C) Summary: Nawaz Sharif has a new populist cause-- pressuring President Zardari and the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) to fulfill their Charter of Democracy pledge to repeal Musharraf-era constitutional changes that transferred power from the Prime Minister to the President. Zardari inherite [...]
2009-02-03 13:56:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD2301 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: SEPTEMBER 24, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-24 09:01:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD231 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: FEBRUARY 03, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-03 14:39:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2311PAKISTAN'S DRAFT AFGHAN MANAGEMENT STRATEGY AND
[...] (C) Summary: The final step necessary to extend the permitted stay of Afghan refugees in Pakistan through 2012 is issuance of an executive order by the Prime Minister. A draft Afghan strategy is in the final stages of governmental consideration and will go to the Prime Minister and the Cabin [...]
2009-09-24 14:10:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREF PGOV PREL EAID PHUM PK
09ISLAMABAD2320 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: SEPTEMBER 25, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-25 10:06:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2340 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: SEPTEMBER 28, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-28 10:04:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2353 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: SEPTEMBER 29, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-29 11:00:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD236SCENESETTER FOR SPECIAL ENVOY HOLBROOKE
[...] (C) Summary. Mission Pakistan warmly welcomes your arrival; your appointment comes as Pakistan grapples with internal change and hopes the Ombama administration can support regional solutions to development and counter-terrorism challenges. After eight years of military rule, the civilian governmen [...]
2009-02-04 10:40:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETPREL PGOV PTER EAID MARR MOPS PK
09ISLAMABAD2361 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: SEPTEMBER 30, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-30 10:23:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD237BAHAWALPUR: GROWING MILITANT RECRUITMENT IN
[...] (C) Summary: In discussing research findings for her new book on extremism, Dr. Ayesha Siddiqa outlined to A/DCM how a decline in the old socio-economic order in southern Punjab was slowly radicalizing the region. She described how a failing agricultural system, absentee landlords, poor educa [...]
2009-02-04 12:53:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD2375 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: OCTOBER 01, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-01 10:58:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2379 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: OCTOBER 02, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-02 12:13:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD238PAKISTAN STANDBY ARRANGEMENT: SO FAR SO GOOD, BUT
[...] (SBU) Summary: IMF and Ministry of Finance contacts agree that, based on preliminary indications, Pakistan has performed well in fulfilling IMF performance criteria as required in Pakistan's November 24 Standby Arrangement (SBA). After retiring $1.24 billion in debt, borrowing from the State [...]
2009-02-04 13:36:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON ETRD EAID PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2380POST APPROVAL FOR NIGHT VISION DEVICES FOR SPECIAL
[...] (U) Summary: Post supports the procurement of night vision devices (NVDs) for the Pakistan military at a cost of $300,000, using FY09 Pakistan Counter-Insurgency Funding (PCF). The purchase is for 25 Renegade 320 Thermal Imaging Devices for the Special Services Group (SSG). End Summary. [...]
2009-10-02 12:15:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PTER MARR PK
09ISLAMABAD2381PAKISTAN RAISES ENERGY TARIFFS IN STEP TO REDUCE
[...] (SBU) Summary: The GOP raised electricity tariffs 6 percent, in accordance with its commitments to international financial institutions. However, lower fuel costs and higher hydropower generation simultaneously pushed tariffs down, reducing the immediate impact on consumers, and hence public [...]
2009-10-02 12:46:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV EFIN ECON EAID ENRG PK
09ISLAMABAD2382FATA NATIONAL ASSEMBLY MEMBERS RESIGN GOVERNMENT
[...] (C) Summary: On September 30, PolCouns met with Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) Members of the National Assembly (MNA) Munir Khan Orakzai and Shaukat Ullah, and their colleague FATA Senator Rasheed Ahmed. The meeting followed the recent announcement by three federal ministers and [...]
2009-10-02 12:53:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER PK
09ISLAMABAD2384UPDATE ON DISPLACEMENT, RETURN, ASSISTANCE, AND
[...] (U) Summary and introduction: According to the Government of Pakistan, approximately 1.85 million of the roughly 2.7 million displaced Pakistanis (69 percent) had returned to their areas of origin as of September 25. Ongoing military operations to clear remaining pockets of insurgent resistan [...]
2009-10-03 07:43:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREF PGOV PREL EAID MOPS SNAR PK
09ISLAMABAD2385GOP SUGGESTS DISCUSSION ON INDIAN NUCLEAR ISSUES
[...] (C) PolOff met with MFA Disarmament Director General Dr. Irfan Yusuf Shami on September 30 and conveyed reftel points regarding Pakistani concerns about a possible Indian nuclear test. Shami reiterated the GOP perception that India may be preparing for a nuclear test, but when pressed on the [...]
2009-10-03 11:45:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALKNNP PREL PGOV MNUC IN PK
09ISLAMABAD2389 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: OCTOBER 05, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-05 11:12:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD239PAKISTAN'S GOVERNMENT STABILIZES
[...] (C) Summary. Despite media speculation and rumor, PM Gilani's government is now stable, and President Zardari's position is now secure. Nawaz Sharif may be the most popular leader in Pakistan, but Zardari has added the Muttahida Quami Movement, soon perhaps to be joined by the Pakistan Musl [...]
2009-02-04 13:38:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER PK
09ISLAMABAD2391PAKISTAN MUSLIM LEAGUE - NAWAZ MOVING TOWARDS
[...] (C) Summary: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif stated that the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) is moving towards forcing mid-term legislative elections due to the poor performance and growing unpopularity of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) government. Shahbaz viewed these moves towar [...]
2009-10-05 16:50:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PK
09ISLAMABAD2393KERRY-LUGAR LEGISLATION CRITICIZED BY OPPOSITION,
[...] (C) Summary: During an October 5 National Assembly session, the opposition PML-N sharply criticized the Kerry-Lugar bill's perceived conditionality, while the PPP defended the government's approach toward the legislation and maintained that the conditions are in synch with Pakistan's own inte [...]
2009-10-05 20:35:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM PK
09ISLAMABAD2398REQUEST TO CREATE AND NOTIFY FMS CASE FOR F-16
[...] (C) Summary: The Country Team requests the Department create and notify to Congress a new $150 million FMS case, which would use a mix of FMF and national funds, for the 5-year, 24/7 U.S. technology security presence mandated by the security notes for the Pakistan F-16 LOAs. End Summary. [...]
2009-10-06 03:12:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER MARR PK
09ISLAMABAD24ZARDARI COMMENTS ON INDIA/NAWAZ SHARIF
[...] (S) Summary: President Zardari told the Ambassador January 2 he would have no choice but to respond militarily to an Indian attack. There was no more politically sensitive issue in Pakistan than Kashmir, he said. Zardari had been briefed by ISI Director General, LTG Pasha, on his meeting with the D [...]
2009-01-05 13:11:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETPREL PTER PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD241 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: FEBRUARY 04, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-04 14:57:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2411 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: OCTOBER 06, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-06 10:24:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2416PAKISTAN NOMINATES AMBASSADOR TO BEIJING AS
[...] Kamran Akhtar, Disarmament Director in Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, conveyed to PolOff on October 6 that Pakistan has decided to appoint its Ambassador to Beijing, Mr. Masood Khan, as Sherpa for the Nuclear Security Summit. Ambassador Khan can be reached by phone at 86-10-6532-25 [...]
2009-10-07 03:05:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKNNP PREL PTER PGOV MNUC PK
09ISLAMABAD2417PAKISTAN WELCOMES GICNT UPDATE, BUT CAUTIOUS ON
[...] (C) PolOff delivered reftel demarche updating partners on enhanced implementation of the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism (GICNT) to Kamran Akhtar, Disarmament Director at Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on October 6. (Despite repeated attempts, PolOff was not able to ma [...]
2009-10-07 03:05:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALKNNP PREL PTER PGOV MNUC KGIC PK
09ISLAMABAD2424 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: OCTOBER 07, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-07 10:42:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2427AMBASSADOR MEETS WITH KAYANI AND PASHA ABOUT
[...] (S) Summary: Ambassador heard a number of complaints about the Kerry-Lugar bill from COAS General Kayani and DGISI Pasha in a two-hour meeting October 6. These focused on the history of Pressler sanctions, particularly a fear that the waiver in Kerry-Lugar would not be used and aid would be suspend [...]
2009-10-07 13:31:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETPREL PGOV PTER PK
09ISLAMABAD2431PAKISTAN WELCOMES PROGRESS ON IRAN NUCLEAR ISSUES
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-08 06:32:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALIR KNNP MNUC PGOV PK PREL PTER
09ISLAMABAD2434 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: OCTOBER 08, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-08 10:37:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2448NATIONAL ASSEMBLY BEGINS FORMAL DEBATE ON
[...] (U) Summary. Pakistan's National Assembly commenced formal debate on the Kerry-Lugar legislation on October 7. The PML-N's Chaudhry Nisar -- the leader of the parliamentary opposition -- criticized the bill's conditions, while PM Gilani stressed that these conditions are not "binding" on Pak [...]
2009-10-09 07:08:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM PK
09ISLAMABAD2449(S) PAKISTAN ARMY GHQ AGAIN APPROVES EMBEDDING
[...] (S) Summary: The Pakistani Army has for just the second time approved deployment of U.S. special operation elements to support Pakistani military operations. The first deployment, with SOC(FWD)-PAK elements embedded with the Frontier Corps in XXXXXXXXXXXX, occurred in September (reftel). Previously [...]
2009-10-09 07:25:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETPREL PGOV PTER MOPS PK
09ISLAMABAD2453 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: KERRY-LUGAR BILL, TERRORIRSM,
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-09 10:39:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2459HEATED DEBATE IN PAKISTAN'S NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ON
[...] (SBU) Summary: In three days of intense debate in the Pakistan National Assembly October 7-9, the Kerry-Lugar Bill (KLB) has come under fire (reftel). Post has been observing the debates daily. During debates on October 8 and 9, criticism of the bill by opposition members of parliament conti [...]
2009-10-10 06:24:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PTER PK
09ISLAMABAD2474 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: TERRORISM, KERRY-LUGAR BILL,
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-13 10:33:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2483 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: KERRY-LUGAR BILL, PAK-CHINA,
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-14 10:04:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2487STATUS OF DANIEL PEARL MURDER CASE AND OMAR SAEED SHEIKH
[...] (C) On August 13, the Sindh High Court yet again continued the adjournment in the appellate case of Omar Saeed Sheikh, the convicted murderer of U.S. journalist Daniel Pearl. According to Pakistani legal experts, the refusal of the Court to hear the appeal or set a date for further hearings places [...]
2009-10-14 12:07:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD2488RESOURCING THE MILITARY ASSISTANCE REQUIREMENTS IN PAKISTAN
[...] (C) Summary: To build a long-term relationship with Pakistan and increase the country's political will and military capability to fight insurgent and terrorist groups, post recommends (1) obtaining "cash-flow" financing authority for Pakistan's FMF; (2) announcing a Presidential commitment to Paki [...]
2009-10-14 13:02:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER MARR PK
09ISLAMABAD2495MUMBAI PROSECUTION UPDATE: FORMAL INDICTMENT
[...] (C) Summary: On October 10, following more than two months of delays and adjournments, a Pakistani Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) formally indicted the seven Mumbai attack suspects. The ATC is set to begin formal court hearings on October 17. The Federal Investigative Agency (FIA) is in the pr [...]
2009-10-15 05:55:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD2496 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: KERRY-LUGAR BILL, TERRORISM,
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-15 09:55:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2501PML-N PRAISES KERRY-LUGAR'S INTENTIONS, CRITICIZES
[...] (U) National Assembly debate on the Kerry-Lugar bill continued on October 14. PML-N spokesman Ahsan Iqbal adopted a somewhat more conciliatory tone toward the legislation than his party had taken during previous debate sessions. 2. (U) Iqbal praised Kerry-Lugar as "a very good document" wi [...]
2009-10-16 05:15:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PTER PK
09ISLAMABAD2518 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: TERRORISM, KERRY-LUGAR BILL,
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-16 10:16:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD252 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: FEBRUARY 05, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-05 09:42:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2534 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: TERRORISM, KERRY-LUGAR BILL,
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-19 10:38:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2541STATUS OF PAKISTAN'S ENERGY SECTOR DEBT HOLDING
[...] (SBU) Summary: While the GOP has taken some concrete steps to return the Pakistani energy sector to financial solvency, several key elements remain unresolved. On October 1, the GOP raised tariff rates by 6 percent, the first of three tariff hikes agreed with international financial institutio [...]
2009-10-20 14:14:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV EFIN ECON EAID ENRG PK
09ISLAMABAD2543 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: KERRY-LUGAR BILL, TERRORISM,
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-21 03:41:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2554 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: TERRORISM/MILITARY, KERRY-LUGAR
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-21 10:07:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2571 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: TOP STORIES, TERRORISM/MILITARY,
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-22 12:39:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2576EXTREMISM IN SOUTHERN PUNJAB AND NORTHERN SINDH
[...] (SBU) Summary: Though the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) and Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) continue to grab headlines for terrorist violence, poor and underdeveloped regions in the rest of "settled" Pakistan are increasingly the recruiting and training ground for extremism and mil [...]
2009-10-23 03:49:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALELAB PGOV PREL PTER PK
09ISLAMABAD2577P-3C MARITIME PATROL AIRCRAFT INSPECTED
[...] (S/NF) Summary: A PMA team conducted an Enhanced End-Use Monitoring (EEUM) inspection of Pakistan's P-3C Maritime Patrol Aircraft during October 12-14. The team found no indications of tampering with the aircraft or the related systems. End Summary. 2. (S/NF) Ref A reported that on Septe [...]
2009-10-23 03:49:00Embassy IslamabadSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL MARR MASS PK
09ISLAMABAD2585 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: TOP STORIES, TERRORISM/MILITARY,
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-23 11:16:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2591PAKISTAN MILITARY LAUNCHES GROUND CAMPAIGN IN
[...] (S) Summary: The Pakistan military launched a ground combat campaign against Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants in South Waziristan on October 17. Reconnaissance in force (RIF) operations have transitioned to preparations for a major ground assault. Military sources have described th [...]
2009-10-23 15:06:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETPGOV PTER PREL MOPS PK
09ISLAMABAD260 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: FEBRUARY 06, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-06 11:27:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2600 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: TOP STORIES, TERRORISM/MILITARY,
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-26 13:26:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2607MILITARY GROUND OFFENSIVE IN SOUTH WAZIRISTAN SLOWS
[...] (S) Summary: A week after Pakistani ground forces began the ground combat phase of Operation RAH-e-NIJAT ("Path of Salvation") against Tehrik-e-Taliban (TTP) strongholds in South Waziristan, the offensive has slowed down considerably, as the Army has elected to conduct a deliberate and method [...]
2009-10-26 14:36:00Embassy IslamabadSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL PTER MARR MASS PK
09ISLAMABAD2609 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: TOP STORIES, TERRORISM/MILITARY,
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-27 15:03:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2611USAID Funding for Pakistan Food Shortfalls
[...] (U) Summary. The U.N. World Food Program (WFP) expects food shortfalls in Pakistan in late 2009. Current donor pledges to the WFP Emergency Operation (EMOP) will improve, but not resolve, the food pipeline situation. USAID is providing USD 21 million in immediate funding to WFP to prevent any [...]
2009-10-27 15:18:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON PGOV PK PINR PREL PTER PREF IO
09ISLAMABAD2625 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: TOP STORIES, TERRORISM/MILITARY,
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-28 09:37:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2628PAKISTAN-U.S. ENERGY DIALOGUE POINTS TO LONG-TERM SOLUTIONS FOR THE SECTOR
[...] (SBU) Summary: Delegations to the U.S.-Pakistan Energy Dialogue of October 23-24 discussed plans for moving beyond the current difficulties and strategies for addressing longer-term planning. It was clear that Pakistan has made measurable progress in addressing the electricity sector's debt pr [...]
2009-10-28 14:50:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EINV ENRG PREL PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD2632 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: TOP STORIES, SECRETARY CLINTON'S
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-29 10:56:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2640 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: TOP STORIES, SECRETARY CLINTON'S
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-30 11:03:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2642PM GILANI CONFIDENT GOP WILL OVERCOME ENERGY
[...] (SBU) Summary: In an October 24 meeting, David Goldwyn, Secretary's Coordinator for International Energy Affairs (S/CIEA) and head of the U.S. Delegation to the U.S.-Pakistan Energy Dialogue, commended Prime Minister Gilani on Pakistan's sound plan for addressing the country's energy crisis, i [...]
2009-11-02 03:36:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EAID ENRG PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2651 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: SECRETARY CLINTON'S VISIT, USAID,
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-02 12:50:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD266CODEL BIDEN'S MEETING WITH PRESIDENT ZARDARI
[...] (C) Summary. During a January 9 meeting with President Zardari and Prime Minister Gilani, Senators Biden and Graham reasserted their support for passage of the Biden/Lugar aid legislation. However, Senator Biden noted that the U.S. public was financing its own economic recovery efforts and [...]
2009-02-06 14:48:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID PTER PK
09ISLAMABAD2663 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: TOP STORIES, TERRORISM/MILITARY,
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-03 11:35:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2665PAKISTAN'S PETROLEUM MINISTRY ON POSSIBILITIES FOR
[...] (SBU) Summary: In response to its chronic and worsening natural gas shortage, the GOP will "most likely" award contracts to two firms -- 4Gas and a Vitol-FOTCO consortium -- to build floating LNG re-gasification terminals, according to Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources Special Secret [...]
2009-11-03 14:13:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV EFIN ECON EAID ENRG PK
09ISLAMABAD2669 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: TOP STORIES, TERRORISM/MILITARY,
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-04 12:33:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD267ISLAMABAD HIGH COURT "FREES" A.Q. KHAN, WITH
[...] (C) Summary. The Islamabad High Court released a ruling on February 6 that declares A.Q. Khan a "free citizen." Although Khan and his lawyers claimed victory before the Pakistani media, the text of the ruling reads more like a plea deal, indicating that Khan accepted conditions on his freed [...]
2009-02-06 14:48:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER PARM KNNP PK
09ISLAMABAD2672PAKISTAN MILITARY MAKING SLOW BUT DELIBERATE
[...] (S/NF) Summary: Pakistani ground forces appear to be making slow but deliberate progress in their campaign against the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in South Waziristan. In recent days, the Army has been securing the ground it occupies, and on November 3, the 14th Division advanced into th [...]
2009-11-05 04:29:00Embassy IslamabadSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL PTER MARR MASS PK
09ISLAMABAD2675Visit to Waziristan IDP Relief Center
[...] (U) Summary. Following reports of rioting at multiple relief distribution points in Dera Ismail (D.I.) Khan, representatives of USAID, the U.N., a local relief organization, and the media traveled with Lt. General Nadeem Ahmed on October 28 to the newly established centralized relief distribut [...]
2009-11-05 08:32:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON PGOV PK PINR PREL PTER PREF IO
09ISLAMABAD2677 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: TOP STORIES, HILLARY CLINTON'S
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-05 10:55:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD269PAKISTAN INVESTIGATION INTO MUMBAI ATTACKS LEADS
[...] (C) Summary: On February 5, Interior Minister Rehman Malik met with the Ambassador and FBI agents to discuss the initial results of the FIA-led investigation into the Mumbai attacks. Malik shared both the investigation team's findings and the draft First Instance Report (FIR),both of which wi [...]
2009-02-06 14:58:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETPREL PTER PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD2692 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: SECRETARY STATE'S VISIT,
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-06 09:35:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2696THE WAY FORWARD FOR THE UN IN PAKISTAN
[...] (C) Summary: The UN continues to struggle in structuring itself to play its full role in Pakistan. The departure of Jean Arnault as the Secretary General's representative to the Friends of Democratic Pakistan (FODP) not only reduces the UN's leadership role in the group, but also complicates [...]
2009-11-06 13:57:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER PREF EAID PK
09ISLAMABAD2698FINANCE MINISTER TARIN ON BUDGETS, CSF DOLLAR FUND, AND PAKISTAN'S IMPROVING ECONOMIC OUTLOOK
[...] (C) Summary: Minister of Finance Shaukat Tarin told the Ambassador that he is "cautiously optimistic" about the Pakistani economy and expressed GOP gratitude that the USG would begin to move gradually towards greater use of Pakistani platforms to channel U.S. assistance. Tarin requested that an ad [...]
2009-11-06 14:52:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN EAID MOPS PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD270CODEL BIDEN'S MEETING WITH COAS KAYANI AND ISI
[...] (S) Summary: Senators Biden and Graham met with Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Kayani and Director General of ISI LTGen Pasha on January 9 to underscore bipartisan support for the U.S.-Pakistan relationship. Senator Biden emphasized the need for the American people to see results soon in Afghanistan [...]
2009-02-06 15:03:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETPREL PTER MARR PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD2706PAKISTAN REQUESTS USG SUPPORT BID FOR SECURITY
[...] (U) On October 16, post received a diplomatic note in which the GOP formally requested USG support for its candidacy for a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council for the term 2012-2013. They noted that Pakistan last served on the Security Council 10 years ago and that their candidatu [...]
2009-11-10 05:22:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER PREF EAID PK
09ISLAMABAD2708WAZIRISTAN UPDATE: GROUND FORCES MAKE GAINS, HOLD
[...] (S) Summary: Pakistan ground forces continue Operation RAH-e-NIJAT (Path of Salvation or Deliverance,) in South Waziristan against the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and we have seen significant fighting in the major TTP strongholds of Makin, Ladha, and Sora Rogha. It is likely we are now s [...]
2009-11-10 06:28:00Embassy IslamabadSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL PTER MARR MASS PK
09ISLAMABAD2709 PAKISTAN SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION TO SEYMOUR M. HERSH STORY
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-10 11:13:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD271CODEL BIDEN MEETS WITH PM GILANI
[...] (C) Summary. During a January 9 meeting with Codel Biden, PM Gilani pledged continued Pakistani resolve to fight terrorism and cooperate in the Mumbai investigations. He said that civil-military relations had improved, urged an expedited meeting of the Friends of Pakistan and requested U.S [...]
2009-02-06 15:06:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID PTER PK
09ISLAMABAD2710 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: TERRORISM/MILITARY, POLITICAL,
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-10 11:13:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2716INTERIOR MINISTER SEEKS USG HELP IN PROTECTING
[...] (C) Summary:... [...]
2009-11-11 14:13:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PK
09ISLAMABAD2718 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: TOP STORIES, VISITING U.S.
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-12 11:18:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2739 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: TOP STORIES, U.S. CONGRESSIONAL
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-13 11:55:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2740AZAD JAMMU AND KASHMIR GETS A NEW PRIME MINISTER,
[...] (C) Summary: The Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) Legislative Assembly elected Farooq Haider as AJK prime minister on October 22 -- making him the region's third prime minister since 2006 elections there. Haider previously headed a breakaway faction of AJK's Muslim Conference party, and had held [...]
2009-11-14 05:47:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KDEM PK
09ISLAMABAD2744Mobile Banking in Pakistan - Challenges and Prospects
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a series of meetings in Karachi and Islamabad in early October, the Treasury Attache and an advisor from Treasury's Office of Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes discovered that some of Pakistan's commercial banks and microfinance banks have a growing interest in providi [...]
2009-11-16 04:26:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EINV ETRD KCOR PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2754PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: TOP STORIES, TERRORISM/MILITARY,
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-17 01:17:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2760 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: NOVEMBER 17, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-17 12:15:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2769CODEL TIERNEY MEETS WITH PAKISTANI PRIME MINISTER
[...] (C) Summary: Prime Minister Gilani told CODEL Tierney November 11 that the Pakistani people were united in the fight against terrorism and supported military efforts in Swat, Malakand and South Waziristan. However, he noted the public was upset with Pakistan's failing economy, pointing out co [...]
2009-11-17 14:10:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PREF EAID ECON MOPS PK
09ISLAMABAD2773 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: TOP STORIES, TERRORISM/MILITARY,
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-18 09:13:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2780GROUND FORCES MOVE TO SECURE MILITANT STRONGHOLD
[...] (S/NF) Summary: The Pakistan Army's Operation Rah-e-Nijat ("Path of Salvation") continues to make progress against Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants in the Mehsud tribal Area of South Waziristan. Three infantry divisions assigned to the Army's 11th Corps continue to be engaged in the [...]
2009-11-18 11:57:00Embassy IslamabadSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PREL PTER MARR MASS PK
09ISLAMABAD2784PAKISTAN: NATIONAL ASSEMBLY DEBATES NATIONAL
[...] (SBU) Summary: Pakistan's National Assembly is discussing a bill to turn into permanent law the Musharraf-era National Command Authority (NCA) Ordinance, which established Pakistan's nuclear command and control infrastructure. Media reports had linked the introduction of the bill to internat [...]
2009-11-19 05:08:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALMNUC KNNP PREL PGOV PTER PK
09ISLAMABAD2786PAKISTAN UNLIKELY TO SUPPORT RUSSIAN FUEL BANK
[...] (C) PolOff delivered reftel request for support for the Russian Fuel Bank proposal at the November International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Board meeting to Ministry of Foreign Affairs Disarmament Director Kamran Akhtar on November 17. Akhtar said that Pakistan believed the Russian proposal [...]
2009-11-19 08:43:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALMNUC KNNP PREL PGOV PTER IAEA ENRG PK
09ISLAMABAD2787 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: TOP STORIES, TERRORISM/MILITARY,
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-19 10:08:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2798PAKISTAN'S ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE IMPROVING, BUT STRUCTURAL
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-19 12:21:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2799POST RESPONSE TO CSG TASKING ON CFT CAPABILITIES
[...] (C/NF) Mission Islamabad provides the following response to Ref A request for information on the Mission's resources and for staff combating terrorist financing in Pakistan. 2. (C//NF) Embassy Islamabad has dedicated the following resources to terrorism finance issues, at least part-time. I [...]
2009-11-19 13:01:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON EFIN PGOV PREL SNAR PK
09ISLAMABAD280INTERIOR SECRETARY PROVIDES TERMS OF A.Q. KHAN'S
[...] (S) Secretary of the Interior Kamal Shah called in the Ambassador on February 7 to provide a copy of "Annexure-A", the terms of the Islamabad High Court,s decision on Khan,s appeal of his detention (text below). Shah assured the Ambassador that the Government of Pakistan retains full powers to en [...]
2009-02-07 15:33:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETPGOV PREL PTER PARM KNNP PK
09ISLAMABAD2802PHARMACEUTICAL DATA PROTECTION AMENDMENT APPROVED,
[...] (SBU) Summary: Director General for Health Dr. Rashid Jooma told EconCouns and Econoff that the Ministry of Health is at last moving forward with long-stalled data protection for pharmaceutical products. According to Jooma, representatives from both domestic and international pharmaceutical i [...]
2009-11-20 02:28:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON KIPR PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD281PRESIDENT ZARDARI DISCUSSES AQ KHAN RELEASE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-09 12:18:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETPREL PGOV PK KNNP PARM
09ISLAMABAD2810 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: NOVEMBER 20, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-20 10:30:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2820 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: SECRETARY CLINTON'S VISIT, USAID,
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-21 05:47:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2822USAID/Pakistan Provides $44 million for Families Displaced
[...] (U) Summary. On November 17, USAID/Pakistan notified the Government of Pakistan (GoP) that USAID had requested release of USD 44 million in budget support for the GoP cash assistance to families displaced by conflict with insurgents. Funds should reach the GoP's bank account by Friday, Novemb [...]
2009-11-21 09:55:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON PGOV PK PINR PREL PTER PREF IO
09ISLAMABAD2826PAKISTAN MOD RELUCTANTLY AGREES TO COOPERATE WITH
[...] (C) Summary: In light of renewed discussion in Washington about the necessity of providing man-portable air defense system (MANPADS) assistance to Lahore airport (LHE) as a prerequisite to its certification for non-stop flights from LHE to the United States, Econ Counselor and ICE Attache met [...]
2009-11-23 08:04:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALEAIR ECON ASEC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2827 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: NOVEMBER 23, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-23 11:14:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2828BONDED LABORERS HELD HOSTAGE BY LANDLOWNERS IN
[...] (SBU) Summary. On October 4, a Pakistani NGO reported to Embassy Islamabad that over 150 peasants and their family members in rural Sindh had disappeared after filing illegal confinement and non-payment wage petitions with local courts. There was strong evidence that the peasants' employers -- [...]
2009-11-23 13:56:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PTER ELAB PK
09ISLAMABAD2829DIVVYING UP THE TAX REVENUE PIE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-23 13:58:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ETRD EFIN EAID PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD283PAKISTAN INTERESTED IN GICNT WORKSHOP, BUT LACKS
[...] PolOff delivered invitation and informational paper on the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism Draft Model Guidelines workshop to Kamran Akhtar, Disarmament Director in Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on February 7. Akhtar welcomed the invitation and stated that experts from [...]
2009-02-09 12:33:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PTER PARM KNNP KGIC PK
09ISLAMABAD2830PAKISTAN'S THIRD IMF REVIEW - ENOUGH PROGRESS TO
[...] (C) Summary: In an upbeat meeting November 17, Acting Additional Secretary of Finance Salim Sethi assured Treasury Attache and Econ Counselor that Pakistan's third review under its Stand-By Arrangement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was "virtually assured" of a successful conclusion [...]
2009-11-23 15:57:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN EAID PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2836 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: NOVEMBER 24, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-24 09:21:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2837ADVANCE IN SOUTH WAZIRISTAN CONTINUES; FIGHTING
[...] (S/NF) Summary: Pakistani ground forces advanced into the interior of Makin, where they appear to be meeting little resistance in the sixth week of Operation Rah-e-Nijat (""Path of Salvation""),the Pakistan military's air and ground offensive against the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) milit [...]
2009-11-24 10:58:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETPGOV PREL PTER MARR MASS PK
09ISLAMABAD2838SECRETARY CLINTON,S OCTOBER 30, 2009, MEETING WITH
[...] (C) Summary: Political, civic, and business leaders from Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) told the Secretary during an October 30 meeting in Islamabad that "not all tribesmen are militants" and that development and long-term U.S. economic [...]
2009-11-24 12:22:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER ECON OVIP PK
09ISLAMABAD284PRESIDENT ZARDARI DISCUSSES AQ KHAN RELEASE
[...] (S) Summary: President Zardari assured the Ambassador on February 8 that A.Q. Khan would remain under house arrest and not engage with the media. Minister of Interior Rehman Malik also insisted that Khan would be prohibited from talking to the press and politicians, and his movements would be curta [...]
2009-02-09 12:53:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETPREL PGOV PK KNNP PARM
09ISLAMABAD2840PAKISTANI VIEWS ON FISSILE MATERIAL CUTOFF TREATY
[...] (C) Summary: Pakistani officials do not appear to have coalesced on a strategy or position for the mid-January resumption of Conference on Disarmament (CD) discussions on the Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty (FMCT). Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) interlocutors continue to stress the need for conse [...]
2009-11-24 12:59:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALMNUC KNNP PREL PGOV PTER PK
09ISLAMABAD2853 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: NOVEMBER 25, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-25 10:55:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD286 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: FEBRUARY 09, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-09 13:11:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2868ZARDARI'S IMMEDIATE DEPARTURE IS UNCERTAIN, PPP
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-27 13:13:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM PK
09ISLAMABAD2880WORLD FOOD PROGRAM FEARS SHORTAGE OF FOOD FOR IDPs
[...] (SBU) Summary: The U.N. World Food Program (WFP) is taking steps to prevent a food shortfall in its Emergency Operation in Pakistan (EMOP) in the coming months. Left unaddressed, this break in the WFP assistance pipeline could affect the 2.7 million individuals, including internally displaced [...]
2009-12-01 05:28:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAGR ECON ETRD EAID PGOV PK PREL PREF IO
09ISLAMABAD2885 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: DECEMBER 01, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-01 14:06:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2889 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: DECEMBER 02, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-02 11:04:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD289ZARDARI’S PLANNED APPROACH TO HOLBROOKE
[...] (C) Summary. During a February 8 meeting with the Ambassador, President Zardari outlined Pakistan's need for additional assistance, a message that would figure prominently in his meeting with Special Representative Holbrooke. Zardari outlined the steps he would follow to restrict A.Q. Khan (septel) [...]
2009-02-09 14:56:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER PK
09ISLAMABAD2890POLITICAL CONTACTS ACROSS SPECTRUM GENERALLY
[...] (C) Summary: Key contacts in Peshawar and Islamabad across the political spectrum by and large reacted positively to the way forward on Afghanistan and Pakistan that President Obama outlined in his December 1 speech. Most of our interlocutors were supportive of the U.S. increasing troops in [...]
2009-12-02 13:22:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER AF PK
09ISLAMABAD2894AF-PAK TRANSIT TRADE - PERSONNEL CHANGES AND
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-03 02:03:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD EAID PGOV PREL AF PK
09ISLAMABAD2900 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: DECEMBER 03, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-03 09:11:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2903DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON OMAR SAEED SHEIKH CASEREF: SECSTATE 108201
[...] (C) Poloff delivered reftel demarche and associated non-paper and diplomatic note on the transfer of Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh to the U.S. to MFA Director for Americas Sohail Khan on November 25. Per reftel instructions, she specifically requested that while the request for transfer of Sheikh was bei [...]
2009-12-03 09:52:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV UK PK
09ISLAMABAD2927 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: DECEMBER 04, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-04 10:00:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2928SUPREME COURT TO REVIEW NATIONAL RECONCILIATION
[...] (C) Summary: The National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) lapsed on November 28. The Supreme Court announced that it will review all petitions related to the NRO beginning on December 7, and will likely make a ruling on its constitutionality. The government has not yet decided whether to def [...]
2009-12-04 11:35:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2932U.N. EXPLAINS THE DELAYED RELEASE OF 2010 HUMANITARIAN
[...] (SBU) Summary. The U.N. has proposed a 12-month Pakistan Humanitarian Response Plan (PHRP) valued at nearly $800 million - 14 percent larger than the 2009 PHRP. However, the Government of Pakistan (GoP) is concerned that releasing a large appeal will create the perception that the internally [...]
2009-12-05 03:12:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON PGOV PINR PREL PTER PREF IO PK
09ISLAMABAD2933U.N. EXPLAINS THE DELAYED RELEASE OF 2010 HUMANITARIAN
[...] (SBU) Summary. The U.N. has proposed a 12-month Pakistan Humanitarian Response Plan (PHRP) valued at nearly $800 million - 14 percent larger than the 2009 PHRP. However, the Government of Pakistan (GoP) is concerned that releasing a large appeal will create the perception that the internally [...]
2009-12-05 03:12:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON PGOV PINR PREL PTER PREF IO PK
09ISLAMABAD2939 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: DECEMBER 07, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-07 10:40:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2941PAKISTAN HUMAN TRAFFICKING INTERIM ASSESSMENT
[...] (SBU) Summary. This cable responds to ref A request for an interim assessment of Pakistan's progress in combating trafficking in persons (TIP). In response to Pakistan's Tier 2 Watch List ranking in the 2009 TIP report, the government enhanced its efforts to address Pakistan's significant huma [...]
2009-12-08 03:00:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PTER ELAB KTIP PK
09ISLAMABAD2942WAY FORWARD ON AFGHAN REFUGEES REMAINS UNCLEAR
[...] (C) Summary: A new inter-ministerial subcommittee has been established to find a way forward on Afghan refugee status, repatriation, and security-related issues in Pakistan. While establishment of the subcommittee has rolled back progress on finalizing Pakistan's draft Afghan Management and R [...]
2009-12-08 09:49:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREF PGOV PREL EAID PHUM PK
09ISLAMABAD2946 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: DECEMBER 08, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-08 11:09:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2947WAVE OF TERRORIST ATTACKS CONTINUES
[...] (C) Summary: The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and its allies are continuing -- and intensifying -- their wave of terrorist attacks in Pakistan's settled areas. Separate attacks in Multan, Lahore, and Peshawar during December 7-8 killed over 70 people. These three attacks came on the heels [...]
2009-12-08 13:09:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2956LAUNCH OF 2010 HUMANITARIAN APPEAL FOR PAKISTAN
[...] (SBU) Summary. Although the U.N. remains in discussions with the Government of Pakistan (GoP) to obtain a non-objection decision for the release of a seven-month 2010 Pakistan Humanitarian Response Plan (PHRP),the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) is considering [...]
2009-12-10 07:03:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDEAID ECON PGOV PINR PREL PTER PREF IO PK
09ISLAMABAD2959 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: DECEMBER 10, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-10 11:37:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2960USG TRAINING PROVIDES FATA LEVIES WITH INCREASED
[...] (SBU) Summary: Through a joint State/INL and Justice/ICIPTAP program, the Mission continues to offer police training to the Levy forces, who are the primary law enforcement arm of the Political Agents in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). On 21 November, 25 Levies graduated [...]
2009-12-10 13:18:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPTER PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD2966 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: December 11, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-11 09:27:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD297 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: FEBRUARY 10, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-10 11:26:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2973PAKISTAN'S ANTI-MONEY LAUNDERING ORDINANCE LAPSES,
[...] (C) Summary: In a last minute attempt to keep some kind of anti-money laundering regime in place after the Supreme Court directed that a string of Musharraf-era ordinances be promulgated as laws or allowed to lapse, President Zadari issued a revised Anti-Money Laundering ordinance (AMLO) on No [...]
2009-12-12 11:08:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN EAID PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD2979MISSION ESTABLISHES INTER-AGENCY GENDER
[...] Summary: The Mission held the first meeting of an inter-agency Gender Development Working Group (GDWG) on November 19. The group, which subsequently met two more times and will convene monthly, was established with four broad goals: 1) to build greater understanding, collaboration, and commun [...]
2009-12-14 04:53:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PHUM KPAO KWMN PK
09ISLAMABAD2987 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: DECEMBER 14, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-14 08:14:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD3002ASSISTANCE COORDINATOR BRIEFS FOREIGN MINISTER
[...] (SBU) Ambassador Robin Raphel, Coordinator for Economic and Development Assistance in Pakistan briefed Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on U.S. plans to channel more assistance through the Pakistani government, target USG assistance in areas vulnerable to militants, and to focus on severa [...]
2009-12-15 05:31:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EAID PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD3005 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: DECEMBER 15, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-15 08:54:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD3015 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: DECEMBER 16, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-16 09:56:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD3027 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: DECEMBER 17, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-17 11:10:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD3035 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: DECEMBER 18, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-18 09:43:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD3037BALOCH REQUEST UNHCR FACILITATE MOVEMENT OF
[...] (S/NF) Summary: XXXXXXXXXXXX, who has been designated by UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres as XXXXXXXXXXXX in Pakistan, met with the Ambassador and Deputy Chief of Mission on December 13 to discuss the U.S. Government's position on the possible movement of Baloch leader Brahmdagh B [...]
2009-12-18 11:04:00Embassy IslamabadSECRET//NOFORNPREL PGOV PREF PK AF
09ISLAMABAD3039AF-PAK TRANSIT TRADE -- GETTING TO YES?
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-18 17:00:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD EAID PGOV PREL AF PK
09ISLAMABAD304 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: FEBRUARY 11, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-11 13:49:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD3043 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: DECEMBER 21, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-22 02:32:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD305 STATE BANK GOVERNOR: LACK OF CREDIT STIFLING PAKISTAN'S
[...] (SBU) Summary. On January 31, the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) released its Monetary Policy Statement which maintained the discount rate at 15 percent for the next six months, causing disappointment to many in the private sector who were hoping for an easing of rates. SBP Governor Salim Raza [...]
2009-02-12 07:55:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EINV ETRD EAID PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD307 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: FEBRUARY 12, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-12 11:13:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD3073 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: DECEMBER 22, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-22 14:45:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD3076 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: DECEMBER 23, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-23 14:49:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD3077FISCAL FEDERALISM OR FISCAL FOOLISHNESS?
[...] (SBU) Summary: In a move heralded in the Pakistani press as a "historical shift to provincial autonomy" and a "victory for democracy," the National Finance Commission (NFC) reached a consensus on the formula for revenue division between the federal and provincial governments on December 11. Ag [...]
2009-12-23 14:50:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EAID PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD308 SPECIAL PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION - RICHARD HOLBROOKE'S
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-12 11:13:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD3084 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: DECEMBER 24, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-24 07:19:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD3089AF-PAK TRANSIT TRADE: GETTING CLOSER, BUT NO DEAL
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-28 11:39:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD EAID PGOV PREL AF PK
09ISLAMABAD3104 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: DECEMBER 30, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-30 11:33:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD3116DEMARCHE DELIVERED ON "DEFAMATION OF RELIGIONS"
[...] (C) PolOff delivered reftel demarche regarding the U.S. request to cooperate with Pakistan to constructively address the problem of racial and religious intolerance and discrimination to MFA Director General (Americas) Sohail Khan on December 30. Khan noted U.S. opposition to "defamation of r [...]
2009-12-31 07:22:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER PREF EAID PK
09ISLAMABAD313PAKISTAN FILES CASE AGAINST MUMBAI ATTACK SUSPECTS
[...] (C) Summary: On February 12, Interior Minister Rehman Malik publicly declared that the Mumbai terror attacks were planned, at least partially, in Pakistan and that the GOP had several suspects in custody. Malik held a press conference to present the initial results of the inquiry and announce [...]
2009-02-12 16:26:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD3131 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: DECEMBER 31, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-12-31 10:22:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD318 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: FEBRUARY 13, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-13 11:31:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD32QURESHI SHARES MUMBAI DOSSIER WITH BOUCHER
[...] (C) Summary: Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher met Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mehmood Qureshi on January 5. The two men discussed India's sharing of a dossier with Pakistan detailing the results of India's ongoing investigation into the November 26-29 [...]
2009-01-06 14:12:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD321GOP REQUESTS SUPPORT FOR MIRZA BEG'S IFAD CANDIDACY
[...] (SBU) Muhammad Haroon Shaukat, MFA Additional Secretary, convoked representatives of Japan, Kuwait, Libya, the United States, and Saudi Arabia (which was not present) on February 13 to ask their support for the candidacy of Mirza Qamar Beg for President of the International Fund for Agricultura [...]
2009-02-13 14:45:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV EAID EAGR PK
09ISLAMABAD33FATA UPDATE - 2 JANUARY 2009
[...] (C) Summary. On December 28, a polling station in Buner District in the NWFP was bombed, killing at least 37 people and wounding 28 others, and on December 30, the Pakistan military initiated a series of operations in Khyber Agency in the FATA, resulting in the temporary closure of the NATO su [...]
2009-01-06 14:37:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PINR PK PREF PREL PTER
09ISLAMABAD330 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: FEBRUARY 17, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-17 10:34:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD334INDIAN HIGH COMMISSION REACTS TO PAKISTAN'S MUMBAI
[...] (C) Summary: The GOI reaction to the GOP report on its investigations into the Mumbai attacks and the request for further information from the GOI has been positive and "deflated tensions," according to the Indian High Commission. Surprise at the depth of the investigation into the attack, h [...]
2009-02-17 15:28:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER PK IN
09ISLAMABAD337 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: FEBRUARY 18, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-18 10:21:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD34 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JANUARY 06, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-07 03:57:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD341 FATA AND NWFP: WEEKLY INCIDENTS OF TALIBANIZATION, JANUARY
[...] (C) Almost no fighting was reported in Bajaur during the second week of January. Consulate contacts report that security forces have established 13 checkpoints on the 17 km of road between Bajaur's agency border and Khar, converting what is usually a 10 minute drive into a 90 minute voyage. T [...]
2009-02-19 03:34:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPTER MOPS PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD343 MORE DONOR ASSISTANCE NEEDED
[...] (SBU) This is an action cable. See paragraph 8. 2. (SBU) Summary: GOP officials have told us and high-level visitors that they have received little support from the international donor community in recent months. A World Bank senior economist confirmed that very little foreign assistance [...]
2009-02-19 07:28:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID EFIN ECON IBRD PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD344DONORS AND FRIENDS: THE WAY AHEAD
[...] (SBU) Summary. Given Pakistan's struggling economy and the urgent need for development and budgetary assistance, Mission recommends that we move forward as quickly as possible to facilitate a successful Donors' Conference, co-hosted by the World Bank, and now tentatively scheduled for April i [...]
2009-02-19 07:46:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID EFIN ECON PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD358SHARIAT COURT OVERTURNS RAPE LAW
[...] (U) Summary: Pakistan's Federal Shariat Court invalidated a 25 year-old law allowing a man accused of rape to impeach the credibility of his alleged victim by offering evidence she "was of generally immoral character." In its judgment, the four-member panel requested President Zardari repea [...]
2009-02-19 11:36:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM PREL KTIP KISL KWMN PK
09ISLAMABAD359 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: FEBRUARY 19, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-19 11:36:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD364UPDATE ON SOLECKI CASE
[...] (C) Summary. Ambassador and UN Resrep Akcura met February 19 with Interior Minister Malik to follow up on the Solecki kidnapping case. Akcura expressed concern about Solecki's deteriorating health, as noted by the kidnappers' spokesman in a February 18 statement rejecting direct negotiatio [...]
2009-02-19 16:07:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALASEC PTER PGOV PK CASC
09ISLAMABAD365SCENESETTER FOR GENERAL KAYANI’S VISIT TO
[...] (S) Summary. Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Kayani's February 20-27 visit to Washington comes on the heels of the government's loss of control over Swat, continued Pakistani Army/Frontier Corps operations in the tribal areas, and still-simmering Indo-Pak tensions in the wake of the Mumba [...]
2009-02-19 16:17:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETPREL PTER PGOV MOPS MARR EAID PK
09ISLAMABAD366MUMBAI-ATTACKS PROSECUTION UPDATE
[...] (C) Summary: Since the filing of the First Information Report (FIR) on February 12, Pakistan has established an anti-terrorism court in Rawalpindi, appointed a special prosecutor, and is actively working on prosecutions. The GOP is still seeking several pieces of information and cooperation fr [...]
2009-02-19 16:18:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD373PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: FEBRUARY 20, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-20 11:07:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD377UPDATE ON IDP SITUATION IN PAKISTAN
[...] (C) Summary. The overall IDP situation has not changed significantly over the past few weeks, with UN estimates of the conflict-affected population still at approximately 300,000. However, there has been an increase in the number affected by conflict in Swat. Despite a proposed peace deal i [...]
2009-02-20 12:39:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PINR PK PREF PREL PTER
09ISLAMABAD378POLITICAL UPDATE: ZARDARI CONSOLIDATES POWER
[...] (C) Summary: President Asif Zardari has taken simultaneous moves to further consolidate his authority over the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and to extend the PPP's control over both the National Assembly and Senate. Senate elections will not occur until March 4, but the PPP has already locked [...]
2009-02-20 13:34:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD383PARASTATAL TRADING COMPANY INCREASINGLY INVOLVED
[...] (C) Summary. The Trading Corporation of Pakistan (TCP),a state trading company under the Ministry of Commerce, is engaging in another purchase venture that could prove devastating to private market trading. It is planning to import 200,000 metric tons (MT) of refined sugar for approximately [...]
2009-02-20 14:41:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALEAGR ECON EFIN EINV ETRD PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD385FOCUSING THE U.S.-PAKISTAN STRATEGIC DIALOGUE
[...] (C) Summary. As Foreign Minister Qureshi and his team arrive in Washington for coordination on the Holbrooke/Riedel strategic review, Post offers the following thoughts on issues for strategic engagement. In the coming weeks, Post will detail our suggestions on how to expand political, economic, se [...]
2009-02-21 12:27:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD397 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: FEBRUARY 23, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-23 10:55:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD411 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: FEBRUARY 24, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-24 13:06:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD413 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: FEBRUARY 25, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-25 11:50:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD415SHARIFS DISQUALIFIED FROM OFFICE
[...] (C) Summary and Comment: Pakistan's Supreme Court ruled February 25 that both Nawaz and Shahbaz Sharif from the opposition Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) party are ineligible to hold public office. President Zardari told Charge that he had temporarily appointed PPP Governor Taseer as Chief Execut [...]
2009-02-25 15:14:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR KJUS EAID PK
09ISLAMABAD42PAKISTAN POLITICAL ROUNDUP
[...] (C) Summary: Political developments in Pakistan during the week of January 5 included: the main Baloch insurgent groups called an end to their voluntary and tenuous cease-fire with the Pakistani military; President Zardari announced his plan to reform and restructure the National Accountability [...]
2009-01-08 08:53:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD420 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: FEBRUARY 26, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-26 09:13:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD422WORLD BANK GIVES HIGH MARKS TO GOP "SCORECARD" APPROACH TO
[...] (SBU) Summary and Recommendation: World Bank point person for the Benazir Income Support Program (BISP) Iftikhar Malik told EconOff February 12 that President Zardari had signed off on revisions to the BISP "distributions via parliamentary political networks" on January 22. Pilot programs for [...]
2009-02-26 11:27:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EAID PGOV PREL SOCI PK
09ISLAMABAD429DEMONSTRATIONS AND POLITICAL MANEUVERING CONTINUE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-26 15:05:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALKDEM PGOV PINR PK PREL
09ISLAMABAD43FOLLOW-UP ON MUMBAI INFORMATION SHARING
[...] (S) Summary. On January 6, 7, and 8, ... [...]
2009-01-08 14:42:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETPREL PTER PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD435 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: FEBRUARY 27, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-02-27 11:06:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD439DEMONSTRATIONS CONTINUE IN PUNJAB
[...] (C) Summary: Thousands of demonstrators took to the streets, mostly in Punjab, after Friday prayers to protest the disqualification of opposition Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) leaders Nawaz and Shahbaz Sharif. Protests turned violent in Lahore and Rawalpindi, and police used tear gas and b [...]
2009-02-27 14:53:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM PINR PK
09ISLAMABAD44PM GILANI FIRES NSA DURRANI
[...] (C) Summary. On January 8, Ambassador Mahmood Durrani confirmed to Ambassador that he had been fired by PM Gilani late on January 7. The press reported that Gilani fired Durrani because he confirmed to the press that Mumbai attacker Mohammed (Ajmal) Kasab was indeed a Pakistani citizen wit [...]
2009-01-08 15:16:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD440PAKISTAN MEETS FUND TARGETS; MORE LEEWAY AS GROWTH SLOWS
[...] (SBU) Summary. The IMF finished its first "generally positive" review of Pakistan's Standby Arrangement on February 25. While the program remains on track, the Fund has relaxed its fiscal deficit and tax revenue targets slightly, based on a deteriorating global economic environment. Finance [...]
2009-02-28 04:51:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN ECON EINV EAID PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD441POLITICAL TURMOIL, GOING NOWHERE FAST
[...] (C) Summary: Actors across the political spectrum were working to solve yet another self-inflicted political crisis in the wake of the Supreme Court's February 25 decision to disqualify the Sharif brothers from public office. Both President Zardari's Pakistan People's Party (PPP) and the Shar [...]
2009-03-01 12:09:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV PINR KDEM PK
09ISLAMABAD451 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MARCH 02, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-02 13:27:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD454SCENESETTER FOR FBI DIRECTOR MUELLER
[...] (C) Summary: Mission Pakistan warmly welcomes your arrival in Islamabad. You are arriving in the midst of largely self-inflicted political turmoil following the Supreme Court's decision to disqualify from public office Nawaz and Shahbaz Sharif, political rivals of President Asif Zardari. Zardari en [...]
2009-03-03 02:20:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETPREL PTER PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD465 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MARCH 03, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-03 10:55:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD468LACK OF CONTRIBUTIONS TO UN APPEAL FOR PAKISTAN
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraphs 8-9. 2. (SBU) Summary. On February 26, representatives from the UN High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and the World Food Program (WFP) called on Charge d'Affaires to discuss their operations within Pakistan. Both organizations committe [...]
2009-03-03 14:06:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PINR PK PREF PREL PTER
09ISLAMABAD472 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MARCH 04, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-04 11:09:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD477NO CONTEST: PAKISTAN'S SENATE ELECTIONS
[...] (C) National and provincial legislators gathered in their respective chambers March 4 to elect 50 new senators to Pakistan's 100-member upper house (ref A). Senators are hand-picked by their party leaders, elected indirectly not by popular vote, and serve six-year terms. Pakistan's Election [...]
2009-03-04 14:14:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EAID PINR PK
09ISLAMABAD486 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MARCH 05, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-05 11:17:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD491 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MARCH 06, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-06 10:34:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD495ZARDARI-NAWAZ RECONCILIATION: PLEAS FOR U.S. INTERVENTION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-07 16:44:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PK PREL PTER
09ISLAMABAD499 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MARCH 09, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-09 11:19:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD501NWFP: TNSM,S ONE-SIDED "MEDIATION"
[...] (C) Jamal Nasir, Special Assistant to the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) Home Secretary, confirmed to post on March 5 that Tehrik-i Nifaz-I Shariati Muhammadi (TNSM) leader Sufi Mohammad had presented the government with a list of 17 demands. The list, which circulated widely in the local [...]
2009-03-09 12:25:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PK PREL PTER
09ISLAMABAD505MUMBAI ATTACKS PROSECUTION UPDATE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-09 15:28:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PK PREL PTER
09ISLAMABAD506PM GILANI STAYS ABOVE THE FRAY
[...] (C) Summary and Comment. In a March 9 meeting with Ambassador, Gilani criticized the decision to impose governor's rule in Punjab and supported compromise to end the dispute between Zardari and the Sharif brothers. However, Gilani offered little in terms of immediate ideas that would be acce [...]
2009-03-09 15:29:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD508PML-N: "WE WON'T BE FOOLED AGAIN."
[...] (C) Summary: Opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) reached out March 9 to the diplomatic corps; the Pakistan People's Party (PPP)-led government made its case to the same group on February 28. PML-N leader Shahbaz Sharif, meeting with the Ambassador late March 9, reiterated the part [...]
2009-03-09 16:04:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM PINR PK
09ISLAMABAD511 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MARCH 10, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-11 09:36:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD514LAWYERS: "OUR MARCH HAS BEGUN."
[...] Summary: In an attempt to pre-empt tens of thousands of protesters from converging on Islamabad, with marches starting March 12 and a sit-in planned for March 16, the GOP arrested dozens of lawyers, opposition party workers and civil society activists (reftels). The top opposition leadership [...]
2009-03-11 14:21:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM PINR PK
09ISLAMABAD515LITTLE MOVEMENT ON RECONCILIATION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-11 14:37:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD516LITTLE MOVEMENT ON RECONCILIATION
[...] (C) Summary. In a last-ditch effort to reduce tensions with the Sharif brothers ahead of the start of the lawyers' march on March 12, President Zardari offered Pakistan Muslim League (PML) leader Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain the post of Senate leader if PML would form a government with the Pakistan Peo [...]
2009-03-12 04:28:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETPREL PTER PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD526 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MARCH 12, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-12 14:45:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD528PUNJAB GOVERNOR TASEER: A FIZZLE FROM A BANG
[...] (C) Summary: On March 12, Ambassador met in Islamabad with Punjab Governor Salman Taseer, whose jurisdiction extends to the federal capital's border. Taseer was adamant that opposition protesters would not be allowed into Islamabad but committed that arrested organizers would be released as so [...]
2009-03-12 16:06:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM PINR PK
09ISLAMABAD529 FATA STUDENTS "EXPERIENCE AMERICA"
[...] (SBU) Summary: On March 10, Principal Officer, US Consulate in Peshawar, USAID Deputy Director for the FATA Development Program and USAID OTI representative met with 15 recent returnees from the Experience America Program (EAP). This USAID multi-year student exchange program is designed to im [...]
2009-03-13 05:12:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PREF KPAO PK
09ISLAMABAD537EAD LAYS OUT STRATEGY FOR PAKISTAN DONORS' MEETING
[...] (SBU) Summary. Farrakh Qayyum, Secretary in the Economic Affairs Division (EAD),which is in charge of preparations for the April 17 donors' conference, told DCM March 12 that the GOP is working closely with the World Bank office in Islamabad to prepare their request. He noted that the reques [...]
2009-03-13 10:51:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID ECON EFIN EINV PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD541LATEST EFFORTS AT RECONCILIATION
[...] (C) Summary and Comment. Pakistani media is reporting late March 13 that Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Kayani met today with President Zardari and PM Gilani, and that Zardari had invited Shahbaz Sharif to a late night meeting to discuss reconciliation. When Ambassador sees PM Gilani ton [...]
2009-03-13 15:14:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD543UPDATE ON IDP ASSISTANCE IN BAJAUR AGENCY
[...] (SBU) Summary. Despite recent military operations in Bajaur that may have "secured" roads in parts of the agency (reftel),the majority of internally displaced persons (IDPs) have not yet begun to return because they see military operations continuing. USAID is currently providing USD 1.8 mill [...]
2009-03-13 15:50:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PGOV PHUM PINR PREL PTER PREF KPAO PK
09ISLAMABAD545LONG MARCH ROUND UP AS OF 1700 LOCAL TIME, MARCH 14
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-14 14:13:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD546GILANI STILL TRYING FOR RECONCILIATION
[...] (C) Summary. In a March 13 meeting with Ambassador, Prime Minister Gilani reiterated his views that the Pakistan People's Party should end governor's rule and allow formation of a government in Punjab by any party that had the votes. Going further than he had before, Gilani said that because [...]
2009-03-14 15:35:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD547GOP DECIDES TO APPEAL SHARIFS' DISQUALIFICATION
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-14 16:11:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD548ZARDARI AGREES TO APPEAL SHARIFS' DISQUALIFICATION
[...] (C) Ambassador and UK High Commissioner (Ambassador) had dinner with President Zardari March 14. Right before the meeting, Zardari had issued a statement indicating his government's intention to request a review of the Supreme Court's decision on the eligibility of the Sharif brothers to ho [...]
2009-03-14 17:48:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD551LONG MARCH ROUND UP AS OF 1700 LOCAL TIME, MARCH 15
[...] (C) Summary: Citing fears for his safety, the GOP placed Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader Nawaz Sharif under a restraining order early in the day, but backed off to allow him to address the crowds - estimated at 70 - 80,000. Ambassador spoke to Interior Minister Rehman Malik, Prime [...]
2009-03-15 13:11:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD552WHAT'S NEXT?
[...] (C) Summary. Absent a terrorist attack or what we believe is unlikely Army intervention, the lawyers' ""long march"" will end with both sides claiming victory. They then will have to settle into a protracted series of negotiations to address the Sharifs' eligibility, governors' rule in Pun [...]
2009-03-15 13:18:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD554LONG MARCH ROUND UP AS OF 1930 LOCAL TIME, MARCH 15
[...] (C) Summary: Nawaz Sharif has reached the center of Lahore and is leading a crowd of 25,000-50,000 supporters towards the Ravi River heading to Islamabad. The police have largely given up fighting the protesters and are actively helping them to remove barriers from the road to Islamabad. The [...]
2009-03-16 02:15:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD559LONG MARCH ROUND UP AS OF 1500 LOCAL TIME, MARCH 16
[...] (C) Summary: Early in the morning on March 16 Prime Minister Gilani announced former Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry's reinstatement and the GOP's intention to file a review petition on the Sharif brothers' case in the Supreme Court. Shortly thereafter, Nawaz Sharif announced that he was calling of [...]
2009-03-16 12:11:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD560IMPLICATIONS OF THE LONG MARCH
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-16 12:24:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PK PREL PTER
09ISLAMABAD564 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MARCH 17, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-17 11:13:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD568CODEL TIERNEY MEETS WITH PRIME MINISTER GILANI
[...] (C) Summary: CODEL Tierney met February 2 with Prime Minister Yousef Gilani. Gilani thanked the U.S. for its help in defusing tensions with India following the Mumbai attacks. He emphasized the GOP commitment to cooperating with the U.S. in the fight against terrorism and stressed the need fo [...]
2009-03-18 08:40:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER ECON EAID PK
09ISLAMABAD575IMF Update - "Nascent Stability"
[...] (SBU) Summary. In a briefing of G-7 countries, the IMF Resident Representative characterized Pakistan's economic situation as "nascent stability." Revealing little new information, he commended the GOP's efforts to meet its numeric goals, but cautioned that tax revenue targets would be diffic [...]
2009-03-18 11:08:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN EINV PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD576 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MARCH 18, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-18 11:09:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD583ZARDARI APPOINTS "FORWARD LEANING" AIR CHIEF
[...] (C) As the USG considers options on how to continue Pakistan's F-16 program in the face of funding problems (septel),Air Marshal Rao Qamar Suleman assumes command March 18 as Pakistan's new Chief of Air Staff. He replaces retiring Air Chief Tanvir Mahmood Ahmed, who had lobbied extensively [...]
2009-03-18 15:50:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER PINR MARR PK
09ISLAMABAD584STATUS OF EFFORTS TO RECOVER AMCIT HOSTAGE JOHN
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-18 15:50:00Embassy IslamabadSECRET//NOFORNPREL PTER PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD586SAVING THE F-16 PROGRAM
[...] (C) Summary. Pakistan is the most important front-line state in our battle against extremists who threaten the U.S. and our allies. In post's view, preserving the F-16 program, which is the flagship symbol of post 9/11 bilateral re-engagement, is critical to our goals of enabling Pakistan to co [...]
2009-03-18 16:27:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV MARR MOPS PK
09ISLAMABAD600 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MARCH 19, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-19 10:54:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD604PM GILANI RESTORES ALL DEPOSED JUDGES
[...] (SBU) Summary: With two March 17 executive orders, Prime Minister Yousuf Gilani restored to the bench deposed Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry and a handful of remaining Supreme Court and provincial High Court judges. These judges had refused (or not been invited) to take a new oath of office [...]
2009-03-19 13:01:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM KJUS PK
09ISLAMABAD612 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MARCH 20, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-20 13:53:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD617THE FAT LADY RARELY SINGS IN PAKISTAN
[...] (C) Summary. In a country which has amended its constitution 17 times in its 62 year history and where most leading politicians have spent time in jail at the hands of rivals, there is rarely a definitive end to political disputes that are dragged into the courts. President Zardari and Pr [...]
2009-03-21 12:50:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER
09ISLAMABAD618POST RECOMMENDS AGAINST DOWNGRADE OF ICRAS RISK RATING FOR
[...] (SBU) Post urges the Interagency Credit Risk Assessment System committee not to downgrade Pakistan's sovereign and non-sovereign risk rating on March 23. The draft report, dated January 1, does not reflect the progress and the commitment the GOP has made to bring its economic house in order, [...]
2009-03-23 06:14:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV EFIN ECON PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD619AFGHAN REFUGEE UPDATE
[...] (C) Summary: UNHCR has suspended operations to assist Afghan refugees in repatriating from Pakistan. Repatriation from Peshawar is suspended until at least April 1, pending an assessment that it is safe for UNHCR personnel and refugees to participate. Repatriation from Quetta is also suspen [...]
2009-03-23 06:20:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREF PREL AF PK
09ISLAMABAD625 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MARCH 24, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-24 11:30:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD637PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: March 25, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-25 11:53:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD644PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: March 26, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-26 11:13:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD655PAKISTAN PROTESTS INDIAN VIOLATION OF KASHMIR LINE
[...] (C) Pakistan has lodged an official complaint with the UN against India over an alleged breach of the Kashmir Line of Control (LoC) cease-fire. United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) Deputy Military Observer Brigadier Alexander told DepPolCouns March 24 that Pa [...]
2009-03-27 05:12:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER UN IN PK
09ISLAMABAD659 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MARCH 27, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-27 12:07:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD66 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JANUARY 12, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-12 11:59:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD660FINANCE ADVISOR TARIN AGREES ON WAY AHEAD FOR
[...] (C) Summary: Following interventions from the U.S. and Japan, the Pakistanis have backed off plans to press a $10 billion request for the April 17 Tokyo donors conference and agreed to focus on the $4 billion target established by the IMF. Expressing a desire to "resolve his confusion," Fina [...]
2009-03-27 14:53:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM EAID ECON JA PK
09ISLAMABAD67AZAD JAMMU AND KASHMIR LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY VOTES
[...] (SBU) Summary: While the rest of the world focused on the aftermath of the Mumbai attacks, there was a quiet change of government in the semi-independent area of Pakistan-controlled Kashmir--known as Azad (free) Jammu and Kashmir (AJK). On January 6, the AJK Legislative Assembly approved a no [...]
2009-01-12 14:57:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD671PILOT COMBATANT COMMANDER INITIATIVE FUND SHOWS
[...] (C) Summary: In reftel, Embassy requested a CERP-like fund for Pakistan. We understand this request sparked a lively debate in Washington, mostly regarding the ability of the Embassy to oversee the funds and whether requesting such funds for Pakistan would endanger the far more generous CERP [...]
2009-03-30 07:39:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER MARR PK
09ISLAMABAD672 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MARCH 00, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-30 11:46:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD674ZARDARI BEFORE PARLIAMENT: PROBLEMS, PROMISES, AND
[...] (C) Summary: In his second address to a joint session of parliament, President Asif Zardari won his largest rounds of applause when he supported initiatives of his rival, Nawaz Sharif -- lifting governor's rule in Punjab, political reconciliation, and restoration of the deposed judiciary. Zar [...]
2009-03-30 14:07:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR PTER PK
09ISLAMABAD680 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: March 31, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-31 11:22:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD684 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: APRIL 01, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-01 11:44:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD686ISLAMABAD REFUGEE AFFAIRS WEEKLY ACTIVITY REPORT: MARCH
[...] (U) UNHCR said voluntary repatriation of registered Afghans in Pakistan would be resumed on April 1. This repatriation would be only from Peshawar as the security situation in Balochistan does not allow for repatriation at the moment. Registered Afghans living in the Northwest Frontier Provin [...]
2009-04-02 05:04:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PREF PHUM CA PK
09ISLAMABAD690CONSTRAINTS ON NONPROLIFERATION COOPERATION WITH
[...] (C) Summary. The Government of Pakistan has sought to strengthen its nonproliferation image after the unmasking of the A.Q. Khan network revealed significant gaps in its ability to control and protect its nuclear assets. With substantial U.S. and international assistance, Pakistan has begun [...]
2009-04-02 11:07:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER PARM KNNP PK
09ISLAMABAD691 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: APRIL 02, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-02 11:08:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD707 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: APRIL 03, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-03 11:05:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD711IFTIKHAR CHAUDHRY RETURNS
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-03 13:56:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER PHUM KDEM PK
09ISLAMABAD713PRESSING KARZAI FOR ACCESS TO BUGTI ON SOLECKI CASE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-03 14:40:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV CA UN PK
09ISLAMABAD715IFTIKHAR CHAUDHRY RETURNS
[...] (C) Summary. A little more than two years after former President Musharraf initially fired him, Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry was restored to the bench March 22 by a reluctant President Zardari. The saga of Chaudhry's fall and rise paradoxically demonstrated both the new-foun [...]
2009-04-04 05:25:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETPREL PGOV PTER PHUM KDEM PK
09ISLAMABAD718FINANCE ADVISOR OUTLINES STRATEGY FOR DEPSEC LEW
[...] (C) During an April 1 dinner for Deputy Secretary Lew, Finance Advisor Tareen outlined Pakistan's nine-point agenda for economic development. He recommend the USG focus on poverty alleviation, education and energy as sectors best organized to absorb assistance. Benazir Income Support Progr [...]
2009-04-06 06:48:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER EAID ECON PK
09ISLAMABAD72BOUCHER ENGAGES FARUQUI ON FRIENDS OF PAKISTAN AND
[...] (C) Summary. On January 5, Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher met with Salman Faruqui, Secretary General to the President of Pakistan, to outline a timeline leading to the Friends of Democratic Pakistan meetings and a donor conference. Faruqui and his adv [...]
2009-01-13 11:53:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALEAID ECON EFIN EINV ENRG ETRD PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD720 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: APRIL 06, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-06 10:56:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD723SWAT FLOGGING VIDEO GENERATES OUTRAGE
[...] (C) Summary. Civil society groups launched demonstrations across Pakistan April 4-5 to protest the video-taped flogging by the Taliban of a 17 year-old girl in Swat. Secular politicians condemned the incident, and newly restored Supreme Court Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry called upon the govern [...]
2009-04-06 14:41:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER PHUM PK
09ISLAMABAD724BLUF RELEASES AMCIT JOHN SOLECKI
[...] (C) Summary: On April 4, the Balochistan Liberation United Front (BLUF) released Amcit United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) provincial head John Solecki outside of Quetta. Solecki, who had been kidnapped on February 2, was transported by US military aircraft to Bagram Air Forc [...]
2009-04-06 14:46:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV CA PK
09ISLAMABAD738 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: APRIL 07, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-07 11:19:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD746 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: APRIL 08, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-08 10:46:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD756 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: APRIL 09, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-09 10:55:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD767SMALL STEPS TO RECONCILIATION
[...] (C) Summary: As a conciliatory gesture to the opposition Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N),Prime Minister Yousuf Gilani presented April 10 a parliamentary resolution to endorse the 2006 Charter of Democracy (CoD) and to create a committee to review the repeal of enhanced presidential power [...]
2009-04-10 14:52:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD776BAITULLAH MEHSUD DECLARES WAR
[...] (C) Summary: On April 5, Baitullah Mehsud announced that in retaliation for drone strikes in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and a now five million dollar U.S. bounty on his head, his Taliban would be carrying out two attacks each week in Pakistan. This announcement came after [...]
2009-04-13 01:51:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETPREL PTER PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD779 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: APRIL 13, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-13 09:23:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD78URGENT NEED TO IMPROVE IDP SERVICES
[...] (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph 10. 2. (U) Summary. President Asif Zardari and Chief of Army Staff General Kayani raised with Ambassador the urgent need to provide the internally displaced people (IDPs) in the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) and Federally Administered [...]
2009-01-13 15:05:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PHUM PINR PK PREF PREL PTER
09ISLAMABAD785 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: APRIL 14, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-14 09:51:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD786KARACHI MAYOR WARNS OF TALIBANIZATION, ASKS FOR
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-14 10:06:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER PINR PK
09ISLAMABAD788ZARDARI SIGNS SHARI'A REGULATIONS FOR SWAT
[...] (C) Summary: On April 13, President Zardari signed the proposed Nizam-e-Adl regulations into law, officially extending Shari'a law in Swat and surrounding areas. The approval came after months of pressure from coalition partner Awami National Party (ANP) and also the Pakistani military. The A [...]
2009-04-14 14:19:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD79PAKISTAN TO SHIFT MUMBAI INVESTIGATION TO LAW
[...] (C) Summary: The Ambassador met with Foreign Secretary Bashir on January 12 and President Zardari on January 13 to discuss the ongoing investigation of the Mumbai attacks. Both Zardari and Bashir described the planned law enforcement strategy the GOP had set in motion. The various intelligence [...]
2009-01-13 15:56:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD797 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: APRIL 15, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-15 09:11:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD80MUSHARRAF BEGINS U.S. SPEAKING TOUR
[...] (SBU) Summary: On January 10, former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf departed Islamabad for the United States to visit his brother and to participate in a two-week lecture tour with scheduled stops at the University of Pittsburgh, Stanford University, and the World Affairs Council of West [...]
2009-01-13 16:00:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PTER PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD803 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: APRIL 16, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-16 10:13:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD807GILANI TO KERRY: NO CONDITIONALITIES, NO DRONES
[...] (C) Summary: Codel Kerry met April 13 with PM Gilani. Gilani complained about the conditions recently placed on the House version of the Senator's bill; Kerry said his Senate version would be "very different," and rejected conditions as demeaning. However, he was adamant that metrics would be [...]
2009-04-16 11:18:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINR PTER PK
09ISLAMABAD813 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: APRIL 17, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-17 09:49:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD816RED MOSQUE MULLAH FREED ON BAIL
[...] (C) Summary: On April 17, the Supreme Court released Lal Masjid (Red Mosque) leader Maulana Abdul Aziz on bail. He faces 27 charges of murder, abduction, and forceful occupation of government property. The military operation to retake the Red Mosque from militants in July 2007 left over 100 [...]
2009-04-18 14:07:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD819 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: April 20, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-20 10:19:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD829PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: April 21, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-21 10:12:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD832SPENDING STRATEGICALLY IN PAKISTAN
[...] (C) Summary. This cable conveys a shorter version of the strategy we laid out in the Mission Strategic Plan and how we will implement the President's strategic review. We welcome the additional resources but we are very mindful of the constraints: our own, the GoP's and the international don [...]
2009-04-21 11:41:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER MARR EAID PK
09ISLAMABAD84 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JANUARY 14, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-14 09:39:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD844RECOMMENDATIONS FOR MAY 6-7 TRILATERAL
[...] (SBU) Based on Washington's draft agenda, Post recommends the following format and Pakistani participants for the U.S.-Afghanistan-Pakistan tri-lateral meetings scheduled for May 6-7 in Washington. We will follow up, as requested, with suggestions on deliverables. Foreign Policy Session - [...]
2009-04-22 09:45:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PTER ETRD EAID MOPS PK
09ISLAMABAD847PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: APRIL 22, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-22 13:47:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD856 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: April 23, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-23 09:04:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD858MISSION CONVEYS CONCERN OVER ARRESTED AHMADI TEENS
[...] (C) Summary: Both Embassy and Consulate Lahore have interceded with Pakistani officials and community representatives on behalf of four Ahmadi teenagers arrested on charges of blasphemy for writing the name of the Prophet Mohammed on a latrine wall of a Sunni mosque. Minority Affairs Minister [...]
2009-04-24 07:20:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM PINR PK
09ISLAMABAD867 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: April 24, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-24 12:28:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD87BOUCHER URGES FBI ACCESS FOR MUMBAI-RELATED DETAINEES
[...] (C) Summary. In a January 5 meeting with Assistant Secretary Boucher, Prime Minister Gilani reaffirmed support for cooperation in the Mumbai investigation; Boucher pressed for FBI access to detained suspects in Pakistan. Boucher encouraged expanded information sharing, including through tr [...]
2009-01-15 08:02:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER PK
09ISLAMABAD883 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: APRIL 27, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-27 11:42:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD887DIR: MILITARY OPERATIONS CONTINUE WHILE ACCESS FOR
[...] (C) Summary. On April 26, the Government of Pakistan launched military operations in Lower Dir District, Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) in response to the growing taliban presence in the region and at the request of the NWFP government. The Frontier Corps (FC) claim to have killed approxi [...]
2009-04-27 13:01:00Embassy IslamabadSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PHUM PINR PK PREL PTER
09ISLAMABAD888PREPARING FOR THE LONG HAUL
[...] (C) Summary. As promised, the Pakistani military began anti-militant operations in Lower Dir April 26; the Mission will monitor activities on a regular basis to keep Washington apprised of this positive turn of events. However, based on actions over the past year, we should be prepared for [...]
2009-04-27 13:37:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER MARR EAID PK
09ISLAMABAD894 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: APRIL 28, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-28 08:52:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD899PML-N SEES MISSED OPPORTUNITY FOR POLITICAL
[...] (C) Summary. According to Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) members Ishak Dar and Ahsan Iqbal, Nawaz Sharif was disappointed that President Zardari did not seem to share Prime Minister Gilani's enthusiasm for calling an all-parties conference to work out a united political front on security [...]
2009-04-28 11:18:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER PK
09ISLAMABAD90 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JANUARY 15, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-15 11:23:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD901UPDATE ON CONDITIONS IN MALAKAND DIVISION: DIR,
[...] (C) Summary. In operations in Lower Dir District (Malakand Division, Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP)) on April 27, Frontier Corps/Army reportedly killed over 70 militants, including two major taliban commanders, and regained control over the Maidan valley. UN organizations report that the [...]
2009-04-28 13:13:00Embassy IslamabadSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PHUM PINR PK PREL PTER
09ISLAMABAD911 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: APRIL 29, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-29 10:35:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD912BUNER OPERATIONS CONTINUE WITH REQUEST FOR IDP
[...] (C) Summary. Following several Pakistan Air Force airstrikes on April 28, Pakistani Military ground troops moved into Daggar, the main city within Buner District (Malakand Division, Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP)),early on April 29 and secured the city. During the operations, approximat [...]
2009-04-29 12:49:00Embassy IslamabadSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PHUM PINR PK PREL PTER
09ISLAMABAD917KERRY AND QURESHI PLAN STRATEGY FOR SECURING AID
[...] (C) Summary: Codel Kerry met April 13 with Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi. Senator Kerry and Qureshi focused on the importance of articulating a clear GOP strategy for security and economic growth to both U.S. legislators and other donor countries. Foreign Minister Qureshi planned to [...]
2009-04-30 10:04:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD918MQM: PRINCIPLES AND CONSPIRACIES
[...] (C) Summary: On April 23, Charge met with Karachi-based Muttahida Quami Movement (MQM) leaders Dr. Farooq Sattar and Haider Rizvi to discuss their party's stance against the recently signed Nizam-e-Adl Regulation, their ideas for a GOP response, and the potential for violence in the mega-city [...]
2009-04-30 10:07:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER PINR PK
09ISLAMABAD921 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: APRIL 30, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-30 10:36:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD922MUMBAI PROSECUTION UPDATE: PAKISTAN FILES CHARGE SHEET
[...] (C) Summary: On April 29, the Pakistani Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) filed an interim charge sheet in connection with the Mumbai terror attacks in a Rawalpindi Anti-Terrorism Court. The court has granted the FIA an extension to file its formal charge sheet by May 5; and the trial will commenc [...]
2009-04-30 11:01:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV AE IN PK
09ISLAMABAD926GROPING FOR NATIONAL UNITY
[...] (C) Summary. Pitching the need for national unity to tackle the extremist challenge has become the flavor of the day, but Pakistan's politicians still are focused first and foremost on their own survival. PM Gilani increasingly is aligning himself with Nawaz Sharif through negotiations to [...]
2009-04-30 13:47:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER PK
09ISLAMABAD93PAKISTAN ANNOUNCES TASK FORCE TO INVESTIGATE
[...] (C) Summary: On January 15, Interior Minister Rehman Malik announced a Federal Investigation Agency-led (FIA) task force to investigate the Mumbai attacks of November 2008. Malik emphasized Pakistan's commitment to investigating and prosecuting all the perpetrators of the Mumbai attacks. He [...]
2009-01-15 15:34:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PTER PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD934 SPECIAL MEDIA REACTION - PRESIDENT OBAMA'S NEWS
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-01 09:45:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD935 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MAY 01, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-01 09:47:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD936FOCUSING ON RENEWED IDP ISSUES
[...] (C) Summary. The number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) remains in flux as military operations continue in the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP); post will report specific updates septel. Charge and PO Peshawar have been pressing PM Gilani, the presidency and NWFP Chief Minister Hoti [...]
2009-05-01 11:50:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER PREF PHUM PK
09ISLAMABAD939MALAKAND DIVISION: BUNER OPERATIONS IN FOURTH DAY
[...] (S/NF) Summary. On May 1, Pakistan military operations in Buner District (Malakand Division, Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP)) entered their fourth day. Security forces cut a major militant supply line to the Ambela pass and established a Frontier Corps (FC) headquarters in Daggar on April [...]
2009-05-01 12:39:00Embassy IslamabadSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PHUM PINR PK PREL PTER
09ISLAMABAD940UPDATE ON PAKISTANI IDPS
[...] (SBU) Summary: As military operations continue in Dir and Buner in the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP),access to these areas remains the greatest impediment to the UN and others conducting registration, assessing needs, and delivering aid. Higher internally displaced persons (IDP) estim [...]
2009-05-01 13:19:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PREF PHUM PTER PK
09ISLAMABAD941GOP BRIEFS A NEW STRATCOM PLAN
[...] (C) Summary. In an April 31 meeting with A/DCM and PAO, new Minister of Information and Broadcasting Kaira described the GOP,s planned national public affairs campaign to build public support for the fight against extremism. The plan includes hiring local public relations firms to create ads [...]
2009-05-01 13:20:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID PK
09ISLAMABAD942GOP AGRICULTURE MINISTER SUPPORTS FORMATION OF TRILATERAL
[...] (SBU) AgCouns contacted the Minister of Food and Agriculture Nazar Muhammad Gondal to discuss the agriculture breakout session of the upcoming U.S.-Afghanistan-Pakistan Trilateral Summit in Washington. Minister Gondal confirmed Pakistan's support for the proposed deliverables and agreed to pro [...]
2009-05-02 09:58:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ECON ETRD EAID PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD943MEET THE GOVERNOR-IN-WAITING: ANWAR SAIFULLAH
[...] (C) Summary: Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Senator Anwar Saifullah has accepted President Zardari's request that he serve as the new Governor of the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP). Saifullah is ready to take up his duties immediately, but completion of his appointment has been delayed by [...]
2009-05-02 11:24:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD945PAKISTAN UNLIKELY TO MEET ALL IMF TARGETS BUT IMF RESREP
[...] (SBU) Summary: Pakistan is unlikely to meet all its IMF targets, but Islamabad Resident Representative Paul Ross seemed unconcerned. Ross and noted Pakistani economist Dr. Ashfaque Hassan Khan told Econoffs that Pakistan is unlikely to meet its tax collection and fiscal deficit targets. Ros [...]
2009-05-03 10:17:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDECON ETRD EAID PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD946RECONCILIATION UPDATE
[...] (SBU) Summary: The Pakistan People's Party (PPP) publicly agreed to continue in a coalition with the Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) government in Punjab, but PML-N again politely declined PM Gilani's offer to rejoin the PPP-led government in Islamabad. Awami National Party leader Wali Khan [...]
2009-05-03 10:35:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD947ANP'S WALI KHAN PRAISES MILITARY SUCCESSES
[...] (C) Summary. Awami National Party President Asfundyar Wali Khan told Charge May 3 that he was pleased (for the first time) with vigorous Army/Frontier Corps action against militants in the Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP). GOP forces were moving into Shangla, completing the encirclement [...]
2009-05-03 11:08:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER PK
09ISLAMABAD950 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MAY 04, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-04 10:06:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD958 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MAY 05, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-05 09:03:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD967 UPDATE ON IDP SITUATION IN PAKISTAN
[...] (SBU) Summary: The UN and partner agencies have now set up three IDP camps, two in Mardan and another in Swabi to accommodate a total of 1150 refugee families. All camps are being developed by UNHCR site planners, and WHO and UNICEF are developing water/sanitation and health facilities. As o [...]
2009-05-06 01:16:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV PREF PK AF EAID PREL PINR PTER ECON
09ISLAMABAD971 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MAY 06, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-06 09:29:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD976 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MAY 07, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-07 12:19:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD98 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: JANUARY 16, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-16 11:25:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD980 PAKISTAN MEDIA REACTION: MAY 08, 2009
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-08 09:44:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIEDKMDR KPAO OIIP OPRC PGOV PREL PK
09ISLAMABAD990SWAT -- NO QUICK FIXES
[...] (S/NF) Prime Minister Gilani's May 7 speech announcing the government's intent to "eliminate militants" appears to be the launching point of full scale military operations in Swat. Although Pakistani civilian and military leaders are sounding the right notes about tackling militancy, we should [...]
2009-05-08 11:44:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETPREL PTER PGOV PK
09ISLAMABAD991GILANI DECLARES WAR IN SWAT
[...] (C) Summary: On May 7 in a landmark television and radio address to the nation, Prime Minister Gilani made an impassioned plea to Pakistanis to support decisive military action against the Taliban in Swat and surrounding areas. All political parties except Imran Khan's and the Jamaat-e-Islami [...]
2009-05-08 13:21:00Embassy IslamabadSECRETPREL PTER PGOV PREF PHUM PK
09ISLAMABAD993 UN BRIEFS ON IMPENDING PAKISTAN IDP CRISIS: URGENT NEEDS
[...] (U) This is an action request. See paras. 9 and 10. 2. (SBU) Summary: Pakistan faces an imminent humanitarian crisis. UN agencies now anticipate a total Pakistan IDP population of 1.3 million. This number includes an anticipated outflow of 800,000 from Dir, Buner and Swat Districts. Reli [...]
2009-05-09 02:58:00Embassy IslamabadUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV PREF PK AF EAID PREL PINR PTER ECON
09ISLAMABAD994TREATMENT OF SIKHS BECOMES A BILATERAL ISSUE
[...] (C) Summary: Pakistan's religious minorities face discrimination even in the best of times; the spread of taliban influence and control in the Northwest Frontier Province and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) has made matters worse. Taliban forces have exploited and exacerbated [...]
2009-05-09 08:29:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM PK
09ISLAMABAD996SITUATION IN SWAT AS OF MAY 9
[...] (SBU) Summary. Operations in Swat District continued on May 9 with reports of over 140 militants killed during the day. Press reports indicate that the Pakistan Air Force started aerial assaults in the Swat city of Mingora on the morning of May 9. By the evening, the UN High Commission for R [...]
2009-05-09 12:50:00Embassy IslamabadSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PHUM PINR PK PREL PTER
09ISLAMABAD997CHINA'S GROWING CONCERN OVER U.S. REGIONAL
[...] (C) Summary. In a rare public statement about the U.S., Chinese Ambassador to Pakistan Lou Zhaohui told reporters on May 7 that China is concerned about increasing U.S. influence in the Af-Pak region. He noted that China is cooperating with both Pakistan and the U.S. on counterterrorism and [...]
2009-05-10 10:39:00Embassy IslamabadCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER ETRD PK
09ISTANBUL103ROMA ASSOCIATION PRAISES LOCAL GOVERNMENT, STARTS
[...] (SBU) Summary: Edirne's Roma community enjoys a progressive relationship with the city's municipal authorities, which has helped bring tangible benefits to the community and led to increasing interest among Roma there in participating in party politics. According to Edirne Deputy Governor A [...]
2009-03-12 13:48:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
09ISTANBUL105FACEBOOK IN IRAN: DO YOU KNOW WHO YOUR FRIENDS
[...] (C) Summary: In early February the Iranian regime reportedly unblocked internet access in Iran to social networking sites like Facebook. Since then tens of thousands of Iranians have signed up, according to Iranian contacts, and use the website not only for socializing but also for politica [...]
2009-03-13 07:39:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINS PHUM ECPS IR
09ISTANBUL118WITH ELECTION IN THE BAG, SISLI MAYOR AIMS HIGHER
[...] In a meeting earlier this week with PolOffs, Mustafa Sarigul, Mayor of Istanbul's Sisli District, focused more on his national ambitions than he did on the local elections scheduled for March 29. With polls showing some 80 percent of the District supporting him for a third term, Sarigul can [...]
2009-03-23 10:56:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
09ISTANBUL12NGO LEADERS: WOMEN'S RIGHTS THREATENED BY GROWING
[...] (SBU) Summary: Women NGO leaders gathered for lunch hosted by the Consul General on December 17, 2008, commented on the growing conservatism on the part of the Turkish government (GOT) over the past year which ultimately impaired women's rights. According to the leaders present, a tendency t [...]
2009-01-07 14:58:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREF OSCE TU PHUM
09ISTANBUL121RELIGIOUS GROUPS AND AKP VIE TO WIN THE HEARTS AND
[...] (C) Summary. A visiting USG research group met with intellectuals and think tanks in Istanbul on March 5-9 to discuss the developing relationship between the government of Turkey (GOT) and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). Various observers told them the religiously conservative Turkis [...]
2009-03-24 15:48:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL OSCE IZ TU
09ISTANBUL124COLUMNISTS DEBATE THE FUTURE OF TURKEY UNDER AKP
[...] (U) Summary. During a lively luncheon at the Consul General's Residence, four senior Turkish columnists exchanged views and barbs about Turkey's future course. While all agreed that Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) will be setting the course, there was great disagreement [...]
2009-03-27 11:56:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALKPAO ECON TU PGOV PHUM PREL OSCE
09ISTANBUL125MINORITY MAYORAL CANDIDATE OPENS A DOOR
[...] (SBU) Summary. For the first time in 50 years, Turkey has an Armenian mayoral candidate. During a mid-March meeting, Democratic Left Party (DSP) candidate Yayla Karabet readily acknowledged that he was selected to appeal to the minority population on the Prince's Islands in the Sea of Marmara. [...]
2009-03-27 11:56:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL OSCE TU
09ISTANBUL131A LEADING IRANIAN ANALYST'S ADVICE ON ROXANA
[...] (S/NOFORN) Summary: A leading Iranian analyst shared views with us on March 26 on Iranian-American journalist Roxane Saberi's detention, US-Iran engagement, and Iran's presidential elections. Regarding Saberi's detention, he said if the USG follows the model used in 2007 in response to Hale [...]
2009-03-31 10:20:00Consulate IstanbulSECRETPREL PGOV PINS PHUM IR
09ISTANBUL132TREASURY OFFICIALS VISIT ISTANBUL
[...] SUMMARY: (SBU) US Treasury Department officials Joanna Veltri and Jason Weiss had a series of meetings in Istanbul on March 19th & March 20th with financial analysts and private sector representatives. They discussed Turkey's worrisome financing needs, prospects for an IMF agreement and the [...]
2009-03-31 14:06:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ENRG PGOV PHUM TU
09ISTANBUL137IRAN/NARCOTICS: ENGAGING IRAN ON COUNTER-NARCOTIC ISSUES IN TURKEY
[...] No summary [...]
2009-04-10 11:57:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALIR PGOV PINS PREL SNAR TU
09ISTANBUL138US-IRAN RELATIONS: "BEWARE THE SPOILERS"
[...] (S) Summary: Several contacts who closely watch Iranian politics have cautioned that in the wake of recent positive "atmospheric" developments in US-Iran relations, Washington should take extra care not to "over-extend" its efforts to reach out to the regime. The remaining two months before [...]
2009-04-10 13:43:00Consulate IstanbulSECRETPREL PGOV PINS TU IR
09ISTANBUL14US-IRAN RELATIONS: CONTACTS IN TURKEY AND IRAN
[...] (C) Summary: Iranian contacts and local experts have cautioned it would be a mistake if the USG, as it considers whether, when, and how to engage Iran, withheld such an approach in an effort to impact the outcome of Iran's elections, in this case against Ahmadinejad. One expert argued that [...]
2009-01-09 11:13:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINS TU IR
09ISTANBUL140ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE CONSIDERS TURKS TOLERANT
[...] (C) Summary. During an April 10th meeting, the Ecumenical Patriarchate's press relations representative, Father Dositheos, explained the continuing problems the Patriarchate faces to Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) and Representative Chris Carney (D-PA). The list of challenges -- including the n [...]
2009-04-15 15:32:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM TU GR OSCE
09ISTANBUL142CHECHEN REFUGEE CONDITIONS IN ISTANBUL
[...] (C) Summary. The murder in Istanbul between October 2008 and February 2009 of three Chechens with alleged terrorist ties prompted speculation by news outlets and local Chechen refugees that Russia or Chechen governor Ramzan Kadyrov might be involved. Contacts also reported on the difficult [...]
2009-04-21 13:51:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV TU OSCE RS
09ISTANBUL151SISLI MAYOR SARIGUL READY TO LAUNCH NEW PARTY IN
[...] (SBU) Summary: Mustafa Sarigul, recently re-elected for a third term as mayor of the Istanbul municipality of Sisli, voiced absolute confidence that he will be the Prime Minister of Turkey following the 2011 elections. Prime Minister Recep Erdogan will not win a third term, according to Sarig [...]
2009-05-04 06:28:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALCY PGOV PREL PHUM OSCE TU
09ISTANBUL155AUTHORIZED MAY DAY DEMOSTRATORS MARCH ON TAKSIM
[...] No summary [...]
2009-05-04 14:14:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIEDTU PGOV ELAB PHUM
09ISTANBUL169MIXED MESSAGES: RESPONDING TO HOMOSEXUALITY IN
[...] (U) Summary. Turkey is confronting conflicting cultural and moral ideals as it continues down the road of modernity. On May 14, daily "Milliyet" reported that a moderate columnist from "Zaman" linked homosexuality with massacres in Iraq and Afghanistan in a televised statement during which he [...]
2009-05-16 07:46:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PGOV PREL TU OSCE
09ISTANBUL17EUR/SE DEPUTY DIRECTOR BRINK IN ISTANBUL MEETINGS
[...] (U) Summary. On December 18, EUR/SE Deputy Director Bridget Brink ended a week-long visit to Turkey by meeting with officials of the Turkish business association MUSIAD, the press relations officer of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, and prominent newspaper columnists. The overall theme of the [...]
2009-01-11 09:35:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PREL TU EINV IR AA
09ISTANBUL170ERGENEKON: IT ALL DEPENDS ON WHERE YOU SIT
[...] (C) "Ergenekon" remains an all-encompassing term after nearly a year of indictments, investigations, arrests, and search warrants. There seem to be as many perceptions of the reality of Ergenekon as there are agendas in the Turkish domestic political realm. We spoke with several thinkers and [...]
2009-05-16 08:02:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
09ISTANBUL175PROMOTING "CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN IRAN"
[...] (C) Summary: A Turkish NGO that promotes "corporate social responsibility" (CSR) principles in Turkey has briefed us on its efforts to train an Iranian CSR NGO to survey 100 Iranian companies on the extent to which they implement CSR principles in Iran. Not surprisingly the initial results [...]
2009-05-20 15:16:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALECON PGOV PREL IR TU
09ISTANBUL180SURPRISE TURKISH ELECTION RESULTS PUT SKEPTICAL
[...] (U) Summary: The relatively low support for the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the March 29 local election caught many political watchers off-guard, which calls into question the validity of public opinion surveys in Turkey. Only one published poll * from A&G Research -- correct [...]
2009-05-22 13:02:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV TU SOPN
09ISTANBUL183IRANIAN ENVIRONMENTAL EXPERTS ENCOURAGE US HELP TO
[...] (C) Summary: Several Iranian environmental experts recently decried to us the lack of attention and resources the GOI devotes to water-related issues in Iran. They urged the USG to reach out to Iran indirectly, through UNDP or academic channels, to offer a "cooperative partnership" (i.e., US [...]
2009-05-27 14:20:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALECON EAGR PREL PGOV PINS UNDP IR TU
09ISTANBUL184ROMA NEARLY CLEARED OUT OF SULUKULE
[...] (SBU)SUMMARY: Only about 10-15 houses remain in Sulukule, the primarily Roma community in the Istanbul district of Fatih. For over two years, houses in Sulukule have been demolished to make way for a redevelopment project that aims to replace the substandard housing with modern upscale townho [...]
2009-05-28 07:02:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIEDOSCE PGOV PHUM TU
09ISTANBUL189IRANIAN ELECTIONS AND MEDIA: "PRESS TV FOR
[...] (C/NOFORN) Summary and Comment: The Istanbul correspondent for Iran's "Press TV" news channel (please strictly protect) told us that a sizable majority of Press TV reporters, editors, and producers openly support Iranian presidential candidate Mousavi and oppose Ahmadinejad. Despite Press TV [...]
2009-05-29 15:17:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPGOV PREL PINS KDEM IR TU
09ISTANBUL198IRAN/ELECTIONS: A TURKISH PROFESSOR'S INFORMAL
[...] (C) Summary: A Turkish political science professor plans to visit Iran with several colleagues June 9-13 on the pretense of holding academic exchanges with counterparts at Tehran and Esfahan universities, but for the primary purpose of visiting Iranian polling stations and observing the cond [...]
2009-06-04 15:54:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINS KDEM PREL IR TU
09ISTANBUL20AN IRANIAN FOREIGN POLICY EXPERT CRITIQUES U.S.
[...] (C) Summary: An Iranian expert with a regime-affiliated think-tank who participated in a "study tour" observing U.S. presidential elections has written a draft paper comparing and critiquing U.S. and Iranian election procedures. The paper will be published on a Turkish university website in [...]
2009-01-14 07:22:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINS KDEM TU IR
09ISTANBUL206IRAN/ELECTIONS: A LEADING IRANIAN ANALYST PREDICTS
[...] (S) Summary: A leading Tehran-based economic and political consultant predicts that Mir-Hossein Mousavi will win the Iranian elections in a June 19 run-off against Ahmadinejad. His firm's most recent polling shows Mousavi receiving over 50 percent support from Iranians likely to vote, with [...]
2009-06-09 13:50:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINS PREL KDEM IR TU
09ISTANBUL207IRAN/ELECTIONS: "THE MOST DYNAMIC WEEK IN IRANIAN
[...] (S) Summary: Former Iranian MFA Director General Kia Tabatabaee (please protect) told us June 10 that not since the 1979 revolution has he seen such a dynamic week in Iranian politics. He said the televised debates (especially the airing of corruption charges and personal attacks),the mass [...]
2009-06-10 13:46:00Consulate IstanbulSECRETPGOV KDEM PINS PREL IR TU
09ISTANBUL210AUTHOR ON TRIAL FOR EXPOSING SECURITY FAILURES IN
[...] (U) The trial of Turkish journalist Nedim Sener of the daily Milliyet newspaper for "violating the secrecy of communication" was opened on June 10 in the Istanbul 2nd Penal Court of First Instance. The indictment prepared by the Istanbul public prosecutor asserts that in his book, titled "Hran [...]
2009-06-12 08:06:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
09ISTANBUL22RAISING CONCERNS WITH TURKISH BANKS ABOUT IRAN'S
[...] (C) Summary: We met with representative from the Turkish Bankers' Association and several Turkish banks to highlight our ongoing concerns about Iran's deceptive financial practices and urge them to undertake more rigorous scrutiny of their relationships with Iranian banks. We also shared inf [...]
2009-01-15 06:50:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALEFIN KNNP PREL PGOV TU IR
09ISTANBUL220IRAN/ELECTIONS: "AN IRGC COUP" NOW FACES THREE
[...] (S) Summary: A former IRGC captain maintains that the Iranian regime's claim of an Ahmadinejad presidential victory was "an IRGC coup." He claims to have been told by current IRGC contacts (hinting that they are colonels or brigadiers) that once the IRGC saw on election day that that Mousavi [...]
2009-06-17 14:24:00Consulate IstanbulSECRETPINS PGOV KDEM PREL IT TU
09ISTANBUL231HALKI SEMINARY MERELY ONE STEP TOWARD ENSURING
[...] (C) Summary. Closed since 1971, Halki Seminary is touted by the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul and Greek Orthodox communities in the United States as being key to the survival of the Patriarchate. Turkey's remaining community of 2,500 Greek Orthodox is not large enough to maintain the Pat [...]
2009-06-23 13:25:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV OSCE TU GR
09ISTANBUL243(C) ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE DECRIES RUSSIAN
[...] (C) Summary: Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew and representatives from the Greek Orthodox Church in America have expressed concerns that the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC),backed by the Russian Government, is interfering increasingly in Ecumenical Church Affairs with the ambition of moving t [...]
2009-07-02 13:00:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALOSCE RU TU PGOV PREL PHUM GR
09ISTANBUL244POST-ELECTION IRAN: "THE SYSTEM IS NO LONGER
[...] (S/NF) Summary: Former Iranian MFA Director General Kia Tabatabaee, recently returned from Iran, described how he thinks Ahmadinejad's campaign "stole" the elections, including printing 20 million extra ballots for ballot-box stuffing. He predicted the regime will now work hard to secure in [...]
2009-07-02 14:56:00Consulate IstanbulSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PINS KDEM PREL IR TU
09ISTANBUL261S/P DIRECTOR SLAUGHTER RAISES HALKI SEMINARY WITH
[...] (C) Summary: Visiting S/P Director met June 25 in Istanbul with the Ecumenical Patriarch, Bartholomew I, to discuss religious freedom and interfaith dialogue in Turkey. The Patriarch again praised President Obama's April 6 Ankara speech remarks on the need to re-open the Halki Seminary and we [...]
2009-07-10 16:00:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM TU
09ISTANBUL268TURKEY INPUT FOR OSCE HUMAN DIMENSION MEETING
[...] (U) Summary. Mission Turkey proposes including the following points in the statements prepared by the US mission to the OSCE for the Human Dimension Implementation Meeting in the fall of 2009. Tolerance and Non-Discrimination --------------------------------- 2. (U) Officials in Turkey [...]
2009-07-15 07:50:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIEDOSCE PHUM PGOV KDEM
09ISTANBUL269KOC EXECUTIVES ASSESS TURKEY'S ECONOMY
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Koc executives expressed concern over the Turkish economy to Ambassador Jeffrey and CG Wiener in a July 9 meeting. While the situation has improved since earlier this year and Turkey is relatively better-positioned than its peers, consumer confidence remains low and must reboun [...]
2009-07-15 08:09:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON EFIN PGOV TU
09ISTANBUL271ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH OPTIMISTIC ABOUT HALKI
[...] (C) Summary. During a July 9 meeting, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew (EP) explained the Patriarchate's lack of communication with the GOT on Halki and briefed the Ambassador on the positive July 4 - 6 visit of Russian Patriarch Kirill to Turkey. According to the EP, the GOT has not communi [...]
2009-07-15 08:50:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV OSCE TU GR RU
09ISTANBUL28TURKISH INTELLECTUALS WANT FREEDOM TO DISCUSS
[...] No summary [...]
2009-01-16 13:56:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL TU
09ISTANBUL287IRANIAN REFUGEES IN TURKEY: NO SIGN YET OF A
[...] (C) Summary: In recent meetings with UNHCR and ICMC representatives in Turkey we learned that neither organization has seen a significant surge, yet, of Iranians coming to Turkey to request asylum or refugee status as a result of the post-election crackdown in Iran. However, UNHCR officials [...]
2009-07-28 11:16:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREF PGOV PREL PINS IR TU AF
09ISTANBUL290IRAN/ELECTIONS: A TURKISH ELECTION EXPERT SAYS
[...] (S) Summary: A Turkish professor who informally observed Iran's June 12 elections told us he believes Ahmadinejad really won a majority of votes. He believed Ahmadinejad's campaign added an additional four million fraudulent votes to pad the margin of victory, but claims Ahmadinejad would ha [...]
2009-07-28 15:18:00Consulate IstanbulSECRETPREL PGOV PINS KDEM IR TU
09ISTANBUL310ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH TO TRAVEL TO THE U.S.
[...] (SBU) Summary. Incoming and outgoing DPOs made an introductory call on the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I on August 4 to discuss developments with Halki and the Patriarch's upcoming travel to the United States. End Summary. 2. (SBU) The Patriarch shared that he would be in the Unite [...]
2009-08-11 14:32:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL GR TU OSCE PGOV
09ISTANBUL314BACKGROUND TO ATTACK ON CHRISTIAN IN ISTANBUL
[...] (SBU) Summary. On August 3, a Christian Turk was attacked in Kadikoy, Istanbul, by an acquaintance who recently completed military service. The twenty-minute standoff ended when police officers threatened to open fire. The attacker eventually released the victim after calling him a "missionar [...]
2009-08-14 05:26:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM OSCE TU
09ISTANBUL323PM ERDOGAN RAISES HOPES OF MINORITY COMMUNITY
[...] (SBU) Summary. On August 15, in an unprecedented event, Prime Minister Erdogan spoke to 150 business, community, and religious leaders during a lunch on Buyukada Island, also attended by the Ecumenical Patriarch. Prominent human rights lawyer Kezban Hatimi, the CHP Mayor of the Princes' Islan [...]
2009-08-17 13:54:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV TU OSCE GR
09ISTANBUL326PATRIARCHATE,S READOUT OF PM ERDOGAN AND PATRIARCH
[...] Summary. (C) Press officer for the Ecumenical Patriarchate Father Dositheos on August 18 elaborated to poloff about the August 15 conversation between Prime Minister Erdogan and the Ecumenical Patriarch (Ref A). Dositheos reported that during his visit to the Greek sites on the island (the fir [...]
2009-08-19 15:39:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV TU GR OSCE
09ISTANBUL336(C) IRAN: A XXXXX CONTACT SHARES VIEWS FROM A RAFSANJANI BUSINESS ALLY ON KHAMENEI'S CANCER AND RAFSANJANI'S NEXT STEPS
[...] (C) Summary: A XXXXXXXXXXXX businessman who represents the XXXXXXXXXXXX company XXXXXXXXXXXX shared with us a discussion he recently had with a XXXXXXXXXXXX he described as close to Rafsanjani. The XXXXXXXXXXXX claimed Rafsanjani told him Supreme Leader Khamenei has terminal leukemia and is expecte [...]
2009-08-28 14:09:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINS ECON ETRD IR TU
09ISTANBUL343IRAN: MOUSAVI CAMPAIGN ACTIVISTS RECOUNT
[...] (C) Summary: Two Mousavi campaign activists who recently came to Turkey to avoid re-arrest in Iran described their experiences in detention and told us that: the regime is obsessively afraid of former President Khatami, but less so of Mousavi and Rafsanjani; that the purpose of the "show trial [...]
2009-09-10 06:06:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPHUM PGOV PINS PREL IR TU
09ISTANBUL344FLASH FLOOD AFTERMATH
[...] (U) During the evening of September 8 and the morning of September 9, flash floods in Istanbul and surrounding areas left 31 confirmed dead, nine missing, and damages that may exceed USD 100 million. Affected areas were Tekirdag, a province west of Istanbul, and the western Istanbul neighborh [...]
2009-09-11 05:11:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYOSCE PGOV PHUM PREL TU
09ISTANBUL345IRAN: TURKISH EXPERTS SEE KHAMENEI IN CHARGE,
[...] (C) Summary: We recently pulsed several leading Turkish think-tank experts for latest views on developments in Iran and the Iranian regime's view of engagement with the international community. The common themes we heard were: Supreme Leader Khamenei remains in firm control of the regime, su [...]
2009-09-11 13:38:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINS TU IR
09ISTANBUL346CONGRESSIONAL STUDY GROUP GETS BROAD VIEW OF
[...] (SBU) Summary. A Congressional Study Group arranged by the Association of Former Members of Congress met with leadership from the Jewish Community, Armenian Archbishop, analyst Hugh Pope, Kurdish intellectual Umit Firat and GOT EU Affairs Minister Egemen Bagis between September 1-3. Both Jewish [...]
2009-09-11 13:40:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV TU AR GR CY OSCE
09ISTANBUL350TURKISH ARMENIANS RELATE HOPE FOR PROGRESS IN
[...] (SBU) Summary. During a meeting on September 4, Armenian Archbishop and acting Patriarch Aram Atesyan shared with visiting Ambassador Yovanovitch his optimism about the Turkish-Armenian rapprochement despite his conviction that Turkey will not change its stance on the events of 1915. He expl [...]
2009-09-14 08:52:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM OSCE AR TU
09ISTANBUL351ISLAM, AKP, HEADSCARVES, FETHULLAH GULEN, AND THE
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-14 12:04:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALKISL PGOV PREL TU
09ISTANBUL352IRAN: REGIME PRESSURE REACHING SOME ISTANBUL
[...] (S) Several Istanbul-based contacts of ConGen Istanbul's NEA Iran Watcher have separately cautioned us in the past week that they been asked (or warned) by Iranian officials to cease contact with "American diplomats asking questions about Iran." In one case, a key contact -- XXXXXXXXXXXX-- i [...]
2009-09-15 09:52:00Consulate IstanbulSECRETPINS PREL PGOV PINR IR TU
09ISTANBUL357ISLAM, AKP, HEADSCARVES, FETHULLAH GULEN, AND THE
[...] (SBU). SUMMARY AND INTRODUCTION. A wide range of our contacts dismissed the notion that Turkey is at risk of becoming an Islamic Republic. Their consensus is that the political system is flexible enough to accommodate pious Turks, growing political activism. Though this activism will contin [...]
2009-09-17 14:25:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALKISL PGOV PREL TU
09ISTANBUL367IRAN/ECONOMY: AN IRANIAN NGO REPORT CRITIQUES
[...] (C) Summary: A Turkish NGO (CSR-Turkey) is helping a sister NGO in Iran (CSR-Iran) examine how Iranian businesses implement, and whether the Iranian regime supports, "corporate social responsibility" practices in the workplace. CSR-Turkey has shared CSR-Iran's draft "Iran country report", b [...]
2009-09-29 13:00:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALECON PGOV PHUM EFIN PREL IR TU
09ISTANBUL37COMMENTATOR TALKS ABOUT THE FUTURE OF DEMOCRATIC
[...] Summary. In a recent discussion with diplomats and media representatives, professor of political science and well-regarded newspaper columnist Sahin Alpay predicted that Turkey will achieve democratic consolidation with or without EU support, and offered a broad apologia for the lackluster p [...]
2009-01-21 14:15:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
09ISTANBUL370IRAN/RELIGIOUS FREEDOM: ASSYRIAN PENTACOSTAL
[...] (C) Summary: According to the pastor of the largest Protestant Evangelical Church in Turkey (who also oversees the global church's evangelical missions in the Middle East),the Iranian Majles's Assyrian community representative, Jonathan Betkolia, asked an Iranian court in March 2009 to clos [...]
2009-09-30 13:16:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PINS PGOV TU IR
09ISTANBUL373ECHR DECISION COULD OPEN FLOOD OF PROPERTY CASES
[...] (U) Summary: The European Court of Human Rights has handed down a ruling against Turkey in a case of property rights for Greek citizens and inherited property in Turkey. The ECHR determined that the confiscation of the Greek citizen's property by the Treasury was illegal not only according to [...]
2009-10-01 16:20:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL PHUM OSCE GR TU
09ISTANBUL376BAHA'I COMMUNITY REPORTS IMPROVEMENTS, STILL SEEK
[...] (SBU) Summary. On September 23, leadership of the Baha'i community in Turkey shared with us their close collaboration with the government, the reduction in the number of assaults and harassment, and the community's remaining request to be recognized, at least informally, as a religion by the [...]
2009-10-02 11:09:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
09ISTANBUL377DEPUTY CHIEF TURKISH NATIONAL POLICE ARRESTED IN
[...] (SBU) An Istanbul court last week ordered the arrest of Emin Arslan, Deputy Chief of the Turkish National Police (TNP) for Organized Crime and Kidnapping for alleged ties with "drug baron" Habib Kanat. Newly appointed Istanbul Police Chief Huseyin Capkin was reportedly behind the recent anti- [...]
2009-10-02 12:07:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM TU
09ISTANBUL38JEWISH COMMUNITY OF TURKEY: GOVERNMENT'S GAZA
[...] (C) Summary. Three weeks of grassroots demonstrations throughout Turkey against the humanitarian crisis caused by Israeli actions in Gaza (refs A-C) have triggered anxiety within the Jewish Community of Turkey. Jewish Community president Sylvio Ovadya and vice president Lina Filiba shared th [...]
2009-01-21 14:34:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL TU OSCE
09ISTANBUL384RUSSIAN THREATENS UKRAINE COULD BE LEFT IN THE
[...] Summary: On October 4, Under Secretary of State for Economics, Energy, and Agricultural Affairs Robert Hormats met with Russian Minister of Finance Alexi Kudrin during the IMF/World Bank annual meetings in Istanbul. The two discussed a range of economic issues, including Russia's role in the [...]
2009-10-06 15:52:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALECON PGOV OSCE TU RU UR
09ISTANBUL39ACTING ARMENIAN PATRIARCH SHARES HESITANT HOPE
[...] (C) Summary. Acting Armenian patriarch Archbishop Atesyan explained the security threats facing Istanbul's Armenian community had decreased significantly since the murder of prominent Turkish Armenian journalist Hrant Dink two years earlier. But, during a courtesy call with DAS Matthew Bryz [...]
2009-01-22 13:55:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PHUM OSCE TU AM
09ISTANBUL394IRAN-TURKEY COMMERCE: WARM FUZZIES AND COLD FACTS
[...] (C) Summary: Despite a spate of recent Iran-Turkey trade conferences and visits, bilateral trade volume in 2009 is significantly down: USD 2.92 billion in the first seven months of 2009, down 38% compared to the same period in 2008. Many experts suggest the global financial downturn and low [...]
2009-10-15 05:35:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD EFIN PREL PINS PGOV IR TU
09ISTANBUL398USAID AND TIKA PUSH FOR TRILATERAL COOPERATION
[...] (SBU) Summary. In an October 6 meeting on the sidelines of the IMF/WB summit with the leadership of Turkey's aid and development organization, TIKA, the members of the USAID delegation discussed food security in Central Asia and Africa. They also discussed opportunities for trilateral coopera [...]
2009-10-16 13:34:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PHUM OSCE TU UZ
09ISTANBUL40311TH DINK TRIAL HEARING: A CALL FOR FILES FROM
[...] (SBU) Summary. At the eleventh hearing of the Dink murder trial on October 12, attended by Istanbul PolOff, the Dink family attorneys requested that Istanbul's 14th Heavy Penal Court consider files from the Ergenekon indictments pertaining to a clandestine organization whose alleged members [...]
2009-10-22 16:59:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL PGOV TU AR OSCE
09ISTANBUL404JEWISH COMMUNITY CONCERNED, BUT NO INCIDENTS YET
[...] (C) Summary. The beginning of television series "Separation" (Ayrilik) aired weekly on state-run TRT 1 starting October 13th inspired condemnation and concern from Israel and the Jewish community in Turkey. Community Vice Presidents Lina Filiba and Daniel Navarro met with the Consul General [...]
2009-10-22 16:59:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPHUM PREL PGOV OSCE TU IS
09ISTANBUL405ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH: ERDOGAN THE BEST POSSIBLE
[...] (C) Summary. The Ecumenical Patriarch joined the Ambassador and Istanbul Consul General for dinner October 15, five days before the Patriarch's departure for the United States. As in previous meetings, the Patriarch praised PM Erdogan as the best option available for Turkey's minority populati [...]
2009-10-23 13:13:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL GR OSCE TU
09ISTANBUL408INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS COMMUNITY VOICES GROWING
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-27 06:36:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON EINV PHUM TU
09ISTANBUL41ACTING ARMENIAN PATRIARCH HOPEFUL FOR RETURN OF
[...] (SBU) Summary. During a January 22 courtesy call by Ambassador Jeffrey, acting Armenian patriarch Archbishop Atesyan emphasized that the Armenian Turkish community is encouraged by the warming of relations between the Government of Armenia and the Government of Turkey (GOT). Atesyan noted th [...]
2009-01-26 13:33:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPHUM PREL OSCE PGOV TU AM
09ISTANBUL421AHMADINEJAD IN ISTANBUL
[...] (C) Summary: Turkey and Iran have actively courted each other in recent months, including Foreign Ministerial bilats in August, September, and early November, Erdogan's October trip to Iran, and Ahmadinejad's November 8-9 Istanbul visit. Ahmadinejad came for the OIC Summit, but also to furthe [...]
2009-11-10 17:12:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON KNNP OIC TU IR
09ISTANBUL425A TURKEY-IRAN BUSINESS COUNCIL EXECUTIVE URGES
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A TURKEY-IRAN BUSINESS COUNCIL BOARD MEMBER TOLD US THAT TRYING TO DO BUSINESS WITH IRAN HAS BECOME INTOLERABLE. HE SAID THIS IS BECAUSE IRAN'S ISLAMIC REVOLUTIONARY GUARD CORPS (IRGC) IS MUSCLING OUT OTHER PARTNERS; IRAN REFUSES TO LOWER CUSTOMS DUTIES; BANK MELLAT IS UNRELIABL [...]
2009-11-13 18:10:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALECON ETRD PREL PGOV PINS TU IR
09ISTANBUL429SISLI MAYOR SARIGUL BROADENING ELECTORAL BASE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Mustafa Sarigul, mayor of Istanbul's Sisli District, remains on track to launch his political party, the Turkey Change Movement (Turkiye Degisim Hareketi, or TDH),in January 2010 and will make a bid to oust Prime Minister Erdogan in the 2011 election. In separate, recent meetings [...]
2009-11-19 11:39:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
09ISTANBUL432READOUT ON ECUMENICAL PATRIARCH'S "SUCCESSFUL"
[...] (C) Summary. A close advisor who accompanied the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew on his October 20 - November 6 trip to the United States provided us with a debriefing of the trip in which the Patriarch attended an environmental symposium, held services in New York and Washington D.C. and me [...]
2009-11-24 07:52:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL OSCE GR TU
09ISTANBUL434HALKI AND PATRIARCHAL SUCCESSION
[...] (C) Summary. Echoing statements made earlier by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the U.S.-based spokesperson for the Ecumenical Patriarchate on November 14 reiterated to poloff that Turkey's remaining community of 2,500 Greek Orthodox alone is not large enough to sustain the Patriarchate. The [...]
2009-11-27 09:31:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALOSCE PGOV PHUM PREL GR TU
09ISTANBUL440TURKEY-IRAN RELATIONS: MOTIVATIONS, LIMITATIONS,
[...] (C) Recent discussions with Turkish and Iranian think-tank, business, and political activist contacts on the issue of Turkey-Iran relations reveal a broad consensus that: (1) Turkey pursues closer relations with Iran out of desires for regional stability and conflict avoidance, recognition of [...]
2009-12-04 12:36:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINS ECON ETRD KNNP TU IR
09ISTANBUL456ALEVIS WITHOUT A PARTY
[...] (SBU) Summary. The definition of Turkish Alevism varies greatly, as do the cultural and political objectives of the rainbow of Alevi organizations in the country. Three significant Alevi organizations/federations share only two demands: official GOT recognition of Alevi places of worship ("c [...]
2009-12-14 13:02:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIEDOSCE PGOV PHUM PREL TU
09ISTANBUL457IRAN-TURKEY FINANCE: IS BANK CLOSES REMAINING BANK
[...] (SBU) A representative from Turkiye Is Bank, one of Turkey's largest private banks, contacted ConGen Istanbul on December 14 to report that it closed Iranian Bank Mellat's USD account at Is Bank as of November 20, 2009. Our Is Bank interlocutor also told us that the bank closed Iranian Bank S [...]
2009-12-14 16:16:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALEFIN ECON PREL PGOV TU IR
09ISTANBUL461IRAN/CULTURE: SO YOU WANT TO BE A ROCK AND ROLL
[...] (SBU) Summary: An Iranian rock band described to us on December 8-9 Tehran's "small but crazy" underground club scene, where drugs are cheap and easy to find, creative expression is at its most free, and participants are among Iran's most tech-savvy citizens. They said the regime's fierce po [...]
2009-12-16 14:53:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PINS SOCI TU IR
09ISTANBUL464PATRIARCH,S "60 MINUTES" INTERVIEW CREATES A STIR
[...] (C) Summary. A harsh media buzz continues to reverberate over the Patriarch's December 20 comments in the "60 Minutes" program that he feels "crucified" as a member of the Greek Orthodox community in Turkey. The program focused on the shrinking number of Christians in the Middle East, includ [...]
2009-12-22 08:14:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL GR TU OSCE
09ISTANBUL466SURVEY SHOWS HIGH LEVELS OF RELIGIOSITY AND
[...] (C) Summary. Sabanci University political scientist Ali Carkoglu, together with Ersin Kalaycioglu, reported new research findings on religiosity in Turkey under the framework of the International Social Survey Program (ISSP) that indicate a high level of religiosity among Turks and high levels [...]
2009-12-24 07:56:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPGOV KIRF TU
09ISTANBUL467PATRIARCHATE FEELS SECURE BUT DEFENSIVE
[...] (SBU) Summary. The Ecumenical Patriarchate's press and public relations representative Father Dositheos told poloff on December 23 that while they are hard-pressed to explain the Patriarch's controversial use of the term "to feel crucified" in the "60 Minutes" program aired on December 20, t [...]
2009-12-28 05:58:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALOSCE PGOV PHUM PREL TU GR
09ISTANBUL47IRAN/DIPLOMACY: FORMER IRANIAN MFA DG URGES
[...] (C) Summary: Kia Tabatabaee, a former Iranian MFA Director General now working for the "Developing Eight" (D8) organization in Istanbul, told us that Iran awaits US steps towards engagement. He urged the US and EU3 to put aside the nuclear issue "for a few months" and cooperate on regional i [...]
2009-01-29 11:59:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINS IR TU
09ISTANBUL48SECOND ANNIVERARY OF HRANT DINK'S MURDER,
[...] (SBU) Summary. Consul General and other consulate officers attended a number of memorial events commemorating the second anniversary of Hrant Dink's murder in Istanbul on January 19, 2007. During a January 22 courtesy call by Ambassador Jeffrey, Hrant Dink's widow Rakel and family lawyer Feth [...]
2009-01-29 14:47:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIEDPHUM PREL OSCE TU PGOV
09ISTANBUL50GREEK ECUMENICAL PATRIARCHATE: DISILLUSIONMENT
[...] (SBU) Summary. During a January 22 courtesy call by Ambassador Jeffrey, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I requested the Ambassador's help in addressing the Patriarchate's problems with the government of Turkey (GOT). He expressed his best wishes for President Obama and his hope that the new a [...]
2009-01-30 09:31:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREF PHUM TU OSCE
09ISTANBUL57ISTANBUL PREPARES TO GREET THE WORLD AT THE FIFTH
[...] (SBU) Summary and Comment: Over 20,000 people, including many heads of state, are expected to attend the 5th World Water Forum (WWF) in Istanbul on March 16-22. The WWF is the premier international water meeting, held once every three years, and a prime venue to showcase U.S. commitment and [...]
2009-02-03 13:06:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR ENRG KPAO PGOV TU
09ISTANBUL68TURKEY: HIDDEN ARMENIANS AND THE ROLE OF THE
[...] (C) Summary. Acting Armenian patriarch Archbishop Aram Atesyan estimates there are 110,000 ethnic Armenians in Turkey including Armenian Turks and illegal Armenian migrant workers. He would put the number of those of Armenian descent in Turkey much higher -- nearly 2 million -- given compulsor [...]
2009-02-19 11:01:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
09ISTANBUL70CHP,S CORRUPTION FIGHTER TARGETS ISTANBUL MAYORAL
[...] (SBU) Summary: CHP,s mayoral candidate for Istanbul, Kemal Kilicdaroglu, told us he will continue to focus on corruption within the AKP, since this is the primary problem facing Turkey today -- which exacerbates the growing economic crisis. When he tours poor neighborhoods throughout the cit [...]
2009-02-20 06:11:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV TU
09ISTANBUL73TURKEY: SENATOR DURBIN PUSHES FOR HALKI OPENING
[...] (C) Summary: Senator Richard Durbin called on the Ecumenical Patriarch during his February 20 trip to Istanbul following official meetings in Nicosia, Athens, and Ankara. Durbin and the Patriarch discussed solutions to Cyprus and the importance of Halki Seminary and a potential re-energizing [...]
2009-02-23 13:57:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL OSCE GR CY TU
09ISTANBUL75AKP GOES TO THE BENCH IN BURSA LOCAL ELECTIONS
[...] Summary. Hikmet Sahin, the current Mayor of the Greater Bursa Municipality, Turkey's fourth largest city, never hit it off, either with the people of Bursa or with the leadership of his party, Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). Accordingly, AKP has decided not to renominat [...]
2009-02-24 13:53:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PHUM PREL OSCE TU
09ISTANBUL78TURKISH THINK TANK EXPERTS EXPOUND ON IRAN
[...] (C) Summary: We recently pulsed private Turkish experts for latest views on Turkey-Iran and US-Iran relations. The most common themes we heard were: Turkey and Iran, as neighbors and rivals, both seek a stable "balance of power" with each other and usually pursue bilateral relations with t [...]
2009-02-26 10:34:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINS KNNP IAEA TU IR
09ISTANBUL81KOCAELI ELECTIONS SHAPING UP AS TWO PARTY RACE
[...] Summary. A hard-fought and close race for the Mayorship of Kocaeli Greater Municipality, the largest city in Kocaeli Province, is shaping up between the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP). In the last municipal elections, Ibrahim [...]
2009-02-26 14:51:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIEDOSCE PGOV PREL TU
09ISTANBUL83US-IRAN RELATIONS: WHY IRAN REFUSED THE US
[...] (S) Summary: A trusted contact claims he was told by a close advisor to Iranian President Ahmadinejad that Iran denied visas for the planned February 4, 2009 visit of the US women's badminton because of the USG's "bad faith" in announcing the visit earlier than Iran had requested. According t [...]
2009-03-03 06:54:00Consulate IstanbulSECRETPREL PGOV PINS KDEM IR
09ISTANBUL84CHP'S CHOICE A STRANGE ONE IN UPCOMING TEKIRDAG
[...] Summary. In the past five years Tekirdag Province has seen two relatively close elections, with Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and its Republican People's Party (CHP) each having won one. While the province would thus seem to be in play, for the upcoming local mayoral e [...]
2009-03-03 08:00:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIEDOSCE PGOV PREL TU
09ISTANBUL85MEDIA DIVIDED IN REPORTING ON HUMAN RIGHTS REPORT;
[...] (C) Summary: Turkish newspapers and blogs prominently covered the 2008 Human Rights Report (HRR) released on February 25, and as expected were divided in their reporting. The HRR's release during heightened tension between media mogul Aydin Dogan and Prime Minister Erdogan resulted in particul [...]
2009-03-03 12:06:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM PREL TU OSCE
09ISTANBUL91MINISTERS WOO ISTANBUL BUSINESS COMMUNITY IN
[...] (SBU) Summary: In recent remarks to the Istanbul business community Foreign Minister Babacan, Energy Minster Guler and State Minister for EU Affairs Bagis underscored the government's adherence to Western political ideals including democracy, human rights and free market principles. The mini [...]
2009-03-06 05:30:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ENRG PGOV PHUM TU
09ISTANBUL92IN ISTANBUL, BESIKTAS IS A CHP ISLAND IN AN AKP SEA
[...] Summary. Besiktas, one of Istanbul's wealthiest districts, has long been a stronghold of Turkey's secular Republican People's Party (CHP). In both the 2004 local elections and the 2007 parliamentary elections Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) never got above 20 percent of [...]
2009-03-06 11:26:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIEDOSCE PGOV PREL TU
09ISTANBUL94TURKEY-IRAN COMMERCE: "MOSTLY JUST NATURAL GAS
[...] (C) Summary: Despite two recent trade-related Ministerial visits to Iran and accompanying press suggesting a rapidly expanding bilateral trade relationship, Turkish-Iranian Business Council contacts assured us that beyond Turkey's interest in Iranian natural gas, the trade relationship is "m [...]
2009-03-06 12:37:00Consulate IstanbulCONFIDENTIALECON PREL PGOV ETRD IR TU
09ISTANBUL98TURKS DISTRUST BOTH FOREIGNERS AND SHARIA LAW
[...] (U) Summary: A poll released in February found that most Turks are distrustful of foreigners and fearful that the country will be divided by outside forces. The poll commissioned by the mainstream Hurriyet newspaper and conducted by well regarded polling firm Konda Research also found many T [...]
2009-03-09 10:13:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL TU
09ISTANBUL99CHP CONTROL OF EDIRNE THREATENED IN MAYORAL
[...] No summary [...]
2009-03-11 14:11:00Consulate IstanbulUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL TU
09JAKARTA1001NAMRU-2: THE PATH FORWARD
[...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Although Health Minister Supari has postponed her Washington visit, the time is still right to explore deepening our health cooperation with Indonesia. To do this we must first overcome an imme [...]
2009-06-12 05:17:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO KFLU AMED EAGR AMGT MASS PGOV
09JAKARTA1004NAMRU 2 PATH FORWARD: PROPOSED JULY 16
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-12 08:55:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO AMED KFLU EAGR AMGT MASS PGOV
09JAKARTA1006NAMRU 2 PATH FORWARD: PROPOSED JUNE 16
[...] (U) This is an action cable. Please see paragraph 5. This message is Sensitive but Unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Despite the postponement of her planned Washington trip, Indonesian Health Minister Supari is still keen to explore deepening our health cooperation. Mi [...]
2009-06-12 09:23:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO AMED KFLU EAGR AMGT MASS PGOV
09JAKARTA1016ILLEGAL TIMBER SEIZURES IN INDONESIA
[...] Summary: Recent seizures of suspected illegal timber in East Java and Papua highlight the continued challenge of illegal logging in Indonesia. The USG continues to support the Government of Indonesia's efforts to tackle the problem through capacity building. This support includes an upcoming [...]
2009-06-16 10:26:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV EAID KGHG ECON PGOV ID
09JAKARTA1024INDONESIA: MESSAGE ON MEF LEADERS MEETING DELIVERED
[...] (U) Per reftel request, Post conveyed to Indonesian Presidential Advisor and Spokesman Dino Djalal the importance of the final preparatory meeting of the Major Economies Forum (MEF) next week. The Charge d'Affaires (CDA) highlighted that the June 22-23 meeting in Mexico will begin preparing a L [...]
2009-06-17 09:06:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KGHG ENRG PGOV PREL ID
09JAKARTA1030Indonesian President's in-law sentenced in corruption case
[...] (SBU) The Anti-Corruption Court sentenced Aulia Pohan -- President Yudhoyono's son's father-in-law -- to 4 1/2 years on corruption charges on June 17. The court also sentenced three additional central bank deputy governors, bringing the total to nine public officials convicted in this central [...]
2009-06-18 08:46:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KCOR PREL ID
09JAKARTA1035GOI ACTS TO STOP VIOLENCE AT ROHINGYA CAMP IN ACEH
[...] (U) This message was coordinated with Consulate Medan. 2. (C) SUMMARY. In response to recent beatings of Rohingya asylum seekers and Bangladeshi migrants by Indonesian Red Cross staff at a camp in East Aceh, the GOI has dispatched a security team to the camp to restore order. The situation [...]
2009-06-19 04:53:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PREF ID BM CE
09JAKARTA1040SCENESETTER FOR HDAC CODEL VISIT JUNE 30 TO JULY 2
[...] No summary [...]
2009-06-19 10:33:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KDEM ID
09JAKARTA1041SCENESETTER FOR HDAC CODEL VISIT JUNE 30 TO JULY 2
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: U.S. Embassy Jakarta welcomes CODEL Price to Indonesia. You will arrive one week before Indonesia's second direct Presidential elections, July 8. This is a critical time for building relations between the U.S. and Indonesia, the world's second and third largest democracies. [...]
2009-06-19 10:45:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KDEM ID
09JAKARTA1048PRESIDENT MAINTAINS SIZABLE LEAD IN MOST POLLS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: President Yudhoyono is maintaining a sizable lead in most polls ahead of the July 8 presidential election. The three candidates--Yudhoyono, Megawati, Kalla--engaged in the first of three televised debates on June 18; most observers considered the debates inconclusive with no cl [...]
2009-06-22 08:17:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM ID
09JAKARTA1049ROHINGYAS IN ACEH -- GOI VOWS QUICK TRANSFER,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Key Indonesian officials have agreed with our recommendation to move the Rohingya asylum seekers and Bangladeshi migrants away from the tense Idi Rayeuk camp in East Aceh, Sumatra. They also pledged to act quickly to separate minors. Responding to a demarche on these points de [...]
2009-06-22 08:39:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF PGOV ID BM CE
09JAKARTA1065INDONESIA ACCEPTS WAY FORWARD RE NAMRU FACILITY
[...] (U) This is an Action Request -- Please see para 8. 2. (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador met with a senior GOI official on June 23 to discuss the Naval Medical Research Facility (NAMRU-2) located in Jakarta. Ambassador Retno Marsudi said the GOI would issue six-month visa extensions to NAMRU [...]
2009-06-23 09:56:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV AMED ID
09JAKARTA1068HIGH-LEVEL MEETING REINFORCES DEFENSE COOPERATION
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: In a June 22 meeting with Defense Minister Sudarsono, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for South and Southeast Asia Robert Scher underscored the positive developments in the military relationship and applauded Indonesia's progress on defense reform. DASD Scher offered U [...]
2009-06-24 02:59:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDCH ID MARR PGOV PREL
09JAKARTA1075Health Cooperation Q Moving Toward a New
[...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: This message outlines a vision of greater health cooperation with Indonesia and provides building blocks for the June 25 Sub-IPC. The United States now has an opportunity to transform our health [...]
2009-06-24 10:24:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO AMED KFLU MASS PGOV ID
09JAKARTA1078RESPONSE NEEDED: SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGREEMENT DRAFT
[...] (U) This is an action request, please see paragraph 5. 2. (SBU) On February 20, 2009, Post passed the draft U.S.-Indonesia Agreement on Science and Technology Cooperation to the Government of Indonesia (GOI),following up on Secretary Clinton's February 18 promise to Foreign Minister Wirayud [...]
2009-06-25 06:48:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDMARR PGOV PREL TPHY ID
09JAKARTA1079Indonesia: Improving Transparency in Timber Administration
[...] Summary: Indonesia is taking another significant step to improve transparency in the forestry sector by requiring the labeling/bar-coding of logs. This online timber tracking system will be phased in gradually. The Government of Indonesia (GOI) is targeting nation-wide implementation by the [...]
2009-06-25 07:12:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDSENV EAID KGHG ECON PGOV ID
09JAKARTA108INDONESIAN SUPREME COURT CHOOSES A NEW CHIEF TO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The members of Indonesia's Supreme Court have chosen Harifin A. Tumpa to be the next Chief Justice. Tumpa had previously served as one of the court's vice chiefs and had been serving as the interim Chief Justice after the former Chief reached mandatory retirement age in October [...]
2009-01-20 10:29:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KCOR KMCA PREL ID
09JAKARTA1092CONSTITUTIONAL COURT RULINGS CHANGE OUTCOME OF
[...] (C) Summary: Recent Constitutional Court decisions on electoral disputes are affecting the results of the Indonesian legislative elections. The court annulled the results of several regional races, and ordered vote re-runs in three areas. More controversially, it overturned the National El [...]
2009-06-26 08:26:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM ID
09JAKARTA1095KOPASSUS--ALLEGED PAPUA INCIDENTS NOT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A new Human Rights Watch (HRW) report claims that Indonesian Army Special Forces (KOPASSUS) continue to violate human rights in Papua. However, the report draws this conclusion based on six incidents in a single Papuan town with a history of corruption, violence, and other gove [...]
2009-06-26 09:44:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV MARR PHUM ID
09JAKARTA1099INDONESIA'S PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN ENTERS LAST LAP
[...] (C) SUMMARY: With just over a week to go before Indonesia's presidential election, President Yudhoyono is maintaining his sizable lead in the polls. Candidate debates held last week were inconclusive. During a visit to Central Java, Pol/C spoke to numerous observers who predicted that the [...]
2009-06-29 09:45:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM ID
09JAKARTA110INDONESIAN C-130 LIFT CAPACITY MAKING RECOVERY,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Indonesia's C-130 fleet is old and only a modest portion of the planes are currently operational. Indonesia has made the rebuilding of its military lift capacity a top priority. U.S. assistance--in the form of foreign military sales and financing--are beginning to reverse the y [...]
2009-01-21 04:09:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MASS ID
09JAKARTA1112COUNTERTERRORISM -- GOI ARRESTS JI-LINKED SUSPECTS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Indonesian National Police counterterrorism units recently arrested several suspected terrorists in Central Java and one in Sumatra. The GOI has publicly confirmed three arrests, though there may have been more. Those arrested include two Singaporean nationals plus an Indonesia [...]
2009-06-30 09:50:00Embassy JakartaSECRETPGOV PREL PTER ASEC ID
09JAKARTA1115VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES ACTIVE ON THE TRAIL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Ahead of Indonesia's July 8 presidential election, the three VP candidates are on the hustings and working the crowds hard. They wrapped up their second and final debate on June 30 with none of the candidates gaining a decided advantage. Over all, none of the three has had much [...]
2009-07-01 05:33:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM ID
09JAKARTA1116PAPUA -- ELECTION CAMPAIGN PROCEEDS SMOOTHLY, SO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Presidential campaigning continues--so far without incident--in eastern Indonesia's restive Papua and West Papua provinces. President Yudhoyono--as he does nationally--maintains a significant lead in the region although Jusuf Kalla's Golkar Party remains strong. The police and [...]
2009-07-01 05:57:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM ID
09JAKARTA1126DVC DIALOGUE PLACES SPOTLIGHT ON INDONESIAN
[...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (U) SUMMARY: G/TIP Director Ambassador Luis CdeBaca held a June 29 DVC dialogue with key GOI officials and NGO leaders regarding the 2009 Trafficking in Persons (TIP) report on Indonesia. Ambassador Hume ope [...]
2009-07-02 07:12:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV ELAB SMIG ID
09JAKARTA1128LEGISLATORS TRY TO BLOCK PURCHASE OF ISRAELI-MADE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Some Indonesian legislators are moving to block the GOI's plan to purchase Israeli-manufactured unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV). The Indonesian Department of Defense claims that the UAVs are a cost effective way to provide surveillance of Indonesian waterways. Flagging concerns [...]
2009-07-02 08:58:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV MARR ID IS
09JAKARTA1134URGING GOI TO SUPPORT NGO INVOLVEMENT AT UN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Mission has encouraged Indonesia to support UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) consultative status for the Democracy Coalition Project (DCP) and deferral back to the NGO Committee for the Dynamic Christian World Mission Foundation (DCWMF). Missio*n underscored the importanc [...]
2009-07-06 03:15:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PHUM ID
09JAKARTA1135PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN WRAPS UP
[...] (C) SUMMARY: As the presidential election on July 8 fast approaches, the three candidates wrapped up their campaigns on July 4 ahead of the official "cooling off period." The last of three presidential debates (held on July 2) was livelier than the others, but did not seem to undermine Pr [...]
2009-07-06 04:48:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM ID
09JAKARTA1136INDONESIAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES: ECONOMIC
[...] (C) Summary: President Yudhoyono,s economic platform is the most reform-oriented, liberal agenda in a presidential election that is clouded in protectionist, anti-foreign rhetoric. Megawati,s &people,s economy8 platform includes land reform, agricultural development, and an overall protection [...]
2009-07-06 04:54:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALECON ID PGOV PREL
09JAKARTA1146PEACEKEEPING -- INDONESIA LEADS MAJOR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Indonesian military recently hosted a major U.N. peacekeeping capstone event--"Garuda Shield"--involving 19 countries and about 1400 personnel. The U.S. Global Peacekeeping Operations Initiative (GPOI) team present at the exercise said Indonesia performed impressively as hos [...]
2009-07-07 08:57:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV UNSC MOPS ID
09JAKARTA1147JUST AHEAD OF PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, COURT RELAXES
[...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Just ahead of the July 8 presidential election, Indonesia's Constitutional Court has decided to allow voters who are not registered on the voter list to cast ballots by showing their national i [...]
2009-07-07 09:14:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KDEM ID
09JAKARTA1149ENGAGING PRESIDENT YUDHOYONO SHOULD HE WIN A
[...] (C) SUMMARY: President Yudhoyono is widely expected to win a second term in the presidential election scheduled for July 8 without the need for a runoff in September. The election is expected to be largely free, fair and peaceful. It will solidify Indonesia's shift towards a strong and stab [...]
2009-07-07 11:40:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM ID
09JAKARTA1152HOUSE DEMOCRACY ASSISTANCE COMMISSION VISITS
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Congressman David Price led the House Democracy Assistance Commission's (HDAC) fourth visit to Jakarta from June 30-July 2. The 23 person delegation included five other members, spouses and staff. While in Jakarta, HDAC held meetings on parliamentary reform, foreign policy, [...]
2009-07-08 04:56:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV KDEM ID
09JAKARTA1157INDONESIA VOTES PEACEFULLY; PRESIDENT SEEMS TO
[...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified; it was coordinated with Consulates Medan and Surabaya. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Indonesia's presidential election went smoothly and peacefully on July 8. Preliminary exit polls indicate that President Yudhoyono is likely to win by a landslide, wi [...]
2009-07-08 10:38:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM ID
09JAKARTA1160PRESIDENT YUDHOYONO BASKS IN GLOW OF BIG VICTORY
[...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Voters gave President Yudhoyono a landslide victory, according to preliminary results from quick counts, in Indonesia's presidential election on July 8. Although official results are not exp [...]
2009-07-09 10:37:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM ID
09JAKARTA1161SOUTH SUMATRA DECENTRALIZATION: DIAMONDS IN THE WEEDS
[...] (U) Summary. Consulate Medan surveyed decentralization programs at the district and city levels in Bangka Belitung and South Sumatra Provinces in southern Sumatra during the week of June 22-27. Bangka Belitung's experiences in providing a scheme for universal health insurance and subsidies stan [...]
2009-07-09 10:41:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL SOCI ID
09JAKARTA1162INDONESIAN SPEAKER SENDS LETTER TO SPEAKER PELOSI
[...] (U) This message contains an Action Request -- Please see Para 5. 2. (U) SUMMARY: Indonesian Speaker of the House Laksono has requested that Mission forward a letter to House Speaker Pelosi announcing plans for a 21-person parliamentary delegation visit to Washington from July 27 to Augu [...]
2009-07-09 10:52:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV KDEM ID
09JAKARTA1165U.S.-RUSSIA PRESIDENTIAL SUMMIT -- BRIEFING
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Mission has reviewed reftel points related to the recent U.S.-Russia Summit with the GOI. Pol/C discussed with Palace contact key points regarding arms reduction, nonproliferation, cooperation regarding Afghanistan, and missile defense. Contact replied that the GOI was impress [...]
2009-07-10 07:41:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV MNUC ID RS
09JAKARTA1167Indonesia Proposes Health Cooperation
[...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The Indonesian Ministry of Health wants to expand health cooperation with the United States. Towards this end, they have presented us with a draft MOU that outlines a broad framework for our he [...]
2009-07-10 08:00:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO AMED KFLU MASS PGOV ID
09JAKARTA1171PRESIDENT'S BIG VICTORY SPARKS DEBATE ABOUT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: President Yudhoyono's resounding victory in the recent presidential election--now backed up by official figures--has sparked debate about the future of the opposition and its leaders. Badly trounced in recent elections, VP Kalla's Golkar Party seems set to re-invent itself in [...]
2009-07-10 10:43:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM ID
09JAKARTA1175PAPUA -- AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL SLAIN IN ATTACKS NEAR
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Unknown assailants killed two employees--including one Australian national--working for a U.S. mining company in separate July 11-12 attacks near the company's mining operations in Indonesia's Papua Province. No Americans were injured. Police have blamed separatists and reinfor [...]
2009-07-13 09:39:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM ASEC CASC ID
09JAKARTA1176COUNTERING THREATS FROM RADICAL CLERIC
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Mission recently spoke to Indonesian authorities about threatening comments denouncing President Obama made by radical cleric Abu Bakar Ba'asyir. The comments were aired in a YouTube posting on a hard-line Indonesian-language web site. Mission underscored that such inflammator [...]
2009-07-13 10:35:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER ASEC ID
09JAKARTA1183POSSIBLE INDONESIAN DELEGATION VISIT TO NORTH KOREA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOI has confirmed to us that it continues to review whether to send a delegation to North Korea in a bid to assist the negotiation track. The ROK Pol/C told us that his government had discussed the matter with the GOI and believed that the effort could potentially be constr [...]
2009-07-14 09:59:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KNNP ID KS KN
09JAKARTA1184INDONESIA -- OUTLOOK FOR PRESIDENT YUDHOYONO'S
[...] (C) SUMMARY: President Yudhoyono,s decisive victory in Indonesia's recent presidential election gave him a second five-year term and a strong mandate to govern. He will need a stable Parliamentary coalition and a strong Cabinet to implement his reform agenda, however, and neither of these is [...]
2009-07-14 10:41:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL ECON KCOR ID
09JAKARTA1187INDONESIAN MUSLIM GROUPS PROTEST TREATMENT OF
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Hundreds of protesters from various Indonesian hardline Islamic groups rallied outside the Chinese Embassy in Jakarta on July 13 protesting Chinese treatment of ethnic Uighurs. The protesters--who briefly clashed with security guards--urged that the GOI put diplomatic pressure [...]
2009-07-15 03:53:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL KISL PGOV ID CH
09JAKARTA119MUNIR MURDER CASE -- MINOR PLAYER GETS JAIL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Indonesian Supreme Court has convicted Rohainil Aini, a former Garuda Airlines' employee, in connection with the 2004 murder of human rights activist Munir Said Thalib. Rohainil received a one-year sentence for faking a letter that enabled Pollycarpus Budihari Priyanto (who [...]
2009-01-22 08:58:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS PHUM ID
09JAKARTA1191ACEH -- MAINTAINING THE PEACE AND RECONCILIATION
[...] (U) This message was coordinated with Consulate Medan. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Ambassador Hume briefed ambassadors and country directors of major donor organizations on July 7 on a U.S. Mission initiative to form a group of eminent Achenese to advise on the way forward in consolidating peace and [...]
2009-07-15 09:49:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL KDEM KISL PGOV ID
09JAKARTA1194REVISED DRAFT SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGREEMENT:
[...] (U) This is an Action Request--please see paragraph 8. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Embassy Jakarta shared the revised draft Science and Technology Agreement with the Ministry of Research and Technology. The Ministry was very optimistic about concluding negotiations on the agreement. GOI interloc [...]
2009-07-15 12:12:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL MARR TPHY ID
09JAKARTA1198ISLAMIC CARD FAILS IN RECENT PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Vice President Kalla's attempt to play the Islamic card in Indonesia's recent presidential election campaign failed spectacularly. Despite blatantly playing up Muslim symbolism and his support from Muslim organizations, he only garnered 10-15 percent of the total vote. These [...]
2009-07-16 04:24:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KISL KDEM SOCI ID
09JAKARTA1203INDONESIA'S CORRUPTION ERADICATION COMMISSION
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Indonesia's Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has hit another road block. KPK-police tensions have escalated in recent weeks, with both sides threatening to bring corruption charges against the other's leaders. Although President Yudhoyono had convened a meeting to stem [...]
2009-07-16 11:15:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KCOR ID
09JAKARTA1204AMBASSADOR, DIRECTOR GENERAL RETNO ASSESS PROGRESS
[...] (U) Action request in Para 5. 2. (SBU) On July 16, Ambassador and DCM met with Department of Foreign Affairs Director General for America and Europe, Amb. Retno Marsudi, to provide updates on elements of the developing comprehensive partnership between the United States and Indonesia. They [...]
2009-07-17 00:15:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYECON ID KN PGOV
09JAKARTA1209OPPOSITION--GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS--FILES
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Losing candidate Megawati Sukarnoputri is pressing forward with charges that Indonesia's recent presidential election was unfair. She has stopped short of calling for a re-vote, but has filed various complaints with the Election Oversight Commission. In making the charges, t [...]
2009-07-17 09:42:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM ID
09JAKARTA1211NEAR SIMULTANEOUS BOMB BLASTS AT JAKARTA HOTELS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: There were two nearly simultaneous bomb blasts at luxury hotels in Jakarta early on July 17. Nine people were reportedly killed and at least 50 people were injured, including eight confirmed Americans. President Yudhoyono and other senior officials promised a thorough invest [...]
2009-07-17 10:14:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PTER PREL ASEC CASC ID
09JAKARTA1215RULE OF LAW: PROSECUTORS GET A CLOSE LOOK AT U.S. JUDICIAL
[...] (U) This message is Sensitive-but-Unclassified; please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: A team of eleven Indonesian prosecutors from a key task force, accompanied by DOJ Resident Legal Advisor (RLA) and poloff, participated in a June study visit to the U.S. The State-funded, DOJ-orga [...]
2009-07-21 09:48:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PTER KJUS ID
09JAKARTA1216JAKARTA RESOLUTE IN AFTERMATH OF BOMB BLASTS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Indonesia's National Police immediately launched an investigation into the two July 17 bombings in Jakarta. Based on the types of devices used, the police have linked the blasts to Southeast Asian terrorist network Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) or Noordin M. Top's JI cell. Despite th [...]
2009-07-21 11:11:00Embassy JakartaSECRET//NOFORNPGOV PTER PREL ASEC CASC ID
09JAKARTA1221ARF -- INDONESIA INTERESTED IN DISASTER RELIEF
[...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified. Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Indonesia is keen to host the second ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF) Voluntary Demonstration of Response in Disaster Relief (VDR) in 2010 or 2011. However, the GOI is seeking support and assistance [...]
2009-07-22 08:21:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV MASS
09JAKARTA1227GE ON TRACK IN LOCOMOTIVE MARKET
[...] (U) This message is Sensitive-But-Unclassified (SBU) and includes business sensitive information. Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) Summary: General Electric Transportation (GE) has two locomotive agreements and a third in the works, which could total sales of several hundred million doll [...]
2009-07-23 00:15:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYELTN ECON EFIN PGOV ID
09JAKARTA1230INDONESIA REACTS TO BOMB BLASTS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: President Yudhoyono's public speculation that the July 17 bombings of two luxury hotels could be an attempt to sabotage his new, second administration and destabilize the country met with sharp criticism. Opposition parties claimed he was trying to intimidate them due to their [...]
2009-07-23 05:48:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KISL PTER ID
09JAKARTA1232ELITE POLICE BRIGADE PLAYS CRITICAL ROLE IN RECENT
[...] (C) The Indonesian National Police elite Mobile Brigade is playing a critical role in the aftermath of the July 17 bombings in Jakarta and in the ongoing situation impacting the Freeport mining operation in Papua. Both situations involve the safety and security of American citizens. However, [...]
2009-07-23 08:55:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PINS ASEC ID
09JAKARTA1236OFFICIAL RESULTS CONFIRM THAT YUDHOYONO WON
[...] (C) SUMMARY: As expected, final results have confirmed that President Yudhoyono won the July 8 presidential election, taking over 60 percent of the vote. Yudhoyono's victory was also broad-based, winning 28 of 33 provinces. Former president Megawati--who finished a distant second--continu [...]
2009-07-24 07:46:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM KISL ID
09JAKARTA1237AFGHANISTAN -- URGING INDONESIA TO DO MORE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: We have strongly encouraged the GOI to consider what it can do to assist Afghanistan's political development. We urged, for example, that the GOI think creatively and consider using the Indonesian-founded Bali Democracy Forum (BDF) as a venue to help build up the capacity of th [...]
2009-07-24 08:44:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID ID AF
09JAKARTA1240PRESIDENT DECLARED OFFICIAL WINNER, BUT OPPOSITION
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Indonesian Election Commission (KPU) officially announced on July 25 that President Yudhoyono was the winner of the presidential election held on July 8. The two losing candidates--former president Megawati and VP Kalla--plan to file lawsuits contesting the results which t [...]
2009-07-27 08:03:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM ID
09JAKARTA1244PAPUA -- INVESTIGATION PROCEEDS INTO RECENT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: After a series of incidents, including the killing of an Australian national, a calm of sorts has descended around the Papua operations of U.S mining giant Freeport-McMoRan. Police are continuing their investigation and have named some of Freeport's Indonesian national employee [...]
2009-07-27 10:56:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINS ASEC EMIN ID
09JAKARTA1257BURMESE ROHINGYA UPDATE -- GOI WORKING WITHIN THE
[...] (U) This message was coordinated with Consulate Medan. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Indonesia and other members of the Bali Process are meeting July 27-29 in Bali to discuss Asia-Pacific migrant-related issues. One key topic involves the Burmese Rohingya migrants now in Sumatra and what to do about [...]
2009-07-28 09:30:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF ID BM
09JAKARTA1259USG-FUNDED TRAINING EMPOWERS NEW WOMEN LEGISLATORS
[...] (U) SUMMARY: U.S.-funded training is playing a key role in building up the legislative capacity of the Indonesian Parliament (DPR). More than sixty percent of the DPR which will sit in October will consist of new members. Between 15 to 18 percent of the new legislators will be women, an i [...]
2009-07-28 10:42:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KDEM KWMN ID
09JAKARTA1262MOVING TOWARD A U.S.-INDONESIA INTERFAITH DIALOGUE
[...] (U) Please see Action Request in para 7; this message is Sensitive but Unclassified. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Indonesian officials are eager to develop a bilateral interfaith dialogue with the U.S. as part of our emerging Comprehensive Partnership. Mission is discussing the idea with GOI offic [...]
2009-07-29 07:18:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV KISL ID
09JAKARTA1275JULY 17 BOMBINGS -- CLAIM OF RESPONSIBILITY SEEN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Mission reached out to security authorities and other knowledgeable contacts about the recent blog post claiming responsibility for the July 17 Jakarta bombings. Although the "Al-Qaeda Indonesia" name used in the blog is new, virtually all observers agree that it appears to be mo [...]
2009-07-30 09:01:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER PREL ASEC CASC ID
09JAKARTA1277INDONESIA'S PARLIAMENT -- COURT RULING SPARKS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: A recent Indonesian Supreme Court ruling dealing with the arcane process of parliamentary seat allocation has stirred controversy. The ruling, if implemented, would dramatically shift the balance of power in the new Parliament toward the biggest parties, including President Y [...]
2009-07-30 09:56:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM ID
09JAKARTA128ROHINGYA REFUGEES IN INDONESIA
[...] (U) This message was coordinated with Consulate Medan. Please see para 7 for action request. 2. (C) SUMMARY: The Indonesian government on January 23 invited the International Organization for Migration (IOM) to assist with the safe repatriation of 193 Burmese and Bangladeshi nationals hou [...]
2009-01-23 10:51:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF PGOV ID BM
09JAKARTA1280GOI PRESSES CASE INVOLVING DEATH OF PROMINENT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Indonesian Attorney General's Office (AGO) has stated that it will file an appeal of the Supreme Court's acquittal of former top intelligence official Muchdi Purwopranjono. Muchdi is accused of orchestrating the murder of prominent human rights activist Munir Said Thalib in [...]
2009-07-31 09:15:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PHUM KJUS ID
09JAKARTA1281ANTI-CORRUPTION UPDATE -- KEY INDEPENDENT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In the latest anti-corruption news, Indonesia's independent Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) is facing various inquiries. KPK-police tensions have escalated with both sides threatening to bring corruption charges against the other. President Yudhoyono's intervention in [...]
2009-07-31 10:26:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KCOR ID
09JAKARTA1292SCENESETTER FOR CODEL NELSON VISIT AUGUST 14-16
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: U.S. Embassy Jakarta welcomes CODEL Nelson to Indonesia. You will arrive the day of the National Day Address to Parliament by President Yudhoyono, who will be inaugurated on October 20 for his second term after a landslide victory. Indonesia has done well under his administ [...]
2009-08-05 00:01:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KDEM ID
09JAKARTA1303PUBLIC ENEMIES -- LARGE-SCALE MANHUNT UNDER WAY IN
[...] (S) SUMMARY: Pol/C visited Central Java, August 3-5. Authorities in the region are conducting a large-scale manhunt for Noordin Top and other terrorists who have been linked to the July 17 bombings in Jakarta. Senior officials and police have held public meetings urging that citizens help a [...]
2009-08-06 07:08:00Embassy JakartaSECRETPGOV PREL PTER ASEC ID
09JAKARTA1305FORMERLY POWERFUL, GOLKAR PARTY FALLS ON HARD TIMES
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Golkar party, preeminent during the Suharto period and influential after, has fallen on hard times. Performing extremely poorly in recent elections, party fractures have deepened and the party faces a leadership fight, as well as growing tensions between an old guard and Yo [...]
2009-08-06 09:48:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM ID
09JAKARTA1308IN USG-SPONSORED EVENT, WOMEN POLITICIANS SHARE
[...] (U) SUMMARY: In a USG-funded workshop held August 6-8 in Jakarta, a multi-partisan group of Indonesian women politicians shared their successful campaign stories to encourage colleagues to further political action. The politicians--who assume their legislative seats in October--explained [...]
2009-08-07 04:27:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KDEM KWMN ID
09JAKARTA1313BILL COULD WEAKEN INDONESIA'S CORRUPTION
[...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Parliament is debating a new bill that would strip Indonesia's Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) of its prosecutorial powers, rendering the KPK an investigative and preventative organization. Although this legislati [...]
2009-08-07 10:13:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KJUS KCOR ID
09JAKARTA1315TERRORIST NOORDIN TOP REPORTED KILLED IN POLICE
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Indonesian police have raided a suspected militant safe house in Central Java. Media sources have reported that Noordin Top--the suspected mastermind behind the July 17 Jakarta bombings--was killed in a gun battle with police. However, Indonesian officials have not yet confirm [...]
2009-08-08 05:00:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPTER PREL PGOV PINS ASEC ID
09JAKARTA1318INTENSIVE POLICE OPERATIONS STRIKE BLOW AGAINST
[...] (S) SUMMARY: Indonesian police operations against suspected terrorist safe houses in Central Java and on the outskirts of Jakarta, August 7-8, mark an important success in efforts to eliminate the terrorist threat posed by the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) splinter group led by Noordin M. Top. Despi [...]
2009-08-10 10:19:00Embassy JakartaSECRETPTER PGOV PREL PINS ASEC ID
09JAKARTA1329TERRORIST NOORDIN M.TOP -- A BIO SKETCH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Mission provides biographic information below regarding Noordin M. Top. Top, a Malaysian national, has been implicated in the July 17 hotel bombings in Jakarta and other terrorist acts. Top, who is 41 and arrived in Indonesia after 9/11, has been involved with extremist politi [...]
2009-08-11 10:25:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER PINS ASEC ID
09JAKARTA1337DNA TESTING CONFIRMS BODY NOT NOORDIN M. TOP'S
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Indonesian police announced on August 12 that the body of a suspect killed in the August 7-8 operation in Central Java was not that of terrorist leader Noordin M. Top. DNA testing conducted on samples taken from his family confirmed that the body was not Top's; instead, the body [...]
2009-08-13 09:41:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER PINS ASEC ID
09JAKARTA1342BURMA DEMOCRACY GROUP SHUTDOWN OUT OF CHARACTER AS
[...] (C) Indonesian police temporarily stopped a coalition of Burma pro-democracy organizations from holding a conference at a Jakarta hotel August 12, reportedly following a complaint from Burma to the Indonesian Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU). National police ordered the conference closed [...]
2009-08-13 09:55:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM ID BM
09JAKARTA1343YUDHOYONO OFFICIAL VICTOR AS COURT THROWS OUT
[...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (U) The Constitutional Court on August 12 rejected lawsuits filed by losing presidential candidates Megawati Sukarnoputri and Vice President Jusuf Kalla (JK) alleging widespread electoral fraud in the July 8 p [...]
2009-08-13 10:52:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM ID
09JAKARTA1349GOI INTEREST IN HIGH-LEVEL ANTICORRUPTION DIALOGUE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Indonesian law enforcement and anticorruption agencies would welcome a high-level USG-GOI dialogue on anticorruption and related anticrimes. During INL Director David Luna's visit to Jakarta, August 10-11, the three primary corruption investigation and prosecution bodies in Ind [...]
2009-08-14 11:41:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KCOR ID
09JAKARTA135Yudhoyono Advisor -- the Time is Now for a Strategic
[...] (SBU) The time is now to build a U.S.-Indonesian strategic partnership according to President Yudhoyono's key economic advisor. Chatib Basri, who served as SBY's sherpa to the November 2008 G20 Summit in Washington, said there is new-found enthusiasm throughout the Indonesian government to wor [...]
2009-01-27 10:16:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV ID
09JAKARTA1358GOI ANNOUNCES SENTENCE CUTS FOR PRISONERS,
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The GOI granted sentence reductions of up to six months to tens of thousands of inmates on Indonesian Independence Day, August 17. Although seven convicted terrorists received sentences cuts ranging from two to six months, only one will now be eligible for release. A 2006 reg [...]
2009-08-18 10:02:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PTER ASEC ID
09JAKARTA136Indonesia to Invite President Obama to World Islamic
[...] (SBU) Indonesian President Yudhoyono will invite President Obama to participate in the Fifth World Islamic Economic Forum to be held in Jakarta on March 2-3. The conference will focus on the implications of the global financial crisis as well as alternative energy and food security for the Mus [...]
2009-01-27 11:04:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEINV PGOV PREL ID
09JAKARTA1360YUDHOYONO SHARES HIS VISION FOR INDONESIA IN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: President Yudhoyono's August 14 National Day Address showed a confident leader on the cusp of his second and final term of office who sees his nation at the launching point for greater things. The broad vision for Indonesia Yudhoyono laid out corresponds in many ways to the [...]
2009-08-18 11:00:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL ECON KDEM ID
09JAKARTA137ROHINGYAS -- URGING THE GOI TO ENSURE PROTECTION
[...] (U) This message was coordinated with Consulate Medan. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Although it has publicly classified them as "economic migrants," the Indonesian government has made no final decision regarding the status of 193 Burmese and Bangladeshi boat people. The boat people are mostly ethnic [...]
2009-01-27 11:07:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF PGOV ID BM
09JAKARTA1372PARLIAMENTARY REFORM LAW STEP FORWARD FOR
[...] (SBU) Indonesia's Parliament (DPR) recently passed a parliamentary reform law which is a significant step forward for Indonesia's maturing democracy. This new law was intended to shift power from the executive branch to the legislative by increasing Parliament's autonomy over its budget a [...]
2009-08-20 04:45:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL KDEM ID CVIS
09JAKARTA1374U.S. GLOBAL PEACE OPERATIONS INITIATIVE (GPOI)
[...] (U) SUMMARY: USPACOM put forward its draft FY 2010 GPOI Program Proposal, which requests funding to support Indonesian Peacekeeping Training in three areas: training, facilities, and equipment. According to USPACOM representatives, Indonesia will be a top priority for GPOI funding within P [...]
2009-08-20 06:04:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDID PGOV PREL MOPS
09JAKARTA1392SCENESETTER FOR CODEL REYES VISIT AUGUST 26-28
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Representative Reyes, the staff of Embassy Jakarta warmly welcomes your visit. Indonesia and the United States are key partners in promoting democracy and security in Southeast Asia. Ten years of political and economic reform have made Indonesia democratic, stable, and incre [...]
2009-08-21 11:56:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV PTER KDEM ID
09JAKARTA1398LEGISLATORS ASK FOR U.S. -INDONESIA COOPERATION AT
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-24 08:13:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KDEM ECON ID
09JAKARTA1399LEGISLATORS ASK FOR U.S. -INDONESIA COOPERATION AT
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Indonesian legislators told us at a DCM-hosted lunch that the key to strengthening U.S.-Indonesia relations was cooperating on issues confronting their constituents at the local level. A multi-partisan group of women legislators met with us on August 11 to discuss bilateral r [...]
2009-08-24 08:39:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KDEM ECON ID
09JAKARTA1400PAPUA -- SHOOTINGS CONTINUE NEAR U.S. MINING
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Unidentified assailants fired on vehicles belonging to U.S. mining company Freeport-McMoRan in Indonesia's restive Papua province in several recent incidents. Five Freeport employees, all Indonesian nationals, were injured. A coalition of pro-independence groups claimed respons [...]
2009-08-24 10:15:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PINS EMIN ASEC ID
09JAKARTA1408Health Cooperation - GOI Proposes
[...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified; please handle accordingly. Please see action request in paragraph 7. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The Indonesian government has proposed a health cooperation memorandum of understanding to be released during the President's proposed trip to Indonesi [...]
2009-08-25 09:49:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTBIO PGOV AMED KFLU MASS ID
09JAKARTA1412GOI MAKES MORE ARRESTS IN INVESTIGATION OF JULY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOI's arrest of Indonesian national Mohammad Jibril under suspicion of helping fund the July 17 Jakarta bombings follows the earlier arrest of a Saudi national alleged to have been a financier behind the operation. Jibril is the son of a well-known Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) fig [...]
2009-08-26 10:00:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER ASEC ID
09JAKARTA1417ASEAN -- SECGEN SURIN ON HUMAN RIGHTS MECHANISM,
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In an August 25 diplomatic briefing at ASEAN headquarters in Jakarta, Secretary General Surin outlined developments in the areas of establishing an ASEAN human rights mechanism and addressing regional stability issues, such as North Korea. Surin reiterated ASEAN's call for the [...]
2009-08-27 08:53:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON ASEAN ID
09JAKARTA1419BURMA -- INDONESIA CONSIDERS STRONGER ACTION
[...] (C) SUMMARY: President Yudhoyono is considering stronger Indonesian action in response to the Burmese regime's recent extension of Aung San Suu Kyi's house arrest. As he has done in the past, Yudhoyono may write to Burmese leader Than Shwe or dispatch a special envoy to urge reforms. Separa [...]
2009-08-27 10:42:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ID BM
09JAKARTA1420Views on Environment for POTUS Visit from Indonesia
[...] No summary [...]
2009-08-27 11:15:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KGHG ENRG TSPL PREL PGOV ID
09JAKARTA1421Views on Environment for POTUS Visit from Indonesia
[...] (SBU) Summary: Indonesia Presidential Advisor on Environment Emil Salim and Secretary to the Coordinating Minister of Social Welfare Indroyono Soesilo strongly advocate an ambitious agenda for the upcoming POTUS visit, including: -- Fisheries-based food security initiative through establishin [...]
2009-08-27 12:09:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYSENV KGHG ENRG TSPL PREL PGOV ID
09JAKARTA1425INTERFAITH DIALOGUE -- INDONESIANS SUPPORT A
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Indonesian officials remain hopeful that a proposed interfaith dialogue with the U.S. will include a strong bilateral component. During his June meeting with the Secretary, FM Wirajuda expressed his strong preference for a bilateral interfaith dialogue within the context of the [...]
2009-08-28 02:36:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KISL ID
09JAKARTA143MILITARY JUSTICE REFORM -- LEGISLATURE REVIEWS BILL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Proponents of the military justice reform bill are considering whether to push for the bill's passage before Indonesia move toward elections. The bill, an initiative of the national legislature (DPR),would make the Indonesian military (TNI) subject to the civilian justice syst [...]
2009-01-28 08:23:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV MARR KJUS ID
09JAKARTA144CONSERVATIVE MUSLIM BODY LOSING CREDIBILITY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Indonesia's most important Islamic juridical body, the MUI, issued a series of controversial edicts (fatwas) during its recent national conference. The edicts included partial bans on yoga and smoking. The group also urged Muslims to vote for qualified Muslims in coming electi [...]
2009-01-28 09:05:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KISL ID
09JAKARTA1442NPT REVIEW CONFERENCE 2010 -- INDONESIAN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Indonesia, in general, is positively disposed toward the U.S. nonproliferation agenda, not least because of what the GOI views as the Administration's balanced perspective on nonproliferation and disarmament issues. The GOI supports U.S.-Russia arms control efforts and is prepa [...]
2009-08-31 09:30:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL KNNP MNUC PARM PGOV NPT ID
09JAKARTA1451PRESIDENT YUDHOYONO PONDERS CABINET PICKS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Indonesia is abuzz with speculation about President Yudhoyono's upcoming Cabinet appointments, which are slated to be announced after his October 20 inauguration. Some observers worry that inclusivist Yudhoyono will barter 2009 Cabinet positions for party support as he did in [...]
2009-09-01 05:32:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM ECON ID
09JAKARTA1456DCM REVIEWS PARTNERSHIP, PLANNED PRESIDENTIAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The DCM met September 1 with Ambassador Retno Marsudi of the Indonesian Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU). Marsudi said her visit to Washington last week had gone well. She then reviewed Indonesian perspectives on the Comprehensive Partnership and the GOI's desire for info [...]
2009-09-01 09:51:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON ID
09JAKARTA1458GOI CLAIMS MIX-UP IN SMALL ARMS SEIZED IN THE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: According to the GOI, the recent seizure of Indonesian-made small arms by the Philippines was a mistake, as the arms were lawfully exported from Indonesia. The seizure has hit the press here and Indonesian lawmakers have pledged to investigate the country's arms-related export [...]
2009-09-02 07:18:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PARM ID RP
09JAKARTA1465RAMADAN IN INDONESIA -- AMID FASTING AND
[...] SUMMARY: Indonesia's over 200 million Muslims are observing the month of Ramadan in festive fashion with a constant round of Iftaar (breaking fast) events. Per local government orders, night clubs, massage parlors and saunas are shut, while karaoke and live music venues are maintaining limi [...]
2009-09-02 09:39:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KISL KIRF ID
09JAKARTA1466ELITE POLICE MOBILE BRIGADE -- A WAY FORWARD ON
[...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The USG's current training policy toward Mobile Brigade is counterproductive. Prohibiting this key law enforcement element from receiving ICITAP training prevents members from learning about INL-funded DOJ/ICITAP-develope [...]
2009-09-02 10:23:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PINS PHUM ASEC ID
09JAKARTA1467EARTHQUAKE OFF COAST OF JAVA
[...] (U) On September 2 at 2:55 p.m. local time, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck western Java, Indonesia. The earthquake was centered off the southern coast of Java, approximately 125 miles south of Jakarta, but could be felt throughout the capital. Jakarta citizens rushed out of their office [...]
2009-09-02 10:58:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV CASC ECON EAID SENV ID
09JAKARTA1470PARLIAMENT REVIEWS COUNTERTERRORISM LAW WITH AN
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Prodded by the July 17 bombings, Indonesia is reviewing its counterterrorism legislation. A proposed amendment to Indonesia's existing counterterrorism law would increase the potential detention period for suspected terrorists to a maximum of two years before charges are filed. [...]
2009-09-03 06:36:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER ASEC ID
09JAKARTA1471GOI RECEPTIVE TO U.S. "FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION"
[...] (C) SUMMARY: IO/RHS Director Keshap recently visited Jakarta. Keshap met with senior GOI officials to garner support for a draft resolution on "Freedom of Expression" to be tabled at the upcoming UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) session. The GOI indicated support for U.S. proposals aimed at [...]
2009-09-03 06:53:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KISL ID
09JAKARTA1473Food Security in Indonesia - It's About Fish
[...] Summary: Post proposes the establishment of an Indonesia-U.S. Center for Sustainable Ocean Fisheries. This joint research institute would explore and study waters that house the world's highest ocean biodiversity. The resulting science discoveries would help drive Indonesia and regional ocea [...]
2009-09-03 10:19:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR EAID KGHG SENV PGOV ID
09JAKARTA1481DISASTER DECLARATION Q INDONESIA: EARTHQUAKE OFF
[...] (U) This is an action message. Please see para 6. 2. (U) On September 2 at 2:55 p.m. local time, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of western Java, Indonesia, approximately 95 km south-southwest of the nearest heavily populated city, Bandung, and approximately 195 miles south [...]
2009-09-04 08:51:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV CASC ECON EAID SENV ID
09JAKARTA1484AMBASSADOR REVIEWS PROGRESS ON PARTNERSHIP WITH GOI
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Ambassador met with Ambassador Retno Marsudi of the Indonesian Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU) on September 4. The two reviewed the status of key items related to the Comprehensive Partnership. Marsudi asked when an advance team would come to Jakarta to make preparat [...]
2009-09-04 09:11:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON ID
09JAKARTA1487COUNTERTERRORISM -- OFFICIAL LAYS OUT GOI STRATEGY
[...] (C) SUMMARY: At a recent meeting with visiting S/CT Deputy Villarosa, a key GOI official underscored the importance of the Jakarta Center for Law Enforcement (JCLEC),and reviewed Indonesia's deradicalization and border control strategy. The official--while praising the police--noted the mi [...]
2009-09-04 10:30:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER ASEC ID
09JAKARTA1489PEACE CORPS SET TO RETURN
[...] No summary [...]
2009-09-04 10:36:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV ID
09JAKARTA1492IN ANOTHER FLARE UP, INDONESIANS LASH OUT AT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Indonesians have lashed out over the use of a traditional dance in a Malaysian tourist advertisement, claiming that the dance is Balinese in origin. This latest controversy feeds into previous Indonesian allegations of cultural misappropriation by Malaysia. On the positive side [...]
2009-09-08 05:07:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SCUL PBTS PTER ID MY
09JAKARTA1494ELECTION COMMISSION FINALLY ANNOUNCES SEAT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Indonesia's Election Commission has finally announced the results of the April 9 legislative elections for all areas but Papua (where the results of a vote re-run are pending). The results confirm that the President's party will have a plurality in the next Parliament, that t [...]
2009-09-08 08:06:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM ID
09JAKARTA1505USAID/OFDA ASSESSMENT OF JAVA EARTHQUAKE
[...] The immediate humanitarian needs of an estimated 25,000 displaced individuals following the September 4 earthquake in central Java are mostly being met by government and non- governmental agencies. The earthquake-related damage to homes and infrastructure is relatively small, is manageable b [...]
2009-09-10 03:13:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV CASC ECON EAID SENV ID
09JAKARTA152VP ADVISOR ON U.S. VISIT, STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP,
[...] (C) Vice President Jusuf Kalla looks forward to his upcoming visit to Washington, Senior Advisor Gembong Prijono told Pol/C on January 28. Kalla will attend the National Prayer Breakfast and hold events with the Indonesian community during the February 4-5 trip. He also hopes to meet Vice P [...]
2009-01-29 10:37:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF OVIP ID
09JAKARTA1521Locking in Progress for Broader Health Cooperation in
[...] (SBU) Your September 15 meeting with Health Minister Siti Fadillah Supari presents a critical opportunity to reset the stage for health and biomedical research cooperation with Indonesia. The Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono Presidency received a resounding majority mandate in his July re-election, [...]
2009-09-11 10:47:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDEAGR EAID KGHG SENV PGOV ID
09JAKARTA1526IRAN -- PRESSING THE GOI TO HELP ON AMCIT CASES
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Mission has urged the GOI to assist with Iran regarding the cases of six American citizens who are missing or detained there. Pol/C emphasized to Presidential Palace and Department of Foreign Affairs contacts that our objective is to ensure the safe return of all the AmCits to [...]
2009-09-14 10:10:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV CASC ID IR
09JAKARTA1528COUNTERTERRORISM -- PROPOSAL FOR ADDITIONAL USG
[...] (U) This is an Action Request. Please see para 8. 2. (C) SUMMARY: The Indonesian and Australian co-directors of the joint Jakarta Center for Law Enforcement Cooperation (JCLEC) told Pol/C on September 9 that they strongly support enhanced USG involvement in the Center's counterterrorism [...]
2009-09-14 11:03:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PTER ASEC ID
09JAKARTA1531KOSOVO -- PRESSING INDONESIA ON RECOGNITION
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Mission has urged the GOI to meet with Kosovo representatives on the margins of the upcoming UNGA. Noting that 62 countries have now recognized Kosovo, we again urged Indonesia to take that step. Presidential Palace and Department of Foreign Affairs contacts said they would brie [...]
2009-09-15 05:23:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV AORC PBTS ID KV
09JAKARTA1532FORCED OR CHILD LABOR -- INDONESIA'S RESPONSE TO
[...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Mission has reviewed USG points re the U.S. Department of Labor's list of goods produced by forced labor or child labor with Indonesian Department of Foreign Affairs and other contacts. Deputy [...]
2009-09-15 06:41:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV ECON ELAB ID
09JAKARTA1533ACEH: IMPLICATIONS OF NEW SHARIA LAW ALLOWING STONING
[...] (U) This cable is Sensitive but Unclassified. Please handle accordingly. This message was coordinated with Embassy Jakarta. 2. (SBU) Summary. Provincial leaders and civil society groups in Aceh have voiced strong concern and the Indonesian central government is considering the constituti [...]
2009-09-15 07:42:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL SOCI ID
09JAKARTA1537INDONESIA TO HOST "ASIA-AFRICA" CONFERENCE FOCUSED
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Indonesia has announced that it plans to host an "Asia-Africa" conference for senior officials in Jakarta in October. The conference will largely focus on Palestinian capacity-building, and comes against the backdrop of a technical conference on that subject sponsored by the GO [...]
2009-09-15 09:09:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV EAID ID XF
09JAKARTA154FORMER PRESIDENT MEGAWATI CONSIDERS SULTAN AS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The opposition Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) just finished its national conference. The key topic on the agenda was the party's choice for vice presidential candidate for the July presidential election. Most party regulars seem to agree that the Sultan of Yogya [...]
2009-01-29 10:55:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PDEM ID
09JAKARTA1555INTERFAITH DIALOGUE -- WORKING WITH INDONESIA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Mission is working closely with the GOI to finalize details of the proposed bilateral interfaith dialogue with the U.S. Poloff met recently with GOI officials to discuss key elements of the dialogue, which is slated to take place in Jakarta in November. The GOI is being very f [...]
2009-09-16 07:27:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KISL KPAO ID
09JAKARTA1561PAPUA -- MORE LOW-LEVEL VIOLENCE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: There has been more violence in Indonesia's Papua region. An unidentified armed group opened fire on September 12 in southern Papua, injuring two Indonesian employees of U.S. mining giant Freeport-McMoRan. GOI authorities are investigating the incident which comes against the [...]
2009-09-16 10:16:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PINS ECON ASEC ID
09JAKARTA1568INDONESIAN PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION -- PRESSING
[...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (U) Indonesia's People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) will inaugurate Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono for his second term as President and Boediono (one name only) as Vice President on October 20. Although the MPR doe [...]
2009-09-17 07:02:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KDEM OVIP ID
09JAKARTA1569CENTRAL GOVERNMENT TO REVIEW CONTROVERSIAL ACEH
[...] (U) This message was coordinated with Consulate Medan. 2. (C) SUMMARY: Stepping in to try to quell a firestorm of outrage, President Yudhoyono's spokesman has announced that the central government would work to strike down a controversial new Sharia bylaw in Aceh on constitutional ground [...]
2009-09-17 08:46:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KISL SOCI ID
09JAKARTA157NEW G-20 SHERPA URGES ACTION AND COMMITMENT TO FIGHT
[...] (SBU) The credibility of the G-20 is at risk unless its members implement their commitments, according to Indonesia's new sherpa. Deputy Minister at the Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs Mahendra Siregar lamented that G-20 countries were unable to revive the WTO Doha round in December. [...]
2009-01-30 06:25:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEFIN PREL PGOV ID
09JAKARTA1572MAJOR COUNTERTERRORIST OPERATION IN CENTRAL JAVA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Indonesian National Police (INP) raided a suspected terrorist safe house in Solo, Central Java, September 16-17. While details continue to emerge, at least four people were reportedly killed and up to three arrested during the incident. Indonesia's most-wanted terrorist No [...]
2009-09-17 11:08:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER PINS ASEC ID
09JAKARTA1574Dozens Feared Dead in Massive North Sumatra Floods
[...] (U) This message was coordinated with Embassy Jakarta. 2. (U) Widespread flooding caused by heavy rains in the Mandaling Natal Regency in the interior of the province of North Sumatra on September 15 resulted in at least 15 deaths with at least 38 more people missing and feared dead. Flash [...]
2009-09-18 05:41:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV SENV EAID ID
09JAKARTA1579EID HOLIDAYS IN INDONESIA -- THE MASS EXODUS BEGINS
[...] SUMMARY: With the close of Ramadan fasting approaching, Indonesia--the world's largest Muslim country by population--is bracing for a mass exodus of millions from urban areas to home villages. Almost 25 million people are expected to head home during the two-week period surrounding the Eid- [...]
2009-09-18 09:11:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KISL KIRF ECON ID
09JAKARTA1580INDONESIAN COUNTERTERRORISM SUCCESS CONTINUES, BUT
[...] This is an action request. Please see paragraph 8. 2. (C) SUMMARY: The apparent slaying of terrorist leader Noordin M. Top is the latest and most prominent in a string of GOI counterterrorism successes. The police have stated that fingerprint analysis has confirmed Top was killed in a [...]
2009-09-18 11:07:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER PINS ASEC ID
09JAKARTA1581INDONESIAN COUNTERTERRORISM SUCCESS CONTINUES, BUT
[...] This is an action request. Please see paragraph 8. 2. (C) SUMMARY: The apparent slaying of terrorist leader Noordin M. Top is the latest and most prominent in a string of GOI counterterrorism successes. The police have stated that fingerprint analysis has confirmed Top was killed in a [...]
2009-09-18 11:16:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER PINS ASEC ID
09JAKARTA1584TIMOR-LESTE -- INDONESIAN VIEWS ON RELEASE OF
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Mission has reviewed with GOI contacts reftel points related to the recent release from detention by authorities in Timor-Leste of former militia leader Martenus Bere. GOI contacts confirmed that they are working with the GOTL to ensure the return of Bere--who is now in the cust [...]
2009-09-23 07:07:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ID TT
09JAKARTA1587WITH DEATH OF KEY TERRORIST CONFIRMED, POLICE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Through a six-tissue DNA sample testing process, the GOI has confirmed the death of terrorist leader Noordin M. Top. Top and several associates were killed in a police operation in Central Java, September 16-17. The Indonesian government plans to repatriate the remains to Mala [...]
2009-09-23 10:42:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER PINS ASEC ID
09JAKARTA1597ONCE KEY POLITICAL PARTY SEARCHES FOR NEW LEADER
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Indonesia's Golkar Party is facing a leadership fight which is slated to be decided by early October. With current party head Vice President Kalla stepping down soon, a number of challengers have emerged for the Golkar chair job, including: Coordinating Minister for the People' [...]
2009-09-24 09:03:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM ID
09JAKARTA1599INDONESIA'S LABOR MOVEMENT GAINS IN MEMBERS, BUT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Experts differ in their assessment of the future of Indonesia's labor movement. Forces that bode well for the survival and growth of the movement include: an increasingly educated work force that is demanding its rights (as witnessed by climbing labor union penetration in the [...]
2009-09-24 10:49:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV ELAB ECON PREL ID
09JAKARTA160PAPUA -- ACTIVIST ACQUITTED IN HIGH-PROFILE CASE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Papuan human rights activist Sabar Iwanggin has been cleared of incitement to violence charges. The prosecution--which alleged that he had sent inflammatory text messages--committed many missteps during the year-long trial and ultimately failed to prove its case. Human rights g [...]
2009-01-30 09:31:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS ID
09JAKARTA1601VICE PRESIDENT-ELECT BOEDIONO CONFIDENT INDONESIA
[...] (C) Summary: In a September 24 meeting with Ambassador and DCM, Vice President-elect Boediono (one name only) welcomed the strengthening of bilateral relations, urged continued deepening of people-to people ties, asked whether U.S. companies wanted to invest in clean energy in Indonesia, and i [...]
2009-09-24 11:06:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALBEXP EAID ECON ETRD ID KJUS PGOV PREL SENV
09JAKARTA1604DOES INDONESIA NEED A TWO YEAR EXTRAJUDICIAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Indonesian Parliament has recently proposed amending the terrorism law to permit two year police detention without the filing of charges. Such a provision, similar to the Internal Security Acts in Malaysia and Singapore, does not appear necessary and may prove counterproduc [...]
2009-09-25 06:51:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALID PGOV PREL PTER
09JAKARTA1605CENTRAL JAVA VILLAGERS PRESS ANTI-TERRORIST MESSAGE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Protesters have taken to the streets in Central Java to block the burial of several terrorists who were killed with Noordin M. Top in a police operation, September 16-17. The villagers involved see the terrorists as an embarrassment to Indonesia and do not want the remains in t [...]
2009-09-25 07:37:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PTER PINS ASEC ID
09JAKARTA1609UNESCO -- GOI SEEKS U.S. SUPPORT FOR KEY HERITAGE
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The GOI has sent Mission a diplomatic note requesting that the USG support Indonesia's candidacy for the UNESCO World Heritage Committee during upcoming meetings in Paris. We urge that Department seriously consider Indonesia's candidacy. END SUMMARY. GOI PRESSES CANDIDACY FO [...]
2009-09-25 09:46:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV SCUL ID
09JAKARTA1611AMBASSADOR HEARS KEY GOI OFFICIAL ON PLANNED
[...] (C) In a September 25 meeting, Ambassador Retno Marsudi of the Indonesian Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU) asked the Ambassador about the status of the planned visit of President Obama. He responded that there was still no definitive answer regarding whether President Obama would visit [...]
2009-09-25 10:11:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ID
09JAKARTA1613KEY ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION FACES INCREASED
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Indonesian police have charged Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) officials with alleged abuse of power and the KPK has suspended them from their duties. The charges are the latest twist in ongoing jousting between elements of the GOI about the activities of the KPK. [...]
2009-09-28 06:42:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KCOR ECON ID
09JAKARTA162ROHINGYAS -- IOM ASSISTING INDONESIA TO ASSESS
[...] (U) This message contains an Action Request -- Please see para 12. 2. (C) SUMMARY: The International Organization for Migration (IOM) and the Indonesian Department of Foreign Affairs (Deplu) began interviewing January 28 the 193 Burmese and Bangladeshi boat people living in a military ca [...]
2009-01-30 11:16:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF ID BM
09JAKARTA1625WITH CIVIL SOCIETY UP IN ARMS, PARLIAMENT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The President's Office and legislators have postponed for further review a contentious state secrecy bill. The draft bill would control access to documents and information based on national security concerns. Indonesian civil society has criticized the draft, asserting that it [...]
2009-09-29 07:43:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM KPAO PHUM ID
09JAKARTA1628BURMA -- INDONESIA WELCOMES NEW U.S. APPROACH
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOI has welcomed the new U.S. approach on Burma. Speaking in New York, Foreign Minister Wirajuda publicly praised the USG's decision to begin a direct dialogue with the Burmese authorities, and called on Burma to respond with positive steps regarding Aung San Suu Kyi and ot [...]
2009-09-29 10:27:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KDEM ID BM
09JAKARTA163VICE PRESIDENT KALLA'S U.S. VISIT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: On January 30, DCM met with Farid Husain, a close associate of Indonesian Vice President Kalla. DCM urged that Kalla use his upcoming meetings in Washington to convey Indonesia's readiness to enter into a strategic partnership with the United States based on President Yudhoyono [...]
2009-01-30 11:39:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV OVIP ID
09JAKARTA1633REQUEST FOR FISCAL YEAR 2010 JOINT INTERAGENCY
[...] This message is Sensitive, but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (U) SUMMARY: This is a request for fiscal year 2010 (FY10) Joint Interagency Taskforce West (JIATF West) support in Indonesia, as defined and authorized by the National Defense Authorization Act of 1991 (as amende [...]
2009-09-30 08:51:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV PREL ASEC ID SNAR MASS KCRM
09JAKARTA1638PAPUA -- CONTINUED PROBLEMS, AND POSSIBLE NEW
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Eastern Indonesia's Papua and West Papua provinces remain troubled. The region is politically marginalized and many Papuans harbor separatist aspirations. Low-level violence continues, including a series of shootings near an American-owned mine, although it poses little immedia [...]
2009-09-30 10:00:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PNAT ECON ID
09JAKARTA1643 DISASTER DECLARATION: EARTHQUAKE IN WEST SUMATERA,
[...] This is an action request. Please see paras 2 and 8. 2. Action request: Mission requests USAID Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) consideration, approval and transmission of fund cite to allow for the transfer of USD300, 000 to support emergency response interventions for [...]
2009-10-01 09:47:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV CASC ECON EAID SENV ID
09JAKARTA1645 EARTHQUAKE IN WEST SUMATRA: SITREP 1
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-01 10:59:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDCASC EAID ECON ID PGOV SENV
09JAKARTA1648WEST SUMATRA EARTHQUAKE: REQUEST DOD ASSISTANCE
[...] Embassy Jakarta is formally requesting Department of Defense assistance. We ask that the Department forward this request to DOD as quickly as possible. 2. At the request of the Government of Indonesia, Embassy Jakarta is requesting: * That the US C-130 which is in Indonesia for Exercise [...]
2009-10-02 03:51:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV CASC ECON EAID SENV ID
09JAKARTA1651 WEST SUMATRA EARTHQUAKE: SITREP 2
[...] The following information is current as of 11:00 local time. CONDITIONS ON THE GROUND 2. There have been no reports of significant aftershocks since the major earthquake of September 30 (reftel). However, any buildings over two stories have either collapsed or sustained extensive damag [...]
2009-10-02 08:45:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV CASC ECON EAID SENV ID
09JAKARTA1652 WEST SUMATRA EARTHQUAKE: SITREP 3
[...] The following information is current as of 17:00 local time. CONDITIONS ON THE GROUND 2. Search and rescue operations continue. Road access continues to be severely limited, with three of the four major access roads into Padang completed closed and the fourth severely damaged. Although [...]
2009-10-02 10:55:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV CASC ECON EAID SENV ID
09JAKARTA1653NEW INDONESIAN PARLIAMENT FACES HIGH EXPECTATIONS
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: With President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono's (SBY) Democratic Party (PD) and its coalition partners firmly in control of the newly inaugurated parliament, President Yudhoyono has the consensus government he's been seeking. Given the President's solid majority, many analysts ex [...]
2009-10-02 12:45:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KDEM ID
09JAKARTA1654 WEST SUMATRA EARTHQUAKE: SITREP 4
[...] The following information is current as of Saturday, October 3, 1100 hours, local time. CONDITIONS ON THE GROUND 2. Search and rescue operations continue. There are reports that approximately 60 people may be trapped in the Ambachang hotel, which caters to foreigners. Major roads are [...]
2009-10-03 05:51:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV CASC ECON EAID SENV ID
09JAKARTA1666 MGEAP1: INDONESIA EARTHQUAKE HUMANITARIAN UPDATE #1:
[...] In response to the magnitude 7.6 earthquake that occurred off the coast of Sumatra Island, Indonesia, the U.S. Government (USG) has begun providing humanitarian assistance to support Government of Indonesia (GoI) response efforts. Nine members of the USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team (U [...]
2009-10-05 09:53:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV CASC ECON EAID SENV ID PHUM AEMR ASEC
09JAKARTA1668 MGEAP1: WEST SUMATRA EARTHQUAKE - SITREP 5
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-05 11:00:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDAEMR ASEC PGOV CASC MARR ECON PREL PINR AMGT EAID
09JAKARTA1669COMPREHENSIVE PARTNERSHIP--FOCUSED ON MAINTAINING
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOI and U.S. must maintain momentum on the Comprehensive Partnership and conclude the Peace Corps agreement soon, Department of Foreign Affairs Director for North and Central America Bunyan Saptomo told visiting EAP/MTS Director Joseph Yun on September 28. In a separate mee [...]
2009-10-06 02:31:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ECON ID
09JAKARTA1671 MGEAP1: WEST SUMATRA EARTHQUAKE - SITREP 5
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-06 03:33:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYAEMR ASEC PGOV CASC MARR ECON PREL PINR AMGT EAID
09JAKARTA1674PARLIAMENT PASSES LAW REVAMPING ANTI-CORRUPTION
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Indonesian Parliament has passed a new Anti-Corruption Court (ACC) law. If Parliament had not passed the bill before the session ended on September 30, the ACC could have become unconstitutional per an earlier court ruling. Civil society sees the law as inadequate, and not [...]
2009-10-06 04:37:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KCOR ID
09JAKARTA1675 MGEAP1: INDONESIA EARTHQUAKE HUMANITARIAN UPDATE #2
[...] In response to the September 30 earthquake, an 11-member USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team (USAID/DART) is in Indonesia. Search and rescue operations have ceased. Damage reports from affected areas are preliminary, with the Rapid Joint Assessment results and the Humanitarian Response Pl [...]
2009-10-06 09:42:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV CASC ECON EAID SENV ID PHUM AEMR ASEC
09JAKARTA1677GOI ANNOUNCES CHOICES FOR KEY LEGISLATIVE POSTS
[...] (U) An Action Request is contained in Para 6. 2. (C) SUMMARY: President Yudhoyono's Partai Demokrat (PD) has selected Marzuki Alie to be Indonesia's next Speaker of the House of Representatives. PD has also given the nod to Taufik Kiemas--the husband of former president Megawati--to be [...]
2009-10-06 10:29:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM ID
09JAKARTA1685SINO-INDONESIAN RELATIONS -- POLITICAL WARINESS AS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOI views its deepening ties with the United States as an important element of a strategy to maintain regional balance in light of expanding Chinese influence. Sino-Indonesian ties are currently dominated by booming trade relations, which have in turn brought concerns that [...]
2009-10-07 08:01:00Embassy JakartaSECRETPREL PGOV MARR ECON ID CH
09JAKARTA1688 MGEAP1: INDONESIA EARTHQUAKE HUMANITARIAN UPDATE #3
[...] As of October 6, the September 30 earthquake in Indonesia has resulted in at least 704 deaths and left an additional 295 people missing. Preliminary damage assessments indicate that the humanitarian situation in Padang is stabilizing. The cluster system in Padang appears well managed and hig [...]
2009-10-07 10:20:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV CASC ECON EAID SENV ID PHUM AEMR ASEC
09JAKARTA1690COUNTERTERRORISM UPDATE -- GOI KEEPS UP THE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In this counterterrorism update: a well-known terrorist suspect has surrendered to authorities in Central Java as the Indonesian government maintains its high operational tempo in response to the July 17 Jakarta bombings. In the meantime, the GOI has provided the remains of te [...]
2009-10-07 10:55:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER ASEC ID
09JAKARTA1698 MGEAP1: INDONESIA EARTHQUAKE HUMANITARIAN UPDATE #3
[...] The September 30 earthquake damaged or destroyed approximately 210,000 houses and affected at least 1.2 million people. Field assessments conducted by the USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team (USAID/DART) indicate needs for food, safe drinking water, and shelter interventions. The U.N. Of [...]
2009-10-08 10:21:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV CASC ECON EAID SENV ID PHUM AEMR ASEC
09JAKARTA1699KEY PARTY PICKS NEW LEADER IN WIN FOR PRESIDENT
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The Golkar Party selected Aburizal Bakrie, Coordinating Minister for the People's Welfare, as its chair on October 8. Bakrie replaces Vice President Jusuf Kalla, who challenged President Yudhoyono in the recent election and lost. Bakrie is hugely wealthy and his victory was exp [...]
2009-10-08 10:57:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM ID
09JAKARTA17MINISTRY OF LAW SECRETARY GENERAL DISCUSSES NEED FOR HUMAN
[...] (SBU) On December 31, 2008, the Deputy Chief of Mission met with Abdul Bari Azed, Secretary General of the Ministry of Law and Human Rights. Azed described the various justice sector bills that his Ministry was responsible for drafting, including the corruption and judicial commission bills. [...]
2009-01-06 09:05:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KCRM KJUS PHUM ID
09JAKARTA1705 MGEAP1: INDONESIA EARTHQUAKE HUMANITARIAN UPDATE #4
[...] The September 30 earthquake damaged or destroyed approximately 210,000 houses and affected at least 1.2 million people. Field assessments conducted by the USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team (USAID/DART) indicate needs for food, safe drinking water, and shelter interventions. The U.N. Of [...]
2009-10-09 04:27:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV CASC ECON EAID SENV ID PHUM AEMR ASEC
09JAKARTA1709CORRUPTION UPDATE -- HEADLINE-GRABBING TRIAL OF
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The high profile trial of former Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) chief Antasari Azhar began in Jakarta on October 8. The arrest of Azhar earlier this year set off a chain of recriminations and investigations by the police into the KPK--and vice versa. Separately, a poli [...]
2009-10-09 08:13:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KCOR ID
09JAKARTA1710MURDER OF ACTIVIST MUNIR -- PROGRESS MADE AFTER
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Well-known human rights activist Munir Said Thalib was murdered just over five years ago. So far, the Indonesian government has convicted three people for involvement in the crime. The GOI is still working to convict remaining suspect--former top intelligence official Muchdi P [...]
2009-10-09 09:35:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS ID
09JAKARTA1712 MGEAP1: INDONESIA EARTHQUAKE HUMANITARIAN UPDATE #5
[...] The USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team (USAID/DART) continues to assess areas affected by the September 30 earthquake off the coast of West Sumatra. On October 9, the USAID/DART conducted aerial assessments of areas northeast of the epicenter of the earthquake, as well as areas south of [...]
2009-10-09 10:35:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV CASC ECON EAID SENV ID PHUM AEMR ASEC
09JAKARTA1713TWO TERROR SUSPECTS REPORTEDLY KILLED IN POLICE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Exact details remain a bit sketchy, but Indonesian National Police (INP) reportedly killed two hotly-pursued terrorists, Saifuddin Jaelani and Mohammad Syahir, in a counterterrorist operation conducted near Jakarta, October 9. The two brothers were close associates of terrorist [...]
2009-10-09 10:40:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER ASEC ID
09JAKARTA1715 MGEAP1: INDONESIA EARTHQUAKE HUMANITARIAN UPDATE #6:
[...] Since arriving in Padang, West Sumatra, the USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team (USAID/DART) has conducted assessments of areas affected by the September 30 earthquake to determine priority humanitarian needs. Preliminary assessment results indicate a widespread need for shelter intervent [...]
2009-10-13 10:33:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV CASC ECON EAID SENV ID PHUM AEMR ASEC
09JAKARTA1716COUNTERTERRORISM -- GOI REAPS MORE SUCCESS AND
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOI has confirmed that two well-known terrorists were killed during an October 9 police operation near Jakarta. The two were close associates of terrorist leader Noordin M. Top, who was himself killed in a police operation, September 16-17. With the deaths of the two, the [...]
2009-10-13 10:47:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL PTER ASEC ID
09JAKARTA172DCM AND INDONESIAN PARLIAMENTARIANS DISCUSS
[...] (U) SUMMARY. DCM hosted a third parliamentary outreach working lunch in advance of a January 26-29 legislative reform visit to Washington. The working lunch series was established in response to the Indonesian Parliament's request for expanded cooperation on parliamentary capacity-building. [...]
2009-02-03 04:45:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KDEM ID
09JAKARTA1726 INDONESIA EARTHQUAKE HUMANITARIAN UPDATE #7: USAID/DART
[...] The USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team (USAID/DART) continues to assess emergency shelter needs, in light of recent reports that the September 30 earthquake damaged more than 265,000 houses and destroyed the majority of brick kilns that serve affected areas. Following an assessment in th [...]
2009-10-14 09:37:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV CASC ECON EAID SENV ID PHUM AEMR ASEC
09JAKARTA1727INDONESIAN PRESIDENT FOCUSES ON CABINET SELECTION
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The press is having a field day watching who is coming and going from President Yudhoyono's weekend home as he began interviewing possible cabinet ministers this past weekend. Time is growing short as he plans to announce his cabinet picks immediately after his October 20 ina [...]
2009-10-14 11:35:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM ECON ID
09JAKARTA1728SRI LANKAN IRREGULAR MIGRANTS STOPPED BY
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Irregular migrants from Sri Lanka are swelling the number of potential refugees seeking to transit Indonesia on their way to Australia. On October 12 an Indonesian warship intercepted a cargo ship that was carrying 253 Sri Lankan refugees in the Sunda Strait between West Java an [...]
2009-10-14 11:58:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PREF ID BM CE AF
09JAKARTA1734 INDONESIA EARTHQUAKE HUMANITARIAN UPDATE #8
[...] The Government of Indonesia (GoI) has reported that the official death toll from the September 30 is 1,115 people. During the October 13 to 15 visit of the U.N. Emergency Relief Coordinator, the USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team (USAID/DART) raised the issue of coordination with the U. [...]
2009-10-15 10:02:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV CASC ECON EAID SENV ID PHUM AEMR ASEC
09JAKARTA1743 INDONESIA EARTHQUAKE HUMANITARIAN UPDATE #9: FIELD
[...] The USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team (USAID/DART) field officer has assessed the need for emergency water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) programs following the September 30 earthquake off the coast of West Sumatra. While the earthquake damaged water and sanitation infrastructure, fami [...]
2009-10-16 09:14:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV CASC ECON EAID SENV ID PHUM AEMR ASEC
09JAKARTA1747PEACEKEEPING -- A HIGH-LEVEL PRIORITY FOR THE GOI
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The recent deployment of Indonesian military peacekeepers to the Democratic Republic of Congo, as well as continuing deployments to Lebanon and Sudan, demonstrate the high priority the GOI places on UN peacekeeping participation. The GOI's commitment to peacekeeping missions an [...]
2009-10-16 10:32:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL UNSC MOPS ASEC ID CG LE SU
09JAKARTA175IMPACT OF THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS ON EAST
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: The global financial crisis is having a significant impact on the natural resource dependent economy and politics of East Kalimantan, Indonesia's second largest province. The drop in commodity prices is slowing illegal logging, but deforestation continues. Furthermore, the inab [...]
2009-02-03 11:27:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL EFIN ECON ETRD SENV EAID ID
09JAKARTA1753 INDONESIA EARTHQUAKE HUMANITARIAN UPDATE #10: FOOD
[...] The USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team (USAID/DART) has assessed food security and agriculture conditions in earthquake-affected Agam, Pariaman, and Padang Pariaman districts. The earthquake resulted in the loss of many families' rice stocks and damaged irritation infrastructure considera [...]
2009-10-19 08:57:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV CASC ECON EAID SENV ID PHUM AEMR ASEC
09JAKARTA1756 INDONESIA EARTHQUAKE HUMANITARIAN UPDATE #11: SNAPSHOT OF
[...] The USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team (USAID/DART) is continually assessing the dynamic emergency shelter conditions of areas affected by the September 30 earthquake, which severely damaged nearly 140,000 houses. Little displacement has occurred, as most families are living under tarps [...]
2009-10-19 10:34:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV CASC ECON EAID SENV ID PHUM AEMR ASEC
09JAKARTA176MORE ROHINGYAS ARRIVE IN INDONESIA
[...] (C) SUMMARY. A second boatload of 198 Rohingyas landed off the eastern coast of Indonesia's Aceh Province on February 3. Interviews with the initial group of 193 Rohingyas/Bangladeshis currently housed on Sabang Island in Aceh were scheduled to conclude on February 3. DepPol/C stressed ag [...]
2009-02-03 12:19:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF PGOV ID BM
09JAKARTA1765INDONESIAN PRESIDENT STARTS SECOND TERM ON A
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: A packed house of enthusiastic well-wishers watched as President Yudhoyono and Vice President-elect Boediono were sworn into office on October 20. The inauguration was attended by five heads of state and special delegations from eight countries, including THE U.S. Presidential [...]
2009-10-20 10:55:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL KDEM ECON SENV ID
09JAKARTA1766SHAPE OF NEW INDONESIAN CABINET EMERGES DESPITE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: After weeks of frenzied media speculation, Indonesians were expecting to learn today who President Yudhoyono had selected for his new cabinet. Although most of the positions are pencilled in, analysts speculate that the delay could be due to a last-minute attempt by Yudhoyono to [...]
2009-10-21 11:27:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM ID PREL
09JAKARTA1767CHAIR OF REGIONAL ASSEMBLY AGREES ON NEED TO
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Newly-elected Chair of the Regional Representative Assembly (DPD) Irman Gusman told the DCM that the recently-passed Aceh province law that mandated the stoning to death of adulterers needed to be closely reviewed to determine whether it was in accordance with the constitution. [...]
2009-10-22 03:01:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM ID
09JAKARTA1771MOVING FORWARD ON INTERFAITH DIALOGUE AND BALI
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Umar Hadi, Director for Public Diplomacy at the Department of Foreign Affairs (DEPLU),confirmed in his recent meeting with CDA that the GOI remained committed to holding an interfaith dialogue with the U.S. Hadi welcomed high level U.S. participation in both the Bali Democracy F [...]
2009-10-22 11:58:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV KISL KPAO ID
09JAKARTA1773PROMISING ALLIES FOR COMPREHENSIVE PARTNERSHIP IN
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-23 00:05:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM ID PREL
09JAKARTA1774PROMISING ALLIES FOR COMPREHENSIVE PARTNERSHIP IN
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-23 00:06:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM ID PREL
09JAKARTA1776 INDONESIA EARTHQUAKE HUMANITARIAN UPDATE #12: PROGRAM
[...] In response to the September 30 earthquake in West Sumatra, the USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team (USAID/DART) has programmed more than $5.2 million in humanitarian programs. Current implementing partners include the American Red Cross, the Indonesian Red Cross (PMI),Mercy Corps, Inter [...]
2009-10-23 06:57:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV CASC ECON EAID SENV ID PHUM AEMR ASEC
09JAKARTA1782INDONESIA'S PROMISING NEW FOREIGN MINISTER
[...] (U) This message contains Action Requests, please see paragraphs 7 and 8. 2. (C) SUMMARY: President Yudhoyono has signaled a continuation of his pragmatic and moderate foreign policy with his choice for Indonesia's new Foreign Minister. Dr. Marty Natalegawa, known for his quick wit and [...]
2009-10-26 06:44:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIAL//NOFORNPREL PGOV KDEM ID
09JAKARTA1783 INDONESIA EARTHQUAKE HUMANITARIAN UPDATE #14: USAID/DART
[...] On September 30, a magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck off the coast of Sumatra Island. In response, Post issued a disaster declaration, and a USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team (USAID/DART) deployed to Padang, West Sumatra Province. To date, the USAID/DART has programmed nearly $5.3 millio [...]
2009-10-26 10:42:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV CASC ECON EAID SENV ID PHUM AEMR ASEC
09JAKARTA1784 INDONESIA EARTHQUAKE HUMANITARIAN UPDATE #13: SHELTER AND
[...] The combination of widespread, spontaneous shelter recovery by households affected by the September 30 earthquake and emerging humanitarian action in the shelter and settlements sector is beginning to address post-earthquake shelter needs. In many instances observed by the USAID Disaster Assi [...]
2009-10-26 10:44:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV CASC ECON EAID SENV ID PHUM AEMR ASEC
09JAKARTA1786 INDONESIA EARTHQUAKE HUMANITARIAN UPDATE #13: SHELTER AND
[...] The combination of widespread, spontaneous shelter recovery by households affected by the September 30 earthquake and emerging humanitarian action in the shelter and settlements sector is beginning to address post-earthquake shelter needs. In many instances observed by the USAID Disaster Assi [...]
2009-10-26 14:06:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV CASC ECON EAID SENV ID PHUM AEMR ASEC
09JAKARTA1787 INDONESIA EARTHQUAKE HUMANITARIAN UPDATE #14: USAID/DART
[...] On September 30, a magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck off the coast of Sumatra Island. In response, Post issued a disaster declaration, and a USAID Disaster Assistance Response Team (USAID/DART) deployed to Padang, West Sumatra Province. To date, the USAID/DART has programmed nearly $5.3 millio [...]
2009-10-26 14:07:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV CASC ECON EAID SENV ID PHUM AEMR ASEC
09JAKARTA1788NEW HEAD OF INDONESIAN PARLIAMENT COMMITTEE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Kemal Stamboel is the new chair of Indonesia's parliamentary commission dealing with foreign policy and defense. He should prove to be a productive interlocutor for the U.S. on critical policy issues. An experienced businessman with a U.S. education and a solid knowledge of [...]
2009-10-27 04:17:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM ID
09JAKARTA1790MUSLIM ORGANIZATION PRODUCING MOVIE FOCUSED ON
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Muhammadiyah--one of Indonesia's largest Muslim organizations with over 35 million members--is producing a movie designed to promote religious tolerance. Muhammadiyah has teamed up with Indonesian National Intelligence (BIN),the police, and an ex-leader of the terrorist group J [...]
2009-10-27 10:21:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KISL ID
09JAKARTA1791COUNTERNARCOTICS -- NEW LEGISLATION STRENGTHENS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: With the recent signing of a new narcotics law, the Indonesian National Counternarcotics Board (BNN) emerged with a new structure and greatly expanded investigative powers. BNN is now an independent law enforcement agency that reports directly to the President's Office, and has [...]
2009-10-28 05:44:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV SNAR PREL ASEC ID
09JAKARTA1793AS MIGRANT FLOWS INCREASE, GOI AND AUSTRALIA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOI has intercepted another group of Sri Lankan migrants traveling by boat in Indonesian waters. The GOI is detaining the migrants, who were on their way to Australia. These 78 migrants join 255 Sri Lankans who are being held by the Indonesian government after their boat was [...]
2009-10-28 08:07:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PREF PGOV ID AS CE
09JAKARTA1799INDONESIA'S SUPREME COURT GAINS TRACTION IN REFORM
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In his first year as Chief Justice of Indonesia's Supreme Court, Harifin Tumpa has demonstrated a strong commitment to reforming Indonesia's judiciary. Under Tumpa,s leadership, the court has instituted a code of conduct and undertaken human resource and financial management re [...]
2009-10-29 07:49:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KJUS KDEM ID
09JAKARTA181PRIMER ON THE 2009 INDONESIAN ELECTIONS
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Indonesia is gearing up for its national legislative elections in April. Parties winning the most votes in the legislative elections will be well poised to field candidates in the July presidential election. Indonesians are working hard to ensure the smooth running of this seri [...]
2009-02-04 10:20:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM ID
09JAKARTA1810ACEH'S NEW SHARIA LAW DISTURBING BUT NOT ENFORCEABLE
[...] (U) This cable is Sensitive but Unclassified. Please handle accordingly. This message was coordinated with Embassy Jakarta. 2. (SBU) Summary. The September 14, 2009 local Sharia law passed by Aceh Provincial Parliament (DPRA) imposing stoning for adultery is highly unlikely to ever be im [...]
2009-10-30 08:23:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL SOCI ID
09JAKARTA1811MCC FY10 INDONESIA SCORECARD A "SHOCKER"
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. AN EMBASSY OFFICIAL DELIVERED THE MCC FY10 SCORECARD FOR INDONESIA TO THE GOVERNMENT OF INDONESIA (GOI) ON TUESDAY OCTOBER 27, 2009. A SENIOR INDONESIAN OFFICIAL EXPRESSED SHOCK AT THE RATINGS AND DEEP CONCERN OVER PUBLIC PERCEPTIONS IT MIGHT TRIGGER. THE OFFICIAL WORRIED THA [...]
2009-10-30 08:25:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREL PGOV ETRD ECON KMCA MCC ID
09JAKARTA1812MCC FY10 INDONESIA SCORECARD A QSHOCKER
[...] No summary [...]
2009-10-30 08:33:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREL PGOV ETRD ECON KMCA MCC ID
09JAKARTA1813BURMA -- BRIEFING INDONESIA ON NEW U.S. APPROACH
[...] (U) SUMMARY: Mission continues to engage Indonesian government and civil society on the results of the USG's Burma policy review. GOI officials praise the U.S. commitment to use a judicious mix of engagement, sanctions, and international and regional coordination to address the situation. [...]
2009-10-30 10:11:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV ID BM
09JAKARTA1815BUREAUCRATIC TUSSLE INVOLVING KEY ANTI-CORRUPTION
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The ongoing bureaucratic tussle between Indonesia's police and its Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) continues to ramp up. Despite legal recommendations that it drop its investigation of the KPK, the police instead have arrested two suspended KPK commissioners. In a furth [...]
2009-10-30 10:24:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KJUS KCOR ID
09JAKARTA1819 INDONESIA EARTHQUAKE HUMANITARIAN UPDATE #15: USAID/OFDA
[...] On October 28, USAID/OFDA Field Officers (FO) visited International Medical Corps' (IMC) Mobile Health Clinics in Padang Pariaman. On October 30, the field officers visited Mercy Corps' distribution in Agam District. The field officers found no urgent humanitarian needs. Both programs are ru [...]
2009-11-02 09:44:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV CASC ECON EAID SENV ID PHUM AEMR ASEC
09JAKARTA182ROHINGYA BOAT PEOPLE HOSTED BY ACEHNESE COMMUNITY
[...] (U) This message was coordinated with Consulate Medan and Consulate General Surabaya. 2. (C) SUMMARY: The 198 Rohingyas that landed in northern Aceh on February 2 are being well cared for by members of the Acehnese community. The local government has asked the International Organization [...]
2009-02-04 10:55:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV PREF ID BM PK AF
09JAKARTA1820SCENSCETTER FOR VISIT OF SPECIAL ADVISOR EINHORN
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: Special Advisor Einhorn, Embassy Jakarta warmly welcomes your visit. Indonesia and the United States are key partners in promoting democracy and security in Southeast Asia and have growing cooperation on nonproliferation. The GOI is favorably disposed toward what it views as [...]
2009-11-02 10:47:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PTER PGOV MNUC ECON AORC IAEA ID
09JAKARTA1824COUNTERNARCOTICS -- U.S.-INDONESIA COOPERATION
[...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Engagement with the GOI on counternarcotics remains a high Mission priority. On October 23, the DCM met with Indonesian National Narcotics Board (BNN) officials to discuss the new GOI narcotics l [...]
2009-11-04 04:10:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL SNAR ASEC ID
09JAKARTA1832Ambassador Hume Expresses Concerns on Status of Peace Corps
[...] (U) This telegram contains an action request, please see para. 6. 2. (SBU) Summary: Ambassador Hume met with Bunyan Saptomo, Director of North and Central American Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on November 4 to discuss the remaining issues on completing Peace Corps' Memoran [...]
2009-11-04 12:26:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID USAID PREL PGOV ID
09JAKARTA1835INDONESIA PREPARES FOR THE HAJJ
[...] SUMMARY: With the start of the Hajj pilgrimage quickly approaching, Indonesia--the world's largest Muslim country by population--is making massive preparations for the annual pilgrimage to Mecca. Indonesia is the largest contributor to the Hajj, sending over 200,000 pilgrims. Amid the regul [...]
2009-11-05 04:26:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KISL KIRF ID SA
09JAKARTA1837ESTABLISHING A DIALOGUE WITH INDONESIA'S NEW
[...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: In October 30 meetings with the Ambassador, newly-elected Indonesian legislative leaders expressed their commitment to working with the U.S. to achieve Comprehensive Partnership goals. They di [...]
2009-11-05 09:37:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KDEM ID
09JAKARTA1843GERMAN RED CROSS REP SHOT IN DRIVEBY ATTACK
[...] (SBU) Summary. German national Dr. Erhard Bauer, head of the German Red Cross in Indonesia, was shot in a drive-by shooting on the early evening of November 5. Dr. Bauer was riding in the front passenger seat of a clearly marked German Red Cross vehicle. The assailant fired from the back of [...]
2009-11-06 09:42:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL ASEC CASC SOCI ID
09JAKARTA1845TOP LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICIALS RESIGN AMID SCANDAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: In a dramatic reversal, the two Indonesian Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) Commissioners arrested by the police on October 29 have been released, and the Indonesian National Police,s (INP) Chief of the Criminal Investigation Division and the Vice Attorney General implicat [...]
2009-11-06 11:28:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV ECON KJUS KCOR ID
09JAKARTA1847SCRUTINY OF BANK CENTURY BAILOUT ICCREASES
[...] (C) Summary. The Yudhoyono administration'sb"ailout of failed Bank Century in November 2008 (reftel) has gone from a controversial policy decision taken by technocrats at the height of the financial crisis to a potential focus for opposition against the new administration. A group of primari [...]
2009-11-06 11:39:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALECON EFIN KCOR PGOV ID
09JAKARTA1854TRAFFICKING -- PROTECTING MIGRANTS A TOP PRIORITY
[...] SUMMARY: The GOI has reiterated that protecting Indonesian migrant labor is a key foreign policy priority. At a recent conference in Bandung, GOI officials reviewed the steps that they are taking to protect migrants and to counter trafficking. Civil society representatives at the event argu [...]
2009-11-09 08:39:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV ELAB KWMN PREL ID
09JAKARTA1857RADICAL GROUPS HOLD LARGE, PEACEFUL PROTEST
[...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Members of several radical Muslim groups held a peaceful rally in front of Mission on November 8 to protest Israeli actions. Approximately 6,000 demonstrators participated in the FUI-sponsored demonstration. The FUI--whi [...]
2009-11-09 10:23:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV KISL ASEC ID
09JAKARTA1860U.S.-INDONESIA SECURITY DIALOGUES
[...] (U) SUMMARY: The United States and Indonesia hold an annual Strategic Dialogue and biannual Bilateral Defense Discussions. These discussions are productive, and Mission seeks to augment them under the proposed U.S.-Indonesia Comprehensive Partnership by adding an annual set of strategic cons [...]
2009-11-09 11:22:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV MARR ID
09JAKARTA1861An Opportunity to Finalize Peace Corps Agreement with
[...] (SBU) We have an opportunity to advance U.S.-Indonesian relations by completing a Peace Corps agreement in time for a joint announcement by President Obama and President Yudhoyono at the APEC Summit in Singapore this week. There is only one remaining issue left preventing an agreement. It ca [...]
2009-11-09 13:51:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID USAID PREL PGOV ID
09JAKARTA1862ON THE STREETS AND VIA SOCIAL NETWORKING, CIVIL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets of Jakarta to demand GOI support of the Anti-Corruption Commission (KPK) and an end to graft. This was the latest of a number of civil-society-sponsored rallies across the country. Social networking has played a key role: ov [...]
2009-11-10 05:07:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KCOR KPAO ID
09JAKARTA1863RELIGIOUS FREEDOM -- POSITIVE NEWS IN INDONESIA
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The GOI has welcomed the 2009 International Religious Freedom Report's acknowledgment of Indonesia's improved respect for religious freedom. Several recent developments underline efforts in this area: for example, Christian groups have received permission to open a new seminar [...]
2009-11-10 08:02:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KIRF ID
09JAKARTA1865ENCOURAGING SENIOR INDONESIAN REPRESENTATION AT
[...] No summary [...]
2009-11-10 10:39:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPREL PGOV KDEM AF ID
09JAKARTA1869REWARD PERFORMANCE: RESELECT INDONESIA
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Embassy strongly supports MCC reselecting Indonesia as eligible for compact. Indonesia deserves reselection based on its performance both on and outside the indicators. Failing to reselect Indonesia would dash Indonesian expectations created by the U.S. government and would we [...]
2009-11-12 00:06:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREL PGOV ETRD ECON KMCA MCC ID
09JAKARTA1870REWARD PERFORMANCE: RESELECT INDONESIA
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY. Embassy strongly supports MCC reselecting Indonesia as eligible for compact. Indonesia deserves reselection based on its performance both on and outside the indicators. Failing to reselect Indonesia would dash Indonesian expectations created by the U.S. government and would we [...]
2009-11-12 00:07:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID PREL PGOV ETRD ECON KMCA MCC ID
09JAKARTA1878Peace Corps Agreement Reached With Indonesia
[...] (SBU) Summary: The United States and the Government of Indonesia (GOI) reached an agreement on November 12 that will allow Peace Corps to establish a program in Indonesia after a forty-year absence. With this agreement, Peace Corps' return to Indonesia can potentially be announced at Preside [...]
2009-11-12 08:59:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYEAID USAID PREL PGOV CPAS ID
09JAKARTA1879INDONESIAN FOREIGN POLICY--REALIZING THE POTENTIAL
[...] (C) SUMMARY: As he begins his second term in office, which began on October 20, President Yudhoyono seeks an expanded global role for Indonesia. He wants his country to bridge the gap between developing and developed countries in the G20. He also seeks a role building understanding between [...]
2009-11-12 09:54:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV SENV
09JAKARTA1882ENHANCING US-INDONESIA PARTNERSHIP THROUGH SCIENCE
[...] (SBU) Summary. Post proposes a long-term science engagement strategy based upon three pillars: 1) upgrading Indonesia's science capacity through joint research that will provide ongoing mentoring relationships and connections to the U.S. science community; 2) assisting the recognition and dev [...]
2009-11-13 09:20:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYTSPL TBIO SCUL SENV ENRG PGOV ID
09JAKARTA189INDONESIA'S ISLAMIC PARTIES--FADING A BIT AHEAD OF
[...] (C) SUMMARY: Indonesia's Islamic-oriented parties have so far not picked up much traction in the campaign for the April legislative elections. The Prosperous Justice Party (PKS)--which had high expectations--has faded a bit in the polls. Other conservative Muslim parties have also not made [...]
2009-02-05 08:16:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV KDEM KISL ID
09JAKARTA1894EUROPEAN UNION AND INDONESIA SIGN PARTNERSHIP
[...] (C) SUMMARY: The European Union and Indonesia signed a Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA) in Jakarta on November 9. The accord was held up since 2007 due to the GOI's anger over the EU's flight ban on Indonesian carriers. This is the latest such cooperative accord signed by the GOI [...]
2009-11-16 10:10:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPREL PGOV ETRD ID EUN
09JAKARTA1895UPTICK IN NUMBER OF MIGRANTS ON WAY TO AUSTRALIA
[...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. It was coordinated with Consulate General Surabaya. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: The GOI is intercepting a rising number of migrants on their way to Australia. Over 100 Afghan migrants were detained in two tranches on No [...]
2009-11-16 10:37:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PREF ID AS CE AF
09JAKARTA1898 INDONESIA EARTHQUAKE HUMANITARIAN UPDATE #16: USAID/OFDA
[...] From October 31 - November 7, USAID/OFDA Field Officers (FO) visited programs being implemented by CHF, World Vision, Save the Children/US (SC/US),American Red Cross (ARC),CARE, and Catholic Relief Services (CRS) and attended shelter and general cluster coordination meetings. The NGOs [...]
2009-11-17 04:02:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIEDPGOV CASC ECON EAID SENV ID PHUM AEMR ASEC
09JAKARTA1899 NEW INDONESIAN NCB ASSET FORFEITURE BILL DRAFTED
[...] (SBU) SUMMARY: On November 5 and 6, 2009, a multi-agency Indonesian drafting team, working with DOJ's OPDAT, put the finishing touches on a non-conviction based (NCB) asset forfeiture law. The draft bill addresses a series of issues ranging from the appropriate burden of proof, to the need t [...]
2009-11-17 04:59:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV PREL PTER KCRM KJUS KTFN SNAR PHUM ASEC ID
09JAKARTA19CORRUPTION PROSECUTIONS OFF TO A STRONG START IN
[...] (U) This message is Sensitive but Unclassified -- Please handle accordingly. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Corruption prosecutions are off to a strong start in 2009 with the January 5 conviction of a sitting member of Parliament on graft charges. Meanwhile, anti-corruption results in 2008 were posi [...]
2009-01-06 10:21:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPGOV KJUS KCOR ID
09JAKARTA1900PAPUA -- SOME DISCONTENT IN ADVANCE OF SENSITIVE
[...] (C) SUMMARY: During a recent rally in provincial capital Jayapura, Papuan activists raised the "Morning Star" flag--which the GOI has banned as a separatist symbol. Police are questioning those involved, but have not yet brought any charges (a handful of activists have been arrested and jail [...]
2009-11-17 09:51:00Embassy JakartaCONFIDENTIALPGOV PREL KDEM ID
09JAKARTA1903FOREIGN ASSISTANCE WORKER POSSIBLY TARGETED IN ACEH
[...] (U) This is a Consulate Medan message. It is Sensitive but Unclassified. 2. (SBU) SUMMARY: Indonesian police are investigating an incident involving the representative of the European Commission in Banda Aceh. A bullet or some other type of projectile was apparently fired at the represen [...]
2009-11-17 11:11:00Embassy JakartaUNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLYPREL PGOV PINS ID
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